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Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
The Passing of the Court Fool.

THE Court testers of England is
the title of an article by Amelia
Wofford in st. Nicholas. The author
says of the jester of Charles |:
Muckle John was the last of the
court testers. Tom Killigrew, mas
ter of the revels, groom of the bed
chamber, is often spoken of as jester
to Charles ii, but there is no author
ity to support this claim. He was a
companion of the king, he used his
tongue with the license of the jester
of old, but he had never an official
appointment to that office. Some eff
fort was made during Charles reign
to restore the jester, but it failed.
The protests of Sir Philip Sidney
and other grave writers of his time
against all fools were not without
effect, bat the rule of the common
wealth was mainly responsible for
the Punishment of the court fool.
They were especially against the
fools of the stage, and so play
wrights omitted them from their list
of characters long before their dis
appearance from the court. Shad-
wells play of The Woman Cap
tain" (1680) is probably the last in
which a regular fool appears. The
character of fool was we'll liked by
the old playwrights, and in several
of the old plays his disappearance is
bewailed.
AS has been said, the custom of
keeping fools was common to all
classes of society in England, but
the court sets the fashion, and with
the Punishment of the court jester
the fool disappeared from his other
haunts.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
AT what Age Is Nan stronge.tt

The muscles, in common with all the
organs of the body, have their stages of
development and decline. Our physical
strength increases up to a certain age
and then decreases. Tests Of the strength
of several thousands of people have been
made by means Of a dynamometer
strength measurer), and the following
are given as the average figures for the
white race:
The lifting power" of a youth of II
years is $50 pounds. In his twentieth
year this increases to 800 pounds, and
in the thirtieth and thirty first years it
reaches its height, $50 pounds. At the
end of the thirty first year the strength
begins to decline, very slowly at first.
By the fortieth year it has decreased
eight pounds, and this diminution con-
tinues at slightly increasing rate until
the fiftieth year is reached, when tho
figure is $50 pounds
After this period the strength fails
more and more rapidly until the weak
ness of old age is reached. It is not pos
sible to give statistics of the decline OF
strength after the fiftieth year, as it
varies to a large extent in different in
Giyiduals. Strand Magazine.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
Cash Versus Glory.

An ordinary service to mankind is
usually paid for at current rates in legal
tender. An extraordinary service, not
involving the element of heroism,, is re-
warded by both legal tender and more
or less fame. The highest of all services,
rendered at the risk of life, is supposed
to receive its full compensation in glory,
unaccompanied by more sordid consid-
erations. If, however, the hero of the
service last mentioned should not be
contented with his need of glory, but
should demand more substantial reward,
he may receive it indeed, but at large
discount from the other (and in senti-
mental estimation more valuable) con
sideration.
Unlike the butcher, the baker and
the candlestick maker, who receive
their quid pro quo without thought
of humiliation, either in their own
minds Or yours, the man who saves
your life at the risk of his own is looked
dpon as almost If not quite disgracing
himself by accepting your proffered pc
cuniary reward, although he may, in
fact, be in far sorer need than any one
of the worthy trio who simply contrib
ute to your necessities or comforts
Edward p. jackson in North American
Review
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
THE oowAeeR.

Girls about her in a flock,
Like roses round hoilyhock.
Laughter, motion, gliding grace,
Youth s fresh luster in a face.
ALI the things that sweetest were
Yonder sits the doWager.
Bravely still she smiles indeed.
Placid i'll her cap and weed.
Plies the lorgnette left and right
With hand still lily white
All. but the pinch d heart of her
Poor odd wissful dowagerf
Once for her the starry lights
And the waltzes' birdlike flights.
Once bosom all a-throb.
Sigh of rupture like sob.
Watts of violet and myrra-
Poor old dreaming dowagerl
Snow whirl of white drapery,
Laces like the wind whipped sea,
Feet that Knocked the swallow wing,
Ever lightly vanishing.
Heart and joy with soul astir--
Such was once the dowaea or.
Now she fain remembers all
While the waltzes rise and fail,
And the subtle, soft perfume
Hovers ghostlike in the room.
Perished hopes and fancies stir
Poor old wrinkted dUwageri
Better would she be. trow,
Where the quiet hearth Goals glow.
And the seer lofty page
Rears temple fit for age.
Nay2 Her moon dead youth for herr
Frivolous old dowagerl
James BuckhaIn in ''The Heart of Life "
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
Brain Trouble.

