BANDON RECORDER.
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| POLLY LARKIN. |
How tbe Prraldeat la Paid.
Ill the apportionment of the salaries
of all United Slates government em
ployees the year la divided into quar
ters and each quarter subdivided ac
cording to the number of days In each
month, but the president receives prac
tically the same amount every mouth.
Thus, If a president should die at the
end of February, after receiving his
salury for that month, his successor
would In reality receive less than the
full amount due him In March because
his predecessor had. In effect, been
overpaid the prior mouth. Inasmuch
as the president’s salary mny Dot be
divided Into exactly equal parts. It Is
necessary to pay the chief magistrate
$4,166.66 on some months and $4,166.67
on others, on one occasion during
the Cleveland administration a mis
take was made, and there were sent
to the chief executive three successive
warrants for if 4, 166.6tl. When the
error was discovered, the treasury de
partment hastened to dispatch to the
White House a warrant on the United
States government for a cent, made
out In Mr. Cleveland's favor, though
the president never cashed this cheek.
—Argonaut
The Professor, the l.ady anil the Cow.
It Is told of u certain professor whose
absentmlndedness about equaled his
learning that he was one day, crossing
the college campus, absorbed to such
a degree in a book of Ills that luid Just
been published that he was lost to
everything else. Suddenly he bumped
up against an object, anti looking up
lie saw that be had collided with a
cow that had rudely strayed In Ilfs
way. ‘’Get out of the way. you cow!"
he exclaimed irritably, prefixing an Im
polite adjective to "cow.”
The next day as the professor was
again crossing the campus, immersed
In his reading, he again ran Into an
object. “Oh, that confounded cow!”
he exclaimed. Then, hearing an In
dignant “Sir!” he looked up hastily to
discover that this time he luid come
up ugalnNt the wife of a fellow pro
fessor. It luirdly made matters better
to assure her that he had taken her
for a cow, and It required the good
offices of the entire faculty to restore
an era of good feeling.
A Ludicrous Word Twister.
Professor William Archibald Spoo
ner of Oxford university has become
famous ns n ludicrous word twister
Once at a special service, seeing some
women standing at the back of the
church wafting to be seated, he rushed
down the aisle and addressed the ush
era as follows, “Gentlemen, gentlemen,
sew these ladies Into their sheets.” Be
ing asked at dinner what fruit he
would have, he promptly replied, "Pigs,
tleus.” This Is the way In which Dr.
Spooner proposed to his wife: Being
one afternoon nt the home of her fa
ther, Bishop Harvey Goodwin of Car
lisle, Mrs. Goodwin said, "Mr. 8 poo
ner, will you please go out Into the
garden and ask Miss Goodwin if she
will come In and make tea?" The pro
fessor, on tinding the young lady, said,
“Miss Goodwin, your mother told me
to ask you If you would come in and
take me.”
.Urn O'Brien*« Epitaph.
“I suppose our western •country has
furnished more funny things In the ep
itaph line than ull the rest of the
world,” remarked a Colorado ex-con
gressman.
“I remember one that adorned the
cemetery at Leadville In the palmy
days <>f that great mining camp. It
seems that in the course of a isirrooiil
broil one Jim O'Brien, a well known
character, had his existence terminat
ed prematurely. He was a good fel
low In the main and not without
friends. One of the dead man's asso
ciates, In deep grief over his demise,
erected a wooden slab over his grave
on which be had written in large let
ters:
"Jim O’Brien departed for heaven at
8:30 a. m.
“A local humorist happened along
soon afterward aud appended the fol
lowing:
“Heaven, 4:20 p. m.—O’Brien not yet ar
rived. Intense excitement. The worst Is
feared."
— Washington Times.
Love <ft Country.
For the love of country, us such. It
would be ditticult to decide between
the highlander of Scotland ami the
mountain born Inhabitants of theTyrol.
Both will wander in search of fortune
to the ends of the world and yet look
back to their native mountains as their
only real home. The same Is true of
the Swiss, although in a lesser degree
It is a very singular fact that Inhab
itants of mountainous countries [ms-
Bess this feeling of attachment in a
much intenser form than those of Hat
countries.
I.arked Heart.
“What ill the world are v*>u doing?”
asked a little lady of a friend whom she
fouud pouring over a Issik and at the
same time attending to some sewing.
