Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1912, Page 9

i i 13 f LIVES OF MEN OF NOTE BRIGHT- ENED BY WEDLOCK. WNumerous Instances Where Loving Wives Have Added to the Attrac- tions Which Earth Has Offered to Her Gifted Sons. ‘When Frederick Morel, the writer, ‘was told that his wife was at the point of death, he did not throw down his pen, but remarked: *I am very sorry. She was a good ‘woman.” “Might 1 have had my own will” s=aid Montaigne, “I would not have married Wisdom herself.” But in spite of these and numerous other instances, there have been men | of literature who could write of con- jugal fruition from an experience i extending through unclouded, beauti- ful years. Sir Walter Scott, in his marriage re- iations, was happy, and Southey lived In sweet peace, not only with his first wife, but also with his second. Cowper enjoyed matrimony, and Moore was happily mated, and Shel- ley’s second marriage was the en- trance upon a joyous period of domes- e life. ‘Wordsworth had many years of gladness with his wife, and Prof. Wik son was well married, and Dr. John- son, who was 21 years younger thm' his wife, “continued to be under the illusions of the wedding day till the lady died, in her sixty-fourth year.” | Numa, who so unlike all the other kings of early Rome, since he was a sort of poet, holding company in still retreats with the muses—this Numa had a sweet wife of the name of Titia, who “was partaker of his retirement and preferred the calm en- Joyment of life with her husband in privacy, to the honors and distinction in which she might have lived with her father at Rome.” There was Plutarch, also, whose days in marriage were all of the brightest. He named his only daugh- ter after his wife, in attestation of his fond admirstion of and his ten- der devotion, throughout all his man- hood, to that wife, In a beautiful epistolary portrait of his Trinoxena, he represents her as being far above the general weakness and affectation of her sex, as having no passion for the expensiveness of dress or the parade of public appear ances. The world does not know all the happy homes in it; out of the doors ot ‘which there do come, at one time and another, manuscripts of thought or of sentiment which thrills the living Tace. In a right mateh, books and learn- ing do no more divide husband and ‘wife than do besutiful childrenm, or a pleasant journey, or a new house all paid for. Beautifully have passed away the lives of pairs, the marriage of whose ‘hearts was contemporaneous with the marriage of their minds. ‘When the wife of Plautius died, it 1s said that he threw himself upon the Hfeless bosom and breathed no more. He could not endure existence sepa- rated from that helpmeet, s0 devoted- 1y loved, so devotedly loving. Pliny said that on the death of his wife, “study was his one re-| Het.” Historians, painters, sculptors, mu- sicians, poets, statesmen, philosophers —these have become famous; but who! ‘has told how far their triumphs wera owing to the noiseless influence of their wives?—Philadelphia Inquirer. “Mechanical Horse” Used Abroad. A real “mechanical horse” is being experimented with abroad. It is a “tractor,” that is easily hitched to any horse-drawn vehicle, just as a team of horses may be, and combines all tha advantages of the horse with those of the auto truck at an exceedingly low price. The outfit comprises a steel bar and coupler and sprocket wheels designed to be attached to the wheels and tongue of the wagon. There is only one wheel on the “horse,” and that is at the front, the most of the support for the tractor depending upon the front wagon wheels by which it is driven. The engine, mounted un- der the front hood as in an automo- bile, is of forty or fifty horsepower, end drives the wagon at a speed of from eight to thirty miles an hour, the Iatter speed only being used when it 18 designed for fire. engine service. The front wheel is used tc steer by, and it allows a turn being made at an angle of eighty-five degrees, thus giw Ing remarkable turning ability in nar row streets. One of the greatest ad- vantages of the “mechanical horse™ is the fact that it may be kept con- stantly at work while unloading or loading is going on. Made Viilage Famous. “Did you ever hear of the village Obersalzbrunn in Germany?” writes a eorrespondent from Dresden to Die Buhne. “Probably not. Gerhart Haupt- mann was born thers, but even that fact could not have made the name of the place well known. It rested with the little local government to bring the name of the place to notice and pow it will always be remembered. When Hauptmann celebrated his fif- tieth birthday some of the citizens reanted the village to present to its \distinguished son & birthday gift. ‘But the proposition, although it in- wolved a ridiculously small sum, was woted down, and Obersalsbrunn has become famous. What the cobbler Woigt did for Kopenick the thrifty vil Iage fathers @4 for Hauptmean's ‘home.” Saving Every time the arc light it is necessary to piece of carbon which may be threq or four inches in length and this hag been heretofore thrown away. The carbon can not be made any smalle: for the reason that the rapidity of their consumption varies so that is necessary to provide a carbon of sufficlent length to insure that 1 shall last a prescribed period, even though it should happen to be of a texture that would consume more rapidly than usual. There seemed tg! be no prospect of making uses of these pieces, but recently a thrifty| German inventor employed by one of | the electric companies has caused these pieces to be saved and he| makes use of them by cementing| I i them to the ends of new carbons. In| this way the entire carbon 1is con | sumed. The time spent in the re construction of the carbon 1s very| trifiing and the saving well ‘wort) | while where there are any great num ber of the stubs to be saved. Health—Color—Sunshine. A wonderful trinity, this. Your health, the color of your glothing and the glorious sunshine have much tg do with the human body. If you have not given the subject any special thought, you may well wonder what] connection there can be pgtwe_e‘n the | all countries where one is much in Do Not Wear Black Habltually. Black clothes, black hats, black| ehoes, should be discarded as gpgular wear in midsummer not only in the tropical and semi-tropical countries, but everywhere. Not enly in midsum- mer, but in all seasons of the year in the sunshine. Why? Because it is an indisputable fact black material transmits the heat but absorbs the light of the sun. -If you ride, walk or work while being exposed to the heat | . of the sun then it is a matter of grave concern as to the. color of your cloth- Ing. Danger and destruction may lurk In the heat of the sun, but not in the light thereof. Demands. Knicker—“What is the matter with Smith?” Bocker—“His baby wants the moon and his wife wants the earth.” Beauty of Youth. ‘What an unbearable world it would be if we were all sent into it full grown. Just think of {it! What a grand institution youth is, and not | only our youth, but the youth of ev- e young leaves, the tiny blossoms, the inimitable green of the growing grass, the merry foals, and calves and lambs in the fleld, the downy little ducklings and the neat little chicks; what an enormous source of pleasure would be absent without all these. We all keep one special corner of our hearts for what is small and young—the very softest corner Even the most pompous and pragmat ical of men forgives many things in jurious to dignity on the part of s playful puppy or a graceful little kit ten. How humanizing the effect of the brute creation is on us we haw never prroperly appreciated. End of a Noted Folly. The monocle has long since been out of fashion in England, and is soon to disappear from Paris, which hag been its last stronghold. It was ine wvented by a Dutch dandy, and its evil effects upon the eye were at onece noted by oculists. The monocle first .appeared at the congress of Vienna in 1814, when it was worn by its in- ventor. One folly, at least, has had only about a century of life. This space reservedv by the Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. For price of lots, terms etc., INQUIRE OF T. C. BAILEY, Bemidji or write, Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 520 Capital Bank Buliding 8T. 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