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A DOG THAT REASONED.


!
His Masters Bed.
No one that knew Bombshell ever
doubted that he reasoned and thought,
but occasionally ! would find a stranger
who was not inclined to believe it, and
then I would tell him the following
story, My parlor was a front casemate
which opened by an arch into my bed
room, a back casemate. A casemate
may be described as a room in the wall
Of a fort, generally intended, i'll war
time, to hold a gun or powder, while in
time of peace many Of them, like mine,
are fitted up for use as quarters for Off
GERS and soldiers
Bombshell had his own bed in the
back easement but he preferred my bed
and would use it whenever he could.
| had tried to break him Of the habit, but
bad not been successful.
One day he came in wet and muddy,
and, as usual, curled up on my white
Counterpart. The result was awful. As
much as / hated to do so, I felt obliged
to give him q thrashiUg.
I never caught him on my bed again,
! He would still get ON It'll but, no mat
ter how quietly / came i'll, would al
ways find him on the floor, though I
could see from the rumpled condition Of
the bed that he had been on it, and Of
ten the spot where he had slept would
still be warm.
One evening went out, leaving
Bombshell lying by the parlor stove.
Out Of curiosity peeked through the
half turned Stats of my shutters and
watched him. From my position was
able to see the whole of both Of my
rooms.
For awhile Bombshell did not move;
then he raised his head and looked at
the door; finally he got up, stretched
himself, yawned sleepily, walked to the
bed, jumped up, and put his fore paws
ON it. Standing in this position, a
thought struck him, and he said to him
self:
Suppose that my master hash t gone?
He will catch me and then l shall get
licking. I'll go and make certain that
he is not coming back. "
I know that he said this because he
took his paws off the bed, walked eau
tiously back to the front door, and, with
his ear close to the crack, he listened.
At last, satisfied that had really gone,
he trotted back to the bed, jumped on
1t, eurled up and went to sleep.
After such a clever act thought that
he had earned his sleep. SO went away
and left him. ST Nicholas.
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Aroma and bouquet, said well
known wine expert, "are too often TAX
en- to mean the same thing in wine.
Flavor pertains especially to the linger-
ing aftertaste of wine when swallowed.
Aroma and bouquet appeal only to the
smell, and the former exists in the grape
itself, while bouquet only manifests
itself long after fermentation is COM
pleted Bouquet is never present except
in the purest wines. 1t seems to arise
from union of several agreeable odors,
and any mixture would surely destroy
it. There are no truly fine wines with
out a strikingly marked agreeable bou-
quet, and where all other qualities are
of equal perfection the bouquet makes
the distinction that gives to the wine
possessing it always the preference. -
New York Sun.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

In color they are usually no darker,
and often not nearly so dark, as south
ern Europeans The eyebrows and lash
es and eyes are generally black, and
nose aquiline and fine, and the mouth
we'll formed. The face is long and oval,
while in stature a medium height seems
to be general The chin is shaved, the
mustache alone being left, and over it
no end Of trouble is taken with comb
and wax The hair is usually shaved
along the top of the crown, but left
long on either side, though little or
nothing of it is visible, owing TO the pc
culiar and characteristic manner in
which the men deck their heads The
Kurd's costume is distinctly his own,
and except in the south, where he has
come more or less under Persian influ-
ence, he never abandons it. A high silk
pointed cap crowns the head, round
which is woven a number of silk scarfs
and handkerchiefs in slrillfully arranged
disorder.
The favorite colors for these turbans
are dark olaret and gold, with here and
there a narrow stripe Of some brilliant
hue. The rough fringes are left hanging
down, as often as not covering the eyes
and ears Of the wearer and adding not
little to his fantastic appearance. Over
a white linen shirt, with sleeves that
end in points more than yard long, so
that they touch the ground, a silk coat
is worn, crushed strawberry being the
favorite color, though cherry color and
white satin are almost equally com
mon. These coats are made collarless
and open at the neck and fold across the
breast, being held in place by wide
silk sash skillfully folded and inter-
twined. In this sash the long pipe and
curved dagger are thrust. Blackwood's
Magazine.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

