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A Philosopher."?
Askitt—Why do you consider Smiley
a philosopher? Noltt—Because of his
ability to bear other people's troubles
with fortitude.—Kansas City Independ­
ent.
Costly In Human Lives.
In ancient times the great engineer­
ing works were costly in human lives.
The making of the Red sea canal is
•aid to have involved the loss of no
fewer than 120,000 Egyptians. Buc­
kle's examination made him believe the
number to have been somewhat exag­
gerated, but he gives it as still a snide
to the enormous waste of human life
In those days. The men who kept 2,000
slaves engaged for three .vein's bring­
ing a single stone from Eleplsan^
tine to, the pyramids did not cu:-o a
great deal so long as' In the twenty
years in which one of the pyramids
was building there were forthcoming
the 360,000 men required for the work.
Thoughtful.
"Lady with a flashy paste necklace
wants to know whether it's pure dia­
mond or not," said the jeweler's shop­
man.
"Look like married woman?" in­
quired the jeweler.
"Yes, sir."
"Tell her it Is. No use making trou­
ble for poor husbands these hard
times."—London Telegraph.
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Hard Luok.
Tired Tatters—I, saw de new moon
over the left shoulder las' night. I
wonder wot dat's a sign us? Weary
Walker—It's a sign dat de nex* place
youse ask fer work youse'll git It.—Chi­
cago News. ^-y
A Baby.
A baby—that which makes poms
happier, love stronger, patience great­
er, hands busier, nights longer, days
shorter, the past forgotten, the future
brighter.—Rupert's Magazine.:,
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t'wfe.
The more a man denies himself the
more he will receive from heaven.—
Horace.
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tlfJNSECT PLAGUE.
'Yh® Mosqliitees That Infest the Region
of Lake Ny/iesa.
In his' book 'SFrom the Cape to
Cairo" E. S. Grogan writes: '"The
Kungu fly, which is peculiar to jLako
Nyassa, resembles small May flies,
#nd at certain seasons of the year they
jrise from the water in such stupendous
clouds that they blot out (he whole
horizon. Seen in the distance they
have exactly the appearance of a rafn
storm coming across the lake. When
they are blown landward they make
every place uninhabitable by the
stench which arises from the countless
millions that lodge and die on every
inch of sheltered ground. I myself
have seen them lying a foot deep in
a room, and I was told that they are
often much worse. The natives sweep
them up and make cakes of them.
"Biting and poisonous ants are an­
other pest, but the mosquito is the
great enemy of man. It was abso­
lutely necessary to turn in half an
hour before sunset and to make all
the preparations for the night. I piled
all my belongings r©und the edge of
my net and kept a green wood fire
burning at each end, ajad then I lay
inside, smoked the native tobacco and
prayed for morning. As soon as the
sun went down the mosquitoes started
operations.
"It was like having a tame whirl­
wind in one's tent. They could not
possibly have been worse. Every
night 200 or 300 contrived to enter my.
net—I have no idea how. The most
pernicious and poisonous kind was a
very small black mosquito that might
possibly have penetrated the mesh. I
used to turn out in the morning per­
fectly dazed from the amount of poi­
son that had been injected during the
night"
CUNNING OF MUSKRATS.
Foresight With Which These Animals
Build Winter Homes.
In the'month of March, before the
rivers have opened, on the snow around
the heads 'of the creeks and about the
airholes In the thick Ice may be seen
the curious trail of the muskrat. It
can readily be recognized by the firmly
planted footmarks, heavily and slowly
impressed, and the sharp after drag of
the long, scaly, bladelike tall. All
through the cold winter months these
heavily furred animals have lived
warm and comfortable in their well
constructed houses, rearing their third
and last litter. One house erected
about September seemed planned with
almost human foresight. Here, with
their long, sharp teeth and strong, inch
long claws, they had cut and cleared
wide paths through all the marshes
paths so deep that three feet of ice did
not close them, so wide that we have
often paddled along them, marveling
at the great flotyting masses of torn up
aquatic vegetation. These paths were
a hundred, yards long and' four feet
wide and were cut through a mass of
tangled Cover high enough in most
places to thoroughly conceal a duck
hunter and his canoe. In the winter
months the muskrats can easily dive
from their houses into these under Ice
channels, -.and. the whole marsh is be­
fore them to choose their meal from.
The long yellow roots of the flag and
the juicy tubers of the wild onion (the
inu8krat apple Is the more poetic Ojib
way) hang exposed before them or are
readily torn outr-Bonnycastle Dale In
..Outing Magazine.
