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«yOU ARE VERY WELCOME."
“We're going to have a dance,” said
the Mountain Fairies to Lady Gray
Cloud, “and so we would like to ask
a favor of you.
“We would be glad if you didn't go
to have dinner with the King“of the
Clouds and his family until a little
later this afternoon.
“We're sure he wouldn't mind dining
a little bit later this evening.”
“Ili gindly do as you ask,” said Lady
Gray Cloud, “if you will let me watch
your party. I will not speak to the
King of the Clouds, so you needn't
worry. There will be no rain until
your purty is over. I will see to that.” |
“Oh, thank you, thank you,” said
the Mountain Fairies.
“You are very welcome,” said Lady | § finally able to hypnotize the pa-
Gray Cloud.
“Jt is so lovely up here,” said the
Mountain Fairies,
so much later in the season than it
“Down below it is °
is up here. Flowers are beginning to
look like autumn down there and up
here it still looks so summery.”
what is always the way it is up
here,” said Lady Gray Cloud. “The
Mountain King likes to have things |
later up here. The whole reason is
that he is so fond of the Seasons that
‘he can’t bear to let them go and sO
he begs them to stay and stay, and
so every season is a bit late.
“But, of course, you know all that,” .
said Lady Gray Cloud after a mo-
ment,
“Yes, we know that)” said the
Mountain Fairies. “but we have been
visiting our relatives, the Woodland
Fairies, who live down at the foot of
the mountain, and so we notice the
change. Of course, there is a differ-
ence in the air, too.
“Of course,
too; but, then, as you say, the Moun-
«You Are Very Welcome.”
tain King does urge the Seasons te
stay as late as they possibly can and
they simply cannot refuse him.
«When we were down in the woods,
that accounts for it,
UTILIZES ITS STORED ENERGY
we saw some lovely plants with pur-
ple flowers, one flower which was hid-
den for its own pleasure and one
which was shown to the world.
“Then, too, we saw Some ferns
which said their relatives lived in an
apartment, for some little girl had
told them she had seen some of their
relatives, but then she told them that
these fern relatives were very well
treated. >
“She said that they were put out
on the fire escape every rainy day and
: ing for about four days; then,
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, FRENCH PHYSICIAN ENDEL:
WOMAN'S LONG TRANCE.
—The remarkable case of a
woman who remained in a |
trance five years, and the un-
usual methods by which she
was restored to normalcy, were
related recently by Dr. Pierre
Janet, leading French neurolo-
gist, at the annual meeting of §
the American Neurological as-
sociation, This was the first
time that Doctor Janet had
made public the unusual case,
which was extremely interest-
$ ing to the neurologists because
of the extraordinary period in
which the woman was apparent-
ly unconscious. >
Doctor Janet said that the pa-
tient, a woman of twenty-one,
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: had first had lapses of memory
* hen she was thirteen, but had
3 quickly recovered from them. ’
" During the war she suddenly
became unconscious, Forced
feeding was restored fo and
$ for many months her mental
$ faculties were apparently dor
mant.
Once the hospital in which
she was lying -was bombed b¥
German airplanes, and a bomb
exploding just outside the win-
dow did not cause her to move
a muscle, Doctor Janet was
tient and learned that she had
subconsciously retained mental
impressions of some of the inci- ¢
dents of the hospital.
Later she was taught to eat
by leaving food beside her bed |
at night. In the end Doctor
¢ Janet said, he re-established
the patient's connection with
the outside world by establish-
ing a system of clandestine cor- ¢
respondence with her. Letters,
Doctor Janet said, which he
left for the woman were Soon ¢
¢ answered with regularity.
4 From this time, he said, she
¢ began to take an interest in out-
¢ cide affairs, and in a compara-
tively short period she rega'ned
¢ apparently complete mental con-
trol of herself. She is now,
Doctor Janet said, in apparent
good mental and physical health.
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out Food for Comparatively
Lengthy Periods.
Popular notion has it that the camel
can go for weeks without water; but
this is an exaggeration, and the camel's
powers of endurance are far greater
in regard to food than in regard to
drink. writes “Lieutenant Burnes
Chamber's Journal,
A camel can continue without drink-
if it can-
not obtain drink, it pines and dies. It
may not last as long if the heat is
great.
