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o e a BANIKIN' RECORDER. FACTS IN FEW LINES 9 happy life, I make it my duty try to throw just is, much happiness aa I ca« into their forlorn little lives, ter $(ou see I know what it MmyseY.’* Poor mother! Never to hfcve had One-third of the area of the United (be joy of r<*tiiq| her babies to sleep, States Is still public land. while *iey listened to Mother Goose’s The summer days are wanting into The Cunard Steamship company Is Rhymes, and the marvelous stories of fitting Its entire fleet with the subrna- tlie fall of the year, when nature “ LittlA «liver Hair aud the Three changes her garb, decorating herself Hue signal bells. Little Bears,’’ “Red Riding Hood,’* Official figures show that only twenty with autumnal fruits and the warm, persons In «treat Britain have Incomes ruddy, gold and brown leaves. It is aud so on down the line, each one call exceeding $250,000 a year. the time when the golden rod lights ing for just one more story until they “A full mall," as carried by a big At up the highways and by-ways, wooing had reached the wonderful Shut-eye lantic liner, averages 200AW‘ letters people who have put off their summer town, and the sand man had got the and 3oo sacks of newspapers. vacation until the mad rush was over eyes of the sleepy little baby that suc In some of the cantons of Switzer cumbs and gives up the struggle to land all the «lead, rich as well as poor, and the early summer visitors had re keep awake when the voice fell into turned home. They are wise, for now are buritsl at the public expense. thesoft cadences of ‘‘Hush-a-by-t>ai»y.” Only (JO per cent of the Busslau peas is one of the in«Mt delightful times of Lower and lower the words come iu the year to go to the country. Every ants who till the soil In the department train that goes out on the California their jingling ryhme until the fringed of Moscow are able to keep horses. curtains fell, shutting out the light un The Japanese nightingale, or Peking Northwestern Railway is crowded robin. Is becoming naturalized iu the with travelers liound for all points til the dawning of a new day. All parks of London, where some were re along the line from Willits and Hher- this, and more, this mother, overbur leased recently. wood Valley, and the branch lines dened with scruples, bad missed in her The authorities of Nordhadsen, Sax leading oft’ into the beautiful Guerne journey through life. She had cast ony, have forbidden the use of the ville valley, with its wealth of attrac away the sweet-sceuted flowers to streets to any person wearing an arti tions, Camp Vacation, looking like a grasp the thorns of life. She bad put cle of dress that sweeps the pavement. little tented city, and the spirit of up a barrier between herself and her One of the attractions at the Palace children, and they could never go to theater, London, Is a “dance" In which “hail fellow well met’’ prevailing ; the her with their troubles or confide in carol of the wild birds and the whirr eight girls take part, lying flat on their her. There was not the companion bucks ami going through the motions of the quail, and the answering call of its mate as they seek their retreat from ship of mother and daughters that of a dance with their feet. File men have left England for the curious and admiring eyes of those would enhance the pleasures of life by South Africa to demonstrate whether who have invaded their native heath. their mutual interest, or help smooth white men can do the work of Chinese Here they can go for a rest cure. The over the rough places aud temper the In the mines. Their Journey Is the out same condition of affairs exists on the dark days until there was a rift in the come of a controversy between two lines branching of!' at Iguacia. The clouds to let in the hope and bright members of parliament. cars are crowded with sight-seers and ness that were bidden from their view. At a recent meeting of Orient lodge, Knights of Honor, at Holyoke the late summer visitors, wending their BRIEF REVIEW. name of a woman was proposed for way to the historic town of old So membership amid wild cheers from the noma, Glenn Ellen and Napa. There members present This Is thought to is no lack of beautiful and attractive A Story of Stonewall Jackaoa. be the first case of Its kind In the his places all along the line, and if any one It happened that the writer aud an tory of the order. thinks the good old summer days are other cadet occupied the same room It Is said that the Importation of dia over and that the country is deserted with Major Jackson and another officer monds Into this country has Increased since the exodus of the summer.visitors of the Institute. As we were retiring 50 per cent during the last ten years. began—the limit of their vacation hav the major said to the officer mentioned, The customs official who InsitecU all ing been reached—they have only to “Captain, what