The new South-news., September 02, 1905, Image 6

About The new South-news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1905-1909

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be film
eluded, r
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>g the thou:
••Roi» roil
not chi
nr:k.
Impôt
w hl
wan Ami I will «
the f* I« nt Ms bon
happily, thl
white dress
Christine over
•e h
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to nli
at
if tip
liking n
she w.i
comfort
Flic did h
W ith « «Hifi '
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f«i
mad«« Iter prepm
In th«* h< nt« d Mtrlu-n, but li
ip< n< d into a
not
little
diced
nienecs. inntcrlals
n Msh
that
ron
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porch
d uten
She tn
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•(••rtrti the don-, h fr«»m the
rt to the board, and had
wh« n
pen door
Sfi« film* <1 m l î « w a
>oun$
Juat l»' gun to » "I! If Inf" flame
Hut«* v n« ii i. n »• I at th«*
behind her.
good looking
ml! gr
admiring,
continued
looking at c n h «Plier In sllenc«« f«*r
a f«»w rc'OH'Ih and tin n he said' to
man regarding
ffilaehlf'vi
her with
h They
*'Ar«*n t you Chrl tine W« n«!on
"Ycr,"
rcrnll—"
•'What
!
j
»!;<■ replied, "but i do not
Have you for rot ten
vour old frien t if h Thornb'vî" h«* ex
claimed reproTcb fully.
Hhe smiled Incredulously.
'You a i * let Roll Thorn' « though |
'«mg resemhh
admit then« I * a
1 inn li
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You Dili t bo n r* » »
"You are right M
Wen don
John St 't i* y, Butt's < "»i in
fuMjiH'ntly mlataken f«u
oven by t» e pc.ple who fin
bat I conn
We
«ach other j
tow uh well.
I« down and !
j
lie
b
* if you
"I am glad to nn
fey," die said,
rannot abandon
Rtace or its
g«> through tfi.c house t
d t In
III Join you as «oon an
on. Mr. Stun |
i sorry that l i
'and I a
nt the pr« -■ ut i
\'.ll
the 1
house t«» !
If yo
p'
nit ting-room,
the porch, I
1 can "
or are
.'' he re
1 ran . the bell,
"But 1 prefer to slay her
plied, pb-ndhigly
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"And Rob com»« horn« today!"
res|Htndcd, so l Inveatlgat
you st
I »atch you make plesT
ard no
cd the kitchen precincts
,,,
fau t I stav
We shouldn't be fvirn til. y ou know,
long as 1 am a cousin of Robs,
and he and jou such friends "
"Very well. Will you please get a
chair from the kitchen*"
"No. I like this
seat lug hlmaelf on the broad sill of
the wlndvtw. and watching her deftly
"thin the crust."
as
he replied.
He thought that
cool and dainty looking
she was very
the blue ruffled Gretchen apron,
with the sleeve» rolled up to her dim
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Came up to him, gmlllng.
tilling the Interruption,
m> J* sting as yours. He
• I h his hair differently-—"
w* - < 1 ? you must tmve ob
tinued,
"uml not
'Poll
have kept his line
ory remarkably well."
The pink flush that crept over Chris
tine's face was most delicious and
fascinating Id watch,
"Why, you see, he was over here
every «lay since I «*an remember up
to four years ago, and since then he
has H«nt
f
I {< » I » v« / clos« ly, and you niust
ents In your mem
I
pictures of himself at
fr«'<|uent intcTvnls. but why dhln't he
come down with you?"
"Why, we only arrived ft couple of
hours ago. an«l his mother wanted
him to »-uperintend th«* d«*coratlons for
to-night, so he suggest«*«! that 1 coine
md see if you would not mis
but oh. Is that the
n she
if
«[««wn
ko me for him
iy you do It?" ho ashed
li ted Hi«- dough to the tins and trim
' m«*d off th«- superfluous edg* s.
Didn't you ever see a pie made bo
j
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foreT''
Not In w ar*. Wliat are y m golnt;
j to rut In tt 7"
•'Clierrlt'«."
• My favorite .>to!
Christine laughed and
the shelves i
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May I stay to
i lunch«'On?'
"Th«- 1 «' are for dinner tn-rdght."
