SRR i SRY Wri STORIES OF THE CAT. ; 4 1 tic Ala | Legends and Facts About the Still but —— ' i | rer ——— | Half Tamed Animal. Beliefonte, Pa., February 8, 1907. | “There are few tales of cat fidelity . {and many of dog, yet one thinks no worse of the cat for this,” says an ob- MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. server. “His very independence com- pels respect. He walks ‘by his wild TI eh Ere Van lone, waving his wild tail, through the Marriage customs have changed ev-| wild woods, as an inspired modern erywhere with the advance of elviliza- | writer bas set forth. Al the genera tion. Anglo-Saxons in ancient times, it | oBs have not served to tame him. is said, used to capture their wives by | and he most domestic of the race will force from their fathers or their hus- | revert sooner to a wild life at ‘the cali bands, it did not matter which. { of the blood’ than any other friend of This was before Augustine came to man. It is thus scarcely surprising to preach Christianity. Then purchase was find that the most famous cat lovers more common than capture, although | have been drawn from the ranks of the latter seems to have been frequent | Politicians and poets, those whom rea- enough to the reign of Ethelbert to Sons of state or n sensitive tempera- need regulation by law. By this law a | ment have rendered averse from trust- man might run away with a woman, | ing their fellow creatures and who con- provided he afterward paid her pre-! sequently bestow all their affections vious owner, be he father or husband, upon the ‘fireside sphinx.’ We are in- 50 shillings. If it was husband who Vited to believe that the most famous had thus been deprived of his wife, the | of all cats, he who brought fame and woman's captor had not only to pay | fortune to his master, Dick Whitting- him the fine, but also to buy him an- | ten, was no four legged animal at all, other wife. In any case the stolen wo- but merely the French word ‘achat — man belonged to her eaptor, If a man had purchased his bride in | great merchant made a pet only of his the days of Ethelbert and afterward merchandise from the very beginning. concluded he had paid too much for | Thus in later years do the idols of our her, it was lawful for him to return her | youth topple about our heads, to her former owner and claim again| “But other legends—nay, facts—are i to buy and sell at profit—and that the i the purchase price, provided that he had not previously expressed satisfac- tion by making the bride a present on the morning after the wedding. The next step was the “foster lien,” when the bride price was paid on the day of espousal and was supposed to ‘compensate the parent for the cost of bringing up his daughter. It seems, however, that this soon fell into disre- pute, as there was no law against the father engaging his daughter to nu- merous suitors, taking from each the “foster lien” and, of course, cheating all but one on the wedding day, which at that time was only the day of be- trothal, when the suitor gave a “wed” or pledge for the future performance of his contract. If the suitor did not claim his bride within two years after the wedding day, he forfeited all right to her and to whatever money or goods he had paid for her. If the woman and her father broke their promises, the father had to give the suitor four times as Juich as the suitor had already paid m. As civilization advanced the bride price was given to the woman herself and hecare Jor dowry, while nowa- | days the tables are frequently turned, | and the bride settles the money on her husband. — STAGESTRUCK. An Incident of the Boyhood Days of William McKinley. | eat was brought up and introduced to | lioft us. Cardinal Wolsey, for instance, | when acting in his official capacity as | lord chancellor is said to have had his favorite cat always seated beside him, and another prince of the church, Rich- | away a good while in that posture, but | at last he got his foot clear and so | came to escape, brought home and let blood and after | | some rest taken is now well again. The | elien, found his only relaxation in | keeping a number of kittens in his pri- | vate cabinet and watching their gam- [ bols during his sparc moments. Wo | jeannot really reckon Richelieu as a i i true lover of the race, however, for di- | rectly the kittens grew to three months | { he had them sent away and replaced | | by others. Lord Chesterfield left in his | will life pensions to his favorite eats | and their kittens. Vietor Hugo's great | eat Chanoine always sat cn a large red | ottoman In the center of his salon and | received his guests in state, showing | marked displeasure if any one failed i { to earess or praise her. | “Tasso wrote 2 sonnet to his favorite cat, and Petrarch had one he loved as dearly, we are told, as Laura. No | doubt she was the confidant of many of his trials and consoled him for much | of the fair lady's disdain, and when | pussy died the poet had her embalmed | in the BEzyptian fashion and earried her | mummy about with him everywhere. | Baudelaire, the French poet, a very f shy man, was always ill at ease in