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HUNTING GUT- PAWKES. CURIOUS STREET NAMES.
A Custom That'll Still Religiously Ob*
served In England.
It is over tlireo centuries since
the British houses of parliament
were searched and tho barrels of
gunpowder under the custody of
liny Fawkes discovered a few hours
before the opening of the, session.
That discovery Was.not due to,any
spcciul acumen on,the part of the
authorities, since it followed upon
• information sent them by letter.
But there has, certainly peon no-
lack o¥ vigilance since then, seeing
that on no occasion since 1605 lius
parliament boen opened until its
cellars had been searched.
The duty of examining the vaujts
and secret purges 'is assigned to
the lord chamberlain of , the court,
but generally it is the vice cham
berlain who conducts tile search,
llis assistants are the deputy ser
geant at arms of the house of com
mons, the clerk of the board of
works and an inspector of police.
There is a lot of ceremony pertain
ing to the proceeding.
, The £6tn , ";0frtcers mentioned are
preceded by.. i'ouF yeoirien of the
guard ih uniform'and fully armed.
Through one^corridor, after anot her
they tramp,' pebfiiig' into every
dark corner until .they finally reach
the conclusion that no gunpowder
has beeh stored in tho cellars aqtl
that therefore-it is quite’ safe for
parliament to meet. .
When*cIft?i^ i tliC' J rcign of James
1., the carliest-scarches were order
ed, the aiuoidftSWItfSlSWf^l^ttiftitCrns
throughVthe 'dark ^passage:,,. and
now, alshouglr 'the corridors and
underground passagqs.are.tho’rougl i-
ly lightdi by electricity, the good
old custc m is still respected by the
guardsmen, who-yet'carry lanterns
in their 1 and6. ,
In tho days of the ‘Stuarts it was
the custbm when. thq ' inspection
. was finished, for the lord chamber
lain to dispatch a message to the
king by a mountod soldier to die
effect thatjt would be,entirely safe,
for him tS attbiid the opening ses
sion of parliament. Nowadays the
mounted soldier iS,/nd' longer seen
riding • posthas'te to the , king, but'
the vice chamberlain still , sends
the traditional message to his ma
jesty by private wire; and the king
is assured .that there are no explo
sives i:i the cellars and that he will
not bo exppsed to- unusual risks if
he chooses to meet his lords and
commons. The king may not have
the remotpst hotibh "bf' ojrniniiig
parliairfent^ bpt.thb'-mcssage is sept
just the same, and it is duly receiv
ed and acknowledged. — llarper's
AVeekly. ,
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The Green Rose.
The general verdict upon the
.green rose is that it is more curious
thau beautifSl. ’ To botanists it is
particularly interesting, since it is a
proof that all parts of a plant above
the root are modifications of the
same thing, and in the green rose
-.every part may be called a leaf.
This flower is a variety of the com
mon China rose brought to, England
in the year 1835. It also gives a
•strong support to the view held by
many botanists that all flowers were
-originally green and that the colors
in flowers are analogous to the au
tumn tints of; leaves. -In the green
rose the flowers generally put on a
reddish tint when they begin to
fade.—Harper’s Weekly.
His Bluff Called.
“So you advertised for'your lost
purse, pretending that the person
who found it vyas recognized!)”
“Yes.”
“How did the bluff work?”
“Didn’t work at all. Next dav
this ad. appeared in’the same pa
per: ‘The recognized gentleman
. who picked up the purse qu, Boyl-
■ slon street requests tlie loser to
-call at his houge.’”—Boston Tran
script. '
Home Birds.'
“When my wjfe and 1 were first
married we used to call each other
TV-be.’”
“Do vou still do it?”
“No. I call her a parrot and a
magpie, and she usually refers to
me . as a jay.”
How to Secure Silence In Women.
“•What interested me most in my.'
travels,” said JJ'enpeck, “was the
mummy of a queen 1 saw in Egypt.”
“Wonderful, ' eh?” asked 1 his
friend.
“Yes, , it’s wonderful how they
could make a woman dry, up and
ay that way.” — Philadelphia
They Have Some ttueer Ones Abroad,
Especially In London.