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How the Camel Is Enabled to Go With.
in
' being the result of natural gifts.
This power »f endurance lies
in the peculiar formation of the sec-
ond stomach, which is
lined with cells
in which the camel stores his water |
and utilizes it when necessary.
storehouse of water is known to Arabs,
who, if they are in danger of dying |
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from thirst, often kill the beast and
thus save their own lives.
fhe camel can endure longer with- |
out food than without drink. His
hump is composed entirely of fat which
“he has stored away.
If the time is
such that he cannot obtain nourish-
nient, he draws on this storehouse of |
energizing fat. After a long journey,
a camel's hump is very perceptibly
smaller, sometimes vanishing entirely.
But as soon as food is again taken
into the stomach the hump again be-
«comes the storehouse of fat for use
that they did enjoy the change from :
the hot apartment. .
«The little girl also said that she
was so happy now that she didn’t
have to pay any attention to her
teacher's watch.
“She said her teacher's watch was
always absolutely right, and when she
thought she was only a few minutes
late, her teacher's watch showed that
she was later, for no one could make
that watch change from doing right
and keeping right ‘on time!
“She said it was now vacation time
go that she didn’t have to think of
that watch which she really thought
was very unkind.
“Oh, we had a very good time visit-
ing our Woodland Cousins, but now
we are back on our Mountain Home
and it is always nice to get home.
“And we must begin our dance soon,
for otherwise we’ll use up all the time
in talking.”
So the Mountain Fairies danced and
danced, and after they had danced a
long time they said :
“Now we are going to have our re-
freshments under yonder big tree, so
if you like, Lady Gray Cloud, why
don’t you dine with the King of the
Clouds now?”
So Lady Gray Cloud dined with
the King of the Clouds and his family
and there was much merry-making
and such laughter up on top of the
Mountain among the Mountain Fairies
that the Rainbow came out to see
what was going on.
Then another Rainbow came, too,
and the double Rainbow was seen by
the earth people as it stretched across
a beautiful lake and each end bent
down to the water and told the water
what was going on up on the Moun-
tain Top, and how Mr. Sun and the
King of the Clouds and Lady Gray
Cloud were all laughing together,
fine weather.”
when another emergency shall arise.
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How Cobwebs Foretell Weather.
“Cobwebs in the «grass prophesy
How many times we
have heard that, and, hoping for 4
pleasant day after a storm, have
looked eagerly in the morning for
{ spiders’ webs in the wet grass? If
they are there, we may feel confident
that the day will be fair, for the spi-
der is an excellent weather prophet.
Henri Fabre, the wonderful old man
who found out so many of the secrets
of insects and their Kin, tells us that
the threads of the spider's web used
for catching its prey are made use-
less by too much dampness. These
threads, so tiny as to be .almost in-
visible, are really hollow tubes filled
with a sticky fluid which oozes
through the walls and holds whatever
touches the thread. This fluid read-
ily absorbs the moisture from the air
and would soon lose its sticky nature
in the rain or fog. So the wise spi-
der. loath to waste precious material,
waits until the wet weather is vir-
tually over before weaving the en-
snaring threads. How it knows what
the weather is to be Is still one of the
mysteries.—St. Nicholas.
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Why People Laugh.
Certain things in the world, wheth
ar they are funny, ludicrous, or things
that produce the laughing effect,
cause the brain to work certain mus-
cles and nerves in a combination that
produces a laugh. It is like a mu-
gienl instrument. When a combina-
tion of notes. is struck, it produces
sad or joyful tones. In the same way,
the impression sent to the hrain will
start the proper combination and in-
stant!y the brain sends out the “laugh”
order. Some things make some
people laugh, while they do not affect
others. That is because our brains are
net always the same, in regard to re-
~orded impressions.
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FEET MOST ABUSED MEMBERS
According to English’ Writer, Only
About One-Third of Humanity
Walk in Natural Manner.
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Te human foot is one of the most
beu..iful and useful instruments ever
conceived, but, unfortunately, it is net
what a motorist calls “foolproof.” |
There is a great deal of misunder-
standing about our feet, We treat them
outrageously, as either custom or fash-
ion may dictate. As a result, about
one-third of the population is splay-
footed, another third walks like a hed
on hot cinders, and the remaining
third may be said to walk fairly nat-
ural.
