MEXICAN DRAWN WORK.
Tlio Women \\ li«» Mnko It Acourdltiff
to I*4*oll Contract.
The woman who makes drawn work
011 a Mexican estate is not «u independ
ent worker to whom conies the money
for ail the work her deft hands accom
plish. She is a woman whose father
or brother or nnclo or mother is in debt
to the "great don." She can do the
drawn work, so the don's agent sup
plies licr with linen or lawn, a frame
and the requisite implements and in
dicates the design that she is to fol
low, for. though you may not know it,
there are fashions in drawn work quite
as exclusive and quite as popular as
there are 111 women's hats, for instance.
When lier work is jjone that poor wo
man cannot fare forth to market and
offer it for sale. It is by the term of
her peon contract perhaps already sold
to the "great don," whose tenant she
is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work,
by now as grimy as the overalls of an
engineer. He lias kept account of the
time the woman has been engaged up
on it, and for each of the many days
she may have worked he gives her 7,
S, !), at most 1" cents, but never the
last amount unless she be a thorough
mistress of her craft.
Once a year the Mexicans for whom
the women do this work, somewhat as
the sweatshop toilers of Chicago and
New York drive their needless for a
master, meet in solemn conference and
determine what the prices shall lie. So
great is the popularity of drawn work
generally that the supply never equals
the demand, and the profits made by
the Mexican masters of the drawn
work trust, for it is really that, are
enormous. The dealer pays these "op
erators" what they demand, and they
demand much. Therefore the buyer
pays S4O for a "cloth" that costs the
"manufacturer" 12 cents a day, labor
hire, for, say, ninety days, to produce.—
Pilgrim.
THE FLAMINGO AT HOME.
Observation Ha* Proved That llotli
Male- mid Frmnlc Incubate.
Apparently two factors enter into the
flamingoes' type of architecture—they
must build where there is mud and at
the same time erect a structure high
enough to protect its contents from
any normal rise in the water due to
tides or rainfall.
After watching a nesting colony of
flamingoes in the Bahamas for "nearly
an hour" at a distance of 150 yards
Sir Ilenry Blake stated that the fe
males sat upon the nests, while the
males stood up together, evidently uear
by. My dissections, however, showed
that both sexes incubate, while contin
ued observation from the tent revealed
the presence of only one bird of the
pair in the rookery at the same time.
The bird 011 the nest was relieved late
in the afternoon and early in the morn
ing. The one, therefore, which incu
bated during the day fed at night, and
his or her place was taken by another
which had been feeding during the
day, or, as Peter put it,"l do t'ink,
sir, dat when de lady fillymlngo leave
de nest den de gen'leman fillymlago
take her place, sir; yes, sir."
Morning and evening, then, there was
much activity in the rookery. Single
girds or files of as many as fifty were
almost constantly arriving and depart
ing. coming from and radiating to ev
ery point of the compass.
Flamingoes in flight resemble 110 oth
er bird known to inc. With legs and
neck fully outstretched and the com
paratively small wings set halfway be
tween bill and toes, they look as if they
might lly backward or forward with
equal ease. They progress more rapid
ly than a heron and when hurried fly
with a singular serpentine motion of
the neck and body, as if they were
trawling in the air.—Century.
f-ot the I'aulN Ml it'll.
Paul du Cliaillu, the one time Afri-
Ui explorer, performed a good Samarl
n act one night in assisting along
e street a very intoxicated stranger,
te man told him where his home was,
ad after considerable difficulty Du
Jhaillu got him to his door. The bibu
ius one was very grateful and want-
Jd to know Ills helper's name. As the
Explorer did not particularly care to
{live his name in full he merely replied
|hat it was Paul. "So it'sh—hie— Paul,
Ush It?" hiccoughed the man, and then,
after some moments of apparent
thought, inquired solicitously, "Shay,
>le man. did y'ever get any—liic—any
Usher to those 10-ong lettersh y' wrote
a th' Ephesians?"
Looked lloiient Anyway,
A member of the Kansas City board
! trade called a newsboy in front of
le Exchange building the other after
noon to buy a paper and then discov
ered that he had 110 small change with
which to pay for it. He wanted the
paper, so he asked the boy to trust
him. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he said.
The boy looked him over. "Yer on the
board of trade, ain't you?" he asked.
The man replied that he was. The
newsboy hesitated a moment. Then lie
said: "Well, you look honest, anyway.
I guess I'll trust you for the 2 cents." —
Kansas City Times.
nidi 111 Espeetntfond.
"They're comparatively rich, aren't
they?"
"Well, I wouldn't say 'comparative
ly,' but 'relatively.' They have a rich
uncle of whom they expect great
things." Philadelphia Ledger.
Ono Advantage.
Rimer —Do you really prefer to have
long poems sent into you rather than
short ones? Editor—Yes. When they're
long, you see, I don't have to think up
any other excuse for rejecting them.—
Exchange.
