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The Judge Raised but tho Culprit
Promptly Called
A correspondent sends In the follow
ing account of an Incident which oc
curred In his presence In a Kentucky
courtroom
Under the laws of Kentucky tho
penalty for gaming is a line of from
20 to 30 Judge W W Jones was
holding a term of circuit court and
when the case of the commonwealth
of Kentucky against Daniel Cross was
called he asked Daniel If he had a
lawyer to defend him Daniel said ho
had not and Judge Jones asked him
what he wanted to do about his case
which was a charge of gaming
I dont know hardly judge said
Daniel I thought I would just pay It
off
Were you actually playing said
the judge
1 guess wo were Daniel replied
About how much were you playing
for Daniel the judge asked
Oh nothing much said Daniel
just a nickel or dime on the corner
Well Daniel said the judge I
will see jour dime and raise you 20
Daniel looked rather crestfallen for
a moment but catching the force of
the judges remark he quickly looked
up at the judge and said Well judge
I am satisfied that you have got mo
beat so Ill not raise you but I guess
I Avill have to call you Law Notes
EXPENSIVE BOOKS
Prices That Prevailed Before the In
vention of Printing
In the present day it seems very
strange to read about the prices of
books before the invention of printing
King Alfred gave a very large es
tate for a book on cosmography In
the year 1174 Walter prior of St
Swithins at Winchester purchased of
the monks of Dorchester in Oxford
shire Belles Homilies and St Aus
tins Psalter for twelve measures of
barley and a pall on which was em
broidered in silver the history of St
Birinus converting a Saxon king
About the year 1400 a copy of John
of Meuns Roman de la Hose was
sold before the palace gate at Paris
for 40 crowns or about 175
The Countess of Anjou paid for a
copy of the nomilies of Halmon
bishop of nalberstedt 200 sheep five
quarters of wheat and the same quan
tity of rye and millet
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borrowed the works of Rhasis the
Arabian physician from the faculty of
medicine at Taris he not only deposit
ed by way of pledge a considerable
quantity of plate but he was obliged
to procure a nobleman to join with
him as surety in a deed binding him
self under a great forfeiture to restore
the books
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Xo sir My commu
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grumble at being asked to dine in
dress clothes in any particular London
restaurant for they have in Paris one
dining place where this unwritten law
has always been enforced No man
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in the Bois de Boulogne without put
ting on his dress clothes Why fash
ion has decreed that a Frenchman may
dine at any of the boulevard restau
rants in tenue de ville but must wear
a swallowtail coat when he drives to
the big park of Paris to dine no one
knows It is custom and there to a
Parisian is the end of it Bellman
The Effect on the Nerves of Gambling
How can a man do his daily work
quietly which represents perhaps only
the earning of a few shillings when
his anxious other neurotic self is won
dering how a horse he has never seen
ridden by a jockey he has only heard
of in a race he has only read about is
faring as to money ostensibly his
which he cannot afford to lose because
he has not perhaps got it if he should
have to pay Is such an existence
likely to add to the race value of our
stock of fleeting patriotism Frys
Magazine
Made Him a Sinker
Farmer Jones to amateur hunter
There wasnt a better water dawg liv
in until you shootin geuts took to bor
rowin im Now Is ides that full of
shots hed sink to the bottom like a
brick Loifdon Bystander
The Meek
You should try to be a little less
assertive my dear Remember the
meek shall inherit the earth
Oh yes I dare say they will when
the others have done with It Lon
don Opinion
Joys are not the property of the rich
alone Horace
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Famous People of the Moment
Kogoro Takahira Japanese Diplo
mat Who Looks Like Kipling
Thomas Taggarts Start
expected ap
pointment of
Kogoro Taka
hira as successor
to Viscount AoII
at Washington in
the Japanese am
bassadorship is
taken to mean that
Tokyo is especially
the United States played in end
ing that contest Viscount Aoki was
appointed first ambassador on account
of his high rank But Mr Takahira
is himself an ambassador now being
4- 1 liwwl aT 1c frxiti iu nmlinocv
at Rome His advancement to the em
bassy at Washington would be looked
upon as a well merited promotion He
is about fifty three is a descendant of
the old samurai is sometimes called a j
Yanliee of the orient and is likened j
in appearance to Rudyard Kipling t
His diplomatic record is as follows j
Attache in foreign office at Tokyo at
twenty six charge daffaires of the
Washington legation chief of the po
litical bureau of the Japanese foreign
office consul general at New York
minister to Denmark and Holland
The rise of Thomas Taggart chair
man of the Democratic national com
mittee who has been in the public eye
on account of the meeting of that com
mittee at Washington was altogether
out of the ordinary About thirty years
ago when the girls in the railway
lunch room at Indianapolis said Draw
one it was Taggart then a red cheek
ed blue eyed and broad shouldered
young Irishman
who might have
been seen turning
the faucet of the
