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no Inconsiderable sum, In the hope of
being one of the lucky ones in Uncle
Your credit may be good, but your Sam's lottery. If a plot of ground Is
drawn, no doubt ft will be scorned as
«eney la bstter.
something undesirable—for even the
Nobody has as yet made a success most productive western land Is not
4f predicting the end of the world.
enticing In fta sagebrush form. It
means hard work to bring a productive
If • man knows al! about you and farm out of raw western land, and
la still your friend, he'll do to tie to. moot of those who take part In sm h
speculative rushes are not of the sort
When the south pole la discovered to carry the game through to Its fin­
*et somebody stay there and sit on it. ish and to make actual ranchers of
themselves.
When a woman acquiree a job lot of
trinkets she begins to speak of her
Recently there died a man of wealth
and prominence whose business was
jewels.
conducted in accordance with a policy
The auto runs over you and you die. of enlightened self Interest -that act­
The aeroplane runs over you and you ive endeavor toward personal advance­
don't mind It a bit.
ment which takes tnto account in large
measure the general good. He was a
The proof that there la no coal trust manufacturer of bb'ydes. and realizing
is found when the temporarily em­ that Improved highways meant In­
barrassed one tries to get a ton on creased demand for the products of his
tick.
factories, he became a pioneer In the
movement for good roads. Realizing
The anag boats of the future will be also that a more general appreciation
employed to yank the dark and men­ of the many pleasures nnd benefits of
acing clouds out of the aerial high outdoor life would mean more bl<y<de­
ways.
riding. he established a magazine de
On her last trip over the Lusitania voted to such life. The two causes
which he helped along in energetic and
consumed 116,000 worth of coal. How
would you like to be the Lusitania a practical fashion need no defense.
Both are generaly accepted as import­
coal man?
ant factors in the material advance­
"What is a kiss?” asks the New Or ment of the country and in the per­
leans State«. If the editor of that pa sonal welfare of its people When the
per doesn't know by this time he bicycle declined in popularity this man
engaged in the manufacture of auto­
never will learn.
mobiles, and continued his advocacy
Perhap« neither Peary nor Cook of good roads. That he prospered by
would have discovered the north pole his far sightedness vindicated the wis­
If they'd known there was going to dom of his course, eVen fr >m the self­
ish point of view. Every man Is justi­
be such a fuss about It.
fied In promoting his own welfare, In
protecting his own Interests and In
Mars Is only 35,000,000 miles dis­
acquiring a competence against the!
tant from the earth now. It Is a fact,
Inevitable old age. It is his duty to
however, that there are a good many
do this, and happy the man. and happy
wide, open leads between the two the community in which he lives and
olanets.
labors, when he does it in such a way
that
those round him are benefited
The Idea that there Is always room
at the top may be all right, neverthe­ rather than injured. Not all can be
less It Is fortunate that Cook and great manufacturers and gain wealth
by leadership in national movements,
Peary didn't reach the north pole at
but every person can act on the sound
the same time.
theory that self-interest is best served,
not by the narrow selfishness which
During ‘‘aviation week” at Rhelms sees only the present day and the im­
an aeroplanlst was fined twenty fram* mediate surroundings, but by the far
for reckless flying
He did not run sightedness which includes the days to
into any one, nor did he smash Into come, and the comprehensive planning
anything;
he merely frightened the which involves the common welfare
spectators.
and progress.
Dr. Murphy says the man who dis
The Prosperity of the Farmer.
covers how to kill the cancer germ
This year we shall raise three bil­
will be a greater man than the dis­
lion bushels of corn. It Is hard to
coverer of the north pole. We might
realize what that means, says a writer
make a similar claim for the man who in Success Magazine. It is a harvest
shall discover a hair restorer that will
greater even than the bumper crop of
restore.
