\tp^n\ » george T Author of "At S&aah" * 43 ANCESTORS a NCESTORS are found along I\ with old furniture and captive * skeletons in all of our best regulated families. /Ancestors con sist of forefathers and foremolhers, to say nothing of foreuncles and aunts, who have done something grand or noble, like being beheaded by a king or having a relative who was governor of a colony. 1 iiis en ables tliem to be poivted tit with pride by their descendants forever more. Being an ancestor is one of the easiest and most attractive of jobs. It mereiy consists of being boosted by one > descendants. Thus, many ancestors have been enabled to make good after they are ueaa. More thuii one ancestor who lias go:, I CJ.I o: this life a poor person, an i only a tew jumps ahead of the : herifi, 1 'is had the good fortune, a century later, to n ■ ome the ancestor of son: ■ am bitions family with plenty of money, v .d i'.r.i become so famous in conse <l-ic ee that hi_- tombstone has had to be greatly enlarged and improved. Ancestors are one of the ;no3ii valuable and satisfactory of no es cions. They are non-taxable and cannot be stolen. Their upkeep is practically nothing, and they do not ■deteriorate with age or neglect. In fact, they increase in vaiue as they grow older. An ancestor 600 years old is worth a whole mass meeting i of lifty-year-old ancestors. Adam Is the oldest ancestor. He is 6,000 years old. and had a fine record. But lie is a common possession, like edu cation and libort", so ho is not val j'pd very highly \liuost all rich people own and op (■ Die ancestors. But the poorest man may have them, too. Many a tnan who hasn't two vests to his name, and cannot hold a job two lu.iiuies, has ancestors which are the Little Things. Life is made up of little things. It Is but once In an age that occasion is of fered for doing a great deed. True greatness consists in being great in little things. Size of the Foot. The foot should be as long as the olna, or chief bone of the forearm — that N, from the small head of the bone to be seen at the wrist to the point of the elbow should be the length of the loot envy of his automobilious neighbors. We cannot buy ancestors, if we do not have them, but we can buy them for our children by marrying dis creetly. A full set of fine imported A full set of ancestors can now be purchased for a ynillion dollars ancestors oan now be purchased for. a million dollars. The great trouble with these imported goods is the fact that they are often badly infested with descendants. Some of the very finest ancestors have been, almost ruined by these parasites and there, is no legal cure. In England, everybody has ances tors. Some of them are over 1,000 years old, and are still in a state of excellent preservation. v The best American brand came over In the Mayflower about 300 years ago. Most of the better grades of Ameri can ancestors are now controlled by a trust, the Daughters of the Hexor lution. We should all be proud of oiyr &j£| cestors, but not out loud. No Hasty Judgment. What your mirror tells you you may depend upon as the result of reflec tion.—Boston Transcript. Good rfule for Life. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad In search of your wants; for if they be real wants they will come In search o1 you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.--Colton. Gidtime News Service. In James Watson Webb, of the New York Courier and Enquirer, es tablished an express-rider service bo tween New York and Washington which gave his paper valuable pres tige. In the following year the Jour nal of Commerce started a rival serv ice, which enabled it to print Wash ington news in New York within 48 hours of its occurrence. The most notable express-mail service of all was the "pony express," which carried messages by relays of riders across mountains and deserts and through hostile Indian territory from St. Louis to San Francisco, covering 1,960 mile in 10 days. Saiute to the Flag. The salute to the flag is given bj raising the right hand, palm outward until the index finger is even with th« lower edge of the forehead, and stand in? at attention. Music Not His Strong Point. The leader of a volunteer orchestra was greatly annoyed by the 'cellist, who repeatedly at a rehearsal was in error; finally be stood near him. lis tening. "Why, man," lie exclaimed, "your 'cello is not in tune!" The player screwed at the pegs. Hut a few moments later the discord was re peated. "Can't you tune your instru ment?" demanded the conductor irri tably. "No-o!" said the stout 'cellist, "not always." Then his face bright ened. "But you should see how I can skin fish!" The skinning of flsh was his trade, the orchestra his side line. No Person Has Seen the Sun. Astronomers aver that no one has ever seen the sun. A series of concen tric shells envelops a nucleus of which we apparently know nothing except that it must be almost infinitely hotter than the fiercest furnace, and that it must amount to more than nine-tenths of the solar mass. That nucleus is the real sun, forever hidden from us. The outermost of the enveloping shell 18 about 5,000 miles thick, and is called the "chromosphere." Not Much of a Pusher. It was the elevated station at 8:30 on a weekday morning. The advice of the Irish guard who helps close the gates of the rear cars was an educa tion in itself. But lie had a competi tor in a girl who was doing her valiant best to get on. 