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BANDON RECORDER. , a dress suit of his own, but he is always | dreaaed fastidiously and in the latest SENSITIVE TO SOUND i fashion, but he hires his dress suit for ACUTE POWERS OF HEARING WITH the occasion. Whitman's Little Joke*. WHICH FISH ARE ENDOWED. »»»» Oue Sunday morning Whitman cauie out to see uh ' on Prospect bill, in Sum Oue firm advertises full suits of erville, where I was then living, says mounting on short notice, and can fur Siime Iutrresting Eiperlmenti That J. T. Trowbridge In The Atlantic. Of nish the whole family with an outfit if Were Made to Determine Ju»t What much of that day’s talk I have a vivid The horrible murder of Nora Fuller need be. These sable garments of woe Mauner of Noleea or Motion« Would recollection, even of Its trivialities. He the sixteen-year-old girl who was lured Startle Trout. are returned after the funeral. If they was not u loud laugher and rarely away from home only to meet her There are three phases of sense in made a joke, but he greatly enjoyed death at the hands of a tiend, and the are injured in any way the party who hired them must pay the cost of repair fish particularly interesting to the an the pleasantries of others. lie enjoy other atrocious acts that followed in its ing, but that does not often occur. This gler their exquisite ¡xiwers of hearing, ed especially any ulluslon, serious or w ake, should be a heart-rending lesson same firm can dress you elalxirately or of seeing and their subtle, abnormal jocular, to bls poems. When at dinner, preparing my dish to many parents who are careless as to daintily and imxiestly for your wed sensitiveness to atmospheric Influence. of salad, I remarked that 1 was em theirchildren coming and going. Nora ding. The wedding party can hie With all our experience and study it is ployed as bis critics would be when Fuller went out to meet her death in themselves to a photograph gallery, doubtful If we have arrived at any his new edition wub out, he queried. the eltbrt to tind work to assist her have their pictures taken, and then re thing like a full estimate of the acute sensitiveness with which fish are en "Devouring ’Leave* of Grass?’ " “No,” mother, who was in straightened cir 1 said; “cutting up ’Leaves of Grass.’ ” cumstances. This is not always the turn their hired wedding finery to tlie dowed. I devote this article to hear which amused him more, 1 fancy, than case by any manner of means. You dealer and their licet friends are none ing. By hearing I must obviously be the wiser. The dealer will tell you it is understood to mean their power of ap the cutting up did, which came later. can walk tlie streets of San Francisco a great convenience and a regular “God preciating the vibration caused by As the afternoon wuned and bespoke of leaving us somebody placed a book any hour of the day or night and tind send” to people in humble circum sound, the conductor being either solid, before the face of the clock. I said young girls from 10 to 10 ami 17 years stances, who want to make a good aerial or liquid. In man sound detonates the eardrum, “Put ‘Leave* of Grass' there; nols.dy parading up and down tlie streets, showing on these occasions. and in that way when we are under can see through that.” “Not even the sometimes alone but morefrequently in »»»» water we discover little intelligible author?” he said, with u whimsical couples. They don’t seem to have any meaning from sounds. But the same My question-lx>x yields up two que lifting of the brows. object in view except to kill time and ries this week. One from Vivian B----- vibrations are undoubtedly received by wander listlessly up ami down the and the other signing herself “Black the exquisitely sensitive hearing intel Her Advantage. sidewalks gazing into show-windows, “Papa,” said a Hyde Park preacher’s or to use t heir favorite expression, “flirt Bess.” Both are in the floral line, and ligence of a tish. If I may use the “Black Bess” has been answered in an term, in a different and far more im little daughter the other day, ''when I ing with any Tom, Dick or Harry” pressive way. By Intelligence I mean grow up I’m never going to marry article published several mouths back. an instinctive recognition by their either a minister or a doctor that gives they may meet. Many young girls However, 1 will answer it again, and it bodies of some disturbance, Just as went astray when tlie soldiers were en people medicine.” may jierchance lie of assistance to some "Why. dear?” he asked. "Don’t you camped here in such numbers. There other lover of flowers. How to get the man recognizes a passing breath of air. the form of feeling. like preachers and doctors? You know was many a lieart-broken mother when best result from pansies and what to It I takes came to the conclusion that I preachers and doctors ought to be the it was too late; many a ruined life, most useful men there are. Doctors try but it seemed to make noditl'erence. It plant that will grow rapidly and form would make a few experiments. Here to save people in this world, and did not serve as a warning to parents or a shade and protection for a |x>rch are one or two facts: A friend entered preachers do their best to save them in daughters. Just as many misguided where the family delight in sitting dur Into it with me, and we bethought our ing the summer evenings?’ In regard selves of certain well known trout in the next. Isn't that pretty good busi girls followed in their footsteps. Hardly our preserve which were “always ness ?" to planting the pansies I will give the "Yes,” replied little Caroline, "but Dr. a week passes that tlie daily papers do advice of a friend who has the finest there.” Then wo placed thatched hur Pelletier's wife was here calling on not chronicle the sad fact that some and largest pansies I have ever seen. dles a day or two beforehand so that luumum today, and they got to miking young girl is missing and news is anx She plants the seed in shallow boxes, the tish might get accustomed to them In stteh a way that we could approach about things, and Mrs. Pelletier said iously awaited l»y frenzied parents. when she was sick It was ulways just They may never hear from the alisent placing them in the sun and putting a close to their haunts without being terrible to think of taking liny of her one again, or, as in the cases of Nora piece of glass over the top. When they seen and watch the unsuspecting trout husband's medicine, and then mamma Fuller, Blanche Lamont and Minnie spring up and are well roottdghe takes through a small hole cut in the straw. said: 'Oh, but you're an awfully grout Williams, their lifeless bodies will be the thrifty little plants and transplants When one was not at home, the other deal more lucky than if you were a them into a bed of tine mold especially generally was. My friend undertook preacher's wife. You only have to re found to tell the awful tale of woe. prepared for them. She makes a prac the noise making. I the observation. From the sound of a gunshot 500 fuse to take the medicine when you're They may have lieeil led oil' by evil tice of burning all the dead leaves and sick, but a preacher preaches every companions, ami tlie news ot their death little twigs in the garden and sprinkles yards away, which made our trout dis tinctly start, to the breaking of a twig would be more welcome than this liv Sunday.’ "—Chicago Herald. the pansy bed with the ashes. The re three yardi from tlie tish, which did ing agony, for there are far worse sult is that she has the loveliest big the same, we tried all kinds of sounds, The Eye*« Blind Spot. troubles than death, which throws the The blind spot In the eye is where mantle of charity over the mistakes velvety pansies you ever saw. If you shrill and dull and at varying dis want to have a joy which, if it is not tances, and the sum of our experiments the optic nerve comes through the reti and blunders of this life. forever, will be a delight away into the convinced us of this: That our sensi na about one-tenth of an inch nearer » » »» the nose than the center. To test it fall, plant different colors of morning tively organized friends felt the dis placements of molecules through ether, close your fists with your thumbs out As 1 have said often before, every girl glories, They grow almost as fast as side and held against each other. Ex should make a confident of her mother “Jack’s celebrated bean stalk,” and ire- which we call sound, and the further tend your arms. Shut your left eye and every mother should invite the fore you know it your (torch will be vibrating disturbance through what we and look fixedly with your right eye at confidence of her daughter. No girl shelteied by a mantle of delicate green call water, which 1 verily believe con ducts sensation to the fish ns readily your left thumb. Separate your bands, should lie allowed to answer an adver ns glass i ermlts the penetration of verdure with myriads of dainty trum and when they are about six inches apart the right thumb will go out of tisement such as lured p<x>r Nora Ful pets, from royal purple to dainty pink light to this paper, in proportion to the business temporarily, for its picture ler to her death, unless she lie accom blue and white, turning to the sun as if distances and the character of the will fall upon the blind spot. Now, panied by an older and wiser person to to catch every ray of its light. They round, but that they did hear, or feel here's the curious part of it: Though look into the matter and see whether preach you a little sermon every day rather, and with Incredible quickness, men have tried all sorts of experiments the place and the