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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1905)
BAN DON llECOHDER. GORGEOUS ATTIRE. brrmi of a I.tvenioI fcrchant Ic the Eighteenth Century. The Liverpool merchant in the Inttei naif of the eighteenth century must have presented n by no means unpleas lug api)earance. He dressed, as a rule we are informed, in a suit of one color usually light or of a snuffy shade. Tin. cut of his ordinary coat resembled thai of a court dress coat, with standui collar and gilt, silvered, twist or baske buttons. His waistcoat was very long with large "daps." containing flapped pockets, these often decorated with buttons. His breeches, being short were ornamented at the knees with buckles of gold, silver or stone, kept in countenance by large gold, silver o gilt buckles on his shoes. his legs being hosed, as a rule, in silk, plain, stripei or ribbed. 15 utiles at his wrist and z white stock about his throat wen an almost invariable accompaniment, ant on his head a cocked hat. pointed in front and higher at the back than tin sides, over hair dressed into largt "cannon" eurls on each side of hi- face, with :t cue hanging behind, or it might be over a "tie." "caulillower" 01 "brown bob" wig. Thus, with -tick or umbrella, rendered remarkable by rea sou of it- head of gold, silver, amber or ebony, would ho wend hi wav u "town." In "full dre-s" he hum hav even more attractively looked the mer chant "prince" in his waistcoat of silk satin or velvet ik-Ii in color and design. with long Haps elaborately embroid ered. silk breeches and silk hose, with conspicuous knee and shoe buckles. If he on occasion dined with the mavor he might receive an engraved invita tion card similar to the following, di rected to Mr. I.eece in 177i": "Mr. May or presents his compliments to Mr. I.eece. begs the favor of his company on Sunday next to dinner, at 1 o'clock, at the Exchange An answer is de sired. 12ih .lulv. '7i'.." BUNDLE BEARERS. A Hole That City Men Are Xot Xow Inclined to Piny. There was a time, remembered easily by many, when the tender husband did not shrink from carrying home mate rials for his dinner. Men of learning in those simpler days grasped the eel of commerce, as the eel of science, by the tail. The statesman with Jovian brow and blue coat with brass buttons was very human with a dried codtish wrapped carelsly in brown paper un der his eloquent arm. To see a highly respectable citizen" with a demijohn was a cheering sight. Nor was it be neath the dignity of a pauiful preacher of the word of God to carry a pair of trousers to the tailor when the rent was beyond the skill of domestic in genuity. The present civilization may be real or chrouio: this at least is certain the age of carrying bundles Is gone so far as city men are concerned, although no Rurko has ce"ebrated-in sonorous prose its passing. The man protests against the burden of a can of peas, a jar of marmalade, his wife's bank Itook. The youth insists that the two or three col lars bought to bridge him over the weekly coming of the toundrymati shall be sent home. The schoolboy, however his mother may coax or threaten, sulks at the thought of a bundle, for he fears the ridicule of snobbishly trained com panions. The bundle is avoided, not respected, as it was by the great Napoleon. Dem ocratic simplicity is found only in tra dition and in Do Tocqneville's book. It is not surprising that the bundle should be spurned: that a fashionable mother may not be aide to support the weight of her own baby in the street. Roston Hera hi. A ICnft of CocoanntN. A curious picture in the Ear Eastern Review. Manila, shows several cocoa nut raffs in a still lagoon, apparently ready to go to market. The eocoanuts are imieh lighter than water. They are simply thrown In by the thousand and then roped togeiher by long strands of bark fiber into circular groups about twemy feet across, all the coconnuts lying side by side. A single native boat can tow a number of these odd rafts down a sluggish stream where no road could be found for ordinary trans it to a steamer wharf. Coeoanuts thus rafted will bear quite a bit of wind and rough tered. water without being scat- Don't AVnutc. Let nothing be wasted or lost. Us ing well or wasting the fragments of time, of opportunity, the nooks and cor ners of life, makes all the difference be tween success and failure. This is espe dally true of spiritual work, (iften tin best results are gained from the use ol fragments of our business or daily life, the byproducts of living. Nature says. "Gather up the fragments." in mi ture's household there Is no waste. The decay of rocks forms the soil of plants. The decay of plants forms the mold In which future plants will grow. The water dissipated In the air bo comes eiouds and rain Woman's T.if .VnjMtlfoii ami Mother. A charming -tory is told of Napoleon which iHustr.iies well his reverence f-r mothers, whom he rightlv regarded as the "makers of men." When his army lay