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' THE STORY OF MAN.
IT 18 TOLD BY HIS BONES, THE TOOLS
HE USED AND HIS MONUMENTS.
The Varied Science* Which Aid the Stu
dent Who Examines Them —There Are
010*10 That Mint Be Studied and Their
principle* Applied to Things Discovered.
Man leaves behind him when he dies
fail bones, his 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 np
to the time when he learned to write.
And even in the historio age the story
would be much less complete but for
his inscriptions, his art and his relics.
Bones are Os the greatest importance,
for oftentimes man has left no 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 cases 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 of metal. Mineralogy
is therefore an important study to the
aitineologist. The stone relics furnish
a rough index to the amount of civiliza
tion; they indicate in a crude way the
extent of intercommunication; they
show how new ideas came to the races;
they sdbve in a manner to distinguish
between different grades of antiquity,
and in niany ways they are important.
The mineralogist who finds copper nug
gets, fa 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 thjs relic
had made its journey from hand to hand
over 2,000 or 3,000 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 olays 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
al* 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 evqlved
or copied into very similar forms, still
the materials employed and the patterns
yield much‘information about the an
-2 oestry 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 story 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
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The Husband's Way.
She (at the desk)—Dear, please tell
pae how to spell costume. I’m writing
to mother about my lovely newfeown.
He—Well, are you ready?
She—-Yea.
He—O-o-s-t, cost—
s She—Yes.
Be—T-u—to—
She—WeU?
He—M-e—me—*6s, as yet unpaid.
She—You ’re a wretch. —New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
LEFT ON TRAINS.
All Sorts of Articles Are Forgotten by
Absentminded Passengers.
Recently a Chicago railroad displayed
in its unclaimed parcel room five barrels
of rubber overshoes and a box full of
false teeth. All this property and more
during a period of six months had been
left on the suburban and through trains
by absent minded passengers. The gen
eral baggage agent, upon being asked
what was the oddest occurrence of this
kind, said that a woman once left on a
train a 6-months-old baby, and she did
not miss it until a trainman overtook
her with the little bundle of humanity
before she got outside of the train shed.
It was not a case of abandonment. She
had forgotten to take up her own off
spring.
Only one-half of the articles left on
trains are claimed and returned to own
ers. At all the railroad offices in Chi
cago there are to be found motley col
lections of about all the articles which
man or woman ever owned. It would
be impossible to list them in a whole
page of a newspaper.
The article which figures most exten
sively among the lost and found of the
big railroads is the umbrella. An offi
cial of the Illinois Central says he re
ceived in the baggage department 1,500
umbrellas a year. General Agent Sadd
of the Burlington says his records show
about 600 a year, and the other lines
report large collections of this service
able article, which are left on trains in
all kinds of weather. On a recent fine,
sunshiny day the Burlington railload
showed on its record a whole page of
abandoned umbrellas.
Next come the overshoes, which are
, daily found, singly and in pairs and of
tentimes odd in size and kind. At all
the offices they are accumulated to the
extent of barrels and barrels. It is a
common occurrence to find upper, low
er and partial sets of false teeth. Some
give evidence of long service, others
have been too new and have been “laid
out” to give relief. But they come in
all shapes and sizes.
Wearing apparel in large quantities
is to be found in the lost parcel rooms.
The clerks in the Alton’s quarters at the
Union station fitted out a dummy figure
with every single article that a man is
likely to wear from head to foot. The
articles were all left piece by piece on
the train and gathered up by the em
ployees until the figure was togged out
ih newest fashion.
The young woman stenographer in
Baggage Agent Sadd’s office has a pet
kitten which was found in an envelope
box on a train, and, there being no
claimant, young Tom is being taught to
earn his board by mousing in the bag
gage room.
Cripples frequently leave their
crutches on trains. There is a collection
of them at all the offices. Hanging up
in the parcel room of the Illinois Cen
tral is a big anchor made of moss feath
ered from trees in the far south. The
maker had taken care of it until Chica
go was reached, only to abandon it to
tho care of the parcel man.—Chicago
Tribune.
Free In Spite of Himself.
Under the first French empire the ad
ministration of the prison of Sainte-
Pelagie was so loose that it was not rare
for accused persons to lie there six
months without knowing the cause of
their incarceration. The following ad
venture, narrated in “The Dungeons of
Old Paris,” discloses the fact that re
lease under similar conditions of igno
rance was not impossible:
The doctor had given to a prisoner
who was slightly ill an order for the
baths. Not knowing in what part of
the prison the infirmary was situated,
he presented his order to a tipsy turn
key, who opened the outer door of the
prison.
