BANDON RECORDER'
ncle Tcnn’l Cabin" and the Sonih.
Possibly the most general conception
• f the old life nt the south held by the
test of the country is that drawn from
“Uncle Tours Cabin.” a work which,
whatever its truth lu detail—and there
was doubtless much truth—yet by rea
son of its omissions and Its grouping
contained even more untruth as a cor
rect picture of a civilization, says
Thomas Nelson Page In The Atlantic.
As an argument against the evils In
herent in slavery It was unanswerable:
as a presentation of the life it under
took to mirror it was rather a piece of
emotional Action. Infused with the splr
It of an able and sincere but only par
tlally Informed partisan, than a correct
reflection. It served a purpose far be
yond the dream and possibly even the
intention of its author. It did much to
hasten the overthrow of slavery. It
did no less to stain the reputation of
the south und obscure what was
worthy and flue in Its life. From tha’
time the people of the south were re
garded, outside its own border, much—
as, shall we say, China is regarded to
day—as one of the effete peoples, as an
obstacle In the path of advance and
possibly among many as an object of
righteous spoil.
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: Polly Larkin
J
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Tbe boy that whistles on the way is
to be trusted. He is never plotting and
scheming and concocting some plan in
his silent, moody way that will bring
unhappiness to those who love him
Whenever I hear a boy being scolded
for whistling merrily in his own happy,
noisy fashion, 1 feel like telling them of
a little incident that touched and made
an impression on Polly some time since.
A young man lay dying of consump
tion. It was of the slow, lingering
kind that gives the victim time for re
flection, painful thought it may be
sometimes. In the next room he heard
his little nephew whistling an air
of one of the catchy songs of the day,
and his sister scolding and threatening
to punish him if he did not stop being
so noisy. The sick man turned wearily
in his bed and looked wistfully at the
watcher sitting beside him. “1 wish
she wouldn't do that. Why doesn't
she let him whistle in peace and be
happy in his own fashion so long as he
is innocent of any wrong-doing. If
she persists she will drive him into the
street, where he can lie free to do what
he likes, and no one will be nagging at
him all the time. 1 have warned her
over and over ugain about always pick
ing at the boy and making his life
miserable. I’ve been lesson enough to
the family. Why doesn’t she heed it.
He’s never plotting mischief when lie’s
whistling, you can rest assured of that.
Polly was talking to a gentleman re
cently who had Just returne«! from his
home in the old country. While there
he visited the White Chapel district in
London, famous for its vices and many
horrible murders. Among the latter
the victims of ‘‘Jack the Ripper” fig
ured. He moved like a thief in the
uight, silently doing his terrible work
and stealing away in the darkness,
leaving the poor creatures as silent
witnesses of bis presence. This district
is so crowded with people who have no
homes and are wanderers in the laud
and have no place at night to rest their
weary bodies, that a novel way has
been found to give them rest. In a
large room ot a cheap tenement house
rojMm were stretched across the room at
regular intervals, and men tired of
tramping went into tills room by the
dozen or until the room was filled with
all that it would bold. Wedged in
like sardines they leaned on this rope
with their arms folded a>«out it to keep
them from falling and fell into a slum
ber which, if it was not the sleep of the
just, was oblivion for at least a time of
the wretched life they were living.
Probably they dreamed of a happy
home in days gone by. It may be their
dreams carried them to tlie banquet
table, where the one ob|ect in life
seemed to lie “eat, drink and be merry."
Perchance they forgot the pangs of
hunger and dreamed that poverty had
taken flight and they would never want
any more. (Jr they may have had
wretched dreams and started with fear
as the deeds of this crime-stained dis
trict passed in endless procession before
them like some great panorama. Pity
if they dreamed at all, for the tired
bodies should have had an unbroken
rest—a heavy, dreamless sleep for the
luxury of leaning on that rope was of
short duration, for at a given hour in
walked the proprietor of the building
or his assistant, and with a sharp knife
cut one rope after another. Down went
row after row of men, who slowly
picked themselves up and went blink
ing out into tho night to trudge away
the remaining hours or lounge about
some groggery. The room once cleared
of its occupants, the rojies were again
adjusted and the doors thrown open to
the waiting crowd of. weary men, who
were ready and anxious to go through
the same experience. When I asked
what was the matter with the people
of England that they did not supply
places where homeless and unfortunate
people could at least get a bed, he re
marked, “You don’t realize how much
a foot of ground is worth there, Polly.
Every foot is worth a small fortune.”
A SALE OF WARTS.
FOLLOWED THE LEADER.
Juieulle
Transact Ion
That
Seemed to CouUrm a Theory.
A Case Where Naval Cadets Turned
Discipline Into a Joke.