at Houloguc an English sailor who had been taken prisoner tried to escape on a rude sort of skiff which he had contrived with bits of wood and tin hark of trees. Hearing of the poor fel low's unsuccessful attempt. Napoleon had him brought into his presence, and he then inquired whether the man had really intended to try to cross the chan nel in such a frail little boat. The sail or replied that he had meant to try in order to ee Ins mother, who was old and Infirm. "Von shall see her." said Napoleon, "and take her this money from me. for she must be a go d m th er to have such an affectionate son." Quite Poetic. "Tell me. Harry," said May Bright ley's admirer to her young brother, "who Is this other fellow that's been calling on your sister 4T don't know his name." replied Harry. "I just call him 'April show ers.' " "What for?''. "Because he brings May flowers." i POLLY DIM J (J The languid, helpless, sentimental girl is no longer fashionable. She has had her tiny and the admiration she at one time called forth has waned as her more robust, sensible and cheerful sis ters arose in all their bright, clever ways and stepped into the foremost ranks. Every girl nowadays wants to be lithe and graceful, ami as a step in that direction they are apt pupils in physical culture, active members in tennis, golf and other clubs, that will tend to make them .strong, nbust women. Although a grumpy old bachelor says, that "if the girls now adays would wield u broom half as en ergetically as they handje the tennis racquet, etc., they would be ju-t as healthful and a good deal more helpful to their tired mothers," he doesn't stop to think that probably they do both, combining work and pleasure, and one does not detract from the suc cess of the other accomplishment. Hut that is neither here nor there. I am not trying in this article to con vince the bachelor that work and play can go hand in hand, for he would in sist that seeing is believing, and pro ceed to close his eyes to facts ami fig ures if they were placed before him Every girl can cultivate a graceful car riage if she makes up her mind to it although it will be a hard task to the self-conscious girl who imagines every body is observing her awkwardness Hie Philadelphia Bulletin is respousi ble for the following and if our girh are interested in the subject, they may or can bring their imaginations into play and accomplish much in the way oi sen-possession ami a gracctui car r l r i riage: "There's a little mental science trick," says the Bulletin, "that wil teach imaginative persons to acquire: K?rfe-!, graceful poise. One says Mm iginative' with reason, for you have to have imagination to do it. You must imagine that you bear a scintillating star on your breast and a basket of ege on your head. The first fancv wil unconsciously inuueiice von to earrv your shoulders like a military man ent on exhibiting his gold buttons 1 he second will teach von to sink into i chair gently ami gracefully instead of hunching into it, also it will train you to climb stairs erect. oi can't twist or bend over, as women ustiallv do in going up stairs, if von have a.-ket of eggs on your head even an imaginary one can you. o put on the finishing gold star, which is worn to be seen, and set the basket of eggs on your head, and ste what the eom- iiied fancy will do for vour carriage." 'he girl with a vivid imagination may iccomplish wonders. Speaking of vivid imagination ie- ninds me of an old lady who had hard work to keep the wolf from the door ind get the bare necessities of life, and who ndnutteu that she had never eaten in a restaurant but once, and that was an event sheremeiuliered and recalled with the greatest pleasure. "You see, I knew they wouldn't mis. one of the papers, programs, 1 think they called them, that had all tlu names of the things they had to eat printed on it, so I put mine in my pocket to remember my first and last dinner in the restaurant. It ir a lot of comfort to me, now that the folks are all gone and I'm living all alone. When I sit down to my table, and there is not another living thing but the cat to hear my foolishness, 1 spread out the paper and rend, '.Soup.-: bouil lon, chicken, vegetable and mutton broth,' every one of them ten cents, too, for a little bit of a bowl. Then comes salads, 'crab, chicken, shrimp and potato.' I can get potatoes any day, so I just turn that down. Then there's roasts like beef, pork, mutton ... . .i ... wiin dressing ami me mkc, ami mere s entrees, and that means lots of good things that makes you think of gutting realy for a big Thanksgiving or Christ mas dinner. There's turkey am chicken on the paper, but it won It break you up in business for a month to come if you took all the family with von and they all chose chicken am turkey. They have ice cream, no mat ter whether the weather is cold or hot mince pies, which seem out of season except when Christmas and Thanks giving roll around, beside all kinds of pies ami fruits, and all sorts of