1 "And l can't come down then." he
! said In such aggrieve«! tones
»nt to
. that
one of
and took «low a a little !
patty pi
"1'U make you a little pie all for
>our own, and you can take it home
I
Ith
"Really?" he asked In delightful ]
at chin g her prepare it. She '
I put it with - tho larger ««-•*• In th*»
1 oven and then began the making of
a salad dressing.
j When the pie wn« pronounce«!
"«'on«»." he ruefully decbir* d Hint ho -
must depart
They told mo they needed my help |
! and l was not to stay but a minute.
That remind > me Rob said to ask you
! to save him tho first ami last I
■
i "Tell him* !• will."
j "If you gi\e him two. I think you
i ni "ht be as gen« vous with me. Will
you g ve me two?"
! l '«ill gl\e >ou one." she replied
! « rvurely
J Ami will you come early to-night?"
ho asked eagerly.
anxious to see Rob."
Throughout the day her thoughts
ere as much with th«» handsome
vith her old soMxdfcllow
When Mr. and Mrs Thornley and
1 their son Rob stood in receiving at
titude Ip the doorway that night, «»ne
Ctrl'. It as
Rob
felt himself Invaded by a thrill as sh«
forgive the
,,, of the late arrivals was Christine, a
slender, graceful girl in white.
a
of
t ame up to hint. stuiHng
"Christine will you
i joke* 1 was piqued at your not rec
i ognlitng me. and so I said I was John
who. by the way. Is not
here. And to think that you were
so easily misled!"
"Rob. you silly! John Stanley and
' Stanley.
that
I met but a month ago, when l was
i visiting his aunt."
i "And you knew all the time! Chrlo
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jo i-rou)
Ar.jwar 1
«4 ton
ttod Job:
one
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rifan
H > H SPlLO ON RAILW.VS.
! Hundred M >* an Hour Mut? t Mad«
on Separate Track».
A study of the n
rrraan experiment!
*;• en railway with trains el0T
r, : « ! at high velocity ap^ars to
ve \< d thoughtful railway nen to
"•n'-lunion »hat any att«ilA» to |
* train acceleration on iIMB rail I
frnctive o rolling 1
nt way pd lnci
j
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,'tiof th*
t re
on the Berlin
ally (
7j j
roads would be d«
»ck and pemtai
r.v.r . of pif^eng* » and tra» crews
the pape of Hr
*' Schultz before thelnterna
I*. : ted out In
K
iti.tI Railway Congre ss, th*' c*t type
cm rail» I y < qulpmen ran h*'
pe*'il* of o re than
clear
of m<
afed safely at
n. *■« an hour provided a
tray can be assured
• the «liffi'tlfr which
Thl
possible to
<! o' • ia$d for a
' i;
ver
It would not seem
a rail ros«
affle. At a
unb ss the weatixè is quite I
e distin
r>m
in
m
h<
an not
Dough to be read
mean that a
devoted I
• < >1 to be divided nto long
: r,d before a train entered |
dock its conductor oust know
Th
ain
speeds
!
locks would nerd to be ap- j
ly a hundred mfbl
a ns the surrende! of every
! of trii file w hich x>w keeps
long.
her kin'
it of th<
iy of fast trails by tak
ise temporarily
dings or o
track
awing itself fro
belongs to the "flye.'*
his would m an separ*
tie
As
j
of fact
<; for high :■■!-* • d tains, over
uder the other tracks, with abso
cs and
vhch slower
crosslm
switches by w
trains could have access to i
»Is. Anything Ilk* a coinci
dent movement of freight and pas
ger trafic \v ild be imposible.—New
York Times.
no
ten
Admiral Helen GoiTd.
Mi«*« Helen Gould was diluted with
the two rufTles of an adneral »is sh<
In ui I *i**<I the battleship Alabama at the
Brooklyn navy yard, ?aj ) the New
York World. A "ruffle" is a roll of
th*- drum with the bugles. The presi
dent of the United Stabs receives
three ruffles It was the pretty com
plirm nt of the 700 Jackie to the wo
man who has done so much for them
Miss Gould had been invited to in
'u
a
of
in
to
:i::i
io
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sport the ship, which Lieutenant-C<
mander Schumacher told fi r was
if Miss Edith
tec
the
With her
finest
Hay. Kingdon Gould, her m phew, and
( m uter Harrison, her «ou- in.
was received on the quarter-deck und
«'very one of the Jackb s
no«l of greeting from b« r ns the line
Rear-Admiral
ny In »hr tOi»p«*ction
She
•
elv«»d a
filed past in review.
