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»<• POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Too much publicity spoils a good deed. Signing your name to a friend’s note la a bad sign. When riches come in at the window friends flock to the door. He who has no faith tn himself is destined to become a successful failure. The brave and fearless man manages to get there early and thus avoids the rush. A wise man doesn’t attempt to pull himself out of trouble with a corkscrew. If a man is unable to stand prosperity he should sit down and give his Wife a chance. The suspicious man keeps one eye on his neighbor, but the wise man keeps both eyes on himself. Unless a man is willing to take chances he never takes anything else that happens to be lying around loose. —Chicago News. Church Pillars. The joke of the vicar of Withycombe, Devon, at the Easter vestry as to his laggard churchwarden being not a "pillar” but a “buttress” of the church because he supported it outside reminds one, says a correspondent, of another joke of the same kind delivered from a London pulpit by the Rev. John McNeil. John was minister of the "Scotch church,” Regent square, at the time and in his own homely way was driving his points home with telling effect. He suddenly paused, after exhorting his congregation to be workers. and then, with a twinkle in his eye, said, “You know, I always think' of church members being divided into two classes—pillars and caterpillars.”— JLondon Chronicle. When Making; Fast the Flag; Halyards “Many a slender flagpole has been ruined,” said a rigger, “by drawing the halyards down too snugly when making them fast after hauling down the flag. If this is done in dry weather and it comes on wet. the shrinking of the halyards thus drawn taut to start with may be enough to bend the pole, and if it should be left in that way long enough the pole would be permanently bent. Flag halyards when no flag is flying should be made fast with a little slack.” With a Home. The great millionaire looked up impatiently. “Well,” he said, “what is it?” “I desire, sir,” the young man faltered, “to marry your daughter, provided”— The other frowned. “Provided what?” “Just provided,” murmured the youth. Machinery of Memory. The machinery of memory was thus interestingly described by an authority on the brain: “The act of remembering something,” he said, “involves a distinct change in the brain substance. The thing to be remembered is recorded by a little nerve cell. The first time the cell does its work an impression is made upon it But that impression is apt to wear off unless the action of the cell is repeated, and the oftener this is the case the more fixed becomes the impression, or ‘cell memory,’ as it is called. Suppose that the work of this particular cell is to enable you to recognize a certain smell. If the impression is made but ,ouce, the tell may fail to retain it. but if it Is repeated several times a lasting Impression will be made, and you- will recognize the particular odor when you meet with It again.” ■ ' : Southern Wit. In the early days of the civil war, eays Mrs. D. G. Wright in “A Southern Girl In ’61,” many northern senators were especially violent in their denunciations of the seceding states, occasionally much to the amusement of their listeners. On one occasion a western senator ended a speech by declaring that were certain threatened events to occur he would “leave this country and join some other nation. Even the Co* manches he would prefer to this government tn such a case.” Senator Wigfall of Texas rose In answer and stated in a tone of grave remonstrance that he trusted the senator would .consider well before he took such a step, “for the Comanches had already suffered too much from contact with the whites.” The Sea Otter. The sea otter combines the habits ol a seal with the intelligence and amus Ing character of the otter. When me in herds .far out at sea, which is bu seldom now, they are commonly seer swimming on their backs. They evei ■ oat their food lying in this position 01 the water apd nurse their young one on their chests between their paws, ex | actly as a south sea Island mothe * swims with her baby in the watei When swimming in this attitude the; even shade their eyes with their paw When the sun dazzles them. Mg'■ ——' n “ One of Hi* Inferiors. . V “He says he always tries to be polit to his inferiors and— Hey, where ar you going?” | “Going to find him and give him licking.” “What for?" k “1 met him this morning, and he wa as polite as a dancing master.”—Hous lon rest.

