kJk>cieiice ■
«y
^invention
underlying secret of this practice Is
not so much to have as to know how
to save, says the Charleston News and
Courier. One cannot hope to success
fully economize without preparation of
some sort, and this preparation can
only come from personal experience
and sometimes very little personal ex
perience, for it does not come natural
ly within the province of human na
ture to profit by the experience of
others.
To the very poor, those who live
from hand to mouth and from day
to day, with no assurance for the fu
ture, there can be no such thing as
economy, life itself being too much of
a tragedy to permit of any niceties of
calculation. Among the very rich,
who apparently have no need what
ever for its úse, we often find the
practice freely indulged in, perhaps
from an instinctive desire to retain
firm hold upon their possessions, pos
sibly because of the early training
which enabled them to amass their
millions. It is, however, to the men
and women who occupy that vast mid
dle ground in life—the boundaries of
which are limitless, its population
ever increasing and its resources in
sufficient—that thé spirit of economy
appeals with such insistent force.
FISH THAT CAN WALK.
THINGS YOG MAY NOT KNOW.
Old Favorites
¿limbing* Perch Travel Over Land
from Water to Water.
It may seem absurd to speak of
Lightning which struck his kite re
fishes as walking. The flying fish is
cently killed a Norwegian scientist
well known, but its flight looks much
who was emulating Franklin.
like swimming in the air. We natural
Bonny Eloise«
Paying for electric current for a
The first process of making soda .on O sweet is the vale where the Mohawk ly think of fishes as living always in
Aim light is the height of extrava
the water, as being Incapable, in fact,
an extensive scale was discovered by
gently glides
gance; one new light often gives dou
On its clear, winding way to the sea, of living anywhere else, Pearson’s
Nicholas Leblanc, a French chemist,
ble the lighrt of two old ones.
And dearer than all storied streams on Weekly says. But nature maintains
Emancipated Woman—But why in 1791.
earth besides,
no hard-and-fast lines of distinction
won’t you marry me? Give me a defi
The Technological museum of Syd
During the last year the population
Is this bright, rolling river to me;
between animal life which belongs to
nite reason. Dethroned Man—Oh! of Germany increased by 896,000 per
ney, Australia, has a model of the
But sweeter, dearer, yes, dearer far the land and that which belongs to
just because!—Puck.
’amous Strasburg clock which has been
sons, to 63,886,000, according to official
than these,
the water. If we can believe the ac
running accurately twenty years.
Examiner—Now, children, what Is statistics.
Who charms where others fail,
counts of naturalists, there are fishes
the
difference
between
“
pro
”
and
Is
blue-eyed,
bonny,
bonny
Eloise,
The only ostrich farm in Europe, at
Ohio produced 26,270,639 short tons
that traverse dry land.
The belle of the Mohawk vale.
“con?” Bright Boy—Please, sir, they’re of coal last year, a decrease from the
Nice, uses a big incubator to hatch
It Is reported that Dr. Francis Day
spelt different.—Punch.
the eggs, the sun of that latitude not
previous year’s output of about 18.27 O sweet are the scenes of my boy of India has collected data of. several
being hot enough to do the work.
“Placed your order for an aeroplane per cent.
hood’s sunny years.
instances of the migration of fishes^
yet?” “No, I’m waiting to find out
Maps showing 50,000,000 stars, all
Skimmed milk has been proved a
That bespangle the gay valley o’er by land from one piece of water to*
what the 1910 style of house mortgage valuable food for laying hens, accord And dear áre the Jriends seen through another.
accurately located, have been complet
is going to be.”—Detroit Free Press. ing to experiments at the Virginia ex
memory’s fond tears,
ed by astronomers of many nations
A party of English officers wero
That have lived in the blest days of
working together in the common cause.
t “You can’t tell what' sort of a cook periment station.
upon
one occasion encamped in a cer
yore;
a wife will make.” “And you can’t
The quarter of a million electric
Mrs. John Rogers, says the Colum But sweeter, dearer, yes, dearer far tain part of India when their atten
tell what sort of a wife a cook will bia (Mo.) Tribune, knocked her hus
lights at the Seattle exposition were
tion was attracted by a rustling sound
than these,
make, and there you are.”—Washing band off a wagon with a brick when
supplied with current generated at
in the grass and leaves. Investiga
Who charms where others all fail.
ton Herald.
