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A Very Restful Rest.
| Adolf Menzel, the German artist, was
Ut one time engaged on a mural deco¬
ration. lie had rigged up a scaffolding
In his studio, on which his model was
requested to stand, For two long
hours the poor poseur stood np aloft
in a most fatiguing posture. Menzel
In the meantime worked at his sketch,
heedless of the fact that his model was
growing tired.
At length the model found it neces¬
sary to speak. “Herr professor,” said
lie. “how about a recess?"
Menzel apologized profusely for his
forgetfulness, “Certainly, certainly,
my dear sir.” said he. “Come down
and rest yourself a bit."
The model had clambered from the
scaffolding to the ladder, which led
down from it to the studio floor.
“Stop!” cried the artist suddenly.
“That pose is fine! Don't move a mus¬
cle:”
And once more the model was forced
into strained rigidity, while the enthu¬
siastic draftsman set about sketching
him.
At the end of half an hour Menzel
looked up from his work, “There,”
said he; “that will do nicely! Get back
on the scaffold. We have had our
rest. I.et us get back to work again.”
What the model said is left to the
reader's imagination.
Scotland and Horse Racing.
' Scotland has been famous for its
horses from the most ancient days.
When Agricola defeated the Caledo¬
nians at the battle of the Grampians.
A. D. 84. the Celtic enemy, as Tacitus
relates, were exceptionally strong in
cavalry and charioteers. Successive
kings of Scotland did much to improve
its native breed of horses, and in this
connection it is not to be forgotten
that the first Scottish king of Eng¬
land, James I,, did more to improve
the rare horses in our island than was
ever done before him or has ever been
done by any individual since. James
I. was the real author of horse racing
as it lias since been known in England.
He it was who first established regu¬
lar courses, and during his reign there
came into being the code of regula¬
tions that led up to the modern laws of
the turf. Nobody denies that horse
racing has done much for the breed of
British liorses. It was a gift from
Scotland.—London Answers.
Sizing Dp Bernard Shaw.
Bernard Shaw is thus immortalized
by Charles Hawtrey, the well known
English comedian: “Once on a time
I had a mad desire to produce Shaw's
play of 'You Never Can Tell.’ I wrote
to Shaw and asked his permission, lie
answered that be would come and
read it to me. He did aud began by
saying that sometimes he thought it
was the best play that ever was writ
ten and at others he considered it the
greatest trash. Anyhow, tie was of
opinion that It was a pretty poor play
aud that If 1 produced it—well, I must
take the consequences. Some time
afterward I asked Sbafjr If I could
compress the last act. He declined to
allow one line to be altered or cut out.
In view of certain contingencies I had
at last to tell him that I couldn’t pro¬
duce the play. Ills answer was:
’Thank you so much! You have taken
a great load off my mind.’ Now, what
are you to do with a man like that?”—
Minneapolis Journal.
Domestic Bliss.
They had been trotting in double
harness for seven long, weary months,
and the honeymoon bad bumped the
(bumps for fair.
“John,” she said, as she dished out
the breakfast food. “I need u little pin
money this morning.”
“What did you do with the $5 I
gave you last week?” asked the man
f who had promised to love, honor and
pay the freight.
“Oh, I don't remember,” she refilled.
'“It's so easy to spend $5 and have
nothing to show for it.”
“Right you are,” sighed John “That
was the amount I paid the minister
jfor marrying us.”—Chicago News.
1
Tongue Twisters,
Among brief tongue twisters the fa¬
llowing are hard to beat: "The son
•bines on the top signs;” "She say© she
•hall sew a sheet;” “The sixth sick
•heik s sixth sheep’s sick.” Some of
Shakespeare’s lines offer pitfalls to the
(rapid speaker. In “Midsummer Night's
©ream” we find, “When Hou rough in
wildest rage doth roar,” aud in the
same play
i Oh, Fates, come, come!
Cut thread and thrum;
Quail, crush, conclude and quell.
—London Chronicle.
A Corsican Vendetta.
