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SUNDAY MORNING.
HOW LIKE THE STARS.
How like the stars are men,
Springing so full and bright
Into a sombre night—
Casting their beams afar.
Then, like the sleeping star,
Fading away again.
Men, in their orbits moved,
Each with hie changing light.
Live thro' uncertain Night;
One, ere the dawn of grace,
Falls into mighty space,
Forgotten and unloved'.
—Baltimore News.
“Tie House Hat Jack Built”
Jack <aring was bashful, but it was
-a question if he was any more bashful
than Ethel Talcott. They could not
speak to each other on even the most
trivial subjects without stammering
and blushing, but Jack p-'risisted in
calling, despite the apparent discom
fort his visits caused both. Everybody
-could see that he was desperately in
love, and it was a saying among their
friends that if Jack could ever summon
up the courage to propose, Ethel would
he. too bashful to recuse him. whether
she loved lura or not. She had just
come out at the beginning of the sea
son, about the same time that Jack,
who had just graduated from college
and entered his father's business, of
which he was prospective heir, ilrst be
gan to attract the attention of de
signing mothers and attractive daugh
ters. Perhaps it was while avoiding
them that he met Ethel, who had found
that there are ways of keeping out of
slg... when a- ballroom was crowded
with other girls who were enjoying
themselves. Anyway', some common
(herd of sympathy made them embar
rassed friends from their first meet
ing.
Although Jack was bashful, he called
on tihel as often as he dared, but in
spite of all resolution to overcome nis
diffidence he ma le little progress with
his sun. They could get along fairly
well when there were others in the
room with them, but when left to
themselves tuey suffered. Ur'”" most
young people in a similar case. Iney
courted rather than avoided the com
pany of Ethel's luue brotner, Gus, and
Jack sqon, became such friends with
him that (he felt called upon to re
mem)' r nis birthday. This lie aid
by .son •■’ k nlm an elaborate box of
tuildfiy- jocks, which Gus dragged
into :, parlor on the occasion of his
ric.xt At, and insisted that the donor
tench him how to build with them.
“Whitt shall i build?" Jack asked.
“Build me a big hotel like the one
Ethel and I were at last summer."
Jack obediently drew his chair to the
middle of the room and began on a
suitable design. But he soon found
that building while sitting on a chair
was difficult, and as Gus was sprawled
comfortably on the floor watching the
work, he presently slipped down beside
him. Now, it is a peculiar thing about
building Weeks that although they are
always bought for children, very few
children can work out the designs that,
go with them, and consequently they
are forced to call on their elders to
help them. Moreover, their elders us
ually take kindly to the task, and are
apt to get cross if the child interferes
in any way and delays -the work in
hand. In a very few minutes Jack was
as deeply interested as if he were
building a sure-enough hotel and Gus
watched with admiration. Presently he
tried to put in place an arch that was
in two pieces and needed no other
blocks to be placed beside it in order
to keep it in place. Gus tried to hold
the pieces in place, but in doing so he
knocked a corner out of the building
with his elbow.
“You clumsy boy!” exclaimed Ethel,
who had been watching witn the most
intense interest. “Hero —let me hoiu
*hem,” and a moment later sne was
sitting on the floor with them.
Jack patienny rebuilt the damaged
corner anu then Ethel held the arch
until he had built around it.
“Now make some bathing houses on
me beach, commanued Gus.
Jack obeyed, and then Gus brought
out some men and women cut out of
cardboard and set them around to re
present the guests.
“Here’s you and Ethel. I’ll introduce
you. for you weren't acquainted then,
said :he young rascal, as b, placed the
figure of a man raising his hat befoje
that of a young woman- with a parasol.
"All right," said Jack. “Bu. I am noA
raising my hat at her as I should. I am !
raising if at the far corner of tne
building. Here, let me set them right.”
slaying this, he reached out and
turned the rtgure representing himself
*o that it faced the figure representing
Ethel. Immediately a white hand shot
out and turned the back of the paste
board belle toward the bowing figure.
“Snubbed!” exclaimed Jack, having
a boldness for his pasteboard repre
sentative that he never would have
presumed to have for himself.
