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New-York tribune., 1901-06-30
RIDING 4 BILL IN GT1M


Washington dispatch to Philadelphia Ledger
The official report Of the Governor of Guam
announces the interesting and novel fact that
that official, when he goes abroad on his tours
Of inspection. rides in state, not on horse but
bull. The Governor of Guam is Captain
SeatOn Schroeder one Of the best known officers
in the navy, and most popular society man.
His face and figure most familiar in the rec
objection Of Washington society people lead
ing in dancing events and il is a sharp jog
their fancy To imagine him aStrce a bull while
performing his official duties. Nevertheless
Captain Schroeder reports that he has ridden
all over the island looking over the abOminaby
muddy roads. inquiring into the condition of the
natives and the administration of the little
amount of government necessary to make every
body comfortable and happy. The people
recovering from the effects of the cyclone. and
will soon have crops from which derive liv-
ing. Th gift Of thirty sacks of seed sweet po-
tatoes from Hawaii is mentioned in the report
with e~Decial thanks. No attempt has been
made rebuild the town OF iago Pago. which
the storm destroyed. The inhabitants seem to
think il wiser to build a new town than 10 clean
ap the old one.
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and presently the boys
pitched down into swamp which in
quilted them half way up to their
knees. In the darkness they waded
around. for few minutes until sud-
dealy Elliott plunged at full speed into
barbed wire fsnce. The rebound
sent him down bsckwards into the
slime, while his gold noss-glasses went
into the darkness as II they had been
shot from gun. Presently Mwards
had the same experience. Has glasses
flew of his nose as he tripped over a
root, and the next half hour was spent
by both young men in looking for the
treasure they had lost. After CROPPING
around in vain for rs minutes Elliott
became desperate, for without his
glasses he was next to . blind man.
He went down on his knees in the
swamp and clutched Aercely at the tall
clumps Of swamp Rrass. Meanwhile 1t
was pouring rain. and the new yacht
ing suits of both were soaked. by the
light Of a fash Of lightning Elliott
finally miraculously found his glasses
hanging on the tall leaf Of flag.
Edwards was little less dependent
on his glasses, and he agreed to give
up the search when Elliott was once
more ready to start.
Soaked and dirty, dripping with
rain, and covered with slime up te
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IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE.
An unsuspectine Young Man Proper
~ Buncoea ny . Queer Greek
Custom.

If, in the course of your wander
ings, gentle masculine reader, you
should ever find yourself in the Gre
clan village of Marcopoulo, 35 miles
out of Athens, don't as you value
your celibacy pick up any handker-
chiefs which you may see lying on
the ground. A suit for breach of
promise, which is now being tried in
the Grecian capital, should be warn
ing to all bachelors who intend visit
ing Hellas without chaperon. The
plaintiff in this suit is a remarkably
good-looking young woman, who de-
mands that young man, total
stranger to her until recently, and
who never asked her hand in mar
riage in his life, should become her
hus band or pay her heavy damages,
says the New YORK Press.
In the village of Marcopoulo there
| is curious custom which has the
force of law. On certain holidays the
villagers assemble on the village
green. and on these occasions any I'M
married woman who thinks it is
about time she took to herself a
husband drops her handkerchief. The
young man who picks it up is bound
to marry her. His act of lifting the
handkerchief has all the binding
force of an engagement.
Now. the fair plaintiff in this suit
made up her mind awhile ago that
the boys in Marcopoulo were rather
backward about coming forward
and her chances of matrimony were
gradually slipping away in spite OF
her good looks. So she went to the
village green on the next holiday and
dropped her handkerchief. There
ha ppened to be strange youth in
the village that day who was not
familiar with the local customs. The
village boys fought shy of the hand
kerchief, but the unsuspectine
stranger picked it up.
Then the villagers set up a great
shout and brought to him bush
ing beauty, whom he had never seer
before. announcing to him that she
was his future wife. Naturally hi
was astonished, and could only mur
mur: "This is so sudden" Partial
ly recovering his composure, he in
quired if he might ask just why the
young lady was to be his future wife
He said he was over young to mar
ry vet. and, in fact. declined witt
thanks. But the villagers explained
their ancient custom to him and thu
young lady declared that he would
marry her or she would know thu
reason why. The young man swor'
by Pallas Athena that he would "se'
her further" first. and made his es
cape from the village. But the cir
was bent on marrying, and the per
sonal inclinations of the man in tn
case could not be considered. So sh
brought suit for breach of promis
and it was thought she would win he
case, and the young man be force
: either to marry her or pay through
| the nose."
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PSYCHOLOGY OF TINE.
Explanation of the Early Rising
Problem by Concentration of
the Mind.

