THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 13 , 1907
CHRISTMAS ON THE FIELD
Incident of the Time When the Oer-
mans Were Pressing Closer to
Doomed City of Paris.
1 ' " One day in Dei-ember the soldiers
of the Sixty-ninth battalion , in
J which severI artists were enrolled ,
received orders to guard the bridge
'i ' at Surcsnes. They had taken up
I their position there when some one
remarked , "It is Christmas eve , "
and the young men , suddenly
aroused on that cold winter night ,
gave themselves , , up to dreams of the
beautiful festivities of their child
hood.
hood.An
An air of melancholy nervaded
the whole camp. The clock struck
12 and a voice cried "midnight ! "
Then a soldfer of singular height
left the battalion , advanced toward
the plain and with a magnificent
voice sang the Noe.1 of Adam. All
the soldiers took up the chorus and
the pong revived their spirits. On
the other side of ( he Seine the Ger
mans struck up Luther's hymn by
way of response. Then the firing
was renewed.
The enemy's bullets which this
time spared the unexpected singer
were to strike him dead 23 daya
later in the fight at Buzcnval. Ho
was one of the painters of the com
pany. His name was Henri Hcg-
nault and his paintings to-day are
among the finest in the Louvre.
Petit 1'arisien.
PROFESSOR HAD BEEN THERE
His Advice to Students Proved He
Knew Something of the Ways
of Women.
The president of the faculty of a
medical college once addressed a
graduating class with reference to
( he necessity of cultivating the qual
ity of patience in their professional ,
as well as in their domestic relations.
The professor paid : "Gentlemen ,
you are about to plunge into 'the
sphere of action. ' No doubt you
will , in .some degree , follow the ex
ample of those who have preceded
you. Among other things , you will
doubtless marry. Lot me en
treat you to be kind to your wives.
He patient with them. Endeavor not
to fret yourselves under petty do
mestic trials. If you arc going to
the theater , do not permit yourself
fo become excited if your wife is
not downstairs in time. Have a
treatise on your specialty always
with you. Bead it while you are
waiting.
"And , 1 assure you , gentlemen , "
the professor concluded , with deli
cate irony , "you'll be astonished'
the vast fund of information you'll
accumulate in this way. " Success
Magazine.
"VOX POPULI. "
I
Tramp ( just out of Wormwood
Scrubbs ) to suffragette ( just out of
Holloway ) You have all my sympa
thy , miss. Ally Slopcr.
IVORY AS A SPRING TONIC.
"Some physicians , " said a drug
gist , "give an infusion of ground
ivory and milk in the spring to
stimulate and strengthen listless pa-
ticHits. It is a good remedy , for all
1 know to the contrary. Certainly
it is an ancient one. "
He opened a medical magazine
and pointed to this quotation from
Schroder's Zoology , a work published
in 10157 :
"Elephas ( elephant ) His teeth
are only used in medicine and vul
garly called ivory. The virtues : It
i-ools and dryes , moderately binds
cub , strengthens the inward parts.
It is good for the jaundice , it takes
away pains and weakness of the
stomach , it heals the epileptic , re
sists poysons , drives ofl' spring mel
ancholic. The dee is half a dram. "
JUST BEFORE A DANCE.
' Now , Jimmy ! "
"Yes , dad ? "
" ' ' that Boston out-
'Yy lo keep girl -
i'i - 1 on-ervatory. A sudden drop
' Tii'r.uure vould kill them flow-
HIS PRODUCTS IN DEMAND
Miners In Early Days In Montana
Were Willing to Pay High
for Vegetables.
liny Woodworth of Moscow ,
Idaho , was one of the early arrivals
nt Bannack , when the placer gold
was discovered in Grasshopper
gulch , and also moved near Vir
ginia City and resided , there when
that famous placer field was in its
glory.
Mr. Woodworth says that he came-
to Bannaek from Denver in 18G3 ,
and took up n ranch near what is
now known as Taylor crossing , be
tween Dillon and Bannaek.
He brought a lot of garden seed
along with him , believing that gar
den vegetables would be a delicacy
so craved by the miners that they
would pay handsomely for them and
that he would make more money
with his spade and garden rake than
with the rocker and pan.
lie succeeded very well near Ban
naek , and when there was a rush to
Alder gulch , he went there and took
up a ranch in the Madison valley ,
not far from Virginia City , where
he continued raising vegetables .and
selling them to the miners.
