BANDON RECORDER.
'I’urnlnK « Sharp Corner.
On one occasion n great public din
ner was given to Isaac Hull by the
town of Boston, and he was asked to
sit for his picture to Gilbert Stuart, the
celebrated artist, who was a great
braggart. When Hull visited his studio,
Stuart took great delight in entertain
ing him with anecdotes of bls English
success, stories of the Marquis of This
ami the Baroness of That which show
ed how elegant was the society to
which he had been accustomed.
Unfortunately In the midst of this
grandeur Mrs. Stuart, who did not
know that there was a sitter, came in
with lier apron on and her head tied
up with handkerchief • om the kitch
en and cried out, "Did you mean to
have that leg of mutton lioiled or roast
ed ?”
To which Stuurt replied, with great
presence of mind, "Ask your mistress."
The Pearl Hunters’ Superstition.
The pearl hunters of Borneo and tla
adjacent islands have a peculiar super
stitlon. When they open shells In
search of pearls, they take every ninth
And, whether It be large or small, and
put It into a bottle which is kept cork
ed with a dead man's Unger. The
pearls in the vial are known as "seed
pearls” or “breeding pearls,” and the
native Borneóse firmly believes that
they will reproduce their kind. For ev
ery pearl put Into the vial two grains
of rice are thrown In for the pearls to
“feed upon.”
Some whites in Borneo believe ns
firmly in the superstition ns the na
tives do, mid almost every hut along
the coast has its "dead finger" bottle,
with from nine to fifty seed pearls and
twice Hint number of rice grains care
fully and evenly stowed away among
them.
A Good Gneamer.
An elderly woman with an impedi
ment in lier speech had troubles of
her own nt the corner of Twelfth and
Walnut streels the other day. As each
ear came out Walnut street she would
stop it and say to the conductor. “Dud-
dud dud-does th tliis kuk-kuk-car gug-
gug go"
At this Juncture, and some
times before, the conductor would im
patiently exclaim, "No; take the next
car." Then he would pull the strap,
und the car would go ahead, lenvlnj
the womnn nt the crossing.
There are live different lines passing
out Walnut street tit this point, and if
the woman could read the signs she
dlsregariled them. Finally n conductot
more considerate than the others help
ed her aboard and allowed her to ex
plain afterward. After three blocks
hail been traversed he found Hint she
wanted to go to Darby, and his was a
Darby cur. When she learned this, she
beamed her Joy. "Yuh-yuh young man,"
she said, "yuh-yuh you’re n gug gug-
good gug-gug gug-guesser.” — Philadel
phia Record.
j I to cover a young girl’s coffin. The pall
'<; was ordered by her schoolmates. It
| must have been beautiful. I said thou-
5 ! sands of violets were used. I made a
mistake. It must have been nearer a
i ' million we sent, for they were used in
numerous other designs for that same
funeral. It seems it was her favorite
When Polly was a little girl the ques flower. We send countless violets to
tion, the United States “is” or “are?” the confectioners as well, to be con
used to Isitiier me more than any other verted into candied violets. It seems
query in grammar. The United States queer taste to me and about as unpar
is, tiie United States are. The plural donable as dining off' humming birds’
was there all right, so “are” must be tongues, i 1 never believed that tale,
correct. Then I would bear some however. This fl rm raises violets for
learned person say, who ought to know the manufacturers of perfumery as well.
what he was talking about, "the Unit We never have a day off" during the
ed States ‘is,’ ” and again I was at sea. violet season, not even on Bundays or
As I grew older I found that there were legal holidays, for those are the very
others equally as dense as Polly when it days when blossoms are in demand.
came to that subject. Now tiie House You might call Saturdays ami Sundays
('ommitteeon the Revision of the Laws the best all-round days for the sale of
has finally settled the question, and violets, for Saturday is pay day aud
from now on the United States “is” men, women aud even children feel
will be considered the proper thing. that they can afford a dime for a bunch
The committee was aided io arriving at of violets. 1 like to see men buying a
its decision by a pamphlet written by bunch of violets, or any other flowers,
John NV. Foster, formerly Secretary of for that mattar; it shows a certain re
Slate, and entitled “Are” or "is?” in finement and also that that they are
which he quotes from such able au thinking of somebody else beside them
thorities as Hamilton, Webster, Ben selves. If they didn’t spend it in that
ton, Motley, Charles Francis Adams, way it would go for a nickel in the
Jefferson, Seward, Fish, Evarts, Fre- slot, maybe shaking dice for the cigars,
linghuysen, Bayard, Blaine, Gresham or else for a package of cigarettes. You
and Onley, who used it in the singular, are taking items, are you,” she said.
