Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA ClTY, t.
John M. Rmi Fubllohe
What a nne all-star stock company
Reno could organize.
The announcement come that New-
port society Is to fly. We knew that!
In spite of tho objections to the long
nat pins some women refuse to see the
point.
Mark Twain la said to have died a
millionaire. He was rich In more ways
than one.
Many men would like to go back to
the farm Just long enough to get throe
square meals.
The man who doesn't mind his own
business Is likely to wind up with no
business of his own to mind.
To cure indigestion, marital Infcllcl
ty, divorce and other things, teach
our daughters bow to cook, wash and
mind the baby.
A Boston court has decided that a
prima donna's name cannot be given
to a soup without ber permission and,
presumably, her price.
Says a dressmaking authority:
"Men fall In love with the best
gowned woman." Here la a question
for a pleiuinnt fireside debate.
Over in London, where they are fair
ly good judges of explorers, they have
decided that Peary discovered the pole
and that Dr. What's-hls-name Is a
faker.
It Is rumored that an automobile
trust la in process of organisation.
Can this be a fiendish conspiracy to
sky the price of the poor man's auto
mobile? The story of the deluge has Just been
deciphered ou clay tablets dug up after
thirty-eight hundred years. Perhaps
some day will be discovered the orig
inal diary by Adam.
There is much that millions can't
buy. Tor instance, the wife of a mil
lionaire for nine successive nights has
suffered from insomnia Sleep cannot
be purchased, and yet It Is the boon
of the humblest working woman.
Sailing of the Mauretania was de
layed half an hour by the non-arrival
of tome cans of cream. We are sur
prised to learn that the Mauretania
does not have among its attractions a
cow pasture and creamery of Its own.
A wife murderer in Georgia, par
doned by the President, refused to
avail himself of the clemency and will
remain In charge of the penitentiary
pharmacy as a trusty. This would
appear to be a case where the seal
of friends rather overran itself.
"Every time you get cold feet," says
Chicago health department bulletin, I
mar u aown ana see now onen you
get a cold. Do the same thing every I
time you get your feet wet. You will
And that your Ideas about cold feet or
we ieet nave Deen more wrong man I
ngnt. now does me cnicago health J
department Know wnat our idea haveT to prolong this visit several days long
been about cold feet? er. That's mv sneech." finished th m
ine appendix, minmng me human
race naa not enougn trouble or its
own Just now, haa started to make
more Dy inventing ior useu & new ana
exclusive aiseaae. inis aiseaim me
doctors have agreed to call "appendlc-
ular gastralgla," and there is small
doubt that those who wish to keep
strictly up to date wUl contract it
without delay. Indeed, appendicitis
may go quite out or. rasnion.
What It costs a young man to go
through college is always interesting
to the fathers who have to pay the
bills and to the boys who have to earn
their own education if they have any,
The record made by the senior class
of Princeton University is typical.
The smallest amount spent by any stu
dent in the class during the four years
of hie residence at the university Is
eight hundred dollars. The largest I
amount Is ten thousand dollars. The I
average is a little more than thirty-1
tx hundred dollars, or about nine hun-
dred dollars a year. Taking the whole
country, It Is probable that more Coys
go through college at a total coat of
fifteen hundred or two thousand than
thirty-five hundred dollars.
The prevalence of perjury in court
has been discussed by many lawyers
and Judges, and various safeguards of
a legal character have been advocat
ed. Now a contributor to the Green
Bog raises the more general question
whether lying is increasing in our
society and In the civilized, industrial,
strenuous world at large. It is true,
as the New York Evening Post ob
serves, that the Increasing complexi
ties of life make lying "safer" and the
discovery of the truth more and more
difficult. The simpler the conditions
and habits of people the easier it Is
to find the liar out and discredit him.
