BAN DON IIKIOB.DKK.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Trials of UuKlnn Writers.
People here are so accustomed to re
gard Russia :ts an illiterate land that
thev will nrobably be surprised to
learn that a popular book at a low
price has been known to reach a sale
of IMHXJ.OOU copies within a few months
of its annearamo. Such is the avidity
witk whieh the Slav reader seizes upon
what appeals to hi:n.
in m outer country, moreover, nave
writers been called upon to suffer for
their literary opinions as in Kussia
The story of many of them is a verita
ble martyrdom. Novikoff. the first
modern writer, whom the metropolitan
of Moscow termed "the bet Christian
he ever knew," was immured for fif
teen years in the Schluosselberg and
eume out a broken man. I.abtu was
Imprisoned and exiled. Radischcff in
exik ended his own life bv ui-idt'
Kjlref was hanged, with five other
le-ser writers, by Nicholas I. Pushkin
would have dud in exile but for being
kill-il in a duel, and Lcnnontoff was
:i!s- killed when i i -Tle hi tu .-i-re of
sunn and twenty. u.Wvskv was bro-
ken h twelve years' h.-nl lalior in a
Siboriau convict prison. Polo.haeff
was eoitiiei.tuvd to a thousand strokes
wttu tle iMstitiado and tw.-ntv the
years' service in joiutl regiment, ami
it similar fate was reserved for Shev
ehenko. Tlie lit?t could be extended to
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v. l.vuuon i eie-
gr.1h.
Ioic:i In K:c:r.
Kggs may Ih xisotinus even before
mv iKKi. i uio eiieerrm state-
Went made by Professor .MetelmtkniVki.. ...LI .u: r ..i- ...
of the Pasteur institute in the witnes
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bnHinr n..w .i ......
nil t iiiiit iiii .i.iiuitt . i i . .
ed survive hi a v.-et:iti" atat.. t.J
U'i degrees r.. ,r Uti degnx's 1 Conse-
tfiteiKily a inw or even partly cooked
gg. liowever fns!i. nwy alv.nys be
poisonous owing to the posil!e pre-;-
once of lively 1 ;rili m tin' wl He :uil
coiuained tncrcin fittiii the ver.- Iwgin-
nini:. The iirofes-ior's evklei co was
gheu in a ease lfore the tirst chain
er. iu wIikii a pastry cook i; lniug
suctl Uy twemy-tiw jerMn wlo had
h'M made very ill by cuing some of
i . i . ... . . . . . .
ii ej t-wui lans ana ty iik ii .r ot a
twiHity-slxtli. who diini of it. Odieial
ejcHrts. supp:itel by M. Aic- lnrkotr,
stati at the tir-t hearing of the case
that it Is utterly hei ositde ever to
mjtke
ure that wuip;Ml cram eon-
tabling white f egg uulMihM shall be
fniKxruoiis Iwwover fresh the egg. f-r
me Mtiuve n'asims. fans inciter to
London Telegraph.
A I'leti I'.ir Itaeiuir C:ir.
Kucing ears are fuiiHHng a worthy I
and high function, and all tmrit and
rtuers oi every sn.nie or eHiservat;'in
are indebted to i1h-m spvd eat Jlt.it
Let uieir ute out m a trail stnietuiv
for the sake of quiet and safe -mar Vd
motoring. Hie man that turn-- to curse
a tiring chauffeur ought to Uujw
enough to praise him. He puts each
part to a white hot test. An h.ur of a
speed, debauch is worth a .vunr of sano
bowling along. The cxiicrimcMs on tlie
racing ear, the results of which have
been taken over ami incorporated in
ttie touring ear. are lonir shot on the
me ot tne mter. .ud this system oi
,ul,,"t iUf, u. ..uruuig
fiery
iM't.nn- is sitiui: lis me iiicreas-
ingly excellent touriug cars. Countrv
Life In America
Modern Crusoe.
Crusocs are still possible. A whole
French crew has undergone the experi
ence of Selkirk. The thrc masted ves
sel Anjoti, owned in Nantes, was lost
in the Tacific in rebruary. All hope
that the crew were alive had been
given up when a few days ago the ship
owners received a telegram from New
Zealand annouu-ing that the entire
ship's company had been rescued safe
and weil after liviug thrtv month- on
a desert island. The name of t
Is given iu tlte Paris papcr
iet I
And-
pel. and it Is stated to 1m ir-.u- th
Auckland group.
