BANDON RECORDER.
îPOLLY LARKIN
Gather Sunnhtne.
Some persons are like the human
heart, Inasmuch as they sprinkle rest
and kindness and heart’s ease all
through their daily tasks. They weave
a bright thread of thankful happiness
through the web and woof of life's
pattern; they are never too busy to say
a kind word or to do a gentle deed;
they may be compelled to sigh be
times, but amhl their sighs are smiles
that drive away the cares; they find
sunbeams scattered In the trail of ev
ery cloud; they gather flowers where
others see nothing but weeds; thi-y
pluck little sprigs of rest where others
find only thorns of distress.
Like the human heart, they make
much of the little opisirtnuities pre
sented to them; they rest that they
may have strength for others; they
gather sunshine with wliicli to dlssl-
pate the|^a<lowB aliout them
The grandest conception of life Is to
esteem it as an opportunity for mak
ing others happy. He who Is most true
to bls higher self Is truest to the race.
The lamp that shines brightest gives
the most light to all about It. < ;<>od
Cheer.
“Du you ever get the blues, Folly?"
asked a little friend theother «lay. “Do
you know, 1 get an attack every now
and then and while it lasts 1 am the
most wretched ;>ersOii you can imag
ine. I am worse thana walking tomb-
stone in the home, and 1 ani sorry for
everyone who has to live in my vicinity.
I try hard enough to ward oil'the at
tack when I feel it creeping on, but it’s
no use. I am t«si blue even to relieve
myself by crying at first, tint liefore 1
get through the trying ordeal I have
a g«M«d old-fasliione<l cry that washes
the cobwelis from my brain, scatters
the dark clouds that have made every
thing so blue and unsightly, myself
ineliided in that last, for 1 am a fright
when I have the blues, hsik so doleful
and woebegone and like I didn’t have
a friend in the world. I feel disgusted
with myself anti wish 1 could find a
cure for this misery, for the sake of
others more than myself.”
the one made from the root of this same
plant. They dig down »«> as to get the
entire root after they have robls*«! it of
its crowning glory of green leaves and
stems and convert it into the string.
The roots are taken to the little creek
and here they are pounded to a pulp
tietween ther«M*ks, which are immersed
ill the water. All the pulp or meaty
part of the root is waslietl away leaving
only tough fibers. Then they patiently
proceed to twist them, for it requires
much time to make this, their strongest
of all strings, from the tough roots.
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THE GIRLS OF KASHMIR.
M b> They Are Sot aa Beautiful a*
They Oaea Were.
The girls of Kashmir in former times
Were sold and carried away to the
Punjab, in Iudla. They commanded a
large price, aud parents in moderate
circumstances for centuries past have
been in the habit of parting with their
daughters to place themselves In easier
circumstances, uinl the daughters have
generally been quite willing to escape
from a life of penury and labor to one
of opulence and ease.
A laboring man In this part of India
cannot enrn over $2 or $3 a month,
while ninny receive for their «laughters
as high ns
There are some cases
where $.5,000 was paid, but the usual
price has been from $100 to $300.
The practice became so common as
well ns so damaging that a severe law
was enacted prohibiting any one from
removing any woman from the coun
try. but It is said that the business
goes on now as It hns done for hun
dreds of years, and to that practice
may be chnrgi'd the fact that the wo
men of Kashmir are not as beautiful
ns they once were.
Th«- process of taking all the beauti
ful girls sway, leaving only the ordi
nary and ugly ones to continue the
race, has lowered the standard of beau
ty. Most of the women and girls per
form Held lalior ns much as the men,
and their dress Is of the coarsest and
plainest materials, consisting of a gar
ment like a nightgown made of white
cotton. There is no effort to have it fit.
The condition of women In Kashmir
Is a very sad one, but one from which
there does not seem to be any present
escape. It Is a constant struggle to
live, without the least hope of any ac
cumulation or of ever seeing better
days.
The men only receive about 5 cents a
day and the women generally about 3
cents, and that will provide only the
coarsest food.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
WASHINGTON LETTER HUMOR OF THE HOUR
ISpvelul Correspondence. J
Prescribed For.
A building occupied less than three
years already outgrown, un annual
rental of ever $C’8.000 for outside quar
ters. live divisions of bis department
temporarily established in buildings
apart from the executive offices of the
department aud in many cnses sep
arated from their division superin
tendents, approximately one-half of
the regular department quarters ap
portioned to other uses, a constant
growth in tiie work of the entire de
partment and corresponding increase
In the number of clerks and an unpre-
cedented enlargement of one particular
bureau i tliese lire the conditions which
now confront Postmaster General
Payne and compel him to plan for the
construction of a new building for
postottiee uses.
