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le an odd feature to tlw tbeoJ-
small Indian tribe of the
W la which Inhabit British Co-
a about latitude 5* They be-
t there are five world*, one
e other, and the middle one Is
world, tbe earth. Above It
beaveus, and under It are two
Ids. m tbe upper heaven Is
•me deity, who I* • woman,
doesn't meddle much with tbe
n the second world below her.
«b Is the center of the lower
and here Is tbe hottse of the
which live tbe sun and tbe reel
titles.
n earth Is believed to be ou
rimming In tbe ocean. The
lerworld from tbe earth Is
h1 by ghosts who can return
]C y wish to heaven, from which
icy may he so.nt down to our
If then they misbehave again,
cast Into the lower of the un-
ds, and from this bourne no
traveler returns.
*,lla Coola are sun worshipers,
ex, tbe sun. tbe master of the
f gods, who also Is called “the
and "the sacred one." Is the ou
to whom the tribe pray. Each
of the Bella COola has Us own
ns and Its own form of tbe cur
litlons. so that In the mytholo
the tribe there are comitlesi-
Ictinus. When tiny or >ot a
r of a clan tries to tel i4L ndt
ilcb does not belong to . <-lat.
lie a white man trying to tel.
s joke—be Is considered as ap
ting the property right which
belong to him.
Hard Dorks to Kill.
•earning wuhoon Isa hard.ducfc
Its hide Is very tough and Is
covered with feather* and
Besides tbe bird is a great
one of the kind that used to
t the dash" wbeD (Minted with
arm that (lashed when Bred. It
ry little value- for table use, be-
tough. The only way to uiaunge
1 is to skin It and' parboil it In 'a
with plenty of water. The oe-
aUe cniis of walloou sklus.
are grvat ducks for diving."
well known Trod Avon river
y can dive quicker, go down
, remain under water longer and
up farther away than any other
hat frequents our waters. . I re-
r once l succeeded In killing a
i. anil, being short of game for
hie. 1 determined to cook my
I got a negro to skin It. giving
e tilde for Ills trouble. After be-
ailed we put It lu a great pot full
ter and under It kindled a hot
fter awhile I wanted to see how
king ot my duck progressed and
the top off the boiling pot. hut
was so much steam escaping I
not see into tbe pot and struck a
over It. The blamed Walloon,
fed i.: the Hash of the match It
eared and has never been seen
—Baltimore Sun.‘ »
A I.cnsnn to tlODiorlats.
ennuot safety assume Iq these
hat there is any regtou lu which
ud such a journal Is not read,
tly a certain Humorist needed a
d went and stopped in a cottage
emote village by tbe sea. Bis
room opened ou the kitchen,
ids landlady, a woman widely
led as a person of great acumen
maker of phrases, was wont to
' the neighbor*. Be listened and
th landlady and uelghliors luto
htmi: lug --ketches which were
tly published in a I-omlon luagn-
A month or two went by. Then
teruoon he came back to the cot-
5 meet and cower before an In-
t matron, who toM him. among
tilings, thnl be had one hour lu
to pack his traps and quit the
She was uot going to have au
Iropper in her house, a ltd she
a slgulficant hint to the effect
he people of tbe village were of
me opinion and might lie betray-
o au attempt to give a forcible
stration of their views.—London
Llabtlnw t’p the- Coliseum.
Tbe Romans have the. hideous babtt
of periodically lighting the Coliseum
daring tbe tourist season with Bengal
light* and. wbat I* more amazing still,
usually succeed In making a financial
success of It although uo one was ever
known to go twice.
There Is tbe additional abomination
In those days of a big brass hand and
* chorus of 100 voices lu ou Invocation
to the Flavian amphitheater. The ef
fect Is tremendous, but somewhat stun
ning to thosp Who are accustomed to
their Coliseum empty ami flooded
with peact-rul moonlight, where pic
tures from tbe post rise with tbe clear
ness of second sight, and no sound Is
heard but one’s own breathing or the
song of the nightingale. Contrast with
sueh a scene tbe red, bine and yellow
Bengal lights, the smoke, the confu
sion. tbe hundred shrieking throats
and tbe clang of the brazen Instru
ments! Imagination shrinks ami curses
the Romap of today with whom such
a thing Is possible. But Is It Ids fault?
As I said before. It Is a great financial
success. tend tlie Italians certainly do
not patronize It. Query. Who does?—
Rome Letter In Pall Mall Gazette.
How Th*r Broke Cp.
An amusing story Is rain ted In “Co
■adlon Savage Folk" of the manner In
which an adjournment was taken by a
mass meeting. A missionary who had
started a school among tlie Indians met
with opposition, and tbe meeting had
been called In support of the rival
scheme.
