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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
SHOULD NOT WORRY
OVER THE C0
No Excuse FOR Suspecting That Come
Will Bother Earth.

After reading the remarks OF Henri
DcSlondrcS on the relation between
cOmtS and floods there is no fdificulty
in believing that he is no longer.
though he once was. director Of the
astronomical observatory at Meuden.
FOr NJ. DCSlandrCS talks much as he
would il he had lived in the middle
ages. when comets were viewed as ter
rifying monsters, arriving out Of space
with a malignant intent to bring all
sorts of disasters upon men. This
theory lasted from the beginning Of
n s Ory-Of legend for that matter
mp to time comparatively recent. and
IL was confirmed in the opinion Of
observed and indubitable fact that in
every comet year something unpleas-
ant happened.
In one country there was n great
pestilence for which no other cause
than the comet was know Therefore
obviously. the comet caused it. In
another war broke out, in a third oc-
CURED the death OF a king. in fourth
some city was shaken down by an
'arth0uake. Whatever the mishap.
the comet was to blane, or. if not ex-
actly that. il was credited with HAVING,
been warming, and, after the vent.
everybody was surprised that nobody
v0cw before hard what il meant Al
ways n connection between the comet
ma Some phase Of human affairs was
assumed as self-evident.
NJ. DeSlandrCS uses the language of
modern science and talks about catho-
lie and ROcntgen rays, but he il
nstratcd anew the fine medieval lack
of n sense Of proportion 10y deCarling
hat the floods which have covered a
few square miles of French territory
witha few feet of water came because
tn comet swished it's tail through the
terrestrial atmosphere and condensed
its aqueous VapOr. Why France alone
and by no means all Of Franco. should
have suffered from this hitherto un-
accorded effect Of cOmetary influence
he does not explain. Yet an eNplana-
ton of that phDOmenOn would seem
20 he needed, for il is hard indeed to
understand how what must have beer
world-cirClinC disturbance Of the at
mosphere, If there was any disturb
ance mt all, should have had it's con
sequences so narrowly limited
As a matter of fact there is not
even IN excuse for suspecting that any
comet ever bothered or ever will
bother this earth at all. or that the
biggest OF them contains enough Of
solid mater al to make more than "a
Few goo- So. cd aerolities-New York
Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
IDOLS BEING
KNOCKED DOWN
Usage Is Rapidly Sweeping Rules of
Grammar on Their Feet.

A notable development OF present
day civilization is the tightening
bond Of sympathy between science
and the small boy. Things that the
small boy has been for ages forbid
den to do. to eat. or to say. now
adays receive the stamp Of approval
from science. 1t is good for a boy
to have three helpings of pie and all
the jam he can raid, because his
growing organism demands it, 1t is
good for him to smoke cigarettes be-
cause the operation reveals the first
adventurous STRINGS of the Adde'S
cent soul, and because a stomach
ache teaches him the truth that ma
ture demands a price for everything.
II is good for him to play truant, be-
cause that is his way OF protesting
against the conventions of our arti-
fetal modern life. And among other
things, it is good for the small boy
to say. its me" and Its her" be-
cause that is the way everybody will
speak few hundred years from
now. No less a specialist in English
philology than Prof. Jespersen has
been the last to put the case for the
small boy and his elder brother.
Prof. Jespersen is certainly right
70 this extent. that the partisans Of
its me" and its him" have the
rest of us on the run. The average
teacher in the public schools, feel
pedagogue, now boldly asserts that
ut is 1" is pedantic, and Its me"
is becoming increasingly proper.
But if our guardians of the gram
mar book lose their SAVIOR, where
with shall we be sailed? Perhaps
the school teacher would be a little
more timid in knocking down the
idols at whose feet he is supposed 70
minister, IL he did not have behind
him the sanction OF a higher law;
and that higher law goes by the
name Of usage" Now. usage is a
shibboleth of comparatively recent
origin; but it's vogue has been great
and inevitable to this democratic age
It is not so much that usage stands
for something as that IT stands some
thing else. Usage cries defiance to
the iron laws OF the grammar, with
its feudal caste of things absolute
ly proper and things absolutely i'm
proper. The grammar. with its laws
and exceptions. means long and pain
full study. But anybody can walk
out into the street and pick up usage.
1t is the triumph OF Rousseau in the
field OF inguistics.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
Advice to Parents to Be Private.