To this end lie has continued in FX-
Istence a commission of |>ostal em
ployees recently established to rent ad
ditional office space with instructions
to estimate the cost of building an an
nex soulli of tiie present postoffice
building. By the time congress con
venes next winter tiie postmnster gen
eral will liave prepared suitable rec
ommendations for tiie obviation of
many difficulties which now obstruct
tiie work of bis department
When Dr. Blank of Fourteenth street,
who isn't the most patleut of men at
any seuson of the year, goes away for
a vacation, nothing Infuriates him so
uitleh as the sight of an invalid. A
mo itb ago he went to Atlantic City
for a few days’ rest, and he bad no
sooner settled himself Into the condi
tion of living an ordinary mortal than
u chronic patient of bls appeared on
his horizon. He endured her complaints
all of one day in silence, but the next
morning she accosted him while he was
smoking ills cigar ou the veranda after
breakfast. I will say In her defense
Unit sin* Isn't married, anil she hasn't a
father, so she didn't know what she
was doing when she broke in on a
man's smoke.
"Oh, doctor,” said she, “I do wish
you'd tell me what to <lo! I Just can't
sleep at all. Why, last night I didn't
once close my eyes.”
The doctor glared at her.
"1 didn't close an eye,” she went on.
“1 do wish you'd tell me what to do."
Tiie doctor glared again.
"Good l ord, madam,” he thundered,
"try closing your eyes! How on earth
«Io you <*.\|H*«-t to sleep If you don’t?”—
Washington Post.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
It Is safer to prune too little than too
much.
Moist earth and a cloudy day for
transplanting.
Gooseberries and currants are two
easily grown fruitB, and there la sel
dom an oversupply.
The quality and size of fruit on old
bushes Is much Improved by thinning
of the fruit or severe pruning.
The cause of moss appearing on the
stems of apple and other fruit trees is
wet. cold, undrained land or an exces
sively humid climate.
In saving garden seed gather when
ripe. Do not allow It to shell off. The
first matured Is the best, and the tirst
matured will shell tirst.
A good mulch around fruit trees
helps to keep down weeds, keeps the
soil loose, motet and porous at all times,
with little labor of cultivation.
The time of setting out of fruit trees
is of far less Importance than to see
that the right varieties are selected,
the soil prepared and transplanting
well done.
One of the hardest tasks the univer
sity student has to accomplish is the
gathering together of their legends and
verifying them. Ill this lie feels that
he has uo time to spare, for the old
Indians are fast dying oil’ and carrying
the legends and pretty stories with
them. Few of the younger generation
are taking enough interest in tiie le
gendary lore of their people to even try
to familiarize themselves with the in
teresting legends of their race. They
seem to be perfectly indifferent, so the
A Weed That Kata Fish.
young student who has accepted this
An English naval officer, writing
task is making every effort to secure all
from Suakiu. Red sea country, contrib
utes the following remarkable instance
the «lata possible from theolder I ndians.
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of a plant preying upon oue of the ver-
They will form a valuable addition to
The Floatlsnc Garden« of Cashmere.
Do I ever have the blues? Yea, ver
tebrata. The Instance noted was ob
Tie Followed Direction«.
The thousands of floating gardens on
the institution In that branch of the
Murphy being sick and alone in his served by hiui when surveying the
Irrtaatlon Field Work.
the rivers of Cashmere are formed by ily. I believeeverybody, big and little, work and they will mean many hours
F. IL Newell, chief liydrograpber of cabin. .Iogan volunteered to take care Paracel islands, in the south China sea:
long sedges wliicli are woven together must pleail guilty to the offense once in of hard and conscientious labor.
the geological survey, lias gone to the < f him. 'I'lii* patient liad been getting "As I neared a pool cut off by the tide
tn the form of n gigantic mat. These awhile. I often think after an attack
««««
Western states for tiie purpose of mak very little sl«*ep. so the doctor left some from the sea I noticed among other
sedge grasses, flags, stalks, lilies, etc., of the blues that I have been guilty of
The above reminds Polly of an inci
ing a preliminary investigation of the powders and told Hogan to give Mur submarine plants a very ordinary look
are woven on the river or lake banks positive selfishness. What right have
ing flesh colored weed. Bending to
irrigation problem. The irrigation law phy one aliout bedtime.
