I
BANDON RECORDER.
Fires U Itlch Sever Go Out.
There i ure domestic tires burning In
Engluud today which have never been
out fur hundreds upon hundreds of
years.
At the old fashioned farmhouses In
the dales of Yorkshire peat is still
burned, Tlie fuel is obtained from the
moors, aud stacks of it are kept by the
farmers In tlieir stack garths.
The country roundabout is noted for
Its "girdle cukes," which are made
from dough baked in quaint pans sus
pended over the peat tires.
These tires are kept glowing from
generation to generation, and the son
warms himself ut tlie tire which warm-
<■<1 his sire and his grandsire and his
grandsire's sire and which will warm
his son and his son's son.
There is a tire at Castleton, in the
Whitby district, which lias been burn
I ig fur over 2< hi years. The record
probably is held by a farmhouse at Os-
motberby, in the same district. This
Are lias been burning for 500 years,
and there are records to show that It
has not ticen out duriug the last 3n0
years.
Could Not I’ hnm the Exit nil nation.
A southern woman speaks with pride
of the many years of faithful, loving
service rendered by her dusky iiouse-
keeper, Not only Is “Aunt t'a'llne”
valued for her executive ability. but
her judgment Is so wise in most caset >■
that her mistress has come to deiiend
greatly upon her opinion in certain
matters.
“Do you think Janies would lie a
good man for us to take up into the
mountains with us this summer, Aunt
Cu'llne?” she asked one day, referring
to a bandsome young darky who had
been for six weeks in her employ.
Aunt t'a'line folded her arms and as
sumed her most Judicial aspect. “Missy
Kate.” she said firmly, "I done watch
dat boy eber since he come hyer, an’ 1
done test him. When I tested him in
de ease ob dv spring bed 1 foun’ out
dat when it come to liftin’ dat boy was
all take hold an' mighty little rnise,
Missy Kate, an’ dat's a pore sign ob
character, tn my opinions."
Like Any Other Man,
The following story Is told in refer
ence to Mr. Lowell's second marriage;
At the time when rumors of the event
became current among Ids friends one
of them, a stanch admirer of the first
Mrs. Lowell and a firm believer In her
husband's permanent widowerhood,
look it upon herself to deny the gossip
every time It met her. Finally, how
ever. the announcement came to her
from such extremely good authority
that her faitli was shaken.
She wrote frankly to Mr. Lowell that
she hud heard the reports and persist
ently denied them, but now began to
doubt her right to do so. She begged
him to let her know the true state of
affairs, whether she was to believe
Idin a never to lie-consoled husband or,
after all. "Just like any other man."
The answer was prompt and brief:
“Dear Madam—Yours, like any other
num.”
With the mouth of Juue comes the
flight of the summer sojourners to more
pleasant localities than the wind-swept
regions of San Fraucisco. There is
bustling around aud packing, the study
of guiile-lssiks and time-tables, the rush
for trains ami the pleasant journey for
the Mecca they have selected to pass a
few weeks away from ti e din ami uoise,
away from the confusion and dust, for
getting the duties and cares that bind
them for the remainder of the year.
Artists aud photographers, students of
many languages as well as the many
interested in that delightful study,
isitany, and whole searching parties
for subjects for their natural history,
and in the wissls and valleys of < alifor
ma they can fl ml enough in a sin
gle summer's jaunt to till a menagerie.
The other day I met a little lady all
ready tor a trip to tlie country, ami
she had parapiiemalla enough for two.
She was after bugs and butterflies anil
the like for some institution East ’I
they sending lier some plnceevery sum
mer. She was inquiring all about the
country traversed by the California
Northwestern Railway. Here Polly
was right at home, for haven't I si>ent
some <>t tlie most deligliIfu 1 hours of my
life in enjoying tlie magnificent scenery
and noting Hie objects of interest many
and varied along tills same road'.' 1 as
sured lier tliut site would have to go no
further than this favored section of
country and tliat she would find herself
lingering witli her chosen work when
the golden-rod came out to “light her
lamps along the road” and the frost
kissed tlie linger tipH of autumn caus
ing the leaves to blush crimson and
turn russet and gold. She would find
herself in (lie land of Imps and tlie fields
merry witli the pickers as they gath
ered tlie daiuty emerald cones. Here
she would And the streams teeming
witli bnsik trout, planted and replen
ished by the California Northwestern
Fish Hatciiery.
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Do you ever realize how iiiucli liap-
' piness and coiileiitliienl we I omi dav by
day by our failure to enjoy the pretMtnl.
