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bellboy took an expresa package up
A L m o n In Veiea Culture T h a t Re- to the rooms, knocked, opened the
door and entered. A* he handed
aultad In Liberal T ip*.
A young woman who left an up the package to the woman a deep
town hotel in New Y ork the other voice was heard to exclaim, "Give
the boy a dime.” The woman start
day waa much more liberal in her
ed, gasped and then as the bird re
tip* during thia visit to the city peated his injunction said, "Yea, of
than ahe had ever been in the I course,” and she fished into her
courae of her many visits to the purse for a coin. The bird’s owner
hotel. After ahe had gone to the up to the time of her departure had
train one of the managers over not been heard to brag about this
heard scrap* of conversation be new linguistic accomplishment of
tween two of the bellboy* and made her pet.—New York Sun.
them tell him the facta in the case.
The woman haa a parrot which
M ere M a n 's A p p a re l.
converses as fluently as any parrot Here Is a spicy letter from "Stenog
ean in half a dozen tongue*. Hav rapher," which la Intended, of course,
ing had occaaion to ‘teat the bird’* for men only:
powers, a bellboy in the New York T o th e E d ito r:
A render m ak e s fu n o f th e clothes w o m
notel conceived an idea.
a re w e a rin g th is w in te r —th e w a s te
The next day at lunchtime, the en
ba s k et hats. In v e rte d p y ra m id s k irts , ate.
owner of the bird having left her I f a n y f r - iln ln e coatum s la aa u g ly or
lu d ic ro u s as m an 's costum es I'd h a te to
door open, two bellboys repaired to sea
It. A h a t shaped Ilk a a b o w l o r lik e
the room, and while one remained a section o f stovep ipe (d e rb y and a llk b a t),
a
fu
a l s u it w ith tw o D ap pin g ta ils
on guard the other approached the and n a e re
aouai-d o u t vest, le a v in g a to m b
parrot.
stone slab o f s h irt (dress s u it), c h o k in g ly
"Say ‘Give the boy a dime,’ ” said h ig h collars, tro u s e rs w ith creases, a te .—
we a re used to .th e s e m onstrosities. I t Is
the page to the parrot. The parrot lu
o k y wo are, fo r I f w e saw Ih e m f « r the
firs
t tim e we w o u ld swoon w ith disgust,
paused and cocked his head on one
b e t th e pot atop c a llin g th e k e ttle blac k .
side.
L e t m en stop g u y in g w om en's clothes.
"Give the boy a dime,” repeated L o o k In the m ir ro r, m ere m an, b u t d o n 't
blnm
e me I f tho m ir r o r breaks.
the bellboy encouragingly, and he
kept it up until he had said it a full So there! That settles IL We shall
fifty times. The parrot seemed in say no more about women's cloVlies ex
terested, but that was all. Tho bell cept that they serve to set off the face
boy got scared. Then he went out, and figure nnd enhance the beauty of
and the other bellboy went in and the human form divine. Even those
gave the bird a lesson in voice cul Inverted bushel inensure bonnets are
quite cute, and the hobble skirt Is a
ture.
These lessons went on for three distinct Improvement upon the hoop
days before the bird seemed to real skirt that was worn by our grand
ize that he was expected to do any mothers of civil war Ume; also the
thing, and then on the fourth day, old time bustle has disappeared ironi
when one of the boys entered the female attire, and It is to the credit of
room, he was greeted with “Give the women that It has. Or la It meu
the hoy a dime.” The nows spread mode makers In Paris who design wo
among the conspirators, and before men's costumes?
It has been said that clothes make
the end of the week they hnd the
b'rd so that, he would exclnim “ Give the man. This refers to men’s clothes.
the boy a dime,” at sight of a uni Women's clothes sometimes break him.
THE PARROT HELPED.
fo rm
But, there; tic are forgetting our agree
There came a day when the bird inunt
O u r N lu e t)-th r e e M illio n s .
Well, wi are a big country! We are
big In territory and in population.
There are iXi.RL lot of us. Including
the Alaskuns, the Porto Ricans and
the Hnwallnns, ni d If we Include the
Philippines, Guam, our Samoan sec
tion and the Panama canal gone there
are 101,100.000, according to the com
pleted reports of the census bureau.
The figures of the thirteenth census
as compared with those of the twelfth
and preceding censuses show that nev
er before hss any nation grown so
rapidly In population. 1-eavlng out
Alaska and all the island possessions,
the population of the United States
proper Is shown to be 91,972,200. It
seems only a few years since we talked
of "our 70.000.000." We have now
about thirty times as many people as
we had when the republic was estab
lished. About every twenty-five years
we have doubled our population on the
average. In the language of free
America, that Is going some.
Much of the more recent Increase
has been due to Immigration. Much
of the Immigration has been undesira
ble. Yet a very considerable part of
It has added to the good citizenship of
the country. And, after all. It Is good
citizens that make a nation great rath
er than mere numbers of human be
ings.
If we measure by numbers
alone, then China and Russia are fnr
greater nations than the United States.
There are several American Institu
tions which have helped to bring our
citizenship up to a high standard, and
chief of these Is our public school sys
tem. We have fewer Illiterates In
proportion to population than any oth
er nation. Knowledge Is power, nnd
It Is the common school education thnt
has made this nation a world power
not to be despised—but, on tho other
hand, to he admired and Imitated—by
all the other nations of the world.
INDIAN STRATEGY.
A Wogan's T rie k T h a t Fooled "a Band
of Creaa.
A member of the Canadian
mounted police tell* a good story of
the cleverness of an Indian. One
snowy morning a band of Crees
awoke to find that about a dozen of
their ponies bad been stolen during
the night. Pursuit was immediately
organised, and in the course of an
hour the trail was struck. The band
followed it for thirty miles or more
till it entered a river and headed
for a little wooded island.
Smoke was rising from the trees
and an opening, apparently the
mouth of a cave, was in plain view.
Presently a Piegan Indian showed
himself in front of the opening.
H e was in war paint, and at hu
heels was a dog.
Pretty soon the dog scented the
Crees, who were lying low, and be
gan growling and barking. The Pie
gan looked up, glanced about him
a moment and then instantly en
tered the cave. In about ten sec
onds another Piegan came round
the rocks and went in, then anoth
er, and another, and another. The
Crees lay silently in the bushes,
counting, till upward of fifty Pie-
gans had come round the rocks and
gone into the oave, and still they
kept coming. Each carried a rifle.
When at last seventy men had dis
appeared in the cave the supersti
tious and cautious Crees concluded
that the evil spirit had something
to do with it. So thoroughly were
they filled with this idea that
even when re-enforcements arrived,
which was in a few hours, they were
reluctant to attack the island.
That night, however, one Cree,
less credulous than the others,
crossed over the ice to investigate.
Even In dealing with conservation of On approaching the supposed cave
the forests, log rutting must be be found that it was no cave at nil,
avoided.
but simply >iu opening leading some
ten feet into the rock, where it
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made a turn and came out on the
other side.
Thefe was the remnant of a sin-
gle campfire. The ponies were gone,
and not an Indian was in sight. The
clever Piegan thief by making the
circuit of the passage and the end
of the island seventy times had so
. time necessary for his escape.__Ex-
change.
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0 0®cl*, discovery tnat olive drab
; 80rv|,C0 nnlfp' m’
soldiers in tb •
troI"c* are not 80 c'x)l “8 uniforms <■
whlte drilling seems to confirm a dl-
coverT made
e generatlo * ago o.(
h.'a n u r a u o r e aa t o «rain t h o !
tro p ic a l regions.