Snoqualmie Falls, fifty miles distant.
tion showed it to be caused by myriads
he drove by the house with another Is blue-eyed, bonny, bonny Eloise,
The belle of the Mohawk vale.
of little fishes that were passing slow
“Why did you accept George?” “He woman.
At the close pf last year there were
ly on. There were hundreds of them
was so much more original than the
approximately 230,000 miles of rail
It is estimated that 113,000 adult
other fellows.” . “In what way?” “He males in New York City make a living O sweet are the moments when dream moving by using their side and small
road in the United States, compared
ing, I roam
fins as feet, now upright, now falling
was the one that asked me to be his by “their wits,” without in any sense
with 186,646 miles at the close of 1898.
Thro’ my loved haunts, now mossy down, squirming, bending, rolling over,
wife.
”
—
Puck.
being an economic factor aiding in
It is estimated that the known sup
and gray;
RISKED HER NINE LIVES.
Servant (who has.been sent to chas production or distribution.
And dearer than all is my childhood’s regaining their finny feet and again,
ply of fertilizer In the shape of nat
passing on.
hallowed home,
tise
a
stray
cat
for
stalking
chickens)
ural nitrates will be exhausted by the Moment of Peril for a Pittsburg; Cat
Imports at the port of New York
These fishes were the famous climb-
That is crumbling now slowly away;
—
I
couldn
’
t
—
catch
’
im
—
mum
—
for
world’s demands in less than twenty
are
growing
rapidly,
showing
an
in
on the Twenty-fourth Floor.
lg
perch and they were, passing over
But
sweeter,
dearer,
yes,
dearer
far
the
nearer
I
got
to
’
im
—
the
further
’
e
years.
crease of from 35 to 50 per cent over
From the window ledges of the
than
these,
the
7
country to avoid a drought. When
the values of a year ago. Receipts
A St. Louis druggist prevents cus weather bureau office on the top floor, got away.—Punch.
Who charms where others all fail,
the stream in which they had been
Cashier
—
You
’
ll
have
to
bring
some
of
from
$1,000,000
to
$1,070,000
are
not
tomers from monopolizing his free the twenty-fourth, of the Farmers’
Is blue-eyed, bonny, bonny Eloise,
spending the season dries up they
The belle of the Mohawk vale.
telephone by a switch in the wire, Bank building to the street is a dis one to identify you before we can unusual in a day.
scale the banks and, directed by some
cash
this
check.
Got
any
friends
in
’
-
—
C.
W.
Elliott.
operated from behind the prescription tance of 320 feet, the Pittsburg Ga
Holland has no claim on aviation
marvelous instinct, crawl to another.
counter.
zette says. It is sufficient to give many the town. Stranger—Not one, I’m the records, but,- according to a report
In
the
Starlight.
from Amsterdam, it is the first coun In the starlight, in the starlight, let us
Some French fruit culturists have persons the creeps just to look out ol’ tax collector.—Exchange.
recently essayed the use of fruit walls the window to the thoroughfares be “When you first saw Niagara Falls, try in which an airship has been
wander gay and free,
of glass instead of masonry, with in low. For this reason Observer M. B. did you feel that almost irresistible im seized for debt. It is a flying machine For there’s nothing in the daylight
half so dear to you and me;
teresting results. With a glass wall Summers was given a fright the other pulse to throw yourself over the preci of the Voisin pattern, owned by La
the same kinds of fruit can be grown day when he observed the official cat pice that so many experience?” “No. Mouette, a Paris aeronaut association, Like the fairies in the shadows of the
woods we’ll steal along,
which was organized to give exhibi
on both the north and the south sides. of the building sunning herself at the I hadn’t seen my hotel-bill yet.”