any new house he entered until the family i him, after which, with the eat on his knee, he was perfectly happy in his silent poet fashion. One does not readily associate our martyred president, William McKinley, with an ambition to become an actor, but in a grouping of eminent person- ages who have conceived at one time or another in their lives a passion to tread the boards we find the subjoined account: “It was while holding the humble | position of clerk at a hat store in Cin- | cinnati that Mr. McKinley became stagestruck and once confessed that he did not outgrow his desire to be- come an actor for many years after- ward. This desire arose through wit- wiessing the Shakespearean plays as presented by the great tragedian, Ed- win Forrest, for whom Mr. McKinley Lonceived a great admiration. “‘Imagine my feelings,’ the presi- ~dent said on one occasion when relat- ing his boyish ambitions, ‘when For- rest walked into our store one day to make a purchase. I rushed to the front in order to serve my ideal hero of the theater. The sale, however, was made by an older clerk, but I was given the privilege of pressing and stretching the hat. The great actor stood near me, observing my work, and the smile of appreciation which he gave me was one of the events of my south.’ "—Serap Book. Growth of Rocks. Rocks do not grow in the sense that a plant grows, They may increase by accretion, and they may undergo chem- feal change. The old sea bed, being lifted up, becomes sandstone and lime. stone, ‘The volcanic ash and lava strewn over the plains become tufa, hard enough for building stone. The pebbly shore of a river becomes con- glomerate. The simple mineral does grow, however, when it takes a crystal form. The sparkling prism of quartz increases from an atom to a crystal a8 large as a forearm by a process of addition and assimilation, wonderfully slow but beautifully regular, exactly as crystals of ice form on the window pane. Why Bulls Hate a Red Flag. In the first place, says an English writer, red is a color to which cattle are unaccustomed, so that they may naturally be supposed to be startled by its very novelty. Scientists show ‘the sensation of red to be the comple- ment of that of green, being induced by exactly opposite affections of the retina. If the eyes of cattle are con- structed on . similar principle to our own the continual contemplation of green, as In trees and herbage, niust produce a state of retinal fatigue, pre- «disposing a violent excitement of the retina immediately a red substance is presented to view. Takes No Chances. “Remember,” said the kind elderly gentleman, “that you may be president of the United States.” “Yes,” answer- 2d the boy whose father is connected with the race track, “but look at the population of this country. I've only got one chance in millions. I ain't play- ing any long shots like that”—Wash- ington Star. “Traditions respecting cats are, of course, legion. From time immemorial they have been regarded as somewhat uncanny, omens of weal or woe, beings | to be either concilinted or crushed. The cat worship of ancient Egypt and, later, the Roman creed that the eat was sacred to Dianna speak of the ome: the wild charges of witcheraft — or concern in it—rife during the dark ages of Europe will attest the latter. But there is another popular belief de | serving also of mention, that whieh sets forth the old maid as the cat's | only friend, a legend arising in the medineval nunneries overrun with mice, where one or more cats were always kept and were no doubt mush petted by the good nuns.” — Chicago News. A Hard Burial. Some few winters ago a gang of ear- rlage washers was engaged washing carriages on one of our northern rail- ways when one of them remarked to his mate, an old soldier who was fa- mous as a long bowist, “It's awful eold this morning, David.” “Cold! This is nothing,” said David. “I remember when I was in Canada in 186— one of our mates died, poor ehap. And you will have some idea what sort of frost it was when I tell you it froze the body so stiff and the ground so hard that we had to get hammer and chisel, make a nick in the ground and then drive him in with a pile driver. That was the only way we could give the poor chap decent burial.” —Eondon Answers. Using the Eyes. A scientific writer quotes Helmholtz as saying that in his work he could only liken himself to the mountaineer, painfully and slowly climbing, often obliged to turn backward, lighting lat- er on new traces leading forward, and: finally reaching the goal, only to find to his confusion that a plain road led thither, if he had only had the eyes to see. Darwin said he thought he was superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape at- tention and in observing them ecare- fully. Cheap Generosity. A great smoker handed his cigar case to his right hand neighbor. “Thank you, but I don't smoke,” said the man. He therefore handed it to the man on the left, who made the same reply, | whereupon his wife nudged him and | sald, “Why don’t you hand it to the captain?” “No, thank you; he. smokes.”