JOCKEYS 1 N TJtATN I NO
KEEPING THE WEIGHT DOWN 13 NOT
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.
Fattening Fonda Ire Avoided, nnd
Jnrilrlnna Kserrlar in ( onrlfd-Ai
llnlr, Itldera I, nut n l)irn tears
"It Ik popnlnr belief," n well known
trnlncr said to n reporter recently,
"that n Jockey has to resort to nil ports
of Injurious practices In order to keep
his weight within required llmlls. The
Idea, however, Is n fnr srW'fched one.
Of course a Jockey lins to go through
ccrtnln exercises each tiny nnd lins to
lip very much more careful regarding
what ho puts In Ills stomach thnn most
people In order to keep his weight down
ninl from acquiring n superfluity of
ficHh, hut lie certainly dis's not stnrvp
lilinsclf, ns Is generally supposed. If
lie illil so lie Would break down entirely
In a very short time. A Jockey must
nlso lie In the best possible physical
trim mid luwe Ills wits about blin be
fore ft rnce, nnil to atliiln (hat he must
lie enreful how he uses his constitution.
"There are two very Important things
ft Jockey Hi.s to consider In studying his
dietary. lie must see to It that his food
Is of the best quality nnil that It ran
itnlns practically no llesh forming prop
erties. All such fattening foods ns, for
Instance, soups, beef, pork, potatoes,
puddings nntl pastries n Jockey must
deny himself. ColTee, ton or other
drinks nro only taken very modern tely,
as nil liquids help mora or less In pla
iting on flesh.
"Although a Jockey has to eschew
Mich foods, there are ninny other varie
ties which lie gets Just ns much pleas
ure In eating nml which nt the same
time nre equally ns good and strength
ening for Ills const Kill lull. A few days
before a rnro n Jockey who has n
mount In It will not stint himself- pro
vided he has no fear of overt Ipplng
bis proper weight for the race - In any
thing which lie thinks will nut inter
fere with his digestive apparatus.
"Some Jockeys, of course, take on
ami loso flesh quicker than others. I
have known one or two who were par
ticularly anxious to ride In certain
races, but for which they were perhaps
as much ns eight or nine pounds too
heavy, who reduced that weight In the
aame number of days. To accomplish
that, however, they have to resort prac
tically to a 'starving diet,' leaving as
little as the strain on the vitality will
penult without breaking down ami try
ing to reduro their overweight by cer
tain sweating exercises. It Is needless
to say that no Jockey could stand too
frequent repetitions of such severe
measures to subtract from his weight
without dnnger of permanently Injur
ing his health and even saerlllclng his
life; still, many willingly resort to such
'get light weight quick' methods where
they see good opportunities of making
a name or a pllu of money for them
selves. "It must be remembered that by na
ture Jockeys as a whole nro not of sub
stnntial physique or imposing in height,
although they arc ns tongh ns whip
cord. If they were, therefore, to In
dulge every day In the heavy bill of
fare that the average business or work
ing man partakes of it Is not probable
that they would Increase much In
weight or height You often see Jock
eys in the big hotels and restaurants
at the various racing sections after a
race tucking In big and expensive din
ners with a gusto and relish that
would give a chronic dyspeptic an ap
petite for hard tnek.
"Walking, running, cycling, punching
the bag and hurdle Jumping are favor
ite exercises among Jockeys to keep
their weight down. On going out for
walk or run they wrap themselves in
the thickest of woolen sweaters and
other heavy clothing, no matter how
high the temperature limy bo, and the
exercise is kept up for a distance per
haps of eight or nine miles, or, as we
say, until you are 'drowned In sweat'
Turkish baths are also frequently In
dulged In by many, and they must
wear excessively warm clothing after,
and also when going for a gallop, no
matter if the weather bo boiling hot
"I should say that ten or twelve
years Is the average of a Jockey's ac
tive turf life. The length of his career,
however, depends a great deal on his
riding ability and luck.
"Jockeys are not of a saving class,
and with but few exceptions I know
of none who has ever managed to put
enongh money away to keep him in
even half decent comfort after retiring
from the turf. The majority, however,
succeed in scraping up a bunk roll of
. sufficient dimensions to sturt In some
business. Like retired pugilists, they
have a fondness for the liquor busi
ness, and I know a few one time Jock
eys who are prospering In that trade in
.different ports of the country. Others,
&uin, become 'bookies,' poolroom keep
ers and enter into such businesses as
enable thera to gratify their inveterate
Jove for gambling. I know of only one
ex-Jockey who is an exception to this
irnle. He retired some years ago with
'$50,000 to his credit and he immedi
ately went Into the real estate business
!in New Jersey. Today he is doing well.
