BAN DON HKCOKDER.
A COSTLY BREAKFAST.
When ISn" Mi'"- Worth Their
AWIkIiI In tlold In Sim l"rniicl?co.
Hens' eggs were worth their weight
Jn gold, writes Thomas li. Parish in
one or his stories of the very early
days hi San Francisco. A couple of
young men who had recently landed
from Tennessee dropped into A Id rich's
for breakfast one morning. Not being
aware of the rarity ami consequent
priees of i-ggs in California ami haxiug
live dollars still left with which to pay
for brc.;..fast for two. they calmly or
dered their usual breakfast of ego and
toast. When the bill was presented the
young gentlemen saw. to their con
sterna I km. Hut the amount wa- U.
They had idy What vas to In;
done:
After n consultation tostMher it was
decided that one of litem should remain
while :1m- other wetit out to look for
C-douci ?ift. au oki time friend whom
they kvw t. l in the eity. The colo
nel was sni f hiihI. who. after hearing
the .story of hu oung frieml ami ask
lug who was ith him. inquired what
they had had for breakfast, "liggs.''
was the reply.
"ISgg-: liggs;" CM-laimed the olo
uel. "lkl you uot know, you blaukety
blNtik fool, thai hu lay gold in California:-"
"1 did not. hot 1 do." saul
our yniiMS friewd. V1L" continued
the eokn I kindly, handing over a fifty
dollar soM slug, "take this am! remem
ber after this that you are nt in Ten
nessee, where g.rs ar given awa."
. THE GAME OF GOLF.
A I'llol inif of Kioi;-.. With h lt-rord
of Over I'mir 1 1 II ml Tfll
A game witli a hi-t ry of m iv than
4 years must tcessaril have some
interesting records. I'olf li:ts been
greatly liked by kings, hi (tie time of
.lames 1. it was generally practit-ed by
nil classes. The unfortunate Chanes 1.
wa devoted to golf. Wluic n a visit
In S.-otbtud in n41. as It- was deeply
engage! in a game uews v as brought
him of the breaking ut oi a rein-Lion
in Ireland, ami the royal iotfer threw
down his eih and retinal in great agi
tnikut to Hoiyrood Hon. Wlu-n he
was imprisoned at NVweasile hi
keeHr kindly rmitn-,l him to take
re-reatioit oil the golthtg iiuks with
his train. It is said tli.it Mary, queen
of Scots, was mvu playmg gif in the
tiekl beside Seat on a lev da - after
the murder of lier husband. In W.7
a ina3JiJketti g.W medal was jreeut
ed u St. Andrew's by William IV.. to
be played ftr annually, cue -f the
earlier kimrs forbade the importation
of tsull" lalls from Holland Ihi-jiim it
khiIv xnray na small quan title of gold
and silver out ttf" tin kiugdonte of
Scotkunl." and at tie time "g.ife and
futeiMil ud other unprofitable gaii-.es"
w.re ftr'Hdden in Knglaud Imi-.W'
mvhry. s u---sjiry iu tin def-'n-e
of Ae natkn. was lemg gletti! in
tik4r furor. learifs Wi-kly.
COWARD AD AW.
The rrt'tti".- of Mini t I.:iy the
Itl:i! I in A'oiumn.
Vr ki-s and U'H" is. I lieliew-.
nu "unwritten law of .li.-. .i!r.. ." T'i -law.
s I uuderstaiwl. 4'.::d Adatu
hn's soiuethjies uuiuage to U'y. uHh-U
rehictautly. lUvaux be would like t
teM -he -takl very mr.elj like tell
If - - If tin st.try f the k!s did mt iu--olve
liluisidf in the leiiiii: Ur.t at
this; jn:Httuv "the unwriton liw- .f
ehivalrj " sti in. and he is -..vii. And
chivalry is the tr- up wliieii h- i-limlw.
chatierinz to hin:sdf tltv tt"i d f rmu
ta. "Tin woman wImim thn - :ves :.
le with mm." et Alas. p.r woman!
She hap iHard h!m ;."i g thi ever
tii:i s!: in au mis-liiii .'e-ire 1 1 .hare
her f3 with him ga leni tlw f r
bldleu ale. Xo do!i'i b .fTere-,I
him its rskst aul rie-t ";.!: She al
ways does- at lirst. Not afterward!
A m as he turns trs:lt r ami runs
up a ire- Im taks l Miting him.
niHaili-rkally sfHtikiug. with -im-nuts.
Tliis is quite natural on her part.
Slie had thousbt him a man and when
l tKklnly eliamres inti a uiotikey slie
tlesn umierstaiul it. Ta this eause
may 4.tdy Ih attrihnb! stu f Hm
ruKhMts whk'h eeaioiially jar the
ftaruwnktus estate of matrimony.--b'ron
Mark c.mlirs "lne Opiuious.'
Tin- lti::l- of u V.'-el;.
