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BANDON RECORDER. The Son« of tin’ Grouse. Certain birds when the period of courtship comes round repair to partic ular trystiug places and announce their presence there by well known calls or signals. The ruffed grouse, as every one knows, seeks an old log or other con venient perch and drums with his wings, a him to any lady grouse with in hearing that “Barkis Is willlu.” The performance of the grouse is one frequently heard, but comparatively seldom seen, aud for many years there were numerous conflicting theories concerning the means by which tin* drumming was produced. Some said that the sound was vocal, and others declared that tlie grouse struck the log with Its wings. Even today Hie pre cise cause of tlie sound is not known, for, although the bird lias been closely watched, its wing movements are so rapid tliat it is next to impossible to tell exactly what takes place. This much, however, is known: During the performance tlie grouse stands upon the leg or other perch and strikes the air In front of hlx body somewhat after the manner of an elated barnyard cock. The first few strokes are measured, but they become faster and faster until tlie individual thumps are lost, as In the rolling of a drum. Whether the sound Is due entirely to beating of tlie air or whether it is Increased by the striking together of tlie wmg tips is a question yet to be settled.—Hartford Times. Wlij Dinah Wept. Not long ago a lieutenant in the navy was ordered away on a three years' cruise. The order had been dreaded for weeks, aud when It came the young wife, who was to be loft in a Brook lyn flat with a baby and a colored serv ant, was In despair. She controlled her sorrow very well, however, until (lie actual moment of parting came, and then she wept as though her heart would break. The cruiser was to leave the navy yard early next morning, and the lieutenant bad gone to report for duty. In the midst of her lamentations the young wife heard a sniffing mid sob bing In the dlniug room, and upon glancing through tlie door she saw Dinah, tin* colored maid, rocking Iler body to mid fro In a chair mid weeping violently. “Why. D-D-Dlnab, what's the ni-nint- ter?” cried the mistress “You seem to t-t-take Mr. Blank's departure as much to heart as I d-do.” “’Deed I doesn't. Mix' Blank; 'deed I doesn't!” sobbed Dinah. "What am' boderln dis chile nm de fac' dal a cttl- lud gemman friend <>' mine am gwlne sail hlsse’f on dnt same ole crulsah!" New York Herald. ! aud which holds a mass of velvety pan- JSiSSSSSS ****** ******* * : ' sies, w as once the smokestack of au en- | POLLY LARKINl ’| Igine. In the fountain the shade for the fish was also formerly a smokestack. m numi»; The “queen’s chair” is composed of rounded stones. Ln the crevices grow violets and thé fragrant native creeper, Better than costly monuments of Yerba Buena. Blue flag flowers lift marble or granite to commemorate the their heads side by side with the date of his birth and death and keep graceful fleur-de-lis, and the wild roses his name in evidence before the people vie with the products of the florist’s after he is dead and gone, is the legacy art. Here the little children love to George Lyndon has left to keep hi« hunt for the luscious wild strawberries hut grow to perfection here. Under a name ever green among ti cathedral of young redwoods a platform young of Boulder ('reek, has been laid of boards which drifted reads like a romance, but it is down the river, and benches and tables those o’er true tales that is based < kindly heart, tilled to overflowing with complete this secluded little picnic his love for humanity and for the beau ground, and there are a dozen of these ties of nature. The Santa Cruz Surf «hady little retreats. For the old la baa done full Justice to the subject in a dies who enjoy a cup of tea he has built nicely written article of three columns. a Dutch flreplace of bowlders and mud But the work of George Lyndon should and a chimney which was once a sew be known far and wide. This is the er pipe; a teakettle hangs from the crane. A rude shed contains a stove story: for those who wisli to cook a meal. < leorge Lyndon, who lias now reached Close down by the river bowers are the ripe old age of 79 years, was many formed of alders where anglers can sit years ago a policeman in San Francisco and smoke while they cast a fish-line with a Kearny street beat. He had in the pool below. Rock work and fern been twice to Eurojie and half a dozen eries abound everywhere, and roses, times across the continent. Then he which are liis hobby, sweet peas, for found himself at tlie age of tliree-score- get-me-nots, pansies, marigolds, daises, yearx-and-ten at Boulder Creek, Santa etc., are running riot. He culls his cot Cruz county, penniless and hungry. tage “my little home,” ami around it His fortune had taken wings. He he has laid a cinder track of thirty camped in the chaparral