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A Tenderfoots Wonderful Feat
Put Crape In Windows
Passengers
on the Second avenue
elevated road witness one custom that
seems peculiar to the people living in
the flats along that line of travel They
frequently see streamers of crape tied
to the second and third story front
windows that open on fire escapes
Somehow the bereaved relatives feel
that crape on the flat house door will
not indicate with sufficient clearness
which family has suffered loss so to
point out exactly the rooms where
mourning exists the windows are hung
with crape New York Press
As London Sees Us
In an article on smoking the West
minster Gazette of London says
At Washington senators not only
smoke in committee rooms but in the
senate itself Often a Washington or
ator has been known to deliver a per
ipatetic speech attending to his cigar
at regular intervals and follqwed by a
crowd of reporters eagerly taking down
his utterances
Exact justice is commonly more mer
ciful in the long run than pity for it
tends to foster in men those stronger
qualities which make them good citi
zens Lowell
In
Herding Sheep
In the west they tell this story about
the east perhaps by way of retalia
tion for some of the tall stories about
the west that they tell down east
A young man Just graduated from
an eastern Institution of learning
went to the west and applied at a
large ranch for a job
What can you do asked the
owner
Nothing much but Im willing to
work and can learn replied the eager
applicant
Know how to ride a horse
No I never rode one in my life
Rather a slim chance for you to be
useful here Im afraid
What have you to do for a man If
he could ride
Herding sheep
I think I could get along at that
very well without a horse
Young man Im afraid you dont
know much about this business I have
a large ranch here and some thou
sands of sheep A man without a horse
would make a pretty poor show
Well Ill tell you when I was at
college I was the champion sprinter
of the Institution I believe I could
do you some good service I have a
long distance record too I wish youd
give me a chance and let us see what
I can do
With a good natured but pitying
smile the ranchman said all right and
bade his new man to get some supper
turn in and be ready to go to work
early the next morning
When the employer rose next morn
ing he saw the new employee coming
in from the direction of the sheep
quarters Somewhat surprised at the
young fellows enterprise in getting up
so early he accosted him
Well youre up and ready to go to
work are you
Oh my yes Ive been at work
for two or three hours
Then the ranchman noted that the
tenderfoot was dressed in working
clothes a sweater and already looked
rather flushed What have you been
doing he asked
Driviug those lambs into the cor
ral
What lambs I have no lambs This
is not the lamb season
Well I chased eighty five of them
in and I tell you I had a time of it
too
The ranchman went with the young
tenderfoot to see what the story he
told was about
And sure enough huddled up togeth
er frightened and tired out were
eighty five wild jackrabbits
All right young man I think youll
do said the ranchman Chicago Record-Herald
A Bismarck Duel
A duel in which Bismarck was once
engaged had a very amusing origin
It occurred when he was chief secre
tary of the Prussian legation at Frank
fort He went much into society and
one Christmas attended a big ball
During the height of the festivities
Bismarcks attention was directed to
an exceedingly pompous individual who
strutted about the room This was a
M de Clancy a noted French duelist
Later on this important individual
took part in the dance but having
omitted to leave his hat at the proper
pjace had perforce to hold it out al
most at arms length while he danced
The spectacle tickled Bismarck im
mensely and as the Frenchman came
sailing majestically along Bismarck
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THE BLACUCOIIBGE
That Fearful and Mystic Visita
tion of Olden Days
IT FOLLOWED IN WARS WAKE
In the Fourteenth Century It Swept tho
Whole of Europe Killing 25000000
In Three Years The Pestilence In
London
The plague or pestilence that myste
rious and fearful visitation which has
moved its hosts In the wake of armies
to slay more than war Itself is sup
posed to have first originated among
the dense masses of people who crowd
ed together in the great cities of Asia
and Egypt or who formed the encamp
ments of Xerxes Cjtus and Tamer
lane the Tartar It probably sprang
from the impurity which must have
existed in the midst of such vast gath
erings and in part also from leaving
the unburied dead upon the field of
battle At any rate the germs of this
fearful human poison have always
been most active where conditions
similar to those have prevailed It
has always been war and the inarch of
armies that have spread it broadcast
over the world from time to time and
as war became less frequent and less
worldwide the frequency and extent
of these ravages have lessened also
The first recorded outbreak of the
plague in Europe occurred in the six
teenth century It came from lower
Egypt This was the first lapping of
the wave that reached into the east
again there to stay its movements so
far as the west was concerned until
544 A D when the returning legions
of the Emperor Justinian brought it
again into the western world from the
battlefields of Persia Constantinople
was the first place it attacked Here
in a single day as many as 10000 per
sons are said to have fallen victims to
it But the plague did not stop with
Constantinople It had found a too
congenial soil in Europe which was
little else than one great battlefield at
the time It was carried into Gaul
where it followed close in the wake of
the Frankish armies and from Gaul
It moved into Italy with the Lom
bards and so devastated the country
as to leave it entirely at the mercy
of the invaders
The various crusades which extend
ed over a space of about 200 years no
doubt did much to hold the pestilence
in Europe for they served to keep
open the channels of intercourse be
tween the east and the west Periodic