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-I — 'matches of old times. Beeurfn* « L.i*M With * Flint Wa* a Teaions Process. Few persons living today remember when the tinder box was a necessity. But these few are the only ones Who thoroughly appreciate the convenience of matches. With the aid of a tinder box one sometimes obtained a light in less than two minutes, but if the conditions were unfavorable one might spend a half hour or more before getting from the reluctant tinder box the spark which would kindle the fire. The process sounds simple. The lid of the box was removed and a bit of candle stuck in the socket. Next the flint, steel, matches and damper were taken from the box, one match being drawn from the bundle and laid ready for immediate use. The handle of the steel was grasped firmly in the left hand and the flint held between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand. Niue inches was considered the proper distance between the steel and the tinder. This was measured roughly in the dark by placing the tip of the little finger on the rim of the box, spreading the hand upward and placing the~bottom of the steel on the tip of the thumb. The flint was then struck sharply with the steel several times, obliquely and downward. The impact caused the steel to give off sparks, really minute globules of molten steel, at a temperature of several thousand degrees, and these, falling upon the tinder, soon set it alight The box was then taken in the hands and gently blown to cause the smoldering tinder to glow more brightly, and to this glow the point of a sulphur match was quickly applied. The flame of the burning sulphur quickly kindled the wood of the match, and it was then easy to .light the candle or morning fire. Although the process was not diffi ?ult for an expert under favorable circumstances, it was at best slow and tedious. One might strike 100 modern matches, one by one, in less time. The flint commonly used in the tinder box was such as might be picked up in any flint district. All that was necessary was that it should be so shaped that it could be held easily be tween the fingers and should have sharp, clear edges. These were commonly sold in the streets of London for a penny and are still manufactured in Brandon, England, for export to Spain, Italy and the east. The matches then Ignite spontaneously when struck. Originally a “match” was any sub stance which burned readily and slow ly. The bit of slow burning hempen - rope steeped in a solution of saltpeter. - which the ancient gunner carried in order to discharge his arquebus, was a “match.” It. burned at the rate of about three feet in an hour. The old > sulphur .match was intended not to produce but to convey fire. In London matches Were commonly sold by the i. poorest afid. .raggedest class of street ■ .merchants, who lived in dirty lodgings I in the poorest districts, where they made the matches, carrying them about in a basket for sale. Few houses With any pretension escaped without at least one call a day from these vend- ■ ers as long as the trade lasted. The great'difficulty was to find dry ■ tinder. Naturally it was very ready, to ■ absorb moisture, and when allowed to I become damp the difficulty of obtaining a light in the morning was great. i To avoid this trouble the tinder box s was usually kept in a specially dry • pjace. Often there was a small niche • made on purpose in the brickwork at i the back of the large open hearth ■ place. Often the box was placed, in I the evening on the hearth close to the 1 fire and 'at bedtime was carried upstairs warm arid dry and placed be I neath the nillow Road Marker*. - On some of the Yorkshire moon 1 white posts are to be seen along the ’ narrow tracks which serve as roads. Ttitey are called “stoops” and are some- ’ . tliitg like boundary posts in appear- ■ appe. A casual observer might imagine -that’, they really did denote a couh- • sty ,or parish boundary, but such is not - the • lease.<’ When snow covers the B ground- and the paths-are Invisible ■ these posts point out where they lie • and ’sb' save the wayfarer from being ‘ lost.—Lohdon Mail. £ Tb* Tfcaeker** Joy. r Parent—How did you get along with k your geography lesson today, Johnnie?. a Pupil—Beautifully. The teacher waß so pleased that she made me stay after school and repeat it all over again, only just to her. >f ’ Geatian Hoot. >t Gentian root, often used as a tonic, it is considered in many malarial counn tries a remedy against intermittent fern ver. Especially is this the case in Corin sica, in that section of the island near »s the town of Aleria, which is infested x- with malaria. The inhabitants recent?r ly protested violently against the intror. duction of quinine on the part of the *y medWal authorities, declaring that rs they would not abandon the remedy which had been used among them for centuries, the gentian root, either powdered or simply masticated. te — re Qvite the Contrary. “After all, my friend,” began the sola emn stranger, “life is but a dream, a”— “Not much, it ain’t,” snorted the hard is headed man. “In nearly every dream I is- ever had I was gettin’ more money than I knowed what to do with.”—

