Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 December 1908 — Page 7

Meeting Mr. Brown ®©@ ®© @ By V. Toppler '

- It has never beemn my brother Ralph’s habit to be very extravagant when it came to spending money on me, so I was rather surprised when, one morning before going downtown, he asked me if I would go to the Hippodrome, and, at first, I thought he was only joking. “I can see that you must think there is something under this, Grace, and so there is. It is like this: You remember Charlie Brown I have spoken of?” “Yes, but don’t quite see—" “Well, Charlie is coming to New York to-night and I want to give him a good time, and as he has always been particularly anxious to meet you, I thought it a good idea to take you along to entertain him.” “I am sure I shall enjoy it.” “Well, now you leave here on the €:36, that will take you to Grand-Cen-tral at 7:05, and I will meet you there and we will both wait for Charlie, who will be on the Boston express, which gets in at 7:20. We will then have Just about an hour to get dinner at the Manhattan and get -to the Hippodrome in time for the show at 8:30. But now I must be off to catch my train. Do not forget—Grand Central at 7:05.” ; .

That afternoon I, got a- telegram from Ralph. It read: “Will be detaired by business. Canmot make Grand Central. You meet ’.l“ . Le, %& i ,"- >\ ~-;,: A‘\‘ 47 () . R ; ) 5 p il ¢ \3lo&\At X S )\5 ) ~Y A “ I,' ~ s = o < 3'; ' \iy “l . i 1 | :,1 * l (‘ 3 Rl ! v ‘ v / \ PSS 1 ) N 3 ’ [ \ N\ i > \“ }_ ) ,’ e ] iy T A s = : ': , / X o ~/ f 1 “Oh, That Is All Right, | Am Grace Warburton.” Charlie; take him to dinner. I will be at ‘entrance of Hippodrome at 8:30.” At first T was rather put out.- The idea that I should go and meet a man whom I had never seen and take him out for dinner seemed a rather out-of-the-way thing for a young girl inclined to be bashful, but after awhile the thing began to appeal to my sense of fun, so 6:30 found me on board the train for the city, but I did not arrive until 7:23 as my train was belated.

The Boston express had been on time, however, and all the passengers had gone when I ran up to the platform. No, not all—there was one young man walking up and down as if waiting for somebody. _ Surely that must be Charlie Brown I thought and ran up to him, calling out: “Mr. Brown!” i

The agility with which he turned around proved - his identity. He Jooked at me in surprise. “That is my name, but I do not have the pleasure—" . “Oh, that is all right, I am Grace Warburton, Ralph’s sister, and I want to take_you with me to dinner, as Ralph was delayed and will meet us later. Now we must go and have something to eat in a hurry; as we have not very much time.” ) He tried to say something, and looked so bewildered that I could hardly help laughing when 1 looked at the queer expressipn in ys face_, but would not listen ‘to him, and we were goon seated in a restaurant opposite the depot, as the state of my finances would not allow me to take him to the Manhattan.

He insisted that he was not hungry, but I put this down to bashfulness, and insisted on ordering a steak for each of us. By a sly motion to the waitress I succeég,pd in getting hold of the bill, and®when he wanted to pay I assured him that was altogether out of the question. “But I insist.” :

“I shall not allow anything of the kind. Ralph would never forgive me if I did.” He/laid his hand gently on my arm. ;

- “I should feel like a criminal if I allowed you to p{y for me,” .

