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The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
Mashed a "Niasher."

Two of the young women, pretty ones and well dressed, playing at one of the theaters boarded a car last night for the theater and sat quietly talking A pretty young thing oppO- site began to stare, smile, make eyes and try his best to make a hit. Sud- denly the older girl began in a loud ooh, did I tell you about the man on the car last night? He sat opposite me, and tried all kinds of ways to make my acquaintance, and was such a nuisance I wished his mother was there to take him away" Everybody in the car, who had watched things for some time, grinned appreciatively, and the would-be gallant blushed, looked very uncomfortable and got out at the next stop. The two girls laughed, then re- stunned their personal talk, and when they reached the theater got out quiet ly. Everybody in the car wanted to cheer them.-Boston Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
Little Perry,s Awful Threat.

1 won't ever live in this house no more, And I'm goin' away, way off some
 where
 Or something nobody ever saw before Might come and eat me up! And then,
 1 bet you, when My pa has no little boy, he'll be
 Sorry he punished mel And I'm goin' to starve and not Ever eat anything again at all, And when I'm up with God and got Wings and can look at my pa, and he Comes home and sees my coat in the hall And looks all around everywhere,
 And I ain't there, I bet he'll be sorry he punished me!
 And when I'm far away And nearly starved and can hardly stand, They might be big, bad man come along and say
 He'd take me off to some strange land! And then, when the people told my pa How cruel he was, 1 bet he'd be The saddest person you ever saw,
 And sorry he punished me! And when they had no little boy no more Mamma would cry all day, And when no little boy would open the door
 For pa. at night. and say:
 'Hello,'' 1 bet
 That's when he'd be
 The saddest yet And I'll stay this time. but he B-b-b-b-better quit punishin' me! Chicago Times Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

wife, and the wife was there as prose. cutting witness, though they had been married only year. The wife's com plaint was, in brief, that her husband not only called her names because of
 her alleged poor cookery, but on one oc- casion when she served him with mince
 pie he not only opened the window ana
 threw it out into the street, but pulleu
 her hair and informed her that she was
 a failure as a pie-maker. He did not
 taunt her for not making pie as mother
 made it, but for utter, abject ignorance
 of the whole subject, and he pathetical-
 ly informed the court that his conduct
 was justifiable because the pie Iasteu
 as if it were made of sawdust. Judge
 Crane. in the opinion of the Chlcdso
 Tribune, took a wise view or the SUD-
 feet. He did not lecture the WlIe TOT
 her ignorance nor punish the husDand for the assault. He is from MaSSachu- setts. where the pie was first known. if not invented, in this country. He told the youthful pair of the excellent mince pie of his boyhOod, and that he could not find such pie anywhere save in his own house. for Mrs. Crane had the re- ceipt. He appealed to the welded pair to make up their little quarrel and go home and he would send them the re- ceipt. They consented and left the courtroom arm in arm, and peace has in arrival of the Judges pie prescription. While the wisdom of the Judge is to be commended, it is hardly correct for him to assert that there are no good pies ex- cept those made from the Massachu- sets receipt. The knowledge of sue cessful pie-making has spread to other States, and, while good pies are not yet the rule, still they may be found in many localities. Much of the obIoquy which has been visited upon pie has grown out of the indifference of cooks who will not take the pains to make good ones. When properly constructed pies are not only toothsome but whole some, and good not only for dessert at the principal meal, but for three meals a day or any one of them. Considering the many virtues of pie, it is surprising that mothers do not more frequently in- struct their daughters in the art of them, and that the wOmen's clubs do not offer prizes for them in- stead of for paintings, and serve them at their intellectual repasts instead of crOquettes and salads.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
rHE,cosT,s THE THING.
Not the Maxim that Was Impressed
 on One Small Girl.