on the hillside laps. The old man has challenged tlie near tlie dejsit, and, lying under the State for a walk on this track of ten to stars, lie reviewed his life and thought one hundred Hille«, of the fickleness of friends when for Loug ago the citizens of Boulder tune and prosperity hud flown. Lying on tlie hillside, with only the stars as Creek ceased to smile at George Lyn- silent witnesses of his bitterness of don, and the progressive citizens met thought and ins firm resolve to build one night to diseuss Lyndon Park and himself a monument which would its owner, and the result was that a arouse the esteem of his fellow men for nickel-in-the-elot l«>x was placed in the years to come, he planned a park. Lyn park, in which all passers-by are asked don went to work as a common laborer to contribute therewith toward the for the railroad, and shortly after wrote support of the owner. George Lyndon to one of the officers of the Southern was opposed to the plan until he found Pacific Company, whom lie had known that it wax not compulsory and chil in his palmy days, and requested per dren were not expected to pay. mission to build a cabin on one of the waste billsides near the depot. The And this is no “fairy tale,” this little land was thick with brush, steep and story of George Lyndon's patient stoney, and useless for any purpose, so handiwork, but is all gospel truth, and tlie request was granted. People in if every visitor front home mid abroad | Boulder Creek thought lie had little does not drop a liberal contribution wheels in his head, and laughed at the into tliut small box when they visit gentle old man when, bubbling witii Lyndon l’ark, then Polly will believe enthusiasm, lie unfolded his plans und tliat gratitude, admiration and appre showed tlie lease given him for life by ciation have gone out of tlie hearts of his former friend. They termed it mankind and that we are mt ungrate "Lyndon’s Folly.’’ ful people. A TEST OF G DRAGE TORTURES WHICH INDIAN SCOUTS BORE WITH SMILING FACES. II Wan Ip to l.l<>utriau( Farrow Once to Emulate Tbelr Example, bot the Went Pointer Teed Illa Wits and Escaped the Ordeal. The Indian scouts that joined forces with the United States army in 1878 to make prisoners of the Sheep Eaters in western Idaho were skeptical at first of Lieutenant Farrow’s abilities to lead them Into battle. They had never seen Ids courage tested and plainly Intimated l»y word and action tliat they had no Intention of obeying ids orders unless he should prove hlm- Belf braver than any chief, subehlef or buck In the command. First they gave themselves up to all kinds of physical torture as a lesson to him. They slashed their bodies with knives without showing pain. They slit the skin on their chests, run skewers thereunder and jerked off cutaneous and fleshly strips while smil ing happily In hlx face. They split tlielr ears, pierced tlielr noses, lacer ated their cheeks, butchered their arms and legs. Tlielr stunts were so fur beyond anything Farrow could Inflict upon himself that the poor young lieu tenant thought he “saw bis finish.” Suddenly, while rivulets of cold per spiration trickled down bls spine, the West Pointer recollected that In his schoolboy days he. was an adept at driving a pin’ Into the thick of his "vastus externus” without feeling pain and tlie joyful Inspiration to thus illu minate his courage seized him. Tlie necessary pin was In the lapel of his fatigue Jacket, Ruthlessly be silt the front of ids breeches leg from pocket to knee, then his drawers till the front of the thigh was exposed to the wondering gaze of the Indians gathered close around. Then dramat ically exhibiting tlie pin, an affair of an Inch and a sixteenth, he reached for a fiat stone and drove the harmless bit of wire down to the head In the unresisting muscle. His handsome face was as unclouded as when lie bel|>ed to haze Ills tlrst plebe. The red men nodded approvingly, grunted, looked wise and sat down on tlieir haunches. They bad seen some thing new, but wanted something more convincing, Farrow realized this and was in the seventh heaven of despair as he smilingly pulled out the pin and held It aloft for inspection, To show the white feather meant In that hostile country Insubordination and treachery. Involving Farrow's mysterious death, It was a moment to trj* a soul—und to fry it. The lleuten- nut whispered to ills trusted sergeant: “1 am going to take a desperate chance. I nm going to shoot myself through tlie bead with my revolver, but you stand beside your horse, and Just an instant before I shoot you fire your rifle, yell ’Sl-wash!’ mount and make off through tlie woods as fast as you can ride. Don’t forget to lire before I do, else I shall lie n dead man.” Sitting upon a Jagged rock, lie ex plained to the Indians what lie was about to do, and with great delibera tion and some fine theatricals lie cock ed tlie pistol and placed the muzzle against Ills temple. The Indians were