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NEWBERd GRAPHIC, June 32,
MOUJIK WEDDING FEAST.
FLEET DUSKY PETE.
Russian Peasants Celebrate Nuptials The
W ith Riotous Joy.
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When the day’s work is done the
Russian moujik’s recreations are of
the simplest. »Perhaps he dances
or plays the concertina or sings
some melancholy air. Bat when a
wedding has to be celebrated and
the priest has duly united the cou
ple the peasants give themselves up
to the enjoyments of the occasion.
The writer well remembers peeping
into the brightly lit rooms of a tiny
two roomed log cabin where such a
revel wfcs in progress. The evening
wAs a hot one. In one room, so
Small that only four couples could
with difficulty wheel about, dancing
was in progress. The perspiring
couples had made up their minds to
enjoy themselves. There was a kind
of detennined-to-see-it-through look
oh their faces, and evidently they
had great staying powers. In the
same room, closely packed and lin
ing the walls, were onlookers wait
ing till a couple should drop out to
take their place in the dance.
The second room was laid out
with refreshments. A side table
sausage. One thought of the cave
dwellers and wondered what refine
ments they possessed when they
ate. „Vodka was being served out by
the father of the bndegroom, and
it was haring its effect.
One tall man was pointed out as
the station master of a tiny wayside
station near by. He was conspicu
ous as being better groomed and
less savage in appearance than his
fellows, and one heard afterward
that the seductive charms of a wed
ding feast made him forget on that
evening his duty as signalman. A
freight train waits two hours be
fore a signal at danger, and then—
for the signalman is auaffing his
vodka and dancing at tne wedding
—the train proceeds. The driver
reports at the next town. Result—
two months afterward the station
master for neglect of duty in his
capacity of signalman is degraded
to a charge at a smaller station.
Surely such things happen in lew
other countries than Russia—Rus
sia, the land of a great future, but
whose inhabitants in the main are
only awakening out of sleep.—
Chambers’ Journal.
Misplaced Conductor.
W A TC H
W E L C H ’S G R O C ER Y
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We Water it with Satisfaction
While rehearsing Beethoven’s
“Emperor” concerto for one of his
London recitals the great lianist
Rubinstein was at constant
heads with the conductor
orchestra—a ve: good fellow, but
far from a faultless wielder of the
baton. Several times the concerto
had been tried over, but always was
there something wrong. At last,
after attempting the finale for
something like the eighth time, Ru
binstein suddenly stopped and cried
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E. W. HODSON
Nag Responsible For tho
preeeion a “ Dark Hofaa.”
Ex-
Here is the real story of the
"dark horse:” It came down to the
son of a man, who bad it from his
father, who in turn got it from his
father, and so on back to a time
when there lived in Tennessee a
shrewd old chap named Sam Flynn.
He was by way of being about the
eunningest horse trader in his state
and generally contrived to have in
his stable a nag or two that could
go along some. These he used for
racing purposes, particularly when
be chanced upon a town where
there was sporting blood in the
course of his travels.
Flynn finally picked up in a swap
ft black horse which he called Dusky
Pete. The horse was close to a
thoroughbred, and the shrewd horse
trader was not long in making the
discovery that he was something of
a marvel in speed. But this fact
be cunningly kept to himself. He
roughed up the horse’s coat and
made him look as little as possible
like the read wonder that he was in
a race.
Once he had got Dusky Pete to s
point where he looked the part of
A horse vagabond, Flynn quietly
rode him into a town one fine day,
where a rustic race meet was m
progress. Dusky Pete merely look-
ad Eke a “likely bass” for swapping
“ng to be inno
oent of everytl conn ec ted with
racing, Flynn entered his horse in
one of the events. The village
■ ports took his bait to s man. They
backed two or three of the local
fliers against Dusky Pete for every
dollar they could beg .and borrow.
