BANDON RECORDER
-RÄD A FixemRCOWF
Aa Lafartaaat* 4a»»«lea aad a F*v-
taatlr Freak ■*•>!».
A lawyer who formerly practiced bis
profesalou In Georgia telle In th* New
York Telegram this amusing ease
which he once tried in that state. He
waa tbeu a student In tbe office of bis
uncle, Cokmel Culver, who figured In
local politics. A "trifling” negro, Ben
Button, had been arrested at tbe in
stance of bls wife, who was tired of
supporting him and insisted that the
court make him work:
I defended Ben at the Instance of
my uncle, who was, I am sorry to say.
Inclined to curry favor with tbe col
ored voter. Ben was on tbe stand,
and I waa examining him.
“Now, Ben,” I said, “Amanda de
clares tn her complaint that you don’t
give ber any money, and’’—
Dat ole woman’s al’ays complain-
" Interrupted my client.
Yes, I know, but what I want to
ask you 1a: Are you able to support
her? Have you any Income—that Is.
any fixed income?"
Bed looked puzzled, I tried to ex
plain and told him that a fixed income
was an Income on which a person
could rely absolutely, not one contin
gent on odd Jobs—In other words, a
certainty. My uncle was sitting at my
elbow coaching me. and I thought I
'Now, tell the
was doing right well,
court,” I concluded, "have you a fixed
income?”
"Yesaar,” answered tbe black scamp,
The answer almost took my breath
away, for 1 bad not counted on It.
“What!” I thundered. “You mean to
say that you, Ben Sutton, have a
steady, reliable and fixed income on
which you can absolutely depend?”
"Yesaar.”
“Wbat Is It?” I gasped In despera
tlon.
"Well, sar, you see.” returned Ben,
"Colonel Culver, thar, al'ays guvs me
fo‘ bits an’ a sack uv flour on ever*
'lection day.”
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Pardon others often; thyself never.—
Publius Syr us.
We like to divine others, but do not
like to be dlvlued ourselves.—Roche
foucauld.
Tbe Good Spirit never antedates. He
never gives ua today what we shall
need tomorrow.—Emerson.
Do not make excuses to yourself for
your failures, but look them squarely
in the face and study how to avoid
their repetition.
Life Is a burden Imposed upon you
by God. Wbat you make of IL that
It will be to you. Take it up bravely,
bear It joyfully, lay it down trium
phantly.—Gall Hamilton.
We dig arid toll, we worry and fret,
aud all the while close over us bends
the Infinite wonder and beauty of na
ture, saying: “Look up, my child! Feel
my smile and be glad!"—G. 8. Merriam.
God has put It Into man's power not
to fall into real evils, and the fact that
we cannot avoid death show* that It la
not a real evil, else God would have
put it in our power to avoid It.—Mar
cus Aurelius.
A man who Ilves entirely to himself
become* at last obnoxious to himself.
I believe It is the law of God that self
centeredneaa ends in self nauseouHness.
There 1* no weariness like tbe wear!
nes* of a man who is wearied of him
self, and that is the awful Nemesis
which follows the selfish life.—J. H.
Jowett.
Th* Oa* Ah»«.
“Polly, I have been wouderiug what
we are going to do with our boys,” »aid
a gentleman the other day. “You see,
the way things stand now tbe uniou*
ouly allow employer* to take Just so
mauy apprentice«*, aud uo matter bow
muck they need other boy* iu their
work, they are uot able to take them.
There are *corea of boy* iu Hau Frau-
cisoo to-day wautmg to learn a trade
but there is uo opportunity offered
them. My son ha* gone from oue place
to auother and failed. Then J went
with bim, aud eveu offered to pay oue
firm to take my sou iuto their place of
business anal let him begin at the foot
of the ladder aud work bls way up, but
the proprietor ouly shook bis bead dis
mally. He would like to have taken
bim but there waa uo vacancy. Lisfeu
at that, Polly, uo vacancy; yet there I*
a vacancy for every foreigner, uo mat
ter how ignorant be Is. They are fill
ing every available place, but there is
no room for our own American boys,
t*>ru aud reared and educated here.
The majority of the foreigners who are
tilling the places of our owu Amerieau
txiys do not even know what the Con
stitution of the United Htates contains.
What do they care? They have never
been allowed any privileges iu their
own couutry, from which mauy of
them have fled, but here they propone
to rule. Now, answer me, if you can,
w.iat do tbe people of California pro
pose to do with our boy»? Make vaga
bonds or vagrants out of them? Drive
them out of the State to learn a trade?
