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■••••easweweweaeaereeneae* BANDON RECORDER. WORKING OFF A GROUCH. The UBeratleas at a <■»!•■« Pteaaa •t Maataa Mature. John was grouchy aixl cross and found fault with tela dinner. His wife surveyed him calmly. “I know there Is some reason for youre your—wliat aluiH I call it? Well, for your unhappy.frame of mind,” she said. "Probably things have goue wrong at the office, but why should you come home to work off your linger on urn? I'm not to blame In the slight est. It’s a curious trait of human nature that when one has been whipped be at once wants to turn around and whip somebody else.” “1 suppose that trait was left out of your nature,” remarked John aarcaa tlcally. "No, Indeed,” replied bls wife. “When things go wrong In the kitchen I am rather Inc lined to scold the children. If you reprimand me fur extravagance, my impulse la to fuss with the tirst person I meet. If I have been out calling and return home late to dinner 1 feel very much Inclined to rate you for coming home so early. I've watch ed this sume trait In the children When I scold Alice, she always finds occasion to shake Maud on the sly. If you spank Jim, be generally goes out and makes faces at the little girl across the way. If the children come borne from school saying ‘teacher was awful cross today,* I Jump to the conclusion that the principal had been criticising the teacher. If you tell me I'm not economical, I know you have just suf fered front a slump In the stock mar- ket, and I suppose after you and 1 have bad a little heated discussion you go down to tbe office and make things unpleasant for tbe clerks.” “To be frank with you, Mary.” said John, “I do not often And you guilty of forking off a grouch on ine. Tell me what you do Instead.” Mary smiled demurely. “I wait until you go out of tbe bouse; then I run for my room, lock the door, throw myself on the couch, burrow my head in the pillow and have a good cry.”—New York Press. HEALTH’S DECALOGUE. 1. Rise early, retire early and fill your day with work. 2. Water and bread maintain life; pure air and sunshine are indispen sable to health. 8. Frugality and sobriety form tbe beat elixir of longevity. 4. Cleanliness prevents rust; the best cared for machines last tbe longest. B. Enough sleep repairs waste and strengthens; too much sleep softens and enfeebles. 8. To be sensibly dressed Is to give freedom to one’s movements and enough warmth to be protected from sudden changes of temperatun*. 7. A clean and cheerful house makes a happy home. 8. The mind Is refreshed and invlg orated by distractions and amusement, but abuse of them leads to dissipation and dissipation to vice. 8. Cheerfulness makes love of life, and love of life Is half of health. On tbe contrary, sadness and discourage ment hasten old nge. 10. Do you gain your living by your Intellect? Then do not allow your arms and legs to grow stiff. Do you earn your bread by your pickax? Do not forget to cultivate your mind and to enlarge your thought—French Medical Review. Useful Wood Lore. If you are lost In the woods sit down the moment you realize it and think It over. If you start off at random you Will be sure to walk In a circle. None but the most experienced woodsmen can keep a straight course, and even they go In a circle when they get really lost If you know tbe direction of enmp tie some strip of white rag to a tree and then start off. You can And the com pass points by remembering that nmss always grows on the north side of trees. K«*ep tying strips of rag to trees as you go on. Then you can And your way back to the starting point if you should fail to strike the path that loads to safety. Tbe Mesleaa Boundary Line. The International boundary line be tween the United States and the repub lic of Mexico is marked by pyramids of stones placed at Irregular distances along tbe line all tbe way from the Rio Orande to tbe 1’aclAc ocean. Wber- •ver It was found practicable to do so these pyramids were built on promi nent peaks at road crossings, fords, etc. Tbe line was not surveyed, as Is tbe usual custom, tbe location of the monuments being based on astronom ical calculations and observations. All His Kaa> la One Basket. Goodman Gonrong—We don't git nothin’ at that house. I asked the wo man fur some cold vittles, a cup of cawfey, some clothln’ an’ a place to sleep In the Urs, an’, by gum. ¿be suhl 1 was cornin’ It a little too strong, an' she shet the door In my face. Tuffold Knut—That's wot ye git, ye blame fool, fur puttin' nil yer begs In one ask it—Chicago T ribune. ewoo •»••••••••—•••••••• g P olly L arkin || i o o'öäö ööö o ö öo'oötäö öö oö •<•«>• ‘‘Polly, 1 don’t know wbat to tbiuk of the boys aud girls of to-day. I don’t like their principle. They are sadly lacking in some things and seem to tliluk it is all right. Fur instance, I own and niauage a big factory