“Pa., October 27, 1011.
VANISHED GRANDEUR.
Glories of the Thames When Lonaon
Roads Were Markets.
In Tudor times royal! residences
were situated along the Middlesex
bank of the Thames. and splendid
barges manned by oarsmen in livery
were constantly coming and going be-
tween them.
“The city companies,” says the Lon-
don ‘Timex. “ali had their state barges
. and liveried watermen. Great river
pageants were numerous. High placed
eriminals traveled down to their death
on the ebbing tide. Ambassadors and
other envoys of foreign powers were
met at Gravesend by the lord mayor
~
and his aldermen and taken by river |
in a stately progress to Tower stairs.
The regular route westward was by |
river to Putney. thence by road across
Putney heath.
“That way went Wolsey when de-
prived of the great seal, traveling
from York House to Escher in dis-
ce. until he fell in with the king's
messenger on the heath and knew he
was his master’s man once more. [na
later age the entry into London of
Catharine of Braganza, the consort of
Charles I1., was a memorable example
of the river pageant.
“In old days the city roads were
markets rather than thoroughfares, so |
that even if anybody wished to go
from one part of the city to another
he went by river, for the roads were
quagmires in bad weather and at all
times haunted by highwaymen and
footpads. Pepys. that type of the pa
triotic permanent official, always used
the river. Such phrases as ‘by water
to Whiteha!l' and ‘so by water home’ !
constantly occur in his diary.
“In Queen Anne's reign there were
40,000 watermen plying for hire on the |
Thames und over a hundred ‘stairs’ |
or landing places, in London proper.
These watermen were the ‘cabbies’ of
that age. The really curious thing is
that the Thames was still a main
thoroughfare less than a century ago.
Not until 1857 did the lord mayor's
show proceed to Westminster other
wise than by water.”
WOULDN'T BE TAMED.
End of a Wild Stallion That Resented
the Touch of Man.
In “Mustangs. Busters and Outlaws |
of the Nevada Wild Horse Country.” in |
the American Magazine, Rufus Steele
writes of the capture of a splendid
wild stallion that had long eluded cap
ture. He was an “outlaw.” Writes
Mr. Steele:
“Until we saddled him we dia uot
realize his desperation. We fastened
the riata to his fromt feet.
from under him, throwing him heavily
As he attempted to rise we threw him
again and repeated the maneuver untit |
exhaustion necessitated his capitula
tion. But his surrender was only tem
porary. For three years we tried to
break him. using every artifice kpown
to us. Asx quickly as one man gave up
the tusk another would try to con-
quer him, but every time a human
being approached or tried to bridle
or saddle him he would bite vicious!y.
while his eyes, protruding from the |
sockets, blazed tiery red with hate. As
the cinch wus drawn tight the outlaw,
if upon his feet. invariably reared
straight up. poised upon his hind legs,
then hurled himself backward to the
ground. We always mounted him
while he was tied down. and to ‘stay’
after he gained hisefeet called for ac-
tion which boiled a day's work into
thirty minutes of struggle.
“His end was tragic as his career. In
making :n attempt at escape by jump
fng out of nn stockade corral he mis |
judged the distance and became im:
paled on : jagged post, and a 44 was
turned louse upon him to end his suf-
fering.”
Cautions,
A lawyer happened to be acquainted
with a juror in a petty civil case, and
he met bim during a recess of the
court. The lawyer was just “lighting
up.” and under ordinary circumstances
Lie would have offered the other a cigar |
unhesitatingly. but it occurred to him
that it might not look right.
“1 suppose,” he said guardedly, “that
a cigar would not influence your ver
diet?”
The juror was equally cautious.
“A good one wouldn't,” he replied.
“but a poor one might prejudice me.”
He got a good cigar. — Brooklyn Eagle. |
Nature's Protection For the Ear.
The membrane lining the canal of the
ear contains a great number of little
glands which secrete n waxy substance |
having an intensely bitter taste. The
purpose of this is to prevent the en
trance of insects and to keep the ear
clean. as the layer of wax dries in
scales, which rapidly fall away. thus !
removing with them any particle of
dust or other foreign matters which
may have found entrance to the ear.
Softer.
“l have no doubt you have heard
some stories to my discredit,” he said.
“I don’t like to put it in that way.”
she quietly replied.
“How then” he hopefully asked.
“I have never heard any stories to
your credit.”
Plain Dealer.
He Knew.
Mrs. Caller Down~— You needn't think
that I'm going ro fix your trousers at
this hour of the night. Caller Down—
Tut, tut! 1° never too late to mend. —
Philadelphia Inquirer.
When te |
tried to run away we jerked his feet |
said she, — Cleveland |
ORIENTAL RUGS.
