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BAIN BRIDGE, MAY ‘2n, TOOL
Tile IIomoi' I'cnuy story,
“A very dignified young man took r
seat In a smoking ear.” ,-::i.il the liot-t-
ess, who Joined In tlie aftur dinner *>to-
ry tolling. ‘’Near him were three trav-
fling salesmen', well dressed. Jolly fel
lows, one of wliojjj suggested a game
of cards, and the others agreed. They
appealed to the young man to take part
knd make up a four handed game.
“ ‘Thank you; 1 never play cards,’
cume the response to the Invitation.
“ 'I am sorry for that. Will you have
a cigar with u*V added the spokesman,
producing Ids coho.
“ 'I am obliged to you. but I never
smoke,’ replied the dignified young
man.
"They thought they frould Jolly the
young fellow out of dignity, so the
lender produced u 'traveling compan
ion’ and asked:
“ ‘As you do not piny cards nor
smoke you will not refuse to Join us In
n drink?’
“ T thank you. gentlemen, but I nev
er drink.’’
"With tills a venerable man with
ministerial aspect sitting In the scat
behind the .voting muri reached for
ward and tapped him on the shuiilder.
“ ‘I have beard what you have said
to these men.’ said the sedate old fel ;
low, 'nud I admire you ror the stability
of character which has enabled you to
shun bad habits. I have a daughter in
the patlor ear. whom I should like to
have you meet.’
”‘l thunk yon. sir.’ replied the young
man, turning about and facing the
gentleman, ’but the tact Is I never In
tend to marry.’ ’’-Milwaukee Sentinel.
A rheroltfo DInIi.
An nrtlcle of food much used by the
OherokcoH Is made from corn. The
process Is first to sonk the corn In
strong lye made from hickory ashes.
Ju.st as white people In the country
make Untnlny. This removes the hulls.
The corn Is then put Into a large mor
tar made by hollowing out the end of
a large log and is pounded by a huge
pestle.
As the process of pounding goes on
the crushed corn Is removed from the
mortar and riddled with a Rlove made
or cane and then fanned in the wind to
remove the hulls. The "gilt.” as the
course meal Ik called. Is then replaced
In the mortar and pounded Into a fine
meal. It Is then boiled up with cay
enne pepper and other Ingredients. A
small amount of lye Is left In tin* meal,
and It htiH n tendency to preserve It for
a long time. However. If the stuff
sours. It Is regarded as a great deli
cacy. It Is known as ’’eon-n-liunmi."
The food Is sometimes varied by the
addition of nuts, which Is considered
especially tine. With the nuts It Is
called "ca-nutch.”
In the olden times cakes wore made
of “con-a-hanna” by baking the sub
stance In rudely constructed rock
ovens or In hot ashes. Those .-okra
would keep for lylong time and. In con
nection with the wild game, provided
nourishment for the Indians on their
long hunts. Many of the older Chero-
ko.-s still use the umrl.il and pestle to
make the dish.-Kansas City Journal.
Took Kiln of HI* Word.
, -Men on newspapers often have
peculiar experiences.” said W. A. Fulr-
cbild of Chicago, “and such n one be
fell a friend of mine some time ago.
I The friend In question was city editor
1 of a great daily, and In Cbe course of
his manifold duties it fell to his lot tc
, take to task otic of his reporters. The
Reporter In question was on English
man, slow of thought and action and
miserly cf speech. Through the tirade
to which -be was subjected lie said
! nothing, and when It finally ended he
left the presence of his superior with
out any comment
"But. as the result proved, lie did
some tall thinking. City editors when
•riled.’ as is well known, are not par
tlculnrly choice or economical In the
language thev bestow on their uui'or-
tunate reporters, and among other
thlugs the .Englishman had been told
that he was no better than-In fact
was—a crazy man and that his proper
habitat was a lunatic asylum amt not
the ball bedroom of u Chicago Itoard-
lug house which he occupied.
"The Englishman took this part of
the city editor’s remarks as his text and
acted upon them. lie promptly went
to uu asylum, had himself thoroughly
examined by three or four alienists*
and secured from them an official cer
tificate to the fart 41int lie was sane.
With this Lie appeared at the office of
his paper the next day, and, entering
the editor's sanctum, he slapped It
down before his astonished and dis
mayed superior. ’Now. you go and get
one,' was Ills only comment mid lor
once that tijty editor capitulated.”—
New York Tribune.
