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"Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as It files."
Now Olvtc Center With. Milling District Bridge and
Courthouse as Features.
MAN with another civic center idea stood on the
curb the other day declaring that the Henne
pin-Nicollet plan with* the steel arch bridge at
the apex was not the natural civic center of Minne
apolis. His idea was that the new courthouse should
dictate the center. The postoffice was to be located
in the block on Washington opposite the Milwaukee
station. This station and the blocks to the river were
to furnish the site of the new union station. The long
expected bridge over the river at Sixth avenue S or
near it and the consequent view of the falls and the
milling district was to furnish something of an apex
to the center.
Still another dream has seen the Seven Corners as
a civic center.
If we keep on we will be locating the civic center
on the East Side with the bridge as the apex and the
new Packingtown as the base.
If you will shut your eyes and look a little into
the future you will see the main artery of this city
throbbing with the life blood of the coming genera
tions. But first, before shutting your eyes, go north of
Hennepin and see the tremendous wholesale' district
building boom now on. Then go south and see the city
spreading out Second avenue. Then look at the Lake
Minnetonka and St. Paul traffic on Hennepin avenue,
%h.& parks, libraries, cathedrals, armories gathering
along that artery. Then shut your eyes and see if
you can avoid the conclusion that Hennepin avenue is
really the backbone of the city.
South Dakota is rejoicing in a new metropolis. A
railroad ran out of Watertown the other day, stopped
a' moment at Lake Kampeska, one of the finest bits of
water on this continent, and then pushed on, running
Suddenly into the arms of Florence. Florence is the
Mir metropolis.*
A man from Sleepy Eye was already on the ground
with a printing press and was getting out a small hot
paper, the Florence Forum, full of ads and of good
Hews.
Flossie already has two restaurants, a bank or two,
five elevators under contract and about 100,000 bushels
of wheat tributary to the same. Cement walks are
going down, houses are going up, the wind is blowing
sideways and things are doing far into the night.
{There's life in the old-land yet.
We were disturbed the other day by the sudden
announcement that Mr. Hill was digging an ocean
liner canal from the Great Lakes to Hudson bay. If
the salt water from the bay should come rushing down
into the lakes or if the lakes should drain out into
the bay, it would cause great annoyance to the United
States.
The G. A. B. seems to be composed of nice people.
How foolish and wicked it was for our brethren of
the south to try to kill them fifty or so years ago.,
A. J. R.
HEE SAVINO nST INTEREST
Washington Star.
is well known that a woman will never become
accustomed to banks, just as she will never learn
to sharpen a lead pencil or drive a nail but there is
a woman in this city who takes the prize in financial
matters, except that she reverses conditions.
Her husband held a fairly nice account at a local
bank in common with her, where interest was paid
on deposits at the rate of 3 per cent. One afternoon
as she went shopping the wife had occasion to pass
her husband's 3 per cent bank and then another which
paid only 2 per cent. The more she thought about it
the more complex the problem seemed.
At last, making up her mind that her husband
and, of course, herself, were being cheated by a horrid
cashier, she withdrew the deposits from the 3 per cent
bank and turned them in at the other place.
That evening she said: "Do you know, dear, that
I saved lots of money today?"
"How?" he asked.
"By placing our money in a bank that costs only
cent, instead of 3 it is infinitely cheaper, and"
MOST UNKINDEST OUT
Harper's Weekly.
ITH reference to the humors of country "so-
ciety" reporting, Melville E. Stone of the Asso
ciated Press tells of the account of a wedding pub
lished in a Kansas paper.
The story, which described the marriage in the
usual flowery adjectives, concluded with this surpris
ing announcement:
"The bridegroom's present to the bride was a
handsome diamond brooch, together with many other
beautiful things in cut glass."
5 feet 6 inches tall, 33 inches bust
EhmeaBure, 38 inches hip measure and
k*$2 inches -waist. I am 31 years old and
Wl have a light complexion and reddish
row hair. Mrs. 0. P.
h' Fargo.
