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AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY.
THK SIIAKUKKSS FULLY ENJOYED THR PERFOl
ANCB OK DUTY.
One of the peculiar customs characteristic of
the religious sect known as the Shaken? Is that
of leaving nothing upon their plate3 after {her
have finished a meal. Their economical princi?
ple is that no particle of toed must go to waste,
and so, in the popular phrase, they "eat It to
save it." Not only must each person account
for all of his own portion, but If necessary be
must boar a hand to help others who may have
more trouble in disposing of theirs. That this
is not regarded, at least In some cases, as a
hardship seems to be proved by an incident
which occurred not long ago near a Shaker set?
tlement.
One of the "world's people" who lived near
by. a woman of moans and of a charitable dis?
position, invited all the children who belonged
to the Shaker settlement to a dinner at her
h'tis?-. "These children are those whom the
Bhakers have adopted and are educating in
their faith, thai it may not die oui with the
present generation of elders An old Bhakeress
accompanied the children lo look after them
She attended to all thi Ir wants at the table, and
aft? t they had finished she r.ioved rapidly about
from plate to plate, disposing of all the rem?
nants before which their infantile powers bad
failed. The mistress of the house watched her
with Increasing wonder, an] when the entire
circuit had iteen mad.' and nn scrap of anything
remained, ventured to ask if she had enjoyed
fa is. If.
"Yea. oh, yea," reap nded the old Bhakeress
si : " I* . "i '. ? :.i ? , -n .si . \ eilent opportunity
and l'\ t eat a sigh) !"
DEI YINQ Till: I 11F OS A RAPT.
HOW i UK SU) ?1IIFTS OF TWO COUNTIES WBRI
ni TV. i rTKD.
A vt- iR little white house on a raft is still to
be b< en m ored lo the shoi.f Pjntoosuc Lake,
in the Derkshlrc Hills. It bar. b en famous In
Us time, bul Us active career Is over, and the
fun-loving > luth of the neighborhood look re
.1. fully upon Its qulel retirement, it was the
pn i ri) -?;' a man who, a f? w years ago, piled a
brisk irade in retailing liquors without a license.
The portable nature of his saloor., and a geo
graphical p? cullarity In the situation of the shc-t
of water upon whlcb it floated, enabled him to
carr* on his trade In m< rry defiance of the au
thorltii s.
Pontoosuc Lake II . partly In the township of
Pittsfleld and partly In the adoinlng one of
Lanesborough. J.'s "float," as it was every?
where known, was always kept near the dividing
line, and was the most popular rendezvous in
th-> two townships for those of a convivial nature.
Sharp?: ? i and quick-eared sentinels were con?
tinually ? n the watch, however, and at the first
breath of warning of the approach of the Sheriff
of Pittsfleld, the float, if it chanced to be on that
aide, was apeedily sculled or polled over into
Lanesfa trough. There the baffled Fitt.ifiold ofTl
cer tniulu ga-/..- at it to his heart's cont? nt, but It
was beyond his jurisdiction. In the same way,
the Sheriff "f Lanesborough found that the float
successfully eluded all his most vigorous at
t' mpts lo surprli e it on his side of the li .?-. Bach
officer ?vas so anxious t" make th?- cs lure In
his own township that the rivalry was spirited
and ihe float led a Ufe of excitemmt. Rut this
same rivalry between the Sheriffs was also its
prot? ? lb n. for thi ir professional j- alousy of each
other prevented them from trying the clearly
feasible plan .f joining their forcea and running
the float d iwn Into on?- township or the otber.
Aft? r a few seaaons "! this life J. retired from
It, doubtless with a comfortable competency, and
a feeling of satisfaction at th>- s> ries of advent
urea from which he had always emerged as the
vi. tor.
? -
I \ EXPENSIVE HOUSE H MUT.
From The Washington Post
Among ihe number of Baltimore Fresh Air
Fund children >?h" passed through Washington
a r m days .?M", bound for the cool hill country
of Virginia, there was one little fellow who
found the very best of quarters In a hospitable
furmhouse at Front Royal. When the cows
came up In Ihe evening to I?- milked, so a friend
down there writes me, the little Baltimore boy
wel x down to the barnyard with his host to see
the "i-' Hon. The cows were standing about
j,;.,, iiiy and as is th.-ir custom at thai lime of
the day.' were contentedly chewing the cud. The
i V y wat? h' ?I ihe milkmaids at w"rk. and his eyes
, Kh growing wonder "ii the ceaseless
grind ol the cows' jaws. At length he tinned to
hi host ai I .- lid:
??And -; ' you have to buy K'im for ail them
cows?" #
THE QUEEN'S OVERSIGHT.
] Ai ??? rs.