drinkn bles, that is enough to make vour mouth water, they do sound so appe tizing with the rest of the good things i sit down to me mine ami even " a 1 . A a. 1 At m though I only have bread and butter and some stewed apples, or bacon and gravy, I read over the good things, and try to imagine I'm having them, too, or refusing them because it is bet ter for my health that I should not eat them, and I get up feeling quite con tented and happy. I wouldn't Ioe Unit scrap of paper for a good deal," and thcold lady carefully folded up tlu worn and crumpled bill of fare and put it in her work 1mx. rncouiplaiiiing and happy in her imagination, and never disturbed by the iiudigesfciou and discomfort that might perchance fol low her indulgence in the various things that were carefullv selected in the bill of fare. .She took the program and got hours of solid comfort over the perusal, and no one would have had the heart to have reproved her lor it. Th'u taking things from restaurants is a serious matter with many proprietors of these places in .San Francisco, for many dainty nrticles of glassware and silver ware are carried away as souvenirs of an evening pleasantly spent with a few congenial and chosen friends. The waiters receive a handsome tip, and from that on thev are as blind as bats in the daylight, as far as they are con cerned, and the articles are carried oil' with impunity. You would be sur prised to know the extent-this souvenir gathering is carried on in this vicinity. One of the most deplorable features is the fact that the purloiner of these souvenirs is in most instances women. They don't stop to think that there are others beside themselves with this mania for souvenir gathering, and that it is oftentimes a big item in the expenses of the restaurant keepers. "It is always the big restaurant keep ers who can afford to lose the trille that have to stand in awe of our raids," said a pretty girl, laughing, as she dis played the long list of souvenirs she had gathered together. At a recent banquet held in one of the cistern cities women so far forgot themselves as to carry oil" solid silverware and cut glass, and some of them did it so openly ami seemingly with no shame or sense of the injustice they were do ing their host. It certainly showed them up in a poor and very unenviable light. BRIEF REVIEW. The Story of the Brain. The story of the brain, as scientists have gradually unfolded its peculiar construction, is of marvelous interest, says Meplien mitn, M. 1 .. Mil)., in Leslie's Magazine. This pulpy, and apparently homogeneous mass is re vealed to us as the most highly special ized ami vitalized organ in the human body. It consists of hundreds of mil lions of separate and independent or ganisms, once known as nerve cells, but now called "neurones." These units of the brain are independent bodies and consist of a cell-bodv, its axis and its branches. The cell-body contains within its covering membrane elements which generate the nerve force or energy: the axis is the nerve oriiitdium which convevs that force; and the branches are the means of communication of the neurones with each other and with the organs ami tissues to which the nerve is di.-trilt-tited. The life history of these micro- -copal bodies is the same as the cells of other organs and tissues. Thev are implanted before birth and may re main dormant for a lifetime if unused; if stimulated to activity they enlarge through more abundant nutrition, but waste and atrophy when the stimuleiit is removed; they are un-lcrgoing con stant changes through the process of nutrition, ami from the innumerable impressions made upon tliem iy oo- jects within ami without the bodv. Ravages of Field Micj. Winter is often a season of starvation with the moles, or meadow mice, for tho-e that dwell far from corn and grain fields do not layby enough provisions to last them until spring, so they are often forced to live on food that they would otherwise refuse If weexatniiie the highway thickets after a particu larly cold season, we will find that the trunks of many small saplings and bushes have been girdled close to the ground, and will also discover quanti ties of the outside bark laying where it has been dropped after the mice have eaten the nutritious part. In a hu.-h ot, where workmen have lately cut iway the undergrowth, the mice have icld nigh carnival. They havc.-t ripped the popular twigs of bark, torn into the stag horn sumach heads to reach the seed-, and devastated eveiy stalk of " block " while searching for the fruit. la.el thorn ami raspberry bushes, wild choke cherry, thorn apple, su mach and apple trees have all contrilr uted a part of their covering to the sup port of these waifs of nature, until the priug shall have sent them an abimd- nice of green food. Girl Slaves in Russia, l'he following report from Orel were well-nigh incredible did not theOr- ovaki Yichtnit, in earnest and indig nant terms, vouch for its complete ac curacy. A young and wealthy owner of land in the district of Yeletz. is in the constant habit of driving about his es tate in a light victoria in similiter and an ornate .