Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PICKED BY TYPE! I ? | Observant Man Explains Average Stenographic Force, 1 Generally Selected as the Result of the Boss' Early Experience?Wife j Sometimes an Influence. "How do you account for the fact that in some offices all the stenog- i raphers are fat, iu other offices all the , stenographers are thin, and in still ! ether offices are medium sized?" de- | manded the loquacious commuter, the J New York Sun states. "Thpv nrpn't." ronlied the sleepy i commuter crosslj*. "In offices I know there are thick, thin and medium ste- , nogrnphe.-s all together." "No, you re wrong, old man." com- j mented the loquacious commuter cheerfully. "I've given this matter my serious attention for some time. The offices where stenographers are of mixed sizes are the exception. In nine offices out of ten you'll tind the stenographers all run true to form? whether the form Is light, heavy or medium. "It's the same way with coloring, in snmp of the offices all stenographers are dark and in other offices all, f>r almost all. of the stenographers have medium coloring." "Well, what's the answer?" sighed the sleepy commuter, resigning himself to instructions. x "My opinion is," explained the loquacious commuter happily, "that it's . all due to the proprietor's early expe- : rience. "When he began business and was only able to employ one stenographer, j he happened to draw a plump one. She j proved amiable, reliable, and just what he wanted, and without realizing it, he stored away In the bark of his mind thp psnerienee that fat stenog raphers are desirable. When engag- j ing stenograpliers ever since he has j always leaned to this type. He may j have had many good stenographers j who were plump, but in a big office the work goes on in such a way that this would scarcely come to his attention. Quite unconsciously he continues to cling to the type he first favored." "But suppose the plump stenographer whom he first employed proved ! ft total loss?" questioned the sleepy [ commuter. * "That's just where it is!" said the j loquacious commuter, happily. "In j the event you speak of he would nnt- ; ctorp avTov in his inner con sciousness a distrust, of plump stenographers and- in his selection would go to the other extreme?he would vant the thinnest stenographer obt^naWe." The sleepy commuter smiled irritat- , ingly. That's a queer theory," he remarked, "but as a matter of fact. It isn't the boss w!>o selects th.o stenographers, it's the office manager." The loquacious commuter looked de- i cideHly Crestfallen ana the sleepy com muter would have scored an unmixed triumph if a commuting friend had not joined them as they disembarked. "Say, have you been in Bill Jones' office recently?" asked the commuting friend. "He's got the greatest line of lady help that ever I saw?every one of 'em as round as a barrel. You i see. Bilfs wife is a heavyweight, and she won't stand for a girl in the office who tips the scale at less than 180." ? Strange Tribal Legend. From the Navajo country, embracing the adjoining: corners of Utah, ; Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, there has recently beei\ smuggled one of the rarest patterns of Indian blankets that has been permitted to fall into the hands of white men. The pattern, described and illustrated in Popular Mechanics Magazine, is i known as the "Yebitsai dancers," and 1 involves a tribal tradition about which < the Navajos are decidedly unconimuni- j cative. The word "smuggled" is used j - ? - " ? ^ i advisedly, tor hip maiiKei \>u? ir- j moved* with extreme secrecy. inns- i much a? knowledge by the Indians of I its removal probably would have re- j suited in unpleasantness, to say the j least. Collectors of Indian curios, who j have inspected the blanket assert that ! they have never seon another of the i same pattern, although it lias been j understood thnt one of a similar type j was obtained some years aero and sent ! to the Smithsonian institution. r 1=1 I Gus. the eccentric little colored boy. j was the pick of the school. In faet. j every one from the professors on ' down picked on him. One afternoon j he stayed to make up some chemistry I work. Laboriously he worked, be- ! tneen interruptions?they were many, ' for as each of the hoys passed, he I bestowed a friendly, forcible slap on the shoulder or made some remark. Gus; stood it for awhile. The climax came when some one. !n passing. j tweaked his ear. 