A Latter Day
Sphinx
By Z<J® ANDERSON NORIS
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CAN'T »«y that I wa« pr<*posHees«H!
In Cornelia Hardman's favor front
the tint In »pile of her excellent
Introductions from luuie dear
writer friend». There was In her na
ture an inexplicable something dlffi
cult to understand, a certain sphinx
like calm, au impenetrability, the war!
Hess of (be animal that covers up its
tracks for fear of detection, that looks
upou the world as its natural enemy,
from which it must conceal all things
possible of concealment.
Cornelia wus from the far west She
was said to have bad some little suc
cess with her work of writing with a
magazine or two. Evidently she wrote.
Always upon her desk was a type
writer, Into which some paper bad
been coiled. There were often unflu
Ished sentences upon this paper.
However, ill contradictory evidence
one saw nothing of her work in print—
Unit is. next to nothing On the wall
of her silling room a newspaper article
elaborately illustrated with photo
graphs taken by herself was displayed.
The photographs were good, the article
mediocre.
This was the sole specimen of Corne
lia's work ever exhibited to me.
She lived tn a three room flat at the
top of a great new building of flats in
a miserable neighborhood.
After our flrst Introduction there
were mouths that I did not see Corne
lia. Then she called upon me.
After a little in her quiet way she
spoke of a youug German whom sbe
bad met.
They were engaged, she said. Soon
they were to be married.
She was glad. She was very tired of
the constant work for magazines and
newspapers, of trying to follow up her
work, of waiting for It to appear so
that they would send her her money.
The existence was a strain upon the
nerves of any woman. She often won
dered how I endured It. Except that I
wrote with such exceeding rapidity
when I did write—I passed over the
implied Inference that this was seldom
-she was sure that I would succumb.
With that she urose and extended me
an invitation to meet her fiance. As she
stood in the light of the window I ob
served the crowlike blackness of her
hair without a curl, the straightness of
her nose, a peculiar pallor that was not
of New York in her complexion.
Prompted more by curiosity than
anything else. I accepted her invitation
and lu due time made a visit to her
flat. I climbed six breathless flights,
part light, part dark, and entered.
1 was amazed at sight of the young
German with whom sbe was Infatu
ated. I compared the two, resting my
eyes flrst on one and then on the other.
Yesrs younger than Coruella, apparent
ly he was also far her inferior In point
of Intellect. I was astonished that she
could for a moment consider him. It
muy have been that his lack of knowl
edge of the language accentuated his
Intellectual .Inferiority, but before I bad
made my adieus I found myself regret
ting the fact that au American woman,
particular!}' au American woman gift
ed with the ability to write, could so
descend. The difference lu Intellect
was not my sole regret. The difference
In their heights! Cornelia was exactly
one foot taller.
Strange to say, it seemed that at in
tervals she felt the necessity of my
1
I was AMAZXD AT SIGHT OT THZ YOUNG
UKHMAN.
presence and the need of turning me
Into a confidant of both sorrow and
happiness.
Verbally she cont!d«l the happiness;
Instinctively I felt the sorrow in a
telepathic way common to me.
Some months afterward she made me
k visit.
She sat very still In a rocking chair,
looking out my window with lacklus
ter eyes. She folded her bands In her
lap and began to talk to me.
"He has gone home,” she told me.
“His father sent fdt him. You know
that Alfred belongs to a very aristo
cratic family In Berlin.”
"They all do, from their own ac
count,” I Inserted.
"Alfred does." she said firmly. "You
can tell that from his mnnner, his
bearing.”
' lint not from bls English ''
"lie has had hardly time," remarked
she, "to learn the English. He Im
proved much before he went away. I
taught him. I could not see him off.
(hie grieves so to watch the boat leave
the dock.
"But I liel|Msl him get ready. I write
to him every day. Soon I am going to
him. 1 shall not expect a letter from
bliu for a week or two. The l«»at may
be delay«! tide time of year the
storms, yoto know; th* win»* Hut
that will not prevent my writing to
him every «slay Swu I^m goist to
him " she repeated. "He Vrauted me
to marry him- before.be went away.
but I refused to du that. I refused on
account of his father, who to .very
stern. W Alfred married without bls
consent be would disinherit him. Ha
would ntver forjive him if he married
without bl* consent.”
"But a bird in the band, you know,"
I argusd. "is worth a flock In ths at
mosphere."
