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Sten Hedln reports the discovery of
fold In Thibet That settle it The
country mast be civilized.
Frank Rockefeller, John D.'s "bust
ed" brother, might adopt the plaintive
motto, "Charity begins at home."
Remark by the conventional old set
tier of the future : "I remember, when
I was chief engineer of the Panama
canal," etc.
The first soda water fountain has
Just been set up in Australia. And we
have been Importing our ballot sys
tems from that benighted country 1
The Agricultural Department has
found a milking machine that win
work. But how unrouiantic it will be
to simply touch a button, sir, she said
The late William A. Procter, soap
manufacturer, did much to make his
countrymen a clean people. Incident
ally he cleaned up $20,000,000 for him
self.
Ontario has a man who looks Just
like John D; Rockefeller. But no doubt
he can prove a case of mistaken iden
tity by simply producing his bank book
If he has one.
The Prince of Wales is reported to
have been badly squeezed In the stock
market. Even a prince is likely to get
his fingers hurt when he fools with
the teeth of the buzz saw.
. A Russian admiral's life was saved
when the bomb aimed at him dropped
In the snow and refused to explode.
Guess he thinks the poet who wrote,
"Beautiful Snow" was all right
Spiritualistic medium says Mars Is
anerv because her signals are being
Ignored by the earth. Business must
be dull on Mars when she goes so far
out of her way to pick a quarrel with
her neighbors.
A Western doctor says that after
reaching the age of 100 years one be
gins to grow a new crop of hair. But
the man who becomes bald at 40 would
get so accustomed to It In sixty years
that he wouldn't care for a new crop,
A young man who beat his mother to
death with a stick of stove wood Is
"believed to be Insane." Of course he
Is. There was not only a violent brain
torm but a furious muscle paroxism.
That Is, If he has money enough to fee
the high-priced alienists.
Soon after the coronation of King
Edward there was published a photo
graph which showed him at a modern
office desk with a telephone stand at
his elbow. Still more striking is a pic
ture recently printed of Cardinal Mer
ry del Val, Papal Secretary of State,
seated at a desk before an American
typewriter.
Leading business men of Chicago
have petitioned that the time of the
elghteen-hour trains between Chicago
and New York be raised to twenty
hours. They are the kind of men in
whose Interest the "fliers" have been
run, and they prefer safety and rea
sonable Bpeed to maximum speed and
maximum danger. This Is one of the
requests from patrons which the rall
rouds can afford to heed.
Throughout a century and a quarter
the tetidency of the nations of the
world has been toward diffusion of the
governmental powers. For the first
time evidence of a reactionary dispo
sition to trust all to the one strong
man appears in nearly all the larger
nations at the same time. We see no
aiore than curious coincidence In the
unhapplness of these present days In
all the parliaments of man. Democra
cy Is not dying anywhere. The only
moral to be drawn is the happy one
that Individualism is not moribund
either. The nations know and trust
their strongest sons. Tbero Is no
"man on horseback." He only seems
mounted to little men because his head
Is high above tho crowd.
Doctor Tamakawa, who was formerly
the president of the Imperial Univers
ity of Tokyo, Japan, receutly offered
to present to a prtuiary school In Ja
pan the portrait of some distinguished
person. The three hundred and forty-
three children were asked to ballot for
the person whose picture they would
like to have placed on the walls of
the schoolroom. Although It was when
the uatlon was much excited over the
treatment of Japanese pupils In San
Francisco, these boys and girls still
honored the great men of America.
George Washington stood first In the
list with 00 votes, and Abraham Lin-
eoln second with 53. Next came Ad
mlral Togo with 2S votes, followed by
I Japanese philanthropist of olden
time. The fifth place was taken by
mother American, Benjamin Franklin,
with 21 votes. Others for whom pref
erence was expressed were Florence
Nightingale, 13; Marquis Oyama and
Nelson, 11 each; General Kodama. 7:
Bismarck, V and Napoleon, 4. There
were also scattering ballots for Presl
Sent Roosevelt, Galileo, Socrates, Te
ter the Great and others. Probably the
vote was influenced by stories that the
pupils found In their reading-books,
and If the question bad been asked
tbem whether they considered the Xor-
elgn heroes greater men than those of
their own country, it is not likely that
they would have answered In the af
firmative; but the desire to have the
portraits of such men as Washington,
Lincoln and Franklin placed on the
wall ' Is one Indication of the feeling
with which the United States has long
been regarded In Japan.