where 1 employ fifty or more bauds. They were always prompt aud everything moved like clock-work, until last sum mer, when I had to take a rest on ao- couul of lilness. Now you would have thought, as long as they had no griev ance, that of allother limes they would have tried to do their beet aud make a g«xxl showing, but It was tbe old story, “when the cat’s away the mice will play.” Our hours are from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5. The day 1 left for the country they commenced getting to work late, aud tbe last half hour before noon was spent iu looking at the clock. Exactly Ave minutes to 12every one of those girls were getting ready to put ou their hats. They were not ou time at 1 o’clock, either, but would wander iu listlessly from Ave to ten minutes be yond tbe hour. Then from 5 to half past it was yawuiug, gettiug up aud going out. Tbe half hour was really thrown away like tbe last half hour of the morniug. They simply accom plished nothing, and at Ave minutes to 5 they bad quit work. I did not want to say anything at first, but I felt an noyed and hurt because I bad placed so much confidence iu them. 1 had prided myself in selecting ail my bauds with regard to their honor aud good sterling character aud that they were ever to be relied upon aud needed no watchful eye over them. One or two of tbe girls were loyal little workers, and they have lost nothing by it, I can as sure you. They knew I paid them for their work from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5. They did not shirk for a miuute during that time. Oueof them remarked when I s|xjke to her of my appreciation of her interest in the work, “Why, Mr. B------ , I would feel like a thief if I Idled away from teu to tweuty minutes of our work ing time like some of the girls do every day, to take the money I had not earned. I resi ze that from 8 to 12 does not mean that I can get here Ave minutes after 8, but that I must be ready to go to work at that hour, or that Ave to ten minutes before quitting time to enable us to wash our hands and quit before 12 is doing right by you. That is not the way I have beeu brought up. I know, of course, that some of the girls waste from teu to tweuty minutes every day, and when thirty girls lose twenty minutes daily it counts up aud amounts to considerable at the end of the week. Il is wrong, aud tbe girls know they are uot doiug right by you.’ “Doing right by me! Weil, hardly, Polly, when I have treated them with the utmost consideration. They would uot like it if they went into a store to buy a yard of ribbon if the clerk took oft an inch orsoand yet charged the full amount. They would insist upon get ting all they paid for, and if they didn’t, the management would hear from them. It is just so in my business; I want all I pay for, aud Ave or teu miuutes past 8 to live minutes to 12 o’clock and Ave to teu miuutes past 1 to Ave minutes to 5 o’clock does not mean from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5 o’clock any more than three-quarters of a yard means a full yard of ribbon. It is taking advantage of their employer, aud I think the girl or boy who will do this is sadly lacking in principle. I think some of my hands are guilty of this offense from day to day, are thoughtless and they never dreamed of the injustice they were do iug me, others were simply indifferent. I found that it was makiug such a big difference in my returns iu tbe busi ness that I had to resort to a rigid set of rules, and I have enforced them, too. Every baud who enters my place of business now must step up to tbe regis ter I keep for tbe purpose and mark down tbe time of their arrival both at morning and at noon. Every baud is expected to work until the great clock strikes the hour of noon and at 5. My foreman keeps tally of the time they are not working and ou Saturday after- n«*on they are docked for all time lost, unless they have a good excuse. They were as angry as a swarm of ixes at Arst, said some very uncomplimentary things about me, but never seemed to realize that they had abused my conff- dence in them, bad slighted my work, lost money for me, and yet exjiected me to pay them their full wages when Naturday night rolled around. aud thought I could rely upou, had lie- couie carelew aud iudiffrteut aud were disposed to shirk wbeuever they could. It la tbe girl or boy, man or woman who, wheu they are engaged in any kind of employment, do the best they can, In fact take aa much interest as if the business was their own, who suc ceed In this world. It shows, too, a strong sense of right aud wrong, aud uiue times out of teu if there is any thing unpleasant, they are not mixed up iu the trouble. And auother ihlug, people of thia stamp are seldom grum blers aud are uot proue to Aud griev ances to air to everyoue they meet and lusiuuate that they are a much abused people.” Auother