'Tush, push," she urged of a weak little masculine beside her. In a wish-washy voice he replied that he was pushing. Back came the swift retort: "You make me tired? You push like a jellyfish!"—New York Sun. Appropriate Lock. Robert had lost his little pet dog nn<l felt bad about it. His father told him poor little Fido must be dead or he would return home. His mother sent him on an errand, when he met a wom an friend of his mother's who asked him l f he was 111. as he had little to say. "Oh, no," he said, "but my little dog Is dead and I am wearing a black look." Make Most of Whrst You Have. Shakespeare says. "You can't turn the wheel with the water that is past." The modern age says, "You can't excel in fitness when you sp-*ud the hours in idleness." Dreams of the glory that is to be are largely dreams still long after the Jays are past that should have witnessed the crowning. But lite is more than dreams. Most folks have learned to their sorrow that it is a rather stern reality. It promises much, but it's always conditional. If teaches men that in the using of what they have they become the heroes of the days that are to be. It's the tilling of present hours that brings the full hours of the future. It's folly to mourn the past. It's all made in the present and today passes so swiftly into tomorrow that we scarcely realize how swiftly go the speeding hours. Fateful Days. Certain days have been marked ones In some persons' lives. Nearly all the chief events of Thomas a Beckers career, including his murder and the translation of his body—occurred on a Tuesday. Henry VTII and his three children —Edward, Mary and Eliza beth —expired upon the same day of the week —Thursday. Dark Ages. The term Is applied to a portion of the Middle Ages, Including the period of about 1,000 years from the fall of Rome to revival of letters In the fif teenth century. It Is generally re garded as beginning with Invasion of France by Clovls, 480 A. D., and clos ing with invasion of Naples by Charles VIII in 1495. Learning was at a low ebb during this period. Advice for Singers. Sims Reeves, the famous English tenor, is quoted as saying: "A singer who does not recite or read the verses of a song alofld before at tempting the music will never become a great artist." The young singer should memorize a text, should repeat it over and over aloud, testing the matter of emphasis or stress upon each w-ord to determine just where it should be and the proper arrount to give the best interpretation to the thought. V/HEN I WAS OCM THE OTHeR SlOgA : | \ THE v/ftiZ, ! r-CcTD \ , | | [ BUT .;OW HE DID H *_ II 103 w A Glass Horn. An Innovation in phonographs Is an Instrument equipped with a horn of beveled mirror glass. The claim of the makers is that the horn of a talk ing machine best amplifies the tone when its surface is smooth and rigid, hence one of heavy glass is preferable to one of wood or metal. Important Rivers. Just as Egypt has been made by the Nile, so Mesopotamia, has been made by the Tigris and the Euphrates. The view put forward with some au thority that the rivers should be kept exclusively for Irrigation and not be depended upon for transport Is chal lenged on many grounds, one of which Is that irrigation and navigation can be effectively combined, and Indeed made mutually advantageous for many years to come. Free Board. A restaurant In Yuma, Ariz., dis plays a sign that reads: "Free board every day the sun doesn't shine." At first sight the offer of free board every day the sun doesn't shine might seem a reckless- one, but, as a matter of fact, a day without sunshine In that desert country Is far rarer than black berries in May. If It rains at all. It is only for a very short time, leaving most of the day for sunshine, so that the sign would only catch a tender foot Mineral Lake. A lake near Blggar. Saskatchewan, has been found to be saturated with sodium sulphate, and the deposits un der the lake and alongside the edge to be nearly 97 per cent pure sulphate. The mineral Is used extensively in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, in pho tography and other industrial pur pose". Casa Stabilita nel 1895 PROVATEi L'Olio Marca "La Siciliana" j H A iHT V fl|r wf .jMttlr iHBL 4 Jm' wil ||S|B np HR ■fflp .lirW 99H MARCA "GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI" Prezzo speciale per ordine di 25 casse in su r * ■ - Grande Grosserìa All' Ingrosso ■ Prezzi Ristretti per Generi Garantiti \ Pasquale Giunta IMPORTATORE D'OLIO D'OLIVA 1030 So. 9th Street - - - Philadelphia, Pa.
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