He that falls into sin Is a man; that
grieves at it is a saint; that boastetb
of it is a devil.—Fuller.
THE 6LLPIoH COUPLE.
HtixliaittlN mid V."lve« Wlio Itrfusr t«
Mingle lu Society.
Selfishness is the bane of ail life.
It cannot enter into life—lndividual,
family or social without cursing it.
Therefore if any married pair find
themselves inclined to confine them
selves to one another's society, indis
posed togo abroad and mingle with
tlic life around them, disturbed and ir
ritated by the collection of friends in
their own dwelling or in any way inov
t'd to regard their social duties as dis
agreeable, let them be alarmed at once.
It Is a bad symptom—an essentially
morbid symptom. They should insti
tute means at once for removing this
feeling, and they can only remove it by
persistently going into society, persist
ently gathering it into their own dwell
ing and persistently endeavoring to
learn to love and feel an interest in all
with whom they meet. The process of
regeneration will not be a tedious one,
for the rewards of social life are im
mediate.
The heart enlarges quickly with the
practice of hospitality. The sympathies
run and take root from point to point,
each root throwing up leaves and bear
ing flowers and fruit like strawberry
vines if they are only allowed to do
so.
It Is only sympathies and strawber
ries that are cultivated in hills which
do otherwise. The human face is a
thing which should he able to bring
the heart into blossom with a moment's
shining, and will be sucli with you if
you will meet it properly.
The penalties of family isolation will
not, unhappily, fall entirely upon your
selves. They will be visited with
double force upon your children. Chil
dren reared in the home with few or
no associations will grow up either
boorish or sensitively timid.
It is a cruel wrong to children to rear
them without bringing tliem into con
tinued contact with polite social life.
The ordeal through which children
thus reared are obliged to pass in gain
ing the ease and assurance which will
make them at home elsewhere than un
der the paternal roof is one of the
severest, while those who are constant
ly accustomed to a social life from
their youth are educated in all its
forms and graces without knowing it.
Great multitudes of men and women
all over the country are now living se
cluded from social contact simply from
their sensitive consciousness of Igno
rance of the forms of graceful inter
course.
They feel that they cannot break
through their reserve. There Is, doubt
less, much that is morbid in this feel
ing, and yet It Is mainly natural. From
all this mortification and this depriva
tion every soul might have been saved
by education in a home where social
life was properly lived. It is cruel to
deny to children the opportunity not
only to become accustomed from their
first consciousness to the forms of so
ciety, but to enjoy its influence upon
their developing life.
Society Is food to children. Contact
with other minds is the means by
which they are educated, and the dif
ference in families of children will
show at once to the accustomed eye the
different social character of their par
ents. But I have no space to follow
this subject further, and 1 leave it
with you, with the earnest wish that
you will consider it and profit by the
suggestions I have given you.—"Tim
othy Tit cuuib's Letters"in Boston
Globe.
I'ollt<'ll« k .SM I'll JM.
Virtue is not to bo measured by os
tentatious giving. There is frequently
more real love for humanity in the soul
of the man who removes the banana
skin from the pavement than in the
heart of the donor of the memorial
window in the church. Politeness, like
all other faults and virtues, may be
come habitual. It is surprising how
many small acts of kindness, how
many little deeds of helpfulness, one
may do in the course of a day when
there are inclination to be kind and a
lookout kept for the opportunity. Ono
may set out with this intention in the
morning, and the footing up at night—
not to others, but to one's own secret
conscience -will be cheering and en
couraging.
Wlinle.M on Their Holiday**.
Professor Goldlob has been telling
the Cliristiania Academy of Science the
results of his investigations into the
migrations of whales. These creatures
hang about the coast of Norway and
Finland until the spring is well ad
vanced, and then they go away on
their travels. Some goto the Azores,
others to Bermuda and the Antilles,
and they cover these enormous dis
tances in an incredibly short time.
Some of them bring back harpoons
which bear the names of ships and
other evidences of where these mi
grants have been for their summer hol
idays.
C'liiNMifleil.
"Uncle Bill," said little Reginald,
"did it hurt you when the men caught
you with the dredge and grappling
hooks?"
"Why, I don't understand you," said
Uncle William.
"Well, that's the way the natural
history book says they get 'em."
"Get what?"
"Sponges. When pa said you was
coming ma said: 'What? That old
sponge coming here again?' "
Not Always Popular,
Grayce—Why is it that Edytlie is so
unpopular in society? She's very care
ful to speak nothing but the truth
about people. Gladys—And that's just
what makes her unpopular. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Opportunity sooner or later comes 11
all who work and wish.—Stanley.
CAMERON COUNTY PRES.s, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904.
LIFE INSURANCE.
<«ot !•* 1111 > A (Myuici 11 (<-< l Willi fla
'lVri-.i* of Vour I'oliry,
"What the average purchaser of life
Insurance doesn't know about the
tiling lie is purchasing would 111! a good
sized lioou printed with very narrow
margins," says an insurance expert.