Ct'ihlMI tr-.l th«
is
f th«* battleship.
The only thing that went wrong
the dog. th<* ma <ot. The Rev.
WAf
John F. Carson In a brief talk lnad
of the president as
v«rtently spol
"Teddy
howl.
place of honor and It was explain«*«!
that it
At this tin* «I«)g set up a
The dog was banished from It?
harm, but was only
*n salute her as
ts invited to
Maine
where he happened to b<* oti business.
His host had recently married a Rec
ife. more noted for beauty and
wealth than for Intelllg« nee. It was |
near the middle of March, and a storm
was coming on. which, the husband re
markod, would probably be tho ©qui- |
noctial gale.
"What do you mei
the same
The husband replied In the affirma- I
tlve, and in reply to further quest bins
I told her it was usual to expect a .
year, when the sun
jant
saluting its own name.
Whenever Miss Gould visits an army
enlt*te«1
prv*t th
if she were nn officer.
Hostecs Gale.
Blaine and H
About tw«'titj v»-n >«ars ago the
late James O. Blaine
dine In a certnin city in • a«t»u
on«!
Is It i
by that?
; t'■ lie . - lie asked, i
! cross«*«! tli«* equ'n- \.
"That day at dinner,
Blaine. "1 remarked up«
twice
storm
Mr. I
said
the severity j
vith an
f the storm and my hostel
smile, replied:
rt it singnl
such a fearful storm
r«'-. . s tt- Penobaoot?'
Mr j
"Yes.
I engaging
Blaine, i
ways ha\
ever tt
Before l could frame
tone of mild su
that we a I
!
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ho -
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h«
sen
dy my h«»s: •
exclalnied
rpr
In
- !*« r 'Scot, dear.
How
'Yon «lon't mean
du* at once
«tupid of me!
ogglu.* Be
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■» una-hani"!
aid:
Oh.
md
no.
I meant tho Andros
»ton Herald.
».n Belle Inecrm.e.
ith ardent
dtr that I tui
■ What
h a*
l dly U'ved.
th
•en s htue
li tt
'*'*1 li
then
■u-y fair!
irl«
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What p
«ul unt«la
■i:ty and what
\\ tu«»
truRt
hmn n "mi a va
and
at
«»ne
outd not pluck the«
unknown llttl«?
I
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;t thine utot
with tin ladt 1 1 return
i
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Thy
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ori.
IVm *vr:tt.
Some Bird Neighbor*.
Wrens, chickadees, bluebirds, mar
Rob I tins and sometimes crested fiycatch
sh« 1 ers «ill come to birdhouses In out
gardens, says St. Nicholas. Such
the ! houses should not be too new nor ex
Tht y should he arranged st
a
rec
John
not
were
and
posed
that coats and squirrels cannot gel tc
If they do come, we can lear*
them
much more by watching them a sea
son than any book can teach us Near
ly all birds build nests for their eggs,
each pair selecting a pleasant and se
cure place, while some kind*—mostly
water birds—form Immense colonies
was
PLAY IN SOLEMN SPOT.
London Churchyard Ma-t Rtcrcaton •
Ground for Cnildwn.
f breath
Tf Ih'ae in a
In order to provide plenty
hoa'*» for
njr
.odd Of
dev
» i'-a.'i
|
1
ting
St I'aucras churchyard
prive the dead cf their laet i.
orra me nts.
happened to
• pot, which was nc
•w open spares
ones and monuments
one corner to make more
the children.
< <ip y a v«-r> attract.v
ded for one
•f the
ad the tomb
e moved to
ion for
The pp-ture hcrewi r
•V 1
\:>n
I
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I
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3 ~
|
ur
[ • l < jji ..45
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V» 1
of head*
hov
va the strange group
« v. The remainder of the ct
has been turned into a dc
lui pla* ground for the iittlo on«
i -,
Naturally there waa considerable
>ut the propriety of such
lent, some of the authorities
considering it a mark of disrespect to
y of the
arg um« nt
a «">•
ad. but the «le
of the living carried more
al:««ration took pace,
bin, however, the tonib
th<
mand:
j weight, s«
As a conces
stem * s were enchmed in a fine railing.
nu
th
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S'^t? Sues Executed Wan': Estate.
