Bandon recorder., March 03, 1904, Image 2

BANDON RECORDER.
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WHEN THEORIES FAILED.
• Mother’s Ksperleaee 1« th» Te*la­
in* of < Mildren.
• Hine you given up your theories
on the training of childreuF he aak«-d
as lie settled back In his easy chair
after dinner.
“1 have." she replied decidedly.
••I've noticed that you haven't been
reading so many books on tiie subject
recently,” he went on. “What's the
reason ?”
"Why, you see, we had a aeries of
lectures on the subject at the club, and
1 learn,d from them that it was real
science, requiring careful study. So I
got copies of several books on eduea
tlon and began to lit myself for the
work of bringing up children proper­
ly. But the authorities don't agree.”
“Don’t they?"
“No, they don't. And they all go on
the theory that one lias a nursemaid or
two and a governess.”
"And you haven’t any?”
“No, 1 haven't any. And so none of
the books seemed to tit my case. Be­
sides, while 1 was studying the chil­
dren kept getting Into trouble and hurt­
ing themselves and acquiring all sorts
of bad tricks. So I’ve gone back to
studying the children and have left the
books to people who have some one to
look after their children while they
experiment with their books.” — New
York Press.
THE MOON AND THE MICE.
Carious Indian Defend Ksplalnlna
the Waning of I.uua.
Why is it that we are so quick to
judge |ss>ple'.* We cannot mul the nio>
lives of the heart that prompt an act
that we, not knowing the circum­
stances, an quick to condemn. Nine
times out of ten, if we were called to
account for our hasty judgment we
would have but a Very weak case to
pleaci in our own defense. We do not
weigh the pros and cons but are en­
tirely too quick to jump at conclusions.
Such a course in life is not productive
of any great happiness either to our­
selves or others. Another thing we
fail to remeinls-r is that there is always
two sides to lie heard from and we
should be slow to eensure and con­
demn others. This is a round atsiut
way of getting to tile |M>int of this arti­
cle and relating a true incident that
happened in San Francisco a few days
ago.
A little woman—and she did not l<s>k
bigger than a minute—moved into the
neighborhood, and as usual when a
number of cheerful busybodies get to­
gether, she was the subject of conver­
sation at an afternoon tea. “I did not
invite her,” said the hostess, “because
she seemed so frivolous. She is always
on tile go and never seems to lie satis­
fied around home like other women,
but 1 hear her hurrying to get through
every morning, and the minute that
her work is done off she goes with her
lunch or something of that kind, and
possibly you'll not see her for hours. I
don’t fancy the company she keeps,
either, for the otiier day she brought
home tiie dirtiest child you ever saw.
She was grimy from head to foot. She
didn’t seem in the least ashamed to lie
caught witli the dirty and, I might
say repulsive, little charge, but walked
boldly past my house and even smiled
as shecaught my eye. One thing about
her, however, is that site dcs-s not in­
trude or attempt to force her eompiiny
on her neighbors, and tiiat is some-
tiling to lie thankful for She is ‘as
neat as wax,’ and that is another thing
in her favor, for she keeps her home as
well as herself orderly and clean. Her
frivolous waysand always being on the
go are what have turned me against
her.”
A curious Indian legend was told to
some people In Omaha by a full blooded
Sioux who lives at Pine Ridge agency.
lie said the belief was that every
time a new moon appeared It was a
signal for all the mice In the country
to gather themselves together In one
spot. When they assembled they then
separated into four great armies. One
army went to the north, another to the
south, a third to the east and a fourth
to the west. These armies of mice
traveled until they reached the point
where front the place of starting the
henvens seemed to touch the earth.
Then they climbed up the sky until
they came to the moon, which by this
time was wliat we call full.
All of the four armies then commenc­
ed nibbling at Luna, and when they
had eaten her all up the mice would
scamper back down the heavens to the
earth ami wait for her to show herself
again, when the Journey and the nib­
bling would lie repented by the mice,
nnd tills is what the Indians of enrly
days believed was the cause 'of the
“Always on the go?” echoed her
moon growing old and finally disap­
friend. “I know the little lady well,
pearing.
and 1 can assure you sht is not one to
be condemned. Hhe is interested in
THE GOOSE TOWER.
doing charity work and many are tiie
Wherein KI iik Vuldeiimr ( Inppetl the
people who have been aided by her
I)iNreM|»ectful Delegate».