“But you don’t know him yet. He's
the cheekiest r.atn on the beach. at
heart;” and he moved his representa
tive with his bow in front of the maid
with the parasol.
“And she's the haughtiest gill at the
beach,” said Ethel, as she again snub
bed her cavalier.
“Try them behind the hotel where
the hammock is and folks ain t look
in'.” volunteered Gus.
“Great head!” exclaimed Jack, pick
ing up the two figures to make the
change.
“Take care whom you’re handling
like- that!” exclaimed Erne], grasping
him by the wrist and striving to pry
his fingers loose from her figure.
There was a struggle full of the
abandon gayety of the nursery, to
which the block had brought them
back far from the formelities and
embarrassments of social life. Gus
jumped into the struggle to help Jaclg,
and in the general mix-up the hotel
was wrecked worse than any house
that was ever built on sand. The clat
ter brought them back to themselves
again, but the nursery spirit remained
with them. They once more had the
frank fearlessness of children and
could look one another in the face
without blushing.
"Now, you must build me something
else, you two," whined Gus, over the
ruins of his hotel.
For an hour they built and rebuilt
all kinds of houses to the infinite de
light of the boy, who watched and crit
icised. At last they disagreed about
what should be built.
"Let's bui.d a cottage,” said Jack.
“No, let'3 build a church," said
Ethel.
"No. lot's build both." said Gus.
So, as there were plenty of blocks to
build both, they started a race to see
who could finish first. But it was a
peculiar thing that Jack built with
his left hand and Ethel with her right
while each leaned on the hand that was
supposedly disengaged. But an obser
ver less interested iu building than
Gus might have noticed that the two
hands not used in building were try
ing to rest on the same spot of floor,
find occasionally the fingers intertwin
ed in a way that brought the color
to the cheeks of the two young people,
whose faces were carefully averted.
“Jack's cottage is dene first," cried
Gus, sprawling forward with his card
board figures. "And here you both are
going in the front gate.”
"But we should go to the church be
fore we go to the cottage," said Jack,
gallantly. "Don't you thins so,
Ethel ?”
A gentle squeeze of the hand was the
only response.
“Then it is settled." he exclaimed, in
a trembling voice, glancing at the
back of an averted head. “First to the
church and then to my cottage."
Another pressure of assent.
Just what would have happened
next, in spite of the presence of Gus,
will never be known, for his mother,
who had entered the room unnoticed,
suddenly exclaimed:
“Well, bless my heart, is this a nur
sery? Biess you, my children.”
They both sprang to their feet in
confusion, but Jack still citing to
Ethel's band. Her mother looked from
one to the other, and then Jack man
aged to stammer:
"That’s right—wo want your bless
ing.”
“Engaged!" exclaimed the mother
“Well, I never. And that boy in lac
room all the time! Talk about bashful
people!"
"Never mind that," said Jack, sud
denly grown as bold as brass, as he
planted his first kiss on Ethel’s lips.
"The question is, do we get the bless
ing?”
"Yflu'll be able to tell better after
you are married," said the mother, as
she pushed them ahead of her toward
the study, where her husband was sit
ting. pretending not, to overhear. —P.
&I Arthur, in the Ledger Monthly.
UNIMAGINATIVE MULES.
Tills lad On** of th* liouftoiifl of Tlirlr
Yrtl n*.
“Mules are utterly without, any sort
of imagination,” said an old veterinary
surgeon, “and this fact alone has
placed humanity under an immense ob
ligation to this creature. Many acci
dents have been prevented, many lives
have been saved because of the fact
tnat the mule does not know this ex
traordinary thing we call imagination.
The imaginative faculty is not un
known in certain other orders of life.
Dogs frequently show evidences of im
agination. They hear imaginary
sounds because of some peculiar asso
ciation. Dogs have been 'known to
bristle up at shadow's or at certain na
tural formations which sugested the
idea of immediate attack.
