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WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN.
rublishrtl Kvery Week.
OREGON.
ENTERPRISE
A ladj- typewriter has become a Hon
tamer. Probably got tired of being
dictated to.
Adam was lucky in another way. He
liad no friends to come around teUing
him how ho ought to bring up his boys.
wealth, especially that which has been
hardly pained, seems to cause the
growth of a crust of selfishness round
former kindly hearts and renders them
hard, when poverty and sorrow would
have made theiu tender.
Kins Kdward has distributed 4iX
more coronation honors without notic
ing the raised linger of William Wal
dorf Astur.
The surgeon who operated on King
Edward says appendicitis is really a
good thing. He speaks from the sur
geon's standpoint.
The man who killed his wife because
he talked too much set an example
which. If generally followed, would
soon exterminate the human race.
Another time-honored proverb ex
ploded. Jabiuski, the giant, is said to
be the longest Polo In the world, and
lie never knocked a persimmon In his
life.
Some of the independent steel com
panies are getting ready to fight the
big trust. Or it may be that they de
tire to be absorbed at profitable figures.
France wants an easier divorce law.
According to reports, an easier mar
riage law might obviate some of the
evils. It is so much trouble to get
married that some people neglect to do
!t
The luminous and pregnant notion
that the motor vehicle is a convenience,
like a cab, not a medium of sport, like
race house, is gradually penetrating
the Intellects of faddists devoted to
rapid motion. In the nature of things
It ought to take root and bear fruits
meet for latter-day civilization.
The continued unhealthy condition
along the Ambejemackomas, Eskwesk
wewajo and Meskaskeeseehunk rivers
in Maine have induced the State Board
of Health to decree that no further use
of the waters from these streams for
domestic purposes shall be made until
their names have been boiled down.
Queen Alexandra has revived the use
f the word "lady," which has been
tabooed by the polite society of Eng
land In favor of "woman" during the
last decade, but reported proceedings of
female members of the London "swag
ger set" lead to the belief that her
majesty is premature In the revival.
Modern economy permits less and less
to go to waste. It gathers up the frag
ments, saves odds and ends, finds a
use for what once was called worthless.
The saving may take a philanthropic
torn, as In the case of a large factory
in Jena, Germany, which utilizes Its
surplus hot water In such a way as to
give the laborers nearly a thousand
baths a week.
When the eruption of Mont Pelee
wiped out the city of St Pierre and
destroyed more than thirty thousand
lives, the world was aghast l'apers
-were crowded with details of the ca
tastrophe, and every line was eagerly
read. Since the middle of July almost
s many lives have been destroyed by
the cholera in Egypt, yet the only news
of that loss which has reached the
world at large has been a few lines
In the London papers. A curious com
mentary on the power of the spectacu
lar and unusual, even hi death!
Impoliteness or unpleasantness on
the part of salesgirls is often attributed
to the 111 manners of the women who
face them on the other side of the
counter. Often it is, for salesgirls are
only human, but the Dry-Goods Econ
omist thinks there is another cause. It
says of one store with which It Is fa
miliar, "Every employe in It seems to
he good-natured. Why should there be
any difference In this respect between
this establishment and the average
store? Is not human nature about the
same the world over? True; but there
to a difference. The proprietor of this
store is not only a merchant but a gen
tleman. He treats his employes with
marked courtesy and consideration.
As a consequence, they feel so kindly
disposed toward him and his business
that their good-will is reflected In their
treatment of his customers." Soma
storekeepers never find out why It Is
that so few of their casual customers
become regulars.
If an Italian wants to praise a wo
man most highly, he does not tell you
she is beautiful, or that she Is witty, or
learned, but he sums up her virtues by
sny'iug she Is slmpatica. "What praise
tills really Is, and how much happier
the world would be if only a larger
number of us deserved It! Sympathy
Is a great power as a maker of sun
shine. Think of the most sympathetic
man or woman you know, and think
how great and cheering an Influence
that person exercised over you In some
time of trouble and anxiety. Very like
ly you .may have felt at the time that
had you been alone you could not have
borne the weight of care or sorrow,
but with the friend's sympathy were
able both to bear It, and even to spare
thought and sympathy for other people.