He was fortunate enough, however, to
receive a good common school educa
tion in his early boyhood daysand
that's a thing Jockeys very rarely get
Outside of their knowledge of horse
manship the great majority are as
lgnoraut as red Indians." New York
pinies.
' Money Talks.
"I suppose Duuiley likes to argue as
much as ever and is contlnuully worst
ed as usual."
"No; he's more successful now since
be got wealthy."
"What has his wealth to do with it?"
"Well, when he sees he's losing he
Just offers to 'bet a bundled,' and that
settles If'-Phlladelphia frees.
" FUNEKAL8 IN GREECE.
The? Are Somewhat at Shorts ta
the America Toarlat.
"One thing sure to shock the Ameri
can tourist Is a Greek funeral," said a
recently returned traveler. "It Is a
spectacle which most porr.cr.s of con
vention governed decency desire to
avoid, bcenuse the body of the dead Is
exMsed In an open hearse. Tfc coffin
Is shallow, so that not only tho face
and head, but tho hands and much of
the body, enn lie seen from tho slde
Wnlk as tho procession moves through
the streets.
"Tho lid of the colli n, frequently rich
ly upholstered and decorated with gar
lands nnd wreaths, Is carried on the
hearsn by tho undertaker. Tho priest,
tho relatives nnd other mourners fol
low, nnd ns the ghastly spectnele moves
along It Is eustomnry for bystanders to
remove their bend genr nnd cross them
selves. "In the Athens cemeteries graves nre
rented for a term of yenrs, Just like tho
habitations of the quick. Only the
wealthy own burlnl lots. This Is In
variably nn evidence of wealth or aris
tocracy. The poor seldom ilrenm of
buying n lot or tomb.' Such purchase
would lie deemed ntnong them an un
necessary luxury.
"At the end of the term for which a
grave Is rented the bones aro dug tip,
placed In a bag, labeled with the name
and dnto nnd deposited In n general re
ceptacle." New York Herald.
Upwards for Lost Property.
"More lost nnd stolen nrtlrlce would
bo recovered If tho losers would adopt
different methods In advertising for
their property," snld a headquarters
detective tho other day. "Of course
honest persons do not haggle over the
remuneration for returning n locket, a
dog or anything else. Hut every one Is
not built along those lines. It may
Bound very nice to say, 'Mitral re
ward if returned to owner,' but there
are different Idena of liberality. Tho
sum usually dwindles In the mind of
the owner when ho sees bis property
before htm, nnd no one knows this bet
ter thnn tho flnde'r.
"It is fnr more effective to set forth
a definite sum In tho advertisement.
Five or twenty-five dollars means more
thnn a vague promise to be real gen
erous. Of course there nro cases when
It Is not wise to be too explicit, but In
nine enses out of ten a stated sum will
bring better results thnn an Indefinite
offer. This Is nenrly nlways true with
watches with the owner's monogram
engraved on the ease, as tho pawn
broker refuses to loan so much on ar
ticles so easily Identified." New York
Tress.
Read Less, Think More.
Tho overage person of so called cul
ture who has leisure to read reads too
much and thinks too little, and in con
sequence his conversation lacks fresh
ness and siHintanelty. An exchange,
after saying thnt people generally read
too much and read more than they
carry, tells a story of a man who bad
been a great reader, but had changed
his ways, and people, after bo read
less, finding him much nioro interest
ing, exclaimed: "How entertaining
John was today I He must have been
reodlng n good deal."
Mcro reading Is a wante of time. To
conduce to Intelligence the reader must
train the mind to concentration on the
subject In hand, and to concentration
must be added the effort to clothe and
transmit thought in appropriate phrase.
The Sallere' realm.
How many people landsmen, at all
events aro aware that one of the
Psalms is often called the sailors'
psalm? It is of course realm evil,
whoreln occur tho beautiful and famil
iar words, "Thoy that go down to the
sea in ships, that do business in great
waters these see the works of the
Lord and his wonders In the doop."
Tho psalm is usually read as part of
tho simple services which take place
on Sundays on ships at sea. For that
reason it is known as the sailors'
psalm. London Chronicle.
The Road to Sneecaa.
It is Well for the vonnir nun tn ro.
member that if be finishes his educa
tion as a skilled farmer or stockman
or fruit grower there are nlentv of
places open waiting for bleu at good
pay, wnue u he becomes a minister,
lawwor Or doctor ha mnv hita tn hunt
long and far to find place and wait
long before a good living la assured.
Rockford Register.
The Retort CasrtMsu.
