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QED POET
ITIle Tardy Nlarriage of Fitzl
Herald and Lucy Barton.
UNION PITIFUL, YET COMIC
i"rhe Couple Wore Utterly Ungutted to
Ono Another, and He Fled From Her
Paring the Honeymoon -e -A Reunion
Thet Failed to Reunite.
The toelleuts leading up to and thee:,
following the mart -Inge of Edward
Itagerreld, nauseam et the "Ulnae
--esc hayyatb," were of a ludleretie and at
the saute time sornewbat :miens chat-
aoter. Mr, Francis Getable gave the
:facts In the Irortttlghtly Review:
"The Lucy Barton story is very pill.
tui, but it is also rather comic. She
efts a Quaker's daughter, who had
joined the Church of England as a
menus, one huugines, of climbing the
octal ladder; and she was just the
sort ot person whoa! Fitzgerald would
esteem. but detest -prim, pious, me
tbodlCat, fussy, not quite a lady and
yet in a weird provincial way world -
1y, the sort of person to whom it seems
equally Important to teach in the Sun-
day school pad to be a leader of so-
ciety. •
"Fitzgerald null she had known each
other for the greater part of their
lives and were both nearly fifty years
of age when marriage overtook .theta.
no did not even know tbtit he was en-
gaged to: her, But she told Wm that he
was, and be was too polite to contra-
dict ber.
"Pollteness only broke down when, ,
after the ceremony, she assumed pro- I
prtetorlal airs and Insisted that her
husband should pay aftertmou calls
with her and dress fbr dlnuer, That
was the hast straw, though very likely '
it wus also the tlrst.
"Fitzgerald supposed apparently that
in marrying Lucy Barton be bad mere-
ly acquired a housekeeper who would
know her place, who would confine
her new dignity to ber housekeeper's
room, leaving bin as free as of old to
slop about in slippered ease, unkempt,
unshaven. euveluped in a dressing
gown untll the evening, with books
as over the floor, pipes all over the
mantelpiece and, tobacco ash all over
his clothes.
"It would not have mattered,, o1
¢nurse, if he bed married for tore and
if ' his bride had been a woman of
grace and Minima. Such a one would
have changed all that like it fairy war
ing a magic wand. •Bet Fitzgerald bad
only marrled to oblige; and Mrs. Fitz.
gernld was uot in the least like a fairy.
She was more like a female drill ser-
geant conventional, stiff and starched,
yet with pretensions.
"Her flow of fussy small talk was a ,
nuisance, and her interruption of'F1tz-
gerald's medinatioas with the demand
that he should shave and wear clean
linen assumed the proportion of a
tragedy in his eyes.
"Ile stood it for a fortnight and then
fed, leaving the honeymoon anfintshed,
going off to stay with friends, bolting
like a rabbit for its barrow.
"There were a reunion and an at
tempt at reconciliation, but in ramp,
Fitzgerahns letters to his friends at
this perlad are like tbe letters home of
a boy who is being bullied at schooL
"'t believe,' be writes to Professor
Cowen, 'there are uew channels fretted
in mycheeks with many unmanly
tears, and there really is oo evidence
that he had auything t0 cry about be-
yond the fact thnt he was being bus-
tled out of a Comfortable dressing
gown. into a starched shirt with high
collars.
"That feet was symbolical of the
-general tllserepancy of Mates and
pointe of view. So we find Mtn writ.
ing again, "rill I see better how we get
on 1 dare fix on no place to live or die
In, and then before long eatue definite
separation and the drafting of a deed
of eettleteent
"Fitzgerald, it is said, used long aft-
erward to walk up aud down a certain
garden • path for hours together calling
hlmselt a fool. and when in later years
he met his wife again he first pot out
his hand and thea cheesed his mind
and turned bis buck."
The, Scales an the Hair.
If you look at a human hair under
the microscope you will Bud that its
Surface is formed of successive over-
lapping
verlapping scales. The bristles of the bog
hear teuelt resemblauee'to the human
hair, tbottgh their diameter is greater'
end' the tileltke scales are touch finer.
