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The Is suggested by a specimen of this strange animal- at a Loudon mieaagerie end which to happy to oblige say generous visitor with an II lavtratioa of the'qufckest way to kill, ansheU and awallow a crustacean without artificial assistance of any Doubtless the .peculiarity origl in the shore-frequenting habits of the species, and, being a? delicate feeder, the succulence of the crab, once cracked, was am obvious Induce- to renew his acquaintance on possible occasion. Originally probably a fruit eater, the raccoon is Inquisitive and dainty, both strong incentives to experiments fa diets. "When an Individual sees a assail object he does not understand Us actions fall under three headings. He list puts the article to close scru tiny, both with his eyes and that su percilious, upturned nose of his. Them he takes it away and washes It a characteristic action of this water-loving animal and finally puts it to the grand test of eatableness or other wise. If It appears unpalatable ha gives It to his wife. la this way it Is easy to Imagine low the creek-loving coon, wearying of too much fruit, made his first crab upper, and though he has never been aMe to add a squeeze of lemon or browm bread and butter to the repast has become a confirmed lover of Crus tacea ever since. All creatures make experiments until they become a fixed habit and their whole structure Is .modified In accordance. Nature, for instance, never Intended the osprey to live on fish. It was the temptation of an old world trout in dlfllculttes in the shallows that first led the great hawk astray. Some email Brazilian monkeys, again, live almost exclusively on birds' eggs; an Australian parrot has given up a proper vegetarian diet for an ex clusive regimen of mutton and many other Instances of the same unortho dox appetites might be cited. Vast Debt Owed by Cities. The municipal debts of the country approximately $1,600,000,000 a sum larger than is owed by the fed eral government and all the state gov ernments. Of the total it Is worth while to note New York contributes, when all sinking fund deductions are made, about one-fourth. The Increasing habit of American cities to mortgage the future is one of the marked governmental tendencies of the times. Although a marked im provement has taken place in the quantity of municipal governments, whatever the other good faults, there Is seemingly no disposition to lessen the public burden. The theory seem imgly Is that municipal resources are practically unlimited. For a public servant to have prejudice against debt creation is considered proof that he la an old fogy. The greater part of city debts rep resent money put into buildings, streets, parks, etc, and no small part to meet administrative deficits. In view of the else of these debts and the little the public has received from their creation, there cannot be kept hack a feeling of gratitude that the prudence of the last generation put Jmto state constitutions clauses limit ing debt creation. Except for these causes there Is reason to fear, with extravagance and recklessness In the tr as it la now, municipal Indebted-; mess would increase much more than SIM. 000.000 a-year. Exchange. Properties of Gold. . Pare gold Is unaffected by the at mosphere either at ordinary tempera tares or when the metal is heated. It Is also proof against the action of com ssom adds when used singly. Moreover, It confers its properties more or less upon copper, and silver when these metals are alloyed with it Thus, for example, 12-karat gold win Withstand the action of nitric acid and the atmosphere at ordinary tempera tare, bat some of the copper will be oxidized during annealing. .Nine parts of gold may be alloyed with ten parts af platinum In an ordinary crucible sad Ire, bat such an alloy win not be uniform; a larger proportion of plati mum will free itself from the gold oa solidification and a homogeneous alloy of the two metals cannot be obtained. Circular Weekly. r s Honor the Old-Time School. Never speak nor write of old-tima schools In derision, we are in ad-J vance of them In many ways, it Is true, and for that we are thankful, but oar thankfulness should be largely mixed with humility. Those were the schools of our fathers and grand fathers and really it must be admitted that they were and are as a body en titled to our respect. They did their sest In the light of that tallow candle. 