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Wednesday, May 4, 1910.
First Modern One Was Opened
In Scotland In 1810.
STARTED BY HENRY DUNCAN.
Was Presbyterian Clergyman and
H. a
Was a Friend of Thomas Carlyle and
celebrated Dr. Chalmers— The
of she
Rapid Spread of the System.
first savings bank |o accept de¬
The amounts and to pay
bits in small
cumulative Interest was opened in Scot¬
land la May. 1810. Several Institutions
savings existed in foreign countries
for there was nothing in
nrlor Jnv to 1810, but
respect like the modern savings
t«nk England, for example, early
witnessed the appearance of numerous
small charitable associations and insti¬
which undertook to invest the
tutions their members.
savings of bank, how¬
The first modern savings
was originated by Henry Dun
ever ’ Presbyterian clergyman of
a of Thom
Dumfries, Scotland, a friend
Carlyle and of the celebrated Dr
«s throughout his active
Chalmers, who
life was interested in various schemes
ef practical benevolence. In 1810, aft¬
be had already set forth his views
er Dumfries Courier,
on the subject in the
he established the Ruthwell Savings
bank His purpose, as expressed in a
memoir published by his son in 1888.
was to Induce the mass of people of
bis time to realize the value of the lit
tie savings which by economy could be
put away. of lowland
The Dumfries community
Scotch was a good one in which to
start such a scheme. During the first
year savings to the amount of £150
were deposited in the Ruthwell Sav¬
ings bank and in the next two years
£171 and £241, respectively. By 1814
the deposits amounted to £922.
As the success of Mr. Duncan's
scheme became known similar Institu¬
tions were organized elsewhere In
Scotland and England. One of the
earliest was the Edinburgh Savings
bank, still a thriving institution.
The Ituthwell bank had some pe
cuiarities which distinguished it from
the institutions that were developed
later. There was an annuity fund, for
Instance. Most remarkable of all. be
fore anybody’s first deposit was re¬
ceived inquiries had to be made as to
his age, family affairs and previous
moral conduct. According to what
was discovered the management decid
ed, first, whether his deposit should be
accepted and. second, what rate of
interest should be allowed him.
The Ruthwell bauk’s funds were
placed with the British Linen company
which allowed 5 per cent interest on
them. Most of the depositors received
4 per cent, but to those of three years’
standing whose deposits amounted to
£5 or more 5 per cent was allowed,
provided the depositor wanted to get
married or that he was fifty-six years
old or that in other respects it would
be especially advantageous for him to
receive more interest. The first sav¬
ings bank was under no obligation to
allow depositors to withdraw funds
when they wanted. There was a pro¬
vision that "when the depositor shall
have become Incapable of maintaining
himself from sickness or otherwise a
weekly allowance may be made to him
at the option of the court of directors
out of the money he has deposited.”
The Edinburgh Savings bank was
much simpler in its organization than
the Ruthwell and more closely resem¬
bled the savings banks of the present
day. Each depositor received the same
rate of interest. There was no pre
limlnary Investigation of his charac¬
ter, and he could withdraw his de¬
posits at pleasure. The rate of inter¬
est was uniformly 4 per cent.
Widespread interest was aroused in
the early experiments in Great Britain,
larseelng people realized that the new
institutions were destined to add large¬
ly to general prosperity and happiness.
This opinion was eloquently voiced by
the great Scotch critic Francis Jeffrey,
who, writing in the Edinburgh Review,
said: ‘It would be difficult, we fear,
to convince either the people or their
rulers that the spread of savings
auks is of far more importance and
ar more likely to increase the happi¬
ness and even the greatness of the ua
| t» on arms than or the the most brilliant success of
most stupendous im¬
provement of its trade and its agricul
Ul ">‘ And yet we are persuaded that
It is so."
Dtws safeguarding savings banks
passed as these institutions began
0 emulation. s J low vitality Trustees and clearly need«J
and mauagers
ere early prohibited from making
P r «fit in any
connection with these banks,
e English savings bank movement
'PH ly spread throughout the
, J ent. France, Germany. Denmark and
*iaiy successively taking up the idea,
h' ' ,U re modifications proper
td Uationall,yr
ecs ful has proved suc
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sSy in 1816 and
Fund th PhiladelPUia SaV,Dg
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.,11 ' isaed , lu Boston.
,o New York fol
ten if tLe “ ant * in 1820 there were
Posit., couutry ' living 8.635 de
b ^ton GlX. * U38 ’ 570 111 deposits.—
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A SECOND MEETING.
