FARMERS ARE RETIRING.
Maa W(eru Anrioul(urlt Ar Eb-
Joying the Fruit of Recent
Prosperous Year.
The Nebraska towns are filling up
with farmers who have retired from
agricultural pursuits to take life at ease
and educate their children, says a re
cent Lincoln report.
Prosperity has prevailed on the farms
for five or six years, and the farmers
of the west are showing their philosoph
ical view of life by retiring before they
are too old to njoy the truita of their
toil.
None of them are rich in the metro
politan sense of the term. They don't
leel themselves rich. All they have is
a competence , but their tuny lite away
trom the temptations of 'the town has
taught them irugaiity and they have no
particular desire to put oa stjls. Usual
ly when they come to town they go out
to some modest suburb where the price
of property is low.
They spend ?2,000 or $3,000 for a
houses and lot, lb; things up comfortably
end tcjoy Hums-Elves. Their wants are
easily saii.lhd. They have not the
theater-going habit nor the society
habit; they have learned how to get
what they think is good out of life with
out indulging in many cf its frivolities.
.Measured by their ambitions and their
a;:U th;y are as well oil' as any mil-,
iior.airc possibly better. They have
enough and are satisfied.
It is possible for a farmer to retire
on a much smaller amount than mont
lAen who have investments in other
classes of property. A merchant may
pet out of active life but leave his money
in his store without feeling that it is
.-;:.. Banks, to-'), may fall, and the
I-n."! of stocks is liable to fluctuate. It
is di He rent with the farm. Nebraska
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specula i ors :".'' forri'- vy. ; sires. Th'.
short grass coar.tr;.- walluv:..! in Li.?
crops this y.var, and thirc- is scarcely an;
rcr.f-i rimer.', lar.d if ft in that section o;
ithvr Kr-rsc? or Nthraskn. II: al estate
V.ff-rits hf i- been runnirg harvest excur
sions ir.to the country ar.d r.rii'-atc-liuyiiig
is now a feature of the business,
whole parties cf emigTP.nts from eastern
states being landed and settkd in the
same neighborhood on newly purchased
land3.
NATIONS IN THE MAKING.
War Enter Tery Ltirirely Into the
Formation of a New
Country.
According to the astronomers, there
was fierce conflict of forces in chaos be
lore the worlds were thrown off from
the nebular mass; and then there were
:-.vny a mad flight through space
...:d frequent collisions before the force
gravi:y set the planets moving in
'.heir respective orbits.
On a small r ale, natural forces are
still at work f ringing about a stable
political equilibrium on this planet.
'.'l.anc? and war, chiefly war, have
snrown tojierhrr groups of people with
i:;;ii;.e i mux states the Youth's
Companion. Wherever the interests con
ilict, their effort to get along together
succeeds but indifferently, or fails alto
gether. The most recent example of failure
is the break-up of the republic of Co
lombia, which occurred when the people
in the department of Panama decided
that they would submit no longer to neg
lect by the central government, a neglect
of which the rejection of the canal
treaty was only the culminating inci
dent The struggle is still going on in Austria-Hungary,
where two nations, dif
fering in race, are trying to live under
one government. The emperor-king is
able to keep his empire together only
bv making frequent concessions to th?
N'agyars. His consent, in November.
o the larger use of the Hungarian lan
guage in the army was forced from him
at the price of breaking the deadlock
which had left Hungpry without a min
istry for several months.
Germany has a similar problem, al
though the issue there is the proper re
lation of the various stafs to the cen
tral government. Uavaria has resent
ed the Interference of the tmrcror In its
local affairs with so much vigor that
the imperial chancellor has thought It
wise to announce that the kalfer does
not desire greater centralization of au
thority. The British empire Is a vast nebular
mass, which is to be held together until
It solidifies into a homogeneous unit
Mr. Chamberlain fears that it is in dan
ger of flying to pieces unless the force
of gravity, operating through self-Interest,
ran be made to bind the colonies to
the mother country.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEHS.
