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BANDON RECORDER. EASTER CUSTOMS. CnrlmiN OhservmtccM tit the I'aat anil Present In Kuulnnil. Some of thi iUl Kasior customs hi Eugland art' curiously barbaric, and even i I ' I II mi III -riita5i1gt3c,-SJlir I ; 3 1 Ajst in a n if i ii II! I II 1 1 I If I 1 1 1 I II III I rOLLl LRIiMli pretty hard, but I guess I deserved it," said bis friend. "I know I am too prone to condemn instead of reaching out a helping hand. You are so thor oughly good yourself that you find it easy to do for others, while with me it is so natural to pass those things by that 1 should ln I ni'L-imwhxliro Unit How much we hear by chance as we . . . - I 4i" 41 i I Oj vie v i a uuuiu -A. vtt a at tin- prcem time the observ- journey through life; things that noYer be a martyr for the good of olh- aneo of this particular festival is sm- not intended Tor -our ears, nut are ,5ke Ym tuu..u. ... ?, u lia . "' all the credit in the world, either, old mystery. reeled across the sidewalk the other Twentieth century maidens don day, but he was not so much under the bright ydlow garters, si-cure in their in,Uencu but wlmt he couM nmUe an belief that they will be engaged lieiore , . .... . . . . , . . . , .... . ... . t1, f ... attempt to lift his hat and apologize to the year ends. Others give their tresses , "a hundred .strokes three times" with a llttle My narrowly missed the brush while thinking intently of running into. Two gentlemen who their heart's desire. And who does not were passing at the time made this take good care to wear their new I man the theme of their conversation things on ICaster day? Among the earliest of Master cus toms are I lie following: At ljuceu's college. Oxford, a herring placed by the iimk to simulate a man on horseback is set on a corn salad and fellow, for being perfect, for it's just as natural for you to be good as it is for me to be selfish and unreasonable. It is as hard for me to have those gener ous and forgiving impulses as it is for wa'er to run up hill." 1 couldn't help thinking its these I ...... .... i r and 1 was interested in what thev had 7"' mu" !" - H'""g imoau oi to say. "There ought to be a whij- ping post for men like that, " said one of them, with a shrug of his shoulders. " I don't agree with you Ned, "quietly brought to the table. Th's is supposed responueu me otner. "toil uon i to represent a nil herring riding away know what you are talking about. 1 on horseback and is the last vestige of happen to know that young man, and tiee to hear the trials and tribulations of his clients, for he was a lawyer, and the other going in an opposite direc tion, that one who had found the key to humanity that should and would bring not only himself but others hap piness, ile would be alwaj's ready to TOURING IN RUSSIA. Vav DliUcnlrleii of One Who Can no; Speii k the Lnnenace. Xijni Novgorod, where the great Rus shin fair is held, far on toward tlit frontier of Asia, I found the most diffi cult proposition In all Europe from the standpoint of the traveler seeking rest and refreshment. I knew only one word in Kussian, "vodka," and one can pronounce that too often. Xobodj seemed to speak anything but Russian I could not get a cabman to take me tc a hotel. One isvosehlc after anothei THE TREADMILL. THE SWELLING TOAD. A I'nnixhnicnt Still In Vogne In Many I Cnrlon.i Point Ahcat ThI Odillij EnxliNli PriMon. Anions' Animals. The tread wheel is still In vogvo at The wonder of the genus batrachia many English prisons. Within the walls RUd the greatest natural history oddity is a little building, built of blue gray to be found along the Atlantic coast stone, standing somewhat apart from 0f the United States is the swelling the main structure in a corner of the toad, a semiaquatic creature" known to exercise ground and prison garden. On naturalists as bufomachalatus. It is the chocolate colored door are painted occasionally met with from New York in white letters the two words. "Wheel clty to Jacksonville, Fla., hut Is most iiou.se. as tne door opens the dull, common alomr the coasts of Irginia, grinding sound that we heard outside Maryland and North Carolina. When grows a little louder and clearer. The would pick me up. seem to understand door closes behind us with the Inevita and then take me to a shop, a steam hie clash and click of the returning ship pier, a private residence. I was holt. The house Is an anartment some . I In Its natural state the "swell toad" Is about the size of a large bullfrog, but looks more like a fish than it does like either a froc or a toad. It is reduced to the Humiliating necessity of thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide. nl,ollt sIx ,nche3 m iength and has the -v.s 1UVLUM- oi ..oLc.a uuuh ami un w.o left hand side are the wheels, curioUH fllculty of being able to swell food of all sorts-and qte without four of them, In two tiers, divided by a to the slze ot a football, in which state