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HISTORIC FOREST FIRES
OF PRESENT CENTURY

The terrible work of the flames which
have burned over and destroyed hun
dreds of thousands OF acres OF timber
and property to the value of millions
DRY other great forest fires which have
attained historic Importance.
One of the earliest of these was the
great Miranlichi fire Of 1925. 1t began
Its greatest destruction about l O'Clock
in the afternoon of October Z of that
year, at a place about 60 miles above
the town of Newcastle, on the Miramt-
Chi river, in New Brunswick. Before
10 o'clock at night 1t was 20 miles be-
low Newcastle. In nine hour it had
destroyed q belt of forest so miles long
and % miles wide. Over more than p
500, 600 acres, almost every living thing
was killed. Even the fish We're after
wards found dead in heaps on the river
banks. i've hundred and ninety build
ings We're burned and a number OF
towns, including Newcastle, Chatham
and D~ouglastown, We're destroyed. II
hundred and sixty persons persisted and
nearly 1000 head of stock. h loss
from the Miramichi fire is estimated at
$500, 900, not including the value of the
timber.
In the majority Of sucll forest fires as
this the destruction of the timber is a
more serious loss by far than that Of
the cattle and buildings; for 1T carries
with 1T the impoverishmcnt Of a whole
region for tens or even hundreds Of
years afterwards. The loss of the
stu7npage value of the timber at the
time Of the fire is but a small part OF
the damage to the neighborhood. The
wages that would have been earned in
numbering, added to the value of the
produce that would have been purchas-
ed to supply the lumber camps, and the
taxes thai would have been devoted to
roads and other public improvements,
furnish a much truer measure of how
much. sooner or later. 1t costs a region
when it's forests are destroyed by fire.
The Peshtin fire OF October. 1871. wa
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AN ANTIDOTE
FOR BAD temper
An Elementary Diet" Will Re-
lieve You of That Miser-
able Crouch.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
If YOU lose your temper with the cook,
eat unfired bread with grated hlanched
pecans. If you can't help saying Disagree
able things when you lose your collar
button, take q course of milk and raw
eggs. If you hammer your thumb in hang
ing pictures. run quick and chew an APP
pie. AT any stage of anSer-if its your
motherinlaw, or. the short-weight grocer.
or the furnace, or the water-back. or
whatever 1t is-quit eating meat and fish
and pastries and diet your good disposition
on elementary food.
That is what Mime. Anita FIeineck-
Llovd, the dramatic Soprano. declared to
an interviewer, would make tie whole
world sweet and gentle and kind and love-
ly. She says that many cases in divorce
courts are traceable directly to habits OF
diet, and she said recently:
Il come Of a family of lawyers. and I
say that many q poor man Is serving
double or three times the sentence he
would have been given but for the fact
that the judge had that morning over
loaded his tomach and was having trou-
BILE with his digestion when he pronounced
sentence"
Nine. Lloyd has adopted elementary food
for her own use because, as she says. It
makes losing telnpe impossible and Keeps
her in sympathetic touch with her pupils.
Teaching she said, requires the COM
slant preservation Of temper. I found my
| self getting out of patience with pupils,
this one or that one giving me unnecessary
drouble and ruffing my nerves. Every
time l lost patience l lost just SO much in
nerve control and mental poise, and just to
the extent that my mind became stormy
my digestion and general health We're I'm,
paired. Then. in New York, 7 was In
vited out to an elementary food dinner.
and before the end of the second course I
discovered that my nerves We're quiet, my
mind calm, my physical condition one OF
entire restfulness. They told me that was
the effect OF elelnentary food, and l adopt-
ed it and proved it's real value.
by elementary food is meant uncooked
which is made of whole raw wheat soaked
over night with a mixture of grated pc
cans and dried in the sun. Then there are
all the fruits and cereals, and uncooked
milk and raw eggs. Eggs are better eaten
from the shell, but some persons prefer to
mix them with milk. Always the element
airy food dinner should include side dishes
of blanched nuts. Plenty of nuts, plenty
of fruit. plenty of cereals, but no fish or
meat. Fish requires four hours to digest.
Meat feeds the animal tendencies. Ele-
mentary food, the easily dtgested, quickly
assilnilated products of nature, represent
the most reasonable diet OF gentleness,
kindness, ever temper, sunny disposition.
That's why 1 have adopted it. and now I
never lose my temper. and am never
rufhed. Try it yourself"
The party of the second part in the con-
versation Immediately went out and
bought half a dozen apples and a bunch of
bananas.
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German Cooperative Societies.

