liANlKlN RECORRER.
COLOR IN FIREWORKS
HOW THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAZZLING
HUES ARE PRODUCED.
It I* All ■ Matter of I'beaMrr, tba
Reaalt of «*'• Couiburlloa of th«
Balta of I ertaia Metals — The Me-
eAaalee of Hotatlna Firework«.
The chief beauty of fireworks la
their range of resplendent colors— ru
by. sapphire, emerald, topax, amethyst,
aquauuiriue aud scores of tints uuJ
shades between, liow Is ull this evan
escent glory of color obtained? The se
cret Iles In directed chemical com bus
tlou by means of cases and composi
tions. the results of murvelous calcula
tion and skill.
The matter Is simple enough to those
who know. It Is attained by the com
bustion of the salts of certain metals.
In other words, the burning metah
have each their characteristic color.
Sodium gives off* yellow flame; cal
cium, orange; barium, green; stronti
um, red; copper, green or blue, accord
ing to circumstances, and so on. Other
familiar metals. Iron, steel and xinc,
give their tribute of colors. Iron filings
give bright red and white sparks; cop
per tilings, a green tint; xinc, a fine
blue; steel tilings and cast Iron borings,
a brilliant tire with wavy radiations.
Every one is familiar with the color
ed fires, but who would suppose that
lycopodium, the delicate pollen of cer
tain mosses, so tine that It is used to
powder baby’s skin, furnishes u rose
colored fire with a magnificent flame?
These colored tires are called tn tech
nical language "fixed tires" and con
sist of slow compositions that may be
piled in little cones ou a flagstone and
lighted at the top. They burn slowly
ami there is no explosion. These com
positions are made In many colors.
Homan candles belong to the fixed
Are class and are also called fusees.
We all know the straight, slender cyl
inder or cartridge of the ordinary ro
man candle. Lt Is packed as follows:
First there is put tn It a charge of fine
gunpowder, and above this is placed a
"star.” These are simply balls of some
special composition containing metallic
tilings, according to the color desired,
made up with gum and spirits of wine.
Stars and charges alternate until the
cylinder fs full. Each star ball Is dried
and dusted with gunpowder before
pncklng. The first charge of gunpow
der In esploding starts the stellar pro
cession until one after another they
blaze Individually and vanish like fall
ing stars. Next In order to the fixed
Ores come rotating fireworks—namely,
wheels. Are wheels, bisecting wheels,
plural wheels, caprice wheels and
spiral wheels, all more or less com
plex.
The colors of fireworks are a matter
of chenflstry; the no less important mo
tions that display the beauty of these
colors to the beBt advantage are a mat
ter of mechanics. The man who Is a
first class pyrotechnist Is versed In both
Sciences.
The ordinary pinwheel is a simple ex
ample of rotating fireworks. It Is a
long ease pncki-d wftli a tire conq>osl-
tlon and wound round a disk of wood.
Tlie outer end of the spiral Is primed
with an explosive material. When It
Is lighted It "kicks,” just as a gun does
when the powder explodes in the car
tridge. and round and round tiles the
wheel, sending out flashes and showers
of colored or golden Are.
Some of the most dazzling and glori
ous effects In pyrotechnical displays
are produced by rotating fireworks, for
there «irius to l>e no limit to the va
riety of arrangement of cast's and com
positions to produce multiple motions
and transformation scenes in color In
this class of flreworks.
A third class comprises the ascending
fireworks. Skyrockets belong to tills
class and may be simple or very elab
orate. according to their garniture of
stars, sparks, spirals, serpents or show
ers of gold or silver rain.
A skyrocket consists of two (Mirts—a
body and a head made separately and
afterwurd attached to the body. The
body Is n straight cylinder of heavy
pasted pnper dust'd at the lower end
so ns to leave only a very narrow open
ing for the escape of the Are. A cen
tral hollow bore exft-nds three-quarters
of the way up the body, and all about
this is packed the special explosive
composition, the downward recoil of
which sends the rocket rushing swift
ly upward, guided and balanced by the
light stick of willow wood. The head,
a pnper cylinder with a conical top,
holds the special composition which Is
to form stars, serpents, spirals or what
not A fuse In the top of the body ex
plodes when the rocket reaches Its ut
most height aud sets off this composi
tion, the vnrying color, form and mo
tion of which excite the “Ohs!" and
"Ahs!” of the admiring crowds.
The great spectacular displays com
bine the several classes—flxed, rotat
ing and ascending flreworks.
Temples, trees, ships, portraits, fig
ures vf men, beusts mid b!id.->, “ -wers.
shields, and so forth, are represented
by suitable frameworks of wood either
wound with coarse cotton rovings
rbout two Inches In diameter. Impreg
noted wtth certain compositions and
wet with spirits, or else they have at
tached to them lances or cases of car
tridge paper filled with various com
positions, the whole placed In commu
nication by conduits or small paper
cartridge«.—Youth’s Companion.
