Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NIB.
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Airships are almost
Cingerbrend.
as brittle M
There is one thing that has not ftd
vsnred la price. Talk Is as cheap as
ever.
Some married man must have orig
inated the Idea of sending kisses by
wire.
Boston Is Inning many of her tradi
tions, but she Is still thankful for bcr
baked beans.
Somebody wants to change the nam
of Oshkosh. Kalamazoo. Keokuk and
Kankakee are pooh-poohing the Idea.
Young rhilander Chase Knox swears
that he will go to work, if there Is
no other way. We don't know of any.
If In 1.000 years from now it will
be possible to live 120 years It la to
be hoped that It will he worth while.
The minister who has resinned hM
pastorate to become an umpire must
expect his future audiences to talk
back to him.
Cardinal Gibbons says that the rich
cannot corner Joy. And the poor do
not have to suffer all the pain. Life
is till worth living.
It will be almoBt Impossible to coun-
tirfeit the new French bank notes,
ut we get this information from the
designer, not from the counterfeiters.
The ways of women are past finding
ejot. The divorced husband of an Ohio
woman broke his leg and Ills wife
came back and remarried him out of
sympathy.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
decided that a woman possesses the In
herent right to change her mind. Hu
tnan nature continues to play a strong
hand In Georgia.
A New Tork cartoonist has been or
dered to pay his former wife $400 a
month alimony. This will bo likely to
add to the number of young men who
are learning to be cartoonists.
Philander Knox, Jr., has begun his
career as a married man by selling
(wo automobiles. He has evidently
discovered that it will keep him busy
supporting a wife on $100 a month.
Animated by a burning ambition to
Co good and make his countrymen
hnrpyi a distinguished Investigator
hastens to assure everybody that the
prices of things were just as high In
1837 as they are now, If not a little
higher.
Public charity is not always kind,
bnt the order recently Issued by the
Boston police commissioner indicates
that he understands human nature,
thereafter the names of families found
In destitution are to be kept from the
public and reported only to such au
thorities as have a right to know and
a desire to give relief.
The inducements to temperance are
many. A smal town recently voted to
remain "dry" for fifty years in order
to accept the conditional gift of a mil
lionaire, who offered It an electric
light plant, a sewerage system and, to
cap the climax, a water works plant
Other improvements of less Impor
tance were Included in the proviso.
All in all, everybody, even the million
aire, is benefited.
Four hundred and fifty-nine dollars
la the amount which a young man
working as a day laborer saved in two
years. He had insisted in an argu
ment that a laborer can save money.
and to prove his point announced that
he would save four hundred dollars in
twenty-four months. He worked for
eleven different men In that time, and
the highest wage he received was forty
Cellars a month. But he demonstrated
that a man can save money it be Is
willing to make an effort.
Mrs. Martin W. Littleton's Bible
Itudy class has evoked many imitators
In New York, and society women, we
lire told by veracious correspondent
ire enthusiastic over the new depar
ture. Quite apart from Its religious
lignlficance, the Bible is a comprehen-
llve compendium of literary excellence
In which the most capricious mind can
find satisfaction. Romance, war, gov
irnment, intrigue, law and civiliza
tion are all written into Its wonder
ful pages. And, to judge from the
Itorles that fill the newspapers, society
trill be none the worse for a dally
chapter from the Bible. The absence
of moral training from the average
American school Is blamed by many
itudents of history for the present un
lettled condition of public and private
conscience. It Is, perhaps, too much
to expect that Bible reading will not
kbly Improve the present adult gen
eration, but, if It serves only to
waken tho public mind to the neces
lity of teaching children at least the
ordinary virtues of good citizenship,
great good will result.
One Dr. Btelner, Professor of Ap
plied Christianity at Iowa College, In
a recent address to the Young Men's
Christian Association at Columbia
University, asserted that "the nine
hundred thousand immigrants who
came to our shores last year served
a far better purpose than an equal
Dumber of university graduates un
willing to begin work at the bottom
tif the ludder." This Is one of those
broad, sweeping assertions that learned
lecturers like to make, perhaps to
aicuse the flagging interest of their
audience and the public. The immi
gration question can stand upon its
ov. n bottom. This country still wet
cciaes aliens with few limitations, and
a large percentage of the influx from
fort-Inn lands become valuable citizens.
