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II SOME ANCIENT ! Webster's Spelling Book?Tb I Arithmetic?Brown's Gra | Their Virtuoi ( By JOEL E ! In the literature that abides with < khe individual memory and becomes 1 [a part of the soul's furniture, so to J [apeak, I know of nothing that sur- i passes a disused and departed school i .book. i The Webster Spelling Book and 3 the English Reader?the first one ob- < solescent and the last now nowhere i used?have probably had the longest 1 "history of any, going through at least 1 three full generations. Beginning t with the symbolic picture of the Tem- ? pie of Fame and Knowledge, to which 1 a Minerva-like female figure points I the young girl pupils whom she is c leading, and continuing to the end, c there is hardly a page in this spell- c lng book which an old student who i (I has used It ever forgets. Although ' It has gone through several editions, i Its type and essential style are pre- ] 'served in every change of it. i How familiarly, after you pass the ( alphabet page, these lines appeal to ns: "Am I to go in? I am to go in." "She fed the old hen." "The hen was fed by her." "Ann can hem 1 my cap." "She has a new f a." ""PMre will burn wood and coal." 1 ""Coal and wood will make a fire." "Will you help me pin my frock?" 8 ""The good girl may jump the rope." . ""Bakers bake bread and cakes." "I . like to play in the shady grove." . ""Cider is made of apples." "A tiger f will kill and eat a man." "Ann can spin flax." "A shad can swim." "Cot- 1 ton velvet is very soft to the feel." ""We can-burn fish oil in lamps." 1 Kava ' * * * T I ".Never pester me iuuc wj o. had some green corn in July on a plate." Things Ann Doesn't Know. The self-obviousness and simplicity of these sayings have now a distinct charm. But they were gauged, It , must be remembered, for infantile minds not long graduated from the cradle. Some changes in society have taken place since they were c written. Ann cannot spin flax now, t "because the crop has lost its preva- t lence, and we no longer burn fish oil, 1 but use, where gas and electricity are C not in hand, John D. Rockefeller's v product. A shad can still swim, but v he now.does his locomotion with a Tare and rarer frequency?and very ( soon will not do it at all unless we S ?i. AitVir on/1 nollu- t I AJU1L tllC unu; uuu v* tion of our streams and waterways. / At the middle and end of the book c the words and lessons are arranged s for the older and higher classes of fc pupils, and finish all the equipment l: that is required for a speller and I reader. The pictures and the fables I perhaps interest most of us in the re- \ trospect. The milkmaid in her care- t less dreamland, the boy driven from the apple tree by the irate farmer, and the bull that gored the ox are still unfaded treasures which carried v_ in their day notable instruction. The wood-cuts that were used, that were of the Anderson and Bewick fashion, ? look quaint enough now. Who, at any rate, that has nurtured on Webster's Speller can ever s forget the Milkmaid's Reverie? She was carrying the full pail of milk on E her head when she said: "The mon- e r Bj| ey for which I sell this milk will en-1 * gffl -able me to increase my stock of eggs j ? to 300." After deducting for addling and vermin there would be at least 250 chickens got from them. These raj were to go to market at Christmas r for good prices. Consequently by a May Day, she says, "I cannot fail of E having money enough to purchase a ? H new gown. Then!?let me consider ^ |g ?yes, ^reen becomes my complexion Xa best, and green it shall be. In this s gg dress I will go to the fair, where all 0 the young fellows will strive to have T me for a partner; but I shall, per- a ? haps, refuse everyone of them, and ? with an air of disdain aDd toss from Mj them." Being "transported by this t I "thought," she gave a sudden toss of r H her head, "and down came the pail a I of milk, and with it all her imaginary 1 si happiness." r ?| It must be that from this fable ^ I came the proverb "Never count your 8 I chickens before they're hatched." I The Webster Speller is chiefly used * ?