T1IK NORFOLK NKWS : 1-111 DAY , SKPTOIBKK 1 > 7 , 1001 , THE PASSING BAND. A lone , deep drone Thrunimelh > resonant monotones Up toil-fill ttic horn with nn unJulant flare That dies , U reborn Just a llatli of in sir , Through the rumlilc ol drums , is their throbbing beat Sends a rhythmic polio down the winding street. Then a streaming pennant of sound Is oulflung , Flamboyant frjtn wall to wall It swung. Near anJ more near the harmonies clear Ilulld skyward a ponderous touir. then rheer It breaks in clarion clash of sounds , An ululant tumult , that bound * ami rebounds ) A > olumlnou Kroan From the blaring tombstone 1 And a clanfji r of ITJIS As the omball pass ; Then the drum's lone boom as tlic melodies fly Forward and water an I faint anJ die Into murmur amphoric , fctteet blending , thorlc , To a faraway swell Till at last they rrwll j l'i a note loni ? drawn - AIB Roiu1 on on. 1 fcondon Academy. BUNKOED BY I A GREEK. BY M. QUAD. COI'TKIOlll , 1001 , BV C. B. LEW.S. The nalr of us Uul bven In Athens three or four days when a party of English excursionists who were mak ing a tour arrived. Among them was nn antiquary who wna looked up to and respected for his Knowledge of ancient history and ruins , and each evening there was n gathering In the pallors of the hotel to hear him give a sort of lecture on what he had seen during the day. Professor Ilcmpstead , as he was named , had been charged to pick up all the old Greek manuscripts to be had for money , and It was his inquiries for such documents that doubtless led to our undoing. Quo day a man named Talanti , who had somewhat the man ners and dress of a gentleman , brought the professor two ancient manuscripts as a present , and to show his further good will he announced a valuable dis covery which had just been made on the Island of Jl.ginn , about 40 miles dis tant. He was the owner of the Island , and while his workmen were getting out stone they had come across some rare treasures in art , but had developed only a small portion of them. They had paitly uncovered a stone box which he A BATTEIIED OLD BCHOONEU. believed held a large number of rnanu- scripts nnd valuable coins , but he had delayed the opening of It that some of his friends might be present. Three or four of them were going to his Island borne on the morrow , and he would be glad to have as many of us foreigners go along ns could make It convenient The voyage would be made In his BChooner , and there would be no trou ble about feeding and lodging all who chose to go. Aside from the English party , there were Americans , Germans and French men to the number of 20 In Athens , nud when the list was made up we numbered over 40 , of whom 10 were ladles. When we came on boanl the echooncr , there was considerable sur prise at finding her the craft she was. Hi.- .1.1. , „ „ _ „ * ! , „ . , „ , , ln- was nuunn luuiu iiiuu u ii.mti , and her accommodations were of the most primitive character. Mr. Talantl's friends , who were supposed to be emi nent professors , turned out to be a commou looking lot and not Inclined to be sociable , but we were out for a Jaunt and might expect n few draw backs. We had a favorable wind for the voyage , and the professor and oth ers felt that it would be the event of their lives. As the weather was pleas ant and we had brought lunch from the hotel , our noonday meal was a sort of picnic. For an hour or two after the meal Professor Heinpstead enter tained us with a historic lecture , and time passed pleasantly for all hands. My friend could speak Greek , but when he attempted to enter Into con versation with Mr. Talantl's friends he found them surly enough. This ex cited our surprise , as they were sup posed to be gentlemen. When wo came to look them over , we began to get a little suspicious. Their language and manners did not correspond with their dress , and they did not seem to be at their ease. We also caught one of them exchanging a wink and a grin vrllb one of the common sailors , and this caused us much worrlmeut. In a quiet way we reported the fact to one of the English party , and he quiet ly replied : "Do you know , I've got a suspicion that this la a put up job and that we shall hear something drop as soon as we land at the Island. " "But why should Mr. Talanti deceive us ? " wo asked , "In the first place , Is he what he rep resents himself ? Who made any In quiries about him ? In the next place , jou never saw an aristocrat with such big hands and feet. Ills skin Is coarse , tils language full of slips , and you may notice a sort of roll to hla gait , aa If ho Inul been at M U for years. I believe the iimu'H ni Impostor. " "Hut Processor llompstoad seems to be perfectly MitlHfled with him. " "That counts for nothing. The pro fessor may bo up on ancient Urvoco , but he Is way off on confidence games. 