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I danger o f an entire fallare o f crop» la
overcome.
Intensified fanning has
come to stay.
The things that are carried highest
on gusts of popularity often weigh the
least.
Vaccination experts say that many
people can escape smallpox by
a
s c r a t c h . ___________ ____
Wben you meet a man and are at a
loss for a subject of conversation ask
him to tell you about his troubles.
In order to comply with the fltneee
• f things Boston should remove the
sacred codfish from the capital and
hang up a sole.
Marriage and hanging go by deetlny;
matches are made In heaven, saya
Montaigne.
Montaigne must have
been a divorce lawyer.
Andrew Carnegie has a large ellce
of hie fortune yet remaining. H e la
atlll In good health, but If anything
should happen to him-----
It la not
dent going
monies of
have been
a bit surprising that a stu
through the Initiation cere
a college fraternity should
considered Insane.
The argument that the Russian sol
dier* use cigarettes sounds like a
clincher until you hear that the Japs
are. If anything, more ardent In their
devotion to the measly little things.
I f Emperor W illiam '* throat had not
been a good strong one In the begin
ning It could hardly have been expect
ed to keep on being neeful after all
the things that the correspondents
have done to It.
An archeologist declare# that Noah
was the first millionaire, end that the
ark wn* built at a coet o f <800.000 or
more. There la room for the belief,
however, that Noah paid the contrac
tors In watered stock.
The servant girl who found <2,000
In the street requested a deadhead ad
vertisement In a newspaper, saying
she had no money with which to pay.
Ingrowing honesty would seem to he
that woman’s complaint.
A California profeseor of philosophy
announces that there are too many
womep In the colleges. They inter
fere with the attainment o f high
scholarly Ideals, he says. He must be
an elderly person who has no daugh
ters.
Another Pittsburg heiress baa found
a titled foreigner who la willing to
marry for a cash consideration. Pitts
burg heiresses appear to be having
little difficulty o f late In making It
possible for the world to see their
smoke.
John Philip Zelgler, of New York,
hanged himself a few evenings ago
because dinner wasn't ready when he
<°t home. So there wae an egg wast
ed and one oup of coffee might as well
have been saved. Some men are so
thoughtless when they get angry.
It develops that years ago Conan
Doyle wrote a letter from the United
States declaring that America would
reach the chief place among the Bng-
11 all speaking nations Sherlock Holmes
had not been created then, but Dr.
Doyle did not need hla detective to
make this discovery.
An Alaskan missionary mekss a re
quest which shows bow diversified are
the needs of hla onlltng. He ask* for
"a peck of spectacles and eye-glasses.”
A few years ago he made a similar re
quest. and In response received a large
quantity. The supply la running short
and there are frequent applications for
glasses from people to whom they
would be a great boon. 1%* glasses
would not only minister to comfort,
but aid some persons In gaining a
livelihood.
The public school has been the cor
ner stone o f our civil and social struc
ture. Whatever o f strength we have
attained, whatever advance we have
made, have had their origin and their
hvsi dratlon
there.
The
suggestion
that we are aiming too high
and
spending too much on oar schools
sounds ominous and reactionary. We
may be spending too much if our sys
tem le to be the sport of local politic*
and the spoil o f their manipulators,
because that way lies graft and gen-
tral demoralisation, hut If the funds
are honestly employed to make our
educational Influencée the most en
lightening and far-reaching possible
we oan make no 1-etter investment
than to keep on spending and annually
Increasing the amount.
Constantly Increasing density
of
population and stewdily advancing
value of laud are doing much to
ehange the eyttem of farming In the
United States.