Not the Maxim that Was Impressed
 on One Small Girl.
 Once upon a time a long while agt when the writer was young and vain glorious and occasionally expatiated tC some of her small companions upor the cost of her wearing apparel or tht number of teaspoons her mamma pos sessed, she was reprimanded severely for these indiscretions. Little ladies do not boast" she was told senten l tiously.
 | After awhile she came firmly to be 1 lieve this because of it's endless repeti- tions and so she was often surprised when quOndam friends confided in her the enormous amount they spent an nually in dress or the size of the turkey they had for their Christmas dinned. = Times, as the dOgmeat man so aptly remarked, are changed now, however. and oStentation is the order of the day, says a writer in the Baltimore News Perhaps this is the fault of the news papers. Perhaps some hungry report CT searching for available "copy" and finding it in the florists bills for a big wedding may be primarily to blame, but at all events the marriage of two young people of wealth is nowadays made ceremony of such ostentation as to amount to yulgarity.
 The charms of face or character of the bride, the good qualities of the groom are passed over lightly in order that there may be plenty of space to estimate the cost of the various details.
 The amount of money that the pre- sents represent, the capital represent ed by those who are invited, the cost of the trousseau, of the carriages, of the flowers and the supper are all set down with great accuracy and added with much precision. When the total reaches into the millions the nuptials are announced to be success and the young couple are supposed to have entered the matrimonial state under the happiest auspices.
 There is no effort made to conceal the fact that money is the most inter- esting thing about the pair and the oc- caSion
 Perhaps these people are to be pitied Perhaps, as was said before, thieving newspaper men break in and steal in- formation about special trains and or chids and trifles of that sort that the families yearn to keep secret. But, however that may be, the writer never. reads that Miss So-and-so received twelve ropes of pearls, valued at $50O, 900, that she doesn't think of the old maxim of the nursery days, Little ladies do not boast" and wish that it could be handed on to the feminine young and old of American society.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
Victoria,s Stores of Gold.

The colony of Victoria, the smallest division of the continent of Australia, has produced, during the last half cen tury, more gold than any other coun- try in the world, with the exception of California, says the Youths Compan- ion. James Stirling recently informed an audience at the Imperial institute in London that there is gold mine at Bendigo in Victoria which has reached a depth of 3,434 feet, and that deep leads of gold exist over an area of about 400 miles. Victoria also posses ses extensive coal fields.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

acting as sergeant in a company and volunteered with his comrades. The father was foreman of the composing room of Cripple Creek, Colo, news paper, but concluded to follow his son to the Philippines and joined the regl- ment Arriving at Manila he was transferred to the company of which his son was sergeant. As time passed, the father saw himself still further out ranked by his son. who, through merl- torious service, won several promotions and reached a captaincy. The father is 50 years old and the son 20.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
What Pat Had Been ,Atin,

It was a son of the ould sod" who had this little passage with the sales man at one of the downtown jeweIry stores the other day. He had come in to purchase a wedding ring for his bride-to-be. Leaning far over the counter, so that the clerk should be able to hear his wants without the ne cessity of informing all other buyers in the store, Pat whispered to him, Give me the best wedding ring you have in the shop"
 Eighteen karats? queried the clerk.
 "Nor' snapped Pat, drawing back in an offended manner. Attn onions, if it's any of your dom business.-New York Times
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

In answer to an advertisement which offered, free of charge, a ''twO-dollar book on the secret of successful specu- lation." Boston man a year ago for warded his address. A package of at tractive circulars came promptly from 8 New York investment broker" Since that time the BOstonian has received from the same person twenty-three let ters and two telegrams, all advising him of special opportunities in the stock-market. The NewYorker's prop osition sounds very fair. He does not want to handle any money, and agrees ' to pay himself with percentage of the profits made-in transactions he advises. ; He tells the inyestor to send his money to any one of several firms, members of the stock exchanges. The investor Is 10 authorize these people to "buy and sellstocks for my account when ordered to do so by" the agent, who claims to have peculiar facilities for forecasting the course of the market Many nor sons yield to the agents artful and ner- sistent solicitation, and conclude to risk a little. In the course of a few days the man who has parted with hundred dollars or more is informed that the stock bought for his account has unex- pectedly fallen in price, and his money is lost AS a matter of fact, the inveS- tor has been swindled. The agent and the broker are in collision. No stock was either bought or sold. The broker gave the agent a certificate of purchase and sale, to make the transaction look regular, -aLd-theR the two thieves di- vided the victims money. The stock exchanges can sometimes discipline such brokers, as they lately tried to do; but it is almost impossible to bring the law to bear cn the advisers" and agents" who are as adrOit as they are interruptions. The only way one can get the better of them Is to let them alone.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
LUCK IN DEFECTIVE WORK.
CIews of the Sort That Lead to s"roe
 thing Once in a Lifetime.