epidemics were common during their
continuance and these seem to have
culminated in the fourteenth century
with what is known in history as the
black death The black death was
more fatal to human life than any
other single cause since the world be
gan The havoc of war was nothing
in comparison to it It swept the
whole of Europe leaving in its path
such misery and destitution as the
world had never known It killed in
three years some 25000000 people
Such figures stagger the comprehen
sion but the records of the time can
not be doubted The entire population
of Europe is estimated to have been
about 100000000 kept down as it was
by the constant warfare and of these
at least a fourth perished
The ravages of the plague in Italy
stepped forward and dropped a coin where it came in the track of the war
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next days events Though it was with
pistols Bismarck escaped unhurt while
his adversary was wounded
Home Grown Motors
Even a book agent sometimes fails
of achievement through unforeseen
misunderstanding Colonel said one
of them affably to a Texan whose rec
ord he had looked up beforehand
those are mighty fine boys of yours
The finest in the country stranger
said the colonel The finest in Tex
as
I reckon you buy them anything
they want
Why stranger I buy them any
thing they need whether they want it
or not
Then colonel let me sell you a cy
clopedia for them Theres nothing
else will do them so much good
The colonel looked at him in aston
ishment Why stranger he said
them boys of mine dont need any
cyclopedia They ride mules Youths
Companion
particularly disastrous to mankind It
raged with terrible fury in Naples
where 60000 persons are said to have
died It fell upon Pisa and seven out
of every ten perished It utterly and
forever destroyed the prosperity of
Siena Florence also suffered severely
while 100000 of the inhabitants of
Venice were literally wiped off the
face of the earth From Italy It moved
almost as great In Paris alone 50000
people died from it One of the worst
features presented by the history of
the black death was the cruel persecu
tion it aroused against the Jews They
were supposed to have infected the air
in some mysterious manner and they
were accused of having poisoned the
wells and springs In Strassburg 2000
of them were buried alive in their own
burial ground
The order of the Flagellanto arose
at this time coming from the belief
that the sins of the world had at last
brought down the wrath of heaven It
was the beginning of the so called
hundred years war that carried the
black death into England where in
London its victims numbered 100000
When at last the plague had worked
its ravages it doubled back over its
course to disappear in the east Later
on it appeared again in England
first among the soldiers of Richmond
after the battle of Bosworth Field
and when the victorious army marched
to London the plague went with them
to work its havoc there As long as it
lasted the mortality was as great as
that caused by the black death half a
century before Five thousand people
died in five weeks and then the plague
left London as suddenly as It had ap
peared there to sweep over the rest of
England
In Scotland the plague of 1568 came
immediately after the battle of Lang
side when Queen Mary was dethron
ed but no records of the mortality it
occasioned seem to have been pre
served The plague visited London in
1G75 This followed after the civil war
which ended with the death of Charles
II but so many years intervened that
it is impossible to trace any connection
between the two events In modern
wars danger from the plague seems
gradually to have lessened perhaps as
a result of better sanitary conditions
maintained by the armies of today
Reades Eccentric English
use of the English language
too was eccentric not to say ludicrous
In A Simpleton rlien he wished to
signify that two people turned their
bucks on each other in a fit of temper
he wrote They showed napes De
scribing the complexion of the New
Haven fishwives in Christie John
stone he says It is a race of wo
men that the northern sun peachifies
Instead of rosewoodizing In Rendi
una he describes a gentleman giving
a lunch to two ladies at a railway res
taurant as follows He souped them
ho tough chickened them he brandied
und cochinealed one and he braudled
and burnt sugared the other brandy
and cochineal and brandy and burnt
sugar being Reades euphemisms for
port and sherry respectively While
he was preparing his series of articles
on Old Testament characters he read
what he had written to John Coleman
on one occasion and came to this star
tling passage in his argument
Having now arrived at this conclu
sion we must go the whole nog or
none
Coleman objected to tliis phrase
You dont like the hog I see said
Rcade Well Its a strong figure of
speech and its understanded of the
people but yes you are right Its
scarcely Scriptural so out it goes
Gentlemans Magazine
Bass Are Real Cute
It is related for a fact that the reason
bass jump and It is common practice
of the fish is because they wish to ac
quire grace and strength in testing
their ability against that of fishermen
Several men who saj they know
what they are talking about point out
that bass do most of their jumping
during the spring and are especially
active just before tho open season be
gins
At this time they may be seen doing
long distance jumps somersaults and
side stepping
One bass expert goes so far as to say
that he spent an entire afternoon
watching a three pound bass dragging
a long willow sapling through the
water and acting as if it were caught
on a hook
Leaping into the air it would turn
in a half circle as if to disgorge the
barb and then it would swim back
ward in an endeavor to snap the
branch
This fisherman asserts that what
jumping the bass do during the sum
mer is merely to keep in practice and
not get stale Philadelphia North
American
Improving Nature
To paint the lily to gild refined
gold when taken in a literal sense
seem processes too absurd for serious
deliberation Flowers of unnatural
hues however bloom In florists win
dows and the color green as applied
