Bloomington Telephone, Volume 9, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 January 1886 — Page 3

Bloumington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BBADFUTE, - - Pobxjsrbl

Baroness BritDETr Cotrrw has the satisfaction of knowing that her young American-born husband beat the Mar qnis of Lome for a seat in the House of Commons. The Malqcis is the Queen's son-in-law, and it was her Majesty who snubbed the Bnroness because she married a young man. A Binghampton commercial agent wore celluloid collars. The train on which he was riding slackened its speed," when he thrust his head out of the window to learn the cause. At that instant a spark from the engine struck his collar and ignited it His whiskers were scorched, but fortunately he escaped serious injury. Ax a recent marriage in Ohio the bride, a Miss Morris, wore a dress that was imported from Paris in 1742, for a wedding, and has been in the iamily ever since, being used only on such occasions. It was worn again in 1776 as a wedding dress, but not asrain till the other day, when Miss Morris donned it, and it is in almost as good condition as when new. Cassivs M. Clay, though not far from 75, is managing a large farm in Kentucky, and nearly as vigorous in mind and body as he was in his prime. He has had a checkered and picturesque career, having been a lawyer, legislator, .soldier, lecturer, banker, politician and diplomat. Of late he has withdrawn from public life, albeit he periodically furnishes his views on lead ing questions to the newspapers. Thbes relatives of Schiller are living in Vienna, who did not being in mourning at their mother's deathmake themselves known to the committee in charge of the Schiller festival of 1859. They are the sisters Clotilde, Mathilde, and Sophia Kodweiss, daughters of F, E. Kodweiss, who was the son of . J. Eodweiss, who was the brother of Schiller's mother, Elizabeth Dorothea Eodweiss.

Of the nineteen Presidents elected to that position, four, W. H. Harrison, Zachariah Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, and James A Garfield, died in office. Of the Vice Presidents, and those acting as such, George Clinton, Ei bridge Gerry, William R. King, Henry Wilson, Thomas Hendricks, died in office. Of the forty Presidents and Vice-Presidents, nine, or over 20 per cent, have died in office. This is a greater ratio of mortality than has befallen any other class of men.

A farmer in Middlebury, Connecticut, has discovered a valuable assistant in his farm work. He has a 13-year-old ox which in the past has annoyed him gretftly beeause of a propensity to shake apples from the trees by interlocking his herns in the limbs. Being anxious to secure his immense apple crop before heavy frosts the strong ox was turned into the orchard land was soon discovered vigorously at work shaking the apple-tree limbs. The farmer says he gathered more than 500 bushels of apples with the help of

bis wflliDg.bovina.

Thr following sentence written by Alfonso, the late King of Spain, in the autograph album of Miss Poster, the daughter of our last Minister to that country, will be read with special interest since his death: " A la Senorits

Foster : El gefe del pais de la tradi-

n y los remerdoo, que es nn etnsiasta

. jrador de las gigantescas creade la libre America, del pais del . Alfonso, Marzo, 1884," The . n of this is: "The chief of ' i y of tradition and memories . in enthusiastic admirer of accomplishments of free : country of the future, 4 be a humor of Sarah -when she felt particularly 'soar of. soul, to get in a . retend to take a nap. But . 3 playfulness seemed trifled, in view of the dreadful Ature ef Mme. Natalie, who rod the French stag. While a. Natalie was playing in pantojSme at the Folies-D rama tiquee, she swooned and passed into the state of rigidity that marks one who is dead. So ey put the poor girl into a eoffiaNni, lo! at the first tap of the hammer on the lid Mme. Natalie awoke and stood up, to the amazement and terror of all at the grave. Mme. Natalie had been in a trance. That was in 1836. She reappeared upon the stage 0 1838, and acted for thirty years, rebring then on a pension of 6,475 francs, few days ago this noted woman was in placed in a coffin, nor did she when the lid, with melodramatic xity, was tapped three times. . ' -Billionaire roadities of New erected private stables of

