Dakota County Horald
DAKOTA CITY, NK8.
elohn H. Rtam,
Publlohol
Cans da seems to be getting a better
Neighbor all the time.
Occasionally a comet butts Into view
Without first sending In Its card.
It takes a man who doesn't work to
talk eloquently about the dignity of
labor.
Commander Peary want the Stars
and Stripes planted on the South Pole.
Jt la a patriotic idea.
' No matter what he says almost ev
ery man yearns for the time when he
Swill be rich enough to do as he plea
s.
Somebody has presented another
nedal to the Wright Brothers, Up to
25, ultimo, the brothers had .wo
Ball kegs full of medals.
Trust in Providence Is beautiful and
Messed, but if you Jump into holis
with your eyes open and think Provi
dence will pull you out you are a
Ticker.
One of the professors says woman's
senses are less acute than those of
scan. He probably bases his decision
on the fact that a woman can get along
all winter with low shoes.
What a lucky thing It would be If a
food constitutional lawyer could occa
sionally be Induced to examine a bill
before the Legislature wasted time
and oratory In passing It
A burglar stole diamonds worth
1800,000 from a woman's room In a
New York hotel. We shall probably
hear, now, how he overlooked $80,000,
000,000 In cash which was lying on the
dresser.
It appears t.bat It was Rowland Hill
mho Invented the adhesive , postage
sump, but to our glory be It said It
was an American government contract
or who invented the non-adhesive post
age stamp.
Dr. Felix Adler states that Ameri
cans are maniacs for work. It Isn't so
much wealth they desire as work, he
thinks. Possibly this accounts for the
existence of the 8ons of Rest Society.
It Is the natural reaction.
It the mean man's championship is
till open to challenge, the Brooklyn
dairyman who was convicted the other
day of selling adulterated milk to an
orphan asylum certainly has claims
upon the title that are worth consld
ring.
An observant Frenchman who has
been visiting In New York makes the
Just comment that Americans do not
know how to economize in little
things. "Saving Ave dollars may ap
peal to them, but saving five cents
no! We believe In France that saving
five cents makes it possible for us to
aave five dollars; and this has made
France a rich country."
A suggestion for household economy
was given in a scientific lecture re
cently, when a professor of physics said
that the ordinary stove used in most
ltchens wastes In a day enough heat
to keep food hot for a month. Any
thing that will cool the kitchen in
summer or warm It In winter, whether
or not It cooks the meals, will be wel
comed by the cooka themselves.
"Spare, woodman, spare the beechen
tree!" wrote Thomas Campbell a cen
tury ago. The appeal was heeded, and
the great beech which stood near Ard
wall House, Kirkcudbright, Scotland,
was not cut down. Now, however, It
lias blown down, and another of the
famous trees Vhlch have Inspired
poetry, or been glorified by tradition,
Is gone. The elm which suggested to
George P, Morris bla poem of similar
sentiment was probably cut down
years ago.
Helen continues to retain Its popu
larity as a name for girls. Not long
ago It was voted the favorite name by
the students of a men's college and It
bas been discovered, as the result of a
canvass of the names of the students
In Smith College, that more than a
hundred of the total of 1,600 bear that
same. Mary, with less than ninety,
comes next. Margaret, Ruth, Florence
and Elizabeth follow In the same or
der. The good old-fashioned womanly
names have fortunately displaced the
fancy names of a generation or so
Ago.
Ter million of population, the num
ber of felonious homicide in 1909 was
as follows: In Canada, 3; Germany.
6; England, 11; France, 13; Belgium,
the moat criminal country in Europe,
15; In the United States, 129. Owing
to lax enforcement of law, and the
mistaken policy of giving the criminal
too many chances for escaping the pen
alty of his crime, only one out of sev
enty-four murderers In the United
State is convicted. Political and per
anal influence and the maudlin sentl
meat that regards crime as disease and
a murderer as a sick man to be cured,
Instead of a dangerous beast to be ex
terminated, permit the average man
killer in America to escape with seven
year In prison. Crime is crime. Tho
murderer Is a murderer. The sooner
American prisons cease to be pleasant
sanUarlums for mental abnormal and
become Institutions for punishment of
criminals by hard work aud rigid dis
cipline the better for our national rep
utation.