wrought up to a high pitch. They had never seen a man shoot himself through the head and live. Surely here was the bravest of all brave leaders. They would follow him through hell. The sergeant, unnoticed, fired his ri lle, liis “Sl-wasli!” woke tlie echoes of Shoshone and Bitter Root, aud the clat ter of Ills horse’s hoofs rang down tlie Clear Water as far as Fort Lapwai. “Sl-wash?" The Indians knew what that cry meant. In less time than It fakes to tell It Farrow was alone. His forces had scattered to the four winds. In the course of a few hours all were united again, but the courage test was not renewed. Twenty-two years after this exciting incident, on a certain evening in 1990, Farrow occupied a box in the Madison Square Garden when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was in full blast Chief Joseph, the celebrated commander of the Nez Perces, whom Farrow had cap tured 22 years previously and whom he bad not seen in the Interim, led a wild, whooping, yelling, screeching mob of painted Indians out Into the arena for a dash around the circle. But tlie charge was Interrupted—cut short. When Joseph reached the curve near the Madison avenue end of the amphitheater, he pulled his horse sharp ly to the right cutting across the first file of warriors in most dnngerous fash ion. In a mad gallop be poked his charger’s head Into an arena box. straightened up in Ills stirrups, held out Ills hand and cried: "How! IIow! IIow!” The old fellow had caught sight of Farrow, and nothing could prevent him from riding up to salute ills captor of 1878. It was a dramatic Incident.—New York Tress. The lease was for four acres of an al BRIEF REVIEW. most precipitous liill, stretching from The U bite Shark. tlie railroad yard to the river below. It What We Spend for Drinks. The shark of sharks, the real “man was overgrown with brush so thick tliat According to tlie American Grocer, eater” and lhe one most dreaded, is a bird could not fly through it. Through the white shark. This variety reaches thia tangled wildwood an occasional we, tlie people of the United States a length of 35 feet and a weight of (including Kansas and Maine), spent 2,900 pounds. Its head is long mid second growth tree poked up. Lyndon one thousand and sixty million dollars began by grubbing out a path to a knoll flat, and the snout far overhangs tlie last year for alcoholic drinks. Count- month. Its six rows of teeth are sharp where stood some flue trees, as he had as lancets and notched like saws. Its dreamed to build his house there. ing our population at seventy millions, month Is very large, so that one hns Boulder < 'reek looked on and smiled, tliat would be about $15 apiece. The been known to cut a man's body com but Lyndon had strong will and mus United Kingdom spent last year for pletely in two at n single snap of Its cle and lie persevered. Hegrublied the drink about seven hundred and eighty cruel Jaws and another to swallow one entire hillside and dug out root and million dollars, or $10 apiece for its in at a gulp. Near Calcutta one of these limb of all the noxious growths, ten habitants. It would seem from this sharks was seen to swallow a bullock's derly caring fifr tlie valuable trees and that the Americans only drink about bead, horns and all. shrubs. The bulbs and plants of the one-fourth less per gullet than tlie peo From the stomach of nnotlier a bull's hide was taken entire, aud the sailor wild flowers wete never disturbed but ple of tlie British isles, but we must re who made tlie discovery insisted that were fostered and nourished. The trees member that spirits and wine are very the bull had been swallowed whole were trimmed of all dead branches, the much cheaper there than in this coun and all except the hide bad been di saplings were propped, and at the end try, and tliat even beer is somewhat gested. From tlie stomach of another of a season the place looked like a pic cheaper, so that $19 in England doubt was taken a lady’s workbox, filled with less buys at least twice as much alco the usual contents, scissors mid all. It nic ground. Tlie work was done early holic beverage ax $15 buys here. One Is commonly tlie white shark which and late. He would steal a few min would like to know tlie truth about follows the vessel at sea day after day utes in the early morning before he tills American billion-dollar expendi went out with tlie section hands. After and week after week. supper lie tailored until dark, and then ture for drink, what proportion of it I.n null tor. lie snatched a few hours’ rest, and promotes health and happiness, what Laughter Is a positive sweetness i of when tlie silver moon rose he was up projHirtion of it prejudices both. There life; but. like good coffee. It should I be and busy again, oftimex working until will lie little dispute tliat a very consid erable share of tlie money could be well cleared of deleterious substni nee 3 in tlie morning. before use. Ill will and malice