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The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

One-fourth Of the vagrants in Ed
inburgh are of Irish nationality.
One of the streets at Montpelier,
France, IS to be renamed the Rue
Emile Zola
The Belgians are the greatest po-
tato eaters in the world, and the Irish
come second.
Six hundred members, including
many of the nobility, have Joined the
Austrian Anti-Dueling league.
Twenty-six pounds was paid for a
pack of German playing cards dated
1853 at Sotheby's recently.
Some years ago 96 Of every 100 chill
dren in Egyptian schools were affect
ed with granular ophthaImia. This
percentage has now been reduced
to "A.
Ten guineas damages have been
awarded at Edmonton county court
to a servant who sued the employer
of a workman who looked for an es-
cape of gas with a lighted match
The National museum at Belgrade
has come into possession of collec,
tion of $4,000 Roman copper coins re-
Gently unearthed near a Servian vii
lage. The Oldest of them belong in
the time of Caracalla.
Twenty-three years ago a fraudu-
lent bankrupt fed from Buda-Pesth TO
America, where he amassed small
fortune. Becoming homesick he re
turned recently to Austria, where he
was recognized and promptly ar
rested
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03

How well know my woodland path.
Its greetings and its aftermath,
It's windings and its vistas dim,
That stretch beyond the forests rim;
Its fragrance in the wild rose tine,
Its mingled scent Of fern and thyme.
That rise li6. Incense where / tread,
At purple da IN or sunset red.
] know It's ledfy coverrs where
The brown thrush and the cat-birds are;
And where in spring with joy are heard
The first notes Of the mocSing bird.
And ali the blithe bards of the wood,
In rOundle. rune and interlude.
know where emerald MOSES edge
Its ribboned course through brfar and
sedge;
Where partridge berries shine between
The clustered leaves of the wintergreen;
And where the morning sun breaks
through
The cedar boughs to drink the dew.
And there at noon, on laEguid wing
The wantOn breeze goes @-andcring.
I know its cradle hoIlo~s deep,
Where winter long the violets sleep,
Quiescent till the gales of spring
Blow off their Ieafy covering.
/ know its restful shady spots,
It's turnings where it runs cross lots,
And skirts the meadow grassy edge,
Meath fringe OF wild flowers in the
hedge.
So weu 1 know its tfme-worn mark,
My feet viii trace it in the dark
And, from its source to where it ends
I love it as l love my friends.
&C. II Doing, IN Washington Star.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
ORIGIN OF BEAN FEAST.
1t Is Explained by an Old English
man-Hovv a Workman Commem-
Grated WOOdman's Charity.

Why is a feast without beans called
a bean feast? An old resident at
Woodford explained it to me the
other day, writes n correspondent to
the London Leader. Years ago a
workman lost his way in a part of
Epping Forest. After wandering
about for some considerable time, he
at length heard the sound of a wood
mans ak, and directing his footsteps
towards the noise came across a
woodcutter in the act of delivering
n final blow TO a tree. Fair lop,"
calculated the woodman, as the tree
fell then turning to the workman,
asked what he required. The man
told him that he had lost his way in
the forest and was hungry and tired.
'.Sit down friend said the woodman,
..and share my meal,'' at the same
time bringing out some beans and
bacon. Not long after the workman
was fortunate enough to become a
master blockmaker, and to commem-
crate the charity of the woodman he
used to take the workmen once a
year to the Fair Lop Tree and give
them a feast of beans and bacon. The
beans have been dropped, but the
feasts still remain.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
WHEN THE HERRING RUN.
Yarmouth, <he Center OF the In d aA-
try, Receives 5O,OOO,OOO Fish in
Il Days Catch.