CIews of the Sort That Lead 10 Sofoe-
 thing Once in a Lifetime
 "Tt's very strange how a detectlVe will he nut on the right track by some trivial incident, apparently disassoci- a+ed altogether from the case in hand, 7 remarked an old government official to a New Orleans Times-Democrat man.
 "A dozen years ago, when I was do ing some special work in the secret-ser. vice department under Chief Bell, I un- dertook to run down a fellow who had been making some remarkably perfect counterfeit silver dollars, and who had slipped through the fingers of the of ficers when they raided his place and captured his plant. The man had taken his meals for several months at a restaurant I patronized now and then, and I noticed him, casually, sit ting at the table. but the only thing I could r,!.i,!, |. r :; cut him was that he ate a great many oysters, and all ways called for raspberry vinegar and white pepper to use on them as condi- ments. The combination was rather peculiar, and had fixed itself on my mind, but it could hardly be regarded as much of a clew. I hunted high and low for the fugitive, and, after putting in four or five weeks of the hardest kind of work without discovering any thing that would give the slightest lead to his whereabouts, I gave up in despair and, for the time being put the case in the pigeonhole.
 Fully six months afterward another affair of an entirely different charac- ter took me to a city in distant state, and one afternoon 1 dropped in at a good-siZed fancy grocery to make some inquiries about an address. While I was waiting to speak to the proprietor I heard an unusually fat man giving a clerk an order for gallon of raspberry vinegar and impressing him particu- larly to send the best quality. Natural ly, the stuff reminded me of my miss ing counterfeiter, and after the fat gentleman went out 1 asked the clerk carelessly who he was. He keeps a restaurant at No. - replied the young man. I wonder if he is as par ticular about his white pepper also, remarked on the impulse of the mo- ment. The clerk looked astOnished. Why, that's funny he said, I sold him some extra strong imported white pepper only yesterday. It seemed hardly possible that it could be any thing more than a mere coincidence, but on the bare chance that I had struck a trail I strolled around to the restaurant that evening, and the first man 1 laid eyes on was my long-lOst silver-dOllar expert. He was eating raw oysters with vinegar and pepper, and 1 was so pleased with myself that let him. get through before 1 tapped him on the shoulder and told him he was under arrest. It turned out that he had struck town only week before, and had called for his favOrite cOndi- ments at this particular cafe. They weren't on hand in the place, but the proprietor promised to get them for him, and the result was tha- the cpl curean counterfeiter did seven years in the United States prison at Columbus.
 But those are rare strokes of chance" added the old officer "Once in lifetime is about their average"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
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Henry James calls. his new nove "The Sacred Fount."
 The life of William Black, the novel 1st is to be written by one of his old est friends, Sir Wemyss-Reid
 Seventy-fve thousand copies of F Marion Crawford's new novel, "In the Palace of the King" have been sold.
 George Egerton," who, owing to ill. ness, has not brought out anything for two years, is at work on a novel to be entitled Rosa Amorosa.'
 Thackeray's daughter is writing again-a series of essays this time, deal ing with charming but forgotten books. She calls them "Blackstick Papers, '' after the good fairy in her fathers inimitable little tale, "The Rose and the Ring"
 Among the new books seemingly des- tined for big sale appears The Queens of England" published by R. S. Wasson & Co. The work is the production of Mary Hewitt, revised by Geneva Arm strong, and is concise and masterfully written story of the lives of England's Queens from the Norman conquest to the close of Victoria's reign. The book contains over 800 pages, is profusely il- lustrated, and would appear to be is- sued at a most Opportune time.
 Cyril Goldthwaite, in a long article in Co& &J11s d0u entitled "Deserting Old Book Friends" :" says some good things about constancy in book friends as we'll as human friends. His closing paragraph is worth quoting: Much that is good in life is linked to the finer sentiments that our books create and keep alive in us. Shall we neglect them in their old age? Nay, let us rather keep them by us, and, having chosen, love them to the end. We may live by their pre- cepts and die, aided by the strength that philosophy and virtue impart to even the humblest mind"
 Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle's book, Devil Tales" has attracted the atten- tion of the American Folk Lore Society on account of the accuracy with which she reproduces the negro hoodoos, charms and stories. She says that the stories are just as they were given by her negro nanny. Mrs. Boyle is from Memphis, and these stories were pre- served by oral tradition and spread all over the South. A prominent negro lawyer of Memphis came to Mrs. Boyle's husband to thank her for pre- serving these legends on account of their probable early disappearance from the traditions of his race.
 "Wooings and Weddings" by Mrs. Louise Jordan, is presented by H. s. Stone & Go. It is of interest to readers to note that here is one woman who believes that it is better to be married unhappily than not to be married at all. Naturally this statement has aroused hot discussion. "The marriage question:" she says, "has nc personal interest for me. I have nothing to gain or lose through it, but because of my children it interests me gravely. 1 have tried to watch wedlock in many lands, and it is my conviction that those peoples are the happiest who be- lieve not in the ugly equality, but in the beautiful inequality of the sexes."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
SON COMMANDS FATHER.
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radO Volunteer Regiment.
 A unique position in the United States army service is that occupied by Benjamin Lear, Sr., and his son, former residents of Cripple Creek, who are members of the First Colorado VOlun- teer Regiment, which has been doing duty in the Philippines. The father is a private in c Company of the regiment and his son is captain of the same com pany, a condition believed to be with out parallel in the Government service.
 When the First Colorado Regiment was raised Benjamin Lear, IT,, was
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

