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5f? , - i - h??l - v HJC- 4 HAS LONG HISTORY V THE KIM IN ANCIENT AND MOD ERN DAYS. i OrifinaMy a Part ef Relifleue Cere Hastivm Laws Practice Easter Satotatlen in Russia. la the remote ages people sainted the atooa, saa aad stars by kisBlngthe haad. It was the custom of the earliest Chrietiaa bishops to givetaeir hand to r ha hissed by the ministers who served at tha altar. The custom soon de diaed, however! as a religious cere asoay, hat it la still contlauea as a court ceremoalal. the hissing of the laad of the sovereiga beiag regarded as aasark of the highest favor la most ef the kiagdoms of Christendom, says tha New York Tribune. It has long been a matter of history that the beautifal and fascinating dachees of Devonshire bribed with a kiss assay a reluctant voter in the famous Westminster election, and the equally ' beautiful and bewitching lady Gordon whea the Scottish regi ments had been thinned by cruel re verses, turned recruiting sergeant and, to tempt the gallant lads placed the recruiting shilling in her 'rose-red lips, wheaee he who would might take it with his own. - la Finland the women consider a . nutate upon the lips as the greatest in aalt evea from their own husbands. There was a time when it was the cus tom of English duelists to kiss each ether before firiag. This piece of hypocrisy was satirized by John Wes ley la his Journal, under date of June It, 1758, recording a duel between two officers at Limerick: "Mr. B. pro posed ffriag at 12 yards. Mr: J. said: 'No; six is enough.' So they kissed each ether (poor farce) and before they were five paces asunder both fired at the Instant" Mohammedans on their pious pil grimage to Mecca kiss the sacred Mack stone and the four corners of the Kaaba. The Romish priest on Palm Sunday kisses the palm. There l a carious tradition about the origin ef Uasiag the toe of the sovereign pontiff. It is said that one of the Leos substituted the toe for the right hand aa the object of salute because his own right haad had been mutilated by mis adventure aad he was too vain to ex pose the stamp. In Iceland kissing is severely repressed by the civil laws, aad the consent of the woman to the salutation does aot release the male traaagreasor from the liability to heavy punishment In Russia the Easter salutation is a kiss. Each mem ber of the family salutes each other. Chaace acquaintances kiss when they saeet. Principals kiss their employes, the general kisses his officers, the offi cers Use their soldiers, the czar kisses his family, retinae, court and attend aata, aad evea his. officers on parade, the sentinels at the palace gates and a select party of private- soldiers. Eastertide ia Russia is a carnival of "bread'-aad cheese and kisses," whilt Japaa knew aothing of a kiss until the Asaerlcaas eatered the country. In Eaglaad aad America still survives the custom of kissing under the mis tletoe at Christmastide. which is one ef the happiest forms of kissing known to civilised aatioaa. a Peatman. Gesticulating wildly, a determined faced maa at Euclid and East Eighty aiath street the 'other morning ran after a Uatoa station car with the air f a zaaa who is anxious to overtake what he la after. Even the conductor recognized that tae maa seamoi to want the car to law ap aad he palled the bell cord. Perhaps tha au wanted to catch a trahv the coaductor thought Every eaee ia awhile oae will find a conduc tor with alasost humaa traits. i la a moment the man had caught up. "Dyah go by the post-office?" he yaUed. hi a hoarse voice that be trayed his emotion. "Sara!" shouted the conductor. "Jump on." Bat the maa. Instead of climbing aa, handed the conductor a letter. "Just drop that in when you get to the post office, will yuhr says he. Aad then he turned back up the street The hen rope, being a strong one. did aot unite break when the conduc tor gave the signal to go ahead. Clevelaad Plain Dealer. Leaked Into His Own Grave. A WashiagtoB (Pa.) man had the iae experience of looking Into his wa grave a few days ago. Through a aristake on' the part of the grave digger a sepulcher was dug ia the lot of a maa by the same name as one who had recently died In Grafton and was to be buried in "Washington. The who was supposed to be num- amoag tae great majority at the funeral of the man who re ally wan, aad on being told about the it aad stood on the brink grave aad turned away wwa a Ferctog the Lilac Cat aaT some stroag branches of tha fat la a crock of earth. Put a atresia; aolutioa of plant food In the set the crock ia a deen sau- ef water, never allowing the water