Consul General Richard Guenther. Of
Frankfort. reports that the Central
Union of the German Consumers asso-
Citations recently held its fifth annual
meeting. at which over 600 delegates
We're present, besides representatives
from cooperative associations of Eng
land. Holland, Austria, Finland and
Switzerland. The consul general sum-
marizes the associatioE's operations:
The consumers association in Ger
many are 2,15O in number, having more
than l.250.0o members, and dispose
annually OF about $78, $40 600 worth of
goods. The central union comprises
4S5 of the 2,1GO associations. and in
1907 had q membership of SS5,074 per-
sons. 1t employed 1878 people in it's
ESQ., stores u selling agencies. h
value of goods sold by h central
union last year figured up s72. 1872, 500.
including s7,794, 500 of goods directly
produced by the concern.
The net profits for the year bordered
closely on S4,99S,O 600. The central union
NOW has a working capital of So, 743,254
and owns real estate valued at $685.
ooo. Stock on hand at the close of the
wear aggregated $T,665,504.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-31

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Rabbi Isaac l4andIlan occupied the pull
pit of the Broad Street 1c,nple yesterday
morning. the theme of his discourse being
Couture and Spirituality" I'VE have
he said, grown out of the theory that Gull
ture is for the choice and select few who.
through wealth or station or exceptional
endowlnentS. gain for themselves artistic
and intellectual advantages. The days
have passed when al individual could
master all that is to he known ana thus
become truly cultured. Specialization III
the arts and sciences has dealt the death
blow to this ideal. Indeed, We have learned
that most colossal intellects may prove
most gigantic moral and mental degencr-
ates-and surely culture ought to preclude
moral and mental degene.racN. Ne have
learned, too, that all the discoveries and
inventions of science have added not an
iOta TO the inward peace and happiness of
maitland surely true culture ought to
bring inward peace and happiness to its
pOssessor.
"At the present time we are in a state of
transition. Not yet wholly freed from
scholastic imitation and rationalistic va
carries. we are beguiled by a pretentious
near-culture that has neither intellectual
nor spiritual nor moral value.
Good literature is become the comic
supplement, the racy story, the hair
breadth detective tale. the 'zippy' play, or
books to adorn our shelves. Exaltlng mu-
sic is become a cheap emotional stimulus,
VI n p4SLGAL NAGpiAS LIZ !1OuA GIN
vanity. There may be value IN the awak-
ening Of the emotions, or eNaltation in
pageantry at the concert and opera and in
the splendid feeding that follows, but
scarcely any element of true culture.
The grandeur of nature is become a
! haven of recuperation from mental and
bodily toll In the illusory chase after
wealth. The mountains and forests are
resorts; the ocean a place to battle IT.;
gorgeous sunsets and starry nights signs
that the weather will or will not spoil the
| pleasure jaunt arranged for the morrow.
| Who ever heeds the sleepy notes of the
pine creepers, or with the
spirit OF the restless. tossing ocean. or
hears the song of the might winds as they
rise and die! On, how pompous our Gull
ture. how cold our pretense, and our souls.
how desolate.
IF culture means aught for mans hap
piness, then must its bases be not art,
not literature. not music, not intellect. not
science, not all of these combined, but In
spirituality. A home life. pure and Sc
rene; a worship simple and devout: an I'M
selfishness. broad and man-etnbracing; a
power over immortality in our daily pur-
suits: a mastery over pleasure and pain
and the opportunities of life; 4 devotion
to virtue and industry and a calm reli-
ance upon God-these will refine our souls
aud attane US. spiritually. to the highest. .
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Out on the Eir-sIue Hills.

Out on the fr-blue hills. my heart, in tho
autumn weather.
Teareth the lullaby Groom of the Earth
Mother rocking her children:
Seeketh, in evening shade, the fragrant
breath of her bosom;
Feeleth the placid repose OF her being in
ripples of motion -
That, urged by her voice into waves Of
quiescent rejoicing.
Go pillsing the shores of the ego in
rhythlns OF magical splendor.
heart return not. lest knowing -
Once more the old discomfort. thou hear
not the lsarth-Mother grooming.
the hill-rlm dreaming.
Byerley. In November Lippiacott'a
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New York, Special: At the Luther
an Church of the Atonement, october
2, Miss Florence Ahrens and her sister,
Miss Amelia Ahrens, OF No. l91 Edge
comb ave, the Bronx, Will be married
to brothers, George w. Fischer and Mr..
Carl Fischer, Jr., of 202 Lenox ave. The
young men are the sons of Carl Fisch-
er, "a dealer in musical
and a publisher at 6 Cooper square.
The double engagement is the result
of a romance which began three years
ago., when the two young women were
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The Importance OF Bridget.

