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I PAID TO "THINK AHEAD.”
The Part Imagination Playa In tho
Business World.
There Is n mail In Jin oillee In New
York whose business it Is to think
nheud on behalf of the community ami
prepare for coming events, writes T.
Sharper Knowlton In the Century, tils-
cuRsing “The Uses of Imagination In
Business.” Uo sits at a big tuble. and
before.him Ih a map of New York with
Its environs by land and sen. The
problem Is to determine what shipping
accommodation will be required In the
future and to begin the work of recon
struction now. During the Inst centu
ry tho story was one of growth,
growth, growth, and tho story Is to be
coutinucd. HowV That is the ques
tion which the man with the map has
to settle. He Is not on piecework; he
Is paid for thinking. In other words,
whatever his oliiclal title may be, I
shall call him acting professor of Im
agination to the shipping interests of
New York.
In every, progressive house of busi
ness there Is or ought to be a similar
officer. Generally he is the principal
himself. That is one reason why he di
vides his business into departments
and pnys men high salaries to superin
tend them. He wunts time to think.
But the farst&lng element In imagi
nation is not the only oue. There is
One which concerns itself with details.
Jf 1 might say so, lmuglnutlon is tele
scopic for big things and microscopic
for small things. You can imagine n
billion dollar trust and you can lmng
Ine u new way of pointing a needle.
Probably no man- makes a sure ad
vance without using both Instruments,
but the essential work of the lmagtna
tion Is ^always the same. It creates
the things which are nob Judgment
passes its verdict, and action brings
realization, -iitS**
ANTS IN AUSTRALIA.
They Eat Up Wooden Beams and Even
Dine on Leaden Roofs.
Tho following extract from nn Aus
tralian diary will give an idea of the
ravages of the ants in that country:
“About noon it got too hot for any
thing. and I took a well earned swim
in a secluded creek, amid shoals of
Ash, large and small, who apparently
resented my lntnuslon from the way
they came uud stared at me.
“1 found on emerging from, the wa
ter that a host of blue brown ants had
taken possession of my clothes, and
when they were shaken out they re
venged themselves by biting my bare
feet in n way which was exceedingly 1
painful.
“There are thousands of ants every
where. Some of tbe ant hills are three
feet high and six feet across, but ex
cept for a sharp nip at the time the
ordinary ant’s bite" is not^ notieeablp,
But if a soldier ant or a buli nut or,a
greenhea«L(nn nut about one and a half
inches long,with a green head) bites
you it is not to be forgotten, because
they take quite a big piece out
“Then there are the white ants (not
really ants, but termites), which cheer
fully eat the insides out of the beams
of the wooden houses and recently ate
the sheet lead on top- of. the Sydney
museum. The city fathers thought
this wns going a little too fnr, so now
the ants are preserved inside the mu
seum with samples of the half con
sumed lead os a warning to all who
would allow their appetites to run
away with them.”—London Gentle
man.
I Quick Measurement*.
' A traveler was detained at a little
country railroad station in Bngland
for half an hour and was chatting with
tbe station master when the bell rang
sharply half a dozen times, instantly
tbe three employees—station master,
ticket agent and porter—ranged up in
a line on the platform and stood at at
tention. A moment later a locomotive
with a single saloon car slowed up.
The solitary occupant of the car re
garded the men sharply from the win
dow. made' hurried notes and quickly
retired.
"Who was that?” the traveler asked
the station master after the rnnn had
gone. "Some prominent officer of the
line?"
“Oh, no,” was the reply. “That wns
the railroad company’s tailor measur
ing us tor new suits.”—Boston Trap-
script
Soull and Skull.
"Sculls" and “skulls" are really one
word in origin, and both at Various
times have been' spelled capriciously
with, a “c" or a "k." Pepys, the dia
rist tells how be went on the Thames
at ode time "in a scull," at another in
a “skpller." The origin of the word is
"skulle” or "sculle," a bowl or goblet
(While the cranium was obviously bow-
like in shape a distant resemblance to
a bowl was also detected In tbe scoop
ed out blade of a “scull" as opposed to
the flat blade of an oar proper.
Sympathy.
Pi;oud Mother—Such enormous sums
as we've spent on Clara’s voice!
Sympathetic Visitor—And you can
really do nothing for It?—London By
stander. :
*' SOFT SHELL, CRABS.
