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WITS GO WOOL GATHERING. Absent winded ness of ISuKfneM Men When They Lunch Down Town. Do \ on know that many business mec are half crazy when they enter a restau* rant at noon for lunch or dinner?” This was said to u reporter by the owner of a well known restaurant, who continued; • Their minds are not upon what they are their brains are busy as can bo tiering and planning. Their bodies left their counting rooms, but their heads re mained. They, as a rule, eat hurriedly, and any number of them do so rnochun j; nliy. I have seen them do the most, ab surd things possible. Often it happens that one will throw down one cent at the cashier’s desk with a seventy-five cent or ifty cent check, and wait for a minute or two for the change. And these are sharp, shrewd, calculating business men, who, if you entered their places of busi ness, you would find alert enough, and who would never make a mistake in giv ing out or receiving money. “They show their mental abstraction in various ways. One will come in, and with deliberation place his hat beneath his chair, yet when lie has done eating ho will rush to the rack, and, seizing some body else’s hat. go out, probably not dis covering his error for a day or two. It is a positive fact that not long ago a man with a7s head wore out of my place a Gi hat, which would scarcely stay on the top of his head. Nor did he discover his mistake until he reached his office. “One day a man stepped up to my desk and complained that he had lost his hat, a very fine one which hud cost him $7 or SB. Ilis hat had been stolen, he charged, and he was excited and angry. Would you believo it? It was lie who had stolen one. I discovered a few minutes later that two days before he had taken the hat of an other, leaving his own. The one ho took was of the same material, but had been worn an entire season, being greasy and soiled; still, he wore it without discover ing the fact until the time ho rnado the complaint, although his own hat was a fine, brand new one. “It is truly odd how men will behave about liats. Frequently one will come holding one in his hand and tell me he did not wear that when he came in. I look at the faces of these, and if they have but fust been shaved, tell them they made the exchange at the barber’s and did not dis cover their error until they came in hero One man made a great ado because, as ho said, some one had carried off his hat, when investigation showed that ho had worn another man’s hat to the restaurant, picking it up as ho loft the office, but not detecting it until he had eaten. Going out to eat at noon is not an interval of rest to most business men, because there is no rest. They must supply the wants of their inner man, but they do it without any rest of the brain. 'Jdieir occupation is before them all the while, as their far away looks show. They say and do things in the most mechanical manner, and will skip from twenty-four to forty-eight hours in their computations. A level headed man of business insisted up and down, while holding his own hat in his hand—a nice silk one —that it did not belong to him. lie knew what he had worn down town—it was a white one, he declared, lie probably had done so the day before, but would not bo convinced of his error until the name on the inside of the inner band revealed it to him. A man picks up u heap of human nature in our business, because all sorts of things occur, particu larly at the noon rush, when men do some of the most absurd things in the world, and are often most unreasonable because of their self absorption.”—Chicago Herald. 1 Tarring and. Feathering. Philologists have long observed that many words popularly known as “Amer icanisms” are really good old Eng lish terms brought over by the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers on the James, etc., and retained here when forgotten in the country of their birth. Similarly, not a few Dutch word* —boss, boodle, etc. —b?ought over by the early settlers of New Amsterdam, have spread from their original American habitat, till they have become part of our speech.’ It is not less interesting to note that certain customs, forgotten in their home land, but re tained here, and, therefore, characterized as “American,” are really importations from Europe. Not one of these customs has been re garded as more distinctively “YaVikee” than the venerable one of *’tarring and feathering,” and yet we learn from the “Amiales ilerum Anglicarum” of the ven ©"able English historian Iloveden (living in the Thirteenth century and court chap lam to Henry III) that the custom is at least as old as the tune of Richard the Lion Hearted. Ho tells that Richard, on setting out on the third crusade, made sundry enactments for the regulation of Ins fleet, one of which was that “A robber who shall be convicted of theft shall have his head cropped after the fashion of a champion, and boiling pitch shall be poured thereon, and the feathers of a cushion shall be shaken out on him, so that ho may be known, and at the first land at which the *hip shall touch he shall be set on shore.” Whether the custom was earlier than this wo have no means of determining. It is at least close on to TOO years old. —American Notes and Queries The Colonists in Liberia. Capt. Rogers, of the Monrovia, says: “From wliat I have seen of the colonists in Liberia I believe their chances for suc cess are equally as good as they would be in the south. It is true that the African fever, in many cases, renders them in capable to work for awhile, but when they become thoroughly acclimated they find no difficulty in making a living. A large proportion of them are prosperous and are hoarding up considerable wealth.” Mrs. M. B. Merriman, a white mission ary. differs materially from Capt. Rogers and is bitter in her denunciation of the cruel manner in which tho negro colonists are treated. She said: “1 have been among the negroes of the south, and I have seen them at their worst. I have been among tho natives of Africa for years as a missionary, but never have I witnessed such abject poverty, squalor and wretchedness as prevails among tho negro colonists in Liberia. It is true that the colonization society furnishes them with land to work and keeps them in food for six months from their arrival. But what does it avail them? They are there scarcely a month when they are stricken down with African fever. Some of them survive it, but in most cases it means death. When those who get well are able to go to work they find that their al lotted time of support by the society has expired and they are paupers, dins is not*always tho case. Vvhiio not ono has ever yet been known to escape the fever, somo of them, who possess un usually good consitutions, get well and become quite prosperous. To the pros perous the paupers look for their subsist ence.”—Joe Howard in Boston Globe. WHY! YOU±t J iYUTR IS OUT OF ORDER You will have SICK HEADACHES, PAES’S IN THE SIDE, DYSPEPSIA, POOH APPE TITE, feel listless and unable to get through your paily work or social eigjoynaents. Life will be a, burden to you. 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This is the opportunity of a lifetime The regular subscription price of FI IE AMERICAN FARMER is $1 00 per year, but botli papers will be sent for the price of one. Call at this office and see sample copies of thts popular agricultural paper and you will be sure to take advantage of this magnificent, offer W| J £3 101 I ’oßu Jyjlq i77stltutP r ihe fall session will open on Monday, August 6th, 1888. Associate Principals, Mrs. J. W. Harris, Sr. Prof. L. B. Robeson. L B. ROBESON, A. M. Professor of Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematics aud Book-Keeping. MRS. J. W. HaRPvIS, SR. Teacher ol Academic and Preparatory Department. MISS MARY KOFGE. Instrumental and Vocal Music. Ge-man and Calisthenics. MISS MARION C. DaRST—Art Department. 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