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BANDON RECORDER. FLOWER AND TREE. A »Ingle leaf of the orange tree, care fully planted, will often take root and grow. Seven-year old tea plants yield four ounces of leaves apiece, or .00 pounds of ten to the acre. New Zealand lias in Its edelweiss a plant differing hut slightly from the famous Swiss variety. An oak tree at 100 years averages 41 Inches In diameter, a larch 40 inches, au elm 50 Indies aud a yew 1» Inches. A white pine tree 20 years old ought to be about 25 feet high, and at 30 or 40 years of age It ought to measure about 00 feet. The pest of British Columbia forests is a plant called the devil’s club. It has spikes which, when they enter the flesh, break off and produce poisoned wounds, which fester. Î*, i*l ■ Uii POLLY I LARKI n II : t é » 44 4 4 4 t 4 h 4 » 4 4 4 4 44 4 *44 t i it may not sell. In their own hearts they are sure of it. They point out possibly, w here a little change could be made here and there, and then end in signing a contract for a certain amount or all they ean make. They intend to shut off all other dealers. They tlx the price at a few cents above what the materials cost unless the designer has learned to be sharp by bitter ex|«-ri- enee, and then sell the article for about live times what they have paid the de signers for their work. However, usu ally one year in the field of novelty de signing generally opens their eyes and they are shrewd enough never to be caught napping again. Then they set their prtoe, and if the dealer does not meet it, then “there are others." The crafty dealer will use every effort to get the work at his figures, but if the de signer remains firm she will carry the day, for rather than lose the novelty he will pay the price gladly. Another thing will be accomplished la-sides gain ing her point, that dealer will have more respect for the designer when he knows that she has awakened and knows the full value of her work and will under no consideration lower her prices. POOR AND BIG HEARTED. A SKETCH. Specliurn. ol rhe Hospitality of the Southern Mountaineer. A bsrtldCT's jird, * «nip upon the way«, T1.e groan vf sirahnnf | tenlu, the .nap ol rtayt. Tlie cheeiing ot a crowd: "She moves! Sheh oB!” And with » sudden rueh and «plash the great «hip Legxea the wharf. The latcbstrlng hangs outside every cabin door If the men folk are at home, but you must shout “Hello!” always outside the fence. "We uus is pore,” you will be told, “but y'u're welcome ef y’u kin put up with what we have." After a stay of a week at a mountain cabin a young "furriner” asked what bls bill was. The old mountaineer waved his hand. “Nothin,” be said, " ’eept come ag'n!” A belated traveler asked to stay all uight al a cabin The mountaineer an swered that his wife was sick, and they were "sorter out of tlxln's to eat, but lie reckoned he mouglit step over to a neighbor’s an borrow some.” He did step over, aud he was gone three Lours. He brought back a little bag of meal, and they had corn bread aud potatoes for supper and for breakfast, cooked by the mountaineer. The stranger asked bow far away his next uelgbbor lived. "A leetle the rise of six miles, I reckon.” was the answer. “Which way?” “Oh, Jes’ over the mountain tliar.” He had stepped six miles over the mountain anil back for that little bag of meal, and he would allow his guest to pay nothing next mornlug. 1 have slept with nine others in a sin gle room. The host gave up Ills bed to two of our party, aud he and Ills wife slept with the rest of us on the floor, lie gave us supper, kept us all night, sent us away next morning with a parting draft of moonshine applejack, of his own brewing, by the way, and would suffer no one to pay a cent for his entertainment. That man was a desperado, an outlaw, a moonshiner and was running from the sheriff at that very time. Two outlaw sons were supposed to have been killed by officers. I offered aid to the father to have them decently clothed am) burled, but the old man, who was as bad as his sons, declined it. left for that, and if not, why, he had.— ' The Southern Mountaineer,” by John Fox. Jr., In Scribner’s. Women may Is? fond of dress and the “ftivolties of life,” as the manly sex is pleased to term them, but they are not so very far behind the times after all. “Ancient cities found in Crete,” announces one of our daily papers in big headlines, and continuing, says: “Crete, now that it has been rescued from the Turks, is proving a wonderful storehouse of records of fact far ante dating what arelm-ologists expected. It is even transpiring that the island’s traditional claim to embrace a hun dred cities is not without foundation. Professor Hogarth of Oxford, a noted explorer, describes the remains of an dent cities which are coming to light at many more (Klints of the Cretan coast than are recorded in classical at Wore Ills 01.1 lint Home. They were talking about getting bald. lases. These