oe, Wed Into His Family or Touch His Tes i} 'Its Rule Among the Hindus Abso- lute and Unchangeable. the Wealth of the World Would Not Enable a Lower Caste Hindu to 'Hand--Tyrannical Social Divisions. 'Caste distinction tn India ts a thing cult for a foreigner to comprehend. | the racial or religious distinctions ich separate European nations from other and divide them within Ives do not equal the number of into which the Hindus are 'di- od by what is known as "caste." 'The 200,000,000 Hindus are made up of diverse racia! elements and speak bout nineteen developed languages and over 100 dialects. They are again tlyided into over 8,000 castes, most of chem with subeastes. One of these astes, the Brahmans, is split up into ore than 800 subcastes, of which none 1] intermarry and few will eat to- "ther. he term "caste" includes so many ngs that It 1s difficult to define it 'ere are, however, two properties es- tial to a true caste--first, there ts no -.: fry except by birth; second, mar- » oye outside the caste is absolutely « bidden, 'To preserve the purity and tintain the exclusiveness of the so- rs « pty many minute rules of conduct, »yany restrictions on food and many sremonial observances are imposed on hich cannot be evaded, against which <bere is no appeal and whieh in ex- treme cases follow the offender beyond the grave. But that is not all. The relations of castes to each other are as much a matter of religious observance as the rules for their interval regulation. The Brahmans are the highest admittedly 'and undoubtedly superior to all the rest. After them come those who are acknowledged to be twice born. The Jess honored follow in a graduated de- ie : _@epth. peept until the untonchable und un- ppeakable are reached at the lowest lt may be urged that the separation between the Brahman and, let us say, 'jthe Kurmi market gardener is no wider 'jthan that between the peer of the TOnited Kingdom and the coal miner. 'Where is this essential difference--that dt is impossible for an Indian to 'change bis caste. 'The coal miner may be elected to parliament, may become a cabinet minister and if he can make 'money enough may marry his son to a '@uke's daughter. Tbe Kurmi must remain a Kurml. {All the wealth of Croesus will not en- table him to make an alliance with a "<Brabman family or to touch a Brah- man's hand. The members of a caste may and in some cases do raise them- pelves in the sight of other castes by adopting more elaborate ceremonies - god more scrupulous observances. | 'A half civilized Gond, for example, may find himself brought into contact gvith Hindus as the plow encroaches on the forest. He tries to raise his po- igition and add to his self respect by adopting the exclusiveness of his Hin- 'du neighbors. He will even outdo them if he can, and if the Hindu is iscrupnious about his food the convert will wash the very wood with which this dinner 1s cooked. . No endeavors of this kind, however, 'will avail to lessen by a hair's breadth ithe distance between him and the teaste Hindu or even to induce the - Bindu barber to look upon him as a 'elient whose chin he may shave and -Hwhose toe nalls he may pare without 'Another point connected with caste hich bas a very practical bearing d must be taken into account is the (power of coercion which it gives to the rotherhood. If a man is excommuni- leated by his caste fellows nobody in ithe caste will marry him or will ac- Jeept water from his hands or will eat with him. | If he ig married his wife will not 'touch him or speak to him. He ts idead to bis family. 'he priest will not (perform ceremonies for him. 'The vil- barber will not shave him, and washerwoman will not wash his othes. hese are the methods of {bringing pressure on the man, The is ctest boycott which Irishmen have Invented is mild compared to the final 'gentence of a caste punchayat. 'A system like this ts a stern fact rhich has to be faced. There 1s not a : -|police case or a ctvil case or a trial at < ithe sessions, there 1g hardly an ap- 'pointment to an office in India of "fwhatever degree, in which the matter lof caste bas not to be considered. It \forces itself Into every assessment of nd revenue, into every adjudication oft rent. It affects the administration jof justice, the proceedings of munici- {pal and district councils. e influence and power of the shed as other people are still ative, though a century of British justice done something toward eradicat- 'them, On the other band, the sug- n#that a man of a lower caste ht rise to an equality or nearer to equality with members of a caste e bim is unthinkable. Where the y caste men are, there they must palp. If they behave themselves OD ine ar oe ae ' Dry Cleaned Them. "Why 1s your grandpa's face band- taged?"' asks the lady next door, "He was sleeping in his big chair," plains the little girl, "and Willie -}turned the nozzle of the vacuum clean- inst his whiskers."