BANDON RECORDER.
OUR CONSCIENCE FUND.
It was Slarled With n Dollar In the
I rar 1811.
è»»»»»»»»*«««»»»»»»»»»»»»» tliat was published last year telling of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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“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
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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.- ”*'