Ideatlfled.
"What has become." asked the oc
casional guest, “of the pretty black
eyed girl who nsed to wait at that
table over In the corner?"
"What pretty black eyed girl?" frig
idly Inquired the young woman with
the snub nose and prominent chin.
“If I remember rightly, she had a
little bit of a mole on one clx*ek."
“Oh. that girl with the blotch on her
face? I think somebody married her."
—New York Press.
’
.
Ilna r DItttnrt Advantage.
Addlpus—Don’t you hate to «be as
lean as you are? Sklnnltwis No; some
times I find It's a decided help. I can
cross my legs
a crowded car without
taking up any mor* room that I did
before.—Chien go Tribune.
The noblest qnesttin In the W»'rld la,
What gosfi i*iy 1 do In It?- Franklin.
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The Twelve
Wild Geese
By Seumss MicMinu«
«upltngU. MM. bg Scunuu V'u SfunMa
NCE upon a time there was a
girl mimed Maura, who had
had twelve brothers, but when
each of her brothers readied
twelve years of age he suddenly His-
appeared, and no one knew whut be
came of them.
When Maura reached sixteen years
of age and lar twelfth brother was
just carried off she said she would not
remain at home, but would travel
away in search of her brothers and
never stop until she should And them.
So she started and traveled away be
fore her far farther than I could tell
you and twice as far as you could tell
me. until she reached a strange coun
try, and there at a wee house, in which
there lived only one old woman, she
put up one evening as night was com
ing down.
The old woman welcomed her and
sat her down to u good supper.
Maura saw there were preparations
made for twelve others besides herself
at the table, and just as she sat down
she saw a flock of wild geese coming
toward the house. They flew in at the
door, and she counted twelve, and as
they Ut on the floor every one of the
wild geese turned into a young man.
anil they were Maura's twelve broth
ers.
Maura, as you may be sure, was re
joiced, and she said to them that they
would all set out for home the next
morning, but they told her they could
never go home, that they were en
chanted, but allowed to come to this
housi* every night and enter into their
own shape until cockcrow next morn
ing.
Poor Maura cried bitterly when she
heard this. They sat up all night talk
ing and talking, but the moment the
cock crew In the morning the twelve
brothers turned Into twelve wild geese
again and flew out of the door aud
away.
Maura asked the old woman If there
was no way at all of releasing her
brothers, and tb<> old woman told her
that she could release them In one
way.
"How is that?" said Maura.
“It Is this.” said the old woman,
"that for three years you neither
laugh, cry nor speak, but spend all
your time In spinning, weaving and
making twelve shirts from the caena-
vawn. (The caenavawn Is a flower
that grows In the bogs. It has a per
fectly whit«*, plumy bead.)
Maura agreed to do this. And after
she got her breakfast she went out Into
O
woman in that rustle who had vX|avt
ed to marry the prince and who hated
Maura bocauae she had married him.
On the night this child was born abe
bad It thrown lato the sea, and she
stained Maura's bauds with blood aud
put bloxl In the room. So when the
prince came to l*k at his child be
coul«l And num*, but saw the blo«Ml on
Maura's hands and over the room, and
the redheaded Woman said she bad
murdered the child.
A nA when Maura did not speak the
prince went away In very great sorrow
For the next twelve months Maura
went on as tiefore, and at the end ot
that time another child was born. The
re<lheade<l woman bad this child also
thrown Into the sea and stained Mau
ra’s hands and the room with blood
again. And when the prince came in
to look nt bis child anti found no chlkl
and Maura s hands and the room stain
.■d with blood be was in a terrible
rage, and be could not get Maura to
say one word on the subjwt.
He went away, and Maura for the
next twelve months worked harder
than ever la-fore, for the gathering and
spinning of caenavawn were very te
dious work.
At the end of the next twelve
months, when she bad the twelfth shirt
almost finished, a third child was borr
to her, and the red lmlred woman did
this time as she had done on the other
two times, and when the prince came
into the room he found no child, but
the bliMsl again upon Maura's hand
ami on the floor. He was tn a terrible
wrath, and the re«l haired woman suid
to him that he would have to burn
Maura. On the two times before she
had also urged him to burn bls wife
but lie had always refused. Now lie
thought ther«' was nothing for it but
to agree, so when he gave his consent
a great heap of wood was prepared fot
a Are in the castle yard, and Maura
was taken out and bouml to a stak«
on the heap.
