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I BAN WIN RECORDER. :r; ÎKÎ >Wa ■<*: T’ntle hr I'lauCc : Ton. who takes a vital Interest io the welfn i <>f his grandchildren can Insure th Ir being rich by planting trees on ■eeless land, which land he Tbe Rev. Dr. Richard Harcourt of can leave to them in his will. Some Reading, Pa., has taken a new depart big Britls ure and has issued a special request for ed for In this manner. A predecessor the women attending his church to of the present Duke of Athole had a lot of land. I t it was not especially valu remove their hats during church serv ices. He says the ladies find no diffi able—In fact, he was “land poor.” He determined that bis descendants culty in removing their hats in a thea should fare better and so began plant ter, where the wearing of big hats and ing trees. In the course of his lifetime a profusion of Howers and feathers that lie planted 14.093,719 larch trees alone, the fair sex delight in, are much less covering an area of 10,324 acres. Ills annoying, for the reason that the seats last plantation covered 7.800 acres, are gradually elevated from the orches which lu the ordinary way becomes a forest of mature timber 70 years aftet tra to the rear and give those seated in planting. Thinned down to about 35C the rear of the theater some chance of trees an acre, each tree will contain at getting occasional glimpses of the stage. least 50 cubic feet of timber, which, at He says that he is told that in the thea 25 cents a foot, gives a sum of $4,375 ters the ladies place tHeir hats on their an acre, a total for the value of the laps and the audience looks home-like timber on tbe last plantation alone ot and at ease, quite comfortable and gen $31,500,000. teel, and like they had come to stay The whole initial outlay for this plan awhile. He believes it is a matter of tatlon. which has so Increased the wealth of the ancient house of Athole. the greatest gissl to the greatest num Is said to have been only about $15,00C ber, and ends his |>etitioii to the fair for the seedling trees and the cost ol sex with a bit of tlattery by saying Hie labor of planting them. The main "women are wonderfully clever with a tenance of tbe wood wns paid for out stickpin,” and closes his argument as of the profits arising from the sale ot follows: “I will rejoice to view my young wood when thinning tbe planta halless congregation, and it won’t spoil tions. The Earl mid 'lit* lllghvvaymnn. One night when the Earl of Stanhopv was walking alone In tbe Kentish lanes a man jumped out of the hedge, leveled a pistol and demanded bls purse. “My good man, I have no money with me." said Lord Stanhope In his remark ably slow tones. The robber laid hands on bls watch “No,” Lord Stanhope went on, “that watch you must not have, It was glv en to me by one I love. It Is worth £100. If you will trust me, I will go back to Cheveulng and bring a £100 note and place it In tbe bo I low of that tree. I cannot lose my watch " Tbe man did trust hltn. The earl did bring tbe note, Years after Lord Stan- hope was at a city dinner, and next to him sat a London alderman of great wealth, a man widely respected. He and the earl talked of many things and found each other mutually entertain ing Next day Lord Stanhope received a letter, out of which dropped a £100 uote. "It was your lordship's kind loan of this sum." said the note, "that start ed me In life nnd enabled me to have tbe honor of slttlug next to your lord ship at dinner." A strange story; but the Stanhopes are a strange race, and things happen to them that never did or could occur to other people. To lie Cheerful. The sovereign, voluntary path to cheerfulness. If evr spontaneous cheer fulness be lost. Is to sit up cheerfully, to look around cheerfully and to act and speak as If cheerfulness were al ready there. If such conduct doesn't make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else will on that occasion. So, to feel brave, act as If we were brave, use all our will to that end, nnd a courage lit will very likely replace tbe fit of fear. Again, in order to feel kindly toward a person to whom we have been Inimical, tbe only way is more or less deliberate- ly to smile, to make sympathetic In quirles and to force ourselves to say genial things. One hearty laugh to- gether will bring enemies Into closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides In Inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feel Ing. Reqnlrcmentn of n Good Stroke « 1 r. During practice a good stroke Is one who is regular in his rowing nnd easy to follow. He must give tbe big men plenty of time to finish tbe stroke out. lie must keep them swinging stendlly, and In a trial over the whole or tiny portion of the course lie must get ev ery possible ounce of work out of them, so that they are completely rowed out without having got short or flurried on the way. In a race he must know the capabilities of Ids crew and must be able to feel how they are going, when they want easing off and when they are capable of higher pressure, while above all he must have that degree of generalship which will enable him to decide In a well contested race when to put the pressure on lu order to lake the advantage of station at a certain point of the course, when to ease off If he Is holding bis opponent nt a slower rate of stroke, how far it Is necessary for him to save himself for an effort at the end ami especially In a really close contest the exact mo ment nt which he should make the "grande nttaque."