The foot has a graceful arch run-
ning fore and aft. We take this longi-
tudinal arch, turn the toes outward
so that the heels meet at an angle of
45 degrees, and then put all our pres- |
arch. No railway engineer would
dream of building a straight arch |
bridge to carry loads neither across
por along the arch, but irregularly |
askew over it.
We ought to walk with our great
toe pointed straight in the direction
of progress, as Indian runners do, and
“spring from the great toe.” Instead.
most of us “take off” in a lumbering
sort of way from the ball of the great
toe.
‘Ihe arch of the foot is supported
largely by the tendon which runs un-
der the foot to the great toe itself, and
this neglect of use renders this ten-
don weak and lax, and causes depres:
sion of the arch. The best care for
weak arch Is the practice of raising
one’s self upon the great toe, that is.
doing as a penalty exercise what you
should have done all along naturally.
If you will try when walking to keep
the feet straight, and to end each
stride with a little “spring” off each
big toe alternately, you will be re-
warded by finding that:progress seems
easier, quicker and more bnoyant.—
London Daily News.
pret ae SA
QUALITIES THAT WIN SUCCESS
Probably the Greatest Among Them
ls That Subtle Something We
Know as Personality.
It takes more than mental ability
to make a man and more than the |
qualities that are supposed to make
for success itself. It is not so much
what a man knows, or his ability in
applying it, as it is in what he is
4.age as’he went for a
himself.
There ‘lurks in some human beings, |
in overflowing measure, that subtle |
something termed personality whieb |
is likely to carry them much farther
than anything else. Probably charac- |
ter, courage and dependability Are
the three great assets. Theodore |
Roosevelt in his own ree 1 writes |
of the two kinds of suc , the one
the other being acquired slowly, and
adds: “I need hardly say that all the
successes I have ever won have been
of the second type. I never won any- |
thing without hard labor and the ex- |
ercise of my best judgment and care- |
ful planning and working long in ad- |
vance. 1 was as a young man at first
both nervous, and distrustful of my
own prowess. I had to train myself
painfully and laboriously not merely
my soul and my spirit.”—Exchange.
City Largely Built on Piles.
A considerable part of the founda-
piles that were driven into the muddy
shallows of the Adriatic more than
1,000 years ago. The tallest structure
of the. city for many years was the
campanile or bell tower of St, Mark's
cathedral. It was a massive structure
of brick which rose to a height of 325
feet, aud the piles for its foundation
were driven in the year 874. The first
campanile was built in 800. In 1329
the foundation was enlarged by driv-
ing more piles, and. the tower was re-
built. In 1512 an earthquake brought
it tumbling down, but a new campanile
was immediately erected. This fell
July 14, 1902, owing to the gradual
failure of the foundation. New piles
were then driven and a new campanile
was erected in 1905 on a reinforced
concrete foundation.
Ancient Navigators.
The origin of the art of navigation
is lost in antiquity, but it is known
that it was practiced with consider-
able skill by the ancient Egyptians
and the Phoenicians. From the be-
ginning of the historic period Tyre
was the chief city of the Phoenicians,
and the enterprise of that people was,
from their situation, specially direct-
ed to the sea, and they pushed their
commerce on it with a spirit and dar-
ing which, considering their opportu-
nities, has never been surpassed.
They are the first who are known to
have steered by the observation of the
stars, and who could thus venture out
to sea. They ultimately adopted two
distinct kinds of vessels, the gaulos
or merchant vessel, with a deep hold
adapted for storage. and the trireme
or ship of war.
Armenian Literature,
Prior to the Fifteenth century Ar-
menia’s literature is entirely in the
form of religious verse and prose
The record of secular events is en-
tirely in her songs. The desire for
freedom and patrictism is the theme
of her many old songs, just as her
modern music is the expression of in-
tense struggle against oppression. The
period of national greatness, when as
a nation Armenia was free and pros-
perous, is told in songs sung by shep-
herds, and at firesides.
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WETHOD IN HIS SOLICITUDE
As the Poet Longfellow Has Said, “The
Thoughts of Youth Are Long,
Long Thoughts.”
