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BANDON RECORDER. OUR CONSCIENCE FUND. It was Slarled With n Dollar In the I rar 1811. è»»»»»»»»*«««»»»»»»»»»»»»» tliat was published last year telling of : Polly Larkin : *»»»»»»»»*»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»* tlie resorts and many attractions as well as giving a full outline, or rather information, in regard to boarding places both at hotels and private houses, their prices per week and month, etc. The little booklet "Hummer Visitor” has reference to was gotten out by the California Northwestern Kailway Com pany and beautifully illustrated. It was tlie biggest help imaginable to those who were seeking information as to the most favored spots for a sum mer’s vacation. All trouble was saved them. They knew by referring to this little bcsiklet just how to get to their destination, who to correspond with in regard to migrating with their families, etc. If ever there was a blessing to pleasure-seekers this little booklet was certainly that oue. Hundreds wanted that pretty little book that was nicely illustrated with a few of the many gems and attractions along the line of this favored road. I understand that the California Northwestern Railway Company is getting out the same little booklet this year tor the convenience of the many who desire to spend their vacation at one or more of the many attractive and beautiful s|*ots along this line. Many people aim to visit nearly all of the health-giving resorts during the season, going from one to another until they have made the rounds. There are ideal camping places all through this regiou and in expensive Isiarding-places at some of the cosy farm-houses, etc., but this lit tle Issiklet will tell you more in a min ute than Polly could do in a column. “ What is the greatest problem of the age?” was asked a bright little lady the other day. “ The servant problem,” was the quick reply. “ You have no idea,” she continued, “of this idea to get help, it is responsible for more jieople breaking up their homes and finding themselves ensconsed in Isiard- ing-houses than anything else. 1 as sure you it is a serious question. Every Chinaman, ignorant or experienced, wants his seven dollars a week. The majority of them can scarcely prepare the vegetables much less cook them. The Japanese are even worse, and they are treacherous and unprincipled. They want the highest wages, enquire how many are in the house, and if you chance to have a guest hapfien in, they are insulted, and nine times out of ten will inarch out of the house bag and baggage leaving you at your wits ends to know how to bring order out of con fusion. The want ad. columns in the dailies are filled with advertisements of "gisxl, genteel, honest Japanese school boy,” wanting work. They wash your dishes and prepare the vegetables; they leave at 8 o’clock in the morning tak ing their lunch and return about 4 o’clock. They want to begin with, to say the least, one dollarand fifty cents. The second or third week they want a raise of fifty cents. At the end of two months just when they can lie of some assistance to you, they want four or five dollars per week, and if they do BRIEF REVIEW. not get it, out they go. You have had all tlie trouble witli them and have Proof That Navajos Came From Alaska. cultivated the patience of Job in trying The curiosity of an educated Navajo to teach them properly; they have re Indian ts>y concerning an old tradition ceived their board and lodging and of his tribe has led to the discovery that their wages and tried you week after tlie Navajos of our sun-baked Arizona week by asking for an increase that and tlie Tinneh Indians of ice-bound you knew they had not earned. You Alaska are branches of the same origi had put up witli their ignorance and A Marriage In Persia. nal tribe. This fact is made known by Before dinner is served the bride awkwardness, bad taught them Eng the Rev. Dr. George de la Motte, the goes to the bath accompanied by fe lish, for they are not a bit backward in superior-general of the Jesuit missions male relatives and friends. At night, asking you to help them with their us the procession of the bridegroom lessons in season and out of season. In of the Rocky mountains, who is on a approaches, aims are distributed, and fact you have actually paid them for visit to Bishop J. B. Biondel at Helena, women and children look on from the privilege of teaching them the little Montana, having recently returned from a tour of the Jesuit missions in Alaska. neighboring roofs, Loud orb's from they know, yet they don’t hesitate to the w Hiii'ii welcome the bridegroom “This discovery was made” said Fath on his arrival, while the bride, care, leave you without a moment’s notice. er de la Motte, "through tlie curiosity fully veiled, mounts the horse