Flattery From the Mirror.
Does your mirror do you Justice?
Tou may think not Or perhaps you
would like It to flatter you Just a little.
If so, you can arrange it so the glass
will reflect In a more complimentary
manner than usual. If you do, you on
ly have to know the milliner's oldest
secret, and tile thing is done.
Did you ever notice the softest drap
ery of pure white hung about a mirror?
That Is the trick. After your mirror of
faultless glass is thoroughly polished
frame It 111 pure white gauze, with the
material gathered in the center at the
top and falling tvavellke on either side.
Then notice tile effect. The true tints
of the complexion will be there a little
emphasized. The expression of the
couutenunce,_the light of the eye. the
color of the hair, will be accurately re
flected. all softened and made more
harmonious than your mirror showed
them before tbe gauze was used. You
may believe that that subtle bit of
white materially makes the glass tell
nearer the truth than It did without It.
The King’s Finger Stotvf,
When n member of the royal family
comes to dinner, It Is a point of eti
quette to provide none but the Illustri
ous guest with a linger howl at the end
of tbe banquet. The other diners must
get on somehow without that conven
ience.
The reason Is a curious one. In early
Georgian days one never knew who
was loyal. Every other man might he
a Jncnhlte In his secret heart Now, It
was a piece of Jacobite ritual wiener-
er the toast of "The King" was drunk
secretly to pass the goblet over any
water that happened to lie hr the
drinker. This was supposed to con
vert the tonst Into that of "The King
tier the Water." the exiled Stuart at
Rome or St. (lermnlus.
On this becoming known the court
Insisted that there should lie no water
within reach rt any guest, and the pro
hibition still holds.—Loudon News.
Never V. nstietl Herself.
Benevolent Old I.ady (to little gt r |>_
My little dc.-u-, do yen wash your face
and hands every morning?
“No. mum."
“Good gracious! That’s perfectly
dreadful. Do you wash your face iti
the middle of the day?"
“No, mum."
Hear me! When do yon wash your-
self?"
"I never washes."
Horrible! it Is shocking bow de
praved the lower classes are! 1 must
organize a society to see That children
are properly washed. Till me. little
cue. do yon really never waslt your
self?" * |
“No. mum. Mamma washes me every i
morn lug." * j
Count* HI* Toe*.
rie-Thoy say a good pugilist must
learn how to handle his feet as well as I
i»ts bauds.
She—Then I wonder If the btibv will!
Me a puglllsl. lie handles his feet all
flay.—Chicago News.
Ilunkoed.
‘‘Elis name was Alexander, and Ills
weakness was the horses,” said the re
porter. “Surprising us it may appear,
he won sometimes und enjoyed a brief
nodding acquaintance with fortune.
When the bookmakers got It back
again, he took to drink und in the end
went about trying to pick out a good
place lit whtcb to IHU himself.
’Tie bought a drink In u cheap hotel,
and tbe quality of the liquor led him
to believe he had found the place. He
wished to do no man Injury, hut any
one who sold that sort deserved to And
a dead tnnil on the premises. He hired
n room, small, bleak, well calculated to
make a man willing to blow out the
gus, even If he had an averslou to It,
which Alexander had not.
“He plugged the apertures, elosiy
the transom, hung Ills root over the
keyhole, turned out the gas and lay
dowu. Then hi- lighted It ugutu nud
wrote a few foolish letters of farewell,
so hard Is It for even a tired mortal to
quit with no word. Then be put out
the light, saw that the gas was flowing
freely and lay down.
'He noticed that It was ten minutes
to 1 o’clock In the morning. He fell
asleep, certain it was all over. (Obliv
ion.)
“He woke. The sun was streaming
In. It was high noon. Yes; he was
alive. He could not understand It.
There was no gas In the room, yet It
was still turned on. finally discov
ered that In hotels of that sort they
turn the gas off nt I n. m. 'Bunkoed!’
he sold nnd went cheerily on bis way."
—New York Sun.
Tlionchtu on Marriage.
A little girl in Ireland was asked
what was the sacrament of matrimony.
She said, “It’s a state of torment Into
which souls enter to prepare them for
another nnd a better world.” “That.”
said the curate, “Is purgatory. Put her
down to the bottom of the class.”