'An we doing as wen in the brilliant blase shed upon our path by electric ity? They were alow in reaching am objective point la their ancient lum bering vehicles. -Do we accomplish as when we reach our Journey's by the limited? These are ques- whlch the youth and middle-aged af our day should ponder. Western fJemool Journal. w f Her Feline PrsaensKles. ta politics women their real nature. There is always something of a cat about the voter." does she show It?" ft she always scratch fha ticketr Baltimore American. rewn Knew These cigars. Mrs. Browm awoke her husband, la of might with the startling ln- taat aae mad just heard a asigBii..a Oa room below. "Now." excitedly, "he's light en of those cigars I gave yon for Mrthday. I heard him pick up K an pat tt down again." Them teteaed. "By Jove. ;yererlghU" he answered. "He as! Hals actually smoking one of those cigars." Them he "Go to ss " ZasmmafJasamTaF s - 5 engajautJama, mmM muVfmMft : v? - awry, an sate, com placenUy. WeH BROUCHT TO TIME QIRL KAMCV LANDttO HlM BASH. ' FUL ADMIRER. SklllM rlantfNafl f Ceaveraatlea Get Mat Of Cavrae It Was All Us md All Oil KROwVa The young mam in the palafsjlymew suit gated admiringly at the young woman whose immaculate lingerie waist and elaborately none up hair bore witness to the fact that his call had been expected. He was so shy. however, that he removed his gaze from her face quickly whenever she looked at him. "No," she was saying, "Clara may be a mice girl and aU that and some peo ple think she is pretty aad of course she is popular iaa way, but I'd rather be unnoticed aad plain-looking as I am If I had to be as heartless sad selfish ss she has showm herself to be." The young mam saw aa openlngbut his shyness hampered him. "Plain!" he repeated. "Why, mobody could caU you that!" The young woanga looked as If he had fallen short of what he might have said, but she was ased to it. "Look at the way she has treated poor George Peabody!" she weat on, indig nantly. "Any girl who lets a man grow to care for her aad them deUber- ately throws him over well, I have my opinion of her!" "AU girls are mot like you," said the young man with general regret "They they would think it smart!" "I can't Imagine a girl being like that," protested the young woman with lovely sadness. It seems so un womanly. I should think It would just haunt Clara, spoiling his life, yon know. And, of course, she knew that he cared for her in spite of what 'she says." The young mam swallowed hard. b it does a girl always know when a mam likes her?" he asked. "When he hasn't told her, I mean?" The young woman looked as imper sonal as a judge. "Wen, in most cases she does," she admitted.' That is, if he has been coming to see her for a long time and and oh, well, she generaUy knows. Of course, there are cases where she hasn't any idea, because the man is so careful not to give her a chance to think so. Of course, then she can't be blamed." "No, of course not," agreed the young man, looking downcast "I don'ttsee how Clara had any ex cuse, though," went oa the young woman. "George had been coming to see her regularly for a year and a half and taking her everywhere and bringing her things!" The young man glanced hopefully at the large box of candy the young woman had had the pleasure of open ing since his arrival that evening. "Thaf s just about as long as I've been coming to see yon, Isn't It?" he asked, daringly. "Why. I believe it is," said the young woman in apparent surprise. "And she had given him every, reason to hope. Letting him come so often and wasting so much time on him was enough to give any man the right to think she cared about him." The young man in the new suit look ed as if a brand-new Ulumlnating fact had dawned on him. "That that cer tainly would make any man with sense think'SO," he asserted, crossing ome knee over the other. "But as I said, Clarals so selfish," sighed the young woman. "AU she thinks about is herself. Surely it was a shame for her mot to consider George's feelings in the matter at all. A girl of real worth would, I cam ten you. She would have managed to send him away long before be reached the point of asking her to marry him. She would have spared him that! But she just wanted the fun of refusing him! Now, I caU that simply wicked! I think if a girl really lets a man pro pose to her without making any effort to stop him he has a right to expect that she is going to say yes!" The young man crossed the other knee. "I wish aU girls were like you," he began, huskily. "No, I mean Fm glad you're the only one I think you are simply an angel, Sadie, and if yon would think about marrying me I'd be tiie happiest" "Oh, Henry!" fluttered the young woman. "This Is so unexpected I hadn't any idea you've upset me! But 111 say yes!" Chicago Daily News. An Old-Faehlonei Garden. -Ton can see it from the troUey car, if yon lower your head as you whirl past The view is then across a shaded lawn to a sunny open space where the garden lies. It is aa old fashioned garden, which means it has had the good fortune to know no fash ion at all. Seemingly no man has made it; it has always been there. Ask its age, we dare not; a beautiful garden merits some of the courtesy shown a beautiful woman. Ton may only know that years of rural solitude, prior to the approach of city life, were the years of its youth. Indoors aad Out Steps Already Taken. "Tour name is Mary McKillemacum