\ON WiLLIE S 1
ACCOUNT r
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i By BEATRICE STURGES
" Copyright, l'.-Jtt. by 11. ButclitTo 112
Willie sat on the steps in a distinctly
unhappy mood. It was the first of
July, bright and beautiful. The garden
was ablaze with flowers and he could
pick as many as he wanted. His ball
and books and little fire engine lay on
the porch beside him, and Ills collie pup
was begging him to came and play, but
Willie had 110 heart for any of these at
tractions.
He was grieved. What was the use,
he reflected, of being the only child If
your father and mother go away for
two weeks and leave you at homo?
What was the use <»f having a young
aunt stay at your house If she shut her
self up in her room and wouldn't come
downstairs? And what was the use of
balng alive at all when the circus was
coming to town in three days and no
body had Invited y.»n togo? Life was
full of terrible problems. He was just
wondering if bo liadu't better cry about
It when he sa>v a friend coming down
the street and hastily chauged 1119
mind.
This friend was n 1 less a person than
Max liar woo I. chief of the volunteer
flr* i.epartuient of Norwood, comtno
«.<. Eof the led yachting club and a
iio ; -j iu Willie's eyes. By some mys
te ijud coincidence Commodore Mai
appeared on the scene with great
pvjmptaess and frequency whenever
Willie's aunt. Miss Marjory Deau, came
for a visit, and as these visits had been
rather numerous during the year just
Willie knew him well enough
to rumruage through ids pockets and to
boast about their intimacy whenever
any of the other boys needed a little
wind t;.keu out of their sails.
To Willie's surprise Max was pass
Uig with merely a wave of the hand.
«o the little boy Jumped up and ran
after him.
"Hello, Napoleon!" cheerily called his
hero. It was his fancy to call Willie by
the names of the world's great gener
als, one after another.
"Good morning, commodore; aren't
you coming Into see us?"
"Guess not, Hannibal: it's pretty
enr!y for company."
"You have been earlier tliun this,"
aald the child reproachfully.
"Well—er—l'm kind of busy this
morning"-
Willie was turning away to hide the
hurt 1001. In his eyes. Nobody wanted
to bother him. Max saw this and has
tily added:
"But pet your cap and come along.
I'm gol'ig down to tlx up the boat. You
can me."
The delighted child raced back to the
hon=_ for his cap and then was off
baud in hand with the commodore,
happy as a lark.
Tl.«*y wo:k'-d all the morning on the
bor.: and Ihen the commodore took
Willi j up tho river for a sail.
"Are you going to the circus, Aga
memnon?'' inquired Max, by way of
eon versa Mon.
With a recurrent touch of gloom
Willie was forced to admit that he
didn't tblnk he was.
"Well. I'd like to take somebody of
Just aln>ut your sUe." went on his host,
"and I think that somebody is you.
What do you say, my hearty?"
"Fine! Fine!" shouted Willie.
"Well, heave ho, there, and we'll
■plice the main brace. Keep out of the
lae scuppers while I hoist the mainsail,
na! Ulysses, what do you think of
that?" And Max, who loved to mix
up nautical terms for Willie's euter
tainiue.it, made the cleanest kind of a
landing at his own pier.
"D'.cl you ever shiver your timbers,
coinmod' re?" asked Willie.
"Lots of times, Wellington, and still
live to tell the tale. Don't forget about
the Fourth- side shown, fat lady, pea
nuts. eU-puants. pink lemonade—we'll
see it all."
"Indeed 1 won't!" cried the child,
wild with t!e: g! t as he raced into the
house to tell his aunt.
Bhe was watching for him anxiously.
"Ob, Willie boy. where have you
frO.LIE LOOKED A.VXIOtSLY FROM ONE TO
THF, OTHSat.
been all the morning?" she exclaimed,
kissing him.
He told her breathlessly, and she
listened to his admiration of the com
modore with rising color.
"Isn't he perfectly splendid, Aunt
Marlorle V Tliev snv there are ten ele
phants and the lions growl something
awful.' But 1 won't be afraid with the
commodore. Only 1 wish you were
coming too. Wouldn't you like It?
I'm sure he'd take you, too, if you
asked him."
