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VOLUME 3.
RKYXOLDSVILLK, PEXX'A., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1805.
NUJIBEK 37.
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CRPITKL 9SO.OOO.OO.
'. Tlltetiell, 1'ri'p.lili nu
Ni nll ,Dr( Ipllmifl, Vice trc.
Jnlin II. KniM'hi p, 'nflilrr.
Director:
1). Mitchell, Hcntt. Mcl'lelliinil. ,T. C. Klnu,
Joseph Striiu-, (1, K, Itinwri,
li. V. Puller, .1. II. Kiiwlicr.
Does n irencrnl hnnkinir business n ml solicits
the nct'niintH nf iihmi'Iiiiiiih, priift'Nlutuil men,
farmer, mechanic, miners, hnnliermen nnfl
other, promising the miwt cnrcful attention
to the liilncs of nil persons.
Hnfo IVposIt Boxes for mil.
I'lrnl National Hunk IuiIIiIImk. Nolnu block
Fire Proof Vault.
OOME. IN!
Where?
TO TI1H
"Bee Hive" store,
AYIlKliK
L. J. Mc En tire, & Co.,
The Grocerynuin, deals in all
kinds of
Groceries, Canned
Goods, Green Goods
Tobacco and Cigars, Flour
and Feed, Baled Hay and
Straw. Fresh goods always
on hand.
Country produce taken in
exchange for goodn.
A nhare of your patronage
ia respectfully solicited.
Very truly yours,
Lawrence J. McEntlre & Co.,
The Gronrymrn,
CHEAPEST
and best
GOODS!
Ever brought to our town In
Ladies'
Spring and
Summer
Dress Goods!
Brandenberg never Teas
sold less than 20 to 25c. per
yard; will sell you now for
121.
Dimity,
Turkey Red DamaBk,
41 Prints,
Ginghams,
China Silk,
12Jc
37
05
05
25
Better Goods than you can
buy any place else.
The same Great Reduc
tion in
Men's - and - Children's
CLOTHING.
Children's Suits, $ .90
" 1.00
" 1.25
" 1.75
" Single Coats, .50
Youths' Suits, $3.25 to 8.50
Men's Flannel Suits, 5.50
" Worsted " 7.50
" Fine Cheviot Suits,
$6 to 9.50
A fine line of Men's Pants.
Come and examine my goods
before you purchase else
where. ,
N. HANAU.
RECONCILED.
"Hnw pHyl" crif'd tho wiping rod.
"Oh, tnr me not from this dvnr boworl
Hen hnv ! dwelt In linn and nhowprj
Hero hnve 1 irrown from bod to flower i
Bore h't mo In my bloom ivpono."
"Wop not, O iwM 1 whlnpcrM low.
Til tnke th to ft hpvmly rit.
tKn my BWti-ihoart'B swcllinit breast
Thy bmnty nhnll in mjiture grow,"
"I'm huppy," Rltrhed the smiling ow.
'Hit rndtnnt nyin upon me Im-th..
nT hrrnth nnd mi no In (rriitinR blutid.
I IWI tho throbbing of her heart.
Oh, never Unr u two npnrtt
Unro through Itfu'B bloom would 1 rrpnne."
Element Clifford tn New York Lcdifor.
TELEPATHY TALES.
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY O"
ACTING UPON MIND.
MIND
The Norcll.t llplleves Tlit tha Ellstence
of Telepathy 11m llrrn ftclentlflRBlly
Established tils Curious Personal ex
perience. A writer liko David Christie Mur
ray, who has taken nil life for the fluid
if his art ns a novelist nnd draws upon
Hie whole planet for hi illustrations,
must linve had rich experiences in the
domain which Iho Psychical Invostiga
tion society has chosen for its own. Bnt
ho does not overload his books with ma
terial of thin kind, nor ia Iiih conversa
tion mnch weighted with tho bnrd..n of
things between henvrn and earth that
wo iln not usually dream of. And yet
when prompted to lo so hn ran speak
on theso subjects not only with knowl
edge, but nlso with eloquenco. Ho is fit
tod to do this, first, by his fino mental
organization, for lie has been psychical
ly sensitive since boyhood, and next by
tho many psychical experiences which
hnvo fallen to his lot during a long,
aotive nnd adventurous life, lived among
many pooplo nnd many parts of the
world. lie does not, of course, bolieve
in the aberrations of "occultism," but
he is convinced that beneath the ordina
ry cxporionees of life, perceptiblo to the
censes, there exist spiritual phenomena
which will repay investigation nnd
which science is only now beginning to
learn.