ber. Is it?" said the mistress. "Ton don't luure to carry such a name as that Mary. The courts would change it to something shorter and more con venient any time you would take the necessary steps to have it done." "Th- praste is going to change it to Mulcahy. ma'am," answered the sew cook, "as soon as MoUce gets a place oa th f oorce." BELLS OF OLD HOLLAND. Ancient Chimes That Have Delighted the Dutch fer Centuries. From the earliest times the people of the Netherlands have so greatly loved their, bells and chimes that the architecture of their belfries and steeples shows marked traces of it Most of these are of open-work de sign, so that the. hells might he heard in the widest circumference, writes The Hague cortessoadeat of the Chi- ftl tkl4 styll celt leea m taMik dral towers of Utrecht and Delft. Sev eral of the smaller towns possess even finer specimens, either th their church, spires or la the belfries of watch tow ers. Like the well-known belfry of Mounts ends . these towers generally stood in the principal seaares. The hens were tolled In case of danger, to alarm the burghers, or to can them together for Important communlcav tioae. Such a tower Is that of Bruges, of which Longfellow sings: la the market place of Bruges Stands the belfry, old aad brown. Thrice destroyed and thrice rebutlded, SAW It watches o'er the town. In Holland there la scarcely a place of Importance that does not have one or more towers with chimes. The tunes of these are changed once or twice a year, generally on New Year's day. This is so at The Hague and Utrecht Some places, however, are not content with this and have the tunes changed oftener. It is on rec ord that in one town, which had a fine .carillon cast by the famous Hemony In 1577, it was decreed that the tunes should be changed every fortnight or at least once a month, so fond were the burghers of their bells. In a time when clocks were by no means general the church bells, were the timekeepers for the burghers. The heavier bell struck the hours and the lighter bell the half hours. If these were chimes they played a tune at noon aad another at midnight while before the stroke of the hour or di vision of the hour a part of the tune would be played. The Inscriptions on' the bells are generaUy In rhyme and made to read as If the bell itself is telling Its name and the history of its making. Hol land stiU possesses many of these ancient bells, notably In the province of Priesland. The earliest authenti cated bell Is that of Krommenie, cast in 1396 by Rodolphus de Montigny. Most bells now In existence were, however, cast la the fifteenth, six teenth or seventeenth centuries. The reformation brought a change in the naming of bells. The Catholic saints were forsaken, and only Bibli cal or worldly names were allowed, while the inscription also breathed other views, as can be seen by com paring the bells cast in the seven teenth century with those of earlier date. Those on the older beUs have a purely religious significance, while the later ones refer to worldly sub jects, as. for Instance, the famous bell at Ham, which recounts In Its in scription how it burst in 1666 "be cause it had too loudly pealed out Its joy at the victory-of the Dutch fleet over the English." Beautiful Eastern Thlnge. The Chinese know a lot They know how to make the tea, and, above ail, how to keep, it hot without resorting to setting the pot on the stove and poisoning the drinker with tanin. And they have given the occidentals the tea cosey, that hoodlike cover the Eng lish particularly affect and padded baskets into which the steaming tea pot is dropped while undergoing re moval from fire to table. Some of the baskets for holding precious teacups are like boxes Intended for jewels, and should the American with a per versity peculiar to her so desire, these lovely woven willow " antiques with brocaded linings might serve to hold her fancy work and the ever-present piece of summer embroidery. Both Chinese and Japanese understand the art of enhancing the rarety of por celain by placing it In a "padded cell, aa It were. Hence the beauty of these baskets. Thought Little of Lawyer. "Many years ago," says Representa tive Heflln of Alabama, "a son of Erin had the misfortune to be charged with stealing pork. Being without counsel the court appointed a young sprig of the law to represent hlm It was a poor effort made to defend the prisoner, and the members of the jury without leaving their seats returned a verdict of guilty. "The court asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced. His reply was: xour nonor, it is nara for a man to go to prison without a fair trial.' "Ton have had a fair trial,' said the judge. The court appointed coun sel to defend you? - "The Irishman cast a glance at the young lawyer and muttered: 'Sure, an' if Td had two such this jury would have hung see for murder " SCIENCE GROPING IN DARK. In Vain Search for the