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PUNCTUALITY.
THE WEASE l .
AUNT ABBIE’S VISIT.
It Gets | Jolt Prom On« Who Novor
Can Bo on Timo.
A Formidable Foo to Animal* a Hun
dred Time# It* Sit*.
T h e Old L a d y M a n a ge d to M a k * T h in g *
Pratty Lively.
So much is Mid about the virtue
o f punctuality that people who go
in for it to any great extent are ex
ceedingly uppish and disagreeable.
Punctuality has its bad side, just as
everything else has. People should
remember this. If they are on time
they only serve to throw into em
barrassing relief the poor souls who
com e hurrying in ten minutes late.
It is smug to be precisely punctual.
It is raising yourself above the rest
o f man kind, refusing t< partake in
A* E . W IL SO N , the Jeweler its frailties. T bs ideal tning
thins from
the point o f view o f courtesy to
others and recent hum ility about
your own attainments is to be al
ways ten minutes late or at least
to appear so.
I f you are to meet at the package
office in th e Grand Central station
at 4 o'clock sit quietly in the middle
o f the hail until twelve minutes
after 4 ; then when von have seen
No Emperor—either o f s
the other person dash up, follow ed
People or o f Finance—can
by panting porters and fairly drip
ping with explanations, wait until
bay better food than we
the arrival has had a second in
•ell you, at price« yon usu
which to recover self respect and
ally pay for good things.
stroll up with a remark on T im
buktu or the best way to cuhivata
carrots. This will insure your popu
larity and show you to be a person
o f kindness and foreth ou gh t At
any rate, it is better than a pitiless
standing at the place where you said
you would be, your superiority in
creasing every m inute, and con
fronting, upbraiding silently, the
person who promised to meet you
becau
use you appeared a rather lik e -'
ble sort, but who finds you in your
panoply o f punctuality the very re
verse o f likable.
For be it remembered that just
G ive a s a chance a t that
as some people cannot be on tim e
■aw hom e. W e w ould like
others cannot to save their skins be
to put la tboee Bath Fix
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late. So that they deserve not a
tu re«, E tc ., aad do -your
whit o f credit fo r it and should, in
fact, he reprimanded when they do
it ostentatiously and in public.—
New Y ork Sun.
The weasel is about six inches in
length from tip to tip, which seems
very great compared with the
height o f the animal, which is not
above an inch and a half. The w olf
is not above one and a half times as
long as he is high, while the weasal
is nearly five times as long, an
amasing disproportion. The tail
also, which is bushy, is generally
two inches long and adds to the ap
parent length o f the body.
The color o f the weasel is a light
brown on the back and sides, but
white under the throat and belly.
The eyes are little and black. The
ears are short, broad and roundish
and have a fold at the lower part,
which makes them look as if they
were double. Beneath the corners
o f the mouth on each jaw ie a spot
o f brown.
Sawkins says that something al
ways happens when his Aunt Ahbie
comes to visit. She is eighty-four,
and, although she cannot hear and
her eyesight ia poor, still she is very
active,, particularly at night, when
she frequently gets up to take a sip
o f milk and nibble a cracker.
The first night o f her last visit
she got up at 2 o’clock to take her
second snack. Feeling around with
a lighted match for the gas, she set
the curtain on fire. W ithout a mo
m ent’« hesitation she pulled the
Mazing curtain down and tried to
beat the blaze out with her bed slip-
er. She couldn’t, so she hurried
ownstairs in the dark to Sawkins’
room and pounded on the door.
Sawkins and his w ife awoke with
with a start and heard some one
mumbling outside the door. Aunt
Abbie had put her teeth away for
the night, and her voice sounded
strange.
They sprang out o f bed and yank
ed open the door.
“ Fire!” m attered Aunt Abbie in
deep guttural tones. And she point
ed upstairs.
Up to the third floor front darted
Sawkins, follow ed by his w ife and
Aunt Abbie. The carpet and a
wicker chair holding Aunt' Abbie’s
undergarments were burning brisk
ly. Sawkins grabbed rugs and tried
to smother the Maze, while his w ife
ran to the fourth floor to arouse the
servants.
The servants came rushing down
in bare feet and nightgowns. Saw
kins meanwhile attended strictly to
business. With prater carried from
the bathroom th e-fire was extin
guished.