A good deal has been said lately
about the power acquired through re
pose, the value of absolute relaxation
and the desirability of letting go of
one's self. Undoubtedly there Is truth
in the contention that an overwrought
mind and body ought to release the
tension before something breaks, but
let It not be forgotten that if power be
acquired through repose, growth comes
through wiggle. Observe the baby, be
fore it can walk, stand or sit What
does It do? It wiggles. Body, arms,
Angers, legs, toes. The baby bird does
the same. If you will look closely at
the nestling, stretching its neck for
food Its parent brings, you will ob
serve that not only the head and neck,
but the Incipient wings and the little
legs and claws are all working vigor
ously. In both baby and bird, wiggle
means growth and soon the one can
walk and the other can fly. But as
soon as the child learns to walk, be
doesn't walk; he runs. The run Is
the natural gait of the child. lie finds
It difficult to go more slowly. Even
when he stands or sits, he Isn't stand
ing or sitting. He is wiggling. His
arms sway, his legs swing and his
body writhes Into many positions. Par
ents ask, "Why can't that child be
still a single minute?" But the child
Is growing and wiggle means growth.
Roughly speaking, a child more than
doubles Its weight the first year, and
more than doubles It again In the next
two. It would make us grown-ups wig
gle some to do that, wouldn't It? As
the child grows older, It gains repose
slowly, but grows less, and when full
growth is attained, wiggling largely
ceases. The same phenomenon holds
true of the mind. The first few months
the mind Is Inactive and grows slow
ly. But as soon as It gains control of
Jts tools, when It has learned to dis
tinguish sounds, to focus its eyes, to
use Its hands to grasp objects and Its
feet to carry It to them, and Its tongue
to Inquire about them, how the mind
wiggles! It flashes from one Bubject
to another, Its Inquiry is constant and
endless and Its hold upon Information
tenacious. You and I can sit down and
look at whatever Is In view and feel
no particular curiosity. Not bo the
child. It must know about this, that
and the other thing which It sees, and
though Its questions seem simple, they
are astonishingly searching. "What's
that, mamma?" asked a 3-year-old. "A
vault" "What's In It?" "Dead folks."
Quick as a flash the little mind leaped
at the deduction. "Oh, Is It Heaven?"
In the space of a couple of years,
the baby mind acquires practical con
trol of a difficult language, learns the
uses and relations of thousands of
strange objects, and, most remarkable
of all, learns how to handle the people
of his world and to match his tiny
strength and Intelligence against their
years of study and experience. Com
paratively speaking, he rarely makes
a mistake and still more rarely re
peats one. Suppose your self trans
ported to a strange planet, could you
do as well in so short a time? You
might, if your mind had enough wig
gle. But has It, On the other hand,
observe how perfectly a child sleeps.
Its position Is one of ease and aban
don, It breathes all the way down, and
you can pick it up and lay It down and
scarcely disturb It The lesson seems
to be that when you repose, you should
repose, but when you are awake, you
should wiggle I Whatever your aim In
life, wiggle, for wiggle Is growth.
Blasting: a Great Bowlder.
One of the most gigantic undertak
ings by the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad Company In the blasting line
was the removal of a hugo rock that
projected over the track on a curve In
the narrows at Ableman, nine miles
west of this city, says the Baraboo
correspondent of the Milwaukee Senti
nel. The blast was to have been
touched off Monday, but owing to the
critical Illness of a woman residing In
the Immediate vicinity the work was
postponed until Saturday. The bowl
der, which weighed several thousand
tons, was about seventy feet above the
track and owing to the continual wash
of the earth beneath had become dan
gerous and Its removal was necessary
to prevent it sliding upon the track and
endangering the lives of the traveling
public.
Preparatory to the blast a temporary
track was built some distance around
over which the trains have been pass
ing for a week or more. It required
1,000 pounds of dynamite to fill the
drilled holes. The event was witnessed
by a number of the railroad officials
and many citizens from Baraboo,
Reedsburg and other place The ex
plosion made the earth tremble for
miles around. The work of drilling
and placing the dynamite was done by
experts. It Is estimated that the cost
exceeded $20,000 to complete the work,
Including the building of the tempo
rary track.
Tke Objective Plan.
"Why do" you suppose all these rail
road magnates are rushing to see the
president?"