MAN’S WEAKER HALF, O»« Side of Hl* Body Always Strong*? Than the Other. The popular belief is that the left side is weaker than the right, and, as in all popular beliefs, there is much truth in this. In most cases, saya the Grand Magazine, the right arm <is decidedly stronger than the left, the bones are larger and the muscles more vigorous. , When we come to consider the towel limbs, however, we find a precisely opposite state of affairs; the left leg is stronger than the right in the great majority of cases. This want of symmetry is ‘noticeable all through the body. Nine times out of ten we see better with one eye than with the other and hear better with the left than with the right ear, or vice versa. Not only so, an injury to the body—a burn or a cut, for instance—causes more pain on one side than it would were it indicted on the other. Even diseases attack one side on their first onset in preference to the other. Ecze- , ma, varicose veins, sciatica and even tuberculosis begin invariably to manifest themselves on our weaker side. A blistering plaster, too, will provoke an eruption only if applied to the right side in certain individuals; in others, only if applied to the left side. The simplest way, apparently, of discovering which is our weaker side is to observe which side we lie upon by preference when in bed, as it is cer- , tain that we will instinctively adopt the attitude which is most agreeable, or, rather, which causes the least inconvenience. In other words, we will lie upon the side the muscles of which, , being more vigorous, are less sensible to the pressure upon them of the weight of the body. Statistics and observation go to prove , that in about three cases out of four it is the left side which is the weaker, , thus giving reason to the popular die- , turn. Curiously-enough, however, pneumonia, it has been noticed, unlike most diseases, usually attacks at first the , right—that is to say, the stronger—side of the body. Triboulet, the Jester. Here is a story of Triboulet, the jester of Francis I. and probably the most famous in history: “A great nobleman who had suffered from Triboulet’s gibes threatened to have him flogged. The jester complained to the king. ‘Have no fear,’ Francis said, ‘for if any one were bold enough, to kill you I should have him hanged in an hour afterward.’ ‘Oh, sire,’ replied Triboulet, ‘would it not please your majesty to have him hanged an hour before?’ Triboulet happened to be present at a meeting of the council at which there was a discussion as to the road by which the Freeh army should invade Italy. ‘Gentlemen,’ interrupted the jester, ‘you appear to consider yourselves very wise, but you are strangely mistaken, for you have forgotten the most essential point.’ ‘And what is the most essential point?’ queried a grave councilor. ‘lt is simple enough,’ answered Triboulet. ‘You have delberated at great length as to the road by which you shall enter Italy, but you have never thought of the one you will take when you have to leave it again.’ ” i ■ • The Charm at Hand Work. In the middle ages and the renaissance nothing was machine made, for the machine that turned out things by the grpss had not yet been invented ! and hence the individuality of the : craftsman was able to assert itself, i An artistic instinct made the men of i those days seek for ocular pleasure in > their surroundings. Life was of neces- . eity more restricted, mote concentrated! Every, joy had to be home or in immediate surroundings; hence, perhaps, the reason why they , did not neglect these matters as we do, , who buy such objects ready made and turned out by the hundred. The beaui ty of things made by men who delight- . I ed in making them, things made to . endure and by their endurance to teach /future. generations how to improve . upon the bfist of the past—it is these J- that our collectors do well to gather , around them.—Connoisseur. i. ■ - , Agreed With Her. , After an all night session with the boys a. husband wended his way home, arriving there at about 5 a. m. He ■ found his wife waiting for him in the i dining room, tile confusion of furniture . indicating that she had been having an , unhappy time. , “This is a nice time for you to be coming home,” snapped the wife. . “Yes,”’ admitted the erring husband. “It’s a lovely morning." i “I haven’t slept a wink this blessed flight,” with a severe look. ’ “Neither have I,” said the husband. Orlfln of the Onune. It is to India and to the Arabs as r middlemen that Europe, and through 1 Europe America, owe the orange. The •’ orange crossed from Africa to Spain with Mohammedanism, while probably e the crusaders are to be thanked for t bringing It to Italy and western EuI rope among their trophies of the east r The very name Is really Arabic—“na- ’■ ranj”—and of eastern - origin,. ■ though the legend that It comes from two words meaning “elephant’ and “be 111,” because elephants ate oranges to I- make themselves ill, is absurd. Prob- >. atty in French the initial “n” is dropped off from naranj, with the final 3 “n” of the indefinite article, just as I our “an apron” represents “a napron,” y and the spelling -with ‘an “o” points to - false association with “or” (gold).— EzcngnfrtP- Havana.

