BANDON RECORDER.
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POLLY LABKIN I
While hosts of these shirt factories
are being run in this city, yet they are
not all run by white men, “ more’s the
pity,’’ but by Chinamen, who not only
keep a large number of Chinamen at
work at the machines—cutting and
fitting, but trying on as well where the
shirts are made to order—but white
girls as well. Many of the girls who
are working in these Chinese factories
are indifferent, and it is a matter of
small moment who their employers are
just so they get their money; but tiiere
are a few who are shy, gentle girls, who
feel that it is almost a degradation to
work for the Celestials, but who have
lieen forced through a chain of misfor
tunes to accept what they could get in
the way of employment. Polly feels
sorry for these unfortunate girls, and
longs to help them out of their troubles.
MOTTOES OF STATES.
THE DEADLY COBRA.
Bow Venomooa Creator« Is Handled
by Hindoo Snake Charmer.,
TRICKS IN THE SILK TRADE.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
In Germany oysters cost (JO to 75
cents a dozen.
The creatures were on the defensive,
American books are beginning to sell
Pure silk, when It has been through
but not one of them attempt I to all the processes uecessary to Lriug out very well In Britain.
•
strike at the muster, who sat s • >ely all its good qualities, Is worth Its 1
Great Britain’s trade has multiplied
The Great Seal of the tatted State»
in front of them, so long as In* dl«l weight In silver, said an expert the 12’/¿ times since 1801.
At aa Uealaoed by aa Kutfllahinuu,
nothing to annoy them. Kullau talked other day. Therefore the women who
Here’s another little “ storyette ’’ that
Compulsory education in New Zea
Who Also
Saaaested the Motto
to them as if they were bis dearest expect to buy pure silk at little more
conies to mind in connection with
Adopted. “K Flnriboa Cnom.”
friends. After a time one or the other than the price of cotton must expect to land is considered a success.
Polly’s favorite “ angel of mercy " in
Berlin has 14 schools In which girls
If you desire to have fun with a of them would lower Its bead, collapse be fooled, and there are lots of ways by
the ranks of the Red Cross. Word
learned acquaintance, ask him simple its hooil and begin to try to wriggle which the manufacturer gets even with of 13 and 14 are taught to cook.
Seattle, Wash., has 13,527 wooden
came to h«-adquarters one day that one
qui-stions about his country. Its histo away. Whereupon Kullan would give them.
buildings and only 407 of brick.
of the sold’ers stationed at the Presidio
ry, financial condition, political divi It a smart little rap on the tall with
They make stuff that fa called silk
The number of women engaged In
was lying dangerously ill in a home of
sions, geographical lines, climatology, his stick and bring It Instantly to at and passes for it with credulous per
topography, etc. Questions that any tention again. Whether this man pos sons who don’t know any better out of the factories of Finland is 10,305.
a certain party in South San Francisco,
Nearly one-half the persons in this
schoolboy can answer Dr. Knowall will sessed any special magic over these co nearly any old thing now. One favor
and that he would die if he was not
stumble clumsily over, often getting a bras or whether the d«*scriptlon given ite imitation silk Is made of cellulose country die when they are children.
removed at once. In fact, the man
The British colonies are 70 times as
bad fall. There Is one question that 1 below of how he could handle and play treated with chemicals. It isn’t a good
himself had implored them to send him
have never heard any one answer— with them was simply due to his meth materia) to get on tire in. Then there large as the area of the United King
to a hospital, or at least notify his cap
namely. "What are the mottoes of the od I cannot say. He himself repudia pre south sea Island cottons and some dom.
tain of his condition, and Anally, in
several states of tlie Union and their ted the Idea of magic and asserteil pos mercerized cotton which after treat
It Is estimated that the wheat crop
desperation, had scrawled a line stating
meaning?” A clever man may name itively that any one who had the nec ment look sonieiblng like silk, though of Australia will be about 14,000,000
essary
nerve
and
dexterity
could
do
that lie was seriously ill witli typhoid
that of his own state and guess at
of course they wear very differently, bushels.
