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f* */f r' *~ri 'i *y^ ——:vjww €ije ^Democrat. BBONSOK & CAES, Publi»h«r». MANCHESTER, A Bailor isn't necessarily a pugilist /.because be boxes tbe compass. -fe What a tiresome old world this would be If folks could have their own "iVajr all the time. The excitement of dodging taxes does great deal to prevent high society suf fering from ennui. It Is never safe to gauge the senti mcnt of the country by the cheers In the Congressional galleries. Schwab has begun giving money to colleges. We 'nay expect that It will he "Dr. Schwab before long." President Palina says he and his .family lvlll live plainly. On $25,000 a year they can afford to live as plainly as they please. (S'lrf As It youug Alfonso of Spain did not already have enough trouble on his hands with the Carlists and an empty treasury, his advisers are trying to get him married. Prince Henry is In training for fur ther diplomatic work for his brother, the Emperor. He has recently been visiting Ireland, where they keep the Blarney stone. Senator Dolliver says poor people •re the only ones who Iinve a chance In the world. Still, as Senator Will iam M. Stewart says, "It a man has money he doesn't need sympathy." The latest one is "SIcme," with an imported French accent over each "e." Of course it Is our old friend Mamie In disguise, but just as sweet and charm ing as ever. Grayce and Alls are more easily recognized. The doctors report that the trouble with Hobsou Is "compound hyper metropic astigmatism, retinal hypere mia and trachoma." Gracious good ness! Why don't they give the poor man a pension and let him go? It Is announced that the British au thorities have introduced plug-pong Into Imbecile ivards of poorhouscs for the purpose of affording the Inmates an easy and innocent amusement at a small cost So It seems the game has Ita value after all. A. woman who married a man who claimed to have German estates that proved a myth, has secured a divorce. Quite right. It is evident It was not the man Bhe was marrying, but the •states, and since they do not exist the marriage is void. The only wonder la that any divorce was legally neces sary from a man who counted for so little In the marriage. More evil is wrought, so says a cele brated physician, in the systems of boys from 12 to 20 years by lack of sleep than by any other one cause. Franklin's "early to bed" has not lost Its force. Concerning the "early to rise," Chevalier Bunsen used to say that by always getting up tour hours before other people he made his year Into sixteen months Instead of twelve. Inasmuch as an hour's mental or physi cal work In the morning is generally worth two late In the day, even the mathematics of the chevalier were not seriously at fault. Eighty years .ago a writer In the Lou don Examiner made sport of the pre vailing passion for newspaper person alities ID a paragraph which, with change of hero, would be pertinent to day: "The Duke of Wellington gener ally rises about eight. While he Is dressing he sometimes whistles a tune. He uses warm water In shaving, and lays on a greater quantity than the or dinary man. While shaving he chiefly breathes through his nose, with a view, as It is conceived, of keeping the suds out of his mouth. The duke driuks tea with his breakfast, which he sweet ens with white sugar and corrects with cream. He eats toast and butter, beet or eggs. The eggs are generally those of the domestic fowl." What a mean Captain Kidd sort of pirate the "substitute" man Is! You ask for somebody's sarsaparllla or somebody else's powders, and be Bays: "Haven't got it, Jjut I have something Just as good." Then he hands out an article made by a robber. No other, word fits. The world Is full ,o£ Imi tators. A man with genius and ambi tion discovers something'that is of real use to humanity. He manufactures It, he puts It on the market, he spends a fortune Introducing It It Is the only way no jjurtter how meritorious an ar ticle Asr It has to be advertised. You wp'ild think that the man who had r? iised money and time and skill would ue allowed to enjoy the fruits of his flaring and energy. Not so! Along comes the robber, the imitator, the leech. He puts up something in a box or a bottle, copies the successful man's wares as closely as he can and. keep .out of Jail, cuts the price and asks the dealer, the man who Is nearest to the consumer, to do the rest It Is an In expensive way. There are no adver tising bills to meet—nothing to do but copy and grow fat on the efforts of stinore honest individual. It Isn't fair. it discourages ambition, and very often It gives to t.ie consumer something that Injures Instead of benefitting. When you know what you want, ask ,• for It, and GET IT. That 1B the only prompt and efficient way to deal with tbe substitute pirate, who has not iue brains to do business on business lines. The conclusion of peace In South Af •j.%" rlca Is a cause for world-wide congrat ulation. The precise terms matter less than the fact that an end has come at last to the war which for nearly three V*j'J years has desolated the two former :|V-/ Boer republic and parts of Natal and Cape Colony. On both sides there has ,,,:% been heroism, and on both sides, also, 8 there has been a large measure of hu manlty. It is doubtful if so protracted and obstinate a struggle was ever fought out to a conclusion with less of wilful cruelty. It Is characteristic of brave soldiers that they learn respect Vi/K for each other from the experiences of /vJjS battle and after the bitterness of this -w 'P long struggle has passed, there will abide on either side this sentiment of respect to temper and ameliorate fu ture relations. It Is highly Important ,v that this should be so, for the British v, and Dutch must live together