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BAN DON RECORDER.
THE HUMAN BRAIN.
It I Oar Mont HlKhly SpeclnlUeG:
and Vitalised Organ.
The story of the brain as scientists
have gradually unfolded Its peculiar
construction is of marvelous interest.
This pulpy and apparently homo
geneous mass is revealed to us as the
most highly specialized and vitalized
organ in the human body. It consists
of hundreds of millions of separate
and Independent organisms, oiure
known as nerve cells, but now called
neurones." These units of the brain
are independent bodies and consist of
a cell body. Its axis and its branches.
The cell body contains within Its cov
ering membrane elements which gen
crate the nerve force or energy. The
axis Is the nerve or medium which
conveys that force, and the branches
are the means of communication of
the ueurones with each other and with
the organs and tissues to which the
nerve is distributed. The life history
of these microscopical bodies is the
same as the cells of other organs and
tissues. They are implanted before
birth and may remain dormant for a
lifetime, if stimulated to activity they
enlarge through more abundant nutri
tion, but waste and atrophy when the
stimulant Is removed. They are under
going constant changes through the
process of nutrition and from the In
numerable impressions made upon
them by objects within and without
the body. Stephen Smith. M. D.. LL.
I)., in Leslie's Magazine.
OLD TIME COSMETICS.
Some of the Dcntitltlcr Uned hy the
Dame of Antiquity.
A most repulsive cosmetic, but one
which some Itoinan dames of antiquity
esteemed as most precious, was the
blood of the youug hare.
During the sixteenth century the wa
ter In which beans had been boiled was
used as a complexion wash, and this
fariuaceous water is entitled to all the
fame It possesses. The ancient Gauls,
whose beautiful color was a subject of
so much envy to the patrician Romans,
washed their faces in the foam of beer;
also In a liquid made from dissolving
chalk In vinegar.
An old Italian recipe for obliterating
the injurious effects of salt air and
sunshine is to bathe the face with thf
white of an egg well beaten. Let it
dry on the skin and rinse it off after
fifteen minutes. This treatment must
be repeated three or four times and al
ways at night before retiring.
Koine under the empire and Greece
during the time of Pericles were seized
with a mania for golden hair. Many a
dame dampened her raven tresses In
the strongest of muriatic acid and sat
in the sun to bleach her hair to tht
coveted yellow. Others used lye and
afterward anointed their heads with
oil made from goat fat. ashes of the
beech tree and certain veliow dower.
SHAKING HANDS.
A Few General Union That Govern
Thin I'liane or Ktlquet to.
When to shake hands is a subject
which uepenns- somewhat on circum
stances, yet a few general rules may be
given. "When a man is introduced to
a woman she does not shake hands
with him unless he is decidedly elderly
or distinguished. If he is the husband
or brother of the woman presenting
him it is natural to receive him cor
diaily ly shaking hands, but it is not
form to do so if he Is a mere acquaint
auce.
A hostess should shake hands with
every guest who comes to her house,
both on their arrival and departure.
Women do not shake hands when in
trodueed to each other, but merely
bow. When, however, a young girl is
presented by a friend to a married
woman the latter shakes hands with
her, but the girl must not make the
first advance.
Men shake hands when introduced to
each other as an expression of good
will. When leaving an entertainment
a man shakes hands with the hostess.
and he niav do so with friends who
are near, but he must not go about
shaking hands generally. New York
Journal.
To Strengthen the Eye.
The eyes will be greatly strength
ened by putting the face down into a
glass or eye cup of water the tirst
thing In the morning and opening them
under water. This Is somewhat diffi
cult to do at first, but If the water for
two or three days be tepid and gradu
ally be made colder by imperceptible
degrees until It Is no shock to put the
face Into quite cold water It will soon
become easy and Is very invigorating
and refreshing. The eyes should be
wiped after this by passing a soft tow
el very gently from the outer angle in
ward toward the nose.
A I)IRcmhler.
"Leonldas." said Mr. Meekton'a wife,
"look me In the eye and answer mc one
question. Have you ever deceived me
about anything?"
"Well, Henrietta," he answered aft
er much hesitation, "I must confess
that I have not been altogether frank.
On numerous occasions I have dis
sembled to the extent of trying to ap
pear far mortf amiable than I really
felt" Washington St.sr.
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Tnhlenu.
lie Do you remeiijer your old school
friend ISophle Sinytbc? She Yes, in
deed' I do. A mnst absurd looking
thing. So silly tro! What became of
her? He Oh, nothing. Only I mar
ried her. Illustrated Bits.