Sympathy, like mercy, "blesseth him
that gives and him that takes," and
those who, as It were, padlock up their
powers of sympathy, lose a great deal
of the joy of life. Among the poor,
perhaps, the quality Is more common
AUan anions the rich, for certainly
Those who have clung to the Malthu
siau theory and have been apprehensive
that population would Increase faster
than food supply have occasion to ban
ish fear for millions of years to come.
Bacteria, with which name so much
of an offending nature Is connected,
have their virtues, or rather we should
say there are bacteria and bacteria. It
has been found that some of the genus
are Important agents In the growing
of crops. The prospect Is that farmers
will go the nearest drug store, purchase
the special bacteria required. Inoculate
the soil and be sure of a harvest. The
chief of the division of chemistry at
Washington Is authority for the
claims made for "bottled bacteria" as a
commercial product and the value of
these organisms In Insuring a harvest.
Another hopeful outlook Is the assur
ance that what Is known as "MenduU'H
law" has been proved an established
fact. This law relates to cross fertili
zation. Its discovery promises to revo
lutionize the hybridization of plants and
to turn chance Into certainty. For In
stance, hitherto It has been Impossible
to foretell what the seed from any va
riety of the apples of commerce would
produce. Now by the hybridization of
two self-sterile varieties the variety
produced may be perpetuated continu
ously by the seed produced. When one
adds to these two Important discov
eries the wonders effected In agriculture
by the use of electricity there Is little
occasion to fear any failure of needed
supplies. Intelligence and thrift left to
themselves are easily able to ward off
Malthus and his pessimistic theories.
Human life Is a school. It begins in
the mother's arms and ends only on
the great Graduation Day when
on your diploma and mine
shall be written either "Well
Done," or "Depart." The boy
or girl who believes that education Is
complete when commencement day has
arrived makes a big mistake. That
day is a mere passage way from school
life to life's school. No man or woman
ever gets too old to learn something in
the school of life. The first lesson that
must be learned Is obedience. Duty Is
the school master. He who falls to
learn the first lesson will fall at all the
others. Why? Because character Is
the A, B, C of successful life. Bril
liancy, ambition, energy all these are
worthless If the Inner voice of duty is
disregarded. And this Is In the very
nature of things. He who cannot con
quer himself cannot conquer obstacles
outside of himself. To successfully or
ganize material things a man must first
organize himself. He must be In har
mony with himself, with the laws of his
being. To become anything he must
be that thing. If he achieves good
ness he must be good. If he achieves
greatness he must be great The first
lesson being learned, the others are
easy. Character, character, charac
ter you can build any sort of success
on that firm foundation. If you build
on anything less your success Is Ignoble
success, and therefore, only successful
failure. Why do men stumble, morally,
all through life? Because they stumble
at the ilrst lesson. If you learn to obey
the call of duty, although the other les
sons may seem hard betimes and the
tears may fall on the page of the book,
you have only to say, "I tried to learn
It Teacher." And the greatest of all
Teachers will show you the solution.
Indorsed the King's Conduct.
Headers of the Sketch will recollect
that on the occasion of the recent visit
of the king and queen to the Isle of
Man, an Illustration of the royal party,
Including Hall Calne, who acted as
cicerone, was published. In that pho
tograph there is a picture of a small
boy wearing his hat. He Is Derwent
the younger sou of Mr. and Mrs. Calne,
and Is 10 years old. Only he and the
Marquis de Soveral, the Portuguese am
bassador, remained covered In the pres
ence of the king, the marquis because
he does fealty to another sovereign and
Master Derwent for a reason of his
own, which came out when the photo
graph had been printed and he was
looking at It with his mother. "Der
went," she said, "why didn't you take
your hat off? Didn't you see that all
the gentlemen did so?" "Yes, mother,"
he replied, "but I kept my eye on the
king, because I knew whatever he did
would be all right, so when he kept
his hat on It would be right enough for
me." London Sketch.