"The other day, while looking over
some old newspapers in musiy coll
lection which ] own" remarI ID
scrapbook fiend, ~ happened to
glance at an art icle headed The Psy-
biology of Time and | thought had
found something that would partake
of the heaviness of treatise by por-
ter James Mill or Herbert Spencer, or
some other intellectual giant whose
musings on psychological questions
are of high rank. ! found iasteaG
that il had reference to a very com
monplace thing, but still Il thing
which is scarcely understands BILE
from the viewpoint of the laynan.'
says writer in the New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Even psychologists have not ex-
planned it satisfactorily. Why is it
that some men can awake at a certain
time. almost on the last tick of a
watch? l can do it without being able
to explain why it is. If | make up
my mind at night to wake al six a. m
[ wake up promptly at that time.
Now, why is this? Other men can do
the same thing. There are men, how
ever, who cannot. hut this is beside
the question. The fact that the time
is fixed in ones mind is, of course, the
starting point.
But what force recalls the fact
at six a. m. or at the hour agreed
upon for waking when one falls
asleep? / have a theory of my own,
and, while it does not solve the prob
lem, it may stimulate speculation and
wiser heads may pull away the mys-
terry of it all. 1t is wound up to go off
at six a. m. just like an alarm clock.
Certain processes will have to inter
vene. Things happen in the brain in
regular sequence, and in spite of the
fact that sleep is state of restful-
ness and relaxation, there is contin-
rously certain molecular activities
going on in the lobes of the brain.
"These activities are aggravated
and become more intense in dreaming,
when the pictures of things remem-
hered becomes more vivid. and when
| fragments are sometimes thrown to-
gether, presenting the grotesque and
unnatural things which are so often
seen in dreams. Six a. m. is the men,
| tai picture. 1t is stored tn one of the
cells of the brain. At the appointed
time it recurs. and the picture is
thrown out vividly, and one is immedi'
ately aroused.
"What causes the recurrence on the
instant is nnexplainable except on the
hypothesis that even in sleep one lis
tens unconsciously. if I may say it,
and the intensity of the impression six
a. m. makes the mind more sensitive
to sound waves and thus the delicate
vibration of the last tick on the hour
calls the picture up from its hiding
place, and we rouse from our slum.
ber"
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Personal AND rMpERsoNAL.

A correspondent has discovered
number Of oddly named persons in
Georgia counties. Among these names
are: Sorrowful Williams, Increase
Thomas, Merciful Jenkins, Angel
Jones, Salvation White, Happiness
johnson, Purity Scott and Paradise
Lee,
Gen. Harrison C. Hobart, who has
resigned from the Milwaukee public
library board after a service of rs
years, was one of the union prisoners
who tunneled their way out of Libby
prison at Richmond, Va. during the
civil war. Gen. Hobart is now in his
eighty-ninth year.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,,
who some years ago bought Redemp-
tion rock, in Princeton, Mass, where
Mrs. Rawlinson was ransomed from
the Indians by John Hoar, the first of
the name in this country, in 1875. has
presented the property to John Hoar,
son of the late Sherman Hoar of Con-
cord.
When Daniel Webster delivered his
famous speech on the completion of
Bunker Hill monument on June II,
1s43, there stood before him 40 actual
participants in that memorable battle
out of the original 1000. The mighty
Daniel turned and addressed them SO
tenderly that 1t brought tears from
many eyes.
The duke of Norfolk Is said to have
great contempt for appearances. He
was once observed walking down Pail
Mall with big brown-paper parcel
under his arm. Upon friends In
quiring what he was carrying, he in
formed him that IL was "his uniform" F"
He was on his way to b drawing-room
at Buckingham palace, at which he
would have to appear in gorgeous red
and gold.
Twelve young men in Jersey City
some time ago hit on the plan of hir.
ing a freight car in which to make an
economical trip to the Buffalo exposi-
ton. The idea has since attracted the
favorable attention of so many of
their friends that enough of them to
fill nine similar cars have decided to
join this novel excursion. Bunks will
be fitted up along the sides and they
will live in the cars during the trip
which will last four weeks.
1t is not generally known that the
king of England pays taxes under pro
test-tlat is to say, his majesty, like
Queen Victoria, claims to be exempt
from imposts, and yet is willing tt
contribute without prejudice to the
rates. For instance, part of the Wind
sor farm lies within the radius of the
borough. The municipal authority is
sues demand notes for the rates. The
royal officials respond by paying &
sum just under the amount requested
and the collector IL salts fed.
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WAY THEY SWEAR IN INDIA.
There Are Many Objectionable
Phrases in Daily Use Among
the Orientals.