But it must be admitted that a com
plex civilization, while it increases the
opportunities of sophists, casuists
shufflers and plain liars, also multi
plies the agencies for propagating
truth and opposing lying. Education
makes men and women more intelli
gent and therefore less gullible. In
dustry and commerce, the wonderful
credit system, the importance of con-
tract, the need of efficiency and re-
sponsiblllty in business, the rising
standards of professional life, the
fierce light of the modern press, the
rapidity of communication these and
cither things make for truthfulness in
human relations. We do not believe
that lying Is on the Increase or that
character Is deteriorating. Humanity
la ascending, not descending, morally
and intellectually, and moral advance
is of course measured by the degree
of spontaneous virtue and sincerity
possessed by the average man.
livery reader or tuo newspapers
must have seen dispatches from Wastv
ington reporting that Mr. So-and-So
"has introduced a bill" in Congress
4roiaiuj souis siusziug cuiogi in uue
law. For example. It. would not be
surprising to learn that some mem
ber ha proposed a law that every
railroad company doing Interstate
business shall provide a shower bath
In every car. No one should be In the
least disturbed by the Intelligence that
a biM has been Introduced in Congress,
no matter how reasonable or how ab
surd Its provisions may be. In the
House of Representatives the members
merely drop their bills In a box; the
bills are referred to some comml'-tee,
and that Is usually the end of them.
The present Congress baa already
nearly thirty-three thousand bills on
the calendars of the two houses. Ieav
ing out of the account some hundred
of pension bills, almost aone of the
rent can be passed unless there Is
unanimous consent to consider them.
Of course, there are many members
who are always ready to object to the
consideration of any "fool" bill. In
asmuch as a Senator or member can
introduce any number of bills on any
and every subject, and since some Con
gressmen are willing to present "by
request" bills sent to them by any
"cranky" constituent, the fact that a
bill has been Introduced does not sug
gest that it will be parsed, any more
than the gathering of a summer cloud
Implies that the earth la .to be de
stroyed by another deluge.
This Is the mont comfortable chair,
Unole Joe. Won't you take itr Uncle
Joe looked at bis nephew with a sus
picion of a glare. He was a cheerful,
bluff old gentlemanfl who was making
visit in his nephew's family, and had
ust come In from a brisk walk In the
country. Now he strode to the fire
place and stood In front of it, warming
his coat tails. Ills niece was busy with
some fancy work near the window, and
his nephew had Just laid aside the af
ternoon paper.
"Do sit down in the moat comfort
able chair," urged the young woman
1th the fancy work.
"I prefer to stand up," said Uncle
Joo. "Any objection?"
"Why, no," said his nephew. "Of
course if you wish to stand up "
"Your intentions," said Uncle Joe,
"are good, but with your permission
I'm going to make a speech. There Is
such a thing as having too good In
tentions."
"What do you mean, uncle?" asked
the voice from the window. "I'm sure
we want you to be perfectly comfort
able." "So I am," said the old gentleman,
"but you forget that I am old enough,
and not yet too old, I hope, to Judge
for myself.
"When I want to sit down I know
enough to sit down, and as a matter of
fact, I consider some of the other
chairs quite as comfortable as the one
you are alwayB compelling me to sit
down In.
When I am at dinner I know when
I have had enough to eat, and I don't
like to be told that I have a poor appe
tite If 1 don't eat twice as much as
anybody else
"When I bo out to walk I am atill
capable of deciding whether or not to
wear rubbers. And when I stay in the
house, ifa my own fault If I sit In a
draft.
r jike this place, and I should like
gentleman.
. - - -
There was a momenta alienee.
"And a mlahtv aood sDeeeh. too."
Bald the younser man suddenly, "i
hadn't thought of it that way before,
hu rhruina: neonle to make them mm
fortable la a rather oppressive kind of
hospitality. Sit down In any old chair
you like, Undo Joseph, and I guess
hereafter Maud and I will be able to
restrain our impulse to pick it for
you
I shouldn't have mentioned it." said
uncle Joe. with a twinkle, "if I hadn't
been sure that such sensible young peo-
pie would agree with me." Youth's
Companion.
a td of Mrimr.
For a little while about tho middle
of the nineteenth century "that awful
boy Jones was the torment of Queen
Victoria's life, and his short career in
publlo contains a mystery which
would try the mettle of Sherlock
Holmes.
He was a barber's apprentice who In
I some unexplained way discovered a
I passage Into Buckingham palace, with
which he alone was acquainted. When
he was first found trespassing he was
gently admonished and Bent home.
Soon after he was encountered again
in the palace. He would not tell how
he obtained access. Again he was sent
home, and again he reappeared
Once he calmly admitted that he
had been lodging in the palace for a
fortnight. He had laid snug during
the day, sleeping in the royal apart
ments, snd at night had wandered
from room to room, helping himself to
the food left over from royal repasts
He had seen the queen repeatedly and
indeed had never been far from hr
The matter was consldred so serl
oua that the boy was summoned be
fore a special meeting of the privy
council. He refused to give any ac
count of his secret. Soon after he dis
appeared, and it is supposed that he
was removed under state protection.