Sbeep's hair has emelt coarser scales.
It is owing to the existence of these
!rates that'one is able by a peculiar
process to tell which Is the tip end
.tach the other cud of a hair rolling
it bttx"een his anger and thumb. Thais
manipulated the hairalways travels
in the direction of the base because
the edges of the Scales prevent It from
going the other way,
An Accommodating Chemist.
Chemist (to poor woreanl-£anmut
take this; medicine three times a tiny
after meals..
Patient -But, site 1 seldom get meals
these lard times,
Chemist (pgesing on to the next tea.
tomer)--Theta take it betore Mote-•
London Knee.
Not Playing Fair.
"What's the matter with that child'
new?"
"They're pia Ing house end George
wen's let her go through 'his pockets.'!
-Chicago Rccord•Ilerald.
Just al you Aro piaeted, at finding
taupe yott Lire displeased at finding
porfeetlfan-Las'state.
AMBA$SA0011$,
They Enjoy Some Canoga Privilege
at European Gourta,
le the popular hind -the Atnortcan
mind` at (oast-tbere is very little till-
ferenee between en etnitussndor nut a
minister, but the former Is entitled to
very many privileges abrottd that are
dented to a mere envoy.
For instance, one =Mile prtvllei a of
an tuabessador Is that be, and he
aline, when dismissed, may turn till
Dock to tile sovereign to whose court
be 15 accredited. The mode of pro-
cedure, goueeelly speaking, le as fol-
lows:
When the audience le at an end the
ambassador waits to be dismissed by
the sovereign. When dismissed the
ambassador bows, retires three Peres,
bows mann, retires three paces, bows
a third time, turns on tris heels and
walks to the folding doors, But when
tbe reigning sovereign Is a woman,
atilt politer methods obtain, To turn
els back would be discourteous; to
walk backward would be to resign a
privilege; therefore the ambassador re-
tires sideways like a erab. Ile keeps
one eye on the sovereign and with the
other he endeavors to Llnd the door.
By this unique means hecontrives to
evince alt politeness to the sovereign
and at the same time retain one of his.
privileges,
Another privilege of ambassadors Is
the right of being ushered into the
royal presence through folding doors,
both of which must be Hung wide for
him. No oue save an ambassador can
claim this privilege, the moat any non -
ambassadorial individual can expect le
that one of the d9brs shall be opened
to him.
One privilege appet0aining to the
ambassador, one capable of. causing.
great inconvenience to the ruler, is the
right of demanding admisslou to the
sovereign at any hour of day or Might.
'TbLs was one of the reasons wby
Abdul humid, when sultan of Turkey,
opposed the raising of our mission at
Constantinople to an embassy- It was
decidedly inconvenientat times to sea
the American representative at all.
To the European the most important
feature of the ambassador's makeup
is his sword. Therethe blade of the
sword is a rapier blade with the point
blunted. It bas Leen facetiously ob-
served abroad that tbe use the sword
is put to in addition to its trick of
tripping up its wearer is usually the
harmless one of poking fires. One di-
plomatist was said to file his bills ou
his sword when it was not otherwise
engaged, and for a long while it was
a standing witticism of the carps dip-
lomatique In Europe that the Russian
ambassadors used their swords to file
broken treaties, a circumstance that
was held to account for the. Inordinate
length of their weapons.-Harper'e`
Fti eekly.
Emmet's Presence of Mind.
A story is told of Robert Emmet
which proves his secretive power and
resolution. He was fund of studying
chemistry, and one night late, after '
the family had gone to bed, he swal-
lowed a targe quantity of corrosive
sublimate in mistake for some acid
cooling powder, He immediately dis-
covered his mistake and knew that
death must shortly ensue unless be in-
stantly swallowed the only antidote,
chalk. Timid men would bave torn at
the bell, roused all the family and sent
for a stomach pump. Emmet called no
one, mad leo uoise, but. stealing down
stairs and unlocking the front door,
went into the stable, scraped some
chalk which be knew to be there and
tools sufficient doses of it to neutralize
the poison.
