LURE OF THE STAGE.
A Greater Cargar to Young Men Than
to Young Women.
T genuinely believe (bat the stage is
a place of greater danger to young men
than to young women. This is a sur
prising statement, you think ? I defend
it by saying that the actor is liable to
fritter away his time. He plays a few
hours a day, and for the remainder of
the time he “rests.” He doesn’t need
so much rest. He needs work and
study, and if he doesn’t have them
there will be a rapid disintegration of
character. There was never a truer
adage than that concerning idleness
and the location of the devil’s work
shop.
But girls can find and do find more
to do. They nearly all sew. It is great
economy of time and of purse for them
to do so. Cloth is cheap, and if they
can fashion it into blouses and lingerie
and into simple gowns they are there
by the gainers. Girls are rather more
industrious than men. I have noticed
that the girls in a company employ
their time well. They read and study.
I have never known but one young ac
tor—no, two—who studied.
The player should be a constant stu
dent. He needs to know music and
painting and sculpture and languages
and literature. It requires a lifetime
to learn all that he should know of the
collateral arts—Edith Wynne Mathison
in Theater.
NAILING AN IMAGE.
Curious Custom of the Natives of th«
Kongo Country.
Among tlio curious objects in the
home of the Itoyal Geographical so
ciety at Kensington Gore, in London,
is a fetish that was captured in 18CO
from river pirates on the Kongo riv
er. It is a wooden figure with mica
eyes that glisten unpleasantly in the
dark. A number of heavy nails have
been driven into its body.
According to Mr. T. A. Joyce of the
British museum, the practice of driv
ing nails into images has two pur
poses. One is simply to get a favor
granted. In that case tlic worshiper
on paying the fetish man a fee is per
mitted to drive a nail into the figure
while uttering his petition. The oth
er purpose is to injure an enemy. In
that case the applicant pays a heavy
foe and drives his nail into the figure
in the belief that his enemy will fall
ill and die.
A man who falls ill goes at once to
the fetish man and makes inquiries,
and if he finds that an enemy lias
driven a nail into the idol with him
in mind he bribes the fetish man
heavily to remove it. That, he thinks,
insures his getting well.
The principle underlying the prac
tice is quite different from that un
derlying the old practice of making a
wax Image of an enemy and driving
pins into it. The wax figure repre
sented the victim, who in some oc
cult way felt in his own person the
abuse lavished on his effigy. The nail
driven into the wooden figure, on
the contrary, is to remind the god to
perform the wishes of the petitioner.
It is, as it were, to tie a string round
his finger.—Youth’s Companion.
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OUR NATIONAL FLAG.
Various Occasions When It Was Flown
For the First Time.
The first display of the national flag
at a military post was at Fort Schuy
ler, on the site of the present city of
Romo, N. Y. The fort was besieged
early in August, 1777. The garrison
was without a liag, so one was made
according to the prescription of con
gress by cutting up sheets to form the
white stripes, bits of scarlet cloth for
the red stripes, and the blue ground
for the stars was made from a piece
of the blue cloak belonging to Captain
Abraham Swartwout of Dutchess
county. N. Y. This flag was unfurled
over the fort on Aug. 3. 1777.
The national flag was first unfurled
in battle on the banks of the Brandy
wine, Sept. 11, 1777. Tlie flag was first
hoisted over a foreign stronghold June
28, 1778, when Captain Itathbone of
the American sloop of war Providence
captured Fort Nassau, on the Bahama
islands.
Captain Paul Jones was the first man
to display the American flag on an
American vessel. This flag was made
by the women of Portsmouth, N. H.,
for the Ranger, which was fitted out
at that port for Captain Jones. The
Ranger sailed from Portsmouth on
Nov. 1, 1777.
Cheerfulness and Cholera.
A cheerful disposition is held by
some doctors to be the best protection
against cholera. When this disease
first visited Paris, in 1832, a notice was
issued advising the inhabitants “to
avoid as far as possible all occasions of
melancholy and all painful emotions
and to seek plenty of distractions and
amusements. Those with a bright and
happy temperament are not likely to
be stricken down.” This advice was
largely followed, and even when chol
era was claiming over a thousand
weekly victims the theaters and cafes
were thronged. The epidemic was in
some quarters treated as a huge joke,
and plays and songs were written
around it. Rochefort wrote a play. “Le
Cholera Morbus,” which proved a big
success, and another production on the
same lines. “Paris-malade.” also had a
long run.
The Real and the Pretend.
Widespread artistic taste would have
had a better chance to develop in this
country if we had not been so much
concerned with knowing what we
ought to know and liking what we
ought to like. The movement has
caught those whose taste happened to
coincide with the canons. It has per
verted a much larger host who have
tried to pretend that their taste coin
cided, and it has left untouched the
joyous masses who might easily, as in
otlmr countries, have evolved a folk
culture if they had not been outlawed
by this ideal. — Randolph Bourne in
New Republic.
LEGEND OF THE VAMPIRE.
Queer Beliefs That Cling About This
Old World Superstition.
The vampire, according to the belief
of eastern Europe, is the physical body
of a dead person, male or female, that
maintains itself in a sort of half life in
the grave by returning to its former
haunts and nourishing itself on the
blood of living persons. This supersti
tion is characteristically Slavonic.
The vampire superstition is strongest
in White Russia and the Ukraine,
though it also pervades the popular be
lief in Poland and Servia, among the
Czechs of Bohemia :. nd the Slovaks of
Hungary and is to be traced as far as
Albania and Greece. Comparative phi
lology proves it to have had a common
origin with the equally hideous legend
of the were wolf, a human being who
could at will assume the appearance
and ferocity of a wolf, which if wound
ed in its nocturnal pursuits in the head
or limbs could not efface its injuries or
escape detection when it returned to
its human form.
