BANDON RECORDER.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Sowing on buttons is not a wifely
dutA In Japan. There are no buttons.
The present population of (treat
Britain and Ireland is about -12.7.0.0i0.
London's new motor fire engine will
be able to travel about thirty-live
miles an hour at top speed.
The eost of building electric street
railways in Knglaud a mile, single line,
ranges from Sl'MCT to $!.:! K).
Tlie ll,0?2 carat diamond recently
fmnd in the Premier mine. South Af
rica, has been named the I'ullinan.
By order of the Siamese government
gambling, which is a government mo
nopoly, has been abolished in the prov
inces of that kingdom.
Immigration Into Canada is incrcas
lag rapidly. In 1S'. the number of
settlers from all parts was P'.So. Last
year the number was "1-10,000.
Owing to the continued dry seasons
In South Africa, which have caused
the destruction of large drove of cat
tle, the sinking of wells has Income a
necessity.
In a debate in the Herman reiehstag
General on Kinen. minister of war.
admitted that brutality in the army
was "tin most repulsive canker" in
that organization.
The Theater 21 out mart re. Paris. has
just lost its "jftine premier" in M. Iter
thelot. who has died at the age of six
ty-oue. He had been leading lover
there for nearly forty years.
A London motor periodical finds a
moral in the Sergius assassination. It
says that if the grand duke had been
in a high speed auto the chances are
the bomb would have missed him.
There are now some Ui.Ooo modern
plows in use in Greece against H.ooO
antiquated oik's. Greece is said to of
fer a very pood market at present for
the sale of agricultural implements.
Large oil wells have been discovered
in the northern part of Koumania. and
petroleum is now being exported to
many parts of Kurope. where it takes
the place of American and Bussian pe
troleum. There are more suicides in Berlin ev
ery year than in any other Kurope n
city, and the llgurcs show steady in
crease, growing from -VM in It to
In lixq. This is about :rj for every
Uh),ioii inhabitant-;.
The keeper of the ou!y s;tio.-.:i at Her
port. N. Y.. was a candidate tir jut.v
of the pence. He plodg-nl himself if
elected to close his saloon an 1 go out
of the business. He -was dt'leuel by
an overwhelming majority.
Air getting into a vein while lie was
undergoing an operation in St. Thom
as' hospital. London, was the cause
of the death of Frederick Thomas Ken
nedy the other day. A verdict of "ac
cidental death" was retunnnl.
A lNWsuit "between two uf the oldest
families in Spain hasln'on in thooo'irt
for ""' years. An announ-e; !in has
just been made by both parties that
the case will be finally settled in the
highest court in Spain in Bof.
.In spite of the many jokuaaaaB, are
made at the expense of the Georgia
peach crop that state pr !u--id nu.ie
poaches than any of the eastern "ates.
It is said that there are o-r T'h-vmmi
trees that bear -M'ste'ies hi ;he -state.
Tiir .?10."n greenback t'lat th- gjv
eriiineiu has Ikjcii looking fr so long
Iws at iast leen located in lit- hands
of a farmer iiviug in I lckiuson coun
ty. Kan., who refuse to give up the
obligation to the treasury department
for redemption.
Bulgaria is placing immense orders
for war map-rial in Kurt. only re
centiy the Bulgarian g overuiuent or
dered sixty guns from the Kropp
works at Ksen. Large order-: have
also Iteen plal in Germany and Kng
land for rilies and ammunition.
To the sum of &.MHm.rtm kft by Mi.
PeHbody between l-Clland Ps7.". 0:11 of
which the Pea body building-; for
IKor were erected in London, there has
since ben add"! 1.7l.".". received
for rent ami iiiter-i, making the total
fuiNl. according to a rcjrt just issued.
.?7."M.t.!.2."."i. As mre money comes in
more buildings are erected.
Yo hear often of egg-; of large size,
but . H. Going of Hidden claims
that lie has a blooded Plymouth Bock
hen that has laid the smallest i-gg that
has been rejMirted in any of the tales
that are constantly going the rounds
among tlK hen fanciers. The eg.: i
perfect in shape, brown in color ami
measures but two inches by one inch
and a half.
Now that Kansas has appropriated
money to mark the old Santa IV trail,
an enterprising citizen of New Mexico
suggests that a hole! be built at Las
Vegas to be called the Santa Fe Trail
hotel. He would portray on the walls
of its big dining room the eenery of
the trail. In other rooms would lx
hung paintings of okl time stagecoach
es, cavalry squads, buffaloes. Indians
and scouts. The sleeping rooms an to
be named after the suites in the t'n
lon. In the lust nine years oI.imi m .; .
have been registered In Kngland.
these :,r00 have been Used for !::
mercial purposes. The motor ; m
users have formed an association, .-.nil
it has issued a circular in whMi it i
urged that commercial autom ' lisin
if genenil would reduce the c.st of
keeping up the roads and streets, less
en the blocking of the streets by con
gostod trallic ami make them less dan
'gonitis to pedestrians.
