Aunt Sally s |
Conscience
By CLAUDE PAMAkES
i ht I• i //"u ■ < r rague
.V-wr w.-.s- tl.. r.• a betb r uatured.
ii,..p- <•" -< -ntious won i than Aunt
Sully \\ -ri.- r, n !i< r of Joah Warner,
who departed this life after a full from
tli** roof : hi-- barn. Aunt Sally hail
no ehiltU.-u uf her own, l>nt did have
half a dozen uleees and nephews, and
anions the latter was (lie rollicking,
frolic in- Joe Hi- . I 5,,.i. who was
i.. v .wars oil i the time the (treat
«i«m t) fell bjkmi the bouse of War
ner li< feret if is not made to the fall
from the roof of tin- barn, but to a
ealai; ity that overtook \unt Sally a
couwleßiv.
On.* di) uephew .Joe. whose parents
lived fi\eorsi\ i ;es away, arrived at
Aunt Sally's on in errand. She was
about <• t out for tli- village of
H.-.w ■ vlil • to do some "trading," and
Joe volu iteennl togo along as driver
of old Bobbin. Aunt Sally had not
l>een over that road for a mouth, and
she was surprised to see elreus plc
tur -s pasted up <>n every bam on the
rout. Race ■ hlhlfc 1 she bad had a
fninrnn for elreus pictures, but had
U-en brought up to iM-lieve that eternal
l»uiii-hinei:t awaited I'very one who
],. the <! «>r> of the elreus Itself.
During bis lifetime Joab had dlidnrf
ed \:«r:.»u- hired men for -'.tyiiuf a day
off togo i the circus, and he had re- |
fused to deal with certain men who
had accepted free tickets for the prlvl- I
lege of posting pietur. - on their barns.
\s the good aunt and her nephew
Jo*_ed hloa : the dusty highway and
ohk ■to 1 mi ! >r bant decked out In •
- printer's Ink Joe hear<l
her hi II didn't stop to ask him
self whetl .ct <he w >s Nibbing over the
death of I heie ib or the fact that j
she couldn t attend * circus promising
-o much but he forth-j
with pro<*» iled to coin*o<-1
If a single person could cotw : plre It
would have I called a eoupntr as
ueii as a plan lie made do commit j
on tin* bareba< ted riders, on the worn j
en Jumping through hoops, on the rhi-
'ing ale the banks of the
Atr an t rand the hyena sneaking
about In tl Indian thicket. Ho Just
nut -till .nd chuckled, and wheu ho
WMB't chuckling be was talking about j
going to Alaska to dig for gold.
When tl. y reftebed town and found j
thin_- in > bustle he had to make'
some e.\p: . atlon- lie explained thut J
an exhibition was to be given that
afternoon for the benefit of widows
and orphans, but lie didn t say too
much \> ; ■ Aunt Sally was making]
her pureh st 1 ■ the merehaut might have
referred to the "exhi ition" and called
It by some other uame If nephew Joe
hadn't given bliu the wink.
When ten yards of calico, lil'teen of
sheeting, t. *e towel . one table cloth
and thread, pins and in- dies had been
bought Am.' Sail;, suddenly remefli
bered something and ttirne<l to Joe and
said.
"If there !s anything going on for
the bencii' of widows and orphans I
ought to > Interested, being as lam
a widow myself. I it a spelling l>ee
or anything of that -ort?"
"• »h. tio. They have got a tent and a
collection of wild animals, its what
you might call a natural history exhibi
tion l'id you ever -ee a live lion or
titfer. Aunt SallyV"
"No. I never did."
"Ever see an elephant or a zebra or
giraffe V"
•'No."
"Well, you can see them now and
help the widows and orph ins the same
time. It's iiU cents apiec , but I've
got the money for my ticket."
"But I shall pay for both of us," re
plied Auut Sa ly as she handed over
a dollar • \VI en 1 -et out to do any
thing for 112 benefit of charity I'm not
one to -<■! uip at it. There won't be
any gan. ug or horse racing, will
there'?'"
•• Merey. in. ill-■ I lis iy there will
Is; noth ;i t offend the most fas
tidious i otne oil."
They h ! ; ■ rter of a mile togo to
reach th t i«. and during the walk
Aunt 5.,11;. was puzzled that so many
I p! sh*e Id I iv.• turned out in the
.-alive , rl J If She had had hel
ghis-.-s on she (night have read signs
on the - iyly painted wagons to arouse
i-usp, i. ill ibe p tl Into the tent
with th • innocence ... a child of five.
It v ■ s the ih'iml • and Nephew
Joe elided her a; •! and saw that
she missed nothing. It was a real treat
to the woman, aud she felt herself
growing a bit reekle under the wave
of enthusiasm. She ate peanuts and
dr ak lemonade, and after taking an
other look at the Bengal tiger which
had killed seven men and was anxious
to tin h off seven more as soon as pos
sible she said:
"Joe. th.s real nice, and I'm glad
we «• ;. What ire the folks going
Into that other tent for 7"
"Oh, that s p rt of the show, you
know There .r • 101 l - who don't care
to I at lid 'an .Is, and so they
ha > •• r ib 1 tumbling In there
for tl; -in."