M. Gr.illon, a free man without being
aware of it, took the narrow street to be
a sentry's walk and went a few paces
without finding any one to direct him.
Returning to the sentry at the door, he
inquired where were the baths.
“The baths?” said the sentinel.
“The prison baths. ”
“The prison baths,’’said the sentinel,
“are probably in the prison, but you
can’t get in there.”
“What —I can’t get into the prison?
Am I outside it, then?”
“Why, yes, you’re in the street. You
ought to know that, I should think.”
“I did n6t know it, I assure you,”
said M. Guillon, “and this won’t suit
me at all.”
He rang the prison bell and was re
admitted, and his recital of his adven
ture restored to sobriety the turnkey
who had given him his freedom.
Sheridan and tho Joke.
Sheridan, himself a brilliant orator
as well as a shrewd observer, was one
day asked how it was he got on so well
in the house of commons. "Well,” he
said, “I soon found out that the major
ity were fools, but all loved a joke, and
I determined to give them what they
liked.” The great advantage of a joke
is that it puts the speaker at once on
good terms with his audience. Hence
Cicero recommends it for an exordium.
A common way of winning the good
will of an audience is flattery. When
the Jews brought down the orator Ter
tullus to accuse Paul, Tertullus began
his speech with flattery of King Agrip
pa, “Since by thee we enjoy,” and so
on. Another way, a subtle form of flat
tery, is to describe yourself as a native
of the same place or county as those
you are addressing. The forensic formu
la, the fustian apostrophe to the 12 “in
telligent and ■patriotic and high minded
men” whom the rhetorical Buzfuz sees
before him, is played out, but it has its
tnodern equivalents.—Westminster Re
view.
Disconcerting.
Mrs. Manycooks (severely)—Didn’t I
hear a man talking loudly with you in
the kitchen just now, Mary?
Mary (complacently)—Oi hope so,
mam, for thin Oi can call yez as a wit
ness in a case av braich av promise suit,
ma’am.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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UNTAMABLE TENDERFOOT.
The First to Open tp a Greek Tarritedft
In the Far N.irth.
To a certain extent all the 5,000 argo
nauts who have flocked to Alaska this sea
son belong to the tenderfoot family. A
rush to the arctic regions is a new thing
with tho Anglo-Saxon race. Tho Norse
men traveled south for their promised
land, and tho setting of the current in the
opposite direction cannot be gauged in the
light of history. Heretofore tho tenderfoot
i has tackled many difficulties, but never
found them piled as high or as forbidding
as in a journey to the Klondike. Yet tho
tenderfoot, with his heavy burden of sup
plies, plods on over glaciers and narrow
mountain paths, wading through rapid
torrents, clambering around bowlders,
toiling through swampy ground, shooting
rapids not too dangerous, and making a
packhorse of himself around water too
rough for a raft with any cargo. If he is
exhausted or sick, the only remedy at hand
is the rest cure and the friendly interest of
his follow adventurers. He has cut loose
from comfort and safety, but all he asks is
a chance to struggle on. About the worst
punishment for the burdened procession of
pilgrims would be to compel them to turn
back.
Tho Alaska tenderfoot, in spite of his
disposition to be too venturesome, de
serves the sympathetic attention of his
countrymen. He is the first to open up a
great territory in tho far north, and he
represents civilization in his march. He
is necessarily a builder of roads and towns,
and every squad of men who reach the dig
gings make the conditions batter for those
who follow. A year from now the routes
to the upper Yukon w(ll be comparatively
easy. The thousands who have gone there
will uso all possible ehergy to open up
lines of travel. They want regular mail
service and personal access to the outside
world. Already the large number of min
ers who are assembled near ChUkat, but
Will not be able to cross this fall, have
founded a town, and their first business
Will be road and trail improvement. The
long polar night will not repress their
American energy. ,
Many a tenderfoot will fail rtt the mines,
but Alaska will surely present other op
portunities. More than 50 years ago coal
was found there and mined by the Rus
sians. Copper and other minerals have
been located. Vegetables, hay and other
needed crops can be raised in the southern
part of the territoiy. Thorough prospect
ing for gold on tho American side of tho
line will be encouraged by the • unusual
and greedy restrictions on mining adopted
by Canada. By the end of 1898 the tender
foot of today will be an Alaskan pioneer,
and whether he be rich or poor the world
will admire his indomitable pluck. The
tenderfoot should be dealt with generous
ly, and that is where the Dominion is
making a mistake. Men could not bo
hired for wages to do what he is doing.
