BANDON RECORDER.
Cud.
Once begun codûshiug on the Bankt
is incessant, and when the fishing is
good the men rarely ever sleep. Awak
ened nt 2 a. in. to till their bait "kids,”
or tubs, they start ut daybreak to lift
these trawls nnd remove the overnight
catch, rebaitlug the hooks again. There
are about O.ooo hooks to handle, and
this often occupies until eventide, when
the boats row back. After unloading
(he deck Is piled high with the glitter
Ing mass of tisli. To eviscerate this and
stow it In the bold keeps them until
midnight, when they nnntch an hour or
two of sleep.
Some can go without sleep for n
week. others will rub wet tobacco In
their eyes so that the pain may keep
them wuaeful a few hours longer. Otli-
ers again will work till they drop from
sheer i xhnustion and sleep as they lie
untii aroused by comrades. A Chinese
torture is to keep men without sleep,
and "banking” does this to an extent
to satisfy even the most exacting Ce
lestial. The men sleep in their under
clothing. When above decks, they can
never lente olf their oilskins, for on the
Ihu.ks it is rarely tine. Mist nnd murk
prevail, ami the rigging and sails drip
water always. Ainslee’s.
imagine it is all play and big wages.
Never was there a greater mistake, for
f POLLY LARKIN 1 small
wages and hard work are the
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rule and not the exception.
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“Invalid” has the only question to be
answered this week. Hbe sends a piti
ful little story of her woes, aud like a
good many other persons who are natu
rally courageous and cheerful but who
have become despondent, nervous and
over-sensitive from long illness, feels
that she is a burden to herself and to
others, particularly others. Nhe wants
to know what she can do to help her to
forget herself; she is too nervous to read,
and besides she never enjoyed books or
magazines like otiier people, they al
ways wearied her. Nhe had been used
to an active life, and now this enforced
idleness is slowly but surely wearing
her out.
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In the first place, you were right in
saying you must forget yourself, “In
valid.” I think you will find half the
battle won when you learn to do that.
Employ your hands, and the following
is a good way to do it: Get all the
scraps of black and colored silks that
you can and get your friends tx> ransack
their scra|>-bagB for silk and pieces of
ribbon. Cut them in narrow strips and
about four inches in length, keeping
the briglitones separate from the black.
Then you are ready to make one of the
most attractive couch covers you ever
saw. If you don’t know howto knit,
you must learn, and it is the simplest
tiling in the world, your grandmother
will tell you. Geta ballof twine, green
or any other color you may desire, and
knit these litte scraps of silk into strips
of from four to five inches in width and
the length of your couch. You will
have one strip looking like a lieautiful
black plume, the alternating ones of
the bright bits of silk will be as bright
as “Joseph’s coat of many colors.” By
the time you have finished your couch
cover you will forget yourself entirely
and will not even think of being a bur
den, for you will work that nervous
strain off with the click of the flying
needles. Try it and if it does not suc
ceed, Polly is not a true prophetess.
lu one of the big boarding-houses or
hotels in San Francisco is a little wom
an whose ambition to make something
of herself beyond what her childhood’s
education adapted her for, is worthy of
note. Nhe is a waitress and is at her
post morning, noon and night. She
isn’t, as her friends express it, “any
bigger than a minute,” being under
five feet and weighing about ninety
pounds. Nhe is attractive iu her mod
est little way, and reminds you con
stantly of a big old-fashioned china
dol), she Is so prim, and wears her hair
Just so. Nhe is always dressed in white
with bright ribbon and looks like she
bail “Just come out of a bandbox.” All
of her life she lias wanted to take music
lessons but could never gratify her de
sire. Now she is married to a man
who is a seaman and only home occa
sionally. They have saved enough to
buy a little home and furnish it, paying
for it in Installments. Then came the
possession of a piano paid for on the
same easy terms. Not a note could she
play except by ear. That did not sat
A Clerlenl I'nn.
isfy her. Nhe loved classical music and
On one occasion nt Atliy, where Can
on Ktavely. the English divine, was was determined to take lessons and lie
then stationed. In- was visited by the able to gratify her taste for the higher
archbishop, whom lie induced to visit class of music. All the money her
ii new coffee house which had just la eu husband made went to help pay for the
opened in the Interests of temperance. home and the piano. It would take
Naturally the distinguished guest was some little time to settle for tlie same,
served with a saliiple cup of coffee, lie and site felt that she was losing a good
tasted it. while Canon Ila got and tin opportunity. Nhe took the position of
manager waited in complacent expec
waitress, gets her three meals a dav,
tancy of eommemla I ion.