LIVING ON ONE’S FRIENDS

“The Social Grafter Solves the Problem of Existing on Nothing. It is generally considered that the accomplished social. grafter, who has successlully solved the problem of how ‘o live well on nothing a year, §s limited to large cities. But if you will stop to think a moment, you will be able to recall from your own experience that there is no town so small, no farming district even, which does not boast a man who is always wanting a pocketful of nails or a woman who wants a cup of sugar and a pinch of tea, which never by any chance are returned. ] _ This is, of course, its crudest form. in towns it runs more to copying the clothes and hats of those fortunate enough to get their fashions from occasional trips to the city; to borrowing the new songs and stealing new ideas, until it must be more of a burwn a joy to be prominent in a = m!‘r..‘ S i l», »: ‘li:’. ',’ :

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“My dear Mr. Brown, I really don’t see—" . i “Well, you would if you knew everything. I am here under false pretenses. I am not the man you supposed me to be.” “I haven't really had time to suppose anything about you.” “Please listen to me a moment then. I have not the slightest idea who you are or who Ralph is, and I have been wanting all the time to tell you that 1 am not the man you expected to meet at the Grand Central.” , “Then you are not Charlie Brown from Boston?” _ “No, my name is Arthur Sidney Brown, and I have always lived in New York.” ‘ I was dumfounded and blurted out: “But why are you here, then?” “Well, I must really ask you; you simply did not give me a chance tc explain or get away, and you must forgive; I thought at first you were a girl out for a good time.” “Oh, how could you?” :

“It was only for a second. I soon saw that you had made a mistake and my love of fun prevented me from set ting you right. I simply could not help coming with you to see what would happen. Please forgive me! I'll bid you good night, Miss—" “Warburton,” I replied with a rather faint smile. .

“Why, the name is familiar. Oh, 1 know. I was at Yale with a fellow of that name.”

“My brother Ralph is a Yale man.”

“By George! Then I know him after all, though I have not met him for years. What a strange coincidence!™ “Well, in that case you had better come along. Ralph is waiting outside the Hippodrome.” . When we reached there we found

Ralph waiting with an indgnificant looking little fellow with glasses, whom he introduced to me as Charlie Brown. He lookedbrather unpleasantly at my companion, who hurried to explain matters. “I see you do not recognize me, Ralph. I must Imve changed quite a little since we were at Yale together. I am Arthur Sidney Brown, and many a battle we have fought when I was a freshman and you a sophomore. 1 met your sister by accident to-night, and she—"

There is no more of this story ex: cept that I agreed to become Mrs. Arthur Brown in June.

“On the way home,” said a Detroit banker, “I talked one day with the captain of the Majestic—Capt. Hayes. “Capt. Hayes talked about the theater. He was amazed at the Salome dance craze. He visited London, and the town was full of Salome dancers. He shot over to New York and Salome dancers writhed on nearly every stage. This amazed, not to say shocked him. It reminded him, too, of a witty woman. “This woman sat at his table on a recent voyage to New York. She joked her husband one night at dinner about her clothes. He didn't give her a sufficient dress allowance, she said. She was all in rags. Then she laughed and ended: ““Very well, John, if you don’t give me some money for clothes, as soon as we reach New York I shall go on the stage.” = . “‘Go on the stage! But you have no talent and no training,’ said her husband. 3 “‘Oh, you don’'t need either,” said the lady, ‘when you have no clothes.”” Medals for Canal Workers. Medals of bronze manufactured from the old scrap left by Ferdinand de Lesseps in his unsuccessful efforts to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama are soon to be struck in the Philadelphia mint, to be presented to all American workmen on the present canal operations who can show a service record extending over two years. Correspondence toward this end has been conducted for some time, and it is expected the medals of honor will

be ready for presentation in 1909. The idea originated with President Roosevelt on his visit to the canal zone. Large quantities of copper and tin have been collected from the useless French machinery for the purpose.

Meeting Emergencies.

To be surprised by the unexpected into a state of helplessness always must be a man’s own black mark against himself, even if no other person shares knowledge of the fact. It always must be his own accusation of his own weakness. To the extent that he feels in his heart a likelihood of its repetition, he must feel fear for himself. .