Smart Passenger TTerA MnitnMAF ta
my fare. I had no ifaalro tn hoar tho
company, but I thought I would Just
See if I COUld fool WH1 hv ffarHnff tins
with this newspaper.
conductor I saw you, but you looked
as if VOU needed Inform Hon a criwl
deal worse 'than the company needs
money, so l just let you read-Baltl-more
American.
As It Wu Prlated.
There is One Women nnnt In Vaiev
York who will read proof carefulry un
til the edge of a recent error wears off.
She spent two days on a touching
poem, the pivotal line of which read:
My soul Is a Usbtnouae keeper.
When the nrlnhnr ftnluha with Itethai
line read:
My soul. Is a, light bousekoeper. I
Hmt EBMsoaraeTlnar.
"Do you know," remarked the pessi
mist "I think I have) experienced every
kind of hard luck on the list except
hanging."
"Well, you ehouldn'r-be discouraged.''
remarked the optimist. "Ue member th
old adage, 'While there Is life there '
hope.' Cincinnati Enquirer, '
There la no man so friendless but1,
what be can find a friend sincere
enough to. tell Idui diset trees bit jtrnth.
-BulwerfLjrttost. j
BERTH JACK SHIRKS.
Rova Seotla Shlpa Are laid to Be the
Werat Afloat,
The worst raso In the way of a ship
Into which Jack can go la a Nova Hco
tlau. A certain Nova Scotia ship enme
Into port nt Pantos one dny with a crew
that was little short of mutinous owing
to the fact that the captain wns too
sparing of the rations. The ship had n
bad tin mo among sailors nt th best,
nnd ns soon as she wns anchored the
entire- crew cleared out. For three
weeks nftrr she had discharged and got
her new cargo she Iny there with no
rrew to tnke her to sen. At last the
captain went to some of the crimps on
bore nnd told them to round tip a crew
under any pretext. The crimps sent
men around the docks offering big
wnges to nny of the loungers who
Would go aboard the vessel to rig
some new sails. Homo twenty men
were quickly picked lip, many of litem
In their shirt sleeves, nnd were taken
nbonrd. TUey were then covered with
revolvers nml rllles by the olllccrs,
nnd the anchor wns weighed, nnd tho
Nova Hcotln ship stood out to sea, her
unwilling crew leaving families behind
without even a chance to let them
know what lind happened. The next
port wns Sydney, nnd the next Yoko
hama, then Han Francisco, then Val
paraiso, then Lisbon, and for those men
who stayed with the ship It was Just
two nnd a half yenrs until she went to
(irnnde dil Hill, the nearest port home.
Many of them, however, hnd cleared
out nnd gone home In other ships long
before thnt. Brnughton Brandenburg
In Leslie's Monthly.
Cicero anil Ills Dana-hler.
History abounds with examples of
tho love thnt has existed Ivctwccn fn
ther and daughter which pmvcdVsu
porlor to the changes of time and for
tune, defying even dentil Itself, and en
tering Into the records of humanity,
Imperlshnble anil Immortal.
One of the most beautiful Instances
wns tho love of Cicero for Tullla. Hhe
wns a woman of high attainments and
exalted character, with qualities of
heart and mind that peculiarly lit t I'd
her to be her father's Intimate com
panion. After her death he could Hnd neither
consolation for her loss nor distraction
for his grief. Affairs of state, weighty
matters of political and personal In
terest, even the sympathy of llrutus
and Cu'snr, could not dispel the melan
choly that settled down upon his soul
and forced him for a time Into retire
ment. Ho wrote of her In these touch
ing words: "A daughter I hnd In whoso
sweet conversation I could drop all my
cares and troubles. Hut now every
thing Is changed." "It Is all over with
me, Attlcus. I feel It more than ever
now that I have lost the only being
who still bound me to life."
An Kxrlnalve Klevator.
There is perhaps no elevator In the
world more exclustvo than that provid
ed at the cnpttol for the supreme court
of the United States. That elevator
can be used by exactly eleven people,
and no one else would for a moment
consider entering It except as the guest
of one of these eleven privileged gentle
men. The fortunate eleven aro the nine
Justices of tho United BtntcB supreme
court, the clerk and tho marshal of tho
court. Tho elevator goes from tho
ground floor of the capltol to tho main
floor, on which Is located tho supremo
court of the United States. It Is n
small elevator, so that, with Its con
ductor, three iortly forms of Justices
of the supreme court of tho United
States would All It. It Is ono of the
very lntest designs of electric elevators
and is finished in magnificent stylo.
Washington Stur.
Soperatitloas.
If two persons raise their glasses to
their lips simultaneously they aro in
dicating the return of a friend or rela
tive from foreign parts. Tho sumo In
timation is conveyed by bubbles In
coffee or by tho accidental fall of a
piece of soap on the floor.