"No, honey, i I don't thiuk so. I
ioti't expect • to see the commodore
Vgain; we—we aren't friends any
more."
"Oh, «untie!" exclaimed Willie, iu
geuuiu- dismay. "And he's so good
too."
Willie thought for a minute that his
Aunt Marjorie was going to cry, and
then he was surprised to hear her say
iu a 111 anne» singularly unlike her
usual gentleness. "Maybe some peo
ple think he is good, but I know his
true character, and I do not think you
ought to gj around alone with him."
This speech was rendered with all the
dignity that a m otnau of the world
■lueteeu, could muster.
it w iih him alone to Ufa
of places,' complainc-d Willie "TVu
went last night
"Yes. mi.l that's just the reason I'm
nor poi:i i ngain. if a tuan takes a girl
to a dune • iml forgets her he will cer
tainly tor?<'t :i little boy when he takes
him to the <-in'us. and then what would
happen So youV
lteally this was awful. Willie had
never seen his dear little aunt in such
a state, but she was very sweet to hiin
and took hiai out driving that after
noon, stopping in tile village to buy
him eaudy and lots of fireworks for the
Fourth. He didn't kuow what to thiuk
about his beloved commodore, but saw
him the next day and promptly repeat
ed the whole conversation It seemed
to him the simplest way out of the dif
ficulty.
"Did you forget, commodore?" he in
sisted.
"Great Scott, Willie, maybe 1 did;
she says so; but she wasn't lonesome,"*
he said grimly. "Girls are queer crea
tures, Wellington; you'll find that out
some day. But don't say another word
about the circus. I'll fix it some way.
You're going t<> see it as sure as your
name is Yineingetorix."
So Willie kept his counsel and was
petted n;uch by his auntie for the next
two days. On the morning of the
Fourth he was firing off his crackers
from the o|wu window in Ills little
niglitclothes at 4 o'clock, and Marjorle
said never a word of complaint. She
had made up her mind to take him to
the circus herself and to get away early
to avoid any possible conflict with her
former great friend, the commodore —
now a stranger forever.
Before luucli was over, however, the
commodore's touring car stopped at the
door and the commodore was standing
ou the porch, cap in hand, announcing
that he had come.
"Yes, I see," returned Marjorie cool
ly, but deliberately avoiding his gaze.
Max had such a way of lookiug at one.
"But what for?"
"Why, to take my friend Julius (,'ae
Bar to the circus."
Willie looked anxiously from one to
the other In aiK ecstasy of hope and
suspense.
"I told Willie"—
"Yes, I know,"he interrupted, "but
if you come, too, It will be all right."
"Oh, yes, auntie!" cried Willie, jump
ing with joyful anticipation.
Marjorle tried hard to look cold and
dignified.
"Would you spoil that child's day?"
asked the commodore, coming closer.
"Marjorie. please!" His eyes urged her
as well as his voice.
She looked at him. "All right, I'll go.
But It's just 011 Willie's account."
"Auy reason will do," responded
Max as he helped her into the car.
"But maybe you can find a better one
before we get home. I'm going to ride
back here with you and William." lie
lifted the delighted child, gave him a
hUg, and put luiu in the front seat
with the chauffeur. "William the Con
queror is going to have the time of his
lift."
SCOTCH SUPERSTITIONS.
(urlon* Method* That Were Adopted
In Slclsnem» mid Death.
A method much In vogue in Scotland
ut one time of ascertaining whether a
sickness would prove fatal was to dig
two hdes in the ground, one called the
quick grave, ihe other the dead hole.
The sufferer was then placed between
the two, and the hole toward which ho
turned indicated what would be the
outcome of his malady. Sometimes a
piece of rock was broken over the head
of a person whose last agonies were
painful alike to himself and to those
who witnessed them. It was believed
that the heart of the sick man would
thus be broken and his release hasten
ed. Windows and doors are always
thrown wide open in order that the de
parting spirit may have free egress
from the house and escape from the
evil ones that hover around eager to
inthrall his soul.
During the interval between death
and burial lions and cats were kept
carefully shut up. A person meeting
these animals at such a juncture was
doomed to blindness in the future.
