THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA DIABOLO AND THE DUKE. Miss van Busker stood poised on (be doorstep. "Is that how you play the thing : rway?" she said, holding the dla i ) sticks awkwardly but with an 1. ' scrlbably bewitch ng air. We were all a litle bit Jealous of h van Husker, I think. She had rived last night before with three ..:nstor trunks, four large hat boxes, u poodle and a very Flench maid. An extremely smart "shoot" whs assembled at the Towers, but Miss van Busker seemed to take the shine out of the rest of us when she came down to dinner In pale pink velvet and not an ornament of any descrip tion on her alabaster neck and shoulders. However, as I was saying, Miss van Busker stood on the doorstep with dlabolo sticks in her hand. The guns were going to shoot at ten, and everyone knows how fussy lfien are just before they start, but three of them actually responded to Miss van Busker's challenge. "I'll show you,1' they exclaimed, but the Duke of Derry didn't pretend to hear and went on wiping his gun or whatever it Is men do. "I won't bother now," Miss van Busker raid slowly, and presently the the guns drove away In the big brake to the home covert. We all knitted stocks by the Are in the morn ing End ex changed con lldence.t 1 n our rooms after lunch eon. Miss van Busker was as bright as well, ag bright as one can be all day, though L a dy Jane said it was much too damp for us to 1 u n c h"They Were Playing Dia w 1 1 h the bolo In the Hall." guns, and we stayed in until tea time. Misa van. Busker came down to tea In a claglng white crepe de line and looked quite lovely, "She's beautifully turned-out and i that," pretty little Lady Hilde- ri'o St. Helens Bald to me as she aded me the toast, "but she's no i arm, has she?" "Oh, I don't know," I said doubt fully. "I think she has." The .men came in Just tlun, and first one and then the other went over and talked to Miss van Busker, except the duke, who sat by his sis ter and told us of the day's sport. The Duke of Derry was young, not married, and as everyone knows, quite poor; "stony" is his own ex pression, so most of the girls treated him as a sort of brother. After tea, I don't know how it happened, but Miss van Busker sat reading a paper, and when the men went off into the Bmoklng room, the duke, who had to pass her chair, stopped and presently sat down by her side. "No; I'm not a whale at games," I heard her say, and a little later sh and the duke disappeared. When I went up shortly afterwards to get a book that I had left in my room and that I really wanted, they were playing dlabolo la the hall, or rath er Miss van Busker was looking on and the duke was holding the sticks. "This way, d'you Bee?" he was saying very earnestly, as I passed. "My now if that ain't too cunnln'," Miss van BuBker said in her pretty nasal twang that seems to get worse the longer she stays in England. (She'd hardly any accent when Lady Bulstrode began taking her out last season.) That evening when we had been given our candlesticks and were go ing to our rooms, Miss van Busker followed me. "Now, may I come in a moment?" she said in her girlish way that ia very appeuling. "Oh, do," I said, though I waa very sleepy. Miss van Busker went over to the fire and placed a marvellously small foot on the fender. "My! ain't this the room Henry III. giept in before the battle of Lewes?" "Oh, Is it?" I said with some con fusion, "perhaps li is." Miss van Busker looked at me meditatively. "You British are queer," she said. "But if you will pardon me I don't think you're one mite British. No," she continued, "I l.ind of feel cawnfldence in you; the others here are what I call pretty nosey." I had known Mlse van Busker all the summer, and I gathered her now to mean that the house party struck tier as "stuck up." "They don't mean anything," I murmured. But Miss van Busker waa not listen ing, Bhe waa faxing into the eoals. "I got to get engage J to a dook," he said suddenly; "nil my girl friends were when they came home from Eu-rope, and I don't Intend to be left on the mat." "Indeed," I murawred rather lamely. "I don't know about marrying." SSGkSI Miss van Busker looked plaintively at me. "I'd see about that aff-ter, but I'd hate to face the reporters and the girls' luncheons If I hadn't a prett good thing on ;ce." "But is that. quite fair?" I mur mured once again, "and and nro you sure you can?" "Fair? Why, I reckon most young men have a pretty useful amount of l.orse sense," Mls9 van Busker re plied. "I don't worry any about them. And I s'pose most of us can get what we feel we warnt." We both stared Into .he fire. It Eeenied a simple and cheerful phil osophy. "Dlnbolo's a great game,'' Miss van Busker added, lrrevalently. "You're lenrnlng It, aren't