BANDON RECORDER.
A
Disappointed
Darkr.
I stood one Saturday afternoon on
the porch of a Luray (Va.) hotel and
saw tile past a hundred or more dark
les returning from work, each and ev
ery one of them carrying a “watermfl-
lion” under his arm. They had been
paid off, and a convenient farm wagon
loaded with melons happened to pass
as they tiled along, and the darkles all
bought.
One young buck, after hugging that
melon for several blocks, “Just couldn't
stand It no longer" and without ado
sat down upon the curb, and In the ab
sence of a Jackknife he deftly tapped
the melon against the edge of the curb
until It broke asunder. Mansfield In
transforming his Jekyll face into that
of Hyde upon the stage never equaled
the lightning change of countenance
exhibited by that darky. One moment
his eyes bulged, bls mouth distorted,
teeth glistened, and his face fairly
cd with pleasurable expectancy,
in the twinkling of an eye when
>arted halves of that unripe and
e sc ded melon fell from his pal-
han<.s his eyes contracted to mere
s shov Ing an angry, snakellke red,
face became of an ashen hue—call
>ale If you will—and through his
itly parted lips he hissed out lm-
.>ca‘ n after imprecation upon the
showing the fact clearly that
the disappointed one was a past grand
master In the art of profanity.—Forest
and Stream.
Where Men Kat to Live.
The Trappist monks consider eat
ing to be a necessary evil and curtail
It to such a degree that one step fur
ther would be suicide. Dinner, to
which scarcely fifteen minutes are de
voted, consists of a mess of vegetables
boiled In water without butter or salt
and served In a crude earthenware
bowl, a slice or two of rye bread with
out butter and a mug of milk or water
as a beverage. Supper is the barest
apology for a meal, being nothing more
than bread and water. The guest
master did not mention breakfast. If
there be such a meal, It probably con
sists merely of a glass of water. A
slight relaxation of this dietary Is al
lowed to Invalids, who may have two
eggs a day, while on extraordinary oc
casions, such as a funeral feast In
honor of a departed friar, the monks
revel In an egg apiece. They are strict
vegetarians, and a Trappist must be
In the very Jaws of death before ho
will consent to ent meat.—Lippincott’s.
Little Mother* lu Jnpnn.
Atbougb the empire of Japan Is said
to be a “paradise of children," where
they are allowed to do very much as
they please and where they seldom If
ever cry, their life is not all play. The
little boys ami girls have their work to
do, but in many skillful ways they turn
work into play. Take, for Instance, the
little girls who have baby sisters or
brothers to care for. They tuck the
youngsters into their queer garments
and go on with their games of ball. If
the baby grows tired and begins to
fret, the "little mother” jounces It up
and down over her shoulder with a pe
culiar humping motion of her back
without stopping the game. All the
time she slugs some pretty song.
Gotham.
Gotham, New York's alias, was orig
inally applied to the Manhattan town
In derision, doubtless because of some
foolishness on the part of Its people.
“The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of
Gotham" was a collection of satirical
tales written in the fifteenth century
by one Andrew Borde, a Carthusian
monk. Gotham was a village near Not
tingham, and the fame of the “Wise
Men of Gotham” soon traveled the
world over. Doubtless Ilenry VIII. im
agined that Borde was taking a sly
fling at him. for he imprisoned the hap
less writer tn the Tower, where only
death released him.
llnrdly an Kncore.
A quartet was giving a concert before
the patients of an Insane hospital and
was singing a number to a rather
mournful cadence nnd a subdued re
frain. The audience, with the best of
good humor, such as Invariably charac
terizes the audiences at this particular
hospital, heard it to the bitter end, and
when Its last note had died away an
old lady with a virtuous nnd dignified
air of reconciliation on her face (topped
suddenly up out of the audience and.
turning toward the stage, said reverent
ly, “O Lord, forgive them, for they
know not what they do!”
Jmt
What
He
[ POLLY LARKIN~^
needed.
A man went with his wife to visit
her physician. The doctor placed x
thermometer in the woman’s mouth
After two or three minutes. Just as
the physician was about to remove the
Instrument, the man, who was not used
to such a prolonged spell of brilliant
silence on the part of bls life's partner,
said:
"Doctor, what will you take for that
thing?”—New York Times.
A Snrr Slgrn.
A physician driving past a place
where stonemasons were nt work on
some monuments called out:
"Hard at work, I see. You finish
your gravestones as far as Tn tnetn
ory' and tbeu you wait. I suppose, to
see who wants a monument next."