In South Africa, and must together work out tho problems of civilization. It would be a calamity if the work were long in terrupted by the perpetuation of old pnlmosltles, wjiethflr of raca or politics. money and Jn aim tie price which Great Britain has had to pay for her new acquisitions in South Africa Is prodigious. A recent parliamentary piper put the total money cost, allow ing for the continuance of the war until next March, at more than eleven hun dred million dollars. The mind does not easily grasp such figures, but some Idea of their meaning may be obtained when It Is remembered that this sum exceeds the enormous Indemnity which Germany exacted from France, out of which she paid the whole cost of tho war of 1870-71, and had several hun dred millions left for pensions, fort resses and railways. But the appalling loss of life, the thousands of desolated homes In the British IsleB, and the stlu more distressing calamities that haw fallen upon the brave and enduring Boers—these things make the heart sick at the thought of the cost of war, and constitute the strongest possible argument for peace. There is a wonderful story In the life Otis R. Freeman. He is dead. He was the oldest practicing physician In America. He was a useful man. A great many years ago Otis Freeman mapped out his life work. That was probably years before you were born, for he arrived in 1800. Wealth didn't attract htm. It isn't always the thing that useful men yearn for. The fel low who grubs for money, who loves it, who piles it up, who makes the dol lar his standard for measurement, Is often selfish, rarely useful to his kind, and seldom content. Dr. Freeman con sidered these things and decided to do all tho good he could. Nearly all doc tors are philanthropists In a way. Sometimes they use their skill for money, sometimes for experience, and often—more often than the world knows—for charity. It Is a fact that should make humanity feel very kind ly toward the profession. A practic ing phj'slclan at 03. 'Pblnk of tho army of men and women and children that old doctor had treated. Think of the pain he had banished, the dying moments he had eased, of the people who became well and strong because of his skill. He was a war veteran, too. At the battle of Sailor's Creek, Va., he worked steadily at the ampu tation table for fourteen hoars, and from 1862 to the close of the war he was actively engaged, not making wounds, but healing them. The more he doctored the more he sympathized. He whs as tender as a woman and al ways kind. It wns his ambition to work right up to the close of his life— to wear out, and he had no more fear of death than he had of sleep. Five days before his death he set a broken arm for a boy and Insisted on seeing all patients who called upon him. So there you have the life story of a suc cessful man, whose days Bpanned al most a century. He left no fortune. Many of those whom he benefited have forgotten him. He was a success. The human being who does good to satisfy the voice of conscience needs no monu-. ment The man who deliberately leads a useful life, because of Ills noble qualities of heart and mind, leaveB liis impress on the world. of Summer Is the time for health, or should be for those who know how to1 profit by It, yet it has special dangers which must be guarded against. These are mostly due to heat, and the higher the thermometer rises and the longer It stays high, the greater they arc. The chief sufferers are city dwellers, and it Is of them mainly that one thinks In very hot weather, and especially of the poor In the cities. They usually live In contracted quarters in high tene ments, In small, poorly ventilated, gun less rooms cleanliness is often impos sible to them, for even if certain fami lies are clean, they suffer from the dirt of their neighbors It Is almost impossi ble for them to get fresh and well prepared food and the walls of their houses and the pavements of the streets, baked during the day in the merciless nun, give out their heat like so many Immense ovens through the night This can be endured for a short pe riod, but as the heated term drags on day and night without relief, condi tions become worse and worse, and finally deadly. Children, especially babies, suffer most, but all, young and old alike, are threatened at such a time. The two chief ills are sunstroke, the direct result of the stifling heat, and digestive disturbances, caused by food which has begun to spoil. Much, how ever,. can be done to avert these Ills. Those who are obliged to be In the streets during the day should carry um brellas, and be deliberate In thel# movements they should be lightly and loosely clad, and abstemious In food and drink. The less ment the better, and no wine or beer should be taken. In the house the air should have', free access to. every part, especially to the bedrooms and living rooms. It is a foolish practice to elOBe the. windows and draw the shades, as so many do. It Is a fact that this often does keep the' temperature a degree or two lower than the outside air, but the confined air soon grows stagnant and unfit to breathe. It is far better to have an (inappreciable Increase of heat, and to have the air fresh and constantly changing. Water Is the great supporter in hot weather water Internally and water externally—not Ice water, but cool water. Much water, little food, free air, mod erate exercise, long rests, avoidance of the noonday sun, and scrupulous clean Unoss—these are tho preventives of dis ease in the worst of torrid spells. New Brand. "Say," called the hardware drummer to the proprietor of tile railway restau rant, "there is something wrong with this sandwich." "Oh, I guess yes," said the traveler. "Why, the blamed thing Is so soft I can actually bite a piece out of It without breaking my teeth." 