"But why cau't we see it?"
"W>- cu, ami It won't coat a cent
more."
They went In and found seats, and j
tie* eireui performance ojM-ned. llow [
was the 'eless AMtit Sally to tell
th. t .1 v. > clr. us .- it was her first
attendance, and she bad never even
bid a pert.' m it.ee described to her.
She grinned troi the time the clown
appeared and the hurdle Jumping
and bnreb- <-k : ling brought "Olis!"
and " Vh- "' from her until everybody
ar" i 1 ' ! :11■ I She bought
lemo'ia.l. 1 p nut every tlms the
boy cume aloiijj a; d wl en the perform- j
an«*e w. - •' i-r i<- said to her
nephew.
"Joe. 1 en ild --in Ii a show every
.lay in the w«- aud lot see enough.
I don't knov wl*. it up for the ben
«-fit ..ft-, d orphans, but
I'm telling you hew aw a mighty seusl
ble feller. If It had Itecn il husking
l»»e he wouldn't I • t I.CII ill half tllO
money. If y..u hear of any more shows
like It th.s umti -r you let me know,
and We'll ...
*-->• e- • ii al \ id -w had come Into
Ai it S IP. - I le and she talked of it
ull the w: ' hop .- J.m- let hyr do most
of the talking. He was preparing for
the Impending calamity.
It i ijt.e within t le ii minutes of
the.r arr ' d home. Itronson, a
1 1 ■ ■ il f '-t. ■is at th house on an er
ratid. and as m<oii as Aunt Sally liegan
tod' ii • the si " ' i veil for the l«-n
--••tlt <>f the widows a 1 orphans the cat
was out of the bag.
"I>.>\ -a know \ii t , iu'vc done, Aunt
Sally Warner?" (e'.i I the caller lu
nerlotis tones
"Why I'M had a g<»od time."
"V»s you've I al a gfMsl time, and
you an : . pay an awful price for
it 1 wouldn't ! e ii y >ur sho>n for all
the money this side of Jericho."
"Itiit v. li t do y.ni mean? Isn't It
everybody's duty to help the widow*
and orphans?"
"Not if it's going to send your soul to
the bad place. Aunt Sally, you've been
to a circus!"
"No, I haven't! I wouldn't goto u
circus for a thousand dollars, and you
know It."
"You're been to a circus—a regular
circus -with all its wickedness, and how
on earth you sire ever going to get for
giveness for it is niore'n 1 can say."
Nephew Joe was called In from the
barn and the matter put to him, aud
he had to acknowledge that he had
worked a plot.
"I never would have believed It of
vou—never!" walled Aunt Sully. To
think that one of my own kith and kin
would take me to a circus and make
tue lose my chance of going to heaven!"
"But the animals Interested you."
"Yes. they did."
"And you liked the peanuts and lem
onade."
"Alas, but I diil!"
"And you thought the clown was
funny and the riding good."
"Heaven forgive me, but I did!"
"Well, I don't see where the kick
comes In. I don't believe you ure any
wickeder than before."
But Aunt Sally could not be com
forted. Her conscience was roused and
she could eat no supper. She thought
of the sacred bull of India and wept
hot tears. She thought of the two horn
ed rhinoceros and the girl who jumped
through hoops, and bid her face. She
had an accusing night of It and never
shut her eyes, and early the next morn
ing she walked over to the house of the
village minister and told hlm all. He
asked many questions In a kind way,
and when he had gut to the root of the
matter be said:
"Well, Sister Warner, being as your
nephew deceived ym and being as
there were animals and peanuts and
lemonade, and being as there might not
be another circus along here for tlve
years. I think the I.ord will let you off
this time, but if your hired man plays
dancing times on his fiddle you watch
your feet and don't let them get to
shuillitig!"
A Famom Duel.
One day the famous duelist Pierrot
d'lsaac went to see his friend, the Mnr
ijuls Merle de Salute-Marie. It should
be explained that In French pierrot
means sparrow and merle means blaek
-1 l.ird. "Marquis," said D'lsaac, "I am a
t'onapartlst. and you are a royalist.
Moreover, I am the sparrow and you
are the blackbird. Doesn't It strike you
that there Is one bird of us too many?"
i"lt precisely does," said the marquis.
"My choice is pistols, and, as Is appro
priate for birds of our species, let us
i tight In the trees." As If It were not a
| sufficiently ridiculous thing that one
[ man should challenge another because
. his name was Sparrow and the other's
i Blackbird, the duel was actually fought
from the trees, the seconds standing
on the ground below. The pistols were
tired at the signal. There was a rus
i tling among the leaves of one of the
chestnut trees. It was Pierrot d'lsaac,
who, wounded severely In one leg.
came tumbling to the ground. At this
point the marquis began to chirp tri
umphantly, Imitating the song of a
blackbird. This was a fresh Insult, to
be atoned for In only one way, and
D'lsaac waited for his wound to re
cover to challenge Salute .Marie for the
clilrp. This time the duel was fought
with swords, aivl Salute-Marie was
badly wounded. The sparrow bad
avenged himself on ih blackbird.
