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Vol.'Z. No . 44.
STUDY OF JAPANESE.
Difficulties of the Spoken and the
Written Language.
Army ofticers who are thinking of
taking np the study of Jupanese should
puause betore they attempt the task
and uask themselves whether they have
a peculiarly strong linguistie aptitude,
Even the Japanese tind their langunge
very ditheult, ‘l'he Anglo-Saxons who
grow! about the ditliculties of our spell
ing and ftavor the simplified system
would never live if they had to under
£o what the subject ot the mikado suf
fers in the matter of language,
It tukes a Jupanese child seven years
to learn the esseuntial parts ot the
alpbabet, ‘There are 214 signs which
serve the sume purpose as initial let
ters in English dictionaries, Then
after yon bave tracked down in one of
these 241 signs some part ot the char
acter for which you are about to
make a search you still have a veri
tuble darkest Afrien ahead of you.
The pompous first personul pronoun is
avoided whenever it is possible in
speaking Japanpese, 1t it must be
used it is introduvced casually, but geu
erally the abstract noun “selfishness”
serves in its stead.
For esample, 2 Japanese would not
say, 1 don't drink wine,” but “Wine
don’'t drink.,” or, it this is not clear
enough, Seliishness wine don’t drink.”
Reference to your possessions must be
deprecatory. Thus it a man wishes to
point out his own resideunce he says,
“Ihat miserable house,” which, of
course, could refer to no other than his
owli.
On the other hand, “That beautiful
house” would easily. identity the house
as belonging to some one else, More
over, any one who wishes to learn
Japanese must be prepared to learn
two languages—the written and the
spoken. The one differs so materially
from the other that if a Japanese is
reading a book or newspaper and
wishes to do so aloud it becomes nec
essary for him to translate the written
words into the colloquial. 'l'o be able
to read any of the higher class Japa
nese newspapers it is necessary to
master at least from 2.500 to 3.000
ideographs.—Army and Navy Journal.
PROMPT TO ACT.
A Man Who Seemed Always to Be
Ready For Emergencies.
To be ready for emergencies was one
of the gifts of Dr. Samuel Gridley
Howe. the great teacher of the blind.
writes his daughter, Mrs, Lanra E
Richards., who bas edited his “Letters
and Journals.” She gives several in
stances in which his quick action pre
vented serious accidents.
Once at Green PPeace my father was
going to drive with my mother and my
sister Florence in a closed carriage
with a large window in front.
As the driver was mounting the box
he :'ropped his whip and got down to
recover it. This startled the young
horses, and they bolted down the
driveway.
My father tried to open the big win
dow, but it stuck fast. He flashed
through the plate glass s~ if it had
been paper and. catching up the reins,
stopped the runaways in less time than
it takes to tell it.
When Thomas came running up.
white and breathless, he found *doc
tor” quietly shaking the bits of glass
from his coat and hat and explaining
to my terrified mother that he *“went
g 0 quick there was no time to get cut.”
Still another memory of my mother’s.
shows his quickness in a different
way. He was walking along Washing
ton street one day when a furious dog
rushed at him and bit his bhand severe
ly.
There was no Pasteur institute in
the forties. My father instantly raised
up the skin and flesh of the bitten part
and, holding it firmly, entered the
nearest apothecary’s shop.
“Cut this piece off,” he said briefly.
The apothecary exclaimed in horror.
He could not, he would not, without a
surgeon’s order. It was out of the
question.
“I am a surgeon,” said my father,
sand I command you to cut it off.”
It was cut off. My father dressed.
the wound with his other hand and
went about his business.
Made Him Sick.
‘A noted golfer one afternoon played
rather badly. He turped to his caddie
after he had foozled a drive and said
in his genial way:
“This isn’t a pleasant spectacle for
you. I'm as bad as a Scotch laird at
St. Andrews. ‘Che St. Andrews cad
dies are all old men, and one day when
this laird was in especially bad form
his caddie, after nine holes of missed
ghots and putts, shook his gray old
head, surrendered the laird’s bag of
clubs to another caddie and said:
wi¥e’'ll no mind, laird? 1 made but
a poor breakfast this mornin’, and I'm
fim a comdition to stand apy mair
HAZLEHURST NEWS.