He raised the first wheat crop
ever raised in the territory of Mon
tana , and sold his wheat for 28
cents a pound.
" 1 lost $2,000 on one load of
rutabagas , and it was this way , " he
said : "I hired a freighter to haul
a big load to Helena , paying him
four cents a pound , and told him
to sell them for nine cents a pound ,
thinking that was high enough for
them.
"A few days after he left the
ranch I heard that the vegetables
were retailing at 'fiO cents a pound *
and I sent a courier after him to tell
him not to sell for , less , but the mes
senger arrived at Helena a few
hours after ho had sold the load for
nine cents a pound. The dealer re
tailed them at GO cents.
"I also lost some money on a load
of turnips. They froze en route ,
and I secured only 18 cents a pound
for them.
"I sold many potatoes to the
Alder gulch miners for 35 cents a
pound , after cutting all the eyes out
of them to save for seed. " Anacon
da Standard.
BROWNING'S TRUE POSITION.
Some time ago the Bookman pub
lished a most adverse criticism of
Kobcrt Browning in which the wan
ing popularity of the poet was dis
cussed and the writer gave the dy
ing out of the Browning clubs as a
proof of his argument. A group of
women were talking the article over
and deploring its severity when one
of their number , a lovely 18-year-
old girl who has an intellect that
soars away above and beyond her
pompadour , made this critical re
sume :
"The idea of the Browning clubs
dying out should be a sign of the
popularity of the real Browning. It
seems a desecration for a lot of club
women to squabble over the inter
pretation of Browning. Any great
poem should be a message from one
soul to another , and it should mean
just as much to the receptive soul
as it is capable of appreciating
through its own experience. "
THE CIVILIZED SAVAGE.
In the older days , when "Indian
wars" were still frequent , many ac
counts were printed of the savagery
of Apaches and Sioux. Yet it is
doubtful- in most essential re
spects the red men themselves were
worse savages than some of the
predatory , sneaking , brutish beings
often to be found in and about great
cities. Despite all the boasts which
arc uttered and printed about it ,
the fact remains lhat what we call
civilization breeds many individuals
who are not the lens dangerous bar
barians because they wear custom
ary apparel , are familiar with rail
roads and trolley cars and arc usual
ly able to read and write. Philadel
phia Bulletin.
WHAT IS "CHINA ? "
There should bo clear understand
ing of the UPC of the word "china. "
As a matter of fact , amazing though
it seems , china collecting is mostly
not of china.
Technically , "china" means only
porcelain , writes Shack , in the Sat
urday livening Post but by the
usage of all collectors and \ M.tr.s ,
and from the lack of a moiv ade
quate term , it includes also the Tin
products of the earl } Kng'L-h pot
teries.
KNEW THE NEXT WARNING
American Satisfied There Was Only
One More Precaution to Be
Insisted Upon.
Not long ago a passenger who ar
rived in Blocmfontein from the cape
related a yarn in connection with
"Norval's Point bridge.
He had not been long out from
England , and while in Cape Town
someone , on hearing that he was go
ing north , "pulled his leg" with re
gard to the safety of the bridge ,
which was blown up by the Bocra in
the early days of the war , and then
repaired by the British.
He and an American refugee who
waa returning to the Rand , were
leaning out of the corridor window ,
when , as they neared the bridge ,
they rolled by a notice board which ,
in letters a foot high , commanded
"Whistle 1"
The train went slower and slow
er , and then glided by another no
tice board which entreated "Go
slow. Do not touch your fires till
over the bridge. "
The Englishman began to feel
that crossing the bridge was un
doubtedly a serious matter.
Then they crept by a notice which
ordered : "Speed not to exceed two
and one-half miles "
- an hour.
Then they crawled by a notice
which implored : "Do not stop on
the bridge. "
"Say , " drawled the American ,
nasally , " 1 know what the next no
tice enunciates. "
"What's that ? "
" 'Passengers must not breathe
against the girders ! ' " Stray
Stories.
SURPRISES OF FUR TRADE.