TIm- battk of -. vc'k tlM- sreai
eoufllct at Tnrs. iu whk'h li:rh-s
.Mar lei overthrew the anui'ti", A. 1 .
T.-". "Hie m.mlM'rs of tin SaraiiMi
riy are variously estimat-! at from
to 7n"Mo. and the monkish
historians s.-y that ::7T..tt!i were ki!ld
on Um- tiekl. it is susiied that these
llgurifls an a tiros exaggeration, but it
is eenato that few baitks of history
hltve heeii eiUwr si bkxuly so de
Clalve.
Voi'iie :i n I 1 l;i n .
Curiosity had kI tlw little girl to
forswke the nursery, where the other
cltiklr n were idayiur. and to iro to take
a p, at tlw gn-at parlors wh--re tlie
' e4MUMiiy had assembled, but she pru
lnwi!y remained vneijikl among lie
Iahus.
. One of tin -i!sis spied hr thre.
"Hello. Htik girl!" he sakl. "Are you
itttvhig a gool time;"
"M-hni! Say. kv yu iee tlutl lady
over there under tlw ehawde!Sir? Tlial's
my mauima. Isn't she niee'r"
"IndetKl slw Is. '"an't you intrmltiee
jneV
"CoOdneSS. IK)'." die eehtitnel. "I
:ouldn't do that. I haven't Ihhh intro
duced to lwr myself yet." thkago
Tribune.
Ilcmil iiimI (In- llfKHf.
"How d you do. .iiv. Vemisy e.
elaiiite-l a gentleman of that lad.v'.s ae
qiiHhuaiiee. "I'ray, what brings you
out .so early in ihe day:"
"Oh, I've juvj Uhh lo tlw phoiogra
jiher vrith my M-t pug Tongo" iwiiieh
she earried in her armsi, "ami we have
had our ptrtraits taken together,
haven't we. I'ougo'r I'.i-amy ainl the
beast, you know, .Mr. .brfitison." with a
saucy little laugh.
"Ami what a little Iwauty he is. to be
sure," repiieil .Johnson inadvertently
as he tenderly stroked poor Pougo's
cranium.
And then he suddenly remetulwretl
and became hot and eohl in turn, and
they parted stninsors forevormnn;
ipiTuiiil
"Wltat :t muddle we have bieii iu
for the past two months, I'olly," said a
fond mother the other day, as she
turned from the machine that had been
making a record for itself, in turning
out dainty lawn and gingham dresses
for the little folks; enough to last them
through the summer vacation and so
save care and worry for the mother.
"We forgot everything else in solving
the problem of where we should go for
thestimmet vacation," she continued.
"The outcome of the Jlussian and Jap
anese war didn't interest us half as
much, and the appalling accidents by
laud and sea, the terrible crimes that
have startled the nation, the Presi
dent"., bear hunts, the Portland I 'air,
all were of secondary consideration
until that dear little red book Vaca
tion lia"), published by the California
Northwestern Wailway the Pictur
esque route of California made its aj
pcarance and hcl'trd us to solve the
vexed question of where we should go
for the summer and. find rest anil pleas
ure combined. The booklet itself is a
little gem, for it is beautifully gotten up
with many line illustrations of the dif
ferent sections through which this
favored road passe:, and which prove
very enticing to everyone who scans
the content.-, and makts them only the
more eager to start for the country im
mediately. " T-liesim shining through
a fog over the golden gate," taken
from their ferry boat, theTiburon, is a
leautiful and very ellective picture, in
fact one of the prettiest little scenes of
the bay I have ever seen. Look at
that dainty little picture the 'Horse
shoe Mend." Does-'! that make you
waul to get right on t on one of those
lint cars, and go -pinning around the
curve? The very thought is exhiliar
atzng. When once we had made up
our minds w here to go, I felt that I had
dropped a load otl'my shoulders. We
have leeu living a new life in that lit
tle book. 'Vacation it " ever since we
received it, for some member of the
family i?-con.-lant iy studying it in their
leisure moments. We are not going to
remain in one place during the entire
vacation. We go to Willits first ami
the grandeur of the scenery along the
road can not be surpas.-ed. Then we
are going to visit some of the famous
mineral spring- at the ditlerent sum
mer resorts, and we are not going to
forget to spend a few days at Camp
Vacation, on the ( lueriieville branch of
the road. Kvery place you can go has
something to oiler a little dillereiit iu
the way of interest and scenery. My
husimiid is dreaming of some babbling
brook teeming w ith trout and he get.
his gun out every few days and looks
it over, for he claim.- that this section
is a per feet paradise for hunters. The
hunting paraphernalia he h:is already
purchased to take along looks as if he
was going for a year instead of two
short months. .My daughter isa water
color artist and my oldest .-on a camera
liend, and they are living in great ex
pectations of the harvest of beautiful
picture- they expect to bring home.