--Life. - And Pook Was Silent. Peck--1 really think, my dear, that s$ Brown will wake our son a good 2 fe. Mrs Peck (snappity)-- And | t, sir, do you know about good}. 2=-Boston Transcript. -- > yo-thirds of Iife are spent in hest- the other third in repent: CLAD CASTE, All Because of the Way He Solved the : _ Closet Space Problem. é _ I must tell all my brothers how my wife and I have solved the problem which so bothers those who dwell where there is but little closet room. With one dressing case between us," there was not room for all our things. As to the closets, they were crammed full, and even under the bed there were many hat boxes. So I purchased another dressing case. ; 1 then took all my clothes, which had been crowding my wife's in her dressing case, and arranged them in my own. In the top drawer I put my handkerchiefs, collars and ties and all those other little articles of finery which évery man loves so much. In the second drawer I placed my shirts and underwear and devoted the lower drawer to my trousers, neatly folded, and my hosiery. My wife was de- lighted, as it gave her her own dresser all to herself and relieved the closet somewhat. s But in a day or so the new plan proved to have a few defects, so at my wife's suggestion I emptied one of the upper drawers in my dresser, putting its contents into the other and allowed my wife to use the now vacant recep- tacle for a few of her jabots, scarfs, etc. The second day it was decided that my shirts and trousers could oc- cupy the same drawer, the lowest one, so this was fixed, and into the seeoud drawer my wife moved a few of her petticoats and such things. Soon finding that I was still using too much space, I permitted her to put my collars and such effects 'into the lowest drawer with my trousers, etc., thus giving ber both of the upper drawers and the next and still leav- ing me plenty of room in the one bot- tom drawer. Since then, however, I have found that I do uot require so much space for my few things, so have taken them out of the bettom drawer and packed them into a hat box, which I keep under the bed, thereby giving my wife all the drawers in my dressing case, I find the present arrangement very satisfactory, as all I have to do now is to empty the hat box on the bed when 1 want anything in it and then, when { have made my selection, sweep the other articles back into place. In this way I have solved the dress- ing case problem, and everything is quite pleasant in our home.--Paul West in Delineator. mn FREAK TREASURY NOTES. The Face of the Bill, Not the Back, In- dicates Its Value. Despite the careful scrutiny given every bill that leaves the bureau of engraving and printing, a number of "freak" notes find their way into cir- culation from time to time. Such a one was a note that once came to the subtreasury at New York. It had the imprint of a twenty dollar note on one side and of a ten on the other. But, in- asmuch as the face showed the figures 20, $20 was the legal value of the bill. In most cases the "freak" bills that have escaped the vigilance of the bu- reau's officers are national banknotes, which, like the regular treasury notes, are printed there. As intimated al- ready, the face value is always recog- nized when the "freaks" come to be cashed at any branch of the treasury. The imprint on the back has no lawful status whatsoever. The notes are printed in sheets. Usually there will be one twenty and two tens on a sheet. They are print- ed one side at a time, so it can readily be seen that the printer in turning over the sheet might get it upside down and thus put a ten dollar back on the twenty dollar note or a twenty on the back of one of the tens. When errors are discovered the mis- printed sheet is faid aside to be de- stroyed. It cannot be torn up at once, for every sheet has to be accounted for. After some formalities it is ground into pulp. Almost all the "freak" bills that have been issued in the past have found their way back to the treasury, there to be destroyed. It is thought that very few of them are now scattered about, and these are for the most part in the hands of curio bunters.--Har- per's Weekly. Civilization. The upward sweep of civilization is not unlike the rising of the incoming tide. It advances and recedes, but each advance carries humanity to a higher altitude than it had reached before.-- B. O. Flower. 4 a Insulting a Humorist, , 'Did you write this joke?' "7 dia." "Ha-ha-ha!" "Well, what aro you laughing at? Alo't it a good joke?'