Bandon recorder., March 15, 1906, Image 2

BANDON' RM ORDER.
FACTS Ut FEW LINES
Cutton bi tin- principal line of manu­
facture In Mexico.
It ia said that 1.500 Greeks arrive at
New York each month.
This year Tasmania will export
1,500,000 bushel cases of apples. Moat
of them will go to England and Aus
tralla.
The exports of Australia lu 1904 were
f^Ni,<M2,050, au Increuse of $38,195,63«!
over those of 1W1, the banner year pre
viously.
Professor Jolin C. Olsen of the Brook­
lyn Polytechnic Institute reports 4,000,-
000 bacteria In one sample of milk
bought In Brooklyn.
Japan hus one of the largest steam­
ship companies lu the world, with serv­
ice to the United States and to Eng­
land by way of Suez.
The house of the Capulets, where Ju­
liet lived lu Verona, has been offered
for sale aud the municipality Intends to
buy it and convert lt^ito a museum.
The lxmdon Academy tells of au old
woman who walked Into a shop and
asked to buy a “circulating library."
Inquiry revealed that she wanted a re­
volving bookcase.
'The first bullfight lu Madrid after the
repeal of the Sunday law was wit­
nessed by 20,000 persons, and 80,000
more waited outside the ring to get
prompt news of the result.
So fashionable Is appendicitis in
British society circles that, says Lon­
don Opinion, many women would rath­
er have It “than a three-quarter length
photograph in a magazine."
An institute for the treatment of suf­
ferers from chest complaints, neural­
gia, catarrh and other maladies by
means of opium smoking has been
opened by London physicians.
The Hawaiian legislature has,passed
over the governor's veto a law allow
Ing baseball and similar amusements
on Sunday and permitting cigar and
many other stores to remain open on
that day.
The superior board of health of Mex­
ico informs dealers In food products,
especially milk dealers, that the use of
preservatives in food Is prohibited and
punishable by the board as food adul­
teration.
A recently discovered manuscript
written by a schoolmate indicates that
Napoleon I. knew so little of the
French language when he was sent tc
the military school at Brlenne that a
private teacher was engaged for him.
A psalter which belonged to Boswell
was sold at Sotheby's, lu London, re­
cently for £15. It contained the In­
scription: "Junies Boswell, 17«$3. I
bought this for 2il at Greenwich, when
I was working there with Mr. Samuel
Johnson.”
The value of shel - '•
se and oth­
ers, gathered in < i " i i ■ ' car amount
ed to about j-ToouO and f sponges
$5oo,<i<Hi. or
the United
Htates received about !)5 per cent aud
Europe the r* uali der, !'■ race being
the principal buyer
Ilr. A. I». N. , •> 'I - ,-hend, Vt.,
has a pair of st a wl !.*h were hand­
ed down from ids gre-t -grandfather.
They were made by a blacksmith and
used In the war of 1812 to cut the hair
of soldiers. They are much larger and
heavier than those In use nowadays.
Captain Freeman H. Murray of Lynn
has an old cent which he found some
years ago while digging tn his garden.
It is an Irish colli, dated 1723. On Its
face It bears the likeness of King
George I., while on the reverse side Hi­
bernia Is seen with her hnrp and dis­
taff.
Sum White of Riverside, Cal., has a
boy lairn on Feb. 20, and In addition
lias one who was born on Washington's
birthday, one on inauguration day and
two on All Fools day, April 1; one on
Thanksgiving day and one on Feb. 2,
ground hog day; also three more boys
born on other dates.
Golf Is greatly Indulged In by the
naval officers and European residents
in China. In consequence the Chinese
boys have grasped some idea of the
game, and they are frequently seen
amusing themselves with an old stick
converted Into a club and a real golf
ball which some golfer has lost.
A hotel which cost the builder $13,-
000 six years ago at Kettle Falls,
Wash., has been sold for $200, and a
number of town lota were sold at from
5 cents to $25 each. The sale was
made by the couuty commissioners on
foreclosure for delinquent taxes aud
marked the end of a boom town.
Thomaston, Me., Is probably one of
the towns that will not be asking for
a new depot. The one there Is the old
General Knox mansion, 112 years old.
and is the only building left of the
once great Knox estate. For that rea
son It is a memorial that th* town will
probably be glad to harve preserved.
London will earn put on Its streets
a motor street cleaning machine that
will do the work of 500 men. It oper­
ates rakes for caked mud, “squeegees-'
for wet weather, a revolving brush and
a set of overlapping scrapers to com­
plete the cleaning operation. All the
refuse goes into a box. It works at
the rate of eight miles an hour.