a dry oat Occasionally pour a weak ef ammoala water arouad tha try to force the buds by la water, but, while they aie aad are aever fullv By adding nataral plant the plant warm aad the flowers will develop alcely. m. fruit blossoms will de ar atohiaashii are kept la Jars af water, aateafl.'uu the atronsr m. V Ping. "nine af the three old -htieaJgaa. Wisconsin aad does aot exceed SMflaJflMIt fast. Last year tha total at af suae la. these three states was Mt2,000,000 fast. At that aaa.uay.aaoa 7 iiiTn J rate tha at amssgu wlB.be exhausted la atx ar aavaa yeara. Tha 'eriglaa growth la these states waa aaaroxi aaitah 4ataM.0M.0at fact. Tha int. - - C1 WHERE DO THEY GO? QUESTION OF INTEREST TO church people: - Nenattendant at ReUgieus Converted m Beyheed, Makes a Frank Ceafeaaien That la Worthy ef Attention. A recent number of the Americaa Magazine takes ap the subject of "Re ligion Inside the Church aad Oaf la the course of the article, .which Is a defense of the church, the' followlag confession of a young Chicago aoa churchgoer is published: "Your story of The Rev. Billy Sua day and His War on the Devil,' ia the Americaa Magazine refreshed the memory of my owa conversion back ia 1888 under the preachiag of another great revivalist. I was 11 years old at the time. "I had been making trouble ia school when the meetings began. My people were worried about me. .The revival ist offered a way to reform. So I was urged to attend the meetings. Of course, I heard a great deal about hell and the damnation of sinners. Scores were being converted. There was great excitement I was pushed aad pulled. Finally, I surrendered, al though I was not conscious of any thing but a desire td please my par ents, to avoid future punishment and to effect the necessary reform In my conduct at school. "The next step was joining the church. That was easy. All I had to do was to go through the ordeal of a meeting with the church committee, composed chiefly of respected old mea in the town whose confidence I was glad to have. "I enjoyed the experience of beiag a full-fledged Christian for a long time. My father and mother wese pleased beyond expression, and for years I f think that I was a better boy that Is, more restrained . In my behavior ia school, perhaps. I cannot recall any other definite manifestation of 'con version.' I continued to go to Sunday school and to church twice Sunday. I had become a habitual church-goer. "By the time I was 18 or 19 I began to grow sick of it all. I began to see that I had no genuine Interest in the church. I was not going to the, bad, either. Far from It! My conviction that decency makes for happiness was taking deep root I Intended to be a good man, and I began to want to work it out In my own way. I felt that I was just about to begin my seri ous life, and do you want it .straight from the shoulder? I felt that I wanted to begin outside the church. I don't know why. I am not arguing this thing or trying to prove anything. I am just trying to tell you. "Very soon I was 21,f I think I left the little town where my father and mother brought me up and came to Chicago to live. That was nine years ago. And shall I tell you? I have never been Inside a church more than a dozen times since. "Now I don't want you to interpret this as a criticism of the church. Do you think I would rebuke the Institu tion which has given my good father and mother that peace which is my happy assurance of their future well being? Neither do I lad fault with the Rev. Billy Sunday. Not one 'oat of 100,000 whom he has converted may turn out the way I have. He may aot try to convert children, either. I don't know about that. I think that tha makes very little difference, however. Many people are children, no matter how old they are. All I know is that ever since I can remember the church es have been rushing names onto their membership rolls. And yet the cry Is that the churches are falling off ia numbers. Where do they all go?" Collection ef Rare Bulbs. The collection of rare plants at the Phipps conservatory aad the cabinets In the Carnegie museum will be en riched by a number of donations from Miss Ida Vera Simonton, who has just returned from Africa. To the con servatory Miss Simonton will give a package of bulbs of the famous cam mella rose, which on the stem or in a bouquet is ever changing in color. White in the morning, it becomes a delicate pink at noon. At sunset its petals are a brilliant red. Some rare orchids and the famous Illy, gloriana superba, are In the collection. The savage tribes of western Africa still perpetuate in a crude way -the lost arts of ancient Egypt Theft idols are typically Egyptian and their method of handling dyes is the same as that of the subjects of the mummy -carers of the pharaohs on the Nile. Articles In burnt wood, pieces of cloth dyed with gay and everlasting colors and the grotesque idols will go to the museum. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Sphinx and the Infinite. I can Imagine the most determined atheist looking at the sphinx and, in a flash, not merely believing, but feel ing that he had before him proof of the life of the soul beyond the grave, of the life of the soul of Khufu beyond the tomb of bis pyramid. Always as you return to the sphinx you wonder at it more, you adore more straagely its repose, you steep yourself, more Intimately in the aloof peace that seems to emanate from it aa light emanates from the sua. And as you look on it at last perhaps yoa under stand the intake; yoa understaad where is the bourne to which the finite flows with all its greataeasas the great Nile flows from beyoad Vic toria Nysuua to the sea, From Rob ert Hichens' "The SpeU of Egypt," ia the Century. Turkieh Woman's Vsil. Very often the fashionable ladies have other costumes made like aa elaborate opera cloak, aad wear velle that are aothiag mora taaa traasuar eat net- Whea they reach this a treme aad they are aaea by tha dread ad spy, these ladies are. reported to tae-saitaa. At oace aa order la that ao oae is to wear aarthli the oM-fashloaad Terija," aad a vatt. wp wucn we nee caa aot ha earned. This order is obeyed for a year, whea by degrees they wearing taiaaer veils. LAST RESORT FOR HIS CASE. Yakefe Recipe far Man Who WevM Be Cared ef Lava, i - Apropos of leap year, Robert Barr, the Aaglo-Americaa noveUat ami edi tor, told at a dlaaer reecatly a story about love. "A maa." he said, "being profoundly hi love, consulted a philosopher. " 1 am ia love,' he complaiaed, 'aad I don't like It It keeps me from working, from acquiring fame. Can you cure me? -" 'la the study of astroaomy, said the philosopher, stroking his gray? heard, 'yon will tad a cure for love. Contemplate the planets, aad in the Infinite depths of Interstellar space the puaiaeis of yourself and the Insig nificance of your love will stun you.' "So the lover commenced star gas lag, aad all went well for a night or two. Then, as he sat in his lonely tower with his eye glued to a tele scope, the girl came and put her white arms about bis neck. "That ulght he gazed at the stars no more. Astronomy, he saw, was no cure. ' "Butlove irked him and he sought out an alchemist M 'Give toe a philter,' he said, that will cure me of love. "The alchemist smiled. v " 'There are many stories,' he said, 'about philters of thlssort, but they are all, young sir, quack nostrums. The only love cure I can give you is prussic acid.' J "But the man -shook his head. He did not want to die. He wanted, with a free, calm mind, to do his work. "And as he mused on his hard case he saw a yokel digging in a ditch, and as he dug the yokel regarded the man curiously. "'Plainly you are rich,' the yokel said; 'why, then, do you frown and slghr "I am In love,' the man answered. 'It is torment How can I be cured? "The yokel roared with laughter. '"Ho. ho!' he shouted, 'that is an easy one. Don't you know the an swer? "'No,' said the man. 'What is It? Tell me quickly.' - "'Marry the girl,' said the yokel, and he resumed his digging." Exiles Life in Siberia. A letter dated "August, 1907, on the Amir High' Road," once more directs attention to the sufferings of the thou sands of exiles banished to 8iberia. At the outset the writer explains that he formed one of a party of 120 exiles. 23 of them being state or political offend ers, detailed to work on the construe tion of the Kolessnava (literally, wheel road), and sent thither under Cossack escort from the penal settlement at Irkutsk. After describing the journey of the party to Pashkovo. a Cossack settle ment on the Amir, he says: "One single day's rest was allowed us, but on the following day we were roused at, 4 a. m. and driven to work. It was raining fast, and for' a whole verst our way lay across submerged land. Every day for a fortnight we had to cross this same flooded ground, stripped to the skin and carrying our shovels on our shoulders. This was our life of torment. Up every morn ing at four, working until five or six In the evening, and "returning then, utterly worn out, for roll call, prayers and sleep. "Sleep! Ia ragged and battered tents, open to the rain and dirty and damp within. No mattresses, only sacks to lie oa, sometimes stuffed with grass. We are already bitterly