The
• ' of Virginia has instituted
state of the late
suit
Inst
1 McCue, mayor of Chariott« s
as hanged for murder, de
»Sam
ville, whi
tiandir g that the state he
lu burned
~ I• to which It r.as put
The s lit Is for
the exp.
'u cr.nvlc'iue l:lm.
di'.t'J It M ent» n i» cullar thint; that
a iran'a ratet
of his conviction and d ath.
an '■ principle practlc-lly 1:; aid'll« '
hould bear the cost
But tue I
in the case of commercial receiver
ships, In which the corpot 'ion put
Into the hands of a receive» ht ma e
to pay the costs oi the actio
ut of the finds * f Its man- |
:i::i ment, the argument being thr.t the j
f the creditors art thus pro- '
3 should be the main
f the matter. In the
*1 murderer, the
guarded
, It may fi<* held,
should be put to all the i«: nit Us of
io offal But If th« In Idual
< * r I vr I n n I i k
wMci
tak»
it
interei
tec ted. and thl)
consideration oi
case of the con 'em
iron« nil body of society is
off* m'i
• ml
the
«li*-. m«i his eon I
vtcttoU by the state, the |H*ra
is put on trial and acquitted should 1
lipctft b)
which he is subjected for iaö defease.
Charleston (S. C.) Post.
who j
I
he
the
Woodman,
Of all crafts, that of the woodman
should, with some few' others of like
honorable ape. take precedente by
right of ancient pedigree. For the
wood cutter at work to-day can claim
as his mate In stroke and tool, the
wedged trunk and close
stem, the Assyrian who stPl lustily
cuts his date palms on the nculpUired
slabs of Koyu, k; Odysseus telling
his twenty trees an* *~immlng them t!
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j with
ax or brim, » '; pious Aereas
whose "sharp ax ring!
! as he lull«
up
M « nus' funeral pyre
n tho Cumea.n
•
Peanuts r.s Fcod.
man
ho
"Peanuts.*' said
.hein ht a stand on ( "Oik; avo
y 'filling.' A perdra t^an
j a pretty fair meal on a sack of
I nuts and lots of people do. AU
•very day tramps come up here
nut»3. A tramp told mo ifie i
other < (> that a nickel«* wot «h Ot
• s a «'ay's food for him. He j
re lived on peanuts for tbre*
ya before be got tired of them. If
i you wart to try the 'filing' properties
j of peanuts, eat a nickel's worth after
bnuikfa st. You won t care for any
lunch and the chances are you won't
eat much dlquer.''—Kansas City
Times. . - .
'are
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nuts w
P«
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Woman Lighthouse Keeper.
The Santa Barbara lighthouse has
been kept by a woman. Mrs Julia F
Wil iams, for thirty-eight years
lSf.ti a tighthouso
• Fes south of Santa Barbara, and
•'resident fYankltn Pierce appointed
Albert J. Williams to be the keeper
In lSt'5 near the close of the civil
Mrs. Williams was appointed
in
s erected two
war.
keeper to succeed her husband, who
had died.
service of any keeper on the coast.
She has had the locgest
Still Working at 93.
William W. Dean, aged »3. recently
-etebrated his birthday by working
-till time at hia deck in the Troasury
lepartment at Washington.
STEAMSHIP SOLD FOR l
• Ccat $200 COO. but Mow Lies ♦
Feet pf Water.
The Iciral dlRpoeit*.
*hich iray poiutibîy ah
mechanical diKpoiitlon, 1» told in
dlapatch from Chari« atcn cf the ra!*»
of a aitel steam*hip with a cargo o'
»far
In; III«'
«•ugar.
The Ixdf Frit «-«on If her name, ate
«he Urs ln H fa'hofr.s. about 3* mile?
outh of Charleston light,
hay.
»ff Bulls
With her topmasts above the sur
facf. and her funr.el. d*Tr! I s g* a'
and decks visible in c!« r
ramc-r has furnished to craft sai'inc
over her an Interesting and
«*uriy for the betterpart of thr<
months.
*T. th*
■ elrd
Erlkrvnn. a N'orwrqiar
iter. Capt
Leif
The
Ktearner of 2128 tors
it Sevnld. bound t job Car. * \ - f<
Philadelphia w:»s *• S*a off Bulls ba>
of her second eneinee:
r. i. by iiv
;tcamer City of Everett
sg 2<l tr.cn of the steamer
wlia'ebuck.