They wile disappointed. The cup and with her wages takes music lessons
was hastily set aside by the bishop, from one of the best instructors in the
.who ejaculated, with prolonged and tin city. Every spare minute she spends
mistakable emphasis:
at the piano, practicing as though her
“A-boni In aide!”
bread and butter depended upon it.
Then the manager suddenly remem While her friends are enjoying the the
bered. “(th. your grace,” he explained, ater she is running scales and prac
"a box ot matches fell Into tlie coffee
tank this m -ruing, mid 1 did not think ticing exercises. Nhe is also taking
It right to waste nil the contents of it.” singing lessons, and while she will never
“If your grace will come ngain,” be a Patti or shine as a star in opera,
promised Canon Itngot. Interposing she will delight many friends in the
quickly, "I fnithfully promise you a days to come by the silvery sweetness
matchless cup of coffee.”
of the melodies sung in her own home.
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BRIEF REVIEW.
Tlie Ingredient* of Firework*.
All honor to the little woman who is
The chief constituents of all fire
English Forgers.
works are gunpowder and its ingredi determined to do something that will
Tlie first forger on the Bank of Eng
ents. iron and steel filings and cast iron lift her out of the common humdrum of
borings, free from rust, are used to in her life alter a while and give her an land, many of whose £5 notes have just
crease the brightness of the display insight into the l>eauties of music that been successfully imitated, was Richard
and produce the Chinese Are. When the her heart lias longed for from her baby William Vaughan, once a linen draper
rocket explodes up in the air, the bright hood up to tlie present time. Think of of Htafford. He employed a number of
and varicolored sparks are produced by what she lias got to go through with artists on different parts of the fabri
these filings as they Ignite In the oxy from day to day, you who are so for cated notes, twenty of which he de
gen.
Copper filings and copper salts are tunate as to have a piano and receive posited as a proof that he was a man of
used to produce greenish tints. A fine music lessons from the best of instructors means with a young lady whom he was
blue is made with zinc filings. A light and yet do not appreciate the oppor about to marry. No suspicion was en
greenish tint with much smoke Is made tunity to become a thorough musician. tertained until one of tlie artists gave
out of sulphuret of antimony. Amber, You let golden moments slip by and are information to the police. Vaughan
resin and common salt protected from glad whenever there is a chance to es- was arrested and executed at Tyburn in
dampness produce a yellow fire. Salts eape from the tiresome practicing that 1758. The last person executed for for
of strontia make a red light. A green this little woman hails with delight. gery was Thomas Maynard, and that
light is also made by the salts of bari
She does more than this, however, for was in 1829. There was once a “King
um.
she spends one to two hours every of the Forgers, ” as there is in every
Deserted nt the End.
evening reading some good liook from branch ofcrime. This man’s name was
William the Conqueror was a man of our standard authors. Not a moment Ralph Cooper, who, on March 24, 1898,
very gross habit of body and at the does she lose, and considering tlie ste|>s was sentenced to fifteen years’ impris
siege of Mantes was hurt by the rear she has taken to improve herself, which onment for forging a check of £3070 on
ing of his horse, the pommel of the
have been in the nature of a task, the London and Westminster Bank. In
saddle striking the king in the abdo
men and causing injuries from which they are some of the brightest spots in the spacious timesof Elizabeth the pun
he died in a few days. Before his her hitherto dreary and uneventful life. ishment for forgery was by line, the
death he was deserted by all his at “When my Jim comes home, and with pillory, the loss of both ears cut off, the
tendants, who stole and carried off my music and my books, what more slitting and scaring of the nostrils, the
even the coverings of the bed on which could I want. I am happier than I forfeiture of land and imprisonment
lie lay. The body remained on the floor ever dreamed I would be. Jim loves for life.
of tlie room in which the king died for music as much as I do, and he is so
two days before It was burled by char
Astonishing Insurance Figures.
proud to have me able to play and sing
itable monks from a neighboring mon
for
him.
