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THE STORY OF MAX
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IT IS TOLD BY HIB BONES, THE TC 3LB
HE USED AND HIS MONUMENT!.
The Varied Selenees Width Aid the Stu
dent Who Examine* Them—There
Uioptaa That MUt Ba Studied and Their
Princlpiea Applied to Thine* Diecorered.
Man leaves behind him when he dies
hie bones, hie tools and his monuments,
and these are the things from which
have been derived all the items of our
knowledge of him and his progress up
to the time when he learned to write.
And even in the historic age the story
would be much less complete but for
his inscriptions, his art and his relics.
Bones are of the greatest importance,
for oftentimes man has left ho other
tokens of his existence behind him. The
first study, therefore, to the archaeolo
gist is that of the comparative anatomy
of the human race. It is necessary to
distinguish human bones from those of
animals, to study racial characters and
to determine the - sex. Skulls must be
studied with the greatest minuteness,
for in them lie some of the most impor
tant evidences of origin and progress.
It is desirable also to study the animals,
for the bones of men are often found
intermingled With those of the animals
that he had slain or that have conquered
him, and in the oases where the animal
is one now extinct a guess at the an
tiquity of man’s relics may bo made.
The tools which served in the rude
arts of early man were first of stone,
roughly fashioned to the needs of the
work, and later Os metal. Mineralogy
is therefore an important study to the
archseologist. The stone relics furnish
a rough index to the amount of civiliza
tion; they indicate in a crude way th4
extent of intercommunication; they
show how new ideas came to the races;
they serve in a manner to distinguish
between different grades of antiquity,
and in many ways they are important
The mineralogist who finds copper nug
gets in the graves of North Carolina
prehistoric Indians knows that these
men had some manner of communica
tion with the great lakes.
A knowledge of zoology is requisite
too. The presence of the horseshoe crab
in legends and traditions of the tribes
of our arid west could have been guessed
at only by one with acute perception,
and the finding of one of the shells as a
fetich of one of the tribes was a bright
exploit It was evident that this relic
had made its journey from hand to hand
over 2,000 or 8,000 miles of country at
a time when it was exceedingly wild.
Then there are the shell ornaments.
The present craze for the river pearl is
no new thing. As far back as there is
any evidence of the preferences of man
the lustrous river shells have been at
tractive to him, and the distribution of
them has been exceedingly wide.
Then there is the pottery. Here one
must study the beginnings of the useful
arts. He must know how the pots are
made, how in lieu or in advance of the
potter’s wheel the aborigines had a
number of ingenious ways of revolving
the vessel, how with fingers and combs
and a hundred other implements the
primitive decoration was incised and
how with clays and ores of iron the first
crude colors were made wherewith to
paint the earthenware'. This study of
old pots is exceedingly interesting and
of the highest importance. The materi
als are imperishable, and, while the
vessels in a whole condition are rare,
the fragments indicate the more impor
tant elements in the story. In the shapes
of the vessels there is rudimentary art
in form, while in the decoration there
are the beginnings of painting and sculp
ture. In the painted or incised figures
there is the key to relationships in
tribes, races and religions.
Closely allied is the art of carving,
the finishing and ornamenting of tools
and implements. And there are besides
the textiles, and, although the primitive
loom is an extremely simple affair,
which the savage nations have evolved
or copied into very similar forms, still
the materials employed and the patterns
yield much information about the an
cestry and affinities of ancient man.
No word is necessary to uphold the
importance of the monuments when,
lacking the forerunners of paper, the
ancients recorded their history in cut or
painted monuments. Egypt, Assyria
and Central America, each in a differ
ent way, show the value of the close
study of the monuments, and the stories
of these countries would have lacked
the greater part of their interest had the
testimony of walls and obelisks and the
magnificent sculptures been withheld.
Languages form an exceedingly im
portant part of the preparation of the
archseologist. Os course he must know
the modern ones to keep abreast of the
world’s progress in research, the an
nouncements being made in any one of
the important living .tongues. But com
parative philology is equally necessary,
for it may serve to give the key to the
relationships of one set of characters
with another.