h n a more luxurious scale

residence. Mr. William stable on Fifty-fifth

if ill and Sixth ave

Mr. Flagler, also " Company, has a v Iffth street, west cost him $50,tables, porner Fifty-second lots, and the

property is worth $80,000. Mr. William K. Vanderbilt' stable on Fifty eighth street, within a stone's throw of Firth Avenue, is vaiue d at $U0,0G0. The building that shelters Maxey Cobb and Neta Medium, and the ground on which it stands, corner of Fifty-eighth street and Fourth Avenue, cost Mr. Isador

j Chonfield $45,000, But the most ex

pensive and rechenche palatial stable of them all is Mr. Frank Work's, where Edward and Dick Swiveller are donu-

1 ciled on Fifty-eighth street, a few ! doors east of (Seventh Avenue; the es

timated cost of the property was $100,000. - A flood of light is let in on the singular spread of Socialism in the German capital by statistics showing

! that in Berlin no less than 1)4,000 fam-

ilies, comprising nearly 400,000 individuals, have to live, sleep, and often work in "suites" of a single room. In 3,000 of these rooms there is neither stove nor fireplace. One-fourth of their tenants are poor lodgers. Twentyfive thousand families live in cellars under sanitary conditions that are characterized as absolutely shocking. Such meagre accommodations as the despised New York tenements afford, with their two or three rooms to each family, are at a premium, and would be accounted a great boon by thousands. Only of the poorest and the best classes of dwellings those renting at 10,000 reichmarks a year or over is there abundance, for the Berlin builder is a speculator and not a philanthropist The poor have not even the chance of going o church of a Sunday to meditate on better things to come, were thev so minded ; for all the Protestant church ee and chapels in Berlir Lave together hardly seats for 50,000. while the servant girls alone number over 60,000. The latest novelty in jewelry consists of a curious and effective portebonheur that has been known in Egypt for the past eighteen centuries, and is made of gold or silver and worn as a charm or bracelet by ladies, and a cravat pin by men. The name of this prosperity-bringing talisman is "oudja," signifying luck and happiness, and shows the eye of Horns from which a tear-drop flows, intended to represent the River Nile. The peculiar property of the "oudja" is to bring good luck; but the Pharaohs looked upon it as an emblem not only capable of warding off adversity, but also of having a large influence over the goodly yielding of the earth, containing, as it does, the main principles and fertility, i eM fire represented by the sun, Horsus, and water, by the tear flowing as the Nile. This charming little amulet is being adopted by many members of the aristocracy, and is presented by friends one to the other with the graceful wishes usual on such occasions, to such an extent that by Christmas, not a Parisian with a particle of superstition will exist without his or her "oudja." The bangle pendants are made of gold and precious stones, of pure gold and silver, to accommodate all sorts of conditions and purses. The late Wm. H. Vanderbilt's home is a palace of which a Doge of Venice might have been proud. It cost him about $2,000,000, It is of brown stone and ik more elegant than sfbowy in ap pearance. It has a fine gallery of paintings which is open to artists and. others at certain intervals. Here are examples of the best work of contemporary artists both in this country and in Europe; here are canvasses by Corot, Meissonier, Daubigny, Jean Francois Millet," Delacroix, Whistler, Moran, Milisis, Watts, and many others, not to mention the sculptors represented. Mr. Vanderbilt is said to have been a better judge of paintings than some had supposed. The appointments of his palace for it is nothing less, are elegant, not to say gorgeous, in the extreme. One of the bronze doors is said to have oost $80,000,. and the bronze railing around the house $60,000. But it happens that the splendid house is overdecorated. It is too-too, as the early aesthetes would say. There is scarcely a spot big enough te place your little fingernail that is not covered with some device, the result of money and art. Mr, Vanderbilt has been in the habit of giving art receptions, and tickets for these were eagerly sought by connoisseurs and society people. Very recently, however, he announced that he would give no more public views of his art works, and for the last year thu treasures he had collected from two continents have been visible only to his intimate friends and visitors of the family. His collection of contempo

rary and other French art he valued at

over $1,000,000. A grand fancy-dress ball was given in the new mansion the night of March 26, 1883, and on this occasion, for the first time, the actors and other shining lights of the first society of the city appeared in Mr. Vanderbilt's drawing-rooms. The ball was the event of the season, and was said to have cost the opulent host $4.0,000,

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A benkfit society in London, lately established, has some good features. Its basis is the payment into a common fund of $2u a year by the firm, and from two to six shares are allotted to each workman, according to the average amount of his weekfy earnings. On each of thee share he pays 5 cents a week. Sickness brings $1 per share;

after three months 50 cents a share is paid. In ease of a death each wakman i taxed 50 cents.