|j In the South and West now. But it * Eg has absolute merit still, and, inter preted in Tagalog and the other I .tongues of the Philippines, mignt prove an excellent purveyor of English to those who speak them. Solemn Lindley Murray. Lindley Murray's English Reader "was held to be excelled in its day. But It was overwhelmingly serious and solemn, and was so advanced that many of the younger pupils who used it had to wait for years to have all its meaning made clear to them. Murray was not only a stern Quaker, but he seems to have been a man who could not smile even. To him a laugh was a levity, and in one of the editions of his reader he apologized in a loot-note for a few sentences in which a he though there was something playfully said. No one else, however, r discovered this. On one page, in speaking of Niagara Falls?an idea which he might have found in Goldsmith's "Animated Nature"?he an- ? Bounces its height and grandeur, but i slips immediately into an untruth l anr! anti-climax by saying that in ? spite of its vasiness "it is said that the Indians have sometimes passed down it in their canoes in safety." Here are some samples of the book that I remember: 'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. "Agesilaus, King of Sparta, being asked what things he thought most proper for boys to learn, answered, 'Those which they ought to practice wnen they become men.' " An earthquake may be bid to spare The man who's strangled by a hair. Queer Old Arithmetics. Murray's Grammar was excellent, but its circulation could not compare with that of the English Reader. Of arithmetics there was no end. Pike's was a big octavo, and began its career " in the eighteenth century. It was really a whole compendium of mati-ji SCHOOL BOOKS. | e English Reader?Daboll's i mmar, and Others, and js Precepts. JENTON. jmatics. Daboli's pernaps is now the ] jest remembered of the multiplied finds. Colburn's was noted, and ] Smith's began almost in the cradle by j isking the kindergartner, "How ] nany little fingers have you got on < four right hand?" And how many j >n your left hand? Nathan Daboll ] vas a born mathematician and his . problems were no easy nuts to crack, ] is a great number of the book's pa- . rons still remember. Like many j school books, it was bound in full j eather, while Webster's Spelling 3ook had usually blue-papered board j :overs backed by red cloth, which be- ] :ame almost a trade-mark. Daboll , :alled his book "The Schoolmaster's (" Assistant," with the addition of ( 'The Practical Accountant, or Far- I , tiers' and Mechanics' Best Method of 3ookkeeping." The latter departnents were furnished by Samuel Jreen. Arithmetic Problems in Verse. Jacob Willetts' Arithmetic was the >roduct of a Quaker teacher in Dutch*ss County, who also made a geogaphy and other works. The arithnetic had great favor and was conddered easier than Daboll's. Nearly ill the old arithmetics put their probems usually in terms of pounds,.shillngs and pence, down to about 1850. n Willetts' Arithmetic no one will orget who has studied it this exam>le: When first the marriage knot was tied Between ray wife and me, My age was to that of my bride As three times three to three; But now when ten and half ten years We man and wife have been, Her age to mine exactly bears As eight is to sixteen. Now tell, I pray, from what I've said, What were our ages when we wed. Lns.?Thy age when married must have been Just forty-five, thy wife's fifteen. This was not exactly a case of Deember and May, but it was pretty learly one of September and the lat er montb, bringing golden rod and. * ilacs together. Willetts helped Joold Brown on his grammar and ras the head of a noted school to the c rorking end of his life. One of his ssistant teachers, Augustus R. Mc,'ord, a County Superintendent of 1 ichools in Dutchess County when hat office existed, revised Willetts' arithmetic in the middle of the last * entury, putting it also in boards intead of leather. Willetts' school >ooks and many others bore this al- 1 iterative imprint: "Printed and ublished by Paraclete Potter, 'oughkepsie, N. Y." This Potter c ras a brother of the older bishops of 8 hat name. iNoan weosier s son. Not every one knows that there c ras a sequel to Webster's Spelling took, made by his son, W. G. Webter, and a motto in it, under the < iortrait of Noah Webster, reads thus: ? 