FER TILE
MORPHY, TH E CHESS WIZARD
Paul Charles Murphy, the famous
American chess player, la Massed as
"perhaps the most remsrkable chess
player o f modern tim es."
He was
bora in New Orleans In 1837 and waa
notably precocious as a child.
Ha
showed this precocity particularly In
games o f chess, and before ho waa
thirteen had defeated many w ell
known amateurs. For several years
Re studied law at the College o f south
Carolina and played chess only o c c a
sionally.
But la 1857. at the first
Am erican chess congress, held in New
York, ho easily defeated the best play
ers that could be brought against him.
In 1858 Morphy want to England
and there defeated Lo wen that Boden
and Bird and performed the most as
tonishing feats In simultaneous games
without the board When be was In
Paris, the same year, he won five out
•a vo many exhibitions o f blindfold
playing. It waa these last that w ere
responsible fo r the early breakdown
A fter his return to tbe United States
In 1858 be defeated tbe visiting G er
man exp ert Anderssen. In seven out of
eleven games. H e was admitted to
the bar and began to practice law in
New Orleans. But the strain o f his
blindfold contests bad been toe greet
fo r bis mind, and he was forced to
g ive up chess altogether and then to
abandon all mental occupation. He
tired In retirement until bis death In
1884. H is activity thus covered a com-
Morphy’s skill is described as Inex
plicable. H e never was a close stud
ent o f chess. H e played his games
easily and quickly. with no prepara
tion and little hesitation. Yet his com-
Bread Up the Ftwef
In the autumn chimney s w ift neats
often made the chimney amoks, and
they bad to. be Ashed gut or knocked
down bp low ering e pine branch en a
rope from the roof.
Once upon a time, o f course, these
a wallows built In hollow trees. But a
pair o f them, flying over Ptyuaouth In
1821, spied something which looked
like a new £Ind o f tree, and the breed
was on Its way to a new procedure.
Possibly the fact that chimneys are
safer from squirrels, coons, ow ls and
other possible enemies waa a factor to
determining tbe change. Then, too, it
Is undoubtedly cosier to And chimneys
today than hollow trees, l w ell remem
ber. as a boy, bearing n noise In one o f
our chimneys and pulling out the
stovepipe bole cop In my chamber.
There, directly opposite the opening,
perched on n protruding brick, n sw ift
was building a nest o f sticks!
I watched tbe whole process, fasci
nated by tbe sticky mucilage which the
fasten tbe sticks together, and a fter
the (bother teas sitting gradually got
her so tame—or. rather, sufficiently
subdued her wildness—that she would
remain ocraManally on tbe nest when
tbe cJp was removed. My great desire
was to see bow she got tbe young birds
up tbe chimney a fter they were large
enough to leave tbe nest, but alas.
at for m y belief.
Has any one observed a chimney
sw ift getting her young up the flue?
Curiously enough, I m yself have never
had another chance to watch.—W alter
Prichard Eaton In Harper’s Mags shoe
U n i ly rtn Had a PoeHIve D m i e f
Friday a and Sunday
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The behef In palmtata u 4 sooth
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; e r a la not. aa la sometimes snp-
; posed, confined to tile Ignorant and fo e
I
Lord Byron waa vat a
j credulous.
skeptic In these matters. Just before
hia death, as recorded In "B yiea> T lie
;
Last Phase." by Richard IM g a w b a .
"b e a n li ba bad reflected a grant fo a l
on a prediction Srhlcb had baanr Bade
to him when a boy by a fam ed fortone
teller In Scotland.
"H U mother, who firmlyabettnred In
chiromancy and astrology, had aant
for this person and desired him to In
forto him what woo Id he the fotare
destiny o f her son. H arin g nra mined
attentively the palm o f hia hand, the
man looked at him fo r aw hile stead
fastly and then w ith a solemn retee
exclaimed. ‘Beware o f your thlrty-oer
noth year, my young lord; beware?
“ H e bad entered on hU thirty-as*
euth year on Jan. 22. nnd It # a a e v i
dent from the emotion w ith which he
related thla circumstance that the cau
tion o f the palm ist had produced a
deep Impression on hia mind, which In
many respects waa ap superstitious
that w e thought It proper to accuse
him o f superstition.
** "To say the truth.’ answered Ms
lordship, i (tod It equally difficult to
know what not to believe. • • ■ You
w ill. I know, ridicule my b elief In
lucky and nnlucky days, but no coo
sld oration can now induce me to un
dertake anything either on a Friday
or a Sunday. 1 am positive It would
term inate unfortunately. E very one
o f m y misfortunes—God knows I have
had my share—has happened to bo
HORSES IN B A T T L E
. «SMANIA.