It i- well worth toiling the balance of
the year to be able to enjoy the two
mouth.-' vacatian iu the heart of the
mountains or in the fertile valleys, in
the country homes or in the pretty
towns and resorts. There i.- no reason
why everybody should not enjoy a va
cation every summer, for by a purusal
of 'Vacation, li'Oo," you will tind that
you can live just as cheaply as you can
at home, and yet have a decided
change."
What shall the summer girl prepare
in the way of a pretty and yet inex
jKMisive outlit for her vacation'.' That
question ha- been asked several times
lately and I have delayed answering it
for several reasons. It is getting too
near the mid-summer holidays, how
ever, and so I have U-en looking into
the matter for several days, and have
concluded to ive you the result of a
talk with one of the mo-t attractive
gir'- who will grace the ditlerent sum
mer re-tut.-. She has no money to
spend foolishly, and so she makes every
dollar count. I would be willing to
wager that there will be girls who
spend a vast thai more money who
will not kwik half a.- attractive. Sne
Im- one thing in her favor, however,
that probably thej do not pos-ess
she knows how to wear her clothes
and get the best cllect. She would ap
Mnr ilre ed in a dainty and inexpen
sive lawn, while; they would look
dowdy or ovei'dreC-sed in their silks
and satins. It is a gift to know how to
wear your clothes -and !mIc like you
had ju-t stepped out of a fashion plate,
and she has been wonderfully blessed
in that respect. Slie has three shirt
waist suit-of white corded pique, and
with these she nlm;.t invaribly wears
a blue crepe tie or I'ibbous of the same
hue, ami either a belt of the same or of
white or black leather. She looks as
trim a- a bird wheu she dons this at
tire, and, to use : woman's phrase,
"like she had jus stepped out of a
bandliox." She has au advantage over
other clever girls, and is her own mil
liner. With the white pique stubs .she
u.-ually wears a w hile hat trimmed in
black velvet and forget-me-nots. She
h is a dainty white organdie with a
single big pink ro-e thrown down upon
it here and there,-ami when slie gets
ready to wear "u, if she needs a hat, oil'
come the forget-me-nots from the
dainty white chip and she pins on a
cluster of pale pink crush roses. She
has the name o'f having a hat for every
costume, when the same hat, with
what she terms one of her sleight-of-haml
performance's in changing the
trimming, must answer for the various
costumes. A dainty sheer white or
gandie, made up with lace and inser
tion, is the most eluborate costume she
has This seres for the little parties
and informal hops that are given by
the young people. She has a dainty
white lace hat that sli" dons with this
costume. A little tatr outing suit with
gloves, shoes and hat harmoni.ing in
color. A changeable red and blue
summer silk, made v5:h pipings of
plain red silk and si red straw hat, one
of the turban ellects, with a cluster of
red cherries, gives the finishing touch
to the jaunty little costume. This,
with a well-fitting tan covert jacket,
made up her summer outlit, and it was
inexpensive and all one could desire.
Xo one can ever succeed who goes
alKut their work in a half-hearted way.
If you are listless and alsent-minded,
or worse still, brooding over your un
happy fate that compels you to work
for the money to sustain you, then it
would be better for you to get out of
the slough of despondency, go home
and sleep it oil". Such a person is a
hinderauce instead of a help. Do the
best you can and put your best efforts
into your work, think of something
cheerful every moment your mind is
not devoted to your task, go over mis
takes with a determination to sift your
work until you find out where the mis
take lies, and correct your blunder,
which is not likely to occur again if
you adopt this method. Keep a song
thrilling awav in your heart. Kven if
it never escapes your lips, it makes life
worth the living and clears the atmos
phere around you, and makes others
cheerful as well. Take an active inter
e-t and the task- will lose its unattrac
tive side and the work will be aceom
plished and iu half the time.
There is a little woman who is one o
the toilers in this land of plenty, and
she says whenever she is tempted to
complain she remembers a little fern
that pushed its wav out oi a crevice in
the rockv hilside of her old home, and
with seemingly nothing to sustain the
roots it kept throwing out new fronds
until its beautiful, graceful leaves made
the one fair spot in the vicinity. It
was one of the coarse varieties, almost
on the brake order, and every day they
expected it to fall from its own weight,
but it idling tenaciously io the rocks,
teaching its own little les.-on of a de
termination to win in spite of all dif
ficulties. "I have gone back to my
task more contented with my lot and
determined to do the best I could
nianv times after looking at my fern,'
.-he said. Nature can often preach us
au o'er true sermon if we will only
heed it.
BRIEF REVIEW.
The Cheerlul Man.
"Tale Itself has to concede a great
many thinus to the cheerful man.
The man who persistently faces the
sun o that all shadows fall behind
him. the man who keeps his machinery
well lubricated with love and good
cheer, can with-tand the hard jolts
and disappointments of life infinitely
better than ihe man who always looks
at the dark side. The man who loves
j-hadow. who dwells forever in the
gloom a pessimistic man has ve-y lit
tle power iu the world as compared
uiih a bright, sunny soul.
The world makes way for the cheer
ful man; all doors ily open to him who
radiate- sunshine. He does not need
an intro luetioii: like the sunlight, he
Is welcome everywhere.
