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The man who always wants some
thing for nothing made a discovery last
week in a Diamond street restaurant A
waiter upset a glass on the marble top
ped lunch counter, breaking the edge of
the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed
it under the counter and got another
with a smooth edge for the customer he
you do with glasses thus
slightly damaged?” asked the customer
of the restaurant proprietor, relating
the circumstance.
“Oh, we give them away; have to
get rid of them; can’t endanger the lips
of customers by serving them in nicked
glasses. But why are you interested?”
“Why, I thought if you would give
me a. few of the old glasses my wife
might use them for jellies. ”
"Give me your address and I’ll send
you some,” volunteered the restaurant
k oopcr.
The man With a longing for articles
without price went away gleefully, cal
culating mentally on how much he had
saved on jelly glasses. Two days later,
when he went home from business, he
found 18 barrels in his back yard. His
wife said she supposed he had sent them,
and she paid the man 94.75 for deliver
ing them. ‘When opened, the barrels
were found to contain broken glassware
and china of all sorts. None.of it could
be used, pot even for jelly glasses. Au
ash hauler charged $3 for taking away
the rubbish. The man who wants things
for nothing has Withdrawn his patron
age from a particular restaurant in Dia
mond street—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph. ■ . y ' /
Questioning Is Not Conversation.
The man who imagines that the art
of conversation consists in asking ques
tions spoils conversation as much as the
man who never asks any. of this
description will interrupt a speaker as
frequently as they do in the French
chamber, and run anxiously from sub
ject to subject with their interrogatories,
like a cackling hen that is going to lay
an egg. Horace Walpole, when exiled
at Houghton, bemoans the existence of
such a pest in the person of an aunt
Writing to his friend Sir Horace Mann,
he says: "I have an aunt here, a family
piece of goods, an old remnant of in
quisitive hospitality and economy. She
wore me so down by day and night
with interrogations that X dreamed all.
night she was at my ear with a who’s,
why’s, when’s and what’s, till at last
in my very sleep I cried out ‘For
heaven’s sake, madam, ask me no more
questions’ ’’ .
Dr. Johnson’s dislike of being ques
tioned is well known, and he gives the
classic refutation of the habit in his
own inimitable style: “Sir, questioning
is not the mode of conversation among
gentlemen. It is assuming a superiority,
and it is partidhlarly wrong to question
a man concerning himself.”—Cham
bers’ Journal
Hope Came to Him. ”
A number of persons were talking
about coitibidences, when a clergyman
gave an instance in his own experience.
"When I was a very young man, before
I entered the ministry,” said he, "I met
with a series of misfortunes and was
nearly discouraged. One day I was seat
ed on a bench in the park of a foreign
city. My head was sunk upon my hands
and black despair covered me like a
cloud. I had about concluded to strug
gle no longer when a slight noise at
tracted my attention, and I glanced up
to see standing before me and contem
plating me with big, solemn eyes the
most beautiful little girl I have ever be
held. ‘What is your name, my pretty
child?* was my natural inquiry. ‘ Hope, *
she answered in a clear, sweet voice.
Then she turned and ran away, and the
little earthly form whose lips had
brought me a message of comfort disap
peared forever, but the white spirit of
her name she had left in my heart, and
from that day I prospered. My eldest
daughter is called Hope. ” —Exchange.
* Corkers.
At a London club there is the most
unique pair of- curtains in existence.
This portiere is formed of hundreds of
champagne corks, taken from every
known brand of champagne, each of
which bears the tin toss which adorned
it when the cork was in its parent bot
tle. The corks are made into strings,
there being 60 of them to each string.
Between evyy cork there are three big
Chinese beads of turquoise blue. Alto
gether there are 24 strings, and at from
12s. to Mb. a cork, the portiere repre
sents a total expenditure of about
£I,OOO. The corks are tied to a white
enameled pole, With fancy ends, and big
sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass
knobs. The total effect is distinctly
pretty. What makes this unique por
tiere doubly valuable is the fact that
each cork bears the autograph of a fa
mous actor or actress of the present day.
—London Standard.
