IN A LUTHER BUHBANK GARDEN.
White ant the coreleas apple buds,
As your hand in mine I claap,
The cactus plant ne'er cackle now,
,,v., lin in minn 1 cl.lsn. nm ut ircm ll.ive nil l.-PCll nr.-livn.
And we wander through the eyeleaa apuda And calm there falla upon your brow
And the raapberriea, sans raap.
Yon plucked a blackberry, daarhng white,
Aa we chanted a tuneleas rune,
And I took a Inarioua, eoulful bit
Of n pitleaa, akinleaa prune.
The light of a aunleaa dawn.
In this dear plare I would live for aye.
Discussing the whyleaa how.
And apeeding the minnteleaa lionra by,
From the path of the pathleaa now.
fltnver Republican.
TARRY
I could see nothing, hear nothing,
m I waited In the appalling stillness
for them to come for come thta way
they muat.
Before me stretched the long,
white road, a porfectly straight line
ruled between strips of green, and
empty of living creatnre or obstacle
of any kind. What a road for racing;
how impossible to come up with any
thing that had got the start! Sud
denly came a low droning like that of
a bumble bee close at hand, a tiny
speck appeared over the edge of the
world, and in the same instant (as it
seemed to me) a Napier car went
roaring by in a whirl of dust, and I
caught a lightning glimpse of its two
crouching occupants, tbelr white
overalls grotesque and distended by
the tearing wind.
Like an apparition. It had come,
It had gone. I could almost have
doubted if It had ever been there had
it not left on my mind an impression
at once amazing and intoxicating
intoxicating, as illustrates human
possibilities applied to locomotion;
amazing, that a man should have the
nerve and skill to control so enor
mous a projectile.
But Major Colllngwood had nerve
enough for anything, even to run
ning away with my sweetheart, for it
was Tarry who sat beside him, and
whose attitude, as she flashed past,
gave me the impression of fear.
Yet they were guests in the same
house. What wsb there out of the
way in their having a trip before
breakfast In the new car, of which
the man was so proud, and that had
only just arrived? Well enough I
knew how women with diseased
nerves, living only for excitement,
found a fierce joy in these mad rides,
eourtlng danger as a fillip to the'r
jaded senses; but Tarry was not one
of that sort, or she had not been so
dear to me and others. That Major
Colllngwood had abducted her, I was
morally certain, yet there stood I
like a clod and a fool by the dusty
hedge, not knowing what I should
do next, and knowing well enough
that whatever I did I could not come
up with a motor car that was going
at the rate of eighty miles an hour.
Across the fields showed the gables
of the bouse at which I was staying,
and to which, at S o'clock that morn
ing, bad come a wire which had
planted me here In the high road,
to see what I should see and I had
seen It.
"No breakfast!" cried a voice from
the other side of the hedge, "and all
to 86 your beloved flash by with Dolf
Cefltngwood! Fastest pace I ever
saw but the roads about here are
heaven-born for motors."
"How could you possibly tell who
the woman was?" I inquired, jealous
for her honor.
"Because Tarry is so pretty you'd
know her in the dark," said my host,
equably, as he lit a cigar. "She is
almost the last survival of the old de
lightful type of woman that has not
lost its femininity by over-indulgence
In outdoor pursuits and masculine
vices. Lord, you-'sjnay walk the Lon
don streets for da, v. and see tons of
well grown, aggressive women, and
not one really pretty girl like Tarry
among 'em all! But what's the trou
ble? They are merely out for a morn
ing scamper."
"Look here," I said, and gave him
the wire I had received that morning.
He muttered over its contents half
aloud.
"Colllngwood taking Miss Well
born out on racing car to-morrow be
tween 8 and 9. Means mischief,
Look out for them. London road.
Toby."
"Up to his tricks again," said Bob,
frowning. ' He forgot you were stay
ing here; also reckoned without
Toby. But Tarry's as straight as a
die, and it's broad daylight, man. He
can't drag her by her bonny brown
locks to his lair without somebody
seeing him.
"Tarry is rich," I said briefly.
"Colllngwood is poor and desper
ate. Toby is no fool. Depend upon
It, he did not warn me without rea
son. Will you lend me a horse?'
With which to catch a Napier
doing its eighty miles an hour?"
"Accidents happen they must
slow down at the villages. Tarry
may be able to attract attention to
her plight fifty things may happen
Now will you tell them to saddle a
horse, and I'll get Elsa to give me
some breakfast?
