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IU'nDOX RECORDER. INVESTING MONEY. R,. Muo of Your Scheme Hefore You ItisU Your S:vIiikn. H-i't tie vourself r your money up. Hunt risk 'all your savings in any ;eh.i:!e. no mailer how much it may iromiM-. Don't Invest your hard osiru 1 nioiicv in anything without fust making ;ithor.ugh ami searching In virstitration. Do not he misled hy tboso who tell vou that it is "now or never" nnd that !f you wait you are liable to Imm' the best thing that ever eame to nu. Make up your mind that it" you i,;,. vi.ur mcney you will not lose your head awl that you will not invest in i,u thing until you thoroughly undor unmi all about it. There are plenty tf go,l things waiting. If you miss ie there aie hundreds of others, Peo I ! w;M tell you that the opportunity will sro ly ami you will lose a gresit rhattic to make money if you do not act promptly. Rut take your time and investigate. Make it a east iron rule never l invest in any enterprise until vu have goac to the very bottom of it. and if It Is not so sound that level headed men will put money in it do not t.mch it. Th' habit of investigating before you mil irk in any business will be a happiness proieetor and an ambi tion proledor . s well. Orison Swell Marden in Suec s. BITING THE THUMB. It Iced to lie Considered a Pledge of Mortal ItcrviiKc. in "Romeo and Juliet" the servants of Capulet and .Montague begin a quar rel by one biting his thumb at the oth ers. I'ommentators have regarded this act as an insult, quoting the following passage from Ieeker"s "Dead Term:" "What swearing is there, what shoul dering, what jostling, what jeering, what biting of thumbs to beget quar rei. Sir Walter Scott, however, in a note to the "Lay of the Last .Minstrel." says. "To bite the thumb or the glove seems not to have been considered upon the border as a gesture of contempt, though so used by Shakespeare, but as a pledtre of mortal revenue." it was tints accounted to be a solemn assur ance that at the proper lime the sword siiuld settle the dispute or purge the oiTettse. Something of the sort may have pre vailed among the Romans, for it is thought that the Latin judHceri. to promise, is derived from poilex. the thumb. PRISONS OF SILENCE. WIutp Convict Eut Wear Shrouds and Sleep Heside Colli uu. Kntoml-cd In a grim castle on the outskirts of Lisbon are some f the most miserable men on earth. These are the inmates of Portugal's deadly prisons of silence. In this building ev erything tint human ingenuity can siiffuest to render the lives of its pris oners a horrible, mnddci.iug torture is done. The corridors, piled tier on tier live stories high, extend from a com mon center like the spokes of a huge ui"'- iija-j ii" oii ii.i. . t MML . O . ...... ......1. like, and within each stands a COrftn. The prison garb is a shroud. The at tendants creep about in felt slippers. No one is allowed to utter a word. The doors are unlocked, and the half a thousand wretches march out. cloth ed iu shtvr.ds and witii faces covered Hy masks, for it is a part of this hklfoits punishment that none may look upon tlie countenances of his fel low prisoners. Few of them endure this tiM'ture for more than ten years. A Five I:i' I.ove Story. At the present time wo aie always talking alut the rush and hurry of the twentieth century. Are we really so rapid as wo think wc are? Vr talnly few girls of fourteen have any thing like the amount of experience and emotion in many weeks of life that Juliet. Shakespeare's heroine, had eratutud into live days and a half. The lime is thus apportioned: On Sunday the ball took place, and on Monday Romeo and Juliet were mar ried. On Tuesday Juliet took the draft, and on Wednesday she was placed in the tomb, on Thursday Po nieu returned, and on Friday the hap less pair committed suicide. The JitpiinoHc Ilnliy. Tin. Japanese baby's head is shaved in a eurkMfcs fashion, and never, under any circumstances, does the mother or baby wear a hat or bonnet. Nor does he wear shoes, even iu the coldest weather, but his shaven head and his pi'ik toes peep out from the mother's garments, and he rides pickapack, strapped on tightly, happy, chubby, smiling always and dressed, when he is a Ho wetl to tret out of the hindimr garments, in the most dainty of kimo nos, all embroidered and painted and decorated with the designs winch are supposed to typify the linal trade or occupation of the infant. A 1 rat In (..vtu. "1 lost tny foot in the war," said the tramp, "and I'm trying to raise enough money to get out to California." "What do you want to tro to Califor nia for";" asked the woman at the door. "Oh. I've heard that there are things which grow a foot in a day out there." IV! ml mill. "I never knew till now why this was Kiieh a windy country." said the bright little girl traveling through Illinois. "And have you discovered why;" asked her father. "Of course. See all the windmills on these farms we're passing." Philadej. phia Ledger. IIU Method. Mrs. Xewpop Why don't you slop whipping the child? You make it hol ler. .Mr. Nou-pop I'm licking It to make it stop hollering.