WV
In New England. where are
scarce and Irish abound, it is the German
man who usually marries up into AN
Irish Family. The same thing seems to he
true even in New York, where the Ger
man colony is very large. When inter-
marriage between the two peoples occurs,
six times out of seven it Is the Irish wom-
an who bears the children. In this cons
%nection, the important role in ethnic in
telInixtureN played by the Irish woman de-
serves mention. One reason is surely her
relative abundance. III the Boston foreign
colony, with every,other nationality large
ny represented by men. there is a surplus
Of 1850 Irish females. But a second reas-
ION, also, is the superior a~daptability and
spirit of cornradship of the Irish woman.
rhe-lrish everywhere are good mixers"
Thus endowed with her democratic spirit
and lack of notion OF custe. Irish or Irish
American wonnaniiood bids air to be a
potent physical mediator between the
other peoples of the earth. One may pic
ture this process of radical intermixture
going further. especially in those parts
OF the country where the more ambitious
native born males have enligrated to the
west or to the large cities. The incoming
foreigners. steadily working upward in
the economic and social scale, and the
stranded, downward tending American
families. perhaps themselves of Irish or
Scotch-1rish descent. may in time meet
an even plane.
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Need II in Russia,

Carl Keill. an engineer, of Munich.
has invented a bullet proof garment
which promises to bring him a small
fortune. 1t is in the form OF a
corset. weighs about six pounds, and
IS made OF thin steel rings or links
about an inch and three-auarters wide.
AT a trial of the garment, is evolve
s sa2es, irea at a distance ct II yards.
The Russian government is said to
have offered keill $4,000 for his dis
covcry, provided it will stand proof
against Malser bullets, but he declined
n offer, preferring to deal with he
German war Office" the Mall Pail Ca
zette says.
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at their country home In Pearl River.
Rockland county. The young men have
a summer home in Manuel, near Pearl
River, and the our met while touring
the surrounding country in their auto
mobiles.
The two couples created a sensation
at the license bureau when the peculiar
nature Of Cupid's enterprise in this case
was made clear.
The gowns of the brides at h cere-
mony will be exactly alike. Such plans
as have been formed for the honeymoon
hav been kept secret.
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On Visit.

Ou q vlSVks $500
When l go to my Gram'ma's an
She gets done kissin' me.
| wonder what's to happen mex
AT Gram'ma's-no, sir-ee!D
My Gram'ma, she put on her specs
(That's SOS at she can see). IL
More like his father ev'ry day.
Don't favor his mas folks she'll say.
"A mite, it pears to me-
My Grandpa, when we go outdoors
To give tn horse his feed.
Stands me up 'gainst TIL big. barn door
An marks II where I've crowd some moro.
I'm GROWN like a weed!" ;.
My Gram'ma knows It's dreffe hard
For busy folks like me
An so 1 sleep right on her lap:
An after-We go see
II Mr.. Gingersnap is home
he has u roun', tin house
An i can help myself to some" ",
An mustn't drop q single crum'.
Sos not to call tn mouse. f
My Grandpa says TN help him lots
II I'll hunt round an see Y
| WITCH pockets got his wintergreenst
An peppellnfnts-I know he means
His candy! SomeHs for me!
Wen I'm all crowd up tail an big
i don know witch III be
A Granl'ma or a Gram pa, cause
They're boz So good to mel
Marie Louise Tompkins in Harper's
Weekly.
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Tho Caravan.

From underneath the carob shade
A wavering line of gray and white,
L watch it lose its form and fade
Like dreams across the face OF night.
Whittier 1t goes I can but guess,
HAPPY where ruined TadnlOre stands,
The voiceless haunt of loneliness,
Amid the deserts swirling sands;
OR toward the Tigris' tawny tide
Into that land of ancient thrift
Where Bagdad's rich bazars spread wide.
And Haroun's minarets uplift:
Or toward the swart Arabian skies,
= The home of sempiternal Gains,
Where Pilgrims seek their paradise
Through mecca girdled with its palms.
Yet howsoe'er it fares, I fare,
With those that drink the u~ntranllneleo
air,
The nomad children Of the sun.
From camel back I scan the waste
4, A fair oasis sign to find,
And stranger to all thoughts of haste
Let my kaffeyeh take the wind.
'Sandaled with silence, on / press,
Rousing before the flower of morn,
Through spaces where forgetfulnesS
born.
And when, with soothing touch, comes
After the round of jars and Joys.
Above the head, in Allah's sight. .
The hosts of heaven wheel and poise.
Clinton Scotland, i'll Smart Set.
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No Wonder.

