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BAN DON JtECORDKK.
T11K T1JIKI) COWWRI)
DOWNRIGHT LAZY IS THIS BLACK
HOBO OF THE ORIOLE TRIBE.
It ItiiiMn No X'l of It Own. lint
l.n lt V.KK" 1" N'" of Other
Hi rl imil ever Trouble ltNolf
Alioul llonrinjr It lounic.
Thi' cowhird was bom so tired that if
lio could compel any othor bird to
gather his food for him hi' would do so.
Imii )i. cautot. so hi' scratches about all
tiny among tli' herds of cattle and
sheep ami uoi's to roost at night in
gri-at bands of hundreds of his relative-,
always selecting a bushy tret',
such as a cypress, for a night's porch.
AH up and down tho Mississippi river
valley Is i ho conunon summer home of
lli-so birds, for only in tho depth of
wim.-r do they iviroat to tlie warmer
uwsas of Mexico, whither most of the
oiUor birds have proceeded them, in
t!ho spring following such n winter
sIm'.v are the first to return, tilling all
the how year air with their chatter and
lining the b-irnyard trees.
Yni must not think that the glossy
Mtu'k and brown birds so plontiful
around southern California ha my :mls
during tho winter months are row
trials, for they are not. They are call
ed "graokles" and seem to bo more like
crows than blackbirds. You can find
their nests, big. bu!ky aiYairs. in the
orange and cypress trees of almost any
of your ranch homes. There are many,
ninny members so the blackbird family,
the sweet voiced meadow larks and the
gorgeous golden orioles as well as the
more sober colored blackbirds and
crackles, and of all these but one
forces the hatching of her eggs and
tho feeding of her young on to another
bird mother.
In England the cuckoo has this same
hnblt. but tho American cuckoo builds
her nest and siis on her eggs as nicely
as any robin or dove could do. Some
times our road runner so far forgets
herself as to lay her ecus in the nest
of a quail or a meadow lark, but not
often, but when she docs tho bird upon
whom Mrs. Komi Kunnor trios to Im
pose generally breaks the strange egg
r else goes away and leaves the nest
aJoitc. Then the Hold mice and the
wood rats have a feast, to which some
times the road runner comes herself,
for she is very f'nd of eggs as long as
they are not her own.
J tin the cowhird never makes any
such poor job as that. She always se
lects the nest of some smaller bird in
regions where warblers are plentiful
tin Itome of one of those little si Hirers
is most frequently chosen and there
as many eggs as she thinks the owner
of the nost will submit to are laid.
Sometimes the warbler trees riirht on
incubating the intruder, but now and
iheti she two old birds cot together
aiMl dump the egg out on she ground.
Nests have been found in which she
warblers pus a mud llo" over She lirst
nest and built another one on top of it.
leaving their own eggs to spoil because
they knew no other way to rid them
selves of she enwbird. If She cowhird
comes back by Stic repaired not sm
will pui another egg in is. and gener
ally Shis Tg is Itasched and raised by
she foster pair on whom It has been
forced.
It requires about ten or eleven day
for the young oowbird to break the
shell, while most other birds of it
sine are two or three days longer, am
thus he has a irood start on the othe;
nestlings In point of growth. Whei
hatched the cowhird is hirtrer than sin
sparrow or the warbler and fuiisc
queittiy gradually crowds thorn int
Qhe baekgrounM. taking ail the f.vM
that should belong to them. As they
grow wiaker from this he grow.-, stroll
ger, and it is not long until he ii
thont out of the nest and is side ma:
ter of the tvtrdd birds, who wort
ceaselessly to sati-fy his awful appo
tiie. In a very few days he gets tM
large for the little nest and toes out
into the bran iii s. whore the old birds
still continue so feiil him in a way
they never do their own youmr aster
thev have left tic n.-st. Ijj Mexico
ami South Amerh-a there !s a eowbln
that sometimes builds a nest of her
own and sits upon and hatches her
own ecys. but no such thing over hap
pens among tho black hob.es of the
orloie family found farther north.
now many eggs a oowbird lays no
one knows, but as many as seven
have boon found in one nest of the
oven bird, a kind of thrush found in
the eastern states. Csually, however,
only one egg i- laid in each nest, es
pecially if the birds to whom the nest
belongs are small and the nest too
Utile to hold more than one of the cow
birds young iii comfort. I he parent
oowbird never disturbs the eggs of any
of the birds in whose nests she leaves
her own. knowimr full well that If she
did so the nest builder would in all
probability desert her home or throw
the strange egg out. Oftentimes more
than one cowbird lays In the saim
nest. and. as no two ogL.s of these
birds are ever exactly alike In color,
you may h sure that no cowbird
knows her own egg half a minute aft
er she has laid it. Los Angeles Times.
Vlij- S(, i,,. I'H;n Io to 12 n rope.