Conviât
I f you wish to add s codicil to your
w ill don’t fall to bave tbe codicil refer
unmistakably to tbe w ill and to attach
the codk-il thereto physically.
Don’t hesitate to chai.ire your w ill by
codicil or otherwise whenever yon see
Real A cademic Dignity,
Max Muller tells a story o f on# o f
Dr. Strachaa Davidson’s predecessors
a* master o f Baliol. "Once when re
turning from a solitary w alk Dr. Jen
kins. whose regard fo r his own dignity
was very g rea t slipped and fell. Tw o
undergraduates, seeing tbe accident
ran to assist him and w ere jo s t laying
hands on him to lift him up when he
descried a master o f arts coming.
Stop!’ be cried. ‘I see a master o f arts
coming down the stree t’ and he dis
missed tbe undergraduates, w ith many
thanks, and was helped on his legs by
tbe M. A ” —London Chronicle.
For Safety’s Sake.
A captain o f a small trading vessel
having some contraband goods on
board wanted to onload them at a
small port
"Joe." be said to tbe customs man.
whom be knew well, If I was to stick
a pound note over each o' your eyes
could ye see?"
"N o.” replied tbe man, "and If I bad
another over my month I couldn’t
London Tit-Bits.
A s k him if
P m
A ir in the
• h n 't just am vital to
Aroused H er Suspicion.
,
!.” be said, "th at coal bas gone
Warm Air Furnace
A t the Museum.
"Is that the artist’s name In M g lat
ter« on that picture, pop?”
"N o, my son. That Is the name o f
the rich man who presentad tba picture
to tbe museum. You w ill find the art-
let’s name la very sm all letters down
In tbe low er right band corner.” —St.
Louie Poet-Dlepetcb.
3mm TODAY
Seems, A ll k ig and Strong.
No single room apartm ent satisfies
the hammerhead. When he bonds hia
neat be dlvtdee It Into three room »—a
reception hall, a drawing room and a
bedroom.
T h e entire structure la buUt o f
sticks, dome shape, and sometimes six
feet In diam eter. T b e bird la ao good
s carpenter and engineer that the nest
w ill bear the w eight o f a man.
In appearance tbe bird looks alw ays
ss I f he- needed a haircut. H is long
locks, hanging down bis pack, have
given him hia name, hammerhead.
Tbe entrance to this dom elike neat la
small and on the concealed side. Tb e
first room Is the hall, where the ham
merhead liras whan ha fears attach.
Behind this Is the draw ing room, the
borne o f tbe young birds when they
outgrow tbe bedroom.
Tbe bedmom Is higher than the rest
and safe t o d floods. H are tbe fem ale
bird deposits eggs on a nest o f leaves,
and both parents taka tarns a t keep
ing them warm.
The hammerhead Uvea In A frica,
usually buHCs his nest near a stream
and eats fish, frogs. lisards and small
snakes.—Philadelphia North American.
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out ft earner«. Come
in now and we wtU show yea
the ANSCO, the amateur camera
o f professional quality, and tall
Parlor Pharmacy
Steady, evenly dis
tributed heat, un
der perfect control
m akes a good oil
sto v e w o n d e rfu l
Risulti
W
o f the sixteenth century and Is rarely
mentioned In books before 1700. John
son does not recognize i t though Steele
uses It In 1712 in the Spectator ( " I f yon
w aiit to sell, here la your chap"), and
tt Is found In Bailey’s Dictionary. 1731,
The last paragraph o f the last letter Its original meaning o f a buyer or sell
w ritten by Charles Dickens read:
or still lingers In tbe dialects o f many
But I hope I may be ready at > o’clock. counties. Coupled with tbe adjectives
If I can’t b * -w h > . then I shan’t be. Brer old, young, little, poor. It was and is
affectionately. ,
C. D.
used In fam iliar language, ss Is its rel
Thla was written an hour or ao be
ative. a queer "custom er ” Todd. 1818.
fore tbe fatal seizure. Every word
affirms that a good ebap meant one to
droops below tbe level from which
whom credit might be given, whereas
each starts, each line o f w riting de
not qualified by good it was a term o f
scends across tbe page, tbe simple
contem pt— London Standard.
G D. Is very shaky, and tbe whole
letter is broken and weak. Charles
Dickens was not "ready” at "3
Scottish th rift received a severe
o’clock.” H e died at ten minutes past
blow not long ago a fter a shipwreck.
T w o Scotchmen had got on to a raft,
bnt had nothing to support life or spir
A Woman’s Solaco.