In the early years of the fourteenth kindly ministrations. Tiie dirty child
century the "free cities” — Hamburg, you saw Iter with was taken from one
Lubeck and Bremen sent a delegation of tiie most siptalid and wretched of
of seventy-seven members to King homes it lias been my lot to see. That
Valdemar to demand increased rights child had not had a bath in six months,
and privileges in tlielr trade with Den­ and tier father stated that lie luui never
mark. The delegates were not very re­ in her short life seen her hair combed.
spectful in their language and demean­ It was one mass of tangles and matted
or, and the king, who was at Vording-
to her ]ss>r little head until it was a
borg, told them they acted like a drove
of geese and clapped them into prison sight to la-hold. Hhe did not have a
in the tower, telling them they would clean stitch of clothing to put on. Ev­
stay there until they learned better erything was filthy and dirty, and her
manners. Over the heavy tower door mother was as unkempt as herself. She
the king put up a stone with the in­ did not drink or use opiates, but she
scription :
was simply of no account, slouchy and
Sieben und slebenteg Hause:
lazy, and never did n stroke of work in
Sieben nnd slebenteg Ganse;
her w retched home.
Ware ntcht so vlele Hanse
llat lch auch nlcht so vlele Gnnso.
Translated this reads: “Seventy-seven
houses nnd seventy-seven geese. If
there were not so many houses 1 would
not have so many geese.”
On top of the tower, which still
stands solid and strong, was placed a
big gilt goose, with neck outstretched
as If it were hissing.
“Withall due respect to your kind­
ness of heart, my friend, this little
woman you have just denounced as
being frivolous ami a sort of gad-alsiut,
did something that neither you nor I
would liave enjoyed, and what is more,
I don't believe we would have resjiond-
ed to the cry of distress, except to turn
Wllllnic to He laonent.
the ease over to some benevolent or
Phil May. the great English artist,
earned his first fame In Australia. One charitable society to minister to their
day a broken down minister applied to wants. This little woman heard of the
lilm for charity, nnd May engaged him sad case of poverty and neglect ami
ns a model. As a Joke lie also demand­ down she went into this dirty hovel,
ed that Ills eighty-yearolil pensioner washed and dressed a wailing infant in
agree to leave him his skeleton when clothes she purchased. There was no
be did. When May left Australia he nurse and she ministered to the sfek
called Ids model In. "You've played mother, cooking the meals in her own
me a dirty trick." said May, "by swin­ home and carrying them to her be­
dling me out of that skeleton. I could
have bought one In sound order and sides furnishing her with a change of
condition for half the money you've clothing. Hhe hired a woman to go
cost me.” The ohl fellow, conscious of and clean up this dirty abode, and she
bls base Ingratitude to his best and is trying to awaken tiie true momanly
most patient friend, answered: "Don't nature of tiie mother that has lain dor­
be angry with me, Mr. May. It's not mant for so many years and fan to life
my fault I meant to keep my word. a spark of the pride tlint has seemingly
Btay in Sydney a few months longer died out. She is appealing to the sort
nnd give me another chance to show of ‘ne’er do well’ father also, and he
you that I am a man of honor.”
seems to have a finer feeling in the
matter than the mother. He is humil­
Hook Theme»,
Since the Introduction of printing the iated to think that an outsider should
subject matter of the aggregate of have discovered the sad state of affairs.
books shows approximately the follow­ He has lieaten ami cursed her time and
ing averages: ¡as and sociology. one again, bui you can hardly blaHYe him
quarter of all: literature, one-fifth; ap­ for forgetting that he is a man and has
plied science, one-eighth; history ami sworn to protect her through all ad­
geography, one tenth; theology, reli­
gion nnd speculation, one-tenth; miscel­ versities and has taken her‘for better
laneous and bibliography, one-tehffi; it for worse? It is a -terrible state of
philology and languages, one-twen­ affairs. When this good llittle Samari­
tieth; natural sciences, nrt and philoso­ tan took that dirty child home and
phy shading off Into small fractions gave it a Imth, she did not dare wash it
and poetry not appearing In the classifi­ as clean ns the subject demanded for
ca tlon.
fear of taking the skin off, for the dirt
was ground into that little soft baby’s
Not Like it Watch.