and th, ie more advantageously expended in other desire to wound are worse than ehico »• ways. The Prohibitionists and their After many months of toil his cabin sympathizers will hold it that it is all ry. Between a laugh and a giggle then *e Is the width of the horizons, I could seemed ms much a Spanish castle as it much worse than merely wasted. Philo sit ail day and listen to the hearty am 1 had been tliat tlrst night when be slept sophical oliservers and persons of more beartsome ha. ha. of a lot of bright brighi under the stars, for he could not save and Jolly people, but would rather I e enough money for the lumber and other moderate views will disagree with tliat shot than be forced to stay within ear necessary materials. But the star of conclusion, but will doubtless grant tliat tlie nation’s rum bill could lie dimin shot of a couple of silly gossips. Cui- tivate that part of your nature that Is destiny was coming his way, bringing ished at least one-half without detri quick to see the mirthful side of things hope witli it, for the winter rains came ment to the welfare of any one except so you shall be enabled to shed many on, and later the freshets collected a such of our fellow citizens as subsist on of life’s troubles, as the plumage of the mass of driftwood in the river, and with the profit there is in making and sell bird sheds the rain. But discourage this simple base of supplies Lyndon ing the rum. all tendencies to seek your nmiwem<-in started to construct a cabin which was at tile expense of another's feelings oi to Is* Isith comfortable and artistic, Traffic of the Seine. In aught that is Impure. It was Goethe and with the little home complete he who said. "Tell me what a tnan laughs began to beautify his surroundings. Every one knows that Paris is oil the at and I will read you his character.” He terraced the slope, but words can Seine, but very few people know, or not convey the meaning of the hours of perhaps care to know, the amount of An llilcrninnlc Bull. Some time ago a follower of one ot hard labor it took to level the rough traffic along its waters. The traffic is the city aldermen cast covetous glances places and to complete the terraces. much more than people imagine. The upon n desirable newsstand under the Tons ami tons of stone was carried up Minister of Public Works lias pub elevated railroad stairs. Straight lie tile steep incline to form the walls. The lished some statistics which show tliat went to bls friend, the alderman, and old man constructed a harness and car during 1900 no less titan 50,048 Ixtats of Budget. made known Ids wishes, which were ried the cobbles up on his back. Big various sizes were at work on tlie Seine. The origin of the word “budget,1 tliat the news denier should be evicted 'Flic boats carried 10,008,000 tons of simsith granite rocks, almost circular meaning* an estimate of government from the locality. merchandise, of which 049,087 tons revenues and expenses, Is thus explaln- “All right, me boy; leave It to me." in shape, weighing from twenty to fifty said tlie city father and began to pull pounds, were packed. Wherever an were used in Paris. But what of tlie ed: Almost from time Immémorial It was wires. Finally lie got an order direct incline is a little steep these stones little passenger steamers that are seen Ing tlie newsdealer to show cause’wliy were formed into steps, and from the gliding from pier to pier? Well, they the custom In England to put the esti be should not get out, hut that O' stl- terrace to the river ixittom there are at number 131. They can each carry from mates of receipts and expenditures pre nate Individual still remained. Then least twenty of these (plaint staircases. 225 to400 passengers,and last year they sented to parliament In a leather bag, the word budget being thus borrowed he drew up a formnl compl.T it. which Meanwhile he planted flowers, trees conveyed about 27,000,000 passengers. from tlie old Norman word bougette, was duly laid before one ol the J I.tex and vines, and now there is not another which signifies a leather purse. Curi The complnlnt, after telling I nw tlie An Episcopal congregation in Phila ously enough, t I k word has passed back newsdealer had been ordered to leave such garden spot in all Santa Cruz county. All the water for irrigation delphia has decided to hold services again into Fiance from England.— New aud find not done so. concludes: “And now we have to complain, was carried up the hills from the creek which for originality Is’ats all records. York Tribune. your honor, that not only Is this same in two kerosene cans on a pole balanced The congregation is eom|M>sed In part "J love company,” said a local Mrs. stand still there, but the defendant has over his shoulder. Henry Middleton, of Germans, whose language will l>e replaced It by a bigger oue.”