A flickering flame in the flro or an
upright excrescence in a burning
candle is interpreted as predicting tho
arrival of a guest, whoso stature is
Judged by tho length of the flume or
excrescence.
If ono drulns a gluss of the contents
of which some ono clso has partaken
he will learn tho secrets of the latter.
MleThtr Cheerful.
Mamma had told her little daughter
that she could not go out to play, but
the little maiden determined to make
ono more plea. "Please, mamma, it
Isn't very wet"
"No, you cannot, Dorothy," sold
mamma pleasantly, smiling a little at
her daughter's persistency.
Dorothy regarded her mother ag
grievedly and then said, "Well, seems
to me you're mighty cheerful about
It" New York Times.
Bareaa of Publicity.
Mrs. Nagguss What an odd, inter
esting piece of furniture! It looks like
an antique. Is it a chiffonier or a
bookcase ?
Mrs. Boras (wife of struggling au
thor) Neither. It's my husband's
writing desk. He calls It bis bureau
of publicity. Chicago Tribune.
Bis Part.
The Doctor You regard society as
merely a machine, do youT ' What part
of the machinery do you consider me,
for instance?
The Professor You are one of the
cranks. Exchange.
Retaraed His Love.
Friend What's the matter, old man?
Doesn't she return your love?
Jilted One That's Just tho trouble.
She returned It and told me to give it
to some other girl. Princeton Tiger.
One man makes a fortune to eight
that become bankrupt In England.
THE CEDARS OF LEBANON.
Oalr a Few of Three llletorlo Treee
Now Iteninla. ,
There nre only about 4(H) cednrs of
I,chnnon now remaining high up on the
rocky slopes. Hadrian sculptured bis
Imperial nnnthemn against nil who
should rut these sacred trees; the Mnro
nlte peasants almost worship them nnd
cull them the "cednrs of the 1-ord," nnd
n fccciit governor of the Lebanon has
surrounded them by n great wall so
that the young shoots may not be In
jured by roving animals. Vet, century
by century, their number grows less.
Hut If the ccdi'i's are few In number
these few are of royal bhsid. They
lire not the largest of trees, though
some of the trunks measure over forly
feet around. 'I Ik If beauty lies In the
wide spreading limbs, which often cov
er a circle ai hi or IltKi feet In circumfer
ence. Home are tall nnd symmetrical,
with beautiful horizontal branches;
others nr gnarled anil knot led, with
Inviting seats In the great forks and
charming lads on the thick foliage of
the swinging houghs.
The wood has a sweet odor. Is very
hard and seldom decays. The vitality
of the rcdar Is remarkable. A dead
tree Is never seen, except where light
ning or the ax has been nt work. Of
ten n great hough of one tree has
grown Into a neighbor, nnd the two
nre so boiiiid together thnt It Is Impos
sible to niy which Is the parent trunk.
Perhaps the unusual strength and vi
tality of the cedars are due to their
slow growth. When n Utile sprout
hardly waist high Is said to be ten or
fifteen or twenty years old one cannot
help asking, What must be (he age of
the great patriarchs of the grove? It
Is hard to tell exactly. Ity the aid of
n microscope I have counted more thnn
700 rlnts on a bough only thirty Inches
In diameter. Those who have studied
the matter more deeply think that some
of Vicse trees must be more than n
thousand years old. Indeed, there is
nothing wildly Improbable In the
thought thai pet haps the (inn id Inn, for
Instance, may have been a young tree
when 1 1 Irani le-can cutting for the tem
ple at .lent alein.- Lewis Huston Lesry
In Hcrlbner's.
APHORISMS.
Itablt l:i the deepest law of human
nature.--t'nrlyle.
Good nature Is stronger than tomahawks.-
Emerson.
TnlebeiircM iiroijust ns bud ns tale
tnakers. Sheridan.
Almost always the most Indigent are
the most generous. Stanislaus.
Those who complain most nre most
to be complained of. M. Henry.
True gentleness Is native feeling
heightened and Improved by principle.
Ulnlr.
He that thinks bo can afford to be
negligent Is not far from being poor
Johnson. Persistent people begin their success
where others end In failure. Edward
Eggleston.
Ho who commits Injustice Is ever
mudo more wretched than be who suf
fers It. Plato.
A friend that you hnvo to buy won't
be worth what you pay for him, no
mutter what that may be. Prentice.
3ome li'ormitl Correspondence-.