Moreover, unless a stream divided the
two houses, farmers frequently refrain
ed from yoking their oxen or horses be
fore the body was "laid under the turf
of truth." Many women preserved,
with the greatest reverence, their
bridal attire to cover them In the cof
fin. Bread and water were placed in
the chamber of death, for during the
night prior to the burial the spirit of
the departed one came to partake of
them. Stillborn children and little ones
who had not been blessed by the min
ister were buried before sunrise. In
this way their admission to the land of
promise was assured. Not to observe
the practice was to destine the souls of
these bairns to wander homeless and
disconsolate.
The fate of the suicide is lamentable.
Ills body cannot rest in the kirkyard,
for it would taint the souls of those
who lie therein. Frequently he was
buried in a lone dike which separated
two lairds' estates, and passersby were
expected to cast a pebble at the rude
stone which marked the place.
iimtiuH 111 tfircin.
In the stormy part of the year a
steamer encountered rough weather,
and, as often happens at such times,
many sea gulls hovered near the ship
ami even caine 011 board. One allowed
itself to be caught, and it was found
that it had a fish bone stuck In the eye
In such a position as not absolutely to
destroy the sight, but penetrating an
inch into the flesh of the bird and pro
jecting an Inch and a half. It might
have liad a tight with a fish or got
transfixed seeking Its prey. The doc
tor of the ship took the bird, extracted
the bone, applied a soothing remedy to
the wound and let it go. It flew away,
but returned the next day, allowing it
self to l>e caught. The doctor exam
ined the wound, which was progressing
favorably, applied more of the remedy
and let tli - bird go a second time. It
flew several times around the ship and
then departed ami returned r.o more.—
T,ondou Sketch
Causes of Headache.
People ge' headache because they do
not lak ■ snrti ient active exercise to
keep the bfo-id circulating actively, be
come e .' ited and often about things
that <!o not concern them at all, neg
lect daily action of bowels, bathe in
cold water without wetting the head,
sl««e • "'i n ! > .-• pillow, take too much
alcoh 'I allow the feet to get cold, hike
Iron and quini' 0 when thee drugs do
not agree with the system. I'ittsburg
Press.
Ti-o Return.
"I believe" said the cheery philoso
pher, "that for every single thing you
give away two come back to you."
"That's uij experience,"' said Pham
ley. "Last .In :e I gave away my
daughter, and -lie and her husband
came b-'d: Ir us i'i August."
It often take a I -i = 112 common sense
to get a lean ort or trouble a little
housonse f.-.r him into Beaver (Okla.}
Herald
HEAL RHEUMATISM.
The Causes and Symptoms of Urfo
Acid In the Blood.
Rheumatism, so called. Is probably
as common as any ailment one ever
hears of, and yet if one were to ana
lyze carefully the average case of rheu
matism the result would doubtless
show that the disease was something
very different indeed from tho real
thing Almost everybody when suffer
ing from a slight stiffness of a joint or
n muscular soreness promptly makes a
diagnosis of rheumatism when In real
ity the case Is nothing more than what
In technical language is known as 11-
thaemia, sometimes called American
gout.
The real disease of rheumatism is tho
result of an accumulation in tho blood
of Imperfectly converted food, princi
pally uric acid. This accumulation is
due to intemperance in eating and
drinking and Insufficient active exer
cise.
Heredity in some cases seems to play
an important part. In the great major
ity the symptoms follow a regular or
der, beginning with a feeling of full
ness and discomfort after meals, indi
gestion. nausea and an unpleasant
taste 111 the mouth, followed by throb
bing headache, nervous irritability and
vertigo, muscular pains which may be
confined to one or more muscles or skip
about them one to another. Lastly, nnd
in most cases the most troublesome of
all symptoms, is depression of spirits,
the patient imagining that he has all
sorts of ailments. Persons suffering
from mental disorder as a result of this
disease have been known to commit
suicide. Fortunately these cases are
not common, but it should be remem
bered that they are among the possibil
ities.—A Doctor in New York World.
WHY SILHOUETTE.
A Curious Bit of History Wrapped
Up In the Word.