Queen Elizabeth's Amulet. •
Queen Elizabeth during her last ill-
ness wore around her nock a charm
made of gold which had been be-
queathed to ber by an old woman to
Wales, who declared that so long as
the queen wore it she wonid never be
111. The amulet, as was generale, the
case, proved of no avail, and Eliza-
beth. notwithstanding her faith in the
charm. not only sickened, but died.
During the plague in London people
wore amulets to keep off the dread de-
stroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worn
near the heart. Quills of quicksilver
were hung around the neck and also
the powder of toads.
No Swelling at AL1.
"I see not one ripple on the water.
All is calmness," said the little Ger- I
man lady, looking out dreamily over
the cutlet eea. "I hal crossed the
ocean when It was calm tike this all
the way over,'
"Do you mean thst there was me
swell even in midoeean?' asked her 4I4
companion, who had never crossed at
all.
"No, no swelling tet all," was the re
ply. -New York Press.
Wherein They Differ.
,lack -Widows are wiser than maids
In One respect at least. Tom -What's
the answer? Jack -They never let a
good .chance go by, thinking that a
better One will come heir way.-CU1-
cage News.
In Mitigation,
Judge --Hess thief, you're totted
guilty by th' Jury. Have y' anytbing
to say ng to wily I shouldn't soak y'
tin nail? Prisoner -Well, jpdge, it
wasn't your hose I.atole.-Cleveland:
Leader. '
\Nei! Qualified.
Why do yott apply for a position db
boss' of this gang? flare yoti ever lied
Any experience?'
-Bossed my son after he grew
Buffalo Express.
l'rocrastlnntion Is ono et the most
- rim' sii<h (glen+ oC bappitlesen"UE,,
POLICE OF RERMANY.
Prlvaoy of the Homo No Bar to Their'
Farreaohing Authority.
TO a ftrelgner no tenter: of German
ife is more striking than the proal
eenee and almost unlimited authority
'of the pollee. Mttny of its tunetioas
are sucb as in tiVnited Staten would
be intrusted only to a court of maw.
What eeems almost equally strange,
the greater part of these functions are
exercised quite independently of the
local government.
The minuteness and thoroughness of
the work of the German police are a
constant surprise to the torelgnee The
policeman not only proserree order In
tbe streets, but exercises a fnrreeeh-
Ing authority in private houses. For
Instance, he undertakes the nlghtl$
lucking of one's street door at a.sufU-
ciently early hour, He sees tbat one
bas bis chimney regularly cleaned. lie
Inspects at stated times one's stoves
and beating apparatus, and while bee
is about it be will look tato a few
otber matters of domestic economy.
One feature of his activity strikes a
good many American visitors with fa-
vor. In some places singing and piano
playing with open windows are for-
bidden, and it is a common house reg-
ulation in -large towns that uo pianos
may be played after 10 o'clock in the
evening. The German policeman is
also something of a food inspector In
his way, and be !teem a sharp eye on
venders of food and of medicines. It
ts not an uncommon sight to see a Ger-
man policeman halt a milkman's wag-
on and on the spot make an inspection
of his wares. Should there prove to
be anything wrong with them they
are promptly seized and destroyed and
(be matter is immediately taken In
hand by the higher authorities. --New
York Press.
A BATHLESS AGE. _1
For a Thousand Years the People of
Europe Wont Unwashed.
When Egypt, Greece' and Rome were
at the height of their ancient power
their citizens made" bathing a social
function, a municipal duty and a re-
ligious
eliglous observance, The public baths
of these nations were magnificent ar-
chitecturally and Important as centers
of hygienic and municipal sentiment
With the decadence of these coun-
tries the world seems to have reverted
to a period of mental sloth and physi-
cal uncleanllnese. As au authority on
the matter puts It:
"For 1.000 years there was not a
man or woman In Europe that ever
took n bath, If the historian of these
times. uichelef. Is to be believed. The
ancient love of the bath seemed to
bare disappeared from oft the land.
"There was no Greece or Rome to
hold up the ensign of cleanliness to
the nanous of Europe. Small wonder
that the people of the continent be-
came physical decedents, as indeed
they were in spite of tradition to the
contrary.