do you do with your the stones taken through the port of watch and purse when spending the New York says that the Increase is take a trip into the country to be con night In a hotel?" vinced of their mistake. It is really bound to continue. "Well,” said the captain, “I have no Mr. Wilson, the junior surgeon on the one of the most delightful times of the fixed rule, but ordinarily I put my Discovery «luring Captain Scott's ant year to go to the country, and from waistcoat In which I carry them under arctic expedition, states that the taste now on through the glorious California my pillow.” "I can tell you a much better way for alcoholic drinks dropped suddenly fall and until the rains drive them when he and his colleagues entered the home—the country will be tilled with than that,” said the major. "I always Ice region and that the disinclination the late visitors who have bided their place my watch In one sock and my purse In the other and lay them on the increased as time went on. time to take their vacation. floor as If they bad been thrown there A Savoyard shepherd named Vachat carelessly. No one would think of look entered a barn near Vaucluse ami In all plant life, I mean the com- ing into a pair of soiled socks for valu found a cow In the act of chewing up bls savings, which, consisting of $350 mon, every-day plants that grow with ables.” We were up betimes next morning In bank notes, had been hidden in a so little trouble, there is none that re corner of the barn. Only two notes pays one so well as a bed of nasturtl- before daybreak, if I recollect aright, ons or of sweet peas. There is no and, having breakfasted, started for for $15 remained uneaten. Thirty years ago hawkweed first ap doubt of flowers from the time your the wharf to take the boat. We had peared In Strong, Me. It had a bright nasturtions commence to bloom, and marched possibly a couple of squares pretty flower and was much cherished unless a heavy frost plays havoc with when we were surprised to bear tho for that reason. It has a downy seed, the plants, they will keep on blossom major's voice giving, with his peculiar which Is scattered by the wind, aud ing, well repayingyou for your trouble. Intonation, the command: "Detach ment. halt. Place rest.” Turning to now the flowering plant of thirty years How they do brighten up your room, see what was the matter, we perceived ago is a noxious weed for forty miles too, with their beautiful velvety flow the major trotting briskly toward the around There are about 25,000 persons em- ers and bright green leaves. They can hotel. He soon returm*d and marched ployed In the watch factories of Swit be used in the corner of the room with us to the boat. Suspecting the cause of the stoppage, zerland, not Including several thou their long tendrils and buds and blos sand engaged In the "house industry.” soms very effectively, or massed to I approached him as soon as the boat There are 027 factories, 218 of which gether in a great cluster in some pretty had Btarted and said: “Major, I was much struck with manufacture complete watches, 209 jardineil or low vase. You don’t need ciises and the rest dials, crystals, any other floral decoration when you your method of concealing your watch and puree last night, and I think I hands, springs, jewels, etc. have an abundance of Iteautiful nastur shall adopt it hereafter.” While Maine Is said to be the easiest tions. A broad smile crept over his face as state In New England In which to ob he replied: tain a divorce, things are different I heard a young girl remark the “Well, Mr. ---- , if you do follow the across the line In New Brunswick. The ties which bound two couples were sev other day with tremulous voice and plan don't put on clean socks the next ered at the last term of court at Fred her eyes full of tears, “My mother morning and forget the soiled ones, as ericton after the cases had been under never kissed me in her life. All I have done today.” — Thomas M through the days of my childhood I Senimes In Century. judicial consideration for six years. Three brothers were wedded to three longed for affection, and was envious The Eccentric Depositor. sisters and a sister of the brothers to of other girls whose parents lavished H. A. Fuller, toastmaster at the an a brother of the three sisters at Dur- kisses and endearing words that nual banquet of the Pennsylvania ren, near Thoune, III., recently. Bride showed how much they loved them. in Wllkesbarre and bridegroom In each case were of My mother, boasted that even in our bankers' convention In last month. Introduced with this story the same age, varying from nineteen years to twenty-eight. They stood In a babyhood she made it a rule never to the hanker who responded to the toast, row at the altar and answered the caress or kiss us, never to sympathize “Our Depositors.” "A depositor In a neighboring trust with us when we met with an acci questions together. The