“Why, yes,” was the answer, “unless
somebody is ill and you are treating
him, and then I know Just how to go
on.”
The W rong War.
Among all the Easter novelties, and
there are many this year, the daintiest
and most unique were made out of egg
shells. Score another mark for the
old hen, for her product has entered
into the art lieautiful. No matter, it
seemed, how the egg was broken, the
shells were used, beautifully decorated
with the brush in the finest and most
delicate designs and colorings and fin
ished in gold bronze. A composition
or sealing-wax, etc., had been used in
decorating and making up the pretty
Easter offerings. For instance, one of
them, delicately tinted a pale green,
had a bunch of grapes in gold, the tiny
leaves, etc., making a lovely design.
Each was mounted on tiny gold liases.
The fragile, dainty little conceits were
fit offerings for the Easter-tide and
readily sold for twenty-five, thirty-five,
andon up to sixty-five cents. “What
good are they when you get them,"
asked a lady of a friend who was lay
ing in a supply for her Easter gifts to
friends. “Well, in the first place,”
she replied,,“they are beautiful to look
upon and an ornament that any lady
who loves dainty, delicate bne-a-brac
and tlie like would appreciate. In the
second place, these deep ones are good
for toothpick holders, and I am mrking
myself a present of this one,” she said,
as she picked one of the handsomest of
the lot. No two seemed to be alike
and it must have kept the artist busy
making out her designs, let alone the
rest of the work, which required the
greatest skill and attention. A slight
knock or a fall would have crushed the
delicate shell, and it must have re
quired a steady hand to get such quan
tities out without coming to grief. The
party who made the dainty conceits is
a lady, and her brain is teeming with
designs for novelties and the beautiful
in art. That site made a success of them
Polly hasn’t a doubt, and she surely
deserved it.
again, shecheerfully weaves the stitches
and carries her thoughts and great
faith that no matter what comes “it is
well" into the exquisite and intricate
patterns of the handsome curtains she
is makiug for one of the most elegant
homes on “Nob Hill.” When this
member of the “four hundred" wanted
curtains for his house he went to the
leading furnishing houses and priced
the delicate |>oinl lace tiiat hstks as
dainty as a pretty spider-web. Then
he went to the lady, who was really
looking want in the face, and asked her
to make them for him. He selected
his designs, furnished her with the
materials and agreed to pay her sixty-
tlvs dollars a pair for them. Hhe has
been working months on them and
they are tine and handsome enough for
a bridal veil. They will go down as
heirlooms m the family, and they are
well worth the sixty-five dollars. He
could not have touched anything as
beaut iful as these at one hundred dol
lars a pair in the stores; but of course
he furnished the materials, and tiiat
alone is no small item. Others among
the four hundred have seen her exqui
site work, and from now on she will
have all she can do, and she is teaching
the art of lace-making to other mem
bers of tlie family. She says she knew
“the way would open up some time,
for there never was a cloud so black
for her but what she could find the sil
ver lining if she waited patiently long
enough.”
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There is an old saying that history
and fashion repeat themselves, and to
carry out the truth of this often quoted
expression, the wheel of fashion has
taken another whirl and brought out
the jtearl bead craze again. Every
thing in millinery is pearl beads and
pearl-headed hat pins. It is a dainty
and beautiful decoration or trimming.
1 saw a white tule hat the other day
dotted with pearl beads and no other
trimming except a black velvet bow
under the side which was fastened by a
pearl crescent. It reminded a lady of
some similar ornaments she had had
over twenty years ago, so she ransacked
her trunks in the garret until she found
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them. They had not turned yellow, and
Strange to say the above seemed to they were up-to-date in every respect.
be the only local novelties, nearly if not
all the rest which filled the stores and
BRIEF REVIEW.
show-windows to overflowing being
made by foreign or Eastern houses.
Telephone and Travel.