avail. At last bethinking myself thai gallery n.miing the whole lengtjj-of the its u.gs, tail and head are scarcely the trade of Russia was In Oermar house and communieatlnj? with the ..!,.... the oiM c iKH.ular nau'e.ints of rcioicini: he comes of as tin a family as von Kivt otner-s tl,u leiiellt of the doubt, would wish to know." Then all the l" UAie,ul "yiping nanii ; ne mote reason why he ihould be mmished wouU1 leslow to condemn and quick for making such a beast of himself on to l,raise a,ul the wor,(l woul(l be ihc the street and disgracing his familv. better his for having lived. The other 1 sav a few aimlications of the cat-o- wis mercenary, wholly selfish, and was nine tails would cure him of this dis- rea(1' to te almost impossible gusting habit that makes him a tenor from his feUow "" Hu wm,,(1 iU(,Ke iiarsiuy, mid fault, and make tilings decidedly uncomfortable unless they were going his way. lie would pluck the rose while the rest might take the thorns. One was loved by all who were fortunate enough to know him, ami the other was ainiply tolerated. for the end of the Lemeii fast. It was erstwhile a habit in English towns for the boys after the Easter service to run into the street and snatch the buckles from the shoes of thelitis whom they were able to catch. Easter Monday, however, it was turn about, and the women chased the men. If the men refused to pay a sixpence to his family, a disgrace to the commit or happened to wear boots the women nity in which he liv2s and " "It'sa tried to snatch their hats, and to re- disease," interrupted his friend. "Non cover a hat cost a sixpence. g,.... nll th:H f,v,.mir parties who id- I.. - I ' OI in .Miic uiu inu meat chkcs were brought to church and there divided among the youii people. A singular Eater custom was that of "lifting and weaving." A man sit- n- ouiiieiiieuiy in ins nome was sur low themselves to go so low as to fall into the gutter, by terming it a disease makes me weary. Call it a weakness if you like, and L will acknowledge the 0ne miSht t,ie mourned by legion of truth of your assertion." " I say it is f'nds ; the other will pass out into Iris.Nl by the servants and women of a disease, and physicians who have lllt' eat unknown unwept except by his household, who entered bearing a great armchair lined with white and decorated with ribbons and favors. - The man was forced to sit in the chair ami be lift oil by the women, t'o each of whom Ik' must give a sixpence. On a day in Easter week, either Monday or - Tuesday, the man lifted the women with similar attendant ceremonies. iidward I. was lifted in his bed bv violent naroxvsms of raire. While it lasts you are one of the most violently made intemperance a study all over the land can vouch for the truth of my statement. If you will excuse my be ing personal, I want to call to your mind one of your failings." ''My the few. BRIEF REVIEW. violent temper, I suppose. Yes, Woos Daughter and Wins Her Love. A remarkable allair, reminiscent of nis iauies ami mauls of honor, and a record sliows the payment made by hiui to have Ueen some ."?2.000 in six IMHices. In older days in England monks at Easter acted plays in churches, the fa vorite suluWt ImHui: the resurrect foil. Not only M ere these plays enacted in J row how close you have come to taking t.ie churches these festival days, hut a life when you were in oneof your ter- ..w,4l ..nii.-mu. paruciuany m the rinie attacks of rage, ion say you rreiieii cam.Nirals. Even the sun. it is said, dances on Easter day. In Ireland great preparations were made for the last day of Lent. Holy Saturday. .Hmut 0 n'ciock. :i hen and "a piece of Imicoii wol-e put in the pot. and at 11 there were eating and much mer- try ami be lenient with others rym.-:kfii .t 4 ,,n ro. to s . , ... u that is just it, Ned. You say you can't the ()hl lJrt,ek tragedies, has occurred help it when you lly into one of your 511 -y pt-nseu. nearly twenty years ago a young Swiss commercial traveler named M id ler deserted his wife and infant daugh ter and emigrated to Mexico, where he insane persons I ever knew. Ln vour auger you would slay vour best friend. Drive your own mother from the hou?o succeeded in amassing a considerable if she happened to cross your path, fortune. You know to vour cost ami great sor- I"ing his absence his wifedied, and me utile girl was adopted by a larnier of Appen.ell named Schloss. The child assumed the name of Schloss, can't help it, that vou are unaccouiita- hlul was e,K'r!,n-v regarded in the dis- hands. I started out afoot In search ol any mercantile looking person witt close cropped blond beard and spec taeles. Such a man I found, and he directed me in Herman to a trnktlr where I had breakfast with the aid ol more crude cartooning. "Coffee" It good Volapuk, and the waiter under stood me at once, but I had to sketch a number of elliptical figures ln mj notebook and finally make a .spirited drawing of the common or garden hen before he