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APoTHEcARY EVEN ArLAsr.
Finds Man Who Wants Medicine
and Turns Him Into the Street.

Finds a Man Who Wants Medicine
and Turns Him Into the Street.
A man who lives above One Hun
dredth street thought he had the grip
and hastened to the nearest apothecary
shop. 1t was late. and the druggist
was routed from his bed by the night
bell. which went Off like an alarm
clock. when be admitted the customer
the druggist said:
81 suppose you want some stamps ?"
The customer denied this. and said.
with some vehemence. that he was in
no condition to appreciate a joke lie
was i'll and he wanted a remedy.
There's the city directory" said the
druggist, pointing out a demoralized
book.
THANK YOU" replied the customer.
81 thought il was canal boat. Now
will you be good enough to wait on
me?"
That's the telephone In the corner"
and the druggist pointed out the lung
tester and ear annihlator.
And this is my prescription" said
the customer producing a bit of paper
Did the butcher send your asked
the druggist, and before the customer
could interfere he added, "'cause he
sends women over here for change. and
for everything he doesn't keep and that
never have. And that undertaken in
this block-maybe he sent youg He
went down town the other day. and as
he had no one to leave in his place he
stuck up a sign in his window: Can
at the drug store Got a great laugh
on me People came in here all day
and asked me when went into part
nership with the undertaken. l know
the sign out there indicates that this
is a drug store. pay an apothecary's
license. But tomorrow will have that
sign painted over, and the words intel
ligence shop painted on. Here's your
prescription. Drug store two blocks
above"
Bang went the door. One apothecary
was even.-New York sun.
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The Conservative, a Nebraska City
weekly paper edited by J. Sterling Nor.
ton, contains I'm recent issue long
plea for the addition Of bird day to the
school calendar. The article first ap.
peared among the departmental reports
at Washington In 1896 and is reprinted
for the purpose OF directing attention
anew to the subject. G. A. Babcock,
superintendent OF schools at Oil City,
Pa, is credited with being the origina.
tor of the idea OF bird day. He wrote to
Mr.. Morton In 1894 urging the estab.
lishment OF such IA day on the same
general plan as nrbor day, and his sug.
gestiOn met with the hearty approval
Of the then Secretary OF Agriculture,
who was himself the founder of arbor
day. May OF the same year oil City
gratlhed the wishes Of its school super.
intendent by giving effect to his idea.
This was the first bird day. A similar
movement was started in Iowa. and In
other States there was an awakening
Of interest on the subject. IL engaged
the sympathies OF the crusaders, who
deplore the sacrifice of birds to mil.
llnery, aud Of those who would check
the murderous and predatory instincts
OF small boys but there has as yet been
no such general support Of bird day as
has been accorded to arbor day. Time,
however, might well be spared to IT.,
both because OF the instruction ana the
pleasure II would bring. We note a
stimulus that is a real inspiration to
study. Tiresome routine makes way
for n series OF object lessons in the
preparation for which the youthful
demonstrators have had their faculties
Of observation exercised to the utmost.
In larger cities the study of bird life
might be made In the parks and in
those delightful books of which pub
fishers are 80 lavish nowadays. Never
was there time before when children
could get at so many charming ana at
tractlve volumes on any branch Of nat
ural history, never time when so
much was done in literature to correct
the ignorance that has attacked the
feathered allies of men In field and for
est as II they We're enemies. IL Is n
good work that deserves the general es-
adjustment of bird day to further Its
object.
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EARLY Travel by Rail.

Travelling Is now so easy, and used
to be so difficult, that it Is hard for us
to realize that the Introduction of so
useful an improvement as the iron
hourse" was not Immediately and uni
versally welcomed; but it was not. In
an old family letter are recorded the
impressions Of an early traveller by
rail, after her first journey behind a
locomotive.
''The speed is very terrifying" she
wrote, "and the Gathering and iolting
inconceivably unpleasant The atmos-
phere is less oily than | expected; but
on the other hand there is much SCOT
and CRIME upon everything even short
ly upon the faces and hands of the tray
elers. Then the appalling screeches
proceeding from the locomotive en-
CINE, which 1t gives out on coming to
a stop and at other times, are most dis
tressing and discordant
1T Is n method of travel with but
one advantage, a saving of time; and
with more disadvantages than can be
enumerated, beginning as they do with
danger, and concluding with dirt.
Between cities of large population,
whence the necessities Of business
force men to hasten to and fro, and for
the carrying Of goods and merchandise,
the railroad is no doubt destined to fill
useful position. But that it can ever
be employed for ordinary travel, after
public curiosity is satisfied, by lndivld-
uals of leisure and good personal hab-
its-by gentlemen and gentlewomen,
in shorter even by clearly and COM
Portable people not gently bred unless
in cases of necessity, | cannot believe"
1t is easy to sympathize with this
dainty lady's dislike of CRIME and noise,
but what would she have said could she
have lived to ride in a parlor car. dine
at flying buffet, or sleep away a jour
ney Of three or four hundred miles, Sc
cluded in a comfortable berth?
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coooANurs AND Cocoa
The Difference Between These 1--WE
Tropical Fruits.

