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CHILD’S USE OF MONEY.
„ AM’«n Received From a large
' t imber of Public School Pupil..
nr George E. Dawson of the Bible
college ba4 classified answers
-Lived from 1,807 pupils of the public
1 IZhools of this city. given ta response to
’ the question, “If you had 85, all your
Ln what would you do with it?”
Os those who passed in answers 669
•ere boy® «“d 638 were girls, their ages
Engine from sto 16. The answers are
Grouped under nine general heads: 44
net cent would deposit the money in a
l bank) 13.8 per cent would buy cloth
ing per cent would buy something
w 15.8 per cent would buy toys
and other means of amusement, 2.1 per
cant would buy jewelry and finery,
nine-tenths of 1 percent would buy fire
arms, 1-7 per cent would spend for
travel, 14 per cent would spend for oth
ers and 6 per cent would buy books, etc.
It is interesting to note the large per
cent who express a disposition to save.
Dr. Dawson attributes this largely to
the suggestability of the children. The
results in this respect resemble those
obtained in other fields of experiment
While the children do not realize the
full significance of saving, the idea has
been engrafted upon their minds and is
bound to have its influence. The fact
that this idea of saving has been thutf
forcibly impressed on the minds of so
many is very significant and gives us a
hint of the immense influence of public
instruction.
In noting the per cent of those who
t would buy clothing it should be remem
bered that many of the children were
in urgent need of something better td
wear. Those who voted for something
to eat were mostly under 7 years of age.
In the clasp who would prefer amuse
ments the girls usually expressed a
wish for dolls and doll carriages While
the boys mostly desired pigeons, rabbits
or other pets. In regard to travel, the
figures show that as children grow old
er the desire to go out into the world
increases rapidly, reaching its height at
about the beginning of adolescence. The
desire shown by the boys for firearms is
an expression of the hunting instinct
that awakens when they are 10 or 12.
At that age boys like to get hold of
books of hunting and. adventure. The
tendency to buy books increases steadily
as the children grow older. This clast
numbers about twice as many girls as
boys. The class which manifests a feeling
of altruism also numbers more girls
than boys, showing that the greater
generosity of women is strikingly man
ifest even at an early age.—Springfield
Republican.
An Important Coachman.
A large part of the charm of the alto
gether charming city of Washington is
found among the blacks. The drivers,
for example, of the various dilapidated
vehicles, which are by courtesy called
carriages, are thoroughly amusing. One
> who drove a large, lank animal built
on the lines of a wooden horse and with
little more spirit in him sat on the
box of a four wheeler that would have
disgraced the stables of a country inn.
The flourish and elegance of that coach
man, however, were as fine as if he
wore the liveries of the president and
held the ribbons over the most prancing
steeds. He kept his eyes inflexibly fixed
upon the ears of his horse and drew up
at a destination with the air of reining
in a mettlesome charger. When his car
riage was emptied, he passed on with a
flourish and sweep, headed around and
at once put his entire outfit at sharp at
tention. The ceremony of approaching
the curb, on seeing his fare reappear,
was equally imposing. His green driv
er’s coat was ragged and shabby, hit
hat was slightly battered and knew nc
shine, his whip was as destitute of
springs as were the seats of his brough
am, and the rough coat of his steed
was all that saved the animal from
gaunt emaciation, yet over the whole
Establishment that inimitable darky
contrived to throw an air of elegance
that was as serious as laughable.—New
York Post.
Some Hair Cats. ——
“There are lots of men,” says a Phil
adelphia barber, “who are very particu
lar about hair cuts, but wouldn’t have a
word to say if they didn’t have to pass
inspection before their wives when they
go home. I know one woman who goes
so far as to accompany her husband to
the barber shop. There’s a regular Cus
tomer of mine who is always attended
by his wife when he gets his hair out,
and she stands right back of me while
I work. Every few minutes I stop, and
she looks over his head and makes sug
gestions about a ‘little more off here, ’
‘don’t shave his neck’ and a lot of such
- comments. The waiting customers en
joy it pretty well, but I’ll bet you he
will want a divorce in a year, if he
hasn’t asked for it already.’*—Ex
change.
« Abyssinia’s Emperor.
