Belletonte, Pa., November 5, 1915.
IF ALL WHO HATE WOULD LOVE US.
If all who hate would love us,
And all our loves were true,
The stars that swing above us
Would brighten in the blue,
If cruel words were kisses,
And every scowl a smile,
A better world than this is
Would hardly be worth while;
If purses would not tighten
To meet a brother’s need
The load we bear would lighten
Above the grave of greed.
If those who whine would whistle,
And those who languish laugh,
The rose would rout the thistle, i
The grain outrun the chaff.
If hearts were only jolly,
* If grieving were forgot,
And tears of melancholy
Were things that now are not,
Then love would kneel to duty,
And all the world would seem
A bridal bower of beauty,
A dream within a dream.
If men would cease to worry,
And women cease to sigh,
And all be glad to bury
Whatever has to die;
If neighbor spake to neighbor,
As love demands of all,
The rust would eat the saber,
The spear stay on the wall;
Then every day would glisten,
And every eye would shine,
And God would pause and listen
And life would be divine.
—James Newton Matthews,
Star.
in Washington
PREMARITAL.
By Edith V. Ross.
We cannot judge of the whole by a
part. To say that because some peo-
ples are not fitted to govern themselves
no people are fitted to govern them- |
selves is a non sequitur—that is, the
conclusion does not follow the premise,
Because sone women are so interested |
in home, husband and children that
they do not care to take part in poli- |
tics we are not justified in assuming!
that women had much better let poli-
tics alone. Differences of opinion, of
fitness, are the wheels of progress. A
people of one mind on all subjects be-
comes stagnant.
Elsie Harbeson was an example of a
girl who was tempted to enter the fray
for the rights of women without fit-
ness therefor. She was a lovable crea-
ture, very feminine and not especially |
gifted in a scholarly way. At any rate,
while in college she had received the
lowest possible rating, especially in !
logic. She was neither an officer of her
class nor on any of the committees.
Indeed, Miss Harbeson was not in any
way fitted for a leader in the great and
absorbing struggle for the political ad-
vancement of her sex.
Wheu Elsie met “her fate” she found !
a man who was drawn to her on ac-
count of the feminine mold in which
she was cast rather than her aspira-
tions. The Scotch saying that we
would be blessed at being able to see
ourselves as others see us pertained
especially to her. To Herbert Win-
ston, ler lover, it was plain that the '
cause of women would lose nothing by :
the defection of the girl he loved. He '
had no preferences for or against the
cause, but he was opposed to Elsie
wasting her time in a matter which |
other women were far better fitted to |
push than she. But Herbert was giv- |
en to diplomacy rather than to open
opposition and had no mind to fly in !
the face of his flancee’s views. He |
made no comments whatever on these !
particular opinions. Elsie believed |
that a matter in which she was inter- |
ested and upon which her fiance seem-
ed indifferent should be settled be-
tween them before marriage and, brac-
ing herself for a struggle. opened th
subject. ‘
“Herbert,” she said, *“there is one
matter for us te consider before our
marriage. a matter on which my heart
is set, upon which you seem to be in-
different. but which is liable to make
trouble unless there is a distinct un-
derstanding while we are still free.”
“TLere is nothing to settle before
marriage, because 1 propose to give
way to you in everything.”
“That’s very sweet of you. But you
don’t seem to realize as I do that there
is a good deal that is practical in mar-
ried life, that romance changes to com-
panionship, which is far more endur-
ing, and that companionship is de-'
pendent upon a husband and a wife
having the same views.” |
“That doesn’t cut any ice in our:
case, because, as I have (old you, your
views shall be my views.”
" There was rather too much subservi-
ency in this to suit her; but, since she
“could not find fault with it, she took
refuge in a side issue. |
“I am sorry to see that you are be- |
coming slangy. It would have sound- |
ed better for you to say ‘make any |
difference.’ But, to take up a far more
important matter, I am very much in-
terested in the struggle for the emanci- |
pation of women that has been going
on for many centuries. It is one of |
the elements that have entered into
the civilization of Europe and Amer-'
fca.”
