VERBATIM REPORTING.
it Involves Five lllstlnct Slmultane
001 Mental Operations,
Psychologists may find nn Interesting
field for Investigation In the intellec
tual processes tlint flre Involved In rnp
Id shorthand writing- There nre Bt
leant Ave distinct mental nperntlous
carried on continuously during verbn
tlm reporting. First, tliere Is tlm sonsn
tion of sound received !y tlie enr; sec
ondly, there Is the perception by the
brain of the word uttered, practically
Simultaneous with the sensation In tlie
case of a distinct speaker, but often
delayed a large fraction of n second
when a preacher "drops his voice" or
a witness In court hns n foreign accent
In the third place, the stenographer
must analyze the consonantal structure
of all the less common words In the
sentence, nil except the stock words
and phrases, which ho writes by word
signs by a practically automatic habit.
Fourth, these relatively uncommon
words must bo put on paper according
to the principles of the system employ
ed. This one operation Involves many
subordinate and Infinitely swift efforts
of recollection, association nnd decision.
Fifth, all these mental operations ore
carried on while (he pen or pencil is
from two or three words to nn entire
sentence behind the speaker this, of
course, lit rapid speaking thereby com
plicating the situation by compelling
memory to keep pace with attention.
In other words, while the scribe Is
writing the predlcato of one sentence
and analyzing nn unfamiliar word In
the subject of tho next, he Is at tho
same time giving his auditory attention
to the predicate of tho second sentence
then being uttered by the speaker.
This is Impossible to nn untrained mind.
The average educated person cannot re
tain more than perhaps six or eight
words of the exact phraseology of a
speaker at ono time. Tho competent
stenographer can hold up ten, fifteen,
twenty words or even more in his mem
ory, while nt the same time taxing his
mind by the act of writing the words
that preceded. The World Today.
SCHOOLBOY BLUNDERS.
Amualng Mistakes In Examination
Papera by British Puplla.
The following list of amusing mis
takes mado by British schoolboys in
their examination papers is compiled
by the University Correspondent:
Iron Is grown in large quantities for
manufacturing purposes In S. France.
The sun never sets on British posses
sions because the sun sets in the west,
and our colonies are in the north, south
and east.
The diminutive of man is mankind.
Question: Define the first person.
Answer: Adam.
Blood consists of two sorts of cork
screwsred corkscrews and white cork
screws. Asked to explain what a buttress Is,
one boy replied, "A woman who makes
' butter," and another, "A female butch
er." Teacher's dlctntlon: His choler rose
to such a height that passion well nigh
choked htra. Pupil's reproduction: Ills
collar rose to such a height that fash
ion well nigh choked him."
A Job's comforter is a thing you give
babies to soothe them.
A skyscraper is nn overtrlmmed bat
I'olltlcal economy is the science which
teaches us to get the greatest benefit
,wlth the least possible amount of hon
est labor.
An emolument is a soothing medi
cine.' , In the United States people are put
to death by elocution.
Gravity was discovered by Iznuk
Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the
autumn, when the apples are falling
from the trees.
sure of a Fine Funeral.
"Larry," said a merchant to a sturdy
Irishman is his employ, "are you sav
ing any of your money?"
"Indade I am, sor," replied Larry.
"I've got $400 hid away in a safe
place."
"But It Isn't a public spirited policy
to board money away," remarked the
merchant, thinking to quiz him, "You
ought to deposit it in a good bank, so
as to keep it in circulation."
"Sure it'll all go into clrkylatlon the
second day nfther I'm dead, sor," sold
Larry proudly. Youth's Companion.
He Knew a Thing- or Two.
Anaxagoras, the Athenian philoso
pher, who flourished in tho fifth cen
tury beforo Christ, taught his scholars
that wind was air set in motion by
rarefaction; that tho moon owed her
light giving properties to the sun; that
the rainbow was the resulting phenom
enon of reflection ; that comets were wan
dering stars, and that the fixed stars
were at an immeasurable distance be
yond the sun, besides giving them mauy
other ideas thought to belong to more
modern times.
Information at Hand.
The Rev. Dr. Fourthly I confess that
this particular passage in the book of
Revelation has always been somewhat
obscure to me.
The Rev. K. Mowatt Lalghtly-Why,
I cleared that all up in the first sermon
I ever wrote. I shall bo glad to let you
read it some day, Chicago Tribune,
Ingrown Appreciation.
