BAJTDON RECORDER.
WITH THE IMMORTALS.
Creator That Sorm Xcver to Die
Krum Old Akv.
Wandering unconcernedly in the field
of view of any high power microscope
there may be seen an animal which
has probably been living eonllnuouslv
ever since life first appeared on the
earth and which has certainly never
lost an ancestor by death. The creature
Is transparent and resembles a drop of
slightly more viscid fluid in the thin
film of water in which it is coulined.
Amoeba is the name by which it ts
known to science. Splash a drop of
Ink on paper, and you will have an
Idea of Its form at any one moment,
but It's fori is never the same. Even
as you watch it its shape, which had a
resemblance to Ireland as It appears
on the map. changes. The headlands
at the southwest corner are becoming
more and more prominent till now they
are like the fingers of an outstretched
hand of which the palm is rapidly
shrinking. The whole creature is flow
ing rather than creeping toward a
small chain of bacteria, which present
ly it devours. There Is no mouth
through which they pass. They are
simply engulfed as small drops of wa
ter may be merged Into a larger. In
nn hour or two they will have been
digested burned off as fuel to supply
the activities of their destroyer.
Occasionally amid St ceaseless
changes of form amoeba may be seen
to be developing a "waist." which
grows smaller and narrower until It
snaps, and Instead of one large animal
we have two small ones, which, wlth
Ot even a momentary pause, continue
the search for food till, in a few hours,
each Is full sized and ready to divide
But what has become of the original
amoeba? In the absence of anything
which could be called his corpse we
cannot declare him dead. It must be
said that he is still living as the two
new amoebae. Now. this splitting into
two being the only mode of reproduc
tion of the race. It follows that all the
previous parent amoebae from which
our present two are descended are still
living. Of course thousands of the
animalculae are destroyed every day
by natural foes, but it must be re
membered that these uufortunates
cannot by the nature of things leave
any children and so will never be an
cestors, and that so long as any one
amoeba Is living none of his direct an
cestry Is dead.
The conclusion ha forced itself up
on biologists that death is n part of
the life scheme of these huiii'de crea
tures. They are not like u-m:u-hlnes.
preordained to run down in a m ire or
less certain period of years -but the;,
live on Indefinitely till some chance ae
j POLLY f
1 believe L said in a recent article
that I diil not believe in the whipping
post except for wife-beaters. I changer
my mind last week when a great burly
man not only beat his horse until he
raised great welts on the quivering
back, but kicked him again and again
while the vilest language poured forth
from his foul mouth. The horse was
nothing but skin and bone and he war-
trying to pull a wagon loaded to its
fullest capacity up one of the steepest
cobble-stone paved hills in San Fran
ctsco. The cobble-stones had been
worn by the every-day travel unti
they were as smooth sis glass. Ovec
these the faithful animal pulled am
tugged under the rapidly falling lash,
with its stinging reminder of ingrati
tude for past service well done, only to
slip and fall until he was cut and bleed
ing. A crowd gathered. Some urgei
the horse on, others threatened the
driver if he didn't desist, while others
merely remonstrated with him for his
cruelty, but were repaid with a volley
of curses. Men finally put their shoul
ders to the wheels, the lash was aj-
plied again and the wagon was landed
on the summit of the hill. Wet with
froth and the blood oozing from the
various cuts, the horse stood for a min
ute, panting and blowing, then he
sank down in the traces, gave one con
vulsive shudder and was dead. Free
from his inhuman master and free
from the blows and the starvation he
had received. Xot a person who wit
nessed the cruel act but was glad the
hor.-e was- dead and sincerely hoped
the owner ivould never have money
enough to get another horse to abuse.
Thi-j was another case for the whipping
pot, and for every blow laid on that
helpless horse, he should have received
one just as iiard. Une application
would have cured this monster of any
desire to wreak his ungovernable tem
per upon a helpless animal. Too bad
there is not a law prohibiting any man
of his stamp ever owning a horse, dog,
cow, or any other animal, for that
matter.
You ask why he was not arrested,
and the answer is simple. In the lan
guage of the smaH boy, there was no
.op." or policeman around. There
seldom is unless there is some poor.
tottering individual who ha been
guilty of imbibing too much of the
cldent cuts short their career. Youth, cup that cheers, or some child that has
or, rather. Immaturity, they experience purloined a irille, then you will see
from time to time, but old age never:- tjVe or six of the dignitaries in blue
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Turner, the natural:, declares that :l!l1 :l revolver in their pockets for im-
he once saw upon the coast of Brazil mediate use in case the culprit starts to
a race of gigantic savages whose av
erage height was over ten feet, some
Individuals exceeding twelve and a half
feet. M. Thevet of France In his de
scription of America, which was pub
usned in Paris in lo7o. says that ho
was once present when the skeleton of
run before he can be bundled into the
patrol wagon.