But for the highest exemplification of real social graft, commend me to the persons who, either from motives of ;hritt or.stern necessity, must get the bulk of their living out of their friends. In the dear old-fashioned hospitality, where the latchstring always hangs out to friends, we are sometimes compelled to entertain unwelcome guests and make the best of it, There are few of us so poor spirited that we would grudge a meal or two even to people we don’t like. . But the form of social graft most in vogue at present is the polite but firmt pressure which compels us to pay for small luxuries for persons we care nothing about; a pressure which we can ill afford and which rebs the aet of all the graciousness it might possess, if ours were a voluntary generosity. For the friends of a social grafter are literally held up. This is not an exchange of courtesles. It is petty larceny.—Smart Set

True, Perhaps.

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FOREIGN SWIMMERS MUST RECKON WITH AMERICANS

Achievements of Team -at Olympic Games Show Yankees Rank e with the Best.

It cannot be said truthfully that the outdoor swimming season of 1908 was a brilliant or even an unusually active one, yet it will go down in history as a decidedly remarkable one. The achievements of our small team of swimmers at the Olympic games were passed over with hardly a word in the heat of controversy over sensational dispufigf. Daniels’ capture of the 100 meter race had been expected and nobody else took a first, so what need of wasting time in comments? NevertheleSs, our representatives won a great victory, for they proved that we are now at least on equal terms with other countries—a thing foreigners have refused to admit, so far—and that in future they will have to reckoh on us in all international swimming meets. The sprinting of Harry Hebner of the Illinois A. C. and Leslie Rich of ‘the Brookline S. C. was an eye-opener to Britishers, who thought Daniels was our only good 100 yarder, and they were not a little surprised at our relay quartette—Daniels, Goodwin, Hebner, Rich—giving them a good rub for their money and finishing third, ahead of several European teams considered their betters..

Then the fancy diving of George Gaidzik of the Chicago A. A.—the best of the meet, despite his being given only thin{ place—took them completely off their feet. ;

Marathon swimming again proved the feature of the season. The Chicago river event was won in clever style by C. S. Jensen of the Illinois A. C. in 44:412-5, and his clubmate, H. J. Handy, obtained a second leg on the $l,OOO Missouri A. C. cup, which is competed for yearly over ten miles of the Mississippi. river, and which must be won three times before becoming absolute property of winner. In the east Bud Goodwin of the New York A. C. took both the big events—five and 13 mile championships—the first in 2:10:25, the second in 4:30:00. His work was a revelation. He seemed to hold over these distances the exact stroke, speed and all, that he uses in mile swimming, and his time was certainly wonderful. . Besides these three, several other, very promising endurance men were developed. Jaeger, the two Johnsons, Frizelle, and Hall in the west, and Wenck, the Manleys, Hennen, James, and Hyde in the east, showed better form and more speed than the best swimmers of the previous year. In sprinting there was not very much of an opportunity to judge of relative merits, but it is ‘worth mentioning that Daniels went an official 100 yards in a pool in 0:543-5, which, though not accepted as a record, may dispel the fear, felt by some, that the New Yorker is losing his speed. Apart from Daniels there are three men who deserve to be mentioned in a class by themselves; Harry Hebner of the Illinois A. C., Leslie Rich of the Brookline S. C., and Curtis Sloan of Pittsburg. They certainly ought to be heard from if their summer’s work is any criterion of what they will do next winter.

New Football Captains,

Yale’s football captain for next year will be Full Back Ted Coy. Coy has been Yale’s greatest individual plunger for two years and has been field captain this fall, while Capt. Bobby Burch was crippled. oo Hamilton Fish, Jr., a member of the class of 1910, has been unanimously elected captain of the Harvard football team for next year. Fish has played right tackle on the varsity eleven for two years. ' . Frank McLain, son of Congressman ‘McLain from Mississippi, has been elected captain for next year’s Vanderbilt university football team. Clark Walworth Tobin, 1910, of Boston has been elected captain of the Dartmouth football team for 1909. Hickman and Hayden Lead. Charlfe Hickman was the star batter of the American association the past season with an average of .400. He played in only 47 games out of the 164, however. The real leader of the minor league is John Hayden, the outfielder who helped the Cubs in their battle for the pennant at the close of the past season. Hayden, who was the star batter of the Indianapolis team, hit .316 for the 154 games in which he played and then joined the Cubs on their last swing around the east and continued to pound the ball hard and often. Ten of the American association batters finished the season above the .300 mark. ;

FOOTBALL IS SHELVED; OTHER GAMES TO FORE

Track Work, Basketball and Indoor " Sports WIII Now Receive Attention of Celleges.