THE AL4SKANS.

Their Antiquity Queer Ideas About StealTJio Kent Children In the World. In his report to Congress of the Point Barrow polar expedition, Lieut. Bay devotes one chapter to the natives of Alaska. Of origin and descent, he says, we could get no trace, there being no record of events kept among them. Their language abounds in legends, bnt none of these gave any data by which we could judge how long these desolate shores Lave been inhabited. That the ancestors of the people have made it their home for ages is shown by the ruins of ancient villages and winter huts along the seashore and in the interior. On the point where the station was established were mounds making the Bites of three huts, dating back to the time when they had no iron, and men "talked like dogs." AtPerigniuk a group of mounds mark the site of an ancient; village. It stands in the midst of a marsh, a sinking of the land causing it to be flooded end consequently abandoned, as it is their custom to select the high and dry points of laud along seashores for their permanent villages. The fact of our finding a pair of wooden goggles twenty-six feet below the surface of the earth points conclusively to the great lapse of time since these shores were first peopled by the race of man. They are a robust, healthy people, fairer than the North American Indian, with brown eyes and straight black hair. Then men are beardless until they attain the age of from 20 to 25 years, and even then it is very light and scattering, and is always cHpped close in the winter; at that season they also cut of their eyebrows and tonsure their crown like a priest, with bangs over their forehead. Their hands and feet are extremely small and symmetrical. They are graceful in their movements when unencumbered by heavy clothing. They are kind and gentle in disposition and hospitable to strangers ; though they may rob a stranger of every means of obtaining a subsistence one moment, tkey will divide with him their last piece of meat the next. They have no form' of government and live in a condition of anarchy. Though given to petty pilfering they rarely, if ever, break into a cache or enter a tent of hut for that purpose. During the first winter we had stoves, of which they were in great need, in a Sibley tent, and they all knew they were there ; and although the tent was tied, it h no regular guard over it, nothing was ever disturbed, though if anything was carelessly left oat it would be stolen at once. They never make the slighest resistance to our reclaiming property when discovered, and would laugh about it as though it were a good joke. A more obedient or a better lot of children cannot be found in all Christendom. I never saw one of any age do a vicious or mean act, and while they were always around the station during the fall qnd winter, they did no mischief, but, on the contrary, would busy themselves in shoveling the snow out of the tunnels and running on errands and doing any work they could for a little food each day. The children would wait around the door for members of the party to come out to take their daily exercise, and would accompany each member, and every few moments they would say "nanmitanity" (now let me see) ; they would scan the traveler's face for frost-bites, agd were ever ready with a handful of snow to be applied, should they detect the slightest sign of freezing. The games were very like what we see played among children of our own race, and in imitation of the pursuits of the elders, we often saw them with play-houses cut into the hard enow, with snow images set up and the little, fur-clad mites of humanity bustling around, playing keeping house and making calls, with the thermometer at 40 degrees below zero. There is no marriage cerenlony among them, but children are often betrothed by their parents at an early age, and this promise is faithfully kept, and they enter upon their marriage relation at the age of 12 to 15 years. Where there has been no childhood engagement the mother makes selection of the wife for her son, and the girl selected is invited to the house, where she takes the place of a servant for a short time, doing the housework and cooking, generally returning to her father's iglee to sleep. They often have family disagrianfc", the husband resorting to blows when the wife is sulky and disobedient, sometimes with the result of her running away. We knew of one instance, where, owing to a slight mistake the husband had made in his estimate of his wife's character, he obtained results not anticipated. While out on a deer hunt ho attempted to chastise her. She retaliated and gave him a severe thrashing and then fled to a village seventy-live miles away. At the time we landed at Uglaamie, this same woman carried on her back a box of lead weighing 80 pounds a distance of over 200 yards. When a man of matured years loses his wife either by death or from incompatibility of temper he selects one for himself and sometimes uses force, A native from a village to the westward, whose wife had leit him, came up to Uglaamie to obtain another. One day we were attracted by loud outcries from a woman who had been waitinor around the station for food. We found our friend from Sidaru vigorously cuffing her ears, and it was some time before we could make him desist. He explained that he wanted her for a wife and was persuading her. Their dead are carried out and laid on the tundra without any ceremony other than the near relatives following the body to its last resting place. It is usually wrapped in deer skins; if a man, his sled and hunting-gear are broken and laid over the body; if a woman, her sewing kit and some few household utensils are placed at her head ; but everything so left is broken. With but few exceptions I never, knew them to pay any atiention to their dead after they were carried out, and all showed great relnctanoe about speaking of them. The bodies are usually eaten by the dogs, especially in the