When she found herself being carried
out, she seized the shirts, and when
they tied her to the stake she worked
and worked as fast as her lingers could
go upon the twelfth shirt, for it was
very, very nearly finished, but it was
very doubtful whether she would lx
able to finish It before the fire should
begin to burn her.
But behold! Just as they put th«
fire to the wood she drew the Iasi
stitch in the twelfth shirt, and that In
stant a flock of wild geese were seen
flying toward them. Straight for the
pile and for Maura tlie wild geese flew
She caught hold of the twelve shirts,
and over each wiki goos<* as it came up
she threw a shirt, and the instant she
dill so the wild geese were transformed
into flue, handsome young men, and
when the prince and all there were
wondering, up walk«*d the very old wo
man with whom she had spent th«
night on her travels, and this woman
had three babies with her—Maura'«
three that had been thrown into the
sen. The old woman led the children
to the prince and told him what had
really happened, and Maura was taken
off the pile, and the red haired woman
was put on it Instead and burned.
Maura's twelve brothers were now
forever released from their enchant
inent, and the prince appointed them
twelve officers in bis army, nnd he ami
Maura and their three children were
very, very happy ever after.
Slate Marble.
Slate marble is a Belgian product
which when completed looks just Ilk«
black marble and carries a polish quit«
as durable, so that the surface cun b«
etched, engraved, gilded or silvered
Just as If It were the genuine article.
Slate suitable for the purpose is Aral
polished with sandstone, then with ar
tificial and Anally with very light nat
ural pumice stone. By this time th«
surface looks soft, like velvet, and aft
er being dried und heated It is impreg
liated with a hot mixture of oil and
line lampblack, which is allow«>«l to re
main on for twelve hours. If neees
sary, this operation Is repeated, and
the polishing process is renewed, Arst
with emery nnd then wtth tin aahei
aud lampblack.
As a finish wax dissolved In turpen
tine Is spread over It and allowtxl to re
main for some time before being ruts
"It is this,” «slid t?u old woman.
bed off with a linen rag and plenty ol
the bogs and gathered up the full of elbow grease. Then the Imitation Is
her arms with caenavawn and brought complete, nnd no one looking nt th«
smooth black surface could guess that
them home.
Then the old woman gave her a silver it bid beneath it a slab of homely slate
wheel, an ivory loom and a golden nee
Considerable of a Place.
dle and silk thread to spin and to
A gentleman who had «H-casion to gc
weave and to make the shirts.
And every day Maura sat down with to nn inland New England village ten
her wheel outside the little house spin miles from a railroail was met at the
station by an okl fellow who looked as
ning the caenavawn.
Hut she had not tx'en many days at If he might have just awa kern'd after
this when who should rid«* past but the a Rip Van Winkle sh'ep. Ills horse
young prince of that «rountry, and nnd buggy were In keeping with tlieir
when he saw Maura be fell In love owner’s ancient appearance. "Here we
with her at once, she was so very, air at last," said the driver, when they
finally cam«' to three houses and n
very beautiful.
lie pulh*d up his horse and aske«l for blacksmith's shop.
"This isn’t much of a place, is It?”
n drink, and Maura brought him a
bowl of water. He said a lot of sweet snld the depressed stranger, looking
things to Maura, but she made him no around.
“Oh. you don’t see nil o’ It from
reply. He gave her back the bowl,
here,” was the reply. “Thnr’s two
kiss«'«! h«'r hand and rode on.
Next day he rode past the house more houses over liehlnd that hill thar,
iiguin, and .tinura was without, work an’ a roopcr"» chop !«»♦. around tb«t
Ing her silver wheal. lie stopped again bend In the road thar. Come to bunch
anti naked for a drink of water, which 'em all together an’ It’s consld'able o’
Maura brought to him. He asked Mau a place—but. o' course. It ain’t New
ra he- name and where she came from, York."—Woman’s Home Companion.
but Maura only shook her head, and,
The Mad Ambnnandnr.
though he snl<! many nlc«> things to
There was a tragic little scene Imme
her. she would give him no answer, diately preceding the marrlnge of King
and be rode away again.
Edward VII. when he was the Prince
On the day after he rode.past there of Wales. With several of Ids royal
again and asked for a drink of water. relatives he was staying at the I’rus
And as Maura reach«! him a bowl of slnn embassy In Rome, where bls host
water he caught hold of her arm. drew was tlie German ambassador. Baron
her up on the hors«' behind him am! von Kanitz.
rode off.
The responsibility of entertaining so
And he ordered thoee that attended many august personages under his
him to bring with them the silver roof was too much for the ambassador.
wheel and the Ivory loom, the golden He appeared at dinner one night In his
ne«xllc and th«» silk thread, and the dressing gown and slippers and to
heap of «aienavawn at which Maura half the royalties of Europe exclaimed:
wrought, and he rode away and away, "Is this to go on much longer? I am
with Maura behind him, until he came heartily sick of It. and It must come to
to his owu castle, and here he married an epd at once.”