The Zionist movement for the Jewish colonization of Palestine meets a seri- ous check in the Sultan's decree that no Jew who enters that land shall re- main more than three months, or be permitted to acquire landed property. The London Spectator refers this ac- tion of the Turk to Russian diplomacy, which scents in Zionism a movement of Germany to acquire a sphere of influence" in southwestern Asia. 'The voice is the voice of Abdul-Hamid, but the hands are those of the Russian for eign minister"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

office at New London at a. m., made the trip of twenty-six miles, delivered IA pieces of mail, collected ten pieces and returned to the office at 11:2O a. m., being on the road just two hours and twenty minutes. He says: 'I always use my wheel when possible, and my average time is two and one-half to two and three-quarters hours. My aver age time with my pony is four to five hours"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
She Stuttered.

'Tm afraid me daughter Moya is gettin' so she stutters," said MT. Dolan ''She do be recitin' too much Latin an geometry at the high school"
 ''Whin did yez notice it firstY inquir- ed Mrs. Rafferty.
 'NThis mornin', when she got letter, I interrogated her concernin' it, an she said something about Billy Doo.' I known bether It wor Billy Dooley," Washington Star
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America is becoming more and more accustomed to instances of great wealth, and possibly is also arriving at saner conclusions as to the limits of money power and the desirable uses to which it can be applied. The old say ing that money Is power is not true, generally, in the sense in which it is commonly used. It does not need an analytical mind to understand that there are many very obvious limita- tions to the power of money. A million aire can eat no more dinners per day than the laborer (not so many, in facO and, while he has the power and gen. orally exercises 1t to command cOstlier foods, frequently they are no more pal atable and no more nourishing than the plainer food at the command of the or dinary day laborer, while the latter will probably be able to command the best sauce in the world-hunger-which the millionaire rarely possesses. The pos session of money up to certain extent, varying with the individuals capacity to use it, is power. Beyond that it be- comes an incumbrance rather. To use great wealth as an end to enjoyment one must have great capacities. The sailor who. when asked what he would like to have if given his choice, wanted: First, "all the 'baccy' in the wOrld;" second, ''all the grog in the world" The third wish puzzled him. After thinking 1t over awhile, in despair he said; "A little more 'baccy.'" The old anecdote is a good Illustration of the way in which many people would find their power in using wealth circumscribed.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
MAIL CARRIER A CYCLlST.
). J. Murphy Makes Record Time on an
 