During the excitement Sawkins
had forgotten all about his father,
but as the old man had not showed
up Sawkins thought his father was
still asleep downstairs.
It seems not. His father had
heard Aunt Abbie say “ F ire!” and,
very thoughtfully for an old man o f
seventy-nine, had opened his win
dow and yelled “ F ire!” Then he
had gone out oh the front steps in
his nightshirt and yelled until some
one heard him and sent in an alarm.
When the firemen came one o f
them took Sawkins’ father, as he
was, into the next house. So when
Sawkins ran downstairs to tell his
father about the fire he met the
firemen com ing up. They told hjm
the old man was in next door. So
soon as the firemen had gone Saw-
kina w ent in next door after his fa
ther.
Mr. Sawkins, Sr., was sitting in
the parlor, surrounded by the
neighbor’s fam ily, and busily em
ployed in consum ing a hot drink.
H is costum e was a nightshirt cov
ered by a swallowtail coat, patent
leather pumps and knees draped in
a steamer rug.
Sawkins was so struck by his fa
ther’s genteel appearance that he
grately thanked the neighbors fo r
their kindness in outfitting his fa
ther. Then he took his father home
in his novel costume to show his
w ife.
The next m orning Aunt Abbie
said she was too old to go visiting
and wanted to go home. But she
couldn't— her underclothing was all
burned.— New York Press.
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A R*j*et*d Nov*t.
B efore he had achieved fam e the
French novelist Xavier, de Monte-
pin, on concluding a long and elab
E L. EVANS
orate tale o f adventure, took it, full
o f hope, to a publisher, who prom pt
ly declined it on even the most ad
vantageous terms, to the writer’s
poignant m ortification.
Twenty
years afterward this identical pub
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lisher besought at his hands a sen
sational story, one o f those serials
which were the delight o f grisettes,
offering any price within reason.
“ W ell, said De M ontepin, “ I will
oblige you, but my terms must be
very heavy. I want 20,000 franca.”
A fter many protests it was paid. In
the story De Montepin used
^
“ The best o f the business
was that it was the very same story
which he had previously rejected
and which I had in various direc
tions endeavored in vain to dispose
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Church Encouragement of Sport.
Ecclesiastic recognition has been
given the sport o f skeeing in N or
way in the special short, early serv
ices held in all the churches during
the season for the convenience o f
skeers. These services are called
skeeing prayers, and a stranger com
ing into the sacred edifices on such
an occasion might think he had
blundered into the barracks o f a
skee corps. However, the services
are much liked and very well at
tended, and there ia no difference o f
opinion about the wisdom o f the
church authorities in thus encour-'
aging a sport making so strongly
fo r healthy bodies and therefore g o
ing a long way toward making
healthy souls.— Outing.
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orm idable enemy to quadru-
a hundred rim es its own sixe.
kept in a cage it w ill not
touch its food while anybody looks
on. I t keeps In a continual agita
tion and seems frightened so much
at the ligh t o f mankind that it w ill
die i f not perm itted to hide itself.
F or this purpose, says Fur News,
it must be provided in its cage with
e sufficient quantity o f wool or hay
in which it may conceal itself end
where it may carry whatever it haa
to eat. In this state it is seen to
peas three parte o f the day in sleepy
ing end reserves the night fo r its
exercise and eating.
In ita wild atute the night is like
wise the tim e during which it may
be said to live. At the approach o f
evening it ia seen stealing from ita
hole and creeping about the farm
er’* yard fo r ita prey. I f it enter*
the place where poultry is kept it
never attacks the cocks or the old
hens, but im m ediately goes after
the young ones. Generally it m erely
sucks the blood o f the victim .
It is remarkably active, and in a*
confined place scarce any animal
can escape it. It w ill run up the
sides o f the walls with such facility
that no place ia secure from it. Its
body ia to «mail that there is scarce
any hole but that it can wind
through. During the summer ita
excursions are extensive, bdt in the
winter it chiefly confines itself to
barns and farm yards, where it re
mains till spring and where it
brings forth its young.
All this season it makes war upon
rats and m ice with still m e t e r suc
cess than the cat, fo r being m ore
active end slender it pursues them
in to their boles and after a short re
sistance destroy* them. It creeps
also into pigeon holes, destroys the
young, catches sparrows and ell
kinds o f young birds, and i f it has
brought forth its young hunts with
still greeter boldness and avidity.
