The Holbrook news., May 21, 1909, Image 2

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Certainly It Is easy for the average
Woman to keep secreta going.
It would certainly be worth going
miles to see a S500.000.000 Panama
anaL
France' Increase In population is
felly 84.000 a year. Germany's is near
ly a million a year.
Were he pinned down to It eren an
anti-klssing advocate might have to ad-
salt that he really likes It.
"An Ohio minister says kistes are
Intoxicating as much as Honor." All
tn favor of the motion say "aye,"
If yon listen Intently, yon can hear
the chortles -of the goat which did not
participate In the Masonic Initiation of
Mr. Tart
Andrew Carnegie knows how to get
a lot of fun out of a tariff discussion.
since he Is In a position where a ll:t!
revision can't hurt him.
sprang Into fame through a deaand
that cows have their teeth brushed
with regularity. Health experts in
other cities have treated the demand
lightly, professing not to see how the
Innovation would tend to purify thr
milk Bupply. If the scheme ever does
take hold, however, the dairymaid of
romance Is likely to become conf useu
with the servitor who assists In thi-
preparation of the aristocratic cow"
toilet It will not be difficult to picture
the time when every fashionable cov
will have a mirror In Its boudoir, ant
neatly arranged on the shelf below i
toothbrush about the size of the shot
brush of human use; a Jar about th.
size of a half barrel, containing th.
latest tooth powder advertised ta th-
street cars ; a two-gallon cat g as
bottle of eau de cologne, and a five
pound box of violet face powder, to
gether with the creams and otnet
things supplied by the beauty sbope
After "Bossy" has bad her mornlnp
shower, had her teeth brushed, and per
haps been massaged with an electric vi
brator, she may then draw up to a nea:
llitle glass-covered table for the man!
curing of her hoofs. It will next be li-
order for somebody to Interest the cowi
In a brand of cud flavored as la tin
chewing gum of commerce.
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One by one, the old rlvermen are
passing "over the river." If they could
-only stay to see the new and regen
erated Mississippi a few years hence.
Society women are taking up the
cause of woman suffrage. If woman
suffrage is to take the place of after
noon teas everybody ought to be for It
If Andrew Carnegie Is still fearful
of the disgrace of dying rich let him
build a "Carnegie boulevard" across the
country from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific
Perhaps you have beard why King
Alfonso didn't go up in an airship? His
wife told him not to do It Married
kings haven't anything on the average
husband.
It is suspected that the anger of the
Congressmen who have been robbed of
their right to name fourth-class post
masters is designed mainly for home
consumption.
The ben that laid 3,650 eggs is dead
and buried In a rosewood coffin. She
made the goose that laid the golden
egg look like a piker that get Into
poetry under false pretenses.
Bulgaria's tax of $2 a year on bache
lors can make no practical difference.
Any man who would marry In order to
save that sum is too poor a financier
to be worth while as a husband.
China has presented to the Congres
sional library the Chinese encyclopedia
of 5,000 volumes. Senators and rep
resentatives are thus provided with a
little light reading to refresh them be
tween periods of arduous labor.
- The United States has been and
till Is very fortunate In her relations
with China. We have some advan
tage over other nations in that we
manifested our national friendship be
fore China showed such marked signs
of her awakening and promise of rapid
modernization. Thus our national
friendship Is not tainted with glaring
self-interest This good will of the
Chinese nation is worth retaining and
fortifying. The Boxer uprising and the
boycott were hysterical incidents, and
are past They never represented the
nationality of China. In taking the
lead In prompt recognition of China's
forward effort as the forecast of a ma
terial greatness, the United States
might achieve a sentimental foundation
for a very practical foothold in China.
Of late years a' wave of sympathy
has swept over the world for those
whom we call "shut-Ins" men, women
and children who are forced by Mines:
or by accident to lead their Uvea col
off from the outside world. Societies
and warm-hearted philanthropists hare
vied with one another to bring sunshine
into the crippled lives. Meantime thou
sands of persons deliberately choose
employments which, almost as com
pletely as physical disability, separate
them from the great Influences of na
ture. The factory and the shop, and
even the kitchen, chut In the woman
and hide from her the glory of sky and
mountain and meadow. The grim law
of habit accustoms her to her loss ; and
at last she makes no effort to enlarge
her vision. When occasionally some
woman rises In rebellion and throws off
the yoke, we regard her as eccentric or
foolish. A woman of thirty, who had
gained by twelve years of hard ton a
responsible and lucrative position In a
great paper mill, gave up her place.
with Its generous salary, and put all
her small savings Into a little farm by
the side of a beautiful lake In Maine.