Kcplnslon.s on Old lint I l-llelil-
The forests in the mountains known
as Loudon heights. ,it.iMi-i:e Il.u-ne:-
Ferry, took Are recently am! i,mni
. .
with great interitr. After some t lis;.-
a series of explosions were heard which
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startled the inhabitants, ami the con-
cttssion was so groat that it broke win
flows in souk Ihhi-m'S la Harpers Fer
ry, across the Shenandoah. Tla epli,
sioits- w-re cau-ed b- the bursting of
shells which had ln-on thrown on th
heights at uV time when 'Jetieral Mills
surrefcdrcd to Stonewall Ja ksoit In
These had failed to explode w hen
they were ilred and had remained there
for mure, than forty years.
me jjciienj- uucarcttc.
Another blow has been struct nr tin
chrarette. Now comes a medical :m
- - . v 1
thority to declare that leeches amdied
to inveterate cigarette smokers die of
nicotine poisoning after a short time,
u iue oiuer nana, tney enng to nana-
ual pipe smokers without experiencing
any apparent discomfort, from which
It Is argued that the cigarette smoker
absorbs tlie nicotine while the pipe
smoker does nor. The Investigator is
silent regarding cigars.
A Profitable Crop.
aiaipa is as sate an investment as
iue uaiiK or jsaigianu ami as lertste in
dividends as Miller's get-rlch-niiiet
concern if a certain forest in Kansas
Is a standard of success. An average
annual profit of ."2 per cent maintained
for twelve years on a Sfiu acre nm. Ji
of catalpa Is the showing of the bal-
i
nnce sheet of Mr. L. W. Yagsv of
Hutchinson, Kan. Catalpa accounts f .r
one-half of the success; sleepless man
agemeut was the price of the other
half of the triumph. Country Life In
A merlon.
Ilolmnii Ilunt'n rnJntliiK..
Mr. Holnian Hunt spent seven years
on his great painting "The Triumph of
the Innocents." and then was not at all
satislied with It. while "The Shadow
of Death" took him three vears.
I have seldom known any one who
deserted truth In trilles that could be
trusted In matters of Importance.
Ps?.Iey.
POLL! UflNI
I lev. Frederick F. .Shannon, pastor
of CSrace Methodist Fpiscopal Church
M Hrooklyn, gave a merited rebuke to
women who lavish not only alfcetioii,
but wealth, upon' their dogs, in a re
cent address before the Long Island
.Methodist Preachers' Association, lie
stated that in the citv of Brooklyn
there were women who spent a thoiis
and dollar and more a year in clothes
for their ioo'ile dogs. They purchased
erniine-linedcoats costing the modest
sum oi two hundred do ars. Thev
I
must lit just to, and in each pocket of
these dear little coats was tucked a
oanu nine iiiiUKerenief ol teat laci
M-'tie JsrooKI n woman went so far as to
have a Queen Anne cottage built tot
her dog. Th roohis werepaiiered and
carpeted, the windows hung with lace
curtains, and the tiny bed must be
airett and sunned t very day. At a cer
tain hour of the morning a woman
l4ll,tu l" ", cirri and periume lite
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M'Ulc darling and then take him out
r n walk. He has to have his nteab
served regularly to avoid a eoinnliea
lion ,.f ..vil tli.it ,..i.ri. r..n.... if l...
I ww - - l
w:is allowed to eat everything at an v
and all times. This precious dog must
have its own dainty dishes of Havi-
land china, for he knows the dilfer-
ence at once and would refuse to eat oil
of common table ware. It seems hard
to believe that Mich simpletons as these
Women have proved themselves to Ik
- i i-n'iiiii i-.i3i in mi- eiji oi eiiiiuiiieii
ntent and progress, and shows them
ul' 1,1 ""ytlniig but an enviable light.
11 ,s lhe healthy chu, as a rule, who
"'"'ii- t"s bg fad, giving it far
,llort' attention than they would a little
M'ninl, the latter b-.Miig u.-ttally turned
over to a nurse and i probably een
once a day for live minutes.
1 heard a young mother say not long
since that her little girl was nearly a
year old and she had never had the
care of her for a single dav or niuht.
and that the child t hought a good deal
more of her nurse, who had taken
eiiarge ol her since the day she was
Ihuii, than she did of her. This wo
man had an ugly little pug dog that
slept on the foot of her bed every night
on a tine angora rug bought especially
for him, with sheets, a soft, fleecy
lilauket, silk ijuilts, ami with a lace-
. edged pillow for him to rest his ugly
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nsiam r(Hm tin ine nurse, wnere, it
11 chanced to cry during the night her
nat would not be interrupted. She
looks anything but the sellish, cold
hearted and indiHerent mother she
has proved to be, for she has n rosy,
dimpled face that can be wreathed iu
smiles, making her bewitching and
very pretty. She is popular, tx,
among her fritrtids and she entertains
a great deal. Hut as lone as she clings
to the dog and neglects her child, her
beauty ami attractiveness count for
nothing. .Shesays children are a great
i,utia.r ami sUe ia opposed to more
than one or two children in thehoue.
but a dog is good company ami no
trouble whatever. I suppose she
think- the dog hasn't a soul and she
does not have to bother herself about
his spiritual welfare, etc. He is smarter
than the average dog, comes from blue
blooded stock of the best kennels in
the country, and what more can she
ask'.'