towns, so far as searched, "Mon wear their bats too much." the show little or no sign of having contin doctor was saying. "1 have noticed ued into a historic period. Their civili that a great many business men wear zation was blotted out with Myeenean them In their offices. The head should domination. Professor Hogarth does lie kept bare ns nmcli ns possible.” not hesitate to call attention to the Mining for oil, gold, silver, copper, "My partner always wear an old straw fact that the best site worth visiting hat around the store,” replied a Market in Crete was located and uncovered etc., is having full sway just now, and street merchant, "lie wears tills in by un American woman, Miss Harriet a little woman dependent on herself winter as well ns in summer, or at least for a means of livelihood for her family be did until last winter, when lie bad Boyd, and is the remains of the ancient took in the situation, and after due Myeenean town of Gorynta, lying on an experience tlint cured him of It. “One very cold afternoon he left the the gulf of Mirabello, at the head of the thought and a little study dropped her office early, and as he walked briskly lowest pass to the south coast. It is needle one day, and to the astonish through the street lie noticed In a rather close to the main road from Candia to ment of her family said, “1 have taken absentminded way that he was attract Sitria and was discovered by Miss my last stitch. 1 shall never sew again ing considerable attention. People turn Boyd, who, elated at tinding the prize, to support myself and family. I’m ed and looked after him and laughed. has been directing the excavations her going to open an office down town and It was not until be had walked live or devote myself to selling mines.” "What six blocks that tic realized what It all self, and is finding enough in this an kind of mines?” echoed the children. meant, lie met a lady of bis acquaint cient town to justify her enthusiasm ance. and when be went to raise his and amply reward her for her trouble.” “All kinds—gold, silver, quicksilver, oil, and—” “You don't know any hat he found tliat he was still wearing thing alsiut mines, mother,” ventured the old straw one, having forgotten to change It when he left the office. For Following the above is another in the oldest boy. “I’ll learn.” she said, tunately there was a hat store near by. stance where women are able to cope quietly. She did learn, and now has and lie went in and bought one more with the stronger sex, and it comes her own office and is doing a good busi suitable to the season.”—Philadelphia nearer home, tor it happened in our ness, liesides having an interest in more Record. own Golden State. A rich gold quartz than one mine that is expected, to use WASHDAY WISDOM. ledge was recently discovered in the an old miner’s phrase, “to pan out Peculiar Tree«. heart of the town of Colfax, Placer A very hot Iron should never be used well.” Her figure in neat black wear The visitor to the Falkland Islands for flannels or woolens. county. Mrs. M. E. Fildes, a recent ing apparel and her widow's bonnet is sees a number of what appear to be Calicoes, ginghams and chintzes weather beaten, moss covered bowlders arrival in the town, purchased eleven frequently seen on the street and she is of various sizes scattered here aud acres forA home. While making some always talking in an intelligent and should be Ironed on the wrong side. Clotheslines are made much more there. On attempting to turn one over terrace^^Br the corner of her kitchen interesting manner about mines she has be is surprised to flml that It is anchor the the croppings of a quartz to sell to mine purchasers. She thor durable by boiling for ten minutes be fore they are used. ed to the ground by roots of great ledge were encountered. The ore looked strength. These are not bowlders. They promising, nnd a shaft was commenced. oughly understands the business and Table linen should be ironed when are trees. No other place in the world It hud been sunk to a depth of twenty- has made many an important sale. She quite damp and Ironed with a very hot says the best day of her life was when and very heavy Iron. can show such a peculiarity of “forest” growth. The Falkland Islands are ex three feet, when a Issiy of decomposed she received the inspiration to lay Irons should not be allowed to be posed to a strong polar wind which ren quartz was found. The deposit is four down the tiresome little needle forever come redliot, as they will never retain ders it Impossible for trees to grow In feet in width, and neither the hanging and a day. the heat properly afterward. the proper form. Nature has conse nor the foot wall lias been encountered. Embroideries should be ironed on a quently adapted herself to the prevail An assay of the ore taken from the ledge thin, smooth surface over thick flannel BRIEF REVIEW. ing conditions and produced this shows a value of $27.93 per ton. De