A Xntnrnl Deal re.
Miss Coquet (to servant) Tell Mr.
Sharpe that I am engaged. Mr. Sharpe
(to servant) Tell Miss Coquet that 1
expressed a curiosity to know whom
she 1& engaged to now.
An Excuse.
Patience What reason had she for
marrying him? Patrice Why, he had
money. Patience That is not a rea
son; thnt Is an excuse. Gateway Mag
AElna. Old Party-Were you named after
your father? Little Fletcher Sure!
He'g lots older than I am. Chicago
NWB.
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The residents of San Francisco are
not church-going people, is the verdict
of a. J Eastern visitors who are in the
habit of attending church regularly
twice a day. Just why this is the case
would be hard to explain, unlos it is
localise the men and women who have
toiled hard duriuj;: the .veek in their
different vocations find that nature
can preach them a far more eloquent
sermon than anything they can hear
within the walls of the churches. Ev
ery Inrnt, all the excursion trains, go
out from San Francisco every Sunday
morning heavily laden with their hu
man freight. Lunch baskets, ll.-hing
tackle, hunting paraphernalia and dogs
in plentiful evidence show the way
that most of the buys and men, haM
ening from the city, are preparing to
spend their Sunday. There are yacht
ing parties and picnics that lure hun
dieds of both young and old. A few
chosen friends choose to spend the
Sunday in their own way, and seek
some quiet little nook in the country
where, altera few miles jaunt into the
hills, they can- partake of a dainty
lunch and enjoy the rest of the time
in reading the daily papers or some in
teretsting book, or chatting pleasantly
on current events, etc. These people
turn a deaf ear to the music of the
church bells and listen eagerly for the
melody of the birds, that is far sweeter
and more soul sat hiving than the an
thems of the paid choir. "This is de
plorable," say the regular church
goers, "if for nothing else than that it
sets a bad example lor the young people
that are following in their step.-
l nis is glorious, tins is rest, sign
the members of tht? quiet little groups.
as they gaze heavenward with thank
ful eyes that there is a day of rc-t se
aside, by which the tired and wornout
bodies can get away f nun the thrall
doni of the everv dav existence, am
thankful that they can worship in
their own wav ami as their conscience
dictates. "This is a free country
quotes the happy-gir-lueky swain as he
trips through the mazes of the dance
with iiis fair partner, or participates
in the races at the Sunday picnic '
is noltmly else's business if we prefer to
spend Sunday enjoying ourselves in
stead of listening to some dry sermon.
As l nave saut uetore, never was
there a more cosmopolitan city than
an brancisco. Here nearlv everv
nationality is represented, and the ma
jority of the foreigners who hav
Kill ret into the countiy through our
justlv celebrated open door are not
church-goers. It is a strage thing,
too, that people w ho have been in the
habit of going to church regularly in
their old Homes, wiien tiiey arrive
here, muke it a point to find the tie-
nomination of which they are mem
bers, ami for awhile attend service?
regularlv. Tliev tell von candidly that
they are amazed to find so many mm
church-goers in this big citv ami so
many empty pews Sunday after Sun
day. But the tirst tiling they know
they, too, have d topped out and at tern
church onlv occasionally. In the
hurry and worry of the ever noisy
bustling city they become tired; they
need rest ami are glad even if they do
not go out of town for the day to stay
home and take things easy. There
no denying that this state of atlair?
does exist.
A lady in discussing the subject the
other day stated that she had put the
question to many friends ami acquain
tances, "Why is it that people who
have been brought up from childhoot
to think that the proper way of spend
ing Sunday was to attend church twice
a day, so soon forget their home teach
ings on reaching this coast.' liien-
ply of many was that they did not fee
at home in the churches here. The
cordial hand-shake, the words of wel
come and cheerful greeting that they
were used to in their old homes wa?
missing here, and the result was that
before they had time to overcome their
homesickness for their old and familiar
church ties, they had gradually drifted
out of the way of going to church un
til now it was the exception ami not
the rule to attend Sunday services
One little lady said : "Well, to be hon
est with you, we can't allbrtl to attend
church on my husband's salary. The
pew rent, the regular Sunday dona
tions for church a.id Sunday school,
the contributions f r foreign ami home
missions and the various other crying
needs that we heard all the time and
i t .
w ii icn we leu we nuisi maKe some
greater sacrifice to assist, soon drove
us out of the ehur-h. There are too
many tieniamls from the church to
allow a man on a moderate salary to
attend with his family. The result is
that our eves became onened to the
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act one day that missionary work
.should begin at home, and we have
een practicing it ever since." I find
that a great many make the same com-
laint. Everybody must decide this
question pro and con for themselves.
