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and Campers' Outfito. Decline..
all imitation. They never
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DDI1!F1ILENT .STRA.INS"TILaCEID
BACK IDR GENEALOGISTS.
Ono Back •to the Flootl—Others
Bring'' In •Scotch, Irii h, Persian
and Norwegian.
Enthusirted° genealogists have
been bury since King George's ac-
cession tracing his ancestry to rul-
ers who.fionrislred before the Chris-
tian era, and some of the most in-
genious have persuaded themselves
that they can fill up all the gaps
between. the. King and Noah, from
whom the theologians declare, of
course, that all mankind is descend-:
There is
that King George's ancestees, di•
reot and through the all -embracing
medium of intermarriage, include
every kingly mune of importance
from the (lays of the early Saxons,
long before William the Norman's
expedition that changed the face of
the map of Britain. There is plen-
cal characters as James IV,, of
Scotland, James V. and 'Mary
Queen of Scour:
There are even genealogists who
do not scruple to'ttface the line of
George of England to the patriarch
Noah, by.,way of the ancient Nor-
wegian houses, of Elidure, King of
Britain, and of Antenon, King' of
the Cimnor•ians, but as the ground
is insecure it were better not to
probe too deeply into an ancestry
dating from the flood.
JAPANESE. STAFF OF LIFE.
Everybody Eats- Rice and Almost
Every Farmer Raises It.
The Japanese staff of life is not
bread but doe. ' Until' quite,. res-
entry the economic condition of the
ed 1'1 empire depended almost entirely on
no doubt, however the enemas or failure of that crop.
The rice harvest still remaene the
most (vital factor in the general
condition of the people.
Japan has at the present time
about 13,230,000 acres wader culti-
vation', of which 7,105,000 acres are
devoted to. rice. , In addition to
what is used for food the quantity
ty of el.utenee existing to show that required for sake brewing is im-
mense, so that the domestic
duction has to be replenished an -
n
nua
tionll.3 = by a considerable imports -
The very high .quality of Japan-
ese rice naturally leads to its be-
ing exported in large quantities,
which adds to the necessity of do-
mestic importation. According to
the Japan Magazine the consump-
tion of rice per capita in Japan is
about five bushels.
From centuries of experience the
science of rice cultivation has been
brought to a high state of perfec-
wbich wa, tion in Japan; and the degree of
s asoenden by her son, production as well as the acreage
Henry 11. under cultivation is contitantly on
It is here that the Conquerors the increase. When we compare
blood beaus to flow into the veins the 332,000,000 bushels grown in
of King ucurge, for William was 1877 with the 248,445,070 produced
great-grauteather to Henry, who in 1907 the rapid rate of increase'
was the litet of the Plantagenet may be easily seen.
kings. The line now is direct and The rate of consumption has
ineontr,n ertibi P been
e.
It a I
passes along greater than the rate of production,
• through a„ the English kings, em- which shows that the number of
I
_, bracing trantagenets, Lancastri- those
able
e to
afford
riceas
their
tans,'Alden, ;Stuarts staple diet is
copetantlyopulati growing.
crimes, until we have Edward, Duke The 34,388,000'of population in 1877
of rent, two son of George III, and had in 1907 grown to 48,840,000,
Victoria r
a r�
th. Go
ud }
. Edward's l
a u h- wh'
1ch '
e rt'iequal to an increase of 45
tel and grandmother of his present per cent. in thirty years.