The municipal expense of New
York are approximately $100,000,000 a
year.
Of 23,000 children placed in familiea
by the Children's Aid society, only 60
have been arrested and sent to reform
schools.
While London has- 47 telephones per
10,000 inhabitant, Paris.71; New York,
150, and San Francisco, 706, Stockholm
reaches the figure of 980.
Berlin has its first female barbers
the wife and daughter of a hair
dresser. In Bohemia, Hungary and.
Scandinavia there are many women
barbers.
In the year ending April 1, 1900, Ber
lin imported from Italy 50 ear loads
of cherries, 357 of table grapes, 245 of
summer fruits, etc. In the following
12 months the business doubled.
A Leipsic physician expresses the
opinion that on account of their deli
cate sense of touch blind persons are
specially qualified for practicing mas
sage. In Japan this is done very
largely.
In the cler.r atmosphere the other
day Bostonians could see from Bos
ton two mountains, Wachusett and
Monadnock that i, those Bostonians
who took the trouble to climb Mount
Bellevue, West Hoxbury, could.
If all the reports that have reached
the police within the past few days
are true, diamond stealing by serv
ants has reached the proportion of a
mania in New York. Three young
women employed in as many fashion
able homes in the up-town section are
now under arrest on this charge.
A Vermont town supports two pa
pers whi'-h live in friendly discord.
The Herald printed a meaningless item
about one S'laets S. V.'f-iicht, a Syrian,
and the News corded it. without the
formality of giving credit. Gleefully
the Herald now poir. ts out that the j
fictitious Syrian's name spelled back-
ward proclaims the truth, well known j
locally that "the News steals." !
WOMAN A PESSIMIST.
After a Certain .e Tartar Faeea)
Show Signs of Mental Worry
and DUlreM.'
The average woman is a dyed-in-the-wool
pessimist. Almost every
woman over 30 years of age looks
distressed. Her brows are bent, her
mouth drawn into a tight line, and
there are deep furrows down her
cheeks. She looks exactly as if sire
were considering how to provide a
dinner for 25 cents that will satisfy
twenty-five small children, when in
reality she may have nothing1 more
serious on her mind than buying &
pair of socks for George. No wonder
women grow old faster than men,
for they hug their worries to them
and let them show in their faces.
There was once an elderly servant
who was superstitious to a degree
and who always expected the worst
to happen. TM she find a needle on
the floor, did a ph-ture fall in the
house or a bird fly into one of the
rooms, she was intr.ntly plun;red
into woe. "We're iroir.sr to have a
Vip-r of bp--1 1:cl;!" she would say.
and then brM be lachrvnose until
sonic on h"d the tootbnebe or the
cows cfot into ib" r-crn. when she
would e."n--i.v.' t' ' demon luck ex
orcised or sctiifitd for a time and
row as cheerful rs it wn hr habit
to be. Poni" ,r i-ncf p'krd her if
she did not hnv nnv yood-lnck signs.
"Why, certn'nly." she replied, "but
hey don't count! don't believe in
the good-luck ones," which, by the
by, is thoroughly characteristic of
the sex.
Here is a woman who suffers suf
fers is the word from insomnia. "I
can't imagine why 1 don't sleep," she
says to her friend. "I'm sleepy ns
anything when 1 go upstairs, but
then T bpirin to wonder if my son
Arthur, who travel for a drug firm,
is on a train, and in a minute T sef
him just as plainly bleeding and
mangled in a wrp'k. When T decide
that he is really dead, I think of
John, and worry because he hasn't a
better position. Then Molly comes
into my mind, and I feel sure thnt
one of her children must be ill. T feel
so blue about her. I fret over Lucy's
throat a bit then, and by this time
I'm wide awake. It's the strangest
thing! I don't understand why I
should b so wakeful!"