in the early messages of tiie Presidents "Well, you can say I would rather
Jackson only used the singular form, pick violets for a living than stand be
followed by Lincoln and Grant, Cleve hind a counter all day, or cooking iu
land, Harrison, and McKinley used it sonielxxly’s smoky kitchen, or sewing
exclusively. in all of the treaties since for a living.” You have the violet
1890, the plural has given place to the picker’s story of her every-day work,
singular, The question is once and for Now, would you like to be a violet
all time settled, and now we know picker?
««««
whereon we stand, although I beard
someone say the other day that the
Speaking of flowers reminds me of
United States “is” doesn’t sound half the buds and blossoms in the new
so formidable as tiie United States spring millinery. They are going to
“are.”
wear tiie loveliest flowers this season
POLLY LARKIN
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THE JAPAN CURRENT.
IloUKckcepern Muj Do It as Well u« a
I’rofpuhloiiB 1 Butcher.
Karo llwo Pile« Great Load« of
Driftwood ou Alaska's >h«r««.
Little though one may think, the
process oi uiuklng a boneless bam Is
quite h fine art and oue that requires
no small degree of skill In the under
taking. In fact, it Is not every one
who can "bone” a ham successfully.
In the event a housekeeper unfamiliar
with the art of removing the bone
from hams were to undertake the job
the would be almost certain to begin
operations by first of all splitting the
ham open and endeavoring to carve out
the bone by cutting around It. The re
sult would be failure and vexation of
the worst sort, to say nothing of a ruin
ed ham. The proper way to remove
the hone would never suggest Itself to
the average housekeeper.
The operator stands the ham on end
against a supporting block and pro
ceeds to carve around the bone from
one end as deep as It is possible for
him to run his hand and knife down
Into the flesh and around the bone.
Having reached the extreme limit (us
far. in fact, as It Is possible to extend
the knife), he reverses the ham and
begins cutting around the bone from
the other end, cutting downward until
he reaches the point that he attained
In cutting from the end on which he
began, the entire operation being sci
entifically correct and on the principle
of skinning an animal. The bone then
slips out clear and smooth, free from
any adhering flesh.
As soon as this is done stout twine is
wrapped around the ham and drawn
taut, completely closing the aperture
left' by the removal of the bone. The
twine Is thus made fast and the bam
laid away for a day or two, at the end
of which time the hole has closed so
neatly that. In slicing the ham, it Is
difficult to determine the exact spot
from which the bone was removed.
This Is the proper mode of making
boneless ham, and with a little prac
tice any housekeeper can learn to do
the work as well as a professional
butcher. They will observe that first
of all the bone is surrounded by a tis
sue, ami by starting the operation from
the ends they will be surprised with
what facility this tissue, dividing the
bone from the flesh, peels loose from
the former.
In one sense the Karo Siwu, or Japan
current, is the most lnte*sting In the
world because many oceanographers
believe It was the direct means of peo
pling America. This much at least is
certain; If a boat were to be set adrift
ou parts of the Asiatic coast and sur
vived all storms, the Japan current
could be depended upon to carry it
across the Pacific and deposit it on the
American shore. Buch a thing has
happened, lu 1832 nine Japanese fish
eruien were left derelict and unable to
find their way back to shore. They
went with the current, and after a
drift lasting during several months
they were carried to Hawaii.
Trees torn by storms from the banks
of Asiatic rivers frequently float across
the l’uciflc to the American coast. Be
tween Kukatag and Kyak islands,
about 1,200 miles northwest of Seattle,
enormous piles of this driftwood cover
the beaches. There can be no question
of the Asiatic origin of the timber.
They are the trunks of the camphor
tree, the mango and the mahogany.
Logs 150 feet long and eight feet in di
ameter are frequently found. Many of
them are seen floating shoreward, with
fantastic roots standing high above the
waves. In places the logs are piled
twenty feet high. They are generally
without bark, which has been peeled
off by the waves, and most of them
have become white and heavy from
impregnation with salt water. As they
pile up the sands drift over them, and
gradually they sink out of sight, and
new beaches are formed. Tbis’proces.i
has been going on for ages, aud the
sh ire line Is being steadily extended.
Excavations along the beach show that
texture of the burled timber gets hard
er and harder the farther In you go.
until in some instances petrifaction has
taken place. Other excavations show
logs that have turned to coal.
