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GOOD AND BAD MEMORIES.
Why Persons Forget Some Things and
Remember Others.
From Notes and Queries.

From Notes and Queries.
Good memory is a subject regarding which
a good deal of nonsense is habtually talk
ed We often hear people say that they
have a good memory for certain things,
but a bad one for other things. This L
believe to be a delusion. \ mans memory
may he good or it may be bad, but it cannot
we'll be good for one thing and bad for an
other thing. 1t might as well be said that
a bottle was good for holding brandy, but
bad for holding whisky. In the case or q
feeble intellect all its faculties VIII be fec
ble-memory, judgment and all the rest
but they will not be feeble for one purpose
and vigorous for another purpose. The fact
is that our memory is in itself equally pow
erful or feeble for all purposes, but we re-
member best those things which interest
us most, and say that We have good
memories for such things, while we forget
those things which do not interest us, and
we say, accordingly, that We have bad
memories for those things. Horace Wal
pole used to say that his memory was all
retentiVe as to the names of persons and or
places, but that it was absolutely 1mpotent
in regard to dates. 1t has been said of him
by Macaulay, l think-that he could tell
you the name of the grandaunt of King
Ethelwald, but that he could not tell you
whether she lived in the year 800 or In tho
year 1900. The truth was that he took an
interest in names and genealogies, but mono
in dates. Similarly, in his introductions TO
Anne of Geierstein,'' Scott aptly says:
Il have through lie been emitted 10
adopt cid Beattie of Meilldales answer
to his parish minister when the latter was
eulogiZing him with respect to the same
faculty: No, doctor, said the honest bor-
der laird, have no command of my MEM
ory: it retains only what happens TO hit
my fancy; and like enough, sir, If you were
to preach to me for couple OF hours on
end / might be unable at the close OF the dis
course to remember one word of 1t. Pef-
hans there are few men whose memory
serves them with equal fidelity as to many
different classes of subjects, but am sorry
to saw that while mine has rarely failed me
as TO any snatch of verse or trait of char
acter that had once interested my fancy,
it has generally been frafl support not
only as to names and dates aE1 other mi
mute technicalities of history, but as TO
many more important things.
No it is pretty certain that we have not
got good memories for this and bad MEM
ories for that, in any other sense than that
we remember that which interests US and
forget that which interests US not.
/ will not insult readers by reproducing
here the good old chestnut as to Dugald
Stewards contribution to the conversation
of certain of his friends who were COM
pairing notes to their earliest recoIiec-
tions But it may be lawful to recall Free
Lockers capital verse rendering OF II:
recollect a nurse called Ann
Who carried me about the grass;
And one fine day a fine young man
Game up and kissed the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection.
Thinks L ''Ahai
When l can talk I'll tell mamma"
And that's my earliest recollection.
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yelled. and his chums followed him. And
how they danced: their nerves no longer
pent up! Whrlwinds age kept him back
long time. but at last his wild nature broke
forth. and up he sprang, as lively as the
young braves He capered near me and said:
You no dancer / took this for mild re-
buke, and Joined in. One by one the In
dans dropped off until only Whirlwind and
myself remained Then he quit, leaving me
alone. l did not wish to take bluff; so l
gave them the best buck and wing l could,
until l had called their hand.
1t was after midnight before the party
broke up. 1 spread my blanket and lay
down to sleep But no sleep yet. One
young buck took a small snare-drum which
this, led serenading band, which marched
around the ring of the wigwams, doing the
Gle -waw- ya-sha, or love dance. Coming to
a particular tepee, young brave would
stop the procession and sing a love song
If the song worked the charm dusky maid
would come out and join the singer, thus
pllghting troth; and then the lover band
would march on again. During the small
hours l went to sleep to the drum taps and
song of the Cle-waw-ya- -sha-
Next morning at the voice of Two-slaps,
the Se-no-w>-kla, woke me. Some one had
lost a bride, and he was calling out that
the one who might find 1t should bring it
back: "A-sha-mum pioX-sum apo-ne-to-
COX. Dust from the dancers feet and the
lint from my blanket had coated my wrin-
kled serge trousers, in which. Indian fash
| ion. l had slept. But to clean them Whirl-
wind gave me his hairbrush. To wash my
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Wood Alcohol Fiends.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Filbert street shop which does a large
business in cleaning and renovating hats
had to put up some profuse apologies a few
DAYS ago to a customer, owing to a second
failure to deliver tile at the time PROMISED.