while their roots are still growing In I to gratify myself in being despondent dent in tiie life of one of California’s
About 7 o'clock In the evening Hogan inspect it closer, I noticed numbers of
imssed by tiie last session of congress
the slime underneath. The n*qulre«l and unhappy when it is making others most promising and gifted native
pro . ¡ding for tiie application of the went out for a few minutes, and when small tlsli lying helpless In its fronds,
amount of earth is then superimposed
around me extremely wretched and daughters. She had spent years of her
proceeds
of tiie sales of tiie public lie returned Murphy was fast asleep. apparently with little or no life In
Upon the mat, the stalks are then cut,
life and a neat little sum in securing
lands to the reclamation of the arid ll<* slept soundly until 10 o'clock, when them, Putting my hands down to pick
sud the mat and Its load are a full casting a ghsim over everyone I come data for a book of indiaii legends and
lands lias devolved upon tiie survey the Hogan went to the bedside, shook the one of them up, I found my lingers
fledged "floating garden.” They are in contact with? Then I proce«id to
stories intending to i.lustrate her work.
caught by suckers on tiie weed, the
necessity of determining tiie location sleeping mini vigorously and shouted:
usually about 20 by 50 yards in extent, make out a new set of rules and prom
"Wa aki* up here. Moorphy. till Oi fronds of which had closed tightly
of the extensive reservoirs to lie Io-
seldom larger, the full depth of the ise myself to live up to them. One of She had a trunk full of the priceless bits
cated under tiie terms of tiie law, and give yez these powdhers t’ ma-ake ye upon them.
mat and Its earthly covering being them is to look for some one <|tiite as of legends and stories, parts of wliicli
“The tish had been caught In every
several engineering parties already sleep!" Colorado Springs Gazette.
about three feet.
miserable as myself, or the sick and she bad already written up and hail
conceivable way—by the head, the full,
have been sent out to do preliminary
A dishonest Caslimiri will sometimes afflicted, or some family who have met really for the printer. She ha«i been
Somewhat Different.
sides, etc.—and some of them had been
work,
tow bls neighbor’s garden away from with misfortunes, and forget myself in keeping it a secret from her family, in
PICKINGS FROM FICTION.
lield until the 'skin was completely
Mr. Newell will have general super
Its moorings and sell the produce of
tending
to
surprise
them
with
tile
book.
macerated. Those of the flsli that
There is nothing that is enough for vision of tiie tusk. It is contemplated
the other’s toll. The writer has fre trying to assist them. I assure you, if During Her absence, a few weeks before
were still living had evidently been
quently seen one of the largest of these lived up to, it is a sure cure for the
a woman, but all.—“The Mississippi that the preliminary work shall be
she
intende«!
completing
it,
one
of
the
caught at different times, they appear
most thorough, and on this account it
Bubble.1
miniature gardens being towed by two blues if combined with that trustful
ing in all stages of exhaustion. 1 re
men In a rowboat which hardly look feeling that “all is well,” and it has children desired a trunk, and, finding
Overdone heartiness Is nearly as nas is not ex|»ected that tiie construction
gret being unable to name either the
ed larger than one of the luscious mel served to assist many disheartened peo this one, «'rammed as she thought with ty ns underdone mutton.—"Comments of any of the proposed reservoirs will
plant or the fish, but that the botanical
be undertaken for a year or two. Mr.
ons serenely reposing on the floating ple ovei the “slough of «iespond.” We old rubbish, took it down into tiie yard of a Countess.”
cannibal really preyed upon th«* tinny
truck farm.—Exchange.
No man can be bravo who considers Newell expects to devote the entire
do not see clearly why this misfortune and made a tsmfire of its contents.
denizens of the deep there isn't the
summer to tiie work in tin* field.
should be an«l why sickness may visit Great was tiie grief and despai. of tier pain the chief evil of life.—"The Hero
l«*ast doubt.”
JuMt Like Iteiil War.
ine of the Strait."