“Trying to keep pace with my chil
dren,” she replied as she smilingly
dosed the issik and prepared to enjoy
her visit. “You see,” she continued,
"my school advantages were very lim
ited. We lived on a farm, and you
know liow much opportunity farmers’
sons ami daughters had to go to school
in those days, don’t you? Little < r
nothing. Still I always managed to
try and keep up with the more for
tunate children, even when 1 had to
stop w hen the summer rush ol liarvist
ing alid sheep-shearing, tile fruit sea
son, etc., came on. 1 craved an educa
tion and always sited many bitter tears
when the order came to bring home
my scliisil lssiks and assist in the
drudgery of farm work, llow I envied
the girls who could attend a whole
term without any interruptions. I used
to |M>ur over my books long after the
rest of the family were wrapt in slum
ber and then get up before dawn to get
the men’s breakfast so they could get
an early start. My hands have been
more or less tied since my marriage at
tending to the wants of my little Hock
ami I did not realize mliy my scant
knowledge of books until they began to
advance in their studies. I was rusty
in what little I did know and so began
to try and brighten up a little bit, but
the modern methods are much better
than they were in our day and more
thorough, and I found my little folks
passing me ami getting to a place
where I could no longer assist them
when they came to me with their stud
ies. 1 was ashamed for them to know
that their mother was so far behind the
times, so after they retired for the night
I would take up the Lssiks aud study
their lessons. 1 nsteail of studying their
lessons at n'glit I would put them to
Iasi early ami call them in the morning
tn time to get their home work before
breakfast. They were fresh and bright
and their minds active, and 1 was ready
to help them and answer the questions
put to me. Yes, there was ‘method in
my madness,’ for they never found out
what a stupid woman their mother
was. I got so 1 enjoyed the lessons,
and particularly as they advanced. It
keeps me studying all my spare min
utes, but I enjoy every moment spent
with the lssiks, and besides it keeps me
in touch with my children.
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she continue to lisik out for his welfare ,
CHOICE MISCELLANY
when his very presence only served to
drag his children dow n? They could I
An I «1 tr
t
never succeed in life while it was, One day 'not long ago two girls,
clouded by the presence of their fat her. Agnes and Pauline Bain, were fording
who never spoke to them iu anything Cicero creek near Tipton, Ind., on
but a rough ami uiigmtlemanly man horseback. The horse caught bls foot,
ner intermingled with curses. She had stumbled, and tlie girls were thrown
Into the water.
high aspirations for her Isiys, but the
Neither girl could swim, aud both
father’s example was to be dreaded. At were hi imminent danger of drowning
times his actions were sueb that the when the horse, a great pet and a
boys would lose heart ami try to avoid most Intelligent animal, swam to them,
their friends, feeling their disgrace so as if conscious of their danger.
Around and around them the anhnal
keenly. Moved to desperation by his
falling lower and lower in the scale of swam until Agnes finally caught hold
decency, she applied for a divorce and of his tail. Then she fortunately
caught her sister's hair, and the horse
had no trouide in having it granted.
towed them liotli ashore.
Then she left the home where she had
The first news of the accident that
spent so many days of misery and the family had was the appearance of
moved from the little eountiy town, Tom, the horse, at the door, neigldng
where eVery one was her friend, to San ns if in trouble. Mr. Bain went out.
Francisco with her family. Not a soul 'Tlie moment he nppeansl the animal
did she know, ami she had but twenty started away on a trot. Then, seeing
dollars to purchase the necessaries of that his master did not follow, he gal
lifealter paying her rent and alone in a loped back, neighed again and then
w ent off as before.
big city. But she was not disheartened
By this time Mr. Bain had concluded
ami cheered the lonesome children by from the conduct of the horse that
a display of cheerfulness she did not something was wrong and hurriedly
feel. They lived in two or three rismis followed the animal. He met the two
on a little side street. One of the Isiys little girls making their way home
started out to sell newspapers and ward. The horse ran up to them and
helped to eke out a living in that way. rubbed his nose on their shoulders ns
if to show how glad be was to find
Another month’s rent was drawing
them alive.
near and still the way seemed dark, but
the star of hope was ever before her
London Dinea at Noon.