By
and
by
we
will
both
be
Few
people have any idea of the enor
astery.
too old to work, then Jim wont go to mity of the insurance business of the
Typogrnphlcnl Errors.
sea any more, but we will have our UnitedHtates. It not only exceeds that
American authors, no less than Eng home and our music and books and of any other country, but is twice as
lish, sometimes suffer for the sins of something in bank to take care of us great as that of all the rest of the world
the printer. A line of Mr. Aldrich's with. Then what joy we will have combined. At the present time there
which originally read "A potent medi
cine tor gods a ml men” was misprinted That day seems as if it is a long way is in the United Ntates about $12,000,-
“A patent medicine,” etc. And Mr. Al off, but we are both happy in working 000,000 of life insurance in force, in
cluding assessment business. This is
drich’s equanimity was upset on an for it and planning ahead.”
over $160 for every man, woman and
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other occasion because in a serious
mood be wrote in one of his poems
There is another little waitress in the child in the country, or $800 for every
“Now tlie old wounds break out afresh” same house with a history, or rather an family. The annual risks written by
und was horrified to read that he had
interesting little story. Nhe Is such a the fire insurance companies are esti
said “Now the old woman breaks out
frail girl, and her pretty face and re mated at $20,000,000,000, which is $250
afresh.”
fined ways interest you before you )>er capita, or $1250 j>er family. Thus
Itepfantliifl the Seed*.
know anything about her trials in this it will be seen that every family in the
Nubbins (shouting across tlie garden life. All day long she works in one of country, on an average, has insurance
fence to his next door neighbor)—III. the big department stores in this city. assets of over $2000.
there! What are you burying in that Nhe is worn out when the day is done
bole?
Makes Artificial Cartilage.
but cannot gratify her desire to go home
Neighbor—Ob, I’m Just replanting
and
rest.
Nhe
Is
helping
to
support
her
A
Viennese
surgeon has invented a
some of my garden seeds.
Nubbins—Garden seeds, eh! Looks family on her small earnings. The sis new method of raising the broken nose
ters and brothers must have at any rate or filling up similar cavities in the hu
to me very much iike one of my hens.
Neighbor—That's all right. The seeds a common school education, and there man anatomy. Under the skin which
are Inside her.
are school-ltooks to be purchase and sev is over the break he injects Bome lique
eral hearty children who are blessed fied vaseline mixed with paraffin. This
A Ki iik ’ m Miserable End.
with good appetites to be fed. The mixture solidifies at the temperature of
Louis XI., after having by open mur father has long since passed to his re the laxly, so advantage is taken of the
der or secret assassination rid himself ward and her mother is sewing on
time during which it cools to shape the
of the most powerful nobility of France,
died in miserable fear, begging his phy coarse overalls, getting $3.50 per week, hardening mass and give the hitherto
sician to do something for him. During and out of that paying for the break deformed member quite a nice appear
his Inst days lie sent for St. Francis of age of needles or any repairs to the ma ance. Thesolid mixtureremainB there,
Paula nnd offered him untold riches to chine that she has in charge. Home and, moreover, the surrounding tissues
intercede with heaven for a further times the repairs and breakage of join with it, so that in time the vase
lease of life.
needles during the month amounts to line becomes like cartilage.
a good deal through no fault of the
She Paid.
Saw Jackson Inaugurated.
operator, but no matter how unjust the
"Dollar en a half fer a marriage li
demand may be, they must pay it or
Daniel
Jarlxte Jewett of 8745 Weet
cense!” exclnimed the colored appli
give
up
the
position.
It
is
Hobson
’
s
Pine
street,
Nt. Louis, is still practicing
cant. Then, turning to the bride to be,
choice, for j>oeitions are not picked up law, though 95 years old. Every day
“Lindy, does you think I is wutb it?”
“Well,” was thé reply, “hit do comt every day. There are too many idle he s|>endH six hours in his office in a
mighty high, but 1 reckon I’ll hatter men and women anxious to step into downtown building. Jewett witnessed
pay it, 'long ez I done come heah wid the vacancies, so they pay what is the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in
youP’—Atlanta Constitution.
demanded of them and dare not com 1829, and was a college boy at the na
plain. This young girl after working tional capital when Welieter, Calhoun,
Thanks to the Apple, She's Clothed.
in a store all day, hurries to the fash Clay and Hayne were familiar figures
Tess—1 detest apples, don’t you?
ionable l>oarding-house, dons her little on the streets of Washington.
Jess—Oh, no. Every time I put on a
nice new gown I'm thankful that there uniform that all the girls are expected
was an apple for Eve to ent.—Philadel to wear and waits on the tables that
There is a tribe in Central Africa
are in her charge. Nhe gets her board among whom R|>eakers in public debates
phia Press
and about $12 or $15 a month, besides are required to stand on one leg while
More Work Thon Pl*y.
what she earns in the store. Nhe is bo orating, and to apeak only as long as
“Does she play whist?”
weary many times that every particle they can stand.