She turned her quiet eyes on me. If
there existed a spark of humor or rel
ish of It In her nature I bad yet to dis
cover it
“I am quite sure of him,” sbe said
“I have every confidence In him. In bis
Integrity aud in bls lore for me.”
Apparently this ended the argument.
The light flashing on a face In her
brooch attracted my attention.
"Whose la it?" I asked, leaning for
ward and touching It. “I have never
seen you wear ft before."
This partly to change the subject,
which failed to trend toward happi
ness. and partly to know. The face in
terested me.
"It is a picture of my mother," sbe
said, taking the brooch off and hand
ing It to me.
WASHINGTON LETTER
.1 rorrexpond#
♦ 1
tian of the h:u-e of rep
office building U being
The excavation Is pra*
ete aud the outlining of
tbg cellar pl in jt the big building iu
brick aud mortar is iu progress. Over
■early the entire square which Is to be
u. tplej by the building the brick
work has beeu raised to a height of
la'« era! feet.
The railroad tunnel
which cuts under the southeast curuer
of tile square Is complete aud covered,
so tliut progress of the office struc
ture is uot hindered lu the least by
anything hi that direction.
The bricklayers, who are present hi
force. are very busy, aud it Is plain
to be ».» i that Hie authorities do uot
intend to let the grass grow uuder
Ih. lr feet hi tlie matter of puttlug up
this m ig iltleeul building for the pop
ular brum b of congress.
"WHO IS IT?"
I ASKED.
[ 'I'll HE CONTINUED.]
COOLING LITERATURE.
lutrotlnelng fc'lanbert'» Cruel Joke
In the Desert of Kosselr.
Is there such a thing as cooling liter
ature? We think there is, only it can
be more properly called the literature
of coolness. Horace, with bls Bundu-
siiin fountain, has some claim to be the
futher of it. though In the description
Of co il water Spenser has probably ex
ec"* 1 every other poet. Goetlie, who
Used to bathe In tile Ilin by moonlight,
told Eckerntaun that in his ballad of
“The Fisherman" lie had employed the
mermaid myth with no oilier aim than
to express the charm of water in sum
mer. The fisherman sat fishing, "and.
Io, a dripplug mermaid fair sprang
from the troubled main." The mermaid
protested against the cruelty of an
gling. If. she said, be only knew "how
gladly dart the fish across the sea!”
She then invited him to dart across the
sen on Ids owu account, and he eon
seuteil to the watery bliss.
flue of the coolest stanzas in the lan
guage is Matthew Arnold's;
The silent courts, where night and day
Into their stone carved basins cold
Tile splashing Icy fountains play—
Tlie humid corridors is-hold!
But to know bow the literary mind
can evoke ideas of coolness when the
literary body craves for it one ueed
only recall Flaubert's persecution of
poor Maxime Ducamp in the desert of
Iiosseir, near the Red sea. The camel
carrying their whole supply of water
had fallen and burst all the skius.
What liap|>ened is told by Dlleamp.
We quote Mr. Tarver's translation:
"After suffering thirst for thirty six
hours, while we were passing through
a defile, a furnace formed of granite
rock», of a rose color, covered with
Inscriptions, Flauls*rt said to me. 'Do
you remember the lemon lees that one
eats at Tortoui's?' I made a sign in
the affirmative. He resumed: 'Lemon
ice is a superior article. Admit that
you would not be annoyed at having
swallowed a lemon Ice.' Curtly enough
I replied, 'Yes.' After an interval of
five minutes: 'Ah, the letuon ices! All
around the glass there is a cloud whi h
Is like a white Jelly.’ I said, Suppose
we eliange the conversation?’ He re
plied: 'That would be I letter, but lemon
Ice Is worthy of being celebrated, line
tills the apoou; It makes a little mound;
one softly squeezes it between the
tongue uud the piiluto: it mejts slowly,
cisdly, deliciously; It bathe* the uvula,
glides over the tonsils, descends into
the guilt t, which Is only too happy,
and it falls Into the stomach, which
bursts with laughing, so delighted Is it.
Between you and me there is a scarcity
of lemon lees in the desert of Kos
selr.' ”
The maddeued Ducamp would n >t
speak again for hours. Wheu at last
they drank Flaubert took him In Ids
arms and said: "I thank you for not
having blown out my brains with your
gun. In your place 1 should uot have
resist«!." London Globe.
Indinii Corn,
SELECTING SLED CORN.