Europe is the* land of qubor
street names. In London especial
ly is there a bewildering variety.
1 Bermondsey boasts a Pickle llpr-
ring street. Near Gray’s Inn there
is to be .found a Cold Bath square.
Most of tne Nightingale: lanes and
Love lanes are hidden, ironically
enough, in the slums of the east
end of the British metropolis.
Houndsditch, according to, Stow,
Jerives its unsavory title from tjie
city ditch “full of depd dogs,”
Formerly London possessed plenty
of equally cacophonous thorough
fares. Crack brain court was ip
Whitechapel and Dead Man’s lane
adjoined Dirty lane in Southwark.
King Edward street, the site of the
general postoffico, was called for
centuries Stinking lane. Appropri
ately enough, Cutthroat lane led
out of the notorious Ratcliff high
way, now civilized into St. George’s
street. Hangman’s lane stood near
the Tower, and there was a Bandy-
leg alley in Fleet street; Break
neck court, opposite the Old Bailey,
where Goldsmith lived when ■ he
first settled in London. This lias
disappeared. But there is a Gutter
lane in Cheapsidd and Bleeding-
heart yard, familiar to readers of
“Little Dorrit,” Will still be found
at Hatton Garden.
In Brussels some of the street
names are downright bizarre. The
Shprt Street of the Long Chariot,
the Street of the Red Haired Wo
men and the Street of Sorrows .are
remarkable enough to catch the
least observant oyq. The Street of
the' One Person is, as . one might 1
guess, an extremely narrow one.
But the L most curjous of all Brus
sels names of streets surely belongs
to the Street of the Uncracked
Silver Cocoanut. This,.' in the
original, appears as one ponderous
word of thirty-six letters.
Among the odd street names of
Paris may be mentioned the Street
of the Little Windows, the 'Street
of the Mule’s Foot, the Street of
the Holy Fathers,’the Street of the
Daughters of Calvary, the Street
of the Dry Tree, the Street of the
Empty Pocket and the Boulevard
of the Good' News. — New York
Rress,
An Odious Comparison.
Will lrwiu h-v- a friend who went
,i.ibtoqd while, Victoria was still on
the throne, and in London saw
Bernhardt play Cleopatra.
The sceno-came where Cleopatra
receives news of Mark, Antony’s de
feat at'Aqtium. Bernhardt was at
liter, best .as Egypt’s fiery queen
that night. She stabbed the un
fortunate slave who had borne the
tidings to her, stormed, raved,
frothed at the mouth, wrecked the
palace and finally, as the curtain
fell,, dropped in a shuddering, con
vulsive heap in the wreckage.
Amid the thunderous applause
Irwin’s friend heard a middle aged
British matron in the next seat re-,
marking to herself in. tones of satis J
faction:
“How different—how very differ
ent from the home life of our own
dear queen!” — Saturday Evening
A Fow-First Aid Hint*.
These-hints are meant for public
instruction fdr those of the laity
Who may have Occasion to extend
first aid in case of accidents,: a ,"
Don’t put your’ Anger on an open
wound; don’t put a quid of tobacco
on a wound, no master how small
it inay be; don’t'use- cobwebs or
hornets’ nest to stop bleeding: don’t
dose the patient with whisky, bran-'
dy, ruin or gin; don’t bind or cover
a wound with a handkerchief or rag
(if you cannot get a first aid packet
us'o clean old muslin that has been
dipped in boiling water for a few
minutes): don’t sit . si patient up
when he is’ very pale or .weak;.don’t
wash a wound;-and don’t remove
blood clots'.
Which In the True Dream?'
Once upon a time 1, CJiuang Tzu,
dreamt I was a-butterfly* fluttering
hither and thither,' to all intents
and purposes a butterfly. I was
conscious only of following my
fancies as? a butterfly and was un
conscious of my individuality as a
man. Suddenly • 1 awakened, and
there I lay myself again. Now I do
not ki\<3w whether I was then a
man dreaniing I was a butterfly or
whether 1 am "now a butterfly,
dreaming 1 am a man. — From
Teachings of Chitling Tzu.
finue on -the* same coursd fob an
other watch or two.