The presence of Siberian driftwood
on 'lie shores of Greenland convinced
Nansen that Ills idea of drifting across
I he Polar sea in til«’ Fra in was logical.
Great quantities of Hie wood are an
nually cast on the coasts of Spitz
bergen and Nova Zambia. and there
are tribes of Greenland Eskimos who
depend for sledge runners and other
woollen Implements on the drift from
Siberian forests. For years they de
pended for iron implements ou the
hoops of casks which came to them
over seas.—Theodore Waters in Alns
lee's.
Some of the India 1 tribes ver which
we rule give us a great deal of trouble,
notably the Mahsuds. The Mahsuds,
however, are not by any means the
worst of the Indian robber tribes, the
unenviable distinction probably falling
to the Bhlls, who are the cleverest
scoundrels in the world, both in their
methods of acquiring other people’s
property anil In evading pursuit.
They are very proud of their skill in
pilfering and openly boast of it. One
of them once told a British officer that
he could steal the blanket from under
him and was promptly challenged to
show his ability. That night when the
officer was fast asleep the Bhil robber
cut a hole in his tent, crept noiselessly
in and gently tickled the hands and
feet of the sleeping man. The officer
stirred uneasily and turned over. In
this way the Bhil was able to pull the
blanket out a little way. By repeating
bls performance he finally succeeded
In "coaxing” the blanket completely
from under the sleeper.
When engaged in his nefarious little
games, the Bhil wears hardly any
clothing, and his lithe body Is rubbed
with oil to facilitate escape from any
would be captors. When hotly pursued
by the British troops, the robbers make
use of a very clever device. They con
ceal their scant clothing under their
small round shields and scatter them
about to resemble stones or bowlders;
then, picking up a few twigs—if there
nre any to be had—they assume all
sorts of grotesque attitudes, their al
most fleslilcsH limbs silhouetted against
the dark night sky closely resembling
the charred limbs of a tree. Absolute
ly motionless, they hold their positions
till the enemy has passed them.
In this way a British subaltern in
charge of a party sent to capture some
Bhlls was considerably startled one
evening. Tiie pursuit had completely
lost sight of the robbers, and finally
the party drew rein by a clump of
gnarled and bent tree trunks, tired and
hot from their hard exertions. The of
ficer in charge took off bis hat and
placed It on the end of a broken limb,
when instantly there was a wild scream
of laughter, and the tree trunks sud
denly came to life and vanished in the
darkness.—London Express.
The Wllllna Worker.
There is a feeling of timidity tiiat
oftentimes overcomes a writer when
beginning an article. As in writing a
letter, it is getting started that puzzles.
It is the custom to begin with slow
moving piston and work gradually into
full speed until the flow of words is
free, and then tiie difficulty with some
of us is to find the brake valve. Again,
a writer sometimes discovers that bis
beginning is a more fitting ending, and
vice versa. The newspaper style is to
throw general conclusions up strong
under the headlines, while the sermon-
izer reserves them until Ills tinnl cli
max.
Thackeray remarked once that he
could never tell exactly what he was
going to say until bis pen was In hand
and under motion and then did not fully
realize Just what he was saying until it
was written. There is a subconscious
ness that shapes writing as It docs
speaking. This. I know, distuibs some
well known theories of speaking and
writing—as to weighing everything and
then measuring it out as a druggist
compounds a prescription—but my ob
servations are that the preparation is
more in getting full of a subject and
then letting the mind work free under
the impulse of the dominating idea.
There are as many ways and meth
ods in writing and speaking as there
are individuals, and yet the fundamen
tal law in the transmission of thought
and speech runs largely In the same
groove, whether It be the Jargon of lhe
Hottentot or the polished periods of
tiie scholar. Human nature has its
own primitive impulses that defy «11
rules of rhetoric and the power of ex
pression—that Is, the power, mind yon
—4s deeper seated than any artificial
formula of stylists. — National Maga
zine.
that have ever decked a milliner’s win
dow. 1 saw a hat, one of the newest
styles, for a sweet sixteen miss the
other day, and it was one of the daint
iest and most summery bits of millinery
you could imagine. It was of the finest
and laciest yellow straw, almost as fine
as a cobweb, long and oval, the weight
A CURE AND A FEE.
of its wealth of pale pink baby-roses
drooping it over the face and over the Peculiar Experience of a Doctor
With a Business Man.