“How?
“How? Why, Professor Howland
mentioned it in his lecture on civiliza-
tion!”
“It seems to me we are getting away
from the subject which you consider
of so much importance. I don’t think
it would pay us to enter upon a dis-
cussion of what goes back several
thousand years. We'd have to put off
our marriage indefinitely in order to
get down to modern times. How would
it do for us to make a compromise on
this matter of the emancipation of wo-
men—I to have no opinions concerning
.it, you to have whatever opinions you
like?”
rate, we can try it.
i ulate themselves.
“And express them?”
“Certainly.”
“And act upon them?”
“Of course.”
“That's lovely of you. I didn’t think
you would be so liberal.” ;
“I'll be more liberal yet. If you like
I'll coach you on the arguments per-
taining to the cause you are to advo-
cate.”
“Will vou?"
“Certainly.”
“When shall we begin?”
“Any time—now if you wish it.”
“Very well: mention some of the
main arguments.”
This was very inean of him. He had
no business to lead her into such a
trap. Having embarked in a struggle
tec wrest from m:n the rights of wom-
an, she now siznified her reliance on
i man by accepting his services to In-
struct her as to how to go about her
work.
“Man,” he said. “when left to him-
self, without woman's infiuence, be-
comes brutal.” Ero, he has in him the
nature of a orute. which can omdy be
kept in subjection by his wife. See?
The conclusion to this argument was
somewhat startling. Elsie could not
follow it all at once, so again she took
refuge in a side issue.
“Please don’t use that word ‘See?
Why not say, ‘Do you understand
me?”
“Just so. I think it will be admit-
ted by any woman who is or has been
married that keeping her husband in
subjection requires a lot of time. Then
there is the household to look after,
and the children, and a lot of other
things”—
“I thought you were going to give
me arguments in favor of the emanci-
pation of women. You are proceeding
to prove that a wife is too busy look-
ing after her domestic affairs to”— She
hesitated. :
“T'o keep her husband in subjection?"
“How absurd!"
“If you don’t like that argument I'l]
give you another. I presume you stud-
ied political economy while in college.
“Yes, indeed. and it made me a free
trader.”
It was now the man’s turn to be
startled. He had not been able to
fathom the free trade-protection prob-
lem himself, and he was impressed
that Elsie had succeeded in doing so.
“You know,” he went on, “that the
old political economy of a half a cen-
tury ago has all been upset by mod-
ern big business.”
“Has it?”
“Yes, but it still holds good in small
circles—the family. for instance. You
know that the theory of the free trader
is that each community produces what
it is best fitted to produce, the whole
going into the general market and each
community selling what it is fitted to
produce and buying of the others what
it doesn’t itself produce.”
“I see.”
“I thought you didn’t like that ex-
pression.”
“They are not the same. You said
‘See? I say ‘I see’ There is a great
difference.”
“My way is more phonetic.”
“Go on.”
“In the family, carrying out this
same principle, the husband does the
providing and the wife takes care of
the household and the children. When
the husband breaks in on his wife's
prerogatives he’s monkeying with the
buzzsaw.”
“Oh, heavens!
of putting it!”
“Anyway he’s liable to get scratched.”
“Worse and worse. But complete
your argument.”
“Per contra, if the wife breaks in
upon the husband’s prerogatives there
is likely to be a monkey and parrot
business in tne family.”
Seeing an opportunity to get in a
blow for her sake without inveighing
against slang, she said quickly, “I don't
What a horrid way
© admit that politics is the exclusive right
of the husband.”
“In that case but one of two courses
is open to us. Either I must give up at-
tending to the duties of a citizen to
you or we must both attend to them.
The latter course would be a violatior
of the economic prineiple.”
This argument resulted in silence be
tween the couple for some minutes.
Elsie saw that, pretending to give her
an argument for her eause, he was
arguing on the other side. She believed
that there was a valid answer to his
statement, but it did not occur to her.
“It seems to me,” she said at last,
“that we each have duties of &itizen-
ship to attend to in accordance with
our consciences.”