While large “ bonan
sa" farms are atlH to be found In th*
prairie region# and will continue to
exist for many years to come, their
number la decreasing and the email
farm become* every year more com
mon. Acreage le giving wey to culti
vation. and what th* Individual farm
er leeks In tree of land h* makes up
In fertility. I f be has lees capital In
vested In hls farm he Invests more
capital In th* form o f labor and pro-
ttucee practically th* tame results In
th* way of profits. Though th* profit*
are perhaps not so large In extremely
favorable year*, tbs better cultivation
make* th* yield more certain and the
§GM JlfeRNS
Chicago is revolving some criticism
because of her rigorous treatment of
robbers. The statute making highway
robbery punishable by life Imprison
ment has been resurrected and In one
week nine hold-up men were sent over
the road for life. All right! It 1* hu
mane and Juet to talk about reform GET AIN ACRE AND LIVE ON IT.
B Y 6 eo rge M. Maxwell.
ing criminal*. Every man who err*
Get an acre and lire on It. I wish I could burn
and is sorry, and want* to do better
that thought Into the heart o f every working-
should be given as much opportunity
man In America. In the West I would say, get
for reformation as the welfare of so
an Irrigated acre. I f every man who now works
ciety can stand. But the man who
eight hours a day in a factory could work four
makes an assault for the purpose of
hours a day in a factory and four hours a day on
gain Is at heart a detestable murderer.
hls own acre o f land be would double hls In
He Isn’t an ordinary thug. He Is pre
come and he would lusure himself, hls wife, and
pared to slay. Human life Is sacred.
hls children against want when the day’s wage
It Is a fact pretty well ground Into
w o u k i stop.
But we must have a different system of na
the brain of every human being. The
tional education from the present one, which trains our
man who waits In the dark armed with
I children away from the land. This idea Is gaining ground.
a bludgeon and a revolver, keyed to
| We have manual training and domestic science taught In
the point where he w ill kill In order
some of our schools. That is getting back to the true sys
to gain your personal property, 1* a
tem of education, where, instead of the old folks remain
premeditated murderer. He know*
ing at home to die alone while the boys go to the cities
what he Is doing, and what be pro
with the Idea of becoming millionaires, but to end as coun
poses to do. He also knows that in
ter-jumpers and clerks, the making and keeping o f a home
most cities If he can employ a smart
la taught Every child should be made a gardener and a
attorney, one with a political pull pre
horticulturist. The winter term should be devoted half to
ferred, and has enough money, or
books and half to work on the benches, and a summer term
friends who have money, he can either
should be devoted to agriculture. The boys would learn to
escape entirely or get off with a short
build a home and the girls to care for them as wives and
sentence. That kind of a man la an mothers. W e are gradually getting away from the heresy
enemy o f society.
Decency forbids that money Is all in this life and that man must raise
electrocuting him unless he has taken something, sell It, and buy something back again before he
life, and so wisdom demands that he
gets what he wants.
disappear, not for a few month* or a
The evil of our life Is not that the rich are getting
few years, but until he shaH emerge richer or the poor are getting poorer, but It Is the lack of
from behind the dark walls of a prison cultivation o f the soil. No man can oppress a sturdy race
In hls coffin. Reform him In hit cell of farmers that own and till the land. The land Is the
If you will. Treat him humanely and greatest resource of a nation. Our public lands should be
kindly. But keep him where he will securely held for the real homemakers. There are men
never again be tempted to raise hls who have acquired, as was never Intended by Congress
murderous hands against his kind. great tracts o f thousands of acres o f land without settle
A look at the criminal statistics of ment and without the building o f a single home. These
this country and perusal of the thou laws are still upon the statute books. Moreover the great
sands of criminal tragedies reported In live stock Interests and the speculators are Intent upon
the newspuper* prove that the terror keeping them there and even upon attempting to secure
of the law does not appeal to those new land speculative legislation.
who do wrong with the force It should.
Certainly Chicago has done well.
FIRST LEARN YOUR CUSTOMERS’ WANTS.
B y J o h n A. H o w la n d .
In the Stonewall mine, San Diego
County, Cal., an earthquake so twist
ed the shaft that the timbers were
pulled around to the opposite sides of
the shaft from their original position.