“ Silas, I often think o f the time its except a little tobacco and some
when you came courting— It’s a wo matches, but no pipe or cigarette pa
man’s solace. And when 1 entered pers. Succor seemed never coming.
tbe room you hastened to assist me to A t last they gave it ap a* hopeless: hut.
a chair—near your own. And now 1 desirous o f having a little com fort be
fore tbe eeem lngly inevitable end. they
select my own chair."
"Yes. Samantha. I remember I t 1 made some cigarettes with banknotes
was alw ays afraid yon would stumble one o f them bad In hie pocket Tbe
snd fa ll snd bave fidgets. But 1 learn banknotes were no sooner sacrificed
ed long ago that you are able to take than relie f came, and they w ere saved.
Tbetr feelings cannot be described.—
care o f yourself.”
"A nd also o f you. Silas.” —Richmond London Telegraph.
Times-Dispatch.
They Saw the Wander.
A woman with a fam ily o f children
The Sultan’s Dreaded Shades*.
Ispahan baa been for long Intereoting recently moved from the heart o f
to Europeans as tbe borne o f that ro Indianapolis .to one o f tbe suburbs,
mantic person Zlll-es-Bnltan. tbe uncle ■ h ere they found various new educa
o f tbe last sbab. A strong, bullying tional opportunities. One day a neigh
autocrat, his name became a word o f bor met them all walking back from
terror, a bogy. When a southern Per tbe edge o f town and aiked whether
sian’s horse refuses to drink be asks they bad bee* out to tbe country.
“ Yea," said the woman! "th e man
it: "W h at’s the m atter? Do yon see
who brings our butter said ba bad a
your shadow izfll) In the water?”
cow out there, and 1 took tba children
ont to see 1L” —Indians polls News.
efficiency of the Human Faoe.
No stone crusher ever devised pos
Ancestral Precedence.
sesses relatively one titbe tbe force o f
"O
ne
o
f
my ancestors was a signar o f
tbe buman Jaws. No nicely adjusted
mechanical contrivance ever approach tile Declaration o f Independence.”
ed tbe precision and delicacy o f the ' “ Indeed r replied tbe haughty Indy.
buman eye. writes Dr. W illiam P. "W ell. An ancestor o f mine waa one o f
Cunningham o f New York in tbe Medi tbe men wbo helped draw ap tbe paper
and who told tbe others where to sign
cal Record.
their names.” — Washington Star.
Safety First and Last.
Mrs. Catterson—1 am actually afraid
to get my bank book balanced fo r fear
" I ’m going to get a lot o f
I bave made a mistake. Mrs. Hatter-
eon—W by don’t you do as I do? I keep
"W bo told you th a tru
on drawing tbe money out until they
"A fortune teller.” 0
" I ’d rather heve that eort o f Inform a won’t let me bav# any more.—Life.
tion from a paying teller.” — Pittsburgh
•till an Amateur.
"H ave you ever loved be fo r a r
"N o t enough to affect my amateur
status, dearest” be replied. -B a ltia e ra
American.
F. H. GRIFF£TH
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“ Haa itr she replied.
"A nd they’re raising rents." be con
tinued.
"W ell,” she exclaimed, flaring up, “ I f
yon wish to have oar engagem ent bro
ken o ff say so. I alw ays hate to have
people beat about the boob In a case
o f this kind.” — Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph.
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TH E HOUSE A BIRD BUILDS.
In the old days when tìir IT n th iii
and Greeks fought furious battles tito
charioteers drove t&felr cars hi f t S
regions, burled their Javelins and by
the din and clatter o f horses and Wheels
commonly threw the ranks o f the en
em y into disorder and. making theto
way among the squadrons o f the en
emy’s cavalry, leaped down from their
chariots and fought cm fo o t
The charioteers then withdraw little
by little out o f the fight and placed
their chariots in such a w ay that tt
tbey were hard pressed they could read-
Uy retreat to their own aide. Then to
battle they afforded tbe m obility off
cavalry with tbasteadiness o f Infantry.
D ally practice enabled them to poll
up their bones at fu ll spaed whan aw n
steep slope or to run out on the pola
and stand on the yoke and to get nim
bly tatrk fo to filo çh ariot
W ith the introduction o f cavalry to
the later Iron age came larger horses»
hot their use fo r thla purpose seems to
have been restricted to isolated areas.
T h ou Is ao doubt that the w est Ger
man tribes as lata as the campaign o f
.
Caesar in Gaul used only the shaggy -chapman,-the merchant o f form er days,
pony. It la said in ca va lry actions they en J Is derived from the Anglo-Saxon,
held it disgraceful and slothful to use "cheap." a bargain. Tbe word almost
any kind o f saddle, and Instead o f brings before us the loud voiced "cheap
Each Must Help to Make It, but One
Alone Can Mar I t
Charies Lamb In British Museum.