1 believe wo are In for some sort of n skin game , but It's nonsense to worry over It. Wo have walked Into the tray llko a lot of Idiots. " The Maud was fairly well covered with trees , and yet It did not have u hospitable look. As wo made a closer approach we could see a oouplo of nido huts and a primitive Jetty , but Mr. Tii- lantl explained that his castle was hid den by the forest and that ho was land ing at that point to save us a king walk. It was as wo were drifting In to make fast to the wharf that others In our party became suspicions. The no ble Greek was neither crafty nor drplo- rnrtk' . Ho lot the iriiuik Klip and betray him or at leiiHt arouocd wondvr and dis trust , but the most MiM'H-rous < > f us were hardly prepared for tlw clluvix. As soon as the craft was runic fasX the three eminent frl-nds of Mr. Ta lanti suddenly pnxitHtHl pistols and knives and took their Ktutlona by the gamrwa.v. Tlw wrllors divide * ! iirro two parties , niwl , handling their nahivl knives In a menacing fashion , they drove the people Into lino. Wl on Pro | fessor IleinpsU'.id had rtihlml his oyvs , hcratchod his head and got It Into his bialn that Hotnethlng not down on the progtamme was going on , Talanti mounted a IKJX and smilingly observed : "Ladles and gentlemen , you are now about to pass ashoio to behold my won- deifnl discoveries , but each olio of jou Is required to leave behind you all money and Jewelry. I will see that ev erything Is safely carvd for. " "Hut what what does It mean ? " asked the bewildered professor as ho looked around him. "It's robbery I" cried throe or four voices In chorus. "Do not mar the harmony of the oc casion with hard woids , " continued the chief villain. "I simply borrow your purses and Jewelry. The term robbery does not sound well. As time llles lot us get to work. Antonio , you may begin gin with the professor llrst. " The men cried out in anger , but what could they do ? I do not think there was a firearm among thorn , while the Greeks boomed overanxious to use their knives. There were protestations and threats of the law , but Talanti only smiled at thorn and ordered the work to go on. Each man In our crowd was reg ularly hold up that Is , his pockets were thoroughly searched , and every thing of value was taken. The women wore requested to hand o\er , and each one had her watcli and rings In hand as hlie moved up. In the course of half an hour the last one \\as ashore , and then Talanti took off his hat , made a sweepIng - Ing bow and sailed away with his pi ratical crew. He had no sooner gone than a gang of half a dozen villainous looking men came down from the huts. They told us they were llshermcn , but their actions belled the statement. Their llrst move was to demand cash , and great was their Indignation and disappointment at being told that Ta- lanti's crowd had taken the last coin. When sure of this , they left us , and an hour later two genuine Usher-men carne ashore In their boat. There were a doz en vessels within five or six miles of us , and a dollar would have been big pay for thorn to sail out and notify the nearest craft of our situation ; but , real izing our helplessness , they demanded the sum of $100. As there was no mon ey to pay thorn , they were finally prevailed - vailed upon to take an I O U signed by all the men of the party. It was almost dark when a battered old schooner came sailing up to take us off , and the terms were § 3 apiece , to be paid In Athens. We spent a dreary night on deck and landed In the city at noon next day. Immediate no tice was given to the various consuls and to the Greek government , but no one had any faith that anything would be accomplished. The government made