The making of silhouettes can hard
ly be classed among the lost arts, since
there Is so little art about them. The
best of them represent the human pro
file in a crude way, and they were re
garded as rather a cheap kind of pic
tures even in the days when they were
most popular. Indeed, the very word
silhouette means something poor and
cheap, and it had its origin in a spirit
of ridicule. It is taken from Etienne
de Silhouette, who was a Frencli cab
inet minister in the year 1759, when
the treasury of France was very low
because of costly wars with Britain
and Prussia and by the extravagances
of the government. When Etienue de
Silhouette became minister of finance
he set about making great reforms In
the public expenditures. lie was by
nature a very "close" man, and he
went to such extremes in keeping
down the public expenses that he
brought great ridicule upon himself,
nnd finally anything that was cheap
and poor was referred to as a la Sil
houette.
A very crude picture w'as popular at
that time. It was made by tracing the
shadow or profile of a face projected
by the light of a candle 011 a sheet of
white paper and the outline defined
with a pencil. This was such a very
poor and cheap sort of picture that
!t was at once called a silhouette in
further derision of the very saving
Freuch minister, and the name has
"stuck." It is an instance of the curi
ous derivation of some words in com
mon use. mwl tills unkind slur ou o
man who was really trying to Intro
duce needed reforms in the spending
of the public money has long been ac
cepted as a good and proper word. In
deed, there is 110 other word used for
pictures of this kind, although there
were such pictures long before M. Etl
enne de Silhouette had his name at
tached to them in so embarrassing a
way.—Morris Wade in Century.
A RARE BIRD.
Why an A nierican Showman Could
Not Get It For His Museum.
When the French writer
Ferdinand Brunetiere visited the Unit
ed States some years ago, lecturing at
Harvard and other leading universi
ties, he had an amusing experience,
which he described in the recollections
of his American tour which he after
ward published. The great litterateur
devoted much attention to the life and
works of Bossuet, who was often styled
the"Eagle of Meaux," on account per
haps of his lofty flights of eloquence.
Tliis fact, v, ith others pertaining to
his literary career, was mentioned by
some daily papers during his stay In
this country. It caught the eyes of a
t-hrewd American showman, who, how
ever, got somewhat mixed over the
meaning of the all.isiou. He wrote the
following letter to the French author:
Sir—l have Just heard that a certain
Meaux eagle, very celebrated, it appears.
In your country, has become your ex
clusive property. Now, I am the man
ager of a museum In one of the largest
cities In the States. This Meaux eagle,
whose reputation has been enhanced by
your eloquence, would certainly not fall to
excite the curiosity of my If you
will let me have the rare bird and tell mo
how to feed it. you can quote your own
figure.
Brunetiere politely explained that the
"rare bird" had been dead for nearly
S'JO vanrs
CORDON BLEU.
Origin of the French Title as Applied
to a Fine Cook.
The Order of the St. Esprit was ere
nted in 1 .">B7, was suppressed by the
revolution and was revived by Louis
XVIII. in 1814. To speak rightly, Louis
XVIII. considered that the order had
never ceased to exist, for he had given
two collars during his exile, iu 1810,
the one to Fitincis L, king of the two
Sicilies, and clie other to his brother,
the Prince of Salerno, the father of his
brother's wife, the Duchess d'Aumale.
The ribbon of this order was a light
blue color. It was worn around the
neck in the reigns of Henry 111. and
Henry IV.. but was chauged by Louis
XIY„ when it was worn across tho
chest. The «'hevaliers of the St. Esprit
were always known under the name of
Los Cordon Bleu, and this was the su
preme honor during the monarchy of
France. It was from this that the title
of "cordon bleu" was given to a first
class cook. A gentleman one day de
clared after a good meal that he who
had cooked the dinner had proved him
self a "cordon bleu" among cooks In
other words, the master of his art. The
title became quite the rage and is now
always used <0 designate a good cook
without the persons who use it know
ing what it means or still leas tho ori
gin of the title.
Flftti Monnreli* Men.
Tile fifth monarchy men formed a re
ligious sect that sprang up in the
of Charles I. <>(' England. They wore
so called from the fact that they as
serted that in the lasi days the four an
cient monarchies, the Assyrian, the
Persian, the Baby lonian and the lto
man, would bo r- ■< >v d. and to them
would be added a -e -tinn monarchy,
or fifth IKi '!■ <>f < lirist
would be tli-
THE ENGLiSH SYSTEM.