to the carnation is no longer confined
to the title of a book But the Persians
do even worse things in the name of
beauty They dress up their flowers
according to Mr Wills in The Land
of Lion and Sun
Porsia is not a land of flowers Zln
nLo convolvulus asters balsams wall
flowers chrysanthemums marigolds
and roses are the principal blooms of
the country
The Persians not content with the
plain flower cut rings of colored pa
per cloth or velvet and ornament the
bloom placing the circles of divers
hues between the first and second rows
of petals
The effect is strange One at first
glance supposes he sees a bouquet of
curious and bizarre flowers of entirely
new varieties
The Boomerang anc Ks Inventors
The boomerang ib ier a puzzle
One might think that tiie highest laws
of mathematics had been laid under
contribution in the perfecting of it
The convexity on one side the flatness
on the other and the sharp knifelike
edge on the inside of the convexity
have the air of having been carefully
into France where the mortality was I thought out Yet the people who In
vented this singular weapon cannot
count higher than five and are desti
tute of all the arts and amenities of
life Theirs is perhaps the lowest
plane of human life Some people have
assumed that the boomerang was the
creation of an older and higher civili
zation but for this there is no evidence
It must be the product of an age long
empirical use of throwing weapons
London Spectator
Sandys Criticism
A young Scotchman went to a Lon
don school of music where he learned
to play the violoncello fairly well On
his return to his native village he gath
ered his friends together to hear his
new instrument When he had played
one or two tunes he looked up expec
tantly After a slight pause his old
grandfather spoke
Eh maun he said
theres na smell wi
Mercury
its a maircy
it Liverpool
He Knew
Lady Customer I wisli to tell you
how these shoes of mine are to be
made Shoemaker Oh I know that
well enough large inside and small
outside Meggendorfer Blatter
Pretty Bad
Wife Arent you going to smoke
those cigars I gave you Husband
No Im keeping them till Tommy be
gins to want to smoke Theyll settle
It Illustrated Bits
Authoritative
So you are going to leave your stu
dio
Leave No Who told you so
Your landlord Philadelphia tn
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Pelf conquestis the greatest victory
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I The Remarkable I
j Landis Family
fei T W
FKED LANDIS
T1
HE Landis boys
have done very
well in life
There are five of
them three of whom
have achieved some
measure of national
reputation The one
most prominently be
fore the public Just
at present is Judge
K M Landis of Chi
cago who recently
compelled John D Rockefeller to ap
pear before him and give information
as to the interior works of the Stand
ard Oil monopoly As United States
judge for the northern district of Il
linois it devolves upon Judge Landis
to assess fines against the Standard
Oil company for accepting illegal con
cessions from tho Chicago and Alton
railway in no less than 1400 instances
Should the court assess the maximum
fines the defendant company would
have to pay about 29000000 for its
disregard of the law
Judge Landis is forty one years old
He bears the peculiar given names of
Kenesaw Mountain his father a sur
geon in the Union army having been
wounded in tiie civil war battle of that
name Early in life he was a news
paper reporter He was private sec
retary to Walter Q Gresham when
the latter was secretary of state under
President Cleveland Judge Landis
has practiced law in Chicago for many
years President Roosevelt appointed
him to the district bench in 100
Charles B Landis an elder brother
of the judge Is more widely known
Ho has been a member of congress
from the Ninth Indiana district for
ten years The congressman is a life
long newspaper man being the pub
lisher of a paper at Delphi Ind In
congress he has made a record as an
able orator One of his latest efforts
was a speech on the tariff question
advocating the stand pat doctrine
which lias been pronounced by vet
erans one of the best tariff speeches
in recent years
Personally Congressman Landis is
jovial and witty He takes delight
IIP
JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS
in telling funny stories of which he
seems to have an overflowing stock
Many of these deal with the Indiana
Hoosier and are reminiscent of the
congressmans newspaper life
When Charles B Landis first went
to Washington he was accompanied by
his younger brother Frederick who
served him as private secretary One
day Frederick who also did some
newspaper correspondence from tho
capital thus following the family bent
packed up his belongings and took a
train for home His home was and
still is with his mother at the family
homestead in Logansport
When will you be back to Washing
ton inquired Brother Charles
Not until I come back as a member
of congress replied the youngster
Three years later when Frederick
Landis was thirty he returned to
Washington as member of congress
from the Eleventh Indiana district He
was re elected at
the close of his
term but was de
feated in his third
campaign last year
In congress young
Frederick Landis
made an excellent
record During his
first term he mod
estly refrained from
fjPli f
proving hs ora
torical abilities but carles b landis
in his second term he arose to the oc
casion in a speech on the insurance
problem in which he scored the graft
ers so eloquently that his reputation as
an orator was well made The ex-congressman
is a noted stump speaker in
Indiana and is said still to have po
litical ambitions He practices law at
Logansport
Another of the Landis brothers Is
postmaster at San Juan Porto Rico
while the fifth is a successful physician
in Cincinnati The brothers were bora
in Ohio but grew up in Indiana
On to Him
Did he have any luck fishing
Well he says he caught a number
of fish many of which weighed three
pounds
I see They were so small It would
take a great many of them to weigh
three pounds Philadelphia Press
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