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t > o LIFE IN BULGARIAN VILLAGE Watering Places the Scenes of Social Gatherings, Where Young People Get Together for Courting. Ab in the Bible times, all the water for the Bulgarian village must be drawn from one or two wells or springs, and these watering places or fountains are the scene of much sociability. Hither come all the youths and maidens of the village to loiter. There is coquetting and courting about * the fountain and home gatherings in the evenings. Marriages spring from mutual attraction and choice, rather than the arrangement of families, as <lo the Armenian and Turkish alliances. There are husking bees and quilting bees where the young people meet, but the most popular form of social entertainment is the sedanka. Here assemble the young men and women of the village and adjoining farms, grouped about an open fire, singing solos and choruses. The Tlulgnrian folk dances are danced in a row or circle, the leader generally waving a bright handkerchief and turning and twisting about his line 01 followers, like a mild game of "snap the whip." It suggests health and abounding spirits and good-fellowship, without the sensuality that so olten marks the oriental dance. Occasionallv tlin aorlanl/o oi\/lo fashion. Some brawny fellow who has been courting his Darka assiduously will seize her in his arms and carry her to his home. The next day this "marriage by capture" is given legal and religious sanction by the blessing of the orthodox priest. SLEEP IN QUILTS ON FLOOR Japanese Have No Idea of the Modern Bedstead?Open Window at Night Not Thought Of. A Japanese house hasn't a singlo wihdow. And it's only the most stylish of them that have a pane of glass. A person who has a pane of glass somewhere in the house sets the social pace in that neighborhood. Instead of glass they have paper pasted on sliding frames, and through the paper the light filters. Naturally one wonders how they keep the rain out; this is little trouble, for outside the paper walls are a series of wooden doors which also slide back and forth. When thv time comes to retire, you look around for the bed. but there isn't one in sicht. It is rolled un in a drawer, nml the Japanese wouldn't know a bedstead from a quilting frame. Millions of people in Japan have grown to manhood, voted, paid taxes and gone to their reward without ever having clapped eyes on an American bedstead. To make the bod ready the servant opens the drawer and unrolls the quilts on the floor, putting a tomato-can-looking thing under', one end for a pillow. Then she shuts all the paper windows and pulls to all the wooden slides so that not a broath of air can get in and the bed is ready. Money In the palm wouldn't persuade a Japanese to sleep with the window open.?Leslie's Weekly. Starling Becoming a Pest. The English starling. Introduced Into this country some time ago. is increasing in numbers In a manner which puts the far-famed sparrow to the rear in the raoe. and tt is claimed by some that the starling will soon be a greater pest than the sparrow. When tho starling first came to us as a stranger he seemed to have sonvi semblance of a song or a mr" ious whis* tie, nut around the citi'S where he preferably makes his habitation this whistle is rarely heard, the ordinary note or conversation 01 the bird among his fellows being a sharp rasping sound, like the click of a fishing reel In order to determine the status of the starling the government is conducting a number of experiments and examinations of the contents of tho birds' stomachs to determine whether tho bird is truly insectivorous or simply a scavenger of tho English sparrow type One thing contended for by some persons on behalf of the starling is that where he appears the sparrow Is becoming a tree nird. Avoiding Disaster. The parish priest had spoken seriously to Murphy several times about the wasteful habit of treating, and urged him when attending market to been his ehnnco In hia nenlrnt until h? reached home, and then hand it over to tils wife. Some weeks afterward his reverence, passing through tne market, noticed Murphy and a few companions leaving a public house. "Now, I saw you In there a moment ago," began hia reverence. "Acta, sur% Ol cudn't hilp It, yer rtvirlnce!" said his parishioner. "Sure Ol Jlst foun' a hole in mo trousers pocklt, an was afeered Oi'd lose the change ,afore Oi'd git home!" Birds' Slaughter Blocks. In country districts where shelled nn&lls are abundant a thrilling thing It is to soe robin, goldfinch or thrush capture a snail and hie them to a certain smooth-topped stone, there to soar high In the heavens and repeatedly ilrrtn Iho imhnnnv snail until ftnnllv tJ?t> Bheh is triumphantly cracked open as you would a nut. These slaughter blocks, anvils of stone are to be found almost anywhere that birds and snails are common. It is, to be sure, no easy matter, to catch the resourceful birds in the act; but even if your patience goes unrewarded the crushed and broken houses of shell scattered near tech