Henry Clay’s Crack Shot.
mother
when
she
discovered
her
loss.
our home and «lealIi knock at ourdtsir
Secretary Moody is having more or
A story old, but good. Is tol«l of Hen
We ought never to do wrong when
when it passes by our neighlxir who The damage could never be repaired,
Wbrn Reptile« Holed a World.
ry Clay’s lucky crack shot. Clay was
people are looking.—“A Double Bar less fun with the newspaper corre
for
many
of
the
old
Indians
who
bad
There
was a time “in the wide re
lias
apparently
not
a
«
are
or
a
sorrow
in
spondents
tliese
days
over
tiie
coining
visiting a backwoods county in Ken
given her the legends had passed away reled Detective Story.”
volving sllHdes of centuries past” when
war game to be played off New York
tucky where the man who could fire the world, yet they may have troubles
Occasion
’
s
everything,
but
the
rub
is
our globe was wholly In the possession
the best shot stood highest in esteem in their homes that would make our and carri d tiie stoiies with them, the to know an occasion when you see it.— ami Newport.
of walking, swimming and flying rep
"Can’t tell you a word about it, not a
aud the man who couldn’t tire at all griefsand misfortunes seem like trivial younger Indians professing to know “The Lady Paramount.”
tiles. Being the dominant type, they
nothing
of
tiie
history
and
legendary
word,
”
is
bis
invariable
reply
to
anx
was looked upon with contempt. He ¡»flairs. There are some tilings that are
I’d be slow In advisin’ anybody to
divided naturally into three great
was canvassing for votes when lie was far worse than death, yet those afllicted lore of their race. It is a loss that can go crooked, but when ye feel ye’re in ious inquirers for hints as to some of
classes. In the oceans they became gi
hot
11
1
lie
plans.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
approached by some old hunters, one of have learned the lesson of endurance never be repaired.
the hands of sharpers It’s the only
gantic puddling eiiallosaurians; on dry
the war and navy departments have
whom told him that he would be elect and sclnsiled tlieinselves to look on the
way.—“Rock ha ven.”
land, or, rather, wet laud, for the whole
alr«*ady put the correspondents on their
ed to congress, but that lie must first
saw
u
man
giving
away
autos
to
"1
The master poets love to deal with
BRIEF REVIEW.
bright side and not allow the world to
face of the globe was doubtless a
own resources, just as in time of a et ti day.
show how good a shot he was.
the
victory
of
the
vanquished,
which
quagmire at that time, they became
nl
war,
and
until
it
is
all
over
they
will
Clay declared that he never shot know of the grief that is liiildeu in
"Whnt!
You
don
’
t
mean
to
say
you
the world’s thinkers know to be gr«*at-
Sheds His Skin Every Five Years.
monstrous, erect dinosaurlans, some of
with any rifle except his own, wliicli their hearts. It is a lesson we all should
er than the victory of the victorious.— have to suffer the hardships of uncer snw a man giving away automobiles?” which had legs fifteen feet or more In
tainty, together with the officers of
A dispatch to tiie Baltimore Sun from “Nathan Ilule.”
was at home. A target was set up. learn, for w<* would be better, truer,
"No; autographs. He was a literary
length; those which inhabited the re
both branches and the soldiers and star.”
however, aud Mr. Clay aimed nt It. He braver men and women and help the Goshen, N. Y., says that George H.
Be sure, before you give your love sailors.
gions of the air were tiie terrible flying
fired faint heartedly, but the shot denizens of this merry old world to Weh'h, a printer, who is well known
and your trust, that you are giving
pterodactyls.
Like the Catcher.
“Why not?” said Secretary Moody to
struck the bullseye In the center.
look on the more cheerful side. There throughout New York State, is in the them not only to one who deserves
For a vast but unknown length of
“This Is what I g«*t for marrying a
a
group
of
newspaper
men.
"You
“A chance shot, a chance shot!” cried is no room for blues in the trustful, hospital at Oneida shedding his skin.
them, but to one who really wants i ought to take your medicine with the baseball player,” moaned the unhappy time these awful creatures literally
his opponents.
The ease lias attracted the attention of them.—“Many Waters.”
rest of us. And by the time your man wife as her husband sought to explain ruled the earth. Finally after they had
“Never mind,” be answered. “You cheerful heart.
many specialists, all of whom are baf
“seen their day” they begun to grow
»
»»
»
aging editors have sent queries by the his late arrival.
beat It, and then I will.”
U«rful I'urpoNeN of H om I u .
"1 don't see that It would have been less and less. One by one they died
score,
cursed
you
for
not
sending
news
No oue coulil beat It, and Mr. Clay
I spent a delightful day not long fled in attempts to cure the disease. He
There are many useful purposes to I
any different,” said the husband, “If I out in the face of the younger and more
bad too much sense to try again.
since in the beautiful canyons of Men is <52 years old, and says that he has which rosin can be applied outside of and threatened you with discharge you
vigorous fauna until at the present
hud been anything else.”
will find this mimic war Is real hell.”
been
similarly
attacked
every
five
years
those
of
general
practice.