await »♦»» of a young Navajo Indian, who had ing her at the door. All the mon who “Go to the intelligence offices and lieen told a tradition of the tribe handed have been feasted and entertained join here you will find women of every down from father to son for many gen In the procession, In which lanterns are borne. The bride's departure is the description, ranging in age from sixteen erations, that the Navajos at one time signal for the discharge of tiroworks years to sixty, sitting bolt upright inhabited a cold country. This boy and a great beating of the big drum. against tlie walls and they arc packed read something in a magazine concern The Anal ceremony Is similar to one so like sardines that you wonder if ing the Tinneh Indians. The word observed by the Arabs and the Copts— another one could be sandwiched in. “Tinneh" in the Navajo language namely, the sacrifice of sheep. These Do they want work ? They say so, means ‘mail.’. He became so interest are killed as the bride steps over the und tlie appearance of many of them ed that he wrote to a missionary in Al threshold of her new home. testifies to the fact, but when they find aska, mentioning a number of Navajo One wonders what the idea Is under lying the sacrifices. Art* they intended out that you need help they want from words and their meanings. It was us acts of propitiation inherited from twenty to forty dollars and wish to lie found that the Hame words and same un earlier age, when people thus en assured that you will not have much meanings were found in tlie Tinneh deavored “to appease the anger of the company, that they can go out two or language. Other tribal peculiarities gods” or of the spirits of their an three nights in the week and iiave were compared, with the result that it cestors? Or is it merely a way of seal Sunday off, that the children are not has lieen established beyond reasonable ing in blood un important act and troublesome or noisy, the washing, doubt that the Navajos and Tinnehs covenant?—Woman’s Home Compan every stitch of it, even to the tea-towels, are offshoots of the same original stock. ion. must be put out for washing, even if it This discovery is of immense value and is only a little, tires their backs.” You interest anthropologists, and strong A Snowstorm Indoor«. On a very clear, cold night an even leave completely disgusted. You think ly confinils the theory that the Ameri ing party was given in a salon in of the frail girls working in factories can Indians migrated from the north Stockholm, Sweden. Many people were and stores from early morning until to their hunting grounds on this con gathered together In n single room, and six o’clock at night for their from three tinent, displacing the original inhab It beciffiie so warm in the course of the to five dollars a week and out of this itants of America; and that further evening that several ladies complained they have to pay their board and clothe more they originally came from Asia. of feeling III. An attempt wns made to raise a win themselves and then you look at this The workman in Argentine, when he dow. but the sushes had been frozen array of girls and women sitting idle in their place, and It was impossible to pretending to want work at from has put in his morning’s work, knocks move them. twenty to forty dollars a month includ oil for his breakfast and siesta alsiut In this situation, ns it wns absolutely ing their room and board and turn midday. Meals in the restaurants he necessary that air should be admitted, away disgusted. affects are both good and cheap, and n pane of glass wns smashed out. A afterward he enjoys his rest in the sun »»♦» cold current nt once rushed in, and nt until the hour for the afternoon work. Some housekeepers have solved this the same instant flakes of snow were seen to fall to the floor in nil parts of help problem by going out to a hotel or Lavender gives a net profit of $100an the room. restaurant for all tiieir meals and hav The entrance of n frosty current into ing a woman come in for a day or two acre. Pure lard saturated with the an atmosphere which wns saturated every week to give their homes a scent of Howers (pomade) is worth from $6 to $7.50 a pound. Cologne of the with moisture bad produced a snow thorough cleaning. Others have either finest quality (obtained by soaking the fall indoors. Nature. stored or sold their household effects saturated lard in alcohol) brings as and gone to lsiarding in the numerous much as $17 a pint. For Purpose« of Information. hotels or private boarding-houses. “Hello, central!” “Hello!” Regretting to give up their home life, The highest smokestack in Germany “How would yju call, 'Main, ’¡even but tired beyond endurance in trying has just been completed by the chemi hundred ami ’leven?’” to keep capable help. You would be cal works