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Mexican TOrtiIlaa.

Tortilas are thin, fat cakes fried on
piece of sheet iron over n brasero of char
coal. They are made of corn soaked 10
limcwatcr all night, then mashed into
paste with roller on n hollow stone call.
ed metate. identical with those used by
the Indians long before the Spanish in
yasion, the mass shaped into cakes by
deft patting of the hands that is often
heard as one walks past humble Mexican
homes. They have the sweet taste of the
cereal, but are too tough for American
digestion. Often they are folded togeth-
er and used as scoops for the compounds.
hot with chill pepper, that are dear to the
Mexican palate or as plates on which to
spread ioes.-National Magazine
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ore Or Lu.cCLNs STORIES.
Fate Of the Man who Tried to Advertise
Gunpowder at PRAYER Meeting.

49,
Inc iplloWihg anccdote by Lincoln is re-
counted ny General Horace Porter IN his
Campaigning win Grant IN Inc cen
fury. 1T was toiH during Lincoln Visit 10
the front AT cry Poiht;
In the course OF the conversation thas
evening ne spoke Of the improvement III
arms ana ammunition, ana OIL the uew
powder prepared Tor the 10 itGh guna Ho
SAID he had never sccn the ! Ter art'cle,
but he understood it differed very luuch
rom any other poWd" that had ever been
used. told hI-n that happened to have
IN my tent u specimen which had been
sent 10 headquarters as curiosity ard
that l would BRING II to him. When re
turned with Il gram OF the powder ahnuJ
tho sl2e OF walnut he TOOK IT, turned 1t
over IN his hand anu after examining 1t
carefully, snlu! wen, ITS rather larger
IMAM the poWder we nsed TO buy IN my
shooting days. u reminds me Of what 90
Cured once III "a country meeting house IN
0ehfalhoh county You see there "eFo
very Jew newspapers th'n' ana the country
st4f'htcp'rs hau 10 resort L" some other
means OF advertising th'lr wares H. JOE
instance the lr'"chcr happened 70 ho late
IN coming 10 II prayer mcctlhg al an even
ing. tlc HtIktcDtrS WbuIN often II t IN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05

In the jung.cS of southeastern Asia
and the islands near by. which have long
been known to science as tie cradle OF
he human race and which are still iuhab.
tied fly the very lowest orders of human
heinEs, the pithccanthropus lives with
the elephant, tapr, rhinoceros. lion, hip.
popotamus. gigautic paugoin. hycna and
other animals remains OF which were
found round about him.
II baS been computed that this ancestor
lived somewhere about the beginning Of
our last glacial epoch, some 2IU,OOO years
ago. In other woidS. about 1000 g"ner-
ations have been born and have died be-
tween him and ourselves 1t will assist
our understanding of what this relation
ship really means TO know that nearly
250 generations carry us back beyond the
dawn Of history, 5000 years ago.-Mc-
Cures Magazine.
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In Marie Antoinettc's Pocket.

A historical relic of much interest has
Just been discovered among the archives
OF the department of the Seine. This
relic is list OF the articles found in the
pockets Of the dress that the i'll fated
Marie Antoinette wore at her execution.
The articles were put to public auction
for the benefit of Samson, the public exc
cutioner. The first lot consisted of n small
pocketbook in green morocco, containing
a pair Of pinchcrs, small corkscrew, Il
pair Of scissors, comb and n tiny pocket
looking glass. The second lot was made
up of three little portraits in green moroc-
GO eases, one Of them being surrounded by
a metal frame. The two lots fetched a
total Of 10 francisco cents.-lrish Times.
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AN OLD TIME ROMANCE.
How Miss GriseI Held Up the Post-
man and saved Her EDthcr.