And our sweetest lays we’ll warble, for
Wilson Vance’s novel of a Crom
“Owd George’s wooden leg’s been tions in Hollands
the night was made for song;
giving him pain lately.” “Don’t you
King Edward is a clergyman, al When none are by to listen, or to chide wellian soldier in old Virginia en
THE POSTCARD HABIT IN GERMANY.
titled “Big John Baldeth” is to be
be talkin’ so foolish, Willum.” “It’s though few people seem to be aware of
us in our glee;
sure enough. ’Is owd woman been the fact. He is prebendary of St. Da In the starlight, in the starlight let us brought out in England by the noted
Bristol publisher who introduced Hugh
a-whoppin’ ‘im wi’ it.”—London Opin vid’s, in Wales, and gets a salary of
wander gay and free.
ion.
$5 a year. He is entitled to preach In the starlight, in the starlight let us Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony
wander, let us wander;
Hope and other novelists of note.
“It is too bad that Peary did not one sermon a year in the cathedral.
In
the
starlight,
in
the
starlight,
let
us
Wilson Vance is the father of Louis
He
is
also
a
member
of
the
English
know before his last dash for the "pole
wander gay and free.
Joseph Vance, author of “The Brass
that Cook had been there ahead of and Irish bars and a member of the
Bowl.”
him.” “Why?” “Because he would Royal College of Physicians.
In the starlight, In the starlight, at the
There will be given to the world
have been hot all the way there and
Prince Bismarck was once pressed
daylight’s dewy close,
.back again.”—Houston Post.
by a certain American official to rec When the nightingale is singing his this autumn two books about the late
Lord Kelvin, one of the really great
1 ..last love-song to the rose,
“You have an enormous appetite,” ommend his son for a diplomatic
said a thin man enviously. “What do place. “He is a very remarkable fel- j In the calm, clear night of summer, men of science of the nineteenth cen
the breezes softly play,
tury. One is the formal biography by
you take for it?” “In all my experi low,” said the.proud father, “he speaks From when
the glitter of our dwelling we Professor Silvanus Thompson and the
ence,” replied his plump friend, “1 seven languages.” “Indeed,” said Bis
will gently steal away;
have found nothing more suitable -than marck, who did not hold a very high Where the sllv’ry waters murmur, by other is a volume of personal reminis
cences written by his sister, Mrs. King
opinion of linguistic acquirements;
food.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
the margin of the sea.
—who has lately followed her brother
“
what
a
wonderful
head
waiter
he
In
the
starlight,
in
the
we
starlight,
Mr. Brown and his family were
into the other world.
will wander gay and free;
standing in front of the lion cage. would make.”
It is well known that the long arc In the starlight, in the starlight, we Mrs. Velma Swanston Howard has
“John,” said Mrs. Brown, “if those
wander in the starlight,
returned to New York from a visit
animals were to esoape, whom would tic winter, with its depressing effects In the will
starlight, in the starlight, we to the celebrated Swedish author, Miss
you save first—me or the children?” on body and mind, often upsets the
will wander gay and free.
Selma Lagerlof. A new edition of
“Me,” answered. John without hesita best ^balanced nervous system, even of —Stephen Glover.
Mrs. Howard’s translation of Miss
the natives. But this hysteria van
tion.”
Beautiful
Girl—Gardener,
don’t ishes with the summer. Explorers BIG FINDS IN MESSINA RUINS. Lagerlof’s “Christ Legends” has just
been issued. The book Is having a
make a flower bed there. It will spoil have suffered in the same way, and
Jewelry and Valuables Worth $20,- success as literature aside from its
two
have
committed
.
suicide.