'Say.' tie saiu ; fiercely, "there's only two tough guys in this town and I'm both of them." He turned to find himself face to face with his instructor. Hard Wster Softened by Peat. Hard water can be softened by mereJy pouring it through a bed of raw ; neat, the softening being caused by j the formation of insoluble calcium and magnesium salts by reaction with ! acids that are normal constituents of iV ~ olT 1 b/i ^o vrfnrii;c ic t"U Tile UIIU ?ll 11-^ HCIIUUt ?out of the water in passing through It. It is thought that if this process could hp profitably adopted the result would he <pii?e ail achievement, as an economical outlet for peat would thus he found.?Popular Mechanics Magazina TRAD!! WITH THE FAR !:AST Writer Points Out How it May Be Developed Almost Beyond the Imagination. Some people say the Chinese nre bo poor that it will be difficult to increase their trade with us, writes Robert Dollar in the Nation's Business. I say that opportunities in China are greater than in any other country, and I will illustrate how this trace can be enlarged with a conversation I once had with a Chinese on a street in his rtitr t coirl tft hini" "We are going to increase trade here by Increasing the purchasing power of the people." "But," 8a' 1 he, "it cannot be done." At that otnent a wagon load of lumber from my lumber yard came along; It was being pulled by thirteen men. It was in the winter and snow lay on the ground, but those men were all barefooted. I was paying them eight cents a day. I said: "You take those thirteen men off that wagon, put a hors*? there with one man to drive and put the otheT* twelve men into a factory and you will increase their purchasing power. They will buy more and develop the commerce of your country." I asked him how many persons in China were/going barefooted, and he replied that there must be 100,000.000 anyway, if nor more. I told him that they were going barefooted from necessity and not from choice and that if they could earn more they would not go barefooted. Each one of them wanted to buy a pair of shoes and stockings. Maybe a shoe manufacturer will read this. What would it mean to him to supply lOO.OOOjAOO people? And bear in mind that shoes are not ihe only necessities that these 100,000,000 people ar.e doing without for the simple reason that they have Kiitt urai tuu IV/ UUJ. ORIGIN OF COATS OF ARMS Employed as Method of Recognition in Days When Learning Was in its Infancy. Almost every name of European oi'igin, which has been passed down for the centuries unchanged, except for a slight alteration in its spelling, had in the earliest time, before surnames were used, and when language was undeveloped and few could read or write, a toteui or seal, which represented it. The totem was used as a seal. All persons of property had a seal, and ".vhcn knighthood was introduced in feudal times, after the: Koman era, the device of the seal was painted on tiie knight's shield, and he was known thereby when the helmet was closed in warfare or in tournaments. The earliest knights had no crest. Later, when the knichts in a family multiplied. crests on the top of the helmets were adopted to distinguish those who bore similar arms on their shields. Crests represented the Christian name, the arms the surname. The arms were often printed or embroidered on the knight's mantel and horse blanket, and hence was termed "coat of arms." Odd African Bush Tribe. The strangest people in the world, according to Mrs. Harry Kaigh Eustace, who is here on her way to England and Africa, are the women of a bush tribe in the Gordonia desert, central southwest Africa. These women, she says, have developed slands in the back in which the.v store water, like camels. When they drink a great deal of water, the glandg make them appear deformed. After a few days in the desert, with little or no water, their reserve supply is absorbed and they look normal. They Can 20 without water longer than a camel. Mrs. Eustace, whose husband is a big game hunter, is English, and has spent 12 years rn Africa shooting big ? nomorn anrl min Shp is |:niiic n nu (.amviu ? __ preparing for, her ninth expedition, nnd is in New York after a visit tc Snn Francisco. She says snaWes are really affectionate when you get to understand them, and make good pets. Home. Hunters Take All Except Ghost it was a haunted house in a gossipj neighborhood. relates the New York Herald. Residents assembled daily an< talked in muflled tones of spirits an<; queer noises. Wirli such advance ad vertising the real estate agent found il difficult to got a "prospect"' near th* house. As a last resort he decided tc hare the place redecorated and to in stali new electric fixtu.H.