The Cottage Grove sentinel., May 20, 1910, Image 8

company and lines to Newark have
TRUMPET CALLS.
bowed to the will of the people and are
back the good old-fashioned Ram’s Horn Sounds a Warning Not«
Duriou® Divination Custom Among putting
]
to the Unredeemed.
Hill Trilles in Farthest India.
< cars in which the conductor falls over
The man who
The egg enters in a peculiar way 1 the passengers’ corns.
Women are responsible for the re­
judges simply by
into the lives of tfie people of the
what he can see*
Khasi Hills, in Assam, Farther India. version to the old type in Yonkerc.
never hits the bulls­
No event of any importance in the life They convinced their husbands that
eye.
of a Khasi takes place without divina­ to negotiate three bundles, a bird cage
tion by egg-breaking. The number of and several children into a car of the
1 The kind of a.
eggs broken for omens is only limited pay-as-you-enter variety required a
man your boy is
by the resources of the owner. Groups’ mathematic training far beyond them.
going to be will be
of Khasis may be’ seen arguing and One of the women was the wife of Mrs.
decided by the kind,
wrangling for hours, and accompany­ Leslie Sutherland, receiver for the
of man he has for
ing their ejaculations by furiously Yonkers Railroad Company.
his hero.
In Newark they adopted business’
banging an egg on the ground, until in
Obedience to God is the surest evi­
time they are standing in a disgusting methods to oust the pay^as-you-entei dence of faith in Him.
mess of egg shells, yolks and the outfit. There a few hundred patrons
The best preparation for to-morrow
blood-red saliva caused by betel-chew­ of the lines agreed to always pay their
ing. When the success or failure of fares in dollar bills. The result was is to do your best to-day.
The man with a bee in his bonnet
some prospective event is in question, that the conductors were soon deluged
the custom is to drop an egg on a pe- with the bills and unable to carry suf­ often brings up in a hornet’s nest.
¡cûliarly shaped board, and then, from ficient change. Besides this, schedules
The man who leans on his under­
.the configuration of the splashed yolk, were upset by the delay in making standing alone leans on a mighty poor
and the position of the bits of shell, change for so many?
thing.
Mr. Sutherland told the public serv­ A good habit cannot be formed in
draw an augury concerning what is
likely to happen. When it is desired ice commissioner all about the trou­ a day, nor a bad one broken in an
to discover the cause of some sickness bles experienced in trying to intro­ hour.
: or misfortune, the man addresses the duce the trolley innovation. He said
You would like to build a beautiful
egg after this fashion: “Oh, eg’g, I am he went to Van Cortlandt Park, where
try to build a
¡only a man, and ignorant, and I can passengers change from the subway tc house? Then why not
beautiful
character.
!
the
surface
lines,
and
tried
to
persuade
’ divine nothing. You can communicate
Some people weigh little for the
with spirits, and between them and them it would be all right as -soon as
Lord because they talk about their-ré-
us have intercourse. Now, say, who i they got used to the new system.
"I went up there,” said he, “until ligious life as if it were medicine.
-has done this—who has caused this
The man who is troubled about
man to fall sick? If the spirit is in the people made fun of me and called
Cain’s wife would be happier it he
paid more attention to his own.
When the Bible is only a center-5
table ornament the devil is no more
afraid of it than he would be of a
brick.
/The man who can't find out how to
add a cubit to his stature in the won­
derful time in which we live, might
as well run his little head .through
the hole of a grindstone and jump into
the sea.
EGGS AS OMEN».
PARTS A GREAT HONEYCOMB.
SOME OF THE WONDER8 OF THE UNDERGROUND PORTION OF THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
Like every other great city,. Paris is undermined by
tubes of all sorts, notably by the “Metro,” the equiva­
lent of our own tubes. Some idea of the elaborate na­
ture of the tunneling required for such an enterprise
may be gained from a glance at this section of the Opera
terminus of the line. Easily to be s.een are. the tubes
through which the trains run, which are set at differ­
ent levels, the passenger lifts, the stairways and the
corridors. In all there are some 375 stairs. The well
of each lift is 19 meters (about 62 feet) in height.
Illustrated London News.
an Instant, her purring stopped as she the fiber so that the bagasse is fit only
RECALLED TO HER DUTY.
glowered down at my face with eyes for fuel.
