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! BANDON RECORDER. SALT AND ICE. Tlie rroooHN Tlmi Hep-Inn When the Two Ar .Mixed. It is not correct to say that salt dis solves ice. since real solution only takes place when a solid, liquid or gas ia dissolved in a liquid. The true explanation of the fact that ice melts when common salt is added to it depends upon the simple physical principle that when a salt is dissolved in water heat is absorbed, ami its tern poraturc is lowered. When salt ami ice are mixed together some of the salt dissolves in the small amount of wa ter which is always present, the tem perature Is thereby lowered, and a new freezing point is established. The remainder of the ice being at a temperature higher than this new freezing point -slowly melts, ami more salt is dissolved until the solution is ut united. The temperature can in this way be lowered to '22 degrees C. which is the freezing point of a definite com pound of salt and water. The salts dissolved in sea waters serve a very important purpose, as it requires a greater degree of cold to cause the formation of ice on their, than on fre-.li water. ANCIENT CURRENCY. The Chlne.oe Onee I Med Small Urmtre Ktiie I'nr Mhiu-j. Knife money, a species of ancient Chinese currency, was associated with the state of 'iVi. one of the most pow erful of the early subdivisions of thr Celestial Empire, which came into pow er B. C. 11-- and was subdued by the rival stale of Ts'in, It. C. 111! I. This (piaint fnn of money consisted t small curved bronze knives, some seven inches in length, with inscribed blades and handles terminating in rings. This knife money dropped out of use with the reduction of Ts'i. but was re vived by the usurper Wang Mang. why was murdered A. D. 1!.".. The issues of this potentate were half as long again as the earlier currency. They w ere also much thicker, and the rinc at the end of the bundle was replaced by a rim and central square hole resembling the holt in the modern "cash." Other Chinese currencies of great antiquity and of similar sort were adze money, or small hatchets, with such varieties of tool currency as chisels, spades and planes, till of which pascd from hand to hand in the ordinary way as a circulating medium. THE WORD "HANDICAP." It Come From the Ancient Custom of Ilitml In tlic fa p. In former days a "handicap" was conducted thu;.: A. wishing for some thing w hich belonged to i. ay a horse, would offer his watch for it. If A agreed. C was chosen to tix the sum that should be given by one or the other to make the exchange fair. The three then put down a stake, and A ami II. each holding a piece of mon ey, put their hands into a cap or hat. or into their iMckets. while C. enlarg ing on the respective merits of the horse and watch, made his award in as rapid ami complex a manner as possi ble, ending it with the words. "Draw, gentlemen!" A and B instantly drew out and open ed their hands. If money np-Mfarcd in both the exchange was itiMde; if in one only, or in neither, the award was off. ami in every case C took the stakes. The modern use of handicap has aris en fnun the employment of experts to make fair conditions for a race in whieh the eomiM-titors are of unequal age or power. Iiil-ll!eiiee In .Monkey. A eorr-siM-mleiit i the Field con tributes an extraordinary instance of 'intelligence in the Koyal park. Mel bourne. Australia. He was watching some monkeys in a lar-re cage when oih of them came to the front ami tried to r-ach a nut which had been thrown and was lyim: on the gravel path. I'imins its arms through the bars and strei.-hin as far as possible it found that the nut was just beyond Its rest eh There was straw on the lloor of the cairo and miinu' to the back, where it evidently exeeted to find the straw less damaged. It tested straw after straw, di.-cardlng them one by one. not thinking them strong enough for the purpose. At last it found a sat Isfactory one. returned with it to the front of the case and very quickly with this akl hooked the nut close enough to be picked up. Her S Jin put hy. Little Flora was complainim; that ner stomach felt Pad. according to the Columbia Herald. "Perhaps it's because it's empty," said her mother. "It might feel better if you had some thing in it" Not long afterward the minister called. In reply to a question as to his health he said that he was well, but that his head felt rather bad that day. "Perhaps It's because it's empty," spoke up Flora. "It might feel better if you had something in it" Gcninx, Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand 1 study it jiro foundry. Day and night it Is before me. I explore It In