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BANDON RECORDER. A ChlnM« Stratagem. Rajab Suran. who was oue of the • idlest rulers of India, overrau »lie entire - mi with the exception of Chi na, killed Innumerable sultans with his own hand aud married all their daugh ters. It is said that when the Chinese heard of his triumphant progress and learned that he had reached their frontier they became much alarmed. The emperor called a council of his generals and mandarins, and upon the advice of a crnfty old mandarin the following strategem was carried out: A large ship was loaded with rusty nails, trees were planted on the deck, the vessel was manned by a numerous crew of old men and dispatched to the rajah's capital. When It arrived—the most wonderful part of tjie story Is that It did arrive—the rajah sent an officer to ask how long It had taken the vessel to make the trip from China. The Chinamen answered that they had all lieen young men when they set sad and that on tin1 voyage they had plant e<l the seeds from which the great trees had grown In corrolxiratlon of their story they pointed to the rusty nails which, they said, had been stout Iron liars as thick as a man's arm when they started "You can see," they con eluded, "that Clilua must be a very long distance away.” The rajah was so uiueli Impressed by these plausible arguments that he concluded lie would not live long euougli to reach China and abandoned ills projected Invasion. ; $S,Üt?.SSS Sit Sí Sííiííiií S A !j| POLLY LARKIN 1:| jokes at the ex pense of some other picker. And let me whisper it, there’s many a flirtation carried on under these hop bowers. That roilickieg little fel low, Cupid, who plays havoc with hearts, seems to take up his abode there, and the gleeful imp finds a rich harvest and his pranks do not always end In a summer's flirtation but in vows that read “for richer, for poorer and until death us do part,” etc. The passen gers on the California Northwestern Railway have a good view of the pick ers at their work, for the road runs through the land of hops for many a mile. Everybody picks hops -the sick and the well, the old and the young, ax well ax many of the real native sons and daughters of this section of the country, the Indians. No, Polly, the fall of the year is the time to visit the counrty, and people are beginning to realize that more fully every year. NATURAL HISTORY. The pouch of a pelican Is large enough to coutaln seven quarts of wa ter. For mountain climbing camels are very Inefficient and seldom used in Abyssinia and other mountainous coun tries. Sparrows begin housekeeping very expeditiously. A pair of them will build a nest and furnish It with an egg inside of 21 hours from the time when the site was selected. The female red grouse Is said to vary Its dress according to surroundings. It is a fact worth remembering that the red grouse occurs in no other part of the world but the British Isles. No one Ims lieen able to give a satis factory reason for the formation adopt ed by the wild duck or mallard in flight. The birds arrange themselves in two converging Hues, like a huge V, tlie leader occupying the point. The ostrich is a descendant of a genus of bird which in prehistoric times attained an enormous size. In the al luvial deposits of Madagascar evidence has recently been found to show that ostriches 14 nnd 15 feet In height once lived on the Island. The summer vacation has passed only too quickly for the most of our summer sojourners, and with sighs and regrets they have folded their tents, broken camp, and wended their way home from the ever attractive and al luring country. Others not fond of camp life have deserted the little cot tages they had been occupying for a season, or left the hotels of the different summer resorts where they had thrown dull care away and done nothing but enjoy themselves for the few weeks of respite which they had allowed them selves, and like swallows have taken flight back to their winter quarters. But if you think tlie country is deserted you are mistaken. I took a trip over The trustees of the schools of San the California Northwestern Railway Francisco have taken a new departure recently and the cars were crowded and have added a class for deaf mutes with people who were on pleasure bent. in the Harrixon-street school with Mrs. Some were bound for the many differ J. B. Holden as teacher. Fifteen chil ent springs that are such a “drawing dren who have had the seal of silence Stevenson’« Cup of Mlaery. card” for ailing people as well as for placed on their lips from infancy were It. L. Stevenson, writing In 1893 to the strong and well. Some were loaded enrolled. Most of them were very George Meredith. In an epistle quoted down with paraphernalia for camping. young and had never received instruc in a new edition of bis "Letters,” says, All seemed light-hearted and happy, tion of any kind. The first act of Mrs. with heart touching pathos: and gray-lieaded men and women re Holden was to make them feel per "For 14 years 1 