"It is not strange that there came
the awful epidemics "that cut off one-
fourth of the population of Europe -
the spotted plague. tbe black death,
the sweating stebness and the terrible
mental epidemics that followed in their
train -the dancing mania, the mewing
mania and the biting mania.
"The bath was banished and filth
was almost deified. Indeed. it was
then thought that the sanctification of
the body was only accomplished when
that body was indescribably dirty." -
Physical Culture.
An Island of Blaok Cats.
"The Island of Black Cats" is a name
often applied to Cbatbam island, one
of the Galapagos. It is in the Pacific
ocean. about 730 miles west of the
coast of Ecuador, It Ss overrun with
black cats, and eats of no other color
are seen there. These animals, live in
the crevices of the lava .foundation
near the coast and subsist by catching'
fish and crabs Instead of rats and mice.'
Other animals found on this island are
horses, cattle, dogs, goats and chick-'
ens, all of which are perfectly wild.
CAPITA. PENALTY
Some Curious Methods of Exet
outing Criminals.
MOROCCO USES THE LASH.
Fjogging *0, Death la Still In Vogue
Among the Moors -Strangulation is
Employed In Austria, and Spain
Clings to the Garrote.
There are many curious methods of
indicting eapttal punishment in the
various countries of the old world,
some of them tinged with the cruelty
of the dark ages.
llioreeeo Is perhaps the most mediae-
ral country in existence. Flogging to
death Is still In vogue. It is not so
very long ago that blend HOW had
the ahereaf Itittaln executed in thle
horrible fashion,
The emeer of Afghanistan has pe-
onliar methods of making the punish-
ment tit tbe crime. A baker, for sell-
ing short weight, was roasted in ltis
own, oven, and a man who bad started
a scare that, the Russians were ad-
vancing on Kabul was placed on a
stool fastened on top of a tall pole
and kept there on sentry do till be died
of eleepleseness and exbaustlon.
Political crimes are not uncommon
In Persia and the revolutionists, when
caught, are dealt with summarily.
Four conspirators who were recently
caught in the act of throwing a bomb
In the crowded bazar at Teheran were -
hanged and quartered In the same
fashion that prevailed in England up
to the seventeenth century. The re-
mains of the wretched men were hung
at the city gates as a horrible warning.
An Austrian officer convicted of poi•
coning his superior of'icers in the at-
tempt to win promotion was sentenced
to be strangled.
Austria is the only country which
employs this particular method of ex-
ecution, but Spain's garrote is very
similar. The original method of gar-
roting was, to tact, nothing but stran-
gling,. Tltg criminal was seated on n'
chair fixed to a post. a loop of rope
was placed encircling -his neck and
the post, and by menus of a stick or
cudgel (Spanish "garrote") inserted be-
tween the post and the condemned
man's neck the cord was tightened
until strangulation ensued,-,,,
The modern garrote consists of a
brass collar containing a sharp pointed
screw. The executioner turas the
screw, and its point penetrates the
spinal marrow, causing instant death.
Every civilized country does its best
nowadays to snake the dreadful task
of execution as rapid and painless es
possible. Hanging as at present per-
formed 1s a very different matter from
what it used to be in -England.
TIil nearly the end of the eighteenth
century the condemned man was made
to stand In a cart with a rope around
his neck, and the cart wap then driven
away from under him. In 1783 paras-
' meet abolished this practtee as being
too barbarous, and a platform was
substituted for the cart In 1874 this
method was Improved by proportioning
the length of the drop to the weight of
the body.
The state. of New York inaugurated
tate electric chair many years ago, but
' its only advantage over banging is
that the man who switches on to cur-
rent is out of sight of the death cham-
ber and so escapes the grewsome title
of public executioner.
Formerly all criminals in England
died by the ax. and uudoubtedty the
r\x in' the hands of a skillful heads-
( man was as merciful an instrument o1
death as anywhich diet tpday. In
Prussia decapitation by the ax is stilt
the recognized method of execution,
but the rest of Germany follows the
example of France and uses the guillo-
tine. illo-
tine.