C ulliifiry Art Al«l«
The Russian physiologist Pa v lav
clearly demonstrated, in his researches
on digestion, that the Ingestion of sub
stances with a purely nutrient value
does not sufficiently satisfy the de
mands of the body. Taste and appetite
must also be taken into consideration.
These are satisfied only by the addi
tion to the food of spices aud salt, and
It is largely due to the Influence of
these condiments that the proper
amount of gastric Juice Is liberated by
the mucous membrane of the stomach.
The action upon the stomach of reflex
stimuli is shown by the favorable ef
fect on the flow of the gastric secre
tions made by mental impressions In
duced by the mere sight and odor of a
well prepared dish.
In this manner Epplen leads up to
the broad claim that the proper prep
aration of all food, as demanded by
the essential requirements of the cu
linary art, is not a luxury, but a physio
logical necessity, and to develop and
disseminate this knowledge Is an act
beneficial to the public welfare.—New
York Medical Itecord.
HORSESHOE NAILS.
Thv Way They Arf Turned Out liy
Km pert Workmen.
Three million separate shoe nails are
often cast from a ton of metal. Of the
smaller sizes 2,<X»O nails are molded in
a single mold, and an expert workman
will make eighty molds lu an ordinary
working day, thus turning out 100,000
separate nails.
When the metal lu a liquid state is
poured Into the mold It runs through
the sand In passages provided lu the
molding process. The whole of tha
nails are cast together aud are, when
removed from the sand, connected by
; u network of Iron one with another.
| In this condition the Iron Is as brittle
jar glass, and very little force Is re
j quired to separate the nails from the
\ network which holds them together.
They then have to undergo the proc
ess known as annealing. They are
mixed up with hematite Iron ore, which
is In a powdered state, put Into Iron
pots and placed In an annealing fur
nace, a sort of kiln. Here they remain
for some days, care helng taken to so
regulate the heat to which they ure
subjected that the iron will not be re
;i;eitc i. but brought very nearly to that
| condition. The action of the raw Iron
ore upon the brittle casting is marvel
■■ :s Af' •• cooling It can be bent wlth
(t r!■ ' i.' bre kin-. and It becomes a
eJtil awl sei * Iceabl • article.
:.«-r I Way.
"Th * - i Is a*i unfortunate Idea
112 re; ice,"
"Yes," niai '.ered Miss Cnyenne "She
! as an idea that - l e is saying smart
things when -he Is merely saying
'linjr I'iat art."- Washington Star
ll'. \ . i 1.. > t |> Cai t) 112
11 ; ritii i. ilthy in any country, at
nt -ai the year or at any time
of ! ■ t> ■ : nti early habitually. The
.. .1 . beit»-r rested by lying late,
e'en 11 ,t sleep, while the young re
quire all 111 seep they can get. In all
latitii i' 1: warm weather, the tnorn
ii - •r. ailh nigh feeling cool und
112f e■ ii, i-t laden with Ihe pestiferous
u . .1...1 In winter the atmosphere be
fore .re ii, fit !-; so cold and chilly
and scan liing that it fairly shrivels up
man and I e:i-t, chilling to Ihe very
(nan i.wboii oinetlines; hence the uv
< rage duratlnii of human life would be
Increased and the amount of sickness
largely din 11-hed by late rather than
early rising, as all the older nations
full well know and practice.—Ex
change.
The Silence
By John Barton Oxford
j <"oji|yni/M. I>» .'•>/ .1/e' 'ii" , ni'.';>'/» a i ■■
It bung conspicuously on the south
wall the only picture in the llttlo bod
room. In the foreground, between two
walls of water which reared them
selves on either side lu deliance of all
natural laws, fat, bearded, complacent,
stalked a herculean Moses. Itehind lilin
trailed the children of Israel, looking
very like a mob of flerman peasants,
while on the horizon the Egyptian hosts
—sadly out of perspective were threat
eucd oil every side by curling waves of
gigantic proportions.
It had hung there in the same place
for years, lint It was only since the day
he had been brought in from the barn,
his right side useless from a stroke of
paralysis, that Daniel Crosbj had giv
en the ancient, smoke streaked wood
cut more than a passing thought. He
had been aware of its existence lu a
vaguely familiar way. If it had been
taken down he would have missed it.
He knew from the title underneath It
was simp in- I t i represent the passage
of the lied sea by the children of Is
rael, but heretofore lie had never taken
the tr .iil.' • t.i notice further detail,
mi - i'vit it wis yellowed by age and
b Ily i ilrche 1 in places by smoke
fr in S'i ■ hai .-iit kitchen.