Maura.
They carried him to his room and the
He thought it very, very strange that next day removed him to an asylum, a
Maura would not speak to him ami raving lunatic.
■
•
that she would not laugh and would
The Small ChlMrea.
not cry, but spent all her days tn
"I wonder what it Is," said the fami
gathering and spinning and weaving
the raenavawn and making it up Into ly man, “that makes landlords and
Janitors dislike to have small children
shirts.
He tried everything he Bould try to In flats.” “The small children. I
change her. He gave great feasts and guess," repll«xl the savage bachelor.—
Ledger.
grent balls and made Maura attend Philadelphia
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them all, but she never altered.
If you yf«h to
see | eople you must
After a year a young son was born
to her. Now. there was a redheaded begin by uuderstaudiu/them Reade.
THE SELFISH COUPLE.
MEXICAN DRAWN WORK.
Huabatnd» aud Hl«n Klei Hefaaa ««
Mlnale In Soelelr.
The Womea Who Make It Aecordlae
to t'eou tuntrart.
Selfishness is the bane of all life
It cannot enter into life—Individual,
family or s«x-ial without cursing it
Therefore If any married pair find
themselves inclined to confine them
selves to one another’s society, India
posed to go abroad aud mingle wit)
the life around them, disturb'd ami ir
ritated by the collection of felends lr
their own dwelling or in any way mov
ed to regard their social duties as dis
agreeable, let them be alarmed at once
It Is a bad symptom—an essentially
morbid symptom. They should insti
tute means at once for removing thlf
feeling, and they «an only remove It by
persistently going into society, persist
ently gathering It into their own dwell
Ing and persistently endeavoring to
learn to love and feel an Interest tn all
with whom they meet. The process of
regeneration will not be a te«llous one,
for the rewards of social life are lm
mediate.
The heart enlarges quickly with the
practice of hospitality. The sympathies
run and take root from point to point
each root throwing up leaves and bear
lug flowers and fruit like strawberry
vines if they are ouly allowed to do
so.
It Is only sympathies and strawber
ries that are cultivated in hills which
do otherwise. The human face Is a
thing which should be able to bring
the heart Into blossom with a moment's
shining, and will be such with you If
you will meet It properly.
The penalties of family Isolation will
not, unhappily, fall entirely uion your
selves. They will be visited with
double force upon your children. Chil
dren reared in the borne with few or
no associations will grow up either
boorish or sensitively timid.
It is a cruel wrong to children to rear
them without bringing them into con
tinued contact with polite social life.
The ord«*al through which children
thus reared are obliged to pass in gain
ing the ease and assurance which will
make them at home elsewhere than un
der the paternal roof Is one of the
severest, while thoee who are constant-
ly accustomed to a social life from
their youth are educated in all Its
forms and graces without knowing It.
Great multitudes of men and women
all over tlie country are now living se
cluded from social contact simply from
their sensitive «ronseiousness of igno
rance of the forms of graceful inter
course.
They feel that they cannot break
through their reserve. There is, doubt
less, much that is morbid in this feel
Ing, aud yet It Is nxilnly natural. From
all this mortlflcathn and this depriva
tion every soul might have been saved
by education in a home where social
life was properly lived. It is cruel to
deny to children the opportunity not
only to become accustomed from their
first consciousness to tlie forms of so
ciety, but to enjoy its Influence upon
their developing life.
Society Is food to children. Contact
with other minds Is tlie means by
which they are educated, and the dif
ference In families of children will
show at once to the accustomed eye the
different social character of their par
ents. But I have no space to follow
this subject further, and I leave it
with you, with the earn«*st wish that
you will consider it and profit by the
suggestions I have given you.—"Tim
othy Titcomb’s Letters" In Boston
Globe.
The woman who makes drawn work
on a Mexleua estate Is not an lndepend
eut worker to whom comes the mone;
for all the work her deft bands accom
pllsh. She is a woman whose fatbet
or brother or uncle or mother la tn debt
to the “great don.” She can do th«
drawn work, so the dor's agent sup
plies her with linen or lawn, a frame
(nd the requisite Implements and in
dleates the design that she is to fol
low, for. though you may not know it
there are fashions in drawn work quit«
as exclusive and quite as populur at
there ar«' in women’s bats, for Instance
When her work Is done that poor wo
man cannot fare forth to market and
offer It for sale. It is by the term ol
her |x'uu contrast perhaps already sold
to the "great don," whose tenant she
is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work,
by now ns grimy us the overalls of an
engineer. He has kept account of th«
time the woman has been engaged up
on it, and for each of the many day»
sh«' may have worked he gives her 7
8, li, at most* 12 cents, but uever the
last amount unit's* she be a thorough
mistress of her craft.