knew I wanted "eggs For dinner that night I went to a res taurant overhanging the Volga. It Is one of my most bathing memories ol travel that when in my thirst I madf the sign of drinking and pointed tc the river tlo waibr lowered a buck'i out of the window into the stream am! brought it to me filled with rich browr water. New York Mail. Iloor by a staircase at the opposite end. On the right hand side there is another lower and shorter gallery, on which stands the warder In charge. The wheels are separated by a section of brick wall. Each wheel Is divided Into compart ments, cntting oh each prisoner from the others. The object of this Is to pre vent the prisoners from seeing and hearing one another, although conver sation in a low voice pitched In a dif ferent key from that of "the music of the wheel" Is perfectly easy and intelligible. AFRICAN ELEPHANTS. Irritation appears to be the chief factor In causing these curious crea tures to inhale air until they swell al most to bursting. The bellies of both the males and females are nearly pure white and are covered with spines which give that portion of their anato my the appearance of a well rip ened Jinison bur. Persons who under stand the "swell toad" and know what an Irritable little rascal It Is catch It and rub the spines on Its belly, when It swells up until It Is utterly helpless. Another curious point about the crea ture is that as long as It is kept on Its back It Is unable to expel the air so as to reduce the swelling. A WONDERFUL MONSTER. Description of a Xcvr Battleship In the Seventeenth Century. Is It true that our ram battleships are but old Inventions In new forms? It looks like it. Some one has unearthed a curious announcement which ap peared in the Mercurlus Politicus for. Dec. G, 1053, to the effect, as stated by the Dundee Advertiser, that "the fa mous monster called a ship built at Rotterdam by a French engineer Is now launched." In a description of the vessel Its capabilities are thus detailed: "(1) To sail by means of certain In struments and wheels (without masts and sails) as swift ns the moon or at least thirty miles every hour. (2) Both ends are made alike, and tCe ship can be stopped at pleasure and turned as easily as a bird can turn. (3) In time of war It can with one bounce make a hole under water In the greatest man-of-war as big as a table and in an hour's time will be able to sink fifteen or sixteen ships and In three or four hours will destro3' a whole fleet. (4) She will be able to go to the East Indies and back again In eight or nine weeks. (5) She maj be usei to kill whales In Greenland, so th4t a hun dred ships may be laden lag fourteen days. (0) She may be useM to break down any nler or wooden m'ork with great ease." A wonderful "monster" have been. What, one Is know, was her fate? They THE MUD DAUBER WASP. She ble for any of your acts when angry, and I believe you, s-do all your friends, or we wouldn't have stood by you and helped you out of your many dillicul ties if we hadn't, but the point is this, dance in honor of the resurrection. " You are not slow to condemn that poor unfortunate fellow whom we have just passed. Jle is one of those sensi tive, refined men who nearly dies of re morse whenever he has a sjell like the Hut he can't help it Your II:tltitiiI rcxirinii. What kind itf an expression do you wear habitually? is it sour. moroe. repellent? Is it a mean, stingy, con temptible, uncharitable. Intolerant ex- ne he is in now pression? Iuiyou wear the expression any more than you can Hying into a of a bulldog, a grasping, irreedy. bun- rage at times, when seemingly there is i.-Aiii.-iiri. wuicn indicates 'in f.... : mm.... avaricious nature? Do you go about among your employees with a thunder cloud express.,!! Willi iin.lMii.-linU- pontlent. bojM'levs i-v.k on vour face. or do you wear the suii-hine expres sion whMt radiate- g. m m 1 cheer and man is cursed with an appetite that has been the besetting sin on both sides of hits family for three generations back to my knowledge, and there is no telling how much farther back this appetite I hope, which indicates a feeling of good I sprang up to make pjople wretched and will and of iteipfuiites? lo people unhappy. Possibly it will"be days he smile and look haIM,ier when you ap- fore he comes out of this, ami then lie I'ioacu meni. or io nicy shrink from Villi !tlul fiW.I .1 .lill,- I. ..I. tfe. : V" .r: : ' : : ' Humanity, feelinghis disgrace keclv approach? It makes all the difference i tv ,uu .iiki i most wjiom von f ii . . . . imiueiHv wnat kiml of :1n expression You must not feel oiiended at the yon wear. Orison Sweti Maiden Success Magazine. and sullering tortures that you know I nntliitur ill u;u it m the 43 trict as the fanner's own daughter. A year ago her father, who called himself Ilfelder after leaving his na tive country, sold out his business in Mexico ami returned to Appen.ell. lie w:is informed and naturally believed that both his