The Earl of Stanhope and the Trust¬
ing Highwayman.
One night when the Earl of Stanhope
was walking alone in the Kentish
lanes a man jumped out of the hedge,
leveled a pistol and demanded his
purse.
‘‘My good man, I have no money
with me,” said Lord Stanhope in his
remarkably slow tones. The robber
laid hands on his watch.
"No,” Lord Stanhope went on; "that
watch you must not have. It was giv¬
en to me by one I love. It is worth
£100. If you will trust me, I will go
back to Cheveuing and bring a £100
note and place it in the hollow of that
tree I cannot lose my watch.”
The man did trust him. The earl did
bring the note. Years after Lord Stan¬
hope was at a city dinner, and uext to
him sat a London alderman of great
wealth, a man widely respected. lie
and the earl talked of many things
and found each other mutually enter¬
taining.
Next day Lord Stanhope received a
letter, out of which dropped a £100
dote. "It was your lordship’s kind
loan of this sum,” said the letter, “that
started me In life and enabled me to
have the honor of sitting next to your
lordship at dinner.”
A strange story, but the Stanhopes
are a strange race, and things happen
to them that never did or could occur
to other people.—London Spectator.
A TURKISH LEGEND.
The Red Rose Sprang From a Drop of
Mohammed’s Blood.
“A truly religious Turk looks upon
the rose with great reverence,” said
a florist. “The rose is beyond ques¬
tion the prettiest flower that blooms,
and it was so considered by the Turks
many years before the conquest of
Granada. There is a religious legend
generally believed in throughout Tur¬
key that the red rose sprang from a
drop of the great prophet Mohammed’s
blood. Everything beautiful in nature
is ascribed to him. The Turks, there
fore, have great revereuce for the
flower and allow it to bloom and die
untouched, except on state occasions
and for the purpose of making rose
water.
"After the conquest by the Turks
they would not worship in any church
until the walls were cleansed and
washed with rosewater and thus puri¬
fied by the blood of the prophet, it
is used on the body for the same pur¬
pose. A Turk whose conscience is
stung by some act or deed he has com¬
mitted will caress and pay reverence
to the rose to appease the wrath of
the prophet and Allah.
"With these ideas inculcated in him
from youth it would shock him severe¬
ly to see the pretty flower strewn in
the path of a bridal couple, thrown on
the public stage or banked up in hun¬
dreds at a swell reception or party to
be crushed and spoiled in an evening.”
Notes on Speed.
The maximum speed acquired by the
average person in swimming comfort¬
ably is thirty-nine inches a second,
while oarsmen in an eight oared boat
acquire a speed of 197 inches in a sec¬
ond. Skaters average from nine to
ten yards a second. The horse can
gallop six miles in an hour for a con¬
siderable length of time. The swift¬
est dog in the world, the borzoi, or
Russian wolfhound, has made record
runs-at the rate of seventy-five feet in
a second, while the gazelle has shown
measured speed of more than eighty
feet a second, which would give it a
speed of 4,800 feet in a minute if it
could keep it up. The whale struck
by a harpoon has been known to dive
at the rate of 300 yards a minute. A
species of falcon known as the wan¬
dering falcon flies from north Africa
to northern Germany in one unbroken
flight, making the distance in eleven
hours.
Rules of Sleep.
Those who think most, who do most
brain work, require most sleep, and
time “saved” from necessary sleep is
Infallibly destructive to mind, body
and estate. Give yourself, your chil¬
dren, your servants—give all that are
under you—the fullest amount of sleep
they will take by compelling them to
go to bed at some regular early irour
and to rise in the morning the moment
they awake, and w ithin a fortnight na¬
ture, with almost the regularity of the
rising sun, will unloose the bonds of
sleep the moment enough repose has
been secured for the wants of the sys¬
tem. That is the only safe and suffi¬
cient rule, and, as to the question how
much sleep any one requires, each
, must be a rule for himself. Great na¬
ture will never fail to write Jt out to
the observer under the regulations just
j given.—London Globe.
j
Bunched His Blunders.
“John,” said Mrs. Billus after the
caller had gone away, “I wish you
j wouldn’t bunch your blunders so.”
“What do you mean, Maria?” asked
Mr. Billus.
"I didn’t mind your telling her that
you were ten years older than 1, but
you followed it up a minute later by
letting it slip out that you were fifty
two.”—Chicago Tribune.
j Listen.
