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MRS MABGARET DEIiAXD
barn its exterior and interior are more
attractive than the summer houses of
many persons of means In a particu
larly cozy room with large windows
that let in plenty of fresh air and
light Mrs Deland turns leisurely to
her literary tasks It was in this room
that Philip and HisVife Sidney
many of the Old Chester Tales and a
large part of her last novelwere pre
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MARGARET DELAND AUTHOR
Her GrcntcMt Successes Written In a
Barn Friend of Bird
Mrs Margaret Deland -whose latest
book The Awakening of Helena
Richie is quite as clever and interest
ing as the other stories that have
won fame for her is an enthusiastic
floriculturist Her love for flowers and
plants is given expression in nearly
nil of her works Some of Mrs De
lands greatest successes were written
In a barn When summer comes and
Eho is freed from the social and house
hold obligations of her beautiful home
in Boston Mrs Deland seeks her cot
tage on the Kennebunk river Ivonne
bunkport Me Her garden is a mass
of beautiful blooms flowering vines
and sweet scented shrubs As forthe
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pared The authoress however finds
much time to spend with her flowers
She Is of a very retiring disposition
and shuns publicity although to a wide
circle of intimate friends she isnoted
for a generous and gracious hospitality
She does not care for violent exercises
or games her only active recreation be
ing the care of her flowers Sbe arises
before 5 oclock every morning in the
summer and spends hours in her gar
den which is the home of hundreds of
birds The latter have been attracted
by the many quiet cozy bowers to be
found there and realize they have a
safe retreat Mrs Deland is on very
cordial terms with the birds While
she works among the flowers she talks
to her feathered friends and they sau
cily twitter back at her
Coldness of lee
It seems strange to think that some
ice is colder than othor ice The term
ice cold alwaj s seems to signify a
definite temperature All Avater under
similar conditions freezes at a certain
definite temperature But when the
thermometer falls below that it con
tinues to affect the ice making it hard
er and colder The test has been made
by placing a piece of ice from the
north and a piece of ice formed in the
vicinity of New York near a stove to
gether The former took much longer
to melt than the latter New York
Tribune
Vlewlnpr the Remains
It had been a strenuous afternoon for
the devoted teacher who took six of
her pupils through the Museum of Nat
ural History but her charges had en
joyed every minute of the time
Where have you been boys asked
the father of two of the party that
night and the answer came with joy
ous promptness
Weve been to a dead circus
Itnljinstein on Piano Plnylnpr
When a pupil happened to ask Rubin
stein how certain passages should be
construed he invariably showed them
But if a pupil asked Shall I play this
in this manner or that both equally
correct Rubinstein invariably replied
Play as you feel Is the day rainy
Play it this way Is the day sunny
Play it the other way
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A City on the CllfTu
Frecisely why the town of Bonifacio
in Corsica is built to the sheer edge
of the cliff which forms the sea front
age of that part of the Island is a ques
tion always asked by the traveler who
views Bonifacio for the In ht time and
he reiterates his question when he ob
serves upon visiting the environs of
the place that there is plenty of room
for the town to have spread out in an
inland direction The early Corsicans
apparently thought that farm land was
worth more than city real estate and
so crowded their dwellings to the dizzy
edge of their 200 foot precipice Ones
first impression is that these houses
with their walls on a vertical plane
with the clhT were purposely so situ
ated that the body of a victim of a
dark vendetta murder might be con
veniently dropped out of the window
into the sea beneath with no one the
wiser Certainly there is a suggestion
of romance and mystery in the aspect
of the town It forms at any rate one
of the oddest sky lines in the world
Bear Hunting
Bear hunting with the assistance of
guides supplied with a well trained
pack of hounds may be satisfactory if
merely the killing of them is desired
but it certainly is no sport and de
serves not even to be ranked with trap
ping bears as in the latter case the
hunter must possess at least some
knowledge of the quarrys habitat and
habits Unlike a fox a bear when
once found by the hounds stands no
chance whatever of escaping and
there would be just as much sport in
shooting the animals in a park or pen
as to kill a run to bay bear And
while this truth applies to mountain