- Saturday Review. Abe Llnroln. Of all tbe great men I have known Lincoln Is the one who has left upon me the Impression of a sterling sou ot God. Straightforward, unflinching, not loving the work lie hud to do, but fac ing It with a bold and true heart; mild whenever he had a chance, stern as Iron when tbe public weal required It, following a bee line to the goal which duty set before him. I can still feel tbe grip of Ills massive hand and the searching look of his kindly eye. I re member that when Lord Lyons, who was a bachelor, went to communlc te tbe news of tbe marriage of the I rince of Wales to hint officially lie i ¿the queen's letter In Ills hand ai d s:t <1, "Well. Lord Lyons, all I can say Is, ‘Go nnd do thou likewise.’’’—Sir Ed- ward Malet's "Shifting Scenes.” The Redcont». An Incident at tbe siege of Rouen, In 1591. shows that red was looked upon as the English color, for In mentioning the death of one of the Earl of Essex’s captains It is remarked that the French man who shot him got near enough to <Jo so by putting on the red coat of a dead English soldier. lu 1043 the king's life guards, ns also the queen's and Prince Rupert's, wore red coats. It Firing» Her. Etc. "What do you do when your wife gets sulky and refuses to talk to you?" "Why, I begin to praise Mrs. All- good. across tbe street, or some other woman I know she detests.” "And that brings her. eb?” “Yes. It brings her and sometimes ev erything tbrowable tbnt happens to be In her reach too.”— Salt Lake City Tri bune. the flower garden to lie out of view for a brief hour in the cause of the Master.” Now the crusade against the wearing of women’s hats in church lias begun, I wonder where it will stop? Whether it will be confined to the limits of Dr. Harcourt’s church or whether it will lie one of the fads that will lie taken up by the different churches until a woman will fear to keep on her hat, even though she is suffering from neuralgia and is sitting in the line of an open window or door exposing her to a draught that will make her quiver with pain. Hhe wouldn’t dare to keep on the hat for fear some solemn-looking deacon would present her with a card inscribed with the polite invitation, “Please take off'your hat.” Such an edict on the part of the churches would create a new departure in millinery, or the way of dressing the hair, or both. With many persons their hair must lie dressed In a certain way to enable them to wear their new hats at all. It is all right when the hat is perched jauntily on the head, but the manner of wearing the hair is woefully unbecoming without the hat. They are painfully conscious of the fact, and they would rather stay at home from church any day than look like a guy when their hat had to be re moved. Some of the ministers who were uncomfortably warm from their exertions to propound the scriptures would mildly suggest that it would be very acceptable if Brother So-and-so would pull down the windows and let in a little more fresh air. It would make some of the good sisters and brothers susceptible to colds from the least draught wince, but they would have to bear it, because the edict of non-hat-wearing in the churches had gone forth. The llev. Dr. Richard Harcourt also says: “I have been told that the ladies can put on their hats with much celerity and satisfaction without the aid of a mirror. They know when it is right.” There is where he is mistaken or has been mis informed. They always have their doubts and fears, and unless it is a plain and comfortable little dude or sailor hat (one and the same), you will hear the question asked when the hat is pinned on and the audience is alsiut to disperse, “Is my hat on straight?” Some times it is, but oftener it is all awry, necessitating a little pulling to this side or the other. All things con sidered, Dr. Harcourt’s plan is doubt less a g<xsl one, but l’olly believes it would be lieaten by a big majority if it was left to the women to vote on the subject. bition »oouer or later must learn to ex ert tome will power. It is like an en gine run by steam. You must keep the power down to some extent and you will receive better results than when the steam is allowed to run to the topmoet notch threatening to tear the machine from the floor and rack ing it more in that one outburst of speed than weeks of steady work. That is what human livings do who are am bitious beyond their strength. They live on