sawmills at Machias, Me., and dent or cried with an aching ear or company Is an eccentric farmer of those up the river at Whltneyvllle have tooth. Hhe believed in ‘sparing the middle age. This farmer, though he is been In operation something like 140 roti and spoiling the child,’ and she wealthy, overdrew his account one day years. Iu that time there have been never failed to use the rod energetic to the tune of $500. "Notification of the overdraft was ■awed, according to «conservative esti ally whenever she thought It necessary. mates, 3,032,000,000 feet of lumber, I am ashamed to say it, but I never at once sent to him. “He replied: and now the same ground from which loved my mother, for I had the great “ ‘You tell me I have overdrawn my this timber has been cut Is worth more per acre as timber land than It ever est fear of her. Bhe believed in hu account $500. Well, I know It. So miliating us to break our stubborn what is the necessity of bothering me was. Chicago enjoys the distinction of be pride, as she termed it. We all idol about it? Why not trust me as I do Ing the only city In the world In which ized our father, for he was the very op- you? Do I go to you when I have over 1,200 tire alarm boxes are to b«* poaite of my mother. He never dared money tn your institution and shout, found in an area covering one square show his affection for us much itefore “You h«va $500 of mine?” Such state mile. This Is the case in the stockyard her, for she considered that he was un ments are superfluous either way.’ Buffalo Enquirer. district, where a bnndnsl watchmen are employed, Tbe boxes are so close doing all her g«xxl work, besides break Cow Poor Ak»4 of Pllvrtms. ing the rules of the household that she together that a watchman is never The cow pony is of distinguished mor<* than a hundred feet from one had laid down, but just let us get alone His ancestral home was with father and we would have just an lineage. while on duty. among the Moors of Barbary, and his The famous throne of Delhi Is to be old-fashioned loving bee, and he would pedigree reads back to the "Godolphln restored, for Lord Curzon has written try to atone in every way and make Arabian." Innocently associated with to the British ambassador at Rome to us forget our loveless life. How over the Spanish Invasion of Mexico his send him the best man who can work joyed we were when mother went on a race was already established on the In bard stones. He hns succeeded In visit and remained away for a few plains of the southwest when the May securing one of th«« greatest Florentine days, and what a wet blanket was flower landed. In the centuries that artists, and the work begun by Ital ians three ceuturles ago will now be thrown over us when her letter would followed he conformed bls nature to contlnueil In accordance with the de arrive saying that she was coming the requirements of the plains until home, Every one of us, from father he fitted them as the camel fits the sign originally planned. down, sbxxl in awe of mother. I desert, and became so perfectly The fr<«c7.1ng system Is to be adopte«! adapted to the ~rork of the cattle range In the construction of the new-tube never .»aw her .«hed tears but twice, as to make It doubtful whether the railroad for I'arls at the point where and that was after father died, and needs of the cowboy evolved the cow the track will pass beneath the Orleans she excused her tears then by saying pony or the capacities of the Trunk railroad. For various reasons she was so weak from sitting up at produi-ed the cowboy.—Country pony Life the ordinary shield process will not be nights. Again she broke down when In America Suitable. The earth is to De frozen to she saw him lieing borne from the a temperature of 80 degrees below Diplomatic. zero, so thnt the excavators may be house that hud sheltered them since A British nobleman who was sued able to cut the tunnel without Incur the day she entered it a bride. Not for breach of promise declared to the ring any danger of ««ollapse before the one of us knew how to console mother. jury that It was impossible for him to metal lining has been placed In post We couldn’t go up and put our arms contradict a lady and that therefore tlon. around her and tell her we would love he would not deny that he had made The fnmous Carnavalet museum of and take care of her while we mingled the promise, but he Insisted that the Paris- hns just received a notable ac- our tears with hers, for she w ould have lady had exaggerated the value of bls qulsltion -the keys of the Bastille and retailed in a moment and informed us affections and that that value was a a pair of manacles—which will have a she was abundantly able to take care f»ir question for a jury The lady re mournful Interest for Englishmen. covered 1 per oent or so of her original After the destruction of the fortress of herself. It made such a difference claim, and the mulcted nobleman de in