Her physician does, however, and
now he's prescribing for her a course
of cheerfulness and of "looking for
the best." Tt's a medicine that most
women need their faces show it
but there are few who are sensible
enough to take it.
Dearth Canard by MoaqnMn.
ifosquitoes are now charged with
communicating- erysipelas as well as
malaria and vellow ferer. A New
York physician has issued a death j
certificate in the case of a 14 months' j
old babe, in which he says "Death
was caused by erysipelas due to the
bite of a mosquito." It is only fair
to the mosquito to record that the
board of health officers refused to
accept the certificate until a coro
ner's physician had investigated and
concluded that there was no other
apparent cause for the death than
Uie mosquito bite. Youth's Companion.
ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.
The OrlhoBiapkU Chaoi In Wbteb the
oflrlleh Umgnact la Involved
Some Notable Illustration.
We are weltering in an orthographic
chaos in which a multitude of sign are
represented by the same sound and a
multitude of sound by the same sign,
says Harper's Magazine. Our race as
a race has in consequence lost the
phonetic sense. What can we hope for
the orthoepy of a tongue in which, for
ilustration, the short sound of e, found
in let, is represented by ea in head, by
eo in leopard, by ay in says, by ai in said,
by el in heifer, and by a in many? Or of
the correspondingly long sound given by
us to the same vowel, which is repre
sented by e in mete (to measure), by ea
in meat (an article of food), or by ee in
the verb to meet; and furthermore by i
in machine, by le in believe, by el in re
ceive, by eo in people, and by ae In aegis?
Or take the sound denoted by the digraph
h, seen in ship. It is represented by
ce In ocean, by ci In suspicion, by tl in
nation, by xi in anxious, by sci in con
science, and by s followed by u in sure.
There is no object in heaping up further
harrowing details, which, Indeed, could
be multiplied Indefinitely. They have
been introduced merely to show how
hopeless is the prospect of attaining
under such conditions a uniform stand
ard of pronunciation which all will rec
ognize at once, and to which all will un
questioningly bow.
WHAT A COOL SUMMER DOES.
Ill Bfleets to the Entire Baalneea Com.
inanity, Farmers Included Keeps
Money from Circulating.
A well known business man says that
the ordinary' observer did not stop to
consider what a cool summer meant to
the entire business community, record
ing to the Philadelphia Record. Said he:
"It affects everything that depends upon
trade fcr life. I have no doubt that the
present slump in stocks is due in part
to the ceo; summer, which has made the
crops so uncertain. Let us start with the
farmer. He has had poor luck with hi?
corn, m-j'.oii?. and all kinds of truck. The
merchants who sell summer clothing
and all kinds of seasonable wear have
harcly paid expenses; every seashore re
sort h2s been running light. This means'
go much money lost from circulation,
and ail the mechanical trades and in
dustries mu?t suffer. Of course, no one
is to blame, and the only thing to do is
to live and let live until a real hot sum
mer come3 to push things along again."
CHARITY FOR CRIPPLES.
Unfortunates Aided by Society Curi
ously Named "The Guild of the
Brave Poor Thinsra."
"The Guild of the Brave Poor Things"
Is the curious nanfe adopted by a com
pany of English charity workers, whose
womanly efforts are being directed to
ward the amelioration of the condition
of cripples, young and old.
The guild has recently acquired a
country holiday home at North Com
mon, Chaiicy, Sussex. It is called the
Heritage, and was formally opened In
June by the duchess of Bedford. 71
home is pictures iu-!y situated and v 1 1 i
accommodate 5" gr.lid members men,
women and chiUrvn some of whom
will become permanent residents End
others will bn taken from the various
branches of the guild for short vacation
periods. As soon as may be it is in
tended to start a school of arts and
crafts for the crippled and deformed in
mates, and the work will be sold for
their benefit
The youngest pedagogue in Missouri,
and perhaps in the Lnited States, is
teaching a country shuol near Gaines
ville, in the 0:arK mountains. He is
o.fcun Harriton, aged 13 years, says the
Kansas City Journal. Glenn is the old
est son of Guy T. Harrison, a lawyer.
