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BAMhON REtOKIiEI
CURIOUS WORSHIP.
Th» <»•<•■» of Th row I •» Praver* at
aa Idol In Japan.
Along the sacred road of Nikko, In
Japan, 1» an Idol nliout which centers
one of the most cunou* worship» I*
the world. Upon .Ye surfatv of the
statue are seen little pieces of what
appear» to be dried paper. If you »land
by the idol for awhile and wait for a
worshiper to come along, you wUl see
what these bits of paper are. The dev
otee halts in front of the Image, then
■cribbles a prayer on a bit of the pa
per. The wad he then chew» up into
a ball and hurls at the god. If It
hits the face and sticks, the prayer is
sure to be granted, and the pious pil
grim goes away happy. If the ball
sticks to some portion of the body, the
omen is not quite so propitious, and if
it falls to the ground there Is absolute
ly no hope.
Such a mode of prayer 1 b even more
curious than the praying wheels of the
Buddhists, who set the wheel revolving
aud reel off prayer* by machinery. As
John L. Stoddard, the lecturer, suld:
“One sees, of course, numberless
strange rites connected with religion
ill traveling about the world, but
Japan 1» the only laud I have ever
visited where deities serve uh targets
for masticated prayers!”
THE BAD RUPEE,
Bahram Got RI<1 oi It, bat
War Re Intended.
Not
the
“There lived In Kampur, India, a
vender of sweetmeats numed Bahram,
whose wife had weak eyes,” said the
story teller. “One day this man went
to see a friend at the bazaar, aud he
left his stall In tlie woman's charge.
‘Be careful, mind you, about the
change,' he said to her. But neverthe
less when lie returned home he found
that she bad taken in a bad rupee
piece. He could hardly sleep that night
for rage and sorrow. In the morning
he arose early, and, determined to get
rid of the bad rupee, he set out througli
the town. Soon he met a boy.
“ ‘Boy,’ be said, ‘do you know the
sweetmeat shop of All?’ (All was a
rival vender.) ‘Well, take this rupee,
go to All's shop and spend a pice for
sweetmeats there. The sweetmeats
you may keep; I want the change.’
“The boy departed merrily and in a
little while returned with his mouth
full.
“ ‘So you got the change without trou
ble, eh?' said the man as lie counted It.
‘And did All make no examination of
the rupee?’
“ ‘Oh,’ said the boy, ’I didn’t go as
far as All's. I got the sweetmeats at
Bahram’s shop.' ’’—London Modern So-
clety.
WHY WE TREMBLE.
The Nerve Action* Superinduced
Cold, Four and Anver,
br
Cold, by stimulating the sensory
nerve endings in the skin, produces a
corresponding irritation in the brain
motor centers and by contracting the
blood vessels In the skin produces a
temporary excess of blood in the brain.
This Interferes with the steady flow of
nerve force to tho muscles, so that the
spasmodic action of these nerve cur
rents produces the trembling due to
cold.
Of trembling from fear or anger I»ar
win gives this explanation: "Men dur
ing long generations have endeavored
to escape from their enemies by flight
or violent struggling. These cause
breathlessness und trembling of the
muscles. Whenever fear is felt the
sume results tend to appear through
the force of Inheritance and association.
Just ub furious rage leads persons to
make violent attacks on the object of
their resentment, so in milder cases,
though no such attack may la- made,
the beginning of violent exertion —
namely, trembling of the muscles—
tends to show Itself. But the chief
cause of trembling from fear or anger
I b , according to the sume authority,
the Interruption or disturbance of the
transmission of nerve force from the
cerebro spinal system, due to mental
agitation. Why or bow these emotions
affect the cerebro spinal system
through the mind in this way Is not
known.”
A Delicate Refannl.
In the last few inonlto- I have had
oceasioi* t«s pa— a lieautiful residence
day after day. People resided there,
but there never seemed to tie a sign of
life al»iut the place. The window cur-
tains were ala ays drawn dow n as if to
obscure every* ray of light for feur of
fulling ear|s'ts and ta|>estries that you
felt almost sure must occupy a promi
nent place in this mansion. The
grounds alsiut the place were kept up,
the lawns velvety and green, yet you
never saw the gardener at work. Oc
casionally a little ¡»early plume of smoke
circled feebly from the chimney nnd
flouted rapidly into space as if it was
afraid it would Is- giving away family
secrets by announcing to the outside
world that the house was inhabited.