81 can't help myself" expostulated tife
proprietor, with voice betokening a broken
spirit. 81 can't get anybody to help me,
and I can't keep 'em when l get en- OUT
in the shed there are two men employed
Yesterday They're chock full of wood al
cohol-
e Wood alcohol?'
.sYes. they get away with quart or two
of it every day. You'd think it would kill
them. same as it has others, but they're
used to it. I've put dye in it, same as you
use on Easter eggs-red dye-but they
swilled it down just the same. What can
do about it,"
Remembering the recent carouse in which
several men lost their lives by drinking
wood alcohol, none can be called a hard
drinker whose experiences are confined to
nothing more ardent than dry martins, Ja-
maica ginger, waterfront whisky, stratShf
Worcestershire and Scotch high balls.
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II in pan to bake before the open fire.
When supper was spread in the tepee on
a red-checkered linen cloth-as clean as you
have a right to expect when you are camp
ing out-I sat down on the blankets with
the medicine man and his family. They all
folded their hands, and Whirlwlnd in the
Indian tongue asked a blessing.
II always speak with my Great Father
by eat" said the Indian.
And the supper? 1t was good. i agreed
with Whlrlwind when he said: Il been east
far as Mississippi liver | eat no fish good
bulb the size of pecan and tasting like
matoes. bread (both Indian and baker 81,
coffee, sugar, salt. pepper and vinegar. we
used plates. knives, forks and spoons. The
mark of the white man was there. Could L
have eaten with the tribe of my host
hundred years before my supper would have
been just salmon and saweet.
washed the dishes. Whirlwind. who had
gone To his blanket, opened his dress suit
case (every Indian has one of these now
adays, or else a trunk, and taking out
new red shirt put it on. Although he was
nearly eighty years old. his figure was un-
bent and the ropy muscles on his bronzed
body rose and fell as he moved his arms.
Grizzly Bear meantime took scissors and
clipped "A fringe a pair of new In
dian breeches. ka-mish-ne, the dishes
washed, sewed beads on a moccasin. The
old squaw slept. Whirlwind jr., the fifth
member OF the family, smeared his face
with dry paint. The train wh.sIed ana
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mostly through British. German and Itals
ian merchants. who label them with other
names. The American exporter has thus
to pay big profit to the foreign middle
men. and he loses the chance of making q
reputation for his goods. as the trade marks
are changed. AS 1t Is. four-fifths of the
American goods sent to Greece are handled
in this way. American commercial sales
men should visit Greece in person and work
the country, accompanied by their sample
trunks. The Greeks want the best. and
they will pay for II II they know they are
going to get ii. The Europeans give them
long credits. but l am told that many OF
the Greek merchants are unreliable. and
that every customer should be fully in
vestigated.
This trade might be prospected by tho
American drummer stationed In Italy. It
takes but day = to cross the Medi-
terranean from Italy to Greece. The best
place to stop is Athens where there are
excellent accommodations at cost of 81
a day. Greece is a small country. and it
can be easily worked. At present we ara
annually selling the Greeks about 5000
bales of cotton. They buy our calicoes
and sheetings. our watches and jewelry,
our sewing machines and typewrters. and
also our farm tools and farming machinery.
In return We annually import from them
from fifteen to twenty thousand tons OF
seedless raisins. known as Zante currants.
The Balkan States and Turkey.
The Balkan states of Servia. Bulgaria
and Roumania are all using more or less
American goods Their total trade how
ever. is small, and it will not pay our COM
mercial travellers to work the territory. It
can be managed by the agencies at Buda-
pest. or from Constantinople or Odessa, if
American firms have correspondents and
agents at those places. The countries are
very backward. and sooner or later they are
bound to use our farm tools and our heavy
farm machinery
Speaking of American warehouses abroad
one has recently been opened in Constanti-
nople. 1t is known as the American ORR
entail Agency and it handles goods on COM
, mission. 1t shows the goods in its ware-
house. and when sold it pays the American
exporter for them, taking its commissions
out of the sales. This warehouse has all
sorts of agricultural machinery and farm
tools. 1t is handling wind mills, pumps,
| lamps, jewelry and stationery supplies, as
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Knitted Jersey Waists.

