GAPE HAY HEHALfi.

AM INDKMIMOKNT WKKKLY. PmWUb^I Eyry i«l«rtUy Mornlti* at 506 Waatalaxtoa Str^t, Cap* May. N. J.

a*. SCUU, • MMII al rnfiMit.

VaUBMOMIMTIONt Ona Dollar Mar Yaar In Advanoa.

Entered at the poet office at Capa May, X. J., as sacona-dass matter. March 11th. 1901.

Wyomlns haa aolrod the Weary Willie problem by discovering a natural aoap'ilepaBlt_vdthin Us borders. An Ohio man who la to Inherit 12,600,000 finds among the ctaJltlons that he must marry “some good woman.' The testator's idea, presumably, of a balance-wheel against sudden wealth. But who was it said "Frugality Is a bachelor?"

How are the mighty fallen In Interest. A little lets than nineteen years ago the papers gave columns to Arab! Pacha. Today three lines are enough in which to announce his.“repatriation" after eighteen years Of exile in British keeping In Ceylon.

CONTROL YOUR TEMPER. Dr. Talamgt ia HU Discourse Urges a Delicate Dsty Upon Those Given { ta Qalck Temper. Sias That Ve ShosM Is Aagry Wlth-

Washikotox. D. C. —A delicate and difficolt duty is by Dr. Talmage in this discourse urged upon all and especially gjsrrfs wzxrjss: radiant pens of inspiration, but my text contains that which at first sight ia startling. A certain kind of anger u approved; aye, we arc commanHed to indulge in it. She mart of us have no need to cultivate high temper, and how often we aay things and do things under affronted impulse which we are aony for when perhaps it is too late to make effective apology! Why. then, should the apostle Paul dip hia pen in the ink horn and trace upon paper for all ages, the injunction,

"Be ye angry and sin notV

My text commends a wholesome indignation. It discriminates between the offence and the offender, the tin and the ■inifer. the crime and the criminal. - To illustrate, alcoholism has ruined more fortunes, blasted more homes, destroved more souls than any evil that X think of. It pours a river of poison tnd fire through the nations. Minions have died because of it, and milliona aru'dying How, and others will die. Intemperance is an old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians of himself, bossted of many of his qualities, among others that he could drink and bear more wine than his distinguished brother. Louis X. and Alexander the Great died drunk. The Parliament of Edinburgh in IjBCl ia called

in history “the drunken

— j - and after-. ward a world renowned geologist, writes of the drinking habits of his diy. saying; “When the foundation was laid, 'they draak. When the walls w^rr leveled for laving, they drank. When the building

me sober. Noah, the first ship was wrecked not in the ark, for

that sras safely landed, but he was wrecked with strong drink. Every matt or. wonmn rightly constructed srill blush with indignation at the national and international and hemispheric and planetary oam. It ia good to be aroused against it. You come out,-of that condition a hatter man or a better woman. Be ye angry at that abomination, and the more anger the more exaltation to character. But that aroused feeling becomes sinful when it extends to the victim of this great evil. Drunkennets von are to hate with a vivid hatred, but the druukard you are to pity, to help

A French phlloaopher claim* to have discovered that the Anglo-Saxon race ta dying out because the women would rather practice law. lecture or play golf than to raise children. The theory la Interesting, and would have been Important hut for the fact that the race 1* not dying out.

A lovelorn Maryland pair, escaping from the nsnal Irate parent, showed a directness that augurs well for success In life. Fearing they might be overtaken. they stopped -allergyman on the str&t corner, the clergyman Impressed the fir at pedestrian as a witness, the four backed against a bonding. and before a gathering and appreciative crowd the knot was tied.

We owe It to France that the cannon Is now added to the spear and sword as capable of useful conversion to the purpose of tbs agriculturist, remarks the Sxn TV an cisco Call. In that country the furious charge of hallstone*, threatening In the vineyard*, has been turned by a vigorous cannonading. Having conquered Jack Frost in the form of h^JAf French ingentflty has turned flpon him is his more subtle form, and the destructive' white and black frosts are rendered powerless to do harm by firing cannon over their vineyards, orchards and fields nntll they are thickly covered with the powder smoke pf battle.

