Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NED.
lohn H. Rum.
Publlahcl
The man with a full dinner pail car
Ties a fortune with him.
Some look and do not see, but no
erne sees who does not look.
Health raay be wealth, but that isn't
iwhat makes the doctors rich.
It appears that Teddy, Jr., bas been
weaving something more than a car
pet Another good thing about the Rocks
teller Foundation Is that It will be
founded on rocks.
Toung John D. Rockefeller Is going
to bare a nice Job. Giving away money
should be pleasant work.
In advising women to learn to cook
Dr. Wiley bas reference, of course, to
those who do not know bow.
King Edward remains In bis apart
xnents whenever TTe catches a cold. He
la never docked for falling to show up
at the works.
The District of Columbia Is to have
an Inheritance tax, but It will not af
fect the men in public life, as "few die
and none resign."
Professor Charles Zueblln declares
that women are not people. How the
professor dares to go home nights Is
what surprises us.
"Too many deer," says a headline.'
From the record this season we
thought sportsmen believed there were
too many huuters.
Russia leads the world in the rais
ing of wheat. Judging from the pic
tures we have seen of her male citi
zens she also leads in the whisker out
put. The Ohio ben that laid fourteen eggs
In nine days and established a record,
Is dead. The dispatches don't say
what caused her death, but It may
bare been a case of nervous prosperity.
The discovery that the egg was the
symbol of eternity of the ancient
Druids Is received with scrambled emo
tions, as it were, by those who have
been eating cold-storage eggs all win
ter.
The apparent success of the storage'
battery surface car makes it possible
for New York City at last to lose its
distinction as the only town of over
two thousand inhabitants where horse
ears are still run.
A Boston physician says "woman ha
bo stability of purpose, no discrimina
tion, does not and cannot understand,
that she la woefully Incompetent."
That Is a poor opinion for a man to
have of bis mother.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Oilman,
etc.. In ber magazine, the Forerunner,
which Is trying to make trouble be
tween the sexes, says:
A woman by the river's brim
A wife and servant Is to him
And she la nothing more.
If turn about is fair play, why not
this: I
A mere man by the river, sir,
A simple doormat Is to her
And he Is nothing more.
Conservation of natural resources Is
highly desirable and the movement de
serves all the popular support which
la behind it; but why not also a move
ment for the greater conservation of
artificial resources. The waste and ex
travagance of most people in the mat
ter of dress, for example, is little less
than a national evil in its effect upon
the increasing cost of living. The de
cree of fashion which altera the cut
or color, the material or style, is blind
ly followed by millions at the cost of
discarding garments, bats and shoes
which are almost as wearable as when
purchased.
Three and a half thousand years
ago, more or less, Joseph, the prime
minister of tbe Pharaoh of that day,
"cornered" the wheat crop of Egypt,
In anticipation of seven years of fam
ine. Tbe famine came, and not only
Egypt, but other lands as well, were
fed from Joseph's store. So much may
be read in Scripture. Extraordinary
as it sounds, some of that wheat
now in' the United States, having been
bought by a dealer In antiquities from
the officials of tho Cairo Museum. Ex
plorers in the service of that museum
recently uncovered a storehouse dating
fiom the dynasty, and sealed with the
seal of the Pharaoh who had been
Identified as the patron of Joseph, and
It contained, among other things, an
odd bushel or two of grain, brown with
age and the grime of the storehouse
floor. Experiment has shown that the
kernels have entirely lost their fer
tility.
He who has never called a country
town his home has missed much. He
who had not his first look upon the
world from some little village which
at the dawn of consciousness spelled
all the world to him and held In its
bounds all the people, will always
lack something In bis sense of his
proper adjustment to creation, says
the Hem ,- Republican. It is in them
that tho truest friendships are form
ed, the closest studies of human na
ture piovtded, the most lasting hold
given ou tMe eternal truths. Only a
a little child can the kingdom be en
tered, and that. Is as true of the king
dom of earth i of that one of which
it WH4 tint tmld. Go closer into the
records of thete boys off the farms
and yon will find that it was from the
country towns, inther than the farms,
tl ey ca'iie; that !t was tome country
vllingc tb-it liv ' 'ed the dreams, fired
the ho;ies and p -pared for that flight
to broader fields. And they go back
li.den v it h rifts, not to the farms, but
to the country town to which they
feel tliry owe so much.
