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SUPERSTITIONS CF KINE.
A Number Conspicuous In Ancient and
1 . Modern Speech.
Of all odd numbers the one which
Iwould seem to be the mo6t cdnspic-
tious in a'-cient lore and modern
tpeech and in allusions of all sorts,
whether classic or vulgar, is 9.
Whether this is because it is a mul
tiple of 3, a triple trinity, or not
We need not stop to inquire. The
connections in" which 9 figurs are
very numerous and extraordinarily
varied. Of old there were nine
iEiu.es and also nine rivers in the
infernal regions. In classical- mv-
tholosrv vrc road of nine heavens
and nine worlds, and the hydra had
nine head?.
In mediaeval times there were
nine "worthies of the world," the
places in this select assembly being
differently allotted by different au-
thorities, the usual division being
three gentiles, or paynims, three
Jews and three Christians. One of
the oldest English games is nine
men's morris. It could be played
either indoors or outdoors, on a
folding board marked with the nec-
essarv lines and squares or on a
board marked out on field or down
by stones or by cuts in the turf. In
Dorset they still play the game un
der the name of marnull.
Nine appears frequently in popu
lar medicine. A . Sussex collector
referring to the very common rural
behei in the ellicucy ot passing a
natured child through a cleft ash
free says that the patient must be
attended by nine persons, each of
whom should pass it through the
cleft from west to east. A Ferth.
kirk session record of 1G23 refers
to the preparation of three cakes
Sor some medicinal purpose from
nine portions of meal contributed
.by nine maidens and nine married
women. Threads with nine knots
and straws with nine joints are used
for various healing- purposes, while
nine successive mornings are often ;
prescribed for the performance of i
certain folklore ceremonies. .
The great Lambton worm, one of ,
.the best known of English dragon
myths, had nine eyes and was fed J
from the milk of nine cows.
Again, the same number is prom
inent in various common phrases
and proverbs. Nine tailors make a
man. Queen Elizabeth is alleged to
have once addressed a deputation cf
leighteen tailors with'a "Good morn
ing, gentlemen both !"
Every one knows that a cat haa
nine lives, while the "cat" that is
used for the castigation of evil
doers has nine taijs.
When Jlercutio insults Tybalt
and the latter inquires, "What
wou'ldst thou have with me?" the
volatile but fiery partisan replies,
"Good king of cats, nothing but one
of your nine lives." Ileywood, the
proverb monger, has the saying, "A
iwoman hath nine lives, like a cat,"
Which will be news to most folk.
Three more examples may be giv
en from a collection of applications
of this remarkable number 9 which
is not easily exhausted. Possession,
we often hear, is "nine points of the
law." A person wflo has paid some
attention to his or her attire is said
for some inscrutable reason to be
dressed "up to the nines," while the
most startling event is but. a "nine
days' wonder." The last phrase,
though truer now than ever, was fa
miliarly used, with many other still
current fprms of popular speech, in
the days of Chaucer. London
Globe.
Unreasonable.
: ' Not long ago in a western market
i town I chanced to observe an Irish
man with a live turkey under his
arm. The turkey was squawking
and gobbling in a distressed way, a
racket to which the Irishman did
not at first pay any particular no
tice. Finally, however, the disturb
ance got on the Celt s nerves. Hiv
ing the bird a poke in the side, he
exclaimed:
I "Be quiet! What's the matther
iwid ye annyhow? Why should yez
,want to walk whin I'm willin' to
.carry ye?" Ilarper's Monthly.
' Ate It All.
',' A wife had occasion to go out to
women's votes' meeting, so left a
pudding in the saucepan for her hus
iband. When she arrived home she
ent on with her washing and in
quired how he'd got on.
' "Very well." said he. "I thor
oughly enjoyed the pudding."
: "Good!" said the wife. "What
did you do with the cloth it was
boiled in?"
"Cloth, my, gal?" said hubby as he
abstractedly continued reading his
Ipaper. "Was there a cloth?" Lon
don Illustrated Bits.
An Exception Noted.
,' Lawyer Your uncle's will seems
io be a perfectly legal document,
jsuch as will stand in any court. I
jean find no grounds on which to
contest it.
L Disappointed Nephew But you
ust and some grounds. Where
.ere s a will there s a way, you
,ow. Lippincotfs. :x .
FOR THE UTTLE ONES.
Story of a Squirrel and What Hap-
period to Him.
' Once there was 'a squirrel that
Hi ht his home, and he used
to scold find fau? with f
thing. The papa squirrel had Bong
gray whiskers, and so was wise be
sides which he could shake hi
whiskers quickly. He said to the
squirrel, ,?My dear, as you do not
like your home there are three sen
sible things you could do
"Leave It
Or change It.
Or suit yourself to It.
Any one of these would help you in
vour trouble."
But fhe little squirrel said: "Oh;
J do not want to do any of those.