at Pheinau for the purpose of "What;" surprised to know how many who can obviating the deleterious effects of the “Four ones.” not get help have faced the situation noxious gases upon the agricultural "What do you want?” “Or would you say ‘One, one, one, bravely having given up in despair products of the vicinity. The height of ever finding anyone to assist them the stack is 396 feet. one?' ” “I don't quite catch you. Say It whom they could depend upon, and get all of their meals, or at least a great again.” Government by injunction has as “Or would It be one thousand one portion at the delicatessen stores, car sumed a new terror. A Newark, N. J., hundred and eleven?” rying home the piping hot viands in girl has made application to the Su "Can't you speak plainer?" little paper bags or boxes made for the preme Court for an injunction to re "I'm asking you how to call Main purpose. I tell you, my friend, this strain a young man who she says had e-lov-en liun-dred nnd e-lev-en. Get servant girl question Is responsible for promised to marry her from marrying thnt?" “Ob, you mean one, one, double one.” breaking up many homes. It is reach another girl. ing a pass when you may no longer "Thanks." One of the newest things in the way ask them for references, on the con “Here ft Is.” trary they all but ask you to furnish of foods is H b I i powder, which, it is "Here what Is?” “Main, one, one, double one.” claimed, is a highly nutritious article, them with that guarantee. “Oh, I didn't want to talk to anybody! easy of digestion, and, therefore par » » » » I only wanted to find out to settle a ticularly suitable for invalids. It is in bet how you would call that particular The day is coming when you will tended, however, for ordinary house number. I’ve lost. Goodby.”—Chicago hear the clatter of the dinner bell in hold use. Tribune. tlie street. At a given time—suppos- The first monument ever erected to a edly the regular dinner hour—a travel Well I'rcaerved. The man who essays to give a lecture ing kitchen will go from house to house j cisik isatsiut to lie inaugurated in Paris, or talk In the "slums” must have bls leaving ten, twenty or thirty cents, | The chef in question is Urbain Dubois, wits well In hand. He may encounter worth of juicy roast with rich brown who lalstred in the German Emperor's apathy, but he Is sure also to find an gravy, browned (Mitatoes and other veg-E kitchen. Ho popular waH he tiiat his Zti H 1 bl, i I ......... ....11'.... ' 4 fe M. .ilk M k, I I . k . 1 4 ZV /I Fk 111 111 1 1 ZA 11 ill* embnrrnssing readiness of tongue. brother cooks « >k uniteli to do him honor. etables, savory b stews and soups, coffee An earnest young man from a college and deserts, anil as the wagon goes on settlement was addressing a compnny After many years’ consideration the of fathers and mothers on the subject its way the kettleswill be merrily sing British and Foreign Bible Hociety has of "Christmas In the Home,” telling ing or at least keeping hot. All trouble them of ways in which the day might will be saved in getting up a meal, for it decided to alter its laws so as to enable lie made bright although money wns can »be brought to you just as readily it to circulate the revised version of the scarce. He had visited many houses and more easily than you can prepare Bible as well as the authorized version In many cities and was well Informed. it. When that day comes the intelli- of 1611. ------------------------- - “I'm not talking about what other Renee olliees will find more wall-tlowers A process for making artificial rubber people have told me," he said genially. than ever. by chemical treatment of the stalks of “It's what I know from my personal »»»» two plants, Chryothamnusand Begelo- experience. I have seen over a hun Tlie question lx>x yields only one in via, has lieen discovered by two men in dred Christinas celebrations nnd”— “Man, dear,” cnine In a rich Irish quiry this week ati<l that is doubtless »'arson City, Nevada American voice from the rear of the from one of oursummer sojourners who room, “It's wonderfully preserved ye is already making her preparation, like In vest igat Ions conducted recently at are for a man that old!” the swallows, for her summer flight. Baku by the Russian Govememnt lead Out of tlie dust and noise and confusion Happy Hogan—Say, Birdie, didn’t of the city and out of Han Francisco’s to the iiellef that the naphtha lied» at that point extend far out under the sea. yer uever have yer picture taken? celebrated (?) winds that take posses Birdie Blinks—Picture nothin'. Thomas county, Kansas, lias a dug Happy Hogan—Never have de price? sion of this place for two or three Birdie Blinks—Course I had de price months of the year. " Hummer Visitor” out school bouse, in which seven schol wants to know alsiut the little book. ars are taught daily by a woman. but I never hud de nerve.