Commenting on the non-appearance
of a policeman in the above instance a
man remarked that they were never
a South American savage eleven feet m 'videiiee until after the danger was
and two Inches In height was disin
terred. The Chinese have a teeord of
several giants between twelve and six
teen feet in height which have lhed in
the Flowery Kingdom within the last
300 years. Joscphus mentions a Jew
who was ten feet two Inches, and
Pliny was well acquainted with Ga-
bath, the Arabian giant, who was nine
feet nine inches in height. Coming
down to modern times, we find that
John Middleton, who lived in the time
of James I., was nine feet three inches
and had a hand seventeen inches long
by eight and a half broad. Murphy.
one. of the celebrated trio of Irish
giants (Charles Byrne and O'Brien be
ing the other twot, was eight feet ten
inches and O'Brien two inches taller.
CurioHlty Smlj.fi oil.
A woman cycled up to a bub-hcr's
shop and went In with a smiling face.
"I want you to cut me off twenty-five
pounds of beef, please." she said. The
butcher was incredulous. "Twcuty-the
pounds?" "Yes. please." It was, a big
Job, and when he had finished he asked
her whether she would take it or have I g-t hurt
over. nen tliey were really wanted
they were conspicuous for their al-
sence. lie said, ".My wile and 1 re
turned from the theater the other
night to find that burglars had pur
loined everything they could from the
lower part of the house and were then
hi the upper story helping themselves
to everything they happened to de
sire, lhey had the electric lights
turned on full and were going about it
as composedly and systematically as
you could imagine. .Not only were all
the bureau drawers emptied of their
contents into the middle of the floor,
but the mattresses and pillows had
been torn open and the carpet torn up
from the floor. Our rooms looked like
a cvcione nad strucK tiiem. hen
my wife threw open her bedroom door
she was looking in the face of a black
masked thief and a pistol was pointed
directly at her. 'Don't make any fuss!'
commanded the burglar, 'or I'll have
to kill you. Keep quiet and you won't
I am almost through.' And
presented to the School Board to stop
the practice of cutting up cats and
dogs for the instruction of the pupils
in the public, schools of that city. Alas
for the pet of the househeld that wan
dered away from home, for it frequent
ly proved to le one of the cats that
never came back. Alas! for the stray
and homeless cats atul dogs that fell
into the hands ofj the vivi-section
fiends, as well as the little brown-eyed
bunnies, frogs, etc. The School .Board
heeded the petition of many indignant
pare ts who desired to have their chil
dren educated in other lines than the
wholesale butchery of animals and de
cided that the vivi-section of house
hold pets was not lit instruction for
mixed classes of boys and girls, and
have ordered that this form oTtuitlou
shall be no more. During two months
of the past term the boys and girls in
the Los Angeles High School were al
most daily treated to scenes of cutting
hearts and intestines out of dogs and
cats chloroformed to death solely for
what the school "sawbones" said was
scientific instruction. At one of these
cutting events a big Newfoundland dog
was put to death with ether, and then
disemboweled and cut to pieces while
the scholars looked on and took notes
Several girls in the class fainted at the
horrible sight, and the idiot who per
formed the work lost all patience and
said they would simply have to get
over that and become accustomed to
seeing animals put to death, and then
wa'ch while they were cut to pieces,
while the warm blood flowed and the
intestines were pulled out of the ani
mal's carcass. One of the teachers
was brought up with a round turn and
reprimanded for iiis startling dissec
tion of cats and sheep for the alleged
instruction of his pupils, ile had sim
ply made a mistake in his calling, na
ture having designed him for a whole
sale butcher.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Woman Dispatcher Dead.
Miss Rebecca Bracken, for forty
years chief train dispatcher for the
Michigan Central railroad company at
Niles, Mich., died there, aged sixty
vears. .Miss imicKen, who is said to
lave been the pioneer woman tele
grapher, was retired by the company
on a pension last August, and the re
cords in the otlice of the superintend
cut of telegrapli show that she had no
mark against her in all the years o
service, a record which was unprece
dented. Miss Bracken was known far
md near as the railroad men's "guard
an angel," and just after she was re
tired a delegation of railway uflicials
md conductors gave her a diamont
ring as a token of the high esteem in
which she w:is held.