But the national commissioner of lm
titration says that at least two nun
dred thousand, and probably more, of
the aliens who curae here last year
are not wanted; that ttiey will be of
eo benefit to the country, but on the
contrary a detriment. In 1905 Presl
lent Roosevelt, speaking of lmmlgrar
tfon, said: "Distribution of these
aliens Is of little value unless there la
adequate restriction. These Immi
grants are wheedled and cajoled often
against their best Interests, to come
her." So It seemes that our Immi
gration laws might still be beneficially
amended with a view to securing a
better class of Incoming population and
to protecting the Immigrants them
selves against cajolery and fraud. As
for the university graduates and the
immigrants, there Is no Just basis of
comparison between them. If the de
mand Is for the most unskilled class
of manual labor, perhaps the humble
immigrant la more valuahle; but a
young man, native to the sell, upon
whom his family have expanded lov
ing pains, as well as money, to train
In tho right way, nnd who has had the
advantage of one of our great Institu
tions of learning, ought to be more
valuable In an all-rouni way. The
complaint that scholastic graduates
are not willing to begin at the bottom
of the ladder is hardly tenable as ap
plied to tho whole graduating body.
Most of the educated young men now
adays seem to be willing to begin at
the foot, la any line thoy may choose,
and work rp. This Is one of the facts
which affords the most hopeful Indi
cation of the future of the country.
EASEBAXL IN CANAL ZONE.
Game Ilaa tireat a Hold There
It lla, In the I'nited Matea.
Baseball has become as popular
here as in the United States, a New
York Herall Cristobal (Panama) cor
respondent Bays. The American na
tional gamo is now In its third year
of prosperity.
As a matter of fact so strongly has
the game taton a hold In this tropical
country that little cards reading some
thing like tb?n are found in the offices
of heads of -departments: "Notice
All requests for leave of absence ow
ing to grar'nother's funeral, lame
back, house cleaning, moving, sore
throat, tiirnlr-tt tho wringer, headache,
brain storm, cousin's wedding, birth
of twlnB, general indisposition, etc.,
must be hanfed to the manager not
later than 1C o'clock on the morning
of the game."
The Amcrrctns brought the game
here and it hi come to stay. Tho na
tlves and foelgners have begun to
take an Interest In the sport, and quite
a few not only take part In tho "root
ing" for the home team, hut havo
learned to play.
Two well organized leagues hold the
chief attention, although a number of
Independent teams have been formed.
The two leagues are the Isthmian and
the Atlantic. Tho former Is made up
of teams representing Gargona, Ancon,
Empire and the Marines, while the At
lantic Is composed of the Commissary
Subsistence, Civil Administration, Pa
nama Railroad and Colon. Practically
all of these nines are drafted from
the men working for the government,
but the class of ball put up Is excep
tionally fast and the rivalry is in
tense.
The season opens with the dry sea
son, in January, and the fight for the
pennant will last until June, when
the rains put In an appearance. The
competition for places on the regular
nines Is as spirited and interesting
as those which take placo in the States
where college men are trying for the
varsity.
Many previous college ball players
are here on the Isthmus, and most of
the teams are fully equal to the best
of the college and university nines in
the United States. Baseball Is bo
American that even those who did not
care much for the sport In the States
take in the games here and there is no
lack of support. The prices for ad
mission in sliver run from bleachers
at 50 cents to the box seats at $2.00.
STREET NAMES LISTED.
Ileaaoa Why Many Mlndlreeted I.rl
tera Reach Their Destination.
Absent-minded persons who write a
name and street address on a letter
and put it In the mall without hint
of the town, city or even State to
which it is intended to go cost the post
office department a lot of trouble and
money each year. Many of the par
tially addressed reach their destina
tion with little delay, the deficiency be
ing supplied by a mall clerk.
It looks like the cleverest kind of
work when an envelope addressed to
"Samuel 8tratton, 405 Colyton street"
goes straight to Mr. Stratton at his
home in Los Angeles, but a peek be
hind the postal scenes shows that it is
easy after all. The department has
just iBsued a 900-page book in which
are listed the street names in all of
the 1,200 or so cities and towns in
which a carrier service Is maintained.
A glance In this volume, says the New
York Sun, shows that the only Coly
ton street known Is In Los Angeles.
Another letter may be addressed to
"John Jones, Woodward avenue, be
tween Grand River avenue and State."
More than thirty towns or cities have
a Woodward avenue, but the only city
in which all three of the streets are
found is Detroit, Mich. The book
shows It and the letter goes on its
wsy.