A company organized in the United
X have loved colors, and not flowers; of liquid green fire.
States is constructing a large plant at
Their motion, not the swallow’s
The Panther Cat!
wings;
I saw the rhythmic motion of her Preston, on Nipe bay, to make a practi«
Of all the complex requirements of
And wasted more than half my hours
muscular arms as she slid her cruel cal test of a patented process for ex­
modern
civilization, the hardest to
Without the comradeship of things.
pressing
the
juice
and
conserving
ths
claws out and in their velvet scab­
live up to is an English butler!” de­
fiber and pulp for paper, the consul
bards.
The
tawny
coat
on
her
shoul
­
How is it now that I can see
clared an American hostess recently
ders rose and fell as again she purred says. The fiber is separated from the
With love and wonder and delight,
in humorous despair. “You see, he
pulp
by
machinery,
and
then
by
evapo-
her satisfaction.
The children of the hedge and tree,
gives no sign of satisfaction when one
oration
the
water
is
eliminated,
leav
­
The Bunny had disappeared.
The little lords of day and night?
does fulfil his demands for a lady in.
A sense of supreme indifference stole ing the dry fiber and pulp containing
‘
’igh life’; and when one doesn’t*
the
solids
and
sucrose,
from
which
How Is it that I see.the roads
over me as I listened to her. I am
there
is somthing in his eye—-an ex­
No longer with usurping eyes,
sugar
is
made.
The
fiber
and
pulp
are
not specially courageous, quite to the
pression of remote, respectful, but ut­
A twilight meeting place for toads •
then baled separately for shipment to
contrary. Yet I felt no fear.
terly crushing withdrawal from re­
A midday mart of butterflies?
I noticed, as by some occult sense, the United States, where the sugar
sponsibility for the errors of such a
is
extracted
by
diffusion.
that her yard of tail lay carelessly
X feel in every midge that hums,
hopeless person as yourself—that ex­
By
this
treatment
the
fiber
is
un
­
across
the
gun
muzzle.
A
funny
Life, fugitive and inflnite,
tinguishes one’s last, lingering spark
injured and can be used in making
thought came to me.
And suddenly the world becomes
of independence. Under Higgins’ dis­
high-grade
'paper
at
a
considerable
“Suppose I fire the gun and set her
A part of me and I of it.
approval I am reduced to a worm of
saving as compared with the cost of
—Arthur Symons.
tail afire! Wouldn’t she jump?”
the dust!”
I nearly laughed aloud. My shadowy wood pulp. The residue from the pulp
Her guests laughed, and several
is
also
suitable
for
low-grade
paper.
smile seemed to meet a quick response
feelingly assented But .one woman,
in the face of my tawny jailer. Her It is claimed that the preliminary
who visited much in England, de­
ears flattened backward, her lips- part­ tests, on a small scale,, have proved
clared that on his native heath the
successful,
and
that
in
addition
to
pre
­
A Wi.d Cat Tail
ed in a derisive smile through which
British butler developed virtues he
her ‘ teeth gleamed hungrily. I just serving the bagasse for paper rnanu-
seldom carried across the Atlantic.
couldn’t help wondering if she needed facture, a larger percentage of sucrose
The butler at a famous country
is
obtained
than
is
possible
by
the
gold crowns or bridge work.
house
where she visited was an aged
“More likely they need filling,” present methods of extraction in sugar
The trail sloped abruptly downward
man, of silver hair and benignant
toward a brawling brook that rushed thought I with a silent soul chuckle. houses. If successful it will revolu­
countenance, whose many years ■ of
tionize the sugar business in all cane*
hysterically between the wboded hills. I’m a dentist in town.
loyal service in the family had earned
I was still obsessed with the idea producing countries.
Footsore and weary from the long
their full reward of affection and re­
tramp, I paused to gaze where a vista of setting her tail on fire. How to do
DIVINATION BY MEANS OF EGGS.
spect.
SIGNATURES
AND
NAMES.
of pine clad hills with here and there this and not attract her adverse tac­
He felt an almost fatherly degreo
a maple blushing crimson at Indian tics too soon was a problem.
Printers Often Experience Difficulty the house, let the signs be on the left; me a politician. I stood near the stairs of responsibility for the manners and
Happy thought!
summer’s too ardent wooing, walled in
—Method French Critic Adopted.