-leigh in winter drawn by four peasant girls, yoked two on either side of the shaft. The brutal driver guides his slave team, with which he exchanges no words, by reins attached to the girls' anus, and, when neces sary, the exhaustively lagging human cattle are stimulated by something more than a cracking flourish of the horsewhip. Indian Racing Ponies. .Not mucn more enviable than the lot of the unfortunate man who is reported to have grown shorter is that of racing ponies in India, Egypt and elsewhere, which are made to measure from three quarters of an inch to a full Inch lower than their natural measurements. Par ing the hoof can only be done to a cer tain extent. Hut ponies can be educat ed to stand with their heels apart, and if the head is tied up for some time before they are put under the standard they will stand to their best advantage. Two pounds avoirdupois per quarter inch is the regular allowance lu the "scale for age class and inches." Eon- don Pall Mall Gazette. Idiots- "Should idiots U; killed at birth?" asks a curious clergyman, hornet hues you don't find it out till they are grown up and get to asking fool questions. Houston ( hronicle. View with charity and pity the con duct of people whose parents were ignorant. Home lovers are always the defend rs of a nation. It is the man who eaves home with his musket that re- els invasion. Vanity is the bubble, that leads us down to disaster. PAUS AND PINKSTER. The Dutch litiHc- Time Kent I v:i l.i Ii the Mohawlc Valley. Next to Now Year's day Pans and Pinkster were the more povylar and generally observed holidays -( the old Dutch In the Mohawk valley. Pans was Easter and Pinkster was Whit sunday. Pinkster was particularly a gala day, when young and old gave themselves up to jollity and boisterous fun. The Joys of the day began in the morning with sports, outdoor games and contests and ended late at night with indoor games and dancing. There were "egg butting" and "riding at the ring." The latter sport was probably a rural adaptation of the tournaments of the days of chivalry. The neces sary arrangement was a cord tied across the road just above the heads of men u horseback. From this cord was suspended hv a short string a linger .. . K i.-'i horscuinu was pro'.'e. with a short, sharp pointed stick al-o-v th-- si-'.e ctf a meat skewer, which was he'd Itj'tween the first linger and thumb. The competitors were obliged to ride at full gallop under the cord, and attempt to thrust their "lances" through the ring and carry it off three times. When one of the contestants h.id accomplished this he was chased by all the other contestants. If In suc ceeded in reaching the goal without be ing caught he was the winner. The P"7-'" w:,s Payment by the other 1 m t ixt !i 11 1 if fliii Kill fan- hiniui.If rliul ... . . ...... ... ...... smUM.1. in evening. If. however. he was caught In was obliged to foot the bill for his captor and his best girl. For a week before Pinkster the in habitants, black and white, began to make ready for the festival by erecting booths of bough- from the thickly leaved trees and shrubs on a place in or near the village chosen because of its convenience and beauty. In these booths the tables were set with good things to eat and drink. Besides the "egg butting" and "riding at the ring." then' were impromptu horse races, wrestling matches and occasional "scraps." The p:isjc for dancing was provided by the fiddle and jewsharp. Pink-tor was a great occasion for the slaves. On this day they had unusual lileTty to enjoy themselves according to ih-.-ir own ideas. One way of doing so was a dance, which was no doubt a relic of one of the ui.-my religious dances brought from Africa by the captured slaves. The mu-ie was ob tained from a huge drumlike instru ment four or five feet l.mg and a foot in di imeter. covered at either end by a tightly stretched -heepskin. This was held between the legs of the largest and oldest slave in the couimuuitv. This drum he would beat with palm and lingers, and ail the time lie sang a wordle-s song, which as the excite ment increa-ed would become wild and weird and was accompanied by mus cular contortions, wagging and twist ing of the head ami rolling of the eyes, one after another of the slaves would join in the dance as ihe spirit moved him or her to do s nil the mu-iciaii was surrounded by a ring of black and yellow twisting, wriggling, hysterical negroes, who for the time were thou sands of miles away in the heart of superstitious Africa. (ne by one they would fall to the ground exhausted, when their places wmiM lie taken bv .tl he moving of the spirit. It was not ' unusual for this wild dance to continue through two days. ew York Tribune. Several True I1I1I-. It is of course true that a jury, theo retically, is eompK-ed of a set of Mil prejudiced men. with open minds; still Hiere may be oceasious when a slight pers-mal feeling invades their ranks. Such was evidently the thought b-true in up n the tailor who. rising to state his ease and having declined the serv ices nf a lawyer for reas ns best known to himself, looked over the jurymen and then turned to the judge It's no use for me to tell von about ! ih;s ea.