It Is easy to draw a hli tcrlial con
;rast between the past and present pe
tition of women in the body politic
and society. Our sister who are dis
satisfied with their lot may find buii.e
comfort in comparing their own status
' with that of their grandmother, great
grandmothers and remoter ancestors
The comfort, will Ho not in rejoicing
over the limitation oi the women of
, the puat 6 ueralloiiB, tut in the evl
di-me u3ordi;d of the great progress
made by the sex. But there Is a clover
' and contemporary companion picture
which convey the atno lesson. A To-
klo newspaper has recently questioned
the Japanese commercial commission
era on their return from a tour of in
vestigation In the United State aa to
What displeased them most among tho
conditions they encountered on their
trip. Among the answers were the
following: "Extreme respect paid to
women." "Presumptuous attitude of
women over men and the mingling of
boys among girls In schools." "Too
much respect for women." "Unreason
able egotism on the part of women."
"Too much pride on the part of wom
en." "To salute any kind of woman."
"Unnatural gestures and phraseology
of women in talking." These replies
were given by some of the most en
lightened and progressive men of Ja
pan. Japan haa made great progress
along many lines, but the notion or the
Inferiority of women still persists. Her
chief duty among them la obedience
obedience to her father before mar
riage, to her husband after marriage,
and to her son if she is a widow. She
must bow low before her masculine
masters. She cannot walk beside her
husband on terms of equality, but
must follow humbly In the rear. She
must carry his packages and perform
all the little services which American
gallantry prescribes as the part of tho
mala. It Is true that these customs,
which from our standpoint would be
called loutish, never prevailed in
American or European society; never
theless, the notion of the duty of obed
ience of women In essentials was al
most as strong among our ancostors of
even 200 years ago. In our modern so
cial life the conditions are practically
reversed. It is the man who must be
obedient; - and it may come to be the
same In politics If tho present trend
continues.
MONKEY CAPTURES BURQLAR.
Pelta Him with Crocker? and ftrap
pice with Him and Caaaea Arm,
After a lengthy sojourn In Madagas
car, M. Iyouls Charmot returned to
Paris .recently and took up his resi
dence at 43 Rue de Sevlgne, the Paris
edition of the New York Herald says.
He had brought with him, in addition
to a number of curios and tapestries,
a large monkey named Ernest, which
he kept as a pet in his apartment.
While M. Charmot was absent yes
terday afternoon a burglar entered the
apartment by means of a skeleton key.
He was busy making a parcel of a
number of objects of value, when the
monkey Ernest, who had been hiding
In a corner of the dining room, sud
denly began to pelt him with a perfect
hall of plates, cups, saucers, ash trays,
an Inkstand and other portable objects
at hand.
The burglar first hesitated, and then
made a dash at Ernest with a heavy
cane. The monkey wisely beat a re
treat and climbed on to the top of the
buffet. The Intruder got a chair to
reach the monkey and was about to
strlko when the monkey jumped at
him and, nmld a terrible noise of
breaking plates and overturned furni
ture, monkey and man fell together to
the floor.
The noise immediately attracted the
neighbors and the burglar was quickly
overpowered. He turned out to be an
erstwhile convict named Georges Ro-
del. Thanks to the monkey the bur
glar was caught, but the material dam
age done In the apartment Is almost
as great as If the burglar had quietly
carried the goods away.
WIPED OUT BY SMALLPOX.
Only On Survivor la a VII
laa;e of 1,100 Inhabitant.
Details of the wiping out of an en
tire Russian village by smallpox hav
Just reached St. Petersburg, says i
New York Press correspondent. Tb
village is named Volskaya, and Is sit
uated in the Island of Sochalln.