majesty. As rine c><1]ture is of such supreme
But there are genealogists who importance to the country the price
trace Bing George's ancestry to a of rioe lands is always rising until
more remote period than that of it is now from 70 to 80 yen (a. yen
Oedric the, Saxon. Going back to is egilivalent to 50 centq a tan
those di taut monarchs, Gyges and (0.245 acres); while the rice off
Lydian and Byrue the Greatt,- they common agricultural land is only 40
trace'the aelationehip.in this wise: to 50 yen a tan. The rent of n oe
Orionis, fourth in descent from land is also quite high, being from
Gyges; who reigned in Lydia in the 8 to. 13, yen a tan usually, but in
year 718 B.C,, had a sister named places whore such land is sca
Arienes, who married Astyages much as 200 yen has been rue as
King Elf Medina. Their grand- tan, parer a
laughter, l.ardave, was united to The ancestral paddyfields of 'I
Q ins th Great, who reigned over farmer aro regarded with
the
Persia in 3,57 ]3. C'. and was killed Pride and g grea-
by'romanis after a sanguinary' bat- sures. It can thereforeded als a tier
tle in 530 B. Cl, stood whyever rider-
y inch of lana where
From this union came Artaxerxes, water fur irrigation is available
Memnon, and Araces Magnus, commands the keenest attention, the
King of pert t:hia, 1''rmni this house entire hillsides in $eine districts
descended Basil, the Macedonian being terr•acod for rice production.
., I:mp-ewe of Constantinople, whose Bice growers representmore than
• granddaughter, Luitganda, married 90 per coat. of the agricultural
Arnoph, fount of Holland, From Inflations. From 4 to 7 acres is about
him the bile proceeds through the the average holding of the Ja an-.
royal house of Fiance to ;Csabol de use farmer -at his best, but Avast
Angonlenie, ehote, marriage with lumbers of the ruralo u
p pt ,more
King John of Tnglancl' united the have to be satisfied with little more.
blood of,uygos of Lydia with that than on acre each, Thermer Iran,
of of course to fa
things besides 1d doe andnssome
er
AxaOlvc�ultolt. of
'ibis err,.hle genetrlogietailso frac them he cultivates as a second crop
from the rice ground after har-
es Xing George's Wrench ancestors vest,
,;through Hanoverian channels. The rice
Gcurge I, of England, wiie was lginsdisteof
ofhydJapalook
like ]over plains of patohwdrk, the
Fleeter' of Hanover, /needed So- irregular paddy fief
...phis, the daughter. of Eleanor around by clayy b ds b0 In walled
to
d Olbreuse 0he of the beauties of one and a .half feet hi 1, ceord to
tine of the most ancient families of high, according
to
Poitou, who was maid of honor` to the -hciog novo].
the Prineese de iarente. Still an- Il/ce' 'bes a eing n tramp ,plant re.
other French heritage of ancestry itslrsuceessfu cultivation,v elrmate fes
hut it is
brings in (Charlemagne, while the remarkable that Japaninthe crop
-House of l'rajan and that of 1 uric its, succe,gafnlly grown rom Malta
of Russia also eontribute their pat- in the
sou
th
t� fa
r
Hokkaido
l
lriclan strain, north. The requires plenty an
tyIrist people, the of water
and a: rich clay
tin'esheM of loyalty,, might remein-. sial preference soil, and
ber that Zing George is also a de- aimed fi•oln s being for ground
soendant of the, Irish kings, his first' . ea deposit, Most
g of the Japanese rice farmers, how -
ancestor of whom we have any ever, take little account of the rt
krnowledge being . 0onaire Mol', or tore of the. soil provided a
Curial* the Giseat,. who "lived Balt .noc . , ri carded ctn.ly the
a dozen ecnturies before the: Chris- a hshoy wider, can a heel,
ti In tho colder, parts of rupee bill
alt era,..1 From him came Malcolm one crop of rice is harvested
t
Can Mar, who married Ide Pnin- the year, but in the on45, wh re
the soder, where Margaret, sister of Edgar Ath- the t:limate 'iv lunch milder and i
1' r
o ln)fi, the Saxon, the Scottish an- rigation convenient, two crops
eeztry> inelu',(s shell mighly histuri- 11srhil l alio
Y grown each year -
ung George can trace his descent
almost directly to Oedric, who, in
834, A. J)., was ,King of Wessex,
exactly 51)2 years before tho Con-
querer .set foot in England.
