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|are pleasant or otherwise. BANDON RE' ORDER. WISDOM OF AWIMALS. ---- O' *!«• Upuleius says that In the Hiring ft4es of Isis. the forerunners of th« Roman carnival, be saw a monkey «Ith a straw hat and a Phrygian tunic. But monkeys do not seen» to have twen popular In Rome. The cleverest of all the animal performers were of course the dogs, and one showman had the ingenious Idea of making a dog act a part in a comedy. The, ef fects of a drug were tried on him, the plot turning on the suspicion that the drug was poisonous, while 111 fact. It was only a narcotic. The dog took the piece of bread dipped in the liquid, swallowed it and began to reel and stagger till he finally fell on tire ground. At the right moment be l>egan to move very slightly as if waking out ef a deep sleep. Then be raised his head, looked around, Jumped up and ran Joyously to the proper person. The remark that animals do not grow wiser with age Is contradicted by the habit of elephants, noticed even In ancient times, of making the young ones cross a ford first. The officer who superintended the embarkation of the elephants sent from India to Abys sinia for use in Lord Napier's cam paign tells how one old elephant vol unteered to drive all the others on board. His services were Invaluable, but when they had all embarked and he was Invited to follow them he firm ly declined and had to be left on shore. I myself have noticed the acquired caution of the older dogs of Constanti nople. which left untouched the crusts I threw them, while the young ones ate them ravenously. A Greek native told me that this was because Euro peans were in the cruel habit of throw Ing poisoned bread to the street dogs; hence the old ones, having seen the bad effects on their companions, re fused to eat bread thrown by Europe ans, though they took it readily from any Turkish beggar who shared his scanty fare with them.—Contemporary Review. X Further more, I am as much surprised at this change as you are.” The explanation did not change matters, however, for MissC----- still thinks that she is the sadly abused |>arty. It don’t pay to shirk in your work. No matter what you have to do, put your whole soul into it and do the to-st you can; do it cheerfully and as though you enjoyed it and you will find that it makes your task much easier. By brissling over some uncongenial or un pleasant task it become* twits-a» hard for you to continue to stare at it through blue glasses.. If it is unpleasant try and think about something else while your fingers are busy with the unpleasant task. You don’t have to chain your thoughts down. Your mind can soar alsive the wash-tub filled with suds and dirty clothes if you will it so. 1‘ol.ly had a dear little friend who was always a sunbeam, in her home and elsewhere. She eraved the lieautiful ami Instructive things in life, but never allowed the fact that she could not pox-sens them to make her unhappy. She was busy at the wash-tub one morning, rubbing away in the steam ing suds on the dirty clothes that never ap|>eals to any one. All of a sudden she dropjied her work, rushed into the house and seized a pencil and pa|s-r to write dow n a little poem tliat she had been creating in her mind while the little hands tlew over the wash Istard. She climlied over the fence, read it to a sympathizing friend and then went back to her work caroling a song. A paper a few weeks later printed the poem, paying her five dollars for it. 'Till imssing strange how blind some |>w>ple are to their own interests; how delilierately they go to work to find ease and pleasure, taking advantage of their employer’s disposition to do them a kindness, until patience ceases to be a virtue, and they must do something to protect themselves from the frequent demands of certain employees fora day or a week off, expecting some other employee to do their work for them, although they demand their pay as usual. Such an instance hap|*ened the other day, and the little woman is still wondering how it all happened that the fickle wheel of fortune turned against her. This little woman had a resjionsible |s>sition, in fact was the head one ill the place where she was employed and received an enviable salary. It was her duty to receive all persons who called at the establishment where she was employed, answer the numerous questions they had to ask ami aid in making them feel at home— it was designed particularly for stran gers looking for a home in our own golden State. The first time she re mained away from her post, she was ill, and on her return to work she was