Hindu Sword Marrlagei. At the iast general monthly meeting ■Df the Anthropological Society of Bombay a paper prepared by Mr. Sarat Ohudner Mltter of Berar was read by Mr. Jivanjl Jamshedjl Modi, showing how many different roles a sword plays in Hindue manners and customs. There are often warlike tribes among whom oaths taken over a sword are binding—while taken oth erwise they are not. A similar sen timent prevails among some preda tory classes of Europe, where oaths taken over their weapons of offense —a dagger, a poniard, a rapier—are considered binding. The Idea with these classes seems to be that per jury committed after taking oaths over their weapons recoil, that they die by the weapon against which they perjure themselves. In Berar, in In dia, women who are about to lead an Irregular life marry a sword. This marriage in name, as an emblem of conjugal life, serves as a ray of con solation to them in the midst of their evil doings. In certain parts of In dia when a Hindu ts about to marry a third wife—which marriage is con sidered an ill omen—he marries a tree, for obviating the ill omen, before he marries the third lady. In Kathiawar * there is still the custom for Rajput ' princes who are much married to marry in person only the first wife and to marry other wifes by means of a sword. They send over their ■sword to the bride's people; the bride Is married to it with all the required pomp and splendor, the only differ ence being that the prince's sword be comes a substitute for him —the bride groom. The legality of this mar riage to a sword is Indisputable. The bride married to it enters the Raj put zenana as a legally married wife. New War on Ragtime, 'Chicago musicians of the higher class —those who have engagepents with the Thomas Orchestra, theater orchestras and concert companies- - are discussing a plan of forming a new organization and seceding from the Chicago Federation of Musicians. The reason is the feeling that inferior musicians who play for dances and for money, rather than art's sake, make up the body of the federation. The others want some distinction be tween the men who play ragtime and think it is music and those who are called upon to interpret the difficult compositions of Wagner, Verdi, Mas cagnl and Gounod. There are 2,000 union musicians in Chicago, and of these 400 or 500 are said to be in sym pathy with -the movement. Enjoined From Baptism. Flora Bender, of Frederick, Md., was enjoined from being bap tized. The preacher was willing, but as in her case baptism would mean Immersion in a neighboring creek, her Ijarents objected. Miss Flora Insist ed, though warned that she was not strong enough to stand such an or deal. Then her parents got out an Injunction restraining her until the water shall be of a more congenial temperature. What Morgan Made in 1901. Two well Informed Wall street, New York, men were discussing J. Pler pont Morgan. 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Our northern grown Clover, I ■ for vigor, frost and drouth resisting \ \ properties, has justly become famous. J I SUPERIOR CLOVER, bu. $5.90; 100 lbs. S9.B(H m La Crosse Prime Clover, bu. $5 60; 100 lbs. $9.20 B Samples Clorer. Timnthy and Grasses and ffcat B Catalog mailed you for 6c postage. I I JOHN A.SALZER 11| SEED CO.^M VKGP LA CROSSE^WIS P. N. U. 0, *O2. A COUNTRY BOY'S SPORT. HIS LIFE IS IDEAL FROM A HEALTH POINT OF VIEW. The Lines Between Some Kinds of Work and Many Forms of ltecreation Can Hurdly Be Drawn The Circus is Ap parently a Bright Particular feature. Nobody realizes more fully than we farmers that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." While most of the work done on the farm by boys is regarded by them as play, and there is even a scramble among them for some kinds of it, there are special times for a great variety of special recreations which run the year round. The lines between some kinds of work and many forms of recreation can hardly be drawa. There is very little sport more enjoyable to the average boy than Working on the roads, when ho has much amusement in dodging the eye of the supervisor; in helping the neighobrs to plant corn or thresh, in apple parings, in stirring of apple butter in the big copper ket tle, in corn liuskings on the barn floor, which often winds up with an old-fashioned country dance. The fun in special recreations be gins early in the spring. With the melting of the last snows the boys are off for suckers and trout. Just over the hills from a dozen farms near mo in one way is a fine run for suckers, and by the other in the slpoes of the mountain are to be found the best of trout streams. When it is too wet to plow or plant oats or corn, the boys dig worms, get out the Ash ing lines, cut holes along the bottoms and are off for the stream at break of day. The finest angler In all our township