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HE KNEW HOW TO FIGHT.
Father Gives His Son Sgme Pointers
But Fiads the Boy Is Not §o
Very Green.
“So you've had a fight, have ydu?”
sald his father.
The boy was so badly out of breath
that it was a minute or two before h¢
could get wind enough to say: “Yep,
&nd somehow the old man didn’t seem
to regard the breathlessness as a partic-
ularly auspicious omen, relates the New
York Tribune.
“Didn't you lick him?” he asked.
“Nope,” replied the boy.
“l guess you didn’t follow your poo!
wld father's advice,” said the old man
“I suppose you thought you knew more
about it than he ever had a chance tc
learn, and went at the other fellow with
some new-fangled uppercuts or swings
or something of that sort and let him
get in under your guard while you were
figuring out the scientific points of some
new blow. Sclence ix all right, I sup-
pose, in a fight by rounds, where there
have been all the usual preliminaries
but I've seen the time when a scientific
fighter would get the tar licked out o1
him while he was getting his science
ready for use. Now, when I was a boy
and saw there was a fight coming on 1
eimed to get in the first blow.”
“That's my way ” said the boy.
“It is, eh?” returned the old man
“Well, I don’t see iow a boy can get
licked if he goea in on that system, un-
less he's too easy with the first blow
I tell you, when I was a boy,” and the
old man began to get excited, “my aim
was to swipe him first and swipe him
hard. I'd just land him one over the
eye or undey the chin and it would be
all over. Youu see, when you paste a
fellow In the ear you want to paste him
@ hot one, and then—"
“And then suppose he lands
brick pile,” interrupted the boy.
“W-what?” asked the old man, rath-
er startled.
“Suppose he lands on a brick pile
when you hit him and gets up with a halt
4a brick in each hand, what's the next
move iu the system that never failed
when you were a boy?”
“My boy,” said the old man, severely,
after uw minute of thoughtful considera-
tion of the subject, “fighting is a bad
busiaess at best, and I am surprised that
you should expect your father te give
you advice that would be sure to lead
you into trouble, and very likely would
tend toward the cultivation of a bois-
terous, quarrelsome disposition. Now
run out and play, and don’t bother me
any more.”
ENEMIES YET FRIENDS.
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Soldiers in Battle Spare and Sustalm
Each Other Although om
Opposing Sides.
Many stories tell how the soldiers in
our civil war, men in blue and men in
gray, held friendly parleys between the
lines during intervals when firing
ceased. Here the triumph of human
fellowship over the bitter business of
war was natural, for the opposing ranks
were of the same nation and the same
speech. Two instances of human broth-
erhood between foes of different nations
WHERE FLAG FIRST WAVED. |
Memorial to Be Erected on Famous
Revolutionary Hill in Somer<
ville, Mass.
Work will soon begin on the erection
of a memorial observatory on the top
of historic Prospect hill, Somerville,
a sum of money having already been
set aside by Mayor Glines for the car-
rying out of such a purpose, says the
Boston “Post of reeent date. Prospect
hill is noted for the prominent part it
took in the revolutionary war and it
was from the top of this hill that the
first American flag was thrown to the
breeze.
The observatory is to take the form
of a tower and will closely resemble
an old English castle. Situated upon
the now unoccupied mound, which has
been allowed to remain on the Munroe
street side of the parkway, it will
greatly add to the artistic beauty of
the spot.
The tower will be 45 feet high. The
top will be flat and protected to =a
Leight of four feet by a parapet, with
iron gratings in the embrasures, and
will afford a view that cannot be
equaled in Boston. The walls of the
tower will be of rough granite and
will be 30 feet in diameter. Tworooms
will be set apart for the exhibition of
historic relics and souvenirs. The
structure from the second floor will be
hexagonal in shape, resting on six col
umns. The cost of the tower is esti
mated to be about $6,000.
CAUSE OF FLAT WHEELS.
Brakemen Put on the Brakes Toe
Suddenly and Start the
Trouble,
“Flat wheels,” growled the old rail
road brakemen, as the trolley car in
whick he sat went thumping along
at 12 miles an hour, shaking the pas-
sengers uncomfortably at every rev-
olution of the wheels, relates the
New York Times.
“What makes flat wheels?” asked
the man sitting next the old brake:
man.
“Darn fools.” said the brakeman.
“It's this way: If a man doesn’t
know how to stop his car he makes
a flat wheel. On the steam roads
some brakemen flatten a wheel every
time they put on the brakes. When
the wheel suddenly stops revolving
and the momentum of the train car-
ries it on, the wheel slides along the
track and a flat is started. Next
stop, perhaps, makes it worse, and
so the thing goes until the wheel is
no good. If a brakeman knows his
business he need never make a flat
wheel unless he has to stop suddenly
to avoid an accident. If he keeps his
wheels turning slowly they don’t
flatten. Now, these fellows on the
trolleys take no care at all, and
every other car in some places has »
Gat wheel”
SMALLEST STATE IN EUROPE.