In the same way a letter addressed
to St. Paul when the writer meant St.
Louis eventually finds its way to the
right address through the use of the
Index.
It is not nil so easy, however. The
book Oils out a deficiency only when
the name of the street is unusual. A
letter to "John Brown, 200 Main
street," will end up In the dead letter
office, because of the 1,200 cities listed
about 900 boost of a Main street.
CheBtnut street and High street art
also common, there being 400 or more
of each listed. There are more than
;uu wasnington streets, union ana
High streets occur about 400 times,
and Maple and vVater are found lc
about 350 communities. There are 30C
PioadwayB.
Thirty-seven cities have Roosevelt
streets, twenty-one bear Bryan's numt
and eight Taft streets are found, al
though there Is no proof that they
were named after the Presidents anc!
th candidate. Names of prominent
Americans of former days occur fre
quently, but those of tho present day
are less frequent. Carnegie street it
'-vjnd In only three towns, and but
two streets bear the name of Rocke
feller.
One woman can stir up more troublt
than a doten mere men.
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Minneapolis Journal.
LOVE AND LIVE.
All my past, life Is mine no more;
The flying hours are gone.
Like transitory dreams given o'er
Whose Images ore kept in store
Uy memory alone.
The time that Is to come Is not;
How can It then be mine;
The present moment's all my lot;
And that, an fast as It Is got,
Phyllis, Is only thine.
Then talk not of Inconstancy
False hearts ami broken vows;
If I by miracles can be
This live-long minute true to thee,
'Tis all that heaven allows.
The Earl of Rochester.
"Oh, Ferd!" exclaimed the engaged
girl to the engaged young man who
had just entered the hall door. Then
she threw herself into his arms and
burst into tears.
"Why, Kathle," gasped the mysti
fied Ferd, "what's up?"
"Oh, Ferd!" moaned Katharine
amid strangled subs. "Did you ever
see anything more hideous in all your
life?" She held up something round,
smooth and pearly white In color.
"Think of wearing it! Think of It,
Ferd! Oh, of all spiteful creatures,
girls are the worst!"
Katharine sniffed recuperatlvely and
dabbed a bit of lace upon her discol
ored eyes. Presently she was in a
condition to tell her story.
"The Alpha Zcta girls did it Just
because It makes them Jealous to
think that I'm about to marry such a
splendid man as you. Th?y a.e,
Ferd," she insisted, as the young man
smiled a bit incredulously. "Though,
In fairness to them, I will admit there
Is the smallest chance possible of their
having actually imagined that I'd like
this frightful thing.
"You see," began Katharine confi
dentially, as she settled herself com
fortably beside the young man, "when
Clara Frazier wus marled lust June
the Alpha Zetas decided to give her a
handsome bracelet. And I gave In ray
little $1.C0 I, who love Clara as I
should love a viper. Do you remem
ber, Ferd, when you both happened
to be on the same train going to De
troit a year ago? Of course, I know
that you were merely polite to her,
but she actually made so much out of
your attentions to her when she told
about them that the girls thought you
and I were on the point of quarrel
lng. Since then Clara and I have
kept up a perfect (ctlon of friendship.
If we meet ns often ns three times a
day she always kisses me on both
cheeks nnd, opening her eyes wide, in
quires sweetly, 'How's Ferd?
Well, to get back to Clara's wed
ding present. I was one of the com
mittee of three appointed to select the
bracelet. For some ration or other we
put off making-the purchase till the
last day. By that time Carrie had
sprained her ankle roller skating and
Helen had to help her mother pack
for a trip to New York, so I was left
to choose the gift all by myself.
"I had a perfectly miserable time.
Ferd. .All the way downtown I jug
gled possible and Impossible designs
up and down in my mind. By the
time the salesman begau bringing out
tray after tray of bracelets for my in
spection I was utterly confused.
"UT course, some of them were
dreuins. There were gay Parisian de
signs and hand-wrought orientals. I
saw a sliver bracelet set with tur
quoise, native drilled and warranted
never to fade. There was a beauty in
rose gold with enamel flower tracings
and sttids of pearls. But did I select
one of these? Never!
"I waved aside all tho lovely ones
nnd chosn a silver1 bended affair. It
was an unly Wall of Troy puttt rn set
with eight lapis lazulis and three
cream jades. There wasn't a bit of
high light on the article. Altogether
It was the ngllest bracelet I ever saw
in all my life except thU one here.