1 lie itev. l)r. Lyman A own l .-ays
that there are four great vices of Amer
icans, as follows: "There is material-
m the insane pushing to get a little
more for ourselves of the wealth tha
Jod has given our country so abitnd
antly. There is self-conceit our pride
in the fact that we have the greatest
country, the greatest rivers, the great
est mountains, the greatest men, the
greatest wealth and the greatest tnist.-
and corporations to control them all.
There is lawlessness the theory that
liberty consists in every man having
the right to follow his own sweet will,
that government rests on the consent
of the governed, which is even seen in
some theories of education that say the
child should never be compelled, but
only induced to learn. There is the
spirit of caste. "
TM. POWER TO l-LLAE.
A P.l-itl l-'.irior Kor Sm-ci s.i In Anr
farcer You Mil)- Adopt.
The power to please is a tremendous
asset. What can be more valuable
than a personality which always at
tracts, never repels? It Is not only
valuable In business, but also in every
field of life. It makes statesmen and
politicians; It brings clients to the law
yer and patients to the physician; it is
worth everything to the clergyman. No
matter what career you enter, you can
not overestimate the Importance of cul
tivating that charm of manner, those
personal qualities, which attract people
to you. They will take the place of
capital or Influence; they are often a
substitute for a large amount of hard
work.
Some men attract business, custom
ers, clients, patients, as naturally as
magnets attract particles of steel. Ev
erything seems to point their way, for
the same reason that the steel particles
point toward the magnet because they
are attracted.
Sueli men are business magnets.
Business moves toward them even
when they do not apparently make half
so much effort to get it as the less suc
cessful. Their friends call them "lucky
dogs." But If we analyze these men
closely we find that they have attrac
tive qualities, mere is usually some
charm of personality about them that
wins all hearts.- Success.
EARLY DIAMOND BUYING.
South Africa's Vlrnt Kind Were Paid
I-'or In CidiN.
South Africa's first diamonds were
paid for in cows. The story is told by
Joseph B. Bobinson, one of the wealthy
pioneers of that country. In 1S79 he
gave eight oxen and u wagon loaded
DREADFUL DREAMS.
I HE DOG DAYS.
fn
They Shock the Xervoim Sjulem and
Mav Even Cnune Death.
People have actual! been killed by
dreams. Most persons have suffered
from those terrible nightmare visions
In which the victim Is pursued by an
assassin with upraised knife or Is
with sugar and tobacco to a native In trembling on the edge of a fearful ,t is supposed to be unsafe io go in
exchange, for a twenty-three carat precipice or is in some other Imminent inhuming. And it is then that, ac
gem. "The news spread like wildfire ., .,11i1t ,i torrtlile death. Nirding to the tradition of nmnv ndnlt
the Course of Time Slriu .May
Itl.se In .Midwinter.
Dog days begin, according to the tra
litioils of boyhood in certain parts of
the United States, when the green
scum, algae, begins to appear on the
surface of the lakes and rivers. Then
THE MAGICIAN'S THUMB.
It Ik IUn Worst Kncmy In Sleight of
Hand Trick.
In everj- sort of magic the magician's
thumb Is his worst enemy, says Nina
Carter Marbourg In Leslie's Weekly.
If he could strike off that thumb and
still have its assistance when neces
sary ho would be a happy man. In
closing the hand the thumb usually
bends toward the palm in advance of
through the countryside that a white
man was giving away wagons and
oxen for hits of stone," he says. "I
set all the natives who came to work
to seek for diamonds on one side of the
Vaal river, and 1 brought up my own
fifty men to hunt for diamonds among
the bushes and scrub on the other side
of the stream. I had bought the land
on bolh sides of the river, so that I
was working on my own property.
Next morning at sunrise, when I was
having my coffee, I was startled by
a loud hullahaloolug, and, looking
out. I saw the whole gang of my men
rushing toward me in a state of wild
excitement.
"One of them had found a diamond
of good size. They all had come to
see what I would do with it. 'What
will you give me for It?' said the
finder. 'I will give you ten cows,' I
replied and sent the man into the herd
to take his pick. He marked ten of
the best cows as his own. The men
had never dreamed of making such a
bargain. Ten cows for a bit of stone!
off they went again and found dia
monds every day. They became rich,
and I accumulated a good' store of
precious stones.
