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the land of big game.
ritish East Africa as It Appears to
the Hunter.
A brown village of thatched huts
natting in « trampled clearing of
forest and backed by thickset trees
«
closely laced with a living tapestry
woven green that the aching tropic
nligbt can scarcely penetrate; slim,
ted blacks slipping like shadows
ong the broad leaved bananas and
bber trees, staring furtively as your
arcrs file slowly past them; a lone
station far up or down river, where
haggard white man 'sits to receive
bute in the name of his trading
mpanv, marks an outpost of civiliza
n in this jungle land. And through
d under it nil are the fevered glare
sunlight, the ceaseless drowsy whis
r of the woods, the hot, dry scents
the parched earth, or, if the rains
ve come, all the land about will lie
aked in steaming vapor, the sultry
as thick and humid as the air of a
enhouse at home. There you have
Kongo as the white man knows it
he Kongo or the jungle of Uganda,
t all of this is only a part of what
have chosen to call and to picture
the dark continent,
or there, too, is the desert, widely
great in all Its aspects from Kongo
d. On the slope of the rising ground
t lifts from sea level at Mombasa
climbs to nearly 8,000 feet before
drops again to the lesser level of
torla Nyanza is another vast waste
typical of Africa as this jungle
□try—the desert, as it is called, the
ins of bush and grass. Six months
the year—from October to April—
ies half drowned under tropic rains,
m April to September only occa
ai showers fall, and the wide pla
i grills under the staring sunlight,
yellowing in the glare. Here upon
se uplands is found the great varl
of big game, the vast herds of
d things that have made and still
he Africa the greatest shooting
ntry in the world. This is British
t Africa as the hunter knows it.—
. Taylor in Everybody’s.
Migniy encouraging.
ne fine day. just as I was walking
I got the trac (blue funk) and
Id not speak my lines. I turned
elessly and with pleading eyes to
d the leading lady, who could not
a with her part until i had spoken:
for all help, she hissed at me from
'een her teeth. “Parle done, petit
al!" (Go on, speak, you little
t.) Of such was the “encourage
t" I received on one memorable
sion.—Coquelin’s Reminiscences in
don Telegraph.
Both Interested In Berkshires.
e Massachusetts maid was in a
antic mood. “I am dreaming.” she
mured poetically, “dreaming of the
old Berkshire hills of my native
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erkshires?” echoed the Chicago
h, somewhat bewildered. “Er—
your father in the pork raising
ness?"
d the look that the Massachusetts
gave him would have congealed
tn.—Chicago News
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COAL AS FUEL.
It Was In Use as Far Back
as
Time of King Solomon.
The first mention of coal in the an¬
nals of mankind occurs in the Bible,
Proverbs xxvi, 21,/ns follows: “As
coals are to burning coals and wood to
fire, so is a contentious man to
strife.” This was written about 1018
B. c., at the time King Solomon came
into power. Part of his dominion was
Syria, and ancient coal mines are
worked in that country today. There
are several other references to coal in
the Bible, all of a later date. Tools
and cinders have been found near the
Homan wall, indicating that the Brit¬
ons were familiar with the yse of coal
prior to the Roman invasion in 54 B. C.
The first actual record of a coal
transaction is the receipt for twelve
cart loads of coal written by the good
abbot of Peterborough, A. I). 852.
Years before the Christian era coal
was in common use in China. Anthra¬
cite coal is powdered, mixed with wet
clay and rolled into balls. These are
dried in the sun, and the poor use this
fuel in little hand furnaces precisely
as they did centuries ago. Marco Polo
speaks of seeing in 1275 “a kind of
black stone in Cathay that is used to
burn better than wood.” Marco Polo’s
countrymen refused to believe the
traveler's tale.
The earliest historic mention of coal
in the United States is by the French
Jesuit missionary father Hennepin,
who in his journal in 1679 speaks of
traces of coal appearing on the banks
of the fcllnois river and makes the site
of a “cole mine” on the James river,
neajr Richmond, the first mine opened
for the market. In 1706 anthracite
was discovered in the Wyoming valley
and a sample of the coal sent to Thom¬
as and William Penn In London.—Car¬
rington Phelps in Metropolitan Maga¬
zine.