One of the most sting seaports
| of England is Yarmouth, perhaps the
| chief fishing town of the kingdom, and
certainly the great herring center. On
| November II the high water mark for
arrivals was registered, when 50,0o0,-
| 600 of these fishes were landed on the
wharves of the port. This one days
catch sold for 1926, 900, so it can be seen
that the fisher folk have an abundance
| Of shillings-at least, in the fishing sea-
son. On this day the fleet spread for
| three miles along the harbor, says the
Philadelphia Press.
1t is said that the herring season this
year has never been equaled. Certain
it l. that the twin towns of Yarmouth
and Lowestoft present a busy and ami
mated scene. The port at this time IS
as much Scotch as English, for scores
of the boats come from north of the
Tweed. The streets are full of broad
shoulderd, ruddy-faced girls who ap-
peared with the fleet. They are not
the least of the picturesque sights, as,
stripped of superfuous clothing, bare
headed and bare-armed, they dress and
cure the fish.
these girls are mostly Scotch, and
hare a peculiar dialect Of the Tweed
fisher folk They are CHEEKY and sing
at their work, and are always ready for
fun when work is over. They are the
heroines or the objects of many stories
that never get into print. There are
probably 5000 of these Iassies in town,
and they are experts, for they follow
the fleet in its migratory quest Like
gulls follow school of fish.
When the fleet looms up in the har-
Dor the girls repair to the workhouses
and get ready for work. The girls
work in crews of three, two quitting
the fish with a small knife which they
use with wonderful deftness, and the
third packing the fish in barrels of
salt. These girls receive their railway
fares and a guarantee of $3.50 week,
and a bonus of II cents for every bar
rel filed
The work is hard, and when once
she fish are in hand it has to be car
ried on to finish, however late the
hour, for the herring is a very perish
able article, and any delay in the proc
ess of quitting and sailing would be
-uinous. The girls often cut their
hands badly, and the salt with which
they have to work makes the wounds
exceedingly painful. But a brighter,
healthier set of workers viii not cas-
ily be found anywhere than in these
curing yards, where they may be heard
singing to one another, and where even
in their spare time they are not idle,
for you never see a fisher girl with
out her knitting needles.
Herrings are cured in several other
ways, the work in most cases being
done by women. A kipper, than which
there are few greater delicacies. is
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
HOW NAPOLEON WAS SPANKED
story of How the Famous French
man Was Punished by His
Mother.

Just as a man is no hero to his
valet, so he is likely not to be hero
to his mother, or rather not the sort
of hero that the world knows, but a
hero quite of her own conception. AS
boys, the great men who are to be
get about the same treatment as the
lesser favorites of fortune. When
Napoleon was in exile at Elba he told
a story of how his mother spanked
him, relates the \ Outh's Companion.
One day his mothers mother was hob
bling along the street in Aiaccio, and
Napoleon and his sister, Pauline, fol-
lowed the old lady and mimicI1ed her.
Their grandmother turned and caught
them IL the act.
She complained to Madame Letitia
Bonaparte. Pauline was at once
Spanked and disposed of. Napo-
leon. who was out in his regimentals,
as sacred as the flag.
His mother bided her time.
The next day, when her son was
off his guard, she cried, "Quick, Ma
poleon. You are invited to dine with
the governor"
He ran up to his room to change
his clothes. She quietly followed, and
when she judged that the proper time
had come, rushed into the room,
siezed her undressed hero before he
guessed her purpose, laid him across
the maternal knee, and belabored him
earnestly with the fat of her hand.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
"You are the one 10 look out for