<
If 'out of the house, on the right.” Then and tried to persuade the people to behavior of the younger members of
I am a fairly good ventriloquist.
the narrow valley.
One would imagine that people who ] he spits on the egg, and, taking some get their change ready, and even of­ the family, especially upon ceremo­
“Down the valley, along the brook, Many a time I have surprised a dog are in the habit of writing letters (
clay in his hands, smears it over, so fered to provide them with change. nial occasions. ’ At a large reception,
cross over the bridge, five miles of with a fierce growl at his heels.
would not be long in realizing that the ■ that the outside of the shell may be But they would not listen and set the American guest overheard him
She
of
the
woods
looked
quickly
over
forest trail and then the wagon road
Speaking to the youngest grown
word which ought to be the most legi-
to the village. Eight miles to the her left shoulder as a low growl stole ble is the signature, names being prop-, quite unmistakable when it is smash­ themselves against it, just as they did daughter, under pretense of bringing
in
Newark,
where
they
formed
the
dol
­
through the stillness. Her nervous er nouns which one cannot, reconstruct ed. Apology is made to the egg by
hotel, supper and a bed.”
her a lace scarf;
tail twitched and dropped straight out by induction, says the London Globe. the man saying, ‘I don’t spit on you to lar committees.”
1 looked at my watch.
“Miss Hedith! Miss Hedith! The-
Because
of
this
it
was
necessary
to
insult
you,
but
'to
clean
you
arid
give
“Five o’clock! No wonder I am hun­ from the gun muzzle, the tip squirm­ When one has to write for printers or :
hold gentleman by the ’earth ’asn’t
put
back
old
cars
without
wheel
guards
"you
a
color,
”
and
then
it
is
hurled
gry. Fifteen miles to-day and only ing with her nerve tension. In a flash the press one quickly learns the habit
’ardly been noticed by hanybody for
and fenders.
I had the gun cocked and finger on of writing all proper names so; legibly upon the board.
one rabbit!”
’half an hour.”
Commissioner
Maltbie
decided
the
Down on the bank covered with pine
LIVED ON 50 CENTS A WEEK.
Miss Edith not displaying any eager­
that there is no excuse for making a
company
had
been
negligent
in
provid
­
needles and wintergreen I flung poor
ness to hasten to the relief of the neg­
mistake. Sarcey, the famous dramatic
ing
proper
wheel
guards
on
the
old
a
Bunny’s body and cast myself down
critic, used to say: “At the Rappel I London Miser V’lv* Is
cars which have come from premature lected one,—a fat, bald-headed, unat­
Quarter of a Million Dollars.
on the same fragrant cushion a yard
tractive little man,—he continued, re­
have a marvelous printer: My writing
from the trail. '
A miser who hau liven for years in retirement and served notice that if proachfully:
is very bad, but he finds his way
the
commission
’
s
orders
are
not
car
­
I drew a small luncheon from a
“ ’E’s a person , of himportance if ’e-
through it with incredible ease. He squalor on 50 cents a week while he ried out soon the company will have
game pocket, laid my repeating shot
what I intended to say, and he was in receipt of an income of $3^000 more trouble on its hands' than that is helderly. I’ve ’eard ’e’s much re­
gun at my side and ate while reveling
it, in the terms I use, or in oth- a year and had, it is beljeved, $250,000 . experienced at the hands of the irrec­ spected in the.’Ouse. Besides, Miss
in the beautiful panorama of forest
Hedith, in the words of the poet, ‘Kind
But he. says it. Sometimes there' worth of property, has just forsaken oncilable suburbanite.
green outlined against a swiftly on­
’earts are more than coronets’; and I
literals and sometimes slips of his solitary life and sought better shel­
coming sunset of mellow autumn haze.
Trapped.
’avefi-t a doubt, if ’e’d ’appened to
one kind and another, but never non­ ter in a Salford hospital, a New York
A great weariness fell on body and
Sun’s London correspondent says. His
The man was neither neatly nor well think of it, ’e’d ’ave- hadded, ‘and
sense.
”
He dressed. He' was plainly a tramp, beg­ brainy ’eads than ’air’! ”
mind as the giant pines sighed their
“That is to say, that he could almost name is John Clarence Hudson,
vesper service.
was found by the hospital officiais ging, and had .just turned away from
The conjunction of bard and butler
do
your
article
himself?