once a year the Mexicans for whom
th«* women do this work, somewhat as
the sweatshop tollers of Chicago and
New York drive their needles for n
m ister, meet in solemn conference nn<)
determine what the prices shall be. So
great is the popularity of drawn work
generally that the supply never equals
the demand, and the proflts made by
the Mexican masters of the drawn
work trust, for it is really tliuL are
enormous. The dealer pays these “op
erators" what they demand, and they
demand much. Therefore the buyer
pays $40 for a “cloth" that costs the
"manufacturer" 12 cents a day. labor
hire, for, say. ninety days, to produce.—
Pilgrim.
THE RAILROAD FIREMAN.
Building a Fire In a Locomotive la
Not an Kan) Job.
The average citizen manages to set
the house in an uproar every time be
has to make a fire In the beater, but
his job is a trifle in comparison with
what a railroad fireman faces when a
new fire has to be built in a locomo
tive. As a starter about 200 pounds of
wood are necessary to Are up the or
dinary engine. The wool used is old
railroad ties cut Into convenient blocks.
When the fire box has been lined with
wood it Is drenched with oil, and the
match is applied.
As soon as the fire gains headway
forced draft is applied, the operation
necessary being performed In the
roundhouse, where all apparatus for
quickly producing high temperature Is
at hand. When a good bed of blazing
wood has been produced the fireman
gets busy with his shovel, placing coal
in even layers over the flames. This
part of the work is hard on the back,
and the aggrieved Individual whose
woes are evident to the whole block
when he labors with the heater would
go down and out In the first minute at
It. Under the forced draft It is only a
few minutes before the coal has been
reduced to a sheet of embers at white
heat, and by this time there is enough
steam pressure generated to permit of
the locomotive tielng move,! urnler Its
own power.
Continuous resort to the shovel on
the part of the fireman docs the rest.
It Is only about once a month that a
new fire Is built In a locomotive while
in service The bn line«' of the time the
fire Is kept alight by being banked
when tlie Iron horse is not on the road.
—Philadelphia Record.
Plcwcr«
rood Cheer.
Although Dr. Oliver Wendell Holm«**
never practiced medicine, those who
knew him intimately say that he
cht'ered more sinking invalids, cured
more sick people nnd did more good,
even from a medical standpoint, than
many of his young physician friends
The secret of his power lay In his over
flowing chrerfulness and kindness of
heart. He scattered "flowers of good
cheer" wherever be went. With film
optimism was a creed. "Mirth Is God's
medicine,” he declared. "Everybody
ought to bathe in It Grim care, mo
roseness, anxiety—all the rust of life-
ought to be scoured off by the oil of
mirth."
Japanese K«»ll«h.
At a recent exhibition of pictures in
Tokyo, Japan, the following uotlce was
posted; “No visitor who Is mad or In
toxicated N allowed to enter In. If any
person found in shall be claims«! to re
tire. No visitor la a flowed to carry In
with himself any parcel, umbrella,
(tick and the like kind, except his purse,
and la strictly forbidden to take with
In himself dog or the same kind of
beasts. Visitor Is requested to take
care of himself from thievly.”
A StKsOICS PLEASURE
but ll < ».al Ui. v Warnau lu I'rnce
of >11 uJ aud Comfort.
Mary Makepeace sat down In her fa
vorite chair lu tier owu room aud
threw her Lead buck, with a long sigh.
“No words can tell Low glad I am
that I've made my lust visit for th«
summer,” she said. “Now I shall have
some peace, uot to mention pleasure.”
"My dear!” said her mother reproach-,
fully.
“I uieau It." returned Mary. “Of
course I like change of scene, but I
am tired of adaptiug my whole life to
others, as I am expected to do as a
Welcome guest.”
“My dear!” said her mother again.
"Think how kind everybody baa been
to you.”
“They meant to tie—they were kind,”
Mary said wearily, “yet 1 feel as If 1
had barely escaixol with my life, an«!
you will admit that Is not Just tlie
right kind of after feeling.
"Let me tell you, mother." Mary
continued. "At th«- Fosters' 1 changed
my hours for rising, for retiring aud
for eating my meals. At the Lanes' I
changed father’s politics for of «-ours«
I haven't any of my own—to please
Mr. Iaine, and I had all I could do to
keep from changing my religion to
please Mrs. Laue.
"At the Jenkins' I changed all my
views about wbat constitute-« dlicrslou
to suit the family In gi'uer. I At the
Pages' I entirely changed my point of
view «•oiicerniug music and b >And
ut the Nevins', where I was ill, 1
changed my doctor un.l t > tk stuff
which I felt sure would |.oisou me just
to please them.