Mamma-Why don't you study
your lessons as Tommy Smart does
Johnny-If / studied like Tommy
Smart does, I'd be afraid of getting
brain trouble like he has.
Mamma Has he any brain trou-
blei
Johnny-Must have! He says he
likes to 60 to school - Pick Me Up.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
a RUSSIAN GAME.
IL Bears an UnpronOunceable Name, but
1t lis Like Our Tip Cat"

1t Is Like Our Tip Cat"
P. Kitty Kondacheff writes of
s'Some Russian Games" in st. Mich
olas. One of them, bearing the
name stchijick, is thus described:
The game is like your game Tip
cat. The word tohijick, properly
translated, means " finch, : and
whether the game is SO called on ac-
count of the constant hopping Of
one of the players or from the way
in which the wooden cone is made
to jump up and fly is not known.
The players may amount to any
number, but five or six is the best
combination, so as not to keep the
others waiting too long while the
STRIKER" and hopper, as | will
call them, are at work. A circle of
about feet in diameter is traced on
the ground, in the center of which
is deposited the so called tchijick,
or finch, a round stick of wood, 8
inches long, having each end shaped
something like cone 1t is either
placed across a small hollow in the
ground or with one end resting on
a bit of stick or stone an inch or two
high
The players, armed with short,
stout sticks, then draw lots so as to
determine by chance who is to be-
gin the first service and who is to
do the hopping The others range
themselves in order around the cir
Gle, the striker taking his place
near the finch The signal given,
the striker serves the finoh-that
is, he gives it smart rap with his
stick over one end, so as to make it
jump high up-and while in midair
follows this with one or more sharp
raps, sending it as far out of the
circle as possible-the farther the
better The hopper then sets off
and must arrive at the exact place
where the finch falls, hopping along
ON one foot. Lifting it up from the
ground, he must send it back, with
the aid of his stick, into the circle
again If it falls on the line, it is
reckoned in. Should he fail in do
ing this or in arriving safely on
one foot to where the finch lies and
back to his place again he remains
hopper to the next service. If, how
ever, he passes both ordeals safely,
he takes his place among the play
ers again, while the striker turns
hopper, the boy next in order tax
ing his place.
The score is reckoned in the fol
lowing way: A certain number is
fixed upon previous to beginning
the game-say, 25. Each time the
striker hits the finch he scores one.
Now, good players manage to touch
it several times while in midair,
shot, jerky cuts from the wrist fol
lowing swiftly on each other; some
times as many as five raps are given
in quick succession, the striker al
ways remaining within the limits
of the circle. He scores the number
of raps given, and the player who
first reaches the number previously
agreed upon wins. The striker is !
thus changed after each service,
while the hopper, unless he has
good muscles and sure aim, often
has to go through the hopping proc
ess durino many turns, thereby
sometimes missing his own turn of
serving. II the stakes are nuts, can
dy Or anything of that sort, then
each boy loses to the winner as
many as are wanting in his score to
mako up the 25.
Matches.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
Matches.