A matter of fact sacristan of the Ca
thedral of llerl In once wrote the king
of Prussia this brief note:
Sire I nc(iialnt your mnjesty, first,
thnt I lu re uru winning books of p.iulms
for thu royal family. I ucqunlnt your
majesty, c:ond, that there wants wood
to warm the royal seats. 1 aciiimlnt your
mnjiisly. third, that tha bnluatrudu next
the river, behind tho church. Is become
ruinous. HCHMIDT.
Sacrist of tho Cathedral.
The reply of tho king wns not thnt of
a "gracious majesty." Its stiff formal
ity In Imitating the style of tho sncrU
tun probubly was not taken by tho re
ceiver as complimentary to blm:
I acquaint you. Herr Sacrist Bchmldt,
first, Unit thuao who want to slag may
buy books. Second, 1 acquulnt llorr
Bucrlat Schmidt that thoso who want to
be wnrm must buy wood. Third, 1 ac
quaint Herr Sacrist Schmidt that I shnll
not trust any longer to tho balustrade
next thu river. And I acquaint Herr
Sacrist Schmidt, fourth, thnt I will not
hftve any mors correspondence with htm.
FREDERICK.
Abeent Minded Lord Derby.
Lord Derby could bo very absent
minded, nnd once on a tlmo be walked
with Ixird Clarendon, his opponent,
and told blm all the secrets of the cabi
net. Lord Clarendon listened amazed,
but thought It too largo nn order when
he was asked for his advice. It was not
for blm to counsel his political foes. At
this Intimation Lord Derby woke up,
saying, "ltenlly, I thought ull the time
I was talking to a colleague!" He bad
continued, hardly recognizing the fact,
a controversy bo bad been having with
other ministers nt the foreign othVe. Of
course Lord Clarendon honorably pre
served tho cabinet secrets, but he told
his story ugalust Lord Derby uud mudo
a laugh.
Ilia Mistake.
Qushington I wonder what's the
matter with Starr, the tragedian. He
never notices me any more.
Crlttlck Didn't I henr you tell him
his style was very much like Booth's?
Gushlngton Yes. But surely
Crlttlck That's where you made
your mistake. You should have said
Booth's style was like bis. Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
ol(e Fast.
First Girl Those stockings are
lovely color. Are they fust?
Second Girl If you hnd seen me yes
terday when I met a cow you would
not huve asked that question. Houston
Post
"Some men," said Undo Eben. "will
put In weeks prayln' fob rain an' den
kick cos dey happens to git delr feet
wet" Washington Star.
" SAVED" H13 FINQER. '
The faithful Rrahmaa relt, Haw
ever, That Ma Had Lost t aete.
One dny a Brnhtnnn accidentally
touched some unclean object with bis
little finger. The Itrahuinn thought that
now, his little finger having become un
clean, nny subslnnco which It would
touch would be also rendered unclean
nnd thus tunkn blm an ttnelesn man.
Seeing no other wny to get out of the
scrape he resolved to get the offending
member amputated. Forthwith he went
to n carpenter nnd explained tn blm
that unless the finger wns cut off be
(the Itrabman) wns unable to tnke food.
The carpenter tried to dissuade tho
devotee and urged that all application
of some drops of wnter from the sa
cred river tiiingn would make the fin
ger once more holy, but the llrnhinan
persisted, lie mild thnt the finger wns
of no use to blin nny longer nnd thnt
he would tint rest mil II It was severed.
As a final recourse the carpenter re
solved to play his nwkwnrd customer n
trick. He told the Urn limit n to put his
finger on nn anvil nnd to look to the
sky while the wound wns Inflicted.
The llnilinian did so. The carpenler
took up n hatehel and gave th" finger
n smart blow with the back of If. This
elicited n cry of pnln from the pa
tient, who nt once put the finger In Ids
innti'h to nllay the agony. The carpen
ter, laughing, explained to the llrnh
tiiiltl that the blow had missed and the
little finger was still enllre; nnd, worst
of all, the llrahnian had defiled himself
by putting the finger Info Ids mouth.
The obliging operator, moreover, offer
ed to perform the operation once more,
but the llrahnian had bad enough pain
for the nonce nml declined with thanks.
Golden Penny.
Some Slnetnrhe lllatnrr.
What Is the history of the mustache?
In (1 recce nnd Koine no iiitHtnches
were worn without beards, but In the
eoinpicrliig iIiijm of the Unman empire
several half civilized races who had
come partially under the Influence of
the Hi. mans and who wished to be rid
of the name of barbarl, or wearers of
boards, attempted to shave In Imitation
of their conquerors; but, ns they hnd
very Imperfect Implements for the pur
pose iuiiI ns I lie upper lip Is notoriously
the hardest part of the face to shave In
the case of any one poorly skilled in the
art, they were unable to make a clean
Job of It nnd left n quantity of hair on
the upper Up.