Little Billy, being at the seaside, was
taken ill, and confined to his hed for
a day. A timid
caller came to in-
quire, a small boy
unknown at the
house, evidently
® some playmate of
d 81 the sands.
Little Billy's
mother was great-
ly touched, and
praised the caller,
kissed him for his
thoughtful attention, and gave him
chocolate.
Billy's playmate then backed ner-
vously down the steps, gathering cour-
final inquiry. “If
. when safely on
have his
Billy ‘dies,” he ‘said;
the pavement, “can I
scooter?”
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In the “Good Old Times.”
As far back as 100 years ago they
had in the state of Ohio
co-operative organization in Licking
county. Prices paid by this organ- |
ization ran thus: Wheat, 25 cents 8
bushel; oats, 12% cents; corm, 12
cents; potatoes, 1215 cents; flour, $1
per hundred; chickens, 37 cents a doz-
en; eggs, 3% cents, and maple sirup, |
6 cents a gallon. However, these val-
ues were only allowed when articles
were taken in exchange for products. |
The figures were taken from old rec-
ords secured by the Ohio experiment
station. Just think of selling a dozen
chickens for 37 cents! Yum, yum!
And eggs at 3% cents a dozen. Gee-
whitticker! Oats. at 121 .cents. a
bushel wasn’t a very low price when
cognizance is taken of the fact that in
1896, when the free silver agitation
was at its height, oats sold in Indi-
ana at 10 cents a bushel.—Indianapo-
lis Star.
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Preventing Accidents.
In the last five years the executives
of American industry have become
thoroughly convinced of the value of
organized accident prevention, some
because of the dollars-and-cents pos-
gibilities, others because they hated
to see their men killed or injured.
Even
made in the science of accident pre-
vention. Within the last year, for in-
stance, there has been enunciated the
principle that every accident is the
symptom of an inefficiency; that ev-
erything which is really efficient is
safe, and that every machine or proc- !
ess which is really safe is efficient.—
Melville Nix, in the Nation's Business.
WORSE
She—Are you sure that we are liv-
ing beyond our means?
He—Worse than that, we are liv
ing beyond our credit,
Alaska’s Bald Eagles Vanishing.
“In a very short while there will
not be a bald eagle in Alaska, at the
rate these birds are now being killed
off,” said John B. Traintor of Sitka, in
an interview at Washington. “During
last summer bounties were paid to
men who shot and killed bald eagles.
It is said that some 15,000 birds were
killed. That is a high rate, and if it
continues for many more months the
time will soon be at hand when Alaska
will be completely rid of the bald
eagle. The largest specimens of this
bird come from Alaska and the North-
west.
First Writing Paper.
The ancient Egyptians were the first
people to make what today would be
called real paper. They made it from
a reed called papyrus, which grew
abundantly in marshy places. And
there is where the name paper came
from. They took slices of the reed,
cut them as thin as they could, and’
then laid them side by side; then they
arranged another layer on top. When
dried and rubbed smooth it made a
kind of paper which could be written
upon. :
Has Surplus of Stonfachs.
Two heads may be better than one,
but a pair of stomachs is too much
and so, when an eight-year-old girl of
Bristol, Wis., complained for a year
of stomach aches in her breast, the
doctor investigated and discovered
the second digestive apparatus right
where the child claimed the pain orig-
inated. After an operation the girl
is getting along nicely at her home.—
Exchange. Y
Strange Playmates.
Two odd playmates were noticed by
a farmer in New Brunswick. The
farmer had a cat that had made
friends with a ground squirrel. They
played around the fields and ran up
and down the woodbine on the house.
They were playmates until the cat
got killed, and then the squirrel dis-
appeared.
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Arabian Desert Storm Obscures the |
SunBitter Cold is Followed by |
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Lawrence describes the action of Aa |
desert storms as follows: }
«There had been long rolls of thun- |
der ull morning in the hills, and the
two peaks of Serd and Jasim were
wrapped in folds of dark blue and
vellow vapor that looked motionless
and substantial. A few minutes after
we had marched again, I looked back
at them, and noticed that part of the
yellow cloud off Serd was coming slow-
ly in our direction, against the wind,
raising scores of dust devils before its
as the hill, and as it approached it
put out two dust-spouts, tight and
symmetrical columns like chimmeys,
one on the right and one on the left
of its front.