“No. She makes the worst work of It of color leaves her face and she looks
you ever saw.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
like she is ready to faint, but there is
Whatever the number of orders, no
never a word of complaint, never a Iteer leaves the best German breweries
Christian* and Jew*.
When Charles Lamb was berating an sigh. This Is only one of many in until it has been standing for at least
enemy, some one said to him, "Why, stances where girls who have to make
you don’t know him.” Larnb replied, “1 a living for themselves and possibly three months.
don’t want to know him for fear 1 others. Their lives are not the pleas
Many a man goes around looking for
should like him.”
Christians and Jews make ignorance antest in the world, and yet you will trouble, and the minute he meets it he
of each other a claim for judgment and hear girls who have happy homes in has a hurry call in another direction.
seem to be afraid to become acquaint some of the surrounding towns wish
Water sufficient to cover one acre one
ed for fear that they might like each they could be clerks in some of the big
other.—Peters’ “The Jew as a Patriot.” department stores in this city. They inch deep will weigh 101 tons.
ANTISEPTICS.
WHAT IS TEMPERAMENT!
THE INNS OF CHINA.
The» Do Not Destroy, It 1» Said, but
Duly Arrest Germ Lite.
No Wonder This Child’s Brsls Is All
In a Maddla.
Tbrlr < heap»*** I* «boat Tbrir On*
Hedeemluu I t-alnre.
l’lie Edinburgh Scotsman begs leave
to correct the erroneous belief that im
plies that antiseptics can prevent de
cay. Decay may be arrested without
killing the microbe which would pro
duce it. A few drops of a solution of
carbolic acid added to flour paste will
keep It sweet for a certain time, not
because the germs in the paste are de
stroyed. but because these germs are
hindered for tl’e time being in their
growth nnd multiplication aud because
the paste is reudered temporarily an
unsuitable soli for the growth of what
ever microbes may fall from the air In
to it.
When the effect of the acid has wort
off nnd dlsuppeared, we see the paste
going to the bad as rapidly as if it bad
not been treated antiseptically at all.
Molds will grow In It, and it will decay
in the fashion familiar to everybody.
It Is in this way cold may act as an
antiseptic when it is used to preserve
meat and fish. There is uo destruction,
but only arrest of germ life. If we wish
to kill microbes, therefore, we not only
have to use a disinfectant, but we must
employ It in proper proportions and see
that It thoroughly attacks the germa
we wish to destroy. It Is for this rea
son that all attempts to kill germs
which the air may contain are worse
than useless. We cannot "disinfect” the
air. If we could do so, we should re
quire to saturate the air with our germ
icide to such an extent that to breaths
It would kill us.
We get an excellent example of thia
fallacy of "disinfecting air” when we
reflect that In using burning sulphur to
purify a room after a fever case we
have to use It in such a way and in
such proportion that it is impossible for
any person to remain in the room at
all.
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The half dozen blocks about Dupont
circle Include the homes of as many
scientists of national reputation. Theas
gentlemen of course know each other
and meet frequently. Not long ago one
of their neighbors began to wonder
whether such intimate intercourse
among scientists was a good thing,
his cogitation having had its rise lu the
following incident:
Ills little daughter has Just reached
the age when she asks 200 questions a
day. About a month ago her father
spoke of some author as lacking the
proper “temperament” for writing on
history. That word “temperament"
apparently took root in the youngster's
mind. What was temperament? She
asked that question twice an hour for
an entire week.
Finally her father gave her a note to
Professor---- and sent her off to find
out. That scientist answered the que
ry as follows: “Temperament is an In
dividual tendency to the rise of a cer
tain mental state." Father and daugh
ter wrestled with that a little while and
then applied to a second member of
the scientific group for help. No. 2
called temperament “an ensemble of
physical and mental traits arising from
fundamental constitutional differences
in individuals.” This put the little
girl’s father completely at sea. So No.
3 was tried. His judgment w’as that
“temperament is the psychic resultant
of the whole organic life of the indi
vidual.” By this time hope was aban
doned. But when No. 4 volunteered to
make it clear the family spirits re
vived. “Temperament is a general dis
position of the mind,” be wrote, “the
distinctions of which depend on the
dominance of one or the other of the
physiological systems.”
And now the family dictionary is
worn out.—Washington Star.
