THE GIANT INDIANS
CcCtallnr Waym of the On a of Tlcrra
del Fucrto
The Onas a tribe of Indians Inhabit
ing the mainland of the Tierra del Fu
ego Island are physical giants Their
average height is over six feet A fevf
re six and one half feet a few fall be
Uow six feet The women are more cor
pulent and not so tall There is no
race in the world with a more perfect
iphysical development than the Ona In
dians This is partly due to the topoj
3aphy of the cpuntry and the distribu
tion of the game which makes long
inarches across the country a necessity
In mentality they fall far below their
physical attainments In the past their
supply of game lias been plentiful and
this may account for the lack of In
ventive genius among them This lack
of progressive skill is portrayed in their
3iome life clothing and homes Their
children suffer from it for contrary to
the practice common among most In
dians of feeding dressing and training
the children well the Onas little ones
re mostly naked poorly fed and alto
gether neglected They have abundant
material for supplying themselves with
-clothing and homes and yet they throw
a few branches together put skins over
the windward side and then shiver tin
ker the miserable shelter
Scientists who have made a study of
the subject say that the language of
the Onas is the strangest ever listened
to Many of the words are not difficult
to pronounce nor is the construction
of the sentences difficult but very few
words are interrupted by a sound
which it is impossible to produce The
speaker hacks coughs and grunts
torting his face In the most inhuman
manner and then passes on to the next
Btumbiing block ThJpOnas live princi
pally upon meat which in former years
was obtained from the guanaco New
York Herald
ST SWITHIN AND RAIN
Tlie Legeml of the Chapel Over the
BishopH Grave
The superstitions referring to par
ticular days are very numerous The
legend of St Swithin is an example
4hat will occur to every one
St Swithins day If thou dost rain
Epr forty days it will remain
Si Swithins day if thou be fair
Tor forty days twill rain nae mair
St Swithin bishop of Winchester ac-
wording to the author of The Popular
-Antiquities was a man equally not-
ed for uprightness and humility So
jfar did he carry the latter virtue that
-on his deathbed he requested to be
Jburied not within the church but out
side the churchyard on the north of the
sacred building where his corpse might
Teceive the eavesdroppings from the
oof and his grave be trodden by the
feet of passersby His lowly request
was complied with and in this neglect--ed
spot his remains reposed till about
100 years afterward when a fit of
ious indignation seized the clergy at
the fact that the body of so holy a
member of their order was allowed to
occupy such a position and on an ap
pointed day they all assembled to con
vey it with great pomp to the adjoin
ing -cathedral of Winchester When
they were about to commence the cere
snony a heavy rain burst forth and con
iinued without intermission for the
Xorty succeeding days The monks in
terpreted this tempest as a warning
from heaven of the blasphemous nature
of their attempt to contravene the di
rection of St Swithin and instead of
disturbing his remains they erected a
chapel over his grave St Swithin is
christening the apples is the more po
etical way of describing St Swithins
-rain
The Moons Phases
The phases of the moon are caused
by its relative position to the earth and
4he sun so that when it is full moon
-on one part of the earth it is full moon
In all parts of the earth and so for all
Its -other phases The moon revolves
around the earth once in twenty seven
-days though on account of the earths
devolution around the sun the mean
duration of the lunar mouth that is
-the time from new moon to new moon
5s twenty nine days twelve hours
and forty four minutes The dark of
the moon is that half of the lunar
3month during which the moon shines
east at night
A Colli Hard Snnb
Excuse me madam he said but
- ah you remember in the restaurant
sifter the theater the other night you
Were kind enough to notice me I
5iope I am not mistaken in supposing
that your interest was ah not alto
gether
Oh not at all I remember now
I thought for a moment that you were
the coachman my husband discharged
few weeks ago for trying to make
3ove to the cook and I wondered how
you could afford to eat in such an ex
pensive place Chicago
Reminiscent
The author had written one success
ful story and he never grew tired talk
ing of It
Dont you know said one of his
friends to another one day Riter al
ways reminds me of a pleased dog
Thats odd How does he
Hes always wagging his tale
Explained
Mistress on the second day to new
-cook KathI just be so good as to
3end me 5 marks Cook aside Ha
Ha Thats why she said yesterday the
cook In her house was treated as one