The most voluminous report ever
filed with the United States supreme
court Is that of Frank 8. Bright, com
missloner appointed to take testimony
in the suit instituted by Missouri to
enjoin Illinois from emptying the Chi
cago drainage canal Into the Mississip­
pi river. The report contains 4.480,000
words and covers 7,975 pages.
A bell has been Imported by the
Swedish Lutheran church at New Brit
aln. Conn. The bell Is Inscribed as
follows; "Maria Swedish Evangelical
Lutheran church. New Britain, Conn.,
from the congregation's Sunday school.
The first Swedish church bell in Amer
lea, cast In th* year 1905 at Gothen
burg, mechanical factory In Sweden
Bell weight 1.12u kilograms."
“Smart” t.oidon Maaaere.
A fashionable crowd Is almost in
variably bad tempered. People Jostle
each other vindictively and preserve
a stony, icy glare the whole time. A
man at a dance seeking his partner
In the crush will uot hesitate to push
fast women In a way that would prob
ably shock his barbarian ancestors.—
London Lady.
“ Where are <11 the people going,
Poll)' ? ’’ asked a little frisiid the other
day, as we seated otVselvea hi one of
the comfortable coaches on the line of
the California Northwestern Railway.
It looked like everybody in Kan Fran­
cisco was going out of town on thia
road to eHcape toe Fourth of July noise
and confusion. I expected a crowd,
but nothing like this, for 1 naturally
supposed a large number of people
would go south, as is their custom year
in and year out. But it looks as if
they had at last discovered the fact
that they get all the comforts in trav­
eling, all the Isotutiful and picturesque
scenery on tills line, as well as the
glory of a ¡terfect and healthful cli­
mate, where you can lie in a hammock
enjoying your ever pleasant companion
—a good book—or weave air-castles as
light and flimsy as a child’s card
house, or lose yourself in your own
happy thoughts and cheerful memo­
ries of the days gone by ; days that
can never come again, but that still
leave a glow in the heart that can
never become dimmed with the hoar-
fr<s«t of old Father Time’s reckless and
relentless advance into our lives. The
people have at last found out that the
part of the country which is traversed
by this road is the mecca for sight­
seers, for those in search of health,
where they can drink health in the
crystal water that bubblesand splashes
as it pours from the rocks, or from
crevice and fissure where the ferns
love to dwell. Here is where the ang­
ler loves to cast his silken fly that woos
the shy trout from the Russian river
ami the many tributaries and brooks
that are teeming with the shy little
fish. They are game, and give no end
of s|s»rt to the anglers, who find it one
of the pleasures both in anticipation
and realization in enticing the finny
tri I m * from their own element. One of
the great advantages, however, for the
pleasure-seeker is its convenience and
nearness to San Francisco. Thousands
of people went over this line during
their vacation, and as train after train
thundered by, every ear loaded to its
fullest capacity with happy people, it
was natural for the thought or query
to come into one’s mind—where are
they all going" But from Sherwood
valley and Willetts down the line, ami
branching ott' on the various side lines
to Greeneville, Camp vacation, etc.,
r ght in the heart of nature, ideal
sjsits are found for summer sojourners,
l>e it for day, week or month. It is up
in this direction where the Bohemians
gather annually to bury business cares
and revel in their own unique way,
throwing dull care to the winds. If
that is too far branch oft' from the
main road at Ignacio, farther down
the line, and pitch your tents or stop
at the resorts at pretty Glenn Ellen, or
go on to Napa and stage it to some
summer resort. Crowds upon crowds
went out, but there was a place for
every one of the pleasure seekers.
‘‘Listen at this, Polly,” said the
grumpy old bachelor who manages to
get himself in this column occasionally
by some of his timely, and many times
oftener, his untimely remarks., “Six­
teen thousand people—immigrants,
mind you—have landed in New York
in three days, and reports say that
still there’s more to follow. There is a
mad rush for our open door while it is
yet swinging wide open to receive the
foreigners, ’llie majority of these im­
migrants are steerage passengers, too,
coming here without a dollar to bless
themselves and scores of them illiter­
ate, even in their own languages; who
have lieen glad in their mother coun­
tries to work for what we would con­
sider a trifle, but which was all they
could expect to receive, bat let them
remain here a few weeks or months,
or, at the very outside, long enough
for the men to l>ecome naturalized,
then they are dictating to you, telling
you you can’t do this ami you can't do
that in your own business. Where
they were satisfied with a few pence in
their own country, and were com-
|ielle«l to work early and late for this
meager pittance, here they demand in­
solently that you pay them the highest
wages, whether they are competent or
not. They crowd out our Ametieau
istys and girls—this raft of foreign im­
migrants. They demand certain and
numerous privileges which they never
dreamed of in their own country,
.lust think of it! Seven thousand Rus­
sian Hebrews reaching New York in
about two weeks! They doubtless
were a lietter class, but it isquite likely
they are penniless and haven't twenty
dollars to their names. In twenty-
two days over eighteen thousand Ital­
ians from sunny Italy poured into
Ellis Island, with a goodly nurnlier of
Hungarians, beside a lilteral sprinkling
from other European sections. Don’t
you think it is about time to tack up a
placard over New York harbor saving,
‘No Admission,’ ‘Hands Off-,'or some­
thing like that? IsMikingat this mat­
ter seriously and laying all joking
aside, we know that it is the criminal
class ami the lowest scum of Europe
that is [touring into tills country. Men
who are such Isirn criminals and who
are terrors in the place where they re­
side, have their passage paid to this
country rather than fill their jails with
this class of desperate criminals.”