the nerve force they have got until it is destroyed, lieing fairly con sumed by this little inward fire that is rapidly burning up the little over worked spark of life. People of tills stamp are wrecked in Issly and mind before they are aware of their danger, and nervous prostration is the result. They realize their folly when it is too late to remedy the trouble. Only weeks of perfect rest and quiet and the best of care will remedy the matter, and even then in many cases the sufferer will never regain the robust health and strength they have sacrificed on ambi tion’s altar. Go slow; no one makes anything by overdoing day in and day out and possibly night in and night out as well. To Polly's notion it is a crime against nature to overtax one’s strength in that way, yet there are times when we all must rise up and plead guilty to the charge. BRIEF REVIEW. Saves the Postage Stamps. A curious fraud has just been discov ered by the jiostal authorities in Brus sels. They noticed at times during the past few months that the number of letters mailed in various places through out the country was much greater than the number of stamps that had been sold, and they felt convinced that a fraud of some kind was being perpe trated. They therefore set detectives to work, and at last they have solved the mystery. The plan adopted by the tricksters was very simple. When one desired to mail a letter he stamped it as usual, but over the stamp he placed a very thin, transparent piece of paper, the result being that the postoffice mark appeared only on this paper and did not deface the stamp underneath it, which, consequently, could lie used again, and just as often as it was pro tected by the transparent paper. The trick was so easy that any one could do it, all that was necessary being to see that the transparent pa|>er was gummed evenly over the stamp. After it had passed through the mails it was easy to remove the paper by holding it a min ute or two over steam. Thousands of letters stamped in this manner have recently, it is said, passed through the mails in Belgium, and as they appar ently differed in no respect from other letters it was not until a thorough in vestigation had lieen made that the au thorities learned how they bad been tricked. Preservation of Stonehenge. Several English societies interested in arclneology have combined forces and arranged a plan for the preserva tion of the curious pile of Druid mono liths which has been rapidly falling to pieces unmolested at Stonehenge. These stones form the most interesting and imisirtant archaeological remnant of the early inhabitants of Britain at pres ent in existence. According to state ments made at a recent meeting of the allied societies the finest stone of the group, which overhangs the altar stone and is the largest and finest monolith in England, with the exception of Cleo patra’s Needle, is in imminent danger of falling and being broken. The work of preservation, which is to lie begun as soon as the weather will permit, will be simply preservative, no attempt at restoration being made. An exjiert civil engineer has been engaged, who will aid Delmer Blow in suiiervising the work. After the stones now in danger of falling have been cured for an ell'ort will be made to arrange the re Some times you hear an ambitious mainder and their surroundings so that and energetic person say, “I envy those further decay and destruction may lie who are contented with their lot, will as far as possible prevented. ing to let well enough alone and take Swiss Watchmakers Fear Us. life easy. If the whole house is out of order it is just the same to them. They Agents of Swiss watchmakers who will sit down with a novel, not over have l>een in the United States, headed tidy in their attire, hair not combed by one of their chief exjierts, have re- but simply brushed on top, after the ported that their only salvation was to night's rest, and, hovering over some lie found in the introduction of Ameri cheap and sentimental novel, jstur can machinery. If that is their only over its pages until the never-lagging chance the American companies are old clock puts its hands before its face likely to take the markets whether at the hour of 12 as if in shame of the they combine or not. The stronghold slovenly woman, who, hearing its warn of the Swiss watchmakers is their man ing, hastily puts up the novel, knowing ual skill, which is, in some sense, hered that a troop of hungry children will itary. In the use of machinery, so far come |M>uring in at any minute for their from enjoying an advantage over Amer lunches, and her breakfast table is not icans, they will be at a disadvantage. yet cleared. That is her one discon They may survive, however, as there is tented moment, when she has to put no small market in which handwork, away her trashy reading to minister to though more costly, will be given a the Isidily wants of her little Hock. decided preference over machine work That over she