There is one Sunday in the year,
however, in San Francisco, when the
churches are not huge enough to hold
the congregations that crowd them to
the very doors this is Easter Sunday.
Never was it more noticeable than it
was this last Enster. People were up
betimes, ami not only the fair sex, who
went regardless of whether they had a
new Easter bonnet or not, but the
men, and youmg ami old; vied with
nch itlnr in trciiur to r ii olmroli
" to- -
early em,tf to !l seat. Men,
wonimand children, who failed to be
scited stood patiently while they lis-
tened with inteiii-e interest to the line '
Easter music prepared especially for
the occasion and the sermons that
; were in keeping with the day. Those
I who could not get in spent the time in
visiting the different churches, taking
a glai .ee at the decorations ami hurry
ing tm until they had made the rounds.
Never have the churches in this city
been more beautifully tlecorated than
they were this year. In all the
churches white and green predomi
nated and some of the decorations
must have leen very costly. In one
of the churches a single piece must
have cost many dollars. It was sev
eral feet high, by as many wide and
was compo.-ed entirely of maiden hair
ferns, orchitis and lilies-of-the-valley.
When you stop to think that the
cheapest you can get lilies-of-the-valley
for is seventy-five cents per dozen
and how many do.ciis of the dainty,
beautiful little tlowers it akes to make
a showing, and that orchitis the most
costly and aristocratic little blossoms
in the llower line, could not be
hat! for less than two dollars and a
half a dozen, you can imagine what
the cost of thissuperb pitce would have
been. The musical parts of the Easter
services were a feature in all the
churches, and greatly enjoyed. In
one church they had a harp, cello ami
twt violins ami a choir of beautiful
voices that rendered the anthems and
other music. The echoes of this part
of the service w ill remain long in the
memories of those who heard it, as
well as Polly's.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Wonderful Silk of The Spider.
The astronomer after the experience
of many years has found thatthespider
furnishes the only thread which can be
successfully used in carrying on his
work. The spider lines mostly used
are from one-fifth to one-seventh of a
thousandth of an inch in diameter,
and, in addition to their strength and
elasticity, they have the peculiar prop
erty of withstanding great changes of
temperature, ami often when measur
ing the sun spots, although the heat is
so intense as to crack the lenses of the
micrometer eyepiece, yet the spider
lines are not in the least injured. The
threads of the silkworm, although of
great value as a comnierciivl product,
are so coarse and rough compared with
the silk of the spider that they cannot
be used in such instruments. Spider
lines, although hilt a fraction of a
thousandth of an inch in diameter, are
made up of several thousands of micro
scopic streams of lluitl, which unite
ami form a single line, ami it is because
of this that they remain true ami round
under the highest magnifying power.
An instance of the durability of the
spider lines is found at the Alleghany
observatory, where the same set of lines
in the micronioter of the transit instru
ment has been in use since lSoJJ.
Letters Delivered After Twenty Years.
Although belated more than twenty
years, a love letter appointing a tryst
has been discovered and forwarded to
the person addressed, Alonzo Iiirdsall,
a motormau who lives in Darby, says
the Philadelphia Keeord. Iiirdsall was
born anil raised near Bay City, Mich.,
and there he met, wooed and won his
w ife, who was a Miss Parkinson.
Her parents and his people occupied
adjoining farms, but owing to a tem
porary feud, the young people's love
did not run smoothly. They courtet
on the sly, and to facilitate meetings
used to leave letters for each other in
the hollow of an old elm tree. One
day death visited the Birdsall family,
and the feud was suddenly terminated
In the excitement Miss Parkinson
totally forgot the letter she had just
left in the tree.
The barriers removed, the lovers
married, and about ten years ago
moved to Philadelphia. Last week
Iiirdsall received a letter from his
brother, which explained thatin chop
ping down the old elm he hail found a
note, which he enclosed. Although
weather-beaten anil discolored, the
writing was legible. It ran: "John
I bar, meet meat the Willows to-night
Ellen."
Left-Handedness and Crime.
Dr. Flint's disclosure is that left
handedness is an abnormality, and is
often associated with a defective moral
sense. Six per cent, of us are left-
handed, and :!.( per cent, of the left
handed are criminals. That, at least,
seems to be the reasonable inference
from Dr. Flint's statement that "(5-1-4
per cent, of the left-handed are not
to be classed as criminals." Dr. Flint
tslls us that out of every hundred
criminals nineteen are left-handed,
and that out of every hundred incen
diaries twenty-eight are left-hantled.