As
a
non
docino
county,
fern-clad
and
with
red
The Wrong Roll.
•But 1 should think that the very time only a few miniature alligators
To Teat Wlrele«» Telegraphy.
since
IsiyluMHl
In
New
York
a
few
conductor
of
heat
It
is
used
in
the
pro
Immediately after a wedding which wood, oak and various other trees tow
Preparations are being pushed to in principles of your profession would in- and crocodiles and a few toy snakes
years ago a specialist made Welch tiie tection of water pipes, particularly in
took place in Washington the best man ering above me and forming a glorious
stall
a system of wireless telegraphic «luce you to make a home run before remain as reminders of skulking liz
started for South Africa, where lie re canopy to this garden spot filled with subject of his lectures, and after his re crossing bridges, where the pipe Is laid I communication between Washington dark."
ards and geckos and of the enormous
mained more than a year. (in Ills re wildwood treasures. Here I heard the covery placed him in a smallpox hos in the middle of a long box and the I and Annapolis, Under the supervision
“1 would, tuy dear; I would,” re reptilian types that once crowded land
whole
filled
with
melted
rosin.
Rosin
i of Professor N. F. Terry the 170 foot marked the husband, “If you wore a and sea.
turn. says a writer in Harper’s Mag sweetest music in the world, Thesing- pital to prove that he was immune.
azine, he was given a dinner and wore ing of a mountain br«sik, or rather The whole Issly has tile appearance of Is also used in supporting basement mast for the wireless telegraph station musk.”—J udge.
floors In machine shops, which may be
Simple Indeed.
evening clothes for th«* first time since
c creek, that went rippling on its way having lieen scalded before the epider laid over some dry material, as spent at the Naval academy has been placed
Noah’« Trouble«.
It seems as if the acme of frugality
the wedding.
mis
(teels
otl'
in
large
patches.
One
In
position.
The
pole
Is
planted
In
a
“Confound that dinosaurus!” ex had been reached by a French otiicer
In the miilst of the evening, fimi- <1 lashing over the rocksand making the piece, consisting of the entire skin of one molding sand, which Is carefully lev cement foundation eighteen feet deep
eled off, and the planking laid upon
claimed
Noah as the ark gave such a who explained with many appropriate
bling in bis waistcoat pocket, ho as most beautiful little waterfalls. Not
and is anchored wltii four historic
tonlshed himself and his friends by one, but dozens of them, add« d to the hand resembling a glove, is preserved. temporary supports separating It about cannon, each weighing four and a half lurch to starboard that the waves gestures his system of sustaining life
dashed against the roof. “I wish it on a pension of five francs a week.
pulling out a hundred «lollar bill. beauty of the bewitching scene. It The new skin beneath is as delicate and two inches alxive the sand.
Numerous holes about two inches in tons.
“It Is simple, veree, veree simple,”
would learn to stay on Its own side of
Where had It come from? A sudden was on or near the line of the Califor softly tinted as a baby’s. The patient's
Ton. of Papers.
diameter being bored through these
be
said to the friend who had ex
hair
and
lieard
do
not
come
out.
When
the
boat!
”
thought flushed across his mind.
The Winder building, at Seventeenth
nia North western Railway, and for
Then Noah seized a handspike and pressed amazement at Ills feat. “Sun
The next morning he went to tilo miles one could see the tents of the a boy, Welch lieeame lost with a party planks, melted rosin Is forced through and F streets, and the Fox building,
them by means of funnels until the
started below deck to shift the cargo.- day I go to ze house of a good friend,
clergyman who liad niarri<*«l his
campers looming up through the trees in an Arizona desert, and was bitten by whole space is solidly filled, and then on New York avenue, between Seven Ohio State Journal.
and zere I dine so extraordinaire and
friends.
teenth
and
Eighteenth
streets
north
a
|H>isonous
snake
and
almost
died.
eat so veree much zat I need no more
“Do you remember niarrylug Mr. Ar- and catch the cheerful glow of the Since that time he has shed his skin, the upper flooring is laid upon these west, used by the war department for
planks. In ease the floor Is subjected
till Ved lies« lay.