Bob went off to the stables, and
Elsa poured out my tea, and blamed
me for leaving Tarry alone in a house
wheie Major Colllngwood also was a
guest.
"Didn't you and Bob beg mo to
come over for a couple of days?'
began, indignantly, "and ain t I as
aura of Tarry as she is of me?"
She looked comical at that, and
told me never to be sure of a woman
and thought it was awfully smart of
Toby to wire me, and wondered how
he got the tip.
"Colllngwood let out something in
his cups, I expect; it's the only time
he la ever known to speak the truth."
She nodded.
"That la the secret of his Influence
over us women," she aald, "that he
never lets ns see ourselves as we
really are, only we think we are
and he is genuinely In love with
Tarry, quite apart from her money.
.You don't think!" She put her im
pertinent head on one aide, and there
was a suggestion In her eye that
made me long to box her ears
soundly.
"No, I don't!" said, curtly, and
Vent oft to the stable, a4 in another
doubt-
minute was out on the road
fully encouraged by Bob.
"They are thirty miles ahead of
you by now," he said, "though, of
course, they can't go the pace all the
way they did here. His extraordin
ary nerve and skill will enable him to
negotiate awkward corners, but you
must hear of him as you go along.
Still, bar his having a smash, I don't
see how you can possibly come up
with him."
"I mean to try," I said, waving my
hand to Elsa, who maliciously mur
mured :
"They'll have fleet steeds that fol
low, quoth young Lochlnvar," as I
departed.
There was no difficulty in finding
out which way Major Colllngwood
had gone. The road had a deserted
appearance here and there carts
wero drawn up beside it. I saw
white faced, trembling people into
whom the very fear of God had been
put as he leaped upon them, as It
were from the ends of the earth, and,
used as they wero to motors, they
had never seen anything to go the
pace this one did. In the villages
where he had slowed down the wom
en told me that the lady had seemed
"afeared," and several times had
tried to Jump out, but the gentleman
had only laughed and held her fast.
and said that his wife was "nervous.'
All spoke of his incredible skill and
luck; he had injured no one, his car
was unhurt, and he seemed In the
best of spirits. They must have
reached town long ago, I thought, as
at 11 o'clock I came to a place where
the London road forked, and by a de
tour of about a mile one could follow
seldom used road by which one
ventually returned to the highway.
As I passed the corner a scrap of
something white, caught on a thorn
bush, arrested my attention, and,
obeying some unaccountable Impulse,
turn aside, secured the bit of cam
bric, and in the corner of it found the
initial I had somehow expected. s
With beating pulses I followed
what I felt sure was a signal flung
out in despair, and I had not ridden
far, on an exceedingly bad road, when
came upon a motor car lying in
uinR, a man pinned beneath its
wreckage, and a little terrified figure
sitting in the hedge with hands
clasped over Its eyes.
"Tarry!" I cried out, and at that
she jumped up, and, running toward
me, fell into my arms as I dismount
ed. "Frank! Frank!" she moaned,
and wept as It her very heart would
break.
I kissed the grimy little lace, in
which at least the blue of her eyes
was untouched, and leaving the horse
went to see If her abductor were dead
or merely lnsnnslble, and when I had
lifted the lighter wreckage from him
(he lay face downward and hl3 un
changing luck had decreed that he
was pinned In such a way that he had
escaped visible injury) I was about
to turn him over, when Tarry seized
my hand and dragged me in the op
posite direction. For the moment. I
had no impulse to go back and play
the part either of good Samaritan or
of Nemesis. What I had to say to
him could be said later, and curiosity
gripped me.
"How did it happen the accident,
I mean?" I said.
Just whore the roads fork we
heard a fast motor coming up behind
us, and a man'avolce very like yours;
I am sure he thought it was you. He
lost his head and took the wrong
road, while I draw out my handker
chief as a signal, in case it was you
for I knew you would follow us. This
road is quite unfit for motors, and.
though we were not going fast, sud
deniy a tire burst, the car ran up a
bank, turned a complete somersault
back into the road, hurling me into
thiti hedge, while be was under the
car. I think It happened ages ago
for fainted."
"Tarry," I said quietly, "what have
you been up to that the fellow should
dare to take the liberty of running
away with you?"
"You would go away, Frank, to
your dear friend Bob, and I told you
Major Colllngwood was worrying mo
and refused to believe that we liked
each other."