W» are not sure of tiemorrow, then
I w liy not enjoy to-day? This forever
and a day hsikiug into tlie future for
the realization of our luqs-s and de-
pending on someth lug afar off' for pleas
ure, wrecks the present fol' us. Still we
go blindly on, regietting the past and
peering into the future. To-day the de
sire of <>u. heart may lie granted. The
friends we love are with us, tlie day Is
l>erfect, dull care lias taken wings, and
there is a ring of pure joy in everyone’s
voice. But this is not enough. Sud
denly tlie little cloud of discontent a|>-
pears. It is not to-day, but the future
we are lisiking forward to, some event
that must transpire la-fore we can lie
perfectly satisfied
We ire not con
tented. But I hear you say, “we must
look into the future or we would lose
all our ambition; we would become
rusty anil back-numliers, iu fact mere
iionothingH.” Yes, I admit tliat, but
ill looking into the future we do not
have to forget tliat we have something
to lie tlimikful for to-dsy. Make tlie
most of tlie happiness and mercies tliat
have fallen to your portion. Let there
lie a song of gladness in your lieart that
will show to those around you tliat you
are in lune witli the song of birds, the
laughter ot children and the merry jest
of the fun-loving friends, who believe
that there is a time to lie sad, lint til is
day is not one of tlie times. We can
throw off' a great deal of tills gloomy
forelsMlmg by exerting a little will
power and cultivating it, too, and by
this same will-power we ca’i curb to a
great extent t e restless spirit tliat is
dialing at something all the time until
we are a bundle of nerves and succeed
in imparting it to others, causing all
tlie soothing restful feeling to take
wings. We owe it to ourselves as well
as to others to get all tlie enjoyment we
can out of tlie present.
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” •
"Cyutliia B —
Your letter In tlie
query-box was laid over last week for
lack of space. Many times these queries
come in at the last moment and the de
lay must follow in answering them.
However, they will never go unan
swered. You want to know how to go
about slipping plants that are difficult
to risit by using a grain of wheat. This
is tlie way a well-known florist told
Polly, and he managed to slip many of
his cuttings from roses, etc. Cut the
slip to such a length that you w ill have
two buds to bury in the ground. Slit
the slip to tlie first bud with a very
sharp knife ami insert the grain of
wheat. Plant in a sandy mold and
keep very moist, This florist said he
scarcely ever Lest a slip when he tried
thisplan mid usually got strong, healthy
plants.
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FACTS IN FEW LINES NEW SHORT STORIES WASHINGTON LETTER
THE HUMBLE HAIRPIN.
Yuu Thitnuht You
Its Many
I ses. but There Are Others.
The comprehensive merits of the
hairpin are known to all observant
Ulen. Its s|ieelal value ill surgery Is
asserted by a writer in American Med-
lclne. It seems that a Kiirgeou can do
almost anything with a hairpin. He
can wire bones with it. probe and close
wounds, pin bandages, compress blood
vessels, use it "to remove foreign bod
ies from any natural passage" and "as
a curette for scraping away soft ma
terial."
And no doubt tlie women
doctors can do a great deal more with
that most gifted ami versatile of hu
man Implements. Anthropologists have
never done Justice to the hairpin. It
keeps civilization together.
In the
Im mis of girls entirely great it Is much
or. for that
mightier than the
Is the plow
matter, tlie plow,
forked stick,
but a development
stick but a
and what is the
modification of the hairpin? If there
was any necessity a woman could
scratch the ground successfully with a
liairpin now. In fact, there is no work
or play in which something may not
be aceoinpl ¡sited by means of it.
Dullards will tell you that women
aren't so inventive as men; don't take
out so many patents. They don’t have
to. With the liairpin all that is do-able
can lie done. With a hairpin a woman
en n pick a lock, puli a cork, peel ati ap-
pie. draw out a nail, beat an egg. see
If a joint of meat is done, do tip a baby,
sharpen a pencil, dig out a sliver, fas
ten a door, bang up a plate or picture,
open a ciln, take up a carpet, repair a
baby carriage, clean a lamp chimney,
put up a curtain, rake a grate tire, cut
a pie, make n fork, a fishhook, an awl.
a gimlet or a chisel, a paper cutter, a
clothespin, regulate a range, tinker a
sewing machine. stop a leak in the
roof, turn over a flapjack, calk a hole
In a pair of trousers, stir batter, whip
cream, reduce tlie pressure in the gas
meter, keep bills and receipts on tile,
spread butter, cut patterns, tighten
windows, clean a watch, untie a knot.
varnish floors, do practical plumbing,
reduce the asthma of tobacco pipes,
pry shirt studs into buttonholes too
small for them, fix a horse's harness,
restore damaged mechanical toys, wres
tle with refractory beer stoppers, im
provise suspenders, shovel bonbons, in
spect gas burners, saw cake. Jab
tramps, produce artificial buttons, hooks
and eyes; sew, knit and darn, button
gloves and shoes, put up awnings, doc-
tor an automobile, In short, site can
do what she wants to. She needs no
other instrument.