back of tiie head, a bow of black vel
In conversation one day about the
vet ribbon and streamers completed it. peculiar views that commercial men
sometimes entertain about professional
services Dr. S. Weir Mitchell told tue
BRIEF REVIEW.
following story:
"A very wealthy man from the west
Balzac and Coffee.
came to consult me about an attack of
When not working Balzac was ex vertigo. He said that he had just re
ceedingly fond of the pleasure of the ta turned from a trip to Isiirope. where
ble. His capacity was Gargantuan, as he had consulted eminent specialists,
may be judged by this menu of a dinner but that they had failed to afford him
any permanent relief. ‘A physician In
he once ordered at Very’s for himself
London,’ he said, ‘asked me why I did
alone. One hundred Ostend oysters, not make an attempt to be cured near
twelve mutton cutlets, a duck, a pair of er home. 1 thought on my way out
roast partridges, a sole a la Normandie, west 1 would stop over to see you.’
Do You Dallrve In GI iom I h I
without counting the hors d’oeuvre,
“ ‘Has any physician you have visit
On the subject of ghosts the village
side dishes and fruits, among which ed looked into your ears?' I asked.
is divided. Some people beg tt •• ques
“ ‘No,’ was his reply.
were some Doyenne jiears, which lie
tion by a bold assertion th t “tiler’
“I made an examination of his ears,
ben’t slch things, an' them ns sez they
swallowed by the dozen, and line wines,
sees 'urn on'y thinks ’uni does.” oth
coffee and liquors. Balzac himself at removed some wax and a substance
ers, more cautious, are of opinion that
tributes his ability to accomplish his that appeared to be hardened remnants
of cotton wool. I sent him away then
“ther' med be gliosles or ther' niedn’t;”
herculian labors with so much loss of and told him to come again in a day
they had never beheld any themselves,
sleep by the immoderate use of coffee. or two. He did so.
but they knew folks who had.
The author of “ The Human Comedy”
“'Well,' he exclaimed, ‘I am cured.
The dictum of one hardy skeptic 1«
was, in fact, a victim to strong cof How much do I owe you?’
of
worth quoting as an example
fee and wrote his liest when under its
“ ‘About $50,’ I replied.
shrewd reasoning: “I dwuu’t believe In
“As he drew a check be asked, ‘Did
influence. In one of his books Balzac
ghostes an' slch,” said he "Why should
I, seeln’ I’ve niver sin nothink wusser
thus describes the effect of coffee: “The you know when you first examined my
nor meself all me life long? I looks at
coffee,” he writes, “falls into your ears that you could cure me?'
“When I told him that I had a very
it this way, ltik'ee, ’If sa be as they be
stomach.
Immediately everything
fair conviction that I could, he said:
gone to the right place 'tls snrtln sure
starts into action; your ideas begin to
‘Well, you are a blanked fool. You
as they wun’t keer to come back year
move like Grand Army battalions on should have said to me: "I think 1 can
agen. If sa be as they be gone to t'oth
the battlefield, and the battle o|>ens. cure you, and I will do so for $10,000
er, they wun't let ’uni come, lll«‘HS
Memories arrive at a run, standards fly No cure, no pay.” You would bar
‘ee.’ "—London Spectator.
ing; the light cavalry of comparison got your nsiney without a murmur.*
“ 'Oh,' I said, ‘if you feel that v
breaks into a magnificent gallop; the
Moshroomi Are Filling.
artillery of logic dashes up and utilim- about it there are several little cli.
One virtue of the mushroom that of
tentimes is not realized by its cham
bers; thoughts come running up as ties in which 1 am Interested, and’-
“ ‘No, no,’ he interrupted, 'that is i
pions even is its nutritive qualities, for
sharpshooters; characters spring up on
It is often considered tit only for a
• »»»
all sides; the pajier becomes covered business. I have my cure, and y<
have the price you asked. The fraiin
sauce or a side dish. Recently I ate
"It sounds lovely to say, ‘I’m pick witli ink, for the struggle has begun action is closed.’ ”
dinner with n friend who is a bon vl
vant and gifted with an abnormally ing violets for a living,’ ” said one of and ends in torrents of black water like
Urge appetite. To my surprise, he or the pickers, “but it is a very long way the battle in black powder.”
lira» In F.n«l«nd In Chaucer’« Time.
dered nothing but mushrooms, bread from being as nice as it sounds. No
A metal resembling brass, but said
London’s Undermined Houses.
and butter and. of c urse, drinkables. matter how foggy and how windy’ and
to have been superior in quality, was
We had mushroom« raw stewed, fried
Underground London is, no doubt, a known in England as “maslin” as early
disagreeable it is, the violets must
and broiled on toast It was my first
very convenient, picturesque, and, as the time of Chaucer, and in the
lie
picked.