Don't tell any one your children's
faults, even to their relatives. If
you need advice, get it privately.
Notifying children creates bitterness
in their unframed hearts and
estranges them from you.
Don't tell your own age or ask for
figures concerning others.
Don't tell your neighbor that you
disapprove of his or her ideas. BY so
doing you will find how soon you will
be forgotten by them.
Do not tell that your children can
not be induced to read, for this is
largely your own fault. Educate
their tates in reading by your own
interests in books. You will find that
as children grow older, their tastes
in literature will change for the bet
ter. II one child likes a certain kind
of reading. do not compel another to
listen to it, but give all an equal
cnance.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
HOW BUFFALOES
DO THEIR FIGHTING
Belligerent Young Bull Met Match fr
Older Adversary.

young buffalo bill with too much,
or the lighting spirit in him stirred I'M
trouble In the herd at Bronx park
yesterday and gave hundreds OF epec-
tators an opportunity OF seeing how
even a buffalo. when looking for =
Tight, can get one.
1t was late in the afternoon whom
the herd, which was In the far corner
or its Enclosure, began to move to-
ward the stables. There was some,
1rlsking and bucking; for the cool
buffalo blood.
Arrogant and defiant, the younx,-
pull began to look for trouble bT
brushing up against another bull its
own age In too brusque a manner.
dti iii .1 the two buffaloes squared
on there was quick movement. and
TWO heads went together with a
Whack, and then the more peacebIv
inclined one backed off.
But not SO an older bull, which had
been watching DEVELOPMENTS Ho
walked right over to the confdent
young bull, sized him up, and then
challenged by lowering his head.
ana then came fight which looked
as IL it were to be a finish. This
young Dull pulled back. switched his
tan, and went headlong at the other
bull The big fellow never budged
but the blow seemed to daze the
younger one. Then the young one
charged again. the impact being plain-
ly heard by the much excited specta-
tors.
The second charge was as inefrectivaI
as the first, and as he again drew bac
10 strike the older bull started thee
mira round with a plunge forward
mat showed mature buffalo strength
as well as Judgment. At the third
charge the young bull went down on
MS knees. trembling in every muscle
1t seemed to be a sure thing that the
oI1er Dull would gore his adversary
which would have been according 70
DuHalo ethics but he did not. For.
atter looking at the defeated young
buIl, he Joined the herd and started
for the stables
Thls was the first fight In months.
-FOUR or fve bulls have been gored &c,
death In as many fights in the history
or the herd in the park.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
POLITICIANS ON
The WRONG TRACK
Manufacturers Should Not Use the
Campaign Contribution Argument.

manufacturers Should Not Use the
Campaign Contribution Argument.
Officers OF the Illinois Manufacture
ers' Association, who have been solicit
ing the Presiedtn and Congress to do
something to relieve corporations from
the publicity clause of the corporation
income tax law pending appeal TO the
courts to test the validity OF the tax.
have been pursuing most ill-advised
tactics. Unable to convince the Presi-
dent by force of argument that this,
TO them, Objectionable feature of the
law should be abroagatched, they have
undertaken TO claim special considera-
ton on the ground that men interested
In these corporations contributed 10,
the Republican campaign fund during
the presidential year. The secretary
OF the manufacturers association hiss
even gone so far as to intimate that
solicitation of campaign contributions
from the officers of corporations car
rled an implied promise to favor them
in Just such emergencies as this.
1t strikes us that this is not the kind
OF talk to do the corporations any
good, and certainly not the kind OF
talk to impress the President and Con-
gress with the justice of their de-
mand. 1t is a matter of record that
the appeals OF the Repu blican cam
paign managers for contributions to-
defray the legitimate expenses of the
presidential campaign expressly re-
Taft personal request the treasurer of
the committee had put himself under
tn provisions Of tn publicity law of
the State of New York and that no
contributions from corporations would
be received. Doubtless individual con-
tributors TO the Republican campaign
fund were interested in corporations
OF many kinds, as were also the con-
tributers to the democratic fund. But
those who helped the Republican
cause did so because they had been
enjoying a prolonged era of unprece-
denied prosperity under Republican
administration and Republican poll
clcs, and they did not want continu-
ance of this prosperity jeopardized by
change TO the Democratic party
loaded down as il was with n cam
didate who lacked their confidence
and a platform full Of vagaries and
isms, The business interests of the
country had had Il test of what Demo-
cratic victory meant and recollections
or the panic and depression Of 1899
warned them against another trial.
Representatives of corporations are
entitled to hearing and to fair treat.
ment at the hands of the President.
but the pretense that they are entitled
TO anything more because OF alleged
campaign contributions Is utterly
without foundation.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17