people are suitable and are a source of deligiit Ur the passers too. was conclusively demonstrated. What they heard and were not alarm on themselves for unknown thousands for the child to come in contact with. by who never get tired of feasting their ed at I cannot tell, but when they were of years, this phenomenon was not dis It is an exceedingly risky business to eyes on this cloud of morning glories. alarmed It was evident enough by the covered until the time of Charles II. of allow young girls to decide such mat same kind of start they give when their »»»» England. The blind spot leaves no Vivian B---- : Y'ou say you are tired chief eueni) suddenly peeps over the hole in tlie picture of the outside world, ters for themselves. All who knew but, there being no stimulation on that Nora Fuller said sue was a true daugh of roses, pinks, violets, etc., and want bank. In only two eases could I dis spot, there is not consciousness of a ter and a good girl. Only one cast any something new for your table decora cover actual fright, the fright that lack, lull n lack of consciousness.-■ suspicion upon tlie girl’s conduct and tion, for your dinner party. You will sends them down—a gunshot behind the hurdle uml a heavy stamp of the Harvey Sutherland In Alnslee's. that was one calling herself a chum of tind golden jonquils and black velvet foot near by. It is noteworthy that the Nora. More tin* pity, for she is gone ribbon very striking. Have a large shrill sounds seemed to startle them She Wn« Deaf. and cannot deny the accusations or In At a marriage service perfotmcd a sinuations tliat her so-called friend has cluster of the jonquils and maiden-hair most. For instance, a policeman’s whis placed loosely in a tall vase which will tle at ten yards sent one out Into the few days ago in a little country church in England, when the minister sahl In given out. Friends who had known stand on a mirror in the center of the stream as if looking about for some a solemn tone, "Wilt thou have tills her longer and better are emphatic in table. Carry a strip of the wide black source of danger, whereas a shout at man to be thy wedded husband?” in their denials of the charges. velvet ribbon down the center and lay the same distance caused no detected movement. Their way of shifting a »»»» stead of the woman answering for her clusters of the jonquils tied with the little farther from the bank when they self a gruff man's voice answered: black velvet about the table, using There is another thought that should have an inkling of danger is a very "<»i will." your own taste in this. I think you pretty side movement, well known no The minister looked up, very much be impressed on the mothers. Keep perplexed, and paused. He repeated the children tn your own door yards. will be satisfied with the result. To doubt. It seems for the purpose of the sentence, and again the same grutf Home is the place for them, not the add to the general result serve grape watching the bank at a better angle. The common manner of showing streets ami vacant houses and yards; fruit, placing a half of the fruit at the voice answered: their alarm was by a sudden quiver, "OI will.” not barns and empty houses where place of each guest. sometimes followed by a sinking down Again the minister looked up, sur these street lepers are prowling around an Inch or two, as much as to say, prised. not knowing what to make of waiting for their innocent victims. Too Although the latest census taken of “What’s up?” I very much doubt if I it, when one of the groomsmen at the many little children are allowed to run the population of Ireland shows that it ever crept up to my peephole without end of the row said: “’Er be deaf. OI be answerin' for at large. They are in tlie way in the is now smaller than that of Scotland being detected, and yet I was careful, house, “always under their mothers’ and little more than half what it Was for, if you notice, a trout once on the ’er.”—Pearson's Weekly. feet,” as they express it, and they are sixty years ago, the excess of births qul vive gives no sign of alarm at a glad to turn them out ami let them over deaths from 1891 to 1901 was 216,- second movement or noise. Once pre Odd Club Names. There are a number of societies in run at their own sweet will, and if they 222. Emigration is what is depopulat pared he Is immovable till he suddenly darts off. You may throw your great the world that bear strange names, turn up at meal and bed-time with ing the island. coat at him, and he either braves It stol- but probably one of the most curious their little dirty hands and faces and was a club founded In 1735 by an Eng soiled clothing, that is all that is re There is sasd to be plenty of unculti Idly or bolts cleans away. Five minutes’ lish actor. It was called the Sublime quired and no questions are asked. Yet vated lots in Detroit, Mich., at present, perfect stillness and they settle back to confidence, and then they were again Society of Beefsteaks anil had among tlie Pingree potato-planting fad for the easily startled. 