Until a few weeks ago Its population
was 1,100. Sanitation, as in mosi
Russian villages, was conspicuous!)
absent, and when the disease first ai
peared a few months ago no one wai
troubled about It. Smallpox In Rub
la Is frequently called the "hoi)
slcknees," and no attempt was made al
vaccination.
Slok and healthy children wen
habitually bathed together, that beJnj
believed an efficacious treatment, and
after the local priest died the bodlei
remained unburled. Thus the epidemic
raged unchecked and entire families
from grandfather to grandchild, wen
stricken.
Finally a sanitary commission woi
sent from the mainland, but could ac
compllsh nothing. It has been decide!
to burn to the ground this "village ol
death," as it Is popularly called. Ol
the 1,100 Inhabitants only one remains,
a man of 72, named Vasallleff. Th
disease spared him, but he haa be
come a maniac.
A Financial JoUa.
"I want to go home quick, my wife
bas presented me with a line boy,"
said a waiter in the Cafe Martin last
Saturday to the head waiter.
"Sure thing! Beat it, quick! My,
but you're lucky," replied the head
waiter. It Is the rule at the Cafe Mar
tin that when a son Is born lu the
family of any employe $100 Is given to
the father and $50 for a girl.
With his face wreathed In smiles,
the waiter returned to the restaurant
In the afternoon carrying a big baby
hoy. In the restaurant were John B.
Martin and his brother, Louis, Mark A.
Mayer and Julian Kauffman. These
four retired to the private office of
the cafe, with the waiter and the baby,
and set about celebrating. Wlna was
opened and glasses filled. Then "while
Louis Martin held the baby his broth
er John roBe, and lifting the glass
spoke solemn truths on the honor and
responsibility of being the father of
such a niugnldcent boy and gave the
waiter a $100 bill. Mayer uddrd a
$100 bill.
The toast wns drunk. The waiter
and the baby departed. They had been
gone only a few minutes when a little
Frenchwoman excitedly entered.
"Where Is thut waiter?" she de
manded. "He has pone," wart the reply.
"1I said he only wnnted to borrow
my 4 months-old baby for a few min
utes, and he haa been gone an hour
and a half. Oh, where Is my baby?"
She said the waiter had boarded
with her a week and had borrowed the
baby to show a friend. New York
World.
Never forget a Mend especially U
he ova ypi
THE MAN AT THE
MP A'V V&Mh
Just a thought In recognition of a fellow who seldom gets Into the news
papers. Ho doesn't make much news. He knows mighty little about the
"city ways" of making money. He has a fine liking lor clean financial
methods and a hearty scorn for all that Is crooked. Perhaps It Is his man
ner of living that makes him want to be honest. Iet that man see a problem
play, one of those things that serve to satisfy the jaded appetites of metro
politan people, and you'll find a splash of red on his tanned cheek and he
will wonder how it is possible for women to be present. Tell him about
bribery and stock Jobbing and franchise stealing and a few of the thousand
forms of gouging the public, and you will jar his faith In the natural gffod
ness ot humanity.
In the spring this type of good American citizen Is following a plow.
It is hard work. It. puts a hlg ache in the neck and callouses on the hands.
It destroys the complexion. It calls for brown overalls and perspiration.
The man is happy In his work. He whistles as he trudges along In the fur
row. Ho clucks to the horses, nnd finds Joy In the freedom of his life. He
doesn't go Into raptures over green fields and singing brooks and i,ongs of
birds. They are a part of his environment. They are routine, but he loves
them Just the same.
He has an enormous burden on his broad shoulders. He feeds the world.
Ho is the brother or life itself. He toils long hours. His primary object In
working is his own welfare. But he feeds the world. Ho makes existence
possible. He Is the hend of the procession in which are marching the doctor,
the lawyer, the banker, the idler. He is the founlainhead of wealth and
prosperity. He Is the creditor of humanity. It is well to remember with
gratefulness this man in overalls, who follows the plow and whistles as the
brown earth reveals its richness and prepares to bring forth the fruits of the
field. -
1S
A cent's worth of electricity, at the
average price In this country, will ralao
ten tons twelve feet high with a crane
In less than a minute.