"Well, Henry, how do you like your
neighbors?”
"Not at all; they’re so quiet that l
daren’t move or mamma can’t hear
what they’re saying.”—Bon Vivant
A Question of Time.
“How r much does it cost to get mar¬
ried?” asked the eager youth.
"That depends entirely on how long
you live,” replied the sad looking man.
—Philadelphia Record.
THE eoviNat ON NEWS.
Special Ad. Column
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well double jointed cotton seed for
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ROOMS TO RENT.—SEVERAL FIN
Office rooms to rent in Star Build¬
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ROOMS TO RENT TO A COUPLE
to do light house keeping. Apply to
Mrs. C. I. Cash. tf.
FOR RENT OR SALE.—ONE FIVE
room house and about one acre of
land on Floyd street. Apply to
R. H. Heard, City.—tf.
FOR SALE—A WIND MILL, TOW
er and tank, at a bargain. See me
at once. R. W. Milner, Covington,
Ga.—tf.
FOR SALE, FLOORING, WEATHER
boarding, shingles, brick and lime.
W. H. Pickett. tf.
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS
The world’s greatest layers. I have
a pen of birds of the very highest
quality. If you want results get a
setting of my eggs. Eggs $1.50 for
15. E. L. PEEK—tf.
GROUND BONE IS MIGHTY GOOD
good for your chickens. It makes
them lay every day. Try a small
order from Cook Bros.—tf.
HOME MADE WATER GROUND
meal, ground at Pennington’s Mill,
on Alcova river, near Starrsville.
For sale by C. C. Robinson and C.
A. Franklin, Covington, and Mans¬
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MY YOUNG HENS ARE LAYING SO
many eggs that I have decided to
I sell for a limited time 15 eggs from
my best pen of Rhode Island Reds
i for one dollar. My birds are as
good as anybody's and better than
j the majority. It will pay you to
start right, by buying your first lot
off eggs from chickens having the
right color, shape and size, I guar¬
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Let me fill your orders for you.
Edwin Taylor, Covington, Ga. tf.
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR SAL
$1.00 per setting. R. F. Taylor.
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Lot of Fixtures for sale. Apply to
C. I. Cash or News Office.
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As soon as you put
Brenlin up, the dif¬
ference between it
and the filled cloths
is apparent
Women who have tried all other
materials are the ones who are
most enthusiastic about Brenlin.
They know from experience that
the appearance it gives their win¬
dows, the way it wears is well
worth the slight increase in cost
Anything cheaper is false economy.
Breatta
Trade Mare Reg. U. S. Pat. Orr.
Window Shades
The light colors give a soft
mellow light—with the greens and
other light colors you can shut
out the light completely.
Be sure you see the marking
BRENLIN
It protacts you from shades tha*
look like Brenlin when new hu
don t wear.
Let us show you these shades.
R. E. EVERJTT.
The News’ extra Thursday morn¬
i ing will give the result of today’s
prima.ry for county officers exactly
bow the vote is cast in each of the
different districts.
RACE WAGERS IN INDIA.
Native’s Method of Choosing a Winnei
and Making Bets.
The native of India wagers his
money according to the colors worn
by the jockeys and takes no heed oi
the merits of the horses, or he will
back a horse ridden by his favoritf
Jockey, no matter whether the anime'
is a rank outsider or not.
His Ideas of gambling. In fact, ar<
distinctly novel. Some of the mort
wealthy Indians form rings and back
every horse In the race, thus gaining
the satisfaction of getting a winnei
every time. It is really only of lat*
years that the native of India has be
come a habitual gambler on the turf
and nowadays the bulk of the betting
of the various racing centers In India
Is done by natives, indeed, the au¬
thorities are somewhat concerned about
the growth of the betting which takes
place among Indian natives. It being
asserted that as many as thirty lac*
of rupees (about £300.000) Is lost am 1
won in the course of a season.
The ignorant masses have not t
great deal of actual money to wager
but so badly bitten are many of then
with the craze for betting at race meet
ings that they frequently wager wha*
little property they possess on a horse
and If they lose they simply replac*
their loss by stealing a neighbor’*
goods. The consequence is that wheD
the racing season comes around the
police are kept very busy dealing with
cases of petty larceny and other crimes
Involving loss of property.—London
Tit-Bits.
NOT ANNOYED.
The Directors Were Rather Pleased
at the Barrister’s Refusal.
