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GRAIN LIKE GATHERING GOLD.

spent part e vacation at Iitchfeld, Mimi,
and party of We
started about 10 o'clock in the morning driving
went through the prettiest
Looking westward shiny of ripen-
ing grain which resembed gitterng with
the background of sky, simply beautiful. We
went farther, anG drove into farm yard .
were told that here would I
expected to ordinary horses, but
shown into the barns and those animals
with their black arched and !
could not keep back Explanations of surprise
pleasure We then resumed drive which took
a certain church. There the place where
people buried who to
that great of early
and read the inscription it, my mind
the Cay when these people driven
and killed by the mercless Indians
Ripley picturesque little
town. where people camp good durins
the summer. This day the most profitable because
learned great deal about the in which
-Evira c.. Riddell
High School, Northield MINI.
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as pen found good one given
Christmas present three years ago.
Arthur G. Olson
Tenth Grade. Drayton, N. D.
FORBIDDEN CITY" OF FISHES
The most profitable vacation day I
the visited hatchery Indian mounds,
because how the fish Matched how they
Oh how enjoyed watching them SWIM wished
to catch only like chase another and
themselves. kinds,
which will help when I study about Them saw In
dian high bluff which reminded Of pic
my geography away looked back at the
fish hatchery and wished could have stayed longer and
watched those fish. Leo Mimbach,
A Seventh Grade. Henderson, Mimi.
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ROLLICK{NG LITTLE PORKERC
Tender Care and Dainty Fare Make Pigs as Fat
as Butter Rolls.


ONE day about two weeks and were count
~ pigs in the pasture when found two little
said: Joseph, if will take these pigs
give good furnish you food for them
you all the make on them for
yourself"
them andd bring them of
ger. I the crib and
milk, sheed Now they
healthy and always glad to for they
something in pail for them. expect to
them in months, for by sales
in bring good Papa
says they viii be worth much by next No
the the two pigs to
me profitable day of this vacation.
Joseph F. Russell.
Madeia MINI.
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II GroWing Wisdona

II man should neuer be ashamed to
oUn that he has been orong, Which is but
saying, in other Uords, that he is wiser to-
day than yesterddy.-.fiexand Pope.
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For Saturday, Sept. ~:

YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION. WHY?"
This is a topic which none evade. Even though
you think you prefer idng around in various ways
you will still find, If look closely enough, that
there is at least thread of occupation about The
WHY must be answered paper will be
sidered in the contest. The papers must be mailed
4 to reach the office
Not Later Than Friday Morning, September 49,.
They must be strictly original, written in ink on
side only OF the paper not more than 800 words
in length, less than 100, marked with the number
of words, and each signed with grade, school,
and address of the writer. The papers must not be
rolled.
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MEMORIES OF WATERLOO.

Unhappy Incident Which Compelled French General Salute
English colors Anniversary Of the Battle.
At the of the Crimean Cambridge,
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OF those who the excursion and good
tune, secured At o'clock morning
ticket "absraced from pocket and several other
people missed jewery and tickets this all
went we'll and we reached Minneapolis o'clock.
Then profitable day. the forenoon did"
the big buildings and also went to Minnehaha Lake
Harriet In the afternoon
attractions, department
At o'clock reluctantly steps
the Milwaukee depot where there
and went out to the The
them beside the thought
open not, result
Minneapolis Ortonvile great
Minneapolis incidentally my
get berth when going a long excursion.
Alfred w. Schroeder,
Eleventh Grade Wheaton, MIMI
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High School.
GOOD TIMES SWIMMtN'.


In Perham the boys swimming
is warm enough. Before this I
missed great deal of
that would learn and have share of the times
hot day went to learn swim.
log; pulled that out and getting top pad
died around for about ten minutes. 1
without the log, after many attempts succeeded
swimming the river Coming F?>7: easier
was glad that could SWIM After day always
went out with the boys and good times.
john A. Rebuck,
Eighth Grade. Perham, MINI.
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"DolNG" THE CITY OF FLOUR.