In
sum
our croquet ground. Gardener—Can’t
000,000 Unclaimed.
religious significance. Many of the
help it, miss. Them’s my orders. Your mer Eskimos get so full-blooded that
Jewelry and other valuables which legends it contains are not to be found
father says he is going to have this nose bleeding is very common.
military authorities have collected in the Bible and have a distinct
garden devoted to horticulture, not
King Leopold’s latest whim, prac the
from the ruins of Messina and for
husbandry.”
tically completed, is a private railway which no claimants can be found are quaintness and charm of their own.
Harry Delacombe, the author of the
“You say it was your ’double’ that leading from the Brussels suburban estimated to be worth $20,000,000.
“Boy’s Book of Airships,” has been in
stole the chickens?” “Yassuh.” “You station at Laeken to the palace, about
This vast collectiion of riches is
know I gave you thirty dfiys once for a mile away. This railway, altogether heaped up in the subterranean vaults the British army and became much
chicken stealing?” “Ah rememibah, hidden from sight, is luxuriously ap of the citadel and in wooden shelters, interested in the subject on which
suh.” “Well, this time you get sixty. pointed; from it his majesty steps into 'says a Rome letter, and is intrusted he writes. He is now a specialist in
That’s the court’s double.”—Philadel an elevator which conveys him direct entirely to the. honesty of four officers, it and has a, personal acquaintance
to his apartments. The railway, tun
wtth most of the leading inventors.
phia Ledger.
who have not even sufficient soldiers He has withheld his forthcoming book
“Back from your two weeks, I see.” nel and fittings cost $1,200,000.
to guard the shelters.
from the press as long as possible in
“Yep.” “I presume you got engaged a ■ Eskimos are all children, contented,
In one of these shelters the soldiers order to get in the very latest informa
peaceable,
honest
and
hospitable,
with
number of times?” “Naw; things don’t,
have constructed rough shelves, on tion, and it includes ^counts of the
go like that in real life, somehow. I out rulers and without ambition for which diamonds and gold are piled in
got engaged the first week all right fame or power. They live almost en the most extraordinary manners. A Zeppelin dirigible and the Wright,
enough, but it took me all the second tirely on raw animal food, and this small cardboard box, the size of a Curbiss, Farman, Blériot, Antoinette
week to break It off.”—Washington explains the absence of a number of matchbox, contains a necklace of and other aeroplanes as they appeared
diseases which aré common to civili pearls valued at over $20,000; between at the international contests at Reims.
Herald.
zation.
Salt water contains iodin, and an old pair of boots and a pair of oars
To see ourselves as others see us
“Jones,” said the veterinary sur
The rage for picture postcards appears to be still on in Germany, as geon, who had called to attend Jones* all sea animals, as well as all who eat there is a single envelope containing I is always an Interesting occupation,
It is in this country, if we are to take the scene represented in our illus pet dog, “you should take better care them uncooked, absorb more or less state bonds of $400,000 made out to and nothing can be »more interesting
to an American than to know why he
tration as typical. The people of Berlin want to .write postcards even when of this canine’s teeth.” “Why,” asked of this fickle chemical substance.
bearer.
sitting in an open-air restaurant. The postman is seen acting in the double Jones, “do you think they are becom One of the reforms which have been
In another small wooden box lies is unldke the English and the causes
capacity of postcard seller and walking pillar-box. The cards he sells are ing decayed?” “No,” answered the placed to the credit of the Young a diamond solitaire, worth a fortune, that have made him the energetic,
written upon there and then and promptly posted in the letter-box which he veterinary, “but just as I came in he Turkish party in the Ottoman Empire which was registered by the soldiers enterprising, active man that he is. In
-carries on his back. Note the bugle painted on the box, which is possibly put most of them in my leg.”—S-t. is the abolition of the “red ticket reg as a white stone. Further on a petro A. Maurice Low’s forthcoming book,
ulation.” Until this took place a red leum can contained gold coins amount “The American People,” these things
symbolic of old times, when the postm an announced his approach by blowing Louis Star.
are explained and the working of the
a horn.—Illustrated London News.
“And to think, to think,” quoth she, card was issued to a Jew on arrival ing to $10,000.