When New York society doesn't know
what else to do it goes abroad. An
ambitious woman gets wind of some
rival's intended function. Not to be
invited or not to be seen among the
guest means a slight easily endured
if the world bo not cognizant of the
fact, but intolerant if It is; therefore
the ambitious woman sails away to
Europe. She may not be gone six
weeks, but her absence is thus to bo
accounted for. In other eases It is
known that society takes Shis absent
treat men t to cure heart troubles, to es
caj' social obligations that weigh too
hi-avily on the Income or, again, from
sheer ennui it departs. This restless
ness of certain sets in society would
be dangerous were it not for the safety
valve which that really overworked
Atlantic ocean has become of I. tie
years. When all else fails, go to Ku
rope. Koston Herald.
When a Kick Help.
When one lacks the courage boldly to
advance along the perilous course his
Intelligence counsels, he is lucky if he
can and will goad some one into kick
lug him along It past the joiiit where
retreat Is impossible. Sueons.s.
I POLLY LARKINl
" For heaven sake, don't nag, 1 can
stand anything, yes, everything else
but that," remarked a man lo bis w ife
the other day in the presence of two or
throe friends who had called at their
home to spend a pleasant evening. " 1
never felt m sorry for anyone in my
life as I did for Mr. 11 said one of
tin guests afterward, "and 1 don't
blame him for speaking right out be
fore us all, and saying M'or heaven sake
don't nag." Why, she gave him no
rest whatever, it was fnult-lindingovorv
moment and not only that, but she was
sarcastic, you could detect that disa
greeable little ring that i-. so exasper
ating, in everything she said- lie stood
more than my John over did before ho
retaliated. My, but she w as mad ami
looked daggers at him from those steel
blue eyes of hers that glitter like a ser
pent's when she is angry. If I had
said half the exasperating and humili
ating things that she did, my husband
would have simply taken his hat and
left the house. There would have been
no words over the matter and his
actions would have sokeu louder than
any bitter language lie could have used.
1 would have known he was hurt but
he would have never mentioned the
fact. Mr. I is a martyr, hut some
how or other I cannot appreciate his
martyrdom, why isn't he man enough to
hold his own against his nagging wife.
She spoiled the whole evening for
every IhhIv. 1 havethought many times
since of what their life must be every
day in tin week ami when they are by
themselves when Mrs. 1 could
make such an exhibition before Us. I
blame a man for living with a woman
who i constantly nagging and making
hi- life wretched and unhappy. Why,
Mr. It hardly dares say his soul is
hi- own for fear she will contradict
him. I have no patience with her be
cause -he i.- so .-elfish and unpleasant in
her home when ho does so much to
make her happy, and I haven't a grain
of patience w ith him because ho -tands
her tyranny aiol her unple:i.-aiit ways."
Many women po-so.-s this unenviable
trait and do mil realize to what extent
tliey carry the habit of nagging unti
they hoar some one else, and even then
don't think for a moment that they ar
quite as bad a- their nagging neighbor
if they did they would endeavor ti
turn over a new leaf and break up tin
habit that cause.- so much bit term
and genuine mi-imdcrsiaudmg m -
many homo circle-. Naiririug wreck
the peace o the home circle, and drive
the ln:id of the hotl-o to the out.-idi
world, and the children to t lie -t root
for their aiiiu-cuieut. It is a habit that
grow- upon one too, and causes no ein
of uiihappiuoss ami remorse when it is
too late. II vou are conscious of no-scs
sing it in tliesiightest degreecomnieiiee
at once to weed it out of vour life. It
is a hard thing to get rid of, for it wil
spring up as fast as thi-tlc-and weed-
in a garden, crowding out all thcsweet
lovable and woman I v thoughts. Nor
arc women sole aggressor.-, for you liu
homes where the men arc the nagger-
and faultfinder.-; in fact, they arc about
evenly divided. 1 have visited friend
where the whole atmosphere of t lit
homo changed 1 he minute the hiisbam
steppi-d into the house. Instantly tin
w ife became Hurried and waited for tin
iiiiioouiimir, -arca.-tieaiid complaining
remark- of the nagging man. w ho won
the air of a much abused man. Th
children were warned to keep quiet by
their mother before he had hung ii
his hat, and she would apologize for
him by saying, "You know Jimi-s
norvoii- that he cannot stand the noisi.
of the children, and he think.- they an
I . .l-A.I f II.
me worst nine huks m town, when
really then- i- no better." "I'a grum
Ides all the time," -aid a little Utv on
hearing hi- mother making e.cu-es l
her vi-iior for her husband's cranki
ness. Ho .-poke the truth, for hir
father was a nagging faultfinder of the
wor-t kind at home, and the most
jovial, w liide-soiilcd man imagiiiahlt
when he got on the outside among tin
men, or in the company of ladies where
he wanted to make a good impression.