“This theory.” «aid the traveling
man, “that warts will go away wheu
you stop thinking about them may have
something lu it, and I am inclined to
have faith In it. I know from actual
observation that warts can be transfer
red and will give you the ease In point.
“I was buying a newspaper when I
noticed that the hands of the newsboy
were covered with warts. Ills stand
was within a block of my house, but I
am away so much the little fellow did
not know me by name. I said to him:
“ ’You should get some one to charm
away those warts,’ that being the metb-
o«l of getting rid of them wheu I was a
boy.
“ ’They ain't mine now,’ he said. ‘I
sold them last week to Teddie Stearns,
and they'll all go to him.’
“Now", Teddie Stearns is my own hoy,
and I did not like to think of bls
smooth, chubby hands being disfigured
with warts, and we did not live In a
wart atmosphere. They belong more
exclusively to the barefoot boy with
cheek of tan conditions. I had been
such myself. When I went home, 1
called my boy to me and looked with
some anxiety nt his hands. They were
as clean,and white as a girl’s.
“ ‘What is it, papa?’ he asked curi
ously.
“ ‘I am looking for warts.’
" ’Oh,’ and he drew a long, delighted
breath, 'there ain't any yet, but they’re
sure to come, for I bought them from
“Carrotty Mike” for a pin. He says
I'm sure to get ’em. Ain’t you glad?'
“Glad! I could have cried, and I be
lieve his mother did cry. But that
blamed little cub said lie wouldn’t be a
tenderfoot, and he would have warts.
1 read the riot act to him and went
away for a month's trip, and when I-
came back he was as proud as Punch.
His hands had grown a crop of warts
that discounted anything 1 ever saw in
that line. I limited up ‘Carrotty Mike,’
and. would you believe it, there wasn't
a wart on his hands! He had trans
ferred them all to my boy.’’—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Among other good stories told by
Cyrus Townsend Brady in hfs “Under
Tops’ls and Tents,” published by Scrib
ners, is this:
It is related that a large number of
uaval cadets were negligent in follow
ing tlie service Iu the chapel, which was
ufter the ritual of the Episcopal
church. An Incautious officer In charge
on Sunday morning made a little ad
dress to the church party on the sub
ject, saying lie supposed that some of
them erred through ignorance, but If
they would observe him carefully and
do as lie did—in military parlance, fol
low the motious of the commanding of
ficer—they would not go wrong.
Word was pass««d quietly through the
battalion. They marched into the
church. The officer in charge took his
place in the front pew, settled himself
In his seat ami calmly blew his nose.
Three hundred noses were blown si
multaneously with a vehemence that
was startling. The officer looked around
and blushed violently In great surprise.
Three hundred heads "followed tbe mo
tions of the commanding officer.” Six
hundred cheeks violently tried to blush,
a hard thing to for a midshipman to do,
and so on through the service.
The man could not stir without In
stant Imitation. He finally confined
himself strictly to the prescribed rit
ual of the service, lookiug neither to
the right nor to the left, not daring to
raise a finger or breathe out of tbe or
dinary course. Tills enterprise also
was a startling success.
The cadets received other instructions
later In the day from a furious officer
who sternly resented their Innocent
statements that they did not know
which was ritual and which was not
and that he bad not instructed them
thnt blowing his nose stood on a differ
ent plane from saying his prayers. It
was a huge Joke everywhere.
O««
NATURE’S MISTAKES
A WOMAN’S LOVE.
A
SOME THAT MEN CONSIDER TO BE OF
REMARKABLE VALUE.
Caraduilr.l a. It
May
Appear, ths
Perfect to«« of a Precious Stole I.
Largely Due to Some Imperfection
In Its Makins by Xatnre.
«entinrl •ng«-l sitUn* high in glory
Heard thia thrill wait ring out from purgatory:
“Hava mercy, mighty angel, hear my atory!
“I loved, and, blind with paaalonate love, 1 tell.
Love brought me down to death and death to bell,
Fur God io juu, and death tor sin la well.
"I do not rage against hla high decrew
Nor tor myself do ask that grace shall be.
But tor my love on earth who mourna lor me.