"I»o you know.” he went on glibly skin until it had become leaden ineolor.
after the parlor clock had struck 11. There was no excuse for the mother,
“do you know that a man Is like n for she had plenty of time but was
watch because he Is known by bls wholly Indifferent to the two-year-old
works?”
baby; it could shift for itself. When
“I know he Is not like a watch,” she the child, comparatively clean for the
remarked, with a yawn, "for when first time in many long months, was
ho Is wound up he doesn't seem to go.” taken homeattired in clean clothes and
—Yonkers Statesman.
the little curly head combed and ar­
If you would hit the mark yon must ranged In such a way as to cover up the
aim a little above It. Every arrow that Imre places w here great w adsof tang ed
hair had been cut out, the mother did
files feels the attraction of the earth.
not reeognixe her at tlrM, but suppMsi
Illa Mnndaril of Mm »n rente n t.
some stray child hail wandered in.
"I thought you claimed this was a She seemed pleased in the transforma­
good restaurant,” he grumbled as they tion that had been made in her ap)>ear-
passed from the room of the big dry anee, but there was no blush of shame
goods store.
[ for her negligent!« and indifference. I
"Well. Isn't It?”
I think she is a hojieless ease, and there
"Bah! I know of a place over on
Madison street where you can get three is not the slightest chance of redeem-
times as much as wo’re bail for a quar­ ; ing her from her slovenly ways. To
use an old plantation darkey's phrase,
ter.”—Chicago Record Herald.
‘she's nothing bid |«»ir white trash.’
You liave condemned our little neigh­
bor wrongfully. HM- is a jewel and
ready tu throw the mantle of igml’ity
over everyone’s failings. I have know n
her a long time und 1 have- never yet
heard her sp-ak unkindly of anyone.
She is alow to censure but quick to
praise and encourage. 1 have known
her to leave her comfortable home at
night and go and sit through the long
still hours beuide the dying, minister­
ing to their last wants, and when It
was all over and the little s,>urk of life
hail lied, to close the eyes in their lust
long sleep, fold the quiet Intmls and
assist in attiring them for the slei,« of
diiith. She would sp-ak words of con­
solation to the living, and when she
went out of the stricken home tire-si
amt worn out by her long vigil it wax
ax though an angel of light had paxr-ed
out of the pirtalx of that grief-stricken
home. She is a sunlieam if ever there
was one, and everyone who knows her
loves her ami there is nothing they
would not gladly do for her, no favor
she could ask that they would not en­
deavor to grant. She is not a bit frivo­
lous when you come to know her, but
all heart and all soul, ‘G«si bless tier,’
lx the usual remark that falls from all
old psiple’s li|«s when she leaves them
after one of her cheery visits. It does
not |>ay to judge too hastily, for we are
sure to do an injustice to those whom
we would only have cause t<> admire if
we only knew their sterling worth.”
“Birdie I)----- No, you are wrong.
“H----- ” is correct. The beautiful opal
with its imprisoned sunbeams striving
to break through their prison liars, is
tiie birth stone for October. There is
no ill luck attending the wearer of this
lovliest of stones, providing it is their
birth-stone, for then it is considered a
lucky gem and you can wear as many
of them as you please and liave not tiie
slightest anxiety in regard to the old
superstition.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Hottest Place On Earth.
Between India and Africa lies the
hottest place on earth. The Aval isl­
ands cover a fairly extensive area of tiie
Persian gulf, lying off the southwest
coast of Persia, and it is the largest of
them which enjoys the doubtful dis­
tinction of leading all perspiring com­
petitors in the matter of heat. The
mean temperature of Bahrein for the
entire year is 99 degrees. July, August
and September are unendurable save
for the natives. Night after night, as
midnight comes, the thermometer
shows 100. By 7 in the morning it is
107 or 108 degrees, and by three in the
afternoon, 140. It is stated liy veracious
travelers that 75,000 Arabs inhabit the
Aval group, fully 25,000 living in Bah­
rein, in which connection Sir Henry
Layard adds: “It would seem that a
man can accustom himself toanything.”
Tiie following are the temperatures at
some of the hottest places in different
countries: Hyderabad, 105 degrees;
Lahore, 107 degrees; El Paso, 113 de­
grees; Eosul, 117 degrees; Agra 117 de­
grees; Death valley, 122 degrees; Fort
Yuma, 128 degrees; Bahrein, 140 de­
grees.
Ancient Table Manners.