The parlors for the card party were
decorated iu lavender aud green; dra­
peries of lavender illusion, held by
huge bouqets of violets were used
wherever available. Long featoona of
smilax and lavender ribbons decorated
the lace curtains aud swung In the
doorway, while loops of smilax caught
by rosettes of violets made a garland
round the walls. The score cards were
works of art, being ¡stinted by a friend
with a design of violets tied with a
true lover's knot in shades of violet,
touche«! up with a delicate tracery of
gold. The old-fashioned Isiuquet wus
surrounded by lace paper frills. Games
were counted with violets tied to the
card with green ribbons, and lone
hands were green hearts tied with lav­
ender ribbou. On each card table
were dainty lavender crepe pai>er bas­
kets filled with crystallized violets and
tiny ¡ilstache gum-drops. A quaint
idea w as given for finding the partners
for the evening. The ladies went to
the stair landing and found a mass of
wide violet satin riblsins, which ex­
tended through the liannisters to the
hall lielow. Each lady took an end of
ribbon. At a given signal the gentl«?-
ineii each took an end of the ribbon
which hung in the hall lielow and fol­
lowed it to the lady at the upper end;
she would then be his partner for the
evening. Eor the first prizes of the
evening she bad selected a necklace of
Amethysts and an exquisite white silk
tie embroidered in voiletsand beautiful
bunches of violets for the second prizes.
The hostess, herself, twas attired in
a lieautiful violet crepe dress, with
a corsage bouquet of violets ami maid­
en-hair.
BRIEF REVIEW.
“Black Sickness’’ is Deadly.
Interesting particulars of the mys­
terious and deadly disease of kala azar
and its newly discovered but at present
nameless parasite were given recently
by Major NV. B. Leishman, M. B., pro­
fessor of pathology at the Royal Army
Medical College, in an address delivered
at the Royal Institute of Public Hqalth
Russell square, NV. C. When epidemic
ami at its height the disease is more
fatal than plague, the mortality reach­
ing 96 to 98per cent. The name, "kala
azar,” signifies black sickness, and was
given to it by the natives because of a
darkening of the skin which it induces.
The disease, said Major Leishman, has
been known in India since 1869, but it
was first met with in the epidemic
form in 1882. The parsite has also l>een
met with in Northern Africa, Tunis,
Algiers and Arabia. The symtoms in­
clude an enlargement of the liver and
spleen, a shriveling of the legs, a corpse­
like apjtearanee of the skin, fever, an
enormous reduction of the white cor­
puscle* in the blood, and dysentery of
an intractable kind. NVoinen are as li­
able to attack as men, and tlie parasite
has been found in a baby a year old.
For some time w hite men were thought
to beimmune, but recently the parasite
was discovered in a soldier at Netley.
As to the treatment, Major Leishman
declared that every drug in the phar-
mocopeia had been tried without re­
sult, although it was still believed that
the use of quinine was indicated. He
said: “ We do not know how the para­
site gets out of the body or into the
liody, but we do know that infection
runs along the trade routes and clings
to a house in which patients have had
the disease. It will probably lie found
that the parasite lives in the soil
through tlie aid of an intermediate host
of cold-blooded habit sueli as a reptile.”
Drank Toast as He Died.
General De Sonnaz, a leading mem­
ber of the Italian Senate, who died in
Rome the other day, was at his desire,
dressed in his General’s uniform, with
all his medals and decorations, just lie-
fore he expired. He then called for a
glass of champagne, and with his rela­
tives gathered around his iieti drank a
toast, “To the King's health and the
prosperity of Italy. ’ At the sitting of
tlie Senate the General's last patriotic
toast formed the subject of a eulogistic
speech made by the president. The
Senate has decided to have this ad­
dress printed and to send copies of it to
the various barracks to strengthen tlie
spirit of patriotism among the soldiers.
Retired as Rear-Admirals.