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What the Market Affords
Lamb chops, 15 and 25 cents a pound. 1
Potatoes, 45 cents a bushel.
Green corn, 8 cents a dozen.
Corn starch, 5 and 10 cents a pack
age.
Peaches, $1.25 a crate.
Green corn, prepared Creole style, is
very palatable. Cut the kernels from
six ears of young, tender corn, leaving
fits much of the hull on the ears as -poa
alble. Add half a green pepper, chopped
fine, a little grated onion and three
peeled tomatoes, cut up fine. Heat the
whole to the boiling point and let it
simmer about fifteen minutes, or until
reduced somewhat. Add, meanwhile,
FROM ELIZABETH LEE
Style for Sample.
Dear Miss Lee: I inclose sample of
Bilk that I have to make a suit and I
Would like to know how to make it. I
is, would like to have it quite dressy. I
'Mvjm
A gown of the soft green sample of
fancy silk will become you exceedingly
well. The most becoming skirt model
will be the two-tiered, as it were^ the
upper skirt gored and slightly frilled
into the waist and met about knee
length with a flounce gathered on its
upper edge and hemmed and tucked on
the bottom. Join the flounce to the
skirt with a band of deep cream lace,
or hem and tuck the lower edge of the
upper skirt, adding the flounce tinder
the hem. If you think you will like
r'io wear the skirt sometimes with a
dainty lingerie blouse, then it will be
better not to introduce the lace.". The
Jiem and tncks will be smarter. I is
ft-silk that will.look extremely well
yRrith separate waists.
For the bodice, I fancy a round yoke
and collar of cream lace, not deep at
H, outlined with a flat piece of. silk,
the Whole forming a deep yoke, covered
fi f^ith tiny overlapping frills of the silk,
fach one edged with narrow black vaV
jenciennes lace. Have a full lower por
SCATHE
half a teaspoonful each of salt and
sugar and just before removing from
the fire, two teaspoonfuls of butter.
Peaches, Melba style, are worth try
ing. Select large, choice peaches. Cut
them in halves and cook in a syrup
made of sugar equal in weight to the
peaches and a cup of water to each
pound of sugar. Remove the peaches
as soon as they are tender. Let the
syrup cook until very thick, then add
maraschino as suits the taste. Have
ready a sponge cake, cooked in a ring
mould. Pour the cooled syrup over it,
set the chilled peaches above and fill
the hollows of the peaches with vanilla
ice cream.
success of your gown, otherwise it
might lack character. Hence my sug
gestion for the touch of black about
the frills. If you use the green belt,
close with black velvet bows. Make
your sleeves just as fussy as you please,
and finish with cuffs matching the
bertha.
A black laoe hat trimmed with soft
fydrangea
tion of waist and bring into either a left near each other.
fcroad black satin belt or one in dark Nothing baked will keep well unless
green taffeta. Something decided like it is thoroly cooled before being put
this, I fancy, will be necessary to the] away. reen ribbon and wild harebells in
blue would be charming as
a finish to an outdoor toilet.
Elizabeth Xiee.
COUNTESS AVEESE TO PEEK-A
BOO
Peek-a-boo waists have run their
course in Paris, at least.. The Countess
de Noailles, who is a power in the
fashionable world, won't approve of
that form of garment any longer. I
cannot admit," says the- countess,
that it is decorous to expose .one's
shoulders to the criticism of coachmen
and coalheavers." However, she
wishes it understood she is not averse
to low necks for evening wear. The
collarless peek-a^boo waist, which
makes one seem decollette by day,as
well as by night, is the garment to
which she objects. Y'
Kll'OHEK KIVPS
Lemon peel rubbed out the hands will
remove fruit stains. Tomato skins
used in the same -manner are nearly
as efficacious.
liJever lay meat directly on the ice.