of the family
It is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy and only by thought
that labor can be made happy and the
two cannot be separated with
Buskin
SNAKES OF SARAWAK
The Python Arc Enorniona and Feed
on IIk uiii Children
In the Sarawak Gazette is an article
on the snakes of Ibat part of Borneo
Of the poisonous reptiles it says The
cobra Naja tripudians Is a black
snake which raises Its head to strike
when irritated at the same time ex
panding the hood at either side of the
neck It spits at Intruders and hisses
like a cat whence it is known as
ular tedong puss in some parts too
as tedong mata hari The word te
3ong In Sarawak Is apparently ap
plied to all large snakes which Malays
consider to be poisonous and as our
Malays are but ill acquainted with
these animals quite a number of largo
but harmless forms are designated by
tills term The hamadryad Naja bun
garus is a brown snalcs considerably
bigger but rarer than the cobra It is
rather shy but when cornered liko
the cobra It raises its bead and ex
pands the hood before striking Its
food Is chL lly other snakes
Less dangerous than these najas
are the vipers of which the most
common species is the green viper
which reaches a length of two feet or
more The head is large and shaped
like an ace of spades This creature is
a tree snake and very sluggish The
bungarus are of several species one
Bungarus fasclatus of length up to
four feet being black with yellow
rings It is called the ular buku tebu
sugar cane joints by natives There
are also sea snakes of many species
The tail of a sea snake is flattened
and oarlike
Sarawak has other snakes Of the
pythons there are two species Py
thon reticulatus grows to an enor
mous size over twenty feet It is
very fond of pigs but varies its diet
by various animals including even
children The oil of this snake is used
by Malaj s as an embrocation for
bruises The other species of python
rython curtus Is interedting in that
its flesh tastes like that of fowl at
least so Dyaks say and they are au
thorities on snake flesh for they eat
a number of the large snakes
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Some people are simply acting nat
ural when they are kicking
Do the right thing by all of your
friends and you havent anything but
the core of the apple left
People with real troubles do not care
as much for sympathy as they do to
have their trials as inconspicuous as
possible
When a man says that he has not a
friend in the town where he lives you
can depend on it that the town is not
to blame
Dont forget that your actions are
measured as critically all through life
as is the borrowed butter you return
to a neighbor
With all due consideration for the
sober second thought we notice that
the longer we aim the more liable wo
are to miss the mark Atchison Globe
Frondes Youthful Terrors
Of the youthful hardships endured
by James Anthony Froude a biogra
pher says Conceiving that the child
wanted spirit Hurrell his elder broth
er once took him up by the heels and
stirred with his head the mud at the
bottom of a stream Another time he
threw him into deep water out of a
boat to make him manly But he was
not satisfied by inspiring physical ter
ror Invoking the aid of the preternat
ural he taught his brother that the
hollow behind the house was haunted
by a monstrous and malevolent phan
tom to which in the plenitude of his
imagination he gave the name of Pe
ningre Gradually the child discover
ed that Peningre was an illusion and
began to suspect that other ideas of
Hurrells might be illusions too
The Flyins Lizard of Java
The curious little animals known as
flying lizards Draco volans are only
found in Java and their strange ap
pearance is supposed to have been the
origin of the dragon of the mediaeval
eastern imagination The reptile is like
an ordinary lizard but Is provided with
folds of extensible skin which are
spread out by the long ribs and enable
the animal to glide through the air from
tree to tree in pursuit of the insects on
which it preys When lying prone on
the mottled surface of a bough it is
an excellent example of protective re
semblance as it is most difficult to be
seen unless it moves -
lie Made Sure
A story is told of the Sudan rail
way which shows patient literalness
To an official there came the telegram
from an outlying station Station
master has died Shall I bury him
The reply was sent Yes bury sta
tion master but please make sure he
is really dead before you do so In
due time back came the message
Have buried station master Made
sure he was dead by hitting him twice
on the head with a fish plate There
was perfect assurance that there had
been no premature burial
A Man of Nerve
He I callef to see you last evening
She Yes He Yes the servant told
me you were not in She Yes I was
bo sorry to have missed you He I