A man was arrested at Baltimore
method— Just when the failure to make a sale was not yout
own fault and Just when It resulted from your own care election day because he Insisted on
lessness. Your confidence and consequently your effective- telling people that It would take only
ness constantly Increase as you reduce your work to a fifteen million horses, twelve thousand
systematic procedure. Y’ou always "know where you are derricks and eight hundred mile» of
at,” you can note your own progress, and there la with ropes and chains to move the world,
such a method far less cause for possible discouragement
Venezuela Is In search o f alligator
There 1» nothing so helpful as knowing the cause of each hunters
The Venezuelan waters are
failure you make; for If you know your weak point you fu „
of theM reptlles, and good money
can guard against It next time. This cautious method of
^ be ma(Je by kllllng them, aH th„
always finding out what a prospective customer wants be- aklng ar0 valuable aud tbe oll> whlch
fore taking your goods to him Is tbe only way to become
cfin be abatracted> alao brlugg go0d
a really high-class salesman,
prices.
THE MYSTERIOUS W AYS 0T FASHION.
By Gabriel da la Rochefoucauld.
In literature and In politics Fashion has few
ideas, but she dictates opinions. Often It Is wise
to listen to her lavish advice In order not to be
come the object of ridicule. Ridicule Is Fash
ion’s weapon, which she piles without mercy
when she chooses to take revenge.
Sometimes artless persons, noticing that Fash
ion rarely sdmlres the same thing two days In
succession, are led into trying to anticipate her.
But, alas, what an error! They will soon learn that what
she chooses to like at any particular time they also must
like. Fashion has numerous whima, to which she attaches
a canonlike Importance. She takes tea while playing bridge
and drinks beer when engaging In a game of manllle. She
does not tolerate all diseases. It Is all right to suffer from
appendicitis, though she Is particularly partial to neuras
thenia. To cure her three or four doctors, her friends, are
necessary. Of course, we must pardon this weakness, for
she has confidence only In them.
Fashion has her likes and dislikes. She has no use for
the poor. She affects to pity them, but defends herself
against their cries. All her sympathies are with the rich,
although she counsels them not to speak of money. When
the poor man dines at the table of tbe rich, Fashion
teaches him to pay good breeding graceful compliments,
lie must not bewail his condition then. At the end of the
repast, however, after having shown that he Is free from
Jealousy, It is quite proper If he leans over to hls neighbor
and whispers: “ Do you believe all this luxury produces
happiness?”
W e might ask with some concern how she will manage
to pass the time when the automobile w ill have seen its
day. What form of excitement will take its place? Maybe
she w ill turn to some o f her old tricks. When races and
bookmakers shall have lost their charm perhaps she will
revive some o f the diversions of ancient times.
So marked la the falling off In the
The highest class salesman never appears to
number o f college men seeking to en
work hard to make a sale. Usually he Is not a
ter the ministry that a conference has
great talker. It Is the clerks In cheap stores whi
been held In Boston to consider the
talk hard and fast; they hustle and sweat and
matter and take tome action In re
appear to try to corner their customers and to
gard to It. The conference constated
browbeat them Into buying. The first class sales
o f prominent educators, editors and
man is cool and easy In manner because he has
clergymen and was the first of a se
studied hls art. The great talker may be a good
ries to be held in different cities with
salesman, but he chooses the hardest road. The
a view o f encouraging young men to salesman who wants to pass everybody must have, either MANY WOMEN TALK TOO MICH.
enter the ministry. It is the purpose consciously or unconsciously, a definite method o f pro
By Nikola G re e le y - S m lt h .
also to find out the cause* why so few
Some women are born gabblers, but more are
cedure.