The emperor of Abyssinia is about fl
feet in stature without shoes and is
stoutly built. His skin is very dark,
and be wears a short, curly beard and
mustache. His face is heavy in oast,
but is redeemed from positive plainness
by an extremely pleasant expression and
a pair of most intelligent eyes. His
smile takes in a wider section of the
circumference of his head than is com
mon and displays a particularly fine set
of teeth. He generally wears a large
black Quaker hat over a white silk
handkerchief tied around his head, and
a black silk, gold embroidered cloak
over a profusion of white linen under
clothing.
Two Phases.
“I detest that Mrs. Jones; she always
tells what all her -clothes cost ”
“Well, I detest Mrs. Brown; she
never will tell what she plays for any
thing. ’’—Detroit Free Press.
Aa Interestinc Meeting.
“What did you discuss at the club
today?”
B Nothing. We just talked. Har-
I Per’s Bazar.
TRACING A LOST STUD.
I Luck of a Jowslsr Who Dropped a
Carat Diamond In the Street. '
» Some odd stories of the recovery of
) lost diamonds are told by an old Union
j square jeweler. One of them is hie own
> experience.
f “One day last June,” he says, “1
happened to recollect that I was going
* to a reception. Before leaving the store
i I wrapped ray two karat diamond stud
i in a piece of tissue paper and slipped it
I into my vest pocket. After dinner,
i while dressing in my room, I went to
my pocket to get the stud. It was not
there. I put my hand in my fob pocket,
i thinking it was surely there; than in
the other vest pocket, then in the to side
pocket, and then in my four trousers
pockets, but it was in none of them.
“ ‘I left that on my desk,’ I thought.
‘I will find it there in the morning. I
will put on a plain gold stud tonight.’
“The next morning the stud was not
to be found at the store. I thought of
i every step I had taken on the way home,
i and then called our porter.
i “ 'George, ’ said I, ‘ just before I went
home last night I slipped a diamond
i stud, wrapped in tissue paper, into my
i pocket, and, starting put of the store,
i went across through Union
square at Fifteenth street, going to the
f left of the fountain, and then up the
center path to Seventeenth street and
Fourth avenue; I went down the right
hand side of Seventeenth street to Sec
ond avenue and then home. On my walk
home I have a distinct recollection of
putting my. hand into my pocket for my
penknife or something else. I must have
pulled out the stud and drppped it. Now
I want you to follow that path and look
carefully every step of the way, and I
don’t want you to come back until you
have found the stud.’ , : .
“He started out and in less than half
an hour returned with the stud. He
had found it, still wrapped in the pa
per, in the gutter, a few steps this side
of Second avenue, and he went home
happy that night with a S2O goldpiece
in his pocket.”—New York Sun.
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ANCIENT TIMEPIECES.
Various Methods of Measuring Time Prior
to the Invention of Clocks.
We need do no more than allude to
the habit .after the reformation, and
especially ’in Scotland, of preachers
measuring their discourses by the hour
glass in the pulpit. These marked an
hour exactly. Those first made in
Charlemagne’s day ran for 12 hours.
Alfred the Great hit upon a method of
measuring time, which shows that there
was no Saxon one, though very proba
bly some of the monasteries (then the
only -homes .of knowledge) were ac
quainted with water clocks and hour
glasses, if not by practical knowledge
at any rate by hearsay.
However, the kingdom in general fol
lowed Alfred’s plait, which, though in
genious, necessarily lacked anything
like the accuracy of the other inven
tions. Yet the king’s idea wassailed as
a wonderful effort of genius, which, for
such an. era by comparison with the
general ignorance, it was. As every
schoolboy (in this case literally) knows,
Alfred marked time by rushlights. A
long existence, by the way, has the rush
light enjoyed, seeing that middle aged
people still remember its use in the nbrs
ery at night and the reflection of the
circular holes in the tall metal shades
on the ceiling.
Alfred, says an ancient authority,
“that he might properly know how
the hours passed, made use of burning
tapers which were marked with lines
and fixed in lanthorns, an expedient in
vented by himself.” So, by the way,
were in 892 the lanterns of scraped
horn which still some old fashioned
rustics prefer to glass. But tapers,
however, were then very expensive.
The king might himself use these, but
probably the rushlight was used by peo
ple in general.—London Standard.
Uncoin’s Gift to a Fire Brigade.
