|ON THE \
PRAIRIE \
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) B> IICNORL WILLSIE (
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As far as the eye could see the prairie
stretched as smooth as a floor. Bhoda
and little Dinny str died on and on till j
the home paddock was only a dot
against the blue sky line. Little l>iuuy
darted fro: ;e buttercup patch to
another, wit!, wild shrieks of delight in
their yellov glory. He pulled up great
handfuls of 'hem. rolled over and over
in their bed of gold and covered his
mother w ( : iiowers of their petals.
lthoda pi d little heed to Ditiuy's
Joy. The bine delight of the June skies
might :ii !i have been November
gloaming 112 .£ ail the pleasure reflected
iu her bro 'i eyes. The ranch walls
seemed to m fle her lately. She had
planned all night to take the boy and
spend the lonely waking hours iu the
open. 1' it IOW. with all the wide space
of sky and prairie about her, her sense
of desolation and disappointment seem
ed a veutuated instead of lessened.
She w.is tired of thinking, utterly
wear.' of trying to straighten her end
less tangle of questionings She want
el to get away, to find complete rest.
She wondered, in spite of the soft
hand of IMnny in hers, if things might
not have been vastly better had she
never come west to the ranch with
Donald. Somehow marri.\ge was so
different from her girlish dreams of it.
And now at twenty-three, after five
years, she was wondering if it really
paid. Not but that Donald was kind,
not but that he gave li?r all that he
could of himself lie could spare from 1
the ranch. It was the hopeless stupid
lty of it that was wearing on her. Her
life was made tip of inanities.
After the advent of Pinny and the
continual surprise that lie really was
theirs, that he did smile, that it was a
tooth and that lie had taken a step
nothing had occurred to disturb the
cloying evenness of her existence. And
Donald. a!l the oil ecstasy of the first
marriage r.ays gone, how unessential
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THEIIK WIS \ MAD KOAH—A WILD SWlltli
OF W1N1».
she was to his existence How little he
cared, after all. > long as ilie house
hold ran smojthly, whether or not her
needs were filled.
lthoda stooped to pick up Dinny, who
insisted that his bumped nose needed
immediate attention. She sat down in
a buttercup bed and looked at the
child. He was very like his father, she
thought. Pah! How stupid it was
merely to exi-t when she always had
planned to live!
The morning sun I s'i .idily to
ward no,: !'. tt iili L' i t with
the dr >v, ' : i her I : • .n.l watch
ed the i, . .> tiie ruadi bom
Hupp Kit ' : : she • i 1 back no :v >re,
supp >i t lie .lon t > the sta
tion with tiie child to 1 ■ a trail for
home, a she still called the p'? l ee of
her childho >d well, and what then?
Would she then cease to e:,ist and be
gin to live, or would the old inanity
of life s.xm overtake her even there?
It might be worth the (rial. But what
of Donald? How would It affect him?
Would he really be disturbed beyond
the iucouveuience it would make In his
household arrangements, or were there
quiet depths within him which she did
not suspect?
Fur away toward the east she could
see ine nnrn urie wblcb meant that the
men. with Donald, were "sorting" the
herd It would be long after dark be
fore Donald came in. She took deep
breaths of the prairie i.ir. sweet with
Its long sweep over flower laden grass,
clear and exhilarating as is no other
air in the world. Nothing in her east
ern home could compare with this, she
thou gilt The ocean Itself would seem
too inwisteut. to<> restless, after the
subtle beauty and peace of tl.e prai
ries.
Dinny stirred in her arms and woke.
She filled his hands with cookies and
watched hiai as he ate. answering his
questions In abstracted monosyllables.
Suddenly be cried in a shrill little
voice:
"Oh. momnile, what a funny clood!"
She looked lazily to the west; then
started to her feet, Dinny In her arms.
The air bad grown suddenly unbeara
bly oppressive There WHS a strange
thick haze over the prairie. Moving up
from the west was the old familiar
funnel shaped cloud which for the past
Ave years bad been her constant dread.
The child, after » i > > at her whlffe
face, clung whimper ugly to her neck."
For a moment she stood undecided. To
run with the ciiiid iu her arms was
next to impossible. And, even so, of
what use would it* be to run when she
was |>owerless to tell what would be
the course of the tornado? She looked
toward the faraway herding line. At
that far distance it seemed immovable,
yet she knew that already the herd
was snorting and wild with fear. In
the heavy silence her voW sounded
loud and shrill.