have not bad a day's minded Polly of a lot of school-children fectly at home, and then the work of real health. I have wakened sick and oft* for a vacation in the country. One teaching them to read by the lips was gone to bed weary, and 1 have done my group of men, who will never see this begun. The first word was one that work unflinchingly. I have written In side of fifty years again, amused me by nearly every child learns to lisp in baby bed and written out of It, written in written in sickness, writ tlie length of their fishing varus. “Best fashion: first, “mama,” then came hemorrhages, ten torn by coughing, written when my GettliiK Personal. fishing I ever had was in Blue Lake, ” “ papa ” and “ baby, ” and finally a head swam for weakness, and for so The favorite Scottish method of deal ing with sleepers In church was pub said one, enthusiastically. “He wax whole sentence, “I love my mama.” It long. It seems to me, I have won my licly to (jgnouuce the delinquents. The the biggest and gamiest fellow I ever is slow work at first. Mrs. Holden wager and recovered my glove. I am struck. 1 played him two and a half states that it is possible to teach a child better now-have been, rightly speak Clirlsi^^Aemler tells this story: Wh>^^& Rev. Walter Dunlap, mln solid hours before 1 landed him. I the use of two hundred and fifty words ing. since first I came to the Pacific— later of a-Utilted Presbyterian church forget how much he weighed, but he during the first year, and after that it and still few are the days when I am In Dumfries, saw a member of his flock was about from three to four feet in is plain sailing. In three or four years not In some physical distress. And the nodding while he was preaching, lie length. He was a beauty, all right.” a child who isa deaf mute has advanced battle goes on-ill or well Is a trifle so that it goes I was made for a contest, stopped suddenly and said: “Cut oil' the head and tail of that yarn, "I doot some o' ye line taen owcr Jim, and 1 will believe it,” said one of far enough in its studies to take its and the powers have so willed that my place in the fourth grade in the regular battlefield should be this dingy. Inglori tnony whey porridge the day. Sit up. the gray-haired trio. “1 never fished grammar school classes. It is expected ous one of the bed and the physic bot or I'll name ye oot!" Another Caledonian preaeber, on like in Blue Lake, but 1 have trailed my that within a few weeks at least thirty tle. At least. I have not failed, but I provocation, cried out, "Hold up yer line many a time in Clear Lake and of these afflicted little children will be would have preferred a place of trum ¡leads, my friends, and mind that Del have caught lots of fish, but never one enrolled. A new world will dawn on pet Ings and the open air over my tlier saints nor sinners are sleeping in ax large as that Blue Lake pickeral of these mute little folks when they begin head." the next world.” yours.” “Don't know anything about to read and understand the language Goinic to CanoBRa. Then, finding that tills general ex your lake fishing,” said a third mem The saying “going to Canossa” refers interpreted to them by the lips of Mrs. hortation was Insufficient to deter a to the humiliating pilgrimage made certain well known member of the ber of the party, but you can’t tell me Holden. Usually they are quick to by lh< Emperor Henry IV to Italy In church from getting Ills night's rest anything about brook trout, for I’ve learn and retain the knowledge they re the year 1077. Henry had objected to forward, the reverend gentleman turn fished more or less in all the streams ceive as well, if not better, than their the claims advanced by Gregory Hilde along the California Northwestern more fortunate brothersand sisters who brand and. refusing to submit, was ex ed toward the offender and said: "Janies Stewart, this Is the second Railway, ft looked pretty dubious for have been blessed with all their senses. communicated by that pontiff. The time I have stopped to waken ye. If 1 trout fishers a few years back, for all It is well, for to Polly’s mind there eti.'peror at first laughed at tlie sen need to stop a third time, I’ll expose ye the finny beauties had been just about should lie some compensation in one tence. but look a more serious view by name to the whole congregation.” fished out. Realizing the situation and way or another for these silent little when lie found himself deserted even by Ills personal attendants and resolved the disappointment of anglers when ones Hawk and Partridge. on a Journey to Italy to make bls peace they made the long jaunt for nothing, In "Reminiscences of a Falconer” Major Fisher describes the tactics of a except the satisfaction they got out of The above reminds me of a man who with the pope. The hitter was then at partridge when pursued by a tame a never ceasing supply of pure fresh air said in all seriousness, “In the twenty the Castle of Canossa, a fortress of the Countess Mathilda and situated In the falcon. and the