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DAKOTA CITY HERALD DAKOTA CITY, NEB. JOHN H. REAM, Publisher, FOR CLEAN FOODS. ( Addressing the American Health pWnoclatlon la convention at Milwau kee, Prof.'JanifB O. Jordan of Boston, chairman, pointed out the need of pro tecting foods from contamination not onljr by dirt, dust. Insect life, dogs and cats, but also from handling by human being, nays the Buffalo Express, lie must have had In mind careless jmasscs to whom tho rules of cleanli ness aro practically unknown. The cf jfort of tho day, among civilized people Is generally for clean food. Kestau ;rants are Rometiines accused of being .less particular than they should he. fcut local health officials ctjn keep them up to the standard or have them dla- contlnncd. If such power Is not ne jceBKlblo by any heiilth officer, legisla tion should provide for Mich an ar irangement. Professor Jordan spoke 'also for milk, paying: "Less money spent on millinery and beer and more devoted to procnrlng clean milk will yield heallh dividends more than com mensurate with the capital thus In vested." It Is hardly necessary for the Individual to forego much beer or much millinery to provide clean milk. The task Is the community's. Only one class of milk should be tolerated, and that, clean, reasonably rich, and delivered In cleanly vessels and vo hides. A part of the theory touching the feature of matter Is that the ions, which are the constituents of atoms, lure not only In constant motion, but that this energy Is working toward a lower quality of matter; that Is, that . gold Is developing toward copper or toward some other kind of metal of loss value. So of silver and the dia mond. These precious metals never . transmuto upward, but Always down ward. The changes may not be ob served in centuries, but In millions of rears they will manifest themselves. ' This disintegration of the atom and Its transmutation Into the base metals luggest two Inferences either the ad vance of civilization In the eradication of gold and other precious metals, or that the so-called baser metals are ot greater value and use In the social economy. Of course, long before the 'eradication of gold through this proo ' eas, mankind will dlsnppear from the planet yet the lesson Is left by this ' scientific discovery that In the great . plan of nature, copper and iron are tnore to be estoemed than gold or , sliver. The day of a doze is no more thai ' delicious moment as the day bretks, jwhen the sleeper wakes and rolls over a balf dream and yields himself to drowsy spell that gives to joy a sort f real existence well, it is no more. These days of advance have blotted It aut Invention' and rapid life are too pnany for It. When a person wakes, , he wakes. No lotus-eating for him. . No floating away on a silvery mist out Into the land of forgetfulness. Listen (to that motor cycle running from away down the street, sputtering, cracking 'land crashing aa it comes, rushing past jour window as the very devil himself would; and then, that snorting, rip ring and slashing clamor sweeping by a the form ot an automobile good ly, old Somnus and Momus, and all ye divinities of night and sleep, fare well, says the Ohio State Journal, fiome day we may meet again, but In pome other world or some other time jwaen the long, lingering doze at dawn kroay be looked upon as one of the sa ( cred rights of ipanklnd. Before the year's outing season It ,ver nearly half a million persons Mil have sought recreation and health , In the national forests. The use of (the forests for recreation Is as yet In Its betrlnnlnir. but la sTowlnar stead kiy and rapidly In some of the forests at the rate ot 100 per cent, per annum. The day seems not far distant when ji.000,000 persons will annually visit (them. The records show that the sea sonal use of the forests runs from two months In a Colorado forest, such as the Routt, to 12 months In an Alaskan, .' such as the Tongass. Hut the uses t differ. In Colorado tho 2,000 visitors i -entered the forest to fish, to camp, to ;,(Biuno ana to arinu tne medicinal wa- iters; In Alaska, the 1,000 almost sole ly to hunt and fish. The 21,000 per toons who went Into the Conconino tor- -est, Arizona, during nine months went fc to camp or to enjoy the scenery. The most popular of the forests is the Mke, coutalnlng tho famous peak of , that name., The official cenGus-statlstics give Chicago a population of 2,185.293, gain of 480.708 In ten years. This Is doing very well, as the returns show Chicago to bo the second city In the United States-In number of Inhabit 1 ants, ranking next to New York both in population and In rate of increase. Yet Ch'lcagb'is not tmtliilled. The tne tropolis thought it (should hnve n least 3,000,000. Apparently the only way to got such a total is to annc some more of tho outlying territory. The' now' torncdo-bnat destrnve' ' Paulding has made 'a record for oil t' bumlpg warships by runnl.