coffee urn It was
a happy combina
tion of industry
and good humor
whicli caused the
youths elevation
through tho various
stages of lunch
counter keeper res
taurant proprietor
hotel keeper coun
ty auditor and
mayor of Indian
apolis and which in due time won him
the honor of presiding over the na
tional campaign organization of his
party Mr Taggart thinks his busi
ness career began when he was about
six Of his later youth he relates
When I was working in Xenia one of
my duties was to go up the roid every
morning to buy flowers for my employer
At the hotel across the way there lived
a very pleasant lady Mrs John Dur nd
One day she said to me Tom bring m
a flower when you come back and every
morning she would tell me what e
would liltf but neer say anything ab it
the money ily salary a very small e
in those days was turned over to nv
family but I was careful then and men
aged to save a couple of dollars that I
had made by extra work With tis
money I paid for the flowers for Mrs
Durand as long as It lasted Then I
would borrow the money until I had
spent in all 7 or S for flowers but I
was ashamed to suggest payment to the
lady
Things went on from day to day but
strangely enough I never despaired of be
ihg repaid for my outlay One day she
called me to her and handed me 15 At
that time it seemed a tremendous sum
and that really was the nucleus of any
financial success I have had and stands
out in rny life as a memory or a very
happy time That day with that 115 In
my pocket I would not have exchanged
places with any one in the world
It is claimed by some that it was not
President Roosevelt who started the
much talked of campaign against na
ture faking but the venerable natural
ist John Burroughs the Sage of Slab-
side Yet Mr Bur
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roughs himself has
told stories of the
nature faking vari
ety On occasion lit
can tell just as mar
velous tales of that
kind as anybody
else He related such
a yarn at a dinner
in Boston It was
as easy to believe
he said as many of
the nature writers
anecdotes Then he
began My cousins wifes baby was
very ill and finally the crisis came
and the little one fell into a deep sleep
John Burroughs as a Nature Fakir
Captain Charles Polack Who
Was Decorated by
the Kaiser
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The sleep was to be decisive On tin
childs awakening the doctor would
know whether It would live or dio
Well In order that this momentous
slumber might not be disturbed mj
cousins wife going about on tiptoe
muflled everything chair legs cups
and saucers plates the doorbell And
Sa the noble dog from his seat on the
sofa taking in the situation at c
anxious to main- j gucc silently got up on a chair and
tain friendship aiuii i uKiit uay ciock uy ioucu
with the United
ing ine penuuium with his paw
kogoko takahira states Mr
hira made a fine record in this Captain Charles Polack of the North
irv lofnrn i tho Tfiiinnoso minis- German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wil
way in which he distinguished him
self The emperor conferred upon hiir
the Third Order of tho Crown in recog
nition of his skill and courage in sav
minister to Italy Austria and Switzer- j captaix chaklks
j r reI J uxvviv
laiiu vice minister iui luieiyu auaus
minister to the United States and am
bassador to Italy The diplomat once j bravery
heard two women discussing his na
tion
The Japanese said one of them
ought to be excluded from the coun
try Their young men come here to
Fc hool and no sooner do they arrive
than they begin a systematic course of
cheating
How is that asked the other
They pay tuition for only one said
the complainant and they learn
enough for two or three
THOMAS TAGGART
ing Ids ship from
destruction wher
she became rudder
less iu the open set
and in bringing
her sifely across
the Atlantic and
into port He is one
of the youngest of
ficers in the North
German Lloyd
service and the
decoration recently
conferred on him
is the second he
has received from
the emperor He
was given that ol
the Red Eagle in recognition of his
in rescuing from drowning
four members of a boats crew oi
which lie was in command while on
the way to save the crew of a sinking
ship For his courage and seamanship
on this occasion Captain Polack re
ceived the life saving medal of the
Royal Humane society and was also
decorated by the late Queen Victoria
KING OSCAR OF SWEDEN
A Most Learned Wise Respected and
Democratic Monarch
King Oscar II of Sweden was born
at Stockholm In 1829 His father
King Oscar I was a son of Joseph
Francois Bernadotte the French peas
ant who became a general under Na
poleon and a giaat favorite with that
conqueror When it was discovered
that Charles XIII who occupied the
Swedish throne from 1S09 to ISIS was
childless Napoleon induced the na
tional diet at Stockholm to establish
Bernadotte crown prince On the
death of Charles XIII he ascended
the throne as Charles XIV
King Oscar II was monarch of Nor
way as well as Sweden up to about
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THE IiATE KING OSCAR II Of SWEDEN
two years ago when the Norwegian
storthing declared Norway independent
of Sweden and the government of the
latter country acquiesced in the sep
aration As a young man the kiug
was trained in the navy and at the
University of Upsala He ascended the
throne in 1S72 Few European sov
ereigns have ever acquired such stand
ing as scholars and staesinen as has
been universally accorded to King Os