beauty of the picturesque scen years of our married life my wife has The falcon was descending upon the ery, the California Northwestern Rail never uttered a cross or an impatient mountains of Modena. Thither the em partridge when the partridge stopped way Company at the suggestion of word, but she has frequently turned a peror hastened, but the pope refused io see him save under the most degrad short and fell to the ground as If dead. He seemed to be lost in the short stub President A. W. Foster, built the fish deaf ear to me.” “No wonder, she’s a ing conditions. Tlie desperate situation of Henry ble of tlie Held. He was far too know hatchery near Ukiah with a station at deaf mute,” whispered my friend. compelled him to submit, and for three ing to trust himself again on the wing, Willits where they gather the spawn flays and ulgbts, barefooted and bare and the hawk bad no alternative but every season. I can’t begin to tell you BRIEF REVIEW. headed. clad only in a hair shirt, the to take him on the ground, which he of the thousands and thousands of little raiment of a penitent, he waited at the speedily attempted to do. trout they turn loose in the streams gate. At the end of this fearful pen How Biograph Film is Made. But on the ground the partridge was every year. But for the efforts of this far more agile than be, running this company the streams would have been The making of biograph film is an nice, which was undergone lu the month of January, lie was admitted to way and that with great speed. The elaixirate and delicate process, says Roy hawk would Jump awkwardly up and fished out long ago. Every angler in McArdle in Everybody's Magazine. the papal presence, was absolved and dart nfter the scudding partridge, who the State should take off his hat to the First is manufacured a celluloid ribbon received Ids dominion as a gift from the pope. The expression lias ever Just at the right moment Jumped from Northwestern Railway Company.” of the required width and transparency since been current as Indicative of the ground and over his back, descend coated on one sideonly to an invariable abject submission on any terms im ed on the other side and commenced “Did I ever tell you of the trick thickness of one-thousandth of an inch. posed liy the conqueror. running harder than before. Time after time this was done. At George B-----tried to play ou me last It is sensitized in an immense dark Tbe>- Were«'! Fed. every nttempt the partridge met the year? Well, we came up here with a room in an absolutely dust-proof fac hawk with outstretched neck and rais party of friends and pitched our tent. tory. The emulsion consists of a solu “Some years ago," said a San Fran ed hackles, in the attitude of a fighting Now I would rather fish than eat, any tion of bichloride of gold floating on cisco man, “a globe trotting English bantam cock. Jumping up to avoid be day. It is vice versa with George. great glass tables 100 feet in length. man enme Into the city by the Golden Gate, and It fell to my lot to entertain ing clutched whenever the hawk struck Sleep and rest is his motto. 1 knew When dried the film is wound on spools him So one night I took him to dine at him. In fact. Ills whole action was he was sort of tricky and I would have in boxes, and no gleam of light must at the far filmed Cliff House. It was that of a plucky little game bantam. This went on for some time, until, as to watch him. It seemed to me I wax strike it until, at the proper moment, a beautiful moonlight night, nnd from I regret to say, I ended the unequal minus some of the trout 1 had caught it is held behind the camera lens for "•here we sat upon the porch we look strife by putting the partridge once on several occasions, so I concluded to one seventieth part of a second every ed out upon the broad bosom of the more fairly on the wing, when, of mark my fish. We started off with two inches of its entirety. Even then Pacific ocean. The moon’s light made course, the hawk readily overtook and our lunch one day bright and early. it must be guardeo from stray lieams a path across the waters, and In Its captured It, not overmuch to his credit We fished in the same neighborhood all until developed and fixed in the bio •enter the Seal rocks lay like a black and still less to mine. The Englishman Inquired what morning. Several times I found George graph factory. In taking the Sharkey- patch they were and upon my Informing film lying flat on his back with his pipe in Jeffries prize-fight a strip of film over <ald: 'Balt Jove, are those the Seal A Finh nnd Lizard Story. One afternoon I thought I would go his mouth and pretending to read or seven miles long was used, at a cost of ricks of which 1 have beard? I'd very down the river and troll. I had on my sleep. Just beforestarting for home we $5000 per mile. On this film were 198,- much like to see the seals. 