KILLED THE B ILL
GRACE BEFORE MEALS* '
A Prayer That Was Retrospeotive aa Ds Cosmos Tqlkod It to Doatly
Twenty-six Hour«..
Well ae Preepeetive.
Mr. De Cosmos, a member o f the
legislature o f British Columbia, cer
tainly deserved the medal fo r lung
power, and he won it seemingly in a
good cause and at grave risk to him :
self. The chamber was considering
a bill that would drive many settlers
from their homes, and there was a
sufficient m ajority to pass it. T bs
end o f the session was only a day
and two hours distant. A t noon on
the m orrow the house ynu* t close its
business. De Cosmos was desperate.
He must stop the bill, and there was
only <me way to do it. D e would
have to speak right on till the end
o f the session and prevent a divi
sion being taken.
' It was 10 o’clock in the m orning
when he rose to "m ake a few re
marks in regard to the measure be
fore the house.” -E leven o ’clock
came, noon, 1 o ’clock, and still De
Cosmos talked. Members in a spirit
o f jest om itted to adjourn fo r lunch
in order to see how long he would
keep going. The afternoon waned,
the sun went down and lamps were
lit, but De Cosmos never faltered. *
The situation was becom ing seri
ous. H e certainly held the floor
and teemed likely to keep it. A ll
sorts o f plans were tried to get him
t o stop, but eloquence poured from
him as water from a m ountain
spring. H e was not allowed to halt
fo r food , though he was perm itted
to drink.
T he speaker insisted on keeping
to the question before the house
and objected to him repeating him
self. Through the watches o f the
night De Cosmos toiled on and
eessfully evaded all traps o f "order.”
H e went m anfully on with his
speech as the dawn broke, kept up
a slow pace as the breakfast hour
arrived and was still speaking as
the clock slowly approached the
hour o f 12.
On the last stroke o f that hour he
stopped in the m iddle o f a sentence
end fe ll to the floor. F or twenty-six
m ortal hours he had stood on the
floor and addressed the house and
had nearly killed him self in doing
i t T he excitem ent had kept him
up till the end, but when the de
sired result was achieved his facul
ties gave way, and it was several
days
before he recovered. But the
A Tals of a Hated Dish.
hill
was
blocked, and the settlers
There is n charm ing story told of-
kept
their
homes.— Pearson’s Week
the
great
French
painter
Corot.
Be
T h e J ew eler
ing hospitable, he frequently as ly-
sembled his friendfe to dinner, and a
Th* Spirit «4 Football Ploy,
dish o f haddock and potatoes,
We
have surely im proved the
w h ich , everybody hated, invariably
follow ed the soup. T he friends, spirit o f play. The change o f inter
who thought Corot partial to the national brutality no longer stands.
dish, always gave it when he dined We have shortened the period o f
with them. A t last, in reply to the play and lessened thereby the
painter’s query, they admitted that ■train. T he record o f the Y ale-Co-
they detested the dish, but suppos lumbia game in Novem ber, 1872,
showed som ething either o f the way
ed he liked it.
Corot was p in n in g broadly. "M y tim e was kept in those days or else
dear fellow , if you only knew how 1 the ability o f the team to keep g o
hate the sight o f it even. But ing fo r an unlim ited period. Think
o f this, those o f yon who feel that
For Diamonds, Watches. Clocks Adele, my cook, sim ply adores had two thirty-five m inute halves is al
dock and potatoes. And it is no
and Jewelry
good— I dare not go against her most too lon g! "T h e first goal was
wishes. It is as much as my place scored in fifteen m inutes, the sec
is worth. N ot fo r worlds would my ond goal took fifty-eight minutes
, awe o f Adele induce me to unde- and the third goal forty m inutes.”
ceive her as regards the value I at That fifty-eight m inute goal must
tach to this one particular article o f have been trying on both sides. We
have also brought the playing sea
diet.”
son
to an earlier ending and avoided
And fo r the sake o f Adele this
some
o f the risks o f form er days on
little group o f great painters had
Dealer in
frozen
grounds.— W alter Camp in
fo r thirty yean been eating a dish
Century.
they could none o f them bear.