- 'hicago Jour nal. Chum- I'or Scirnnv. Rrown d-okcr's down with brain fe ver. Tile doctor says if he recovers his mind will he a blank. Green- I'm sor ry to hear that. He owes me ?lo. That they are sinners few arc willing to deny; that they are sinning few are ready to admit. POLLY LARKIlfT 1 left you at Willits last week with a promise to got to Slcrwood valley in this week's issue. "Change for Sher wiHd," announced the genial con ductor, Hobcrt I'.rown, who had kindly given me a great deal of information in regard to the attractive features of this pici.iresquc run from I'kiali to Wdlils. The passengers who desired to go through to Sherwood the same day were given an hour at Willits for din ner. Most of them took advantage of the opportunity ami dined at one of the various hotels before continuing their jounuy northward. It was again my good foituneto stop at tho Hotel Wil lits, the finest hotel north of San Fran cisco excepting the Motel llafael. Its equipments arc perfect and it is an ideal place for summer sojourners, and, judging from the number of guests resting, chatting, reading ami even knitting beautiful llcecy wools into dainty -hawls by the pretty summer girls, who were scattered about in the easy chairs on tin-broad verandas with which this hotel i blessed, the attrac tions aud advantages of this abiding place for a season is no longer a secret, (iuosls who came for a week length ened their stay into double the time ami then sighed to think that the sum mer vacation had ended while they murmured: Ti -morrow, to -day and yesterday. So i ut'- the Ih'uu: fill world away." The hotel this season is under the man agement of W. tL (Jraham V Co., and very popular are mine hosts, W. C Craham and William Chambcrluin. K very thing possible is done for the comfort and pleasure of the guests. They have a line bow ling alley, which is thoroughly enjoyed by young and old. A lineswimming pond is another attraction, and a model tenuis court and croquet ground arc being made ready. One of the principal features of enjoyment, howcvei, is horseback rid ing, and bevies of young people enjoy this healthy exercise, visiting the hills and enjoying the picturesque scenery which abound on all sides. In fact, you cannot get away from it, for there are no treeles- sunburned hills and nothing to break the monotony in this mountainous country. If you want a delightful walk there is a spring pos sessing all the mineral elements, clear :is crystal ami a- cold as ice, within a short distance of the hotel, and a little farther out-a line soda spring. Then there is a jaunt to .Muir's mill, once the leading lumber mill in this part of the county. In the opposite direction lie- the Diamond D mill of the North western Uedwood Company, which is l he biggest logging camp iu California and theniost complete ami best equipp ed mill in the State. Frequent!; the gtUJs of !i;c Itf.t.-! c:rj:ry a fifteen min utes' ride on the train, which takes them into the heart of this great lum ber district, which is a bu-y little world of its own and a sight well worth the seeing and one of which you never tire. This great hotel, so thoroughly and perfectly managed, is certainly an ideal spot to summer in. with its pic turesque scenery, pure mountain air and its fishing and hunting to woo the anglers and nimrod- from the wear and tear of business life. Hut 1 forgot. We arc going to Sher wood valley and have no time to loiter at Willits. A number of people are on the train, but most of them get oll'at .Millville. This section of the big lumber mills lias grown so extensively in regard to population that it has been dignilicii by the name of Millville. A numlior of pretty cottages, beside the rustic redwood holm's of the hand, have been erected on the hillsides of tin- pretty place, where the whirr m' machinery is heard night and day as it saw-, planes, outs and finishes the beautiful redwood timber making it ready for the market. Mere the pond is filled with log-, many of them the mournful reminders of what were but lately giants of the redwood forests. These gigantic monarchs, after hundred-of years' existence iu these great temples of nature are sacrificed by the hand of man who cares not for their grandeur, beauty and age, their value to him