“When it got nearer, the wind, which
: had been scorching our faces with its :
' hot breathing, changed suddenly, and |
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blew bitter cold and damp upon our |
backs. It also increased greatly in vio- |
fence, and at the same moment the sun
disappeared, biotted out by thick mists |
of yellow air over our heads. We
stood in a horrible faint light, ochre-
The brown wall |
of cloud from the hilis was now very |
near, rushing changelessly toward us, :
making a loud grinding sound, wrap-
ping us in a blanket of dust, with
large stinging grains of sand in it,
twisting and turning in most violent
eddies, and meanwhile advancing
of a strong
feet. The cloud was nearly as high
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OLD WAYS OF TELLING TIME
Early Methods Were Primitive, but
Some Sort of Reckoning Always
Has Been Kept.
‘oday when Wwe glance at our
watches and ascertain to the second
the correct time, we do not stop to
think of the first awkward. ‘methods
man, - In the earlfest
periods, the day and the night. The
day was then separated into sunrise,
noonday and sunset, and then the
morning and afternoon were further
divided by the lengta and position of
the shadows. Our tirst sundial was 8
stick set upright in the ground and
the time was told by the length and
position of the shadows. Nearly all |
ancient peoples of the world had sun-
dials and with them the time was told
to the hour and the minute. The Chi-
nese had them, the Romans set up
tall shadow columns with officers to
watch them and report hourly on the
length of the shadows. Even in the
Middle ages the sundial was still used
by those poor people who could not
afford such luxuries as water clocks
or hour glasses.
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Chinese Shoes.
shoes is the interminable |
task of Chinese women, from youth
to old age. Travelers see them busy
in every moment, when necessity does
not require attention to some other
work, plying the threads back and
forth, in and out, in their endless ef-
fort to keep the men of their house-
hold supplied with footwear. Where
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to the shops.
Only cloth and paper are used. Th |
(thickness of the soles, of alternating |
layers of cloth and paper held to |
gether by paste, often indicate in varia-
tions of from one-half to two inches,
the wealth of the wearers. The shoes
are noiseless and comfortable, but on
rainy days China stays indoors he-
cause the shoes readily absorb water.
The women: make their own tiny
shoes in the seclusion of their quar-
ters, even the husband being forbidden
+o watch their manufacture.
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Buffalo Bill's Quick Wit.
Col. Willium F. Cody, while travel-
ing in Europe in 1891 with his wild
West show, was on quite intimate
terms with royalty. On Buffalo Bill's
advent into Berlin Emperor Willlam
was entertaining three kings of small-
er German powers. One feature of the
Wild West performance was the ex-
hibition of an antiquated Deadwood
coach, containing passengers who were
attacked by Indians and rescued by
cowboys. The kaiser asked that he
and his guests be allowed to ride in
this vehicle during a performance,
and of course the request was granted.
After the usual attack and rescue the
emperor remarked :
«Colonel Cody, I don’t suppose this
is the first time that you have held
four kings?”
“No, your majesty,” replied the
scout, ‘‘vou are right, but it is the first
occasion that 1 ever held four kings
and the royal joker at the same time.”
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Colonel Yell of Yellville.
Yellville was named in honor of a
gallant soldier, Colonel Archibald Yell,
who went to his God like a man on
he field of Buena Vista. Archibald
Yell was a man of parts, a gentleman
who in time of peace did his share in
politics and in time or war did his |
share as a soldier. He resigned as
a member of cOnNgress to enlist as a
private at the outbreak of the Mexi-
can war. When the Arkansas troops
were organized at Washington, Hemp-
stead county, he was elected colonel
of the regiment in which he had en-
listed ag a private. Albert Pike was
a captain under him. At the battle
of Buena Vista Yell's command stood
against a sweeping charge by a great
forge of Mexican inacers. Archibald |
voll died there fighting hand to hand |
with the Mexicans.—Arkansas Gazette,
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ENGINE - OF PUBLIC “SERVICE
Newspaper Today Not, as of Old, the
Mouthpiece of - ‘Any Individual
or Party.