The Romans t<s>k their meals while
lying lipin very low coaches, and not
until the time of Charlemagne was a
stand used around w hich guests were
seated on cushions, while the tableonly
made its app-arance in the Middle
Ages, bringing with it benches and
backs. The Greeks and Romans ate
from a kind of porringer. During a
pirtion of the Middle Ages, however,
slice« of bread cut round took tiie place
of plates. The spoon is of great an­
tiquity, and many specimens are in ex­
istence that were used by the Egyj>-
tians as early as the seventeenth cen­
tury B. <’. The knife, though very
old, did not come into common use as a
table utensil until after the tenth cen­
tury. The fork was absolutely un­
known to both Greeks and Romans,
and appeared only ax a curiosity in the
Middle Ages and was first used upin
the table by Henry III. Drinkihg
cu|is—in lhe Middle Ages made from
metal, more or less copious, according
to the ow ner’s means—naturally date
from the remotest age.
To Control Hertzian Waves.
Lenses of resin, paraffin, glass, and
other dieleetie materials have lieenused
by Dr. Blocktnann, a physicist of Keil,
Germany, in efforts to control the di
rection of Hertzian waves. He claims
to have lieen fairly successful at mod­
erate distances. This may signify much
to navigators, ax it offers vessels a
means of determining by wireles tele­
graphy the direction of a signaling sta­
tion.
A Danish company has lately been
organized with a cash capital of 2,000,-
000 crowns ($530,000), for the purpose
of exploiting Hila-rian dairy industries.
It has already established branches in
thirty districts of that country.
AMTHONY WAYNE
NOMAN AND FASHION
It» Hevulutl,,nary Her« •«> ■ »«»•-
•Her Eve» ■ • * Bo».
A Hluunhifl Street toatume.
Wayne was one of the leading spirits
of the American Revolution He served
tbraugliout tiie war. meat of the time
with the rank of general. What be
was ag a boÿ w III interest readers, aud
this „they may learn from bls biogra­
phy. written by Mr. John It. Spear.
Wlien he was atsiut fifteen years old
Wayne wus at tending a school taught
by his uncle. Gilbert (or Gabriel»
Wayne, and this uncle, exasiierated at
the boy's conduct, wrote the following
letter to Anthouy’s father, lauac Wayne:
"I really expect that parental affec­
tion blinds you and th«f you have mis­
taken your son's capacity. What he
may be best qualified for 1 know not.
One thing I am certain of—he will nev­
er make a scholar. He may perhaps
make a soldier. He has already dis­
tracted the brains of two-thirds of the
boys under my charge by rehearsals of
battles, sieges, etc.
"They exhibit more the appearance
of Indians and harlequins than of stu­
dents—this one decorated with a cap
of many colors, others habited In coats
as variegated, like Joseph's of old;
some laid up with broken heads and
black eyes. During noon, In place of
the usual games of amusement, he has
the boys employed In throwing up re­
doubts. skirmishing, etc.
"I must be candid with you, Brother
Isaac. Unless Anthony pays more at­
tention to Ills books I shall be under
the painful necessity of dismissing him
from the school.”
THE HONEY BADGER.
He la a Toaak lienal aad la EiceS-
Iniclr Hard to Kill.
Badgers belong to the great weasel
tribe, although they are also allied, as
many people know, to the bears. Among
their more or less distinguished rela­
tives may be named the wolverene, ot­
ter, skunk and marten. In Africa and
India, says a writer In Longman's Mag­
azine, are to be found the curious ra­
ids, a remarkable branch of the family,
distinguished by their extraordinary
fondness for honey. To obtain this lux­
ury they speml most of their time hunt­
ing for the nests of wild bees.
They are absolutely oblivious, as are
English badgers, of the stings of the
Infuriated bees, their tough, thick and
loose coats protecting them from any
serious Injury. Ratels are strong and
very courageous beasts. The Boers of
South Africa hold them in high respect,
as do the natives, and assert that a pair
of these beasts will occasionally attack
a human being. I have heard of men
being treed by these animals, but
whether the tale was true or false I am
uncertain. What Is certain is that the
ratel, or honey badger, of South Africa
is a beast extremely difficult to kill by
reason of Ills tough constitution, good
defensive powers and extraordinarily
loose coat nnd that he Is when meddled
with or put out a beast of very high
courage and unpleasant manners.
WORSHIPED AS A GOD.
An Enwllxh General Who Was Dei-
fled by East Indian*.
A
A PBETTV COMBINATION.
nille, and the sleeves are finished with
frills of blue accordion plaited silk.