The story is told of a soldier of the
Army Of the Potomac who had his own
ideas as to his financial value, as we'll
as the method by which that value could
be realized.
He was awhile man and was detailed
for service as a teamster i'll a train
which was driven Sor the most part by
negroes. The negroes were hired at the
rate of $25 per month, but the white
soldier received no more than his regu-
lar pay Of SIG.
He appeared somewhat dissatisfied
with this arrangement and made an ap-
plication to his captain.
81 should like" he said gravely, ''to
be appointed a negro by brevet and be
assigned to duty in accordance with my
brevet rank l"-- Youth S Companion
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

Revolving oosssms Of some Of the African
tannfbal Tribss


The eanuibalism Of the black secret
F. society known as the Human Leopards
in the country near Sierra Leone brings
forcibly before US the difference between
the east African and west African hab-
its Of eating human flesh The Sherbo
cannihals waylaid and killed their vic
Tins and afterward Toasted ON their
flesh. The cannibalism of the east coast
is of very different kind. The flesh of
the old people-the grandfather and
grandmother Of a family-is dried and
mixed with condiments, and portion
Of this is offered, with dim sort Of
sacramental incoming, 10 travellers who
beccnie guests of the family. To refuse
it would be a deadly insult. To accept
it is passport to the privileged position
Of friend of the house. Many of our
travellers in east Africa have eaten thus
sacramentally Of the ancestors Of some
dark skinned potentate.
The cannibalism Of the west coast is
Of a more horrible kind, connected with
fetichism, the worst developments of
which are peculiar to that country. But
there is a bideously genuine appetite for
fresh human flesh still existing among
the negroes of west Africa. This canni-
balism manifests itself in a refinement
Of gluttony which has its mild analogy
in the tastes of Europeans Young boys
are bought from the dark interior, kept
in pens, fattened upon bananas and fin
ally killed and baked. To these Thyes-
team feasts come not only the savage
chiefs of the interior, bu, Also it is
whispered, black merchants from the
coast. Men who appear at their places
Of business in English territory in broad
cloth and tall hats, who ape the man
ners of their white masters, are said to
disappear annually into the interior,
where, we are told they might be seen
in naked savagery taking part in the
banquets on plump boys, in which they
delight,
Be this as it may, somehow the native
of the west coast and its Hinterland is
unlike the East or South African native
in the deep lying savagory and the ex-
traordinary facility for returning to it
which are his leading and very unpleas-
ant characteristics. The subject claims
the attention Of the anthropologist, and
certainly suggests a curious reason for !
questioning the relationship of the black
man and the ape or the gorilla, seeing
that the race of monkeys seems to be /
singularly free from anything like can
nibahsm. London Saturday Review.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

to saueIoh q Grocery Clerk.
Two pretty young women entered
large up town grocery one evening last
week. From their conversation It was
evident that they belonged TO some
boarding school in the neiehborhood
and had stolen out for few moments 70
buv dainties which they meant to SNUG
gle to their rooms.
,.There's one thing / dom like about
the clerks in this store, said one OF
them, while they waited for the sales
man. land that's they they insist on
telling you that you don't want what
YOU do want and that you do want what
Won don't want. Every time come IN
here have the same experience, and
I'm lust tired Of it. The next time It
happens I'm going to tell the clerk just
what ! think Of him. +"
At that moment a clerk approached
and asked the young women what they
wanted The one who had so much to
complain about pointed at one OF a row
of cracker TINS and said;
. want a pound of those.
ooh, no. you don't, said the clerk
suayely; ''you want some Of these, or
these here they re all very nice,
The young woman threw glance
which said, "What did tell your" at
her companion, and turning to the clerk
said fiercely:
''No don't, anything Of the kind. 1
want these and no others F"
II beg your pardon, - he began, !
thought
"Never mind what you thought,
said the young woman. 81 guess l know
what / want Now just let me have a
pound of those, please. " And she turned
to her companion with a look of triumph
on her face which plainly meant
"Didn' I squelch him?'
Every well, madam, " said the clerk
humbly. "but may / ask whether they
are for yourself?"
"Well, of all the impertinent ques-
tons began the young woman, when
her companion interrupted, and, turning
to the clerk, saidi
''Why do you ask?'
ooh, because they're dog biscuit, "
replied the clerk indifferently. "Still.
Of course. if you want them, you can
have them.
"Never mind" faltered the young
woman who had insisted on having what
she wanted. 81 guess I don't want any
thing at all, and she strutted out Of
the store looking very much ashamed
and followed by her companion, who
was struggling to hide her laughter.
The clerk didn't say anything, but
there was a satisfied smile on his face as
he banged the cover down on the can Of
dog biscuit and walked away to wait on
another customer, New York Sun.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