you?" I nsked, beginning to take the dia monds out of my hair. "Yes; I'm learning," Miss van Dusker Innghed, and when she laughs in the firelight thero Is a gleam of what looks like fine pearls. .Miss van Busker Bald some very pretty things to me; she's certainly very attractive and we said good night In the friendliest way. The next day the men were to shoot the grout spinney; It was the big day of the week, and every one was what Miss van Busker called well on time, every one except the duke. "We can't wait for old Stony," ths men agreed after breakfast, and various expeditions to the bachelor quarters drew blank; the duke sent dow n to sny he had strained a mus cle and couldn't go out. A big oak gallery runs round the hall at the Towers, and my room was off the gallery. I do not know that I was surprised when I opened my door to see a dinbolo spool shoot up pnst me and fall back with a loud crush to the hall floor. "My! a babe In arms would do It better," I heard Miss van Busker say with great apparent vexation. When I descended the big stair case a moment later Miss van Bus ker, and, of course, the duke, who seemed quite well, were resting on the big oak seat with the high back. Mi." van Busker held the dlabolo sticks and the duke was twirling the spool In his hands and looking at Miss van Busker. All that day and the next Miss van Busker learned dlabolo. "I dont get on one mite," she would answer wheh questioned; and the other men gave up all claim to teaching her. Our main staple of conversation became Miss van Busker"s progress in the game. On the fourth day she had Im proved slightly; the duke bad de clared the long gallery a b e 1 1 e r j place for; learning, and poor Lady Lady Jane who did not' want to stand in his way, asked them to be very careful. But when 1 went through by mistake, the dlabolo lay on the "Two people occupied ground and the tall oak seat." they ware looking at the pictures. At tea that i fternoon the post came in. "I've got a lot of snapshots from Greenhays," Lady Hlldegarde said suddenly, and looked at Miss van Busker. Coralle flushed the slightest, pret tiest pink, but she finished her tea, and then got up and went Into the hall. Little Lady Hlldegarde handed me the snapshots. "Bertie sent them," she said briefly, "Miss van Busker was staying there. She seems to for get games," she added wickedly. In quite six out of the dozen or more photographs, Miss van Busker, I regret to say, appeared playing dla bolo with the most finished grace. She was depicted in the act of catch ing and throwing the spool with the precision of an expert. Lady Hlldegarde laughed. "What would Stony say?" she murmured. But her brother had followed Mlsa van Busker from the room. I happened to pass through the hall not long after. Two people oc cupied the tall oak seat under the palms. "Why, yes," I couldn't help hear ing a drawling murmur as I hurried by, "I guess I knew It all the time pretty well. But I kind of thought you'd like to teach me didn't you?" But I shut my door upstairs upon the answer. Kat and West of FIJI. East of Fiji life is one long, lotus eating dream, stirred only by occa sional parties of pleasure, feasting, love making, dancing and a' very lit tle gardening work. Music is the soul of the people, beauty of face and movement is more the rule than the exception, and friendliness to strangers is carried almost to ex cess. Westward of the Fljia lie the dark, wicked cannibal groups of the Solomons, Banka and New Hebrides, where life is more like a nightmare than a dream; murder stalks openly in broad daylight, people are nearer to monkeys than human beings in as pect, and music and dancing are lit tle practiced and In the rudest pos sible state. National Oeograpblo Magasine. High beela, It la aald, owe their origin to Persia, where they were Introduced to raise the feet from the ournlnc sands. jm3 tub ctniotrs ixk nan. The Veracious Sennmn Relates Some of Ha Wonderful Doing. "You talk about fights with sharki and sighting sea serpents," said Third Odlcer Carl Ducks, of the Ger man steamship Allegnnny, as he leaned over the chart inble. "Do you see that spot on the map In tha Bay of Bengul? Well, we were be calmed there for a week when I was working before the mast on the full rigged ship Arethusa ten yenrs ago. There had not been as mmh ns a breath of air stirring for a week and all of ns lay around de:pond.