There are also safes innumerable American mind is carefully analyzed.
“that such heavenly bliss that fell to in Palestine, the possession of which
To be told that American character
The Count de Choiseul, a distinguished very edge of one of the window-ledges. my lot might have escaped me for entitled the holder to a three months’ filled with hundreds of gold watches, has been influenced by the Indian or
residence.
If
the
red
ticket
man
amateur horticulturist, finds the res He was almost afraid to. move at first ever! Dear Bob! . Did I ever tell you wished to remain longer the creden rings, chains, bracelets, earrings, that one reason why we are different
sulta for pear trees most excellent, the for fear of frightening the cat into he had proposed to me twice?” Then tial had to be renewed, and this nat pocketbooks and treasures of all sorts. from Europeans is because of our
All these riches have been found
fruit grown on the north side of the taking a step that would result in her the unsympathetic auditor assumed an
“cold waves” is interesting.
urally led to abuses in the nature of
wall being equal to that grown on the falling. So he began moving toward air of Innocence. “Didn’t you hear graft. The abolition of this restrict in the superficial excavations carried
Cicely Hamilton, the author of “Mar
on
up
to
the
present,
while
the
wealth
him
the
first
time?
”
she
inquired
with
south side, and even smoother. Other the animal very cautiously. The cat
ive measure was urged upon the au iest part of the town—the first' and riage as a Trade,” frankly admits that
well known nursery gardeners have was a favorite and he was particularly raised eyebrows. *
thorities by Israel Zangwlll.
second floors and the cellars—is still she speaks as a spinster. Her claim
made the experiment with good results anxious to save her.
Two ladies, previously unacquainted,
is that woman’s one trade or means
“I fed him with bird’s milk.” This untouched.
for pears, peaches and apples. The
The cat, however, thought Mr. Sum were conversing at a reception. After
of livelihood has been to please man,
principal objection made to the glass mers wanted to play, and she made a a few conventional remarks the young curious ^expression was used by the
Her Handicap.
to marry him if possible, and to do the.
wall is that it does not store up heat leap which took her completely out of er exclaimed: “I cannot think what old Sultan of Turkey while a prisoner
“You say you won your husband
like a masonry wall, to keep the sight. The frightened observer felt has upset that tall blonde man over on his way to Salonika, with reference through wearing a $2 graduating work that he judges too tiresome or
uninteresting to do for himself. The.
plants warm at night; during the day that it was all over with pussy, and there. He was so attentive a little to his brother Mohammed, his prede gown?”
result has been not only that her
time the heat is nearly equal on both he hurried to the window to see if she while ago, but he wop’t look at me cessor on the throne. Abdul Hamid
“I did.”
profession
of matrimony has been
was
lamenting
his
own
fate
and
tell
now.
”
“
Perhaps,
”
said
the
other,
“he
sides of the wall.
had reached the street. He could not
“
How
romantic!
I
suppose
you
are
overcrowded
but also that the low
ing
his
captors
how
little
he
deserved
The value of ozone as a purifying see her anywhere at first. Then he saw me come in. He’s my husband!” it and how kind he had been to his very happy?”
grade of woman’s wages is due to her
—
Philadelphia
Inquirer.
looked
toward
another
window,
and
agent for water is being recognized
“Oh, yes. But that $2 gown was an lack of interest in her work and re
brother. “I fed him with bird’s milk,”
“But, darling,” murmured the love he said, as if that were the greatest awful bad precedent to establish, I’ve gard for it on account of her belief
tn many places. Its attack upon in there was the cat perched on the ledge
fusorial life is flkin to the process of as comfortable as you please. She lorn youth, “every night for two weeks kindness he could show. What is found/’-^Louisville Courier-Journal.
that her only respectable career was
combustion. Any well constructed ap must have’ jumped nearly eight feet I have been on my bended knees be bird’s milk? Not the Turkish equiva
the marrying of some good man, or in
A Departure.
paratus by which air charged with along the side of the wall, hundreds fore you. Have you no pity?” “I cer lent of the milk of human kindness,
case that failed in becoming the wife
Mrs.
