A HARD WON BET.
Carrying Four Brick* Half a Mil* Is
Not an Easy Task.
‘The hardest won bet I ever
made,” remarked the traveling man ,
as he shook the ashes off his ciirar.
‘ was to carry four bricks h* i' a ;
mile. That sounds like a simple
thing to do, doesn't it? Well, you
try it and you will find out whether
it is or not. Os course the manner
of carrying the bricks is important.
A man bet me that I couldn’t earn
two bricks in each hand from where
we were back to the hotel and put
them up on the counter. The
bricks were to be put side bv side
and grasped, two in each hand, be- j
tween the thumb and fingers, the I
fingers pointing down. 1 was not
allowed to stop and rest nor to put !
the bricks down.
“Well, thought 1, that’s $2 easily
earned, so 1 took the bet and start
ed. For a quarter of the distance
it was easy, and I already felt that
$2 in ray pocket. But then nv\
fingers began to grow tired. The '
muscles between my forefingers and 1
thumbs were soon aching terribly.
My arms began to pain me and to
throb like mad. 1 found myself
setting my teeth together, and the !
cords in my neck were in a high
state of tension. When I came
within a hundred yards of the hotel
there was scarcely an inch in my
whole body that was not aching as
if I had been stuck full of pins.
“1 don’t know how 1 managed to
go that last little distance. I could
no longer stand erect, and I was
trembling like a leaf, and yet the j
other fellow was alongside, laugh :
ing as if to split his sides. And
when 1 got into the hotel it was ail
1 could do to raise first one hand
and then the other and put the
bricks on the counter. I know that
I couldn’t have gone fifty feet far
ther. I got the $2, but the next
day 1 could scarcely move, and I
didn’t get over the soreness for a
week. It looks easy, but just you
try it.” —Detroit Free Press.
Some Queer Shoes.
We are all familiar with the j
wooden shoe of the Chinese, with I
its dark cloth top. The Portuguese i
shoe has a wooden sole and heel. !
with a vamp made of leather, fanci
fully showing the flesh side of the
skin. The Persian wears a high |
shoe made of light wood richly in- j
laid, with a strap, extending over
the instep. The Muscovite shoe is
hand woven, on a wooden frame,
and but little attention is paid to
the shape of the foot. Leather i 6
sometimes used, but the sandal is
generally made of silk cordage and
woolen cloth. The Siamese shoe has
the form of an ancient canoe, with
a gondola bow and an open toe.
The sole is made of wood, the upper
of inlaid wood and cloth, and the
exterior is elaborately ornamented
in colors with gold and silver.
Lincoln’* “Hos*” Trad*.
When Lincoln was practicing law
in Illinois, he agreed with a certain
judge that they should make a horse
trade at 9 o’clock the next morning,
neither to see the other’s horse un
til the time of the trade and the
one who backed out to lose $25.
The judge was on time, leading
the sorriest looking nag ever seen
in those parts. In a few minutes
Lincoln arrived, carrying a wooden
sawhorse on his shoulder. The
crowd laughed uproariously, but it
was nothing to the din that went up
when Lincoln set down his saw
horse, walked solemnly around the
sorry nag produced by the judge
and exclaimed pathetically, “Well,
judge, this is the first time 1 ever
got the worst of it in a horse trade!”
Superstitious Fishermen.
JTerring fishermen in the old
world are many of them remarka
bly superstitious. For instance, on
some fishing boats whistling is for
bidden, and neither milk nor burn
ed bread is allowed on board. Fur
thermore, not even the name of
that unlucky animal, the hare, may
be mentioned, and a common meth
od of punisliing an enemy is to
throw a dead hare into his boat.
Some of the fishermen believe in i
luck attending an odd numbered |
crew, but the good fortune may be
neutralized should one of the num
ber have red hair.
A Mean Trick.
Some sordid soul who wanted to
cause distress and suffering among
his friends entered his club the oth
er day and wrote on the bulletin
board the name of a town over in !
Wales and offered a prize to any
body who could pronounce it. Here’s
the name of the town: Llanfairpwll
gwyngyllgogervebwyrndrobw! lantsy
iliagagogooh.
Than th* Quarrel Ceased.
They were having the usual fam
ily quarrel. As was also usual, she
could not convince him that she
knew whereof she argued.
“Didn’t I go to school, stupid?”
she screamed.
“Yes, dear, you did,” he replied
calmly, “and you came back stupid.” (
—Bohemian Magazine.
HIS RIVER.
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Th* D'.t es Doors Man Cherishes
Fjndly Som* Special Stream.
1 believe that every out of doors
, man comes to have one stream that
is more beloved than any of the
others, says a writer in Forest and
Stream. There is something about
it which makes the days spent on
that patticular stream just a little
nicer than on any other and which
makes it linger in the memory until
sooner or later one goes to all of the
trouble of packing up and traveling
over mountain roads to get hack to
it. it is the spirit of the water.
When I say spirit 1 mean the ap
peal of the intellectual pose of one
entity to another. The judge, who
has lived on its bank all his life, is
also possessed by it. This year he
and his wife took a rather extensive
water trip, embracing the great
lakes, the St. Lawrence, the Hud
son, the Atlantic and Chesapeake
bay. The judge’s wife told me that
he would stand on the upper deck
of one of the streams, look at the
expanse of water and exclaim,
“Give me the Black!” So, as 1 say,
evety man to his river, and here was
mine.