—Judge. "In the year 1811," says U. E. Arm strong in Ainslee’s Magazine, "un aiion.iliions citizen of New York went a dollar to the treasury department at Washington with an avowal that he hud deiiuuded the government and wanted to make real oration. A dollar meant something to Uncle Sam in these necessitous days when the coun try verged on war witli Great Britain, utal it was a patriotic as well as a pen itent act. The contributor was the founder of the conscience fund, and probably lie died in the odor of sane- till. ••inning the preceding thirty-live years of the life of the republic no one laid despoiled the government, or the private conscience was callous. This New York man. indeed, seems to have been the one blemish on a golden era of national virtues, for fifty years were to elapse before there wns an addition to the fund. "in 1861. just sifter Sumter was tired on. the stmt of $6,000 In bond* was re ceived by tlie treasury department, with n letter explaining that a sorely tried conscience could no longer en dure its burden of guilt. The plain in ference was that the sender, realizing the i'nlted States would need a mint of m ttey to carry on the war, judged It not to be a time to defer repentauce. Think of the bounty Jumpers who prof ited by his contribution! "It was really useful to the country 111 another way.' The conscience fund, which lutd languished for want of a shining example, now became active. It has been quoted pretty steadily ever since. At the present time It amounts to more than $300,000. Indeed, restitu lion Is getting to be the fashion, ami the time tuny come when no one will take advantage < f the government or do so only with the laudable design of swelling the conscience fund when any emergency confronts Uncle Sam.” ZINI INDIAN MAGIC. A PERFORMANCE THAT PUZZLES ALL WHO WITNESS IT. This Wonderftl Feat Rival« the Fa- mon* Mitiigo Growlutf Trick of 1" e Hindoos—Scientist« Are Unable to Solve the Mystery. Nearly everybody lias beard of and wondered at the mango growing trick of the Hindoo, by which be makes a seed sprout before the astonished eyes of the European and reach maturity I d a very short time. But few are aware that an equally amazing feat Is regularly performed by the Zuni Indians on this continent. Their medicine men at the annual "corn festival" do a stunt of which no satisfactory explanation bas ever been advanced. Scientists seeing it have been made, as a cowboy described it. to "look like 30 cents.” Preparation is made for this extraor dinary Zuni performance by spreading a large square of clean, yellowish sand on the ground before the southern aper ture of the medicine lodge. This sand Is carefully smoothed and packed so ns to present a firm, level surface. Around the edges of the sand square are then drawn, by means of a ceremo nial arrow, figures representing the Great Spirit, the earth, the sun, the sky and the rain. There are also the symbols for corn and for a bountiful harvest. Tlie indentations made by tbe arrow are then Ailed In with pigments, tbe clouds and sky with blue, the earth with black and the harvest with chrome yellow. The center of the square is left vacant When complet ed, this sand painting Is a fine speci men of barbaric art nnd Is far from displeasing to a civilized eye. When the hour arrives, the officiating medicine man takes his seat In the opening of the lodge facing the sand square. On bis right and left extend ing out around the square, the chiefs nnd warriors range themselves accord ing to rank. When all are in position, the medicine man tills tlie ceremonial pipe with tobacco, lights It and blows one puff of smoke to the east, one to the west, one to the north, one to the south and two to tlie heavens. He then ad dresses those assembled, recounting the religious history of the tribe, its wan derings and famine and the benevo lence of tlie Great Spirit in tbe past. He closes with a prayer for the contin uance of fatherly care. Then he takes a grain of corn from the medicine bag at his waist, thrusts tbe sacred arrow into tbe center of the sand square, withdraws it, drops the grain into the opening and carefully smooths down tbe sand. Resuming bls seat, all the assembled chiefs light their pipes and smoke in silence. If the Great Spirit condescends to an swer" the prayer of the medicine man, ns generally happens, the grain of corn will sprout and send forth a shoot. After an Interval of fifteen or twenty minutes the sand seems disturbed nt the spot where the corn was buried. Soon slender light green blades of sprouting corn appear above the sur face. The plant rises naturally and rapidly during the day. By the next sunrise the silk nnd tas sel appear. By noon tbe ear and stalk hnve reached full maturity. Then ripening