If a woman went into the Robinson
Crusoe line, she could build a hut and
make her a coat of the skin of a goat
by means of the hairpin. She will rev
olutionize surgery with It in time.
Meanwhile the male eliirurgeons are
doing the best they can, lint it is not
to be believed that they have mastered
the full mystery of the hairpin.
“From your description it is a place
to live in, work in and die in,” she in
terrupted, “ami I shall go prepared to
tay all summer, and possibly fall or
until tbe rain drives me out of this par
adise. I shall not lie alone, for I have
two or three artists who are to go witli
me, and we expect to pitch our tent liy
some of your trout streams and then
commence to live. These art students
are as enthusiastic as I am over tills
summer outing, and they expect to
slidw some canvases tills year tliat will
win tliem not only praise, but money.”
When Women Were kilrmiiKHiit.
Here was my opportunity again to get
Sucli a line and cry us is raised about
in a word, and I liad something to say
“Dotty Dimple" wants to know why the extravagance of the Women of our
of interest to tlie artists. “Tliat re we can't have a “Foxy Grandpa,” or day. and yet at tlie court of St. James,
minds me” (this phrase always seems something like that in this paper. Well, i in a dress of velvet embroidered with
They Don't Like Rain.
necessary to hold tlie Ínteres; until you dear little “Dotty Dimple,” your query I gold, which is said to have cost no less
“There's a queer thing about Italian
than $1.500, Marie de' Medicis had a
can launch iqsiii your theme and gives got in tlie wrong box. The editor of
laborers,” said a contractor who em
gown sown with 32,000 |«*arls and
tlie
impression
tliat
you
have
tbe
right
your paper will have to answer that 3.000 diamonds, and her example was
ploys a great many of them, “and that
is that they absolutely refuse to work of waj and common courtesy demands question for you.
followed by lesser personages, who
- In tlie rain. Stop a minute and think. tliat you lie given a hearing) “tliat
cheerfully expended more than their
Did you ever see a gang of them work reminds me,” I continued, “that there
incomes on gowns so laden with pre
BRIEF REVIEW.
ing in the streets, digging trenches or is an artist who lias recently arrived
clous stones that their wearers could
doing any other manual labor in the from the old country and who lias
scarcely move about in them. Mme.
Vegetarianism and Divorce.
rain? Well, yon never did and proba- grown gray while lie mixed liis eolois
de Montespan, the beauty who reigned
bl.v never will. Just ns soon as a show-
Judge Halsey of Milwaukee, granted at the court of Louis XIV., wore at
and wielded his brushes as lie portrayed
er sets in, no mutter how sllglit. they
one great court festive I "a gown of
the scenes tiiat thrilled one in the pic Mrs. Louise Koss a divorce from Theo
will scramble for cover, If the rain
dore K ohs , a • ¡rove-street seed merchant gold on gold and over that gold frieze
turesque
Alps,
tiie
lights
and
shadows
continues, they will soon complain of
stitched witli n certain gold which
feeling sick and knock off for the day. of London life, the studies tiiat lie made on tlie ground of cruel treatment, the makes the most divine stuff that lias
defendant
having
withdrawn
liis
an-
in
gay
Faris
in
bis
rooms
in
the
stu
One fellow will have a sore throat, an
ever been imagined," according to the
other will be doubled up with pains in dents' quarter ami the sublime coloring swerand permitted tlie case logo by de panegyrics written by the pen of Mme.
ills stomach, and others will suddenly of the copies he made from the old mas fault. One of the charges involved in de Sevigne.
acquire severe ailments of all sorts. ters, has just returned from a few weeks this case is tlie husband's insistance
It is useless to attempt to do anything spent in tlie hills and valleys and tlie that liis wife should live tlie life of a
<11.1 Tinies nt file Capital.
with them, and pretty soon they will
Ill recalling the lively and pictur
fern-clad canyons of the vicinity of tlie vegetarian. “My husband objected se
all go trooping home.” — Philadelphia
esque incidents which the old timers
California Northwestern Railway. ‘I riously to my eating meat,” said Mrs.