1 fancy the laws of re Its member* the Prince of Wales mid these mere babies are laying the founda other royal personages. They met it tion at this very time of life for a career relief of the |xxir having completely fraction bad something to do with it and that even from the sky they some the painting room of the Covent Gar that will only lie tilled with heartaches died out. times perceived my movements. I had den theater mid dined upon beefsteaks. and disappointments for their parents The Minnesota Board of Control re often suspected this before. The club was in existence for more and themselves. In place of gather Another conclusion: I believe they than a hundred years and became ing Howers along the pathway through cently Ixiught two tons of chewing to quite noted because of its odd cus life they will pluck thorns. San Fran bacco and half a ton of smoking tobacco heard much they appeared not to. A toms. Another strange name was that cisco has been the scene of several of for the inmates of the State institu sudden smack of the hands together, and there was a decided quiver, but a tions. of the Serlblerus club, which Swift bird rattle, begun very softly and grad founded in 1714 and to which Pope, these mysterious and awful tragedies in To bring dollars your way be honest ually brought up to Its very loudest, Gay and other literary men belonged. the last few years, and the sooner jus tice and the law call a halt, dealing out in dealings and advertise your calling. and no notice seemed to be taken. But doubtless, like ourselves, however loud swift justice, demanding “a life for a This will win success every time. A« She Would Have Been. the noise, the gradient robs it of Its A gentleman in Paris paid a visit to life ” and tlie sooner the parents of San a ludy. In whose parlor he saw a por Francisco ami elsewhere wake up to Nothing grows into a habit like gam startle. However fanciful it may trait of a lovely woman of, say, five the fact that their daughters ami chil bling, and many a man and many a sound, of this I am thoroughly con vinced—that water I b such an immedi and twenty. Upon the entrance of the dren must lie guarded with a jealous home has been ruined by it. ate transmitter of vibration to tish that ludy her visitor naturally asked her if eye that never wavers the better it will they recogtdze sound from the air near the picture was a family portrait and be, and until that time comes we may Education means vastly more than ly as quickly as man. it is no argu was told that it represented her de expect the daily papers to chronicle you get out of Ixxiks—it means experi ment to say we do not when in it. We censed daughter. "Is it long since you have no need. Fish have. And be lost her?" asked the gentleman. “Alas, these dreadful aflairs that make the ence. cause they have they are providentially sir,” replied the lady, "she died just blood run cold. The idler is the best critic He has endowed withsupersensltivenessto that after her birth, nnd I had a portrait particular nervous influence among plenty of time for it. painted to represent her as she would others.- London Field. Do you know that there are firms have appeared if she had lived until in this city who are doing a thriving An honest name brings endorsers to now!” The Gam«. business renting out dress suits for wed our notes. Is there a blue line on your gums dings, society events, funerals, etc.? A Cure For Scald Head. near the teeth? Perhaps you are suf The K oiiijinn I>I«1 Not Cne Soup. I have heard my grandmother say Well, they do, and I heard a young Tlie Homans were not acquainted fering from lead poisoning, so attend she had cured many a scald head by business man say these llrius were a to the water pipes, or, if you are a taking pure pine tar and enough lard great blessing to young men who hud with tin* use or regular soap, but they painter, carefully wash your hands employed hii alkali, with which the to make an ointment when melted to only their salary, and a very mixlerate nnd clean your nails before eating. gether so the tar won't stick, then keep one at that. He is fond of society and greasy dirt wus dissolved out of tlielr Is there a red line on your gums? Go clothes. This alkali, called nitrum, is the head as clean as possible and oil to a sanitarium for consumptives or at with the ointment. She said she had is in demand, for he is always ready to referred to by Pliny, but the cheapest least take cod liver oil, open your win *eeu it cure heads when the matter had do his part in assisting the hostess in solvent was urine, which was mostly dows night and day nnd consult a doc used. The clothes were put in this, entertaining her guests and making the eaten seams In the neck.