One day there wan a change, and it
was for the better. The curtains were
up as far as they would go, the win
dows were often as if to let in all the
pure wholesome air the place would
hold. The next thing I noticed was
that little window gardens had been
made in front of the two big liay win
dows fronting the house where they
would get the first warm rays of the
morning sun. I watched them closely,
thinking 1 could judge something of
the character and, possibly, the nation
ality of the people from the Howers
that were planted. 1 soon discovered
they were bullis that had been buried
in the rich brow n loam. Days passed
and tqi came the tender green leaves.
It seemed as if they grew inches every
day. Then came the buds. I missed
passing the house for several days and
the next time I had occasion to go by
I found the window gardens had
brought the owner a wealth of na
ture’s treasures. One window was filled
with lieautitui fragrant white hya
cinths, pure ami spotless as a snow
flake and the other was filled with
quaint, old-fashioned yellow and red
tulips. “The second window is in
memory of the fatherland,’’ thought
Polly, and I smiled as 1 thought of the
happiness the gaudy, lovely little tulips
must have brought to the heart of some
one hungry for a glimpse of the old
home across the waters. It seemed to
me the tulips had interpreted for me
and proved conclusively the nationality
of the dwellers in this beautiful home.
I was right. The national hymn, “The
Watch on the Rhine,” was us dear Hi
them as “America” and “Columbia”
are to us.
The tlowers in both window gardens
were in their perfection when one
morning as I passed 1 discovered that
every white hyacinth had been picked.
I glanced quickly at the window of
tuli|>s, but none were missing. One
window was o|>eil and the lace curtains
floated in and out with the breeze; the
other curtains were drawn and the
usually cheerful home looked thor
oughly dreary. I felt depressed as I
thought of the trouble that might have
come to the inmates, and yet it might
have been a wedding instead of a fu
neral that the lovely hyacinths had
been gathered for. But when I passed
again dainty streamers of white illusion
ami ribbon floated from the d<s>r and
tied lovingly in the fleecy meshes was
a bunch of the white hyacinths. Then
I knew that a little child had grown
tired and weary and had laid down to
sleep only to awaken in the lieautiful
garden of sleep. I thought of the
silence in that great house when the
patter of the little feet would never lie
heard and the happy childish voice
would never make music as she ran to
o|s-n the doorand grift the strong man
she called “my ladder” as she sprang
into his arms on his return home at
evening. The curtains are drawn all
over the house again, one by one the
tulqis have had their little day; the
|>etals have fallen, the leaves have
withered and the Hower is dead until
another spring rolls round and the tuli|>s
shall lie resurrected. On one of the
great ocean steamers that is breasting
the billows like some graceful bird, is
the casket containing the little child
that is Is-ing taken back by the heart
broken parents to rest with other loved
ones in the fatherland.
Levassor, the well known French
comic singer, once took part In n char
ity concert in Paris and after the per
formance was invited by the promoters
to supper along with the rest of the
performers. When all were seated at
table Levassor found under his napkin
an Easter egg out of which five pieces
of gold dropped on its being broken.
"Ah, I perceive you have got to
know thnt I am fond of boiled eggs,”
the comedian gayly remarked to his
Did you ever realize the gixsl a flower
entertainer, “but you are probably not garden could do in this world? You
■ ware that I only eat the white anil might not lie fortunate enough to have
must therefore ask you to give the oue of your own, but ¡stssibly your
yolk to the poor.”
neighlsir has, and haven't you caught
larbaroi* Treatment of ll»o Women. yourself watching with intense interest
The Ibos have a barbarous custom of the little seed your neighlior hail plant
destroying twins, A woman who gives ed as they pushed their way through
birth to twins is regarded as some- the brow n mold like magic; and haven’t
thtc.g accursed, and the child: c« are not you slo|q»-d to iuhaie the fragrance
taken from her and thrown into the of roses, violets, mignonette, carna
bush to perish, while she is proclaim
ed an outcast and driven from the vil tions, etc., and at the same time feasttai
lage. To hold up two Angers to an your eyes on patches of exquisite little
Ibo woman is to offer her the greatest forget-me-nots as blue as the dome of
Insult possible. They are very super heaven? Haven’t you fairly reveled
stltlous. They worship idols of wood, in your neighlior’s fernery and forgot
mud and Iron, which are regarded as ten the trials and cares of tlie day for
protectors to be propitiated at various the moment as the lacy, fragile five-
periods, and slavery exists among all tlngensl ferns, maidenhair, tin* golden-
the tribes.
backs and various other members of
this deliglitful family in plant life,
Greatae** aad Smartnea*.