The American Sailor.
It is related of Commodore Decatur
that after he had tamed the Barbary
powers, whose energies had been re­
awakened while the war of 1812 kept
our navy busy, he set out in his flfig
shlp, the Guerrlere, to make his way
'across the Mediterranean unattended
and suddenly found himself in the
•midst of one of the corsair fleets which
had remained in a neutral port during
fhostilities. The situation looked rather
Usually. The corsair admiral hailed,
'jJWfcat sheep Is dat?" "The United
States ship Guerrlere, Commodore De­
catur," was. the reply. "Where you
golfig?" was the next question. "Where
I please!" thundered Decatur through
the speaking trumpet, and the Guer­
rlere proceeded unmolested. Boston
Transcript.
Man's Walk Shows Age.
"You can tell a man's age by his
hands," said one of the girls. "They
.get knotty and veined and terrible.
They get old sooner than his face."
"You can tell it most of all, I think,"
said the woman, "by his walk. I know
a man who has been one of the bright­
est minds of his time who is still the
best company I know," but the other
day when I saw him come toward me
at his home along the hall it made me
awfully sad to see the heavy, old, old
way in which he walked."—New York
Press.
Insipid Company.
Low spirits are my true and faith­
ful companions. They get up with me,
go to bed with me, make journeys and
returns as I do nay, and pay visits
-and will even affect to be jocose and
force a feeble laugh with me, but most
"ft commonly we sit alone together and
are the prettiest insipid company In
the world.—Thomas Gray.
In a Hurry.
"How did your wife like that new
hat you got her?'
"She was speechless with delight."
"Say, where can I get one like it
for mine?"—Cleveland Leader.
Agreed.
Wife—I'd rather starve .than cook.
Husband—I'd rather starve than have
you cook.—Harper's' Weekly.
Every action is measured by the
depth of the sentiment from which it
proceeds.—Emerson.
WANTED THE QIEfLETS,
Herd Island, in the same seas, is
far more isolated as well as more bar­
ren, but it possesses, as does Hog, a
shelter hut for castaways, and it is
visited by whalers occasionally. So,
too, is South Georgia, but it has no
shelter hut, and as it Is right out of
the track of shipping any one unlucky
enough to be cast away thereon would
stand a very poor chapce of ever."'get­
ting off alive.
Bouvet island, in the same seas, is
visited even more^rarely, and on the
last occasion wl^i .a ship touched
there five corpses were found frozen
on the beach, grim mementos of some
unrecorded tragedy of the sea. Pos­
session island, in its turn, Is still
lonelier and more inhospitable than
Bouvet.
But probably the palm in this direc­
tion must be ascribed to Dougherty
island, on which, so far as is known,
no landing has ever been effected. It
has only been sighted twice in a cen­
tury and is officially described in the
admiralty sailing directions as "the
most remote and Isolated spot on
earth."—Pearson's Weekly.
The/tAII Thought About Alike.
Three 'Hired" citizens—a lawyer, a
doctor and a newspaper man—sat In a
back room in the gray light of the
early dawn. On the table were many
empty bottles and a couple of packs
of cards. As they sat in silence a
rat scurried across the hearth into
the darkness beyond. The three men
shifted their feet and looked at each
other uneasily. After a long pause
the lawyer spoke. "I know what you
fellows are thinking,?' he said "you
think I thought I saw- a rat, but. I
didn't.'*—Argonaut
C. R. CHAPMAN
Trav. Pass. Agent, ST.' PAUL.
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An Incident of Revolutionary Days
South Carolina.
There are innumerable stories of
Revolutionary days in Charleston. The
old ladies used to tell with glee how,
when the British were supposed to be
out of the way, the young fellow's
would come home to dance with them.
A message would go to the nearest
cousins and friends and a supper be
cooked. It might be only rice ahd ba­
con, but it was good to hungry men,
declares Charleston's historian,
Ravenal. The dance and the
would continue until the stars
pale.
Mrs.
feast
grew
Often these merrymakings were dis­
turbed by.the enemy, but there was al­
ways a negro or two oh the watch, and
the harsh note of the screetch owl or
the cry of the whippoorwill would give
the alarm, then "partings in hot
haste," a rush for the horses, a sharp
scuffle,* a hot pursuit and perhaps a
prisoner taken.
The young men had odd adventures.