A French chemist has advanced the
theory that the odors from vegetation
disseminated through the air diminish
the actinic powers of the solar radia
tions sufficiently to affect photography.
No coal Is mined in this country
lower than a depth of 2,200 feet, while
several English mines penetrate 3,500
feet down, and there are mines in Bel
glum 4,000 feet deep. Eight inch
seams of coal are mined commercially
abroad, while few veins less than four
teen Inches thick are worked In this
country.
In a paper read before the Institu
tion of Electrical Engineers at Man
cheater, England, recently, the maxi
mum output of the five power-stations
it Niagara Falls was stated at 320,000
Iiorse-power, distributed over a dis
tance of 150 miles. This distance will
toon be increased to 250 miles, and
then, said the authors of the paper,
tuch a system of, distribution will be
lu operation as would, if it were in
stalled In England, supply the whole
country with the electrical energy it
required, from one central station.
Recent experiments by Dr. W. von
Oechelhauser, In Germany, have result
ed In the production from the decom
position of ordinary coal-gas In verti
cal retorts of a gas possessing a lift
ing power of about one kilogram (two
and one-fifth pounds) per cubic meter.
The lifting power of llghtlng-gas has
heeu calculated at seven-tenths of a
kilogram per cubic meter. Compared
with hydrogen, the new gas haa a lift
ing power of in the proportion of 1,000
to 1,050. A balloon of 1,000 cubic
meters filled with the new gas would
lift filiO pounds more than the same
balloon filled with ordinary gas.
The effect of chemistry on civiliza
tion, says Dr. Maximilian Torn, has
been greater than that of any other
science. "Engineering made but little
orogress until steel and cement, two
chemical products, were cheapened,
simplified, and made universal." Med
icine owes to chemistry the discovery
of synthetic drugs, and of anesthetics,
and the progress that has been made
In the study of metabolism. The
twentieth century promises even to
outstrip the nineteenth In chemical
progress, which will lie in the direc
tion of controlling foodstuffs, applying
the raw materials In the earth, and re
fining of metals.
Practically all the Important inflrmn
ilea and hospitals in England have
their own electric generating stations
and the size of the installations, says
the Ixmdon Times, would surprise the
majority of engineers. The equipment
has to be designed with unusual care.
owing to the special conditions which
prevail In hospital work. Even where
a public supply is available, the use
of an Independent system is Justified
on account of the security which it
gives against failure of current at a
critical moment. The Installations are
used for lighting, heating, ventilating,
telephoning and other purposes, and
many hospitals have laundries oper
ated electrically. One county asylum
bas Its own private electric railway for
conveying supplies from the nearest
railway station.
The stuff used to kill a smell is us
ually worse than the smell.
PLOW HANDLE 3.
A JSloe Calculation.
Two very dear old ladies walked up
to the window where tickets were to
be be sold for two popular concerts.
They wanted tickets for both nights,
but alas! those for the second even
ing were all gone. This was the more
popular entertainment of the two.
"I'm so sorry, my dear!" pattered
one ot the old ladies to the other
"We did want to go, didn't we, and
we wanted to go both nights."
"You couldn't give us two tickets
for each night?" inquired the other, ol
the clerk,
"No, ma'am."
"You haven't two seats anywhere foi
the second night?"
"No, ma'am. Couldn't give you nose
room."
A great resolution beamed upon hei
gentle face.
"Then," said she firmly, "give mt
four tickets for the first night. We
will make them do."
"Why, sister," quavered the other
"are you going to invite somebody?"
"No," said she, "but If we can't gc
both nights " She paused, bewil
dered, quite out of her calculation.
Then a happy thought struck her, and
she added, "We'll go twice the firs!
night."
Wear lotion or Linen.