—New who owns much of Boulder and is in used in a short address to precede the Partington. "It makes things bright York Commercial Advertiser. terested in amateur gardening, olmerved English sermon. The Lord’s Prayer and lively—It breaks the anatomy.”— New York Sun. ititlla and Ceylon nave competed so tile hard work of the old man and laid and the Creed will be recited aloud, successfully with China In tin* produc a water pipe to his door, and told him and the Psalms read in Isith languages From a cliff 1.000 feet high one tion of tea that whereas iu 1880 2.100,- he was welcome to all the water he at the same time. Hear vision can see a ship at a •XM) hundredweight of the leaf wore could use. lance of 42 miles. exported from China only 1,031,000 The Po, in North Italy Is ¡100 miles in hundredweight left the country In 1809. Entrance to this little paradise of length. Thede|>ositsat its mouth have Dellcnrtes Oat of Season. . At the Paris exposition the United Lyndon’s is through a trellis of roses to caused the coast to gain upon the sett Old Moneybags was tired of hearing States weather bureau was awarded a a garden walhxl in with xninll cobble so rapidly tliat a point which in the all this stuff and nonsense about the grand prix. Gold medals were also time of Augustus was a sea|s>rt town is poor. Some one had called bls atten awarded to Professor C. F. Marvin for stones. In this rock are planted all now eighteen miles from tlie Adriatic. tion to Ills own way of living, with deli the rare and lacy ferns. The walls Instruments, apparatus and appliances cacies out of season on Ills groanlug ta aud to Professor A. J. Henry for cloud twist and curve around and lead to un ble and— expected nooks and tete-a-tete seats. photographic "Delicacies out of season!” he thun He has deftly converted junk Into artis Not For His Health. dered. “What if I ilo get to use Ice In Hubbub*—Why are you moving from tic effects. The discarded jerk-rope the summer time? Don’t the poor get from the engine forms the liorders of four suburban home? to use It in the winter, when It’s fresh, the gaftiens, where fragrant violets Sulibulis— I am all run down. Envelopes were first used for letters and I have to put up with the cold stor Holilitflis- Malaria? grow. A large vase planted with long in 1839, and the first issue of postage age stuff? B-r-r-r-r!” — Indianapolis Press. Subbulis—No: gossipy neighbor*.— stemmed pink oxalis crowd tlie rim stanq« was authorized in 1847. CHOICE MISCELLANY CHASED THE SUPER. Exciting Knee Between Kean and lhe Stage Hand. Some strauge tales have been told by old timers In the stage business about the Keans, both the elder and the last to be seen on the American stage. Some have said that bard study made them a little wrong at times, and some of the thlugs they did certainly looked queer. It is told by an old New Orleans horseman, who Is here from the Cres cent City, that when Kean the youn ger was playing there he nearly scared a super to death aud came near “plul* Ing" him. It was in “Richard III,” in the scene where he sees the ghosts. The stage manager was a bit the worse for drink and determined to have some fun. He did not like Kean, as lie was a hard man behind the scenes. Among the supers was a raw Irish lad who had never seen a stage before. The man ager told this fellow that If be would run across the stage when he gave him the tip he would stand to earn $2. The poor fellow was broke, and a two spot looked to him like a national bank, lie agreed, and the stage manager gave him a gaudy oilcloth banner bearing these words. "Smoke General Jackson Cigars.” It was nearly a panic that this Irish lad started, lie ran across the stage, and when Kean saw him he was furi ous. He made a lunge at the unfor tunate super with his sword, and, ns the “rag” came whizzing down to a hurry call, lie chased the poor standard bearer off the stage, down tlie passage und to the street. For two blocks lie followed him In Ids Richard costume, and finally the super escaped down n dark alley. What effect it liud upon the show the turfman does not say, but certainly It •viis only the super's agility of foot that saved him.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Torture of u Flax Shirt. The most trying ordeal that Booker T. Washington was forced to endure as a slave boy was the wearing of a tlax shirt, in his autobiography, “Up From •Slavery.” lie says: “In the portion of Virginia where I lived it was common to use tlax ax part of the clothing for slaves. That part of tlie tlax from which our clothing was made was largely the refuse, which of course was the cheapest and roughest part. I can scarcely imagine any torture except perhaps the pulling of a tootli that is equal to that caused by pulling on a new flax shirt for the first time. It is almost equal to the feeling that one would experience If he had a dozen or more chestnut burs or a hundred small pin points in contact with the flesh. Even to this day 1 can recall accurately the tortures that I un derwent w hen pulling on one of these garments. The fact that my flesh was soft and tender added to the pain. But I had no choice. I had to wear the flax shirt or none, and had it been left to me to choose 1 should have chosen to wear no covering. "In conned ion with the tlax shirt my brother John, wlio is several years old er than 1 am. performed one of the most generous nets that I ever heard of one slave relative doing for another. On several occasions when I was being forced to wear a new tlax shirt he gen erously agreed to put it on in my stead and wear it for several days till it was ‘broken in.’ Until I had grown to be quite a youth this single garment was all that I wore.” The Itenln Enter«, "Resin eating.” said a south Georgia doctor, "is a habit acquired by the Cracker settlers who live in tlie neigh borhood of a turpentine still. The resin tl>“y use isn't tlie hard, shiny resin of commerce, hilt lias been dipped out of the cooking caldron nt an early stage of the process, anil when it cools It can be kneaded between the fingers like wax. Tlie backwoods resin eater will bite off an Immense chunk and chew it placidly until it disappears. Tlie heat of tlie mouth keeps It fairly soft, but If the chewing becomes too deliberate it Is apt to ‘set.’ ax they say, and cement the victim's jaws together In n grip of Iron. “On one occasion a big, rawboned backwoodsman who used to hang around n still I operated came rushing Into my little office, clutching his face lu both hands mid making a horrible gurgling noise In Ids throat. ‘What on earth is the matter?’ I asked in alarm. ‘His rosutn’s sot,' said another Crack er, who brought up the rear. I was non plused at first, but finally grasped the fact that tlie man had been chewing a monstrous slab of resin and hnd thoughtlessly suspended operations long enough to allow It to solidify and clamp Ills teeth like a vice. We finally pried bls mouth open with n clilsel and broke a couple of molars In the opera tion. Next day I saw him chewing again.”—Exchange. Some Exploded Food Fallacies. Fish ax a food of the brain worker must be consigned to the limbo of vanities, though certnln forms of fish are the chextpext of nil foods, notably the bloater. Oysters and turtle soup are frauds. It would take 14 oysters to equal the nourishment of one egg and 223 to provide the same amount of nutriment contained in a pound of beef. Salt fish, especially salt fat fish, is the most valuable food for the poorer classes. and whole races In the south of Europe live on the Newfoundland cod. Canned salmon we see at 18 pence a pound is no more expensive than cod at sixpence. Millions of peo ple live on it. and the North American settler who Is not well provided with cash finds it a good substitute and change from flesh meat at times. Frogs' legs are not of high nutritive value, which need not surprise us. Turtle soup from the chemist's point of view Is not worth a tenth of the price paid for it.—Exchange. Lndrrsfood Mt l.nst. “Hello, Central Give me one triple nought South.” "What?’ “Don't you catch It? One zero, zero. Zero South.” "Wli n t?” “South one double nought, nought.” "Can’t you speak plainer?" “One thousand South — ten hundred South. Get It now?” "Ob, you mean South one onght, dou ble ought. Al) right”—Chicago Trib une. Queer News and Fl<nre«. While the emigration from Ireland increases from year to year a curtous phenomenon is observed tn the United Kingdom. The number of marriages Is increasing, and the number of birth* Is decreasing. There never were so many marriages in England as there were In the year 1899. But the records of the birth rate run down to the low est figure. England that was so proud of her Increase in population from 12,- 000.900 to 40,000,000 since the com mencement of the French revolution, while during the same period the pop ulation of France Increased only from 23.000,000 to 38.000,000, now finds her population diminishing. But the strange thing about It is that the same phenomenon Is observed in Australia, In New Zealand and In all the coun tries Inhabited exclusively by Anglo- Saxons. The London Dally Telegraph gives a cause for the phenomenon which may perhaps be the true one, and this cause is none other than the rebellion, often noticed by close ob servers, of the Anglo-Saxon women against maternity, a rebellion which Is the consequence of their passion for Independence and their constantly In creasing desire to become equal If not superior to men In Intellectual occupa tions and iu physical exercises. In saying tills we refer particularly to American women. For the ladies of the law and the medical and journalis tic ladles maternity Is a nuisance, just as It is for those whose greatest de-’ lights are bicycle riding, tennis, golf and hockey.