Place it on a dish or wrap it in paper
before putting it in the refrigerator*
Cantaloups will turn* milk sour if
THE REAL ANANIAS.
This is the time of year when the stories of the fish
liar fade into insignificance in comparison with those
of the gentleman who has growing corn.
JEALOUS FOB COLORADO'S HONOR
Leadville Herald Democrat.
HE following story of the early days was told by
the Honorable T. B. Wilgus. He said:
"In the early days of Leadville there was a
singular character living by the name of Major Martin
McGinnis. The major was the important man of the
camp and when any distinguished parties came to the
city they were received by Major Martin McGinnis
and presented with the freedom of the camp on* a gold
plate. The French government sent three mining
engineers over to examine and to report on
the mineral deposits of this locality. They were
received by Major McGinnis, who put them in
carriages and took them around the camp. As they
were going up California gulch the Frenchmen sud
denly jumped out of the carriage and commenced to
hammer and chisel upon a large black bowlder that
lay alongside the road. The major .watched them
gesticulating to one another, and he finally said \o
the interpreter: 'What do they meant What are
they talking aboutV The interpreter said: 'They
say that rock don't belong here.' The major said:
'The hell it don't. You say to those foreigners that
I won't stand for them coining over here and running
down our country. Tell them that they can find any
thing anywhere in Colorado.'
''The Frenchmen were right, however, for this
black rock wag a meteor and had fallen from the
skies."
SHIP ME 80MEWHERE1
Ship me somewhere west of Kansas, where the earth's
not crowded so
Where they have about four people to each square mile,
you know
Where the atmosphere's been washed and dried and
ironed so Bmooth and fine
That it seems a happy foretaste of some elixir divine.
For I'm siok of all these* people, swarming-, sweltering
to and fro,
Side of twenty-storied scrapfrs, and the stony streets
below
About this time each year gomes, that longing-, bacfc
to me,
For those spaces west of Zfanpas, where tfcey stretch out
wide and free.
Oh. love the locomotive, when her head is pointed west.
And her wheels are swift revolving-, it Is' then I love
her best
Past the lake front at Chicago, -cornfields rich of "old
Mizzoo,"
Past the bluffs at Kansas City, westward portals rolling*
through.
When my long day's work is over, and I toil and moil
no more,
Don't plant me in the sodden earth upon this fogey shore
Ship me somewhere west of Kansas, where the great
plains onward sweep
Neath the shadow of the Rockies it is still, and I
Shall sleep.
Minnie J: Reynolds in New York Press.
MMMWmPW&m
OPPOSE USE OF AIGRETTES
In a letter written by President
Roosevelt to William Dutcher presi
dent of the National Association of
Audubon societies recently made pub
lic the president speaking for both
himself and Mrs. Roosevelt expresses
hearty sympathy with the efforts the
society is making to prevent the sale
and use of white heron plumes com
monly known as aigrettes, which are
worn on women's hats. Mr. Dutcher,
in a letter to the president, said that
Queen Alexandra of England had re
cently publicly made known her dis
approval of the use of the plumes, and
suggested that a similar expression
from Mrs. Roosevelt would do more
toward abolishing them as millinery or
naments than- months of work by the
Audubon societies. The president's
letter in reply was as follows:
"My Dear Mr. Dutcher: Permit me
on behalf of both Mrs. Roosevelt and
myself, to say how heartily we sympa
thize} not only with the work of the
Audubon societies generally, but par
ticularly in their effortB to stop the
sale and nse of the so-called 'aigrettes*
the plumes of the white herons. If
anything, Mrs. Roosevelt feels even
more strongly than I, do in the matter.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) "Theodore Roosevelt.
"Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 18."
WOMAN IN BUSINESS
Is the woman in business a success?
Club women, league members and
women theorists who never earned a
dollar say "Yes." So do some of the
serious workers^women who have
made places for themselves which many
men would envy.