"DOING" TIE CITY OF FLOUR.
days naturally profitable and
consider Il
day. evening of June large excursion train
Fargo Minneapolis stopping thS place.
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Last week everybody went and left take
of the house and meals for week. endured
trials in that time, but this *proftabe"
especially.
dishes for three meals be
house and arranged beds to be made,
menced do Dishes they were
finished Then the cupboard received attention.
must be and put shelves
be washed (This unnecessary work. but
keeper be neat) At last, joy!
finished and turned attention library.
a Where should begin? I frst at
arrangement of the bookcase ended pat
sofa pillows.
very tired when had finished, myd
relishng in spite of not being
o'clock, with the beds to be
swept With broom and duspan began Iaborously
little voice said "Oh leave upstairs until
There's plenty of tfne whole week. you
whole You're tired; what's hurry? There's
ready read IT wish could" thought
a rush upstairs a
of the day to finish. My a
to clean a whole week, as to stay
friends house at night prepared something
jumped wheel and few from that cast1e
friends house. told her that that
profitable to because learned how much work
housewives had to do. Louise Cults Powell,
Eo Grade Fa ha1ItN
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A Eighth Grade.
STRUGGLING WITH s7rk2s,


ooh, dear me! I wish harnessed nd
hitched up" said
TN harness it for you' said.
Il don't believe you
nessesd horse before. You take fy-net.
don't believe the horse needs it, said
to the barn off
except the tugs and the Bride knew
be thirsty, I
back the
buggy When tied it the htching strap
too long and was sent out to tie it shorter
Halle
Fifth Grade. City, D.
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My most profitable day also busiest 1t
Saturday and had just home from Minneapolis
In addition to the regular Saturdays work-bakng,
bling, sweeping there social that evening
nearby schoohouse, necesstatng extra BY supper
time I exceedingly tired my temper by no
improved by having three extra supper.
washing Dishes favorite ( task,
cia though wished all the while that going,
too tired
When began recitation afraid should fail,
but determined not to and did Perhaps it
most profitable day because learned that where there's
a will, there's way Charlotte e.
Ninth Grade. Ada, MIMI
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nine years and six months old, you should
be even less afraid of DEATH
In calculating the chances Of long life
the savant mentions many long lives.
Among them are those of q resident OF
Goa, who Is said to have reached his
-hundredth year in the enjoyment Of
all his intellectual faculties, a Scotch
man who lived to be over two hundred
years old, and various monks of Mont
Athos who have reached one hundred and
fifty years. He asserts that Servian sta
tistics for 1897 show three persons be-
tween one hundred and thirty-hve and
one hundred and forty years old. eighteen
from one hundred and twenty-six to one
hundred and thirty-five 1923 from one hun
dred and fifteen to one hundred and twen-
ty-fve. and 200 from enc hundred and five
to one~hundred and fifteen. In 1890 there
were, he says, In the United States 1881
persons over one hundred years old and
twenty-one in London.
M. F'inot does not believe that the
average length Of human life has been
reduced but. happily, contends that 1t Ia
constantly increasing, owing to the prog
ress of hygiene
On the contrary. M Henri de varigny,
writing in ILLUSTRATION, asks:
HAS the man of today a chance to live
longer than the man If 2e00 years ago?"
no CoIlCluueS IHdC the ESypIldH WHO.
1000 years ago, lived to be sixty-eight
years old, was likely to live longer than
will an Englishman of today who Is sixty
eight years old. M De Varigny bases his
conclusion partly on the researches made
by Spregelberg of Strassburg. on the ago
Of Egyptian mummies. De Varigny ex-
plains:
Evidently there was among the Egyp-
tians a natural selection resulting from
environment that does not take place to-
day, at least to the same degree. among
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civilized people. The Egyptians who
reached the age of siXty-eight years had
robust constitutions and therefore their
chances of longevity were exceptional.
Mortality was higher among the children
and the adults, and there was a kind of
selection by death
'"The man of today Is not stronger; he
1 possibly weaker. But the majority of
the people live under conditions more
favorable to longevity, because we know
What conditions to promote. In other
words, the greater expectation of average
life is the result of the progress Of sani-
tery science in the fullest sense, and net
the result of an increase of vitality. II
Is the consequence of the evolution Of
mans intellect rather than of the evo-
luton of his body"
For these and other reasons M. De Var
igny declares that. although the chances
of life have increased for infancy, youth
and the prime Of life, they have not In
creased for old age. But. after all. he is
only an exponent Of the theory of the
survival Of the f1ttest.
It would vastly interest these two
Frenchmen and all students OF this I'M
rortant and interesting question to read
the papers which DIR. Maurice Fishberg
is contributing to the Jewish magazine,
the Menorah.
DR.. Fishburg. who practices largely ON
the lower East Side Of New York City.
writes on the New York Ghetto. He