Hrooklyn is not the only place when
money is spent lavishly ujk)ii dog.-
Herein .San Francisco voti see women
of wealth carrying around a fat, roly
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I'oiy 'log in ncr anus uecause ii uies
him to walk, and in one of the leading
and highest priced stores here, they
carrv the little animal to be fitted out
in coats, which of course have to be
made for him, and he must have hi.-
own lovely brush and comb, articles
oiai many a sw eet, teiiiicd girt wouid
to possess, but which arc beyond
the limit of her spending money. Thi
dog has an exquisite little band of gold
with his name engraved unou it. it i
set in pearls and turquoises and a liny
gold padlock fastens it around one of
his front feet. His mistri'ss alway.-
ea mi's ine uev wmi ner. i ne nun
-ill-: coat, handsomely embroidered and
fur-lined, has the little lace haudkor-
chief, scented with the peifuuiery in
likes best the wood violet, at a dollar
ImikI.m null sill ounce--MleKeO JIWMV III
graved wnn ine uog s name, lasteti tin
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c'!l1 - 1 h:i1 ,SM 1 this dog mu-t
have his own particular playthings, or
else he mopes and acts a- though lit
were sick. "ror little dear, he Io-t
hi - .lolly coming from .Sacramento the
other day and he has grieved a!oul it
ever since," said a lady owning this
particular dog, to a clerk in this big
clothing house for ladles and children.
"It was all my fault." she continued.
'for I put the dolly in the window
while lie was asleep and accidentally
knocked it old. Let me see some of
the prettiest rag dolls you have." A
dozen dolls were shown to the dog
without arousing any particular in
terest m the fat little pug. "No, he
doesn't care for them, but I know he
would like this one if 3-011 had a blue
dress instead of a pink one on it." She
left her order to have it dressed in blue
by the following day and she was to
call for it. Next day she was on time
to the minute, rfhe could not get the
doll quick enough, for she said the
poor dog was pining so over the loss of
the other doll that he was losing his
appetite. "Don't wrap it up," she
said to the clerk. "I will carry it so
he can see it all the time and get used
to it." She cheerfully laid down a live
dollar gold piece for it and went smil
ingly out of the store, with the fat,
blinking pug dog in one arm and the
doll in the other. This is only one in
stance where women of this city allow
them&elves to become simpletons over
this dog fad. She has plenty of com
pany.
I low much better it would be if these
women why have nothing but dogs to
spend their allecUott and time upon
would take the same interest in some
poor little waif and see that it is fed
and clothed properly and given oppor-
Utilities that will make them helpful
and useful citizens, and who in turn
fur the heiwvliii... i..,:..i. .,ie...
- - lilt l.ill tlllV.
tion that comes from a grateful and
loving heart. How much they are
missing that would in after life bring
them pure joy and happiness as they
watched the successful careers of those
who had been helped in their hour of
need. Vet, they forget here is a
chance of benefitting mankind, and
fat puggy dog fill their nanow,
warped hearts to completeness.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Disastrous Fortune Telling.
n extraordinary case of madness,
in which all members of a family, con-
sisiingof father, mother and four chil-
dren, were simultaneously allli. ted, re-
cently occurred in lie giuni. A party
, ... . f ' -
of strolling gypsies, who undertook to
tell the father's fortune by means of
cards, declared that he would be killed
while serving in the army, and this
prediction so impressed him and his
family that iu the course of the same
day they all developed signs of waver
tug reason and before long had to be
put under restraint. The gypsies, who
were the source of the trouble, were ar
rested by the (lerinan police when
crossing the frontier from lielgiuni.
Cause ol Comets' Tails.
A subject to which much discussion
and tlicori.tng has been devoted dur
ing recent years is the cause and char
acterof the tails of comets. Many in
genious hypotheses have Uvn proposed
but none of them as yet is generally in
cepted as the right one. K. (J. .Shaw
some time ago published a new theory.
He attributes the tail to the action of
the cometic atmosphere on the sun'
i-i. t . .
iays, which renders itiein more capa
ble of being refracted and reflected by
the meteoric dust in the neighbor
hood. I hat is, there is really no tail,
but merely a local ilium ination of the
interstellar dust. .Shaw also explains
the gegeiischeni by the same phenom
enon.
A Deadly Disease.
The American Hoard of Foreign Mis
sions has received reports from its Af-
rican ntis-iotiaries relating to thepecti-
nar disease Known as tne sleeping
sickness, which is seriously allecting
lent rnl Africa, particularly the kin
doni of I gauda. These reports show
that there have been deaths
within the kingdom from the disease.