Record.
enjoyed in Washington one is moved
K
ohs
,
and
when
I
went
out
to
visit
any
am going back to a|>end weeeks,’ he
almost to tears over the commonplace
Living Indelible Ink.
said. ‘YVhat is the matter with your friends, sometimes to see my own fam nature of liis own times. John Adams
If the shell of the Purpura laplllus be artists who can never rest until they ily, he suspected that I would eat meat
used to bathe in tlie Potomac every
broken there Is seen on the back of tlie
have crossed over into the old world? while I was away. He insisted on my morning at daylight because they bad
animal, just under the skin, a slender,
getting home at 7 o’clock, under the no bathtub ip the White House, and
whitish vein which contains a yellow This is a grand country for the man
penalty of being locked out. I was no one ever pulled a kodak on him.
who
is
a
true
lover
of
art
and
they
liax
’
e
liquor. When this liquor is applied to
President Taylor used to walk about
linen with a small brush and exposed tile richest of Helds for their laisil* nglit never home later than 8 o'clock, and I !
the town and stop and chat with every
to the sun it becomes successively at their door you might say. Look at was locked out twoorthreetimes. I was
one he met, like a policeman. A recep
green, blue and purple, and finally set your Russian river, now creeping along not a tieliever in vegetarianism.
tion ill the White House in these days
ties into a brilliant unchangeable crim like some silver riblsiu, then plunging
Is relieved of monotony only by the
son.
Housewives of New England and dashing itself into foam as it tum
Uses of Sunflower-Seed Oil.
great crush of guests, who trample the
have growing abundantly on tlie sea
Cottonseed oil according to the Slate clothes off one another's backs. An
bles madly over its rocky lied lietween
side rocks in tlieir neighborhoods little
Department reports, Is soon to find a I other president set up in the east room
ts
verdure-clad
banks.
The
sky
is
as
living bottles of indelible ink, not
rival in oil from the seed of the sun a six hundred |x>und cheese and In
to be excelled In beauty or durability blue as forge»-nie-nots, and the scene is
vited the multitude to come in and help
by any manufactured product, since constantly changing. You don’t have flower. Experiments made by German I
Itself, which the multitude proceeded
neither acid nor alcohol will affect this eternal spring with the velvety ear- chemist.- have convinced them, it seems
to do.
Juice of the whelk.
|iet strewn with the first wild flowers, of the availability of thischeapraw ma
The OrsnK Ontana.
liu there comes a change from this terial, and it may become a valuable
Mlsseil n Good Dinner.
It is a most interesting sight to
article of commerce. It is said to be
verdant
green
to
the
sunburned
hills
A doctor living in a certain country
watch an orang outang make its way
town was notoriously fond of good liv witli its lightsandshadows; then comes convertable to many uses, and, besides through the jungle. It walks slowly
ing. lie bad accepted an Invitation to your fall with its russet amt gold, tints having possibilités as a lamp oil, may along the larger branches in a semi
dine with friends, but as he climbed and autumnal colors. This is a grand lie used for dying and cleaning purpos erect attitude, tills being apparently
their steps he smelt venison cooking In country, and you don’t know it. Wait es and will beof service in soap making. caused by the length of Its arms and
the kitchen next door.
until I return to my own country and
the shortness of its legs, it invariably
The neighbors being also his friends show tlie pictures I have painted under
A phase of tlie tornado’s record is tile selects those branches which intermin
lie resolved to drop in on them unex
your California skies, and you will hear list of lives and |iroperty destroyed. gle with those of a neighboring tree,
pectedly to partake of the venison.
on approaching which it stretches out
They pressed him to share their In the people rave over them. Here you During eight years of tlie past decade its long arms. and. grasping the boughs
formal dinner, but when lie refused would say, ‘bow natural,’ and that the property loss from this cause has opposite, seems first to shake them as
to nearly $30,000,000, dis
i
both soup and tisli his host began to would end it. I want no richer field amounted
If to test tlieir strength, and then de
apologise for the simple fare.
than tliis region I am going into. What trihuted over some thirty states of tile liberately swings Itself across to the
The doctor then confessed that lie is tlie matter with your camera eltilis Union, and during tlie same time be- next branch, which it walks along as
was waiting for the venison, which lie tiiat they iiave not discovered this in tween two and three thousand people before. It does not Jump or spring ns
had smelt ns lie came In.
exhaustible source of picturesque and have been killed by these atmospheric monkeys usually do. and never appears
“Oh, that venison.” said bls enter
to hurry itself unless some real danger
magnificent scenery? Why don’t they outbursts.
i
talner. "we were roasting to oblige our
presents. Yet in spite of its apparently
go
there
and
camp
until
liad
weather
neighbor«, who have a dinner parly
slow movements it gets along far
Recent
investigations
made
by
the
drives
tliem
home?