all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make the peo ple are pleased to call the fruit of gen lus. It is the fruit of labor and thought. Alexander Hamilton. Ivorenn CllMfoillK. According to the Hev. C. F. Collyer. an English missionary, the Korean "never cuts his hair or beard. To dc bo Is considered a mark of dishonor to his parents, whom he strongly rever ences. Airy hairs that may happen to come out ami even the parings of his finger nails are carefully snod and put into the cotlin with him in order that he may go back to Mother Earth in tact." See r. "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are," said the seer. The man told him what he ate. "You're n blanked fool!" said the leer. "Wonderful! Wonderful!" exclaimed the man. Puck. EES It is a mistaken idea to bring up the daughters in u family with the idea that they will never Jinve to work and to prevent them from learning some thing that in the event of adversity and the necessity of turning their own livelihood, thev will be able to meet the .situation courageously, whieh they can do with brave hearts if they know they are competent to discharge the duties required of tuiein. I have in mind one little friend who lor years pleaded with her father to allow her to earn her own pin-mcmey and 1 inde pendent. Shenrgued thatatiinemiglit come into her life wlheu she would be required to make her own livbig. lie was as linn as a rock1, however, and in- Msted upon her remaining home in idleness. Jle was anxious foi her to take music lessons, but the girl was de void of all musical taste. She did not have car enough for music to know di cord from harmonv. It was a useless expenditure of money to trv and "drum" music into the poor little. -mil. The father would not give up the idea of making a muMciafi out of her, even when thclieM of insli uctors reluctantly acknowledge that it swas useless and a waMe of time and money, besides being a punihincut to the fluid every lesson hc had to take. S.ie was exhausted (:is well as the teaclu r', impatient ami fretful for the rest f the day. The father looked upon tins lack of music in the child's makejup :is a great ca lamity and insisted (that it must be vercome. "It's stu harness," hesaid, "and I insist that yofi make her learn. Coii-duip: practice anil the intruction of the best of teachers are IkiuikI to overcome this, and 1 repeat, 'drum it into her. She's got to learn if it takes the reM of her lifetime. She wants to paint and model in cl:ly ami spends the time that he ought jto be devoting to muic out in the bae& yard with a lot of clay, trying to make all kinds of thing.-., or up ?tair Iijut up in her own 1 ted room daubing with some paints her aunt very fonli.hry gave her. I won't encourage her by even looking at them. She know it diple:ses me, yet he !-tealr oil" every chair -e .-.he gets t en joy her-clf in her own way. My fam ily i- all musical, air 1 well, she's got to be, that Vail." Hewa.-all wrong. jThe money that hopciit in attempting to cultivate a talent :-he didn't po-.-e.- rightly u.-cd might have made hei a .Miccesftil art-i.-t to-day: but in pla e of that, left all alone, with no nioiicj, her father hav ing taken hi life afttjr failing in busi ne and her invalid juothcr never ral lied from the r-hock if her husband's death, following him soon after, she is working for small wages in a family, doing their cooking something she never even looked aljter in her home, and on account of being inexperienced in the culinary linej she has to take what she can iret. The little white hands have grow n hjird and rough in their new employment ,(f cooking, scrubbing, washing and ironing. "Don't think I am miislied for a mo ment, Polly, or thaU I have lot my ambition to make something In-side a kitchen maid out of iny-elf. The peo ple I am with arc goo 1 to me and put up with my failings o come up to the mark in the culinaryi realm. 1 could have gone into a .-toje as clerk, but 1 would have made no more than I am making now by the time I hail paid my board, not mentioning carfare. Here I get my lniarjl and a pleasant room. I dress plainhf, in fact never go out, so all that I iictd are plain little ginghams and other wash dresses. I am saving every dollar and will event ually carry out my belong de-ire and attend the art school; I know it is in me, Polly, and 1 can make something out of myself hesidea household drudge. 