The American Iron "Plant."
The Englishman was being properly
surprised at the rapidity with which
the sky scraper was going up.
"Dean me!" ho exclaimed, "It seems
as If your buildings grow as rapidly
as your maize."
. ."Yes," replied the Westerner, un
blushlngry, "and the process of raising
them is much the same."
"Fawucy! Won't you explain fur
ther?" "Well, you see, we Just get an Iron
plant, put it In the ground, have the
street sprinklers water It, and In a
mouth or six weeks the sky scraper Is
full grown."
And, taking another breath, the cou
sin from over seas managed to believe
It Memphis Commercial-Appeal
In order to simplify social MTalrs,
It Is suggested that every hostess have
a printed bill of fare, so that liet
guests will be prepared, when asked
when they get home, "What did you
have to eat?"
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
A sure cure for Insomnia Is to hav
someone knock on the door and tel
you to get up.
The Value of Setf-Confidence.
- " UK ninii who is sure of himsi'If is safe in any company.
I K lf-ciiiiti'lciiiH is nf inestimable service to n man tlirniuii
I out life, for it gives him initiative and enterprise, which
I are nt the bottom of all great success. Timidity, dis-
trust of .-'s own powers, the thought of failure, are
minimming. The man who is bashful wnen walking into 11
pallor will appear more like a clown than a gentleman. The
man whose knees kn 'ok together and whose voice shakes
when he addresses u convention will be heard with some
measure of contempt. The man who goes into any project as
into a tut) of cold water, one toe nt a time, with many grim
aces and withdrawals, will never make it go. Hut the man
who first having weighed a project well and studied it from all
sides, plunges boldly into it, as a strong swimmer into tin
flood tide, and makes straight for his goal without hesitation
or looking back is the man who, ten chances to one, will suc
ceed. Fortune has no favors for the coward or the backward. For
tune requires that she lie courted and that her suitors conn
forward boldly and declare their intentions. The man win
fears to propose to a woman lest she dismiss him will wait and
dally and hang around until a readier fellow puts it to tht
touch to win or lose it all. and wins, mot likely, thereby out
ting out his procrastinating rival. Women like boldness In p
lover. They forgive a man more easily for going too far thai
for not using all the rope they are willing to give him. They
like a masterful innn. and the masterful man is the successful
man in love as in war, politics, business, society and all the
affairs of life.
Go ahead, do what jou wish to do. do It boldly, and if you
make a mistake your very self-confidence will repair It and
smooth it over. Don't make a habit of apologizing, for most
people do not know of your fault until you beg pnrdon for It.
Don't ell are yourself. Demand your rights and a little more.
Never sit in a dark corner. Never let other people manage an
affair in which you are interested. And never let another man
nsurp the credit for your work. Above nil, be positive. Do
something rather than nothing. Don't wait tor honors and re
wards to drop into your lap while you are sitting down. San
Francisco Bulletin.
Can Poor Men Save ?
CAN a Poor Man Save?" There are no new and Impossi
ble obstacles to thrift that did not exist when our fath
ers and grandfathers practiced thnt virtue. Poor men
who wish to save will save as they have done before.
Abernethy saved though he had to live upon bread and
apples In order to do so. He was none the worse doctor for
having passed through the hard school of poverty. The prob
lem is not so much onr inability to save as our inability to suffi
ciently wish to do so. It is a wish that we shall have to culti
vate, and we hope that the discussion in our columns will do
something to increase the practice of thrift. We do not wish
to suggest that that virtue is dead or dying On the contrary,
all the facts nt our command the enormous development of
savings banks, the Increasing attention given to insurance, the
progress of co-operation, the large proportion of the working
classes who now live in their own houses, a proportion which
In some Lancashire towns especially is surprisingly large, nnd
so on nil go to show that the world is more and more disposed
to accept the rascally Iago's advice and put money In its purse.
