Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 January 1906 — Page 2

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Tliifi Powerful 1 Pirate Bird Ca lobes Eider llaclfd. Ill summer the principal food of tlie •white tailed sen eagle is salmon, varied by -sea birds common along the inlets of Greenland. In autumn, when the salmon have ascended to the lakes, the birds resort to the sea. They appear to have a special 'fondness for eider duck? which are taken by strategy. Stationed near the water in a commanding position, with a background of cliff, the color !of which assimilates with that of! the eagle's plumage, he sits motionless until a flock of ducks settles neart him. After a time one or two dive |in search of food, but not uutil all havje gone under S^getiier does the eagle i)iake a sign, lie then glides swiftly to |the spot and circles over it close to the iiis .sharp eyes lie can dot before tlicy reach the surf he is not usually succe soon as they become awar ence of the enemy they stantly. I-ut in time the

water. Willi ct the birds ace. At first sfu!, for^as of the presive again iuare obliged

to come up for air, and then one of them becomes an easy vi growy eider drake is ea and borne away in the powerful pirate.—London

•tim. A full i!y lifted up lions of this Field.

UOTT Tliey Pass Alonqr Information About Their JKmpIipyerH. In China it is a common .thing for some people to bewail tl:ie lack of cook, while their neighbors have numbers oh'ermg themselves directly tha vacancy occurs.

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reason of this is

that, each cook hands on to his successor his employer's "cliaractjer." This he does by means of a saucepan left •••standing in the kitchen.

If the place be considered a good one a saucepan will be Aeft on the ground ••••with the lid put on properly. If the lid be put on wrong 'way uppermost it means that the phu ti is a good one and that the cook has duly lei for a time and means to re'iun^ as soon as lie can.

If the lid be put hal'f in and liaif out of 1lie saucepan it. indicates that the place he master is stingy, perly and some rice that the servant is everything concern-

Is a good one, but If the lid be on pro be left in it it show quite satislied with ing the owners of jthe house, but that he is obliged to owing to debts or other cau vs wli-'-h inconvenience hiin. 'mr.xlt the cm :U'/ver be in the habit of making hi 5 servants pay for lo^t or broken ani.-!e* a-clmik mark will be found the bottosli of the saucepan, wliich will -not e.'i iiijl be rubbed off.

The Chfinc. "boy* mates his mark y,-behind tlije bedroom or pantry door and the waterman his, on the bottom of *y»tubs. T^'iese signs are said to have 'been originally adopted by the Chinese from theiT unil-i.

Why K.'nne 3I«MI Are Superstitions. J^'heie are miv.i who have a congeni» ^tendency to distrust fate. With the er half of their minds they may be mists, but there is a corne: which jvev l'ree-Trom the pain of ?ar, the ^f a sort of transcendent. 1 spite. ii-ch aid of the superstitious that believed in the gods and believed to be unfriendly. Sor.^ survival his pagan notion remains to this

hxeu aiivmg those whose reasonapnviction and reverent fuih alike nhun to totally opposite conclu-

They do not believe they will ui. "e misfori unes if they take a libuse which is numnered 13 than if they took one numbered 31, but they avoid the former in order to quiet their own painful imaginations,

i-xa Royal Women Gamblers. Marie Antoinette was a slave to cards. On one occasion she played for thirty-six hours ai a sitting, with but an intermission of! a couple of hours. "The play at the queen's table at

Fontainebleu," wrbte the Emperor Joseph II., "was lik'p that in a common gambling house—people of all kinds were there and mingled without decorum. Great scapdal was caused by the fact that seyeral of the ladiea cheated."

Anne Boleyn, Htenry VIII.'s ill fated queen, Avas never quite so happy as when" playing for high stakes. The records of privy purse expenses are full of her winnings from her royal spouse, for she was a lucky player.— Chicago Journal,

The Knklnxl Klan Ititnnl. That only two copies of the Kuklux Klan ritual are kiiown to exist is the statement of Tholinas Dixon in the Metropolitan. One is in the library the other is amoi Tennessee. It was

of them, he says, Columbia college the archives of the composition of

r- General George W!. Gordon of Memphis, and it began "This is an insti

,hus: tution of chivalry,

piumanity, mercy find patriotism, empjodying in ite genius and its principles v&ll that is chivalrifc in conduct, noble sentiment, generous in manhood aod triotic in purpose

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Ashley rose to his feet. "We seem to be arguing in a circle.'' he said quietly. "I guess I had better be going. I am to understand that the question may bo reopened when I have shown you that a motor boat is of some use." "If yon can." retorted Langdon. "Good morning."

Burt strolled out of the bank and up the street. He could not understand Langdon's prejudice. The elder Ashley had left him a comfortable fortune well invested. He contented himself

THE TINY CHATT TKKM BUtti WITH THE HEAVY VIBHATIONS, BUT l^OliGED AHEAD. with looking after these interests and devoted the rest of his time to his automobile and his motor boat".