piles the dishes into the for a long time to come. sink for the children to wash when they get home, for they have been do The father of the game of whist, Ed ing nothing but study all day; she mond Hoyle, lived to be 97 years old. changes her dress for fear some one His treatise on cards has been published might step in for a few minutes, then in all languages, and probably no work she is alisorlied in the book again. except the Bible has passed through Nothing worries or frets her much, more editions. The original work ap but heaven help the home over which peared in London in 1742. such a woman presides. No one can blame her husband if he finds the Denmark started the last century as street corners more pleasant than his the |HM>rest country, per head of popu sadly neglected home after his day’s lation, in Europe. It ended as one of work is over. No one can wonder at the richest. And it has to thank its the children lieing seen at any hour in land system and dairy system for it. the evening and with questionable com pany. The mother seldom knows any The Indian name of the Charles river thing alsmt her family when the niem- at Boston was Mis-sha-um, the meaning liers of it are out of her presence, Hhe of which is great highway. is too busy devouring a novel. great men have been poor Orthography dot's not make No; it is far lietter to possess that ambition, even though its power over us taxes our strength at times even be Cape Colony has 30,000 acres of vine yond endurance. I would rather wear out than rust out, any time. The latter yards, with 90,000,000 vines. Is such an aimless and colorless life. In China there Is twenty times as Those who are bubbling over with ain- much coal as in all Europe. THESE CLUÏ11ES FIT. FAUST’S WILD CHARGE. MOST COSTLY OF DRUGS. Hnniaiie French Hoatman and the Dentl En|{llthinan, It Sent Marguerite Fixing la Terr.. Front the Stage. Some Sell at Retail For More Thao T^elr Weight In Gold. A long expected French lugger was seen making for the roadstead, and tbe Lowestoft free traders were on the A Remarkalih Tale of the Remarka alert, anxiously seeking an opportu ble Garments of Silk That Are nity for comipunicatlng with her crew. Worn l>y Some Remarkable South While they waited for a lapse of vigi American Indiana. lance on the part of the excisemen, a Trobably no country on earth Is more boat was lowered from tbe lugger and Interesting to the traveler on the look rowed toward tbe shore. A curious out for queer things and unusual expe crowd of beach men and excisemen riences than tbe silvas of tbe Amazon, assembled to meet her, and as she and here Is a story about an Indian came In on the crest of a roller It was tribe of that region told by Arthur Ax observed that she contained a coffin. tell. an American traveler, that can The French boatmen had a mournful hardly be beaten. tale to tell. On board tbe lugger had These particular Indians were contin been an Englishman suffering from an ually bent on discovery and experi illness w hich soon proved fatal. In his menting, says Mr. Axtell. Somehow last moments of consciousness he bad they had come Into possession of some begged the captain not to bury him at silkworms. These worms were not sea. but to keep Ills body until a rest known before In that country, and ing place could be found for It under most of them died before tbe natives the green turf of a churchyard In bls found out how to raise them. But they native land. Sympathy with bis sad persevered and by feeding them on the fate and the knowledge that the lugger tender leaves of some native plants was not far from tbe English coast produced a good Quality of silk, not so had Induced the captain to consent, good as the Chinese product by feeding and now he had sent the body ashore tbe worms on white mulberry leaves, for burial. In spite of bis broken Eng but nevertheless a strong, serviceable lish, the Frenchmen's spokesman told silk, certainly good enough for the his tale well. dusky bodies of these savages, for this Both excisemen and beach men— silk has net yet become an article of especially tbe lutter—loudly expressed commerce. their admiration of tlie captain’s con Their method of obtaining the silk duct. A parson was summoned, and and transforming It into garments was In a little w hile a mournful procession crude. When tlie moths laid the eggs, made its way from the beach to tlie the natives carried them In great quan churchyard. Even the chief officer of tities In belts about their bodies, thus the excisemen was present nnd Is said giving the eggs the body heat. At the to have shed tears. end of winter the eggs were hatched, That night the local "resurrection and the result was an army of caterpil ists” were busy, and at dawn the lars. These were trained to crawl over churchyard contained a desecrated the naked bodies of the natives. This grave. A little way inland, however, was their home. They knew no other in tlie midst of the marshes, a smug and seemed quite contented. glers* store received the addition of a During eight weeks the savage Is coffin filled with silks and lace!