Seme
Uinta anil the Illinois
Uro nt.s’ Score «feed.
lorn
Every o.ie who has grown coni
knows how readily it "run» out" or
degenerates. Plant breeders are agreed
thut the most ¡aitent cause for this de
generacy In corn is inbreeding. To
avoid this It is best to select ears from
different portions of the field, aud these
ears are to be selected at as great a
distance from each other as possible.
We ar* constantly receiving Inquiries
as to the points uud rules used In the
How Coin Is CtaWled.
The counting of the silver and gold
lu the vaults of the treasury inaugu
rated some time ago 1» rapidly near
ing its end.
Formerly that Is, about eight years
ago the methods of counting the cur
reucy were much more cumbersome
and difficult thau at present, thunks
to improvement» that have been made
lu recent years. Tlie currency is uot.
as many people Imagine, counted dol
lar for dollar, after the fashion of a
paying teller iu some country bauk.
but is gauged entirely by weight. The
gold is put up lu bags of $5,000 each,
and the silver lu bags of tlie same
material I. e., strong cotton sailcloth—
of $l,uou each. The money contained
hi these bags Is of all kinds and con
ditions. Some of it is fresh from the
mint, while the contents of other sacks
have been much lu clrculatlou aud are
ofteu budly worn.
We I k lit of Silver Money.
L
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A bag of 1,000 silver dollars fresh
from the mint should weigh sixty
pounds exactly, but some of the bags
containing that sum of coin will not
weigh that much, and In addition to
the suck of new dollars which one of
the members employs for a weight
there are also lying near the scales
several silver coins employed to ascer
tain how milch has been lost by wear
unit tear. In other words, when a suck
falls to weigh the exact sixty pounds
one or other of these coins Is tossed
Into the scale to see what is lucking
Tlie committee and the employees
engaged in this work seldom work
two days alike. Some days they com
mence early and quit late, and the lur
gest sum that has been thus far count
ed in one day was $4,ooo,i»)lt (120 tons
of currency*. Iu each of the treasury
vaults there is usually oue compart
meut thut Is empty, and iu counting
the money is simply shifted from one
compartment to another. The several
compartments are divided oue from
the other by massive steel grutlugs,
but such is the weight of the silver awl
gold which In settling tends to spread
out on either side that W. Howard
Gibson, custodian of the vaults, states
that it is no uuusuul thing to find at
times bolts forced out of place by the
pressure of tlie coin within. As it Is
the gratings ure all without exception
sprung und bent to one side by the
strain placed upou them by the money.
Staeklns the Treasure.
In counting tlie money the scales are
placed near the entrance to the com
partment to be tilled with a long wooll
en trough leading from the scales to
the compartment that Is being emptied.
Down this trough bag after bug of gold
or silver is sent sliding by those eu
g.igisl In emptying the compartment,
and as fast as It Is weighed it Is pass
«1 In to workmen who stack It up In
tiers reaching from floor to celling.
Part of the money Is hi heavy yellow
plue boxes, bolding two bags of $1,000
each, but the greater part Is without
other covering than the cotton bags
The bags containing $5,000 gold weigh
eighteen pounds each.
The men employed lu this work han
die on an average sixty to eighty tons
of gold and silver each day.
Moving Pictorei.
A picture of W illiam H Moody lu
characteristic pose now adorns the
wall of the office of the secretary of the
navy. In going Into the large recep
tion room the first thing one sees is
this new picture of Mr. Moody, and It
Is really so lifelike that oue almost
thinks that the former secretary Is
buck in bls old position. In a little
while Moody’s picture will be pushed
farther along, and Paul Morton's will
take its place. Of course no one can
tell bow long It will be liefore Morton
gives way to Bonaparte.
Shaw Eajoya *<Nirtooa».
While some statesmen are very much
annoyed about cartoons iu the public
press, they do not In the least disturb
Secretary Shaw. Iu fact, the secretary
enjoys every one of them, whether
they are good, bad or Indifferent. He
takes a keeu delight lu gathering up
these cartoons Sum» of uie best and
which hit the secretary Just right have
been framed und adorn the walls of
the treasury department.
Th* White Hoa.e,
During the president's vacation the
White House has been thoroughly
cleaned, outside and In men have been
at work scraping, cleaning, painting
anil otherwise Improving the old struc
ture, which Is now entirely occupied by
the president and his family, while
there has also been some work upon
what the president has designated as
"the little 'dobe shack that I am tem-
Iiorarily occupying" and which 1» used
for the White House offices. The most
noticeable Improvement made near the
White House offices has been In the
tennis court. The hard ground has
been dug up and rerolled In order to
give It the spongy texture which is so
satisfactory to th* tennis player.