She was reproached by her friends for
Improvidence and threatened with the
tedium of the long winters and the
hard work of thye short summers. She
replied, "Ton forget what big pay I
am going to get." "Big pay?" queried
her astonished friend. "Tes, a donar
a day in the pleasure of setting foot
on the ground Instead of on board
floors, two dollars a day In satisfaction
by looking at the sky, and my board
and clothes out of the farm by way of
chickens and pigs and vegetables." The
final misery of the "shut-In" comes
when she loses the desire to get out
By every possible device let her keep
her love for the open. Fed on ten min
utes a day of unrestricted vision, it
will not die. She who grasps and
hoards the picture of sunset or field of
daisies or evening star need never be
alone. At her call the vision will
flash upon that Inward eye
Which Is the. bliss of solitude.
and in an Instant spite of four walls.
she Is free.
Our grandfathers owed much to the
district school, but In many parts of
the country the rural school has fallen
behind the best standards. Such is the
case In Connecticut, according to the
report of a special committee, which
finds many of the buildings in bad con
dition and the teaching of poor quality.
On the other hand in some parts of
the country the union school which
takes all the children from a wide ra
dius Is a model institution. It will be
a great pity If the states do not keep
up the standards of education In the
thinly settled districts; for if the peo
ple find that their children are not get
ting the best they will make any sac
rifice to move to the city, and the de
population of the farming sections
which has been going on In Eastern
states will be hastened In spite of ef
forts In other directions to "Improve
the conditions of country life."
Since the higher education of the
ccw has been taken up and our univer
sities have been turning out a superior
quality of lowing klne, one Is rot sur
prised to hear that the up-to-date queen
of the cattle barn and ber college-bred
companions should be made the objects
of a fastidious solicitude undreamed' of
in the days of yore. A member of the
Covington, Ky., board of health has
He Saw the Ball Game.
The manager of a manufactory was
suddenly called away to New York
leaving negotiations for the sale of a
large quantity of merchandise uncom
pleted.
After his departure the office boy.
anxious to witness a big baseball
game, asked the under manager for a
half holiday, but was refused.
In the meantime an offer was je-
celved for the merchandise referred to
above, which the under manager did
not feel justified in accepting without
the authority of his chief, to whom he
dispatched a telegram, worded :
Five hundred dollars offered : shall I
accept?"
The boy was deputed to take the
message to the nearest telegraph office,
but before handing it over the counter
added a few words to It on his own ac
count, with the result that when It
reached New York it read as follows:
"Five hundred dollars offered; shall
I accept and can William have the
afternoon off?"
In due time the under manager was
much amazed to receive the following
reply:
Accept $500, and give William after
noon off."
When all the facts were subsequent
ly revealed the boy was reprimanded
for his audacity, but the manager could
not help but Inwardly admire his enterprise.
The Time aad the Offease.
"Oh, ma ; teacher whipped Tommy
Crow to-day t"
"What for?"
"For five minutes." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
YRUS HALL M'CORJTICK, son of Robert McCortnlck and Mary
Anna Hall, was born at Walnut Grove, Kocx Ridge County,
Va., one hundred years ago. His father, farmer and Inventor.
was of revolutionary stock. His great-grandfather was an In
dian fighter In I'ennsylvania. On his father's farm of 1,800
acres young McCormlck was equipped for the struggle which
was finally to make htm the foremost manufacturer of the
world. He learned the rudiments in a little field school house. With his fa
ther and brother be worked with his hands In the farm carpenter shop and
smithy. He hammered Iron and shaped wood. He held the plow In the fur
row. He cared for horses and cattle.
