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The Search-Light, 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. ttel 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, liiirl LION OOF A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALU Watch our next advertisement. 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