"Dinny," she said, "we are going to
iie down, with our faces in grass,
until the storm pauses over us, and
then we are going home, and mother
will make boy a gingerbread man for
supper. Won't that be nice?"
As sic spoke Ithoda dropped the boy
to the ground, and then, dropping be
side him, she drew him close to her
with one hand, shielding and protect
ing him with her body, while with the
other hand she clung to a stubby brier
root.
Then there were a mad roar, a sud
den half darkness and a wild swirl of
wind, then gradual quiet and freezing
cold with great deluges of Icy rain.
When the brst rour had died away in
distance HliodlL sat. ut). The tor-
nado had passed between her and the
ranch house. She pulled off her skirt
and wrapped it about the child, who
was limp and speechless with terror.
She herself was strangely calm.
As the darkness lifted a little she
tried to look oft: through the driving
rain to the herding lino, but she could
see nothing. She lifted the child and
with him in her arms struggled in the
direction of the ranch house. Slipping,
falling, wind whipped and half drown
ed, shivering with the cold, she strug
gled on and on.
Then through the swirl of the storm
she beard hoof beats, then Donald's
wild shout:
"lthoda! lthoda! Kliodal" And her
husband threw himself from his horse
and clasped them both iu his arms.
"Are you hurt? oh, you poor, poor
girl:"
"Oh. Donald, Donald!" she gasped.
"Oh, no, I'm not hurt. Neither Is
Dinny."
•"Dinny—oh, yes, Dinny, too, of
course." And he took the little fellow
from her and led her tow ard the horse.
"1 went home for lunch,"' he panted,
"to surprise you They said you were
out here. Then the tornado came, and
—and I went mad, 1 guess."
"Donald," said lthoda, raising her
voice above the howl of the storm, "did
you realiy care so much as Why,
you even thought of me before you did
Dinny. Did you really care so much,
1 lonaid ?"
Donald looked down into her upturn
ed face in dazed astonishment. "Care,
Bhoda7" he asked. "Care: Why, what
else do I live for?" And he put her
on the horse with a touch that thrilled
her as of old. She looked down at
the child as Donald laid liltn in her
lap, and the thoughts of the morning,
of the past years, came back to her.
"How could I have misunderstood
so?" she asked herself "What a fool
a woman can be!"
Donald, leading the horse, could not
hear, but she smiled happily at his
back through the blinding rain and
hugged the child to her with the old
joy of living.
The liidlftii of Today.
Something more than four centuries
have g »ue by since Columbus dawned
on the view of the American red man.
The nil man's horizon has broadened
in that time. A young man who de
scribes his adventures among the Sioux
for the Booklovers Magazine found the
warriors of the plains unimpressed by
the noble paleface.
"Why do they t*a 11 the Fourth of July
Tndejiendence day V " an old warrior
askisl ;is they sat by the campttre.
The explanation was somewhat inco
herent, but included meutiou of a war
with < ireat Britain.
"Oh, yes, 1 have been there," re
marked the Indian retuiniscently.
"London is a tine city."
Then up spoke another brave form
from where he squatted, with dripping
rain streaking his war paint, "I like
Paris better."
The white man gasped.
"Archibald was born in Heriin," said
the female sphinx at tlitf lard pulls,
turning to indicate the child who grin
ned toothlessly in the background.
"Which do you prefer?"' they asked.
"It has stopped raining." said the
white man,"and 1 must be going."
Later it transpired that one was a
Carlisle graduate, and all had been
abroad with Buffalo Hill.
JJU Mirror .Superstition*.
The mistrust of the ghostly mirror la
so old and so far spread that we meet
with It in the folklore of every land.
An old tradition warns us that the new
moon, which brings us such good for
tune when we look at it in the calm
evening sky, carries a message of evil
to those who see it first reflected In a
looking glass. For such unlucky mor
tals it is said that the lunar virus dls
tills slow poison and corroding care.
And, again, It is declared that the
friends who glance at their reflections
standing side by side are doomed to
quick dissension. In Scandinavia the
Swedish girl who looks into her glass
by candlelight Is told that she risks
the loss of her lover. One superstition
In this connection that seems to be al
most universal Is that it is very un
lucky for a bride to see herself in a
mirror after her toilet is completed.
If she be discreet she will turn away
from that fair picture which pleases
her so well and then draw on her glove
or have some tiny ribbon, flower or
Jewel fastened to Iter gown that th®
sour fates may be appeased and evil
turned away from the threshold.