The wealth of the United States la computed every 10 years from the c*c*u* returns The total wealth In 1850 wns pnt at $7,125,780^28, or $308 per capita, and In 1870 at $30,068,518,507, or $780 per capita. This amount rose In 1880 to $48,642,000,000, or $870 per capita, and again la 1890 to $65,•37,091.107. or $1036 per capita Expert statisticians estimate that the amount for 1900 will be at least $90.000.000.000, or nearly $120e p*r capita When It Is considered t^at the latter amount represent* accumulated savings of $6000, or nearly four times tfeg average of 1850, for every family of five persons. It Is evident that the world la growing rich at an astonishing rate under the operation -of chine production, states C. A- Conant, la the World'* Work.

An article In a recent Ispue'of the American Kitchen Magazine is on the

education of children In the

money. A panrraph In It relates to the guardlsnshlp by the parents of the money children accumulate in their toy banks. It wsa found from answers to questions sent out to children in the matter, that almost no child ifould preserve bis bank money from the family use It was constantly borrowed, at first paid back scrapulonsly, then In sums short of the original loan, finally not'at all, and the bunk was abandoned for a time, to be started again with a repetition of the experience. Other' children reported also-on the manner!

In which promises of money payi

were kept by their elders. Various tasks were set them for which small • -sum* of money were to he paid, bu’fI

to extricate.

are men and women who once were a* Upright ai youraelf who have been proi- * id by alcoholism. Perhaps it esme of

which was thought to be a servant, when

one day it announced itself maste i—i-i —a admit that *’

trat

itinuance of

_randfather w temptation to inebriety, leaping over a generation, haa swooped on this unfortunate. Perhaps it waa a very gradual chiming of the mar with the beverage *«- —*-»- -- ' when !

same

you youraelf might have been captured. The two appropriate emotions for you to sliow sre indignation at the intoxicant which enthralled and sympathy for the victim. Try to get the oulterry out of his preeent .environment. Becommend aay hygienic relief that yon know of, and. above all. implore the divine reecae for the struggle in which so many of the noblest and grandest have been wonted. Do not give youraelf up to too many philippics about what the man ought to bars been snd ought to have done- While tout cheek flushes with wrath st the foe that has brought the ruin, let your eye lie moeitened with tear* of pity for the sufferer. In that way you will have fulfilled the injuetiou of the text,

"Be ye angry and sin not.”

There is another evil the abhorrence of which you are all called to, and it is on the increase—the gambling practice. Recent developments show that much of this devastation ia being wrought in ladies’ parlors. It is an enl which sometimes is ss polite snd -gracious ss it is harmful. Indeed there saver were so many -people trying to get money without earning it. Bat it is a haggard transgression that comes down to os from the past, blighting

all its way.

I have aeen in the archives of the nation in Uni national capital a large book in which one of the early Presidents of the United State* kept an account in hie own handwriting of-gains and losse* at playing cards, on one page the gsins and on the other the losses, snd there are many page*. In other day* many oi national • from the halls of Con-

jcaate chamber to spend

- Jrious gambling saloon*. In Spain a don lost in twenty-four bout what equals 212,000,000* Twp: — • ,.,1—^t ft. exMeded flTsflOO.OOOjEL _

year, but statistics twenty years ago would be tame compared with the present statistic* if we could find sny one able enough at figure* to tabulate them. It is ell the same spirit oi gambling whether the in-

struments are cards or the or the turning wheel or tb Stock Exchange, where peopl ’ ’ fail b

—, — jardt or the clicking chins the turning wheel or the bide W the J - “ -jeople sell what ail because they jt get paid fqr it. A prominent ter teUs me that he think* aOJBO^peo-

; insanities in''Wall street.

* a ease is reported, Mt the ty suffer in sOrnc*. The children

and

iority «t — brought home fro A school; the Wardrobe trill be denied replenishment; .the table will have scant supply; wild gwoerotity

tis ctotES

of lost month's black Thursday.

Bat. while you are hotly indignant against the crime, how do you feel about those who were tkeced and akin? They did not know that their email boat eras so near the rnsristrom. Some of them were born with a tendency to recklessness and expenmec: and hazard. They, inherited unr-ic, issir.