Lecturing on “The Land of ihe Ver,
liefta” at the Royal Geographical so¬
ciety's headquarters, the Rev. T. T.
Norgate said he had discovered in¬
stances of a vendetta being started In
l«orsi«a through a pig getting Into an¬
other man’s field, and this had caused
*the loss of perhaps hundreds of lives
‘and bad made two families deadly ene¬
mies for upward of 300 years. The
men who carried on such a vendetta
would scorn to rob any one of a Dx
penny piece.—London Globe
Why She OpenecT*ti»' Letter.
Willis—I’m sorry your .wib opened
(that business letter I «oul you. Harris.
iYou told me that she uevei opened
your letters.
Harris—She doesn't, ns a rule, Wo is.
'but, yon see. you marked it “private
A Little Tcc /flung.
New Boarder— How’ts the fare bere?
.Old Boarder—Well, we have chicken
•very morning. New Boarder—That’©
brst rate! How is it nerved” Old
iBearder—In the eggs —Brooklyn Life
I Peace rule* the day where
roler. Hie mind.—Collin::
ANCIENT ..
They Were Often Quadrangular **»■.
Made of Thin Iron Plates
There are several old bells in S •<»
land, Ireland and Wales. The old t
often quadrangular, being juiUm <
thin iron plates which Inn■ 1“ >•
mered and riveted toget ** I 1 O*
monastery of St Gall in Switzerland
the four sided bell of the Irish mission¬
ary St. Gall, who lived in the seventh
century, is still preserved, but mure
ancient still is the bell of St. Patrick
in Belfast, which is ornamented with
gold and gems and silver filigree work.
The curfew bell is that about which
most has been written‘and said. It
has been thought that it was ouly used
in England, bnt it was quite common
on the continent in the middle ages.
The rin &ing hells by rope is still
very popular in England, especially in
the country, where almost every ham
let however small, has its church with
its peal of bells, which are often re¬
markably well rung. The first real
peal of bells in England was sent by
Pope Calixtus III. to King’s college,
Cambridge, and was for 300 years the
largest peal in England. About the
beginning of the year 1500 setiS^f eight
bells were hung in a few of the large
churches.
In the middle of the seventeenth cen¬
tury a man named White wrote a fa¬
mous work on bells in which he intro¬
duced the system of numbering them
1, 2, 3, 4. etc., on slips of paper in dlf
ferent order-s, according to the changes
intended to be rung. It is calculated
that to ring all the changes upon twen
ty-four bells at two strokes a second
would take 117 billion ■
years.
One of the most famous hells in the
world is the first great bell of Moscow,
which now stands in the middle of a
square in that city and is used as a
chapel. This bell was cast in 1733. but
was in the earth for over a hundred
years, being raised in 1830 by the Em
peror Nicholas. It is nearly twenty
feet high, has a circumference of sixtj
feet, is two feet thiek and weighs al
most 200 tons. The second Moscow
bell, which is the largest bell in the
world that is actually in use, weighs
128 tons. There are several bells ex
tent which weigh ten tons and over, of
which Big Ben, the largest bell in Eng
land, weighing between thirteen and
fourteen tons, is one. Big Ben is un
fortunately cracked.-London Globe,
“The Beast
and the Jungle”
applies to every city and
town in the United States
—-yours included—just as
surely as it does to Denver.
Besides, it is a wonderful
true story of real life.
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>. Name*.
Jaaephlne, empress o the French.
was Yeyette to her Intimate friends.
Her name In reality was Marie Josephe
Rose. Napoleon after the marriage
exacted that she should be known as
Josephine. lie had a mania for re¬
baptizing the women of his entourage,
He made his sister Marianne an Elise,
of Annonciade a Caroline, of Paulette
a Pauline.
Among her numerous friends Joseph¬
ine remained Yeyette. Barras never
called her otherwise.
The pope was so unfamiliar with
her name that when he sent his bene¬
diction the letter borne by his legate
was addressed to “Our Sister In Jesus
Christ, Victoria Bonaparte.”