Mr. Reader Harris, K. C.. was once
offered a brief marked 50 guineas on
behalf of a railway company that
wished to obtain a refreshment license
for a particular railway station. He
returned the brief on conscientious
grounds, but later on it was sent back
to him with a fee of 100 guineas
marked on it. This time he returned
it with a note In which he explained
that his refusal was due to a matter
of principle. Subsequently he met one
of the directors of the company and
expressed a hope that he and his col
leagues were not annoyed at his cod
duct.
“Not at all,” said the director. “I’ll
tell you all about it. So-and-so. the
big brewer, was sitting on the board
for the first time at the meeting at
which the solicitor reported that youi
brief marked 50 guineas had been re
turned. ‘Who’s this psalm singing
humbug?* he asked. ‘Mark the brie/
100 guineas and I’ll bet you anything
you like he’ll take it’ *Oh, you will
will you?* asked the chairman. You
see, we ail knew you. Harris. We
took the brewer on at 5 to 1 in five
pound notes. He booked the bets with
every one of us, and he has paid up*
—London Scraps.
A Curious Receipt.
Hanover's registrar discovered a
very curious document some time ago
as he was looking through a bundle of
papers that date back to the eight
eenth century. The document is a re
ceipt—probably the only one of Its
kind in existence—which was given to
a Hanoverian captain by a canon of
Duisburg during the Seven Years’ war.
“I. the undersigned,” it reads, “here¬
by acknowledge that I have received
fifty blows of a stick, which were In¬
flicted upon me by a lieutenant of Cap¬
tain B.’s regiment as a punishment for
the stupid and frivolous calumnies
which I have uttered in regard to the
regiment of chasseurs. For my im
prudent words I now admit that I am
profoundly sorry. I received my pun¬
ishment lying on a heap of straw and
held by two men, and I bear testimony
to the fact that the officer struck me
as vigorously as he could with a stick
that was as thick as my finger.
“In proper form and with due grati¬
tude I sign this receipt and avow that
all therein Is true.”
Hard to Kill.
A crocodile’s tenacity of life Is most
remarkalfPe. “I remember one time,”
says a traveler in India, “I was with
a shooting party on the Ganges when
the natives brought in a six foot croco¬
dile. They hoped some one would want
to buy It. but no one did, so It was de¬
termined to kill the creature. It was
hauled out of the tank and tied to a
tree. Bullets from a small rifle or an
ordluary gun seemed only to Irritate
the saurian, nor did he seem to care
very much when a native thrust a
spear down his throat Finally they
were obliged to dispatch him with
axes. Even then the tail thrashed
for no little time after.”
Not That Kind.
“Once in a Bible lesson," said a
school teacher, “I repeated the
‘Arise and take the young child
his mother and flee Into EgypL*
then I showed the children a large
that illustrated the text In
colors.
“The children studied this picture
Then they all frowned; all
rather disappointed. Finally a
girl said:
“‘Teacher, where is the flea?”’
Where to Sing.
“I will sing something restful to yon,
said a lady to her morose hus¬
“Shall I sing ‘Far, Far Away?*"
“1 wish you would,” was the bitter
“It would save the trouble of
to the neighbors.”
How Those Girls Love One Another.
Maud—And the last thing that Henry
was to give me a kiss. Mabel—
I should think that Is shout
last thing he would do.—illustrated
OLD ENGLISH HUMOR
The Brand of Laugh Extractors
Used Two Centuries Ago.
IN “JOE MILLER’S JEST BOOK”
A Selection of Specimen Jokes From
the Venerable Volume That Mark
Twain Was Moved to Call the Alpha
and Omega of Dejected Humor.
The “Joe Miller Jest Book”—It is
famous. Mark Tw r atn mentions It as
the alpha and omega of dejected hu¬
mor. It Is unrivaled, incomparable,
apart. Further, it Is English-very
English.
Possibly the latter phenomenon is re¬
sponsible for the difficulty a searcher
had in finding an unrevised copy. Aft¬
er an afternoon of search a second
hand but scarcely worn copy finally
was discovered in a little bookstore.
The bookseller eyed the buyer curious¬
ly, but with some awe, and seemed
very glad to get rid of it for 25 cents.
Twenty-five cents! How instantly
reminiscent of one of the Joe Miller
Jokes—beg pardon, jests:
THE LIGHT SUBJECT.
Tli« government, having threatened to
proceed rigorously against those who re¬
fused to pay assessed taxes, offered to
them a remission of one-fourth. "This at
least,” said one sufferer, "may be called
giving them some quarter.”