begins. Finally the blades and busks turn yellow and rat tle when they are shaken by the wind. All this, mind you. bas been done In thirty-six hours. On the morning of the second day the corn growing is complete. Tbe medicine man now addresses the watchers, who in company have "watched” the plant grow, for it Is never left alone. With appropriate cer emonies he symbolizes the harvest by stripping the ear of Its husks. The corn he places In tbe medicine bag for future ceremonies, while the stalk is pulled up by the roots and hung over the door of the lodge. The long vigil of the watchers Is now end ed, and they seek much needed rest and food in order to be ready for the rain dance on the following day. Every white man witnessing one of these ceremonies Is deeply mystified Above all. be Is filled with admiration for tbe old medicine man. So natural and mysterious has been tbe process that tbe spectator feels at times dis posed to believe In the presence of some supernatural power. Yet every sane person knows that this performance has nothing unnat ural about It. No white man, however, has discovered tbe secret. Tbe absence of stage paraphernalia and the crude mechanical knowledge of tbe Zunis add to the mystery of tbe whole thing. Various theories have been advanced in explanation. One Is that some shrewd old medicine man discovered by accident some peculiar natural chemical that lias tbe power of forc ing the growth of a grain of corn and that this secret bas been banded down from one generation of priest* to an other. Another favorite explanation is that by great skill tbe medicine man Is able to hypnotize the entire circle of spec tators and so produce the result with out apparatus of any kind save a yel low stalk of corn from the last har vest Others say tbe feat is accomplished by elaborate macbluery concealed in a pit But nobody knows exactly.—New York Times. Affinity Between Horae«. When the Duke of Wellington wns fighting in Spain, there were two horses which had always drawn the same gun, side by side, in many bat tles. At last one wns killed, and the other, on having tils food brought as usual, refused to eat, but turned tils head around to look for his old friend, and neighed many times as If to cal) him. Al! care was in vain There were other horses near him, but be would not notice them, and he soon after ward died, not having once tasted food since Ills former companion was kill ed.—Our Dumb Animals. POPULAR SCIENCE. The sun is traveling at forty miles u second, about 40.000 times as fast as an express tiain. The comet of 1843 was tbe only one during the last century which could be seen in broad daylight. Tlie sulor orb would appear blue to anybody who should view It outside of this planet's atmosphere. . The shadow of tbe moon which falls on the earth during an eclipse of the sun is usually about fifty miles in dl a meter Tbe moon enjoys 354'/j hours of sun light at a time and then an equal amount of darkness, making her day equal to 29.53 of our day. It is a law of science that sound can not travel through a vacuum. Tbe sound waves require tlie atmospheric conditions for their vibration. Stars seem to rise and set, like tbe sun. on account of the earth’s revolu tion oti her axis. They seem to rise four minutes earlier every night, on account of the earth’s revolution In her orbit Polaris Is a triple star. The bright star the North stuW-moves about the center of mass itself nnd a dark com pnn’oti star Iti 3 days. 23 hours nnd 14 minutes These two stars also move slowly around another dark star In a long period A Deathbed Qneillon. Not long before his death P. T. Bar ninn summoned his lawyer to the side of the couch where he was lying. "I am very much worried,” he said, "about a certain matter, and I want to consult you. My neighbor keeps pea cocks. Suj ><>se some of them should fly over int > my yard, which they are doing all the time, and lay some eggs here. Would those eggs belong to me or could ray neighbor compel me to give them up?” The lawyer, having duly scutched Ills head, answered: "Well, Mr. Bnrntnn, I must take time to look into this mat ter. But the best thing for you to do would lie to keep the eggs nnd let your neighbor sue for their possession. In that way your rights would be deter mined and we should have a very val uable test case.” "Well,” said Mr. Barnum, “while you ire looking into the matter will y< i find out how it would be if the eggs wore laid by peahens?" The lawyer swore softly to himself, but never made any investigation. Considerate. An Albany lawyer with a penchant for billiards had occasion recently to visit a small town. While there, seek ing to pass the time, he found a new and excellent billiard table. Upon his inquiring if there was anybody about who could play the landlord referred liim to otic of the natives, who