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BAN DON RECORDER. THE PORCUPINE. In III l.ibintr l'r Sail nn Acquired or .nturnl TnMof Sonic men vln wort camping hi tin Adirondack several years ago on breaking camp in the autumn left an old tub whirh was saturated with salt brim. On returning to the same camp the next year they found that the tub had been flawed until little of It was left. They were not lout: in find ing out what animal had done the work, for the camp was overrun with Canadian porcupines. At night they became such a nuisance that the camp ers were obliged to kill them to protect their propertv. The handle of a paddle was gnawed half through. The explanation of their presence In such numbers during that year, when they had not been noticeably abundant In the previous ye::r. is that they had made a rendezvous of the camp, beinj attracted by the oid brine tub. On this they feasted all winter and for that reason were greatly pleased with the locality. An interesting query Is this: Is the llk'ng for salt an acquired or a natural taste? Were they ever able to gratify that tate to any extei.t In-fore man gave tbem chance todc- so? -St. Nieh otas. PUNISHED BY PROMOTION. CurlfMis I,itv. Tltnt Prevailed In the FIorntlne Ht'ptihlir. Tin Florentine republic had a unique inethiHl of dealing with its too ardent democrats. In 12!o the state passed the famous "Magna Charta of Flor ence." to curb the cruelly and rapacity of the lawless n !!. who. in defiance of the law court, were accustomed to Hog and torture their dependents at will. The act practically disfranchised these titled harpies by a clause which excluded tlietu from the signory a lHjdy in the state correspondim: to the British cabinet unless they renounced their nobility. This curious provision prepared the way for a still more extraordinary clause, which onaeRd that any member of the democratic party who made himelf obnoxious to the government and was by thein declared to be guilty 4 Of treason to the commonwealth 'should lie given a patent of nobility and thus at the same moment be raised in the social scale" ami reduced to a political nobody at the will of the state. Lon don Teierr:iph. y Tin .nn-l vli i nir ( lieslnut. The Loudon Lancet find that the chestnut is the most digestible nut ami cannot only t ike the place of the p ta to. as hi lr.'i'-e. where chestnuts. loil od and mashed like potatoes, make a dHicious dish, but in reality they are a more perfect form nf food. According to the Lancet's analysis of the potato ami the chestnut, the latter contains less water, more proteid, more fat and starch, but less mineral matter, than the potato and is more digestible than the latter. Like the potato, also, its nutritive and digestive qualities are greatest when baked or roasted. When ll.-ptilcM nie. A Viennese naturalist declares tha nearly ;tU reptiles that die fr.m nat ural causes close their lives between nightfall and midnight, oniv a few be tween midii'sh; and morning and few cr still in dayliJn. Mot reptile seem aware of their approaching death, seek ing out particular places ami there nwaiting the end. while those who-; lives are spent underground come the surface lHfore death. to MARCONI'S CHOICE. "Vonns Irish Olrl Who Won the In ventorV. Affection. I tumor hn Siiruor Guirlielmo Mar- can! affianced to at least half a dozen different young women since his dis o&verics in wireless telegraphy first made him famous. Hut It remains for Chevalier Marconi to choose for his brkle an Irish beauty, the Hon Beatrice O'P.iion, nor did he lake the public into his confidence lone in ad vance of his wedding. Signor Marconi's father was born in Italy, but his mother was of Irish na tionality, so his choice of a bride from the land of Erin is appropriate. She Is THE GITtL who c.uTCitnu HE.VHT. MAI.COM S vivacious and witty. Is the daughter of the fifteenth Baron Inchiquln and Is one of eight sisters. She can trace her descent from the famous Irish mon arch, Brian Iioru, who was king of the Emerald Isle from 10O2 to 101 1 and was slain at the head of his armv at the battle of Clontarf. Ills grandson. Turlojb, king of Munster. had four sons, the third of whom was the pro genitor of the Barons Inchiquin. The Cunts of Karyjit. The Copts In Egypt are the book keepers and scribes; they are hImo the Jewelers and embroiderers. Their an cient tongue has. fallen Into disuse and Is practically a dead language. They now use Arabic, like all the rest of the nation, but the speech survives In their church service, a part of which is still given in the old tongue, though It Is said that even the priests themselves do not always understand what they are saying, having merely learned the sentences by heart, so that they can repeat them as a matter of form. i ff - Zf.' -y '-yy m : A9T5S POLLY UNI : . - j-., - ' "My wife has changed more limn any woman I ever knew, roily," said a man in an aggrieved tone the