our lives, the stern, set way in prison the keys wore presented as a dared that the cross examination of memento tb Santerre. brewer, soldier which we were brought up, but mother her by his counsel was amply worth and revolutionary leader. In whose thought she was doing her duty and the money. family they have remained to this day. bringing us up strictly in accordance Varsaswaakle. His grent-gran«ldaughter. Mme VII with Bible teachings. She would First 8h«e Store Clerk—Women are lain, has now presented them to tlie quote, ‘Thou shalt hnve no other gods museum, together with the manacles before Me,'and she tried to foliowit so unreasonable. Second WHO— That's right. A woman out to the letter by making us all toe can*« Is yesterday and said she wanted A Chnnirr. Two neighbors worv conversing the the mark and walk in the straight and a shoe nat wn« both comfortable and narrow path she had laid out for us, stylish. - Philadelphia Record. nthfr to other: "By the way, how Is Mrs. Hogg. the and by never showing us any affection. There were 944,703 births and 549.393 Invalid, going on?" I made up my mind that no child I deaths registered in England and “Oh." replied the other, “they do not ever had anything to do with should Wales Is IUD*, and the natural increase call her Mrs. Hogg now." carry the aching void in their hearts of population by excess of births over "Why. what do they call her?" that had l>een my portion through life, death. 395.310, was In excess of the “Oh. they call her Mrs. Bacon now and whenever I meet a child that ap average annual ipcreaae In the prertSd She's enred." pears to Is* leading a loveless and tin- Ing Are yeare-namely, 380.554. THE CORK THEE THE TOWER OF BABEL, A HISTORIC VOLUME •go««*, Strlppiu« >*r«g*rali»n •* ««• tetris. ■iarorr Leave« Me Data ter Which «• Estimate Its Height. Tlx» methods In vogue In baafciu(| aud harvesting Uie cork in Spain and Por tugal are pret||- much the i*me. The barklug operation U affected lhen the tree hag acquired «efficient itMnftb to wltbstaud the rough handling it re- celvea during thia operation, which take« place when It baa attained the fifteenth year of Ita growth. After the first stripping the tree Is left In thia juvenescent state to regenerate, sub sequent strippings being effected st in terval« of not less than three years, and under this process the tree will continue to thrive and bear for upward of 150 years. If the bark la not re moved artificially, it will on maturity split aud dismantle Itself. This Is caused by the fresh growth of bark formiug underneath. The cork of the first barking Is termed corcho bornlo—Itornlzo, or vir gin cork. The cork of the second strip ping Is called pelas, or secondary cork. The work of removing the bark from the tree Is performed in summer by men, wbo are paid at the rats of 2s. Od. a day. The instruments used for the work are an ax, a lever and a bandsaw for the cutting of transversal Incisions. The first process through which the bark passes after stripping Is that of boiling. This Is sometimes done In the woods, but more frequent ly in the cork factory. In large, special ly constructed caldrons. In which the bark is left to boll for upward of an hour. This seething process Increases the thickness and elasticity of the cork and at the same time the tannin and other feculent substances generally ex isting In the bark are desiccated—Lon don Queen _ The exact date of the building of “Nimrod's Folly," as the Chaldeans say Iu alluding to the Scriptural tower of Babel (the Armenians speak of it as the Tower of the «'oufuxlou of Tongues«, or the height to which It penetrattsl the rarefltsl atmosphere of the oriental plains will perhaps never be known. The date of the laying of the founds tlou of the famous structure Is usually set at 2.247 years before Christ, or in the year of the flood, 101. The expression of the sacred blstorlau that its top was to "reach unto heav en" Is now generally set dowu as a strung Hebrew phrase denoting a very lofty tower, but not n«*ceasarily mean ing one that would reach to the abldlug place of the laird aud his hosts. Proof that this Is probable may be found tn several places In holy writ. The walls of the cities of Canaan are described by Moses In similar phraseology. The spies sent out by him returned and re- ported that the cities of that country were great aud were "walled up to heaven.” See Deuteronomy t, 28; lx, 1. There Is a Jewish legend In the Tal mud which tells us that God did not put a stop to the building of the tow er until after It bad reached a height of 10,(MM) fathoms, which Is equal to nearly twelte English miles. Th« sacretl historians have not Iu a single instance left data upon which we can base a calculation of ita exact height and general dimensions, ami It Is tiecause of this omission that the imaginative orientals ami other an cient writers have given stich fabulous and extravagant traditions concerning