The Sons and Daughters of Illinois
held a meeting in Boston at which Vice
President Henry Haynie told this story
of Lincoln:
“The fire hose company of Spring
field was very proud of its well equip
ped fire apparatus, and, desiring to pro
cure some extra supplies, subscription
papers were sent .around. The small
boys, myself among the number, were
given a share in the work. I went up to
some dusty rooms over a grocery and
entered the law office of Lincoln. He
asked me numberless questions, and I
had to tell him all I knew of this fire
brigade and its members. Then he said:
‘Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll go
home to supper—Mrs. Lincoln is gener
ally good natured after supper—and
then I’ll tell her I’ve been thinking of
giving SSO to the brigade, and she’ll
say, “Abe. will you never have any
sense? Twenty dollars is quite enough.”
8o tomorrow, wy boy, you come around
and get your s2o.’ ” —Chicago Times-
Herald.
Cate In Berlin.
I When an American enters a cab in
Berlin for the first time, he is said to
i be absorbed for half an hour in studying
I the impressive notice hung up there*
i in for the benefit of passengers. It reads,
literally translated, thus: “JSo passage
money has the passage guest to pay, if
to him not on the mounting of the cab
' the. valid passage tickets, on height of
■ the for a simple passage to be paid pas-
I sage money, by the coachman down
i reached become are.”—Chicago Intex
Ocean.
Not His Fault.
’Fweddy, why don’t you let youx
> mustache grow?” ‘ z
“Why don’t I let it? Good heavens,
! deah boy, I do, but it won’t.”—Chica-
• go Record.
The natives of Siberia prepare a sin
gularly intoxicating beverage from a
I common mushroom.
* Good cooking was introduced into
England by the Normans.
COACHMEN’S SECRET CODE.
' How Drinn <rf Chlc» E o Big. Comanl
oate With One Another.
I Signaling has become a fine art in war
i So it has among the private coachmen of
i the wealthy residents of Chicago. Otto of
the first things a coachman must learn la
[ to look dignified. If his employer should I
, find or bear him speaking to a fellow
' coachman while on the boulevard, there
' Would be a sign hung on the stable door,
“Coachman Wanted.” Even though he
I wears skin tight trousers, a coat shining
with all the luster of a score of brass but
i tons and a plug hat with a peacock feather
■ on the side, holis still human. Theooach
man has friends, and he wants to exchange
greetings with them.
The club of coachmen of this city is , well
known for He society affairs given once a
year In the shape of a grand ball. While
they are waiting the arrival of the bull
they hold meetings and discuss coach var
nish, toe dips and silver harness. At one
of the gatherings or meetings the coach
man turned to discussing the Morse sys
tem of telegraphing.
“I say, you fallows,” exclaimed one of
the party as he jumped to his feet, “I have
an Idea. It is a capital one, don’t you
know?’*
“Now, what is getting through youse,
James,” said a coachman with a red face
and the character of County Cork on his
face.
“Why, It’s this, Patrick, my boy,” re
plied the first driver. “Yop, know that
Harold will not allow us to speak to each
other on the street. Near will Potter or
Phil, and. ln faefc none of the boys Now,
my scheme is this: Why can we not turn
this Morse man’s system of wire talking
into the coaehman’s ‘system of whip talk
ing?’ ’’
The suggestion at first was in aeompll
cated form, but James managed to make
his scheme clear, and today “coachmen
talk” with their long whips can be seen
dally on any of the streets of Chicago. To
the person unacquainted with the code the
flashing of whips, describing odd circles
and a liberal arm play, would seem noth
ing more than mei*e fancy movements on
the part <?f the dignified driver, but to
the hundred or wore drivers who under
stand What a fellow eoachman means
when he gives three rapid whirls of his
whip, with two short cracks at the end,
it is all very simple. The three whirls of
the whip from right to left, with the short
cracks of the whip, mean this to the man
who understands it:
“I’m up against it. Out with the young
one returning 50 or more calls. Sympathy
wanted."
If there is time for an answer, the coach
man who has been addressed may return
his answer with two long up and down
movements of his arm with the whip, and
then four crosscuts of the lash. This
means, “We are shopping, late luncheon
and last act as matinee. ”
Driving down Michigan avenue three
carriages may be close together. Some
times the drivers manage to keep the car
riages side by side. This is when the oc
cupants keep a close watch bn their coach
men, and if they but dare nod their heads
their positions are in danger.