Except In certain circles, from the
moving steadily ahead and giving
promise of better things. Then the upper middle class or the lower upper
way opened. Positions were found for classes upward, among whom the cus
all her Isiys and she herself found em tom of evening dinner prevails, the re
spectable English custom is to serve
ployment by the day. She always dinner at noon, the evening meal rang
manuged to get home in time to have a ing all the way from the workman's
hot supper ready for the tired chil repast of tea with winkles, bloaters or
dren. Then mother and sons attended Jam to the heavy supper of game and
night school together. All graduated pastry for the rich. To this custom
at the same time and all have steady the restaurants enter, but to the large
and good salaried positions in some of floating colonies of foreigners to whom
the leading business houses in San an evening dinner Is a necessity they
pay no heed, says the Outlook. They
Francisco. A Imppier family you will continue complacently to serve “din
not be able to find, and the proud little ner from 12 to 3,” after which hour
mother says as she looks smilingly at one may whistle in vain, for no dinner
her four handsome boys, “The road was will he get. As a natural result an
very rough, and it seemed for a long army of French and Italian restau
time like my very soul had been rants are doing a brisk business and
warped ami all the brightness gone, but amassing fortunes, not only in cater
my faith never wavered, and the way ing for their own people, but in bring
ing comfort to many an English bach
opened and darkness turned to light.” elor emancipated from tea and Jam.
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Not only In the matter of service, but
"Cecil J——”: Your question is one also in the menu, does the village res
that cannot be answered in this column. taurant cling to old custom.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Cause of Baldness.
Among the common causes of bald
ness those which stand apart from ac
tual disease of the hair—I)r. Andrew
Wilson places in Hie lirstrank the habit
which many menaequireof wetting the
hair every morning in their bath or
when washing the face. What hap
pens in such cases, he says, is that the
natu ral oily secretion of the skin of tlie
head is removed by the water, and the
hairs are therefore deprived, to a large
extent, as also is the skin, of the natural
pomade, as it were, which tlieskin sup
plies. There are thousands of little
glands in the skin called sebaceous
glands, which produce an oily sub
stance, keeping tlieskin supple, and as
these glands open into tire sheaths of
the hairs we may very naturally be
lieve that they contribute to the hairs
some substance intended for their nour
ishment and preservation. If, therefore,
through any cause the natural oil of the
scalp is removed say by too frequent
washing the hairs, living deprived of
their nourishment, tend to fall out.
"There is more in common between
us than you will usually find between
mothersand their children. To use my
oldest boy’s expression, he always says
‘Mother is my chum,’ and he makes
me bis confident, as indeed all my chil
dren do. 1 have not allowed them to
drift away from me. We now have
our study hour every evening together
and it is one of the happiest hours of
the day, studying, arguing and com
menting on the work of each other.
I don’t believe they will ever see the
day when they will say, ‘Oh, mother is
such an old fogy,’ as I heard one of
their schoolmates remark the other day
m regard to his mother, and when
some one reproved him for it he replied,
‘Weil, she doesn’t know about any
Utilization of Wastes.
thing else but styles and fashions.’ 1
The census bureau lias issued a report
felt sorry for the boy, for he was really
estranged from his mother by her total on theutllization of wastes and by-prod
indifference to anything pertaining to ucts iu manufactures. The report di
her boys beyond seeing that their mes that any very such profitable
clothes were of the latest cut and that employment of wastes in manufacture
they were always well clad. They hun has reached its highest degree of attain
gered for something else rather than for ment. Instead it predicts further de
this vain glory. They wanted hersym- velopments even to the extent of con
patliy and encouragement as well as verting by-products into the main
her interest in what they were doing iu product of industry. The most con
their school life, but such things made spicuous instance of such reversion In
her tired. One of the Isiys, who fre the last decades of the nineteenth cen
quently joined our little family circle tury is in the revelations ofc >al tar and
around the study table whispered to the higlilv developed utilization of its
one of my Isiys not long since as lie was many by-products. In tlie course of a
taking bis departure, ‘Say, Rob, your resume of the subject by industries the
mother is a ‘Joe Dandy.’ Helps a fel report says, among other things, that
low lots, doesn't she? Wish my moth from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 worth of
er was like In r.’ If his mother could wool fal ami potash are run down the
have heard him 1 am sure she would streams ami wasted annually in the
have tried to make his home-life a little United States, and similar lost oppor
happier. As it is, while she is study tunities for utilizing wa te material are
ing the fashions they are wandering on pointed out.