I had rather sit on the branch of a
tree and scold." r '
i "Well," said the papa squirrel,
' "if you must do that whenever you
want to scold just go out on a
branch and scold away at some one
you do not know."
i The little squirrel blushed so
much that he became a red squirrel,
and you will notice that to this day
red squirrels do just that thing.
St. Nicholas.
How to Play Wonderment.
It is necessary that two only of
the party should have a knowledge
of the game, and then wonderment
is sure to be the result.
! The two players agree that a cer
tain word shall be regarded as a sig
nal word. As an illustration, lmag-
ine this word to be ."and.
yjne oi uie piayers asseius iia uc
lief that he is gifted with second
sight and states that he is able,
through a closed door, to name any
article touched by any person m
sympathy with nim notwithstanding
f " . -,.
that said person may attempt to
mystify him by mentioning a lot of
other articles. He then chooses his
confederate as being one with whom
he may be in sympathy and goes
outside.
' The partner in the room then
proceeds to call out perhaps in this
way: "Table," "Hearth rug," "Pi
ano," "Footstool" and "Chair,"
"Lamp," "Inkstand," etc. He then
places his hand on the back of a
chair and asks, "What am 1 touch
ing now?" The answer will of
course be "Chair," because the sig
nal word "and" came immediately
before that article.
If players are skilled the trick
need not be discovered for a long
time. i
Swapping Party. 1
A "swapping party" is one of the j
latest forms of amusement at a I
young people's gathering.
Each guest is asked to bring a
certain number of articles with
which he or she is willing to part.
The more trifling in value and the
older these are the more fun it will
be to dicker for somebody else's well
worn treasures. !
Old toys, valentines, bits of brie- !
a-brac, cherished neck ribbons or
cravats, photographs, dance pro
grammes, games and a hundred oth
er relics of bygone days will suggest
themselves as contributing to the
amusement of the affair. The one
who has succeeded in swapping for j
the most articles by the time the j
fun ends is, awarded a modest prize .
of some sort.
Thread and Eggshell.
Some interesting and effective lit
tle tricks may be performed with
the aid of thread that has previous
ly been soaked in salt and water.
This renders the ash of the thread
when burned sufficiently strong to 1
support a light weight, such as an ;
empty eggshell, provided there is j
no vibration in the article to which j
the thread is attached. i
Having suspended an egg by a '
prepared thread, a match can bo '
applied and the thread burned right
inrougn witnout ine egg laiuner to
i the ground.
How to See a Coon.
Did you ever see
A coon up a tree?
Well. It you didn't.
Tont blame me;
But turn your eyea
Toward the skies.
And on a limb
Tou'U aure see him.
Washington jPoafc
CONDENSED, STORIES."
Hew Senator Beveridge Was , Saved
From a Would Be Slayer.
Albert J. Beveridge, senator from
Indiana, spent several of his adoles
cent years in Kansas, driven, to the
wild by ill health and overwork at
his law studies. One day in a small
town he butted in and broke up a
lynching party. ' ' ,
A stage driver had accused a man
he was known to dislike of having
stolen a mule. Beveridge thought
it was a put up job and with all the
enthusiasm of a budding lawyer ar
gued that the evidence was "insuffi
cient to convict, it being a case of
BEVERIDGE OPENED TTR EYES,
fvna tnan'o Tunvrl arroincf aurttliOT'c
When he pointed out, moreover,
that the evidence of the accuser '
was prejudiced because of his dis
like for the accused the crowd saw
the point, and the lynching was
called off.
The stage driver determined on
revenge and started to pick a quar
rel with Beveridge. Finally the
stage driver pulled his gun, and the
future senator closed his eyes, wait
ing for the bullet that would cut
down his fair young life. But for
some reason the weapon was not
discharged. '
Curiosity finally led Beveridge to
open his eyes, and he discovered
that the would be murderer had
paused because another man had
the drop on him. A murderer, cut
throat and all round bad man
whomBeveridgehad nursed through
a serious illness had interfered just
in time to prevent the United
States senate from being deprived
of one of its future ornaments.
The Retort Courteous.
Paul Morton, the president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
was talking on La Savoie about the
London cabby.
"A hansom or a four wheeler is
supposed to be cheap in London,"
Mr. Morton said, "but let the aver
age American tourist go driving
about in one of them day after day,
and at the week's end the size of his
expenditure will shock him.
"Of course, it is impossible to rida
in a London cab and pay only the
legal fare of a shilling for two miles.
Try cab riding without liberal tip
ping, and the cabman will assail you
with the most brilliant and ffitty
sarcasm.
"I know a lawyer who, through
ignorance, rode from the British
museum to the Eitz hotel in Pic
cadilly and only gave his driver the
shilling required by law. )
"The driver looked at this shilling j
and bit his lip. Tken, in the most ;
courteous manner, he motioned to j
the lawyer to get in again.
" 'Go on,' he said. Do step in
again, sir. . I could ha' drew ye a I
yard or two further for this 'ere.' "
Strenuous Hunting.
