“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.
Ax i poison they say the re-
Pavillon de
the tre- |
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