It is believed that the maladv is con
nected with the presence of the taetse
fly, which hitherto has not been sup-
posed to be harmful to man, though
fatal to cattle and horse.-.
Bedroom Suit Worth $100,000.
At Knole, Seveiioaks, Kent, Fnglaitd,
the residence of Lord Sackville, there
is a room called the King's bedroom,
containing a bed made for James
that cost ; lO,tjiM), a solid silver table, a
toilet -ervice of silver valued at o00i
and many other treasures that entailed
the expenditure of much gold ($100,000
in point of fact), when the apartment
was furnished in the precious while
metal.
Equal Sulfrajje in Iceland.
I t a
111 Iceland men ami women are 111
every respect political equals. I lie na
tion, which number.- over 70,000 peo
ple, is governed by representatives
elected by both men and women.
( f all the sad lives of this sail world,
there are none so sad as those of the
mile gin widow.- oi India. I here are
77:;, 000 girl widows in India, who are
nine years old. India does not vet
know that the quality of the mother
must prove the quality of the men.
Mrs. McHryde John. I'm simply dis
gusted. While I was out this morning
the eat got Into the pantry and ate
every single thing except a cake I had
Just baked. Mr. McHryde-What a
wonderful thing animal Instinct Is. to
b-sure! Cleveland Leader.
!!- uss-on as to the length of the line
betw een Maine and the I tolllillioll of
Can sd.: c-tu-ed an Augusta man to
write to the librarian of congress for a
definite di-cisiou In the matter. He r"
coived the reply that, roughly meas
ured on the map. the total distance was
N't miles, l,ut the ritggedness of th-'
in mi ami tne ins and outs oi the water
boundaries could be depended upon to
raise that figure to oOO.
r.xery year it Happens mat the Kaiser
fells this or that young ollieer whose
dancing is not up to the mark t leave
the ball until he has improved. Tin
coll'teipience ot this strictness is that
tor weeks before the beginning of
court festivities every regimental ca
sino oi me guards is uiriied into an
officer dancing academy. Th older
f "leers become dancing masters and
eoacii tlieir younger comrades in the
particular dance. practiced at court.
' ' ml ! . s.- ; li:g
g -1 :;,iioiid on ".11-111 ale .- it h. I
been t"ken from South Afrha to Lou
don. lie asked tlial It lie brought to
his private apart -iients iu P.tickiiighani
p-.hice by a court ollicial, but the cus
todian of the ge- 1 respe fully refused
t allow it out of his sight. The king
was much amused at this and rallied
his entourage on the suspicion evi
dently entertained as to tlieir honesty.
The hank having custody of the dia
mond finally agreed to its absence for
one Hour, charging SlrJo as a premium
on a special policy of $2,fi00,000 Insur-
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a nee, the custodian-accompanying the h
precious lump.
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Tt ij
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lite
Old Sole WJiccIei-s
In
(he
In the enrlv
L'iii ly Diij .
il.wi there was ;i rgu
l:ir line of packets between St. Louis
and Si. Joseph, all side wheeler-;, and
the average round trip occupied eight
day-. A boat left St. Louis every day
for ihe .Missouri river, and as there
were fourteen boats in the line each
boat made a round trip once everv two
weeks during the season. During tin
winter the boats ran between St. Louis
sum N,'U' Ufh'nns.
I "tiling U the rivet
the boats ran
all night, but in going down they al
ways laid up as soon as darkness set
In. Iu going d iwti the river the boats
usually left St. Joseph early in the
afternoon and laid up for the night at
Weston, where there was always a lot
;f f;ei.;;.: to I - i 1. The nerd l.iy they
went to Lexington, the next to Iloun
ville and the next to St. Louis. Occa
sionally during high water a boat
would leave Lexington at daylight and
pencil St. Louis in time for breakfast
the next1 morning.
The boats carried from 12(H) to KM)
passengers on the trip up the river.
COlintinir the imini-T.-ints itn the lii-!.-
i solfJ b.u.k lhlv 0Illv ,,.ul ,..,,
passengers. The cabin fare from St.
'-""i to St. Joseph ranged from $10
w,ur" "'""! meals and state-
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lived on the best that money could
i,m-
The average boat carried r00 to C.(iO
tons of freight in addition to passen-
gers. During low water freight that
now costs l!0 i cuts a hundred cost
a hundred. The expense of a round
trip from St. Louis to St. Joseph. In
cluding loading and unloading, was es
timated at $-1,000. and the Income from
cost to $7,000. Kach boat carried a
crew of from SO to 100 men. The aver
age vahr of the boats in the line was
probnbh $f.",(M0 each.