"Every owner of a dog is familiar
with the dog’s dreaming habit. Horses,
too. imagine tilings and dream a great
deal. They have that more delicate
and more sensitive temperament which
developes the imagination, and the fac
ulty for dreaming. But the mule never
imagines anything. He never dreams,
ne believes simply in what he. can see,
feel, smell, hear and taste. When the
possibility of these senses are exhaust
ed he is at i.iie end of his row, as far as
his mind goes. He rarely shows ner
vousness, and even at trying moments,
at critical times, he simply deals with
the situation with stoical Indifference,
making no effort to go beyond the
grange of the five senses. This fact has
ri vdc him a safe member. For instance,
hrrn i %' are in the habit of riding
through dangerous parts of the coun
try, through mountainous regions
where there is almost constant danger
of falling over a precipice, would rath
er be astride a species of the mule
tribe. He is safe-footed in the first
place, and makes no guesses. You sim
ply cannot force him into a place where
he will lose his balance, and possibly
liis life and the life of his rider. He is
not. going to shy around things ImV a
horse will. It is not a matter of cour
age with. him. He is not gamer than
the horse. But he is simply safer be
cause he does not imagine vain things.
“He believes in the five senses at his
command, .and puts implicit trust in
them. He never dreams, and this fact,
has, no doubt, saved many lives under
circumstances which would have work
ed the horses up to a nervous pitch
that would have caused him to plunge
over the precipice with his rider. We
owe much to the mule, and we should
not forget the fact because of his dis
placement by electricity and other
hinds of motive power now used in
certain lines of business.” —New Or
leans Times-Democrat.
It’s all right to love your neighbor,
but don’t let him impose on you.
THE BRUNSWICK /DAILY NEWS.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
No day so long but has its evening.
—French proverb.
The middle path is the safe path.—
German proverb.
What three know everybody knows.
Spanish proverb.
Fools build houses, wise men buy
thorn. —German proverb.
Tel! everyone your business and
the devil will do it for you.—ltalian
proverb.
He is not a thorough wise man who
cannot play fool on occasion.—ltalian
proverb.
Better a salt herring on your own
table than a fresh pike on another
man's.—Danish proverb.
If we keep our souls in patience, it
we hold fast to our faith and hope
and love, the soft streams of healing
power will flow into us and through
us. We shall receive and give out
the infinite good.—Charles G. Ames.
Good would it be for men if, re
membering that life is something more
than toil and struggle, they would
snatch an hour from their labors, and
seek in t.ie stillness of their souls that
voice which only the humble can hear,
that strength which only the meek can
obtain. —James Drummond.
The universe is as full of truth and
goodness as it is of light. And no
more surely does the constant day re
turn alike to the "just and the un
just” than true lives will rebuke our
untruth, earnest opportunities rebuke
our reluctant sloth of spirit, by their
brave and cheerful solicltings.—Henry
Wilder Foole.
Thrift, sobriety, industry, these are
good; but these alone do not make a
great nation or a happy people. Nor
can they ever be securely taught where
courage, self-sacrifice, devotion to
country, the consecrated service due to
freedom and to truth, are not taught
alongside of them as part of the equip
ment of a citizen of earth and a child
of GoJ. —Richard A. Armstrong.
HAIR TRANSPLANTING PROFESSOR.
Sickly \\ liUktH'g :iiil l T’y**l>ro\r 4
Contribute to Su<><•<•••* in
Chinese physiognomists say the eye
brows and whiskers of a man are just
as essential in their relations ty his
success in life as his other qualifica
tions. If the eyebrows are feeble or
the whiskers are sickly, his luck will
ht thin and his health popr. There
fore, to stop the train of bad luck
which nature unfortunately lias or
dained for such a man lie orders his
eyebrows changed or replanted by a
hair-planting professor.
This is done by first carefully pull
ing out the rebellious or unlucky hairs
in the eyebrows. The next operation
is to select a spot of hair on the neck
of the patient or behind his cars, that
would suit for a fine eyebrow, and
reduce these hairs to the right length.