.r nov it was different. As he lay j
there on the bed practically helpless
and the .Inne . ays went by in monoto
n,i i; .ie ion. he found himself ex
;:i ii.:; g I'.e picture minutely during
the I : wakeful daylight hours when
the ; r e-e I'lii , • e l the i hint/, curtains
at the windows and the bees droned
among the blossoms of the syrings
bushes just outside.
It came in time to have an uuwhole
some fascination for him. He began
to wonder Just how many children of
Israel were represented in that cut, and
to satisfy himself on this point lie tried
time and again to count them, begin
ning with the two patrlarcliial gentle
men just behind Moses, but always at
the thirty fourth the heads resolved
themselves into a blurred mass that do
lled further enumeration. Day after
day, hour after hour, he counted pa
tiently. and steadily his anger at his
own helplessness In the matter aud his
resentment of the blurred heads grew
stronger. Try as he would to divert
his mind to other things It always re
turned pertinaciously to the picture and
the all absorbing question of how
many children of Israel there would be
if he could once succeed in counting
them all. lie grew by slow degrees to
hate that picture, yet with this hate the
fascination was no whit lessened. In
deed, the stronger grew his hate the j
more frequent became his countings
until at last he realized he could know
no peace of mind until the picture was
taken from the room.
It seemed the simplest of matters to
have a picture removed from the walls :
of a bedroom, but In Daniel Crosby's
case there were complications, and
these complications lay In the fact that
the only person to whom he could sug
gost that the picture be taken down
was h.ls wife, and between Crosby and
his wife there had existed fourteen
years of stubborn, unyielding silence. |
It had come as the climax of numer
ous petty differences. They had w ran |
gled long an I fiercely. At the end of
it Abby Crosby had burst into h flood
of bitter, rebellious tears.
"You can rest assured of one thing.
Dan'l Crosby," she had sobbed wretch
edly. "1 won't never, never open my
mouth to you again 's long's I live!"
He had smiled in superior fashion.
"So be It." lie had acquiesced. "It'll i
suit me perfee'ly. An' I'll see to it
you ain't troubled with any remarks
from me."
And from that bitter day. fourteen
years before, they had llve.l together In
silence with never much as a word
\ passing between them. Not even this
paralysis which had stricken him In
bis advancing years could shake the
i stubborn pride of either of them. He
had wondered vaguely that day the
| neighbors had borne him Into the house
| aud laid hlm on the bed if perchance
In the excitement of the moment she
; would forget herself and speak to him,
' and he was rather proud of her self
restraint wliyn she bad not.
j Silently she prepared his meals and
brought them into him: -llently she
, massaged him und used the battery as
j the doctor had directed. lie watched
j her narrowly day by day, all his long
! Ing for companionship in these hours
i of his helplessness carefully concealed
j beneath a cold exterior.
t "If any one speaks first. It'll be her,"
j he told himself over and over.
So day after day as his wife came
. j Bileutiy into the room aud went silent
! ! ly out Daniel lay feebly fingering the
j sheets with his left hand, striving to
j conjure up some scheme which might
| rid him of the troublesome Israelites
| who refused to be counted above the
thirty-fourth. At last lu desperation
I he had been counting, counting all day
, } long he decided to take the matter
Into his own hands. In the early dusk
when lie heard Abbv go out the back
door to shut up the barn and the hen
houses for the night ho managed, by
the use of his sound left arm, to slide
himself out of the bed onto the floor.
Slowly, painfully he contrived to
reach the corner where an old cane with
a crook handle leaned In the angle of
the walls. Then with indomitable pa
tience he wormed his way along the
floor until hew as beneath the picture
After several unsuccessful attempts he
i nanaged to hook the handle of the
i ane securely onto the frame, and,
| rowing hi-* whole w -iglit upon It, he
■ dragged t.'-• | etui crashing to the
' !' ior.
lie listen.-d lor moment, I" ilf ex
! pectin : to hear his wife's footsteps on
; the back i' p . but no one came Ho
1 I draggi d himself Int.. the kitchen, push
1 ing the picture before him. The cellar
j door was ajar. Thither he made his
1 | painful way and palled It wide open.
' i The minglc-l smells of damp earth aud
i last • eason's vegetables greeted his
i nostrils. Without a pause lie thrust
tl the pi ture flu ugh the doorway and
e listened with many delightful chuckles
b *s the children of Israel went bump
(, ing downward Hallway down the
frame stu.-k fa t. That would never
) i!o. lie pulled himself back to the lied
i. room to get the cane. With the aid of
j the cane he was sure he coi 1 reach
3 down and complete the de
, He had scarcely regain. I
room when he heard hi- v.