They. Don't Remain 8oft Very Long
After tho Shedding.
The supply of soft crabs for market
Is obtained by catching hard crabs ami
keeping them until they shed their
shells.
For this purpose large rectangular
floats, made of laths and' planking,
are employed, and three or four times
every day tho stock on hand is care
fully Inspected, nil tho soft crabs being
picked out and packed without delay.
They are put Into shallow boxes of
moist seaweed, from ten to thirty-live
dozen In a box, according to tho size
of the animals.
When the packing Is done carefully
tho occupants may bo kept nlive from
sixty to seventy hours after leaving
tho water.
Crabs hnvo been shipped all tho way
from ihc Chesapeake to Canada, arriv
ing ut their destination In good condi
tion. in summer, of course, Ico is
used.
But where soft crabs nro concerned
It Is necessary that they shnll reach
tho market quickly, because their new
Bjiells harden with great rapidity.
At the end of twelve hours the shells
are like parchment and In three or
four days the crab Is as hard as ever—
hence unfit for ude in tho form most
highly npproved by epicures.—New
York Herald.
DICKENS AS HE WORKED.
During Long Walks He Evolved the
Plots of Hi* 8teri*s.
Every Christmas and every summer
for twenty years Marcus Stone. It A.,
the English painter, used to visit
Charles Dickens at his various homes,
especially at Gadshill, near Rochester.
“Dickeits,” says Stone In his retril-
nlscences’, “waS one 6? the greatest
and kindest meu I ever met He was
Imbued with the true Christian spirit
What particularly struck me at Gads
hill was the atmosphere of calm and
comfort one felt at once on entering
the house.
"At 3 o’clock every afternoon we
used to have a twenty mile walk In
the country round. Dickens spoke but
little while walking, and this after a
time led me to discover the secret of
his amazing industry. He satonly for
a few hours at his desk, and I always
wondered how he could be so prolific
an author.
“Well, owing to his taciturnity in our
country walks I began to suspect that
It was theu he evolved most of the
plots of his novels. His brain was ac
tive all the time and the task of repro
ducing on paper-the things he Imagin
ed and thought about became more or
less a mechanical process.”
Russian Discipline.
During the review of the hrrny re
cruits in Vllna some! years ago the gen
eral In command, turning to oue of the
now soldiers, asked him, “What is mil
itary discipline?"
"It Is that a soldier has got to do
Just what he's told by his superior
officer, only nothing against the czar,"
was the answer.
"All right, then. You take your cap,
bid your comrades goodby and go and
drown yourself In that lake there
Look sbnrpr’
Tears glistened In the soldler'B eyes.
He gazed earnestly and prayerfully at
his commander, turned suddenly about
and rushed off to the lake. He was on
the very brink before he was over
taken 'and stopped by the S^fgeant
sent to prevent the Involuntary sui
cide.
Result of Interne Emotion.
A young cat was seen to catch bis
first mouse. As he was carrying It in
triumph to the bouse he suddenly be
came paralyzed in the hind quarters
and for an hour remnlned stretched on
the ground. Then movement returned,
but it was observed from the way he
knocked himself against the furniture
and made uo effort to take food which
was given to him that he was blind.
For two hours be remnlned in this con
dition. Finally the blindness suddenly
vanished, and pussy was himself again.
His was a case of hysterical paralysis,
brought on by tbe intense emotion of
bis first mouse.
Good Ladies' Horse.
“You told me he was a good ladies’
horse,” angrily said the man wlio bad
made the purchase.
“He was," replied the deacon. “My
wife owned him, and she is one of the-
very best women I ever knew.”—Ex
change.
FORGIVENESS.
“I can forgive, but I cannot for
get," is only one way of saying, “I
will not forgive.” A forgiveneis
ought to be like a canceled note,
torn in two and burned up, so that
it can never be shown against a
man. There is an ugly kind of
forgiveness in the world—a kind of
hedgehog forgiveness shot out like
quills.
‘ THREE songs.
They Will Live Above All Other* In
the Man Who Heard Thpm.
Tho brilliant, fashionably clad audi
ence roared uu ovntlon tq the groat
singer. She was unquestionably the
best soprano in the world. Tho critic
turned to his friend, the self made mil
lionaire, and said:
“Did you ever hear any song moro
exquisitely rendered?"
“Yes,” snld the rich man musingly,
for ho was touched by the magic of
what ho hod heard. "Yes: I have
heard three*greater singers.’’
