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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. , f • „ 1 : • 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