"I was ashamed fo think what the
handsome young salesman might con
clude about my Intellect, so 1 told him
that the bracelet was not for me but
for an elderly person of peculiar tastes.
Of course, 25 Is elderly, and If Clara
weren't odd she never would have
dreamed that she could make that
sweet-minded Billy Thompson happy
for life.
"As I exected, the girls all looked
rather shocked when I opened the
, while velvet box for their inspection;
I Wedding Gifts
TESTEHDAY3.
AND "ANOTHER FELLOW" BUILT
but though the praises were tame, no
serious complaints were lodged, bo the
bract-let "was sent to Clara." '
Tears were In Katharine's voice as
she went on. "Ferd, we received a
wedlng present to-day!" She crushed
tightly In her hand the white velvet
box. Inside was an Alpha card. There
were also the same beaded silver and
the same Wall of Troy, with eight
lapis lazulis and three cream jades!
A twin monstrosity to the bracelet 1
selected for Clara!" Tears rolled down
her cheeks.
"Oh, I'm nearly through crying,"'
she declared, "but I want to tell you,
Ferdinand Augustus Milton Stoll, that
you can Just make up your mind to
use this bracelet to chain on the cover
of the ash can or bolt the kitchen
door. It may do to tie up the bull
pup. As for my wearing it "
She rose impulsively and the white
velvet box went spinning across the
room. The bracelet rolled out and
lay on the rug.
"Oh, Ferd," sobbed Katharine, as
she sank pathetically back on the
divan, "wouldn't you be awfully afraid
THE VICUT SAME THING.
to marry me to-morrow if I were as
spiteful as some girls?" Chicago
News.
Still Learning;.
Three weeks before his death, when
he was nearly 80 years old, Corot, the
painter, said to a friend: "You have
no idea of .the things I could paint
now. I see what I have never seen
before. It seems to me that I could
never before have been able to make
a sky. That which Is before me is
much rosier, profounder, more trans
parent. Ah, if I could show you these
immense horizons!" In "Corot and
His Friends" Everard Meynell gives
Albert Wolffs picture of the aged ar
tist. He wrote in 1884:
Only nine years ago one could still,
on summer days, seo one of the most
touching spectacles an artist has ever
given to his time.
An old man. come to the completion
of a long life, his white hair aureoled
lu reflections, clothed In a blouse, shel
tered under a parasol, sat, attentive
as a scholar, trying to surprise some
secret of nature that had escaped him
for seventy years, smiling at the chat
ter of the birds, and now and then
throwing them the bar of a song, as
happy to live and enjoy the poetry of
the fields as he had been at 20.
Old as he was, this great artist still
hoped to be learnlug; for hnlf a cen
tury he had been studying the works
of creation, and every day they made
a revelation to him; for, thought this
old man. there enn never be an abso
lute mastery In u it, and a lifetime Is
not long enough to study all the ex
presslons of the face of the earth.
"Two good studies must be made,"
he sii Id, "or I will break my palette
and brushes." And, later on, "I hope
with all my heart there will be paint
ing in heaven." v
lear Moaejr.
Mrs. Anthony Hoje, American wife
of the well known English novelist, la
as celebrated as her husband for her
bon-moU.
At a dinner In New York on her
American visit, the young lady ex
pressed her disapproval of mercenary
marriages.
Never marry for money," she uij.
"You can borrow cheaper."
Pfflfe
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A BOAT.
AN INTELLIGENT REPTILE.
Do animals possess the power of
logical judgment, or, as we oftener
say, reason? Naturalists and others
have long debated the question, and
are still divided. A writer In Science,
without committing himself on the
point, tells what he saw on a country
read In Georgia, and every reader will
agree with him that it was remark
able. A commotion In the underbrush be
side the road attracted his attention.
He investigated the cause, and saw a
coachwhlp snake about four feet long
struggling with a lizard less than a
foot long. They were not fighting;
the snake was trying to eat the lizard.
Occasionally the lizard would get
away, but tho snake would at once
give chase and recapture him. The
snake invariably caught his prey by
the bedy; he acted ns if he knew that
if he seized him by the tail the lizard
would break off the tail and escape.
Finally the lizard, escaping from the
snake, darted up a tree; the snake fol
lowed. Here the four jointed legs of
the lizard gave him the advantage.
After darting up the tree a short dis
tance he paused and glanced back
ward. As often as the snake approach
ed he would again dart forward, stop,
and look backward; this happened sev
eral times.