“1 ate dices«', which I abhor, and
gave up fruit, which 1 like, at the
Fisks'. I slept with cl ised windows at
Great-aunt Maria's because she Is
afraid of a breath of air. and I drank
twenty-one pinta of hot water the four
days I was at Cousin Thomas' to 'flush
my system.'
WEDDED TO A VASE.
"No." sal I Mar,, in a firm voice. “I
(Inaular Marriage Ceremony That pay no mure visits lor mouths to come.
Was Wl«ne««ed In China.
Home ke<«*-.i' ; yj it’.i may have homely
One of the most extraordinary of wits, bet If I : •> about much more 1
Chinese customs to western minds is shall n t li iv«' any wits at all.”—
the not infrequent practice of marry Youth's C
ing celebrated widows to native vases.
An American traveler witnessed aucli
TRUSTING TO FATE.
a ceremony, which was performed with
great pomp. The widow was of high An Incident 'Flint GI tcm nn Inftiifht
station. When the news of her hus
Into HuMxlan Character.
band's death reached her she was In
A few years ago 1 was taking a
consolable and wished to enter the country walk in Kovno. The road lay
state of widowhood, but her father de through a dense forest, aud the day
murred. Somebody suggesti-d that an was oppressi. ely Lot. I arrived at last
ether husband might be forthcoming, at a crossroad and sat down under tlie
aud, as may readily be surmised, at shade of the trees to rest. A signpost
this stage of the proce«*diiigs the worn pointed its two arms «(own the «xiu-
an was in despair. A wise teacher ol verging roads. Ou one of them was fu
the Confucian philosophy wus consult scribed "14 versts to Janova,” ou the
ed, and he recalled to mind tlie ancient other "17 versts to Shadows.’* Present
ceremony of marriage to a flower vase ly the creukiug of wheels and the slow
It was a rite of great antiquity, leg “clo(>, clop" of a horse’s hoofs on the
end attributing its origin to an empress road behind roused me. A cart piled
who ruled before the Christian era. It high with tinware was coming down
was decided that the woman might the road, with tlie driver perched on
"marry the red vase.” It was neces the top of tlie loud.
sary. however, to procure the Imperial
"Good day, brother,” I called out as
sanction. This the great wealth of the cart, with its sorry horse, came
her father obtained, and on May 1 tlx abreast of me. The man returned my
wedding was solemnized.
salute, und the horse, glad of any ex
Ill th«» procession the vase was car cuse to rest bls weary legs, came to u
rirel under n silken canopy on a palau standstill in the middle of th«? ro d.
quin born«* by youths of noble birth,
"Which way are you going?” I asked.
"To Janova. There is a market there
while the brhle followed In another pa
lanquin guarded by twelve maidens tomorrow."
"But ther* Is also a market In Sha-
and twelve matrons. A military guard
and a civic escort made up the parade dowit," I answered, "and It Is n more
Iler bridegroom, the vase, is a sped Important place than Janova."
“So It Is, so It Is,” the driver repllrsl.
men of great value and antiquity; in
deed It Is said to excel in delicacy of with perfect Indifference.
"What have you for sale?"
ornamentation anything of its kind in
“Plenty of good tinware, as you can
the Flowery Kingdom.
see, brother. 1 have worked for six
weeks to make this cartload.”
FORMIDABLE GUNS.
"Well, g«sxl luck to you atul your
The Bombard* Iwed by the Turk« In tinware,” I said, pulling and eating the
the Fifteenth Century.
berries within reach. "Will yon take It
In 1478 Mohammed II., in forming to Janova or Shadowa?"
the siege of Scutari, in Albania, cm
The man picked up the bit of cord
ployed fourteen heavy bombards, the which served as reins nnd prepared to
lightest of which threw a stone ¡(hot of go on.
370 pounds weight, two sent «Rots of
"I shall leave that to my horse.” he
500 pounds, one of 750 pounds, two of answered callously.
850 pounds, one of 1.200 pounds, live
The lumbering wagon inoveil off nnd
of 1,500 and one of the enormous finally puss«*d out of sight down the
weight of 1,040 pounds, enormous even Jnnova road, which the horse had elect
In these days, for our 80 ton guns ed to take.—St. Janna«' Gazette.
throw only a 1,700 pound projectile,
our 100 ton throws one of 2,000 pounds,
FOR THE BACHELOR.
and the 110 tou throws an 1,800 pound
A«lvi<»r Th*« M*z Help III. C«»*rse ot
(hot with a high velocity.
Love to Hull Smooth.
The stone shot of Mohammed'«
Agree with the girl's father in poll
guns varied between twenty and tldr
ty-two inches In diameter, aliout the tics and the mother In religion.