Execution had almost become obso-
lete In France until public sentiment
was so aroused by the ever inereasing
number of brutal murders that in Jan-
uary, 1909, 'thewtdow," as the French
term the Instrument, was dragged out
of its retirement and fear miscreants
were publtely executed at Bethune, In
the north of France..
The guillotine was Invented by a
doctor named Guiliotth more than a
century ago, but It is not true that the
inventor fell a victim to his own de-
vice. He tiled quietly in his be& The
gulttotine cop fists of two upright posts
grooved on the Inside. An immensely
beery and sharp steel btade 7s dsed to
slide In these grooves, and the execu-
tioner has nothing to do but pail, a
rope, when the blade drops and decap-
itates the victim Instantly„
There are a few countries' wberir
capital punishment has been abolished.
notably Switserdaad. In Italy alto
there have been no execntlona for civil:
otfensea for man'' years past: -St Lou-
is Poet-fispatc „
A Startling Reply.
"It is very detrimental to UM con-
versation if you play bridge while
talking. A gentleman once entered a
room and walked up to a lady who
was deeply engrossed in correcting her
score. 'How d'ye do, Mrs. So -and -soh
he exclaimed. '1 have just met your
children with the nurse. By the way,
bow many have you got?'
"The lady looked up and replied,
'Sixteen above and twenty-four be -
tow -"'-From "The Confessions of a
Bridge Player," by Quito:.
How Stupid!
blrs. Jens treading) -!t says here
that a nautical mile is 8,080 feet and
a statute mile is only 8,281) feet Why
is that? I thought a mile wan st mile.
Mr. Sones tw(thont looking up from
his,paper)-Weil, a mfe Isa mite, but
a statute toile is measured. on 'dry
land, white a nautical mile in measured
on the water, and you. know ,most:
things swellwhen in water:
airs. Jones (resuming her readingl-
Why, ot course! Hots stupid•!-Ladlesr
Home Jonrnal.
How it Looked.
"Why don't you eat your caviare?'
naked the host`
1'1)Idn't 'stew It was 10 eat," replied
Drenchia 1 o13. "I toot gbt there had
been en net:Merit And tae cook spilled
the bird sliot."... Washtngtou Stat'.
Domeotie liaise,
?Jr*, Ilenpeelt (with newspltnport--tt
Says here flitlt btlltertnllk will *Stolid
Obeli lite 10 over a Itttndred, tinfUeak
iwearny)-1f t woe abeo(iglor, Pd fittte'
111 dtlltkiu 1 - itiW+}ut1 'yti O..)49 sty
The Fires 4tntletrtan.
Who Was a nest ."genderditti
T
he
Prince of fURikt,tsa hes br'an,pto-
nouneed
one, but nary mortaltl` can
fairly conat.,enea 'leftn F}itll e
rime tit : s n e i when:
R ` g'er t of a
Adam . ed �e t; Thi
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drat
oftian edgr ntrivava>;for,
a l t • ors,
a me
d a
coot' er «
g
writing'npop armor i •''Gala
R 41 .� ,
became c • qg ro ' t
c a t�gr(f .dr ,•aQ 5!fi '�4t Pod
and Seth a atlerohn 14120 40 fa
M
thor'e anti rnotter'e' Gteeo, jnii:" That fs
to say, Seth was, the firth man Whit,
could boast of "tntatlly," cp,ti 'Whig
been Re}tt opt of the pall, Wiille Abel
iitysufiablrr perished. too young.. -Lon -
tion Cbroniele,
Tim a pdttl Ptt praclalttui t poi
4,hd. t!aF�ll to sok,
Y.7•
entneteeterti°, mp
eierfritteetraenazieneve
o Has been u Caniada's favorite m
Yeast over a quarter of a
century, , Enough for i"irks
Yt A'f(1..4, � ;* ?91° k r It d tt • < ,
to produce 50 large Loaves
of line, wholesome, ziour"
Liking, home-made bread.
Do not .experiment --there
is nothing "just as good';
E. W. GILLETT CO. LTD. '*
Winnlpe8 TOrtOP,ij'O, OHT. Montrea'
Awarded highestttonera at
altEs ominous. _ .;,r•'
PRANKS OF CUPID.
