1$ I' y i m 1. "V IP fr bl I" i f The Chief C. D. HALE, Publisher RED CLOUD NEDRA8KA 1 SYNDICATING KINDLINESS. Congress hna declined to Incorpo rate tho hundrcJ million dollar Rocke feller philanthropic trust, nnd porhnpi It Is Just as well; not so much because the trust might In tho dim future somehow menace tho liberties of the peoplo, as becnuso tho refusal Is In directly a blow at tho tendency of the tlmo to syndlrato and organlzo all altruistic endeavor. Individualism ll what wo should encourago In thli field, says tho Columbia (S. C.) State. Tho syndication method excels, per hnps, In "emclcney," If ono npprnlspi philanthropy by tho rale and dcgre In which It translates good will or tho ono hand Into relief and uplift ot tho other. Hut wo havo never under tood that tho good of tho recipient was the wholo of n gift's blessings Well-doing at second hand Is not com parable with well-doing that require! Individual thought, anxiety nnd self denial. Ono's senso of humanity and his powers of compassion ntrophy tin! der tho syndication system, but wherq ono performs himself the maximum o kindly acts, phtlnnthroplc vlrtuo ll constantly being elicited, exercised and mnturcd. It Is good to see n ten dency checked which In Hb logical ex tension would cause peoplo to reposo a smug content In tho doing ot good on tho installment plan, ns they might pay for a pleco of furniture. Philosophy Is, as somebody baa 11, merely a more than usually de termined effort to think clearly. Hu man nature seems to havo been en dowed with n restless curiosity about the great problems of existence. Most of us do mora or less desultory think ing about them, and to that extent are philosophers. The nnclent Greeks were tho first to consider the prob lems serious and they brought to bear on 'them the keenest sort of Intelli gence. Since their time other keen mlndB In all ngca have been concerned with them. When we get a new Idea, for Instance, we often feel as It we had known It all the time, only It bad never come to the surface before In our mlndB and been recognized be fore. Does this mean that somehow all fragment! of It come to conscious ness? We describe a certain table M smooth. Dut looked at through a microscope It seems rough. A still more powerful glasa might radically change Its appearance. Whtch Is the real table? What Is behind the data that our senses give us 7 We wonder where we come from and what the real meaning ot life Is. Thoso and similar problems come up at times In the minds of most persons, whether students of philosophy or not, says the Kansas City Star. A considera tion of such questions certainly tends to widen tho horizon, nnd to give a posslblo background to existence The New York Telephono Company has given twenty ot its ofllco men' outside work as solicitors, nud boa, supplied the vacancies croated in their former positions by engaging women who will bo known as cashiers. Tbeln business Is to bnndlo tho large sums, In nickels, dimes and quarters which reach tho offices of tho company from pay stations In different parts ot the city. It Is Btated by officials of the company that they have found women more reliable and less Inclined to; yield to temptation than men in han-j dllng cash. And yet there are men who assert that women havo no sense' of business honor. A New York Judge has decided that the car company must settle If a' sleeping passenger's trousers are stol-: n from his berth at a station through' a window. The company ought to be! required, also, to carry an extra pair of trousero for tho relief or tho past aenger In case of such an embarras sing occurrence. Denver boasts that In Its public schools girls over twelve years of age are taught cooking, sewing, laun dry work, the care of children, rcspecb for husbands, the trine management ot Incomes and ton art by which they can earn a living. Cut Dnver omits to mention how wuir are grad uated each year. The management of one of New York's largest vaudeville bouees bat, decided to bar mother-in-law jokea and to prohibit "humor" which Is baaed upon a man's ability to be un true to his wife without permitting, her to know It This Is the kind '-of an uplift that may really uplift The sultan of Morocco hats decided that since France has taken every Jthlng else he might as well more over to Paris and let France keep him, too.' That report of King George Invent. Ing a