If you have a rival, keep an eye ou
height of a dining table, 2,534 of them
fired on this occaslou weighing, ac him. If he is a widower. k«?ep two
cording to a calculation of General eyes on him.
Don't put too much sweet stuff ou pa
Lefroy's, about 1,000 tons, and were
cut out of the solid rock on the spot. per. If you do you will hear It in after
Assuming twenty-four inches as the years when your wife has some espe
average diameter of the shot fired at cial purpose in Inflicting upon you the
the siege, the total area of the surface severest punislimeut kuown to a mar
dressed was nearly 32,000 square feet. ried man.
Go home at a reasonable hour lu the
At this siege the weight of the powder
fired Is ratlmated by General Lefroy evening. Don't wait until a girl has
to have been 250 tons. At the siege of to throw her whole soul into u yawn
Rhodes In 1480 Mohammed caused six that she can't cover with both hands.
teen basilisks or double cannon to be A little thing like that might cause a
cast on the spot, throwing balls two to coolness at tlie very beginning of the
three feet In diameter.—Chambers' game.
If, on tlie occasion of your first call,
Journal.
the girl upon whom you hav«» set your
young affections lo-iks like an h c < r::
BLOWING OUT A CANDLE.
and acts like a cold wave, take your
The Effect n Puff nt llreaih Hun on leave early and stay away.
Woman
the Finnic.
in her hour of fre«?ze Is uncertain,
A burning candle is a gas manufac coy and hard to please.
tory ou a small scale. The wax or
In cold weather finish saying good
tallow IF convert««! by -the heat
H’o nipLt la tiz booax Don't stretch It all
flame into gas. and in that form en the way to the gate and thus lay the
ters into chemical combination with foundation for future asthma, bron
the oxygen of the surrounding air.
chitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh
This chemical union causes a very to help you to worry the girl after she
high rise In temperature in the ele has married. Don’t lie about your
ments concerned. In fact. It produces financial condition. It Is very annoy
what we know ns flame of fire, which ing to a bride who has pictured a life
Is simply the white hot molecules of of ease In her ancestral balls to learn
carbon and oxygen. The gas making too late that you expect her to ask a
process 1« started by the match in baldheaded old parent who has been
lighting the candle and is ufterward uniformly kind to her to take you both
continual by the flame Itself.
in out of the cold.—Chicago Journal.
Our breath acta fu three way: (D It
carries away the particles of gas Irodi-
Whale« o* Their Holiday«. ”
Proffwsor Goldlob has been telling
ly. (2) It lowers their temperature at
the same time, so that they are no the Christiania Academy of Hclence tlie
longer capable of entering Into chem results of bls Investigations Into the
ical union with tlie oxygen. (3) The migrations of whales. These creatures
breath contains carbonic acid gas. hang about the «roast of Norway and
which Is Incapable of supporting com Flnlatxl until the spring Is well ad
bustion and so helps to extinguish the vanced, and then they go away on
flame.
their travels. Some go to the Azores,
others to Bernini« and the Antilles,
Mr Coaataat t«e.
“Yes. she's a woman of few words." and they «rover 'these enormous dis
“And, mercy, how fray«] she keeps tances in an Incredibly short time
them looking!"—Cleveland Plain Deal *me of them bring back harpoous
which bear the names of ships nnd
er.
other evMen«-es of where th*c mi
Ix>ve Is only a woman's device for grants have been for their suiamcr hol
idays.
•
wasting tlm<-J. M. Barrie.
MASCULINE VANITY.
Me* Mho Sl«»p to Atlmire Theiungivrt
lu Show Wlatlaw«.
"bpeakiug of the trifling affairs ot
life." said a clerk In one of the big
stores, “I’m not so sure that meu art
so much when you couie to compart
them with women, although they pre
tend to rise su|H>rior on occasion* Fvt
a notion that human uature Is about
the same lu both sexes, after all, and
it crops up in some way. You know
there's a theory that a woman couldu't
pass a mirror wlthoat giving a glanct
ut herself If she were on her way tc
rescue her only child from a burning
accident.
"it may not always be vanity, ot
course, l'erbapa It's force of habit.