Do not f ’ " ’ *

— Help them to »Urt again. Show them that thfre are more fortune* to be gained than have yet iJs^xSrJ there are no Io«*e» and infinite gains. While you may redden in the (are at the

iactthat^2«mbjimt »»Jhe d'

or what not u

is disgraceful “"riSrvEi

—- bdaw. <*.««; a ah*?,

MtE5X““

and de-

the man who

installment given, and the matter j needt mow

dropped. The wrtterdld not draw the __ Inference, but one wonders if this nttf- •» •Vf*- hwtjverihwiad ’gaisMeuw hardly

todc. duplicate in wry many famfllm.

« W.u U.Wrt 'bU*r_'. T -'..IT-U ■‘■T

Five hundred? No. Filly* No. Two* No. One? No. I read in a book of one saeb rescued. I have no doubt there here Keen other case*, but no evil dods its work so thoroughly snd eternally as rambling. Such almost hopcleasnea* of reformation ought .to call forth from you deeper sympathy than you feel for any other unfortunate. Pity, by all means, for thoss who, shipwrecked and bruised among the timber*. have nevrrthelcaa climbed up to the fisherman's cabin and found warmth and shelter, but more pity for those who never reach shore, but are dashed to death in the breaker*. Be angry at the sin, but

sympathize with its victims.

There is another sin that we sre oftentimes called to be angry with, and that is fraud. We all like honesty, and when it is sacrificed we are vehement in denunciation. We hope that the detective will soon come upon the track of the absconding hank official, of the burglar who blew up the safe, of the clerk who skilfully rhaneed the figures in the account book, of the falsifier who - - - - -

i the account book, o: ecu red the loan on

mt w) '

hia heart ia ready from an anr ‘ lived. One headlines '

terest of every good man and good who reads of the crime to have it exposed and punished. Let it go unscathed, and you put a premium on fraud, you depress public morals, you induce those who are on the fence between right and wrong to go down on'the wrong ride, and yon pnt the business of the world on a down grade. The constabulary and penitentiary must do their work. But while the merciless end the godle** cry. “Good for him—I «m glad he u within the prison door*!” be ■t your work to find out if that man is worth raving and what were the cause* of his .moral overthrow. Perhaps he started in btuineM life undgr a tricky firm, who gave him wronmiotions of business integrity; perhaps there waa • comlunation of circumstance* almost unparalleled for temptation, perhaps there were <11 evictions, perhaps he was born wrong snd never got over it. perhaps be did not realise what he was doing, and if you are a merciful man ysa will think of other perhapae* which, though they will not excuse. will extenuate. Perhaps be has sl-

ated and is srai lb, and is as c

THE SABBATH SCHOOL

July 7. Sibject: 0*4, th* Creator of AH TkUga. Oca. L. 1 ts Ik, 2-0*idea Text, Ota. L. IMcaisry Verses. 25-27-Osauaeatary *a the Day's Lesson.

at an indefinitely creation of mar six days' work

» to hat* i

n; "that js.^toty Mm tbs so definitely described. It by so a* that "m th*

beginning" was the commencement of th* fim day, and of comae only about 6000 rears ago. But no phrase could be more indefinite as to time. It means “m former duration," "of old." “God." The Bible doe* not undertake to prove the existcncs o: God, but at the very ouUet His existence is assumed ss s fact. "Created." Tbs primary sense of the word is that of the 2- "The earth was waste and void" fR. V.) There era* confusion and disorder. The history of creation is confined simply

S'/SSS'E

arisen from the mistake of supposing it to be s narrative of creation, when sU but lb* firet two verse* U an account of the adaptation of the created material of the earth a* an abode for man. ''Moved.” God proceeded to bring order out of the matter that was existing in a chaotic state. 3. "Let there be licht.” Nothing can l>e conceived more dignified than this form of expression. It shows God's

■ Ity ar'*

thorite and power. 5. 'The first day." There -ha* always been much diecusoioa ss to wlietber the days referred to in this chapter were twenty-Jour-hoar day* or indefinite period*. Certainly the first three days could not hare been natural days, for the sun had not yet appeared. The term "day" U fieouently used to designate period* of Indefinite time (see 2 Pet. 3: 8; Luke 19: 42); but these days were probably the rame length as our days st the present 6. "Firmament.” Expanse; properly something beaten out. The spice above the earth.