“The proof of the pudding is in the
eating,” was his rejoinder. “Since yor
prefer that course, so shall it be.”
“But you would prefer that one or
the other of us should attend to the
duties of citizenship for the family.”
“I believe in a division of labor or,
if you like another way of putting it
better. in certain things being attend-
ed to by the wife and certain other
things beinz attended to by the hus-
band, but if we both decide to go to
the polls to register our votes I have
no objection to our doing so. At any
Nevertheless I see
no use in trying to cross a bridge till
we come to it. We are not married yet.
When we are all such matters will reg-
But I reiterate se-
riously that if there is anything objec-
tionable or useless in our both going tc
the polls to vote I will defer to-you.”
“What do you mean by useless?”
“Suppose we vote on different sides.
‘We might in that case pair.”
“Pair? Yi hat do you mean by pair?”
“We mizht do,what we're going to
do in marrying. If we intend to vote
on different sides and neither of us
votes at all the result is the same as if
we voted. I, a man, and you, a wom-
am, marry. There's one less bachelor
and one less spinster. In other words,
Wwe are paired.” :
“I do think.” she said, looking up at
him with a pair of soft brown eyes,
“that you use the funniest arguments
“States said not long ago to a friend of
"the alcoholic beverage mentioned by
- trol his passions and sometimes mak-
1 ever Leara.”
“They will be plenty good enough
when we are married.”
“How is that" i
“There are only two arguments which
count for much between man and wom- |
an. . Her best argument is tears; his is
kisses.”
With that Le drew her toward him
and kissed her.
There is no record as to Mrs, Win- |
ston’s services in the cause of the
amelioration of the conaition of wom-
en. Winston is not reliable in his tes- |
timony. and what he says should be |
taken with a grain of salt. He declares i
that whenever there is an election he i
and his wife are on opposite sides and |
the resuit is a pair. |
However this may be, the Winstons |
are a very happy couple. and a fine
crop of children are growing up about
them. Mr. Winston's statement that
it is better not tc try to cross a bridge
before reaching it has turned out to be
frue. At any rate. the family differ
ences are settled amicably from day ta
day. :
SERPENTS AS HYPNOTISTS.
The Charm They Use on Animals They
Succumb to Themse!ves.
Cases of fascination by serpents of
birds and other small animals have
been too frequently reported to admit
of serious doubt on the subject. Evi- !
dently it is simply a kind of hypnotism
and based. like human hypnotism, on |
the effects of rhythmical impressions !
made upon the nervous system.
Experiment has proved that the mo- |
notonous swinging of a glittering ob- |
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ject before the eyes will throw many
men and women into hypnotic sleep.
When a serpent charms or fascinates a
bird or small quadruped it employs a i
similar method. It sways its head with |
glittering eyes or sets its brilliantly
colored coils into silent rhythmic move-
ment within sight of its victim, and
the latter gradually yields to the in-
fluence.
But the most dangerous serpents are
themselves subject to this very hyp-
notic control, a fact which is the basis
of the proceedings of the serpent
charmers of India and those of oth-
er countries where venomous snakes
abound.
Music, or the monotonous repetition
of musical notes, appears to be the
most effective agent in serpent charm-
ing. It may be remarked that accord-
ing to some observers the sounds pro-
duced by a rattlesnake. and even the
loud hissing of some serpents, have a
hypnotic influence, or at least a sort of
paralyzing force, due probably to ter-
ror. The cobras of southern Asia and
the closely related najas of Africa will
come out of holes. erect their heads
and a part of their bodies and sway
about in a kind of serpent dance when
they hear the notes of a pipe played
by a skilled performer.
However, no cobra charmer ever has
sufficient confidence in his control over
his dangerous subjects to neglect the
removal of their fangs.
A cobra bite has been known to kil:
a man within a few minutes of its in-
fliction.—Garrett P. Serviss in Detroit
News.
: two stakes.
MEAT IS A STIMULANT.
Hence, Eaten In Excess, It Is Bad For
Both Body and Mind.
The director of one of the largest
physical culture schools in the United
mine:
“Every time I eat a piece of good
beefsteak I feel as stimulated as if I
had drunk a cocktail.”