and only on the wrong side. A Submarine Dwelling Place. strange form of plant life. These "liv lighted with their little bonanza, Mrs. I.lnen may be made beautifully white ing stones,” as they are called, are Fildes and her daughter, Miss Adeline, According to a London newspaper a by the use of a little refined borax in quite devoid of "grain,” and it is next assisted in sinking the shaft to its pres sub-marine dwelling is going to be built the water Instead of using a washing to impossible to cut them up ami utilize ent depth, working in true miner’s by a well-known Marseilles firm for fluid. them for fuel. style with shovel and pick, and they the Countess de Montagne; and the ex Wash fabrics that are inclined to fade should be soaked and rinsed in The Henri of a Moose. intend to thoroughly develop the mine. periment isespeeially an Interesting one, A tiny mouse who lived near the They are elated at their prize, and no for should it prove successful the solving very salt water, to set the color, before washing in the suds. bouse of a magician begged him to of the sub-marine problem will have Silken fabrics, especially white silk save her from the cat of whom slio wonder. Polly doesn't believe there is been intimately bound up with a latter- a woman in California who would not handkerchiefs, should not be damp lived in deadly terror. day romance. The Countess is said to ened. but Ironed with a moderately So the magician changed the mouse attempt to use the pick and shovel if Into a cat, and she went away delight gold w’as tantalizingly staring them have become weary of the world and warm iron when taken from the line. cd. out of countenance, or in other words, that in society in which she was a bril liant leader, and to have made up her Ills Test. In a few days she came back again dazzling them with its golden hue. in terror. “Oh, save me, save me uow mind that she will renounce the ordi A dealer In pictures who makes it his from the dog,” she begged. nary pleasures of life. So, having plen business to find as many new painters And the magician changed her to a You would be surprised at the num ty of money and the gift of invention, as possible, both in tills country and dog. ber of the fair sex in San Francisco who the Countess is busy preparing to seek abroad, was asked in regard to his A few days more, and back she came are making comfortable livings for seclusion beneath the Mediterranean in methods of selecting pictures to buy. —this time in deadly fear of a tiger. He was very frank in his talk, and one “Nonsense." said the magician. "You themselves and families by inventing the submarine dwelling she is haying tiling which he said is shrewd enough have ouly the heart of a mouse, and or designing and manufacturing little built. The Countess knows that the to be worth quoting. afraid you will always be. It is the novelties for dealers, who take the gossips of the Paris boulevards, when "Of course.” he said, “with my expe samples and send out their agents they relate her story, call her Le Mys- rience I am able to Judge whether heart that tells!" broadcast over the land into every city, tere, hence she has given her boat that there Is promise In a painter’s work, t’«e Hard fled«. but I never buy with any Idea of put town and village of any size to display name. A German doctor advises the adop them and take orders. As fust as the ting tlie painter on my list until I have Eve’s Apple Tree. tlon of n han! lied and that children orders are received they are turned into seen the man nnd talked with him my should be trained from the beginning to the designer, who agrees to fill the orders A fruit supposed to bear the mark self. I always watch him closely, nnd sleep upon no other kind. It is certain of Eve’s teeth is one of the many botan 1 never buy liis pictures unless his eye ly true that as a rule the hard bed con at a certain time so that they can lie lights up when 1 talk to him about his duces to the most refreshing kind ol ready for the holiday season. Many ical curiosities of Ceylon. The tree on work and about his profession.” which it grows is known by the signifi Tlie artist whose lieart was really in sleep, the feather bed. so dearly lovet times the orders roll in so thick and by our grandmothers, being enerviitinf fast that the designer of the attractive cant name of “the forbidden fruit,” or his work could not discuss it without In the extreme and encouraging weak little novelty is compelled to take in “Eve’s apple tree.” The blossom has kindling, and tin* man who did not ness of mind In the mutter of gcttiiq from one to half a dozen experienced a very pleasant scent, but the really re pai::t from tlie heart was not the one up in the morning. girls to assist her in getting them out markable feature of the tree, the one to whose pictures the dealer wanted. on time. The work on these unique which it owes its name, is the fruit. It The World's Spa*»?. A nt rd