Ono day recently Mr. Murray talked
to a noston Herald man on the special
subject of telepathy, and after showing
from his own personal experiences how
mind may act upon mind at a distance,
independently of tho ordinary moans of
intercommunication, ho went on to say:
"Here Is a case in point. My oldest
brother, who died in 1865, was at sea
as midshipman on board a merchant
vessel. Ho sailed under a drunken cap
tain, who hehavod to him with horrible
cruelty Ho got the seeds of consump
tion on thut voyage While ho was at
sea my mothrr was nursing her uncle,
James Withers Marsh, and in tho very
hour of his death tho old man, who had
bocu tenderly attached to my brother,
sat up nnd said aloud: 'Let tho lad
alono. Have you no bowels?' My mother
asked him what he was thinking of, and
he criod, 'That captain is ill treating
poor Jack horribly. '
"Tho first ofllcer, a Mr. Mundy, took
oorumand of tho ship when Captain
Gregory diod in delirium tremens and
was buried at tho Azores. Mundy
brought my brother homo, and ho was
told the story of the old man's dying
worda Bo producod his own notebook
and showed thut on tho day of the old
man's daath he had made an entry, be
cause he intended to indict tho oaptain
for his cruelty on thoir rotnrn ton Brit
ish port. What is most singular is that
whoa he cunie to work out the differ
ence of latitude lie found the entry in
his private log and the time of the old
man's words coiucidod to a moment.
There are thousands of such instances
reported, and it seems to me quite idle
to dismiss thorn as mere coincidences.
Coincideuoe has a very long arm indeed,
especially ia drama and fiction. But I
think it hardly reaobes so far as that
"Not very long ago," Mr. Murray
resumed, "I bad a very curious personal
experience. Two people had been dining
with m-ou a very dear and intimate
personal friend, the other a com pars tire
stranger. When they had left me, I dis
tinctly beard a personal conversation
within my own mind. I do not pretend
that the words would have been audible
to anybody else. That would be non
sense. But I heard if within my mind
and recognized the voioes of the two
men. They discussed my own character
and the action I had taken about a oer
tuin matter at that tima The compara
tive stranger was critioal and unfriend
ly, and my old friend fought my cause
with great warmth. I questioned hint
afterward, and he assured me that suoh
a conversation had taken place as he
and his convive had driven in the car
riage to the club from my bouse. "
The novelist was hero asked whether
he had met with any cases of the action
of a dead on a living mind. He replied,
speaking la an impressive and reverent
tone of voice: "I am profoundly oonvino
ed, though I do not want to be regarded
as a madman, that after his death my
father assisted me in my literary work.
For a year or two I was profoundly con
scious of it, and 1 wrote as if I was ab
solutely uudor his eye, and with an as
suronoe of his sympathy and aid that,
however oonveyed, was absolute " '
"1 had an allusion to this kjjd of in-,
fluenoe," Mr. Murray oontiilied, "in
my book, 'Ruiubow Gold. ' Th'ire is a
dialogue there with a great strong man
who has committed tomo dreadful crime
and is roponting of it, and the question
between the talkers is as to whether
there is any kuowlecigo of us on the
part of the dead. And old Armstrong, a
practical minded Scotchman, remarks
that ho cannot conceive of tho sonls of
Hums and Sliakespenro as spending their
time In knocking devil knocks nt tho ta
bles of noodles like a pair of demented
postmen. 'Dut,' says ho, 'you can fan
cy tho spirit of a mother saying to the
master seraph, "I have been behaving
pretty well of lato, and I would liko to
f:o back to Cast le Harfleld and have a
ook nt the lad 1 loft behind mo," and
the master seraph says, "Go to tho poor
creature, go!" And you feet her nenr
you, and yon say in tho blindness of
your mind, "Norves. " And you try to
chase your poor old mother's soul away
from yon with a decoction of Peruvian
bark.'"