-e. your honor." he said deject edly, "not unless yu dismiss that jury and get in a new lot. There isn't a man among 'em but owes me something for .lollies." ihiilly llr.Miirhl t'p Soldier. During an otlieial massacre at the village of Kouklish the Turkish com mandant a far major slept and smok ed in the shade of a tree near the scene of carnage. The trumpet sounded for he assault, aud the soldiers proceeded to rob. kill, burn and violate. The trumpet next sounded the retreat, but the troop refused to obey, and the fat major continued to sleep and smoke. When spoken to about the excesses of his men. he replied: "What can one do? They are so badly brought up!" Paris Macoiloiuo. oveI Oyster Parties. Oyster parties are the great diversion of the Spanish gentlemen who pay family visits to Vigo. The party goes out in a large tlat bottomed boat. Then the oysters are fished up. opened and eaten on the spot, and a prize goes to the guest who can show most shells at the end of the day. In excuse It may be said that the Vigo oyster is small, for a prize winner will sometimes show as manv as 210 shells. The Kjc of the Slmrk The eye of the shark Is small, long aud narrow, closely resembling that of a pig. All observers have agreed In at tributing to it a sly and malicious ex pression, but this must to some extent be taken as a flight of fancy. The only real reason for attributing to the shark a savage disposition Is that, like the wolf, he has no pity whatever for a comrade, In distress and that a wound- ed shark will be instantly attacked and devoured by his companion. This is indeed an evil trail In hn erentnro and can OUlV be excused, on the L-rnmid of his prolonged fasLs and the over- mastering demands of his appetite. London Standard Carefully Cnarded Ten. The tea used in the Chinese royal household is treated with the utmost care. It is raised hi a garden surround ed by a wall, so that neither man nor beast can get anywhere near the plants. At the time of the harvest those collecting these leaves must ab stain from eating fish that their breath may not spoil the aroma of the tea. they must bathe three times a day and In addition must wear gloves while picking the tea for ihe Chinese court OULUK Ol- I HE SUN. U'hat Ytoulil ilcjiiicn If It Wert- Oth er Than What It Ih. A Oerman astronomer has published Kjuie Interesting observations oil the theoretical effects of a change in the color of the sun. It Is amazing to con sider the possibilities If our sun were green, blue or red instead of what It is. If it were blue, there would be only two colors in the world blue and black. If it were red, then everything would be red or black. If It were yel low, everything would be yellow or black. Every one knows that the light of our sun consists of six colors, and the reason things are different hues Is that some swallow up five of the colors and reflect only one. Thus we have primuses yellow because they absorb all but the yellow, roses red because they absorb all but the red, violets purple because they absorb every tnmg but red and blue, a mixture of which two colors forms purple. In the event of the sun being red, roses, blood, red Ink and all other things that are now red would reflect it. Ho also would snow, the lily and all things that are now white, but these would, of course, be red. Every thing else would swallow up the red light and appear quite black. Grass, for instance, would be black as Ink, and so would the blue of the sky, but the white clouds would be red. The same kind of thing would happen If the sun were blue. Everything now blue or white would be blue and every thing else black. The whole sky, clouds and all, would be blue. The grass this time would be blue, not black, for It reflects both blue and yellow. Hair would be all black, the red of the lips would be black, and the rest of the face would be a cloudy blue. If the sun were green, we would have a little variety. Things that are n iw yellow would still be yellow, things that are blue would be blue, and things that are green would still be green, but there would be no reds, purples, orange, pinks or any of those cheery hues that make the world look so bright. New York Herald. THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. Vn Kxtraordluary "Work of Art of Crcnt HlMtorlc Value. Eew besides those who have visited Ihiyeux or have especially studied the subject have any Idea of what this ex traordinary work of art Is really like or have any authentic knowledge of Its history. It tells the story of Edward, Harold and William and of the con quest of William In a series of pic tures, so that its value Is great as a chronicle as well as a relic