O. J. Murphy Makes Record Time on an
 Iowa Rural Route.
 The champion rural letter carrier of Iowa, and perhaps of the nation also, seems to be O. J. Murphy of rural free delivery route No. 1, from New London, Iowa. His route is twenty-six miles long, the service supplying 40 families, representing population of some 600. When the roads are smooth he uses his bicycle, the fieetest made, for travelling through the county.
 Recently MT. Murphy left the post
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

An important change in the new uni forms of the German army is that the buttons are dark and worn beneath the cloth. The shining buttons that glis- tened in the sun, proclaimed to the ene- my: Here lies brave soldiers heart Shootv' No rational law of war or so- ciety demands that risk.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

Probably no other article of daily food has been so frequent disturber of the household peace as pie So admir- able are the qualities of good pie and so dangerous are those of bad pie that it behooves housewives to study and mas ter the art of pie-making. An unfortu- nate couple were before Judge Crane in New York the other day. The husband was charged with ill-treatment of his
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
A Royal Chair.

An interesting chair in the newly re- stored church called the Garrison church, at Berlin, has been ordered by the Kaiser to be placed in his pew there. It is a simple wooden affair, and bears the following inscription: "King Frederick William l. once sat on this chair during divine services"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

If F. Hopkinson Smith ever finds an Uncle Tom" company booked in OppO- sitiOn to his lecture he will probably gain a good idea of the way in which his recent strictures upon Mrs. StOwe's masterpiece are generally regarded.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

Andrew Carnegie says he used to be afraid that he might some day go crazy! We have no doubt that some of his fellow millionaires, having heard of the plans he has made to give away money, are convinced that he is crazy.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
American Garnets.

GarnetS are found in scores of places in the United States. The best come from Colorado, though fine gems have been found in New England, New York, Virginia, and North Carolina.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

To the glory of womanhood be it said that Queen Victoria never claimed or exercised the royal exemption from do- ing right which some of her royal an- cestors assumed
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27
Unusual Fare.

A pound of fair quality of moist brown sugar added to a horse feed of chaff and corn doubles it's wOrk-prO- ducing power, and therefore, the or dinary feed may with this aid be great ly reduced in weight without propOr- tiOnally reducing the efficiency of the animal getting it. When no other feed is obtainable, few pounds of four, mixed with enough water to make it easily drinkable, have great staying power, but few horses would take this however hungry, unless they had at some previous time been made accus- toned to it. 1 have known horses, when there was little grass, habitually to rob the camp of fresh, salt or dried meat. It is even more certain that no horse would touch flesh unless at some time accustomed to it.
 What strange food graminivOrouS animals will eat when habituated to it, is almost beyond belief. In Iceland, horses and cattle are frequently fed on dried fish. 1 have known sheep to eat uledl, IIull, DIedu, pdSIIy anu tue Lhe, and even tobacco, in considerable Quan- tity, without harm ensuing. During the early time of the diggings, when gold was being found in large quan- titles, and horse feed, beyond the grass, was not procurable, many of the rich claim-holders fed the horses, used in their work on the mine, with bread unleavened, is better food for horses than raw flour and water, but it takes time to prepare, and is rarely avail able in an emergency, while four is much more likely to be.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

The average woman regards every photograph ever given her as some thing sacred, and she keeps them so long that no one can tell who the orig inal was.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-27

Silent Smith, the richest bachelor in America. is going into society. Now watch how long it will take some lnno- cent bud" to make him talk right 10 the point.