In summer it ventures farther from
the house and particularly goes into
those places where the rat, its ch ief
prey, goes before i t
T he fem ale takeq every precei
tion to make an easy bed fo r her
little ones and lines the bottom o f
her hole with grass, hay, leaves and
moss and generally brings forth
three to five to a litter. The weasel,
like others o f its kind, does not run
on equably, but moves by bounding,
and when it clim bs a tree by a sin
gle spring it gets a good way from
D r. J e h n a o n '* M a rvalo u a M am ory.
the ground. It jum ps in the same
Dr. Johnson, the Ursa Major o f
manner upon its prey and, having
English literature, had a prodigious
an extrem ely lim ber body, evades
memory and at one period o f his
the attm pts o f much stronger ani
life employed it in reporting par
mals to seize i t
liamentary debates.
Once Dr.
Hawkesworth
read
to
him
a poem
Sucking Poi*onou* Wound*.
which he intended to publish and
Am ong all people the sucking o f
the wound has ever been considered asked his opinion o f it. “ Why, sir,”
th e ‘most effective remedy o f imme said Johnson, “ I cannot well de
diate application fo r snake bitea. In termine on a first hearing. Read it
A frica a cupping instrum ent is em again.” Hawkesworth complied. The
ployed in em ergencies o f the kind next morning, the subject o f the
to draw out the poisoned blood. poem being resumed, Johnson said
The ancients follow ed the same he had but one objection to it, that
methods, and when Cato made his he doubted its originality, and to
famous expedition through the ser prove hia statement repeated the
pent infested African deserts he whole poem, with the exception o f a
employed many savage snake charm few lines, which so alarmed Hawkes
ers, called “ payIli,” to follow the worth that he declared he would
army. They perform ed many mys never again read anything o f his
terious rites over men who were bit composing to Johnson, who, he said,
ten, but the efficacy o f their treat had a memory which would convict
ment appears to havs consisted in any author o f plagiarism.
racking the wounds.
It is generally admitted that the
Chinese
used the compass at a very
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early period to guide them in their
iourneys across the vast plains o f
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Partary. They made little images,
G e n e r a l C o n tr a c to r the arms o f which, moved by a free
ly suspended magnet, pointed con
Septic tanks built after the
tinually toward the north. An ap
latest approved methods.
paratus o f this kind was presented
8ow or and Tila W ork. W all Digging to ambassadors from Cochin China
to guide them on their homeward
journey some 1,100 years before the
Yamhill County Abstract Co. Christian era. The knowledge thus
possessed seems gradually to have
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traveled westward by means o f the
The onlylAbatract Books in
Arabs, though it was over 2,000
Javan#*« Mudo.
years
afterward before it was gen
Yamhill County
The
Javanese
musical instruments
erally applied among the peoples o f
are made mostly o f bamboo. They
M c M innville , E
O regon western Europe.
also played upon a pipe or whistle,
which was about three feet long and
A Tongu* Twlstar.
Do you read by sight or sound? six inches across. This sounded like
Do you skim the sense or pronounce the hollow’ roar o f a lion. Another
C H ASE A LINTON
the words as you go— inaudibly, was a bundle o f tubes o f different
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but consciously? There are many lengths, which covered the small
readers who read by the ear, and boy who carried it like a big saddle.
All kinds o f gravel for con
when this writer had written the A log hewn out with two strings
sentence about Wick (there was stretched across it served as a drum.
crete work, cement blocks,
an election there), “ Wick ia rich in A cither o f sixteen strings and a
or wood work furnished on
Pictish relics,” he leaned back and mandolin o f two completed their
short notice. Leave orders
tried to whisper it, thinking of the outdoor band, while inside one could
at the office o f ft. B. Linn-
next. “ Wick is rich in Pictiah rel hear other music made by gongs of
ville.
ic*.” Say it three times quickly.— wonderfully pure and beautiful
tone.
London Chronicle.
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when he had formally forbidden his
door to a flagrant offender, the man,
who- knew his character, got a lad
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room, remarking, “ I have obeyed
your highness’ commands and have
crossed your threshold by the win
dow and not by the door.? The
humor o f the thing at once appealed
to Ismail, and the offender waa re
instated in his favor.
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