,,,, |, ; waj i" Balm ?ral from Ihe S nth the
qu p passed i ' tl ? ? ntry si at ol a rich
i ' . . i ; : - ..-? 'itleman ha I grand vlnei lea,
,l? | he : trueti I his gardener t tj pi< al
!_,'.. '. ?.. , ; i be i hi iftj S it '" l k a large
I ' . ll fin gi ?, to b . ? nt to II r
M
: . :.- ' ? . . : ? away
" he con pli I.
.. aid a b tier was Kcelved fn m
tha? king t1 ..??it rms
? .
Id mol I ;? irdi ti'T. the
,. i ? n i ?? 1 him ; Th. old 9 ?I
silence, an J al it i con lu?
rk.-1 anx usly:
... ,i na sa) ou) lu? ig i boot ! end ng hack
ti u i."
? ????? v? ry tsan f illy U'hen
f ' md without 1 llnr.er.
r
.? . . .- ~v tu h.m. '?(Chlcag? Record,
A NEW EAST SIDE MOSES.
MAX TOO?, WHO I.ED THE "KNKI-: PAMTV
MAKEB1 IN THEIB STKIKK.
A RUSSIAN" HKIIUKW WIIO ROtg TO I'K.iMi S KN(!E
Ilf A DAT HIS WORK ANO HIS I.KA1 KI.SIIIP.
In Il.-ster, Orchard and Hssex sts. th.se last
few weeks?a new force and power among men
has suddenly loomed up. a sallow, thin Russian
of bar.-ly twenty-five years, by name Max Pina
"Little Russia"* and the "Polack" colony In
New-York make men 'piiekly, but this new
leader's rise to fame is unexampled. Yet he
docs not look like a master of his race. I>uM,
wavering eyes are his distinguishing f'-ature;
his fa.-e is much of the lime expressionless, and
in speaking he is frequently at a loss for words.
However these things are, ?t is certain that
Pine bas come to be one of th.- lead is of the
East Bide, How long he win keep this mastery
and control is not to be foreseen. While nun
rise to fame at a single hound in this corner of
New-York, they are frequi ntly quite as speedily
dethroned. A new favorite comes up. ami the
..id is toppled "fT his pedestal without cere
nn.ny. That may be it is quite likely to be
the fate of Max Pine.
Just now, however, Bine is .1 genuine leader
and a celebrity. Three months ago he was
MAX I'i m:.
(!.-a.l.-r of the "Knee Pants" striker I
?imply a ma? hlne worker on knee pants, m
operative ??f i.xtraordinary ability, and on
of several hundred other?. Only his shopmate
knew him, an?! fea of those ever spok?- of him
Cham ?-. i"i! ?? an l ?Imp -. ; him on the ri ai
to fame. The kn ? pa -a irkera of thi
Ghetto form a separat Ii lu iry ??! them elves
Tiny are f.-w i:i numb r i niparcd with ih?
tailors, nol more than eighteen hundr. 1 in all
and eighteen hundr d Is :( large .sirria'-. A
trifle lesa than -n ? Ih.iusa .1 -f these f rm lh<
Knee Pants Makers' 1'nion, a 1. .!> not unllk?
the Brotherh.1 .?f Ta
Pine joined this ai ociatlon ? . ral j ara ago,
For ?a long while he r? mained In ihe ranks. .V
one ever thouj lit ..f his taking the i a l In any?
thing. 11 ? plung. 1 Into ihe mix ?l i? .litk s of
the Kast Side, Ii B the Socii - ? i - - ? - >
ar.d Bpeaking for them during campaigns ir-.m
the tails of trucks, li was not until late this
spring that he received the Kl!ght< : rec gni
i on. He was th n n ride the recording Beere
tary nf thi kneo pants uni n. A f< v -.
later the post of v alk r deli I ? ? va. ant,
and bj hook r . : k Pin mai : ? t it.
Here 1 evidenced l way in which
fate v. el. ; on I h !..':' 1 Sol ?n I* i
was the man that pi ?? d i Mi \ I'
p.' rman Is a Iti ? i in .1
abllitj and Intel!
wi nt by and no op?
:. r d d Max Pin. take th? I!
: in uld? rii
... i t : broke 1 m ? on.
At on e the unknown wa ? ? ? i?.
eane- iln- man of the day. Thi ?. m ];?? had
l,< n BTx nd ? ? ' ? ? ;??'????!
vot. d to ( r.dl? : "????.'.?:
toui a 1 grim ntn tors who
at IL- thoU4*bt of tL r.iiL? of Work Ihej could
not get finished; to quieting, encouraging nn
controlling-; hundreds of excited. Ignorant "l.ittl
Russians, " who wanted to ho led but who chafe
under the y,oke. quarrelled and stormed. Thi
man, with hardly an Instant's warning, plunge
into all this. To-day the strike Is settled, Hi
"pants" makers are to r.Ivs from eight t
twelve dollars a week Instead <>f from six t
eight, and to work ten hours a day in the plac
of thirteen to fourteen.