BANKS IN A FIRE CITY THE PRESSING NEED OF MONEY IN A STRICKEN COMMUNITY. Experience of a Chicago Financial House In 1871—Greed of Depositor* and How It Showed Itself—Aa Uaexpected Proposition. Whenever a great fire devastates a? large city the first effort of those concerned with the work of restoration Is to get the banks open so that the pressing needs of a homeless population may be cared for. At such times business is done on a strictly cash basis, and everything sells at a premium. The consequence is an extraordinary demand for hand to hand money, since the merchant can use the poor man’s dollar to better advantage than the rich man’s credit In buylpg supplies to replenish his flame emptied warehouse. The struggle that ensues to obtain all the cash in sight is full of human Interest It has its picturesque features. On Monday, Oct 10, 1871, when all Chicago trudged downtown to see what was left of the city, great crowds besieged the banks. Some men were crying, others talked incoherently, and everybody seemed half dazed. An officer of one of Chicago’s greatest banks, who fofight his way through the smoldering embers to the white marble hall which surrounded his vault, gave the following description of what occurred: “Although the iron door of the vault had been somewhat expanded by heat, I found that the combination worked perfectly. That reassured me, and after hunting about the debris I fished out one or two iron crowbars and by wedging them in finally opened the vault door. The inclosure smelled smoky, but I soon found that the cash was all right, and so were our books. That made me feel good, and I got down, to work in short order. The first thing I did was to look at the balance sheet and see what our exact resources were. A glance showed me that by collecting what was due from out of town creditors the bank could pay everything it owed and declare a 10 per cent dividend besides, even if It lost every dollar due from its Chicago clients. That was all I wanted to know. “On leaving the vault I saw four man waiting for me in what had been the cashier’s office. They were among our largest depositors, and I knew well enough what they wanted. They were of Very different types—one a shrewd money lender who had $30,000 to his credit on our books, another was a school treasurer in an outlying district who would have been ruined had we not been able to pay him $25,000, a third was an out of town banker with $1,50,000 to the credit of his institution in our bank, and the fourth was a man who has since become one of Chicago’s greatest capitalists and who had always professed his sincere friendship for me. It was a trying ordeal and one calculated so make each of my visitors show the (real stuff that was in him. As events proved, this did not take long. “The little money lender grabbed me first. With a strange little wink he forced me one side and said in a half whisper, ‘Do you know how much I have in your bank?’

‘Yes. about $30,000.’ “ ‘Well, I will give you SG.OOO if you will give me the cash right away.' “‘I won’t do that,’ said I. ‘Your money is all right, but you will have to wait a week for it until we get in shape again.’ “ ‘What,’ he fairly gasped, ‘do you decline $6,000? That is a good deal of money in a city that has gone to destruction.’ “I answered no, that I would not, and told him in plain English what I thought of him. I said: ‘I am not knave enough to take your bribe and give you an unfair advantage over the other depositors, and I am not fool enough to do it, because I know as soon as you discover the bank paid its claims within a week you would sue me for the $6,00Q. Get out of here right away.’ ” < “*That was the last ot him. He took his money, when the week was out and' kept clear of the bank after that Then the school treasurer came to me with a straightforward story of how his bondsmen were anxious to know how he stood./ When I told him that his money was safe and that he would net lose a cent he burst into tears, saying the news was too good to be true. ’lheoK of town banker was also very nice, sayidg that he did not care to withdraw Wfr-tnoney so long as he knew it was safe.. ’Then the man 'who has since grown enormously wealthy accosted me with the remark that he had come down to see how things stood. That gave me a chance to test him, so I said brusquely: ‘“You know how things are as well as I do. Can’t you see the position we are in? ‘Oh, yes, yes,’ he answered hastily; *1 don’t care about the fire. We are all in the same fix. But I want to know bow you stand personally. Have you plenty of ready cash? You cannot get credit these days, so If you need anything from the grocer’s you want bard cash. I brought you a little’— “With that the man threw open his coat, dited down - into his . pocket and' dragged out a roll of bills as big as his hands could grasp. Then he straightened them out and divided them into fully In earnest,, but I told hin>-I could not dccsutn thd m&ndy j And stttat : U thought I court mntage without "it He assured, me that whatever he would always be at my disposal That man has alWays been one of my best friends.”—New York Post - - - “What a lovely morning.” he said. "It is a perfect morning,” she replied. "True,” he said. “I haven’t seen anyfclng this morning that isn’t perfect’? And he looked hesetralght In the face. Then she blushed. A

