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TTia man who can make love and go
Balling at the same time isn't much In
love.
It isn’t polite for even an artist to
bit his soul mute with the potato
masher.
There in a valuable hint to parents
in the similarity of the words "prank”
and "spank.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is advocating
perfect children—for other people. Mrs.
Wilcox is wholly unselfish In the mat-
ter.
Fewer men would be struggling for a
“principle” In politics If they had no
Interest in a Job with salary attach-
ment.
An observer who thinks he has
counted 40.000 varieties of the common
fly probably enumerated the same fly
several times.
The largest and heaviest battleship
ever planned lias Just been launched for
Great Britain. It must be about Ger
many's turn next.
It's all right for Peary to want to
find the south pole, but everybody
would be entirely satisfied with him If
he only found the north.
What has become of that new book
less waist that fastens itself up the
back when a chain Is pulled? We’d
Uke to see how It works.
A man claims that a girl hypnotized
film by telephone, it appears to be lm-
possible to have a situation In which
the man cannot blame it on the woman.
Russell Sage's estate amounts to $64,-
000,000. Had lie been permitted to live
another year or two he would have
rounded It out to $70,000,000 without
much effort.
Architects and engineers say there
is no reason why buildings 200 stories
In height are impossible. What insur
ance company will be the first to beau
tify the sky line with a 200-story build
Ing?
The President wants Congress to ln-
crease the standing army to 100,000.
There is certainly standing room In the
country for a lar-er army. Just as there
is water enough to accommodate a larg
er navy.
Anarchist Berkman doesn’t have to
work for a living. All he has to do is
to go out and start a revolution in some
room over a beer saloon, and the au
thorities at once furnish him free board
and lodgings.
Orville Wright announces that It Is
possible to construct an aeroplane
which will carry seven people, It will
not be long before our aeroplanes will
be equipped with straps for the accom
modation of people who cannot obtain
seats.
An Incidental phase of the situation
In eastern Europe which interests
America Is illustrated by the report
that Armenian leaders are seeking to
check emigration to the United States
and that already 1.000 men arrived at
Batoum ready to sail have abandoned
that purpose.
The old idea that a minister should
occupy a place apart from his charge
has In large measure given way to the
sentiment of a "practical nge" and the
so-called Institutional church of the
cities is but one manifestation of this
Idea. In the city the method by which
a minister may come most closely to his
people Is a complicated matter, for the
people under his spiritual guidance are
of many occupations and many activi
ties, In the country the question is a
more direct one. Here the congrega-
tlon Is of oue mind, of one line of
thought.
There is great hope and great safety
tn the campaign methods of to-day. It
is the Intelligence of the citizen that is
appealed to. It Is a campaign of edu
cation and discipline, not one of torch
light parades and a big noise.
The
newspaper which educates and Informs
the musses la the great factor In poli
ties as it Is In other measures educa
tional. intellectual and social.
The
old war horses and the former school of
politics have had their day. They may
have been Indispensable for primitive
methods, but their occupation la gone.
We welcome an Intelligence which In
sures a good government and au honest
citizenship.
There Is no Issue In the political
campaign to compare In gravity with
the issue of law enforcement In the
United States and the rigid and un
compromising march of Justice, The
right spirit cannot be thrust upon the
people suddenly by force of arms.
They must be born and bred to a re
spect for the law; they must be train
ed and educated to a regard for their
country and its Institutions; they must
be laught by every known agency in
the republic to adopt as a part of their
active, everyday working patriotism
the high resolve to stand for the law
Individually and collectively; to op
pose all who oppose It; to sustain It
even «hen they do not like It, and to
make "this country a country of the
law," Ivenuse they are convinced that
lbs fv|>ublK’« bulwark la lb« lew; {bat
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society'« happiness depends upon
that "(reedoiu is its child, peaei 1« its I
companion and safety walk* Ut its '■
step«." The best patriot a the hum
wbu stands for the law.