'Who taught millions to read, but tone to sin." Nothing can better ;ive the spirit in which the old school c looks were written, for they were c tearly all hortatory and didactic, ven when they dealt with figures hiefiy. There was an introduction x ind also a sequel to the English c leader, but their school use was lim- ^ ted. There were in vogue, as geograihies, Morse's, Smith's and Olney's c mong others. But very early in the lineteenth century there was a huge reography by an elder Morse (Jede liah Morse, I believe), which con- ( ained remarkably frank matter, and z ome relating to the social customs, if certain nations that modern taste vould distinctly frown upon. It is f i curious fact in reference to the t dd geography maps?those made in he early part of the last century? hat they populated by definite town j narks and described with mount- x lino blrpa nnH Hvpvg thp mnst nn- . cnown parts of the interior of Af- , lea. If our ex-President in his big- j ;ame hunt should take one of these ? ilong as a geographical guide he voAd discover, to use "Josh Billngs' " locution, "a good many things ( hat ain't so." t Some of the Good Old ''Pieces." ? I should have said before this that i here were competitors to the Eng- < ish Reader. The Columbian Orator, 1 >y Caleb Bingham, was one; the Naional Preceptor (I think it was :alled) was another, and Porter's Rhetorical Reader came a little later, i n all these, as with Murray's book, 1 he pieces were selected with an eye t o declamation. Some of these were i 'On Linden When the Sun Was 11 L,ow," "The Burial of Sir John|< Hoore," "Marco Bozzaris," "The Old ^ )aken Bucket," "Webster's Reply to | < ^avno " with nascaeM frnm other f STILL FOX HUNTI rhe Game is the Red Spi Hounds if Any Running the hounds is not an ob- 1 solete sport in Missouri, though hut < ittle known to the average sports- 1 nan. One of the few fot hunting i issociations in the State is composed i )f residents of Buchanan and Platte < bounties. The association was re- 1 :ently organized, with J. P. Worrell J )f Rushville president. There are i ;hirty members of the association, ] ma tney nave aooui urn nounas, an \ horoughbreds. The game is the red < ox, exceedingly cunning, and which i oaes the hounds if any fox can. It < :osts about ten cents a day to feed i l fox hound, and it is easy to figure hat the man who owns eight or ten lounds and has a family to support las no time to sleep between chases, rhe best food is cracking and corn i jread, which given together give ] ;ood wind and muscle. A dog is in ts prime at two and a half years old, jegins to ruii at one year of age, and : s good at hard running for lour fearg. Art Hamer, of Rushville, :laims to have had Dups that began i speeches o! his, and many besides c similar note. In more than one of the books use for reading, the verses for a youthfu speaker beginning? You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; If I should cnanee to fall below Demosthenes and Cicero, etc.? are to be found. This apt bit o rerse has been usually credited to Ed ward Everett, but it was written, believe, by his brother, Alexande Everett. While there were authors quote* from in these books'(and I have Ief many books of this class unnamed like Mrs. Opie, Granger and Brain 3rd, who are not at all generally re nembered at this date, Byron, Camp bell, Milton and other great name ire represented in tnem. raKinj literature, then, ag it was eight; ind a hundred years ago, the schoo jooks that I speak of fairly sample* it. The latest book to which I have re 'erred Is Porter's Rhetorical Reader But that appeared seventy-sevei rears ago. It was more than a read ;r. It taught rhetoric, gesture, voca jxpresslon and all that concerns or itory. It was from these books, an< jthers like them that I have named :hat the great men of two or thre< generations ago got their first step n culture. If they had been perfec jooks they could not remain so, to lew authorship, new ideas and a dif 'erent perspective In all fields o :hought have necessarily dlsmisse< hem. But they did more than pro note the three R*s?"reading, 'rit ng and 'rlthmetic;" they opened ai maginative and spiritual outlook In :o the world that made the commoi ?id district schools great nourlsher >f character and genius.?New Yorl iVorld. \Sk/ %ur/oustJM The Salvation Army is establishe< n fifty-two countries. A sash is the engagement presen >f the Japanese lover. The pedigree of some Arab horse: nay be traced back for 2000 years. For short spurts, the salmon i: he fastest swimmer of the fish tribe