Though there .if- those who say that a ?-oiii
mitt.-o of th?? strikers, working s??-r?-tly behlni
the se*n???-*. finally closed the "lockout," Ma:
Pine's les lershlp remains unlmpeached, sine
through all the trouble he was the accri lita
mouthpiece of the union. The daily visits ..f thi
reporters of papers printed In the English Ian
guage were the? first contact this man had wltl
th.- world outside of New-York's Russia. He saw
his name In print on every hrnd; lie saw para
| graph after paragraph about his doings; yel
better than many another man. he k?-pt hi.?
head.
This is th?- curl ?us story of Max Pine, labor
! leader. II ? Is to be found these days In a room
| on the top ih.-.r ?.f the Walhalla Hall Building,
No. 52 Orchard-st., bis sewing machine replaced
b) a rolltop ?Ik.In Wlndso* Hall, two doors
above, the union meets, an 1 lor days (until the
? strik.? was settled) Pine spen? hour after hour
i in the fr??nl room "f the second Btory, surrounded
by a voluble group .?r gesticulating, gyrating
' Russians, men of long beards, and boya The
babel here m .-s tremendous; it n?*ver f??r a sin-;l.?
instant let up, By th-- wave "f his hand or the
sound of his \.-i. .- this man h Id it all in i h??. k,
nevertheless.
The new lat-or leader does nol Impress on?
?.. ?i<> la i ol a Russian thai ?h, on shorl a?' lualnt
ar< ? li: Knglish Is anything bul fluent, and
his choice ..f words of doubtful - xcelli n? ?-. He
vvi ars Ihe "negllgi-e" shlrl and rough -.?it of the
fc reign workman. His complexion Is very
datk, and black hair, mustache and small side
whiskers make him a purl. Russian type Ib?
is . Ho? lallst of a radical sort, and avows it em
phal i' aily.
I n pi : -.'ii h< Is un.:.i Inly, a nd In mov? enl
awkward. Ma-rnel.i O ?? sorl apparent In
Mi ? ;? .-'? i.' i i? i ? : i ul : rly lacking n Ulm It Is
.li'!.? i: ? f. r a man nol . f his own ra ? I > ????
-.. hi rein his i???-.. ; lies.
I.ii tie is know n of I'bii-'s private III .? thai
he i n irried, has t.. ? childi 11 and IIvi In
Brow ns\ ill??, the gr?at J?-wi .n; mi tin? oui
klyn I ? .1 re I .m Smo
1 Ml, . . . . i-k.-d for lb" first
i -a i i a 1 y a r?l.
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li? ?ir. r "f tin- *1
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I nf ?i ? , . ? m
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.-,
1 I ?!.!.? i ,
alien, and I ? ?':,
not larger than blood corpuseh-s, are se n I
countless numbers,
Under another microscope s drop of fre*.
hi.i was shown with tie- parasites a? i lall
alive and wriggling In disgusting activity. F<
comparison, there a*ere shown, alive and dea.
similar parasites found Infesting the blood ?
sewer rata In this country. I'nfortunal tiy, the?
parasites appear not to affect the health ? f til
rata. The exhibition ?'as a striking, d
lion of the modern knowledge of dl h m ?
of ih ese ar-- now Been to be phaa*ea of the atrui
gle f..r existence betwc? n small organisms lili
microbe? and lar-,*.- organlsma like man and til
other vertebrates. And the victory Is not a
ways with the strong.
?
1 STRANGE DISCOVERY.
Till-: BILE OK A SERPENT AN ANTIDOTE FO
ITS BITE
Atioth r v. iv effective agent for overcoraln
th.? venom of serpents has been discovered b
Professor Thomas R. Fraser, of the LTnlversii
of Edinburgh, it la not whiskey, wherewll
Americans antagonize the poison of rattle
inakvs; t.or is II M. Calmette's antitoxic ? run
obtained from the blood of animal-; which hav
been rendered Immune by bucci islve Inocula
tion.s with small quantities of the venom. Th
new antidote is nothing more or less than th
serpent's own bile. In reporting a series n
elaborate experiments conducted by himsell
Professor Fraser recently said:
?Th.- bile from the gall bladdi r ?if the Afrlcs
cobra, puff-adder, rattlesnake and grass snak
was used, ?nd each bile was tested against th
venom of the African ami the Indian cobra
For the most part the experimenta were mad
| by mixing various quantities of each bile wltl
.a little more than the minimum fatal dose o
ihe venom, and then Injecting this mixtu un
d'T the skin of the animal. The ,,l,j.-, i of th
experiments was nol only to determine If th
bile can render venom Innocuous, but also, If i
hav. this power, what is Ihe smallest quantity
of bile ? -?pable of doing it."