As ho walked he suddenly receiv
ed a blow on his chest, wliich, ho
discovered, had been dealt by a sea
bird. Then his wiiiged assailant
quickly disappeared to leeward.'
A few moments later the captain
was just giving the cpnunand to
turn the vessel whep lie ngain: re
ceived a blo;v in the chest from the
suine messenger. Then the bird dis
appeared as before in a southwest
erly direction. After this had been
repeated several mpre times, tlje
bird, after each Blow .flying off to
ward the southwest, the captain,-
wlio 'thought ’there must be some
thing supernatural in tho mutter,
decided to follow thebird. Instead
of. turning back he caused the boat’s-
course to be sqt toward the south
west. This was no sooner done
than the bird settled down on tho
ship’s railing beside tho captain.
The boat now sailed at a great
pace before the strong wind. But
although a sharp watch was kept
aft as well as forward, half the
night passed and nothing unusual
was discovered.
The crew began to joke about
the “old man’s” maneuver, and the
captain himself doubted .the, wis
dom of continuing to sail out of his
course, losing distance which’ a
great deal of tacking would be‘re
quired to regain.
At 2 o’clock in the morning he
was on the point of giving the or
der, to turn hgain, when tlie look
out on the foreyard sung out 'that
he saw a glow as of a 'fire ahead.
All the waning interest woke
again.
Soon the vessel found itself ap
proaching a burning ship, and it
lay to as close as was practicable.
A boat was lowered and found
many men floating about on hen
coops, pieces of wreckage and oth
er floating articles from the burn
ing ship. They were weak and ex
hausted, having chosen a slow
death in the ocean to being burned
alive or suffocated by the lire.
When the sufferers had been car
ed for to the best of the rescuing
vessel’s ability, and the vessel’s.bow
had been turned again toward Eng
land, the sailors found that the
bird was still' bn board. Nor did
it leave the boat again. But one
day, after the vessel had reached-
the English channel, one of those
who had been saved from the burn
ing ship kicked the bird to death
in revenge for a bite from its bill.
Styles In Wedding Rings.
Somebody wondered how long a
certain. woman who had just left
the room had been married.
“About fifteen years,” said the
jeweler.
‘How do you know?;.’ asked the
jeweler’s wife. “You never saw
her until tonight.”
“I can tell by the size of her
wedding ring,” he replied. “The
width of wedding rings changes
about every five- years. The kind
she wears was in style fifteen years
ago.”—New York Times.
.Surplusage.
A man stood before a mirror in
his room, his face lathered and an
open razor in his hand. , His wife
came in. She looked at him and
said:
“Are.you shaving?”
The man, a foe to surplusage, re
plied fiercely:
“!No; I am blacking the kitchen
range!. Where are you—out driv
ing prat a matinee??’ ’
Sisterly.
Hattie—George proposed to me
last night: Mattie—Did he ? That
must have been right after I refus
ed him. He .wasn’t certain which
he would do.
“Which,he would do? What do
you mean ?”
“Why, he wasn’t certain whether
he would propose to you or jump
in the lake.” — Cleveland Plain
-Dealer. 1 /
Blackmail.
“Mamma,’! said five-year-old Mar-?
gie, “l’ll make a bargain -with you.”
“What kind of a'bargain; dear?”
asked her mother.
“If you’ll give me a penny every
day to buy candy with,”. replied
the small diplomat, “I’ll not tell
any one you have false teeth.”
visiting mem; tfflsy snouia see to It
that ithefr children when on tho street
do hot mingle with other children
and they should not let other people’s
children come to their homeB.. Like-
wise, parents of children not affected
with ; the disease, should keep their
children severely away from those
who have It. If these precautions
are adopted and health boardB Will
act. vlgbrously in aiding suppression
of whooping cough, a marked reduc
tion In the amount of the d'sease la
-sure to follow, hundreds of lives will
he palved and the future health of n
considerable proportion of the chil
dren will: he greatly benefited.
Wholly Unnecessary.
“You don’t even know liow to
make h lemon tart,” remarked- the
rooking school girl, with fine scorn.