From Cedric descended Egbert,
the,first Icing of a united England.
He was followed in 871 by Alfred
the Great, whose name is indisso-
lubly emitted with the progress of
learning. in England. In the same
direct •Saxon lino came Matilda,.
who, after marrying Stephen,
fought fought with him for
THE ENGLISH GLISH THRONE.
HINES DRIVEN UNDER 1!1 A.
An Ever Present Danger to Miners
Along I3ritir:th Coast.
Mining under the sea is continu-
ed to a considerable extent in Great
Britain. It was only a. chert timo,
ago that the .overhead seas of th•e
Whitehaven mine burst through the
sea floor and drowned scores of mean
in the workings, making the fur-
ther resumption of work impossible.
Workington, a near neighbor tp
Wmiitehavenr
, once had its under In one r
into'srhich ,one day the waters espeot the high place Ca -
of the Irish Sea soddenly buret, nada occupies in showing a prefer -
drowning the thirty-six men who note for the cup which cheers is
were working out the coal. In allsurprising- Canadians drink
of this mining the sea floor ordin,r tea morning, noon and night. 7.11e
arily is only a few yards above the oonsumptiun per capita would be
workers heads and the uncertain- much greater if the properties of
ty of the ocean bed lends the chief good tea were as well understood
riskto the workings,as they are in England.- Ono of the
One of the most famous of exist- i requisites ef good tea is . that it
ing eoa mines was the Bottallaek, a sheli;ld be fresh made, and there is
copper mine at Feasance. The hardly a restaurant in England
coast is rocky there and shelves which does not contain the legend
sharply down into the water. Into "fresh tea for each customer."
this hill ten galleries were driven,, Jotdia
gg by the belled eeneooliea
each of them stopping within a few' which is served out as tea in res -
yards of the floor of the sea. As taurants in cities, a very consider -
the mine work went on at different able saving in quantity at the ex -
level's the hill became,heneycombed pence of quality is ettected. The
with galleries and mina rooms un- custom of having five o'clock tea
tit the Atlantic began to leak in at :which is general in the old country
scores of places, causing its aban- j is also doubtless responsible for
the prominent position the United
Kingdom holds among tea drinking
nations,
ALMOST A NECESSITY,
THE CUP THAT CHEERS
7'EA"DItXNJl1INf4 Is .POf'i1idou IN
CANADA..
People Don't Understand Brewing
It—Not Always Vrcobly
The hold which the tea.: drinking
habit ion' las.
the Gana d'
1
ufn people
is not generally realized, From a
recent °fatoial document dealing
with the world's t'ea,preduotion it
is"lettrited that Canada stands third,.
among the tea drinking na1Done,
being beaten only hy Australia and
the United Kingdom,
The following figural show the
consumption per annum ie pounds
per head of population ;
Lbs,
Australia 7.10
United Kingdom,. . 6,30
Canada ..,.... .: 4.00
Holland 1,45
United States .,,, .,.- 1,30
Russia ....,. 1,25
Norway.... ...... .. .... 1.10
Denmark , ... 0,36
Germany .. , , . 0.16
France ... , , , , ... , 0.06
WE DON'T INANE IT RIGHT.
donment,
Stories are told of the times when
under influence of heavy storms
breaking on the coast the Atlantic
drove in with thun<leratie sounds The Oanadian Journal of 0om-
upon the thin strata lying between
the miners' and the water, Mighty meree, in referring to tea consump-
h- tion, says that although it is not
boulders were flung about, cras
I absolutely a necessary of life, it is
ing and grinding on the 000an bot-
tom until the stoutest hearted '•absolntelya necessary of life, it is so
workers in the mine ran in terror i considered ono of the principal lux
from their work. Among the ~cork- 'tries for the table of all classes of
ems deafness becauise of the thun-i poo o especially hose of firstvies
ders of the ocean was common, and into ttr at) i descent. Whenld it was e
men left the mine often in hysteria- if the Joker Stuarts, the price was
To this day,however, so high that only the wealthy could
were , visitors in
afford 1
t
a r
esen
t to th
I , e
i ( P sewn
quiet weather may explore many of Charlesd
its galleries for considerable dis- costihe the donors o $10 a
tances. Originally the drifts ex—
tended a third of a mile under the
ocean. The ]ate King Edward on-
tared it several years ago, and nn -
der the quietetst sea rolling just
above his head he discovered the
temper of his subjects who once
toiled there in all weathers merely
that they ht
earn
their brew
d.