-nt and nopelcss, for the Iiay oi Bengal la l.ot the happiest place In the world to be becalmed In. "The skipper had no orders to give, so didn't give any, and no one of us In the fo'es'lu kiew what to do with himself. On the seventh day when this Idleness got on our nerves and we were lazily drifting with th currents, the man at the wheel sud denly discovered that the Arethusa was being pushed over to port, not withstanding that he had his wheel hard over endeavoring to keap the vessel in a straight course. "None of us could understand It, for there did not seem to bo as much as a small current In the sea and there surely was not a puff of wind In the Happing canvas. "Suddenly Alctzger, the bos'un, leaned over the starboard rail for ward and polnteu excitedly to tha water below. All of us ran to him and there dimly visible and almost entirely submerged, was a htie Ink fish close to our starboard Bide, CARVING THE INXFISH. "Because the inkflsh had spread her peculiar coloring on the water about her we could hardly make her out. It is a peculiarity of the Ink flsh, this spreading of a haze around her. I think here you call the ink fish an octopus. Whichever it is, ours was actually pushing our 3,000 ton ship over out of the course to which the helmsman was trying to keep the Arethusa. "The captain ordered a harpoon brought out and the hook was drop ped right on top of the Inkflsh, catch ing the monster amidships, and she was, with the aid of a block and tackle, rigged to the foreyard, soon high and dry on the fo'c'sle deck. "One of the boys was investigat ing the monster which weighed every ounce of seven hundred pounds when suddenly out shot one of the dozen tentacles from the inkflah. When that was withdrawn another would shoot out, and In this way the inkflsh bent our foward stanchions, twist ed the rail Into a shapeless mass and spread ruin and damage all over the forward section. "Dannsadt, the carpenter, had a bright buggestlon. None of us could get near to the Inkflsh whose arms were about twenty or twenty-five feet in length, and which were now swaying all around, keeping the crew at a Bate distance. The carpen ter brought an axe and when the first arm reached his vicinity off came five feet of tentacle. He kept this up with each tentacle in succes sion until the dozen arms of the ink flsh had been shortened by Ave feet. Then he got nearer and again made the 'rounds' as the arms were shot forward toward him. "Finally, when the InkflBh had on ly a dozen stumps left and Darm stadt could get close enough to the monster, he gave it one blow between the little doorknob like eyes and that was the end of the Inkflsh op the Are thusa. As the final blow was struck home that Inkflsh gave forth a squeal Just like a rabbit. I never knew a flf h to be ablo to utter a sound. But the death squal of that octopus ink flsh will never leave my eara.'i Surprise for an Oyster bhucker. Aa George Schusk was opening oysters In the Susquehanna House, Catawlssa, he opened one that gave blm a surprise. It was apparently as solid and u sound aa any he had opened, but when he removed the shell he found therein a small fih about two Inches in length and a email hard-shell crab, the top of which was three-fourths of an Inch In width. The fish waa plump and life-like, though dead, but the crab was aa lively aa a cricket. There was no sign of an oyster in the shell, which was 2xi inches. Philadel phia Reeord. The Pet Dog of Parle. In Parte dogs are treated aa well aa human beings are. They wear automobile togs when they fo mo toring, they bive a hospital, and they even bare a good-sized oeme tery, with monuments and head stones, and Inscriptions and mortu ary wreaths. T1IK TKl'I'V I1BAK CltAZH. Gorman nml American Factories Could Not Miike Huough. The craze seems to have started at Atlantic City. A child there, says one chronicle, saw a lovable looking little fuzzy brown plush b ar In a shop window one day and had his mother buy it for him. It was a bear made by nn old lndy In Germany. Other children saw the child with the bear and copied. Visitors at Atlantic City took home with them the bear fad, and the bear craze was In the saddle. The Cenuaii woman who had sent tho bears over years ugo, and hail since then b.on making' com pnrathtly few, Jur.t enough to satisfy the small demand, wondered why tho American toy dealers sud denly sent Bi::h large order, for tho beard Teddy bears, as Americans bewail to call them Immediately Tho average German toy maker sup' idles orders as they come In, not car ing to keep on hand a large stock of goods with only ephemeral popu larity, so tho German lady wns hard put to It. In a hhort time Bho had more than 2,Ooo girls at work on tho J eddy lear, and tho calls for an! nials wi-ro still Insistent. As many of the Ideas of the Ger man toymnkers come from France, uud thouo lu the l'ultdtates from Germany the American manufac turer promptly fell In lino for the bear trade. Hundreds of bears are being made every day In the United States, and the issues of the trade Journals of toyland carry mnuy ad vertlsenients of Teddy bears. Help to the Housewife. I :sobndy