This curious statement embodies a]
truth of which most people are un-
aware.
' Meat is not merely a food. It also is
a stimulant, with definite exhilarating
effects on both mind and body.
Eaten in excess, moreover. it acts
much as does an excessive amount of
the physical culture director.
That is to say, it tends, in the first
place, to cause nervous irritability, mak.
ing it more difficult for a man to ccp-
ing him positively savage.
And. in the second place, when eaten
in excess it makes him mentally inert
and stupid.
The reason for this second effect is
well known to all scientific students of
food values.
Cooked meat, the form in which meat
usually is eaten, is not easy to digest.
If too much of it is eaten imperfect
digestion results, and the blood stream
is poisoned by the decomposing animal
food in the alimentary canal.
Not total abstinence, but temperance
—enough meat to spur the mind, not
enough to deaden it—that is the lesson
to be drawn from the demonstrated
stimulant effect of animal food. — H.
Addington Bruce in Kansas City Times;
Argus Eyed and Hydra Headed.
The term “Argus eyed” means watch:
ful. According to the Grecian fable,
Argus had 100 eyes, and Juno set him
to watch all of whom she was jealous.
When Argus was slain she transplant-
ed his eyes into the tail of the peacock.
“Hydra headed” is a term derived
from the fable of Hercules and the
hydra. The hydra had nine heads, and
Hercules was sent to kill it. As soon
as he struck off one of its heads two
shot up in its place. -
The Peanut. ;
The common peanut, beloved of the
small boy, grows in a way that is dis-
tinctly original. The little plant sends
up its shoots, with the fruit on the end
of a somewhat stiff stalk. and then be-
fore it ripens the stem bends over and
carefully pushes the fruit underground,
As pigs are said to be especially fond
of these, it has been suggested that the
plant does this to hide its nuts from
the porker’s too inquisitive investiga.
tions. nie
sometimes fatal fights,
Can You Go Straight?
The above question is not intended
to be personal. We are quite sure that
you are a good, steady going citizen;
but, all the same. we are equally sure
that you cannot walk straight withoat
the help of your eyes. Naturally your
tendency is to walk in a circle, and
: you would do this if your eyes were
i hot constantly correcting the tendency.
You may easily test this. Place two
stakes in your garden about eight feet
apart. take up a position some sixty
feet away. get some one to blindfold
you and then try to walk between the
You will find that you
are going in a circle.
Why? The explanation is very sim-
ple. You walk faster with one foot
than with the other. Everybody does
One leg always takes a longer stride,
with the result that you naturally
| walk more to one side than the other.
Men who have been lost in the Aus-
tralian bush
have marked the trees
~ they passed and found that they again |
nnd again returned to their starting tree |
after describing a complete circle.—
Dundee Advertiser. >
Unique Bible Character.
One of the few men in the Bible
who have nothing recorded against
them is Joseph ot Arimathea. Every
one of the evangelists has a good word
to say for Joseph. One says he “was |
‘an honorable” counselor.” another that
he “was a just man.” another that he
was "a rich man.” another that he was |
Only one of the
of the birth of
a ‘secret disciple.”
evangelists speaks
monument to Joseph of Arimathea.
When be became a disciple we are not
told. Dr. Andrew Bonar of Scotland
says he can just imagine that Nico-
demus may have been moved by Jo-
seph of Arimathea to believe in Christ.
At all events. Nicodemus didn’t come
out very boldly himself. He didn’t get
his discipleship out very clear. They
were both members of the sanhedrin,
but it is evident that none knew that
Joseph was a secret disciple until a
certain night.—Christian Herald.
Who Discovered the Kangaroo?
W. B. Alexander of the Western Aus-
tralian museum at Perth, W. A., has
recently corrected a popular mistake
in the history of natural history. The
discovery of the kangaroo family is
generally credited to Sir Joseph Banks
and is supposed to have occurred dur-
ing Captain Cook’s first voyage in 1770.