other day. "You .surely have noticed it," he continued. "J don't know what it is, but there does, not seem to be that bond of svmimthv between us that there used to be, and we seem to get farther and further apart every day. She is no more like the woman 1 mar ried than night is like day. Now, 1 haven't changed one bit. 1 treat her just like I have always done." This was more than Pollv could stand patiently, and to prevent my temper rising like a thermometer on a bright July morning, J had to express my sentiments. "Do you?" I replied, and by the pained way in which he looked at me, he must have discovered that there was a ring of irony in the query. "You wvre one of the most devoted lovers I ever saw; never wanted to leave her fide, and guarded her with a jealous care that caused many a friend to wonder if it would continue when yiti were married and settled down. You took her violets in their season, clusters of carnations, sometimes roses and dainty bunches of lillies-of-the-valley and maiden-hair when you could get them. Nothing in the tlower line was too good when you were trying to win this little blossom to preside over your home. Once a week, to say the least, you took her a nice box of French mixed eandy. You took her buggy riding, and, in fact, tried to anticipate every wish. You were a jealous lover, too, and did not want any one else to pay her the slightest bit of attention ; resented the etlbrts of any young man to make it pleasant for her oi to pay her the little courtesies that are dear to every wo man's heart, and Inch every one felt was due this sweet, winsome girl. In those days you felt Mattered and con gratulated yourself upon her having chosen you out of her many admirers to walk through life with, when it was really your selfish determination to woo and win her in spite of all obsta cles, l on simply crowded the others out and didn't give them half a chance. If you had pursued a diHereiit course you would have never won her, and it would have been better for you both if such had Uen the ease. You need a wife who is as selfish and domineering ns yourself Such a wlf. you would rtspect and f,r, and the result would be that you would be much thoughtful and considerate. moie 1 have watched your wife fade and lose the hue of the roses from her cheeks, and the little tense hid ll'l- I ' I lllkt tl Itllih' I tfAf aY. k Wl MinOvnH tl.knt (l.,v I ui-vwmc u-ra ttiuut me .u.Trjvc iouth, and the big violet rrz it.vrt Ionm:riyparkIed With picas- I tire and merriment become dull and faded, and heavy-looking from the weight of unshed tears that she was too brave to show. You have huini.i ated her many times, and I have been a witness to it on more than one oc-ca.-ion. I have seen her sitting quietly w - " I at home, surrounded by her little chil dreii, while night after you were gallivanting night with girls ami women, leading them to believe that vou were a single man. Kverv sum- mer of vour life, vou think it is neces- ary for you to have n vacation, and vou iro oil' well-clad, nionov in v.mr pocket, and you never den v yourself a ingle luxury on the trip When has she had a vacation? Never but two in all your 'married life to my certain i t l . x " t . t . Kuowietigo. .no, uowi can t go one must stay home and keep the house going, look after the children, and drudge and economize. She does not need any rest ; why should she? She only does all the sewing and mending for the household, washes ami irons, cooks, washes dishes, looks out for the four children, ministering to them day ami night, hears and helps them with their lessons. She h:is had twelve years of this. Is it any woiulct that she has faded, and her once beautiful eves have become dull? ho vou re- member that old adige, 'a man works till set of sun, but a woman's work is never done?' No truer saying was ever uttered for the majority of women never lmd time to n-st. A man goes out in the morning, he hn his trip to his business, he takes time to read the newspaper, he sees newfacesand meets old acquaintances. He goes to work at S o'clock and takes an hour at noon, iin's iw ;i i csiuui .111 1 Mini ii.'is ........ i us lunch, ami resumes his work at one o'clock and quits at 5. lie is through for the day. He varies what be considers bis very prosy life by attending his various lodgcsand the banquets given by them, takes -.in the races occasionally, hears omo good lecture, elc. You are one of these greatly abused men (in your own Kyi)S moth caterpillars and yet in an iiiind), and you should have never other's fifty-live army worms. Thirty married. Vou arc not the kind tlmf love a home life and appreciate a good, true little wife, and enjoy the comrad- ship of your children. iou say you laven t changed, hut your wife has. Is it any wonder when you look back ipon the past twelve years of your life, that to-day s' e is a tired and disai- minted woman . 