1906. These three billion bushels will
be
worth to the farmer over a billion
Yes, fellow citizens, your Uncle Sam
sits on the North Pole, rests one foot and a half of dollars, or over three
on the Far East, the other on the Far times as much as the corn was worth
West, and with his horny hands digs in 1896. Last year the value of all
a ditch across the middle of the hem­ farm products in the United States
isphere, while his sons capture all the was almost eight billions of dollars;
prizes of the air and earth. (Deafen­ this year it will be over eight billions.
This is more than the entire wealth of
ing applause.)
America in 1850. In 1850 the farms of
the
United States were worth less than
A law has recently gone Into effect
In New Jersey which compels all ve­ four billions; to-day they are worth
hicles not only automobiles, as Is the twenty-eight billions. Every day the
custom everywhere, but all teams farms of the country are worth $3,-
using the public highways at night— 400.000 more than they were worth the
to carry two lights, one In front and day before.
It is a good thing for the people at
one In the rear. Such a law, faith­
fully enforced. Is a cheap and practi­ large that the farmers are getting
cal method of safeguarding highway their share of the general increase In
traffic, not only from collisions, but wealth. The eight billion dollars that
also from the numerous accidents they get each year amounts to only
which result from bad places In roads seven hundred dollars apiece when ft
and bridges
is distributed over all the farmers and
farm laborers tn the country. But the
Continued efforts are making by the per capita amount is growing and is
National Association for the Study and bound to grow still more.
During the next twenty years we are
Prevention of Tuberculosis to discour­
age the practice of sending Indigent going to see a great revolution In
consumptives from the East to the farming. Agriculture is to be more
West and the Southwest. It has lately intelligent and more Intense, new
reported that more than seven thou­ plants are to be Introduced, a better
sand persons, hopelessly diseased, go use is to be made of the land, and
from the East every year, only to die an acre will produce twice as much as
tn one of the five States favored by it now produces. The benefit of this
consumptives. Tuberculosis can be new production should not be monop­
cured or arrested In any part of the olized by railroads, elevator companies
country, and the percentage of cures and harvester trusts. It should go to
fa the East Is nearly as great as in the farmers and to the people, and
• he West.
should show Itself In better food, cloth­
ing and housing and in more wide
The most cursory survey of the
world's literature, dramatic or other­ spread education for the great mass
wise. will convince anyone that the of us
profession of humorist or true come­ “Speed” Means to Acquire Sucre« a
dian Is one of the most exacting ever
When we use the slang "too slow"
known The jokesmith may get a mo­ as applied to non-success we are speak­
mentary laugh from an audience that ing correctly, according to etymology,
Is willing to take the will for the for "slow" conveys an Idea opposite
deed Rut the man who would set his to that of "speed,” and for more than
name among those who have made 10,000 years the root from which
permanent additions to the world's "speed” has grown has preserved its
fun must have a list of specifications influence In a dozen languages and
for a permit to make a road through has continually signified the Idea of
a Plnchot reserve He must have In­ quickness in grasping. In drawing to.
sight. sympathy, knowledge of charac­ In extending, in making room for ac­
ter. He must have a sense for fact
tion. in bringing prosperity and sue
that Is felt beneath his airiest webs of
cess by reaching out.
fancy He must have an ear for the
Our Aryan ancestors us. d the little
right word that no correspondence
word
"spa." and from it has grown
school can confer It Is easier to he a
among
scores of other words, our word
wit than to be a humorist; easier to
laugh at people than to laugh with "speed." which, through the centuries,
them, or make them laugh at them has not been restricted to its mean
Ing of velocity. It conceived the
«elves
thought of velocity that reached out
Tha rush of thousands of eager In­ for success. It meant having room
dividuals to the Indian land openings for action, to Increase in the direction
In Montana shows to what en extent of prosperity. Without "spa" there
land hunger Is besetting the people. was no "success.”