The old horse trader moved
around in the crowd and took ev
ery bet that was offered, most of
them being at big odds against his
horse. Just as the horses were be
ing saddled for the race old Judge
McMinamee, the turf oracle of that
part of Tennessee, turned up at the
track and was immediately impress
ed into service as one of the racing
judges.
As he took his place in the judges’
stand he Was told how the betting
odds had been going and of the
presence of the old horse trader
who was so foolish as to think his
nag could beat the local cracks. The
orade was also informed that Flynn
had taken all beta offered against
his horse.
At that Judge McMinamee ran
his eve over Dusky Pete and in
stantly recognized the veteran racer
under his ruffled coat of long hair
as an old campaigner.
“Gentlemen,” quoth the wise
judge, “there’s a dark horse in this
race that will make tome of you
look sick before supper.”
He was right. The dark horse
lay back till the three-quarter pole
had been reached and then went
to the front with a rash, taking the
raoe with ridiculous ease and clean
ing out the pockets of all the vil-
And from this humble origin
comes so great an institution of
modern times aa the dark hortfe.—
New York Times.
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England and Lotteries.
T h » French Father.
C. B. CUMMINGS
1911
The father in France is the rec
ognized head of the family. In him
is vested the clan tradition of au
thority. The law is his right arm,,
as custom has also handed to him
the sceptef of rulership. In many
cases French law is tyrannical.
How stringent, how oftentimes rig
orously unjust, are the workings of
marriage laws in France I A French
son or daughter, though grown to
the mature age of five and twenty,
forfeits all rights to the continu
ance of maintenance by marrying
without the parents’ consent—
Anna Bowman Dodd in Century.
Runs on the Bank ef England.
Even the Bank of England has
not been entirely free from runs
nor from the necessity of saving it
self by strategy. In 1745, for in
stance, it was forced to employ
agents to present notes, which were
paid as slowly as possible in six-
pences, the cash being immediately
brought in by another dooT and
paid in again, while anxious holders
of notes vainly tried to secure at-
tention. In 1825, too, only the ac-
cidental discovery of 700,000 one
pound notes saved the bank from
«topping payment.—London Stand
The London Chronicle calls Eng
land “a nation of gamblers.” It
points out that “Westminster bridge
was built on the proceeds of a lot
tery. But so solemn an institution
as the British museum was founded
upon a basis of gambling in 1753.
A sum of £300,000 was raised by a
lottery authorized by a special act
of parliament. The money was
spent principally in buying the mu
seum and collection of Sir Hans
Soane, the Harleian collection of
manuscript and Montague House,
Bloomsbury, then the mansion of
the Earl of Halifax. And the gam
ble bought a house big enough to
contain the British museum for
many years.”
Amaranth.
Amaranth is a name frequently
used in poetry for certain plants
and flowers which on account of
their lateness in fading are taken
as the emblems of immortality.
The famous flowers are »till to be
found and are known in our gar
dens ss love lies bleeding, prince’s
feather, coxcomb and glob« ama
ranth. Instead of using holly and
ivy, as we do, the people of south
ern Europe decorate their churches
with these flowers, which are «aid
to retain their color for many
months.—Exchange.
Patent Leather Sheee.
H er Comebaok.
A young man who had not been
married long remarked at the din
ner table the other day:
“My dear, I wish yon could make
bread such as mother used to
make.”
The bride smiled and answered
in s voice that did not tremble:
“Well, dear, I wish yon could
make the dough that father used to
make.”
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A 32 Candle power old style incandescent uses 112 watts per hours.
To run then 1000 hours means
Mazda
Before putting on patent leather
shoes always rub the surface of the
vamp briskly with the warm palm
of the hand, thus softening the shoe
and rendering it less liable to crack.
Many patent leather boots crackle
all over the first time they are worn
when this precaution might prevent
the accident. Another method is
the gradual warming of the shoe,
and It must always be remembered
that shiny shoes are never kept in
oold plaoea.
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