10. —

i." Br thi* ae

seed are tho«e Gov yield a sufficiency of vapor* for

. a sufficiency of-cooling the the earth." *

r atmosphere and waterGod saw that it was a the judgment which God

-la use is often

disorders, evil snd hurtful zjushtie* that are now in creation, are not to be charged to God, but to man's rin. which hath cor-

-Irr*

._ _od, but to mi rupted their nat: li. "Bring Tortb

i sin. which hath cor-

and perrcrUd their re to'u lB U> “ ?

that all kinds of vegetable productions are included. Thus, before God formed any

abide upon the earth. He

livine creature to abide upon the earth. 1 wisely provided for its sustenance. "Whose seed is in itself." Either in the root, or branch, or bad. or fruit; which is sufficient in itself for the propagation of its

i greal

k 7«.' "God Bade two great lirhts." The

is referred to ss a great light A

-5S £

misdemeanor, but you . ' recovery of the rtealcil prison reformers! Blest

ernor* and Presidents who egg glad when they have a chance to pardon! Blessed the forgiving father who welcome* bomthe prodigal! Blessed the dying tbici whom the Lord took with Km to glory, saying. "This day shall thou be with Me

in paradise.”

There i* another evil that we ought to abhor while we try to help the victim, and that it infidelity. It snatches the life preserver from the man afloat and affords not so much ss a spar or a plank as substitute. It would extinguish th* only light that has ever been kindled for the troubled and the lost. Let the spirit of infidelity take hold of a neighborhood, and in that town the marriage relation it a farce, and good morals give place to all styles of immorale. Let it take potaetaion of this earth, and there would be no virtue left in all the world's circumference. T think if a famous infidel of our time instead of being token sway instants neoualy hod died in his bed sfter week* and months of illness he would have revoked hia teachings and left for his be loved family consolations which they , could not find in obsequies at which not i

Fresh°Pond t cTOMt^- t , U whw M^Chriv j *nimai" "Man was~creote5 tian benediction was pronounced. I do , «boot *000 year* ago, and in this there is not positively say that in a prolonged ill perfect harmony with science, which shows

ness there would hare been a retraction,

but I think there would.

I rav to all young men hoping to achieve financial, moral or religious success, control your tempera. Do not let criticism or rebuff defeat you. Verdi, the great musician, applied to become e student in the Conservatory of Music at Milan, and he waa rejected by the direbtor. who said that he could make nothing of the newcomer, as be showed no disposition fst music. But the criticism did rot exasperate or defeat him. The moat of those who have largely succeeded in all department* were characterized by self control. In battle they could calmly look at the bomb thrown at their feet, wondering whether it would explode. In commercial life, when panic* smote the city, these mso were placid, while others were yelling them selves hoarse at the Stock Exchange. While others nearly swooned becagss a certain stock had gone 100 points down they calmly waited until if would get 100 fa a&mvss

other animal." «<

with race because of something said on — ither aide be of the equipoise -put s glass

to his lips in refreshment and

proceeded with thS*

saying when the g*nU*~an me." Self control! What a g!o. thing! -We want -it in th* doctor feeling the pulse of one desperate’r PI; we want it in the engineer whoi the headlight of another train come* round the curve on the same track; we want it in Christian i and women in times when so much

men and women in t in church and state m lit ion—self coffbnl!

, tciracv, V. i.n-i the appearance of mas upon _ is comparatively recent. ‘Tins,, a ts*." It was man’* cool that was !e in the image of God. TTiis image listed of knowledge, righteouancas and ss, or, in the words of Dr. Hanit in the understanding, recti-

nah, ''Light in the underatandin, tude in the will, sanctity in the i and affections.’’ A more detailed account of the creation of man ia mads in the next chapter in which is made clear the distinction between body and soul, between the animal man snd the spiritual mas. The body was made of the dust of the earth, and this ia true not .only of the body of Adam, hut of the bodies, of ell his descendants But an absolutely perfect body without a soul would not be a man. it was only when God gave the body H formed from the dust.a living soul, fc

in His own image, that the creation of man took place. Th* soul was not evolved, it was created. Man is the son of God. 27. “Male and female." The story of woman's creation is given in chapter 2: 2124. Woman was created by taking a rib, or a part of the man’* ride, for the original word may mean cither, and forming

it into the woman.