BANK BOOKKEEPING
' A rarfect Syitrm Never Du and May
' Never He Developed.
Tho cashier of a prominent up town
bank says that such a thing ns n perfect
system of bookkeeping has never boon
devised nnd probably never will be.
"When yon think of it," he said, "book
keeping is simply a question of mental
ingenuity. What ono brain ran devise
in the way of safeguards another brain
can usually undo, speaking in n general
way. Tho daily papers in condemning
tho banks because of tho moderate sal
aries paid to bookkeepers overlook a
very important fact. Tho tanks pay the
market rates to expert bookkeepers,
which aro anywhere from f I, MM) to f2,
200 a year. An almost unlimited num
ber of men can bo obtained at theso
! figures, and paying moro money would
not mako tho banks n bit safer, for tho
simplo reason that men of strong mental
powers, great bnsiness capacitv nnd un
swerving integrity nro not, ns a rule,
content to be mechnnicnl bookkeepers
in largo institutions. I do not, of course,
mean to disparage bookkeepers in any
way.
"Tho point is that tho men who make
good bookkeepers are unimaginative, re
liable and steady going persons, who
are not influenced by great ambition,
and who do not aspire to lofty places. It
is not required of a bookkeeper that ho
shall have very high mental qualifica
tions as bookkeeping is now conducted
in our big institutions. Each man has a
stipulated amount of work of a stereo
typed nature to da Ho has of course
enough ingenuity to swindlo, if he
choosos to do so. Anybody who belioves
that a perfect system of bookkeeping
can be devised must nlso believe that it
would be impossible to oounterfoi
money. The Bank of England has been
held up ns a marvel for ninny years, and
yet it is no secret that that institution
was swindlod in the most complete
manner for many years before it was
found out The most important nnd con
servative commeroiul ugenciesond finan
cial institutions in tliis city and London
have lost money through thoir em
ployees, and tho Credit Lyounaise, in
Frauoe, where bookkeeping is said to
have been carried to the vory highest
point of safety, was completely upset by
a i ruber of chirks two years ago, who
had no difficulty whatever in hoodwink
ing tho experts and pocketing the bank's
nionoy. " Now York Sun.
Who Invented the Guillotine?
It is now certain that neither Dr. J.
L Guillotin, who is said to have diod
upon tho Instrument whioh has a name
so strikingly liko his own, nor Dr. J.
B. V. Guillotine, who lias also been
givon the oredit of being its inventor,
was the detiguer of the French instru
ment of capital punishment It is
known to have been ia nse in Italy at
least fiOO years before the time of either
of the gentlomon mentioned and was
the recognized instrument used for in
flicting the death penalty in Sootland
during both the fifteenth and sixteenth
oenturies. Conradin of Suabia was exe
outed by such a machiae at Maples in
the year 1858, and that it was in ase in
Frauoe more than 100 years before the
time of Dr. J. I. Guillotin is proved by
the fact that the Due de Montmorency
was decapitated "by a sliding as" in
1483. St Louis Republic.
The rrtnetple la Thought.
During normal sleep cerebral force is
restored whioh during the day was con
sumed. We cannot during wakefulness
maintain an electrio supply as fast as
we disperse it, as not only all thought,
bnt simple oonsoionsneaa itself, muBt
consume something. Those are marvel
ous microsoopio twinkle of eleotrio
light that attend the disruption of the
microsoopio cells when we think. Won
derful ia that carnal enginery whose go
ing, wrought by cerebral action, marks
the genesis, and whose stopping indi
cates the exodus of our lives. Mew
York Advertiser.