You can get that off in your very
next after dinner speech. You can put
a little accent on one-fourth and quar¬
ter and get quite as loud a laugh.
Second specimen (it must be remem¬
bered that the jest book was compiled
in the early part of the eighteenth
century, when there were literarians;
therefore the jests that aren’t blamed
on lords are mostly charged to writ¬
ers):
A DIFFERENCE.
Jerrold one day met a Scotch gentleman
whose name was Leitch, who explained
that he was not the popular cartoonist
John Leech. “I’m aware of that," said
Jerrold. “You're the Scotchman with the
1-t-c-h in your name.”
There! Just think of the triumph with
which Mr. Jerrold later related that quip
to his friends.
Specimen:
THE CONNOISSEUR.
A person to whom the curiosities, build¬
ings, etc., in Oxford were shown one very
hot day was asked by his companion if
he would see the remainder of the univer¬
sity. “My dear sir,” replied the connois¬
seur, “1 am stone blind already.”
Whether the friend expired In
6pasms of mirth or subsequently was
hanged for mayhem the jest book
doesn’t say.
The wit of the Irish is called In too.
Specimen:
A SPRIG OF SHILLALAH.
A fellow on th* quay, thinking to quiz
a poor Irishman, asked him, “How do the
potatoes eat now, Pat?” The Irish lad,
who happened to have a shillalah in his
hand, answered cleverly: “Oh, they eat
very well, my Jewel! Would you like to
taste the stalk?” And, knocking the in¬
quirer down, he coolly walked off.
Probably It was a good thing he
knocked him down first.
Turning to the middle of the book—
there are 400 pages—Joe breaks into
verse:
ON THE LATIN GERUNDS.
When Dido mourned. Aeneas would not
come.
She wept In silence and was Di-Do-Dumb.
Classic?
Here’s—
A BAD END
It was told of Jekyll that one of his
friends, a brewer, had been drowned in
his own vat. “Ah." he exclaimed, "float¬
ing in his own watery bier!”
Right off the bat that.
There’s little Johnny also. He drops
In during jest:
THE SEASON-INGS.
“Come here, Johnny, and tell me what
the four seasons are."
Young Prodigy—Pepper, salt, mustard
and vinegar.
Here’s a little shot at politics and
the peer system:
EPIGRAM.
(On Alderman Woods being afraid to
pledge himself to even the principles he
has always professed.)
Sura in the house he'll do but little good
Who lets "I dare not” wait upon “1,
Wood" (I would).
Oh, listen! Talk about your origi¬
nality:
A SHORT JOURNEY.
“Zounds, fellow!” exclaimed a choleric
old gentleman to a very phlegmatic, mat¬
ter of fact person, “I shall go out of my
wits!"
“Well, you won’t have far to go,” said
the phlegmatic man.
Yes, and here’s a small ebullition
from a dramatist:
OLD FRIENDS.
Coleman, the dramatist, was asked it
ho knew Theodore Hook. “Yes,” replied
the wit. “Hook and eye are old associ¬
ates.”
Hook was not present at the time.
The courts also come through with
a few gems:
NEW RELATIONSHIP.
A stranger to law courts, hearing a
Judge Els call a sergeant “brother," expressed
surprise. “Oh,” said one of the by¬
standers, “they are brothers—brothers in
tatw.”
And speaking of repartee:
A SHUFFLING ANSWER.
Two Oxonians dining together, one of
them noticed a grease spot on the neck¬
cloth of his companion and said, ”1 see
you are a Grecian.”
“Pooh!" said the other. “That Is far¬
fetched.”
“No, Indeed,” said the wit; “I made It
•n the spot."
Right back at him, you observe.
Of course there are some better ones,
but there are also some that are worse.
Taken as a whole, they don’t add any
laurels to the English reputation for
humor nor detract any from the opin¬
of Mark Twain.—Kansas City
Emperors and cobblers are alike, and
same reason that makes us wran¬
with • neighbor causes s war be¬
gfteees,—Montaigne.
PAGE SEVEN
THE AGILE ESKIMO.
Habit Enables Him to Scale Ice Clad
Heights With Ease.
“In all my experience I had never
encountered a rougher, more difficult
eountry In which to hunt than in
Ellesmere Land,” writes Harry Whit¬
ney in Outing. “Ordinarily I should
have believed these mountain. sides,
with walls of smooth rock sheathed
with a crust of hard ice and snow,
quite unscalable
“In places they were almost perpea
dicular. Rarely did they offer a crev
V*® to serve as foot or hand hold, and
Jotting points and firm set bowlders
were too widely scattered to be of
much help.