”
next door.”—London Answers.
quicker than a person running through
Department of Agriculture show that
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the forest beneath.
The Rlli.
mushrooms are about equal to potatoes
Right
here
I
could
have
told
him
The Living Church quotes this from
in the element of nutrition that goes to
fie Hcfifloned Wronjj.
a Connecticut woman's diary, dated that this part of the country would Is* make flesh and blood, but that, on the
“It's all knowing liow to reason,”
1790: “We had ronst pork for dinner, dotted with amateur photographers as other hand, they do not hold much of said tlie Pittsburg man as lie sighed
and Dr. S., who carved, held up a rib well as by several experts who bad
the fuel stuff required to keep the body in a sorrowful way.
on his fork and said, ‘Here, ladles. Is made a study of this lovely pastime,
“I owned a house and lot In a town
machine running.
what Mother Eve was made of.’ ‘Yes,’
In our state and was getting a good
but he didn't give me an opportunity,
said Sister Patty, ‘and It's from very
for he walked out of thensim evidently
Hume sjient fifteen years in collect rent for them when a congregation built
much the same kind of critter.’ ”
a church right on the line. I reasoned
disgusted with the<'alifornian’s lack of ing materials and writing his “History
It out that the place was spoiled, and
appreciation of the land lieautiful. Here of England,” and two years more in re
To Show It.
when I was offered threc-flftlis of its
Bingo Bingo- I'm going to bring my lie was mistaken, however, for he will vising and correcting it.
former value I made haste to close the
wife round to call on you tonight.
doubtless flud many art studentsand
deal. I putted myself on the hack over
Winterby—That's right; but do me a amateur photographers during hissum-
A liad lieginning makes a gissl end that bit of good luck.”
favor, old man. Don't let her wear mer’s sojourn in the vicinity of the
"And wasn't It good luck?”
ing sometimes, but more often it makes
her new dress. I don't want my
"Not a bit of It. I'm a clean thou
California Northwestern Railway this a very quick ending.
wife to see it just now.
sand dollars out of pocket for reason
year.
He
will
find
also
that
this
sec
Bingo (grimly)—Why, that's what we
ing bind end to. The chap who bought
tion «* ill lie tilled with campers, and
Don't cultivate making enemies; it
are coming for.
my place bad twin babies, a piano, a
the comfortable farm-houses and the isn't pleasant to pass men you don't
Mutual Surprise.
Addle and a lull-king dog, and the con
different resorts will be teeming with want to speak to.
She—When 1 married you, I had no
gregation hadn't ..... ..
that church
over four Sundays when it raised a
Idea that you would stay away from guests, every bit as appreciative of tlie
beauty and wealth of scenery as this
purse and Itought him out for twice
borne so much.
artist from the old country.
the value of the place.”- ftoston Globe.
He—Wei), neither bad I.—Life.
\\ omen are now adopting mice as
I pets.
Natal was annexed by the British
fifty-nine years ago.
Onions are a preventive and often
times a cure for malarial fever.
U. S. Jackson of Boston lias invented
a device to secure privacy on tlie tele
phone.
A H um I oii Peculiarity,
When James Kiernan, tlie Tweedle-
punch of the "Florodora" cast, was iu
Boston recently, the wit of the inhab
itants took him unawares, and he bare
ly escaped a violent death In conse
quence.
Emerging from the theater one after
noon, Mr. Kiernan decided that he
would journey toward the de|s>t and
meet a friend whom he was expecting.
Not being familiar with the street car
facilities, he stopped a newslsiy and in
quired what line lie would take to get
there.
The young man looked up quickly
and replied. "Y’ouse go into the sub
way and take the elevated.”
Kiernan deliberated ns to whether it
Would be best to spoil his shine or net.
and before lie made up his mind the
boy hud disappeared. The comedian
walked a few steps and approached a
policema n.
"(Tin you toll me which car will take
me to the depot?" lie inquired.
"Go into tlie subway and take tlie
elevated." replied the officer, ns though
he hud been used to answering the
siiine question a hundred times a day.
“Then I suppose if 1 wanted n sur
face car I would have to go to the top
of n skyscraper and come down in a
parachute.” ventured the comedian tes
tily.
"You're too fresh, young man,” de
clared the blilecont, grappling his club
meaningly. And Kiernan went on Ills
ay r without further hesitancy,
hesitancy. Later
lie I learned that Boston was tlie one
city in America where the elevated
road was reached via the subway.
The Brasilian coast city of Bahia bus
about 2O0.U00 inhabitants, who live iu
17,000 houses.