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The complaints of business men witl.
rcfertuice to the Ignorance and siqier-]
flctality of public school graduates,
even as regards such fundamental stud
ies as arithmetic, spelling and writ
ing. arc strikingly re-enforced by an
indictment against the school system
I
of the country drawn by Colonel Larn
’I-'
ed of the Military Academy. An arti
11 1 ] ■ ;
cle is contributed by the colonel to the
North American Review, which Is
bluntly entitled "The Inefficiency of
r
the Public Schools," and which Is
based on the year's entrance examina
tion papers at West Point. Even now,
-sr-.vf.
after legislation and much effort to
raise the standards of admission, the
examinations at the academy are by
no means difficult, according to Colonel
Larned. The subjects are: Element
ary algebra, plane geometry, English
1519—Cortex entered the Indian city ok
Tin sea.
grammar, elementary composition, com
mon school geography and high school
1535—Cartier left his ship and proceeded
up the St. Ijawrence in boats.
history, general and United States.
Tlie minimum passing mark in any
1638 De Vries sailed from Holland on
his third expedition to America.
subject is 66. It seems that 314 can
didates took the examination this
1671—Mediators between the colonist«
and the Indians met at Plymouth.
year, and 265 failed in one or more
subject«, 209 failed in two or more
1689
Count Frontenac arrived in Can
A NIGERIAN CHIEF'S METHOD OF SUMMONING HARVEST HANDS BY BEATING OF DRUMS.
ada to reassume the government of
subject«, and 26 in every subject. Ex
the province.
drums made of skin stretched on calabashes, and some
In the primitive parts of Africa labor is not regu
amining the failure by subjects, the
small side drums beside. The sound of the drumming
1693 The British army adopted tha
colonel shows that 154 failed In alge
larly employed, and when one of the petty chiefs needs
carries for great distances, and soon the laborers begin
ring-bayonet.
bra, 237 in geometry, 129 in grammar,
workers he collects them In a peculiar manner. In Ni
to respond. In a short time a small army of workers is
1737 'lT>e Hebrews disfranchised by a
144 In composition and literature, 73
geria, when a chief ls ready to begin bls harvesting, he
vote of the New York Legislature.
gathered and the work of harvesting is rushed to com
in geography, 54 in history. Yet the
sets Lis tribesmen drumming. They beat huge kettle
pletion.
1776 -Congress
average attendance of these 314 youths
appointed
Benjamin
Franklin. Silas Dean and Thomas
tn our common and high schools was
Jefferson commissioners to the court
but little less than ten years, and in
who pretends to rudimentary sense and
THE DAY BEYOND.
HOW FLOWERS HIDE HONEY.
of France. .. .The new constitution
the case of considerably more than
decency talking that way,” Stribling
of Pennsylvania was formally pro
half of the number the study in these When youth is with us. all things seem
would say. "I tell you that no man can Pit® Where Sweet® Are St (»red In
claimed.
the
Idly.
schools was supplemented by private
But lightly to be wished and won ;
have a greater blessing than a mother-
1779
Paul Jones with the Bon Homme
"Before
the
bee
sucks,
”
as Ariel put
tutoring or even some college training. We snare to-morrow in a dream
in-law of the right kind, and they're
Richard captured the British frigate
it,
he
And
take
our
toil
for
work
undone;
must
find
the
wonderful
places
The Inefficiency complained of is "uni
generally of the right kind, let me tell
Sera pis.
versal,” the Eastern
nnd
Middle "For life is long, and time a stream
you.
1 don’t know how I'd ever get where the flowers hide away their 1780—Americans under Gen. Marion at
That
sleeps
and
sparkles
in
the
sun.
honey,
to
be
found
like
the
priests'
Western States disclosing quite as
along without mine.”
tacked a party of Tories ut Black
What need of any haste?” we say ;
much weakness as the remoter and
“Perhaps yours Is an exception,” one hiding holes in ancient mansions, by
Mingo.