Should wool, cotton or linen be won
next to the skin? Wool has its de
votees, who would look on discarding
their merino or flannel vest or drawers
as a risk of life. Medical opinion has
radically changed In recent years, Les
lie's Weekly says, and now many, H
not most, doctors favor cotton or linen
next the skin. Wool absorbs persplra
tino and retains it; it absorbs it with
difficulty at first, but surrenders it to
the surrounding air with even greater
difficulty. Cotton, on the other hand,
asks only an opportunity to dry, which
it does as rapidly as possible. The best
plan in cold weather is to wear cotton
or linen next the skin, with wool outer
clothing. The wool excludes moisture
and cold, while the cotton absorbs the
perspiration quickly and dries even
more quickly. This it does without
chilling the body if the latter has an
outer covering of wool. In this cli
mate, where houses und offices are gen
erally overheated In winter and the
transition from indoors to outdoors
is attended by a far greater change
in temperature thun in milder cli
mates, where the houses are not kept
as hot as they are In America, It la
better to wear cotton or liuen under
clothes and to rely upon heavy outer
garments to resist the cold air.
Tnrnetl Itonud.
It was the first tinio Bobby had evei
been away from home without his
mother, and he had gone with some
reluctance to visit ills, city cousins.
At the end of throe days. Instead of the
expected wetk, he returned to his
family, accompanied by a letter which
stated that the little fellow was so
homesick they were reully afraid to
keep him longer.
"Whut made you homesick, Bobby?"
asked his mother at the confidential
bedtime hour.
"I wasn't, Vactly." said Bobby,
the suu sets in the wrong place there,
mother, over In the east, by ou:' barn,
and it scared me so I thought J d bet
ter come home and see If everything
was right licit--and 'tis!"
New York theater managers estimate
that the nightly attendance at the
city's places of amusement Is 2,tlu0
more than It was one year ago.
Why Is it that married women
never wear as much false hair a un
married women T
TRUE WORTH.
True worth Is In belnjr. not seeming
In doing; each day that goes by
Some little rood not In the dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
For whatever men say In blindness.
And itplte of the fancies of youth.
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.
We Ret back our mete as we measure
We can not do wrong and feel right.
Nor can we give poln and gain pleas
ure For Justice avenpos enrh slight.
TIip air for the wing of the sparrow,
The hush for the robin and wren.
But always the path that Is nurrow
And straight for the children of men.
Alice C'ary.
OOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOO
O O
The Home-coming 8
OOOOOOOOOOOOUOOOOOOOOOO
There had been a thunderstorm, but
the lowering black clouds had rumbled
suddenly off, and now, out to the west,
the sua was setting amid a riotous
wealth of crimson and gold.
From the cottage chimneys the thin
blue smoke wavered up In misty spi
rals. The rain had filled the air with
a sense of freshness, and the uneven
roadway was speckled with puddles
wheh reflected the clear blue of the
sky. Talking and laughing, the villag
ers were lounging about with the easy
aimlessness begot of the knowledge
that the day's work was over and done
with.
Down the straggling village street
came a young girl dressed in thin,
shoddy clothes. As Bhe threaded her
way down the soddened road her bear
ing was by turns shrinking and bold
It was as If she had made up her
mind to some resolve, and Intended to
carry it out however much her soul
might innately rebel at the idea.
As she passed down the street the
villagers turned to look after her. Out
side the inn, a group of men laughed
noisily aa she passed, and only laugh
ed the louder at the look of defiant
scorn she cast at them.
Two slatternly women, conversing
familiarly with each other across the
width of the road, stopped their talk
abruptly to stare at her as she ner
vously stepped past them.
"Old Bennett's gal, ain't she?" ask
ed one.
"That 8 'er the 'ussy!' was the an
swer. "Come 'om agen, I s'pose."
"Run away, didn't she,? Went to
London, or something?"
"That's It. Went play-actin' so she
wrote to 'er father. Fine play-actla',
"YOU'RE XO DAUCUTLR OF MI.NB."
I'll be bound;" she laughed sneerlngly,
significantly.
"What did old Bennett say to that,
eh?"
"Said she was no more 'is daughter.