I
wear
rubber
toots
and
experience, but I found them excel
when properly confined in tulies, safe reign of Henry VIII. an act of parlia
lent. I certainly thought they would dress as warmly as I can, but I’m
enough
place, but too much of it be ment was passed prohibiting the ex
not "stay by me;” but. to my surprise, nearly frozen half the time. Theground
port of brass out of England. Whether
comes
awkward.
An underground city
for many hours afterward I had as is damp all the time, and you must
the earlier monumental brasses still to
might
prove
too
much
even
for
the
complete a sense of fullness as rare bend over these beds the whole day
be found In our churches were made
roast beef . r Juicy steak ever Impart long. It is pick, pick, pick, and it al Lord Mayor and tiie Court of Alder originally in England is not absolutely
ed.—New V« rk Telegram
ways reminds me of Hood’s ‘Hong of men. And yet a strong disposition ap certain, the probability, according to
pears to have seized certain parts of the some antiquaries, being that they were
the Shirt:’
“square mile” to get down below, pro of French or Belgian workmanship.—
Stitch, stitch, stitch,
bably to escape the cold, and they are Chambers’ JournaL
Seam and gusset and band,
Band and gusset and seam.
consequently cracking in an ominous
Catarrh.
In fact, It is worse, for this everlasting way. Uneasiness prevails among prop
People who are subject to catarrhal
picking frequently leaves you with a erty owners on both sides of Finsbury ailments have special need to be partic
stitch in your side that is a near rela pavement, owing to gaping Assures ular in regard to their feet covering.
tive to pleurisy. To be sure, we are not which have appeared in many large They should see to it that their feet
cooped up in some small cheerless room, business premises. Ground floors, up are comfortably clad, their shoes
but we have the pure, fresh air. In per floors ami basements have alike should have substantial soles and
should come well up the ankles and
that we may lie better off; but still, suffered, and in several instances the
qot be laced or buttoned tight. Light
picking violets is a hard task. We cracks are said to tie most serious. Many merino stockings or half hose may be
come in with aching backs and feet. of the properties have lieen recently sufficient for warmth, but whenever by
Some of us sutler terribly with chil surveyed, and reports are being drawn reason of much exercise the feet have
A rgo blains as well, and what a torture it is up in regard thereto. It is supjiosed become damp, and especially If the
to keep going when there is never a tiiat new excavations are responsible leather has absorbed wet, it 1» wise for
a change to be made in both stockings
minute of rest from the agony. If you for this disquieting instability.
and shoes.
ever had chilblains you know there is
There me between 1,500.000 mid no fun in it. Our hands have to suffer
After Pickett’s charge had failed at
It All Depend«.
2,000.000 brand.i of cigars sold in this
A student long ago asked the presi
from chilblains, too, and much of the Gettysburg General Lee used these
country, and your average smoker
words which showed tiie nobility of his dent of Oberlin college if he could not
thinks that every brand means a differ time they are cracked and bleeding and
nature: "It was all my fault; get to be permitted to take a shorter course
are
always
rough
and
chapped.
We
ent kind of tobacco As a matter of
gether
and let us do the best we can to of study.
fact 150 Is an outside estimate of the are not lieauties when we come in from
“Oh, yes.” replied the president, “but
different kinds of tobacco that can be the violet field on these raw, foggy ward saving what is left of us.” There that depends upon what you want to
was
no
putting
the
blame
on
someone
procured from all sources, mid even ex days, with red noses, fairly shivering
make of yourself. When God wants to
perts can't tell some of these apart.
with the cold and all your joints stiff' else in these now historic words.
make an oak, he takes a hundred
years, but when he wants to make a
and aching. Of course, we have our
All Over Attain.
Help a struggling loy when you can, squash he takes six month«.” —In
"Here nre half n dozer, prescriptions good days, too. These are the warm,
and
moreso aid a girl who is trying to structor.
I would like to have you till ns soon ns balmy spring days, when all nature is
crying for you to get out and enjoy the make her way in life. This is practical
you can." wheezed Rivers.
Luft the House.
“I can see they nre all for the cure pure air. Then it is really pleasant religion of the Godliest kind.