1 on say you haven't changed. I don't agree with 3-011, you iave changed, ami sadly too. Vou are iot the lover that wooed and won the leautifulgirl promising to love, cherish md honor her a vow you failed ut terly to keep. Pleasant and congenial always with people on the outside and ross and crabbed at home. Do 3011 ver take your wife home llowers as on did of yore? Do you ever take her 1 box of candy or a iKiok or magazine r some other little gift to let her know I that you are thinking of her and that you appreciate her? Just turn the searchlight of conscience on your own life when you are trying to discovei t1niu in lltot little flf.k ..lwv , w u"a oeen asirue assieei to you. would y 'i have put up with one-hundredth part of the treatment that you have given her?" " Dont go any farther, Polly, you have thrown the searchlight upon me, and it has ferreted out all the little mean acts and I see myself now as others see me. I haven't done right and I admit it. It has been years. since I even thought of taking llowers or anything else for that matter, home to my wife. "Why she hasn't left me long ago is a mystery to me when I take a glance down the avenues of the past, and every little nook and corner of my past life seems to have been ferreted out by thissearchlightyou havethrown on me. I feel humiliated and ashamed, but I will profit by it and turn over a new leaf, and if regret and ellbrt to re trieve the past will do any good I will win back the love of my wife, and bring the roses back to her cheeks and the sparkle and luster to her beautiful eyes again." I believe he is sincere in what he said and that he will try to atone for his past neglect of the little wife who had lost confidence, love and respect ior mm. it is tne only way to insure happiness when he is old and descending the hill of life, instead of bitterness, regret and loneliness being his portion. If it is too late then he must drink the cup of remorse to the very dregs, and he lists himself alone to blame for it. "I'm going home to see that old sweei heart of mine," said a young man the other day, and when I found outit was his gray-haired mother, my re- spoet for him went up many degrees. BRIEF REVIEW. Effective Cure for Tramps. An inter-cantonal union has been formed which now covers more than half the area of Switzerland, the half where wandering and idle men con stitute a nieiiance to the welfare of so- ciety. When anv honest workman is thrown out of employment by circum stances beyond his control, he is fur nished with a " traveler's relief look," in which his name, residence and oc cupation are written down. At any office of the union he is thereupon fur nished with breakfast, dinner, supper and lodging, but not oftenor than once in six months in the same place. The public becomes ageiit.sof the union and U iuforu.ed of uv par.te i the c.,llllim who have applied (or help. In ... f ,i ,i. .. Ml tilt; lilllU'lir- llll'IC JUV lllilll such relief nlHci- in 'iirlen f.ir in- stance, fifty-one. At Neufchati there id what we would call a model farm. where men in idraits can be profitably H111ilil-iwl ti-!llnllt Llinniniilwl frtir- m.!.....!. nuuuttii.iuui in iitti tw a .1 A 1 . .1 I luuiierauoii, tne superillieiKieill 01 tile fjirin working in the ileitis with tbu " . " 11 1... Ll JH.t LVn.x4n " " It is a wonder to me, " said T. W. Moulton, of New Orleans at the Shore- ham, "that theopportunity of making money by breeding Shetland ponies is so greatly overlooked. Here is a. busi ness that is light, pleasant and profit able. C'ood specimens of these ponies are idways in demand by people of "leans, wlio buy liieni lor tne pleasure OI uu'ir l'uuureii. i i is a very common thing for a .Shetland to sell for $100, ' tlu"v ofkMl "" more. They are I ...... e'lsv t raise and, being small eaters, their keep is not expensive. I have a tnend down South that makes a com mrtablc living out of a littlo herd of these ponies, and it is by no means his principle occupation. " Then He Sat Down. A lawver was examining a witness in a case where the question involved was as to the mental condition of the testatrix. The witness under exami- milio"' henit",f :lM a-e,l w"". 1,11(1 testified lo finding the testatrix falling childish, and that when she spoke to j her she looked as though she did not understand. The cross-examining at- tornev tried to get her to describe this look, but she didn't succeed very well in doing so. At last, getting a little impatient, he asked : "Well, how did she look? Did she look at vou jis I am looking at you now, for instance?" "Well, yes," replied the witness very softly; "kind of vacant like. " Motor Omnibuses in England. The question of running motor omni buses from some of the present outside termini to outlyingtlistrictsof Shcllield, .;,, h,is been considered, but as h e corporation has not the nower to run such vehicles under the existing! acts, it has bean decided to apply for the necessary authority in the next Parliamentary bill. In one toad's stomach have been found seventy-seven l""U!a"" "- worms, " another's thirty-seven tent caterpillars, in anoiner s sixty-live Marge caterpillars have been fed to a U,U(1 ",n less than three hours. mL.. 