No Sand In Sandpaper.
“There is no sand in sandpaper,”
said the manufacturer. “It is powder¬
ed glass that does the business. That’s
where the broken bottles go to.” He
nodded toward a mass of broken bot¬
tles in the yard. “We powder the glass
into half a dozen grades.” he said.
“We coat our paper with an even lay¬
er of hot glue. Then without loss of
time we spread on the glass powder.
Finally we run a wooden roller lightly
over the sheets to give them a good
surface. When in the past they made
sandpaper of sand it wouldn’t do a
quarter of the work that glass paper
does.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bride’s Pie Joke.
Her—Richard! Why on earth are
yon cutting your pie with a knife?
Him—Because, darling — now, under¬
stand. I'm not finding any fault, for I
know that these little oversights will
occur—because you forgot to give me
a can opener.—Cleveland Leader.
“That boy,” said the Billville farm¬
er. "beats my time! Jest now when I
quoted Scripter to him he come back
at me hard!”
“You don’t say!”
“Shore! I told him to git a hoe an’
foller the furrow. ‘Thar's gold in the
land,’ I said. An' what do you reckon
he made answer?”
"You tell it.”
“ ‘Father,’ he says, ‘I don’t keer fer
the gold o’ this here world. I've laid
up treasure in heaven.” "—Atlanta Con¬
stitution.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Pensive Butlers.
The fashion of building houses with
the entrance doors practically on a
level with the street gives the observ¬
ing stroller on Fifth avenue some hu¬
morous glimpses of butlers on duty.
In the house of one of the most fash¬
! ionable families in town the butler can
be seen standing behind the bronze
grill and glass doors staring disconso¬
lately out at the passing throng for
most of the afternoon, while across
the street from this house the same
kind of an entranceway often dis¬
closes a glimpse of a functionary of
the same class seated in a poetical at¬
titude by a circular marble table, his
head supported by his hand. Outside
of a hospital they are probably the
saduost looking men in New York.—
New York Press.
Hopelessly Out of Style.
“When we take charge of the gov¬
ernment,” says the wise old suffra¬
gette, “we will make some changes in
the naval bureau.”
“1 should hope so!” agrees the en¬
thusiastic young suffragette. “Why,
bureaus are hopelessly out of style!
We will have a combination wardrobe
and chiffonier.”—Judge.
A Sample.
Hoax—I can always tell a woman
who takes things because they look
cheap. Joax—How? Hoax—Simply by
looking at her husband.—Philadelphia
Record.
Count art by gold and it fetters the
feet it once winged.—Oulda.
Clerk’s Elbow.
“To remove shiny spots from coat
elbow r s and trousers seats,” said a clerk
—“I’ll tell you how it is done.”
The sun was strong on him as, upon
his lofty stool, he munched his mid¬
day sandwich from thin, ink smeared
fingers, but on his old clerk’s coat and
old trousers no shiny spots reflected
the light.
“ ‘Clerks’ elbow’ such spots are call¬
ed,” he said. "It’s like housemaids’
knee. To cure it you soak the glitter¬
ing spot in cold water for half an
hour. Then you take a teasel—that’s a
very stiff thistle—and you rub the
spot with it till a nap or fuzz is
raised up. Then with a clothesbrush
you lay the nap down the right way,
and, presto, the shine is gone!”—New
An Alibi.
The milkman stood before her nerv¬
ously twirling his hat in his hands.
“So,” she said sternly, “you have
come at last.”
“Yes, madam. You sent for me, I
believe,” he replied.
“I wished to tell you that I found a
minnow in the milk yesterday morn¬
ing.”
“I am sorry, madam, but if the cows
| will drink from the brook instead of
from the trough I cannot help it"—
Harper’s Weekly.
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Her Retort.
It is always gratifying to meet a
person who is contented with his lot.
For that reason it would be delightful
to make the acquaintance of the wom¬
an who had the last word in a suffra¬
gist controversy. The writer of a suf¬
fragist communication in a newspaper
wrote sadly that “woman is nothing ;
but a female relative of man; the man
is the noun, the woman is the preposi¬
tion.” “Well, what do I care?” was
the triumphant retort. “The preposi¬
tion governs the noun.”
E. H. Mobley
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