1 feel that every piece of clay, every block of marble, hash soul in it wait ing to Ik released by the hands of the modeler. How my lingers tingle to get at them and set the captives free. I sec an angel's face in one, a beauty with classical features in another; he roes and soldiers come trooping up be fore me and I know lull well they are Hidden away in tin Mock of ypns-ive marble. I know thcife are thefaces of Ihtlc children with winning smiles, and etipids with outstretched wings waiting to be woocifl from the prison that holds them, r-joiiietimcs I see a beautiful lion - monarch of the forest and his helpless pr lurking in the cold impassive stoiuj. It is typical of my life. 1 am the prey and fate is the lion, but I am only ?playing 'possiiin.' Sometime when fate is asleep I shall escape, and then I -hall commence to live. "It was all a mistake bringing nie up in idleness and with the belief that 1 would never have to battle with the world or make my own living. Father meant it for the best. He could not foresee that prosperity would tly out the door when adversity approached. He believed that he always would have plenty for he had always been used to a luxurious life and his. people before him. It was humiliating to lVini to think that his daughter wanted to earn her own living. Hoiv his proud spirit would rebel if he knew what I was doing for a livelihood now. If I had my way, every girl, rich or Mor, should be compelled to learli something that in ca.-e of these uiifosscen disasters she would not be left stranded and helpless in this work-a-day wjrld. 1 find that the people who are ybur friends in the days of your prosperity ami aflluence, who considered it nut honor to be one of your invited guests and to partake of your hospitality, are the ones to pass you by when the hand of fate has fallen heavily, sweeping away the luxuries with all of their gilded trappings. Faiends whom I entertained in my happy home in days gone by pass me with a cold stare to-day. Does it hurt my feelings? It did at first. Xow I can smile, however, and lind,or rather feel, that '(Jod moves in a mysterious way His wonder to perform.' Had this blow never come to me I would have gone on believing these false friends were true as steel and jus con stant and sincere in their friendship as I foolishly believed them to be. I am glad to lind them out, for the day is coining when by my own efforts J shall rise again. I feel it, J know it, for the conviction is strong within me that I am going to-sueceed. "I believe all the parents in the land should make their sons and daughters a study and endeavor to lind out just what talent has been given them, and whatever that gift may loand in what ever channel it may run, make every etlbrt to cultivate it and make a sacri fice to do it if needs Ik.. Too many parents determine from the beginning, regardless of the children's tastes to make a musician of i hem. From cradle to piano stool is their motto. They la bor under the false impression that every girl can be a musician and play the piano, and many a lny who loves a jewsharp better than a piano is made to praetieehis five-linger exercises until his temper and tired little hands and nervous Iwuly give out under the strain, because a boy can play a harmonica and a jewsharp is no indication that he is going to excel as a piano player. If their talent is music they will take to it as naturally as a duck does to wa ter. You cannot drive a chicken to water any easier than you can drive an unmusical child to music, and it is folly to try it. If a boy or girl wants to be an artist use every endeavor to give them advantages in that line. If they are inclined to be mechanics that is their forte. If naturalists trive them the outdoor life and instruction of good teachers, but for mercy's sake don't try to bend the tw ig of inspiration the wrong way. BRIEF REVIEW. Manuel Garcia at Ninety-Nine. Manuel (iarcia, the famous teacher of singing and inventor of the Iaryngo- cope, was lHrn on March 17, 1115, so that he has completed his ninety-ninth year and has entered on his hundredth. He is still in jiossessioii of his faculties, says the London News, and takes an interest in the affairs of the world as well as in the art of singing. Open what book you may on the art of sing ing and you will find that he is men tioned as the foiemo.-t exponent of voice production on the lines that gave the world the great singers of the past, flannel's father was famous as a tenor, teacher of singing and a composer of operas, lie died :u l.v2. His three children fully inherited his musical gifts. The most famous, Malibran, is still a household word: Pauline Viardot Uarcia was hardly less famous, and his son Manuel, though not highly gifted as a singer, luis carried on the tradition of the ( iarcia family as the most promi nent of singing teachers the nineteenth century luis known. Beggar's New Trick. A U'ggar who iufots the region almut IUvei'side Drive, New York, has a new! style of approach, which is bringing ! him big returns. When he sees a man coming along wearing new shoes or i newly shined shoes, he takes a stand! (Ill'itil It' 111 tll.k f'a kf I.!. ,. ... .....1 I in iiu . .i ii llir. II LOO .11111 stares intently at the new shoes or new shine. ( )f course, the pedestrian stops and looks down at his own feet to see what, is the matter. Then says the Iwci'fir- "1 t IimiI ! 