”
said
a
quiz
­
“Just a moment of rest,” I thought,
lying on a bedstead covered with a one passer-by when he saw a young was sufficient to recall Miss Edith to
zical
friend?
of
hustle
to
the
“and then two hours
“If I gave him the title, certainly. dirty rag, with a stick by his side, to man walking., briskly toward him.' her duty as a daughter of the house,
i keep the rats from his food.
hotel.”
“Please, mister,” said the tramp, “can and she was soon successfully enter­
It
’
s very handy.” •
FIRED AIMLESSLY IN HER DIRECTION.
A homesickness for the comforts and
He told the officials that he could you give us a dime to get something taining the bald but distinguished
“
But
the
proper
names?
”
luxuries of city life at the evening the trigger. She sensed the action and
live well on 50 cents a week. A cent’s to eat with?”
member of Parliament.
“Ah, that’s true. But I never put
hour came to me, a deep yearning—
The young man stoped. “What’s
looked down into my wide open eyes any. I write, ‘Gomme dit l’autre,’ arid worth of milk had to last him four
Disliked Egotism.
with a world of fierce intelligence.
the printer puts ‘Comme dit .Mon­ days and a loaf of bread for a week. the matter?” he asked.
“What’s the matter with you?” ask­
“Do they miss me at home; do they
His
meat
allowance
was
half
a
pound
the
other,
“
Can
’
t
get
work,
”
said
Flash! Roar!
taigne.’ And as Montaigne said every­ a week, and he bought half a pound
miss me?
glibly. .. “I haven’t had a bite to eat ed his wife.
I think I was neve'r so tickled be­ thing, that does very well.”-
’Twould be an assurance most dear
“I’m feeling lonely,” was the reply;
of sugar every three months. Yet he since .yesterday morning, Pawned all
fore
in
all
my
life.
The
upflame
caught
M.
Emile
Faguet
of
the
French
Acad
­
To know that this moment some loved
“Don’t you like this town?”
admitted
that
he
had
$17,500
of
rail
­
Slept
under
my
clothes,
’
cepting
these,
the
hair
of
her
tail
along
two-thirds
of
one
emy relates of one of his old profess? way stock and house property, and it
“I don’t like this earth.”
a
wharf
for
a
week,
arid
I
don
’
t
know
Were saying, T wish he were here.’ ” its length. The vast volume of up­ ors whom the undergraduates nick­
“What’s the objection to it?’
is
stated
that
he
received
a
legacy
of
anybody in the whole city—honest, I
roar at her haunches sent her into the named ‘“Soleil” that when the students
“People are* too egotistical. It
don’t.”
' .
The little owl nicknamed “Saw­ air like a rubber ball. By some cir­ had to pass a written examination he $150,000 from his parents.
He also declared that he had not
The- young man looked at the there’s anything I hate it’s egotism.
whet” broke the silence with his rasp­ cus torsion she faced squarely about used always to say to them gravel/:
been bathed for twenty years, and it tramp’s smooth face, over which a ra- And when I see kings going about con­
ing cry a few rods back on the trail in mid air, a living comet with fiery
“Sign your name at the bottom of
and doing things wrong, and
I had just passed over, I wondered tail for one brief instant. I screamed your paper and put your name along­ tGok two nurses two hours and a half zor had evidently passed very recent- fidently
diplomats trying all sorts of insincere
to make up the arrears in that respect. iy.
what he saw, or heard, I clasped my with laughter. A wild and piercing side your signature.”
But amid all the squalor of his home
“Who shaved you this morning?” he tricks with complete effrontery, and
gunstock and listened.
wail deft the forest gloom as she
The old man had learned by experi­
lawyers seeking applause for arguing
Voiceless silence! A deep mejan- struck the ground. I had sense enough ence that a signature—at least that the officials found a touch of a long- asked, and as the beggar faded away on the wrong -side of a case, and ev­
the young man grinned, and walked on
choly gripped me suddenly, a feeling to cock the gun and raise the muzzle of a Frenchman—is not a name, but a dead romance.
erybody displaying utter selfishness
A table was laid in one room for two down the street.
of impending evil—to the home folks, —-but there was no need.
zigzag.
without a blush, I am forced to the
people
to
dine.