No more she 'ad call to be, after run
nin' away, and dlsgracln' the family
like that."
They gazed speculatively after the
thin figure in the shabby frock. Then
their eyes met and they sodded know
ingly at each other.
"Quite the lady!" laughed one shril
ly. . Meanwhile, with the women's words
ringing in her ears, the girl kept de
jectedly on her way. At the gate of a
cottage garden she saw one of her fa
ther's old cronies one who had often
danced her on his knee lu the years
that were past.
"Good evening, Mr. Abram," she ven
tured timidly.
He stared at the sound of her voice,
muttered something into his beard and
turned to enter his house.
Slowly the girl's eyes filled. Two
great tears trembled on the lashes of
her blue eyes, overbalanced, and rolled
dolorously down her pale cheeks. She
took three or four hurried Bteps, then
a few In which hesitation was appar
ent. Finally, she stood still and
glanced back uncertainly. Then a look
of determination again came into her
face, and she continued on her road.
Old Bennett lived on the Common,
and a turn in the road brought the
cottage into her view. She drew In
her breath in a sharp, hissing sob at
sight of It, and her pace grew quicker.
A little knot of people she had once
known as friends stood gossiping at
the corner of the Common. She walk
ed past them with eyes averted, and no
one spoke a word of greeting.
Again the girl wavered. Then
through her tears bhe saw the cottage,
and hurried on.
She stepped scftly, Sklef-Mke,
through the gate, and passed along the
path, her heart beating wildly.
Footsteps rang out over the stone
floor within and a boy opened the door.
He stood amazed to see the girl and
eyed her affrightedly. Beyond, through
tho half-open door of an inner room,
her eager, straining eyes caught a
glimpse of an old man starting up
from his chair in vague alarm.
The boy turned wthout a word and
went to the old man.
" 'TIs Bess," he told him simply.
"Bess!" she heard the old man cry
Joyously, and something clattered to
the floor, aa if It had been dropped.
Then "Bess, ye ay?" in a harsher
tone.
He came slowly to the door.
"So, 'tis youT' he said. "You want
to come back to us, eh?"
Eh nodded her head humbly.
"Aad do ou think we ll have your
iW if!
If a Russian Jew dwelling in a tenement house in New York spends
his evenings in a public library rending the history of his fatherland or por
ing over books on democracy or socialism, the secret police of the Czar
of Russia will know about it sooner or later. The name, age, sex, address
and occupation of the library reader will, in the course of routine business,
be inscribed on the official records at St. Petersburg, together with a de
scription of the listed person's physical appearance.
This curious fact la merely one Indication of the thoroughness of the
Russian government's Bpy system in New York, a system which Vladimir
Bourtseff, the scholar and historian of the Russian revolutionary movement,
has come to the United States to expose.
According to Bourtseff and the leaders of the movement with whom he
Is working, New York harbors many secret agents of the home government,
whose buniness it is to keep the pollro Informed of the revolutionary activi
ties in America, and especially to cable informntlcn whenever a revolution
ist leaves New York for a visit to St. Petersburg. Ills departure la known
in St. Petersburg before his ship is half way across the Atlantic, and if he
ventures to cross the Russian border some pretext Is found for arresting
him. It is optional with each spy whnt ostensible occupation he shall have.
He may puth a peddler"s cart, or keep a shop, or print books, or have a Job
In some city department. Anything will do so long as his neighbors do not
suspect him and admit him to membership in one or more of the many
little organizations of the revolutionists.
Although he has worked against the Russian government all his life,
Bourtseff, the greatest of spy hunters, has belonged to no organization since
1870, when the Narodnaya Vola, of which he had been the founder, disbanded.
Since then he has worked as a "free lance" revolutionist, wrltfhg many
books and papers, allying himself first with one group and then another to
accomplish a certain ol-lect, and always trusted and admired by the work
ers from whose societies he -haa held himself aloof. He la recognized as
the scholar and the historian of the movement.