In Honduras even the meanes louses are built of mahogany. Nearly all of the 15,000 Inhabitant! >f Marchneukirchen, Saxony, are en ;aged in violin making. For use during military maneuver he Kaiser has a portable house mad< >f asbestos. There was a decrease in England'! Irink expenditure last year of sevei ind a half millions. The railroads of this country pa: >ut $24,OOO,O0O a year in freigh :laims. Cigar boxes of glass are comity nore and more into use. They ar< iheaper than the wooden boxes anc ceep the cigars fresh ,a longer time. Budapest is to have a new bacteri >logical institute. The salmon output of Alaska squals the combined catch of Britisl Columbia, the United States proper ind Japan. > A ten-acre orange orchard in Cali iornia may, under favorable condi ions, yield up to $7000 a year. The Michigan Central will electri 'y its terminals at Detroit and thi nain line as far as Ypsilanti, thirt; niles west of the city. Electricit; vill be obtained from the watei lower of the Huron River at Chel lea, Mich. In Japan about ninety-eight pe :ent. of the males of school age at ;end the educational establishment! ind ninety-three per cent, of the fe nales. In Mexico, only sixteen pe: :ent. of the population can read anc ,vrue. Aero Olub of Schoolboys. A young men's aero club, affiliatei with the Aero Club of California las been organized by the students o ;he Los Angeles Polytechnic Hlgl 3chool. The club has fc:ty mem >ers, divided into two sections, eacl )f which is building a glider to bi jntered in the first meet of the Aer< Dlub of California.?Popular Me :hanics. :NG IN MISSOURI eeies Which Loses the Reynard Can. :o run at four months. There Is om log in every litter that won't run What a little difference betwen mei ind dogs after all! A black shee] in almost every human family, an< >ne dog in every litter that might a veil be brought up a parlor pet to ill the good it does its owner. Mei ilso require a leader, and in ever: pack of dogs there is one that take :he lead. It is worth $20 to raise i jog from his puppy days to his run ;ing days, but the raising doesn't in ^.lude training; a fox hound doesn' lave to be trained. It is in his blood ?Atchison Globe. With All His Worldly Goods. "Do you think you can manage wit' my salary of $12 a week, darliug? tie asked, after she had said yes. "I'll try, Jack," replied she; "bu what will you do?" ? Universalis Leader. The total population of the British Empire is over 400.000,000. I f New York City.?The blouse with the Dutch collar is a favorite one and I (s so essentially youthful In effect that r It Is peculiarly well adapted to the Foung girl. This one can be made i either with three-quarter sleeves flnt tshed with rolled-over cuffs or with ) long sleeves that are cut in points ; Ml over the hands. If the Dutch collar is not liked a high one can be substituted. The blouse is one of the simple tailored sort and is adapted to a variety of materials. Pongee is being much used and is desirable for many uses. The blouse is made with fronts and ''* j ' 7 ! r ! back. The back is plain, but the * I fronts are laid in tucks at the shouli ders. There is a patch pocket that is i always convenient as well as smart, r | and the wide box pleat finishes the - front. When the Dutch collar is used s it is joined to the neck edge, but the - high collar is separate and arranged r over a neckband. The three-quartei 1 sleeves are finished with cuffs joined to their lower edges, but the long ones are designed to be under-faced. The quantity of material required 1 for the sixteen year size is three and seven-eighth yards twenty-one or f twenty-four, three yards thirty-two or 3 two and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide. 1 3 Redingote Has Returned. 3 Tne reaingaie nas returned iu ittvui and is seen in the most handsome fabrics, lavishly decorated with braiding and embroideries. Only a tall, r well proportioned figure should atL tempt this style of wrap, but on the right woman it is stunning. The natty military coat is now furnished ) with skirts?following the prevailing fashion?that fall flaring quite below the knee. s Selvedge Edge Draperies. The fancy for tunics, straight sleeves and scarfs has brought into fashion the well-defined selvedge. It 6 comes in all materials, even those of r Bilk and wool. It is widely seen on 2t mousseline, veils, chiffon cloth, and y even batiste and gingham. s j 1 A Tea Gown. I ] | Picturesqueness is the note struck ^ by a graceful tea gown in a soft, deep, rose red, veiled with mushroom ' brown chiffon, and again by mushroom net embroidered with damask roses and foliage, and hemmed with mink tail. li Cretonne Coats. I For those who find the usual satins t and velvets employed by the manufiacturers of evening wraps beyoad their means there is no more effective k material than a good quality flowered cretonne. 