"Dr. Seward Webb," said an editor,
"once showed me over Shelburne
Farms, his- splendidly stocked estate
in Vermont. I complimented him
on the abundance of game at Shel
burne and he told me an appropri
ate story.
"It was a story about a young
clubman. He looked up from his
mail one morning and murraurui:
'"Beastly. Simply beastly
" 'What is the matter Y some one
asked.
, " 'Here is an invitation,' said the
young man, 'from a chap who owns
10,000 acres in New Hampshire.
He wants me to go wild boar shoot
ing there.'
"Well,, why don't you go? said
his friend.
"'Ah er I don't know,' the
young man Hesitated. l er-
haven't got the fare, for one thing,
and er you have to find your own
boars for another. So perhips X
haven't missed much."' '
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MEXICAN WILD tfQG.
Small but Fierce and Sometimes Used
" : as a Watchdog.
Ranchmen in the vicinity of Col
quitt, Tex., use : the javeline, or
Mexican wild hog, - as a watchdog,
says the Kansas City Star. The
javeline is far superior to the or
dinary dog when It:c6mes to guard
ing the home and premises to which
it has become' attached. It is easily
domesticated if taken when it is a
pig. There is hardly a Mexican
household in this section that does
not have a pet javeline, which
6erves many useful purposes.
The javeline of the southwest has
very few characteristics of the hog.
Beyond the fact that it closely re
sembles the hog in' appearance, it
might well be classed as an entirely
different species of animal.
In point of fearlessness it sur
passes any "other animal that roams
the chaparral of the southwest. It
is one of the few wild animals that
do not hesitate to 'attack man. It
is feared by every deer hunter who
visits the region. Innumerable in
stances are known of hunters having
been forced to seek refuge in trees
to avoid being torn to pieces by en
raged javelines. They are so- fero
cious in their wild state that only
the most intrepid sportsman will
brave the dangers of hunting them.
When taken as a pig and domesti
cated the javeline can easily be
trained to do almost any trick that
can be taught the most intelligent
dog. It is quick to learn to know
the members of the family and will
protect them against harm with its
life if necessary. No strange hu
man being or animal is permitted to
enter the house or yard where a pet
javeline is on guard. It has a bark
something similar to that of a dog,
and when danger approaches it sets
up its peculiar cry.
The javeline is almost as fleet as
a dog; and one javeline will whip
several dogs. They weigh when full
grown from fifty to eighty pounds.
They are taller in the fore part of
their body than in the rear. In
this respect they resemble the wild
boar.
The javelines in their wild state
run in droves of twenty to fifty.
They always travel in single file and
appear to have a recognized leader.
'When feeding or bedded for sleep
or rest one of the javelines is al
ways on guard. Whenever a drove
of animals is about to cross an open
space a sentinel is first sent out to
take a view of the situation. 1
everything is found to be clear the
signal is given by the sentinel and
the whole drove trots across the
clearing and re-enters the chaparral.
, Corner Trees Are Delicate.
. A man owning corner property
planted three trees, one at the cor
ner, the other two about fifteen feet
down either street. The trees down
the street thrived, Tbut the one on
the corner withered and finally died.
Again and again the man set out
new trees at the corner, but his ef
forts to beautify that spot failed.
Each tree made a feeble attempt to
take root, but soon gave it up find
followed in the way of its predeces
sors. (
"How do you account for it?"
asked the property owner of an ar
boriculturist. "The soil is good, and
I take excellent care of the trees.
Why do they die?" .
"I don't know why," said the ex
pert, "but it is a fact that a corner
tree is twice as likely to die as one
in the middle of the block. Look at
all the dwarfed, stunted trees in
New York's streets and you will find
that three-fourths of the failures
stand on the corner." New York
Press.
She Didn't Count.
A writer, to illustrate one view of
charity, said that two old men were
smoking and drinking together
after dinner. The host rang the
bell and an old woman appeared.
"Confound you, stupid!" said the
host, "Didn't I tell you I wanted
the Scotch? Take this .back and
bring what I asked for, you old
fool!" "Come, come," said the
guest after the old woman had hur
ried away in a great frights "Come,
come, my friend, don't you think
you are rather too sharp with your
old servant ?" "Oh," said the other,
"she's not a servant. She's only a
poor relation I'm keeping out of
charity." The guest looked relieved.
"That alters the case, of course," he
said.
The Interest Worked Backward.
"Look er heah, man," said Mr.
Green, who had lent Deacon Foxie
$10-S"jes fuh a day or so till I
draws," the request had been. "You
'done owe me dat money now goin'
on 'leben months. Ef yo' doan pay
me right erway I gwine mek de sher
iff level on yo' wages."
"Mr. Green," said the deacon im
pressively, "1's s'prised at yo' ig
n'rance. I'sho' is! Doan yo' know
de interest done et up dat $10 long
ergo?"
. Mr. Green is still figuring. Lip
pincotfs. "
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