Paradoxical as it may appear, the “Great Spirit, let me aee my love again
perfection of a gem is largely due to And comfort him one hour, and I were tain
some imperfection iu its make. Some To pay a thousand years of Are and pain.”
little mistake made iu tbe laboratory of Then said the pitying angel: “NayI Repent
wild vow! Look I Tbe dial finger’a bent
nature produces a defective stone That
Down to the last hour of thy punishment I"
which Is perfection itself from the lap
idary's point of view. Ninety-nine out But still she wsiled: “I prey thee, let me got
ol every hundred emeralds dug from I cannot riae to peace and leave him co.
the mine are almost white and of little Oh, let me soothe him in hia bitter wool"
value, but the hundredth oue Is of a The brazen gates ground suddenly sjar,
rich velvety green and. If without oth And upward, joyous, like a rising star.
er flaws than its color, sells for $300 a She rose and vaniahed in the ether far.
carat or 240 times as much as its col Hut soon sdown the dying sunset sailing,
orless brother. The reason of the rich And like a wounded bird her pinions trailing.
color which gives the emerald Its value She fluttered back, with broken hearted wailing.
Is that nature, in making the stone, put Site sobbed: “I found bim by the summer sea
In too much oxide of chromium. Just as Reclined, his head upon a maiden’s knee.
the cook sometimes gets too much sal She curled his hsir snd kissed him. Woe is msl'
eratus iu the biscuits. The standard of She wept: “Now let my punishment begin!
perfection In the laboratory of nature I have been fond and foolish. Let me In
Is the colorless emerald, and her deep To expiate nty sorrow and my sin.”
green ones are some of her failures;
angel answered: "Nay, sad soul; go higher!
failures which, nevertheless, delight Tlie
To be deceived in your true heart’s desire
mankind, however much they may dis Was bitterer than a thousand years ot flrel"
—John Hay.
gust nature. You could buy a ton of
oxide of chromium for the price which
A Formidable Meal.
DYNAMITE AND MINERS.
half a grain of it gives to a cheap and
Sometimes the names given to dif
common crystal.
ferent varieties of plants and vegeta
When nature makes mistakes in man Long Immunity From Accident Re
bles are confusing, not to say startling.
sult» In Contempt of Danger,
ufacturing diamonds, the results are
It Bounds as If one had Indulged in a
“After a miner had handled dynamite
equally remarkable. Her standard fot
most lesthetlc meal to say, “I hnve Just
a diamond is a pure white stone, but for eight or ten years without a serious
eaten an early rose.” But when one
sometimes
a foreign substance gets into mishap it is a good Idea to put him to
remembers that Early Bose Is tbe name
tbe crucible, and tlie result is a red or doing something else about the works,”
of a popular variety of potato the les-
blue diamond. A flue white brilliant of said a gentleman of this city who has
thetlcism vanishes. Potatoes seem to
one carat can be bought for $125, but a had n great deal of experience with high
be especially liable to have names be
»»»»
blue
stone of that size would be cheap explosives. “The chances are a hundred
stowed on them which have a most
"I tell her to try and remember that
at
$3,500.
A red diamond Is of even to one that his long Immunity from ac
“unedible” sound.
grenter value, a red stone of fifteen cident has given him such a contempt
Two women ont on a bicycle tour be ‘still waters run deep.’ I was one of
grains having been sold tor $5,000. Yet for danger that be is an unconscious
came hungry, and there was no inn In the still water Kind. I was held up as
the little particle of foreign material menace to everybody on the premises.
sight, but there was a farmhouse near u model of propriety and goodness, and
which nature carelessly let fall into the He will do things that not only imperil
by, and an old man was pottering about it is a wonder my brother did not hate
BEE AND HIVE.
mixture when she was making that his own life, but the lives of all his
In the adjacent potato patch. To him me. He was always a happy, rollick
stone down iu tlie heart of some prime comrades. To give you an Illustra
they appealed for food. He promised ing, good-natured fellow, invariably in
If the hive rests on the ground, it val volcano Is of less value than a tion, once I had an old Uornishman at
to do what he could, saying that, at for all the fun he could get and the
will
be too damp.
grain of common salt and only got work at a mine iu which 1 was inter
any rate, he could assure them of good leader in all the games, etc. He whis
ested and had intrusted him with a
It will pay to use foundations by fill there by mistake.
potatoes, as lie bad every variety in bls
CULLINGS FROM FICTION.
ing all frames full.
Nature manufactures in her laborato general supervision of all the blasting.
garden. The women enjoyed the meal tled from morning until night. Whis
Set the hive a little above the ground ry n material called spinel. You can He had been handling dynamite for
and especially commended tbe pota tled when he was dressing, whistled on
The man who knows a woman knows to admit of a circulation of air.
the way to church, and was called
buy a block of spinel as large as you twenty years or more and was Justly
toes.
the world.—"A .Summer Hymnal.”
can
carry for a few dollars. Sometimes regarded ns an expert. During that
From
9
o'clock
a.
m.
to
3
o
’
clock
p.
tn.
down
for
it
on
more
than
one
occasion,
“Yes,” said tbe farmer, "you have
Tlie people wlio help us most are includes the hours of successful operat In making spinel Hinall quantities of entire period he had never had an acci
not done so badly. You have eaten two and if he happened to be detained at
those who make light of our achieve ing with bees.
chromic acid get Into the material and dent wortli speaking of, and by de
Schoolmasters, two Blacksmiths, four night everybody knew when Ned was
ments nnd have faitli in our possibili
color It a deep red. Tbe pieces so col grees the care and vigilance that were
Procure
new
blood
In
the
apiary.