Tho r,,l ~ Alnrdoon sncokinc NJ 4.
Jinror nr tho Triind Einydn,n po,toI
,rd ,rIo,r,,b Sc,vi.n ncn,v,l.rt socio.
10 nt thnrdron soid thev mad IN on torl,
To- thn nd nni1 coach DAYS IN rat tho Mo.
,pr,,o,,c ,snect of tho nostol scrvicn ma
Ia illustrate tl,ia ln nyrroto1 o r,po,tic
incident which occurred in ,ho roign of
James RI. more thnn 900 yo,re ago Sir
John Cocbroto. SON Of u hnn old nollo.
man Lord Duudouold. WINS ono of those
WIN Thought The hLoriirs and interests
~ tho conuti.v worn in Lor,.r o,,iny IN
thr policv Of the rovnrnmant If ,hr dav.
and resisted If. ~ir John was hotroved
into the hands Of the enour and wos
lodged in EdinLursh iail. OIon rht the
door of the pri-ou ofcrol. and he hoard
the voice of hi daupltrr Gisnl WHO
was allowed TO huve many tall;s with
him.
Meanwhile the ncws camo that his com
demrotion had bccn ,o,ticJ hv mo co,,n.
Gil and that the mail wound como nrvt
week with his death warrant Miss Gri.
sci Cocbranc told her father that she had
to 90 AWAY few DAYS He said II
hone Won win do nothing rash " and ,ha
replied that she would do nothing very
rash. She rode from Edinburgh TO Bnr-
wick, where her old nurse lived. and
there she changed her clothes for the
clothes of n boy. Then she rode to n
place between Berwick and Bedford.
where she made injuries regarding the
kings mail messengers and where they
used TO put up.
Arriving at small inn about four
miles south Of Berwick, She asked for
something to eat. The hostess told her
not to mike noise. because in the box
bed the kings mail messenger was asleep.
"Do be quiet" she said. with your
knife and fork" She began her meal.
Can YOU get me some water?" The
hostess said, "Why, Draw boy like YOU
should sup ale" Have you no cold,
fresh water? If you give me water.
will nay YOU the same as for the ale. v
The hostess explained that She would
have to 90 to the well. q long distance
off, and it would take ten minutes. but
the girl. or. rather the apparent how,
persuaded the woman to 60 for the wa.
ter
During her absence the girl went 10 the
box bed. There was the mail messenger
asleep-a "swack" fellow-with his mai
har under tis head using II for a Il,yv
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STALE BREAD AND NEW
indigestion should Not wait Upon
One More Than the other.

New bread is well known to be less di-
gcstibc than stale bread, although il need
not be so. There can be no question,
however, of the vastly superior iiavor of
the former, and hence the preference OF
many people for hot rolls for breakfast.
SO far the palate would appear not to he
n safe guide to digestion. Hot rolls, how
ever. when masticated properly should
not offer any difficulty TO the digestive
organs. \ slice of stale bread on being
broken with the teeth resolves into more
or less hard, gritty particles which. unless
they were softcncd by the saliva, would
be almost impossible TO swallow. The
particles would irritate the throat and
the gulct. The fact is, therefore, that
man is compelled thoroughly to masticate
and to imprcgnate stale bread with saliva
before he swallows it. This act, of course,
partially digests the bread and thus makes
it in fit state for digestion and absorb
ton farther on in the alimentary tract.
This is why stale bread appears to be
more digcstibc than new bread.
New bread, on the contrary, is soft,
doughty or plastic, and there appears to
be no necessity to soften it with saliva;
hence it escapes the preliminary digestive
action of the ptyain of the saliva. New
bread in other words, is in reality bolt.
ed" and "bolting" accounts for many OF
the ills arising from dyspepsia. Accord
ingly hot rolls should be enjoyed for
breakfast without fear Of dyspepsia SO
long as the bread is good and so long as
pains are taken to masticate 1t thorough.
ly.
When dog is given piece Of meat
It will be noticed that he bolts" it. There
is not much reason why it should stay in
the mouth, for the mouth beyond reduc
ing it by the aid OF the teeth to n conven
lent mass, cannot deal with its digestion
But if the dog be given piece of bread
supposing he eats it at all. he will keer
it in his mouth for some time and vii
almost labor over it before swallowing 1t
The dog thus teaches a very important
physiological lesson.
1t is curious fact that stale bread Is
not more dry than new bread. for or
submitting stale bread for short time
to q high temperature it regains its con
dition of newness and becomes soft oil
plastic, and this in spite of the fact thai
some moisture is of necessity driven of
in the operation. 1t is probable that il
new bread there is free water present
while in stale bread the water is still
there. hut in condition of true chem
ical combination, and it is this combina
ton which compels us thoroughly t.
moistcn and to masticate stale bread be
fore we consign it to the gastric centers
Lancet
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HERoCHtL IN AMERICA.
Famous old Astronomers work Dis
covered by Nnnhcc Observatory.