~ MADE MATTERS WORSE.
Her Effort to Correct Her Error About
Charles and Mary Lamb.
Charles Lamb, the beloved Ella of
the essuys, wrote both tragedies and
comedies, but was not a successful
playwright. When his farce “Mr, H."
was_produced at the Drury Lane the- ‘
ater it falled conspicuously, and the
‘genial author, who was in the nudl-‘
ence, himself joined with companion
able vigor in hissing It. }
It is, indeed, an airy trifle, too slight
in testure for the professional stage,
but it has proved a charming play for
amateurs. At a recent performince
by a college dramatic soclety a little
dinlogue took place berween two ladies
in the andience which would certain!y
have delighted Lamb himself could he
have heard it.
“\Mr. H.. a farce in two acts by
Charles Lamb,” read one of them
from her program. *“Do you know, |
had quite forgotten that Lamb was a
dramatic author.”
“Oh, my dear,” exclaimed her neigh
bor, with a superior smile, *of course
he was! Surely you must remember
that he and his sister collaborated
with Shakespeare.”
“Collaborated with Shakespeare!”
exclaimed the first speaker, startled
out of her politeness. *“Ridiculous!
What could have put such an idea—
Oh, you must be thinking of the *Tales
From Shakespeare,’ by Charles and
Mary Lamb.”
There was mirth in her voice, and
the superior person, flushing. perceived
that overhasty *“cramming” for the oc
casion had led ber into error. She
tried to retrieve herself.
“1 did not mean collaborated with
him, of course,” she explained loftily.
*“That was merely a slip of the tongue,
I meant translated him.” — Youth's
Companion.
AN ESKIMO CHURCH.
The Sealskin Swesatbox Finally Went
to the Dogs. :
The wmissionary sent to the States for
a magic lantern and the necessary
slides. Thirteen months later they
reiached him,
Everything in Baflin Land dates
from that ever memorable magic lan
tern exhibition. From 300 miles around
the expectant Eskimos came in behind
their dog teams to participate in the
wonderful event. 'The sealskin church
was filled to overflowing. The specta
tors were packed as closely as sardines
in a tin. The scent of sperm oil and
blubber and sweat soaked furs min
gled in the air. Although the ther
mometer outside registered 40 degrees
i below zero, the perspiration poured in
streams down the faces of the enthasi
l astic audience. And when the strag
i gling list of arctic explorers who have
touched at Cumberland sound have
long since been forgotten the recol
lection of that magic lantern show
will linger in the minds of the Eskimo
from Meta Incognita to Cockburn Land.
But a few nights later a sad fate
betell the sealskin church. It was
eaten up by a pack of hungry Eskimo
dogs. These savage creatures, starved
almost to death, made a raid on the
edifice during a blinding snowstorm.
Managing to get on top of the roof.
they soon tore holes in the sealskin
covering, and, in spite of the exertions
of the missionary and his entire con
gregation, they actually ran away with
the greater portion of the frozen skin,
which, at a safe distance, they pro
ceeded to devour—Everybody’s Maga
zine,
Lingering Superstitions.
“Will a lucky gentlewoman give an
unlucky one a tiny mascot to bring
luck?” runs an advertisement in an
English paper. Here was a poor soul
—for if there is a creature on the face
of the earth whose fate calls for pity
it is a gentlewoman who is down—
keeping in her poverty some of that
superstition or faith, whatever it may
be called, which is the only thing that
keeps misforune from crushing the
sufferer. If only she could get the
right charm she might induce fate to
look kindly on her! People call this
a practical age, but evidences of su
perstition continue to appear. A law
suit not long ago revealed the fact that
an astrologer kept a motorcar and had
a fine house, etc., all of which came
ont of the proceeds of a zodiacal mag
l azizs.
R ———————) -y
A Nest waae rrom a Leaf.
' The tailor bird of India, a tiny yel
low creature, makes a most curious
‘ nest. To escape snakes and monkeys
E this bird takes a dead leaf, flies up into
a tree and with a fiber for a thread
- and its bill for a needle sews the leaf
. to a green one hanging from the tree.