1 say. my hook a live minnow nnd in a little liegan to size up our day’s catch. I 000 pictures of the two pugilists pound man,' turning to the waiter, 'caun't I while had a strike, and I booked my waited until George got through count ing each other for twenty-five rounds. nee the seals? Don't you feed them at first fish, which seemed to be quite a ing, and then 1 just naturally hauled This was the first moving picture ever night ?’ large one. I reeled him where I could out thirty friers from his pile of the " 'Oh. yessir.’ replied the waiter, who see him and found It was a large pike speckled beauties. They had my mark made by artificial illumination, and was of Hibernian descent, without .'MIO arch lights covered the ring to make blinking an eye. ’At 9 o’clock we al 25 or 30 Inches long. I pulled him up to my boat, but when I lifted him on them, for every time I caught a fish the record. The cost of lighting alone ways give’s them their ham and eggs, from the water he was as light as a I took out my scissors and snipped a w as $10,000. sir.’ feather. I measured him and found be notch out of its tail. ‘You villian,' "The Englishman accepted this sur Bolivia’s Wonders to be Revealed. was Just 30 Indies long and should he cried, ‘how dare you do such a prising piece of Information without Eave weighed eight or nine pounds, thing'.” ‘They carry my mark,’ I re The exploration work begun by Sir turning a hair and announced that he while be only weighed two. He was plied, and when I pointed out the notch Martin V'onway in Bolivia is to lie con would surely be on hand at the time just skin and bones. I killed him, took in the tail he simply grinned and said, tinued, says a London newspaper, by mentioned. He was; but. needless to my knife and cut him open nnd found ‘You think you are smart, don’t youf ” say. the waiter was not.” a live lizard, five inches long. In his “Hopland,” called the brakeman. an expedition which sailed recently from the Isthmus of Panama. The re stomach. The reptile was as black as Knocked Iler Oat With a Look. coal and very lively, living 24 hours “Guess we ‘hop’ off here.” And the gion to be explored lies between the While talking of the many notable quartet of gray-haired men, who would crest of the Andes and the great Ama people he met during Ills pugilistic ca after I took him from bis prison.— always tie boys for a’ that, took their zonian plain aud between the rivers reer John L. Sullivan said oue day in Field and Stream. departure. Kaka and Beni and the river Pando, or New York: “Once when 1 was in Syd Crushing n Lawyer. Tamtxipata, an ai ea of over 10,000 square ney 1 had a suit of rooms directly over De Wolfe Hopper was once a witness “Well,” said a little lady, bound for miles. The expedition is equipped and Sarah Bernhardt. 1 never met the In a suit for slander, and the opposing the springs, “I’ve lieen over this road sent out by Sir Martin Conway. Its lady, and 1 didn't much care. She was counsel In the courtroom said: every summer for several years past leader is John W. Evans. With him jabbering French all the time and was "You are nn actor. I believe?” and I never tire of it. It is all so pic go John Turle, assistant geologist, and rehearsing constantly In her room. 1 "Yes,” replied Hopper. turesque and lovely. I never take the Gerard A. Watney, B. A., surveyor. heard so much of it that I pretty nenr “Is not that a low calling?” the willies One night I happened midsummer for my vacation either, for They will be joined by an experienced had “1 don't know, but It’s so ntueb better to follow Sarah Into her majesty’s thea than my father’s that I am rather I find the Indiun summer or fall season botanist from the United States and by ter In Sydney, aud 1 had a good chance proud of It.” far more delightful. So many people a zoologist already in the couutry. to size her up. She was a feather "What was your father's calling, umy rush madly off the beginning of sum weight all right, uud there was so much I ask?” mer, and of course it is beautiful then, powder on her face that I thought she’d Bomb to Locate Enemy’s Position. “He was a lawyer,” said Hopper. but they miss the autumn season with ’The War Department is now firing made a mistake. She got a look at me. Coli-rlda«’« Clan.lflcatlon of Reader«. its golden-rod and fall flowers, the an illuminating shell that bursts In the and because I had been so much annoy Coleridge says: "Readers may be di changing of the green and russet leaves air and emits a fiery body of a globular ed with her Jablterlng I scowled at her vided into four clnsses—first, sponges, into the scarlet and golden tints; the sh»|>e which vividly lights up a large gave her the look that used to scare the dubs who tried to stay four rounds who absorb all they read and return It veiling of the trees with the delicate early in the same state, only a little smokevine that spins itself lovingly over area for a considerable time. The ex with me. Well, sir, Sarah gave one dirty; second, sand glasses, who retain the branches like some beautiful bridal periments are for the purpose of im long, mournful howl and fainted away. proving and perfecting bombs that an* After Hint she