It; Even St. Jerome alleges from the testimony of eyewitnesses who claim to have seen and examined the ruins of the skyscraping shaft that In bls day (born 845 A. D.) It was over four miles high. While considering these untenable notions It may not be ont of place to mention that other fanciful writers make Its height range all the way from a single furlong to 5.000 miles In height. See Lawson's Bible Cyclopedia, volume 1, page 259. The Bible L«e4 toy the lulled State« Supreme Cegrt. THE “DIVINE STORM." Fearful ’typhoon That Saved Japan Fro* a Chinese lavaalon. About !00 years ago Japan was threatened with an Invasion from con tinental Asia, much as England was threatened with invasion by the Span lards. Tb«* beaten Spanish armada was dispersed by a storm, and Japan was delivered in much the same way. but witholt an engagement. A Jap anese writer, Okakura Yoshlsabura. says: "Tlx« might)' Kublai, grandson of the grtat Genghis Khan, haughty with his rrHlstless army, whose devas tilting intrepidity taught even Europe to tremble at the mention of his uame, dispatched an embassy to the Japanese court to demand the subjection of the country. The message was indignant ly dismlss<*d. Enragtxl at this, Kublai equipped a large number of vessels with tbs choicest soldiers China could furnish. The invading force was suc cessful at first and committed massa ores in Ikl and Tsushima, Islands lying between Korea and Japan. The posi tion was menacing. Even the steel nerves of the trained samurai felt that strange thrill a patriot knows. Shinto priests anil Buddhist monks were busy at their prayers. “A tremendous Chinese fleet gath er«^ In the boisterous bay of Genkal In the summer of 1281. At last the evening came with the ominous glow on the horizon that foretells an ap proaching storm. It was the plan of the conquering army victoriously to land the next morning on the holy soil of Kyushu. But «luring this critical night a fearful typhoon, known to this day as the ‘divine storm,' arose, break ing the jet black sky with Its tremen dous roar of thunder and bathing th«« glittering armor of our soldiers guard ing the coast line In white flashes of dazzling light. The very heaven and earth shook before ths mighty anger of nature. “Dawn of the next morning saw the whole fleet of the proud Yuan that bad darkened the water for miles swept completely away Into the bottomless sea of Genkal, to the great relief of the horror stricken populace and to the unspeakable disappointment of our d«*- termined soldiers. Out of the 100,000 warriors who manned the Invading ships only three are recorded to have survived the destruction to tell the dismal tale to their crestfallen great khan.” _______________ A Mutual Arrangement. A certain poet made a good deal of money, but, being extravagant, he was always in debt. Then he wooed, won and we«lded a young woman of great wealth. Thereafter times were better With him. At breakfast during his honeymoon the bride said to the poet tenderly, "Does the fact that I have money, dearest, make any difference to you?" “To be sure it does, my love," the poet answered. She drooped a little, perplexed, alarmed. "What difference?" she asked. “Why,” said he, “It Is such a com fort to know that If I should die you'd be provided for.” “And If I should die?" said the bride. “Then," he returned. “I'd be pro vided for.” Honey In MadA«a«<*ar. Among the observances of the fan droana. or New Year’s festival. In Mad agascar Is the eating of mlngl««d rice and honey by the queen and her guests. In the same country honey Is plactxl In the sacred water of sprinkling used at the blessing of small children. Ancient religious ceremonies of the heathen frequently employed honey, but It was forbidden as a sacrifice In the Jewish ritual. With milk or water it was pre sented by the Greeks as a libation to the dead. A honey cake was the monthly food of the fabled serpent guardian of the acropolis of Athens. Peruvian aborigines offered honey to the sun. THE MALE BASS. How He Looks After the the Little Fry. aid "The female fish has no maternal In stincts whatever,” said the superin tendent of the state flsb hatcheries. “In fact, the fish is the most unhuman cr««ature in existence—that is, of the animals which have any degree of in telligence at all. “Perhaps It Is well that It Is co, for If the purent fish took careof their young as other creatures do the waters of the earth would be fllled with them In a very short time. Under nutural condi tions not one egg In a Billion ever be- comes a tlsii a year oil. As an ex ample, I have seen femile brook trout go up luto the spawning places aud spawn tbelr eggs and then turn around and deliberately eat them. "For the past few years I hate been much Interested In experimenting with bass and studying tbelr ways. Here the male parent has some maternal In stincts apparently. He builds the 'nest' for the female, some little pocket with a gravel bottom