Recently Lost Its Identity by Being
Annexed to Belgium—Had Only
1,200 Inhabitants.
Few people are aware that
smallest state in Europe: has
Public Ledger.
San Marino, nor Andorra, nor
Leichtenstein, but Moresnet—a small
scrap of territory between Belgium
and Prussia, not far from Aix-la-Cha-
pelle. The independence of Moresnet
dates from 1815, and it was ouly a few
ment for its absorption.
Belgium, while Prussia receives a pe-
cuniary indemnity. The amount of
the latter should be large, for neutral
are related by Mr. James Elkinton in his
book on the Doukhobors. The stories
were told him by a veteran of the Cri-
mea, Ivan Mahortov, who fought for the
czar.
During the siege of Sebastopol, when
the batteries on each side were decimat-
ing the ranks of the other, at least three
times he heard men of the enemy say-
ing: ‘Brethren, Russians, don’t hit—
fire aside;” and the Russians responded:
“Fire aside, brother.”
“After this,” said the old man, with
tears in his eyes, “there was no more
+ such carnage, and would to God that
men and angels might never witness
such awful work again!”
The other instance of the humanity
which will ever assert itself while men
are men, even when the grim destiny ot
war compels them to act as destroyers,
came to Mahortov’s personal knowledge
in this way:
The commander of his ship detailed
him to visit a small detachment of the
crew, who had been stationed on the
land to raise vegetables in a certain ra-
vine. Three of the Russian sailors had
been captured by the English. Mahor-
tov, taking tremendous risk—for it was
in the heat of the war—stole through
the picket lines at night.
One of his brethren found him secreted
in the bush near the etation, and threw
his arms about Mahortov’s neck. Ma-
bortov asked if they had any food and
received this surprising answer: “Ih,
yes, the English send us coffee, bread
and butter in the morning, and the same
food they have themselves twice a day
‘beside this. And they tell us: ‘Don’t be
afraid; we won't harm you. It is only
the governments that are guilty in this
business.’ "
Strange Facet, ;
There are 183,000 miles of rallway
routes. Strange as it may seem,
mileage is considerably surpassed
the distance over which malls are
ed on horseback or by wagon. The
tity of mall so carried, however,
comparatively trifling.
i ooutls In serun.
The average yearly price for apart-
ments paid by laboring families in Ber-
Un is $72.
$100 Reward, $100.
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wat one drended disease
all ita
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to the
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Moresnet contained the most valuable
deposits of zinc in the world. The
decision was hastened by the estab-
lishment of a gambling hell there,
which was stopped by the Belgium
government.
The inhabitants, who paid no taxes
and were free from military service,
will be the losers by their compulsory
incorporation in the Belgian kingdom.
But as thers are only 1,200 of them
they could not resist the act of annex-
ation. Had they, like San Marino, de-
clined the dangerous gift of a casino
they might have remained neutral and
obscure.
Dealing in Broken Glass.
One of the novel trades of London
is that of a dealer in second-hand
plate-glass. Nearly all of this glass
is bought by the dealer from insur-
ance companies. The large plates of
this kind of glass are insured when
put in a window, and when any of
them are broken, the owner of the in-
jured glass usually prefers that the
insurance company should replace the
broken plate rather than he should be
paid its price. The dealer in the sec-
ond-hand glass contrives to utilize what
remains of the unbroken part of the
glass, cutting it into panes of smaller
American mission at Rahuri, Bombay,
India, who were inoculated against
plague, only one girl caught the dis
ease, and she recovered.
Westrumite,
Westrumite, the Invention of Herr
van Westrum, is a mixture of oil, which
may be diluted as desired, and sprinkled
over a road with an ordinary watering
cart. The water evaporates, leaving the
Westrumite as a moist film, which ab-
solutely prevents the rising of ' dust.
Tested in London on a dry roadway
where every vehicle raised clouds of
dust, the material so affected the sur-
face that several automobiles at high
speed raised no dust whatever,
Wenlth of Canadians,
The per capita wealth of England 1s
$210: that of Canada $240 .
The #8ola” TMe of Inala.’
6 to 10 feet high, with a tapering stem.
The leaves are consumed as p stable,
and the light spongy wood or a
variety of purposes, one of ;
ing sun-proof hats or .}
is cut into |
Bre it L(
the
just
ceased to exist, says the Philadelphia
The minute country
in question was neither Monaco, nor
yet
days ago that the two neighboring
states at last arrived at any agree
Moresnet has now been annexed by
The “sola” of Indiats a small tree from
TROLLEY HOMES.
Car Corresponding to the House Boat
a Possible Development from
Present Conditions.