In-
Kidneys and a couple of White Ele coming home, for away off' in the dis
ties.—"Sir Christopher.”
phants.”
breeding Is as objectionable with bees ored nature rejects us spoiled iu tbe responsible for his excellent record had
tance would come the sound of Ned’s
For things never come quite right in as with live stock.
making and throws them iu the dust worn away until he was beginning to
whistle that was always enough in
tills world. The threads seem to slip
A Taraninla'a Jnmp,
bln, from which men dig them out and entertain the delusion, common to old
It
Is
necessary
to
unite
all
weak
col
out of our hands as we are going to tie onies that will be unable to build up call them rubies. A ruby of tlilrty-two hands, that the danger of the stuff was
“There are strange sights In Porto itself to drive away the blues. Ned
the knot.—“Sister Teresa.”
carats recently so^l for $52,000. Yet very much exaggerated.
Rico,” said a returned traveler. "Ta was sadly flogged every now and then
into stroug stocks.
“One day I was passing through a
There’s nothing like marrying a man
rantulas are one of them,” he contin for his noisy ways, but before the sting
tbe
material of the cheap spiuel and
Care should be taken to save all
If you want to know him better, only young brood and the brood combs of the valuable ruby are practically the cut where some blasting had been go
ued, “and you should see a tarantula of the punishmhnt was hardly gone
it limits your acquaintance with other
jump! One of them went through a he was whistling and trying to forget
same, save for that small fraction of ing on and noticed tbe old Cornishman
people afterward, you know.—“A Little those containing brood.
marvelous performance, with myself that he had been disgraced by a pun
chromic acid which got Into tbe ruby hammering a drill into what seemed to
On account of It being the only ma
be a boring In the rock. I asked him
Gray Sheep.”
and a dog for spectators. The dog’s ishment. Ned always considered it a
mistake.
terial that can be depended upon to by Wheu
barking awoke me early one morning,
nature starts out to manufac what lie was doing, and be told me
But If you are looking for a wife, stay pine Is the best material for hives.
and I slipped into my shoes and ran disgrace to lie punished, and when 1
Carus, choose ye the woman ye would
ture opals, she endeavors to make them coolly there was a cartridge in the bole
BRIEF REVIEW.
Combs should not be left in empty without any cracks lu them. Iu this that had failed to explode and be was
out. Spot—that's tho «log's name—was look back at it now, I wonder why he
like to keep ye company through a
making frantic plunges at an enormous was ever chastised, for a better boy
month’s rainy weather in the Isle of hives about the apiary. That Is tbe she seldom succeeds, coming nearest to ‘Just knockin’ out the tampin’ to re-
Type Printing Telegraph.
worst place they can be left, as moths perfection In tbe Mexican opals, which priine it.' I was horrified, for at every
tarantula, as big as my palm and Its never lived than our Ned. Well, as I
Mull.—“Cinderella.”
The Baudot multiplex type-printing
are always to be found near the bees have few cracks In them and therefore blow lie was liable to explode the dyna
legs covering as much ground as a soup said before, Ned whistled merrily on
What is the good of it? What will It
plate. Its wicked black eyes made me the way, even catching the notes of the telegraph is said to be operating very bring her? No woman yet has pos and are sure to infest the combs.
little luster. The fiery glow of the ori mite, and I ordered him sternly to stop
and never repeat such a performance.
One advantage in closed end framet
creep.
meadow larks and orioles, and it was successfully on the Berlin-Paris tele sessed a wonderful head who did not is that a hive lull of combs may be ental opal and the play of light iu the Tbe proper method would have been to
“All of a sudden the thing shrank up neverappreciated, but 1 was held up to graph line. The whole telegraph busi pay for it at some time with her heart.
depths of that exquisite stone are due
handled as though It were a single entirely to tlie numberless cracks have drilled a new hole near by and
like a sponge and Jumped for the dog.
ness between Berlin and Paris, which —“A Woman Alone.”