To pny a debt of cents owed for
ten yars Gorgo I.umi. an old sudor.
wnlk.nl from Black Stiver Falls. Wis.,
to I ..aerosse. tlfly miles. Iiuun huttte '
up i 'oroiicr ('rouoii. of uhoui he
rowd the money In IStlTi. and repaid
him. Dunn said the quarter was the
only bill ho owed In the wjrH and
that his concictiee tmitlltl him 1111
III he hail 1 it.
;otii.
Bass And of which variety is your
wife, the clinging vine or the self as
sertive? Cass A little of Iw.th. When
she wants a new dross or a new hat
she generally begins in the clinging
vine role. If that doesn't bring the
money, then she chang.-s to the self as
sertive, and well, she invariably gets
t!e dress or the hat.
I rtf ill
"I rend your article about Rocker
feller and his objectionable coin last
week, Polly,'" .said a tired little wo
man with n careworn face and hands
that were crippled anil deformed with
rheumatism. "X read it over twice,"
she continued, "and then 1 Hd a
sight or thinking;. My husband is a
profound believer in foreign missions,
while I cling to the idea that there is
enough home mission work to do, not
only in your own houses, but all
around you, and you don't have to
open your eyes very wide to see it.
Well, the minister knows John's fail
ing, and he comes to him for donations
in season and out of season, and the
family has to stiller for it, for John
never refuses to contribute to foreign
missions. I'm not complaining about
1113- husband, for he means well enough
and he lelieves that every dollar given
to foreign missions means a good, big
dollar's worth to his credit in the new
Jerusalem. Our own little folks go
shabby, and there's many an article
needed in the home that we could have
if John didn't go to extremes when he
is called on to contribute to foreign
missions. He on ly receives a moderate
salary, and yt-l he donates more than
some of the wealthy members of the
congregation whose bank account con
tains many figures. We are not the
only ones who have to deny themselves
ami scheme ami economize to make
lHth ends meet, and yet manage to
give their mite to the foreign mission
cause. The more I think about Mr.
Rockerfeller's princely gift to be Used
for foreign missions, the more I believe
a mistake was made in not accepting
the gift with thanks and using it as
the donor requested, instead of calling
upon the people in humble circum
stances, who need every dollar, to con
tribute and help swell the fund. An
other thing, even if they do not like
the way that Mr. Bookerfeller made
his money, why should they put stum
bling blocks in his way when he is at
tempting to do good'.' It is a good
thing that the Hew (.Madden does not
stand at the portals of heaven to pas
judgment on saints and sinners who
knock for admission, for hosts of
would-be angels would be denied ad
mission ami doomed to eternal punish
mciit. There are more wavs than one
to look at this matter and weigh the
different points, pro and con.
1 have been wondering whether Rev
(J hidden and tit hers who believed as he
does on this Rockerfeller question
wouldn't have to answer, when the
last trump sounds, for the heathen
who might have been saved body and
soul by the judicious use of the money
that Rev. Gladden advocated refusing,
Pestilence and famine go hand in hand
in many of these districts and not only
the soul, but the body is perishing.
and the wherewithal that would bring
them new life, new hope and happiness
to thousands of people, old and young,
is declined with thanks that the world
may see Mr. Iloekerfeller's mistukt
and the Church's disapproval of the
rich man's method of getting it. Mean
wtuie this little side play is going on
with its great moral attached, there
are thousands of spectators in these
heathen lands guant and emaciate!
and siilfering the pangs of hunger and
disease people who are waiting pa
tiently for dcat& to relieve them and
still the great unrest and craving for
the little that would mean new lifeand
joy arc allowed to be a secondary con
dition in sett Hug the matter Hew
iiiautien and ins followers versus
Rockefeller, ll is a great side-play to
me, Polly, a spectacular production in
which 1 see skeletons of men, women
uud little children moving in a solid
mass, with their 60113- arms and handr
waving frantically as they beckon for
assistance and plead for bread to save
themselves and their little ones. The
soul is as starved as their bodies. Turn
on the searchlight for a minute, let it
di.-elo.-e the scene in all of the heart
rending phases, then ring down the
curtain, for the play is s:nl; sail beyond
expression. "
"This money will doubtless be ac
cepted and disposed of as the donor re
quested, but had I been Mr. Rockefel
ler 1 would have withdrawn the gift
that was spurned and denounced by so
many and made it a fund to keep
women at home, who are left widows
with little children to support, and
who can see no way of providing for
them, the only thing, in many casts
for them to do being to put them in
some charitable institution, where tinw
are deprived of their mother's watch
ful can and training. She with a
houvy heart going out to work from
day to day, striving to save a little of
her scanty earnings that will enable
her in time to bring her darlings home.