Within
of �
ovineTHE Bo
the tta]- LE
AG r
UD FOR
lack co EHL SEAS1CIt.
peer mins is the Levant
mine, one of the richest ever opened
in England: Copper and till to the
value of $10,000,000 have been taken
from its forty galleries extending
under the bed of the sea, Its lowest'
gallery runs directly out into the ! founded three years ago, and whose
ocean 3108, for a mile. A few yearsI condued existence proves that it
ago a geologist who was one of a has nut attained its object. It
party of visitors under escort of of- has dis•eI no specific against
seasickness. In fact the journal it
publishes hardly ever recommends
anything in the line of drugs.
1t advises- travellers by sea to
sing, talk, ploy and amuse one an -
ether; in a word to find occupation
for body and mind. Do not' lie
down is another recommendation.
Wear a wide, tight belt which does
not squeeze you. If possible choose
your time ef travel by sea: In
winter the sea is generally rough
for five or six days .at a time and
then smooth; in •summer• a high
wind may be counted on every fif-
teen or twenty days.
The last quarter of the moon is
considered an nntavorable time,
especially from November to March
or April. The equinoxes, Mareh
21 to 31, and September 21 to 30,
Mould be avoided if possible,
Smooth seas may be hoped for teller,
the moon is full and after the spring
and autumn trains have eaten <lown
the waves,
The league advocates preventive
treatment. tact your sea legs be-
fore going to sea. For this purpose
it advises two hones a day on a
awing for weeks or months before
sailing and a free indulgence in rid-
ing the merry-go-rounds found at
every French fair. Take as ninny
Daniel rides as you can; if camels
are not bandy Ydeao
devote
yourself lf t.c i
the toboggan, switchbacks, water•-
ehlttes, looping aha loop, and when
you are at home use a rocking chair:
The, league is very strong on the
rocking chair, a thing almost un-
known in Prunes, and maintains
that Americans and 'English are
less treaded by seasickness than
the French, not becalm(' they teat 01
and carbolic acid, 11 g cheaper I more, but because they pass hours
than petroleum a11d is made on the .in rocking chairs,
isthmus, There ,are between fifty '•"'----r,
and a hundred men who are kept 1 No man
acct. deeply
admired i,
ml
r<1
a
busy spraying the swamps by remits Great gond Without deeply detest
of little pumps. ing these yrl�ieli stood 10 its way,.
and Mary a duty of $1.20 per
pound, with a 5 per cent. ad valor-
em
was imposed. At that time not
more than 5,000 pounds per year
were imported into Great Britain.
To -day the annual importation in
morei
] ke 300,000,000 000 000
atinds
, pounds,
Discovered flhet Prevention is
Easier Than Cure.
There exists in Paris a league
against seasickness, which was
hotels of the mine wandered away
a few yards as the rest of them
talked. Discovering something
which resembled a ping overhead
he was fingering it when one of the
officials rushed up;
"My dear sir," he escclaimed,
"you must not do that, you know 1"
"Er—but why not'?" inquired the
visitor as the official caught his
arm,
"Why, it will let in the Atlantic,
you know." •
It is believed that the rosy Brit-
isher didn't regain all his color for
two days afterward.
From either side of the Frith of
Forth -coal mines have been run
under the water until the ones of
the gallemi•es almost meet under tho
sea.