There i- no cause whatever for nagging
on either side of the house. f thin
ire going at cro-s-purposc.- and pulling
thi- way and that, have a simple,
straight-forward talk and straighten
out the trouble, and vou will soon see
your way clear. Such a cour-e will
tvert maiiv a stormy day, many a
scene that would later on be relllciu
bered with pain. I have heard little
children time and again playing at
i t i .i. .. .
nouseKccpiug, ami invariably tliov be
tray tin character of their homo life in
talking to their doll-. If they are used
to hearing their mother or father nag
ging or complaining, their way of nd
drcssing their family of dolls betrays
the whole unhappy way of living.
I'hey are good imitators and at the
same time u-uallv .-peak the truth a-
well a- porlr:iy the scenes they are
mo.-t familiar w it li. You may hang up
your inotto.-, "Cod bless our home,"
ho Lord will provide," etc., but at
thosame time have tbisoiieeinblaoiicil
m an illuminated card so all may road
' I-'or heaven -ake don't nag."
Aln-ady have our merchant.- placed
their endless holiday stock of things
suitable and appropriate for old and
young, ri:h and poor on display. There
- a ton cent article that will make
some little child feci rich in the posses
ion of the now toy brought by good
m i.-s iMingle and the thirty-live dol-
ar one for the more favored child of for
tune, who will not be one w hit happier
than the child living down in the
qualid and poverty stricken quarters
f some alley. I have stood in t he toy
lepartmeiil.-of some of the big depart
ment stores and watched the dear little
folks as they crowded up and down tin
aisles. Those that knew way down in
their hearts that the merry old Sunt:
t'laus would never be able to bring Un
costly toys to their humble alxide, am
that they were only intended for the
children of tho rich, would admire
them, then without a single sigh of re
grot, turn like little philosophers am
walk sturdily past the glittering show
to those that were cheaper and in reach
of the Santa t'laus in theiralley. I lappy
little folks were they, and I ailniirei
iiioin lor tiie matler-oj-tact way in
which they took this distinguishing of
the rich and the poor. No complaints
no wishing for the costly autontobili
designed for the juvenile who wa.- to
act :is his own chand'ner. "That's
swell," said one little ragged urchin
"come on Jimmy, let's look at coas
tors," sun! exclaimed with delight ovt
the bright, red coaster, with "Con
qtioror" written in big, black letter
across it. " Cood name," said one of
the Uv:
1 could slide down hill so
fast on that that it would make the rest
of the follows sick. It's got a goo
brake too. Cood name, good brake
giHid coaster." C-whizz, but I woult
like to own the Conqueror.' I'm going
to throw out hints and he good, better
than I have been before. I won't sas
anyone back, and run errands am
bring in the kindling and coal without
being asked, and I'm going to slccj
every night saying 'Conqueror, Con
queror, come to me,' That aint poetry
but its good enough to keep everybody
from forgetting that is what 1 want
Don't want no knife, dominos, game o
Pit or anything like that, but just the
'Conqueror'." The little fellows were
.-till chatting about the bright, rc
coaster when thev stopped into tin
elevator. 1 .-aw other 1mvs, well
dressed and witn money eiioiign m
their pockets to have iMUight thecovetei
coaster, but it was beneath their notice,
they had dissatisfied fact's and lookoi
only at the costlv toys, and disctissei
i
the price and merit.- ol the same.
Happy little lads who lived in the alley,
they may come out conquerors in tin
race of life.
BRIEF REVIEW.
The Science of Flying.
Profe.-.-or l.angle '-model thing ma
chine, in the light it throws on tin
phenomena of air pressure, i- a valuable
contribution to cienc. Whether or
not it will over teach men to tly is an
other matter. Ho calls it an icidroine,
which signifies air runner. It has four
groat wings. 1'nliko those of tin
birds, they are immovable wings. 'I'hey
extend out from the side- of the ma
chine, and as it travels aloft they cover
an immense surface of air per second.
The machine is driven forward by :i
powerful motor operating a propeller.
(nce in the air the machine will tly
until the fuel in the engine gives out.
It is necessary t give it a more or less
violent start, and this has been juuuiiu
pli-hed so far by literally shooting the
machinefrom thetop of a houseboat. 1 1
is placed on a movable track on the
roof of thclHat and projected suddenly
out over the water.- of Chesapeake bay.
In other words, Professor I.angloy
-kints his Iwiat out above the water just
as a Uiy skints an oyster shell. Tin
faster it is .-hot away the hss power i
iietdcil to maintain it, -o that tho mo
tor and propeller arc all-sullieicnt to
keep it in the air.
The Oldest Herbarium.
The oldot herbarium in the world is
in the Kgyptologist Museum at Cairo,
and coiisi.-ts of an inconspicuous collec
tion of dried portions of plants taken
from wreath.- and garlands found in
coilius with mummies, and from edible
plants which were set in earthen ves-els
on the lloor of the sepulchre a.- the fur
niture of the last rc-ting place of their
beloved ones. Many of tln-se Moral re
mains are so well pn-crved that, after
being Healed with warm water, they
can be handled like modern herbarium
1 iiuens. Tho colors, too, arc pre
served in a remarkable wav.