thought you must be I heard you
laughing upstairs in such grief stricken
tones that I almost wept myself out of
sympathy
The Reason
Teacher Youve been a very good
boy for the last day or two Bobble
I havent seen you fighting with the
other boys or romping in the school
room Bobble I got a stiff
neck Cleveland Leader
A STORM IN THE JUNGLE
It Coiuck With a Koar Like That of a
Ginut Waterfall
People Who have never been in a
jungle talk of the sky as a painter
talks of the horizon or a seafaring man
of the offing as if when you wanted
to see it you only need use your eyes
But In the jungle you dont see the
sky at least you only see a few scrag
gy patches of It overhead through the
openings in the twigs and leaves Nei
ther do jou feel the wind bolwlng nor
get burned or dazzled by the sun nor
even see that luminary except by mo
mentary glimpses about midday from
which it follows that a jungle man does
not usually pretend to be weatherwise
If he does he 13 even a greater hum
bug than the rest of the weather proph
ets On the afternoon about which wo
are speaking I remember setting forth
on my walk in the still glow of the
tropical calm and wondering rather at
the intense stillness of the surrounding
forest Then the air grew cooler and
the green of the foliage in front seemed
to deepen and presently there was a
sound as of a giant waterfall in the
distance Waterfalls do not however
grow louder every second whereas the
noise In front did so Then there was
a loud angry growl as of a dozen
lions A minute more and the whole
jungle began to roar as if fifty squad
rons of heavy cavalry werecoming up
at a gallop Then came a drop of rain
and a peal of thunder which seemed to
make the world stop
Then the storm began The sky
above darkened the trees clattered
the brushwood beneath hissed and bow
ed itself A deluge of raindrops blot
ted out the narrow view Down it
came soaking through the densest
leaves under which one lied for refuge
striking the grass and sand with mil
lions of dull thuds dashing furiously
against the leaves as if they were so
many hostile shields streaking the air
with innumerable perpendicular lines
and hurling itself down with the forco
of bullets
In such a downpour one may as well
walk and get wet as stand still and get
wet Unfortunately one did not know
where to walk to The circumbendi
bus sj stem presupposes the fact that
the wagon wheels and bullock tracks
can be seen and noted but when the
cart track is no longer a cart track but
all turned to rushing waters such
tracks cannot be seen and unless you
have a pocket compass you may as
well try to fly as to get back to where
you came from When one reads of
travelers lost in the backwoods they
always steer by the sun and probably
very badly but when there is no sun
what are you to do Siam Press
The Ice of Greenland
The largest mass of ice in the world
is probably the one which fills up near- j
ly the whole of the interior of Green-
land where it has accumulated since
before the dawn of history It vis be
lieved to now form a block about 000
000 square miles in area and averag
ing a mile and a half in thickness Ac
cording to these statistics the lump of
ice is larger in volume than the whole
body of water in the Mediterranean j
and there is enough of it to cover ths
whole of the United Kingdom of Great i
Britain and Ireland with a layer about
seven miles thick If it were cut into i
two convenient slabs and built up
equally upon the entire surface of i
gallant little Wales it would form
a pile more than 120 miles high There
is ice enough in Greenland to bury the
entire area of the United States a
quarter of a mile deep London Globe
A Howry on Approval
A curious custom prevails among
Roumanian peasants When a Rou
manian girl is of a marriageable age
all her trousseau which has been care
fully woven spun and embroidered by
her mother and herself is placed in a
painted wooden box When a young
man thinks of asking to be allowed to
pay his attentions to the girl he is at
liberty at first to open the box which
is always placed conveniently at hand
and examine the trousseau If the suit
or is satisfied with the quantity and
quality of the dowry he makes a for
mal application for the girls hand but
if on the contrary the trousseau does
not please him he is quite at liberty to
retire
Man and His Yalet
I never saw a man so entirely de
pendent on his valet
Quite helpless without him eh
Quite helpless Mabel told me that
when he came to propose he brought
his valet with him
What was that for
Why when he reached the proper
place his valet spread a hemstitched
handkerchief on the floor for him to
kneel upon Cleveland Plain Dealer
Diplomatically Put
I am afraid you are absolutely gov
erned by your wife
No answered Mr Meekton who
had been reading the foreign news
Im not absolutely governed by her