Also employers say "no."
l'"
But on the average the only person
who really does not know and appar
ently does not care is the business
-woman herself. She Is really too -Irasy
Succeeding to give a thought to
whether or not she is a success.
When you want to know the exact
economic standing of the woman in
business, you do^jiot take the 'Word- of
the club enthusiast nor the president
of a working girls' club, nor the rabid
union man who insists that women are
responsible for the lowering of wages,
nor the*' employer who hires young
women by the thousand because he can
keep down, his salary roll in that way,
.hat^ton secure t&ef-view of ten or a
Mrs, Le Jeune*8 Pudding
MBsittingDi"apartment.
AN MBS. _FREDEIC^*LEJrETJNE were
the-dining rooni of. .their" pretty little
uptown The 'furniture was all new
and pretty, the table was neatly laid with silver,
glass, snowy linen and a vase of flowers, but Mrs. Le
Jeun looked tired and disheveled.- Her hair did not
look as if it had been combed, and she did not appear,
to have dressed for dinner. Mary, the maid, was
bringing in the soup.
"Freddie, dear1'
"No, I oan't eat a thing," replied the wife wearily.
"I 'm not hungry."
Mr. Le Je1me
dozen representative' employers of
women and strike an ayerage of a com
posite opinion. And the composite
shows "no" in distinct outline, with
only a faint waveftng sline of assents,
like vignetting around the negative.
For the last ten years women have
had many new avenues of business
thrown open to them. Has this led to
advancement!
Employers say "no."
Does the future of women in busi
ness look brighter
Menand womenwho employ her
say no" again.
Someone rises to remark: "But I
know a woman who has
"^e all know "a" woman who has
succeeded, but this' article is dealing
with "the woman in business" as a
class as compared with "the man in
business" as a class.
WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS
A bride who finds a spider on her
wedding dress may consider herself
blessed.
The bride who dreams of fairies
the night before her marriage will be
thrice blessed.
If the wedding ring is dropped dur
ing the ceremony, the bride may as
well wish herself unborn, for she will
always haye ill luck.
If the bridegroom carries a minia
ture horseshoe in his pocket he will
always have good luck.
No bride' or bridegroom should be
given a telegranni on the way to
church. It is positively a sign of evil.
Kiss a bride right after the cere
mony, and before the newly-made
husband has a chance to- do so, and
yon will haye excellent lutsk thruout
the year.
Should** bride ^etehanoe see a cof
fin while being driven to the rail
way station prior to her departure upon
her wedding' tour, She should order
the driver to" turn Bagfe and start over
again, or else she will surely meet with
bad luck. i
tn cases. oM si?fcness, when disin
fectants are needed in sinks And basins,
use carbolic acid, allowing four table
spoonfuls to each pint of cold water.
Pour down "the'* pipes 'Janxl let it remain
half an hour before flushing.
~t| $
A whisk Or small dusting brush is
the best iqx aweejeiiyE ttaiat e4jGpet%
D.l.clW. Pag*
MINNEAPOLIS^OUKNAITSJ*^
said MTS. lie- Jeune, "yon can't
imagine how tired I am. I've worked in the kitchen
all the afterrioon, making pudding for dinner. I made
it every bit myself, out of riiy 'new cookbook that
Aunt Maria gave me for a weddirig present."
"Couldn't Mary make it?" inquired Mr. Le Jeune.
Mrs. lie Jeune paused a moment before replying.
Then she said with a slight accession of dignity: "Of
course, Mary could make it. But I wanted to make
it myselffor you. Don't you want your wife to
know how to eookf"
"Sure," said Mr. Le Jeune '"every woman ought
to know how to cook. What's that on the front of
your dress?"
Mrs. Le Jeune scratched the front of her shirtwaist
with her finger nail.
"Oh," said she, "that's only a little egg that spat
tered on while I was beating it."
"What's the matter with your hair?" inquired
Mr. Le Jeune.