But there is still much room for improvement, nnd our answer
to those who Insist that It is Impossible to save in these days is
that In the main the bare cost of living, apart from rent, must
be less than when our ancestors were accounted "passing rich
on forty pounds a yenr." Incomes have enormously Increased,
while the cost of necessities has In many instances substan
tially declined. The best of all luxuries, such as books, are
also cheaper than they were In other days. If we nre tempted
to part with our superfluity in exchnnge for the hundred worth
less gewgaws of Vanity Fair, so much the worse for us. But
the fact has no bearing on the question, "Can Poor Men Save?"
London Daily News.
Better Stick to the Farm.
IT Is said that the annual increase of Chicago's population
is from RO.OOO to 70.000. and among the new comers every
yenr are young men from the country who nre victims of the
notion that opportunity awaits them in the cities alone. Un
der this delusion they condemn themselves very probably to
the disappointments of nn overcrowded labor mnrket. If they
get work It is nt small wages or salary; they must live in cheat)
boarding houses, pass from them to cheap tenements if they
have the courage to marry, find more mid more that their posi
tion is one of anxious dependence, nnd that the Imaginary
charms of city life disappear to leave nothing but the depressing
reality of buildings jammed together to the exclusion of light
and air, of an all-pervading noise nnd dirt, of a routine which
gives little but n bare subsistnnce in the present and holds out
no promise for the future.
In the vast majority of cases such must be the result, and
while country life may hnve some serious drawbacks, it is plain
that these yonng men make a capita! mistake when they come
to consider the question of opportunity through an ignorant
contempt of their familiar surroundings. If instead of indulg
ing in dreams of fortune building in the city they were to mas
ter thoroughly all the work of a farm, cultivate an interest in
It add a new intelligence to It, take over thji lands of their
fathers, or acquire others by purchase, put Into this life all the
ambition of their dreams, they would do better ln the end than
!K) tier cent of the city people, have n greater intellectual
stimulus in their employment, get a greater enjoyment out of
living, and attain to nn enviable independence.
The opportunity is close nt hand if they will only see It, nnd
it adils to the anomaly of the situation that while they are neg
lecting their natural advantage, disillusioned city men past the
prime of life are "retiring" to farms, where they waste their
substance in foolish experiments owing to a belief that any on
can be a farmer. But these poor competitors do not count, and
if the farm boy will stick to the farm nnd make a science of
agriculture his success is assured. American Farmer.
Motormen and Engineers.
WE venture to assert without fenr of contradiction
that the driving of a motor car at a moderate speed
in n crowded city, or nt the higher speeds that
obtain in suburban service, calls for closer watch
fulness and quicker judgment than the driving of
a fast passenger locomotive on a steam railroad. A few con
siderations will show this. In the first place, the steam loco
motive runs on a fenced-in right of way, and has the exclusive
use of its own pair of steel mils; its movements are controlled
liy un elaborate system of signals, which is so arranged that the
engineer, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, finds
every provision made to assist him in controlling his train and
maintaining it in its proper position relative to other trains;
there are no cross streets nt every 200 or 300 feet, through
which other trains may come unheralded to cross his track;
nor Is there a mass of vehicular or pedestrian traffic that 'may
quickly gather ami surge over he track In front of him, neces
sitating exquisite judgment as to pace and distance If he would
avoid continual arrest on the charge of culpable homicide.
The motonnan, on the other hand, runs his car on a public
thoroughfare; he has no signals to warn him of obstructions;
no carefully marked-off distances; no home and distance sig
nals; no clearly painted sign boards giving him the pitch of the
hills, or even in some cases the curvature of the line; he has
to depend on his own judgment as to speed and distance; and
at any time, when he is speeding his car in the effort to keep
up with the company's schedule, he is liable to find the track
ahead of him obstructed by a lumbering wagon or some unsus
pecting or bewildered pedestrian. We venture to repeat that
of the two men the motonnan holds the more difficult and
responsible position; and yet we find that while In the case of
the steam railroad, engineers are subjected to an apprenticeship
of many years before they graduate to the throttle, and by that
time are a highly intelligent and well-paid body of men, the
average trolley car motorman, on the other hand, is rushed into
his job with absurdly inadequate preparation; that his pay is
barely half as much as that of the locomotive engineer; nnd
that in point of intelligence, training and reliability, he does
not compare with the men who, as a matter of fact, have the
less difficult and exacting work to do. Scientific American.