A professor of languages some
years ago, on returning from India,
remarked upon the paucity of objec-
tionable phrases amongst the Brit
ish working classes when compared
with the abundance supplied by the
orientals of a similar rank. To prove
this. he gives case which came un-
der his own notice, says the Liverpool
Post. He had dismissed a man servant
for dishonesty, and the next morning,
at six o'clock. he sought an interview
with his former master. He flourished
a carving-knife. with which he plainly
intended to emphasize his remarks.
When he found it impossible to gain
admission. he sat under the window
and the Swearing" process began.
He cursed the professor along the
genealogical tree back to the first an
cestor of his race. Then he dwelt
upon every detail of his anatomy, from
the top of his head to the end of his
toes. For three consecutive hours he
sat and swore," says the professor,
without once repeating phrase"
Whilst travelling on the underground
railway in London, party of work
ingmen entered the same compart-
ment, and interspersed their remarks
with the commonest forms of "swear-
ing" The professor politely asked
them to desist, whereby he was told
to mind his own damned business. He
at once commenced to translate into
English some specimens of eastern
oaths which he had heard Calcutta
merchants servant use to a mission
ary's servant. The men sidled from
him as if he had plague, and at the
next station sought another compart-
ment,
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IN COUNTRY LANES.


o eountry lanse, white-starred With bloom.
Where wild fh&19f nsstle. shy and sweet,
Were all Your eaving. grasses laugh
And part before my yeaser feet-lf7
Gould I forever dwell with you
Letting thS 6ad old world rush ~.
Aed just be bleh of wind and sun,
fof rocking hist and bibodins skyi
How often. In the crowded streets.
dream Of yni. swset countyy lane,
AAo feel oncS bore yp,lr soft breeze soothe
y sordid kast shdiwssry brain. A
Ever above the city's din,
Above the clink Of yellow gold,
hear Q wild birds ringing CALL
/ catch the scent OF leaf-strewn mold.
Your grasses kiss my fevered cheek.
Ypuf hawthorn drops her scented rain.
! am q child again, and dream
That Heaven bides here, o nower-starrsd
lane!
-Flerencs A. Jones. in Criterion. ~
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THE SCOOP NET MAN.
A strapping Big Negro who Figures
in the Departure Of Big
Ocean Lfners.