’’Which would you rather be truly nrshhsl in file breeze from their own
great or really smart?”
mossy corner to you? Haven’t you
“Smart, of course.”
watched tlie little w inged l>eauties, tlie
"Why?”
sweet ¡lens, as they ctemlxired over un-
and
"Well, you may be truly great
i
sighly places covering them with a
no one ever know It. but if you’re
mantle of charity that shut out the
think
that
smart you can make people 1
coarse and uninviting sight? Haven't
you're great”—Chicago I’ost.
you seen morning-glories in your neigh
bor's yard covering an entire porch or
Cvttin*.
Mia* Cutting — That dog of yours an ugly old fence, ami hundreds of
a**m* to be remarkably intelligent. tlowers from royal purple to exquisite
SofUelgb—Yaws, Indeed! I aw—could pink, blue and white turning all their
not begin to tell you all be knows. Mias little trumpet* to the sun and drinking
Cutting- No, of course not—New York
•r.
• in the rays, revgling in the wealth of
i golden light for a few hours and falling
We cannot control the evil tongues asleep with the setting sun? Didn't
of others, but a good life enables us to I that cloud of morning glgji' » preach
despise thetu —Cato
you a little sermon? Didn’t they tell
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you not to be content to remain dbwu in
THE AMERICAN HUSBAND.
the shadow , bigl you q>u»t reach out
and grasp everything that would Help A s<ud> ut HI» Trait* From au Lua-
ll*h I'olat of View.
you to climb higher and higher? Oh,
Au American voung man does not as
there is a world of •■rmons in all the
swayin* bells of your lieiglilstr’s morn a°rule look forward to marriage nor
prepare for ifeby saving any consider
ing glories.
able portion of hi» antenuptial Income.
l°have a world of respect for the man When be marries it is usually on short
wlioplanted a hedge of heliotro|>e, roses notice and because be has fallen very
and ivy geranium all around lite beau desperately In love with some one und
cannot find it in bls heart to wult until
tiful home in San Diego so as to furnish
cold caution declares the venture ad
Howers for those who were not fortu*1 visable. Even when uu engagement
nate enough to have gardens of their Is a long one he usually squanders so
own. On a placard was printed, “Help much on gifts »nd entertainments for
yourselves to Howers, but please do not Ids fiancee that there Is only a very
break tile branches or pull up the moderate uuiouut to begin bousekeep
plants.” As a result the hedge was lug on. Thus before bls marriage the
never s|»>iledby passers-by w ho hastily young American of the middle class
jerktsl otl n handful of blossoms, taking begins to give evidence of what is to
large branchi*» with them which were be bls chief national characteristic as
a husband his unfailing, unselfish und
discarded and thrown into the street almost Improvident generosity.
as they glanced quickly around to see if
The middle class busbund in America
their act of pilfering another's flower rarely Interferes with the affairs of the
garden wasolwerved. This man’s gen household. He hardly knows the cost
erosity was in striking contrast to the of staple articles of food. As a rule he
man who lived in the same block, and does not make his wife a regular al
had a huge placard posted conspicu lowance either for household or per
ously warning people not to trespass on sonal expenses, but gives her as much
as lie can spare, freely, but with a lack
penalty of arrest. His hedge was not of system that Is not conducive to the
exempt from pilferers in spite of Hie best outlay of their Income.
warning, and many an armful of flow
The young American husband Is also
ers disap|>eared on moonlight evenings. very indulgent to his wife's fondness
for tine clothes. He would far rather
have an extravagant wife than a
BRIEF REVIEW
dowdy one. ai«L, although be grumbles
occasionally at a millinery bill, in real
Authorship in America..
ity he glories in the resplendent ap
We should like to call the attention pearance of bls wife in her fine feath
of home-market clubs and infant-in ers. The American husband is rare
dustry nurseries to the condition of the who does not concede his wife's right
to expend a mtieh larger sum with ber
authorship business in the United dressmaker than be does with bls
States, says Leslie’s Monthly. During tailor. Indeed he often leaves bls
1902 the total production of this hust tailor altogether and cheerfully repairs
ling world was 200,000 volumes. The to the ready made clothing house In
output seems small enough In compari order that Ids wife may have more
son with the world’s annual stock of money for extravagant finery.—London
other commodities, but so long as it is Telegraph.
large enough to keep our evenings and
CANINE MEMORY.