* Most small boys— and many other
people, too— hare experienced the
m ortification that copies from be
ginning a meal before the blessing
is said. The usual reason for such
a breach o f etiquette is that the
•mall boy— or the other person—
did not know that the blessing was
Roing to he said. The awkward
feeling that is sure to follow such a
blunder cannot be helped, but it
may be mitigated. On one occasion,
says Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson in
A . E. W ILSO N , the Jeweler "Som ething o f Men I Have Know n,*
a gentlem an at a form al dinner, be
HAS T H IM
ing very hungry and exhausted,
made this mistake o f starting in
before grace.
A fter the blessing was asked, he
turned to Mr. K nott and said: " I
am humiliated at my conduct. I
should have remembered that Pres
byterians always say grace before
meals.*
No Emperor—either o f a
T o this K nott replied: "Y o u
People or o f Finance—can
ought not to feel so. That blessing
o f Dr. Bullock’s was broad and gen
buy better food than we
eral, in large measure retrosp ec
■ell you, at prices you usu
tive as well as prospective. It re
minds me o f a little incident that
ally pay for good things.
occurred on the B ollin g Fork.
"A n old time deaoon down there
was noted fo r the lengthy blessing
which* et his table was the unfailing
prelude to every meal. H is hired
man,-. B ill T aylor, an unconverted
and im patient youth, had fallen into
the habit o f com m encing his meal
before the blessing had been fu lly
invoked.
"T h e frow n and the rebuke o f the
good deacon were o f no avail in ef
fecting the desired reform . Right
eously indignant, the deacon, in a
spirit possibly not the m ost devout,
at length gave utterance to this pe
tition :
"* F o r what we are about to re
ceive and fo r what W illiam T aylor
has already received accept our
thanks, O L ord !’ ”
“ K nott,” said one o f the guests,
"you are the only man on earth who
could have thought o f such e story
at just the opportune m om ent.*
The tem porary depression vanish
ed, and the premature guest was'
him self again and was soon the life
o f the assemblage.
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Asking Too Much.
The country doctor had come to
prescribe fo r Lucy, the colored
cook’s little daughter, who was suf
fering from the unfashionable ail
ment known as “ chills.”
The doctor opened his saddlebagB
and prepared several doses o f the
time honored remedy quinine in
capsules.
Lucy sat up in bed, watching the
proceedings with great interest, aa
the doctor filled each tiny capsule
tnd capped it. But when «he heard
the instructions, “ Give her one o f
these every two hours,” she wailed
in terror:
"Is you gwine to mek me awaller
dem little glass bottles, stoppers an*
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I JnstencM of tho Way It la Exarclaod
In Evaryday Ufa.
A surface motorman awakened a
train o f thought not long ago when
he stopped his car shortly at a cross
ing. There was apparently no one
there waiting to get on. A woman
was standing on the curb, not even
looking toward the m oving car, yet
when the car came to this corner
the motorman brought it to a stand
still, and, sure enough, the woman
hurried out o f the crowd and clam
bered aboard.
“ How’d you know that woman
wanted to get on ?” he waa asked as
the controller was thrown on again
and the car started with a jerk.
“ Just felt it,” he laughed; “ didn’t
know it. A fellow ’ s affected that
way in this business. How many
people nowadays signal the m otor-
man when they want him to stop?
It’s some sort o f power, I guess,
that tells me. I can’t explain just
what it ia.”
This patient knight o f the m otor
voiced one o f the most bewildering
psychological truths found in the
entire downtown propaganda, where
about ¿very nip and tuck o f the hu
man habit, custom or peculiarity
finds a shining plaice. Taking m et
ropolitan humanity aa a whole, there
are few who do not use intuition in
the course o f the average workday.
A certain teller in a large Chicago
bank recognizes intuition as a faith
ful and valuable ally, one that can
be put to good useq, though one that
is not infallible. A “ J . Rufus Wal
lingford” may stroll into this man’ s
bank, toaa a thousand dollar check
over the counter in a blase manner,
and som ething may "te ll” the teller
that the check isn’t any-good. —
" I just feel it,” he explains this
strange power o f intuition.
And the check may be turned
down, or, on the other hand, some
thing may “ tell” the cashier that
the man ia good— he just feels it.