(ii'ltiiiK « Mexicun I'alcul.
To procure a patent in Mexico the
party making application, unless pres
ent in person, must furnish his repre
sentative with a letter of authority—
carta de poder in Spanish—signed by
himself or herself in the presence of
two witnesses. Ordinarily legalization
by a Mexican consul is not required.
It must be borne in mind that one car
ta de poder w ill not answer for several
applications, as each application for
either patent or trademark must be ac-
I companied by a separate carta, de
poder. This must be accompanied by
a full and complete description and
claims of and for the Invention. If
they are sent in Spanish ready for filing
they must be in triplicate on clear
white paper &10 by 'Jl."i millimeters, ap
proximately Kt by IS'j English Inches,
written with typewriter on one side
only of the paper, leaving on each sheet
a left hand margin of one-fourth the
width of the paper. Of course if they
are not sent in Spanish the local repre
sentative attends to all the details,
which is by far the better way. He
should be furnished with full names,
profession, citizenship and resident of
j applicant
A IVnt.
Don't ask a to marry you after
dark >v!;en she is dressed tit to kill.
• 'all mi her, and when you leave inad
veri. ;i dr Ip a g!.»ve on the piano.
Iteti n IT it iin* next morning at 1)
o'clo-k If she comes to the door with
orfe h>e siiid iii'- slipper on, her hair
doin no hi curl papers, dressed in an
dd Mother Iluli'i.inl. our advice is to
lake to the woods I'.nt if she appears
in a u< t house dress, her hair done up
:HH .i r . • in the top of her hair, grab
her quick M arionvi Ile iMo.l Free
rres<
V\ ill II ill It \Vn ytt.
YIM* \vlit» v. iii Ihi'ir \vny into
Llie .ninost rt'ivs.-er, of others' hearts
ii" tint rsualh the most brilliant and
• i( I.i» ir those who have sympathy,
>:• t :i <- self forgetfuln' ss and that
ii ictiiril-.e faculty of eliciting the bct
t» • nai ire of otlic s Woman's Life.
Striin u
Mrs. de Ffsbion (at :# t.-hlldreii'# par
ty»— Marie! Nursegiri— Ves, ma'am.
Mrs. de Fashion- It's time for us togo
home. Which of these children Is mine?
- Home i 'hat.
Nature is an spolian harp, a musical
instrument whose tones are the re
echo of higher strings within ns
Novails.
| The Deputy jj|
Game Warden |j
| By CLARA TAYLOR
g '■ . ' ' • ' •
Harry Taylor, Yale graduate a nil ali
round good fellow and a general fa
vorite. although it was known that he!
had li" fortune, hail gone into the Maine
woods with a party of . mupers who,
like himself, could not well afford the
season at Newport. \s it was tlie
close season for all kinds of his? game,
they made little pretense of hunting.
They had I wen In the woods for a week
or teu days when Nick Barton, the
game warden for that district, hap
pened that way and was put up for the
night. Before leaving in the morning
he said to young Taylor:
"Look here, now. I have got togo
out of the woods for a week, hut it
won't do to leave this district without
a warden There are plenty of camp
ers coming in, and some of them will
run any risk to secure the antlers of o
moose. I've got to leave a deputy be- j
hind inc to travel about and watch, and
I'm wondering why you wouldn't fill
the hill."
"I have never acted as a policeman
yet." replied Harry, with a smile.
"But this is a far different thing. 1
shall notice to all the campers 1
come across that a deputy has been
left in the woods and that any inter
ference with the gillie laws will be,
duly and rigorously punished."
"i'ul suppose 1 find the law being vio
la ted and make an arrest."
"AH you have to do is to take yout
prisoner before the nearest justice ol
the peace and state your case. It Isn't
over twenty-five miles to the nearest
magistrate. It will beat fishing and
dawdling around all hollow."
Further objections were made am'
combated, and the upshot of the mat j
ter was that Harry Taylor was duly
and legally appointed deputy game
warden in and for a certain district
"I Ail A I>EPOTY GAMK M'AHDEN, AND 11
18 M* WYS TO AKKEMT YOU."
until such time as relieved, lie hadn't
the slightest idea of l>ostirrim; himself
us an official, anil it never occurred
to hlui that he would be called upon t<:
exercise his otildai authority.