may be called John Jones because that isn’t his name. They played several games, but flic result was against the Albany lawyer. Try as he might, the country man won. “Mr. Jones.” be remarked. "I have quite a reputation at home. They con sider me a good billiard player, but I'm not In your class. May I inquire how long you have played?” "Oh, for a spell back,” replied the native. "Say. strauger, I don’t want to hurt your feelln's, but you're the fust feller I ever beat.” The Silent Iloatmnn. "Who can swim? Who can swim?” shouted a man who wanted to cross a river in a boat. A crowd of boatmen gathered round him, crying: “I can, si gnor! I can!" Only one was silent and remained In his boat all the time. “And can’t you swim?” Inquired the stranger. “No,” was the man's curt reply. “Then you shall take me across.” Tlie gentleman had adopted this method to escape the Importunity of rival boatmen In that part of the coun try. Perhaps also he shrewdly sus pected that a man who could not swim would be the safer pilot.—Capitan Fra- cassa. Stelly the Home of Sulphur. The beautiful island of Sicily, with its huge volcano, Mount Etna, and its most interesting remains of classic Greek architecture, is tlie world's great source of supply for sulphur. The rocks and soil are largely of vol canic origin, and the sulphur mines in some places penetrate deep Into the earth. A common sight is a train of freight curs loaded whn bars of sul phur as yellow as gold. Some of the greatest mines are close by Girgentl, the celebrated Agrigentum of the Ro man historians. About 90 per cent of all the sulphur produced comes from Sicily. Mark Twain's Movln*. A story is told of the days when Mark Twain was a hack writer In San Francisco on a weekly salary repre sented by one figure, Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller serving on the same staff with like pay. A woman of means who patronized Bohemia and gave the Impecunious strugglers many a good dinner saw Mark Twain, thinly clad and Imperfectly shod, standing with a cigar box under ills arm nnd looking hungrily In at a confectioner's window. Tbe patroness of letters asked what was in the box. “Oh,” drawled the humorist. “I’m moving again.” The Hand In Health. Let us shnke hands with a man, and we will tell you something about Ills health. The firm, hearty linndstiake of n sincere man m»y be rather rough, so that one Is taught he lias a grip, but it Indicates stamina. While denoting ah sence of tact nnd refinement. It points to physical strength. The flabby hand that returns no pressure belongs to tbe person who has no great strength of body or mind. The quick, nervous handshake of an excitable, nervous temperament, and Its opposite, the nerveless, passive one, belong to per sons In III health. The band that threatens to collapse or give means fear. Tlie feel of the hand called mag netic Indicates health and kindness and a desire to help others. In many ways we may decide character by the band as well as by the brain. IT WAS A PRETTY PISTOL. Bat It Proved Too Expeaslve For the Bachelor Ulrls. "No, we don’t keep a pistol in our apartment any more,” said the girl who draws for the magazines and shales a small flat with a young wo man who teaches In one of tbe private schools; “not since an experience we had last winter. Before that we did, and we had a perfect beauty of a pis tol, too,” she added in a tone of regret ful reminiscence, “silver mounted and handle inlaid with pearl. We spent a good deni more than we could afford for it, but we didu't like those plain steel things. Now it’s gone, though. I had to give it away, and I don't sup pose Marian will ever consent to our having another. "You see, this Is what happened: I was the oue who knew more about handling a pistol, so I used to sleep with It under my pillow. We were both awfully afraid of burglars, and after there had been a series of rob beries In our neighborhood we were so terror stricken that we were ready to take alarm at the slightest sound. One night, to our horror, we were both aroused by it creaking noise and then a light bump. Just as if some one, tip toeing around, had stumbled against something. For an instant we were simply paralyzed with fright. Then, looking tremblingly about the room. 1 made out over in one corner a tall, dark figure, perfectly motionless. I reached cautiously for the pistol, aimed it and tired twice. The figure did not fall, and tbe horribly strange thing was that it did not move or make a sound. Y’et I felt sure I had lilt it. "Although we were frightened half to death we felt we must get up and light the gas to Investigate. By that time people from the other apartments In the building were rushing to our door to find out what tbe shots meant. Well, the light revealed matters. I had simply ruined Marian's new forty dol lar coat which hung on a hook In that corner. The noise we beard? Oh. that was some one on the floor below who bad come in lute and stumbled against a chair.”