car and few have ever acquired to
such a degree the affection of their
people or have been so democratic In
the days of his greatest literary activ
ity he turned out works of poetry and
volumes on military history eritichm
and general literature at a rate which
left the public to wonder how h avvv
found time to rule his kingdom bill it
was generally acknowledged that he
did the latter unusually well
Rejected Manuscripts
I received a lot of rejected manu
scripts today said Titmarsh to a
friend
Did you I had no idea you had any
ambition to shine as an author
Not exactly that You see my
sweetheart and 1 quarreled and she
returned all ay letters
A NEST HARD 16 FIND
Remarkable and Artistic Home of tho
Humming Bird
The home of the humming bird Is
one of the most remarkable and artistic
creations of all bird architecture It Is
u tiny delicate cup made of the soft
est plant down saddled upon some
rather slender branch so deftly that it
seems a part thereof The saliva of
the birds is used to compact and secure
the material and likewise to coat the
exterior with the gray green lichens
so generally found upon trees This
makes It so assimilate with the sur
roundings that it is a very difficult ob
ject to discover And thereby hangs a
tale A gentleman had told me that
if I would call upon him he would
show me an occupied nest of a hum
ming bird in his orchard When I
came he was out of town but I
thought I would see if I could not find
the nest myself So I made inspection
from tree to tree and presently the fe
male hummer began to fly about me
anxiously We played a game of hot
and cold until it became evident that
the nest must be in a certain low apple
tree which had many dead lichen cov
ered brandies Some of these came
down nearly to the ground and for
ter and when at the close of the j helm dcr Grosse who was highly hon- j lte awhile I stood by the tree run
Russo Japanese war the Japanese le- 0lcd recently by the German emperor I nlS my eyes along each branch In or
catlon at Washinton became an ls envied by his fellow officers in the j dcr trying to make out the nest while
embassy in compliment to the part steamship service on account of the
the female kept darting frantically at
my head It must have been nearly a
quarter of an hour before I discovered
that I was standing almost touching
the nest with my hands having been
looking right over it all the time It
contained two fresh eggs this being iu
the early part of June The branch
upon which it was built was complete
ly overgrown with lichens and the
nest being covered with them too win
wonderfully disguised though there
were no leaves to hide It From Ex
poriances With Humming Birds b
H K Job in Outing Magazine
THE SMALLEST SCREWS
To the Naked Eye They Look Like
Specks of Dust
The smallest screws in the world are
those made in watch factories They
are cut from steel wire by a machine
but as the chips fall from the knife it
looks as if the operator was simply
cutting up the wire for his own di
version One thing is certain no
screws can be seen and yet a screw
Is made by every third operation
The fourth jewel wheel screw is
next to invisible to the naked eye re
sembling a speck of dust With a
glass however it can be made out
quite distinctly It has 200 threads to
an inch These little screws are four
one thousandth of an inch in diam
eter and the heads are double iu size
It lias been estimated that an ordinary
thimble would hold 100000 of thorn
About 1000000 of them are manu
factured In the course of a month
but no attempt is ever made to count
them In determining the number 100
of them are placed on a very delicate
balance and the number of the whole
quantity calculated from the weight
of these All the small parts of the
watch are counted in this way prob
ably 50 out of the 120
When they have been cut the screws
are hardened and put into frames
about 100 to the frame heads up This
is done very rapidly hut entirely by
the sense of touch instead of by sight
so that a blind man with a little ex
perience could perform the task
The next step in the process is to
polish the heads in an automatic ma
chine 10000 at a time The plate on
which this is done is covered with oil
and a grinding compound and on this
the machine moves them very rapidly
by a xeversing motion until they are
in perfect condition Chicago Record
Herald
The Drama of Londons Fog
There is a whole world of drama
bound up in the chronicles of Londons
fog This misty and mysterious vis
itant far older than Gog or Magog
which used to visit the watches of the
night when the metropolis barely lifted
itself out of the surrounding marshes
1 has a fund of comedy as well as trag
1 edy Countless murders have been
committed under its sheltering cloak
men and women have been waylaid
children have been torn from their
mothers and wives from their hus
bands but on the other hand there are
a few incidents of a less harrowing
character Strand Magazine
Curved Spokes
There is no doubt that an iron wheel
with curved spokes is much more at
tractive to the eye than the ordinary
variety but it is not on account of its
appearance that it is constructed in
this manner Wheels that are cast in
ariahl contract a little in the procer
of cooling and thoe made with
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Tec V y io Drew an Elephant
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rid Graulv er What am I to do
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