Nothing Plebeian About It. 1
She was an honored member of one
of the hereditary societies and was as
tonished to learn that she was accused
of wire pulling in connection with an
election of officers.
“Wire pulling!” she exclaimed.
“Stick an insult! Why, it is common,
positively common. People do that in
politics. ”
* “Very true,” returned her husband
consolingly, “but in politics it is prob
ably just common, ordinary wire, while
I have no doubt in your case the refer
ence was to the very highest grade of
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Naturally that made it seem differ-
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How Tbey Do In Dawson.
"Up at Dawson City,” said a return
ed Klondiker, “the people seem strange
ly <600,000 in gold nuggets. ”
“What did the boarders do during
all this excitement?” asked the clerk.
“Kept perfectly cool,” was the quiet
reply.—Denver Timea
PRIMITIVE ANCHORS.
STONES AND WOODEN TUBES FILLED
WITH LEAD FIRST USED.
Tke Earliest Anchors Made on ths Hook
Principle Had Only ffne Finke—Crude
Devices That Are Still Used In Different
Parte of the World.
There appear to be two ideas which
have led up to the invention of the
modern anchor: (1) the idea of attach
ing the vessel by means of a rope or
chain to a weight sufficiently heavy to
keep the vessel from moving when the
weight has sunk to the bottom of the
sea, and (2) the idea of using a hook
instead of (or,in addition to) the weight,
so as to catch in the bottom. The Eng
lish word anchor is practically the same
as the Latin ancora and the Greek ang
kura, meaning “that which has an an
gle,” from the root ank, bent.
The earliest anchors made on the
hook principle probably only had one
fluke instead of two. In the “Sussex
Arohsei 1. Coll, ’’there is an illustration
of what has been surmised to be an
anchor made out of the natural forked
branch of a tree. It was found with an
ancient British canoe at Burpham, Sus
sex. There is in the British museum an
interesting leaden anchor with two
flukes bearing a Greek inscription. Its
date is about 50 B. C. and it was found
off the coast of Gyrene.
Thqjnvention of the anchor with two
flukes is attributed by Pausanius to
Midas, by Pliny to Eupalamas, and by
Strabo to Anacharsis. Diodorus Siculus
states that the first anchors were wood
en tubes filled with lead, while another
classical writer says that before the in
troduction es metal anchors lumps of
stone with a hole through the middle
for the attachment of the cable were
used. / ' ;
The form of the anchor, used by-the
Greeks and Bomans is well known from
representations on Trajan’s column and
in the catacombs at Rome as an early
Christian symbol. This form does not
seem to have changed materially for
quite a thousand years, as is shown by
the Bayeux tapestry.
Some very primitive kinds of anchors
are in use at the present day in different
parts of the world, and a study of their
construction may Throw some light on
the evolution of the modern anchor.
An anchor which camo from Japan
consists of a natural forked branch of a
tree, slightly im-roved artificially, so
as to make a hook. Two round bars are
fixed at right angles to the shank, and
to these two ordinary beach pebbles are
tied. The length of the anchor is 2 feet
8 foehes, tiie width across the hpok 8
inches, and across the transverse bars 1
foot 5 inches. The stones are
6 inches in diameter and 3 inches thick.
Another'anchor was in use quite re
cently in the Arran islands, off the west
coast of Galway. It is constructed of a
sloping bar at each side and three cross
bars, forming a figure not unlike the
isosceles triangle in Euclid’s pons asi
norum. The lowest of the three cross
bars is of square section and is fixed by
iron spikes at each side to the sloping
pieces so as to prevent them spreading
outward. The stone, which acts as a
weight, is clipped by means of the two
side pieces, being held tightly by two
spliced rings of rope passing under the
upper crossbars.
These crossbars are of round section
and project at each side, thus keeping
the rope rings from slipping upward.
The cable is fixed to the middle of the
lowest transverse bar and is carried up
on one side of the stone, then between
the two sloping boards, and finally
through a loop fixed to a hole at the top
of the anchor. The boards at each side
are 1 foot 10% inches long and the
stone 1 foot 5 inches long.