Now that the football season has ended the athletes in the colleges and universities are turning their attention toward those games which, during the winter months, go to make the calendar of intercollegiate sports complete. Basketball, hockey, indoor track, aguatics and gymnastics are all com}n?g in for their share of recognition after being dormant for eight months. The track athletes have already donned their indoor shoes, trunks and jerseys and sought the banked turns of the runways in the gyms.” Nearly every afternoon these would-be flyers can be seen swinging around, developing both stride and wind under the watchful eyes of some captain, who is anxiously looking over the material for this winter’s team.

The dissolution of ‘the Intercollegiate Basketball association does not appear to have in the least retarded- interest in this branch of ‘athletics, and while it was feared at the close of last season that the discontinuance of this organization might materially affect the playing schedules of those colleges and universities connected with it, it has evidently had an antithetic effect. It is said that, as a rule, harder playing lists are being, or have been, compiled for the big eastern teams than ever before. If such is the case, then it is evident that enthusiasm among basket ballists is on anything but the wane. It is rather on the increase, and long, hard schedules will undoubtedly tend to boost it still further. Yale has announced that its schedule is composed of just as many important games as last season’s. Further than this, all the teams that last winter met in I. B. A. play are again given places among the playing dates.

TOOK MEASURE OF ATTELL

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SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN DRIVES NOVEL TURNOUT. Devotion of One Little Woman to Her Pets May Be Means of IntroducIng an Entirely New Mode . of Travel.

San Francisco—No one who has ever known and loved a dog, and there are comparatively few of us so unfortunate, can wonder at the devotion of one sweet little woman to hers. It -may be the means of introducing a new and entirely unique mode of travel in San Francisco. Mrs. Clar ence Hannum, after living in Alaska long enough to become attached to her fleet-footed dog team, could not bear to leave it behind her to the doubtful mercy of new masters, who might not only overwork and underfeed them, but might even separate them -and -place them among new teams, -where, unless they proved themselves better fighters than the combined - strangers, they would probably be torn limb from limb; soshe brought them down here to San Francisco with her over a year ago.

Only those who loiter or speed through the late afternoons along the moost unused and picturcsqu'e“ little paths at the extreme westerly portion of Golden Gate park have ever encountered this quaintest and most novel of equipages ever seen in any park anywhere. Even the monarchs of the road, the gaudiest, loudest and speediest of automobiles, hardly receive a passing glance when the dog team can be seen. To a long, low, little red wagon, almost identical with g child's coaster, so dear to the heart of the average small boy, are hitched these four beautiful dogs, tandem fashion, while gitting sidewise on the coaster, one hand on the brake and the other hold-