36. •'God blessed them.’ "sror. Hi* care for thi— good, co that ft would be a 1

—: *- «i— And the diribc i*m*-

-i^i .i,* ideaMife,

His favor. Hi* care for their posterity and their good, so that It would be a blewing.

a happiness to live. Aid the d‘ diction is still essential to the which is the only true life h__ — "Be fruitful.” The first family was fot rd with one husband and one wife. It ‘11 the earth with f

itr;

purpose to fill the earth with haupy i, enjoying the good things He had

Snrpasring all other character* in the C Tbcy tend to B iraor 1 r*Iri&ilfnes£ orld’i biography, stand* Jem* Christ, to develop benevolence, patience, love, wrathful against sin. merciful to the sin- Unr* and •eir^nrernment. "S'-Hdu* ft”

ner. Witness

robed ruffians who demanded capital punishment for on offending woman—denunciation for their sinful hypocrisy, pardon for her sweet penitence. He did not speak of Herod as ''his highness” or "hi* royal highness." but dared to compare him to a cunning fox, saying. "Go ye and tell that fox." But, alert to the cry of ■goffering. He finds ten lepers, and to how many of the tfn awful invalids did He give convalescence and health! Ten. Rebuking Pharisaism in the most compressed ——ice in all the vocabulary of anai: "Ye serpents! Ye generation of i! How can ye escape the damns- ‘ • U*" Yet looking upon Pc'-

tenderness that no word 1

ith auwbo should rule as visible

rorld.

"Hava giv*n you-” The world is s gift to man, valuable and increasing

tion of h< with *ueb

spoken, ax — the look spoke louder t the Lord looked upon went out and wept bitts

» word wav spoken, and not a word was needed, for the look spoke louder than words. "And

subduing the ——, tion, and is the origin and bond of civil society. "Have dominion.” Man has been nptiv described ‘ ‘

be God's rcprei

thori head

divine _» in value, expreusing God's lore, teaching His truth, sustaining His life, ministering to every sense. "Every herb-—for meat.” In this snd the euauing verse the death of any creeturs does not appear in the original design of God. Mas was neither tc eat the flesh of brute animal*, nor ware three to prey npou each other. It was only after the fall that ‘such things were

at all provided for.

- “God «w.” Seeming *?, ‘ “

the runbght has two new paths to Best illnatratioa the world ever * *ng»r without sin. anger against the abomination* which have mauled and blasted the earth from its deepest cavern to its highest cliff, but to much pity for the sinning and suffering nation* that He allowed them to transfix Him upon two piece* of wood nailed aero** each other on a day that was dark us night, the windows heaven abut because the immortals coul not bear to look down upon the assai atiou of the loveliest bring that . _-u..a .u. uv .„ c- wi -

t slept on th* cold n

-tiop nr modification^ could be maifc withtion waa "good aa showing God's loro to Hi* creatures, and good u the erprcs.ion

of Hi* nature'and chArattcr."

1. •Thus." The dinrioa of the chapter

should be «* 4 nikof

"Rested." Not because God was •, bat because the work planned wa* X.'e are living in the seveeth day of

the seventh day.” It haa J * that^tyai-

THE CRAY WOLF OF THE RANGES,

go* of rallle, S

PEARLS OF THOUGHT. The virtue lies In the straggle, not In the prize.—MUnes. Honest error Is to be pitied, not rldleu led.—Chesterfield. Wisdom 1* to the mind what health Is to the body.—Rochefoucauld. Celerity Is never more admired than by the negl! To rejoice la the prosperity of another Is to partake of It—W. Anstln An obstinate man does not hold opinions—they hold him.—Blahop

Butler.

The seeds of our punishment axe town at the tame time we commit the

•In.—Healod.