cold here in August, and in these same tents we must live until November. . . . The spot where we are working Is between 14 and IS versta from the camp. We have thus to walk some 30 versts daily, besides performing our hard task. How hard that task Is may be gathered whea It is said that ten men are required each day to excavate a length of some 200 feet and a depth and width of VA arshins (about a yard). One has to work knee deep in mire, and after about three weeks rheumatism sets In and the legs ot the workers being to swell." Qirl Seventeen Years Old Saves Boy. Emma -Werner, 17 years old, of Cor ona, L. I., dressed in her best Sunday clothes, jumped into Frog Pond, near her home, a few days ago, and saved Robert Pick from drowning. Robert Is tea years old. He was coasting on Randall avenue, when his sled got beyond his control, veered from the highway, ran down an incline aad out onto the pond. The thin ice broke and boy and sled disappeared, from view. From her window M iss Werner saw the accident and with no hesi tation she ran across the street and plunged in. The water came up to hershoulders. She waded out, caught hold of the struggling boy and started for the shore. By this time otherd had arrived on the scene, and together they got the boy and Miss Wernei out. Youngest Midshipman in Navy. Loulsiana has the distinction of hav ing the youngest midshipman in the United States naval academy, Annapo lis, Md. Alfred Shepard Wolfe was born la the. city .of New Orleans, March 5, 1891, aad entered the naval academy July 6, 1907. after having successfully passed both the mental aad physical examinations. The min imum age allowed at Annapolis is It He was appointed by the Hob. Rob ert C. Davey from the Secoad congres sional district Alfred Wolfe received his entire education ia the public schools of New Orleans; leaving the junior intermediate boys high school class to eater the academy. aavtitfl an Drink. That ssea will drink leas walla they have aoamthlag to look at or to Hstea to. ia proved by tha sobriety which at- aahttc amasemeata ia Eaglaad. ption at alcoholic refresh- la allowed fa the auditorium. aad tt la rare, that tha patroaa leave r a drmk at. tha bars of these resorts araeoa- oa strictly At tha theaters, too. the af aleahaMc refreshmeets durmg tha latterly mlalmnm Midway la tha . AlLjQiidsof Fan IffljliiMts ' Clover Leaf and Success Manure Spreaders Recognized as the leading Spreaders on the market today More corn on thesame acreage by using the . Deere planter. It is always ready for either inning or arming Farmers, jta tools and implements to be sharpened and repaired now. It will save you time when spring opens up. We keep only the latest and best in buggies and carriages Our horseshoes stick and don't lame your horse try them , Louis Sohiieber tomimes. tae descent -of the curtain ia contemporaneous with the appearance of trim waitresses .and the tea tray. Even in the theater bars the lords of creation prefer "the cup that cheers" to whisky and soda. Playing at Divorce. A curious side light is thrown upon the divorce question in America. A mother came iato the room and found her two children quarreling about a doll. She said: "You must stop quarreling, or I shall take the. doll away." "We aren't really quarreling, mamma," said one of the little girls, "we're playing Jeanle's suing me for divorce, aad we're "frying to decide who'll have the custody of the child." When it Is -remembered that 1.300.000 divorces have been recorded in the United States in a period of 20 years, perhaps it Is not surprising that children should play at divorce as they play at going to school. Dundee Advertiser. YALE MEN TAKE TO THE LAW. The Bar Still Attracts One-Third ef the University's Graduates. The statisticians' at Tale have drawn up a table to show what occu pations the graduates of the institu tion have chosen in the last century. From the table it appears that the ministry has fallen off greatly as an attraction. t When the century opened about 39 per cent, of Tale graduates were min isters. Beginning with 1860 this num ber took a great fall. Slace 1865 the average has been six per cent The averages for law and medicine have remained about the same. As a rule ten per cent of Yale's graduates are doctors. In law the figures have been steadily about 33 per cent In teaching and science the figures have increased very gradually from about two per cent to 11 per cent The strongest upward tendency has been that of business. The farmers have fallen off ever since the southern planters ceased to enter Yale. Business now attracts about one third of the