Red Blotch on Jupiter.
In IsTs something happened on Jupi
ter which caused a red blotch to appear
in his southern hemisphere near one of
the great belts that cross his disk like
huge bands of colored clouds. It was
'.o.lXiO miles long and .HUM) miles broad,
yet, after all, only n little patch on the
mighty disk! It has remained over
since, sometimes brightening to almost
the criiiison Inn of lire and sometimes
ading nearly toinvisibility, yet always,
vou when faintest, certifying its pres-
uce ami its power by keeping the area
originally covered by it dear of all other
objects.
The Empire ol Peace.
The (' nost ics, a religious sect, has
incorporated ami established what is to
the "White City and Temple" in
the Herinosa Tract, north of KVdondo,
outherii California. Itiblical directions
or the purchase were found in the
iropheey of Zacharias. The plans of
the society are given out in a booklet
tit it Ifd "The Imperial Council of the
Empire of Peace."
Rogistered by Compass.
A recent Kieneh invention is a ship's
ompass so mounted that as it swings
round with the variations in the point
ing of the vessel it produces .nil toinati-
ally, through electric connection, a
hart on a sheet of paper, by consulting
which the ship's otlicers can .sec what
the course wa.- at any moment of the
voyage.
America is to manufacture typewrit
ers for Syrio, the machines being fitted
with a new alphabet of fifty characters,
which was arranged recently by Selim
Haddad, a Syrian artist and inventor.
The actual Syrian alphabet contains t:0
characters.
WAS K FN GTON LETTER!
ISJiktIjiI Correspondence.
Klliott Woods, the superintendent ot
the eapitol. and .Mr. Collin, the mana
ger of the house restaurant, are con
duced that thoie will be no complaints
this winter on the restaurant
tioii. A great archway has I
proposi-!
icon cut'
in the wall between what wore former !
ly the two separate dining rooms, and
ii steam table in the center will afford
excellent facilities for promptly feed
ing the hungry in all parts of the res
taurant. Pesides this, the bill of fare
will be much less elaborate, and It is
the present intention to have all the
dishes enumerated on the bill of fare
ready to serve immediately, beginning
at noon, thus doing away with the long
delays incident upon the preparation !
of special orders. Members of the
h : iH;t notice other Improvements
in their wing
of the eapitol building,
but it is safe to say
thev will not be
quite so pleased over any of them as
they will be with the restaurant im
provements. Capitol l'nivur I'lant.
Work will not he begun until next
fall on the new eapitol power plant,
which', when completed, will furnish
the power for heating, lighting and (
ventilating the eapitol building, the
Congressional library and the senate i
anil house oMico buildings now under
course of construction. The appropri
ation for the power plant, which will
probably be the biggest of its kind in
the country, was made at the last ses
sion of congress, but work on the otllce
buildings is not sutlleleutly under way
to warrant an immediate beginning of
the improvements in the eapitol engine
room.
Nurse to I' root a .Monument.
Tho Spanish-American war nurses,
whose annual convention war held re
cently at St. Louis, decided Ly unani
mous vote to erect a costly and hand
some monument In the Arlington Na
tional cemetery to the memory of those
"humane and patriotic army nurses
who died as a result of their exposure
hi the enervating climate of the trop
ics during the war with Spain and the
insurrection in the Philippines." The
design of the monument has not boon
decided upon, but many members are
said to favor a figure representing a
nurse in her service uniform ready for
duty.
Civil .Service at l'aiiuiiin.
President Roosevelt has signed an
order completed by the civil service and
Isthmian canal commissions, extending
the civil service regulations over the
employees of the canal commission.
The order embraces all employees ex
cept those appointed by the president
and laborers
.Wv Treaty With Crrmnii'.
Negotiations have been initiated for
a treaty of arbitration between Ger
many and She Cuited States. Several
days ago President Itoosovelt suggest
ed to Ilaron Sternburg. the German
ambassador, that a treaty of arbitra
tion between the Cuited States and
Germany would, in his Judgment, be
very desirable. Ambassador Sternburg
coincided in that view and told the
president that he would Inquire of his
government what steps If any it de
sired to take In the matter. Soon after
i......ar,sudor Sternburg culled upon
President Itoo-cvclt and Informed him
that the German government had ex
piessed Itself as entirely agreeable to
the president's proposition and that he
had been directed to open formal nego
tiations for such a treaty.
Secretary Ilny'w JoUe.
Diplomats stationed in Washington
are gratified with the announcement
by President Roosevelt that Secretary
Hay will remain in the cabinet for an
other four years. This Is because the
diplomats to a man esteem Secretary
Hay ery highly. For the most part
they know his views on leading ques
tions. He is extremely practical, and
he Is frank.