It is the thought of a competency for him
self and his family that inspires tho ten
derfoot and nerves him for his tremendous
task, and every manly nature will wish
him success.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Value of Unpopularity.
As the tall, angular, stoop shouldered
man went by the house thq host took his
feet down from the railing of the porch
and, indicating him by a motion of his
cigar in that direction, suggested to his
guest that he was the only man in the
whole neighborhood that he envied.
“He doesn’t look like a very jolly or
companionable man, ” suggested the guest.
“He isn’t, ” replied the host “He Is the
meanest, most disagreeable and most un
popular man in tho neighborhood. Why,
It’s a popular Impression around here that
If a boy ran across his lawn he’d
away at him with a shotgun loaded With
rock salt. And he’s always kicking,about
something. ’ ’
“I should think you’d hate him.”
‘‘ I do. Do you know he even made a
complaint to the police because the boys
used his sidewalk for a bicycle path, and
now there isn’t one of them that doesn’t
take to tho road when they como to his
property.”
“Incredible!”
“Fact. And he raised such a fuss about
the peddlers that there isn’t one of them
dares go near his house. He’s just as
mean to people who solicit subscriptions
for churches and charities too. ’’
“Really?”
“Yes, Indeed. Why, ho actually insult
ed the last committee that waited upon
him to ask him to subscribe |SO to help
build a tower on a needlework guild hall.
The women who composed it have sworn
that they will never go near him again. ”
“But I understood you to say you en
vied him.”
“That’s what I said,” admitted the
host. “It may be a big price to pay for
it, but think of the advantage he has over
the rest of us!”
“Advantage?”
“Yes—the luxury of being let alone by
his neighbors and his neighbors’ children
and of having his rights respected by
everybody. Oh, it must be glorious!”—
Chicago Post.
Obstacles to Reform.
A short time ago an order went into op
eration upon the Boston street railways re
quiring conductors to address feminine
passengers as “madame.” The always
cheerful chatterer of the Boston Herald
tells us that, In pursuance of the ofder,
the conductor is trying very hard to cure
himself of his habit of calling his feminine
passengers “lady” and “Mrs. Lady,” but
he has not as yet hit upon a uniform meth
od of addressing them and In his inde
cision bas resort to “hi, .say,” “missis”
and ‘ * ma’am, ’ ’ but he will doubtless settle
upon the right thing eventually. The
other day on a Huntington avenue car a
conductor who had evidently given much
attention to the subject won special dis
tinction for himself by the use of the word
“madame” in this regard. But there Is
no rose without a thorn. Among his
passengers was a colored girl who carried
a largo bundle, doubtless the week’s wash
of some patron. She asked him to stop
at a certain street, and when the car ar
rived there he said to the gentle Afro
i American, “ This is your street, madame. ’ ’
She at once gave him an angry look and
said with marked asperity: “Who’s yer
calljn madame? Watcher mean by insult
in me? I’d have you to know I’m a lady,
I am,” with which she hustled indig
nantly to the street. The conductor looked
perplexed, and as he rung the bell with a
i vicious jerk he sententiously observed,
i “She ain’t no lady anyhow, even if sha
ain’t a madame.” It is hard toplease
everybody.
The Little Critic.
“Why, papa,” said Frances, who was
looking at the family album, “surely this
Isn’t a picture of you?”
“Yes, ” replied papa, “that is a picture
of me, taken when 1 was quite young.”
“Well,” commented the little girl, “it
doesn’t look as much like you as you look
now.”—Harper’s Bazar.
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A DEAD CARNATION.
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teomud Contemplates th. Contents of a
Desk Drawer.
The desk drawer, opened, exhaled an
odor of faded flowers.
“Let us plunge into the atmosphere
of sweet memories, ” said Leonard.
Wife absent, Leonard, addressing
Bayard, his most intimate friend, indi
cated withered blossoms. Faded aud
grown musty in the lapse of years, they
reposed at the bottom of the desk
drawer.
“This lily,” said Leonard, sighing,
“was the flower given me by Blanche,
my first love, when I took from her
lipa a timid kiss. She was as white as
its impeccable petals, fragrant as its
pure corolla, graceful ns its drooping
stem, and who knows wiiat might have
happened had sho not died in the bloom
of youth?”