After these matters are all in hand
there is geology to be studied, both
theoretical and practical. From such
knowledge is derived our estimate of
man’s occupation of the earth, and the
value of the evidence may be made or
marred by a single slip or'unscientific
action. The whole stosy of man’s early
residence in New Jersey is dependent
upon the position of certain bits of
worked stone in certain banks of dirt.—
Boston Transcript.
> The Husband’* Way.
She (at the desk) —Dear, please tell
*ie how to spell costume. I’m writing
to mother about my lovely new gown.
He—Well, are you ready? .
She—'Yes.
He—C-o-s-t, cost—
She—Yea
He—T-u—to—
She—Well?
He—M-e—me—l6s, as yet unpaid.
She—You’re a wretch.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
HIGH PRICE FOR DITTO.
A Housewife'* Experience la Getting th*
Ingredients of a Jar of Chowchow.
What is the power of a ditto mark? -A
nice housekeeper in this city knows more
about it than she did once.
This is the time of year when mustard,
cloves, cassia, Ix4l peppers, vinegar and
the other fixings that go with cucumbers,
tomatoes, cauliflower, button onions, cel
ery, etc., are seething in the pot and the
pickle jar la yawning with open month to
receive them. A good recipe for mixed
pickles or chowchow is at a premium just
now. The lady referred to above had a
receipt for chowchow which ran something
like this: Cauliflower, 3 heads; button
onions, 2 quarts; small cucumbers, 9
quarts; bell peppers, 6; celery seed, 1
ounce; white mustard seed, 1 ounce; cur
cuma seed, 1 ounce, and 80 " n -
Now everything went well until she
asked her grocery man to bring these ma
tcrials to her. He said he got everything
all right until ho struck curcuma seed
The druggist, when he got the rest of the
things, said he didn’t keep curcuma seeds
“Never mind,” said she, “I’ll get those
myself the next time I go up town. ”
Accordingly- she soon called on a leading
druggist for curcuma seeds, one ounce,
holding the recipfe in her hand and readily,
from it He blandly said he never hud t>
call for them before, but would order soils
Sind have them in a day or two. She wait
ed a proper length of time and called
again. The druggist referred to his bill
and read a footnote which said: “None in
tills city. Will try Boston. ” Boston could
not furnish them, but would try New
York. New York responded. “Can't
find. Would probably cost |1 or more an
ounce if obtainable.”
Not long after her husband dropped into
another drug store one evening, and the
conversation was running on the expen
siveness of some kinds of drugs, and he
joined in with a bit of his wife’s experi
ence on curcuma seeds. The druggist lis
tened intently to the yarn and said quietly:
“There'must be some mistake about this.
It is not curcuma seeds that you want. It
is curcuma, ground curcuma. I sell lots
of it every day for coloring chowchow yel
low.”
“I don’t care,” said he, "the recipe
reads:
“Celery seed, one ounce.
Curcuma “ “
“I’ve read it a dozen times, and if those
ditto marks don’t call for curcuma seeds
then I don’t know how to read English.”
So the pursuit of curcuma seed was
dropped, and he carried home some ground
curcuma, and his wife made the chowchow
and it was lovely.
Now the point of this is that the curcu
ma root is the part used. It grows in
China, Japan, Ceylon and East India
countries in general and is an ingredient
in the famous curry powder of the
orient. When it is dried, it has a taste
like ginger root and is consumed in great
quantities by the natives of the countries
where it grows as a condiment. It is per
fectly harmless and is used entirely in this
country to give the bright yellow color to
chow-chow and pickles in general.
It is a tuberous plant and is wholly
propagated from the root, which makes it
unnecessary to save the seeds, which are
few and entirely useless. This is w-hy they
would cost $1 an ounce if they could be
obtained.—Lewiston Journal.
What Is a Title—Half Title?
It is a curious thipg that two well known
librarians of the British museum, Messrs.
G. F. Barwick and A. W. Pollard, have
endeavored to ascertain what was under
stood among publishers by the terms
“half title,” “title,” “head title” and
“running title.” Mr. Horace Hart, Ox
ford University Press, says he agrees gen
erally with the definitions given in Ja
cobi’s “Printer’s Vocabulary,” 1888, but
he says: “ ‘Head title’ I never heard of; I
suppose it means the ‘drive down’ or ‘drop
down’ title which begins the work or the
first chapter of it. ‘ Bastard title’ is the
same as ‘half title.’ ‘False title’ is not in
use in England [I am glad to hear this],
but is obviously the same as ‘bastard
title.’ ” Mr. Charles S. Jacobi says:
“ ‘False title’ is rarely every used, and
then not by printers. I hardly know what
is meant by ‘head title. ’ We don’t use the
term. ‘Heading’is the title to first page
or chapter.”