"You are the one 10 look out for
what you say replied Uncle Fulann,
having recovered his composure- IF
you do not prove your denunciation,
! and you can't prove it, / shall send
you TO Jail as a slandereri These
| pumpkins were mine, for I raised
them in my garden of Egiddo, and
no one can prove otherwise!"
.'Now you shall seei'' said Uncle
Buscobeatas, untying the handker-
chief and tossing its contents to the
ground.
Scattered about the ground they
beheld multitude of fragments of
pumpkin vines, still green and drip
ping with sap; the old gardener, seat
ed upon his heels and shaking with
| laughter, addressed the councillor and
the crowd as follows:
Gentlemen, have you ever paid
taxes? And have you ever seen that
big green book which the tax-col-
lector carries, from which he cuts off
receipts, leaving there stub by
means of which he can tell whether
such and such a receipt is false?"
You are speaking about what is
called a stub-book," gravely observed
the councillor.
THAT is precisely what I have here
the stub-book of my garden; that
is, the ends to which these pumpkins
were joined before I was robbed of
them. Now, if you don't believe it,
look! This stub belongs to that
pumpkin yonder; no one can deny it.
This one belongs to that pumpkin;
this to that one. Exactly! Now, this
belongs over here"
While speaking, he had been fitting
a peduncle, or stub, into the excava-
tion of each pumpkin, and the specta-
tors saw with astonishment that the
irregular bases of the stubs fitted
exactly into the whitish cavity of the
pumpkins.
The bystanders all squatted down,
including the policeman and the coun-
cflor himself, and assisted Uncle Bus
cobeatas in his singular verification,
calling out to each other in boyish
JOY, There's no doubt about it!
See? This one goes here! No, that
belongs to this one."
Their bursts of laughter and the
shouts of the grandees mingled with
the WhlstIlng OF the small boys ana
the imprecations OF the women and
the tears of the old gardener. The
policemen were already impatient to
take the convicted thief to Jail.
1t is unnecessary to state that they
had this pleasure; that Uncle
Fulano saw himself obliged then and
there to return to the retailer the
SIS he had collected from him; that
the retailer delivered the sum over to
Uncle Buscobeatas, and that the lat
ter returned to Rota supremely hap
Ply, saying TO himself on the way,
How beautiful they were in the mar
ketl I ought to have brought Manu-
ella home with me to eat tonight and
TO save the seed!'-Translated from
the Spanish of Pedro Antonio de Alar-
con, by Edgar Allen Forbes, in Farm
and Fireside.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03

a herring split down the back, gut
| ted, picked in brine for half an hour
/ or so and then smoked for a few
/ hours. a bloater is an unsplit her
| ring and is kept in salt for the bet
/ ter part of a day before being
| smoked. while the red herring Is red
because it is first salted for some
| weeks on end and then smoked for
as long, the result being that it is
very highly cured.
/ The net profits of each boat are
| divided into 16 shares, of which
| seven go to the owners and the other
| nine are split up among the hands
| in proportion to their standing.
/ Thus the master will take Cne and a
| half or one and three-quarters share,
the mate one and quarter or one
and a half, and so on down 10 the
last-joined boy, who gets a quarter
or even one-eighth of a share A
share in a lucky boat may run to
close on $1,000 for two months fishing
The new stream drifters are fine
| boats, about go tons, 50 feet in
length by IS feet in the beam. In
the old days the nets were not more
than two miles long. But now
every steamer has at least 10 or
$50, or even 200 nets 80 yards wide
by IS or 20 'score" deep. A ''score"
is a score of meshes, so that taking
mesh as an inch the depth is some
30 feet, with an aggregate length of
three miles. The nets are fastened
together to form continuous sur
face, and are floated by buOys. There
are, in addition to the Yarmouth
boats, over 500 Scotch sailing craft
and about so Scotch steamers. The
gulls betray the Whereabouts of the
fish by day, a lovely phosphorescence
by night. Hither come the boats
with their millions of meshes, and
when night has fallen the nets are
paid out, the lights lit and the vast
feet lies quietly drifting with the
tide, twinkIing red, green and white,
like multitudinous fragments of
some dismembered rainbow.
A good catch is ten lasts, though
II and IS have been taken in a night
1t must be remembered that though
a last is nominally only 10000 fish it
is really 13,2O0, for a hundred counts
1872. Twelve and fifteen hundred lasts
are sometimes landed at Yarmouth
fish wharf in one day, and they are
all off by night.
The world comes to Yarmouth for
its herring. Steamers Of 500 and
1000 tons lie in harbor heaped up to
the top of their buiwarks with bar
reIs of packed fish for export To
Hamburg, Rotterdam, and other
ports of Germany, Holland or Bel
gium.
BY a fortunate provision of nature
the herring makes its appearance at
different parts of Scotland and Eng
land in succession. so that for the
enterprising Scotch fishermen who
go to the Lewis and Shetland in May
and June, who fish out of their own
ports on the Moray Firth in July,
August and September, and who
come down to Yarmouth and Lowe
stoft in October and November there
are three rich harvests.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
STREET car CONQUEST.