--'Toledo Blade. fat The Talipot Palm of Ceylon. The talipot palm of Ceylou has. gi- gantic fanlike leaves, which when fully expanded form a nearly complete circle thirteen feet in diameter, Large fans made of them are carried before people of rank among the Cingalese. They are also commonly used as um- brellas, and tents are made by neatly joining them together. They are used as a substitute for paper, being writ- ten upon with a stylus. Some of the sacred books of the Cingalese are com- posed of strips of them. apr tsiae Mercer's The Modest Hunter. "Can you show me apy bear tracks?» asked the amateur Nimrod. "} kin show you 4 bear," the native replied. : "Thanks, awfully, old chap. Tracks will suffice.'--Pittsburg Post. Enthusiasm. Anxious Messenger--Say, fireman, there's another fire broken out up the street. New Recruit--All right, old chap; keep ber going till we've fin ished this one.--Punch, © + Not Always. Ce oF | "Hoes your wife always insist on talking to you when you are shaving?' "No. Sometimes I shave when she is away trom home."--Chicago Record: | Heraid. pe aoe Pe eae toe eat oy a ELLE SE eG AT Be "me."--Meggendorfer Blatter. GREAT SALT LAKE ~ An Immense Fresh Water Sea Some E Thousands of Years Ago. In glacial times Great Salt lake was. a magnificent fresh water lake the size " of Lake Huron--that is, about 18,000 square miles--and had its outlet into the Port Neuf, the Snake and the Co- lumbia rivers. This was at least 10,000 years ago, but since that time the cli- mate has become arid, and not enough water has fallen over the Great basin to supply that lost by evaporation. Consequently the lake has ceased to flow from its outlet and gradually dried up from over a thousand feet deep to fifteen feet and from 18,000 square miles in area to less than 1,700, It is now seventy miles long and about thirty wide, but is beautiful still and is the home of myriads of sea birds and other waterfowl. It is the great resort of the people of Utah, for from 3,000 to 5,000 visit its shores daily in the summer, and many bathe in its waters. The lake contains about 7,000,000,000 tons of salt. When the lake is high the salt is so diluted that it has gone down to 11 per cent. When it is low, as it was not many years ago, it reached satura- tion which for the mixed ingredients of the water fs 86 per cent. There is nothing mysterious about it any more than there would be about a teacup with a teaspoonful of salt in the bottom. 'If a tablespoonful of water were put in the cup on the salt it would taste very salty, but if the cup were filled to the brim with water it would not. , The salt has come from the water of the rivers flowing into it since it ceased to flow from its outlet. All river water contains salt, and the an- nual evaporation of from two to five cubic miles of thfs water leaves large quantities of salt behind, and so it has accumulated for thousands of years. A DREAM JOURNEY. It Was a Very Long One, but It Took Only a Few Minutes. "Dreams are curious things," re- marked the amateur psychologist. "Time does not seem to enter into their composition at all. For instance, the other day I was sitting on the porch of a hotel with a friend of mine smoking after lunch. It was a drow- sy day, and conversation lagged. Pres- ently I saw my friend nodding in his chair. He had dozed off, tolding his lighted cigar in his left hand, which was folded over bis right. His left hand relaxed, and the end of the cigar came in gentle contact with the right hand, inflicting a slight burn. ""The devil it won't? exclaimed my friend, waking with a start. "The sentence sounded so incongru- ous that I burst out laughing. 'Won't what?' I asked. "'How long have I been asleep? he asked. "'Not more than a couple of min- utes," I replied. "Tt doesn't seem possible,' he said. 'During that time 1 had a dream that pretty nearly took me around the world. I sailed for Southampton, did England, France, Switzerland and a part of Italy, then through the orient to India. It was in India that I be- came much interested in one of the native spake charmers. He had the snakes crawling all over him and of- fered me one to fondle. I told him 1 was afraid it would bite me. He as- sured me that it wouldn't, and I took the reptile in my hand. It promptly fastened its fangs in me. 1 said, "The devil it won't!" and dropped it, and then I woke up.' "J explained the episode of the light- ed cigar," concluded the amateur psy- chologist, "and we both laughed."-- New York Sun, Ne eat) eT Southey's Industry. Southey probably deserves toerank as the most industrious of authors. fourteen hours a day in composition. He bad six tables in his library. He wrote poetry at one, history at anoth- er, criticism at a third, and so on with the other subjects upon which he was engaged. He once described to Mme. de Stael the division of his time--two hours before breakfast for bistory, two hours for reading after, two hours for the composition of poetry, two bours for criticism, and so on through all bis working day. "And pray, Mr. South- ey," asked madam, "when do you think?"'