—New York Tribune. A FATAL MEAL. The Untimely Badia* or a Crow Who Swallowed a Ceatlped. "Saw a curious thing In California last winter." said the man who travel- els about. “1 had stopped for a mo ment to chat with a man who wai plowing, when be called my attention to a large eentiped that he had Just plowed up “‘Come along with me a few feet,’ said he. and let's see what those crows will do when they find it.’ "There were several large carrion crows that had lieen following the farmer and picking up the Insects that were turned up. and they were now a few feet awuy. waiting for the plow to start again. “We went on a few feet, and the crows followed. Oue big, black fellow soon saw tbe centiped and swallowed him at one gulp. Then, in the expres sive slang of tbe day. there was some thing doing in the neighborhood of that crow. With a caw of despair be mounted into the air for perhaps a hundred feet, then fell heel, over head till be was a few feet from the ground. Then he managed to catch himself and flew upward again and away for the hills, cawing wildly. He had not gone more than 300 feet when he lost al) control of himself and fell like a shot to the ground. We weut over to where he had fallen and found him on bis back with his feet In the air, stone dead. “In a way 1 know how that crow felt when he awoke to the situation. I hadn't forgotten my first spoonful of tabasco sauce that a Joking friend once talked me into swallowing.”—Detroit Free Press. He Meant thè Bird. A man once received as a present from a sea captain a flue specimen of tbe bird known as the laughing Jack ass. As he was carrying it home he met a brawny Irish navvy, who stopped him. “Pbwat kind of burd is that, sorr?” asked the man. “That’s a laughing Jackass,” explain ed the owner genially. The Irishman, thinking he was be ing made fun of, was equal to the oc casion and responded, with a twinkle Preparing Costly Fora. When a master workman In a fur of tbe eye: “It’s not yerself ; It’s the burd I mane, manufactory is cutting up skins, he is literally cutting money. Skins once sorr!”—Loudon Spare Moments. passed for frontier money, but their Limit ot Microscopic Power. value is now much greater than in the Professor McKendrick in his presi early days, and it would be less costly to cut a garment from ten dollar bills dential address to the physiology sec tion of tbe British association remark than to cut it from some skins. The cutting is quite an interesting ed that the smallest particle of matter feature of the work. To prepare a that can be seen with our present ml- :nk or sable, for example, the skin eroscoi>es Is between one four-hun- st be slashed into strings, narrow dredtli-thousandtb and one flve-hun- . eces more or less irregular in shape, dredth-thousandth of an iuch In diam which are afterward sewed together. eter. The diffraction of light in the There may be a thousand pieces in a microscope forbids the possibility of single cloak, the new and beautiful seeing still smaller objects. Yet tbe skins being literally cut to pieces be living spores studied by physiologists fore they are manufactured. Tbe ob are sometimes probably even smaller ject of this is to lengthen the skins. in size tliau the most minute particle Tbe sable, for example, say two feet that tbe most perfect miscroscope can ________________ in length, will be drawn out to four show. Emmet’« Presence ot Mind. feet and all its markings preserved, so A story is told of Robert Emmet that It looks like a very long, but well proportioned, skin. The origiual Bkln which proves his secretive power and is bo cut to pieces thnt It may all be resolution. He was fond of studying “matched” again In the elongated chemistry, and one night late, after the family had gone to bed, he swal shape.—World's Work. lowed a large quantity of corrosive sublimate in mistake for some acid A Wild Ride. A peasant was recently gathering cooling powder. He Immediately dis dry wood In a forest near Kastamunl covered his mistake and knew that when a bear suddenly appeared before death must shortly ensue unless be In him. The frightened man sought ref stantly swallowed the only antidote, uge in the branches of u tree, which chalk. Timid men would have torn at ths broke, and the peasant fell at the feet of the bear. Bruin was quite overcome bell, roused all tlie family and sent for with surprise, so much so that the a stomach pump. Emmet called no peasant, who preserved his presence one, imide no noise, but, stealing down of mind, was instantly astride the stairs and unlocking tbe front door, benst, using his ears as bridle. Tbe went into the stable, scraped some bear tried ineffectually to throw him chalk which he knew to be there and and then, starting on a wild run, issu took sufficient doses of It to neutralise ed from tbe forest and approached a the poison. village. The rider shouted loudly for ner Lovely' Lettuce Dish. help, and in a few minutes the whole “I want," she said hesitatingly as population turned out armed with guns and scythes. A crack shot fired she poised her basket in front of her a bullet into tbe bear’s head, and the pretty cliln with a thoughtful air, “to peasant was able to leave his mount get some lettuce.” “Yes'm,” said the marketman. unhurt.