One of the chief activities of the revolutionists is smuggling their
literature into Russia. Much of it is taken across the border by men who
live near the line, on the Austrian side, and whoRe business takes them
back and forth frequently. They will conceal a consignment of pamphlets
in their carts, under a load of merchandise. Then at a convenient and
safe place the books will be unloaded and burled In tho ground, to await
the arrival of the man charged with the responsibility of distributing
them. Montrenl Herald and Star.
he went on sternly. "You ran away
from your home, remember. We wasn't
unkind to you, was we?" -
She shook her head, and looked up
at him, her lips trembling piteously.
"There was nothin' in reason that
you wanted that you didn't have. And
yet you ran away. You forgot love.
Bess; you forgot duty; you forgot
them that never forgot you you for
got everything. You're no daughter of
mine!"
"Father!" he cried in supplication
"Aye, and now you've 'ad your fling,
Eess, you wants to come back. And
how do I know that we can take you
back? There's bad in ye, gal. You ran
away, never carln' whether your moth
er's heart was broke or not. You crept
away in the dark like a thief. You
went away on the stage, as you calls
it. I know what London is; It's
cruel place, lass, a terr'ble cruel place
He passed his hand wearily across his
forehead. "Oh, why did ye do it
Bess?" he asked, his voice breaking
helplessly.
He stood looking sadly at her. Then
a gleam of hope shot across his face,
With sudden force he seized her by the
wrist and swung her toward tho set
ting Bun.
The lingering rays lighted up the
wan cheeks and tear-dimmed eyes of
the girl. With fierce, questioning look,
the father stood gazing at his daugh
ter.
She met his stare unflinchingly; blue
eyes looked Into gray without a trem
or. His grasp on his wrist was hurt
ing her, but still she looked straight
Into his eyes.
The seconds seemed drawn Into min
utes, but still the gray eyes searched
the blue, as if they would draw every
secret from them.
The old man's expression began to
relax. By degrees content crept Into
the gray eyes. A great spring of yearn
ing love was surging In his heart.
"Father!" she whispered.
He drew In his breath with a hiss
at the word. His hand fell from her
wrist and hung Indeterminate at his
side.
"Father!" she whispered again.
Of a Budden his shoulders squared
and he flung wide the door.
"Come In!" he cried, a new note In
his voice. He thrust out his hands to
her. "Come in my daugh
ter!" O. Morton Howard in Pall Mall
Gazette.
NEW FUELS IN USE.
Onr Increanlnsr Employment ot Gam
and Oil Under Rollera.
During the first half of the last cen
tury It was solid fuel only that was
employed for the generation of heat
and power, but the last half of the
century has seen the advent of liquid
and gaseous fuels, which under cer
tain conditions proved themselves of
the greatest value, the Scientific Amer
ican says. And certain processes are
now largely dependent upon their use,
this being due to the ease of applica
tion whleh has meant economy In la
bor and greatest facility for convert
ing the heat into work. As an exam
ple of the ease of application making
a fuel of poor calorific value more ef
fective tn use than coal of high qual
ity, oni may Instance such manufac
tures as those of glass, where In the
heating by solid fuel the necessary
temperature had to be imparted to the
mass of raw material through the
walla of a thick fire clay retort, the
difficulty of application here being de
pendent upon the fact that the cru
cible had to be heated to a very high
temperature to get the necessary fus
ing point of the glass mixture, and
that maintaining this for a consider
able period meant a big expenditure
in fuel and great wear and tear to the
furnace and containing vessel.
It was clear that if the fuel could
he gasified and the clean flame made
to play directly on to the surface of
the mixture to be fused, Instead of
having to impart the heat through the
walls of the containing vessel, an enor
mous economy would be obtained, atrd
this la now done by the utilization of
producer gas and regeneration In the
continuous tank process. In the same
way liquid fuel, aa soon as methods
could bo found for its proper com
bustion, presented such wonderful
economies and advantages for marine
work that, in spite of its being dearer
than coal, It at once found a place
in both the navy and merchant marine.