Not a Hundred Person* Affected by *
Change of Administration.
"All told, the government of Eng
land consists of only forty-six persons,
and the transfer of political control
from one party to another directly af
fects only these forty-six persons and
a few great functionaries of state
whose fluties are purely ornamental,"
ruys A. Maurice Low In Appleton's.
"In all not 100 persons are concerned
by a change of administration. Post
masters, government employees of ev
ery class, from messengers to ambas
sadors and colonial administrators, are
not disturbed hy the transfer of yower.
Clearly no political party in England
can count upon patronage as a politi
cal asset.
"The principle on which the parlia
mentary system of England Is found
ed is the rule of the majority, and the
majority elects to surrender its power
to one man—the premier. The power
of the majority Is so stTictly recog
nized that the rules of the house of
commons deprive the minority of all
power to Initiate or shape legislation.
When a majority of the electorate of
the kingdom has sanctioned a policy
represented by a political party that
party is given free hand to put Its pol
icy into operation. In all legislatures
the power of the majority Is the con
trol which It exercises to tax the peo
ple and spend their money. Bee. then,
how absolute Is the power of the prime
minister in his command of the treas
ury."
LETTERS BY MESSENGER.
A Postal Law of Whioh You May Not
Have Knowledge.
The statement made in an uptown
cluh one evening lately that the law
prohibits carrying an unstamped letter
past a postotiice and delivering It caus
ed much argument. Inquiry was made
at the postoffice, where an official said
that the question had been asked fre
quently. "You may send a letter by
messenger anywhere, past as many
postoffk'es as you please," said the offi
cial, "but you have no right to send
your mail that way regularly or at
stated periods. This is prohibited by
the postal laws and regulations. Sec
tions 1136 and 1137 were enacted to
prevent the establishment of private
mail routes, because the poatofflco de
partment is recognized as having the
absolute monopoly of the transporta
tion of letters and 'packets' or bundles
of letters by regular trips and at stated
periods on all post routes. As to open
letters and circulars, they may be de
livered by rival concerns, but the peo
ple who make the delivery of circulars
a business have no right to deliver un
stamped closed letters. The law shuts
out the milkmen and the tradesmen,
who travel regularly along established
post roads, who would otherwise be
come rivals to the United States post
office for the purpose of accommodat
ing their customers."—New York Trib
une.
SiLK OF THE SPIDER.
The Delicnte Machinery That Spins
the Liquid Threads.
The spider is able to secrete at least
threo colors of silk stuff—the white,
which forms the web, and the en
fswathement of captives and the egg
cocoon; the brown mass that tills the
cocoon Interior and the flossy yellow
between that nn<l the Inside of the
sac. The glands end in minute ducts
which empty into spinning spools reg
ularly arranged along the sides and
upon the tips of the six spinnerets, or
"spinning mammals," or "spinning An
gers," which are placed Just beneath
the apex of the abdomen. The spin
nerets are movable and can be flung
wide apart or pushed closely together,
and the spinning spools can be man
aged In the same way.
The silk glands are infolded In mus- j
cular tissue, pressure upon which, at
the will of the spider, forces the liquid
silk through the duct Into the spool,
whence it Issues as a minute filament,
since it hardens upon contact with the
air. One thread as seen In a web may
be made up of a number of the fllu
nients and is formed by putting the
tips of the spools together as the liquid
Jets are forced out of the ducts. When
the spinnerets are Joined and a num
ber of the spools are emptied at once
their contents merge, and the sheets
or ribl>ons are formed which oue sees
In the enswatliement of a captive or
the making of Arglope's central shield.
This delicate machinery the owner op
erates witli utmost skill, bringing into
play now oue part and now another
and again the whole with unfailing
deftness and a mastery complete.—Drv
H. McCook in llart>cr'a._
THE WORD "FELLOW."
Its Honorable Beginning and Its Lat
ter Day Decline.
The degeneracy of a good word was
Illustrated iu a case at Branksomo
(Dorsett, in which a witness spoke of
the defendant as "this fellow" and was
ordered by the bench to substitute
"this man." "Fellow" began very
honorably by moaning a person who
put down money with others in a
Joint undertaking, its component parts
being akin respectively to "fee" (prop
erly i and to "lay" and "law." To this
day it Is dignified to be a fellow of a
college, apd nobody minds being called
a "fellow citizen," a "fellow Chris
tian" or a "good fellow."