'.elebrated Men Who Married Their
Domestic Servants.
Many celebrated men have married
;heir domestic servants. SIr Henry
Parkes, premier of New South Wales,
is an example. One night when dining
at a friend's house he was struck by
the appearance of a servant girl who
waited upon the table and persuaded
his host to allow ber to enter his em-
ploy. This she did and for a short
time held the position of cook in Sir
Henry's household. Then he made her
Lady Parkes.
But more illustrious than this is the
case of Peter the Great. One day he
was dining at the hoose of Prince Men-
sbikot. He noticed one of the servant.
maids particularly, and, though she
was not handsome, sbe caught his fan-
cy. Her name, tbe prince told the'
czar, was Martha. She had been a
servant in the house of a Lutheran
minister of Marienburg, and when than
city was captured by the troops of
Russia she had been taken prisoner.
by General Bauer, who bad passed
her over to the prince, whose servant
she was. The coant politely made a
present of her to the czar, who even-
tually married her.
William Cobbett, the great wrtter,
when be was only twenty-one years of
age, one morning chanced to see a bux-
om - servant girl busily engaged In
washing the family linen. The girl
was pretty, so Cobbett spoke to her,
learned her name and`the same even-
ing called upon her parents nud said
he would like to marry their daughter.,
The parents of the girt informed the
young___ man that they had no objec-
tions to him as their son -In-law, but
Unit be would have to wait until their
daughter was of a marriageable age.
Five years later Cobbett, true to his
early love, married her.
A WEIRD INCIDENT
Chopin's Funeral March Was Inspired
by a Skeleton.
Late one summer's afternoon, said
$lent, Chopin and 1 sat talking in my
studio. In one corner of the room
stood a piauo and in another the com-
plete skeleton of a man with a large
white cloth thrown, ghostlike. about it
I noticed that now and again Chopin's
gaze would wander, and from my
knowledge of the man 1 knew that his
thoughts were faraway from' me and
its surroundings. More than that, I
thew that be was composing.
Presently he rose from his sent with-
out
ithout a word, walked over to the skele-
ton and removed the cloth. He then
carried it to the pinto and, seating
himself, took the hideous object upon
his knees -a strange picture of life and
death.
Then, drawing the white cloth round
himself and the skeleton, be laid the
Tatter's fingers over his own and began
to play. There was no hesitation in
the slow. measured flow of sound
which he and the skeleton conjured
up. As the music swelled in a louder
strain I closed my eyes, for Were was
something weird in that picture of
man and skeleton rented at the piano..
with the shadows of evening deepen-
ing around them and the ever swelling,
and ever softening music filling the air
with mystery. And 1 knew 1 was lis-
tening to a composition which would
live forever:
The music ceased, and when I looked.
up the piano chair was empty, and on
the floor lay Chopin's unconscious
form, and beside him. smashed all to
pieces, was the skeleton P prized' so
much. The great composer had swoon-
ed, but his march was found.
Aro Empire Sold` at Auction.
The Roman empire was once sold to
the highest bidder. On the death of
Pertlnax in I08: she Prnero'rtan: guards
put up the empire for sale by :metiers,.
tad after ea animated competition 80.
tweenn Suiptclan: and Jnifan It Cres
knocked downto tlie• latter for 17.2,i0
drachmas, The Unmans bold anrtloua
nt various kinds,: rhe proceedings bit•
much the some in all c:uses, TGG
&kilo sub, haste, Which was' a :isle of
Plunder, ; was bold under' a, apear stu'ett
, in tke•ground.. The mtiglater aucti)11iti.
or aiietloneet, was eha4eli from amot(gr,
rho 1117enturil,. or mouny ertangtlrs„ and
11i>r aseistantS were time mitahien.
Thoe's, f.ltti'u tilelfedi.