1 1 . 1 1 1 i if wlni.i as good as them." He has accom- j plished two things. He has made the' pedestrian stop and pay attention, and J he has a tine introduction for a touch. It usually brings a nickel. Magnificence. A Sheflield firm has receive 1 from an Fas tern potentate an order for a bed room suit in solid silver. The designs are of Oriental character and of a most elalMirate description. It is to be of solid silver throughout and includes a liedstead, a cabinet, a dressing table, a dozen chairs, three foot baths and three hot water cans. The bedstead is of t In most ornate character. Fach of the four pillars will be surmounted by very gracefully molded female figures nearly three feet in height. The molding of the room ami other decorations will also Iks in sterling silver. Eggs and Potatoes. Fggs prepared with potatoes is a nice dish. First make a sufficient quantity of creamed potatoes and break an egg for each person on the top. Put a bit of butter on each egg and place the dish in a hot oven until set. This will be accomplished more quickly if a hot pan is put over them. Skin Troubles From Veils. A flerman physician has discovered that the wearing of tight lace veils may easily produce skin troubles. The nets catch and hold dust and entrap all gen eral impurities of the air, and endanger not only the complexion but the lungs. Flowers have been advocated as a cure for consumption by Dr. Frances liartlett in a paper which she read be fore the Hotanieal Society of Pennsyl vania. If Mount Fveret's, feet, were set down in the Nero deep, .'1,(J14 feet, there would still be nearly one-half mile of water alxve its .summit. A CARDBOAIID WOMAN THE MALIGN INFLUENCE OF A MUM MY CASE FROM EGYPT. Qaccr Sequence of Fatalitleri nnd Hnrd Luck Experience Tlfit Ap peared to Be Unhappy Legacies to Tlume Iutcreated In Its Cnntody. In a corner of the first Egyptian room at the British museum, behind the crouching body of the prehistoric chief who lived before there were pharaohs in Egypt or pyramids on the Nile, stands a woman molded from Borne ancient form of cardboard. She is merely a shell, the cover of a mummy case. Iler hands are crossed above her breast, and her dark eyes stare forward Into vacancy. According to the catalogues she Is No. '2'2o4'2, a problematit! royal per sonage and a priestess of the College of Amen Ra. She lived in the mighty city of Thebes some 1,000 years before Christ. And about this same cotlin cover there hangs as terrible a storv as ever an Edgar Allan Poe or a Balzac or a Kipling produced from a gloomy imag ination. If you question the attendants in th first Egyptian room they will shake their heads and say nothing. But there is a famous professor in tin museum who knows that the facts are true, though whether they be a coinci deuce or a manifestation of supernat ural power who can say? lie says: "For three months I have been gath ering the tangled threads of evidence. I have now in my possession proofs of the identity of all those who suffered from the anger of the priestess of Amen Ha. But for the sake of friends and relatives 1 have been requested to suppress the names. "About the middle of the sixties of the last century a party of tive friends took ship In a dahabeah for a trip up the Nile. Tiny traveled to Luxor on their way to the second cataract, and stayed there to explore the ruins of the meat and wonderful city of Thebes, with its avenues of sphinxes and rams, its vast hall of columns and Its temple to Amen Ha. which is iinoqualed on earth in tin sublimity of its ruined magnificence. "One night an Arab sent by Musta pha Aga came to one of their number. Mr. as we may call him, saying that he had Just found a mummy case of unusual beauty. What became of the mummy the man did not explain The next morning Mr. I. bought tin case. Until lie and Ids companions were impressed by its remarkable beauty and by the curious face of the woman portrayed, a face that was tilled with a cold malignancy of ex pression unpleasant to witness. "They had agreed that, being all interested in Eiryptology, they should apportion their tl mis by lot. and so. though Mr. I. had been the cause of its discovery, he lost the mummy cover, w hieh passed to a friend, whom we will call