coal-saving cook stove was sprung Just at the moment when It would make blm most popular. One Chicago woman has had her husband arrested because he did not kiss her. Almost any husband should feel proud of the compliment HWJIMmCANS VIS, BIFFEl AN American city woniun wus calling home from Paris. "Charlie," sho said to n Parisian friend of tho family, r h o u matlc, knobby-handed, with a bold snot, but still In circula tion; "Charlie, I am quitting this Mod ern Babylon, this Cavern of Folly " "Pardon, Mabel, but you got about with celerity," replied the gouty one. "No Parlslenno of my acquaintance can begin to touch your record." "Oh, but Charlie, it was not for pleasure," she reproached him gently. "Often I was quite tired, but I kept up Just to see." Such were her last words. His were: "Mabel, you're a fraud 1" Dut he was mistaken. All the rich Americans who come to Paris get about the resorts with energy, fearful of missing some thing. Parisians do not understand. They Just wanted to see! The husband of Mabel and two oth ers trusted Charlie to take the ladles to supper at the Abbaye after the thea ter. Amid gypsy music, lights, toi lettes, popping champagne, laughter, practical Jokes and calls from table to table, they noticed a pair of Spanish dancing girls weaving a fandango in tho aisles. Charlie stepped aside a moment to speak to tho maitro d'hotel, and, returning found that Mabel had Invited tho dancing girls to their table. "It's a Fur;rlso, Charlie," she Bald gulltyily; but the scolded. "You know you should not do it," ho said. "What possessed you?" "Oh," Bho answered, "It Is Just to mako a study!" After all, she said to him, because a whole sorles of very smart resorts base their existence on a previous Parisian desire to make a "study," to see some thing "different" and exclusive. All the genesis of the little Jewel box tneatrea a cote, "on the side," so popu lar aliko with rich Americans and Par'plans, Is here. Pay for Insults. It began when someone discovered Alecandre Bruant's little cabaret for laborers and masons, to whom rude but powerful song writers warbled their ballads of the "people." Friday evenings the fashionables began arriv ing In dress clothes and a string of elegant equipages, to pay the beer $3, and be good naturedly insulted by the chorus ot habitues as they departed. Next it was the Cabaret of Janitors, tho Quat'z-Arta, tho Tavern of Assas sins, Fursy's Shanty to which the smart world still goes and many an other, all copied on the sarao model. it was seen mat tho fashionables were glad to enter a little hall, where everybody could not go because Ciero wbb not room, because It was dear and different. As soon as the middle class and tourlsh public caught on the fash ionables quit nnd tried another. Grasping this tnste of the rich the managers of those that remained smart kept their prices very dear. Thus, you pay $2.60 for tho poorest eat at the Canuclnes ami dnnrnr far n back ueat at the Michel than for nif urcocEira cnair at mo urunu Opera! Initgnlflcant-looklnK resortR inauu their cloakroom for a million and the bonds of Its employes aggregate a like sum. Klcb Americans flock to tho Capu clues, hidden on the boulevard, op posite the Olyrnpla. The Olympla, blaz ing with lights, has a 40 cents en trance. You must hunt for the Capu clnei through a dim porte-cochore into an ordinary apartment building court yard, where it is surrounded and top ped by business offices and Hats. There Is scarcely a sign. Inside, a bijou hall, with 14 rows of seats, six boxes, a tiny low balcony as dear as the rest, a jewel box stage, Beaux-Arts scenery worthy to frame Regina Dadet and 13.60 cheapest entrance. Here the young King of Portugal met Gaby Deslys, as star ot a Review ette. Hera Regina Dadet, one-time ballet queen of the Opera-Comique, plays, sings and dances In "Sappho sad Phaon," whose dlaloguo, however JBT7"? W iL W7TA3 V'Ssv jy-Tiy " '' aft ' Ivfe'lSftfK jrT Mm iVfWk WWmmmwm ssm IsMTrT'TBsTsRi sWnsjsj iTmbTMi if i rTrrfH" y -: i trlTJsKiitsssBiMBsmaiiiiBBitBsH!W V ". . '.''', Ss'IsUsi'iy isssttatfC '" I., 3!iBHEHKri! B?l 'BiBBKf9iBBlHBlsHHHB9HBlBlBlBSBltB9 sBHaHK bibibibiS"WbibibibibibBbibbWBbBBB&v iffaWSfoP'fc'' K3SmS!mmm I iTLDtnie BLaflSBBT-W! '' ?SSbBS7 STBT ST B TOWZR witty and retluud, would never be per mitted on tho Btago ot a large theater. The samo may be said of the costumes. At one moment