The man who was old enough to
Enow better was chasing up and down
a Sixteenth street boarding house, try
ing to find match to light cigarette
with.
Did it ever occur to you" he said
to the man who finally found light
for him, what boon and . benson
the cigarette manufacturer has been to
the match manufacturer? Think of it a
moment. First, however, give me an
other match for this cigarette. don't
know how many cigarettes are made in
this country, but let US, for the sake of
argument, say there are thousand
carloads year. Well, it takes on all
average-another light, pIease-four
matches to the cigarette, and the manu-
facturer OF matches must therefore
make 4, 600 carloads of matches Just to
meet the cigarette demand. You may
not think 1000 carloads is great
quantity, but if you knew how hard it
was to get one match when your cigar
cite is out, you would think A, 600 car.
loads wasn't few il you had to 60
around begging them. I have never
given serious study to the matter, but,
looking at it casually, / should say the
match manufacturers owe an inestima-
bic debt OF gratitude to the cigarette
makers. New York Sun.
The actionof poisons upon the system
is and always has been one of the most
interesting Of subjects Just how and
why it kills has been determined through
a series Of experiments made by scien.
fists The following description is UNI
questionably the best and most lucid Of
any that has been given to the public:
THE venom may be roughly separated
into two parts-one acting upon the
blood, and the other upon the nerves.
When injected, it Immediately begins
to create terrible destruction in tho
blood vessels, the walls of the veins are
eaten away and an internal hemorrhage
takes place. While this is going on q
portion Of the venom is attacking the
nerves Particularly, susceptible to it's
rayages is the 'vasolnotor' system, q
nerve center which controls the muscles
Of respiration Paralysis takes place in
these organs, and the victim generally
dies from an inability to breathe. -
New York Ledger.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-28
1t was a few minutes before dinner
when little Fred INQUIRED:

when little Fred inquired:
Mamma. have been bad today?"
Yes, Freddie. very bad indeed.
DO you think you'll send me to bed
without any supper"
II have a great mind to. /"
Well, mamma, wish you would
let me know now, so that lean tell how
much dinner to eat. Pick Me Up.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

do better; therefore I blame you for blam-
ing me. l understand you now to be will
ing to accept the help of men who are not
republicans, provided they have heart In
it Agreed. 1 want no others. But who is
to be the judge of hearts or of heart in
it?' If 1 must discard my own judgment
and take yours, l must also take that of
others, and by the time should reject all
I should be advised to reject should have
none left, republicans or others-not even
yourself. For be assured, my dear sir,
there are men who have heart in it. that
think you are performing your part as
poorly as you think am performing
mine.'
Not only is this notable example of
strength writing and of terrible rebuke gen.
thy administered, but 1t also possesses some
contemporaneous human interest.
The Boston Herald either does not know
or does not care to mention the name of
the carping, exasperating critic whose self
conceit and importantly brought down up
on himself this punishment from the kind
est-hearted and most patient of the worlds
great men.
Who was the person that thought Abra-
ham Lincoln was performing poorly his
part in the war, and volunteered to tell him
SO? His name was Carl Schurz, and he
has lately directed his attention to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

ing early season toilettes sat upon a YER
anda the other evening watching the sun
go down. 1t was at the close of o.
Geek tea, and the yet chilly spring air
made the warm gowns they wore very com
Portable. Yet the dresses were by no
means thick or dark; they were a very
delightful combination OF the needs of
spring with the prettiness of summer.
One of the young women wore gown
Of Wood-broWp plaid silk Bingham with g
band OF brown silk around the foot at least
eighteen inches deep. 1t was trimmed
with perfectly fiat bands of brown ribbon
of a deeper shade.The bodice had large
lapels of the wood-brown Bingham also
trimmed with ribbon. A tall white collar
was worn with a smart brown silk tie.
The belt was of black silk and was Sc
broad that it might have been called cir
die. It was laid In folds with a rosette
fastening very high upon the front of the
bodice which was fastened with one bic
visible pearl button.
The hat was high crowned sailor trim
med with conventional white flowers.
Some of the foulards are very pretty. A
foulard gown of pheasant's tail blue, which
is not quite as deep as peacock blue, was
trimmed with ruffles of plain blue around
the foot. There was an overskirt which
fell loose from the waist in genuine over.
skirt fashion and was edged with greer
velvet ribbon put on - lain The
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
,oom is said to be a double room.

room is said to be a double room.
POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS.
A pie may be produced any number of
times.
The landlady can be reduced to her low
est terms by a series of propositions.
line may be made from any boarding
house to any other boarding house.
The clothes of boarding house bed,
though produced ever SO far both ways,
will not meet.
Any two meals at boarding house are
together less than two square meals.
If from the opposite ends of a boarding
house line be drawn, passing through all
the rooms In turn, then the hot water pipe
which warns the boarders will lie within
that line.
On the same bill and on the same side of
1t there should not be two charges for the
same thing.
If there are two boarders on the same
floor, and the amount of side of one be
equal to the amount of side of the other,
each to each, and the wrangle between one
boarder and the landlady be equal to the
wrangle between the landlady and the
other, then shall the weekly bills of the
two boarders be equal also, each to EACH
For if not, let one bill be the greater.
Then the other bill is less than 1t might
have been, which is absurd.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