It may seem strange that such primi
tive looking contrivances should con
tinue to be need by fishermen who have
a full knowledge of every modem ap
pliance connected with navigation and
vessels, yet there are good reasons why
they should have survived. Where the
sea or river bed is rocky anchors are
easily lost. This is a serious matter
when the anchor is of iron and of some
value, but if it is constructed like those
described there is not much difficulty
or expense in replacing it. A beach
stone and a few bits of wood are always
at hand, and the skilled workmanship
required to fashion them into a very
serviceable anchor is but small.
Thus-it is that under certain condi
tions primitive appliances must always
hold their own against modem inven
tions. When, as often happens, a newly
introduced contrivance gets out of or
der, it generally involves much greater
loss of time and more expense to re
place it than if it were of simpler con
struction and capable of being made by
an ordinary workman out of materials
easily procurable on the spot.
Highly civilised man has much to
learn from his prehistoric ancestors and
frbm uncultured races still existing as
to how he should act in an emergency
when deprived of his usual appliances.
—Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeolo
gist. \
Trial. of Translation.
English critics say that recently fate
gave evidence of more than usual intel
ligence in the office of a Parisian jour
nal The Parisian editor saw a London
critic’s appreciation of Anna Thibaud,
whose songs are as pointed and flowery
as her “rototyri” slippers. The Lon
doner wrote that “mademoiselle’s feet
were incased in fairy boots.” The Pari
sian set himself diligently to work with
his dictionary, and soon had it correct
ly translated, we-presume, but when it
appeared,in print, instead of reading
tha mademoiselle’s feet were incased
in ‘ xittes de fee,” it said they were
incased in “jfots a fleurs” (flower pots).
——
“Never be critical upon the ladies, ”
was the maxim of an old Irish peer, re
markable for his homage to the sex.
“The only way that a true gentleman
ever will attempt to look at the faults
of a pretty woman is to shut his eyes. ”
“SCHLEY” IS “SLY,”
Hi* Family. Old Marylander*. Have Loa*
<T*ed That Prnaunoiatlou. J
There has been a good deal of specu
lation, not only in naval circles, but
among the public at large, as to the
origin of Conjmodoro Winfield Scott
Schley’s name. By some it has been as
serted that is of German descent, and
by others trat he is a*relative <rf the
doughty old hero of tbe-Mexiqpn war.
A little while before Schley became a
commodore ho gave a Tribune reporter a
talk which will trfow light on the mat
ter.
“At the time I was a puling, mewl
ing baby, without a name or much more
hair on my head than I have now, ”
said the gallant officer, playfully brush
ing back the locks which so skillfully
conceal his bald pate, “my parents were,
I suppose, at -their wits’ end to cudgel
up some name appropriate for the mar
vel of human excellence they undoubt;
edly thought me to be. The matter did
not bother me so much as it does new,
for I wisely refrained from giving an
opinion on the subject, or at least any
that the newspapers would care to pub
lish. <At that time, which marks an era
in one life, anyway, General Scott was
in the zenith of his glory and rotundity.
A very great man was Scott at that
time—physically and popularly. He
was a great friencLaof my parents aqfl
frequently called at our house. As I
said, my parents were cudgeling their
brains to find some naipe good enough
to tack on such a-morselof humanity as
myself, and while in the midst of
their councils .one day,- the huge shadow
of Scott darkened the doorway and cast
its jobust shade on me. That settled, it.
The circumstance was regarded ag an
auspicious omen, and forthwith it was
decided that I was to pass thrbugh life
as Winfield Scott Schley.
“Now, for pity’s sake, don’t give my
last name with a German accent. It’s
pronounced *Sly—plain, commonplace,
everyday Sly. That’s the way it has
been pronounced in my family as long
as I can remember or ever heard of. I’m
not much on pedigree searching—too
many of my acquaintances have
bled across horse thieves and pirates to
make me desirous for thaf kind of rec
reation—but Schfey is an old Maryland
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family, though why they have stuck on
all those sloppy Dutch consonants I
ean’t tell, but it’s Sly I was born, and
it’s-Sly I’ll be; till my hair ceases to
come out; then you can call me Dinnis
if you like. So long as I Have the proud
distinction of drawing a comb aver my
Mead with a purpose I shall most dis
tinctly .and positively object to be sailed
Pjwhpier er any'other foreign twisting
of the name.”