This date, it appears. is nearly 1350
years too late. When the Dutch East
India company’s ship, the Batavia, un-
der command of Captain Pelsart, was
wrecked on the Abrolhos islands in
1629 the survivors encountered among
other strange things the Dama walla-
by, the first member of the kangaroo
family known to Europeans. Captain
Pelsart described it as a species of cat
about the size of a hare, noted its re-
markable hind legs and described In
considerable detail the abdominal pouckt
for the young and the use of it.
An Ancient English Inn.
Among the inns that put forward a
claim to antiquity place must be found
for “Ye Old King James and Ye Tink-
er.” which still “carries on” its busi-
ness at White Webb's Lane, near Wal-
tham Cross.
established weil over a thousand years
ago and came by its present unique ti-
tle through King James I. visiting it
during a royal hunt in Enfield Chase
and meeting with a tinker imbibing his
" modest cup of malt who desired to see
Hix majesty promised his wish | thirty or thirty-five), the total annual
a king.
should be granted and took him on his
horse to where his nobles were assem-
bled. throwing off his incognito at the
proper dramatic moment. to the great
confusion of the tinker. whose embar-
rassment was salved by a knighthood
and commgmorated in a ballad.—Lon-
don Chronicle.
We Should Not Worry.
“Worry would kill a horse,” says
Mrs. Clara Z. Moore, health expert.
“There is no sickness more insidious,
no drug more poisonous. than the con-
tinued effects of worry.
“Proper physical exercise will re-
move the worry and the tired out con-
dition that causes it. A sick body of-
ten produces a sick mind. and the op-
posite is also true that a sick mind
causes a sick body.
“The moral is. ‘If you do not want to
be sick do not worry.’ "—Chautauqua
News. .
Drunken Elephants.
The fruit of the umganu tree of
South Africa yields a strong intoxicat-
ing drink. Elephants are said to be
very fond of it. becoming quite tipsy.
staggering about. playing antics,
screaming so as to be heard for a mile
and sometimes having tremendous and
Went Unnoticed.
“What is your opinion of Boston?”
“I was agreeably surprised on my
first visit to that town.”
“Yes?”
“Just for an experiment I split an in-
finitive, but there was nothing like a
riot precipitated.” —Birmingham Age
Herald.
Cross of St. Andrew.
Russia's cross of St. Andrew has a
remarkable peculiarity attaching to it.
All who are decorated with it have the
right once to demand a pardon for §
Russian subject condemned to death.
The Cutlook.
New Bo:nler-— How's the fare here?
01d Boarcer—\Weil, we have chicken
svery morning.
“That's first rate. How is it served?”
“In the shell”
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One has no protecting power save
jrudence.~Juvenal.
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Right Word, but What Was It?
It bad been a hard day, and Mr. K.
smoked in silence one cigar after an-
other. Mrs. K. was wondering how
long it would be until her husband
would say something. Jim is rather
quiet for the most part, she will tell
you. “I'll give him five more minutes.”
she agreed mentally, with her usual
generosity.
“I'd give a hundred dollars to know."
Jim remarked abstractedly.
His wife clapped her hands in de-
light. Jim never disappointed her.
“What?” she asked.
“Well, you see, it was this way: |
was talking over a business deal with
the head of the firm. and 1 got pretty
enthusiastic, I guess. 1 must have
used some big words. Suddenly the
boss’ hand came down on the table
with a crash. ‘You used the right word
that time, my boy. That's my idea ex-
actly,’ he exclaimed.”
“Well?" questioned his wife.
“Nothing, only I'd give a luundred
dollars to know what I said.”-—Indian-
apolis News.
Three Streets.
In the world as known to Baedeker
there are only two streets that can
compare with Fifth avenue. and these
are both on Manhattan Island. From
its source in the asphalt bottoms of
Washington square to where it loses
itself in the coal middens of the Har
lem river at One Hundred and Forty-
third street the avenue runs a course
of almost exactly seven miles. It runs
true to the North star, without a turn.