It will astonish most of our read
ers , writes Agnes Laut in ' the
World's Work , to be told that on
the American side of the Canada
line the volume of the fur trade is
the largest ever known in the
United States greater than in the
days when the buffalo and beaver
had the whole continent as a stamp
ing ground.
Buffalo as a fur yiclder has been
exterminated. Beaver in the most
of the states is practically extinct.
Sea otter , from yielding 100,000
pelts a year , now give at the most
only -100 , at the least 200 , for the
trade ; and the fur seal is on the
way to extermination , falling from
100,000 a year to 10,000 and 14,000.
But other furs have taken their
place. There is more money going
to trappers to-day for skunk and
muskrat and fox than was ever
made out of beaver and sea otter
and seal and the rare furs. The
swamps of Xew Jersey and Dela-
waie alone yield millions of muskrats -
rats a year.
DOVE OF PEACE HATS.
"Women's hats , my dear , " said
the well-groomed woman , "reflect
the psychology of the nations , or
rather the temper of the nations at
the moment. Our hats are not ar
bitrary creations of French design
ers and artists , as is sometimes
averred. They are the 'outward and
visible sign' of a mental state of
mankind. Last year , when liussin
was in such turmoil that all the na
tions of the earth thought var and
read war and talked , war , women's
hats towered aloft and bristled
with rampant curves and whirlings ,
with battered dents and aggressive ,
mighty loops and bandeaux. This
year , with the peace congress in
thought and in actual operation , our
hats became meek , submissive. You
will notice that they droop demure
ly , and have long , meditative bows ,
close-furled veils and humble , wilt
ed , downcast brims. Uip Van
Winkle might know , to look at us ,
that peace was brooding over all. "
X. Y. Press.
HAND-WOVEN REVIVAL.
Within the last few years there
has been a great revival of old-fash
ioned , handmade weavings ; in fact ,
the demand for all kinds of hand
made products is continually on the
increase. This demand brought
about the revival of the rag carpets
of our grandmothers , resulting in
the making of hand-woven rugs that
are beautiful in texture and artistic
in color.
The modern hand-woven rugs ,
says Interior Decoration , are quite
an improvement on the old-fash
ioned rag carpet , as only new mate
rial is used in thfir making ; therc-
foie they are much more durable ,
and instead of Itoii'ir put toiret'vr 'n
a haphaxurd r. ; " . ] < r il.cv .r > v , -i ,
mto tjusiut and tmiuic ilw.ia. .
REBUKE FOR THE VICAR
Farmer's Remark Put nn End to
Further Laudation of Clerical
Gentleman's Achievement.
To test the safety of the church
jtceplc , a North-country vicar
climbed it with a scaling-ladder a
feat requiring no small amount of
jcrvc. Naturally ho was proud of
lis achievement , and talked rather
more about it than was , perhaps ,
consistent with clerical modesty. He
even called n meeting of his parish-
oners , and described to them , with
a wealth of detail , his feelings while
aloft.
"When I reached the top and saw
he huge golden weathercock gleani
ng in the sunlight , what do you
think I did ? " he asked.
An old farmer , who looked the
licturo of boredom , hazarded a
juess.
"You cheated the weathercock , "
he said.
"What do you mean , sir ? " sharply
demanded the vicar.
"Why , you did it out of the job
of crowing , " the unperturbed old
'armor replied.
The vicar cut short his discourse
; hcn. London Answers.
THE "DRAGO DOCTRINE. "
What is the "Drago doctrine , "
which is to be excluded from the de-
iberations of The Hague confer
ence ? It has nothing to do with the
ate Queen Draga of Scrvia , but de
rives its name from Dr. Drago , for
eign minister of the Argentine lc- ?
ntblic , who , imitating the example
of President Monroe , enunciated the
convenient theory that debts owed to
: ho citizens of one government by
: hose of another may not be "col-
cclcd" by force. This was when
he combined fleets of England , Ger
many and Italy in 1902 appeared off
Venezuela and caused Mr. Kipling
to write his "Bowers. " This "Drago
doctrine" was naturally hailed with
enthusiasm by all the money-borrow
ing republics of South America ; but
they were told from Washington
that it could not be regarded as a
subclause of the Monroe doctrine.