Mr. YV. "It was on tlir.fr return journey that the series of misfortunes commenced. Mr. D.'s servant was handing him a gun. when without visible cause it ex ploded, the charge lodging in his arm, which had to be amputated; a second died in poverty within the year: a third was shot, while Mr. W., the own er of the mummy case, discovered on his arrival In Cairo that he had lost a large part of his fortune. He died soon afterward. The priestess of Amen Ha had signified her displeasure In a very convincing manner. "From the date it was shipped on board the steamer Mr. D. lost sight of the mummy case for several years, lie did not at the time in any way associate the misfortunes that had oc curred to the party with Its discovery, but when he next heard of It and had full Information of the disasters which had been subsequently associated with Its possession he began to suspect that It was not merely chance, not merely a coincidence, that had brought so sin ister a fate on all who had dealings with the priestess of Amen Ha. "On the arrival of the case In Eng land it was given by its owner. Mr. , to a married sister living near London. From the day the case entered the house misfortune followed misfortune. The family suffered large losses, and the end came with painful troubles which need not be specified. "The lady while In possession of the case received one day n visit from Mine. Blavatsky. The great theoso phlst became very disturbed on enter ing the room, and after a few minutes' conversation told her hostess that there was something In her house possesed of a most malignant Influence. She asked to be allowed to search the house and on discovering the cotlin lid ap pealed to her hostess to send away an object which she described as of the utmost danger. Iler hostess, however, refused, laughing at what she Imagined to be an example of foolish supersti tion. "Some time aftervrnrd the lady sent the ciihc to a well known photographer In Baker street. Within a week the chief of the firm came down to this lady's house In a state of great excite ment. He had, he said, photographed the face with the greatest care, and he could guarantee that no one had touched either the negative or the pho tograph in any way, yet It was not the cardboard features that looked out of the photograph, but a living Egyp tian woman staring straight before her with an expression of singular malevo lence. Shortly after the photographer died suddenly and mysteriously. "It was about this time that Mr. D. happened to meet the owner of the cof fin lid and begged her upon hearing her story to get rid of It at once. She agreed, and a carrier was found to con vey It to the British museum. This carrier died within a week." London Express. Korjcctf nl. ITlcks I do try to be polite, but I teem to be forever forgetting my man ners. Wicks-What's the matter now? Illcks I Just gave a woman my seat in the street car and forgot to thank her for taking it. Philadelphia Ledg er. Human Xntnre. It 1s constantly said that human na ture Is heartless. Do not believe it. Human nature is kind and generous, but It Is narrow and blind and can only with difficulty conceive anything but what It Immediately sees and feels. NEV SHORT STORIES MoDonnld Lout Hi Cane. Uncle Joe Cannon tells this story of his early days in the practice of the law in Illinois, says the Xew York Evening Post: Patrick McDonald, an Irishman, was a well known character In the town of Danville. He was a loud talker and was constantly "butting in" where he wasn't wuntcd. Harrisou Wueelock, who was known throughout the county by the con traction of "flat," was another local celebrity. Wheelock was talking with a fellow citizen In the main street one afternoon when McDonald came up and attempted to participate In the conversation. "Get out of this," said Wheelock, and when McDonald at tempted to parley the former made a lunge at him with his strong right arm. McDonald ran like the wind, and Wheelock was close after him. Later In the day Wheelock was placed uuder arrest by a constable on a warrant sworn out by McDonald, who charged that Wheelock had threatened him and that he felt his life endangered. "Ilat" Wheelock retained Cannon, then a young lawyer struggling for a reputation, to defend him. The case, which was heard before a local Justice, attracted a large number of the towns men. McDonald had given his version of the affair when Uncle Joe started "I KIN hICK A DOZUN OF HIM." in to the cross examination. After leading him on for awhile Cannon asked in all seriousness: "Mr. McDonald, you say that you are afraid of being deprived of your life by the defendant?" "I do, sor," McDonald replied. "Then