ot Passage. is beautiful and hangs from the tree in A statistician asserts that when 350 novelties, if they take at all, will keep “And where, may I ask, do you gen a peculiar manner. Orange on the out all hands busy until the last week in yenrs shall have passed the density of erally reside?” tlie young man said aft the earth's population will be so great December, and occasionally until the side and deep crimson within, each er all other subjects bad been exhaust that each person will have only two first week in January. But it must be fruit has the appearance of having had ed. thirds of au acre, which space will a novelty, and a very striking one, too, a piece bitten out of it. This fact, to “Oh. I have no fixed abode,” Miss have to suffice for nil purposes agri to warrant such a run, and when that gether with its poisonous quality, led Mobile replied "but I usually pass the culture, roads, houses, parks, railways, does occur it is the exception and not the Mohammedans to represent it as greater part of the winter In Reading. etc. He estimates the present popula the rule. Before the last of the orders the forbidden fruit of the Garden of In Lent I find myself attracted to St. tion of the earth nt 1.000.000.000 am! have gone out the busy brain of the Eden and to warn men against its nox I’aul. After Easter I go down to West Bays that in 2250 It will be 52,073.000. Virginia nnd spend the summer and little woman is puzzling itself over some ious properties. The mark upon the part 000. of tlie autumn In Wheeling.” new design that will take the eye of the fruit is attributed to Eve. Why the "And then”— A Chine«? Joke. novelty-seeker by storm and warrant bite of Adam did not also leave its "Then, Mr. Heavy, I find myself ad There was a man In Cb'ang-an who her in protecting it either by patent or mark is not known, but, as one piece mirably prepared for a month or two was very fond of giving dinners, but seems only to lie missing, its loss is as of Aiken.”—New York Herald. the food given was atrocious. One day copyright, if the former it will cost a guest threw himself on bls knees In her the modest sum of $75, for patents cribed to the woman. A flood Cricketer. front of this gentleman and said, "Atu come high; but she can afford that il Gain in Beat Sugar Industry. Dr. W. G. Grace was once giving a the article happens to catch the public 1 not a friend of yours?” In 1880 there were four beet sugar brilliant batting display at the oval, “YoU are. Indeed,” replied his host. fancy, for it will net her a nice little “Then I must ask of you a favor.” sum and insures her a protection that factories in the United States, located ami one of the spectators observed to snid the guest, "and you must grant It unprincipled dealers will not dare tam in four States, witli a total capital of Ills friend: "Did you vvt^lee anything like it? Why, be puts ’em wherever he before I rise from my knees.” per with. A copyright will cost her $5, $365,000, employing 350 hands, and "Well, wliat Is it?” Inquired ills host providing she has to pay a patent law turning out products valued at $282,572; likes.” "Well,” said the other, "it's all practice— lie's always nt It—be doesn’t in astonishment. in 1900, the number of factories was waste any of his time over family “Never to Invite me to dinner any yer to attend to the matter, but if she more,” cried the guest, at which the will study her own interest a little she thirty-one, located in eleven States and prayers:-”—C. W. Alcock’s “Cricket Sto whole party burst Into a loud roar of can send to the copyright office at Territories, with a total capital of $20,- ries.” Washington, secure her own blanks 958,519, employing 1970 wage-earners laughter.—North China Herald. Millet and "The. Anxeluo.” and instructions and attend to the mat and turning out products valued at It was only after long years of strug Let« Film Ont. ter herself, and there will not be so $7,323,857. gle anil dire poverty, through which Mrs. Nagger—05», James, how awk much red tiqie about it but what she A Hungarian engineer named Eu Millet was consoled and supported by ward! Mr. Smith has come, nnd now can unravel it and get the longed for gene Zollan hits invented a new system Ills wife, that the peasant painter was tve shall be 13 at table. able to take the three roomed cottage copyright for alsiut $1. Many of the Mr. Nagger—Wliat then? of telegraphy, by which he claims to be llarblzon nnd "try to do something Mrs. Nagger (with a shriek)—Why, designers, however, do not bother alxmt able to connect one wire witli as many nt really good.” It was then that he be one of us will die before the year is a copyright, aiming to have the article as eight apparatuses and telegraph the gan to paint that most beautiful "poem out! out for only a season, which is the run of same number of messages simultane of poverty. ” the "Angelus,” which Is Mr. Nagger (brutally)—Never mind. most of these conceits, and getting out ously. Exhaustive tests are to be made today one of the most valuable pic I’m tough.