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BAN DON UECOTIDER. WASHINGTON LETTER Special Correspondence The death of Secretary Hay will be felt in one of the enterprises of Wash ington about whirh little has heen known autl whieh has a distinctly philanthropic aspect. Mr. Hay was one of the moving FpiriiH hi the organization of the Wash ington Housing association, whieh had for its business the building of com forlablo. spacious and modern tene ments suited for the crowded sections of the rity. where the working classes ami those of moderate means have for many years been at the merry of hard conditions in the peculiar landlord sys tem in vogue in the capital. The society was started by a number of men prominent In otllclal life three years ago. The District government lent its aid to the movement by for bidding the use of alley property for tenements. Tills served to Increase rather than lower rent-; for the poorer class of people. Then Secretary Hay nnd sev ef i of his friends came into the organ izai.u ami gave it an impetus by the invesUi,Mit of large sums, which ha resulted iu the construction in all parh of the city ot hundreds of houses plan msl on the Hat system, but with only two stories. The rents are based on " Per cent return to the stockholders. This brings the rentals down to about half those charged by real estate agents generally throughout the city. The tenant who .takes approved care of the premises receives at the end of every year one mouth's rent free. Mr. Hay invented upward of $1,000. 000 in this philanthropic enterprise. He kept his connection with it quiet if not secret, nnd few knew that it was to his money that the success of the asso elation was in large measure due. .nvy'n linn on Fnrcigrncra. The regulations governing visitors going aboard vessels under construc tion have been revised so as to give such permission only to those known to the senior otlieer present as Ameri can citizens of good standing and re pute. Visitors representing foreign governments or known to be other than American citizens, it is provided, shall not be permitted to go aboard such vessels except by permission of the navy department and then shall be nreompsnied by a naval officer on duty at the navy yard or works whore the vessel is building. ev Xnvnl KcKrulntlon. The wearing of swords aboard ship on ordinary occasions has Im-- prac tically abolished by the new wording of the regulations respecting th :r use. a woven service revolver belt ai. l re volver taking the place of the sword. It Is explained by the department that a sword is an unhandy weapon under modern conditions on board ship or in bouts and that it serves no useful pur pose on occasions other than those of ceremony. The sword will le worn, however, at ceremonies and at infantry and urtillerv drills on shore. cw Mfilnl of Honor. Actintr Secretary of War Oliver has issued a description of the new mcd.il of honor. It Is a the pointed star made of silver, heavily electroplate In gold, nnd has as Its central figure the head of Minerva, symbolizing 'wis dom and righteous war." An open lau rel wreath enameled In green encircles the star, and the oak leaves at the bases of the prontis of the star nreJlike wise enameled iu green. The medal is suspended by a blue silk ribbon span gled with thirteen white stars, repre senting the original states, and this ribbon is attach til to an eagle support ed upon a horizontal bar. Upon the bar :qpears tin word "Valor." The reverse side of the medal is en graved with the name of the person honored and the place and date of the servlv for which awarded. Printline OJllee Furniture. Visitors to the government printing oilice frequently comment on the larg amount of ..lassive oak furniture scat tered through the various branches of the plant, the natural wood finish and neat and serviceable appearance of the rfeces attracting particular attention. It fs jiid that no printing office In tin world is so completely furnished with working conveniences as the big Uni; od .States institution In this city, what Is termed the "carpenter shop" bring largely resjnmsible for this state of af fairs. What was once a plain everyday carpenter shop has been gradually transformed into a modern manufac tory. expert cabinetmakers, finishers, painters, woodworker.- and Ialorrrs being represented in the establishment under .Superintendent a. A. Bundy. Modern machinery is in use, and the best grades of wood In stock enable thein to turn out any article which may he desired In the olHe in that Hue. All work Is turned out of the rough lumber. I ncle Sam Money. Uncle Sam for the first time in eight years began to count his money on July 1, a job made necessary by the recent change in treasurers. The gold, silver, currency and bonds approxi mate $1,.'J0"k 1.000. and It will take three or four months to complete the task. About r,000 tons of coin will be counted. There arc $ir.0,000.000 in standard silver dollars. 