Chinese intis are without register or
clerks. On riding through the gateway,
your bridle rein is seized by a dirty,
boy. who helps you to dismount, shout
ing loudly meanwhile for the proprie
tor. who presently looms up through
the wilderness of carta and mules. Pro
prietor a.d la>y then bold a parley as
to what rooms are eligible, and then a
door is pushed open and the traveler Is
sli .wn to his apartment. It is usually
nl out twelve feet square. The walls
ami floor are of hard mud, and so are
the beds, which extend entirely across
the side of the room, with only space
enough between them for a small table
aud one chair. The room Is lighted by
one window. In which paper takes the
place of glass.
'l’lie first duty of the proprietor in
making a patron comfortable is to stop
up the lades in the paper window pane.
He never tears the paper off entirely
nml replaces It with a new one, be
cause tlie sheet of paper Is worth
a bout one-tenth of a cent, and the inn
keeper is not wasteful. Indeed he
pastes little slips of paper over the
h Its until all the light that filters
through it is of a mottled hue.
At one end of the mule shed is the
kitchen of the inn. It is here that the
meals for all the patrons are prepared,
to l><‘ eaten in the rooms. The menu Is
not elaborate. It consists only of bowls
of rice and tea. Should the traveler de
sire n greater variety of food, lie can
buy it himself in the market, and his
own servant can cook It in the kitchen
of the inn. To sleep on the bed of a
Chinese inn would be for a foreigner
an Impossibility were it not that be is
always so exhausted at the end of
each day's Journey that lie finds it dif
ficult to remain awake ten minutes
after alighting from his pony. He lies
down on the mat that covers the hard
heap of mud and surprises himself at
the soundness of his slumber.
The one redeeming thing about the
inn is its cheapness. Just as the trav
eler is about to depart in the morning
the proprietor tells him the amount of
Its bill. Everything is charged on the
'European plan.” Every cup of tea,
every rushlight candle, the paper win
dow pane, are all itemized in the long
list wit ch tlie proprietor reels off In
singsong. Imt the total is surprisingly
low. The cost of food and lodging for
one night for a traveler aud two serv
ants. with stabling and fodder for bls
ponies and cart mules, is about 50
cents. —New York Mail and Express.
llldliiK Behind Big Words.
A mining expert recently described a
lode as traversing “a metamorphic
matrix of a somewhat argilloarenace-
ous composition.” This means literally
’a changed mass of a somewhat clayey-
sandy composition.” This in Its turn
may be translated into plain English
as m-u-d.
Why choke a puny fact with mur
derous polysyllables? Huxley and Dar
win, Lyell and Faraday could so write
as to be “understanded of the people,”
nnd there Is a suspicion abroad in these
times that the big words so freely used
by small men are a device to conceal
Ignorance and inexact thought rather
than a proof of superior knowledge.—
Youth's Companion.
M lint’s In an Kflg.
The newly laid egg is entirely filled
with yolk and white enveloped by a
fragile shell. It Is at this moment that
It possesses Its highest alimentary qual
ities. These it would be capable of pre
serving indefinitely If the tightness of
the shell equaled that of a metallic box.
But unfortunately such is not the case.
The calcareous shell Is provided with
pores, through which is soon establish
ed a cross circulation of water and mi
crobes. The water leaves the albumen
and passes to the exterior in the form
of vapor, while legions of bacteria en
ter and fill the air chamber formed by
evaporation.
Evaporation causes the egg dally to
lose on an average half a grain of Its
weight. We can assure ourselves of
this by immersing It In a quart of water
containing four ounces of salt. On the
first day It will descend to the bottom,
on the second It will not sink to so
great a depth, on the third It will re
main near the surface and beginning
with the fifth It will project above the
surface so much the more in proportion
as it Is older.______________
Ton .Much For the Sheriff.
An Irish widow with a quick wit on«
day received a call from a sheriff who
had a writ to serve on her. According
to the story, the widow saved the day
by some rapid tire courting which took
the sheriff by surprise when he called
nt her house and began In formal fash
ion:
“Madam, I have an attachment for
you.”
“My dear sir,” she said, blushing,
“your attachment is reciprocated.”
“You don’t understand me. You must
proceed to court,” said the sheriff.
“Well, I know ’tis leap year, but I
prefer to let you do the courting your
self. Men are much better at that tliaD
women.”
"Mrs. Phelan. this is no time for fool
ing. The Justice is waiting.”
"The Justice waiting! Well, then, I
suppose 1 must go, but the thing is bo
sudden, and besides I’d prefer a priest
to do it.”