given pay as usual, although she had been alieent from her |s>st for two weeks. To use her own expression— “it was a snap.” She found that a pre possessing young lady, with tact and a winning grace in her manner had BRIEF REVIEW tilled her place in a way altogether sat isfactory to lier employers, and argued Suicide Impulse at Sea. if she could do it once she could do it Births, marriages and deaths are very again, and everything would move along as smoothly as it had in the past. common at sea; eases of suicide, al She began to absent herself from the though not materially swelling the rec office more frequently. Sometimes it ords of deaths, are by no means infre i was a little indispoaition—she had a quent. It often happens that mental depression is accentuated by the vast headache or a bad cold—at other times there was an excursion or an afternoon ness and solitude of the ocean. Tbe tea or a picnic; again illness came in as sense of loneliness, helplessness and in A QUEER ANIMAL. her excuse, for she didn’t have the face significance has been known to develop Strangely T1 m > Krnlat Is Oae This« la Ila- to acknowledge that some personal into suicidal tendencies. m«r and Another I Wiater. pleasure was calling her from her work. enough, during an actual tempest the The ermine is a queer animal, It is Meanwhile the same young lady tilled sense of self-preservation seems to over one thing in winter and another tiling her place during her alisence, taking a power the desire for self-destruction. In summer. That is a strange state- keen Interest in the business and was Some months ago a young lady on Blent, but it la true, for in winter the so obliging and kind to every one in the board a steamer bound for a <'anadian animal's fur is as white as snow and port evinced much apprehension as to to called the ermine, In summer its office that she completely won every lie» safety during a violent storm. Less one she came in contact with. Finally fur turns reddish brown on the upper than two days later, when the sea was part of the body and a light yellow on the employers got tired of lieing im- tbe lower part. The animal is then |M>sed upon, for the sudden attacks of calm and sailing conditions pleasant, known as the stoat. illness became entirely too frequent, she climlied over the bulwarks and This change is quite familiar to nat and furthermore they had discovered threw herself into the ocean. The fas uralists, but not to unscientific peo that the young lady who had taken cination of watching the swift flow of ple, and the ermine and the stoat are her place during her illness was better water from the propellers at the stern therefore generally regarded as (Un adapted to the position. She had none of a vessel is a well-known cause of sui tlnct animals. - cide. Even sailors who have gazed The fur of the ermine is much val of the arrogance and over self-esteem of down at the surging stream have been the lady who had come to believe that lied and is In great request. At one overcome with the morbid impulse to ' time it was a murk of great royalty, she was necessary to the business, and and tlie state rolies of Judges and mag who frequently informed friends “that leap into it. In the Red sea and Indian istrates were lined with it as an em she did just as she pleased for they had ocean Lascars, mad with heat have blem of purity. found they couldn't do without her.” leaped out of the engine-room and at a The ermine is so cunning in its ways She had returned from a week's outing Isiund have dived overboard, never to that it la almost as difficult to catch as recently and U| m > ii going to the office be seen again. Lack of success in it Is to “catch a weasel asleep.” In she was informed that both she and America or Australia has driven many fact, niaiut the only way to capture It the young lady who had been so ably an emigrant to seek oblivion in suicide. is to mark its course from its home Two cases occurred last year of unsuc and then strew mud in its pathway, filling her place were wanted in the When the dainty, fastidious little aul private office. One went in all confi cessful men who drowned themselves mal readies tbe point in ito path dence and believing firmly that the when in sight of the old country. where the mud is strewn it will lie young lady she had left in charge had Finds Old Cross in Palace Ruins. down and subject itself to capture and been found lacking. The latter wax death rather than smirch one of it» worried and wondered whether she Arthur Evans, a famous archaeolo snow white hairs. would find that her services were no gist, who