Immaterial, ays Writer. Science stands to-day upon the brink of the abyss of infinity, trying with a net to catch the immaterial. It has explored the earth; its' tele scopes, have swept the stupendous vaults of the heavens; its microscopes have searched out the innermost re cesses of the minute, and In both di rections It has been halted by the same thing Infinity. Science, after a century and a half of scofiug at the Immaterial, la now trying eagerly to grasp it Bailed by phenomena that it has striven vainly -to explain oa material hypotheses it is forced st last to the mnweleome conclusion that-there is something more tham mattersomething which an Its telescopes sad aU Its micro scopes are powerless to discover. Science has mot yet seem the imma terial, but tthss at last end how re lactaatly confessed Its existence. Now the advance skirmishers of science, groping blindly in the dark mess of the unknown, are setting traps for the immaterial, hoping with beat lag hearts to solve the riddle of life and death, to prove the immaterisl. to demonstrate lu properties and to codi fy Its laws. Those who have maintained the simple faith the unswerving faith ta the imfanibntty of their own ignorance may mow from the heaven-plercmg peak of their siarplctty took down ap oa the vala struggles of the ssJeattsts, efforts to weigh the they k, their plastic aUtytothe of fakers who the to bedy the ssirite af Iltfemi tf tniSS mem wad sctteva nothing they cannot understand. - Ati tills is but striving to attain to something which the believer has pos sessed always; It may succeed who cam- ten? Bat, when the Immaterial saan have seem caught In User butter fly aeta.of science, when the limitless fields of infinity shall have 'been tri angulatedthem an men wm .recog nise these newest discoveries of sci ence as aa old, old thing which the world In its childlike simplicity has called EtemItyNand God. Arthur Ben ington. In Chicago American. What's in a Name. "Friend, what's your name?" queried the farmers' wife of the tramp who had asked for a meal. "De'name I wuz christened, lady, or de name I have now?" "Good lands! Have yon more tham one name?" "I have had so many, lady, since me adventuresome career began dat I can't remember dem all. Let's see, now, .1 wuz christened George Red dlngham Smithy an' den dey called me 'Georgie.' When I wuz about ten I got de nickname uv 'Smithy.' Den one day some guy got fresh an' called me Tiatty,' an' It hung to me until I could fight a bit At de age nv 21 I wuz addressed as 'Mr. Smith' by some, as 'George' by others, an' as 'Flathead' by a lew choice frea's dat wuz bigger'a me." "And what are yon called now?" asked the curious farmer's wife. "tm jest comin' ter dat lady. When I reached de tender age uv 31 me cruelan' unnatural parents sent me out Inter de cold world alone ter earn me own Uvin', an' dat's how I drifted Inter dis blzness. I got so thin at first workln' at me trade dat me name wuz 'Sklnney, but after a few years dat wuz changed ter 'Weary Willie. Now de boys calls me camel.' " "Camel? What do they call yon that for?" "I guess, lady, dat It's because I kin go so long without water." And then she whistled for the dog, and "Camel" had to get a hump on himself. Judge. Had Right te Change. A man named 'Doe applied to the courts in New York not long ago for a change of name. "It Is impossible to carry on a successful business un der that name," he said. "Everybody looks upon une as a joke. The min ute I meet a man he begins to grin. 'So there really are flesh and blood Does,' he says. 'I had always sup posed the Doe family existed for judi cial purposes alone.' I explain that according to the directory there are several of us poor devils pegging along handicapped by that popular cogno men, but the fact of numbers in no wise increases his regard for me. He simply declines to take me seri ously; therefore If I expect to keep out of the poorhouse I shall have to give up the name of Doe." Absit Omen! Abslt omen. "May the omen be away." Suppose a Roman sneezed, a premonition of sudden death; prompt ly he murmured abslt omen, a prayer that the omen might pass away from him. It is a simple prophylactic measure of much the same value as the crossed fingers or the rap of the knuckles on wood In our present day avoidance of the ever menacing hoo doo, most salutary practices which it would be a pity to forget The Same Thing, you ever hear of "Did Adam's faur "Yes, I have, old man. Did ever hear of eaves dropping?" yon Rather Vague. "What did you think of that little joke of mine about the Chicago girl's feetr "Oh, it's immense." JltMm: Prince m Pajamas. "' --t sn the Overland BsaV ad oae morning were startled by ass appearance ia the dining car of Prises Mehemed Agakhaa of India wearlfijpsj of paiamas. says the Calk The yoaag aeblemam taken his seat at one ef the tal when his secretary stepped up to and whispered several words hi ear. The dfnlag oar waa