loud promises and seemed to bo making all possible efforts , but as a matter of fact Mr. Talanti was not even pursued. He never could have put up and carried through such a Job without a number or ouiciais standing In with him , and each and every one of them doubtless shared In the plun der when it was divided. It was said that the money and Jewelry amounted to about $0,000 , and the only consola tion any of the victims had was the privilege of abusing a country where such things could be carried out The Leather of the The ancient Egyptians were skilled In the art of tanning leather and man ufactured It In various ways and for various purposes besides that of fur nishing covering for the feet. Indeed it Is to those builders of the pyramids that we are Indebted for the llrst artis tic forms of footwear , and so far ns can bo ascertained from history and the researches of archaeologists the Egyptians were the first shoemakers who wore worthy of the name. It Is a fact , too , that tanners of today employ very much the same methods as did the ancients. About the same materials are used , and the processes are almost precisely similar to those In vogue hundreds of years ago. It Is true that tanners of the present day have found means of greatly shorten ing the time required to convert a hide Into leather and that steam power and modern machinery have done much to expedite and improve the processes of finishing the leather ; but , after all , the principles of tanning remain the samu ns they have been from the tlrst The Kind HP Wanted. "Young man , " said the fortune teller , going Into a trance , "I can see you In the near future with an airship" "Make It an helrshlp to a million , can't you ? " eagerly exclaimed Ardup , Flipping another half dollar Into her hand. Chicago Tribune. ENGLISH OF THE ENGLISH , "London In n Mrp IMurr If You ICnou thr l.aiimiHKO. " That hackneyed American maiden who said London \v.is a nlco place If you know the language was not a bit absurd. Wo speak English , but wo have built up our forms of English ex pression upon the English of a few | Hhlres of the old country as It wa.s Bpoken between two and thrw contu-1 rk-H ago , while they have boon blenillm ; and changing the speech of all their home people * during the same jH-rliMl. The result Is Unit an American can hardly utter a sentence In England without calling attention U > the differ- onoe iH-twwn his spooi-h and that of tlu > people nlnuit him. Only ywtenlay. after IS months' n > nl- donee In England , 1 nrslunl up to a con ductor In ( "linrlng CI-OHS station and nskul , "Which car for Itmmloy ? " llo tftnrod at me , and I Knew I had spoken a foreign tongue to him , tx auiMO Htrvet vwhlr-IrH llko oninllni'H and Imrso cars are called r-ond cars and tram UM.S | , and tho.ro ani ivo oilier cars In Englftfld. If you ask a giusst at your IKMHO In England whether ho likes hta meat niro , lie asks whiU you snld hoi'iuisc ho docs not understand yvti. lie calls 11 Kilt uikh-nlono when It Is not thoroughly - oughly cooked. If you toll him you fmr the nsv.'iri | ; tis Is canned , Ivo IH at a loss npilu , because lie would have said It MUM tinned. To ask him to pass the powdered sugar will again net him to wondering , for ho calls It Icing mignr { gciH'inll.though he knows that It IH I sometimes called caster or Hlftod migar. And if you have candy on the table you may not call It so without betray- I Ing your foreign origin , for ho calls I candy "sweets , " ablnevlnted from "sweetmeats , " and upod to designate all preserves , puddings , pies , candles and jams. To go further along the eccentricities of English at the dining table must persons know , I suppose , that the beet Is called beet root , coinstnrch Is corn flour , corned beef ( or a particular cut of It ) Is called "silver sides of beef" and napkins are serviettes. Julian Halph In Harper's Magazine. THERMOMETER TUBES. ProruNn of Their Mnniifiirtiirn lit .Iniiii , In ( ( riiiaiiy. A most Interesting account Is given In The Idler of the wonderful state aided Industry at Jena where glass and lenses are made for scientists. The In dustry has been built up by Professor Abbe and Dr. Schott , and has through out been conducted by scientists whoso efforts have made Jena famous among