i
! Although cocoanuts and cocoa are
both well known In every Northern
household, yet many people that daily
use these two useful products Of the
tropics find it difficult or impossible to
exactly describe the difference bStween
the two. The cocoSuUt 80 the rruit of a
tall and graceful palm tree familiar
sight In nearly every tropical land
scape, and too well known to necessi'
tate any description, whereas cocoa, or,
more properly, cacao, Is the powdered
seed of a small and handsome tree,
bearing nc resemblance whatever to
the cOcoa-pGlm.
Perhaps no cultivated tree presents
so odd and striking an appearance as
the cacao, and nobody that has ever
seen one will forget it, or mistake 1t fol
anything else. The tree itself grows to
a height of twenty or twenty-five feet
with a rather smooth and slender
trunk, thick, bushy and symmetrical
top, and handsome, broad, oval leaves
of a deep purple or bronze color.
Instead Of growing at the ends of the
branches or twigs, as do most bios
SONS, the cacao flowers bud out direct
ly from the bark Of the limbs and
trunk. The flowers are small and in
significant, but the fruit, shaped like
a cucumber, grows to a large size, In
the better varieties eight or ten inches
in length and three or four inches in
diameter. Moreover, the fruit is bril-
liantly colored, orange, red and yellow
and under favorable conditions fairly
covers the tree, presenting a very odd
and beautiful sight.
The fruit or pod is completely filed
with a soft Shiny pulp. in which the
cacao beans are imbedded. When first
taken from the pod these beans and
the pulp as well emit a fetld, disagree
able Odor After being separated from
the pulp the beans are placed in large
wooden trays and exposed to the SUP
to dry.-Popular Science News.
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SPANISH euNNERY.
Impressed the Commander of German
Cruiser Geier as Wonderful.


Capt. Jacobsen, commander Of the
German cruiser Geier, has published in
the Marine Review of Berlin two arti-
Giles about his personal experiences dur.
ing the Spanish campaign in
Santiago. In speaking Of Spanish gun
merry, he says:
Il have heard of only one instance
where a Spanish shell found an Amerl-
can warship. This was sent into the
Texas while that battleship was bonn
harding the SocOpa batteries.
zone night while the American bat
tleships kept up a continuous lombard
ing one Of the attacking vessels was
found by the searchlights on the bat
terry. The Spaniards opened fire on 1t,
but instead of hitting the vessel the
Iowa, which lay under cover of dark
ness, was struck by the shell from the
Spanish hOwitzer.
Great must have been the fright Of
the American officers when on taking
charge of Moro they found that the
cannon operated against them by the
Spanish bore the dates of 1908 aud
1I1S. Part of these hOwitzers were
found loaded as the Americans took
charge. The officer in charge ordered
them to be fired Off and found. to his
great surprise, that the longest distance
one Of these shots could traverse was
800 yards.
with due apologies to the brethren
Of Yankeeland, did the thrifty Ameri-
cans really allow themselves to be
frightened at this Spanish bluff In
the beginning, perhaps yes. l must
confess, and so do my officers, that
while watching the proceedings from
our cruiser we had not the faintest idea
that the Spanish batteries had such an
tique material to defend their glorious
honor with"
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George EIiot,s Nfanuscript.