7iioiu\3 Close Sleeves. If you wear long, close sleeves, the shoulder line should be long. Don't think to get the same effect with a short shoulder. Sailor Ties Fashionable. The sailqr tie is the fashionable shoe. Its ribbon fastening has given way in many instances to a metal buckle, usually silver or steel.' Patent leather Is the material, most used for day wear; kid, the color of the gown, for evening. Long Coats Popular. The long coat is the most popular form of wrap for street wear. Black broadcloth, braid trimmed, makes a practical', serviceable outer garment built on loose box lines and is becoming to the average figure. For the Collar. If you wish to make your woman friend a rather new little gift, get a piece of fine handkerchief linen, fold it over, hemstitch one side, make it Just as deep as a little frill to'go inside of a shallow collar. Such frills are very fashionable and somewhat resemble the little tucker frills our grandmothers ?ised to wear. Such frills instead of being hemstitched may be embroidered or feather BUicnea euner iu wuue ur wuiuio. Fuffy neckwear is a prediction for the future and then let the short or full| necked woman beware. Misses' Skirt. Young gtrls are wearing skirts that give long, slender lines, just as are their elders, and this model is one of the most graceful and the smartest yet to have appeared. It can be made with the high waist line, In princess* style as illustrated, or be cut off and finished with a belt as liked. In either case it fits with perfect smooth- . ness over the hips and is just wide i enough about the bottom to allow comfortable walking. In the illustration serge is finished with stitching in tailor style. The skirt is made seven gores and the fuln?ss at the back is laid in Inverted pleats. When the princesse style is used the skirt is under-faced , at the upper edge. When It Is cut off at the waist line It Is joined to the , belt. i The quantity of material required t for the sixteen year size is seven and c five-eighth yards twenty-four, five r and five-eighth yards thirty-two, i three and five-eighth yards forty-four or two and three-eighth yards fiftytwo inches wide will be sufficient. j j. Metallic Colors. c Danglers, tassels and fringes may be found in all the modish colors in metallic and let effects. t WHAT IS A PERSON'S l(< NORMAL TEMPERATURE? jp This Question is Asked Often of Almost Every Physician--Take ' It Under the Tongue. to What is a person's normal temper- p? ature? is a question often asked of te every physician, says the Technical e? World. When the answer, 98.6 degrees w Fahrenheit, is given to the query, ?r few persons understand the physiological significance of this fact, or how a degree of systematic heat is pj maintained during health within vl such narrow limits that their bodies ta have an even temperature the coldest day in winter or the hottest day in aI summer, with an exactness of adjust- ?i, ment that is not obtainable in warming or cooling their homes with the M most up-to-date heating and refriger- ^ ating apparatus. Now, in accepting the statement that the body temperature is 98.6 de- ^ grees Fahrenheit, it must be borne in mind that to some extent this is a j relative figure, for the warmth of the exterior varies markedly from that of ^ the Interior. Bf The surface temperature of the ju head, hands or abdomen may differ ^ from 96 degrees down to 98 degrees or lower, while that of the Internal regions may extend up to 102.2 degrees, the average of blood circulating in organs like the liver, pancreas t ' and kidneys. For practical purposes ^ some gauge must be accepted where- ed by normal temperature may be meas- . ured and compared. Therefore, on j account of convenience and practica- jj bllity, the temperature taken carefully under the tongue by a clinical ther- ^ mometer has been selected a3 a