The National tribune., 1909-02-11

| ed by bot4water bags. Only its little
eyes, sesa and mouth were exposed to
| the Lifting cold, for 1T happened to be
a very coId dav. and the box was placed
well out of the wind. The baby sur
yived the day. and was pronounced
much imprayed in consequence OF .ne
] heroic treatment, which it was decided
| to continue, All the same, as before
remarked. mere are not many mothers
of babes suffering with this dread dis
ease who would consider for an instant
the removal of the infant from the
warm nursery, and the exposing of the
delicate, painful little lungs to the icy
outside air, as was done IN the case Oh
this motherless little one.
1t is a mistake to suppose that John
ID. Rockefeller is the first and only Oil
King that the world has ever known,
| for it seems that some 1900 years ago
| there lived in that land where burning
! Sappho loved and sang" one Thales,
who kept his eyes very wide open, in
| deed. He and the philosopher Aristo-
tie were great friends, and took long
walks together, and while they were
walking and Aristotle was talking
Thaless sharp eyes were taking in
everything One year various little
signs made him feel confident that it
was going to be an unusually good year
for olives, and he did not pass this bit
of Information on to some one else, or
proceed to forget it himself, but, like
the shrewd business man that he was,
kept his own counsel and quietly went
to work and bought up all the oil
presses in the country, which COM
PEELED the oil makers to come to him
when the time arrived for them to
make their oil. Which shows that men
have been the same since the day of
the first man, and that business meth
DDS have changed very little since the
Greek Yankee. Thales, cornered the oil.
We are told, which may be true or
not, that the very weak-backed little
person who is holding down the title
of Duke de Chaulnes the infant son
of our young countrywoman, Theodore
Shonts, does credit to his American
blood by being a fine, red-cheeked,
handsome boy, and that he has just
had his first picture taken. The
Chaulnes apartment was not light
enough for the snapshot picture which
relative of the family wished to take,
so the baby Duke was arrayed in his
white fur coat and cap and carried
down to the street, where quite a little
crowd gathered to see what was going
on. He behaved as befitted his rank
not know when to stop when she gets
started talking about that baby. She
says he is the finest baby she ever saw
in her life, barring none. AItho only
about two months old, he shows won
derful amount of individuality. He has
moments when he appears to be de-
Iberating on the mysteries of life, and
others when he blaZes out in a splen-
did fit of truly dukely temper. And.
this doting Granny tells us, he actually
laughs when you poke him.
Poor Carrie Nation whose little
hatchet has become almost as celebrat-
ed as that of the Father of his Coun-
try, has indeed been having a hard
time of it. She has found to her sor-
row that the way of the transgressor
is picnicTin comparison to that of
the reformer. Carrie has been having
anything but a pleasant experience since
she crossed; the seas to improve the
morals of her British brothers and sis
ters. She has not been given the glad
hand by any means. She has been
told, more or less politely, to "move
on" and she has been bodily elected
from premises when she refused to do
this. The other evening, when deliv-
ering lecture or something on the
stage of a variety show, she was "booed"
at and hissed, and finally pelted with
eggs. one of which struck her full in
her face. The police had to protect
her while she left the hall. Carrie had
better wrap up her hatchet and come
back home. At least, we treat her bet
ter than that.