CULTIVATING THE CHILD." How Axy Trait May. Be Fixed 1* a Normal Human Being:. There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into IL Choose what improvement you Wish in a flower, a fruit or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation and persistence you can fix this -desirable-trait irrevocably.- Pick out I’afiyStrait you'want in jtobr chnd, grant? ed that he is a nprmal child, be it honesty, fairness, purity, lovableness, industry, thrift, what not By surrounding this child with sunshine from 'the sky and your own heart, by giving th: closest communion with nature, by feeding him well balanced, nutritious food, by giving him all that is implied in healthful environmental influences and by doing all in love you cap thus cultivate in this child and fix there for all his life all of these traits—naturally not always to the full in all cases at the beginning of the work, for heredity will make itself felt first and. as in the plant under improvement, there will be certain strong tendencies to reversion to former ancestral trpits, but in the main with the normal child you can give him all these traits by patiently, persistently guiding him in these early formative years. And, on the other side, give him foul air to breathe, keep him in a dusty factory or an unwholesome schoolroom or a crowded tenement up under the het roof; keep him away from the sunshine, take away from him music and laughter and happy faces, cram his little brains with so called knowledge, all the more deceptive find dangerous because made so apparently adaptable to his young mind; let him have associates in his hours out of school, and at the age of ten you have fixed in him the opposite traits. He is on his way to the gallows. You have perhaps seen a prairie fire sweep through the tall grass across a plain. Nothing can stand before it: it must burn itself out. That is what happens when you let the weeds grow up in a child's life and then set fire to them by wrong environ-, ment.—Luther Burbank in Century. THE GOLDFINCH. Changes In Plumege That Are Puxsling to the Novice. Most every one in America is acquainted with the goldfinch, but many people know the bird by the name of lettuce bird on account of itte bright yellow color. Goldfinch is a very appropriate name, as the bright yellow of the male when in breeding plumage is like burnished gold. The female goldfinch is more modestly dressed than her mate. The changes in plumage of the male are very Interesting and to the novice somewhat puzzling. Until the student becomes acquainted with the bird he may wonder why he sees no males during the winter. The truth is at this season tie flocks of supposed female goldfinches are really of both sexes, the male bird having assumed in the previous fall, usually by the end of October, a plumage closely resembling that of the female and young bird of the year. The male retains this inconspicuous dress until late in February, when one can notice a gradual change taking place in some of the birds. This renewal of feathers is actively continued through March and April, and by the first of May our resplendent bird is with us again. The song period with the male goldfinch continues as long as he wears his gold and black livery, for it commences as early as tbe middle of March and ends late in August. Goldfinches are very cleanly in their habits and bathe frequently. Their nests are exquisite pieces of bird architecture, tbe inside being lined with tbe softest plant down. The mother bird is the builder, her handsome consort during the, nest building time devoting most of his efforts to singing to cheer his industrious mate.—Philadelphia Press. Grant** Pr*aence of Mind. An instance of great presence of mind was narrated by John Russell tftoung. says a writer In the Grand Magazine. Once during the civil war,' when Grant was in subordinate command, he was reconnoitering alone near the enemy’s lines. Suddenly he found himself confronted by one of the Confederates’ pickets, who was for arresting him. “Shot Sho!” said Grant, with i utmost coolness. “Can’t you see I am in the enemy’s uniform? Don’t iioike a noise. I shall be back dh®ctly.” 'And he walked away, quietly until oat of the picket’s sight, then ran as nimbly as he could. 1 Do*t I*Om’s Eye*. To “cast dust in ode’s eyes” perfectly explains itself. It is, however, interesting to know that Epaminondas at the battle ofTegea defeated the Spartans by. masking his movements with a large hody of cavalry. He caused the horsemen to gallop to and fro in front of the enemy in such & way as to raise a cloud of dust and so veiled the movements of his infantry and enabled them to take up a new and more advantageous position. N . I | ~1! .! !!■■■■ .****■■■*■* A Premier’* Wit. A woman once told Lord Palmerston that her maid, who had been with her in* the Isle of Wight, objected to going thither again because the climate was net “embracing” enough. “What am I to do with such a woman?” she asked. *“Xi>u had better take her to the Isle of Man next ‘time,” said Lord Palmerston. Infrequent. EJind Lady—l have nothing but some lobster salad and mince pie. You surely don’t want that for your breakfast? Weary Walker—Oh, dis is me dinner, tatjin. I had me breakfast day before yesterday.—Cleveland Leader. Winged time glides on insensibly and deceives us, and there is nothing more fleeting than years.—Ovid.