the street or spending the evening at
the house of some neighlsir. They are
An Intelligent Bird.
nice children, but they are sadly lack
The yakannk, or trumpeter of Venez
ing in the home training that is one of uela, a fowl of the crane species, is a
the stepping-stones in life’s journey anil bird of extraordinary intelligence. The
gives our little ones a sure fisitliold. 1 f natives use it instead of sheep dogs for
you knew how much I enjoy the com guarding ami herding their flocks. It
panionship of my children you would is said that, however far the ynkamik
not wonder at my desire to keep pace may wander with the flocks, it never
with them in their studies and every- fails to find its way home at night, driv
thingelse in which they are interested.” ing before it all the creatures intrusted
to its cure.
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“Once there was a lawyer out near
Galesburg,” said an Illinois congress
man, "who made a brilliant defense In
u certain case. Men praised Ids effort.
'Will lie make Ids mark for ability as
an advocate?' some one asked. 'No.'
replied the veteran lawyer. 'His abil
ity begins here nt the Adam's apple
ami extends upward. He must Imve
The alsive calls to mind a brave little
something under Ids left breast.’ ” The
congressman cited this ns an example woman who never had milch schooling,
why some speeches fall In the house but had stisid behind a counter in her
of representatives.—Washington Post
father’s little griwery store from the
time she was able to look up over the
A Soft Answer.
top and serve the customers. Lame
Dibits (rather shortsighted, overtak from her babyhisid she had anything
ing total stranger and slapping him
on back from behind) Ilello, old fel but an easy time in life. Finally she
low! How are you? So glad to see you married a man who proved to Is* a
again. Whit’d have thought of meet— "ne’er do well” sort of a fellow ami
Stranger—Confound you, sir! llow only served to make her life harder and
dare you strike me In that blackguard take the last bit of brightness out of it.
ly manner? You ought to lie more It was a struggle fora bare existence.
careful that you’ve got the right per She stissl it for years until lie ceased to
son.
seek work and s|>ent his time lounging
Bibbs Really, sir, 1 must apologize,
but 1 took you for the Earl of---- . The around taloons, coming home in a quar
relsome mood night after night and
likeness Is really won—
Stranger (greatly mollified)—Say no abusing herself ami the children. The
more, sir, I entreat. 1 quite see how little woman was doing some quiet
the mistake occurred.
.Magnificent reasoning all to herself. Why should
weather, Isn't it? Good morning to she continue to live with this man,
you; good morning.—London Answers who had not given her a kind word in
years and who had not contributed a
Close Resemblance.
cent to thesupportof the family, allow
“Contentment,” said Uncle El>en, "is
a mighty flue thing. But de trouble ing her to make the living as liest she
about it Is dat it Is kin’ o' bahd to could and demanding money from her
’stingusb f'um plain laxiness.”—Wash hard-earned and badly needed wages to
squander in the salisins? Why should
ington Star.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
IN MANDALAY.
nis Last Wall.
(bouaaud* ut Pagoda Bells Ria* at
the Sent«« of the Saa.
The while robed nurses quietly bus
ied themselves at the patient’s bed
side. He was plainly breathing bls
last.
“Have you anything to say?" tender
ly asked the attending physician.
“Nothing—nothing!” gasped the dy
ing man. “It is only this regret—this
remorse—this terrible blow to my self
respect!”
He breathed now In a labored man
ner, and they bent lower to hear his
story divulged.
"Oh,” walled the unfortunate, “to
think to think—that I have smashed
all the antlspeed laws In christendom
against automobiles aud then aud
then -to be run over by an ice wag
on !”
It was too much, and he gave up the
I'host Iu mortal agony. — Baltimore
News.
Quite Excusable.
It was at the literary club reception.
"Which do you consider the best
novel of the year?” said the guest of
the evening to the long haired young
man whose name he had failed to
catch.
The long haired youth hesitated.
"Perhaps I'd better not commit my
self,” he said, with a slight hesitation.
“Why not?" queried the guest.
“Because,” replied the youth, “I
wrote it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Careless Girl.
“Such carelessness Is little short of
criminal,” thundered Dr. Price-Price
angrily.
“Oh, doctor,” sobbed Mrs. Sasslety-
I.leder's nursegirl, “do you blame me
for the baby's illness?”