CARL SCHOFIELD.
Maize, or Indian corn, 1» a native of
tropical America, from where the Span
iards first brought It to Europe. How
ever. It must have been known long
tiefore In Asia, for In Pharaoh's dream
he saw seven ears of corn growing on
one stalk (Genests xil. 5i. By the ab
origines It was gradually carried north
Arrlirua, the (Hast Snm.
and by the selection of the earliest ripe
There are other suus In space that
ears saved for seed acclimatized to are Infinitely larger thau the one which
our harder New England conditions. It gives us heat, light and life. The stat
ripens now as far north as Canada.
Arcturus, which Is known to be a sun
for a faraway system of planets, is
Graphic.
11,500.000 times farther removed from
The end of a novel, compressed by us than Is our solar luminary. His di
the editor owing to lack of space "Ut anieter Is 71,000,000 and his clrcumfer
tokar took a small brandy, then bis ence about 224,1100,000 miles. Our sun
hat, his departure, ls>s!de» no notice of is but 800.000 miles In diameter, a fact
his pursuers, meantime a revolver out which proies that Arcturus Is at least
of his pocket, aud. lastly, bls own 551,000 times greater lu bulk than 1«
life.” Deutsche Lesehalls.
our "great orb of day.”
WELL KILLED TIPS.
scoring and Judging of corn. The fol
lowing Is the score card adopted by (lie
Illinois Corn Growers’ association:
Perfect »core.
Uniformity ....................................................... R
Shape of ears ................................................ 5
< 'olor of ears ................................................. 11
Market condition ......................................... b
Tips of ears ................................................... lu
Butts of ears ................................................. 5
Uniformity of kernels ............................... 6
Shape or kernels ...........
S
Space
........................................................................... K
Length ............................................................. lc
Cin o inference .............................................. 6
Per cent of corn ........................................... 2C
IM
Uniformity of ears in a variety is the
best indication that that variety has
been carefully selected for a number
of generations.
The nearer the shape of an ear ap
proaches that of it eylluder the greater
will be the percentage of corn to cob.
This cylindrical shape will permit the
ear to carry straight parallel rows of
keruels from butt to tip.
Those varieties of corn that have re
ceived the greatest care ill their se
lection and Improvement are uniform
In color. The white varieties have a
white cob. and the yellow ami red va
rieties have a red cob. No corn should
be used for seed that shows the effect
of cross |x>llenizatiou. The effect of
pollen is shown the first year.
By market conditions is meant the
soundness of the ear and the conditions
of the kernels. The ears should lie free
from decay or fungous disease, mid the
kernels should not be shriveled or
chaffy, but show full maturity.
The tips of the ears should be cover
ed with regular, uniform keruels, so
that no part of the cob can be seen.
The butt of the ear should be well
filled out with even rows of kernels
and swelled out evenly beyond the end
of the cob around the shank.
The kernels should be uniform iu
size, shape and color, mul should pos
sess similar
characteristics
The shape of
the kernel on
the broad side
should be as
near that of a
wedge as pos
sible.
This
shape will per
mit of the lar
WELL KILLED BI TT.
gest number of
rows of keruels on the cob.
There should be very little space be
tween the rows of kernels. A wide
space shows shallow Kernels of a bad
shape.
The per cent of corn on the ear Is de
termined by weighing the ears, shelling
the grain and reweighlng the cobs anil
grain. A hundred pounds of ear com
should never shell out less thau eighty
¡Hiunds of grain.—Kentucky Experi
ment Stntlon.
Th* Day of Small Thins».
When Danny Griffin was a boy he
had au eye to business and knew bow
to Invest a dollar so it would increase.
Once he trapped two skunks and sold
tlielr skins. With the money he bought
a pig. Danny was a good feeder, and
the pig grew large and fat. Apples
and corn mid milk were converted into
pork. The hog went to the butcher, and
the proceeds went for two sheep. They
each had a lamb, and the ewes, with
their Increase, brought enough to buy
a good heifer calf. Wheu the calf
grew to be a cow lie sold her to Frauk
T. for $35.
That was thirty-five years ago. uud
Danny was then fifteen. Now Daniel
Griffiu uwus a hundred acre farm be
sides other property, and his crops and
his credit are good.
Moral.—Despise not the day of small
things.—Farm Journal
Fiultohinic Grain Harvpiit.