Off the county o°f Durham are scv-
cral groat submarine coal mines, of
which the famous Monk Wee/mouth'
colliery 1has workings so vast and
intricate as to makes it approach
the size of a city of bleak streets.
On one occasion the North Sea
(Yoko into it at the rata of 3,000
gallons a minute, but the flow du
ally was checked, At th•e present
time a 200 horse -power engine is
i•egoit'ed to keep the mine clear of
water,
NEW MOSQUITO DESTROYER,.
Returned tree -alters from the
Panama, say the mosquitoes are
rapidly disappearing. They still
keep putting oil ort the swamps, but
no longer petroleum, Instead, they
1100 whatis called there "mosquito
oil," which is a' mixture 01 rosin
Pllo'TOG1CAl'.R1INfa A ".1RIDDN0."
011ier4f Or 'I'0011 (treat Rish fo Get ti
good •'ieturo.
Regarded me'a'ly as a matter of.
sport, hunting with a camera is in
comparably better than hunting
solely to kill, although it may some-
times happen that, in order to save
hie own tile, the photographer is
forced to shoot. An instance of
this sort happened to a writer in
Everybody's Magazine, He and his
party were etalking "rhinos,", Al-
though the wind was in their favor,
they bad to use extreme care, be-
cause the
mutt y crus
s a bare, open
eti•etch of ground, utterly lacking
in cover. They were crawling as
quietly as possible, when they sud-
demy, discovered a' thud rhino al-
most directly 'down -wind, anti only
a little more tba,n a hundred yards
away.
A few steps farther, and the triad
weiild have given him our scent—
s, mitt Lae gLnttoman would pose
ANCIENT YUCATAN.
Ile Myaterioue Colne Once the Scene
of Human Sacrificee.
It was Ohieben--Chielleu £tea the
mogaitteent, tbe 'InJ Melee of Central
America—end the beetling we were
glt ipg ou was the most wonderful of
the ruined group.
As we Molted upon it in the noon,
light we could not help' teellug how
awe teepee -1g this solos?al' temple,
retiring itself 120 feet into the air, must
have been to the ancients. On the top.
of abs pyramid still stand the crutn-
blJng•ruths of a temple. It is reached
by a stairway 00 each side of its four
sides, having 120 steps Apiece, nut
cootaine three rooms, the doorposts of
wile'! are curved will the flgtn'ea, of
priests, except tbe one facing oat -
ware, which tins large pillars carved
lntiett,e forms of serpents. 'Jibe heads
of these are turned so that tbey )le
flat upon the top of the pyramid, their
eye sockets still bearing truces of the
rich green Jade that once tilled them,
AS the sat we pictured to ourselves
aibly hall by charging upon us full the strange and barbaric scenes that
1111, 'Phis wouLd have placed ur, had here ]teen enacted, for If legends
between two fires, between him and j are to be believed it was on these Hat -
the other two, in ease they did not tened serpents' heads that the tyrant
run; and hardly relishing the idea, priests of the I x03, maiestie it, their
we turned and crawled the ether
way. Once out of range of his nose,
however, we turned, and with the
telephoto lens I took a, number of
pictures at long range.
In the midst of this, we were de-
lighted to see the old boy get ready
for his noonday nap. First of all
he began turning in his tracks just
as a dog will do, sealing at the
ground about him. Then, when he
had made sure it was to bis liking,
110 finally laid himself down. No-
thing could have been more satis-
factory, and exercising every cau-
tion, we moved forward until we
were within twenty yards of the
huge, nnoonacieus slumberer.
Our hearts were beating as if to
break when we stood up and gazed
at him, for we fully expected a
sudden and dangerous charge.
0larkf who stood beside me, ,held
the big rifle ready for instant use,
while I trained the camera on our
friend:. For some seconds — they
seemed Like hours then—we stood
absolutely quiet, making no sound
although we trembled with. excite-
ment. :' 'e rhino, however, etill
elept on, breathing as peaoefully,
although not quite so beautifully,
as a, child, and utterly oblivious of
the presence of his enemy—man.