Value Created By Labor.
THE relative efficiency of capital and labor In the pro
duction of wealth is difficult to determine, and probably
no two economists would ngree If they nttempted to
state it In precise terms. It Is commonly held that
capital and labor are equally indispensable, thnt they
nre Independent and that either one is helpless without the
other. Under existing conditions that mny be true In some
degree, but It is conceivable thut labor should produce wealth
without capital, while It is Inconceivable that enpital should
produce anything without labor. Capital Is the unconsumed
product of labor, stored to enable labor to live while eugu -ed
in producing more wealth,
There was no wnge fund until labor created capital. Labor
Is not helpless alone, but capital is inert nnd dead without
labor. All the gold In the world cannot make a blude of grass
grow.
How labor creates value Is shown strikingly in Iron manu
factures. Labor takes a bit of iron ore from the earth, impart
ing to It a value of seventy-five cents, for example. Turned
into bar iron by more expenditure of labor, the bit of ore be
comes worth 5. Made Into horseshoes it is worth $10 but If
made Into needles It is worth $0,800. put more labor Into the
iron, convert it into hair springs for watches, and its value
jumps to $400,000. Philadelphia North American.
v Becoming Too Scientific.
ONE of the evils of the day Is thoroughness as applied to
sports and recreations. There is no game, however diffl
Cn ,ir .Tk. 8"MPle, but 11 is heded obout diffi
culties which actually turn pleasure into pain. Time was
when a game at whist, for example, was a genuine di
version; now It has become so scientific that It is distinctly hard
work to play a good game. So as to bicycling, golf, plng-ponir
-everything, in a word. We hnve so got Into the habit of
taking our pleasures seriously thnt those pleasures nre no longer
recreations, or at least not the recreations they might be were
perfection not so persistently Insisted upon. Oh. for a' imma
that cannot be made scientific, that will forever escape a liter
ary organ, and which will always and forever be just good fun
and nothing more! Boston Transcript
80ME FADS OF 8MOKER3.
Little Demand for Cigar and Cigarette
Case and Holder.
"Yes," said a prominent Washington
dealer In smoker's articles, "there bus
been a steady decrease year by year
for the last decade In the sale of cig
ars and cigarette holders, also in cases
for both, as well as match safes. In
fact, the trade Is not what it used
to be ten or fifteen years back. The
only reason I can give is to say that
each of these things was a fad and had
Its day. I do not menu to say that
there are no meu who still use hold
ers. We still occasionally sell cigarette
and cigar holders, as well us cases to
carry them In, but the sales are more
rare. There are but few tine goods
disposed of now, except on special oc
casions for gifts. Men no longer seem
to think a holder Indispensable to the
enjoyment of a cigar or cigarette. Some
have always claimed that a smoke
was enhanced by not using a holder.
The goods we do sell now are mostly
of cherry wood or the German Weis
cheL -1 have some -customers, ldeTly
men, who like a weischel cigar holder.
Though holders are no longer the 'fad,'
we have to have them in stock. A store
of this ' sort would not be complete
without them.
"Twelve or fifteen years ago almost
every young ma a, especlully if he went
the proper gait and had social aspira
tions, felt that his outfit was incom
plete without a fancy cigarette holder.
Some of the latter were exceedingly
pre'tty and when of amber alone or of
amber and meerschaum they were cost
ly. Some had gold bauds around
the center or at the end the cigar
ette fitted In. Others were embellished
and ornamented with silver or gold
bugs, the latter being often set with
Jewels. There were some very pretty
combinations made In these goods. I
have sold a three-Inch amber cigar
ette holder for $15. But then a portion
f tt waa Incruated with precloua
stones. There were many bogus ar
ticles palmed off In those days and
many grades of meerschaum were on
the market My fall and winter stock
of meerschaum and amber goods when
these 'fads' were vigorous umouuted.to
$2,000 or more. Now $23 worth of the
same goods will run me two or three
years.