The memoir of John Blackwood, the
great Scotch publisher, recently issued
by his daughter, reveals many interest
ing things about authors, ard none
more entertaining than the fact that
the best Of them, certainly from the ar.
tistic point of view, are modest and
listening sort of people, and not at al
pretentious.
George Eliot was conspicuous as q
person who was kindly and sympa.
thetic in a high degree. She was "evel
ready to be amused and interested in
all that concerned her friends" She
had also a keen sense of humor, and
sometimes made her friends laugh, as
well as laughed with them.
She was solicitOus about her manu-
scripts, and was afraid she should lose
them. BlackwOod had occasion to send
her the manuscript of Daniel Deron.
da." She would not have 1t entrusted
to the mail. and Mr.. Blackwood said
he would send it by his footman the
next day.
"Oh, don'tw the author said. "Ht
might stop at public house and for.
get it,"
Mr.. Blackwood explained that this
footman was perfectly sober man OF
high character, and went on to praise
the mans virtues; but this did not re.
assure her at all.
If he is the sort of chivalrous Bay.
ard that you describe" she said, he
is just the kind that would stop and
help at fire."
This was a contingency that Mr.
Blackwood could not bear to consider
He promised that some member of his
family would bring the manuscript
and next day, in fact, Mrs. Blackwood
drove over with il.
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Too Cultured.

A writer in the Critic speaks some
what scotiingly of the requirements Of
Boston culture as applied to all
walks of life. OF course her tone is
satirical, and she gives humorous illus
trations. the best of which is this:
Learning, like religion, has in all ages
its martyrs, its Galileos, its Giordano
Brunos. Visiting in Nebraska a few
years ago, l was told the following
story: A brakeman from Boston was
employed on the line of a railroad run
ming from Nebraska City to Beatrice.
When 1t became his duty to call out
the name of this last station, he pro-
nounced it in the most approved Tus-
can "Bay-ah-tree-chayr
The passengers, simple souls, were at
a loss what to do. They rose from their
seats and hesltated. Some sat down
again. and so were carried past their
destination. This sort Of thing contin-
ued. the brakeman was complained Of,
and he lost his place.
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His Denomination.

At the close of service one Sunda,
morning the pastor of a city church
went down the aisle, as was his Gus
tom, to greet the strangers in the con
gregation. You are not a member OF
our church." he said to one of them.
NO, sir" replied the stranger.
do you belong to any denomination
may l askY'
well" responded the other. hesitat
ingly, I'm what you might call a sub
merged Presbyterian"
How is that?'
Il was brought up n Presbyterian
my wife is a Methodist, my eldest
daughter is Baptist, my son is the or
ganist at n Universalist Church. nv
second daughter sings in an Episcopaj
choir, and my youngest goes to a Con
gregational Sunday school"
But you contribute, doubtless "a
some one church,"
Yes, l contribute to all of tbem
That is partly what submerges me
Youths Companion.
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CHARMING FRANKNEss.
Graceful Way in Which a Britisher
Acknowledged His Mistake.

acknowledged His Mistake.
lady Camilla Gurdon, whose liter
arv remains have just been published
In London, tells many anecdotes about
Mr. Lowell interesting to Americans,
saws the Youths Companion.
On one occasion she says Thackeray
asked him to criticise Henry EsmOnd''
and frankly to point out any mistake
he might detect in the English Of the
time of Queen Anne.
'SThere is one thing think wrong"
said Mr.. Lowell, with hesitation. did
anybody then ever use the phrase dit
ferent to- such a thing?"
"Hang it allr' cried Thackeray. "Of
course they didn't!
An English literary man who visited
this country year or two ago to lee
ture frankly declared that he came, not
expecting to find accurate scholarship
among Americans, especially on purely
literary subjects, adding affably:
you have been too busy and useful
n nation in practical matters to give
much time to the arts and graces Of
learning"
During the dinner at which he made
this remark he criticised Shakespeare.
sharply declaring that his metaphors
were absurd. "As for example," he
said. "sleep that knits up the raveled
sleave of care How ridiculous to fig
ure sleep as knitting up a torn sleeve
of cOat!'
A young American sitting near him
said modestly, Il think the word is not
sleeve but sleave, the thin fluff of a
damaged web. 1t is a technical ex-
preston among weavers."
I'm the States probablyw retorted
the critic, irritably. Shakespeare never
could have heard it. He meant
sleeve"
Il believe" persisted the American,
gently, 1.-THE word is printed sleave in
all the old editions. 1t is not an Amer
lean word but has been used for CEN
turtles by weavers in Scotland and the.
north of England"
The visitor frOwned, and then with
English frankness said, laughing.
THANK you, l was mistaken. Perhaps
l am mistaken about other things, and
will be corrected before l leave your
shores"
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E}t5g4Izsjaszg,
B}08GaM65Rl5