Tiieie are thousands of such cases, and
had I the money, 1 would not donate
it to foreign missions but for a widows'
fund at home. I would take the pas
tors of the dilfcrcnt churches into my
confidence and by their assistance,
would have siillioicnt co-workers who
would aid in a conscientious way, de
serving women win were left alone
with wee babies to care for, until the
time was reached that the little ones
could bean assistance to their mother,
and she herself could then find some
thing to do, when there were no longer
wee babies to demand constant atten
tion.
Many a frail little woman, left a
widow, carries the babies that need a
mother's tender care, to a charitable
institution and loaves them there with
breaking heart while she goes out into
the world to earn the meager wages
, that will baielj keep herself clothed
and fed. A delicatfe-looking little lady
, who recently lost her husband, passes
i my home every day. She had to place
j her three children in an asylum, and
can see ttient only once a week, tone
has never had to earn her own living
before; and that in itself was hard for
her, still she would not complain if she
could only have her children with her.
.She is making a brave struggle and de
nying herself the bare necessities of life
that she may save a little each week so
that in time she can bring her darlings
home. J low slowly it counts up. I
doubt very much whether she .villever
live to enjoy that pleasure, for she has
a terrible cough, contracted in the
place where she is working, and now
there are bright hectic spots glowing
in her cheeks. She let one cold after
another go on because she did not feel
that she ought to take the price of the
medicine out of the fund she is saving
for her children. She lives only in the
pleasant anticipation of bringing them
home again, and her only joy is her
weekly visits to them. .Now there is
where my mission work would begin if
1 had the money. Home missions
every time, Polly, and there are lots of
just such cases in every town and city."
What do 3011 think of thirt3'-four
thousand bees in a London parlor?
They tire not there 13 chance either,
but it is their home and they go in and
out in their own bus3' wa3. Miss Baden-Powell
is the owner of the two
hives of bees that grace the drawing
room of her house at Prince's CJate,
Hyde Park. In and out this bus3' little
army of workers go through a small
hole near one of the windows, through
winter and summer. They produce
about lL'O pounds of delicious 1101103
every year. She has had them for
3 ears, and her strange pets are never
disturbed but continue to come and go
buzzing contentedly in their handsome
quarters.
BRIEF REVIEW.
li The Skin of My Teeth."
Speaking of the somewhat popular
lack of fainiliarit3 with the Rible, it
deserves to be said, remarks the Bos
ton Herald, that this deficiency is not
confined to unlettered people. In a
recent article on the political crisis in
England Justin McCarth3' quotes the
expression, "ly the skin of his teeth,"
and parenthetically apologizes for us
ing what he calls a vulgar phrase. The
expression is quite commonly rated as
slang b veiy intelligent people. A
(ynical commentator on this expres
sion calls it an L'zisni, for the reason
that Job originally made use of it in
his waitings. Saith Job, in his Iiith
chapter, HOth verse: ."I am escaped
with the akin of 1113 teeth."
A Few Palindromes.
"It is a fascinating occupation," said
a philologist, "to search the language
for palindromes. A palindrome is
word that reads the same backward as
forward. Rotator, for Instance, is a
palindrome. Several hundreds of these
strange words are tabulated, and new
ones are continually turning up In the
Knglish tongue. If you can find one
send it to the Palindrome societv of
New York.
"I can rattle off extempore a dozen or
two palindromes. Thus:
"Bab. refer, bib, Anna, tot. bob, peep.
civic, toot, dad. madam, deed, pup, dei
fied, sees, dewed, tat, did. shahs, eve,
reviver, ewe. rotator, gog. pop. gig,
gag. redder, level, noon, Otto, sexes."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Rules for Writers.