The biats were often on sand bars,
where they sometimes remained for a
day and night, but altogether the time
was made surprisingly well. A pilot
who luid a reputation for keeping ill.-,
boat ol the bars cotnmande.f as high
as $."0o a month. I-Zach burd was pro
vided 'villi two pilots, and this expense
usual!; amounted to from $; to $1.-
(nn.1 a mouth. All a river pilot saved
he put in his watch chain. You could
tell a high priced pilot by the size of
the lh.ks In his gold watch chain. A
rattling good first male who knew how
to ban. lie a boat after it struck a bar
received $L'."itl a month.
Poker was a favorite river amuse
ment, and it was not an uncommon
sight to see eight or ten games goiug
at the same time in the main cabin of
a steamboat. Ami tne playing was .or
actual money, which was displayed in
stsicks on the tables.
Among the famous boats on the river
at that time were the Kate Kinney. F.
!. Aubry. Morning Star, John I . Per
ry, Moux i:;-. oii.::ha, t arner and the
James H. Lucas. The last named made
the fa-test run in the history of ilm
river- .ii f sours ami J.: minutes trom St.
Louis to St. Joseph.
lion AVI ii I'm Are ("oloreil.
"Most people think whitf grapes make
white wine and davk gniHs makejred
wine, sum a visitor. J hat is a m, Hi
lar error.
"Red wine is made by fermenting
grape juice and grape skins together
the skins giving the color, and white
wine is made by fermenting grape
Jii'ce alone.
"The Juice of white and of dark
grapes doesn t ditrer In hue. In each
-ort of grape the Juice is almost color
less, like the weakest lemonade.
"Champagne, one of the dearest of
the white wines. Is made of a grape so
dark as to be nearly black. lint the
juice of that nearly black grape is
quite as pale as tin juice of the blond
est white grape." Minneapolis Jour
nal. .In pan one Itndinli.
Picture to yourself a pure white
radish the size of a baseball or larger.
firm and solid. Such Is tlte Japanese
radish. Cut It, and you find it has the
consistency of a llaldwin apple, firm
and fine grain: taste, and It proves to
he away ahead of the most delicate
spring radish that ever passed your
lips. It will thrive at any season dur
ing the growing year. It may be trans
planted or left alone, cultivated or u:i-
ctiltivaicd. It Is as good to eat when In
bloom as In Its younger days, and one
radish will provide bulk enough for
three or four people or more. Harden
Magazine.
War Illxtory.
darky was watching
parade one .Memorial
vociferously cheering
An old
the
day
the
!. A. R.
and was
baud. I suppose you were through the
civil war. uncle V" snid a bystander.
"F.ver step of it, suh!" "At the sur
render too?" "F.ver' step of It. suh:"
"What did Ceiieral Lee say to General
( Irani V" "Never said nut tin, suh; Ick
chopped olt his hald an' went on!
("llm:il- unit ('oiininiittts.
Ill a book op bis adventures iu Tibet
Colonel L. A. Waddell writes: "Due
curious result of the cold should be
mentioned here nainelv. Its effect upon
the speech of the people. A peculiar
ity of the language of the Tibetans, in
common with the Russians and most
nretie nations, is the remarkably few
vowels In their words and the extraor
dinarily large number of consonants.
For example, the Tibetan name for
Sikhim is Hbrasljoiigs. Indeed, so full
of consonants are Tibetan words that
ni 'st of them could bo articulated with
almost seniielosed mouth, evidently
from the enforced neces-ily to keep the
lips closed as far as possible against
the cutting cold when speaking."
Siienk ;mhI of (lie Living.
Few will be found to dispute the
spirit of the old Latin proverb "De
inorttiis nil nisi bonum." Is it not a
pity, however, that we are all so in
dined to offer fulsome adulation of the
dead, about whom, while living. 110th
ing was too vile to say? This is not to
be understood as criticising unfavor
ably the natural tendency to forget
the faults ami foibles and to remem
ber only the virtues of the people who
nave "gone on before, but it uos
scout too bad that, more even justice,
- rrea:er toleration and charity tan
not be shown to thu living. Success.
SYDNEY SMITH.
A.- n oiintrj Parson mid h.s a Peace
ni.-l. in .MsiKiNtrutv.
For twenty years Sydney Smith re
tnained in Yorkshire, tind, though his
ideas of clerical duty were not those
of today, yet it will not be denied that
he was a vigorous country parson, en-
V'-ring Into the pursuits and the daily
life of his humble neighbors and doing
his utmost to improve their lot. His
descriptions of his life and surround
lugs at Foston are among the most de
lightfttl of Ids humorous writings. Ev
cry one has heard of Annie Kay, the
little country girl, "made like a mile
stone," who, christened Bunch, "he
came the best butler In the county;"
of the rawboned riding horse Calamity,
which "Hung tne over his head into a
neighboring parish as If I had been a
shuttlecock, nnd I feel grateful that It
was not into st neighboring planet;" of
the ancient green chariot named the
Immortal, "at which the village boys
cheered and the village dogs barked;
of his four draft oxen Tug and Lug.