POORLY PAID TEACHERS.
It is a notorious fact that school
masters M-crc once regarded as a
servile class and treated accordingly.
Their remuneration was ridiculously
small , often amounting only to the
right of living from house to house.
But it is doubtful if a more pe
culiar method of paying schoolmas
ters was ever devised than that
which prevailed in certain English
counties , notably Cumberland , dur
ing the early eighteenth century.
Just before the beginning of Lent
the boys would arrange to hold a
cock fight , and each boy would make
a payment to the master for the
privilege. The "cock penny" was
regarded a legitimate item in the
master's income. Sunday Maga
zine.
THE ZOO SPRING CLEANING.
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Kangaroo with the Hag I say , bill !
cro's some of tho&o new vacuum
: leaners wo'vo 'caul HO much about. "
SHE SMACKED OF DOOKS.
"They tell me you kissed Miss
Sonnet , the poctre s , on yesterday's
automobile excurs on. "
"Yes ; that is Ir.e. '
"Indeed ! And now did you ah
find her ? "
"Miss Sonnet lias a marked lit
erary taste. "
WITH A GOOD DELIVERY.
"These are the dnjs when the
young divinity student has a men
tal struggle. "
"As to what ? "
"Whether lo preach or pitch. "
JUsT WHV7 HE DID IT.
"John , why are you raising that
window ? Pon'l you know I will
bo unable to spr\i ! above a whisper
by morning ? "
y , 'm " Houston Post.
TEA FOR THE EMPEROR
Elaborate Precautions Taken o Pre
serve Delicate Aroma of 'Aver
age for Royalty.
H is well known how sacredly the
emperor of China is guarded and
tow every detail of his household
ueiutgo is a matter of utmost im-
lortanee , but few people realize how
carefully the tea imbibed by hi * roy-
il highness and bin immediate fam-
ly is grown and picked.
In the first place , it is grown in
i garden surrounded by a high wall ,
so that neither man nor beast can
gain access to the sacred precincts.
Then when harvest time arrives
the gatherers must not eat fish ( one
of the staple articles of food ) for
fear their breath might contaminate
the aroma of the precious leaves.
They must bathe at least three times
i da } ' , besides wearing gloves. Apro
pos of this fine tea , there is a true
stbry of a wealthy San Francisco
lady who was in China , and one of
the court officials , wishing to do her
great honor , promised to Pond her a
casket of some extraordinary lea.
In due time an exquisitely packed
MX arrived containing tea. She
bade many of her society friends to
i series of "afternoons , " at which
this tea was served , its delicious
qualities expatiated upon and all
seemingly enjoyed ( ho beverage.
At the end of the season.when tha
casket was almost empty she found
i very small beautifully decorated
box , which on opening contained
the priceless tea.
What she had used was the dried
tea leaves that had been used prob
ably lime and again by coolies. It
seems that rare and costly tea is
packed in tea to preserve the aroma
und flavor. It was such a rich joke
that the hostess told the story , and
the old society pet in San Fran
cisco had a good laugh.
QUEER SUPERSTITION.
An amazing story of credulity
and superstition has just been de
tailed before the assizes court at
Freiberg , Germany. The case was
that of the village grave-digger at
luihnhcide , who was accused of
having profaned the grave of his
own daughter , a young woman who
died a year and a half ago. With
sobs , the man related that before
her death his daughter had doubts
about obtaining eternal peace , and
had promised to appear to him. He ,
on his part , had promised not to
cover her with earth , and had con
trived an arrangement which nearly
filled the grave-and'only needed a
thin covering of soil. Having re
cently seen his daughter in a dream ,
the man , in company with several
neighbors , opened the grave by
night , and each person present ab
stracted a tooth from the mouth of
the corpse to lieupcd as a talisman.
One of his neighbors , a woman , giv
ing evidence on his behalf , plain
tively said that she had lost her
tooth , and everything had begun to
go against her.
A CONSIDERATE MUSICIAN.
Many stories are told of the
jealousy and ill feeling among mu
sicians ; so it is refreshing to note
that at least one genius did not
fail in good nattired appreciation
of a fellow artist. It is related how
Ifossini , walking one day on the
boulevard with the musician Braga ,
was greeted by Meyerbeer , who
anxiously inquired after the health
of his dear Itossini.