Milne*’ lloapltable Menagerie,
W. Gordon McCabe says that when
Monckton Milnes, the poet, aspired to
grasp the social literary scepter falling
from the withered hands of Rogers he
gathered around his breakfast table in
Fall Mall men of the most diverse per
sonalities. creeds nnd tastes. In fact,
the chief requirement for securing an
Invitation to these brenkfasts, which
soon became the talk of London, seems
to have been that the guest must be a
lion of some sort. Men of such pro
nounced differences as Count d’Orsay,
the elegant dandy; the rugged Thomas
Carlyle, Sydney Smith, the brilliant
wit, and Connop Thirlwall, the grave
historian, sat there side by side, nnd
had Buffalo Bill burst upon the town
in those days Mr. McCabe thinks he,
too, would undoubtedly have rubbed
elbows in Milnes' hospitable menagerie
with Tom Macaulay and Aubrey de
Vere.
Teat ot the A** of RflK*.
There is a sure and simple test of age
In an egg. Dissolve six ounces of com
mon kitchen salt In a large glassful of
wnter and drop in your eggs, one at a
time. An egg one day old will sink to
the bottom, but if older it does not
reach the bottom. If three days old, it
sinks only Just below the surface. If
five days and over, it floats; and th«
older It Is the more it protrudes from
the water.—New York Press.
Spet tHclea and Moliture»
Wearers of spectacles are frequently
annoyed by the glasses becoming dim
from n deposit of moisture upon them.
An easy way to prevent this is to wash
the glasses every morning with soft
potash soap. The glasses should then
be polished, but an invisible film will
remain which will prevent moisture
being deposited on them.
Killing: ■ Baby.
When Frank It. Stockton had plan
ned out his book of Pomona’s travels
and was about ready to write It, he re
sided In Philadelphia. He had a busi
ness appointment with his dentist, aji
old friend, one day, when the follow
ing incident, told by himself, occurred:
“While in the chair I got to talking
with this friend about my new book. I
told him 1 had serious thoughts of kill
ing that baby. lie was much Interest
ed. We talked over the advisability of
doing this, and, while he was not quite
convinced, lie in the main agreed with
me. 1 had been finished with and,
clasping bis hand, went into the wait
ing room ou my way out. This waiting
room was filled with women.
“As I passed through the door I
heard him call, ‘Then you have posl-
tlvely decided to kill that baby?’ ‘Posi
tively,’ 1 replied.
“You should have seen the women
stare. It was not until I got well out in
the hallway that I realized what they
must of course have been thinking.”
"
Precedent.
A clever answer in court was that
given to Chief Justice Coleridge yean
ago, when he was defending a lady whe
bad become a Nister of Mercy and was
expelled from the convent for refusing
to obey tlie rules.
She had brought an action for expul
sion and libel. In the course of th«
trial Coleridge assumed that breaches
of discipline are trivial, contemptibl«
and should never be noticed.
“What has Miss Sawin done?” he
asked Mrs. Kennedy, a mistress ol
novices.
“Well,” said the lady, “she has, foi
example, eaten strawberries.”
“Eaten Htrawberrles? What harm ll
there In that?”
“It was forbidden, Bir,” said Mrs
Kennedy.
“But, Mrs. Kennedy, what troubl«
was likely to come from eating straw
berries?”
“Well, sir,” said Mrs. Kennedy, “you
might as well ask what trouble wai
likely to come from eating an apple,
and yet we know what trouble did
come from it.”
That closed the discussion.
A I’aeful Woman.
“Blennerhnsaet,” said Mrs. Bllggins
us lie was about to start down town,
“can you let me have a little money to
run the housff with today?”
"You can have just 50 cents,” he
growled, flinging the coin at her and
slamming the door behind him as be
went out.
"By the way, Bligglns,” said a friend
who dropped Into his place of business
an hour or two later, "will you go my
security on a note for $500?”-
"Sliortlelgh,” replied Bligglns, “it is
an inflexible rule In my family that I
must uever do anything of that kind
without consulting my wife.”—Chicago
Tribune.
A Summer Without Niffhts.
To the summer visitor in Sweden
there Is nothing more striking than the-
almost total absence of night At Stock
holm. the Swedish capital, the sun goes
down a few minutes before 10 o’clock
und rises again four hours later during
a greater part of the month of June.
But the four hours the sun lies hidden
In the frozen north are not hours of
darkness. The refraction of his rays as
he passes around the north pole makes
midnight ns light as a cloudy midday
and enables one to rend the finest print
without artificial light at any time dur
ing the “night.”
The Name* ot Two Cltlea.
Buaalol Too
Soon.
FARMER JOE’S SPEECH.