piece instead of a collection of loose which seam the surface of the gem. It exploded the first charge with a second
I give you my word, it Jumped fifteen the boy, who never saw the day he heretofore required five telegraph lines,
As
a
rule,
the
men
whom
men
draw
feet If It was an inch. Twice the dog could not look anybody in the eye cun now be easily done over one by the and the women whom women depict are pieces, thus saving work, worry and must give nature a poor opinion of blast. He obeyed sullenly, grumbling
ran under the spider’s Jump—fact. Oth without llinching, as a model of pro means of the Baudot system. The op nearer the truth, for it Is a blessed law time.
mankind when she sees him selling the to himself, nnd less tlia^a month after
If
tlie
bees
cannot
conveniently
enter
ers were watching by this time, and priety and good manners. 1 was al
Mexican
opals, which are nearly per ward was blown up wlflle doing exabt-
of nature that men and women shall
they all saw It. Usually, though, be ways the perfect gentleman, and could eration is said to be influenced by minor view one another through the eyes of tbe hives during the sudden changes of fect, for 12 cents a carat and paying ly the same tiling. He lost his left arm
Just side stepped a bit.
not do anything In the eyes of my interruptions of the conduit. The work the imagination.—“A Point of Honor.” cool weather, quite a number will be $25 a carat for her failures, the cracked at the shoulder, bls left eye and part of
Ills left enr. He also lost his contempt
lost; hence care should lie taken to fire opal of the east.
"I broke up little pieces of a branch adoring parents that was not proper for the operators is not more arduous
have the entrances arranged so that the
of a tree nnd burled them nt the taran and worthy of emulation. I was de than with the Hughes apparatus. Con
Not only in gems, but iu many other for dynamite, and wheu he finally
The Proofreader.
tula. My aim was Just good enough to
sul-General Guentherof Frankfort, Ger
things, does nature make mistakes and emerged from tbe hospital I gave him
An anonymous writer in the Ameri bees can enter readily.
stir him up. At first he kept Jumping ceitful at heart all the time and really many, says the new successes in quick can Printer of New York says:
failures, the results of which are high back Ids former Job. I never had a
Knots on Tree*.
away from us, but Spot always herded never showed myself in my true light. and multiplex telegraphy will create a
ly valued by man. The chunk shell, a more scrupulously careful employee
“The ideal proofreader for a small
In tbe barks of our forest trees are shell much like the conch shell of these than he was from that time on. It
him back again. Then he Jumped I received the praise showered upon peculiar situation for the administra printshop ought to be an accomplished
straight for us. At last a lucky shot me at home and abroad as though I de
printer, a sensible person, a person un contained a multitude of latent buds, shores, Is one of the commonest shells seems a brutal thing to sny, but there
keeled him over, and a few strokes served it, and yet in my own heart 1 tion of the telegraph service. If the derstanding the scope and limitations which are developed and grow under ou the beaches of India, and millions is nothing that does an old dynamite
with a convenient club finished him.”— knew I was a deceiver of the worst Baudot system be introduced all over of the English language, one compre certain favorable conditions. Some of them are gathered and burued for hand as much good as to get blown up
once or twice.”—New Orleans Times-
trees possess this property In a remark
New York Times.
kind. I was at the head of many a Germany, and, in addition, if thequick hending the true offices of punctuation, able degree, and often, when the other tbe lime that Is in them. Yet lu a tem Democrat.
telegraph
of
Pollak
and
Virag
lie
uti
ple
near
Kandy,
Ceylon,
are
two
chauk
one
with
a
keen
and
true
appreciation
scrape, concocted the whole thing,
The Subjection of Man.
lized for newspaper telegrams, and if of literature, a storehouse of exact pnrts are killed down by frost, the shells which hold the place of houor In
Parental Eeoxomr.
when I knew Neil or somebody else
“No, I never have a bit of trouble
Professor Slaby succeeds in applying knowledge, a perfect grammarian, a property of pushing out these latent a shrine covered with gold, and no
"Papa,” said Dicky, “all the other
would
have
to
stand
the
blame
for
it.
buds
into
growth
preserves
the
life
of
with my husband,” remarked the frail
amount of money could buy them from boys are going to have torpedoes or
his discoveries concerning multiplex perfect speller and with a fund of hu
little woman with the Intelligent face. Some way or other no one ever thought spark telegraphy to ordinary wires, it mor sufficient to enable him to do his the plant. These buds, having once their guardian priests. Their value firecrackers or something for the
begun
to
grow,
adhere
to
the
woody
“In fact, I have him right under my of connecting me with them, and if I will then be only a question of a short whole duty along these various lines
consists in tlie fact that nature was not
layer at their base and push out their quite herself tlie morning she fabricat Fourth of July. Can’t I have anything
thumb.”
happened to be caught in any escapade
without
making
for
an
early
grave.
If
at all?”