Well, I didn't have time xto eomb it before din-
ner," said Mrs. Le Jeune, a trifle coldly. I was busy
with the pudding."
"Did mother call today??' said Mr. Le Jeune, who
seemed to have a thirst for information.
"Yes,* ^replied his wife, "but I just couldn see
her. I had to send down word that I was out."
Mr. Le Jeune looked grave." "But isn't this your
day at home?" he queried.
"Of course it is," said Mrs. Le Jeune, somewhat
impatiently, "but what could I. do? If I had seen
her I wouldn't have had time to make the pudding.''
I know,'* responded her husband, "but it's rather
hard on the mater. Would jyybaye been )he same if it
had been your mother?"
"No, of course it wouldn't., My mother could have
come out in the kitchen with'me. Would you have
had your mother see me looking like this?"
Mr. Le Jeune ate in silence.
"Mary," said Mrs. Le Jeune*."you might just bring
In that pudding now. I'll be serving it while Mr. Le
Jeune is finishing his roast."
"But aren't you going tot eat any meat?" ex
claimed Mr. Le Jeune. 1..
leaned back in his chair, knife and
fork in hand. *f 1
"But, my dear girl,'J said he, "it certainly isn't
much pleasure for*'-me, to ea^ while, you, are eating
nothing.*' /-.'&'
"Oh, fo* goodness sake, don't urge me, Freddie,"
said Mrs, Le. Jeune pettishly I couldn't eat a
#outhfu T}i smell of the "cjp^dng all the afternoon
has ta|enTaway aH my appetite'-*
"Ybn met^riHj.iare so anions to see the ihsfde of
that piidding that you can'tjaop to eat," said Mr.
La- Jeune, sapiently.
"Well, Fifed," said Mrs. Le Jeune, with dignity,
I eertainly,think it is unnecessary for you to ridicule
jne just because it's the first pudding I ever made."
Mr. Le Jeune laid down b^is knife and fork. "My
"dear girl! I ridicule you 1" }be exclaimed.
"It has taught me a lesson," she continued, swal
lowing hard. "Ill never tellyou again when I make
.anything. Why should I? I didn't make any differ
ence to you whether I made it, or Mary."
At that moment Mary brought the pudding and
placed it before Mrs. Le Jeune. Mrs. Le Jeune tried
to cut it with a silver knife. *v*Mary," said she, with
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE IN 'EISCO SOCIETY.
"Good morning. Fancy meeting you!"The Sketch.
authority, "you might just- bring me the carving
knife."
Mary brought the knife, which Mrs. Le Jeune man
ipulated.
"It cuts perfectly easy," she observed, somewhat
defiantly.
"Well, I didn't say anything," said Mr. Le Jeune.
Mrs. Le Jeune served the pudding and watched Mr.
Le Jeune as he took his first mouthful. Then she
suddenly burst into tears. "You don't Uke it," she
sobbed, hysterically.
"My dear girl, I think it's delicious," said Mr.
Le Jeune.
"You don't any such thing," said Mrs. Le Jeune
I was watching your fade. I guess I know the ex
pressions of your face. I was a fool to make it for
you. I m-might have known you wouldn't like it.
And I t-tried so h-hard, and now you don't Mike it,"
she finished pathetically.
She put her face in her handkerchief and sobbed.
Mr. Le Jeune rose, his napkin falling to the floor.
He went around the table, put his arm around Mrs.
Le Jeune, pulled her head over on his shoulder, and
smiled inscrutably as he patted her velvet cheeks.*
New York Press.
STBANGE
TJ XLARY A. ADAIR, the well-known western deteet
ive, said in Chicago, apropos of certain suspicious
circumstances that had enabled him to detect a bank
robber:
I deserve but little credit. The circumstanees
pointed to bnt one ill-omened conclusion. They wer*
unmistakable. They were**like an incident that hap
pened the other day to a dear friend.