“And the rose?” asked Bayard.
“Ah, that was later!” said Leonard,
with a burst of laughter. “Rosette gave
me that when she first brushed my lips
with her own. The petals were once
rosy as her warm being, and the flower’s
beauty was radiant aud amorous as her
young womanhood. If she had not been
fickle, she might now be my wife. ”
“And the orchid?” queried Bayard.
“Hippolyta presented mo with that, ”
■aid Leonard, thoughtfully, “when she
saw me trembling in adoration at her
feet Time was when it had the mystic
charm of her own perverse personality,
and if a Russian nobleman had not
eloped with her I should still be her de
voted slave. ”
Bayard discovered a bunch of faded
violets.
“And these?” he interrogated.
“Thsy were the flowers,” murmured
Leonard sadly, “which Etienette sent
me when I had treated her brutally, be
lieving that she bad deceived me. She
was demure and tender as the blooms,
and, after the storm of my passions, she
came like a peaceful sprite to pour
beauty and love into my life. Had she
forgiven me, it might have been”—
At this point Leonard interrupted
himself, seizing angrily a dead carna
tion.
“Why is this flower here?” he cried.
“It has no place among the precious
memories. Away with it at once!”
In a moment the unresisting carna
tion was reduced to dust under his piti
less foot.
“Why do you destroy it?” questioned
Bayard.
“Because it is the carnation Emilia
gave me when she said she would be
my wife, ” said Leonard, cynically,
“and I married her.”—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Bard to Beat a Boy.
A cigar dealer in the west end said
to a reporter for the Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune: “It takes a mighty
sharp man to get ahead of a boy, for a
fact One of them came in here not
long ago, and he was old enough to buy
cigarettes and wanted a package. I sold
them and got the money. In a minute
a neighbor came in and wanted to know
what the boy bought. I told him.
“‘Well,’ said he, ‘that beats the
devil! Do you know what that boy did?
He was in my store about five minutes
ago and asked me to buy a pamphlet
that is issued by tho Anticigarette
league, whatever that is. He told me
that the boys in the public schools were
trying to sell them everywhere to do
away with the bad habit of cigarette
smoking among the schoolboys. I
thought it was a good thing, and I
bought one from him. He sold some
others in the same neighborhood. Now
that little rascal comes in here and
spends my money for cigarettes, and
I'll bet a dollar that you’ll find him
around here somewhere near smoking
for all that’s out I’m going to look
him up. *
“The next day I asked him if he had
caught the kid, and he said:
“‘I did. He and some chums were
having a good time of it, and, more
than that, all of them were in the same
business. They thought it was a good
joke, and I suppose it was—on me—but
if they come around my store again
they’ll get booted out.’
“But,” said the cigar dealer, “they
are too sharp to get caught They only
work one man at a time, and none of
the gang ever goes back again. They keep
a list, and I expect an examination will
show that they have been to every store
in that whole neighborhood. Where
they get the pamphlets I do not know,
but I imagine some of the good people
of the league had them printed for gra
tuitous circulation, and the boys con
cluded to sell them. They’re pretty
■lick. ”
Felt Acquainted.
A Boston lady of the most reserved
and exclusive type waa waiting for her
change at the glove counter in one of
the large stores when she was ap
proached by a very large, gaudily dressed
and loud looking woman, who held qut
a pudgy hand in a bright green kid
glove and said:
“Why, how do you do, Mrs. Blank?”
Mrs. Blank ignored the proffered
hand and, drawing herself up stiffly,
said frigidly:
“I do not think that I know you,
madam. ”
“No, I s’pose not,” replied the wom
an, in nowise embarrassed iy the cold
ness of her reception, “but I've knowed
you by sight for a long time, and now
I’ve got a hired girl who worked at your
house once a year two ago, and she’s
told me so much about yob that I feel
real well acquainted with you. Pleas
ant day, ain’t it? Well, if she ain’t po
lite to sail off without to much as a
word! Shows her raisin, anyhow!”—
Harper’s Bazar.
Modern Methode.
Diggs—l just finished reading an ac
count of how they burned hectics at
the stake in ancient times. Such bar
barism would not be tolerated in thia
enlightened age. •
Biggs—No, indeed! The modern
heretic is let off with a roast in the re
ligions journals.—-Chicago News.
AN OPEN LETTER
< To MOTHERS.
WE AIRE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WQRD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our TRADE Mark.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was ths originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” 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
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President. a
Hatch 8,1897.
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