--London Chronicle. The Holland Primrose. There is a plant in Holland known as the evening primrose, which grows to a height of five or six feet and bears a profusion of large yellow flowers so attention, even at a great distance, but the chief peculiarity about the plant is the fact that the flowers, which open just before sunset, burst into bloom so suddenly that they give one the impression of some magical agency. A man who bas seen this sud-_ den blooming says it is just as if some one had touched the land with a wand and thus covered it all at once with a golden sheet. . pe ninco Macadam A Reflection on the Horse. "My husband," bragged Mrs. Jones, "was a famous long distance runner in his day. He once outran a' horse In a twenty mile race." "Ign't that funny?" answered Mrs. Smith. "We once had a_ horse like that." Now Jones and Smith wonder why their wives don't speak.--Buffalo Ex- press. Father Did the Work. "Why should you beg? young and strong." "That is right, but: my father is old and weak and can no longer support You are Conceited. Nell~Polly says her fiance is aw- fully conceited. Belle-In what way? Nelli--He has never once told her that be is unworthy of her.--Philadelphia Reeotd.- 2. * © f&\ Philosopher. "Pa, what isa philosopher?" --_ "4s philosopher, my boy, is one who tells other. people that their troubles don't amount to mach."--Detroit Krea In the greater part of his life he spent | brilliant that they attract immediate | "| DARING WORK IN A Foc. Clever Seamanship of a Captain In a : _Landlocked Harbor. "The grea piece of seamanship {-- ever saw," said a traveler, "was on a this is how it happened. : "We were steaming along about twelve hours out from our destination one summer afternoon. It had been clear all day, and the sea was beauti- fully blue, but about 4 o'clock the fog began to shut down--one of those swift, dense fogs that come on that coast and shroud a boat from sight in less time than it takes to tell of it Of course the fog whistles began to blow, and many of the passengers got nerv- ous under the strain of its continued bellowing. "After dinner I went up on the bridge and was permitted to stay. The captain would not enter into any con- versation--that is, I could not talk to. him, but in his restless pacing up and down the bridge he would frequently make a remark to me, It went on that way for hours, the fog as thick as steam and the whistle reiterating its mournful warning. "At length the captain gave a sharp order. 'Ewo points, northwest by north, he said. 'No, a little more-- that's right,' he finished as his com- mand was executed. I was bewilder- ed, and my face must have shown it as he passed me, for he vouchsafed the explanation that'he wanted to pass within a few hundred-+feet of a cer- tain whistling buoy near the harbor. I said nothing, but I did not under- stand. Why, the night was so thick that it was hard work to see from the bridge to the rail, and what could he mean by making a buoy? "On and on we went, and always the fog seemed to me thicker. I could not sleep, and most of the night I was on the bridge. When it must have been nearly morning a new whistling began to sound on our starboard bow, as nearly as I could judge. It was a fearful fog siren, and kept getting nearer and nearer. We had stopped whistling, and the passengers were ter- ribly frightened. I looked at one ex- naval officer who stood with me on the bridge, and his face was like a dead man's. Mine must have been also. "Then, just as it seemed that some giant steamship must strike us, 80 ¢lose was the whistling, the fog lifted Iike a veil, and there, not 150 feet away, was the buoy that the eaptain had mentioned. "Almost at once the fog closed down again; but, do you know, be took us -past two warships, into the landlocked harbor and up to the dock in it. It wag magnificent, and, though we really could not put our admiration in tan- him a gold watch on the return voyage "--" ARSENIC POISONING. The Torture That Ensues Before Death Brings Relief. When a single dose of arsenic in suf- ficient quantity to be felt has been taken colicky pains, and perhaps nausea result. In the {course of an hour after a pofsonous | dose has been taken an intense burn- jing pain is felt in the esophagus and | stomach. This spreads to the entire ;}anterior portion of the lower part of \the trunk. A sense of constriction at the throat and an acrid, metallic taste accompany the pain. Then vomiting |and relaxation of the bowels begin. | As the case progresses the symptoms | dnerease in intensity. Then comes a | thirst that water will not allay, al- though it apparently increases the stomach disturbance. The victim groans and writhes. Now he implores the doctor to save him. Then he begs to be killed and put out of pain. The extremities become icy. The pulse is small, feeble and fre- quent, and the breathing is labored, lembarrassed and painful because of | abdominal tenderness. The surface of |the body becomes dark and of that | bluish color that medical men call cy- |anosed. Violent cramps add their tor- | ture, exhaustion becomes collapse, con- | yulsions or coma ensues, and death | ends the agony. The torture lasts | sometimes from five to twenty hours. In some cases these symptoms occur, | but in a modified form, and the doctor will apparently get the better of the disease. The remission will-be but for a day or two. Then the ».domen will swell, and icy coldness will pervade the frame. Shivering will become pro- nounced trembling, then cramps, Ccon- vulsions and death. Trapping Muskrats. Numbers. of mechanical traps to catch muskrats have been invented and tried, but none gives more satis- faction than the old floating barrel trap that has been in use for many years. Both ends are left closed, and a hole about eight by twelve inches square is suwed in the side. A strong cleat is nailed across each end, the cleats projecting six or eight inches beyond the barrel, and upon the cleats are nailed two boards, one on each side of the barrel and several inches longer. Water then is placed in the barrel so that it will foat with the board plat- forms about on a level with the sur- face of the pond or strearo. About one-third of the barrel remains above water. Apples, carrots and other delt- eacies that the muskrat likes are placed: in the barrel. In their attempts to get the bait the animals fall into the barrel und are unable to get out.--Bx- change. Proving His Authority. There was an trish foreman of a gang of laborers who went to any lengths to show his men that he was the real boss. One morning this fore- man found that his gang had put a handcar on the track without his or- ders. "Who put. that 'han'ear-r-r" on thrack?" be asked. "We did, sor," one of the men an- swered respectfully. "Well," he said shortly, "take it off agin!" : The laborers did so with some difp- culty. . * "Now," sald the foreman, "put it on ag'in!" ; : the trip to Halifax. It was a marvel, and - gible form, we got together and gave | as a Httle souvenir."--New York Post. | bowel disorder | | WEST POINT UNIFORMS. -- 'Cadets Must Sacrifice Comfort For the Sake of Looks. : ee "It is true," said a retired army offi- cer. in a discussion of West Pointers with the Washington Herald, "that many West Pointers acquire a figure of perfection of symmetry and a car- riage the acme of manly grace, but these are due not to any ingenious ap- pliances, but to the systematic drills" and exercises that make the cadet, to a certain extent, an athlete. At the outset these young fellows are put through what are called the 'setting up' exercises, their object being to straighten the body and develop the chest. One might suppose that it would require a great amount of such exer- cise to make any marked showing, but three long hours of such exercise daily will soon produce beneficial results in the most stooped forms. "The cadet uniform is also a great help in this direction. The dress coat is tight, very tight. The shoulders are heavily padded in order to give them a square effect. The chest is made thick; so that there will be no danger of wrinkling. And in size a new dress coat seems always to be designed for a boy several times smaller than the one who is to wear it. A new dress coat, in fact, is always a source of suffering to its. owner. When he first puts it on it buttons readily about the neck, but seems to lack about six inches at the waist. The owner may squirm and wriggle and attempt to re- duce his waist to a minimum circum- ference, but his maiden efforts are never sufficient to button the new dress coat. Experience is a great teacher, though, and the young fellow laugh- ingly requests one or two of his friends to lend their assistance, and he finally succeeds in buttoning the coat." All this for the sake of looks. Comfort has no place in the makeup of a West Pointer; it's discipline and looks." WATCHED OVER BY SATAN. Superstitions That Twine About the Mandrake Plant. The little plant the mandrake has a wealth of tradition centering round it such as is seldom found in floral lore. Quite an insignificant little plant with a spindle shaped root often divided into two or three forks and rudely re- sembling the human form, it is doubt- less from this latter fact that it has derived its name. Langhorne