A quaint ceremony is that still oh
tabling in some parts of Normandy,
the benediction des bestianx. The
oxen and the draft horses are assem
bled in front of the chureti. There
may also be a bullock or two and per
haps some cows. The procession ol
peasants, clad In their very best, is
sues from the church to the sound of
a chant that is droned by the priest
The venerable cure sprinkles a few
drops of water on the heads of the
beasts and when all the animals have
received the benediction the next fea
ture of the ceremony is to place at
the pedestal of the cross facing the
church certain bundles tied in coarse j
linen. These bundles contain bread
and salt, which are to be given to
those beasts not able to attend the
ceremony, says the Washington Star
Power of Love
Once when John Ituskln and
Thomas Carlyle were discussing the
literature of their day. the latter said
to hi* companion: "Can you tell me
why it is that works on subjects of
vital Interest to the race, splendidly
written by men of profound scholar
ship, command scarcely sufficient sale
to pay the cost of publishing; while
trashy novels, false to history, false
to philosophy and false to the facts
of human experience, and altogether
lacking In literary merit, will sell by
scores of thousands?”
After a short pause. Buskin re
plied: "There Is hut one explanation
of that fact, but the explanation Is
all-sufficient; the novel has love In
it and the other has not."—Scrib
ner’s Magazine.
Good Idea
Coperscope had arrived home tired
and hungry, but the beds had not
been made and neither was there the
faintest sign of any dinner. Presently
he surprised his wife reading a novel
in the drawing-room.
"Do you mean to say that dinner
Isn’t ready?" he asked, with danger
ous calm. “Very well, I'm going back
to town to dine at the Criterion.'
“Just wait five minutes.” replied his
wife, throwing aside her hook
“Will It be ready then?” he queried
hopefully.
"No,” was the cheerful answer;
"but ril come with you.”
Bagpipet in Spain
Specimens of bagpipes are found on
old Spanish manuscripts. In the
beautiful volume of the “Cantigas di
Santa Maria.” which was made in the
Thirteenth century of King Alphonse
the Wise, there are 51 separate fie
tires of musicians. These form an
introduction to the canticles. There
are three pipers among them with
bagpipes. Another Spanish manu
script of the end of the Fifteenth cen
rury, illustrated by a Flemish artist
for Queen Isabella, shows many mu
sical Instruments, among which arc
bagpipes.
Relic of Indian Art
A relief of the old Mathura school
.f Indian art is in the possession of
•he Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It
consists of a thin slab of red sand
rone, carved ou both sides I? Is s
n-di merit decorated with a repeatin'
irnament of three varieties, the sum
■>n each side of the slab, and wa
probably part of the main or onh
■ntrance to a temple which may have
been entirely of stone, but more likeir
of brick except for the doorway.
Special Folding of
Bills Prevents Loss
With many men it is a common
habit to carry a few odd bills In con
venient pockets to save themselves
the trouble of pulling out their wal
lets to pay for small articles pur
chased. Frequently these bills are
folded In Indifferent fashion and
stuffed Into pockets where other bills,
folded with equal carelessness, may
be reposing.
Hankers point out that this Is apt
to be a costly habit, as a bill may be
dropped when some of them are with
drawn from the pocket. They point
out that there Is one proper way to
handle bills thus carried; that is, by
smoothing out the bills, placing them
together, preferably with the smaller
denominations on top and larger be
low, although that Is entirely a matter
of preference. Then one end of the
little pile of bills Is turned inward to
rhe depth of about an inch or so and
folded down, after which the bills are
creased lengthwise down the center
and folded over. Finally the narrow
strip of bills is folded from end to end
in the most convenient little wad.
In this way the bills are all locked
together and there Is no danger of
any being separated and lost, while
the owner can readily unfold them and
extract what he wants at any time, re
folding the balance securely and re
turning them to his Docket.
A Walk With Thoreau
To take a walk with Thoreau, one
must rigidly adhere to the manners or
the woods. He could lead one to the
ripest berries, tbs hidden nest, the
rarest flowers, but no plant life could
be carelessly destroyed, no mother
bird lose her eggs.
First he would give a curious whis
tle and a woodchuck would appear—
a different whistle and two squirrels
would run to him. A different note
yet and birds would fly and even so
shy a bird as a crow would alight od
his shoulder. The children must he
mute and very motionless till each
'pet was fed from his pocket and had
departed. Thus the children wjre in
troduced to bis family, as he called
them. — Mary Hosmer Brown, in
“Memories of Concord.”