"Tarry, you're'a flirt," I said, with
conviction. "A decent girl shows her
lovo for the man she is engaged to so
plainly that"
Tarry looked wisely at me some
how I thoughtof Elsa; in some thlugs
women are very much alike.
"His new racing car only came last
night," she said, "and he begged me
to have breakfast early and go out
for a trial spin in It. I tried to get
out of it, but my hostess backed him
up, so at last I gave In. But we had
barely started when he told me coolly
that, ub I didn't seem to know my
own mind he had made It up for me
iiul he was taking me straight to
town ho had the special marriage
license in his pocket! But he couldn'
make me, you know. And I was pray
ing that you might see us from the
gables, when we passed you In the
road, and I did everything I could to
delay him so that you might come up
with us, but It was no good. In the
villages I triad again and again to
get out, and begged the people to
help me, but he only laughed, and
said his wife was nervous! His wlfe-1
So nobody dared to help me!"
"Cowards! ' I said.
"Think of It, Frank, that the worst
brutality used by a man to a woman
Is uot Interfered with because she Is
his wife!"
"Much motoring hath made him
mad," I said. "Uvea if he got you
safely to town, what could he do?
And he must have known there would
be a hue and cry raised after you."
"He reckoned on the scandal on
my not facing It, I mean," said Tarry.
"You are a very proud person,
Frank supposing you had refused to
take me back."
The tearB had made 'two clean run
nels down her cheeks. It was almost
Impossible to recognise in her one of
the daintiest little girls that ever
lived, and, Inwardly, I vowed that If
I ever bought an automobile, her
looks should not be sacrificed to
either reckless conceit or the manu
facturer's advantage.
"Frank," she said, "I've heard
women say It's heaven going at that
terrific speed but It's just hell, and
the wind tears the breath out of your
throat. It's mad, it's brutal, It's
wicked for men to build, and men to
drive, such things just to cut one
another out "
"In other things than speed," I
said. "Well, it was boldly planned,
and but for Toby might have suc
ceeded." "Toby?" cried the girl, startled.
I took the wire out of my pocket
and gave It to her. She gasped as she
read it.
"Oh! the scoundrel!" she cried,
and clenched her fists.
"Tarry," I said, "prepare for a
shock. Major Colllngwood abducted
you, not because he loved you so
much as because he loved your money
more. I am rich myself, so your for
tune Is no serious drawback to you In
my eyes. But Colllngwood spends alt
his money on automobiles 'and
wants more "
Tarry turned an Indignant shoul
der on me. and I put my arm around
it, and said in her ear:
"So it was not wise of you to put
such a temptation in his way "
"Temptation?"
" or good form to be racing
about the country with one man
Spread of the Tip Graft.
Millions Paid Yearly to Porters and Waiters.
One Custom We've Borrowed From
Europe to Our Own Disadvantage
Pullman Employes Alone Get
$2,000,000 a Year Easy
Money Made In Hotels
Bctere-eeeree ctrt.-r-r'r--T'
! Witch Doctors.
while engaged to another."
"But all the women do it "
"Yes but then you see you are
the woman."
"I was angry with you for going
away," she whispered, "and though
I'm not a motor-maniac I'm afraid
to be for once that mad fever got
Into my veins. I'd never settle down
or make any home for you worth
having. In moderation, I like it
the incredible ease of movement, the
swallow-like sensation, the exhilara
tion; so you shall buy me a car. sir.
but not a racing one, when when"
and she impudently pinched my
chin instead of completing her sen
tence.
"Tarry," I said, "don't you think
you look far nicer with all your fril
lies on, sewing under a tree in your
garden, than as you do now?"
"It is all you men care for
frills," she said. "Do you do you
think he is dead? I I'm afraid to
look!"
I started, the sheer Inhumanity of
the thing, leaving him untended yon
der while we laughed and talked to
gether, struck me with sudden force,
and I turned hurriedly back. Tarry
following at a distance.
At the bend of the road I drew a
deep breath of relief. Colllngwood
was sitting In the hedge, his attitude
ono of deepest dejection as he gazed
at the masB of wreckage before him.
"All's fair In love and war," he
said, airly, as I came up; "you've
won, and be hanged to you. There,"
and he pointed to the smashed car,
goes 1200 and there," he pointed
to Tarry, "goes the only woman I
ever wanted to marry."