in the latter part of the eighteenth century tells us to Mark how the rooted mandrake wears His human feet, his human hands, while it was once believed that a per- son pulling up a-mandrake would in- stantly fall dead. This was said to be because the mandrake had a human heart at its root and when pulled it would scream in such a fearsome man- ner as to terrify the hearer to death or else induce madness. Shakespeare alludes to this where he says: And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, mad. And again in "King Henry VII," where Suffolk, asked by Queen Mar- | garet whether he has. not spirit to curse his enemies, replies: hearing them, rup groan, As curst, as harsh, as horrible to hear. RIGHT 'side of the driver's seat, | seat and in turning to the Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's | 2 $s | Spring. | I would invent as bitter, searching terms a Is Applied In Driving and | : In Navigation. 2 London's drivers, sitting on the right turn to the left. Why? In order that looking The Way It | down at the right side of the vehicle they may gauge to a fraction of an inch the hubs of a vehicle meeting them. In the United States the driver still preserves the right side of "the right of the roadway has the least knowledge 0% where his hubs may be in passing. But in international navigation the right hand rules always obtain. It is the narrow channel winding into & port where the' extremest of emphasis is laid upon the vessel keeping to star- board, no matter how many crooks and turns and loops the channel may make.. This was illustrated in a collision on | the Whangpoo river, in China, when the Pekin aad the Normandie collided. The Normandie was descending ° the stream, keeping to starboard. The Pekin was ascending the channel, keeping to its starboard. At a sharp turn in the collided. Tite Pekin's, master declared that owing to the sharp bend in the river it was a "crossing" case, the Normandie was to blame. In the house of lords, however, it was held that the right of any channel of any degree of ginuosity lay at the right of the channel's center; that, therefore, when the Pekin failed to observe the rule in the sharp bend and "eut across" it became ap offender against the law and must pay dam- ages.--Chicago Tribune. ON, EYE OF THE CAMERA. The Picture It Brought From Out a Dark Cavern. Dr. Francis Clark told an interesting story of a youth living in Maine who was out in the woods one day taking photographs of attractive bits of scen- ery. He came upon the mouth of a lit- tle cavern between the rocks, and he said to himself, "I will see what sort of picture I can get out of that cave," and as it was a dark day he decid- , in- | ed to take a "time exposure" stead of a "snapshot." Steadying the camera upon his knee as well as he could at the edge of the cave, he gave the sensitive plate a long, deliberate look at the semidarkness within. Then he continued his tramp through the woods and after a few hours returned to his camp. Several weeks afterward, when de- yeloping his. plates, you can imagine his astonishment to see in the picture, in the very center of the cavern, with arched back and bristling fur and within springing distance of the spot where he had balanced his camera, & huge Canada lynx that might easily have destroyed his life. And yet he came and went and saw no signs ot danger.--Christian Herald. Proving a Statement. A certain minister, who is an em- phatic preacher, is at times at a loss to give his utterances proper weight. For instance, he'll say: "This statement is as true as is the night which will follow-day," or "as true as that the trees will bud in Sometimes it happens that the doc- ter has more statements than he has drake has been chautments i ieved to be one of the most powerful | charms of witches. Mr. Conway in a | paper on "Mystic Trees and Flowers" | states that "by popular superstitions | | | From time immemorial the man- | | in some places it is said to be per- | | petually watched over by Satan, and if it be pulled up at certain holy times and with certain invocations the evil | Spirit will appear to do the bidding of | the practitioner.'