London Globe.
lllalorlo Llniofra,
Once a flourishing Roman city and
supposed to be one of seven cities
where Christianity was planted about
tne middle of the third century, Li-
nioges is the capital of the department
of Haute-Vienne and Is 250 miles
south of Paris. Its porcelain nianu
factures are Justly celebrated. In 1768
kaolin was found near by, and nat
urally Limoges immediately began
making the hard paste porcelain. This
Is more durable, though ware made of
soft paste absorbs less color In the
decorating and has a pleasing softness
of effect
When a man U applauded for doing
or saying a Biuart thing, he tries so
hard tu score again that he becomes a
nuisance.
When a man flrsMolns a lodna ha
I Is very enthusiastic, but when the
flrit anseisment becomes due he herln
to lane leas laterest.
UNCLE JOE'S SPEECH.
HYMN OF
These things shall b: A loftier race
Than e'er the world has known shall rise.
With flame of freedom In their souls
And light of knowledge In their eyes.
They shall be gentle, brave and strong.
Not to spoil human blood, but d ire
All that may plant man s lordship firm
On earth and fire and sea and air.
Nation with nation, land with land,
Unarmed shall live as comrades free;
In every heart and brain shall throb
The pulse of one fraternity.
New art shnll bloom, of loftier mold,
And mightier music thrill the skies;
And every life shall be a song
When all the earth Is paradise.
There shall be no more sin nor shame.
And wrath and wrong shall fettered He:
For man shall be at one with God
In bonds of firm necessity.
J. A. Rymonds.
IT WAS HER FAULT
o?
On general principles Reynolds dis
approves of young women. It has been
his experience in the brief Intervals
he has wasted from business dallying
with society Reynolds calls it dally
ing when he makes a formal call and
discusses the political situation with
the girl's father that all young wom
en are dangerously designing creatures
with an eye to matrimony and a lasso
ready for him.
His wariness dates from the time he
was 21 and went walking in the moon
light with a young woman of 29. Ho
had been sumclently weak-minded to
kiss her and the only reason she did
not sue him for breach of promise
was that he didn't have enough money
to make It worth her while. Then
the Mordaunt girl's mother and fath
er had openly pursued him with din-
"YOU WASTE YOUR BREATH BOOM
ner Invitations and week-end parties
till In self-defense he took a trip to
the east, narrowly escaping ensnare
ment there.
Besides being rather distinguished
looking, Reynolds by this time was an
official of a concern known from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and financial
ly was far too attractive to be per
mitted to go to waste as he was from
a feminine point of view. Possibly if
he had been let alone Reynolds would
have married and settled down like
other men, but this natural caution
was intensified by theBe episodes. The
result was that at 40 he was cheer
fully called a woman hater.
The Fosters had known Reynolds
far years and were conversant with
all his Ideas, peculiarities and convic
tions, so it Irritated him, on going
down to the Foster country place for
a week, that "Leff" Foster should talk
about Miss Adams all the way. It
seemed that Miss Ada-nis was to bo
there, too. After twenty minutes of It
Reynolds rebelled.
"See here!" he exploded. "Yon
waste your breath booming Mlw
Ada.ms to me! I don't care if she Is
I THINK YOU HAVE
all kinds of a beauty. You know met
What's the use?"
"I'll bet you like her," insisted the
unabashed Foster.
Reynolds growled disgustedly.
When he met her his manner was
Icy beyond comparison, for he thought
that she might as well know at once
where he stood. It was not till the
Close of dinner that It d awned on him
that Miss Adams was Just aa happy
as though he were hanging upon her
every word.
He surveyed her hostllely. She cer
tainly was remarkably pretty; but his
heart beat no faster. He had seen
pretty girls before and they were al
ways worse than the plain ones be
cause they were so conceited. It was
odd, though, that she almost ignored
his presence. No doubt It was Just a
trick.
Later In the evening Reynolds de
liberately talked to her and she was
weetly interested and rather intel
ligent, but she did not exert herself.
This further convinced him that it was
a trick to lure him on.
The next day they went for a walk
and he took occasion to launch out on
his views about the place of women In
the world.
"I think you are quite right, Mr.