1.-THE Queens Justice" a true story
of Hindu village life, is a new romance
by Sir Edwin Arnold, so we'll known
by his Light of Asia" and shorter
poems.
"a Romance of Two Worlds" by
Marie Corelli, is said to have been
translated into all the languages of Eu-
rope, also into Persian and Hindoo-
stance.
The London Academy says that the
prophecy that J. NJ. Barrie would make
100000 out of the stage royalties Of
'The Little Minister" has been fulfilled
almost to the very letter, or figure.
4 life of Mrs. Lynn Linton is soon to.
be published, and the fact that it will
contain many letters from Dickens
walter Savage Lander and other ia
nous people will give it added interest.
A first novel by Mrs. Schuyler Crown
inshield, called Latitude 10 Degrees, -
is published by d. Appleton & Com
pany. 1t is story of Hayti in 1920,
full of local color, of delightful humOr
and unfagging interest.
The library Of the University of Vir-
ginia will soon be furnished with a
bust of Edgar A Poe, more than life
size and cast in bronze. For a brief
time, Poe was student of the above
mentioned university. The bust is the
work Of George Julian Zolnay, of New
York.
The humorist. Max Adeler Charles
Heber Clark, finds his real work in
writing editorials on tariff, pig iron,
the currency, and other such light and
frolicsome subjects. The pity Of itE
That so many men land women must
boil the pot by means of the least con-
genial work.
Wordsworth's cottage at Grasmere-
together with portraits, manuscripts
and about 1000 letters, has been pre-
sented to the British nation through
the efforts of Prof. knight, of st. An
drew's. 1t is lamentable that no one
has come forward to perform a like
kindly service for Tom MoOre's cottage
on Mushwell hill, London, which is not
unlikely to be torn down. 1t was there
that "Lalla Rookh" was written. At
terward Moore lived at BowOOd, in
wiltshire, in a house adjoining Lord
Lansdowne's park.
1t was said the other day by a libra
ran that people no longer read Macau-
lay but conclusive proof of the vital
lily Of his reputation and of the interest
sun felt in his works is to be found In
the fact that though more than seventy
years have now elapsed since Lord Ma
caulay came into prominence as an es-
sayist, Messrs. Longmans-Green are is
suing an entirely new edition of his
works in their Silver Library series.
The Albany edition of The Works OF
Lord Macaulay," as this issue is called
IN reference to the great historians
long residence in that luxurious clois-
ter will comprise twelve volumes,
printed on antique paper and embellish-
ed with portraits carefully selected by
Lionel Gust, of the national portrait
gallery, England. The first six vol
umes will consist of 1.-The History OF
England"
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neither for the men whose brains are
at work during the other six days OF
the week. He suggests that they shall
set aside another day in the week,
when they can go fishing, or work la
the garden. or at their hobby, whatever
that may be, or play golf or tennis.
There are few thoughtful men who are
not convinced, like Mr.. Stockton, of the
necessity OF giving seasons Of rest and
play to their brains If they would keep
them healthy and sane. 1t Is difficult
to find these seasons in our heated,
struggling life, and there are various
devices 10 obtain them. One over
worked professional man In New
York, Il is said, goes to bed for one day
I'm each month. His door Is barred
against all Corners, and he sleeps for
most Of the twenty-fOur hours. Many
lawyers, brokers and merchants as.
cape their work by crossing the ocean,
sometimes returning on the same
steamer. IN the Memoir OF Mrs SUIT
ton we are told that when she mar
ried n widower and found herself in
control OF nine children and many
servants, she began the habit OF lock-
ing herself into her chamber for an
hour each day. No emergency ever in
terfered with this habit. do you
pray Ia thereT her husband once
asked. mot always. But l find my
self" was her reply. We all, If we
choose, can command the rest and ST.
lence into our lives in which to find
ourselyes."
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EngIand,s blind Rarristo-