'n,e uilo and shiftless are soon r., ,i,,wn bv these methods and are ., tlt forced labor or sent out of the state. The honest ami industrious, but unfortunate, are helped to reach places where their kind of work is needed. :in,i tn default of finding such within a reasonable time, they are furnished labor 011 the land belonging to the can- tons "The World Do Move. " In England, some centuries ago, if sin ordinary workman, without per mission, moved from one parish to an other in search of work or better wages, he wjis branded with a hot iron. Friends are people who don't get too well acquainted. WOMAN AND FASHION A Dainty Cnrment. What a wealth of dainty odd waists. ouo can h ive for afternoon or evening ,f OU(i ean rsinliloii them herself. With a simple model like the one illustrated it is an easy task, and the result is a marvelously becoming bodice. The waist may be made high neck In dl,ffon taffeta of the rare gobelin blue or 1,1 ft dl,w"p-y shaded crepe de chine waist for bpkixo. or IUOusseliue de sole, with short sleeves and low neck, for more dressy evening wear. The waist falls full from the yoke and blouses slightly all around over the snug crushed girdle. For a medium size four and a quarter yards of thirty-six Inch material are necessary. Lnoe ContN. Lace coats to ne worn over light gowns will take the place of silk ami chlffon wraps during the spring sea son. These garments will be smart for linen and out of door frocks as well, the material used for lining being th mark by which their special usage will be determined. Most of the new models are full or three-quarter length, and they are seen In ecru, butter color, white, gray and hhick. Especially lovely are the last when lined with Dresden patterns In china silk or with accordion plaited chiffon or niousseline. While the white coats are mostly of heavy lace on the renaissance order, those of black aro made of Bilk braid and net. Fiibloii I'll nelen. Sunshades of heavy linen bid fair to be popular with the summer girl. Deep circular collars and cuffs of knife plaited lawn are modish and launder well. Some of the embroidered evening oVZ.orluc ' In il wake of wraps rival Joseph's coat for diversity the elbow sleeves I iou. i-mv fnxi.-i iii i ii',,. K iiiii, finished like kid. The real old fashioned little Miilor hat conies In white with a bunch of tlowers nt the left front. TimeBtrv r.lnllfh The woman who lins an eve to the beautiful cannot do better than make herself several of the new t.mostrv irlr- I ' " I " ' dies In different shades. These are wider In the brck than In the front and are fashioned of the most beautiful bits of trpestry em broidery. In the front the girdle If caught with a buckle about as big as half a dollar. From this the size ranges up to a buckle as big as a plate. A Fetching; Continue. bult of coarse meshed etamine lu raspberry red trimmed with black vol vet and coffee color lace. The skirt i. Hl'IllNQ suit. oflPnnMvnle ?iinlr n-U1 n ohnnnl vnlro The faclntr Is turned im nn the niitnldn aml .simped to match the yoke. Blouso s of ecru lyttlste. Wider Skirta. Skirts aro getting wider and wider round the feet, but they appear to bo decreasing- In fullness at the waist. Sleeves, too, appear to be getting much smaller. Peau de sole, poplin and grosgraln are being revived, and old world bro cades will be greatly In evidence a lit tle later on. In Pralae of Cockney. Cockneys are the best natured people under the sun. It Is notorious that a big London crowd is of all crowds in the world the most harmless and the easiest to manage. But see them also In their ordinary collections, outBldo the gallery door of a popular theater or crowding In the carriages of an excur sion train what fun nnd kindness nnd wholesome give and take! A deliber ately rude or offensive cockney Is hard ly to bo met. G. S. Street in Pall Mall Gazette. 4RT0FG0L)BEATIiSTG DNE OF THE OLDEST HANDICRAFTS IN THE WORLD. tfhe Way a Little Square of the fel- iovt .Tieini in lziiandea Into a 1 Largre and Alninnt Transparent Lenf by the Artlaan'a Hammers. The art of the gold beater Is one of the oldest handicrafts in the world and nmoiig those which have changed following Incident Is told by a gentle least. Much of the decoration of Solo- tnan who vouches for Its accuracy: mon's temple is believed to have been He was engaged one afternoon with covered with gold leaf, hammered to a clerk In verifying some long columns the requlsito thinness by hand, as It of figures that had been copied from Is today. one book to another. The numbers, The gold beater receives his material not In the form of the sixty penny weight ingot In which It is cast, but In the form of n ribbon about an Inch wide and twenty-four feet long. This ribbon Is first cut Into 200 squares and placed In the "ditch," which is a pile of stpiare pieces of a peculiar paper, part animal and part vegetable in composition, the p.