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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.