Oatcake
—
Mary
Jane,
who
was
tainly have, Horace,” spoke up the but a European brand of condensed
ozone may be made to traverse the of feet above the street.
of an unworthy man. Miss Hamilton
water answers the purpose. Professor 1 “It’s all right; talk as you please pretty flirt, as she reached for her milk bearing on the can a picture of that young feller in th’ parlor last Is an English woman and the author
night?”
Soper Of Columbia University has about the performance,’’ said Mr. Sum handbag; “here’s a whole quarter. Go a bird on a nest.
Mary Jane—He’s an automobile of “Diana of Dobson’s.”
found that Croton water is not only | mers, “but I confidently believe that have your trousers pressed. After so
Scurvy,
so
common
and
deadly
drummer, mother.
sterilized by the ozone treatment, but the cat risked every one of her nine much bending they must be baggy at
Breaking; a Record. *
among early polar explorers, is totally
Mrs. Oatcake—-Fer th’ land’s sake!
the knees.”—Wasp.
that unpleasant odors are removed. lives on that occasion.”
“
What
was the matter with that boy
unknown among Eskimos who eat raw Hev they got tew usin’ drums ’stead
And ever since the Inhabitants of
Professor Geddes of Glasgow Is quoted
A commuter was walking up and meat. This* iodized raw food also uv horns on them pesky things?— ( sent you?”
M saying that the use of ozone will the twenty-fourth floor of the building down the platform waiting for the
“He l§n’t honest.”
fender costly filtration plants virtually have been debating 'the subject of train that always seemed to be delay explains the absence of enlarged ton Brooklyn Citizen.
“You must be mistaken!”
sils,
glands
and
goiter.
Their
superfluous. At Baltimore an ozone whether the cat would have alighted ed. “This is a terrible road,” he said,
Ridiculous.
“No, I’m not. He said he was truth*
splendid
teeth
and
strong
lower
plant, capable of treating 10,000,000 on her feet had she fallen the long dis addressing a prosperous-looking by
Wife—Now, see ’ere, Jim; if yer ful and that he loved work, and a boy
jaws
mark
them
completely
carnivor
gallons daily, Is about to be put In tance to the street.
stander. “I’ve heard a great many ous. The exclusion of vegetable food don’t provide fer me better I shall that can lie twice with half a dozen
operation, and in Europe the method
complaints about Lt,” was the reply. has shortened their intestine, and in quit—so I warns yer.
words is too swift for our business.”—-
Then
He
Ran.
has been adopted at Nice, Brest, Char
“Yes,” went on the commuter, “near digestion is unknown. One would
Husband—Provide better? Well, I Houston Post.
Office Boy—Miss Keyes, please let ly every morning I’m late to business,
ges and elsewhere.
suppose their pure flesh diet would like that. Why, ain’t I got yer three
Too Much Realism.
me look at your face!
and when I get home at night the din cause biliousness, etc., but the large good jobs o’ work this last month?—
Economy as an Art«
Miss Keyes—What for?
“
Why
are you crying, Johnny?”
ner is cold. How do y#u find it?”
The Sketch.
The first principle of economy,
Office Boy—Why, the boss said “Oh,” returned the other, “I have no percentage of oil in their food acts as
“We was playing train and I was
Before a girl puts on long skirts, the engine.”
ipeaklng from the viewpoint of the some of the paint was scratched off his kick coming. I’m the president of the a gentle laxative and protects against
average person, is to save, but a little typewriter. I didn’t know whether he road and I always travel In an auto.’* all harms. The Eskimo eats with rel she has somewhere acquired the im “Yes.”
ish old rotten blubber that would stag pression that no man can have a good
“And pa corned In and switched
reflection will convince us that the meant you or the machine«
—Life.
ger a buzzard.—New York Press. .
time innocently.
me.”—Judge.
i