—Kastamunl (Turkey) Official “Here's some; very nice it is too.” Journal. “Is it all that color?” “Why—er—yes'm. All lettuce is New Ll*bt on an Old Subject. The man who bad been kicked by a green, you know.” "Oh, of course! But it’s too bad. I mule and was quoted as saying he “considered the source” was speaking got a lovely blue dish to put lettuce in, of it afterward to some of the other but I’m sure green would look horrible in it. I never thought about there not fellows. “I wouldn’t care,” he said, “if there being any shades, you know.” And as she turned away the market hadn't been so much fuss made over it, ns if it was a bright thing for any man was almost sure be saw a tear of body to say. but the honest truth is disappointment in her eye. that I never said anything of the kind. Indestructibility ot Cedar. When you're kicked by a mule, you’re The resistance of cedar wood to de not in a frame of mind for consider ing things. What I really said was: cay has long been famous, and cedar ‘You denied old boast! If I had a gun fenceposts often last for generations. and yon were somebody else's mule A remarkable instance of tbe inde and It wasn't against the law to shoot structibility of cedar has been noted Inside the corporation I'd blow your in the state of Washington, where a denied old head off, dern you!”'—Chi forest of hemlockB near Acme has grown up over an ancient buried forest cago Tribune. of cedars. The trunkB of cedar, al though lying in a moist soil, have lieen Seven. The alleged supernatural powers of almost perfectly preserved for at least the seventh son of a seventh son are 150 years, the length of time that the merely an illustration of the mystical rings of growth show the hemlocks to powers of that number, which has Iiave been growing above their fallen somehow caught the Imagination of predecessors. mankind. Tlie seventh day and the Ca'arrb. seventh or Jubilee year of the Jews is The word catarrh, as popularly used, n case In ¡mint, but there are also the seven wise men. the seven wonders of means either nasal catarrh or bron the world, the seven lamps of archi chitis. Nasal catarrh is often helped tecture. the seven sleepers, the seven by snuffing up. so as to carry it into sisters nnd the seven senses, the last tbe mouth, a weak solution of salt and being an obvious concession to super water, repeating the operation several stition. Indeed, from the seven church times a day. Where the disease Is very es to the seven deadly sins the num persistent it is well, when possible, to ber for good or ill holds tbe arithmet try a change of climate. In bronchitis the case should be attended by a phy ical record. sician. Definition of ■ Bore. “You call So-and-so a ‘bore.’ What Is a ‘bore?* " asked Bishop Selwyn. “it Is a niau who will persist in tnlklng about himself when you want to talk about yourself,” or, we may add. In telling stories when you want to lie telling them. Coleridge says he used to be much moused with Tobin nnd Godwin. "Tobin would pester me with stories of Godwin's dullness, and up on bls departure Godwin would drop in just to say that Tobin was more dull than ever." The Drawback to Originality. “Why do you keep repeating quota tions?” asked the Irritable man. "Why don't you say something original?” “My dear sir, there's no use of that Every time I think of nnythlng good enough to be original 1 find that some body Bald It years ago.”—Washington Star. Qneatlonable. Willie Boerum—Pa. Mr. Boerum—Well, what Is it? Willie Boerum (earnestly)—Doos ev The Vnlnerable Polnl. erybody in heaven have to have a The Way of Women. Percy—I’ve made Pauline sorry that Nell But you must never mention harp? Can't little boys have tin horns? she threw me over. —Brooklyn Eagle. Pointed Directions. What 1 have Just told you. Guy—In what wny? Merritt—A mnn shouldn't liother a Bess-Why. Is It a secret? Percy—Why. I'm attentive now to a Woman by talking business. Nell—Oh. no, but— Don’t kick about the weather. When girl five years younger than she is.— Cora—That's right, dear. If you mean Bess- Then It Isn’t worth repeating it rains, it settles the dust; when the Detroit Free Press. business. go talk to papa.—Smart Set. •-Chicairo News ■un shines. It dries the mud.- ”*'