One of the most interesting pieces Of
work accomplished by the Harvard OBJ
scrvatory has to do with the lannon's
eighteenth century astronomer. Sir Will
liam Hcrschel, and rather strikingy Illus
tratcs the thoroughness and range of
American astronomy.
A part only of Households records Of the
comparative light of stars, 1t appears,
was published over a century ago by the
Royal Society of England, but it was
generally supposed that the great scicn-
fist bad left his observations unfinished.
In June, 1883, however, Professor Il. C.
Pickering, the director of the Harvard OBJ
scrvatory. visited Colonel John Herschcl,
Hcrschel's grandson. at Collinwood. in
England, and tuld him of his desire to
compare the old records with modern
work of the same kind in order to deter
mine whether ~ not the stars had grown
more or less bright in the course of the
century.
Colonel IIcrschcl suggested that in that
case his visitor would probably be inter-
cstcd in looking over the IIcrschcl pa
pcrs, and, stepping TO a bookcase in the
room whore they were talking, he took
down his grandfathcr's original manu-
script. On examining it Professor Pick
cring found, to his and Colonel Her
schc's surprise and delight, that it con-
tanned not only the part already PUBLISH
ed. but a fifth and sixth division. which
completed the record of the whole sky.
Colonel lIerschol obligingy lent the
missing manuscript to Professor Picker
ing for few days, during which time, by
working night and day with force Of
clerks lent him for the emergency hy Il
friend in London, it was possible to make
n complete copy. which has since been
published in the annals" CT the Har-
, ward observatory in accordance with the
modern system of notation in records Of
! this special kind.
| As whole. it was found that there
! had been practically no change in thc
| brightness of the stars since lIerschers
! day. The accuracy attaching to the
work of the earlier astronomer, however,
was surprising. He had been at least iif-
ty years ahead of his time, his observa
tons not being equaled until the time OF
| the German astronomer Argclander. But
it would doubtless have surprised Her
| schel. who probably regarded the Ameri-
ca of his day in much the same way that
we look upon Alaska and the Klopdikc
TO know that his photomctiic work, as il
is called, would be valuable to future as
tronomers only as it had been first pub
lished and reduced century later by an
American observatory.
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GOOD OVER ALL.


On The river OF life as float along
sec with the spirits siSht
That many n nsuscous weed OF wrong
Has root in seed Of right.
For evil is good that has zone sstray,
And sorrow IS only blindness,
And the world il always under the sway
OF a changeless law Of kindness.
Tho commoncst error that truth can make
Is shouting its sweet voice hoarsc,
And sin is only the souls mistake
In nisdiroctinV its force.
And love, the faifcst Of all fair things
That ever 10 man descended,
Grows ilnk with nettlcs and poisnous sting,
Unless II IS watched and tended.
There could not be ANYTHING better than this
Old world in TIC WY 1t began,
And though some matters have gone ami1
From the great original plan.
And however dark tic skies may appear,
And however souls may hlu1der,
I tell you it all VIII work out clear,
For good lies oyer and under.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Cosmopolitan,
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when Men Powdered Their Faces.

The use of powders for the hair and
face. which began in the sixteenth cen
fury. infected the men. Henry III had
the habit of parading the streets of Paris.
his face covered with white and red
paste, like n faded coQuettc, and his hair
filed with violet powder and scented with
musk. Powders were made Of all colors,
and the infatuation was such that servant
girls were afraid to be seen in public
with their hair OF the natural color and
not being able to buy that used by their
employers, employed sawdust as a sub
stitutP
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A liuOkaIani Feast.

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii has
just celebrated her siXty-second birth
day by giving several entertainments at
which hundreds of natives and few
whites were present Three hundred
guests breakfasted with the deposed
queen ard then came a general reception.
AT O'Clock in the afternoon there was a
big luau, or feast, at which federal
Judge Estee was present and escorted the
hostess to large tent, under which the
luau was given. He was seated on mat
at her right hand. The food was served
on mats on the ground. and the staple ar
ticles were poi and raw fish.
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Ancient bookkeeping Methods.