men. and the law about one-third.. The other third Is divided between the ministry, science, teach ing, forestry and a few other branches. TROUBLE WITH MODERN CHILD. Toe Early Made Acquainted with the Pomp ef the World. Miss L. E. Stearns, ia her lecture on the "Thankless Child." in Milwau kee, pleaded for children to have time to be children. "I know of a Milwau kee mother who was surprised lately to find that at a birthday party which her daughter (a child of eight) had attended two -liveried pages stood at the door to receive the gifts the chil dren brought The same little girl who '.was hostess at the party, when In a formal mood, Is apt to go to call upon some child of her own age in her mother's carriage, accompanied by a footman aad driver, aad whea she arrives, presents her visiting card be fore seeing her friend." Miss Stearns compared this complicated existence with that of the great John Ruskin, who had but four toys during his en tire childhood, but who spent many enraptured hours with these, and he attributed his taste for architecture to the fact of his blocks, one of the toys, having Interested him in build ing at so early aa age. Smallest Birds the Bravest. Birds fearless are the humming birds. So unafraid are these charming crea tures that they readily will enter open windows of nouses if they see the flowers within. They even have been known to visit the artificial flowers oa a woman's hat when she was walk lag out, and other writers speak of their taking sugar from betweea a persoa's lips. Ia a room they become confused aad. beiag frail, are apt to Jajure themselves Jy striking against objects. It Is of no use to try to keep them ia captivity ualess possibly it were ia a greenhouse, where there were plenty of flowers, for ao artificial food ever has heea found which will nourish them. Jet even In a greea bouse they probably would hill thess selves by flying against the glass. Development. "Wfegs. WIgasr said the taker, tuntiag the leaves of his note book hurriedly "Qulacy A. Wiggs blacksmith census before hut bicycle upafcsi last caaaas that's the aia't ttr "Tea. that's pa," said young Miss Wigau. "WaU, hew shall I pat him down this thaw? Same aa before?" "Oh. ao," said MJss Wiggs haughti ly. "Pa la aa aatomobUe msrhipiriss SAVED BT THE TYKE INSTANCE OF QUICK TrHNKIfttt ON CRITICAL OCCASION. Probable Tetal Lata ef Man-ef-War Averted, by Mere Apprentice Hia Warrant Officer's Uni form Well Merited. Quite a number of former appren tices are'wearing the uniforms of war rant officers ia our service because they were quick thlaking boys oa critical occasions; v One of them was extraordinarily handy with his knife one day whea the ship on board of which he was serving as apprentice had a swell chance to go to the bottom, but for him. They were having heavy gun and conning tower practice. The skip per was doing some firing from his position in the conning tower by touch ing the electric button alongside ot him. The apprentice was acting as the skipper's messenger during that practice. Projectile and charge had been rammed into one of the six-Inch guns on the main deck. Some confusion in orders came about At any rate the skipper had his finger within a couple of inches of the electric button ready to press it and thus discharge the six- inch gun, when the apprentice was on the job. Standing just outside the conning tower and having from that position a view of the gun ahead, to be fired, the youngster observed that the breech of the six-Inch gun hadn't yet been closed, and there was the skipper on the very pin point of touching the button that would fire the gun with the unlocked breech. If the gun went off In that condition there was the finest kind of a chance for the recoil of the immense piece to drive the gun right through the ship's bottom.. The apprentice didn't .have much time to think, but he didn't need much. He figured it all out in an instant that if he yelled at the skipper that the breech wasn't locked the suddenness of the yell might so startle the skipper that his finger would involuntarily come down on the button and thus discharge the gun. The boy's ship's knife with the big blade was In his left hand shirt pocket banging there for its lanyard. He had it out and the blade open in an incredibly short space of time, and he made one cat like dab with the sharp blade of the knife at the electric wire belonging to the button that led right alongside where the boy was standing by the conning tower. The blade cut the wire in two a fraction of a second be fore the skipper's finger reached the button, breaking the electric connec