-ep.u-i- tlon of which is a secret The best cutches are made In London. A squ.uo of gold is placed between each two leaves and the whole mass Is read. for the first beating. This in done with an iron hammer weighing from twelve to seventeen pounds, while the cutch rest upo.i a granite block which is supiortcd by a heavy wooden post. Under the heavy, measured blows of the hammer the sheets of gold begin to stretch or expand until In half or three-quarters of an hour they have reached the edges of the cutch. They are then removed and with a thin strip of bamboo are cut Into quarters, so that the 200 pieces become S00. Next comes the "shodor." a collection of S00 pieces of sk.::. four inches 'K developed the fact that of die fig square, made from the intestines of ures $14,142.12 he had heard the four- cattle. As in the cutch. each piece of gold Is placed between two leaves dreamed during the time occupied in of skin, and band.; of parchment or rnpldly uttering the words "one forty vellum are si pned over the whole pile two." He tried by reading other num- to keep it together. Another hen tint;, this time with a hammer weighing from eight to ten pounds, now follows. This takes nbout an hour, during which the sheets of gold are all the time expanding. The last stage is the "mold." which, like the cutch and the shoder. Is com posed of alternate leaves of gold and skin, but the mold Is about five inches stpiare and nude up of gold beater's skin. The preparation of this Is a jeal ously guarded trade secret. The skin, like that In the shoder, la made from the Intestines of the ox. It Is translucent and not unlike rawhide n co'or. Although It will stand con tinuous beating without breaking, It will tear like a sheet of thin paper. The making of a single mold requires the Intestines of ."00 bullocks. Between each two beatings the skin Is rubbed with baked and pulverized gypsum. A mold contains 1,000 sheets. After the sec n-.l beating the workman takes from the shoder a single leaf of gold at a time, handling It with bamboo pinch ers and. when necessary, smoothing t with a rabbit's foot. With the strip of bamboo be cuts each sheet Into quar ters again, so that the original 200 have now become 3.200. One shodor, therefore, contains more than enough gold to fill three molds. The final beating In the mold la done with a seven pound hammer and re quires from three to four hours. By this time the gold leaf should have ex panded again to the edge of the skins and should be of the requisite thinness, which Is determined by holding It up to die light. If It transmits green rays It Is done and will measure about ono two-hundred-and-clghty-thousandth of an Inch In thickness. The hammers used in beating gold are slightly convex on the face. The art of the workman consists In bo strik ing that the gold will always bo thin nest lu the center. He must pound with evenness all over the square In order that the sheets of gold may ex pand without losing their form, but at the same time he must keep the thick est part near the edges, so that when the sheets are finally trimmed to size the thicker portions may fall In the waste, to be recast. No machinery has ever been devised which will do this successfully. fTM. A 1 M X . . 1 .. I am-iuuisui uie era ri are interesting and peculiar. The rabbit's foot ls ex ceedingly soft nnd Just oily enough to prevent the gold from sticking, and the bamboo pliers nnd cutting slips are the only things with which it Is possible to do this delicate work. The gold does not ndhere to the fibers of the reed as it does to steel. The gold beater performs all his work standing. The use of the heavy uammers in sucn continuous pounuing wouiu, ouu woum uiina, impose an ai- most intolerable strain upon the hands and arms. The men say, however, that their arms never ache. The only place where "It catches them" is in the bend of the kneo. Tho lack of strain upon the nrins is accounted for by the fact that the hammer rebounds. It is nn astonish ing but by no means a rare tiling to see n gold beater change hands while the hammer ls In the air and without los ing a stroke. Edward Wllllston Trentz In Youth's Companion. Off" For "From." As a stranger In Philadelphia I was much amused by certain provincial isms. One of these was the use of the word "off" Instead of "from." "Please buy llowers off me," say the youthful street venders. One day while waiting for some groceries a young lady, evi dently unused to housekeeping, ap proached the raw Irish clerk and tim idly asked: "I want some mutton to make broth. Shall I get l off the neck?" "No, ma'am," was the solemn reply as the clerk pointed to the butch er busy at his block, "ye git It off that