—Detroit Free "stranger within their gates” feel per mixed with water nnd then stamped tor. Press. From n Scotchman*« Sermon. fectly at home. "He never blunders,” upon with the feet. This process was Enconragement. We are told to love our enemies, but said a certain hostess, in speaking of performed by old people, while boys Tom—I don’t think I’ll ever get up lifted the clothes out of the tubs. The we are not told to like them. I don't enough courage to ask you to marry this same young man. “He should white garments, after being washed, like my enemies. I dislike them very me. You know "faint heart never won have been born under a luckier star, were subjected to the va|M>r of sulphur, much. But (I! s with a baleful glance) for with a princely fortune backing being stretched on a frame nnd the sul 1 love them, and 1 shall ever be ready fair lady.” Belle (blushing)—B-but I'm a bru him what an entertainer he would lie. phur burned beneath. Poor people In to show my love to them by trying to nette.—Philadelphia Record. I know nothing is ever going to drag if Rome cleansed their bodies with meal get them severely punished that they he is around. If I want him to lead a of lupins, called lomentum, which, with may be led to repent of their behavior There is a cave on the Jorend flord. cotillion he is ready for it. If some comtron meal, is still used in some toward me. Reminiscences. Norway, from which at every change body is wanted to start a game of cards places for that purpose. of the weather flashes of lightning is rolling, there lie is in evidence again. sincere Praise 1« Good Form. sue. It is not considered ba 1 form to Ark He is witty and bright and talks intel “Yes,” said ttw .Sunday school teach praise a dish or to compliment the ar Character Is perfectly well educated ligently on any subject. He sings well tistfc table arrangement, remembering wllL—Novalt*. ami is always so willing to assist you. er, “Nonh bad two of every animal, always that there is a vast difference bird nnd creeping thing In the nrk.” Moreover, he does everything as if he "Please, ma'am,” piped a voice at the between sincere admiration nnd flat Up to 1880 France had only private enjoyed it. He must be laired some lower end of the class, "how much did tery that embarrasses instend of high schools for girls. Now there are 40 lyceums supported by the state and times, but he never complains.” This he charge ter git In?” —Ohio State pleases a hostess.— Woman'* Home young man has long since had to forego Journal. Cornua ni ou. 28 by cltle*. HER FACE HER FORTUNE. Why One Girl Got a Good and Easy Position. HORSES OF VENICE. Paying Actual Coast Increase« the Namt r to Flfleea. She was a sweet looking girl, with as fair a pink and white complexion as woman ever desired, and was chatting with oue of her own sex on a Staten Island ferrjtxjxl, while I wus seated so near that I could not help bear lug. Several times my truant eyes deserted my paper and stole a glance at the face that was so attractive. “It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me," she said to’her com panion, “when I went Into that Fifth avenue store Just to buy a comb. How little I thought that I would be work ing there at greater wages thau I had ever hoped to earn! I hesitated about going in, Ix-cause I feared the prices would be too high, but I did go in and came out with a comb without paying a cent for it. And, better than all. I had been engaged to begin the next Monday as a saleswoman. “1 was nearly discouraged before that, for I was getting only $1 a week, and we were awfully piuched at home, but my luck changed on that day, and it was Friday too. Fortunately for me, tlie store Was crowded when I went In, and the proprietor left Ids desk that stands in a little railed off corner and came to wait on me. I noticed that he looked very sharply at me, but not at all in an impudent manner. “ 'Pardon me. miss,’ he sahl, ‘but I am looking for a young lady to assist me In the store here, and If your cir cumstances are such that you would care for the place I would like to have you consider it.’ "1 was wonderfully surprised, but thanked him, saying that I knew noth ing about the business. “ 'That doesn’t matter,’ he replied. 'You can soon learn It. To be frank, I would like to have you on account of your complexion. You know we sell all sorts of goods for the complexion and articles for beautifying, and your face would do more to make sales than all of the arguments and representa tions that could be made.’ “Well, the result was that I got a tine place, witli easy work, at $15 a week. My hours are short, and I sim ply play the agreeable while selling goods tit an immense profit. I wouldn't let any of the concoctions touch my fact* for anything, but the customers appear to be impressed by my com plexion, and the proprietor is satistled. So am I."