; with the los
:*n 1 one seaman, on
whaleback
The remain:
re saved by the
■0 F'i'
st »ÎOO.O
Wrecking her In 14 fa'
111 he easy, and the pi
The I.« If Krll-ssrm
>!d for J5.
:ci
i f her sr«»dilative purchaser a: ros
-New York World.
Pure Feed.
There was established !n Ifnîy eoîth
<* years apt», by private partie?, ar
called the Italian
of Permanent Chemical Iran « lion, f
the 2
cla!
Soci
tnterpris
inlvsis of food product« ar.d o'
FTt .fic.ation cf their purity. TL
subscribing to i
with itî
commercial firms
amp their food products
I'uarantce, and a purchase \
time the right tf)
s at air
n quest free pr
he may Ben
h ss obtain* ! th'
aralyMs of any sairr
in. The enterpri
adhere
derable num
of th»* best hous s. and control 1
•e of a very tort
1.«
f.-o-l preparations to the mimic r o ;
OdO diff I -.1 kin*!?.
Gyp Smokes a Clsy Pipe.
Gyp, owned by A. K Green of Pc
aloe;
laud. Me.. Is a imt well kn<:
|KV*>
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that
t
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V
ad
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lic
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Gyp.
the local stege line,
iltowa ) b a clay i pf 1 «
t«'rn and tattered hat almost hid«-»
Gy i
This pictur«
the curly and intelUg« nt facy.
is well as his
enjoys his pipe just
or. and he likes to wear cans
note to the
t!
mas
jiud hats. He will carry
with any aru<*h
Every boy and girl In thf
like.! him.
1 and return
wanted.
viilr.ee
Antiquarian T reasures.
'ton of Hexham (Eng.)
v; ' : fi
the
re pre
• in the church in 1831
quaint, buck
i ,-t- ; i* < ; vessel of Saxon times
• !i* ; 1 about 8,000 brass coins of the
on kings, a
u: ca and his a<-s stant
paring a grav<
l-ought to light
'b
C
i-ns «»f early Anglo
I I '! the It< • tntl . . ;
hi ,1 another retnarkahle flnrt
dch .was kept a
*
rc
i ;
if w
err", "xzi that In tho car':
f |r -1 rfiitury of a Itofnan si:
1 worl
found, among otiiei
ral rinirs of gold anr. sil
Id chains, a gold bracelet
Roman denarii anc
lu ns» coirs of the time of Atttinlnu
' i
u 1 of beaut:
v« r
n which were
thing
r. two
• n«l nearly 3
Wireless.*
Louis was him
Gc 3d Wor-k Dore by
r S
m the Bn
W'
< a « •; a n cent
to Ne*.v Y«rk
dreds of miles oht nt
v.->?go from Europe
received by wireless tele
:< li of th«* strike in the pore« lad.
c/ks at Lim« g France, an 1 «-.f th«
of the Hsviland mansion by the
William Tfi HavLcRd. r.
morcelai
was on bo3r«i
WPS
i
j
n manufactur
the boat He
N l ran sending mess? g *s
! O Nt w York, then b>
France, and in return
ws of all the deta
r-*
t«>
of Uu
strike.
Erc.-d Baked Centuries Aco.
I
Bread «early forty-four centurie»
old. found among the debris of the
royal temple of Del El-Bahr.
It is claimed that this piece of
bread, which was discovered-among'
the debris of the royal temple of Del
el-Bahr, was baked about 2500 B. C.
It was exhibited recently at the Socie
ty of Arts by Mr. H. R. Hal; the Egyp
tian explorer.
FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA.
o'
Huit of Famous American Vestal
Found ln Harber of Tripoli.
Charles Wellington Furlong mid« a
systematic search at Tripoli of B.it
bary for the lost remains of the fam
ous America frigate Philadelphia. t**
stroyed in the harbor of Tripoli 1 •')
years ago. He tells in Harper*«
Magazine the romantic story of how
he found the vessel at last:
' In less than an hour my search
was rewarded by seeing the ends cf
the great ribs of a vessel protruding
through dull-colored ell grass. I no
ticed that this grass seemed to follow
the lines of the ribs, and carefully
noted its character, further to ai i
me In my search. Examining these
closely, no doubt was left in my
mind but that they belonged to a
large vessel, and ordered the boatmen
to lei fall the anchor
"The lead gave ns two and a half
and three fathoms. Hastily undress
ing. we dived several times. Mr.