A cheerful disposition is not only a
power -it is also a great health tonic.
A depressed mind makes the system
more -useeptiblc to disease; encourages
its development because It kills tin
power of resistance. A cheerful soul
can resist disease, and It is well known
among physicians that there is a great
er chance of recovery from exhaustive
diseases of a bright, sunny soul than
of a gloomy, despondent one. "Cheer
fulness js health: melancholy, disca-e."
Cloom and depression feed disease and
hasten its development. S''vss.
John Paul Jones.
.I hn Paul, the Kirkcudbright market
gardener's son. who elected to be fa
mous as Paul Jones, has long ceased to
be the interesting personage he was in
the eyes of the naval authorities of this
e Mint tv when, in command of a rotten
e Mast Indlaman known as the I nu
de I iiiras and rechristened the P.on-
li Miime liichard. he was a holy terror In
the tlrth of Forth and when he had
engaged and captured a P.ritish frigate
iu P.ritish waters after one of the most
singular sea combats on record.
The some time "blaekbirder" and
'.'. ggief w hom the Russian Catherine
decorated and advanced somewhat per
saltum to the grade of admiral was a
traitor, of cnnr.se. In the view of the
P.ritish government, but none the less
a thorough seaman of quite unusual
talent and originality, with a bulldog
courage and tenacity to match. The
Captain Jones, too. who sent Lady Sel
kirk back her plate, with his compll
uients. had the instincts of a gentle
man.
M ire than llio other countries he
served. America has recognized his
merits. Pall Mall Cazette.
Nearlv all small birds make their
long Ilights by night, spending the day
time quietly feeding and resting, so
that if on any day in May the treetops
are full of Hitting little warblers it is
no sign that the following day will find
them still there. Some kinds, llko phoe
bes, song si (arrows, meadow larks and
bluebirds, come very early as soon as
the snow la all gone and the south slop
ing hillsIdcH begin to feel warm aud
"smell of bprlng." St. Nicholas.
Tourist fin retired vibagei So that
the oltiest Inhabitant V One hundred aud
four vears old? No wonder you
re
to. .ml of lii'M V-itivo 1 iliiiiiio
He
ain't done nothin' in this yer place "ce
pt
grow old, and it's took him a sight
time to do thai.
We live longer than our forefathers,
hut we suffer more from a thousand
artificial anxieties and cares. Bulwer.
Distinction is the consequence, never
the object, of is great mind. Allston.
LOVE OF NATURE.
The More Man bones Out of Door
X.lfe the Mure He ArimircH It.
The more mar. has become engaged
in the eontlicts of civilization, In intel
lectual disappointment, the more he
has felt the uselessness of knowledge,
the more he has turned to certain ex
pressions of art as au escape. He has
addressed poems to nature, has paint
ed landscape more and more, has
shown iu every way that such an es
cape was a dream. Art has existed
from the very beginning, even before
the Urst man stuttered out his nam
ing of the animals and expressed their
character by the sound of their name.
The dances of savages, as we call
them-- that is to say, of people of earli
er forms of civilisation invented be
fore the arts of design, record iu a po
etic way what they do and the sea
sons of such doing aud even the ap
pearance of nature -the storm, the
rajn. the clouds blowing across the sky.
the lashing of the sea against the
shore. In Fiji they have a dance
where the women spread out their
arms like the wave linos of the surf,
aud the children, springing up behind
lliein. represent the foam of the wave
crests. From these beginnings we
know that tragedy and comedy, as we
call them, have grown. Then, as all
these disappear in fact, they are re
corded in the art of painting. And as
man more and more leaves behind him
a life of out of doors in so much does
he desire to admire it.- McCiure's Mag
azine. THE BUDDHIST HADES.
Klyrht Kiimj- Slim en" of the .Most Aw
ful Kinils of Torture.
The place of torment to which ail
wicked P.uddhists are to be assigned
on the day of linal reckoning is a ter
rible place of punishment. This
llllddhistic hell is divided into eight
"easy stages." In the first the po.r
victim is comi oiled to walk for un
told ages in li s bare feet over hills
thickly set with rcdhot needles, poii-.
upward. In Ihe second sta.:e the sk.n
is all carefiill tiled or rasped from
the body ami irritating mixtures ap
plied. In the third stage the uniK
hair and eyes are plucked out and the
denuded body -awed and planed in; i
all sorts of fantastic shape-, 'ill-'
fourth stage is thai of "sorrow ful t iin
filiations." In the fifth ihe lefl -ie
of the body and the denuded he.i 1 ,re
carefully roasted. Vema. the P.:;. Idio
tic Satan, superintending the work In
tin sixth stage the arms are torn frm
the body and thrown into an immen-e
vat among the eyes, nails ; ur pre
viously removed. Then in plain hear
ing of the sore footed, blind, maimed,
roa-ied and bleeding victim Ihe whole
horrid mass is p .uudeil iil a j -dy.