Duke is makiug a pemisteut effort to carry off an American heiress —heiress uot only Iu tuouey and lauds, but as tbe possessor of good common sense, a slerhug character, lovable dis position, a philanthropist (which the Duke doubtless would not approve of), a guardian angel for the boys Iu blue and poverty-stricken little ehlldreu. Titled meu the meat captivating and dazzling trait they possetmed being their title—have carried off more than one heiress from this side of the Atlautlc and used the money she had purchased him with to pay his debts and aid iu covering up his spendthrift habits, but this Duke de Loozet Uorswareiu of Bel gium is daring enough to try and cap ture Mias Helen Gould and carry her off in spite of her opposition. His law yers state that the marriage will take place, aud tbe Duke himself, who is a member of one of the oldest families iu Europe, a cousin of King Edward of Great Britain, connected by blood and marriage with every royal family in Eurofie, and whose son .would be heir apparent to tbe throne in Belgium, says the marriage will take place, but Miss Helen Gould states through tier secretary that there is aluolutely uo truth in the story, aud says she Is not even acquainted with the Duke de Loos et Uorsarem. Hucb being the case it looks as if the Duke intended kidnaping Miss Gould. It would be a calamity to lose Mias Helen Gould, who is interested in eveything that tends to progress iu America. She Is a progres sive spirit and wedou’t want to lose her. BRIEF REVIEW. |01d Soldiers in Congress. Although the Civil-War lias beeu over thirty-eight years, there will be seventy-seven meu in the Fifty-eighth Congress who fought in it Forty-sev«n fought on the Guion side and thirty cast their lot with the Confederacy. In the Henate there are thirteen Union soldiers and thirteen Confederates. Iu the House there art thirty-four who fought for the North and seventeen who fought for the South. In tbe Sen ate there are three meu who were Briga dier-Generals in the Confederate army and two who were Uuion Brigadiers. In the House there are three Federal Brigadiers, while the highest rank held by the ex-Confederates is that of Colo nel. Pennsylvania leads, having six veterans in Congress. New York lias Ave, all in the House. Ou the Confed erateside Alabama heads tbe list with Ave. There are fourteen ex-Governors in the Senate. Hardworking Human Heart. Some one with an aptitude for sta tistics has been doiug a little calculating on the subject of the human heart and its activities. The normal heart, it ap pears, beats about twenty-Ave times in a miuute; so that an hout’B record would be something like 4320 beats. Supposing that a man lived to be 50, bis heart would have beaten 1,802,160,- 000 times. If aeon of this man, more robust than hh father, should All odt the scriptural allotment of three score years and ten, bis heart beats would number 2,640,624,000. It is easy to un derstand, after such acomputation, why this hard-working servant of the hu man body so frequently wears out. Preserving Cork Trees. So much cork is now used In the manufacture of linoleum aud in ship building that the protection of cork trees has become a matter of prime im portance. Italy is taking steps to this end in Sicily and Sardinia, where there •re large cork forests, those of Calabria having been nearly destroyed in the making of charcoal. It is said that Spain is showing a like interest in pro tecting these trees, as the manufacture of corks is a large industry there. Only a few years ago the exportation of wine bottle corks from that country was *5,- 060,000 annually. JAMAICA’S MYSTERY. FOILING A HIGHWAYMAN. OLD TIME SURGEON8. THE FINGER OF FATE IN THE FALL The Froyrr Thies la Do Wheu Intro duced te a Hold a». Thsr Had tc Wark Kapldlr Betore Anaesthetics Were feed. The Fra*al Mearaer. A mau who carries bis money and his watch in bis left band will never lose a peuny nor a timepiece In a hold up. Tbe precaution, which la a per- fect one, Is so simple that few people have thought of it Yet It bffit tbe sanction of the police, aud Its efficacy has been prosed In more tluin one in stance. As soon as the cltlsen is confronted by tlie holdup man be will, if be has bls tuouey and his watch In bls band, throw them on the nearest lawn or into the ditch. No highway robber has time enough to stop to look for either. There Is no sense in carry lug valuables In the right hand, because tbe flrat move of every accomplished Holdup man is to grab his victim by the right •rm. This movement la made to pre vent the victim from reaching for a revolver. The man who tries to draw a re volver while a holdup num is in front of him takes his life in bls hands. If a citizen carries a revolver at all bt* should carry it in hie right band while in a dangerous street. His money and his watch should always be in his left. Then after he