—New York Herald. It is a poprlar Joke to say that there uie but six buses In Venice, four over the portb-o of St. Murk's cathedral and two bronze animals of heroic size, one bestrode by Victor Emmanuel and the other by General Colleone. But this Is a mistake. There are four other horses, also of bronze, in the Church of St. John and St. l’aul, and quite a number if plaster and marble in the different public buildings, making alto gether at least fifteen or sixteen. Rus kin and otli.T competent critics have declared tlie statue of Colleone to be the best equestrian monument ever cast lit bronze. It was designed and cast by Aadrea Verrocchio, painter, sculptor, jeweler, engraver, poet and musician, a man of inflnite genius, whose greatest fame lies in the fact tliat he wus tlie Instructor of the great est artists of all centuries Michael Angelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vin ci. The statue of Victor Emmanuel is not so highly thought of. The horses on tlie top of St. Mark’s are famous and have had a trying ex perience. They date back to the pre historic age and are supposed to be the work of a Greek artist named Lyssip- pus ami designed for a sculptured char iot. They were taken to Rome during the empire and first used as ornaments upon a triumphal arch erected by Nero nnd afterward by Trajan. The Em peror Constantine took tiiem from Rome to Constantinople, where the Doge Dandolo seized them as loot and brought them to Venice. When Napo leon entered the city in 1797, he had them taken down from the roof of the cathedral and shipped them in wagons over the Alps to Paris. They served as ornaments upon the triumphal arch in the Place du Carrousel till 1815, when Emperor Francis I. of Austria redeemed them, and they were replac ed, at his expense, where they now stand. These ponderous animals are of pure copper, and each weighs about two tons. They were formerly gilded, but the gold has been worn off by the weather, and the verdigris which has accumulated upon tlie copper give* them a rich green tint—William E. Cur tis in Chicago Herald. POULTRY POINTERS. A close, unventilated house is em phatically a foul house. Ground or crushed bone is a good form in which to give lime. Th<* nests should be arranged so that the fowls can walk In on them. Bran is a better feed for fowls than corn because It contains more nitrogen. An excellent feed for young chicks is cracked or coarsely ground wheat for the first week. A cock that fights and picks his mates every time they are fed I b not a good breeder, and few of his hens’ eggs will ever hatch. Cane or sorghum seed can be fed to fowls to good advantage. It stimu lates egg production and in many way* is good to use for variety. For a good breeder select a rooster with plump, full breast, broad across the back, wide between the legs and that crows often, loud and long. It is a good plan to mate up the fowls early, for occasionally one of the hens will want to sit during the win ter. and it will be best to have the eggs ready. Pig For Marriage Fee. "A Lutheran minister in a western Maryland town told me an amusing story the other day.” said a gentleman to a reporter. "Some time ago as tlds minister was walking along a street of the town an old German advanced to ward him with extended hand. The minister shook hands, but remarked that lie could not recall his name. 'Oh, yes,’ said the old German, 'you remem ber me! I am the man who gave you a pig when you married me.’ "The minister smiled as he recalled tlie incident, and as lie was about to ask about tlie wife the old German sahl: 'Now 1 tell you wiiat I'll do. When you married me, I gave you n pig. so I'll give you two (tigs if you now unmarry me.' ’’—Baltimore Sun. A Pussier. Tlie child was four years old, logical, persistent nnd curious. The mother endeavored in all possible conscien tiousness never to depart from any statement once made the child as fact. One afternoon this conversation oc curred: "Mother, where Is your grandmoth er?" “In heaven, dear.” “Oh!” Silence and apparent absorption in toys for a full hour, then: "Mother, didn't 1 come from heav en ?" "Of course.” "Well, mother, it’s awfully funny that I doesn't remember meeting your grandmother there.”