The follow ing < 'ap'ainsof the United
States Navy have ix-en retired with
rank of Rear Admiral by President
Roosevelt, upon their own application,
after serving in the Navy forty years;
Rear-Admirals J. V. B. Bleecker, Adam
A. Dunlap, F. II. Delano, J. G. Katon
and C. T. Hutchins. Admiral Bleecker
has until recently lieen Captain of the
Bremerton, Puget Sound Navy Yard.
Nature-Study Authority.
Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, the
authoress, is one of the best known na­
ture-study authorities in this country.
She is assistant professor of extension
work In nature study at Cornell uni­
versity, and lectures each year at Le­
land Stanford university.
Study this deeply for ten minutes:
Our brains areeomisised of little bunqis
which feed and control our different
faculties and emotions. Thinking
draws blood to these bunqis. If you
are gay the bump of mirth will grow
aml you can't help but lie gay all the
time. If you are sad long the bump of
sadness will grow. If you study wise
books you will want to keep studying;
and if you are mentally lazy the bunqis
will shrink up. Isthisclear? Try to
make it.
No life is sweet that lives only for
A New York hostess recently gave a
itself.
card party in honor of a bride-elect,
and knowing her fondness for violets,
A world without struggles would be
made It a violet party, carrying out a world without heroes.
the color scheme in gowns, gloves,
Ne. er confide anything to a man who
bats, wraps, shoes, laces, and in her
sitting n«>m. tiedroom and 1 «throom. |«e«ldles gossip like a woman.
BIRTH Of THE
DREAMY WALTZ
The Popular Dance Had Its Or­
igin Either in France
or Germany.
Its Introduction Into England Caused
Scandal and Put Society in
a Great Uproar.
ELEPHANTS LUMBERING.
ALTERING A PICTURE.
A SYMBOL OF PEACE.
The>
Were Xal Unix Doiag Maa'«
Work, but Dulng It Mau't War.
Wh> the < l.au*r $)id Sot Pleas» <■>»
Original Artist.
The elephants round us were drag­
ging the logs tu the mill to be sawed,
They were harnessed for this with a
broad breast band aud heavy chains,
A native looped the chains round the
logs, aud the elephant started off with
them and deposited them on the trol­
ley. others were picking up the sawed
planks with their trunks aud carrying
them across the yard to be piled.
A mahout sat on the neck of every
elephant, and tf the animal picked up
too small a plunk the mahout would
hint, with bis iron spike, that two
might go to that load. Then, grunting,
the elephant would pick up the sec­
ond with Infinite delicacy of balance,
turn, march over ami deposit them be­
side the pile, always returning for an­
other load so long as there were any
planks ready. When there were none
be would take Ills ease In the sun and
wait, or ¡terhaps there were heavy logs
to be pusbial from oue place to an­
other, und if pushing would do. with
bls trunk curled against the log. no
elephant would give himself the trou­
ble of ¡ticking it up any more than a
housemaid will pick up a chair on
easters.
More fascinating it was than 1 can
tell to see the Jungle patriarch kneel
down to a heavy log, twist his trunk
round It, place It on the top of tlie
¡die ami then calculate its position aud
push and ¡mil until It was square In
Its ¡dace. The oddest liecause the
most reasonable thing was to see the
elephant, pushing against the end of a
very heavy log, stretch out one hind
leg to give himself balance and pur­
chase. That seemed to bring him
somehow very near to us. He was not
only doing our work, but he was do-
'ng it in our way.
Presently, with one accord, all the
elephants dropped work and moved In
the direction of the sheds
"That means It’s 11 o'clock.” said
the foreman; "dinner hour. Not for
himself could we get them to do a
stroke of work from now till 3. It’s
their off time. At 3 they begin again
and work till dusk, and they start
alaiiit 6 in the morning, but they don't
understand overtime.”—Pall Mall Ga­
zette.
T>**- Duva Hua Ha* Thia IMatlaeXloa
lu All Agra <la»* the •
Au artist was talklug about tlie noted
Germau painter Adolf vou Meuzel.
“N ou Meuzel," he said, "painted the
clearest aud moot distinct of pictures.
Ei erj thing with him was worktai out
to the last hair. Nothing was ever sug
gested With suggestisl, sketchy, Im
presslotiistie pictures he bad uo sym­
pathy. He was called the Meisaonier
of Germany.
"lu a discussion of a certain impres­
sionist's vague, unintelligible work 1
once bean! Vou Meuzel say;
" 'This man Markheim sold to the
Countess X. two years ago oue of bls
landscapes. The countess after she bad
bail the lands"ape a few weeks tired of
It, and to another artist who dined
w itli her one night she said:
...... I think the new picture that Herr
Marklieim sold me lacks animation. It
needs life In It. NN’ould you be willing
to paint for me a man or woman on
that road that ruus through the mid­
dle?"