BRIEF REVIEW.
fever, was receiving no attention
those of three or four of the more im exactly the same.
and their Bllken appearance soon van
More tliun 4,000,000 baths were taken
He us«*d no reed Instrument or mu ishes.
portant sister states, but be is unlikely
whatever, and tiiat if he was not re
at the two scores of London’s bath
But it Is In adulterating goods which houses last year.
moved lie would surely die, and bribed A Naturalist Enriched by an Arizona Rat. to know the meanings of any that are sic of any kind to propitiate the rep
tiles. He would simply squat on his
The carrying power of British ship
a small boy In tiie family to mail it for
'file actions of a rat led N. It. In- In the original Latin. Try some able haunches In front of them, and, after really have some silk in them that the
him. The party who had taken the goldsby to the discovery of a rich gold professor In a crowd and see him floun they had been hissing and swaying greatest skill Is exercised to deceive ping, Including colonial, is now 30.300,-
der.
sick man home witli him, it seems, was mine in Arizona. He named the prop Ask the professor If be knows that tlielr uplifted heads backward and for the buyer. To obtain the required rus 00») tons against 3,400,000 tons in 1850.
tle and body rough floss Is often used
An animal heretofore unknown, re
getting puid so much per week for tak erty the ltat Hole mine. Mr. 1 ngoldsby th«* great seal of the United States was ward for a few mlnut<*s, he raised bls for the woof of the material. This SOOD
sembling both the horse and zebra, has
ing care of iiim by a society tiiat both had been spending several months near designed by an Englishman, Sir John hands above their heads and slowly causes It to wear shiny.
been discovered In the Kongo forests.
men Ix-longed to, and lie had no notion Mammoth, on the San Pedro river, in Prestwlch. who also suggested the mot made them descend till they reste«l on
Another trick Is to Increase the
In Germany only 413 out of 1,000
of losing tlie amount if he could help it. Arizona. His purpose was to enjoy the to. "E Pluribus Unum?” Our ablest | the snakes’ heads. He then stroke«l weight and apparent solidity of a fl I ui- males reach the age of 50, while more
them
gently,
speaking
all
tlie
time
In
men
had
failed
to
propose
anything
ac
sy silk material by using metallic salts than 500 out of 1.000 females reach
The ladies of the Red Cross, hearing of hunting and make a collection of the
the most endearing Illndoostanee
tiie matter, sent ail ambulance after animals and minerals of tile Southwest. ceptable, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, terms. The serpents appeared spell In the dye vats. Pressing with some that age.
tlie sick soldier, but they not only re 11c pitched his tent in the canyon of Lovell, Scott, Houston anil others wast bound. They made no effort to resent kinds of silk increases the weight also,
An Austrian named Anton Peterman-
ing nearly four years on the task.
fused to let him go, but would not allow' tiie San Pedro in the Santa Catarina Franklin proposed Moses dividing the the liberty, but remained quite still, but at the sacrifice of strength. Cheap, del, who recently died at Steyr, had
crackly, stiff silk which has heavy
them to see Him, stating tiiat lie was mountains. He had no neighbors and Red sea with this motto. “Rebellion to with heads uplifted, and seemed rather cords Is good silk to avoid. It won’t made a «collection of about 3,000 knives
Ills Sad llluiidi-r.
of all times.
getting along nicely, wax perfectly sat was for a time unable to account for Tyrants Is Obedience to God;” Adams to enjoy It. Presently his hands would wear.
Yes, it was a sad blunder.
descend down the necks about three
Missouri clnlms to have the best
isfied
and
did
not
want
to
tie
removed.
proposed
the
tlie
disappearance
of
small
articles
that
choice
of
Hercules
and
reveal
There
are
several
tests
which
He thought tlie children were In the
Inches below the heads, bis fingers
prison library of any state In the Un
other room, but it so happened that It Tlie unsueiwsxful members of tiie Red lie left lying about his camp. At last Jefferson the children of Israel in the would close loosely around the necks, readily the purity of a piece of silk. ion. The library consists of 5,000 well
was occupied by bls wife mid a lachry Cross rejxrrted their failure, and then lie noticed that when anything was wilderness. Doesn’t It seem funny? and he would lift them off the ground The microscope of course will show It
mose neighbor. We all know these sen our “angel of mercy ” witli others tixik taken something was left in its place. Some of the suggested mottoes were and place them on his shoulders. Tlie at once, even to an unpracticed eye. selected books.
Gymnasiums for adults and children
sitive women who weep on the slight tlie matter in hand, and the next day This was usually a bit of stone or wood. “Bello vel Pace” (For War or Peace), looseimss of the grip appeared to be Pure silk has the appearance of fine,
est provocation, who begin to sniffle stormed tlie fort. They met with open The culprit lie found to be a large rc • “Semper” (Forever), “Deo Favente” the main secret. The snakes, being In smooth tubes. Another good test Is by to the number of 24 are provided anil
when they talk of their woes, this be resistance and hurried to tlie police sta dent of thespecies known as tlie trading (With God's Favor), "Vlrtus Sola In no way hurt, would then slowly crawl burning. Pure silk bums slowly, with maintained nt the public expense in
ing really little more than a bld fur tion; but here they again met defeat rat. Tlie habilsof tlie animal made an victa” (Virtue Alone Invincible), etc. through his Angers and wind them a slight odor. Cotton flares up quickly the parks in London.