In IS 14, on the departure for Elba,
the Debats designated Josephine under
the paraphrase “the mother ©f Prince
Eugene ”
At Ruell her tomb bears this simple
Inscription, “A Josephine, Eugene et
Hcrtense, 1S25.” The restoration did
not permit her recognition as empress.
—Cri de Taris.
What Was the Matter.
SI. A. Sothern once told a dilemma
he got Into:
“I was acting in a comedy when I
had to speak the w r ords, *What’s the
matter?’ Well, one night I was rather
slow about taking my cue and was
prompted. I forgot myself for the mo¬
ment, and when the words came,
'What’s the matter?’ 1 thought some¬
thing or other had occurred out of the
common. I paused and looked round.
Everything seemed normal, and the
(Stage waited. Then came another
'What’s the matter?’ from the O. P.
side. They were all getting anxious
behind the scenes, and so was I, for
that matter. I looked myself up and
down and then scanned my fellow
actor, but for the life of me couldn’t i
see anything wrong. At last an audi- j j
ble whisper came: ‘Go on with your
lines, you idiot! What’s the matter '
with you?’ Thou it suddenly dawned ,
oh me whore I was, but the house had ■
tumbled to the situation and came i
dowu in convulsions.”—Minneapolis
Journal.
The Substitution.
It is a well known fact that both
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir W. S. I
GAlbert had a horror of the titles of
their operas becoming known until the
very night of their performance. This :
fear that they might bo forestalled ere- j
nted considerable confusion at the ini
tial production of “Iolanthe; or The
Peer and the Teri.” The opera was
rehearsed for weeks under the title
of “Ferola.” It was only at the dress
rehearsal that the company was in¬
structcd to substitute the name ‘To
laolhe” for that of “Perola” wherever
it occurred in the text or lyrics. It
was no easy task to replace vocally
and in the dialogue a name of three
syllables for one of four. Sullivan
however, said (maybe aside) to one or
two of the actors who were
“Go ahead and sing the music. Gil
bert won’t be in front” (Gilbert never
attended the first night), “so use any ,
name that yon think of first if you
are rattled. No one in the audience
will be any wiser.*’—Boston Post.
Young's Impromptu.
To most persons Edward Young is
the author of “Night Thoughts” and
uothing more, but he was also a man
of the world and a shrewd and caustic
wit as well as the rector of St. Mary's
church at Welwyn.
It was there in the garden of the rec¬
tory that he composed some of the best
Impromptu verses known. He was
walking with two ladies when some
one summoned him to the house. His
eompanions were agreeable, and be
was in no haste to leave them. Turn
ing as he reached the gate, he said:
Thus Adam looked whe» from the garden
driven
Ana di * puted orders Bent from
iJke him, I go and yet to go am loath:
Uke hfm. i go, for angels drove us both.
Hard was ht» fate, but mine still more
unkind;
His Eh’© went with him, but mine stays
behind.
The Alternative.
“If the window had been eight feet
from the grouDd,” pouted the young
wife, “instead of eight stories. I'd
have thrown myself out when you
quarreled with me. The* you'd have
bad to be sweet to me when you
picked me up. A lot of wives attempt
suicide, they say, just to be petted
when Ihey come to.”
“Yes,” said he, “but sometimes they
don’t come to, remember.”—New York
Press.
One For Every Day.
“I’Ve bocti reading about one of (hem
rich men wot s got er suit, of clothes
lor every day in the week,” said one
tramp to another.
“That’s nothin'. So 'ave I. This is It
I’Ve got on now!”—London Globe.
Hi* Precaution.
The Artist’s Wife (in a whisper)—
There’s some one knocking, Jack.
Khali I open the door? The Artist
Ko; it’s Jabber’s knock. It’s a special
kno«k 1 gavfe him, so I wouldn’t let
film in by mistake.—Life.
He Wanted to Know.