For my first effort to sail the sea Of
letters it occurs to mo that 1 ought to
say that my fathers literary reputation
cannot be held responsible.
I had reached Ito take step back
ward in the story the mature age Of 13.
was little girl in low recked ging-
ham dresses. 1 know, because L reEam-
Der had on one (of a purple shade ana
incredibly unbecoming to a half grown,
brunette girD one evening when my
first gentleman caller came to see me-
felt that the fact that he was my Sun
day school teacher detracted from the
Importance of the occasion. but did not
extinguish it, 1t was perhaps S 80,
and, obediently to law and gospel, 1
had gone up stairs.
The actual troubles of life have new
er dulled my sense of modification at
overhearing from my little room at the
head of tho stairs, where / was stTug-
Cling to get into that bingham gown
and present a tardy appearance, voice
distinctly excusing me on the ground
that it was past her usual bedtime and
she had gone to bed. Whether the an
guish Of that occasion so far aged me
that it had anything to do with my first
literary undertaking 1 cannot say, but
am sure about the low necked bingham
dress, and that it was during this par
ticular year that determined to become
an individual and contribute to The
Youths Companion.
did so. My contribution was accept
ed and paid for by the appearance in
my fathers postoffice box Of the paper
for a year, and my impression is that 1
wore high neoked dresses pretty soon
thereafter and was allowed to sit up till
8 O'Clock. At any rate, these memora-
BILE events are distinctly intertwined in
my mind Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in
McClure's Magazine.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

A unique occupation for a woman il
reported from Berlin. The proprietor Of
a large brewery there received a request
from a Russian lady to be shown the
interior arrangements of the brewery.
After looking at various processes
through which the golden beverage has
to go the lady inquired for several de-
tails of the pneumatic machinery in the
malthouse, which proved to the brewer,
to his great surprise, that she was per-
fectly familiar with every detail Of the
entire complicated machinery. Upon in
quiry 1t was learned that the lady, a
Russian countess, had a large acreage
of barley growing on her estate, and i'll
order to increase her revenue from this
source she had built a brewery, which she
managed all alone. She was interested
very much in the pneumatic mailing
apparatus because she could not get
skilled labor necessary for the produc-
ton of malt on her Russian estates.
Tasting the product Of the Berlin brew
cry, she stated that her own beer was
not much inferior to the German prod
uct When few days later the brewer
received some samples of the lady's
Russian beer, he pronounced it excel
lent and not inferior in any respect to
the best Bohemian or German beer.
This lady is believed to be the only
woman brewer in Europe. -Philadel-
phia Record.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

Englishmen are proverhial for taking
their games with them into whatever
part Of the world they go Golf, as we
know, is played in the shadow Of the
pyramids and in the very heart Of the
Himalayas, but football in the middle
of darkest Africa is something of an in
novation Yet football is rapidly be-
coming popular on the shores of Lake
Nyassa, and at Kotakota, which a few
years ago was notorious as the greatest
depot for slaves on the western shore of
the lake, mixed teams of black and
white meet every Saturday with as
much regularity as do our home teams,
though the local chronicler omits to say
whether Rugby or Association has won
the suffrages Of the Nyassa teams. One
startling feature Of the game is that the
black players decline to hamper them
selves with boots and find apparently
no inconvenience in playing with bare
feet. London Cor Manchester Guard
ian
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HOLES in THE CANVAS.
An Important Discovery Increasing the
Efficacy of Sails.