Bring them up in idleness because there
is no place for them in our owu Golden
Htate, so rich iu prospects for tile for
eigners that they pour into our wide
o|>en doors and usurp the places of our
native sons? Mind you, I am not cast
ing reflections on the foreigners as a
whole, for there are many such that are
an addition to any community and loy
al, welcome citizens aud not a blight.
This question of wbat to do with our
itoys who want to iearu a trade is get
ting to be a serious problem, aud I
waut to know what the fathers in this
Htate intend to do about It?
“Another tliiug, Polly, that strikes
me as being very strange are the condi
tions now existing in New York. It
looks to me as if the lalior parties, par
ticularly among the builders, were do
ing everything toward cutting their
own throats financially. Here it is bor
dering on what is predicted is going to
lie a severe winter, and we all know
that New York is not a laud of sun
shine and flowers in the winter time,
but on the contrary, tbe greatest suffer
ing and distress prevail, many deaths
occurring annually from starvation and
freezing. Yet by their concerted action
laboring men have tied up over seventy
millions of dollars that should have
lieen put into circulatkin by tbe capi
talists and business men of moderate
means. They have just simply para
lyzed business in building circles. All
contracts have been withdrawn, and
for all the moneyed men care these men
can walk the streets and freeze while
their families cry in vain for food and
fuel. ’Tis a queer state of attain*, Polly,
to a man who has been brought up in
the ‘old school' as I have. It is not the
moneyed men who are going to suffer
when the thermometer drops lie low
zero, but these men who seem to be
blind to their own interests. I hope I
haven’t tired you, but I thought possi
bly I might feel better if I could talk
the matter over of ‘What are we going
to do with our boys?’ I read what you
had to say about maklug home pleas-
aut for the boys and I heartily concur
in that, so concluded you might be in
terested In what was to become of them
after they bad finished school and
wanted to take up something that
would insure them being honorable and
upright industrious citizens. My wife
says'Wait patiently, for there’s bound
to tie a turn In the tide,’ but it is hard to
lie patient when you see your boy be
coming more discouraged and impa
tient over the delay from day to day.’’
I especially remember Emile de Gl-
rardln, editor, spouter, intriguer—the
“Grand Emile,” who boasted that he
Invented and presented to tbe French
people a new idea every day. This
futile activity of his always seemed to
me best expressed in the American
simile, “Busy aa a bee in a tar barrel.”
There was, indeed, one thing to bls
credit: He had somehow inspired his
former wife, tbe gifted Delphine Gay.
with a belief tn his greatness, and a
pretty atory was current illustrating
thia. During tbe revolution of 1848
various tuen of note, calling on Mme.
Glrardln, expressed alarm at the prog
ress of that most foolish of overturns,
when sbe said, with an air of great
solemnity and poiutlng upward, "Gen
tlemen, there is one above who watches
over France.” (“11 y a un la-baut qul
vellle aur la France.”) All were great
ly impreesed by this evidence of sub
lime faith until they discovered by the
context that it was not the Almighty
in whom sbe put ber trust, but the
great Emile, whose study was just
Is the old-time amusement for doll
above her parlor.—Andrew D. White In playing going outof fashion, I wonder?
Century.
The largest manufactory of dolls in
Germany and from where all the most
Liven at Aalaaal».
Animal* vary greatly In tbe length beautiful creations in the doll line come
of their live*. Elephant*, eagle* and from, complains that there has been
parrot* may celebrate their hundredth such an alarming falling oil' in orders,
birthday, but our domesticated beasts particularly for high-priced dolls, that
are thought to bo aged when they they are contemplating going out of
have reached a quarter of a hundred busineM In a way. Thia might alarm
A horse I* old at twenty, a donkey at the mother Liearte of all the little girls
twenty-five and a cat or dog at fifteen
on this side of the Atlantic who every
Tbe span of existence allotted to In-
sects 1* shorter still the fly and the year pen their letter to good Krie K tin
butterfly commonly enjoying bnt one gle modestly requesting from oue to
summer of vigorous life and then be half a dozen dolls for them to adopt
Ing taken off by the coM If they are and bring up in the way they should
not previously snapped up by a bird.
go. “Ho far America is tbe only coun
try W hich has uot fallen oil' in ite or
It Wa» B*«h.
der* to an alarming degree,” says tbe
"Wbat do you think of old Uncle
Peter devising all hla money for tbe report from t h I* celebrated German doll
•rectlon of a mausoleum over Ills re factory, *o we need not worry about our
little American girls losing their fond
mains?” said tbe first needy relative.
"Awfnlt" replied tbe second. “It's ness for the pastime that has retain«d
just ■ willful waste."