winter, and it is no uncommon sigh to

when living, his was the most worthless sled and gun that could be found after his death. How Porcelain Ware is Made To earthenware the blue clay gives toughness and solidity, flint gives whiteness, kaolin whiteness and porousness, and Cornish stone acts as a sort of Hux, binding all together. These materials, being weighed and measured, are placed, together with a large quantity of water, in huge vats fitted with an agitator called a " blunder, w by means of which they are thoroughly stirred up and mixed together. As my courteous guide raises the lid of one of these "blunging" machines, I descry, as it were, the interior of a vast churn, filled with a strong, white sea, as if the cliffs had got mixed with the tide in the manner depicted by some painters of seascapes. This beautifully white fluid runs off, when its parts are judged to be sufficiently mixed, into troughs, and is strained through sieves of lawn, varying in fineness from twenty-two to thirty-two threads to the inch. It is being tested by weight, a certain measure being required to weigh a certain number of ounces. The slip now reposes for a while in quaint receptacles shaped like the Noah s ark given to children. To get rid of the superfluous dampness of the compound "slip," it is forced by means of pumps into bags of strong cloth. It is then pressed and sometimes cut up and pressed again, being then ready for the thrower. When the sort of sausage machine just described has done its work, and the slip has been pressed, the material is of the consistancy of stiff dough. In this condition it comes into the hands of the potter, but not directly. Before it reaches him it is weighed out into lumps and banded to him by the girl who acts as his assistant. When the lump of clay is finally handed to the potter he deals with it in a wonderful manner. Placed on the horizontal wheel revolving before him, the clay is made to perform the moat extraordinary evolution. It spreads out, leaving a hollow center, and grows like a mush-room under his skillful hand. It becomes anything he likes. It may be a bowl, a. cup, or assume any other shape. As the clay revolves rapidly the workman has only to change the position of his hand to produce any shape he may wish. In- the so-called 4green house" a large quantity of ware is drying preparatory to being "fired." This process is tho crucial test of pottery. All the preceding operations have been conducted with a cmtipct view to this one. All the combinations of clay, fiint, stone, or bone have been sqade with forethought of the kiln in wnith the ware will be partially vitrified. Earthenware and porcelain are only, as is well known, less perfect forms of glass, or rather, of glass in another stage of development. When the earthenware slip cups and saucers, mugs and jugs, are sufficiently dried, they are ready for the "biscuit" kilns, as they are oddly called, for the ware is not twice baked in them, nor is it good to eat. Some kinds of ware are submitted to the intense heat of the kiln three times, all twice once in biscuit, once in glaze. When painting is introduced over the glaze, as in the ole Sevres pate tend re and the various kinds of fine porcelain, there is a third firing. Before being placed in the kilns all the articles thrown, turned, or molded are arranged in the "saggers,19 receptacles of coarse clay, very thick and strong, like deep pie dishes. Into these the various art cles are packed with considerable skill, little triangles being placed between each to prevent their touching each other, and the saggers are next packed together in the kiln or oven, each saggar being lined at the bottom with a layer of rock sand. Piled one on the other, the saggers make a fairly compact column, and when the oven, some nineteen feet in altitude, is filled, the fire is applied. It will be understood that the fire by no means touches either the ware or the saggars in which it is enclosed. They are simply in an oven about to be raised to a tremendous heat. The firing is done by means of fiues so arranged as to diffuse intense heat throughout the whole interior of the ovens. The firing is a ticklish operotion, requiring the supervision of a skilled workman capable of existing without sleep for some thirtysix or forty hours. At first the heat if applied gently, for Ibot of cracking the ware, and the. fireman has an anxious time of it. Little openings in the brickwork enable him to judge of the progress of his work. The heat of a biscuit oven during the last twentyfour hours is intense, between 20,000 and ?i0,000 degrees F. As the ware has taken from forty to fifty hours in firing, so does it require an equal time to become cool. English Magazine.