Scoffers are referred to the aver
age policeman.
Does the city detective always
know a crook when he plucks him
out o f a downtown crowd, when the
man’s back perhaps is turned to the
officer o f the law ?
H e feels that the shoulders and
neck ahead o f him— the head crown
ed with a battered derby— is wanted.
O ften he does not know the crook’s
name and could not tell why he ar
rests him until the man ia hauled
back to the station and his photo ia
found gracing the lim elight in the
rogues’ gallery some m onths or
years back, the intuition in a case
o f this/sort being extrem ely strong,
as records prove amply.
Policem en and detectives are sup
posed to study the photograph, the
terse history and "story” o f each
crook as they are placed on the
city’ s police records. We kno^r that
the m ind o f m ortal man cannot car
ry all o f this data in his mind, which
is a good indication o f the wonder
fu l pow er o f intuition which yrill
draw the detective to the crook like
a m agnet from among a crowd o f a
thousand people.— Chicago Tribune.
Wigs In Colonial Days.
T he first colonists wore often
their own natural hair. The cava
liers had long and perfumed love
locks, and though the Puritans had
been called “ Roundheads” their hair
waved also over the band or collar
and often hung over the shoulder.
T he Quakers also wore long locks,
aa the portrait o f W illiam Penn
shows, but by 1675 wigs had become
com m on enough to be denounced by
the Massachusetts governm ent and
to be preached against by many
ministers. The care o f these wigs
was a great item, often £10 a year
fo r a single wig, and some gen
tlem en owned eight or ten wigs.
L ittle children wore them. The
Massachusetts Gazette in l*f54
chronicles the fact o f a runaway
negro slave who wore a curl o f hair
tied around his head with a string
to im itate a wig.
On a tree close to a house, within
a short distance o f a river or
canal, there was a storks’ nest, with
young ones. The ro o f o f the house
caught fire one day, and, though the
flames did n ot actually reach the
tree, the beat became scorching. So
the m other stork flew down id the
water, got into it and drenched her
breast; then, returning to her
young, she spread the mass o f cool,
wet feathers all over them. This she
repeated over and over again, flying
to the river, going down into the
water and returning, her plumage
drenched with wet. And thus the
To Froat ^ Window.
nest was saved, and the tender nes
A frosted window is often a con
tlings were preserved alive until the venience. It admits light, but not
fire nad been got under and all was sunshine, and it is, o f course, im-
safe. The truth o f this remarkable
lible to see through the glass
story was vouched fo r by m ore than
>m the outside. Any window may
jne eyewitness.— ComhiU Magazine. be frosted by making a strong solu
tion o f epsom salts in hot water
Order In the House.
and applying to the inside o f the
The French parliament was not glass with a brush. Care should be
always fam ous for the excitement taken to cover the glass com pletely
and turm oils o f its debates. In the and not to allow the liquid to
old m onarchist days, before the rev When cool the salts will be deposit
olution, the sessions o f the old par ed on the glass in crystalline form ,
liament were exceedingly dull and giving a beautiful frosted effect.
prosy affairs. One day, it is related,
a noble count was trying to make a
Don’t Neglect Headache.
speech, and a very prosy speech it
“ In young children headache
was, while all the other members should never be neglected,” says
were either chatting or resting the Hospital. “ It is a more signifi
Presently the president o f the body cant sign in them than in older per
rapped slightly with his baton.
sons and may indicate the onset o f
“ I f those gentlemen who are talk acute or dangerous disease.
In
ing to each other,” said he, "would some instances it is the result o f ed
kindly make no more noise than ucational pressure. Many an adult
those gentlemen who are snoring it suffers from headaches as the result
would he much appreciated bv those o f premature strain on the brain
gentlem en who are trying to listen.” daring school lifs.”
The shillalah is not a mere stick
picked up for a few pence or cut
casually out o f the com m on hedge.
Like the Arab mare, it grows to ma
turity under the fostering care o f
its owner.
The shillalah, like the poet, is
bom , not made. Like the poet, too,
111 to 115 W . First street
it is a choice plant, and its growth
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shoots perhaps not m ore than one-
is destined to becom e famous, but
ons
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