The vampire is to be detected during
his visits to the haunts of man by his
extreme pallor, his unnaturally long
and pointed canine teeth and his fetid
breath. The vampire also throws no
shadow either upon the ground or on a
looking glass and is never seen to eat
or drink. How he leaves and re-enters
his grave is an undecided point, be
cause no one is ever supposed to have
had the courage and address to see, but
the belief is that locked doors and
closed windows are no bar to his move
ments.—London Globe.
Trial of a Dead Man.
Charles de Bourbon, high constable
of France, died in conquering Rome,
which his leaderless soldiers straight
way sacked. For this crime it was
necessary to find a scapegoat, so “on
July 2G, 1527, in the presence of King
Francis I., on his seat of justice, as
sisted by the peers of France and the
assembled chambers, Jean de Surie.
first usher of the court, called Charles
de Bourbon three times—at the bar of
the parliament, at the marble table
and at the marble steps—and then re
ported that the said De Bourbon had
not appeared. The sentence was drawn
up, then solemnly read, ‘The conneta
ble de France, dead, was condemned,
his goods returned to the crown, and
the door of his palace by the Louvre
was painted yellow.’ ”
Jamaica.
The English admirals Penn and Ven
ables captured and held the island of
Jamaica in 1655. The Spanish were en
tirely expelled in 1058. The capture
was part of the effort under Cromwell
to crush Spanish power in the West
Indies. The whole island had been di
vided among eight noble Spanish fam
ilies, who had so discouraged immi
grants that the population in 1655, both
white and slave, did not exceed 3.000.
True Enough.
“What is the plural of man, John
ny?” asked a teacher of a small pupil.
“Men," answered Johnny.
“Correct,” said the teacher. “And
►hat is the plural of child?”
“Twins,” was the unexpected reply.—
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Demonstrative.
Old I.ady (speaking of her late hus
band)—I mind the last time we was
out together, and he turns round and
sez, so kindlike. “Come along, old drag
gle tail!” he sez.—London Tit-Bits.
Helping Him.
Student (writing home)—How do you
spell “financially?” Other—“F-i-n-a-n
c-i-a-l-l-y." and there are two r's in
“embarrassed."—Harper’s Magazine.
Industry supplies the want of parts:
patience and diligence, like faith, re
move mountains.—William Penn.
Teeth Tell Sheep’s Age.
A lamb has eight small first teeth on
the lower jaw. When the animal reach
es the age of about one year the middle
pair are replaced by two permanent
teeth; at the age of about two the teeth
on either side of these permanent teeth
are also replaced with a permanent pair;
at the age of three the next tootli on
either side gives way to a permanent
tooth, and at the age of four the last
or back teeth are replaced in like man
ner.—Farm and Home.
Grievously Disappointed.
“Have you found out why Jinks is
looking so depressed these days?”
“It seems that a friend of Jinks was
in financial difficulties and Jinks offer
ed his help.”
“Well?”
“His friend took him up.”—Richmond
Tlmes-Dispatch.
Pugnacious Doves.
Peace lovers had better find another
bird to become symbolical of their
ideas, for the dove is not a bird of
peace, but is one of the most pugna
cious little fighters. In fact, the dove
fights a large part of its waking hours.
—Washington Star.
His Reasons.
“They say the widower who has just
married again was all broken up when
his first wife died.”
“That is why he was so anxious tc
he repaired.”—Baltimore American.
Cruelty and fear shake hands togeth
I er.—Balzac.
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what interested thousands of people.
Come tomorrow and bring your friends.
Summary of the News.
The business and professional men
of the American colony in the City of
Mexico tendered a complimentary
banquet Thursday night to James L.
Rodgers, representative of the Ameri
can State Department. A toast was
drunk to peace between Mexico and the
United States. The gathering was
attended by prominent men from
many parts of the Mexican republic.
William B. Bankhead, son of Senator
Bankhead of Alabama, has defeated
former Congressmn Richard Hobson
for the congressional nomination in
the newly create Tenth district by
51 votes. Hobson has announced he
will contest.
Former President Taft, speaking
Friday night at the annual banquet
of the Manufacturing Perfumers’ As
sociation, declared “that the trouble
with us Americans is that we cannot
look out for the future.” “In my
judgment,” he said, “whenever we get
into a war we ought to have con
scription at once. We ought to have
conscripttion so that everyone should
be equally subject to military service.
I think England now would be much
better off had she adopted conscripion
earlier. Everyone ought to stand
equally before the law in rendering
military service.”
William J. Bryan will heartily sup
port President Wilson for re-election,
he told I. T. Jones, a Des Moines attor
ney, who spent Thursday touring Iowa
with him for the equal suffrage
amendment. “Bryan did not qualify
his statement on any issue of peace
or war,” Jones said. “He declared
unequivocally that he would support
the president, and did not intend to
align himself with any peace-at-any
price party which would oppose Wil
son.
Emmet Williams, who had been ab
sent from Missouri for several years
and was reported dead and his estate
settled, appeared at Centrallia last
week and collected the money that had
been paid to others by order of the
Probate Court. He now resides in
Dallas, Texas.
Patriotic Youth—“Yaas, rejected
me, they did, just because Pm six
months under military age. It’d be a
blinkin’ nice thing if the war was over
by then, wouldn’t it.—London Opinion.
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Hoosier's Full View Roll Doors slide into
pockets or enclosures where dirt and
vermin collect in the average cabinet.
Come, see how you can lift out these
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Nebraska State Banks. This indicates the lj
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confidence of the Public in Banks that are under §j|
State supervision and can offer the protection lj
to depositors that the Depositors’ Guaranty fjj
Fund insures.
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Bank can you advance any sound reason why it H
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