The collection of AsSyrian and Baby
lonian records at the British museum has
revealed more of the domestic life Of peo-
pie who lived 5000 years ago than is
known in the case of our own country
men 1000 years ago. Such was the opin-
ion expressed by Mr. W. St. Chad Bos-
cawcn when he explained these relics to
an interested audience. The clay bricks
and cylinders beneath the glass cases
were covered with characters testifying
to a completely organized system of JUS
tice, marriage, divorce and commerce.
The bookkeeping OF 5000 years ago
was shown to be wonderfully accurate. A
curious form of record is that preserved
in the form Of baked clay tablets, which
were inclosed in clay envelopes, also in
scribed with the terms OF the transac-
ton, so that double record provided
against the possibilities Of damage. The
"open and closed evidence" spoken Of by
Jeremiah is supposed to refer to this sys.
TEN. The practice of recording on a
brick the name of the king. of the build
ing and of the city in which it was being
erected has had the advantage in mod
ern days that an odd brick may become
the means of disintorring a city hitherto
unknown.-Londou Chronicle.
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Coal Girls of japan,

Young girls in Japan are employed to
perform task which cannot be done in
the same time and with the same ease Ivy
any other body of workfolk in the world.
They are engaged at the different ports
in loading the large steamers with coal.
The coal barges are swung alongside the
vessel. from stem to stern of which is
hung series of platforms, the broadcast
nearest the base and diminishing as they
rise. On each Of these platforms a girl
stands. Men on the barses fill baskets
containing about two buckets of coal each
and pass them to the girl standing on the
lowest platform. She passes them to the
girl above her. and continuous and I'M
broken line 0! baskets passes into the YES
sci from 10 in the morning until 4 in the
afternoon.
The girls will handle from fifty to sew
enty baskets of coal minute and over a
thousand tons Of coal n day. This really
nrduous toll they perform as if it were
mere play, for they keep up running
fire of jokes, and their laughter is contin-
uous, They often break into a song the
notes of which are clear. melodious and
stimulating.
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4 Penetrating Agent.

Professor Becquerel carried in his
waiStcoat pocket for several periods,
amounting to about six hours in all,
cardboard box inclosing sealed glass
tube containing a few grains of radio
active barium chloride. In ten days time
n red mark corresponding to the tube was
apparent on the skin. Inflammation fol-
lowed, the skin peeled off and left sup
purating sore which did not heal for a
month. On a second occasion n similar
experience resulted from carrying a tube
of the same sort. Other experimcnters
have had similar experiences.
1t is to be remembered that the energy
of these radioactive emanations. what
ever they are, Is given continuously and,
50 far AS we now know, eternally without
any corresponding increment OF energy
from any known source. The perpetual
motion seems to be realized in novel
form. The most interesting problem Of
science at the present time is TO discover
what is the source OF the emitted rays
and the exact nature of the emanations.
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Caught His Train,

The following anecdote is sent 10 the
London Mail by an officer serving in tho
Transvaal where it has gone the rounds
of the camps 1t naturally lacks official
confirmation, but happily this does not
affect its merits as a story:
They tell story of Botha and Kitch-
ener's meeting about terms of peace At
the end Botha said, well | must be go-
ing Kitchener replied; No hurry. You
haven't got to catch a train but that's
Just what have got TO do said Botha.
And two days afterward n train was
held up and looted on the Delagoa limo
not very far from the place of meeting"
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poets me. He IL tired and is doubtless
sleeping. I think he would prefer to be
told that am here"
They went to the door together,
James In the lead. He raped gently
upon the panel, turned the knob, push
ed the door open gently and stepped
aside to allow Wyndham to pass him.
Pendleton was sitting in the depths
Of a large easy chair that he affected
In far corner OF the room, and Wynd'
ham, believing that he had fallen
asleep Internationally, started for
ward to awaken him, while James re-
NAMED In the doorway. But he had
taken only two or three steps when he
paused abruptly.
Pendleton's head had fallen forward
on his breast. In the very center Of his
Shirt front Just below the point where
single diamond cleaned was an Oh
ject sticking out. Underneath that was
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05
\ Swedish Inm grants "Stendy Job"