has been for many years in longer required, 11 did not take them Greece milking excavations in the in HOW TO STAY YOUNG. terest of science, has just discovered in long to find out. the ruins of the palace of Minosses, at Will Fewer a Large Factor In Keep Miss B----- said the proprietor, Gnosso, the remnants of a small sanc ing Awar Decreptltude. “take your things and go to the front How old are you? Tlie adage says of the office and take entire charge of tuary, which gives evident proof that the cross was worshiped in some parts that women nre as old as they look that department from now on. Your and men as old as they feel, That's of the world 2(MK) years before Christ. wrong. A num and woman are us old salary will be the same that Miss C----- Since 1900 Evans has been making a has been getting. MissC----- take your as they bike themselves to be. study of the ruins of this ancient palace, Growing old Is largely a habit of the things and you will occupy the desk and some of the monuments discovered mind. “As a man thlnketh in Ills Miss B----- has just vacated.” “What by him are clearly over 6000 years of heart so is he.” If he begins shortly does this all mean? I demand an ex after middle age to imagine himself planation,” said MissC----- . “I mean age. Remnants of a building at least 3000 years old have revealed a series of growing old he will be old. simply this,” replied the employer, To keep oneself from decrepitude Is “that we have found during the many chandlers in which many articles of re ligious worship were hidden. In a somewhat a matter of will power. Tlie days you were alisent that Miss B----- fates are kind to the man who hangs small subterranean chandler Evans was better fitted for the position in on to life with both bands. He who found the furniture of a small chapel, lets go will go. Death is slow only to every way than you are. She is never and incased in the wall of the room a late, she is always courteous and pleas tackle the tenacious. marble cross of the form now used in Ponce de Leon searched tn tlie wrong ant to everybody, and she is never the orthodox church. Several small place for the fountain of youth. It absent from her post; we must have is in oneself. One must keep one somebody who is prompt and whom we statues in earthen ware stood at the foot self young inside, so that while “the can depend on from day to day. We of the cross, surrounded by many outer man perlsheth the inner man In never knew whether we would find votive offerings. renewed dny by day.” you here or not. We have concluded Spokes Which Whistle. When the human mind ceases to ex- ert Itself, when there is no longer nn also to “dock” or fine everybody for A Eurojieaii inventor has converted active interest in the affairs of this tardiness in getting here in the morn the spokes of an automobile into w his life, when the human stops reading ing and only to pay for days when our tles, which are operated by the air ac and thinking and doing, the man, like n employees are present and attending to tion. The w histles are controlled by a blasted tree, begins to die at the top. their duties. The past has been a los You are ns old as you think you are. ing pro|>osition tons, Miss (’----- , and series of small rubber balls in connec Keep the harness on. Your job Is not things must be changed at once. We tion withtheseat, their release <>|iening the valve in the spoke and producing a «one.—Milwaukee Journal. had hoped that things would right peculiar whistling noise easily heard themselves, but instead of that it has New Oalaea («nnlbitlx. The l’apunn cannibal of New Guinea grown worse all the time, until we atone the sound of traffic. regards nil dentils as having a violent could stand it no longer.” “What Treatment of Idiots. cause. Whenever a native dies from salary am I sup|s>sed to get now?” Professor von Warner of Vienna, w ho sickness it IS oeiieVeu th&t the trick asked Miss “The same that : has been experimenting in the treat I net» resulted from some plot In order Mias B ----- got. got. ” “I don't see how I ment of idiots with thyroid gland, has I to detect the murderer, therefore, parts of the dead person are distributed can live off of that; it’s twenty-five rejsirted to the Austrian Home Office among the members of the household dollars less than I have been receiving,” that in time cretinism will belong to and after a time examined by a certain sum Miss C----- , w ith tears in iter eyes. the category of curable diseases. effictnl In the community, who might “We are very sorry for you, M iss <'----- , Jailed Two Hundred Times. be said to correspond