One young fellow betrayed himself by
his appetite. He was pursued and had
taken shelter at Mrs. Motte's place, on
South Santee. She rolled him up In a
carpet jind, pushing It against the wall,
told him to keep quiet until the enemy
had gone and she could release him.
Unluckily he heard through the open
window his hostess giving directions to
the cook about the chickens which
were to be dresspd for the dragoons'
dinner. He could not bear to be left
out and thrust, his head from the car­
pet chrysalis and cri$d out "Keep the
giblets for me!"
The soldiers heard, and he was at
once caught and carried off to repent
at leisure of his indiscretion.
Q9UGHERTY ISLAND.
It I* th« Most Remote and Desolate
Spot on Earth.
Which Is the loneliest, -most desolate
and most Inaccessible island on the
face of the globe?, .Many, people would
doubtless plump for one of the Crozets,
in the South Atlantic ocean. Ahd yet
Hog Inland, the westernmost of the
group, is by no means an undesirable
place of residence, abounding as It
does in hares and rabbits, penguins,
albatrosses and sea elephants.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
THE.CAMEQ.111
It Get* Its Name From the Cuttinfl^a
Not From the Stone. .5®
The'true nature of a cameo is verym
•much misunderstood by the public gen
erally. Most people think it is the stone
itself, whpn In rieality the method 6t
cutting is what
produces
the cameo.
The real meaning of the word is un-'
known, Its derivation having jpever
been discovered but, correctly speak«1
lng, cameos are small "sculptures, exei-5
cuted in low relief on some substanc
precious either for its beauty, rarity or{
hardness.'
There are emerald cameos, turquolse
cameos, shell caineos, coral cameos.]
indeed, any substance that lends Itself
to carving in such minute- detail can*!
be used for cameo cutting, and nearly^
all precious stones, except diamonds,
have been so used for Intaglios, but
never for cameos. Emerald is the most
common precious stone from which
cameos have been made, and there are
wme very fine emerald portrait cam
eos inv existence, notably those of.
Queen Elizabeth in the British muse­
um. Shell cameos'were first made In,
the fifteenth century.
Banded onyx is generally used for'
cameo work because of its hardness
and coloring, and It Is this fact that has
caused the misapprehension, the stone
being used so much in' making cameos
that it has now become better known
as "cameo" than by Its right name.—•
St Louis Globe-Democrat
ANIMAL TRAITS.
Reminders In the Foal and the Calf of
Their Wild Ancestors.
It is an interesting study to note in
domestic animals the traits of their
wild ancestors. There are some char
acteristics, of course, which are readily
recognizable as being simU^r, to those
of animals still In a wild state, and
for this reason they give a fair idea of
the life and surroundings of progenia
tors. The habits of the dog and cat
are too familiar to comment on, but 1
take the foal,and compare his traita!
with those of the calf.
The foal when a few days old can
gallop as fast as he ever can in after
life. He never leaves the dam and
takes nourishment in small quantities, 4
avoiding a full meal, which would im,
pede swift escape. In lying down no
attempt is made at concealment and
when he stands his head is held high.
These habits show that the animal's
ancestors spent their lives in the open
and not in the forests and that they
were great travelers.
AT NORFOLK, VA. ,„
Tickets are on sale daily until November 30th *to
Norfolk, Va. and return at various -rates according
to length of limit desired. Choice of many routes
going and returning, This is a
Splendid Opportunity
The calf, on the contrary, fills him- .J.
self with milk and Is a poor traveler.
When danger approaches his first im
pulse is to conceal himself. He holds -jf
his head low in order to look under
the branches of the forest. All his
characteristics point to the fact that
the ancestral home of cattle was in a
moist, wooded country, while the
primeval horse roamed the plains.—/^
London Chronicle.
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Two Chinamen, brothers, well
vanced in age, quarreled over a piece*'
of land which they had jointly inherit
ed from their father and went to law.
The native magistrate heard the testi
mony on both sides and determined
that both were wrong and both right,
according to the different points at I
view. Therefore, instead of rendering
a Judgment in favor of either, he order­
ed that both be locked up in a cangqe
with their heads fastened face to
face and kept there until they settled|
their quarrel. The cangue is a sort Off
cage in which prisoners are placed]
With their necks locked into a hole in a|
board. It resembles somewhat
stocks which were used for the punish^
ment of malefactors In olden times,!
When the brothers -were placed ln tbsf
cangue, they were both very stubborn!
and Indignant, but toward the end
off
the second day they began to
weaken^
and on the third day reached a satte*^
factory settlement and were released.
Agent, Worthington, Mint?* I