? ou uvu
don't i look
“xvu
iook very strong, ” aouDt-
doubt- ome one was kind enough to say, ‘tile time when the existing business will he does not really know everything, he points through the back toward tbe ed these shells and gave a right hand
“Dicky.” said Mr. Stinjey, beckon
hardly
keep
all
the
lines
busy.
light.
fully commented the engaged girl.
ed twist to them Instead of a left hand ing mysteriously, “come with me, and
little gentleman was there trying to act
ought assuredly to be able to scent out
Tbe
buds
then
unfold
and
develop
“You mistake me, my dear. “It’s a as peacemaker, or dissuade them from
an error and to know how to get at the leaves, which elaborate the sap carried ed one, such as has been given to all I’ll show you something."
mental, not a physical, subjection.”
India Exports Coal.
truth. If lie reads the proofs for a up the small shoot. Once elaborated It other cliank shells, so fur as man
their purpose.’ Ned knew differently
He took him out to the summer kitch
“Would you mlud telling me how”—
weekly
newspaper also, he ought to descends by the bark, when It reaches knows, since tlie beginning.
en and showed him a large package,
The
enterprise
of
Calcutta
merchants,
scores
of
times,
but
he
would
not
give
“Not a bit. Always glad to help nny
Baron Rothschild once paid $300 a neatly folded and tied with a string.
know nil about local affairs and all
one steer clear of the rocks. First of me away and took the unmerciful scor who are working with the railroad com about tbe town or city In order to pre tbe base or inner bark. Here It is ar dozen for some Schloss Johannlsberg
“Tiiere,” he said, “lire all the paper
rested,
so
to
speak,
and
deposited
be
pany
in
the
development
of
the
Bengal
all, you must know that a man in love ing or chastisement, as the case might
wine, nud it Is admitted that, taking bags tliat have been brought into tbe
vent the reported marriage of the girl
Is the biggest sort of a fool and says be, and never uttered a word to exon coal fields, is borne out by recent statis who merely acted as bridesmaid and tween the outside and inner layer of everything luto consideration, It was house for a whole year from grocery
things that make him almost wild when erate himself. Coward that I was, I tics, says a London newspaper. It ap untangle tbe mixed topography of the bark, as can be learned on examining not an exorbitant price. Yet the wine stores aud other places. I have had
specimens on the trees In the woods of tbe same year from the vineyard di
he hears them lu after life. I realized let him do it.
pears that four years ago the total reporters’ articles.”
your mother save them for you. Every
almost anywhere.
ft, nnd from the very beginning of our
rectly adjoining tbe Johannlsberg vine one of them will make as much noise
»*»»
exports amounted to 212,273 tons, Cey
courtship I kept a phonograph in the
Henry Ward Beecher's Wit.
yard,
on
the
same
bank
of
the
Rhine,
Dear old Ned went whistling mer lon taking quite half of the output and
ns a firecracker If you fill It with air
Manx Taxes.
room, and every speech he made was rily on the way in spite of all the injus the Straits «Settlements 85,280 tons. In
On one occasion as Mr. Beecher was
a vineyard whose soil is. to all appear and pop It right.”
In
the
matter
of
taxation
tbe
Isle
of
duly recorded. Now, whenever my hus tice that had been done him nearly all
In the midst of an impassioned speech
It was not exactly what Dicky had
that year France, who is always a ready some one attempted to Interrupt him Man is unique. There Is no income tax, ances. the same, only brought $5 a
band gets a little bit obstreperous I Just
his
life.
He
was
a
joy
and
comfort
to
no succession duties chargeable against dozen. And there Is no special secret set bls heart on, but It was all the-
buyer
of
steam
coal,
purchased
a
con
turn out a record or so. Heavens, how
by suddenly crowing like a cock. The the estates of deceased persons, no about the manufacture of Johannlsberg Fourth of July he got.—Youth’s Com
he does rave! But he can’t deny It. all when they quit trying to reform signment for testing purposes, and a orator, however, was equal to the occa
wine or about the variety of grape panion.
They always will, though. If you don’ him. Noone was so quick to do a kind small cargo of the same grade of coal slon. He stopped, listened till the crow highway or turnpike tolls. Roads are used. Its great value comes from a
act and anticipated the wishes of moth came to this country to be scientifically ing ceased, and then, with a look of maintained by the revenue from two little joke of nature. In the soil of
have proof positive.”
Willie* to Take Chaacee.
sources—a small tax upon every wheel
“So you’re going to marry Mike?”