Then all of as sudden, the snake
dropped to the ground. The lizard
continued to gaze downward. About
a foot from the tree on which the liz
ard was resting, head downward, there
stood another tree. Spirally- up this
tree the snake climbed until it was
a few inches above the level of the
lizard, which was still gazing scru
tinizingly downward.
Quietly and quickly the snake ex
tended the front of Its body, and with
a sudden thrust of its head knocked
the lizard to the ground, and before It
had time to recover from the unex
pected blow the snake had dropped to
the ground and recaptured it.
MEDICINE AND THE PRESS.
Gaud Deal of I'njuatlflalile TnlU
About .eiup lllandcrm.
One of the medical journals devotes
a long and scornful article in Its cur
rent issue to the anatomical and path
ological blunders of newspapers. Some
of those blunders, it. must be admit
ted, have no little richness of humor.
A small western paper, for example,
recently accused a man of dying of
"pleurisy of the brain." Another an
nounced that a sick man, locality
prominent, was recovering from a bad
attack of staphlocous (staphylococ
cus?) A third paper, this time in the
south, recorded a case of "petrification
of the heart." News of other hair
raising marvels, of incredible mala
dies and impossible operations crops
up every day on all sides.
It is to be lamented, of course, says
the Baltimore Sun, that newspapers
are not more accurate in their medical
and chlrurglcal reports, but the fault,
we believe, is not always theirs. Too
often the doctors who laugh so loudly
are to blame. Many of them still cling
to the ancient hocus-pocus of the me
diaeval leeches. Medicine, as it is
practiced, is still marked by mean
ingless incantations, absurd circum
locutions, unintelligible dog Latin.
The young doctors like to roll sound
ing words upon their tongues that
they may cause the vulgar to marvel,
and too often they are never cured of
the vice. Just observe the bull itlcs
issued by the learned consultants
while a great man" lies dying. Vary
often they rre entirely incomprehen
sible, despMe the fact that the infor
mation thev ordinarily convey jilght
be expressed very well In language
easily understood by any layman.
No; the newspapers are not always
to blame for their medical errors and
when they are their blunders do a
great deal less harm than those of
the doctors themselves. A newspaper
never gouges out the wrong eye or cuts
off the wrong leg. Its mistakes ll
diagnosis fill no graveyards. It may
be comic, but It is never homlcid-11.
Man of Kinerlfuce.
His Daughter Daddy, you were 21
wheu this wns taken, weren't you?
Why, you might have sat for It yes
terday. Her Father M'yes your mother's
own daughter. Well, well, you'll And
It on the table, I think.
His Daughter Kind what, daddy
darling?
Her Father The checkbook, my
own lamb. The Sketch.
A small boy's Idea of an entertain
ment Is any kind of a gathering
where refreshments are served.
GOOD SHORT
STORIES
Among applicants for service as a
general housemaid In a Pittsburg fam
ily was a rawboncd Irish girl of rather
forbidding aspect. "Do you love chil
dren?" asked the mistress of the house,
when satibfied that tho pirl would suit
with respect to most requirements.
"Well, muni," responded the Celt, with
a grim smile, "that all depends on the
wages."
A clerk In Belgrade, Servla, named
VtlUlaw Simonovltch, on the strength
of nn Increase of salary, recently tel
egraphed to a young woman of Los
nitsa and asked her to share his for
tunes. The rgulatlon tax allows ten
words for the minimum fee, and her
answer ran: "Yea, gladly, willingly,
Joyfully, delightedly, gratefully, loving
ly, yes, yes, yes.".
William Travers Jerome, when dis
trlct attorney of New York, went down
to Georgia to address the Georgia Bar
Association. Col. Peter Mtldrim was
showing Jerome around. "You see that
man," said the colonel, pointing out
a distinguished person who sat on the
hotel porch. "I do." "Well, suh, that
Is a man in whom our state takes
great pride. He is Judge , suh,
tho only man in Georgia who can strut
sitting down."
M. Paul was a grocer. Rats overran
his city, and a price of two sous a
head was placed upon them by the
town council. M. Paul's errand boy,
working early and late, managed to
slay ninety rats in the cellars and at
tics of the shop. The boy took his
prey to the city hall, and, returning
to the grocery Jubilant, showed M.
Paul the nine francs he had gained.
The grocer held out his palm. "Hand
the money here," he said. "You know
very well those rat3 were mine, not
yours."