—Pick-Me-Up. something new the following season. tures In the world. Again and again he It is not one in five hundred of these of his method. ---------------------- ( threw aside the picture In despair of Jant In Time. unique little trifles w hich appear dur ever finishing it to his satisfaction, and An Irish gentleman getting upon a Nearly 900,000 square miles, or alxmt street car found one place vacant, ing the holidays that have a run a sec 30 per cent of the area of the United ns often his wife replaced It on the easel and Induced him to continue. ond and a third season. It is work the which he proceeded to occupy. States has been mapped by the experts On one occasion he was so Incensed “Sure,” said be, with a twinkle in his designers like, and they combines both pleasure and profit and go on in the of the Uniter! States Geological Survey at not l>eing able to produce a certain eye, “I came Just In the nick of time.” effect that lie seized a knife nnd would “How Is that?” even tenor of their way year in and during the last twenty years. have destroyed the canvas and ended “Arrah! If I was to come now, I year out. Of 555 Japanese university students the matter once for all had not his wife shouldn't find a seat In the car!"—Ex fortunately seized his hand and In change. There are dealers in Han Francisco who were questioned as to their relig- duced him to give the picture another ous beliefs no fewer 471 called them who are constantly on the lookout for trial. Thus ft was that at last the Kaay to Prove. “Angelus” found a place on the walls If a man wnnts to know definitely some new novelty. They usually know selves atheists. Just what kind of a peg ho Is squai" in a minute whether there is anything of the Louvre. The success It won en The Japanese language is said to con couraged Millet to paint many motV or round—there Is only one way—he in the design, if they are favorably must get Into a hole. — Philadelphia impressed they take particular pains to tain 60,000 words, but the people are fa pictures ami thus place himself among Press. the Immortals In art. show the designer that while it Is gtsxl miliar witli only alsiut 10,000 words. A atorni swept, fcam tossed sea, a howling vale, A ehip half lout in foam, a rag of aail, The toiling of a bell, now lost, now clear— “The shore! The shore.”’ She strike« in crash* in« Wave« to disappear. A summer's eve, a calm and wailing tide, A dismal stretch of hand that tiies to hide The bones of some great vessel, prow on high, Outlined against the a unset’s last faint glow Athwart the sky. —Julian Hinckley in Outlook. QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FAULTS Site Wit Vary Vain and Inordinately Fond of Fine Urena. Yet Elizabeth was never really suc cessful with her wardrobe as a more feminine woman might have been. Her dresses were never beautiful, only lu dicrously ami most inappropriately magnificent - laden with Jewels, weight ed down with cloth of gold, stiff with silver embroidery and so heavy that even her big, powerful frame must, without supportiug vanity, have felt the fatigue of carrying them about. Elizabeth was certaiuly vain, but she cannot claim femininity merely on that account, for vanity is by no menus an exclusively feminine characteristic. There are perhaps more vain women than vain men because women have more leisure and their costumes afford greater opportunities for vanity than the strangely hideous clothing which custom has arranged for men, but no thoughtful (feminine) observer can doubt tliat a vain man is vainer than a vain woman. Elizabeth's hands were her especial pride, aud, Judging from her portraits, they were certainly beautiful. They were laden witli jewels, and it was her habit In public to pull her rings off with alisent artlessness and push them on again, moving those white bands about in the most obvious way. Once, during the grave consideration of a state paper, wherein her cold sagacity never took second place, she interrupt ed the discussion to ask whether the Due d’Anjou, who was at one time one of her suitors, had been told wliat a pretty foot she had and how white and well rounded was her arm? This in the woman who financed the armada with hard headed economy, who dared the superstitious terrors of her own conscience in her high handed and Im pudent treatment of tlie bishops, whose Interest in methods of torture for state prisoners wns most mechanical and in telligent. entirely unhampered by auy squeamish feminine hesitation as to blood or pain, is most curious. In connection with this last charac teristic of cruelty vanity is not at all unprecedented. Indeed, If one observe closely one will notice that excessively vain persona have almost always a strange inclination toward cruelty. Tin- accounts of what Queen Elizabeth permitted and Indeed commanded in tills respect will hardly bear reuding by us sensitive folk today.