proteet«*d from the strong current, but with plenty of fresh water, and then bugs or push«*« the female Into it. The eggs are spawned by the female, wbo swims away and leaves them to their fate. The malt* fertilizes the eggs nnd then for a few days watches over them, •fanning' them occasionally to Insure a circulation of fresh water and keep ing off other fish who woiiki devour the eggs. The male fish have been known to follow the little fry for sev eral days, protecting them until they were able to care for themselves. “I have seen a school of, say, 1.500 bnss fry devoured In five minutes by a few sun bass or perch minnows. Under the case of the fish hatcheries from 60 to 95 per cent of the eggs be come fish fry. How many of the fry live to be a year old or so after they are planted In the streams It Is very hard to determine. It depends so greatly upon conditions that no relia ble estimates can be made.”—Milwau kee Wisconsin. A Busts««« Talk. “Miss de Simpson,” said the young secretary of legation. “I have opened negotiations with your father upon the subject of—er-coming to sue you oftener with a view ultimately to forming an alliance, and he has re sponded favorably. May I ask If you will ratify the arrangement as a mo dus vlvendl?” "Mr. von Harris," answered the daughter of the eminent diplomat, "don’t you think It would have been a more graceful recognition of my ad ministrative entity If you had asked me first?”—Chicago Tribune. Malay Hou«««. Malay houses are Invariably built on posts, so as to raise the floor from four to six feet above the ground. The floor is composed of bamboo, with Inter stices between slats, the earth beneath becoming the receptacle of the drain age of the establishment. The uni versal plan of the well to do natives is to build the bouse In two divisions, the front one for receiving visitors and lounging generally, while the rear por tlon Is reserved for the women and children. 1« I.lie Worth Living t Those people who say that life Is not worth living find It so because they <lo not go to work to make It worth living. Why does sadness over power them? Is It so much harder for them than for others to see sin aDd suffering? What right have they to add their weight to the world's bur Mutheumllrnl Pru«i«leu. dens? Is It a sign of Intellect to be It Is related that Jededlali Buxton, cowardly? And do these people not the English mathematical prodigy, was dream that the spiritual power which the son of a schoolmaster, but remain makes such an Intellectual condition ed throughout life a farm laborer, be Impossible Is vastly superior to sny cause of Incapacity to acquire an edu power that the Intellect alone can at cation. Ills mind being occupied by an tain.—Elizabeth Tea body absorbing passion for mental caletfla tlona. Being asked "How many cu Very C«aaM«rate. bical eighths of an Inch there are In a “One way for you to Improve your body wire«* three sides are 23.145.78fl self. young man. la to constantly asso yards. 1.642.732 yards and 54.965 ciate with your superiors " yards?" he replied correctly without “I know It 1«. sir, but I am so cfen- setting down a figure. Zorah Colburn actentlous I cannot bring myself to do was an American prodigy When ask ft.” ed the square root of 106,929 awl the “And why conscientious?“ cube root 2tW.33fl.125. he answered “I bate to think what my superiors correctly before the audience set the would 1* Buttering all that time."— figures down. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Kept itecurely uuder l«x-k and key In the supreme court room at Washlngtou there Is a small Oxford Bible aruuud which cluster many uutable aud bls toric Incidents. It was printed at Ox ford In 1799. first came into the court's service in 1808 aud la believed to be one of the 20.000 Imported by congress a few years before During Its court career this niluine has been called into service every day on which the august tribunal has held sessiqu. The great constitutional lawyers of the formative period of our govern meut as a prerequisite of their adiuls slon to practice before this learned body klss«*d Its material face. B ch 1<1«- h these great legal lights every associate am! <-hlef Justice, with the exception of Chief Justice Chase, wbo had a Bible of his own, and every law yer ex«*ept Daniel Webster, sworn to practice before the supreme court bur has taken ills oath of allegiance on this little book. It Is a tradition of the court that alien Daniel Webster came before this high tribunal In his first argument In the defense of the char tered rights of Ills alma mater, Dart mouth college, against the legislatlv«* attacks of New Hampshire, by some strange inadvertence th«« oath was not administered The tradition goes fur ther. Intimating that the Judges were so Impressed by the elotpience of his appeal. which stands out today as a classic in legal lore, that they either forgot or dared not mention his dere liction. It Is no wonder that this little Bible Is so carefully preserved, endeared as It is with the memories of America's greatest stati*snien and jurists. When a president is to lie sworn the clerk of the court usually purchases a new Bible, and after the certificate has lieeu affix««] he presents It to th«« first lady of th«* land.