Reynolds, Bald Miss Adams. "They
do Interfere with a man'g work when
he is engaged on big enterprises. I
think you have been so sensible not
marrying. See what you have accom
pushed! You have niude so much of
yourBelf!"
"Do you think so?" Reynolds asked
somewhat vaguely.
Her Instant appreciation of the wis
dom of his remarks somewhat upset
him. It was not what he was used
to. From that time on Reynolds grew
worse. And every conversational at re
city he perpetrated Miss Adams agreed
with him, regarding him with her blue
eyes wisely, head on one side.
. "You put things so clearly," the
said. "Why, it's a wonder any ssan
ever marries!"
"Oh, I don't -mean that!" Reyaeidj
PEACE,
protested. He wanted to be fair to his
antagonist, and anyway he had never
Diet a girl with a clearer sense of Jus
tice. "I'm speaking Just for myself.
Of course I've filled up my life witu
my work and such things and wouldn't
know what to do with a wife, but lean
readily see how any other man might
easily fall a victim to you, for in
stance!" "Now, I call that kind of you, Mr.
Reynolds!" said Miss Adams.
By the end of the week Reynolds
made an alarming decision. Miss
Adams' frankness, her lack of co
quetry, her indifference to him, ap
pealed to him with a weird sort of
fascination. Just because she seemed
to think It was right for him to remain
unmarried he perversely wanted to
ING MISS ADAMS."
convince her that she was wrong. How
could he do it better than by marry
ing her? Reynolds was so dazed by his
conflicting emotions that he proposed
without realizing what he was doinq;
sufficiently to be alarmed for him
self. "Why, Mr. Reynold!" Miss Adams
gasped. "I am surprised and sorry!
You see, I'm engaged to another man.
I never dreamed knowing you had no
fondness for girls. I'm sure I didn't
try to lead you on, did I?"
"No," admitted the saddened Rey
nolds, "you didn't."
But to this day he samehow con
siders it her fault. Chicago News.
Greatest Gold Country.
The largest gold-producing country
la the Transvaal, where the output in
creased from $8,000,000 in 1889 to
$133,000,000 In 190". The Increase In
the production of the Transvaal mines
made during the year 1907 almost
equaled the entire production of the
gold fields In Alaska. In round fig
ures, the world's production of gold
from the discovery of America In 1492
to 1880 was about $6,300,000,000. The
entire world's supply of gold could
BEEN SO SENSIBLE."
not have been in excess of $6,500,000,
000. The laBt thirty years has doubled
this supply, and If the present pro-
auction is maintained for another gen
eration. It will double again, the Na
tional Magazine says. As gold has long
neen the world-wide standard of value,
these statistics certainly suggest thai
the Increase In the production vitally
affect prices. Our dollar can never
have greater purchasing power than
the exchangeable value of the gold that
la In It. The statement that we see
everywhere In tho papers that all
prices are going up Is a truth that
could as well be expressed In these
worda, "the exchangeable value of gold
bullion is shrinking.
A Tlpleaa t'urae.
"Talk about the tip evil," said the
traveled girl. "Now, last summer,
Just before I left Ixmdon. I got cursed
awfully, n was like this: I had tip
ped everybody on the place the man
servants, the maidservants, the slavey,
the bootblack. Then Jut before 1 got
in a cab a man up and threw an old
soiled cloth over the wheel to protect
my skirts as I got in. Nobody asked
him. It didn't protect my skirts, lie
cause It was worse than the wheel, so
1 didn't think it was necessary to tin
him.
"I wish you could have seen his
face. It Beared me. He swore an
awful oath. Then he said, 1 honly
'opes the boat goes down wld ye, that's
what I 'opes!'
"I waa pretty wabbly all the way
over, thinking it might, but the boat
didn't go down." New York Press.
Tk trash.
The set of books I bought
Are home, and 'tia n Joke,
Plie told me what she thought;
Twai volumes thut she spoke.
-Detroit Free Press.
Notice to Ihe public: A newspaper
reporter on the street is not looking
for Jokes.
ISO
Opinions of
HUMANITY'S REVOLT AGAINST
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OW many mute, Inglorious John Carters
languish in Stillwater or other prisons
through their best years for taking a few
dollars under the spur of hunger In the
first despairing moment of a blameless
life? The real interest in this romantic
youngster is ethical, not esthetic. They
who suppose that he was pardoned because his Jingles
pleased editors seeking alluring novelties, in order to
serve the purpose of publishers seeking advertising,
cannot see the forest for the trees. He was pardoned
because these trivialities cast the perilous light of pub
licity upon ancient abuses of the law of offenses against
property for which civilization blushes and of which
contemporary Justice is Itself ashamed. Why should
not the same publicity cast a side light upon other cases
as atrocious as his?