made of black satin, black gros grain and
plain black silk. 1t is cut like an Elton and
Is 50 short that It does not cover the belt
line.
4 Hats for garden parties are tipped far
the street hat also; and as summer APP
proaehes you see very few of the hats that
flare far back from the face
Madame Faure and her daughters are
wearing the most chic French mourning,
little gowns of plain cloth, black and
white, with the nattiest little black coats.
The Baroness de Rothschild, also In
mourning, wears gray in heavenly shades
of silk and CLOTH all black trimmsd.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
BOARDING ROUSE GEOMETRY.

from Harper Bazaar.
DEFINITIONS AN AXIOMS.
All boarding houses are the same board
ing houses.
Boarders in the same boarding house and
on the same fiat are equal to one an
other
A simple room is that which has no parts
and no magnitude.
The landlady of boarding house is
parallelogram-that is, an oblong angular
figure. which cannot be described. but
which is equal to anything.
wrangle Isl the Discrimination of two
boarders to each other. that meet together,
but are not on the same floor.
All the other rooms being taken. single
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

there are a few simple ones. The washing
dresses cost enough, but when one comes
to a consideration of the gowns that are
made from silks and light woods, from va
rieties of X-ray goods and from lace, then
the actual cost comes in.
The couturieres say that never have they
been called upon to combine so many and
such beautiful fabrics in one gown.
AS / wrote you a short time ago the pop
ular blue is ducks egg. Then comes pastel
then musketeer and after these the lovely
shades OF cerulean, turquoise, Nile, baby
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
GOWNS FOR THE -
LAWN PARTY.
Miss Goodwin Describes Some of the Lovely Warm
Fabrics That are just Right for First QUIT
ings-=Luce Faure's Costumes.

Paris, May u.-It is pleasant out-of-
doors now and the pretty little chateaux
In the suburbs are showing life. The trees
have their dress of green, and the ground
is covered with a soft velvet carpet. Love-
ly, beyond compare, is the dress of spring.
Outdoor life seems to feel that exposition
year is near for even the old society lead
ers of Paris say that they never have
seen such a season approaching.
Extravagant is the term which should
be applied to the dresses of spring, though
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

bodice was of the figured fouard like the
skirt and was trimmed in a pointed design
of foulard edged with velvet.
The new sleeves are very long and many
of them are finished with point which
extends far down over the hand covering
the knuckles. To keep the point in place
a tiny ribbon is sewed to it. This ribbon
is tied around the thumb in a pretty little
bow at the back of the second joint of the
thumb. Fancy being strapped to your
sleeves. Yet that Is a Paris fad of the
moment.
The little top coat is very smart. It is
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

Outdoor teas have come in, on veranda
and lawn. At one of these a petit blonde
was dressed in a gown of null striped
with satin. 1t was in violet blue with the
stripes of a. bright automobile red, bright
er than most of the shades of that name
which, by the way, vary greatly
The bodice was of silk dotted null In vio-
let blue and red, and there was belt and
a number of velvet bows of black.
Each gown, this season, to be very char
ming has touch of black somewhere in
1t.
Two young women wearing very charm
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

and sky. It is to be blue summer. set Off
with the gaudiest reds.
A delightful little gown worn at the mu-
sicale of the Baroness de Reibnitz was of
1arkspur blue India silk so trimmed that
the silk was hardly visible. The waist had
a yoke laid in tiny tucks set in a vest of
white satin braided with tiny black braid
Over the shoulders were three narrow vel
vet straps terminating in number of loops
of velvet. The same trimming bordered
the flounces that trimmed the skirt.
There was an overdress effect of white
silk with black braiding to match the vest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
Picnic Parties.