It is most extraordinary to find printers
and puLiishers themselves all differing so
much as to these terms. All I want is
that for the future wo may have some set
tled terms which shall be clearly under
stood without explanation. I therefore
present the following terms in what ap
pears to me to bo their most generally ac
cepted meaning: “Half title” is half or a
portion of the title given before the title
page or whole title. “ Title” is the main
title page of a book. “Head title” is that
at the beginning of the first page or chap
ter. “Running title,” Mr. Charles 8. Ja
cobi says, “is the fixed title of the work
used in headline,, sometimes used instead
of title of work, ” or, to put it shorter,
that which runs along the top of every
page.—Notes and Queries.
One Cure For Love and Alcoholism.
M. de Fleury, in his “Introduction a la
Medecino de I’Esprit, ” combats with great
seriousness the old fashioned hypothesis
that bodily ills alone are the province of
the practitioner. The disorders of the
psychic half of the human economy are
every whit as numerous and important, if
not more so, than those affecting the
somatic half and every one reflecting on
the havoc they occasion must acknowledge
that systematic efforts should be made to
render them amenable to treatment. Lazi
ness, grief arid anger are among the mental
affections discussed by the writer, not only
from a curative, but also from a prophy
lactic, point of view. As might perhaps
be expected, an entire chapter is devoted
to the tender passion under the heading,
“La Medecine des Passions.” “Love,”
says M. do Fleury, “is a physiological phe
nomenon which enters the domain of pa
thology the moment it assumes the senti
mental form. Do we not habitually say,
‘So-and-so is madly in love?’ This bassion,
which is beyond the control of sfense, in
face of which reason loses her rights and
her powers, is incontestably a hux>an mal
ady. ” The symptoms of maladie,
we are further told, bear a wonderful re
semblance to those of alcoholism and mor
phinomania. Every one who inquires into
the facts for himself will be struck with
the absolute identity of the pathological
processes in each case. ThO point of de
parture is different, but the results arjk
precisely similar, and the same trehts&ririt
—namely, separation—cures both.—Lon
don Lancet.
Jtut Suited.
Watts —Some of those Chinese playa are
six months long.
Potts—What of it?
"I was thinking one of them would be a
good thing to take to the arctic regions sot
a one uigbt stand. ” —lndianapolis Jour
nal
A NATURAL WO IDER.
*
The Tramp Red Saoii/tom Bowlder of
the New Jersey Mem lain*.
- Countless thousands of y are ago vast
stretches of glacial deposi < came slid
ing across the state of Uew Jersey,
mounted the Palisades, pushed their
Way across the Hudson river, scoured
over Manhattan Island and slid oat into
the Atlantic ocean, whither they disin
tegrated and sank into the deep or per
haps glided on to the other shore.
But in their onward march these
glaciers left indestructible evidence of
their grinding stride, and today’ ail
along the palisades the trap rocks and
bowlders are worn smooth where the
mountains of ice and sand passed over
them. In some rocks are deep scratches,
all pointing eastward and showing
which the glacial deposits drifted.
There is the evidence, mute, but indis
putable.
To the careful observer there are
numberless other evidences of the pres
ence ,»f glacial influences in the past,
but none is more convincing than the
tramp bowlder that has finally settled
down in the woods in the heart of En
glewood borough. There it sits, a tow-,
ering mass of rock weighing perhaps
200 tons and resting upon three points
which in themselves find a purchase on
a flat rock that is part of and common
to the character of rock which composes
the palisades. But, strangely enough
and to the wonderment of geologists,
the tramp bowlder is red sandstone from
the Jersey hills 25 miles inland, and
the pedestal is metamorphite or soft
granite.
Around this marvelous monument
have grown trees that may perhaps be
a century old, and they have completely
hedged it in, while the rock itself has
stood where it stands today for thou
sands of years. On the pedestal or that
part of it which is protected from the
action of the elements can bo seen the
deep ridges and scars made across its
flat surface by the great grinding pres
sure of the body of ice and sand that
passed over it countless years ago when
New York was ice and snow clad and
the world was a desolate waste in a
state of chaos.