"Aud there is 'Mie horse that
brought me," I said. "It I give you a
leg up can you ride to the nearest
doctor?" for I saw by the way his
left arm hung at his side that it was
broken.
Ho nodded and got up. Shaken
and grimed as he was beaten, too,
in his mad enterprise the old reck
less light still showed In bis eyes as.
having mounted, he turned in the
saddle and looked at the motor.
"I'll send you these pieces," he
said, then looked at Tarry. "Of all
the little devils to run away with"
he said, then was gone, while I
shouted after him to return the horse
to Bob Fansbawe, to which he yelled
back that he would.
For a moment we listened to those
galloping, retreating hoofs, then I
said:
"Tarry, there must be no more of
these accidents. When will you mar
ry me?"
"When you like!" MttjtMft
"To-morrow?"
"O! yes yes only take me where
I cau get some tea!" The Bystander.
The manner In which the people of
the United States are borrowing the
tipping habit from Europe Is a matter
for grave concern. Take the case of
your smiling friend the Pullman por
ter. Do you know that the dimes
and quartern and half dollars given
him by our traveling public every
year amount to more than $2,000,000
and that we present him with $6000
every morning before breakfaat?
Let's figure It out. There are about
8000 porters la the employ of the
Pullman company. If the total
amount received by each of them
was a dollar a day, that would be
$8000. But In order to make allow
ance for time off and for stingy or
frugal travelers who give little or
nothing suppose we knock off a cou
ple of thousand dollars every morn
ing. That would make $6000 a day,
or $2,t90,000 for the year.
This generosity on the part of the
traveling public would be all right
If the porters got the benefit of it.
But they do not. Cnder present con
ditions the tips are merely another
source of profit for the Pullman com
pany. One would suppose that all
the timo of a grown up man, In most
instances with a family to support,
would at least be worth $10 a week,
or $40 a month, to a concern earning
millions of dividends. But the por
ter gets only $2 5 a month, and is left
to get the remainder from the pub
lic. Therefore the Pullman company,
on account of tips given to its em
ployes, makes a saving of $15 per
month on each of them, amouuting to
$120,000, or $1,440,000 a year.
After the thousands of passengers
arriving at their destination In this
country every morning turn over
$6000 to the Pullman porters, they
give away another thousand to sta
tion boys who carry their bags out
from the trains. Before they get
comfortably settled down to the
breakfast table another donation of
$2000 or so is made to hack drivers.
Then the waiters proceed to "get
theirs." After the porters no other
class of servants depends so much
upon tips as the waiters.
In many of the large establish
ments in the cities the attendants
have a perfectly organized system for
securing and sharing the proceeds
they get from the public. One way of
working it is this: When you enter
the dining room for a first meal at a
hotel the head waiter places you at
a table and then watches carefully
when you leave to see It you fee the
waiter. If you leave some change
the head waiter claims part of It. It
the one who attended you should re
fuse to divide, the next time you en
ter the dining room you will be put
at some other table, presided over by
a "square man."
Sometimes the only way a waiter
can get prompt service In the kitchen
for a favored guest is to "see" the
server. Thus, when you leave a quar
ter under the edge of your plate It
does not always go Into the pocket
of the man who attended you, as you
might suppose, but Is distributed
among a number of employes with
whom you do not come In contact. If
you fall to leave any change under,
your plate and remain at that hotel
for any length of time you will be
likely to receive scant consideration,
for the servants will be busy looking
after those people who are not nb
eeutmindud when they finish their
meal.
One hotel proprietor tells this ex
perience he had with a new waiter
who came to his place. The new man
:auie on at the breakfast hour, and
In the course of time way set to wait
upon the manager without knowing
who he was. Instead of serving a
imall cup of cream for the coffee he
brought milk with it. The manager
laid to him: "Here, take this milk
back and bring mo somo cream."
'We havo no cream," said the new
comer. The surprised manager
looked up at him quickly and said:
'Like thunder you haven't. I am the
manager of this place, and I just
tfix Miracle and Medicine in
Brittany.
By W. C. FITZ-GMALD.
M i SI I I AND .UK.
checked in a hundred gallons of
cream not more than twenty minutes
ago." With genuine embarrassment
the new recruit replied: "Oh, I
didn't know you were the manager;
I'll bring It at once, sir." The motive
was to please; certain regular custom
ers of the dining room, who made a
practice of tipping, by keeping a lib
eral quantity of cream In reserve for
them, giving ordinary patrons milk
with their coffee.