“It isn’t necessary to make a lem
on fart,”, replied the other. “All the
lamons I’ve ever seeu were pretty
iarl already.”
• .11 ; ■ i - »'cr i '
Wortderful- Monastery.'
At -Hqlpvetsk, in the Russian gov
ernment of Archangel; is, the most
remarkable-monastery in the world.
The monastery of Solovetsk is in
closed on every side by a wall of
granite bowlders which measures
nearly a mile in circumference.
Tho monastery itself is very strong
ly fortifidd, being supported s by
round and square towers about
thirty feet in height, with walls
twenty feet in thickness. The mon
astery consists in reality of six
churches, wliich are completely
filled with statues of all kinds and
precious stones. Upon the walls
and the towers surrounding these,
churches arc mounted' huge guns,
which in the time of the Crifnean’
war were directed against'the Brit
ish White sea squadron.
, 1 Etiquetta. ’
“Etiquette” is a French word
which originally meant ;a dp.bel : in
dicating the price or quality; -the
English “ticket,” and'in old French
was'usually specialized to mean a
soldier’s billet..- Rhe .phrase ‘‘that’s
the ticket” shows the change to the
present meaning of manners accord
ing to code; Burke solemnly ex
plained that “etiquette had its orig
inal application to those ceremonies
and formal observances practiced at
courts. The term came afterward
to signify certain formal methods
used in the transactions between
sovereign states.”. '
The Turks and the Crescent.
When Philip of Macedon- ap
proached by night Vith his troops
to scale the walls of Byzantium the
moon, then new or in crescent;
shone out. and discovered his design
to the, besieged, who repulsed him.
The prescent was after that adopted
as the favorite badge of the city.
When the Turks took Byzantium
they found the crescent in every
public place and. believing it to
possess some magical power, adopt
ed it themselves.
Whipped Cream.
“Look here,” shouted the irate
neighbor over the fence, “your
youngest son' has been stoning my
eats and pilfering my apples! He
is a scamp!”
“Don’t talk that wav about my
son,” blurted the fo"nd parent.
“Why, lie is considered the cream
of our family.”
“The cream, eh ? Well, I’d like
to see him whipped.” — Chicago
News.,
A Curious Puzzle.
Ask your arithmetic teacher at
school to double the number of
his pupils, add 3, multiply - this sum
by 5, add to it the number of pu
pils absent on that day, multiply
the result by 10, add to it the num
ber of his own aunts, and then tell
you his answer. From his answer
you subtract 150 and the remainder
will be the correct number of his
pupils present and absent and the
number of his aunts as well. For
example: Supposing the number of
pupils is 6, doubled equals 12, plus
3 equals 15, multiplied by 5 equals
75, plus 3 equals 78, multiplied by
10 equals 780, plus three equals
783. Subtracting 150 from 783
leaves 633. Therefore you can
safely announce to: your teacher
that he has 6 pupils, 3 absent pu
pils and 3 aunts.
A Careful Horae.
A traveler in Indiana! noticed
that a farmer was having trouble
with Jus horse. It would start, go
slo'j'ly for a short distance, and
then stop again. Thereupon, the
or would have great difficulty
in getting it started. Finally tlie
traveler approached and asked so
licitously:
“Is your horse;sifck?”
“Not as 1 knows of.”
“Is lie balky?”
“No. But he is so dnnged ’fraid
I’ll say, whoa and ho won’t hear me
that lie stops every once in awhile
to listen.”—Everybody’s.
DANGEROUS DISEASE
Georgia State Board of Health Polnta
Out Necessity for Extreme Care
on Part of Mothers. ’ |
Atlanta, Ga.—(Special) — Mothers
who conseder whooping cough a triv
ial disease make a serious.and often
fatal mistake, says the Georgia State
Board of' Health: On the other hand,
It Is very fatal; It causes every year
In the, United-States nearly or/qufto
as many deaths as scarlet fever, and
almost one-half as many deaths as
diphtheria.
Approximately 5,000 deaths In the
United States are caused annually by
whooping cough, and of these about
97 per cent, are of, children under
five years of age. If. the child reaches
five years of age without having the
disease, the chances are stronglj' in
favor of his escaping It altogether,
though It is by no means certain and
It is well to continue to take precau
tions against it whenever necessary.