Our crjmlnal law of property is descended by
coverture of the English common law by the brutal
statutes of Norman feudalism, from the most extrav
agant subordination of the rights of persons to the
rights of possessed things the world has ever known.
It retains traces of the Justice that punished poaching
more severely than murder and the taking of a loaf
more severely than the ruin of a life. This traditional
cruelty can be alleviated only by such instinctive move
ment of public sympathy as thnt which gave Carter
liberty, till a scientific system of dealing with the crim
inal according to his nature and possibilities rather
than with the crime according to some medieval meas
uring stick shall come to make law the servant of hu
manity Instead of property. St. Paul Tribune.
AS TO POISON MYSTERIES.
N THESE days when the murderous art of
the poisoner Is so often brought to public
notice, the case of Mary Kelleher of Boston
is enlightening. Mrs. Kelleher was ac
cused of slaying six members of her fam
ily by the use of arsenic. Polscn was
found in the bodies of her victims. The
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police loudly denounced her and claimed to have in
disputable evidence of her guilt. Yet, after more than
a year in Jail, she was honorably discharged at the re
quest of the State.
In no case did the body of any victim show enough
poison to have produced death. In several Instances It
waa Bhown that the dead person had absorbed arsenic
from a renovated hair mattress. In one Instance epson:
salts, improperly clarified, were blamed for conveying
arsenic into the human stomach. "It turns out to be
the fact that In this part of the country there Is not a
human body where arsenic would not be found, If exam
ined," said the district attorney, in asking for Mrs.
Kelleher's discharge.
There are many poisons that may be absorbed into
the human system, although arsenic is probably more
frequently employed In everyday purposes where it
TEXAS FIRST IN IRRIGATION.
Syatein laed by Indiana I.ons Be
fore the loin I nit of (he White.
Texas, although one of the young
est states in the Union in develop
ment. Is the pioneer In Irrigation, a
Fort Worth correspondent of the New
York Herald says. The beginning of
irrigation in western Texas antedates
any records so far found and it Is
probable that In no portion of the
United States is the practice older, is
the claim made by J. C. Nagle, who la
professor of civil engineering at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas. Scanty and Irregular distri
bution of rainfall was doubtless the
cause of its use in the beginning and
even at later dates, when unnumbered
acres of fertile lands could be had for
little more than the trouble of prepar
ing them for cultivation. Coronado,
on his Journey northward in the early
part of the sixteenth century, so his
tory tells us, found well-established
systems of Irrigation in the vicinity
of El Paso, utilizing water from the
Rio Grande on both sides of its pres
ent channel.
Tradition tells us that the Pueblo
Indians of Yseleta claimed that an
cient Irrigation systems of great ex
tent were built centuries ago by the
Yuma Indians on the Pecos river in
the vicinity of Pecos and Grand Falls,
but the constant raids by the Com
manche and Apache Indians caused
them to move on to the valley of the
Rio Grande, only to be followed there
by their old enemies and forced to
move out to the Colorado of the
West. In the vicinity of the Toyah
springs evidence is found indicating
that these waters were used for irri
gation purposes long before the first
white man found his way there.
At San Antonio, where the Fran. 1s
can fathers founded their mlsslui s,
they directed the construction of ca
nals by the Indians. These canals
were used not only for supplying
water to the missions for domestic
purposes, but for irrigation as well.
Among the ditches constructed be
tween the years 1716 and 1774 may
be mentioned the Conception, Alamo,
San Jose, San Juan and Espada. In
1730 the San Pedro ditch was built by
immigrants from the Canary Islands
and was used for conducting water to
the cultivated fields. For many years
this ditch was conducted for field irri
gation on farms and even to this day
this old ditch" Is In operation and be
ing used constantly. It supplied water
for a large percentage of the city
lawns a few years ago In San Antonio,
and was extensively used for domestic
purposes.
At old Fort San Saba, near Menard
vllle, the present home of James Cal
lain, president of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association, the remains of
an Irrigation system constructed In
1774, also by the Franciscan fathers,
can still be traced. At this time Texas
was under Spanish rule, but since then
has sworn allegiance to and floated
five different flags.
