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•*®<'-' W'' 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. ■ I—— ■ ■■ I ■» 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. , , i . ;—— 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. thc ecafrftun omimmt. tv mvrmv avaMT. acw am —GET YOUB — Jdfo PRINTING DONE JLT The Morning Call Office. 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