River Kept in Order
by Chinese Engineer
In view of the disastrous Mississ
ippi floods it Is interesting to note
that 2,100 years ago a Chinese engi
neer, 1,1-ping, laid down the correct
engineering principle for controlling
i he flood conditions of a river flow- j
dig through a flat alluvial plain.
The works that he and his sons es- j
tahllshed for controlling the waters !
of the Min river In Szechwan prov- !
Ince and distributing them across the ;
great Chengtu plain are still In per- j
feet operation. The Chengtu plain Is
an area 100 miles long and sixty miles
wide. Across this plain the Min river
is distributed in eight main branches,
converging at the lower end of the
plain to form a single river again,
which empties into the Yangtze above j
the Gorges.
Throughout the 2,100 years, the en- ,
gineerlng principle laid down by Ll
ping, without which the whole system
would have destroyed Itself centuries
ago, has been followed. Flood condi
tions are still unknown. On the walls
of the temple built to the memory of
I.i-pUig and his sons at Kuan-hsien.
is written this saying, familiar to
every Chinese studpnt: “Shen tao
t’Hn tso yen," meaning “Dig the bed
deep, keep the banks low.”—Minne
apolis Tribune.
Fragments of Bottle
Good Legcd Evidence
Fragments of a broken bottle once
settled a legal dispute as to the loea
tlon of the original comer post of a
surveyed tract. It was customary In
the old surveys to place broken bot
tles, crockery or other articles that
would resist decay In the holes where
the corner posts were to be set, and
notes of such deposits were recorded
hy the surveyor in his book.
On this particular occasion, when an
effort was being made to establish the
location of a post In Canada which
bad been set sixty years previously,
the surveyor’s gang dug for two days
over an area covering more thun fifty
square feet. Finally the diggers un
earthed broken glass with embossings
that corresponded to the notes In the
original surveyor's book. With this
point established, more than thirty
posts In the vicinity were restored
and the dispute over the boundary
lines wus settled.—Kansas City Star.
Optimism vs. Pessimism
The talk was of the pesslml-m of
tiie young. “I do not understand
why,” said one. "You would think
that young people would be all op
timism with the future before them.
You would think they'd see life as a
rosy path. It seems to me the mid
dle-aged and the old have more rea
son to be pessimistic. They have seen
their Illusions and their enthusiasms
go one by one.”
"Because they are middle-aged and
old U Hie very reason for their op
timism,” said another. "They have
learned by the time they reach ma
ture years that nothing is so bad as it
seems and that this is a pretty good
old world after all."—Springfield
Union.
Satisfied
A short-sighted uiun who was also
very inquisitive was walking in the
country one day when he saw a notice
board nailed on a tree that stood in
a field. As he could not read the no
tice at that distance, curiosity prompt
ed him to climb over the fence and
walk across the field toward the tree.
A few moments later he managed to
scramble back over the fence Just in
time to escape the horns of a raging
bull.
“Well," iie gasped breathlessly, “l
had the satisfaction of finding out
what the notice was.”
It said, “Beware of the Bull.”
Flowers at Weddings
It Is impossible to state when
flowers were first used at a wedding,
j since this is a very anoient custom.
Orange blossoms were worn and car
ried by brides from the earliest times,
as they portend luck and happiness.
Spencer and Milton were of the opin
ion that the orange was the golden
apple presented to Jupiter by Juno
on her wedding day. It was cus
tomary for the Anglo-Saxon bride to
give her friends small knots and rib
bons to wear or carry on the wed
ding day. Tills custom still survives
In the bouquets of the bridesmaids.
Antiquity of Bagpipes
Jacques de Morgan, during his ex
cavations In Persia, found some terra
cotta figures, dating from the Eighth
century B. C., playing on what ap
pear to he bagpipes. Again we find
the bagpipe in Persia In the Sixth
century A. D. on the great arch at
Takht-i-Bostan. While crude, the
representation serves as evidence
that the bagpipe was In use during
the 14 centuries which elapsed be
tween the time the terra cotta figures
discovered by De Morgan were
molded and the carving In the rock
at Takht-I-Bostan.
Electric Cash Counter
Money flows like water In the
Bank of England, In London, where
a novel electric machine sorts and
counts silver coins and dlschargei
them into bags hung beneath
Amounts of from U to £100 sterling
are automatically allotted to the
proper receptacles, says Populai
Science Monthly. Far more rapid and
Infallible than a human hand, the do
vkce measures out the equivalent <
*7.W» in an hour.