"After we had accumulated a large
quantity we decided we would better
send them to London. We made a belt
full of small pockets, in each of which
we placed a diamond. When the belt
was tilled my partner girded It about
his body and started for Cape Town.
He never took off the belt until he
reached London. And It was In this
the fingers. In this way It many times
Is much In the way. and practice is wav the first consignment of African
necessary to get a magician's thumb In fliamonds reached Loudon."
perfect training. But when he has
It sent home. "Oh, I don't want to buy
It," she explained. "You see. my doc
tor tells me I have lost twentv five
pounds of flesh through cycling, and I
wanted to see what it looked like in a
luuiD. Thank vou so much."
Old Thunder ntIoit.
The "Prognostication Everlasting of
one " Leonard Digges." published hi
155G, tells us that thunder in the morn
Ing denotes wind, at noon rain and in
the evening a great tempest. He goes
further still and declares that "Sun
nays tnumler should' bring the death
with that he commenced gathering up
the things and putting them in a sack.
He had a confederate watching at the
rear of the house, and r- sentry lie
gave a peculiar whistle audi t pping to
the window lie dropped thosaek out,
then lie scurried after it himself. The
next minute we were both screaming,
Thief! Help! Murder!' and blow
ing a police whistle out of the window,
uid I grabbed my pistol out of a
drawer they had overlooked ami tired
twice into the air. A big crowd gath
ered in front of our house in a few mo
or learned men, Judges and other-.
Monday's the death of women. Tues- meiit.-, but there was nary a policeman
days plenty of grain. Wednesday's showed un for over fifteen minutes.
bloodshed, Thursday's plenty of sheen hmd then three or four came ioiririmr
nml T.-l.l..... . .. . . "
.v, ' i iue siauauter of a hilon- together. There wils danger in
Tom .Lawson admits he has a few
million which belong to the people
and which he will give back some day
We think it will be when he makes
what he can call an honest fortune by
squeezing- a few millions out of the
Standard Oil Co., when he has it on
the hip. He is simply a gambler in
stocks, and this is not honest, simply
because it is giving something for no
equivalent and playing the game with
loaded dice.
Chips writes this to aid the boys and
girls far out in the country who may
think they have no chance to become
great people. Chips wants to show the
children that they have better chances
to rise than do children in cities. How
do you a-k V Be sensible, grow in wis
dom each day, read looks filled with
knowledge, aim upward, keep well
and strong, shun evil company, take
Lincoln and Longfellow for models.
great man and other horrible murders,
Saturday's a great pestilent plaguJ
and great dearth."
Mother .Nature hi I. iron.
One of the most wonderful thing -
Mother Nature does is to teach he
children how to accomplish th.ngs with
means and appliances that seem en
tlrely inadequate for the nurnose. A
bird will build an intricate and beauti
ful nest with no better tool than her
beak (birds do not use their claws for 1,:ul to nm llle gauntlet of disgusted
this purpose), a caterpillar can shape a men, women ami children, and then,
symmetrical cocoon and bees the sharp although the burglars had been gone
angled cells of their combs. These are some fifteen or twenty minutes, every
familiar instances of this, but by no one of them had to march pompously
means as wonderful as those shown In hntn ii..nc.
the air and they had evidently waited
for reinforcements. When they did
hail in sight the little street gamins
jeered and laughed. 'Don't hurry,
Cop, take your time, for they have
gone to Oakland.' 'You'll catch 'em
in tiie good old summer-time, Cop,'
called another. 'Don't get excited;
you might get heart disease,' cried an
other little urchin. The noliconieii
Although only 117,()U() workers are
employed in the shoe industry in the
United .States as against :!!)0,()00 in trie
Cnited Kingdom, the Cuited States
makes more shoes than any other
country in the world.
If you are the riyht kind of a boy lie
thankful that you are poor and have to
rustle and make your own way. This
leads to success and useful happy mid
dle age.
practiced hi the school of magic for
some time the thumb becomes so flexi
ble that It will bend nearly to the back
of the hand.
Cards are Invariably the beginning
of a magician's education. In handling
cards the thumb is especially in the
way. and this Is the reason why this
trickery with the pasteboards Is se
lected for the beginner. To change one
card for another in front of one's very
eyes and still to have made no percep
tible movement of the hand, Is a trick
that beginners learn to perform before
they have been in the school for any
gre-.'t length of time. This, as may be
imagined, is o difficult piece of work to
bee .une proficient In. and here Is Just
the place where determination plays a
great part In success.
APACHE SHREWDNESS.