stones tell Cfce tale. HER PART OF THE OUTPU . AIK That Girl Really Had to Do 1 the Gloves Was to Put on the Finishing Touch. "I've got a new place." said Gerti "Where?" asked Sadie. "In the Right & Left glove factory "Isn't that nice?" said Sadie. "Mak me a pair of gloves some time, wl you?" "Yes, maybe, after a while. I 111 thn work nwfullv wall " "But isn't there a lot to it?" "No, not much. It's real simpl And we glrlB have lots of fun." "But how do you ever get those II tie pieces sewed in between tt fingers ?" "Oh, you mean the?the?well, I'x forgotten what they call them; but don't do that." "Oh, you Just do the rest of it?" "N-no, not exactly. You see, tb cloth 1b woven in one departmentit's just like silk gloves, you knowand the gloves are cut out in anothe Then they send them to another di part men t. where they put in these li tie pieces you spoke of. And the someone elso puts on the tips of tli fingers, and someone else does fane stitches on the bac k, and someone els closes them ?sews they up, you knov and someone else puts the buttons 01 anH orifl Oh Hi^rn'o Into Mine.c t/v i* And it's so interesting. And the they all have to he looked over, an the mean old thing that inspects i always sending them back to the girl to be done over." "And what part do you do?" Sadi asked. "Oh. me? When you buy a pair c gloves they are always stitched t( gether in pairs. Well, that's what do."?Wheeling Register. ESCORT COULDN'T SEE JOKI Incident at Coney Island That Prol ably Taught Confetti Thrower a Lesson He Needed. A large well-dressed man and handsome woman were In the Mard Gras crowd at Coney island. Ne\ York. They had been waiting som time for the parade and the womai began to yawn. Now yawning is verv unladylike norfnrmanco in mil lie, and rather a dangerous one in Coney island crowd, for while th woman had her mouth wide open an was getting all the worth there is t he had out of a good healthy yawn young man bent on mischief threw handful of confetti right plump into th orifice. The woman coughed and splui tered. and the hoodlum shrieked wit delight. Those about him thought i was a grand joke, too?all but th woman's escort. He reached out oo powerful arm and grabbed the skylarl ing youth by the shoulder. Then h brought his list down on the youn man's straw hat, crushing it and drii ing his head through the crown an partly over his ears. Next he turne the young man around and kicked hir with all the force and swiftness tha outraged dignity and fierce anger t< gether with great strength affordec If that youth recovers from that kic and throws confetti again he will b careful in picking his target. Am maybe, the handsome woman if sh yawns again in a hurry will not do s in such a mob as turns out to see Coney island celebration. With the Essayists. Of all the displays of art the essa is the most indefinable, the most sul tie, because it has no scheme, no pr< gram. It does not set out to narrate or t prove; it has no dramatic purpose, n imaginative theme; its essence is sympathetic self-revelation, just as i talk a man may speak frankly of hi own experiences and feelings, and y< avoid any suspicion of egotism, if hi confidences are designed to illustrat the thoughts 04 others rather than t provide a contrast and a self-gloriflci tion. The essayist gives rather tha claims; he compares rather than pi rades. He is led by his interest i others to be interested in himself, an it Is as a man rather than as an ind vidual that he takes the stage. He must he surprised at the disco eries he makes about himself, rath< than complacent; he must condone h own discrepancies rather than exu in them. Trained CraDS Catch Rabbit*. Crabs are put to a curious use < certain parts of the Devonshire foi shore. They are used to catch ra bits. Having located a promising bt row, the snarer takes a crab and i fixes a short length of lighted cand to the back of its shell. The behavi of a crab which finds Itself in a narrc lnclosure is well known. It oeglns run. It therefore starts away np tl burrow at top rate, and presently tl rabbit Is horrified at the sight of a Jr trotting flame coming to his sanctuai OCT he goes for the other exit, only tlnd himself, when he emerges. In trap. Two Babies. Mrs. Newma?O, I wish you cob see Mrs. Winkler's baby. It's perfe ly lovely. Such a delicate little cr< ture as it Is! It's a perfect lit) cherub, with the loveliest eyes, t sweetest little mouth, the cunning* little nose, and eyes of heavenly bli It looks as If It Just dropped frc heaven and every tiny feature h i been fashioned by the angels. v??rma?Is It as nice as o THE LANCASTER I T GREAT THINKERS LIKED PI I ?