“Most assuredly. You should know
better than to leave It alone in the
care of its mother even for a moment.”
—Philadelphia Press.
Destitution.
“No; the general prosperity did not
much lighten the labors of the sewing
circle. There was always want to be
relieved.
"Just now,” added the pious woman,
“we are particularly busy making up
clothes for members of the church left
destitute by the last rummage sale.”—
Puck.
“Llnllt Literature.”
Tlie Cat Column«.
One of the features in which Eng
lish periodicals for women differ from
American magazines of the same class
is in the “cat column.” There is a sec
tion devoted to cat gossip in many of
them, in which well known catteries
are described. the good points of their
inmates and the methods of their own
ers set forth and the troubles of cor
respondents discussed, all with an un
conscious gravity and a dignity of
style which approach the humorous in
American eyes. The Illness and con
sequent absence from a show of a fa
mous cat are thus gravely chronicled
It Fits.
in a recent publication: “She was pre
“You say Cubbage Is worth a clean
vented from appearing at Edinburgh
by tin unfortunate accident, having got million?”
"Y’es.”
a fish bone firmly fixed in her nose
“'Is there a special reason for the use
while eating her supper. She has got
well over the effects, barring a slight of the adjective clean?”
“There Is. He made the money In
weakness of the eyes, which will mi
the soup business.” — Detroit Free
doubt pass off In a day or two.”
Press.
A Curious Phenomenon.
While the tiery tornado at Mont Pc-
lee, passing toward the south and
west, widened the sweep of its de
structive power In order to extend Its
devastations farther a remarkable
phenomenon came to stop It In its
course. Two strong atmospheric cur
rents laden with rain, one moving
from tlie southeast and the other from
the north, fell of a sudden upon the
sides of the fiery spout and, encircling
it along a distinctly marked line,
cooled it to sui'h a point that I have
seen persons who. finding themselves
precisely upon this line of demarca
tion, were struck on one side by tiery
missiles, while on the other and only
a few feet away nothing was falling
but the rain of mud, cinders and
stones which descended on the coun
tryside everywhere.—Century.
Mere Pleasantry.
Photographer—Excuse me, sir, but
you have been sitting on your hat for
the last ten minutes.
Customer (furious)—Well, why in
thunder didn’t you tell me before?
Photographer—I wished you to look
pleasant, sir.
Unforeseen Results.
Dolly—1 believe Judy Gibbs is a mes
merist.
Polly-Why?
Dolly—I went to sell her a ticket to
our picnic and she sold me one.—De
troit Free I’ress.
•
Last.
“Yes, sir,” said the builder gleefully;
"every house in that section Is rented
now but one.”
"Ah! And that one,” remarked his
friend, “is last, but not leased.”—Phila
Tlie Washerwomen’» Trunt.
Following the example of great delphia Press.
financial potentates, the« Japanese
Her Vacation.
washerwomen at Vladivostok have
“But why are you taking your doc
formed a species of trust, the mem
bers of which agree to the following tor with you on your trip?” he asked.
“There is to be so much going ou,”
rules: First, no washing per month at
contract rates; second, no washing she answered, “and you know 1 am
to be done at less than 4 cents per not very strong anyway.”—Town Top
article; third, no washing to be done ics.
for customers owing money or making
Another Sad Blow.
deductions for lost, spoiled or badly
Enpeck (excitedly at 2 a. m.)—Wake
washed linen. Fines varying from up and listen, my dear. I’m sure there
$20 to $25 tire to be levied on wash Is a man in the bouse.
erwomen departing from these rules.
Mrs. Enpeck (sleepily) — Do keep
quiet, Henry. You flatter yourself.
No Vnult Buricliir Proof.
United States treasury experts after
Investigating thermite reported to As
slstant Secretary Taylor In Washing
ton that there Is no such thing ns a
burglar proof safe or vault. The best
tempered steel, no matter how thick,
is not proof against the new chemical
compound. This report was made
after testing thermite on the great
steel vaults In Chicago ami other
cities. They advised the government
t'ocoai'iit trees grow in large planta to adopt the latest burglar alarm de
tions close to the shore all over the vice Hint gives Instant warning of
burglars.