has thrown them away and tbe robber has departed dlscom fited tbe victim can take bis time about finding his property. This simple plan discounts all tbe re volvers. sword caues, slungsbots and brass knuckles ever invented and has the added beauty that It can be em ployed by a woman as well as by a man. To throw tbe purse or tbe watch away takes but a fraction of a second, and that Isn’t long—Chicago Tribune. Before amesthettca were known the surgeou’s only expedient was to abridge bls patient's sufferings by working rapidly. In thia tbe old time surgeons did wonders. They bad a control and a surety in tbelr bands that are now sei dom found. Oue day tbe celebrated surgeou Malaunneure bad to amputate tbe leg of a poor devil who began to howl In advance. “I’ll give you my watch,” said the surgeon, “if tbe o|H*r atlou lasts more than a minute.” The man accepted tbe offer, but was obliged to forego tbe handsome watch, as tbe operation took less time than It re quires to describe. To amputate an arm at tbe sbouldei It a most difficult operation. Dr. Lan geubeck of Germany did It in two mln ntes. A young physician who came to see him perform tbe operation adjusted his apectacles to bls nose so as not to hate a single movement, but when the spectacles were In place tbe operation was over, and the severed arm lay on the floor. Times have ebanged much since then. It suffices to put a bit of chloroform or ether on a compress and let the patient breathe through It for a few minutes to put him into a slumber so deep that he remains inert while the Burgeon makes his Incision, cuts, flies tbe bone an«yMw8 up tbe flesh. On awaking the operation la over, and tbe patient knows nothing of It. Thanks to chloro form, surgeons can practice operations today which arouse our admiration. In Tombola an amusing story la told of tbe present pope and the mourners' caudles. A wealthy resident of Tom bola died, aud his funeral ceremonies were tbe moat elaborate ever known In that huiuble village. A great many mouiuera were hired whose office was to bear the lighted caudles beside tbe catafalque In its progress to the ceuie tery. Tbe candles were of tbe clearest wax aud Immense In size, havlug beeu apeclally brought from Veulce for tbe occasion. Tbe like bad never been seen In Tomlxila. tbelr size exceeding even tbe large candles ou tbe church altar. During tbe ao^mn procesHloii tbe Dou Giuseppe, now l*iua X., uotetl bow ofteu the caudles were axtlngul->b ed. He could not account for It, as tbe day was a still one. He watcbtxl an old W'ouian nearest to him aud saw her furtively blow out tbe caudle which her right arm could scarce carry. “How did you come to put out that caudle, Giaceouut?" be queried sternly. The crone turned a properly sorrow ful fact to him, replying: “My tears have put it out, they fell so freely.” Tbe excuse caught Don Giuseppe's sense of humor. “Well,” said be, relighting tbe flue ta|>er, “see that your tears fall to the left of you ufter this.” Tbe old womau'a light held out to tbe grave, though no doubt it seemed a pity not to save as much of the caudle us •he could use in her home. What They Bat. His atari la Lite. OF HER CAPITALS. Traasdtes That Are Written la the History et Her Raised Cities—Two et Theas Vanished Cttevly Front OF the Faso et the Barth. There exists tn Jamaica, in tbe West Judies, a unhersal superstition that a turae rests upou any town chosen to be Its capital. Sluce 1008, when the flrat chief city wus founded, no fewer thr.u three capitula have been ruined in mys terious and tragic ways. Two have vanished utterly from tbe face of tbe earth. Home of tbe more superstitious of the colonists, brooding over tbe strange history of their country, fear that Kingston, tbe present capital, a city of 70,000 Inhabitants, will share tbe fate of its predecessors. Tbe Brat capital was Sevilla Nueva (New Seville), otherwise called Seville d’Oro (the Golden Seville), on account of its marvelous wealth. It was found ed by lion Juan d’Ksqulvel and Diego, a son of Christopher Columbus. In a few years it became tbe greatest Span ish city In the new world. Tbitbar flocked the blue blooded but impecuni ous nobles of Castlie, eager to rebuild their family fortunes at tbe expense of the iMM>r Arawak. Cathedrals, «jwlares and monasteries, rivaling those of Spain in splendor, were erected. The marble streets were crowded with gayly clad courtiers and Iudlun slaves, who toil«*d for them and brought them tribute from mine and Jungle. Then, In a sight, tbe city vanished, and no ono can tell today what liap- lM*ned to it. No survivors and no rec ords were left behind to tell tbe tale. Today on* can see, buried In tropical jungle, a aille of marble pavement and a few broken columns and arches. Nothing rise remains of tiie Golden Neville, once so prosperous and splen did, except a few contradictory na tive traditions. These