“Leave her alone,” said the parish
priest. “For anything you or I know
to the.contrary, she may be perfectly
right.”
“Courting.” said an Irishman, “Is like
dying. Sure, a man must do It for him
self.”—E. J. Hardy’s “Concerning Mar
riage.”
Varlcono Veins.
An exchange gives the following cure
for varicose veins, contributed by a
person who was cured by It in less
than three weeks: Peel a potato: grate
It fine: place It on n white cloth long
enough to well cover the ulcer. Warm
It a little and apply In the morning.
Renew nt noon; also nt night before
retiring. Let It remnlu all night. Put
on three new poultices next day Just
the same and continue to do so until
the ulcer Is entirely healed. Wish the
ulcer every time the poultice Is re
newed.
| Three Kina;* He fore Victoria.
Victoria ascended the throne at an la-
I auspicious moment Kingship had fall-
! eh Into a miserable disrepute. The
last three monarebs who had sat upon
our throne had done little to make
their office easy or glorious. George III
had obscured whatever virtues were
his by an obstinacy of opinion which
lost us a vast eolouy and which might
well have enslaved us to n. foreign
power.
George IV had died unwept and tin-
pitlsd. As be had made his distin
guished office a scandal, us he had
made his Throne ridiculous by n deplor
able levity of taste and conduct, so he
had forfeited the affection of his peo
ple nud alienated xhclr sympathy long
before death overtook him. "There
never was an Individual." proclaimed
: The Times but a few weeks after his
| death, “less regretted by his fellow
j creatures than this.' deceased king.
What eye has wept for him? 'What
heart has heaved jB^flirob of unnec
essary sorrow?" And The Times ex
pressed In those bitter words nothing
less than the popular Judgment.
Nor can It be said that William IV
graced the throne of Britain. Loved
for his homely virtues, he raised a
smile of kindly contempt by his lack
of dignity nnd his frank misunder
standing of kingly ceremonial. On the
day of his accession he escaped from
his council and wits found throwing
shillings to a noisy crowd in a back
street, and never did ho acquire the
rudiments of tact which should be the
first wisdom of k^ngs —Blackwood's.
An tinc» ath Mode or ,
Of ail the modes of burial !?*
tifced by creatures'In the ViT* 1
man beings tae method cf iifj
land nomads Is certainly p ‘ *
couth. After Trying the cor,,!
sun and knocking out tt s .
keepsakes they deposit it on 7
work of rough poles and burv.
1 few armsful of rushes a ad 1-
garoo skins, leaving the bush ‘
to sing its requiem.
No member.of the dead m..
will settle within a mile C f in.'
for fear of being haunted L
spooks making the burin) nlac7
midnight rendezvous. The J
leal opinions of the Australian
Ines prove Indeed that snva'-e.
afflicted With an abundanceV
naturalism' without betraying
of anything deserving the’name
liglotui sentiment
They believe in evil spirits w hl
In the blasts of the storm wind inf
to exorcise them by spittle." )., 1
rection of the sky. but for the
tlons of the deity, of future exist
of repentant*, ntonemont m
seieuoce their language has cot
definite word. From somewhere
land of their forefathers-eastem
perhaps—they have imported
faintly resembling the Buddt
trine of metempsychosis and
that animals may be reborn ,
and men as human beluga cf as"
rank.
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Juvenile Ulneoarngemunt.
Elsie—Mamma, there’s a funny old
man In this Pickwick hook that’s al
ways telling Ids son to beware of the
widows. Why is that?
Mamma—Well, n widow Is supposed
to be skillful In catchiug a husband.
Elsie—Gracious! I wonder If I’ll
have to be a widow before I can got
married— Philadelphia Press.
A Joke Timt Fulled.
Professor [togers and Hr. Hale wore
once lecturing In England, and at ev-
erv town which they visited Ur. Dale
noticed that his colleague, who always
spoke tlrsr. made the same speech, lu
tact, so often did the professor give
that speech that the worthy doctor
knew It oti by heart, and this tact uVj
the latter to think of a way of taking
the wind out of his friend's'sails.
On their arrival*at a* town In south
Lancashire Dr. Dale asked l)r. Rogers
to allow him to speak first, an arrange-
: went to which the latter readily
: agreed, so Hr. Dale rose und proceeded
I to deliver the speech of Dr Rogers.