“In this his native land the Eskimo
has a decided advantage over the
white hunter. His lifetime of experi¬
ence has taught him to scale these
ice clad heights with a nimbleness and
ease that are astounding. He is quite
fearless, and even the mountain sheep
is not his superior as a climber.
“As if by magic and with little ap¬
parent effort the two Eskimos flew up
the slippery walls, far outstripping
me. How they did it I shall never
know. Now and again I was forced
to cut steps in the ice or I should in¬
evitably have lost my footing and
been hurled downward several hun¬
dred feet to the rocks beneath.
“I was astonished even at my own
progress, and when I paused to glance
behind me I felt a momentary panic.
But there was no turning back, and
one look robbed me of any desire to
try it.
“The Eskimo has no conception of
distance. He is endowed with certain
artistic Instincts which enable him to
draw a fairly good map of a coast
line with which he is thoroughly fa¬
miliar, but he cannot tell you how far
it is from one point to another. Often
when Eskimos told me a place we were
bound for was very close at hand it
developed that we were far from it.
This they are never sure of and can¬
not indicate.
“The Eskimos have a white man
‘stung to death’ from every point of
view. They not only can go to sleep
promptly, but sleep soundly and well
as they travel when circumstances
permit. They get sustenance, too, by
eating hard frozen walrus and seal
meat or blubber. This I could never
do, for it is so strong In flavor that it
Invariably nauseated me, though I did
succeed very well with raw hare or
deer’s meat when I had it.”
BLUNDERING REPORTERS.
Mistakes That Mangled the Speakers’
Words and Feelings.
“Drunkenness Is folly!” earnestly ex¬
claimed Bishop Magee In the house of
lords on a celebrated occasion. How
horrified was the prelate to read in
the papers next morning that he had
given utterance to the very baccha¬
nalian sentiment, “Drunkenness is
jolly!”
Lord Salisbury was a master phrase
maker, but one of his best points was
spoiled when a careless reporter turn¬
ed his reference to “manacles and
Manitoba” into the meaningless “man¬
acles and men at the bar.”
Sir William Harcourt was badly mis¬
quoted once. “Great is Diana of the
Ephesians!” he exclaimed upon the
platform, but a country paper had it:
“Great Dinah! What a farce is this!”
Lack of knowledge of familiar quo¬
tations is a prolific source of misre
porting. For instance, a speaker once
made use of the well known lines
from Milton’s “L’Allegro:”
But come, thou goddess, fair and free.
In heaven yclept Euphrosyne.
The country reporter deputed to
“take him down” was in despair. He
could not make head or tail of this
mysterious utterance. But, following
the sound as far as possible, he seized
his pen and produced the following
gem:
But come, thou goddess, fair and free.
In heaven she crept and froze her knee.
The speaker was taken down In
more senses than one.—London An¬
swers.
Knew Where He Was.
“Wnen I was studying in Boston,”
said a musician, “they used to tell a
tale about a man named Harper, an
odd old character, who played a trom¬
bone in one of the small theaters
there. One time they were rehearsing
a new overture. Throughout the piece
Harper was a little behind the rest of
the men. Before they started It a sec¬
ond time the leader reproved Harper
for not coming in more regularly with
the other players. When they attempt¬
ed it again Harper came in, as usual,
two or three beats behind time. The
leader stopped and, after letting loose
a lot of profanity, demanded to know
If the trombonist knew he was playing
about half a dozen notes behind the
others.
“Harper nodded. ‘That’s all right,’
said he. ‘I can catch up with the oth¬
ers any time I want to.’ ’’—Philadel¬
phia Telegraph.
The Fishing Otter.
The otter used by Scottish poachers
Is one of the most deadly fishing in¬
struments known. In some waters
It Is far more effective than a net.
It may be described as a water kite,
which serves to take out over the
water a line bearing fifty or more flies.
The otter itself is a floating piece of
board leaded along one side to keep It
upright. The poacher walks along the
side of the loch or river, letting out
the fly decorated line as he goes, the
otter board gradually working out
toward the center. An enormous area
of water is fished at one time and
numbers of fish are killed.
Even when a woman thinks she Is
worth her weight In gold she would
hat* to gat too stout.—Philadelphia.
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