but I must admit that I am very much
within her sphere of influence Wash
ington Star
A Choice of Evils
Landlady Would 3ou advise me to
send my daughter to a cooking school
or to a music school Boarder -reflectively
Well I think Id send her to a
cooking school It may be more fatal
in Its results but It isnt anything like
so noisy
Stlngry
It seems strange said Deacon
Mayberry as he counted the money
after church that a large congrega
tion can be so small Philadelphia
Telegraph
A SELFISH MAN
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The Prayer lie AddrcHied to ho
Throne of Mercy
The following example of a quaint
and selfish prayer does not come from
the liturgy it is from Glimpses of
Ancient Hackney 0 Lord thou
knowest that I have nine estates In the
city of London and likewise that I
have lately purchased an estate in fee
simple in the county of Essex I be
seech thee to preserve the two coun
ties of Middlesex and Essex from lire
and earthquake and as I have a
mortgage in Hertfordshire I beg of
thee likewise to have an eye of com
passion on that county and for the
rest of the counties thou inayest deal
with them as thou art pleased 0
Lord enable the bank to answer all
their bills and make all my debtors
good men Give prosperous voyage
and return to the Mermaid sloop be
cause I have insured it and as thou
hast said the days of the wicked aro
but short I trust in thee that thou
wilt not forget thy promise as I have
purchased an estate iu reversion which
will be mine on the death of that
profligate young man Sir J L Keep
my friends from sinking and preserve
me from thieves and housebreakers
and make all my servants so honest
and faithful that they may attend to
my interest and never cheat me out
of my property night or day
THE CHINESE MOTHER
She Is Steadfast In Affection For Her
Children
The Chinese mother is very fond of
her children She is happy in their
company and spends much time car
ing for them In a Chinese family tho
birth of a child is a greater event than
with other orientals Long before the
child is born the mother performs rites
and ceremonies to propitiate the gods
that her child may be a boy After
birth the little fellow is wrapped in
old rags and in winter is sometimes
put in a bag of sand sewed close
around its neck to keep the little one
warm Great rejoicing follows the
birth if the child is a boy otherwise
there is an air of cliistyucd disap
pointment But good Chinese parents
make the best of their little lassies
becoming very fond and even proud of
them I have known more than one
Chinese father to exhibit his toddling
wee girl for approval though always
with the customary national verbal
deprecation of what belongs to one
Indeed this evidence of excessive
courtesy may be found everywhere in
this strange land It is good form to
vilify what is mine and laud what is
thine My gojd for nothing family
are all still troubling the earth with
their presence How is your honor
able family Filgrlm
MUMMIES
Some That Do Xot Come From the
Tombs of the East
Many persons who have an interest
in archaeology will be surprised to
know that ull the mummies to be seen
in museum- have not been taken from
faraway tombs in Egypt or other east
ern lands Well preserved mummies
have occasionally been taken from the
ruins of the cliff dwellers in the moun
tain ctnyons of Arizona and in New
Mexico and southern California These
mummies though very poor specimens
of the mummifying art are considered
great treasures by scientists because
they give the anthropologist a vague
idea of the strange people who had the
earliest civilization on the American
continent The best of them are al
most entirely ignorant of who the
Aztecs and Toltecs were how they
looked and lived and why they have
been so entirely obliterated from the
face of the earth
The reason for this ignorance is found
in the fact that no satisfactory remains
of the dead Aztecs have been found
These people were cremationists and
they probably buried household effects
with the dead leaving little or nothing
for the scientist to build a theory upen
Frequently a party of explorers in the
valleys of Arizona will come upon seal
ed jars of burned bone dust
Flowers In the Shade
It is not unusual to hear a com
plaint that ones yard has no sun
and therefore flowers cannot be raised
But there are a large number of flow
ers that prefer shade to sunshine in
summer The begonia is of this class
Those who have north walls or fences
may have great beauty during the sum
mer by setting out the different kinds
of begonias Even the gloxinia the
achimenes and similar hothouse plants
bloom splendidly throughout the sum
mer season when grown on the north
side of walls
Keppels Recipe For Health
Meeting me in a bitter east wind one
day in Piccadilly on his way to church
Keppel asked how Mr Gladstone was
I told him he was very ill Ah he