The unexpected was getting ready to
happen, however, l our days after tin
departure of the warden his deputy
took a stroll through the woods with
gun upon his shoulder It was simply
a matter of conscience with him, and
he did not intend to tire himself out
lie had heard of no campers within a
dozen miles, and lit* was therefore con
siderably surprised at hearing there
port of a ritle a quarter of a mile from
where he sat resting upder a tree. He
knew that the firearm hail been dis
charged on the shore of a pond sur
rounded by thickets and known us the
haunt of the moose. It was more than
likely that, whoever the hunter might
be, he had tired at a moose and vio
luted the law.
There was a feeling of authority in
the young man's breast as he started
out to run down the violator. He did
not have much trouble about It. As he
ueared the lake he heard a wounded
animal thrashing about In the tfrass
and water, an I. getting still nearer, he
could distinguish a person in a canoe.
That person was holding the discharged
rifle across his knees as he sat and
watched the dying struggles of his
game. The canoeist was wearing a
nondescript garb, and it was three or
four minutes before young Taylor
made up his mind as to sex and mut
tered to himself:
"By Jingo, but it's a girl camper, and
she has surely shot a moose! What the
deuce am 1 jfoiuy to do about arresting
her and conveying her twenty five
miles through the woods'/"
Two or three minutes later the moose
for it was a moose, and a big bull at
that -ceased his struggles, und the ea
noe was puddled to the bank.
"That's right—come ashore:" called
Taylor. "Do you know that you have,
killed *a moose In the close season und \
thereby subjected yourself to a heavy ■
tine if not to Imprisonment as well?
1 am u deputy game warden, und it i->
my luty to place you under arrest."
"Is It—is It Mr. Taylor?" inquired a
girlish voies us the canoe was slowly
pushed through the to the firm
shore
"Yes, and you—you"—
Taylor stood there for the next two
minutes am stared. He had at last
recognized Miss Bessie Whiting, daugh
ter <i lie b:ml' r. He ltd met her half
u i! »>:< 11 times in society, and it was
whisji.-red atroi : mi ill ■ clubs and else
where that li;.* had been more than "at
tracted." 1 >i:t -he \\; ; the last person
he expected to meet in the deep woods
of .Maine.
"Our camp is only two miles away,"
she explained as he gave her a hand to
help her out of the canoe. "1 came up
the pond hoping to get a shot at a wild
fowl, but 1 have had great luck. While
1 was resting and lookiug around u
great moose pushed his way through
the bushes to drink, and, though I tired
only one shot. I brought him down.
Such antlers! Why, all the girls in the
city v,!!! envy me when I get back. Do
you think they will have it in the pa
pers V"
"1 am very much afraid so." he said
In a serious voice.
"Why, what Is it?"
"Didn't your father or brother tell
you that it is against the law to shoot
a moose this time of year?"
"Why, no."
"Well, It Is, and you have, as I said,
laid yourself liable to a heavy tine.
There may be Imprisonment as well,
but I am not sure about that."
"And what—what am 1 going to do?"
she asked in faltering, tones. "If you
and 1 keep -i ill about it, how are thoy
to know that I shot the moose?"
'•There's where the trouble comes in.
You see. | am a deputy game warden,
and it is my duty to arrest you and see
that you are punished."
"And I've got to >ro twenty-five miles
through the woods with you?"
"The nearest magistrate is that dis
tance away."
The girl s;ii down on a log and began
to shed tears. It would be iti the pa
pers with a vengeance if she were
brought before the law.
After regarding her with a sympa
tlietii look fir a moment young Tay
lor made his way down to the etlge of
the pom I to I >ok at the moose. That
the animal luul fallen at the discharge
of the i i tie anil floundered about for
several minutes was a fact beyond
dispute. The branches were broken
and the grass all beaten down, but
there was no moose. The bullet had
hit an antler and stunned him, and ou
coming to the cunning animal had
skulked away with no more noise than
a tabbil. He said nothing of this,
liowev. :', mi his return to the weeping
girl.
"\\ heii when are you going to take
inc." she asked as she looked up
through her tears.
"Well. I siipp >se we ought togo to
t amp and see your father tirst. I don't
exactly see what he can do in the mat
ter. but" -
"Mr. Taylor, you must get me out of
tin- - rape s iuicliow. Why, I'd be a
pet i ■ i laughing-lock if the papers got
hold <4' it i 'an*t father pay the amount
of i..,» line to yo'i?"
"i. i. ght, but there's the imprisou
iih \hi see fan you say that you
thou*:.i the moose was an elephant or
a rhiiioci ros'r"
"1 1 can't tell a lie. Mr. Taylor."