you admit that Mr. Wheelock. the defendant, can whip you?" "Not by a long sight. I kin lick a dozen of him." "That's all. Mr. McDonald." respond ed the young attorney. "That's all. your honor," he said, turning to the court. The justice, with great dignity, dis missed the case. l'crmnnent Condition. Bruce L. Hlce. cotton broker, tell the following story of a former supreme court Justice of Tennessee, Mr. Hlce's native state: "The Democrats were assembled In state convention at Nashville and were engaged In the organization of the con vention. A former member of the su preme court who had partaken quite freely of that beverage which makes Lincoln county famous got the tloor and proceeded to discuss the questions involved In the temporarj- organiza tion. Nnturally his reasoning was not clear, and one of his friends, in a loud whisper, said to him: 'Sit down. Judge. You don't know the difference between temporary and permanent. You're drunk!' "With an effort the judge steadied himself and with line scorn replied: " 'Yesh, I'm drunk. Thash tempo rary, ioure a blamed fool. Thash permanent.' "New York Times. She Wanted I'ldo. The late Edwin Lord Weeks, painter and illustrator, had always a great dislike for dogs. It was amusing, his friends sny, to hear him harangue against dogs, nnd Innumerable were the stories reflecting upon canines In an unfavorable light which Mr. Weeks had on the tip of his tongue. "I dined last night," he said one day, with Blank. After dinner Blank and I went Into the library to look over some John Leech prints. Blank was talking learnedly about Leech when he heard his wife In the next room say: "'Where Is my guardian angel?' " 'Here I am, dear.' Blank called. "But his wife retorted: " 'Oh, I don't mean you. I mean Fldo.' "Boston Post. Speaker Cannon's AVIt. Speaker Cannon has the faculty of making his repartee lit special cases. Fays the New York Times. "I hear you have refused the vice presidential candidacy," said a party friend. "You've an excellent hearing," an swered the sage of the house of rep resentatives. "What did jrou do It for?" "As Kim 0 Kim of Korea put It. for the reason that when the snge plays the ax handle rots.' I Looking Ahend. She (bored) -No. Mr. Lylely. I can never love you. I honor and respect you. I am sure you would make some other woman a good husband. I He Well er could you er give me a etter of recommendation to my next place? Children never know what a safe guard their mother has been to them till after their father Is left a widower Atchison OJobe. Pi: I ill ' A BOOK FIELD WANTED. The Ioet IlnU n I,on Senrch, hnt It Finally Turned Up. Eugene Field was a book collector. and one of his favorite jokes, accord ing to the Philadelphia Post, was ,to enter a bookshop where he was not known aud ask In the solemnest man ner for an expurgated edition of Mrs Uemans' poems. One day In Milwau kee he was walking along the street with his friend, George Y'euowine, when the latter halted In front of a bookshop and said: "Gene, the pro prietor of tills place Is the most serious man I ever knew. lie never saw a Joke in his life. Wouldn't it be a good chance to try again for that expurgated Mrs. Ilemans?" Without a word Field entered, asked for the proprietor, and then made the usual request. "That Is a rather scarce book," came the reply. "Are you prepared to pay a fair price for It?" For just a second Field was taken aback. Then he said, "Certainly, certainly. I I know It's rare." The man stepped to a case, took out a cheaply bound volume and handed It to Field, saying, "The price Is Field took It nervously, opened to the title page and read In correct print, "The Poems of Mrs. Felicia Ilemans. Selected and Arranged With All Ob jectlonal Passages Excised by George Yenowlne, Editor of 'Isaac Watts For the Home,' "The Fireside Hannah More,' etc.," with the usual publisher's name and date at the bottom. Field glanced up at the bookseller. He stood there the very picture of sad solemnity. "I'll take It." said Field faintly, pro ducing the money. Outside Yenowlne was missing. At his office the boy said that he had just left, saying that he was going to Standing Rock, Dakota, to keep an appointment with Sitting Bull. EXERCISES FOR HEALTH. A I.Ittle Shaking Up Before Break fast In a Good Thing-. For almost every person under fifty, and for a great many people over fifty, exercise Is the nearest approach to a panacea for bodily Ills that has yet been devised. Causing the body to move and stretch and push and pull makes the blood circulate, the liver do Its work aud the nerves pick up their dropped stitches. An excellent time to exercise Is before breakfast. Neither man nor