In the seventh stage the other side of
the victim and his feet are roasted
brown, and then comes the eighth and
last stage, in which the c-.-.ia'.i !:ite is
thrown into the bottomless p'M of per
dition.
WOMEN WRITERS.
None Amuiiur Them llns Kver Attnlu
! Heat UreiituehH In I'm-H.
Though the quality and range of her
genius were deep, generous and wide.
Klizabeth Harrett P.rowning cannot be
described, if language is to be used ac
curately, as occupying a place among
the p.(ets justly designated great.
In no tongue hitherto has any female
writer attained to that supreme posi
tion, and were this the appropriate mo
ment, which it is not. it would perhaps
be possible to explain why n woman
is likely ever to do so. Not a few fe
male writers are in effect in the front
rank of novelists. P.ut prose-romance
is one thing and poetry quite another,
aud there is a chasm between them;
nor does the circumstance of novels be
ing in this age more popular than po
etry a fleet in any degree the inherent
and immutable difference. Klizabeth
Barrett P.rowning was. "Aurora Leigh"
notwithstanding, essentially and al
most exclusively a lyrical poet. It
would be easy to add almost indefinite
ly to illustrations of her being one of
those who "learn In suffering what
they teach in song." not one of the
greater poets who pass through that
experience but end by getting beyond
It. Alfred Austin at Unveiling of a
P.tist of Mrs. Prowniiig.
Iluhliifcteln's Charity.
I'ubinstein probably traveled more
than any other virtuoso. In his time
he made many fortunes and gave them
away to the poor in Russia. During
a famine which raged among the Rus
sian peasants he journeyed to Vienna.
Moscow and St. Petersburg to play for
harity. The price of seats rose to un
heard of figures, but every penny of
the money went to the starving farm
ers. It is said that in the course of
twenty-eight years the sum which he
thus disposed of amounted to i?i"0,0O0.
Types of )!! World Ilenuty.
It is said that when artists are seek
ing fir models the palm for beauty and
symmetry of figure is given to the girls
of Spain, while the daughters of rural
Ireland are a good second. The pretty
faces and graceful throats are found
among I'uglish maidens. A model for
a perfect arm would be sought for
among Crecian ladles, while a lady of
the Turkish harem would be regarded
as the possessor of a daintily com
mendable hand. Italians are usually
good in figure and some of the most
beautiful models, perfectly proportion
ed, are derived from the woui.mi of
sunny Italy. Frenchwomen, as a rule,
are not in request, being too thin and
vivacious for the purpose, while the
face and limbs of a Cernian frau are
too commonplace for artistic work.
London Standard.
To H.-.i.-e v:sy Cnnvs.
1 can give a sure preventive against
orn ptiiling by the black rogues. I
h
id tried all sorts of devices and was
rigging a scarecrow, when a gawky
came along and said. "Tie cars of corn
to the t ps of poles around yonr Held,
and the crows won't stay nigh it."
1 said. "They will cat the corn, and
you aud tiny will both laugh at me."
I tried the plan, however, and sure
. noiigh ihey looked at those poles and
wenl a. -ay and stayed away. I suii
p i e it was on Ihe same principle as
that of the Trojan warrior who said.
"I most fear the li reeks when offering
gifts." K. P. Powell In Suburban Life.
POETS AND THUNDER-
A l)eiei-ltt Ion hy Hyron iiuil n Coin
i.icnt on It ly Scott.
P.yron in the third canto of "Chllde
Harold" describes a thunderstorm in
Switzerland which occurred at ruid
nighl on June 1",, 1SH5. He notices the
awful stillness which precedes it:
All he.iv. n and earth are still, though not
ill s!ej.).
I hit breathless,
until
From ivuk to p(ak. the rattllnp crags
anion?.
Leaps the live thnnilor! Not from ono
lone cloud.
Hut every mountain now hath found a
tongue.
And Jura answers, through her misty
shroud,
P.aek to the joyous Alps, who call to her
aloud!
The description is too long to quote,
ami. i'.deed. too well known, but Sir
Walter Sott's criticism on it may not
be so well known. He says:
"This is one of the most beautiful
passages of the poem. The 'fierce and
far delight' of a thunderstorm Is here
described iu verse almost as vivid as
its lightnings. The live thunder 'leap
ing among the rattling crags,' the voice
of mountains, as if shouting to each
other, the plashing of the big rain, the
gleaming of the wide lake, lighted like
a phosphoric sea. present a picture of
sublime terror, yet of enjoyment, often
attempted, but never so well, certainly
never better, brought out in poetry."
Notes ami tjuerirs.
A HOT CHALLENGE.
Colonel I'rnnli Wolfortl mid HI First
Kentucky Cavalry.
In the essays by Kugene Newman on
public men and events a good story is
told of Frank Wolford. who command
ed the First Kentucky cavalry of the
Cnion army and who later was a rep
resentative in congress from that state.