A New Cm For the Telephone.
It has remained for the lattor part of
the nineteenth century to evolve anoth
er and wholly different method from
that usually employed for the transmis
sion of osoulatory favors. This is to
have the matter accomplished by tele
phone. The invention is not, however,
patentod, and may upon occasion be
adopted in other cities than Washing
ton. Washington Times.
Lying Low,
Schoolmate- Why do yon never touoh
your piano?
Miss Thumper We're buying it on
Installments.
"What difference does that make?"
"I'm afraid if paw should bear me
play he'd stop paying." Good News.
THE KINO OF INNISHKEA.
Rs Dwells on on lrlh lntnnd nnd Rules
a Mi jo Tribe.
About 10 miles from Dugort, in Achtll
island, out to sea, looking like n thill
line of sand in the waves of tho Atlan
tic, is tho Island of Innishkea. Ono fine
morning our party started to visit it iu
a trusty hooker. As tho hooker came iu
sight of the shore great excitement was
visible among the islanders, and it wns
very hard to roalizo that wo were still
but 80 hours' Journey from London.
Tha inhabitants turned out en masse.
Tho women and children in their scanty
garments of red flannel crouched outside
their cabins, while numbers of tho men
ran down to the beach nnd put out in
their coracles on chnnce of rowing us to
land. It was a strange scene and curi
ously liko a picture plate in a boy's book
of adventures. We knew there was a
king of Innishken, nnd soon a tall,
bronze facod man was pointed out to us
as his majesty On landing all the party
were introduced nnd conducted by him
to tho palnee, where tho queen dowager,
with her daughter, bade us welcomo in
triio Irish fashion.
Tho old lady was iu her plctiircsqno
dative costume red dress and plaid
shawl over her head. The princess, how
ever, had evidently on first sinht of tho
hooker arrayed herself in modern fash
Ion to do ns honor, and wo were amused
on penetrating into tlio reception room
to find advertisements from shops in
Bneldiif'hnm P.ilaeo road and Bt. l'nul's
churchyard hung up to embellish tho
wall, though only by n favored few
could they bo read.
Tho island was destituto of any school
or means of instruction for tho children,
a very small proportion either under
stood or spoko English, nnd there wns
neither watch nor clock nmong tho poo
plo, who had n happy go lucky idea of
time and troubled themselves little as
to Greenwich regulations.
There wero no ehuroh bells to ring, no
trains to catch, no office hours requiring
punctuality, so when the sun was high
in tho heavens they would got through
their not arduous farming duties, and
when he sank in tho great waste of
waters they could sleep. The king's
word settled all disputes. It was a
hereditary monarchy, nnd his people, so
far ns he was concerned, wero untaxed.
Happy those states, thought some of tho
visitors, where royalty could bo main
tained with so little grnndenrl How
ever, I nm iu honesty bound to add wo
found King Philip had other means of
filling his coffers besides levying taxes
on his faithful subjects and learned tho
art of making good his opportunity
whenever tho Paxnn BtraiiRer ventured
to land on his shorn But Innishken Ikib
an interest a 1 together upart from its sit
uation, surrounded as it is by lovely
views of mountain cliff and rocky head
land. On this spot, hundreds of years
ago, early Christiuu missionaries laud
ed, and on top of a shelly mount, half
a mile from tho beach, aro Christian
remains of great antiquity. West of tho
island there stand also tho ruins of a
church said to liavo been built by tho
successors of St Coluinbo. Leisure
Hours.
Jenny l.lnd.