Wealthy Patron This portrait doesn't
resemble my wife a particle not a par
ticle. .
Artist No; It doesn't look much like
her, but, oh, dear sir, the technique, the
technique! -
A Critical llanmrr,
"What do you think of that writer's
work!"
"Oh," answered Miss Cayenne, "he
has said two or three clever things and
several thousand others." Washington
Htar.
. STATUESIN ITALY.
Whea a Monument la Not a Moil,
ment In Aomt or Florence.
Rome is in the absurd condition of
possessing a monument which the mu
nicipal authorities declared nonexistent.
Long, long ago a monument was raised
to the philosopher Spednllerl, but never
unveiled, as there was a difference of
opinion about the advisability of hav
ing the monument at nil. Bo through
sun and rain, wind and hall, the poor
statue stood, swathed In Its dingy
drapery, nn eyesore and object of de
rision to all.
Finally, In tho dead of night, to put
an end to the scandal nnd disputes, the
police stripped oft the old and rotten
cloth, nnd In the morning the Eternal
t'lly found herself enriched by the
ownership of a new work of art. The
citizens laughed and crowded to see
what had become a curiosity, but the
city fathers were furious, snld the po
lice had overstepped their powers and
absolutely refused to acknowledge the
existence of the monument.
Florence has had a similar experi
ence. A tablet to Gustavo Modena, in
his day a celebrated actor and still
more celebrated patriot, had been at
tached to the house in which he lived.
But tho authorities refused to allow it
to be unveiled for fear of provoking an
nntl-Austrian demonstration, Just as in
these days when public feeling Is In a
state of effervescence. Day after day
passed until the students mnde a sud
den d:sh, nnd, stripping off the cloth,
added another Interest to the City of
Lilies. The municipality here also was
highly offended and Informed the citi
zens that the tablet does not exist.
All this Irresistibly raises the ques
tion, "When Is a monument not a mon
ument?" When it is In Italy! Fall
Mall Gazette.
THE USE OF IRON.
Its Effect In the Industrial World as
a Barometer of Trade.
There Is an old industrial tradition
that the iron market is the "barometer
of trade." This saying hns been as
cribed to many modern authorities,
ranging from Jny Gould to Andrew
Carnegie. An a matter of fact, it Is
much older than any oracle of this cen
tury or the Inst. It had its origin In
the earliest days of the period when
Iron manufacture and the use of credit
were simultaneously rising to impor
tance. The basis for the tradition la
that the use of Iron and of its products
Is essential for the prosecution of vir
tually nil other industries. Before the
output of miscellaneous manufactures
in a community can be much enlarged
the Industries concerned must be equip
ped with new tools and new machinery.
Before a railroad system can be pre
pared to transport a greatly increased
traffic it must have new rails, new
bridges, new stations, new cars and
new locomotives. In these days of the
steel and iron office building a "boom"
in the building trade cannot go far
without increasing enormously the de
mand for structural iron. Even in the
agricultural industry it mny be said
that expansion nnd prosperity involve
necessarily largely Increased demand
for farm machinery. Since the use of
such additional equipment must pre
cede any Increase in the business of
these other trades It naturally follows,
first, that demand in the Iron market
will be felt aggressively even before tlie
other Industries have shown full meas
ure of activity, nnd, second, that if
such other industries foresee a period
of slack demand and idle mills the first
thing they will do will bo to reduce
their orders from the iron and steel
mills. Alexander D. Noyes in Forum.
Dlegusted.
Amos Cummlugs of New York used
to tell this story of bis first assignment
as a newspaper reporter: He was sent
out to write up an accident where an
Irish hodcarrier was Injured isi a fall
from a building. He arrived Just as
two officers were assisting the Injured
man into the ambulance.
"What's his name?" asked Cummlngs
of one of the officers, at the same mo
ment pulling out bis pad and pencil.
Tho Irishman beard him and, mistak
ing him for the timekeeper on the Job,
exclaimed, with a look of disgust cov
ering his face:
"Isn't it trouble enough to fall three
stories without being docked for tho
few moments I lose going to the hos
pital?" Would Hare Walked Too.