to nn American but under the circumstances we cannot Elisabeth Watts, aged 36, made lier coroner, district attorney. Judge and do differently. That is all, ladies.” and Jury all combined. If any part of these the proprietor bowed them out and two hundredth appearance a» a pris uncanny relics has changed to an un breathed a sigh of relief to think that oner at the Southwestern Police Court, natural color Its possessor is lullin' says the London Express, recently. «lately executed and eaten by tlie that unpleasant duty was over. Mile was lined 20 shillings and left the other relatives. The girls, both bewildered by the dock laughing. sudden change of affairs retired to take YorUsbt»« Atoiut n million telegrams are sent There ie uo better walking to be had up their respective work. The one feel within the four sene than acrons n ing uncomfortable and sorry for her over the world’s wireedaily. Tn 1903 Yorkshire moor. The air is Intoxicat friend although delighted »liehad given the total wa»364,M8,747. England sent ing. The sun's heat my be tropical satisfaction. Miss C— was angry, 92,471,000. The United States was sec elsewhere. Here It is ever tempered by however, and insisted that Miss B----- ond with 91,391000. Germany, Russia, breeze If not by high wind. One is had done her an injustice and that she Austria, Belgium and Italy follow in knee deep In honey sweet heather; the had had the intention all the time of the order named. grouse rise Tn numbers at your feet working her way into the good graces Politics is more often a better thing and sweep down the wind with the speed of an expresk bullet.-Temple of her employers and biking her place to let alone than a hot poker. from her. “ If you were my friend, a» Bar. you claimed to be, why didn’t you Sortie inert reaped ouly the man who The best thing Josh Billings knew I slight the work a little?” “Because ran do them an injury. of was a "first that is not lay way of doing things, Don’t jump on a person when you next beet thing was a second rate what ever T am called upon to do, I one.” mi * him down. We do thia too often. try to do With my whole heart and If you live a scrubby life you will IJberty Is the power of doti^ What never think of aiiirkinc duties that fall to mjf lianda. ■<> mMt< r whetliw they 1 have n scrubby opinion of yourself. » IMP peMdta CliSro. CHOICE MISCELLANY FACTS IN FEW LINES ' vVOMAN AND FASHION MONOLITH PROBLEMS Like l harlss II.'■ Flak Storr- effort is to be made Niagara Smart Mitd Altraetlva, A corre-poudeut of Nature nak - for Falls to reduce irou ore by electricity A small and attractive design for a evidence, if there is any, in support of >n a < iqjmercial scale. blouse* waist that bids fair to I h * popu the almost universal belief among driv Sene English employers advertise in lar during tlie coming season is here ers, owners and builders of carriages tbe papers the death of faithful aerv- pictured. It Is developed In black and that if the distance between the fore into ami add laudable remarks. white sheplieid'H plaid trimnn*.! with and hind wheels of vehicles be in" Au observer says that every year the black silk braid and black silk covered creased the draft will become heavier people of the south are becoming less buttons. The mode blouses over the No reason is given for the belief, and mil less addicted to the use of splritu no explanation of it is offered, but a Ml» liquors. carriage builder to whom the corre The British parliament Is to be asked spondent in question submitted u test ease in which two carriages were of to give authority for the Inauguration >f an American system of pneumatic exactly tlie same weight with wheel» mail tubes throughout London. of the same height, but with the body Almost every war has its own partic of one much longer than that , of the other, wni sure thut tbe former would ular euphemism. General Kuropatkin be the heavier to move. It seems to us has done a service to all generals in thut this is a matter in which the facts trouble by nuuiing bls rear bls “south should lie settled by experiments be front." Tlie British courts recently exposed fore the theory Is Investigated. Every one remeniliers bow Charles II. asked a ruse by which Londoners were es the Royal society why if a fish were caping Jury duty by registering their put Into a full bucket of water the wa wives as tenants at their residences in ter did not overflow and when they stead of themselves. There are 109 street railway corpora bad exhausted themselves in learne 1 explanations suggested that they tions in Massachusetts, and they car should get a fish and a