He
Chained
Hia
Tone.
inltage aud Miss Bently about a year campfires as they prepared the fragant
offices, are probably the most crowded
“On zat day I have at my restau
cofl'ee and the dainties and luxuries of l>ut whether the snake bite is the cause to shocks sufficient to break the rosin places in use by the United States gov
“When they tokl him it was a girl,
Igo?”
he smiled an«! whistled 'Only One Girl rant one large, veree large, dish of
"Oh, perfectly,” replied th«* clergy «amp life. Here you ism Id find rest as of it scientists and medical men have It rapidly Joins together again In much ernment.
the same manner as the regelation of
man. "I see them constantly at my you swung to and fro in the ham- never ls»en able to determine.
In these two buildings there are on In the World For Me,’ but uot for tripe ami some onion. I abhor ze tripe
Ice.
—yes, and ze onion also- and togezzer
church.”
m<K'ks lulled into forgetfulness of the
file military records of settlements long.”
zey make me so seek as 1 have no more
"Well, will you pardon in«* if 1 ask turmoils and « arcs of the outslile world
"Why
not?
”
Underground Theaters.
with soldiers which have been collect
The Druaon Slayer.
you a delicate question In strict con
"The nurse came In and said she had any apfietite till Sunday. You see. It
An underground theater is proposed
by the murmur of the waters. Polly
At an English school n pompous ing since the establishment of tliese miscounted. There were two.”—New is veree simple.”
fidenee. How much di«i you re«*eivt*
offices
In
1817
up
to
the
present
time.
learned a great «leal of the customs and by some New York capitalists and it is youngster whose fattier, it was well
as your fee?”
All of these papers have been placed York World.
The Holland Primrose,
“1 will return frankness with frank habits of I lie real native sonsand daugh thought to lie a gr. at novelty, and may known, bad been a successful omnibus on shelves and were recently weighed
driver
was
one
day
fingering
ostenta
There Is a plant In Holland, known
One Advaata*«.
ness,” returned th«* clergyman, smiling ters the Indians during my short so be it is for Gotham. But Boston has
and measured by F. E. Rittmaun. au
“She doesn't have any trouble in as the evening primrose, which grows
had a “touch” of the underground the tiously a large seal which he is in the ditor of the war department, and a
whimsically. "It was the strangest journ in this delightful little Eden.
habit
of
wearing,
representing
St.
to n height of live or six feet and bears
keeping a servant girl.”
fee that ever came my way. After
ater in Keith’s, for an interesting part
force
of
assistants.
Much
to
their
sur
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George and the dragon, and, having
“No. Her husband Is political boss of a profusion of large yellow Howers so
the ceremony tin* best man. with a pro
of that beautiful playhouse is “down drawn the attention of a school com prise, It was discovered that there
brilliant that they attract iiumedhite
<hie of tiie students of tiie State Uni below.” Wecannot say, however, that
fusion of thanks, slipped into my hand
were ten miles and a half of shelving the ward.”
attention, even at a great distance, but
“
What
has
that
to
do
with
It?
”
a small sliver of plug tobai'co wrapped versity was spending his vacation here a real subterranean auditorium would panion to it, remarked carelessly:
“Ah, one of my ancestors is supposed In tliese two buildings, containing rec
“Why, he has the handsomest police the chief peculiarity about the plant
In a wad of paraffin paper!”
in tiie interest of that institution and not make the nervous more so, and if to have killed the dragon, don't you ords which weighed 240 tons.
man assigned to that beat.”—Philadel Is the fact that the flowers, wliicli open
was making a dictionary of their words, all this scraping the skies an«l digging know!”
DredKliig Lower Potoninc.
Just before sunset, burst Into bloom so
phia Press.
A Slsht For Snrnh.
giving the English translation. It was
Colonel Allen, the engineer officer In
“Good gracious!" inquired the other,
suddenly that they give one the impres
Of a certain bishop, famous as nbont no small task, for every word lia<i to be into th«* earth's bowels is not unneces
I'p to the Cook.
sion of some magical agency. A man
sarily venturesome.
When Father somewhat anxiously. “Did he run over charge of the improvement of the Po
the plainest man in England, the Liv
tomac river, has reported to the war
it?”—London Answers.
Charlie (after acceptance»—Shall I who has seen this sudden blooming
verified
by
at
least
three
of
the
Indians.
i
KniekertMH'ker
started
the
village
that
erpool Post tells this pleasing tale:
department
(lmt
dredging
operations
speak to your fattier now?
says It Is Just as if BOiue one had
One day as tills homely parson sat If they gave tiie same pronunciation Is now second to none In* ma«le a dread
Went Hack on the Blue,
at Smith's point, upper and lower
Gladys—Mercy, no! Not to him!
touched the land with n wand and
In an omnibus he was amazed li.v the ami tiie same meaning the word was ful mistake to locate on a narrow island.