didn’t Jabber any more, nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through vail. It is ax dainty and hwy ax a cobweb. now made for the purpose of exposing for she'd found out who was living up the time; third, strain bags, who retain Of course some people cannot lie choos the |s>sition of an enemy at night, and stairs.” merely the dregs of wliat they rend; ers, for they must come when the chil to reveal the character of defenses to tie Nnnth America. fourth, mogul diamonds, equally rare dren have their summer vacation; but attacked. These projectiles explode on Competent authorities assert that and valuable, who profit by what they to those who can, I say avoid the wild impact, liberatinga flaming compound. South America lias greater undevelop read and enable others to profit by It rush and |s>st|M>ne your outing until ed resources than any other portion of also.” the fall. Then the mad caprice of the Chewing the crustof rye bread is con the world Any crop grown elsewhere wind is past, it stops playing pranks for sidered by German experts one of the can lie duplicated there, nnd the conn Hail Trouble« of HI« Own. "Sir," began young Timkins as he a while, the harvest is over, and people liest ways of exercising and preserving try abounds In mines of coal, silver and gold, most of which have been ouly entered the presence of the dear girl's are not so busy except with tlie vint the teeth. slightly developed_________ father, "1 want to marry your daugh age, and in the hoptlelds, canopied for ter”— Western Australia was last of the sis It mny surprise some to hear that acres with its green mantle jeweled “Oh, don’t bother me with your trou- with millions of graceful little cones, ter colonies to receive the privilege of Florula stniids tenth as n fish produc ing state. It Ims n const line. Including iterrupted«the old gentleman, and it never ceases to lie of the greatest responsible government. Islands, of 3.500 miles. The annual d me some time ago that she atcli is about 30,000.000 pounds, with a to marry you, so you’ll have interest to me to watch the gleeful, The Chinese iiava superstltihus hor total value to the fishermen of about to settle It between yourselves.”—Ex- happy-go-lucky hopplckers at their tTOOisvi work, singing and picking, cracking ror of being caught in the rain. cnange. A sinsle »mile from her rosy mouth, A 8U»1<1» n (lance from her soft eye« «<?nt, THE HAIRY AINOS ANO THEIR RESER And he turned, a» tl.e wind veer» north or south Ami follow ’d whither her light feet went. VATIONS IN THE EMPIRE. Did the linger an I look for a moment then! Did she lift her fact* and «mile again! Nay, not vol Odd Custom« Practiced liy These Tbe heart of a girl, ah, who may know! Aboriginal People of Japan, tnlqar Style« In Baby Nainrs. Their Resemblance to our Indians. The Alnus, generally known to Amer icans aud Europeans as “the hairy Ainos," are the ouly aboriginal people now living In Japan. They are called “hairy” in contradistinction to the smooth faced Japanese, Koreans aud Chinese. Their present home Is in Hok kaido. or Yesso, the most northerly part of the empire, although It is supposed that in earlier times they occupied most of the entire couutry. Ancestors of the Japanese of today found them iu possession aud by force of superior arms and civilization gradually drove them to tlie north, much in the same way as the savages were driven back toward tlie Pacific by tlie early settlers in America. The Alnus live today pretty much as the Indluns on their reservations In the west. They are still for the most part half savage, aud the Japanese uame for them, “Yesso,” means barbarian. They are very skillful lu bunting and fishing, which are their chief occupa tions. They are.under the protection of tlie Imperial government and are entirely separated from the Japanese. The latest census showed that they number very nearly 17,000. Among tlie many curious customs of the Alnus perhaps the quaintest is their method of naming their children. They observe a peculiar economy In giving names. Tlie iul’ant must go without a name until It shows Itself worthy of bearing oue. If it Is sickly and not likely to live. It is uot considered worth while to waste u name upon It. As each child must by Immemorial custom have a brand new name, used by no one In the community, uames are scarce and must be guarded. If the child should be givcu a uame borne by some one else, the ghost of the former pos sessor of the uame may come back from the underworld to avenge the slight. It Is customary to take a uame from some Incldeut that occurred at the child's birth or It Is left to the parents afterward to choose one for it. Should the Infant come into the world with a smiling face it might lie called Ikishl- maburu, which means a smile, or fond parents may call It Kamoissage (a pulling Type of the gods) If they wish lheir child to be In the special care of the gods. From the age of 7 to 10 Ainu children of either sex have tlieir heads shaved, but after 11 they are allowed to