_ Noted Philosophers Celebrated fi Their Fondness for Commonplace Dessert. Commenting on the inconsistench '1 of longevity, a writer recently cltt ? I the fact that, though a lifelong dev tee to aDDle Die. Emerson lived to t k? over seventy-eight years old. Tha howover. Is not the Important fac Many persons have lived to even 10 greater age. The distinctive featui of Emerson's pie-eating career is tt wholesome, cheerful and thought-cor ?' polling system of philosophy whic it brought forth. To demonstrate that apple pie ha 10 j much to do with Emersonian optlmisi is no task at all. 0 Thomas Carlyle, whose disciple an friend Emerson was, never ate pi ! and although as great a lover of mai kind as was the sage of Concord, Ca ie lyle was a victim all his llfo of me ~~ ancholia and dyspepsia and har worus. uy uueneciuai descent nn r* association Carlyle was a Germai c* his thought being fed by Goethe, Schi *" tier and others of that great group. Bi n he adhered to the Scottish diet, whlc c does not harmonize with Teuton! y philosophy, and so he became phy ie letilly and mentally dyspeptic. Fi v' might have saved him had he taken 1* in time. ? Further to emphasize the point thf 11 pie, or apple pie, at any rate, is th optimistic factor of philosophy, it i 8 necessary to cite the fact that Niet 8 -che, who. in his unspoiled years, ws a devout and cheerful disciple of Kn 6 erson, became the materialistic "si perman" of Nietzsche's later pioles ,f years. 5' All bmlding philosophers who rea * these solemn words should be warne in time. E HOW DOGS GOT THEIR NAME Substantial Reasons in All Cases ft Dividing the Canine Species Into Breeds Well Known. a With dog shows everywhere to tti " left of us and to the right, at nation: v shows and the side shows, at outdo* e fetes, many women will be glad l n learn the origin of several popult a breeds of the canine family. It is probable that few lovers of tt a most popular dog of today?the bul ? dog?know whence he obtained h: d name. He is called a bull" for tl ? reason that formerly his services we: a employed in the driving of cattle. Tl a dog was trained to meet the rushes < 6 the bull by the simple expedient < i* seizing its charge by the most sei h sitive part, the nose. It The spaniel, formerly one of tt e most popular species of dogs, gets it e name from Spain, from which cout c* try the first breeds were sent to En e land, where for a long time they wei K called "Spanish dogs." T' Some have thought that the fox te d rier derived his name from the to d by reason of his pointed fox-like rnu a zle, but as a matter of fact the dc it was not so nnnieri on amoiint of ar >* fancied resemblance to Reynard. C ' the contrary the fox terrier is i k named because in the days when t e was much larger in size and of grea * er strength than now, he was et e ployed by English sportsmen to dra ? and kill the fox, being sent down inl a Reynard's burrow for that purpose. "Ma's" Good Example. y We visited at the home of a farm< 0. friend last summer, says Farm Lit > It was a rambling house, hut ever window was either closed or screenei Every door, likewise, was protecte G against the entrance of insects Thei a was one lonesome fly in the din in n room, and the housewife was after hu ls with a swatter. The children laughc ,, and the farmer looked at her with a l8 indulgent smile. ".Ma won't rest till she gets him () said one of the girls, and her prophec was ii good one. Ma finally landed c Mr. Fly with her weapon. Then st n picked up his lifeless body and carrit him to the stove and cremated him. n How much more comfortable thi 1(j family is than in those occasion i< country homes where they still sh< the. flies away from the dinner tab v. with a sassafras bush! sr j8 Sing "Aloha" to Pacific Mall. The Pacific liner Manchuria sail for San Francisco festooned wl wreaths bearing the legend. "Aloha F - clflc Mall." All Honolulu assembled to see t >n departure of the last F?aciflc mall v< >e" sel. On her arrival at San Francis b" the Manchuria will be turned over ,r* the International Mercantile Marii which has already taken possession 1? the other Ave steamships which, wl or the Persia, sold to tho Toyo Kis ,w Kalsba. constituted the Pacific M to company's transpacific fleet?Hot h? lulu Dispatch Portland Oregon tan. he >K- Seems to Disprove Old Belief. T- In one of the ancient chimney piec 10 in Cawdor castle. Scotland, there Is * rude carving In stone of a fox smokh A IaKq r?orv nlnn nrlth Kn Haf a 1 K1 ? , wnaa lun uavc ?ui .a As it is generally believed that tobi co was first Introduced into the mot ild cr country by Sir Walter Raleig ct- about the year 1585, it is singular >a. find the common short tobacco pip He thus represented on a stone bearii he date so much earlier. at There can be no mistake as to tl ie. date or the nature of the represent >m tlon. The fox holds the fragrant tu ad In his mouth exactly as it is held I its human admirers, and is such ur may be seen every day with tho who patronixe the cutty pipe. TEWS, JANUARY 21, 1916. E ORIGIN OF FAMlLlAR SAYINGS >r Phrases That Have Become Household Words Have Been Traoed to Their Place of Birth. is "Kicking the bucket" Is an Irrever* >d ent way of expressing a pore or *a o- death. The expression originated M >e the time when a man named l*?Uo t. ever tried to commlv. suicide by hang t. lng himself from a beam. He stood a on a high bucket which he kicked e away from him when he had adjusted ie