— covered with these yellow crawlers. It "Highways and Byways In East An would seem that thousands of creeping glia.” W. A. Dutt. caterpillars over one's body from head to foot would tickle one to death. Cer GONE TO THE VERGE. tainly a white man would find It un bearable, but It must be remembered lie Thouwlit III- Had Reached Friend these natives of Brazil are scarcely hu ship'» Limit. man To them It Is Intensely Interest This young man Is not so confiding ing to train these worms In the way as he was. and his ideas of friendship they should go. Small bits of leaves are not so exalted. Yet he takes it are stuck on the bodies of the natives philosophically and Is willing to place tn regular rows, and round aud round a heavy credit in favor of experience. the worms go. feeding on the way. The' "I started in a small way.” he tells, natives help each other in the placing “and I had an Idea that my business of the bits of leaves and In confining would expand rapidly. But I find a the worms to certain localities on tbe good many leaks and drains. Of course body. you know Jones. He Is my friend and These caterpillar covered niggers, as knows about horses. So when my one Dr. F. A. Marsh, who was of our party, horse went lame I consulted him as be called them, sleep on their backs at ing the one friend 1 had who. I thought, night and are careful not to turn over could help me out. lii their sleep That would be a sad “ ‘Pretty bad shape,’ he said as he calamity When we came to their vil looked tlie nag over. ‘Need him on lage. there were ten Indians, men and your delivery wagon, don’t you?’ women. In tbe act of raising silk cater "I need him or some other horse and pillars by this unique process. They asked Jones what I could get for the were a sight to <41111 the blood. 1 know lame one. He looked him over, felt the blood stopped flowing in my veins. tils legs, examined Ills eyes and teeth I stood still nnd shuddered. Yet there and finally said that, being a friend of was a fascination about It. for I had mine, he'd give me $40 for the liorse. 1 been told what the object of It was. took It. That same afternoon he sold ami I admired the savage Ingenuity. the horse for $80. a fact I learned about After tbe worms have become dizzy n week later. with playing lite "merry go round" on “ ‘Now.’ said Jones, ‘I'm not tlie man the bodies of the savages they quit eat to lenve a friend In a scrape. I’ll Just Ing and commence spinning tbe outer rustle around and find you another covering tor tbe cocoons. WLen this horse.’ labor is done, tlie natural process of “ ‘Thank you. but keep within a hun silkmaking Is Interfered with. Tbe dred. I can't afford to pay more.' savages had found out that when tbe "Next morning my friend showed up cocoons wer<> finished they would burst with n horse he told me I could have or tbe worms would eat their way out. for $98. though he was really worth In either case tbe silk was destroyed. more. He wns sound, geutle. 7 years So the worms are prevented from mak old, according to Jones. ing tbe cocoons Instead the liber for "He had bought that horse for $00. tbe outer covering Is destroyed, and He had spavin and ringbone, was knee the poor caterpillars stop in perplex sprung and 13 years old. So Jones liad ity But they doubtless conclude the made $78 off me and left me with one savages are right, and the worms are of the worst old crowbaits you ever in debt to them for eight weeks of saw. I’m not saying much about it. feeding, so they start soon to the spin for Jones Is my friend, you know. But ning of tbe silk nu o!<l codger that buys groceries from 'Fite natives are now in ecstasy. They me says friendship ceases in a liorse make the worms hustle around them as dicker.”—Detroit Free Press. they have been taught during all their little lives and spinning as they go the A Kindly Joko. tine filaments of shining silk. Round Judge Brnxfleld. famous In England ami round crawl tbe worms, each one for bls love for banging criminals, rplnnlug 1.000 to 4.000 yards of silk when on circuit always put up near thread around the swarthy, savage Perth wltji a crony who was devoted neck, around each naked arm, around to chess. Tbe laird had rather the bet tbe chest and abdomen and the lower ter of Ills lordship at the game. In limbs. The work of the worm Is over. the revolution of tlie circuits Braxfleld And the result Is n remarkable trans found himself trying his hospitable formation From a nude savage figure, friend, who had got awkwnrdly mixed loathsome and repulsive, with thou up In some abduction of cattle. Tbe sands of yellow worms crawling, twist evidence was clear, the panel wns con ing. writhing, squirming, to a conquer victed and the judge passed tlie solemn ing. proud native of Brazil, clothed In sentence of death. Then, bending a perfectly fitting garment of rich silk. down, lie chuckled to the unfortunate He lias tolled not. neither has he »pin prisoner —the accommodation in the ned-he has only bossed tbe job—yet Is provincial courts wns cramped—“And be clothed In raiment ns beautiful ns now, Donald, my friend. I think I’ve the lilies of the field. What a feeling «heck mated you for once.” But Brax- of supremacy be must have! He lias field delighted in a kindly joke. Interfered successfully with a divine plan He lias turned aside the course Trillin« With Charon. of nature and stands erect—In bls own Just ns Charon wns nbout to make mind, at least—a man to be greatly ad the ferry slip the ex-distlller nudged mired.