scientific men the uorld over. One of the most picturesque features of the Jena glassworks Is the great corridor whore the thermometer tubes mo blown and drawn.wijs a correspondent. We saw this glass In process of man ufacture. A boy workman caught a bit of molten glass from the furnace on the end of a blowpipe. It was hardly larger than a walnut , but by twilling and blowing and molding It grew to the slzo of an orange , \\ltli the shape of an orange. Moio glass \\as then added , and there was more rolling and blow ing , and when the propel stage was reached the blowpipe was pulsed quickly to the brawny master work man. Ho , In his turn , added glass , blowing from time to time with cheeks ont- puffed until It seemed as though they must burst , and then rolling the great ball of glass on his iron kneading hoanl until It looked llko a huge yellow gourd. Faster and faster ho worked , Keeping the ball always symmetrical and yet white hot At length ho llftul the glowing mass qulcuiy In the air , and a second workman attached the blowpipe at the bottom. Then the two nun r.in In opposite directions , twirling the pipes and blowing lustily from time to time. From a thick , partly jellow globe the glass thinned out quickly as the men ran apart until It became a dull red tube not larger than a man's little finger and nearly 300 feet long. Sometimes In drawing these tubes one of the blowers would not only run the length of the corridor , but far outside on the hill. WoKner nnd the Player. When Richard Wagner was conduct or of the Royal Opera In Dresden , the orchestra of that Institution , though one of the best In Germany , was far from being ns good as It Is now , and Wngner had a gooJ deal of trouble In making It follow his Intentions. Some years later , when he was living as an exile in Zurich , he undertook to train the local orchestra. After a few at tempts he exclaimed , "Gentlemen , you have Just given me a great pleasure ; you have played exactly as badly as the Dresden orchestra , " . . - " - The Kurich players laughed , and the Idea that they might play better than the royal musicians in Dresden so llred their zeal that they actually succeeded In doing It. I'ollnhoil Fnrnltnre. When a polished table Is stained by a hot dish , one restoring process Is to use first wood alcohol and then linseed or olive oil. This treatment Is excellent for keeping any polished furniture in order and Is one of the few things for which wood alcohol may be used. The latter Is cheaper than the pure and for certain domestic uses is quite as good. A Spvclnl Oceanian. First Trarnji You orter see Hill go- In over de fence wit' do bull nftcr him. Second Tramp Must have been wuth lookln at. First Tramp Say ! It wuz de only time I over seen him when he didn't look tired. Puck. The total number of timber rafts on all the rivers of European Russia l.s * nld to be more than 80,000 yearly , with a total of some 25,000,000 loss. A JoUr IHI ik I'rntrmor , Among porno IntoriHcly amusing col lege KcrapoH told by "A Giadunto" In The ladles' Homo Journal IH the Htory of a certain professor not much liked by hlH pupils who was to bo married. The lady lived lit Cleveland. And the Htudonts thai loved ( ? ) him wore not of oourno ln\lted. Hut they determin ed that In some way ho Khould hoar from them. And ho did. On the day appointed the professor took the train at lo a m. , duo to arrive at Cleveland lit \2'M p , m. About 11 o'clock Jim Townsend rushed to the telegraph of fice and sent olT thin dispatch : "Chief of Police , Cleveland : Mint corning on train No. 0 , tall , well drenit- od. frock coat , silk hat Hide \vlilnUern. Escaped lunatic. Hold. Khrvwd , thoro- foie bowaro. Strnngo eiw. Will miy name KltmtlL Mistake Tli'.nltH ho 'H professor In a college. Ivluslon. HH- cert (41 ( homo of friends * at No. - Euiv lid avenue. " This message reached Its destination long Ix'foiv train No. 0 tvuoUoil Cleveland - land , HO that \\lion Profc.H'tor Pltmlll alighted Itvu : to wall ; Htiiilght Into the custody of three dclivtrvoH. Tlicy would lls'ten to no words of iotm ! , hut escorted him out to the honso on Eurlhl it venue , the homo of hlH IntcrKlcd bildo. The nnrtli'n IlriuHiiK * . Llttjo bondings nro In progress all the time the wet Id over. The "linnrovnhlo" hills aio bowing and scraping to oaih other constantly. Every esenlng , as the dow settles In the valleys between them , tlic.nnd . to one another Ko like wise do the niountiilimen to a great er extent Gravity l.s tugging all the time. Ami In London , too , where earth quake Honsatlons are piaotleally un known , the earth bonds dally , and the buildings , llko the lillln and the moun tains , nod to their frlcndH oppoHltit when the morning tralllo begins. On Sunday usually their manners take a rest excepting In Hiioh places as Petti coat lane , whore business nourishes In as Ihi'ly a fashion IIH In Pails. Heine said that oven the trees nuidu obeisance to Napoleon 1 \ \ lion ho enter ed Berlin. This wns Imnglnatlvo , jot truthful , for the weight of the crowd along 1'nter don Linden made a tilting Riillkiont for Professor Milne's pendu lums to have recorded dlHtlnctlj' . Ono might Hiiy the crust of the earth acts llko a steel " -prlng , It bonds HO easily. Evorj body's Magazine. Hint lo I. urn to IIke I'lctiircn. The following suggestions , if you please , are not from an artist nor oven from a connoisseur , the writer being nothing inoio than an ordinary plctuie lover. In general the principle to bo f olio u i'd Is to got as much In an atmos phere of pictures as possible. Always go to the musouniH when you are trav eling , and If you live near enough nuke occasional picture visits to Hos- ton , Chicago or Now York. Do not make the mistake of staying too long In a gallery. You only tire yourself. Half an hour IH quite long enough. Hut do not endeavor to look at every pic ture In the gallery In that time. Look long at a few good ones and lot those you look at bo those you llko or at least those which j'ou prefer above the oth ers. Also ask yourself why you prefer them Alnays got a catalogue. Some times the pictures ate not inaiked , and you as a student wan always to know the painter of j-our picture. Frederic M. Smith In Woman's Home Compan ion. IVhnle llonnm. At one time not vorj long ago there was on the Lancashire coast , near Lythan , England , a cottage and boathouse - house that wore made almost entirely from the remains of a score or so of whales that had been driven ashore some years bcfoto. The framework of the edifice consisted wholly of whale bone , and the dried skins of the huge creatures wore neatly nnd strongly fas tened as a covering for walls and roof. There Is another building of exactly the Fame kind at Peterhcad , In Scot land , and In this case the skulls of the whales and some of the heavier bonen ore used with great effect as outside ornaments. Looked Like Economy. Uncle Hiram ( Just back from the big city ) I don't think that nephew of our'n Is got as much money as he makes out he has. Aunt Emily Why , I thought you sold he had such a nice home In the city. Uncle Hiram But I didn't tell ye nothln about him havln both them little girls o' hls'n playln on the same plan ner at once. I tell ye he's a-gettln hard up. San Francisco Chronicle. Crude Petroleum. From crude petroleum are made kero sene , gasoline , naphtha , paraffin and vaseline. A still heavier oil , left as a residue , Is used for axle grease , and the carbon Is turned Into sticks for electric lights. The sulphuric acid which Is used for purifying the products of pe troleum Is recovered and turned Into fertilizer for farms where there Is too much phosphate rock , which Is thus dissolved. AVrltlna Tor Money. Fond Father Yes , my boy at the var sity has written several articles for the magazines. Friend Hut he's not a professional writer , surely ? "What do you mean by 'profession al ? ' " "Why , he doesn't write for money ? " "Doesn't he ? You ought to see some of his letters to me. " Exchange. Men who though slight yet reach the chest standard , are preferred as re cruits In the British army to those that are stout , the former being considered to possess the better frame. Butterflies are said to be very sleepy headed. They go to bed early and get up late. _ _ _ „ YOU MUST NOT FORGET Thai \ \ ( nii constantly unwing in tlio art of making 1'inc I'lmlos ' , ami our products uill al- \\ays lie found to iMiiliraco I lie and Newest Stales in Cards and Kinisli. 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