An able commission, appointed by
Governor Hughes has been sitting In
New York uud taking testimony on
the queatlon of industrial accidents
and the existing law as to employers'
liability for Injuries sustained by
workmen. The bearing developed a
remarkably strong, enlightened senti
ment In favor of fairer and sounder
accident compennatlon legislation.
Even moderate lawyers agree that the
old doctrines In regard to contribu
tory negligence, fellow servants and
the voluntary assumption of risks by
employment-seeking persons, whether
anything is said about risk or not,
are irrational and unjust. The exist
ing system practically places the
whole burden of Industrial accidents
on labor. Even where employers are
held liable, owing to their clear re
sponsibility for the Injury, the laws
delays withhold compensation from
the victims for many years In some
CHses forever, for men are mortal. As
a result of the Injustice, self-respecting
workmen become beggars, paupers,
drunkards. The modern theory is
that the cost of Industrial accidents
should bo paid neither by employes
nor by employers, but by Industry.
That is to say. each trade or Industry
should consider compensation for in
juriesand at best they are unavold
able as part of the "cost of produc
tion" and charge It on the consuming
public. Of course, the employer payi
In the first instance, as in England,
where an act for "universal compen
sation" has been In effect for about a
decade. But the employers Insure
themselves against this burden with
accident companies, and small premi
ums amply protect them. In the Unit
ed States such legislation may not be
constitutional, but It is possible to
modify the doctrines of the common
law and get rid of much of the wrong
and cruelty which they beget. The
federal employers' liability law points
the way, for it abolishes the fellow
servant rule, the assumptlotr of risk
theory and other survivals. Contribu
tory negllence is no bar to recovery
of damages under it, though it may
affect the amount of the damages
awarded.
WOMAN EDITOR OF "EAST SIDE."
7.oe Anderson Norrla Haa Offl.ee In
Top of Tenement In New Yoi.
Do you know the East Side?
No. Not that great tangle of wretch
edncHB east of fth avenue and north of
hades, as somebody said, but a little
periodical called the East Side, be
cause It is the epitome of all the hu
mor, philosophy and misery of the peo
ple among whom Its author lives unrl
loves.
Tho editor of this magazine, Zoo An
derson Norrls, whom I interviewed,
says Viola Justin in tho New York
Mall, has her home and office at the
tip-top of a tenement which looks out
upon tho "court of a hundred win
dows," as she calls it in her maga
zine. It Is an airy little flat. The win
dows were opened and the sunlight
poured into the room and enveloped
the little editress like ,a benediction.
"How did I start in? Oh, I took an
East Side story to a magazine about
a year ago and it got back before 1
did. This same magazine has since
been writing frantically for my East
Side stories. One periodical preferred
to make an editorial out of one stoi7
using my experience, but not offering
mo a cent for it! That started the
magazine, and I publinhed the story
before the periodical could get ahead
of me with the editorial."
Miss Norrls Insisted on showing mo
all the sights the delft kitchen she
has written so much about and the
"court of a hundred windows."
' "When I want to write a story all I
have to do Is to pull up the curtain
and there you are!" Bho said. "Does
it seem sad?" she added, and the sun
shiny eyes grew tender. "People ask
me why I write about such sad things
well, life is sad. I see such beauti
ful stories from my bedroom windows.
"It Is the East Side women who
have learned the lesson of husbands.
Theyould tell the women of the West
Side a thing or two if they could
speak the language."
GERMAN SPIES IN ENGLAND?
Storr About Teutonlo Walter Re
call Japaneae llutler Scare.
The "menace" with which Ameri
cans became familiar during the
"threat" of a Japanese-American war
and which generally took tho form of
Japanese butlers who were really spies
is now getting in its same old deadly
work lu England. Over there the
"threat" Is of an Anglo-German war,
so the "menace" naturally becomes u
Teutonic waiter.