—Philadelphia Times. him In the ribs. “If It Isn't too much trouble," said Easy. the latter. "I wish you would put me “Fame.” said the youth with tbe ear with the arrivals from Boston.” nest Intellectual expression, "Is so hard “But you are from St. Louis.” pro to attain! It is so difficult for one to tested Charon. “Wouldn’t you feel out get himself talked about!" of place among so tnueb culture?” "Humph!” rejoined tbe woman with "No, indeed. I always feel at home cold blue eyes and a firm jaw. “You In the midst of refined spirits.” Just ought to live up In our neighbor Thereupon the ancient ferryman toss hood.”—Washington Star. ed the ex-distlller In tbe Styx.—Chica go News. The name of the hero of this anec dote I shall not give you. for be has long since beeu gathered to his fathers. Let It suffice that In his heyday he was one of the greatest tern :-s who ever sang to a breathless and enthusi astic audience. He bad a penchant, however, for the red, red wine, which In the end proved bls undoing and ulti mately provided a pathetic ending for an otherwise great career. In his prime Ills drinking seemed only to affect bls legs, but 'lever his head or voice. He could always slug and sing true, but at times he had no more ability to guide bls wandering footsteps than has a sufferer In the last Btages of locomotor ataxia. At one time, when he was singing Faust to Emma Abbott’s Marguerite, he appeared at tbe opera house In an apparently hopeless condition. The management was wild, but there was no one to take I i I b place, and so they had to chance It with him as Faust. All went well until they came to that scene where Faust, In leaving Margue rite, crosses the stage and then, giving way to an Impulse, rushes back and kisses Marguerite yet once again ere taking bls departure, Faust on this occasion got to the oth er side of tbe stage all right, but trou ble arose when he tried to get back. Marguerite sits in tbe window of her cottage, and Fnust comes back and kisses her through the window. Faust meusured the distance with a wabbling eye, but made a start when his cue was given. Then be seemed to lose control of himself. One-quarter way across he was trotting, one-half way the trot was a run. and the remainder of the way It had become a gallop. Up to this point Miss Abbott stood her ground bravely, but that rapidly approaching figure awed her, and with a frightened scream she fled. Faust, poor Faust, charged on. He reached the place he had last seen Marguerite and essayed to clasp the atmosphere In outstretched arms. Then bls Impetus carried him through the window, and all that tbe astounded audience looked upon were his waving legs. Somebody pushed him back, and, absolutely un disturbed, he finished the opera, sing ing In an unusually superb manner. Not so with the unfortunate Margue rite. however, for from then on she was suffering from a case of "rattles,” which In simple Justice should have been the property of Faust.— New York Tribune. “The price of many drugs used In medicine Is astonishing to those who are not acquainted with the subject,” remarked a druggist. “There are sev eral that are worth their weight In gold (about $20 an ounce), while $2, $3 or $5 an ounce are quite common prices in pharmacy. I filled a prescrip tion the other day that cost $25. But there Is one drug that 1 can recall which Is worth much more than Its weight In gold. That Is pseudo physo stigmine. I don't think that it has a popular name. It Is too rich for tbut. In the pharmacists' list it Is quoted at $1 a grain, or $437.50 an ounce. The seed from which tbe drug Is made grows In India and Brazil, as well as In parts of South Africa. This seed, tradition says, was once used by na tive chiefs as an ordeal. Tbe ordeal generally resulted in tbe death of tbe man upon whom It was tried and so was considered as a great truth finder. The prepared drug Is sometimes used now In prescriptions for the treatment of heart disease. “Another drug which takes the palm for costliness Is, curiously enough, tbo one which Is perhaps the most widely known by name of them all to the gen eral public—namely, musk. Its retail price at the present moment Is nbout $50 an ounce. $C>00 a pound apothecary, or 2'/j times the value of pure gold, 24 carats fine. It Is obtained from the musk deer, u very rare animal, aud Is contained In a follicle, of which there is only one In each animal, so that an ounce of the drug represents approxi mately one of these precious animals. As It Is largely used for scent, the de mand constantly exceeds the supply, and tbe price has been steadily ad vancing. There Is no reason why It should not go to $250 or $500 an ounce during the next few years, as the musk deer Is gradually vanishing from tlie face of tbe earth.”