“How do you like the name of the
famous fighter?”
“Like if?’’"said the gallant sea dog.
“Why, I can’t say ShaWL ever gave it
much consideration. I can onljsay that
soon after I became a full fledged naval
officer the old general gave a dinner at
the Breyoort House, in Fifth avenue,
New York, at which he invited all the
young men he could find who had been
named after him. It was a great sight
There they were, several score strong,
and there is no telling how many more
might not have been there had they
known of it Anyway they have turned
out fairly well, at least one of them
having become a general in the United
States army. Well, ‘the old general
wound up the dinner in one of his most
pompous speeches, such as no one can
appreciate unless he has seen and heard
him. He said that he felt highly grati
fied at having his name left to posterity
in such promising young hands, and
of course we youngsters believed all he
said. At any nite I can’t change the
name, and I don’t believe that I’d want
to if I could,”—New York Tribune.
A Story About Commodore Casey.
No one has a higher opinion of the
American sailor than Commodore Casey,
the oommandant at the League Island
navy yard, as the following story will
show. Recently there was produced at
one of the local theaters a naval play,
the theme being trouble between Amer-,
lea and England; in which/ene of \he
performers took the part of a bluff
American sailor. In order to make hirer
self perfect In his part the actor visited
the navy yard and asked the commo
dore for the privilege Os looking around.
The commodore not only granted the
request, but in a personal talk gave the
actor some pointers. Later the actor
submitted the manuscript* of his part to
the commodore, who suggested that
some of the lines which were directed
against England be stricken out One
line was evidently missed by the com
modore. It was as follows, "We haven’t
got much maimers, but we can fight
likeh—l.”
After the play had been produced the
actor had photographs taken in costume,
and to appreciation of what
the commodore had done for him he
sent ano of the pictures to that official.
On the back of the photograph the actor
wrote the 'line quoted above and ap
pended his autograph. By the next
mail the performer received a Jotter
from the commodore, in.which .he was
given to understand that that official of
the navy knew the American sailor to
be a gentleman at all tiines. "But I ap
prove the last part of the sentence,”
concluded the commodore.—Philadel
phia'Record.
What Sbwn WeuMl Ik*.
The Danish poet, Peter Nansen.sag'
in a recent number of a German maga
zine that ’[been is becoming, much, more
agreeable than he used to be A young
woman said to him not long, ago, "Whpt
would you do if you had $1,000,000?”
"If I had $1,000,000,” he replied, "I
should elegant steam yacht,
with electric lights and all modern oom
forts, with a crew of 180 and a grand
orchestra. Then I should invited) good
friends to travel with me. wrw<rai<t
visit many fine regions, but our princi
pal goal would be the island of Ceylon,
which must be, from ail I have heard,
the most beautiful spot on earth. ”
TRICKS OP THIEVING.
HOW SHOPLIFTERS PILFER IN NEW
YORK’S BIG STORES.
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Wotwn Wko Vw Clover Children Trained
to the BneineM a* Aida In Their Nefn
rioes O»m»r-Tko Clune Wttoh of the
Schools for shoplifters are not adver
tised, but they thrive. Female Fagins
are no longer regarded as phenomenal
criminals—they are considered well es
tablished enemies to the poUse. Vigil
ance versus shoplifters, though, is a
contest in which the store thieves are
invariably brought to grief.
As a woman Leading a little girl pass
ed from counter to counter in a Sixth
avenue store one day last week another
woman closely follow. I and never took
her eyes off her. The woman with the
little girl walked and talked rapidly.
They asked for nothing; their eyes
sought much. Thsir stops at various
counters seldom lasted-more than«a
second. When they had reached the
jewelry department. their pace slack
ened.* As they passed a counter where
a sale of gold mounted combs was
in progress the woman’s arm fiew
out from beneath a black cape and back
again. With the arm cn its return trip
had gone one of the most handsome and
expensive combs.