Rut ordinarily "fellow" alone ranks
now as In the painful scene in which
Mr. Tupman said, "Sir, you're a fel
low," and Mr. Pickwick retorted, "Sir,
you're another." in the fourteenth
century It was customary to call a
servant "fellow" In kindly condescen
sion. Perhaps that explains the word's
decline, though It may be due to the
use of "fellow" in the sense of boon
companion. "Companion" and "mate"
also were contemptuous at one time.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
There's a lot of foolishness to keep
out of.
Genius is not rare, but plain com
mon sense is.
Great things can't be very difficult
or an ordinary man couldu't accom
plish them.
Kverv one naturally dislikes those
people who are so good they suggest
the top line in a copy book.
lie content with your air castle. The
chimney in an ,iir castle never smokes,
ami the windows do not rattle in every
wind.
lioin- business without advertising
is like win' in- til <t gii I in the dark —
you !n« v bat you are doing, but no
Perlia, - y >.i have noticed that chii
j : ; more willing to work for the
neighbors than at home; also that some
of them never outgrow the habit. —
Atchison (-lobe
There ar.< some truths that are per
ceived less by ihe intellect than by the
heart, an 1 ?h man who is devoid of
this heart perception is lacklug In
much. Terrell (Tex.) Transcript.
biu CARNATIONS.
They Were Cultivated In England in
Shakespeare's Time.
A tMrist says that we prkle ourselvt*
nov. adays on the size of our carna
tions. i ut the florists of 300 years ago
grecarnations three to four inches
ac: as b-rge as any that we see.
ami thought nothing of it.
"All through Spain, southern France
and Italy at nation is the favorite
flower and lias been for hundreds of
years, but along the Mediterranean
there are few glass houses, for In pro
tected vitiiutions and on southern
slopes of hills even delicate flowers
grow outdoors all winter long and
bio-mi as freely nt Christmas as In
July.
"The big carnations, however, were
not grown in Spain or Italy, but in
i:..i-ila :.l outdoors during the summer
time and before glass houses were
known. Tii \v may have grown just
as l.ir ■ carnation flowers in Spain as
in Eu.-laiid at that time, but iu Eng
land iiieic was record made of the
fact a;t I also of the size, while iu Spain
there was not. Shakespeare mentions
carnations and gillyflowers, or July
flow rs. together as blooming at the
same season, which shows that the
carnation was then a summer flower,
whereas in our greenhouses it Is now
a winter Ho.'iner. How the florists of
th->se days treated the plants to oh
t.::n blooms of such size nobody knows,
fer old time florists grew flowers lu
si -ad of writing books about them. So
all we know is that they had very
large carnaiinis iu Queen Elizabeth's
time without knowing how they were
grown." —St. Louis < > lobe-1 >emocrat
HIDDEN TREASURE.
New Zealanders Dig For Kauri Qum
In the Ground.
Many New Zealanders find It profit
able to dig for hidden treasure. That
for which they dig. however. Is not
gold or Captain lvidd's ill gotten
wealth, thouglr It has a dull yellow
color. It is kauri gum, a resinous sub
stance which Is the product of the
kauri pine tree. The gum can be se
cured from the trunks of trees while
they are. alive, for It protrudes In
lumps, but it is especially profitable
to dig for it in the soil about the
stumps remaining after the trees have
been cut down. Sometimes chunks
weighing a* much as 100 pounds are
taken up from the ground,
Digging for kauri gum Is profitable,
for the gum is used In the manufacture
of varnish, and apparently it is one of
those products of nature whose place
cannot be filled by anything else which
has yet been discovered. It has been
found that it ran be utwd In.certain
enamel paints, and this has bad the
effect of bringing the demand up to 8
point above the supply.
The kauri pine is a magnificent tree.
It rises as straight as a needle to a
height of from 150 to 200 feet and
attains at times a diameter of-fifteen
feet. It is noted for its dark, dense
foliage and is much used for masts
for vessels constructed for the Rritlsb
navy.