Then, when we could endure the
suspense no longer, I called aloud
to him, "Come on, there!"
Never was an order more prompt-
ly and explicitly obeyed. At the
sound of my voice he was up like
a flash. One look showed him where
we stood ; • he emitted a petulant
snort
raised hi
s•,.
n ^vin
tail and
—came 1
g '
To stand and focus the ]ens on
him was not so easy as it sounds.
If
you have ever by chance stead
directly in front et, an oncoming
express, you on imagine a part of
the feeling.
On the hi brute roto
g came •
bigger and bigger he grew on the
camera's ground-glass screen. I
dared not remove my eyes from it
for fear of lasing the Cecile; and
so
I st
cod'
till it t seemed as if the
beast were ready to step on me.
When I thought he was about to
stick his horn through the camera
and all, I released the catch of the
shutter, and there I had him!
The click of the shutter was --the
signal for Clark to do his part. At
the moment our friend was aimed
head-on towards us. But (;lark
fired, -rather gladly, too, and at the
shock of the bullet the rhino turned
aside, He was so close, however,
that although he sheered off abrupt-
ly, he passed net more than a dozh
en feat away,
WREN BUTTERFLIES M1GIBATE
Thonsanils, Resting for tihc Night,
May Settle on a Single Tree.
Everybody knows the great
orange red butterflies with bold
black bands and white dote that
conte sailing along by the thou-
sands in the autumn. Bub at is net
<ivory ewe who knows that they
migrate like the birds in the fall,
flying all the way from Canada to
Cuba and taking other long flights
no that they get into the sunny
.south for the winter. They have
extra,ei'dinary power on the wing
and have been seen flying at sea
$0 miles from land,
Vast flocks of hundreds of thou -
mads on their wavy southward set-
tle on trees and bashes like a swarm
of bees, says St. Nicholas, and as
they are pretty much the color of
certain autannn foliage you might
easily pass their misting place
without noticing them, They root
for tho night and are off 01 the
morning as soon as their wings are
dry. With all the enemies of in-
ect life one wonders that thele
are
so many butterflies
left at
the
end of the summer, But, though
our Monarch is apparently a fat,
tempting morsel he is distasteful to
birds.
Willie --"Pa, why is it the great
writers end poets always refer to
Peace as 'Sweet peace' 1" 1'a.—"I
suppose it is because peace should
always be preserved, tm'.a
She --"I 00111.' ' . "f ei'l,h(l• y Ma
really meant ;t, - hnlirvt• you
wero unxic•' alien you aid you
lie— Oh ,',1 to hear me sink."
see,' 1 1 •sure you I did 1 Volt
bafol n,„a„"r f t+t, hnn l;d YyL'. s ')
1110SLED BY MIN
A Boy's Remarkable Adventure
With"a i'et Bear. _'I
WHIRLED ABOUT LIKE A TOY.
After the Unique; Performance Was
Oyer Seventy-six Stitches In the
Lads Scalp and Rolle of Surgioa,f
Plaster on His Shins Saved His Life.
Ben was a pot black bear four years
old and es good natured and friendly
as if leis ancestors bad never had bad
reputations, There as 01113 000 0800 -
Sion on senate. says_ itis 'Owner, Mr.
BTIUIatn II, Wright, iii his biography
of Ben in "Black :Bear," when evento
appearances did Ben misbehave !Unt-
ried.
The circumstances being examined,
however, the animal came off with hie
good name virtually untouched. Bea
had been left in hie shell as usual.
Later in the day a crowd was seen
about the dour. 1 hurried 1
bejeweled and befeathered robes, tore • find most of the women of the neigh -
out file palpitating leans of thea, sac- I bortiood wringing their hands and call-
out
victims utter slicing open the !ng down all kinds et trouble ou.my'
bead
breasts with a silex knife, !