'hese dreams are common enough, and
nearly always the sufferer awakes,
thankful and happy at his escape. But
sometimes he doesn't awake. Some
times the knife falls or the sleeper in
his hallucinations plunges down the
precipice. These are the dreams that
kill, says the Chicago Tribune.
In cases where dreams kill there is a
sort of combined action between the
dream and the disease through which
death Is accomplished. In the first
place the dream Is usually the product
of the disease. A person may hae
heari disease which never asserts it
self or allows the victim In any way to
know of Its presence until the fact is
disclosed in a frightful dream. More
over, terrifying dreams are often the
first evidence of heart disease. Then
the frequent recurrence of these
dreams, dealing repeated shocks to the
nervous system, aggravates the disease
until the heart Is so weak that one
more shock Is sufficient to cause death.
If a person has had dreams It does
not necessarily follow, however, that
he has heart disease. Dreams Indicat
ing heart disease are usually of a terri
fying nature and relate to death. On
awakening the sufferer will notice n
violent heart pulpitation. Chronic perl
carditis is always preceded by horrible
dreams, such as that of being thrown
Into a lake of fire or being crushed hi
a railroad wreck or burned by a vol
canlc eruption.
The approach of Insanity may also
be revealed by unpleasant dreams, or
insanity may be hastened by such
dreams. There are many cases on rec
ord where n person has been driven In
sane by a dream.
BISMARCK CONSENTED.
tie Witu the Final Arhlter of an Kiikt
ll.ih I.ove .Match.
Wh.'ti the third son of the Duke of
Arg.. ie bestowed his affections upon
an untit led woman he felt bound to
ask the old gentleman's consent. The
duke answered that personally he had
no objections to the match, but In view
of the fact that his eldest son ha l e
pou e I a daugh'er of the queen he
thought it right to inquire her majes
ty's pleasure on the subject before ex
pressing his formal approval.
Her majesty, thus appealed to, ob
served that since the death of the
prince cons irt she had bevn In the
habit of consulting the Duke of Saxe
("ubiirg on all family affairs.
The matter was therefore referred to
Duke Ernest, who replied that since
the unification of Germany he had
made it a rule to ask the emperor's
opinion on all Important questions.
The e;ise now can.e be.o.e the kaiser,
who decided that, as a constitutional
sovereign. h was bound to ascertain
:he views of his prime minister.
Happily for the now anxious pair of
lovers the "Iron Chancellor." who was
then !n ofiVc. ha 1 no wish to consult
anybody and decided that the marriage
might take place, and it did.
The Indian' Unit IVa Good, hut the
White Man Illdn't "Bite."
With the Apaches a really brave
man does not stand as high In public
estimation as does a clever thief. His
chief excellence, from an Apache stand
point, lies In his ability to outwit the
white man. says Mr. Cremony. the au
thor of "Life Among the Apaches."
I was sitting, says Mr. Cremony, In
front of my tent, writing a letter, when
a young Apache came up and asked
what I was doing. I replied I was talk
ing to my friend In Washington.
"How can you talk to your friend so
far away?"
"When an Apache wishes to talk of
speed to ii distant friend." I answered,
"he s-'iids him a picture of a bird; If he
talks of something sweet he sends a
picture of a flower. Instead of pictures
ill whit' man ha- these little signs
which all understand."
The Indian took up the letter and
scrutinized it carefully.
"I do not believe you." he said. "You
try to make a fool of me. These little
signs are all alike."
"I will give you proof. I will write on
tins little piece of paper that the sutler
is to give you some tobacco. Go take It
to the store and see If I do not speak
the truth."
The Indian snatched the paper and
wa off. A few minutes later I saw
him slowly coming toward me, a piece
of tobacco in his hand and a look of be
wilderment on his face. Suddenly h!s
expression changed to satisfaction, and
he hurried forward.
"Did you get the tobacco';" I asked.
"Yes. but I do not believe you. You
and he had an understanding before so
that you might deceive me. Now if you
will write some more of those little
signs on paper telling the sutler to give
me much more tobacco and If he does
then I will believe you."
But the Indian's ruse failed. I did
not "rise" to the occasion.
AN OCEAN GRAVEYARD.
ELECTRIC BAIT FOR FISH.
The XeTT York Aijnarlnnr.H Supidj
and Where It In C'lipturcd.