Oneof the coachmen employed by • well
known resident of the Lake Shore drive
told a reporter for The Chronicle that the
secret cofie was known to but a hundred
drivers. The grooms of the stables do not
know the private signals, and those that
do know thorn . azo..basted to keep them
secret. One of the interesting whip signals
is made in the following monper: The
driver grasps blsyvhlp a few inches from
the butt, sweeps It back and forth in a
graceful manner seven times, drops the
long lash in a drooping manner and then
pushes the whip up and down a score of
times In a violent fashion. This means:
“The old man out last night Plenty
on board. /Wife cried, then hot Fired
Molly, head girl, because Ice water did not
reach himln time. Regular h-—to pay.”
The art is used more at receptions.
While the occupants of the carriages are
in the house the coachmen line up along
the street and carry on their small talk.
“At the best,” said.one of the coach
men, “we are a lot held down by strict
Orders. We are not allowed to bow or
speak on the street If we do, we lose our
positions or receive a warning that the
next time it happens it will be all off. We
got up this code partly for our own amuse
ment, and tfien we can really talk. We
have about 200 signals, and we have had
them printed. Each member of the Coach
men’s Signaling association has a copy of
the rules. It is dead easy to fool the old
man now. ” —Chicago Chronicla
Drinking Water.
Dr. Austin Flint, Sr., used to say,
“Plenty of water, plenty of water outside
and in for health. ” ■
Since his day doctors generally have
more and more strongly recommended
water drinking, till now a certain and
large number of glasses of water per day
is. one of the most familiar prescriptions
from some of the brat doctors at the best
qsnltariums In the land. High authorities
now tell us that often the basis of success
in the hot waters Is neither the heat nor
the minerals, but the water. The water is
what the system of the patient was need
ing.
We are taught now that there is no dan
ger of drinking too much water and a
good deal of not drinking enough. Os
course that is not disputing the fact that
. it is very easy to drink too much lee water
; when we are warm and too much of any
kind with our meals.
A practitioner and instructor at. Belle
vue recommends every one to drink a pint
of water on getting up in the morning
1 and a pint on going to bed at any temper
ature he likes. This is a hygienic sug
gestion, not a medicinal one. This very
successful practitioner thinks it is the best
way of giving the system needed liquid
I and declares many irregularities disappear
i under this regime. The water, mind, is
> not, however, to be gulped down at one or
. two drafts. A half hour or more while
dressing or undressing should be given to
, pipping the two glasses.
This same physician recommends a
1 good drink of water when we feel tired or
i faint—in that state that generally makes
[ us turn to tea or coffee or wine. The water
■ has an almost equally reviving effect and
i much better results in the long run.—St.
, Paul Pioneer Press. ,
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A Memorial Bell Tower.
A remarkable college memorial Is the
' bell tower to contain a chime of 11 bells
which is being built on the grounds of the
, lowa Agricultural college rt Ames. It is
■ in memory of Margaret McDonald Stan
ton, wife of the professor of political econ
omy in the college. The tower is being
hnilt by tha in appreciation of Mrs.
Stanton’s services as an educator and as a
founder of the college, The bells ara to
be the gift of Professor Stanton. Woman’s
title to official appreciation seems to be
I frankly recognised in lowa—Harper’s
Weekly.
| ’ V "' I' II ■- ■ - - ■ T---111 J..XIL
I
HE NEVER LOVED A LORD.
i 1
I Bai B» nr. Gtrte Married Titlee. AB
I , the Same.
It was evident that ho was not only
I pretty well satisfied with himself, but
I that he didn’ t care who knew n.
I “Five daughters,” he said, “and ev
ery one of them married to a title
That’s a pretty good record for a man
Who wouldn’t be considered rich enough
to buy more than one high grade title. ”
"I don’t see bow you did it," sug
gested the man who knew nothing ex
cept that the husband with a title was
ordinarily quoted at a pretty stiff figure.