lions also there is not even the ex
cuse of the animals destructiveness
which is applicable as far as the lat
ter is concerned Field and Stream
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wages I have just been married
Employer Very sorry my dear man
but I cant help you For accidents
which happen to our workmen outside
of the factory the company is not re
sponsible Fliegende Blatter
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Perils of Fishing
On Grand Banks
ASSENGER3 on the transatlantic
liners of today vessels which
carry as many persons as live
in a good sized town and which
the latest Inventions of marine science
have made as safe as a house on shore
hare little idea what the psalmist
meant when he talked of the perils
of those who go down to the sea in
ships But up along the fishing banks
they know and they arent fond of
the liners there for the liners take
more lives every year than the dreaded
storms The storms cant help wreck
ing little ships The fishermen do not
believe that the wind bloweth where it
listoth they think it blows where it
is fated to blow But they also
think that no law of nature or man
forces the liner to race at top
speed across the fishing banks cutting
down everything that gets in its way
The fisherman thinks he is entitled to
life liberty and the pursuit of fish and
he curses the speed madness which
causes the steamship to make short
cuts at his expense The liners dont
sink fishermen on purpose of course
They dont even collide with them in
tentionally It is like a man stepping
unconsciously on a bug and walking on
Ignorant of the catastrophe for which
lie Is responsible The fragile little
fishing boat goes down before the steel
hulled ocean greyhound without even
causing the monster to quiver
For years the men of the Jranfl
bunks have complained of this to their
minds unnecessary addition o the
dangers of their calling Now tha
French government has heard thoni
and has issued a call fer an interna
tional conference to discuss skangliiff
the present steamship route so as to
avoid the fishing banks Lnsrt ycr
the death roll among the French trawl
ers In Newfoundland waters was 314
Of these It Is true that 13 perished
in the wreck of the Cousins Iteunis of
St Malo which was carrying men to
St Pierre to equip tbc fishing boats
there but of the remaining 179
DECK OP A GLOUCESTER FISHING VESSEL
ties most were caused by ocean steam
ers running down lMiermen as tbey
lay at anchor or in the fosr
To change the steamship line and
make it skirt instead of cross the hanks
would materially lengthen the distance
the steamers vrould have to travel
The Compagnie General Transatlan
tique the French lino has already
agreed to accept such a change but
it will be difficult to make all the big
lines follow the French companys ex
ample Besides there arc thousands
of tramps which come from nowhere
go nowhere
While the discussion of this proposed
change in the ocean highway noes on
the big ships continue to sink the little
ones Only the other day the lied
Star liner Yaderland cut the fishing
schooner John A Allen in two as she
was cruising off Georges banks look
ing for swordfish This time however
the liner did not flee but stood by until
every man on the sunken craft had
been picked up
I shall go back and tell the fisher
folk that I know a liners captain and
crew who are not cowards said Cap
tain Toothaker of the John A Allen
after he and his six men had been
landed in New York
Something blacker than the mist
loomed over us said the captain We
knew what that meant We sprang
to the dory but the black thing came
down upon us dead ahead Its siren
screamed but the crash of my boat
drowned the sound The TAderlantl
cut us clean in two On one side went
three of my men The other three and
I caught hold of a dory and just
missed the suction as the John A Allen
sank I could hear three men in the
water near by We made for them and
picked them up All of us were safe
We looked for the big ship but it
was gone like the other liners that
Sink fishermen and vanish in the fog
But no it wasnt gone after all The
lookout on the Yaderland had sighted
the schooner too late to avoid running
it down and the steamer was brought
to a dead stop in five minutes
Relinquishing all hope of a record
voyase the Yaderland circled back
through the fog blowing its siren until
It heard the answering call of the
wrecked fishermen Cheered by the
passengers Captain Toothaker and nisi
crew were hauled on board and over
whelmed with kindness all the way
to New York
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Gtlie Int Moment
The story of the deathbed of Goetho
reveals a striking picture of fortitude
artistic calm and intellectual activity
under the chilling dews of death The
Information is gathered from a letter
written on March 23 1S32 the day aft