Under the heading "A Real Menace,"
a man writes to the Gentlewoman an
follows:
"I must confess that without be!n-
in the least a scaremonger tho pres
ence of such crowds of foreigners la
our midst does not tend to make one
feel altogether comfortable. Most of
all does the German waiter flourish at
all the restaurant;!, whether smart or
otherwise, all over this great London
of ours, and in case of an Invasion
from oversea what part would these
gentry play in the general commo
tion? "By way of answer I will repeat a
story that is now belli? told In the
clubs on the best s'norlty. A gen
tleman of English bhvi, but possess
ing In a marked degree the gift of
tongues, entered a well known ma
taurant with the air of being a Ger
man. He was Boon on easy terms with
the Teuton, who, of course, attended
to hlB creature comforts. Before leav
ing he requested a few minutes' pri
vate conversation with the kellner,
who by that time had become expan
sive. "'Have you,' quoth the linguist in
niot fluent German, 'your orders for
when the great moment arrives?"
"'Oh, certainly!' replied the wnlter,
'We all know exactly where to go and
what to do.' "
l:rr l ull Uf ul.
"lie's always want Ins to borrow
money from me."
"A fair-weather friend merely."
"Oh, no; he has also borrowed sev
eral umbrellas." Louisville Courier
Journal. There is one time, at least, when
stinginess Is admired; the wtlnifiiiess of
the girl on the program who refuses
to respond to encores.
We suppose we have wretched taste;
anyway, we don't care for Seotcs
dialect
Opinions of
VALUE OF SMALL ECONOMIES.
O THE high cost of living nowadays is add
ed the expense of sliaves at barber shop,
Rhinos at the bootblack stand and clears
at the tobacco store. Formerly these were
listed in the cost of hlirh living, to which
few men aspired. Perhaps the housewife
is entitled to ber part of the blame for to
T
day's high cost of living (not now regarded as high liv
ing), on account of her poor management of household
expenses or bad cookery, but the husband who buys
shaves, shines and cigars is hardly qualified to complain
or pose as a model.
A man In New York, who for thirty years shaved his
own face, shlned hl.i own shoes and eschewed cigars,
tells the Sun, oZ that city, that in that time be saved
$2,500 through these economics. Willi this money he,
three years ngo, purchased for his ndnlt boy the busi
ness of the boy's deceased emploer and the son has
wholly repaid his father out of the business and Is on
the road to fortune. This Is the way the father figures
his thirty years' (savings:
Shaving, three times weekly, at 15c, "'c; year,
122.50; thirty years $ 675
Shoes, three times weekly at 6c, 15c; a year,
$7.50; thirty years ' 225
Cigars, throe a day (box price), 15c; a year,
$52.50; thirty years 1.575
Gross saving $2,475
Therefore, when figuring the high cost of living, or the
cost of high living, do not forget the shaves, the shtnes
and the cigars. A great deal of money goes into these
unnecessary luxuries, and they are not less wasteful
than automobiles, which many thoughtless persons who
buy shaves, shines and cigars foolishly imagine are the
acme of extravagance. Also should bo included the cost
of shampoo massage and tip at the barber shop. Many
men are throwing away fortunes every day, without stop
ping to figure their waste. And yet they think they are
skimping along without enough to live on constantly. A
good many of them talk about extravagance of their
wives, when they, poor things, are buying fewer luxuries
than their lords and masters. Portland Oregonlan.
THE AMERICAN FARMER.
F THE American farmer went out of busi
ness this year he could clean up $30,000,
000,000; he would have to sell his farm on
credit, for there is not enough money in
the world to pay him half his price, lie
earns enough In seventeen days to buy out
Standard Oil and In fifty days to wipe Car
negie and the Steol Trust off the industrial map. One
American harvest would buy Belgium, king and all; two
would buy Italy, three Austria-Hungary, and five would
take Russia from the Czar. ,
With the setting of every sun the money box of the
American farmer bulges with new millions. Merely the
crumbs that drop from the farmer's table (otherwise,
agricultural exports) have brought in enough of foreign
MARK TWAIN'S WATERMELON.
Storr of One of the lln'inorlat'a "Moo-
keyahlnca" lu Hannibal,
"Going to Bermuda, is he? Well, )
can tell him a plan that'll beat that.
Let him come over here and climb up
and down the old hills, chop holes to
fish In Hear Creek and smoke some,
Old Fisherman cigars and he'll forget
he ain't feeling peart."
Thus spoke Joe Tlsdale Sunday
morning when told that his old friend
anil playmate Sam Clemens had gone
to the southern Islands for the benefit
of his health, a Hannibal (Mo.) corre
spondent of the New York Sun says.