mon." Presbyterian. Cranhed. "I think I never saw Rymer so utter ly crushed as he was when his first poem appeared In print" "What was the matter? Some typo graphical error In tho poem?" "No, that wasn't it. What crushed him was that the paper was sold for a penny a copy. Just as usual." Brief, bnt Pointed. ne Docs she think much of me while I'm away? She No. She doesn't think of you much or much of you. Boston Herald. MYSTERY OF DREAMS. The Wondern the Uraln Sec In the Fructlon of a Second. It is not unusual to hear one say that he has been dreaming about something all night, when possibly his dream oc cupied only a very short time. Many attempts have been made to measure the time occupied In a dream, and rec ords appear from time to time in the papers showing that often elaborate ones occupy but a few seconds. The representing amounts In dollars and cents, were composed of six of seven figures. The clerk would read, for In stance, "Fourteen, one forty-two, twelve," making the amount of $14, 142.12, and the gentleman would an swer, "Check," to Indicate that the copy was correct. Page after page had heen read as rapidly as the words could be uttered, each number recelv- Ing the "check." The work was drowsy, ami It was with difficulty he could keep his eyes open Finally sleep overcame him, and he dreamed dreamed of an old horse he had been accustomed to drive twenty five or thirty years ago. He could not recall any speclnl incident connected with the dream except the locality and the distinct sight of the horse and of die buggy to which he had driven him. He awoke suddenly and, as a number was ended, called "Check." He was conscious of having slept nnd of hav ing dreamed and said to the clerk: "Charlie, I have been asleep. How many of those numbers have I miss ed?" "None," he replied. "You have checked every one." Close question- nd the twelve, but had slept and oers to measure tne time and thinks it could not have been more thnn half a second. Another story Is told of a man who sat before his fire in a drowsy condi tion. A draft blowing across the room set a large photograph on the mantel to swaying. A slender vase was In front of It, nnd the man re mcmlers wondering, in a mood of whimsical indifference, whether the picture would blow forward nnd send the vase to the floor. Finally a gust of wind did topple the picture, nnd it struck the vase. The man remembers having been curiously relieved in his state of drowsiness that at last the "old thing was going to fall nnd be done with It." Presently he was In the midst of n complicated business transaction in a western city miles away. All the de tails of a new and unheard of scheme were coming forth from his lips, and a board of directors wns listening. The scheme prospered. He moved his fam ily west. Fragments of the Journey thither and glimpses of the fine house he bought came before his vision. A crash woko him. The vase had struck the floor. He had dreamed nn unlived life covering years, and all in the time It took for the vase which he bad seen toppling before he fell asleep to fall five feet and break. Youth's Companion. Jnpanene Idea of Benntr- Professor Okakura of Tokyo in a lecture delivered In this country said that the Japanese Ideal of feminine beauty varied a little between Tokyo nnd Kioto, but on the whole the Japa nese considered that a woman should not exceed five feet In height, should have a comparatively fair skin nnd be well developed, should have long, thin nnd Jet back hair, an oval face, with a narrow straight nose, rather large eyes, nearly black thick eye lashes, a small mouth hiding behind red full Hps. even rows of small white teeth, ears not altogether small, thick eyebrows and a medium forehead, from which the hnlr should grow In circular or Fujiyama shape that is, a shape recalling the truncated cone of the famous volcano. It Reminded Him. The heat remetlv ntrnlnyf n Inrmn nt - 0 ...j. memorv ls the piece of thread tied about the finger. But there is a wel authenticated case of a man whose wife tied a piece of thread around his finger in the morning to remind him to get his hnlr cut. On his wny home to dinner he notic ed the piece of thread. "Yes. I remeni her." he said nnd, smiling proudly, entered the usual shop and sat down boforo the accustomed artist, Why, I cut your hair this morning. slr! Hnid tho astonished barber. Evidence nt Hand. "Ah!" sighed the man with the scan ty hair. "Shakespeare spoke truly when he said, 'The evil that men do lives aft er them.' " For, be It snld, the scanty haired man had recently married a widow with a ten-yenr-old son who wns a terror. Chicago News. The Main Point. "I will have a great deal to say when I get started." said tho young congress man. "My friend," nnswered the veteran, "It Isn't the man who has tilings to say that counts. It's the man who gets a chance to say them." Washington Star. Enrly Training. "We think baby will make a great