Robert McCormlck, the father, had fashioned a bemp brake, a clover
huller, a bellows, a threshing machine and had essayed a reaping machine.
which, however, proved Impracticable, His ambition to perfect a reaper and
his disappointment In not achieving was an incentive to the boy who early
displayed an inventive ability which, in his case, may be attributed to both
heredity and environment At the age of 15 young McCormlck Invented
grain cradle. At 21 he patented a hillside plow. Two years later he built
a self-sharpening plow and during the same twelvemonth was working on the
details of his masterpiece.
The need of a machine to replace the sickle and thi scythe had been
recognized by other than the McCorniicks. The Royal Agricultural Society
of Great Britain had offered a prize for the Invention of such a device. In
this country O bed Hussey, a seaman of Nantucket was In 1S33 granted the
first patent for a practical reaper. Two years before. In 1831, Cyrus Hall
McCormlck had with his own bunds fashioned every part of a reaping ma
chine, which he exhibited to neighbors in Virginia. His patent was not taken
out until 1S34.
At the age of 36 McCormlck started on horseback for the West, In
whose development he was to play so great a part From the hills of Vir
ginia he rode to the prairies of Illinois. His prophetic vision saw the sun
burned grass blossom Into fields of golden grain. His Imagination was fired
by the thought of the time to come when the trails would be main traveled
roads, when the Isolated clearings of the pioneers would become great cities,
when the hum of water wheels would be heard along the banks of the
streams. He anticipated the time when the wheat fields of the State of his
choice should be known throughout the world. He forecast the day when
the pitiful cry for bread by the starving hordes of the Old World would be
heard In the land of plenty and the answer returned In ship loads of wheat
and flour. He had faith to believe that great industrial communities would
be born and men and women and children come to people the wonderful
land. In all this was the bright particular star of his hope and faith and
being the reaper he had invented. In which he believed and which he de
termined to force Into universal use. Anl his dream came true. ,
Mr. McCormlck located In Chicago a full-grown man, says the Record
Herald, and within ten years the McCormlck reaper was known In every
part of the country. At the world's fair In London in 1S51 the "Grand Coun
cil Medal" was awarded to McCormlck, and, although the London Times had
at first ridiculed his Invention as a "cross between an Astley chariot a
wheelbarrow and a flying machine," it later conceded that "the McCormlck
reaper Is worth the whole cost of the exposition."
Ten years that brought prosperity and fame were not without strife. A
consistent individualist Mr. McCormlck would never brook competition. As
other men came forward with similar inventions, the agricultural machinery
world became a scene of battle. For years scores of lawyers were engaged
In court by the warring harvester kings. Bitter rivalry developed. The eco
nomic advantages of combination, the wastefulness of competition, however,
brought together warring interests of the past and welded them into a great
harvester company, with an output of 700,000 harvesting machines a year,
a revenue of $73,000,000, a capital of $120,000,000, an army of 70,000 em
ployes, a square mile of factories, trackage of 12,000 cars at Its 100 ware
houses and six busy railroads of its own.
BEAUTY OF NEW SOCIAL CABINET
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PLANT GUARDIANS.
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The beauty of the Mrs. Tail's social
cabinet wlM be Mrs. Albert Akin,
laughter of Attorney General Wlcker-
s ha in. Mrs. Akin, whose home Is In
New York City. Is noted as one of
the most beautiful women of theyoung-
er set Her mother, tee wue or tne
new Attorney General, Is expected to
be one of the new social leaders of the
capital and Mrs. Akin will assist the
Wk-kershau household In the recep
tions and entertainments. Mrs. Taft,
It Is said, also will enlist the services
of Mrs. Akin In social activities.
We suppose there never was a mar
ried woman who did not say to some
one. at some time, that If It wasn't fot
the children, she would leave hlra.
We often hear this statement made:
"There ought to be something done!1
Well, we should say so!
Ants Which Savaorelr Defead a Tree
la Soata America
j Ant defenders of plants and trees
are some of nature's pretty marvels.