Mr. Tlsdalo had been out walking since
7, without gloves, enjoying the keen
wintry air, he said. It was then 11,
and everybody but Mr. Tlsdale seemed
to be wearing a heavy outer coat and
thick gloveB.
He is a small man, a trifle bent, but
active and vigorous as a school boy.
There is only a few years' difference
between his age and Mr. Clemens'.
''Are you the man who used to make
those long tbreo for a nickel stogies
tor Sam?" Mr. Tlsdale was asked.
"I made cigars, sir, not stogies," re
plied the old gentleman with some In
dignation. "Began down there where
Tom Foster kept drug store alongside
the printing office. That was long be
fore the war tho big war, you know.
I guess it was in 1852. Sam came lu
there now and then and bought smok
ers; used to suy they were the best
be could get. He was a bit particular
about what he smoked, even when a
youngster."
"What did the people think of Sam
in those days?"
"They thought he was a darn fool."
The response wus made with such
promptness that no ono could doubt
the old clgarmaker's sincerity.
"He was a Joke, Sam was. I re
member one time he got a big water
melon, the Lord knows how, but any
way he took It upstairs and laid it on
his stool near the window. I was com
ing around the corner and as I looked
up 1 noticed Sam Bpylng up and down
the street.
Presently John Meredith comes
along and wl.eu he was directly under
tho window Sam drops that big melon
right Bquare on John's bead. Gee, but
it smashed him. I think John'B first
idea was that some building had fall
en. "John saw me grinning and came In
my direction like he was going to take
It out of me, but when he looked
around the street and saw everybody
was laughing 1 guess he thought it too
big a Job to lick us nil. Of course Sam
wasn't nowhere in sight, but John
found who did It and ho never spoke
to Sam from that day till they met
years after at Pike's Peak.
"In talking about it Sain said he
studied a long while which would be
the most fun, to eat the melon or drop
u on somebody's head, and he flipped
a nickel to find out which he ought tu
do. The head won.
"About tweuty years after Sam had
left us he came back. I met him und
told him when be wanted an old-time
smoke to come around to my shop. I
got up a box of the Old Fisherman
aud when be and John Garth came In
I made Sam a prtiscut of the box.
"There were forty-sis big cigars In
It John Garth told me before he and
Sam went to bed that night they
smoked the entire contents of the box
except two, which they saved for
morning. I don't guess there are many
fellows who could smoke like Sam.
"Tkat's ths way he did about every-
BDTOB&BAL
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
money since 1892 to enable him, If be wished, to settle
the railroad problem once for all by buying every foot
of railroad In the United States.
Our new farmer, instead of being an ignorant hoeman
In a barnyard world, gets the news by dally mall and
telephone; and Incidentally publishes 700 trade Jour
nals. Instead of being a moneyless peasant, he pays the
lntorewt on the mortgage with the earnings of a week.
The railroads, trolley, automobile and top buggy have
transformed blm Into a suburbanite. The business now
swinging the whole nation ahead is not the traffic of the
stock exchanges, but the steady output of $20,000,000 a
day from the fields and barnyards.
The American farmer has always been Just as intelli
gent and important as anyone else In the republic. He
put fourteen of bis sons in the White Housor and did his
full share of the working, fighting and thinking all the
way down from George Washington to James Wilson.
He got no rebates, franchise, subsidies. The free land
that was given him was worthless until he took it; he
1ms all along been more hindered than helped by med
ling of public officials.
To-day farming Is a race an exciting rivalry between
the different states. For years Illinois and Iowa have
run neck and neck In raising corn and oats. Minnesota
carries the blue ribbon for wheat, with Kansas in sec
ond place; California has shot to the front In barley;
Texas and Louisiana are tied In rice, and New York
holds the record for hay and potatoes. American Re
view of Reviews.
m
any basis of reason, without any sense of conviction,
with no real feeling in the matter except a craving for
something new and uncommon, is dangerous to the
health of the individual and harmful to the commun
ity. The fearsome freaks which fashion annually invents
to cater to this spirit among women illustrate in a home
ly way the tendency of the times. But fashion is not
alone In Its craving for the unknown. Art, literature,
music, the play, law, business, every phase of life is af
fected. Religion, morals and even the home do not es
cape. Everything seems to be In a constant state of
transition. Everywhere and at all times turmoil and
unrest, exist. Comfort, quiet, friends, the Joy that comes
of familiar friends, old books, surroundings that give
one the comfortable sensation of acquaintanceship, all
these are lacking.