history preserves any record WAS the
Dove OF Archytas." Archtas lived in
IIarentum, Italy. and was a COntem-
IDorary OF Plato. The account OF his
lying OoNe comes TO as from Anus
'Selhus, who tells US that il was form
ed OF wood and so cOntrived that by
a cerain mechanical art il had the
power TO fly, SO nicely was il balanced
and pat in motion 10y hidden and m
closed air. Just what this means is
% course, 20 a large extent some sort
OF machine that was capable o. IN.
ing is UnQueStiOned, and beyond
doub il is the earliest record of such
machine that we have.-New York
American
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
call RooseveIt Grcatcst President.

Exercises commemorative Of the
birth of William Mckinley held at the
Hamilton Club yesterday came near
being turned into Roosevelt cele-
bration and an insurgent session by
the Rev. DR.. Frank Crane, who was
the principal speaker.
DIR. Crane summed up the three
characteristic qualities of Mckinley
aS EentlcnesS. obedience, and c0ur-
age. He managed TO discuss the first
two without becoming unconventional
in his tribute to the martyred Presi-
dent. but when he got to talking
about courage, Pinchot, Aldrich Can
non, and insurgency, he wound up
with the fiat statement that the great
est President the United States ever
had was Roosevelt.
In the course OF his address the
speaker said:
Il do not know what your con-
victiOnS may be, but for me there has
never been "A man VINO ever occupied
the chair Of President of the United
States who graced it more. who will
have a higher place in history, than
the man who, whatever may have
been his falkland he had them and
unfortunately. do not know how to
who was not afraid Of massed money
or Of his organization or OF any liv-
ing thing, than Theodore Roosevelt"
New York Tribune.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
The Laundry.

When an article becomes scorched
in ironing lay it over a plate or plat
ter and moisten the scorched spot
with jelly like mixture of soap,
starch and water. Place a piece of
glass over all and lay in the sun. Re-
moisten as often as necessary until all
the stain is removed
To wash blankets, pour into a tub
half a pint of houshold ammonia and
lay blanket over it; cover i'm
mediately with lukewarn water. This
sends the fumes of the ammonia
through the blanket and loosens the
dirt. The blanket should then be
stirred about with a stick and pressed
until all the dirt seems to be in the
water; then rinse in q tub OF clear
water of the same temperature as the
first, run lightly through a wringer
and hang out to dry.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
COMMANDER PEARY
And HIS REWARD
Time for Government to Resume Re-
IatiOns of Employer and Employs.

latiOns of Employer and Employee.
With the movement to bestow some
unusual reward upon Commander
Peary we are in full sympathy. But
we have too great regard for the
much abused and overworked title of
rear admiral to desire to have it con-
ferred upon him. a civil engineer, and
therefore feel that he would be ade-
quately rewarded by a medal and the
thanks of Congress, particularly as i'm
the natural order or promotion ne
viii receive the relative rank of cap
tain and the pay of that grade in the
current year. Friends In this city
are to give him $4,000 next Tues
day, and if 1t were money that Com
mander Peary is after his lectures
would bring him in handsome re-
turns. We are also, to speak frank
ly, quite in sympathy with the re-
ported intention of the Navy De-
partemeHt TO order Peary back to his
duties in the navy. No military or
naval officer in the history of this
government has received more gem
erous treatment at it's hands Enter
ing the navy twenty-nine years ago.
he has been given more than seven
teen years leave OF obsence on pay
in order that he might be free to
reach the pole. That feat it now ac-
complished and Ii seems to us time
for him to go back to his profession
or to abandon IL, and to resign from
the navy. The government has es-
tablished In his case a dangerous pre-
cedent-eXcusably enough. In Justice
both to II and to Mr.. Peary. the time
has come for the resumption Of the
old relations or employer and en-
ploye, no matter IL there is before the
latter tempting trip to Europe.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
A CORNER IN
Scent PIECES
Disappearance of Once Familiar Coin
at Last Explained.