The shaped belt Is studded with steel
bends. A charming lint of heavy wool
lace, with chinchilla band and black
plume and chinchilla muff, completes a
strikingly beautiful costume.
Whiter Hut*.
The clioosiug of winter hats Is a so
rlous problem this year, ami it Is well
to remember that not only must the
color be In accord with the costume,
but the shape also. Following out the
law of exaggeration that has been fash­
ionable for so long a time, if the style
of the gown is one that makes the wear
er look short and broad, the hat lx
broad and tint; if the lines are long ami
slender the lint gives height ami slen
derness. But here also it is foolish to
choose an unbecoming hat simply be­
cause it is a fashionable shape and
color.
Hats to match the costumes in color
are very smart this season, as are also
the all black hats again, and the col­
ored hats will be worn not only with
the gowns they match, but with the
black costumes as well, and indeed
with gowns of contrasting colors they
will be seen. Small and large shapes
are alike In favor.
"Weisflerful bow names stick to a
person," said the observant man.
"There were two nice little womeu Ifl
aur village who came on us oue even
ing. and we offered them po|x-oru
which the children had Just brought
in from the kitchen. They refused,
but not so emphatically as to keep us
from giving them two heaping plutes
Of the corn. We kept redlliug the
plates and they kept crunching all the
evening. There wus something so funny
about it that I called them 'The Pop
lorn Ladies,’ and the name has stuck
Io them so that the whole village knows
them by It.
"I once knew a man who talked lu
(-«-ssantly In a high pitched voice. an«l
1 bright girl dublssl him "rhe Chirper '
The mime was quickly passed around
amoug the young people, and uow the
greater part of his friends know him
by that mime. A dignified young wom­
an of my ac«iualntauce gis-s by the
name of 'Whonf to tills day because
when she was a little girl she ustil to
call herself 'Mrs. Whont’ when she
played gn vuup ladles, ami the family
picki-d it up. She simply can't shake
the absurd name.
"More than one red haired man is
known by the mime of 'Pink' and phil­
osophically accepts the title. I have an
acquaintance who holds a responsible
isisitlon who Is known by the name of
•Dotty.’ It seems that one day a mis­
chievous girl discovered that be had
three prominent dimples. She promptly
dubbed him 'Dotty Dimple,’ and now­
lie is known to all his assix-lates as
•Dotty.’ Another man of my acquaint­
ance Is always called -Bluebeard' be­
cause he has such a white anil tlfln
skin that if lie does not shave dally Ids
beard shows blue through It. That
name, too, came through a woman's
quick wit.
"In a certain household a very fem
lnlne little woman is still called 'The
Boy' liecause when she wus a young
girl she went through a serious illness
which mad«- It necessary to cut her hair
short. Her younger sister said she was
'the boy’ of the family, and the dainty
lady Is still called by that absurd
name.
“An effeminate man was once called
•Viola' by one of the boys In the office,
and now we know him by nothing else
Another one of the boys In the office is
always called ‘Chesty,’ and, though he
got angry at first, he has cheerfully ac­
cepted the new name now.
“Our bookkeeper Is always putting In
his oar when It is not nt all necessary,
and I think now he will be known un­
til the end of time as ‘General Butts.’
A friend of mine who is always called
•Cheerful’ does not know whether he Is
called that because bis friends believe
he has a cheerful disposition or because
they consider him a cheerful idiot. But.
at any rate, he can't shake the name.”
— Milwaukee Sentinel.
Winter Walklna Suit*.
Beaconsfield*» “Don’t».**
An inquiring ami aspiring person once
asked Beaconsfield to tell him the secret
of social success. “Never discuss the
authorship of the 'Letters of Junius.’”
was the reply.
Beaconsfield's biographer, Mr. Wilfrid
Meynell, adds something positive to this
witty negative rule for getting on In the
world. A distinguished member of par­
liament begged the Victorian statesman
to tell his young son something to re­
member, something that would help
to make him an agreeable and populai
member of society.
Beaconsfield hedged. "Model yourself
after your father,” he said to the Ind.
This wns not altogether satisfactory,
ami tin- M. P. Insisted upan a definite
rule of conduct.
"Well, my Isiy,” said Beaconsfield,
"be amusing. Never tell unkind stories
Above nil, never tell long ones.”
AN OLD SUPERSTITION.
The Practice of Consulting Scripture
a» a Book of Fate.