They tell this story in the commis
sioner's office at Ellis island:
Two Irish immigrants Just arrived
stood one morning on the government
landing watching a dredger at work a
few yards away. Presently a diver,
full rigged, crawled painfully from the
channel slime up a ladder to the deck
of the dredgo. One of the Irishmen,
very much surprised, turned to his com
panion and said:
"Look at that mon! Look at him!
Bcgorra, if I'd known the way over I'd
walked too!" New York Tribune,
A Nice Light Buelaese.
"Oh, yes, I've opened an office," said
the young lawyer. "You may remem
ber that you saw me buying an alarm
clock tlie other day."
"Yes," replied his friend. "You have
to get up early these mornings, eh?"
"Ob, no. I use It to wake me up
when It's time to go borne." Philadel
phia Press.
Tho Photographer's Good Work.
"Maud's latest photograph Is Just
lovely."
"Is ltr
"Yes. I had to ask who it was."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- Kindness la a language that even the
dumb brute can understand; like si
lence it is golden and touches the heart
of every animate thing la creation.
Maxwell's Talisman.
Thieves anil Blhfea.
Bibles are snld by detectives to be
more rarely stolen than any other ob
jects. This Is not because Bibles are
worthless to a thief, but because few
criminals are sufficiently depraved to
steal the good book. A detective snld
recently that In an Important case
which he had followed up some years
ago a thief had entered the house,
stolen some vnluable jewels nnd J"ft
untouched a Bible hound In white
rhlcken skin nnd studded with pearls.
The detective caught the thief, and the
man who had been robbed, a dealer in
curios, visited bis despoller In J nil. took
an Interest In hlni because he had not
taken the Bible and eventually reform
ed hint and got him a good Job.
"I knew." the thief snld. "thnt If I
took that Bible it would do me barm
and If I didn't take It it might do me
good. 1 let it alone, and now, thank
heaven. I'm nn honest and a righteous
man."
The detective ndded thnt In another
case where n thief bad stolen a Bible
the book had been returned. "Another
thing few thieves will take," he added,
"In a child's savings bank." Chicago
Tribune.
Tho I'aefnl Sunflower,
It Is a common Joke to cnll Inferior
cigars "cabbage leaves," but, as a mat
ter of fact, some very good "weeds" are
made from the leaves of the sunflower.
These lenves can also be smoked In the
place of tobacco, forming quite a passa
ble substitute.
The stalks and leaves make excellent
food for vnrlous animals, while the for
mer can also be employed as fuel. Sun
flower enke Is mnde from the seeds of
this useful plant after the oil has been
extracted, this oil being very nearly
equal to olive oil and used in cooking.
The seeds not only serve ns food for
cattle; they tire mashed nnd kneaded
Into brend by the poor peasants of cer
tain parts of Russia, and they find it
very palatable.
Potash Is obtained from the ash of
tho stalks. The proportion is about
one-third of potash to the total ash
left lifter burning. A yellow dye Is
made from the flower of the plant The
fiber can be worked Into a silk mate
rial. When Two nalnbowe Are Seen.
When two rainbows nre sometimes
seen nt once, one outside the other, the
Inner or primary bow, as It Is called,
is always the brighter, and the red
band of color Is always on Its outside.
The outer or secondary bow Is much
fainter In color, and the red band is
always on Its Inside. This is because
In the primary bow the sun's rays are
only reflected once, while In the sec
ondary bow they are reflected twice,
which makes .hem faluter In color and
turns them upside down. In one rain
bow we see tho rays of the sun enter
ing the raindrops at the top and re
flected to the eye from the bottom,
while In the other we see the rays en
tering the raindrops at the bottom and
reflected from the top, whence they
reach the eye.
The Veil In Perala.
J. I). Itees, a lecturer on Persia, says
that the veils worn by Persian ladles
are more of u privilege than a punish
ment. Screened behind it woman may
wulk wherever she pleases, and even
her own liusbaud dare not question her
movements. Doubtless many Persian
Indies make the most of their opportu
nities. The Persians, as a rule, do not
think It right to take wine, but as near
ly all their poetry Is in praise of the
flowing bowl it will be inferred that
they frequently do violence to their
conscience. Occasionally, however, they
are seized with remorse, whereupon
they destroy the wine of their Arme
nian neighbors.
Pawning Wives and Dauarhtera.