holidays busy we have no general right
to complain. The trouble comes when The Story ot a Pet Bull Terrier That
we analyze the figures. During 1902
Did Not Forget.
the United States published but 7888
A gentleman who is a great traveler
volumes, iiarely worsting England, and who is always accompanied in his
which follows us with a total of 7700, wanderings by a bull terrier, to which
and losing to Germany’s 26,900 to the he is much attached, arrived one day
tune of 1 to 3. What becomes of our in the city of Florence. Ills dog was
ladies’-literary leagues and home cul for some reason intrusted to the care
of the porter at the station, and in the
ture clulis in the face of hard figures?
excitement of the crowd and under tlie
Where is Kentucky now, and where is unusual experience of being separated
Indiana? Shall three Americans go from his master, who generally kept
down before one German? Shall each the animal with him, Bruno was
million Germans have 354 books each moved to make his escape. The most
year while a million Americans are con careful search was made, and before
tent with eighty-one? Reverse the going to his hotel the traveler went to
shield. Last year Germany published the police station to notify the gen
8049 newspapers and periodicals. The darmes of his loss. It was more than
an hour before he reached his. hotel.
United States 21,000.
When he got there he spoke of his loss,
so that if anything was heard of the dog
Islands and Vegetation.
it would be understood that the animal
Nature in her slow leisurely way is belonged to him. To his astonishment
making a highly instructive experi the porter said: “But your dog Is here,
ment for us to show how islands may sir. He came before you, nnd we did
acquire their vegetation. Just twenty not know to whom he belonged.” “The
years ago tlie most stupendous volcanic dog is here!” repeated the gentleman
In surprise. “How came he here?"
eruption of modern times destroyed all "He ran In, sir, alsiut half an hour ago.
life, animal and vegetable, in the island nnd, after snuffing about the office for
of Krakatoa. Three years later Dr. awhile, he ran upstairs. I gave orders
Treub visited the place and found some to have him'driven out. but the boys
lowly microscopic algae settling on the have been busy, am! he is up there
pumice and lava. These, it seems, somewhere now.” The traveler, of
acted as a decoiH|»>sii>g agency, and course, went upstairs at once, and
prepared the way for ferns, which soon there on the mat before the chamber
began to appear. Then followed a few numbered 44 lay Bruno, who sprang
up with the most frantic demonstra
flowering plants, probably from drift tions of delight nt finding his master
seeds. Five yearsago there had settled again. The gentleman remembered
sixty-two species of vascular plants, thnt two years previous he had been
fifty of these being flowering s|>ecies with the dog nt Florence nnd had stay
and representing twenty-one natural ed nt this hotel. lie did not remember
orders. All these, Rotting liemsleyof that lie hail occupied this particular
the Kew Gardens, London, thinks, room, but on reference to the hotel reg
reached the island independently of ister such was found to be the fact.
man. He computes that alsiut 8 per
ROCK FORMATION.
cent were carried by birds, 32 ¡ mt cent
borne by the wind, and over 61) ¡>er In One Sen»e Stone» Do Grow, and
cent east up by tlie sea waves. In
In Another They Do Not.
time, without man’s aid the island,
Rocks do not grow In the sense that
twenty miles from its nearest neighlior, plants do. They may increase in size
will be again covered with vegetation. by means of accretion, and they may
also undergo other changes. Old sea
beds, lifted up and exposed for ages, be
Hangman's Town.
come stratified la-ds of sandstone or
Since Joseph F. Heine has been clerk limestone; volcanic ashes and lava
and chief deputy in the office of the strewn over bills and plains become
.Sheriff of Baltimore city he has learned tufa, hard enough for building stone,
that there are persons who lielfeve that und the pebbly shores of rivers and
the black gown used to enshroud male smaller streams' may sometimes
factors when hanged is efficacious for change Into conglomerates. The simple
mineral, however, does grow, especial
the cure of diseases when doctors and
ly when it takes upon itself the form
medicine fail. Heine gained the knowl of a crystal. A sparkling prism of
edge in question when several men quartz increases from an atom to
calks I on him and asked for one of the monster crystals of varying length and
black gowns that have been usisi in size by what geologists kuow as a
hangings. The men told Heine they “process of addition and assimilation.”