8ome Consolation. Dlgga—I tell you, sir, it's a great thing to be a poor man. Bigg®—How do you figure it out? Dlgga—Why, my inability to buy:an. automobile Ib alone a clear aavlng o£*t i«u* *1,000. 0* DEPEW. AaSi.ii ywtrty FORTUNES Of THIS DECADL By Chauttcey M. Depew. Nothing more marks this decade from others thau the sudden accumu lation of fabulous fortunes. When I ad at Yale there were only two multi millionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor and GOMMODORO VAN. dorbilt. Neither of them at that period had reached the $10,000,000 limit. There were not in the whole country twenty people worth a million dollars. To-day there are more than one hundred in Pitts burg alone who have passed that figure. These vast fortunes, themselves so con spicuous, so almost incomprehensible, are at present more matters of curiosity thau of antagonism. Most of the possessors of them have shown a wise generosity in the .distribution of their wealth. In no other country in the world, at no other period, have the rich from their abun dance given so lavishly to education, phi lanthropy and patriotism. Last year the known sums which were thus contributed amounted to the high figure of $107,300, 000. The sudden acquisition of almost in calculable riches by so many in the lust five years has produced maiiy singular results. The most ghastly^ misfortuue "which can happen to a man who has been successfully prosecuting and increasing his business until he has passed middle life is to be compelled to sell out and re tire* He may receive a sum far beyond any value he ever placed upon his plant and good will. Nevertheless, the sale is generally accompanied by au obligation Hot to resume and compete. Little cut side the factory or ofliee interests him because the cells of his brain have be come, some of them, abnormally active, and others paralyzed through disuse. He can think of nothing and he cares for nothing but tho shop and its results. Books, literature, lectures, travel, polities, society, and play bore the life out of him. I know half a hundred such men •who have come to this coudition within the last few years. WOMAN'S DUTY TO SOCIETY. By Mrs. Donald n'lcan. The first duty "of a woman to society is to make herself agree able to those whom she does i.ot consider to be in society. It is easy enough to be agree able to one's friends. The test of breeding, of course, comes in one's attitude to one's inferiors and one's enemies—two classes which a woman, lu considering her duty to society, is very likely In her own mind to exile from so ciety. On the contrary, they are very im portant members of it. She ought to know this because they occupy so many of her thoughts. An attempt to be agreeable usually takes a very obvious form—that of flat tery. Flattery is exceedingly bad form. Flattery is the spurious coin, the gold coin is pimple gruciousness. A cardinal principle of being agreeable is to be gra cious. Graciousness includes a negative talent—the talent of snubbing nobody. The bane of social intercourse Is nnub blng. Snubbing is adopted presumably to emphasize one's superiority to the per son snubbed. On its face It defeats Its AN HISTORIC STRUCTURE. Benedict Arnold's New Haven Home May lie Torn Dowu. In a dismantled condition, the prey of relic hunters and the ravages of time, there stands iu Water street, In Now Haven, Conn., a bouse erected by the most Infamous man who ever called America Ills home and which wns later occupied by one of the most renowned of Golumbia*8 sons. It Is a residence erected by Benedict Arnold lu the City of Elms In 1771. Water streetln colonial days was the select residential street of New Haven. Arnold, then a daslilug youug fellow, conducted a drug store. He prospered In business, married well and branched out into tbe East Indian trade, iu which he made a fortune. lie was one of the most prominent men lu New Haven at the outbreak of the revolution and the mansion on Water street sheltered many a distinguished guest. Then came his brilliant career iu the army and his subsequent igno minious betrayal of his country. Time and the encroachments of busi ness Interests have brought llie Hue old colonial mansion down to the level now of Its less aristocratic neighbors, but traces are still to be seen of the mag nificence of which It once was proud. Tho house is now part of a lumber yard, and the parlors and spacious chambers where Arnold and his bride lived and received the elite of the towu are now occupied with piles of scant- IIOJIE OF BliJTEBICT AHSOIA). ling, and the colonial staircases are now changed to lumber elevators. In a short time what Is left of the old house will be torn down aud the space It occupied turned into a woodyard. Willie no attempt has been made by New Haven people to save the old Ar nold house, as it can be believed that the reputation of Its flrst occupant Is no great source of public gratification, many ot the finest pieces of Its original architecture have been preserved. An tiquarians and unpoetlcnl junk dealers liavc banded together to raze the old place, aud what remains to-day is the merest shell of the old structure. Tbe mantelpieces, carved English oak rail ings and the furniture have all been scattered among museums throughout New England. But there still remains the original exterior, and the window blinds, doorways, cornices and much of the original decorations are still left. Not only Benedict Arnold, the traitor, but Noah Webster, the famous lexico grapher, lived ill this historic old man sion. and the rooms that once eclioed with the laughter and gayety of the days before (he revolution also liar bored In later years the silent scholar, as the pages of his great dictionary grew under bis hands. Webster came to New Haven