...... Why, surely, madam," said the
sta-oiid paint) r. And be to*k the pic­
ture home w ith him, made the addition
and returned it the next morulng.
"'Later, meeting Markhelm, he said:
...... I had the audacity to alter a
landscape of yours the other day. It
was the landscape* you sold the Count
e«s X. She wanted a figure lu It. and
Io oblige her I painted an old peasant
walking down the road.”
" 'Markheim frowned.
....... I'lii* road?" he said. "The road?
I don't remember any road in that pic­
ture."
...... Oh, ?es, there Is a road,” said
the other.
“ • “1 can't recall It," said Markheim.
“ 'Finally, to settle the matter, they
went to the house of the countess ami
stood before the picture.
...... There." said'Markheim'» brother
artist—“there Is your road, and there Is
my old peasant walking down it."
" • “Fool,” Markhelm cried, "what
have you done? That ia not a road iu
tlx* center of my work. It Is a riv­
er.” ’ ”—San Francisco News-Ia>tter.
The dove ha* been pictured a* the
blrtl of peace by writers and artist* In
all the ages since the time of the flood,
for the dove has figure«? In the sym
holism of many race* aud of count­
less generations. According to the
Century Dictionary, the dove 1* the
bird of peace lovause of the Incident
ri-corded in the eighth chapter of Gen
eels: “And It came to pass at the end
of forty days that Noah opened the
window of the ark which be had made,
aud he sent forth a raven which went
to aud fro until the water* were drh*«l
up from off the earth. And be sent
forth u dove from him to see if the
waters were abated from off the face
of the ground, but tbi* dove found uo
n***t for the sole of her foot, aud she
ret urinal unto him In the ark. Aud
be stayed yet another seven days, aud
again lie sent forth the dove out of the
ark. und the dove came to him In th«*
eveuing. aud, lo, In her mouth was au
olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew
that the waters were abated from off
the earth."
Proper names derived from the dove
bavt* always b«*en used in the orient
as descriptive of lovelluess and were
especially applied to beautiful wo­
men. The dove was woven Into the
pagan worship of ancient northern
Europe, and it has a great place iu
early Christian life and symbolism.
From immemorial time the dove has
always been a type of innocence to
the Jews. Elsewhere it has been as­
sociate«! since the Olympian age with
tlx* higher idea of Venus a* the sym­
bol of natural human affection-the
love that goes with purity und slm-
plicity of heart. It had a part in mar­
riage sceue* and was naturally Intro­
duced by early Christian painters Into
pictures of the Madonna and child aud
of female saints. These qualities of
gentleness and affection combined with
their mournful notes made doves
equally appropriate to moods of sor­
row. and they were a part of the furni­
ture of most pngau funerals. This
passed on into Christian usage and
their lik)*n<‘sses, generally combined
with the olive branch, were carv«*d
on the tombs lu the catacombs be
neatii Rom«* and elsewhere, emblematic
of eternal ¡icace.
In the Sporting Magazine for 1825
this appeared: “Pigeons are rarely
seen nt the table of the Russians, wlw
entertain a superstitious veneration for
these birds because the Holy Ghost as­
sumed the form of a dove.” Comment­
ing on this, a writer says, "Tills cus­
tom of the abstinence from the flesh
of the dove is far older than Christian­
ity, lieing indeed in all probability con­
nected with the same class of feelings
as those which marked It out as tlie
Aryan death bird.”
Sir Richard F. Burton remarks; “Ev­
er since Noah's dove every religion
se«-ms to conshler the pigeon as the
snered bird. For example, every
mosijtie swarms with pigeons, und tlie
same exist iu most Italian market
places. The Hindoo pundits and the
old Assyrian empire also have them.”
No exact dale can be ascribed to the
iati'odu. li.ia of the waltz into England
from Fi'.iucv. In lSO'i Gilray published
a caricature of a couple waltzing.
i. ...i
i.. e i . ,t • EJ.« was iut aided
f ir a quiz upon the tlieu foreign dance,
waltzing." Agaiu iu 1810 the same art-
Ist publish« I another sketch, entitled
"La NValse, la* Bon Genre,” with the
note, "The walse was ut this time new
in England and Just coming Into fash
loll."
The fume, or. rather, notoriety, of the
new dance had, however, reached
England some years previously. Dr.
Burney had seen It danced lu Paris In
1780 and was moved to write, “How
uneasy an English mother would feel
to see her daughter so uufamillarly
treated anil still more to note the
obliging manner in which the free­
dom is returned by the females.”
ltalkes in his Journal declares that
“no event ever produced so great a
sensation iu English society as the in­
troduction of th» German waltz,”
which he atttributes to Barou Neu­
mann and others about the year 1811.