said he is overnursed If he would
do as I do climb up eighty steps have
a cold bath every day and sleep with
his window always open he would nev
er be ill Memoir of Sir Henry Kep
pel
Foot In It Apain
Mr Brakes Who is that sour looking
flame over there Mr Grubbins Sir
she has the misfortune to be my wife
Mr Brakes Oh ah er indeed sir
the misfortune is er all yours Im
sure Cleveland Leader
Possible to All
She philosophically Do you think it
is easy to die He commonplace
Well a lot of very stupid people have
nanaged to do it
All human power is a compound of Difficulties strengthen the mind as
time and patience Balzac
labor does the body Seneca
High Grade Groceries
at Low Grade Prices
Our cut cash prices on groceries went
into effect January 15 and our busi
ness since shows the people are appre
ciating the saving we are making 1 hum
in our line These are only a few of the
many bargains we are ottering
19 lbs Sugar ico
7 bars White Russian Soap 25
S bars Swifts Pride Soap 25
XXXX and Dixie Coffee per lb 15
25c K C Baking Powder 20
1 5c K C Baking Powder 1 2
10c K C Baking Powder 08
Eagle or Lewis Lye per can oS
Arm and Hammer or Cow Brand Soda per
package 08
Can Corn per can v 08
Walter Bakers Cocoa - 25
Fancy Lemons per dozen 25
2 cans Red Salmon 25
Horseshoe Tobacco per lb 45
Pumpkin per can 1 0
Saner Kraut per can 10
Fancy Redland Navel Oranges peck 60
Grape Fruit each 10
Extra high grade gallon can Apples
and Peaches as low as inferior
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RED WILLOW
Mrs Longnecker is still sick
Mr Holland has sold part of
his farm to some one in Denver
Mrs Will Randel has been
having a tussle with the grip for
sometime
Mr and Mrs Sexson entertain
ed oh Wednesday in honor of
Mrs Wilson
Mr Sexson was called to Arap
ahoe to see his aged mother who
is quite sick
There was a surprise on Mr
and Mrs Ralls on Monday night
A pleasant time
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JPF
Everywhere one hears that expression
hurry up It is a genuine Americanism
expressive of the
rush in which we
live Nothing is swift
enough for us We
Ace against steam
and lightning and find
them slow We
grudge the time given
to eating and rush
through meals as
though iife depended
upon our haste
Life does depend on
lr j our haste hut not in
tjf that sense Look at
of the naners and
see how many promi
nent men are carried
away by stomach
trouble acute indi
gestion and other re
lated diseases Their
lives have in general
been sacrificed to the
haste and rush of
business which over
looked the fact that
food can only nourish
the body when digest
e d and assimilated
and that the digestive
and assimilative processes carit be hurried
Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and the asso
ciated organs of digestion and nutrition
The source of all physical strength is food
Properly digested and perfectly assimilated
7 enabling the perfect digestion and assim
ilation of food Gulden Medical Discovery
increases and enriches the blood supply
and sends new strength to every organ of
the body I
nI was at one ti ne as I thought almost at
deaths door writf Sir J S Bell of Leando
Van Buren Co Iova I was confined to my
nouse and part of he time to my bed I had
taken quantities of medicines but they only
f5med to feed the disease but I must say that
Golden Medical Xcovery has cured me and
tp day I am stouter than I have been for twenty
years I am now ffcrty three years old
3RE Dr Pief ces Medical Adviser sent
free to you on Receipt of stamps to pay
-- ui mailIfK UTliy atuu iiiiiiyuut
Mrs McNeil and Mrs Hingland
gave a dinner in honor of Mrs
Wilson on Wednesday of last
week
It is fine weather for doing all
kinds of farm work except putting
up ice It has not been cold en
ough to have ice as thick as it is
usually put up
Mr Bellair has moved Mr
Moores house onto his place He
had a close call from a prairie
fire last week There was a fire
on Sunday both being set by the
train which endangered a Rus
sian living near
Those who have known Red
Willow from the first are proud
of the peace quiet and kindness
The old community has passed
through the throes of finding her
self and she is true When one
is sick or in trouble then the
kindliness is shown to a marked
degree
LEBANON
May Bartholomew was a Mc
Cook visitor from Friday evening
until Sunday
Ernest Fiechter and Henry
Ketterring who are jurors Sun
dayed at home
Rev Gardner fell from a hay
loft and broke a rib last week
Mr Pam filled the M E pulpit
in his stead Sunday
One of Albert Roberts boys
from Kansas has been helping
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while her husband attends court
Four of Chas Adkins young
folks were over from Kansas and
visited with Mr and Mrs Earnest
Fiechter from Saturday until
Monday
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