After six yi-ars tlie Englishman's de
Sixty-two per cent of the adults in
unil would throw off a decidedly disa
words of comfort, and this woman was and were informed they could do noth
interesting study for Mr. Ingoldsby, vice was adopted, an«l it yet remains selves round his neck, his shoulders greeable smell.
the kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland
one of them. What had happened is
and his arms. They appeared to real
Then the tongue will readily reveal ami Ireland are able to read and write.
quite Immaterial. Something had been ing in tlie matter, as it was a purely and lie often lay awake at night to the arms of the United States.
If the professor Is familiar with the ize that no harm was to be done them, the presence of metallic salts. There is In 1801 only 22 per cent could read and
said or done that had completely upset military affair. Nothing daunted they watcli for his visitor. A silver spoon
anil they made no effort to resent
ber, and In her appeal for solace she hurried to tlie only near-by telephone, was missing one morning, and in its obverse of the great seal, ask him the handling. He would pick them no mistaking their taste. But nil these write.
what
lie
has
to
say
of
the
reverse,
ar.d
may be disregarded, said the expert,
Contrary to the generally accepted
which proved to be in a sakxm, and place was a piece of quartz carrying
sniffled.
gently off one arm and place them on
As before remarked, he thought the phoned to tlie captain of the young free gold. This still more excited Mr. the chances are loo to 1 that he can- the other and. In fact, stroke them and when silk Is offered for the price of cot opinion, it Is asserted that more steam
children were lu the other room, and man’s company tiie condition of affairs, I ngoldsby’s curiosity, and after several not recollect the unfinished pyramid, pet them ns If they had been a pair ton. You need not bother to test that vessels are now used on the Mississip
stuff.—New York Sun.
pi river and Its tributaries than ever
one of the children had been suffering and his answer was to hold the fort attempts lie succeeded in following the the eye In the triangle, the glory prop- of harmless worms.—Cornbill.
er. tlio motto over the eye, “Annult
before.
from cold In tlie head. Of course ev and that he would send a detachment
animal to its home. Near by was tlie Ca-ptis" (God Has Favoretl the Under
ery one knows how annoying a young
The scheme of the men forming large
LINCOLN
ADOPTED
IT.
ster with a cold in the head can be, of soldiers and take him by force, if ledge from which the gold-bearing taking). anil thnt under all, “Novus A TIGRESS WITH A GRUDGE
game preserves In the east Is to sur
Ordo
Seculorum
”
(A
New
Series
of
necessary.
It
was
getting
on
towards
Ills Famous Phrase. “Of the People,** round them with a wire fence and have
quartz had been taken. Mr. Ingoldsby
and be was nut In the best of humor
Originated by Theodore Parker.
sundown and the situation was not made an examination thorough enough Ages). The obverse of the great seal, She Gets Furious at Sl«ht of h Keep»
ahysyay.
It charged with electricity. The poach
er
Who
Once
Rent
Iler.
William II. Ilerndon. Lincoln's law ers who run up against it will at least
"For heaven’s sake, blow your nose!” very pleasant for the ladies, but they to prove tiiat his discovery was of con with Its splendid eagle, the bundle of
There Is a lean tigress In the Central partner, knew Theodore Parker well be surprised.
arrows, the olive branch, the 13 stripes,
he crlOiÀnt last.
vowed they would get the soldier out of siderable value.
the 13 stars, the glory breaking from park menagerie who spends a part of and had much correspondence with
Ob, ye< ft was a sad blunder, but this mercenary man’s hands if it took
At a euchre party for the benefit of
the clouds and the "E Plurlbus Unum,” the day beating her head against tlie him. and after the Lincoln-Douglas de
even blunders have their compensa them till midnight. Finally a dozen
tlie
Army and Navy society in New
American Silk Inndurtry.
Iron
bars
of
her
cage
In
a
vain
attempt
Is magnificently American, but the
bate lie came on to Boston and saw
tions. The lachrymose one does not soldiers appeared upon the scene and
It was tlie current belief only a few pyramid. the desert, the forbidding to spring upon one of the keepers. Parker and other autlslnvery men with York 1,000 players sat at the tables.
come to that hods« for sympathy ns charged into the house witli drawn bay years ago that the silk indurtry could
Egyptian sky and the eye In the trl- Ordinarily the animal is quiet enough. an eye to Lincoln’s political prospects. One of the prizes was three Maltese
she formerly did.—Chicago Post.
onets. As they went in tlie front d<x>r never be a success in tlie United Stu s. angle on tlie reverse are simply bar- It Is only when this keeper passes Going back to Springfield, he took with kittens with loug pedigrees. Another
that she cesses to be a purring cat and him some of Parker’s newer sermons was a grand plnno.
tlie courageous man who had been It was thought tiiat in this line oftrade ba rous.