"Thank you,”’gratefully murmured er, father, and everybody else as well. examined.
surprise, pulled out his watch. “Morn and shod hoof and a levy upon every tbe Johannlsberg vineyard there Is an
the engage«! girl. “I'll get a phono He was never too tired to lend a help
ing already!” he said. “My watch is male inhabitant, who must give a day's Infinitesimal amount of a certain salt said tbe mistress inquiringly.
graph this very day.”
“Yls, mum.”
ing hand, and everyliody imposed upon
The largest nugget of gold ever un only at 10. But there can be no mis work on the road or Its equivalent In which Is found In tbe soli of no other
“Are you sure you are not making 4
him. To look in Ned's honest eyes you earthed anywhere free from quartz, of take about it. Tbe Instincts of the low cash. Tiiere are no stamp duties on vineyard. The admixture is so slight
mistake?”
Orlicln of Ice Cream Soda.
would know there was nothing hidden, which there is any record, was that er animals are Infallible.”
receipts, checks, promissory notes, etc.; that no chemist lias ever been able to
“Well.” returned the cook thoughtful
There was a roar of laughter. The
According to a Wisconsin legend, Ice but his life was like an open book. Ned
Imitate it. yet It Is worth many thou
taken out of the Byer <& Hamilton “lower animals” In the gallery collaps In fact, stamps are used only for post sands a year to tbe owner of the vine ly, “he’s not the best man in the world,
cream soda had Its origin in Milwau
age.
—
London
Standard.
to be sure, but if I lave him go how
kee, tbe town that made lager beer fa went whistlng on the way and every mine, Hili End, New South Wales. It ed, and Mr. Beecher was able to re
yard.
kin I be sure of giftin’ another wan?
mous. A confectioner whose trade was body loved and resjiected him, and was imbedded in a thick wall of blue sume as if nothing had occurred.
Bathing tn Salt Lake.
When Gold Looks Green.
I've been thinkin’ nbout it, an' it looks
among the wealthy used to make a when the call for volunteers came for slate 250 feet from the surface. It
"Salt
lake
Is
a
remarkable
sheet
of
Gold can be l>eateu out so thin that it to me like it's right an’ proper to take
Don't Drink Dtarlnff Meal«.
good, rich s«sla water by adding to it, soldiers to go to Manila, our Ned was weighed (140 pounds and w as 57 inches
water
in
innny
ways,
and
bathing
Ifi
It
allows light to pass through It. In what ye kin git when ye kin git it.
Be careful to limit the amount of wa
when drawn, pure cream. Ills trade one of the first to enlist. He died doing long, 30 inches wide, and averaged 4
possesses features which are unique,”
rapidly Increased, nnd one night when his duty, and came home among the inches in thickness. It was valued at ter and fluids which you take during says a Utah man. “It Is very invigor which case, though it still appears Them that holds off for the big prize
brilliant yellow by reflected light. It Is has been known to lose the little wans.
meals, since large quantities of these,
be had a crowd to serve he ran out of silent passengers. I was one of the $248,000.
especially Ice water, hinder digestion. ating and refreshing, to be sure, but it green as viewed by transmission—that I think I’ll take Mike.”—Chicago Post.
cream. In desperation be used a small ‘still waters run deep’ kind. I shirked
takes
some
time
to
become
accustomed
Is, by tbe light that passes through it.
Not more than one glass of water
quaytlty of ice cream to give tbe drink the call of my country, and watched
Statisticsshow that if all the Protest should be taken during each meal. In to the extraordinary buoyancy of the This curious effect can easily be ob
Child Baptism In Early Days.
the proper rich consistency, and what
Ned march away without hardly a ants in America and England gave a order to quentli the thirst which is so water. It is quite Impossible to sink served by laying a piece of gold leaf
resulted is history.—Beverages.
The following from the early court
pang, but I never dreamed he would jienny a day their gifts in pennies apt to clamor for water at meals an or to drown In the lake, but many peo upon a plate of glass and holding It be records of York county. Me., we give
never come oack except in his coffin. would amount to $400,000,000. Allow eminent authority suggests taking a ple have been killed by the water. tween tbe eye nnd the light, when tbe verbatim et literatim: “At a general
The Fisht Hoar Day.
When there Is a breeze and spray Is
The eight hour day is not snch a new Yes, I shirked just as I had always ing $1000 for each missionary, this glass of hot water fifteen or thirty min dashed upon bathers, the water is so gold will appear semitransparent and court held at Saco Sept 17, 1(140, It is
ordered by the court that the Worship
thing. Ou April 2, 1792, the town of done through life. I am paying the would put 400,000 missionaries in the utes before meals. This acts especially densely Impregnated with salt that the of a leek green color.
well In the morning, as It cleanses the
ful Thomas Georges nnd Edward God
Partridgefield, Mass., now Peru, vot««d penalty for my misspent life now, dy field annually.
liquid portion evaporates very quickly
Hla Prlao.
stomach.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
“to grant £150 for repairing highways ing by inches. I went the pace that
nud leaves a deposit of salt on tbe skin.