Their Worth Hangs on the Number of
Knots to the Square inch,
For ages reaching far back intv the
mists of antiquity, weaving has been
the work of women, though the mod-
ern factory of the west has brought
about changes in this respect. “In
‘ the unchan:ing east weaving is, with
few exceptions, women's work. In
the interior of Asiatic Turkey and iu
Persia the patriarchal system still ex:
ists and the sons bring their wives
home to live. I have known as many
as thirty-five persons to live in one
dwelling,” writes Mrs. Eliza Dunn in
her book, “Rugs In Their Native
Land.” “The mother-in-law is queen
| of the household, and every morning
assigns to each woman and girl her
task for the day.” Methods of work-
| ing as well as patterns are traditional.
| according to the same author, and
some designs are peculiar to special
families or tribes and become so fa
| miliar that the older workers produce
them from memory.
The art of tying in the yarn has to
be learned very slowly. The young-
er children are allowed to tie in only
one solid color on the plain back-
! ground, but whe a girl becomes fair
(ly expert she is allowed to make a
whole rug, and traces of individuality
| may be looked for in her weaving.
{ The two classes of rug, Turkish and
Persian, are distinguished by the kind
of Luot in which they are tied, the
| Ghiordes, or Turkish, the Semna, or
Persian knot.
The number of knots to the square
| inch is one of the tests of value of :.
| modern rug, and the fact that more
can be tied to the square inch in a |
| Persian than ia a Turkish rug ac-
counts for the greater fineness and
| consequently greater costliness of the
| former.
COVERED DISHES.
First Used In the Dark Ages to Guard
Food From Poison.
From the dirs when our ancestors
| took thelr foi in their nands and ate
{it with ax little cereniony as i dog
| gnaws a boas to the present time of
| elaborate dinners is a long step, but a |
gradual one. It was a number of ven
turies before dishes of any Kind were
| used, and knives and forks as adjuncts
| to eating are later still.
poison which haunted the
mind of
| every person of quality during the mid- |
| dle ages muve rise to certain curious
customs and even to certain supersti
tions.
covered, it is understood that it is mere
lv for the purpose of keeping them
warm. This was not, however, the
| principal reason why they were serv
| ed covered during the dark ages. [It
was the fear that poison might be in-
| troduced into them surreptitiously be-
| tween the kitchen and the table where
they were to be served to the kings
| or the lords or even to persons of infe-
rior rank.
| The covers were not removed till the
| master of the house had taken his
| place. All dishes afterward served
| were brought on the table in the same
| manner. !o was the custom originally
when the dishes were uncovered for
gome of the servants to first partake
| of them, but this custom was after
ward in part replaced by the servants
touching the food with one of several
| objects which were regarded as infaili-
! ble preservatives against poison.
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Cornered.
“You must have called me late this
| morning, Syivena. It was 12 o'clock
i when I reacheil the office. And I had
| an important appointment for 10
o'clock, too.”
“Why. I called you at 7:30, John.”
“Was the clock right?”
“Yes: I set it last night when you
! came home. You remember I called
| downstairs when you came in and
| asked you what time it was. And
| you said 10:30. The clock in my room
said 1:45, so I turned it back to agree
with your watch, and, of course, |
called you hy the correct time this
morning.” — Buffalo Express.
| Prairie Chickens.
| The prairie chicken was once so
' abundant that in Kentucky, where th
slave owners fed it to the negrois.
: they tired of it and begged their ma:
ters not to make them eat it. It wus
commonly known as “nigger bird.” To
find the prairie chicken now one mus!
tramp the isolated regions of the wes:
Even in Indian territory a hunter ix
considered lucky if he even gets o
| shot at one. 1 have heard the old ~e'.
| tlers say that the prairie chicken was
once more abundant than the English
sparrow is now. — Popular Selene.
Monthly.
The Same Old Issue.
He had just launched the momen.
tous question.
The pretty girl shook her head.
“No.” she replied. Then she blithely
added, “But we can always remuali
good friends.”
| He smiled bitterly as he reached for
his hat.
“Reciprocity without annexation!
he muttered and stalked away. —Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
i Frank.
Frank Fairleigh—Yes, Miss Antique.
| to be frank with you— Miss Antique
. (with a chirp)—Oh, Mr. Fairleigh! Of
course you may be Frank with me
but this so sudden.
ao
Precocious Youth.
Walter (aged five) — Papa, when !
- grow up may | get married? Papa--
My son, I regret to see you anticipate
tronble so early in life.--Chicago Ne
When vou bury animosity do not st
up a hendetene over its grave, —Dick-
ens.
Phe fest of | Boers With the Flectest Horses Cot
When dishes are now served |
PLANNED HIS OWN DEATH.
Judge Hankford Cleverly Evaded the
Law Against Suicide.
Suicides often adopt ingenious meth-
| ods, but the art of the felo de se sees
| not to have advanced materially dur-
| ing the centuries. The modern case of
'a heavily insured broker who on =
| felgned hunting trip stood barelezged
'in a quagmire for hours and willfully
| contracted a fatal pneumonia is match-
| ed in cleverness by one 500 years old.
| The following facts are well vouch-
| ed for and indeed were never ques-
| tioned, says the Green Bag: Sir Wil
‘liam Hankford. a judge of the King's |
| bench in the reigns of Edward IIL.
| Henry IV.. Henry V. and Henry VL
| and at the time of his death chief jus
| tice of England. was a man of mel
| ancholy temperament.