-iK m tl , raie oi j.i.vi num.. an iiour. I r.ln lr;i w;i8 accomplished iliri;i j; n standard Vlzaiiuu trial til;) off tim Ma;:,c c onst i .and seems to fernMi otrupg lest k inony to the f ffeciiveness .f nil u fuel. 1 "Po ro::jcthl!n r l'e glrV Is e xnovlug plca. The b'jt iinii!h!u tblc to do Is to marry i'j"ui. EHD OF GHUL WOES Social Lines Drawn Closely by Women Along Ditch. Lack of Fellowship and Something to Do Was Seed of Trouble Tangle Soon Straightened Out by Work. Chicago. There Is a woman stop ping at tho Blaekstona jimt now who Is given credit for having done inuro to help In the digging of the Panama canal than any other member of ln-r own sex and most of tho other. Her name Is MIrs Helen Varlck Boswell, she comes from New York and she la tho chairman of the Industrial and social conditions department of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. Miss Doswell Is the woman sent by cx-Presldent Roosevelt to Pnnnrna some threo years ago with a roving commission to set to rlghtB tho worn ,en of the canal zone. Something wns wrong and Mr. Roosevelt, who then jwas President Roosevelt, and Presl : dent Tart, who then was secretary of war, were nearlng their wits' ends, j The government had built pretty .little white and green cottages with , screcncd-lii galleries and they had fitted them throughout with the latest stylo In mission furniture. The men at tho zone were putting aside more money than they had been able to save In years In tho states and from a man's point of view there was no apparent reason why the American women who had followed their bus bands Into the 2ono should not bo content Rut they were not, and the spirit of unrest grew until It took on proportions of sufficient size to affect the work on the canal. The president and the secretary of war put their heads together and de termined to send a woman from the states with the rather unusual enm. mission to find whore lay the troublo with her transplanted sisters. The woman was Miss Doswell. What Miss Doswell found was a row of 17 towns of varying sizes stretched along the canal from Cristobal on th Atlantic to Ancon on the Pacific. She found 1,200 women far from familiar haunts and all the things that had meant life set down In an existence whore the line of soelul exclusion was more tightly drawn than In the flourishing cities ot the states. The seed of discontent was producing a tangle of unhappfness which was clogging lifts the length of the ditch. Miss Boswell visited all of the 17 towns. "For two months I did nothing but ride up and down tho canal until I felt ellgiblo to the brotherhood of diggers," she said recently. "Believe me, the men at the canal were just as anxious as the beads of the gov- TAKE PROPER REST Children Should Be Taught Art of Idleness, Says Savant. Or. Amelia M. Fendter Declares People of Today Know Nothing of Relax ation Vacations Are Fool ishly Arranged. New York. "To my mind children hould be taught the art of Idleness." This Is the opinion of Dr. Amelia M. Fendler, who for the past few years has been connected with the women's and children's depariment in the Mount Sinai hospital, and has made a pedal study of New York people. Dr. Fendler must know the secret of Idle ness, for she la calm, quiet, unruffled and apparently never tired. "I don't believe that one person out of ten In this city kr.ows what real Idleness Is, and how very necessary to health It becomes," said Dr. Fendler. Their one great Idea is to make mon ey and seek pleasure. They never have a moment's rest or grant such a thing fto another person. They are continually on the go from morning until night, and when they can find no pleasures ready-made they Invent them. Their brains are always In a whirl of excitement and they have what might be termed New York lUs. In any other community they would be termed Insane, and tho pity Is that wherever they go they take this rest lessness with them and couvert even a placid country cow Into a nervous, restless animal. "Idleness should hold a great place In the Ufa of every man, woman and child. It Is the one quality needed to repair the damage dona to the human machine called man by the continuous wearing of business and domestic life. "To my mind, children should be taught the art of Idleness. l!y no means do I mean laziness, but Idleness, which In Its analysis means nothing more or less than relaxation, rest. In ducing a pleasant dreaminess of mind. BEES FORCE RABBIT TO SWIM Little Insects Sting Bunny Until Ha Is Compelled to Take to River to Escape. Altoona, Pa. A pursued rabbit took refuge under a hive of bees In the yard of Postmaster Elmer E. Rhodes at Royer, Blair county, and very soon thereafter the bees resented its pres ence and stung it soveral times on the ears. in a frenzy of pain bunny sped to tho river near by, plunged In and swam to the opposite bank, several times ducking Its ears under tho water to allay the pain. Hunters say It Is very unusual for rabbits to enter the water, and fow people know they can swim. $3320,000 for Medical Tests. New York. It was announced beie the other day tliut John D. Pocket I ler had given to the Rockefeller in stitute for medical research an addi tional sum of $3,280,000. bringing his donations to Uf.a luHlltullou up to an aggregate ot $11,000,000. GIRLS WORKING