Well, you’d be surpris«xl at the num
l>er of meu who have that saute hublt
I'm hen- at a counter in front, where 1
cun so»- some things, and it's lu-ttet
than a poor play to watch the faces al
that big show window. They nr«
men's faces I'm talking about. Th*
light strikes that window s«i that It
makes a pretty good ksiklng glass ot
It, and I'm truthful when I tell you
that it holds up as many li«*s as it doe«
shea In the coui'se of a day. The only
difference is that the woman makes nc
Is,nes of what she’s doing. She'll give
a twirl to her front hair and a pull to
her veil nnd make sure that her hat
and nose are on straight, and she
doesn't care whether passersby are on
to lier game or not. But the man
plays off. He wants you to suppose
that It's the display of goods that's
caught him. Yes, It is, I guess not
lie's wrapped up tn velvets at $1 a
yard and In silks cheap at 70 «•ents.
he Is. You can tell from where I stand
that he d<s*sn't st*e a thing that’s lu
that window except his own beautiful
reflection. He'll study th«* effect of hl»
scarf and bls gloves, and then lie'll
look lower down, where there are no
go<xls, and step out a little to get the
cut of his trousers and shoes. And
very often he'll put on that ’look pleas
ant’ expression the photographer usks
you to wear that makes a driveling
idiot of you in the picture. There is no
great harm in it provided the men are
In no great burry and have nothing
lx'tter to do, but when I hear them
loftily discussing mirrors in connection
with their wives I have to smile to my
self."—Providence Journal.
THE FLAMINGO AT HOME.
Observation lln« Proved That llotli
Mule and Female laeabate.
Apparently two factors enter into the
flamingoes’ type of architecture—they
must build where there Is mud and at
tlx' Bam«' time erect a structure high
enuagli to protect Its contents from
auy normal .rise in the water due to
tides or rainfall.
After watching a nesting colony of
flaniingix's in the Bahamas for "nearly
an hour" at a distance of 150 yanls
Sir Henry Blake stated that the fe
males sat up >n the nests, while the
mail's stood up together, evidently near
by. My dissections, however, showed
that both sexes Incubate, while contin
ued observation from the tent revealed
tlie pr«*sence of only one bird of the
pair in the rookery at tlie same time.
The bird on tlie nest was relieved late
In the afternoon and early In the morn
ing. The one, therefore, which incu
bated during tb«> day fed at night, and
his or her place was taken by another
which had bren fending during the
day. or, ns I’eter put it, "I do fink,
sir. dot when de lady flllymingo leave
de nest den de gen’leman flllymingo
take her place, sir; yes. sir."
Morning and evening, then, there was
much activity in tlie rookery. Single
girds or files of us many ns fifty were
almost constantly arriving and depart
ing. coming from nnd radiating to ev
ery point of the compass.
Flamingoes In flight resemble no oth
er bird known to me. With legs nnd
nek fully outstretch«*«! nnd the com
paratively small wings set halfway lie-
tween bill and toes, they look as if they
might fly backward or forward with
equal ease. They progress more rapid
ly than a heron and when hurried fly
with n singular serpentine motion of
the neck and body, as If they were
crawling In the air.—Century.
LIFE INSURANCE.
Get
Fully
Ae«iualat«*<l
Willi
TeriR« of Your Polley.
the
“What the average purchaser of life
Insurance doesn't know about the
thing he Is purchasing would till a gtxxl
sized book printed with very narrow
margins," says an Insurance expert.
"For lnstK ice, 1 talked not long since
with a man who fancied lie was In
mired for $10,<MX> on tlie fifteen year
endowment plan. That Is, lie thought
he had to make payments for fifteen
years- which was true—and that at
the end of that time he could get $10,-
<100 in cash or taki* a part in cash and
a part In paid up insurnix-e, which, as
It turned out, was not true. Tlie rate
he was paying was so very low for
what he said he was getting tbnt I
nsk«xl to see his policy, nnd when I
lo k«*d at It I found. Just ns be might
have found on a brief examination,
that while lie was insured for life, with
only fifteen yearly pajiíiout», ue cuuhl
not get the $li>.ooo or any part of it
for a go,«l many years more. No In
surance company in the world will
permit the fooling of a patron like this
If It can help It, nnd yet to attribute
such a mistaken idea to fraudulent
misrepresentation on the part of an
unworthy agent would not always lx?
fair. Many men who take Insurance,
and e-qieclally thou»* who do not decide
to go In until they have look«*d at it a
long time, go in finally with a rush.
They don't give tlie agent time to tell
them what they are getting, and often
don’t find out for years afterward.
Another thing that many Insured j>er
sons do not know Is that a rebate on
the first payment, arranged betw«*«?n
the insured and the agent, sometimes
renders the whole tranasetion Invalid."
—Philadelphia Record.
Perfeelly < oa*ealal.
Naggsby When a man nnd his wife
think the same thoughts simultunevus-
ly It is a sign that they are exceedingly
congenial Waggsby—So? "Well, then,
my wife and I are congenial all right,
for the other night when she said that
she wonder«*«) why I'd ever lieen such a
fool a* to marry her I bad b«*n sitting
there in aileiW'e for half an hour won
dering over the name identical thing.—
Baltimore Amsrican.