bucket mid -e- ried In the year ended Sept. 30, 1903, a wliat happened then. There ought to total of 504,662,243 passengers, the cars be no difficulty In testing how much running 107,506,812 miles. While the people of Denver sweltered power tin- long and the short carriage respectively require, mid If It pr no» t In tlie hot weather of summer a little be the same the question Is answere 1 mountain lake only forty-five miles without more ado. London Globe. away lay calmly enjoying Its perpetual freeze. The lake Is solid ice. Simple Enough. Tho supply of sterilized milk by the As a chunge from the story of Co Liverpool corporation has become quite lumbus and the egg mi Incident relat a popular business. As many as 500 ed by a French man of science mid families are now supplied, the weekly vouched for by him may I e told. Tlds consumption being 1,200 gallons. sired. The front closing is in duchess gentleman relates Hint he was at Ills A sfxteen-year-old brigand has arisen style—that 1», concealed—and fine tucks work before n glowing coal tire when to fame In the neighborhood of Trlest, are laid on either side, also in tbe baek. some one tapped at the door, mid a Austria. lie has already committed The braid used is one inch in width young girl belonging to a furnily who several murders and has organized an and makes a very effective trimming lived In the fiat above him came in. ■'intelligence bureau" that has enabled Voile, cbevlot, serge, cloth and heavy “Nir.” she sub!, “would you kindly him to defy the officers of the law so linen are ail suitable to the making. lend me a live coal or two to start our far. fire with? It’s gone out." According to the Mormon authorities, The Mode In H«ti. “Certainly, my dear,” said tbe sa upward of 2,000 missionaries ar« con From Paris comes the decision that vant. "But you have brought nothing stantly In the field, most of them the hat must match the costume this to carry it in. Take my shovel." young men and all under the supervl- season. This means considerable extra “Oh. no. sir,” answered the child. "I sion of experienced leaders and dbcct- expenditure in the most modest ward will carry ti e coals in my hand.” ed from headquarters established at robes unless a woman coniines herself “In your hand? What do you mean? central points. to one color and has a hat developed in You'll li> burned." Tlie presence of moisture in tobiaco many shades, one of them matching "Oh. no. sir, 1'11 show you how.” is, the London Lancet believes, of srkio each gow n. The child dipped lip some ashes from importance to public health, since tie Beaver and panne finished felt are the grate and placed them 111 the hol combustion of tobacco containing a shown in the newest model hats. They lowed palm of her left hand. Then large proportion of moisture is Im go well with gowns made of satin with tl.e tongs she laid two burning peded, while as the generation of Taper faced cloth and zibeline. Cloth hats coals on the top of the little heap of is increased so are tlie chances of tin are not always practical because they ashes. Then she bowed, smiled and poisonous principle being carried inti are heavy, but felts to match tbe cos went out. bearing her coals unharmed. tlie mouth. tume prove very satisfactory. “Well, well!” said the man of science The largest woman's educational b Beyond a doubt velvet hats will be to hiluself. "Here I've been studying st I tut Ion in the world is in Great Brk- extensively worn during the coming natural pliilosophy forty years and nev aln. This is tlie Royal Holloway cA- season, the lighter weight “chiffon” er find the wit to <lo that!” lege, which was founded by Thoma velvets being used for shirred and Holloway, but owes its origin to a w|- draped hats, while heavier velvets are Count Bismarck n Mlirltty Drinker. man, Mrs. Holloway, who inspired h4 more attractive when drawn plain Although he lacked the physique of husband's gift. Tbe buildings ant over the brims or crowns. his father, if possessing something of equipment of the Royal Holloway col his figure, the late Count Herbert Bis lege cost about «4.000.000. The New F«rs. marck sought to emulate Ids illustrious Hint the promises made by the in Brown Is to be the color In furs this parent in Ids powers as mi enter and ventors of submarine boats are nevef season—old fashioned reddish brown. a drinker. In Ids "Story of My Life" to be realized is asserted by (’aptail The new fur, yeda (unborn calf), is Mr. Augustus Hare, giving an account Bacon, who has been in command of | talked much of. Jackets and entire of a house party at Hatfield in 1890. the British