Thus, it is the babies who suffer
most from whpoplng epugh and -whoso
lives are too often laid dp.wn in heed
less sacrifice,''to : it. Save .the babies,
frpm It and the problem Is solved.
Considering the dangefr in whooping
cough, its fatality , resulting- more
largely from complications that fol:
low it than from the disease itself, It
Is strange that -sp many (mothers' look
on It lightly, and have even .been
known In some instances to permit
their children to be exposed to It
while young upon the theory that
they are better able to stand it and
that it is well for them to have it
early and be through with It. This
is a mistaken and dangerous view to
take. Inflammation of the breathing
tubes, wh.ch ip severe in this dis
ease, is often lollowed by pneumonia
of an exceedingly fatal type. Besides
being one of the most frequent caus
es or pneumonia in chilaien kidney,
and heart disease often follow.
Whooping cough is a highly con
tagious disease in which the oreath-
fng tubes are severely ,ntiained, amt
wuicli is accompanied by a peculiar
paroxysmal cotien ending in me la
minar ywnoqp.*' *i'ne real cause of
rne uisease is not Known; there nave
been many tneones involving numer
ous germs, but none ot them uhs ever
been proven out, Tnat tne d.sease
is spread almost enlueiy by lnuneui-
ate contact'—a contact wnicu must ua
fairly close and intimate : —is the gen
erally accepted view as to Lie mau-
her ot its contraction. s Wnen one
child m a home has it, the others are
practically sure to contract it. It is
not generally hebeved to be carried
by other persons or tnrough iutectod
cloth.ug or other articles. Close con
tact will spread it in the open u ir
but it is not so liable to do so as m
the house. ■f'-
For the first few days after con-*
trading the disease the child seems
to have an ordinary cold which does
not yield to customary treatment. Tho
cold will continue for a week or ten
days; the child* grows feverish and
lestless; ,the cougn becomes gradual
ly deeper and harsher; the child also
suffers from loss of appetite, and may
become restless and sleepless at
night. The next stage is more se
vere, bringing the paroxysms of!
coughing from which the disease gets!
its name. If the child is In bed, a
coughlhg spell may come on without
warning; if up and about It may be
restless and disturbed, seeming to feel
that an attaok is coming on, Any
slight disturbance such, as eating,
drinking of orylng will bring on a
spell. Beginning with a short cough,
there follows a long series of coughs
which gradually become shorter and
shorter, racking the whole body and
causing the greatest distress. At the
end of the series of coughs the 'ChihT
is breathless; its breath is.dra.vn in
with a sudden' catch and whoop.
Sometimes three or four attacks may
come in succession, leaving the child
completely exhausted.
Every case 'of whooping cough
should bo treated by' achy’s eia.t, for
proper treatment not ‘only lessens tho
child’s suffering, but its leads ' to
prompt recognition of the symptoms
of any dangerous complication which,
might threaten the child’s ‘life, 1
Health authorities have done little
toward stamping out the disease be
cause of the generally prevail.,: be
lief that it is of a more or less trivial
nature. But it would undoubtedly mat
terially lessen the spread of- tile dis
ease, if health authorities would take
hold of it as they do of other dan
gerous contagious diseases, pi.:yard
ing;, the houses in which there aro
whooping cough' patients, and, other
wise warning against the contagion.
It would be cruel .to confine Children
with whooping cough entirely to tlie
house; they need the fresh air. Rut
it has been suggested that, children
with whooping cough should b.e mark
ed with a ribbon of some spegtft^l;
color worn on the ahn when thi>y
go out. as a warning to others again’it
the disease. Such., protective meas
ures must, have a tendency to pre
vent tho spread of the disease.
Adoption of these protective mens-.
tires can only be ‘brought. About when'
people are . convinced of ‘their. • value
and necessity. The spread of whoop
ing cbugli can easily be controlled, If
the parents of any community will
unite in the work. Parents whose
children lmve the disease should warn
tlitlE. .'aeishhors.jnuJ. .friends against