An amusing story, which may per frey, councillors for this province, shall
in said town, to be worked out 2 thirds kills at a rapid rate. I should lie a
“On several occasions people have haps he entirely true. Is told of a short order all the Inhabitants from Pisca
Stamp collectors will lie interested t/i
No Reciprocity.
in June next, at 3s (id per Day. and tbe lasting and terrible example to my
drifted out while bathing or been sighted but energetic member of tbe taquis to Kenebache, which shall have
“Brownly tliliiks be has the smartest wrecked ami thrown overboard and aft
know that Greece has issued a new set
any children uubnptized as soon as
other third in September at 3s per day.
Russian secret police.
any minister Is settled In any of their
Eight hours In a day to be Deemed a sister. Her boy is like Ned. Let him of postage stamps, ditt'erirtg consider child In tbe world.”
erward
found
dead
on
top
of
the
water,
He
was
walking
through
a
little
fre
wliistie ami go through life making
“Yes,” nnswered the morose man. choked to death by the accumulation of
Day’s Work.”
ably from the older ones.
quented street of St. Petersburg oue plantations, they bring their said chil
music for others. Look in my pocket
“
That
Illustrates the Ingratitude of life. salt iu their mouths and nostrils.”
Meat In Norwar.
night when he spied high up on a lamp dren to baptism, and If any shall refuse
There Isn’t oue chance in a thousand
to submit to the said order that the
You don’t see fresh meat In Norway book and you will find three little
post
a placard.
Iu Ireland during the last decade the that tliat child when he grows up will
party so refusing shall be summoned
Keeplaa VsKetables.
any more frequently than In Japan verses that applied to our Ned:”
“
Aba!
”
he
said
to
himself,
scenting
Presbyterians lost in memltersiiip 34,- go around declaring that he has the
to
answer their contempt at tbe next
Vegetables
should
never
be
put
Into
There Is an abundance of bam, bacon
mischief
on
the
instant
and
alert
for
No deeds ot fame enshrined hts name,
000, the Episcopalians 29,000, the Cath smartest father In the world.”—Wash I the cellar, as many of them contain
gcnernl
court to be holden In this prov
No
laurel
wreath
or
bay,
and other cured meats and odd things
action. “That's one of those Incendiary
Journal.
olics 413,000, while the .Methodists and ington Star.
And yet be made earth happier;
acids which will absorb the poison of notices about his majesty tbe czar! It ince.”—Lewiston
like reindeers’ tongues and haunches
.... ....
■■■- -....
«
Jews increased.
lie whistled on the way 1
the ground air. and If eaten will prove must come down at once!”
from polar bears sent down from the
The
llapal
Way.
A Born Musical Genius.
very unhealthy, and if allowed to re
arctics, but very little beefsteak, roast
With some difficulty, being of a stout
And even grief found sweet relief,
“Do you expect to realize a fortune
Joshua Straw—Our boy Silas Is goln' main will rapidly decompose and fill
Hope shed a brighter ray,
beef or mutton.—Chicago Herald.
build, be succeeded In climbing the post from your latest invention?" asked the
Scotland is undoubtedly tile most ad «' be a musisbun. er I miss my guess.
the
air
which
arises
to
the
upper
rooms
And hearts he knew not blessed him
and dislodging the placard. He bore It capitalist.
vanced of the Old World British coun
Mrs. Straw-Dew tell!
For whistling on the way I
with a poison that will undoubtedly to the ground, and there, peering at It
Tbe etiquette that makes us do an In
“No,” said tbe Inventor, "1 don’t real
tries in education.
Joshua Straw—Yes. slree! You Jew’ cause much mischief. Potatoes should
sincere net Is an etiquette to be avoid
by tbe light of the lamp, he read two ly expect to. 1 had some hopes, but I
And when from life's dark shadows
ort t' see him prick up his ears when not lie exposed to the sun. but kept In Russian words, the English equivalent
He passed Into the day,
ed. Honesty of action is tbe founda
Honesty pays twice as well as half lie hears you blow the dinner born.— some dry plnce where tbe light and air for which Is tbe well known legend suppose It will be tbe usual programme.
They wrote above this line ot love,
tion of the finest marnera.-Ladies’
I'll imagine the fortune and wine one
Columbus (O.) State Journal.
honesty. Don't forget it.
“He whistled on tbe way I”
can always strike them._______
Home Journal
“JA^t^aun/^V^yj^Companlon.
else will realize It”— Washington Star.