They have n curious way of utilizing
wives and daughters in some purts ot
Indin. If a inau'wnnts money he puts
these members of his establishment in
pawn, and his creditor detains them
until the debt Is discharged. The cus
tom varies In different localities. In
Mcllore the Ycrcalls pledge their daugh
ters to creditors who may either marry
them or give them away, and a man
who hns to go to jnll deposits his wife
with another family of her tribe until
his return. In North Arcot unmarried
daughters are frequently mortgaged
and become tho absolute property of
the holder until liquidation.
Rasr Reading For Infanta.
lie proposed, conjointly with his fa
ther nnd brother, to blust the stone as
the most expeditious mode of gaining
access to her arcana, and this In the
oMn daylight, in order that any tute
lary protection she might be disposed
to extend to her favorite haunt might
ns she was a thing of darkness and
night, be effectually countervailed.
Extract From Child's Fairy Book.
Three Men.
There are three sorts of men in the
world three, and no more. And of
women only one. There are happy
men and there are knaves and fools.
Hybrids I don't count And to my
mind knaves and fools are very much
alike. "Love and Mr. Lewluhnm."
A Scotch Senteuce,
Lord Braxflvld admitted the abilities
of it criminal who was undoubtedly an
accomplished murderer, (or the judge
said, "Y're a clever chlel, but y'll be
mine the waur of a hanging, my man."
Hard Scotch.
His Disappearing Polae,
"My!" exclaimed the doctor. "You've
hardly any pulse today!"
"Well, don't you remember, doctor,"
replied the patient, "you took it when
you were here yesterday?" Yonkera
Statesman.
' Ha who has no vision of eternity will
never get a true bold of time. Carlla.
THE COLOMBIANS.
they Are Hospitable People and
Like Good Living,
The Colombians aro a hospltnble peo
ple and receive strangers cordially. It
Is customary for a stranger to send
cards to those whose acquaintance us
desires, aud etiquette demands that the
recipients of the cards call within a
few days.
The dining tables of the rich are
spread with fine linen and set with
handsome cut glass and china. Among
their beverages, in addition to wines,
are cebndn, barley water; orchada,
which contains almond Juice nnd sug
ar; agrnss, tho Juice of unripe grapes;
unranjiida, orangeade and a prepara
tion of chocolate thick as gruel. A dish
for Invalids is sopa dc pan. A raw egg
Is broken upon a slice of toast, and a
beef broth Is poured over it. A break
fast often consists of several courses
for Instance, fruit, poached eggs, with
slewed tomatoes and rice; fish, chops
fried In eggs nnd herbs and a tortilla
con seso, brnln omelet, sweet potatoes
or other vegetable and coffee. Saf
fron Is a favorite flavoring for soup.
Chicken or game pies contain a variety
of vegetables, bard boiled eggs nnd
other Ingredients. A common dish
among the poor Is a stew called sin
eoche. Another -standby Is rice nnd red
beans. Rice cooked In Inrd. with a lit
tle tnssado (dried beef) for a relish, Is a
tidbit among the lower clnsses. The
flesh of the Iguana, a species of hind
llznrd. Is regarded as a delicacy and Is
said to resemble chicken. The natives
silt the sides or living female Iguiinns
and take from them strings of eggs ns
large ns plums. They bang these eggs
)n the sun nnd dry them for future
consumption.
ACTING WITHOUT ORDERS.
(Jenernl Grnnt'a Tribute to Oeneral
Hhvrlilan'a Judgment.
Penntor Hour In his "Reminiscences"
snys that at a dinner where General
Grunt and other distinguished men
were present Commodore Aldcn re
marked thnt tliere was nothing he dis
liked more than a subordinate who al
ways obeyed orders. "What is that
you are saying, commodore?" snld Pres
ident Grunt across the tnble. The com
modore repeated what he had said.
"There Is a good deal of truth in what
yon say," said General Grant "One of
the'Vlrtues of General Sheridan was
that he knew when to act without or
ders. Just before the surrender of Lee.
General Sherldnn captured some dis
patches, from which lie lea mod that
I-ee ti ml ordered his supplies to a cer
tain place. I was on the other side of
the river, where be could get no com
munication from me until the next
morning. General Sherldun pushed on
at once without orders, got to the place
fifteen minutes before the enemy and
captured the supplies. After tlie sur
render was concluded tlie first thing
General Lee asked me for was rations
for bis men. I Issued to them the same
provisions which Sherldnn had cap
tured. Now, If Sheridan, as most men
would hare done, had waited for orders
from me Lee would have got off." Sen
ator Hoar adds this comment: "I lis
tened with wonder nt the generous
modesty which, before that brilliant
company, could remove one of the
brightest laurels from his brow and
place It on the brow of Sheridan."