in 1708. Up to that time the Arnold mansion bad remained un occupied so great wns the aversion of the people toward anything In any way connected with the traitor's life. Web ster remained there until 18X2, when he removed lo Amhert, Mnss. MACHINE MADE TORCHON LACE. Austrian Invention Imitates Hand Mode Product. Some fair Imitations of band-made Uc« are already manufactured by ma- ^iisnwwi^ 1 own end. For the -woman who wishes to be agreeable to society naturally wishes to make society believe in her. But when she snubs any one whom she considers beneath her she Is giving am ple proof that either she or her ancestors have not been used to the grade of society in which she finds herself and that she is, therefore, not what she would have others believe. The woman who has a right to the so cial position she occupies, and whose fam ily for generations has been in the same position, will Sad it necessary to snub no one—neither those whom she meets socially and whom she does not consider her social equals, nor those in other walks of life with whom she is brought into casual contact. Graciousnesrs to her friends and to her servants, to her acquaintances and to her sewing woman, to her children and to every one asking a favor of her, to those who are gentlewomen and to those who are Hot—that is the first rule of conduct for one who fulfills her duty to society by being agreeable. The duty of making one's self agree able to society means simply a woman's duty to let her best impulses rule her all the time. So this becomes a rule for gen» eTal conduct as well as for social inter course. HOW TO CURB TRUSTS. By James J. tttll. The commercial expansion of a na tion Is the best in dex of Its growth. Next to the Chris tian religion and the common schools uo other siugle work enters into the welfare and o. J. HILL. happiness of the people of the whole country to the same extent as the railway. Great Britain has retained possession of the oriental trade for the reason that she furnishes the lowest rates of transportation to and from,those countries. We are now pre paring to challenge her for such share of this busiuess as can be furnished by the manufacturers of the United States. Iu a country as large as ours, carrying on enormous undertakings, large amounts of capital arc necessary, and this capital can be more readily furnished by corpo rate ownership than in any other way. The only serious objection to so-called trusts has been the method of creating them for the purpose of selling sheaves of printed securities which represent nothing more than good will and pros pective profits to the promoters. If it is the desire of the government to prevent the growth of such corporations, it has always seemed to me that a sim ple remedy was within its reach. Under the constitutional provision allowing Congress to regulate commerce between States all companies desiring to transact business outside of tho State in which /5SSr 'VttiMHteiHiiMi^^ Most they are Incorporated should be held to a'unlform provision of federal laws. They should satisfy a commission that their capital stock was actually paid up in cash or in property, at a fair valuation, just as tbe capital of the national bank is certified to be paid up. With thai sliB pie law the temptation to make companies, for the purpose of selling prospective profits would be at an end. At the same time no legitimate business would suffer. AMERICAN FARMERS FOR HAWAII. ByRobt. W. Wilcox, LOADING WHEAT BY ELECTRICITY. Behold the electric stevedore! It snfforeth not from fatigue and it qinttetli not even at the lunch hour, and yet it loads wlieut upon vessel in a style far beyond the possibilities ot human liniids Just watch it. it .vou please. Tlie sacks of grain come aboard by a sort of trolley and are dumped into the hold at the rate of one every two seconds. It is, la tact, the latest achievement ot electricity as applied for power purposes. The picture from the Year Book of the Depart ment of Agriculture. cbiuery. A recent Invention by au Austrian named Matltsch renders It possible to reproduce one more variety, known as torchou lace. The real ar ticle is a moderately coarse but pretty lace aud Is used on garments which It is desirable to put through a laundry. Ilerr Matltsch, after being associated with the lace Industry iu Vienna and inventing a machine which did not give satisfactory results, went to Nottlng ham, England, where he perfected the model iu 1891). It was then necessary to make the jacquards for each pattern that it was desirable to produce. This pnrt of the work was performed upon tho Inventor's return to Vienna. Hith erto It lias been necessary to have a separate machine for each design. With the Matltsch machine It Is only necessary to substitute one jacquard for another, as In weaving cloth. Tho inventor does not Intend to or ganize a company to make lace, says the New York Tribune, or even the pro duction of more machines. He has al ready put nearly $100,000 luto his ex periments and Is now looking for a company to buy Ills rights. The Not tingham lace manufacturers profess not to be disturbed by the prospect of competition and say that.tbe Matltsch machine will Injure French manufac turers chiefly. In Vienna the papers think that a new era In lace making Is ahead. WAS A ROSY-CHEEKED GIRL ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. This is a picture of Mrs. David B. Stamp, of Kluciivillo, Orange County, N. V. She is a little, old. almost for- "~"WnS. DAVID B. STAMP. or These government lands I want divided up into homesteads to encourage Ameri can farmers to go to Hawaii. Instead of dividing the government lands luto home steads of 100 acres, as in the United States, the best lands could be divided into twenty-acre homesteads and the pas toral