Now, mv companion bad never
run the rapids of a mountain
stream or cast a fly. He and the
river were total strangers, but it
was interesting to see their ad
vances toward each other. First
came lhe exhilaration of “running
down hill” over water and the fas
cinating study of how to run such
places without having the boat hit
the inevitable obstruction at the
outside of the curve, the stump, or
the log, or the rock, or the drift
wood with the current speeding be
neath it. After a day or so he
learned that he could not steer a
boat in a rapid, but that he has to
simply pick it up on his paddle and
throw it. Then he quit hitting the
stump in the curve, and 1 was able
to fish without a paddle in one hand
to fend the bow from the place.
His closer intimacy with the water
began by going in swimming, but
that does not count for much. The |
real advance was when he stepped j
over the side of the boat and waded I
in the shallows with his shoes on. j
Finally, after swimming a place,
where the river darted through a j
narrow place, he deliberately put on I
his clothes and plunged in head J
first.
“I wanted to see if I could swim
straight across with my clothes on,”
he said.
Then T knew that the river had
enticed him away from his lares
and penares; that he would journey
thither with me again.
Australian Girl* F*arl*s* Ridar*.
Many Australian girls live right
up in the bush, or “stations."
which are miles away from any
I own or village, and their time js
largely occupied with riding and
driving. They are as much at home
on a tiorse as a duck is in the water
and think nothing of riding twenty
miles or so to pay a visit. House
hold duties claim a share of their
time, however, and any day they
are liable to be left without serv
ants and with a house full of vis
itors, but are in nowise daunted by
such an occurrence. Then the bush
girl comes down to the capital for
the seeson, and, far from appearing
a country bumpkin or u tomboy
after her free and open aiv life, she
is as much at home in a ballroom
as any town bred girl, as neat and
well dressed as if she had never rid
den bareback over wild tracts of
country with little thought of ap
pear^m*?.—l>oDdon Woman.
Bird* •* V*ntriloqui*l*.
Many birds form their sounds
without opening their bills. The
pigeon is a well known instance of
this, its cooing can be distinctly
heard, although it does noi open its
bill. The call is formed internally
in the throat and chest and is only
rendered audible by resonance. Sim
ilar ways may be observed in uisdv
birds and other animals. The clear,
loud call of the cuckoo, according
io one naturalist, is the resonance
of a note formed in the bird. The
whirring of the snipe, which be
trays the approach of the bird to
the hunter, is an act of ventrilo
quism. Even the nightingale ha«
certain notes which are produced
internally and which are audible
while the bill is dosed.
Oick*n* and th* London N*w*.
Dickens was the originator of the
London Daily News. The paper
was started on Jan. 21, 1846. At
that time Charles Dickens was ed
itor, his father, John Dickens, was
the manager, Douglas Jerrold was
assistant editor, and Bradbury and
Evans were the printers. Albany;
Fonblanque and John forster were
leader writers, “Father Prout”!
(Mahoney) was Roman correspond
ent, and George Hogarth, Dickens’
father-in-law, was mueica! critic. 1
Sir William Jackson, Sir Joseph
Watkins and Mr. (afterward Sir)
Joseph Paxton were among the
principal proprietor*.
The MOntuomkky monitor —thlusday, may it Or
SOME OF THE DEFECTS
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
They arc many ! But, he it
understood by the reader, that the
pointing out of some of these de-;
sects by the writer has in view I
the stimulation ot those interest
ed, yet related to the school sys
tem, so that they one and will use
united efforts to abolish these de
fective parts.
The custom is being fixed of i
teaching till 1 or 2 o'clock, p. in.
and dismissing the school children
for the rest of the day. This cm
tom is sure to sow seeds of cor
ruption out of the school and
thus react to the detriment of the
school inside.
But teachers find it a respite!
from labors that are irksome.!
rasping on the brain; hence the
custom comports with their com
fort and income. They are “paid
back"’ by an increase of disorder,
misrule, vicious luibits, and im
moralities acquired by boys, es
pecially, which find vent in the
school, and must be checked or I
anarchy prevails and teachers are]
swept, under in the chaos and ruin !
which threaten the death of the
whole school system at this age of!
the world.
Children should he kept at work j
and not allowed to roam at will]
and follow their own pleasures, |
which mean moral death to them,
lipneo to dismiss schools earlier
than the old established order, 4
p. m. means ruin to hundreds of
hoys in towns and cities. “Don’t
believe it.” All right ! Timej
will convince the most skeptical.!
The Montgomery Monitor and the Union
News One Year for Sl.7*>.
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Inside school work will now ht
punctured. We do not turn out
readers tronp. our, schools.*!?| Re
suits; We have no scholars,[lot
, reading is the hast of all scholar
j ship. We Jin ven racejjuf people
coming on and now here, grown
to adult life who do not read with
intelligence the public news of the
day. Nay, do not read at all.
They never learned to read at
i school. They never learned the
meaning of words. Thai is, they
lean not, did not grasp the thought
embodied in the words ; hence wo
! have a people devoid of under
standing, and our chi Id re 11 going
1 to school arc just as deformed in
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The whole hasp of economic sale
land making of books, of issuing
newspapers, of advertising and of
| sale of manufactured products is
1 found in the scope and power of
intelligent reading. The public
schools do not give the power.
They are failures 1 Consequently
books nor libraries do not consti
j Into the belongings of the masses
jofl he people. Newspaper veil-
I tures swamp, because the people
I cannot read. The merchants ad
j vestise m vain because pimple de
] not read their advertisements,and
| thus the world of intelligente lau-
Iguishos in a desert, of non-intelli
| gent, people, because they cannot
n ad and do not understand when
they do road. The school culture
is at fault and unless this is
changed wo go back faster anti
faster til! chaos is our intellectual
hind moral doom. Lycurqus.
I Kibbee, Ga.
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