A Contracted Curriculum. Approaching some little school children the other day, we heard the following conversation : "Well, my little ones, what do they teach you at school?" Little One "Cat, sir." " Well, my little man, what lessons do you recite first in the morning?" "Write cat.' sir." "After that, what do vou look for?" "The word 'cat sir." " "Then what next?" "Sit up and be quiet." "You don't write 'oat all day, do you?" "Yes, sir; sometimes write dog, and then sit up and be quiet." "Well, don't they teach you your a, b, c's ami ab'a, etc. ?" "No, sir; we can write cat, sit up, and be quiet." "Where are the other little ones who go along with you every morning?" "Their ma took them away from school, for she said we all did nothing but write cat.w "Can you spell and read?" "No, sir." "Well, what do you at school ?n "Write cat and look for the words 'sit up and be quiet" ' Can you write hat, hog, pig, cow, bug r No, sir; only cat" Amerions (Ga.) XUpubliva-n.

ee tnem gnawing ine nones on tte

roofs of the huts. While they all clainK Am exchange says the attitude o teo that it is bad to use anvthinor that be- J many churches to-day is: "Come tb

ionod to the dead, I noticed that nj us and be saved; or stay away and be matter how good an outfit a man hutl lost."

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THOUGHTS FROM THACKERAY. Which of us knows whither fate leads us ? Who more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune? In my castle, I am king. Let all my household back before me! Only command persons, and you may be pretty sure that a good number will obey. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to love at all. You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs to do so shows that you yourself are a snob. The blackest of all blacks is said not to be of quite so dark a complexion as some folks describe him. Who knows how long that dear teetotum happiness cau be made to spin without toppling over. Whkn angered, the best of us mistake our own motives, as we do those of the enemy who intlames u. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and justice in their courts is forever in a passion. Which of na can tell how much vanity lurks in our warmest regard for others, or how selfish our love is? Shall I growl out of my sulky manger because my comrade gets the meat? Eat it, happy dog, and be thankful. It is mighty well writing "Sans Souci" over the gate; but where is the gate through which care has not slipped ? We take such oroodness for the most part as if it were our due the Marys,

