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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.
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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
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