I, He lay on the floor, spent an
P Ing hard. Perhaps she was going out
again, lie would lay low and wait
~ He heard her moving briskly about the
H kitchen for a time; then i door squeak
ed raucously on its hinge There was
only one door in the hot • that creaked
in that fashion. It was the cellar doot
He heard h, r descending the cellar
stairs cautiously, step by step, as if sb
\vi*rc jrointc uow 11 in tho (lurk. Goo J
Lord! She wis mollis down, and thut
picture was lying there on the stairs.
In tlu' darkness site would uever set! it.
It would send her headlong down more
thnu half the flight.
Well, whatever happened, be wouldn't
speak before she -poke to him. lie
thumped the lloor lustily with his list.
; Undoubtedly she would come back, |
thinking he wanted something. He
listened breathlessly. ('reak, creak!
Sh • was still : r olng down. She must be (
■id upon tluit cursed picture. IIIH
!ist was clinched; he bit his lips Rut
v ouldn't speak tir-t, not il she went
low" a thou-aml flights of stairs. In
IN I KIIJ ol su p'iise lie thumped the,
floor ilit. and in his excitement he
lid net notice that this time he used j
Sis ri--.it hand.
A y. Abhy! Come here, quick!" |
The v,. i Is broke from liis lips almost |
invohn l.irily. II" heard her coming, i
fi,in ' .ring np the stairs in her liaste, |
and 1 sank Into a huddled heap, relief
and iiame struggling for the mastery
of him.
A' came running Into the little
bedroom. Her eyes fell first on the
em]' bed, then on the huddled tlgure
on the lloor.
"lather, father," she cried, sinking
to her knees beside ldm, "what has
happened?"
•A! ■ " he said severely, "do you
know you're a-talkin' tome 7"
• I don't care. I'm glad of It," she
cont'e el recklessly. "Von spoke to
i me. F.i«! 'r. Vou called me."
Kb* t ".-ii and lifted liis head to
her lap. tr 'n-r it tenderly as if he
had been a child. "How came you to
j be out here';" sl.e asked.
lie niiied up at her sheepishly. "I
tool, a notion i<» git that picture of the
chi.<!: n of I-ra'l out of the room." ho
j explain I. "It' , b ill' red me a good
deal of late, ■ I yanked it down with
the cane V slid ti down the cellar
>T ji-s 'l'iicn ; 011 come In an' started
to j; . down them iairs, an' 1 hollered
toy u. I was; afraid you'll break your
neck over it."
Ten i.:inu:. - ago I shouldn't 'a*
cared i i; I ha I broke my neck,"
she iid, "but now"
Mi.* drew him to her hungrily. Some
thln_r war:ii ;,;• d wet splashed on his
fort-':. Ii niel c-iiighed huskily.
"1 gue .oii' l belter git ihe children
of I-r t'l oil" the cellar stairs an' hang
'cm <>•• I ih wall again " he said.
, ,; . .. [ if i «>ould stan' 'em
now"
i;.c V».»r«l "Dollar."
Accordii: . io one authority, the word
1 "dollar" is a corruption of th** German
word "thal. r," the form in iuiteh be
in All tb:•>!' diiTerent forms
W»'l i **ri .it ■ ' .'o. chilli's Thai, a
H'the: ii to n. when* the Count of
s -hi A. I • 1.'.15, ' ne.i •.>'!:<• excel
It- - :n ,i ol' an ounce ill
v., !r ' I'roMi then;; ■of the town
i came Joachim's thaler, applied to the
I above ii: •. • «••• .s a-- well «s that of
Schi "ii tlia' , hence Joachim's thal
er pieces \ first contracted Into
Joachim' t' ale: aa ! then Into thai
.•r - ■• ■ . i"d such a reputa
■c in.- a pattern, so
i that • i: ,'S < the :l! :' kind, though
Iliac ■ . ot' • ' pi. c took the name,
I the v • ; u ing teren* spelling
111r. : ' ! C< intries. reaching
Spa . ."Ii - ai:■ 1 through its prov
ince- t u ■ :* i tli western heml
sp! i' app '1 to coins
prior ■ ; dop'i iof the federal cur-
I rency. in coinage, the word 'dollar* Is
j a fa- Hind under various
speili i i aliii" si e\eiv part of the
globe"
Siiric*T>- In tin* Miil-lli* %K«*n.
In ii..- n i • ■»i the twelfth century
pric-ts H • only ih . tors. By an
edict of the council of Tours surgery
was sep te.l from medicine and the
practice • l tl former forbidden to the
clerg. T " ' a- then empl-iyed their
barbers ' > p<*; 'orin surgical operations.
This ar .se frum the t.ct »112 the monks
having lie ir heads shared frequently
tinii obscr\ g the dexterity acquired
by tlie barbers In the use of edge tools.