A certain wooden Jersey there is that
is the very essence of CO .ort for rolf
or any other athletic pursuit 1t is
privileged to carry small lapels which
button across beneath neat turnover
collar. This latter looks very well
completed by a pretty silk cravat. 1t is
reserved for the ubiquitous white tones
to invest it with i. most perfectly sat
isfactory presentment A white jersey
with white serge skirt makes a costume
repletcS with originality and good sense.
For children these jerseys are quite de-
lghtful and, like all the newer weaves,
combine the deS-rable attributes of
lightness and warmth They are machine
made and represent either crochet or
knitting stitches. a.
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told that our sales are increasing In south
ern Europe as well. and that there Is
big field there for the American drummer.
We are already sending something like S0,-
600 600 worth of stuff every year to Austria
Hungary. The American reaper and mower
is now cutting the wheat along the Danube;
our flour milling machinery Is used In
Budapest, the Minneapolis of Europe; and
Vienna is importing so much American
foods that the home manufacturers are
trying to prevent them coming in. 1t Is the
same with American leather and the Amer
lean shoe. the mechanics having risen up
in arms against our footwear. Indeed. no
country in Europe is SO opposed tc Amer
fcan products as Austria. Nevertheless, the
government has recently placed contracts
for American machinery to be used in its
public improymenteS to the amount of
500 coo.
In Spain and Portugal.
1 met the other day man who had just
come from Barcelona, Spain. He says that
city has American street cars, but they
have painted out the names of the Ameri-
can makers and put Spanish names in
their places. He says that Spain is using
American goods under foreign labels, ana
that the market is now open to American
importations.
Spain has a foreign trade of about
$50 100000 year. and a large share
of this should come to us. This is especial
ly so, as by the requirement of the Philip
pines and Porto Rico We have become to a
certain extent Spanish, and are fast
quiring Spanish speaking commercial trav-
elers. Our drummers who go to Spain
should be able to speak the language.
They should carry a full line of sam
pies and should expect to do their busi
ness by talking rather than by letters and
catalogues. The Spaniard reads little but
he likes to talk. and is always ready to
look at goods. Theoretically the CONNER
cial traveller is expected to pay tax in
Spain. but he seldom does so.
There is also good opening in Portu-
gal, but the drummer who goes there must
call on the governor of the first port at
which he stops and get residence permit
This will cost him ST. and if he establishes
himself for general business he will have
to pay a tax of from $3.50 to $3.50 per annum.
Our Invasion of Italy.
The American drummer will have little
trouble in Italy if he speaks French or
Italian, or even Spanish. He will find a
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En- broidery as Trimming.
From Harper's Bazaar

From Harper's Bazaar.
Embroidery plays a large part in trim
mings Braiding and passementerie are
very much favored, and fancy waistcoats
are decidedly a feature of many of the
newest gowns. Collars and revers and deep
cuffs that fit closely to the wrist. but grad
ually widen toward the elbow, where is the
fullness Of the sleeves. afford a capital op-
portunity for braiding.
Always with the more elaborate cloth
gowns the skirts are made long, with a
train at the back. and so long at the front
and at the sides that they lie on the ground
This is not especially new, and the discom-
fort of it has been experienced for some
time; but with the present fashion of wide
skirts it is absolutely necessary in order
to secure any graceful effect at ALL
FIounced, gathered and tucked skirts,
the tucks in bayadere style, will be smart
this winter.
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some of the biggest bridges We're built by
Americans and the people favor American
trade.
How to Work the Field.
The man who goes there must study Ger
man and Russian. He must make his own
acouaintances and learn the standing OF
the merchants He should have cata-
lcgues and price lists in the Russian IAN
euage using Russian money, weights and
measures, and, if possible. he should carry
a stock of goods with him, having ware
house or supply point here and there along
the Trans-Siberian railroad. 1 am told that
goods will bring % per cent more If they
can be delivered at the time they are sold.
The Siberian Russians like to see the goods
before they buy them and to carry them
away when purchased.