; The sides are sewed up, an opening to
. the nest thus formed being left at the
! top. The leaf, apparently hanging
from a twig, would never be taken for
g nest' LT ibgl e *“" ’. "‘ ‘
Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County, Georgia, Thursday, October 28, 1909.
THEIR OWN DOCTORS.
Remedies That Animals When Sick
Instinctively Select.
With the brute creation the simpie
remedies of nature gemerally sutlice
for thelr few allments, und they ure
guided to them by instinet. We have
been told how the mongoose cures him.
self when bitten by n cobra by eating
a certain plant, and - many country res
fdents have seen a sick dog bury him
self in the dirt.
Animals instinctively ehoose such
food as Is best sulted to fhenm. A large
number of animals wash themselves
and bathe, as elephants, stags, birds
and ants, In fact, man may take a
lesson in hygiene trom the lower an
fmals. Animals get vid ot their para
gites by using dust, mud, clhay, et
Those suffering from fever restrict
their diet, keep quiet, seek darkness
and airy places, drink water and sowe
times even plunge into it
“When a dog has lost his appetite he
eats that spc-(-lns'x of grass known as
dog's grass (chiendent), Cats also eat
grass, catnip, ete. Sheep and cows
when ill seek out certain herbs. An
animal suffering from chronic rheu
matism always keeps as much as pos
sible in the sun. ‘The warrior aots
have regnlarly organized ambulances,
Latrelle cut tlite antennae of an ant,
and other ants came and covered the
wounded part with a transpareat fluid
they secrete in their mouths., 1f a
chimpanzee be wounded it stops the
bleeding by placing its band on the
wound or dressing it with leaves and
grass. When an animal bag a wound
ed leg or arm banging on it completes
the amputation by means of its teetli.
-~Philadeiphia North American.
HER CHOICE OF BOAS.
The Question That Is Now Puzzling the
Man In the Case.
Crosby had always been inclined to
conservatism in household expenses,
especially in the matter of his wife’s
dress bills. His wife went so far as
to say that he was penurious.
She had bheen in need of a new boa
for a long time, and after she hinted
that her happiness would never Dbe
quite complete till she had one he at
last consented to make the purchase,
He went into a store and picked out
two, one of which was a cheap imita
tion affair and the other a fine, expen
sive one.
Taking them to his office before go
ing home, he changed the price marks,
the expensive tag on the cheap boa,
and vice versa.
His wife examined them for a long
time very seriously indeed and then
said: *Now, dear, the expensive boa is
a beauty. and it is really very good of
you to allow me my choice. Some
women would take it without a word.
but really I don’t think we can afford
the more costly one, and besides, dear,
I think the cheap one the more stylish
too. Why. Cros, dear, what’s the mat
ter? Are you ill?” :
But dear old Cros had made his get
away into the night where he could
kick himself as hard as he felt he de
served. But what be would like to
know is this: Did his wife happen on
the more expensive boa by pure accl
o
Girls and Outdoor Games.
Women in their ambition to be ath
letic contend against innumerable dif
ficulties. One of these difliculties is
skirts, a second is waists and a third—
almost insuperable—is bair, including
hairpins. Watch a girl playing tenuis
or cricket, and after a more than usual
ly brilliant effort she invariably puts
her hands to her bead., as if she ex
pected something to fall off if she did
not. Energetic play is usually attend
ed by dishevelment of the unruly locks
and a shedding of bhairpins that cause
the pretty athlete distress. Her pleas
ure in the game is marred by a sense
of insecurity and a constant fear of
consequences. No woman can wield a
racket or essay a run with an un
divided mind. Half her brain is oc
cupied by the fearful surmise that her
bair is coming down—a surmise, by the
way, which is probably too painfully
justified by the fact.—London Black
and White.
The Check System.
John Palmer, who died some years
ago in rather straitened circumstances
in a little town in Michigan, was the
inventor of the check system. Palmer
was a fiddler and assumed responsibil
ity for the hats, coats and wraps of
those who came to his dancing parties.