- : i '1 . - A S o "~ 454 L ) - A S i,( N = 8 sedlany F - R Y VY= N ' R Mrs, Hannum and Her Dog Team. ing the long whip of the arctic driver, is their proud and devoted mistress. Mrs. Hannum had no idea of using the dogs for driving purposes when she first brought them to the city, but after she had been here awhile she was dismayed to find that she could mnot possibly exercise them in the usual manner that city dogs are exercised, by either a. walk about the streets or a ramble in the parks, as the minute they find themselves at liberty they will unite their forces against any other dog who might chance to cross their path and tear him to pieces. So she determined that the only way to exercise them properly and at the same time keep them, as wéll as herself, beloved by the neighbors, was to literally and figuratively keep them in harness, so the little cart was ordered and the harness brought into usage. Bruin, the beauty of the team, a pure-blooded Siberian husky, which Mr. Hannum brought from Siberia, has won a number of trophies for his owners, ranging all thenway from elaborate cups to blue ribbons. His tail curls up over his back like a great plume, almost reaching his neck. Ne one who has seen him can doubt that he is well named for his forebears, whom he so strongly resembles. " Another strange trait, strongly convincing that he is only a recent member of the dog family, is the fact that he does not know how to bark. As his mistress so aptly explained to me: “He never says a word, unless to give that strange howl you heard when I loosed him, his- glad howl, and an angry growl when he is displeased.” The usual length of the drive is two or three miles. Eyvery day Mrs. Hannum takes her pets down to the beach, where they all enjoy a swim, then in the late afternoon for the drive, then home to their well-earned dinners, after which they are at leisure to enjoy themselves at will. ° Dog Team Beat Racehorse. A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Nome says: One of the most interesting contests ever witnessed on Seward peninsula was a race between a racehorse and dog team here Saturday, the dog team winning by 50 seconds in a ten-mile course. Ben Freymer, on Jake Berger’s mare Dolly, celebrated in Alaska, raced with Coke Hill’'s dog team form this city to the mouth of Dexter creek and return, a distance of ten miles. The trail was in good shape and fast time was made by both horse and dogs. The mare slipped while running on a little ‘hillside and lost some ground. Within three weeks another race will be run as a consequence of the dissatisfaction, and enough money was in sight to-day to make the side bets $lO,OOO, which found ready takers. —Seattle Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Common Mistakes in Astronomy. - Gore, the great English astronomer, has been calling attention to several widespread errors. He says the statement that with the Yerkes telescope one can see the moon as if it were only 60 miles away is utterly wrong; for, if the moon were really only at that distance we should see only a very small part of it, instead of the entire half, which we do see; we should, he says, see only one-nine-tieth of what we see now. Prof. Gore says it is also an error to say that the stars can be seen in broad daylight from the bottom of a well; he says they cannot be seen un less a telescope be used.

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When it became known, a short while ago, that the German crown prince had attended a regular course of studies at the Berlin technical high school at the kaiser’s bidding, a thrill of surprise ran through that exclusive set usually termed “society.” Such a thing as an imperial prince, an heir to the throne, embracing studies of practical usefulness, was, heretofore, unheard of in Germany. Until recent years the princes’ education had been cast in a venerable, time-worn mold—military exercises, military whatnot; and, by way of ornamental side issues, a few morsels of general history, geography, mathematics, social politics, and the' like. But matters technical—electricity, mechanics and their practical application, the building of railroads, wireless telegraphy, all similarly useful and therefore ‘‘plebeian” pursuits—were hitherto kept at a distance from the scions of the Prussian dynasty. The Emperor William, who has resolutely broken with many an obsolete custom and mildewy tradition, has now also pushed aside- the wormeaten system for educating an imperial prince. It is on record that he expressed in his spirited way, as an axiom, that a modern monarch and modern. statesmen must be equipped with a practical turn of mind: and that a great deal of the political and colonial successes achieved by Englishmen was undoubtedly due to their glft of viewing matters squarely and soberly, unhampered by “theories.” This is not the first instance of the kaiser’s lively appreciation of what is typically -English. He has repeatedly manifested a decided preference, inherited from his mother, for English social customs, English sport, and so forth; and he is certainly largely responsible for the marked -change which has swept during the last few years over the whole social life of Germany. English influence, formerly tabooed and detested, is now quite deeply rooted in Germany: the Kkaiser’'s strong personality has been successful in clearing away the inborn jealousy entertained by the German nation toward English notions and customs, in fact, toward all that hailed from England. ; ;