of needle work S(MJ years old. The vicissitudes of the treasure have been many. It is a curious fact that from 147f until 1724 It seems to have dropped entirely out of the world's knowledge. It was preserved with care among the treasures of the P.ayeux cathedral and was brought out for eight days every .summer and bung about the nave of the cathedral. No one but the peasants ever saw It, and the cathedral authorities cared for it only as a decoration. In 1724 an old drawing of part of the tapestry camo into the hands of a learned antiqua rian, who tried without success to tlnd tin original. The I'ere Montfaucon also tried to find It aud at last succeed ed and told the world about it In his great b.tfok. "Monuments de la Monar chic I'rancaise." The church had no power to protect such a treasure In 1724, and the ancient length of linen with its quaint em broidery was dragged out of the ca thedral and used to cover one of the military wagons belonging to the local battalion. M. le Eorestier rushed to I its rescue and substituted a canvas to cover the wagon and brought the tap- j os try to his study till he was relieved I i . r i . i .. .1 i ...!.... l... I litiiii ins :eii appointed mission uj u. commission that undertook the protec- I tioii of the work of art. Now the tap- os,r-v ,ms m'eu restored and may bo seen framed under glass In a museum of its own. Ilrenklnr ICkck For a Living-. A correspondent of u contemporary who has been searching for the most monotonous method of earning a living decides In favor of that of cracking eggs. "I met a man who said he was a biscuit manufacturer on a large scale and was rather inclined to boast about the number of eggs continental eggs which his firm bought In the course of a year. Now. it seems that to avoid calamity five eggs are broken Into a bowl at a time before being added to the common stock. There aro men, ho ! told me, who do nothing else but crack eggs. They become so expert that a man can dispose of 1,000 an hour, or 10.000 a day." London Star. tllMconrnKcd. "Mamma," remarked Dottle, "If I get married when I grow up will I have a husband liko papa?" "I suppose so, dear," said mamma. "An' If I don't get married Pll be a old maid. like Cousin Charlotte, won't IV" "I guess you will, pet. Why?" "Oh, nothln' only I wish I was a boy!" Cleveland Leader. When a woman begins to watch at- ' tentively a man's acts, gestures and speech, you may be sure she has be gun either to love or to hate him. And Then There Wn Tronhle. "They saiid all sorts of unkind things about you." "Such as what?" "Well, they said that you married for ; money. "Hut you didn't believe it. did you?" "Not until I saw your husband." After that there came an estrange ment between the two dear friends. Mortal Man. It was perhaps ordained by Provl- ; deuce to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another that no individual should be of so much Importance as to cause by his retirement or death any chasm In the world. Johnson. Some French Diamond. The French furnish us with some well cut diamonds: "Patience is the art of hoping." Vauvenargues; "Truth Is the skeleton of appearances," De Mus i set; "All bow to virtue and then walk away." Da mas. We are as often duped by dlfildence as by confidence.- Chesterfield. CHOICE MiJCELLANY In pan cue Spiea. Japan ha-: endeavored to r;ose the business of espionage to the standing jf an honorable profession. It regard; its own sides with the same pride th:w it feMs for its soldiers. Every one re members the Incident of the .Iap-ines. officers who, disguised as Chinese, were arrested in the early days of the war when they were about to make an ut tempt to blow up the bridge over the Kungari river. The rank of the senior officer, says Douglas Story in "The Campaign With Ivuropatkin." was a colonel. Hefore they went out to stand against the Russian platoon of infantry they specially bequeathed the money In their pockets to the uses of the Hus shin Red Cross. To mark their appreciation of espio nage as a distinct branch of honorable warfare the Japanese did a curious thing after the battle of Llaoyang. They captured a Russian spy, dressed as a Chinaman, and after shooting him passed into the Russian lines a com niuu'catlon in which they hailed him as a brave man and expressed the hope that the Russian troops held many others such as he. When one remembers the execration with which spies have been hailed by other nationalities this eastern exalta tion of the calling Is. to say the least of it. curious " The Cruelty of Kaahion. The splendid snow white heron, known as the American aigret, one of the few kinds which bear the aigret plumes of millinery and commerce, is among the waning species of America. a victim to inexorable fashion, says Herbert K. Job In Country Mfe In America. In 11)03 the price for plumes offered to hunters was .32 per ounce, which makes the plumes worth twice their weight in gold. There will always bo men who would break any law for such profit. No