He seems to have contemplated =ui-
| cide the greater part of his long life,
| and during his later years the idea le-
| came a fixed purpose. The act was of
| peculiarly serious consequence in those
| days for the reason that the luw
treated it os a capital crime. The cl
fender was buried at the crossroads
——
with a stake driven through his body, '
and all his goods and property were
, forfeited to the crown, to the utter
! ruin of his family,
Hankford made good use of his wits
| and succeeded in accomplishing his
| purpose without incurring either ua
| pleasant penalty. He gave open n-
structions to his gamekeeper, who had
been troubled with poachers in the
deer preserve, to challenge all tres
i passers in the future and to shoot 1»
kill if they would not stand and give
| an account.
One dark night he purposely crossed
! the keeper's path and upon challen
| made motions of resistance and es
cape.
recognize his master, followed instrr-
tion to the letter. as was expected of
him. and Sir William fell dead in Nx
tracks. The whole truth of the nf Ir
was common knowledge, but it wos
impossible to establish a case of «ni.
cide by legal proof. The servant wis
| protected by his instructions. Mant:
! ford had henorable burial. and his es.
tate possed to those whose Interests as
heirs he had so wisely considered.
| PRIMITIVE SURVEYING.
the Biggest Farms.
| N. Y.. the township was originally
| measured off by a primitive method.
The first settler was one Smith, who
bought from the Indians as much nud
as a bull could go around in a day
Now, Smith had a smart bull, trained
| to carry him and to half trot and half
lope at a vapid pace. That day the
bull was up to the mark. By night he
had inclosed so much land that the
amazed Indians nicknamed its rider
Bull Smith.
| shining.
, dial in the world.
The faithful servant, failing to ;
According to a legend of Smithtown. :
This tradition has its counterpart
among th» Boers of South Africa.
Their “runs.” asx the farms of these
Dutchmen re called, contain, general-
Iy speaking. from 4.000 to 6,000 acres.
of which only nu few acres are under
cultivation Small monuments
the boundary lines,
‘The first settlers. knowing nothing |
their
Having piled |
of surveying. measured off
“runs” by horsepower.
up a lot of stones. the Boers would
start from them and ride in a straizhi
line for ha!f an hour as fast as their
horses could carry them.
Halting. each rider would build au-
other beacon and again ride for ha!f |
an hour at right angles to his first line.
Then he would pile up another stone
beacon.
more of riding brought him back to
his starting point.
The square tract inclosed within the
two hours’ ride and the four beacons
became his farm. Of course the Boer
who owned the fleetest horse obtained
the largest tract of land.—Harper's
Weekly,
Nature's Only Timepiece.
There is "10 peed for clocks on the
Aegean sea any day when the sun is
There nature has arranged
her only timepiece. one that does not
vary though the centuries pass. This
natural time marker is the largest sun
Projecting into th
blue waters of the sea is a large pro:
ontory. which lifts its head 3.00)
feet above the waves, As the sun
swings round the pointed shadow of
the mountain just touches, one after
the other, n number of small islands,
which are ot exact distances apari
and act ans hour marks on the grea’
dial.—New York Tribune.
A Cecllecter's Troubles.
A Camden nun always in debt was
confronted nzain by the bill collector,
to whom he confided the usual story
of hard luck.
“Can't pay me today, eh?’ mus d
the collector. “But 1 shall be here
again tomorrow. nnd then'™--
“Yes, do came tomorrow,” urged the
debtor, “und that will give me time
to make vp i hrand new excuse and
to decide waen yon ought to cove
again.” —1'hiladelphin Times.
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Pigmy Pills.
As far as their size goes Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets may well be called "pig-
my pil!ls.” They are the smallest of their
kind. But when their work is consider-
ed they are more wonderful than the gi-
ant pills of whatever name. Giants can't
be gentle. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are gentle in their action, certain in their
results. Giant pills destroy on one hand
while they build on the other. "Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets” have no reaction. The
cure the disease for which they are a
and cure it "for good and all.”
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stones piled up at certain points mark |
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Hood's Sarsaparilla be “he Pedometer,
A patent was granted Nov. 4, 1799.
Could Hardly Hear se a. wramen mt nowbered the
| steps taken hy a pedestrian.
| SENSES OF TASTE AND SMELL WERE
ALSO GREATLY IMPAIRED.
“I was afflicted with catarrh,” writes
EE drat aifetent. medicines. ving
Depends.
Ted—-Would you marry a girl whe
tak scveral differe igines Kivi sued you for breach of promise? Ned
Could hardly | rt hy or ‘smell. Twas it ould Sepund on whether shi»
ve despair, uit,
to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, After taki . adelpbia Times.
three bottles of this medicine | was c A
and have had no return of the disease.” o—
Hood's Sa effects its wonder
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Material and | 738713 2351 Fiublersburk. | 19 9 4 3 9 14
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Ixtures are the ti 721% 300 ¥ Huston. 902 424 904
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establishment. And with good work and the 752 7 34! 3 12IF. 852/414 855
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