The barbers In the large establish'
ments of the cities are also well or
ganized for securing tips. Most of
them work on percentage and have
all kinds of extra things they try to
sell each customer. The man who
does not give ten cents above the
regular tariff Is an unwelcome cus
tomer in most of the big shops. The
up to date barber "educates" his
customers to the Idea of tipping. He
begins a friendly line of talk and
tells you confidentially that things
are going pretty bad with him.' He
will likely say: "Do you have any
idea what wages they pay in this
place? They pay so little that It it
were uot for the tips we get wc could
not pay rent and provide for our fam
ilies. Of course, nearly everybody,
that comes In here gives us some
thing, so we manage to worry along."
By such means the barber makes his
customer understand that something
extra Is expected. If a good "edu
cator" opens up on you and you fail
to take the hint, you had better look
for another shop.
A dodge which is worked with uni
versal success by many crafty ton
sorlal artists is the soiled towel trick.
In order to Induce his customers to
buy shampoos he keeps a towel at
hand the corner of which is very,
grimy. When you get in his chair
he passes this over your head, then
shows you the dirt, which did not
come from your hair at all, but off
the heel of his boot. As he flashes
the soiled towel he will say: " Lota
of dirt In your hair. Better let mo
wash It out," and In nine cases out of
ten the unsuspecting victim will say
"go ahead," when he probably doesn't
need a shampoo at all.
Once when the writer was discuss
ing tips with a foreigner he made the
following explanation of why it is
done in Europe: "It is merely a lit
tle cash concession made to men who
have to labor at tasks not quite
worthy of human dignity. It is not.
It you think of It, quite worthy of
human dignity that a man should
spend his life in setting down baked
meats on a board for other men to
eat. This is why we have invented
tips, to reconcile men to perform
menial offices with an appearance of
contentment."
Any self-respecting man " who
works for his living ought to resent
such an attitude as this. Honest
labor of any kind, even of a personal
character, can be dignlfled if it Is
done In a dignified way.
The functions of the waiter and
the barber are necessary parts of our
living. We are all more or less de
pendent on one another, and tho most
menial service is respectable If done
In a respectable manner. Here is a
chance for organized labor to assert
itself. Receiving chance gratuities
in the place of salaries is neither dig
nified nor profitable, but It is demor
alizing. The particular classes of
labor that receive tips should stand
together and refuse to take them.
They should demand wages in keep
ing with the service they render.
That taking chance tips instead of
receiving an adequate salary is not
profitable is shown by the condition
of affairs abroad. In those countries
where the tipping system has been in
vogue the longest labor Is the most
debased. In Berlin one is even ex
pected to tip the street car conductor.
In Vienna one must fee the janitor
who lets him la or out of his own
house at night. Practice has made
this so universal that It is almost as
binding as it it were law. New York
Sun.
This item of veran in floating around.
Credited to the Expreaa (iaaette. but ea
what city, or the name of the uncrowned
laureate, son of man knoweth not to thkt
dav. The name of the mapireil writer
annum be written in lettera of gold
op in the Hall of Fame.
I'm the beat pal that I ever had,
I like to be with me:
I like to ait and tell mvseh
Things confidentially.
Genesis of Burdett-Coutts' Fortune.
The death of the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts throws one's thoughts back to
the lady from whom she inherited
her riches. Helen Mellon's career Is
one of the romances of the stage.
From a stroling player she became
first, the bride of the leading English
banker of his day, and, subsequently,
Duchess of St. Albans. In Sir Walter
Scott's journal for 1825 Is an account
of a visit paid by Mrs. Coutts to Ab-
botsford, with the duke, her suitor,
in her train. We may gain some ldeu
of how people traveled In the. pre-
rallway era when we read that the
wealthy widow for this Scottish tour
required no fewer than seven car
riages. With three only of these she
came to Abbotsford.
Sir Walter was evidently interested
in the forthcoming union, which, like
a more recent union, had Its critics.
On November 25 he writes: "Mrs.
Coutts, with the Duke of Bt. Albans
and Lady Charlotte Beauclerk, called
to take leave of us. When at Abbots
ford his suit throvo but coldly. , .