is now 65 years of age, but is still as spry on a trout stream as a boy of 12. One day last summer he caught 120 large trout in a half day's fishing. He is an old man who does not take at least one day off with his boys for trout. They have no fancy tackle or baskets, but they almost al ways come home with splendid strings of trout. They have many laughs at the city dude who follows them up the stream with his costly tackle and comes down without a trout. When he asks a country boy for the best stream he is often sent up the wrong branch, but he usually can buy enough trout from his successful competitor to make a good showing when he re turns to town. Then there comes the circus, once or twice a year, and it is common for us farmers to promise the boys that if they work well all the week they shall go to the circus. This amuse ment has standing through the country generally. Our old minister, who preached in our valley for 60 years, refused once to attend a meeting of the Blairsville Presbytery when It met in his town lest he would thereby coun tenance heresy, but he attended every circus that came to the village. The boys pick up all kinds of innocent tricks from the clown, and it is very common that next day after a boy has been at a circus to see him standing on the horse which he rides in the cultivator, and the father, who holds the handles, enjoying it all. Going to town is always a treat, and especially going for the mail, which gives the golden opportunity of the week for store-box gossip. On this account the rural mail system is not regarded with favor in some quarters, as it takes away the stock excuse which the farmer can give his wife for a trip to the village. But it is likely to be a good while before the United States interferes with our nec essary trips to the blacksmith and shoemaker. The wife usuafly claims the trip to town when it comes to taking in the eggs ami butter. She Is expected to provide out of his produce the grocer ies for the family and an occasional plug of tobacco for the head of the house. An amusement likely to occur at any time is the old-fashioned serenade. We had one last summer. The young couple took a trip to the county seat and the night they returned the boys came from all quarters, with horns, bells and a "Crawford county flddie," which is made of a store box, across which a resined pole is drawn. A city hoy criticised tne noise, but it strikes most of us farmers that it is ncft so bad as some of the machines they run with a crank in the city. One of our neighbors tells me that our seren ade is as good as the music he heard in a Chinese theatre in Portland, when he was out on a land excursion last spring. Sports of the fall, work and play combined, begin before the almanac indicates the end of summer. Picking apples, making cider, boiling apple butter, husking corn, gathering the pumpkins and similar work made an unending round of enjoyment for the young people. Hallow'een opens the season for parties. Sleighing parties are common all winter and we drive six or eight miles frequently to pass the evening. There is always the big cupper of chicken an,jl waffles, and we eat apples and craelf shellbarks after the games o-f the evening are ended. The winter sports are now on In my neighborhood and the jingle of the sieighbell hag already been heard, as we have had snow over a foot doep, and almost every neighbor has a sleigh. Our parties often wind up with the "Virginia reel," for whlcn I have sometimes played the flddie. Sev eral of the boys In our region play the fldille well. School is the stand ing enjoyment for our children. Their dinner baskets are filled with Rambo apples, doughnuts, pumpkin pie and bread and butter. The mile or two borne they play all the way, kicking the dinner basket for a football or playing "tag." Sometimes tnere Is th variety of punching out a rabbit from a hollow log, when a girl is expected to catch him in her apron as he comes out. Plenty of recesses ara given at school, when the children play "black man," "prisoners' base," "town ball" and "over ball." When there is enough snow to make a track the popular enjoyment is to make a train by 10 of 12 children sitting down, one be hind the other, each clasping the one in front, and the whole drawn by two strong boys, who often delight in throwing the whole train into a snow drift. It would take a whole chapter to tell of the spelling school and the singing school and the debating so ciety and even of the church, all of which are recreations to the farmer and his family. For months hunting is a great 'en joyment. The farmer has the first chance at the wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, squirrels and rabbits. And no city man ever comes in Bight of his success. A few winters ago I shot three wild turkeys at one shot. While the city men