3,fKiO,000 In gold coin. Sioo.000.000 in United States notes held as reserve to replace those now in circulation when they become unlit for further use, $lir,,000,000 In gold certificates held In reserve, ?7., 000,000 in silver certificates held in re serve, $."r,0,000,000 In bonds held as se etirlty for national bank circulation and other minor Items, aggregating between $1.'2mi,000,0M and $1.00.(4)0. 00i. The count eight years ago showed $7.Vj.wi.;c0 in the vaults. In the count the coins will be tested by weigh!' rather than by actual count. CAUL SCHOFILLl). - Too aojrgreatlve. Henry Hyde You ought to be In the workhouse. Roofless Rufus I know It, boss, but I Jest can't boar de idea! Henry Hyde You shouldn't be bo proud. Roofless Rufus 'Taint pride, boss; it's the name o' do place I can't stand. Cleveland Leader. Manufacturing sorrow Is one of the worst of sins. 1 PDLLY LARKINj tl , i Is man superior over woman V That isn question that has been discussed pro and con since the clays of the garden of JCden when Adam forgot his chiv alry and shifted all the blame for dis obedience on poor Kve. He set a bad example, for ever since mankind has shown the same weakness and are ever ready to lay the blame for all their mistakes on womankind. .Not very manly, to say the least, is it V Hut Adam's cowardice and luck of courtesy has nothing to do with the subject, "Is man superior over woman?" Peo ple who are becoming broader in their views and look at the matter without prejudice now come out boldly and de clare such a belief in man's superiority to be just a my th. Here is what one party who has made a study of this question says: "Man is more ingen urns than woman; are more inclined to be frank. They Devote more time to study. J lave a more marked tendency t believe in spiritualism, telepathy and Christian Science. They have a greater variety of sentiments, are apt to be more habitually contented. Are more than sensitive regarding other people's opinion of them, are more af fectionate, sympathetic and demonstra tive in affection. Are moreable to con centrate their minds upon one sub ject. More frequently have illusions and hallucinations, liely more upon asthetic judgement in deciding con duct. Have greater social inclina tions and are better informed on scien tific subjects. They have more acute sense of taste and smell, have keener sight for detection of objects. Kxeel in rapidity and accuracy of movement and have a more marked tendency to physical activity." The above he finds are the chief items in favor of men. In regard to women he says: They memorize and retain memory more readily than men. Are more easily em bar rased than men. Derive greater pleasure from study; are more affected by omens and superstitions; are more inlluenced by their emotions. Their minds form associations more rapidly and their ideas follow each other more rapidly Women more frequently have presentments, and they rely more upon religious judg ment iu deciding conduct: they have stronger religious beliefs and are better informed on literary subjects. Women exceed in keen ess of hearing and have keener sight for colors. They excel in manuel dexterity ami are more given to day dreaming." This, the writer' believes, is a fair es timate of the characteristics of both men and women. He is right when he says, "the women memorize and retain their memories more readily than men." 1 saw this confirmed over and over again not many months since when 1 had to interview a num ber of old residents in regard to the early days. Men who stood forth among their fellow men as being par ticularly bright ai.d who were shining lights in their legal professions, could only remember very ordinary inci dentshad to hesitate and think of ihe things that had ptuscd. They were groping in the dark, trying to shake up the musty pages of memory, peering into the crevices of by-gone days, and yet, after hours of vain en deavor, had to acknowledge that the events had passed entirely out of their minds. On the other hand every wo man but one out of twenty recalled distinctly all the events of that period. Due incident brought a troop of others and they were as fresh in their minds as though they had occurred in the past twelve months instead of twenty or thirty years ago. They remembered the slightestd etails as well. A few of them got slightly mixed up in regard to the dates, but on Ihe whole they were very accurate. Out of a corres ponding number of men, only three or four out of the number could equal them iu the stories of by-gone days. I don't think the writer was correct in stating that women were more ef fected by omens and superstitions. You have only to watch certain men who deal in the art of gainliling, be it horse races, cards or theslot machines, to see how they watch for omens, etc. T saw a man with