The knights of the razor from cupping
j and bice :li n*_r pa - l on t < tooth draw
ing :*•:•! finally to other operations re
quirii ' skill and deftness, if not much
knowledge. They knew practically noth
ing of anatomy. It is said surgery was
denied to the clergy by a canon of the
church wh'eh forbade them to shed
bio. 1. Th' - coii-dilereil the dark
age of inc .1 somber, indeed, it
must li;i\ • ■ t.i the worthy citoyen
who, p ; s. placing himself in tb?
hands ~112 hi ' 'crf >r relief might r.t
the MI- ' t!:.- lie was getting rid
of a tumor al- i part company with Li*
. head.
FRANKING.
Tli«- Way (li«- l*rlvili'»e«' Has Been
Mi lined In KUKIUIIII.
American legislators are not the only
ones who abuse tl lr franking privi
leges Kceeiil history in Kugland has
caused the Ixmdon ( hronlele to. say:
"Franking had its birth, honestly
enough, in ltjiiO, in the desire to relieve
members o: parliament of the expense
incurred in the discharge of their na
tional duties, but the practice rapidly
widened until it !> me possible for
members to transmit their household
goods at tl c pu lie i-harge, as the fol
lowing extract from old postotllce rec
ords testifies; fifteen couple of hounds
going to the king of Itoinans with a
free pass, two maidservants going as
luindresse to my Lord Ambassador
Methuen I>r. Cricliton, carrying with
him a >o\ an 1 divers necessaries;
three suits of clothes for some noble
man's lady at the court of Portugal,
two bales of stockings for the use of
the ambas-ador to the crown of Portu
gal, a deal case with four Hitches of
bacon for Mr I'ennlngton of Hotter
ilam.'
"This form of abuse died when the
post office stable underwent a purifica
tion, but it speedih gave place to an
other variety. Members signed packets
of letters wholesale, gave them away
to their fricn is and sometimes paid
their servants' wages in franked en
velopes. pi fact, they became a valua
ble form ■ currency, subject to the art
of tl fot er. who did a roaring trade.
lii 1715 MI worth of free corre
spondence pa» -'i 1 through the
fice.
"I" tv at- later th • nation was
f,ta -'led In c>\ r tl at the amount
had inci i t.i . •<», and strin
gent laws were 11 ; ■■' ed to mitigate the
Immoral b* uleucies of the houses ot
parliament. But all was In -tain until
! Sir b'ov ' Hill managed in 1X39 to
tiijf-. it le'.'cs altogether "
II lieu inn I ism iind 'lnn.
The discover.* of a remedy for rheu
mat,-in by it • :*ns of tan was aeel
•I* nt illy ■ ' v a tanner of Ulm
iii "i 1 - he fell into one
ats. M.i as no one wai
I to remain in the tanning
liquid ('• over half an hour. When
re-. tied •• found, it is said, that hlfl
then; had entirely left lilin lie
then turned doctor and treated bj
means . called electrotauno
tlicrapia
THE GYPSIES.
They Arc n Si'iiiiriitf I'eojile, n Tribe
<lulfe l>> Tlii'iuaeht-n,
"Such as wake on the night and sleep
on the day and haunt taverns and alo
houses and no m tn wot from whence ;
they come nor whither they go." So ,
quaint!.'. >ie rib in" <ild Knglish stat
i tile against the gyjisies. Kver since the j
year l'.'tii. s;;.\s a writer in the London
Standard. Creal Britain has tried to get
* iiii of this trang • people without api
j preciabl succci- livery year or so ,
: some count;, is up in arms against
i lliem, yet Ihe\ persist In returning and
ippari ,v thrive under persecution.
The gypsies are popularly supposed
* to come or.: itiaily from ligyjit, tis their
i name Indicates, but their origin Is trac
' ed farther east than the land of tho i
I Nile Wherever they come from, they,
1 are a separate people, a tribe quite by
| themselves.
They appeared In England about
anil twenty six years later Henry
VIII. ordered them to leave the coun
try In sixteen days, taking all their
good:; with them. "An outlandish peo
ple," he called them. The act was in
effectual, and In 1502 Elizabeth framed
a still more stringent law, and man;
were hanged.
"But what numbers were executed,"
j says one old writer, "yet notwith- j
standing, all would not prevaile, but
they wandered as before, uppe and
downe." They got Into Scotland and
became an intolerable nuisance. Both
In that country and i:i England legisla
tlon prov d quite Ineffectual. Tlie acts
gradually fell Into desuetude. Under
George IV. all that was left of the ban
against the gypsies was the mild law
that any pers m "telling fortunes shall
be deemed a rogue and a vagabond."
"Gypsies are no longer a proscribed
class," says a recent writer. "Probably
the modern gypsy does little evil be
yond begging and petty theft, but his
determination not to work Is sis strong
as ever, and it seems curious that an
Industrial people like ours continues to
tolerate a I •• de of professional Idlers."
How numer >us the horde Is may bo
gathered from the fact that the number
who wintered in Surrey one year was
es:it ated at 10,000.
The langi; ige as well as the life of
the gypsy tribe has a tenacity of Its
own. Many of their words have taken
firm hold in a half slang, half permis
sibly way Shaver is tho gypsy word
for child. Pa! is pure gypsy. Codgei
means a man. Cutting up Is gj'psy for
quarreling, and cove stands for "that
fellow."