* and plumb inf. The work had scarcely been com ? 1 ??tlio iitront llPHTfl a "livf pmcu I'lirii mv. u6v?>. ? ont* hed visited the property. Rush In* off rl the caretaker he inquires brtathl iy: "Is it true that soineom ha? ttx?o the house?" "Nf, .sir. not yet." replied the care tufctr. 4 bu? they've taken the fixtures pipTjr an<? doorknobs. Perhapa they'l come hfick f<?r the house.'' The Last Resort. In nrrwer to the returned summei fisitr-r'f questions as to the welfan f of Mr. Padgett and his whereabouts ; Mr. Dorkin replied that "Jake" wai .,t ihf. littlp red schoolhous* m on Hftrly's hill. "But I thought?" ' Well, he is." admitted Mr. Dorkin utwUrstandingly. "an' he gets mori n" more muddleheaded all the time dot what else could we do? We liaf to put him in as schoolmaster to keej ; hire oCT the town. "We ain't gmn' to pauperize a man,' adtfed. loftily, "if we can find any thin' for him to do."?Pittsburgh Dis paica, i i "SCADS" MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ro.nant'cists May Deny It, but Ave." age Man Beyond Middie Afe Knows It to Be a Fact. Someone?Kaymond Hitchcock/ J think?used to sing a nine song anou | the difference just a few hours makes He might have gone a littie farther. What a difference just a few dollars make. Rebecca Colt?it is Cole, now. though it used to be something else when Old Abe opened his boots, bottle? 1 and iron emporium in our badi alley?Rebecca and I used to be goo< friends. She was a tarnation prettj [ : girl, Becky was. More than thai. Six * j was a ripping, raving, tearing b&iury fcne (linn t nave ine ciomes, uien. -im most you could say for them was thai they were clean. The girls in oui town were just finding out that hail : could he marcelled, waved nnd whatnotted by hired help. Their mothers had always washed their own hair and sat ou the back porch until it dried Beckv had to wash her own and fluff it around with her hands until it could be put up. Entrancingly pretty, Becky was, at such moments. : I was in love with her, of course. But my mother savaged me whenever ' the fact came to her attention. Becky was pretty, she admitted, but that was about all that could be said of her. and she was handicapped by that boots, bottles, and old iron ancestry. Becky was sort of in love with me, I think. Just propinquity, probably, but her eyes used to shine very pretty when I hove in stent. Well, I was chased away from the paternal hamlet for one reason and another, and when I got back the old man had moved to a better street, and mother rode down to market in a glass-inclosed car that had a sort of family likeness to a hearse, and the town newspaper printed mv picture, as the son of the well ' known and popular, etc. i So I sort of looked down on Reeky. When we met we were both embar! rassed. We could not get hack to thn i frank camaraderie of our youth. That , Infernal boots, bottles and old iron ! skeleton rattled its dry bones in our i ears. I walked down Main street with . Becky one day, but I was conscious of t my condescension. I I met Becky again yesterday, for the . first time in years. Old Abe has run ; that second-hand shoestring of his in . to a large and odorous tannery. He will always be Old Abe, essentially bootsv, bottley, and old irony, but nevertheless rich. Becky has married a rising young millionaire. They have more bottles in their collar than I ,1 ever saw in a fancy grocery. ij Becky condescended to me. Nothing ,! nasty. But she was conscious ef her [ social superiority. Ain't it funny what' i a difference just a lew scads, make!? Chicago Daily News. ,j Wedding Rings. ' It was once an old English wedding j custonA for the bridegroom at the cere>' mony to present the bride with a purse of money as well as a ring. ,'This ap 1' pears, in the worus or tne cerennin.v 1 given in an old edition of the prayer book: "With this ring I thee wed, This gold and silver I give thee." i V ? j The ring was the sign that the wife J was entrusted with her Irusband's property; specially valuable posses j sions were delivered into her care, j She was responsible for them. Wed ding rings were often used as seals, ! and with them the fastenings of house| hold treasurers were stamped. Roman I rings were iron seal rings, and it was common for a man to give his wife ' two of them?one, of gold, to wear outside the house for show and one. i of iron, for every day use. The tradi. j tion of the "fourth finger of the left i hand with the vein leading directly to .