Just before a Ward liner leaves her
East river pier for Cuba or Mexico a
big, strapping negro, carrying a net
attached to a long pole, takes up his
position alongside the gangplank and
nervously looks from those gathered
on the wharf to the tourists assembled
alongside the steamers rails, says the
New York Press.
When the gangplank 10 hauled to the
wharf the negro's eyes roll in every
direction, and he fidgets the pole as if
he had an awful responsibility upon
his brawny shoulders. The net is
but the pole is about three times as
long. Sometimes the net and pole are
not used at all, and the negro goes
away and puts it into locker when
the ship backs into the stream. His
face brightens up as he does this. Fre-
quently messengers arrive on the
wharf late with bundles, letters or tel
egrams; or passengers on the ship
about to back away suddenly remem-
ber something which they jot down
quickly and pass ashore. 1t is under
such emergencies that the negro and
his scoop net play their short inning.
Quick as the flash of gunpowder he
places the package or message in the
bottom of the net, and with deft
turn of his wrist places the article in
question under the nose of it's owner.
No other steamship line uses a
scoop net in this way, and ordinarily
once the gang plank is withdrawn COM
munication between the ship and the
shore is closed except to the old-fash-
ioned and seldom successful mode of
hurling letter wrapped up in bunch
of keys aboard, or to the more expen:
siye habit Of chasing the craft with a
specially chartered tugboat. At best
this net play is quick move, for
scarcely a few minutes mark the re-
moval of the steamers gangplank and
the start of the ship streamvard.
II once passed pocketbook aboard
that a passenger had forgotten" said
the knight of the net recently. 81
learned that 1t had $1,000 in it. The
wife, of man going away brought it
down just as the plank had been
pulled in. The ship had begun to &c
astern, and tell you them lawn ten
mis- chaps never had to play as fine a
game of touch and go as did then
This net delivery is the invention OF
the stevedore, whose men have had to
put valuable papers aboard ship on
the fly. 1t is the only system of the
kind in the country, so far as know
We are all very proud of the plan"
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men who had won their money. When
they got beyond the end of the point
the big waves. sweeping across the
lake struck them and set the water
Lily" to bobbing like cork. Shortly
It got into the trough and commenced
to ship water. Presently Edward and
Elliott found their new white tennis
shoes entirely submerged, while the
probability constantly increased that
if something were not done the rest of
them would soon find watery grave.
They looked back at the log cabin re-
sort. 1t was wrapped in darkness. II
they ran ashore they would not be
jeered at by their late companions.
Then they turned the half water
logged boat and let it drive before the
wind. Fortunately the shore where
they struck was low and sandy, and
they landed without difficulty.
"WeIl leave the boat here" said FL
liott, "and walk around the shore to
the hotel. In the morning early we'll
row over for the boat. Nobody need
ever know"
Now, as some people know, and as
Edwards and Elliott discovered that
night, there ere few things more de-
ceptive than the difference between
point and point ON lake by water
and by land. A journey which may pc
made IN hah IN hour by boat may
take three or four hours when one
must follow the ipe ard QUIT, Of .
tertuous shore line. But the lincoln
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their knees the two young men took
hold of hands and proceeded TO slow
~ grope their way through the inky
darkness. Wet leaves slapped them
in the face and sharp branches cut
them ,as they blundered through the
underbrush. but anything was . re.
lief after the swamp. Presently the
big bulk of q building doomed up be-
fore them.
Thank Heaven" gasped Elliott,
"here's . farmhouse. Now we'll get
. lantern"
Their approach to the house was
greeted by terrific growls, and the
sound of . running dog. Fortunately
a tall board fence was convenient and
they clambered to its top. Then they
proceeded. to call for help. After yell
ing for several minutes an upper win
dow was raised and man leaned out.
"H you drunken wretches don't clear
out I'll shoot" he yelled. "I've been
bothered enough by people from the
lake"
20 mister" called the despairing
Elliott, 1--WE only want to borrow Ian
tern We're lost and can't and our
way. Well pay you for It,"
After. q talk of several minutes. dur
ing which the dog made several vicious
charges on the fence. the farmer final.
ly came down and plodded across to
the fence with q farm lantern in his
hand. Even then he was doubtful. He
~.nnA A. dn~ crd liant a. alos~ a. nj
heels until he had carefully inspected
the young men on the fence. Then he
laughed.
"Pretty wet looking kids" he said
"Lie down. Rover. Amt you ashamed
of yourself? What you been doin'?
Tryin' to ketch frogs? If give you
the lantern will you run straight
home"
Wet and wobegone Edwards and Ell.
lott were beyond the reach of an in.
suit. They borrowed the lantern al
the farmers own terms and started
again on their trip to the hotel. II
was five o'clock in the morning when
they got there. Old "Tom" had got
worried at their absence and had
rowed across the lake to the log eabiI
shortly after midnight. There he wal
told that they had started to row
home. Close BY. he had found the
empty Skin where they. had beached It
Naturally he had come to the conclu
sion that they had been tipped ove,
in midlake, He had rowed back and
aroused the hotel. Steam was up II
the little steam launch when they got
back to the hotel, and several parties
were already out searching.
Fortunately there was an early trair
for the city that morning. Edward,
and Elliott took it. They did not ever
wait for breakfast. Fortunately they
had enough money left to pay theil
bill and bus fare. Return ticket!
they were wise enough to bring will
them.-Chicago Tribune.
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July 8, 1901.