Ite Interest for eeulu.ie* for the wee
"Huh! 1 call It a wasteful wlll.”- folk. 1 do not see what could take It*
Pbllsdelpbta Press.
place, for it is a rare thing to find a
child
who does not prefer a doll to any
Fl»k*d Far a Ca»»»ll«a*at
Uot It
Alice (looking at her portrait) -Don't other playtbingor game of amusement.
you think that Mr. Van Brush hat The dollies come first, last and all the
managed to make rather n pretty pic time, and Polly hopes it is one of the
ture of me?
fails that has come to stay.
Edith— Tea. be really has. What
remarkably clever artist be la!
Hpeakingof doll-playing, did you ever
notice how a little girl will Imitate her
Th* Canuta*!'» (art*«».
Klllsem (a native of the Cannibal Is- mother in the care of herself when sbe
Isndst—They ar* haring a barbecue Is cuddling and loving her doll. One
minute she will smother it with carves
down on the beach.
Eateem—What’s tbe entree, min or es arid tbe next moment scold and
woman?
shake It until Ito glass eyes rattle She
Klllsem—Neither. They’ve captured will put it In a comer with its face
a ship laden with newspapers, and they turned to the wall for a minute at a
are devouring the new*. — Princeton
time and then bring tbe little culprit
.
c
out. Various punishments she willlry
aud you cau rest assured that it is th*
same ehasttsemeut she tin» aseu iu her
owu home. Occassloually you Aud a
child who la always gentle and loving
with ber doll. She talks and reaaous
with it, never punish»*, for in ber
home whipping for au offense is nsver
known, her parents do not bellve iu It
wheu reasoning with the child will do
Just as well aud which will not humili
ate her before tbe eyes of other* aud
cru*b the iplrit and wound tbe »enai-
live uature of the little child. The beet
family of children, six iu number, that
1 have ever seen, bad never known
wbat it was to be punished. The pa
rents reasoned with them and talked
the matter over, much as they would
have done with older aud wiser mem
bers of tbe family who were guilty of
some offense. It appealed to all that
was noble and manly and womanly in
tbe little children; they were ashamed
and ready to atone for wbat was pos
sibly ouly the result of a childish act.
Whipping would have only crushed
the proud little spirit of tbe child.
Many times has Polly beard a child
after being severely punished say with
streaming eyes and voice trembliug
with rage and indiguation, “I bate iny
mother,’’or, “I despise my father,” and
tor tbe time being they meant every
word they said. I saw a little hoy
rightafters severe punishment for some
very trivial offense, and after studying,
as he said, “how to get even,” walked
up aud emptied a box of earth on his
mother’s front door-step. She was
scrupulously neat and he kuew nothing
would horrify her much more tbau to
find her front door-step in such au un
tidy condition. Hegot the extra whip
ping he expected, but he smiled while
it was lieitig administered. Home was
not very pleasant for that boy and he
Anally ran away from home and shipped
on an outgoing vessel. Nothing was
beard of him for six years aud then be
wrote home, stating he was homeward
bound. He visited his pareute for a
few days but uothing would induce him
to remain at home. He was one of the
boys that could have been reasoned
with instead of being chastised with the
rod. A child, bey or girl, usually uses
the language they hear at home, aud if
they threaten to “break the doll’s neck”
or to “beat their dog within an inch of
his life,” in their quiet every-day play,
nine times out of ten they are familiar
expressions In the home circle.
BRIEF REVIEW.
No Russians Wanted.
The Finns, even in their great dis-
tress, have not forgotten their national
sense of humor. Uualile to make any
effective political resistance to the faith
less encroachment on their liberties
made by the Government of tbe Czar,
they adopted a policy of retaliation that
must have been singularly irritatiug to
their victims. In the last year or so
even a Russian subject, let alone a Rus
sian officer, had the greatest difficulty
in getting a drink at a Furnish restau
rant or accommodation at a Finnish
hotel. It was a case of “uo Russians
served here,” and the policy uaturally
caused great inconvenience at a time
when Finland was being flooded with
Russians. At last, however, the au
thorities have taken cognizance of this
system of attack, and now, under pain
of a heavy fine, the Finnish hotel
keeper has to admit any who come to
him for accommodation. It will be in
teresting to watch whether Finnish in
genuity can devise any other method
of otmtructiug the Russification of their
lieloved countjy.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN UPLAND AND
HOT LAND MEXICANS.
Why th* Character!»!** aS lb* Pea
pl* la th* Tw* *»ctlaa* el Mexico
Ar* Sa lallkv—XSerla ei Twa <’•»-
tar lea af Serf dam.
