Herbert's Magazine from Hiawatha, Kansas • 5

HERBERT T3 MAGAZINE and. shy at anything that looks like a harp. It was useless for the candidate to explain or protest; the fact that he had written poetry in the past operated against him. Nobody could advance a single reasonable argument against Mr. Carruth as a candidate for mayor, and so unreasonable arguments were resorted to, and he was defeated by means of an unfortunate blend of pigs and poetry.

Such methods of campaigning are unfair, and every effort should be made to discourage them; if they are permitted to prevail, the time will come when poets will refuse to run for office and purify politics, and then the country will be in a nice box, sure enough. Walt Mason. IN THE REALM OF MIND. IND is a wonderful -something' that has never been defined or analyzed. It travels at a more rapid rate than all the combined lightenings of the centuries.

It rests in the circle of close captivity and at once, in the thousanth part of a second it is a million miles away. It isas limitless as space, it extends beyond cerulean limits into the mists unnamed, to the verge of the unknown where all is lost in mystery. It circles the globe in a twinkle, it plays upon the floors of the ocean and above the stars simultaneously, it enters the subterranean cavern and after a long day's journey it comes home to rest. When at home it enters dreamland, God's land, and dwells for a season with then it sinks into or-getfulness, it goes to to awaken in the morning, ready for another day's journey. Mind is a wonderful something, who can tell us what it is? for A poor man who owns a garden feels there is something worth while in life.

He has a deeper interest in living and one more tie to home life. A garden is a money 'saver, too. Vegetables cost money often needed for other purposes. Plant a small garden and increase happiness. When Mr.

Huxley was a young man, he failed to pass the medical examination on which he thought his future depended. "Never mind," he said to himself, "I will do the next When he had become one of the greatest scientists of the age, he looked back upon his early defeat and wrote, "It does not matter how many troubles you have in life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble." sfc CAMPAIGN METHODS. TV VOW that the election is well over, and the justly celebrated Smoke of Battle has done its clearing- away act, the student of political and social conditions may consider the wreckage with a clear and dispassionate view; and one result of such consideration is the inevitable conviction that the modern campaign methods need revision worse than the tariff does. People do not hesitate to put in circulation false stories, calculated to in jure the candidates whose defeat they desire and it will be generally admitted that nothing could be meaner; it is bearing false witness. W.

H. Carruthone of the ablest and most celebrated of educators and poets was defeated at Lawrence. He wras a candidate for mayor, and at the beginning of the campaign his prospects seemed excellent, for his friends were numerous and enthusiastic, and his slogan was incomparable, and his devotion to the Palladium of Liberty was generally known and appreciated. Moreover, he had sounded a Clarion Note that left no one in doubt as to his attitude toward matters of public interest. Theu his enemies got busy, and circulated a story to the effect: that" he was opposed to.

the plan of keeping pigs and chickens in the suburbs. Every family has a pig and a few chickens, and some people keep cows, and this cruel slanderer stirred up much feeling against Mr. Carruthi In vain he that he had a passionate fondness for pigs and chickens and cows; the mischief was done. The people who voted against him, sent him to an untimely political grave, and were only sorry that; their pigs and chickens couldn't vote against him, too. Another story that was circulated to his injury was to the effect that if elected mayor, he would publish his proclamation and other state papers in rhyme, and this arrayed against the Conservative Citizens against him.

Lawrence has been afflicted with so manv poets that the Conservative Citizens and substantial Business Men go up in the air whenever a bard is mentioned, liundrcd years after we see the vision of the higher good and hear the voices of the impelling call. But beatified and saint-like are they who obey they see "and hear, 'whether it leads to the martydom of suffering, the ignominity of oblivion, or the monumental marbles of fame and enrollment among the saints. Chas. S. Gleed.

it it it TREES ARE LIKE MEN. A TREE has character, personality, life. The old man with the empty sleeve could not tell a more interesting tale than the old knotted tree. There is the old veteran fought against by the wind and weather, perforated by insects, hollowed by It stands waving its lofty -branches in memoir and pride. Some trees, like men, fail in their mission, because they are in the wrong place.

Other surroundings would make them beautiful trees. Yet as it is "they produce less and less fruit and at last die. The tall, slender trees stading above the rest in contented, lonliness, might resemble the poet who sits alone; the round, fat, sturdy oak, the magnate or the prosperous old merchant or the retired judge; the young sapling, the budding green lawyer; the well-shaped, strongly built tree, the all-round man of the world. We also see the stubborn, thorny tree and we think of the man with the irritable disposition. In the willow we see the man turning which ever way the wind blows and puffed with false pride from looking at his reflection in the water.

So we can find in men and in trees a wonderful likeness yet what a difference. Walt 4 PLANT A LITTLE GARDEN. EVERY man should plant a garden. He need not try to cultivate an acre of vegetables but should have a small tract where he can come in contact wTith the soil. The cultivation of a little garden brings a man in close touch with nature.

lie can watch the mysteries unfold and delve into the science of life. In a garden a man can forget his business and his trouble. He can recreate his mind. The air of a garden may be as pure as that of a 1000 acre farm. His life will be more in the open.

The touch of soil will not contaminate, it will invigorate him. A vegetable garden is a little world. Its owner has seed time and harvest. He may see the young plants burst through the surface and later have them disappear before the chickens, the hail or the frost, lie deals with the elements of nature and has closer sympathy for, and appreciation of the great farmer class which feeds the world. From his own- garden gathers fresh, crisp vegetables of finest flavor.

When he eats them his digestion will be improved and his disposition sweetened. Fresh garden truck makes happier the home life and prepares a man E. McPherson. it it it HOW TYPHOID IS SPREAD. YPHOID, one of the most loath some of the many diseases with which human beings are afflict ed, is spread in many ways.

It is essentially a filth disease. The dairyman who supplies your milk may have an: in fected well. His cans and bottles are washed with the infected water and this means that the milk -will be infected. A person sick with what is known as walking typhoid may spread the infection broadcast. A polluted water supply is not infrequently the source of a community epidemic of this disease.

Flies are recognized carriers because of their habits and because of iheir presence in the homes. And yet typhoid is one of the recognized preventable diseases. Destroy or abolish the source of infection and the spread of the disease is stopped at once. This means that milk, water, and food must be kept untainted, and the dangerous little house fly must be kept out of all places of human habitation. And remember that every death from typhoid is due to some, one's carelessness that, in this day of intelligent sanitary administration, is little short of criminal..