Late huwii grain will be harvested
this month. The work should proceed
without de^v and tlie grain uot allow
ed to stainl until overripe. The late
sown oats will make good hay If cut
while yet green, aud this is a very
satisfactory use to which to devote
them. Good crops of barley are some
times grown when for various reasons
It Is found necessary to sow late, and
It makes an excellent substitute for
this purpose. This is an easy crop to
cure late in the season. Where buck
wheat is raised It should be lu condi
tion to harvest by the last of the month
and receive proper attention Amer
ican Cultivator.
Its Charm».
GIANTS ON WHEELS.
STAGE TRICKS.
Odd Cat Tom Thai Honrlahes la Som«
Ear*t>ean C««te>.
Haw »•»«•> of the »rrnalngly DIMrull
Feat» Are Perggroted.
Among the most interesting ceretuo
ule» iii Europe ar» th* giant»' pro»*ss
siouthey are ter.ued. *1. *-h ar*
held anuually in virions el tie- They
ar» especially popmar lu the Flemish
provinces of France aud Belgium,
where every community of imi*ortmice
has some personage of huge proper
tioiis Intended to represeut a hero or
other notable of the past. Although of
euoruious size, the giants are carri«l
alsiut th»- streets with little difficulty
owing to the material of which they
are composed. The skeletou Is usually
form«l of light wood, with possibly
one or two iron rods extending from
th«- head to the feet to give strength
to the structure. Over tli»* skeleton is
fasteu«l a stiff fabric, such as canvas,
and the proper proportions are obtain
♦si by padding with cotton, hay or some
other suiiabh* material.
Upon this groundwork Is placed the
papier much»* which usually forms the
exterior. This substance is so Itght
and is appli«l with such skill thut the
resemblance to the human feature»
nud figure Is really remarkable. Oc
easionally the face is formed by a mask
showing tin* flesh tints, but the majorl
ty of th»* giants muy lie termed emir
mous dolls, since their mode of eon
struetloii Is so simllur to that of this
toy and so much of th»* same material
enters Into tlielr composition. At least
once a year the giants are pla<'«l u | h > u
vehicles ami drawn ulmut the streets in
a procession, iu which regulur and vol
unteer soldiers take part, tlielr escorts
sometimes numbering 1,000 people.
One well knowu group of giants is
known as the Gayon family, th»* mem
liers of which are among the largest
In Europe. The father of the family Is
no less than twenty feet In height, from
the top of the plumes lu his helmet to
bls feet, while his spear is over twen
ty feet in leugtb aud the shield larger
lu circumference thau the wheel of an
ordinary wagon. Mme. Gayon Is eight
een feet In height. They are suppose»!
to have thr»»e children, the largest of
whom Is eleven feet In height, the next
Is ten ttoct aud the "baby” taller than
an ordinary man.
Wbsa you see a m it come out oil t
stage a ui shut the a lies off a cig ir
which Is' beiug amok«l by an assistant
dou't believe all you see. A batplu Is
run through the > igar, the point Ju«!
reaching the ash. Vie ass.-taut jus.
push«*» the knob at the other end. aud
down falls the ash to greot applause
Of course ouly blauk cartridges are
used.
Breaking two glass balls with two
pistols is almost as simple. Oue of the
pistols only is loaded aiul with shot.
The other has a blauk eartrklge. The
loaded pistol Is aline 1 betweeu the two
balls, aud the shot scatter, breaking
them both. That's the trick.
Extinguishing several num tiered can
dies by number ou request of the au
dlence is seldom more than a hollow
joke. Behind es»*h candie Is a bole In
the target. Au assistant hidden behind
It simply blows out the candle, taking
care to blow the right candle at the right
tlme— thut Is, when the pistol cracks.
Blindfold shooting simply means that
the performer glauces down his nose to
a mirror fixed at an angle behind the
back sight and alms as straight this
way as If the bandage were uot there.
l’ainting a complete picture In a Jiffy
iu presence of the audience Is also arti
fice. What looks to you like an Immac
ulate and untouched canvas Is lu real
Ity a finished picture covered with
whitewash. All the "artist" do«« 1» to
simulate painting with his brush. The
result Is a picture that would require
If It were hon»*stly done at least a day's
work.
Those awfully heavy looklug dumb
bells of the strong man are sometimes
somewhat hollow at the core. Y’ou will
notice they are always put In the same
place, preferably ou a special platform,
when the mao from the audience Is In
vited to lift them. Under the platform
are powerful magnets holding the
weights down. Suddenly roll the bar
off the platform, and you can probably
lift It In one band, as that operation
releases It from magnetic control.