••t an yuii sa\ ihat you -hut your eyes
when you pulled the trigger?"
".Vo-p-e."
"Hut there must be a way of saving
you." hi said as lie sat down on the
log l.e ,iie her. 1 think you shot at a
wild g.o e. if nut that, then the gun
went oli by accident. As yet 1 have
not seen the dead moose, and 1 can't
expect that you will give testimony
against yourself. 1 think"—
"What
"If yoit arc t i be in the woods for
the < mill, and if I stay here its well,
ami if I visit yu ir camp every day to
see that the law is not being violated,
an I i >ou tiin 11 am not altogether—al
logenic; iti,lll.et'etit, why why"—
A m hi.h laicr as they were getting
reaily : i go oiii of the woods Miss
lies -ic -.1 ill .
"\, iii iv hi think became of the
ho i of that mo >so7 lather and Fred
welt! i : the horns next day, but the
body h: 1 mysteriously disappeared."
"I th... . the li .dy walked off ou Its
ow i, le_' bei ; e we got through talk
ing.' lie truthfully answered.
II r ey. s ilashe I f>r a moment, and
then -lie blushed and smiled and saitl:
"1 didn't think there was such a
mean man in all this world."
\ Micriclr: •• itctorl.
It: '• inl I'i'it- ei Sheridan always
maim 'tiled that the I Mike of Welling
ton would in t" i m Portugal, while
his ii i,| lie ii'i'al Tarleton hail the
opinion that lie would fail The mat
ter was otii of constant dispute be
tween the two.
Tarleton, w h > h.t I been w rong, grew
obstinate. «'■iiise«|Ueiilly. when the
news of the retreat of th« French at
Torre- Vethts arrived in England Sheri
dan. by way 'if a taunt, saitl
"Well. Tarleton. are you on your
high h irse still?"
"< Hi. higher than ever." was the reply.
"If 1 w as on a horse I eforc. I am on an
elephant now."
"No. no. ,Ny ileal' fellow." saitl the
wit; "you ii in ass before, nml
you are on a mule now
PELICAN ISLAND.
Hoiim* of Ul llir rclirniiN of flit* tlmt
( oi l'lorldit.
In that long, narrow lago>u on llie
east c iast ■ . Florida known as Indian
river there is a muddy islet three or
four ; civs in extent. Originally It
doubtle>s did not differ from hundreds
of siii.il. r neighboring islets, but, for
some . ease | -t finding out, this Islet,
j and this alota-. forms the nesting resort,
! the liti:tie. of all the pelicans of the Tn
| dian river, if not, indeed, of the east
coast of Florida. The brown pelican,
unlike its white t us u, nests norfhally
iu low tre< k an 1 bushes, and there is
evidch -e tl t wbci the original pelican
col nisihiiitbil on the islet which now
1 bears their name it was well grown
with black and red mangroves, in which
tin? birds placed their scaffolding of
sticks. Exceptionally low temperature
and high water —perhaps also excessive
use by the birds, which sometimes
build as manj as seven nests iu a
single mangrove- have killed tree after
tree, until at present only three service
able trees remain. Still the birds come
back, the impelling motive which
prompts them to return to this particu
lar spot being evidently stronger than
that which induced them to nest In
trees.—Frank M Chaumau '» t'.nrtw*
A Counter Attruction.
A recent visitor to Beaconsficld
churchyard asked a middle agetl native
of the village to be directed to the
I graves of Burke and Waller. The man
j said he bail no recollection of any such
persons having V*n buried there.
"But," he added, "you see that little
chemist's shop over there? That's the
shop where iK'vereux, the trunk mur
der man, used to be an apprentice!"
Sot There,
"Judge," said Mrs. Starveui to tin
| magistrate, who had recently come to
j board with her, "I'm particularly aim
tous to have y hi try this chicken soup.'
"I have tried it," replied the mngls
! Jate, "and niy decision is that the
chicken lias proved an alibi."—Ex
| change.
Tlie « nlihttr nenn,
i The famous Calabar beau Is said to
be worse than strychnine. The natives
use it for an or.lesl. If a person is ac
cused of a crime he is made to cat one,
: being adjudged to be Rulity In case of
j death, which is utmost inevitable. An
I other seed employed for a like purpose
|s that of the ordeal tree of Madagas
' car. saitl to be the most deadly of vege
I table products. One of these seed?
about tli ' i -'i of «u almond will kll
i twenty men
[
I ic I ::m! liM-t.