Christ. but all four of them erect a With only a single pause. grimly bent
on its business in a way calculated to
make the dowager metropolises of Eu-
rope lift their eyebrows and say, “How
American!” Its rivals are Eighth ave-
nue, a half mile to the west, which
may be some 900 feet longer, and still
farther west Tenth or Amsterdam ave-
nue, the titan of all urban highways.
nine miles up hill and down, as deter-
mined in the primeval blueprint shaped
by the city fathers some time about
the year 1800. All three streets have |
character as well as length. but I*ifth
avenue alone has significance.—Simeon
Strunsky in Harper's Magazine.
China’s Majestic Altar. :
No altar on earth vies in marble
majesty with the Altar of Heaven-
Tien T'an—in the south of the Chi- |
nese city of Peking, which Emperor
Yung Le of the Ming dynasty reared
in A. D. 1420 with its triple balus-;
trades, stairs and platforms of pure
white marble carved miraculously, its
great circle covering a wide area in the |
midst of a vast inclosure. Standing |
alone, deserted under the blue Chinese |
sky, it is a dream of majesty and beau- !
ty. As the great setting of a scene of
ritual pomp that calls for thousands
and thousands of robed celebrants,
with music, incense. sacrifice, it is
transcendently imposing and impress-
ing. There the emperor knelt once a
year and worshiped “the only being in
the universe he could look up to”’—
Shang. Ti—the emperor of the world
above, whose court was in the sky and
the spear tips of whose soldiers were |
the stars. oo
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Losses From Consumption. !
The ecenomic loss due to tubercu-
dous. Some years ago I!
It claims to have been ost ju stupendous. 8 ¥ * i
made a careful estimate and was as- |
tonished to find that, counting the
earnings lost, the cost of medical at-'
tendance and nursing, special foods. |
institutional! care and, above all, the!
capitalized value of the lives cut off |
in their prime (for tuberculosis kills at
cost in this country alone from tuber-
culosis is over a billion of dollars. This
is merely the cold cash cost and takes
no account, of course, of sentimental
or emotional losses from the death of
loved ones.—Good Health.
Crabs In Conflict.
The most savage specimen of the
crab species is found in Japan. As
soon as he spies another of his kind
he scrapes his claws together in rage,
challenging him to combat. Not a mo-
ment is wasted in preliminaries. The !
sand flies as the warriors push each
other hither and thither, until at last
one of them stretches himself out in
the throes of death, still feebly rub-
bing his claws in defiance of the foe. |
Hard to Bear.
Mrs. de Style (fond of novels)—Did
you do as I directed. and tell every-
body who called that I was engaged?
Domestic—No one called, mum.
“What! Not one?”
“Not a soul.”
“Mercy! Such heartless neglect is
outrageous!”’—New York Weekly.
In Society.
“Well, | am forty-five years old to- |
day.” ; i
“My dear lady, years mean nothing !
to a beautiful woman.”
“I know. Still, I guess I'll have to
really move out of the younger set.”’—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
She Certainly Was.
Her eyes were not exactly straight,
and some one commented upon it and
asked Smith if he had noticed it.
“Noticed it. man?” he replied. “Why,
she is so-crosseyed that recently when
I sat next to her at a dinner she ate
off my plate!"—Exchange.
Sr ——————
Bamboo Trees.
The bamboo tree does not blossom
until its thirtieth year, when it pro-
duces seed profusely and then dies. A
famine was prevented in India in 1812
by the sudden flowering of the trees,
when 50.000 people gathered the seed
for food.
The path of success in business is in-
variably the path of common sense.—~
Samuel Smiles.
Smokeiess Powder.
A great advance in firearms was
made when smokeless powder came
into the field. Many kinds of the
smokeless variety have come and gone,
and from the elimination of the un-
fittest the nitrocellulose and the nitro-
glycerin powders have survived.
The nitrocellulose type is used by
the United States army and navy, by
the French and German army. Nitro-
glycerin is used by the British army
and navy and by the German navy.
The principal ingredient in both kinds
of powder is guncotton.