The American nation is losing its sense of location,
Its feeling of the permanence of conditions, the sense of
home, which exists in the brain of the carrier pigeon and
the family cat. Those who hope to enjoy life to the full
should have a care lest they mistake unrest for progress,
and the temporary and superficial things of life for those
that are abiding and real. Chicago Journal.
thing he went at. It was no trouble
If there was fun at the end of it. We
never supposed he was training for a
funny Avrlter, though. If he'd have
stayed In Hannibal and wrote all them
pieces that's made htm a great man
the people wouldn't have paid any at
tention to him., . They'd Just say, 'Oh,
that's soine mbre of Sam's fool non
sense, and let it go at that. He sure
showed good sense by getting out of
Hannibal If he wanted to turn his
monkey-shines into dollars."
POLICE PROTECTION IN CITIES.
Atlantic City, Waahlnuton and
l.onU lluve Grvutent Amount.
Interesting facts concerning the po
lice In the 15S largest cities In the
United States, each having a popula
tion of over 30,000 in 1907, are com
prehensively assembled In the United
States Census Bureau's special annual
report on the statistics of American
cities for that year.
The police protection afforded the
Inhabitants of different cities Is indi
cated by showing the number of police
per 10,000 Inhabitants, per 1,000 acres
of land area, and per 100 miles of im
proved 'streets.
It Is Btated that the number of po
lice to each unit Increases wlii the
size of the city. In cities of over
300,000 population the number of po
lice per 10,000 inhabitants was 19.4, as
compared with only 10.5 in cities of
from 30,000 to 50,000 population. The
cities with the greatest protection, ac
cording to this unit of measure, were
Atlantic City (25.1), Washington
(23.4) , St. Louis (23.2) and New York
(21.5) .
The compensation of patrolmen was
much larger In the cities of over 300,
000 population than in the smaller
cities. The averuge annual pay of pn-
trolmen in cities of over 300,000 pop
ulation was highest In San Francisco
($l,4C4) and New York ($1,228), and
lowest In New Orleans ($780) and Buf
falo ($900); In cities of from 100,000
to 300,000 population It was highest in
Portland, Ore. ($1,200), and Newark
($1,176), and lowest in Grand Rapids,
Mich. ($796), and St Paul ($858); in
cities of from 50.000 to 100.000 popu
lation It was highest in Oakland, Cal.
($1,200). and Houston, Tex. ($1,161).
and lowest In Kansas City, Kan.
($780); In cities of from 30,000 to 50,
000 population it was highest in Butte
and Sacramento ($1,200), and lowest
In Kahuna 'oo ($f99) and Oshkosh
($709).
COLjjr. . CITY ON EARTH.
Hot People I.lve In Winter la Far
theat Siberia.
The coldest Inhabited place In the
world Is undoubtedly Verkhoyansk, In
northeastern Siberia, with a mean an
nual temperature of less than 3 de
grees above zero, Fahrenheit, and a
winter minimum of So below.
Verkhoyansk Is in north latitude 67
degrees, on the great arctic plain,
scarcely more than 150 feet above the
level of tha sea. Probably there would
be no town there It It were not neces
sary to Russian government purposes
to have an administrative center for a
region where many thrifty Yakuts, the
fur-trading "Jews of Siberia," carry
on their operations.
All Its inhabitants, save a few offi
cials and other Russians, are Yakuts,
This does not prevent its being a place
of some Importance, for the Yakuts are
the most progressive people In north
ern Siberia, excelling tbe Russians
THE CURSE OF NOVELTY.
F ALL the fads that humanity adopts, per
haps none is more detrimental to modern
life than the unreasoning passion for the
new, simply because it Is new, and not be
cause it is one whit better In any respect
than that which Is discarded to make way
for the novelty. This restlessness, without
themselves In enterprise and adaptable
ity to Siberian conditions of existence,
The average temperature of the win
ter in Veryhoyansk Is 53 degrees below
zero, Fahrenheit. The rivers freeze to
the bottom and the small trees have
been known to snap and spilt from the
force of the frost.
