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THE STORY OF MAX —— 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. .* I Seven British regiments have been given permission to add the word “Chit tral” to their colors. liar* z w— •’» VMrfto 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. ■* TH» C<KT*UK «MMaV, TT MVKMV *TW**T. H«w TO«« S,TT. ='. -... L. -—'.'l=. 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