er Goethes death by Frauleln Louise
Seldlcr an art student and close
friend of the ioets family On the
evening before his dissolution with an
Icy coldness taking possession of him
and the death rattle beginning to be
audible Goethe with his charming
daughter-in-law by his side would talk
of nothing but his pet theory of color
of the treaty of Basle of his desire
that the children should go to the thea
ter of his plans for the near future
As sleep did not come with the night
he called for a newly published volume
of history and covered his inability
to read it with a joke Even at 7
oclock the next morning Just three
and a half hours before he died he
sent for a portfolio to talk optics and
was setting himself to classify some
papers when the last agony seized him
He then lay motionless notwithstand
ing its violence till respiration ceased
and the heart stood still London
Globe
How to Handle Yonr Horse
Decision should never hi handling
horses be confounded with unwise de
termination to have things your way
In this application it means the faculty
of doing the right thing at the right in
stant and may be cultivated by fre
quent practice with all sorts of horses
and of course no hands were ever de
veloped by handling any one animal or
any one kind of a horse It is decision
that gives the hand the moment the
horse yields that uses the roughest
methods at a pinch for hands are by
no means always delicate of touch
that frustrates the most determined at
tempts of kicker rearer or bolter that
picks the best road that makes the
animal carry himself to the best ad
TflBtaye for the purpose of the moment
Decision Is very close to intuition in
effect Decision dominates the situ
ation at critical moments and
the horse is quick to discern and to pre
sume upon its absence There is no
ich tiling as a safe partnership with a
borero You must be the master or he
vlll be to your certain future
fiture F
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Ills Benefits at London Theaters
Bettertoti in 1700 when his salary
was 1 a week had a benefit and re
ceived 7G as his share of the receipts
and 450 in the shape of donations
The biggest benefit performances of
modern times have taken place at
Drury Lane That for Bon Webster
held in March 1S7 1 realized 2000
the profit oi the Buckstone celebra
tion in Juno 1S70 was 1200 for the
Nellie Farren benefit performance in
March 1S0S there was obtained
7200 though half of this amount was
secured from private donations Avhich
flowed in when it was known that the
Messrs Rothschild had volunteered
to Invest what sum was realized give
the popular comedienne an annuity
and on her death grant the theatrical
charities half of the capital London
Chronicle
To Insure Privacy of Mail
All private and confidential corre
spondence according to a postoffice in
spector should either be sealed with
wax or else addressed and stamped on
the back instead of the front Sealing
with wax is an excellent insurance of
privacy but it is a difficult and awk
ward operation and wax and a match
candle and seal are not always at
hand The other method is much the
better After fastening down the flap
of the envelope firmly allix the stamp
across the flaps junction and write the
address across it as well Then it is
absolutely impossible to steam open
the letter and close it again in such a
way as to escape detection
The Creole
A pure Creole is a person born in
Louisiana of French or Spanish par
ents It is a mistaken idea to suppose
that a creole has negro blood in his
veins A creole negro is one whose
forefathers were owned by the early
French and Spanish settlers and who
spoke a corruption of those languages
known as gumbo Their descend
ants are the creole negroes and should
never be conflicted with Creoles in the
true sense of the term New Orleans
Times Democrat
Why Indeed
At an examination of Sunday school
children the following was one of the
questions put upon the blackboard
Why did your godfathers and god
mothers promise these things for
you The answer of a bright girl
written neatly on the slate was
Why indeed She got marks
Christian Life
Xot to Blame
Father sternly Now Sophia some
thing must be done to reduce your ex
penses You are actually spending
more than your allowance
Daughter It isnt my fault father
Ive done my best to get you to in
crease it Brooklyn Life
Doubtful
Lady in dry goods store And is
this color also genuine Salesman
As genuine as the roses on your
cheeks miss Lady Ilm Show me
another one Kleines Witzblatt
Just Iladness
Father That kid ought to have a
spankingl lies altogether too preco
cious knows more than I do Moth
erBut dear I wouldnt call that pre
cocious Detroit Free Press
Only the illiterate and the social elect
can afford to treat the language reck
lessly Brainerd
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