"The goods of this character that are
sold now are bought at Christmas
times or the holidays following, or else
for birthday presents, for there are
some people who still keep up the
pretty old custom of giving gifts an
nually for this purpose, nnd If it was
n't for these occasions the sales would
be absolutely wiped out. The same de
cadence that now obtains in the
use of holders by smokers also exists
with regard to cases for carrying cig
ars and cigarettes. I have quite a va
ried stock on bund, and always have,
but not one man in seventy-five car
ries a cigarette or cigar case. They
keep cigarettes from frlzzllnir nt thp
ends and save cigars from breakage
in tne pockets. These cases were not
so obtrusive to the gaze" as the fancy
holder, being carried in the pocket, but
the good taste of the owner was often
displayed by his selection of a elinr
case. Many were made of the different
metals, aluminum and even silver and
gold being used. There were also cases
of pearl. Of course, not every young
blood could afford to carry a gold or
even a silver cigarette case. The lat
ter kind sometimes had the owner's
Initials, monogram fashion, on the side
of the case. The majority of these
goods, however, were of various klnda
of fiber. The most expensive goods of
this sort were sold to college students
and the price of a silver or urold oi.
arette case was steep. Some of the
gold one sold for $75 and others high
er still."
Every man's love affairs "play a big
ger pnrt In his history than any man
would be willing to admit
Dogs as Foster Parents.
Cats have been known to "mother"
chickens, but It is somewhat rare to find
a dog displaying slrillar tendencies.
Fritz, nn Intelligent terrier belonging to
a Philadelphia gentleman, was ob
served to adopt a half-grown brood of
chickens that hud been left to scratch
for themselves by the mother hen. An
other Interesting case is reported from
Pittsburg. A resident of that notable
town recently exhibited a "happy fam
ily'.' consisting of a dog and three half
grown fox cubs. The mother fox had
been traced to her den and killed when
the cubs were found, and they were so
small that they did not have their eyes
open. At the same time the doe wan
rearing puppies, and the fox cubs were
tuKen home and given to her. The dog
took the little orphans Into her own
family, and they have become Inseparable.
The Omnibus.
In the newly Issued "double part" of
the New Eugllsh Dictionary, Dr. Mur
ray gives two quotations ..under the
word "omnibus" which neatly tell the
birth-story of the vehicle. In a memor
andum to the chairman of the Rnnnt nt
Stamps, dated April 3, 1829, Mr.
oniuiDeer stated: "I am en
gaged In building two vehicles after
the manner of the recently established
French Omnibus, which when complet
ed I propose starting on the Puddlngton
Road." Mr. Shlllibeer WAR A ft C7ruA n a
his word. In Saunders' News Letter of
July ,4 appeared the paragraph: "The
new vehicle, called the omnibus, com
menced running this morning from Pad
dlngton to the city."
It takes the
'"'Hi un JO tiff TO
straighten upjifter paying for a daugh
tcr s wedding as If a cyclone had
struck him without Insurance
' !J
When a man squeezes a woman'a
hand. It doesn't mnn .
"j ituiiu unless
she squeezes back,
FRENCH RAILWAY CUSTOMS.
A 8eat May Be Held by Leavlna- .
Coat in It. s ,
ii is to ue ieurea mot many English
and American travelers In France ex
pect to find the same laws and reguia!
tlons obtaining on French railways as
they are accustomed to at home; and
when they tlud that they are very dif
ferent they ure apt to resent It an atti
tude which occasion-ally results In C(,.
llsion with the ollieluls. The following
hints on points of railway customs and
etiquette In connection with which
trouble often ensues, says Londun
Travel, may not perhaps, be superflu
ous, y
Claims to a seat: TUb right to a
seat, which has been, engaged by
placing upon it a coat or Boine other
article, has actually been legalized by
a recent test case In the French law
courts, while this right lu England de
pends of course solely uiku custom,
and cannot be enforced. Not only this,
but in France each passenger Is legally
entitled to the use of that portion of
the rack and floor immediately above
and 1m1ov his seat.