have long hair and wear the same clothes as grown persons. They wear no cloth ing unless the weather Is very cold. The favorite nnd almost exclusive or nament is the earring, usually made of metal. What clothing Is worn Is made of straw. They never wear shoes or other covering for the feet except as a great luxury and mark of distinction on ceremonious occasions. The men carry small knives and to bacco pouches, nnd the women carry small looking glasses ami knives, ’/'lie knife Is used as symbolic. The maiden wears it with the blade bare, but when she marries It is worn in a sheath. The women also paint their faces, using a kind of Ink for the purpose. The Alnus live mostly by fishing and hunting. They hunt the bear and deer, catch salmon nnd other fish nnd grow potatoes and millet. Whenever they can get It they eat rice, which they re gard as the best food, though they do not raise it themselves. Both sexes smoke tobacco and drink liquor. The marriage customs differ widely from those of the Japanese. The ques tion Is first settled between the youth and maiden, who then refer the matter to their parents through a mediator, who should be a relative of the pro spective bridegroom The man must send a present of lacquered ware, which Is regarded by them as one of the most precious things In the world. This, however, Is reclaimed by him if bls wife afterward seeks a divorce. Alnus live in dwellings of about the same class ns those of the American Indians. The rude hut has two win dows, one of them for ordinary earthly uses, the other reserved fpr the en trance of the gods. Woman is fairly treated and held In deep respect. The man Is not allowed to enter the house when the woman is In It alone, and be is not permitted to walk behind n woman. When n man meets a woman, be must salute first, by smoothing his beard and rubbing bis hands. Then she responds by touching her nose with a finger of bet left hand. During October the Alnus bold a re ligious fete, which Is called the bear festival, because they sacrifice a bear which hns been carefully fostered for three years. Judicial punishment among tbe Alnus consists of a severe beating with a stick administered to tbe culprit. The crimes are generally theft—stealing ar ticles or the wife of a neighbor. As there are eight men to one woman the majority of the males are not married, aud wife stealing Is very common. The accused Is subjected to a long examina tion by the chief of the community nnd Is then compelled to resort to tbe ordeal of tire. He must take a stone out of boiling water. If Innocent, tbe Alnus think he will not be Injured. If tbe question cannot be settled In this way, tbe principals In the dispute must fight It out. The Alnus are polytheists, though they limit their gods to two, a god of fire and a god of water. The first Is called Kabekamol and tbe latter Ilato- kamol. They, also, like most peoples who have a religious system, believe In some sort of heaven aud hell.—Japan nnd America. Power Without Heat. As we watch tbe world famous plunge of Niagara we are offered an Impres sive lesson as to tbe small value In bent of much motive power. In so far as tbe descent Is perpendicular, so that the water leaves the foot of the falls with comparatively little current, the effect of tlie concussion is simply to warm tbe water through but one-sixth of a degree F. To heat the water as much as one degree tbe falls would have to be 777 feet In height—George Iles lu Everybody's Magazine. GRANT’S RETREAT. AFTER THE QUARREL SAVAGES IN JAPAN. U ¡th every pace of Ids swift pursuit Her step she quickened nor looked behind. Eyes were speech!««», and lips were mute; Never a glance or cold or kind, As if she cherished nor thought nor car« Fur the eager footfalls hurrying therel Was it so? The heart of s girl, ah, who may know? Did she love him more when look and smil« Silently bode him to follow her! Did she love him less v^ien she wove her wile His heart to trouble, his hope defer? Nay, read you thia riddle, at range, but true— She loved Idin moat when ahe moat withdrew! Even so! The heart of a girl, ah, who may know? — Biauche Trennor Heath in Atlanta Conatitu* tlon. CAUGHT IN AN EXPLOSION. A Miner’s Description of HI« Feel- InK« When Hr Wn« Blown L'p. A miner who was blown up while blastlug a rock describes his sensations thus: “You see, It's so sudden. It’s over Just about the time you begin to under stand that something is happening. You know. 1 had tbe cartridge In my linnd and put It down. Then 1 got afraid of It. All at once everything was, light. 1 don’t think I saw the Hash. Anyway my face was not ex actly toward the explosion. “But then everything got light, lighter than day—kind of blinding. There was au awful crash. It was Just at tbe same time. I was terrified and wanted to get away. It was Just as If I was having the ulgbtmare. Somehow, though, I knew Just what the matter was. A man can think faster than he has any Idea of. I knew that some of the others were nearer the explosion, and 1 said to tnyself, ’They’re blown In bits, that’s certain.’ “Y’ou understand, this was all In a second—all at once, really. Then it was exactly the same as If I bad been hit with a stick. 1 thought It was a big stick, bigger than any man could swing, and that it must be worked by ma chinery. It hit me on the head and all over. I went sailing Into the air a long, long way. My ears roared, and tbe wind blew Into my face. I knew when I struck tlie ground, for I remember say ing to myself, ‘Well, I'm done for.’ “I don’t kuow Just when I lost my right senses or when they came back, but when they did come back it seemed queer that I was there still. I thought I had been thrown somewhere else. 1 could feel fire burning me. It was my clothes. They were smoking and al most blazing. I wns bruised all over and could not hear very well. My voice sounded as though somebody else were talking. That’s all I can tell you about It.” Making the Blind See. Success In desperate cases by con servative treatment is tbe lesson often repeated and yet never quite sufficient ly learned by any physician or surgeon. The Infinite Ingenuity behind the heal ing processes, tbe never renounced struggle toward normality. Is «n ever renewed source of wonder. All that Is needed to elicit It Is confidence In it, delay In doing anything radical, watch fulness to follow up the hints to action as they begin to show themselves. We know of a living and happy pa tient who ten years ago had albuminu ric retinitis from long existing Bright’s disease despite what all tbe textbooks say as to "two years” In such cases. “Don’t do tbe Irrevocable thing until forced to do It” Is the warning that has saved many organs and Ilves. Above all, never proceed with surgery (“the despair of medicine”) until physi ologic and medical methods have been exhausted. The Wiener Kllnlscber Wocbenscbrlft tells of the success of Herr Heller, di rector of an asylum for the blind. In educating tbe remnant of visual power retained by a “blind" child. There was only perception of light In a narrowed field left, hut this by education was made to yield such Indications to the eager mind that nfter 14 months of en deavor tbe boy has very useful vision, can distinguish colors and forms and even can read. There are possibly thousands of blind people who have renounced vision In stead of cultivating It to a degree that would render tbe blind types useless. - American Medicine. King Edward lias' established a new decoration, the conspicuous service sli ver cross, for warrant officers and sub ordinate officers In the navy. London’s fire brigade puts out a fire at an average cost of £40. New York pays £138 for the same service, and Cincinnati holds the record with £295 per fire. The only states in the country In which no brewers' tax was paid Inst year Into the federal treasury as a part of tlie Internal revenue were Missis sippi and North Carolina. In France the Interest charge on the public debt Is $290,000,000 a year, a per capita of over $5. In the United States the Interest charge Is less than $30,000,- 000 a year, a per capita of 39 cents. It Is stated on the authority of a Chinese tea merchant that the glaze on the paper coverings of tea chests Is due to a preparation composed prin cipally of the refuse of sharks' fins, tails and skins. The directors of the Alexander III museum In St. Petersburg have defied tbe holy synod In its ban against two pnintlngs by Repin. One Is a portrnlt of Count Tolstoi, barefooted. In the dress of a peasant. The other Is a sym bolical picture called "Get Thee Behind Me. Satan.” The exhibition of these paiutings was prohibited in Moscow, yet they have lieen bought for a na tional art gallery. t»e nt ■ Long Breath. When chilled by exposure to cold take a long breath, with tbe mouth firmly shut Repeat this several times until you begin to feel the beat return Ing. It requires only a very short time to do tills Tlie long breath quickens the pulse, anti this causes the Idood to circulate faster. Tbe blood flows Into all parts of the veins and arteries and gives out a great deal of heat. It la stated that a long, deep breath, held as long as possible, will close tbe pores of a heated skin, and tbe danger of taking cold, on stepping outdoors, may be thus guarded agmusL The General Went When a Police* man’« Club Pointed the Way, Speaking of nightsticks reminds me of seeing General Graut In his to my mind greatest hour, the only time he was ever beaten, and by a policeman. I told bls son, Fred Grant, of it when be became a police commissioner iu tbe nineties, but I do uot think be appre ciated it. He was not cast lu bls great father's mold. The occasion 1 refer to was after the general's second term lu tbe presidency. He was staying at the Fifth Avenue hotel, when one morning the Masonic temple was burned. The fire line was drawn half way down the block toward Fifth avenue, but the po lice were much hampered by tlie crowd and were out of patience when I, stand ing by. saw a man In a great ulster with bead burled deep in tbe collar, a cigar sticking straight out, coming down the street from tbe bote). 