Prom time to time there has been
talk of Secretary Hay retiring because
of 111 health. As a master of fact, al
though he Is sixty-five years old. he Is
In excellent condition physically. He
has had his Joke about the frequent rti-
mors of his poor health. To a friend i
who once congratulated him upon his !
evcollent appearance he said with as- j
sumed weariness. "Ah, yes. but I am
.suffering from an Incurable disease."
Tho friend, surprised, expressed dis
belief, but Mr. Hay Insisted his mala
dy was hopeless. The friend said per
haps It was not really so bad. and what
was the disease?
"Old age." replied the secretary.
The rresldeiif Son.
Young Theodore Roosevelt, who has
boon here for some weeks, having left
school because of an atlliction of his
eves, will not return to tiroton, out
will remain In Washington for the rest
of the session. He has a tutor from
Host on, Matthew Lee, a nephew of the
first Mrs. Roosevelt, who was Miss Al
ice Lee of Itoston.
IS ii nil I'ree Delivery.
When congress created the rural free
delivery branch of the postal service
t did not realize that it was establish-
n
the greatest political machine of t
sue i nucd Mates, q ne tact nas neon
recently impressing Itself In a most se
rious manner upon senators and rep
resentatives, and thev have brought It
o the attention of the president, who
ins directed the civil service commis
sion to make an Investigation with a
view to shearing free delivery carriers
of political endeavors.
In the recent election the fact was
developed that rural free delivery car
riers filled certain congressional dis
tricts with literature opposing the re
jection of I'Mi't'iin 1 1 1 1 i 1 urj nf con
gress.
The president is said to realize the
danger of such participation In politics
by free delivery carriers and will
frame additions to the civil service reg
ulations that will prevent them from
taking any obnoxious part In politics
CARL SCHOFIELD.
Cood Training.
Miss Sightseer (in Egypt) Mr. New
rich, you scale up these rocks as if
you'd been climbing pyramids all your
life! Were you bred In the mountains?
Mr. New-rich Oh. no; but I carried n
hod up a two story ladder for a good
many years before I struck oil. De
troit Free Press.
(.ove.
George Are you quite sure that you questions the manager said: "Rut, gen
real ly love me? Ressie Oh. yes; cer-! tiemen, don't you see that their d!ct
tain of It. I never know any one th.it Is evidence of my skill? I have con
could make me ho furiously angry at verted them Into vegetarians." Flle
tlmes! Exchange. ' geude Blatter.
PIGEON COURTSHIP.
It
Sometimes I.eal to Unfile
That
ite.Hiilt In Dentil.
On a south Jersey farm, which was
the home of a thousand pigeons and
which was conducted by a woman who
I.... I 1
1:1 1 ""'"ei-iy neeu a uooicKeoper ui
Cliihiib'lpliin. was found one particular
ny and coop which was the abiding
place of young doves that had reached
I lie mating season. Purposely these
young birds wore associated together
go that they might select their life com
panions. The interior of the walls of the coop
were filled with boxes, and those
pigeons which had mated would select
one of these boxes for their home and
nost.
This period of courtship is one filled
with excitement for the birds. Two
young pigeon cocks, having selected the
I ,w"1 "" " "ue, unu-umi Know u
. .'d ii i it r.. ...... i. i
? o me ueain ui uiiar rivalry.
J tie method of combat Is peculiar. The
beak and wings alone are used, the
combatants catching each other wlft?
their beaks by the skin of the head and
heating each other with their strong
wings.
Having once chosen his mate, the
dove, with an occasional exception, re
mains constant to her through life. The
occasional Instances of infidelity cause
discord In the coop, for when one
pigeon tires of his mate and seeks an
other he moots a vlgorosw protest from
i the companion of the bird which he
I covets. When they have agreed to
spend their lives together Mr. and Mrs.
Hove select a box and the laying be
gins. The parent birds may then bo
less than eight months old. lira Mag
azine. GODPARENTS.
An
iieleiit Institution, Doulitlcnn ot
JcwImIi Origin.
Wo must doubtless look to the Jews
for the origin of godfathers and god
mothers. Tho use of them in the primi
tive church is so early that it Is not
easy to tlx a time for their beginning.
Some of the most ancient fathers make
mention of them, and through all the
successive ages afterward we find the
use of them continued without any In
terruption. P.y a constitution of Ed
mund, archbishop of Canterbury. 1,10,
and in a synod hold at Worcester,
l''H. a pro isioii was made that there
should be for every male child two
godfathers and one godmother ami for
eery female one godfather and two
godmothers. King Henry VIII.. refer
ring to the Princess Elizabeth, says:
My lord of Canterbury.
I half n salt which you must not dony
mc -
That l. a f;dr young maid that yet v.iiat.H
ln;tiseii.