The boat was the first one on the lake, |md to the people in the little town^f Avondale it seemed the height of extravagance to have spent several thousand dollars upon the shell-like craft with the high power engines.

That John Langdon, practically the owner of the First National bank, should have shared this belief was inexplicable to Burton. The banker should have had greater breadth.

The week that, followed was exceedingly miserable for Burt. He saw but little of Molly Langdon, and those interviews were too tearful to be pleasant. Molly was a dutiful daughter and would not consent to a marriage without her father's approval, and yet her coaxing was of no avail when' she broached the subject to her parent.

To make njntters worse, there were rumors that the bank waSMiot altogether sound. These reports annoyed Molly, who had her fathers assurance that the bank was solvent, but he was unable to combat the growing report.

The run came some ten days after Ashley's interview. Molly went to the bank one morning to find a long sti'ing of depositors before the paying teller's window and her father pacing the floor of his private office, white and haggard. "Is it very bad?" she whispered as Bhe entered his room. "Bad?" lie echoed. "It's ruin unless we can meet this run." "Haven't you the funds?" "Not in ready money. We cannot keep paying out for more than an hour and a half. We need at least $100,000 more." :,•: \"And you cannot get it?" "Not in time. We can get it here by evening, but it is on deposit with the Bank of Trust, and to bring it around the lake to- a special train even tvould require ffiree hours." "And Osauge is only eight miles across the lake," mused Molly. "Why not use a boat?" "We telegraphed to Osange, but there is not even a tug, and it would take a man hours to row across in this weath-

Molly's face brightened. "Give fcie an order for the money," she cried. "Telephone the bank to send the "on-

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declai^d Burton Ash-

the possession of a motor

.jcessarily renders me unfit to be jlly's husband." "It's not that," explained the banker, "but what it represents. The man who marries-John Langdon's daughter must be the sort of man who can look after John Langdon's money and not fritter it away on toys." "Scarcely a toy," protested Ashley. "The automobile was regarded as a plaything at first. Now it fills a use- I ful purpose. It will be the same story about motor boats." "Well." said Langdon, "when you can show me that a motor boat is really useful you may ask Molly'* hand again. Meanwhile I repeat that the man who marries my daughter must be able to look after my money." "You do not expect Molly to marry a confidential clerk, do you?" demanded Ash.ey. "Not exactly that," explained Langdon. "but I want her to marry a man who can look after her fortune." w, "Suppose," suggested Burt, "that you give me Molly and make some other disposition of your funds.,.™ I have enough for two." mm "You won't have long at this rate," growled Langdon, "spending your father's money for toy boats."

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plain on the way down. As the machine sped over the smooth road she explained the situation to Burt. Osange, where the surplus cash of the First National was on deposit, was eight miles across the lake, but it was an eighty mile run by railroad on account of the dip of the lake. The only hope for the First National lay in the motor boat.

It was not long before Burton was ready for the trip, and the trim little craft was speeding across the lake at a twenty mile speed in spite of the choppy waves through which a rowboat would have labored ponderously.

Burt had all of the power on, and the tiny craft trembled with the heavy vibrations, but forged ahead, pushing her way through the rough water as if aware that her own reputation and Burt's happiness depended upon her work.

They were met at the Osange wharf by a very much astonished cierk, who was assisted by two policemen in guarding a pile of bags and bundles.

A few words of explanation, the transfer of the receipt and the boat was loaded for the return trip.

It was harder work returning, for there was weight to carry, but Burt forced the boat ahead at full eed. unmindful of the occasional wave he shipped. A clock on the rail before him told him that he was making time, and lii' forged ahead.

The spectacle of Burt Ashley drawing up to the curb in front of the bank in his red automobile, accompanied by Molly Langdon, whose trim spring costume was in odd contrast to his water splashed bathing suit, was a sight sufficiently strange to draw from their places in line the more curious of the depositors. The sight of the bundles of coin and bills being carried into the bank was still more efficacious in suppressing the run, and twenty minutes later the bank was empty save for the occasional depositor.

In the president's room Burt sat in one of the leather chairs. "And tjjat was how it Avas done." he concluded, "twenty-four minutes going,

eight for the return trip and the rest of the time A\-as on the road or spent in stoAving the cash."

John Langdon rose awkAvardly from his chair. "I think June is a good rtiouth for weddings," he said irrelevant iy.

Burt and Molly agreed Avith him.

llow People Bothered Owen.

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known to all circles pos

sessing the slightest tincture of science as the man who could reconstruct an entire extinct animal if vou gave him the fragment of a fossil tooth. The public Avould not Ifuy his books, but they showed their appreciation of his genius in various simple minded fashions. All reports about the sea serpent were referred to him for examination.