Philippine islands. Within the last
twelve years tlie trade Ims increased
Baptism by Brandy.
tremendously. The product is periodi
A new religious sect has been found
cally affected by heavy typhoons, but ed In the southwestern province oi
it requires only a few years to pick up Russia, the members of which believe
In baptism by brandy Instead of bap
again.
tism by water. The baptism, too. h
It is said that Hint which forms the internal instead of external, the eon
vert drinking as much of the liquol
substratum of London is nothing but
as he can possibly negotiate. Th»
petrified sponges. An examination of method of baptism Is believed to b<
the fossil sponges or (lint shows its the cause of the rapid growth of th»
structure.
sect
Ilin Nickname.
< >neof thegreatest drawbacks in Mex
"I hope they don't give my little boy
ico is the scarcity of fuel. Hopes are any naughty nicknames In school.”
placed in the probable discovery of oil
“Y’es. ma, they call me 'Corns.' ”
in paying quantities.
“How dreadful! And why do they
call you that?”
"’Cause I'tn always at the foot of
If the liest you can say alsiut your
the class.”
neighlsir is In reply to the worst henaid
about you, don't say it.
Thonuht It Likely.
Mrs. Boule—And will you love me
One-third of the United States proper when I'm old and unlovely?
Is vacant land.
Doozle—I suppose so. You see. I’ll
lie old and daffy then inyself.—San
if you cannot Is* clever, Is- careful.
Francisco Bulletin.
The Rule of Golf.
Redd—Can you always tell a begin
ner on the golf links?
Greene—Well, as a rule, you can't
tell him much.—Yonkers Statesman.
Our Summer Girl.
Upon the turquoise billow's crested top
The summer girl, the pearl of all the
sea,
With gay abandon bobs In boundless
glee.
The sweetest of the peacherlno crop.
The man who sees her yearns to be her
prop
For life—that Is, to hold her heart In
fee
And plod to glean for this entrancing
she
the golden wherewithal with which to
shop.
A brief space hence he sees this siren
cute
Lean from the window of her perfumed
lair
And envies, while he heaves a wistful
sigh,
Phe hyaclnthlne zephyr, rapture mute.
That nestles In the tangles of her hair
She sweetly shakes athwart the sill te
dry.
—Judge,
Mandalay bas Its own sky, soft aud
gray and lucurvtng like a tent, with
white cloud lines that seem meant fur
scrolls if one coul<4 read. It is the
Very Sacred City, the city of content
plation, the city of all the monks. A
thousand pagoda bells give tongue to
the wind there when the sun goes
down; a crumbling thousand more give
up to time the testimony of outworn
tilings.
It lies In a curved arm of blue hills,
and something broods over It with so
licitude. This you suspect from the air
of the place and the way the shrill
talk of the parrots and the complaint
uf the goats and the laughter of the
people come to you wherever you are
lifting. Afterward you go out, as 1
did that morning with the commission
er. and see under the very zenith, where
the low gray sky is caught up, the
square of the dark red crenellated
walls of the old royal city, three miles
each way, and outside the walls the
parallel clear moat thinking back at
the sky, and then you are sure that
over and alsive the government of In
dia some spirit is In possession here,
some spirit that bends In affection over
finished and forgotten things.
Seven roofed kiosks stand at inter
vals over the gates In the wall—they
me called pyathat, but they strike the
eye like peaceful conclusions—and low
white stone bridges raised In the mid
dle span the moat. The buttresses of
the gates tire painted deep gray and
white, and the bank that slants steeply
from the wall to the water has here
and there a low, twisted, spreading
tree on It. purely for decoration. You
may stop at a corner and look two
ways along the reflecting water, with
bridge after bridge receding across,
and pyatlmt after pyathat diminishing
iilmve. and each red and gray and
white vista so picked out and finished
under the quiet light slipping adorably
Into the near blue of the hills.
Mandalay seemed aware with bunt
ing that day. flags and arches of wel
come everywhere and crowds flocking-
aware and almost awake—but you
looked lignin and saw that she only
turned in her sleep and smiled, as at a
drea in.- Exchange.
JAPANESE JOTTINGS.
Chrysanthemums served as a salad
are a favorite article of diet among
the Japanese.
At a Japanese banquet it IS con
sidered a compliment to exchange cups
with a friend.
Japanese cooks are the most cruel lu
tlie world. They cut every atom of
flesh off a living fish piecemeal with
out first causing death.