He compie:ed the course of study of
the Gainesville public schools in March,
1902. The same month he took the ex
amination given candidates for third
grade teachers' certificates in Ozark
county, making a good average and se
curing a certificate. He continued to
study, and just after he became 13 years
old he took the examination for a sec
ond grade certificate. This time his av
erage grade was the highest made, being
9C per cent. Mr. Harrison believed his
promising son was loo young to teach
and refused to let him accept several
offers. But one day when his father waa
absent attending court.,Glcnn took the
job of teacher of a rural district, the di
rectors of which came and offered him
the place. He began work before his
father returned, and the latter, finding
him so ambitious, decided not to inter
fere. Glenn now has 29 pupils. The ma
jority are larger and older than he, bat
he maintains a degree of discipline which
many older and more experienced teach
ers may well envy. "How are you iret
ting along. Glenn?" asked his mother
one day. when he came home at the end
of a week's work. "I had to wnlp sev
eral of the boys." the youngster replied
It turned out that among others he had
larruped an obstreperous youth that
weighed 180 pounds. Glenn doesn
weigh much more than half that
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Atr Skip II a Wings.
Chicago, July 30 Frank M. Mahan
of Chicago, president of the Lingren
lUtthau Fire Apparatus cunpiny, has
decla'ed that in the near future he will
start for Washington in an airship of his
own make, ami that he will reach that
citv within 10 hours.
"I don't simply promise this," said
Mahan. -Til do it. I have studied the
aerial navigation prob'em for 16 vears
and I have the solution beyond the per
adventure of a doubt. I can make from
125 lo 150 .mles an hour in the airship
I p,-op se to construct."
The p ( fected airship will be a flving
machine pure and simple. It will have
win-is like thosn of a bird, and theoe
wings will have tht sole motive power,
though they w ll be worked by a gaso
line engine.
The fantbe'H of the wing on fowls of
the air, .Mahan hhvf, am so Hrrrnred
that prac'ic.l y mc.'i one has a specific
p-irt to perform on its fiitht. In tb-
wing? cf ;t fli-inir machine the invent r
is t place vai'ei-i ho const runted that m
the upward and dowi-vvaul strokes t been
will In twn distinct tno'iDlH, a-t there i
in tiiH li rd' win.: m vni!nt a littititf
and ptop-llins.r power comh'ned.
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KREA Vio PrefiirlenU
Transact a General Bankincj
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SXCHANGE ON All PARTS OF
Collectloiu mai'.eoii all pomtgon reasonable
v-cr-.
Mahan is an engineer known all over
the United States.
Forest Fires lu Ittaho.
lioiye Idaho. July 28. Forest fires
are raging in the White Pine regions of
the Pierce City district and in the Clear
water country. Three fires are also re
ported fiom Lewifton and "it is stated
that a total of 5,000 acres of timber is
in danger of destruction.
On the north fork of the C .earwater
the state owns 30,000 acres of valuable
pine land and State Land C mttiissiontr
Munson is in Moscow securing a large
force to aid in checking the spread of
the flames.
Half a Ton of Clothes.
New York, July 30 J. Pierpont Mor
gan is coming back from London with
half a ton of clothes. To be more defi
nite, I here are 127 suite.
The average man hardly knows what
he would do with 127 eui's, but Mr.
Morgan likes to be well dresHed. He
litees a muilii!icitv of suits, yet never
befo'e has be come back fiom Europe
with such an outfit. It would kt cp 150
men busv a vv ek snd taks c otb cowling
$10100 to make the 127 suits.
CITY.
! (i. V. t'ONHER Cnnhr
E. L. FliEELAND. . Aomftn L'nhi-r
Business. Four per cent.
THE WORLD BOUGHT ANb 8()U)
tor mi. Surplus and undivided profits :15.000.
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