It Is a question If one out of a thou-
If a woman works a good deal,
aand among those that have registered
other women who do not work so hard
tn the hope of securing Indian reser­
say she works too much.
vation land has any Intention of set­
tling and honestly "farming It,” even
The bass drum coven a multitude ol
tt ba Is lucky. The land hunger has mistakes made by the rest of the band
Two
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Join«*«!
Together
by
rollnr Honda of I lr*h.
There hate just arrived in London
from Liege the Misses Rosa and Josefa
Blazek, who are. no doubt, the most
extraordinary examples of human ab­
normality in existence.
Probably no physiological curiosity
of equal interest has been seen, siys
the St I.ouls Post-Dispatch, since Eng
and Chang, the Siamese twins, were
exhibited by Barnum about forty years
ago. before settling down in a south­
ern state, where they married two sis­
ters. who reared healthy, normal fam­
ilies.
The physical condition of the Misses
Blazek differs little from that of the
late Siamese twins Th- bodies of the
latter were connected near the chest;
In the case of these young women the
adhesion occurs for some distance up
the side, terminating slightly above
the waist. Their heads are not quite
on a level, Josefa being somewhat the
taller of the two. Although the girls
of necessity spend their lives side by
side, they cannot look into each other’s
faces The most that is possible Is a
sidelong glance that Rosa Is enabled
to take of her sister.
Physically their actions are interde­
pendent. but mentally the girls have a
separate existence Nor do their tastes,
inclinations or temperaments coincide.
Consequently they live in a state of
constant compromise. The couple—If
the plural Is permissible—appear very
happy and contented.
The sisters enjoy the usual comple­
ment of limbs. They walk with a
sprightly, nimble movement, but, of
course, four feet are seen in opera­
tion, and when the necessity arises for
them to lift a heavy article four arms
and hands are extended for the pur­
pose.
Born in Prague, the capital of Bo­
hemia. the twins are 26 years of ago.
They speak no language save their
native Czech. Franz Blazek, the father.
Is a successful farmer. Ilfs eldest
daughter, who is quite normal, mar­
ried some four years ago nnd has now
four children
Mr Blazek has also a
son, 17 years of age.
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UTILIZING THE SOIL.
MER1CAN farmers .ire beginning to learn
that old methods will not always tit new
conditions, and that it Is possible largely
to Increase their protits by intelligent
study of scientific agriculture. Through
the efforts of the government, aided by
various railroads, thousands ot farinerj
throughout the West have acquired a broader knowledge
of their Industry. Nevertheless much remains to he ac-
compllsned before they realize all the possibilities that
lie In the soil. Men who, like James J. Hill, feel some
solicitude tn regard to the future of American farming,
may tie over-apprehensive. Their warnings, however,
are too serious lightly to be set aside.
Experts declare that the United States will contain
20o,t-oo,uu0 people by the middle of the century. In
view of the steadily rising price of farm products, this
suggests serious question whether agricultural produc­
tion will keep pace with the Increase In the number to
be fed. The solution undoubtedly lies In Improved
farming methods that will give the maximum productiv­
ity to every acre of land. As land becomes more scarce
the demand for education along this line will steadily in­
crease.
These conditions are responsible for development of
the-Department of Agriculture from an insignificant be­
ginning to one of the most Important and far-reaching
departments of the government. The prospects are that
it will assume even greater Importance during the next
twenty years. Some of the problems that accompany
our rapid Increase in population can be met through no
other agency.—Chicago Journal.
ARE WE SPOILING OUR BOYS?
ORMER PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard
recently spoke most emphatically of the
very small percentage of boys coming
from the larger, more expensive and fash­
ionable schools who proved satisfactory
students. A similar statement has been
made by a member of the faculty of Yale.
The experience of Princeton Is the same. The boys
from the high schools carry off honors out of all pro­
portion to their numbers. And tlie names of the larger
fashionable private boarding schools, with some excep­
tions, are conspicuous by their absence from the list
of honors.