Innds into eighty-acre homesteads, either of which would give the American fanner a fine homestead to support his family all the year round. To give an idea of how fertile the best land is, the sugar corporations produce an average of ten tons of sugar to the acre. The rice planters produce two crops a year, aggregating between 5,000 and 0,000 pounds to the acre. The same land planted with taro, a plant akin to elephant's ears, which is the staple food of the natives, will produce somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 pounds per acre, and it sells at one cent a pound MILITARISM VS. COMMERCIALISM. By w. Bourke Cochran, This nation has been a world power—a world power of sur passing value to the civilization of the world. It has assumed the primacy of civilization be cause from the very hour of its birth it has been devoted tun swervingly to justice. I believe that this country is commercial, that this is a com mercial age, that commercialism is pre dominant but far from regretting, 1 glory in it. The object of every war that was ever waged, at least in the old world, was plunder—that is to say, profit. Vanquish ed countries are despoiled more scientifi cally, but more successfully, by tribute. Militarism is the pursuit of profit by plun der commercialism is the pursuit of profit by industry. No fortune, however great, but was produced by peaceful pur suits. America has given a shining les son to all the world for the benefit of all ages. It has tnught that the'pathway to advantage is through honesty and jus tice and not through violence aud plun der. blue Hudson, and tbe prettiest girl, at that, for many uille in all directions. But. that Is exactly what she did do aud what she was, aud now as she sits among the gntliering shadows of life's twilight, waiting for the night to fall, she can look backward across the cen tury and say that the world with all Its teeming .millions has been born again since that far distant time when she was a little girl at play. Mrs. Stamp was born on the shores of the Hudson one hundred and eight years ago. She spent her girlhood there and saw the trial trip of Robert I* ulton's lirst steamboat. She remem bers when the country rang with the praises of General Washington. She remembers the (lay he died. She re members the Marquis de Lafayette, Andrew Jackson, tho war of 1812, and recalls most of tlrs principal events that have taken place In her lifetime. Mrs. Stamp spends most of her time at her spinning wheel, which, like her self, belongs to an almost forgotten time. Every garment that she wears, as well as nearly every piece of fabrlc in lier humble home, is homespun goods, the work of her own hands. The I'rinee aiul tho I'alnter. When King Edward was still Prince of Wales, lie sat to Julian Story for his portrait. The I'rinee could give the painter but a short time, so Mr. Story worked at high pressure, A little Inci dent given on the a\i:liorlty of the Lon don Chronicle exhibits the manly sym pathy of the present sovereign of En gland. While the Prince walked back and forth at Intervals to rest, the painter worked at the background, never put ting down Ills palette. The result was that Ills thumb went to sleep. Toward the end of the sitting the painter was pulling his thumb to get the blood into' circulation, when his loyal sitter saw and sympathized. The next day, when the Prince eame for a second sitting, he said: "I didn't sleep very well last lilght, and I thought of you. 1 was worrying about your palette. Couldn't you have the thumb-hole padded V" He Served Two gotten woman, living In a little, old, Husbnnd—Hurrah! My employer has almost forgotten town. You would given me a week's vacation. scarcely believe to see her that shej Wife—How nice! Now you can take was an old woman as long ago as the down tbe stoves, elum out the cellar, outbreak of th- Civil War you would and whitewash the kitchen,—Chicago scarcely believe that one hundred! News. years ago she was a plump, red-cheek- No man ever realizJs "h^Ti^ich trash ed girl playing on t|ie jhofep of owgfi tjntll lie moves, l..-r*S5s /"jMV .JbuHT from h....„(.ntlon •Uri -':'w ^|WINDMILL IN A TREE. Hawaii. I am deeply Interested In the' bill providing for the division of government lands Into home steads for the farmers and mid dle classes, because at present we only have in Hawaii the very rich and the very poor—tiie poor being the laborers or coolies. Out of the population of 100,000, near ly 00,000 are Asiatic, 00,000 being Jap anese and 30,000 Chinese. There are also several thousand Porto Iticans, but they are undesirable, as they would rather lie in jail all of the time than go to work. The land area of Hawaii is 4,000,000 acres. Of this area 2,000,000 acres are iu the hands of seventy men engaged In sugar raising and cattle ranging. The other 2,000,000 acres, which constitute the government lands, are rented and leased to the sugar corporations, the leases ranging from five to sixteen years. Happy .Blending jf Nature and tti* chanical Construction. A windmill is apt to be a very prosaic and ugly construction, but many at tempts have been made with varying success to beautify these very useful and economical power producers. Our engraving Illustrates how nature and mechanics are sometimes blended. The trees serve only AS a support for the platform at the top, and as sid€ rails of a ladder, it being necessary only to provide rouuds. The trees serve also to stay the iron Supports. The wind mill, which was built by i. G. Benster of Moline, IU., is of peculiar construc tion, there being no gear wheels nor crank, the power being transmitted by an involute wheel which is apart of the stool wheel to which the fans are at- WINDMILL IN A TTTKE* tached. The surface of the involute Is perfectly smooth, as is a.lso that of the wheel attached to the pitman carrier, the one rolling upon the other. The mast Is of tubing, the pitman being carried down inside. The wires for throwing the mill out of gear are at tached to a thimble on the outside of the mnst. From this it will be seen that the trees are uot needed for actual support. A number of these mills have been attached to trees and have been giving excellent results. It is also possible to carry the mills around on a wagon and set them to work at any part of a field.