It was said that the colonel of the
First Kentucky had some novel com
mands that he "lired" at the boys, such
as "Huddle up. thaK" "Scatter out.
thai-1" and "Form a line of fightl" It is
related that when some 'st Point
otlicers were sent out to investigate
and report on the otrtcieney of certain
volunteer regiments Wol ford's cavalry
fell under their scrutiny, and they crit
icized it very severely. Wolford heard
them patiently and then said:
"See them two rigiments over tharV
One is a Michigander and the other an
Older squad. You have just passed
them as all right. Now. I know nothing
ab Mit your drills, your evolutions and
your maneuvers. My boys know Imw
to ride, how to shoot, how to light and
how to stand Sire, ami you take them
two rigiments over thar I showed you.
Station them whar you please oil any
ground, in town or country.- iu field or
in forest- ami I will lake my rigiment
and what we don't kill or cripple of
them me and my lmys will chase out ot
the State of Tennessee before the sun
Is in the heavens tomorrow morning.'
THE DIFFICULT TASK.
( n:il.l:iir the Particular Mmi' Itntr
llnther. the Unrher.
"ho you know, one of the most ditli-
ult things in this business." said ihe
barb r as he ran the comb through the
hai. brush, "is in the mailer of couibing
a cust ij.er' hair"; is is a rather singu
lar fad that o will tlnd few barbers
who h:ive -lie ceiled in solving the
problem of c inl ing a customer's hair
ju-t as he wants it. no matter how
long the m::;i may have been a patron
of his chair. M" course there are a few
e;eitIo'is to this ruie. There are a
few men in ihe world who do not care
wh iter lliel,- h.iir is combed at all
Will tl:.- class of men of course
;t doc-n't i:.ak" much difference how
the l.as-ler combs ihe hstfr. Hut at le.i-t
n'neiy out of every hundred men who
pai ionize barber shops arc very partic
ular about t':e way you omb their
hair mile s you have insolrel them
w ill an exfaordinary co-iiKciiee. ln-Ie-.
in fact. i:ev 'nave a belter opin
ion of ihe barber's judgment than the
Jiave of their own the barber will miss
the mark when he comes to put the
fm'shing touclv5 on the hair. The rea
son for th's is not altogether a matter
of vanity. There are a great many
men whose ! ks are completely
altered by n ching" In the way the
hair is coin ed. Take the man. for in
stance, wh i In the biblt of pa'ting
hi- hair on the side, ami part It In the
middle, or the man who is in the habit
of combing his h:dr d -wn rnA parting
it mi one si-'e hippos you roach or
pcmp-idour Ibe h 'ir c-in yon not see
what change would follow in the gen
eral appearance of Pie man? This fa.-t
has much b do with making the comb
ing of a man's hair a ma ter of much
d'SHciilly. and I do n ' ea'g rate when
I av it is i ne of Hie larbe"s hardest
(ask- " - N' w Orle ius Times-Pemoerat.
THE EGG IN HISTORY.
II ! Suri-oumlfil by .Many Ancient
l.eyreml. mill llcllef...
Like uiaiijt another term iu Chris
tian nomenclature, the word "Faster"
i- derived fr.mi pagan sources. The
Sax on guides-, of light. Fstra. was
'loiiored with an annual festival at the
vernal equinox. The Jewish Passover
was also regulated by the March moon,
mid the resurrection of Jesus occurred
at this season. In later centuries the
great Christian festival came to hear
ihe pagan name Faster and to be cele
brated at a time coincident with the
Jewish feast.
Siii'-e remotest limes the egg has
s.m i i bo li zed re-creation. Persian tra li
tion ha; It that the world was hatched
from au egg at the season which cor
responds to the vernal equinox, for
which r'-ason eggs are still given for
New Year's presents by the Persians.
The druids said that the sun. a great
egg. hatched from itself the earth and
oiher planets.
P.y the Chinese it is beliexed that the
world was formed of two parts of a
great egg. From the yolk man came
forth. He then waved his hum!, and
the upper half of Ihe shell went up
ward ami became the concave heavens;
the lower half reversed, making the
convex earih. and the white albumen
became Ihe seas.
When Christianity took over various
of the Saxon rites the Paschal eggs of
the Jew; were vested with a new sig
nilicaiico namely, the resurrection of
Christ. They wen colored red in mem
ory of the blood shed for man's re
demption. Chicago News.
A TALE OF TWO SCOUTS.
.Narrow Keaiie From n Ituttler and
n Ilmul of IndlmtH.
In Cyrus Townsend Brady's "Indian
Fights and Fighters" is a tale of two
scouts, Trudeau and Stlllwell, who
carried to General Carpenter through
an Indian infested country the news
that Major Forsyth was being besieged
iu the sands of Heecher's Island by a t
thousand warriors. Here Is one Inci
dent of their journey:
"During tin's day a large party of
scouting Indians halted within 100 feet
of Ihe wallow where the scouts were
hiding. Simultaneously with their ar
rival a wandering rattlesnake made Its
appearance Iu front of the two scouts,
who were hugging the earth and ex
pecting every minute to be discovered.