—Independence Beige. Invention aa n Profession. It has been often said that every man Is an Inventor if lie had only the oppor tunity of exercising his talents. In any case, it seems clear that the faculty of Invention Is not so much of a born gift as Is generally supposed. Why should not the technical pupils be encouraged to attempt at least to invent by the ex ercise of some very simple means of ed ucation? Surely It would not be diffi cult to prepare a series of mechanical models more or less imperfect in opera tion and call upon the pupils to employ their wits in devising Improvements In them. The Intellectual training entailed by such a course of Instruction would in itself be most valuable and the results peculiarly interesting. It would teach pupils to "think” and induce a habit of mind In the examination and criticism of mechanisms that should prove of the greatest use to them in their subse quent careers.—London Express. Uncle Sam’s Freak Batteries. Only a few years ago a battery of pneumatic dynamite guns was erected at Sandy Hook at the expense of the United States government and a simi lar battery at San Francisco. Some of them are of 15 Inch caliber, throwing a shell carrying a maximum charge of nitrogelatin of 500 pounds about a mile and n half. These are the same type of pneumatic guns which were mounted on the Vesuvius and which popped away at the bluffs of Santiago without doing any harm. These guns must be placed In the category of freaks In view of the fact that long before their construction It was well known that there were a number of high explo sives as powerful as dynamite which could be safely thrown with gunpow der and at much higher velocities and to much greater ranges by means of guns and projectiles of far greater sim plicity.—Home Magazine. Known About Morocco. Nobody knows what the population of Morocco is. Estimates place it all the way from 2,500,000 to 9,400,000, says a correspondent of the New York Press. A large part of the country is totally unexplored. The French lately have gone In behind Morocco and ex tended the boundaries of Algiers so as to take In the Ttiat region, a chain of fertile oases through which run the caravan routes. The sultan has ex postulated and Is still expostulating, but with no effect so far as can be seen. Morocco is sometimes called the “sick man of the west,” but those best Informed believe that it is a pretty lively sick man. A— An Odd Occnpntion That Pays. The cultivation of cocoa In Trinidad Is one of the few industries that can be relied upon to make a handsome re turn for the time and capital Invested. I would advise any young man who possesses a good constitution, a few hundred dollars and a capacity for hard work to Investigate the possibili ties of the island In regard to the cocoa industry. Already there are among us scores of young Americans who own cocoa plantations, and I have yet to learn of an Instance in which one has failed to make money.—E. Nelson Dade in Success. (JSfXG AN ESTHETICS THE FACTS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM AND ETHER. CVII Deed" Are Not Eaay to Do With the Aid of Those Drugs—Some Pop ular Misinformation on the Subject Corrected. A curious case of robbery under chloroform which was decided In Lon don not long ago was followed with great interest by writers on medical jurisprudence, Hitherto many such writers have expressed great doubt about these cases, for the process Is by no means so easy of use as people tblnk. Very extravagant Ideas prevail amoug the public as to the power of anaesthetics, owing perhaps to the li cense employed by novelists when they describe “fancy” cases in their books. One reads, for instance, of a man In a railway carriage waving a hand kerchief before the face of a fellow traveler and producing instantaneous unconsciousness. This is absolutely Impossible. Another Imaginative writ er recently described a murder carried out by pushing a towel saturated with a powerful anaesthetic under the bed room door of his sleeping victim. This also Is nonsense. In another tale the more feasible plan Is carried out of entering the sleeping man’s chamber, pouring the anivstbetic on the bed. the murderer standing by and watching his victim die. But even this is stretching the truth rather se verely. The true facts about chloroform and Its companion ana'stbetic, ether, are as follows: First, with regard to administering the drug during sleep, doctors have made very exhaustive experiments, for it would be of great advantage to a pa tient on whom an operation has to be performed to chloroform him while asleep and save iiitn the horror which so many people Imve of.the inhalation, and they sum up the results, showing that very rarely can chloroform be ad ministered to a sleeping person without awakening him. Grown people are, with the rarest exception, awakened by the Irritating fumes. If a man were tired and If Ills nose were naturally In sensitive to unpleasant odors, nud es pecially if he were under the influence of drink, it might be possible to make »Im unconscious while asleep. But not even every doctor could do It. The op eration would require the highest skill, and the most skillful