The lower class of the Japanese em
ploy hardly any other material than
paper for their clothing. Where wages
are exceedingly low, cloth Is an Im
possible extravagance.
Every hotel in Japan has a fan, spe
cial to itself, containing a view of the
hotel and a blessing from the writ
ings of Confucius. One of these is al
ways given to the departing guest.
Many Japanese women are under
going the slight surgical operation nec
essary to straighten the slant of the
eyelid, which distinguishes them so
unmistakably from Caucasian women.
The Japanese eat more flsli than any
other people in the world. With them
meat eating I b a foreign innovation,
confined to the rich, or, rather, to those
rich people who prefer It to the na
tional diet.
WASHINGTON LETTER
(Special Correspondence. J
The work of the newly organized
and Increased bicycle squad of the
local police department Is proving
wholly satisfactory to Major Sylvester,
who has long advocated un improve
ment of that particular branch of the
police service. Since the new squad
has been on duty on the principal
thoroughfares of the city It has cor
rected a large number of abuses of
the police regulations.
The charge of maintaining the
handle bars of hht bicycle ou a plane
four inches below the plane of the
saddle was pref «-lied against Charles
A. Smith in police court the other
morning, and u|ain conviction the de
fendant was compelled to pay a flue
of $1. The regulation wus made sev
eral years ago to prevent scorchers
from colliding with pedestrians by rid
ing bead down ut a high rute of speed.
Very few arrests have been mude lute-
ly for this violation of the regulation.
Free Quarter« For Veteran«.
A large number of letters are re
ceived from day to day by the officials
of the citizens' committee in charge
of preparations for tlie coming na
tional encampment of tlie Grand Army
of the Republic asking as to free quar
ters for veterans. To all these com
munications reply Is made that the
allotment of free quarters Is exclu
sively under the control of the national
headquarters of the G. A. R. at Min
neapolis, and that all applications for
such quarters should lie made there.
In a circular letter sent out some
time ago by the committee to the de
partment commanders of the G. A. R.
and division commanders of the Sons
of Veterans, attention is called to this
matter. The citizens' committee Is
earnestly desirous that all the old
veterans who wish to come, but who
may lie debarred through Inability to
meet the expense of quarters while
here, may be provided for, and so ex
presses Itself In nil replies to letters on
the subject.
The District
h
Territory.
The District commissioners have re
ceived from Secretary of State Hay a
letter similar to those sent to all gov
ernors of states and territories in the
United States representing the scholar
ships offered to Americans under the
terms of the will of the lute Cecil
Rhodes. Mr. Macfarland has moved
that the papers be referred to the
board of education for its report, and
after the receipt of that the commis
sioners will formally reply to the com
munication of Mr. Hay.
The receipt of the letters settles the
mooted question as to whether tlie Dis
trict of Columbia came under the head
of a state or territory within the mean
ing of the will or was merely a city.
The letter being sent to the Commls-
sinners by the secretary of state Is ac
cepted as evidence from high authority
that legally the District of Columbia
exists In the status of a territory of
the United States.
District Pay« Union Wane«.
In response to a recent communica
tion from James E. Mitchell, acting
secretary of the Building Trades Coun
cil, regarding the rate of wages paid
to employees In the District repair
shop, the District commissioners have
forwarded to Idin the following mem
orandum from G. P. Coleman, superin
tendent of repairs:
“The following mechanics employed
by tills department are receiving union
wages: Carpenters, $3 per diem; paint
ers, >2.60; tinners, $2.80; bricklayers.
$4.50, and laborers, $1.50 per diem.
The only mechanics who are not paid
union wnges are the plasterers. Lust
summer only two applications were re
Bird«' Egica Too Mach For Science.
ceived for this class of work, and in
It is not often tliut science acknowl each case $2.50 per diem was asked.
edges herself at fault in an apparent As a very small amount of plnstering
ly simple matter, but she frankly does (patching) has to be done tlie two men
so in regard to the color and marking who made application were employed
of a large proportion of birds’ eggs. and gave entire satisfaction."