“To-morrow's longer than to-day.
the
right
sort
of
visitor,
and
to
keep
sparsely settled regions. The state of
of the afflicted ones would suggest.
1789—Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts
affairs, says Colonel Larned, is such And when to-morrow shall destroy
“You bet she's an exception,” Strib away all Intruders.
became Postmaster General of ths
In
the
recesses
of
the
crown
imperial
as to make the Judicious grieve and
The heaven of our dreams, in vain
ling would say, carried a little into
United States.
to demand that the educators sit up Our hurrying manhood we employ
Inconsistency by I i I b enthusiasm. And Illy at the center can be seen six large 1803—First Catholic church in Boston,
To build the vanished bliss again ;
and take notice. The educators are
then he would begin to brag of Mrs. honey pits, one on every floral leaf, and
Mass., dedicated.
each is brimming over with a btg drop
taking notice. There are wide differ We have no leisure to enjoy,
Sanaper.
1813—Americans defeated the British in
"So
few
the
years
that
yet
remain
;
encea of opinion as to the causes of
Perhaps the fact that Mrs. Sanaper of honey and glistening like a teardrop.
battle of I.ake Ontario.
So much to do. and ah !” we say,
the admitted lack of school efficiency
actually had sided with him in one or Shake the flower and It "weeps” as the 1815—First daily paper printed at Al
"To-morrow's longer than to-day.”
Sonic insist on reversion to “the three
two little domestic difficulties helped big drops fall from It, soon to be re
bany, N. Y.
Rs policy,” others ask for more men But when our hands are worn and weak. on his enthusiasm. Mrs. Stribling on placed by other tears In the rapidly
1828—A monument was unveiled in
touchers and stricter discipline, still
And still our labors seem unblest,
one occasion was disposed to regard secreting flower, The simple folk call
Charlestown, Mass., to the memory
otiiers believe that the children are And time goes past us like a bleak
her husband's staying out late rather the flower "Job's tears.’’
of John Harvard.
Last twilight waning to the west,
The snowdrop is literally flowing 1839—Treaty between France nnd Texas
overworked and overtaxed In the first
too seriously and her mother gently de
with honey, for in swollen veins trav
grades, with results physically and "It is not here—the bliss we seek ;
fended
the
man.
“
It
will
probably
hap
signed at Paris.
Too brief is life for happy rest.
mentally pernicious. But there Is a
ersing its fragile whiteness are rivers 1850—A Boston merchant paid $626 for
pen
again,
my
dear,
”
she
said,
"but
the
growing demand for greater efficiency And yet what need of grief?" we say;
wrost thing in the world to do Is to of nectar. The petals of the columbine
the choice of seats for the first per
“To-morrow's longer than to-day.”
and for an overhauling of the educa —Waverley Magazine.
formance of Jenny Lind in that city.
make a fuss about It. lie's a man and are Ingeniously and elaborately design
tional system.
men don't like to feel that they are not ed with a view to providing good places 1854— A reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Canada signed by
allowed a little liberty. Besides, why of hiding for the honey. Each Is cir
Prr.litrnt Rnaevelt's Good Time.
tlie governor general. . .United States
shouldn’t lie have a little change once cular, hollow, shaped like a horn. In
sloop Albany sailed from Aspinwall
When President Roosevelt was leav
tn a while? You give him a cheerful each the honey is secreted in a round
and was never more heard of.
knob
at
what
would
be
the
mouthpiece
Ing Washington this summer for his
welcome when he does get home and
Oyster Bay vacation, some friend« ex
tell him you hope he enjoyed himself, end of the horn, and the five are ar 1855— The corner stone of the Masonic
Temple was laid in Philadelphia.
pressed their sympathy for him on th«
even If the fact's only too apparent ranged in a ring, side by side, with the
great burden of his arduous tasks and
He won't want to stay half as long the honey knobs aloft. Though the honey 1862— Gen. Nelson shot by Gen. Jeff C.