There 1* no country In the world that
presents more strange contrasts of
land and |>eople, habit* and customs,
beat and cold, than Mexico. Tbe table
lands of tbe country are a mile aud a
half higher tbau the coast lauds, and
between these there are to be found
all gradations of climate. This fact
lends much of tbe picturesque and
strange to Mexico and gives it a va
riety In all things possessed by few, If
•ny, countries In tbe world. Of all tbe
inhabitants of Mexico, the life of the
people of the hot country is tbe most
interesting. This is, strange to suy, due
to tbe fact that there tbe people have
ever possessed more of freedom than in
the colder localities. For two centuries
or more the great mass of people of the
uplands were slaves. They toiled in
the mines, with a guard of soldiers set
over them; they built tbe public roads;
they worked the ranches, farms and
haciendas for master* who gave them
scarcely more than the food they ate.
Tbe great farms of the uplands have
ever required sure"help, and so each
ranchman had his serfs. Many estates
possessed hundreds of them. Thus all
individuality was crushed out of the
lower class, aud the terrible effect of
this condition of things is still evident
The peoplb of the hot lands fared bet
ter, because there It was much easier
to make a living and much harder to
hold very large haciendas
For this
reason tbe characteristics of the people
are quite distinct from those of their
brethren of the upland plateaus. In
tbe hot lands mauy Indians still claim
to bold in right of inheritance from
remote ancestors portions of land each
in Ills own Individual right. There,
too. the mayor of the village or town
bolds office so long aa he pleases the
mass of the people. In the uplands
It has been tbe custom of the rich aud
powerful to distribute offices of all
kinds as part of their prerogative of
birth and wealth. The lower classes
of the uplands, although they now
have the advantage of a fairly good
public system of education and are be
coming gradually educated, are in tbe
main a distinctively unambitious peo
ple. They were so long in semislavery
that they feel that tbe world of the
middle and upper class people is be
yond them. They have, therefore, uo
Interest in anything outside their cir
cle of friends and acquaintances—that
is, in a political way. But not so in
many hot country villages and com
munities. There the Indian has ever
been more or less a factor in the life
of the community in which be resided.
On the upland* there are long
stretches of more or less bare lauds,
with mouutalns rising up boldly in the
background. In many parts during
the dry season the laud is almost bar
ren of vegetation. But in tbe Lot coun
try grow tall and shady trees and
thick undergrowth. Everything grow*
almost without attention from the
band of man, and yet, strange to say,
the peon, or laborlug man. Is there
more ambitious and a better worker
than the peon of tbe colder uplunds.
This 1* not natural and is ouly ex
plained by the different conditions in
which they have passed tbe last 400
years. Serfdom ou tbe uplands extin
guished all ambition in tbe lower class.
The lower class of tlio hot country
people are fond at social life, and al
most anj uigbt or early evening tbe
year throughout one may find groups
of’people in a little Indian village
gathered together and entertaining one
another in front of some one of tbe
houses or on tbe public square, which
every Mexican town, however small,
possesses, with muilc, songs and occa
sionally dancing.—Modern Mexico.
Attacked by Bata.
William Newlin, after a desperate
battle with bate tbe other night, was
compelled to go to the Germantown
Hospital, Philadelphia, to have his
wounds dressed. Suburban residents
have been greatly annoyed by a regular
plague of these winged vermin lately,
and they are particularly plent if u Mn the
ueigbl orhcod of Willow Grove avenue
aud the Reading Railroad. Newlin was
passing this point when he was assailed
by a legion of these pesta, and after
fighting them fora while was compelled
to flee. They dashed at him viciously,
biting him about the face, head aud
hands antll the blood flowed from the
numerous wounds. Arriving at tbe
bespital, tbe doctors promptly cared
for bis hurts while be told them of his
unusual experience.
Weeds Impede a Train.
Kansas is having trouble with weeds
Just now. The Pauses branch railroad
baa almost gone out of btHiness because
of them. The weeds grow on the road
bed in luxurious style, and as section
bauds could not be hired, the weed*
grew over the rails, The wheels of the
engiue crushed these weeds aud made
the rails so slippery that It took the
train two hoars to go seven miles.
Washington’s Watch.
Leland M. Finks of Calhoun, Mo.,
claims to have a watch which waa once
the property of George Washington.
It Is a silver affair, and 1s said to have
been used by Washington to time his
fast horses. Mr. Fink* also has tbe
ooat-of-arms of the Washington family.
He claims that these two thing* have
been In hfo family for many years.
fHE CODE IN ANCIENT TIMES NEV/ SHORT STORIES
STRANGE CONTRAST
A Limits* Edition.
