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CASTING LOTS.
A Carinas Military Custom That Was
Our, In Vrntn, In Earope.
In the armies of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries the custom of cast
ing lots to divide what soldiers should
be punished for the offenses of nil was
common. At Winchester, England, In
1G15, complaint was nindo that after
the surrender there had been unfair
plundering. Six soldiers were tried
and found guilty, nnd It wns derided
by lot which one of the six should be
aimed. At Tangier In 10(13. and
again In 10(15, two soldiers bad to cast
dice on a drumhead, and he who threw
the least wns executed. Thomas Mny's
translation of Barclay's "Icon Anl
morum" gives a curious story of this
sort. Speaking of English courage, he
says that during the war in the Nether
lands some soldiers of the Spanish
party were taken prisoners by tin
Dutch, who decided to make reprisals
for the previous cruelty of their en
emies. Out of four, and twenty men
eight were to be hnnged. "There were
lots, therefore, thrown Into a helmet,"
says May, "and the prisoners were
commanded, to draw their fortunes
whoever should draw a blank was to
esenpo, but whoever should draw a
black lot wns to be hnnged presently.
"They were all." says Muy, "possess
ed with a great apprehension of their
present danger, especially one Span
iard. Their pitiful wishes nnd tears In
some of the standers by did move pity,
In others laughter. There wns besides
In that danger nn Englishman, a com
mon soldier, who, with a careless coun
tenance, expressing no fear of death at
nil, enmo boldly to the helmet nnd drew
his lot Ohnnce favored him; It wns a
safe lot. Being free himself from dan
ger he came to the Spaniard, who was
yet timorous nnd trembling to put his
hand Into the fatal helmet, nnd receiv
ing from him-10 crowns he entreated
the Judges oh, horrid audacity that,
dismissing the Spaniard, they would
suffer him ngaln to try his fortune."
May further relates thst "the Judges
consented to the madman's request,
who valued his life at so low a rate,
nnd he ngnln drew a safe lot" May
seems ruthux to regret the second es
cape of the foolhardy Englishman,
whom he denounces as "a wretch un
worthy rot only of that double, but
even of a single preservation, who so
basely bad undervalued bis life."
WOMAN.
What Is woman? Only one of na
ture's agreeable blunders. Bulwer.
A beautiful woman Is the only tyrant
man Is not authorized to resist. Victor
Hugo.
Unhappy Is the man to whom bis
own mother has not made all other
mothers venerable. Richter.
The best thing I know of Is a fust
rate wife, and the next best thing la a
second rate one. Josh Billings.
A beautiful woman la a practical
poem, planting tenderness, hope and
eloquenco In nil whom she approaches.
Emerson.
They govern the world, these sweet
voiced women, because beauty and
harmony are the Index of a larger fuct
than wisdom. O. W. Holmes.
A good book and a good woman are
excellent things for those who know
bow to appreciate their value. There
are men, however, who Judge Of both
by the beauty of the covering. Dr.
Johnson.
We Mean Well.
Heaven send that no friend with a
pocketful of pebbles be tempted by the
shine nnd glimmer of our glass bouses,
for Indeed we meant well! Here It la
the knowledge In which Imagination
uiust take root if stone throwing Is
ever to go out of fashion and the world
become a pleasnnt place to live In
namely, that most everybody else
means well too. The creed of the im
aginative and kindly heart which will
not throw stones Is brief:
There Is so much good In the worst of us,
There Is so much bad In the best of ua.
That It 111 becomes any one of us
To talk about the rest of us
unless we enn do it with truth and
sympathy in other words, with imag
ination. Margaret Deland In Harper's
Bazar.
British' Naval Bad Tape.
The British navy enn produce flue
samples of red tape as well ns the ar
my. Not long since an admiral took
the trouble to write a long minute on
the back of an ordinary routine paper
submitted to htm to the effect that the
margin on the left hand side was fully
one-eighth of an inch too narrow. We
all know that genius is an Infinite ca
pacity for taking pains, but I hardly
think that the genius of Blake or Kel
son is likely to be exemplified in an
admiral who goes over bis official pa
pers with a tape meusure in order to
see that the margins are the right
width. London Truth.
' "The health officer advised me to ask
every man with whom we bad domestic
dealings if he was careful to boil the
water be used In bis business."
"Yes."
"Well, I asked the milkman first. And
what do you think? He got mad and
wanted to lick me." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Window Dressing n n 11 n Art.