People AVIIO fancied that they had found live toads imbedded in rock or coal

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of it. One day, just as he Avas setting out to keep a dinner engagement, he was detained for half an hour by a note from a stranger Avanting to knoAV whether something he had found in a sausage Avas or was not the tooth of a dog and requesting an immediate anSAver. To the credit of the sausage vender it proved to be the tooth of a sucking pig.

On another occasion, Earl Russell, having received as a present from President Grant what purported to be a bear ham, sent the bone for examination to OAVCII. One is sorry to hear that the great anatomist at once pronounced it to be the ham bone of an ordinary pig.—London Academy.

His Modest Epitaph.

There are those AArho take the precaution to buy their own monuments and tombstones and write their antemortem epitaphs. What special comfort they can get out of this is not clear, but that is their business. We recall, for instance, a true story of a fellow who had been found guilty of a very cruel murder in one of the Connecticut towns and was sentenced to die on the gallows. A few days before his execution his lawyer called at the cell and asked if there

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to ask him Avhat lie thought

anything the condemned would

like him to haA'e done in postmortem arrangements. The man said that he would leave with the lawyer a sum sufficient for the purchase of a plain stone to be erected at the head of the grave and bearing the simple inscription: "Sacred to the memory of —. Died (name and date we omit). Of such is the kingdom of heaven."—Buffalo Commercial.

Loss of Cnste.

In the year 1766 Lord Clive and Mr. Verelst employed the Avliole influence of the English government to restore a Hindoo to his caste who had forfeited it, not by any neglect of his own, but by haAring been compelled by a most unpardonable act of violence to SAvalloAV a drop of cow broth. The Bralimans, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, Avere very anxious to comply with the AA-ishes of the government. The principal men among them met at .Jvishnagur and once at Calcutta, but after consultations and an examination of their most ancient records they declared to Lord Clive that there was no precedent to justify the act. They found it impossible to restore the unfortunate man to his caste, and he died soon after of a broken heart.—Sydney Smith's "Essays on Indian Missions."

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tive off The Rec^ra-tleraiu, policy .of" obtaining the best there is to be had. Walter Wellman, the ell known author on political sr ibjects and one of the ablest writ ers of the jlay, acts in that cap acity.

Mr. Wei lman wis born Mentor, Ofc do, Nov. 3, 185S. At the age of: 14 he began his newspaper experience, establishing at that ag a weekly pa-per in the little town of Sutton, Neb. In 1878 her eturded to Ohio and a year la' ter established the Cincinnati

Evening Post. In 0

1884 he becc'ime the .Washington ent

correspond Herald and Central An Indies and place of Co (San Salvador) marked the: spot

of the Chicago in 1892 he visited lerica ajnd the West located the landing lumbus

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Watling's

Island,' "and with a huge

Stoue mon ument. Mr. Wellman's dashe for the north pole are well nown. In 1894 he made the fiirst of his two Arctic voyages of exploration, reaching the lati tude of 81 degrees northeast otf Spit/bergen. In 1898 he retu rned to the North, penetrated to Franz Josef Laud, returning ajgain to this country in 1899. On with wonde discovery lands, and him scientifi tion of greal ican Geogra

each trip he met rful success in the new islands and brought back with

ataj and informavalui to the Araer 'phical Society. an has been a volutor scientific mag opuls.r periodicals, •injg" from his arctic wlwpri 1 is connection

Mr. We 11 Simmons writt azines and On returni

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trips he renewed jji with The Kfccord-tHerald and is the v/Vasbini»'ton now correspondent of (that {paper. His incisive discus rary affairs place

sion of contempo liasl given him a in 1 he regard ot

statesmen arid scientists of the day.

Winter1!Pourist

Tickets

To Colorado. California/

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Mexico knd Plorida

and points West andJSouth now sold at special low fares via Pennsylvania Lines. Information about (routes, stop-overs and travel (conveniences fully given upon request addressed to a re an a in ticket agent.

The LeRoy Stock Company.

The following is from the Indianapolis Sentinel and refers to the Bondman as presented at the Indiana theatre in Indianapolis by the LeRoy Stock Co. who will open a three nights engagement at Gant's opera house Monday evening. ".Despite the inclemency of the weather, a fair sized crowd attended thp Bondman last night and judlging from the applause were tlighly pleased with the performance. "Jason Orry, as portrayed by Mr. LeRoy, ^as a splendid piece of acting akd was tteyond a doubt the character Hall Cain intended his hot headed son of the north should. The intensity of bis hatred for his half brother and the tenacity of purpose with which he follows Sunlocks to kill him are so real that when upon meeting Sunlock face to face and saving him from death the audience go fairly wild with joy. The other parts were in capable handstand were han died in a painstaking manner. Mr. Stewart $.nd Mr. Adair came in for mord than the usual amount of credit from the pleasing way their respective parts were "Mr. Lei yains and g( expense in

has taken great me to considerable Paging the play that

held the boafrds last njght and a full house 'should have greeted him."

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