These snerltlres were -probably per-
formed fu. view of thousands of wor-
shipers of the sun deity congregated1 and unspeakable bear of mine
on the plains below. the heart after it lad
was torn from the membranes being hiked a boy, and upon asking to See the
bnrned as an offering in the inner hot I victim I 'was told that the remains
y
At first I could make neither bead
nor tail of the clamor, but finally gath-
ered that that bloodthirsty, savage
of holies, while the body of the victim
rolled down the stone steps to be sacra
mentally eaten by the people.—World
Wide Magazine.
THE HURRY HABIT. —7.."'"
It Is Charged With Being a Breeder of
Bad Manners.
'9.1y attention was recently called to
an article," observed the retired pro-
fessor, "in which .the writer rebuked
as. Individually and as a nation, for
oar lack of manners due to the burry
habit. Be classed this habit among
the bad, senseless, inexcusable habits,
nod I fully agree with him. Watch a
crowd anywhere; pitching off trains
and boats or surging on to them. fight -
lag for Brat places going up stains or
down. squirming and elbowing to get
through a gateway or an open door,
and if you wore to inquire not one
man .lack or woman Marie could tell
you why be or she was on the dead
jump.
"The average male being will consult
his wntcb, bound across rhe lawn, run
like mad for a car, hire a cab to break
the speed law driving to a ferry, dash
Into his office as 1f he bad done 100
yards in ten seconds• remove his hat
and overcoat, at ole
.n hie desk, esk, pull out a
slide, emir his feet on lt, light a cigar
and wonder what he's going to du
next.
"Tbe average female being will bore
through a fringe of shoppers nine
deep to forge to a bargyto counter,
and atter•
she's arrived Cd s
he'll
calmly
put down her purse and parasol, finger
the goods fur fifteen minutes, ask
questions coonerning the prices—past,
r
and a1
alar
e—and move
off lei-
surely re
U 1
without t bu
Sing so much as a
spool of thread."—providence Jour-
nal -
The Father of Tobacco Smoking.
It quite bopelese to trace out the
fathers of snaking in general and to -
Micro smoking to particular. Who first
drew in smoke of any kind through a
pipe in England and who first of our
countrymen took to tobacco will al-
ways remalo disputable. It Is equally
uncertain whirl western tribe made
the sublime discovery. There is even
dispute as to whether tobacco takes its
name from the Island 01 Tobago, trete
tbe Yucatan province of Tobacco, from
!Tabasco in Florida or from a y -shaped
pipe which the people of Hispaniola
smoked with their noses. Only one
name Is definitely associated with the
greet Institution. that of Jean Nicer.,
the Frencb ambassador to Portugal,
who spread the farce of the herb
through !Europe. And of all who are
familiar with uicotlue today, how
many associate it with Nicol or have
even limit of hlinl—Loudon Chronicle.
A Misplaced Title.
Am's.g obvious misnomers one Lon-
don theater Is to be found. Drury
Lane theater Is not in Drury lane, and
no reason eau be assigned for giving it
the name et that thoroughfare. Tbe
Oast theater built on the present site
WHO at one time frequently referred re
as the theater fu Covent Garden, Un
Feb. 6, .3658, I'epys notes: "I walked
tip and down and looked apo0 the out-
side of the new theater building to
Covent Garden, which will be very
tine" In those days no theater ex-
isted In Covent Garden, the predeces-
sor of the present opera house baring
been epoxied in 1732.—London Chron-
icle. echoed,
"Un amount of father,” she replied.
A Feminine impulse. "Bef
m rs
p ears we
clad
I be anis
n) t
lana
n ed. ii'
e
To strut
g ,heir lata is the first are so very different, be says."
impales of fenrfntne humanity after an. "le whatway ail we so different?"
ateldent. if 0 woman .could be raised be asked, with a show of dignity.
from the demi site would straighten "Well, father suss 1 am of such e
her bat before doing anything else. ready and willing disposition, while
Marlon ion Crawford. 'yon seem so --so laekwnrd, SO reluc-
tant and hesitating, so—so loath to
Come to the—the point don't you
ktuow," '1
"Ile does, does he?" blustered Goma,
bracing up, and the very next utter -
non she was showing her girl friends
how stunning It looked Oa tate third
Unger of her loft hand.