This mark was characteristic of sev
eral nations on the confines of Itoman
clvlll'.allon, of the (iauls In particular,
of the lindens nml some others. The
I -ii 1 1 ii language has no word for mus
tache. This barbarous accident wns
unworthy of the honor of n Itoman
tin mo.- - Exchange.
The Dinner Hour.
It Is ii curious fact that with nlmost
every generation the dinner hour hns
undergone a change, the principal meal
of Hie day being eaten at dilTerent pe
riods, from ID o'clock In the morning
until 10 o'clock lit night. The author
of "The Pleasures of the Table" points
out that In England -PNi or Tsni years
ago people took four meals- breakfast
nt 7, dinner at in. supper nt 4 and liv
ery at H. In Prance In the thirteenth
century ! In the morning was the din
ner hour; Henry VII. dined at 11. In
Cromwell's time 1 o'clock had come to
be the fashionable hour and In Addi
son's day 'i o'clo.k. which gradually
was transformed Into -i. Pope found
fault with Lady Suffolk for (lining so
lute us 4. Four and ." continued to be the
popular dining hours among the aris
tocracy until the second deende of tho
nineteenth century, when dinner wns
further postponed, from which period
it has steadily continued to encroach
upon the evening.
A rilnic nt Tcnnraon.
In tho "New Letters und Memorials
of Juno Welsh Cnrlyle" Is a letter to
her husband In which occurs the fol
lowing amusing little fling at Tenny
son :
"Did you know thnt Alfred Tennyson
Is to have a pension of flW a year, aft
er all? Peel has stuted his Intention of
recommending him to her gracious maj
esty, und that Is considered final 'A
chucun seloii sn cupuclte!' Lady Har
riet told mo ho wonted to murryj 'must
have a woman to live beside; would
prefer a lady, but cannot afford ono,
and so must marry a maidservant'
Mrs. Henry Taylor snld she wus about
to write to liliu In behalf of their house
maid, who wus quite a superior charac
ter in her way."
Teeth.
Small, chalk white teeth are a sign of
a weak constitution. Strong. . normal
! teeth aro targe and yellowish white.
' Sometimes an enthusiastic novelist in
' depicting the charms of his heroine
i will glvo her two rows of peurls be
tween her ruby Hps. The truth of the
matter Is nothing could be more ghast
ly or unnatural or unbecoming thnn
teeth mudo of peurls. It is only "store
' teeth" that possess it high polish.
He Knew a Way.
Anxious Father But. my boy. unless
you study you will know nothing. You
will mnke no money with which to buy
things.
Young Hopeful That's nothing. I'll
huve everything churged, ond I'll keep
on thnt way till I got married. Meg
gendorfer Blatter.
What' Before Them.
i "These young society buds are mere
i butterflies," said the Hev. Mr. Strait
I lace. "They bnve no thought of the
i future life."
"Of the future life?" replied Miss In
nit. "Oh, but they do! Mutrlmony Is
always in their thouglit8."-Exchange.
Wbeu a greut culnmlty befalls ono,
how It lightens It to talk about it after
It Is overl Atchison Globe.
"Work and look young.'
Yva will Saereed It tear Heart la
la Voir Labor.
Is It bard work thut makes people
grow old or Is It bernnsn they do not
have enough to do, or, rather, do not
find the thing they are best fitted to do?
The linnlest worked people In the
world nro the Heiresses, yet some of
them, without mentioning names, are
sixty nnd some play the parts of lovers
uud boisterous young tomboys at an
even greater age.
The Americans are the hardest work
ed people in the world, yet foreigners
c::ll us it young lisiklng nation. Noth
ing makes n people look so young as
liberty. There Is none of tho rrnmped,
caste restricted blight Uhiii our people
that Is seen In KtiriMie. The oldest look
ing people In the world nre not those
who have worked hnrdest, but th'ste
who have not worked nt all. If one
would see them be wants to go to tho
fashionable watering places. There he
will sis- comparatively young men nnd
women who have never worked, either
with bisly or mind, driven nromid In
bath chairs or hobbling nlxitlt on ennes,
while men absorbed In business nre of
ten ipille robust nt seventy.
Where bard work ever killed a ninn
laziness and Inai-tlon have killed a
score. It Is the class that feels alKive
work thnt nature tins little use for.
Work nnd look young! Boston Globe.
The Rock That Moaee "Smote.
The famous "Itoek lii'lloreh," an
ciently culled the "I lock of M assail"
and nt present known throughout the
orient ns the "Htone of the Miraculous
Fountain," being the Identical rock
which Moses struck with his rod In or
der to give, water to the children of Is
rael, Is religiously preserved and
guarded even down to this lute date.