You must he Kinlfathor nnd answer for
her.
"Henry VIII.." Act f.. Scene 3.
A constitution of l'JSl makes provi
sion for a Christian name being
changed at confirmation. This Is prae
t. .illy a !-!s::i.ing of tho child. The
tr..:i:i.er in which it was done was for
the hi-hop to use the name in the invo
cation and afterward for him to sign a
certificate that he had so confirmed a
person by such new name. It Is possi
ble that this practice might have been
In Shakespeare's mind when he wrote:
i ill in hat ". and I'll he now baptized.
Menc forth 1 n vvr will bo Koaieo.
"Ituntio ami Juliet." Act 2, Sccno 2.
We iSminster Ueviow.
BATHING AND HEALTH.
lleiwtitN to He Deri veil From Colli
WntiT mill Rubbing-.
A cold bath wo might as well get at
the straight of the thing Is not really
a n atter of cleanliness so much as a
matter of getting the skin livened up
."lid tho capillaries and veins next to
the surface full of bloiKl. Ice cold
water or scalding hot water will do
that, but tepid water no. no!
The skin is almost exactly the same
kind of an excreting organ us the
lungs. The same products seep
through tho pop's as are carried off In
tho breath, and the air purifies the
blo.nl in the same way. Put the great
er part of the skin is smothered tip In
clothes day and night. What the cold
water of the bath dissolves Is matter
well away. And the rubbing dry Is
pretty vigorous exorcise If you want
to know. Any rubbing Is bound to
push the blood along toward the heart
and 1 eiji the circulation, because there
arc valves in the veins which prevent
the blood from going In any other di
rection than toward the heart What
ever loose Hakes of outer cuticle are
rubbed off we needn't worry about;
plenty more whore they came from.
The extra food the Increased appetite
demands will make good that trilling
loss. Eugene Wood In Everybody's
Magazine.
The Spinning Wheel In Ireland.
The spinning wheel and the llax
wheel are still found in the Irish cot
tages, where many a girl has her wed
ding dowry of linen and homespun
made at home. Although It is more
the task of the older women, there are
cfill '!rl u-lin ilit fln-lr k.iiltniln' stint !
, . , t . moin.t for their I
wedding outfit. A pleasant sight It Is
j to see the elderly women outside their
cottage doors spinning the tlax or the
wool. As long as the weather Is warm
the sturdy Irishwoman, old or young,
scorns a roof except to sleep under.
The free air and sunshine are her
choice, and the sweet sky is the fair
est roof.
t
.v i.nril Mini into Slavery.
Charles Reade found the hero of his
novel, "The Wandering Heir." in the
person of Lord Altham of Ireland, who
was sold as a "redemptioner" at Phlla-
uoipiua in ii's, and w ho served ror ; medical services of the town. The con
twelve years In effect as a slave to one ! dltlons 0f the experiment are that each
or
Ilioro masters 111 Lancaster county. I
la. i no young uoDlemaii was recog
nized by two Irishmen who came by
accident to the house where he lived,
and Admiral Vernon afterward took
i him back to Ireland. Reade laid the
I scene of Lord Altham's servitude In
northern Delaware, but it is pretty well
established that this was an error.
A Conversion.
A country circus advertised that "at
112 o'clock tho cannibals will be fed."
A largo crowd assembled, but to every
body's disappointment the savages ato
potatoes. In reply to some Indignant
CHOICE MISCELLANY
I'nssiiiL; of Spellbinder.
The c.impa igiis of two candidates
who won notable victories were marked
by the liberal and novel use of adver
tising.
Mr. Cortelyou inserted pages of spe
cial and costly advertising 'in high class
magazines and periodicals and in se
lected newspapers containing judicious
lira iso of President Honsevelt. The ad
vertisements were carefully and clev
erly constructed. They contained a few
Inspiring quotations from Mr. Roose
velt's speeches and writings, a few
praiseful opinions of Mr. Roosevelt's
char.-u ter and career from rnon.-nf note
and a brief sketch of the man and his
deeds. The man was the theme. Some
prominent Republicans made speeches
and a few spellbinders were employed,
but undoubtedly the largest single item
In the bill of expenses was advertising.
Governor Elect Douglas of Massa
chusetts, who accomplished the re
markable feat of getting elected gov
ernor as n Democrat In a Republican
landslide, announced that he would do
his campaigning through the newspa
pers aial periodicals. He advertised his
political opinions and pledges Just as
he advertised his shoes.
That intelligent advertising of this
kind Is potent cannot be gainsaid. The
results indicate it. Hut do not these
advertising experiments presage the
pas-ing of the spellbinders? -St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Ten (iroitinic In Mouth Cxirollnn.
Dr. Charles A. Shepard of South
Carolina has proved on his own plan
tation at Summerville, twenty miles
out of Charleston, that the growing of
te.i can be carried on successfully and
profitably. He has bei n doing this for
the past twelve years, with such good
results that the secretary of agricul
ture and the congress of the United
States highly approve his deeds, and
both are extending him liberal assist
ance. "My idea from the start." said Dr.