Frederick W. Seward said that when
lie first started In at newspaper work
Thuriow Weed said to him: "1 will give
you two rules to begin with. First,
neer write anything without some defi
nite point and purpose; second, when
you have written It, take your pen and
go over it to see how many words and
sentences you can strike out and how
much you will thereby improve the ar
ticle." Unci-: wk stood before an Kg3ptian
mummy that in life had walked the
streets of Thebes long before the time
of Moses and we thought, "J low licet
ingare all the ambitions and vanities
of this life," This silent form hoped,
strove ami lamented over defeats, but
who recalls them now, and where is a
record of their sincereit3 Had not
the vandal descratcd the grave none
now 011 earth would know that this
embalmed chy had ever lived, hoped
and longed as we do now.
What kvku happens don't allow
anything to sour vour nature. Cod
needs cheerful, hopeful people to cany
his heavy tasks here and he will not as
sign responsibilities the second time to
aiiN one who allow antagonisms to em
bitter. Washington and Lincoln died
with fresh hopeful hearts and no men
were ever moie bitterly opposed.
v. : ,
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Hett i do v:;; . ;
to re.! 1 the prc
I'n-;.c!i I'tpiotiic.
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union of pic ti.ird
the crowd which f 11
lowed ll t wo deputies eaug!it sight of
a fine- portrait of Napoleon HI. hanging
on a wall. They promptlv took it down
and were about to smash it to pieces
when Gambella intervened. Turning
the portrait to the wall, he said: "My
friends, we have put up with the origi
nal for twenty years. Let us be con
tent today to turn his face to the wall.
It is all he deserves."
Kvi:.VTiii:great make mistakes. Na
poleon said his enemies lost battles be
cause U103 did not know the value of
live minutes; yet Xupolcon lingered at
Ligny after his defeat of Blucher long
enough to have fallen upon Wellington
and crushed him before the rain or
Blucher had time to arrive.
There cannot be a greater rudeness
than to interrupt auother In the current
of his discourse. Locke.
SHRINES IN MOROCCO.
Why Some People Look Upon Theiu
With Suspicion.
A traveler says that Christians in Mo
rocco look with suspicion on the
shrines of Mohammedan saints in that
country. He tells the following story;
"Once upon a time a boy was traveling
through the country, and us night came
on he fotiud himself near a white
washed tomb. Knocking at the door of
the shrine, he asked for a meal and a
bed. When the next day dawned he
was about to continue his Journey, but
the keeper of the shrine besotrght him
to remain In order to help him ke-p
the shrine and collect the offcng of
the faithful. The youth said that he
must first cotisult his parent1;, ami the
elder man bade him t:fke his as and
seek advice of his parents nud return.
The boy took the ass and rode away,
but he had not accomplished halt the
Journey before the ass fell sick and
died. Then the boy knew not what to
do nor where to turn. But when ho
.had considered the circumstances 0?
Iiis caseji brilliant idea Hashed Into his
mind.
"Having dug a pit and cast the ass
therein, he piled great stones over It.
whitening them with lime, and set a
white Hag above, saying to all who
passed by, 'This Is the tomb of St. So
und so.' Then worshipers came from
every side, alius were poured in ami
offerings showered 'upon him. The
keeper of the former shrine lost his
customers and came to visit the tier,
saint He when the crowd had gone
approached the young shrine keeper.
I ask thee by Allah,' said the old man.
'who is this saint of thine and what
manner of thing is buried here?'
" l will not deceive thee, but will tell
thee the truth.' returnel the youth.
My saint who Is buried here is none
other than thy beast, even the carcass
of th'ne own ass. And now, pray, who
Is thy saint and who In truth Is buried
in the shrine thou keepest?' 4I will not
deceive lhee. but will tell thee the
truth.' re died the old man. My saint
Is the father of thy saint.' "
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
We all make too much of our diffi
culties. Few mysteries are as inexplicable as
the one of how some people live.
When a man brags about himself It is
a sign other people don't brag about
him.
A mistake many men make is being
a cat and imagining themselves popu
lar with the mice.
A man discovers that his wife is get
ting old looking ten years before he
makes the discovery about himself.
If some people would work hard and
rarn $10,000 some one would walk up
and. taking it away from them, tell
them they hud no business with that
much money.
The trouble is that, when a man is
toV, he If.oks ten years younger than
lie K even that leave- him ten or twen
ty years older than he wants tj bo
Atchison Globe.
Kltrlit'iiM III the Tropic.
The kitchens of tropical countries,
such .is are to be found In our Spanish
American land-, are like rolls fram-vho
thickness of the stone walls -often two
or three feet deep and the projecting,
omnipresent veranda, which gives a
grateful shade and which looks out on
a court. The coll resemblance is en
hancod by the iron bars at the windows
and the heavy double doors. whi h look
as if they could resist a siege. The
walls are whitewashed, and the tloors
are of tiles. The dining room is often
separated from this room by a long
staircase. Outside the kitchen in the
court will stand table and closets to
supplement the scant furniture of the
small, hot apartment with a furnace
like fire.