Riley first succeeded in buoying the
spot by coing down with the line and
slipping it over one of the rii s
While on the bottom I carefully ex
amined the timbers. These were
honeycombed In cert ain part* in a
The continual
emed to have
a'
peculiar way.
wa.ih of a century
made its inroads at the softest places,
and they gave every appearance \y\
forre. of partially burne l s um:)'
The wood seemed almo-t as hard ns
ar
vas enclosed in a
Much of it
iron.
fossil crust, and only by repeated ef
forts I succeeded In breaking off a
o'
i
itî
The many winds from
t and the shifting shoals of
small piece,
the de«
l had filled in and around the fii
and her keel must have lain
fathoms
air
pr
th'
s?.n<
gate,
burled nearly two
deeper
The
than the present sei lioffom.
freshening breeze made further In
stigation impossible; so, after tak
ing bearings and leaving the spot
returned to the shore.
1
\
o ;
buoyed, we
landing
crowd of Turks, Arabs and blacks.
' Six days later, through the cour
tesy and Interest of the officers of the
Greek warships Cre»e and Paralos, a
ship's cutter and machine boat with
livers were placed at. my disposal.''
amid an awaltlnK. curious
Pc
Fad for Optimism.
One of the most wholesome fads
that has been prevalent among so
ciety at. largo is the newest of all—
optimism.
For it is no longer the fashion to go
though you bore the
ifcout looking as
burdens of the world upon your devot
But. instead, you're (i x
ad shoulders,
parted to look blith'-ly upon the old
world and its troubles ami your own
the Philadelphia
troubles, too, says
North American.
Perhaps it is our free outdoor life
that has developed the quality. Per
haps it is only a new pose—for pub
lic opinion must have its poses, llhe
every individual.
Surely it sholud make hippier,
communities out of cities
Good cheer is more or
healthier
ta tes.
and
[ess of a habit—pretend to have it,
suddenly wake up to find
and you
you've really got it, and, too. have
reaied a more joyous atmosphere for
yourself, that gradually grows
jary to you.
The happy habit Is a good one—
much better than the
world-weary type that preceded it.
May tho new fad stay in fashionl
neces
tragic-faced.
South American Letter Press.
Cigarettes and conversation, and
«lancing on ledgers.
said
ragtime
C iptain Robert Quinton, of tho light
Blunt's Reef, which recently
»hip
'ompleted a unique voyage of fifteen
pro^.[thousand miles from New* York
* Sin Francisco, "constitute the chi«*f
to
,-hv the r;*.c«^s of South Amer
ica are be! • <North Amer*
Cl in all Important particulars.
and conversation, I
But first
reasons
As
o the cigarettes
f
will arrive in a minute,
ïll I will sr>- Ik of »hl* ragtime dane
our business office in San
Vlsh to
ng.
Francisco when the clerks
any other
cours rt .
take a copy of a letter or
'ss document, why, of
hey take a copy in a proper and ordi
But down in
nary copying machine,
these South
when they
the
between
r.
countrie*«.
American
ish to do that trick, why,
letter or other document is put
the carbon sheets in a big
the fl«>or, an i
rhich is put on
book,
then the clerks do a dance unon tho
book to tal e tb<> co|iv. St . it is 'bo
the world to see all
*s
funniest sight in
those cbvks. every one of th m with
cigarette in his lips, dancing upon
•h firoks "—San Francisco Chronicla
■
A Useful Employee.
Th*' "Riistake clerk'* i»s now nn in
in many large busin- ss
stituüon
iious
\s. When a customer m ikes any
plaint, the mistake clerk is sent
for by the manager, sternly question
ed and browbeaten, makes a etam
■nwlnK defense, and is then dismissed
vtthout notice. It is always ihe same
Sometimes be Is dismissed
If he
p»
clerk.
■.wenty or thirty times a day.
deads a wife and various numbers
if Infant children the customer, as
i rule, magnanimously begs him off.
He is engaged for his lean and p*.
■London Globe.
thetic appearance.
Love and Thrift.
ritlng from Ir»
T was telling
W. Y. Morgan,
land, tells this story:
Irish driver how nice everybody
tad been to ns In Ireland and how
aleasant the Irish were to Americans.
Y Is,' he said, whin you go down thp
»träte everybody sex: "There's some
Americans. God bless 'em! Mark up
the prices on the linen and lace " ' "
—Kansas City Journal.
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