He relates how the mornings, which
hud hitherto been dedicated to loung­
ing in the park, were now absorb«*)! at
home in practicing the figures of a
French quadrille or whirling a chair
round the room to learn the step anil
measure cf the German waltz.
It was danced at Almack’s by a few
very bold spirits, notably Lord Palmer­
ston, Mme. de Lieven, Princess Ester-
hazy and Baron Neumann, aud thus
became a matter of exhibition, the
whole company standing on benches to
view the performance.
However, the a’ntiwaltzlng party took
the alarui and cried It down. Mothers
forbade It, aud every ballroom became
JAPANESE WHALERS.
a scene of feuil and contention. How
profound was Its unpopularity in cer The Curious Way They Do Thelt
Work With Nets and Knlvea.
tain quarters is proved by the pasqui
Whales are captured In nets by the
nades leveled against It. The famous
Japanese. The whalers put off from
seven lines commencing
"What! The girl I adore by another em- the shore as quietly as possible, and
when they come within the proper dis­
braced!”
are commonly attributed to Byron, tance of their objective the boats,
though they were published anony­ which have hitherto worked in couples,
mously lu 1812, and some authorities separate and. dropping their nets as
give Thomas Moore as the author. An they go, work around to the rear and
Impromptu purporting to be addressed flanks of their expected kill. The net*
by an indignant lover to bls betrothed are made lu largo squares, each side
and her partner echoes Byron’s feel­ being aliout forty feet long. Oue net
is eomposwl of six squares In line, and
ings:
the squares are fastened to each other
You've brushed the bloom from the
lightly. When all is ready the boat*
peach,
which have been worked around to the
From the rose its soft hue;
What you've touched you may take.
rear of the wliale then commence to
Pretty waltzer, adieu.
drive him gently toward the nets. Mov­
Auother poet delivered himself of the ing along lazily at first, the whale soon
following diatribe:
realizes that something untoward is
How arts improve tn this Inspiring age!
happening aud, hurrying forward,
Peers mount the box. and horses tread the dashes on to one of the nets. This is the
stage.
While waltzing females, with unblushing critical moment, and when the fisher­
men see that the whale Is well in the
face,
Disdain to dance but In a man s em­ center of one of the squares they raise
brace.
a greut shout and charge lu upon him.
“The waltz, however,” continues
When the whale Is about spent a man
Raikes, “struggled successfully through cho . n for liis strength, activity, pluck,
all its difficulties. Flaurhault, who was coolness and general fitness for his
•la tleur du pols' lu Paris, came over work then leaps upon bis back and
and with a host of others drove the with a great triangular shaped knife
prudes into their lutreuchmeuts. Aud proceeds to cut two great gashes in his
when the Emperor Alexander was seen body just back of his bead. Through
waltzing around the roof ut Almack’s, the underlying blubber and these two
with his tight uniform ami numerous gashes lie pusses a rope and, knotting
decorations, they surrendered at discre­ it, makes a loop of it. He then repeats
tion.”
the same operation as far back on bls
It Is a moot point whether the waltz body as he can. NVben the fight has
originated In France or Germany, been completely knocked out of the
whether It came from the French "La whale, boats range alongside of him,
Volta” or the German national dance, aud by the help of the loops already
the "Landler.” According to French mentioned tlie hapless cetacean is
authorities, La Volta was simply the slung between them in such a manner
waltz a trois temps. Provence was Its as to minimize the danger of his car­
birthplace, and It was first Introduced cass sinking.
at the court of Henry IL at Fontaine­
Then the boats form in processiou,
bleau In 1555 by the Comte de Saulte, and, making for the shore, there com­
who Is said to have Invented it, for mences the most curious part of the
many called it La Volta de Saulte, and whole affair. The whalers, with real
the name is suitable both because of fervor aud lu the most solemn mauner
the etymology of the word aud the possible, begin a chanting prayer for
character of the dance.
the ease of the lieparting spirit by call­
It enjoyed a great run throughout ing out “Joraku! Joraku! Joraku!" In
France and even penetrated to Scot­ low, deep tones. Upon the third day
land, where It met with furious opposi­ after the kill a memorial service is
tion, one writer averring that its Im­ held In the village temple, and prayers
portation into France had been effect­ are offered for the repose of the dead
ed by tlie power of witches. Mary Stu- whale's soul.—Chicago News.
urt once exhibited her agility In thia
dance, but she was careful not to re­
The Haiti Beetla’a Cradle.
peat the experiment, and this was
If at almost any time of the year we
about the last beard of it.
walk through the woods where the red.