Much of the Siberian business is done
upon credit but the people are sound
financially, as rule. and they pay their
notes. not objecting to a good round inter-
est. At present the demand there is for
our AGRICULTURAL implements and farm tools.
There is also an opening for all kinds of
milling and mining machinery. The gov
ernment owns vast tracts. and its orders
for foreign tools are large. The COM
mercial traveller will also have a chance to
work among the villages. many of which
own lands in common. buying their ma
chinery at wholesale. In such trades the
sales are made to the head men of the
thing of a diplomat and good mixer.
Southern Europe.
During the past year have been travel
ing chiefly in northern Europe along the
tracks of our commercial invasion. I am
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we'll as sewing machines, typewriters, clocks
ard watches, and American notions.
Turkey IS now buying considerable hard
ware of the United States. Five hundred
large agricultural machines were sold there
last year. New openings coming up as
to railroad materials, although the supplies
fer the concession recently granted for
road from Constantinople to the Persian
gulf will probably come from Germany
There are also openings in Asiatic Turkey.
Palestine and Egypt, but these L VIII refer
to in my next letter which will describe
trip around the world with the American
drummer. FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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wide-awake country and one that is doing
an enormous amount of farming, mining
and manufacturing. Italy is three times as
big as Indiana and its population is more
than one-third that of the United States.
It is a country of wealth, Notwithstanding
the many statements that it is poor. Its
foreign trade amounts to more than half
a billion dollars a year. and it buys almost
$500 O0O,000 worth of goods annually, one
tenth of its purchases being from the
United States. We send Italy farm ma
chinery. farm tools, food products and raw
materials in the shape of cotton and other
things. The country has two million spin
dies in it's cotton mills, and they turn out
a product of SEQ O00, 600 a year. There are
$4,000 hands employed in these cotton fac-
tories and 10000 hands in the woolen mills.
A large business IS done in iron and steel,
and also in silk and flour.
At present the branches of our trade which
are selling most are those dealing in heavy
farm machinery. Italy has something like
fifty million acres of farms, and although
parts of the country, like the plains OF
Lombardy, are well cut up by mulberry
plantations and irrigating bitches, our hay
rakes and reapers and mowers can be used
The McCormicks, the Deerings and num-
Der of other harvester companies have their
agents on the ground and they tell me
their trade is increasing. There is conSid-
cradle business done in electrical machinery
by the General Electric Company and the
Westinghouse Company. Many of the
towns already have electric railroads and
electric lights, and telephones are being put
in almost everywhere.
There is an American in Florence who is
making carbide for acetylene gas and there
are American importers in Milan and
Genoa.
American Warehouses Needed.
I am told that it would pay well to open
American warehouses in both Genoa and
Milan. Genoa has direct connection with
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face I went to the river. On the way the
red breasts Of a hundred robins bobbed
along before me, doves cGoed from the
limbs of dead trees. 1 trod upon yellow
dandelions and the Indian pink, and brush
ed against alder blossoms, the yarrow and
the wild rose Before l reached the river
1 had smeared my hands and face with the
red Juice of bldckberres. When l bent over
to dip my hand into the cool, swift stream
a large trout darted from under the log on
which l knelt. Thus become a child of ma
ture, it was only the sizzling salmon that
could tempt me back to the tepee.
AS l sat again with the Indian family at
breakfast, how rudely We're my reflections
broken by a white man who pOked his head
into our tepee and called cut: Hay, 10
cents a bundle"
"Pooty scarce, hay. this time said
Whirlwind. Lots of him before white man
come. Bunchgrass grow high"
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Practical Woman.

From the Catholic Standard and Times
Jackson Trays-'.My wife found a half
dozen poker chips in my pocket this morn
ing
Severn Supp-"Whew! What did she
say?"
Jackson Trays-''Lectured me on my
carelessness in not having eashed shem in. y
Evening star., 1903-10-24

During the past year I have been travel
ing chiefly in northern Europe along the
tracks of our commercial invasion. I am
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some of the biggest bridges were built by
Americans and the people favor American
trade.
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Benedicfte.
IAN Green Things on the Earth. Bless Y

IAN Green Things on the Earth. Bless Ye the
Lord"
So sang the choir. while deceased branches beat
The frosty window panes and at our feet
The frozen. tortured sod but Knocked the word.