—Kansas City Jour nal. NOT BURIED AT SEA. Tbe SINGLE PIECE SUITS THAT ARE SPUN UPON THE BODY. Preparation For Confeiilon. A priest wns engaged In Instructing Related. nnd catechising a Russian boy. Pres "I understand that Frailman has ently lie said, "Now, my boy, tell me come to the conclusion to contest bis what you must do by way of prepar wife's will.” ing for confession nnd penace.” “Sin, “Well, what Is there courageous your reverence." was the unexpected about that? She's dead. Isn't she?”— answer. - London Telegraph. Richmond Dispatch. Tbe discovery of what Is true and tbe practice >f that which is good are the two most important objects of phi losophy.-Junius. Every time an argument gains you a new friend It loses you two old ones.— Cblcngo News. Thrift In Children. A savings batik nccouut Is a great In centlve to thrift in children If one Is begun for the baby, even with a very small sum. and added through child hood and youth with a certain proper tlon of tbe money that otherwise would be spent carelessly ami thoughtlessly by the child, there will be n very respect« ble amount on the credit side of the ledger when the depositor Is 18 years old. The habit of self denial Is not the least of tbe substantial benefits that follow a wise economy of money.—Ex change. Land Crabs. One of tbe commonest and the lar gest of the Christmas Island land crabs is the well known robber crab, which Is found in most of the tropical islands of the Indian and 1'adfic oceans. It sometimes reaches a length of two feet and may measure seven inches across the back. Its colors are of a very gaudy description, the ground color be ing n bright red. upon which there are stripes of yellow, but In some cases a purplish blue Is the prevailing tint. The eyes are fixed on stalks which can be moved Independently of one an other, and there are two pairs of feel ers, one long, the other short. The lat ter pair are continually Jerked up and down. There is a pair of powerful claws, then several walking legs. In general appearance these animals are much more like rather stout lobsters than crabs, and one’s first encounter with one of these creatures In the mid dle of a forest far from the sea is pro ductive of much astonishment on both sides. Another species of land crab com mon In Christmas island Is a little bright red animal which In general shape is much like the common shore ernb. This variety makes burrows In tbe ground, nnd in some places tbe soil Is honeycombed with hundreds of boles. The crabs spend most of their time collecting dead leaves, which they car ry In their claws, holding them up over their heads, and drag down Into their burrows. Into which they scuttle at tbe least alarm.—Pearson’s Magazine. Crabs In Dlifalie. Human beings are not tbe only crea tures that have discovered the ap petizing, though Indigestible, qualities of crabs, and some of these animals have been compelled to resort to vari ous defensive measures. Disguise is one of these and Is practiced with great effect by spider crabs. These deliberately bite up seaweeds and plant them on their backs, very soon establishing a growth which har monizes perfectly with tbe surround ings and deceives many an enemy. Should tlie weeds grow too vigorously, the crab Industriously prunes them with bls claws and every now and then scrapes the whole lot off and starts a fresh garden on his roof, so to speak. The sponge crab behaves In a similar manner, nipping off little lilts of living sponge and sticking them on his back, where they grow vigorously. Tbe same eud Is served as In the other case. It Is very amusing to keep crabs of one or other of these kinds In an aqua rium and deprive them of the usual means of concealment. They get very nervous and agitated and try to cover themselves with bits of paper or anything else that may be provided. Oue such captive Is said to have had a little greatcoat made for him, which he put on In a burry as soon as it was banded to him. Why We Wink. No satisfactory determination has been made of the reason we wink. No man Is truly great until he Is will Some suppose that the descent and re ing to use a small word when be knows turn of tbe lid over the eye serve to sweep or wash It off; others that cover a big one that means the same thing. ing of tbe eye give» It a rest from tbe Chicago Record-Herald. labor of vision. If only for an Inap preciable Instant. This view borrows There Is something uncanny about n some force from the fact that the rec boy who can save money.