' III one Important department, un
molested by public criticism, the ad-
vertlsers have even now established
tnxtefulness as the underlying essential
principle of their competition. This
Is in window dressing, a vital part of
advertising. The beautiful, not (he
bizarre; the attractive rather than the
startling; the alluring and interesting
nre now sought In the window effects
ef every simp, from the great depart
ment store to the little candy kitchen;
from the basement lights of a modest
florist to the long plate glass front of
shoe emporium. Salaries of several
thousand dollars a year nre paid In
cities to the "nrtlsts" most skilled In
window dressing, nnd their requisi
tions for plants or ribbons totally Ir
relevant as these may be to the stock
on sale 'and designed merely to add
to the beauty of the window picture
are honored ungrudgingly. In effect
the merchant says, "Give me a beau
tiful window that people will stop
and look at, and tbnt yet shnll Indicate
generally the sort of goods I handle,
and I do not core whnt It costs."
Charles M. Itoblnson In Atlantic.
lea In India.
Dr. Wells, a London physician, In
1818, In his published essay on dew,
was the first to draw attention to the
curious artificial production of Ice In
India. Shallow pits are dug, which
are partially filled with perfectly dry
straw. Ou the straw broad, Hat pans
containing water are exposed to tho
clear sky. The water, being n power
ful radiant, sends off Its bent abun
dantly Into space.
The heat thus lost cannot be re
placed from the earth, for this source
Is excluded by the straw. Before sun
rise a cake of Ice is formed In each
vessel. To produce this Ice In quan
tities clear nights are advantageous,
and particularly those on which prac
tically no dew falls. Should the straw
get wet It becomes more matted and
compact nnd consequently a better
conductor of heat, for the vapor then
nets as a screen over the pans, checks
the cold and retards freezing.
Birds Are Mathematicians.
The English naturalist, Morris Glbbs,
devoted years of study to birds' nests,
their formation and their contents, and
asserts that birds lay their eggs In ac
cordance with geometrical lines, so
tbnt every Inch of space is used to the
greatest possible ndvnntago. Birds
which lay many eggs arrange them In
circles, the pointed ends turned to the
inside. Others, whose eggs nre elliptic
ally shaped, place them In longitudi
nal rows. If nn egg Is moved out of
its original position by un Intruder, It
will be found on the following morn
ing that the bird has returned It to Its
first position. Among the numerous
and often difficult cases which Glbbs
made a matter of study, not one was
found which would not do credit to a
mathematician.
Cromwell and. the Specter.
The stories of the "White Ludy" that
periodically visits the German royal
family and of the "Little lied Man"
that frequently paid bis respects to the
great Napoleon nre tolerably well
known, especially that of the former.
But few, perhaps, nre familiar with the
story of Cromwell's "Giant Specter."
It appeared to him one night when he
was wide awake and quietly resting on
his couch. In appearance the appari
tion was a woman of gigantic propor
tions. Approaching him she announced
In tones like thunder, "Within the year
you, my son, will be recognized as the
greatest man In Britain."
Creation of a Knlsht.
The ceremonies at the creation of a
knight have been various; tho principal
were a box on the eur and a stroke
with a sword on the shoulder. John
of Salisbury tells us the blow with the
naked fist was In use among the an
cient Normans; by this It was that
William the Conqueror conferred the
honor of knighthood on his son Henry.
It was afterward changed Into a blow
with the fiat of the sword on the shoul
der of the knight
Not That Kind.
"What did you think of Philadel
phia?" "I never was more imposed on In
uiy life," answered Colonel Stilwcll
of Kentucky. "They told mo Phllii
delphla was famous for Its mint, and
all they showed me was a place where
they make money," Washington Btnr.
Fanny,
Borroughs Mr. Merchant's out, you
ay? Why, he had an uppolntmeut
with me here. That's very funny.
New Office Boy Yes, sir; I guess he
thought it was too. Anyways, he was
Juugbln' wbeu be went out.
Too Much For Hint.
'"Oh, zees lungvlugu!" complained the
distinguished foreigner. "Your wife he
Is upstairs when I come In and you
cull to heeui; 'Monsieur d'Exprlt have
arrive. Hurry up and come down.' "
Chicago Itecord-Ileruld,
Takes Leuaer,
Husbund-llow is it that women's
club of yours keeps you out so much
Inter than It used to? Wife Oh, we've
uiude a new rule that only one mem
ber cuu speak ut a time.
WAIT FOR AN APPETITE.
Ton Should Never Rat Simply For
the Sake of Eating.
A prolific cnuse of chronic Indigestion
Is eating from habit and simply be
cause It Is mealtime and others nre
eathiK- 'Ut eat when not hungry Is to
eat without relish, and food taken
without relish Is worse than wasted.