This process is wonderfully slow, but
lielongisl to a fraternal order and that
they wanted the gown to put on one of with a mathematical exactness that Is
the meni If rs who was dying. They a surprise to persons even “well up”
in the science of geology, in one sense
said they hadlss-n told that such a gar stones grow; in another they do not.
ment would cure their friend. Heine The crystal may become longer und
gave the men one of the grewsome larger, but the bowlder on the roudslde
gowns in the Sheriff's office. He has will not Increase a hairbreadth in
not heard from his visitors since and length or width in the next 10,000
Joe« not knew tltv imal’ of the treat yea n.
ment.
Moat Horrible of All Dream*.
No words are strong enough to point
out the danger of slow poisoning by
drugs 'wuicir ate often token to procure
sleep, whether it be an alcoholic night
cap, morphine, opium, chlorul or any
other. The medical man has recourse
with reluctazu-e to these as a last and
temporary rVsort, and only he can tell
bow many lives are wrecked by the
ill timed use of them and their subse
quent abuse. Of all horrible dreams
none is so awful as those which assail
people who habitually use these false
comforters. Better than all the drugs
In the world for procuring sleep are
simple food, a regular life and a calm
There were 144 German domestic mind.—Cassell’s.
servants last year w ho wen- awarded
Wh»t She Lacked.
the servants’ golden cross for having
A superintendent of a Sunday school
lived forty years with one family. Only relates the following true incident:
one was found in Berlin.
The title of the lesson was "The rich
young man” and the golden text "One
A noted doctor states that 85 per cent thing thou lackest.” A lady teacher in
of «rippled children could lie at least the primary class asked a little tot to
able to wal]c if their diseases were repent the Jwo, end. looking earnestly
In the teacher's face, the child tin-
treated in time.
blushlngly told her. "One thing thou
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lackest—a rlBb young man.”
Toendewwr to work u|»>n the vulgar
with fine sense to like attempting to
“Forget yoursc|f and be a gentle
hew blocks with a razor.
man,” may not be*a ntow pbras* but it
is a,go(«l one to jpiste in somebody’s
A man who shows n<f <lef*ts is !» fool hat—maybe your own.
Yorfc
or a hyp-
wbttoi we should d^jtrust. Press.
His Drink Recipe
A Dislge City, Kas., tssitlegger ad
mits that he made most of the stull' he
sold as whiskey. His formula, was:
One gallon ot alcohol, two gallons of
water, one pound of prunes, half pound
of toliaceo and one ounce of glycerine.
Boil the prunes and squeeze tlie juice
out, and the same with the tobacco
and thoroughly mix. “This,” lie says,
proudly, “makes a fine drink, and is
warranted to do its work.” He used
to keep it in kerosene cans to avoid sus
picion.
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Hanna aad Ike Haaky
Solicitor.
Adjutant William A. Turner, the Sai-
ratiou Army's commander In Bing
hamton. N. Y.. tell» how Senator Hun-
na came to be one of the organization'»
beat friends.
Soon after he ceased laboring as an
Ironworker and gave up bls Inclinations
lu the ungodly »¡a>rt of prise tight lug to
become a religious worker Mr. Turner
was stationed In the Cleveland bar
racks. The army at that time had not
acquired Its present standing. Mouey
was scarce and contributions fur be
tween.
For several days Turner made at
tempts to see Mr. Hanna to solicit a
Contribution. Each time he was In
formed by the b<s>kkeeper In the outer
office that the great business man could
not be seen. Assuring himself that
Mr. Hanna was tn bls office one day,
the adjutant paid no heed to the
stereotyped refusal, but continued on
his Way toward the door of the private
office. The bookkeeper started to In
terpose, but the adjutant seized him by
the collar, threw him out of the way
and entered.
Mr. Hauna was provoked at first,
but when he saw bls discomfited btsik
keeper and looked upon the husky
Salvationist he saw that the only way
to get rid of the visitor was to listen.
After the adjutant had explained the
work of the army the future senator
called his cashier and said:
“Give this man $10. Don’t let him
bother me again, but whenever he calls
always give him $10.”
A True Criticism.
George Dalton Morgan, who recently
brought from the orient a Japanese
bride, tells tills story about the Japa
nese sea fighter, Admiral Uriu:
“In Tokyo Admiral Uriu la regarded
as a kind of Haroun al Raschid. They
declare there that he Investigates per
sonally—sometimes even In disguise -
every detail of the workings of the
Japanese navy. Hence many odd ad
ventures befnll him.
"Once Admiral Uriu got wind of ee-
tain complaints that had been mad
against the soup served on a torpedo
boat in his squadron. He shot from
his flagship in a launch one day at
mealtime and boarded this torpedo
bont Just as the sailors came from the
kitchen carrying a huge and steaming
caldron.