Stars by Daylight.
It Is worthy of remark that but for
tho brightness of the sky the stars
could be seen in daylight. Even as
matters stand, some of the brighter of
them have been seen after sunrlBe by
explorers on high mountains, where
the nlr Is very cleur and the sky dark
blue. If we could go above the atmos
phere the sky would appear perfectly
black, und stars would be visible right
close up to the sun. Astronomers ob
serve bright stars In daytime by using
long focus telescopes, the dark tubes
of which cut off the side light, and per
sons In the bottom of deep wells have
noticed sturs passing overhead, the side
light being reduced by the great depths
of the wells. T. J. J. Bee In Atlantic.
The Modesty of Brahma.
At an interesting dinner party given
by Joachim, at which were present also
his friends. Professor Dorn of Naples
and Von llerzogenberg, the composer,
an amusingly characteristic scene oc
curred. Joachim in a few well chosen
words was asking us not to lose the'
opportunity of drinking the health of
the greutest composer, when before he
could say the mime Brahms bounded
to his feet, glass in hand, and called
out: "Quite light! Here's Mozart's
health!" and walked round, clinking
glasses with us all. His old hatred of
personal eulogy was never more pret
tily expressed. Leisure Hour.
Keeplnsr I'P Appearances.
Wife There was a man around to
day selling big brass, burglar alarm
bells to put on. the front of the bouse,
so I ordered otic.
Husband What! You , know we
haven't anything worth stealing.
Wife I know that, but it will make
the neighbor think we have. Phila
delphia Ledger
A Little Off.
"Really." said Mrs. Oldcastle, "your
little dinner lust nlgbt was quite
recherche."
"Oh, dour," her hostess groaned, "I
lust knew that new cook would make
a botch of it some way I" Chicago Rec-rd-Heruld.
Tho' Esaentlala.
"Which would you rather marry,
Ethel, brains or money?"-
"Money, of course. I can get along
without the luxuries, but I must have
the necessities." Brooklyn Life.
Ten men have failed from defects In
morals where one has failed from da
fects in Intellect Mann.
Mow to Make a Caeapare. '
An absurd and reprehenslbly destruc
tive practice Is the building of fires be
neath n tree "Ill order to get the draft"
Tlie fools that do this kill great trees
for nothing fait a campflre. There is
no sense In that wretched practice. A
Arc for camp cooking should be built
in the open, and nothing is easier. A
bare rock Is the best place, and If you
are to cook by It put tip a barrier of
Iimiso ntoucs Just extensive enough to
make H fire ns large us a kitchen stnve
would hold, put a lint stone over time
walls, and you will have all you want
You can fry bacon nnd your corn
cakes nnd boll your coffee on that
stone. This Is as good for winter as
for summer. And If you want a hot
old campflre clear a place of all com
bustibles niid begin small, gradually
adding il stick or two, nnd the heat
beneath will soon grow so strong that
you can keep it up for ns many hours
as you please. But be sure thnt you
let It get down to the ashes before you
leave. Nobody knows what may hap
pen after you lenve a blazing flre.
Springfield Republican.
Shorthand and Mentnl Discipline.
The mental discipline which mny be
derived from the practice of stenog
raphy Is permanent. Speed may be
lost, word signs mny slip nwuy, but
the power of concentrating the atten
tion persists. Nor Is the Increased pow
er of ana lysis confined to the analysis
of spoken words. It Is brought Into
piny In nil kinds of mental work. Pos
sibly the truth mny be thnt only per
sons with minds naturally analytic can
become expert stenographers and that
the faculty Is a cause rather than an
effect of such proficiency. However
that mny be. the man who tins a mind
of that sort can select a topic at ran
dom, analyze it rapidly Into Its natural
subdivisions and make n speech or
write nn essay on It while the other
men would be groping around for an
Introduction. The value of this sort of
discipline to a lawyer or preacher or
writer Is obvious. Mathematics Is the
only study that can be compared to a
scientific system of shorthand for the
development of analytical powers.
Tlie World Today.
A Fine Gentleman.