The smokeless powder needed by the
United States army and navy is in part
manufactured by government plants
and in part purchased from private
manufacturers. The smokeless powder
is made at all plants, both government
and private. in accordance with speci-
fications prepared by a joint board of
army and navy officers. The highest
grade materials and the most rigorous
tests are employed in all stages of the
manufacture to insure a high grade
product.— Brooklyn Eagle,
His Redeeming Trait.
A young man was sitting in a bar-
ber’s shop looking at a magazine when -
an old farmer, with littie knowledge or
appreciation of literary people, stepped
up behind his chair and looked over
his shoulder.
“Who's them?” he inquired, pointing
to a group of portraits.
“Well known authors
wrights.” was the reply.
“Humph!" ejaculated the farmer con:
temptuously. ‘.Jist writin’ fellers, eh?”
Then he caught sight of an author
with a long, solemn face, and his eyes
sparkled. *“‘That’s the one I like,” he
said. with decision, putting his finger
on the writer's mournful countenance.
“Oh, yes; nearly every one likes
him!” agreed the young man. “His
humorous writings are’—
“Don’t know nothing ’bout his writ-
in’, but I like his face.”
“Why so?"
*’Cause he’s the only feller that
looks like he was sorry for what he’d
done.”’—Chicago Herald.
and play-
Big Trees.
People generally associate ideas of
the California big trees with the Mari-
posa grove, near the Yosemite, and yet
it appears that there are in the Se-
quoia National park 1,166,000 trees, 12,-
100 of which exceed ten feet in diame-
ar. Some idea of the immensity of one
of these big trees can bg gathered from
the statement that *‘3,000 fenceposts,
sufficient to support a wire fence
around 8,000 or 9,000 acres, have been
made frog) one of these giants, and
that was only the first step toward us-
ing its huge carcass. Six hundred and
fifty thousand shingles, enough to cov-
er the roofs of seventy or eighty
houses, . formed the second item of its
product. Finally, there still remained
hundreds of cords of firewood which
no one could use because of the pro- -
hibitive expense of hauling the wood
out of the mountains.” —Manufacturers'
Record.
A Memorable Ride.
The most memorable ride in English
history was that of Sir Arthur Owen,
which placed the Hanoverian dynasty
on the throne of Great Britain. The
act of settlement by which in 1701
parliament elected the house of Han-
over to the British throne was passed
by only one vote, and this casting vote
was given by Sir Arthur Owen, the
{ member of parliament for Pembroke-
shire. He arrived at Westminster,
dusty and travel worn, only just in
time to record his vote, having ridden
with furious haste from Wales for the
purpose on relays of horses kept at all
the posting houses along the route. To
that ride Britain owes its Georgian
era; hence its Queen Victoria and her
descendants.
Home of Musical Fish.
Lake Batticaloa, Ceylon, has the
probably unique distinction of being
the home of musical fish, The sounds
emitted by these are said to be as
sweet and melodious as those which
would be produced by a series of aeo-
lian harps. Crossing the lake in a boat
one can plainly distinguish the pleas-
ant sounds. If an oar is dipped in the
water the melody becomes louder and
more distinct.
Books.
For the greater part of its life a
book is an article of furniture and
stands upon the shelf to decorate the
library with its patch-of color and
glow of kindly associations, but from
time to time there occur those crises
of its existence when it is taken down
and read.—London Athenaeum.
Her Notion of Finance.
“Charley, dear;” said young Mrs. Tor-
kins, “do youn ever buy on a margin?”
“Never.”
“Well, why don’t you? It seems to
me much safer to dabble around the
edge and avoid getting in too deep.”—
Washington Star.
The Proper Tree.
Curious Charlev—Do nuts grow on
trees, father? Father—They do, my
son. Curious Charley—Then what tree
does the doughnut grow on? Father—
The *‘pantree.”” my son.—Purple Cow.
Ignorance No Excuse.
Ignorance of the law excuses no
man—not that all men know the law,
but because ’tis an excuse every man
will plead. and no man can tell how
to refute him.—John Selden.
Some Wisdom Lett.
“You didn’t tell the barber you werg
in a hurry.”
“No. I didn’t want him to know it.”
~Pittsburgh Post.