Control of windows: English travel
ers often complain of the tendency of
French travelers to keep the windows
closed unnecessarily. It Is the best
policy to put up with this annoyance,,
as an appeal to the guard will not as a
rule be successful. His sympathies,
are likely to be with his compatriots,
who regard the love of English people
for opeu windows as a foolish fad, nnd
. ... t.i i. i .i... ... ,
uiie, kmj, m 1111:11 in uiiiieiuus lu llCUlill,
Smoking carriages: The rule for
smoking on French railways Is the re
verse of that which obtains In En
gland. Though carriages for funieurs
are provided, smoking Is permitted In
any carriage with the consent of the
occupant, and In practice olinost every
compartment except those labeled
dames seniles Is a smoking one.
Tips to porters: English travelers
are apt to Inveigh against the greed
and rapacity of French porters, espe
cially nt Purls stations. This is prob
ably duo to Ignorance of the fact that
at Paris termini the facteur who fetch
es a cub from outside the station and
this Is usually necessary Is entitled
to a gratuity ond In Purls one franc
Is customary. This being the case, the
traveler who presents him with a few
coppers (which would be civilly accept
ed nt a London station) must not be
surprised If he Is confronted with black
looks.
Customs examination: At Calais,
Boulogne or Dieppe the traveler should
be on his guard against accepting the
services of a man In semi-uniform (not
a porter) who will offer to see the
traveler's luggage through the customs.
His services will cost you a fee of 2
shillings 0 pence.
CREATION'S ANNIVERSARY.
Uow the Time Has Been Calculated
by Astronomers.
"The anniversary of creation" oc
curred, we learn, Saturday, Sept. 20.
We have this on the authority of the
British Chronological Astronomical As
sociation, which ought to know. The
association has a grievance against
Parliament, which Is responsible, It
alleges, for the English solar year as
usually reckoned. We do not ask the
association the old question: "Where
wast thou when the foundations of the
earth were laid?" But we feel bound
to say that we do not guarantee the
accuracy of the following tubulated
statement:
The new year 5001 a. m. on Sept. 20
is:
5901 since creation.
4245 since the floode In 1050.
3S10 since the call of Abraham.
2901 since Solomon's temple In 3000.
1904 since birth of Jesus Christ
1871V4 since crucifixion in 4029&
18314 since destruction of Jerusalem
In 406914.
Eras:
It is now 5G63 years since Jewish era
began.
It Is now 1320 since Mahommedan
era began.
It Is now 120 since American Inde
pendence. "The discoveries of the year Just
closing relating to the science of time
are of a very useful and magnificent
character," says the communication
Just quoted from. We feel it is our
duty to present them to our readers.
The chief of them are "the finding by
calculations of the procession of the
equinoxes of the periodical heliacal
rising of the star Slrlus, known as the
Sothlc Cycle of the Egyptians, and the
discovery of the meaning of the fes
tival of thirty years observed in Egypt,
namely: Every thirty years from the
prime date of creation indicated by thff
nun entering each of the twelve signs
of the zodiacal cycle of 3(30 sidereal
years." "It may now be affirmed," we
are told, "that we know with precision
every natural year made by the sua
since the beginning." London - DailF
News,
Qnlte with the Times.
The popularity of ping-pong Is bring
ing forward many experts at the ganie,.
and In one city in the East there Is a
child barely two years fid that shows a
marvelous fondness for It On being
questioned as to the manner In which
the child's talents were developed the
proud father explained:
"Yes, Willie Is a good ping-pong play
er, but he ought to be. Vuy. be cut hi
teeth on a ping-pong ball," and we al
ways spanked him with a racquet"
What to Eat ,
,A young married couple might live
on bread and cheese and kisses If the
old folks would supply the bread and
cheese.
Dont get mad If you find a butto
In your salad. It's part of the dress
ing, i