In regard to one limited group of families the tend­
ency of many boys with the best chances In life to
weaken their will power, by taking steadily In college
the line of least resistance, can be measured against the
statistics of Its results.
The families entered In the “New York Social Regis­
ter” as residents of that city may reasonably be con-
sldered as households whose heads are able and wlll-
Ing to give their boys the best chances In life, In
five senior classes at Harvard, Yale and Princeton i not
the last five classes) there were 166 sons of those families.
At Yale College they formed 5.1 per cent of the total
membership of their classes; at Harvard College and
Princeton, 2.9 per cent. A comparative test of their
records at giaduatlon yields some very striking results.
It shows that, as a class, they are far below the aver­
age of their fellows In the ability or the willingness to
make the 1
t of their opportunities And the same
marked inferiority, as compared with the average stu­
dent, appears In each of these Institutions and in four­
teen of the fifteen classes examined. The figures un
questionably indicate an average attitude, a general so
clal drift.—Paul Van Dyke. In Scribner’s.
FOREIGN RAILROAD INVESTORS.
ERHAPS one of the most significant indi­
cations of the faith that men of large af­
fairs have in the continued prosperity ot
the country Is the extensive borrowings of
New York banks In European money mar­
kets. It Is estimated that the American
banks have sold their notes In London
and Paris to the extent of $400,000,000. This Is remark­
able when money Is not scarce In New York and the
rates of interest continue low.
The most plausible explanation Is that this money
Is for the American railroads which are preparing tc
make extensive Improvements in the near future In or
der to keep pace with the demands which It is expected
the expanding commerce of the country will make upon
them. It was Mr. Hill's prediction some time ago that
before the railroads would be properly equipped again
to do the transportation business of the country hun­
dreds of millions would have to be expended In better­
ments. Indeed, the traffic of the country Is swelling at
a rate which threatens again to gwauip the transporta­
tion facilities which have not been materially increased
since they proved to be so Inadequate two years ugo.—
St. Paul Dispatch.
EASTERN AND WESTERN CITIES.
WENTY St. Paul municipal officers and
Council members, who have just completed
a 3,000 mile trip through the East, make
some interesting comparisons between
Eastern and Western cities regarding dif­
ferent phase« of municipal progress. They
find, among other things, that the “City
Beautiful" idea la more clearly developed and the move-
nient more widespread in the East than in the West,
and that the movement to advertise cities Is receiving
more widespread attention in the East, though the point
Is made that in most instances the movement Is "hardly
along the same practical lines as In the West." Allow­
ance should be made, however, for difference of opinion
as to what kind of municipal advertising really deserves
the name of being practical. Eastern and Western ideas
may differ widely on this point, and often for the best
of reasons. The average Western city has different at­
tractions to offer than its Eastern sisters, and naturally
It adopts different methods to bring them to the atten­
tion of the countrv nt large.—Springfield Union.
An acceptance., of a building or
structure that has been completed and
which contains latent defects either
in the character of Its workmanship
or the quality of material used, is
held, in Steltz vs. Armory Co. 15 Ida­
ho, 551, 99 Pac 98, L R A. (NS.) 872,
not to amount to waiver of such latent
defects; but, on the contrary, it is
held that the owner may maintain his
action against the contractor for
breach of the contract at such time
as he discovers the extent of the de­
fects, or after he has had reasonable
time and opportunity, by due dili­
gence, to have discovered the same.
The mere affixing of a price to each
bushel of a crop contracted to be
threshed is held, in Johnson vs. Fehse-
feldt, 106 Minn. 202, 118 N. W. 797,
20 L.R.A. (N.SJ 1069, not to be suffi­
cient to make the contract severable.
An agreement by a retiring |>artner
“not to engage for the next two years"
in the same city in competition with a
business sold, in "the manner afore­
said," is held, in Siegel vs. Marcus
(N. D.) 119 N. W, 358, 20 L.R.A.