Ills Titles.
A passion play will be given at Sel-
The great seal of the Confederacy becomes a fiend Incarnate. The other and addresses. "One of them.” he
It was evident In hlB swagger that he standing oil'tlie ladies of the Red Cross we could never hope to compete witli
zach, In the canton of Soleure, Switzer
morning
tin*
tigress
was
in
an
extreme
by
a
strange
arbitrament
of
fate
was
says
In
bis
“
Abraham
Lincoln.
”
“
was
a
was a scion of the British aristocracy, so persistently fled from the back door France and other European countrie-.
land. on June 10 Performances will
and the most casual observer could not and took to the hills, leaving his wife Climatic conditions and other natural never used. It was made In England ly bail temper. When her fancied en lecture on ’Tlie Effect of Slavery on take place each Sunday and fete days
emy
stuck
a
mop
In
through
the
bars
an«l
reached
Richmond
about
the
time
the American People,’ which was de up to Sept. 1, when tlie performances
have failed to note that he was a to face the enemy. They found tlie causes were supposed to be against tiie
stranger to the city. He touched a well soldier in a deplorable condition. Tlie development of tlie silk business here. of its evacuation by the armies of the to clean her cage, she sprang at him. livered In the Music ball, Boston, and will be brought to a close.
lost cause and the Confederate gov growling in thunderous bass. Nearly which I gave to Lincoln, who read and
dressed, auburn haired young man who
But facts and ligures tell a different ernment. Its motto was “Deo Vlndice" everybody in the crowd stepped back returned it. lie liked especially the
In 1800 the largest fortune In the
was lolling In front of n Broadway ho room as well as the house wits in a filtliy
condition, and lie lay burning up witli story. Even the French trade papers, (G«xl Maintains). The seal Is a band- involuntarily. Tlie keeper placed au following expression, which he marked United States was (250,000. Today
tel on the shoulder.
"Pardon me, me dear man, but could fever in the clothes lie had been put to according to one of our Consuls in some silver die about three Inches in Iron bur ill the cage at the great cat's witli a pencil and which he In sub then1 are several fortunes of more than
$200.000,000. In 1800 the settled area
I trouble you for a match?” After bed in several weeks before. Wrapping France, concede that tlie United States diameter, bearing an equestrian por feet and «vent on with his work, while stance afterward used In hi.-» Gettys couslstetl of 305,708 square miles. To
trait
of
Washington
(after
the
statue
the
animal
snarled
In
impotent
rage
burg
address:
’
Democracy
Is
direct
self
“
Bali
is
likely
to
take
the
lead
among
the
llgbtiug bls cigar he continued:
him in clean blankets tlie half-conscious
day It is over 2,000.000 square miles.
Jove, this is a remarkable city! This soldier was carried to the ambulance silk producersof the world. Duringthe In Richmond), surrounded with a and drew back her upper lip over two government, over all the people, by all
There have been rapid strides In the
tin* people, for all the people.' ” The
Is me first visit to New York, d’you and taken to a hospital where proper last three years the consumption of raw wreath composed of cotton, tobacco gleaming white fangs.
“She doesn't seem to tie fond of you." address referred to (Parker’s last great Iron and steel Industry In south Russia
know. I’m a deuced stranger, but on care couhl be given him. It was «lark silk in the United States has exceeded sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice—the
principal products of th«* Confederate ventured a bystander.
antislavery address) was delivered July during the past five years. No fewer
the other side I’m a person of Impor
than 14 iron works have been started,
“No. tiiere Isn't much love lost be 4, 1858.
tance. I am Sir Francis Daffy, Knight liefore- tlie ladies of the Re«l Cross that of France. One trade paper says states. It cost In England about $600,
Here. I submit, was the probable ori while the quartet of pre-existing works
of the Garter. Knight of the Bath, readied their respective imines, lint the producing power of tne United with press. wafers, seal papers, tvax, tween us.” replied the keeper. "Her
Knight of the Double Engle, Knight of they were in high glee at the success of States has equaled tiiat of France since silk cords, etc. It was presented to the tantrums show that animals treasure gin of Lincoln's phrase. In one varlaut have doubled the number of their blast
the Golden Fleece, Knight of the Iron their undertaking. The soldier got well 1897. “ Ami American manufacture state of South Carolina about 1887 and grudges Just like pt*ople. That tigress or another It was a great favorite with furnaces.