Since the art of abbreviation is per
fected in America dealers in pineapples
call 'em pines.
Lead deposits have been found in
Sinking valley, Lycoming county. Fa.,
and will lie developed.
Tlie Netherlands rank in importance
second only to Great Britain as a mar
ket for American flour.
Philadelphia now boasts n Wayfar
ers' lodge, where tlie hungry may get
food in exchange for work.
Chicago city council is contemplating
tlie establishing of nine small parks for
tlie benefit of the "no-room-to live”
poor.
Tlie Bulletin des Halles of Paris es
timates tlie number of horses In the
world at 74.GOO.< h ) o mid tlie number of
mules and asses at 12,100,<MM).
A philanthropic society in Philadel
phia peddles ice in tile summer to the
poor at a cent for several pounds and
pure sterilized milk nt a cent a bottle.
A church is to lie erected at Aider
shot, England, in memory of tlie Ro
man Catholic soldiers mainly Irish
men who lost tlieir lives in South Af
rica.
Telephone wires have been strung
through tlie San Gabriel forest reserve,
California, for tin- purpose of warning
Hume lu II Hole.
the rangers of tlie presence of forest
In "Scottish Men of Letters" Mr.
tires.
Graham, the author, relates a story
From the census of 1S90 the United showing that though David Ilume was
popular among the upper classes in
States department of agriculture esti
ninteil that we had within our bol qiile of his skepticism and supposed
der» 5.5 ihi . ihh ) trolling bred or roadster atheism he was not tolerated by the
horses.
If one were to swallow a lice or a
wasp while eating fruit and tlie little
beastie were to sting one in tlie throat,
decidedly tlie best tiling to do is to ent
a small onion.
Tlie Mi<lland Counties (England)
Trades federation Ims voiced its opin
ion that if works were started with
the money tlmt would in the usual way
be spent in strikes there xvould lie no
strikes to spend money on.
The cereals (wheat, corn. outs, rye
and barley) raised in the United States
during (lie post live years ro-i-'-senl ii
value to tlie farmer of SG.25o.000,000,
or an increase of nearly I. uihi . ihhi . ooo
over the preceding live years.
Intemperance in anything brings Its
own punishment h.v lessening the
pleasure tliat tiling can afford, tine
practical lesson appears to be tills: If
a favorite odor or flavor is no longei
fully appreciated, it should lie foregone
altogether for a period.
“Mounted on Jet black chargers, with
snow leopard skins on tlieir saddles,
they are one of tlie smartest troops in
India.” writes a correspondent describ
lug tlie Imperial Cadet corps, organized
In India by Lord Curzon for the sons of
native princes.
“I’LL DAE NAETHINO FOB YE IF YE D1NNA
BAY THE LOHll’S I'HAYEll."
In Lisbon, Portugal, a peculiar fea
ture of an ordinance-regarding spitting orthodox of the lower class: "Gue dark
In public conveyances is tliat the flue night us he walked along a footpath
is to lie Imposed on tlie conductor,'who over a boggy ground Ids ponderous
is held responsible unless lie can prove frame foil and stuck fast in tli<* mud.
tliat lie has informed tlie police of the His calls brought a woman to tlie spot,
infraction of the rule.
who sympathetically asked. 'Are you
Tlie Spanish Society of Dramatic and Hume, the infidel?’ ‘Well, well, good
Musical Authors has intimated to tlie woman, Christian charity bids us help
‘I'll due
Spanish government tliat it will not our enemies.’ he pleaded.
allow any of its plays or dramas to lie naetliing for ye if ye dinna say tlie
performed at Madrid unless the gov Lord's I’rayer and the belief, but leave
ernment grants a subsidy to tlie new ye where 1 fund ye.’ T he philosopher
national theater now in course of con readily obeyed, and the body of the
deist was laboriously extracted from
struction.
No hurtful microbes were found in the mire by tlie Christian.”
tlie air of the bouse of commons when
it was analyzed. The fact was estnb-
lished, bowever, tlmt the atmosphere
of the chamber was too rarefied and
dead, These defects, due to the meth
ods of tiltration and ventilation, are to
be remedied.
Tlie Paris Academic des Sciences is
examining a remarkable theory to the
effect that the key to human stature
lies in the gland situated in tlie throat
under tlie larynx. By artificially stim
ulating tills gland it is claimed tliat
any child can lie made to grow to maxi
mum height.
Boston is a shade more foreign than
Chicago, It has 35.1 per cent of for
eign born, while Chicago has only 34.C
per cent, But New York is more for
eign than either. The percentage of
foreign born is 37 per cent, Tiles*
three run a close race for the lead. San
Francisco comes in with 31.2 per cent.