This tramp bowlder has caused geol
ogists much wonderment and is regard
ed today as one of the finest specimens
ever left in the wake of a glacier. It is
equally astounding as though an explor
er should find the hull of a steamboat in
the Sahara desert. The only way it could
get there would be through some great
convulsion that had landed it from the
sea in the heart of the inland sands.—•
New York Journal.
BIRDS’ EGGS.
The Iteasons Why They Are Not All ol
One Shape.
Why is there not a fixed form for all
eggs? We can see no reason in the anat
omy of the bird, but we may often find
reasons for the shape of any particular
egg in its later history.
It is noticeable, for instance, that the
more spherical eggs, as those of owls,
trogons and the like, are usually laid
in holes in the earth, rocks or trees,
where they cannot fall out of the nest,
and that the eggs of the ordinary song
bird, which makes a well constructed
ne§t, are oval, while the slim, straight
sided, conoidal eggs, tapering sharply
to a point, belong to birds that construct
little or no nest —to the shore birds,
terns, guillemots and the like. Why?
Because these last drop them in small
clutches-and with little or no prepara
tion upon sand or rock, where, were
they spherical, they could only with
difficulty be kept closer beneath the sit
ting bird, but conical objects will tend
always to roll toward a center. An ad
ditional advantage is that eggs of the
latter shape will take up less space—
form a snugger package to be warmed.
In the case of guillemots the single egg
laid is especially flat sided and tapering,
and the species owes its perpetuation
largely to this circumstance, since,
were it not for the egg’s toplike tenden
cy to revolve about its own apex, the
chances are that it would be pushed off
the ledge of naked sea cliff where the
careless or stupid bird leaves it
This suggests a word in reference to
the popular fable that sitting bi 'ds care
fully turn their eggs every day or often
er in order to warm them equally. No
such thing is done, because unnecessary,
since, as we have seen, the germinal
part always rises to the top and places
itself nearest the influential warmth of
the mother’s body.—Ernest Ingersoll in
Harper’s Magazine.
A Lucky Find.
Two men walking on Campbell street
toward Twelfth one night were accosted
by a negro woman who was excited.
“Kin either one of you mens give me
a match?” she said.
“What for?”
“I lost a quahtah down there, an I
want to hunt fur it. ”
She was given several matches and
ran ahead and began striking matches
and locking along the sidewalk. When
the two men came up, she had stopped
hunting and had apparently found the
coin.
“Well, did you find it?” inquired one
of the men.
“No, but 1 done find this horseshoe,
an that’s better’n two qnahtahs, ” she
said.—Kansas City Star.
Theatrical.
Brette—l never saw such a cold au
dience in my life.
Light—Didn’t they warm up a bit?
Brette—Well, when they spoke of
bringing out the author I believe some
of the audience got hot.—Yonkers
Statesman. •
A contemporary mentions that there
are schools in Belgium where the girls
are not only taught housekeeping in all
its branches, but the management of
children as well.
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Seven British regiments have been
given permission to add the word “Chit
tral” to their colors.
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MADE IN MAINE.
Interesting Facte Abort the Geneala at
Spool* and Shoo Peg*.
“Oxford county, Me., turns out near
ly all the spools on which the sewing
thread of this country is wound, ” said
a wholesale dealer in such articles to
the writer. "The spools are made from
white birch timber, and they are pro
duced by the million in Oxford county.
There are many other parts of western
Maine, also, where the industry is im
portant There are numerous sawmills
in that part of the state which are kept
busy all the year round sawing white
birch logs into strips 4 feet long and
from 1 to 2 inches wide and of the same
thickness. These strips are sent to the
spool factories, where they are quickly
worked into spools by the most ingen
ious labor saving machinery.