VI No Wonder.
From ~Everybody's Magazine.
They We're discussing the relative
position of various countries as musical
centers. Germany seemed to give the
most votaries, much to the evident dis
pleasure of n excitable Italian. who
wished his own ountry to carry off
the palm. Italy is turning out the
most musicians, and has always turned
out the most he cried. ZACH, Gott!"
exclaimed IL German present, can you
nlaIne hero"
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Not Exactly.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Yes, Miss Roxley II / are strang.
ers now" said Tom. I've been asked
not to call there again"
You don't say" said Dick. II sup.
pose old Roxley had a hand in that"
"Well-er-not a hand exactly"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-31

When a wonan's husband is I'M
usually ind to her. says the Chicago
News" she always thinks hat he has
been up to some iii of mischief"
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a Zinc DISTINCTION.

Twas win The doctor laughed "Ha.
hal"
And the father laughed "FIe, he."
A difference IN the laughs, you'll note.
Now, wherefore should it be?
"IIa, hal" is the proper thing to laugh
At thought of the bin and it's joys.
HE. he." is the laugh pronominal
When it's twins and the twins are
hnNSi
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-31

Tn h matter of drinking" unused
h philosopher with the impressionis-
tic nose, be sure you are right and
&c. won't get a head"
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there flashed into his mind a notice
which had been communicated to him
orally and which he had omitted to
include in h announcements made
just before. To the surprise OF the as
sembled Students. President McCosh
continues: And, o Lord, bless Pro-
fessor karge. whose French class will
be held this morning at 9 o'clock in
stead of half past 8 as usual"
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Intently the judge listened to the mans
story. The nan was the plaintiff and had
charged his wife with cruel and abusive
treatment. lie was a small man and his
wife-wel. it was at least evident that
the charge rested on a basis of possibility.
After the plaintiff had finished his testi-
mony the judge decided to ask a oues-
ton. Mr.. Frouble.'' said he. where did
you meet your wife, who has treated you
this way" We'll. judge returned the
man. somewhat meekly, you see, It's this
way. i never did meet her. She lust
kind of overlook me-
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Slate valued at S6.O19. go. was auarried
and sold in the United States in 1907. an
of $3.50, SO over the output of 1906.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-31

Ono hundred and three men were killed
and about 2O badly injured ny the explo--
sion aboard the French battleship jena.
March IL, 1907. Now the French armor
experts are looking forward with unusual
expectation to the use OF the Inflated,
craft as a target in the gunner expert
ments planned for the coming summer.
The Jena, having a 14-inch belt OF special
Creusot steel. is counted on to give eg-
pecially instructive lessons as to the re-
sistance of modern armor to the differ
ent types of projectiles at various ranges.
The old battleships Tonnere and Neptune
also will be used as targets.
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From underneath the carob shade
A wavering line of gray and white,
i watch it lose it's form n fade
Like dreams across the face OF night.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-02-14
johnny Objected

Zig Florrie' Sullivan" said a New
York detective, will be missed here,
now that his health has gone back on
him But let us hope that he'll soon
be restored to US. alert as ever to fight
against the cadet and other evils.
Thank you. I will have one more, but
make il short. please"
"Florrie Sullivan had many an adj
venture III the New Yor slums. Some
of his adventures We're dramatic, tragi-
cal: some were the reverse.
Passing q mean little shanty in n
horrible district one Sunday morning
Sullivan heard a loud yell:
Murder! Murder! Help
IN his brave. generous way, never
stopping to count the cost. he ran at
fun speed toward tie sound. AN old
mans voice he muttered to himself.
ANA then he shouted as he ran:
"RaNe no fear; Courage! l will assist
you
Murder" shrieked the voice again.
sullivan reached the door and thun-
dered on it with fists and feet. 1t
opened and a neat young woman mp
peared.
"'what is the trouble that the
man painted. but the young woman.
smiling auietl. interrupted him.
"'OE. never mind at all. al all,' she
said. 'Shure. an thy'r' only putin n
clane shirt on ou.l johnny"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-02-14
Croquet.
From the WASHINGTON Star.