Shepard, "was to add an additional
crop t the farm products of the coun
try. The road to agricultural supremacy
is through diversifying. Tea raising In
the Cuited States Is certainly practica
ble. It is no new thing in this country,
for In the old days a French priest
pluiitcd tea on the banks of the Ashley
river. Hut owing to the difference in
the cost of labor the Cuited States can
not compote with the orient In low
grade of cheap teas. It will pay us to
produce only that of the highest qual
ity and which brings a high price In
market. The tea grown on my place In
South Carolina compares with the best
that is imported from eastern lands." -Washington
Post.
Sugared Wood.
Mr. Powell, u LiverjMtol merchant,
has perfected a process for vulcaniz
ing wood comparable In some respects
with the P.esscuicr process .f convert
Ing iron into steel. After a prolonged
series of experiments he has discovered
a method of so treating timber as M
secure even from the soft wonls a
largely lnereascd'"Toughnos.s and hard
ness. The treatment to which thf
timber is subjected is. roughly sM-al;
lug. that uf saturation at iK.iling mini
with a solution of sugar, the water be
ing afterward evaporated at a high
temperature. The result is to leave the
pores and the Interstices of the wo. id
filled in with solid matter, and tho tim
ber vulcanized, preserved and season
ed. The nature of moderately soft
wood. St Is claimed. Is hi Shis way
changed to a tough and hard sub
stance without brittleness ami alsc
without any tendency to spiit or break.
It Is als rondenil remarkably imper
vious t water. Hard wood .similarly
treated dorhes similar boi.etit. It is
claimed that the process may he com
pleted and the timber turned out ntidy
for use in a few days.
Visitor In I'n rltn iiii-nt.
The country cousin cares nothing for
the commons, but H all eagerness to
visit the house of lords. He persists
In taking the clerks at the table for
the prime minister and the leader of
the opposition. He asks for Mr. Ial-
f.ur. and on being shown a pair of
boots on the table brutally demands
the prime minister's head, which, no
cording to Mr. Lloyd George, may he
ativ whore but on the treasury bench.
"Where does Mr. Hoaly sit:" is an in
quiry neatly countered by the reply
that It Is sometimes on Mr. Redmond,
and the emlMKllmont of the law seated
on the woolsack prompts tho query.
"Is it alive?" a question to which Mr.
Lloyd George's dissenting friends In
Scotland would mournfully respond.
"Very much so." London Outlook.
Triumph For the I'iikIInIi Tiiukuc.
An English speaking nation has
grown up on the west hie of the At
hint to w hich has done and is doing
more than the parent country to give
the t.wigue a world vogue. Two-thirds
of the people who speak English live in
the I'n. till States. The Industrial and
commercial conquests which this coun
try Is gaining tell In fa r of its peo-
pie's tongue. A century ago French.
Spanish and German were far ahead of
English in the number of persons who
Used them as a vehicle of speech. Put
In the lapse of time English has passed
all of thom and Is spoken by more peo
ple today than Is any other civilized
tongue. Chicago Journal.
Mnulelpul .Medicine.
Switzerland contemplates a curious
object lesson In municipal socialism.
The city of Zurich is making an ex
periment in the coinmunlzlng of tho
ti1l,lt..int nnvs n renr's tnr nf !!
7Mrd.. and that tho product of 20,ooo
is (livioeii in salaries oi i.ioo a year :
iiiuong forty medical men. who will at '
- i.. t . i ..a r
tend the Inhabitants gratuitously.
Superfluous Details.
Caller (looking at picture) Does your
mamma paint? Little Son Yes. but
she's through with that an is puttlif
on the powder now. She'll be down in
n minute.
Accepted.
"Jackson tells nie the last thin
he ,
wrote woe accepted,
what It was?"
"Yfi; his resignation,
lion.
Do you know
'London Mil-
Rats and conquerors must expect no
mercy In misfortune. Cotton.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Korean girl over seven are all taught
at homo by tutors.
The pack horses of Nagasaki. Japan,
wear shin's of straw.
Motor cars intended for desert trav
eling will arrive at Khartum sooti.
At the close of l!M).'i the London po
lice had a collection of 70,000 sets of
linger prints of criminals.
A motor cyclist in England was ar
rested because his coat tails hid tho
number of his machine from a police
man's view.
Rotsy Meagher of County Sllgo. who
died the other day at the age of VIZ,
used to rail at her seveiity-live-year-ohl
daughter for keeping late hours.
The Important question. When docs
a bride cease to be a bride? is decided
by the Loudon Queen, which says she
becomes a "wife" at the expiration of
six weeks after the wedding.