traditions va riously astr!l*e tbe destruction of the city and its inhabitants to a mutiny of th«* oppressed Indians, an earthquake, a sudden visitation of millions of rial ants and an attack by French buc- canrers. Tbe very memory of what was once tbe greatest city of the new world has almost perished. Even In Jamaica few people know anything about tbe Golden Seville. The Spaniards made Saint Jago de la Vega, now called Spanish Town, their second capital. Time and again It wns devastated by hurricane and plague, harassed by Indian revolts or ransack ed by adventurous picaroons. Gradu ally it salk from Its high estate until now it is Merely a squalid village. When the English conquered the is land they made Port Royal their real capital, though Spanish Town remain ed for so»ie time the official seat of government The emporium of tbe In flit's and the Spanish main, the market for the ill gotten gains of 10,000 buc- can«*ers, Port Royal soon became the richest and wickedest city of the new world. At the height of its splendor and its vice it was destroyed within the space of two minutes by an earth quake. “The ground opening in Several Places at once,” wrote an eyewitness in 1602, a few days after the catastro phe, '‘swallowed up Multitudes of Peo ple together, whole Streets sinking un der water with Men, Women and Chil dren In them; and those Houses which but Just aow appeared the Fairest and Loftiest in these Parts and might vie with tbe Finest Buildings In the World were In a moment Sunk iu the Earth, and nothing to be seen of them; such Crying, such Shrieking and Mourning I never heard, nor could anything In my Opinion appear more Terrible to the Eye of Man. Here a Company of People Swallowed up at once; there a whole Street tumbling down, aud in Another Place tbe Trembling Earth opening her Ravenous Jaws, let in tbe Merciless Sea, so that this Town is be come a Heap of Ruins. Several Peo ple were Swallowed up of tbe Earth, when, tbe Sea breaking in before the Earth could Close, they were washed np again and Miraculously saved from Perishing. Others the Earth received up to their Necks, and then Closed upon them and squeeswd them to Death, with their Heads above Grouud, many of which tbe Dogs Eat; Multi tudes of People Floating up and down, having no Burial. The Burying Place at the Pa lisa does is quite Destroyed, the Dead Bodies being washed out of their Grav«*s, their Tombs beat to Pieces and they floating up and down; It is sad to think bow we have Suf fered. “Tbe Earth hath still fits of Shaking, with very much Thunder and Light ning, and dreadful Weather; yet this had so little effect upou some People here that the very same Night they were at their Old Trade of Drinking and Swearing; breaking up Ware houses; Pillaging and Stealing from their Neighlsirs, even while tbe Earth quake lasted, and several of them were destroyed in tlie very Act; and indeed this Place lias been one of tbe Lodest In the Christian World, a sink of all filthiness, and a mere Sodom.” Old Port Royal Ilea burled beneath the sea. The present town of Port Royal, a place of no importance except as a coaling station, was built after the esrtbffiwfo); t> Are nn«t s landelMe having destroyed the few hous«*s left •tending. Kingston was uot founded until tile early part of the elgbt«*enth century, but it lias already been 4hriee destroy ed by Are an«l several times ravaged by hurricanes. The Inhabitants nat- urally wonder wbat catastrophe will happen next. The human body being lighter than the water nt the Dead sea. swlmmlm- In It la difficult, tbe bend alone tending tn Mnk tn tbe water. “I Investigated, Polly, and fouud that every store In Kan Francisco, nearly, who claim«d to make a success of their business, was doing the same thing. It is strictly business, and you cannot ex pect to succeed unless there Is some sys tem and rules that must be strictly adhered to. Iu one of the department, stores I heard one young lady complain that she was late three minutes one day, Ave another and six another, and she was docked for the time at the end of the week. Khe called the proprietor a mean, stingy old thing, and wished him all sorts of trouble, which, luckily fsr her, did not reach his ears, but she did not atop to th ink that she was rail ing against him for not paying her for something she did not earn; on the contrary, had he done so, he would have paid her for robbing him of his time. I don't know where the fault Ilea, but it Is a sad truth that there is a lack of that sense of honor and principle that mak«« the sterling men and wom en and which is the foundation of their character. To be perfectly Just la an attribute «• tbe divine nature. To be so to tlx* nt moot of our abilities Is the glory <•' man.