common standard throughout medical circles. It ia sometimes recorded in j uE the axilla or groin instead of in the month when for any reason ft sublln- j gual test is not advantageous. The ^ temperature of these localities differs . slightly from the mouth* being five rg degrees less. ^ ???????? mi WORDS OF WISDOM. th trj Poverty may be no crime, but It mi has Its penalties just the same. 3n fall i nil ruuxo auu vuuui tcu vuv vi uvut j/*' and generally at the wrong time. a One enemy will often make a man ls more prominent ( than a hundred fl friends. . !. As a rule the ies3 a man has to do * the less time he finds to do it. 1 su It's all right to love your enemies, He but don't slight your friends. (e? Rich things never agree with some 3p men, not even rich wives. ayi Where one man wants to borrow j ho trouble, a nunarea want to get ria or no it. <, thi It is a question whether half a ly truth is better than none. au When a woman expresses a wish, pr her husband generally has to pay the expressage. H The only harmless fool is a lead fool. Ch It Isn't always the janitor \Ao j cleans out the bank. All the people who pose are not i mc models by any means. | He who dances must pay the piper, I tei unless he blows his own horn. I pu The girl who marries without love | at< deserves a divorce without alimony. tio Some people couldn't make both ends meet in an abattoir. se< He who jumps at conclusions seldom gets there with both feet. j ; , 3e? Many a girl has a poor complexion who is rich enough to afford a bet- (n^ ter one. | flV( Considering that It's the unex- tai pected that always happens, it's a nol wonder we don't get to expect it. sw The reason some people's photo- to graphs never look . like them is because they try to look pleasant.? sai Prnm "MnsinirH of a Gentle Cynic," I ' in the New York Times. ! tat ! hai ths A Question of Enjoyment. At a recent gathering of ministers doi of the Gospel in Pittsburg the liquor aft question came in for a goodly share eg{ of discussion. Among the out-of- Ne town delegates was a noted Georgia clergyman, who was scheduled to speak on the saloon question. Pre- ( vious to the meeting one of the local pastors upon being introduced to the ? Georgian remarked: Well r?r Plank- T helieve vour . people enjoy State-wide prohibition ' aDC low, do they not?" j . "No," replied the Georgian, "they j ? do not." Ifor anc The local man was somewhat sur- I ^ prised, but not feeling quite sure of I ?T. bis ground, let the matter rest. Later ? , in the day, however, when he had *a. Informed himself on the excise Iawa at ot the Southern States, he took the Georgian to task in the presence of , i number of his colleagues. "Doctor," said the local minister, "what did you mean by telling me ge this morning that your State did not ?r. have State-wide prohibition?" * "My dear brother," replied the Georgian, gravely, "I told you noth- j* ing of the sort." ^ee "Why?why?," stammered the ^e! local man, "you surely?" "Nay," said the Georgian, with a g :winkle, "you have forgotten your juestion. You asked me if Georgia J^8 injoyed State-wide prohibition."? k3C*J Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Foods For Eels. ^ Eels do not require much food. G. !?s 3. M. Frey, of near Muncy, placed L95 pounds of eels in a fresh water . ,ank when they were running in the If Ml. Sat They weighed from half a pound to *in Ive pounds apiece and have all been ?E lold except about twenty-five. They e. lave kept firm and in fine condition, growing considerably, with no food nar )ther than that they got from the a, a unning water.?Punisutawney Spir- aj t. Perhaps the most curious of pol- * shing wheels is that made of corn lusks for finishing shell or bone :ombs- refi England builds a battleship in wo years, but France requires five. ? The Ohio State University is about start a class in its Engineering Deirtment for the teaching of wireless legraphy. A complete wireless tel;raph equipment lis to be installed, id will maintain communication 1th stations at Cleveland and'. Deoit |l Molybdenlti ? molybdienum- sullide?has been found in the Peruan provinces of Convension, Huays, Canta, Trujlllo, Carabaya, lea, ymaraes, etc., but the most Import it discovery was made In 1*901 la e province of Jauja, with the result at the "Socledad Explotadora de olibdeno" was formed to> work the iposits. > Cheaper