The case for Germany is that the scarlet, black or pin ouks are growing
first waltz tune appeared In 1670 in a that is, where we find those that ripen
popular song called "O du lieber Au­ their acorns In two seasons and there­
gustin." From Germany the dance fore belong to the pin oak group—we
made Its way to Vienna aud was intro­ •ball probably find on the ground fall­
duced Into the opera, while by and by in branches that vary In size from that
it found its way to France, whence it of a lead pencil to that of one’s thumb
came to England—"the Insidious waltz, or even larger These at the broken
this Imp of Germany, brought up In end appear as if cut away within the
France."
wood, so that only a tbiu portion ia
The waltz when first danced In Lon left under tlie bark. Within the rather
don was a slow movement a trois uneven cut, generally near the center
temps, and the early "English waltz of the growth, is a small hole tightly
compositions were very poor. Strauss plugg<*d by tl»* "powder post" of a
came to London In 1837 tn nlav st *' beetle larva. Split open the branch or
mack s, and bls waltz music created a twig, when a burrow will be s«*en, and
perfect furore. It killed the old trois th«* little, white, soft, hard jawed lar­
temps waltz, and the deux temps va that made It will be found or per­
usurped Its place. Now that the fasci­ haps the inactive pupa.
nation of the waltz is all powerful. It Is
difficult to realize the commotion Its In
Why l*rassla la So Called.
troductlon caus<*d.—London Globe.
The modern name of Prussia Is de­
rived from Borusai, or Porussi, who
A RoamaBlaa Cwstom.
A strange custom Is still observed In conquered the country nliout 320 B. C.
Roumanla which reminds one strongly Little Is known concerning Prussia aud
of Robinson Crusoe. When a servant Its people till the tenth <*entury except
has displeased bls or her master the that that portion of th«* Baltic shore
offender takes his boots in his hands which is now included In the kingdom
and places them before tlie bedroom of Prussia was formerly i .habited by
door of his master. It Is a sign of Slavonic tribes aklu in customs und
great submission, and the boots are languages to the Lithuanians. They
either kicked away as an Intimation came In occasional collision with wave
that the fault will not be forgiven or after wave of the great Teutonic race
else the servant Is told to place them as It flowed down from the ley north,
on his feet, which shows that be is for- receiving their first knowledge of Chris­
ad ven
tianity from Bishop Adalbert of Prague,
whom they martyred in 997. Iu the
lah»rlt*d.
middle of the thirteenth century the
Settlement Worker—What a well be­ Teutonic knights, on their return from
haved little boy be is! The Burglar's the crusades, undertook the conquest
Wife—And lie conies by It natural, and conversion of Prussia. The Borus­
mum Hl poor father never failed to sia element mingled with the followers
have a cutemo redm-ed owing to or the Teutonic knights. and cons*
good l*ebivior.- Fuck. •
quently with the Poles.
THE GROUND CUCKOO.
ReiiiHrkNble Cunning It Dtaplay» Iu
Catching Rattlers.
One of the most Interesting zoological
oddities Is the California ground cuc­
koo. He usually is from twenty to
twenty-five inches long, including his
tail, which measures one half of his
whole length. On account of hia small
wings lie is a poor filer, but what he
lacks in aerial dexterity he makes up
in pedestrian velocity. NVlth his four
yard jumps he can outrun the swiftest
race horse. His geographical range
is confined to southern California.
Mexico and some parts of Texas. As
a bird of prey the ground cuckoo out­
wits Ills most avldious fellow crea­
tures. Snails ami large worms consti­
tute his principal food, which he* is
busy all day iu digging out of the
ground. But he does uot hesitate to
attack larger animals. It Is no trou­
ble for liim to get the better of small
snakes, aud when domesticated he
beats any cat or dog In the extermina­
tion of mice and small house pests.
Most curiously Interesting Is the
strategic sagacity he displays In the
capture of large rattlesnakes. These
be dare not meet In fair and open
combat. As soon as he espies a rattle­
snake sleeping In the sun near a cac
tus hedge he surrounds bis victim with
a heap of the prickly leaves until lie
Is well hemmed In. He then pricks
at the reptile a A-w times with his
sharp bill, which causes a sudden com
motion in tlie cactus heap. Iu Ills nt
tempt to disentangle himself from the
leaves he wounds bis tender flesh, aud
it takes but an hour or two for tlie
average rattler to die of sheer ex
haustlon and furnish a much coveted
tidbit for the sly cuckoo. His meth­
od with bls ¡trey resembles that of the
cat with the mouse.
THE OLD SAILING SHIPS.
One Mystery Solved.