There are many interesting and 70
markahle men at the English bar. I'm,
not many surely more interesting q,
remarkable than George Grifitbs tbs
blind barrister of the Oxford circrit
For fully twenty years now Mr. erie
tiths has been totally blind. vet dnrino
all this time he has attended the GRIN,
inal courts in London and gone ON clr
cult. Just as he did for TWENTY-FIVE
years previously, when in the full en-.
loymen' Of his eycsight This is an
achievement truly heroic under tha oIr
cumstances, and reflects the ereotos,
credit upon its author. Indeed On.
would have been disposed to saw IL NO.
quite impossible TO follow such n dis
iicult calling during all these vears -,
such terrible disadvantage: hnt NJ
Gritlith's plucky career puts it bevond
question.
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A young woman was recently asked
by a young man to become his wife
iie was a bright fellow and was nc
repted In general society because OF the
wealth and official position Of his faith
PIT. but his habits were known TO be
bad. There We're no evaslons ln her
answer. "You tell me. she said that
! possess qualities that you must have
In the woman who is your wife / can
not say that / have then-but | can
speak OF habits that I do not have. and
that / could not accept Ia husband
who did have them do not smoke. l
never swear. DO not indulge In wine.
] am not IN debt. Not moment Of my
nights Is spent with questionable asso-
ciates. and my days are not given to
idleness or 70 walking the streets with
silly. unihinking girls. Most women
avoid the indulgences have men
toned. aud do not welcome them in
men who ask 20 become their husbands
As you have them. or most OF them, /
nm not willing to become your wife.
am sure nothing but wretchedness
could follow from such union" The
answer was sharp and decisive. II Is
a pity all girls under the same clrcum-
stances are not as frank and sensible.
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Private Murpby.s Discovery

English papers are telling with some
gusto a story of private soldier named
Murphy who was brought before the
commanding officer at Devonport,
charged with selling part Of his kit.
Said the colonel:
Now, Private Murphy, why did you
sell your bootsg"
I'D worn thin for two years. an I
thought be that time they was me own
prapperty."
Nothing Of the sort, man! Those
boots belong TO the queen"
ITO the quane, is it, yer amer? Sure,
thin. l didn't know the lady took
tMilXesw
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MONSIEUR TARsIER.

enormous development Of the tarsus, OF
ankle bones of his legs. His eyes are
enormous so that he can see in the
dark. They even cause him to be call
ed n ghost. His fingers and toes are
provided with large pads, which en-.
able him to hold on to almost anything
Professor Hubrecht, of the Univer-
sity OF Utrecht has lately discovered
that Monsieur Tarsier Is no less n per
sonage than "link" connecting Grand
father Monkey with his ancestors.
Thus the evolutionary scale would be
changed by Professor Hubrecht to run;
Man, ape, monkey. tarsier and so on,
tarsler appearing as what may be popu-
larry termed the great-graDdfather of
mankind.
Tarsler may best be described as hav-
ing face like an owl and a body,
limbs and tail like those of a monkey.
His sitting height is about that of q
squirrel. AS his enormous optics
would lead one to suppose, he cuts ca
pers In the night and sleeps in the day
time, concealed usually in abandoned
clearings. where new growth has
sprung up to a height Of twenty feet or
more. Very often he sleeps in a stand
ing posture, grasping the lower stem
Of a small tree with his long and slen-
der fingers and toes. During his night
ly wanderings he utters a squeak like
that of monkey. During the day the
pupils of his eyes contract to fine lines,
but after dark expand until they fill
most of the irises. From his habit of
feeding only upon insects he has a
strong bat-like odor.
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The dread OF premature burial lnjects
misery into the life Of many person.
Modern civilization should remove this
dread. A law should be passed com
polling the retention OF the subject In
q proper place for certain period until
the fact OF death Is established by un-
mistakable signs, Every man alive
now should have the assurance that the
awful death that follows premature
burial will not be- his
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eREAT.eRANoFATHER Of MAN.

Monsieur Tarsier, New Acquisition
i'm the Philippine Islands.
Along with Tagals, Ygorottes and
other queer human beings Uncle Sam
has annexed in the Philippine Islands
is the tarsier, an animal which is now
declared to be the grandfather Of man.
The tarsier is the ancestor of the
common monkey, who is the ancestor
Of the anthropOid ape, who is the an
cestOr Of man.
Monsieur Tarsier is n very gifted ami
NAL. He derives his name from the
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Al n performance Of Romeo and
Juliet IN a Hungarian town recently
h was announced that the author would
take part In Ihs representation. II this
d true, the railroads could sell excur-
sion tickets from all parts Of the world.