Jenny Ltnd must havo boon tho most
simple, unpretending prima donna that
ever lived. When she first camo to Eng
land slio was bound to sing only at tho
Royal Italian Opera House, nnd when
oominandcd to sing at tho queen's con
oort slio was obligod to refuse Vory
sorry to bo compelled to notify this, slio
ordered hor carriage nnd drovo straight
to Buckingham palaoo. She handed her
oardtoanoflloial, who, not uniiuturally,
dooliaiod to take it in. A higher author
ity happened to past and took it upon
himself to present it As soon as hor maj
esty saw it she said, "Admit hor, by all
means." Jenny Lind appeared and said
simply that she was so very sorry to be
nnahle to sing at her majesty's concert
that ehe thought it better to call herself
and explain. The qneon was charmed
with her natural manrafr, gave her a
cordial reception and promised to be her
friend. Today.
A rime Poll Wot Tin wax.
Wfaen the kitohea range ia cleaned
oot, there will be found in the flue un
der the oven a considerable quantity of
gray dust It is not ashes exactly, not
yet aoot, bnt a smoke deposit as near
akin to lampblack as a coal fire is able
to produce soft, light, impalpable,
finer than the finest flour. Not many
among those who throw this into the
ash bin are probably aware that this is
the best thing iu the world for polishing
tinware, fur surpassing all the prepared
powdors and pastes sold for that pur
pose. Apply it to the tin with a damp
oloth, and a few strokes will produce
such a luster as ia on now ware or as the
engraver puts upon his ziuo plates by
the nse of charcoal. Exohaugo.
Triumph of Bad Spelling-.
Mr. R E. Bartlett, Chelmsford, writes:
"I can bout tho aohiovoment of Charles
Edward, who, by spelling box 'botsk,'
made more mistakes than the letters ad
mit of. I have in my possession a letter
addressed many years ago to my father,
in whioh 18 mistakes are mado in a sin
gle word of five letters. The word is,
or was meaut to be, usage; the spelling
la yowzitoh. There aro thus live sins
of omission and eight of commission;
total, 18. "London News.
Norwalk, Conn., is said to have an
Indiau origin, but thero is an English
Village of this name,
MAY MARRIAGES UNLUCKV.
Old "nperstltlon WMrh litis I'owrrfnl In
fluence With Kuropenn llrlilal Couples.
Tho municipal statistics of the city of
Marseilles show theoliservcrthat on the
28th of April, IRtlt, thero were regis
tered at tho mayor's ofllco in that town
tio less than 1)4 ninrringes. Why thf 9
enormous number? Because, Recording
to nil ancient tradition, couples that
marry in tho month of May expose them
selves to great danger death will soon
imlto tho unfortunates, or, nt tho very
least, their union will not bo blessed
With children. Therefore a largo num
ber of Marseillnise lovers availed them
selves of the last days of April to join
themselves in wodlock.
This curious superstition is ly no
means confined to Marseilles. M. le
Blnnt, a French investigator, ascribes
to it nn origin in Roman antiquity. The
Roman pout Ovid said that May wns no
time for widows to innrry or for young
girls, nnd adds that tho Imprudent
woman who braves fnto by so doing will
dlo early. Plutarch ngrees to tho truth
of this.
It may bebecanfoof this ancient prin
ciple that tho Roman Catliolio church
has mado the month of May sacred to
tho Virgin. However this may be, tli6
idea has certainly prpelnaterl itself with
singular persistence. TiHMUii, writing
about the middloof tho seventeenth cen
tury, relates that mtnng tho inhabitant
of Ferraras many young nobles nnd
princes wh'.i wero married In May died
only n few days nftcrward. "It is tho
observation of this strange fact," ho ob
serves, "that induced tho Ferrarese, so
it is said, to follow the nnelent custom. "
At tho present day tho superstition
has not ceased to show itself in certain
regions of Italy, in liouinanin, in south
Gormnny, Bohemia, Westphalia, Eng
land and France, notably in Hnintorge
nnd in tho Cevonnes, where cvory ono
acknowledges the truth of the proverb,
"The month of flowers is n month of
tears. "
"Perhaps," said Plutarch, "the
mouth of May is regarded ns unlucky
because it comes botweon April nnd
Juno, tho months respectively of Venus
nud Juno, tho tntolnry goddesses of mar
riage, or perhaps it is because May is
tho month of the feast of the Lemures,
tho souls of the dead." Paris Letter.