Haul and Crawl of which "Tug and
Lug took to fainting and required
buckets of sal volatile and Haul and
Crawl to lie down in the mud." As a
magistrate Sydney Smith became fa
mous for making up local quarrels and
for dealing gently with pinchers. The
game laws, like a good Whig, he could
not abide, and It stirred his honest
wrath to reflect that "for every ten
pheasants which fluttered in the wood
oiio KugUsh peasant was rotting ie
jail." Like Charles Kingsley at Kvors
ley in after years, he refrained from
shooting. "If you shoot," he said, "the
squire and the poacher will both con
sider you as their natural enemies, and
I thought It more clerical to be at peace
with both." Uev. ('anon Yaughan in
Longman's M aga.ine.
BORN FOR A LAWYER.
V.'hy ills Mnfiici- Iteeoiiiiiiemleil 1 1 1 111
to CoIoik-I luivcrsoll.
Aiming the st :-Ies which Coloiu-i
Hob IngcrsoM del -dUi-d Jo tell was the
following, si-.ys ti.e writer of "Anier
'ten's Most Popul; .- Men:"
While studying law with a firm out
went the colonel lound himself alo.ie In
the office one day. He was interrupli'd
by the entrance of a raw boned, sharp
featured country woman, who amble!
into the room ".ending a freckle faced,
watery eyed tMi-y ear-old bo by the
hand.
"Air you the lawyer:" she began.
(in lK'ing auiweiVHl hi the affirmative
she went on to say that she had
brought her boy Jim to town for the
purpose of binding him out at the
"Iawyerin' trade." She was moral':,
certain, she averred, that Jim was a
lHrn lawyer and that all he needed wa--
a chance.
"P.m. madam." objected the colon 1.
"he Is entirely too young to begin the
tudy of law."
"Too yonng. indeed!" sniffed the fond
mother 1 onlvta; 'uoiwly. "You don't
know Jiy:. lie was bora for a law
yer." Much amused, the colonel asked her
on what grotimis she based her hopes
of a future at the bar for her darling
child.
"Why," said she, "when he was only
seven years old he struck work, and
he wouldn't do another lick if he got
killed for it. When he was eight he got
sassy and put on more airs than a
prize horse at a country fair, and now.
Lor' bles mo. he jest freezes on to
everj thing he can lay his hands on."
The Klrst KnirlUh I.lRlii Iioukc.
It Is to the Romans, who left so
many marks of their presence In Eng
land, that Rritons owe the first light
house. Tlds was, and Is still, the Phn
ros watch tower to the south of the
keep of Dover castle. This Is remark
able as the only remaining specimen
of Roman work In the castle and as
the earliest piece of regular masonry
now existing in dreat Britain. It con
sists of a casing of flints and tufa,
with b inding courses of large Roman
tiles tilled with smaller stones. Its
shape is octagonal outside, but square
inside, the inner room measuring four
teen feet and the walls being ten feet
thick. Repaired again and again. It
was used at one time as a government
storehouse. London Chronicle.
Keep Serene.
When you come to think of it, most
of us do have a hard time keeping our
selves In order, temper, nerves, selfish
ness and longings, ambitions and de
sires all Insisting to have a hearing,
and down steps wisdom and orders con
trol. Of course there are the cool head
ed, intellectual people to whom self
sacrifice means nothing, and little they
know of the light of the other passion
ate half. Ill health and discontent are
the fruits of the bat lie. Keep serene,
say, "I shall control myself and he a
cheerful philosopher," and all will go
well
POINT LACE.
Ttie HcmiM ,r die (;,MIH at Ilnrlmrn
I Mnt.111 f Snxony.
A little knot 11 example of inventive
genius in w..:can is u,at afforded bv
P.arbara l'llinii of Saxony and her j
point lace so 1 ug in fashionable use all to suppress the orgies at popular re
over the world. She invented the proc- sorts In the town. A few days later
ess and app.i, it us for manufacturing the police raided the principal restau
this b.-aulitui handiwork, whieh has rants after midnight, and the next
sim-o given employment to millions of , morning General Trepoff asked of his
operators and which, in its line, has 1 august master directions for the pros
never lx-eu excelled. The apparatus ecutlon of one member of the Imperial
looks like a long pincushion bristling family, two Judges of the high e-jurt, a
with pins arranged to outline the pat- ' mayor and deputv mavor. several gen
terti or design. The operator manages ' ,.,-als and manv women well known In
from ton to It) ty peculiar spools, allow- Moscow society, who. among others,
ing the thread to feed over the pins al- unl ljWM1 arrested In the raid. The
t ornately until the design is completed, j matter ended there
The spools or bobbins are purposely of j
different colors, so as to be easily dls-
tiuguis'tiable. The process is slow and I
di:iieu!t to learn. Miss rttman found-!