who came to our parts last fall went home saying that there was no game, I got all the gray squir rels I wanted. My limit was two a day, which I usually got in half an hour, and this I kept up for many days. There is nothing more enjoyable than tc see a dozen neighbor boys start across the fields, distributed like a squad of soldiers, gathering in every thing before them. The greatest treat we had last fall In our neighborhood was "taki.ng a bee tree." A neighbor had followed the lead of the bees from a buck wheat field when in bloom, keeping the trail for miles, until at length ho located the bees in a dead chestnut tree in a mountain ravine. The tree was marked, and as soon as the weath er was cool wo went one night fty moonlight and cut the tree. Wits, smoking rags we smothered the bees and took the honey. For 11 feet the tree was packed with honey, with an average thickness of six inches, much of it candied. Wo got 120 pounds of honey and after filling three wooden buckets we made bark baskets in which to carry the rest of the comb. We are now living on buckwheat cakes and honey, with juicy, fresh pork, chicken, turkey and game for variety. The beauty of all these coun try recreations is that no coupon tick ets are necessary, but admission is absolutely free —except to the circus. —Pittsburg Dispatch. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Edgar A. Poe, the brilliant Ameri can writer, discovered inexpressible satisfaction in wandering through graveyards. And the same is said to be true of witty and genial Oliver Wendell Holmes. A Boston woman will agitate for a law prohibiting the boiling or roast ing of chestnuts, on the ground that if involes painful death of worms "whose right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is no less than that of the most highly dowered man." In the 20 odd palaces of the German emperor some 3500 servants are em ployed, about 2000 of these being wom en. A huge income is, of course, re quired for keeping up establishments on this scale, and the emperor's total expenditure is estimated at some $25,- 000 a day. One of the most curious plants in the world Is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in Ja maica. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the ends the natives make a toothbrush, and a dentifrice to use with it is prepared by pulveriz ing the dead stems. The British recruiting system is an illustration of the red tape that ob tains in the war office rules. The re cruit's name has to be entered some 62 times, the signatures of superior officers are given 29 times in each par ticular case, and a bulky documont has been got ready by the time each man is ripe to take the oath. Another bird, believed to have be come extinct, is the California condor, twice as large as the condor of the Andes. Its length was five feet, weight 25 pounds and spread of wings 12 feet. An egg of the bird is worth S2OOO to collectors, but none has been found for 17 years. Eggs of the golden eagle sell in San Francisco for $32 each. One of the strangest phases of west ern life is seen in the little town of Lincoln Centre, Kan., where a whole family, consisting of the lather, moth er and 10 children, go to school. The older members of the family attend Lincoln college. The father and the son look after the farm, while the mother and daughters do sewing and washing. Hid Bile Take Iho Hint? A distinguished cavalry leader was once at a dinner party to which he had been invited as the guest of honor Beside him was a loquacious widow, with hair of raven black, who rudely interrupted the conversation by asking the warrior why it was that his beard was still black, while his hair was turning gray. With great politeness the old soldier turned toward her. "I fear I cannot give you a satisfacto ry answer," said he, "unless, possibly, the reason is that I have used my brain a little more than I have my jaw."— Tit-Bits. It is estimated that the electric or gan of a lively electric fish woulj give a discharge of 200 volts. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. He who flatters you is your enemy. —Cardan. Self-trirst is the essence of heroism. —Emerson. Lying is a certain mark of coward ice.—Southey. We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.—Vol taire. He who loses his conscience has nothing left worth keeping.—lzaak Walton. Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another — Joubert Next to the slanderer we detest the bearer of the slander to our ears. — M. H. Catherwood. The passionate are like men stand ing on their hoads; they see all things the wrong way.—Plato. Misrepresent nothing. No perma nent success was ever built upon a foundation of fraud.