Davis at Ixiuisville.
tremendous responsibilities. “Oh, do
next time as he will If he anticipates store Is obvious from without, yet the
Before Stribling got married Mrs. tears and reproaches.”
insects who would sip it must creep 1863— Confederate troops attacked Gen.
not waste any sympathy on me,” he
Burnside nt Knoxville.
said, "I have enjoyed every minute of Sanaper told him she had no Idea of
She apologized for other delinquen into the flower and penetrate with a
my stay in Washington. I have had a Interfering with Ills domestic affairs.
cies of Stribling's from time to time, as long nose up tlie curving horn to the 1864— Union troops victorious in a con
flict with the Confederate forces at
“I hope I always have realized that when he wasn't nice about a bat, com knob.
perfectly corking time.”
ALliens, Ala.
Sometimes the petals are all Joined
Most men would take the Presidency young people must find out for them plained of the dinner or brought guests
so seriously, they would be so weighted selves what is best for them, and settle home unexpectedly in tlie course of the together into a tube and the sweet nec- 1865— The Bank of Concord, Mass.,
robbed of $200,000.
tar simply exudes from the Inner side
down with Its tremendous responsl their own differences without the help next fifteen or sixteen years.
1S68
—Gov. Wnrinoutli's veto of the
of the wall and collects at the bottom.
bility and so anxious all the time lest of any third person,” she said. “When
negro equity bill was sustained in the
This Is the case in the dead nettle, the
things should not go right, lest they you marry Bessie I can't help being
So everything went along very hap
Louisiana House. .. .Gen. McClellan
should make some terrible mistake. your mother-in-law, but I’m not going pily Indeed, upon the whole, until one till»“ of which forms so toothsome a
welcomed in New York upon his re
that they would not really enjoy them- to tie the kind of mother-in-law that
morsel that some children call it suck
turn from Europe.
fatal evening Stribling came home and
seles very much. Sensitiveness, timid you read about in the funny papers.”
les.” The honeysuckle Is similarly
found bls motlier-ln law In the sitting
1870—President Grant paid a visit to
ity, would keep many Presidents from
planned, and its sweetness is so strik
“It Isn't necessary for you to tell me room with her embroidery.
Boston.
real enjoyment because of an embar that,” said Stribling, smiling.
"Why, hello, mother!" said Stribling, ing as to have furnished its name.
1889 The judicial system of the United
rassing self-consicousness as to how
and
The monkshood has quaint nectaries.
“I'm coming to see you now
1
States established by act of Congress.
a little surprised. “I thought we had
they were deporting themselves, how then,” continued Mrs. Sanaper, , “but I'm
If the hood be drawn back there sud
lost you.”
1896 A strike began on tlie Canadian
others were regarding them.
They not going to make any six months’
Pacific railway.
“My rheumatism was troubling me so denly spring into sight two objects on
would dread the cartoon, caricature visits.”
this afternoon that Bessie wouldn't let long stalks, which are sometimes like 1899—Naval parade in New York har
and criticism of the press so much that
a French horn, sometimes like a cowl,
"I wish that you'd make up your me go.” explained Mrs. Sanaper.
bor in honor of Admiral Dewey.
they would get very little pleasure or mind to live with us,” said Stribling,
"I'm sorry said Stribling. “I can <>r, looked at sideways, not unlike a 1902—A $600,000 tire in Stockton, Cal.
comfort out of their office.
with perfect sincerity.
sympathize with you, too. I’ve been pair of doves. Their presence within 1904— Earl Grey was appointed governor
But Mr. Roosevelt always gives the
"I won't,” said Mrs. Sanaper. “I bothered with neuralgia all day. Where tlie hood has provided the nicknames
general of Canada.
impression that he is really having a think too much of you both. And an-
“Adam and Eve" and "Noah’s Ark.”
Is Bessie?"
1905— Robert Bacon resigned ns director
good time, He says he gets lots of fun. other thlng is that Bessie needn't come
"She went downtown to do a little Thus the honey bags are carefully
of tlie steel trust to become first
as he goes along, from the humorous to me with any of her troubles, thinking
shopping,” replied Mrs. Sanaper. "I tucked away and protected.—Chicago
Assistant Secretary of State. ... Dis
and ludicrous tilings that are constant I’m going to take her part, for I'm not.