ever thinks of iftlnp a hot stove lid with the fingers Stovellfters ure provided for exactly this purpose. For the same reason the housewife should not bo com pelled to lift a hot cooking utensil from tho fire with her fingers. An implement designed for thlH purpose Is shown In tho Illustration. It Is shaped like a stovellfter In fact, can be used as such. At mi" ,.nd (.rasps Kdgc of Tun. Is an automatic clamp, which can be Instantly slipped over the edge of any cooking utensil and moved to the place desired. The clamp is so adjusted that it grasps the dish firmly, and there is no danger of it becoming loose and falling to the floor. Such a lifter would be far more serviceable and handler than the usual method of using a cloth, with the additional advantage of protecting the hands and fingers from possible burns. A Useful Precaution. A most satisfactory way of pre venting garter clasps from breaking the threads In the top of stockings has been devised by a woman in charge of a large theatrical ward robe. She sews two small squares of ribbon on the hem of the stock ing, on either side, just where the garter fastens. By doing this she finds that the strain comes on the ribbon instead of on the stocking, and that no matter how tightly the stocking may be draw up the stitches will not break. There is nothing much more dis couraging than to find a break with a 'run' that may extend half way down the length of the stocking, and such small precautions are more than worth the trouble that is necessary in taking them. HOl'SKHOLI) HINTS. Freshen salt fish by soaking in Bour milk. Thin syrup may be made thicker by bollllng it down. To remove egg stains from silver apply salt and rub with a soft cloth. A little sugar added to the water used in basting a roast Improves Its flavor. Eggs are more nourishing when cooked by being covered with boiling water and allowed to stand for five minutes than when boiled for three minutes. Brother Dickey's 8ntiinrnU. I done quit sermonisln' on Satan. Uf de folks wants ter kno f any mo' 'bout him dey'U have ter watt twel dey git dar. I have my own idea 'bout Para dise, but ef ever I gita In dar I g inter to lay mighty low! Some folks driver angels fura dey door, but ef dey a' k no wed dey wu'x an?els dey'd 'a' axed 'urn In an' 'pulled du feathers out doy wings! Atlanta Constitution. Butter is preserved and put up In cans of tlu to be sold in tropical oountrl.es or districts remote from Civilization. Mont of the tinned but ler comes from France, L: J Tho Kind Ton llavo Always in uso for over 30 years, - - and has been mado under his per sonal supervision slnco Its infancy. -C6CCZ4 Allnwno ono todfrelvn von In 1ila All Counterfeits Imitations andJustas-prood',nr but Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health of Infants and Children Experience Against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Oastoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic. Diibstance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms And allays Fcvcrishness. It cures Diarrhuca and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and llowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS JO Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. VMS CtNTHUK QOVMNf, t um aTft'CT, NIW YOUR CITV. MARRY FIR8TJ LOVE LATER. tupunese Woinuu Tells of Cupld'N Scheme In the Orient. "Americans fall In love and then riarry; the Japanese marry and tnen fall In love." This is tho statement of the wife ot Kokikochl Mldzuno, the Japanese consul. She recently arrived from her native land. With her two chil dren and her husband Bhe is very happy, and In her contentment she wishes to sole the problem of un happy marriages, says the New York American. "Why do American women tire of their husbands?" she asked, aa she brewed tea and ordered cake. "American women," she. raid, "ought to stop and think of one of our old songs. Tho words of It run Hie this: "I want to live to be !)! years and you must live to he a hun dred, so :hut we may bo hnppy while our hair grows grny." "Marriage is safer In Japan. Ex perienced people arrange It. In the great wisdom of our parents thesi marriages are brought about. A Ouns man desires to marry a girl lltr father arranges a meeting and tho two young persons are Intro duced. Maybe they do not love ut first .but after a while a great and tender affection steals over them. Wives In Japan are content with their husbands for years ind years ' She was asked for her Idea comvr ing woman's rights, and the suffra gette were mentioned. "Suf-suffragetU?" Mrs. Mldxueo stammered. She looked relieve, I when her husband assured her th;t there was no danger. Then n; laughed when she explained In Jap anese was a woman bent upon win ing the right to cast a ballot l ite u