There were several speakers who de
nounced the school In existence. We
replied vigorously, showtug the effi
clency of tbe school and denouncing
In turn tbe methods adopted by tbe op
position. An Indian chief produced
some specimens of work done at tbe
school, and several speakers supported
►be work as It was being done. Tbe
ill max was reached when * gentleman
rose and said:
"1 move the whole thing bust!"
Tbe chairman put tbe motion.
“It Is moved and seconded that tbe
whole thing bust!" ‘
The audience sprang to their -feet
and. waving hats, yelled "Busted!"/ind
made for the door. Thus ended the
first and last opposition In that matter.
Pride ot tbe Riding Academy.
Rowell—There goes Withers on horse
back. Be Is a living Illustration of tb<
saying. “A merciful man Is merciful to
bis beast"
8nntile—In what way?
Rowell—Don't you see? He lets bln
freight rest on the horse only once In
while. The most of tbe time he Is lu
the air, going up or coming down.—
Boston Transcript
Some men never amount to much be
cause they get Into tlie habit of fre
quently begtnulug life anew.—Chicago
News.
It is easier to keep well than get
c ire T. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
t keu now an 1 then, will always keep
y> Ur bowels in perfect order. They
ne er gripe but promote au easy gentle
action. K. L. Hicks.
Koto They Are Married.
Pbfui young man went three
to ask a beautiful young lady i.
ht he the partner of her joys and
-'s and other household furniture,
eh time his heart tailed him. and
the question away unpopped.
saw the nugulsh of bis soul and
■npassion ou him. So the next
he came she asked him If he had
ht to bring a screwdriver with
blushed and wanted' to kDow
for. ,
he. *n the fnllDess of her heart,
^be did not kuow Out that he
want to screw up ola courage
be left
took the hint and tbe glrL—Pear-
U eekly.
An Incorrigible.
th-re ever was a terrible child In
"orld." remarked jthe worried
r - "he's one."
s l!i s particular fault?"
! -t 1 will. I can’t, break him of
I of telling the tlhlth right out
" have company.”—Pbiladel-
t'-es.
The tloml fetleclw ol Apple Katin*.
The apple Is such common I rill! Unit
few are familiar with its remarkable
efficacious properties. Everybody ought
to kuow that the very liest Iblug they
can do Is to eat tipples Jtisl nefore re
tiring for the night. The apple is an
excellent brain food, because It has
more phosphoric acid In easily digested
shape than any other vegetable known.
It excites the action of the ll-er, pro
motes sound nud healthy sleep and
thoroughly disinfects the month That
I* not all. Tbe apple agglutinates the
surplus adds of the stomach, helps the
kidney.secretions-and Is one of the best
preventive* known of diseases of tbe
throat.—Journal of Agriculture.
A bad complexion generally vresults
from inactive liver and bowels. In all
such oases, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
produce gratifying results. R. L. Hicks.
Journalistic Errors
1 do not allude to wliui are obviously
mere misprints, such as when The
Morning I’osi announced at the bead of
Its fashionable Intelligence tliht lord
Palmerston bud gone, down Into Hamp
shire with a parly of fiends to shoot
peasants, but I refer to blunders due to
crass Ignorance of a pretentious order.
Perhaps the I vest. Instance wus when
one of tbe "young lious" of Tbe Dally
Telegraph In a lending article enuuier-
a ted the great musters of Greek »eitl|e
ture as Phidias. I’raxlfeles and Milo.
Ignorant of the fact that Milo Is not a
sculptor, but an Island.
Tbe Times was even worse when,
mistaking Prussia for Austria, tt de
voted a whole leader to discussing why
Prussia bad Joined the zollvereln The
Saturday Review once explained ot
great length that the population might
be nourished gratuitously on young
lantlis If killed unweaned before they
had begun to crop grass, having there
fore cost nothing tp fetal Many other
Instances will doubtless occur to your
reader*.—Notes and Queries.
Tbe world owes every man a living,
but doesn’t furnish a collector.—Den
ser Tiroes.
Th* Bride «t Last Said “Okeri*
In telling about “Some People I Have
Married” In Ladles’ Home'Journal the
Rev. D. U. Steele say*: “Being on
Episcopalian, I always use the formal
printed service or tbe prayer book. In
this the greatest stickler Is ’obey.' One
day a couple came to me, bringing ns
witnesses the parents of both bride and
groom. Everytblug proceeded smooth
ly to the point 'love, honor and obey,’
when the bride refused to say the last.