.1 a tlur tin Old I'en nn Cooil tin ."Yew.
"My pen is spoiled, and I have no
other." said the bo ikkeeper.
The machinest happened to be in the
oifice, and he took the pen and held it
ov r the gas Jet for thirty seconds.
"You can make an old pen as good as
new." he said, "by holding it over a
Maine like this for half a minute and
afterward dipping it in cold water."
He dipped the hot pen in cold water
as he spoke, and It sizzled slightly.
"Now try it." he said.
The bookkeeper tried the pen and ex
claimed joyously. "By George, it's as
good as new again."
Two KxprejiHl vo ijitiot iitlon.t.
Some sentences are like autographs;
you feel that they must have been writ
ten by these people; no one else could
hae written thetn.
Such Is this, by Talleyrand: "To suc
ceed in the world It is much more nec
essary to possess the penetration to dis
cover who Is a fool than to discover
who Is a clever man."
And Napoleon's character is drawn
full length In this sententious remark
of his: "I command or I am silent."
I. ove of Gain.
To cure us of our immoderate love of
gain we should seriously consider how
many goods there are that money will
not purchase, and these the best, and
how many evils there are that money J
will not remedy, and these the worst.
Colton.
Andrew .loll iikoii'n WriliiiRT.
The letters of President Taylor are
rare, but perhaps those of Andrew
Johnson are the rarest, as he did but
little of his own writing. His sou
conducted most of his correspondence
and signed his father's name to the
letters. It is related that one reason
why President Johnson wrote so little
was owing to an accident which hap
pened to him when he was working at
his trade as tailor. One day a tailor's
heavy Iron goose fell on his arm, so
Injuring that member that he found it
extremely difficult to indulge in pen
manship thereafter. Andrew Johnson
was the poorest writer among the
presidents as well as the rarest. His
handwriting was very much of 11
scrawl and can scarcely be deciphered
bv the average reader.
Hp Had.
Woman of the House (handing him a
plate of cold scraps) You look like a
man wko I1113 seen better days. Fon
dry Grotts Yes'in, thankee. 1 have.
There was a time, ma'am, w'on I would
have blushed to hand such a layout as
this to a dog. Chicago Tribune.
A DISEASE.
Viu'ni'inih McasiircK For Its Removal
Shoo lit He Taken.
At middle age certain organs lose
functional activity and shrink and
waste away, demanding less blood and
ne: ve energy. This decreased need for
nutrition, If. not heeded, will result In
taking into the body more food than
can be oxidized and used either to
build up ti.-siie or for the generation of
licit and energy. The result is kid
neys, Iher and other excretory organs
are overworked in the effort to remove
the body wastes and become diseased,
rays a writer in the Housekeeper. Then
nature stores up this foul material in
the form of fat in all the lymph spaces,
between the fibers of the muscles aud
in every other odd corner in the body
where it can be stowed away. In time
this lifeless, useless structure of fat
crowds out muscle, gland and other
normal tissues and takes their place.
This is what is known as fatty degen
eration and always shortens life, eud
ing often in sudden death from heart
failure, apoplexy, diabetes or kidney
disorders.
The prevention of obesity means reg
ulation of diet, especially In middle life
and when changing from an active out
of door occupation to a sedentary In
door life. Often the amount of food
should be cut down from one-fourth to
one-half, especially avoiding fats and
sweets, also soft foods, which tend to
gormandizing from deficient mastica
tion and too hastj eating. No wlue,
beer or alcoholic drink or tea or coffee
should be used. At meals even the use
of water should be restricted. Exer
cise should be taken in the open air
and deep breathing practiced to In
crease the intake of oxygen and burn
up and oxidize bodily toxic matter.
For those women who are overstout,
yet retain a fair amount of physical
vigor, the day should begin with a cold
bath, plunge, spray, cold towel rub or
sponge bath, after which should be tak
en active exercise In the form of work,
either in the open air or in a well ven
tilated room, horseback riding, bicy
cling or a brisk walk for an hour or
more. Exorcise in a well ventilated
gymnasium may be substituted for the
out of door, but Is not so effective and
invigorating.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
A girl is never going to go very far
wrong who is a good chum of her fa
ther and brothers.
There Is a family in every neighbor
hood which furnishes amusement for
the 1 est and doesn't know it.
Lvcry one has had more happy days
in his life than wretched ones, but how
he lets the wretched ones stand out!