Without relish the sallvnry glands do
not net, the gastric fluids nre not freely
secreted, nnd the best of foods will not
be digested. Many perfectly harmless
dishes are severely condemned for no
other reason than they were eaten per
functorily and without relish and due
Insnllvation.
Hunger makes the plainest foods en
joyable. It causes vigorous secretion
and outpouring of all the dilative flu
ids, the sources of ptyalin, pepsin,
trypsin, etc., without a plentiful supply
of whlih no foods can be perfectly t'l
gested. -
Walt for nn nppetlte, If It takes a
week. Fasting Is one of the saving
graces. It has a spiritual similflcnnre
only through Its great physical nnd
physiologic Importance. If brekfast
is a bore or lunch a matter of indiffer
ence, cut one or both of them out.
Walt for distance and unmistakable
hunger nnd then cut slowly. If you
do this you need ask few questions as
to the propriety and digestibility of
what you eat, nnd It iued not bo pro
digested. Exchange.
THE PENGUIN.
It Is Awkward on Land and a C.yiu
naat In the Water.
A kind of penguin, the udelle. Is a
laugh provoking bird. Adclir are
most Inquisitive and at times are In
such a hurry to follow up a clew that
they will scramble along the ice on
the belly, pushing with their legs and
using their flippers alternately like the
paddle of a canoe. They get over l!io
ground at nn astonishing rate, and it is
bard work to overtake a penguin when
It takes to this means of locomotion,
especially when It doubles. In tl.e
water the penguin is perfectly at horn ,
diving nnd steoplechaslng in grand
style. It cau Jump clean out of the
water and pop down on tho ice exact
ly like some one coming up through a
trapdoor on the Btnge and dropping
on his feet. Tho penguins collect iu
enormous numbers and nre sometimes
seen mnrching about like a regiment
of soldiers iu Indian file, all acting In
unison.
A much larger penguin, the emperor,
weighs sixty or seventy pounds and
stnnds well over three feet high. It
possesses the most extraordinary mus
cular powers In Its flippers. When pre
sented with the end of tho skee stick
the emperor gives it such a smack that
one's hands tinglo. At the same time
It utters an angry guttural exclama
tion. SHEEP IN INDIA.
They Are the Favorite Beasts of Bur
den In Mountainous Heglona.
Iu Tibet and among the mountainous
port of India sheep are employed as
carriers. The mountain Bhecp of these
districts, true to its nature, is remark
ably sure footed and can carry loads of
twenty-flve pounds, or even more, over
steep crags and precipitous paths
where hardly any other animal could
find a footing.
In the Inner ranges of the Himalayas
the yak cow and the hardy mountain
sheep are tho favorite beusts of bur
den. Sheep withstand tho intense cold
of the higher parts of Tibet much more
easily than the yak and can better face
the stony roads.
Sheep carrying from seventeen to
twenty-flve pounds of baggage and liv
ing entirely on tlie scanty grass found
growing by the way accompanied Nnln
Salflb, the famous Indian explorer, on
a Journey of more than a thousand
miles. It la very common In the Him
alaya to lend sheep, high up In the
mountains, with borax and then to
drive them down to the plains, where
they are shorn of their wool and re
turn laden, with grain or salt.
Money Thrown Away,
"So that city doctor helped ye right
mart, did he, SUub?" asked Mrs. Giles
on her husband's return from u week's
visit to a Bpeclullst In a neighboring
town.
"Well, I guess he did! I'm feeling
fine as a tiddlo now, an' he says I
won't likely have any return of it if I
Just keep tcr what bo tells me."
"What did he suy was the matter
with ye?" Inquired tho wife eagerly.
"I forglt now whut he culled it,
but"-
"SUas," she cried, "ye don't really
mean ter suy ye puld out nil tbnt
money an' didn't git no good of It after
Hit" Exchange.
Modest Abbe Dellle.
It is ssld that the French Abbe Dellle
once had in his household a very quick
tempered relative, with whom he some
times hud animated disputes and who
somotlmes went so fur as to throw
books at the abbe. Tho abbo must
have been u person of great amiabil
ity and self control. Onco, when a
particularly lurge and heavy volume
was thrown at him, he caught It grace
fully and said:
"My deur friend, I must beg of you
to romcmlwr that I prefer uualler
gifts
When an Iceberg Tares Tartle,
Think of sections bigger than Rhode
Island being torn from a glacier and
swept off Into the ocean, to be ferried
3.0O0 miles on the bosom of the Lab
rador current until the heated waters
of tho gulf stream cause them to van
ish from human ken. Then run one
form some Iden of tho Immensity of
the Ice area tllschnrged from the Green
land sens ench year. Thousands of
miles of valley nre constantly emptying
their contents into the bnys and fiords
of the norjh waters, whence the tides
hurry the detachments southward to
cumber the wide Atlantic.