are disposed to follow the calling. One
made so by the mistaken Idea that men have to
Before trying to sell anything find out what the person
serious difficulty that stands In the can buy. When a man has told you Just what he wants he
be “ entertained” and that the way to entertain
way of the young man who thinks of has committed himself and he has given you a distinct ad
them Is by a constant volley o f rapid-fire conver
entering the pulpit Is hls uncertainty vantage. In business It Is the effort of each man to make
sation. It Is safe to say that In ninety-nine out
as to the doctrines he shall preach. the other man “ come to him,” and as soon as your pros
of 100 couples one meets casually the girl Is do
He may enter the divinity school and pective customer has told you what he wants— material,
ing the talking; possibly she Is succeeding In
after three years of eloae atudy find style, price, etc.— he has “ come to you;” all you have to do
being “ entertaining,” but that Is by no means so
that the particular theology to which Is to fill the order. I f you can do that there Is a strong
certain as if the man were doing the talking.
he has given special attention Is no presumption in favor of a sale without much further effort Men like to talk. There Is hardly any man who cannot
longer tenable, at least by him. He on your part.
talk well on some one subject. And there are some women
can not preach what he does not him
It is of course absolutely Impossible to make a sale for who possess a genius for discovering what that one subject
self believe and he can not afford the every inquiry, but what an Immense satisfaction It Is to Is. The silent woman w ill always be preferred by man to
time to go over the ground la another know accurately— as you can know If you follow this the gabbling woman
Institution. Theology 1* In a peculiar
state of transition to-day. Archaelogl-
C U T T IN G U P TH E RANGES.
cnl researches and the higher criticism
have disturbed the old foundation* aQd Vast Tracts o f Land in the Southwest
B ein g Given Up to F a rm in g .
it Is a wise man who know* what to
Conditions in the great ranch coun
accept and what to reject. Wiser atlll
does he have to be who would guide try of the Southwest were never iu
other* In this respect. The congrega better shape for the homeseeker and
tions to-day are far more critical and Investor, says S. A. Hughes, general
exacting than they were fifty or even Immigration agent of the ’ Frisco Sys
twenty years ago. Books are plenty tem, who has Just returned from an
and the dally newspapers keep even extensive trip through Texas. The
the masses well Informed on public cuttle rauches are being generally cut
matters. People tre not as dependent up and Bold out In small tracts to
on the pulpit for Information, religious furmers front the East and the North.
and otherwise, as they were a genera-'1 One railroad system has been carry
tlon or two age. T h * mlnlatsr does ing about 2,500 homeseekers Into the
not stand out to-day aa the one well- cheap laud districts along Its line each
informed man In th* community. The month for the last two years, and the
clergyman o f to-day la also likely to other southwestern roads have been
doing nearly as large a business. Con
face empty pews. Formerly all so-
sequently It Is safe to say that Okla
called respectable persons went to
homa, Texas, Indian Territory and A r
church, either from a sense o f duty
kansas have Increased at the rate of
or from motives of policy. To-day
10,000 settlors a month. Tbe invasion
there Is not that feeling o f obligation
of the ranch lands has come from
and the clergy are often at tbelr wits'
Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Illi
ends to know how to build up the
nois, Indiana and Kentucky.
church and aecure an audience. These
In recent years the cattlemen have
are some o f the facta which the con
been feeding tbelr cattle In pens and
ference* will have to consider when
fattening them on crops grown by
they think of urging young men to en
farmers. Hence It Is no longer neces
ter the ministry. These conditions do sary to devote the grass products of
not menu that religion Is on the wane. twenty acres of land to fattening one
That la Impossible, for the religious steer. Cattlemen have no further use
nature Is an essential part of the hu for the lnrul. and are selling It ut
man race. It simply means that forms prices o f from »3 to <15 an acre.
are changing and the new times call
The northern and eastern farmers
for new methods
who have bought this ranch land and
The spirited sketch above Is reproduced from the London Graphic, which
begun to cultivate the soil have all
Keatly for the O rdeal.
made money. One man near Corpus has an artist at Port Arthur. The Incident depleted Is an assault on one of
Christl bought a tract o f ranch land the central forts o f Port Arthur. The slopes In front o f the Russian forts
at $15 an acre and put It out in Ber were thickly strewn with the bodies o f the Japanese, who pressed for
muda onions. Tw o years later he sold ward In the face o f almost certain death. The signature of the Japanese
<11.000 worth of onions from eighteen censor, who passed upon the drawing. Is on the lower left-hand corner.
acres.