That should not be, for we have enough
It is an odd fact, but true, that some
talent and inventive genius on the Pa
cific slope to furnish our own novelties team railroads have complained of the
and send some across the continent harm done to their best class of passen
and into foreign lands instead of relying ger traillc by the long-distance tele
on other sources for our Easter needs. phone, while hotels in Western cities
People who have talent for such things have attributed a reduction of patron
should bear this in mind and try their age to the same cause. Travel between
hands at designing these novelties. St. Louis and Chicago for instance, is
Some of the quaintest designs this said to have been cut down by the tele
year were made out of cotton-batting, phone. Such a result would seem very
and the pretty little white bunnies with difficult to trace tangibly, although one
pink ears, and the downy chickens meets people daily who, to avoid weary
with black bead eyes would have trips, have governed themselves on the
pleased any child and could easily have injunction, “Don’t travel; telephone.”
been made at home. Some of the pret But the telegraph and mail have also
tiest designs were made in the shape of been deterrents, and if there is any va
an egg and ranged in price from ten lidity to the alleged reason, the high
cents to a dollar and a half. These last speed electric travel of the future may
were lined with dainty colored silk restore the former conditions. It is, in
and satin and would make a lovely deed, hard to conceive that with travel
Jewel case after the confections had methods thus perfected the roads would
disappeared. I saw one of the latter not enjoy to the utmost degree the pat
entirely of silver and lined with pale ronage of a public which, after all, likes
blue silk. A young man purchased it. to be in motion, and loves dearly to
He had one side tilled with the differ taste and see everything, everywhere,
ent flavored cordial drops and in the with its own physical senses.
other he folded an exquisite point lace
handkerchief that didn’t cost a cent
less that ten dollars. Polly wasn’t
eavesdropping, but I was sightseeing
and couldn’t help but note the gift with
a great deal of interest while waiting
for a package. I was weaving a little
romance about this Easter offering.
Was it for his mother? Probably not.
Was it for his sister? Hardly, at least
not for his own sister, possibly some
body elBe’s sister. Silver Easter eggs
one dollar and a half; cordial drops
(expensive confections), about a dollar’s
worth; point lace handkerchief, ten
dollars; bunch of violets and maiden
hair to accompany the gift, twenty-live
cents; messenger boy, twenty-five cents,
and a tlfty-cent fee to surprise the na
tives by hurrying him up. Total, thir
teen dollars and fifty cents. Now 1 am
sure it was not intended for his sister.
Had it l«en the silver egg and the cordial
contents would have been deemed suffi
cient. There would not have been any
delicately woven lace handkerchief fit
to ensnare any one’s heart in its deli
cate meshes.
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1 had answered the question to my
own satisfaction and thought that was
the last of my dreaming, or rather con
jecturing, but it was ordered otherwise.
That was only the beginning. It was
not for his mother, nor for his wife or
sister; not for his sweetheart or dearest
friend, or his cousin or his aunt. Let
me whisper it: It was for his mother-
in-law! What do you think she said
on receiving thia Iteautiful tribute of
“love and affection?" "My goodness,
just look what this extravagant boy
Dick, liasdone. Wonder what he wants
now. In some scrape, I’ll warrant.
He'd better have taken the money this
thing coat and paid some of his honest
debts. Here, Libbie, you take the
handkerchief; it’s too tine for an old
lady like me. Dick isalways doing the
most unheard of things." But the old
lady looked pleased in spite of her
words and thought he wasn’t the very
worst son-in-law in the land.
Fathers and mothers who do not know
bow and where their sons and especial
ly their young daughters spend their
evenings are guilty of a negligence tlia’
Is little short of criminal and that. too.
often leads to sad consequences. The
American habit of letting the young
folks "have their own way” in choos
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Ing their associates and methods of re
Here
is
the
way
a lady who will never
creation Is responsible in every city for
a good deal of evil that might be pre see sixty again and who has not left
vented by parental firmness judiciously her bed for several years, is making her
living and helping to support her wid
exercised.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
owed daughter and grand-children as
rmonal Prejudice.
well. Hhe had always Iteen fond of
“Nature,” said Miss Miami Brown
“doesn’ nebber make nuffin' in vain.” fancy work, and particularly lace-mak
“Well,” answered Mr. Erastus Pink- ing, in her younger days, and she had
ley, “it sometimes seems to me dat dnr leisure hours and means at hand to in
Is a whole lot o’ animals walkin' dulge her tastes. It stands her in good
around dat might Jes' as well uv been need now, for although she is sadly
possums.”—Washington Star.
afflicted and never expects to walk
Drew Money on Laundry Mark.
The initials of his name inscribed on
the inside of his collar served as identi
fication for a traveling man at the Chi
cago poetoffice recently, and enabled
him to secure cash on a $50 money or
der. He had received a letter from his
house directing him to go to Grand
Rapids, Mich., and inclosing the money
order. He packed Ins grip and stopped
at the postoffice an his way to the rail
way station. He hail but a few min
utes, and when the clerk demanded
identification the man was unable to
furnish it, and delay meant missing
his train. After appealing and arguing
with the clerk in vain he was taken be
fore Assistant Post master Hubbard. At
that official’s request the traveling man
removed his collar. There were the
initials corresponding with the name
on the money order advice. It was
considered sufficient identification, and
the cash was turned over.