\ hpart" seems to have an awient 11 origin, the thumb being reckoned as : first finger. One: Wr.c Enough. 1, There's one taxicab driver in New j York who has an inordinate fear of " highwaymen, especially when, lie's '' crossing ;i bridge, says the Sun, of that city. He takes ingenious precautions to foil holdup men. Following a danco recently a couple ri nrored a taxicah. They were about to t - ? , : drive over a lonely stretch of Wasji! ington bridge when the cab was sudI denly drawn up to Ihe curb. The driver sprang from his seat t and pulled open the door. The girl clutched her escort's arm. both gaping nervously at the driver, expecting a gnu to be thrust at them. "I wnz held up on this very bridge ! once,*' the driver gasped, "and I don't expect it to happen agin if T car help it. I'm l ell in" you folks now that all I've got is $3.S3, an imitation gold 1 watch and this here phoney diamond ring.'' * "Acutc Stomach Trouble" Not Fat.il. Pretty nearly every week we see in ' the paper that the Hon. Mr. So and | So, while making an after-dinner ! speech, was seized with '"acute stom ' trouble," was taken to his hotel c and soon died. That is never true. Xo? body was ever killed by an attack of 1 acute stomach trouble. ? There was long standing onranh 5 .. i.tlmr <ii*<r<in of' h't fUSPJISf IJ1 ^"IIH j body. The sick organ is pr<?!>:iI?ly his heart. the next Hiance is his kidneys l! nnd the third chance hi> firain.?L>r. [{. j 0. Cabot in "A Layman's Handbook of Medicine." j! . 5 Wireless Set in Matchbox. Two new Inventions are a wireless* - receiving station in <1 match box. ann *! a wireless receiver that can be worn like a finger ring, with aa umbrella an aerial. IS RICH REGION' i Valley of the Rio Grande Famous for Its Early Crops. i River Also a Landmark in Expeditions ] of Spanish Explorers?Heard i Shot Like That at Concord. i "The Kio Grande, flowing hot ween : Texas and Mexico, which has been 1 giving an all too realistic imitation of t tlie Mississippi on a rampage, is nor- j mally so shallow and sluggish that im- . migration agents and customs officers ' are kept busy 'shooing' back .Mexicans ] who would entt'r the I'nited States by ] the simple and informal procedure of i wading in," says a bulletin from the 1 3 Washington headquarters of the XaI tional Geographic society in regard to | ! the country's latest Hood region. I "It is hard," continues the bulletin, "for t lie Mexico-bound traveler to 1 realize under normal conditions that i the ribbon of water meandering I ] through a broad bed of sand is rhe i stream that in Spanish means 'The ; Great Kiver." But once a year, at least, ] and sometimes often, the Iiio Grande fully lives up to its name. < "The loam banks .of the lower Iiio ] Grande ?ind its broad,, fertile valley, ] covered with a heavy growth of the thorny mesquite?half shrub and half- j tree?was long considered a wilder- 1 ness and given over t<t'fte?*r. wild pigs. > armadillos and jackrabbits. Then came ranchmen to gcaxe great herds ] of beef cattle among the feathery sea \ of green. Large aretu* sotmsvhat re- ] moved from the river are .still given j over to cattle raising. : i J "T>uf no?r clrimin nmmiin<r st:i tlons and irrigation cijrials have come into existence in recqnt years. and each spring and summer thousands of . carloads of watermelons, cantaloupes, , onions, cabbage, and other vegetables , stream north from the region to helpfeed the more northern portions of the country. For this region, near the warm Gulf of Mexico sind barely outside the tropics, competes with Flor- , ida and the Imperial valley in producing early crops. "Still more recently another development has taken place which promises , to make the Iilo Grande a second San Joaquin valley. Between a million and a *4 If and two million citrus fruit | ti*es have been planted, and in the , : winter of 1921-'22 the first carloads of oranges and grapefruit were . shipped out. .s'*? ... "Historically, the Rio Grande has held a prominent place. It was one of the chief landmarks Hi-the famous ex-! ^editions of the Spanish explorers who j pushed up into Texas rtind on to New I Mexico and California' four centuries { :<ago. Later it became "a sort of south-i ' ern Concord: for if shot fired in i Massachusetts in April. 