There is a paper published in London
called the Anti-Top Hat. It dcpenda
for Its circulation not upon subscrib
ers, but upon the trill of an eccentric
old man who hated the conventional
form of headgear with a hatred which
he carried beyond tke grave. He fought
the “stovepipe” hit while alive, and
when he died he left bis nephew $2,000
a year on condition that be edit and
publish s monthly paper devoted to
ridiculing the “top bat.” The nephew
accepted the legacy and the responsi
bility and Issues his paper regularly,
though be confines each edition to three
coplee, one for hinaelf and one for
each of tbe old man's executors.
Th* Arabi* L*as»a(*.
There i* no language more poetical
than the Arabic language, where
snow 1* called "hair of tlie mountain”
and the rainbow is ‘bride of the rain.”
Red mullet is “the sultan of fishes.”
maidenhair fern is translated by "little
cane of the well.'* Ordinary Arabic
words show an extraordinary gift of
description.
The word for secretly
means literally “under the inattiug”
and never is expressed thus: "When
th* vharcoa! take* .tx»i «tul tbv salt
buds.” Uncontrolled ascendency of im
agination marks tbe Arab and endows
bis nature with a fascination all its
own. An outdoor life is hl* heritage,
and tbe uilng« or nature are a part of
himself. Spring be calls "grass;” sum
mer 1* “gleaning;” autumn 1* “fruit;"
winter la “rainy."
Ths Mother of Pearl Industry.
The center of the mother of pearl In
dustry Is Singapore. The shell oyster Is
six to ten Inches long, the larger one*
weighing as much a* ten pounds. It kt
found on hard bottom channels be
tween Islands, where the current Is
strong. In gathering it a diver takes
with him a bag of coir rope a fourth of
About 111,000,000 tons of freight are an inch tn diameter, made in large
annually carried on the Ohio river, meshes, which, while suited for bold
which has a length of 1,000 miles from ing the shell, does not impede bls trav
eling along the bottom.
Pittahurg to Cairo.
WBa« Fred Dnsla» Said.
A belief In witchcraft still prevails In
One cold night daring tbe height of
parts of I^amwabire, Rugland, also in th« civil war Hon. Frederick Douglass
the Isle of Man and still more strongly got oat of a train at Jersey City. He
in the Hebrides.
wore a big shawl on top of his over
coat, and a New York reporter, seeing
the dark skin and towering form of
tbe traveler, stopped him with tbe
question, "’ndlan?" “No!” »booted
Douglass. “Nigger!”
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F**>u*a Deri la th* Mar* of u»od
<**••* Aae*.
In tbe reigu of good Queen Anno
Juris were no lea* frequent than in
tbe rowdy, riotous day* of Charles II.
laird Mobun, a dissolute, reiuoreele«*
nobleiusn, was the terror of honest
Ixinduq cit Isens at this time, aud
many were the infauious escapade* in
which be played chief character. He
was guilty of one act which bear* no
other name than that of murder—the
killing of i>oor Mouutford, the actor,
tn cold blood because be eudeavored to
protect tbe honor of Mrs. Bracegirdle,
the famous and beautiful actress. It
waa Lord Mohun who fought and kill
ed tbe Duke of Hamilton, an affair
which all will remember who have
read Thackeray'* great novel, “Es
mond."
Tbe duel waa fought with sword* in
Hyde park, tbe challenge having been
sent by Mohun to the duke, who bad.
with perfect accuracy, stated that one
of Mohun'* creatures “had neither
truth nor justice in him.” The Duke
of Hamilton received a wound in tl*e
right side of the leg about seven Inches
long, auother iu the right arm, a third
In the upper part of tbe breast, run-
uiug downward toward tbe body; a
fourth on the outside of the left leg.
Ix>rd Mohun himself was mortally
wounded, receiving a large wound in
tbe groin, another in tbe right side
through the body, In which tbe sword
plunged riglit up to the hilt, and a
third in ills arm. There is uo doubt
he rightly deserved his death, because,
departing from tbe rules of fence
among men of honor, be shortened bis
sword, thrust under his opponent’s
guard and stabbed the duke in the
manner of a common assassin.
old Jvha Hrwwa'a Wblxle.
Tbe silver boatswalu's whistle with
which John Brown piped orders to tils
men wtille they were at Harpers Fer
ry bast been discovered in Washington
by tbeoifllcers of the Kansas Historical
society. An effort Is ms king to secure
the instrument for the society’s mu
seuui.
When John Brown gathered bls uieu
around Har|>er» Ferry and begau prep
■rations for the seizure of tbe ar
aeual he instructed them, according to
the story, to hide themselves In the
mountain forests and to refrain from
being seen together, Then he gave
them Instructions to listen each day
at sunrise aud sunset for their orders.
which would be piped to them with
tbe boatswain's whistle.