Shi had refused him twice and de
cidedly. . . . What then? If
the duke marries her he ensures an
Immense fortune; If she marries him
she had the first rank. If he marries
a woman older than himself by. twen
ty years, she marries a man younger
In wit by twenty degrees." Sir Wal
ter, very shrewdly, goes to the heart
of the matter. Eighteen months later
Mrs. CouttB became the duchess, a
dignity enjoyed by her for ten years.
Columbia University was chartered
as King's College in 1764. The name
was changed to Columbia College in
1784 and Columbia University in
Japan In Australia.
I can corroborate your correspond
ent, Mr. H. P. Lyne, in his statement
:oncerning tho successful navigation
by the Japanese navy of one of the
most difficult harbor entrances in the
world Port Melbourne, Australia.
Some six or seven years ago my
husband and I were lunching with u
well-known Melbourne family, and
the daughter of tho bouse turned to
me and said: "We had such a jolly
surprise a lew weeks ago, Mrs. VII
Uers. One of the Japanese battle
ships came into harbor, quite un
known to anybody, during the night,
and after the usual salaams sent
round invitations for the most rip
ping dances and things."
I looked across at my husband, for
he and I had often talked over Jap
an's intentions toward Australia, and
replied: "One day, I'm afraid, you
will wake up to find invitations Is
sued for quite another ripping sort
of dance." Of course, they all
laughed at me then; but, on our re
turn to England, my husband, lectur
ing on Kangarooland, said, practi
cally, all that your correspondent
does in warning about the knowledge
possessed by Japau of that now more
or less wasted laud of milk and honey
Australia. Letter to Londou Daily
Mail.
Til Una n Likes Roses.
At his home in South Carolina Sen
ator Tillman Is famous as a gardener.
He produces, among other things, the
best asparagus and the finest roues
to be found anywhere in the State.
Like other South Carolina farmers,
Tillman raises corn and cotton. These
are staple products of that region.
Lately Tillman has made a specialty
of cultivating asparagus for the early
Northern markets, and his Income
from this source is considerable. The
cultivation of roses amounts tj pas
sion with the pitchfork advocate. In
bis home garden he has no less than
MO varieties ot them. -The Pilgrim.
Greenhorns as Inventors.
In 1827 a carpeuter of Sandwich,
Mass., wanting a piece of glass of a
peculiar size and shape, conceived the
idea that the molten metal could be
pressed Into any form, much the
same as lead might be. Up to that
time all glassware had been blown,
either offhand or In a mold, and con
siderable skill was required and the
process was slow. The glass manu
facturers laughed at the carpenter,
but he went ahead and built a press,
and now the United States is tho
greatest pressed glassware country
In the world.
In 1890 a novice In the plate glass
Industry, Henry Fleckner, of Pitts
burg, whose only knowledge ot glass
had been acquired In a window glass
factory, invented an annealing
"lehr," the most important single
improvement ever introduced in plate
glass manufacture. In three hours
by the lehr the same work Is done
which under the old kiln system re
quired three days. In four years the
importations of foreign crown and
plate glass Into the United States fell
In value from $2,000,000 to $200,000.
About the same year Philip Argo
bast, of Pittsburg, also a novice in
glassmaklng. Invented a prooeas by
which bottles and Jars may be made
entirely by machinery, the costly
blow-over process being avoided and
the expense of bottlemaklng reduced
one-half. The result has been that
more bottles and Jars are used in a
month now than in twelve months
ten years ago. Cosmopolitan.
Where Giant Cabbages Grow.
The soil ot Culm Is very fruitful.
Cabbages grow so large that heads
weighing twenty pounds each are
common. All vegetable do well.
Radishes are ready for the table
within from fourteen to eighteen days
utter sowing, lettuce In fire week
biter sowing, while corn produce
three crop eaoa year.
The mixture of medlrine and mlra
le I familiar to us In books of travel
lealtng with remote and ssvage re
Jlons, such as Zululand, Morocco,
islatlc Turkey and China, where the
amlly "practitioner" squats by the
oadslde selling amulets and charms,
ove philtres, mysterious protection
.gainst invisible enemies, and cures
or all Ills, even more weird thao
hose of the witches in "Macbeth."
But who would look for witch and
vizard doctors at this day in civilized
France? It need hardly be said that
heir habitat la beautiful old Brittany
that paradise of artists, where the
vorld has stood still for centuries and
ill conditions of life are in some re-
'.perts as backward as they were in
he twilight days of King Arthur and
lis knights. Even the marriage cere- !
uonles, with their barbaric open air !