wife and child were long since dead. Later he met his daughter, and, ignorant of her identity, fell in love with her. She is now nearly 2t) years old, w bile he is 41 For four months the returned waii' derer wooed the girl with her consent. It was only when he asked the ni proval of the farmer .Schloss that he learned the girl's history and recog nized that he had won the hand of his own daughter. Wushiiig from the house he traveled at once to Hale, whence wrote to the farmer, confessing everything, and placing $irt(HKi to the girl's credit in a Zurich bank. Nothing more has been ueani 01 nun, ami ins daughter is heartbroken. Adrenalin Made from Coal Tar. An article in the Journal of Physi ology by 11. D. Dakeii of the Lister In stitute, London, who claims to have discovered how to prepare adrenalin Itfil llnlr. Wlivn ml hair makes its appearance 011 a human head all lukewarmuess is at an cml. It is either loved or loathed. Its admirers, with artists in the van. 10 plain way in which I have spoken to from coal tar products, luus attracted you, but you are human -just like the much attention. Adrenalin is an act- rest of us, and we are all prone to see ive principle of super arenal capsules the failings in others and forget that of the body. These little organs which we ever err or step aside from the nar- are like cocked hats in shape, are situ- row path of duty. Vou are blessed ated one above each kidney. Until with a sunny, happy-go-lucky disposi- IM.' their purpose was unknown, al- ICiitomliN I.lviiijr SpMrrs n Foot I'or Her Vouior. When summer warmth has awakened the maternal instincts of the insect world the mud dauber wasp may be seen gathering mortar at the margin ot stream, pool or puddle. Killing her mandibles, which serve as both spndo and hod. she bears the load of mud tc some rough suriaee. rocic or wail o board or beam. She spreads and shape her mortar until, after many visits ui the mud bed. she has built a tubular cell about an Inch long and three eighths of an inch wide. Then her huntress instinct awakens and her raids upon the spider realm be gin. for within this cylinder the moth er mason will put a single egg. In course of time this will hatch into a ravenous larva whose natural i'mvI is living spiders, and these the mother proceeds to capture and entotult within her mud daub nursery. On this errand she mav be seen hawking over and near cobwebs of various s rts. ventur ing within the meshed and beaded si arcs that proe fatal to most incom ers ami snnctimcs even to herself. If the occupant, expectant of prey, sallies forth to seize the intruder, it tlnds Itself a captivi. u.tt a captor. The wasp shakes the silken tilauicnl from wings and feet, turns upon the spider, seizes and stings it. bears it to her cell ami thrusts it therein. II. ('. McCook in Harper's Magazine. Old Man of tlic McMiiitaln. The title "Old Man of the Mountain" was first applied to Hassan Hen Sah bal. who founded a formidable dynas ty in Syria A. I. lO'.wi. He was the prince or chief of the sect of the Mo hammedans Having been banished fro:i his country, he look up his abode in Vot'nt Lebanon, gathered around him a Land .a follower, who soon be came the tciror alike of I'hristiaus. .lews mid Turk-. They paid the most implicit obidieiice 10 his commands and believed that If thev sacrificed their lives for bis sake they would he rewarded with the highest joys of paradise. l or "00 years these "Assas sins." as they called themselves, con tinned to be the terror of the country Whenever their chief, the "Old Man of the Mountain." considered himself Injured he dispatched some of his as sassins secretly to murder the aggres sor. This is the origin of our use of thi1 word assassin for a secret murderer. Are Sliy of Traveler or Hunt er In the Forentn. 'Elephants are but rarely seen in the forests of Africa, however numerous they may be," writes an old hunter of big game in the dark continent. 'This Is due to many causes. In the first place, they are naturally extreme ly shy animals and detest the neighbor hood of man. In the second place, they are largely nocturnal feeders and rare ly drink or bathe except at night. They often travel Immense distances to and from the water and retire during the day to the remotest portions of the for est. where they doze away the long, hot hours under the shadiest trees that they can find. Lastly, their scent Is extreme ly keen. This sense Is so largely developed that they can recognize danger at a THE DOUGLAS PINE. wi tki ft c M r. h s must Wous to A Tree Tlint In the Memorlnl noth nf a Man and a Traffcdy. A tiee whose name Is at once the memorial both of a man and a tragedy is the Douglas nine, famous for its magnificent cones. Now, David Doug las was originally a Scotch lad who caino under the notice of Sir William Hooker, the well known botanist, and through his Iniluenee was appointed collector of rare plants to the Horti cultural society. He traveled for the -nciety