politician." "Why?" "Well, he crawls out of everything so easily." Puck. Industrious wisdom often prevents what lazy folly thinks Inevitable. Sim mons. Speed of the Gulf Strenm. It Is said that tho gulf stream is run ning so much more rapidly than for merly that sailing ships cannot make headway mgalnst Its current This "riv er In the ocean" is caused by the wa ters of the gulf of Mexico piling up until that oval caldron rises two or three feet higher than the waters in the Mid-Atlantic. Florida Btralt, about ninety miles broad, forma the only egress for the waters, which flow through this nacrow outlet between Kaj West and Caba, at a speed of eight or tm miles an hour. NEW SHORT STORIES John Sherman a Fighter. Judge D. K. Watson of Ohio, former ly a member of congress, but now a member of the commission to codify the laws, tells the story of how one day he called on John Sherman when he was secretary of the treasury. In the course of the visit Mr. Sherman became reminiscent. "Do you know," he said, "that when Judge Ewlng adopted my brother Wil liam and sent him to West Point ev erybody was amazed that he did not send me Instead of Bill, as every body called him, for I was the fighter of the family. "Lancaster in the dnys of my boy hood consisted really of two towns North Lancaster and South Lancaster. I had, by whipping every boy of my size in North Lancaster, gradually be come the bully of our village, and a blacksmith's son had by the same process become the bully of South Lan caster. It was Inevitable that sooner or later we two champions must meet nnd fight It out "So one Saturday afternoon we went outside the town and got ready for tin "l iXLT THE BTLSti OF HIS Willi. ' fight. Both of us stripped to the waist. and we had Just squared otT for the first blow when my brother-in-law, who was mayor of the town, drove up In a buggy. The first thing I knew I felt the stlng of his buggy whip across my bare shoulders, and then he took me by the scruft' of the neck. and. dragging me over to the buggy, told me that what I had Just got was only a foretaste of what I would get when I arrived home. "Then he turned to the blacksmith's son nnd told him that his father "as on his way to the battleground, nnd that by the time his father got through with him he and I would have nothing to choose as to who had got the worst thrashing. I know that I got an awful whipping, and the blacksmith's boy told me he got the worst one of his life. Certainly we never fought it out as to who was the real champion of Lancaster." Tito Letter. There was recently a passage at arms between Miss Marie Corelll, tho novelist, and a certain Miss Coals, a schoolmistress, who has a class Imme diately across the street from the writ er's home. Part of the school exercises. It seems, consists in the study of mu sic, and this proved particularly dis agreeable to Miss Corelll. So the following note was sent ncross to the music teacher: "Miss Corelll pre sents her compliments to Miss Coals and begs that she will be good enough to arrange so that there may be no singing class between the hours of 10 and 1, these being Miss Corelli's work ing hours, when distractions are pecul iarly distasteful." The white aproned maid who bore this rather unusual missive was de tained long enough to bring back the answer. It ran, "Miss Coals presents her compliments to Miss Corelll and begs to state that If such a course ls likely to prevent the writing of such books ns The Sorrows of Satan' she would rejoice In arranging a singing programme for ever- day from 0 to 2." San Francisco Argonaut. Perfectly Snfe. The late Thomas L. Clark, bishop of Rhode Island, widely known ns a wit and scholar, In his own home life In Providence preferred the utmost sim plicity compatible with comfort. Hav ing on one occasion a distinguished English divine as a visitor, the latter was considerably Impressed, not to say astonished, at the lack of ceremony ob served In the episcopal mansion and upon retiring hesitatingly Inquired If he should leave his shoes outside his door. "Certainly, If you like," replied the bishop with cordiality; "nobody'll touch 'em." Boston Herald. Why He Liked Her. Jacob Illls tells an anecdote of a young lady who devoted a good deal of her time to settlement work and who was a particular favorite wIUi all the children. "Why do you love Miss Mary so?" they asked a little lad one day. "I like her," he replied, "because sho looks as though she didn't see the bolw In my shoes." New York Times. Iron Around It. FInnegan What ails ver fat? Flanagan The ould woman hit mo wld the I'avin's of this mornln's meal mush. FInnegan Go Monir wld vf! Sure, mush is too soft Flanagan Oh, she didn't stop to take It from tho pot! Philadelphia Ledger. Her Heart. nilda When you saw that he was going to propose I suppose you pressed com unnos to your heart? Kate That was Impossible. My heart was in mv mouth nt tho time. Boston Transcript