William, a little country boy of six,
was snowbound with his mother at the
house of an aunt, twenty miles from
his own home. Tho two, who had
driven over In a sleigh Just to spend
the day, were forced to remain three
nights and were supplied by the host
ess with garments to Bleep in. There
being no small boys In his aunt's
family, William was put to bed in one
of his little cousin Deborah's night
gowns, very indignant at having to
wear anything with so many frills and
lace trimmings around the neck and
on the sleeves. "I won't stand it, mum
mer," he loudly protested on the sec
ond night. "I won't wear anything
so glrly! I'll run away, you see if I
don't, and perish in a snowdrift be
fore I'll put that thing on again. Why,
rather than wear that that valentine
nightgown I'll sleep raw!"
Briskly enters the sleek-looking
agent, approaching the desk of the
meek, machine-looking man and
opening one of those folding thingum
ajigs showing styles of binding. "I
believe I can Interest you In this mas
sive set of books containing the
speeches of the world's greatest ora
tors. Seventy volumes, $1 down and
51 a month until the price, $GS0, has
been paid. This set of books gives you
the most celebrated speeches of the
greatest talkers the world has ever
known and " "Let me see the in
dex," says the meek man. The agent
hands it to him and he looks through
it carefully and methodically, running
his finger along the list of names.
Reaching the end, he hands the Index
back to the agent and says: "It Isn't
what you claim it is. I happen to
know the greatest talker in the woild.
and you haven't her In the index."
USE FOR SPIDER'S NEST.
Mexican Nallven Mnke of It a Item
eily Airalnat the Fly I'laxae,
It is perhaps difficult to account for
the fact that certain very harmless
fellow creatures of ours are almost
invariably looked upon with repulsion
if not with absolute horror. The num
ber of individuals who care to have
snakes as pets is comparatively few,
and those who are Interested In spi
ders must form even a smaller class.
Sentiment is occasionally powerful
enough Indeed to overcome antipathy
to what is loathsome. There are parts
of Britain in which even a member of
the so-called weaker sex will view with
equanimity a red spider running over
her sleeve, whereas Bhe would tread
remorselessly under foot the common
or garden variety. For the red spider
is a precursor of wealth.
The utility of the spider, the fact
that it has a part to play in the econ
omy of nature, Is very slowly being
recognized in this country, but there
are regions of the world where senti
ment has given place to the convic
tion that certain classes at any rate
of the insect play a role that Is, both
useful and beneficial to man. '
M. L. Dlguet, who has been on a
mission In a district of Mexico which
he calls Miehoacan, has brought back
tidings of a spider's nest which is
used by the natives for self-protection
during the rainy season and which
forms a notable addition to the adorn
ment of the rooms in which they live.
In the Bulletin de la Societe Nationals
d'Aeellruatation, he describes the mos
quero, as it a called, which has been
used aa a remedy for the fly plague
from time immemorial. At the be
ginning of the rainy season the exodus
from the villages begins. The inhab
itants stream up the wooded hillsides,
and the picture he draws of the long
procession of brunches, each of which
contains one or more coveted mos
quero, reminds one of the wood of
Dunsinane.
The nests are large enough to cover
a space of a couple of square yards
and are like a huge sponge. This is
strung to the branches by thick
threads which act as cables.' Theu
come the thinner and sticky rope-t
which are to act as catchers of the
harmful, unnecessary fly.
The Inside of the nest is simply a
mesh of Interwoven lines pierced with
passages and galleries all kept in a
state of perfect sweetness by a tiny
parasite, one of the colnoptera, swarms
of which live and move, have their
being and find their nurture within Its
recesses. The season goes on, the
est increases concentrically la else
As each capture is made It Is secured
by fxeshly made webs and the re
mains, after host nnd parasite have
satisfied their appetites, becomes an
Integral part of the surface of the
nest. Westminster Gazette.
WOMEN SHOULD SWIM.
It In the Only Way to hecure a Tor.
feet I 1(4 ore, huym ll:tonlnn.
That any woman can swim herselt
Into good If not a perfect figure is the
belief of Miss Beatrice Street, Instruct
or in the public swimming tanks at
Brookllne, the woman who teaches all
the children in Brookline to swim,
Phoebe Dwight bays in tho Boston
Traveler.