in all parts of the world and vas extraordinarily successful in his tnds. It was he who discovered lu pins, eschscholtzias and godotias as veil as many magnillcent varieties of fine trees, including the one bearing 1 U name. Hut when quite a young very long distance, and as soon as the man he met a tragic fate while plant alarm is given they move quickly but hunting. He was in the Sandwich noiselessly away. As an elephant dis- ic. and there the natives diz deon turned or frightened will frequently pits to catch wild animals, covering travel twenty or thirty miles without a them over with branches and grass to stop, and as his pace under such cir- h nceal their openings. On to one of cumstances Is a good five miles an these treacherous nits Douglas walked HeufTand Fling; Ont Your Sunafcirie. What a satisfaction it"Is to. go through life radiating sunsbfroe and hope Instead of defepalr ment Instead of discourager to feel conscious that even the news boy or the bootblack, the car conduct or, the office boy, the elevator boy or anybody else with whom one comes In contact gets a little dash of sunshine! It costs nothing when you buy a paper of a boy, or get your shoes shlned, or pass Into nn elevator, or give your faro to a conductor, to give a smile with It, to make these people feel that you have i warm heart and good will. Such sal utations will mean more to us than many of the so called great things. It Is the small change of life. Give it out freely. The more 'ou give the richer you will grow. Orison Swett Marden In Success Magazine. hour. It Is easy to understand that travelers In the forest, although fre quently coining upon absolutely fresh tracks, but seldom see the herd that has caused them." one day when alone and was at once rcejpitated to the bottom. Xo help was at hand, and he was devoured by a wild beast which was also Impris oned. INSURANCE SYSTEMS. DID YOU EVER WONDER- Lone I.lTed Carp. The ordinary carp, if not interfered with, will. It to said, iivo 500 years. There are now living in the tiuyni aquarium In Russia several caip that are known to be over GOO years old, and It has been ascertained in a num ber of cases that whales live to be over I'OO years old. A gentleman In London bus had an ordinary goldfish for fifty three years, and his father informed him that he had purchased it over forty years before it came to the present are ahii't hysterically enthusiastic, lion, if everything is going your way, though it was shown they were essen- iiH-y .-an u golden, though the gold while another man is of a serious nml tial to life, for if thev became diseased uiai cmes out of the earth is not often almost melancholy nature. Another nitisciilar prostration and death fol man may be of a temperament that he lowed. In ISJI." Professor Scballer and is either soaring among the clouds or Nr. Oliver obtained from these glands in the slough of despondency. An- very active juice, which, from its pow- other man is of 11 practical nature that i-rful exactly that shade. A red haired wo man is .sure of a success In some quar ter, however plain her face or insignill cant her figure. The detractors of red hair sny it is a sign of lmd tomnor or 111 We MlKlit Have. A famous writer said. "Man in gen era I. or. as It is expressed, on the aver age. does not live above two and twen ty years, and during thoe two am twenty years he Is liable to two am twenty thousand evils, many of which are incurable. Vet even in this dread ful state men will strut and figure on the stage of life. I hcv make love at effect upon all muscles, made the hazard of destruction and intrigue, immorality or Ik.Ui nnd therefore to be ,Kv,-'r -set U' poetical side of life; facts many regard it as the body's natural scrupwlouly a oidcd. Loudon Queen. Dirty Washing. Natives of Morocco think that Euro peans and Americans are dirty. The habit to which they object is that of washing the hands or face in a basin and. still more, taking a bath where the water is mt running. The clou nor tho and figures interest him. and the tonic. Takamine, a Japanese scientist. " 1 rythin of poetry, tingling with senti- in 1!)01 obtained the active principle of ment, would Imre him nearly to death, this juice in a pure crystalline state, Another man is bhtssed with a lova- but until Dakin's discovery all at- ble and and appreciative nature that tempts to produce artificial adrenalin sees beauty in every plant, leaf and failed. shrub, and revels in the heart of .Na ture. He is ready t.o take his hat oil carry on war ami lorm projects just as if they were to live in iuxiry am delight for a thousand ages." Old Lawsuit Settled. mi 1.1 4 1 : :.. V.....1. liM.I.-.r .1 ,. ., nml look u-illi nlinosf i rovi.roio "e JUauiL in ioiui v u- ........ v.. "v'viin-., iiiev sny, uie miner 1 . v.. v... w. . .... .... ... the water Ik. 1- 1.1 t lie Mimrnilieioi t 1 r4.s t hit t i nu-..r .. lUUl IS HOW DCIIIg Illinll SClllCU. 