beast, as a rule, goes to sleep hungry. During sleep there Is little waste of energy. On waking there Is no Immediate demand for replenish ment of lost tissues. Furthermore, the long sleep has left the nerves and the digestive apparatus dull and leadened. To sit down to a heavy breakfast with in fifteen or twenty minutes after get ting out of bed means that the stomach receives food which it does not need nnd will not readily digest. A little shaking up before breakfast arouses the vitality and consequently makes the appetite and digestion better. That means better work done during the day. If a man can gi t away from work iu time to take additional exer cise during the afternoon he will have a better appetite for the evening meal aud more power to digest it. That will mean better sleep at night. Many a man has succeeded In the world with out paying any attention to his body Joseph Chamberlain, for Instance. But such men would probably have suc ceeded more easily and certainly with more pleasure to themselves If they had taken care of their bodies. A strong mind is certainly stronger and more enduring In a healthy body than in a sickly one. The best way to keep the body healthy Is to use IL Chicago Tribune. THE LOWER ANIMALS. They Are Keen of Perception, but Are Incapable of ThonKlit. Animals have keen precept ions -keener in many respects than our own but they form no conceptions, have no powers of comparing one thing with another. They live entirely iu and through their senses. To all that in ner world of relict-lion. Imagination, comparison, reason, the are strangers. They never return upon themselves in thought. They have sense memory, sense intelligence, and they profit in many ways by experience, but they have not soul memory or rational in telligence. All the fundamental emo tions and appetites men and the lower animals share In common, such as fear, anger, love, hunger. Jealousy, cunning, pride, curiosity, play, but the world of thought and thought experience and the emotions that go with it belong to man alone. It Is as if the psychic world were di vided into two planes, one above the other the plane of sense and the plane of spirit. In the plane of sense live the lower animals, only now and then Just breaking for n moment Into the higher plane. In the world of sense man Is Immersed also; this Is his start and foundation, but he rises into the plane of spirit, and here lives his prop er life. He is emancipated from sense In a wav that beasts are not. John Burroughs In Harper's Magazine. Candr. "The talk about adulterated candies." said a manufacturer, "Is nonsense. There Is a national organization of con fectionery manufacturers which makes a business of Investigating all reports of poisoning from eating candy and has succeeded In exploding most of such rumors. When a child Is hungry It will fill up on almost anything it can get hold of green apples, for instance, or even gravel or grass. It gets sick, and the mother, knowing It had eaten candy that day. spreads the report that the sweets were poisoned. The organ lza tlon looks Into every such case it hears about and finds out the truth. Compe tition Is too strong for any concern to try to sell adulterated goods. The firm's competitors would immediately analyze the piece which is soltl sus piciously cheap, and If It contained In jurious Ingredients would not be slow In proclaiming the fact. Good business principles demand honesty in the man ufacture of candies." Milwaukee Wis consin. Womr Than the Upper Ten. "Only the upper ten go to your church, don't they?" inquired the plain person. "Yes," replied the organist of the swell church, "but they're not a cir cumstance to the uppish tenor In our choir." Philadelphia Press. CHOICE MISCELLANY Old Style Indian. The original Indian as he existed fif ty years ago Is getting searee. Thert is hardly a blanket Indian in the In-, dian Territory. There are some on the reservations In Oklahoma. There Is a small band of Creeks in the Creek Na tion, however, that approach closely the original American in habits and in tellect. They occupy a nook between the Canadian river and surrounding hills, where their forefathers were bml hundreds of j'enrs ago. Theirs Is a dia lect distinct from the Improved Creek language. They are ignorant of ad vancing civilization and stand upon the street corners with an air of indiffer ence to all that is passing by, absolute ly unable to comprehend the new world outside their own hunting grounds. Among this small band Is preserved the art of pottery making. They live in their chosen circumscribed domain in laziness aud content. They cultivnte small patches of corn and sofky and live