The practice of consulting Scripture
as a book of fate was generally con­
demned by the church. A council at
Vannes pronounced against It in 4(’>1
A. D. So did one at Agde in 508 and
one at Auxerre in 585. Charles the
Great forbade It In his capitularies,
and so did Pope Gregory II. Never­
theless curiosity us to the future was
so strong lu men's minds that the cus­
tom contlniK'd.
An odd circumstance is that the
cathedral chapter at Orleans in 11411
appealed to a prognostic of this sort in
a supplication aihlressed by them to
Pope Alexander III. against their bish­
op. Al his consecration, when the gos­
pel was opened above his head, the
finger of the deacon rested ui>on the
words, “And lie left the linen cloth and
fed from them naked.” This was a
token that the bishop Elias was to be
turned out of his see.
The practice of observing the book
when opened over the head of a prel­
ate at his consecration was very com
mon. It was thought that a sure au­
gury could thence be drawn as to what
sort of a bishop he would prove.—Cham­
bers’ Journal.
llflea F«»r Abaard M mmb *.
hu <1 Generally They Stick.
Ultra
A number of the latest walking suits
are being made with extremely long
coats, sometimes reaching to within
sixteen or eighteen Inches of the hem
of the short skirt.
One thing should never be lost sight
of in ordering one of these long coats.
It Is one of the oldest Greek canons of
art that an oblong should never bo di
vliled In the middle nor yet exactly lu
thirds.
Consider the gown as a flat surface
and see that the line of the coat crosses
correctly; otherwise there will always
be something vaguely ugly and un­
graceful about It, something which the
average observer will not be able to
define, but will be sure to notice. The
garment will be voted unbecoming.
With these long Jackets are worn
very severely cut skirts without flounces
and usually without trimming except
braid or flat gimp.
John Nicholson. British colonel and
brigadier general, was once worshiped
as a god. He was the eldest son of
Alexander Nicholson, a physician of
Dublin. This gallant soldier distin­
guished himself in the Punjab cam­
paign of 1848-49, when he wns appoint­
ed a deputy commissioner of the an­
nexed Punjab under Sir Henry Law­
rence. At Bannu, dealing wisely with
an Ignorant and bloodthirsty people, he
evolved in the course of five years such
order and respect for law that murder
and highway robbery, previously so
rife, were unknown in the district
lie so Impressed his powerful per­
sonality on the natives that he became
to them a demigod, and in Hazara a
brotherhood of fakirs in 1848 instituted
a religious cult for the worship of "Nl-
Very Attractive.
kal-Seyn,” which continued to flourish
Waist of a stylish tailored costume
in spite of Nicholson's efforts to sup­
of brown cloth. The trimming or
press It even by panisbment.
At n moment of victory during the
siege of Delhi In 1857 this hero fell
mortally wounded in the street while
leading Ills men. He died a few days
later on the 23d of September. 1857.
and was burled In front of the Kash­
mir gate.
When it conus« to lieing'fast a man is
never in it even with horses. Flora
Temple, Maud H and now Lou Dillon
sot tit* vault.
A doctor was summoned to attend
hold the record, while the man is on
the miller's little boy He wrote out a
the l>aek seat.
prescription, which was promptly made
up nnd administered in due form. The
The face of the ¿honeymoon always next day be called again to see his pa­
wi-ars a mask which matrimony dis­ tient and found the whole fanlily in
closes whether it lie a fool, a skeleton tears.
or a «tear little Cupid.
“Alas!” said the mother, “I shouldn't
hav« thought that my poor child would
A Japam-se newspaper asserts that if have died of the measles."
it were not for eduertHonal works Ja-
'■What!” exclaimed the doc-tor. “He
iwuusae publishers would lie virtually had the measles, and you never told
me?"—Paris Journal.
w ithout occupation.
—
One can find no prettier combination
than that employed in this costume. It
is heavy French broadcloth, with deep
collar and cuffs of chinchilla. The col­
lar Is fastened with ends of gray che
AS TO NICKNAMES
AS ODD WAISv.
white cloth is of embroidery in brown
and burnt orange. The plain skirt Is
trimmed with curved stitched baud*
like the bodice.
Tan nml White.
A costume of tan cloth Is trimmed
with bands of n brilliant white x >k
braid, two Inches wide. These are nr
ranged in irregulnr fashion up nml
down the skirt and nre trimmed w th
disks of tan colored velvet. The same
trimming Is used on the Imlero. will- b
baa a novel feature in the shape of
«mill coat tails.