—Scientific American. SOCIAL INSTINCTS OF ANTS. Show Strong Sense of Devotion to Com mon Veal—True to Duty. In order not to leave my readers un der the impression of crime among ants, 1 shall give an account of a trait of devotion to the common weal, writes August Forel in the International Monthly. A swarm of Formica praten sls was closely pressed in its nest by an army of the same species, and crowds of alarmed defenders issued from the entrances to the nest and ilew to take part in the light. Like Satan, the tempter of old, I placed near them a beautiful drop of honey on a piece of paper. At any other time the honey would have been covered In a few instants with ants gorging themselves, but this time numerous working ants came upon it, taBted it for scarcely a second, aud returned to it restlessly three or four times. Conscientiousness, the feel ing of duty, invariably prevailed over gormaudism, and they left the honey to go and be killed while defending the community. I am hound to own, how ever, that there are ants less social, in which gonnandism does prevail. Comapred to the manners of other sociable animals* and especially to those of man, the manners of ants ex hibit a profound and fundamental a# gregatlon of facts of convergence, due to their social life. Let me mention devotion, the instltnctlve sentiment of duty, slavery, torture war, alliances, the raising of cattle, gardening, har vesting, and even social degeneres cence through the attraction of certain harmful means of enjoyment. It would be ridiculous and erroneous to see in the fulfilment of this serlos of acts, in* dividual reasoning, the result of calcu lated reflection, analogous to ours. Th« fact that each Js tfxed and circum scribed within one species, as well as the fatalistic character it has in that species, prove this superabundantly. But it would be as grave a mistake to refuse to recogul/.e the deep natural laws that are concealed under this con vergence. Is tho case different as re gards our actions, though they are In finitely more plastic and more complex Individually? I do not believe It. A CANALBOAT VILLAGE. Kvery Inch of Rpacc Is Utilized in Their Tiny Cabitie. People who object to living in snug quarters and think that love In a cot tage ts altogether too contracted for continual affection, should go aud take a look at the cabins iu the canalbuat village in New York harbor. Those who are preparing to live In trunks aud grips during the summer could get tin* lesscr.is there of'snug existence. The whole cabin is not much larger than an ordinary bedroom, but how every morsel of space is utilized! If there is a square inch of Interior that gets away without doing Its duty in the great work of containing things it must have a politician's talent for evasion. The tidy little kitchen stove is so •.•loso to the wall that you wonder If the latter was not made of asbestos to guard against fire. The clock Is about as small as our ingenious Connecticut friends have yet been able to make contain twenty-four hours. The pnutry cupboard-and-storeroom combined pos sess the appearance of having been packed and then put under hydraulic pressure. The carpet pattern, says a writer in Will Carleton's magazine, Kvery Where (for a eanal-vilhigw nhvays insists on having her Hour neatly clad), is ap propriately minute. A tiny library whispers its titles from an unexpected corner. Minute bedrooms for child or adult appear to you now and then like prone ghosts. Several pictures, nar rowly but visibly framed, cover the wooden wainscoting. Countermanded. liagson Tatters—Gee! Wouldn't yer like ter be slttlif In one o1 dem swell restaurants, eatin some strawberry shortcake? Hungry Higgins—I ordered some o' dat dis mornln', but I changed me mind a'terward. Ragson Tatters—Corntf off! Hungry Higgins—Sure but the wom an said if I wasnt* satisfied wld cold meat an' bread she'd sic de dog on me.— Philadelphia Press. Let a girl have her own way about ter marriage. Poor thing, ehe TpjU gmr it again. liV.-'i eNe Adam tfngny, Keokuk capitalist, is dead A button factory will be built tkl IJot enpo'rt. tfohsfcr City wants a government building. Laurens' new opera hemse is nearing completrm. Tho Dallas County courthouse will be dedicated Aug. 15. The i)'ubu(jue County fair will bo held at Cascade Sept. 0-j£ The recent flood* will cost Dallas Coun ty in the neighborhood of $20,000. Onawa Is planning a street fair to be held during August or September. The total cost of Hlnekhawk County's new courthouse, complete, is $145,000. The body of au unknown man was found In the Mississippi near MetJregor. A grain elevator, with a capacity of 60,000 bushels, is being built at Lau rens. The Tri-Clty Carrin«e Works at Da venport have filed an application in bank ruptcy, Marshalltown's new fire wagon was struck by a switch engine aiuil badly de moralized. George llabaline's store at Yarmouth was burglarized of a large quantity of merchandise. Charles ltinggold, a Des Moines saloon keeper, was robbed of $100 in cash and a diamond pin. Prof. Ceo. L. Pierce of Oberlin has ac cepted the position as director of music in Tabor College. According to assessment figures there are nearly $12,000,000 worth of personal property in Dubuque County. The Waterloo school board will