. 1 :t!iim1s where thousands learned it.
Sin e her s!:. c . n inventive ability
was rare even aiuoug nun. her idem
have U cu incorporated in the construe-1
tlon of machinery by which
the lace is
produced at wonderful lower rates, and
yet P.arbara ftt man's lace still sur
passes all.- London tjueeu.
The Vwftil l.onellnchN.
The Friend What made you close
your season so early? The Actor The
solitude, my boy; night after night, the
annulling solitude. Brooklyn Life.
; : e i iaisi of W.'sttiian. south of Ice
i.- has a ptpuluMnn of ".00 souls.
'i' it - uSniost entirely on fish. Kven
h- 1" v animals an- chiefly fed on fish.
QUALR i.
Snvurr 11 ml yl;:l:;i-y All tin Venr
Iloimil mid Liked by All.
Nearly all our vegetables and herbs
appear originally to have passed
through some preliminary stage in the
laboratory of the medical herbalist be
fore being admitted to the full honors
of the kitchen. The fact Is not so
strange as It might at first sight ap
pear, and its results have certainly
been to the general advantage of man
kind, for, though for the most part tlie
old herbalist's prescriptions were of a
kind neither to kill nor cure, his hives
tlgations of the specific qualities of
plants were often useful. The ancients
seem to have regarded sage as an herb
of first Importance to the physician,
ami the many traditions concerning it
refer a'ni'ist entirely to this aspect of
t!i' plant. "Why should a man die
who has sage in his garden?" was one
of the maxims of the famous school of
health at Salerno. The belief in Its vir
tues survived through the middle ages
and wa handed down with unimpaired
vitality to quite modern times. The
writers of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries were full of Its praises,
and there was hardly an ailment of
mind or body for which sage wns not
pronounced a cure or nn alleviation.
Thence sprung the idea that as It was
thus generally wholesome and recom
mended by the faculty the housewife
might prudently admit a dried winter
supply to her storeroom. And so this
"sovereign herb" gradually found Its
way into the kitchen, of which It has
ever since remained an Indispensable
adjunct; not that It at once lost all Its :
medical attributes. "lie that would live
for aye must eat sage In May" runs the
proverb. But the cooks soon began to
take broader views. They pronounced
sage to be equally savory and salu
tary all the year around and of special
and peculiar value at the season of Mi
chaelmas. But this Is advancing matters. Kven
the best of things eatable have had to
overcome prejudice and slowly make
tlieir way, and In the case of mere con
comitants some help from (he encour
aging hand of fashion has generally
been necessary. The rather nauseous
brew known as sage tea was so com
mon a domestic medicine to our fore
fathers that they could not at once ac
cept the herb in the character of a
savory adjunct. But we live and learn.
and the merits of sage as a modifier of
certain rich viands began to be ac
knowledged. It seemed to have a kind
of natural affinity with roust pork.
gO'ise and duck and presently became
the constant attendant of these dishes.
Larly In the eighteenth century an ae-
knowlidged authority laid It down that
as to geese and ducks, cooks should
stuff them with some sage shred fine
ami a little pepper and salt and the
same with a suckling pig." London
Olobe.
Our Golden "Cold Wnvi-n."
We Americans are always talking
a. ::t our mountains of gold and coal
an 1 iron, of our fat fields of corn and
wheat, but few of us ever realize that
we have in our climate a great advan
tage over all other nations. In the
oi l wave which in summer and win
ter so often sweeps across the land
and sends the thermometer tumbling
.10 degrees In almost ns manv minutes
we have a constant, a never diminish
lug asset of priceless value. The wave
lets as a tonic; but. unlike any tonic
made by man. It carries no reaction.
No other land has cold waves like ours
To the cold dry air of this periodic
c-.dd wave, which brings extraordinary
changes of temperature, we owe much
of the keen alert mind, the Incessant,
unremitting energy of our American
race. Century.
NiiuncR und Kkk Skin.
In cases of violent nausea when all
other remedies have failed the skin of
a perfectly fresh egg Is an almost im
mediate relief. If the first skin does
not havo the desired effect two more
will cause a cessation without fall.
This has been tried successfully In
ca--es of cholera under the eye of a phy
ciau who acknowledged he had tried
every known remedy In the pharmaco
poeia. The egg skin is said to form a
new coating temporarily for the stem
ieh. The skin of an egg Is the part that
clings tightly to the Inside of tlie shell.
It can be given with milk or water and
should be rolled up Into as small n dose
as possible.
London l'lfiybotiMes.
In the London playhouses there Is nn
dr of comfort and quiet luxury not
always evident In our own theaters.
The auditoriums are usually very
small, but the seats and aisles are
spacious, and the furnishings and dec
orations suggest a drawing room rath
er than a place of public amusement.