his lingers flashing with diamonds step up quickly behind a little colored lxy and jerk oil' his hat ami rub his hands twice in a circular movement over his curly head. The lny turned and angrily denounced the man in strong language for taking such a liberty. He said: "I wish you ill luck ; I hate you. I hope you will lose everything you have. I hope you will never win again and that you'll drop dead in your tracks." The gam bler put his lingers in his ears to keep from hearing the little lad's curse as he called back to him: "Don't say that. I didn't mean anything ; it was only to bring luck and I had to sur prise you or else the charm would he broken. Take back what you said, lad, and remove the hoodoo you have placed upon me." The loy was obsti nate, however, ami would not listen to coaxing or threats. Another man who was talking with a friend suddenly left him and disappeared around the corner without one word of explana tion. In the following block he made his appearance on the other side of the street and rejoined his friend with the remark, "Pardon me for my seeming rudeness, but I had juit bought a lot tery ticket and when I saw that cross eyed Chinaman coming toward me I knew it was all up with mo if J al lowed him to cross my path. J would not have passed that Chinaman for fifty dollars. Not only would my lot tery ticket have turned out a blank, hut I would have had nothing but bad luck for the next month. Not until a new moon waned would the hoodoo have been broken. You may laugh at me and think I am foolishly supersti tious, but it never fails to come out just as I have told you every time I pass a cross-eyed Chinaman. These unfortunate individuals play havoc with our family. My wife needed some vegetables for dinner a few months ago, and rather than go down town for them she thought it wouldn't hurt for once, so she bought what she wanted from across-eyed Chinese vege table peddler who goes from house to house with his baskets. That day at dinner the baby was taken with a spasm, the first it had ever had, and it went from one convulsion to another; at (i o'clock that night he was dead. Then one member after another of my family was taken ill and my wife lay at death's door for a week. J haven't paid the last of the doctor's bill yet. To cap the climax, just when I needed the money most; every hand was laid oil for two weeks' vacation while the linn made necessary repairs to the building and of course my wage stopped. Now, do you wonder that I run from a cross-eyed Chinaman like I was lleeing from the smallpox? Call me superstitious or anything else you like, but no one could shake me in the linn belief that if a cross-eyed Celes tial crosses my path that disaster won't follow me and my family." BRIEF REVIEW. Use Whiskey For This Auto. For the first time in the history of the automobile a demonstration of the use of whiskey and a mixture of gasoline, kerosene and alcohol as fuel to propel automobiles has been made. The dem onstration was made by Young fc Miller at their garage, 17 C'rand River ave nue, Detroit, before the students of the Detroit Motor School and of the Y. M. C. A. A single cylinder Khnore ma chine was used in the demonstration. Through a funnel gasoline was first fed to the engine, followed in order by kero sene, alcohol, whiskey, and then a mixture of all four, an Klmorc cocktail. With thegjisoline the machine obtained the usual speed, but the kerosene ad ded still greater speed. The machine continued to run with half a pint of al cohol and then with the same amount of whiskey. Then camethestirprise of thetest, a combination of all four worked a well as any of the fuels and a speed of loOO revolutions a minute was ob tained. Another feature of the experi ment was that no readjustment of the carburetor was required when the fuels were changed. Forcing Spiders to Spin. Certain green ants iu iieunslaiid, which also make their nests of leaves and tlowers spun together, are said to keepspiderstospin for them. Whether these latter do it spontaneously, or re quire to be held as the larvae of the other species, does not seem to have laeii determined. In the devices of these ants there is surely one of nature's hints 'o human inventors. Since the day of the spider artist in the Univer sity of I.agalM), spider silk has been a dream. The dilliculty of its realization has been chietly the puguatious nature of the spider, which prevents them be ing kept together. Hut a machine has been invented which seems to over come the dilliculty. It is described as a sort of frame, containing L'l miniature guillotines, the blunt knives of which descend on the waists of the spiders and hold them fast. A number of the threads are secured together on a hook and slowlv drawn out. How To Clear Bruises. To prevent the skin discoloring after a blow or fall take a little starch or ar rowroot and merely moisten it with cold