(N.S.) 769, to be violated by the en­
tering of such partner into the em­
ploy as a managing clerk, of a third
person whom such retiring partner
was instrumental in procuring to open
a rival business adjacent to that of the
original firm, and it is held that such
violation should be enjoined at the
suit of the purchasing partner.
Tiie South Carolina Code provides
that no party to an action shall be
examined respecting a transaction or
communication between him and a
person at the time of the examination
deceased, as a witness against a |>arty
prosecuting or defending tiie action as
executor, administrator, heir at law,
etc. The agent of appellant In selling
to respondent, tiie owner of a small
store, a fire insurance policy, had as­
sured him that It was not necessary
for insurers of small stocks of goods
.0 comply with that clause of the pol­
icy which compelled the keeping of
the books in an iron safe. Before the
trial the agent died. in Berry vs.
Virginia State Ins. Co., 64 Southeast­
ern Reporter, 85!*, payment of the in­
surance was refused on account of the
violation of the terms of the policy.
The South Carolina Supreme Court
held the representation of the agent
a waiver of the Iron-safe provision In
the policy, ami the defendant, not de­
fending the action as "executor, ad­
ministrator, heir at law," or any other
person named within the statute, it
does not apply, so as to make inadmis­
sible the testimony of the conversation
of the deceased agent.”
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NAMES FOR FAST TRAINS.
One Hoad Offered Prise for the Mt
Attractive Title.
‘ Well, how did you stand It while
I was away?" asked the iceman, as
he dropped the ice into the refriger­
ator and turned to face the good-look
fng ntald.
"Oh, have you been away?" she
asked. "You must have had that
chunk of Ice with you all the time—
tiie way it’s dwindled."
“Have I been away?” repeated the
Iceman, in injured accents.
"Well,
what do you know about that? And
me worryin' to death for fear you'd
think somethin' had happened to me.
Why, I've been away on my vacation,
Maggie, an' you never missed me."
"Say, I've told you before about call­
ing me Maggie.” said the pretty maid,
indignantly. "I don't see what license
you have to think anybody’d miss
you."
"You ought a been up there at the
lake where 1 was," pursued the fee­
man. ignoring her gentle criticism.
"That was all that was wantin’ to
make it perfect. We had a grand time,
flshin' an' dancin' an restin' in ham­
mocks—me for that twelve months in
the year If I could put it over.”
"You must look swell in a ham­
mock," retorted the good-looking maid,
"and I'd give a lot to see you waltzin'
—with them feet of yours. What was
ti’is—^ome sort of a insane asylum
where they let you get Into a ham­
mock?”
"Not on your life!" said the Iceman.
"It was one of the swellest of these
here lakes where all the folks go. Say,
they didn't ever know I was an ice­
man while I was up there! I sh'd say
not! You oughta see me in my Sun­
day l>ags some time -I'm one of the
best, Maggie-"
"You'll be wearing your Sunday
clothes looking for a new job if you
don't move aionj;, won't you?" sug
gested the pretty housemaid. "Don't
you suppose any of these people on
your route have telephones? They'll
all be calling up your boss and telling
him to make that vacation of your»
the real thing."
“Don't you ever fret about my los­
ing my job," said the Iceman.
"I
could grab another in twenty minutes'
There ain't any too many icemen that
have the trade I've got—and I can
carry my trade with me. too!”
"Carry it along, then," advised the
Some time ago an American railroad
company offered a substantial prize for
the most attractive title for its fast­
est train, and though none of those
submitted was accepted, the ingenuity
of the competitors was not undeserving
of praise. Among those sent in weio
such titles as "The Republican Lim­
girl. "Don't let me stop you for a ited," "The Narrow Path Express,"
minute! I've got a lot of things to "Tiie Liberty Express," "The Yankee
do and I'm not going out of the kitch­ High Flyer" and many others more
en and leave* you here, with all that or less good.
silverware on the table.”