A device invented by Karl Froscheek
for preventing people being run over
when knocked down by an electric
tramway car lias been tested in Berlin
mid found satisfactory. By means of
s revolving cylinder in front of the cm
tlie person knocked down is gently
pushed aside without injury or bruis-
Ing.
At the present time many valuable
species of big game in South Africa
are threatened witli extinction. It Is'
proposed to establish regulations for
tlieir preservation, and it is suggested
that camps should lie set apart for the
purpose of breeding certain species in
order that the country may be re
stocked with game.
There Is just now mi observable
tendency on the part of our foreign
population to distribute itself by na
tionalities to n certain extent. Two-
thirds of the Irish remain in tlie east.
Two-thirds of tlie Germans go west.
Of 1,000,000 Scandinavians S7o.ooo are
in tlie west and northwest. Tlie Rus
glans. Poles, Hungarians mid Italians
are chiefly found In New Englund.
New York and Pennsylvania.
The
Bohemians and Hollanders settle in
the central west.
One ot Our I'et I’lirane*.
[Special Correspondence.)
“Uncle Joe” Cannon was chairman
of the select committee which had in
charge the refurnishing of representa-
tlvt-s hall.
Among the other things
promised the members for this session
was an elaborate system of ventilation
by which cold air could be forced up
through a series of duets so as to re
duce the temperature of the hall and
make It comfortable in hot weather.
The members have been waiting for
the cold air, but so far none lias been
felt. Tlie temperature In the house la
tlie same as in the senate and In the
corridors of the eapitol. Congressman
Walson walked over to Mr. Cannon
one afternoon when there were more
members in the restaurant than there
.were in the house. The Indlaiilun'a
collar was melted, and his face was
beaded with perspiration.
" 'Uncle Joe,’ ” lie asked seriously,
"where Is tliat cold air we voted money
for last session?”
"Yes. where is It?” echoed Mr. Can
non as lie mechanically mopped bis
forehead with his handkerchief. “I
told those darned fools on tlie commit
tee th.it 1 was not iu favor of buying
anything I could not see. but they were
bound to do it!”
Threatened Boycott Won.
The rich Senator Clark wants to put
up a flat building in Washington’s most
aristocratic and exclusive spot—on Du
pont circle, next to the Leiters’ and a
couple of doors from the new marble
palace of R. W. Patterson of the Chi
cago Tribune and only a few steps
from the new home of the Wadsworths.
A g kinds of excitement! Indignation
meetings to protest at tlie impudence
of these new rich and to devise ways
anil means to block him! So he was
told lie would be given the “double
cross” in a social way if be did it. Not
a dinner of his would they go to. not a
dance would their daughters attend,
not a card would their footmen leave
nt his door, and all their friends—in so
far as they could be persuaded—would
stick up their noses and say cutting
things about tlie senator from Monta
na. Tlie threat was good. Tlie site is
Mill vacant. The architect was told
to call off his plans.
Dent ruction of Trees.
Representative Lacey of Iowa is a
cherry picker, or was when a boy.
This does not apply to political cher-
ries, but to the real things.
"In my native state we used to go out
from school to gather cherries,” said
Mr. Lacey during a debate on the floor,
"(»nee 1 remember wondering why the
teacher took along an ax. I soon found
out. It was to cut tlie trees down, so
Hint we could pick tlie cherries easily.
I mil sure there are lots of members
here who have had a similar experi
ence.”
Tlie Iowan’s illustration was to show
tlie reckless destruction of trees of all
kinds. He Insisted tliat men were in
clined to regard trees as tlieir enemies.
Tlmt came from tlie pioneer Idea of
subduing tlie forests as they had to
subdue ttie savages. In these days be
insisted that trees were civilized, as
well as men, and tlmt tlie fact should
lie recognized.
To Test I'neuiuat l<* Tube«.
Representative Greene of Massachu
setts Ims introduced a bill for tlie In
stallation of a pneumatic tube service
between tlie eapitol and the govern
ment printing office. There is a belief
at tlie eapitol tlmt if tlie pneumatic
tube service is to be inaugurated here
in Washington for purposes of demon
stration it could better be done be
tween tlie capitol and tlie government
printing office than between any other
two points in the city. The amount ot
manuscript mid other copy passing be
tween tlie buildings daily is enormous,
requiring constant messenger service.
The Power* Didn’t Meet.
In one of the deep window recesses
Just off tlie main entrance to the house
Wheeler’s Story on Himself.