Ir. Hhnw In his Ismk "Hhnw's Trsvels"
says. "It Is a block of granite about
six yards squsre lying tottering nnd
loose In the middle of the valley of
Itephidiin nnd seems to have orlglnnlly
been n part of Mount Hlmil."
The action of the wutcrs of that mi
raculous fountain, ns rclntcd In the
seventeenth chapter of KximIiis, hol
lowed n channel about two Inches deep
uud more thnn twice thnt broad across
the face of the rock, this not upon un
supported testimony, but upon the
word of such men as the Itev. Dr.
Kliaw, Dr. Pocock, Lieutenant Cloghcr
mid other eminent scholars and trav
elers. M. llciiumgorton, a German no
bleman who visited the "ltock of I lo
re b" In the yenr lf47, declares his be
lief In the generally accepted story of
It being the rock of Moses' famous
founlulu.
Famous Monted Ifnaaee.
The moat which so often surrounded
hulls uud ensiles In the old days Is now
generally dry uud filled up, but some
remarkable specimens still remain.
Perhaps the finest example of a monted
bouse 1.4 Ilelmlnglium Hull, the sent of
Iord Tollcmneho, in Suffolk, ulsiut
eight miles from Ipswich. The draw
bridge still remains, uud It has been
raised every night for more thun SKHi
years, the ancient precaution Isdng ob
served even though the need for it bus
long passed by. The mout which sur
rounds I-eeds castle, near Maidstone, is
so wide thut It may almost he called a
hike. The ancient Episcopal pulnee at
Wells Is surrounded by walls which In
close nenrly seven acres of ground and
by it moat which is supplied with wa
ter from Ht. Andrew's well. A vener
lible bridge spans tho moat, giving ac
cess through a tower gateway to the
outer court. Iondon Htuiidurd.
Life After Death,
A German biologist bus been Investi
gating the question of the activity of
iiulnial bodies ufter death and lms pub
lished some suggestive conclusions. It
uppcurs thut ileiith Is not Instantane
ous throughout the physical organism,
for It has been observed that muny of
the different tissues continue active for
a considerable period after the time
when the animal Is assumed to be dead,
particularly In the case of tho lower an
imals, (.'ells from tho bruin of a frog,
for example, have been kept alive for
over n week when held in certain solu
tions, uud tho heurt of a frog has been
known to beat for muny hours after be
ing removed from the dead body. The
hearts of turtles and snakes will tsat
for days or even a week after death.
Harper's Weekly.
One tVii ICnonch.
"Yon love my daughter?" said the old
man.
"Love her!" ho exclaimed passionate
ly. "Why, I could die for her! For one
soft glance from those sweet eyes I
would hurl myself from yonder cliff
und perish, a bleeding, bruised muHS,
Upon the rocks "JCO feet tsdow!"
The old man shook bis head.
"I'm something of a llur myself," he
said, "and one Is enough for a suiull
family like mine."
Ill Uud Memory.
"I suppose." suld the condoling neigh
bor, "that you will erect a handsome
monument to your husband's mem
ory ?"
"To his memory!" echoes the tearful
widow. "Why, poor John hadn't any.
I wns sorting over some of the clothes
, he left toilay and found the pockets
full of letters I bud glveu him to mall.
Heated.
Jones Wonder what made Mrs. Sut
ton look so heated when she picked up
thut photogruph from her husband's of
fice desk?
Joy ties Good reason for becoming
I heated. It was one of his old flames,
I you know. Boston Transcript.
: Uettlnv Phlloeophr.
! "Do you think that betting U
wrong?"
"It depends ou circumstances," an
swered the town oracle. "If you can't
afford to lose it's wrong; if you can it's
J merely silly." St Louis Lumberman.
BOOTH'S DRAWINQ POWERS.
The Fainune Traardlan Was star
Monvr Maker,
A retired ther.ter malinger snld the
other day: "It Is not genemlly known
that Edwin Itooth received no per cent
of the gnus receipts of bis perform
ances while iiniler the management of
Me.isrs. Iltisiks A Dixon. There never
w,.s n star on the stage who could
draw the money that llisith could tn a
lh uler. 'il.cre were no spasms nbnnt
Ills business. It was ns steady ns Gi
braltar. We could bank on It. Out of
their half of the receipts Brooks A
Dixon paid the rent for theaters, pnld
the sn la tics of the company, the Mil
ron 1 1 nml hold bills nnd the advertis
ing throughout the country nnd made
big prollls, which they shared with
Horace MeVleker, to whom Ibsdh In
trusted his affairs nt the stnrt nnd who
afterward nssodnted himself with
Brooks fc Dixon.