The cecropia adenopus is a remarkable
, tree of south Brazil widely distributed
, through the tropics. Its slender trunk
i is crowned with long leaves at the ends
I of the branches.
j A few active ánts run continually
j along the branches and the leaves, but
If the tree is shaken slightly an army
I of auts rush out by small apertures
ready for a savage assault on the In
truder. The ant Is the terrible guar
dian that the tree has retained to pro
tect it from Its most formidable enemy,
the leaf cutter ant
The defenders rarely leave their re
treat, where they live on small whitish
egg shaped bodies about one-twelfth of
an Inch long, known ns Mueller's cor
puscles. These are formed of delicate
tissue, rich In protelds and oil, as ra
tions for the garrison of defender ants
to feed upon. The curious arrange
ment by which entrance is made to the
hollow stem has been studied by W.
Schlmper.
Just above the point of Insertion of
each leaf extends nearly to the su
perior node a superficial groove, r.t
whose end Is a rounded leDressIon.
There the tissue is thin, like a dia
phragm in a tube, and It also is soft
The hole by which the ant enters Is
always pierced at this spot The ants
seem to have made their entrance
through the groove originally because
it was at the top. In the course of
this plant's further development nat
ural selection augmented these natural
advantages so that finally the thin,
frail diaphragm as It exists to-day was
developed.
Don't stay up all night because you
can't learn It all in one day.
What She Waated to See.
English Clergyman And when you
arrive in London, my dear lady, don't
fall to see St Paul's and -Westminster
Abbey.
Fair American You bet I'll rattle
those off sure; but what I've been
hankering to see, ever since I was knee
high to a grasshopper, is the Church
of England.
I The "XVrona; Horae.
Gretchen had been iu America only
a few months, but she believed in the
principle of pretending to know what
she ought to know. She had been en
gaged as laundry girl iu a small fam
ily of well-to-do people. When asked
if she understood all the details of her
work she unhesitatingly replied : "Sure
I do, mam."
Her mistress was not quite satisfied,
however, and while she was busy with
ber first washing, looked in upon her.
Gretchen seemed to be doing all right
and she left without offering sugges
tions. Next morning the ironing ras .
In order and Gretchen was hard at it
when her mistress looked in to say:
"As you get the clothes Ironed, just
throw them over the horse,"
"All right, mam," the busy laundry
girl replied without stopping to raise
her eyes from her work in hand.
The laundry-room was located in an
out-house adjoining the barn, and oc
casionally the neighing of the family
horse and the merry voice of Gretchen
resounded throughout the house. Re
turning to the laundry-house a couple
of hours later the lady could scarcely
believe her eyes nor restrain her mirth
when she beheld the family horse,
standing patiently ' beside the girl.
loaded down with newly Ironed sheets,
pillow cases, tablecloths and Iace-
trlmmed waists and skirts. With an
anxious look on her honest face Gret
chen observed: "I'm glad you've come,
mam, for 1 11 have to have another
horse."
Too Frank.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon was discussing
jocularly one society leader's claim
that too many statesmen appear' to
rely on their uncouthness on the ab
sence of socks, etc. for their fame.
"I would point out" said he, "thai
neither Oesar nor Alexander wore
socks, and 'it I attacked New York
society as fiankly as this persoi haa
attacked public life, I might but
after all, perfect frankness Is lnvarla-.
bly a bad th'.ng. You have heard, per
haps, of the young man who admired
perfect frankness? Calling on a prettj
girl, he said:
" 'If there is one thing that I rever
ence in this world, perfect frankness U
that thing' i
"'Yes?' said the girl. Then I'll ai
once grasp the opportunity to urge yon
to shave off your mustache before you
eat another soft-boiled egg.' "
Bedded Improvement.
Scribbles I understand young Rhym
ls doing much better than formerly
In the poetry line. .
,,Dribbles Why, he told me he hadn't
written a line for six months.
Scribbles Yes, he told me the same
thing.
Good Blood
Means good health and Hood's
Sarsaparilla has an unapproached
record as a blood-purifier.
It effects its wonderful cures, not
simply because it contains sarsaparilla
bub because it combines the utmost
remedial values of more than 20 different
ingredients. There is no real substitute
for it. If urged to buy any preparation
said to be "just as good" you may be
sure it is inferior, costs less to make,
and yields the dealer a larger profit.
Get Hood's SarsaDarilla todar. in usual lianid
onn or in chocolated tableta known as or&atabs.
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