She was goe.1 laeA- er& Ewv
haired. ana she sat -euzre a- ree ueaa-
/ ole cf a double seat fu b erasse Ae5r9
avenue ear The pass we're
standing too elesely pseke1 te Arte
/ the coneucterss perlae-te-s ~NeVe ~
front. please,~
a littIe woman turuel cevEart tae
selfish woman - the ear gave - El--
suaIIy drunken lurce ana -al- t-uy 5
as this seat takenc~ he se-z.a
woman looke5 iguori1E.y eut et tas
window. relates the New Acre tleEa5--
\ man with = chlsd fn BIS @rr1s Eea.&
ventured lie did ner ask au8atlag
about IT,, but ealu-s seares. e-aesa44 @@
the ragged edge OF soothing 81 a1lel ''as
all the space left by the >lLtsl Esa-E.e=-
The car bumped the baby aEal-st cae
persons standing in the sle-e l1t re
father braeed himself fer 4 aar4 sa
against the other oecuz aur o- t1e sra--
But she braced back
When the man g1t e1 s1e crr tEr
woman gave uaLleirl~ =le.e et rrl-
umph ar the publie- hGt l- vtas a -r r
which quickly froze aruuld r1e es-=
till il eurled mp into a gril-aee .r
and disgust. FOR 1T tEaE zoe-e--
pounds of black Ee~h rllr-rel -rsr-t
with pouCerou> preel Hirauey- uo- re-
SIDE. bat on top ot l-r vsar la- t--a-
erto held her vantage against 1-t cl---
ers.
'ScuSe me. uurl-' ulurea q ra-a
voice from above, ~ll- hlr re-Es .er
me you've he'd dis seat re- yo--e'f --1.e-
long 'nough.~
And when the selfish ysaI-l-z -et hasa
her breath. wblca had t.e1 raAz- 1saF
literally as well as fEura--te.v- Size
f0uneed out cf the seat 4ll te.H GOA
strap the rest o. tte ysal- all rle
smiles of the passenger As She eer
of the ear she was heard ta rra.ara-
with nose i'm the air. s0-attEr- a Iz.Er
''Such pigs as were allowed cu tEee cars
in the north; iu tEe south Il. u.s..--.--r
be-" Then the conductor rang ere
starting beIl- while tire a.ar. le tEe er-
ner, who had given the negro 1s.-l.11 8
quarter to perform Ee- E-t.e eer
griuued and remarked ro E.- ~taE1-
companion, ~O. waL some power DIE
gifJie gie us. tae see ou-ser= as l-ta-s
see us"
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
Personal AIIuxions.

Personal illusions are never safe,
and seldom effective or happy. An
aneedote that illustrates this fact is
that OF a solicitor for charita bic
institution who went to a woean's
door and asked her for a contribu-
ton.
..We have" he stated, earnestly,
hundreds of poor, ragged and VI
cious children. like those at your
gate, and our object is"
.'Sir," interrupted the Indignant
woman, those are my swn chill
dreIh"
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03

ease are slrr te ee-er ff teH E-
are E-Ele-te1 L---l t-u re ease
the kllEeFs ana Aerr tar- u
Mrs James E-ea Cl a Wat
WhiteseCrr street. Er--. N. l- raEa-
n was trr-r--l vlrs -E k-eEs tcr
eight or ulle years. lll U EeH
En- INV taeks zs rzEr uF-r G. E ea
hardly ellure l-s E er--l lar a-aal
except for q few z-ars 90 a t
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03