CHINESE CARVINGS,
'
Artistic Ornament» Cat Out of lull
and Tiny Fruit Stone».
The most curious objects which art
made subjects of the carver's art iu
t’liina are the various nuts and fruit
stones. Among the hitter class may be
named the stones of the olive, plum
peach, cherry, and of the former the
most common are mail* upon tin* shell-
of walnuts uml cocoauuts. These sets!*»
and nuts are collected with great cart
ami carefully cleaned and dri«l before
being taken to the carver, who has an
Invariable standard of size, proportion
weight, jiardness, etc. When every de
tall has been carried out to the satis
faction of the artist a nut or seed to
selected by the designer, who roughly
traces upon Its surface an outline ol
the future picture. This Is banded ovet
to apprentices, who block out the de
sign by cutting through the Lgeuous
tissue along the lines drawn. The
»•rude carving is again passe.i to th«
designer, who sketches a second ami
more intricate series of outlines, wheu
it again g >es forward to the s.ibordl
mites, who cut out the lndicat»*»! chan
nets. After tills th«* designer gives th»
object Its finishing touches, aud the as
¡stunts prepare It for market by pol
ishing. oiling and waxing tlie carvings
These nut and fruit stone carvings ar»
shown In the shape of buttons, watch
»'harms, sleeve links, earrings an»!
broodies. Collections of them strung
on silver, copper or gold wire are also
used as bracelets, anklets, necklaces,
rosaries and official ornaments.
The carvings represented upon these
seed and nut ornaments are frequently
of a very high order of conception anil
display much of th«* carver's clever
ness and dexterity. The writer has
seen single cherry seeds upon which
were plainly aud artistically outlln«! a
dragon, two crickets, s cornflower an»!
a bunch of grapes. On the larger se«*ds
and nuts are represent«! entire trees
and their fruits and leaves, vines with
leaves, flowers and vegetables attach
ed as well as buildings, bridges, tow
ers, temples and fences. Among th«
second group, which are usually com
pos«l principally of animal figures, th«
horse, lion, tiger, elephant, camel and
bull are most generally represented.—
Exchange.
A maor T LEGEND.
The Story of How Te Kepe Discov
ered New Zealaad.
The Maoris are uot the aborigines of
New Zeeland. This Is the story of
their coming as told by a legend band
ed down from chief to chief from gen
eratlou to generation:
Te Kupe, a priest, lived ou an island
called Kawaikl, suppoa»sl to be Ha
waii. He Incurred the displeasure of
tils chief and was compelled to flee for
his life. He secured a canoe and.
stocking It with provisions, paddled out
to sea, leaving his home and bls
friends, as be thought, forever. He
wus mourned as dead, but about a year
later ha returued with a glowing story
of a wonderful country he hud dis
covered. He gave graphic accounts of
Its mighty forests, Its burning moun
tains, steaming lakes and huge birds.
The story cuustsl the wildest exclte-
tneut among his people, who hailed Te
Kupe as a god, and preparations were
at once made to explore this magic
country. Seven large canoes were
built and stocked with provisions and
water, and a party of Islanders, dl-
rected by Te Kupe, set forth on their
adventurous Journey. In time they
reached the place he had described, and
T» Kupe's canoe, the Aotea, was the
flrst to touch the »bore; hence the
Maori name "Aotearoa” was given to
New Zealand.
Just wheu this took place Is one of
the points In the history of these peo
pie that are lost In the shadowy mem
orles of the past, but It Is supposed to
have been about 800 years ago. The
Maoris of today always refer to Ha
waii as the fatherland, and there Is a
native proverb, "I kune mal 1 Ilawalkl
te kune kal te tangata" ("The seed of
our coming Is from Hawalkl”).
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
When you are In a hurry for a thing
bow slow It travels.
An excuse never sccouipllsbes all It
Is expect«*»! to accomplish.
If you want people to like you don’t
know anything "on” them.
Ever notl»*e this? If one thing goes
right with you something else goes
wrong.
Every one owes something to himself
except the father. He owes It all to his
family.
Wheu you see two people who dislike
you whispering together, doesn't it glvs
The Hear«» of the Hapabarga.
you a funny feeling?