"In his way the rattlesnake was as
deadly as the Indian. The scouts
could have killed him easily had it not
been for the proximity of the Cney
ennes. To make the slightest move
ment would call attention to their hid
ing place. Indeed, the sinister rattle
of the venomous snake before he struck
would probably attract the notice of
the alert Indians. Between the sav
age reptile and the savage men the
scouts were In a frightful predicament,
which young Stillwell. a lad of amaz
ing resources, instantly and effectually
solved.
"He was chewing tobacco at the
time, and as the snake drew near him
and made ready to strike Stlllwell
completely routed him by spitting to
bacco juice in his mouth and eyes and
all over his head. The rattlesnake lied.
He could not stand such a dose. The
Italians presently moved on, having
noticed nothing, and so ended perhaps
the most terrible half hour the two
men had ever experienced."
HAVE READY CASH.
It In the t:rutwt Moving Force In
the nunlne.HM World.
One of the greatest millionaires of
(Mir country lived before he made his
millions on a week and at a time
when his income was $10,000 a year.
He saved all the rest of his salary for
judicious investments. He had been a
poor boy. accustomed to a frugul mode
of life. He began his career in the city
sweeping out a store for $:5.."0 a week.
Later he was advanced to $7.f0. The
mode of living which he was obliged to
adopt as a boy he considered quite
gooil enough for later years, especially
when he saw that by denying himself
for awhile longer he might make the
experiences and hard knocks he had
gained count for more than a mere liv
ing. He might have argued that he
was doing pretty well to earn $10,000 a
year and that he deserved to enjoy it.
P.ut he preferred to use his earnings to
make more money that some day he
might be able to dispense with a sala
ried position altogether. And this man
had a wife. too. who was farsighted
enough to be willing to live on a small
sum when it meant an easier road for
both by and by.
Peady cash Is the greatest moving
force in the business' world. It speaks
with the loudest voice, aud its posses
sion represents business acumen. Of
course there are exceptions in cases of
inheritance, etc.. but the exception on
ly proves the rule.
Cornelius Vanderbilt worked day and
night, saving every penny, until he had
$;'..iio. the nest egg about which gath
ered one of the largest fortunes ever
amassed in America. The principle of
thrift inculcated by those hard, self de
nying years made hhu a great financier.-New
York Commercial.
GULLIBILITY OF SHEEP.
A Co in ion I Study of the Ixtrtiut ol
Aniuuil Stnpldlty.
The utter stupidity of sheep is per
haps nowhere more strongly evidenced
than in the perfect satisfaction with
which a ewe that has lost her lamb
will take to a strange lamb around
which has been fastened the skin of
her dead offspring.
Considering that the skin of the dead
Iamb is often merely thrown loosel
over the back of the living lamb, some
times hanging almost to the ground on
one side or the other and making the
lamb appear the quaintest kind of ani
mal imaginable, the ewe's gullibility In
this respect is remarkable. There can
be no other explanation of her satisfac
tion than that she really thinks the
inutlled little stranger is her own prog
eny; otherwise she would give It no at
tention whatever.
Its appearance does not seem to count,
nor even its voice. Its smell is every
thing, which may be seen in any Hock
of ewes and lambs, for while the moth
ers certainly appear to know the bleat
ing of their own children, the identifica
tion is always completed by the ewe
smiling the mat of her lamb.
I have been looking at two such
quaint families iu the lambing pens re
cently, and the picture of a sedate ewe
placidly attending to two weird little
creatures which look as If they have
been half Hayed tone of them was ac
tually dragging its second skin in the
straw) was the most comical study of
animal stupidity which could be imag
ined. London Express.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
An old
man doesn't care much for
jokes.
What's the use of
People won't take It.
giving advice?
Not many men know if the advice
their wives give is good or bad. as they
seldom act upon it.
To every man: Know what puts th.it
sad look on your w ife's face"; livery
one susj eets that it is you.
livery man who is Hearing the end of
his das must regret the worry he has
given to false alarms all through life.
Do not go too much Into details hi
your conve sat o l. If you touch only
Ihe 1: gh places jou can get over more
ground.
When you inquire of a man. "How
are you';" he will reply, "Oh" (with u
long pause on the "oh"), "pretty well."
indicating that he could be u whole lot
better. Atchison Globe.
Identifying the SpenkiTM.
"The lady in the purple waist Is out
of order," announced the presiding of
ficer at a recent woman's convention.
"The lady In the gray foulard has the
Hoor."
Who s.iys women are not parliamentarians?-
Pittsburg Post.
ENGLISH SERVANTS.
They Don't Want Ke.ipect. tint Insist
I iion Their "Ritrht."
To the American settling in London
nothing is more confusing than the at
titude of English servants, their con
tempt for the slightest consideration of
their feelings and their fury at the
least infringement of their rights. At
fust sight It seems that in spite of
their dignity they accept extraordinari
ly small wages, but the American finds
housekeeping in London quite expen
sive, for not only is the work so spe
ciali.ed that an immense number of
servants is required to do it, but they
consume a great deal of tune and food
in live meals a day, which is consider
ed their right.