“I want to know I" exclaimed the
critic.
"Tho first wns years ngo. The singer
wns plnin of face and gray of hair and
tired of body. Tliero wns much work
to do and mnny llttlo mouths to feed.
I was tho. youngest -child, ?lck nnd
cross, nnd that dear singer crooned'to
me a lullnby, and I slept It was a
wonderful song.
“Tho next wns years afterward. We
hnd a little cottage. It was summer,
nnd the windows and doors were open.
My wife was in tho kitchen preparing
supper. She was singing something
nbout her true love coming home to
her. It was for me. And that too,
was a wonderful song.
“Some more years elapse. There is
a little toddler id the garden, and she
sings hesitantly something about dad
dy nnd his baby.
“These are the three singers, my
friend, who beat all your Tetrazzinis."
And the critic? Well, perhaps tbe
critic agreed with him.—Albany Times-
Union.
LIQUID AIR. ^
Th*^\Vay it Act* as a Preservative of
Animal Matter.
It is sometimes necessary to pre
serve parts of a human body or of
some other animal for tbe purpose of
testing for the presence of poisons.
In such cases tho preservative must
fulfil certain special requirements. It
must be uble to prevent absolutely any
decay or putrefaction; it must hot It
self cause any change in the tissues,
either structural or chemical; it must
hot introduce any substance that
would in any way interfere with the
subsequent tests or give rise to false
conclusions, and it must be easily han
dled.
Liquid air has been found to be
quite well adapted to this use. Its
low temperature (about 400 degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit) prevents ab
solutely all putrefaction as well as all
other chemical .change. At the same
time, it’ prevents the evaporation of
any volatile substance that' may be
present, such as carbon monoxide or
hydrocyanic acid' gas. Experiments
have shown that the most delicate
tissues, such as glands nnd brnin, are
quite unnffected by being placed in
liquid air for n long time, nnd the
tissues even retain their natural colors.
For the purpose of making‘chemical
tests in a piece of tissue It is frequent
ly necessary to cut the material up'
into very smnll pieces. Tissues that
have been preserved In liquid air are
frozen so hard that they may be
ground up into a fine powder.—Har
per’s.
Titbits of the Ancient Greeks.
As Selteacies the Greeks ate young
foxes caught in the autumn, robins
and sparrows and certain kinds of fish
snared by moonlight. There Is a scrap
of an old Greek comedy in whjch 8
cook boasts of frying a fish so exqui
sitely that it threw him grateful looks
from the pan. A famous Greek dish
was the Trojan pig, half .of it- boiled
and The other half roasted. It was
stuffed with eggs, ortolans and
thrushes. The Romans ate snails—
giant monsters—fattened until their
shells held an incredible amount of
snail. The kettle In - a high class Ro
man kitchen was often shaped like an
elephant’s head. The water was pour
ed through, the trunk. The gridiron
might be a. huge silver, spider or a
skeleton fish.
Oysters as They Grow.
When ybung oysters first appear they
nre called “spat" and are no lnrger
than a pinhead. At the age of one
year they are known- as “brood" and
a bushel measure will hold about 6,400
of them. When they are three years
old they are designated as' “ware" and
the 6,400 of them will then fill three
one bushel measures. They are not
ready for market until they are four
years old. and then they have arrived
to a dignity of proportion that If the
bushel of broods has not lost any of Its
members it will require nearly seven
of such measures to carry them to mar
ket
linole Bonbon.
An elderly beau had been delivering
himself of pertain forcible home truths
when lecturing his nephew.
“Wonderful chap, your uncle,” ob
served a friend when the old gentle
man had disappeared. “So well pre
served."
“I don’t know so much about his be
ing well preserved," growled the of
fended nephew, "but he is unpleasant
ly candid.”—Youth’s Companion.
Bad Spells
** I suffered, during girlhood, from womanly weakness,”
writes Mrs. Mollie Navy, of Walnut, N. C. “At last, I was
almost bed-ridden, and had to give up. We had three
doctors. All the time, I was getting worse. I had bad
spalls, that lasted from 7 to 28 days. In one week, after I
give Cardui a trial, 1 cowfcl eat, sleep, and Joke, as well as
anybody. In 8 weeks, I was well I had been an invalid
for 5 waery years! Cardui relieved me, when everything
else failed.”
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