tion and in every likelihood prevent ing a tremendous calamity. The boy was only a tyke and not very strong, and just as soon as he slashed the wire he fell forward on bis face in a dead faint an odd thing, too. that, for a boy serving on a man-o'-war, and yet the Incident wasn't any ordinary one. The skipper raised his head the instant he touched the button and saw what had happened; the loose ends of the cut electric wire, the prone boy and all the rest of it Then he darted out of the conning tower and saw the breech of the big gun still unlocked. He understood It all long before the boy was brought around to consciousness. That boy had no sooner finished his days of ap prenticeship before he wore the war rant officer's uniform of a gunner. Remarkable Criminal Record. To-day a remarkable execution has taken puce in this city, the like of which has never happened even in the annals of Chinese executions. The man who was executed was found guilty of highway robbery and sentenced to be beheaded. He is the seventh of the family to suffer the extreme penalty In this city. The parents gave birth to eight boys, aad from whatever causes It ia Impossible for me to say, the whole family have just given themselves up body and soul to evil. The poor old mother escorted this, her seventh son, to the execution ground walling her dreadful fate the whole way. On ar rival the magistrate, fearing she might cause trouble, had her forcibly re moved outside the crowd until all was over, whea she ran back to the bleed ing 'headless body of her poor boy and again took up her wailing. Sul fan correspondence Shanghai Mercury. Ceat Made from Loons' Breasts. The breasts of 365 loons made Into a coat! This Is the strange garment shown la the window of a downtown shoe company. The manager knows little of the history of the coat except what is told oa the card exhibited in the window. "The company Is sending the coat around to be shown in its various stores," he said. "How it came iato its possession I do not know." The breast of a loon Is about four inches square and each bears a white spot in its center. The number of pieces in the coat therefore, can be counted readily. As these birds are very difficult to shoot, many years mast have beea required to make the collection. Kansas City Star. Has Found River's Sources. Dr. Svea Hedln, the Swedish ex plorer, states that he has discovered the true sources of the Brahmaputra aad ladas. The Brahmaputra, he says, Is the Kabitaampso, which rises from aa enormous glacier oa the aorthera side of the northern-most parallel range of the Himalayas. The Marium ehu, which has hitherto beea regarded as the source, is merely a small tribu tary flowing la from the west. . Tee Much Clothing. The chief quarrel which hygiene has with dothiag la that there to too much of it; garments come dowa too far, are too tight, too heavy, too hot writes Dr. Woods Hutchinson. Wedomaehmore harm to ear health by overloadlag oar selves with dothiag aad by overta dulgteg ourselves in the luxury of warmth cramping tha movemeataef tha body. Interfering with tha respira ttea. aaarivtog the aUa of fta moat la alieaaale right, tha right to fresh air. sbsorbiag tha perspiratioa aad mak ing a refrigerattag cold pack for the body after aw trrlss ' thsa la done ar wearing tight stays ar tight new ajon .sarriasa The arst red aerriac ally produced ia Baglaad many yeara ago by a nehersksa, who. havtag a aar alaa af fresh herring, hung thesn ap la a smoky abed to dry aad then for got an about them. When he looked at them some time after he foaad that they had changed ia color. Th Uag, to whom the fishes' were pre sented, was so interested that he gave perndsaioa to the fisherman to ex hibit them arouad the country aa straage monsters. SUBSCRIBER SACRED TO HIM. Might Be Heree Thief, But Foreman WeuMmt Ga Back it Him. The Fourth Estate repeats a good story told by "Bob" Davis, on the editorial staff of Muasey's. While Davis was connected with a paper ia a rough-and-ready western town, a shab bily dressed' stranger walked la oae day aad asked for some old clothes, al though his own were fairly good. The staff contributed, and. to the surprise of every one. the stranger pulled out 18 aad paid for a year's subscription to the paper. Then, having donned the contributed clothing, he hastily departed. He had been gone but a little while when the sheriff came ia looking for a horse thief. His de scription fitted the stranger to a nicety. "He was in here." said the foreman, "and went up the street when he left. If you hurry you will catch him." Davis was surprised. "Why did yoa