All our p. >g ■ s is uu unfolding llfci
I the vegetable hud. You have first ai:
in«tiurt, then an opinion, then a knowl
elg.'. as the plant has i >ii. bud ami
fruit Trust i " hi-tlnct to the end
thor Ji you ■ i i render no reason,
i Lmcrsou
)' hnndcrNlood.
lie I havt a sweet little home It
which I would be to Install you as Its
I mistress She Iniicd sir, I'll go inti
jno home oil the installment plan-
Baltimore American.
STOCKHOLM.
I lie <II.V <>f » TIIOONHIIU Ulanda and
H»«*ky UcefM.
I* run Sweden's capital an enthusias
tic vmiior v.*rltps: "The sky has an al
most Italian radiance as the sun shinea
clear and bright on Iho glittering levels
of the la goou 111ai divide the new town ■
from the old. Across the water, on 112
which a lleet of white ferryboats ply, •
rises tin- broad front of the palace, the '
stern outline of which is relieved by the j
srussel glow which time has lent to the
liri'-k\V(,. k In front of the palace runs
a broad quay crowded with shipping, !
beiiind 11i< 1! one may catch peeps of
narrow, winding streets, with sloping
tools and painted houses bent with I
age. The square front of the palace
rises ab >ve the red and gray roofs,
geeming to command the old city. On j
my right the waters narrow to a swift
rushing stream, over which a stately
bridge has been thrown, uniting the
palace with the pictur»»pie pile of the
opera house, or. rather, with the broad
square in which it stands. Behind the
opera house lie broad streets of mod
ern houses, in which there are unex
pected glimpses of waterways crowded
with shipping.
"Stockholm is built ou a series of is
lands formed by Lake Malaren. It is,
indeed, tic city of a thousand islands
and rocky reefs, which are sown broad
cast many miles beyond the mainland,
where the hike and river join the sea.
The steamers which ply up and down
the lake afford endless excursions.
Seaward you may sail a day among the
islands until you reach the long, low
reefs on which the ISaltic beats.
"In spite of their cold climate the
Swedes delight in the open air. After
the indoor life of English or Amer
ican cities it is a great pleasure to take
one's meals out of doors, although it
may sometimes he necessary to dina
i wrapped in an overcoat. We have
seen people dining in the Tivoli gardens
beneath awnings and umbrellas in the
rain. This habit may explain the health
j and vigor of the Swedes."
VARIETY IN CHEWING.
(•am unit Tobacco Arc Not the Only
Materials I'tilized.
(ium chicle, which forms the basis of
i most American chewing gums, is by no
! means the only chewing material,
' though chewing gum has spread over
i a large portion of the world.
I Among the old fashioned the gum of
the spruce tree is still in greater favor,
. and druggists near the great spruce
belts dri\«• a thriving trade in the brown
lumps.
Although the chicle couies from the
i tropics. Ii is seldom used as a chewing
gum there, uncured rubber being the
fashion. In Pern "euca," or cocoa
leaves, form the staple chew, the plant
being a p >wcrful stimulant, since from
its leaves cocaine Is extracted. In the
east the beti I nut is chewed In prefer
ence, the nut being prepared with lime.
To it might be accorded the place of
lirst prominence, -ince because of the
congestion of population practically
one tenth of the'human race give it
their preference.
One of the oddest chews is the leaden
bullet which the English soldier used
to chew be'ore the introduction of the
jacketed bullets now in use. They de
clared that it lessened their thirst and
to some extent deadened their hunger
on long marches.
) And then there is tobacco.
ODD THINGS ABOUT WORDS.
Wlicn tin- Word "l.tiiicli" \Vn» First
I HIII II tlruul a "Lump."
A "lunch." etyniologically. is just a
lump. In the sixteenth century a
' lunch of bacon" meant merely a slice
or hunk of it S> Burns speaks of
bread ffitd cheese "dealt about in
lunches." and Scott records that "little
Hciijic v. .is ramming a huge luncheon
of pie crust into his mouth.'' While in
modern times "lunch" is an abbrevia
tion from "luncheon." the latter was
originally an elongation of "lunch." A
philol 'gist s!i i\ s how the old "noon
I sic ;ik," n . in dt nk, came to mean noon
• rating, and t > appear as "nunsheon,"
and the development thereafter of
-Pine: <• u " from "lunch" was very
| natural.
t ur.oi:s clu'.nges of words sometimes
' take p!. •• between two languages.
