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A CURE FOR CUSSING
Tho Penitent Scotsman Found His
Load a Heavy One
A clergyman In Scotland observed
with much perturbation that a mem
ber of his congregation was greatly
given to the use of strong language
Over and over again he remonstrated
with the man to give up the bad habit
In time the man himself came to see
the error of his ways and desired no
less earnestly to break himself of the
use of bad language The difficulty
however was to find a method of
doing so One diy the clcrgyinn hit
upon a happy thought
Get a bag he said to the nan
and every time you swear put a
pebble into it At the end of the
month you will bring that bag to me
I will count the pebbles and see what
the effect has been
The man accepted the Idea with
alacrity He got a bag and religious
ly every time he swore what Mr Gil
bert in the Pinafore calls a big big
D he duly put a pebble into It At
the end of the month he went to the
clergyman taking the bag with him
It was not an easy task for as any
one might see the bag was very full
and very heavy no went into the
clergymans study and put tho bag
on the table
The minister looked up with a seri
ous expression This Is very serious
my friend I am sorry to see you have
so many pebbles In the bag
Iloot minister exclaimed tho man
cheerfully this is only the devils
the damns are all at the dikesJde in
another bag They were over heavy
to bring up Excelsior
A CLEVER TRICK
The Way Lord Cockrane Once Won an
English Election
When Lord Cochrane was a candi
date for parliament in Honiton he re
fused to give any bribes As his oppo
nent gave 5 a head Lord Cochrane
suffered defeat The latter however
sent the bellman round the town an
nouncing that all those who had voted
for Lord Cochrane would receive 10
guineas apiece if they called on his
agent In those preballot days of
course it was known howr each man
voted and the happy minority march
ed off to the agent each getting his 10
guineas Naturally enough the major
ity began to think they had made a
mistake and they resolved to rectify
that mistake at the first possible mo
ment In due course an opportunity
came There was another election
Lord Cochrane stood again and the
voters remembering his lavish meth
ods asked him no questions but re
turned him with a roaring majority
Then they conveyed a delicate hint to
the noble lord asking what he pro
posed to give them for this distinguish
ed service Not one farthing roared
his lordship The unhappy men re
minded him that he had paid 10 guin
eas a head to the minority at the pre
vious election A complacent grin
brightened the face of the member as
he gave this explanation The former
gift was for their disinterested con
duct in not taking the bribe of 5 from
the agents of my opponent For me
now to pay them would be a violation
of my own previously expressed prin
ciples
Identified
Tommy made himself the hero of a
story which the Boston Record prints
when he called for that one about the
boy who ate the ribbons and It made
him sick
Aunt Ethel was puzzled I know
of no such story she said after
searching her memory vainly
Nothing she could suggest answered
the description Tommy cannot read
but he thought he could find the book
He found it They read one thing aft
er another until in the midst of the
Night Before Christmas Tommy gave
a whoop of glee Aunt Ethel was read
ing
He rushed to the window and
threw up the sash
Thats it Thats it cried Tommy
You see its just as I told you
A Dutch Ironclad
It is of interest to note that accord
ing to some authorities the Dutch
were the first in the modern period of
history to build an ironclad and that
during the siege of Antwerp by the
Spaniards in 15S3 the people of that
city built an enormous flat hottomed
vessel armored it with heavy iron
plates and thus constructed what they
regarded as an impregnable battery
This they named Finis Belli Unfor
tunately the vessel got aground before
coming into action and fell into the
hands of the enemy It was held by
Alexander of Farma to the end of the
siege as a curiosity but was never em
ployed by either side in any action
A Handy Measure
If you have a pint jug and wish to
measure off half a pint with tolerable
accuracy it rs useless to try and do so
by guessing when the jug Is half full
A better way is to tilt the jug until
the contents just reach to the upper
end of the bottom of the vessel and
Just touch the lip at the lower end of
the mouth In this way the space in
the pint jug is practically cut into two
equal portions each half representing
the space taken by half a pint Lon
don Graphic
Man Is Wiser
Gerryman at the mirror Put a
monkey before a looking glass they
say and he will look behind it Miss