A Boer prisoner who dleil In Ceylon
Cross. D’you mind telling me your and tlie man who Ixiatso hasty a retreat has a power of expansion tiiat ours does Is kept in the office of the secretary of cam«* here eight years ago. A day or Parker, often taking the exact form
two after slie arrived I bad to punlsb tiiat Lincoln gave it. with his sure In was Insured against war risks with a
name, me dear man?”
lias made himself “ very scarce’’ in tlie not possess, ’’ it adds. These state state.
Ask the professor If he remembers her. and she has never got over It. tuition of the best where there was any continental life office. Tlie latter now
Replied be of tlie auburn hair In a vicinity of tlie Presidio since the event. ments, taken together witli Hie fact
that Minnesota, founded by Americans, She watches me all day out of the cor- choice of words. In a speech delivered refuses to pay on the grouud that resi
deep, rich brogue:
He didn't mind tlie face-powder and the use of silk goods and silk combina Is the only state In the Union that has ner of her eye. and every time I go
dence In such a latitude as that of
"Me name is Michael Murphy, night
tions is rapidly increasing everywhere, a French motto. The one originally se by the cage she makes a Jump, I sup- by Parker In 1850 we find it Imbedded Ceylon was stipulated in the policy ns
before last, night before that last niglit, artillery of words from tlie ladies a
in a passage which might have been
tonight and every night—Michael Mur little bit, but when it came to tlie indicate tiiat tlie silk industry lias a lected and ordered engraved was Latin, pose she thinks she'll get me some tlie Inspiration of Seward’s famous an extra risk.
but the die ivns spoil«*«! and the French time. If she does. I might as well say "Irrepressible conflict” or Lincoln's
charging of bayonets by the soldiers— highly promising future in America.
pby.”—New York Sun.
The late Edward G. Mason of Chica
substltut«* was adopt«*«!. “L’Etoile du |g«xxJby.”
well, tiiat was a different matter, and
“house divided against Itself.” a view go. who devoted much time, research
The Way to Force Plants to Branch,
(Til«' : tar
liir of the North). Does I While the man talked the tigress to which Parker continually recurred. and labor to gathering materials for a
Nord” (Th«'
Tahiti the Land oi Mystery.
“an ounce of prevention was wortli a
There Is only one way In which a
the professor recall that Montana Is the looked at him with hate plainly stamp- In two other speeches It stands “gov history of Illinois that be purposed
To
the
antiquarian
Tahiti
is
as
full
of
pound
of
cure.
’
’
plant can be forced to branch, and that
only state with a Spanish motto? ed on her face. When he went away,
fascinating mystery as Egypt, writes a Strnnge thnt fur traders should have she watched hint until be was lost to ernment of all the people, by all the wilting, came to the conclusion that
Is by cutting off the stalk The plant
correspondent from the islands. Itcon- adopted “Oro y Plata” (Gold and Sil- I view. Then she resumed ber nervous people, for all tlie people.” Its earliest the name Chicago was derived from
thus Interfered with will make an ef
If, to use a well-remembered phrase
appearance that I have discovered In “Checagou,” a place visited by former
fort to grow, and either a new shoot in “ Helen’s Babies,'* you “ want to see tains monuments of a civilization past ver). If you say that one state has a tramp, tramp.—New York Mail and bls writings Is in a letter to Rev. Sam companions of La Salle in 1687.
will be sent up to take the place of tlie
modern comprehension. Picture a stat Greek motto, he probably will do some I x,xnrea».
tie! J. May In 1848, where it Is simply
Already generous in Its contributions
lost top or several shoots will be sent the wheels go round ” in earnest, you ue measuring thirty-live feet from head pretty hard thinking before answering
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“government of all, by all. for all.”— that relate to the Aztecs and cliff
should
visit
one
of
the
big
factories
in
out along the stalk. If but one starts,
that
It
Is
California.
"Eureka
”
Is
be-
A»
Abbreviation,
to hips, and carved out of a single
Review of Reviews.
dwellers, Mexico Is now yielding up
cut It back. Keep up this cutting back tills city where they are making ladies’ stone, transjxirted from a quarry three lieved to be Greek for “I have found.”
A colonel of a British regiment In
areha-ological
treasures In the form of
shirt
waists
entirely.
Everything
is
process until you have prepared as
The only Italian motto belongs to Ma- South Africa who was repairing a rall-
Antiquity of Mnn.
burled cities and palaces, some of
many branches as you think are need run by electricity arid the seventy-live miles away. On the head of the image ryland, aud it originally b«-longed to the road after one of General De Wet’s
From a review In Science of De Mor-
ed.