“Leave the house,” cried little Binks.
of n cold." remarked the druggist, look picking violets if it wasn't for the tire-
making n brave bluff of strength to the
Hcheming mother« often regret the
Ing them over
some and lowly position you must au «ale they made of their daughter«, for burglar.
“It’s this way." explained Rivers sunie and keep if you propose to make
"I intend to. my small friend," re
wealth is a fleeting relative.
“When I had the other cold. I tried all
plied the burglar courteously. "I am
anything
picking
violets,
You
don
’t
these. One of ’em cured me. but I
merely after the contents. When I
Home men growl ho much that their take houses. I do It through the regu
can't remember now, confound it. have to hunt for the blossoms, either,
for on these warm, balmy days they mouthHgrow into a growly shape. Hee lar real estate channels.”
which one it was!”—Chicago Tribune.
are peeping at you from all sides and on if you don’t know one or two.
Iler Bpchlon.
long stems as if inviting you to pick
Hooked.
“Whatever my «laughter decides them. Where do they all go to? you
Editor» are men, not machine«. They
Mrs. Newly wed—The night you pro
upon, sir. I will abide by.”
ask. Why, most of them to the florists, need bread and raiment and some rent. posed yon acted like a fish out of wa
“Good! She has decided that »he for weddings, funerals and parties. We
ter.
will marry me If you will supply the
Success often bring« un enemies as
sent thousands the other day to a florist
Mr. Newlywed—I was and very
means.”-Detroit Free Press.
cleverly landeil too!—Puck.
to lie use<l in a pall which was intended well as dollar« and fame.
How would you like to pick violets
for a living? It sounds like it would be
the most congenial way of earning a
livelihood that a lover of the fragrant
modest little flower could wish. The
violets that are grown for the floral
trade are not in keeping with that old
and popular poem that nearly every
little girl has some time in her life com
mitted to memory, "Down in a green
and shady dell a 'modest violet grew,”
etc. Far from it. The dell doesn’t fig
ure at all, but whole fields are devoted
to the culture of these popular little
floral treasures. They are not growu in
the shade either, but in rows, right out
in the sun, just like a strawberry patch
It is a perfect delight to pass these vio
let fields, for they are one mass of royal
purple and green and blue and green
or white and green, as the case may be.
They are never planted together, for
the competent florist knows how quick
ly one variety can run another out. If
they do not know it does not take them
long to learn from experience, and often
to their sorrow. As the cars whirl you
by these violet fields you catch the de
licious fragrance of the countless blos
soms and you watch the dozen« of
pickers with a great deal of interest
possibly mingled with a degree of envy
as they cull the long-stemmed violets
that you crave right from the garden,
and you long to pick them yourself.
They are so plentiful that it carries
you back to the days when you roamed
over the hillside picking their first
cousins, the little wild johnny-jump-
ups, golden as the sun, with their black
or seal-brown hearts. The pickers
never glance in your direction. They
are picking for the money and not for
the glory or pleasure of gathering the
violets, and every minute count. If
they would earn their dollar or dollar
and a half a day, as the case may be,
they must make their fingers fly.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
MAKING BONELESS HAMS.
"Why Is It.” asked a modest young
breadwinner, "that when I stay at the
office after hours to voluntarily do an
extra amount of work somebody who
1« in charge pounces upon me as his
Justifiable victim and gives me still
more to do?
"That has happened to me time after
time in my business, und at each repe
tition I have taken a vow that If I am
ever in charge of an office I shall give
any one of uiy subordinate who sits
down and does work which isn’t specif
ically required of him credit for what
he does do and let It go at that, with
out adding insult to injury, as it were,
by giving him something further to do.
"Of course it's an old saying that the
man who docs the inoat work is the
man usually worked;’ but It's discour
aging. don't you think? Strangely
enough, though, lie goes ahead and lets
himself lie ’worked.' with only a weak
objection to case Ills feelings.”—New
York Mail mid Express.
Fly Flshlnir.
There is no doubt that certain flies
nre liest adapted to different seasons,
times of day and conditions of weath
er. but a dozen flies of different names
will fully answer ull of these require
ments. An angler's flies resemble noth
ing when «-list upon the water. They
are simply a something which attracts
the trout, Chlor has more allurement
than form, and as there 41 re not so
many color- there is no use for many
flies. The general rule Is for light flies
on dark «lays and dark or darkish flies
on ligiit days. Sizes are more to be
eonsldired Hinn form and mixture In
makeup A large trout wants some
thing wortl. his making an effort to se
em e. It is doubtless true that an ar
bitrary cm: of Illes cannot be made
up which will la- adapted to all waters.