Yet, with all this, Verkhoyansk Is. it
is claimed, not a disagreeable place of
residence, and Is preferred by the Rus
sian officials to many more 'southern
and warmer posts. Its atmosphere in
winter Is always clear, and for the lit
tie time that the sun Is above the hori
zon Its beams are unobstructed. Tho
air is still, too; no blizzards or drift
ing snowstorms make life a burden to
the inhabitants.
The Siberian dress completes the
comfort of the citizens of this arctic
city. It consists of two suits of fu
an outer and an inner suit. The inner
suit is worn fur side Inward, the other
fur side outward. With his hood down
and Just enough space left to see out
of and to breathe through the Verk
boyansker is vastly more comfortable
in a temperature of 80 below than
many an American, In his cloth over
coat, In a temperature of 5 above zero.
The winter, Indeed, Is more enjoya
ble than the summer, which Is hotter
than might be expected. The average
temperature of July in Verkhoyansk
Is 59 above zero, and very hot days
are not uncommon. The earth be
comes green and vegetation thrives
though only the surface of the ground
is thawed. At Yakutsk, which is
farther south than Verkhoyansk, but
not much warmer in winter, the mer
cury rises In July to 100 degrees.
Harper's Weekly.
INDIANS TO KILL WOLVES.
How Colorado Cattle Men Kxpect to
Put an F.nd to the Paat.
Tough times for timber wolves are
looming up In the future. The latest
scheme for ridding tho White River
cattle country of these ' four-legged
marauders Is to let the Indian do it.
And this appears to be the best notion
yt.
When It comes to trapping or shoot
ing wolves and locating their dens au
Indian knows what a white .man would
never find out, the Denver Republican
says, so now the plan is to Invite the
Utes up from the reservation In the
southern part of the State and their
cousins from over In Utah and turn
them loose to start tbe wolf massacre
In Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties,
The Idea originated wtth Charles T,
Llmburg of Leadvllle, a prominent cat
tleman and banker. He bas taken up
the matter with tbe office of the State
game and fish commissioners, where
the possibilities of his suggestions were
recognized at once. Various schemes
have been devised for getting rid of
the big gray wolves which slaughter
bo many yearling steers In the White
River country every summer and so
many deer in the winter.
The wolves of the White River tim
ber country are exceptionally large
and fierce. A head of one of them
shows them to have heavy, capacious
Jaws and long, keen teeth which look
as if they could snap a dog's back
bone in with a single crunch. It looks
as if it were up to the Indians, and It
1 believed that they will enjoy the
outing with great pleasure, particu
larly since it means getting all the
food they want while they are away
from home, with the chance of bounty
money thrown In.
"People think I'm smart because J
never say much," said a man to-day.
Old Favorites
Do Ther Mlaa Me at Ilomef
Do they miss me at home do they
miss me?
'Twould be an assurance most dear,
To know that this moment some loved
one
Were saying, "I wish he was here;"
To feel that the group at the fireside
Were thinking of mo as I roam.
Oh, yes, 'twould be Joy beyond meas
ure
To know that they mlss'd me at
home.
When twilight approaches the season
That Is ever sacred to song.
Does someone repeat my name over.
And sigh that I tarry so long?
And Is there a chord in the music
That's mlss'd when my voice Is
away?
And a chord in each heart that awak-
eth
Regret at my wearisome stay?
Do they get me a chair near the tablo,
When evening's home pleasures are
nigh.
When the candles are lit In the par
lor,
And the stars In the calm, azure
sky?
And when the "good nights" are re
peated, And all lay them down to their sleep.
Do they think of the absent and waft
me
A whlsper'd "good night" while they
weep?
Do they miss me at home do they
miss me
At mornlnc. at noon, nr at nlo-Vit?
And lingers ono gloomy shade round
mem
That only my presence can light?
re Joys less invitingly welcome.
And pleasures less hale than before,
Because one Is misa'd from the circle,
Because I am with them no more?
THE EARTH AS A MOON.
ur norm It Appears to Venna
and Our Own Moon.
If we could be transported to the
planet Venus a peculiar set of views
cculd be obtained of our earth which
would enable us to see ourselves, to
some extent, at least, as others see us
Venus la about the same size as the
earth, is somewhat closer to the sun
and has more atmosphere than the
earth. When the earth and Venus are
nearest together they are, of course, on
the same side of the sun, and in conse
quence of this the earth does not see
more than a very small part of the
Venus Illuminated, but Venus, on the
other hand, sees all of one side of the
earth illuminated, and consequently Is
able to claim she has something that
takes the place of a moon anyhow, for
the earth to Venus at this time looks
very large and bright, almost as much
so as our moon does to us.