being reckoned iu feet and cords, and how much coin will be produced. What an ignominious fall! Leaving Millville we speed down to Sherwood Junction, making the loop; back we come for a short distance and then branch oil' on the road to Sher wood. It bring- a thrill of pleasure, for this i- a part of the road 1 ha' e never been over, and my expectations and anticipations are nboiit to be real ized. Then again it is pleasant to know that it is fast reaching out t the terminal of this branch of the Califor nia North w estcrn Kail way to Kurckn, which will open up this vast area of maguilieeiit and valuable timber laud. Around the curves we go, stopping; only occasionally at some new station; we are climbing the crest of the moun tains now, and away beyond, as far as the eye can reach isa shimmering, wave of green, rus-ct and gold. Then rushes a silvery brook gleaming like a silver libbon, and even iu this far and out-of-the-way place the campers' tents are pitched, and the train which the occu pants would not deign to bestow a sec ond glance at iu busy San Francisco or their home town, brings the whole band of campers out of their touts a i. goes dashing past. Fourteen miles from Willits is Fn Cima, tit tin elevation of 2o(H) feet. 1 lere you command a good view of the Pa cific ocean twenty miles away, and vessels can be distinctly seen on ti clear tiny. It is at this point that you get one of the grandest and most sublime views of timber land. J hinge upon range rises up before you in panoramic view which is so densely covered with redwood ami fir that it would seem im possible for ti jack-rabbit, much less the tleot-footed deer, to penetrate, it is stated that tit FJ Cima you can see more virgin redwood than in any part of the world. The beauty of the scene was simply overwhelming for the mo ment, then everybody in the car gave expression to their delight at the gran deur before them. CSrndually we came down the grade into Sherwood valley, the terminal of the California North western I tail way at present. Merc a stage meets the train to take passengers still farther north. Near the station is the Sherwood Motel, formerly known as the "Cornucopio" farm, which is kept by Mr. Kirk. A short stay here, which is 1.":I niilis from San Francisco, and we are again wending our way home, and as we are again tit Kl Cima I must not forget to tell you that this magnificent expanse of redwood timber slopes gently back for forty miles from the Curly Cow creek or Nova river. Polly was given both names by dill'ercnt parties. One more look into the heart of this great wonder of the w irld and we arc again on our way to Willits, passing Wood pecker Crossing. Camp Karnwell, which is the abiding place of a large number of section hands, and all'of them are S reeks. It is really a (.reek colony, and they are happy among themselves and not bothering about outside matter-. Dutch Henry's, which might be called Tentvflc, for it is a little villa of snowy tents, Fowler's Flat aud various stations along this branch of the road glow with picturesque ell'ect as far as the eye can reach. One young lady, with tin eye to business, remarked, "What a lot of toothpicks that tree would mi ke." The giant of the forest she had reference towns fifty-four feet live "niche.- iu circumference and two hundred and fifty feet high. 1 wish every person in California, tired aud weary of theturiuoil ami trials of every day life ami w ith a love for the beauti ful iu nature, could take this trip over the California Northwestern Kailway, for they would surely feel that they had gained ti new lease on life ami that it was well worth the living. BRIEF REVIEW. War Canoe Found After a Century. The Kishop Museum at Honolulu litis jll-t been notified of what is considered a very important find in Polynesian archaeology, which lit'..-just been made in Fiji. Thi- i- the discovery, in a go id -tate of preservation, of what is known as King Cakobau's enormous war canoe. This canoe belonged to the kings of Fiji ami was one of the em blems of ;!,e crown. Nearly ti century ago it disappeared, except for the main mast ami other portions of the gear. The mainmast wu- given to Profes-or Agassi some years tigo and is now in the Philadelphia Museum. The canoe it.