A pair of sharp pincers is picked
up with the left hand, and, selecting
a suitable sized hair, the operator
jerks it out by the root, and with a
needle-like instrument in the right
hand he pierces a minute hole in the
skin of the bald eyebrow in a slanting
direction, and while the point of the
instrument is still on the edge of the
hole the root of the pulled-up hair is
carefully inserted. But if blood oozes
out of it before the hair is planted
the hole will not be used on that day
for fear of inflammation and not suffi
cient nutriment for the hair to take
proper root. The operation is repeated
till every hair in the eyebrows is re
placed.
The patient is said to experience
pain in the eyebrows for about 24
hours, after which he is all right. The
professor charges more for planting
eyebrows than whiskers, because of
the many varied degrees of slanting
each hair to make the eyebrows look
natural to the man or to suit the
ideas of the physiognomist.
\ litirgiai *rf CUunre*.
A man who was arrested by local
detectives a few weeks ago and after
ward sentenced to the penitentiary on
a charge of burglary talked freely to
the officer concerning his manner oi
living.
“Will you tell me why you prefer a
life of crime to that of an honest, up
right irian?” the detective asked him.
"I have often wondered." added the of
ficer, “why burglars will take such des
perate chances, when so frequently
there is but little to be gained."
“But we don’t take the chances,"
said the burglar. “The man who comes
after us takes the chances. He takes
his life in his own hands when he
leaves his bed-chamber and goes in
pursuit of an unwelcome caller. The
odds are all against him and in favoi
of us. We know where we are and
have an idea from where, the occupant
of the house will come. Of course, we
only go to rob, and, when necessary, tc
fight. No burglar is going to gel
caught if he can help it, even if he has
to resort to murder.”
“Still," the detective reasoned, “you
are bound to he in danger some time
and that some' time, I should think
would (Jeter you from taking the
chances.”
“There are remote chances,” the
burglar said, “but they are so remote
that they are never considered. If you
will consult the records you will see
that not one burglar in a hundred
cases ever gets hurt. Until there is a
great change in the results you may
depend upon it that burglaries will
not cease.” —Washington Star.
Thincs ffv* CTmng*<l.
“And she used to take dictation al
130 words a minute.”
“Great speed. But is she so slow
now?”
“Well, I guess! She's married.”—
Baltimore New°
RELAXATION CURES ILLS
NEW SYSTEM OF EXERCISE BASED
ON PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS.
N'iltur* lint** VlnlotM'o Htid I>▼ rutting
H >*lf In (omrol of lit*
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I> ftOMRMM Ho ped lf KoirtXnt ton.
Anew system of physical exercise,
formulated by a former supervisor of
music in the public schools of Wash
ington, has to do with the subcon
scious mind, says the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. Yawning and s.retching are
not generally considered important,
but as part- of the so-called natural
movement exercises they are regarded
as significant, as they arc usually the
initial movements. The following ac
count of ilie exercises and their theoijr
comes from their chief teacher:
The first step in these exercises is
to lie loosely clothed, with closed
eyes and perfectly quiescent, until
there is consciousness of gravity—in
other words, until tiie weight of the
body is realized.
There must be relaxation not only
of the body, but also of the mind; the
grasp on things in general must be
lessened and all action suspended as
far as volition is concerned. This de
pends on whether o’* not the person
ueeds the breath expansion which
yawning brings.
He may be so in ihe habit of deep
breathing that ho nas no need of this
particular form of interior exercise
at this time, or it may be that a habit
of insufficient breathing has so atro
phied certain parts of his body that
they must be relaxed by other move
ments before yawning is possible.
An assertion made for ihe natural
movement exercise is that it brings
about an exact meeting of need and
help, if one is nervous, general re
pose is gained; the inert are stimu
lated, and, in one part of the body is
over-active, leaving another part ab
normally inactive, an equilibrium is
established.
No two individuals have exactly
the same experience, but while differ
ing in rate and power in each person,
the spontaneous movements are all in
accordance with certain general prin
ciples. For example, a hysterical pa
tient, when perfectly relaxed and
when the will, for the nonce, is in
abeyance, will massage one arm and
hand from tile elbow downward, with
ihe opposite hand, alternating from
time to lime.