Boarding house habitues who have
repeatedly complained of the dark,
cheerless coloring of the wall paper
in their rooms may find something to
Interest them in the Information re­
cently elicited by a curious clerk in a
department store.
"I should like to know,” said the
clerk "In fact, I have long wanted to
know why It Is tlint you ladles who
manage boarding houses always choose
such dark paper.”
"NVell,” said the prospective purchas­
er, "if that Is the only thing you want
to know you might Just as well have
got w ise long ago. NVe like dark pa­
per because with that on the walls the
nails the boarders use to tack up their
pictures don't leave such ghastly
scars."—New York Press.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
How many men work too hard? How
many do you know?
The sailing ship when I knew her in
Every good husband Is henpecked.
the days of her perfection was a sensi­ That's all there Is to It.
ble creature. When I say her days of
Classical music Is like some people--
perfection I mean perfection of build, very hard to understand.
gear, seaworthy qualities and ease of
It Is said that a farmer gets the best
handling, uot the perfection of speed. work out of a farm hand who Is aspir­
That quality reached Its highest ex ing to be bls son-ln law.
ceilence in the discovery of hollow
Perhaps one reason why a ¡ioor man
line* ami departed with the change of Ilves longer than a rich one Is that the
building material.
doctors don't take so much interest In
None of the iron ships of yesterday him.
ever attained the marvels of speed
When an economical man suffers a
which the seamausblp of men famous ten dollar loss he cuts off expenditures
in their time bad obtained from their reaching to $5U before he feels right
wooden, copper sheeted predecessors. about it.
Everything bad been done to make
If you have fault* the idea is not to
the Iron ship perfect, but no wit of bumilinte yourself by acknowh-dglng
mnu bad managed to devise an efficient them to your euemiea, but to get over
coating couqiositioii to keep her isd- them If possible for your own good.—
tom clean with the smooth cleanness Atcbisou Glols*.
of yellow metal sheeting. After a
spell of a few weeks at sea an iron
laflaence of Had Hair.
ship begins to lag as If she had grown
"There never has lieen an Important
tired too soon. It is only her Isittom revolutionary movement without a red
that is getting foul.
haired person intimately concerned. If
A very little affects the speed of a uot the leader,” says a writer. "Nearly
ship that Is not driven on by an untir­ ■ill the great reformers or founders of
ing propeller. Often It Is Impossible to religions bad red hair. History men­
tell what inconsiderate trifle ¡nits her tions that Mohammed was a red haired
off her stride. A certain mysterious man. King David whs ruddy. Ixiul*
lies« hangs around the quality of s|ss*<l XIV. was a sandy haired man, with
as It was displayed by the old sailing many of the characteristic peculiarities
ships commanded by competent sea­ of the type. Cleopatra Is called The
men. In those days the speed was red haired Greek.’ Mary, queen of
still a matter for the senman’s care. Scots, bad red hair, and Prince Charles
Therefore, apart from the laws, rules resembled her in coloring. Lucrezia
and regulations for the good preserva­ Borgia looks In her portrait* somewhat
tion of bls cargo, he was careful of bln auburn. IJueeu Elizabeth was of de­
loading, of what Is technically called cidedly red coloring, which will suit
the trim of his ship. Some ships snllwl both her admirer* and her detractor».”
t**st on an even keel, others had to be
Leaping Treason.
trimmed quite one foot by the stern,
King William III. of England was
and I have heard of a ship that gave
her b«*st «po«*d on a wind when so passionately fond of the chase and
loaded as to flout a couple of im-ln- > made It a ¡mint never to tie outdone iu
any leap, however perilous. A Mr.
by the head.—Joseph Conrad In liar
Cherry, who was devoted to the exiled
per’s Weekly._____________
family, took advantage of this to ¡dan
Hawk a a* Weaaet.
the moat pardonable design which was
A New Zealand ¡taper relates that a ever formed against a king's life. He
■ettler noticed a hawk flying aliout lu regularly Joined the royal bounds, put
■ peculiar manner and crying out n* it himself foremost and took the most
In pain. The settler obtained ■ gun ami | desperate leups In the hope that Wil­
shot the bird, and Investigation showed liam might break his neck lu following
th«* catise of Its distress was a weasel him. One day, however, he accom-
which was p«*r<’hed on the hawk's back, pllshed one so Imminently daugerou«
with Its teeth burled In the bird's neck. that the king when be came to the spot
Apparently the animal had pounced shook bls bead and drew back. It is
ii | hiu the ba wk when it was on the •aid that Mr. (.Tier** at length broke
ground and was carried skyward with hla Wrn neck aud thereby relieved the
the flight of it* prey.
king from further hazard.
Wliy «lie Wooden One. Were Hetter
Than Those Hull) of Iron.