The New York aquarium, which is
the largest and best equipped institu
tijn of its kind in the world, obtains
it.; supplies of tropical fishes from the
waters of Bermuda. Some of the rar
est and most beautiful species are ex
ccedingly hard to catch, persistently
refusing to take a bait, and on this ac
count it litis been found necessary tc
resort to a very novel and ingeiii. js
expedient to effect their capture, an
elect real contrivance which serves to
stun the coveted specimen and reduce
it to helplessness until it can he made
a prisoner.
T!;o device in question consists In
part of a small and compact storag--battery
which is held in a leather
po,.ch beneath the arm of the opera
tor, who wades as quietly as possible
?1 r.ju ;h the shallows and lnva :cs. with
;;s little disturbance as may be, pools
among the rocks. He carries a long
hai.iHed dip net, to thg-jumdi;-...!' wiiji
a wire is .if fashed. ""I'ffl the m.1 of the
wire is fastened a small percussi n
cap of the kind used for expbdiug
dynamite cartridges. It is the bursting
of th" cap that is relied upon to stun
the fish.
Lr.ckly for the hunter fishes have as
mtu-h curiosity as land animals, and
even t!t" shi-u one will approach a
I ait to look at it. though indisposed to
atten pt th. slightest nibble. Accord
high ".he percussion cap at the end of
the wire is concealed either by some
thing eatable or by a bunch of grass
wrapper around it. Mr. I':s!i w aiders
what it is. ventures near and has in
stant reason to regret his imprudence.
Tin
is well as of boys, dogs most frequent
ly go mud. All nations and -races of
civilization apparently have had a pe
riod during the summer known as dog
days when many maladies were sup
posed to be common. But the madness
of dogs, hjxlrophobin, was never associ
ated with dog days by the ancients.
Dog days are a rather indefinite pe
riod, according to this green scum rule,
but there is a disagreement of authori
ties as to when dog days really do be
gin and end. Accordiug to the diction
ary, "dog days are part of the year
about the time of the heliacal rising of
the dog star, Sirius" that Is, when the
dog star rises in conjunction with the
sun or as nearly in conjunction ns may
be observed. Various dates from July
3 to Aug. 1;1 have been assigned for
the beginning of dog days, and they
are given various durations of from
thirty to fifty days.
It seems to have been from the helia
cal rising of Sirius that the ancients
most commonly reckoned the dog days.
Thus at the present time dog days
would begin July 3 and will end Aug.
11. Sirius Is the brightest star In the
heavens, and It was easy to associate
the mutual heat of the brightest star
and of the sun with the hottest and
most unkindly period of the year. Hip
pocrates (4;"0 B. C.) declared the dog
days to be the most unhealthy part of
the summer.
Dog days are continually dropping
farther back in the calendar. Now
they are twelve days behind the sched
ule to which they held In the period of
the pharaohs. In time Sirius may rise
In the dead of winter. The Egyptians
maintained that the first indication of
the rise of the Nile took place on the
morning of the longest day, when, as
they said, the sun and Sothls (Sirius)
rose together. They attributed the rise
of the river entirely to the great heat
generated by this star in conjunction
with the sun.
Sirius is situated In the mouth of the
constellation Cauls Major (the "great
dog"). The Latin name of dog days
was "dies caniculnris," and from this
comes the term "canicular year,"
which was known among the Egyp
tians and Ethiopians. It was computed
from one heliacal rising of Sirius to
the next and consisted ordinarily of
305 days, every fourth year having 3GG
days. Chicago News.
BALLOON ASCENSIONS.
The
Clone of the Day In the
Time to Make Them.
"Did you ever know why it is that
a balloon ascension at a country fair,
promised for 2 o'clock in the after
noon, never occurs until about GV"
asked an expert parachute Jumper.
"It always happens, and the explana
tion generally Is that the preparations
affusion x'Q"1-1 not !u-rw:dc-in
time. This is rarely the case, for
the balloonist never had any Intention
of going up earlier than just toward
the dose of day. The reason for tills
Is that not only is an ascension at any
other time fraught with a little more
danger on account of the winds which
usually prevail, but also because by
these same winds the balloon and para
chute are apt to be carried too far
away, perhgps so far that injury may
befall them before they can be recov
ered. "The old and experienced balloonist
never makes an ascension except "just
at sundown, because with the going
down of the sun the winds subside
fisherman closes the circuit, the considerably. He can go almost straight
Snhlc
Helping Him Out.
For years Squire Iatham, of whom
many amusing stories are told, was a
resident of Bridgcwater, Mass., and It
was while he was living there that the
incident occurred which Is related be
low. It Illustrates his habitual coolness
and whimsical temper:
He was awakened one night by his
wife, who told him she thought there
were burglars in the house. The squire
put on his dressing gown and went
downstairs. In the back hall ho found
a rough looking man trying to open a
door that led Into the back yard.