Seaweed Harvest of
Importance in Japan
Japanese soldiers do not give much
trouble to the quartermaster’s depart
ment. In the Held they ure capable
of great endurance 6n a diet of dried
rice, dried fish, dried seaweed, and
pickled plums. The seaweed Is wrapped
round the rice and used as a “relish"
to It. Given a tiny fire, a stew-pan, and
the rations mentioned, they ure per
fectly content, whatever the weather
and however long the marches.
Seaweed Is grown specially for food
purposes, being cultivated with as
much care as any other crop. After
the typhoon season, the women may
be seen bearing great loads of young
trees which have been stripped of
their leaves, though all the small
branches are left intact. These ure
drawn Into the weed on the shore
acres of brushy saplings being ar
ranged In long, parullel rows where
the tide ebbs over them twice dally
Gradually, the green fernllke weed
collects on the branches, and Hour
tshes there until the farmers harvest
it. It Is then carefully picked over
and dried for future use.
Curative Power Long
Ascribed to Flowers
The forget-me-not was formerly
known as scorpion grass, because the
(lower buds were thought to resemble
the coiied-up serpent, and our fore
fathers, believing In the doctrine of
signatures, supposed this to Indicate
thut they would cure venomous stings
Vying with the forget-me-not in Its
sentimental associations Is the lily ot
the valley, which also blooms In May
and Is indeed sometimes called the
May-lily. In the old herbalist’s hey
dey It seems also to have vied with
the forget-me-not In curative prop
erties. In the world of legend, how
ever, the forget-me-not seems to have
a distinct advantage, for whereas an
angel scattered them for us, the Illy
of the valley sprang from the tears
of a mere mortal. Eve, as she left the
Garden of T.den.—Chicago Journal.
God’s Grea'cst Gift
The Pall-Mall restaurant Is a fa
tiinus establishment in the Huy Mar
ket section of London. All prominent
men and women go there at least
once. It it he only to Inscribe their
■ames In the ‘‘Allium of the House."
Patti was there once and wrote b*>
neath her name: “A beautiful voice Is
one of God’s highest gifts." Some
time after Yvette'Gullhert was there,
and having read Patti's Inscription
wrote down: "An ugly, but eipres
sive voice. Is also one of find’s high
est gifts." She thought, no doubt, to
have the last word, t’hance would
have It that Sir Rider Haggard drop
ped In one day at the Pall-Mall and
started leafing the album. He smiled
and In turn wrote something beneath
his name. Tills was It. ‘‘Silence Is
God's greatest gift!"—Pierre Van
Paassen, In Altanta Constitution.
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Philosogrin
There Is no peace In hymns of hate,
nor in the road that Isn't straight;
there Is no Joy In lifting fobs nor per
petrating hold up jobs; there Is no
gain In drilling holes In men and let
thlng oat their souls. The good for
evil stunt Is great! Heap burning
couls upon the pate of the guy who
has done you dirt, and then stand
hack and watch It hurt! There may
tie profit in red gold, in robbing men
but when you’re old. and you've los'
even self-respect, you know Indeed
your life Is wrecked, and all the
schemes you’ve put across have
brought you nothing else but dross
The good will of your fellow men and
love are better than much yen. and
peace, when life's noon turns to shade
bents all the kopecks ever minte.—
Judd Mortimer Lewis In the Houston
Post-Dispatch.
Syrian Wedding Custom
An ancient Syrian custom which In
sometimes observed even at the pres
ent time Is the assumption by a newly
married couple of a royal stntus. On
the village threshing floor la placed
a throne on which they are seated
dally for seven days, during which
time song* and hymns In their honor
are sung and poems recited In praise
of their beauty, etc. Some leading
Biblical scholars have divided the
Song of Solomon Into seven sonnets
or Idylls, which would furnish one
for each day of the "King's week."
Language of Diplomacy
The French language was us,.d ex
tensively in Europe In the Twelfth
and Thirteenth centuries. The French
literature was greatly developed and
spread throughout the various eoun
tries, and persons of culture studied
the language In order to he able to
read the literature. Many foreign
students were attracted to the Uni
versity of Purls, and thl* also helped
to spread the language. As a Ian
guage for treaties and foreign Inter
course among nations, French became
general In the time of Louis XTV.
Highly Dangerous
While two gay spirits were giving
in unusually hair-raising display of
acrobatics at a recent flying pageant,
and to the lay eye seemed to be try
ing their best, with the aid of some
'Ive hundred or so of horse power, to
ear the wings off their frail steeds of
•dicks and canvas, a solemn voice
i line through a loudspeaker:
“Would spectators be good enough
• refrain from the highly dangerous
uctice of standing on their seats?"
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