Sharpe Butva man knows better He
knows he wont find anything funnier
there than the face he sees before him
Boston Transcript
All affectation is the vain and ridic
ulous attempt of poverty to appear
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The Empire of
Abdul Aziz
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empire of Morocco which
THE been the scene of exciting
events recently Is one of tho
worst governed countries In
the world It has become accustomed
to turbulent scenes for fighting of some
kind has been going on within Its bor
ders most of the time for over 2000
years In the person of Sultan Abdul
Aziz IV Morocco has a ruler who is
supposed to possess absolute powers
but in reality he controls but a part of
the population of his realm The wild
tribesmen under their different chiefs
are In continual insurrection and the
present troubles are due to unusual ac
tivity on the part of these unruly sub
jects In consequence of the barbarous
character of these tribesmen travel In
to the interior of Morocco has been at
tended with danger and is seldom
undertaken by Europeans Even his
shereefian majesty Abdul Aziz Emir
el Mumenin or lord of the true believ
ers Is not safe from molestation with
in ids domains He has been accus
tomed to make a wide detour in the
past when traveling between Marra
kesh and Fez his capitals In order to
avoid being set upon and murdered by
those who are supposed to yield him
loyal allegiance and hold his person in
sacred regard The principal wild
tribes are the Rifflans and the Berbers
the latter the descendants as sup
posed of the race that Inhabited the
country in the earliest historical times
The Rifflans are notorious brigands
and pirates who never hesitate to cut
tho throats of any mariners or travel
ers unlucky enough to be cast upon
their coast or to fall into their power
The Berbers of the interior are scarce
ly less ferocious
In the towns and cities of Morocco
conditions are not so very much bet
ter The imperial revenues are de
rived from arbitrary imposts on im
ports and exports from monopolies
and from fines and confiscations The
sultan receives and disposes of every
thing uncontrolled Every office is
directly or Indirectly purchased small
salaries or none at all are paid and
public officers recoup themselves by
plunder and oppression All justice is
bought and sold and those who do
not unhesitatingly submit to oppres
sion may be thrown Into dungeons
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THB GATES OP FEZ
and left to rot or be beaten and tor
tured It has been said that the Mo
rocco of today is more backward and
in a worse condition of corruption and
anarchy than the Morocco of 500 years
ago
And yet Morocco has many attrac
tions Its scenery is picturesque and
the climate of the coast regions is in
many respects enjoyable as a range
of high mountains covered in some
parts with perpetual snow intercepts
the hot air from the desert so that
refreshing sea breezes prevail through
out the year The country is believed
to have great mineral wealth but it
is as yet very little developed Under
stable and orderly government such
as Egypt is now enjoying the natural
resources of the country might be
made to provide much wealth and
prosperity for its inhabitants and com
merce with Europe and America
would thrive At present travelers
in Morocco are chiefly interested In
the numerous mosques in the ancient
walls with their curious and some
times elaborate and artistic decora
tions and in the strange customs of
the inhabitants Morocco is a land of
sloth and decadence but its very
backwardness contributes to its pic
turesqueness in the eyes of the dis
cerning traveler who can witness in
the life around him a replica of that
one reads about in Genesis Essen
tially the customs of the people have
changed little in 3000 years
Fez the holy city of Morocco with
its more than 300 mosques and its
stranse fanatical observances is an
interesting city to visit but its Mos
lem inhabitants have a great prejudice
against Europeans who In consequence
seldom gain admission within its
gates The latter are decorated in
characteristically beautiful Moorish
designs and also In a savage fashion
sometimes by the heads of criminals
or of those slain in battle It Is proba
ble that ore many more years have
passed Morocco will yield to the Influ
ences of twentieth century civilization
and many of the barbarous and at the
same time picturesque aspects It now
possesses will pass away forever
GUM ARABIC
The Two Classes Amberlike and
Bleached and Their Uses
Gum arable which forms one of the
moro Important minor exports ot
Egypt Is really the sap from a special
kind of tree which grows from three