--Addison. A snnle may mean anything from a Daly-Ye were suns truck. ye say? “I never felt tbe need of a forewoman *10 bill toa nickel in the slot. Why. man alive, the sun could never In my place of tsisineas until after I re disfigure a man's face like that. A woman’s character h> often written lumed from my vacation and found so Riley—Te don’t know roe son. Daly - Brooklyn IJfc. many of my hands, whom I had trusted in the hob* of her stockings. Considerate. “Have you ever done anything to make the world happier?’ asked the avenin looking person with the un barbered hair. ■’Sure." answered the Jolly man with tbe double chin. “I was once Invited to •Ing in public and declined.”—Indian •polls flentlnel. Meaty Dropped. Flytter I suppose there’s money to be picked up tn the stock market. Flatterer—There ought to be. Why. I myself have dropped considerable of It there.—Boston Transcript Medical Students Increasing. The number si medical students in the United States for the last oollege year was 27,61ft. Of this number 24,830 were at the regular schools, 1498 at the MS t»t theeieuUtc and 33» at the physio-medical and nondescript schools. Germany, with more than two-tblrdsthe population of the United Htates, has less than a third as many students of medicine. Home men put their shoulders to the wheel, some keep their noses to tbe grimi-stone, while cithers let a woman have tbe-steady oontract of supporting them. A woman doesnot object to gray hair as long aa her face remains youthful. It is when wrinkles keep pace with tbe gray hair that It all hurts. Great Britain spends *112,500,000 a year on the support of the poor. Thia does not Include private charities. Soasstees Is China. The Chinese' tn utilizing soaimtone. which Is found in their country In large quantities, make of it trays for p«*ns. slabs for rubbing ink, flower vases. Incense boxes, sandalwood burners, flower baskets, candlesticks. ch<*ssmen, cups, bowls and lamps, all sorts of emblems, animals and the Idols which the disciples of Confu>-lus revere with so much favor. Knew What Straek Him. •tilt Walkers of Frnaee. In the south of France stilts are a necessity to the people, who are mostly shepherds. They must walk on stilts In order to oversee their vast flocks of sheet* as well as to pass through the bogs. These shepherds—men, women and children—walk continuously on stilts from six to eight feet high. These stilts are merely fastened to tbe feet. Sometimes tie stilts have uprights reaching as far aa the knees and bound firmly to tbe legs. Generally these shepherds and shep herdesses carry long poles, which they can use either as balancing poles or as supports-very long canes, as it were— reaching to the ground. They become bo expert in stilt walking that It Is no unusual sight to see a shepherdess striding along on stilts that raise her six feet above the ground, with her balancing pole strapped to her back and her hands busily knitting socks for husband, son or brother. The complete unconcern with which these country folk make their way along on stilts is astonishing. One might almost say that the children have stilts given to them instead of cradles.—Washington Star. Musical Tomes. A stringed instrument suspended In a favorable position near a pianoforte will sound when tones corres|*ondlng to the open strings are produced on the pianoforte. The volume of tbe answer ing tone will depend upon the atmos pheric conditions, the quality and color of the persuading tone and the sensi tiveness of the responding material. There is a familiar anecdote told of a famous tenor who by singing the tone that was consonant with that of a wineglass could make the glass shiver so violently that it would fall to plec«*s. It is because of this tonal sympathy that the cause of a harsh, rattling tone that may suddenly app«*ar in a pianoforte is detected with difficulty. Though it may appear to be in the In strument, it is often far away and may come from a loose globe or pendant on a chandelier. Even a key in a door has been known to be the guilty cause. Dublin can and does boast of many superlatives. It has tbe widest street and tbe largest public park In Europe, the first horse show in the world and the largest brewery, but certainly the chiefest of all Its claims is that ad vanced in behalf of its women. It Is really no exaggeration to say that In no city in the world will one see so many beautiful women as one does in the Irish capital. There is something, too, about the Irish type of beauty that cannot be ac tually described. There is an expres sion, an air of something akin to sad ness almost In every real Irish face, something Interesting, that bolds the attention more than mere skin deep beauty. “I have been In most capitals of Europe,” says a traveler in Ireland, “but never did I see so many really beautiful women as I saw in Dublin. And they were not visitors. There wns no mistaking the wonderful gray eyes of ‘Dark Rosaline.