Value of Birds.
A French naturalist asserts that if
the world should become birdlees man
could not inhabit it after nine years’
time, in spite of all the sprays and poi
sons that could tie manufactured for tlie
destruction of insects. The Insects and
slugs would simply eat all the orchards
and crops in that time.
On a peace footing the military pow
er of Russia consists of 710,000 Infantry,
130,000 cavalry, 153,000 artillery, 42,000
engineers and 39,000 department troops.
The reserves number 2,700,000.
There is a statue in a village in Egypt
which is said to be the oldest in the
world, having Iteen in existence for over
6000 years. It is the representation of
one of the chiefs of the domain wherein
it was erected.
The key to the Bastite is now hanging
on the wall in the iiall of tlie old home
of Washington at Mount Vernon. It
was given to Washington by Lafayette.
HEAT AND DISEASE.
THE SUN’3 RAYS ARE FATAL TO MANY
SPECIES OF GERMS.
A* a Dlalnfectaat Suullahi la tl>.
Grralrat Agent la Natnre—Tem
perature* at Which Disease Germ*
Are Destroyed.
Sunlight is fatal to some of the lower
forms of living things, including cer
tain disease germs which are the cause
of some of the most fatal infectious
diseases that afflict the human race.
In fact, the greatest disinfectant in na
ture is light, or, to be more exact, the
radiations of the sun, including heat
rays, light rays and the Invisible rays
at the violet end of the solar spectrum.
An infectious disease Is one which
may be contracted by the Introduction
Into the living body of living disease
germs, which may be contained in dif
ferent kinds of Infectious material.
Thus the disease germ (bacillus) which
produces diphtheria is contained In the
"exudate” or "false membrane” de
posited in the throat or nasal passages
of those suffering from this disease,
and the material coughed up by a pa
tient with diphtheria Is infectious ma
terial. in cholera and In typhoid fever
the discharges from the bowels con
tain the germ and are consequently in
fectious material.
Now, the object of disinfection Is to
prevent the extension of infectious dis
eases by destroying the specific Infec
tious agents—germs—which give rise to
them; and this Is accomplished by the
use of disinfectants. Having, as I hope,
made this clear.
Any chemical agent which destroys or
masks bad odors is commonly spoken of
as a disinfectant, and there are a large
number of so called "disinfectants” In
the market which are simply deodor-
unts and which are entirely untrust
worthy for the destruction of Infectious
material—that Is, material containing
living disease germs.
These disease germs belong to the
class of low vegetable organisms-mi
croscopic plants—known as bacteria,
which as a rule thrive better in the
darkness than when exposed to day
light, and some of them are quickly
destroyed by exposure to direct sun
light. In experiments made by me In
1893 It was demonstrated that the chol
era bacillus is infallibly killed by ex
posure to direct Bunlight for an hour or
two, and the distinguished German
bacteriologist. Dr. Robert Koch, has
shown that the bacillus of consumption
—tubercle bacillus—is destroyed by
similar exposure In a time varying
from a few mluutes to several hours,
depending upon the thickness of the
layer of material in which It is Im
bedded.
As a result of this it is evident that
the material coughed up by patients
with consumption and containing tu
bercle bacilli in vast numbers is far less
dangerous to the community In regions
where the patient can live out of doors
and where the sun shines nearly every
day In the year.
Some disease germs which are not
killed outright by exposure to the sun's
rays are greatly restrained in their de
velopment. This is true of the bacillus
of typhoid fever. Although It has been
shown by carefully conducted experi
ments that certain disease germs are
promptly destroyed by the luminous ra
diations from the sun, and especially
by those at the violet end of the solar
spectrum, It is also true that the heat
rays play an important part in the de
struction of harmful bacteria.
This is partly due to the fact that
certain disease germs are quickly de
stroyed by being deprived of all mois
ture—by desiccation. Thus the germs
of cholera and of pneumonia quickly
perish when completely dried.
Other germs, however, as those of
typhoid fever, of diphtheria and of
consumption, mny retain their vitality
In a dried condition for several months.
But the germs of all these diseases are
destroyed by a comparatively low tem
perature. In experiments which I
made several years ago I ascertained
that the germs of pneumonia and of
cholera were killed by exposure for a
few minutes to a temperature of 120
degrees F.