"My friend, as he sat at breakfast, looked up to
see his wife smiling at him tenderly and playfully.
I mended the hole in your vest pocket last night
while vou were asleep,' she said. 'Am I not, darling, a
careful little housewife?'
'Perhaps,' said my friend darkly. 'But how did
you know there was a hole in my vest pocket?'
ADVICE TO DISTRESSED MAGNATES
When merg-ers cease to dazzle and trusts to startle folks,
When railroad combinations are looked upon as jokes.
When libraries aren't wanted to train our girls and boys.
And something mustbedona to make a new supply of noise.
One card is left, so
plarespect,
it.
To hold the worldT
Succumb to Art's attraotion
Collect,
Collect^
Collect!
Buy np the priceless painting*, at .each artistic mart,
And soon you'll be an expert on Early Flemish Art
About your "taste in pictures the world will loudly chant
If you can buy a masterpiece that other people can't.
No matter if, in secret
More merit you detect
In illustrated postals
Collect,
Collect,
Collect!
Tou may, perhaps, no knowledge of .classic pictures sport.
You may not know a Rembrandt from a Homer Dav
enport,
Tou may be cold and callous when Raphaels you see,
And think a word like Corot has the acoent on tne-"t/*
No matter, ..pay your passage
To realms of the elect
Art's long", but wealth is longer
Collect,
Collect,
Collect!
Thomas R. Tbarra in New York Times.
WOMEN AS INVENTORS
In reply to the charge that women
are lacking in mechanical ingenuity,
writes Rene Bache in Technical World
Magazine for August, it is asserted
that many of the most valuable inven
tions patented by men in reality rep
resent ideas conceived in the brains of
their -wri-ves, their sisters and their
daughters. Eli Whitney's famous eot
ton-gin is said to have been merely
the application of a device first thought
out by a womanto* widow of General
Nathaniel Greene.
The "Coston bight," which is used
by our life-saving service, and by mar
iners all over the world for signaling
at nightit burns like red flreis a
woman's invention. So, likewise, is
the paper bag with a satchel bottom,
which is the idea of Miss M. E. Knight.
The machine by which "comb founda-
tion," as it is called, for beehives, is
made, was patented by Frances A. Dun
ham, in 1881. It saves bees half the
labor of honeycomb construction by
turning out wax sheets, which, sus
pended in the hives, serves as a basis
to build the combs upon. But the most
wonderful point about the eontrivanee
is that the cells outlined in relief on
the wax being all of "worker" size,
those of them that are utilized by the
insects for nursery purposes will pro
duce only worker bees, thus avoiding
the propagation of idle drones.
MBS. McCLUBO A CAPTAIN
Mrs. Ogden McClurg, a well-known
society woman in Chicago, received
"final papers" last week in the lake
marine service from Captain Mansfield^
and she is now captain, pilot and mas-:
ter. She is said to be the first woman
to pass examination and obtain such
certificates on the chain of great lakes,*] miserable and woe-begone as all the
I906.
Are all the women in the world sad?
I couldn't help asking that question
as I rode home the other afternoon.
In the opposite corner of the car sat
a tall, thin women. She wore specta
cles, and her mouth was pulled down
sourly at the corners.
Next her was a plump little ereature
whom nature intended, by all odds, to
be merry but her mouth, too, drooped
dolefully at the corners, and more sor
rowful aBpect never sat on a counte
nance so rounded and rosy.
The woman next was positively
mournful. I almost wept to look at
her. If she had not carried a well
packed shopping-bag I should have
sworn Bhe was on the way to the funer
al of her best earthly friend.
As I looked along this spectacle of
misery stretched opposite me, from one
end of the ear to the other, I could not
see a single expression to justify the
belief that any one of those women
found life'worth living.