This at once indicates the disease,
and is the movement which quiets
over wrought nerves. The involuntary
tendency, when a person has remained
long enough quiescent to be subject
to the subconscious mind, to press
with the fingers ovqr the eyes, along
the upper orbit just under the eye
brows, is another indication of ex
treme nervousness. Another is the
lifting of the spine when the patient
is lying on the back.
When the trouble is insomnia there
is a tendency to bring the head for
ward, repeating the action many times.
As an act of will this movement tends
to induce sleep, as by stretching the
nerves and muscles of this part of
the body the nerve particles are sepa
rated as by an opiate.
Dolbear points out that sleep is sim
ply a separation of the nerve sheaths,
and this movement lias a tendency to
tiring about such separation. This is
why a kitten curls itself up when it
sleeps, and all animals drop or bring
forward the head in sleep. In activity
the particles which form the nerve
sheaths are in intimate contract, and
the more intense ilie activity the
closer the contact.
When there is contraction along the
spine ,or in the region of the back,
there is a tendency to clasp the feet
with the hands and straighten out
the limbs, which acts as a self-adjust
ing derrick, stretching and strengthen
ing the muscles and nerves. Brain
fatigue is indicated, and also relieved,
by wiping off the face with the hands.
Rubbing of the skin denotes ner
vous irritation of some sort, and deep
movements, as taking as much as pos
sible of the flesh of the arms and
limbs with the hands, indicate gen
eral muscular contraction. The move
ments of a neurotic are rapid, often
almost a whirl.
It is also asserted by the author of
this system that these involuntary mo
tions follow geometrical forms; that
they are at first in straight and hori
zontal lines, then vertical and oblique;
after this, arches, circles, double cir
cles and ovals are described. Also
that there is just as much stretching
as there has been contraction.
Nature hates violence, and the part
most affected of.en comes into motion
tardily. More than this, like a coiled
spring, a nerve or muscle long con
tracted tends to return to the abnor
mal position, so that a cure is often
a matter of considerable time.
Stated briefly, the foundation fact of
the natural movement system as a
cure i3 the one well known, but not so
generally realized, that absolutely per
fect circulation is perfect health. That
is, when all the exquisitely delicate
and infinitely numerous tubings of
the human mechanism are normally
open, so that the life fluids flow un
restricted through them, there is the
equilibrium which is unconscious
health.
That this state is not common the
briefest and most superficial obser
vation demonstrates. To hold one's
self tense, as if braced against some
thing, is so common as to be almost
universal. This habit of body has its
source almost invariably in uncon
scious habit of mind.
The value of various forms of phy
sical culture is the correcting of this
fixed tension in various parts of the
body so that the tubings are normally
open. It is pointed out that there
are two reasons why ordianry physical
culture doe* not reach the more intri
cate of thess conditions.
First, a person is not by any volun
tary act able to locate them, and
would not, oven if they were discov
er e:l to him. be able to reach them
by movements controlled by his con
scious mind.
Again, physical culture is racial
rather than special, and as each indi
vidual is different from every other
it is only when allwise nature is set
in operation that the need of each is
adequately met.
To understand just what 13 asserted
for ibe natural movement system ol’
exercise it is necessary to take into
account that man’s inherent and per
sistent tendency in his subconscious
ness is to bo healthy and to return
ever and again to the normal. This
Is demonstrated by the healing of
wounds by first intention, and in many
other ways.
Still, man is so truly a free moral
agent that in a thousand ways his
body is contracted and hardened by
his own action; while the strong nat
ural tendency is to openness and flexi
bility. When the tense and stiffened
condition is continued so persistently
that it becomes fixed, the human
mechanism can do but partial and
imperfect woik, as certain parts are
then Incapacitated and their duties
are thrown on others, which have no
capacity to fulfil them. It is said that
the natural movement system of exer
cise by putting the subconscious self
in control secures restoration to per
fectly normal conditions.
As the author relates, this system
was worked out from a very simple
beginning. When preparing herself
so teach, in waiting as her instructor
directed, perfectly quiet for the breath
to come with which to sing, she ob
served that certain uniform move
ments followed. She became interest
ed and began a series of experiments
and observations.