A still lower temperature is effective
If the time of exposure Is prolonged.
It Is therefore evident that prolonged
exposure to the direct rays of the sun
would destroy these germs Independ
ently of the disinfecting power or
germicidal action of the luminous rays
or the fatal results of desiccation.
Other disease germs require a high
er temperature for their destruction.
The typhoid bacillus and the bacillus
of diphtheria are killed by exposure
to a temperature of 140 degrees F. for
ten minutes. In general. It may be
stated that this temperature is fatal
to all the most important disease germs.
The facts stated furnish a scientific
baslB for practical disinfection, and It
Is evident that when sunshine Is avail
able no chemical agents are essential
for the destruction of disease germs.
Any article of food or drink which has
been heated for i> few minutes to some
thing near the boiling point of water
Is absolutely safe, so far as any dan
ger from disease germs is concerned,
and any article of clothing which has
been put through the ordinary opera
tions of the laundry Is as safe as If it
had been placed for an hour in an ex
pensive steam disinfector or immersed
In a strong disinfecting solution.
It will be seen that scientific lnvestl-
gallons fully Justify the practice of
good housewives, who at frequent In
tervals expose their blankets and arti
cles of woolen clothing, which caimot
be placed in boiling water without In
jury. to a prolonged sun bath, who
scald oat milk pans nnd kitchen uten
sils and place them in the sun to dry
and who open up their sleeping apart
ments for the admission of sunlight
and fresh air.—Surgeon Genera) Stern
berg In Youth's Companion.
No matter how much money you
Rhenmatlsm.
may have, if you are poor In character
If you suffer from rheumatism, buy
n little (lowers of sulphur and sprinkle
that means poverty forever.
it well into the feet of a pair of stock
Every man liarked at by a dog is not ings, which you must wear at night.
a thief. Every man talked about by a The sulphur Is quickly absorbed Into
the system through the feet, and, as
gossip is not guilty.
every one knows, sulphur Is the reme
The Apaches have three different dy for rheumatism.
kinds of violins, each having but one
R<> much destitution prevails among
string and player! with a small Itow.
the Moscow university students that
Stained subjects delight to jianuhTn half their numlter have petitioned to
be excused paying their university
feea.
white coats.
RISKS FIREMEN TAK£.
TRAINING A RIDING HCRSE.
The K<*MHon Enifineer Brown Slack
to 111 m Dangerous Post.
The Master Made Good HI* Asser
tion ft* to What He Could Do.
The risks that firemen in big cities
take are an everlasting wonder, and
the story of Bill Brown, as told by
Cleveland Moffett in “Careers of Dar
ing and Danger,” shows that the en
gineer's bravery Is sometimes put to
tests as severe as those which the
hose man or the ladder man even has to
endure.
What happened was this: Engine 29,
pumping her prettiest, stood at the cor
ner so near the drughouse that the
driver thought It wasn't safe for the
horses and led them away. That left
Brown nlone, against the cheek of the
fire, watching his boiler and keeping
his steam gauge at seventy-five.
As the fire gained chunks of redhot
landstone began to smash down on the
engine. Brown ran his pressure up to
eighty and watched the door anxiously
where the four firemen from his squad
bad gone into the furnace.
Then an explosion of chemicals In
the building sent a flame wide as a
house curling across the street, enwrap
ping engine and man and setting Are
to the elevated railway station over
bend. Bill Brown stood by his engine
with a sheet of fire above him. He
heard footsteps on the pavement and
voices that grew fainter crying, “Run
for your lives!” He was alone, and the
skin on bls hands, face and neck was
blistered.
Brown knew why every one was run
ning. There would be another explo
sion. It was tolerably certain that he
must die if he stayed. But his four
chums were in the fire and needed the
water. If he quit bls engine, the water
would fail.
lie stoked in coal and ran the gauge
tip another notch, easing the running
parts with the oiler. He was offering
his life for his friends.
In a few minutes the four firemen
came out of the building. Then Bill
Brown ran for his life with his com
rades. A second or two later engine
29 was crushed by the falling walls.
’ “Yea." said the riding mas;er, “I
have to be a horse trainer as well as a
riding master. In fact, I couldi't very
well be the second without bdng the
first. I always have horses in my
school stables here that are seit to me
to train for my pupils. One ctme this
morning, and If you have the time to
spare I will show you how I give the
first lesson In obedience.”