"Booth's Agreement with Henry E.
Abbey wns this: After nil expenses of
every description were pnld Itooth got
RB per cent nnd Abbey 15. lkmth lost
a week 111 Philadelphia owing tn the
death of Ids wife. The company wns
put In there without blm, nnd we hnd
to Indemnify the locnl mn linger. Our
loss thnt week was $1,0H. Deducting
thnt. Abbey's profits on the sen son were
f.'io.ooo. I do not know nny stnr, save
Itooth, who ever cotnmnnded W) per
cent of the gross receipts." New York
Press.
Where ninod Tells.
It wns In one of the fnrmlng districts
of New England. The young folks hnd
banded themselves together for month
ly Jollifications during the winter and
were about to celebrate the Inst dnnce
of the season ns well ns a couple of
engagements which had resulted from
the assemblies. Hen Hawkins, the lo
cnl Pnganliil, nnd Ids Htrndlvnrlus bad
been engaged to lend them through the
muses of the country dunce, and all
were looking forward to tho "tlmo of
their life."
But dentil Inconsiderately claimed
Mrs. Hawkins for his own on the after
noon of the eventful party. Tho young
people gathered us arranged, but be
moaned the absence of Old Ken, and
games were being substituted for the
dancing when, to, Hawkins and bis Ad
dle appeared on the scene.
Great astonishment and many ques
tions greeted the old man, but he calm
ly slipped his fiddle out of Its green
bog and as he meditatively rublwd the
rosin on the bow said:
"Waal, yes; Maria's gone; died this
afternoon. But I reckon 'taln't no sin
for me to piny for you tonight, aeeln'
she wu'n't no blood relation." Phila
delphia Ledger.
Yet He I.nved the Sea.
It Is suld thut 1 try a n Waller Procter,
known as Harry Cornwall, who wrote
the well known poem
I'm on I tie sea! I'm on the seul
I um where I would ever be!
whs the very worst of sailors. When
we rend that be wns so seasick that bo
could scarcely la-nr the sound of a hu
muii voice It becomes apparent that bis
wife's conduct during bis affliction
eould scarcely huve been reussurlng.
As be lay ou the deck of a channel
boat, covered with shawls und a tur-j
puulin, she bud the pleasing liMblt of
humming n strain of his Jovial sea
song. 'Hie poet who loved the sen, but
loved it best nt a distance, bad very lit
tle life Just then, but what force be bad
wus used In the entreaty:
"Don't, my dear! Oh, don'tl"
Vet no doubt be loved the sen.
A Huile Arrakealnsi.
The Centorvlcw (Mo.) Ileeord tolls of
a young man who hud been writing a
girl in Minneapolis for three yeurs, in
tending some dny to ask her to marry
him. The other day ho received a let
ter and a picture from her. The letter
announced thut she had been married
two years, and the picture wus of her
baby. "My husband and I huve en
Joyed your letters very much," sbo
wroto, "but I guess you'd better stop
writing now, as I have to spend all my
time curing for tho buby." The Hecord
says the words the young muu used
after reading tho letter would shock
field of oats.
Saakea.
Mr. Ilolker In Met 'lure's robs us of
some misconceptions as to , snakes.
When a suuko Is decapitated It U dead.
The tall will remuln sensitive for some
hours without reference to sundown. -The
rattlesnake does not suicide by bit
ing Itself. No snake is susceptible to
the poison of Its own kind. That the
black snuke will swullow Its young In
time of danger Is tru mid they uro
then digested, making the mother a
canuibul of the worst sort
' llopee.
Tess It wus Dr. Killlum who attend
ed the lute Mr. Oldgold. wusn't it?
Jess Yes. He wus culled In only u
few days before the old gentleman
llied. Why do you ask?
Tess Old Mr. Koxley wus taken
slightly 111 yesterday und bis young
wife sent for Dr. Killlum at once.
Philadelphia Press.
Did the Beat She tool J.
Mrs. Vppmunn I must tell you, De
lia, that I wus displeased at your en
tertaining thut policeman lu the kitch
en lust night
Delta Faith. Ot did ax him into the
parlor, ma'am, but he wouldn't go.
Philadelphia Ledger.
rranilnaT aa Kxraae.
Little Boy Please, Mrs. Grumpy,
mother wants to kuow If you will leud
her your wushtub.
Mrs. Grumpy (gruftlyl No. I can't
The hoops are off. the bottom's out r.r.d
If s full of water. Glusgow Times.
When a fool has uiude up his mind
the market bus gone by. Spuuisli
Proverb.