Persistency and patience will or more machines are ranged in long, place a crown of red stone ten feet in Culvert family. “FattJ Mnschl, Parole many breakages discovered a fine emp- fillet's great work on prehistoric times which reveal an amount and quality'of
oblige the plant to do as you would like straight lines down one side of the diameter. Tiiat is the sort of mystery Femlne” (Deeds Are Males, Words | ty house, which he proceeded to occu- the following Is condensed. Twelve carving and constructive skill quite un
expected by the men of science who
you encounter in Tahiti. Everything Females). To be a trifle plainer, “Man py as headquarters.
to have it do.—Ladies’ Home Journal
chapters are devoted to the question of are employed In excavations.
room. Tiiere are about three columns
there is strange, everything entrancing. ly Deeds, Womanly Words,” Ask the
When
the
news
of
the
colonel
’
s
com-
tertiary
man.
It
Is
concluded
that
of these workers, and nearly all seem to
A baker who has returned from Cape
Poor Tariff Practice.
And now a line of steamers lias been professor If he knows thnt Washington I fortable quarters reached Bloemfon- while man did not exist during this
A general was bard pressed tn battle lie young girls. Their eyes are glued start«*«! from San Francisco, and liefore Is tlie only state with an Indian motto. | tein. he received a telegram which period, precursors of man more Intelli Nome to Chicago reports that the busi
ness was exceedingly profitable, bread
and on the point of giving way when on the machines and they are all busi many years have passed we may expect “AI-KI” is pure Chincxik for by and by. read:
gent than any of the living anthropoids selling for 25 cents a loaf. But he
suddenly a spirit soldier came to Ills ness, scarcely ever glaneing up from to Bee tlie beautiesof tiiat land trampled In the future or hereafter.—Exchange.
“G. T. M. wants house."
did exist.
could not keep up with the demand, for
rescue and enabled him to win a great tiie bright and shining little needle
The colonel was unable to make out
Pithecanthropus erectus Is consider
victory. Prostrating himself on tlie tiiat clicks many times as it passes out of existence by tourists and traders,
Cured.
I what “G. T. M.” meant and inquired ed as the Immediate precursor of man. he could not keep his assistants, even
ground, be asked the spirit's name. through tlie yards and yards of pink, and its crystal atmosphere polluted “No.” said the mnn In the mackln- of officers, who translated It “general The Calaveras skull Is rejected. The when be paid them $5 and $10 a day,
as they would be off In the rush follow
”1 am the god of tin* target,” replied blue, lavender and red percales or ging with the smoke of factories.
tosh, "my wife doesn’t give away any I traffic manager.”
paleolithic period Is considered as cor
the spirit. “And bow have I merited hams, and tlie billows of snowy lawns
of my old clothes or sell them to the
“All right,” snld the colonel. “If he responding to the early quarternary, ing each story of great finds In new lo
calities.
British Building Trade Pensions.
your godsblp's kind assistance?" In
ragman any more. I cured that habit enn use hieroglyphics, so can I.”
and 222,000 yenrs Is assigned as the
Last year the total number of new
quired the general. “I am grateful to and laces for tlie more elaborate and
effectually
once."
I
So
he
wired
back:
A practical proof of what can be done
length of this period, Add to this num-
books published In the United States
you,” answered the spirit, "because costly shirt-waists. They chatter like in tlie way of establishing old-age pen "How was thnt?” they asked him.
“G. T. M. can G. T. H.”
ber
10.000
years
for
the
protohlstorlc
In your days of practice you never so many blackbirds during tlie noon sions without Government assistance is “When I found that she had disposed
Two days Inter he received a dls- and neolithic periods and 0.000 years reached 6.356, or 653 more than In any
once hit me.”—From “A Century of hour and when tlie day’s work is ended,
of
a
coat
I
hadn't
worn
for
several
patch
from Bloemfontein ordering him more for the historic period, and we previous year. There were 662 new
Chinese Literature.”
but they scarcely ever utter a word, given by tlie Provident Institution of weeks. I told her there was a letter In to attend a board of Inquiry. On ap- have 238.000 yenrs. which Is. according editions of old fiction anil 616 new nov
Builders'
Foremen
and
Clerks
of
Works.
,t she bad given me to mall the Inst penring In due course he was nsked to the authors, a moderate estimate of els. showing a decided reaction toward
unless it is for some instructions regard
novels of established reputation. A
Whm They Got.
ing their work, wliile’at their sewing. The members of the institution, when time I hail It on. And that was no what he meant by sending such an in tian's antiquity.
special feature of the year was the re
On his way home from the lodge How fast tlie machines fly! It almost incapacitated by old age from following lie either.” he added with deep satis- suiting message to a superior officer,
issue of celebrated btxrks In fine and
Mr. Jymcs was held up by footpads makes you dizzy t«i ksik at them. Tin* their employment, obtain a weekly faction.—Chicago Tribune.