TREE PLANTING IN FRANCE.
Useless Bnnd Dunes Converted Into Valu
able Land With IMne.
Tho French thoroughly appreciate the
advantages to be derived from systematic
treo planting. Tracts of sand havo been
covered with pino forests, nud tho word
lnndu, borrowed, as it is thought, from
tho German, is losing its meaning of
"waste " Till a ocutury ago a large
portion of tho forest of Fontainobleau
consisted of bare sand hills, but tho
planting of pines was begun. A variety
capablo of standing tho severest win
ters was evidently found, nud millions
of trees now dilTuso healthy nud ngreo
nblo odors, besides furnishing timber
for fuel.
Tho decomposed fir needles, more
over, gradually form a crust of vegeta
ble mold, permitting tho growth of trees
and shrubs loss ablo than tho pino to
live on air. The department of tho
Lnudos, ouco a barren region, with sand
so looso that peoplo had to walk on
stilts, is covorod with pines, nnd the
problem of draining the subsoil lias been
solvod, as described in Edmoud About's
story of "Maitro Plorre. "
Tho losses by flro and anxiety to pro
duce something more remunorativo than
pino nre now, however, inducing
schomos of artificial fortilization. Iu
many French watering places duuos
have been transformed into woods, thus
holding out to seaside visitors the at
traction of agreeable shade and a cbango
from monotonous beach. Shifting sands
have been prevented from extending in
land. In some cases dunes have been ac
quired by companies, whioh, after plant
ing them, have out them np into build
ing lota and have seen them dotted with
Villas.
Elsewhere municipalities have taken
np the matter, and in large operations
the district or the department has pro
Tided the funds. Loudon Times. -
Ha Loves to Work.
The foreman of a bootblacking shop
in Madison square is a oontinual sur
prise to the customers. His employer is
a padrone, aud be is loft in complote
control His conduot justifies his em
ployer's confidence. He is the hardest
worker among the half dozen employees
aud frequently takes the brushes from
one of his subordinates when there are
not enough customers to keep all busy.
Ho never allows a customer to go away
nnless he is satisfied that his boots have
been polished in the best manner possi
ble. He is ever full of enthusiasm and
works with as much energy at the end
of a busy day as at the beginning. His
humor never lags, aud his mnsoles never
tire.
"It is as good as a braoor to watch
that fullow, " said a roundor. "Ho is the
only man I ever saw who always scorns
to lovo to work. " New York Bun.
Pretty Thin.
They have recently made gold leaf by
eloatro-ohoinioal processes as thin as
four-millionths of an inch thiok, if yon
can lmagino that It was exactly 1-8,
708, 000 of an inch. The highest previous
thinness ever reached was 1-8(17,850.
This Is 10,884 times thinner than ordi
nary thin writing pnpor. Journal of
Eduoation.
SAVED HER SLIPPER3.
A Tilt ot nitherto t'npnlillalinl lll.tnry of
t War or tata.
This is a chnpterof semiofficial, semi
doniestio history, nnd it is vouched fof
by a granddaughter of tho hero's fam
ily line, a Cliicagoan who now lives on
Dearborn avciinn.
Prominent iu Mr. Madison's cabinet
sat, fourscore years ngo, Secretary of'
the Navy Jones, the son of u famous
shipbuilder, n man gallant not only in
spirit, but in dress nnd manner. His
fitness lor his ofllce is attested by the
naval historic i of tho war of 1812. But
tho successful secretary had more wit
than hair, and a wig was a sino qua
nnn of his political and social life. All
went woll with this adornment until
the luckless August day in 1814 when
the British marched from BIndonsburg
upon Washington.