Mr. Wheeler, the brilliant young is a sort of grumblers’ corner, where
Kentuckian, has his domicile in the secretaries to members meet nearly
midst of a great tobacco county, a every morning. They exchange griev
county tliat has produced 23,000.000 ances there mid in voluble language
pounds of tobacco in n year. Mr. discuss the personal characteristics of
Wheeler says he has counted in one lheir employers before these employers
day 1,800 wagons loaded with tobacco arrive. Sometimes this flow of con ver-
right in the chief city of this tobacco <ation becomes as noisy as the chatter
->f a flock of blackbirds. The plain
county.
Notwithstanding his familiarity with citizens who figure in the opening
the growing of tlie weed, a story of his scene of Julius Ctesiii* are not more
■mplmtlc than these clerks at $100 per
first law case comprises a joke upper
tabling thereto. Coming up to l'aducab month.
The other day there was no gathering
as a young lawyer, not yet twenty-one,
Mr. Wheeler was engaged as attor in tlie grumblers' corner, and one of
the facetious doorkeepers posted u sign
ney In a quarrel that arose in a toluic
co patch. The present congressman on the window:
"The powers will not meet today.”
waxed eloquent in behalf of liis client,
and the jurymen were all attention.
President* and AlllKatora.
"Why, gentlemen,” declared he, “1
The president held an informal re-
know all about the growing of tobacco. ception in bis office the other after-
I was raised in the midst of tobacco noon, mid a number of visitors were
on my father’s plantation. 1 almost presented to him. One lady introduced
grew on a tobacco vine."
herself ns from Jacksonville. Fla., and
“Then it was,” said Mr. Wheeler at said:
the eapitol the other day. “that I saw
"Mr. President. I have come all this
a smile come over the races of the way just to see you. I have never
jurymen. I had slipped. 1 ought to seen a live president before.”
have said plant. To this day they
Mr. Roosevelt seemed much amused.
bring tliat up against me as a good
“Well, well,” be said. ”1 hope you
joke out In Kentucky." Washington don't feel disappointed now that you
Post.
have seen one. Lots of people in these
parts go all tlie xvay to Jacksonville to
Couldn't Saltport the Resolution.
see a live alligator. I wonder which
Clerk McDowell of the bouse tells a kind of tourist feels the most sold.”
story of the Pennsylvania legislature
Loud laughter by tbe president.
when that body was controlled by the
Wew Grace Reformed Chureb.
Democrats. They elected a speaker
Ground bus been broken for tbe erec
mimed Patterson, who did not know tion of the new Grace Reformed church
anything of parliamentary law, but at the corner of Fifteenth and O
who posed as a second Reed. At the streets northwest, more commonly
close of the session one of the Demo known ns "tlie president's church” by
cratic members offered a series of res reason of Ills attendmiee there.
olutions lauding the speaker for his
Tlie new church will stand directly
services, but a Republican member op iu front of the small brick structure
posed their adoption.
now used by the Grace Reformed con
"I cannot.” he said nt the close of gregation as a place of worship. It
a ten minute speech, during which he will be built of granite mid Cleveland
emphasized nil tlie mistakes which the
graystoue aud will cost, including fur
Democrats had made. “1 cannot in
nishings. except the organ, about $40,-
dorse a speaker who has the vaultiug
GOO. The Interior will be finished off
ambition of Napoleon and the intellect
In quartered oak in sixteenth century
of Blind Tom.”
Gothic style.
CARL SCHOFIELD.
Miiniiulim Joliu.
“Did any of tlie inhabitants escape
"John,” slie said softly, “have you
with liis life?" Inquired tlie mini who
been saying anything about me to
wants harrowing details.
"I didn't stop to ascertain.” answered mother lately?”
“No.” replied John. “Why do you
the man who Is harrowingly exact. “It
struck me that if anybody esenped ask?”
"Because she said this morning that
without liis life there wasn't much use
she
believed you were on tlie eve of
In his escaping anyhow.”—Washington
proposing to me. Now. I do not wish
Star.
.
you to speak to mother when you have
The otxs time in a man's life when ht anything of that kind to say. Speak
Is satlst'ud to take a back seat is wheD to me, and I'll manage tlie business
be goes to church. Philadelphia Rec With mother."
ord.
And John said he would.
Infant I’rodficy.
Visitor (to little Freddy)—Let's see
wtiat you have learned in your school.
Now, can you tell me the difference
between B and C?
Freddy—Thath’s eatby. A bee Itli a
iulbect, an' a then ith full of water.—
N»w York Times.
Kxtreme* Meet.
“Were you positive enough when you
told the old man you Intended to marry
ills daughter?”
"Yes, but he was negative.”—Cincin
nati Commercial Tribune.