The disposition of Icebergs to turn
turtle Is one of their most dangerous
propensities. It arises from several
causes. When they stnrt out from
Greenland their bottoms nre heavy
with the detritus gnthered In their
glacial period, nnd this drops off at In
tervals as they move south, causing
their center of gravity to change and
the berg to assume new positions. ' The
scientific theory of the formntlon of
the vast submarine plateaus which ex
tend from Labrador to Fundy, and are
commonly known as tbe Grand banks
of Newfoundland, Is that they are the
products of bergs during countless
ages. Leslie's Magazine.
Cannibalistic Scorpions.
During ninny years of scorpion bunt
ing I never remembered to have seen
two Individuals living together in
amity, and even their more tender ro
tations ore tainted at times with the
unnmluhle habit of cannibalism. The
males are decidedly smaller than their
mates, whom they approach accord
ingly with tho utmost caution. If the
fair inamorata doesn't like the loo!:s
of her advancing suitor she settles the
question offhand by making a murder
ous spring at him, catching him In her
claws, slinging him to death and limit
ing a hearty meal off him. This is
scurcely loverlike. On the other hand,
If a dubious wife, tho fcmnlo scorpion
la a devoted mother. She hatches her
eggs lu her own oviduct, brings forth
her young ullve uullko her relations,
tho spiders nnd cnrrles them about on
her buck, to the number of fifty, dur
ing their innocent childhood, till they
nre of an ngo to shift for themselves
Iu tho strugglo for existence. Coruhill
Mugnziue.
First 1'ersan Cremated la America.
The first white person lawfully cre
muted within the present limits of tho
United States, according to wishes and
desires expressed by himself, was Colo
nel Henry Laurens, one of the Revo
lutionary patriots. He was born in
Charleston, S. C, iu the year 1724, and
died on his plantation uenr that placo
on Dec. 8, 17! 12. His will, which he
had requested them to open and road
the next duy after his death, was sup
plemented with the following: "I sol
emnly enjoin It upon my sun, ns an In
dispensable duty, that, as soon as ho
conveniently can after my decease, he
cuuse my body to bo wrapped In
twelve yards of towclotb and burned
until it bo entirely consumed." The
request will curried out to the letter
nnd was the beginning of cremation In
America.
English Characteristics.
Tho Englishman is less social than
men of any other nationality; I mean
ho Is less conscious of the ties which
bind humanity together, bis moral for
mation owes little to bis relations with
other meu, he scarcely troubles him
self about what they think, and if he
ever considers the matter at all It
makes no difference in bis sentiments
and actions. In short, the Englishman
is to a certain extent a recluse; be is
more it loo f from the world lu which he
lives and the neighbors whom be el
bows thun tho men of any other
nationality. Boutmy's "The English
People."
Spanish Etiquette.
There is a curious story of how the
Duke d'Aosta, when king of Spain,
told a muleteer to whom he was talk
ing 'to cover himself, the sun being
hot, forgetting that by so dolug ho
niudo htm a grandee. Marshal Prim,
to prevent this catastrophe, knocked
the man's bat out of bis band, and ac
cording to some tho muleteer had
something to do with the assassluatlon
that followed a few duys afterward.
The Knobs.
Tess What do you think of my new
shoes? Quite nobby, aren't they? Jess
Yes, they are ruther knobby, but I
think any .first cluss chiropodist could
remove e knobs. Philadelphia Press.
Suspicions,
Friend What mukes you think Tom
has broken bis promise to keep
straight? Fiancee Well, be brings me
more expensive preseuts than he used
to, Princeton Tiger.
Mnklnar a Sure Thins of It.
"Whut in tho nnine of Jupiter have
you sewed up all the pockets of. my
overcoat for?" asked Mr. Wilson.
"My dear," suld Mrs. Wilson, "I huvo
an important lettor to my milliner that
I want you to post."
An orator or.nuthor is never success
ful till he has learned to make bis
wards smaller thas hie ideas. Emerson.