who bring ointment to our feet get but 1

little thanks. Suppose there be holidays, is there not work time, too? Suppose to-dav is feast day; may not tears and repentance come to-morrow? A man will lay down his head, or peril his life, for his honor; but let us be shy how we ask him to give up his ease or his heart's desire. My good people, it is not only- impossible to please you all, but it is absurd to try. The dish which one man devours another dislikes. Society has this good, at least that it lessens our conceit by teaching us our insignificance, and making us acquainted with our betters. To be doing good for some one &?se, i the life of most good women. Thy are exuberant in kindness, as it were, and must impart it to some one. Ikom: a mere sense of consistency a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain otherwise, he, the persecutor, is a wretch himself. Do you imagine there is a great deal of genuine right-down remorse in the worliWIt jppple rather find excuses which malitHLr minds easy? Women equitable, lSSJftfad utterly just ! Mercy upon us ! IihTSwy; were, population would cease, the world would be a howlkig wilderness. Rare Sponges A glass show-case in Williams street, near Fulton, contains two remarkable 'sponges. One is the largest sponge ever found. It was pulled up off Florida in 1872, and it is exactly circular in shape, except where a hole was made by tearing it away from its bed. As it hangs in the case, dry and compressed, it is about four feet in circumference, but when its thirst is quenched with several buckets of water it swells out to eight feet. The other curiosity is the largest cup sponge ever known. 'It came from tiia (irecian Archipelago and won a medal for beauty at the Fisheries Exposition in London, in 1882. its surface would cover several square feet, and it is valued at several hundred dollars. There is in the case also un antique earthen jar, with a sponge attaehed to it. This jar is about a foot-and-a-half high and has four handles. It is of a reddish color, and must be very old, as it is known that none was made like it since the year 1300. It was perhaps dropped overboard from some ancient vessels. The inside is deeply in crusted with fossil shellfish. Sponges come from Florida, Nassau, the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Grecian Archipelago. There are about forty varieties, ranging from the cheapest Cuban sponge at 7 cents a pound, to the Mediterranean cup sponge at $75 a pound. The latter, however, are generally sold by size and not by weight. They are used by surgeons in dressing wounds, administering chloroform and the like delicate operations. The common grass and yellow sponges are worth 40 to G5 cents a pound, and the sheep's wool sponges, such as are used in washing carriages, bring $2 a pound, liath sponges run up to $5 a pound. The supply of sponges is less than the demand, and that keeps the price up. Formerly sponges were obtained off Florida by dredging machines, which tore up all, big and little alike, but laws have been passed which prohibit the fishing of sponges less than four inches wide and four inches long. This shuts out the dredges. The sponges are obtained by colored divers, or by fishing with hooka The divers are trained to the business from childhood, and are able to stay under water for a surprisingly long time. They cut the sponges loose with knives and bring tbem to the surface. The divers run much risk from sharks. The hooks are attached to long poles, and in order to nee the sponges, an odd kind of telescope is used. This is a tube about live feet deep with a clear glass bottom. The fishing ia done ia from twenty-five to thirty feet of wter, and when this tube is moved along the bottom it enables the fishers to see the sponges beneath it with great clearness. The pole is then lowered and the sponge torn away with the hook. Sponges are very olfensive in smell when taken from the water, and soon row worse. This is cured by J urying them in dry sand, and when decomposition has ceased, exposing them in wire cages to the action of the tides. Codsiderate Charley. Little Charley "Papa, will you buy me a drum :" Fond Father "Ah, but, my boy, you will disturb mo very much, if I io," Charley "Oh, no, papa, I won't drum, except, when you are asleep." ViUalargh Chronicle.