It
Wa* Short, but It Cruahrff
Bunipllou* Youa**t*r.
th*
“You may get the better of an oppo
nent in debate," said an old time ora
tor, “by sheer force of convincing argu
ment-that is to say, you may score
and win ou points—but If you want to
put your man down and out at a single
coup just make him ridiculous. Only
succeed in doing this, and all the logic
of the other side will explode In vacan
cy like so many blank cartridges.
“Once when I was serving a term up
the state In the legislature a bumptious
youngster who had just been introduc
ed was laboring through his maiden
effort. He was attacking a man who
was his senior by at least a score and
ten years and thought to make a hit by
referring to him as ’that little gray
beard from Herkimer.’ Rymal of Niag
ara rose to reply. He was an old timer,
who never si>oke unless he had some
thing to say aud so was always sure of
un attentive audience. Farmer Joe. a*
be was called, got up slowly, gradually
expanded himself to his full height of
6 feet 4, thrust his left hand behind the
tails of a capacious aud somewhat
shabby frock coat, held up the Index
finger of his right baud, cleared bls
throat ominously and solemnly began:
“’Mr. Speaker, the honorable gentle
man who has just spoken has never
read Pope’s essay. If he had, he would
remember that the “soul’s the standard
of the man." And, sir, fifty such souls
as that of the honorable gentleman
who preceded me eoukMte put luto the
skull of a flea and have as much room
there as two frogs in Lake Superior.’
"lie didn’t have to say more. The
chamber went into a convulsion of
laughter which lasted for several min
utes after the tall farmer bad resumed
his seat. As for the youngster, he did
the best he could. He wriggled about,
got red In the face, tried to look uncon
cerned and kept bls mouth closed dur
ing the balance of the session.”—New
York News.
FLOWER AND TREE.
Palms never live more than 250 years,
ivy has been known to live 450, chest
nut 860, oak 1,600 and yew 2,880 years.
Nothing is better for house plants
than to be set out in a gentle, warm
rain, but a cold rain and wind are any
thing but hopeful to them.
In planting trees an important point
not to be forgotten Is pressing the soli
down upon the roots so that they will
come in close contact with It.
A pot of flowers In bud should re
ceive all the sunshine possible, but
when the buds open keep them in
shade, and they will last longer.
Tlie largest apple tree in New Eng
lund is In Cheshire, Conn. Its trunk
measures one foot above all root ex-
hu-gementa, 13 feet 8 inches in circum
ference.
An orchard, whether young or old,
should not be allowed to grow where
heavy crops of grass are taken every
year. It Is weakening to the soil and
detrimental to the trees.
In Ashanti there grows a tree resem
bling in appearance the English oak,
which furnishes excellent butter. Thia
vegetable butter keeps in perfect con
dition all the year round in spite of th*
hea t.
The rear end of a Fordham car was
congested the other afternoon. There
wasn’t even "standing ruom only." A
Jocular commuter said, "Beware of
pickpockets!”
Everybody laughed.
A gentlemanly looking fellow said:
“No man need be afraid of pickpock
ets if he does as I did. I have a self
patented scheme. I have a buttonhole
in my vest imcket. I run my chain
through it and attach the other end In
the usual way. They can’t draw that
watch through that buttonhole. No
pickpockets In mine, and don’t you for
get it.”
The crowd thinned out.
At Wendover avenue the "patentee”
said startingly:
“My watch is gone!”
Somebody had clipped the chain,
Drlakln* Through the Nostril*.
drawn it through the other way and
The Indian sages do not practice
abstracted the watch.—New York
their breathing exercises simply for
News.
the sake of repose and sleep. During
A Story of Two Necklace*.
the Inbreathing energy is increased.
When General Weyler was sent by These Indians are not the only people
Spain as governor general to Manila, who believe that with the Inbreathing
Don Carlos Palanca, the wealthy Span- of pure air there comes something still
iardized Chinaman, determined to send more vital than oxygen. But the Indi
M tb . Weyler a gift, the customary way ans have developed the art of breath
of obtaining the good will of the Span ing more than any other people.
ish officials. He found at a Jeweler’s
One of their favorite exercises is to
two necklaces, each costing $20,000 und Inhale through the left nostril, to bold
both being so beautiful that be could the breath for a time and then exhale
not choose between them. So he sent through the right nostril.
them both to Mrs. W’eyler with the
Another of their exercises is to drink
message that she should make her water through the nostrils, and after it
choice. He received a warm letter of has been retained for a short time it la
thanks from her, stating that the neck expelled through the nostrils and the
laces were so beuutlful that she could mouth. This is said to cool the head.—
not decide between them and hence Chambers’ Journal.
would keep both, which she did.