tfOtn iHc MaSDlIlBlON SLar.
Ehen NJ. I3yeTs, Pittsburg's famous
golfer, was talking at a dinner about
HnWdiing players.
Nothing is more vexatious." Mr..
f3yers said, than to follow one Of these
daWdlers over q course. They all
should b% served as q bow-legged chap
was the other day.
HE was playing at Englewood. His
play Wa as slow as it was poor. Set
ting his warped legs wide apart, he
would miss the easiest ball three or
four times handwriting. He was re-
tarGlng half a dozen good, brisk play
ers, but this he didn't seem to mind
at all.
.'Tinaly one man. having very near
lost patience. and with Il heat shot sent
his bail dying directly between the slow
players bow legs.
The slow player jumped back in q
great fright. Then he yelled angrily:
mo- said the other, but / call It
pretty good croquet.'"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-02-14
WITH A GHETTO auDts.cE.
Phases of Life as Seen in a Hebrew
Theater in New York.

From Tho Hebrew Theater,' by Adolpb
Danziger In the DECEMBER Metropolitan.
at length the people are in the tho
alter. There Is a running and u rush
for seats. and disputes and recri,nina-
lions are heard on all sides OF tho
house. The ushers scream at the pa
irons, and the patrons insist III their
rights, which. in many cases. have no
existence ut all.
~ want & sit" cries a fat short, nsth-
matte man. NJ and my Wife wants
sits.'
Where IL Nour coupon?"
'N-ha,-u-pon! l wants a sit"
You can have none: only reserved
left; all others is full"
Lay yourself IN de earth. yer loafer,
yer; v-l.-ell. b-hut I'll make a kick in
the lodsh. waltz" the asthmatic man
says.
"But I ant stand up: ach Gott. my
feet hurt me. Sharley. coome, let's go
nome" says he wife. breathing hard.
ME go home! Not much! II lie
burst he must give me Il Sit"
But there Is q rush OF the crowd to
the front seats: the fat man is pushed;
he shouts and pushes back; he is borne
down: he saves himself by crawling
between the seats and the crowd passey
on.
The musicians appear: the ,nstru-i
ments arr. being tuned.
Shah, shah! Order. orderl" comes
from all sides.
The musicians play. The crowd Keeps
on rushing. moving, dfsputtng for
seats. Ghetto musicians do not mind
this. and they go merrily on.
The curtain rises.
Shah. shah! Order!"
Say. there. sit down: ] can't see a
thing"
"A black year on you! Don't You
pull me-! TH slap yer face, yer %lnafer,
yer:"
.'rek Off vour hat"
Mint yer own business"
Order! One can't hear a word the
actor says!"
DRY up!"
oh. wasn't tina, fine: Oh. my. i a,-.
most c-ied!'
II did cry"
h curtain gees down and up again
and down and up.
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Je#er.on,s st.ae Fr;aht.

Perhaps" said a New York lawyer,
the little story I'm going to tell win
be as UGH OF a comfort to some otier
speaker as 1t was to ma
"At the farewell dinner given to
Israel Zangwill," the lawyer went on,
II sat nex to Joseph Jefferson. For
the sake OF opening the conversation, /
said. 4 wish l were you tonight
"'Wlly?' he asked.
Because Q don't have 70 speak
and 1 do"
"'oh.' said Jefferson. but 1 do have
TO, and I fee! just as uncomfortable ia
you possibly could
"I supposed said I, 'you had become
SO used to that sort OF thing, You
wouldn't mind 1t a Bit
"Indeed. no. he answered. You
know I have been playing rip Van
Wrinkle" for more than thirty years:
yet every time 1 go on the stage my
knees knock together. II they did not
1 should know that the fire had gone
out"
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powie on Mothan

John Alexander Dowie had a knank
of putting things sne,ntly and forcibiy.
At one Of his last meetings he attacked
the modern mother of society, the
mother who neglects her children
Why" he said. Il overheard the most
remarkable conversation between two
nursemaids on a car today. Are You
going to the picnicy' said the first
nursemaid. Mo- said the second; I'm
afraid 1 shan't be there Why notf'
cried the first. And you SO fond. too.
OF picnics. u dancing, and young men.
and all that there?' oh, said the otner
nursematd. I'd love dearly to go. dearlyi
but to tell you the truth. I'm afraid to
leave the baby with its mother.n