Gerald—My brother turned crimson shoals, Is completed and that dredghig
Charlie—Your mother, then?
thus covered It all at once with a gold
persistent staring of a fellow passen- accepted as correct and added to the New York must go up or down before the other day.
is also completed at Mattawomau
Gladys—No. no! You must ask the en sheet.
ger, who presently unburdened himself dictionary. Not a word could lie ob long, anil this scheme of subterranean
Geraldine- I never knew him to shoal, with the exception of the re cook if she would object to one more in
as follows:
tained wil limit compensation; they sim theaters may involve the hotels and the blush.
moval of two gravel bars. During the the family.—Town Topics.
The Man tn the Moon.
“You're a parson, ain't you?"
ply knew nothing until they saw the churches in the near future. Once tie
Gerald—I didn't say that he blushed. past month 13.820 cubic yards of ma
Life, whether vegetable or animal as
“Well, yes; that is so.”
terial were dredged ami deposit«**!,
coin ami then they could talk fast gin to burrow and where will tin* am
Geraldine—What did he do?
Revlalnp the Old Stan.
we know it. certainly cannot exist un
“Ixiok 'ere, parson, would you mind
Gerald—Left Yale and entered Ilar- completing a cut eighty feet wlile
enough. This gentleman had secured bitious magnates stop.
“I Just noticed that iny new land- der lunar conditions, says tiie London
cornin' home with me to see niy wife?”
through the upper hard bar. As n re lady’s daughter's hair Is red.”
yard. - New York Press.
Mull. The alternations of n long day
Imagining the wife was sick and limo words, and his lalsirs are not yet
sult of recent operations there Is now a
“Well?”
of considerably over 3<>u hours' dura
ended.
A subterranean city lias lieen discov
Deeding assistance, th«* clergyman at
iKlKirlnir Precedent.
ruling depth of water of 21.2 feet at
“And then a white automobile sud tion, with a night of similar length,
• » » »
great inconvenience to himself went
ered at the foot of Mount Emratz south
Edtnonla-Mrs. Topnotch is whnt I menn low tide In the channels of the denly darted around the corner.— accompanied by changes from exces
with the man. On arriving at the
In fact his work is just lieginning. of Membidj near Alep|s>. A sculptured call impertinent.
lower Potomac.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
sive heat to Its antipodes of cold,
house the man shout«*«! to his wife tc Besid« s making a dictionary of the In gate opens upon tiie streets borderded
Eudocia—In what way?
Thp New Capitol Lawn Clipper.
would alone render all earthly life Im
conic downstairs, and. pointing to the
Edmonla
—
Why,
she
is
not
a
Colonial
A new automobile lawn mower is
dian language he is also collecting all by stone buildings forming a complete
Kvidence of Kxeltemeot.
possible, but ex|ierience has taught
astonished parson, said, with a grin
“This Is a pretty live town, Isn’t it?” even here the adaptability of life to
their legends and historical events, city which has not been entirely ex Dame, hut when she came to the colo used for cutting the grass on the enpi-
uf delight:
nial reception she had on a more ele tol lawn. It does the work tn about remarked the eastern tourist.
most extreme conditions, and It may
“Look 'e 'ere, Salrry. Yer said this their customs, and their art In making plored, but visitors re|s>rt that bridges gant frock than any one of the Dames. one-third of the time necessary for ii
"You bet It Is.” replied the native. be believed that, after all. organic life
and
roads
alternateas
far
as
theeye
can
many
useful
articles,
as
well
as
making
mornin' as I wur the hugliest chap In
—Detroit Free Press.
horse drawn mower, The new machine "We've got the biggest cemetery In may have found a congenial home In
England, Now, Just yer look at this a study of the plant life that has con reach.
greatly resembles a steam roller and Arizony, an’ It’s still a-growln'.”—Phil our “lamp of nlglit.”
bloke f
tributed to t heir sustenance. He liasa
Fruitless.
Never tell a man that he has made a
sounds in operation like a steamboat. adelphia Record.
Little Willie—Pa, what does this pa ft tins no difficulty In negotiating all
life-work liefore him if he remains in fool of himself, if he knows it, he will
Very frrit Hi I n K.