man. "Oh, think of that In Japan," pile cried, looking at the consul. "Too many husbands Is not a hap py thing," she declared. "The Amer ican women should be more content and not crave so much excitement. They should have w!se peop'e to choose for them their mates and not go suddenly Into matrimony. To love all before marriage and not leave no happiness ror the years to come after that Is noa good thins." "inujiior uoiniv hi 'paau jo aiiirj U injdiau Oi i,lU jn,', n..i.n l)H aqi Jo jjud nu oj uua-Ki jois ollIa , , aaiiBi.iui.ja; -aa U eidood mm -ujoj .Vpunu; uu uiuja uouui os joj aju)S au. jo j.iud ujaqiros out uo juapuo.lap hioui II jo aidojd aiu -aq 01 udasor h'juiu .'4:1 su 'jaiu vn pua ujujhuj JO u, oujiubj jo sjua. am o. iuipuod -saajo.. .M,WI, o t!-K8l Suumu -u) pus uaa.ttiou gjBd. au.) duunci . dJlll -and auh jsouiiw aoj SMiinjo. 1, j,n mi'U .nasuajui sum Jaujuaw our a.uj ipuj o) 3AHJ'u;sap pu uanui painjp 11 aill an jaaj aajqj oj jiBq v pua o.uj mojj U)Uap jo Mnua a, daap jo aajui u yH UttoUJ1 1 IB-UKSl JO Jaiui aui Kiiir.iin.f 1 uauojq am uo sansui jo U).oj iq8natiiuaj sum ojam .,., jxau am -pajsaAjsu sh j, jj,j8 j IU "4UIIWJ 1B401 V SB BpuB ju.1 UO it t rss v .. . . . . ""IJ " riRi Ju.i juj, HlAitH pJlU3 N0UI imoijuios Kxterinlnutlng lUfs. The municipality of Copenh-,;n has opened war on rats and will pay 1 H cents for very tail. The breed ing of rats for th.ir tall. 1, , crlra. leal offeas. Bought, and which lias hcoa has borne tho Rlgnatnro ' of Signature of How Minis Meet Itncrgcurlcs. Dr. Krancla II. llcrrlck Bays a rparrcw vl!l pluck a horse hair from the mouth of a nestling, while an other. b.rJ, like an oriole, will stand by and see Its mat 3 hang until dead without attempting to release it. A robin will tug at a string which has (p.uRht on a limb, but Is nuver seen fully to meet tho situation by releasing the -trlug. It will maks several turns of a cord about a limb and leave the other end frea with out any rclaf.ou to the net, so that Its effort Is useless. It ties no knots. The gull according to aoundaot and competent testimony, will car ry shellfish to a considerable height, drop them on the rock.) or hard ground, and repeat tho experiment until It eU the 8oft meat. Chica go Tribune. Our First Appeiininro. Ui?no.t nutl:orlt!ej p'aco the tim sine men first appeared on the earth nt 28S.0UU years. Of this 7S.U00 be long to the preglaMal epocn, 100,000 to glacial, 44.000 :o Interval between prehistoric and neolithic, 10,000 to neolithic epoch and 6,000 to tiro elapsed since beginning of tho his toric period in tgypt. The Four D's. Charles Spurgeon ouce said that there were three ureat enemies to man "dirt, debt and the devil." He might have added one more d und included dyspepsia. The evil results of this dis ease could hard'y lie exaggerated, it's ell'ects are felt in mind and btx'y.and ae so tar reaching as the eMects of the curse that was laid on the Jaekdaw of KheiniH wliidi was cursed in "eating and drinking and sleeping, in standing and sitting and lying." The good ellects of Dr. Pierce's (ioldeii Medical Discovery ure most marked in aggravated and chrohio cuses of dys pepsia. It enables the stomach glands to secrete the necessary quautity of di gestive fluids, and th k at once removes that craving or gnawing sensation so common to certain forms of indigestion. It tones ami regulates the sdomuch, in vigorates torpid liver nud gives the blood-making glands keen assimilative power. "Golden Medical Discovery" cures ninety-eight per cent, of those n uu use IU Br. Tierce's Pleasant Pellets are su perior to all other luxative medicines when the bowels are obstructed. The OIllv Wav soma liiwmlit null lie happy Is to get more than tiieir money's worm. lUE '(VI'UE L'lu.l. , ....If !.. llV tlm rinviiri ... ...... .1... he from injurious ingredients In both foods and drugs. It is beneficial both to the public und to the conscientious manufacturer. Ely's Cream Hulin, Hucoefwful remedy for cold in the head, nasal catarrh, hay lever, etc., contain- requirement of the row law, uud that ' iomineiiuy siuieil on every tiuckfton Ti KntktulikLi Iii.iw. nf (itu llllll a w, v uwiiiitiiia iiwiio i i lie rious drugs which are required by the law to be mentioned on the label. jieuce you can use It safely. . . Tl. ll....i . .. 11 jus ringing nature is sometimes il lustrated by the way a nmn hangs onto RRee4adbyle CATtRRH Ely's CreamBalm l QuickJr btorbL Slue. Rnlrsf it One. It climaxes, soothes heals imd protects the ilisua.i.'U mem. bnmorsultiugfrom Cuturrh und drives away a Cold in the Utwl qmukly. 11"-II A et atoms Hi Kvusi-sof MH I I Tas( iunl Smell. Full iize 50 Ota., Kim. ur ny nmn. iu liquid form, i i l.U. Ely Urotui.M Yk'ari Stroat, :'U. I
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