There are so many operations of late
that a man can become distinguished
by arriving in heaven all in one piece.
On - great trouble in life Is that the
paths for going wrotig are planted so
pre! lily with fiowers at the beginning.
' c asi ui. illy a disagreeable person
will lnasl that at least he Is sincere,
but that Is no excuse for being dis
agreeable. Three things you never discover till
there is death in the house: The good
ness of the neighbors, the way time
drags and iiow""1ou7t the clock ticks.
Atchison Globe.
I-Voj.Ii Fruit.
"Gold In the morning, silver at noon
and lead at night" is always used with
reference to fruit Most people think it
means that the explanation of the prov
erb is that digestion is strongest In the
nil 'ruing ami weakens as tin? day goes
on. But you will note that the proverb
refers to fruit alone. If it has to do
with the digestive power only it should
be applied to all foods. The real expla
nation is very different. It is that fruit
freshly gathered is fitted for eating and
lessons in value as the hours pass. That
Is true not of fruit only, but of all veg
etables. That which comes direct from
the garden to the table Is the most pal
atable and in every way best fitted for
eou-oimptioii.
Deepest Until Kver Made.
The do-post haul of a net ever made
in the world was achieved by Amer
icans off the Tonga Islands, In the
south Pacific. The trawl struck bottom
J.".! imi feet below the surface that Is
considerably more than four miles
down but even at that depth animal
life was found. Those strange beings
lived in wat'-r whose temperature was
constantly just above the freezing point
ami under a pressure of 0.000 pounds to
the square inch. To sink that net and
bring it back again took a whole day
of steady labor.- St. Nicholas.
i'roeloy a I.lfelontc Fnrmer,
"I would have been a farmer had
any science of farming been known to
those among whom my early boyhood
was passed," Horace Greeley wrote In
lMcx "Farming as understood and
practiced by those among whom I
grew up was a work for oxen, and for
me the life of an ox had no charms."
And in temperament Horace Greeley
was a farmer all his life. He was
born on a poor little farm In New
Hampshire, and his childhood ex
periences of the vocation were those
of terribly hard work and a meager
living as its reward. It is no wonder
that printing seemed more promising to
him.- Oliver Bronson Capon In Coun
trv Life In America.
II 11 r i-lca nr.
Tin' terrors of the deep wen' perhaps
neer more thrill'mgly set forth than in
the description by a young lady who
last year made her first trip abroad.
She kept a diary, very much, says the
New York Herald. Mice that of Marl
Twain, when for seven days he record
ed the fact that he "got up. washed and
went to breakfast."
There was tine important exception.
When she crossed the channel the ex
perience . a- so ::yr.g that she felt
impelled to il"s-r;be it.
"1 firmly resolved to stay on deck,"
she wrote, although the tempest in
creased to such a frightful hurricane
that it was only with the greatest diffi
culty that I could hold up my parasol."
A Had Recollection.
First Barber- Whew! That barn
stormer 11. ust be a bad actor! Second
Hit to-Why? First Barber When I
asked him if he wanted an egg sham
poo he jumped right out of the chair
and made for the door! Detroit Free
Press.
OBESITY
IMPORTANCE OF CARBON.
Without It or Itx Eqnlvulent We.
Conld Hnve Sit Arc Llfjlit.
The electric arc light as now so com
monly used Is produced by the passage
of a powerful electric current between
the slightly separated ends of a pair of
carbon rods, or carbons, about twelve
inches long and from three-eighths to
one-half inch in diameter, placed ver
tically end to end in the lamp. The
lamp mechanism is so constructed that
when 110 current is passing the upper
carbon, which is always made the posi
tive one, rests upon the lower by the
action of gravity, but as soon as the
electric current is established the car
bons are automatically separated about
an eighth of an Inch, thus forming a
gap of high resistance In the electric
circuit, across which the current is
forced, resulting In the production of
Intense heat. The ends of the carbons
are quickly heated to brilliant incan
descence, and by the burning action of
the air are maintained in the form of
blunt points. As the carbons burn
away, the lamp mechanism feeds the
upper one downward just fast enough
to maintain the proper separation.
The carbons are not heated equally,
the upper or positive one being much
the hotter. A small cup shaped cavity or
"crater," ordinarily less than an eighth
of an inch in diameter, Is formed in its
end. the glowing concave surface of
which emits the greater part of the to
tal light. In lights of the usual size,
something like half a horsepower of en
ergy is concentrated in this little cra
ter, and its temperature Is limited only
by the vaporization of the carbon. Car
bon being the most refractory sub
stance knowiu the temperature of the
crater Is the highest yet produced arti
ficially and ranks next to that of the
sun. It Is fortunate that nature has
provided us with such a substance as
carbon, combining, as it does, the high
est resistance to heat with the neces
sary electrical conductivity. Without
carbon or an equivalent and none is
known we could have no arc light.