If we could see all the illuminated
surface of Venus on these occasions
we should have quite a distinct sec
ond moon. When we do see all of her
Illuminated surface she is on the op
posite side of the sun from us and
consequently at an enormous distance
yet she Is so brilliant as to keep us
from seeing her surface distinctly.
But to our own moon we appear In
the best light as a moon. A full earth
as seen from the moon, according to
Prof. Todd and other astronomers, is
a very inspiring sight on the moon's
surface. It can at once bo seen why
this Is necessarily true. The earth Is
several times larger than the moon
and would appear in the heavens as a
disk about fourteen times the size of
the moon. It would shine with prob
ably a variable light, due to the shift
ing clouds on the earth, though the
light, of course. Is reflected from the
sun, and the reflecting is done in part
by the upper surface of the clouds.
The outlines of the continents of tho
earth appear very clearly to the moon
as if they were formed of papier
mache on a globe. Cities of compara
tlvely large size could be made out
with ease in case people were there
to make them out. The intensity of
the reflected eartb. light would be as
much as fourteen moons and would
ensble the Selenites, If such they are,
to read or work in comparative day
light. St. Louis Republic.
POSTOFFICE MASCOT DOO.
Had Ileadqnartera at Albany, but
Now Poaes in Waablngton.
Inclosed In a large glass case In the
gallery of tho dead-letter department
of the Washington postofllce Is the
stuffed body of an unattractive mon
grel dog, whose history can but intar
est every one, especially those who
appreciate the wisdom and fidelity of
these almost human animals.
"Owney," the railway postal clerks'
mascot," is the name by which this
dog was known during its very event
ful career, proofs of which may be
seen in the hundreds of tags and med
als that are attached to the collar and
harness which almost cover the body
and the space around him.
During the winter of 1SSG. this dog
a half-breed fox terrier, blind In one
eye, cold, starving, made his way into
tho postofllce at Albany. N. Y. The
clerks took pity on his forlorn con
dltion and arranged to feed and house
him. He became devotedly attached
to his uniformed friends, and one day
followed a mall wagon to the station.
where he boarded a mall car, in which
his presence was unnoticed until after
the train started. Eventually he re
turned on another train to Albany.
Having onVe learned the trick, he
made frequent trips to different points,
turning up again In rourse of time at
the home ofllie. Ills travels became so
extensive that the Albany clerks pro
vided him with a fine collar bearing
the inscription. "Owney, Albany P. O.,
N. Y." At the next postofllce be vis
ited the elerks attached to his collar
a metal tag beariug the name of that
office.
This attracted t tie attention of nil
the clerks whom Owney visited, and
tags of all Kinds, metal, paper, leather
aud cloth, bearing the names of places
he visited, were added. On his period
leal returns to Albany these were de
tached and preserved. Owney contin
ued to travel from one place to another
for eleven years, always using the mall
cars, looking upon every man who
wore the postal uniform as his friend
At times he was assisted In his selec
tion of a route by the clerks, who
from one end of the country to th
other knew him and always gave hrra
a hearty welcome and n tng to prove
where ho had been. From New York
to California, north nnd south, he
gathered these tokens of Interest, nnd
many are the curious kinds. From
the western mining regions are chunks
of silver rudely molded and inscribed,
and there are original devices In leath
er and the bark of trees and scraps
of cloth.
During this timo he also followed
the mall pouches on hoard ocean-going
steamers and visited many points In
Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as
other- parts of the world. The Mikado
of Japan presented him with a silver
medal having the Japanese national
coat of arms. This modal occupies a
conspicuous place In 'Owney's glass
case.
Owney met a sad and untimely fats
at Toledo, Ohio, In 1S!)7. He had been
chained to a post in the basement of
the postofllce to await the arrival of a
photographer who was to take his pic
ture, lie became impatient at this un
usual restraint, which ho could not
understand, and made noisy and des
perate efforts to release himself, and
when a clerk tried forcible means to
quiet hlra he showed the first sign of
temper he was ever known to display,
and sprung at him and hit his hand.