water and lay it on the injured part. This should be done immediately, but may be applied some time afterward with effect. There were grand traits iu that man Stanley of darkest Africa. I n the lYour of his greatest triumph he was invited to a dozen banquets. Toone invitation hesaid, "What are banquets toone who for the best years of his life has dined on only a crust of bread or a piece of dry meat and whose success has come only from a desire to do the task as signed him. " Can any words be more touching or .solemn than the address in 'lokio re cently of Admiral Togo to the spirits of the ollicers and men, who died while fighting under him in the licet attack ing Port Arthur. A nation with such a religion and such men must indeed be a nation of heroes and one not easily conquered. .London's women clerks are increas ing now with remarkable rapidity. According to an ollicial return their ranks, which in IStil included 17 .Soli young women, rose to a total of "."),7.sl, iu the year I!H)1. Male clerks increased in the decade by ol.i! per cent, only, whereas their rivals advanced by no less than "00 per cent. Whenever a noted person lectures in town every parent out in the country should gather his children together and attend. Some country lad will go home fired with the ambition to be come noted and deliver lectures too. Jf has happened many times. In your library are the silent sages of the ages. See what messages of hope they have for you. They wish to point the way to the truths they once found. Hoys like to be thought manly and the father who crushes this spirit iu a boy is inhuman and unwise. Yet you often see such done. THE IDEAL HOME. aiiiuVt Idea CoiiMtantlj- ClmiiKc uh lie (ironn Older. As the male member of the human species advances in years his Ideas as to what constitutes an Ideal dwelling change so absolutely that there Is be tween the different places he would select almost no similarity. At three years old his Ideal Is a tent formed from a table cover, a blanket, a spread, a piece of carpet, or any other material that can be so arranged that It will form a little place into which to crawl. At six the best possible dwelling Is a hut built of barrel staves, boards and planks, and unknown to persecuting adults, and especially to policemen. A boy of ten would select a spacious cave, with a marvelous secret entrance, preferably with the entrance under water at Hood tide, with the floors cov ered with heavy costly carpets, ihe walls decorated with deadly weapons inlaid with gold, silver and precious stones, and vwith enough food stowed away to enable the inhabitants of the place to live for a year If necessary. At twenty the heart's desire Is a room in a large hotel where the cost would be at least $3 a day ami where there would be a dinner at 7 o'clock, with lots of pretty aifd rich women present, a big smoking room and plenty of stationery with a heavy gold mono gram or crest stamped on It. At twenty-five the best possible home is a neat, comfortable modern Hat in some respectable neighborhood, not too far from the cars, theaters and shop ping district, and with asphalted streets so there will not be too much noise. At thirty-live the only proper dwell ing Is a town house, preferably situ ated near houses of men whose wealth is reckoned in the trn of millions of dollars and who ready have consid erable money, said house to have a mammoth ballroom, u.uslc room and art gallery, and in addition to this house another country h.utsc within easy dis tance cf the city, and still again, In addition to the.e two houses, a mod est but quaintly elegant cottage at some po; ul;:r seashore resort. At a man's testes have toned down, ami he longs for a little cottage In the country, where all Is quiet, whe-e birds sing and there are chick ens m the yard, a cow In the stable, a gin: y i I'd of ground that continually yie! . . i:.:" filing supply of fresh veg-otaV..-- .:i.i where all Is modesty, sv.e. ; ...cut and freedom from the tu.i . :.i;i..iiiccs that make life a itii: i Ci. At ly the cottage has grown ;i:: !' r. 1 the imm would bo con .Vii. v. I i !.-.-s ground, fewer chickens .ml -.:,- tables and could get along quite nicely without the cow. At scenty any place will do so long as a i.:i:i i; not disturbed and has rea sonable assurance that he will not be. Exchange. Victim. of (Mil JokcH. A hospital surgeon says that there Is more facial paralysis among bank pay-in-.: tellers, photographers and elevator operators than In any other classes. He accounts for It with the words, "Old jokes." ".lokes! How so?" "Whenever a bank clerk-hitttth- out a fresh, crisp bill, the man on the other side of the window says: 'New money, eh? Made it yourself. I suppose? It is up to the teller to force a laugh. The man on the chair says, 'Ain't you afraid I'll break the camera?' He would be mortally wounded if the oper ator did not laugh. One man out of every ten will enter an elevator and say to the boy at the rope, "Lots of tips and downs in your life, ain't there?' The boy forces a smile. "Year after year of this sort of busi ness tells in the long run. The victims come here for treatment, and we can hold out no hope to them unless they get into another line of labor." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Med ford n ml It.s Hum. The American Gazeteer, published In 1810, has the following: "Medford, a pleafant. thriving compact town Iu Middlefex county, Maffachufetts, four mllcf north of Bofton, lltuated on the Myftlc river, three mllcf from ltf mouth. The river Is navigable for fmall velTels to this place, where It mcotf the Middlefex canal. The town fhlp was Incorporated In 1G30 and con tains 1111 inhabitantf, who are noted for their induftry. Here Is a poftofllce. Alfo four diftillerles, which have dlf tllled In one year 252,450 gallons of rum." FIRE WORSHIP. HciiiIiiIncciiccn of It Are Still to lie Pound I:t Scotland. Roiuiuisreiices of the pre-Christian days of Baal worship and fire worship are still to be found occasionally iu Sc Miami. A few years ago a traveler wrote: "On the last day of the year, old style, whieh falls on Jan. 12, the festival of 'the da vie' takes place In Burghcad, a fishing village near Forres. On a headland in that village still stands an old Roman altar, locally call ed the Monro.' On the evening of Jan. 12 a large tar barrel is set on fire and earned by one of the fishermen round the town, while the assembled folk shout and halloo. If the man who car ries the barrel falls it Is an evil omen. The man with the lighted barrel, hav ing gone with it round the town, car ries It up to the top of the hill and places It on the 'douro.' "More fuel is immediately added. The sparks as they tly upward are sup posed to be witches and evil spirits leaving the town. The people, there fore, shout at and curse them as they disappear in vacancy. When the huru ing barrel falls In pieces the fisher wives null In and endeavor to get a lighted bit of wood front Its remains. With this light the fire on the cottage hearth Is at once kindled, and It Is con sidered lucky to keep this flame all the rest of the year. The charcoal of the 'clavie is collected and put hi bits up the chimney to prevent the witches and evil spirits from entering the house. "The Monro' (the Roman altar) is covered with a thick layer of tar from the fires that are lighted upon It annu ally. Close to the 'douro' Is a very an cient Roman well and close to the well several rude but curious Roman sculp tures can be seen let Into u garden wall." BILL OF FARE ON THE DESERT Srange Sources From Which Lo, the Poor Indian Sup"1 plies His Larder. Some oi the Things Eaten, Reptiles and Insects, Are Neither Invit ing nor Palatable. About some of the Indian villages of the west are to be seen smull patches of maize or a few tiny melon patches, but these cultivated areas are of little account as compared with the number of persons to be fed. These, too, are exceptions rather than the rule, a majority of the towns having no such cultivated fields. In the various parts of the arid re gion which shelters so great a portion of (Mir barbarian population Is found a tree remarkable for certain proper ties. The botanical name of this plant is I'rosopis julillora. It Is popularly known as the algaroha. or honey ines quite. This tree thrives with little moisture, grows, with thick, bushy top, to a height of twenty to forty feet, af fords shelter from the wind and sun, and, best of all In the sight of the hun gry natives, it yields abundant crops of fruit known as mcsqulte beans. The slim green pods hang In clusters from the tips of the boughs, often bending the branches nearly to break ing, so abundant do they grow. The pods, which are six or seven Inches long, are pulpy, juicy, fairly palatable and nourishing. These beans are gathered, dried and stored In the peculiar granaries of the Indians huge baskets holding several bushels each and are pulverized when wanted for food In wooden or stone mortars, and the meal thus formed Is soaked in water and eaten without fur ther preparation or It is baked Into a sort of unleavened bread. It Is the principal and favorite food of several tribes. The screw bean is another food prod uct, less plentiful, but even more high ly prized because of its sugary quali ties. This fruit Is often eaten as pluck ed from the tree. It ripens the latter part of June or In July, a little later than the mcsqulte bean. In some of the mountain sections the Primus andersonll, or chamlsh, is found In abundance. The pits of this fruit are pounded In mortars, and the meal Is then eaten. There are many varieties of the cactus fruit which are utilized for food, the fruit of the Opun tla tuna or prickly pear being a notable example. The dead loco weed, the pest of the