On the woman and the little girl
passed until they came oppqpite a tray
of earrings. The clerk was about to re
turn the tray to its case. •
■ “What pretty stones, mammal” ex
claimed the child.
“■ffes, my dear, ” responded the wom
an, “But we won’t look at them today. ”
"Oh, yes. Let’s stopT You know you
promised to buy mo some earrings for
my birthday. ”
“I know, but your birthday is still
far away. ”
"Why, mamma, you know that it is
next Tuesday.”
“My goodness! The child tells the
truth. How time does, fly! Well, we’ll
look at them, but I’ll not promise you
to buy them today. ”
Then begins the examination of chil
dren’s earrings. Mother and daughter
look at them critically—they admire
most of them. This goes on for several
minutes, the mother protesting to the
child that the purchase should not be
made today. Diamond earrings of all
sizes are in the- tray. - '
A customer steps up to make an in
quiry. The clerk turns her eyes for an
instant toward her questioner. One of
the largest of the diamond eandtags
gives a flash and is gone.' The little gij?l
comes between her mother and the
counter. When the customer is gone,
the little girl has two small storings m
her h<ad and says:
"Won't you get mamma to buy me
this pair?”
While the clerk smiles and the moth
er is saying they will call again in a
day. or two the large diamond earring
is being fastened inside the cape. The
mother thanks the clerk, then they
htory from the store.
They are scarcely out on the sidewalk
before a command is whibpered in the
woman’s ear:
“Return that stolen property.”
The girl takes to her heels. A man
follows and catches her.
The woman calls it an outrage. She
protests; says she’ll make them pay for
the insult. She grows hysterical. They
lead the two back to a side door. They
fake them into the room.
Then the woman detective carefully ex
amines all their clothing. The child
cries. The woman becomes silent. She
sees it’s all up. What’s the use of go
ing to the trouble of making another
scene? The child is 18 years old and has
been,but a week under instruction. Be
ing arrested is new to her. '*
A society takes the child. Her teacher
in crim<o, the woman who posed as her
mother, is held for trial.
This is but a sample ease. In the
saays store hist week there were 15 ar
rests for shoplifting. Those of the pris
oners who had never been in such
scrapes before ,were released. This par
ticular store trios to avoid the courts'as
much as possible.
Ohe woman whe was arrested were a
shoplifter’s skirt. This skirt consists
chiefly of pockets. There are pockets of
all widt'hs and depths. This skirt is
usually worn aS* an underskirt. *An
opening is provided in the overskirt,
through which the pocket filled skirt is
easily accessible.
In the concealed pockets of the wom
an mentioned were found* two .pieces of
embroidery, several rolls of silk braid,
six remnants of silk, several
jewelry and a pair of shoes. Two of the
store detectives, a man and a woman,
had watched the purloining of all these
articles.
It is the rule of most stores that no
shoplifters are to be arrested until they
reach the street Scenes caused by ar
rests are very undesirable in a place of
business. Besides this, those placed un
der arrest in stores often make the de
fense that they did not intend to take
the goods away—they simply desired to
examine them in a good light.
One shoplifter,, arrested last week,
and one on whom the stolen goods were
found, .had six children <t home. The
youngest was 6 months old. The wom
an’s husband has a good business. He
furnished bail for her. When the pro
prietors st the stere leaned tip* the
woman had a 6-m.bnths-oia child at
home they withdrew the complaint
against her. The woman’s husband said
he could not understand why she should
wish to steal.
Stare detectives deny that there is
liy such thing as kleptomania.
“Kleptomania is a mistaken notion
that some women have that stores are
easily victimized, ” is the definition that
the detectives give.—New York Tele
gram.
A bar of lead eooled to about 800 de
grees below zero, according to an ex
periment of M. Pictet, gives out when
struck a pure musical tone.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ C ASTOBI A,” AND
« PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHERS CASTORIA,” the same
UaA has borne and does now *
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original " PITCHER’S CASTOR!A,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOQK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
thtkind you have alww bought m ih -
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to my name ex g
cqrf T/ie Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher v;
Pre^mt - nA
Honh 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child Ly accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist offer y&”
(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'’
" TUnE C?
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed low.
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