It is the duty of the clerk to be zeal
ous. The low spirited has no place in
a bank. Neither has the frivolous.
The man who works for a bank Is re
spected in his community because It Is
known that the character of his work
Is important and particular. He must
not only be direct and speedy iu what
he does, he must not only lie faithful
aud constant in all that be does, but
he must go a step further and do what
he does with a will, and a good will
at that. Zeal requires interest and en
thusiasm. One of the troubles with
the bank clerk is that his senses and
his buoyancy are apt to lie dulled by
the endless repetition of details. There
is no way to shirk it. No bank clerk
can go home at nigiit with his work
unfinished. C. \V. Stevenson lu Bank
ers' Monthly.
Bismarck's Love of Authority.
At 1» p. in. we took tea with the king.
I was seated opposite him when a foot
man came and whispered In my ear
that Bismarck desired to see me. Great
embarrassment! I'uekler having told
me I might leave the table, I did so.
The king inquired what was the mat
ter and permitted me to go. Bismarck
had nothing of particular Importance
to tell me, and I suspect that he only
wanted to show that lie had the right
to semi for his employees even when
they were with the king.—Hatz.feldt
Letter.
Strictly Business.
"The graspin'est man I ever know
ed," said I'ncle Jerry Peebles, "was au
old cliap named Snoop ins. Somebody
told him once that when he breathed
he took in oxygen and gave out car
bon. He spent a whole day tryln" to
find out which of them two gases cost
the most if you have to buy' em. He
wanted to know whether he was m&k
lu* or losin* money when he breathed."
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HAPPINESS.
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The Difference Between tho Sexes In
This Important State.
One source ot' women's Happiness is 1
to lie found, we think, iu their love of I
detail. They enjoy every detail of so
cial life. They love the minutiae of
their work. They do not love it as a
man lov i his, for the sake of an end. ;
?'hey I toU dose at what they are do
liv-. aud th do not look forward.
The } take olea ure in their children
as they are. A defect, even though it
be a serious one, destroys their pleas
ure iu tli ni l.ir less than it destroys
that of a man. They are not constant
ly oppressed by the thought of what
that defect will mean in the future.
If a woman is y nature apprehensive j
her fears apply for the most part to
lit To things. If a man is apprehensive
i:e , •.ir- when the tit is upon him the
(1 jci •of Ilea ve.i and earth. For wo
n. -.i time goe.j a little slower. They
take plea -'.ir * i:i each jewel of Ihat
u:o<nle which makes up happiness and
a.'.' it it fret t el because the pattern is
u<t complete. of this quality they
have, no dw t, tie inevitable defects—
nu'.cli brilliance, little grasp and a ,
tendency to frivolity. They are apt to |
frilt.v away their lives and minds on
little th ugs. They become engrossed
with the details of play as well as the
details of work. Men uo doubt have
more opportunities of keen pleasure
than v mien have, but these opportuni
ties a. v* short live I. The happiness of ,
the moment they are less titled to take.
Tiie difference between the sexes iu
this particular might, we believe, be
thus summe 1 uj•: A man Is happy
whenever he has anything to make him j
happy, but a woman is happy when
ever sac lias nothing to make her uo- I
happy.— London Kpectator.
SHELLS THAT SWIM.
These Peculiar Fish Are Mostly Con
fined to Tropical Seas.
The idea of shells being found any
where else except upon the seabeach
or in river beds is a little startling.
Yet the naturalist who pursues his
work from a ship in midocean can aud
does collect shells by the thousand at
every dip of his net or bucket.
Swimming shellfish are mostly con
fined to tropical seas. The most fa
miliar is the nautilus, which is, how
ever. not a shellfish at all. but a near
relation of the cuttlefish; also it is
only seen on the surface at a certain
time of the year. The real ocean shell
fish are mostly very
dian ocean they may be seen by mil
lions. One which bears the appalling
name of t'avolinia trispinosa has the
odd peculiarity of coming to the sur
face at G sharp every evening. An
other, the ('leodora tridentata, rises
at 7.
Frail as these tiny shellfish are, no
storm ever injures them. They all
possess the peculiar power of being
able at will to sink a few feet below
the surface of the sot. and there they
remain when gales blow, perfectly
saft', and rise again when the weather
Improves.