roints out the extraordinary fact that
TIE wards In that city where the rate o.
MOI tally is lowest are the wards so
densely nopUlaed by Russian Jews. He
explains this longevity by the theory that
the prosecutions OF ages have eliminated
from the Jewish race Its weal1lings:
"Only those who were strong. healthy
end energetic could venture to remain
Jews
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wrath. why didn't you sit down." asked
the disappointed Amazon, her back
turned to her whom she had not ousted.
There wasn't ROOM" nieekly suggested
he of the subdued demeanor.
"Ugh"-to. the upper air, with nose at
an angle of supreme disdain. obiiuueIy
from her neighbor. "Some people haven't
any manners. anyway"
Meanwhile rapid fire voiIeys were issu-
Ing from the other side, aimed at the
cabin door, which the tireIess battery
faced.
''There are persons who never were
bred-just dragged up, I think"
did youe ever see such boorish actions?
Talk about your travelling hogs" was
lifted over the stern of the boat in tones
that cut through the soft coal smut like
a cimeter through tissue paper.
There wasn't a passenger on that end.
Of the boat who hadn't seen the whole in
cident from its beginning, and smiles
that were sneaked behind newspapers and
concealed by averted heads. could not be
hidden when the duel reached its really
belligerent stage
For more than twenty minutes these
two women sat, almost back to back,
their pastures expressing superb dlsdain
and their wordy Trades becoming more
bitter and denunciatory Of somebody"
with every splatter Of the boats paddle
wheels.
Not once was word spoken directly at
or to the other by one OF these women.
Never did the tangent of their individual
remarks get within less than ninety do
grees of each other.
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But either weapon Is certain to be aimed
directly at the mark
What does woman do under the same
conditions? Let this little incident tell
Its own story:
It was on South Brooklyn boat-one Of
the kind with settees on the open deck
and during the evening rush. She was ac-
companied by an elder woman, probably
her mother. Both moved quickly toward
the only bench left unoccupied The
other She had with her subdued look
ing man, probably her husband. and her
mother. She also spied the seat, and
dashed precipitately at 1t, almost drag
ging her companions.
The five reached the coveted bench SIM
utaneously from two directions. Boat
benches are built for four. and the in
evitable happened
AS all essayed to perch upon the lin
tied seat the first woman mentioned quiet
ly staked out enough of its area for her.
self and companion. The other bounced
down with sidewise movement. designed
to sweep the rival outfit to the deck, as
she hauled her mother to the seat on her
left. The subdued looking man quietly
ignored the scrimmage and hunted a
camp stool.
Upon him first turned the walls of
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9ww long as they please; live to
iAMf be at least 100 years old, or
Wv ITO years, or 1907" Men
should be afraid Of the fear
of death; not of death itself.
II we follow this rule there Is no reason
why we should not all become centena-
rians at least. q
M Jean Finot, French scientist, thus
puts and answers this all important ques-
ton. He asks, too, in effect:
.'Why do men grow old at all?"
For three reasons.
1. Want Of physical exercise in the open
air.
phagocytes have not succeeded in destroy
ing.
3. Fear Of death.
Please understand that by ''phagocytes'
scientists mean 1ymph-corpuscles, or
white blood corpuscles, which they regard
as capable Of devouring, Of destroying
the disease producing microbes which
meet. So that, of course II your
"phagocytes'' do their whole duty you will
live the longer.
In a word, the learned M Finot decides
that if men make up their minds not to
fear death, not to diminish their vitality
by such a wearing dread, they can live
pretty much as long as they want.
But
eff man fears death 1t will carry him
away. And vet 1t Is quite pleasant to
die; no sensation could be compared
with it."
How does savant even as wise as NJ
FInot prove that it is quite pleasant to
die?
Tie quotes Heine who related the SEN
sations he experienced while fleeing with
his companions from the top of one Of
the Alps and who escaped death as by
miracle:
sat first~a sense Of beautitude. then
complete :nsensibility to touch and pain;
finally an extreme rapidity of thought and
of imagination, which in q few seconds
enabled him to recollect the events Of his
whole life.
Therefore 1t Is not death we should
fear, but the fear 1t inspires in us. We
are wrong, says Socrates, to fear death,
as 1t Is our greatest possession on earth,
and Seneca adds that 1t Is the best OF the
inventions of life. while Montesquieu con-
cludes that we should shed tears for men
when they are born and not when they
die"
M. Finot quotes a mathematical form
rla which he ascribes to Dr. Richardson
by which any one. whether or not he
shuns the fear Of death, can calculate his
probable length Of life:
Add the ages of your father and mother
to those of your two grandfathers and
two grandmothers; divide the total by
six; result. the exact number of years
you should live.
Thus: set down the ages Of your Inn
mediate ancestors:
Father ................. So years
Mother SO years
paterna1 grandfather .....,...... At years
PaternaI Grandmother ....... "a years