Regina might Jump into the sea and scarcely wet her clothes. There are half a dozen of these theaters ot the first claBS, the Michel, the Arts, the Madame, the Mondaln, the Fursy, and so on. The Grand Gulgnol makes a specialty ot short pieces of horror and terror, mnny of which have been adopted In America. At 7:30 p. m., In the lato Paris spring, It Is still daylight. The rich Americans, dressed In their evening clothes, begin to get uneasy. Tho witching hour approaches. Is Dan coming? The Sylvan Restaurants. There are a hundred Dans, all in a hurry, bubbling with life and ardor, knowing everything and everyone. Many are young Frenchmen ot best families. Many are English and Americans grown up In Paris. I do not say that rich Americans cannot get on without Dan In the evening, but they'd rather have him. At tho Instant Dan arrives, all ago, and upsets all arrangements. (This surprlso and upsetting has Its charm.) It's too fine a night to dine ln-doors. Quick, telephone to tho AmbaBsadeura for a table! Great crowd there to night, tho Due do Montpensler re turned from his exploring expedition) has a dinner party. Vanderbllt an other, Sacha Maghan and the two Grand Dukes, It will be delightful! Evidently or they would bo Btuck. Dinner in tho sylvan restaurants ol tho Champs Elyseea Is the dearest eat ing proposition In Paris. Laurent's Is severely fashionable. Palllard's (Du rand's) Is as fashionable and slightly gayer. The Ambassadeurs, with Its terraces, perron and balconies under the trees yet partly enclosed from tao wind, Is a charmed spot of gilded youth and old age and fresh, laugh ing beauty, a mixed world ot aristo crats, racing men, actresses, profes sional loveliness, notable foreigners' and daring married ladies with their husbands. Tho management Is that of Maxim's. At lunch, the cookery Is the best In Paris, and not dearer than the other Maxim's; but dinner Is out of price. Gayety Is on the bill ot fare. But always within correct boundB. Even lone parties of rich Americans arrive at a semblance of rollicking cheer, while looking on. Half a dozen young men of high family, half a dozen pretty women vaguely of the theater play li.dyllke practical Jokes on each other, so keep things moving. They need not pay for their supper. That Is why your bill la higher. If you want to see real crazy rozzle, Dan will take you to the Abbaye de Thelemo reference to old Rabelais' tipsy Utopia, with its motto: "Do as you please." To whet your appetite, he will tell you Its story how tho dis credited Montmartre night-restaurant, with cobwebs on tta wall was taken In hand by the Cafe do Paris and Armeno vllle, and in one week filled with the cream ot rioting Pnrls, the line ot private equipages waiting two blocki outside. The supper for six persons, $50. And cheap. All the while you have been lulled by love songs. You have had next to nothing to eat. If you want more, It Is dearer. Breaking crockery and setting fire to celluloid knits handles, $40 extra. Dinner was dearer, It you had melon, lobster, flowers, prlmeur veg etables, peaches, strawberries, cher ries, cigars and Hquers, count It $80 or $120 for six persons. Habitues gel It at halt price. Where Twins Are Desirable. In China women carry their chil diea from baskets that bang from a! bar that crosses the mother's shoul ders. Twins are desirable as preserv ing tho balance of weight, If not for other reasons. Betty Repents MammmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmwmmmmnwmamwmmmmmMmwm By Dorothy Douglas (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Prcis.) Betty had shown signs of rebellion ilnce tho moment the nurse had plung ed her Into her first small tub; at the age of ten she was pretty but Relf willed; at eighteen she threatened to elopo with n second-rate actor because sho was refiiRcd a racing motor car. Arriving aU, twenty-one, beautiful nnd headstrong. Betty considered herself a very much abused person. But with nil her faults Betty was adnrnblo nnd adored. Her parents loved her with a devotion that spoke well for her ultlmuto good; they knew that her perversity would one day melt beforo the light of reason. In many Email Instances Betty had al ready succumbed to their tactful methods, but In big things sho was ob durate; she dlBlllicd giving In to the will of another. Tho crisis came when Betty'B par ents flatly refused to let her take a