Charles F. Brush in Atlantic.
CURIOUS OATHS.
Odd Way of SwenrliiK to the Troth
of Oiie'M Statement.
When a Chinaman swears to tell the
truth he kneels down, and a china
saucer is given to him. The following
oath is then administered: "You shall
tell the truth and the whole truth. The
saucer Is cracked, ami if you do not
teil the truth 3our soul will be cracked
like the saucer," when he breaks the
saucer. Other symbolic variations of
the Chinese oath are the extinguishing
of a caudle or cutting off of a cock's
head, the light of the caudle represent
ing the witness' soul and the fate of
the cock symbolizing the fate of a
perjurer.
In certain parts of India tigers' and
lizards' skins take the place of the
Bible of Christian countries, aud the
penalty of breaking the oath is that
in one case the witness will become
tic prey of a tiger aud in the other
u:at his body will be covered with
scales like a lizard.
In Norwegian courts of law the lire
.tide to the oath proper is a long
homily on the sanctity of the oath and
the terrible consequences of not keep
ing It. When the witness is duly
crushed by the sense of his fearful re
sponsibility the oath is administered
while he holds aloft his thumb aud
fore and middle fingers as an emblem
of the trinity.
In an Italian court the witness, with
his right hand resting on an open
Bible, declares, "I will swear to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
tin truth." The Mohammedan takes
the oath with his forehead reverently
resting on the open Koran. He takes
his "Bible" in his hand and. stoonin
low. as if in the presence of a higher
power, slowly bows his head until it
touches the book which to him is in
spired.
In certain parts of Spain the witness
when taking an oath crosses the thumb
of one hand over the forefinger of the
other and, kissing this symbolic, if
primitive, cross, says, "By this cross I
swear to tell the truth."
WILLS OF LUNATICS.
The Queer HeuueMt That Are Unde
hy Innniic Person.
One of the manias which are evi
denced by the Insane Is a desire to
make a will. Of course these docu
ments are waste paper as far as their
legality is concerned, but the attend
ants and doctors treat these documents
with the greatest respect in order to
humor the demented creatures.
Some of these wills would be amus
ing if it were not for the sad condition
of mind of which they are the outcome.
One man confined in an asylum left all
his money to the mikado of Japan on
condition that this dignitary should vis
it the grave of the testator once each
year ami plant chrysanthemums upon
it The remainder of the estate was to
be handed over to an imaginary charity
called the Brotherly Love ami Bounty
society.
Another lunatic in a Parisian asylum
left a will devising the whole of his es
tate to the possessors of Boinaii n-;es
residing In and near Paris. The rea
son for this was that he had rather a
handsome no-o of this shape and was
constantly admiring it A similar be
quest was that of a patient who left his
property to an attendant because he
possessed one of the ugliest nasal or
gans the testator had ever seen.
One man. who was atllicted with the
mania that he was sane, but confined
in the asylum unjustly, devised a will
leaving his money to the commission
ers of lunacy to enable them to engage
a large staff of men for the purpose of
visiting asylums and ascertaining if
any were confined in them without rea
son. New York Times.
Fooled Him.
"Why am I like a pin:" asked Mr.
Jones triumphantly of his wife. He
expected she was going to say. "Be
cause you are so sharp." and he was
simply paralyzed when she replied:
"Because if you should get lost It
wouldn't be worth while to spend time
looking for you."
Stnttcred Out the Chlld'n Name.
Flannery It seems his full name is
Dlnnis K. K. K. Casey. What's all
thlui K's fur? Fiiinegan Nothin.
Twas the fault of his godfather stut
terln whin he tried to say "Dinnls Ca
sey." Philadelphia Ledger.
ORIGIN OF PIKE'S PEAK.
Indian Legend of the Formation ol
Tliis Fnmou.1 Mountain.
The quaint Indian legend of the for
mation of Pike's peak Is as follows;
"At the beginning of all things the
lesser spirits possessed the earth and
dwelt near the banks of the great
river. They had created a race of men
to be their servants, but these men
were far superior to the present In
habitants of the earth and made end
less troublo for their creators. There
fore the lesser spirits resolved to de
stroy mankind and the earth Itself, so
they caused the great river to rise un
til It burst its banks and overwhelmed
everything. They themselves took each
a largo portion of the best of the earth
that they might create a new world
and a quantity of maize, which had
been their particular food, and return
ed to heaven. Arriving at the gate of
heaven, which is at the end of the
plains, where the sky and mountains
meet, they were told that they could
not bring such burdens of earth Into
heaven. Accordingly they dropped
them all then and there. These falling
masses made a great heap on the top
of the world which extended far
above the waters, aud this is the origin
of Pike's peak, which is thus shown to
be directly under the gate of heaven,
tit was formerly twice as high as now,
but lost its summit, as 13 told in an
other legeutl.)