expend nearly $12,000 in installing new heating plants In that city's school buildings. The Waterloo City Council Is consider ing the advisability of erecting a cre matory for the disposal of city garbage. Mrs. Edwards, an Indianola lady, was •thrown from a buggy during a runaway find received injuries that may prove fa* tal. A portion of the mill daut at Algona was blown up with dynamite. The mis creant and his motive are alike a mys tery. Isaac L. Brown of Marshalltown Was re-elected graud master of Iowa colored Free Masons at the annual meeting at Keokuk. Mrs. Mary Gilley, a resident of Black hawk County for over forty years, has ju6t died at Gilbertville. She was in her 98th year. Winterset will vote on the question of Issuing bonds in the sum of $10,000, the money to he used in enlarging the electric light plant. Representative Asmus Boysen, of Au dubon County, is a candidate for Repub lican State Committeeman from the Kintli District. The receipts of the Fort Dodge post office for the past fiscal year were $30, 000, au increase of nearly $4,000 over the preceding year. Rev. F, A. Zickafoose, pastor of the Congregational Church at Clay, has been offered a place at Rock Rapids, and has accepted his new pastorate. Gov. Cummins has appointed his sis ter, Miss Anna B. Cummins, as parole clerk to succeed E. O. Patterson, reargu ed. The position is worth $1,200 a year. Louis Cerny, 12 years old, was run over in the Belle Plalne railroad yards by a C. & N. W. -train and received in juries from which he died in a few hours. Burlington carpenters threaten to strike. The action of the boss carpen ters in buying lumber handled by non union yard men is the cause of the trou ble. Iowa people believe in life insurance, the amount now carried in this State be ing In excess of $534,000,000, on 382,0G4 policies and scattered among 128 com panies. Petitions for "Injunctions against four saloonkeepers at Mapieton have been filed before Judge Oliver at Onawa. They are charged with dircrs violations of the mulct law, Judge Hutchinson has set aside the verdict of $0,000 In tho famous breach of promise case of Mary Chrlstiauson vs. the estate of Frank Crmn, at Onawa. Another trial will be had. There Is a movement on foot to erect a railroad Y. M. C. A. building at Mis souri Valley. The Northwestern Railroad will give $7,500 toward the building pro viding the citizens raise $2,500. Tramps robbed a fellow traveler and threw him from a Milwaukee freight train near Dubuque. The man was fouud lying along the track and removed to a Dubuque hospital. He will recover. The executive committee of the Cedar Rapids District Camp Meeting Associa tion of the Des Moines conference ot the United Evangelical Church has arranged a program for a camp meeting Aug. 10 21, on their grounds at Center Point. One hundred and sixty uew rural mail carriers have been added to the service in Iowa within the pnst two weeks. There are now about one thousand car riers in the State. The advance in their pay from $50 to $00 per month has In duced a larger per cent of the carriers than ever before to stick to the work as steady employment, and the ellicieuvy of the service has been greatly Increased by reason of this fact. Des Moines city officials favor tho con struction of permanent dykes to protect that city from future floods. The esti mated cost would be $200,000. George II. Warren, an Insurance so licitor and collector, litis disappeared from his home in Des Moines. The police and his fiituily fenr he has been fouliy dealt with. Ills accounts are iu good shape. The members of the Iowa world's fair commission have decided to allot $150. 000 of the State's appropriation for the erection of a building at the world's fair. This will leave $75,000 for making ex hibits in the depnrtment buildings. The attorneys for Mrs. Hossack may ask for a change of venue when tho case Is called for retrial. If the change is granted the trial will likely take place In either Marion or Madison County. L. W. WarreJI, Ira A. Fudge of Des Moines, Thomas E. Holmes of Under wood and Harry D. Smith of Raudalis, Iowa, have all been appointed special la borers iu the Treasury Department. Two portraits of Rev. Dr. Salter of Burlington, the oldest active minister of the State, are being painted. One will be given to the Burlington city library and tbe other to the State Historical So ciety. The cost of the two will be near ly $1,200. Iowa postoflices discontinued: Argo. mail to Leclaire Coralville, mall to Iowa City Amity and Plalnvlew, mail to tVal cott Cosgrove, Ferndale and Windham, mail to Oxford. George Dewey Mann, a 3-year-old youngster, was struck by a batted ball at Emery. The blow jerked the lad's head back so quickly that he broke his neck and died immediately. State Chemist Davis has completed the analysis of tho stomach of Mrs.** Maude Lambert, who was found dead June 28 at Marshalltown. He found un mistakable evidences of poisoning. The mystery surrouudifig be? death may nev er be clcqniij, Waterloo's city treasurer has disposed of $19,000 refunding bonds. Waterloo musicians hare organised a band on a stock company basis. Joseph H, Scales, an Ackley pioneer* is dead at the advanced age of 92 years. D. J. Barker of Ottuinwa was fined-v $30 for violating the oleomargarine law. Carrie Nation may attend the conven tion of Iowa Prohibitionists at Water loo. Iiev. J. G. Johnson, a pioneer Baptist minister of Burlington, is dead at St. Louis. John Ivolcting has been appointed post master at Bayfield, vice E. S. Scbllilg* resigned. -v William Kern has been appointed post- master at Houghtou, vice William Fitter, resigned. Tho postofflce at Watson has been re established, with Rudolph W. Fett asv postmaster. M. Youug of Ralston possesses a Strad ivarius violin for which he