the rope. A neighbor rescued him a- and In his disappointment he said: :h "What's the mattev? I thought 1 kicked the bucket." d The origin of "O. K." Is ascribed to m President Andrew Jackson, who was noted for his bad spelling. He Ind dorsed his papers "O. K.," thinking e. those were the proper Initials for "all n- correct." r- In "that's the ticket," ticket is cor1 rupted from the French word ctld quotte, meaning that which Is In good d form or right. n. ; "He's a brick" is a complimentary 1- expression, but few know why. When ?t Lycurpus was king of Sparta, over two h thousand vmipu no" "" " uu vHoiri ti aui* ic bassador fisited him and was astons ished to find no walls around the city, le When he questioned Lycurgus about It thlB, the latter took him out to a plain where the Spartan army stood In orit der of battle. "There." said LyourguB. ie "are the walls of Sparta, and every is man a brick." The celling of the old Drury Lane '3 theater of London was painted to repn resent Olympus, with gods sitting u- among the clouds. The upper gallery iS came so close to the roof that tho people who sat there were spoken of (I 11 u alttlnir omnni. *??1 T **- ? * OI our "XAUijJli 1ALA" 111 wood.. ^ n ; < i n o is ss S! I I! II BENNETT-TERRY CO. 1 | | 11 PURE FOOD STORE. i H i ?)? l?l*^ j^jflF jSjr- . .' i^BP:^gK-.'. .JBra& v.iv.MR urnuuft tuc ftUUO. IIH' d occupants themselves wore called the "gallery gods." S APPEAL THAT GOT RESULTS >r Humorously Written "Dun" Had the Effect of Bringing Check to Settle Long-Standing Debt. 10 A well-known business man in Lawrence, Mass.. once had a customer who )r contracted a debt that ran along un? paid for a year or more, and even sovLr eral letters failed to bring about a settlement. 10 One day, while glancing over the religious notices in a local paper, the business man saw something that cave ie him a new idea. He went to his deBk *? and wrote the following note to the ie debtor: "My Dear Sir: 1 see in the local ^ press that you are to deliver an adll* dress 011 Friday evening before the Y. M. C. A. 011 'The Sinner's Dalanced 16 Account.' I inclose yours, as yet unts balanced, and trust that I may have n* the pleasure of attending your lec5" turo." "e A check came by the next mail.? Youth's Companion, r x Redwood Thousands of Centuries Old. z|g While one of the professors of the 1V University of California was studying rock formations about twenty miles |Q from San Francisco he discovered a ie quantity of California redwood spllnt. tors which had undergone no change n. in texture. They were neither petrtw fled nor decayed. Lo The splinters could be shaved and cut with a knife and retained their distinctive markings of redwood. The strata in which these were found embedded in the sandy base of ?r the rock showed they had at one time e. been sunk under the sea and at a later y date had been raised and tilted over, tl so that the position of tlie trees was d horizontal instead of vertical, e It is estimated the age of these ig ' trees is in the millions of years. The tn discovery was made at Mussel Rock, A, Cal. .n ??_____ To Each Hio Place. Men have died of homesickness for the narrow fields and elm-shaded Uolm lows in tho hills of old Now England 10 in the same spirit that sends others !(* tolling painfully back to the brown sand dunes about San Francisco bBy. Some have lost their hearts to the a' deep pine woods of ihe North and 50 others to tho stately moss-hung live *e oaks that lino tho shell road to Mobile. Some would come to the city of their souls through the low. warm mists that overhang Chesapeake bay, and others prefer to see the lights of home ^ shining clear in a rise of the great plains 30 miles away as the crow flies. The truest thing Kipling ever h? said is thai "God gave all men all ^ earth to love. hut. etnee their heart* co are small, ordained for each one place to should prove beloved over all." That ie- place is home, and they have lived ?' who find It.?Collier's Weekly. Ith en Life on Falkland Islands. Whatever other attractions exist In 10" the Falkland islands, two great drawbacks are continually met with. fj>e climate is never really *arm, add fires hare to be kept up all tt?o year round. es Servants are procured with difficulty. Most people Import tbem from England; but as English girls are freLW* mmnllo - - . 1 J - ^ 4uuuii/ nuayjitju uy aim iaurnoa h most as sood il8 they land, they have ,h i to sign an agreement to remain In t(J service three years. If they break It eg In order to marry, the husband has to pay the passage out from England of another servant to fill the place left ve "ant by his wife. iaPOLICE TO PATROL UEPTHS by New York Wants s Detachment of Its 80 Cops Who Can Use Diving Helmets. " n m n m. HI i i i, .T. I | ?6WQQag tfGa? fb(?a5(fl 1 t% 1 gftagftg frfo? G>gj8ro 1H Over-work, worry and j the constant strain of a ME. E business life are often /i a cause of much trouble. \fW Dr. Miles' Nervine is highly recommended for all Nervous disor- 1 Sct ders. 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