Jne e Peter and the Turkev lien. Uncle Peter was the tallest man about the plantation. We used to have u trreat joke witich we perpetrated on him at. every favorable opportunity. We w u!d find him sauntering along the lane, swinging his long legs in a peculiar fashion, a sort of compromise bet ween a ahutiie and a strut, and would run do -e up to him and, looking up as thoa.cn we were searching for some object almost invisible, we would yell out: "Sa-ay, Uncle Pe-eter, hand us down a chaw of terhacker, and tell us hw the weather is up there!" I iicIh Peter always took our jests ia goo. I part imd would laugh at us Then he was the plantation blacksmith, f 4 we would visit the shop and obtain many curious scraps and old plunder, so dear to a bov's heart. Uncle Peer always contributed liberally to our stock of vertwand bric-a-brac. But one time we q;ot a good thiug on Undo Peter. He had builf a turkey pen down near the river swamp, and he attended it regular I v. building a little more as the shy creatures became more accustomed to going in add out of it, Lach visit he leit a generous supply of shelled corn in and around the pen. At last he finished it; placed weights on ttie roof, so that, once inside, they were safe. Then he scratched out a sloping hollow in the ground, so that when they tried to get at the corn, they would naturally find the hole and creep under. Once they got in they would proceed to gobble up the corn; then they would start to leave the pen, find themselves entrapped, and get in a terrible fright, and so forget the way they entered, and go to beating the rails with their wings- in a vain struggle for liberty. One afternoon in December I climbed up a tall pers mmon tree that grew, on the hill, from wnich lofty perch I could overlook the great plantation. The sun sank lower and lower, the long shadows crept slowly up the slopes where the rich brown grass Jay tangled and matted, with yellow maypop vines trailing here and there, and the brown cornstalks standing in serried ranks with their tattered top blades fluttering like faded pennons in the breeze. One by one I plucked the luscious per simmons that hung in sugary mellow ness from the leafless branches of the old tree. Away beyond the variegated line of forest trees that marked the beginning of the swamps, the blue mist hung above the ridges that rose in billowy undulations beyond the riverDown in the. "old hammoek new ground" that was the way we rather paradoxically described it a negro blowing his quills and filling out the scale of notes with a soft halloing that was of the rarest sort of moeio to me. "Ginny, niggah, who-ahl whoopee, whoah (then the trnlrluHuHoo-loo of the qtiills). "Uinny, niggah, whoopee, whoah! whoopee, who-ool" Trui-iul-lul-loo-loa. 44 Hello, Unfcle Petah,way yo gwine! "Go long, boy, 'ten to yo own busness." ' Then the boy went on with his quill blowing, and Uncle Peter came striding along near where I was enjoying my repast of frttik I watched him with the keenest oi interest He strode

down to the hollow, disap

big gully, and then entered tii

then came into view again in the d

and raised himseli! to Ids full height,

gazing toward the turkey pen, moved a step forward stopped, and shaded his eyes and gazed intently for an in stant, and then broke into a dead run for the pen. I was so excited thaJ came near tumbling to the ground. Then I watched him as he took r turkey out, felt of its plump body. ji' it carefully while he scattered a tkh supply of bait around the pen, and then came walking briskly back. When he arrived in earshot I could hear him talking to the turkey: "Oht yes, I done coteh up w id yo' at las'. Crismus cimin' soon. Yo my meat now. Lemme see, I bake some, I stew some, I fry some, an' I bril pme. Yo' so fat, so tender, so juicy. Phew (with a smack of his lips), yo' fine meat mos any way. I got two little maids to pick yo my wife she dress yo', den we all put in an cook yo'. Ah-h! I done cotch np wid yo'distime. Yo my turkey" crasttl come his foot against a corn stalk, and the turkey flopped out of his hands and dashed away across the fields, towards the swatap Ucole Peter scrambled to his feet and ran a step or two, jerked up a cornstal tc by .the roots and swung it over his head to throw at the turkey, it broke and the root struck his head, filling his wo.ly locks full of sand and gravel. He gazed at the rapidly van ishing turkey a moment with open mouth. Then he clarroed his handa

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ana oawiea ouv, xsarnaiion, , go io shoo! go it yo' darned old ticky legged heifer. Yo' got red bugs on yo' shoo. Ye's to pa' to cook, yo scaly legged debbil, yo' not fitten to eat, nohow." Then with an indescribable look of disgust he turned and strode away to ward his cabin. Oh, my, I just slid down from that tree and I rolled on the brown grass and squalled with laughter, Atlanta Conslitivtian. Abuse-of the Muscles ef Vaby Eyes. The two muscles a set for each eye act in perfect correlation, and enable the organ in an instant of time to cover an infinite range of vision. No fine adjustment of the telescope, no system of lenses and prisms, can ao complish this feat in an instant of time. The utmost caution is therefore imperatively demanded of every person to whom is ooanigned the care of the young child from infancy to perhaps the third year of life. It is during this time that damage to the muscular ap paratus of the eye may be done. The mother or nurse is eager to have bafcy see everything from the nursery win dow, from a carriage or car. !&w many tired heads, languid eyesnd

disordered tempers result from

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Mother Whom do you think baby resembles?" V Uncle "It has it's father's nose. Mother w And my mouth." Uncle "Yes, fact; and I also notice that with papa's nose and mamma s mouth it leaves precious little room for forehead." Chicago Iribuni.