The atmosphere Is further accentuated
by the evening clothes of the men,
which are compulsory. San Francisco
Argonaut..
Too Ulcli 11 Ilnnl.
When Ceneral Trepoff was chief of
police In Moscow, before the estab
lishment of the state liquor monopoly.
he was told from the highest quarter-
linn the Mnat Leitn.
'f'10 little creature which bears the
distinction of owning more legs und
,t,(,t than any other known organized
hi'in;: i t:.e milleped, which literally
means "thousand footed." There are
several species of these curious worms,
" possessing the characteristic of hav-
Itic i tno in- .m ..-1 1 .
I
1 1 . .1. I
" -' uoo., eacu seg-
ment provided with a pair of legs. Un-
like the centlpeds-"hundred footed"-
they are perfectly harmless. ;
Impatient. I
. o:.. i . . . - '
cep yourself unspotted
from the world, Cornelia. You are so
licitous, are you not, to enter, heaven
utter you cross the river? The Bud
Yes. But. auntie, I'm not uverse to n
little heaven on this side. Puck.
WOMAN AND FASHION
For the Seaiihorc.
If the vacation days are to be spent
at the seashore the bathing suit will be
an Important article Iu the summer
wardrobe. The ready made ones are
usually ill fitting and unsatisfactory
and lack the smartness and style that
a well fitted suit gives to the wearer.
Jt.VTI.'IN'i .SUIT.
Any woman could easily make her own
and would be well repaid for tlie time
spent in the making. The model here
shown Is a particularly good one and
as illustrated was made of black wa
terproof taffeta, trimmed with bauds
of wiiite Serge, mohair, brilliantiue.
linen and silk arc all used iu the mak
ing, and dark blue ami black are the
favorite colors. The medium size re
quires six and three-quarter yards of
forty-four inch material.
I'nnhtoii Fitncleii.
Prunella is a cloth revival.
Cloth is used to trim summer silks. ;
Skirt yokes are by no means "out."
The latest decolletage is wide rather
than low.
Tailored linen blouses are first choice
for morning.
Reseda Is best set off with a touch of
cream and gold.
lJr.rn and brown is a favorite com
bination in changeables.
Lingerie sleeves are seen inside tlie
sleeves of tailor coats.
A cut out design in taffetas Is a
smart trimming for tlannel serge.
Tinted AValut I.I 11 1 11 kk.
The trick of putting a lining under
neath a white bloii-e that will bring
out the tone of the gown Is quite a
fashionable trick and a very prettj'
one. Red linen coat suits, for instance,
carry pale pink muslin slips under
white lingerie blouses. For this rea
son bobbinet has come Into favor for
1 - . .... I. 1. . . 41 1
s:iiiii vi!iii; 11 : 1 x I i iri ti-i i v nifT-M
does not pull out of shape like- many
of the muslins.
Tinted WalntN.
The fashion of wearing colored shirt
waists, no matter how delicate the tint,
with white skirts Is not approved. A
tintiil waist may be worn with a white
coat suit and is considered a higher
touch of fashion than the all white
suits.
Model In New Silks.
Silks make a notable feature of the
season and are so thin and cool that
they will be worn during the entire
summer. Illustrated Is a most attrac
tive waist made of one of the pretty
louisines. with cuffs and collar of lace.
Tlie model is high at the neck, the yoke
being formed by a succession of shlr
rings, but it can be cut low, with the
sleeves In elb-.v. 1, ngih, so becoming
and suited to evening as well as to day
TUCKED SHIia-.KP YOKE WAIST.
wear. The sleeves are tlie very newest
and are slurred to form a succession of
puffs. At the waist is the fashionable
full belt, and the closing is made Invis
ible at the back. In addition to the silk
the model would be effective uude
from any seasonable material that Is
soft enough to shirr with success, both
soft lace and fiowen-d nets being much
liked, while mousseknes' and silk
voiles are many. For the medium size
j will be required s!x yards of material
j twenty-one, five yards twenty-seven or
; three and a quarter yards forty-four
j Inches wide, with three-quarters of a
yard of all over lace.
There'll Ue :o I'le."
I An energetic pastor who was mak
ing preparations to build a new church
received nil kind m- mii-i .v.r.
. - - - . . . . . v. 11". I'M.
, . .
isniouers, and the greatest amount
came from those who had contributed
the least toward the erection of the
church. So at the regular services on
the following Sunday he said.
.t i,,. ,,- w.,...i..i , ,
uwu luwitiUK lei- UI IlllvlCI
ult;ii ioiu oy certain mcuuers of the
congregation that It wfd not do to
have too many Augers .n the pie. I
can assure you that I .vlll attend to
that part of it. Thero " HI be no pie."
Harper's Weekly.
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