Maternal grandfather .......... 80 years
Maternal grandmother ..... 70 years
Total .46 years
Divide by GO years months.
But, of course, II you are already sixty
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practiced in effect by certain animals
ever since the days Of the worlds Gre
alton
The system of life insurance that Is In
vogue among the wasps and bees Is per-
haps the best example of animal life in
surers. The SOLITARY" insects of this
class, that is, those that do not live IN
companies, have the best system or lie
insurance These insects make peculiar
combs or social nests in which they rear
their young from the egg and care LOT
them until they are grown.
The SOLITARY wasp however arranges
its chambers singularly and deposits but
one egg therein Food is stored near at
hand and ready to be eaten by the young
one that will develop from the egg, but
which is compelled to spend considerable
time within the narrow confines OF It's
little chamber before. 1t Is large enough to
take care Of itself.
I once found on the inside of an old tin
pail wasp's nest which consisted of
plastered structures of. dried mud which
looked as If they had been made by braid
ing clay cords into miniature limitations
of half-round drain-tiles.
Each was as broad as my finger, with
walls rather less than sixteenth Of an
inch In thickness, and there were five or
six side by side. the longest measuring
some six inches, and containing five COM
rartments of equal length, separated by
thick cross-partitions of clay
These were the safety deposit vaults Of
a large black mother-wasp, in which she
lad left her treasures for the use Of
young yet unborn.
When she again feels the warm rays OF
a summer sun each of these wasps (all of
which are fertile females) that have sur
vided the winter by alternating In some
snug retreat. and have been spending
month or two in elegant leisure slipping
nectar and getting other dainties. feels
that the time has come to lay her quota
of eggs, and begins to build cells of mud,
each just big enough to contain her own
body.
The wasps display great skill in maxi
ing these cells out Of little balls of clay
earth mixed with saliva and drawn out
by the complicated organs of the mouth
into slender ribbons Of sticky mud. AS
soon as the cell is finished the fresh open
end is usually closed by temporary dab
of mud, to exclude strangers and mis-
chief-makers, and the wasp goes hunting
takes out its first policy Of insurance for
the benefit of The intended occupant Of
this domicile.
The mother-wasp now goes foraging for
food for future young, and before long, If
she is fortunate. she finds a spider. What
is its name does not matter, nor does its
size. so that 1t be not too large: but big
ones are sometimes robbed Of legs or dis
membered to be made manageable.
Next the wasp darts at the spider and
it suddenly drops, by which ruse it hopes
to escape. If it fails to drop quickly
enough or far enough the wasp catches It
in her Jaws, drives in her sting once or
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methods and the provisions are almost as
various as the species.
In gathering spiders, the food for fu-
ture young, many of the wasps do not,
except by accident, kill their prey. After
catching them they sting them with such
consummate art in certain nervous CEN
tiers that they are not killed, but para
lyzed, and so are packed away alive and
remain fresh during the many days when
some of them are awaiting the use of the
grub.
The common mud wasp, however, does
not seem to find this paralyzing work
necessary. Three-fourths of its spiders
are killed outright and dry UP in the store
house. Nor des the mud wasp lay its
egg until the last spider is put in, by
which plan it escapes a large risk from
destructive parasites.
: This wonderful system of life insurance
for the benefit of their young that is In
vogue among insects is but the outcome
of the growth of Instincts, which are the
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go in body, and special times are set
apart for respective regiments. or parts
OF regiments, when appropriate services
are held for them in the most important
churches of their stations.
There is perhaps no one Of these serv.
ices more interesting than that which
takes place in the old Thomas kirche, at
Leipsic, world famous through It's iden-
tifcation with Johann-S Sebastian Bach.
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sweetheart, or even sister, share with
him his chief seat in the synagogue. Only
a short time ago, however, two American
women with no other backing than a sill
yer piece and a smile for good-natured
guard, were permitted to take seats in
Secluded corner and remain throughout
the impressive service. The fling Of the
men In and out of the church; the system
and silence with which they sought their
places sights 4bsn pus
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other feature Of the service was the
heavy. harmonious noise made by the
swords whenever this large body of men
arose from their seats. It was like the
roar Of distant, disturbed thunder. The
many, strong voices raised in simple
tuneful hymns, and accompanied by wind
instruments, created also an impression
long to be remembered. Happily the
guard had not seen the camera under the
arm Of one OF the ladies.
In the history OF music as well as arms
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e Chords Of 11usic Raised in Hymns Of Praise This old