! Thus English has borrowed the French
1 "poseur" and has given to France
i -snob" in trade. Frenchmen have a
way of takit.g a polysyllabic word and
! using half of it. Thus of "steeple
: chase they have appropriated the
steeple." aiid now the French sports
man speaks of "mounting a steeple*
. when lie means to ride a race over the
i cii t 'inarv obstacles. A smoking Jack
-1 et Is with him a "smoking" and a sleep
| Ing car is a "sleeping."
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I hearsal lonigutV Jess No. Tess—
You'd better We're going to give thai
new hymn a trial. Jess—Can't. 1 an
going to give a new him a trial my
self.
Hurrah, or huzzali. is the oldest and
most com iron exclamation in all lan
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THE TOY INVENTOR.
ill m Jliarri «*wl ThnK l» to Catch the
i ,»Jll * \ of tin- I'lilille,
The small inventor i- an important I
fat-tor i;i iIn■ mechanical toy business,
ami he earns all «>| the living lit* gets I
in thinking 11;> ileviees. Ile is most con
cerned with the small medianieal toys,
ami. in addition to tlic prime requisite
it pulling forth -oinething novel, ho
mil I get - ■ icthing which costs as lit
tle a> p>'e anil which catches the
I'iiii \ oi mil it n!e This last point
I ■>:!«• wlii i- most iliitienlt to cover
N i <tiiui .it i ilie subject has ever yet
, • t i <• -ruvi-r *ii tletluce the
iyi cin I.ieh the public taste moves,
ami iii till hit or miss as to whether
,i figure which walk- mi its hands, an
ii;: - iip v. ih wings or an acrobat who
Works y g;u\ iy will be the best sell
c i nil. wlieu the invention has. been
at lie,i I. 112: - inventor has still the
pr iM in of finding the maker who will
buy it an I p a fair price. The in
veat >r an I maker are in much the
same p isiti i is the writer and pub
lisher; both go through the same men- !
t.il tiiriii>i.l as in the timeliness of the I
output ami both take the same risks
The iuveiiior who has been in the I
bu-iiie-- long learns at last the best I
pi: its at whieli to otter his wares and
ha • iii in' or less of an itlea of what
they ought to bring him. and once lie
has acquired this knowledge his entire
energy is devoted to keeping up with
the demand for newness. Something
absolutely different trim anything else
previously offered is in general better
than an improvement of au old idea,
and that is why in mechanical toys the
same device is seldom seen two seasons
iu succession. Philadelphia Record.
CHOCOLATE.
t Wiih ii I. usury LU Thin Country In
flit' I litcent Ii Century.
Tie Hi-si new paper notice that un
iioiiiiced the sale of cocoa and chocolate
in America ivail:
•'Aino-i Trit, k, at his house a little be
low the II tavern in Danvers, makes
and sells ch'"-v. e which he will war
i ini . > i ;:o i and takes cocoa to
grind. Those • 'i . may please to favor
Isiin v. their cu toni may depend up
o;i i eing - .11 served, and at a very
el: r
This notice appeared in the Essex
(la.i • ol Massachusetts on the l»tb
of .112 ine. 1771. hve years before the
signing of the lieelaration of Independ
ence. I icspite Mr. Trask's assurance
that his rate was cheap, chocolate was
very expensive ami beyond the purse of
any but the wealthy folk. Wouldn't
they be surprised to see how generally
chocolate is sold these days in packages
as cheap as a pennyV
When the Spanish soldier Cortes con
tjuered Mexico in 1510 he found the
people very fond of a drink called
"chocolatl." This was served to the
ruler Montezuma in :t cup of solid gold.
Wlx'ii the Spaniards went home they
introduced this drink into their coun
try. hut it remained very expensive.
The secret of its preparation was never
allowed to net «>ut of Spain. Now It Is
ih" cheapest article of food and drink
we have.
\ Sior> nl l)«lMin Forrfal.
i : I v.- i; 1 I • rest. 1111- great actor, was
lit <":>!ini:l>: -. < >.. • i! one of his tours.