The first municipal museum to be
opened in this country was inaugur-
tled in Chicago recently with a valua-
ile loan collection of exhibits illustra
tive of the administration of cities ami
the problems of urban life. The mus
eum is to be permanent, but the loan
ollection remained only a short time
and was followed by a permanent col-
eetion relating to the city of Chicago.
fhe exhibitions comprise original
drawings, models, photographs, maps,
harts and literature contributed by
many foreign and American cities.
So very many men have passetl into
irison gates through saloon doors anil
into poverty through gambling halls.
In Norway less than one acre in
very one hundred is used for grain-
growing.
Tho question always is, not how bad
a mistake you made, but how can you
repair it and keep it from happening
igain.
Out of every 100,000 girls and boys
in England and Wales (i.Sl'.i arc called
Mary and (i,o!M) William.
School teachers have run all the
witches out of New England.
THE PLAINS OF YUHA
SOME OF THE CURIOSITIES OF THE
COLORADO DESERT.
(irnven Each of Which Tell a Story
of a Tragedy of Heat. Thirst and
Ilenth Odd Stone and Shell Thnt
Strew the Iinrrcit Region.
There is a section of the Colorado
tlesert where nature has left some re
markable records. She has visited the
region alternately with fire and water
and has left It with neither. It is the
most desolate, wild, barren, forbidding
part of the desert, says the Lo3 Ange
les Times, and it is shunned alike by
man and beast. That there is good
and sutllcient reason for avoiding this
locality is attested by numbers of
r.ives, liaineiCis for the most part,
found in the terrible region
These graves are simple affairs,
merely mounds of earth with a border
of stones about each and a pile of
rocks two or three feet high at the
head. Each tells the storv of a
tragedy of heat, thirst and death
Those items are about all that Is ever
known of the stories of those who
perish. Their mummified bodies oi
bleached bones are found long aftei
the struggle Is over, and the finder, rtv
spectlng the memory of the unknown,
scoops a hole in the earth, lays the
ghastly relic within and piles up the
onlv monument available in that wild
region.
The plain now lies nearly a hundred
feet below the level of the sea, and the
rocks of the plain and the bases of the
mountains are washed and eroded in a
wonderful manner. Mingling with the
burnt stones and volcanic debris are
rocks worn by the waves and shaped
into hundreds of fantastic forms. There
are many acres of these stone curios!
ties, and certain sections of the field
seem devoted to certain shapes and
figures
For instance, one passes through a
region which he at once names the cab
bage patch, for it presents the appear
ance of a field of those vegetables
which have turned to stone. The waves
have worn the rooks Into round bowl
ders about the size of the vegetable
which they so much resemble and have
cut into the globed, laminating them in
perfect imitation of the leafy layers of
the garden vegetable.
Another locality is devoted almost ex
clusively to dinner plates. Thousand
of rounded, thin disks are scattered
over the plain or arc piled scores deep
in singular piles, each piece shaped ex
actly like the crockery which adorus
our tables and quite as thin and sym
metrical.
not her section of this truly wonder
ful region Is given almost whdfty
dumbbells. Those vary In size fr
to
ary in size iroin
pieces weighing one or two pounds up
to those seemingly calculated for exer
cising the muscles of a giant and
weighing thirty or forty pounds each.
In almost every instance these natural
dumbbells are well balanced, the balls
at either end of the connecting piece
being of the same size and weight.
There is in this plain an arsenal also
While guns and swords and bayonets
and powder were not there to be found,
there are thousands., of cannon balls
varying in size front two and three Inch
balls to those fit for the big thirteen
inch guns of modern warfare. And all
are of stone, all formed in nature's
workshop.
There are other objects innumerable.
There are stone roses, stone lilies, stone
tulips, stone leaves, stone birds, stone
animals, stone quoits, stone ornaments
In varied and unique designs, stone
canes in fact, almost everything con
celvable In nature or art Imitated in
stone on the plain of Yuha
In one portion of Yuha rise two hills
or small mountains. One might mis
take them In the distance for ancient
craters, but when he approaches the
eminences he discovers them to be
monuments to an ancient life the rec
ords of species now extinct They are
shell mountains, great beds of prehis
toric bivalves which were left stranded
when that ancient sea swept back from
the region and left a dry and desolate
laud
One of these mountains, the large
one, Is composed wholly of largo rough
shells, much largt'r, but less elongated,
than the shells of the modern oyster,
which In some respects they so much
resemble as to lead to the suspicion
that they arethe remains of the ances
tors of our much prized bivalve.