—Leslie's Weekly. EARLY ANATOMISTS. Disax-n«,« Ha« Pr«ctlf»4 1« In 3UU B. C. Level Dr. William Williams K«teu tells sum«* luterestiug facta regarding tbs early history of dissection. The first bumau auatuuiists were In Alexandria three centuries b«*for* Christ, aud they and tbelr successors for 2.000 years were commonly reported to have In dulged In antemortem dlaseetiuu. Says Dr Keen: "Vesalius was shipwrecked and died while deelug for bls life on such a charge The Edinburgh act of 1506, giving the surgeous the laxly of one criminal annually to make an auatomle of,* was guarded by th« pro vlso 'after he be deld.' Even poetry bus lent Its aid to perpetuate the leg end of the 'invisible girl,' whose ghost was believed to haunt Sir Charltte Bell's anatomical rooms, where she bad been dissected alive ou the ulgbt pre ceding that appointed for her mar riage.” For a long time Alexandria was the ouly medical center of the world, aud the piiyslclau Galen (born about 130 A. I>.) bad to Journey from Rome to the African city even to see a skeleton. He seut bis students to tLe German battlefields to dissect the bodies of the tuitloual enemies, while he himself UM*d apt*« as ni«wt resembling human beings. Human dissection was revived in Bologna in the fourteenth century, where Madonna Manzoiina later was profmsor of anatomy, undoubtedly one of tb<* first women doctors. If not the very first. Is«ouardo da Vinci, painter of "Tlie Ijist Supper," was a great anatomist, but dissection bad fallen Into disuse when Vesalius finally re vived It about th«* middle of the six teenth century. Evon in comparatively modern times anatomists have tieen the objects of at tacks by the populace. In 1765 Dr. John Shippen of Philadelphia was mobbed as a grave robber. Doctors' riots in New York occurred twenty- thr«*e years later and were due to the WHISTLER’S MONOGRAM. ~ belief that the m«*<llcal students robbed graves continually. It was the lack Other Artists Have Adopted Queer of opixirtunlty that led to the practl«?e of grave robbing and originated what De« flee« For Slgnatarea. The mystic emblem or device of a Dr. Keen calls "a set of the lowest sort of Whist lerlztsl butterfly wns possible villains- the resurrectionists.’' adopted in the sixties by the eccentric genius. James Abbott Whistler, who. THE CITY OF VENICE. without any known reason, «-banged his name later to James MacNelll Its Peculiar Site and How It Canto to Be Selected. Whistler. The city of Venice is spproacbed Close study will reveal that this pe culiar scroll Is really a monogram of from behind by a rsllroaj coustmeted J. W. The earliest of the etchings to over a stretch of swamp. Out beyoud bear the butterfly is “Chelsea Wharf’ this swamp was another swamp which (1803i. but many paintings aud et«*h was a little higher. It bad been out of Ings after that date are signed “Whist the water longer and bad caught enough seaw«*«>d. sand, shells and sedi ler." Artists have sometimes slgncl their ment to be tit for birds to nest on. pictures In some distinct form in There waa one Island called the Ri stead of their names. It generally was alto, which was really quite secure, done when the name might suggest and around thia one there were said to be about seventy-five or eighty soma emblem or symbol. Thus Hieronymus Cock demarked other Islands, which today are occu two lighting cocks on his panels; pied by the city of Venice. Some of Mariotto Albertiuelll signed a cross these were originally not islands at with two Interlaced rings, referring to all. Th«*y were mere high places In a the sacerdotal duties to which at one great bog. which, by the cutting of time of his life he «levoted himself; ebaunels aud by artificial means, were Martin Rota, a wheel; I’leter de Ryng, converted Into more or lees fit places a ring with a diamond; Giovanni Dos- for the enaction of buildings. sl, a bone; Del Mazo Martinez, a bain- Without consulting history, one mer; l.ionello Spnda. a sword. could almost guess that such an un Sometimes caprice dictated the selec favorable spot as this was not se- tion, ns when Jacopo de Barber! used lected as the site for a city out of the eadueeua. or Mercury rod; Hendrik free choice, and Indeed It waa not <le Bins, an owl; Lucas Cranach, a Venice was start<*d during the fifth crowned serpent; Cornelius Engel- and sixth centuries. The Inhabitants brechtseu, a pecullsr device resem of Padua aud a few more north Ro bling a weather vane, and Hans Hol man cities, chased out by the Huns, beln. a sktill. Collector and Art Critic. the Goths and other tribes of bar barians. took refuge here in an Adri