In 1880 Swede named 2. 7. Berg got
Il position as laborer at the Edgar Thorn
son works. He had landed only a short
time before and could neither read nor
write English. Today the same F. T.
Borg is the chief engineer Of the Car
ncgie company and has to bis credit more
inventions for Improvements in steel
working machinery than any other man
in the world. Like most Swedes. Berg
had been pretty well educated at home,
and as soon as he got established in u
steady job he took up seriously the task
of learning the language of the country
to which be had emigrated and which he
meant 10 adopt as his own. He had an
idea that if be could only speak English
he might get better work. He manifest
ed particular interest in the engineers Of
fee. and as be showed considerable apti-
tude he was given the task of making
blue prints long before he could express
himself iutellgeutly. He showed remark
able talent for his new work and soon
was given the position of a draftsm Il.
Then hc got to be an assistant engineer,
aud il was not many years before the
Swedish lHhorer was chief engineer Of the
Edgar Thomson works. Today. ut IL. he
is chief engineer Of the company and one
Of the r0-t important partuers.-Satur'
day Evening Post.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05

A French Investigator finds that plants
are sensitive to certain posons in quanti-
ties so minute that they completely battle
chemical analysis. For instance, plant
showed the effects Of sulphate of copper
dissolved in 100000, 100000 times its
weight of watcr-a state of dllution
scarcely imaginable much less detectible
by ordinary methods. This raises the
presumption that the character of the
vegetation Of country may depend on
minute quantities of toxic substances
present in the soil.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05
MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE
Forty of the worlds Greatest Build-
ers Comm mOrnted at Harvard.

1t is the way of the world to remember
the monumental and beautiful building
and to forget the architect who designed
it. For this reason a list of the great
builders like that which has been in
scribcd on tablets on the beautiful new
architectural building at Harvard is far
less familiar to most persons than n list
of the great poets or the great painters
would be, though perhaps no less inter-
cstng. Altogether there are forty
names, one group consisting Of Greeks
and Romans, a second of the Italians Of
the renaissance period of architecture
and the third including the English and
French builders of the same period.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05

In the corridors at N.aj>or stands a
l,ue ,aoay PEDESTAL, and uu ii sNlcu I'd
cashct OK seventeenth century Italian
work. with sides Of engraved rock cry
tai. N..u tAls gorgeous setting lies
wide Of D nn u satin cushion little.
well Wou l.9E, Il is Gcartal Gordon $
Bible ami : open NJ Ike gospel according
to St JaAn. Below a iitt!e p.atr bears
an inscription rrcor'iu. the fact that the
Bible was presented T. ttr ana. '-ty by
the sister OF Genera! Gordon after his
dcalh.
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Prayer Hugs Must De Clean.

The prayer rug was evidently intended
Tor the purpose OF providing the worship
ers with one absolutely clean place on
which to offer prayers. writes Rosa Belle
Holt in work on rugs. 1t is not lawful
for a Moslem to pray on any place not
perfectly clean, and unless each enc has
his own special rug he is not certain that
the spot has not been polluted. 1t does
not matter TO these followers of Moham-
med how unciean n rug that is on the
floor may be, because over it they place
the prayer rug when their devotions be-
giu.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05

The corn .r-tont Of the iI.ian scLoo
which the / l!trd States government pro
poses to bald at Riverside. Cal.. was
laid the other day with appropriate cere
monies on the site purchased for the
school in Magnolia avenue, ON, of the
famous driveways of the town. Tie
school will be known as Sherman in>.i
tute in honor of j. :, sherman of New
York, chairman of the congressional com
uittee on Indian affairs,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05

A floating cobbler's shop is one of the
features of the Penobscot bay island
life, Captain w. o. Cottle, in his sloop
Yankee Nation, going from place to place
and giving attention to mending old
shoes and boots which the people may
save up for his coming. Captain Cottle
has new dog as a companion, to take
the place of Jip, who was with him for
many years.
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DETERRENT NOW

BiGgs-SuTering Aesopl Look at Blug-
gers Did you ever see such seedy- looking
clothes?
Toggs-They are surely a trinc bad.
that's true.
Biggs-But when I knew MIN he used tn
wear expensive ana well citing clothes.
eyes; but he's rich nov san Fran
cisco Bulletin.