1 1 IS - itlllll Willi 1 1 1 1 1 I I - w -, w va watv l"MLI 4 M7 V. I necessarily become twi nv..nin..iiv limit md the rimr ,,r th u-iiuimonic that of the eastern band of Cherokee tne bather steps forth as cleansed ax would cause him to thrill with gen- iium w.-uer wnicn is no longer clean. Indians against W. IL Thomas and - uine pain, while to the practical man oinera, involving a great many inous every stroke would ring with the word uml aores ()f mnd' a,ul ()lhcr iuk'r- -coin. The klinking of good, hard Thomas was lor some years he- ik-or ilolbirs wnnid h,. .im1,. t fore the civil war the chief of the east- A .ccil In School imiNlor. We should like to see a regulation that every schoolmaster before the agt of thirty should for one full year at least be banished from the school world and from the academic life even if for that year he had to work as a navvy, a sailor or a commercial traveler. Tin man who, being educated, only knows what life Is will never take too nar row a view of the school course. Lon don Post. . Ue Kind Today. Less spent on the dead and more spent on the living would bring about many happy n'sults. Hearts are break ing, loved ones wait and tears How all because of the withholding of kind words unspoken and letters never sent. The :iril fa titer and mother far olf Iti lllg the country would often be cheered did beauty and grandeur of some magnili- for the western North Carolina district I " U I . .111.4.. ..4.l th sou or daughter more fre.uientlv cent tree in tin. fnnil hut with . .,,! and since lliai uaie oer niiieiy attor- send them a letter. Heboid the sad ,.. ,...i...ii..t;., , ,. u .... nevs have been employed w i into so nianiiy feet and cords. Some men revel in the light and would pine away without the sunshine ; others are content to dwell in the shadow Dartmouth University. In a copy of the Portland fbizette published in 1K17 there Is an allusion to when the melody of the birds the crn band, and raised a legion of troops ' there is an allusion to until int niuo(i ot ne birds, tlit nu.roke(.s which wis Ijrl,"l, university." Dartmouth music of the brook, as its clear, crys- r011 - 'uroKUH ,,U' "M college was founded bv a charter grant- tal waters rippled and sang on its way He Confederate serMcc, being one ed before the Kevolutlon and the state . . . . ... ,f dm V-l h ( 'nrolilin rtrmioiltu rPIn . . ' leiween mossy Hanks, would oe notli- " x ''- " - or .ew Hampshire sought to tal ngto him. He would never see the casc beSau " 1S07' m ll,e Court away the charter rights and use tl mistakes of others, their remorse, and profit by the same before It Is too late. Today, now, speak the loving word, semi the tender message, write the let ter you put off day by dav. and don't Pompeiian Epoch Gems. Excavations near Pompeii have re sulted in the finding of a human skel- e the property as a part of the new uni versity, which was chartered bv the legislature. The point was raised that the legislature had no right to do this. and it was so decided bv the United .State supreme court after a memo rable exposition of the case bv Daniel ueuster. 1 lie (iazetto ookes fun at n;t ,i wi jiiti on ii.i. im ilia, illJO UOU II I , i r ., ,...i:.j i I ""''; iJoiiv.T tun .ii wait until you forget it or until bitter hue want to dwell on the height f eton and near li four solid gold bract- university, which. It states, "hay memories haunt vou. who "maj- serve is as a I.ovcll niul .Miiimffy. Jamas Kussoll Lowell and Professor Mahaffy met for the first time at a friend's house-, in llirminghani. Eng land, and talked together for four hours. When Lowell drove awav In the carriage he exclaimed to his host. the mountains, while others seek the k'lH of beautiful dwig" with emer- one student valleys and lowlands. 'Tis a good aids, a pair oi pean ear-rings, iuo goi.i nest egg' thing that .ve are not all made alike, "Places et with pearls and emeralds w' 3 ' i i ..i,i rni i Weak Ilninnn Nature. inv friend Some have iiaturiillv hieh ami iwo eiiiuwwu uuga j uu ariicies , , : " , 1113 iiitmi. ftonic inuenaiuran ingn iw.5ll r,.MMl p.,,,,,, ,- Vrom many selections from Marcus principles, while others grope along of jewelry being f. on. a j, ompehau Am,,lillH we (.ho()Se th(j na 8llowIllR h,8 Thought is the first step toward culture for it is the tool that cultivates the mind. 0 I r 4 1 :,. : .. 1 blindly from a sense of duty. Some H00'1 nru 01 brwu :u ' uu vuuu; are morally and physically strong, while Mlher lire wciiklimru It hnu "Well, that's one of the most delightful beun HO through all ages and will con fellows I ever met, and I don't mind If .... Z 1 you tell him so!" The friend did so. , T .. l "lu l"r Ul,u and Mahaffy received the compliment "moot auoru 10 comienman erring a change of scenery is necessary to with equal grace and modesty. 