177.1, was 'heard round the worl^ a shot fired on j the hanks of the lower "Rio Grande on another April morning seventy-one Vears later by Gen. Eachary Taylor's j soldiers might be said to have been i Tieard over an area 7T half a million square miles. That ac&i was added to the United States as a result of the shot; for it brought on the Mexican j trar which resulted in the annexation of what is now California, Nevada, l|tah. Arizona and parts of New Mexico, i Colorado and Wyoming. In addition, this i skirmish near the mouth of the Rio! Grande led to the confirmation of the j annexation of Texas which had1 brought an additional* quarter million j square miles under the Amerlcai. flag. | "Part of the region lately inundated j was known to thousands of doughboys! during the mobilization along the Mex- J ican borde^, shortly before the United j States entered the World war. Port j Isabel, almost at the mouth of the Jiio j Grande, came into newspaper fame in j the fall of 1020, when Senator Harding, j having just finished the strenuous! campaign which took him to the White Hfjse, wei't there fo^ big game fishing." The Bloom of Summer. There is a slight but perceptible! color in the atmosphere of summer.j It is not visible close, (it band, nor ai-j ways where the light' falls strongest, j and if looked at too long it sometimes j fades away. But over gorse and heath, I in the warm hollows of wheat fields, j and round about the rising ground; there is something more than air I alone. It is not mist, nor the hazy j vapour of autumn, nor flie blue tints' that come over distant bills and woods.; As there is a bloom upon peach and i grape, so this is the bloom of summer, j The air is ripe and rich, full of the emanations, the perfume from corn; and flower and leafy tree. In .strict-[ ness, of course, the term will not hej accurate, yet by what oilier word can this apj>ea ranee in the atmosphere he,' described but as a bloom??Richard i Jefferies. I i I Easily Computed. The simple one had .iu^r bought his first motor hike and set off on a grand tour in the country. The first night, aft?r a fairly safe ride all day, he put up at a country hotel, putting his motor bike in the stable. Next morning, before leaving, when paying liis hill, he inquired the charge for the garaging. "Well,'* said The landlord, "it's rather difficult u> say, as I usually charge $1 for a horse p(*r ni^ht.' "That's all right." said lhe simple one. "My bike's two and one-half horse power. Here's S2.50." i Quick Cinarette Production. Machines arc now ir. use which make cigarettes ?l ilie rate of ,">0.000 an hour and which pack .15,000 an iiour. __ ^ ^ ALL ACCORDING TO NATURE Animals and Birds Universally Obey Law Seemingly Implanted by a Supreme Intelligence. Strange tilings happen In the i tl, 1V..1L. ftvi.l/irnr onil jUllglUO. V,U? fVVHOf \ ^ lecturer, tells about the hornbills, long-tailed birds so big they often measure five feet from mil tip to beak. In Malay jungles Wells saw the male hornbill during the mating season drive the female into a hollow tree, then wall up the opening with mud. This protects Mamma Hornbill against enemies. She stays in her jail until eggs are laid and hatched Ilien pa lets her out. Meantime he has fed her through a small opening left in the mud. He gathers the food t>y using his saw-toothed beak to cut fruits and flowers from their sialks Maybe that's where man originally u'ot his idea for the saw, now used :o cut boards. Not necessary to go as far as Maay si a. In Canada, when timber wolves mate, Mrs. Wolf hunts a cavern with a roof that slopes downward to meet the door in a V-shape. She pushes her poling far jback in the V. This is ta keep I'a Wolf from eating his family. Mother Wolf can get at the babies easily, with her small body. I'a Wolf, having a larger body, cannot wedge himself in far enough to reach them. Wise nature that makes Mother Wolf smaller than pa. Wise Mother Wolf that knows, in advance, her husband's appetite and how to baffle it. Seals swim north to rookeries or breeding grounds. The male seals go first, house hunting. After they have located good homes, near plentiful food supply, messengers swim back to summon the cow seols. In the baby ward of a hospital you see infants, each in his own bed, all very orderly. Mother Bee does the same, builds an apartment house of cells with wax walls. In each cell one egg is laid and one individual raised. Wasps have the same system, manufacturing in their bodies the paper with which they make the cells. Ants build their nurseries in the earth r?r rnfhorl trees, with manv bedrooms, also corridors through which