They were just concluding a series
Of first aid to the injured lessons
in one OF the settlements, and the
worker in charge thought it might
be a good idea to have a written
test. Among other questions she
wrote:
..How would you restore conscious
ness to a person who had been res
eued from drowning?"
In answer to this a maiden with an
affection for polysyllables wrote:
..When the resuscitation of anima-
tion is complete plump the person or
barrel till he is thoroughly ex-
ha 1sted.'-N Y. Times.
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
Individuality of the American Girl.

IDd1FIduaiItS OF the \ 1eTGcSfn NE1ri.
The American girl has often more in
dividuaI character and strength of mind
than any other girl IN the worlts. She
knows what she likes, what she wants,
and what she dislikes and detests. This
alone is comfort when it comes TO
being associated with anyone IN So
cial way. The coIorless 5amsel who
shippers out: Anything you like,
please" when you ask he@ what she
wants for luncheon. is by no means a
joy forever. The American gr.J knows
what she wants to eat, what she needs
to wear, what she cares to read. II
she likes walking or riding or boating,
she viii say so, and if she doesn't like
them she is quite likely to announce
her predictions. - Woman's Home
Companion
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03


in
a
people demanded that should be declared against France then
mil
md
call but he
the of
actn in
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
HAD A PRESENTIBIEET.
Something Happened, Bus Et a. Nui
just " ha< lie HAD ~
BeCted.

As to preseutimeEts.' sail tire Cas-
county man who was iu tle e.ty ua
business few days ago. relates TIE
Detroit Free Press. 1--WE had three Il
four in my time. and 4 can't say q be-
Heve in EN- The last one had ztas la-
Gated in this town I fen into 8 alre
in my house one Sunday Afternoon ana
had vision or presentiueEt. that ae
I walked along WoodbrilGe street /
saw through the window of shop 4
man sharpening a tool Cn a -riut- .ls.
As / continued 10 lock the stone burst
and killed the man The thing made a
deep impression on me. and q wees
later. when 7 came 20 the c5tg. q v.e1 &
out Of my way 70 walk mp WooCbrll-e
street. Strangely enough. Il f1lld the
shop and saw the W2u working lt lhe
grindstoEe. Ny heart Was -E aaE mouth
as / opened the door and grabbed Elu.
by the arm and pulled him eut cE the
walk"
And then the griudstoEe Heyr 90
pieces - queried one o< has listeners
NO, don't think II did
'.But "a belt ran of itz pulley
"No."
''Theu what accident did Eappene''
'None AZ all The man whom I
pulled out doors didn't believe r. ure-
sentiments nor appreciate uly no
tiyes. He called me some sor1 of a
fool. and when 7 replied iu EEe srz-lr.
he fell upon me and blaekeL both NJ
eyes and skinned my nose. and i nerer
got in one good sockdolager eu b-la-
I'm not going to say there's nothing -
presentiments. but I giTe yol the
straight tip that the unIersi igned VII
take il out IN dreams after thl~, and
he'll be particular not "a dream of
grindstonez-"
The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03
Then what accident did EapneHe.'


Mother-Nhy, johnny, area't YOU
ashamed OF self-st-zE yosz
little brother
Johnny-I'm doing il for IFS own
good. ma. and il hurts re mere then
il does him.-H omaa's Home Nozz-
panion.
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WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT
BO1VILLE
orof KngoB eandoN
Copyright by S cyue Company