-elf wtL- taken to pieces sit the time it disappeared and the portions sunk in tin sirtilioisil lagoon excavated for the purpo-e. Then the matter wsi-forgotten. Lately the hilling place, which i not far from P.siu, litis been found, and the local Fiji chief, Kadavu Levu, litis had it taken out ami put together, sind propo-es to oiler it to the P.ritish Mu seum. Four Squirrels Mothered By a Cut. While rambling over the country Henry Miller, of Hanover, Pa., found a squirrel's nest that had fsillcn from si tree and w hich still contained four very young grsiy squirrels. Miller brought the squirrels home ami sis an experi ment placed them in the nest of ti csit w hose kittens hsid been drowned. The csit look kindly to the squirrels and is giving them complete attention, with therc-ult thsit the children of the for est sire thriving splendidly under the care of their foster mother. A Tree With Emotions. A species of the acsicia tree hsis been discovered iu the Far F.sist, which sit sunset clo-es its leaves iu coils and rolls its twigs up like si watch-spring. At si touch the trie will tremble aud llutter, and sit persistent molestation it will shsiko it.-elf violently and emit si nsiu.-o-atingodor which, if inhaled, will cause si dizzy headache. It litis been named the "angry tree." Strange Renuest ol Murderer. Albert, silisis "Dutch" Fisher, under sentence of electrocution for murder committed in Toledo, Ohio, hsi- made si formal request thsit the dsite of his execution be changed from July 7 to July 17, on which dale three others sire to be electrocuted. Fisher refused to permit his attorneys to take any steps to save his life, saying that he com mitted the murder stud should be pun ished. Violins Made Aged by Use of X-Rays It hsis been discovered that Ihe age ing of st violin can be artificially sir cured by exposing the wood to X-rays. The beautiful tone which hsis hereto fore resulted from a natural si;:eing o" the wood for ")() or ; year- can thus be obtained in si single day. If this be true Stradiverius violins will no longer be sit si premium, except in so fsir sis per fection of manufacture is concerned. The Isirgi-st Christian Fiidosivor uu' ion in the world is that of Loudon, with more than 7MM) societies. Phila delphia is second with V-) societies. The two smallest ponies in the world were recently exhibited in Hamburg, (Jcrnisiny. They are so small a man onn carry both of them at once. One boy may equal two ordinary girls, but not your two. THE MAI T.iej 1'iiiimv Much 'I'ron hie utul Worry fo PoMful Clerk. ordinarily no man is rich enough to e.-eape that certain sense of elation which comes from picking up a nickel on a sidewalk, but when a railway postal clerk finds such a coin in a mail pouch where It has worked out from Insullicient wrappings not only es he miss this elation, but it may provoke profanity. I'or si nickel lost in a pouch of instil in transit becomes a matter for na tional concern. It conies to view per haps just as a pouch of mall Is emp tied upon a stilting table, and when it has broken away from the bunch of letters ami cards and circulars, roll ed to an open space on the table and there settled down, heads or tails, with v. uoNv sniiuting dance, the clerk who in si sees it is "it." A necromancer could have no more idea than ihe man in the moon as to what particular package it rolled out of. and if he had and should tell the postal clerk the clerk wouldn't dare try to restore the coin to the original pao'kago. That would he too easy al togcther. No. It is a lost nickel from the mo ment the clerk has to see it spinning il.ere before his eyes, and according to the tender governmental conscience the ch-rk has to get ready for the inati gur.dioii of about $IS.-i:i worth of fuss ovi r it. I'or himself he doesn't dare to go to bed for a short nap until he has got rid of his cents' worth of responsi bility to the government for the ac tion of the fool person from whom the .liekel was parted, lie digs up his primed form for such occasions print ;M and provided and sit once tills out a long blank, describing the coin, tell Uig the eirctimsttincos of Its being found and whether it lauded heads or tails on the tsihle, naming the pouch ! from which it wsis emptied, the num ber of the train carrying it. the date T'nd a few other details. This report, with the nickel, goes to the headqusirters of the postal division in which the car was operated, and from these bonded ollielals. by the I :-amo general red tape route, the small coin finds its way to the seat of na tional government and to the fund rep resenting the groat constituency of the postoilice department, which persists iu sending money iu envelopes through the unregistered mails of the service. i 'hicago Tribune. PITH AND POINT. The man who changes jobs frequent ly never hsis a good one. When company goes there Is si feel ing about the house thsit suggests sin e;i-y old shoe. It is the opinion of every mother that :i boy never loses sin opportunity for i .