These Instructions were carried out
to the letter, and for some days pre
ceding the attack on tbe arsenal the
people of Har|>ers Ferry beard the
mysterious piping from Brown’s head
quarters. Tlie notes would be taken
up by tbe nearest of his follower* and
•ent ou over the mountains until the
farthest distant of Ills baud had re
ceived the word of the commander.
When Brown was captured the whis
tle was taken from him by Lieutenant
Stewart of the regular army, who aft
erward became a lieutenant general in
the Confederacy. Stewart Anally gave
It to Colonel Washington, who In turn
presented It to John Casein, then a weli
known lawyer In this city. Tbe whis
tle is now in iHissesslou of Mrs. Mary
A. Cassln, who lives in Georgetown. It
is about nine inches long aud in an ex
cellent state If preservation.
CHOICE
MISCELLANY
Tala •»< a Auaavctla* Llak.
Tbe Darwinian theory has recently
received more taugible support In tbe
Gaya district, where au iufaut has
been discovered who Is ¡»osseaaed of a
tall. The euae Is repurt«d to the ludiau
I M.dhal Gazette by Captain Chatter
tou, I. M. 8.. and the Infaut 1* appar
ently causing a seusution and may In
time for aught that can be said be
worshiped as the god of ilunuman. tbe
monkey god come back to earth. Cap
tain Chatterton dencrllx-s thia curious
child as follows:
“'Die child had what appeared to be
a tail. I made tbe following note at
the time. Tbe spine is apparently |>er-
fectly normal. Over the base of the
sacrum Is a bruwuy swelling, from the
lower i>ortion of which emerges a per
fectly skin cover, tail-like ap|s-u<lage
(bout three to three and a half Inches
long. This api>endag* Is eupable of a
limited amount of uiotiou. It wag*
slightly when the infaut takes the
breast, There la no evidence of any
bone in this tall.’ It feels tough and
elastic, It ap|>ears to be connected by
soft attachments to the sacrum The
tip of the coccyx can be felt In Its nor
mal situation under cover of the ‘tail.’
All the other parts of this baby were
normal. Tbe parents absolutely re
fused to entertain the idea of having
the tail removed. Tbe reason is, 1
think, that the fame of the baby has
already begun to spread, and I have uo
doubt that by Judicious management it
will prove a source of Income to Its
parents.”—Amrita Basar Patrika.
Th* Story of a Com pl lot rat.
L. Frank Baum, tbe author of fairy
tales, tells a good story at Id* own ex
pense. While at a southern winter re
HI« Face Waa Familiar.
James Neill and bls wife (Edytli sort recently a lady who has a pen
Chapman* were in Chicago not so very chant for meeting ail sorts of celebrities
PHILIPPINE VOLCANOES.
long ago, and while there Mr. Neill secured an Introduction to Mr. Buum
Mayo* la the Moat Faaoa», and the thought be recognised a waiter in tbe and asked permission to present her
little «laughter, a miss of seven, “who
Taal Cornea Next.
hotel dining room.
Tbe most famous Philippine volcano
“Where have you waited on me be- knows every one of your books by
and one of the fluent volcano cones in fore, my good maii?” he asked. “In heart.” Tlie youtig lady, lank haired
tbe world Is that of May on. Its height San Francisco, Log Angeles. S|iokane anil round eyed, extended her hand In
a mechanical fashion, and. staring
is 8,970 feet, and the volcano is visible or Denver?"
at u great distance. Since 1760 records
“I've never been west of Chicago, straight Into tlie author’s face, she re
marked. “Mr. Baum. I think you’re a
hove been kept of its eruptions. In sir,” was the answer.
khat year many plantations and vil
“But your fuce is very familiar. I'm very wonderful man.” Somewhat
barrassed by this direct praise,
lages were burled under a stream of
children's author putted her head
lava which flowed down its eastern
asked, "Why do you say that,
slope. About 1,200 Ilves were lost In
dear?” "Because mamma told me
the eruption of 1814, which burled tbe
answered the child complacently.
country around a part of the base of
In the roar of laughter that followed
Mayon under the outpourlugs of lava
the stricken mother made good her es
and dust. A similar calamity In 1825
cape.
destroyed the lives of about 1,500 per
sons. In the nineteenth century there
Elleu Trrry's Admirer.
were a number of severe eruptions. In
Miss Ellen Terry tells an amusing
cluding one In 1886-87 which continued
story of an admirer site had during an
about nine months. An eruption In
engagement with an old stock eotupa
1897 killed 350 persons and destroyed
ny. Each night a bunch of fresh vio
much property. Twenty-two violent
lets was sent to tier anonymously.
eruptions of this volcano are on record.