A Common Dilemma.
“How do yoil like y nr i:ew cook?"
“Exer so much, but I'm afraid to let
her 1.1»,. w it.”
"Why?”
"She'd want more wages."
"Then why don't you appear dissatis
fied?”
“Because then she'd leave."—Cleve
land Plain Denier.
v nnwerea,
"If a ship." bi gmi Hie comedian with
the rose timed heal'd, "is IUO feel long
and -lu feel wide aud its It
« are 100
feet high and Hie I o'suil is owlegged,
what does the csipsimi weigh?"
"It weighs lhe anchor!" hoarsely
shouted lhe audience ns it grubbed the
benches I k prevent itself rising en
masse and doing violence to the thes
pians.-r Baltimore American.
Oriental H«»r»enhoe«.
The iy|«’ of horsesl-oe eomtnon lit the
orient is .a plate fitted so as to cover
the entire bottom of the hoof, with a
perforation in the center. The weight
of the average horseshoe Is three-
fourths of a pound. Th«’ native smiths
usually cut these plates from sheets of
wrought Iron and rudely shape them
for the purpose in view.
Tai Tai.
"The word ’reviver' spells the same
backward or forward."
It was the frivolous man who spoke.
“Can you think of a not her?"
The serious man scowled up from
his newspaper.
"Tut tut!" he cried contemptuously.
And they rode on in silence.
Auallril.
A HUMAN FOREST.
Hon
Indian Trltiomrn Sncceed
Escaping lhe Police.
la
HARD TO GET STARTED.
Thing* Which Overcome a Writer
Wh en Ueglimlng an .Article.
Wasps In War.
Richard Harding Davis relates this
Incident, which happened while he was
acting as correspondent during the
English-Boer war:
A regiment of Scottish highlanders
noted for their bravery in action dur
ing tiie heat of one battle were sudden
ly seen to break ranks aud run in all
directions. The officers as well shared
in the Btampede and apparently made
<10 attempts to urge the men under
them Into line. Their behavior was a
surprise to everybody on the field, and
after the battle was over the colonel
of the regiment was summoned before
General Roberts.
"What tiie devil was the matter with
your regiment?" asked “Bobs.”
“Well,” replied the colonel, "there is
not a man in the regiment afraid of a
Dutchman's bullet, but we were steer
ed Into a field literally infested with
wasps’ nests, und. you know, general,
we were all in kilts and with bare
legs.”—New York Times.
An Iced Klver In May.
It was the Sth of May last year be
fore the ice Jam In the great lakes was
broken and marine traffic was resumed.
At the lower end of Lake Huron it Is
estimated that the Ice was fifteen
tulles across and extended uubrokett
to the foot of the lake.
It was a strange scene tbut greeted
the dwellers along tiie St. Clair rivet
during thia Ice Jam, and every day
the electric line of cars running be
tween Detroit and Port Huron took
out loads of excursionists to see the
sight. The banks of the river were
green with grass, and tiie foliage made
the landscape charming. Yet the rivet
itself was one great mass of crystal
hummocks and resembled a glucicr.
Meanwhile the women, In summei
dresses and with sunshades, gazed anil
gossiped on the silent crafts In mid
stream that were held by the ice. Al
night when the boats were Illuminated
it was a fairy scene on the ice.—
World's Work.
Attained Their Object.
An English literary man who bud
taken a run through our western cities
told an American friend after coming
back to Cambridge that a social expe
rience he had in Chicago staggered him
a bit. He was invited to make one of a
large party at an evening function.
Not exactly understanding the peculiar
nature of the occasion, he made bold to
ask a gentleman of his acquaintance
whom he met In the dressing room the
object of the dinner. "The object of
the dinner.” return««! the gentleman
addressed, "is to get drunk and to get
drunk quick.” “And I think It is only
fair and proper.” explained the Eng
lishman In telling the story, “to say
Hint this specific object was must sat
isfactory and expeditiously attained."
What He Failed to Make.
The original John Jacob Astor was
asked one day what was the largest
amount of money be bail ever made la
one transaction. This he declined to
Cheap at the Price.
answer, but said he would tell the lar
A certain pompous and officious Judge gest sum that he failed to make. Then
in a western town had Just fined a lie went on to relate bow he. De Witt
young lawyer $10 for contempt of Clinton and Gouverneur Morris had
court. After it had been paid a grave pin lined to buy Louisiana from France
old attorney walked up to the bench and to soil it to the United States gov
and laid down a ten dollar goldplece.
ernment, retaining the public domain
“What is that for?" asked the Judge. and charging 2H per cent commission.
