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.
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i*l
■ Uii
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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.