"Bad , " answered the latter.
"Frightful headaches ; legs all
wrong. "
After a few minutes'conversation ,
Meyerbeer passed on , and Braga
asked the great composer how it
happened that he had suddenly be
come so unwell.
Smilingly Itossini reassured his
friend. "Oh , 1 couldn't be better. I
merely wanted to please Meyerbeer.
He would FO like to see me go to
smash. " Sunday Maga/ine.
EASILY EXPLAINED.
"No , Mr. Wingle , 1 can't give
you any hope , but I have an elder
sister who might look upon your
suit favorably. "
"A sister ? And why do you
think your sister would he more
kind than you are ? "
"Well , you Pee , sister has reach
ed an age where she can't afford to
bo particular. "
A NATURAL PREFERENCE.
"This givaU'st runner in the world
. a -iiu't three times a day. "
- .IM' ! * . no doubt. " Cleveland
1 K'
DOES WORK OF BOOKKEEPER
ntrlcate Machine of English Invention
Can Calculate Better Than a
HUman Being.
A new wages calculating machine
of English make nas recently been
> rought out. The design is frco
'roin small and intricate pieces of
ncchanism which are generally a
u'olillc source of trouble. This in-
trument is a time and labor saving
levice employed in the case of
) iece-work , for quickly finding , with
out calculation , the total balance of
noncy that is duo individually to
my number of men sharing profits
on the flume contract , the divisions
) eing proportional to each man's
Ixed daily or weekly money rate.
When work is paid for on the pre-
niuin system the instrument can
also he used for finding the time
illowanee that is to be added to
he actual lime occupied on the con-
ract.
The instrument consists of two
argo wheels , with broad , flat faces ,
nounted on the same spindle . The
spindle is carried at each end in
) carings fixed to the wooden sup
porting stand. One of the two
wheels is seen rely keyed to the
spindle , and the other is free to re
volve. A spring of sufficient
strength to cause the two wheels to
evolve together , presses the loose
wheel against the bther. Technical
World Magazine.
JUST A DRUMMER'S YARN.
"Yes , " said an old commercial
raveler , "I've been against all the
slow and sleepy towns in this coun-
ry , in New England , the central
mrt of Xcw York , Philadelphia
tnd the villages of the south , but
ho worst I ever was in was a North
Carolina town of about fiOO. I
was handling canned goods , hut the
town had never heard of such a
hing , and there was nothing doing
for me , and after an .hour's work 1
sat down in the hotel to pass away
the hours till train time.
"While I was sitting there talk-
'ngto the proprietor there was a
: errible noise in the store next door.
IIo ran to see what had happened ,
md people from various parts of
[ he town came running to the scene ,
the marshal among them. He ar
rested a man on the charge of cre
ating a disturbance. Actually , that
town was so quiet that the noise we
heard was caused by his breaking a
dollar bill. "
NEEDED A CHISEL.
The si niggling author bodily en
tered the editorial sanctum.
"I have come with my latest
story , " he announced.
"That bo ? " ejaculated the Inlay
editor. "Let us hear how it runs. "
"Well , this is from the first
hapter : 'Casper had been stand-
ng as motionless as a block of
granite. Suddenly he dropped on
bis knees before the beautiful girl
.vith the alabaster brow and boldly
proposed. It was then that she an
swered with a stony stare and hand
ed him the marble heart. Then ' "
Hut the busy editor reached for
( he clipping shears.
"Young man , " he thundered ,
'you have made a mistake. Take
that story down to the nearest stone-
\ rd. This is an editorial office. "
NOT HIS FAULT.
Old Lady Your face Is very dirty ,
my little man.
The Llttlo Man Is It , mum ? Well ,
you see. I ain't been to church the lost
two Sundays.
PREFERENCE.
The Court Six years at hard la
bor. You'll get a chance to learn
a trade , my man.
Burglar Judge , couldn't I be
permitted to learn it by or cor
respondence course ? Puck.
SINCERE ATTACHMENT.
"Is Uliggin- I' > k ! U T ? "
"He mu.-t " ' : ner ro-un ; <
any that h