“Bellefonte, Pa., December 1, 1911. The Mate Let the Captain Down Easy ' About His Mistake. The skipper was a man who bad a good opinion of himself and his mo- tons. He had pulled through ship- wreck, mutiny and other perils of the deep, but he came a cropper once. For one of his voyages he had shipped a boatswain’s mate who bore something of a reputation. One day the skipper ordered him aloft to examine a sail on the royal yard. “ain't safe, cap'n!’ protested the boatswain's mate. “The foot ropes has got to be fixed first.” “Do as 1 tell vou!" thundered the captain. “The foot ropes are all right. I know they are.” The man went up. Five minutes later be came tumbling down through the rigging from the top of the mast, x distance of over 100 feet. With a bang he landed on the belly of the mainsail! and bounded into one of the canvas covered boats. The sailors, thinking him crowded about him in a circle To their amazement he sat up. His eyes wandered vacantly about until they rested on the leathery face | of the skipper, when they lighted up with intelligence, “Cap'n,” he said slowly, “you was mistaken about them foot ropes.’ — London Tit-Bits. dead, How a Wild Horse Bucks. Rufus Steele, in “Mustangs, Busters and Outlaws of the Nevada Wild Horse Country.” in the American Magazine. tells of the glotious sport of capturing and training wild horses. “Busting” is no spor: for a novice. Real busters are iralned to the game from child hood. He writes: “A touch of the spur or a flick of the quirt signals the start. His knowl edge of what to do musi be an heritage from his ancestors, for all horses do it, and all Awerican wild horses are aprung from horses that once carried men. He pops down his head and levi tates siraight heavenward. While he amd yon are high in (he air he arches hig hack mud stiffens his body to fron rigidity. ‘Thus he comes hack to earth. The sensation to the rider Is as if his spinal column had been struck by =a pile driver. The impression is not analyzed ai the time, for the horse goes into the air again innnediately. He swings 10 right or left, or he ‘changes emds’ completely while in the air, and southward. whereas vou were facing northward when you ascended.” Curious Way of Catching Fish. Indians of Bolivian have a peculiar wethod of going fishing. A writer in the Geographical Journal says: “They use the milk of the ‘manuna’ or ‘soii- man’ tree, the scientific nawe of which js. I think. Hura crepitans, of the ecunhorbia genus, for catching fish, | went with ome of the lagoon fn the forest the surface of the alive and yet Here, toating on water, perfectly faway, were fish of all kinds, hig and VALE OF THE WYE. Glimpse of an Imposing and Romantic | Spot In Wales. Those who travel through strange places with their eyes and their ears | open are iikely to wake strange discov- eries, but there are plenty of other finds which, simply as a delight to the senses and without any wonder or cu- riosity attending them, are well worth the trouble of trying to forget one's preoccupation in what he sees and! hears. Both these pleasures of travel come to those who will fare slowly and ob- servingly through tte Vale of the Wye! in Wales. It seews alwost like a chap-' ter from some magnificent Apocalypse to travel on to Cader and Plynlimon and glimpse the imposing grandeur of the visions that await the appreciative | eye. Half of Wales seems to lie before the traveler. The mountains of the Cader range loow loftily, and Snow- don. of the lakes, seems to beckon him on. The long headland of Carnarvon hugs balf a sea in the crook of its arm. Pembroke's ragged capes gleam be-| yond the lovely mountainous heights. | No sound breaks the vast silence. You are shut off from the bustling world. | The bawk circles in a noiseless void | above the slopes whitened with graz- ing sheep. For a moment there may! be (he feeble pipe of the wheatear, and | for another brief space a lark may lilt} praise to heaven. But that is all.— Philadelphia North American. Chinese Queer Ways. Difficulties of census work among Chinese are amusingly illustrated by the British commissioner at Weihaiwei | in his report. “A Chinese child at birth is said to he one year old.” he. writes. “and after it has passed one! new vear it is said to be two years old. Thus a bild if born in the last month | of the vear may be said to be two years of age hefore it is thirty days old { according to European reckoning. A | child of eighteen months’ time of life | since birth is reckoned by Chinese to | be either two years or three years old, | this depending on whether it was born | in the first or second half of the year. | it is common for a Chinese mother to give a son the name of a girl, presum- | ably to deceive the fates, it being con- | sidered exsier to bring up a girl. There | are many large undivided families inj Weihaiwei The largest is that of a widow unmed Meng Yu Shih, whose | family consists of sixty-six, which, | with one servant, makes sixty-seven! months to the common meal.” : Knowing the Great Men. Mr. Browning himself once told me | how important and interesting be | thouglt it that the young should have, | as it were, landmarks in their lives by ! at least seeing great men who belong- | ed to an earlier generation. ! “Once,” he said, “1 was walking in | the streets of Paris with my son, who | was then a little boy. We saw an old | man approaching us in 2 long. loose, rather shabby coat and with a stoop- ing, shuMing attitude and gait. ‘Touch | that man as you pass him.’ 1 whisper- ed to my little son. ‘I will tell yon why afterward.” The child touched him as he passed. and I said to him, ‘Now. my boy, you will always be able to remember iu later years that you . once saw and touched the great Beran- ' ger.’ "—-Dean Tarrar in “Men 1 Have Known.” An Even Thing. The late Sydney Mudd of Maryland was on a train going from ‘Washington to his home when n man who had had too much to drink sat down beside him, The passenger blinked at Mudd for a moment; then he lurched over and | asked. “Shay. wash your name?’ : “My nawe Is Mudd,” he replied. : Said the other: “You got nothin’ on me. My name's Dennis.” — Saturday Bvening Post. Thick. “How did you find the weather in 1ondon?’ asked the friend of the re- torned traveler. “You don’t bave 10 find the weather in Loudon,’ replied the traveler. “It bumps into you at every corner’”— | ¥ife. ! on massive columns. small. from which they selected the most palatable for food merely poured into the water. and zs it spreads every Moreover, the effect appears to last for seversi days without killing the fish, The milk is also used as a cure for toothache, as a caustic and for the purpose of sui cide. for which a teaspoonful is em ployed. sults ure painful” A Famous Kitchen. “Jt was our good fortune to see at least one thing in Paris which the tourist knows uvotbing about,” writes ' an American woman from that city. “Every one knows about the Tuileries and sees what is left of the historic pile. but not wany tind their way to the kitchen from which the elect of the third empire were served, as we did. It lies under the Wlora, its high arched ceiling resting It is divided into many sections, at the entrance to euch | of which there is a sign—gold on marble. Here we sce ‘Rotisserie, ‘Patisserie.’ ‘Section aux Sauces,’ etc. The provisions for washing gold, sil- ver and porcelain services, mendouns roasting, boiling and broiling scrangements, the extra roast beef oven, six meters high and seven meters broad; ui roaster with a capacity for six sheep and four dozen chickens all looked extra large and impd%ing to us. , who manage to worry along in a flat kitchen, which has two things, bow- ever, which we could not find in Na- poleoun’s dinner factory—electric light Indians to a absolutely unable to get | The milk = fish which comes in! contact with it becomes paralyzed and | | yet is not affecied as fod. 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