cattlemen, is a favorite with the In dlans. for the yellow pods of the plant when pulverized serve as spice to ren der some of the otherwise insipid dish es palatable. The roots of the cancer root are roasted over live coals, and when young, succulent and nourishing are prime favorites with the red epicu reans. Jr lowers, -of Ae yucca and agay.0. are boiled, dried and preserved, to be eaten as occasion requires. The young shoots or crowns of these plants ore also roasted and eaten. Seeds of the Arte misia tridentata or wormwood and the Atrlplex lentiformls are pulverized and eaten. Pine nuts form a very Impor tant item of food with many of the tribes In the wooded section "of the country, and acorns furnish other tribes with a large part of their living. There are other herbs which are uti lized by the Indians as food. Indeed, there are few plants which are not capable of being rendered edible In some manner. There are, however, oth er things besides plants which are made to satisfy the pangs of hunger. In the animal kingdom are a number of varieties of creatures, not clussed In the game list of the white man, which minister to the appetites and needs of the red man. There are In the southwest, particu larly In California, bodies of bitter, poisonous waters known as boracle lakes. Owen's lake, twenty miles long, Is of this class. It la a veritable Dead sea, and, like the sea of that name and its counterpart, the Great Salt lake of Utah, its heavy, brackish waters do not support fish or marine life. At certain seasons of the year the waters of these boracle lakes abound In white grubs known to the Indians of that region as "koochahee." These grubs are the larvae of a two winged fly, the Ephydra callfomlca. So plen tiful are these grubs In their season they line the shores of the lake to a depth of several Inches, where the waves cast them up from their watery Incubator. The Indians ut this season of the year camp upon the shores of the lake, gather tills peculiar harvest and dry It In the sun. Later tho grubs are ground In stone mortars Into flne powder, nnd from tills Insect meal they bake n bread which is highly prized. There are a number of other Insects lizards, reptiles and the like which are used as food by different tribes. The chuckawalhi, a lizard somewhat re sembling the Gila monster. Is a com mon article of food with Lower Cali fornia Indians aud with some of the tribes north of tho line. It may not be the most Inviting of foods some of the insect and reptilian foods arc far from palatable but the Indian Is not In clined to quarrel with anything which stops the gnawing beneath his belt, and he evidently believes that "not that which goeth Into the mouth de flleth the man." Los Angeles Times. Mamma' Baby. "Pretty? No, I won't soy baby Is pretty," declared a young mother, "for I can speak of him impartially even though he Is my own, aud that's more than most mothers can do. He has lovely blue eyes, perfect In shape, hair like the morning sunshine, niouth well, no rosebud could he sweeter; com plexion divinely fair, nose just too charming for anything In fact, he's faultless, but I won't say he's pretty." Wiuitcd the Monej. "Your money or your life!" growled the footpad. "Tuke me life," responded the Irish man. "I'm savin me money for mo old age." Cleveland Leader. iL :.'S O' VERTUE." I ' :.: niul ;tur Held IHkIi Kxtate Amu:. IT tit i- Ancients. Of high rank among the ancient and mediaeval "herbes o' vertue" was rue. This plant, "the herb of grace," prob ably gained Its reputation for break ing the spells of witchcraft, because It was so often employed for sprinkling holy water. Spenser includes this herb Iu the Ingredients of a charm by which the aged nurse endeavored to change the current of Riitomurt's thoughts when she fell In love with the Image of Sir Artegal In a magic mir ror. Another favorite amulet was ver vain, the holy herb, which was much used iu ancient religious rites and sub sequently for decorating the altars of churches. Roman heralds always crowned their heads with vervain when they either declared war or made a truce. Rosemary was valued for Its powers of strengthening a weak memory; hence It became the symbol of remem brance. Rosemary was also used as a love charm, the reason being "both Venus, the love goddess, and rose mary, or sen dew, were offspring of the sea, and therefore as love wus beauty's son rosemary was love's near est relative." Anne of Cloves wore sprays of rosemary at her marrluge with Henry VIII., as this tlower was then used by brides instead of orange blossoms, and wedding guests wore It Instead of will to favors. Rosemary was also closely associated with funer als, the mourners each carrying u spray to drop into the grave at the conclu sion of the service. Powdered rosemary applied to the face was supposed to have magical ef fects for restoring faded beauty, and a bath of