—Nos Lolsirs. The Mean Thing! “Who was that fool you bowed to? “My husband.” “Oh, I—er—I—humbly apologize. I"— “Never mind, I'm not angry. But what a keen observer you are!”— Cleveland Leader. Did you ever notice that the size of + trouble depends on whether it is come Ing or going?—Mankato Free Press | upon the ground. CROMWELL'S HORSES. An Accident That Befell the Protector In Hyde Park. “As Cromwell rose in power and rank his love of horses began to be more conspicuous,” says a writer in Black- wood's. “When he started from Lon- don in 1649 to rec: uer Ireland he went forth in that state and equipage as the like hath hardly been seen, him- self’ in a coach with six gallant Flan- ders mares, reddish gray.” In 1635, when the Spanish ambassador took his leave of the lord protector, Cromwell sent him “his own coach of six white horses” to convey him to and from Whitehall. “Certain it is,” adds the narrator, “that none of the English kings had ever any such.” The protector was not much of a whip, however. In 1654 ike Count of Stock Cleaning and How we do it. Oldenburg sent Cromwell a present of six horses, and the protector's anxiety | to make trial of their quality led to his : well known adventure in Hyde park. On Friday, Sept. 20, he went with Sec- , retary Thurloe and some of his gentle- i men to take air in the park, ordered | the six horses to be harnessed to his : | coach, put Thurloe inside of it and un- | | dertook to drive himself. “His high- | ness,” said a letter from the Dutch | | ambassador, “drove pretty handsomely ! t for some time, but at last, provoking | | those horses too much with the whip, ; they grew unruly, whereby his high- | ness was flung out of the coach box His foot getting | hold in the tackling, he was carried secretary, being hurt on his ankle with leaping out of the coach, hath been forced to keep his chamber hitherto —lLOOK AT THE PRICES One Lot of Boy's and Youths’ Satin Calf Lace i i He was presently | and been unfit for any business.” The royalist Scroggs, afterward chief i justice, writing of this incident, hoped | that the next fall would be from a eart | —hinting at the gallows. As to Crom- i well's views on the burning question of horse racing it is difficult to arrive | at a positive conclusion. His constant alm was to possess as many good i horses as he could afford. Whether he | entered his horses for races or had the satisfaction of owning a winner | history does not say. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. | The only thing some people always | have ready is an excuse. i Almost any one can be induced to lie | If you nsk enough questions. | The better you behave the better you get along. It's old, but it's true. | A man nobody can quarrel with has | the life problem reasonably well solved. Lack of opportunity has to stand as an excuse for a lot of general shiftless- ness. The trouble with some people lies in the fact that they consider their faults their misfortunes, i Are you minong these who treat their new acquaintances better than they treat their old friends? i If a man has plenty of money to back up a lot of fool notions, people call him eccentric, but if he ouly has the notions he is a crank.—Atchison Globe. Tamed the Box Office Man. A theater box office man whose seats were all sold days abead was turning away disappointed patrons more than grullly when a man who had watched the process with glowing ire reached the window. “Selling any mor: seats this season?’ he began. The ticket seller answered with a stare. The ques- tion, quietly but firmly repeated, finally received an aflirmative answer. “Give me two.” “When?” growled the seller, recovering. “Any time,” said the man. The seller was slmost too crushed to ask “Where?” “Anywhere,” replied the man. “How much?" whispered the seller, his voice deserting him. “Any price,” said the man. The tickets were transferred in an awed silence, and the line of purchasers that had overheard smiled benevolently at the noticeably tamed man in the cage.—~New York Post. Antiquity of Proverbs. Proverbs existed long before books. In the earliest times they served as the unwritten language of morality and have been passed down through the generations. In Africa there are numerous quaint proverbs. Among them are: “He who dives on dry land will scarify his face,” “Two people cannot sit down upon the point of the same thorn at the same time.” In the Transvaal the proverb, “Beware of a silent man; he has a brass band in his mouth,” is often heard. Holmes on Shelley. Shelley vaporized everything in his glowing crucible, but there was gold at the bottom of it. When I look at him spreading the starry wings of his fancy over his chaotic philosophy he seems like a seraph hovering over the un- fathomable chasm, whose blackness is the abode of demons.—"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” Her Reasoning. Wife (at the costumer’s)—Which shall T have—this coat at 40 marks or that one at 70? Husband—I have only 40 marks with me. Wife—Oh, well, then, we'll buy the seventy mark coat on credit, and then you can buy me a hat with the 40 marks.—Lustige Blat- ter. 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