WAY w .uJ JL v OLIVE Adair and Oralee List, the Oklahoma girls who have started to encircle the globe, working their passage all the way, have reached the Atlantic coast successfully and are hopeful of doing equally well In foreign lands, to which they will sill soon. So far they have adhered to their resolution to work their way. In Kansas City they worked In a store for a few days and made enough to pay their fare to Chicago. In Pittsburg they sold newspapers enough to buy tickets to New York. Just what they will do abroad they do not now know. ernment for the untangling of the tangle. "I had not visited tho district long by tho way, I was a guest of a Chi cago woman, Mrs. Ixirln C. Collins until I realized that tho lack of social fellowship and something to do was the seed. Gradually the lines of ex cluslveness had been drawn so tightly that Newport Itself had been outdis tanced. There were the 'ladles of tho army and the 'Indies of the Judi ciary" and tho other women, all far from home, set In an Ideal socialistic community you see, the government owns all the houses but hedged about with tho conventions of the centuries. "With the help of the head officers, I held receptions In the men's club houses along the route It was some thing new, and every woman respond ed to the invitation. The Ice and It was verily had been broken, and In less than two months the 'ladles of the army' and the 'ladles of the Judi ciary' and the 'other ladles' were shutting out the hurry and Worry of the world. "Men and women lose sight of the beauty and poetry of life, because they are always too busy to see It What causes a nervous breakdown? Too much work and too little idleness. A man can do more work If he will idle a little than he can otherwise accom plish. "When a woman wants to rest In New York she goes to see a friend and talks for three' or four hours. Yet talk ing is ono of the hardest ginds of work. The man resorts to a different sort of so-called 'Idleness.' Ho is tired and fagged; a friend comes to tho office. "Vacations are foolishly arranged. A man works fifty weeks out of the year and has two weeks to rest. By the time the vacation comes he Is so nervous from the long strain that he cannot dismiss business from his mind, and he Immediately goes to a place where he can have his papers, see the ticker and be In telegraphic communication with his office. "In Berlin every one has two hours In the clay In which to rest This Is the most sane distribution of the work ing hours and time that I have ever heard of. As a result you have a sane, healthy-minded, energetic people. In America, the same thing might be ac complished by a better arrangement and distribution of vacation time and the two last days of the week, Satur day and Sunday, devoted to rest. Sure ly something ought to be done, if not with the present with the future gen eration, and every mother should make an attempt to teach her children the art ot Idling." Prize Chicken Has Appendicitis. Dloomsburg, Pa. Ills prize winning Plymouth Rock cockerel falling 111, and with home remedies unable to bring it around, Uoyd Johnson of Rupert, Columbia county, called In a veteri narian, who decided the chicken had appendicitis and accordingly etherized it and removed the bird's appendix. It will recover. MANY GIANT Stately Chestnuts Fall Victims to Ax In Attempt to Check Ravages of Epidemic. Ardmore, Pu. Hundreds of giant trees, the stately tops of which tow ered above tho main sky line, have been obliged to bow to the woodman's ax and heroic treatment has been ap plied to thousands of others in the ef fort to stay tho sway of the death dealing disease familiarly known aa the chestnut blight, In the campaign Inaugurated by a corps ot state forest ry department Inspectors In charge of Deputy Commissioner of Forestry I. C. Williams. In a brief period, and in the attempt to check the ravages of tho disease that In epidemic form threatened to wlpo out the vast chestnut groves of eastern Pennsylvania, and particularly In the suburban section of Philadel phia. 10,000 trees have been fxainincd lu the neighborhood of Ardinure, llav erford and Hryn Mawr. The alarmlne extent to which this blight had Invaded AROUND WORLD working with might and main to bet ter the school conditions and other wise make canal life worth living. They had found themselves and each other. "When I left at the end ot two months there were eight women's clubs with departments In working or der. "In a short time tho club women had founded libraries in all of tho towns and traveling art galleries were making their wny around the schools. Recently the educational department of the Cristobal Woman's club raised $300 and founded a full fledged play ground for the native children a ground filled with all the modern con veniences of a city's place of public play. Within a short time another will be founded at Ancon. "The clubs Joined in to tho canal zone federation of which Mrs. Col lins consented to become tho first president and they have sent dele gates to the last two general federa tion meetings in the states." WOMEN CARRY BISQUE DOLLS Latest Fad Among