It will be remembered that President
Madison and his cabinet stood not upou
the order of their going on that occa
sion, bet went at onco to a very ro
tired summer resort. Every ono knows
how Lady "Dolly" remained behind
long enough to save somo valuable
Whito Houso portraits from having their
eyes put out by English bayonets, but
few have heard how collected Sirs, i-eo-retary
Jmi"s was iu this national crisis.
Prescnco of mind issaid to be promot
ed by absence of body. This lady dis
played in tho face of danger presenc e ft
both mind nnd body. As tho secretary
emerjred from his doorway, his hands
full of such family valuables as his ft; i
fated condition had allowed him to col
lect, Mrs. Jones confronted him with
tho appalling words:
"My dear, yon have forgotten my
slippers. Von must go back and p t
them."
General Ross wns almost nt his door
bringing imprlponmcntordcnth, bnt tho
unhappy man turned back to hunt the
slippers, which, it is only fair to Mis.
Jones to add, wero adorned with dia
mond buckles. In his headlong quest for
these treasures which he secured his
wig dropped off iu a dark corner, nnd
he did not dnro to tako time to hunt for
it nor to nttempt the purchnso of an
other. Tho shorn appearance of the sec
retary, hitherto faultless in all appoint
ments of dress, is said to have very mnch
lessened tho melancholy of tho cabinet
journey. It is further asserted thut dur
ing the timo of retirement, no matter
how depressed any member of tho presi
dential party felt over ptiblio and pi 1
vato woes, if he but glanced at Soeretary
Jones pool upou peal of irrcsistiblo
laughter was sure to follow and that iho
despoiled Adonis cordially joined In
theso bursts of merriment Chicago
Tribuua
A Malay Water Wide.
In Porak, n state in tho Straits Fet
tlemcuts, the Malays havo one form of
amusement which is probably not to bo
enjoyed anywhere clso in tho wido
world.
Thero is n lingo granite slopo iu tho
courfo of a mountain river, down which
the water trickles about two indies
deep, tho main stream having carved
out a bed by tho side of tho bowlder.
This rock, tho face of which has been
rendered as smooth us glass by the con
stant How of water duriug hundreds of
years, tho JIalnys men, women nnd
children hnvo turned into a toboggan.
Climbing to tho top of tho rock, they
sit in tho shallow water with their ft ot
straight out and ahnnd on each sido for
steering and then slido down the 60 feet
into a pool of water.
This is a favorite sport on sunny
mornings, as many as 200 folks being
engaged at a time and sliding so quick
ly one after another or forming rows ot
two, four or even eight persons thut
thoy tumble into the puol a oonfnsed
mass of screaming creatures. Thero is
little danger in tho game, and, though
some choose to sit onapieooof plantain,
most of the tobogganers are content to
squat on their haunches. London Lit
tle Folk
Ufa la Japan.
"It is a curious, but accepted truth, "
comments the wife of a naval officer
who has resided a number of years in
Japan, "that Americana, as a class, do
not long stand np against Japan life. '
There is something in the air, or some
thing lacking in it, which is peculiarly
trying to us. So many naval officers
serving a three or sis years' duty there
havo come home with an inourablo com
plaint that it is oomuion talk in the serv
ice. Two admirals have died of abcess
of the liver after several years' resideuoe
there, and other oflloera have had thoir -health
seriously impaired under similar
conditions. I never was seriously sick,
in my lifo till 1 got out to the island
empire, and throughout my whole stay
I fought something. The English resi
dents do not seem to suffer as we do,
which is also n commented upon fact. "
New York Times,
Alar Ambition.
Algy Aw, can you spare me a few
hundred to wuu ovuh to Lunnou?
Father What's the object?
"Golf."
"Good I If you learn how to play golf,
it may"
. "Oh, but I don't want to play It I
wont to learn how to pwonownoe it "
New York Weekly.
The leaves of the talipot tree are used
In Ceylon for the leaves of books. The
ohoraoters are impressed upon the leaf,
which Is rubbed over with charcoal,
and aro then strung togothor between
board. They lust for years.