—Atchison ord of winking Is considerably used by Globe. experimental physiologists to help A large chestnut factory at Lyons, measure tbe fatigue which the eye suf France, employs 250 women nnd girls. fers.-Popular Science. The chestnuts are peeled nnd boiled and placed for three days In a vanilla A German expert In the east points sirup; then they are drnlued, coated out that as time goes on more and more nicely with vanilla nnd prepared for Men are required to coerce China Into shipment. ______ doing tbe will of another power. Tbe Nearly 1,200 boys ami girls are lleens opium war required only 4,000 Euro ed by the city council of Liverpool to peans, tbe Anglo-French war against sell newspapers, matches, shoe Inces, tbe Chinese 10,000 and 4.800 Indians. etc., upon the streets. Tbe Japanese needed 95.000 men and Roughly “piaklug, Britain produces 115,000 coolies, and today we find 90 for export a little less than twice ns men-of-war and almost 150,000 men at much |>er head of Iter |M>pulatlon ns the tempting to compel obedience from tbe giant empire. United,States. France or Germany BEWARE OF THE STRAP. A Possible Source of Infection to Those Who lllde In Street Carn. The connection between the microbe and the street car strap has frequently been discussed and at least one recent Instance lias proved somewhat distress ingly that nger Is likely to lurk In the piece of leather which helps to support so mauy women during the rush hours of the day. It was to protect a fresh pair of white gloves that a New York woman, compelled to stand, held lier handkerchief luslde tbe strap while go ing to tbe theater. On her way home she was agaiu compelled to stand, nnd once more tlie handkerchief came be tween her glove and the leather. Whether It was after tbut or during tbe evening at the theater that she once thoughtlessly put the handker chief to tier face Is a detail that she does not recall, but two days afterward a pain on tier lip became so Intolerable that she was compelled to see a doctor, who found her suffering from Incipient blood poisoning, which it was already too late for him to prevent. The most that he could do was to watch her care fully through a long attack of lllne^^. which at one time threatened to end fatally. He attributed this to some poisonous substance which bad passed to her handkerchief from the strap, and that was his diagnosis the moment he heard the story of the ride on the cable ear. She fortunately recovered, and her pliy- slclan thinks Hutt tbe present disfigure ment to her face which resulted from tbe necessity of tin operation will uot be permanent The case has convinced this physician, who Is a man of consid erable experience In surgery, of the dangers that lurk In tbe street car strap.—New York Sun. One Improvident Family. The minister In an adjoining Tennes see town was very much wrought up over the pitiful condition of a parish ioner's family. He went to their home and. finding they were almost starving, decided that something should be done for them. He accordingly solicited con tributions for their relief. Receiving a liberal response, be promptly turned over the money to the suffering ones, thinking that all would be well The first thing they did. however, was io go to the photographer of the town and have a dozen pictures mnde of each of the five members of the fam ily, exhausting the amount, leaving them In as bad condition as they were before he had given them assistance.— Memphis Sclmltur. Broiptii Down the Hon»«. On one occasion, when Arthur Rob erts. tbe English actor, was performing tbe part of Captain Crosstree In ltie burlesque of “Black Eyed Susan" at Glasgow, lie converted an awkward contretemps into a bit. In one of tne scenes Crosstree enters supposed to lie Inebriated and staggers about the stage. In doing so Mr. Roberts acci dentally came In contact with the seen ery of the Inn. bringing tbe whole set down. Tbe curtain bad to be lowered, and the vivacious comedian came to the front and said, "Ladles and gentle men. you see when we come to Gins gow we always bring down the house.” His Objection. “The great actor objected to their taking his natn^ from tbe drama pro gramme and placing It on the list of burned cork stars.” “1 wonder why.” “He said be didn't want to be black Hated.”—Chicago News. Ingratitude. “No. I won't give you a piece of my apple,” snapped his sister. “And who was It,” the boy Inquired, reproachfully, “that spoiled tbe piano so you didn’t have to practice for a weekt’—Philadelphia Times. The Erring One. It Is Impossible for one who never goes wrong itor makes a mistake noi commits a blunder to know Just bow tc be sorry for an erring one. We must stumble ourselves before we can really Judge of the hardships of a rough road and the frailty of weary feet. True character Is first tender, then hopeful •nd afterward reformatory. — Ex change. Timber experts tell us that California alone has a capacity of lumber in her standing forests of over 100,000,000,(too cubic feet.