It
had
always
been
I felt sure. My eyes closed so I might
She sprang over a juniper bush,
What Accountancy Means.
conviction that I am the only consist­
kept like that, they were informed by
One Was Enougth for Johnny.
the better see the wife and bonnie flashing bapk one last swift look of
Accountancy is not and never can ently moral gentleman on this globe;
Bess, our baby.
shocked and awful reproach as I fired
The Sunday School lesson was from the woman who attended the miser. be a matter of abstract knowledge to And it makes me feel lonely,”
Hudson,
who
practiced
years
ago
as
a
I am sure I couldn’t have slept so aimlessly in her direction.
that scripture which teaches that if
transferred by means of lectures,
very long. Still, the shadows were
I hope no shot hit her. Had she not your, brother strike you on the cheek, solicitor, is said to have been crossed be
A Day of Reckoning;.
but is the art of knowing how to sup­
gathering when I became conscious of spared my life and given me a nerve you should turn the other also and in love.
It is claimed by the many admirer»
ply
that
knowledge
to
the
require
­
Another
feature
of
the
case
was
the
a crunching noise as of breaking twisting adventure?
endure even for seventy times seven.
_ author
_ w.. ......
that his tongue is.
ments of business under very varying Of a rising
bones. I tried vainly to open my eyes.
Good old Puss! I wish you well.
Johnny had listened to his teacher very discovery of a picture of Spanish beg- conditions. It is essentially something as ready and clever as his pen.
My whole body seemed hypnotized to
attentively while she emphasized this gar girls, which, Hudson declares, is that cannot be taught in lectures or
During a conversation with a lady
silence. The dream images so mingled
PAPER FROM BAGASSE.
fact, and after the lesson the superin­ a Murillo.
of uncertain age she said, with a
classes,
but
can
only
be
acquired
as
with the real that I could only, listen.
tendent rose to make a few remarks: BEAT PAY-AS-YOU-ENTER CARS. a result of carefwl individual study mock sigh:
I felt a tickly sensation on my hand An American Company to Test the
“But you are young, while I can al­
“Now, boys,” he' said, “how many
and a reasonable amount of actual
New Process in Cuba.
which lay across my gunstock with
times ought another boy to strike you Parcel Laden Suburban Travelers practice.—Bookkeeping.
ready count my gray hairs.”
Consul R. E. Holaday of Santiago before you hit him back?”
finger near the trigger.
“But, dear lady,” and the young man
Successfully Combine.
“Some joker tickling me with a hair. writes of the manufacture of paper
Greatly Oventimated.
let his well-known genial smile play
“Just about once!” promptly an«
They do not care for new-fangled
from bagasse, the dry refuse of sugar swered Johnny.—The Delineator.
Wonder who it is?” thought I.
Hewitt—Half the world doesn’t over his features, “surely you know
things on their trolley cars in the sub­
Then there came a muffled sound cane after the juice has been expressed.
know how the other half lives, Jew- that as long as gray hairs can be count­
urban
districts,
the
New
York
Herald
which soon grew into a giant purr, as The increased cost of wood pulp has
We have noticed that the drunk
Pay-as-you-enter cars may be all itt—I think you overestimate the ed, they do not count!”
of some huge cat. Warily I struggled stimulated experiments for solving this man who doesn’t believe he has Jim says.
right
in
Broadway, but in Yonkers and number of people who mind their own
to see who was there.
When rheumatism gets busy with a
problem. It has long been known that Jeffries outclassed, is apt to imagine
New
Jersey,
where the suburbanite is business.—Brooklyn Life.
At last my eyes, opened in a narrow excellent paper can be made from he is Caruso’s only rival.
man he is apt to forget his other
A Fearful Punishment.
known
by
the
number
of
parcels
he
troubles.
slit through which I saw her face a sugar cane fiber, but the difficulty has
Compulsory sleeplessness, a Chinese
If your conscience isn’t anything carries, that sort of modern equipment
few inches above my hand, her long been to preserve the fiber intact while
The more talk it takes to run a.
punishment for murder, is fatal 1n
lean sinewy body crouching low.
extracting the juice for sugar making. more than fear of being found out it is not wanted, thanks.
business the slower it moves
And,
therefore,
the
Yonkers
railroad
nine
or
ten
day
01
.
. She sat upright on her haunches in The present machinery cuts and tears may help a little.
AMENDS TO NATURE.