trip to Paris with Mathilda Davis. Mathilda had a husband somewhere on tho globe but sho preferred to ftudy pnlntlng In tho Latin quarter to living In domestic bliss. So vividly hnd she painted the Joys of student life to the untutored Betty that the mtier reit lire no longer possible witn out some of those Joys. After trying every wilo nt her command In order to gain her parents' consent and fall ing, Betty defied pnrentnl authority and skipped off with Mathilda to Paris. Before taking her leave Betty'B fath er had looked long and steadily Into his wayward daughter's half-shamed eyes. "Remember!" ho said with stern rlsage, "you are leaving my house for the last time. In accepting tho chap eronage of that woman you are no longer a daughter of mine! We have given you every comfort In life, and now if you prefer to galavant through the streets of Paris with a woman ot that caliber to living respectably with your parents you are at liberty to do so." Peter Glrard turned from his daughter without so much as a second glance. By force of will Betty swallowed the great lump In her throat. Hnd her father taken, her In his arms Bho would probably never have sailed for Paris, but he did not and Betty's eyes flashed. "Very well!" eho cried back defiant ly, "I will not come back!" And for fear lest the threatened tears fall Betty went hurriedly from her father's house and Into tho waiting village om nibus. Once insldo Its musty depths Betty had a good cry. Through her tears she could so her mother's calm, beautiful faco when sho had snld, "I hope you are going to be happy In your new life, Betty." And when tho rumble of depnrtlng carriage wheels died away Poter Gl rard turned to hlB wlfo and thero wns a twinklo In his eyes. Ho took his wife in his arms. 'Cheer up, dear," be told her, "our daughter has merely gono on a trip of disillusionment and she will como fly ing back to her llttlo mother and her daddy before another two moons have waned." "Two months Is n long tlmo without Betty," smiled the mother. If two months seemed long to her parents in Long Island, they proved endless to Betty In Paris. She had enjoyed the ocean trip to the utmost. The newness of it all and tho pleasure of meeting so many Inter esting persons enst out all homesick ness for the tlmo being. But try as she might to retard it. Betty fed her self drawing within her shell as far ns Mathilda Davis was concerned. Tho Intimacy brought about by sharing ono cabin had not enhanced the woman's charm. Betty had been led to expect that those persons on the boat who had seemed such good friends would prove tho same on land. It would take a third or even fourth trip to convince Betty that the friendship of shipboard Is only a passing fancy. So Betty met her first disillusionment. In Paris eho saw two of the men who had been charmed by her presence on ship board, but things were not' the same and after a dinner at a cafe or nn evening at tho opera they, too. drop ped out of her lire. At tho end of, a rortnlght Betty found herself a atran er In a strange land. That she was paying the greater half of the expenses did not bothor her, but tho type of men who fre quented their studio disgusted her. Betty found herself longing for big-clean-minded Tom Hillary, who thought all women pure and beautiful and sweet, She realized that Pnrls and many' things Parisian would have been beau tiful to her had she not been so lone ly. It stole over Betty's consciousness gradually that happiness did not come with having on's own way. After a few weary dnys of trying for the first time in her twenty-one years to plan her own life, Betty decided to go to London, where she would at least bo among htr own people. It waa a rel(ef to walk along the London streets and find herself unmolested by dapper little men with h!nck mus taches No one looked at Iter upon the street and no ono seemsd even to notice her presence. Betty's eyes grew wistful and het lips dropped at the corners. No one out of the thousands of human beings In the largest of alt cities loved her. Sho was completely and absolutely alone. With stubbornness greatly dimin ished In her nature and pliability aug mented Betty walked thoughtfully past St. Paul'B cathedral and dowt Cheapslde. As llttlo things change the current of life, Just so n little thing sent 8 rush of tears to Betty's eyes. It was tho sight of four tiny typewriters in