This change is especially marked in the fashionable circles of the German capital. Berlin, formerly a dead-ly-dull, uninteresting town, inhabited by narrow-minded citizens unacquainted with the outside world, and possessing an absurdly inordinate conception of the greatness of Germany and German influence, has become an international center, attracting people from all parts of the world, in outward appearance rivaling Paris, eclipsing Vienna, and trying to live up to London. This new state of things dates from more recent times. Englishmen .have lately visited Berlin more often than in former years; they have introduced into German life that element of sport which ewver tends to further the cause of goodtfellowship and thus bind together diverse nations, and have in this way assisted very materially to show the Germans as a race that good does exist in England, that English people afe not all unbearably haughty and stiff, and that English ideas and notions are not,-as was believed in Germany of yore, the offspring of lofty disdain of others and insular prejudice and arrogance. The result is that Germans, spurred by the kaiser’s example, have begun' to take lively interest in their fellow-sportsmen, have themselves founded rowing clubs, football associations, and kindred institutions. From the nursery to the university, from the kindergarten to the women’s club, from the servant’s hall to the fashionable salon, English influence is making itself more and more marked in Germany as each year passes by. . : Babies in all the rich, fashionable families are nursed by English nurses, ¢hildren are taught by English governesses, boys and young aspirants to university honors are coached by English tutors, and English nurse-girls and English parlor-maids are becoming quite the fashion. Educated Ber-

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liners delight to. show to new-comers their thorough grasp of English; they make themselves acquainted with the most modern English novels, and often write, as well as read and speak, English as easily as German. Even the shops are affected; English furniture is imported from London to replace. the heavy ancrent style of walnut and mahogany suites; bedrooms are- prettily furnished in white, nurseries are neatly. and sensibly appointed, and pretty English drawing-rooms take the place of the stiff and clumsy. “recep-tion-rooms.” Dress material is bought in London, and the men, too, if desir--ous of being considered fashionable, have their London tailors; even the cigar isYsometimes discarded by the “young man about town” for the London “latest thing in pipes.” The ve latest addition to this list is the B{ lin messenger boy, a close imitatibn of the London pattern.

Strange to say, the most tell-tale part of thée house as regards English innovations in Germany is the bathroom and lavatory. Ten or fifteen years ago no German ever thought of having such a thing as a bath-room in his whole house; to take a morning tub would have evoked surprise and open derision. Now, it is one of the proofs adduced by the fashionable and especially the Berlin nouveaux riches to show that they are “in the swim.” I know a case in Berlin of a young German society man telling an- English girl at dinner in a fashionable house that he took- a daily tub. This he thought would be proof most positive that he was almost English! The German meals have undergone, in fashionable society, quite a noticeable change in consequence of English influence. The afternoon coffee parties have largely given place to the afternoon teas so prevalent with the English, and even the biggest hotels and department stores, such as the fashionable “Hotel Kaiserhof” .and the “Kaufhaus des Westens,” endeavor to attract fresh clients by advertising “English Five-o’clock Tea” in their prospectuses and bills. The midday meal, or “Mittagessen,” in many Berlin houses has been entirely discarded for the English luncheon, and the cold supper at eight for a modish lengthy dinner. In many business houses, too, in Berlin, English office hours have been introduced, and may perhaps in time become the usual custom. Many also are in favor of having the theater suppers so -liked in London introduced into Berlin life; but this will take a long time to become at all the fashion. !

The Safest Employment,

The person who is least affected'by trade depression and “slumps” in production is the peasant proprietor. So long as his acres produce corn, potatoes, peas, beans, fruit, milk and vegetables he is safe enough from hunger. His sheep will give w;ool, and homespun is excellent wear. His is the safe, primitive and elemental profession wheére a man lives close to the earth, the great mother—Dublin Irish Homestead. it -

| WHAL® CARRIED OFF THE LINE.

The Monster Also Made Away with & Good Harpoon.

Up among the torn bergs of the Aretic a monster whale is cruising about with a harpoon imbedded in his thick back and something less than haif a mile of stout hempen rope jirailing after him. ; . The crew of. the steam whaler Thrasher, which returned Sunday cight from an eight months’ cruise ia the icy north, declare that “Mister Whale got all that was coming to ahn

“He got away from wus” muttered the mate, spitting viciously into the scuppers, “but we will get him mext season. It was good rope we used, and he’ll get tangled up on sometpn 80 we will be one whale to the good when we get back there. , “He was a bad one, though. Yom see Silva, the boat steerer, slung the hook into him when we were in opea water between two big bergs. OfF he goes with the stick in his back, and the rope went out like a man tumbling from the loft. He ducked and dived ~until one tub of rope was gone, and he did the same with another. He was making for the nearest floe and when he reached it he spit a lot of water into the air and took a deep dive. The edge of the ice cut the rope like a knife and he was off for good, with 2,000 feet of the Thrasher's line and a good harpoon with him."—Saa Frascisco Chronicle.