say he weat up the street when you saw him go the ohr.r way?" he asked the foreman. "H 1!" retorted the foreman, with freezing dignity, "you wouldn't have me go back on a subscriber, would you?" JOKE ON POMPOUS OFFICIAL. Judge Evidently Was No Admirer of Red Tape Methods. One of the secretaries to our em bassy at London relates how a ques tion arose as to the cost of heating one of the Irish law courts. A conse quential treasury official was detailed from London to look Into the matter. When he Introduced himself to the judge within whose jurisdiction the matter lay. the judge, who. by the way. frequently evinced a great scorn ot red tape, smiled with suspicious bland aess. "Certsinly." said his honor. "I will put you in communication with the person immediately in charge of that department." Whereupon he scribbled a few words on a piece of paper and gave it to a messenger. In a short time an aged charwoman entered. The judge then arose and. as he left the room, said: "Rosie. here is the young maa to see about the coal." Harper's Weekly. Queen and Her Lever. Essex street. London, derives Its name from the ill-fated earl of Es sex, the favorite of Queen Elizabeth. The earl's town house stood in Essex street and the queen often visited him there. The story goes that It was in the garden of Essex house that the queen gave her favorite a box on his ear. saying: "Go and be hanged!" and the hot-tempered young man swore that he would not have brooked such an insult from her father. A curious discovery relating to Essex and Queen Elizabeth was made by Lord Cholmondely in 1770 at a house la Essex street which overlooked the earl's gardens. Scratched on a pane of glass ia a top window were the let ters "I. C. U. S. X. and E. R.." which has been interpreted as "I see you Essex and Elizabeth regina," and was probably the recorded jest of an In quisitive onlooker, who witnessed the meetings of the queen and her favorite. Tricked ef the Time. A Philadelphia lawyer, who spends most of his time at his country es tate, employs a sturdy Irish gardener whose one desire In life Is to live until the banner of freedom is unfurled over Ireland. One evening the lawyer strolled through the grounds of his place and stopped to have a chat with the gardener. "Michael, do you know that while we are here enjoying the beautiful twilight it Is dark midnight in Ire land?" he asked. "Faith, an' Oi'm not surprised," re plied the gardener. "Ireland nlver got justice ylt" Judge. These Perfect English Servants. The following "true story" is told by a correspondent of the London Opin ion: A lady living In Doncaster or dered at Christmas a savory pudding to be sent In with the goose. On corn lag dowa to dine, no savory pudding was to be seen. "Jane, you sent in ao savory pudding. How was that?" she asked the cook after dinner. "No, mans. There was only you In the house that likes it, so I thought I wouldn't make one. None of us in the kitchen likes it" The lady said noth ing more, as the girl had been with her for five years, but she thought it the coolest thing she had heard for some time. The Unfortunate Fact "It just occurs to me that I have not a cent of money with me!" "Oh. that does aot matter. You are known here." "Yea, m unfortunately ! "Translated for Transatlantic Tales from File- geade Blaetter. What He Favored. "Do you favor wider locks?" in quired the man who takes a mild ia tereat ia Panama affairs. "I do," answered the bibulous dti saa. "Also larger keyholes." Different. She-Yoa spend too much money oa things you don't really need aad that yoa buy merely because they are cheap. That is false economy. He Here's a lady's watch I bought to-day for tit. I am sure It is well worth 2t. She Oh, thank yoa, dearest. How spieadldly clever yoa are at plcklag ap bargaias ROOM PH.LEB WITH SKELZTON9.' to an Am. aftaaaaaffff aaaHBuuEJnnuBBBBf,w7 mat Bjeaaunyuj BunmBnamaamnmur, gnu VeaYlVIifJnwwIa For aearly 3f years tha 'ccaaatry at Carleatlal. Italy, has beca abaa doaed. although tha chape connected with tt has reawlaod oaea for aaaHc warship. Bebiad the sacristy la a door which has always heea shut aad was believed to lead iato one at tha rooms of the monastery.. The ether day the syndic decided to ox this room aa he had seme wi oaea the door. A" terrifylag s met their ansa far tha full of hamaa akelet most to the ceUlas- Tha syadic or dered the skeietoas,- sosae of which' were more or leas BHaauaifled hsdiis. to be takea out aad burled hi the Campo Santo. They aambereda isw over 4.0M. Naturally, a tre was caused by these dtecaverjea. the wildest conjectures dvea to. According, however, to