to five yards in height whole forests of
which are found in the Kordofan prov
ince and also near Gedld In the White
Nile province The natives are free
to collect the gum The season during
which the trees yield their sap runs
from December to May Prior to gath
ering the crop the natives prepare the
trees by slightly cutting the bark in
numerous places The sap then ex
udes solidifies in the shape of large
and small lumps and is afterward gath
ered by baud such gathering being
done before the rain season com
mences
There are two main classes of gum
amberlike and bleached In the latter
the gum is merely exposed to the
strong action of the sun generally In
Oindurman while in the former in
stance it is allowed to retain its nat
ural amber color The confectionery
trade is perhaps the principal purchas
er of gum arable though a very large
number of other industrieschemical
works printing and dyeing mills let
ter press printers and so on are inter
ested in this product of Sudan Chica
go News
PAYING THE PENALTY
Tho Vay Beckmann Begged Frankels
Pardon Before Witnesses
One day Beckmann the comic actor
was induced to take off a well known
newspaper editor Frankel by name in
one of the characters he was repre
senting in Berlin He performed his
task so cleverly that at the close the
audience broke out into loud calls for
Frankel The journalist brought an
action and Beckmann was condemned
to go to the house of the insulted par
ty and there beg his pardon in the
presence of witnesses At the hour ap
pointed Frankel sat in the circle of his
family together with a number of re
lations and friends who had been con
vened for the occasion waiting the ar
rival of the delinquent He tarripd
long and half an hour had passed in
weary suspense when at last the door
opened and Beckmann put his head in
and asked
Does Mr Meier live here
Oh no answered Frankel He
lives next door
Ah then I beg your pardon said
the actor and hastily withdrew hav
ing thus acquitted himself of the im
posed penance to the great annoj anco
of Frankel and the intense amusement
of the assembled witnesses London
Tit Bits
Posters In Paris
French law gives the authorities of
every village and commune complete
control over posters No one writes
our consul general Is permitted in
Franco to deface streets and public
places with crude ostentatious an
nouncements of his business or other
subject Billboards are infrequent in
Paris and are generally built perma
nently into a wall where they are tax
ed according to their superficial area
When a building is in construction and
board screens are erected to shield the
public from dust and other annoyance
puch temporary screen will soon be
covered with posters of amusements
and other business but each poster so
displayed has been previously submit
ted to the authorities a license obtain
ed and eacli sheet bears the canceled
revenue stamp according to its size
A Long Swim
A tramp has beaten all known rec
ords by swimming twenty seven miles
in thirty minutes He did not mean to
do it He merely tried to steal a ride
from St Louis to Chicago on the rear
of a locomotive tender When the
train started he fell over backward
through the open manhole into the
water tank The noise of the train
drowned his cries for help and he was
obliged to swim until the first stop
was reached at Alton When taken
out he was nearly dead but the engi
neer was so unfeeling as to call his at
tention to the fact that the water was
only four feet deep and he might have
stood up The conductor also unfeel
ing asked him for his ticket but the
tramp said he had not come by rail
but by water Youths Companion
Strange Bequests
In his will Stephen Swain of the
parish of St Olave Southwark gave
to John Abbott and Mary his wife
sixpence each to buy for each of
them a halter for fear the sheriffs
should not be provided and John
Aylett Stow left the sum of 5 guineas
for the purchase of the picture of a
viper biting the hand of his rescuer
to be presented to an eminent K C
as a reminder of his ingratitude and
insolence Grand Magazine
Not Like a Woman
Have you interviewed that female
2riminal
I have tried to
Tried to
Yes but she refuses to talk
Refuses to talk Head your article
Man In Disguise and make it three
columns on the first page Houston
Post
Chance to Prove Himself
She I would never marry a man
who was a coward He About how
brave would It be necessary for him
to be in order to win your approval
She Well hed have to have courage
enough to er propose Chicago News
Rats according to a government bul
letin eat 100000000 worth of grain
annually and yet in spite of rats and
rates the farmers manage to do pretty
well Kansas City Star
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