rookery of these herons can long exist unless It i guarded by- force of arms day and night. Mr. Job tells how he visited what is perhaps the last large remaining aigret rookery in North America. It should be understood that these plumes, which are variously called by milliners "aigret.s, "stubs" and "os- nreys, and are dyed to whatever color Is fashionable, are borne only during the nuptial season and can be secured only by shooting the birds when they have assembled in colonies to breed, when their usual shyness has departed owing to the strength of the parental instinct. Returning to their nests, they are shot down, and their young are left to starve. KmiwltMljfe In Power. A monopoly of the extensive fisheries of Scotland and England once came in to the hands of a man who kept his agents at the principal stations and re quired them to furnish him all facts that came to their knowledge. At one of his stations in the far north the fishing had been unsuccess ful for the greater part of the season, and there was no prospect of Improve ment when he looked into the matter, rpon examining his agent's letters from that place for some years hack lie found by a comparison of dates that at a certain place herrings were likely to be found. lie accordingly instruct ed his ageut to send his boats to that sPot- I lie fisherman laughed at the idea of a man sitting some hundreds of miles away and telling them where to get usu. oui as ms ortiers were posi- live tney nan to oney. and the conse quence was that they returned the next morning loaded with herrings. ( loth .Made From Wood. In Germany. Spain and Holland tex tile goods are made out of wood, and It Is probable that this Industry will soon spread to France. The process consists in making the wood pulp pass directly through a metallic plate with a number of slits, resulting In the for miuion oi mm riuoons. wnicli pass from the Mltted plate directly to a ma chine which twists them, transforming them Into very regular threads of any desired size. The wood fiber threads thus produced go by the names of i xylollne. sllvalhie and Ileella. They are classified by number like the other threads In use. Mixed with hemp threads they have been used to make towels. These mixed fabrics readllv admlt of washing, dyeing nnd print ing. The wood pulp thread, which i grows weak when wet, regains its re- i slstence when dried. Kansas Citv Journal. Frenchwomen Score a Victory. omen have scored a great victorv In France, writes Lady Violet Greville. A committee has been revising the civil marriage code on which, curiously enough, sat not only grave and rev erend barristers full of the letter of the law, but also such advanced thinkers and lyen of thu world as Messrs. Her vieu and Marcel Provost, two of the most subtle analyzers of the feminine temperament. They have decided to erase the word obey from the mar riage promise on the part of the wo man and also to Insert the word love on the part of both. Thus a man must l now protect, aid and love his wife. rrt. i i .mis is a vreac siep. in a couuirv so conservative In Its usages, toward the emancipation of woman. The HedtrehoK'n Frown. A hedgehog curls itself up by a frown that Is, by muscles like those which produce a frown- and It frowns se verely or gently, according to circuin stances. If it Is poked hard It "sighs' i itself tighter. If really hurt it frowns ! Into n tight ball. The prickles can be erected lu a measure, though as they I nolnt all Wil VS till nnf tioiilm1 Thov are as sharp as needles. We have only- known one dog. a large black and white setter, which would deliberate"; bite a hedgehog till It killed It. Hut this dog was quite mad and shared some of the anaesthesia common to certain lu nntics. London Spectator. A Safe Guens. "A very healthy place, is It?" said the woman who was house hunting. "Have you nny Idea what the death rate Is here?' After careful reflection, says Punch, all the caretaker replied. "Well. mum. I can't 'zactly say, but It's about one apiece all around." El ' .i HT HANDED FOLKS WHY ARE THEY SO VERY LARGELY IN THE MAJORITY? There Are Two Factor In the Prob lem, an luherlteii Tendencr nd (-iinNlant Practice The OrlsriH ol the Innate Proclivity. That the great majority of persons use the right hand with greater skill than the left is doubtless due to twe Influences an innate proclivity and constant practice. The preference shown by most infants at the age of one year for the use of the right hand proves that there is an inherited tend ency. Further evidence of it is found in the greater ease with which any en tirely new act Is performed by the right than by the left hand. Training, how ever. Is an Important factor. A mature person, having lost the right hand by accident, can achieve wonders with the other If he only exercises patience, perseverance and a strong will. The more mysterious of the two fac tors in this problem is the Inborn tend ency. How did it arise? There are exceptions to the rule. Perhaps two out of