“ ‘Halt,’ the admiral shouted, 'Set
that caldron down,’
“The sailors, with wondering looks
obeyed.
“ 'Now,' he said, 'bring me a spoon.’
“An officer hurried forward.
“ ‘But, admiral'— he began.
“ ‘Never mind, sir. There'» a com
plaint front this boat, and I'm going to
settle it now,' said Admiral Uriu.
“He lifted the lid from the caldron,
ladled up a spoonful of Its contents,
and after blowing on the liquid he
swallowed It. Then he made a wry
face.
“ ‘You call this soup?' he exclaimed
•Why, it is nothing but dirty water.’
‘“Yes, sir.' said one of the snllors:
‘we have Just been scrubbing the gal
ley floors.’ ”
A Spreckels Story,
John D. Spreckels, son of Claus
Spreckels, Is the proprietor of a San
Francisco newspaper, says the Cincin
nati Times-Star. To an editor one day
Mr. Spreckels was talking about per
sistence, and In the course of his re
mark* he said:
"My father is a great believer in
persistence- In patience. Once, when
I was a boy. I abandoned in despair
some childish task that I hail under
taken, and my father reproved me.
“ ‘Persistence will do anything,' lie
said. There's nothing you can't ac
complish with patience.’ And then he
smiled nnd added. ‘You could even cur
ry water in a sieve if you would have
the patience to wait long enough.’
“‘How long would I have to wait?'
I said.
“ ‘TH J It froze.* my father answer
ed.”
Any E xcuip ,
This story is told of Mr. A. J. Cas
satt It happened at one of the Farnf-
ers’ club dinners, at which a discus
sion as to the future of America arose.
Everybody took a most optimistic view
of the question. One of the guests,
turning to Mr. Cassatt, exclaimed:
“By Jove! How I would like to re
turn fifty years after my death and see
what a grand country the United
States has become!”
“I can really believe," replied Mr.
Cassatt, “that you will be glad of any
pretext to return.”—Philadelphia Press
Worth the Money.
"Tommy,” said the economical moth
er to the boy with the loose tooth, "I'll
give you 10 cents If you’ll let me pull
that tooth.” The boy thought Jt over
and then went to his bank. “The fun
of doin’ that Is worth more'n 10 ceiits."
he Bald. “I'll give you 15 If you'll let
tne pull on« of your«.”—Chicago Post.
MMB Shafto*—I celebrat* my twenty
fourth birthday trMioWow. Mis« Old-
age— Indad! Bat— l«n't It »lngular? -
so 4» I. At W •ba*pto—QB. %ut I cetp ,
brate *lne M toie fiatt Ume.
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CHOICE MISCELLANY
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Th* *•■•» Bhu «I4*'t Waul Them
lu Her«4|f or Others.
Mt* JeniJngs looked through ber
glasses at ber slater, Miss Sprawie,
with comUdenikle severity.
"This
neighborhood baa got into strange
ways the last few years, or else 1 no
tice It more as I get further along."
ghe suld, “and lest I should get into
the sume way I want you to remind
pie now und then, Mary.
"If you find me backbiting like that
hateful, stingy Annabel I’owder or
Lac, White, that hud better look to
her own Baucy, bad manuered girl, and
ber lioy, that’» the poorest scholar In
No. 1, or if you catch me growing
close fisted like the minister's wife,
that has never returned the cupful of
granulated sugar she borrowed fhat
time the delegates came, or long wind
ed like Jane I.arkln, who Interrupted
me in the very midst of my telling ber
about Sally's twins and went on about
her spindling grandson for most fif
teen minutes without stopping, I Want
you should tell me frankly.
“And that's not all,” said Mrs. Jen
nings as Miss Sprawie opened ber
mouth to speak. "If you find me get
ting inquisitive like Helen I-ane, that’s
asked me three times when my birth-
day comes und what year I was born
after my having to go to the town
records to find out ber age. I want you
to mention It freely, and I shall do the
same by you.
"If folks d*>n’t help each other,
what** the good of being set In fa in
Hies? You've got a little habit of In
terrupting, Mary, that's growing on
you, and I'm going to do what I can
to help you breuk it up.”—Youth’s
Companion.
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
Pathetic Story of a Mother of the
Labrador Coast.
Writing of the people of the Labra
dor coast, in Harper's Magazine, Nor
man Duncan tells a pathetic story of
a poor mother whom he met sitting
with her child outside the Battle Har
bor hospital:
“ 'He've always been like that,’ she
said. 'He’s wonderful sick. I’ve fetch
ed uu out here t' get the air. He doos
better in the air, zur,’ she added;
‘much, much better.’