on the simplest food and deny themselves any connection with the outside world. They live in the typical pole huts, daubed with mini, relics that have been handed down for more than 100 years. They consult no doc tor, need no lawyer aud still believe in one Great Spirit. Kansas City Jour nal. The Pnnxlnsr of the Pen. "The typewriter has destroyed the golden future that we foresaw for our business." said a manufacturer of pens. "If the typewriter's field of usefulness keeps on enlarging there will scarcely be any need for pens fifty years hence." The man sighed. v "When I entered the pen. trade in my boyhood It seemed," he said, "that this, above all trades, was the one destlued to spread. In my dreams I saw the whole world, educated at last, writing with pens of my make. Then the typewriter came. I sneered at it In the beginning. I called it a toy. But today it will do everything a pen will do. It will make out bills and checks, address envelopes of -every shape, make entries in all sorts of books. We penmakers are beglnntns to suffer from the typewriter's advent. Our business, instead of enlarging healthily. Is shrinking a little like a man whom consumption has attacked. We are shutting down. We are laying off hands. It Is easy to see that tin day will come when pens will only be used for polite correspondence and for the signature." Baltimore Herald. Campanarl and the Banana Man. Campanari, the singer. Is thoroughly democratic. He tells witli great amuse ment of one of the severest tests his democracy ever got. "I had just arrived In a New England town." said he, "and was going to sing at a concert to be given that very evening when word from a fellow countrynmn was brought me at my hotel. It was an invitation to drive that afternoon. I sent down a pleased acceptance. "At 4:30 o'clock my host was an nounced, and when I went to him I found him on his banana cart, which was nicely stacked with a load of the fruit, each banana looking as though It had been scrubbed and polished. "It was a staggerer, but I did It and had a delightful time too. To be sure, I had a tussle trying to understand the. patois hurled at me b my new friend, but for all thnt I learned a lot about bananas. "Oh. one can always learn." added the singer, laughing. "It Is well not to be too exclusive." Courage of the Czarn. If It be true that the present czar of Hussla fs lacking In courage, at least his ancestors have shown bravery at critical times. Alexander L. the en lightened opponent of Napoleon, was a brave soldier. At Austerlltz the em peror exhibited high courage. He placed himself at the head of the fourth column of the allied army and constantly remained with the infantry during the whole of the sanguinary con tl let. When the fortune of the day turned to the side of the French the efforts of Alexander were most con spicuous. Three times, at the head of his guards, he charged the enemy and by his gallantry not only secured the retreat of the remainder of the allied nrmy. but reeagtured the greater part of the Hussian artillery. The Pride of Mnrlpona. "Those travelers who have seen our big trees out In California will be sorry to hear the bad news about the Grizzly Giant, the best known of all the mon nrchs of our forests," said Mr. E. G. Baker of Fresno, Cal.. at the New Willard. "This tree, the pride of the Mari posa grove. Is slowly dying and In a little while will be devoid of foliage. It Is also leaning eighteen feet from its center axis and will continue to lose Its equilibrium until some day It will come crashing down to the earth. To put off this evil hour arrangements are now being made to brace the trunk with cables. The giant Is 244 feet high and 100 feet In circumference."- Wash ington Post. Never Knew a Mule to Kick n Man. Colonel George E. Jenkins of Falr bury. quartermaster and eomnilssnry general of the Nebraska guard, at the recent school for national guard officers In this city, said: "After a lifetime of close association -vlth the mule I have never known him to kick a man, nor have I ever met a man who knew another man of his own knowledge who hnd been kleked by a mule." Lincoln (Neb.) State .Tour aal. A BottomlcaN Lake In Sweden. In Thomas Nashe's "Terrors of the Night," published In 15IM. he says that Lake Wetter, Sweden, Is bottomless. He also tells other peculiar things re specting It. "Over It no fowle tiles but Is frozen to death nor nnie maim pass but is mummed like a statue of mar ble. Awle ye inhabitants around about it are deafened with ye hldieous roar of hits waters when out of Its midst as out of Mont Oibell n sulphurous stinking smoak issues that well nil poysons ye whole countrle about." I f