every hundred babies are left handed. Hut when you stop to think of It the natural inclination of the other ninety-eight is remarkable. A great many physiologists have speculated in regard to Its cause without reaching any conclusion upon which all could agree. Dr. (b-orge M. Gould says In the Popular Science Monthly that right handedness is so thoroughly ingratiat ed in human nature that It must have been partially developed in the savage ancestors of the race. Primitive man, in his opinion, must have felt a definite need for the exercise of his right hand in preference to his left, and that ne cessity must have been recognized aud obeyed for a long period continuously. The impulse could not well have dic tated his habits in eating, for knives and forks are of recent origin, the modern gun had not been invented. and writing was practically unknown. Moreover, in such operations as chip ping arrowheads, weaving baskets a;d wielding clubs, bows and arrows it could not have mattered much which hand was employed. When warfare had been carried to such a stage of advancement as to i- volve the use of a shield, however, that object was probably held on the left side in order to protect the heart. I hen as a matter of convenience the right arm was left free for the more active function of fighting with spear and sword, and with habitual exercne came special skill. An attendant phe nomenon was a finer organization of that particular center in the brain which controlled these movements and which was situated in the left half of Ihe organ. The brain is the real seat of ill dexterity, and something takes place there In correspondence with ex ternal etliciency. With an Increased u-e of the right hand. Dr. (lOidd thinks, there must have been greater demands upon the right eye. because vision must precede the order to strike or to give peaceful signals. In this way there may have been developed a keener jiower of vision in the right eye than lu Ihe left. Dr. oii!d assumes that there was and declares that "right handed- people are right eyed" and that In their brains the center of vision Is on the left side. In close proximity to that gov- ernltig the right arm. While civilization was vet at a low level eommnnie.-iMnn especially with strangers. largely In the sign language. Harter laid the foundations of arithmetic and called In to play the digits. The preference al ready given to the right hand in battle may have guided men in the choice for this service and also In otlieial and so cial ceremonies. Computation. Dr. Gould points out. was an intellectual process which was conducted in the speech center of the brain. Nature was cop.pelled to take sides lu locating the h:,,,,., - . ad she pIim-.nI It to the left of the middle. Dr. Gould thinks that the choice was governed by the cmnlov- inent of the right hand for giving sig nals. So iutimatelv related are the functions of speech ami vision and the control of the muscular efforts with the right arm that action would bo quicker If the cerebral centers control ling them were "losely associated. Hefore di-cussing the cause of left handedness Dr. Gould calls attention to the fwet that with right handed people the left hand Is occaslonallv called lin L to perform a task of greater impor- tauce than Its mate. In eating the fork Is used more than the knife. In playing a violin or violoncello the lin gering Is done with the left hand and the bowing with the right. It Is sug- ested that some of these operations may result from the superiority of the right eye. Perhaps tin latter can watch and guide them better when they are performed with the left than with the right hand. Left handedness Is c. r Identl by Dr. Gould an Inheritance from ancestors. savage or civilized, who were oblige! by some misfortune to abandon the use of the right hand. An even more Influ ential injur... he thinks, would have been as to the right eye. With the cul tivation of skill with the left hand, he believes, there followed a change In the organization of the brain. Owing to disease the center, which had for merly controlled action, lost Its vigor and that on the opposite side acquired increased power. Dr. Gould snys that the speech center was also transferred from the left side to the right of the brain In consequence. In the transmis sion of the cerebral peculiarity to off spring he finds the key to the manifes tation of left handedness at a tender age.- New York Tribune. Experience Is a Jewel, and It need be so. Cor It is often purchased at an Infi- nate rate. Shakespeare. Hi tter I.nck Than He Thought. A young man who had received the privilege of shooting over the land of a farmer got rather close once or twice to the home and the ground adjacent to It. Ijiter In the dny. the Couuirv Gentleman says, he met the farmer. 1 ou ve had pretty good luck." said the farmer. "Well, no." said the young man hesi tatingly. "I haven't had nny hick at "Yes. you have." reneated th frm "This morning voti Just missed my best Shorthorn."