—New Y’ork Times. OUR PRESIDENTS. Only One Impeachment and bnt Two Resolutions ot Censure. Andrew Johnson was the only presi dent of the United States ever im peached, and on the trial before the senate lie was acquitted, the vote In favor of conviction barely falling short of the necessary two-thirds. Two resolutions of censure on the president have been passed, once by the senate and once by tlie house, on occasions when tlie hostile majority was not large enough either to pass measures over the president’s veto or to impeach Idin. The first was passed by the senate on March 28, 1834, censuring President Andrew Jackson for alleged violation of the constitution and laws by ids re moval of tlie government deposits from tlie United States bank. Tlie majority of the senate was opposed to Jackson in bis war upon tliat bank, and this vote of censure was the only thing they could do about it. Jackson pro tested against tlds resolution sb a charge to answer which no opportunity could be afforded him. The senate re fused to receive the protest. Finally, on Jan. 16, 1837, tlie resolution of cen sure was expunged from the Journal of the senate. The second resolution of censure was in a report adopted by the itouse from the bouse committee to which Presi dent John Tyler’s message vetoing the tariff bill of 1842 Uad been referred. This reixirt censured tlie president for alleged Improper use of the veto power. Tyler protested against this, as Jack son had done before him, but be bad, as a member of the senate, voted against receiving Jackson's protest, and In answer to his protest the bouse sent 1dm a copy of the senate resolu tion on the former occasion. Makin* Error«. A Massachusetts business firm prints this paragrapli at the top of its letter beads: "Errors—we make them; so does every one. We will cheerfully correct them if you will write to us. Try to write good naturedly if you can, but write to us anyway. Do not complain to some one else first or let the matter pass. We want the first opportunity to make right any injustice thut we may do.” The little sermon deserves a wide audience. Few people have not had oc casion at some time in their Ilves to re gret the sending of a harsh or hasty note of complaint. It may be necessary to assert one's rights in subsequent let ters, but there is no better rule of cor respondence than to make the first one eno<l natured.—Youth’s Companion. The Rudeness of George. "George can be very rude at times. He interrup'ed me just as I was going to speak last evening.” “How did it happen?” "Why, he asked nte If he couldn’t kiss me, and just as I was about to remonstrate be stopped me.” “How did he stop you?” Feeding: the Cobra«. “The usual way.”—Cleveland Plain The keepers of the big cobras in the Central park menagerie nnd the New Dealer. York zoological garden do not And It The Sl«e of Solomon*« Temple. easy to supply their venomous charges Solomon’s temple, ns described in the with the kind of food that they spe Scriptures, would not be regarded as a cially prefer. In their native land co very Imposing structure In this day bras live chiefly on smaller and less and age of the world. Its length was dangerous and objectionable snakes, 107 feet, breadth 3G feet, and it was but although every effort Is made to 54 feet in height, with a portico or collect harmless snakes to satisfy tlie veranda 3G t'.-et long nnd 18 feet wide. appetite of the imprisoned cobras at We h.ive i ■ ,i:e houses that overshad soim* seasons they have to be content ow such ;.'i unpretending structure. with rats and mice, which they do not particularly like. Other varieties of Tlielr Limited Circle, captive snakes are fed mainly on toads, Crawfoid Have they enlarged their mice nnd rabbits. English sparrows Circle of acquaintances since they mov are also purchased for them. ed Into their big house? Crabsliaw—Ob, no! Since they be Xnl «atlafled With Her. came rich they don’t know half ns Mrs. Benham You used to say that I many people as they used to.—Judge. was your wife. Benham Well. I'm not the only man To Beautify the City. who has wished that life bad been dif "Mrs. Dash, what is your club doing ferent.— Brooklyn Life. to help beautify the city?” "Oh, we are working hard to get the Micro spectroscope analysis of chlm clothing bouses to use the word 'trou ne.v soot hns shown that It contain* sers' instead of 'pants’ In their adver Iron, calcium, nickel, manganese, cop tisement*!”—Detroit Free Press. per and silver. Like milk, eggs are a perfect food, Kentucky negroes consider that the containing all tlie constituents of nour caterpillar brings fever. ishment Browning*« Family Devotion. People who praised or loved or no ticed Browning's ouly child found the direct road to his heart Even tboa* who only spoke with him of "Pen" were at once his friends and worthy of attention and Interest. He said to me many years ago while awaiting anxiously the result of bis sou’s ear nest art studies: •Do you know, dear friend. If the thing were possible, I would renounce *11 personal ambition and would de- »troy every line 1 ever wrote if by so doing 1 could see fame aud honor heaped on ui.v Robert’s head.” What a proof are these words of an Intense nature devoid of all egotism! In bls bov lie saw the image of tlie wife whom lie adored, literally adored, for. as 1 felt, the thought of her as an