Tribune.
astrous fire in tlie business section of
thought
surely
that
you
would
come
ly happening, and that there are plen I think you're a dear, good boy, but I
Butte, Mont.... Highest court in
home on the same train."
Peary Mu*t Prove I>i®covery
ty of tliein in his home life.
do not think you are an angel, and I
Canada denied the appeal of Grei-ne
Stribling
frowned
ns
a
sharp
pain
Over their lunch the fishermen, a.
When your husband or father comes know Bessie isn't, so you’ll have your
and Gaynor against extradition.
shot
through
bls
temples.
"It's
a
dick-
ease In the bobbing tioat, talked about 1906 1—Race riots continued in Atlanta;
home again with a thundercloud on his troubles.”
ens of a time for her to stay,” he said.
face, looking as though lie thought b<
Peary.
"1 don’t think they'll be very serious Irritably.
two negroes lynched.... Mayor Mc
were Atlas carrying the world on his one«,” said Stribling, confidently.
“Why doesn't he Just lie about It—
Clellan of New York, announced that
Mrs. Sanaper put her hand suddenly come back and say he's reached the
shoulders. Just laugh him out of Ills
he would support William R. Hearst
"Well, that's all.” said Mrs. Sanaper.
for Governor.
seriousness ; tell him how President “Now you know what you've got to ex- to her back nnd dropped her work. north [wile, and let it go at that? It
Roosevelt manages to carry the wei pect. I've declared myself, and that's “Drat it!” she exclaimed.
would save a lot of money."
1907—Cuban agitators were arrested
“I should think she'd manage to buy
near Havana.
fare of a nation, and still keeps him what I wanted to do. Bessie will be
"Yes. It would save a lot of money,
w
hat
she wanted and 1«- back in time but Peary must bring buck proof.”
self fresh. sunny and happy.—Success down in a few minutes.”
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
for dinner," growled Stribling.
Magazine.
“How can he bring back proof?"
In
Norman
county, Minn., wheat has
“I don't think you ought to be (TOMS
“With bls camera. It is like this
Stribling married Bessie about a
A Slutty tn Bed.
about It," said Mrs. Sanaper. “She Only at the north pole would the been threshing out 20 bushels to the acre.
month after that Interview and lie was
Artists can tell odd stories of tin
Isn't away when you come home very shadow of a bullet, suspended from a Barley and flax are exceptionally good.
not
long in discovering that Mrs. Sana
The State land departincut of South
difficulties experienced In painting "ful
often, poor girl!”
string, describe In a day's time a [ier
women.” A French countess, wliosi per was living up to the letter and
"I suppose you think she ought to feet circle. Everywhere else the shadow Dakota lias tunde the first offering of
feature« were literally covered witl spirit of her declaration. She came to be." said Stribling. “She's an abused, would be illlptlcal. Well. Peary. If he State lands in the old Fort Sully mili
tary reservation, which was practical/
see the young people, but not half often
rouge, said to an artist, who was try
trampled-on, domestic drudge. Isn't «he? ever gets to the pole, will hang up his all taken by the State at Lite time it was
enough to please Stribling. When she
Ing to give a faithful portrait of her
And I'm a brute. Is that what you laillet and photograph an arc of his thrown open to setteineiit.
“Monsieur, your colors are not brilliant did come her cheerfulness, her warm mean ?”
circle—he won't photograph the whole
While the South Dakota State veteri-
appreciation of everything done or plan
enough for my complexion. Where did
Mrs.