Theorle* About Drowned Bodie*.
It was a popular theory in days gone
by that the body of a drowned man
would float the ninth day. Sir Thomas
Browne alludes to it as believed In his
time, and in his “Pseudo-doxla Epi
demics” there Is a discussion on this
fanciful notion. It was also believed
that the spirits of those drowned at sea
were doomed to wander for a hundred
years owing to the rites of burial hav
ing never been properly bestowed upon
their bodies.— Notes aud Queries.
A
Martyr.
“She Is the most sacrificin’ woman
fer miles around.”
“In what way?”
“Waal, whenever they git up a lawn
fete or sumpen like for the church in
which the expenses are more’n the pro
ceeds the committee alwus sends her
up to acquaint the pastor with the re
sult.”—Baltimore Herald.
A True
Growl** Banana*.
Bananas ure as a rule planted ou*
systematically in rows, the "suckers”
being placed at an average of ten feet
apart. The banana plant bears only
one bunch at a time, but it is a quick
grower, yielding Its fruit in twelve to
fourteen months. When the plant la
about six months old, a second "suck
er” or shoot is allowed to spring from
the root, a third after the ninth month,
and so on, so that after the first year
there is a continuous crop being reaped.
Fan* In Shakeapeare’a Tina*.
Fans In Shakespeare's time seem to
have been composed of ostrich and oth
er feathers fastened to bandies. Gen
tlemen carried fans In those days, and
In one of the later figures of the ger-
num they now carry fans. According
to an old manuscript in the Ashmolean
museum. Sir Edward Cole rode the cir
cuit with a prodlgous fan, which bad a
long stick, with which he corrected bls
daughters.
Philosopher.
The greatest thing we ever saw in
the way of a philosopher was a one
armed man In a manicure establish
ment who gloated because he got hiH
work done for half price.—Washington
Post.
Of More Importance.
“Get nty name right,” said the proud
owner of the 1.175 pound bog. “It’s
Judson Ii. Bimm. My father was Colo
nel Hiram IIotcbkiBs Bimm of Lexing
ton, Ky. He came to Illinois In the
year"—
■xtreme*.
“Newer mind that,” Interrupted the
Mrs. A.—My husband Is positively secretary of the fat stock show. "Give
impossible. lie knows nothing.
us the pedigree of the hog."—Chicago
Mrs. B.—Mine is simply unbearable. Tribune.
He knows everything.—Tit-Bits.
On the principle of “In Rome do as
the Romans do” I think It a safe rule
to pronounce the name of a place as
the residents of that place do. says a
writer. Hence we should speak of St.
Louis as though it were written “St.
To say silly things Is about as bad as
Lewis,” not “St. Louee.” All good Mis
sourians say “St. Lewis.” It is a little to do them.—Punxsutawney Spirit.
difficult to put down in black and
white the local pronunciation of New
Love is a tickling sensation at the
Orleans, but It Is something like this, heart that cannot be scratched.
"New Awl-yins,” with the strong ac
cent on the “Awl.”
Ostrich Plume*.
All the biack nnd white plumes come
An Appropriate Text.
from tlie male ostrich, the gray from
A preacher in nn eastern city was a the female. The feathers are not pluck
little fellow, so little that a box had ed out, as you might imagine, but are
to be hastily brought from the cellar clipped off with a sharp knife, leaving
for him to stand on. The services pro the end of the quill In the flesh, where
ceeded safely until the sermon, when it remains for two or three months, un
he mounted the box nnd announced his til it "dies,” when It is pulled out with
text. "A little while ye shall see me. forceps.
and a little while and ye shall not see
•rne British war office has Issued a
me." At this point the box broke, and
the prophecy was verified amid the "manual of chiropody” for the soldiers,
smothered laughter of the congrega the Importance of care of the feet dur
tion.
ing marches being the Incentive.
Occasional Relief.
Visitor to the Prison—I suppose this
life of yours iu here Is a continual
torture.
Convict—Oh. no! Not so bad ns that.
We don’t have visitors every day. you
know.—Boston Transcript.
*
Satisfaction In It.
I
“You know, my dear," said her
friend, “wealth does not mean happi
ness.”
“Well,” said the young lady who was
considering a possl’ le proposal, “it
means carte blanche with one’s milli
ner and one's dressmaker!”
Harry R Fisher of St. Louis owns a
chair supposed to have been made In
1809 by Abraham Lincoln’s mother and
used by the president when he was u
boy. The chair Is about thirty Inches
high snd entirely of hickory.