'easts and dances and the queer
'pursuit" of the bride, are survivals '
if paganism when marriage by cap- j
ure was In vogue.
The Bretons speak a tongue of j
heir own, and In many villages of
he Department of Morblhan French
is entirely unknown. Everywhere
MM comes across quaint old manners
md customs, for the people arc filled
with superstition and cling to the
manners of their forefathers wltb
nosltlve fanaticism.
This Is nowhere more In evidence
.nan In the matter of the village doc
;or or doctress grave persons la
ionic in speech, and supposed to be
'Hied with all knowledge ot the
leavens and the earth and thlngi
'.hat are under the earth.
In villages like Concarnau or love
y old Quimperle one meets the
Breton maglclan-doctor at his best
It may be the patient is a flshermac
,vho haB badly sprained his back on a
'ugger. and knows no peace until the
loctor Is sent for. The treatment id
many cases is given In the open air,
:or a number ot reasons. First, the
'oars and yells of the victim, much
llmlnlshed by space, do not so great
J distress his relatives; and, more
iver, the scene draws a small crowd
it respectful spectators who are vast
ly impressed by the wonderful skill
or occult knowledge of tho operator.
The wizard doctor of Brittany hat
to "bedside manner" to speak of
He Is sent for for a specific object,
i nil strives to attain this in the most
In--, i and vigorous manner posalulo.
well knowing that unless his herb po
lions are appallingly nauseous and
drastic in result and his bone setting
i matter of agony little faith would
e put In him and his payments ic
rash and kind would dwindle to th
vanishing point as murmurs against
ais feeble methods slipped from vil
lage to village.
A matter like neuralgia, being dif
ficult to cure in any showy or dra
matic manner, calls for the "magic
'wand," with much cabalistic mutter
'ng and "laying on of hands," more
or less after the manner of the apos-
les. Some of these go-called doctors
'inqunstlonably have a rude notion ol
boue setting, aud their treatment of
iprnins and simple fractures, al
though causing intense pain to the
patient, undoubtedly attains its ob
ject. The women doctors are usually
old, with a primitive knowledge of
the effects of certain herbs upon the
system, and their specialty is the
treatment of children and women.
Their methods would excite dismay
in New York, London or Paris, but a
most touching and implicit faith is
put in them, even when they act as
dentists by the old string and chair
method. Fees are frequently paid in
grain, hay, native costumes and sil
ver ornaments, but tho women also
often pay the witch doctors by means
ot their own hair.
It should be explained that there
is a regular hair harvest In Brittany,
and the girls and women do not mind
much parting with their back tresses,
because the native Breton bonnet
conceals the loss.
The doctors also practice a certain
kind of hypnotism, especially in the
case ot nervous affections, and fre
quently succeed In persuading a pa
tient (even with blows, curses and
contumely) that there Is nothing at
all the matter with him, and that he
ought to be ashamed ot himself giv
ing up work these hard times and
causing anxiety to his friends and
relatives!
Mud poultices, cats' fur, dogs' hair,
human blood, parchment with mys
terious words written on it these
are some ot the "remedies" which the
quack doctors of Brittany commonly
use, and which are believed in by the
patients with tho faith that moveth
mountains. The more successful of
these village practitioners employ as
sistants, especially in dislocation
cases, where the patient Is likely to
put up a stout resistance to the dras
tic and painful methods employed to
put the bone back Into Its place.
In some of the very smallest ot
Breton villages, however, the man
or woman doctor adoptB this honora
ble profession only as occasion may
arise, and as a kind ot "side line."
Thus it may be a small farmer or an
old woman who keeps a tiny store
both ot them with an hereditary
knowledge and a taste for the cure
of Ills.
It must be borne In mind that even
these "occasional" doctorsenjoy their
meed of respect and local renown,
and are frequently called upou to
cure a sick baby or growing child, or
even to treat an adult person with
strange drugs of tbelr own brewing,
ot course entirely unknown to the
pharmacopoeia, and seriously applied.
For the physician in most cases be
lie, es as implicitly In the treatment
as the patient himself; the tor aer
has seen these weird remedies ap
plied alt the days of his life, and well
knows they Have come down from
time immemorial.
It is the doctor, too, who Is fre
quently employed as a "go-between"
in Initialing the elaborate and com
plicated ceremonies that mark
Breton wedding. New York Tribune.