You can never cure dyspepsia by di-
citing. What your body needs is pie n
ty of food properly digested. Then
if your stomach will not digest it, Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure will. 1t contains
all the natural digestants hence must
digest every class of food and so pre-
pare it that nature can use it in nour-
ishing the body and replace the vast
ed tissues, thus giving life, health,
strength, ambition, pure blood and
good healthy appetite. W. R. Smith
e Co
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First shirtwaist girl-So you are 60
ing rowing with Mr.. Floorwalker :?
His trick is to threaten to rock the
boat unless you give him kiss.
Second shirtwaist girl (naively)-
Well, mother said she wasn't afraid
to let me 60 with him, as all the girls
say he never rocks the boat.
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Malaga is supposed to be the home
of Malaga grapes, but in that particu-
lar it is largely misnomer. Malaga
grapes used to flourish in that vicini-
ty many years ago, but there was a
blight that killed off most of the
vines, and that special brand of fruit
is now chiefly grown elsewhere in
Spain,-N, Y, Sun,
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"Did-did you ever shoot a man ~
questioned the tenderfoot of Pepper
hole Pete.
"See here, young feller !" bawled
Pepperhole Pete in voice that shook
Pixies Peak, "don't you never reflect
on my craftsmanship agin l never
miss'd one, y dern galoot :"
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AN INTERRUPTED
% VACATION %

TLLIOTT and Edwards are already
back from their vacation. They
did not stay as long as they expected
and they had one adventure which
they have sworn to keep a secret. 1t
happened the first night after they
reached the lake.
Though Elliott and Edwards have
lived on the shores of Lake Michigan
all their lives, they had never until
this spring been out on the water.
When they decided to 60 to the Wis
consin lake for their vacation trip
they decided that they must at least
learn how to row q boat. So they
went up to Lincoln park after office
hours and practiced until they felt
that they we're finished oarsmen.
When they reached the summer re-
sort ct which they had engaged cot
tage they wore blue yachting suits
and white yachting caps, and were
made up" in every way like a couple
of sad sea dogs. Outside of vacation
days they were bookkeepers in an in
surance Office on La Sale street. They
were only few years over 20, how
ever, and IL was natural they should
want TO cut adash. Elliotthad downy
red mustache, and both youths wore
gold-rimmed pinch nose eyeglasses.
After dinner in the big ,dining-room
they decided it was "up to them" to
give an exhibition of their seamanship.
Old "Tom," the man in charge of the
boats, smiled when he saw them bare
two pairs Of arms which IL would take
q wholesale poetic license to call
brawny. He tried to give them q
broad-bsamed, fat-bottomed old skiff
which could hardly be tipped over. but
they were too knowing for him. They
insisted on having q cranky little
thing, pointed = boths snds, and too
narrow for eithsr comfort or safety.
Az the lake was Perfectly calm
"Tom" let them have it. snd they start
ed out. Some one had told them of q
log-cabin resort across the lake where
the beer was good and there was a
nice little poker game" in operation.
The boys went across in fine style
and made a dashing landing on the
sandy beach, OF the log-cabin resort.
The beer, they found, was cool and
good, and, after three stems apiece,
they "sat in" the poker game. Before
they knew it both boys had made dam
gerous holes in their vacation money.
That was bad enough. When they
started 10 60 home they found that a
heavy sea was running. It was also
true that the beer they had drank had
The effect Of making the sea look even
more tempestuous and terrifying than
it really was.
But the sad sea dogs from the Lin
coin park lagoon were not to, be cas-
lily daunted. They got into their
cranky little skiff and pushed boldly
off, encouraged by the cheers of the
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Breaking the Record

81 see that it costs $50 to fire a
single. shot from 16-inch rified gun"
SIS that all? 1t cost me a cool
$1,000 for single shot from a four
inch revolver"
"What did you shoot?"
"My neighbor's fancy Jersey cow"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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She Didn't Wear a Mask,

But her beauty was completely hid
den by sores, blotches and pimples till
she used Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Then
they vanished as will all Eruptions,
Fever Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Carbuncles
and Felons from its use. Infallible
for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Scalds and
Piles. Cure guaranteed. 25c at W.
r. Smith & Co.