An Important Discovery Increasing the
Efficacy of Sails.
An Italian sea captain, Clio Batta
Vasallo Of Genoa has made q very inter
esting innovation in the use of sails of
ordinary sailing vessels. He claims that
the force Of wind cannot fully take eff
feet in a sail, since the air III front Of it
cannot properly circulate in the inflated
part and remains stationary immediate
~ in front of part Of the sail proper He
avoids this stagnation of air, as he calls
1t, by the application Of a number Of
small holes in that part Of the sail where
the depression is deepest when it is fill
ed. These holes are REINFORCED like
buttonhole, so that they will not tear out.
Trials made in various weather have
resulted as follows: With a light wind
a boat with ordinary sails made
knots, while the new sail increased the
speed to . Il knots. In fresh breeze the
respective speeds were z and so knots,
and in a strong wind they were s and 10
knots an hour II stands to reason that
the doing away with layer of air
which cannot escape past the sides Of
sail must increase the efficiency Of the
sailboat, Where the wind formerly
struck a cushion of air which acted like
a spring mattress, decreasing the actual
pressure of the wind against the canvas,
this current Of air now strikes the sail
direct and Of course has a greater eff
cheney. Vasallo has received much en-
enlargement from practical sailors as
well as theoretical scientists. -Phila-
delphia Record.
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ARTISTS AND TRADEsMeN.
In the Early Days the Former Had g
Struggle to Live.

Struggle to Live.
Among the artists resident IN Glas-
gov who had acquired before 1910 some
what of a reputation Graham Gilbert,
Horatio Macculloch and Daniel Macneo
are those most widely known to general
fame. To these men fell the prizes Of
the profession such as they were at that
time. Prices were then on a scale that
would not please the popular landscape
and portrait painters of today.
The smaller men-not very numer-
ous, it is true, and yet some of them
most deserving a tolerably hard
struggle for existence and had to exc
out their income by other work than
that of regular picture painting. Mac
culloch and Macnee themselves made
money in their younger days by decorat-
ing the lids of snuffboxes. The average
painter was frequently pretty much Of a
bohemian, living from hand to mouth
and glad to clear off tradesman's bill
by painting the portraits Of the worthy
shopkeeper and his wife.
One Of our best known artists tells
how on occasion in the long years ago
when he was engaged at a sitter's house
on the portraits of a successful clergy
man and his family the dinner hour ar
rived He was not considered "genteel'
enough to be asked to take place at the
table, but the mistress Of the house
kindly sent to the parlor, where he was
working, a pate Of stewed rhubarb to
keep him from wearying while the fam
lily fed. Magazine of Art.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

From childhood up man, naturally de-
structive, with an inherent desire to
smash things, has been taught to take
care Of everything that is nice, tidy and
ornamental II you want to know how
well the lesson has been learned. watch
men sharpen pencils. Did you ever see
one begin at the end that has the pretty
gilt letters on it7 The rudest and most
careless man win turn the pencil end
tw end 10 whittle on the plain paEt..--
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

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" resemble the cancels hair cloth.
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maternal parent the solemn question,
"What would you do if mamma were
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rAgwINp THAT sAAkgsTHg aARLEY

Sing hey for the wind IN the barley green,
And the great clouds drifting over;
For the dear brown sails, far out, that lean
To the kiss of the sea, their lover
Sing hey for the fields Of barley green,
With the mad wind rushing over;
And hey for the path that runs between
Where my dearest waits for her lover.
Black and White.
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"Sir, did You say that the pug dog
evoluted from a monkeyg'
''ls this your pug dog. madam 20
eyes, sir. -
"Then I beg Tho monkeys pardon. -
.-..Qatroit Free Press
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Virginia is becoming important as a
manufacturing state, having 1851
manufacturing hands, who make prod
uct valued at SIS, 369. s24
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AII9 IAlI0 d IIIU NIIe1IIeE AEI AEdIna
The Man Behind-Pardon me, miss.
l can see nothing owing to your hat.
The Woman In Front-Truel There is
nothing owing. l have paid for it in
full. Philadelphia Record.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-24

How many Of us have sympethized at
one time on another in our lives with
the old lady who said she had so many
things to do she guessed she'd go to bed.
-Somerville Journal