The master then ordered one of his
men to bring the horse out Into the
"school,” a great oblong space, cov
ered with sawdust and* Inclosed and
roofed. The horse was a fine, spirited
animal, with an Intelligent and kindly
eye, and the master said at once that
he would be a tractable and testable
subject, explaining that he had not
yet had a chance to "make his ac
quaintance.”
“Now,” said he, “you must remem-
ber.that this horse ltaB never seen me
before and that 1 am, therefore, a per
fect stranger to him, and yet I think I
can establish between him and myself
so good a feeling that in five minutes'
time he wMl follow me all about the
school at a word of command—perhaps
without a command. Let us see.”
He then approached the horse, and
the man stepped away. Speaking a
few words gently, he patted the anl
mill’s neck and rubbed bls hand over
his head. Telling the man to give him
a small riding whip, long and straight,
with a keen lash, be placed himself
with his right shoulder close to the
horse’s head, holding the bridle rein
near the bit with bls right band and in
hfs left hand the whip extended back
horizontally so that the lash was oppo
site to the horse’s flank.
“Now,” said he, “for our lesson.”
And he began leading the horse around
the school, keeping his shoulder close
to tlie animal's head. Presently he
took Ills hand off the bridle, and the
horse at once began to move away
from his shoulder, but a sharp turn of
the muster’s wrist brought the lash of
the whip against his flank Just hard
enough to make a little sting, and at
the same time the master caught hold
of the bridle and gently pulled the re
fractory head close to his shoulder
again.
This was repeated half a dozen
times, and then the horse evidently
reasoned out the situation somewhat
in this way:
“As long as I keep my head close to
this man's shoulder it's all right, but
the minute I take it away something
back there Jumps up and sticks me.
Therefore I'll not take It away any
more.”
Tiiat must have been the way he
reasoned, for witliin the five minutes’
time allotted by the riding master the
horse was following him all around the
school like a big dog, nor did the mas
ter have to touch the bridle once.—
Atlanta Constitution.
AN UNFAMILIAR TEXT.
Bat It
Wa« a Forcible Illustration
of n Great Truth.
EQUINE INTELLIGENCE.
4 Writer Who Believe* That Horaaa
Are Capable at Thlakln«.
There are people who deny that ths
horse is able to plot, to conceive or
reason. Some horses are duller than
others, aud some apparently are better
equipped for thought than the men In
charge of them. You teach a horse to
start or stop at a word, and acts of
kindness or cruelty are seldom forgot
ten by lilm. At a farm that we visit
a little girl who has given sweetmeats
to spirited aulmals can take the great
est liberties with them. The stranger
bas to keep a safe distance from their
heels, while she may crawl between
their legs. They remember her acts of
kindness and carefully avoid doing any
thing to harm her.
We have in mind a stallion who was
harshly punished. He treasured up the
act of injustice, and the author of hla
humiliation was compelled to keep
aloof from him. Ills manner plainly
Indicated that the man would get hurt
if he ventured within striking distance.
This stallion trusts those who have
shown him consideration and in ths
main is not a bad tempered horse. He
appears vicious only to those who have
treated him viciously. His knowledge
of right and wrong suggests thought
It shows capacity to reason from cause
to effect. Teach a horse as you would
a child what to fear and what to do,
and the lesson will never be forgotten.
Some horses cunningly open their
stable doors by removing pegs with
their teeth and thus put plan into oper
ation. Their imagination is fired by
beautiful scenery. Fut one in a pad
dock where he can look out upon the
bills and hear the birds Bing and you
will quiet bls nervous system. In mo
ments of contemplation be has the
dreamy look of a poet
About the only time that a horse
forgets to think Is when he surrepti
tiously finds hts way to the well filled
oat bin. He then does not eat In ■
rational way, but gorges himself to
the danger point. This is an unmis
takable evidence of weakness. And
yet there nre men endowed with in
tellect who have little or no control
over their appetites. Absence of re
straint at the feast marks the develop
ment of the human as well as of the
equine race. In our Judgment, the
horse sometimes thinks.—Turf, Field
and Farm.
Several years ago there labored In
one of the western villages of Minne
sota a preacher who was always tn the
APHORISMS.
habit of selecting his texts from the
Old Testament and particularly some
Observe your enemies, for they first
portion of the history of Noah. No
find out your faults.—Antlsthenes.
matter what the occasion was, he
Envy always implies conscious Infe
would always find some parallel inci
riority wherever It resides.—Pliny.
dent from the history of this great
The less heart a man puts into a
character that would readily serve as
task the more labor It requires.—Amiel.
a text or Illustration.
