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."
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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."