Money Talks.
"Once In awhile, even now.” remark the field of anthropology. I was par get angry and he will get angry also per menu by saying It wns a fruitless the hills and valleys and Irregularities
Parvenu—I was raised as genteel as
Rle Great Waat.
search?
id the caller, “you hear of some Eng ticularly interested in their inode of if he doesn't know it.
of the eapltol lawn. The heavy rollers
“Do you know a good tonic for nerv you was, an’ I’ll bet you a hundred on
Father—It probably applies, ray son, are declared beneficial because they ous persons, Simpkins?”
llshman who says our Revolutionary making twine. From one plant they
It. Come on now; monej talks.
to the quest of some man who was
war was ‘the most causeless rebellion managed to get three or four fillers.
Kostlque—If your money talked the
“No; whnt I want to find Is n good
Ncienee is a first rate piece of furni looking for pineapples on a pine tree.— crush down anti kill tin* weeds while
In history.' Isn't Is irritating?”
leaving the grass uninjured.
way
you do. you'd be bankrupt pretty
tonic
for
people
who
have
to
live
with
One
would
never
suspect
as
they
passed
ture for a man's iqqier cliamlier if lie Chicago News.
"Decidedly so,” responded the Boston
CARL SCHOFIELD
noon.
them.”-London Tit Blta.
by
the
silver-green
plant
that
grew
pr<
-
has
common
sense
on
the
ground
tl<s>r.
young woman. “If a thing is cause-
“What do you mean?”
“Mamma,” said Tommy, “does sugar
less, how can it be any more canse- finely in the vicinity that it was inval
“It would give ItBelf away.”—Phila
ever
cure
anybody
of
anything?
”
KsraeS.
A reporter who is th«* father of a
No one can read the Bi ide out loud in
uable to the Indians and from this
less?”—Chicago Tribune.
delphia Record.
"Why
do
j'ou
ask,
my
boy?
”
She
—
Hé
was
desperately
In
love
year old youngster mot Ids pastor on
plant they got twine or string of three tile same voice In wliicli he would read
"I thought I’d like to catch It,” said Sunday afternoon.
with her. Why, he sent her costly
The Whole Thins.
or four different qualities. They take a selection from a newspaper.
Tommy.
flowers ami presents nearly every day
Appropriate.
"Why
weren't
yon
at
cliur<h
this
"Bixby seems to think he's the whole the plant and ehew it for hours until all
The professor of painting has Just
morning?" was the first question of for two years.
thing as an exp«*rt authority on s|>ort thejuh'es are extra«'te«l leaving nothing
Courtesy is a blessing from the heart
A Way She Has.
He—Did he finally win her?
entered the classroom, where smoking
the spiritual adviser.
Ing matters."
Inquisitive Neighbor — I hear
but the filler. This they twist Into a of a good man and a deadly wea)s>n in
She—No; he earned her.
Is strictly prohibited. Here be finds
"I couldn’t come,” was the answer.
"Yes; he appears to regard himself
the liai ds of a villain.
your sister Is engaged. Is that tr
an art student bolding In his band a
“I bad to stop at bom«* and mind the
as pretty nearly big enough to wear few strands at a tlmeuntil they acquire
Tke Troth Too Mack.
Small Boy—I dare say. She >
newly Oiled cherry wood pipe.
the necessary st reiigth. They are many
baby. Dur nurse Is ill.”
golf links to fasten his _shlrt cuffs.”
Be natural. A poor diamond is bet ally Is.
"Jedge," said the colored prisoner, “I b
Professor (Ironlcally)-What a queer
"That's no excuse,” said the pastor.
hours turning out a little string where
Enthusiasm gives life to what Is In
ter than a gissl imitation.
paint brush you have got there! VVhut
"It isn’t? Well, next Sunday I'll I expected ter tell de truth?”
thousands of yards call Is* turned out by
visible and luterest to what has no Iru
It Is every man's opinion that he bring him to church with me and see
“Of course you are.”
are you going to do with It?
No matter how trifling a man is, he would have been a gi
mediate action on our Comfort In this our modern machinery. The most
"Well, then, des go ahead en sentence
man had he bow you like IL”
Student — Ob, I'm going to make
swells
up
if
asked
»«¡vice.
j
ted
ions
of
all
the
strings
they
make
is
world—Mui«*, de Stael.
lived fifty years ago.—Atchison t^obe.
me fust’’—Atlanta Constitution.
clouds with It!