-if tcmntimr to hrcsik his neck. I . .. Meciusc si friend shows a desire to '.. sympathetic don 1 pull the fsuuily ! skeleton out of the closet to entertain ! !i'm. As si man gets older he finds that m ire of his friends sire visiting the einetcry when they go riding than formerly. The people who sire used to good things when sit home arc very patient wiih the poor sit'commodatioiis met awsiy from home. It often happens thsit a girl who is not disciplined enough by her parents gets the kind of si husband who disci plines her too much. Atchison Olobe. There Was One Who Did Not I.imuli. Mstrk Twain once expressed the fol lowing sentiments to si young woman who had not .-miled sit si thing thsit he hsid saiil during an Impromptu recep tion in his honor at I'.ryn Mawr col lege, to which his daughter hsid imited him. All the young ladies but one were in si stsite of great glee during the humorist's address: till but one hsid laughed heartily sit every witty re in:, rh. Jus: sis Twain finished he turned to the young wotnsin who hsid not laughed stud ssiid in sin undertone: "Vou sire the only sensible one here. I have not ssiiti a single amusing thing. If it wen' not for the conspieuoiisuess of it I would like to press your hand." - Success. Direct ICvlilenee." The lawyer shook his linger warning ly sit the witness and said: "Now. we want to hear just whsit you know, not whsit someone else knows or what you think or anything of that kind, but whsit you know. Do you understand':" "Waal. I know." ssiid the witness, with emphasis, sis he lifted one limber leg sind kill! it across the other "1 know that Clay (Jrubbs said that Poll Thomson told him thsit he heard John Thomas' wife tell Sid Shuford's gsil that her husband wsis there when the tight ink place siml that he said that they slung each other around In the bushes right consid'able." I.oiiu Wiilim hiioil. Ill 17.":t. in the ninety-sixth yesir of her sige. died Jean Countess of Itox burglie. She wsis not si very reuiarksi ble woman, but her memory is pre served on sicciiiiul of her long widow hood, which Isisted seventy-one yesirs. Her lather, the tlrst Lord Tweeddale. fought sit. Msirstoti Moor in H". II. This Countess of Uoxburghe's long widowhood is iusiguilicsint compared with thsit of si certain Agnes Skinner. Accordhgr to sin inscription in Csinibcr vell chuivh. this worthy woman died hi l l!!sit the sige of I P. years, having survived her husband only eight years less than a cenlurv. l'oorly ltelienrfetl. "What is your favorite opersi V" sisked the young woinsin who was trying to make converssilion. Mr. Cunirox looked startled. "I can't s.iy." he siiiswcrcd. "My fsi vorite poem Is 'The Wcccssionstl.' sind my favorite painter is Keuibrainlt, but 1 forget what mother and the girls told me to say my favorite opersi is." Washington Star. A Different Thiioc. "I didn't suppose that Cupid could move a stony hearted man like Jones." "Cupid has nothing to do with it. Cupidity is what moved him." Detroit Free Press. Ambition Is pitiless. Every merit that It cannot use Is contemptible In Its eyes.- Joubert. LOST COINS IN NW SHORT STORIES To tn Heeil'M Co.id A I) petite. Another smeulole of Tom Heed has Just come to light. The story well II lustrsites the democratic makeup of Maine's "big" man. says the T ston Clohc. It seems that Mr. Reed was willed to the little town of Raid win on n mat ter of b:: s. The man whom he went to see lived on : farm some dls- tsuiee from the market. As the fore noon psisscd with the business still un tinished it becsime evident that It would he necessary for the statesman to remain to dinner. About 11 :.( the host made this known to his wife. She hsid planned, as fsirmer folk often do, for si dinner of stilt pork, potatoes, salt fish and fried eggs. Rut this would hardly do for Mr. Reed. Intense thought, however, failed to relieve the situation, sind at hist the good wife resolved that she would make the best of It by having an abundance of eggs, potatoes and tish. With fear sind trembling she watch ed "the speaker of the house" as he sesited himself at the table. There seemed to be something in the expres sion of his face that reassured her. The bored look which she hsid expected r.ssi:i i r iu axotukk hem, wsis not there. Instead he glanced about the tsible sis she hsid often seen hungry men do. The host psissed the potatoes, sind Mr. Reed took two lsirge ones. These he supplemented with si liberal quanti ty of tish. sprcsid his potsitoes with enough pork fat to liostt tlieni and took two slices of the pork and two eggs. The hostess was much relieved at h show of interest, but imsigiue her ui.iiir.il .on l i i ii the great man passed up for another help all around and added three more eggs. When the meal wsis finished, Mr. Keed informed the hostess not only thsit sh- was s; splendid cook, but that iie had not eaten si mesi! iu yesirs thsit he had so thoroughly enjoyed. The enthusiasm iu his times testiiied to the sioeerliy of his compliments. Old Time CruilciicNN IlluHt rnted. Cornelius Nnudcrhilt is a student of the American of lifty or sixty yesirs ago. Mr. Vsinderbilfs reseti relies have brought up many striking instances of the crudity of the America of the psist. when every one chewed tobacco and men wore paper collars instead of linen ones, it ml now and then he tells a story of those das. "In lSo.