I know there are many women un
happy in their home life, disappointed
in their ambitions, restless and discon
tented because idle, or sad for some
other' reason. But could it be that
'without a single exception every one
of these women had found life a hol
low sham 'Did not one of them have
interests or friends who made living
worth while Was it possible that all
of them were as miserable as they
looked!.-^
Then suddenly I sat np with a start.
"How about your own mouth, my
lady!" I asked myself. "You are
neither a neglected wife, nor a friend
less woman. You have dear, people, and
work and books, many ioys, and much
cause-to be glad. Yethow about your
'own mouth?"
I. didn't need to feel at the corners.
5ft was down/ down^ down I It was as
Captain McClurg knows more abouty
rigging and masts and other things^
nautical than .many men captains, the^
authorities say. She has been sr neighbors who reviled me, friends who
sailor'' with her husband for several
years, and during the past few week
she has been preparing for the examina"^ .rows that pursued me night and day.
tion at the* Chicago Nautical school,
under Lieutenant Wilson, government
hydrographic exneft. She iB now cap
tain of the Sea Fox, the McClurg steam
yacht of seventy-five tons. ^.,.^r^
Whiting or ammonia in the water is
preferable to soap for cleaning windows
ar.jjaint', -.-_j.
rest. If the woman opposite had been
sizing me up, she must, have concluded
that. had a husband who be at me,
turned their backs upon me, dread se
erets that preyed upon me, and sor-
-I* have- seen -myself in the glass -when
I looked exactly that way, at which
times I am asually quite well and
happy. '.'Tt'S the wiry with we women. No
doubt every one of the women oppo
site me had .as much cause to look
happy as J. Yet there we all sat, like
fiaxoel.oi hxsocritaa* loofctae a if
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A String of Good Stories
si "I eannot tsll hew the truth nriaylbej--,^/
say the tale as 'twas told to me."
ALL TOOK HIS TIME
AMES E. SULLIVAN,' the American commissione*
.to the Olympic games, tells this story:
!.."-j A great Greek .traveler once visited Constant!
nople and was entertained At dinner by the German,
ambassador.
"The party was a distinguished one, and after the
sherbets and sweetmeats had been supplanted by the
their servants. They did not malign their servants,
as is the custom with us. Qn the contrary, they boast
ed about them.
"And more loudly and more fervently than, aay
one else did the Greek traveler boast about his servant,
Kouros.
'I assure you,' said the traveler finally, 'that
my servant, Kouros, an old campaigner, can be dis
patched on an errand to any part of the city and I
will tell you to an instant the time of his return.'
"Some slight incredulity was expressed, and th
traveler at once sent for Kouros.
'Kouros,' he said, 'go to the tobacconist's by
the Stamboul bridge and bring me a box of cigars, the
usual brand. Here is the money.'
"Kouros bowed and disappeared. The traveler,
taking out his watch and holding it in his hand, then
said confidently:
'Now, gentlemen, he is leaving the house. Now
he is at the end of the street. Now he enters the
tobacconist's. Now he is served. Now he is return
ing at full speed. Now, gentlemen, he is here
Excellency t' the servant responded, and amid
an intense silence he entered the room with the cigars
in his hand.
"Most of the guests praised highly the unwavering
diligence of the Greek servant, but an old pasha, sip
ping his thick, black coffee and smoking his hubble
bubble, caressed his long white beard thoughtfully and
said:
'This that we have seen is very fine, but disci
pline among servants of the faithful is quite as good
and perhaps a little better. With my own servant, All,
I will now duplicate this Grecian feat.'
"Accordingly he summoned Ali, gave him money
and dispatched him to the tobacconist's for cigars.
"Then, watch in hand, he, like the Greek, said:
'Now he leaves the house. Now he runs thru
the street of the Minarets. Now he crosses over. Now
he enters the tobacconist's. Now he is served. Now
he is returning. Now he is hereAli!'
'EffendiT' Ali answered, quietly entering the
room.
"There was a burst of applause but the pasha
said with a frown:
'Where are the cigars?*
'His excellency's slave,' said Ali, bowing, 'has
not yet found his slippers.' "Chicago Chronicle.