They were so sweet that one nlglit she
Next to Mayon tbe Taal volcano is
tucked them tn her belt Just before
the most remarkable. It is on an is
she went on the stage.
land in the lake of Rombon. and the is
The next night tbe bunch was larger,
land. built up by Its outpourings, has
and with it there was this badly writ
an area of 220 square miles. The vol
ten letter: “I've seeu you wear my vio
cano Is incessantly ejecting dust and
lets, so I know you’ve bud them.
vapor from its crater. Taal, as well as
Look at uie. I shall be In my shirt
Mayon. has been the center of numer
sleeves nnd my legs hanging over the
ous destructive earthquakes, but no
front of the gallery." And, sure
very great eruption has occurred since
enough, there he was. and Miss Terry
1864, when four villages around tbe
smiled a kindly recognition.
mountain were completely destroyed.—
Bulletin of American Geographical
A* Undersrroand City.
"I WAS BNOAOKD BT MBS. FIBXB."
Society.
In Turkestan, on the right bank of
sure," said the actor. “You must have the Arnou Darla, are n number of large
AN"OBSTINATE MAJOR
waited ou me somewhere.”
caves which upon examination some
“Yes, sir; I did, sir,” admitted tlie time ago were found to lead to an un
R* Hag HI* Way Eve* After He Was
gentleman of the cloth smilingly.
derground city, built some two centu
la HI» Com».
“Aud where was it?”
ries before the birth of Christ and
Many amusing stories are told of
“In ’Divorçons,’ sir. 1 was engaged composed of an enormous lubyrinth
the great formality blended with a hu
morous brusqueness and independence by Mrs. Fiske when you were her lead of corridors, streets and squares, sur
ing man, sir, to take part In the dinner rounded by houses and other buildings
which characterized early Revolution
scene, sir. It was a number of years two or three stories high.
ary days. An incident of camp life la
ago, sir.”
It la supposed that long centuries ago
related by the author of ’’Romance and
It was afterward explained that the this city, so carefully concealed In tbe
Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast.”
professloual waiter was engaged to bowels of the earth, provided un entire
In 1798 the first United State* troops
lend realism to tbe scene on the occa population with a refuge from the In
that eame down tbe Mississippi were
sion mentioned and that on several cursions of nomadic savages and rob
ipiartered at Fort Adam*.
General
occasions since he bas “supported” bers.—New York Herald.
Wilkinson, Colonel Hamtramck, Major
Mrs. Fiske in lier revivals of tin'
Butler, Captain Green and other offi
Overcrowded London.
French comedy.—New York Times.
cer* were merry over their punch one
The last census of Loudou showed
night, and the general, by some acci
one-third of Its huge population living
Where the Road Bevan.
dent, got his cue burned off. Angry
General Chambers McKibben was In overcrowded conditions. It stated
at the laugh which followed bls mis one® sent out to examine aud report that “of the 4.500.000 Londoners 2.000.-
hap. he next day Issued an order for upon a road in tbe far west. He was 000 have no more than 400 cubic feet
bidding any officer to appear with a ordered to ascertain its condition and of space per person to live in. 900,000
cue. Obedient to orders, all the offl- where it led to. He followed Instruc are living in space less than la re
ter* but Major Butler cut off their tions carefully and In bis report de quired by law. 200,000 are packed In
cues.
tailed how it followed certain brooks horrible block dwellings, 000,01*0 live
“The vain old prig?’ said the major. and streams, went over rolling prairies, three persons to one room, 26.000 live
“1’11 see him hanged before I cut off passed different groves and finally up six to a room, 9,000 live seven In a
my cue to gratify bim!” And he boldly a hill and climbed a tree.
room, and 3.000 live eight and upward
appeared without changing the style of
“I think you had better leave that to as many as seventeen in one room-”
his hairdressing.
out,” said his commanding officer.
The major was put under arrest, but “This report is to go through the usual
Hl» Talent For Talk.
he declared obstinately that he would military channels and will be filed. A
Tlie Duke of Argyll tells tills story
spend the rest of his life in prison be road would not go up a tree.”
of Winston Churchill, which shows
fore he would comply with such a silly
“That is where this road went." in that the talent for talk developed
command. Soon afterward he was tak sisted McKibben.
