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♦ _ ' ENGLISH INNKEEPERS. laid to Bo Mainly Boors Who Trent Pm trona as Intruders. If your pocketbook allows or fate oar tho desire to see the country compels you to remain in England, there aro parts where you can ride on your wheel with great satisfaction and at great ex pense. Nothing could be more beautiful than the midlands, lovelier than the counties that surround London, but Westward go no farther than Bristol or Truro, northward than Chester, avoid ing Manchester —that is, unless you mean to go still farther north into Scot land, which, at times will repay your The southwest is largely to be avoided. Cornwall and Devon have the worst roads in civilized Europe—in fact, the roads and inns explain that the country is not and never has been civilized. In the inns you are often treated as an intruder, and sometimes cheated in a fashion that would bring a blush to the cheek of a Swiss landlord, for the emptiness of the larder the bill makes up in lavishness. There is hard ly anything to' eat save cream,, but for that and salt bacon and ancient eggs you are asked to pay as much as for a good dinner at the Case Royal The inn keepers are mainly boors. As for the roads, they go straight to the top of all the hills, as uncompro misingly as the roads of Bohemia, then drop down the other side and are unrid able in both directions. When' not climbing precipitately, they lie buried at the bottom of a ditch. They are shadeless and uninteresting, rarely ap proaching the seacoast or passing near anything that is worth looking at, and yet we know Englishmen who are pro foundly impressed with the belief that they are the best in England, and there fore in the world. The roads, inns and innkeepers of Scotland are in everyway better, * but the fact that the average Briton spends his holiday on the conti nent when ho can proves not only that he'wants to get there, but also that he is ‘driven from his own country by the shortsightedness of the people who keep its inns and look after its roads. —Mr. and Mrs. Pennell in Fortnightly Review. ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS The Manner of Doctors’ Consultations In the Fourteenth Century. Coming to Mondeville’s exposition of the method of holding a discussion, we find his description almost a story of what might take place today. “First, ” he says, “we should inquire into the nature of the disease, examining care fully and feeling, because the diagnosis > is made by touching with the hand and observing with the eye. All tho consult ants engage in turn in the examination. Then, if the case demands it, they make a new examination all together, point ing out to one another the symptoms of disease and the special or remarkable features either in the patient or the dis ease. Then one of them, the highest in rank, says to the patient, ‘Sir, we per ceive very clearly what is the matter with you, and you ought to have full confidence in us and be glad that there are so many of us here and such doctors— enough for a king—and to believe that the youngest of us is competent to pre scribe and carry on your treatment and bring it to a good result. ’ Then he in terrogates the patient about the circum stances of his attack, ‘Sir, do not be displeased or take it ill, but when did your illness begin?’ following this with many other questions, the answers to which are recorded as indications fur nished by tho patient. “When all the questions called for by the case have been asked, the con sultants retire to-another room, where they will be alone, for in all consulta tions the masters dispute with one an other in order the better to discuss the truth, and sometimes they come to a pass in tho heat of discussion which would cause strangers witnessing their proceeding to suppose there were discord and strife among them. This is some times the case.” —“Fourteenth Century Doctors,” by M. E. Nicaise, in Popular Science Monthly. Mozart’s Method. Mozart’s method of composition was such as could only have been pursued by a child of genius. He would rise early, eat a hearty breakfast and then stroll for several hours in a forest near ‘ his home, where, inspired by nature’s beauties, heavenly melodies came troop ing through his brain. Repairing to his cottage, he would summon his wife, a very witty woman, and bid her tell him stories. He would then monnt his high stool and proceed to commit these inspirations to paper, his wife telling him jokes and funny stories while he wrote. These he enjoyed immensely, frequently interrupting her with hearty bursts of laughter and sometimes even falling from the stool and rolling on the floor. But amid all this hilarity and uproar the flow of music which was to move the world went steadily on. His productions were wrought without the least thought of study, but came almost unbidden “direct from heaven.” Like Shakespeare, he wa. purely the creature of inspiration, a genius of the highest order.