has been of fered $1,800. J. II. Wolters of Davenport hsd a foot. crashed while attempting to board moving train. Work has begun on the new govern ment building at Creston. The structure will cost $100,000. Three historic cannon have been placed at the disposal of the park commission ers of Iowa Falls. Congressman Laccy will spend soms time among the ruins of the did dwell ers in New Mexico. Charles Weitlngf a Davenport child, swallowed a kernel of corn. Death eor sued from strangulation. II. G. Dolling of Farmlngton was kill ed by a Columbia, Mo., man in a quarrel over the'' payment of a debt. Conservative estimates place the dam*. ace by the recent Hoods in Woodbury County at nearly $1,000,000. The Royal Hotel at Waterloo )ias been closed'and the proprietor, H. W*. .Guy, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The second annual tournament of the Modern Woodmen of Southern Iowa will be held at Creston, Aug. 0 and 7* Ed. Ilicklin, County Clerk of Louisa County, is mentioned as likely to secart a deputyship under Collector Weaver. T. J. Williams and Ellas Smith, both over 00 years old, were fined for usinff profane language on the .streets of Bben andoah. Farmers in tho vicinity of Mason City are paying as high as $45 a month for farm hands, aud they are hard to g®t at'that price. Counterfeit silver dollars are in cir culation at Fort Dodge and the pollc* think they are on the trail of a gang 0^, bad money men. While fishing in the Skunk Knight, a young man liVipg^feasIfigour ney, was drowucd. was* the water and got beyond his depth.*- Tbe wedding of Lieut, Harold Ham* moud, United States infantry, and Miss Mary E. Pierce, niece of Edwin H. Con ger, minister to China, took place lu Des Moines. While carrying a lighted lamp, Miw Ita Kelley fell down stairs at her home in' *»r-. Hartley. The lamp exploded and- Misa* Kelley received fearful burns. Her re covery Is doubtful. The Secretary of State has turned 0V€P to the State treasury tbe sftm of 818.75, fees collected during June. This- Is the largest amount of fees ever JNfc celved in one month. .. -j*. The trustees of lowfl College, Grlnnell» .. have sued the estate of the late-^Kdwio c.-. Manning of ICeosauqua for $20,000, which they allege Mr. Manning »«ref« to donate before he died. The union linemen employed by .the Town Telephone Company at Keokuk re fused to obey a strike order sent by the State organizer on account of the re fusal of the company to recognise th« union at Des Moines. Tho men say they think more of their wives than of the Des Moiues "hello" girls. While Mrs. .lames .Tones, living south of Iowa City, was attempting to refill a ,• lighted gasoline stove, an explosion oc cun'ed, and the burning oil covered a 6 mouths-old child sitting on the iloor near by. The baby was terribly burned and died in great agony. The mother was also slightly injured. G, W, Thornwall, a farmer living south of Elwell, was drowned in th* Skunk river. The river, which is greatly swollen, had cut off a number of cattle upon a higher poiut of ground and while engaged in their rescue he fell into tha water and was swept down. yy Frank Lealiey, a drug store clerk at Marion, recently from Chicago, was in stantly killed by taking hold of a Hvo wire, which connected with an electric *n--. fan, and several other parties about tbe 'J. city were severely injured lu a like man HP^. It is believed the trouble was caus ed by a transmitter being burned out. A sensational murder story comes from1'". McGregor. A few nights ago Hcgry Wilson of that city was found lying along. the Milwaukee tracks with his skull' crushed. He was removed to McGregor, where he died without regaining con sciousucss. A Miss Lillian Ellsworth, who bad been keeping company with him, Is under arrest, as Is also William "j res bury, a cousin of tbe murdered man. Presbury is said to have been jealous of Wilson's attentions to the girl. He claims his Innocence. From 0 to 12 o'clock the other night over five Inches of rain fell at What Cheer. A cloudburst occurred at. the head waters of Coal creek, Vblch fio.w^ through the city. The creek rose at the rate of five feet per hour, flooding the .. entire valley. The Standard Oil tanks, tho City Hall, the What Cheer Drill Co.'s building, Valerius' saloon, Crow'a restaurant and other buildings were, de^ stroyed by the flood and great damage .. done to all branches of business. Every bridge In the city was washed away and several families are homeless. The Joss is roughly estimated at $100,000, Julius Lineau, 10 years old, fell Into-a. small pond near Wheatland and drowned before he could be. rescued, He was watching other boys in swimming and lost bis balance. •'-. An order has been ismied by the Post- .. -master General establishing three sta tlous of the postoffiee at Dubuque, with facilities for the transaction of money order and registry business and for sal* of postal supplies. The revenue offices for the sale of rev^ enue stamps at Otftimwa, Keokuk and Clinton In the southern district of Iowa have been discontinued. There will be no changes In the Des Moines, Burling ton, Davenport and Council Bluffs offices The board of directors ot Amity .Col legt at College Springs elected Rev. Mr. Smith of Burlington Junction, Mo., as president of the college to fill the vacan cy caused by the recent resignation ot President Calhoun. President Smith li a retired Presbyterian minister. Stillwell Goodwin of Osceola, aged 9 years, was shot by a playmate whlll practicing with a 22-cn liber rifle, 'i'hs lad refuses to tell who fired the shot and will keep the secret If he lives. Should the wouud prow fatal, however, he has stated, that he will give the name of his slayer before he passes away. The shooting was tbe result of the cart1 lets handling of the rifle,