ungel in heaven was never out of Ids mind. He wore a small gold ring on bis watch chain. "This was hers,” be said. "Can you fancy that tiny tin ger? Can you believe that a woman could wear such a circlet as this? It is a child’s.” Tlie only other souvenir on bls chain was a coin placed there years ago. the date 1848. a piece of the first money struck by Mauin iu Venice to record the freedom from Austrian dominion. "1 love this coin,” he said, “as site would have loved It. You know what she felt nnd wrote about united Italy.” —The Late Mrs. Arthur Bronson In Century Magazine. A Story of Gladstone. Once In Gladstone’s later life when a question of great delicacy aud difficulty was coming on In the house of com mons and everybody expected to see him watchful and alert and perhaps fidgety over it be deliberately coin- [Mixed himself to sleep on the treasury bench and enjoyed a refreshing nap till the time came for him to speak, when, with no apparent effort, he awoke, delivered a speech in which he said exactly what was needed and not a word more and sat down, leaving his opponents so puzzled by the safe and guarded generalities in which he had half expressed and half reserved bls views that the subject dropped In a short time because no one could find in his words anything to lay hold of. It was often remarked that the greater the emergency the more composed and the more completely equal to it did he seetu. The Chaperon la Samoa. The chaperon is an important person in Samoa. She is the constant com panion of the taupou. or village guide, who is appointed to entertain strati gers and show them the various sights. Each village in Samoa elects a girl for this office, and It Is necessary that she should be the daughter of a chief. Iler house Is provided for her by the village, and site is surrounded by a court of native girls. No man who Ilves in the village is allowed to enter tlie sacred precinct*, and the taupou goes nowhere without an elderly wom an. if the taupou resigns her office, tlie chief can appoint another damsel of high degree. Living One Day at a Time, A certain lady met with a serious ac cident, which necessitated a very pain ful operation and many months' con finement to her lied, says one of our exchanges. When the physician had finished ills work and was about tak ing his leave, the patient asked, "Doc tor. bow long shall I have to lie here helpless?” “Ob, only n day at n time,” was the cheery answer. And the poor sufferer was not only comforted for the mo ment. but many times through the suc ceeding weary weeks did the thought, "Only a day at a time.” come back with Its quieting Influence. Early Printing nnd Illustrating, Tlie first printing press in the United States began Its civilizing work at Cambridge, Mass., in Harvard univer sity in 1639. The first American made illustration. It is still believed, is In Tully's Almanac, of Boston in 1G98. The flrst American copperplate portrait published Jn this country was iu In crease Mather’s “Iehabod." published in 1703. The first three engravers were l’aul llevere. Benjamin Franklin and Isaiah Thomas, who distinguished him self at the battle of Lexington. Japanese Festival«. Tlie Japanese festivals are easily re membered: First of first month, the new year; third of third month, feast of dolls, for girls; fifth of fifth month, feast of tings, for boys: seventh of sev enth month, tlie day for tlie god and goddess of love, Tonabota; ninth of ninth montli, the “escape to the momi- ‘aln.” the feast of chrysanthemums. Tlie latter Is not now generally ob served. Anniversary Thought«. "Hubby, dear, do you know that we will have been married ten years uext Tuesday?” “Yes; 1 realize that we are getting «long and should begin to economize for the needs of the future.” “It is not the future that 1 am think ing about, but the present."—New York Herald. How Aboil Those I “If you want to improve your mind," said the sage, "associate only with persons wlio know more than you do.” "But if they follow the same rule," said one of those who were leariiing wisdom at his feet, “what are we to do?”—Chicago Tribune. I’rtnlant Teanyaoa. Tennyson was one of tlie most for innate of poets, in that he was rarely criticised adversely, yet Mr. Brain Stu ker, who saw him often while bis plays were in course of production at the Lyceum, said that he used constantly to complain of "the attacks made oil him.’’ He actually wound up one d i.v by declaring that he often wished lie bad never written a line After the Conaaltatlon. In describing his early struggles to establish a practice the doctor hud Jus! said: “I used to sit in my office day after day waiting for patients. In fact, 1 used to sit like ‘Patience on n Monu ment* ” “And now." remarked his associate, “I suppose you are accustomed to I mv * monuments sit ou your patieuts." -New York Times. I