The burglar had unlocked the door
and was pulling It with all his might.
"It don't open that way, you Idiot!"
shouted the squire, taking In the man's
predicament Instantly. "It slides
back!"
I.slmid Is n Mont IlaniceronM
I'lnee For Xn vlnnlorx.
Sable island, sometimes and not too
extravagantly termed the graveyard
of the Atlantic, is set among shoal wa
ters that afford the best of feeding
ground tir the particular kinds of fish
that Gloucester men most desire, hali
but, cod, haddock and what not. and
so to its shoal waters do the fishermen
come to trawl or hand line.
Lying a! nit east and west, a flat
quarter moon in shape is Sable island.
Two long bars, extending northwest
erly and northeasterly, make of It a
full, deep crescent. Nowhere Is the
fishing so good or so dangerous as
close In on these bars, and the closer
In and the shoaler the water the better
the fishing. There are a few men alive
in Gloucester who have been In close
enough to see the surf break on the
bare bar. but that was in soft weather
and the bar to windward, and they in
variably got out in a hurry.
Two hundred and odd wrecks of one
kind or another, steam and sail, have
settled in the sands of Sable island.
p.vciis-uon cap is eplo.'ed. an 1 t he
victim Is rendered for the m mient life
less, though receiving no permanent
injury. Promptly, by reversing the
dip net. he is gathered In, and a fen
days later he finds himself swimming
about in a tank.
The fishes from Bermuda are carried
to New York on steamers, of course,
and It is a curious fact that during the
first twenty-four hours of the voyage
they are liable to become quite seasick.
Saturday Evening Bust.
If you workand save, be sensible
enough to keep lazy schemers from eat
ing all that is in your cupboard. You
often see one rustler support several
idlers.
the work of some sea animals that live
In shells. SL Nicholas.
Sweet :irl.
Gerald As it is to be a secret en
gagement It would not be wise for me
to give you a ring at present. Geral-
dine Oh, but I could wear It on the
"wrong hand.
II In Itecrret.
Blobbs Bugglns' wife says he Is a
model husband. Slobbs Yes. and he
used to be such a good fellow too.
Philadelphia Becord.
pompously
view the havoc
wrought, where and how they got in
and escaped, etc. Of course we never
heard anything of the articles that
had been purloined. Weil, we can't
help that poor old horse with our sym
pathies. He is out of his troubles and
I am glad of it. 1 hope that man will
get his just deserts yet," he said, as he
followed in the wake of the indignant
crowd.
'pi... i .. . i .
i in; Migeies people are up in
arms and various petitions have been
Be charitable to persons weakened by
disease or troubles for they are not
themselves. We all judge the unfort
unate to harshly.
Let us again ask parents to get their
loys interested in history and the lives
of great men. It works wonders with
youthful minds.
Ignorance is the black hat of sorrow
that we should all aid in driving from
the world.
Scolding rteform.
It is accepted as a truism among ed
ucators that no child can be made per
manently good by simply scolding. The
overscolded child is made worse by the
irocess, and the overscolded politician Of this there is clear and Indisputable
s nicely to deteriorate, ami ror me rccoru. ui now many goon vessels
same reason, rjven a goon nog win uiai nave neen driven ashore on tne
try to earn a bad name if he has it long bars on dark and stormy nights
thrust too often upon him. Probably or in the whirls of snowstorms and
It would be an exaggerated statement swallowed up in the fine sand before
to say that the essential spirit of re- mortal eye could make note of their
form In this country Is the spirit of disappearing hulls there is no telling,
the scolding parent, but It resembles A Gloucester fisherman needs no tab
it too often. George W. Alger In At- ulated .statement to remind him that
hint In the bones of hundreds of his kind are
bleaching on the sands of Sable island,
ami yet of all the men who sail the
sea they are the only clas that do
not give it wide berth In wlnter.
James B. Connolly in Scribner's.
The V.vst IluIIdlnc Kronnd.
The most healthy ground on which
to build a residence is one composed
of clean gravel free from clay and
effete organic matter and having a
porous substratum. The advantages
of such a soil are free ventilation ami
drainage and a low level of ground
water, all essential qualities for a dry
and salubrious situation. A sail coin
p sed of permeable sandstone and
chalk formation Is also good. Bocky
and stony situations are usually
healthy. Sandy soils may be consider
ed salubrious provided they are clear
and pure and not water bound by an
Impermeable foundation. Clay and al
luvial soils are generally unhealthy.
up. break away his parachute and
come down In the very lot from which
the ascension was made.