"The rock masses upon it and all
about show that they have been
dropped from the sky. The variety
ami extent of the mineral wealth in
the region prove that the earth's choic
est materials are deposited there. And
still as the constellations move across
the heaver and vanish above the
mountain summits we may see the
spirits rise from the great river and
pass to the gate of heaven. The fall
ing stars are their falling burdens or
the dropping grains of maize."
CULTIVATE TACT.
If Von Do Xnt Tonne It, Strive to
A oil ti I re It.
I want it recognized that tact should
be taught continuously, seriously, thor
oughly; that it should be placed In the
forefront of education ami take Its
natural first place side by side with the
catechism, writes Frank Dauby in
Black and White.
A friend of mine recently vstiffering
under a great bereavement was In the
receipt of Innumerable letters and tele
grams from friends, acquaintances and
the general public. Out of the 1,140 of
such communications two only hit the
right note. Among pages of sentiment
al and religious commonplace two mes
sages alone touched the heart.
"He was a man I loved. I am with
you in your grief," was one.
The other ran: "You have lost your
best pal. He was mine loo. God help
us both."
Both of them epitomized the senders
men with great hearts. But the ac
quisition of tact by some of the other
sympathizers would have supplied its
place.
Again, paying an afternoon visit re
cently, my hostess, wanting a book to
which our conversation had referred,
rang the bell. Within two minutes the
servant appeared with tea, and the fol
lowing colloquy occurred:
"Who told you to bring tea?"
"Please, ma'am. 1 thought that was
what you rang for."
"Well, please don't think. I hired you
to answer the bell. It wasn't the.stg
nal for a guessing competition. When
I want you to do that I'll supply the
kitchen with a copy of a newspaper."
I was not surprised to hear this lady
e!Ki!.."! he: M-naiit.- fro juently.
In Darkest London.
In his book. ". hi.d Slaves of Great
Britain." Kohert II. Sherard writes:
'There are thousands of our poor chil
dren in London starving not 011 ac
count of the poverty of the parents,
tan by reason of the ignorance and
sloth of the mothers. They know noth
ing of cookery; they wish to know
nothing. They do not care for the
trouble. In every London shim you
will find a fried fish shop or a cooked
meal shop or a grocer who sells cheese
ami pickies and potted things.. It Is
much easier and 'less worrit lug-like to
send the children out with coppers for
a penn'orth of fish and chips or a bit
of cheese ami pickles than to cook any
thing for them."
Vocation and Avocation.
"Avocation" is one of those unfor
tunate words that are constantly lelng
used in a wrong sense. Strictly speak
ing, it refers to something that calls a
man away from the ordinary occupa
tion of his daily life. If you earn your
living by drafting conveyances aud in
terpreting legal subtleties and also are
often seen in leisure hours with a cam
era in your hand and have a dark room
at home, then the law is your vocation
and photography your avocation. Lon
don Telegraph.
(oimI Knoiurh.
"Is your name Goodeiiough?" asked a
bill collector of a man on whom ho
was calling.
"It is." answered the man, with a
look of surprise.
"Then I have a bill against you."
And he handed him a slip of paper.
"That is not my name." said the man.
"But you said your name was Good
enough." "So it Is." said the man as he prepar
ed to close the door. "It's good enough
for me."
A Desperate Remedy.
Agent-1 came to deliver your book
on "How to Play the Piano." Ladv
But I didn't order any such look.
Agent (consulting his notebook) Have
you a next door neighbor named Jones?
Lady 1 es. Is it for her? Agent- No;
she ordered it for you. Cleveland
Both Sides of n Quextlon.
"There are manv th!ny von o-mv
' ' Villi 1 1
with mouev." km id Mm ,.. ,..1
- . iiuw mi;i;is
philosophy.
"ies." answered Dustin Stax. "but
there are a whole lot more things van
can't do without It." Washington Star
After the Honeymoon.
He We must try to keep up appear
ances. I suppose you don't want our
friends to know that our marriage has
been a failure? She Oh. no. I wouldn't
care to have them see that their antici
pations have been realized. New York
Press.