Evasion Is unworthy of us and is al
At one time he was called upon to
ways the Intimate of equivocation.—
unite the daughter of the village may
or and a prominent attorney tn the
Balzac.
holy bonds of matrimony. Two little
The same people who can deny oth
boys, knowing bis determination to
ers everything are famous for refusing
give them a portion of the sacred his
themselves nothing.—Leigh Hunt.
tory touching Noah’s marriage, hit
If there is any person to whom you
upon the novel Idea of pasting together
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
Mot a Practical Phllanthropl*t.
two leaves In the family Bible so as to
One day last winter when it was you ought never to speak.—R. Cecil.
connect, \ylthout any npparent break, very cold a richly dressed woman
Tlie chief pang of most trials is not
the marriage of Noah and the descrip stopped and gazed sternly at an ice so much the actual suffering itself a*
tion of the ark of the covenant.
wagon that was drawn up beside tlie our own spirit of resistance to It—
When the noted guests were all as curb on Walnut street, near Fifteenth. Jean Grou.
sembled and the contracting parties Site stood there for ten minutes. Then
There is no beautifler of complexion
with attendants tn their respective sta the iceman came out of a certain or form or behavior like the wish to
tions, the preacher began the ceremo house, and she said to him, "Driver,
sentter Joy, and not pain, around us.—
nies by reading the following text: why don't you blanket your horses?”
Emerson.
"And when Noah was one hundred and
"Because, lady, the kump'ny don’t
Success is sweet, the sweeter if long
forty years old he took unto himself furnish me no blankets,” said the man.
delayed nnd attained through mani
a wife,” then, turning the page, he
“Then.” exclaimed the woman, “you fold struggles and defeats.—A. Bron
continued. "300 cubits In length, 50 should cover them with your coat.”
son Alcott.
cubits In width nnd 30 cubits In depth
“All right, ma'am.” said the driver,
True popularity takes deep root and
and within nnd without besmeared smiling. "You gimme your coat for
with pitch.” The story seemed a little the near boss, an I'll put mine ou the spreads Itself wide, but the false falls
away like blossoms, for nothing that
strong, but he could not doubt the Bi off one.”
Is false can be lasting.—Cicero.
ble, and, after reading It once more
The woman, whose coat was of seal
and reflecting a moment, he turned to skin, could not think of a good retort
Blunder* of Painter*.
the startled assemblage with these re to this, and she walked away In b I-
A picture representing the four ele
marks, “My beloved brethren, this is lence.—Philadelphia Record.
ments was essayed by an Italian art
the first time In the history of my life
ist. and lie selected fish to Indicate the
that my attention has been called to
Twain and the Printer.
sea. moles the earth and a salamander
this important pnssage of the Scrip
Mary Twain once had a trying ex
tures, but it seems to me that it is one perience witli a compositor, one of fire. The chameleon was Intended as
of the most forcible Illustrations of those conscientious compositors who the allegorical representative of the
that grand eternal truth that the na not only know, but know that they air, but the painter, having no model
ture of woman Is exceedingly difficult know. According to a writer in Har of this animal and knowing nothing
about Its shape, contented himself by
to comprehend.—Starlight Messenger.
per’s Weekly, Mr. Clemens had receiv introducing a camel. He probably
ed from his publishers the proofs of a thought in bls ignorance that from a
Value of Time.
story which ite considered as funny as similarity of sounds they were one and
Tlie value of odd minutes is illus anything he had ever written, but on
trated by n story told In a curious lit reading the proofs he dismally discov the same animal.
Another painter In a picture of the
tle volume of advice printed In Eng ered that the fun had been carefully
land. A large firm required a manager eliminated. Mr. Clemens returned the crucifixion represented a father con
for one of its departments and ap proofs, congratulating the compositor fessor holding out a crucifix to the re
pointed 12 o’clock for arrangement of upon having consumed “only one week pentant thief who was promised ■
terms with the selected applicant. He in making sense of a story which he place in paradise by the Saviour.
arrived at five minutes past 12, to find himself required two weeks to make
A Honeymoon Financier.
a dozen directors waiting, the chair
nonsense of!”
Judge
Edwards of Lee county, who
man watch In hand. The chairman
bas married over a hundred couples
announced that they could not engage
Samoan* and Beauty.
since he has been ordinary, performed
a subordinate who bad wasted an hour
The love for beauty of a Samoan wo
of his employers’ time, and on the ap man sometimes degenerates into cruel the ceremony recently for a runaway
plicant deprecating such exaggeration ty. Tlie very word for short stature is couple seated in a buggy l’J the public
the chairman explained that each di contemptuous, pu’u pu’u, and the un road.