1 repeated It and waited. Again she
refused, and I shut up my book.
“Then there was a scene. They talk
ed It over, aud the more seriously they
argued and discussed the more stub
bornly she refused. The pureuts be
came angry, tbe groom excited uud tbe
bride hysterical. To humor her, he
Joined In the request to have me leave
it out. But I liked the fellow and de
cided thnt a little sternness from me
In tbe present might be a favor to him
In tbe future. So 1 told them 1 had no
authority to change It and would not
do bo. I tried to show the foolishness
of her objection, but It was uo use.
“Finally I said to him: ‘Well, this
household must have a head some
where. I will leave It out for her It
you will say It.’ Then it wns his time
to refuse, which be did. He gathered
up his hat and started for the door
when, presto change, she sprang nfter
him. led him back by the baud, looked
meekly up at blm and suld It.’’
Drtirlss tbe Line.
A good story Is told In Missouri at
tbe expense of Its once famous govern
or. Claiborne F. Jackson. Before be
solved tbe enigma of lovelock be had
murrted five sisters In reasonable
.lapses of Conseeutiveue8s. After one
wife had been lost aud appropriately
mourned he espoused another, and he
kept bis courting within a narrow cir
cle of his own relatives, for he rather
liked the family.
Tlie untlquated father of these girls
was almost deaf, ami wlieu the gov
ernor went to this octogeikirlau to ask.
for his surviving daughter the follow
ing conversation ensued:
“1 want Lizzie."
“Ebr
“I wont you to let me have EHa-a
both."
“Oh. you want Lizzie, do you?. Wbat.
“For my
.. 1 wall -*to—murry-her." &
“OIj. ye*. Just so. I hear you, boy."
"I'm precious glad ypu do," muttered
tbe governor.
••Well,’’ slowly responded the vet
eran. "you needu't halloo so that the
whole neighborhood knows It. Tea.
you cau have her. You've got ’em all
now. my lad. but for goodness' sake, If
anything happens to tbut 'ere poor mis-
guided gnl. dou’t come aud nsk me for
the old womnul",
• Jackson solemnly promised that he
never would.
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And no advertising pays better than
newspaper advertising. Thb news-,
paper goes into tbe homes of the
people and is read through. If bar
gains are offered, they make a note
of it.
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a first-class advertising medium^
As it is read hy the people very
generally in this county and by
many in adjoining counties.
OrlKln of “Wbtsr."
Several rcasous have been assigned
to account for the word "Whig." util
versa Hy known to all the English
■peaking people. By some the word Is
supposed to be a contraction of a loti
gcr oue, “whlggnmore." which lu some
parts of England uud Scotland, espe
daily Scotland, signifies a drover or
herder.
It was In 1070 that the word first
became couimou In the British isles,
when the struggle was lu progress be
tween the peasantry uud the aristoc
racy to have or uot to have the hill
passed by parliament to exclude the
Duke of York frotu the Hue of miceett-
slon. All who were opposed, to placing
the duke In tbe line of succession were
derisively called "whlggnmores.” or
“drovers." Just ns tbe city dssle of to
day speakers of the "grunge rm." the
"grays." the "chin whisker*" and tbe
"hayseodera."
But Scotch tradition gives altogether
a different reasou for tbe existence of
tbe word. It 1* this: Daring the earl;
religious wars tn Scotland the weakest;
of the factions used the word* "We
Hope In Gad" men motto. Tbe tsfjMals
of these words were placed on. their
banners thus. "W„ H. I. G„” nod .mom
all tbe foliow^rwof that clan were glv
en the title of “Whig.’' which wa* aft
erward attached os a party nickname..
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Tlie Jaw of an Oltm
Too can find an example of nature's,,
adaptation of tbe Jaw to use In tbe case
of certalD carnivora, like th* otter—a,
big weasel that has ucqntred oqua-tle
habits. Tbe Jaws of such beasts are so
fixed In tbe sockets tbut dislocation, l».
Impossible. In some Instances yon can
not. even after tbe animal Is dead, sep
arate the Jaw from tbe bead. Tbia ar
rangement!* evidently designed to en
able the beast to bite to the greatest
advantage without danger that tbe
chewing apparatus will come loose.
Cause ml Though),
“Von look thoughtful tonight. Rmlth.”
remarked Brown B6 he stretched him.
self on. two chairs.
“You," said Smith. “I have Jnat got
a ootc from tbe landlady."
“IVbnt does she say?”
“She soys that I must psy my board
at once, or her daughter will sup me for
breach of promise. I’m thinking what
I’d better da”—Tit-Bit*.
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time, and we propose to give satis
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