Seeing much, suffering much and atudylng much are the three pillars of

learning.—Disraeli.

Life Is a quarry out of which’ we are j g^ajgtea with aome other troop posto mold and chisel and complete a | tese , Dg . ic^cr of like capacity.

The age or slxe of their quarry js of little moment with these wolves, as they pull down and devour alike cows.

sld-

ind systematic, one portion of the

Lib Vincent, one of Wyoming's old time cow punchers, and now riding on the Powder river ranges, says that the gray wolves of hi* section are legion In number and as fearless as they

are ferocious.

These gray and greedy scourges of the Powder rlvtr stock areas do their raiding In bands ranging In numbers of from 6 to 2b. each band being organized and discipline under the leadership of an old dog wolf especially chosen for bis wariness, speed and endurance. To this captain these gaunt and grizzly marauder* yield an Implicit and unswerving obsdlcnct—a Ftatcment well evidenced from the fact that if one of these wolf leaders Is ■lain or crippled his band at once amal-

That is true philanthropy tiixt buries not In gold in ostentatious charity, but builds Its hospital in the human heart

—Harley.'

Do little things now; so shall big

things come to thee by and by asking

to be done.—Persian proverb.

ings. Their attack li

cal ant

band assaulting trfim the front andfas-

donc.—Persian proverb.

A prom! con U mMlom . r»UM t"- “f H'l»« «>. “« •'*’ V-T min, to, b, nrver tb|»k, h< „U u • t ° A™ "" "> ' r “” much is br d,,. rros—H: W. Bwchsr. j ! ’* r :hf obj^tire opportunit, of hsm- _. , , . . . f stringing the victim. Once hamstrung. The reason why borrowed books n Is all over with the quarry, and the •etdom muraed U that ft U easier to tntlre b d f(msU . t leUurr , Mr . retain the books themselves than what VlneeBt ^ „ reD ^ Powder is inside of them. Gilles Menage. rlTer rxngro the mere empty hide and

polished bones of what was once a lusty steer or vigorous gelding, as ead I souvenirs of the raid of a gray wolf -n Esprasalon* That Bars Slar- | band

. th. Bast Xatarml Way. The OJ>Jn ^

prey to the bold canine bandits, the cattle fleeing from the pursuere and thus rendering Individual attack easy and successful. Th.? horses, however, with their superior Intelligence.' very

ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR PHRASES.

certain Hepzlbah Merton. It seems

ist every Saturday she tomed to bake two or tbn

- was accus-

hich were to last her ram-

through the coming week. These

her

pantry

pic pies,

nr

•he placed carefully . shelves, labelled for each day in ths week, so that Tuesday s pies might not be confused with Thursday’*, nor those presumably large or intended for washing and sweeping days eaten when household labors were lighter. Aunt Hepzlbah’s "apple-pie order" settlement, and originated . the well-

known saying.

It was once customary In Frant

t g

come, shoulder of mutton instead of a hot roast. Thlr was the origin of the pbrnsA "To give the cold shoulder." "None shall wear a feather but he who has killed a Turk” was an old Hungarian saying, and the number of feathers In his cap indicated how many Turks the man had killed. Hence the origin of the saying with refernce to a feather in one’s cap. In one of the battles between the Russians and Tartars a private soUlex of the former cried,out: “Captain, I’ve caught a Tartar!" "Bring him along, then." answered the officer. "I can’t Tor be won't let me." was the response. Upon Investigation It was apparent that the captured had the captor by the arm and would not release him. So. ‘‘catching a Tartar" Is applicable to one who has found an antagonist too powerful for him. That far from an elegant expression, "To kick the bucket," is believed to have originated In the time of Queen Elizabeth, when u shoemaker named Hawkins committed suicide by placing a bucket on a table in order to raise himself high enough to reach a rafter above, then kicking away the bucket on which he stood. The term coroner is derived from the word “corph-connor." which means corpse

centre, the gallant stallions on the comers and the best and bravest geldings distributecT on the outer lines of defence. Not only do these equine squares frequently beat off their assailants. but they sometimes rout the ^ild dogs entirely, slaying numbers of them by striking, kicking and trampling. This is an especial result when the horse fTerdTias with it a stallion experienced In range life. He can smell a wolf further than he can see him. and at bis shrill and warning neigh the herd rushes together and quickly forms the protecting square. The