-- Westminster Re- view. A Cumulative Persian Story. A hunter finds some honey in the fis- sure of a rock, fills a jar with it and takes it to a grocer. While it 1s being weighed a drop falls to the ground and is swallowed up by the grocer's weasel. Thereupon the huntsman's dog rushes upon the weasel and kills associated with en- | and has ever been be- | | "I told you so" appearance. it. The grocer throws a stone at the dog and kills him. The honteman'| draws his sword and cuts off the gro- | cer's arm, after which he is cut down | by the infuriated mob of the bazaar. The governor of the town, informed of the fact, sends messengers to arrest the murderer. When the crowd re- sisted troops were dispatched to the seene of the conflict, whereupon the townspeople mixed themselves up in the riot, which lasted three days and. three nights, with the result that 70,000 men were slain. All this through @ drop of boney. Early Landholding. Nothing is clearer than the fact that the system of landholding in the most ancient races was communal. Private right in land was for a Jong time un- known, the source of life being held in common between the members of the tribe. Not only land, but all property that in any way had to do with the general welfare, was looked upon as belonging to the whole tribe in com- mon, no individual having the right to call it bis own. Gradually and after a very long time, under the old regime, the right of private ownership began to creep in until at last it became the recognized rule pretty nearly every- where.--New York American. The Front End. A young couple bad been married by a Quaker, and after the ceremony he remarked to the tusband: "Priend, thou art at the end of thy | troubles." A few weeks after the man came to the good minister boiling over with rage, having found his wife to be a recular vixen, and said: #@ "J thought you told me I was at the end of my troubles." "So I did, friend, but I did not say which end," replied the Quaker. Way It Goes. "Give 'em what they want, my boy," said the old physician. : "For instance?" inquired the young medico, : "Well, many a woman will take oxy- gen treatment ui $5 a throw who, wouldn't spend car fare for fresh air." Gine 3 FA Py pis ux j at the dinner ttbie--Sttuay Stocias --Washington Heraid. illustrations to give them weight. On one such occasion he remarked, "This is as true as the'-- Here the doctor halted. He paused a few moments, and then his face illumined--"'as true as is the statement that some member | fs yet on his or ber way to eburch." A few moments later a lady entered the edifice and swept grandly up the aisle. The doctor's face assumed an The con- gregation begav to smile, then te leugh. Sympathy for thé embarrassed lady, however, soon subdued the ap- parently uncontrollable mirth. The Parrots of Mexico. HAND RULE. ~~ | | House and channel the two boats | in which |: *F ROYAL ACCOUNT' ' 'Methods of the "King of England tn Transacting Business. aoe No advertisement is ore valuable to a British tradesman U G warrant, which allows hil royal arms over his place of busin\ and describe himself as "purveyor by, appointment to his majesty the king. Bach tradesman who has the roy custom must send in his bill at the en of the month. It is compared with | ledger account kept at Marlboroug if correct is P first week of the month. No discount) jis asked on any of the royal accounts. | A tradesman who receives the royal; custom is informed that he must sup-{ ply goods at the lowest reasonable} prices, and at bargaining 2 al househol é ficoehe to be making extortionate -- charges he simply loses the royal = m. ee. sayin is supplied to Marlborough House by contract, the contracts be the official. of the, tractors paid in equal half yearly pays. ments. Window cleaning, carpet clean-' ing and chimney. sweeping are all done by contract, and the glass frames of large pictures are also kept clean by,, contract. bs Servants' wages. are paid monthlye) | the upper servants being paid by check | gent to each from the treasurer's de--- | partment. The king's accounts for | clothes, cigars, theaters, newspapers, | books and other personal articles are | sent to his secretary, not the treasurer, and are also paid mouthly.--Toronto Times. CORE OF THE EARTH. | One of the Enigmas of Nature That | Science Cannot Solve. Human beings know only a mere skin of the surface of the earth, not | more than thirty miles deep, while the | globe is 8,000 miles in diameter. There | 4s probably no oxygen at all below. | thirty miles, and it is difficult to guess™ | what are the elements within. Prob- ably the heaviest elements form & dense core near the eenter. i It is in some respects astonishing, most alarming, that we are 50 com- , pletely devold of any direct knowledge of the constituents of the vast mass of globe beneath us and really only 'cknow the merest film. A skin or mem brane one-twentieth of an inch in thickness (the thickness of kid or brown paper) spread over a ball a lit- tle more than a foot in diameter repre- sents the proportion between the the known crust of the earth thirty, miles thick and the great globe itself, We are dependent on inference and 'speculation for our notions as to the constitution of all that is beneath the mere skin of thirty miles thickness |.on the globe's surface! Eiven what is | thrown up by the biggest volcanoes