As early aa 1852 the fourth legisla
ture passed an act relative to Irriga
tion. In 1882 the seventeenth legisla
ture passed an act making largt
grants of land for the construction of
irrigation ditches. There were sev
eral classes and a number of sections
of land granted per mile of ditch va
ried with the class. In 1889 and 1895
additional regulations were establish
ed with a view of encouraging irriga
tion. The result of Borne of these en
actments was the projection of numer
ous irrigation schemes, many of which
were "boom" propositions from the
tart, while others proved failures
wfees constructed because of the lack
LlITdDMlALS
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
MIOPERTY.
SIZE
E ARE
one three sizes
some sartorial court
of sufficient hydrograhpic and other
data.
As west Texas was pioneer in an
cient irrigation so it is in modern, as
irrigation along the lines now prac
ticed began to develop first in this sec
tion of the State. The first ditch in
the vicinity of Del Rio was construct
ed in 1868. On the Pecos one of the
present large systems was built in
1875, another in 1887 and another in
1896. It might have been expected
that the older systems in the vicinity
of El PaBO would have suggested ear
lier extensions under present methods,
but work of this character did not be
come active until about 1889 or 1891."
At Fort Stockton and for the Nueces
drainage area it began as early as
1876. On the Concho, San Saba, Llano
and other tributaries of the Colorado
river irrigation systems began to
spring up about 3875, and possibly
earlier, and these were added to about
1879, but this work became most act
ive In the '90s.
MURDER OF HERMIT THRUSH.
Crime of the Bateher Bird, Expect
ed to Kill the Sparrow.
Ornithologists say that Prospect
park In Brooklyn is right on the north
and south bird route, the Cincinnati
Times-Star's New York correspondent
says. Because of that fact and be
cause It Is protected from every one
but the lawless Italians it ordinarily
contains a greater variety of bird life
than any other similar park in the
country, perhaps. Thirty varieties
have often been counted there of a
morning. It was only the other day
that a tragedy of the feathered world
was reported. A hermit thrush rar
est of all song birds had been mur
dered by the shrike, or butcher bird,
and his soft little body Impaled upon
a thorn. The guardians of the park
were ordered to kill the shrike on
sight. "We liked him while he con
fined himself to a diet of English spar
rows," said the superintendent, "but
he's like the other foreigners against
whom we contend here; a very little
liberty goes to his head."
He walked on as he spoke. On a
little patch of green award half a
dozen European starlings were bobbing
about. They had been brought to
this country by a rich New Yorker not
long ago and placed on his Staten is
land estate. They look like blackbirds,
except that their tails are short and
their bills are brilliantly yellow. On
a bench by the walk a .man sat, lean
ing forward, watching them. The mi
perlntendent spoke to him. "Do you
know what they are?" ho asked.
"Meln Gott, yes," said the man,
never changing his pose, "in thirty
years I haf not seen them not since
the day I ran away from mein fader's
house in Germany to seek meln for
tune. That day I heard them
sing "
He put his head In his hands and
burst into tears.
Or e of our I'rt rhraaea.
' Did any of the inhabitants escape
with hix life?" inquired the man who
wants 1 arrowing details.
"I didn't stop to ascertain." an
swered the man who Is harrowlngly
exact. 'It struck me that if anybody
escaped without his life there wasn't
much use In his escaping anyhow."
Washington Star.
It Is awfully old fashioned to be
lieve that you are all right, and that
other people are very wicked.
A college man always talks more
about it than is relished by men who
have aot attended college.
mm
iVf -tl
would be likely to come Into contact with people than
any other. Therefore in cases of supposed poisoning
it behooves the State, as well aa the defense, to rigidly
investigate all circunistanccs, lest grave Injustice be
done some innocent person. Chicago Journal.
OF THE COLLAR.
not referring now to bras collars.
A T I but to those bands of white which are re-
W V I araed a -ulte an M8pntlal P81 of th
VI . narina- aimiml nf the averace man. It
will doubtless be of interest to many of
our readers to learn that an eminent med
ical authority of England has reached the
conclusion that too tight collars are the reRl source of
many bodily disorders hitherto ascribed to other
causes.
As a result of his own experiences this medical sci
entist declares that he has adopted a collar several
sizes larger than his shirt, with the happy outcome that
headaches, rheumatism and other ailments have entire
ly disappeared.