The lesser hill Is composed of tiny
shells of a prehistoric type of brachlo-
poda. Like the larger shells, they are
found except on the surface In an un
disturbed state, both valves of nearly
every shell beh.g found In position.
Although the mollusk dwellers of these
shells vanished several centuries ago,
so perfect are the shells one almost ex
pects when he opens the valve of the
shell to find the living creature within
Hctrlbiitlon.
Millions of years had passed.
Birds had succeeded to the suprema
cy formerly held by man.
"What Is that you are wearing on
your hat?" asked the flamingo.
"It's the scalp of an almost extinct
biped called a woman," replied the
egret. "A few specimens of the crea
ture still exist, I am told, In the Inac
cessible fastnesses of the everglades."
Ilcvrard For Chnrchtrolnnr.
At Ilolsworthy, In Devonshire, Eng
land, the prettiest girl who attends
church gets well rewarded for doing
so. About fifty years or so ago It struck
the Rev. Thomas Meyriek. who was
then vicar of tho parish, that the young
ladles there did not attend church so
often as they might do. So he left a
sum of money, and this, according to
the terms of his will, was to be put out
at Interest. The annual Income from
It was to be given each year to the
prettiest young woman at Ilolsworthy
who had attended church regularly for
that year.
Filling the Proscription.
.Tnrlcro Whnt wuro vnn ilnlnc tn the
n -.. . . jwt. l ..... n - - - -
honhnnan Gnmltr. Cn mtiA Ylrnll np
Jedge. inah missus wall feelln pohly,
l.l. .1 A. 1 1
en neu uocian tieciaiicu sue must nave
Omiphrvl ntrrra T ii-nli tnu' riniwlilti' n
few, Jedge, accordln' to odahs. New
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iorK Mimes.
The charity that hastens to proclaim
Its good deeds ceases to be charity and
Is on1 -'do and ostentation. Mutton.
MARCUS DALY'S PLUCK.
I lie storj of it Limn I'liut Wrought
SiieccN and Wealth.
When the outlook was the blackest
mid this indomitable captain of men,
Marcus Daly, had exhausted his re
sources and his credit a fortunate ac
cident placed in Ids hands a small but
sutllcient sum of money to transform
inevitable defeat into certain victory.
Lloyd Tevis, the California lawyer, and
his milling partner, .1. H. Haggin, who
had been visiting their properties at
Houiestake, stopped at Butte on their
way home to California to take a look
at the new camp. Marcus paly knew
Messrs. llaggln and Tevis well, for he
had worked for them In the old Califor
nia days. He visited them at their
hotel, not the gorgeous palace of gran
ite, marble, precious onyx and mahog
any which adorns Butte today, but a
humbler wooden structure more In
keeping with the squalid surroundings
of the new camp. In Ilaggln's bed
room, the only place available for a
private conversation, Daly made a
clean breast of it to his friends and
appealed to them for aid, explaining
his theory fully and citing many ad
ditional facts which had developed dur
ug his mining operations in Anaconda
that went to strengthen it.
It was thoroughly characteristic of
th' man that he did not attempt to
haggle over the terms of the loan, but
stated merely the facts and closed his
negotiations with the words: "Now,
gentlemen, that is a correct statement
.f the situation of my affairs and the
condition of my mine. I must have
fjn.non, and I must have it at once to
meet next Saturday's payroll and cur
rent bills and to provide for the ex
penses of operation for another slx
uioiiths or so. If I do not get It I am
Hat broke and will have to close up. I
have told you what I have got and
what I think and what I think I am
going to get when that shaft Is down
another 1(K) feet or so. Make your own
trnis, but let me have the money."
They gave him the $20,000, and, of
course, being astute business men, a
contract was drawn up and signed then
and there transferring to them the con
trolling Interest In the property. Rut
up to the date of his death Lloyd Tevis
always declared that, though he believ
ed thoroughly in Marcus Daly's Integ
rity, both he and Mr. llaggln thought
that he was chasing a chimera, that the
theory upon the elaboration of which
Marcus Paly had spent so many sleep-ies-;
nights and all his substance was
fallacious and that no gold-copper de
posit would ever bo discovered in the
bowels of Rutte mountain. In fine.
Haggin and Tevis let Daly have $20,000
because they liked him. They certain
ly never dreamed that Anaconda
would prove a more veritable bonanza
than the Coinstock lode. As for Daly,
he had never doubted his ultimate suc
cess, and when three months after that
meeting in the hotel bedroom the main
ih.ift of Anaconda penetrated, as he had
always believed It would, the richest
and most cxien-i e goM copper de;io-dt
u lie known world he conveyed the in
tei.igcnce to his partners in California
in this most matter of fact telegram
"We have reached It. Come out and
look at it." Public Opinion.