1 recognized him at sight as General Grant. Tlie policeman who blocked Ills way did not. He grabbed him by the collar, swung him about and, hit ting him a resounding whack across the back with ills club, yelled out: “What’s tbe matter with you? Don’t you see tbe tire lines? Chase yourself out of here and be quick about it.” The general never said a word. He did not stop to argue the matter. He had run up against a sentinel and when stopped went the other way. That was all. Tbe man had a right to be there; lie hnd none. I was never so much an admirer of Grant as since that day. It was true greatness. A smaller man would have made a row, stood upon his dignity and demanded tbe punishment of the policeman. As for him, there was probably never so badly frighten ed a policeman when I told him whom lie had clubbed. I will warant he did not sleep for a week, fearing all kinds of things. No need of it. Grant prob ably never gave him a thought.—Jacob Riis in Outlook. Chalk Wonders. Few people know what a wonderful object a bit of chalk is when exam ined under a microscope. Take your knife blade and scrape off a little of tbe loose powder, catch It on a clean glass slide and place this on the stage of a good table microscope. Use a quarter Inch objective lens and Illumi nate the field with a cone of light from tbe concave side of the reflector. The powder will be seen to consist of a eon fused mass of beautiful tiny shells, many of them of the most curious form. A better way, however, is to rub down a portion of chalk with an old toothbrush in a tumbler half filled with water. If you desire to prepare sev eral slides, rub on about a teaspoonful of tbe powder. Sliake the tumbler briskly, allow the sedlmfyit to settle for a moment and then carefully pour off the milky looking water. Repeat this until the water remains clear, and you will then have left In the bottom only perfect shells or large parts of shells. Take up a small pinch of this deposit and spread It carefully over tbe center of a glass slide. Dry over a lamp and. If you wish to pre serve the slide for future use, mount It in Canada balsam, pressing out the bubbles of air beneath tbe cover glass. A Certain hake and Bor. nn Uncertain A certain duke, while driving from the station to tbe park on Ills estate to Inspect a company of artillery, observ ed a ragged urchin keeping pace with the carriage at his side. His grace, being struck with the cleanliness of the lad, asked him where be was go ing. Tbe lad replied: “To the park to see tbe duke and so gers.” The duke, feeling Interested, stopped bls carriage and opened tbe door to the lad, saying be could ride to the park with him. Tlie delighted lad, being in Ignorance of whom be was, kept his grace inter ested will) quaint remarks till tbe park gntes were reached. As the carriage entered it was salut ed by the company and guns, where upon bis grace said to tbe lad: “Now, can you show me where the duke Is?” Tbe lad eyed his person all over,- then, looking at tbe duke, replied quite seriously: “Well, I dunno, mister, but it's either you or me!”—Spare Moments. rstti’o Escort. Adelina Patti, tbe great singer, on one of her tours of Europe was due at Bucharest on a certain date. Owing to inclement weather, however, mudame declined to budge from Vienna, and the poor manager went nearly distract ed. As storming had not tbe slightest effect on her serene highness the man ager set his wits to work. Soon after ward a telegram arrived from Bucha rest. stating that a brilliant deputation of Roumanian nobles, with a torchlight procession and military band, was to receive the diva. The message was banded to Mme. Patti, who was en chanted. and at once made ready to Btark On arrival, the band played and the torches timed, and madame was put In tbe best of spirits by being es corted to her hotel by tbe Roumanian nobles. It Is not known what she would have said had she heeu told that the “nobles" were hired from tbe streets and dressed up for the occasion by a representative of the manager. Deserted. Jamestown. Va„ where tbe English gained their first foothold In tbe new world In 1007. was burned In 1670. To day nobody Ilves there. Little remains to mark the site except a crumbling church tower, dilapidated gravestones nnd remnants of the foundations of a few houses. —Ladles’ Home Journal. Canadian Ear«, In cold countries like Canada tbe ears are often forced to grow In an un natural way by tbe custom of forcing the caps down over tbe skull and mak ing the ears stick out. It Is only Amer ican ears which get frostbitten in Can ada. Tbe ears of tbe natives are In ured to excessive cold. Without a Ring. A wedding without a ring seems In congruous, hut In Cadiz, Spain, no ring Is used. After the ceremony the bride groom moves the flower In bls bride’s hair from left to right, for In various parts of Spain to wear a rose above your right ear Is to proclaim yourself a wife. Thue the rose takes the place of the ring.