THE BEST COUGH CURE When offered something else instead of Kemp’s Balsam ’ u stop and consider: ‘ ‘Am • I sore - ’ • vto get something as good as this' . best cough cure ? If not sure, what good reason is there for for taking chances in a matter that may have a direct bearing on my own or my family’s health?” V Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. BANANAS ARE TENDER. They Are Easily Chilled and Easily Become Too Ripe. “You would not believe how tender these bananas are,” said a banana man the other day. “They are more tender than eggs. They will chill, in fact, at 52 degrees—that is, the green ones, while the ripe ones stand a somewhat lower temperature. “A chilled banana never ripens. While green a banana will bleed when bruised, exuding' a juice approaching the color of tbe fruit when it is ripened. Under the influence of cold this sap becomes chilled and dried, and the life is out of the banana. After that it breaks like a stick and is of about as much value as a stick for the purpose for which bananas are usually bought. “From tbe time the bananas are taken green from the trees till they are sent out by the in a condition approaching ripeness, ia period of nearly a month elapses. At the Central American plantations they are loaded on big scows by negroes, poled out to fruit steamers and carried up to New Orleans. They are unloaded also by negroes, w*ho carry the bunches to the scales before placing them on the cajs. The whole load, negro, bananas, and all, is weighed and the African weight deducted." The produce men buy the bananas by weight in New Orleans, though they sell them by the bunch here. From the time they leave the plantation till they are loaded on the fruit train is usually a period of about four or five days. “A messenger who knows bananas •from the stalk to the tarantula’ accompanies each train. He rides in the caboose, and be watches those bananas as a setting hen guards her eggs. The temperature in the car when they are loaded is usually from 60 to 70 degrees. Seventy, in fact is a trifle too warm. The messenger is between two fires all the tinje, or, to put it more accurately, fye is between heat and frost all the time. At 52 degrees the green bananas will chill, while a slightly lower temperature will absolutely ruin them. If a temperature of 70 or over be maintained throughout the journey of about fourteen days from New Orleans to the northwest, the fruit will arrive too soft and ripe and will very likely be worthless before it can reach the hands of the retailer... “The fruit should reach here in a green condition, so as to require a few days in the ripening room before being placed on sale. This is a little room at the rear of the commission house in v which the bananas are placed after their arrival. There an attempt is made to reproduce the warm, humid conditions of the Central American . plantation. This effect Is furnished by a little gas stove kept burning part of the time, over which is placed a pan of water to form the steam. “Three to five days under these conditions usually place the fruit in shape to show to the retailer, who comes along the street with his eye peeled for the bright yellow color of the ripened bananas. “For northern shipment the bananas are sent out in an unripe condition, wrapped in heavy manila paper, besides the straw wrapping, which is dq? s signed to protect them from bruising < when sent out to the local trade. Some varieties are total ly unsuited *to northWhen Ton Take a Bath. When drying off after a bath stand in the bathtub in water up to the hh-* kies. Wh&i rubbed with coarse towefe / until the body- Is all aglow, step out*' and wipe the 'feet ’ This prevents thßt uncomfortable chilly feeling experienced if tone steps immediately out of a bathtub full of water v on to the bath mat. Love. . We never can say why we love, but only that ’we love. The heart is ready enough at feigning excuses for all that it does or imagines of wrong, but akk it to give a reason for any of its beautiful and divine motives, and it can only look upward and be dumb.—Lowell. A Kindly Provl*loß *f Natnre. "The codfish,” said tbe professor, “lays considerably more than' 1,000,000 eggs.” “It is mighty lucky for the codfish that she doesn’t have to cackle over every egg,” said the student who camo from a farm. > A Nntion *C Sleeper*. “Rare slumberers are the Turks,” declares? a writer. “In the villages, at any rate, they will drop into the land of dreams on the slightest pretext and at the shortest notice. This habit has advantages, one being that the Turir does not at all mind being awakened in the dead of night, for the simple reason that he can go to sleep again the instant he wishes. When staying in very limited quarters I have often heard a member of the family get up and after searching about among his sleeping companions thoroughly rouse them all to ask where his tobacco wan or nDon some eunally slight excuse.” - .....