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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 3 - i . ... 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. . : 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. sm »*- w ... .I— A DEAD CARNATION. < 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 the hind you have always bought .-0 s/JTJ- 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. a Hatch 8,1897. Do Not Be Deceived. 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