The Due de Itlchelleu, the beloved of
ladles, the breaker of hearts, was the
perfect fine gentleman of n studiously
elegant epoch. The suave repose of his
manner was Immovable. When bis
second wife lay dying he came in to
see her. stepping softly, lint in hand.
Though she was expiring, her fading
eye lit up ut the sight of hliu.
"How sweet It would be for me to
die In your arms," she murmured.
He held her us she wished till she
died, then went out ugaln. stepping
softly, hut In hand. Ono of his spiteful
chroniclers -a woman, needless to say
suggests that he was off to a rendez
vous with the lady of the moment and
thut the graceful manner In which he
bore the delay caused by his wife's
death was proof of the perfect breeding
of one of the finest gentlemen In Eu
rope. Oernldlne Bonner in The Reader.
Pagaalnl's Idea of tho Sabbath.
An Incident In the life ot Taganlnl
comes to us from Liverpool. The great
violinist was visiting friends In the
suburbs of that city at the house of a
lady whose religious Ideas were severe
ly strained by her guest venturing to
play on the Sabbath day.
"Vy," asked the musician, "eef se
Sabat mos be so holle that nosing trios
be done at all, vy does Proveedence
permit se leetel birds to sing on dat
day and ae leaves of se forest to clap
sere bunds for joy, making se rustling
music, and se voters of ze great deep
to sound zelr mysterious harmonies?"
Paganlnl'sstay at that house, we are
told, was brief. London News.
Tho Blooming Thorn Tree.
There Is a legeud to the effect that
the thorn blooms on Christmas day.
It Is said that St. Joseph of Arlma
thecn landed near Glastonbury and
Btuck his staff in the ground. It took
root, grew and blossomed every Christ
mas day thereafter. The tree was
hewn down by a Puritan of the time
of Cromwell, but in doing this deed he
cut his leg, and chips Hying from his
ax blinded him. The trunk, though
separated from the root, grew and
flourished, und for many years slips
and blooms from the tree of St Joseph
were sold by the merchants of Bristol.
Breaking It Gently.
His Cousin We sent off the dispatch
to stop your model coming. But you
had put one word too many, so we
struck It out.
Real Artist Oh, indeed! What word
did you strike out?
Ills Cousin You had written, "He is
not to come, as I have only Just discov
ered I cannot paint today." So we
crossed out "today." Punch.
Brought Tronbla.
White What Is the matter with
Plunger's beud?
Green Yesterday was his wooden
wedding, and be gave bis wife a rolling
pin for a present and when he return
ed from celebrating the event she re
turned the present with a speech suit
able to tlie occasion. Butte Inter
Mountaln. More Thrilling.
Ruyter I'm writing a sequel to my
book "How to Live on Five Hundred
a Year."
Scribbler what do you call the se
quel? Ruyter "How to Get the Five Hun
dred." Indianapolis Journal.
To live in the presence of great
truths and eternal laws, to be led by
permanent Ideals that is what keeps
man patient when the world Ignores
him and calm and unspoiled when the
world praises blm. Honors de Bslaac.
THE ISLE OF NOBLES.
A Famous Historic Site, tho Cradle
of Saxon LI hart r.
The Isle of Athelney, or the "Isle -of
nobles." as the name signifies, is one
of the most famous of historic sites.
A thousand years ago it was a low islet
covered with willows and alders and
surrounded by fens and overflowing
uinrshes, altogether Inaccessible except
by boats. There King Alfred sought
refuge with a swineherd, and there be
Iny concealed from the Invading Danes
for the space of a whole year. The re
sort of his chieftains to tills place
caused It to be known as the "Isle of
nobles," which mny bo regarded as the
cradle nnd stronghold of axou liberty.
After Alfred regained the possession
of bis thi'otiu he erected a Benedictine
abbey on this spot and "endowed it
with all the lands in the Isle of Athel
ney." Tho monastery has entirely dis
appeared, but Its site Is marked by a
stone pillnr erected in 1801 by tlie own
er of Atbclney. The pillnr bears this
Inscription: "King Alfred the Great in
the yenr of our Lord 870, having been
defeated by the Danes, fled for refuge
to the forest of Athelney, where he lay
concealed from his enemies for the spell
of a whole year, He soon nftcr regain
ed possession of his throne, and In
grateful remembrance of the protection
he had received under the favor of
heaven he erected a monastery on this
spot and endowed It with all the lands
contained In the isle of Athelney. To
perpetuate Hie memory of so remarka
ble an Incident In the life of that Illus
trious prince this edifice was founded
by John Slude. Esq., of Maunscll, the
proprietor of Athelney, A. D. 180L"
London News.