does not come from below this depth or tell us what lies hidden there--Ex- change. Helter Skelter. |. "¥7elter skelter" has been sugges- tively defined as a jingling expression vaguely imitating the hurried clatter of feet rapidly and irregularly moved. Most dictionaries, however, led astray, probably by the ordinary orthography, have missed the true etymology of this phrase. It should be "helter kelter." "Helter" is an old word for "hang," probably connected with halter, and "kelter" is used by old writers in the sense of "order" or the proper state. Thus Barrow, the divine, says, "If the organs of prayer be out of kelter how, can we pray?' "Helter skelter," there- fore, is literally "hang order' and means, "Ob, bang order; let us do it, or let it take its chance." Ben Jon- son in "Every Man In His Humor" writes, 'Helter skelter, bang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat," and Shakespeare, using it to express rush and hurry, says, "Flelter skelter bave 1 rode to | thee." : What the wild pigeon once was in | point of numbers to the United States | the parrot, of varying shades of color and all sizes, is to old Mexico. Flights of these birds frequently darken the midday sun in the hot country, and they become so tame around the camps of engineers that the birds are given individual names and soon become reg- ular pets. @Vhenever the parrots de- sert the forest and alight on the ground in the open spaces of the jun- gle the natives recognize their actions as sure warning of an impending earthquake. American engineers in- dorse this belief and assert that se- | rious accidents which migbt have been | averted bave resulted when the warn- ing of the birds was noted, but un- heeded. | A Line on Mother. ) "J don't see bow I'm ever to get a | chance again with this boy around," wailed the little widow witb the small son. "The otber day a man I like awfully well asked me how old the. town was that we came from. . The ) boy spoke up without giving me a chance to put in a word: "*T mon't know just how old It is,' he said, 'but it must be pretty old be | cause mamma was born in it.' "~New York [ress. _ Had His Hands Full. Judge--Why didn't you seize the thief when you found him? Poticeman--THow could 1? T bad my elub in one band and my revoiver tn the other!--Mlliegende Htatter, A Disaster. Hostess---Mr. Squittyy is going to sing a come. Cuest--] thing woud happen sang, Knew Sone. P Upset the sat Stil a Chatce. ; 4 "TTave you ever- loved and lost?" asked the sweet young thing. "Not yet." replied the man who had been divorced three times.--Chicago Record-Herald. Aids to Conversation. "Books help a man's conversation." "Undoubtedly. But the man who buys them seldom gets to be as good a talker as the man who sold them to him."--Washington Star. ; | who | enths, Horseradish as a Vegetable. In Germany horseradish is frequent- ly made into an excellent cooked vege- table which goes particularly well with boiled mutton or chicken fricassee. It is made as follows: Grate as usual and-stew till tender in butter; mix well with grated Parker House rolls, one cupful of the latter to three of the horseradish, and boil up once more, adding a heaping teaspoonful of sugar.' Served with very firmly jellied cur- rant jelly, scooped out with a teaspoon , and ftaid in solid little ovals like a. wreath round the white mound of horseradish, this delectable dish looks / almost as good as it. tastes.--Subur- baalte. The Attraction. Tourist--l must confess that I can't see why so Many people want to come here--no scenery, no amusements, vo good things to eat, absolutely no at- tractions. Innkeeper--Ah, signor, zey come because we 'ave ze gr-ran' label | to stick ov ze Ingguge.--Mexican Her- 'ald, Great Scheme. do you do" asked been merried "when your home tate ai night?" "| pretend not to notice that it's late, aud pretty soon he asks me if | wouldn't like to go to the theater o% somewhere totuorrew afternoon." "What had the one only ai few busband comes Startling Encourrgemont. "Was Amelivs. futher enconraging when you wet to him te ask bin for her baud? : "Not very. Ge asked me to put the proposal ino writhug, sed Couldnt back out, us all the otuers did." - Musical Nota. First Young Lhing «during the. so. nata--1 just love Brabus, dont you? Second Young 'Thiug--What are Brahms*~--Musical Courier, : A Boy's Idea ot Paradise. . (When I go up to heaven 4, An' join the angel bands, , Gee, hope 'at no one there \ "Li say, "Go wash those hands." \_ £3 ~Lippincott'm made ; It Happens Easily. \ "That horrid cat!" FE "What's the matter, girl?" rane Rad, Reliance on the right is expressed by defiante of the wrong, paid in-the; -- there is never any attempt, If a tradesman is; ing made for three years and the com-)