A Genrrou» Spirit.
“Henry. I want $2 this morning.”
"What for?”
“Must I account to you for every
penny I spend?”
“I don't insist upon knowing about
every penny. When it's less than a
nickel you can bunch it.”—Clcv« :an«l
Plain Dealer.
Hl* oeflupation.
A badly cooked dinner will turn
Calvert, Jr.—What is your uncle do­
hive’s young dream into a regular old-
Mat t'atll Than.
ing now?
fashioned nightmare.
-men ®ny a «roman be said to be
Baity Moore—Sitting «n Juries
Calvert, J».-\jjbat? I thougfit *e happllY married f
Home women are born great and was Judge I« one of the higher courts.
“Not until she has had the pleasure
some marry money.
Baity Moot* — He is.
of refusing several mfln.” *
A l.nrjcc Fl»h.
choice : miscellany
l nrl» I««'« Paaag Crag.
According to advices from the treat
ury department, the government mill
at Philadelphia will e«a*e to grind out
IH-nnies for a time, there being now a
surplusage of this kind of currency
In the country. During the past five
years 3,UM).fsM»J93 ¡s-nnles have been
sliipissl from the Philadelphia mlut.
which is the only one that coins the
one «-ent pieces, to various parts of the
country. Between July 1, ltkrj, amt
June 1, 1903. 89,(100,000 cents were
coined. If this five year output were
collected In a heap It would make a ala-
able stage mountain at least.
Placed able by side In a straight line
3.000.000,000 iH-nnles would make a
rlblkon over 23.000 miles long and would
come pretty near girdling the earth.
Plied on top of one another they would
reach up toward the stars for a dis
tanee that would take a good many
Eiffel towers to e«iual. for it would lie
not less than 2.4ts) miles, far out lie-
yond the point where the force of grav­
itation is sup|>osed to l«e very active.
Since, on the ordinary basis of com­
putation, there are supiMiaed to be alsiut
2lk).(KM).<)U9 children in the world un
der ten years of age. Uncle Sam would
be able to give each child on the earth
ten copper keepsakes and have enough
left over to fill a g«xxi sized savings
bank liesides. So much for the penny
crop.—Leslie’s Weekly.
American Van of KleclrtcHx.
America leads the way In the atipll-
catlon of electricity. In his presiden­
tial address to the Institution of Elec­
trical Engineers Mr. Kaye Gray men
Hom'd a plate glass works in which
there were four generating sets of I.tMSI
kilowatts each and one of 35(1 kilo­
watts. There were also 20 motors of
450 horsepower each ami 20 of 200
horseisiwer.
Another concern using
electricity on a large m-ale wns n col­
liery. which possesses n plant of 2.900
kilowatts capacity and comprises 44
mining locomotives and 75 miles of un­
derground trolley wire. The dominat­
ing factor In regard to the employment
of electric power Is, of course, that of
efficiency compared with cost. Mr.
Gray made a comparison between the
Carnegie works and Krupp’s at Essen.
“At the Carnegie works.” he said,
“electricity is used for almost every­
thing requiring power. It Is stated that
In the Homestead Steel works of Penn
sylvanla by the aid of electricity 4.00(1
men make as much steel as is made at
Krupp’s with 15,000 men.” — London
Telegraph.
Too IK«
h
Contract.
Assistant Postmaster Knowles re­
cently told this story of clvjj service
examinations: "Not long ago.” he said,
“we had as applicant for the place
of letter carrier a bright young man
whose degree of Intelligence scarcely
fitted him for the place II<‘ had made
up bls mind before coming In that the
civil service examination was a fraud,
a humbug and two or three otliet
things not so good. However, he made
out to answer the questions to Ills owi
satisfaction at least ami expressed sur
prise that they were not more difficult
Finally the examiners asked him:
“ ‘How far Is it from Philadelphia
to Chicago?’
“ ’I don’t know,' he said, ’anil I don't
care. But If I’ve got to walk to Chi
cago to deliver letters I’ll quit this
thing right now and stick to farm
Ing.’ ’’—Philadelphia Press.
The Newest Drills» 1‘roJ.cl.
The greatest project for bridge work
comes from Asia, where a railway
commission has Just recommended the
old plan of connecting Ceylon with In
din by a bridge across the reef called
"Adam's bridge” and the Island of
Rameswaram, says a New York paper.