"There is really very little danger in
parachute leaping when the man who
does It is experienced. The parachute
must open and bring him down safely,
though he will have a hair raising drop
like a chunk of lead for about 100 feet,
the distance usually covered before the
big bag opens. Then he can guide his
descent readily by raising or lowering
this side or that In order to spill a lit
tle air and thus keep it from drifting.
"A balloon can't be guided, but a
parachute with a man of experience
hanging to It can be controlled as eas
ily as a boat, for the reason that by
tilting It on one side you can force It
in the other direction and thus ma
neuver so that if it Is desired you can
deposit yourself on the very spot of
the ascension. It is ollly the inexpe
rienced men who drift or those who
fear they may incline the bag too far
for safety." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Prepared.
A Kansas City druggist says a
wealthy west side man came Into his
store Sunday morning and. throwing a
dime on the show case, said:
"Give me two nickels for that.
please."
"Going to try a slot machine?" nsked
the druggist pleasantly.
"No," replied the wealthy man. "I'm
going to church." Kansas City Times.
IUm Own .Self.
There Is a time In every man's edu
cation i"hen he arrives at the convic
tion that envy Is Ignorance; that Imi
tation is suicide; that he must take
himself for better, for worse, as his
portion; that, though the wide uni
verse Is full of good, no kernel of
nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toll bestowed on that plot
of ground which Is given to him to till.
Emerson.
When a man wrongs you and has no
excuse for it he sets about to wrong you
some more.
Ilalr IlalnliiK'.
Husband I feel in the mood for
reading something sensational and
startling something that will fairly
make my hair stand on end. Wife
Well, here Is my last dressmaker's bill.
Wnchlnfjtnii Ufa
Patience Is bitter, but Its fruit is
sweet. Rousseau.
An Odd IMimder.
When the British admiralty built the
spietKiui naval barracks at Chatham
Cxplaln cd.
An old Scotch lady who had no relish
for modern church tnus'Ie was express
ing her dislike of the singing of an an
them In her own church one day. when
u iiei.miDur miiu. ".. iui .';
old anthem! David sang that anthem
Some men work just enough to keep
dirty.
Every otic wants always to be able
to v. ;k, but not always to have to.
If you don't like certain persons, how
j'oii hate to hear their money rattle!
Here is one sign that you are talking
too much when your listener tries to
pull away from you.
After a man. passes fifty It Is impos
sible for him to get up any enthusiasm
about anything but his troubles.
Ever notice how the big files avoid
tly paper? It Is the same with the real
ly big men. They are seldom caught.
You can follow directions in making
a cake or cutting out a shirt, but there
are no directions that can be followed
successfully In managing a man. Some
how he Is not like a cake or a shirt
Atchison Globe.
Behavior.
You cannot rightly train one to an
to Saul." To this the old lady replied:
I i i . - . . . .
Weel. weel! I noo for the first time 'r aim maimer except by making him
they fitted up one of the largest rooms understan' why Saul threw his Javelin the kind of man of whom that air Is
" blie tor court martlals and nt i).lvid when the lad saug for him.
uau tourc .Martial" Inscribed on a
-t, ,lt: uu Ule tlQor vwieu It EncmiriiKlnjr Her.
3 uuouL io tie used for the first Stationer-What do vou do with all
ume tne discovery was made that the u,e lead pencils vou buv, Mr. Smith?
ivbiu.muiifj require all naval court
mnrtinlM to be held nn the water
Soelnl Axiom.
"I think I will invite the Bronsous.
T know they would be glad to come."
"But, my dear, people who would be
glad to come are the .very oues you
Miouid not Invite." Puck.
You average about three a day. Mr.
Smith-Oh, that's all right. My wife Is
taking whittling lessons. Coinmbus
Disnatch
the natural expression. Nature for
ever puts a premium on reality. What
Is done for effect Is seen to be done
for effect; what Is done for love Is felt
to be done for love. A man Inspires
affection and honor because he was
not lying In wait for these. The things
of a man for which we visit him were
done In the dark and the cold. From
Emerson's Essay on "Behavior."
Sharp tongues, like sharp knives, are Tne man WUQ tr,es tQ hIde Wg
hpt to do a grcatxdeal of damage in glou w, S0Qn uave n(me
this world. Austin Statesman. couI(1 lio,j