In keeping things straight he gave
numbered checks for the articles com
mitted to his care. Some railroad men
who attended one of the dances no
ticed how perfectly the idea worked
and appropriated it, and in a short time
the systemm was adopted all over the
‘country. As is so often the case, the
inveator got nothing out of it.—New
Yaek Amevicon, . e . ‘
MOORISH SOLDIERS. |
Their Methods In DBattle and Their
System of Signals. i
At fighting on horseback the Moors
are adepts and extremely mobile, But
they are Incorrigibly luzy and seldow
jadulge in night attack, When they
attack in force the horsemen usually
give a lift to the foot soldiers who ne
company them or allow them to run
nlongside and hold on to a stirrup iron,
‘Uhe monnted men then make a charge,
wheel round and retire and make way
for the footmen, who crawl along the
ground, almost invisible, and who rise
to the attack if they come within strik
ing distance of the enemy. As a rule,
the Riffians prefer ‘to lure detached
parties into an ambush or defile and
thus inflict heavy loss upon them. The
mounted men seldom dismount to tire,
and their firing, being fromn the sad
dle, is very inaccurate, Should the ad
vance of the white troops be slow or
hesitating the Moors effect a bold
combination between borsemen and
footmwen and generally succeed in in
flicting heavy losses on their enemy,
The prime tactics ot the Moors are to.
delay the advance of an enemy as
much as possible by mounted rifle tire
until they can discern its extent and
direction and subsequently to try en
veloping the advancing force. The
tribes also imdulge in sniping, but not
to a very erfat extent, and they 2lso
tight individually. They do not neglect
opportunities for stratagem and ecan
effect some very clever ruses, They
are also guilty of abusing the services
of the white flag in action,
The Moorish intelligence system is
an excellent one, and the tribes are
seldom without information regarding
the movements of an enemy. They
have also an excellent system of sig
naling at night by means of small fires
dotted about the hills and ravines,
which are obscured and revealed in
accordance with an ingenious code of
signals known to themselves.—Chicago
News.
DREAM [INSPIRATION.
Intellectual Achievements Born of
~Visions In Sleep.
It is well known, says H. Addington
Bruce in Sueccess Magazine, that
dreams have stimulated men to re
markable intellectual achievements
and have even supplied the waterial
for these achievements. Thus Cole
ridge composed *Kublai Khan” in a
dream. Tartini got his *“Devil’'s So
nata” from a dream in which the devil
appeared and challenged him to a m
sical comvetition. It was a dream that
gave Voltaire the first canto of his
“Henriade.”” and Dante's *Divina Com
media” is likewise said to have been
inspired by a dream.
Many novelists on their own admis
sion have obtained the plots for some
of their best works from wmaterials
provided in dreams. A particularly
impressive instance is that of Robert
Louis Stevenson, whose “Chapter on
Dreams” in his Dbook *“Across the
Plains” should be read by all who
would learn what dreams can do for a
man intellectually. The solution of
bafling mathematical problems, the
ideas necessary to complete some in
vention, have been supplied by dreams.
Occasionally the dreamer has been
known to rise in his sleep and jot
down the information thus acquired.
In such cases he usually forgets all
about the belpful dream and on awak
ing is greatly surprised at finding the
record he has made of it, which shows
that—as with the visions so potently
influencing health—it is possible for
dreams to aid a man in an intellectual
way without his being consciously
aware of them.
His Conundrum.
“Mistah Walkah, kin yo’ tell me 42
diff’unce ’tween a cold in de head an’
a—a chicken coop wit’ a hole in de
rufe?”’
“No, Sam; that’s a hard one. What
is the difference between a co!d in the
head and a chicken coop with a hole
in the roof?”’
“De one am a case o' influenza, an’
de uddah am a case o' out flew hens,
suh.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, the wvocal
wonder, Professor Wabbles Izzeers,
will now sing the popular ballad en
titled ‘The Lips That Caress a Stogy
Shal Never Touch Mine.’ ”—Chicago
Tribune.
What's In a Name.
Returned Traveler—By the way, Mr.
Mann, your daughter, Miss Etta, is
married, isn’t she? Old Resident—No;
she could have married a fine young
fellow once, but she threw him over
on account of his name. She said it
was bad enough to be Etta Mann, but
she drew the line at Etta Knox.—Chi
cago Tribune, i .