In the imperial burial vault in the
About the easiest thing In the world
Church of the Capuchins In Vienna is that we know anything about Is to And
a row of more than 150 crystal vases the bright side for somebody else.
mounted In gold and topped by a
They speak of it as "life’s fitful fe
crown. Each of these vases contains ver,” but most of us have such hair
the heart of a dead Hapsburg. a mem- raising experiences that it Is more like
tier of the Imperial family. In the chills.—Atchison Globe.
thirteenth century the Duke Francis
died In Switzerland and directed that
TO_ WIN POPULARITY.
hit heart slioiild li* remctyed and sect
to Vienna Ever since thia custom hsa
Hava a good time, but never let fun
lieen observed In the Hapsburg family.
On the dentil of a member the heart Is degenerate into license.
Rejoice as genuinely tn another's
removed and preserve»! In a crystal
vase. In the vault there are now 152 success as in your own.
Learn to control yourself under the
such vases and 113 Imperial coffins.
Tin* surplus of thirty nine vases con most trying circumstances.
Have a kind word and a ch«*ery, en
tain tin* hearts of Hapsburgs whose
boilles are burled elsewhere. The so.e couraging smile for every one.
Meet trouble like a man, and cheer
exception to this Hapsburg custom
was that of the late Archduke Ludw. f, fully endure what you can’t cure.
Believe In the brotherhood of man
whose will forbade the removal of bis
and recognize no class distinctions
heart.
Do not be self opln!onat»*d, but listen
with deference to tlie opinions of oth
Surveying luiud.
The art of land surveying owes Its er«.
Never utter witticisms at the risk of
origin to tlie fact that the Egyptians
were unable to ktiep permanent monu giving pain or hurting some one's feel
meats on laud which was overflowed ings.
every year by the Nile. Under such clr
Be ambitious aud energetic, but nev
cumstances It became necessary to er benefit yourself at the expense of
have some means of reidentifying the another
various pl«*es of land. The Instru
Be ns courteods and agreeable to
ments and mathematical methods uf your Inferiors as you are to your
astronomy, with suitable modifications, equals and superiors. - Ruc<*eas.
were used by the Egyptians for laud
surveying.
Fair Visitor So you have really de
cided not to sell your bouse? Fair
Host—Yes. You see, we placed the
FanalH*» share «ferriage».
matter In the bands of a real estate
A curious custom exists In Genoa.
agent. After »ending Ills lovely adver
tisement of our property neither John Many of the well to do people us well
nor tnyself <amld think of parting with ■s those lu moderate circumstances de
uot own either horses or carriages
such ft wonderful and perfect home.
They own only an Interest tn them
Four or five or half a dozen great fam!
in the countries devot«! to ancestor 11»*» club together and buy a carriage
worship th* Individual of the present and hors««; then they arrange among
does not count. He does not even ex themselves the days the different fatal
1st until after he Is dead
Iles will use It.
The Lloa's Share.
It is really not the male lion, with bls
FACTS IN FEW LINES
House boat life on the Thames Is on
it» decadence.
The cost of cremaTiag a body tn
Frame 1» only «¡0 »-cuts.
A serum for bay fever is mexft by
physicians in the Island of HcU'diud.
A Kentucky woman, only thirty*
three years old, has Just acquired her
ninth husliKU»!.
Government authorities estimate the
egg and poultry Income lu tlie I nitial
States last year at $280.000.000.
•
Bometssly Inquired at a Columbus
(O.i bookstore the other day for "That
p>s*m of Kipling's, 'ikm't You For
get it.'"
The celebrated emerald mines of
Muzo, Col »lubia, ar«* owu»*d by the gov
ernment and are amoug its most val
uable assets.
The British First East Yorkshire reg
lment, which has l>eeu tweuty years
ou foreign service in the far east, has
just Iss'ii ordered home from Burma.
A <*orre»|«indent of Nature says be
bad bls portrait palatial by two well
known artists ami calculated that in
each case about "D.ixm strokes of tin*
brush were made.
An Intellig mt elephant Is attracting
attention'iu New York. Tin* animal
uot only bowls, lint with a plwe of
chalk k«*ps reeoial of tin* umnlier of
plus it kmx ks down.
While listing in u quarry h >le near
Portlnnd, «'mill., .!**a**t*ti Kincaid
caught a fish which Is puzzling the ex
p»-rts. It has a body something like
an «4 and a heatl Ilk»* a bullhead.
Ireland lias a prodigy. Three and a
half years old, a Kiunegad boy reads
the newspapers, sings about fifty
comic songs anil dances a sailor's
hornpipe In a regulation Jack tar suit.