—C. 0. Hieatt in Housekeeper. Remote Ancestry. “It has long been supposed,” says The Outlook, “that the most startling genealogical claim is that of the negus of Abyssinia, who insists that his de scent has been in a straight line from the union of Solomon with the queen of Sheba, but some one has discovered a noble family in France, the counts of Noe, who not only claim Noah as their remote ancestor, but show on their fam ily blazon that veteran seaman in the ark.” ‘ Laying Bricks. A bricklayer can lay about 1,500 or 1,600 bricks in a day of 10 hours where the joints are left rough, about 1,000 per day when both faces have to be worked fair and not more than 500 a day when carefully jointed and faced with picked bricks of a uniform color. —Exchange. BARNATO IN THE COMMUNE. How the Diamond King Saved tho | of France. A writer of stories about Barney Barnato says, in tho Philadelphia Bui- I letin, that there is a circumstantially ‘ definite account of his presence in Paris ; during the commune of 1871. In the ntter break up of all social fabrio he found his capacities of a paying order. , For there is little doubt that his was the craft that enabled the shrewder i communards to realize the money need- 1 ed to supply the sinews of war. One day, during the gloom and stress : of the government Siege, the president of the Bank of France was confronted , by an unkempt mob. The demand was | explicit They wanted all the gold in ( the bank’s vaults. The spokesman i flourished a bloody saber and the mob < accentuated the demand by all sorts of ’ ferocious threats. It was in tho height 1 of this melee that a man who had been ( counseling the financial deputy of the j commune rode up, adorned by a red sash and other insignia of tho terrorists. He i made his way through tbe vociferous ’ throng and handed the governor of the I bank a large envelope. While the official was reading it the besashed emissary 1 turned to the clamoring nomads and, in ! a tongue unknown to the officials and , probably to many of the mob, addressed j them a few sentences. A singular event < followed. A dozen of the ringleaders at i once began haranguing the rioters. In 1 a few minutes every one of them with- 1 drew. The besashed personage remained in consultation with the governor and when it was' ended withdrew. An hour j later six covered wagons came to the j bank and were laden with bags such as ( the bank always makes use of in trans- i porting specie. 1 When Barnato appeared as the dia- 1 mond king in South Africa, a score of 1 the communards, who had fled from J France, were in exile in the region ( where Barnato had cornered the mines. , One day in the plenitude of his afflu- ; ence he was waylaid, riding in the i Rand, by a company of miners. One of ’ them, by a few words, succeeded in ’ gaining his private ear. This man was 1 kiiown as the most ferocious dt the blood thirsty gang who had taken part in the J killing of tho hestages in La Roquette. Ho recognized Barnato as the emissary sent by the commune to the Bank of France, and the knowledge enabled him to get in on the ground floor of the dia mond deal. The tale goes on to tell that ■ Barnato, who figured as Felix Barnette, had fallen desperately in love with a figurante in the Folies Bergeres justr as the war of 1870 broke out; that he had lingered in Paris, became a member of : one of the “Red” societies, exploited the ardent patriotism of his coworkers I and succeeded in getting several mil- 1 lions of tbe cash he bad forced from the ' Bank of France. The tale, whether ; true or not, is by no means so improb- ] able as the actual facts known in the : man’s mastery of the African diamond I yields, for to do that he was forced to put himself against such schemers as Cecil Rhodes and to contend with the “dour” shiftiness of the Boers, and particularly with that astute old fox Uncle Kruger. x ARMY LIFE. Its Social Informality Constitutes One of Its Groat Charms. “Army life is informal to a degree, ” said Mrs. Custer, during a recent inter view. “The custom of using cards when calling is only of very recent date among officers’ wives. When I lived in garrison, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. It is only at a few of the larger posts, near the cities, where there is anything like the formality of civio life. The people in a garrison are like one great family. Nothing that deeply concerns any member is a matter of indiilerence to tbe others, and the spirit of good fellowship is universal. In time of sickness the friendly helpful ness of the women for each other is shown strongly. Many a time I have known a number of women to detail themselves, in regular military fashion, to duty in the house of sickness at cer tain hours, relieving one another through the day and night with abso lute precision, so that the siok person should never be left without an attend ant “With all this close intimacy there is surprisingly little friction or ill feel ing. There are, of course, at every post a few people who are disagreeable or hard to get altong