In Greer County, Oklahoma, land handicapped In their trade with China strangely Intermingled with English
sold at <5 an acre two years ago. but on account o f the many dialects that constructions. Pidgin English Is easi
prices have Jumped to $15 and <25 an are spoken In that country. But these ly picked up by the Chinese and En
acre. Farmer* are raising a bale o f difficulties have been removed long glish-speaking merchants, and Is rap
cotton or thirty-five bushels o f wheat ago, for a flourishing trade has been idly extending to the Interior o f India,
to the acre in that region. One of the carried on with the flowery kingdom so that In part It answers the same
richest parts o f Oklahoma. Juet now by the English for many year*. In purpose# that were Intended for vola-
being made a central point for home- order to make themselves understood puk, the universal language that wa*
seeker», la Woods County, In the Eagle tbe English merchants have adopted proposed eotne years ago.
Chief Vnlley. Only a few years «go a Jargon known as pidgin English,
B ritish Sum m er Dress.
this valley was a vast cattle range, which Is readily understood by all
Yesterday I saw a man with a cum
but It Is now a thickly settled and Chinamen who have occasion to do
prosperous farm
community.— New business with the Britisher# or Ameri merbund wearing a long mackintosh,
and another with a Panama hat car
York Sun.
cans.
rying an umbrella, both surely allow
Ptdgln
English
means
"bnslness"
A M E R I C A N P ID G I N E N G L I S H .
ing an indecent lack o f confidence In
English, and It Is used In all o f the
How We W ill Talk When Conunarce seaport towns o f Chins. It la a queefi the weather. Tbe most extraordinary
get-up. however, was that o f a man In
Extends to China.
sort of a Jargon, with no attempt at
She O f course you say that you
a yellow straw hat a black frock coat
Since the Japanese have begun to grammar, inflection or conjunction,
would go through fire and water and
a tartan tie. blue cummerbund, whtto
endure hardship* for my take, but you take such an active part In tbe affairs but la Uterally a word-for-word trans duck trousers aud yellow ihoes.— Tail
of nations the attention o f Americans lation.
All that la necessary for a
can not prove It
or and Cutter.
___
lie — But I can, dearest. I am will has been drawn closer than ever be Chinaman to do In order to converse
Grocers aay their business developi
fore
to
the
Orient,
says
the
Brooklyn
by
means
o
f
It
la
to
acquire
a
few
ing to go through a full drese fashion
Eagle
In th* event that Japan suc hundred words, with the grammar the greatest number o f mean people
able wedding ae soon aa yen like,
ceeds In keeping Knasta out o f Man modified to suit hla own language. In Tbe rest o f ns would like to dispute
Taetee are about evenly divided churia the long-talked-of “open door” a good many respects It correspond* that point
H alf th* people want tlielr plofclee In China will become a reality. At with the “ posh an' posh” o f the Ro
Ever remark now tar
town th«
eour. and th* other half want them first glance It would seem that tbe En many dialect used by English gypsies. farm » are that real estate agent. *aj
sw eet
glish speaking merchants would be In which Hindu-Persian word* are are within a mil* o f to w n f
WAR WITHOUT THE GLORY.
Swiss watchmakers have now added
a phonograph to some of their wonder
ful watches. A small rubber disc is
put In the watch and arranged in such
a way tha. the record Is repeated ev
ery hour. Anything can be put on the
record that the owner wishes.