“The strips of white birch are fed in
to one machine, and they are not touch
ed, in fact, are hardly seen again, until
the spools, all finished for market ex-
polishing, drop out by the bushel
from another machine several rods away
from where the strips started in. The
■pools get their gloss by being rapidly
revolved in barrels turned by machin
ery, the polish resulting from the con
tact of the spools in the barret
“In the backwoods villages of Ox
ford county one sees scarcely any other
industry but spoolmaking, and every
person in the neighborhood is in some
way interested in the business. The fac
tories have been eating into the. Maine
birch forests for years, but there still
seems to be enough of the timber left to
feed the machinery for many years to
come. Hundreds of thousands of feet of
logs are cut and sawed into spool tim
ber annually.
“Shoe peg factories are also an Im
portant branch of business once pecul
iar to Maine, although it has of late
been followed to some extent in other
eastern states and is spreading to the
hard wood forests of northern Pennsyl
vania. Maple is used largely in the
manufacture of shoe pegs, although
white birch is used at some factories.
Shoe pegs are sold by the bushel and
are worth all the way from 75 cents to
(1 a bushel, according to quality. More
than $150,000 was received by Maine
shoe peg factories last year for goods.
“A curious and profitable business
has grown up in the Maine woods near
the sawmills in the utilising of the im
mense quantities of sawdust by compres
sion. Thousands of tons of this waste
material are bought for a mere nothing
and are pressed into compact blocks and
bales, and in this form is finding a
ready market for kindling and fuel in
eastern cities. ’ ’ —Washington Star.
A TRIFLE TOO MUCH.
How an Old Darky’s Sympathy Wm Un
feelingly Imposed Upon.
General Nichols of Louisiana com
manded a brigade of infantry during
the valley campaign in Virginia which
so immortalized the name of Stonewall
Jackson. In one of the three famous
victories over Banks, Milroy and Shields,
says the Nashville American, the Louisi
ana brigade bore a conspicuous part,
and its gallant commander was carried
from the field mortally wounded, al
every one supposed, but good nursing
and skillful surgery saved the life of
the general. He left a leg and an arm
on the battlefield and lost one of his
eyes. He wears an artificial leg on one
side of his body and an arm on the op
posite. The pluck which enabled him
to withstand these terrible wounds, and
to which he is-indebted for his life,
perhaps, more than to any other cause,
sticks to him yet, and he is one of the
most jovial of men, enjoying a good
joke as much as anybody. He tells this
on himself:
When canvassing for governor, he
was invited by a lady who knew of his
loss of limbs to make her house his
home, and he accepted. She ordered her
manservant, who knew nothing of ths
general’s misfortune, to see that he was
comfortably put to bed. The darky felt
proud of the honor of serving a distin
guished general and the next governor,
and. the general was inclined to be com
municative, which delighted the negro
very much and made him feel at home
with his guest. When he took the gen
eral’s arm off and laid it on the table,
he commenced to express great sym
pathy, saying:
"It sho’is bad for a man to lose he
arm dat erwayl An de Yankees dona
dis, did dey?”
When the general told him to take
his leg off, (he negro thought he was
joking, but went at it in a businesalike
way, though he was almost ready to
shed tears of sympathy this time. Plac
ing the leg on the table by the side of
the arm and looking at the general, he
said:
“Umph! Leg off on one side an arm
off on t’other. Dat is too bad, to cut a
man up in dat sort o’ way. ”
The general saw the opportunity for
a little fun had come, so, leaning his
body forward, said:
"Come, now, take my head off. ”
But the negro was gone.
The Wheat King.
The “wheat king” of the world be
longs to Argentina. He is an Italian
immigrant named Guazone, and his
broad acres are situated in the south of
the province of Buenos Ayres. His crop
occupies an area of 60,270 acres. He
numbers his workmen by the thousand,
and each one receives a certain share of
the profits. When his season’s crop is
harvested, he fills over 8,000 railway
trucks with the grain.
Japanese theaters have their boxes so
arranged that the ladies can change
dresses, as it is not considered stylish
for a lady to appear an entire evening
in one dress and with the same orna
ments.
The busiest time on the Atlantic
cable is between the hours of 10 and 12
in the forenoon. During that time on
an average about 900 messages pass
over the cable each way.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTO RIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CABTORIA,” as our TRADE mark.
Z a DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on ever U
bear the facsimile signature of ' wrapper.
This is the original * PITCHER’S C/feTORIA, ’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and'see that it is
the kind you have always bought on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. /> j
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo
(because he. makes a few more pennies <?n it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF ■
Insist oh Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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