Mother Ant dnshes about, peering Into each room to see that baby is 0. K., then r>n to the next. You cannot explain these peculiar things in nature, any more than you can explain why a male peacock always has four wives, never more, never less. All forms of life seem to revolve around the function of having children. Considering the intricacies and far-sightedness of what we call nature, it is bewildering how any man can fail to believe that a Supreme Intelligence is behind it all. To Explore the Sahara. Under Rothschild auspices, a zoological expedition, -.composed of one Englishman: and one Scotchman, is forcing its way deep into the heart of the Sahara desert, a region which is practically unmapped zoologically, the Living Age states. -At its head is Capt. fcngus Buchanan a zoological explorer of great skill and" experience. The expedition has been ;3ont to find and collect birds, animals and plants wherever it is able to pepetrate, to look for any traces of Roman or other classical civilization in the central Sahara, and to secure camera and motion-picture records of the' habits, customs and general mode of life of the inhabitants of the country, The expedition, with its camel caravan, is now heading for the desert north of Nigeria. Communications are necessarily very irregular, for there are only five main roads across the desert, some of which have never yet been traveled by Europeans. Once Captain Buchanan leaves the French post of Agades there may be no news from him for months. Copper and Health. The use of copper sulphate for the disinfection of reservoirs and the destruction of algae and noxious germs in water has led to much discussion of the old idea that copper is dangerous to health. An official of the Department of Agriculture maintains that a change has come over scientific opinion on this subject. Strange as it may seem, he says, there is not an authentic case of copper poisoning on record, either in this country 01 abroad, and he adds that toxicologic and physiologists who have sufficiently studied the subject agree that copper, in the amount used for purification of water, is harmless. On account of the many defects iu the practical use oi filtration plants, he regards purifies tion of water supplies by copper as a preferable method, or. at le;ist, as t safe auxiliary.?Washington Star. American Rainfall. A vivid picture of the amount of rain that falls upon the United State." i.s given by a Washington scientist. I: is equivalent to ten Mississippi riven flowing constantly. Otherwise mens ured. it equal* 30 inches of water foi the entire area, making a tot,"J jolumc of 152.000.000.<mo.0(x) cubic feet. Rutins is only half tlie amount thai would be necessary t<> maintain th? full productivity of the soil of tl? whole country. One-third of this amount runs down to the sea in rivers The problem for engineers to solve ithe utilization to the utmost of tlx supply that nature furnishes.?Exchange. Wanted to Know. "Mamma, what's in the package?" "While at the butcher's, dear, I gor gome lights for the cat." "Mamma, if I ate lights rould I se( in the dark like Kitty T^-Bostog Transcript. v . COMFORTABLE SUM IN SiGHT North Carolina Man Has Valid Claim Against the Government for Million Dollars Cash. A novel document, upon which is based ji claim on the federal wvernment for approximately Sl.OOO.OOJ, - - - - - - 1 - 1 !nf Ai'iikj f /m o i I . JM'lill'IU.'l 1 LI I HI ilttl ia-u iintn-.M "ii .I .icposir made in the United Siate? treasury in Philadelphia in 170", is in ; possession of Major J. L. White, a rei tired physician of ltowan county, ! North Carolina. The document consists of an inI script ion <>n a copper plate hequeathj ing to the tin dor of the plate the initial i deposit and accrued interest, i Major White, who Served in the I war between the states as the youngj est major in the Confederate army, j says lie found the plate in a cave in .Nni'iii <. aronna wiuie iui\iug rem^e from a storm. The circular sheet of/hammered copper has the following Inscription: "As I came from the old country I deposited J>!UXH) (nine thousand dollars) in the United States treasury, in Philadelphia, in 179.r>. I donate this money to flip finder of tliis plate, as I nm wounded an<F hound to die.?H. I A. Rarkley." Ma.-or White says lie found the j plate in 3014 and went to the North ! American bank in Philadelphia, which took over the affairs of the United States treasury about 1812, wh^re, he | said, he was shown the treasury recI ord where one H. A. Barkley had made deposit as specified on the plate. The president of the bank told liira J the interest and principal would * i ? \/\A amount to approximately .