The possibility of being able to store
it below the level of the boiler In the
ballast tanks instead of having, as
In coal bunkers, to have the storage
above that level, at once gave in
creased space In the Important part
of the Teasel, and, what was of mack
greater Importance In the service, the
being able to carry a larger supply ol
latent energy in the same space as
the coal occupied increased the radius
of action of the vessel.
DECEMBER AND MAY.
atlna; of the Old and the Yoiif It
.Now Becoming the Faahloa.
What does It matter how old a man
la
or what the aee of a woman la if
they wish to marry? What have years
to do with love and that felicity that
comes from the tying of the nuptial
knot? Dr. Johnson's wife was more
than twenty years his senior, and
Shakespeare's spouse was old enough
to be his mother. They were happy,
and why should not those who follow
their example in theso days also find
connubial Joys?
It Is getting to be the fashion now
adays, this mating of December and
May, the New York Telegraph says.
Recently a wealthy woman of Hart
ford made plana f rohraodnl taoln
ford made plans for marrying a school
hoy at New Haven. She was about
70 and he about 20, and her children
and grandchildren, when they learned
about it, went to the courts and said
she was crazy. But the Judges knew
otherwise, and set her free and let
her continue mistress of her own for
tune.
Then there was the lady of a noted
American family who lived in her
mansion on the Hudson. For 6S years
she had lived alone, and then she mar
ried her hostler, aged 24. What of
that? Shall a woman who haa lived
nearly threescore yeara and ten and
still Is an old maid continue so until
her death?
Mme. Francoise Mantaiselo K7 vpin
old. and Arthur Springer, 23 years old,
have taken out a license to marry in
this city. Speaking for the lady and
nimseir. Master Springer made thla
statement: "It Is no one'a hnst
except ours If we marrv " Th hnw
Is right; he can marry his step-grand-
moiner lr ne wishes, and not even the
law can say him nay.
nnama For In Rnejland.
The London Chamber of
through its fur and skin tmrto
tion, has issued a warning to furriers,
araters and others throughout the
United Kingdom in reearrl tn Mmmn
"misdescriptions" of furs, Daily Con
sular and Trade Reports says.
ine following is a list
common mlsdescriotlons indued i
the list:
"Real Russian 6able" Ampri,n
able.
"Sable" fitch, dyed.
"Bear" goat, dyed.
"Fox" hare, dyed.
"Lamb or broadtail" kids.
"Mink, sable or skunk" marmot.
dyed.
"Sable" mink, dyed.
"Mink or sable" musquash, dyed.
"Seal, electric seal. Red river seal
and Hudson seal" musquash, pulled
and dyed, or nutria. Dulled and dved.
or rabbit, sheared and dyed.
"Beaver and otter" nutria, pulled.
natural.
"Beaver" opossum, sheared and
dyed.
"Seal" otter, pulled and dyed.
"Sable or French sable" rabbit.
dyed.
"Ermine" rabbit, white.
"Chinchilla" rabbit, white, dyed.
"Skunk" wallaby, dyed.
"Fox" white hare.
In addition, white hairs are lnpr.
ed in foxes and sables to make
"ell-
ver foxes.
Kuropean I nlverattlea.
At least two of tho provincial uni
versities of France rank with the first
ten universities of Germany, and the
one great Catholic university of Bel
glum, that of Louvaln, is of about the
same rank. Tho Italian University of
Turin stands above Freiburg In num
bers.
Illlaa for llrr.
Miss Sweet Poor Belle's in trouble.
She's had proposals from two men aud
she doesn't know which to accept.
Mlsa Elder Goodness mercy! You
don't call that trouble. Boston Tran
script. AaklnK II I in Comfortable.
'But why do you put your friend's
things in the dining-room?"
"Oh, he is so used to restaurants
that he won't enjoy hla dinner unless
he ran watch his bat and coat."
Fair OOlce Kxcaaaara.
Stenog Oh, Frank, will you pie
sharpen my pencil?
Clerk Yes, If you'll please sow
this button. Boston Herald-