Having re-counted the various d -? - ?*h
employed, and their eff. Is, he thua summarize
the result: "It was thua shown that the nil.
of venomous serpenta i-; able, when mlx?*?l wir i
the venom of serpents, t.. prevent lethal 1 ?-?
of th.- latti r from producing d ath, arid th n lb
t.il - is, indeed, so powerful an agent In doln
this that a quantity actually smaller than tl
quantity of venom may be sufficient for th
purpose. II need scarcely be added thai th
dosea of bile thus shown to bo sufficient repn
s.-nt only minute portions of th*? ii'..- stored .
the gall bladder of a serpent, and thai a
pent, therefore, has at its disposal enough bil
to prevent Injury from venom Inti 'duc ? ! In
the stomach In quantities many times great i
than th?. minimum lethal."
The bile of harmless serpents was also testti*
and found to 1?- effective, though In a less do
gre>?. The same secretion from an animal Ilk?
the ox was made the subject of other ? xj. rl
menta, it was even less powerful than the bi!i
of innocuous snakes, and about one-seventh ?A
Btrong (In its antitoxic Influence) a-s the bite ol
the cobra >.r asp. But if enough of it wet'.- us. .1
it would overcome a fatal dose of the poison.
Dr. Fraser found that he could Isolate th*
parti, ular element In a serpent's bite which hai
this surprising prop, rty, so that the antidol i
can be prepared for the market in very compact
form. And the process of manufacture la prob?
ably quit* aa simple as, ami perhaps more rapid,
than thai of If. Calmette.
Precisely how he obtained his clew the l-Idin
burgh savant does nol say. Rut h>- Incid i i ?
remarks that some of tie- native make doct??rs
In Afina have a remedy, (impounded of several
Bubstancea of which one is Bnake bile, and
they a?.- accustomed i.> administer it nut only
by Introducing ?t Into the patient's Btot i h
(where it Is probably without effect), bul also
by rubbing it ?nt?> the wound, where it would
be absorbed into th.- blood. It Is probable,
therefore, that this wonderful provision i f nat?
ure, whli h comp? la a serpent t?. ?terete In one
pint of its system ?a cure f"r the poison that it
secretes in another, has long been known in
some 'i' those countries where th.- information
is most likely to prove beneficial to mankind.
?
BARNEY BARS ITO'S ETHICS.
From The Contem iora-*y R< view.
While no one could be mor? conciliatory, mor?
pleasingly explanatory than le-, when it was
advisable, he could take it lighting, t".., when his
Judgment approved, and then his attack was Ir?
resistible. "If you are going to tight," he -.ml,
"alwaya get In hrst blow. If a man ?s going to
hit you, hit him lirai and ray, 'If you try thai I'll
till you a,- lin.' It la of no use >. ? ? i r standing
off and raying, 'If j u hi) me I'll hit you back.'
D'ye und'island'.'" "Ye?, I understand," 1 an?
swered; "nul you ar. quoting Kingsley In'West?
ward Ho!.Wh? was Kingsley and 'Westward
Ho'.'?" h sharply queried.
Afti r l had explained and quoted the passage
from Drake's letter to A my a? Leigh, he said,
"Ah! 1 did nol know anything of Kingsley, but
when !i ? wrote lhal he knew what life was
and he was right and I am right, though it is
queer for me to i*.-i a lupporlei In one ??i ?..?nr
parsons. If he was ?,. true n in he would al >
have to agree with our law of 'i n ? : for an eye
and a looth for a tooth,' bul being a Christian
of cour ? !.. couldn't do that, I'ah! i. ver let a
i ; m wrong you without getting n<*uai * i
i :" ?? !. w !o"-- you wait, and n. ver wrong i
i in if > - a) -an help It, bei iuse he will w h
ti m. '?? tel back on you and ni l h \.?
ble moment. I don't care w b? llier It in Jew r
tile, it is all tl - i ." i .- ? ? - " ?;
in eui'ly m. rt'ing d
two yt'.-u h had Just arranK ! ' ?
. ; ne for th" M"tati' ti of ih" Mi'nato ?'i
dab (1 Mil .-.-. . . i! wj
on .' bieh the l !:irnal ? II i -- - to :.
. : i i! ited.
CHI R\ IXC, UY /.'?'"/ LET.
I VVh-1 i F.
In tl ? f the
i > ? Is ?ii
chili ?' ei ih ? fr nt ei, I ol a car. o round trip
i ml "chin din's done," ' he m itoi man lakin
bin ei niik .. .: ? ? .?I..J,. ..i tut ihe mccliauical
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