MAY DAY FE8TIVALS.
i
They Were Celebrated In the Time of;
the Ancient Itomnns, '
For nges Mny tiny hns been a time of j
gnnernl rejoicing. All over Chrlsten-i
doni Its advent Is hailed with delight;
The birds, the bees and the flowers;
Join us in nn annual celebration of the!
day. Nature has nt last thrown off the!
snow quilt with which she hns braved;
tho rnvnges of winter nnd glows ro-j
splendent In buds nnd blossoms. The;
streams have broken their icy fetters!
and burst forth Into Joyous nccompunl-'
tnents to myriads of bird choristers.
And humanity, overpowered bji the
same gind spirit, seeks tho woods and
the fields to revel lu the wealth of ver
dure so lavishly sprend out.
Among the Itomans this feeling found
rent In their Flornllu, or florea games,
which began on tho 28lh of April nnd
lasted several days. We rend that
"nations taking more or less their ori
gin from Koine have settled upon tho
1st of Mny ns the special time for
fetes of the same kind. Willi hilclents
and moderns alike It was nn Instinctive
rush Into the fields to revel In the bloom
which wss newly presented on tho
meadows snd tho trees."
Ths barbarous Celtic populations held
a beathen festival on this duy, but we
are not' told that It wus In nny wny
connected with flowers. It wns culled
Belteln and wns celebrated by kindling
Ores on the hilltops at night. Within
the remembrance of many tho peasant
ry of Ireland, the Isle of Man and of
the Scottish highlands also held simi
lar celebrations. Table Talk.
THE DIAMOND.
If Was Probably In Its Original State
a Vegetable Product.
Originally the diamond was probnbly
a vegetable product exuded from some V '
ancient tree. Positive evidence on the
subject is not forthcoming, but tho con
currence of such authorities ns New
ton, Brewster, Jameson and Lavoisier,
who trace It to a vegetnble source,
must. In the absence of decisive nega
tive proof, mako this hypothesis prob
able. The crystalline form of the diamond
Is undoubtedly duo to tho action of
beat, and the occurrence of these stones
In Igneous rocks and mica slnte, espe
cially at the Cope, lends color to the:
view that they have been metnmor-!
pbosod, ns has been the case with;
grnpblte.
This complete change mny have beta!
directly or Indirectly due to tho Inter-!
nnl beat of the globe or may have re-j
suited from volcanic action. Indirect-!
ly it would be accounted for by the Im-j
mense heut evolved in the crumbling.;
fracturing and grinding together of thej
earth's crust In the attempt to adjust
Itself to the cooling nnd contracting In
terior. Directly it may huvo 1een the
result of a change in the direction of
tbe internal bent, causing n fusion of
the rocks of the crust, tho diamond and
other crystals being formed when they
again cooled.
' The Name Niagara.
"Everybody pronounces Niagara
wrong," said a philologist. The accent
of this beautiful Indian word should
not be put on the syllable 'ag,' but
on the syllnble 'ar' the penult the one
before the last. Niagara means 'hnrk
to tho thunder.' Its ttcceut should fall
on the penult because tbe Indians them
selves accent It there, becnuse In prac
tically all our Indian names of places
the penult is the accented syllable.
Think of tho Indian names you know.
Don't you accent nearly all of them on
tbe syllable before tbe last? There are,
for instance, Toronto, Mississippi, Alle
ghany, Appalachleola, Narragansett,
Tuscaloosa, Saratoga, Tlconderogn, Os
wego, Conshohocken, Wlssahickon and
Hochelaga. In nil these names tho ac
cent la on the penult. Niagara Is a
Huron word, nnd If you can find a
Huron you will find that ho accents It
as be does Saratoga or Tusculoosa.
don't know how wo have fulleu Into
the habit of accenting it wrong." Chi
cago Chronicle.
A Good Recommendation I
An Irishman wns charged with a pet
ty offense. j
"Have you any one in court who!
will vouch for your good character?":
queried the Judge. i
"Yes, sorr; there is the chief con-i
stable yonder," answered Pat. j
Tbe chief constable wns amazed.
"Why, your honor, I don't even know!
the man," protested he. j
"Now, sorr," broke in rat, "I have!
lived in the borough for nearly twenty!
years, and if the chief constable doesn't!
know me yet, isn't that a character for:
yes?" j
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A Sequence of Titles.
A Oerman periodical states that a!
very strange but none the less true!
fact is that the predecessor of tho late!
Queen Victoria of England was at one:
and the snme tlmo William I II., HI. j
and IV. Ho wus William I. of Hano-j
ver, William II. of Ireland, William
III. of Scotland aud William IV. of
England.
Getting Serious.
"I guess Mr. Oldun doesn't feel as
young as ho did several mouths ago,"
remarked the observant muu.
"Why do you think so?"
"He used to Joke with that undertak
er who lives near him, but ho doe:u't