submarine fleet from its ill i suits are to be made of tills. told how, "a colossal man and a great ception. This statement is based ol I Then there is n revival of mink, the eater." he would "always till two the fact that tile form suitable f<r small eastern mink, which is almost as glasses of wine at once, to lmve one In high speed on the surface is Inimical t> rich as sable nnd nearly as costly. Sa reserve.” On the smile subject the fast steaming when submerged. ble In its darkest tones is again to come London Times’ correspondent at Berlin The latest polar expedition curio is a to the fore. remarks that “to the end Count Herbert gigantic air bag. in which I’eter Nissen Ermine will be used in combination retained the Jovial ways of ids student of Chicago intends to roll to tlie pole, with those dark furs, and tlie furriers days. He was ever whilt the Germans being blown by tlie wind over water tell us mole will be In favor. They call ‘burschikos.’ mid in his day had an and ice. rough traveling and smooth, told us tills last season. extraordinary capacity for drinking, as a thistle Js blown across a field. like Ids father." He adds, “I know of Nissen says lie was driven to adopt Fell Costume. one Instance in which, after a dinner tills device by bls endeavor to plan Three-quarter length single breasted with more than the usual quantity of pneumatic tires for an arctic nutomo- ' coats, fitting ns if glued to the figure champagne and a bottle or two of very bile. and made with tight fitting vests, have choice old port, lie Insisted upon drink Within the last ten years the growtli ’ taken the place of the Russian blouse. ing 'Bruedersehaft' with his astonished of the telephone business has been Tlie suit shown la of rich brown zibe host in a tumblerful of old cognac.” very rapid. The reports of the Bell , line, the coat fashioned on above lines, companies show a sixfold Increase in | with vest of gold embroidered wldte Sagucltx of the Buffulo. tlie number of outstanding instruments silk. Seams of coat and sleeves are When 1 was in Montana last year I since 1893. There are now over 1,600.- heard of a weed called the loco weed, (XXI subscribers In these companies, that made horses crazy if they ate It. and in the last four years the long In a magazine article published since I distance traffic has Increased 82 per wondered If the buffalo hnd learned to cent. avoid tlds weed. A western correspond A new alloy devised by James ent now assures me on what appears Chandler, a chemist of Philadelphia. to be good authority that buffalo do Is being exploited and promises to be eschew this plant. A ranchman in the found valuable for many purposes. It Panhandle of Texas bus crossed but' has the appearance of silver, the falo with polled Angus—the "black cat strength of steel, lightness of alumin tle” and he has found that an animal ium, is Inexpensive to make and has with one-sixteenth buffalo blood will the resonance of bell metal. It is said not touch the loco weed. If this Is a to be available for tubing, wheel hubs, fact it is a very interesting one. It boilers, armor plate, cooking utensils shows how discriminating wild crea and muslcnl Instruments. tures become In tbe course of ages and Tlie oldest inhabitants of the New how this wisdom becomes Instinctive.— York aquarium are tbe striped bass, John Burroughs In Outing. which have been there for ten years, having been placed in one of tlie floor Royalty In Inches. pools itefore tlie building was opened King Edward represents fully the to the public. In May, 1894. fifty-five average height lu British stature, specimens, weighing from a quarter of which is 5 feet 7% inches. Ids actual a pound to four pounds, were secured, height In his boots being 5 feet 8% twenty-seven of which have survived. inches. The Emperor William falls Most of those that were lost died in slightly below his royal uncle's, but the first year, and in the last four years not below the average German height. not one has died. Of the elected rulers President Loubet Every once In awhile you bear of u represents tbe French average, which man who has held a place for ninny . is 5 feet 6 inches. On the other hand, years to the satisfaction of his em we find tbe emperor of Japan to be far ployers and himself, but there nre few above the national standard of height. who enn touch the record of one New I His majesty Is a tall man for a Japa Yorker of seventy-two years. For nese, 6 feet 6 inches. The tallest royal more than fifty years he has been heavily stitched, the latter attached to personage is King Leopold, 6 feet (I working In a box