'Toor ,roU,er' 11 "ey -are weak, then we health and happiness. Lowell: " he exclaimed. "To think that s,,()Ul1 b tliankful that we are strong he can never have met an Irishman be- and reach out a helping hand to the A bright face is a good thing to in- rore- 'less fortunate." "ou have hit me I vite into a room. They I)n!e Away Hnok to the Tlsar of ClnnilltiN t'aewar. The principle of combination for pro tective purposes has been traced to the time of King Alfred, and according to Francis "Annals of Life Insurance," assurance on its broadest basis was practiced in the Saxon guilds. Marine Insurance dates back to the Kmperor Claudius Caesar, who during a corn famine encouraged merchants to send ships for supplies by engaging to make good the value of any vessel lost In the public service. The Creeks had a somewhat similar practice, and so had the Jews, for when banished from Krauee in tne twelfth century they took out policies of insurance up on all their effects ln transit. The earliest Kngiish statute relating to insurance Is dated KK)1 and says. It uathe bene tyme out of mynde an usage amongste merchantes both of this realm and of forralne nacvons. when they make any great adventure. to give some C(isideracion of money to other persons, to have assurance made of all their goodes, which is coni monlie termed a pallcle of assurance." Pearson's Week I v. Why a baby carriage isn't known as owner's possession. a cry cycle? Why it Is so much easier to be wroii? than it is to be president? Why some people manage to talk a great deal without saying anything? Why so many of our coining men seem to xf handicapped from the start? Why e company that Issues the map die only curveless railroad thereon u by the average man invariably makes a fool of himself every time he tries to act up? Why men are nearly always embar rassed when they proposeeither finan cially or otherwise? Why so many men who are anxious WON WITH A REVOLVER. An Incident of the Caiubllnic Hulls at Monte Cnrlo. Much excitement was caused a num ber of years ago at the public gambling establishment at Monte Carlo by an elderly man who was said to he ajj Ameriean named Captain Clyde. Kav- ing lost G,000 at the tables, he ques tioned the fairness of the play and abused the croupiers, whereupon or ders were given to debar him from playing again. When he returned on the following day the doorkeeper at tempted to prevent his entrance, hut he Seventeenth Centnry Cnitoni. In the seventeenth century English men thought It injurious to sleep in rooms facing the sun. so most of the robins faced north and cast, opening off a passage or else out of each other. At the head of the stairs slept the mas ter and bis wife, and all the rooms tenanted by the rest of the household were accessihle only through that. The daughters of the house and maidserv ants lay In rooms on one side, say the right, with the maids in those most distant; those of the men lay on the left, the sons of the house nearest the chamber of the master and the serving men farthest away. drew a revolver, walked In and took to work when sick are just as anxious his seat at one of the tables and began to avoid it when well? to nlav. One of the Insnectors who nt- Why some men are not as black as tempted to eject him was knocked they are painted and some are not as down, and when a ring of the attend- , white as they are whitewashed? Chi- ants was formed around the captain - cinnati Knijuirer. with the object of hustling him out be retreated in a corner, drew his revolver once more and after denouncing the managers as thieves and swindlers de- AeeordlnK to Thl Writer. Women I ehin. 1 flint 1 1 n 1141111 ti-t- Inoi'n li-t Place until the $(..000 he had losr on llaveloek KIHs in his studv of "the some hesitation the managers, seeing HUMAN QUALITIES. AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. DltlicultifN of AtlilresMinj;: Cacatn When the Ocean Swell Im Hitch. As the liner cleared the heads and the heavy swell of the open Atlantic became noticeahie dinner was served. The twenty-six places at the captain's table were filled, and as the soup ap peared the captain addressed his table companions. I trust that all twenty-six of you will have a pleasant trip." he said. "and that this little assemblage of twenty-four will reach port much ben efited by the voyage. I look nnon the twenty-two smiling faces as a father upon his family, for I am responsible for the lives of this group of nineteen. I hope all fourteen of you will Join me a ter in drinking to a merrv trip. I most interesting beings in the world namely, men and women -formulates the conclusions that there is hardly an organ of the body or quality of any kind that is not unlike m the sexes. A man is a man even to his thumbs, and a woman is a woman down to her little toes. Let man. with his vaunted superiority in everything, cultivate a proper feeling of his real standing in view of .Mr. Ellis' statement that wo men "are unquestionably superior in general tactile sensibility and probably superior in the discrimination of tastes," with (to be perfectly impar tial! no advantage either way In the other senses, but they