The disappearance of the 3-cenf
piece has for years been a matter OF
mild speculation. Few persons are
aware that large proportion of the
coins of this denomination which re-
NAMED in circulation when the gov
eminent stopped issuing them, ares1
peacefully slumbering in sundry large
rat canvas bags in the vaults of
certain electrical manufacturing com
pany of Chicago. They are not for
sale just yet. Years ago the company
equipped many telephone pay stations
with dime slot machines. 1t was sup
posed that they could besworked only
with dimes. The Scent pieces were
becoming rare and no thought was
taken of them. Hardly had six months
passed before one of the telephone
companies discovered that the coIIec-
TORS were yielding harvest of Scent
pieces. Then from all over the coun-
try came similar complaints
Each company forwarded the pieces
10 the manufacturing company, and
more or less politely asked that q
corresponding number OF dimes or a
check for an equivalent amount be
sent back in exchange. A council was
held at the Office of the manufacture
ing company. The cost of correcting
the boxes was compared with fairly
trustworthy information of the num-
Der OF Scent pieces In circulation.
1t was found that a balance was in
favor OF the cent, aid IL was de-
cided to accept the pieces Gs dimes.
Gradually the inpour of 3-cent pieces
narrowed down to an intermittent cur
rent. The company seemed to have
about all the pieces. It is said that "a
ever the premium on 3-dbnt pieces
goes high enough to coinsywiII be Of
fered to collectors at a ices based
upon the original cost to tEAmor1pany.
plus, six per cent O year, - Of
storage, plus cost 60 -
cost Sof carrying = !!
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
MODERN ROOD
AS A FARMER
New York Central Showing How
Crop Can BE Increased.


Hail and good morrow to the New
York Central! 1t will turn farmer.
No proper" it into the causes of the
high cost of living and of the cost of
high living; no searcher il for the
remedies! This railroad company is
going to raise something good to eat.
not only to prove 10 the people of
New York State that they can raise
vastly more than they now do and at
increased profits, but also, and in
cidentally, to give itself more freight
to haul. 1t has just been formally
announced that the company will run
at least three demonstration" farms
as an initial step in its new policy,
and one such farm has already been
bought.
I'VE have here platform on
which the New York Central and
the farmers can stand together" SAYS
President Brown in a brief explana-
ton of the scheme. Prosperous
farmers along our lines mean in
creased traffic. There is no altruism
about that. 1t simply means that IT
is good business for the railroad to
do all 1t can to increase the products
OF the farm and better farming con-
ditions. If the railroad by moderate
expense and thought can make these
conditions radically better for the
farmer, it Is plainly in it's own inter-
est to do so. That is why we have
planned the three farm stations here
in New York State"
This doesn't mean a group OF agri-
cultural experiment stations for
spending the New York Central's
good money on a lot of salaries, high
wages, scientific tools and apparatus,
chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation
plants, and so on; 1t does mean farms
with practical, experienced, business
farmers to operate them and TO make
three or four blades OF grass grow
where only one grew before-tol bring
up their potato production, for in
stance, from 60 to 800 bushels per
acre, and I'm general to Increase their
productiveness anywhere from 100 to
500 per cent. and their profits eor-
As soon as one farm
has thus been "bQilt up" It WIN be
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
Meaning of Cemetery.

1t is not correct to say that GENE
terry" means the city of the dead !"
The word is from the Greek "Koime-
terion," meaning sleeping place, not
the place OF the dead. There is moth
ing in the etymology of the word to
warrant us in thinking that it was
originally intended to convey the idea
that the departed were really dead any
more than there is III the old Hebrew
terms tor-cemetery." the house Of
the liVing.-New York American
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
Trimming Hint.