"It kept getting young in the author and member of
en very ill, and, realizing that he was fainter and fainter, but it led up the parliament.
at the point of death, he gave Instruc hill and right up to that tree, There
Some years ago he visited Harrow
tions for bls burial, which he knew was no evidence of even a trail lieyond and. noticing a l>oy running around the
would be witnessed by the whole com the tree, but it was blazed far up to cricket field all by himself, asked wliat
mand.
ward the top. and thnt was the end of he was doing It for.
“Bore a hole,” said he, “through the tbe trail. No, sir; this report stands.
“That’s Lord Randolph Churchill's
bottom of my coffin, right under my I am p.Tpared to substantiate every son. and whenever lie talks too much
head, and let my cue come through It, part of It.”
we make III in run throe times around
that tlie old general may see that even
And It is so recorded in the archives the cricket field.”
when dead I refuse to obey hl* or of the war department.—Washington
Very Pleunant ElrrtlonecrlnK.
der.”
Post.
Tn Ron'.!« Australia female suffrage
And those direction were literally
The Seas* of Loo.
has been in operation for some time. A
carried out.
The late R. H. Stoddard was fond of member of the commonwealth parlia
contrasting the English and the French ment, anxious to ■■certain the l«est
A 4a*«r Pollen Fore*.
Tue policemen in Haiti are paid by WOiklagtu&u Cu the great advantage of mote of approaching the woman voters
results. They get capitation fee* for tbe latter. One of bis conmiirisoiiH tn hl* constituency, sought the advice
of an experienced Routh Australian
all tbe arrests they make. As they dealt with the death of Dickens.
"A short time after Dicken* died.” hr legislator. “How do you please them?
come from the worst class of the popu
lation and are under no discipline, it would say. "a friend of mine visited Do vo” kl«« tbe beb^.?”. “No, *'••’’-v':-.£-
follow* that a inan Is very liable to be the scene of his laat' bourM and. In the candid reply; "we kiss the elector.”
arrested In Haiti unless be is willing search of Dickenslana. stopped in a —London Chronicle.
to pay the policeman more than the neighboring Inn. He spoke of the nov
S*rr>*g*rl*B HI» Frrednm.
capitation fee. As this fee Is only 15 elist’s demise to the waiter. ‘A great
Here is a Booker T. Washington di
cents, the price of freedom Is not pro loss,’ he said.
“‘A great loss Indeed to ua sir.' tlie vorce story:
hibitive.
“Brother Turner’« Just been dlvorrwt
If a man objects to paying the fee waiter agreed. ‘He had all bl* ale sent
from his wife,” said Brother Smith.
and says he would rather go before the In from this bouse.'
“Contrast with that,” Mr. Stodilard
“I* dat soT’
Judge the policeman soon convince*
“Yaah. Tbe Jedge done gone and
him of the unpleasantness of arrest would exclaim, “tbe nnswer of a wait
er to whom on tbe afternoon of Mira give him his freedom this morning.”
with a thick club.
beau’s death a guest said. ‘A fine day.’
“Whar’s be now?”
Cet Oet th* ■**■«!.
"‘Ye*.’ the waiter answered: 'it Is »
“Giving hfs freedom to Martha John
“Idleneae 1* a sin. The good book Ine day, but—Mirabeau is dead ’ ”
son. Rhe's Sister Turner by tbts time.
■ay* that man shall eat bread in tbs
A Tea* Caavaabaelt.
sweat of hl* face.”
A good story Is told of John Astley, a
Qalt* D*llb*r*t*.
“I ain't pertlckler about bread, mum.
”1 am glad to say.” remark'd Mr fellow atudent with Sir Joshua Reyn
Jis’ gimme some meat and a little pie
and cake If der's any handy, and I'll Seekton. “that I never spoke * hns'y olds In London and in Rome.
word to you.”
While walking In tbe Campagna
git along. I ain't no great bread eater
”No. Leonidas." answered hi» wife Reynolda and some other students took
meaelf. mum.”
rather gently: "I’ra willing fit give .voi- off their costs, but for a long time
credit Nir not knrrylng alwnit anv nothing would persuade young Astley
A Blesslau In Dt»*ulM.
to take his off. At last he was pre
Scrogga— Henpeck told me that be re thin«.”
vailed on to do so. and tbe cause of
garded the toothache as one of tbe
The aborigine* of Peru can. In the bis unwillingness to comply with the
greatest of temporal blessings.
Baggs — Wbat an Incomprehensible darkest nlg't and In the thickest woods, wishes of his friends was then reveal
distinguish reflectively a white man. t ed by an oil sketch of a waterfall
ideal
Scrogga—Yea; be said It made him negro and one of their own race by ttw painted on the back of the art!*’’*
smell
waistcoat
forget his other troubles!
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