The trade with Hrazil hist year luf?
never been surpassed except in the
throe record years of JSPO. lf'.H mid
lV.rj. It was .?.",).-iO.OX higher than the
average of the last ten years.
Nelson's statue at the Ri3l Naval
college, Greenwich, was found the oth
er morning with its nose painted a
bright red. The authorities are making'
a determined attempt to find the guflty
party.
Dr. Thoiioy. a medical town coiincM
or at P.olton. England, calls small bed
rooms death traps, and the council iE
seeking parliHineiitary powers to pre
scribe a minimum cubic space for bed
rooms. Shepherds started the fire which In
the last week of August caused a dRiw
age of S.non.ouO francs on the island of
Corsh-a. It lasted three days and de
stroyed many vineyards, orchards and
other valuable grounds.
Crowning the German system of In
dustrial education stand the greiit ttndi.
nical hinh schools. Their IKIIUO arid
faino have gone out into every country
where men are interested In the .Tfipff
c.itioii of science in iihl'istry.
The Canadian AssM-iatbni of Steam
Engineers has decided to petit km lh
Ontario legislature to puss an aet re
quiring every man in elurge of a
steam engine of over twenty-live horse
power to have an engineer's ctTtitknte. .'
The municipality of RelclM'iilierg. Hu
hemia. intends to erect a large electric
'plant to supply light for neighburlng
small towns and industrial establish
ments and another phsitt to furmsii
electric Ught to the sitlmrbs of tho
city.
P.y means an accidental short efr
citit in one of the Junction t Mixes hi an -electric
main in .Melbourne. AumuiiHii.
an alarm was sent in to every lire de
partment station, and l.roo estils wen?
received at the same instant in the
head telephone ollice.
The French government has author
ized the French West African lwfc U
increase its capital and to open a
branch in .Monrovia. Hitherto the
nuances of Liberia have been itJmust
wholly in Gorman hands. tletigh
has been no bank in tho ropnlilk.
The oldest children of two .lapeiwsN
families cannot marry, for tin eklot
child must always live at home ami so
keep she family homo from imsstat;
into strange hands. If a man marrlos
a .Taiwinese heiress he has to take lier
family name if he Is poor himself.
The California grand lodge of Ma
sons, which i mi itdos the subordinate
lodges of Hawaii. Is planning to btirld
In Si.n Francisco a temple lurge
enough to accommodate H raml huiU
hv of the craft within its jurisdiction.
Tho present temple is about forty
years old.
A stool girder foil while being Iroisti.il
to tie top of a San Francisco building
and struck a house mover's wnidin
roller, which rlcochettod across the
street, passed through the window of
a ertiekery store and swept a fifty foot
counter completely clear of the brlu-a-brae.
cut glass, dinner sots, vases, etc..
that were upon it.
civet Is one of the essential ingredi
ents of nearly all the high class per
fumes made, so there is always a
ready sale for it In the market. The
Abyssiiiians put this civet in small cat
tie horns, which arc packed in eases.
It Is sold by the ounce, the juice rang
ing from Sl.tSi to :t.Jt per ounce, ac
cording to purity and color.
The otlloers of the consolidated street
car linos of Oakland. Cal.. have titled
up a spacious ami thoroughly equipped
athletic and social club for tlieir em
ployees. Including billiard, pool and
mrd rooms, rinding room, luncheon,
gymnasium, bowling alley, shooting
gallery and baths. The only expenses
of she members will be for jaiiisor and
other service.
A French linn Is about to place on'
the market a novelty In postal cards;
To an ordinary pictorial card is atlix
od a Very thin transparent gelatin
disk, on which is Impressed a gramo
phone musical record. A hole is plere
ed through the center of the disk, awl
the post card can be placed on .in or
dinary "talking machine" and played
In the usual way.
Some boys nt Minneapolis wuw
caught trying to rob a mail box hi
a novel way she other day. They bad
a big grasshopper tied to the end oil a
bit of thread. They lowentl the imtvi
Into the little 1mx. and It caught a let
ter with Its claws and hung on to It
while being drawn out. The lnys Iwul
taken several letters from the box in
this way before they were caught.
The British admiralty is investigat
ing a nice little naval scandal. It ap
pears that the ship's police at the varf- ;
ous naval schools have been allowing
the names of men on furlough to ve
main on the mess books and so draw
rations, the value of the rathwis being
appropriated by the men who made
the false entries. This has Im'cii goiux
on for years and has cost England a
large sum of money.
Snored Mountain,, In .I.nimu.
Travelers In Japan are astonished to
find the grandest shrines throughout
the land situated on the tofs of hfcjh.
precipitous mountains. This is became
every mountain In that country is dedi
cated to some deity who is believed to
be its guardian. These temple grounds
are covered with the oldest and largest
forest trees, and to the eyes of the peo
ple below the effect of the clouds which
hover nround the peak has originated
the belief that the gods hold the power
over the clouds to give or withhold
rain.
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