radium Is promised by the scovery that the ash of a lignite und in Sweden contains radium tiich can be extracted by an lnex? naive process devised by a chemist ,med Hellsing. The Schweizerische luzeltung quotes Professor Arrhen* s and Professor Anderson, of the iologlcal Survey of Sweden, as ap? oving the Hellsing process. The readiness with which low rms of life accomodate themselves altered environment shows that ey are capable of being trained or ucated to a certain extent. Stahl b shown that a certain Plasmodium es when sprinkled with salt,' but the salt be added to the medium . . ' adually the organism acoomjno* J ,teB itself to the new medium. Purseful action is manifested by plants well as by animals, and by both ilcellular and multicellular. The Flfax reflectoroscope, an Eng- ^ h apparatus, is claimed to be the st solution so far of the problem of fleeting post cards, photographs and her pictures or designs so that they ay show as sharp and brilliant as \ e views projected by the ordinary insparent lantern slides. The new igic lantern resembles the ordinary e in general appearance, but the iture is placed at the back, where 3000 candle power beam of light concentrated upon it by two re- ' ctors; the image is transmitted rough the lens to the screen. tough other powerful' lights may used/ gas, with special high-presre burners and Incandescent man(S, has been found to give the stead- / it and most penetrating beam. The , v eration of the high-pressure gas 9tem costs about half a cent an ur, specially prepared slides are t needed, the colors and details of e reflected pictures are shown vividon the screen and magnified as reired, and book pages of letterpress inting may be exihbited as well as kinds of pictures. \ r ' j. * t~; EE FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS.. inese Cook Knew Which Eggs Should Be Thrown Away. "Chinese need to be taught to7 be' >re self-reliant," said the 'woman 10 employs a Chinese cook. "Yes day I ordered my cook to make a dding for dinner, stopping a mini to see if he followed my instrucns, for I had taught him to make Is particular pudding. He had' ' ;n me smell the eggs before putting sm into a bowl and he began by tting the first egg to his nose. He' ;med on the right road, so T left i kitchen for a minute. Return t fhjif he had used j X vu v?. e eggs instead of tbree as T had* ight him. Taking him to task for t following my instructions he anered, 'Yes, three here (pointing /. * the howl) two here (indicating iere he had thrown the others) ne as you.' , \ "It dawned on me that when I had ight him to make the pudding- I 3 found the second and third eggs it I had' broken to be bad and had own both away. He had simply ae what he had seen me do? er smelling the second and third1 j he had thrown them away.~? w York Sun. / m Grant's Wish Fulfilled. General Ulysses, S. Grant,, now . * :ombed on Riverside Drive, New rk City, expressed a wish nearly f a century ago that just now is >ut to be fulfilled. \fter Vicksburg had fallen, Grant urned to his home in Galena, 111., a brief visit. While he was feted 1 feasted and mentioned as a candie for the Presidency, he said: here is but one of two offices I nt?pither Mavor or Alderman of lena." But why such a humble place?" was asked. 'Well," be said, "I live out on that I, and in bad weather it is tough ting out there. If I were Mayor . : ? Alderman I would have a sidewalk It to my home." ^or years he has slept in his splentomb, but that sidewalk has never in built. Now, at the behest of presentative Dillon, of Galena, the use has passed a bill appropriat$3500 to build the sidewalk the at soldier wanted, and also to keep old home in repair. It's up to the late now. T>?i?Hncr V-imps In fhe Middle. Why will Americans insist on makthemselves the laughing stock of rope by the silly custom of parting ir names in the middle? A man christened James John Jones or nuel Solomon Smith. He always America) signs himself James J. les or Samuel S. Smith. Why not full name or just the first and : names? The initial (parting the ne in the middle) is useless and urd, to my way of thinking. How iut it, readers??Evening World. Enjoyment For Tommy. "ond Mother?"Tommy, darling, > is your birthday. What would like to do?" 'oramy, Darling (after a moment's1! ectlon)?"I think I should enjoy' ing the baby spanked."?Paria aro.