>i aa?, ftut advised him to delay efforts to pet possession of the money owing to unsettled conditions attendant upon the ? World war, which had already begun. | He says lie showed the plate ro 1 William G. McAdoo. then secretary of the treasury, who. he declared, assured him it was a perfectly valid claim against the govern ent. "r don't need the money now." says Major White, "but it is a comfortable feeling to know that Uncle Sam owes me $1,000,000." Solid Comfort. Little Florence nna oeen lucKea m bod shortly after the Woman called, and her mother seated herself comfortably in a chair by the grate and remarked, "Now we can have a good,, old-timey gossip." *' ^ Just then there came & call from the bedroom "Mamma!" "I'll go." said daddy, and for a few minutes they heard him talking soothingly to the fretful child. He returned smiling proudly. "She'll be quiet now, ' I guess. I put her doll in bed with hor." H The chat was resumed. Again came the cry, "Mamma!" "Let me go," pleaded the Woman, i and slip went nuieflv inro the darkened room and spoke to the huddled little heap on the bed, "What's the matter, dear?" "I'm afraid in the darfc" sniffed the child. "But there's nothing to be afraid of. God is watching over you and your ! dolly is in bed with you." There was silence for a minute, then a louder sniff that ended in a I wail: "I want someone else besides j God and my dolly in bed with me, I want someone with skin on 1"?Chicago Journal. Knew How to Play It. An Indiana man who for several i years has been in touch with life in j the settlement districts in New. York city, tells of an incident indicative of the people of that quarter of the city. This man was administering to several settlement boys a psychological tosr, which is referred to generally as the "army alpha" test. It is the test which was used in the United States army during the war. j The examination includes a great! many questions and statements con- j taining several suggested answers, the test being to see whether the one tak ing tlie examination can soiecx mu prop- r answer. Included in the list was thte state-: ment: ''Seven-up is a gam? that is ' played with (cards), dice, (dominoes),.] (horseshoes), (baseballs)." The object j of the lest was to see whether the J boy could choose the correct phrase. One lad gave the following ansver: J "Seven-up is a game that Is played with dice." showing, n* doubt, that i his mind was bent or ?\ mg rbe lacky | seven anpear ut> first of all. Members of League of fcatlops. | The following countries are oem- j hers of ihe I t-iigrue of XaMonp: AI- j baria, Argentina, Australia. Aiyrtria, Belgium, Bolivia, British Empire, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Chin*, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czec'.o?ie? v:iki:i. Denmark. Esthonia. Finland, France. (Greece, Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras. India, Italy, Japan. Latvia, i.ithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands. New j Ze-dand. Nicaragua, Norway,. I'anama, Paraguay, Persia. Peru. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Serb-CroatSlovene State, Siam, South Africa, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela. i j Identifying Her. A neighbor next door wears Icnickers :ui(i these are a source of interest to little Donald: One day the youngster came in with some candy and I asked him where lie ?<>r ir. Hp answered: "From the lady next door." "W'ejl," said I, "tliat was nice of Mrs. S." "Oh. not 4hat nrxt door lady," s*ld Donald, "the other one." and then .*orgnttinjr hor name. l e contliic<y^. **Tou Know, .Mrs. Pants."?Chicago Tj^imc. ! MAN TO BE ENVIED ,? ! Follower of Confucius Has Many Advantages. Both at Home and Abroad, V/riter Points Out, He is Favored Over Other Nationalities. Wherever tho Chinaman may he? - - ? *- - n j and he is found in every part 01 me world?he has certain advantages ! which, for instance, the Americaman j or Englandman does not have. Let ! us first mention the advantages of be' ing a Chinaman in his homeland, ChaIing Chaolin writes in the New York Evening Post. For one thing, he never has to be bored by political speeches. Chinese politicians hardly make any speeches; the^few speeches they make are more refreshing and more revealing, for they tell in a few phrases the full tragedy of the