"TEMSE" AND "THAMES."
ifriuiii til' tlir SnyitiK About Srtiinif
tli r !iiv<»r on Fire.
SoiiiHimt > when a person wants to
xnake an unplrn ant remark in a pleas-
Miit sort of way about a dull boy he
will say. "That boy will never set the
river i.n lire." Now, that is all very
(rue, for even the smartest man In the
world could never set a stream of wa
ter on fire, and perhaps many of
ymi who have heard this expression
have wondered what is meant by set
ting the river on lire.
In l'ug! mil many, many years ago,
before th * miller- had machinery for
sifting tl iiir, each family was obliged
t» -i: tit own flour. I'or doing this
It was n ec.-ary to use a sieve, called
a tciir e. whi< li was so fixed that It
could be tic i;. d round and round in
the top of a l in. I If it was turned
t'.o fast the fri ti HI would sometimes
cause il to catch lire, and as it was
onl.. die > • irt. hardworking boys who
could make it ? o so fast the people
get into the way of pointing out a lazy
boy by saying that he would never set
the ten"eon lire. After awhile these
sieves went out of use, but as there
were still i lenty of --tupid boys In the
w irld p. kept on saj ing that they
would never M*t the temsf on fire.
Now, the name of the river Thames
is pronounced exactly like the word
t me. and » after many years those
per- - who had never seen or heard
of the old i hi' ll d sieve thought that
"set: iig the letuse on fire" meant set
tii.'.r the riv.-r Thames on lire. This
expre ion became very popular and
traveled far and wide until the peoplS
living near other streams did not see
why It was any harder for a slothful
boy to set the Thames on fire than any
other river, and so the name of the
river was dropped, and everybody after
that simply said "the river." meaning
the river of his particular city or town,
and that is how it is that people today
talk of setting the river on fire.
S|iriiKii;K "112 \ii«'cMry.
Mr. Chuse has such an exaggerated
respect for the blue blood of Boston
which runs in his veins that his man
i tier is slightly patronizing, lie was
lately Introduced to a Syrian of good
birth and education who lives in tills
- country.
* "And may I inquire," he said blandly
: In the course of the conversation, "If
you are of the Christian religion?"
"Sly family was converted to Christ's
i teaching at the time of John's second
visit to Lebanon," quietly replied the
Syrian. Youth's Companion.
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OIL PAINTINGS.
Willi 11 l.lllli- I urc 'l'hejr liar Easily
ll«- < leaned.
Many a uo i I | icture that has looked j
dark iii y lor years from having |
been <• ,-o-oil to the dust can easily be I
clc 1 :" and ire hen i in a very sim- I
[.!" i i«• jiicture should Ije taken
fr<• its lr in- :iml dusted carefully
wr.ii ; ol't el ' it. I'eei a large potato
:;:id cut it i.i hall', j;o over the whole
! picii.. v itii a sponge that has been
Ii Pi t pid water, then with the
■of ie potato rub the surfaco
• p with a light circular
1 careful not to press
I > lly '> . I'. ■ canvas. Tho potato
o i b* into loosen the dirt and
i c • . nnil nieath will begin to
• When all the stains'
i; li.iie been removed the jde- I
I•. ■ ■ ulii :.i oil), e I again In warm
1 \.i cr. i • • 1" ig taken to wash off [
: 11 L it may have been left j
fl-e. I , e p., 1t...
ti piciiir is badly cracked
,i li, !' w. ier as j.i.ssible should be
L it is a; t to ooze under the
1,1 do some injury.
? ti." . I ]-ilutiiigs are Injured by the |
damj - from the walls on which
tii y Ing. The dampness Is apt
to •• * the earn* is to decay, and
there hi • few c.inva.-es made to resist
To prevent this particular
fo ... ' i.i .ty the back of the canvas
should b* painted when perfectly dry
with wiiiie 1 ad.
ll.iri 1 tiell niul l!:e lleer Man.
M.ii liicheli, i! • I .nious astrono
mer, was olio* directed by her phy
sician to r-e lager beer as a tonic. On
the w i.v !•> visit her sister, Mrs. Joshua
Kendall of Cambridge, Mass., she stop
pel at a saloon anil purchased a bottle
of beer and afterward asked her broth
er in-law to ( pen it for her. The Mitch
e'l family, ae oni ::g t i the Boston Her
ai.l, s'-.'kc among themselves after the
Q iiker cast. :.i. "Where did thee get
it, Maria?" question 1 her sister. "At
tlie saloon on r.e e irner," replied Miss
Mitchell serenely. "Why, Maria!
Doesn't thee know respectable women
don"' g> into such places?" "Oh," said
Miss Mitchell, in the manner of one
who Ii: S done all that could be requir
ed, "I told the ii.an he ought to be
thoroughly ashamed .\>f bis traffic."—
New York Tribune.