The clerk spread tho report that the
dog had gone mad. Thereupon the
postmaster summoned a policeman,
who ended with a bullet the career oi
this most remarkable animal. The
news at once reached Owney's home
office in Albany, where it caused much
grief, and a demand was made for tha
lifeless body in order to have it pre
served. THE TWINS' SAMPLER.
It Wai Beitnn by u (lrl nnd FinlabcA
by Her Drotlicr.
There is often comedy aud pathos,
as well as family or historic interest,
attaching to the quaint samplers oi
old-time children, cherished now with
so much pride and care by their de
scendants. The impossible roses, ths
birds as big as cows, the cows that
may be dogs, the dogs that perhaps
were meant for horses, all Inter
mingled with numerals, the alphabet,
family facts, meaningless flourishes, a
text or a moral verse there Is no
other needlework quite so fascinating
to a retrospective and imaginatlva
eye.
A sampler which a lady much Inter
ested In antiques recently reported
discovering in a remote farmhouse Is
perhaps unique; for It is f.e work
not of one child, but two, and one oi
the two a- boy. It Is not especially in
teresting In design, although carefully
executed, but it has a story.
It was begun by little Mary Holme,
aged 11, who brought It, Indeed, near
to completion. There were but a few
lines more to fill, and on the first oi
these she had already wrought tbe
"Mary," which was to be followed by
her surname, and date of birth.
Sho was seated before the blazing
hearth, busily stitching, when a spark
flew out and Ignited her dress. There
was on one else in the house but her
twin brother, Stephen, who sprang to
fier rescue. But the poor child, fran
tic with terror, struggled with him as
he strove to beat out the flames, so
that both fell and rolled together Into
the hot embers. Mary died that night.
Stephen was so cruelly burned ha
was barefooted that he was for two
years a crippled invalid, and limped
for life.
During the boy's long and slow re
covery his elder sisters, to keep hlro
occupied, taught him to knit and sew.
Tradition declares that he knitted a
pair of stockings for every member ol
the family, and made a patchwork
quilt for his own bed; but the only
specimen of his work preserved Is the
sampler, which he completed. Its last
lines, in faded blue and brown, are
still easily read:
"Mary and Stephen Holme, born
Aug. 9, 1768. Mary died Oct. 2, 1779,
and Stephen finished this. In Memor
lam." Youth's Companion.
DLanlfylnar Her tiueata.
One suspects the "first lady of th
State" who figures in the little story
below of a rebuke tempered with ha
moi. While Thomas Chittenden, tha
first Governor of Vermont, was dis
charging the functions of an executive
he was waited upon one day, in an offi
cial capacity, by several gentlemen
from Albany, New York. The visit
ors were of the well-to-do class, and
were accompanied by their wives.
At noon the hostess summoned the
workmen from tho fields and seated
them at table with her fashionable
visitors. When tho ladies had retirod
from the dining-room to an apartment
by themselves, one of them said to her
hostess:
"You do not usually have your hired
laborers sit down at the first table, do
you?" "Why, yes, madam," Mrs. Chittenden
replied, simply, "we have thus far
done so, but are now thinking of mak
ing a different arrangement. The Gov-a
ernor and myself ha been talking
the matter over a lU.'e lately, and
have 'come to the cone' .m that the
men, who do wnrw . nartl work,
ought to have. ,e, and that
he and I, who do m i. , should bo
content with the second, lut In com
pliment to you," the lady concluded. "I
thought I would have you sit down
with them to-day, at the first table."
The- l oot! Ti ir.
The lady from Iioston looked bored
The hostess noticed tho fact with some
anxiety.
".My dear Mrs. Fannel," she said,
"I want the llouoable Mr. Bobstay
to meet you. lie's such a gifted con
versationalist." The lady from Boston failed to look
Interested.
"I have met ser:i mified conversa
tionalists this eviniii!,'," .she said, "and
their only topic va.; the financial alti
tude of the edible animal tissued." .
Cleveland Plain Dea'cr.
A 'IVn.lt-r sjiul.
"I acknowledge, your honor," said
the prisoner, "thai I punched this man
in a moment of ind'niiatiou.'"
"I wouldu t nave miiuiej the mo
wouldu t nave miiuiej the mo
ot Indignation so much," put in.
complainant, "had he not also V. '
ued me lu tho face." Baltimore
ment
the comi.
punched
American.
Do men who have cork legs go t
bed wlta them on?