politician. For ex-' ample, a Chinese politician is likely' to begin his remarks, be they oral or written J in some such way as this: I "I, unworthy Chenling, who have :. ! neither upheld the honor of my illus J trlous ancestors nor met the expectations 'of the honorable people of this land, who am without both ability and learning?" How much more educative political meetings in America would be if tradition compelled the speakers to make such frank revelations about themselves! Another of the inestimable advani tages of being a Chinaman in hishomej land is the careful way in which the . illusion of life's drama is maintained | for him. This drama, as is commonly | known, has only two actors?man and I woman. And the elementary require- [ ment of any drama is that the mechanics of it should be hidden, that ? the property man should not get on the stage when the cnrtain is still up. | Now in China, the heroine of life's drama never spoils the show, as is done (in some otner countries, by exhibiting ! the mechanical processes of makeup ; right on the stage; she would never I think of powdering her nose in a i restaurant scene, nor would she inter- j : nipt the action to puff out her curls} : whenever the exigencies of the drama j | should require that she take off her ha? These are trifles, but then the illusion is thin enough as it is. . .. Another advantage which tne uninaroan stares, with the China woman, in f. ' 4 a country where murriages are always romantic an^J must always remaia romantic, acting romantically toward the husband or the wife is a part of good ' ' manners. In China*, romance may or ? -may not co-exjst with marriage; if it does, well and good. The Chinaman and the Chinawoman are under no v circumstances compelled to recall, the expressions of endearment as soon as. ' company enters the home. If the * Americaman and the Americawoman shared this advantage how much suf; ,, ; fering could be spared! Abroad, as at home being a China- t , . man has advantages. Let it suffice to mention the general advantage of be i ing a Cliinaman in America. \ye are j anxious to tell this advantage because we have enormously profited by It. The language which the Americamen use may be hard and perverse, yet a Chinaman* by making the subject agree?sometimes disagree?with the predicate in three successive sentences, acquires instantly the reputation of speaking excellent English. Again, every Chinaman In America who can make any kind of speech or write any kind of composition becomes immediately an authority on .'< China. The thirty American intellectj uals, in view of the many criticisms c j they hare suffered, must envy . . -5 I the ease of the Chinaman in oecomJng an authority on his own country. If iife is so drab, so materialistic in i America, mayn't the solution be in all ! Americamen becoming Chinamen! I j > <' " >; I Monarch's Target Practice. j Interesting stories of the late King ( Buno of Swaziland are told in "Ad? I ventures in Swaziland." The author ' i<? Dr. Owen Rowe O'Neill, who in : s;)ite of his Irish name is a South % African 'Boer. King Buno was a . .. Mvnpp r,f fhp old school. He pre I ? "O" ^ - ? ; ferrcd the Kin which he could drink to gold which lie could only look at. He drank the gin all at once, as soon as ; he got it. On one occasion, when he had come into possession of a Mauser I rifle and cartridges, he had his whole [ army paraded in front of him, and beI gan a sort of shooting competition into the motionless ranks. (The savage - king slipped a clip into his Mauser, tne moraine cuck nutiutucu uj txao silence. lie raised the rifle, sighting "'\: ~ down first one line of warriors and r then tho other. The next instant a i shot rang out and a pUrrort Swazi I pitched forwyfd arid lay writhing in : the sunlight. "Fo::,- |i.;ore sliots rang I out* ?ays Doctor O'Neill, "and at each | a ptcnied head came down."' I .. ^ ' ?~ U nu i laiiuo VII. The love of the wood rose is right( fvilj in nil our iiearts. That city rr.otwcars can lake city dwellers to ir is a day is a boon that the genius of !?odern civilization has lately conferred and that Is worth much, says the American Forestry Magazine. It is necessary that with privilege should go the power of self-restraint that teaches all not only to love beauty, but ^ thtf others, as worthy, may equally ^*3 11 - | Baby Wanted It. 'Tier far 1g it to the moon, da<37' "Abe it 240,000 miles, so the astroo* ?tell us." # . , . 1, I'm nfrald you'll have to tflkf ? teji baby wants j .vi i * :