CARE OF THE EAR.
Never put anything in the ear for the
relief of toothache.
Never wear cotton in the ears if they
are discharging.
Never apply a poultice to the inside
of the canal of the ear.
Never drop anything into the ear un
less it has been prevlousl^varmed.
Never use anything but a syringe and i
warm water for cleansing the ears.
Never strike or box a child's ears, j
This iias been known to rupture the ;
drumhead and cause Incurable deaf- !
iiess.
Never wet the hair if you have any
tendency to deafness. Wear an oiled
silk cap when bathing and refrain from
diving.
Nc..*t* cratch the ears with anything
int. t!: • a i" if they itch. Do not use
the he ici pi .1, hairpins, pencil tips
or anything of that nature.
Never meddle with the ear If a for
ei -n bi.-iy . ,ters it. Leave It absolute
ly alone and have a physician attend
to it.
All III' \ei*(lP(l.
A number of Wall street men at
luncheon one day were discussing the
remarkable ability of a certain opera
tor in th * street to weather any finan
cial storm.
"Why," said one of the financiers,
"that chap's a wonder. I don't know
how many times they've had him
against the wall, yet he always con
trives to get away."
"I have heard it said," observed an
other, "that I think is resourceful
enough to make a living on a desert
island."
"Ye- he could do that, too." affirmed
the first speaker, "if there were an
other a in oa the islan i" Harper's
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WORK FOR YOURSELF.
Thru l uu W ill Hint- a lhaiice to Ue
vt-Your Individual It?.
It in well kuowu that long continued
employment In the service of others of
ten triples originality and individual
ity. 'l'liat resourcefulness and inventive
ness which come from perpetual I
stretching of the mind to meet emer- I
geneics or from adjustment of means I
to ends is seldom developed to Its ut- 1
most in those who work for others
There Is not the same compelling mo
tive In expand, to reach out, to take
risks into plan for oneself when the .
programme* is made for him by another.
On/ s If made men. who refusal to
remain employees or subordinates, ara j
the backbone of the nation. They are
the sinews of our country's life. They
got their power as the northern oak
gets its strength, by fighting every Inch
of its wuj up from the acorn with -
storm and tempest. It is the hard
schooling that the stlf made man gets
in ids struggles to elevate and make a
place for himself In the world that de~
| velops him.
Some employees have a pride in
i working for a great institution. Their
Identity with It pleas-' them. Hut isn't
even a small busin -s of your own,
which g! es you freedom and scope to
develop your Individuality and to be
yourself, better than being a perpetual
clerk In a large institution, where you
are merely one cog In a wheel of a vast
machine?
The sense of personal responsibility is
lu Itself a great educator, a powerful
schoolmaster. Sometimes young wom
en who have been brought up in luxury
and who have known nothing of work
when suddenly thrown upon their own
resources by the loss of property o;
compelled even to support their oiu-u
wealthy parents develop remarkable
stri'iigm and personal -power. Young
men. 100, sometimes surprise every
body when suddenly left to carry on
their father's business unaided. They
develop force and power which no one
dreamed they possessed.
We never know what we can do un
til we are put to the test by some great
emergency or tremendous responsibili
ty When we feel that we are cut off
from outside resources and must de
pend absolutely upon ourselves we can
fight with "11 the f'-ree of desperation.
The trouble with working for others
is the crumping of the individuality—
the lack of opportunity to expand along
original and progressive lines —because
fear of making a mistake and appre
hension lest we take tyo great risks are <
constantly he im i .'ring the executive, the
creative, the original faculties.—Suc
cess.
THE MACHINIST.
Ill* Wjrk llasiK'eM From a Noedle to
j "There is, perhaps. } > other trade
' and very few prose, sions," writes Wil
: liani Iladdow in the Technical World
j Magazine, "that require the high order
! of intelligence, the study, the applica
tion, the real hard headed comison
sense, tin* surgeon's delicacy of touch. |
for instance, in fitting of fine work,
that the machinist's trade demands to
give the excellent work and the inter- ;
changeability of parts found iu the
modern rille or sewing machine. Tho
rauge of his work Is from a needle to ;
a buttleehlp; from automatic machin
ery that 'would talk French had it one
more movement' to measuring ma- !
chines guaranteed not to vary more j
than the fifty-thousandth part of an ;
Inch from the absolute. This precision I
will perhaps be better appreciated when !
It is remembered that 150 times this
limit of variation Is only equal to the
diameter of the average human hair.
Standard plug and ring gauges, to take
a specific example, are so accurately
fitted to each other than the expansion
due to the warmth of the hand, If the
plug be held In it for a few moments,
will make It impossible to Insert the
plug In the ring, while If the ring be
expanded In the same way the plug
will drop clear through It.
"When lie machinist has become
skillful enough to fulfill the above re
quirements he mny receive from $2.50
per day up to whatever he can make
himself worth and prove it."
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