a window on Cheapslde. Betty's fath er had bought her ono of those very portable machines with the hope that sho would develop n budding sense of poesy In her nnturo. "Daddy loves mo nnd so doe mamma," she told herself, "and 1 havt been n selfish llttlo cat! I am golns down to the old Bow street church and think things out." Botty walked on down townrd tht chureh whoso bells had told Dick Whlttlrgton to turn back ngaln toward London. "Pcrhnps I, too. can hear something In tho bells." sighed Betty. A sense of awe stole over her when slip stood within tho ancient, historic edifice nnd she sllpr-ed quietly Into n pew There was no ono In the church and Betty wns glad becauso sho felt like crying. In nn effort to divert her mind from tho lump that was rising In her throat she glnnced about nt the wonderful windows, and ns her eyes tested on tho one above tho altar the tears carac unheeded. The Virgin Mother wns there with her Christ Child In her nrms. Betty suddenly realized that since tho time she herself had been n baby In nrms her mother had guarded her from all trouble and care; had potted and loved her nnd now Betty slipped down to her knees on, tho worn hassock and burled her head In her nrms. Her slight frame shook with the eobs she had been forcing back since the hour she hnd left her father's house. A soft footfall sounded, but Betty scarcely heard, so deep was her re pentance. Tom Hillary stopped nt sight of tho weeping girl,' then caught a surpilsed breath. Ho slipped an arm about her. "Betty girl." was all he said, be cause his own voice was not qulti Bteady. Ho had drawn her up until sho stood beside him. Her eyeB clung to his In wonden ment. Something deep and steady was glowing there and Tom Hillary knew his moment had como. When ho spoke the gladness In hl voice brought the color to Betty's cheeks. "I sailed from home tho week nftei you left nnd hnvo been roaming tht streets of Paris looking for either yon or Mathilda. Yesterday I gave up and crossed over to London." He looked down Into her happy eyes. "When nrq you going to marry me? Nothing elsu matters." Betty looked down nt tho llttlo rlwj Tom had put on her finger when they wero children, nnd smiled. After n moment she snld shyly. "Just as 6oon as I have sent a cable homo sayinr 'Betty repents.'" Brown-Haired Pygmies. Their frizzly hair Is not black, as li that ot their neighbors of the const tho Papuan and Melancslan negroes, but Is predominantly brown. On thli feature Mr. Williamson lays a good deal of stress, because ho finds the same tlngo to be characteristic ol other pygmy peoples, such as the Andnmanese, the Scmnng of tho Ma lay. Peninsula and tho Aetas of the Philippines. Anthropologists have hitherto been divided over tho ques tlon whether these dwarf peoples rep resent a distinct branch of the ne groids, or merely stand for so many sporadic failures on the part of the negro Rtock to display Its full power of physical development. Our author plausibly argues that, It further ob servations bear out bis contention that amongst pygmies generally a dwarf stature goes together with brown hnlr, we must concede to them the status of a separate typo on the strength of this double variation. London Athenneum. Living Fish Net. A peculiar method of fishing Is em ployed by the natives of certain ol the Islands of Ocennlca. At stuted Intervals nbout 200 ot them will assemble on the beach, and nil together plunge Into the water, each carrying a branch of the coca palm. At a given distance from tho shore they will turn toward It, and form n compact half circle, each holding his palm branch perpendicularly In tho water, thus forming a kind of seine. Tho leader of the party gives a sig nal, and this living net approaches the shore gradually, In perfect order, driv ing beforo it a multitude of fishes. Surrounded by this living wall and caught In tho coca palm branches many of tho fishes are cast on the sands nnd others are killed with sticks. Norway Turning to Wagner, "One ot the last European countries to accept Richard Wagner," says a let ter from ChrUtlanla, ."1b Norway. To foreign ears It seems queer that, de spite Its high culture, this country has never become acquainted with the works of the great German master. The cause Is known full well to us Norwegians. We have only 090 large theater In the realm, the National, In hls city. There we have bad occa sional