In doing this she found that when
ever she completely relaxed herself
and waited in quiet silence she was
invariably inclined to movements
which were quite involuntary. Yield
ing to these, she found that from
day to day they progressed in a reg
ular sequence, and, also, she found her
health constantly improving.
Incited by her success with herself,
she set about studying as did Preyer
and Darwin. When she wa3 satisfied
that slie had found a law which, while
simple, was far-reaching, she proceed
ed to test the value of the system
thus evolved.
To make sure that she had made a
valuable discovery, she obtained per
mission to see what she could do with
patients at the Boston dispensary in
Boston. Here she treated, and is said
to have cured, several cases of St.
Vitus’ dance, and a case of sciatica
of long standing. One child w'ho had
spinal trouble was, by actual meas
urement, four inches taller at the end
of six weeks’ treatment than at the
beginning.
It was found that nervous diseases
were almost invariably helped by tnis
exercise. A United Stated senator,
suffering from extreme nervousness
and Insomnia was cured, and he now
constantly practices these exercises.
FROM TEACHER'S DESK TO FARM.
A Woman Who I>e<ipl*e* 111* Aid of the
Dilatory Hired Man.
Miss Abide Pfeifer bears the distinc
tion of being the only woman in In
diana who conducts a farm without any
assistance. With her aged mother
Miss Pfefi'er lives in a quaint little
house three miles southeast of Misa
waka. She takes care of 40 acres of
land, ploughing it, attending to tha
harvesting, and doing all the necessary
chores.
Miss Pfeifer is a niece of former Sen
ator Pfeifer of Kansas. When her
father died ten years ago she began
teaching school. She had then just fin
ished her studies at the University of
Indiana. But at tnis time Miss Pfef-
IVjr's mother became an invalid. She
bad been managing the farm after the
death of her husband, and when she
was stricken wiih an ailment that pre
vented her from leaving the house she
appealed to her daughter to manage
the land.
When the young woman took charge
of the farm several men were working
on it. Miss Pfeifer was a most exact
ing employer. Furthermore, she did not
think the men got as much out of the
land as it was able to produce. So she
discharged them. Since then no man
has performed a day s work on the
Pfeifer property.
The former school teacher has “run”
the farm during Ihe summer and win
ter; the girl who was graduated from
one of Indiana’s leading universities
guides (lie plough through the soil:
she who at one time saw a brilliant
future before iter harvests the grain.
Her hands, which were once white and
soft, have become callous and brown
in the performance of that work which
calls her to the fields at sunrise and
finds her in the garden at sunset. But
in spite of all Ihis she says that if she
were asked- to choose between farming
and teaching school she Would keep
right on working in the fields.
The hardest work performed by Miss
Pfeifer is raising strawberries. She is
the recognized owner of the finest
tract of strawberries in the state, and
the name of the “Pfeifer berries” is a
widely known one. The greater part
of them are shipped to Chicago, where
they find a ready market, and it is
from this product that Miss Pfeifer de
rives most of her income.
In addition to cultivating the forty
acre tract, Miss Pfeffer also does all
the marketing, churns butter, and
maintains an inviting lawn, with floral
beds, in front of the house, around
which she herself built a well-made
picket teace. —Correspondence Chicago
Inter Ocean.
SEPTEMBER 14.
HER EMPHATIC OPINION.
J'lxrrna.ed In Various Tsrin., but Not la
Wy to Huts Effect.
There were plenty of vacant seats up
forward in the open car, but the hat
chet-faced woman with the baggy um
brella and the faded reticule didn’t
want to see them. The conductor, with
his hand on the bell strap, motioned
uer witn the other hand to one of the
forward seats, but she didn’t want to
see tne conductor, either. So she de
posited herself and her baggy umbrel
la and her faded reticule in the next
to-the-last seat, alongside a short,
squat man with a bristly reddish mous
tache and a fixed 3tare right ahead.
This individual was puffing industrious
ly on a ravelled, pale olive-hued cigar,
that gave forth eccentric clouds of
brownish fimoke that looked as if it
mi gut be issuing from a burning out
line.