rosemary taken three times a day was said to restore youth and vig or. Iu the language of flowers rose mary .signifies fidelity In love. Shake speare referred to this when ho made the old nurse ask, "Do not rosemary aud Romeo begin both with a letter?" that Is, with the same letter. Chica go News. LITTLE JACK HORNER. Only uh tp to Date "Grafter" In tbo Hit j h of Klnic Hal. The origin of the poetical jingles known as nursery ballads Is In some few cases well known. Thus "the fine lady with rings on her fingers aud bells on her toes" refers to the pilgrim age .or the queen consort of one of the English kings passing through Ban bury, where a cross was set up to mark her night's resting place, and ending at Charing Cross. The ballad of "Little Jack Horner Is based on the following facts: Iu the time of Henry VI I L, Immediately after his breach with the pope, commission ers were sent throughout the country to seize the church lands. One of the commissioners sent Into the west of Englaud. that portion re- fenv 1 to iu Kingsley's "Westward Ho." was John Horicr. About ten miles fr..;.i Rath and five from Frome, both In the county of Somerset, lies the Hor ner estate, which has remained in the possession of the Horner family ever since the above John Horner, when despoiling the church of Its lands for the benefit of King Hal. managed to iinnr5?. considerable slice for himself and thus originated among the sur rounding country folk the ballad refer ring to Little Jack Horner. He put in his thumb. And he pulled out a plum. the plum being the Horner estate. The matter was referred to some yours back in one of the leading Hrlstol papers.- H. Smith in New York Times Throwing file Handkerchief. Statement copied from an old maun script: "In the Foundling Hospital the Roys are bound apprentices, the Worn en when marriageable are conducted in procession thro' ye streets, and any Voting Man who see one He wd wish for a Wife is at liberty to mark Her by throwing his handkerchief.' The furthet formalities required pre viotis to matrimony are not stated. Perhaps this peculiar custom is the origin of the expression "throwing the handkerchief." Nineteenth Century. STUDYING LAW. The Luwycr'n Oilice .Not "What It Once Wnii For Student. Quest ions regarding the study of law- were sent out recently to many law yers of Illinois by the t'ulversitv of Illinois and elicited 1.000 rep'ies. From these It appears that the days of study ing law iu a lawyer's oilice have pass. ed away. Very few of the olllces have any law students at all. Many of the ablest lawyers expressed the opinion that studv in n law oilice Is an absolute waste of energy. Nearly all the sue cessful law firms declared that they had no time to devote to young men who desired to study law and that such young men were a nuisance In the of lice. 'Hie only young man they could use at all was one who had already passed his examination for the state bar and who was willing to work for nothing for a year or two In order to get the experience which comes from a large office. Out of the 1,000 replies only seven favored preparation for the bar hi a lawyer's office. Another striking result of this hives tlgntion Is found In the answers to the questions as to the proper degree of preliminary education a student should have before entering the law school. A majority of the whole number urged that every one taking up the study of the law should complete a full college course. Of the others a majority were In favor of at least two years In col lege. There was a practical unanim ity that the completion of a four years' high school course was the absolute minimum which was at all acceptable It was the general opinion that, hav ing once entered the law schod, the young man should give his entire time to the work of the school and not at tempt to combine It with work in n lawyer's office or, Indeed, work In any other place unless that was absolutely necessary to pay expenses. One law yer declared that It was a poor school that could not keep a student busy all the time, nnd If a boy found himself In such a school he ought to leave It for one which could keep him busy. Chi catro News. Don't place too much confidence In appearances. A genius sometimes wears good clothes. THE MAGICAL DURrAN. It BrlnKM tne '!."" Oriental 'ru". t, .n, nt the height of the durian season, when all animal kind In Malay, two legged and four legged, Is animat ed bv an Insatiable lust for the fruit It--if nn.i miiefc to 1111 with savage anger against whatever stands in the way of satisfying its appetite, for not uie least remarkable quality cf tins remarKaoie fruit is the amatory effect It has upon those who consume It, says Caspar Whitney in Outing. All durian eating Malays man and beast, are aflame with 4.rtie ttro. The Jungle resounds with the lighting of lovelorn brutes and the towns awaken to courtship. Tho durian Is about