Sanaper
groaned
a
little
and
thing bi'cause nt the north pole a full narian and tlie government authorities
ned In the little home, her approval of
you buy them?” .
everything they had acquired, made her then said with some energy: “I certain day Is six months long. This arc, are watching the anthrax situation in ths
“Madame," retorted the artist, “I got
a household Joy. When the first bah.v ly think you are not In a very amiable though, will tell the whole story to sci counties of the southeastern part of th»
them from the same shop where yvv
entists,
no State, the Governor's office is yet receiv
arrived her helpfulness was beyond mood this evening. John.”
ing complaints in regard to the situation,
buy your own.”—Tld-Blts.
Stribling
turned
on
his
heel
and
left
fake
has
words and Stribling was almost tearful
and demanding something more in the
tlie
room.
In his gratitude. But even the baby
Mot a Mind Header.
way of stamping the disense out. All
Not Tron bird nlth Intellect.
was unable to keep her a day longer
such complaints are turned over to the
"John, do you love me?”
That night Mrs.
Stribling said:
A physiologist came upon a hard officials who have the situation in charge
than she wai absolutely needed.
“Yes.”
"What
have
you
been
saying
to
mother.
working
Irishman tolling, bareheaded, for investigation. From rejorts the indi
"No,
John,
”
she
said,
when
Stribling
“Do you adore me?”
cations are that the situation in that part
entreated her, even reproached her, "I John? She's been crying about some In the street.
“I s’pose.”
of the State is of a serious nature, and
thing
and
she
won't
tell
me
what
it
is.
”
“
Don't
you
know."
said
the
physiolo
don't
live
so
far
off
that
I
can
’
t
be
here
“Will you always love me?*-
•• Uli
T * 11 foil
rnil ** onld
CItsstKI
tell you,"
said Stribling,
gist, “that to work In the hot sun with will require careful handling to get the
•Ye—here, woman, what have you the minute I'm wanted, and I'll be over
disease stamped out.
been and gone and ordered to be sent to see the little precious often enough. wish she'd go. She's been here two out a bat Is bad for your brains?”
The Red river valley Is being invaded
day»
now.
Because
she
happens
to
he
“D'ye think.” naked the Irishman,
But I’ll never forget what I went
home now?”—Sketch.
through with my own dear mother my mother-in-law I don't see why I'm “that Oi be on this Job if Ol had enny by representatives of seed houses in the
Southwest who are after the potatoes
Amply qanltfled.
when Bessie was n baby. Mother was to be criticised by her. She's been brains?"—Success Magazine.
grown in this section to use fur seed po
Farmer Honk—Hear ye are goln’ to with us all the time and she wouldn't trying to make out that I'm mean to
tatoes through Kansas, Missouri, Okla
send your son to college, Eben?
let me do a single thing that I wanted you -or she thinks so. that's all. It's
A I.aat Wish.
homa and Texas.
Farmer Bornklcker—Don't see any to do with niy own child. No, I'll call the natural hostility of a woman to
He f trembling I—I have one la«»
Following out his declaration of Int
reason why I shouldn't—he's too dura you up every day that I don't come, but the man who marries her daughter, I wi-wlab to ask you be-before we
pa rt tnunity to any one defending lives or
lazy to work, has too much hair, and I've got to go now.”
suppose, and 1 suppose I'll have to put in an-anger forever.
property against night riders. Gov. Wll-
can yell bo ’« you cun hear him 'most »
up with it; but I don't like it.- Just
She fsobbing)—Wha-what Is It, Goo- •on of Kentucky grnnted pardons to Wai-
mile.—Puck.
ter Duncan, who was convicted of shoot
If any one wanted to stir Stribling plain mother-in-law.”
George?
The moral Is that eternal vigilance Is
up he had only to speak slightingly of
He W1 will you meet me next Th ing • nd killing Newt Hazlett at Jackson
A man I» always willing to lend • •others In law even In genetal terms.
ville. Shelby county, In June, and Riley
the price of. toleration. Chicago Daily Thursday as ti usual?
helping baud, but b*
bata U>
Harrold, who wu indicted at au acee«-
•It tuajteg me weary to hear • man News.
. Bhe—rl wl wlll, George.-eJudy.
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muaKg.
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