have better mem ories, read more rapidly, bear pain bet ter, recover Oct ter from wounds and serious Illnesses, are less changed bv old age. live longer and have relatively larger brains, especially In the frontal regions. Women, to put it 'in a few jiu. me more civilized mail men. On the other hand. Mr. Ellis finds men are slower in mind, with greater strength of hody (they are two. three and four times as strong as women), quicker in movement, with much greater lung capacity, more bio .l cor puscles and exhale twice as much car bon dioxide, but these last qualities are rather tint whacks than otherwise, since men are less able to endure confine ment and bad air. that he was determined and finding their employees unwilling to expose themselves to the fire of his revolver. complied with the demand. HEAVY LOADS. "...rri? Dnya He Didn't I.Ike. Lord Burleigh once said: "Though I think no day amiss to undertake any leliovo we seven fellow nnssem-erc nn. Kl enterprise or business in hand. j i.-.pv. m a -v- keen insight Into this weak human na ture of ours: "I have often wondered how it Is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men. but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others." The regard one sliows economy is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. Shen- stono. admirably suited to each other, and I applaud the Judgment which chose from the passenger list these three per sons for my table. You and I. my dear sir, are" The captain chuckled. "Here, stew ard, bring on my fish and clear away these dishes. 'Minneapolis Journal. Kacli Ihiy'a Supreme Event. livery day'.i work should be a su preme event in every life. Wo should come to It as carefully prepared as the prima donna who is trying to hold the world's supremacy In song coined before her audience. Then our work would breathe out the vigor ami vital ity and freshness which we put Into it. Then life would be glorified, and the work of the world Illuminated, trans formed. O. S. Marden in Success. Thin people should bathe as often as possible in warm water. Warm water Is absorbed by the skin more readily than cold. yet have I observed three Mondays un luckythe first Monday hi April, when Cain was born and his brother Abel was slain; the second Monday In Au gust, which day Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed; tire last Monday in December, which day Judas was born, who betrayed Christ." The lint They Minn. "Dcre's a lot ob you tine women folks," said an old negro preacher at Excelsior Springs one Sunday, "dat comes to chu'eh an sees every hat in do congregashun every tint but one. and dat one do Lohd passes right un dah yoh nose fo' help In his cause an' to sabe yoh black souls." Kansas City j Journal. iry. . plains porteryarry dn-d puhdsont hill i... .i. . ... Wonderful Carry Inir Tower of the Hill Men of Tlhet. There are these famous weight car riers. known to all travelers, the Swiss, mountain women, who walk ut the,-?: steepest slopes with pack baskets ofjj- inanure on their backs, and the portersT" of Constantinople, one of whom wlll, hike a small piano on the curious sad dle he wears. Perceval Itudou. Lou don Times correspondent in Tibet. speaks of hill country carrying that Is most extraordinary. On the Indian eighty to a hundred men wnen working by the jb take three times as much up frightfully bad paths. "I have myself seta man carry Into camp three telegraph poles on his back," writes Mr. Landt(l -each weighing a tritle under ninety Anmds Farther east the tea porters ht SeV chuan are notorious, and loads Jbf IJoO pounds are not unknown. Setting aside the story of a Bhutla lady who carried a piano on her head up from the plains to Darjeeling as too well known to be likely to be exact, the rec ord seems to be held by a certain Chi nese cooly who undertook in his own time to transport a certain casting, needed for heavy machinery, inland to Its owner. The casting weighed olff pounds, ami the carriage was slowly but successfully accomplished. A Mramillan Honehohl Pet. Braaillaus train a snake called the glbola as a rat catcher. It is fifteen feet long. Is harmless to the human being, becomes quite a household pet. Is laay In the daytime, but at night roams about the house In quest of Irs prey rats. These animals It promptly kills by twisting their necks. When Brazilians have to pass from room tori room In the dark they first put on their Uppers. It would not be pleasant to plant one's bare feet on a cold slimy nake of that size. - Comfortlosr Him. 'And now," whispered the lover as a Hard Worker. be caught her In his arms, "what shall Sllmson Willie, they tell me ym . we do about the rope laader? We have the reputation of being the wor.t shouldn't leave it hanging there." boy In school. Willie Yes, father, and I "Don't worry about it," replied the I can tell you I didn't get It without a eloping damsel. "Papa said he'd pull It struggle. Life. UP asaln so I couldn't get back."