and once she all but smiled sympa-
thetically at Piggy, when she met him
slipping away from his Hearts De-
sire's desk, wherein he had left flock
of cupids nesting in perfumed blot
ter, and a candy sheep. Mealy Jones
would have snubbed the Pratt girl if
she had caught him thus, but Piggy
gave her a wink that made her mis-
partner. After that hour the Pratt
girl became his scout. The next day
she blundered. That Friday was
burned into Piggy Pennington's mem
DRY with a glowing brand.
The trouble occurred in this way:
On the Friday following Piggy's black
Monday, the King of Boyyille decided
to resort to a heroic measure. In his
meditative moments Piggy had made
up speeches addressed to his Hearts
Desire, wherein he had proposed rec
onciliation at any sacrifice save that
of honor. Friday noon Winfield Han
cock Pennington took a header into
the Rubicon. In the deserted school
room, just after the other youngsters
/. had gone to dinner or to play, Piggy,
with much wiggling of his toes, with
much hard breathing, and with many
facial contortions, wrote note. He
gave it to the Pratt girl to deliver.
When the first bell was ringing that
noon, Piggy was piling up the primary
urchins in Wiggling, squealing piles at
"crack the whip During the fifteen
| minutes that followed, he was char
! ging up and down the yard, bowling
like Comanche at "pullaway." But,
run as he would, yell as he, would and
| wrestle as he would, Piggy could not
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pale, thin youth, with a squeaky voice.
His SKINNED milk eyes popped out
over a, waste Of freckles which blurred
his features and literally weighted
down q weak, loosely wired jaw and
kept an astonished mouth opened for
hand, was sturdy, chunky, blue-eyed
boy. who had fought his way up to
glory in the school, and tumbled and
swan, and bantered himself into right
to be King Of Boyville. Chummery
between the two boys seemed impos-
sible, yet it was one of the things
which every school expects in a Ger
versed, the two little girls go about
breathing undying hatred for one an
other. But boy begins. to consume
his rival with politeness, to seek him
out from all other beings on earth,
to study his tastes and cater to his
humors. And so, while the comrade-
ship between Piggy Pennington and
Mealy Jones was built on ashes, it's
growth was beautiful to see..
In all their hours of close commu-
Mon neither boy mentioned to the
other the name Of the little girl in
the red shawl and the paint-brush
pigtails whose fitful fancy had brought
on all his trouble. In some mysterious
| way each managed to shower her with
picture cards, to compass her about
| with oranges, to embower her desk
| with flowers; but it was all done In
| stealth, and she who was the object of
| this devotion rewarded it openly, and
also for the vanity Of her sex
impartially. All the school watched
the battle Of the hearts eagerly. The
big boys. who usually know as little
about the social transactions beneath
them as the teacher knows, felt an
| inkling of the situation. The red
| headed Pratt girl became deeply in
terested in the affair, tho she was
never invited to a party in the schools
aristocracy. She did not even get an
| invitation to Bud Perkins surprise
party, where everyone who had any
social standing was expected. Yet she
saw all that went on in the school,
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crook q signal for the note to be
brought forward.
1t Is enough to submit the plain,
but painful statement that, when the
teacher tapped her pencil for atten-
ton, red ear, throbbing red ear,
fared out from either side of Piggy
Pennington's Fourth Reader, while
not far away a pair of pig tails
bristled up with rage and humiliation,
from a desk where q little girls head
lay buried in her arms. Would any
one but savage enjoy the recital of
the fact about the barbaric nlirth that
inspired peal after peal of laughter
as the teacher read these words?
Friend Mary-Dd you mean anything
by letting Him sing with you. I don't
care If you did but I never don anything
to deserve it, but if you dident I am
very sorry, will tell you bout it at the
partey. Well that is all I can think of
today, from
Yourse Ever,
Win Pennington.
p. S. II you still meen what you sed
about roses red and vilets blue all right
and so do I. w H P.
Piggy waded home thru blood that
night. The boys could not resist call
ing out, Friend Mary or, Hello,
Roses Red tho each boy knew that
his taunt would bring on fight. Piggy
fought boys who were three classes
above him. He whipped groups of
boys Of assorted sizes from the lower
grades; but the fighting took him away
from his trouble and in most cases he
honored his complaints. He was lit