The largest of these ocean swim
mers is about three Inches In length.
Almost all are most brilliant In color
and their shells far frailer and more
glossy than those found upon the sea
• beach.
>«*?r Coiitrol.
A lloston w iinan was standing on a
street crossing waiting for a car when
a box jf powdered charcoal fell from
a passing wagon and broke open. The
beautiful light dress she was wearing
was ruined by the dust. The driver,
who stopped to recover the package,
saw the damage and said, "1 am very
sorry, ma'am." The woman bowed
and replied, "It was not your fault,
sir." He that taketli a city is indeed a
■mall person beside the possessor of
such self control as that.—Youth's
Companion.
Not Ills ToiiKae.
"I ain't got no doubt," said Ililler,
"but what I kin git that there job as
consul iu that place in England. It'd
be a cinch too."
"Oh. yes," replied Peppery, "if you
can learn to speak the imguage."—•
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IMI SHAKK HUN I EH&.
tiofl'ltila' but Ulr«fd i'alulrta WMf
Hie !• ixlt Are Killed.
The sirlctly commercial business of
-baric hunting is done in small sloops
whose headquarters are in the more
northerly Norwegian porta. The crews
ire for the most part made up of pure
blooded descendants of the vikings,
who are still to be found in any num
ber among the codfishers of Hammer
fe-'t of Tromso. And a magnificent
race of men they are! Accustomed
from boyhood to a life of hardship,
they liave a way of treating Father
Neptune with a slightly contemptuous
toleration, like an old friend, of some
wh.-it uncertain temper, whose rapid
changes from smiling benevolence to
wild, blustering anger are on the whole
rather amusing than otherwise.
They care nothing for danger and
little for suffering—ln themselves or in
others. Why. then, should they stop
to think that perhaps a maimed but
still living shark can feel?
The fishing is done off the coast of
Iceland in about eighty fathoms of wa
ter. I'ln • e or four gallows-llke struc
tures are rigged up around the sides of
the sloop and from each of these hangs
a pulley block, over which runs a
strong rope, and to the end of this the
baited hook is fastened. A plentiful
supply of ground bait is thrown out to
attract the quarry, and such is the ea
gerness with which the sharks take the
bait that sometimes each one of these
gallows-like fishing rods will have its
lish hooked and lighting for life all at
the same time.
There is uo "playing" the flsh. It is
not necessary or possible, and the pow
ertul tackle is hardly likely to break,
no matter how fiercely the hooked
shark may struggle. But the shark Is
not for his size a game flsh, and except
when lie is actually being hoisted out
of the water there is no very serious
strain on the tackle. If he does now
and then get away it Is not because he
ever manages to break the line, but be
cause a lightly fixed hook easily tears
through the soft cartilaginous skeleton
of his head and so sets him free.
As soon as a shark has taken one of
the baits the hauling tackle attached to
his particular gallows is manned, and
without any superfluous fuss or cere
mony lie is hauled up to the sloop and
hoisted just clear of the water.
lie is not brought on board at all,
but willi a few bold slashes his liver is
cut out as be bangs and is thrown into
a tub to be further dealt with later.
Then bis eyes are put out, nud he is
cut adrift togo and complete the tardy
proee of dying where and how he
pleases.
All this sounds very horrible, but
there is one curious fact which goes
far to make us believe that this death
cannot, after all. be such a cruel one
as at lirst appears. It is this, tho fisher
men say—that unless they put out the
shark's eyes he will afterward cause
tin-in a lot of trouble by coming and
taking the bait a second time.
It sounds incredible, but the state
ment is thoroughly well authenticated
by eyewitnesses who have seen a liver
less shark do just this very thing. Sci
entists doubtless are right In saying
that the shark (which by anatomical
classification is oue of the lowest of
the flshesi does not feel pain in the
way more highly organized animals
feel it. We will eling to that belief, for
it is consoling—to us, If not to the
shark, who is thus sacrificed that his
liver may supply us with—what?
It is a secret not to be spoken aloud.
Norway is one of the great centers of
the cod trade, and from cod Is made
cod liver oil. and shark's liver oil tastes
and looks exactly like it.—Pearson's
Magazine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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