Ceylon Is pretty far from (lie I’..,wery.
but we are all interested In it because
the Ceylon tea grows there; because it
Is there that every prospect pleases nnd
only lupn Is vile and because It Is ns
signed by local tradition as the original
home of Adam, whence Adam’s bridge
to the north.
Geological evidence shows that Cey
Ion was originally Joined to India by n
continuous Isthmus, which, according
to the temple records of Rameswaram,
was breached by a great storm in 148(1.
An Englishman visiting Lake Tahoe
asked a native If there was any good
fishing in the lake.
“Oh, yes, stranger.”
“Whnt kind of fish do you catch
here?”
“Oh, all kinds, stranger.”
“What is the weight of the lnrgest
fish you ever enught?”
“Waal, stranger, we don’t takt
weighing machines when we goes fish
Ing. nnd I nm an honest man and
wouldn't like to say how much that
Snake l*ol*onin< Antidote*.
last trout I enught would weigh. But
In the pathological laboratories of
I tell you, stranger, that when 1 pulled
that fish out of the water the lake the University of Pennsylvania an In
went dqwn a foot.” — Birmingham vestlgatlon design«-«! to discover an
tldotes for till kinds of snake poison
Post.
Is conducted. Many experiments un­
Kngiiind’* t-'trat llallroad.
made with rattlesnakes, cobras and
The traveling on the first railroad In other poisonous reptiles, nnd the ef
England was not very comfortable un fects of their venom upon animals nr«'
doubtedly. The coaches were at first studied. Tiie physicians regnnl alco­
only collided with chains, as wagons hol taken Internally as n valuable stlin
are now, so that they Jerked the un ulant, but not as an antidote. The most
fortunate passengers nearly off their valuable remedial agent is the Inter
seats at starting nnd clashed violently mlttent ligature, a band about the
against each other when the driver put wounded limb, which Is loosened for
on his brake. When fairly In motion, an Instant at stated Intervals, thus al­
if the speed was any but the slowest, lowing the poison to enter the system
the very short wheel base produced a In very small quantities. In this man­
pitching action so trying that If the ner the patient is enabled gradually
Journey had net been a short one It to overcome the effects of tiie poison.
would have seriously affected the pop­ Exchange.
ularity of the railway as a means of
passenger transit
Fatare Life nt Animal*.
Sir William Blunden, a doctor nnd
Il»nnii1«,r< of Ureatiav**.
narouet, nas Just favored a meeting of
"Don’t you sometimes think you the Society For the Prevention of t’rii-
would be a greater man If you were to elty to Animals with some view* on
cultivate the art of oratory?”
the future state of animals. He "cer
"I don’t know.” answered Senator tatnly believed,” lie said. In the fu
Sorghum. "A great man. as you know, ture existence of animals, and. tliongli
is one who gets mentioned In the school he could not bring forwnnl evidence In
tiooks after lie Is dead Instead of the support of bls proposition, he could
financial columns of the newspaper« not at the same time bring forward
while he is living."—Washington Star
evidence to the contrary. If they took
the case of the tinker’s ass, which wa«
H«»w Wf»e We Are!
b«1rn and reared In hardship, lie found
A wise newspaper says we should la- ft hard to think that n merciful Cre­
thankful thHt we nre moderns and ator formed that animal merely to suf
heirs of all the wisdom of th- ng« a fer at the bands of man without ree -’v-
Perhaps we should lie If we did not Ing some compensation in the next life.
know that the average American Imag If not In the present.—London New«
Ines Plato to tie a new kind of slher
Diplomatic Dirk.
polish sn«l Sappho an attachment to a
Bob—Are you fond of reading, Dick?
piano.—Washington Times.
Dick—No, I hate it; that’s the reason
I pretend to like It, If my mother
In the Parlor Toot
New Boarder—Wbat Is the landlady's thought I didn't like to road she'd
keep me at It all the time. — Boston
daughter playing?
Old Boarder A mixture of airs from Tranacript.
a lot of old operas—a sort of musical
The Joke oa Her.
hash, you know.—New York Weekly.
"I suppose being the wife of a hu­
morist Is a Continuous Joke,” said be.
Girls have a way of getting a lot of former schoolmate.
tpi-clal *-encry on when they wait on
“Ye«,” she sadly sighed, looking at
table at a church social.—Atchison her faded Jacket, "and It's «m me.”—
M-iw.
Chicago Racord-IIerald.
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