"For instance, 1 talked not long siuce
with a man who fancied he was in
sured for SIO,OOO on the fifteen year
endowment plan. That is, lie thought
he had to make payments for lifteen
yea re—which was true and that at
the end of that time he could get .$lO,-
000 in rash or take a part in cash and
a part in paid up Insurance, which, as
it turned out, was not true. The rate
he was paying was so very low for
what he said he was getting that 1
asked to see his policy, and when I
looked at it 1 found, Just as he might
have found on a brief examination,
that while he was insured for life, with
only lifteen yearly payments, he could
not get the SIO,OOO or any part of it
for a good many years more. No in
surance company In the world will
permit the fooling of a patron like this
if it can help it, and yet to attribute
such a mistaken idea to fraudulent
misrepresentation on the part of an
unworthy agent would not always lie
fair. Many men who take insurance,
and especially those who do not decide
togo in until they have looked at it a
long time, go in finally with a rush.
They don't give the agent time to tell
them what they are getting, and often
don't lind out for years afterward.
Another thing that many insured per
sons do not know is that a rebate 011
the lirst payment, arranged between
the insured and the agent, sometimes
renders the whole transaction invalid."
—Philadelphia Record.
CHRISTMAS DAY.
Why the L'>ftllvuX IN Olrlirnleil on
Dec. 2S.
There are 110 definite allusions in the
writings of any of the disciples of
Christ as to the date of his birth, nor
has there ever been produced proof of
any character as to the exact period in
the year when Christ was born. There
are, very true, occasional references to
the event In the Scriptures, indicating
that the Nativity occurred in the win
ter season.
The institution of the anniversary
dates back to the second century of
Christendom, and it has been since
uniformly celebrated by nearly all
branches of the Christian church with
appropriate rejoicings and ceremonies.
The frequent and somewhat heated
controversies, however, relative to the
date of Christ's birth early in the
fourth century led I'ope Julius I.to
order a thorough investigation of the
subject by the learned theologians and
historians of that period, which re
sulted in an agreement upon Dec. 25.
and that decision seemed to have so
settled all disputes that that date was
universally accepted except by the
Greek church. While this date was
never changed, the reckoning of it is
made according to the Gregorian cal
endar. which was adopted in the latter
part of the sixteenth century, and up
on which computations of time in near
ly all civilized nations have since rest
ed.—American Queen.
< oMiiiic Horror.
The two infinities of Kant did not 1
chill or hurt him, but his fearlessness
is shared by few. Only for si short iu- j
slant, iit best, will most persons con
sent to look open eyed at any clear ini- 1
age of fate or of infinity. Scarcely a
friend of mine will look steadily at the I
clear midnight sky for a minute in si
lence. The freezing of the heart fol- j
lows; the appalling shudder at the i
dread contemplation of Infinity, which j
may be called cosmic horror, is more j
than can be endured. If those stars are i
absolutely and positively infinite then j
there is 110 up or down, and they knew
no beginning, will have no ending, j
With any such staring gorgon of fatal- j
ism tlie surcharged attention is shaken, !
and the chemistry of common life !
seizes upon the liquid crystals with j
avid hunger.—George M. Gould, M. D., j
In Atlantic.
A Sc*otch I'lirNon'N Clover lloply.
When musical instruments were first 1
used in the services of the Scottish j
churches many strict Sabbatarians ob- j
Jected to the ifiiqultous proceedings. !
One of these persons, on meeting the |
minister some time after leaving tlie
"kirk" because of the introduction of
a harmonium, said with a sneer, "Well, |
and how is your fanner getting on?" i
(A fanner was a winnowing machine I
resembling the bellows of an organ in i
Its working.) "Oh, splendidly." an
swered the reverend gentleman. "It's !
just keeping the good corn and blow- j
ing the chaff away."—Spare Moments. I
If you wish to please people you must I
begin by understanding them.—Reade. 1
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\« JIIIIK<* at All.
"Isn't that young man fond of inu
ticV ' exclaimed the young woman.
"I don't know," answered Miss Cay
enne. "Judging by the way he will
stand up and listen to himself sing by
the hour, I should say he isn't."—Chi
cago Journal.
StroiiK Diet.
Veterinary So your new bull pup is
sick? What seems to be the matter
with liini? Owner—A little of every
thing, 1 guess. While we were away
this afternoon lie chewed up and swal
lowed the dictionary.—Detroit Free
Press.
The Small Children.
"I wonder what It Is," said the fami
ly man, "that makes landlords and
janitors dislike to have small children
In fiats." "The small children, I
guess," replied the savage bachelor.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
L.et Her Pirn*.
The mistletoe above the door
Expectant swains were viewing.
A maiil passed through, but she was
more
Than thirty. Nothin' doing!
—Philadelphia Press.
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