opera seasons of a few nlghtsv at whkh nevor more than two operas were performed. We had a season ot Alda' nnd ono of 'Carmen,' and now wo look forward to six performances of 'Lohengrin,' and Norway will have Joined tho Wagner ranks." IS Island Well Governed by British for 34 Years. Voung Greeks Want Union With Greece People Keeping Peace Be tween Turks and Christians, Writes Correspondent, London. A correspondent, writing from Nlcosln, Cyprus, recalls that Just 34 years ugo tho island was handed over to the custody of tho English people by tho tactics of a great Eng lish prlmo minister. Tho annexation was the outcome of tho Berlin confer ence of 1878. Tho Cyprus of 1878 was described ns a "whlty brown paper colored, des ett smitten, God forsaken island." But the British are a nation of housemaids, and their first act on acquiring now territory Is to Bweep nnd to clean. And right nobly has tho work In this In stance ben done. Dirt, decay and dls easo havo been vanquished, all uave disappeared. Tho population at tho tlmo of tho British occupation was 180,000, ot which two-thirds wero Greeks and tho remainder Turks. The art of keeping the peaco between theso different na tionalities is ono calling forth a high degree of diplomacy and integrity. Wit ness the difficult position of a police official In Fnmagusta, who was waited on by a body of Greeks, asking If they might have a procession tho following. Tuesday. "Why do you wish a procession?" ho asked. "To commemorate the ever distress ful taking of Constantinople by tho In fidel Turks," was the mournful reply. Half an hour later a Turkish deputa tion called upon tho same official. Had they tho permission of his excel lency to fire tho cannons the following. Tuesday? "Why do you wish to Are tho can nons?" ho asked. "To celebrate the over glorious tak ing of Constantinople by tho true believers of the Prophet," they re plied. After some consideration ho gave the required permission to both par ties, on their solemn assurance there !T:;r A a.j ?v '':r-&0 A -tr. ? -.,s .its.; t-V, Cyprus The Port of Larnaka. would bo no Infringement of law and order; and it says much for tho pres- tlgo of tho British government that' no heads wero broken when tho rival celebrations took place In due course. WOMAN, 100, PLANTS ASTERS Mrs. Eliza Van Brammer Works In Garden and Plays Whist on Her Birthday. Plttsfleld, Mass. Mrs. Eliza Van Bramer celebrated her 100th birthday by setting out asters In her flower garden and by playing a rubber of whist with friends who called. She dresses herself, eats three meals a day and reads the daily papers. Mrs. Van Bramer was horn in Wa terloo, N. Y., Juno 8, 1812. Sho was a daughter of Henry and Mary Press er. Sho camo to Plttsfleld In 1853, and In 18G4 married Jacob Van Branvf er. With tho exception of seven years sho hns since lived In this city. Her father's people wero Quakers and her mother's stock were tho Dyers, of Massachusetts, who were In the whal ing trade. Mrs. Van Drainer's sister, Mrs. Catherine Harris, of Waterloo, N. Y., is eighty-three yearB old, and her brother, John Presser, of the same place, is eighty-four. USED CAN TO MUFFLE BABY Railroad 8hop Is Required to Remove. Little 8lster's Odd Device to Si lence Cries. Shamokln, Pa. Aiming to soft-pedal the cries of her two-year-old brother Joe, six-year-old Helen MtBocky push ed a lard can over tho little fellow's head. The baby's muffled shrieks at tracted the attention of the mother to the can. Although sho held the baby on the floor and tugged at the strange damper, It refuses to budge because It was caught under the child's chin. The harder the mother pulled the louder the boy cried. Finally the fran tic mother took the canned child In her arms and ran with him to the railroad roundhouse, where two ma chinists attempted to remove the can. They finally had to resort to a pair of big iron shears to remove the can, As the can camo off blood flowed from both sides of tho boy's head, and It was found that he bad had a narsow escape from losing his ears, both of them being badly lacerated. CYPRUS CHANGED m $Wmt. .. ok&f , ' :rWk .' WTA v ,vy, 'v s-xtr-: irt j y. .mc y r . ". rstw.' . ? " - KrS . , r-.oi imyMid., l,u.v-A-- .....AmIVX, mmt)nimamu p 1 1 H i.n.Wl nttWkimiM9wAiim'ta wwtmvmttmv,ii -1 lTifr-.i,t.r yiMy , mttmtt&w w'?''''"'! " "yf1 .UwUa stsWsiiiisia ("' Miisfi!iiyiiijiiipinm rfEWBff