Not sO many years 4go a newspa:
per was a printing press surrounded
by a group of individuals chiefly con-
cerned in getting their own private
theories or doctrines before their
readers.
Today the newspaper is an engine
of public service. Its success finan-
cially and morally is measured by
fhe degree in which it supports not
a party but the people.
Those today who have a Twentieth
century ideal of achievement separate
the newspaper from the individual and
make it first and foremost an organ
of public service built by the people
for the people, The journal which
most aearly fulfills its highest pur-
pose is that which is indistinguish-
| able in policy from the patural trend
of progress and march of liberty and
free thought.
Political prizes were the aims of
the old-time editor. His policies were
based on his own party interests and
he discussed every public question
with a ferocity and partisanship pro-
portionate to the reward he expected
to get out of it.
The establishment of an institution,
a living thing, which represents the
public interest and pothing else—that
should be the ideal of the editor.
It is this ideal which has made
newspapermen a priesthood and has
separated them—some of them—from
politics. For this age is not a ma-
terialistic age—in spite of opinion to
the contrary.—Vancouver Sun.
MEANT “DIVISION WITH KING”
“Royalties” in Old Days Signified
Something Altogether Different
From Meaning Today.
Recipients of royalties from books,
patents, mines. or any other thing may
claim kin with kings, etymologically
speaking, at least, for a royalty rep-
resented. originally. the king's portion
of the profits of a venture.
The word entered England from
France, and was sometimes called a
“geignorage.” The king of England
at the time was the actual possessor
of all land in the domain, as he is
only nominally today. All mines
that were worked, all lands that were
fled, directly or indirectly paid trib-
ute to him. He possessed a similar
~ power, though less clearly. understood,
over printing and: inventions.
The payment of a .royalty to an
author, inventor or other persons to-
day is recognition of the ownership of
the recipient to the basic right in the
thing worked or produced. The pub-
lisher, manufacturer or operator may
have, and usually does have, the heavi-
est investment, but the man who gets
the royalty is the man who holds pos-
session in fee simple, subject to what
contracts he may make with those
associated with him in the develop-
ment or distribution of his property.
A Lovers’ Quarrel.
They stood beneath the stars, the
silence of the night being only broken
by the intensified sound of two hearts
beating as one.
For a moment he withdrew his gaze
from the dazzling depths of her eyes
to the diameond-stadded shirt front of
| the sky.
«Is that Mars?’ he whispered, as
he slipped his arm around her small,
slim waist, and gazed upon a glitter-
ing orb in the heavenly dome.
“No, it isn't,” she exclaimed an-
grily, jerking herself free of his em-
brace. “It’s mine, and if you can't
tell the difference between my waist
and mother’s after you've been court-
ing me for eight years, well, you—"
Her voice broke, and her head fell
forward upon her arm—
“We had better part!”
It is pleasing to report that the mat-
ter was amicably adjusted before any-
thing more serious resulted. —Edin-
burgh Scotsman.
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Unearthly Music.
Oi Coleridge and “Kubla Khan” the
following strange story is told. The
poet had fallen asleep in his chair
after reading the following lines in
Purchas’'s “Pilgrimage”: “Here the
Khan Kubla commanded a palace to
be built and a stately garden there-
unto; and thus ten miles of fertile
ground were inclosed with a wall”
“In my sleep,” he said, “I dreamed
two hundred lines of beautiful poetry.
The images rose up before me with-
out any sensation or consciousness on
my part. When I awoke the lines
were vivid in my memory, and I be-
gan to write them.”
As ill-luck would have it, however,
a friend called to see him before he
had completed his task; and when, an
hour later, he sat down to continue
his work his memory was a blank.
His wonderful dream-poem was thus
lost to the world.
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Solve Commuting Problem.
Residents of Kalabagh, on the In-
dus river in India, have solved the
problem of commuting between their
homes and the valley, three miles up
giream, where they till a very fertile
soil. The village is in a desert, ex-
cept for this small valley.
In the morning the villagers walk
to the vailey, but in the evening they
inflate goatskin bags which each man
carries, and wade out into the swift
stream: of the river. This carries them
rapidly down stream, and steering
with their hands they can reach the
tank just outside the small, mud-
walled houses in which they live.