An Indian I.cKend.
There was once a man who 11 red in
the forest far from the rest of his
tribe. He lost bis wife and was very
lonely. After awhile he made a wood
en doll about her size, dressed it in
the clothes she used to wear and set it
up in front of the fireplace. Then he
felt better. So a year passetl away.
One night he came home, and there
was his wife sitting In a chair In place
of the doll. She spotce to him, saying.
"The (Jreat Spirit felt soi for you, so
he let me come back to see you. but
you must never touch me. for if you
do you will kill me." They lived thus
together for a twelvemonth, but one
night he attempted to clasp her in his
arms. Behold, he was holding a wood
en doll! She did not come to life again.
and he was very unhappy ever after.
Wel.ih Collejre Yell.
The Welsh is a language that looks
peculiarly fit for college yells. The
Welsh yells are fully up to the level of
those of this country. The University
of North Wales has a yell something
like tills: "Bravo, bravlsslmo. ray, ray,
ra-o-roek! Ray-ray-ra-o-rock! Ray
ray ray-o-rock!" Cardiff has a some
wh.it similar yell, while at Aberyst
wyth the cry Is: "IIlp-hlp-hur-aler!
Hip-hip-liur-aber! nip-hip- bur-Aber
ystwyth! With a pip and a pang and
a yip and a yan. Yak! Yak! Yak!"
Overcome.
Timson I never fainted a war but
once, and that was Just a few days
ago. Simson What was the cause?
Timson My wife told me that she had
trained herself so she could walk
through a store full of bargain counter
sales with her purse full of money and
never buy a thing. Detroit Free Press.
AT A MAORI FEAST.
An tldd Welcome and n Slip on the
l'nrt of the Cook.
Telling of his experience at a Maori
feast, the New Zealand correspondent
of Loudon Public Opiniou says:
The Maori girls did a metty welcom
ing dance, singing and dancing slowly
backward all the way till we got to
the Inclosure around the meetinghouse
(whare purie), where the speeches were
to be made. Then the older people cut
amazing capers, snouted tnemseives
hoarse and made the most repulsive
faces you ever saw by way of welcome
to their chief. Chairs were put for us
on the veranda of the wharo. which
was prettily tlecorated with beautiful
palms.
After some time of this and the pres
entation of mats, etc., we were invited
Into the whare to lunch. It was laid
most correctly on big tables with
cloths, but the menu consisted of roast
duck, chicken, beef and sucking pig
and, so it is said, potatoes, peas and
knemaros (sweet potatoes), cooked In a
Maori oven. I chose cold duck, with
peas and potatoes. The duck arrived
quickly, but the Maori girl who brought
It said, with broad smiles. "The pota
toes aren't cooked yet!" So my lunch
consisted of thick, bread and two
oranges. .lust as I finished the potatoes
arrived In pretty plaited green fiax
baskets.
When a man seeks your advice he
generally wants your praise. Chester-
fleld.
HINDOO CREMATION.
The Funeral Tyre nnd the Rite Be
fore the DnrnliiB.
Toward the upper end of the ghats
is the burning ground. There are no
steps here, but a slope of beaten dirt
Stop half an hour and you may sea
every step of the cremation rltest- Sit
ting ou stone ramparts above, to the
right and left, are friends and relatives
of the dead ones. The figure to the
right, huddled up In a bright green
wrap, Is of the lowest caste of Hindoo
mid keeps the mat shed near by, where
the sacred fire for igniting every corpse
Is for sale. You hear hoarse, loud cries
of Ram! Ramuua!" and, behold, a
burial procession Is coming down the
slope. Four men carry the corpse
slung between two bamboo poles and
cry to the god Ram. lie Is the personi
fication of filial love, and thus It U
meet that they should cull him to wit
ness. They swing down to the river
and Immerse the corpse. It Is wrap
ped In a white shroud stained with red
blotches. Then they lift the head
slightly out of the water and remove
the shroud from the face, splashing
water live times upon the mouth.
Others In the meantime are building a
wooden pyre, made of fagots sold
near by and when finished standing
three feet or more above ground. The
.iiTiti!ii itti fill ru color showlnir through
the dripping shroud. Is then placed on
the wooden altar and covered wim
fagots. This done, nil but two mount
the ramparts nnd watch the final cere
mony. Of the two remaining, one
pours oil upon the wood from a small
clay dish, while the other goes to the
lire house above. He soon returns with
a long straw wisp, blazing at one end.