“ 'He’ll be getting better,' said I.
‘Here in the hos’—
“ Tie'll die,’ she Interrupted quickly.
“I was glad that he was to die. It
would be better for him and for her.
She would forget his deformity; she
would forever have the memory of
him lying warm upon ber brenst,
warm and lovely; for. In this, memory
Is kind to women.
‘“You have—another?’
“ ‘No, zur; 'tls me first.’
“The child stirred. and complained,
She lifted him from ber lap, rocked
him, hushed him, drew him close.
rocking him all the time.
“ ‘And does he talk ?’ I asked
“She looked up in a glow of pride
and answered me, flushing gloriously,
while she turned ber shining eyes once
more upon the gasping bube upon her
breast:
“ ‘He said “mamma,” once!’
“And so the Labrador ‘llveyere’ la
kin with the whole wide world.”
New Yark’s KreaebWes-
Most of the Frenchmen who come *p
New York are waiters and »killed
artisans, like tapestry weavers. From
that they range up to the lordly chef,
with a salary bigger than a college
president’s There are great numbers
of French teachers aud musician», coif
feurs and modistes aud a tsaly of
French Importers, business aud pro
fesalstial men never thought of as
French, so much are they a ¡>art of the
community. It would seem a» If there
should be a French colony In New
York, since French Huguenots were
Huong the earliest settlers of Mauhut
tun, und the Church of the Holy Spirit,
tn East Twenty-seventh street, is the
lineal descendant of the oue built by
the French newcomers In 1688. But
there is really no French colony here,
although there are some 6,000 French
people mingled with the rest of the
4,000,000. South Washington square
for many years had a French davor.
but that has mostly faded uway, al
though the French Sisters still have a
school In that neighborhood. More
recently there was an east side French
colony between Seventy-second ami
Eightieth streets, but even that region
Is losing Its Gallic atmosphere.—New
York Letter In Pittsburg Dispatch.
A “Holy Hallroad" In Caaada.
In these days, when railways are run
more for what there Is in them for a
favored few than for the accommoda
tion of the general public. It may lie In
teresting to recall the fact that then*
is right here in North America a "holy
railroad.” This is a little line twenty-
one mlh*s long from Quebec to 8te.
Anne de Beaupre. It Is sacred liecause
It claims to run "e»i>eeially for the ac
commodation of pilgrims” and aliove
all because at Its opening a few years
since It was formally blessed with all
Its belongings by Cardinal Tascbereau.
Every Sunday the trains are crowded
with devotees In Rearch of the blessing
of the good St. Anne, who 1» credited
with the miraculous power of healing,
and on July 26, St. Anne's day, the
road cannot accommodate the enor
mous crowds which flock to her shrine.
Think of riding on a holy railroad!
But those who have traveled on It
know .that they must not exiiect the
comforts of paradise. It may be called
“holy,” but it seems to be run. none
the less, with an eye to dividends. The
charges are high and the service poor.
—Boston Transcript.
Honorable, but Diahon*»!.
An uptown auctioneer whose pa
Irons Include many successful business
men has Introduced the system of
having purchasers sign a card instead
of paying the customary de|>oslt when
they have bld In an article.
At the beginning of each (lay's sale
the auctioneer explains that he trusts
to the honesty alone of purchasers, but
that those who sign the card und after
ward fall to redeem their promises
will I m * sued. One of tlie auctioneer's
attendants goes to the purchaser after
each sale, hands the woman or man
a lend pencil and a card to sign. The
auctioneer was asked the other day If
the new plan worked well. He re
plied :
"Fine. Away ahead of the deposit
GOT AS GOOD AS HE GAVE. plan. You see, we leave It entirely to
But, say, then* la one
How 1‘htlanthroplat Corcoran Wa* their honor.
drawback. We have a deuce of a time
Answered by a Woman.
The late YV. W. Corcoran, the million getting the pencils back. Surprising
aire philanthropist of Washington, what a lot of pencil highwaymen there
who gave to the city the magnificent are In this world.”—New York l’ress.
art gallery which bears bis name, was
The Land of Paper,
very fond of telling how he was once
overmatched by a wealthy maiden la The Japanese use paper at every mo
dy from whom lie desired to purchase ment. The string with which a deft
handed “darling of the god»” does up
a piece of property.