And when I saw what MUts Street
had accomplished for herself I did not
wonder at her confidence in the won
ders her art can work, especially after
she told me that she had at one time
been slight to the verge of ungalnll
ness. Miss Street, who lias the repu
tation of being one of th most perfect
ly built women in Massachusetts, is
not tall five feet and three-quarterj
in her swimming suit but she has 6
figure so perfectly formed and carrloa
that one is not tno least bit conscious
of her shortness.
But Miss Street does not believe In
working with the direct object of a
good figure. "Swimming gives a wom
an a good figure because it develops
her or trims her down Into a perfect
ly normal or healthy condition," she
explained. "If she's too fat it makes"'
her thinner. If she's too thin it gives
her muscular development. One should
work to be healthy and the good figure
will be a natural result."
"Nothing In excess," Is one of this
athletic young woman's favorite mot
toes. "It Isn't good to try to either
lose or gain weight too fast," she said.
"When a person tells me she has tak
en off forty or fifty pounds in a year
I know she can't be In a very good
condition. And In the same way I
don't think it pays to put on flesh too
rapidly. The weight you gain slowly
Is the good, ealthy weight that will
stand by you.
"Swimming cannot possibly hurt
any one, except eomo one with a very
weak heart Any one can learn to
swim and swim well. Long-distance
swimming is, of course, a matter of
endurance and strength, but any one
can learn to swim short distances easi
ly," Is Miss Street's dictum. "Why,
when you realize that we have suc
ceeded In teaching even cripples and
partially paralyzed people to swim
you can see that no ordinary person
can have any excuse for not being abls
to learn to swim well."
RIVERS AS BATE REGULATORS.
ronalbilttles In Competition Well
Known by Railway Manager,
Senator Clark of Arkansas, perhapi
humorously, suggests that the nation
al government, instead of making ap
propriations to improve the Missouri,
might spend the money to build two
railroads paralleling the river. With
out going into the practicabilities ol
this original Idea it is enough to say
that the Senator loses sight of on
jof the .largest, considerations in tin
case, and that is the establishment oi
low freight rates on a stable basis,
Even in their present unimproved
condition the navigable rivers of tht
Mississippi valley are some protection
against excessive railroad charges, tht
St. Louis Globe-Democrat says. The
rivers, though much as nature made
them, offer possibilities in competition
and. railway managers are not un
mindful of the point where freight
rates would arouse the river interest
to action. Senator Clark does not saj
what should be done with the two
railroads when completed. Thej
would be a large order if used to
Initiate the policy of government own
ership. If leased to private corpora
tions, the freight rates would be all
that the traffic would bear, with tht
understanding that the improvement
of the Missouri had been abandoned
and the hope of adequate river compe
tition extinguished.
Some of the members of the Senate
committee on commerce treat water
way Improvement as a problem in the
experimental stage. How is it thai
the canals and deepened rivers of Eu
rope are put aside entirely in whal
these antagonistic Senators have tc
ray on the subject? What, in Senatoi
Burton's judgment, is the significance
of the fact that 90,000,000 tons ol
freight passed through the lakes las!
year? Lake channels have been deep
ened to twenty-two feet by govern
ment appropriations and no one
knows better than Senator Burton,
who has been an enthusiast in get
ting public money for the lake, thai
the resulting commerce has increased
beyond the estimates of the most saa
gulne. Three times as much shipping
passes through the Soo locks at
through the Suez canal. There are
Senators on the committee who hold
the Mississippi and Missouri crltfcailj
at arm's length as if the idea of deep
ening their channels permanentlj
were something unique and pecullarlj
hazardous as a financial and co miner
clal undertaking. Is the trouble with
such Senators prejudice or sectional
narrowness?
The One l0leney.
Matilda's Joined a rooking class.
At morning I awake
To find a fringe of herbs and grass
Around my bit of steak.
At dinner decorations strange
Are floating in the soup.
And there ale forks and spoons thaf
range
Just like a wurrior troop.
Anil there are ruffles on the chop,
And lemons everywhere;
I know not where the craze will stop,
In fact, I should not care,
If all the viands thus arrayed
With daintiness complete
Could some time und somehow be
maile
Mure possible to est.
Kt. Louis r.cpuhllc.
A ( haiiKf lelreI.
Mr. Grouch These biscuits of youn
are like rocks. What, do you take nn
for. an oat rich?
Mrs. Grc.ich I wish you were, mj
dear; then maybe I could get some
feathers for my new spring hat.-i
Jude.
One of the surprising things in thU
old world Is the ease with which
sinners make money.
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