THE MAN WITH THE ADZ.
Wonderful Accuracy of.HIa Aim at
the llotcher'a Block.
Outside a butcher shop twenty or
thirty persons stood watching a man
nt work with nn adz. He stood on a
large oaken block, such as meat is
chopped on, which he had taken from
its legs and placed on the curb, sloping
townrd the street. The surface of the
block had become scarred and rough
ened from use. With clean, accurate
strokes of the adz the man soon mudc
It us smooth ns a mnhognny table. It
was the wonderful accuracy of bis aim
thnt made pnssersby stop to look at
Li 1 1 ii. Ho paid no attention to them. A
single fnlse blow would have ruined
the block. When the Job was done, the
man helped the butcher mount the
block, collected $5 and went off to
keep another appointment
"It hns taken me twenty-three years
to learn to chop like thnt," he said to
a reporter. "My charge Is from $5 to
$10, nccordlng to the size of the block.
A block requires evening off In thnt
way every three or four years. I have
customers now that I hud wben I first
begun business, twenty-five years ago.
In nil that time I have spoiled only two
blocks, nnd they were during the two
years of my apprenticeship. The butch
ers can get their chopping blocks put
In condition by sending them to the
sawmill. But It Is more expensive, and
they can't spare them so long from the
shops. There Is enough work of this
kind in New York to keep myself and
hnlf a dozen others busy." New York
Tress.
Korean Men's Hats.
The quaintest feature of the pictur
esque costumes of the Korean men is
their huts. They are mousetrap-like
arrangements mnde from the hair of
the wearer's ancestors. Tills priceless
possession Is banded down from father
to eldest son, who reaches the goal of
bis ambition at the moment when the
family hat Is placed upon his head.
Another grotesque form of Korean
headdress is the mourning hat that Is
worn in rural districts by the eldest
son for three years after the death of
either of his parents. This conical
shaped affair of rushes or rice straw is
as large as a bushel basket and extends
to the shoulders.
The Value of Ezerelae.
The brain thnt never calls upon itself
for work must become dull and stupid,
and it is the snme way with the mus
cles of the body. They are filled with
blood vessels that should be up and
doing. The blood has several purposes,
and one Is to curry away the waste
fluids of the body. The lungs are a
sort of refinery, and the blood Is dis
tilling agent. If the blood becomes
thick and unhealthy and sluggish the
body does not keep its youthful state.
Eyes grow dull, Hps lose their redness,
and the complexion Is sallow and un
lovely. It Is an easy and simple mat
ter to make exercise a hubit.
Wart Core.
Vinegar and cooking soda in solution
nre said to make a capital cure for
warts. If the wart is kept moist with It
for ten minutes several times a day it
will disappear in the course of a week
or so in ordinary cases.
Another cure Is to touch frequently
with acetic add or nitric acid, but one
must be careful not to irritate the sur
rounding akin by dropping either acid.
Why They Spoka.
"We bad known each other slightly,"
said MIbs Evvy Walte, "but never to
speak to until one day while out skat
ing I fell down quite near blm, and"
"Ah, yes.1" replied Miss Peppery,
"That broke the ice, of coarse." Phila
delphia Press.
Choosing a Mlalater.
Dean Everett used to say that parish
committees bad no more ability choos
ing a minister than a minister showed
in buying a horse. Boston Christian
Register.
The man who becomes bis own doc
tor bus a fool for a patient as truly as
the man who acts as his own lawyer
lias a fool for client
" f ME MODERN NOTE7
ft Is "Jot Sentiment, bat Braver
Wltk a Dash of Rumor. (
According to the modern notion, a;
man should be something of an artist!
In life. He should at least appear to!
play his part easily, wltb dash and!
gusto, like the acrobat who performs;
each dangerous feat smiling. This is;
la panache, the feather in the cap of;
courage bravery with humor added.j
It la the spirit !n which Lungtungpen;
was taken, in which Cyrano composed;
his ballade while be fought a duel, for:
Cyrauo and Alnn Brock, no less than!
Mulvaney and Sherlock Holmes, are!