A charming finish Tor a dress in
two colors, especially a plaid, may be
obtained by cutting at squares or
oblongs of the materiaE and filing in
the space with lace stitches in heavy
silk In color to match one of those
in the material. An ordinary cobweb
stitch is very effective knd quickly
done. White silk may bAput under
nsetkaEDS silk OF cbntraa&g color.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17

every country where the influence OF
the MOsiem has been dominant. The
downfall OF the harems is the greatest
good that modernism Is accomplish
ing in Asia, and with it is dying
plygamy.
springing into being In all quarters OF
the Orient. Masses of Oriental wO-
men are willing-nay. eager-to
share the responsibilities of public
life with men, Moreover, they are
willing to work with them shoulder
TO shoulder.
In every Asiatic country you see
the new" woman conducting special
schools for girls and neighborhood
centers for women of comparatively
advanced ages. These institutions
are designed to educate the present
property discharge their various
duties. In these schools Oriental
girls and women are taught what
constitutes their real rights. Here
they are also inspired to unfinchingly
and steadily labor TO obtain and
maintain these rights.
ParadoXical as ii may seem. the
most favored and successful manner
in which the Oriental woman carries
on her propaganda work is through
the channels of the newspapers. and
even magazines. In various parts of
Asia, especially in China, India and
Japan. women are conducting pub
locations to further the cause. In
Japan the Twentieth Century Woman,
a radical monthly magazine. is edited
by u woman, and many of her con-
tributorS are women. China has three
fiourishing publications edited by and
for women. In Hindustan Is also
a magazine for women. Ii is printed
in English, and, started some two
years ago. 1t has large and grow
ing circulation.-Travel Magazine.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17

- 81 = +. 4 ISL - in the
x ~ e II. i i. T. 0slSing for
]I'S[ I'd - being sent
'S<|. this ago. At
'..| !. r. NyerValS of two
~ 'being received,
~ III ss8Tdually shortened,
IL 81 p'Shey were being dis
:. - day Eighty-eight let
81 Ire mailed before the con-
IS received. This was &C
only by a printed receipt
'5 u the congregation is said
Dering naiNely whether MIR.
ii really wanted to give the
s@s.. t< did so only to stop the series
Eide from shaking faith in the
III b OF the buffers with which
aefaCtCrs surround themselves
|cident suggests Strikingly the
aitzng effect that great bene-
IS tend to have upon the self
&c of associations of men.
....<| - zion ago such q church as that
2. Louis would have raised the
ey IL needed among it's own mem
tShip, or would have waited until il
gould. Today Il seems perfectly
y proper and natural 60 it to go to Mr.
carnegie. although he is not especial
~ interested in benefactions to
churches and probably never heard of
the St Louis church before.
The congregation seems to have
prided itself upon the vigOr of it's as
sauit upon the Outworks which philan-
thropists have to maintain about them
The Importantly apears to have been
regarded almost as religious duty
instead of having TO deny themselves
TO equip their spiritual home. the
members felt that they had only to
prevail over the indispoSition of a total
stranger 20 equip il for them. The
Well-known hberality OF certain phil
anthropists should not be used as an
excuse for the avoidance Of personal
responsibilities.-New York Tribune.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-02-17
WORK OF SMOKING
% OUT The HAREM
New Order OF WomanhoodIs Spring.
ing UD I'm the Orient.

Oriental women are casting aside
their wells. Even the rank and file of
them are revolving against being
penned up in harems.
The word harem IS Arabic, and
means privacy, seclusion. The con-
fining OF women in harems-that is
to say, secluding them and denying
them the privilege of talking with or
coming in contact with men, except
Ing their husbands or nearest male
relativeskis Mohannmedan custom.
The Dickinson press., 1910-10-08
LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Geo Burgess of Medora spent
Monday in the city.
r. S. Bookings was..up--from Richard
ton the middle of the week.
Miss C. L. Wells visited at the Geo
Burgess home in Medora on Thursday.
W. L. Richards made a business trip
to Miles City the latter part of the week.
Joseph Rasper and daughter. Helen,
were in the city from Fayette the first
of the week.
The ladies of the Congregational
church cleared about SOS from their
chicken pie supper Wednesday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur j. Kenwell were
in Denver the past week on their we'd
ding tour which will cover a number of
Mexican points.
Mrs. John Summers returned Thursday
to her home in Missoule. Mont, after
spending several weeks at the home of
her son, Ed. Summers.
Mrs. Fred Croteau and Miss Jessie
Fraser en- route from La Cosse, Wis.,, to
a visit in Seattle, Wash. stopped off
Thursday in the city, to spend the day
with the former ladys' sister, Mrs. G. W.
SARGENT.