Johnnie—Mother Isn't blind, is she?
i a _Of course not What put that
Into your bead? Johnnie—Mrs. Bow
*or whe was here today,.said mother'd
never m < forty again.—Boston Tran
eorint.
Not a Crack Shot.
“My aim is trulh—always truth," said
b man.
‘Toeeibly.” rejoined an acquaintance,
“bat yen were always a bad marks
men!”
A man's fate lies in his character
• nd not in Ms conditions —Mabie.
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Night calls answered from residence.
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FIRST baptist.
Kev. E. R. PENDLETON, iv
-crvices Sunday tl „
every at n „ m
Sunday School 9 :4-5 a ,, Kln *'8upj
tntendent
B. Y. P U,4 p,
Praver meeting Wednesday
A cordial invitation af» P *
Woman’s Home Mission isext-n ,
li r.-t Monday afternoon of each m' th*
u omeseMrs rilLa, lies Aid G T Society Well>,pres* »*tk
afternoon except the first meet 1
Otis Adair, President at £
COUNTY LINE baptist,
Rev EUGENE R PENDLETON
Preaching Second Sunday sior
eoufeience betore servtees at Bp* Cliurci
Sunday School 2 pm HD Mabry,
veil dent. s %ria.
ZION BAPTIST
Rev W F COMBS, Pastor
Preaching every Third Saturd a >' and Sun
at. 1 1 a m
Sunday Soho l 10 a “ ET Hull,
teuoent su peril
SNAPPING SHOALS METH0D1S
Rev W O BUTLER, pastor.
^Preaching First Sunday, morning and eve
Sunday Sehool 10 a m on first Sundav anas
3 tendent. pm on other days. H A BsLoach. L ' ?
FIRST METHODIST
Rev. H. M. QUILLIAN, Pastor.
Services every Sunday at li a .m. and 7«„
Sunday School 9:45 a. tn., R. p, Lester
perintendent. »
Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7»
A cordial invitation is extended to »ll
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Mit
John Woman’s B.Davis. Home President, meets on FirstFrite! el
Mission Society, Mrs
A. Harwell, President, meets Monday mJ
mg first Sunday.
OXFOKD METH0DIM
Rev. W. ,H LaPRADE. Pastor.
Sunday Preaching Sehool every 9:30 Sunday at 11 amandlpJ sj
am Hll Stone,
inteudent.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at;,
MIDWAY A ETH0DIST
Rev YV H LaPRADF ‘ )r
Preaching every Snnc't t II a nrandTpi
j Sunday School p ii w I’eppler. s™
inteudent.
Prayer meeting Tin; i rvening at 5.
Woman’s Foreign . »ry Society ctei
on the First Thursday o* each moatb atiip(
Mrs A M Turner, president.
Young'People’s Missionary Society aeetnl
the First Wednesday afternoon of east aonti
Mrs Geo P Shingler, president,
The Juvenile Missionary Society meetaJ
the First Friday afternoon in eaeb norSi
Mrs Eugenia Thompson, lady manager,
PRESBYTERIAN
Rev. JOHN B. GORDON, Pastor.
Services every Sunday at it a.m.and 7 30pl
Sunday School 9:45 a, m. R. W. Milner *
perintendent.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening FRogers,Praij at 7 30.
Ladies Aid Society, Mrs J
dent, meets Monday after the Second Sundd
at 3 p m at the homes.
Earnest Workers, Mrs J B Gordon, Presideafl
meets Monday after Fourth Suuday.
The Loyal Helpers, Mrs W T Milner, Fred
dent, meets 3pm Fourth Sunday at thechurdl
SALEM METHODIST
Rev W O BUTLER. Pastor.
Preaching Third Saturday and Sundayilill
Sunday School at Sundays, 10 a m on Third J Will Sundaytaj Cowansa
at 3 p m on other
perintendent. I j
Prayer meeting Wednesday atTpim
PROSPECT METHODIST
Rev W O BUTLER, Pastor. Sunday^
Preaching Fourth Saturday and
am.
Sunday School 10 a m. P G Tomer stptffl
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