the Thomas kirche holds an important
place. 1t was here that for many years
Johann-Sebastian Bach played the organ.
Here also he instituted the motetta, the
blending of voices in song without in
strumental aid. And here still every Sat-
urday at o'clock the motetta is rendered
In commemoration Of the great composer.
On these days about thirty of the finest
voices in Germany can be listened to
without entrance fee. or demand OF any
sort Among them all young voice scars
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higher than that Of any other boys In
the world, excepting always the "pope's
angel" In Rome. Always the Thomas
kirche Is crowded with the simple folk Of
Leipsic and the outlaying country eager
to hear the motetta. Housewives leave
their duties; merchants their affairs and
children their play at the first stroke of
the bell announcing the hour. Nowhere
else in the world, perhaps. can so prosaic-
looking an audience be seen listening to
such severely classic music
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early Gothic, is very spacious. and Of an
austere, uncompromising character. It
shelters, at the 10 o'clock service held on
the first Sunday of every month, some
thing over two thousand men. This
means naturally that the galleries and
seats are occupied wholly by belted and
sworded defendants Of the land.
That q woman should go to this service
Is an almost unheasd OF event, unless per-
haps an officer high enough in rank to
pursue. his own will should choose to let
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to go regularly to church. Il Is insisted
on by the kaiser of Germany that each
man in his great army shall appear once
q month at q kirche. In compliance.
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Y these modern days Of the
new world, it is refreshing to
feel that one of the most
powerful individuals living Is
strong in the belief that 1t
is good for the soul of man
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1rouner in Which Woman Gets Mad

STLE a man, push him Off
his seat in a trolley car. or
crowd him in an ordinary
rush and watch him get
mad" He goes right at his
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LFE insurance. an institution
that is solely for the benefit
of others. is supposed to ex-
list only In the most civilized
of human society, but such Is
not the case. 1t has been
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most complicated and surprising in the
world, that have Throughout the ages
reached perfection by means Of natural
selection.
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IY should not men live as
long as they please; live to
be at least 100 years old, or
ITO years, or 1907" Men
should be afraid Of the fear
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