tha eldest lahabitaat of CarieaUal. the facta are as follows: Whea ssoaka Inhabited the UKwastery. a certain sum waa paid them for the privilege of seaaRare ia the church. The church. how small, aad whea there waa for any more corpses, the moaka, rath er than lose aa important source of income, continued to receive for burial, bat instead ef them beaeath the floor of the church, cast them into the raonw behtod tha sacristy, or iato the pavilioas close by. where they have just heea discovered. WORLD'S NEED OF STRONG MEN. SheuM Be Better Than the tiene ef the Some of .as are disposed to ha satis fied If we caa be pretty aearly aa good as the mea of tha last genera tion. That will not do at alL Tha mea of this geaeraUoa have sat to be a great deal better ssea Maajer. broader, sounder, keener, braver, mea than their fathers werev If they are aot they will ha si with the business af tha their hand. The entire ethical standard of flaaadal life la beiag. aad mast be. lifted ap. Wa caaaot do the eaormouety lacreased bust Bess of the world to-day aa the moral plane where we were Hvtog 25 y ago. If we attempt It we shall ourselves la chaos. Wa have sat to have higher principles of justice aad equality aad- clearer aotleas of flaaa dal integrity, aad stronger coavlctioaa of fidelity to trusts, aad a deeper aaaaa of the buslaesa reapoasibltlty of every man to the whole community. Wash ington Gladden. Still Accepting "It Is straage." remarked Mr. Squig gins to his graadsoa Horace, "what a fascination chorus girls exercise upoa such young noodles as yourself. Take a womaa- as homely as a gingham umbrella aad put her la the baek row of the chorus, where she haaa't a . thing to do except draw her breathy aad her salary, aad the first thief you know a lot ef fooash haya are seading her flowers, amah aetoa aad jewelry aad begglag her to cesae pat to sample hot birds aad ana battles. Ton my word, it's a queer thins taia glamour of stage life." "But grandpa,", said Horace, "tha actresses of the preseat day are fat more rascinatlag taaa they were when you were a lad, 40 years ago." "Not much, my boy! There are many on the stage aow with wheat I was acquainted ia my youthful days." Letter Written. Writing interesting letters come naturally to me, aad there are a good maay people with whom I must' keep in touch through letters, if at alL So I have got into the way of keeptag a notebook aad jotting down la It brief notes to remind me of little bits of aews that will specially iatereat my different correspondents. I evea jet down a little joke sometimes, saya Home Chat Then, when spare tima comes to write my letters my aetoa are ready to haad. aad the Iatereat iag scraps of aews doat ga flying away directly I put my pea to paper. as they used to do. Everybody telle me my letters are much more later estlag than they used to be. If aa, that ia the secret A Read to Haaafeeea, It is not at all difficult to believe that it la easier to give it if It ia the English girl. Inasmuch aa tha far mer always knows exactly what aha wants. But a fact which must aot ha lost sight of is that tha ftmoilaaa girt la admittedly entitled to she wants, while aha aata H the American husband takea tha view that it la easier to give it if it la wiser to refuse. Tha -f1,-,i girl, aa a rule, loses her capacity far knowing exactly'what she wants for the simple reaeoa that she la aware that aappiaesa lies la nismlselag vata aires from her mind. Lady's torlal. Shfe Lhjhto aa History. The Washlagtoa isssed Mouat Vemam ia 1 Admiral Vernon ef the British navy. "You'll have to stead far it. Gearaa.' said Maj. Lawrence Washtogton to hla younger brother. "The patriotic . caa ef the future, wham ha to do honor to tale' spat aa tha shrlae of hia country, liberty. thlak K waa asmsd 'Veraoa' aa aa eoaat af its instantly awadtac af as ia. tha patriot aa tha twa postage stamp. Lady WileVa Ready Wit. If the political women of today had! the humor, say. of tha lata Lady Wilde, their cause would, net be aa hopeless. She was . very 'nnhnnst about the world-old tyranny of man. uirr woven, ana SBM BMay things. But oae could farglva io a womaa waa. the fact that tha alleged tyranny began with oar flrat parent crisply aad aa a "dictatorial t uuwk sTaansi said nothing, hat hla toaa t-v -? - "5 munuum - .,- ffjammm " lnajH 4nauwBnT nan nrJ aaajP . naai BaaTV t amfl nnaH "nV i unf ' aaa Mm-K nauT ,aaaT" flaw 'M nan! "1 nam :i 4i (J -St. XT' "2 " r- it- Xl - s- s ; v M. -:Sf ,i ., - '.r i- ik--&,. . - r , ..,;"; a, .v?!!? 1 - '. -J .V--- rtoi.'.iA-Vtoiri. 32tJmS, to. 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