The British museum rparting room
To say o f the home which marriage
w as a fa vo rite report o f Charles Lam b ought to create that It la "a man’s king
la the days follow ing his retirement dom, a child’s paradise and a woman’s
w orld" ip to blur its meaning.
tag through a course o f reading a t the
Tbe home is no one's kingdom, no
museum.’’ be w rites to Bernard Barton one’s paradise, no one’s world. The
In 1826. "th e Garrick plays, out o f part only kingdom It resembles la the king
o f which 1 form ed my ’Specimen*.’ I dom o f heaven, because it Is within
have 2,000 to go through and la a few you. Home Is dependent fo r Its real
weeks have dispatch’d the tytbe o f ity—snd Its reality Is as deep as any-
’em. It la a sort o f office to me; boors thing w e know—upon a condition o f
10 -to A the same. It does me good. sp irit
Man m eat have tegular occupation that
jlchs indeed is emoodied or t t iw st
has been used to It" M ary Lam b ex shadowed forth in this or that physical
pressed her delight In her brother's symbol—tbe sheltering roof, the fire
fondness fo r the museum "as occupy place. the common table—b u t'It la de
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in g Ms tim e and keeping him from Ms pendent on no one o f tbeoe.
For Omar the symbol was the loaf,
Walks, which she seemed to think over-
the Jog and the book; fo r Detedra and
Nalst It was tbe teat "as tidy as a bee
hive or a linnets’ nest,” or the open sky
• I don’t envy the men who manage "am ong the snipe and plover.” .
Hom e means love and companionship
the M g hotels In the cities.” gloom ily
said the landlord o f the Petunia tav and mutual dependence, the spirit o f
ern. " I t la as much as I can do to common service and o f common loyal
■ a k a a bluff at keeping the peace be ty. It may be achieved by a husband
tw ix t the little bunch o f help I ’ve g o t and w ife or by a fam ily or by tw o
Yesterday one o f tbe tw o dining room friends or even by a single person who
girls said that the other one’s best has tbe borne feelin g toward the world
and fonght on fo o t
fe ller had tw o left feet, and In less without.
As -fax as England Is concerned tbe
T
o
aay
that
It
Is-
the
woman’s
hardest
r t«n no tim e those tw o young ladles
art o f rldlhg seems to have been Intro
had flew to it with ketebnp bottles and task to make the home la to miss ita
duced by the Normans. Th e Saxons
ao forth. Just imagine the spritely most exquisite meaning. No one o f tbe
appear to have been but Indifferent
group
can
make
tbe
home,
though
any
function there would be in a hotel with
horsemen.
one
can
mar
it.
It
must
be
made
by
all
700 employees, all battling with ketch
for
tbe
uses
o
f
all.—Atlantic
Monthly.
up b ottle*!"—Judge.
mm ; Vacation
"Tasm ania la perhaps the mpet la ter
al Ing o f the states St our common
w ealth.” remarked tl>a Australian, " ft
.s' a large triangular island lying' to the
«•util o f Melbourne and was ones a
onvlct settlement.
- The clim ate la delightful and the
soil remarkably fertile. The Island la
[>ructk-aUy one large orchard. A a fru it
trees do not require much landing, lei
sure Is a notable characteristic o f tbe
inhabitants, and Tasmania la known
throughout the antipodes aa th e load
<>f lots o f tim e' or th e land o f sleep a
lot* to la Mm called th e Jam country1
;tnd Ita natives fam iliarly termed ‘Jam
eaters.; Ttyls Is on account o f the pres
ence o f an ebormoun cannery on the
island, where soma o f the orchard
prbductn are convened Into Jama, je l
lies and preserved fruits.
"But this by no means ends tbe list
of Tasmanian nicknames. T w o Dutch
explorers. Tasman and Van Diemen,
had to do w ith the discovery o f tbe
Island, and. although the uame Tas
man Is now used, it la often referred to
in old schoolbooks aa Van Dleman's
I-and. W e find It amusing to tw is t the
latter name a bit and call tbe Tas
manians ’demons.’ which is a shame,
as they are the m ildest and bast fe l
lows In the world. They speak o f
themselves aa Tastes,’ and that may
ba accepted as their unofficial designa
tion."
Fitting Sequel.
“ F lattery Is dangerous to sensitive
Indies." said Cbauncey Depew. " I am
alw ays very careful in tbe matter, be
cause one evening I told a to d y that
she was aa sw eet as honey, and tbe
nest day she bad btvee.” —New York
Tribune.
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