with, but they cause no more trouble in general than they do in their own households. They be long, we feel, to our army family, and their shortcomings must be overlooked just as we should overlook the faults of a husband or brother or sister. No dis tinctions between rich and poor are ever observed. There is occasionally a question about calling upon new ar rivals, but it is solely on account of reputation aid honor. If there has been anything discreditable to the good name of an officer or his wife, the cir cumstances must be investigated before other families of the post will calk ” —Philadelphia Times. Where Princes Are Sacred. When a young prince of Japan wishes to learn the mysteries of chirography, young maidens bring paper, others make the ink and prepare the paint brush. The master expresses admiration by gesture and face, for no words must be spoken by him to the prince, his mouth even being bandaged that his breath may not blow upon the face of the prince. The teacher must move about in the quietest manner and give com mendation only. How Dead Soldiers Lock. A British army surgeon is authority for tbe statement that tbe cause of death is clearly shown in tbe expression of tbe face of a corpse on tbe field of battle. He states that those who have been killed by sword thrusts have a look of repose, yhile those killed by bullets usually have pain of an intense nature clearly depicted. • ... ALLIGATORS AS MASCOTS. Stuffed, They Sow Oat rank tho Rabbit** Left Hind 1 M>t. The newest thing tn tho way of a luck bringer or fetich for-Chicago people is the small stuffed alligator, which may also bo made to serve a useful purpose. Why lucky nobody knows. One man, whose stock in trade is al ways an infallible Indication of popular taste, says that he is selling upward of throe dozen a day and that his supply of tiny alligators is frequently far from equal to the demands made upon it. He re ceives orders, too, for small alligators ar ranged in a variety of original ways and has sent no small number of tho baby rep tiles to tho various summer resorts, where tho summer girl and man aro trying to beat tjieir previous records in tho way of golf and tennis. As a mascot or fetich tho alligator is considered fur superior to the old time rabbit’s foot, and ho or she who finds and captures one personally is indeed lucky. All sorts and sizes of the infant saurians aro liked, and tho fad is by no incans an inexpensive one. Two dollars and a half is the sum required to purchase oven tho smallest representatives of alligatorship, with an ascending scale which reaches the 115 mark for specimens IK or 2 feet long The very largo or very tiny ones aro best liked, and these are mountod with tho greatest care. The ‘ ‘ seconds’ ’ —those spec imens which aro less perfect or have been marred in tho killing or mounting—com- > mand but slightly smaller prices, how ever, and even those which show marks of shot or other wounds aro anything but hard to dispose of. “Anything so long as it is an alligator,” seerins to be tho watch word of superstitious people just now. The conventional way of mounting the precious creatures is by bending the tail backward in such away as to support the body in an upright position with the as sistance of the hind logs. The front feet are extended to serve os a support on which to place the painted seashell, small saucer, match safe or other trinket which is to render the ugly thing useful. In , some cases the body is fantastically draped with bright colored silk or cheesecloth, and the addition of a gaudy cap is of fre quent occurrence. Thus decorated or merely in a state of nature, tho quaintly traced figure is placed in the entrance hall to receive cards, upon the smoking table with matches, cigars or tobacco, or, if the owner is a summer girl, In her room, where it acts as a file upon which to pin all sorts of scores, records or memoranda of the season’s games.—Chicago Times- Herald. How the Phonograph Was Discovered. Possibly the ntost widely known of all Edison’s inventions are the telephone and phonograph, and the latter was discovered by the merest accident—namely, an acci dent happening to the right man. “I was singing,” says Mr. Edison, “to tho. mouthpiece of a telephone when tho vibration of the voice sent the fine steel point into my finger. That set me think ing. If I could record the actions of the point and send tho point over tho same surface afterward, I saw no reason why the thing would not talk. I tried the ex periment first on a strip of telegraph paper and found that tho point made an alpha bet. I shouted the words, ‘Halloa, halloa!’ into the mouthpiece, ran the paper back over the steel point and heard a faint‘Hal loa, halloa!’ in return. I determined to make a machine that would work accu rately and gave my assistants instructions, telling them what I had discovered. They laughed at me. That’s the whole story. The phonograph is tho result of the prick ing of a finger. ” AH this sounds remarkably simple, and Mr. Edison has a habit of speaking of his inventions as though they had dropped from the clouds, but needless to say, after tho principle of the phonograph had been discovered, there were days and nights of anxious thought and experiment before tho famous talking machine, with which even the nursery is familiar today, had reached its present perfection. Barbarism In Africa. It is satisfactory to note that there is considerable indignation at the Cape re garding tho mutilation of the remaps of tho Bechuanaland chief, Luke Jantje. The statement is that tho head was cut off and boiled in order that the skull might bo preserved, presumably as a curio. However this may be, there seems to be no doubt that a volunteer was found in the laager “endeavoring with all his might to sever tho dead chief’s head from tho trunk, ” and that when ho was spoken to on the subject he replied that he was “merely acting under orders.” A board of inquiry has been appointed, and it is to be hoped that tho matter will be probed to the bottom. There has been some ugly Work in South Africa during the past year or two, but that is no reason why barbarous inhumanity on the part of vol unteers or any others should be tolerated for one moment. Surely, even a Bechu analand chief’s bones “cost more tne breeding than to play at loggats with them.”—Westminster Gazette. A Fault of Young Men. “A grave fault with a goodly number of young men is a disposition to quarrel with their surroundings, whereas the real fault is not there,” writes Edward W. Bok, in “Problems of Young Men,” in The La dies’ Home Journal. “Young men do not seem clearly to realize that where they aro they were intended to be, and for some mighty good purpose too. Tho place where a young man finds himself is exact ly where his Creator meant that ho should be. Therefore he is capable of filling it. God makes no mistakes. But it is meant that we should grow of our own efforts; get strong through the conquering of diffi culties. When a young man starts out to live a useful life, and starts out with a right determination, an adherence to hon orable principles and a- faith in God, no power on earth can retard him long, seri ously interrupt his career or effectively stop him. He is bound to win. Our fail ures are always due to ourselves; never to other people nor to our environments." Maddened Him. Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri recently told this story of Colonel John T. Crisp: When Colonel Crisp was running for con gress, he proposed to use the same speech all over the state. An old man who heard it the first night was so delighted that ho asked Crisp where he was to speak the -next. When the colonel saw the old man in his next audience, he was forced to change his speech to give it a semblance of originality and so delighted the old man that he insisted on knowing the colonel’s next engagement. He followed Mr. Crisp all over the state and so worried him by forcing him to constantly alter his speech that the colonel at last in despair cried, “I speak in shcol tomorrow night, in sheol, bo gad, sir, and 1 hope you will b« the first man I see when 1 get there!” - ~»n A VIRTUE OF OLIVE OIL. ■an-af-war** Men Say That It Will Pre vent Intoxication. The glasses were going round when the man who had been in the navy •poke: “Wait a minute, boya. We’ve had several. Let me give you a tip that I learned when I was on the China sta tion. You are pretty good drinkers, you Kentucky boys, and you can hold your own with anybody, east, west or north, who tries to put you under the table. But unless you carry out my plan don't you ever stack yourself up against an Englishman, and especially an army or a naval officer. You could knock him out on whisky, but he doesn’t drink it, except in the shape of smoky Scotch and Irish abominations. But cham pagne, burgundy, darct, ale, sherry, madeira, port, pulque in Mexico, saki in China, palm liquor in Africa, bam boos and shandygaff in India, steer clear of them—that is, unless you have tho good luck to meet a certain little, yel low faced, wizened creole from Louisi ana whose recipe is passed around the mess table of United States men-of-war to this day. “It started in the old days when the British officers always had the pleasure of outstaying their American guests or hosts whenever two ships met on for eign stations. Then that little yellow devil came along with his trick, and the Englishman has never since come out better than second in any drinking bout. The secret? Olive oiL One wine glassful before the fun begins, and, if possible, another later on, and you can keep your wit and legs throughout the dampest evening. I suppose one of two things Either the oil coats the stomach and keeps the alcohol from be ing absorbed by the system, or else it floats on top and keeps the fumes from rising to the brain. But you'll have to ask the medicine men about that. All I know is its practical result, and that has enabled us Yankee Doodles to go home cheerful and clear headed many an evening