wall with ether saaseagers, summer of wesmm, who laeludaas a semewhat by the eagliSsnspwW dBjRm HbPV sPffsMS SunaMmawf his secretary Baajj He was math dD to his state! spaaed ever the sttoatloa aad OTpHsaj a great morttacatfoa that the cam women could net nssssels by right of birth he was eattilen to iaaay garb he shoos to In Hats. '-j&4 Amimnerwithaturafer phllosisai declares that a woman's eharaetet m hmfalnhly revealed by tie hat sal "Tssre are aueaeieas have hate, rMeuleue sals, aad hafi that reveal the wearer as cautMss As a rate, a wemanel he tracted an a hat to suit asr. See m.i to udehstead the Meet Wasteful ef Ceeks. Ta Hve to waste seems of Baalish life. lac. theteoehiac of agricultural classes. Is abott, wasteful cookery oa earth. it win live, aad ttve well. It is said tham wernmg a year are to the national wealth ef by the ssvisg-hsMteef herpes B. 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To keep homo baiting pur ml&Wm and hoBtthful you mumt umm WJSsm 1 Dr. PRICE'S Plal 1 mmW' 4W BBBWWgmBBmurnujsmj mBmsBvBusjajsamBSBmBTmuan my mmar BBP' bbjbvsbbwbw SBBsSransmmmmmmT ssmf HSUUT OLD AQE PENSIONS. lUUI sUMMBaar Ttier Are 3ss Persons In Thle Ceaav sized. try Over 100 Years OM. hurried te the scene ef the apsetl rstiwat 1 at fsaat. Germany has expeaded S13MH for age pensions, to say nothlnc of $555,700,000 for sickness aad SzlzJM. 000 for accidents. It Is strange that this matter has not attracted more at tention in an advanced country Uke the United States, which pays out more than $142.09.900 a year to army and navy pensioners and has spent $3.264.130.2&7 la that way since UtL According to the Circle, the census figures show that In 1900 there were 3,080,498 persons of 5 er more years la the United States. This waa four per cent of the whole population. Of these, (00,926 were of 70 to 74 years; 3S0.69S, 75 to 79 years; 182.34. M to 84 years; 66,389. 85 to 89 years; IS, 636. 90 to 94 years; 4,838. 96 to 99 years, and 3,086, a hundred years sad over. Among the 3,080,498 persons of 6f years and more, there were 1,644,- 661 married men and 521,22 married women, 410.565 widowers. 966.136 widows. 89452 bachelors aad 96,86s spinsters. EAGLE WHIPS A MAN. Then Resumes His Flight WHh a Stolen Frederick HoUenbach, n Hv- tag on the Schoharie Ridge, ersvUle, was feeding the gray seulr- rels in his woodland when flew past that had In Its taloas of sis lambs. The Mg bird had annoying the community for a meats. Many farmers wanted to shoot tt. bat the game warden threatened te in voke the law providing fer a $366 fine and imprisonment fer kfUlng a bald eagle. The eagle waa tying lew, and thinking he coyUd save the lamb, Mr. HoUenbach struck the bird sharp ly with a stick. The eagle dropped iht lunh all Hvht tiat faatoaa nT Sv. Ing off made for the man, ripping open I In middle age; the third group con hls face, his hands and cheat with its I false the pathological cases usually talons and practically tearing off his clothes. After it had HoUeasach ly ing prostrate In the woods the eagle picked up the lamb and sew off. Hoi lenbach Is In bed, with n doctor at tending him. Philadelphia Ledger. Sharp Mister Fox. About a dezea farmera' hoys ta New Hampshire turned out one aatardsy last winter to hunt down a fea that was known to have his lair la a MIL Reynard was finally routed oat; and after leading the crowd a chase of tea miles he doubled back and his trail was lost near a certain farsAoass. Hunters and dogs beat around for two hours and then gave up. Whe had departed the fox left the by a broken window He had catered the same wsy aad concealed Himself In n chimney. There was a fireplace but no fire, and no one would have thought of looking for him up there. He waa so covered with soot whoa he got out that he was takes for a black fox. Feiblee of Letter Writers. -The London Chronicle wants to know how you date your letters. If they are dated at all or which of the nine ways appeale to aa ladtvMasrs teste or laziness.' There sre seme .persons who do sot take the trouble to date their letters st sU, sad the Chronicle Is brutal enough te "they sre mostly sot receive letters with that best the Dutch for IDestbUlty? Or, perhaps with no sddress, so a sad the signature "thnt weald aa archangel and spUt a Unetype mav chlne." But the worst of It Is so people rejoice st their illegible tare! It toads aa air to the baldest missive. A Ons Armed Life . One of the life aware river frost to Paul sow a resident ef wood tost am arm and a tog years age, hat despite this he contuses st his work ef sn ttves of people who fan add la the water Marcus Hook, their yacht having c He jumped into s hurried te the scene ef the yacht sad saved all of the mei of the party, meet of whom DfO0 fnVwVlfw ffsM si The singular sight of two servant girls throwing dice for charity money was recently witnessed at Guildford. The charity Is known as "maids mosey." This was left by Joan How la 