Fashionable Set of Paris Is to Take "Babies" to Entertainments. New York. Fashionable woniei will carry dolls about with them thU winter. The fad Is an Importation from Paris, where for a month women have been carrying large bisque dolls In the salons at social occasions and on the streets in automobiles. Tho first Importations of dolls to enable American women to copy the curious Parisian fad arrived here ten days ago. They were brought over by three fashionable Fifth avenuo establishments the heads of which be lieved they could start the style in the country. Since that time several hundred dolls have been sold to wom en of social note in this city, who when buying them stated that they intended to further the fashion of dolls for grown-up people. The dolls all girl "babies" are sold at from $05 to $125 each. They are eighteen inches high and are dressed In the latest Parisian clothes ot the finest materials. The establishments keeping them make extra clothes at prices ranging upward from $25. The only differ ence between these dolls for grown up women and those for children It that the Parisian dolls are manufao tured of the finest bisque, with com. position bodies and Joints so made at not to croak when moved. Dies of Grief for Dog. Lenox, Muss. Allen Decker, a miller, was killed by grief over the death of his sporting dog in Egre mont the other day. Decker had bred the dog and broke it for bird snoot ing. It was his constant companion. While Decker was In a shops motor car ran ovor the dog and crushed It to death. Hearing tho dog's cry Decker ran out. Seeing that it was dead, he pulled I the dog's body out of the roud and fell dead beside It. TREES FELLED this section, where wealthy PhlladeV phians havo magnificent country places, Is shown In the reports of these forestry experts, for examinations In minute detail reveal the fact that no less than B0 per cent, of the trees In these great groves are Infected. In some forests as high ss 90 per cent hus been noted. New It's "Wedge" Skirt. Purls. ParlB latest fashion wrlnkU is the wedge skirt, successor to the hobble skirt, which It resembles. Its most striking feature, which gives It the name, is a "V" shaped opening in front. Although tho skirt la narrow at the bottom, this wedge nllows the wearer to walk with comparative easo. The opening can be made large or smail, according to the taste of the wearer. It Is a combination of tho hobble skirt and the sheath skirt, which caused so much stir but had only a short vogue b - ' Ameraciiii WIIXIAEE-. Bc3 tto-i Mr. Wllll.im A. Iladfnrd will answer niiestirins nnd Klve advice KltEU OF COST on nil FuhJcctR perlnlnlng to the HiibTt ot bulldini; for tho readers of tills piiper. On account of Idn wide expe rience as Kdilor, Author and Manufac turer, lie In, without dntiM, the IdnhcHt authority on all these subjects. Addrosii nil Inquiries to Wlllhim A. Hadfind. Ho. VM Fifth Ave., C'hlrnuo. III., and only en close two-cent xtump for reply. It is true that many thousands of city dwellers who have in tho natural love of the country a love for a homo with grounds and gardens are unable to have what they desire for various reasons, principally because of a lack of means. City dwellers are compelled for thei most part to live In flats or apart ments with never a look at trees or grass. Privacy, bo much to be desired, Is shut off by a common hallway, nnd the tramping of feet overhead is a con stant reminder that the place is not a home but merely a place to stay. The whole idea of the builders of city "homes" is to economize space and get all the rooms possible on a given piece of ground In order to gain revenue. All sight Is lost of the artis tic, and everything must bend to the one purpose of Income. Tho occu pants live alotig and constantly dream of a llttlo cottage with a few vines and a garden place in the back yard, and a place for the children to play whero they will not be under the con stant espionage of a janitor with a grouch. This is all wrong and it Is unneces sary. You may be a salaried man. You may think you cannot do any dif ferent. You have not the money to buy tho ground It is true and author ize a builder to put you up a house such as you want. You have always thought that even if you bought a house you must take ono already made by some real estate Arm and pay their high price. Now, listen. The real estate man has selling expense. He has advertis ing bills, office rent, clerk hire, main tenance of salesmen, and many other expenses in addition to his profit that figure In the price of any given houso. It is sale to uay that this real estate man would be glad to eliminate this expense if he could make a deal that did not involve all these factors. He builds to sell. Huppobe you were to take to him the plan of the house shown hero and say: "Xo.v, you are In the business of building a ml selling houses on small payment:-!. You want your customers satisfied. Probably you are going to build a number of houses In the next few months. Now, here is a house that just suits me. If' you will build It I will take It on the same terms you would ask for uuo that you might build from some ether plan. will sign tho contract now." There is no probability that the or dinary real estate man wo;il:l refuse r Cl KrrcuF.N i"5t';'.ro- First Floor Plan. your terms. And wli.n am,,!': (ui baveT You would have thf in i:r you would get If you vn:td i lot -iml built on it. Now, the lions - ihmti bare Is one of the popular : n r. -'ow type of houses and Is i-spt- i.i'iy at tractive on account of th.