"I guess they want the quickest way
of getting on to his curves." Balti
more American.
. Women Doctors im America.
It Is estimated that there are 25,000
women In America who possess medi
cal diplomas.
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1450 French defeated the English at
Formlgni.
1512 Gaston de Foix killed at the bat
tle of Ravenna.
1006 King James I. Issued two land
patents for "The First and Second
Colonies" in North America.
1644 The parliamentary forces victori
ous at the battle of Selby.
1670 Staten Island bought for the
Duke of York.
1700 First number of The Tattler ap
peared. 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, terminating the
wars of Queen Anne.'
1741 Prussians defeated the Austrians
at the battle of Molwitz. "
1747 Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat) exe
cuted for his part in the rebellion of
1745.
1768 One-quarter of the city of Mon
treal destroyed by fire.
1782 Admiral Rodney defeated Ds
Grasse and the French fleet In the
West Indies. . .Naval battle between
Hyder Ali and Gen. Monk.
1803 Alliance of St. Petersburg. .. .Bey
of Algiers declared war against
Spain Aaron Burr arrived at
Blennerbassett's Island, in the Ohio
river.
1813 Mobile captured from the Spanish.
1814 French defeated by Wellington at
battle of Toulouse.... British army
. entered Toulouse, France.
1818 King Christian IX. of Denmark
born. Died Jan. 29, 1906.
1830 Omnibus first used as a public
conveyance in New York. .. .Presi
dent Bustamente of Mexico forbade
further immigration from the United
States.
1831 Russians defeated In battle near
Siedloe, in Poland.
1841 Halifax, N. S., . Incorporated as a
city.
1847 Present Houses of Parliament in
London first used by the Peers.
1864 France and England signed a
treaty for the defense of the Ottoman
empire.... The town of San Salva
dor destroyed by an earthquake.
18G5 Mobile, Ala., captured by the fed
erals. .. .Gen. Lee surrendered t
Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court
house, Virginia.... Raleigh, N. C,
surrendered to the federal army....
Montgomery, Ala., surrendered to the
federals.
1868 Magdala stormed by the British
under Sir Robert Napier.
1874 Murat Halstead arrested In Cin
cinnati for publishing a lottery ad
vertisement in his newspaper.
1875 Paul Boynton made unsuccessful
attempt to swim the English chan
nel. .. .Martial law declared in the
Pennsylvania mining region.
1884 Gen. Gordon close pressed by the
Arabs near Khartoum.
1891 First locomotive passed through
the St. Clair tunnel. .. .Beginning of
the second century of patents In the
United States celebrated in Wash
ington. 1892 Six thousand houses destroyed by
fire In Tokio, Japan. . .United State
government paid $25,000 indemnity
to the families of the Italians lynch
ed at New Orleans.
1S93 Complete Syrian text of the four
gospels of the New Testament dis
covered in the Mount Sinai convent
. . . ."American protectorate in Tawaii
ended Japan seized the Pellew
islands in the North Pacific.
1894 President Cleveland issued tht
Bering sea proclamation.
1895 American line steamship St Paul
launched at Philadelphia.
1S97 Greater New York charter passed
by New York State Senate.... Five
lives lost and $2,000,000 in property
destroyed by fire in Knoiville, Tenn.
1000 Charles II. Allen appointed Gov
ernor of Torto Rico.
1901 Civil Jurisdiction In the Trans
vaal inaugurated.
1902 Convention signed at Pekln be
tween China and Russia, the latter
agreeing to evacuate Manchuria.
1908 More fort, at Bacalod, Philippines,
captured by American soldiers.
1904 German troops In Southwest Af
rica defeated 3,000 nereros. .. .An
drew Carnegie established his $3,
000,000 "hero fund". . . . Russian bat
tleship Petropavlovski sunk by mine
near Port Arthur. .. .Anglo-French
Colonial treaty signed in London.
15)05 American Ambassador Joseph H.
Choate elected a Bencher of the Mid
dle Temple, London.
1900 Greene and Gaynor found guilty
at Savannah, Ga.
Chill? Freak a.
"The human skeleton Is frozen stiff.
What will we do?"
"Why, give the ossified man a Taca
tlon to-day," and let the skeleton fill
both places." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Chicken Cam After Adam.
Knlcker Do you think that man has
corns from the animals 7
t Booker Nonsense ; If there had been
chickens before. Adam there'd nerer
have been a garden. New York Sua.
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