when our foreign cousins were speechless. ” —Louisville Courier- Journal. AMERICAN TOOLS ABROAD. Pnrehaaer* Found For Them Nowaday* Throughout the World. American tools are sold all over the world. The New York representative of an American tool manufacturing estab lishment when asked where American tools were sent ran over the export or ders received that day. They included orders from Hungary, Austria, Ger many, France, England, South Africa and South America. There were alto gether about 20 orders, and from some of the countries named there were two or three orders. The export orders of the previous day included orders from Russia, Australia and New Zealand, and these were not unusual orders, but such as are Constantly received. In the shipping room at that moment stood cases marked for Java, for Ecuador and for Australia. ■ Many of these orders are small. In some cases there were orders for a single tool, or for two or three; for some orders of half a dozen or two or three dozen to supply orders or to keep lines filled. These small orders are mostly from Eu ropean countries, with which commu nication is nowadays quick and conven ient. European merchants order these things just about as merchants in other cities in this country would. It costs no more to send to London than it does to Chicago, and it is as easy to send to Berlin as it is to Paterson. The characteristics that commend these American tools to their foreign purchasers are the same that mark American machines and implements generally lightness, fine finish and perfect adaptability to their several uses. The exports of American tools to all parts of the world are steadily in creasing.—New York Sun. Bad Story Telling. If Oscar Wilde’s assumption were to be taken seriously, that all fiction is ly ing, it might account for much that afflicts readers, since the lack of morale affects the intellect and what is done without conscience is apt to be done badly. Os course all fiction is not lying, as all killing is not murder, but H is a sad fact that many writers of novels and short stories seem to have left their consciences and much of their brains behind when they go forth to work— as if these belongings might safely remain in seclusion, with the dress coat and the white tie, to be brought out only for especial occasions. Artemus Ward once remarked that he had a giant mind, but did not have it with him, and that (or the latter half of it) is apt to be the case with any of us when we are care less. True, even good Homer sometimes nodded, but this affords no example for us who are not Homers. To come to out tasks otherwise than with all our wits about us and invite public attention to the chance “oozings of our brains” is as if one should issue from his apart ments unshorn and half clad or enter upon the busy haunts of men without money in his pocket. —Frederic M. Bird in Lippincott’s. Leather and Kerosene. There is one use of keroserte which is seldom mentioned. It often happens that when a heavy shoe or boot has been wet it hardens and draws so that it hurts the foot. If the shoe is put on and the leather thoroughly wet with kerosene, the stiffness will disappear and the leather become pliable, adapt ing itself to the foot If oiled while wet, the leather retains its softness a longer time. The kerosene does not in jure the leather at alt At tho beginning of this century a most peculiar cholera remedy was in use in Persia. It consisted in wadding up a leaf from the Koran and forcing it down the patient’s throat The medical department of the queen ’ household coats £2,700 yearly and oom prises 24 persona ► AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTO BIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator qf “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now -S/fAs ozi bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER'S*CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes qf the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you luive always bought sJLfA? on and has the signature of CAa&frMucMt wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. /> y 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 on it), the in gredients of which even he does not know. 7 “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF < ’* gMr A gg g AgJ g Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. vhc otrr»u< tv awiuuv evaaav, new v»M <nvv. - ' ■■'■“.= - ' GET YOUR — JOB PRINTING DONE Ajy The Morning Call Office. ail— We have just supplied our Job Office with a complete line 01 Stationer* kinds and can get up, on abort notice, anything wanted in the way 01 - ■ -Jp LETTER HEADS, BILL BEADS STATEMENTS, IRCULARS, '■ ENVELOPES, NOTES, MORTGAGES, JARDS, POSTERS WW DODGERS. ITU., KIA We cervy toe 'xst iue of FNVE)X>FEfI tm rtfti : thia trade. Aa aUracfivt POSTER U say size can be issued on short notice Our prices for work of all kinds will compare favorably with tboae obtained any office in the state. 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