Seastckuess. atic lagtxin. The savages of Asia bad A Freuch naval surgeon. Dr. Le no bouts, so that the settlement was grand, says that of all the means of re very safe, and, leading an Independent lieving seasickness only one Is really life, prospered here by Itself during effective. “It la to maintain the abdo the middle ages at a surprising rate. men absolutely rigid from the moment It was a monstrous work to make of setting foot on the vessel, ’to do the city secure from the sea. Ship this a belt of ordinary tightness Is In loads of “tone were brought from other sufficient. Hie abdomen must be band coasts. Dams and canals were built aged with a layer of wadding and at gr«*at cost, aud the residents finally wide bands of flannel—In a word, ab got enough of dry land about them to solute compression must be attained, care being taken to do the bandaging feel moderately safe. ?rom below upward toward the chest.” WORK. Dr. Legrand adds, "The Important thing Is not to i>e afraid to make the The work which presents no difficul bands too tight; otherwise the complete ties to be overcome loon grows unin suppression of the symptoms cannot be teresting obtained.” There are some workers so anxious to catch time by the forelock that they Railwars la 1940. A writer to the New York Mirror of almost tear the forel«x?k off. If It Is true that gotxl work implies 1840, in the course of a rhapsod.v on the railway, says: "Dueling and changing that the workman knows himself It la horses and separate rooms are at an equally true that the best work shows end, our light literature must now be that he hus forgotten himself. come woven with steam, our Incidents There Is only one right way to work, must arise from blowups and love be and It is neither in doing things before made over broken legs, while here the they are start«*d nor in doing them all novelist will have to re«x>rd the falling >ver again after they are finished. In of a tunnel, the only chance left for Tin* world I h altogether too restricted a touch of the sublime." Trains then ■ lis use of the word "art” Work of pr«x?eeded under wonderfully good con n.v kind done superlatively well is art dition <x*caslonally at the awe Inspiring -«lusting pictures as well as painting speed of thirty-five miles an hour as a I hem. maximum. A good worker Is pretty much like a hors«*, after all. When It’s uphill going EleeXrieltx In Plant«. Electric currents In plants are due, dou't worry him; when It's downhill don’t burry him, and be sure to ■ays Kunckel. to the moveineuta of going water In the tissu«*«. and not to differ take go*si care of him once lie's In th« ences of potential, existing Independ barn.- Success. ently. It was consldere<l probable thnt POINTED PARAGRAPHS. vegetable el«*ctrlc!ty was due to biolog leal process«*«, especially respiration Cheap rings always look particularly and the consequent chemical changes cheap on toll worn hands. In experimenting with leaves nnd flow An old quarrel Is like an old wound-- ers dicotyledons and on a large mush liable to break out at any time. room In an atmosphere of hydrogen It There Is this difference: Lovers make wns found thnt the electric current was diminished, but never quite suppress«*«!, up a quarrel because they enjoy It »nd owing probably to Intramolecular res married people because they have to. If you are satisfied with yourself plration. The electric current revives you are con«?eited. and If you are not on air being readmitted. satisfied you are ungrateful. What is When Es>> Were Esa«. a man to be? Paddy Doolan went Into a shop one It Is strange bow a man's duty ap to buy eggs. pears so plain to you and bow be looks "What are eggs today?" right at It and has such poor eyesight "Eggs are eggs today, Paddy.” re he can't see It plied the shopman, looking quite tri How well dressed, neat people are umphantly at two or three young la«ly admired! Do you pay as much atten «tustomers who happened to be In the tion to your personal appearan«-e as shop. you should? Care in this particular "Faith. I'm glad to h«?ar you say no," pays gtxxl dividends —Atchison Globe replied Paddy, "for the last ones I got here were chicken«." Elephant ««uraeitr. A remarkable Instance of the sagac A Mis««. Magistrate—If I let you off thl« time ity of a female elephant which had lost will yon promise me to take the her young one In a pit trap has re- pledge? Delighted Prisoner (excitedly* eently been related. The mother made —O1 will, yer honor, so* drink yer strenuous attempts to rescue her off spring by throwing quantltl* of earth healtW_______________ fend branch«*« of trees Into the pit but It cannot be *po often repeated that all her efforts were In vain, as the It is not helps but obstacles, not fa liuntere arrived before the pit was suf cilities but difficulties, that make mee ficiently fllled to sitow the young one to clamber out. i—Matthews. 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