* ” Precocious Mossrt. At three years of age Mozart would amuse himself for hours together In picking out thirds on tbe piano with ids wonderful ear; at four years he lMrn«*d minuets and before six played some of his own compositions, actually starting on a concert tour with hla sis ter at that age. Before three years bad claimed he had taken by storm four of the most Important capitals In Europe—Vienna. The Hegnc, Parts and Ixjnduk. Illa reputation as a compow-r was estab lished by the time that he was only ten years old. Mozart fulfilled In maturity the promise of his early years, but nt the age of thirty-five passtxl away. en gaged on a requiem which he gradu ally learned wns to l*e for himself. Tbe Cry For Help. From the cradle to the grave the cry of mankind Is for “help.” We are all In search of a physician, some one wlio will help us, some one who will In spire us—give ns a remedy, point ns tbe way. Not the poor and the sick •lone, hot the rich and the strong, are crying out for help. Sometimes It Is the doctor we want; aometim«*s It la tbe banker; sometimes It is the clergy mtfn. And yet the doctor, the banker and the clergyman are human, mid they are crying for help along with tbe rest of us. Those whom we think tbe strongest are weak, and those whom we think the weakest are strong. We cannot stand alone. We all need help. We must help one another until the end.- Schoolmaster. CHOICE MISCELLANY “I guess It cau do uo harm now," re marked the well fed clubman, who was kuown to have a large rent roll, “to tell how I started In business. “It’s a true story, mind you," be weut ou to say, flicking the ashes from his cigar. “I was al>out twelve years old at the time of the big Are. We man aged to escape it by living In a part of tbe city the fire didn’t touch, but I ustxl to go and l«x>k at the ruins every day, and on«* morning It occurred to me that there might be some money made by selling them. There was such a tre mendous stock on hand that it looked like a pity to let it all go to waste. “So I hired a smaller boy to go around and collect pieces of meMg-d iron, glass and the like, aud I set up a little store on an eligible corner, with a sign in front of it, 'Ruins For Sale.’ The town was full of vlsltore, and 1 drove u brisk busin«*ss till my mother found out what I was d«dng and put a stop to It, much to ny grief, for I was beginning to get rich. Tbe business was all profit, and”— “But you had to pay the other boy something, didn’t you?” Interrupted a listener. A Practical Demonstration. “Certainly. I paid him in ruins.”— “See this valve,” said the officer. Chicago Tribune. “You will always have to open that be fore turning the faucets for tbe show Aw t'npleasaat Reminder. er. Should you fall to open It you will A prowperous business man has two get no water.” boys, one ten and one four years. Tlie “Aye, aye, sir,” said the sailor, stand man was one day telling the older boy Ing at attention, with a solemn look. of the evils of tobacco and that he The officer, fearing that his explana tion might not be understood, stepjH*d must never contract tbe smoking hab under t!>e shower and turned on lioth it. “But didn’t you begin to smoke when faucets. Some one had opened the lower you were little?” asked the boy. The father of the family was a little valve, and when the young officer opened the faucets the water came nettled at this, and before he thought down through the shower In a deluge, that his language was not such as be ought to be using before his son he soaking bis uniform. Still standing at attention and with blurted out: “But 1 was a darned fool then.” the most respectful look of Interest in About a week after at the midday the proceedings of his superior officer, meal, when a couple of business men the sailor watched the practical demon had come In with his father, little four- stration of tbe working of the faucets year-old David waiPaHited at one cor never allowing a smile to cross his face ner of the table in a high chair, next “I think I understand the workings to his mother. Somehow tbe conversa of ft now, sir,” he said.—Chicago Rec tion turned to cigars and smoking in ord-IIera Id. general, and the paterfamilias suld: “That was the cigar I liked when I Bls Australian Oysters. was a boy.” “In the part of Australia in which I The young hopeful of the family live we get oysters as big as a saucer.” thought It was time for him to join the said a resident of Adelaide to tbe conversation then, for he shook bls Washington Post. “They are twice the sp«x>n in the air and cried to his fa size of any I have seen in the Unite«! ther: States, but in quality there is nothing “But, papa, you know you was a to recommend them, for they have no darued fool then.'”