A HOT ONB.
GOVERNOCitySTOKESAugust
BY POLLY PEN N.
of New Jersey said at At
lantic on an night:
"How cool and pleasant it is here. The waves
crash oa the beach with a musical sound. The wind,
salt-laden and pure, is more refreshing and strength
ening than, any tonic.
"It is different in Arizona in the rammer. It is
BO hot in Arizona fa August that heat storiei of an
almost incredible sort are bandied abont.
"They say that a Jerseyman onee went to Ari
cona for his health. He settled in Yuma, and, by
keeping a wet towel tied around his head and bath
ing every hour, he managed to pull thru the first few
months of Yuma's intolerable climate. After that
he got accustomed to the heat. He seemed to thrive
on it.
A few years passed, and one July the man was
so unwise as to take a business trip east. He had
hardly gotten as far as Chicago when an attack of
pneumonia seized him. To be brief, he died of double
pneumonia, superinduced by exposure, in two days.
"The man's 1 friends -decided to cremate the body.
They took it to a crematory, wrapped it in' a sheet,
and consigned ittsadly tq the white heat of the great
oven.
to
"Then they waited' fa the antechamber. When
the usual time had elapsed they gathered around to
receive the ashes of their friend.
"An attendant opened the great oven door, and,
to the surprise of all, the man from Yuma sat np in
his white sheet and shivered and said:
'Shut that doorl I never felt such a draught!***
THE OHTJBOH BAZAAR.
R. HENRY VAN DYKE, the famous author, cler
gyman and teacher of Princeton, was talking
one day about the best way for churches to raise
money. Apropos of bazaars, he said:
"There was a canny old Scots minister who said
one day from the pulpit, with a dry smile:
'Weel, friends, the kirk stands urgently, in need
of siller, and, as we have failed to get it honestly,
we must e'en see now what a bazaar can do for
us.'
What8 the Matter with Feminine Faces?
we believed the world to be a wretched
place, and none so miserable as wel
I wondered how it would affect vm
if a voice had spoken in the car and
Baid to each of us: "All yon cared
for is goneyour loved ones, your
home, your work, every joy in life, if
taken from you." I do not believe
any of us could have looked more dis
consolate.
What the woman, across the aisle
thought I don't know. I saw her eye
ing me suspiciously as the corners of
my good-sized mouth began to curve
up, and the one dimple with whieh nig
gardly nature has gifted me came out
and twinkled in my cheek.
All the way home I grinned like A
modified Cheshire eat.
FACTS ABOUT FORKS
Table forks are a comparatively mod
ern invention. They have been in gen
eral use only during the last few hun
dred years. They were first used by
the Italians as early as the twelfth
century but it was net until the end
of the fifteenth that they cams into
general use. In other countries at that
time the use of table forks was consid
ered a contemptuous vice, and in 1450
Marine praised the king of Hungary for
eating with his fingers without soiling
his clothes. In the sixteenth century
forks were not used in Sweden, and
at the end of the same century they
were novelties at the French court,
where the French beauties soiled their
dainty fingers in oonveying their food
to their mouths.
GiBL SLAVES I N OHUTA
A native writer in a Chinese publica
tion remarks: "When a girl is sold in
China she becomes the skive of her
owner and a part of his property. She
no longer retains her free-born rights.
but surrenders them all to the will of
those, who own her. She receives no
compensation for her labor, but is
obliged to aeeept such raiment sad
food, as her owners may be pleased to
give* her. In cases of tyranny or gros*
cruelty she cannot appeal for redress.
SBe majrhe resold, given away or cast
off in" the streets at the arbitrary will
of her master. All freedom is denied
her^Xnd"she-remains a tool and"chattel
in the hands of her owner until she is
sold again or until death reltasea fcftt
from, hex sawilliajc fat*f*f 1.
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