-t." he said recently, "a Ver mont shopkeeper came to New York for the first lime. He wsis sitting one day in si railrosul station waiting for si train, and while he wsilted he chew ed tobacco sind spat on the station wall. "An otlicistl soon bore down on him. "'Look a -here, old man,' ssiid the of Ucisil. 'don't spit on them walls. You ought to know better than thsit.' '"What's the ntsitter with you':' said the Vermonter. 'Don't thsit there sign say not to spit on the lloor": 1 guess you can't road, stranger.' " Roston Post. l-Zii vly "Speculation." Rsiron Moiicheur. the Relglsin minis ter, visited Raltimore. At si dinner he said: "The spirit of business enterprise And speculation is what Impresses me most profoundly in America. For in stsineo, I wsis riding one day on the outskirts of Washington, and at a certain place I dismounted and got a little boy to hold my horse. I was gone sibout ten minutes, sind on my re turn 1 found the first boy gone smil another, st smaller one. standing at the horse's head. "How Is this':' I said. You tire i::i the boy I left my horse with.' '"No. sir,' ssiid the tiny urchin. 'I speckilated and bought the job off the other fellow for si dime.' "Of course after that," the minister ended, "it was Impossible for me to hear' the market." Wanted n Sound Hell. Apropos of the sending of the famous Liberty hell from Philadelphia to SL Louis the late Senator (Juay told of a meeting of the fsilr commissioners In which there was considerable discus sion, during which a inillionsiire mem ber displayed a great it zesil to have every exhibit In tlrst class shape than a knowledge- of history. Ssiid he: "What is ail this talk I hear sibout the old boll 7 I think St. Louis is good enough sind rich enough to have si new hell, and, anyway, my daughter tells me that the old bell Is cracked. Cer tsiiniy we don't wsint anything like tlyit In the Louisiana Purchase ovyo sitlon!" New York Times. 15xH-iiNlrc I'ndertnkliiK-. Rusiness Man Well, my dear. I have about made up my mind to sell out my business and go out Into the country and buy a hundred acres or so and he si fsirmer for the rest of my life. Rusi ness Man's Wife -Oh, John, how love ly! Rut sire urn sure we can afford It? Sonierville Journal. Happiness when at a distance ap pears so great as to touch the sky. When it enters our door it so dwin dles that very often we no longer rec ognize it. If I ill THE HAGIOSCOPE. A It el I c Olden Tlnicn Found In Jinny KiiKlinh Churches. 'In spile of the close blood relation ship," ssiid an American who had vis ited England, "we are frequently re minded in England that we are for eigners. It crops up often In the ordi nary conversation. "An English friend whose guest I wsis took me around to see his native villsige. We entered the church. "Whereabouts is your pew?' I asked. '"We sit over there by the hagio scope.' he answered, as though a hagio scope were some common object like a table or si candlestick. My friend no ticed the bkinknoss of my face, so he repeated: 'Over there. Just bolovf the hagio scope." " 'Would you mind telling me whsit sort of an instrument It is that you call a hsigloscope':' I asked meekly. "The Englishman looked hurt; but. with a sigh, he explained: " 'We have them In nearly till the old country churches. Do you sec that small glass window through the wall beside the altar? That was made at the time when lepers were at large and they attended church services. They were of course not allowed In side, so they stood outside and saw and heard the services through that hole, w hich Is called the squint window, hut more often the hagioscope.' " DO IT TODAY. Tomorroiv Mny He Too I.nte nnd Then You Would lie Sorry. If you have a Ilower to give, give It todsiy. One throb of gladness Is worth more to the living heart than si wealth of costly blooms laid, however tender ly, above the dead one. If you have a kindly visit to make, msike it today lest another step In sind lay his quiet hand upon the longing heart and still forever its fret and pain and power of glad response. In the c ty of the dead, in the silence of the grave, hearts sire never lonely any more. They have no heed or need. If you have kisses to bestow, let the dear living lips their sweetness know today. If you've smiles to give, give I hem today. Living eyes sire often hungry. Though their gaze be seemingly so calm, so quiet and inaylisip so proud, the smiles may be a touch of heaven for them. If they are closed in death, tomorrow your fondest smile would matter naught. If you have u helpful, hopeful, loving word to say. say it today. It may keep some heart from breaking, some soul from falling. No word or cry can hrcsik the sesil tomorrow if death whispers then to ears that hear today. Exchange. A L'weful TlKer. 