—Margaret Deland In Harper's Bazar. Slaver,- Protected the Nrsro, If the negro had been forced to com pete for existence in America, he would have been crushed out by the civilized power, as tlie Indian has been, says Albert Phelps in Tlie Atlantic, but the liecullar Institution of slavery protect ed him not only from tills competition. Imt also, hy artificial means, from those great forces of nature which Inevitably weed out the weaker organisms and which operate most unrestrainedly up on the ignorant savage. For the first time, perhaps, in the history of tilt world human beings had been bred and regulated like valuable stock, with as much care as is put upon the best horses aud cattle. As a natural conse quence the sanitary condition of the negro during slavery was remarkable, especially by contrast with his present condition, and his growth was the ab normal growtli of a plant abnormally raised In a hothouse. When, therefore, this mass of helpless beings was thrown upon Its own resources by the net of emancipation and when the pro tection of slavery had been withdrawn, the direst wretchedness and suffering followed. Abraham Liner»— This Lincoln of tlie blnck loom, who built bis neighbor’s cabin and hoed his neighbor’s corn, who lind been store keeper and postman and Qatboatman. who had followed a rough Justice round a rough circuit, who bad rolled a local bully In the dirt, rescued wom en from Insult, tended the bedside of many a sick coward who feared the Judgment, told coarse stories on bar rels by candlelight (but these are pure beside the vice of great cities), who ad dressed political mobs In the raw, swooping down from the stump and flinging embroilers east and west—the physician who was one day to tend the sickbed of tlie nation In her agony, whose large hand wns to lie on her fee ble pulse and toarKtedxe. aVziosL divine, was to perform the miracle of her 'healing.— Winston Churchill’s “The Crisis.” A Brief Interview. The late Rev. R. 8. Storrs was a very hard mau to interview, for he resented the inquisitiveness of the press and was Icy to Its agents. One evening n reporter attended a reception at his house and in the course of the evening touched liis arm and whispered: "Doctor. I’m from tlie ---- . I want tlie names of guests and nil the particulars.” “Yes.” Dr. Storrs whispered In return, "tills way, tills way.” And, taking file young man’s arm, he escorted him to the frout door and put him out. It Takes Time. “Your wife.” we said to the busband of the great nutboress. “is tlie woman of tlie hour.” "Indeed she Is.” lie re. pended, witli a tinge of sadness in his -. o!cc. “Che Is tlie woman < f the Lourcn.l a half when she Is dressing for tlie theater.”—Bal timore American. Trees O/d-r Thru the Prrnr !ds. A wonder of longevity Is tl.c so called dragon’s blood tree cf Tenerife. Rosin obtained f:,.tn til’s l;re I-. t < Isen found In sepulchers, w'r re it I I been used for embalming tli <'■ id 7 . > s of this species are t’ov. sta::d*!'g •.•. hlch arc es timated a« being o!L •! -.■’ the Egyp tian pyramids. HANDLING BiG SERPENTS, Pol.onou. Snakes la Demand Doctor« For Kxverlineatla*. by “In handling a big snake you must always touch him with a soft, smooth, gliding motion of the hand, making It feel to him as much as possible like the touch of another snake, and, be sides, you must be careful to keep bls tall out straight. Keep the tall straight, and he can’t coil on you. His bite is nothing, for he has not poison, but his coll around your leg or arm or body will crush the bones. "The poisonous snakes—the water, moccasins, rattlesnakes and copper heads—are bought for zoos. Now and then a doctor buys them heavily for awhile. He wants to experiment with their poison. After he has been bitten two or three times be stops buying. "There are a number of people who buy snakes for pets. These people al ways, without un exception, make pets also of rats, mice and turtles. Any one fond of snakes Is sure to be fond of those other tilings too. They keep tlielr snakes and turtles and rats as near as possible to them. Often they keep them In their bedrooms. There was a young man who used to come here last year after pine snakes—a university student. Tliat young man would sit witli hiB band in among the colls of a cageful of snakes for hours. He would take one’s head In his hands and lift its face close up to his own and gaze for a long time in its eyes. Then lie would bol<! It off and stroke it and study Its changing colors in a kind of trance. I don't know what pleasure or satisfaction he got out of the snakes. He bought over a dozen from me dur ing the year and kept them In his bed room in a boarding house. They all escaped one night through a rathole and got among the neighbors and rais ed general ballyhoo.”