- l.ut tiiat the porch is included umU : ;h, root of the house. Nor Is It :;- vs.'v Ths house is thirty-one !e. t Inches wide and thlrt-ih:ve ,ei i loiig It has an attractive porch v. i ;i : r.nrg lines. The design is etv- th:it will make every person look nt th hou-c as he passes by and it is one th.it will always sell if at ui.y future time conditions should arise t h it would cause you to want to dijnos-- of i That you cannot do with a Ihm t! :i has no individuality lik- tlii - on.-. Thore is a large living iooi.i sixteen feet square and nt the riplu of this is the dining room thirteen led six Inches by twelve feet ir. dimensions. The kitchen is reached from the din ing room through a passageway. This Is a good arrangement, for the reason that ull smoke and steam from the kitchen will be kept out of the dining room. One of the good features about PsaMMMOMMBI Cl Bed Rm v - Pouch j fj t .: -1 this house la the fact that It Is well lighted and every room will be bright and cheery. The second floor Is reached by a stairway leading from the living room. On this floor are two bexiroomfl, which, with tho one on tho first floor pro vides threo In all. Tho bathroom Is located at tho end of a hall that ex tends through tho house, thus assur ing plenty of air on summer nights through the windows at each end. An unusual arrangement, and one that will appeal to every housewife, la the Second Floor Plan. fact that there are six closets In thin house, providing plenty of storage places. DENTISTS FOR THE HORSE They Have Special Instruments for Extracting and Filling the Teeth of Equine Patients. In every largo city there are now dentists who devote their entire at tention to horses. They are of course provided with special Instruments for the extracting and filling of the teeth of animals needing attention. One of the instruments, called n speculum, presents the appearance of P " -' -f-K I an ivory handle and four small bars of nickel, working on a ratchet and crossing one another In such a man ner as to form a hollow square that can bo made large or small by the turning of a screw. Setting this device to the proper size, tho horse dentist will slip it gen, tly into the suffering animal's mouth, which during the operation is kept partly open by a groom. When the instrument is fitted upon, say, one of the back teeth, the beast's mouth Is kept open as wido a3 possible. The groom now takes hold of the handle of the- speculum with one band and of the horse's tongue with the other, says Harper's Weekly, en abling tho dentist to obtain a good view of the damaged molar. It may he that ufter careful examination the dentibt decides that a splinter should come olf. Taking up a cutter, a scis sors shaped instrument two feet long and with sawlike edges, he applies it to the tooth and with a quick movement snaps off the offending corner. Iu..t as en refill attention is given the process of filling a decayed tooth of u horse as is accorded any human being, anil the operation Is pretty much the same in both cases. Klec tric drills, together with tho most ap proved instruments, aro employed ;ind antiseptics are .as generously 'ifed in the one instance as In the otl.er. (iohl, as well as aluminum and anvil,;.-!!!!, are the materials used in the lilling and crowning of horses' te-th. The fee (barged varies great ly, ranging anywhere from $5 to $125. When- com js employed It Is of coiri-x- the most expensive item In H i- operation, for tho back tooth of ,i hor-e measures an Inch In breadth and "lin e 1m her, long, and it re quires therefore a larger quantity of th" vah, able metal to fill up thofe !i:;lar:i. Consort fcr Kaiser's Da-.'nhter. Princess Victoria I.uluo, l!.e only tiacghte.l of the K:;i--er, recently at 'aided her majority. She Is IS years old. Germans tl.irik that they have not long to wait before hearing what prince bus won the heart and hand of 'lie Kabir's daughter. Her name has been frequeiillv connected with those of the ex-King of Portugal and an Aus trian archdak'-. but the Kiiierin' : . .,, u use I.uthei anisni is consf-.iered a bar o the riiinesss union with any non I'rotestant prince. A Different Tack. Tlunkville is talking in a lofty tone about the quality of iu citizenship." "Quality, eh? The census figures evidently didn't come up to hopes." Bld Pk I CL05. J 5L5 i iti u tit 1ttth I 'Hall Clos. Clos. 1 BtD Rm. I ' H-O-XU-O' I 1 i I HOME TOWN HELPS CM HO PARIS THE WORLD'S MODEL Wide Avenues Add to Attractiveness of French Capital Other Cities Far Behind. Its spacious streets make ParlB the most attractive and in many respects the mobt convenient capital In the world. Narrow streets and Insanitary areas have been swept away, a large