Very modern heroes.
Stevenson's whole life was one long
devotion to this ideal. He curried tils
III health and penury bravely and wit
tily Into far corners of the earth
through many 'Strange adventures. As
be wrote to William Archer: "The
medicine bottles on my chimney and
the blood on my handkerchief are acci
dents. They do not exist in my pros
pect" The melodramatic gloom of Byron,
the lachrymose pathos of Dickens and
the shallow sentimentality of Thack
eray touch the source of our tears less
surely than the sheer gay beartcdness
and courage In the face of disease, dif
ficulty or danger. This Is the modern
noto. A clever woman told" me that
every young man of her acquaintance
when he reached a certain degree of In
timacy, quoted these lines of Henley's:
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head Is bloody, but unbowed.
Claude Bragdon In Reader.
THE KANGAROO'S STORY.
Why the Does Throw Their Toaag
Away When Hard Preaaed.
"I have heard that men folk In their
blindness deem our does to be lucking
in tho proper fimtlncts of maternity be
cause they have found that a doe. kan
garoo when hunted will throw away
Its offspring to save its own skin by
hastening Its speed. This," snys Old
Man Jack In the "Autobiography of
an Australian Kangaroo" In Pearson's
Magazine, "Is simply scandalous and
foolish. 1
"Meti people ure evidently not aware
thnt our youngsters use the mother's:
pouch hlmost up to the age of maturity.:
Would they have our does nttempt to!
fly from dogs and men and horses!
with youngsters weighing nearly fifty
pounds In their pouches? The thing;
would be Impossible. j
"Among ns a mother is taught to toss!
her youngsters to a place of safety!
when she Is hard pressed. If she could!
nut throw It to u place far safer In the
circumstances than her own pouch she
would turn at boy wltb it and face any
odds.
"In the case of my mother, when we
were chnscd. and sure ns the bunt be
came dangerous she would pause, draw
me out of her pouch, throw me careful
ly Into long scrub on her right, then
turn sharply to her left pause ngaln
until the hounds had seen her nnd then
be of." like the wind straight away
from me."
WAYS OF THE MAGPIE.
The Bird la Sociable, Secretive and
Full of Mischief.
The mngple has the same sort of so
ciability, the sume secretlveness, the
same thirst for education of a certain
kind the sumo Inherent and ineradica
ble love of mischief as has that very
versatile bird the raven. Not that In In
tellect and strength of character she Is
in any way equul to the raven. Fun
she has In abundance, but hardly hu
mor. Conscious humor, thnt high and
rare gift of man which interpenetrates
and colors everything In life. Is, I
think, possessed in germ by the raven
and the raven alone. You see it in his
eye, in the pose of his beud, in bis
walk. In every movement of his body.
The eye of the magpie Is, like the wit
of Dickens, always on the move, nerv
ous, excitable, glittering, scintillating.
The eye of the raven is like the humor
of Goldsmith. It has a faraway look,
it dreams, It thinks, "it bodes and It
bodes," It all but smiles. The magpie
will pick up many words, or even sen
tences, and the old superstition that
she will only talk or talk well if her
tongue is slit with a thin and sharp
silver sixpence died a natural death
about the time thut the coins of the
realm bad to be "milled" and so were
rendered unsuitable for so stupidly
cruel an operation. R Bosworth Smith
In Nineteenth Century.
Servants la Germany.
It Is difficult in Germany for a pro
fessional rogue to enter a family as a
domestic servant There every servant
hns a character book, in which the mis
tress must enter the dates of the com
ing and leaving of the servant wltb;
her character while in service. This,
the girl Is obliged to take to the near
est police station and have It dated
with the official stamp, thus preventing
the manufacture of bogus recommen
dations. What She Meant.
"Didn't I hear your wife refer to yon
as the human mince pie?" said the curi
ous person.
"Yes," answered Mr. Slrlus Burker.
"Is that a compliment"
"Not exactly. She means thut I never
agree with anybody." Washington
Star. i
Am fmmml
"When I looked at this picture last;
week I failed to observe those goats!
down in the corner." I
"Probably they butted in since then."
Kansas City Journal.
Tko Time to Think. j
Clara I suppose 1 ov :ht to stop and
think before I accept 1 u. j
faild Oil nn Vull'l I l,,,ua nh.ntw
tlm to do that afterward. Detroit
Free Press. ,