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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.
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‘‘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
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