—Omaha Bee. flavor and are so tough that it takes a pretty sharp knife to make any Impres British Hasd •avryers. sion on them. Still there are people The great gah* which re«*ently swept who manage to eat them after they over England, blowing down many fine have been stew«>d sufficiently long. In old trees, has furnished Americans other parts of our country we have a with an apt Illustration of tbe slow better grade, approaching nenrly to ness of British methods, for in some your American oyster, but hardly Its pleasant grassy glade of every landed equal. In fact, after my acquaintance estnte of any size the tedious labor of with tbe Cliesap«*ake bay products I tbe hand sawyers Is in progress u|>on am firmly of the opinion that In tbe the forest wreckage. matter of sea food tbe United States The branches of the fallen trees are leads all nations, an assertion that will lopped away nnd tied In bundles for be backed up by any man of wide fagots. The bark is stripp«>d off and travel.” the trunks sawed into lengths for haul ing to tbe saw pit, a mere four cen How a Blvd Dreasea. As bird fashions do not change, two turies old hole In the ground, where suits a year are quite enough for most one man stands under the log while birds, but they .need to take great cure another on top helps him haul a rip of them. Each separate feather must saw up and down, slowly riving the be cl«*aned and tooked over and the great trunks into planks. Into fence useless ones pulled out. These fentli pickets or gateposts, beams, scantling ers are not packed close together, you and palings. Even upon “nuslel es- know, but lie loose and have places tates," where farming is daintily man between filled with air. When a l>lnl aged as the owner's bobby, this crude hand latx*r continues to be done Just wants to get warmer he lifts Ills fentli as It wns In Hhakespeare's day. P«s«r ers so that these air spaces may h* nnd remote Indeed Is tbe American larger. But If his feathers nre tun rural community where the hand saw gled or wet and dirty be could no« yer's pit thus survives! raise th»n. and. soon he rocM—nrd More tlinn a great gale, It wouhl keep tbe lx*ad In his little laxly and seem,* Is needed to wake Britain from would of course die. her Industrial backWardne«*».- Nearly every nation has Its own par ticular form of food, and things which some races would not, as the expres sion goes, “touch with tbe tongs” are considered by others as tbe greatest luxury. For instnnee, while tbe Arab eats Ids lotus bread and dbourra with the relish of fresh dates, tbe Greenlander gorges himself on animal fat and whale oil as the n«*cessary means of keeping warmth In his body. Hindoos will not touch any form of flesh, but live happi ly on rice and rancid butter. An Eng lishman Is supposed to value lx*ef and bacon nbove all other articles of food, while tbe dwellers tn the Apennines live on chestnuts. In ancient days the Roman em|x*rors were accustomed to have a peacock serv«*d at all great feasts as one of tbe principal dainties, while In these days birds’ nests and rats form choice dishes In a Chinese menu. Some people say that suall soup Is delicious, while the French assure you that there are few more delicate dishes, than those uiade out of frogs’ legs. A Torpid Liver, A clogged condiliou of the system is one symptom of a liver out of order Here is ns go«xl and simple a reimsl.« aa any 1 know, writes a physician Get a nice lemon and cut It In half Take one-half In a tumblerful of cold water tbe last thing at night anti the other tbe first thing In tbe morning Half a pint of very hot water with a squeeze of lemon or lime In It before breakfast Is also good. Both rem<*dl«*<> are well worth trying. Very Bcevntrle. Worke-yu t«* BoLviuia«. An industrial census of Bohemia shows that of Its 2.600,000 population 460.327 are engag<*«l In manufactures, and of th««sc 201,531) nre womdn. Most of tbe work Is done by band and at home. These "borne" workers live In the little villages which stretch along the banka of mountain streams nnd In the wider valleys, and the women and girls In great baskets slung on their backs carry the raw and finished goods between home and factory over steep mountain paths, which In winter • re covered with snow and Ice. “He’s the most eccentric genius I ever Bet.” Tbe Boatoa Walter. “He certainly la a genius, but I never A Philadelphia professor dining at a considered him eccentric.” Boston hotel ordered a bottle of hock, “That’s Just It. Tbe average genius is saying aa be did so: eccentric, and bls lack of eccentricity “Here, waiter, bring me a bottle of makea him all tbe more eccentric.”- hock—hlc, haec, hoc.” Philadelphia ledger. Tbe waiter, who had been to college, smiled, but never stirred. Delay Aeeeeated For. “What are you standing there for?” “Rome wasn't built in a day, you exclaimed the professor. „ “Didn’t I know.” order some hock T' “Ab! It was put up under a govern “Yes, air,” said the waiter, “you or ment contract, was It?”- Chicago Rec dered IL but you afterward declined ord Herald. It"—Chicago Journal ■ - ~