“Insulting?” repeated the colonel ln-
»aoa re« off Conaecotlve Namber«.
«nd relieved of all bls valuables.
-----------------------
nocently. “It was nothing of the kind.”
pension of 15 shillings, and tills sum is
Squares of consecutive numbers, ns carefully edited editions.
girls
liending
over
the
machines
have
One of three Peruvian Indian mum
“What did they get, Rufus?” anx
Evidence to the Contrary.
“But what do you mean,” demanded 0, I. 2. 3. 4. etc., may be forme«) by the
alsnit to lie increased to 18 shillings.
iously asked Mrs. Jymes after he bad grown used to the constant click and When tlie pensioners die their widows
"I told Uncle Simon that he was get- his superior, “by telling me I can 'O. simple rule: To the squnre of the pre mies received at the Smithsonian In
reached bls home and rcporteil Ills loss. buzz of tiie machinery, and it does not are not forgotten, a sum of A shillings a ting too old and feeble to attend to T. II.?’”
ceding number add the precixllng num stitution a few days ago was found
to contain the bodies of n woman and
"Everything except the password!” affect them in tlie least. They turn
business.”
"It was simply an abbreviation,” re- ber and the number itself. Thus:
week
living
allowed
(hem.
The
society
he «rroaned.— Chicago Tribune.
of two babies, probably a mother and
out hundreds of shirt-waists in a day,
“Dld be take It kindly?”
plied the colonel—“G. T. M. (general
o»-o
i*«o+on-t
ber children. The bodies were Imbed
“He threw me out of bls office.”— traffic mannger) can G. T. II. (get the
and woe lietlde tlie little seamstress is in a prosperous condition, not mainly
The Truth nt Lniit.
through the suliscriptions—each mem- Chicago Record.
2*—1 -f-l +2-4
ded In a padding of leaves, and this In
house).”
who
does
not
come
up
to
the
average.
l»»4+tf3>9
“Oh, doctor. Is it very dangerous to
turn was bound about with a piece of
4’-9>S«-4-l«
They cannot afford to be drones in this 1 st pays only £2 a year—but it has the
swallow cement?”
Finical.
When Cork* Float Vprlgbt.
good will of the large London builders,
goods not unlike gunnysack, held In
busy
hive;
they
cannot
be
even
mod
The
algebraic
proof
Is:
“Very dangerous, indeed.”
“When do you Intend to start for the
A cork which Is longer than It is
plae«» by a rope wound about It.
erately slow. Every tiring must go with who liberally suliseribe to the funds.
“And gutta percha, d«x?tor?”
south?”
broad, which Is the case with all ordl-
About as much spool wood Is sent to
-I
’
+i+u+l)
"Very serious."
a rush, and file Huperintemlenfa of the
“We shall probably leave Tuesday.” nary corks, floats upon Its side, so to
Europe every year as is manufactured
Where Co-operation Succeeds.
—
New
York
Sun.
“And porcelain—oh. doctor. Is It very work glide round among tlie bread
"Expect to take the rest of the week speuk. How can we make It float
Into spools In Maine. Last year Maine
The co-operative movement, which
poisonous?”
winners witli an ever-watchful eye,
with you?”—Chicago Tribune.
upon Its head?
exported
about 15,000,000 feet of spool
A
Poller
Approved.
•‘Excuse me. madam; have you at an encouraging word for this one and lx gan in Bolton, forty years ago, under
---------------------- -
Place one on end upon a table and
bars, chiefly to Scotland, and of this
“
No."
said
tin*
policeman
kindly,
but
tempted suicide?”
humble
conditions,
has
grown
rapidly.
The first great fire In an American around It place six others. Seize them
quantity about one-half was shipped
“No; I’ve swallowed one of my false censure for tiiat one. They must under The income last year attained to the city occurred at Boston Aug. 8. 1679. all together and plunge them under wn firmly, “you cannot photograph that from Bangor. Several million feet of
stand their business and make no mis
statue.”
teeth.’’— Pea rson's.
spool bars are also shipped to other
takes. From Monday morning until record figure of over £700,000, of which By this conflagration 150 buildings ter so as to wet them completely. Then
“Why not?” asked the tourist.
were destroyed, the loss amounting to remove your hand gently and let them
parts of the United States where there
“Because It Is against the law.”