—Philadelphia Record LOVE AMONG SAVAGES. Ability to Mined Tort ore a Teat of Mn.caltne Devotion. Among tlie Arabs of upper Egypt the youth who proposes to a girl must sub mit to a whipping at the hands of nil her male relatives, and. says a dry narrator, "If be wishes to be consider ed worth having be must receive the chatisement. which is sometimes ex ceedingly severe, with an expression of enjoyment.” Not infrequently it is tlie maiden her self who Imposes the test. The Saka ta va girls of Madagascar make their lovers stand al a short distance from a clever spear thrower and catch be- tiveen the arm and side every weapon dung at them. If tlie youth “displays fear or falls to catch the spear, be is ignominiously rejected, but If there be no flinching and the spears are caught lie Is at once proclaimed an accepted lover." Worse than tills is tlie trial enforced upon their suitors by the Dongolowee girls. When In doubt as to the respec tive merits of two rivals, the young la dy fastens a sharply pointed knife to each elbow; then, seating herself be tween her lovers, sfie drives tlie blades slowly into tlielr thighs, and the hero who takes tlie greatest length of steel without a murmur wins the bride. Major Mitchell in his "Expeditious .Into the Interior of Eastern Australia” says of the natives on tlie river Darling tliat all tlielr Ideas of fighting are as sociated with the possession of gins or wives and that after a battle the wives "do not always follow their fugitive husbands from tlie field. Imt frequently go over, as a matter of eourse, to the victors.” “None but the brave deserve the fair” Is a maxim well understood of most barbaric races. — Chambers’ Journal. Composition on Love. Love is a thing tliat makes people think each other pretty when nobody else does. It causes two persons to be awful quiet when you’re round and also quiet when you’re not round—only In a dif ferent way. It also causes people to sit together on one end of a bench when there’s heaps of room on the other end. Nurses has it and sometimes police men. That’s when they don’t know where you are, and you have lots of fun playing on the grass. Husbands and wives has it, but most generally only lovers. Old people don't have much, ’cause it lias to be about dimples and red cheeks and fluffy curls aud lots of things which old people don’t ever have. When I grow up. I’ll have to go and love some one. I suppose. Only she’ll have to let me say wliat to do. I've written all I know about it til) I do grow up.—Eddy in New York Sun. The Celebrated “Leaf Ant.” One of the oddest little creatures In all animal nnture is the "leaf ant” of Central America. Although different speck-s of tills oddity are known to in habit the American continent from Brazil to Mexico, the real home of the true leaf auLJ« .f.B-NJüua$iW.-^XßJ’-U outward appearances tills little insect Is a common ant. but one of gigantic size, it must be admitted, wlieu com pared witli the ants of our temperate regious, Ix'lng on an average over an Inch In length. The hnbit for which these nnts are bo celebrated, and one which we could hardly believe were it not for the testimony of reputable nat uralists, Is tliat of carrying a leaf for a sunshade, Just as our women and men carry parasols and umbrellas for the same purpose. When at work, the leaf carrying ants look like a little army in which each Individual member Is protected from the sun’s rays by a little banner of green. Another remarkable fact in con nection with the leaf carrier is that only those at work carry the little leafy protection. When a long file of burden bearers have deposited their budgets, they discard tlielr parasols and return for a load without the leaf which made them such conspicuous objects When on the “up trip.” Crncl. CHOICE MISCELLANY Runia Innocent For Once. How suspicious all are of Russia! Some years ago one bright June morn ing three warships were sighted off the east coast of Korea. 1 watched them make the entrance Into the outer har bor. all apparently with full steain ahead. Suddenly one stopped aud let the others pass. In a set position she hung, steaming madly all day long, with no noticeable change. She did not even turn with the tide. There she stood planted as though not in water, but on laud. The other vessels wheeled about, lowered their boats, and there was great commotion. We learned at night that the Vltclilus bad a rock four feet through the bottom. The crew was landed on hu Islund near by. and tlie far east said. “Ab. ha. a trick of Rus sia to secure a footing In Korea!” English came by and said, "By Jove, these rascals are up to something!” Japan hove to to “look-see.' Ail sum mer long the Russian fleet struggled with tlie 111 fated ship, and just when hope of success began to dawn u wild autumn storm struck her, and the Bblp “herself went down by the Island crags to be lost evermore in the main.” The Russians moved away, and the far east still sometimes asks. “What do you suppose they were after?”