Although the novel competition
'1 can't figure out why ft Is you practically failed in its purpose, says
like to knock me all the time,” said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it called
the Iceman, mournfully. "I've tried to attention to the picturesque and in­
he Just as friendly with you as as genious names which designate many
anybody on my route. Honest, I have, ot the Important highflyers which run
Maggie.”
daily over American rails. There is
"You don't mean to say that you go no better known express n the world
along this alley handing out this sort no better known express In the world
of talk at every door you stop at, do than "The Twentieth Century Limit­
you?” demanded the good-looking maid. stop between New York and Chicago,
It's no wonder you never get around doing the journey of 1,000 miles in
until afternoon with the ice! I'm sur­ twenty hours.
prised you haven't got a wagon load
Another interesting and appropriate
of water by the time you get here.
name belongs to an express on the
Run along, now. and don't be tracking
I Pennsylvania railroad, which runs
up my clean porch."
"Say, you won't get sore If I ask dally from Philadelphia to New York,
you something, will you?” asked the and which is known as "The Brides'
Limited.” This high flyer gained its
Iceman.
name
from the fact that ever since
“Depends on what it is." announced
its inauguration last year it has not
the housemaid.
"Well, I was going to ask you,” failed to carry at least one happy
said the tceman, "If you were going couple on a honeymoon trip daily.
"The Brides' Limited" is made up ot
anywhere Sunday afternoon."
three
or four Pullman coaches, each
The pretty girl tossed her head and
smiled at the calendar on the kitchen bearing some title suggestive of its
wall. What business is it of yours happy freight, such as Cupid, Hymen,
whether I am or not, Mr. Fresh?” she etc., and the train is now extremely
popular with newly married couples.
demanded.
"The Green Mountain Flyer" is the
“Well, I was only going to say,”
went on the feeman. "that I ain't been famous Montreal express for New
to none of these here amusement parks York and received Its name from the
for a long time an' I was just thinkin' beautiful green hills through which it
if you wasn't dated up for Sunday aft­ runs on Its dally journeys An equally
picturesque title is that of "The Sun­
ernoon —"
"You got you're nerve, ain't you. ask set Limited," a Southern Pacific ex­
lng me to go out with you?" said the press which dashes dally toward that
housemaid. "Besides, I've got a date El Dorado of horticulturists—Califor­
nio.
for then "
Eiprrlenee Trachet,
"Who is it—that big policeman?"
Minneapolis and St. Paul are known
Ixjver (haughtily)—Is it a matte,
akked the Iceman, eagerly.
as the Twin CitleB, and bo it is only of astonishment, sir, that I should
"Don't block up the stairway,” said natural that the train which runs from ; want to marry your daughter?
she. "If that big policeman should there to St. Ixmls should be called j Father (apologetically)—Not at all.
happen to drift around hers» right now "The Twin City Limited." The exposi­ young man. I wanted to marry her
they would have to take up a hospital tion at St. Ixmls, by the way, has been 1 mother once. The astonishment at the
collection In the icemen's union.”
the meana of giving titles to many ■ Idea comes later.—Baltimore Ameri­
The Iceman sighed heavily and lum­ new trains, among these being "The can.
bered away.—Chicago Dally Newt.
Exposition Limited." over the Grand j
< mu ««« for Suspicion,
Central.
“When a man da’ s tryln' to trade
If you want to say a man hasn't
One of the moat magnificent train« ' horses wlf me stahts braggin’ 'bout
much sense, say he doesn't know
in the world Is "The High Grass Lim­ how honest he Is in his dealln's," said
enough to turn around in a revolving
ited,” which runs from St. Paul to the Uncle Eben, “I can't help suspectin'
chair.
Pacific Coast, so called because in Its dat he's gettln’ ready to make an ex-
Every lion hunter exaggerates the journey It passes over much desolate caption
tn my case."—Washington
pralrlA
danger.
Star.
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