In captivity elephants always stand
up when they sleep, but when In the
Jungle, In their own land and home,
they lie down. The reason given for
the difference between the elephant in
captivity and in freedom Is that the
animal never acquires complete confi
dence In hls keepers and always longs
for liberty.
The crew o f the whaler Lara Han
sen saw, according to the Indianapolis
News, frozen In a monster Iceberg a
female polar bear and two cubs, the
cubs nestling against the mother. The
berg stood out of the water fully 100
feet and the Ice wherein the bears
were entombed was clear as a crystal.
H ow long the animals had been locked
In their winter palace is a matter o f
conjecture, but they were at least 23
feet above the water.
A trial was recently made In Austria
to decide In how short a time living
trees could be converted tnto news
papers. A t Elsenthal, at 7:35 In the
morning, three trees were sawn down;
aj P:3 q the wood, having been stripped
0f bark, cut up, and converted Into
pulp, became paper, and passed from
the factory to the press, whence the
first printed and folded copy was Is
sued at 10 o’clock. So that In 145 min
utes the trees had become newspapers.
A well-known artist was once en
gaged upon a sacred picture, according
to “ Mainly About People.” A very
handsome old model named Smith sat
for the head o f St. Mark. Artist and
model became great friends, but when
the picture was finished they lost
sight of one another. One day, how
ever, the artist, wandering about the
Zoological Gardens, came upon his old
model, with a broom In hls hand, look
ing very disconsolate. “ Hullo, Smith,”
said he; “you don’t look very cheery.
What are you doing now?” “ Well, I
ain’t doin’ much, sir, and that's a fa c t
I ’m engaged in these 'ere gardens
a-cleanin’ hout the helephants’ stablesj
a.nice occpyatlon for one o’ the twelve
apostles, ain’t It, sir?”
N - R A Y S S H O U L D BE P I N K .
They Ind ic ate
u Good L if e , Bara Dr.
Hooker.
The Lancet publishes a letter from
Dr. Hooker on the results o f three
years’ experiments with the Blondlota
N-rays emitted by the human body.
Dr. Hooker says he has established
the fact that these rays differ In color
according to the character and tem
perament of a person, and also that
the rays are not merely heat vibra
tions, as he proved by passing ray»
from hls own hand through the fore
arm of a corpse to a prepared screen
which Immediately showed Increased
luminosity. In reference to the d if
fering colors of the rays, Dr. Hooker
says:
“ Rays emanating from a very pas
sionate man have a deep red hue.
One whose keynote In life is to be
good and to do good, throws off pink
rays; an ambitious man emits orange
rays; a deep thlnaer throws off deep
blue; a lover of art and refined sur
roundings, yellow; an anxious, de
pressed person, gray; one who leads
a low, debased life, muddy brown
rays; a devotional, good meaning per
son, light blue; progressive minded,
light green, and physically or mentally
111 person, dark green rays."
Dr. Hooker admits that hls state
ment may be received at first with
a smile o f Incredulity, but he is con
fident It will sooner or later be accept
ed as a fact. He further says he has
proved that N-rays are not only given
off by the human body, but by object*
which have been In contact there
with. H e obtained this impression
from a letter thirty years old, which
proved that the rays are radioactive
and retain their power on the paper on
which writing Is made.— London Ow-
bis to the New York Sun.
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Perfum es ae Disinfectants.
It Is a well-known fact that workers
among lavender beds seldom take In
fectious ailments and those engaged In
the perfumery trade are singularly free
from them. A good perfume in the
old daya was considered an excellent
disinfectant Tbe doctors then used to
carry walking sticks with sliver or
gold knobs. These opened with a lid.
» HnyK V ,™ !* ? " boS’ wh'ch
the physician held to hla nose when
entering rooms containing patients U1
with any Infectious disease.
_______________________
There are two ways o f paralyzing
your neighbors: one is to get a dl-
vorce and the other la to go abroad.
m
Do you always keep an appoint
or Ju, t cUlm ^ 3