Now that parlor cars and sleeping
sars on trolley lines are established
we may be privileged to speculate a
bit as to what will come next as an
annex of the broomstick train. Sup-
pose we hazard the guess that it will
be the trolley house—first cousin to
the house boat, says the Boston Tran-
script. By the building of spurs and side
tracks in delightful spots at country or
seashore at a fair and far distance from
the main lines resting places for these
moveable dwellings could be comfor-
tably mtanaged. At one of them a trol-
ley house might remain for as long a
time as contentment was the staying
power and when this burning out the
rolley pole might be put in contact with
ihe wire and the trolley house trundled
away to pastures new. Of course, thisis
merely the roughest outline of a possible
development of the electric car, but it is
the pleasantest part upon which the lay
mind can dwell. Details of it, like the
securing of suitable drinking water and
the training of every tenant of one of
these dwellings to be his own motorman
way as well be left to the conisaeration
of those whose business it would be to
perfect them.
ARAPAHO AND SHOSHONE.
Indian Tribes Have Distinctive Be.
signs for the So-Celled Pare
fleches Made by Them.
The slight differences of styles which
occur are well exemplified in the style
of painted rawhide bags or envelopes,
the so-called “‘parfleches,” writes Prof
Franz Boas, in the Popular Science
Monthly. Mr. St. Clair has observed
that the Arapaho are in the habit of
laying on the colors rather delicately, in
areas of moderate size, and of following
jut a general arrangement of their mo-
tives in stripes; that the Shoshone, on
the other hand, like large areas of solid
colors, bordered by heavy blue bands,
and an arrangement in which a central
field is set off rather prominently from
the rest of the design. This difference
fs so marked that it is easy to tell a
Shoshone parfleche that has found its
way to the Arapaho from parfleches of
Arapaho manufacture. In other cases
the most characteristic difference con-
sists in the place on the parfleche to
which the design is applied. The Arapa-
ho and the Shoshone never decorate the
sides of a bag, only its flaps, while the
tribes of Idaho and Moutana always dec-
orate the sides.
Canal Is Profitable.
During the month of July, 3,307 ves-
sels, measuring 454,573 register tons net,
used the North sea and Baltic canal,
against 3,217 ships and 413,466 tons in
the same month of 1902. The dues col-
lected amounted to 211,601 marks
sgeinst 192,719 marks.
SPIRITS OF THE DROWNED.
How the Chinese Appease the Manes
of the Departed—Custom of
Taoist Religion.
Shanghai residents seeking cool
breezes on the river recently could not
fail to notice the number of Chinese
boats flying gayly colored lanterns and
scattering burning paper on the water.
Not only paper, but wonderfully con-
structed oiled paper lamps of various
colors, which were dropped from the
boats to float on the water, sometimes
trails of 12 or 13 red, blue and green
lamps bobbing up and down on the
muddy waters of the Wrangpoo, says
the Shanghai Mercury.
Inquiry of even the meanest natives
elicited the reply that joss pidgin was
being done to keep the drowned men
quiet. This is in reality a very ancient
custom developed under the Taoist re-
ligion, which teaches that the spirits
of the drowned flit miserably over and
under the water until such time as
cash is paid to the gods to release them
from their purgatory. Failing this re-
lease, the drowned spirit lays in wait
to catch boatmen sitting by the water's
edge at dark and pull them into the
.water to take their places, when they
themselves escape.
Hence, clinging to the old supersti-
tion, everywhere for the past 15 days
of the seventh moon the Chinese as-
semble in bands and go down the
rivers in their boats, beating gongs
and burning paper money. Products
of modern life are curiously blended
with the old ideas, as we see every-
where in China, and in this festival
steam launches are often to be seen
towing a string of boats with colored
lanterns waving to and fro. One pro-
cession of boats carrying over 100 lan-
terns and scattering others in their
wake was preceded by the music of a
cornet, a strange anomaly indeed.
Process Discovered in Bavaria Which
May Revolutionize Great Indus-
try—Experiment Successful.
size, and disposing of them after
wards, Experiments are being made in Ba-
varia in the manufacture of cotton. out
Value of Inoculation,
Of 400 natives belonging to the of pine wood. The method is to reduce
the wood to the finest layers possible,
then to subject it to a vapor process for
ten hours.
The pulp is then plunged into a soda
bath, where it stays 86 hours.
It 1s thus transformed into a kind of
cellulose, to which a resistant quality 1s
given by adding oll and gelatin. Then
it 1s drawn out and untangled by ma-
chinery.
The process is sald not to be expensive,
‘and It is thought that if this cotton can
be made of practical use Europe will
be independent of America and India.
The immense forests of Scandinavia
and Germany would furnish ample ma-'
teridl Yor her “cotton” supply.
Big Profit in Mushrooms.
The growing of mushrooms for mar-
ket has become an industry of consider.
able importance in this country. It has,
however, been handicapped in its de-
velopmenit by the fact that it was neces-
- sary to impprt-most of the spawn, which
are exceedingly difficult to grow, The
department of agriculture announces
hat it has discovered a simple and prac-
if method by Which not only d high
lg. of the spawn of the cultivated
hroom, but of many of the wiTd va.
be produced. It is belleved.
method will obviate
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