And seemed 10 cry like some poor soul in pain:
ssI,ord suffering and endurance fili my days.
The growing green things will their Maker
praise
The happy green things. growing in warm rainr'
so God lacks praise while all the fields are
white!
I said. then smiled, remembering southwark far
How pampas-gra swayed green In summer
light.
Nav God hears always from this swinging star,
Decani and Cantoris. South and North,
Each answering other, praises pouring forth.
Anna c. Bracket.
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making a special showing of med
um-priced Suits in same effects {
the higher class ones, at &1S ~
$40, $3.50 and. APAceO'
Twenty styles In novelty wool effect
Examines and cheviots, some are ia
feta lined throughout, very fetcl
ing styles at $3.50 $50 S30.7!
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35 dozen women's Hermsdorf black all
over lace Hose, two-thread Isle, with
double heels, soles and toes, mostly
soc kinds, a few 75c ones, 2Oc
choice Monday, pair........ Wv
-Eas ST
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Women's tailor-made Suits of best
cheviots, skirt and jacket neatly
trimmed, waist taffeta lined, skirts
lined with taffeta drop, others un-
lined, jackets with the broad Shout
der effect and dropping Coz M
cape Prices $40 and. R6OsOO
Handsome Suits in ten different styles,
ranging in price, a5' $50 10000
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Correct Spring Dress Fabrics
In the broadcast assormens and colorngs the whole State

Chiffon Yelling. As inches wide, very
soft and clinging fabric for recep-
ton dresses, nine differentG1 %
colors, at, a yard .P&s&O
IN BLACK
All-wool Black Yelling. at. A.
ydro .......-...........-.
All-wool Black Albatross Wolfe 40
and Batiste. at, yard.
Atwood black Mistral 46 inches -.
wide, excellent quality, a yard. OC
Atwood, hard finish black o.
Wolfe, A inches wide. a yd.... OOC
Five new. designs i'm all-silk black
stripe Grenadine. double width. o.
All-wool black Irvine Cloth, e. m
46 inches wide. a yard. ..... .RisOO
Black Mohair Mistral. Bourette Wolfe,
Bourette Etamine and plainCr D.
hard-twist Wolfe. yard .pAsSo
Pure Mohair Black Sicillian, IS inches
wide. for tailor suits, O. IN
yard, Sis and. .PhsOO
West Aisle.
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Silk Stripe Challies, half wool, in the
new spring printings and plain
colors. on west bargain table. .3Sc
at, a ydru
Atwood Voiles, So inches wide, in
cream, reseda, tan, gray and four
shades of blue, at, 4Qc
ydTu ........................
Hopsack, all-wool, so inches wide, in
four shades of navy blue. at, zSc
ydTQ ......-................
Canvas Cloth, 46 inches wide and all
wool, this is a new, coarse, open
weave, in castor, brown, wine So
and green, at, yard ........O
Rice Suitings, A inches wide, a late
delivery of spring shades, including
light blue, tan, castor, navyG1 D.
and red. at, a yard. .PA'@C
J Silk and Wool Crepes, Voiles and
Irvine Cloths, thirty-eight different
shades, "A inches wide. q IN
French make, at, a yard. .PAsOO
Silk and Wool Eolienne in nub effects.
the different plain colors, Cd M
at. yard ...................PS
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Spring Wear for Men
Mems fast black cotton Half Hose.
manufacturer sample line of 35c to
soc grades, many of them black silk
embroidered, 80 dozen, Mon DC
day, at, pair. ...................
Mems ingram French Isle Half Hose,
with high spliced heels and double
soles, 17l9 dozen imported to sell by
exclusive furnishing trade, soc
values, pairs. s1.S5, or, az
Negligee Shirts in neat stripes, figures
and polka dots, all sizes, as ROc
sorted sleeve lengths, at........ W.
Spring styles colored laundered per-
Gale Shirts, plain or plated o.
bosoms, choice, at................|' wv
100 dozen mems spring Neckwear, new,
wide-shaped four-in-hands.. in pretty
weaves and colors, the west d.
window is full of them, at....... SCS
East Aisle.
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all the desirable shapes and broad
arranged beautiful effects such Monte Carlo daisies
lilies the valley
prodgy