'Snakes sind hyen.ts sire strange pets, but sirsingest of sill is a full grown ti ger, and such a pet hsid Major Mansell Pleydell," says A. Mervyn Smith in his hook. "It used to be chained up just in front of the duor of his bungalow. The major had a method of running up bills with local tradesmen, but there wsi great ditliculty in getting pay ment, as none of the bill collectors was venturesome enough to cross the guardian at the door. It was a great joke of the major's when asked to pay his bill to reply: 'Have you sent your bill; Your iiisin has never presented It at my house.' Rrutus. as the tiger was named, seemed to know whsit wsis re quired of him. When chained before his master's door he would lie with his head between his foropaws sind watch the gate. If a stranger entered he would lift his head and breathe heav ily, and this wsis enough to scare the most venturesome of bill collectors." Mnu'K WumI Knemy. Wherever you see ten people togeth er, ten average people of sill siges. you may ssiy: One of those ten will die of consumption. In the long run you will be more than justtllcd In your prophe cy. It will be nearer one out of every nine born Into the world. We are hor ribly afraid of cholera and sill bowel diseases, of diphtheria sind of scarlet fever. Add to these the annual deaths from measles (measles is far from be ing harmless) and the sum total is not half of what the great white plague claims. Only pneumonia approaches it sis a slayer of men. Everybody's Msigazlue. The Monne.it Men. It Is believed the original meanest man was the husband who gave his wife a Christmas present of a pair of suspenders. An esirly holder of the ti tle was the gentleman who always oc cupied the last sesit In the last car in order to save the Interest on his mon ey until the conductor got to liliu. One of the most brilliant of the long line wsis the man who took candy from a child in the street. Chicago Inter Ocean. Eternity. Eternity Is Incomprehensible. When the laziest snail has carted every drop of water In all our oceans and every grain of sand In all our lands to the farthest away star and brought It stil back again, stopping for a century rest at each planet on the way both ways, then will we see the llrst rays of the sunrise of eternity's endless day Iu the east of the beginning. This being the case. It Is suggested that we don't cram ourselves with this world's foods and drink so much of earthly water that It will take half of the everlasting to get our systems In shape to enjoy what's left of eternity. Ilaylleld Mower. A Xejcro and EngrllMh. "You are almost uu octogenarian, still," said the soniieducated doling yellow negro pompously. "Wha-what's dat yo' say?" snapped the venerable but unlettered darky. "I specified, sah. that you tire almost an octogenarian." "Well, don' yo' do It ag'ln. boy. or I'll done bust yo' head wid my stick. Yo' heahs my prognostication?" New York Tribune. The .Man nnd the Hour. Mrs. Mason-Lodge (waking suddenly i Is that you, Henry? What time is it? Mr. Mason-Lodge (comfortingly i 'Sh, dear! S mush earlier 'n us'ly is at tliish time, I 'sure you. CHOICE MISCELLANY Ilrniiii of Men und Ape. According to the examination. of the brains of Europeans thsit have been made by anatomists, one of the most Important physical differences between men sind apes sind monkeys lias been the absence of the so called simian fold in the human brain. This simian fold, or sulcus, which occurs on the posterior portion of the mstin hemi spheres, has recently been discovered by Professor G. Elliot Smith of the Egyptiau government School of Medi cine in the course of an examination of a number of brains of Egyptians nnd Sudanese. He has found that in certain examples of brains In ids col lection the characteristic folds found in anthropoid apes are so closely repro duced that he is able to trace and clear ly establish the Identity of every sul cus, or fissure. Professor Smith hsis also succeeded iu finding human brains where the occipital pattern corresponds closely with the brain of the