administrator would succeed only once In a hundred times. If we take the case of spilling the chloroform In a room and thus Impreg nating all the air of the room, the thing Is out of the question. Yet not only do novelists assert that this can be done, but many people have been actually charged In real life with doing It—for the purpose of blackmailing them, for Injuring them or perImps to throw off suspicion from the pretended victim who has committed tlie robbery him self. If the room measures, say, 12 feet square and Is 9 feet high. It would probably take a gallon of chloroform spilled on the floor to make a man un conscious. All the chinks and crannies would have to be stopped up tlrst. moreover, and the operator himself would have to be poison proof or he also would succumb. As a matter of fact, the only way to render a person unconscious by the use of chloroform 1 b in the way practiced by surgeons in the operating room And this is by no means an easy task. There are several ways of doing IL The chlo roform may be dropped on a handker chief. which is then held over the face at some little distance, or It may be dropped on a sponge, or it may be used io one of the innumerable machines In vented for the purpose. But the vnpor must be mixed with air before it Is breathed. That is the reason the hand kerchief or the sponge is held some Inches from the face. As a rule It lakes from five to eight minutes to make tlie person unconscious, and dur ing this time be generally struggles very violently. It Is probable that many of the charges of chloroforming which have been made are false. Sometimes the pretended victim asserts that be has become unconscious Imjpgdlately. But it has been shown in evidence that the time necessary to bring about this re sult Is at least four or five minutes. Sometime" he says be could not cry out. yet be describes all the circum stances of the administration minute ly. Now. the first effect of the chloro form is to produce confusion of the mind, while, on the other band, the patient can cry out almost up to the last He becomes mentally confused before he loses the power of speech. These few facts are sufficient perhaps to demonstrate that some charges of possible chloroforming are necessarily untrue.—London Mall. Queer Town Names. The following towns In Pennsylvania are enumerated Mi the twelfth census: Jersey Shore, Loyal Sock, Nlppenose, Picture Rocks, Wolf, Cherrytree, Corn pie uter, Scrub Grass, Victory, Twi light, Parnassus, Freedom, New Free dom, Paradise, Red Lion, Moon, Slip pery Rock. Daisy Town, Scalp Level. Snow Shoe, I’opcopson. Licking, Paint, Chest, Fox, Bald Eagle, Oil Creek, Woodcock, Rush, Andy, Fair Chance. Warriors Mark, Wampum, Jeddo, Shickshinny and Warrior Run. A Dutch View of England’s Deca dence. Great Britain has reached and passed the zenith of her prosperity. If a war with two small states reduces her to these financial straits, what sort of a figure will she cut when she is locked In a struggle with Russia or, as may happen, with Russia and France? If only the plea for arbitration so often advanced had been accepted!—Amster dam Handelsblad. Cork intends to follow Glasgow with an Industrial exhibition in 1902. Lord Cadogan lias signified his Intention of subscribing £250 toward the fund. which has already reached £5.000. A dispatcn to a Lonaon newspaper from Rome says that the pope has or dered that about 150,990 old swords, halberds, spears and battleaxes In the Vatican armory be melted and the iron sold. A furnace for the purpose has been erected In the Vatican gar dens. The weapons are useless ex cept as curios and coat a great deal to keep them polished. Not Quite Wbat She Meant. A very stout lady while out walking In a certain part of Edinburgh came to a gateway which appeared to be tie entrance to a private road Not being certain, however, she asked one of two messenger boys who were standing at the entrance whether she could get through the gateway or ooL The boy looked her up and down and across. Then, winking to bls friend, be replied: “1 dlnna ken, missus, but tblnk ye miebt try. as 1 saw a horse and cart gang through a wee while since.’’-Lon don Tit-Bits. He Knew When He Wax Well Off. Teddie slept in a big bed with his mother, and one winter’s night, being right In the middle of It when bls mother’s bedtime came, she suggested to Kitt to move on bls side. He blink ed up at her rebelllously: “No. I t’lnk 1 won’t move. It's cold everywhere I •Is’t.”—Harper’s Bazar. The largest tree In the state of New Jersey is a white oak situated three miles north of Mickelton, Gloucester county. Its dimensions are: Height, 95 feet: diameter of trunk three feet above the ground. 7 feet 10 Inches; spread of branches, 118 feet. This tree antedates the settlement of the colony. Considering what a wet place Eng land is, the country Is singularly 111 supplied with water powers. There Is water everywhere, but hardly a drop for driving. «