It \va* in tlie railroad station at mid
night I: v e lil. bleak. biting weath
er. .1:1 t !i" eld fellow hobbled up and
down the pint form. 1 >ut there was maj
esty even in his vry hohhle. An un
• ierl.tUer's wag >ll pulle«l up at the sta
tion nl a corpse was removed from
it. 'i f'" carelessly hustled
the body into his diav and wheeled it
(own the platform. As he halted, old
Forre*t hroke out into the most hor
rihle cursing, and with his tongue lash
ed the itagg-igeirrm for his careless
hundlintr of the human clay. Then he
turned, approached the corpse and
lir ike into the oration of Mark Antony
over the body of i'aesar. No one was
there but the frightened baggageman
*jid a handful of actors. The great
actor's voice r;>s;> and fell anil the sub
tle tear- and resolute thunder of the
oration awoke the echoes of the statJon
as a gran 1 organ in a majestic cathe
dral. He read every line of the oration
and said in an aside sp* ech as a climax:
"There, t-ke .hat, you poor cby in the
coifin 1:1 Im ■' 1 I ::iyse'f inside a
year." 'ml h< v. *
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DARING OF LIONS.
lociiltMi in In I'ro* e That the Brutes
%re \ol ruuardlf.
li lias been said many times that
lions are cowardly brutes, but of the
many lions with which I have had per ;
sonnl dealings, cxpectedly and unex
pectedly. tin- epithet cowardly Is the ;
Id I 1 bb »uld consider appropriate in ;
describing tlieni. I have been charged
by a I <>n. and lie certainly did not look |
cowardly. 1 have come face to face, |
at a distance of some twenty feet, with
a family party of half a dozen fortu- ]
•lately fuil fed. They stood, wit. quiet |
dignity. looking at in, and then slowly
moved a way, slopping every few yards
to stand and look again. There was
neither fear nor meanness in their ap
pearance or behavior.
1 have seen lions stalking game, and j
I have i yself been stalked by them.
If I could have encouraged myself with
the conviction of their cowardliness
when I was the quarry and they the
butters it would have put a different
aspect on tic si,nation. We were at
this time ii\ i;i a station over seven
ty Ki'l •< fro!.i tin* nearest connecting
1 link with tie- outside world, and when
man eating lions took possession of the
one roa 1 which led to this link things
became serious.
A larg.> troop was reported, and the
natives ii aintained that this troop ran
along in the grass parallel with the
caravan road ta path some ten inches
widei. and. having selected the most
edible uiMnber of the caravan, jumped
upon him like a flash, and, seizing him,
disappeared as quickly as they came.
Our mail runners, attached to whom
were a couple of native police armed
with titles, were several times attack
ed. Finally, as the wail party was
camping one night, fortunately for it,
with a n itive caravan, the lions be
came so bold that, in spite of tires, they
sprang com a native and carried him
off into the bush. Mrs. S. L. Hinde in
Blackwood's M.-gazine.
ASPARAGUS.
| It* Hetnlti.il to (lie I HHIOUN tuphodrl
of llie Kurly AK*"H.
j As a tickler of the palate asparagus
i has come down the ages with all the
I weight of Greek and Roman approval.
I IMato ate it by the plateful, and Aris
tophanes. the humorist, regarded it as a
great aid in digesting the crank phi
losophers of the day
It is an o 1 I fact that this culinary
plant is closely related to the famous
asphodel, which was supposed by the
ancients t » be the leading flower in the
gardens of the i lysiuni. the Greek pur
gatory or paradise. A part of the
quaintue-s of this lies in the fact that
the roots po»se;s purgative qualities.
Tin roots and Iruit of both were for
merly much used in medicine for this
purpose.
According to the superstition of the
Romans, the manes of the dead fed on
the roots of the asphodel. They planted
if. therefore, in and around the ceme
teries; hence to this day it covers with
its beautiful golden blossoms as pro
fusely as dandelions the Apulian hills
and valleys, and the sheep feed on it
greedily.
It belongs to the same natural order
of perennials, and the only difference |
between the asparagus and the as
phodel appears to be in the fruit and
the color of the flowers. So abundant
Is the wild asparagus in ihe steppes of
Russia that cattle eat it like grass. Just
as Italian sheep devour its botanical
j cousin.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
i How soon we learn that the average
! man's bark is about al' there is to him.
When people say anything good about
! you, ever notice what a few are pres
! ent?
We all of us claim to be natural, but
we all of us know that the only time
j when we are not putting on is when
; we are asleep.
Somehow the hundred dollars some
other man has always looks larger and
as if it should go further than thehun
j dred dollars you have.
There are not many sights more de
pressing than to meet a farmer's wag
on on a country road going out from
town with a coffin in it.
When a man says he got up nine
times with the baby six nights in suc
cession it means that one night he
woke tq< and heard his wife g«t up.—
Atchison Globe.
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