Mr. Corcoran was the owner of the the articles you buy Is made of paper.
Arlington hotel, at the corner of Ver The handkerchief (thrown away after
mont avenue and II street. Adjoining use) is ¡taper, the partitions dividing
the hotel property on the II street side the houses are paper, and the pane
was a handsome brownstone mansion, through which an Indiscreet eye looks
owned by the maiden lady. The lot nt you Is paper! • The pane is certainly
upon which the house was built ex wanting In transparency, but there Is
tended back to I street, a distance of a simple remedy, suys Home Notes.
four hundred feet, nnd abutted on the One Huger is passed through the paper
—that is all! Afterward a small piece
rear of the hotel property.
Mr. Corcoran found it necessary to Is stuck on the opening with n grain
enlarge the hotel property and with of rice. The men's hats, the cloak of
this end In view desired to purchase the porter who carries his burden,
the renr end of the lot owned by the singing a cadence, through the rain;
maiden lady.
As she was very the garment of the Isiatman who con
wealthy, he knew -that a large price ducts you on board, the tobacco pouch,
would not be any special Inducement cigar case- all are ¡taper! Those ele
and for a time was at a loss to know gant dowers ornamenting the beauti
exactly bow to approach her. He final ful hair of the Japanese ladles and
ly concluded to go straight to the point, those robe collars which are taken for
and therefore addressed ber the fol crape—paper!
lowing note:
The Hat’» Good Pol at».
Dear Miss C —How much will you take
for your back yard? We wish to enlarge
the Arlington hotel. Youru sincerely,
W. W. CORCORAN.
A successful rat show was recently
held at Cheltenham, England. There
were sixty exhibits of black, gold,
Promptly came the reply:
gray, white, piebald and tan rats.
Dear Mr Corcoran—How much will you Some agricultural Journals comment
take for the Arlington hotel? We wish to
enlarge our back yard. Yours cordially, I ing on It maintain that the rat has un
economic future and may become a ta
A. C.
ble dainty in England, us It 1» In Chi
When Trees Go to Sleep.
Trees and plants have their regular na. To many people the show 1» the
times for going to sleep. They need first correction of the impression that
I rats are all alike, whereas the varieties
to rest from the work of growing and
to repair and oil the machinery of life. I of them, all more or less alike In char
Home plants do ail their sleeping In acteristics. are quite numerou». Tho
the winter while the ground is fro ’en first (llsplny having tieen a marked
and the limbs are bare of leaves. In suceess, others will no doubt follow
tropical countries where the snow nev and the rodent be studied with Increas
er falls and It Is always growing ing attention, the prospect, however, of
weather the trees repose during the finding out snylblnr good about him
rainy season or during the periods of being not at all promising.
drought. They always choose the most
A Large < ot ton wood.
unfavorable working time for doing
One of the largest cottonwood trees
their sleep, Just as man chooses the
ever In Missouri grew on the farm of
night, when he cannot see to work.
Anson Merrifield, near Hardin, Ray
What "Charm" Really Mean*,
rounty. It was felled last fall and has
The word “charm” is from the Latin been sawed Into more tliun 5,000 feet
“carmen.” Originally it meant Incan of lumber. The first knot on the tree
tatlon. To charm a person is to be was slxty-flve feet from the ground,
witch him. In "Julius Cueaar,” act Hi.. and three logs more than twenty inch
scene 1, “I charm you,” seems to mean es In diameter were suwed from its
"I adjure you.” When we speak now limbs. Mr. Merrifield sold bls lumber
of a charming woman we do not Im for $1.75 a hundred feet and got an
ply that she sings an Incantation b average of «75 each for thirteen cot
us, but there Is a pretty figure or tonwood trees, all of which stood on
speech in our use of the word. We forty acres Kansas City Journal.
mean that she has the same command
A» to the New Family.
over us as if the Incantation were sung
Suburbanite—You don't think they
and we were bewitched.
ever lived In the suburbs before? His
Bendin* Baltera.
Wife—Oh, no. When their cook threat
Mistress—Did any one call while 1 ened to leave they treated the matter
was out?
as Indifferently as though they could
New Girl—Yes, mum. Mrs. Wayupp get anothw one without any trouble.—
called.
Exchange.,
"Did she seem disappointed when
• “““
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you said I was not at borne?”
No matter how bright and sunshiny
"Well, she did look a little queer, but
get mad about the flay. It will appear dart and gloomy
true this Ume.” to the mton who looks at everything
“through Mua faMtan" - Maxwell's
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