Saturday niglit this busy whirl goes on, £100,000 was divided as profits among over £200.000.
off Again,
Again.
|
take
their
own
position
In
the
water,
are spool mills, nofahly Rhode Island
Tlie
tourist
looked
nt
tlie
statue
Io
“Very well,” said she in a huff; “all and Polly often wonders, as I pass the the 26,000 members. Wince its inau
when you will find that they will stand
question,
n
massive
piece
of
contract
Is over between us. I'll thank you to open door, if half the jieople who don guration thesiM'iety's income lias totaled
upright, as If supporting one another.
Forever Settle«.
£10,000,000, and over £1,500,000 has
return my letters.”
Very Grave.
Tills Is because the water that pen«*- work, anil then answered:
the cool and comfortable little shirt
8be—1 tdl you the moral superior
"Well. I don’t blame you. It's al
Twiddle—I read last night of a man . trates the cork will make them cling
“All right,” said he; “I'll send them waists ami go sauntering forth know of been returned in dividends. The s*'u'-
ways decenter for people to keep their ity of woman is recognized In the
to you the first thing in the morning.”
ety’s building club has enabled hur- who was burled alive so that be might together.
troubles to themselves Instead of let language Itself. There Isn't any femi
know what the sensation Is like.
“Oh, there's no killing hurry! Sup the hundreds of girls who liend over d reds of memliers to acquire homes.
He llrnl Molted.
ting them tie advertised all over tile nine for "rascals,” Is there?
Twaddle—Don’t you think that was a
pose you — er — bring them with you their work from day, listening to the
He—Of course not. but that’s be
"That fellow is a bird,” said the ad country.”—Washington Star.
very grave thing to do?-Ohlo State
when you call tomorrow evening.”— “Song of the Shirt,’’ not sung as H<ssl
It is fifty years since the first ir
cause—
miring stranger as he looked after the
has so pathetically written it, but sages by electric telegraph passed under Journal.
Philadelphia Press.
She—That's because there are no
What Passles Vonna America.
fresh young man.
buzzed on their machines. Many of tlie Channel IX'tween Englund and
feminine rascals!—Chicago Tribune.
It
Is
assorteli
that
the
Idea
of
the
“
Not
now,
”
replied
the
native,
"but
It
Is
a
puzzle
to
the
modern
youth
A Birmingham (England) druggist them are just working for pin money France.
pipe organ was borrowed from the there was a time wheu your descrip bow so many old duffers managed to
was fined
the other day for sell and spend their wages on dress as soon
Some £10,000 has been subscribed In
human chest, mouth and larnyx.
tion might have been Justified.”
get along In the world without the Switzerland to a fund which Is being
ing camphorated oil which coutaiued as they receive it; others it means more
More steel la used In the manufacture
knowledge of things In general pos raised for supplying a home In that
“When was that?”
only 78 per cent of the quantity In the to, for their wages go to help sustain of pens than in all the sword and gun
In poker and politics they bluff the
"The night we tarns! and feathered sessed by the modern youth. Boston country for destitute Boer men wo
oil prepared according to the British
not only themselves but their families. factories in the world.
loser.—Atchison (¡lobe.
him about a year ago.”—Chicago Post. Transcript
OharmaioiKibi
men and «UiJldren.
The I* «icky Itectoe.
nd hail started a
Dr. W. S. R.
mission scliooi iu i: ■ back rooms of a
saltxiu ou Avenue A aud at one of the
first sessions fotin.l a big ruffian in
poss«*ssfon, gr< ally to the discomfort
of the teacher. Told to go out, the fel-
Iciv Informed Dr. Ralnsford with an
oath that he wouhl see him further
first. The dtx’tor talked peaceably
enough to th«* blackguard, hoping to
avoid a disturbance, but when in* swore
at him again gave him his own medi
cine In a blow that felled him like an
ox. The fellow arose, dazed ami grop
ing, to find the dix’tor standing over
him, ready to have It out.
“Have you got enough?" he asked.
The man cried quits and went Ills way.
The Sunday school session proc«*e«led.
A week later there was another fight.
The rector stiirtixl In to clear the room,
persuasion having falleil, ami found
the burly ruttian of tlie previous en
counter at ills elbow.
“I thought 1 was In for It,” he said,
telling of it, "and tiiat they had come
to clean me out. 1 made sure my back
was free ami turned tqxiu them. Im
agine my surprise when I saw my cus
tomer of the week before grab the oth
er by the neck and rush him to the
door.
“ ‘Here,’
rector and
That was
World’s Work.
Sri
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I !¡JÍ
HOW MANY OF THEM, WITH THEIR
MEANINGS, DO YOU KNOW?
flow
Shopper»
Are
Fooled—Test. i
Which Shew the Pure Material.