Everything iu tills world has Its com
pensations, ami a writer In a late med
leal Journal conveys tlie comforting in
formation that bahlheadeil people art*
Immune from pulmonary tuberculosis.
A tramp struck Whitneyville, Me.,
recently on»* morning aud ate breakfast
lu nine different places. In one lions»*,
where the people seemed to be particu
larly easy, lie asked what time they
bad dinner.
One distillery company In Kentucky
turns out every seven days 1,20»' barrels
of sw«q*t mush whisky. The output for
a year would be 62,400 barrels. The
cost of all this to tin* manufacturers
may be fairly estlmateil ut $374.000.
Somebody congratulat»*l ltussell Rage
the other day on bls hearty appear
ance just after he had pass«*»l his
eighty-ninth birthday. Mr. Sage re
plied quaintly aud characteristically
that he ext>eete»l to see the age of 100.
Then* Is a tame squirrel at Belfast,
Me., which has learueil not only to find
a bug of peanuts bidden in the house
which be tmppeiis to invade, but to
take the cover off a tin box in which
one goisl housewife keeps her plump
squash seeds.
In tlie ofllee of Stevens & Stevens, at
Millinocket, Me., Is a peculiar tl ermoni
eter, or, rather, heat rec.mler. It con
sista of a growing palm. Mr. Stevens
marks on It the growth for each week
ami finds that the warmest weeks show
much more progress than the cooler
Intervals.
George Stratton of Bennington, Vt.,
has a Plymouth Rock rooster which
has brought up a litter of chickens this
summer. The lien abandoned them
when they were Hire»* weeks old. and
the rooster took charge of th»* family.
He called them together, scratched for
them and cared for them In a most
motherly fashion.
Since the first visit to the lee cup of
the south |»ok* was made, some fifty
years ago, there has been a steady re
cession of tlie belt of some thirty
miles, ami it Is argued that lu the
course of time It will be possible to
make approach to the pole itself and
tliat the land In that vicinity may
even become inhabit«!.
A gentleman from the Unit«l States
who vlslt«l one of Belgium's famous
seaside resorts was greatly pleas«l to
find the American flag on sal»> In the
shops ther»* ami that boys engag«l In
mimic battles displayed It on their lit
tle forts. The visitor at first siqqiosed
the youngsters were Americans, but
soon learned that they were Belgians.
A Kbirgesi* giant who had been on
exhibition In Hamburg was found on
the streets of that city on Aug. 10 In a
starving condition. Some people took
him to a restaurant, where he ate
thri*e platra of beef soup, four pounds
of b«*efsteak. thr«> portions of ham
and cabbage mid fourteen appk* tarts,
the whole washed down with six pints
of beer.
Tlie process by which India paper Is
made Is a secret known to but three
living persons. When on»* »lies another
is let Into the mystery. In this way It
has been preserved ever since It was
lnveut«l by an officer In the English
army. Other thin papers are made,
but India paper Is peculiar In that lu
spite of Its extreme thinness print on
one side il'S's not show through on tlie
other.
Ralph Leo Ray of I.ancaster, WIs.,
has Just begun his duties as tutor in
tlie American Inngunge uml customs to
King Alfonso of Spain In the royal pal
ace of Madrid. Ills letters home de
clare that the process of Introducing
tlie youthful king to the Idiom of Unde
Ram's language Is progressing happily
for both teacher and royal pupil. He
will remain abroad ns tutor for two
years.
What should be almost a reeoril ca
nary Is In West Kensington, England.
Its owner has had It Just two month«
over twenty four years. The only sign
of age about the bird Is that Its wings
■ nd tall have dropp«l nn»l the bird Is
therefore unable to fly up to Its perch.
This long lived bird still resides In the
cage in which It was hatched and
leaves It only periodically wh« u ft has
to be clean«! and whitewashed.
A Wood
Mine.
One of the most curious mines that are
worked Is In Tonquin, China, where in
a sand formation at n ileptli of from
fourteen to twenty feet then* Is n de
posit of the stems of trees The Chi
nes»> work this mine for th»* tlmtier.
which la found In good condition ami la
us«l In making troughs and for carving
and other punioses.
terrific roar and formidable appear
ance, that the explorer fears, but his
mste. The male lion Is a good looking
poser, but when It comes to business it
Is bls wife who counts, a la the African
native. Game la pulled down by the
female lion, and then the male beats
Those to whom everybody allows tbs
her off until be has feooted to repletion,
when she may have what Is left; hence second place have sn undoubt«! title
;o the first Rwlft
"the lion’s share.”