"For contempt, your honor.” was the They changed their minds, and Mr. As
reply.
tor said that lie lost $30,000,000 by full
"But I didn't fine you for contempt." ing to go Into the ileal.
answered the Judge. "There must be
some mistake.”
Bird« Witboat Brain«.
“Oh, no, there isn’t,” replied the old
It is a very common idea that if the
man. “1 have cherished a secret con brain of an animui is completely de
tempt for this court for a long time, ■troyed it will die or if It lives it re
and I’m willing to pay for it"—Chica mains in a "comatose” condition. An
Ingenious German lias cut out some
go News.
pigeons' brains with care, given tiie
Weepin* Tree«.
wound time to hen I and shown that tiie
The literature of "weeping treys” Is birds can run al’Sut, fly, measure a dis
enormous, much of It being plainly tance. ent, go to sleep in the dark,
mythical, but there is a large basis of wake up with the light and in fine dj
fact upon which most of these mar most of the tilings 11 healthy normal
velous stories rest. Many travelers pigeon can do. Only memory und the
nave described the famous “rain tree” mating Impulses are quite goue.
of Padradoca, Isle of Ferro. John Harper's Weekly.
Cockburn in 1739 described a tree at
Vera Pas, Central America, from
New York Hotel«.
which pure water continually dripped
An idea of the abundance of bo >-l
from every leaf and branch.
accommodations in New York may lie
had front tile statement of the presi
Grief and Thrift.
dent of the New York Hotel Men’s as-
Thomas Bailey Aldrich once received sociatlon thnt New York has become
a pathetic letter in a feminine hand an tiie greatest hotel center In the work!
nouncing the death of a little daughter It has more hotels than London, Paris
and asking if he would not send In his and Berlin combined. There are twice
own handwriting a verse or two from as many hotels in New York today as
"Bable Bell” to assuage the grief of there were a year ago, and they are
the household.
being put up by the dozen, by tiie
Aldrich sent the whole poem and not score, by the hundreds, and they are
long after saw it displayed in the shop reckoned the bent investment there is
of an autograph dealer, with a good, going.
round price attached thereto.
Quite Proper.
“I’m thinking of sending my little
girl to the conservatory,” said the wo
man next door. “All those lunes you
hear her playing she picked up by
ear.”
"Then she ought to be,” replied Mrs.
Kostique.
"Ought to be sent, you mean?”
Rrasawred.
"No; picked up by the ear.”
He—I’ve tried my bost not to make
love lo you.
Isaac 8. Taylor of 8t. Louie proposes
She—Well, you know what Browning to make midair observations In a bal
says- that the only true success Is con loon of the conetruction work on the
stant failure. Lxeliang«.
world’s fair eite in that city.
First Neighbor- I am afraid my chil
dren bother yon.
Second N«iglil>«>r What nonsense!
Why. they are not over to my bouse
more than eighteen hours out of the
twenty-four!
The Extent of Our Rnllronds.
From a little wooden track line along
the Laekawuxen creek, where the first
locomotive in the country had its trial
In 1829. the railroad systems of the
United States have grown in seventy-
three years to a network of rails which,
straightened out. would make a single
track extending eight times around the
world. Visualize this eightfold girdle
Beside it a new track is progressing
twelve miles a day on the ninth circuit.
On every five mile stretch is a locomo
tive with a train of eight cars. There
are live men at work for every mile
and 240 new men coming to work ev
ery day. The road carries more ton
nage than all the ships on all the seas
together with the railroads of the
busiest half of Europe. From the lines
that make up the imaginary manifold
belt one wage earner out of every tif
teen in the country, directly or Indi
rectly, secures a living for himself and
his dependents, if not a« a fireman or a
conductor or a superintendent, then as
a locomotive builder or a steel worker
or even one of the lumbermen engaged
in hewing down the 3,000 square miles
of timber employed every year for ties.
—World's Work.
Considerate.
A tender hearted youth was once
present at an Oxford supper, where
the fathers of those assembled were
being roundly abused for their parsi
mony in supplying the demands of
their sons. At last, after having long
kept offence, he lifted up his voice in
mild protest. "After all, gentlemen.”
he said, "let us remember that they ur«
our fellow creatures.”
Many a man goes around looking for
trouble, and the minute be meets It he
has a burry call in anothor direction.—
Chicago Naw a.
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