He advances to the corpse's head,
touches It with the wisp and then cir
cles the pyre five times, touching the
head each time until the fifth, when
he places the blazing wisp beneath the
feet, and the whole pile bursts Into
flame. When all Is consumed the ashes
are raked Into the river and float away
to bliss eternfl.-F. J. O. Alsop in Out
ing. CHURCH USHERS.
Thone In Fnhlonllc Xerr
York
.Mut De Tall Men.
"In the selection of church ushers
luck all runs with the tall men," said a
young mau who was politely turned
down by the board of trustees of a
fashionable church. "New York is a
city of tall men when It comes to show
off jobs. There are many distinct ad
vantages to an ambitious man In serv
ing as usher In a popular church. I
have been 'sub' In my congregation for
two years In hope of getting n perma
nent appointment. I have remained In
town during the fine spring and au
tumn Sundays while other fellows
went 'outing. I have been content to
take a back seat on Important church
occasions. Now I am through.
"One of our ushers resigned last
month, and It seemed as though my
chance had come at last. My name
went In. A fellow who has been In the
church less than four months got the
Job. He does not dress any more care
fully than I do, and I have more
friends In the congregation than he
has. But It devolves upon four ushers
to march down the aisle after the col
lection and place the plntcfl at the foot
of the pulpit. This is quite an impos
ing part of the service. The ushers
step as steadily as West Point cadets.
Nowhere can a well fitting coat be
shown off to better advantage. The
ushers In our church are six footers. I
measure less than five feet. It was
suggested that I would look Incongru
ous jogging down the aisle with the
others. That's all." New York Press
THE CENTO.
IVhnt the Word Strtctlr Mean and
What It Mean In I'octrr.
A cento Is strictly a coat made of
patches. In poetry It Is a piece wholly
composed of verses or passages taken
from different authors and so placed
together as to form a new poem with a
fresh meaning of Its owu.
According to the rules laid down by
Ausonlus, author of the famous "Nup
tial Cento," the pieces may be taken
from one poet or from several. The
Empress Eudoxla wrote a life of Christ
In centos taken from Homer, and Al
exander Ross used Virgil for the same
purpose.
The following are modern Instances:
I only knew he came and wont (Lowell)
LIfco troutlets In a pool (Hood).
Sho was n phantom of deltsht (Words
worth). And I was like a fool (Eastman).
"One kiss, dear mnld." I said and sighed
(ColerldKe).
"Out of tho.so lips unshorn" (Longfel
low). She Bhook her ringlets round her head
(Stoddard)
And laughed In merry scorn (Tennyson).
J nut a Hint.
"John," she said softly, "have you
been saying anything about me to
mother lately?"
"No." replied John. "Why do vou
ask?"
"Because she said this morning that
she believed you were on the eve of
proposing to me. Now. I do not wish
you to speak to mother when you have
anything of that kind to say. Speak to
me, and I'll manage the business with
mother."
And John said he would.
Sot an Knlacopalian.
When Bishop Codumn was appointed
to the Episcopal diocese of Maine he
made a tour of his diocese and hap
pened to stroll into a woodman's cot
tage. Asking the woman of the house
If there were many Episcopalians
around there, she replied: "Well. I
don't know. They caught some wild
thing out here In the woods a couple of
weeks ago, If that's what you mean,
but I think my husband said It was a
woodchuck."
The Kicker.
" 'Music hath charms to soothe the
savage breast,' " quoted the young
lady with a simper as she seated her
self at the piano.
"That may be," muttered a savage
bachelor, "but there are some of us In
this crowd who are civilized and de
erve a little consideration."
Practical.
He Do you think you could love me
In a cottage? She Possibly not, but I
might be able to put up with you till
you could make money enough to buy
a larger house. Detroit Free Press.
UNIQUc: .
I'he Onlr Ilrlclc Walled Totvii Site
Found In Thl Conntry.
In many respects Aztalan, in Wlscon
in, is among the most remarkable pre
Listoric monuments In the northwesL
It is the only brick walled town site
louud in this country. It Is on the bot
tom land of the Crayfish river, about
two miles from Lake Mills. The Inclos
ing walls of the town site are about
Too feet on Its Hanks and about l,o0C
feet long. The river served to com
plete the Inclosure of seventeen acres
of land.
