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
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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."