portion of the city has been entirely rebuilt, and Its expansion has proceed ed In an orderly manner In accordance with a definite plan, modlflod front time to time, but not altered material ly. Tarls has now 102 miles of street 9S feet six Inches or more In width. Ixindon has not moro than 8M-. and few of the streets are more than 1U0 feet wide, whereas some of the ave nues In Paris are more than 200 leet wide, and the width of one is as much as 390 feet. Among world cities that havo fol lowed a definite plan of development nnd expansion Rerlln must receive es pecial mention. The broad boulevards and avenues of Its suburbs, Charlot tenburg and Schoenburg, are charac teristic of districts surrounding the centrnl area of the German capital. A uotlceable feature In tho plans of both Berlin and Paris Is tho provision of spacious traffic centers, from which the more Important streets radiate In many directions. Thla principle has been developed In London only to a very limited extent. It Is true that London has done much during the last half-century, first through the metropolitan board ol works and later through the London county council, in the way of street Improvement, but the works that have so far been undertaken have been crit icized by high British authority as "scattered and fragmentary, forming no pnrt of a complete scheme, and de signed independently, without refer ence to a general plan." When we come to our American cities, such as New York and Chicago, we find that, like London, their growth and development have suffered from a similar absence of plan and centralized effort. For a Better City. " It is not a vast population alone. :hat makes a great city. We have nev er been carried away with the ambi tion for a town large in numbers. We do cravo quality; but what there should be about numbers, after the point is reached that brings to a city practically all that any city can have, we do not see. Indianapolis has cer tainly attained a size which enables It to command tho great advantages of city life. More than this were repe tition. After there are parks sufficient, theaters, paved streets, lights, schools and public transportation, what were size except more of the same? The thing that every city ought to strive after (and this be it said will bring increase of size) is quality. We spoke recently to two things that make more for a better city. One Is low taxation. It Is useless to try to make a city what it ought to be if its tax rate be comes overburdensome. Almost inva riably with American cities excessive taxation means loose management, ex travagance and waste. And no city can havo a worse advertisement than that, and none a better than low taxa- tion that by good management keeps up efficiency. The other thing to which ve spoke was clean byways and alleys and back yards. Indianapolis News. For a Spotless Town. The Kansas City chief of police has Issued a rather drastic order as fol lows: "Arrest on view any person throwing paper or other rubbish on the streets or in vacant lots; any per son excavating without a permit; any person tacking or sticking cards or posters on sidewalks, fence poles or in other publlo places; any person scat tering handbills or circulars on side walks, streets, porches, yards or pri vate premises or distributing them to passersby; all teamsters who allow dirt or rubbish to fall from their wag ons. Patrolmen are also Instructed to notify all owners or agents of va cant property on their beats that weeds must be cut at once and all rub bish removed ; to notify owners of abutting property where earth has washed down onto the street or side walk to remove the same Immediate ly; cause the Immediate removal of manure piles which may be In tho al leys." Twentieth Century Magazine. Plea for Beautiful Homes. The very soul of a mnn Is stirred as he looks out on the snow-clad Alps or over the canyons of the Colorado riv er, as he sees tho gold and blue of the waves through the trunks of the. palm trees In Florida or, as an autumn day he walks through the upland woods beside the Hudson river. And similarly every time we pass down a fine street flanked by noble buildings we havo. gained something, hut the effect of a squalid and ugly street is evil. "The more you spend on architect tho less you will Fpend on tho gover nors of jails. Tho more you spend on road and drainage surveys, the les you will spend on policemen." This remark made the other day Ut an Kngllsh statesman, John Burns, contains a profound truth. As the homes of the people Improve; so will their morals improve. It is something to have here and there magnificent public edifices, fine office buildings, the stately mansions f the wealthy. But it Is of the ut moEt importance that the homes of the great majority of householders, those who are neither very rlob nor very poor, should not only bo com fortable, but by their depfgn, where it is possible by their well-kept gardens, contribute to the permanent attrac Ions of the neighborhood. Unapproachable. ThU Student Your father le touchy, Isn't he? Short Student No; that's the trou ble. You can't touch him at aft 1