Within and without the Inclosure
there are round, truncated and obloug
mounds. Just beyond the Inclosing
walls the laud rises abruptly over
twenty feet to the rolling table lauds
of the surrounding country. From the
bank above a stone could be tossed In
to the town site within the Inclosure,
which would seem to be a good reason
why thi3 Inclosure, which ha been
called a fort, could not have been In
tended for a defense against any hu
man enemy.
Along the brow of the higher land
Is a row of more than thirteen round
pyramidal mounds ranging from three
to twelve feet In height. From the top
of these mounds or standing on the
table land an enemy could command
the whole town site. It has always
been conceded that Aztalan was not
inclosed for purposes of defense. It
has been supposed that it was walled
for protection from wild animals,
though the Inclosure has never been
high or abrupt enough since Its dis
covery to keep out the panther, wild
cat, wolf, bear, moose and buffalo, which
were the only dangerous anlmal3 of
the woods hereabout.
The purpose of Its Inhabitants In
constructing this Inclosure over a half
mile long still remains a mystery. The
most remarkable art of Aztalan Is Its
brick walls and walks. In this It Is
singular and alone, the only example
of bricklaying among all the monu
ments of the mound builders. These
bricks or bricklets are not rectangu
lar and regular In form nnd size, as are
the modern brick. They are simply
balls of plastic clay welded by the
hand Into small bricklets of Irregular
forfn about the average size of a suow-
ball. The material used was the
glacial yellowish red clay of the vi
cinity, and the color of the bricks Is
red or light vellow. Under the glass
scrapings appear like a handful or
crystal sand. Minneapolis Journal.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Don't be a misfortune teller.
If you can't do anything else, try to
keep out of the way.
You don't have to be impolite to peo
ple because you dislike them.
Don't think up mean tilings in your
mind which you Intend to say If you
get the chauce.
Don't tell your wrongs to your friends
unless you want to discover that their
enthusiasm is very weak.
When an accident happens, there Is
always some one present to tell how
It could have been avoided.
A man never knows till he gets out
of the rut how many jolts and bruises
he would have missed by staying In it.
It is figured that one rich man's son
who has all the money he can spend
will spoil ten poor young men in the
course of his life and not half try.
Atchison Globe.
WranKel and the Artlat.
Adolf Meuzel did not care much for
women, and he was apt to treat them
with scant courtesy, no matter what
their rank. When he was making his
picture of the Konlgsberg coronation
the Empress Augusta came to the con
clusion that the women In It had not
been sufficiently considered, so she sent
Field Marshal Wrangel to tell him so.
The artist took the criticism very 111
and bluntly told the marshal that he
had better mind his military affairs
and leave art to artists. After a vio
lent altercation Meuzel pointed to the
door, and Wrangel. red with rage, re
tired with the word. "You are a nau
seous toad!"
Ther Didn't Have Time.
A short time ago some men were
engaged In putting up telegraph poles
on some land belonging to an old farm
er who disliked seeing his wheat
trampled down, according to the vera
cious Register of Great Bend, Kan.
The men produced a paper by which
they said they had leave to put tho
poles where they pleased. The old
farmer went back and turned a large
bull In the field. The savage beast
made after the men, and the old farm
er, seeing them running from the field,
shouted at the top of his voice: "Show
him the paper! Show him the paper!"
THE UNDER MARRIAGE.
Weddlngr Cumuiiii and Frolic That
Prevail In Holland.
In Holland two weeks before a mar
riage takes place cards are sent out de
claring that the banns have been pub
lished. This Is called an "under mar
riage." The card also announces when
the final marriage is to take place. The
wedding Itself Is a small affair, and
the civil marriage Is the ouly one rec
ognized by law. A church wedding Ib
usually looked upon as a concession to
either fashion or sentimentality and is
called a "consecration of the marriage."
The couple enter the church behind the
family members, bridesmaids and oth
er attendants. They are shown to seats
before the whole assembly, and the
clergyman conies In with two witness
es long after the others have been seat
ed. He first makes a prayer, then de
livers a sermon on a suitable text,
which usually brings the bride to tears.
After that the couple are married. Then
a hymn Is sung nnd the blessing given.
The whole occupies about an hour and
a quarter. Before leaving the church
a huge Bible Is presented to the bride
groom. During the two weeks of wait
ing between the "under marriage" and
tho real marriage all the wedding fes
tivities take place. The happy couple
are literally surfeited with dinners,
balls and theater parties, and all man
ner of practical Jokes are played on the
pair. At the dinner toasts Innumerable
are given, and at each the whole com
pany rises from the table to sound and
touch glasses with the bride and groom,
who never rise. Among their friends
the Idea Is not to allow the couple a
night of sleep, If possible, before the
wedding day.