the size or a pineapple, with a similarly rough out- side covering armed witn nair men spikes which are tough and sharp. It grows on trees fully sixty feet in height whose trunks are hare of limbs except at the very top, and when, the fruit ripens it drops to the ground. So as the season approaches natives erect small huts under the tree or near by, from which they watch for the falling fruit. Those who are fortunate enough to have such trees growlug on their own land practically live on the income de rived from the sale of the durian, for in the peninsulur market It brings the highest price of any eastern fruit. Iu the Jungle edge, where these trees have no ownership, the race to build the first hut and thus establish proprietary In terest In the falling fruit Is equal lu In tensity to a land rush, and In the jun gle the natives must compete also with the wild beasts that shure man's fond ness for this extraordinary fruit. Once In ihe jungle as I sat smoking. puzzling out some lost seladang tracks, a falling durian attracted my atten tion. The nearby trees seemed alive with monkeys rating to first reach the ground. One monkey that had been left at the post, so to say, deliberately dived from the top of the tree where he snt, fully forty feet. Into the top of u smaller tree below, whence he swung to the ground. But, though he beat out the others, the durian had disappeared. A small leopard-like creature bad sneaked off the fruit, and I was too ab sorbed in watching the aerial flight of the monkey to get more than a glimpse of the thief. The troop of monkeys that in tantly forgathered discussed tho situation loudly and In very ob vious anger. WHERE LUCK WAS LOST. In trying to take short cuts to suc cess. In looking on the dark side of every thing. In overconfidence born of a first easy victory. In not working to n plan or pro gramme. In not being ready for the opportuni ty when it came. In sampling every kind of invest ment scheme that came along. In dreaming of great tilings instead of doing the little ones at hand. In being so disagreeable and selfish that they could not make friends. In waiting for somebody to, .hehju them or give tliem a boost or for some rich uncle to die. In refusing to take the positions they could get because they did not know whether they would like the work or not. Success. The OutlooU 1'or HUtorr. History must be human, making its final appeal not as a monument of eru dition, but as a masterpiece of art, in which the collective deeds and pas sions of men shall be not merely pic tured with photographic accuracy, but vitalized ami interpreted. Let us not suppose that this Is a new aim. The great historians have always held it. The idea that Thticydides and Tacitus neglected to consult all the material available in their time Is ludicrous. Gibbon knew his "sources" as pro foundly :.s the Impeccably correct Gar diner. Monimsen, we may be sure, had not. like Stubbs, u body of evidence which he dared not explore. The mus ter historians in the future, by what ever method they may work, will prove themselves to be akin to these in in sight, in power aud In art. W. R. Thayer in Atlantic. A Proper Distinction. Here is a story of John Fiske which illustrates his frankness: It seems that one day his wife had to report to him that their sou had been guilty of calling Mrs. Jones, a neighbor, a fool and Mr. Jones a much worse fool. Professor Fiske sent for the young ster and when he appeared in the li brary said to him sternly. "My son. Is It true that you said Mrs. Jones was a fool?" Hanging his head, the boy replied. "Yes. father, I did." "And did you call Mr. Jones a worse fool?" "Yes. father." After a moment's reflection the fa mous historian said slowly. "Well, my son. that is Just about the distinction I should make." Boston Record. lto.il Them Either Vr. In his "Recollections of a Virginian" General Dabney II. Maury tells of an old lady In Fredericksburg who was reduced to taking In boarders In order to make both ends meet. On one occa sion of peculiar stress the larder was so empty that the good lady took to her bed and summoned her servant. "Nan cy," she said, "there's uothlug In the house for my boarders to eat except mush. But give them that. If then- arc Christians they will accept In resigna tion and thankfulness. And If tliev are not Christians it is a deal too good for them." A Bearded Freak. Ono of the earliest of the American bearded freaks was Louis JasDer. who lived In southern Virginia at about the time of the closo of the Revolutionary war. His beard was nine and a half feet long and correspondingly thick ana neavy. ue could tako his mus tache between his Augers and extend his arms to their full length, and still tho ends of the mustache wero over a foot beyond his finger tips. A fool Is generally a person who detects your faults while you are In the act of culling attention to his own.