Go out to Gate City on the Traction Com
pany's red cars. 1t is only half mile walk
over a beautiful road past the old glass
works to the artesian wells we are hear
ing so much about now. One OF the most
beautiful spots for picncs in the state.
Cars every 20 minutes. Beautiful ride
through Woodlawn over track as smooth
as ice out along the picturesque macadam-
ICED road. Special terms to picnlcs. Go
out and spend the day. Most famous place
near Birmingham for wild flowers. '''
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
From a chinese Standpoint
the Ohio State Journal.

From the Ohio State Journal.
II am afraid we are going to lose some
more territory" said the eminent Chinese
statesman.
"Why so?' asked the dowager emperor.
5 1T see by st. Petersburg and London dis
patches that the Russian bear and the Brit
ish lion are getting to be real chummy
again."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
THE CENSOR OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN


From the New York Sun.
The Boston Herald is quite right in it's
high opinion of the literary style of the
man who wrote the Gettysburg address.
Our contemporary remarks that 1t is diff
ficult to find better style of expression
and reasoning than Abraham Lineoln's:
cit was simple at times to LONELINESS;
so was that of Benjamin Franklin, indeed;
but the manner in which Lincoln presented
an argument was exquisitely satisfactory
and conclusive"
To illustrate fincolns power of express
sion, the Herald prints part of letter OF
rebuke which Lincoln wrote to general
in the union army who had objected to mis-
war policy. Here is the passage:
''You think could do better; therefore
you blame me already. l think could not
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

From the Detroit Journal.
The man of the hour showed us his pic
ture gallery.
These" he remarked, indicating some
portraits, ''are my ancestors"
"And these?" we asked, indicating other
portraits.
"oh. those were my fathers ancestors
replied the man.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
Rapacity Unveiled

From Puck.
First Populist-I tell you, these. trusts
are gettin' more shameless and unbIushin
every day.
Second Populist-What has happened?
First Populist-There's one bein' fo- ned
an the president says 1t amt to tsiT tho
consumer, but jes' to make money
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
George has a vivid imagination"
81 never noticed it,
mo? Why he asked me to loan him s.
yesterday He actually imagined that I'd
be carrying all that money around with
me-"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
.RambIes I'm summerIand,

a booklet describing the delightfully."- cool
resorts on the Wisconsin Central Lines in
Illinois and Wisconsin, may be had free
upon application to Jas. c. Pond, Gen'l
Pass. Agent, Milwaukee, Wis.
5-7-dly5t&sun-tu thur-sat
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
A Considerate Woman

Mrs Prys-Then you are not going to
move into another fiat, after all.
Mrs. Wise-No; my husband, who always
puts down the carpets. was converted
lately, and don't want to see the good
man backslde.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21
Street Car Anxiety

From the Chicago Record.
There are two kinds of trolley faces"
"What are they?"
'The one we wear when we want to get
on and the one we wear when we want to
get off,"
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Literal

From Brooklyn Life.
Talker-Penner tells me he's doing a
flourishing business.
Chinner-Yes; he's writing visiting cards.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-18
Burglars Captured.

Pecos, Texas, Jan. Is; to the HER
AID; Yesterday morning parties came
in and reported that couple of In
dams had looted Fullers ranch, 20
miles north of here. Armed officers
went out and coon came to the desper-
ADDE'S camp where they found two men
asleep but they were not Indians
tho their dress, coupled with the fact
resemblance to Indians.
When arrested they did not deny the
crime. Later it was ascertained that
they had cleaned up q number of
ranches and section houses between
here and Eddy. They are in Jail and
admit that they are sure to be sent up.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-18
Music Study Club.

The Music Study club met at Mrs.
Joseph Goodman's yesterday afternoon
and the program was unusually inter-
esting. MoszkOwski was the composer
selected for the afternoon and the fol-
lowing program was rendered.:
Paper .............M Mrs. n. w. Allen.
Spanish Dances
Mrs. Goodman and Miss Beall
Song Thee Not".
Mrs. Hawkins
Valse Brtl1iante. Mrs. Brown
Legende, (Wieniawski). Miss Smith
Songs by Jessie Gaynor..
Miss Trumbull substituting for
Miss Psge).
Fantasie-Masquerade and I'm
masking. ..............M Miss Beall
Cradle Song. Mrs. Hawkins
Germania 49,.
-. Mrs. Goodman and Mrs. Johns