; looking every now nnd then out of the
! corner of his eye to see how that wor-
I *hy gentleman was takiug ttfis prnctl-
! cal Joke. Dr. Ungers sat calm and oora-
| posed, and when nt length tils turn
, '’ame to speak he Just as calmly rose
and delivered, to Hr. Hale's utter as
tonishment. quite a new speech.
At tbe conclusion of the meeting Dr.
Dale said to bis colleague:
"I thought 1 had taken the wind out
of your sails tonight.”
Dr Rogers replied: "Oh. no. I de
livered that speech when I was here a
month ago.”
The Cannon nnd Science.
The president ot the French Acade
my of Sciences remarked In a recent
address that the cannon is one or the
tn->-t instructive laboratories that sol-
tuct possesses It was the modern can
pod. tie said, which suggested tbe appli
cation or explosive gases to the driving
ot engines. The experience of the Im
mense pressures obtained to cannon
also led to the use of pressures In
steaui machines which a few years
ago would have been regarded as Im
practicable. Thus experiments Intend- ,
ed primarily for the purposes of war '
had resulted iu the advance of the tri
umph of peace.
Collector* Needed.
Weary Waddleton—De wurld owes
us fellers a llvln.
Willie Wontwork—Dat's right, but
Its orful slow pay. Wot our perfesliun
needs Is it collection agency.—Ohio
State Journal.
Never begin a good natured talk with
a lout who has just started a fire that
threatens to go out.—Atchison Globe.
A Pnlr of Lover*,
Two American men In Venice spent
their first evening loafing round the
lagoons In n gondola. It being moon
light of course, and all the rest of the
j sentimental, charming things It Is al
ways In Venlc^.
“Here comes a gondola,’’ stage wbls-
| pered one American to the other, “that
j probably contains a pair of lovers See
bow absorbed those two dim figures
| evidently are In each other. Gondolier
I other gondolas, _ the witchery of the
| moonlight nnd the place—to all of It
they are oblivious. Oh. what a spot for
sentiment: The atr Is full of It!”
And as the two gondolas glided past
each other the Americans beard the
unmlstukahle accents of a fellow coun
tryman, "I'll spc your three and raise
you five."—Philadelphia Record.
Her Resource.
“I recognize the fact, of course,” the
young man said, “that woman is hand
icapped l« divers ways ny her sex.
Under stress of emotion a man can re
lieve the pressure by going out and
getting drunk, but there is no such
safety valve for woman. She must
suffer and do nothing.”
“Not necessarily,” replied Miss Flyp-
pe. “She cun go and eat a pickle.”—
Chicago Tribune.
The first royal speech transmitted by
telegraph was that delivered by the
late Queen Victoria when she opened
parliament on Nov. 15, 1S37. The speed
of transmission was 55 words a min
Ute.
Dorr** Self Control.
Aaron Burr was by nature aad
ing a man of extraordinary self j
trol. He allowed no clrcumstnn
throw him off his balance. An
dote told by Rufus Choate to IS
Richard H. Dana, recorded
Dana’s “Diary,” Illustrates the
ness which aided Burr so gr...
controlling himself. Several yean
the death of Hamilton, killed ty
j in a duel. Burr visited Boston an
I Devereux of Salem paid him son,
tentions. The visitor was taken to
Boston atheneum, .where, while
two men were walking through tbe
lory of sculpture. Mr. Devereos
pened to catch sight of a bust of i
llton. r
The thought flashed across his
that Burr might not care to he
fronted with the sight of the feai
of the man tie had sinln. Hut no.
was undisturbed. He also espied
bust, and, although Mr. Deverwu
Instinctively turned away, he t
up to It nnd said in a loud tone:
Here Is Hamilton!" Then, pas?!
fingers along Certain n ues £lf ,v
he added. "There was the poe
Hamilton's contemporaries gave
credit for possessing a poetic miDd.
Not Aminos.
“You bare quite a number _
poets.” said Goodby, who was Id;
lug -Wbodby’a library. "Ah. thi
Browning. /Do you understand
“No: I don’t,” snid Woodby.
“Ah," said Goodby, continuing
examination, "have you PraedV"
“Certainly not. Wlmt’a the
praying? 1 ain't anxious to m
stand him.”— Philadelphia Keeord,
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