1674, and each year there is a com petitlon for a check for 11 9s. The dice throwers must have been em ployed far two years m one service in GuOdford, hut not at aa iaa. Laura uaamaa secures tne caeca: with a double six, Emma Trimmer throw lac six and three. ITMMM46 9v till AACralKesW had cut off the head of Me- of snake stories." he saM tarewmg the head, with its wrig gttag ears sets Into a bag, "I guess that wffl held yea fer a while.' But the appalling reattaatloa of what he did not burst upea aim until that his hasty deed had loose upon the world. Conductor." said the gasping sas seager. valaly trying to raise n win dow. There are at least a hilHea mi crobes la this car." Tea ought to he to stand that If the ," growled the street car tor. "We don't get a hlamsd carryiag 'em." BsWsswswV ssVtAbI ssfCevavalflCSa Famous bralas are of four sorts. The lowest group contains the minds that are stimulated greatly by alcohol. tea aad other drugs, and by impres sions derived from the senses; the second group contains the Infant prodi- lntellectual powers wane terminating la insanity; the fourth aad highest group is that of true sjeaiusos. whose powers remain unim paired until old age. This is Hause maan'a claaslncstlon. Spltzka has come to the conclusion that men eminent In exact sciences Ike astronomy and mathematics have the greatest average brain weight Meat come the men of action, lnclud mg stetesmea aad artiste, and after these come the biologists, geologists sad other representatives of the de scriptive sciences. The "Invalid Crawl.' Somebody In Eagland with nothing better to do has isvested a mew wsUc and it la being taken up here, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. At the start of practice a girl must tie weights to the bottom of her skirt In she must appear to be so that she scarcely can drag one feet after another. Her steps must be keg sad creepy, without the slightest hint of energy. Thus walks Queen Alexandra, who adds a slight limp, ss she has been lame since Infancy. It Is hinted that languid movements were designed to hide that defect Gowns must he of stuff that gives n clinging effect; thee the slow, long step, with a hwsdlBg of the neck st every stride, win be the most effective. graphically the discovery of ia the world hi the rough $.614 Translated late under- It to n atone welgh- tegs and a third. TJatfl the tide wonderful gem the ras held of 969 avoirda- by the the "Ezcel- valued at $415.- sU (after first cutting). . m -- - - - ra. , .MM w , mmw. or Pitt 117; Bakes (yeUew), i; "It is hard to any what will he the ultimate damage to the roads," said a her of the Massachusetts oommis- to s representative ef the Beaton hut it has recently keen esti mated by the heard that $66.6 dam age has been done already by aatos. This Is' ssnan la proportion to the cost of the roeds. hut unless seme sew method ef applying surface is adopted, the dsmage is likely to be costiaaeus; that Is, reseated as fast as it Is made good. There is something about the broad rasher tires, on wheels of small peculiarly damaging te Baa- roads. A vacuum Is created by the tire, which sucks the surface, or binder, from the road, aad it is blown away, leaving the stones ex- The commission ia ezeert- ting with tar aurfadag, which has la France successfully. Ex periments have also been made by the park rsmmlmlesiirs with an oil bar Ing sn asphalt base. Something ne must he adopted, aad I have ne doubt MaeaachssettB will not he behisd ia its adoption." ALL THE WORLD TO HIM. Wife and CMM atoautitsl to the Eyes WW BrvVT lei trawl It was Sunday. The train stepped at a station. They set on a woman and a little hoy. The woman was a foreigner. She were a cheap bine cali co ureas ana a sailed apron. ireuad her head. ugly aad fat She carried a tied--lth rope la cam hand, with the ether she grasped the little hoy as If afraid to tose him. Ho were n cheep cotton suet, n Utile cap oa hie head and heavy-soled shoes oa his feet His face wss red and aain inc. The hrahemaa hustled them Tsrougn tne aiaie ex tne day coach to the smoker ahead. The passengers toughed st the odd eight and several pesaed funny remarks. Some hears alter the train staaped at a lonely coal mine station. Only the woman and the Utile boy get off. They wero met by a poor Slav coal miner, In his working clothes. F kissed the wom an aad grabbed the Utile boy and hug ged him with tears la his eyes. Ood! he was happy they had come at last! New York Telegraph. TV. Where Titles Are Chess. The cheapest country for buying a title used to he Portugal, says Tan ion Truth: When a man is made a baron or a count there, his patent recites the service for which the grant ta I was once in Portugal, sad I cariosity to dhjsmm the service fer which an of my aceantatance had a iwflegai baron. I the matter un. and I that tt .was for haviag introduced she country a aew tree. 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