A reason there must be for their In
Nlsht Work at White House.
finite diversity; it cannot be hii n-s-
A night force of carpenters has been
thetlc one, and all we can say with
put to work on tlie interior of the
any confidence is that the ever per
White House. For tlie first time In
vading instinct of distrust Is probably
the history of the old building work
exhibited In eggshells as in more im
men are driving nails and manipulat
portant things, and the main idea in
ing saws and other tools by electric
their scheme of coloration has been
light. The night force began work in
the securing of safety from many ene
the ancient attic.
mies by harmonizing them with their
Four bedrooms, presumably all for
surroundings. But it is a scheme full
servants, are being built in the attic,
of perplexlug exceptions, which any
which, before the Roosevelt adminis
one can study for himself.—Pall Mall
tration, bad been used for storage pur
Gazette.
poses only. A driveway is building
from the White House to the execu
Prcachluc Monkey«.
The author of “The History of Bra tive avenue, between the White House
zil” tells of u species of monkey called and the treasury.
Estimate For Deaf and Dumb.
"preachers.”
Every morning and
The initial one of the District esti
evening these monkeys assemble In
the woods. One takes a higher posi mates for the fiscal year ending June
tion than the rest and makes a signal 30, 1904, has reached the commission
with bls fore paw. At this signal the ers, coming from Dr. E. M. Gallaudet,
others sit around him and listen. When president of the Columbian Institution
they are ail seated, he begins to utter For the Deaf and Dumb at Kendall
a series of sounds. When he stops Green. Dr. Gallaudet asks tliut the
these cries, be makes another signal commissioners include in their esti
with his paw, and the others cry out mates to congress an item of $10,600
until be makes a third signal, upon for the expenses attending the instruc
which they become silent again. This tion of deaf and dumb persons admit
author, Mr. Maregrove, asserts that be ted to the institution from the District
of Columbia. This auiouut is the same
was a witness to these preachings.
as has been appropriated by congress
annually for several years past.
A Ruakln Thouxlit,
Not One Objectloaable Picture.
To be content in utter darkness and
Two women were walking through
Ignorance Is Indeed unmanly, and there
fore we think that to love and find the corridors of the Congressional
knowledge must be always right. Yet library the other day leading n little
wherever pride has any share In the boy between them. They were evi
work even knowledge and light may be dently from the Interior aud were very
111 pursued. Knowledge Is good, ami much Interested and edified by all they
light is good, yet man perished in seek saw. After they had carefully stud
ing knowledge, and the moths perish ied the exquisite mural decorations
In seeking light, and if we who are and the symbolic pictures between the
crushed before the moth will not accept arches and over the doors, they sat
such mystery as Is needful to us we down on a bench to rest, and oue of
shall perish In like manner. None but them remarked:
“1 ain’t seen a picture In all this
the proud will mourn over this, for we
may always know more If we choose place that ain't fit to frame and hang
CARL SCHOFIELD.
by working on, but the pleasure Is, 1 In a house.”
think, to humble people. In knowing
Molasse«.
that the Journey Is endless, the treasure
Inexhaustible.—Ruskin.
The molasses which is left as a resi
Hurrah.
due from beet sugar manufacture Is
utilized in Germany to make alcohol.
“Hurrah!" It used to be "Hurray!”
No Raab Remark«.
and the cry is as old as England. It
“Mrs. McSmlth Is a very queer wld-
Benham— I believe a woman can love Is the battlecry of the old Norse
vikings as they swept down to burn aw.”
two men at tlie same time.
"Queer In what way?”
Mrs. Benham—If she Is a married und murder nmong the peaceful Brit
woman, she Ims to try to.
ish. "Tur. ale!” was their warcry,
“No one has ever beard her say she
Benham— What do you mean?
which means, "Thor, aid!” an appeal wouldn't marry the best man that
ever lived.”—Puck.
Mrs. Benham—She has to try to love for help to Thor, the god of battles.
her busband, and he isn't the same
Left Helplen».
Accidentally.
man when they have company that he
Mrs. Brown So your girl hns left
Is when they haven’t any.—Brooklyn
Hoax—How did he make his money?
you? What for. for mercy's sake?
Life.
_______________
Joax—Quite by accident.
Mrs. Black—Absolutely for nothing.
Hoax—How was that?
Work Is the Inevitable condition of
Mrs. Brown—Oh, that's it. I remem
Joax—Hs lost a leg in a railroad
human life, the true source of human ber you told me stie wouldn't leave
wreck and recovered* damagea.—Phila
welfare.—Tolstoi.
rou for anything.—Boston Transcript. delphia Record.
Two Aspects.