gorilla. As these points of Identity between man and his nearest relations have not previously been encountered by Euro pean scientists in their brain studies, their importance can be realized, as they do away with one of the supposed and hitherto recognized structural dis tinctions. Harper's Weekly. Tel cph on I tin. The man with telephonitls Is one of the features of New York restaurant life, and there are man of him. As soon as his party Is seated and the supper is ordered he rises, thrusts both hands in his pockets and strolls up to the cashier's desk to use the tele phone. And of course every man and woman In the restaurant watches him, and all try their level best to hear what he says. He shields his Hps with his hand, which adds to the effect of mys tery, and for some minutes he holds the center of the stage, which Is ex actly what he wants. Then back go his hands in his pockets, and he re turns to the table. The cashier in one popular cafe says that some of the conversations are pos itively absurd. He overheard this Im portant message: "Hello, Jim! Is that you? Oh, noth ing. Just dropped into R.'s for supper. Yes, they're all here. Know anything new? All right. See you tomorrow. So long." If he's a regular customer, the house pays the toll. And the other patrons get a chance to study his summer waistcoat or the fit of his Tuxedo coat. The Flrnt Voynpre of the Old Slrluft. According to cable dispatches the en gines of the Sirius, the first English ship to cross the Athintie. have been brought to the shore on" the coast of Cork, tifter tin immersion in the sea of over fifty yesirs. Thee engines, now that they are recovered, ought to huve an honored place in some Rritish mu seum, for the voyage of the Sirius from Queonstown to New York in ISoiJ has been widely and not inaptly com pared to the voyage of Columbus In lilt-'. The little vessel-it was no larger than an ordinary modern tugboat- met strong head winds off the Irish coast, and the crew finally mutinied at what they considered ihe mad project crossing the Atlantic in a steamship. Lieutenant Roberts of the P.ritish na vy, however, enforced discipline at the muzzle of the pistol, and the dan gerous voyage wsis-completed in eight een and a hsilf days. ;ln 1S41. by the way. Lieutenant Roberts left New York in commsiud of the President, but from thsit day to this neither he nor his vessel was ever again heard of.-Philadelphia Press. To Tell the Ace of Fihe. There is a new theory extant that it Is possible to determine the sige of fishes, especially those of the cod fami ly, by counting the periodic growth of the scales. We know that the growth of the scales Is annual in the carp. Why should It not be so in ssilt water fishes? Mr. J. S. Thomson, an English biolo gist of note, has been making some in teresting experiments in this line to test the age of fishes. The scales sire first carefully exam ined, then the fishes are labeled and returned to the sea for future observa tion. In some cases a study of the scales reveals changes, so that the rings in the scales can be distinctly traced from year to year with a certain fixed regularity. Roston tRobe. A Very Hard Luck Story. Here is a remsirksible story of con tinued hard luck In the case of R. I). Dukes, a farmer. Within a short space of time a lot of things happened to him. He lost his crops, cholera killed most of his hogs, a shed fell aud killed his two cows, his wife was thrown from a buggy and hurt so badly that she went on crutches for mouths, ami she was Just beginning to walk again when she wsis burned to death by sin exploding lamp. Mr. Dukes was also seriously burned In the fire. Then he Injured his knee and had to go on crutches. Then he was badly burned again In a prairie fire. A few woiks later hla mother died, and then wis house burned up. with all its contents. Reloit (Kan.) Gazette. Verdict of "Guilty, but Innocently." In the superior court a case in which more or less Interest was manifest was the case of State versus Isaac Matthews, for trespass. A rather unu sual verdict was rendered by the jury when they first entered to give their verdict, which was "Guilty, but inno cently." His honor recharged the jury nnd sent them hack with Instructions to render a verdict of "Guilt v" or "Not guilty." Tho final verdict wsis "Guil ty." Raleigh News and Observer. The Encore. "That's It!" exclaimed Mrs. Rsiscom at the concert as the singers came Hit again in response to an encore. "Make 'em do it over again until they get the thing right." The hardest work some men do is looking for a chance to put the blame on the other fellow. Atchison Globe. He only employs prejudice who can make no use of reason. Cicero.