Totnniy ate his first !neat at rG a6tilil>'
try hotel: when !te \1050 tibia yettg10 014
and4 the, experieor4 Waft, an tt tttt.. 1 P
Trite enperxigUy fnt+resfed he tate cel'
hep;fep of smell,tat* digiiea eejttfoOl'
lag Aldo orders, scattered about hill
piasg, when he wont home, he pew it'
grep(l0' description of the, onset.
"AO irhat do yea slunk, tnaarrint"
he cengitgtlUd) "we ate mast of Cho
citta out of birds! bathtebret nfte'
satn'r dente Compsaim
TEA & COFFEE
FAQ,'°ROTES
THEIR POPULARITY IS BASED Oil
f....y ." IMPORTANT POINTS.,..tr
HIGHEST '
PLEAA$Iao
A MAN AGAINST A NATION.
The Most Curious European War That
Was Ever Waged. ,
The most curious European war ever
waged was that which in the sixteenth'
century, the period of the reformation
and the renttissnuce, was carried on
single banded for between five and six
years between a bankrupt grocer of
Berlin and the elector of Saxony, who
was the most powerful German prince
of the period. The grocer's name was
Hans Iiohlhase, and the immediate
cause of the quarrel was the arresting
of two of ids Gorses In the elector's
territory, he being a subject of the.
elector' of Brandenburg. Failing to
get redress. he adopted what was then
a perfectly legal expedient stud de-
clared formal war on the realm of
ilaxony. The declaration was accepted
Iu due form, and the war began..
The extraordinary part of the story
is tbat the grocer kept the war up for
nearly six years practically single'
handed and even went to the extrem-
ity of declaring war on his own sever-`
eign in the meantime before he was
caught. He burned farms end' even
villages, employed mercenaries after
the fashion of the times and made
himself the terror of the district. Ile
was finally influenced to stop hostUU-
ties by /slither, and after he had taken
the sacrament from his hands he was
betrayed into a further act of hostility
by treachery end. being captured, suf-
fered death on the wheel after refus-
ing an net of grace which granted hlni'
1 the painless and honorable death of
the sword. The story Is perhaps We
strangest of all the romances of that
romantic age. -Westminster Gazette.
•
tt For Body and Soul.
Here ts a curious advertisement, re-
' pubtlshed in the Cornhill Magazine
from au eighteenth century Duper:
"Wonted -For a family who have had
health. a sober, steady person, in the
capacity of a doctor, surgeon and
apothecary. He must occasionally act
ho
tbe capacity of butler and dress hate
and ,wigs, He will be required to read
prayersoccasionally and to preach a
sermon every Sunday. The reason of
this advertisement is that the family
cannot any longer afford the expense
of the physical tribe and wish to be at
ascertain expense for their bodies and
souls. good salaryywili be given."
Truth Witt Out.
Hubby (with Irrttalioni-Why is if
tbat you_ women insist upon having
the last word?
\\-{fry (calmly] -We don't, The only
season we get ft is because we always
hare n dozen arguments left when you
stupid men are all ran out,-LRdfes'
Home Journal
The Difference.
A foot Is unable to see his on•u faults.
A wise man. seeing his own faults, is
able to keep other people from noticing
the:Irs-Ct) tea go iheeordHlerald,
Laving klnriness Is greater then
reeve, mei the elm rittea of life are more
that all cet'onlonies,-Taimnd.
G`fearfn<J H'ouses'.
The funortan. of a clearing house is
f0" enable' bankers, to 511 bang& drafts,
bait and securitles;, thereby saving
tench ichor and: trouble tied at the
mune time curtailing the Amonttt of
ttaating' case flint mould othervwise be
regtttred., 1;y Mesas o0 the transfer
ay:ttenv made paalibie by fee clearing
hosed' teaaaacflotts tee the AMonnt of
ihillioda are aettied easily!' and eepedf
tlodttly
won
Speddli, And Writing,
"Many ise'aliid talk mtt'r.11 tlluro,agroo,
Ahly tlidn' they" vW111ger srtld the Merge',
fietaittele
"tittl,lt' roptli& itfr. 6.ot Igloos "Sly'
taw (tem, shunt-ltht'ciittllu4b:
Alt kuottipld':
"The evil than, tbtlb d'9' Pflug' fcffs1
theta;'"' plren l ttlltrll- !'115 0MAf'ttr' ret-
ort playes dies, he 1011515 (lir [alai fit.
etrnmenb bell i--'Londi3gl' it•BC(ii.