“Oh, it’s easy when you know how, ”
replied the self satisfied man. “So far
as I am concerned I would have prefer
red to marry the girls to enterprising
young Americans with no titles, but
their mother insisted upon getting them
something more fashionable, and when
their mother insists 4 have to hump
myself and are that things come the
way she wants them. I confess it was
something of a problem at first, but
when I got it figured out in my mind
and began playing the cards it was so
easy that I was inclined to be ashamed
of myself for not trying something
harder.”
The self satisfied man stopped long
enough for the listener to suggest that
he would be glad to hear the story, and
then, in view of the fact that they were
all married and publicity could do no
harm, he told it
. “I took all my available assets,” he
explained, “and made them a dowry
for my eldest daughter. Naturally there
was a rush for her, and she was able to
take her pick of five. I rushed matters
as much as possible, got her married,
gave up the dowry I had promised, and
then steered her titled husband against
the Stock Exchange, where I gave him
some bad tips, took his trades myself
through a broker and won back all the
dowry and part of his ancestral estates.
Then I gave the dowry to my second
daughter, got her married and played
the same game with her husband. 1
worked the scheme right through the
family, until I finally married my
• youngest to a baronet yesterday. I got
them to postpone their wedding trip fox
a few days, so as to give me a chance to
Win back the dowry before they had
spent any of it, and by day after tomor
row I expect to be on Easy street again,
without a care in the world. If girls
must have titles, why, I am in favor of
giving them to them, but I don’t believe
in contributing large fortunes to the
support of the tottering monarchies of
the old world, and, what’s more, 1
don’t intend to do it ’’—Chicago Post
ARMORED PLANTS.
Thoma and Spies That Protect Plants
From Their Knemies.
“Plants and Their Enemies” is the
title of an article by Thomas H. Kear
ney, Jr., in St. Nicholas. Mr. Kearney
says:
There are a thousand things that
threaten the well being and even the
life of every tree and shrub and lowly
herb. Too much heat or too little works
great harm to planta Then there are
all manner of wasting diseases caused
by other tiny plants called fungi and
bacteria. Many large animals, as horses
and cows and sheep, live by grazing the
herbage and grass or browsing the foli
age tff trees and shruba Os course they
greatly injure the plants they feed upon
and therefore many plants are in one
way or another protected against such
attacks.
Did you ever stop to think why this
tles are so well armed with sharp prick
les or why the ugly roadside nettles are
furnished with stinging hairs? Notice
cattle grazing in a field where thistles
or nettles grow. See how careful they
are to let these disagreeable plants
alone. That is the reason for the stings
and the spines. See this honey locust
tree bristling with its horrid array of
three pointed thorns. What animal is
brave enough to try to rob it of its
leaves or great pods? Hawthorns,
and rosebushes and blackberry briers
all have their sharp little swords and
daggers to defend themselves against
browsing l animals.
Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari
zona and New Mexico those odd plants,
the cactuses, grow in great numbers.
Some of them take strange shapes—tall,
fluted columns, brandling candelabra ox
mere round balls, like the melon cactus.
They are almost the only plants that grow
in some parts of that country, and there is
always plenty of sap inside their tough
skins. To the hungry and thirsty crea
tures that roam those dreary wastes in
search of food and water they are very
tempting. Were they not in some way
protected these cactuses would soon be
entirely destroyed, but nature has made
them to be like strong forts or great
armored battleships among plants. They
are guarded by all sorts of sharp spines
and prickles and fine hairs that bum
when they get into the flesh.
Nacatioa.
This was overheard on the Bangot
boat: i
First Woman—-If I married a man
! what drinked and I knowed he drinked
, when I married him 1 wouldn’t never
say nothing about it
Second Woman—l wouldn’t neither.
He’s got so bad now that she don’t
1 never expect nothing different—Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
There are mere ants to the square
mile in Florida than in any other coun
try in the world. There are ants that
t measure more than half an inch in
length, and then there are ants so small
, that they can scarcely be seen to move
i With the unaided eye.
Raw eggs, milk and plenty of fruit
are recommended for brain workers.
The fruit corrects the bilious tendency
i of the milk and eggs.
i ’
In some portions of Abyssinia the
men mark the ears of their women as
if they were so many hogs.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
908 the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does nou m every
bear the facsimile signature of \wrapper.
This is the original * PITCHERS CASTORIA,’’ wh&hhas been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for oner thirty
years, LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see Iritis
the kind you have always bought
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, ,
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 docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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