No sooner bad she taken her seat
than the hatchet-faced woman began to
glare at the man with the freak smoke.
The man, however, kept right at his
work of puffing, never seemingly tak
ing his eyes from the back of the mot
orman a neck, straight ahead.
“Ugh!” ejaculated the hatchet-faced
woman when she found that her glares
weren t relieving the situation any.
"Ugh!”
The man with the eccentric turner
pulled harder L.an ever, and continued
to regard the back of the motorman’s
neck, as if fascinated by that spec
tacle.
“Some folks' manners, if I must say
it! snapped the woman with the bag
gy umbrella, wriggling in her seat and
continuing to direct vitriolic glares at
the reddish-mustached man.
The latter removed the cigar from,
his mouth, gazed at it in a contem
plative, affectionate sort of way, damp
ened some of the many loose ends of
the thing with a forefinger, replaced it
in his mouth and continued to fill the
air with deep, brown smoke.
“No more respect, for ladies than so
many rabbits, some of ’em, I do de
clare!” exclaimed the hatchet-faced
woman, fetching the ferule of her bul
gy umbre,.a down on the car floor with
a bang.
The squatty man with the piece of
burning, raveled rope, crossed his legs
and continued to smoke with great ob
vious enjoyment, although he was still
interested in the general contour of the
motorman’s neck.
"Blowiri their filthy seo-gar smoke
right in the faces o’ ladies old enough
to bo their mothers!’ went on the wo
man w.ih the faded reticule, while the
other men in the rear seats, none of
whom happened to be smoking, snick
ered and glanced at each other grin
ningly.
But the man with the hempen arti
cle only redampened some more of the
loose ends of his smoke and then wenl
on pulling on it with even more en
joyment than before.
“An y’ might jes’ as well talk t'
some swine as I could tell of as t’ so
many cobblestones!’’ continued the
hatchet-faced woman, raising her reti
cule from her lap and putting it back
with a jolt.
The’conductor happened to be pass
ing on the sideboard just then, and he
smiled as he said in a courteous tone
to the liatchet-f&ced woman:
“Lady, these seats are reserved for
smokers—move up in front at the next
stop and you won’t be bothered.
The woman with the bulgy umbrella
shot tiie conductor a look of the most
overwhelming scorn as she made re
ply;
“They ain’t no. sich thing as reserv
in’ no seats on no cars nowhere for
hogs, an’ you know it, young man, as
well as I do."
The conductor shrugged his shoul
ders and passed on forward.
But the man with the blazing bit ol
cauliflower bad never turned his head
either to the right or left during this
colloquy, nor had he given the slightest
indication, by any expression of his
face, that he was even aware of what
was going on.
“Th’ very idee o’ ladies bein’ ast t’
change their seats in cars f’r th’ sake
o’ lett.in ’ common, every-day cattle
make noosances o’ themselves!” snif
fed the hatchet-faced woman.
Just at that moment a man with a
singularly plastic countenance climbed
into the vacant seat on the other side
of the man with the ravelled smoke.
The two recognized each other instant
ly, and instantly they began a quick
exchange of conversation—with their
hands, deftly and swiftly going through
the ever-interesting and ever-mystify
ing language of the mutes.
'lue expression that swept over the
sharp features of the woman with the
baggy umbrella could never be de
scribed.
“Well, I swan! —he never hecards a
word T said!” she ejaculated, and then
she signalled the conductor to stop the
car at the next crossing and there de
barked, while the men in the rear seat
chuckled aloud and the two mutes
went on, all unconsciously, with their
language of the hands.—Washington
Star.
Unis Srtf* in lodlit.
Although the famine over the greater
part of Rajputana, Gujerat and the
central Indian states is less widespread
than hitherto, there will nevertheless
be much suffering during the next few
months, and 100.000 people are already
on government relief works. The rats
have to a largo extent disappeared,
but have destroyed a considerable por
tion of the cotton crop. The inhabi
tants of Gujerat are convinced that
the rats are reincarnations of their
friends who died in the last, famine
and it is for this reason that the Brit
ish officials have found it impossible
to get any assistance in destroying the
pests.—London Mail.