SI.OO Per Year.
LOVE FOR TITLES.
The Way the Average German Burger
, Lengthens His Name.
The average German burgher's love
of* titles Is a source of never ending
fun to the rest of the Gernmn popuin
tion and of continunl ridicule to the
rest of the world. Any one cearing tw
see how far some people of the father
Jand will go in this direction need only
bave a look ant a hotel register arf »
summer resort. He will see ndded
to the name of the gnest the mos
curious combinations of appellation
drawn together to form a title. He
will, for instance, find:
A **Technischen 'rovinzialfenersozie
tatsinspector” @ technical provineia!
fire insurance inspector),
A “Geheimen Expedierenden Sekre
tar im Ministerium der Offentlichen Ar
beiten™ (meaning a special sort of se«
retary at the ministry of public works, ;
A—to continue in English as well a+
possible=*cashier president of the
Royal Saxon railway,” a *“royal rail
road subsecretary.”
The ladies are not better. “Frav
Verwittwetobersteuercontrollenrin®™ #
quite usnai and means “Mrs, Widowee
Supertax Collector.”” “Then there arn
the *Mrs. Secretary and Caleulator”
and “Mrs. Widowed General Agent.
The best of all, however, is a tith
which a lady entered in the register o!
a hotel at which I recently stayed. It
read. *Mrs. Prison Warder and Chil
dren.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
TAMING A BIRD. ‘
Teaching a Feathered Pet to Trust
.~ You Is Not Difficult.
No creature is more jealous or sensi:
tive than a bird. It is easy. however
to win the heart of almost any bird
and that without starving him or mak
ing him think he bhas mastered you
Simply talk to him a good deal.
Place his cage near you on your des!
or work table, and retain his cheiees:
dainty to give to him with your ewr
fingers. ILet him know that he ean
never have that particular thing unles
he takes it from you. and he will soe
learn, if you are patient and do we
disconcert him by fixing your eyes
upon him.
After this he will more readily taky
it from your lips, and then when you
let him out of his cage, after the firs:
excitement is over, he will come to you.
especially if you have a call to whietlr
you have accustomed him, and accep
the dainty from you while free,
As soon as he becomes really cor
vinced that you will not hurt him er
try to catch him or interfere in an
way with his liberty he will give wa:
to his boundless curiosity about yeu
He will pull your hair, pick at you~
eyes and give you as much ot his com
pany as you desire.—New York Press.
A Lost Opportunity.
The father of the late Benoit Con
stant Coquelin, the great French actor
was a baker, and young Coquelin wa-~
brought up to the trade. At thirteen.
a writer in Le Kigaro says, he mani
fested an irresistible inclination tewar..
the stage. an inclination which his fa
ther steadfastly strove to reopress.
“Don’t devote so much time to thos.
dramas.” his father used to say. “Yeu
have learned a good trade, the busines:
is running well, and you shall be m¥
successor.”
A number of years after Constan®
had made his way into general favor
his father, who took pride in his boy’s
success, but could never quite get over
the feeling that Constant should havs
been a baker, was congratulated upei.
his son’s eminence.
“1 remember,”’ said the old man.
“that Constant was a good baker. He
would have gone far in the trade.”
Blowing Up the Locks.
Would it be easy to blow up and de
stroy a lock canal by the malicious us.
of dynamite or other high explosive:
The question has been debated muc:w
in connection with the Panaima camt..
The Engineering News calls attentioir
to the fact that an attempt made i:
1900 to wreck the Welland canal §:
this way produced surprisingly. smar:.
results. After two weeks’ esaminatio =
the two men concerned selected loci
94, and each lowered a satchel cor.-
taining dynamite and a fuss to th«
water behind the gate at each end o,
the lock. Both charges were esplodec.
but the dynamite failed to carry away
the gates. Although the esplosive:.
blew a hole about a foot in diamete:
through each gate and loosened th
hinges, the gates remained in positiol,
holding back the water.
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The Only Kind.
“It would be a good idea if brain
could be gone over and renovated no\v.
and then.” ;
“If that were possible some brain
would have to be renovated with :
vacuum cleaner,” — Baltimore Amer:-