factory us n nailer, a deep pointed cuff of tlie material and Inches, which places him ne t to I’eter standing at the same bench on tbe j velvet. A flat collar of velvet finishes tbe Great, who measured 6 feet 8'» same floor of the same building and the neck. inches -Philadelphia Ledger. driving nails in the same old way with Tho skirt Is a seven gored model, the tho same old hammer. He declares ho upper part clinging to the figure, with Jajaaexx Kt Farmers, ■in- peifvetiy satl.ffikd wnd wouldn't ex side plaits i»troduced nt lower part of The Japanese have surprised the change his Job for any other In the scan.3, stitched to a little above the world as fighters; but, according to place. knees and then nllowed to flare. Th nnrold Boice, they are also the most The skins of toads nnd salamanders Vat worn with this costume Is brown remarkable agricultural nation in tlie have lately been submitted to micro .beaver, trimmed. wJtJi. relret mx?.s world. They" have only 16,toX> squinv scopical examination by Mr Schulz, shading from tlie fashionable burned miles of arable land. An automobile who finds that there are two kinds of orange to brown. yolng fifty miles an hour could skirt glnnds present In the skin of these an this area in eleven hours. Yet it sup Imais—viz, mucous and poisonous Kentherbone Tn Sklrlm ports an imperial nation, the rising glands. The former nre present all Many of the lined skirts as will ns power of the far east. Experts admit over the body. Tlie latter are confined those having drop skirts have a hit of that the scientific skill of Japanese ag to the back of the body nnd limbs and feathetbone inserted almost anywhere riculturists is unappronched. “Patient the ear region behind tlie eyes nnd in between the knees nnd the ankles to diligence, with knowledge of the chem the salamander are present nt nn an make them stand out slightly nnd thus istry of the soil and the physiology of gle of the Jaw. The poison glands are keep the skirts from brushing the nn plants, has yielded results that have larger than the mucous glands in the kies. If the featherbone is properly astounded the most sdvnnced agricul salamander, arc oval and have a dark covered it will not wear through It» turists In western nations.”—London granular appearance, due to strongly casing until the skirt Is so worn ns to Slob*. refractive drops of potnon. be no longer presentable. One of Man's Blesslnaa. When a man talks too much his wife pulls nt his coat for him to sit down, and It Is not until she is dend and be makes a fool of bltnself that the world recognizee how much of his past good record was due to this coat tall censor. —Atchison Globe. « His Cynieal Theory. Mo Longer In Commercial Life. Took thr Profit«. Mr. Guy—Doesn’t it muke you feel "I remember Schemer was a great ea<l when-you think how many of your chap for thinking out plans for getting former patients lie buried here? Dr. rich. I suppose now he's wealthier Quickly—Indeed it does! There Is no than any of his friends.” more money to be got out of any one "Oh, no. His friends used the plans ef them.—Boston Transcript. while he was dreaming over them.”— Detroit Free Press,______ His Case Hopeless. “Father,” said the small boy, “why "There are at least a thousand good Both Pleatlfal. do they call a speech made at a ban reasons why I should marry her." “Did you ever have nil you wanted “Well, what are they?” quet a toast?" of anything?" asked Meandering Mike. “First, because I want to. and she "My son.” was the answer, "it ?s "Yes,” answered Plodding Pete. "Two probably b«rause It is so dry.”—Ex herself is the other 999.”—Town Top things - advice and wmter.”—Washing change,. ic». ton Star. MYSTERY OF THESE STRANGE STONE MONUMENTS OF THE PAST. A Theor> Thai 111 of Them. Th<m »» thr »merla-au Ijenllnrai Tho.e lu Well »■ <hr Faat, «ere Halit »> the Aitclrui I'hoeulelaua. AimiUg tlie greatest masteries in tfi« mystery of tlie past human history on earth tlie monoliths that stand in vari ous parts of the globe have always been chief. These strange stone monuments, gen erally rude, with hardly any sculpture, hut wonderfully large in size, are scut tered everywhere. The most famous of them are the cromlechs, such as those in Stonehenge, in England. Otli ers are found in tbe western part of France, in the northern part of Ger many as far as the Oder river, tn Den mark and in Sweden. Northern Africa, Madagascar and Asia, from Mount Sinai and tlie Cau casus to India, all have some here aud there. Lately they have la*eu discovered even in Siberia. There are several places lu Japan where such stones stand. Others