—Out look. Ho.e« In London, There are roses which Londoners, however poor, may buy in November. They are technically described as "very single tea roses.” and. as a matter of fact they are made up of only about 20 petals. If you happen to buy them wired and keep them in a moderately warm room, they do not wither, but simply dry, and so you get a bunch or everlasting roses. They come from the south of France, where they grow on hedge's nnd get practically no atten tion until the time conies for culling them. They more or less resemble the Gloire de Dijon in color, but usually the outer petals have a deep main of red. They always come witli stems a foot long and a plenitude of glossy, dark green foliage. The baskets gen erally travel to this country by way of Paris, where they are opened and the choicest of the blooms extracted and put Into special packages. These selected roses fetch comparatively high prices: but the others, in baskets con taining from eight dozen to a gross of the blooms, go so wondrous cheap that you may buy then» In tlie streets lu November at the price of just a half penny.—Chambers’ Journal. Control ot Street Advertlalnic. The government of Paris controls street advertising instead of permitting the advertisers to mar streets and parks and boulevards witli unpleasant devices and high billbourds. The work of regulation Is accomplished In par* through the system of taxation, which carries with It the stamp of govern ment approval. Taxed billboards are protected, while their appearance Is regulated to satisfy the requirements of good taste. In many Instances the city owns tlie boards or columns upon which advertisements are posted. This Is true of public grounds. It was quite an achievement for the authorities of tlie city to limit tlie height of billboards to six feet and then to rest without enforcing the rule. But all good things come slowly to a city, for the idea generally prevails tliat It Is no crime to rob a city or devastate city property. This Idea must be got out of tlie bends of tlie people aud tlielr representatives before there cau I h * any real advance in public adminis tration. - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Ridina • Ball In Guam. The official report of tlie governor of Guam announces the interesting and novel fact tliat that official, when be goes abroad ou his tours of Inspection, rides lu stnte not on a horse, imt on a bull. The governor of Guam is Cap tain Seaton Schroeder, one of the best known officers in the navy and a most popular society man. Ills face and fig ure are most familiar in tlie recollec tion of Washington society people as leading lu dancing events, and it Is a sharp Jog on tbelr fancy to imagine him astride a bull while performing his official duties. Nevertheless. Captain Schroeder reports tliat lie lias ridden all over tlie Island looking over tbe abominably muddy roads, inquiring in to tbe coudltlou of the natives and tbe admlnistrtlon of tbe little amount of government necessary to make every body comfortable and happy. Wash ington Cor. Philadelphia Ledger. A Pltle«« Prone Prodaced. Adding to Ills already long list of bor tlcultural triumphs, Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa has produced a prune without a pit. Years of experiment, years of hard, patient work, on tbe part of the Santa Rosa wizard were requir ed to perfect this latest marvel. Tbe hybrid Is understood to be a cross be tween a plum and a pnjiw -''Tbis <YT»c0T<wy"wlfi create a sensiF’ tlon among fruit driers nnd fruit pro ducers the world over. Tbe pit of tlie ordinary prune has been a great draw back to tbe popular consumption of the delicious fruit. Burbank's creation has no pit but a tiny seed that is edible and In no way requires removal.-San Francisco Bulletin. A Qaeatlon or Bill«. A traveler In England rested at noon at a wayside Inu and took luncheon The landlord was a social person and after presenting bls bill sat down and chatted with his guest. "By tbe way,” the latter said after awhile, "wbat Is your name?” "My name,” replied the landlord, "is Partridge.” “Ah,” returned the traveler, with a humorous twinkle In Ills eyes: "by tie length of your bill I should have thought It was Woodcock!” The weight of all the air on the globe would be eleven and two-thlnls trillion pounds If no deduction had to be mat’s for space filled by mountains and laud above sea level. Old Aunt (on her deathbed»— I an, just making my will, my dear Hein rich. I know. alas, too well Hint you A “wide awake” was originally a l.at are not religiously disposed and have With no nap on Its material. no desire to promote the cause of- Nephew (hastily»— Beg your pardon, It’s not easy for a woman to pin her aunt; quite the contrary. faith to a husband who never gives her Aunt—Heaven be praised! Then you any pin money.—Philadelphia Bulletin. will be glad to bear that I have left nil my property to the church!—Humor Very few people know bow to handle Istische Blatter enthusiasm.—Atchison Globe.