—lnsurance Press. MARCONI'S DEBT. Names of Worker* In Science to Whom H H Owes Mucli. At the annual dinner of the Engi neers, where he was guest, Signor Mar coni, among other things, said: 1 desire to say in this presence that I have built very greatly on the work of my predecessors, and I wish to men tion Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Prof. Hen ry, Prof. Hertz, Prof. A. G. Bell." This is downright disingenuous. Sig nor Marconi is not ignorant of the history of wireless telegraphy; of it he might say, "All of which I saw, and a part of which I was." The names of the men WHO, far more than himself, have made his recent triumph possible, are known to him, all. Why, then, are the real workers, to whom he is in debted, passed in silence, and others, to whom he owes little—in one ease nothing—set in large view? The existence of electric waves was predicted by Maxwell in 18G-1. They were actually discovered by Hertz in 1887. But neither Maxweu nor Hertz ever dreamed of utilizing these new oscillations to transmit signals. That idea came first in view with the dis covery of the delicate coherer by Prof. Branly of Paris. Vet even he failed to eaten sight of its tremendous possibil fttte. It was Prof. Lodge of Liverpool who appears to have been the first, and it was he who rigged up the little tapper, or decoherer, which makes it sasy to spell out words on a tape, just ss with an ordinary Morse instrument. Prof. Bose, the Hindu savant, also con tributed his share. Perhaps he was the first to actually send a signal. The form of the sender or oscillator, which Signor MHi-con! use 3 was devised by his countryman, Prof. Itighi. The idea of "tuning" two instruments to work in unison, so that they will respond to no others, of which Marconi makes much, is, again, due to Prof. Lodge, who gave it its name, "syntony." Why are all of these names left out? Is the young man unwilling to divide his honors? And what, pray, has Prof. Henry, who died before the Hertz waves were known, to do with the case? Or Lord Kelvin, who has con tributed practically nothing to the sub ject? And if Prof. Bell is to be men tioned, because he invented the tele phone, why not Morse, who devised the key which Marconi employs to send his signals?— Harper's Weekly. Kiglit of "Trial by Unttlo." The Dymoke claim in England to the king's championship reminds one of the antiquity of the office, which was established by the conqueror after the battle of Hastings, when the dignity was conferred on Robert de Marmion, Lord of Fontenay. But the championship is closely interwoven with the trial by combat. How many Britons are aware that trial by combat formed an essential part of British jurisprudence until the beginning of the reign of George IV., or how it ended? At that time, there being a charge of murder against a certain Abraham Thornton, the gentle man was advised by his counsel to claim his right of "trial by battle." Accordingly, wh-n brought before the court of king's bench lie flung down his gage. A solemn argument was afterward held on the ca3e, when the judges were unanimous that he was entitled to wage his battle. The nearest male relative of the deceased, a lad of IC, being manifestly unable to meet Thornton in combat, declined any fur ther proceedings. The public feeling was so much outraged that the attor ney general of the day immediately introduced a bill for abolishing the right of appeal in all criminal casei a bill which, however, did not pa 3. without opposition. Mon for General Housework. In West Philadelphia, the other day four men answered an advertisement calling for a man to do general house work. Of the four men who made applica tion for the place, one was a China man, one a colored man, who had been porter in a club, one a retired sailor and the other a widower. The man who advertised would not tell which of the men he engaged, but he was not loath to express his pre ference for a man to do the work rather than a woman. With his wife and daughter he had lived in Japan and in China, where they depend en tirely on men servants. Five years ago they brought a Japanese servant with them from abroad, but when he had saved enough to live in comfort at home lie went back. Women tried in hi'a place did not give satisfaction to the family, and so advertisement was made for a gen eral housework man. A Petrified Forest Describing his journey in the for bidden desert in the hitherland of Tripoli Mr. Dodson, who has recently returned to England, said that one of the most notable things on the jour ney to Murzuk was the great petrified forest which his party passed through. "For II hours we traveled across an era of petrified trees, varying in cir cumference from 7 feet to a few Inches. Every branch of this forest was, of course, lying prone, and this, together with the presence of marine shells, showed that this part of the Great Sahara had at one time been submerged." 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