have been found in North and South America. Among tbe most won derful and mysterious of them all ar« the vast, almost terrifying, stones, Vielely sculptured, that have been found on Ea s4er island, in the & avtuv ocean. The mystery as to wliat these stones meant was not the ouly puzzle. The greatest puzzle was how primitive peo ple. without knowledge of engineering and without known appliances, could have moved and erected such giant blocks, some of wlilch weigh as much as 230 tons. In many districts where tlie great memorials stand there are no stones of such size to be found in the earth. Consequently they must have been transported from places long distances away. For many generations—ever since men have spent any time lu thinking over these matters—scientists have puzzled their heads over the monoliths in vain. Whether they classed them af all being tlie same or whether they divided them into different classes, they remained the same riddle. In more recent years, however, there lias been II systematic study of all the monolith memorials of tbe world, and us a result a novel theory has been advanced. It is that one race—that of the Phoenicians erected all these monu uients. of course if tills is correct it means that history will have to be revised, for it would show that the Phoenicians once knew all about the whole globe nnd that they had visited America and Asia long before modern days. The first thing that led to the as sumption that the Phoenicians had raised tlie monuments was tlie obser vation of M. Levlstre, a French ar chaeologist, that almost all the mono liths were to be found near the mouths of great rivers or along their courses. Tills pointed to II people that used ships. Now, the Celts were never strong on the water. Tlielr boats were primitive, lieing mostly of wickerwork covered witli bides, and they were unable to move any distance from land in these clumsy and unseawortliy contrivances. Consequently, when the question arose as to what race was advanced in navigation in that early time when these monuments were put up, the answer naturally came that the only race known to lie a race of sailors and merchants then was the race of tbe Phoenlchins. And If they were the Phoenician» how did they come to reach America? They had colonies on the islands of tlie western Mediterranean and even in the islands of the Atlantic ocean, ns history proves. It is not hard to imagine that they may have found tlielr way to America. Some archae ologists are even willing to believe that they reached America by way of the lost Atlantis, that legendary con tinent that Is now sunken somewhere In the Atlantic ocean, if it ever ex isted. At any rate, the theory that tho Phoenicians were tlie erectors of the monoliths of the world to commemo rate discoveries or for religious pur poses still inter on gnlned strength through the discovery of a great up right stone near the river Loire, which bus Phoenician words engraved deeply on It. Translated, these words say. "On this spot was slain our brave com rade.” In San Luis, In Bolivia, Is one of these stones, which has on it the en graving of a foot printed and a snake with its head raised. The footprint Is a well known Phoenician symbol of death nnd Is found on many stones that cover ancient Phoenician sites. And tbe snake witli head raised is another acknowledged Phoenician emblem. Exactly tlie same symbols as those on tlie South American stone have been found on a stone in central Franc0.— New York. Pre?“ BUNYAN'S TOMB. Harlal Place In F.naland of the (■- thor of “Pllarlni’e Pro|rre»a,” John Bunyan's tomb is in the vast burial ground of Bunhill fields, origl nnlly called “Bonehill fields,” probably from the quantity of bones which, as Maitland tells us. were transported thither In 1540. This Is now closed as a cemetery, hilt the forest of tomb» shaded by young trees Is a green oasis In a black part of Ixindon. Near tlie center of the “Puritan Ne cropolis,” a white figure, lying upon a high modern altar tomb, marks the grave of John- Bunyan. He died at Snow bill from a cold taken on a mis- sloaary excursion Aug. 31, 1688, aged sixty. Macaulay in one of Ills essays says; “The spot where Bunyan Ilea Is still regardisl by the Nonconformist» with a feeling which seems scarcely in bar mony with the stern spirit of theology. Many Puritan«, to whom tbe respect paid by Roman Catholics to the tombs of their saints seems childish nnd sin ful. are said to have begged with their dying breath that their coffins might l>e placed as near as possible to that of flie author of 'PilgrltB's Progress.’ ”— Ixiniipn Mall.