S
Ile that ilres talion babe twill Ole
fasting, -e lle i n t:4ra,
had been taken to neighbor's house
and a doctor summoned.
'.Phis was pretty serious news; but,
knowing that whatever bad happened
Ben had not taken the offensive with-
out ample cause, I unchained hate and
put him in the cellar of my house, well
ont of harm's way, before looking fur. •
tber into the matter, Then 1 went
over to the temporary morgue and
Pound the corpse -1t . was one of the
Vriln boys—sitting up on the kitchen
floor, holding a sort of impromptu re-
ception and, with the exception. of
Ben, the least excited of any 000 con-
cerned.
1 could not help admiring the young-
ster's pluck, for lie was an awful sight
I)l'om his feet to bis knees bis legs
were lacerated, and his elotling was
torn to shreds, and the top of bis head
—redder by tar than ever nature bad
Intended—was covered with blood. As
soon as I laid eyes on him 1 guessed.
what had happened. -
1t'developed that tbe two Orlin boys
bad broken open tbe door of the shed
end gone in to wrestle with the bear.
Ben was wilting, as be always was,
and a lively match was soon en,
whereupon, seeing that the bear did
not harm the two already in the room,
anotber of the buys joined iu the scuf-
fle, Then one of them got ou the
boar's back,
This was a new one on Ben, but be
took kindly to the idea and was 8000
galloping round the little room with
bis. rider. Then anotber boy climbed
on, and Ben carried the two of them
at the
same ma
daca. Then leo the third
boy got aboard, and round they all
went, much to the delight of them-
selves and their cheering audience in
the da r
owa ,
y
Bat even Ben's muscles of steel had
their limit of endurance. and after a
few circles of the room with the three •
riders be suddenly stopped and rolled
ever on bis back.
And now an amazing thing happen-
ed O1 the three boys suddenly tum-
bled hotter shelter from their seats one
bappened to fall upon the upturned
jaws of tbe bear, and Ben, who for
years had juggled rope balls, cord
sticks and minlnture logs, instantly
undertook to give an exhibition with
his new implement.
Gathering the badly frightened boy
into position, the bear set him whirl -
fug. Ells clothing from bis shoe tops
to his knees was soon ripped to shreds
anti his legs torn and bleeding, 1313
scalp was lacerated by the sharp claws
until the blood came, Elis cries rose
to shrieks and sack again to moans.•
But the bear, unmoved, kept up the
perfect rhythm of his strokes.
Finally the ten•l8ed lookers-on In the
doorway, realizing that something lntd
to be done if Choir leader was not to
be twirled to death before their eyes,;
tore a rail from the Peeve nod wittea
few pones In Moo's side induced him
to drop the boy, who was then dragged
out apparently more dead than alive.
The doctor took serent3'•six stitches'
in the lad's scalp ,and put rolls of sue -
gloat plaster on lite alibis, So sunars,
and true had Ben juggled 51111 Unit not
n serntch was found on his tare or on
any part of bas body between the top
of his head and his knees. Lle even-
tually came out of the hospital no
worse for his ordeal, but 1 doubt If ba
ever again undertook to ride a boar.
How Sha Won Out. 't
"Oh, George," she cried in perplexed
tones, "l'm afraid we 111081 part,"
"Poral Why must we part, dear?" he
Just the Opposite.
"'Whenever you He to your wife dos
site
0-130 you Out?"
"Just the opposite. Wbenevor she
finds me out f ile to her—when 2 canto
4
Fot'tane has often bob blamed for
Modem. but fortune le not so blind
emoneu are—Samuel Smilet€