The ceremony over, the bridegroom
rector had wasted five minutes and dersized num must perforce become a
fumbled in bls pocket and fished up
that made an hour in all.
professional Jester or lose all hold on 36 cents.
society. A young man who had lost his
"Jetlge,” be said, “this here’s all tbe
Dicken* Said She Wa* a Woman.
■rm tn battle was heartlessly jeered by
It is said of George Eliot’s literary a group of laughing girls. I interfered money I got tn tbe roun’ worl’. Ef
you’re a mind to take it, you kin. but
style that its most marked character In his behalf.
I’ll sny straightfor’ards that I’d done
istic Is sympathy. And long before
“He would not be like that,” I said, sot it aside fer the honeymoon ex
her identity had become known Charles “If it were not for Ills bravery.”
penses!”—Atlanta Constitution.
Dickens, a singularly acute critic of
“Oh, yes.” they said, “but he looks so
his own art, detected her sex by this funny.”
A Good Derea*e.
undercurrent of womanly sympathy.
“He fought In tour defense, you un
There was once a club formed of lazy
He had been reading “Scenes of Cler grateful creatures!” I cried.
men. Fines were inflicted on those who
ical Life,” which had been sent to him
"True enough,” they replied, “but a
by the publisher, and on putting the man without beauty Is contemptible." ever forgot themselves so far as to do
anything in haste One day several
book aside he said, “Wei!, this writer —Century Magazine.
members saw an old doctor who was
possesses great ability, but I should
renowned for hls laziness drive past
say. despite the name, that George
The Listener at the Door.
the door of the club at a furious rate,
Eliot Is a woman.”
"Did she say. ’This is so sudden?”’
and loudly they chuckled at the
"No; her mother was listening at the thought ef fining him. But on applying
Heathenlnlnfc It.
“My friend,” said the missionary who keyhole, and she didn’t dare to throw to him on the ground of his having
been in such a burry the doctor slowly
was trying to convert the wealthy man on any frills.”
"How do you know her mother was replied, “No, I wasn’t In a hurry, but
darin, "do you not know that it is
my mare wanted to go fast, and 1 was
easier for the camel to get through the there?”
“Because stooping over shuts off her too lazy to stop her.”
eye of the needle than”—
“Than It is for me,” the mandarin in wind, and you could hear her gasping
Grand Game In Alaska.
terrupted, "to get through the need of all over the room.”
“Well, what did Minnie say?”
Alaska contains tbe grandest hunt
an Idol, eh? Very true.”—Philadelphia
“She whispered: ‘Cut it short. Jack. ing grounds in North America. They
Record.
Ma Is apoplectic.’ ” — Clevelaud Plain are Inhabited by tbe giant moose, the
largest antlered animal on the earth;
A word and a note of song are ofteD Dealer.
the Kadiak brown bear, largest of all
trystallized tears set to music.
Heroic.
flesh eating Itind animals, and tlie
Gladys—Why did she ever marry
for Him to Pag.
mountain caribou, largest and finest
“Do you suppose women will ever be him?
of its genus. The snow white moun
Ethel—Oh, he said he couldn’t live tain sheep Is there, the mountain goat,
sent to the legislature, Wilkins?"
without
her!
"Wouldn’t be surprised. My wife’s
black and yellow bears galore, and tbe
Gladys—Well, she ought to get a rare, new glacier bear, as yet never
Inclined that way now.”
medal for life saving.—Puck.
“Your wife? Pshaw!”
seen In captivity and in only one
"Fact. Why, it’s no new thing for her
museum.—Recreation.
An
old
convict
ship
from
Australia
Is
to Introduce a bill in the bouse.”—Ph'I
on
exhibition
at
the
Waterloo
pier,
adelphia Bulletin.
The revolver with which President
Idjndon. It Is the Success, owned by a
McKinley was shot was a .32 caliber,
Hanover, Germany, now has six foot Melbourne firm and kept solely for ex
ball teams that play the Rugby game. blbitlon purposes, nnd It remains prac and since that time dealers have no
They are trying to carry out the kal- tlcally with 'he same fittings It bad ticed an Increase In the number of calls
ser’fl order not to use English sporting when it was used for transporting con for weapons of that caliber and, it Is
said, of the particular make used by
terms.
victs from England to Botauy Bay.
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