Must Import Marriageable Girls. ‘

The problem of finding wives has become a serious one in St. Petersburg. The male population exceeds the female by 124,000 in the Russiam capital, and the authorities are weighing plans for importing prospective brides from the provinces. The need of wives, indeed, has led to the making of several fortunes in matrimonial a\gencies, heavy fees being exacted for pretty girls as wives from remote country places. The men outnumber the women in all classes in St. Petersburg, and at social affairs there are usually two men for every woman. Of course this is a truly delightful siteation for the woman, but it is one that is multiplying jealousies between men and causing “affairs” with swords and pistols upon the fleld &f honor. Social activities in St. Petersburg have beem declining in interest because of the scarcity of women, whereas'in all the other large cities in the empire women are much more numerous tham men. - ' Hadley Pointg Out Danger. President Hadley of Yale writes: “In the year 1789 the whole French people was in a state of political excitement. They seized eagerly upom everything sensational. A young jomr nalist named Camille Desmoulins shared this feeling and took advamtage of it. He wrote a series of ar ticles called ‘Lamp Post Talks to the People of Paris,’ in which he urzed that anybody who was not a friend of the people ought to be taken to the nearest lamp post and hanged. He was not himself a bloodthirsty man. He chose his title chiefly because it sounded so picturesque. After a time he saw that they were executing a great many innocent men and women, and began to tell men so. Then they said that he was not a friend of the people any longer, and hanged him. This story has a moral for us in Amerfca to-day. It shows the dangers that come to a people which reads newspapers for the sake of excitement instead of for the sake of information.

: . “Faither.” _ “Wul]y,"A said Mrs. Mac High to her little son as they emerged from the- - at Saltham-by-the-Sea, “mnoo that we are at the coast, mind apd o’ yer faither ‘papa’ when he comes doom for the week-end. Ye'll no forget, wall yor:. .

“Wully,” nearing the big sea, felt graciously inclined to promise amything, and told his mother he wouldas forget. ' o On the Saturday morning Mrs. MacHigh was sitting on the stands beside some “swell” seaside acquaintances, watching the children playing. Thinking to impress her neighbors she called out in her best society woice: “Weelie, your papa is coming doon the day.” >

- “Oh, is he?” answered “Weelie™ busily engaged at a sand castle, znd quite forgetful of Monday’s promise. “An’ wull my faither be wi' Tm¥"— Tit-Bits. ; :

Large Royal Famiiy.

Prince Ferdinand’s assumption of the title of “king of Buigaria”™ makes the number of reigning monarchs belonging to the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha famfly four. This most prolific of roval races furnishes King Edward of England with 92 living relations, 55 of these being direct descendanis of Queen Victoria. If tha list be made to incinde @istant cousins and connections by marriage, the number of King Edward's relations reaches the total of 288 ranging in rank from Capt Machel (who married a daughter of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe), to the czar of all the Russias. : - This total does not include the offspring of morganatic marriages of the type contracted by the late duke of Cambridge. : Judging from Sample. * 1 don't think the rich are exceptionally happy. No? Know many? . Some. ; Very rich? - : One to five miliions! Oh, but they lead quite & diffcrent life from the really rich! To be sure; but still, dont ¥yom think you can tell just as much shout the quality of molasses from a hogshead of it as you can from a shipload? —Life. S Since 1902, when the federal reclsmation act was passed, the governthe desert before that year, make sm Increase of 12000000 acres in e WU, s odisgaesn e CSo e