I often ait and aak me
if I ahnuldn't or I ahould.
And I find that my advice to me
la always pretty good.
I never ant acquainted Wild
MvaelF till hers of late.
And I find myself a bully chum,
I treat me aimply great.
I talk with me and walk with me
And ahow me right and wrong.
I never knew how well myeelf
And me could get nlong.
I never try to cheat me,
I'm aa truthful aa can be;
No matter what may come and go,
I'm on the aquare with me.
It'a great to know youraetf and have
A pal that's all your own;
To be auch company for yourself
You're never left alone.
You'll try to dodge the maaaea.
And you'll find a crowd's a joke.
If von only treat yourself as well
As you treat other folk.
I've made a study of myself, .?
Cotttpersfl with me the lot,
And 1 ve finallv concluded
I'm the best friend that I've got.
Just gel together with vouraelf
And trust yourself with you,
Ami on'll lie surprised how well yourself
Will like you if vou do.
Lots of women grow old before
their time trying to keep young.
New Orleans Picayune.
"Is Maude taking a day off to cele
brate her birthday?" "No; she's tak
ing a year off." Boston Transcript.
"You surely don't meet them o
clally." "Oh, no; only to have a good
time, you know." Los Angele
News.
"My face is my fortune.' said Angelina
Brown.
Said Isabel Smith, "To be sure.
You are not to blame; and, beaides, we all
know
It isn't a crime to be poor."
Life.
"How many children have you?"
"Two living and one writing jokes
for a daily paper." Cleveland
Leader.
Redd "I see they have a new
dance, called the automobile dance."
Greene "Is it a breakdown?"
Yonkers Statesman.
Church "How are the New York
ers on the transportation question?."
Gotham "Oh, they stand pretty,
well." Yonkers Statesman.
"Don't curse muh, George," pleads
ed the heroine, shrilly. "He couldn't
If he wanted to," the villain snick
ered; "he's forgotten his lines." s
Puck.
"That handsome Jack Savage)
kissed me last night." "I thought
he would. He told me he felt sw
fully sorry for you." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
All lawyers like to take a rest,
i Like moat of ua, and still
J The average lawyer's happiest
" When wormng wun a win.
Philadelphia Press.
Farmer Wayback "Here's a col
umn In the dally paper headed 'The
People's Forum.' " His Wife "For
who, Silas? Why don't you read
on 7" New Orleans Times-Democrats1
Jones "Do you believe there 1
safety in numbers?" Skorcher-Af
"Sure; whenever I'm exceeding th
speed limit I hang some other chap';
number on the back of my auto!"
Life.
" 'Rastus, you look as If you had
been run through a cider mill. What'
the matter with your faco?" "Ovah
confidence, suh." "Overconfldence?"
"Yes, suh. Ovahconfldence In my,
lalgs. I thought I could call a man
a Hah, an' git away an' I didn't git
away, suh." Chicago Tribune.
These Men Are Needed.
Workers.
Progressive men.
Men of gumption.
Men who have no time to croak.
Farmers who can organize and
lead.
Men who believe in new enter
prises. Farmers who believe that farming
pays.
Solid business men with a farm
training.
Men who will develop the social
life of the town.
Men who will develop the horn)
market.
Hustlers who will combine West
ern push with Eastern shrewdness.
Men who love the boII and are not
ashamed of their calling.
Men who take pride In their town
and try to advance its welfare.
Men who will practice and teach
the business end of farming.
Men who are not afraid to do their
duty when holding local office.
Men who will save and work, aa
they would In the West, to succeed.
Men who believe that, everything
considered, their owu State la good
enough for them, and as good as any
other section of the wide earth.
American Cultivator.
Why Animals Fatten.
Why do some animals atore up tat
mora readily than others? An Eng
lish professor claims that animals)
having small lungs fatten easiest. H
says: "The disappearance of food
from, the system of an animal is ow
ing to a combustion ot the food by,
moans of the ulr taken by the lung.
The oxygen which, has once entered
the system never again escapes from
It without being united either wltb
part ot the body or ot the food."
That is, large lungs burn up or
breathe away the food, while small
lungs cave It. This theory has a
plausible sound and is supported la
auch Illustrations as that ot tht pig.
with its small lungs and large fatten
ing powers, in contrast with the
horse, which has the opposite quali
ties, but there seem to he various
objections to the general tateuvwt. ,