REVENUE Ctrr nRS..
Varied Duties of These Life Severe of
the 80,1184
No men in the employ} el 1 holo S _ nl
tender more efileient sal * ton q•
those of the revenue cutter swipe,
The term "revenue," wale% wgtl(i In-.
dilate that their duties wet't restr•teI$
to those pertaining to the �troti@r en
forcemeat of 110 revenue l;ivv$t can'
rice but a faint notlsttL or' time vattFA'
Reties of this splendid coypu of meth
m
As a atter of fact, revenue cut era
rre the life savers of the seas. icy
patrol the coasts on regular heats, on
the wateb for vessels to d(1ttELS , tfti0yi
mast suppress mutinies, prevent siilug-i
filing and Illicit seat hunting; they; pest
examine ships' papers, enforce quer-.
,nntine regulations, supply ligbtlteusee
'and in geucral do all kLnde et policq,
work. Then, too, they have been
dubbed "`the messenger boys of the
seas."
Alexander Hamilton was the father
of the revenue cutter service, for It
twaS under his administration -of the
treasury department that, fu 1701. ten
ratters were built and put in commis-
sion under rules of his own devising.
In time of pence the cutters are under
the superrislon of, the treasury depart-
ment, but in times of war they are
transferred to that of the navy depart-
ment. Since the war of 1812 they have
Always rendered excellent service in
the event of armed, hostilities, 'Every
one remembers the remarkable work
done by the McCulloch, under Dewey,
it the battle of Manila Bay. -New York
Press
A GEM OF POESY.
Maybe It Was the Heat That Made it,
Burst Into Being.
Stewart Edward White, William
Tient and myself were hunting moun-
tain sheep in the ranges of. Mexican
California. Perhaps because the sav-
age heat of the desert whicb we were
crossing had somewhat gone to our
brains we fell to making poetry epee
various aspects of desert Life, White
rhapsodied upon the tarantula; Kent
dithyrambed over the pack mule; I
sang the dispraises of tbe jack rabbit.
Finally Mille, who was cook for the
day, offered a special prize of duff
with ralstns (the last reo•'•'.nt of our
store) for the premier rase to bo
turned out before sunset. At noon we
stet up with a wandering prospector,
wtlo introduced himself as J. Noel
Benson, ,native son of California, and
observed upon learning of our literary
efforts that he was some 9051 himself.
Go being invited to enter the list bo
retired to the top of a mesa, where the
thermometer was sotnetbiug like 110
in tbe absence of shade, and after
hall an hour of Self communion re-
turned with tbe following gem - 0t
{Idesy:
Tail) GNAT.
The gnat he is a nolaomo mita, ,
He loves to. blur.. Ile loves to bite,
He crawls upon you whop you're hot.
1 love the naughty aunt -nit -not!
The duff was awatrcted to kiln with-
out protest from the other contestants.
Success Magazine.
How Leap Year Started.
ltntnpson, In .his "NIMBI.OleVI, Ka•
laudanum," quotes the following
quntnt tradition from an old Se ken
treatise: "Spine assert that the his-
sestus or leap day tomes lbrongh ihts,
that Joshua prayed (0 got" tits! It s
might nu r
sun f h stand still atm' one rt
a
g any
'n
that he might sweep the het,
then from the land that stud had greet-
ed him and Ids followers, Itis true that
tho sun did stand s l:il f atie .tin
h ( y,
length over the clty et ebaon, but
the day went forward In the samo
Moaner as other days. And the bis.
ao Rt(tu is ttot through that, as some do
think."
ifs PPrnpeo mod (tome parte of ;opera)
end Portugal there ellsts a tvitdttluu
known no "lire ghost of sena yeas."
Fteltht•erit in Ilia say that n marvelous
mousier neutrally apipears Ott Imre day
att4 disarranges human affairs fur the
r<ttrutie for et the seen, ,