Class distinctions below stairs are
regarded much more scrupulously than
above, and the unfortunate mistress of
a house has to understand the gratle of
every one she employs, from the house
keeper to the scullery maid. Woe be
tide her if she confuses an upper and
ji lower servant or gives au order to
the wrong one.
Au American woman married to nn
Kiiglishman and settled in London told
me that she installed a dumbwaiter in
the hope of saving trouble to both her
cook and her butler. At the end of a
month she found it unused and on in
quiring learned that as it was not the
traditional duty of either a cook or a
butler to semi such a thing as a dumb
waiter up and down both refused to
touch it. and her food continued to be
earried bv hand from her remote kitch
en. Trouble was nothing to them in
comparison to the danger of compro
mising their position. Ainsiee s .Mag
azine. TAINTED ATMOSPHERES.
Hoiv Fume f Alcohol mid lolnoni
.liny KmlnnBer Health.
Purton-oii-Trent, the center of the
Fnglish brewing industries, lias the pe
culiar faculty of mildly intoxicating
die'st ranger within its gates. The res
ident lias become accustomed to the
i lildly alcoholic fumes which arise
from the innumerable brewing vats,
but the susceptible stranger liuds ex
hilaialioti and finally a mild form of
Intoxication in the atmosphere an ef
fect which does not wear off for sev
eral hours after his arrival. On every
hand the big brewing houses are
throwing off fumes from the vats of
malted liquors, and. while these are im
perceptible to the resident, more than
a thousand authentic instances are
-aid to have been recorded of persons
to whom the air has proved to possess
properties that both cheer and inebri
ate. Just as in certain parts of the west
die arsenioiis fumes from the smelters
destroy vegetation and imperil health,
he vapors of the Knglish brewing cap
ital destroy the sobriety of the abstain
er and till his head with vagrant fan
cies. As many visitors to the place are
u p'.ated by a desire to see for them
sehes the great industry which they
ire doing their modest best to suppress
itid as they are the most sensitive to
the atmosphere of the town, those who
gain their living from the brew houses
take great delight-in observing these
iit -limitary lapse- from principles.
New York H.-rald.
The lied Jacket Mi'ilal.
Before the North American colonies
revolted it was the British custom to
pre-eiit medals to Indian chiefs with
whom treaties were made. These med
als bore a figure of the reigning Brit
ish sovereign on the obverse and em
blems of peace on the reverse and
were called Indian medals. After the
licclaration of Independence Washing
ton presented a diked States medal
to ihe Seneca chief. Sa go-ya-wat-lia
i He Keeps Them Awakei. who was
ku .wn top u la tdy as Ibtl Jacket. This
Led Jacket medal is interesting as oue
of the earliest of the initials issued by
the lir-t president of the great repub
!ic across Ihe sea. Pearson's Weekly.
Iler Idea of eee.slti"s.
The young man was interviewing the.
stern parent of the only girl in tho
world. "Of course, sir." he said, "my
.-alary is not colossal, but I can give
her all the necessities of life and si.fiie
of its luxuries."
"My tlear Mr. Softly." replied the
stern parent, "you have scarcely im
proved your time in her society if you
do not know that she considers all the
luxuries of life far more necessary
than the necessities."
The Vice of Idlviifwrt.
Of all vices to which young men be
come slaves idleness is by no means the
least. It is a vice easily contracted in
youth and hard to throw off in man
hood or old age. difortiiuately It Is
not generally looked upon as an evil In
the sense that drinking, gambling and
debauchery are evils, yet its Intluence
is no less certain In breaking down
character and sapping physical aud lu
tellectuat strength. Portland Orego
man A Painter's !!ri'ii rm.
A friend on -c et.tered the studio Of
fie-.; go iniie-s. the American land
scape painter, while he was at work
and remarkiil that the picture on the
easel seemed to him much better than
certain former works of the artist.
"Bight!" said Inness. "This Is going
to be one of my best things, ami the
reason is that I have had the good luck
to break inv right arm ami am obliged
j to paint with my left hand. You see."
; he added, showing his right hand iu a
j sling, "this hand had become so darned
J clever that I could not catch up with
1 it. and it painted away without me.
while this hand" - showing the left.
with which he held his brush-"is awk
ward ami can do nothing without me."
IIln Brethren.
Smart Pastor -My congregation Is
made up mostly of fools. Parishioner
Ah, that explains It! Smart Pastor
Explains what? Parishioner Your
habit of addressing them as "beloved
brethren." Cleveland Leader.
She Made Good.
"I don't see what sense there is in
you women dressing so expensively."
"That's Just the way papa used to
talk."
"Talks that way yet. doesn't he?"
"No. Indeed. When I caught you he
admitted. that there was method In my
madness." Ilouston Post. "
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