band numbering scores of raiders trotting leisurely round one of these embattled eqnlne squares and then seeking other and easier prey. The gray wolf reaches a weight of 125 pounds, and boast* alike brain, brawn, a noiseless and tireless foot, a savage ferocity and an Insatiable ap-

of time than any p Ho Is a prollflc brc?dcr, 8 to JO pups being a not uncommon Utter, while there is a Powder river Instance of 35 pups being slain as the progeny of three gray wolf dams. Up to sir months old the gray wolf PU5 is awkward and unwieldy, and It is a favorlt.? cowboy pastime of the Powder river ranges to locate a gray wolf Utter on the prairie and shoot the

they skulking-

"He's a brick," meaning a good fel-

low. originated with a king of Sparta —Agesllaus—about the fourth century B. C. A visitor at the Lacedaemonian capital was surprised to find the city without walls or means of defence, and asked his royal host what they would do in case of an Invasion by a foreign power. “Do?" replied the heroic king. "Why, Sparta has 50,000 ■oldlere. and each man it a 'brick." When the Horse guarus parade .In SL James - park. London, there is al-

f*n>

park, London, th

ways a lot of boys on hand to black the boots of the soldiers or do other menial work. The boys, from their constantN^tlendanco About the time of guard mounting, were nicknamed “the black guards," hence the name "blackguard." Deadhead, as denoting one who has free entrance* to places of amusement, comes from PompeU, where the checks for free admission were small Ivory death's heads. Specimens of these are in the museum at

Naples.

bon is the remarkah(c< Taal volcano, which Is readUy accessible from Manila, writes n correspondent In the New York Herald. Its central crater Is

eater, , and

:cross the greatest diameter, and within Its rim two lakes of hot one yellow ! and the other green, a email active cone 60 feet in height, from which excape steam and sulphuric gases. The atrange colors of the waters are due to the presence of chemicals evolved In subterranean laboratories. The greatest eruption of Taal took place in 1754, wiping out

Apparently the volcanic nderful fertility to the rally a new growth of

, and palmeappcars where deetags to W hoisted at one time

s**r , u riss*«s,i:

ly roll and tumble from their coverts in the grass and sage brush. Crack shots with the pistol have been known to get a pup with every bullet from their six-shooters.—Denver News

The Great Northern Diver haa several name* beside* "loon." the commonest being Immer, or Ember Goose. Mr. Guttenberg’s pet Is about 30 inches in length. anJ it can laugh and cry at will. "Crazy as a loon." "As straight as a loon's leg.” Those are familiar expressions. Did you ever see a loon walk? No. Its legs are situated so far behind the centre of gravity that in trying to walk it plows Its breast along the ground. Its voice is that of a crazy person—wild, weird, wolfish! It Is regarded as ominous. But on or under the water the loon has no equal among birds. I have known It to remain under the surface eight minutes at a time. It swims with its wings as well as with Its webbed feet and catches fish without hook, line or •Inker. Like all the duck family It Is easily tamed and becomes on short

very familiar.—New

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A series of petty thefts from the commissary tents of tne Kandahar field force had baffled the officers so completely that it was deemed advisable to substitute Gourkas for the

English sentries.

Almost. Immediately one Goorkasra- ' ^ 1 try caught a Pathan thief red-handed. , “ jwiid wav brought before an officer and

to tell how it waa done. - "I walk about my post." said the Goorka. "I see Palhxn btdmazb approach. I walk about my post. Pathan bad mash go near commissary tent. I *alk’about my post. Pathan bad mash put his bead and shoulders Inside the tent. I run him through with my

bayonet and shout:

"•Hah! Who come dar?'" Ah excel leal. Illustration of tactic* original with an irishman: A wotd and a blow; the blow to come Brat.

■•vtag m — lalasd. The Po. In North Kaly. is *00 miles In teagth. Th* deposits at Its mouth kava caaaad the coast to gain upon the sea ae rapWly that a point which In tbc time of Augwtaa was a seaport l la sow II miles from Cha A4ri- .