Personally we find ourselves quite unable to take this
illuminating person very seriously. If a man la idiot
enough to wear a collar three sizes to small he ought
to be afflicted with a liberal allowance of aches and
pains. On the other hand, if he will persist in wearing
too large he ought to be haled into
and heavily fined for being an a'l
round slouch.
There Is a happy medium which any man with the
intellect of a snowbird should be able to discover,, and.
then appear among his fellows In reasonable harmony
with the dictates of comfort and good taste. We fear
that some of our medical scientists are wasting much
valuable time. Des Moines Capital.
THE DANGEROUS HATPIN.
INCE the Chicago City Council took the
matter up reports of action against the
dangerouB hatpin hare been coming front
all parts of the country, and a startllngly
large number of serious accidents from
long hatpins have been recorded. Dev
otees of the rapier style of pin may con
tend that it sometimes serves useful purposes of de
fense. So does the 6lx-shooter. Yet wise lawmakers
refuse to permit everyone to carry a gun.
The other day a Chicago man was granted a divorce
from his wife, whom he accused of stabbing him ire
quently with hatpins. The accusation was not disputed.
In what respect does a woman who Jaba her husband
with an elghteen-lnch hatpin differ from the husband
who threatens his wife with a carving knife?
At first sight tho agitation may seem ludicrous. In
the light of actual hatpin casualties and the menace of
phrenetic females armed with deadly weapons, the argu
ment of those who would prohibit hatpins of undue
length seems well founded. Chicago Journal.
MORE FARMERS WANTED.
IVo Danger of an Ovcraupptr tow
Years to Come.
There is no great danger that the
supply of farmers will be a drug on tho
market for some years to come. Tho
treasury department's actuaries esti
mate the population of the country
now at ninety million. At an average
consumption of 5V& bushels of wheat a
year for each person, it will take a
little less than 500,000,000 buslwels to
supply white bread for the country, to
say nothing of other varieties. This
means something more than one hun
dred million barrels of flour to be
ground, distributed and baked into
bread for delivery at the consumers'
tables.
But this Is only one of the many de
mands which a population moving rap
idly toward one hundred million souls
makes every day of the year. Tl'
country consumes probably not less
than thirty million head of live stock
a year. This includes cattle, hogs and
sheep, but takes no account of poultry
and poultry products, nearly all or
which have to be supplied from the
farms of the country.
The two branches of farming which
require the least labor for their suc
cessful prosecution, and the most
thinking, are those which have much
to do with the increased cost of liv
ing. They are poultry and poultry
products and live stock growing.
Within an hour's ride by rail of near
ly every eastern city there are lands
which lend themselves readily to oc
cupation for these purposes. With
modern facilities for transit to and
from the cities and towns the possi
bilities of development of these par
ticular sources of future supplies
would seem at this particular time to
be especially inviting.
As for the alleged drawback that
schools and other Institutional advan
tages are Inferior in rural and sub
urban communities, there are some se
rious doubts In the matter. City
schools are crowded because of having
to work by the wholesale, in contrast
with the personal atentlon which Is
possible and practicable In the rural
and suburban schools. Moreover, the
conditions of living make greatly for
the physical If not for the moral ad
vantage of the rural over the urban
1 1 . . 1 1 1 O - t Inilrnal
lilt?. till .111 . l- .JVU1 urn
Too Soon for Her.
Apropos of those who never pnjoy
the luxury of a carriage save when
the death of some one makes for a
free ride to the cemetery a clergyman
told of a little girl Btanding at 5th
avenue and 30th street. New York.
She was a ragged little thing, and she
was watching the carriages rolling
past with the most wistful blue eyes.
"Well, little one," he said, "would
you like to own one of thos car
riages?" The blue eyes turned up, and there
were tears in their corners.
"1 never rode in a kerrldge," she
said softly. "Me little brudder died
afore I was born."
Km-iv Her.
Bella You sielled kiss wltbj only
one s In your letter.
Beulah Really, did I?
Bella Yes, you did, and I always
thought that was one thing you never
would want to make Bhorter. Yonkers
Statesman.
A ( ODarlriiiluui llerlaralloa.
Drummer Will you be mine? Alt
my life I will worship you from Feb
ruary until April and from August un
til December. The rest of the time I
am on the mad FUesende Blaetter.
