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Slang. of Other Days

CLANG has always been fruitful source
- for the expansion of language, and in
stances may be multiplied of words now re-
spectacle which were once tabooed as vul-
garisms.
But, on the other hand, there have been
many slang phrases in use for centuries which
have never become acceptable to the purists.
AS long ago as 1850, the celebrated letter
writer Horace ,Walpole used to speak; of sit
owl"
Then again. in the diary of one of the most
prominent woman writer's of the eighteenth
century Frances Burney are found good slang
as for instance: al sneaked out, -" did you
ever know such a toad" and Il had vile
cold"
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Lost His " Mr."

FOR man of mature years to have the dis
tinction of Mr.. removed from his name
would, no doubt, be severe punishment.
Yet this was what the Puritans inflicted on
Josias Plaistowe, and all because he stole four
baskets of corn from the Indians. And then
after poor Josias was Mister no longer the
hard hearted founders of Massachusetts, were
not satisfied, but fined him five pounds sterling
and made him return eight baskets of corn to
the offended red men in place of the four he
had taken.
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fellowship and sympathy. The ceremonious
politeness of the modern form of salutation has
come down from the days of the Roman Empire.
The most universal form of salutation
among civilized people of the present day is
bow or the shaking of the hand. Formulas
fashion themselves as paths do. says Car.
lyle; las beaten highways leading toward
some sacred or high object, whittier many men
are bent. Consider it one man, full of heart
felt, earnest impulse, finds out way of doing
somewhat-were it uttering of his souls rev.
erence for the Highest. were it but of fifty
saluting his fellow man"
The Greeks were an active and energetic
race, and their salutation characteristic
The usual form was, Act successfully! and
in accosting friend, their first question would
be, What business are you engaged in! What
are you doing?"
The Romans were more interested in the art
of war and in acquiring power, and they set
less value on business and pleasure than the
Greeks. How is your strength" was the
usual greeting, or at parting, "Be strong and
healthyl" The Carthaginians did not speak
at meeting their friends, but as sign of affec-
ton would kiss their right hands, and then
salute each other on the cheek.
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The Presidential Salute

THE American presidential salute is twenty
L guns, is the English royal salute;
but the reason why Just twenty-one guns are
fired is obscure.
Antiquarians have put forth different the
cries to this. One states that seven was
the original salute; but that in England this
was given three times, once for Scotland, once
for Ireland, and once for England. Some de-
clare that the American salute is twenty-one
guns because the sum of the numbers 1, 7, =, 6
(the year of the Declaration of Independence
is twenty-one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
Kissing in Early Times

IN England, down to the reign of Charles II.
L or a little later, the kiss was the common
form of greeting to friends and strangers alike
and shaking hands was a mark of close intima-
cy or high favor. That the custom did not
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OLD AND NEW GREETINGS

prevail on the Con-
tinent at the same
time is evidenced by
the fact that the
great scholar Eras-
mus was particularly
amused, when he paid
a visit to England
during the reign of
Henry VII, at being
kissed by almost
everyone he met.
When Americans
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Throwing Shoes at the Bride

WHEN wedding guests of the present day
w combine to throw old shoes and slippers
after the departing bride and bridegroom,
they are helping to perpetuate one of the oldest
and most wide spread of all the popular Gus
TOMS
Long before the Christian era, in the reign of
Thothmes H. the Egyptians practised shoe
making as separate trade, but whether at the
same time they used their outworn footwear
to bring down good luck on newly married
couples is not known. Certain it is, however,
that the ancient Hebrews used the shoe as
testimony of the transference of property.
When the Israelite threw his shoe on anything,
it was considered as sign of ownership, as is
indicated in Psalms ks: lover Edom will
cast out my shoe"
1t was in this old practice that the modern
custom originated.
Even before the advent of William the Con-
queror, when the Anglo-Saxon father consented
to his daughters marriage, he gave her shoe
to the prospective bridegroom, who touched
her on the head with it to show his newly
found authority In Turkey, also, the custom
prevails, and it may naturally be supposed that
in the land of the harem the bridegroom is a
much beslippered man.
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ana Engl1Sh meet an
acquaintance they say" How do you dor"
The Egyptians say, How do you perspire3"
his friend and asks him if he has eaten his rice
The Polish greeting is, How do you have
YOURSELF" and that of the Persian, May thy
shadow never be less!" is even more courteous.
The Russian says, How do you live on?"
and, How do you stand?" is the Italian
greeting
The Swedish form is, How can your" and
the French sometimes say. How do you carry
YOURSELF"
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ASevery nation has
n its own laws,
it has in like
manner its own Pc
culiar forms of greet
ing. In the earliest
records of the He
brews, Greeks, and
Romans, we find that
the kiss was used as
a manner of greeting,
and among the early
Christians it was a
distinctive mark of
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Lifting the Hat

MANY of the gentle courtesies of life found
1vA their origin in the Age of Chivalry. when
the warlike knights of Europe took oath to pro-
tect the oppressed and to wage war against
the oppressor
One of these is the custom of lifting the hat
When knighthood was in vogue, one of those
armored champions never appeared in public
except in full array ready for combat 1t soon
became a custom, however, for knight to re-
move his helmet when in the company of his
friends as a mark of confidence in them, and
seldom would he remain covered in the pres
ence of the fair sex.
The custom, however, may now be said to
have lost half its elegance by losing all its
danger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
BAN ON CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Holiday Shopping American Woman's
Cardinal Sin, Says CIubwoman.

Holiday Shopping American Woman's
Cardinal Sin, Says CIubwoman.
The Chicago Women's club has be-
gun movement to abolish the giving
of Christmas presents. says Il Chicago
dispatch to the New York Tribune
Mrs. l. S. Blackwelder, president of
the club, and Mrs. Ellen NJ Henrotin,
chairman of the reform committee,
lead the movement
1.-The whole system of giving Christ
mas presents is pernicious," declared
Mrs. Blackwelder. Human society
must rid itself of an excrescence which
has grown out of celebration once
beautiful. but which has lost its origi-
nal significance"
Mrs. Henrotin did not mince words
when she told her hearers that Christ
mas shopping is the American wom-
ans cardinal Sin.
1.-THE extravaganza of woman is one
of the things that are causing the
financial stringency in America" she
said. 'Our men are too liberal. 1t is a
vicious condition"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

great surprise. large wasp new 10
the window sill and after buZzing
around his wounded brother for few
minutes. began TO feel him all over.
The injured wasp seemed TO revive
under this treatment, and his FREUD
then dragged him gently to the edge.
grasped him around the body and flew
away with. him. 1t was plain that the
stranger. finding Il wounded comrade.
gave him aid as well as he could and
then bore him away home.-London NJ.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
A Wash Nurse.

A story of how one wasp cared for
another that had been injured is told
by a gentleman who. while reading the
newspaper, felt bothered by the buzzing
OF n wasp about his head and knocked
it down. 1t fell through the open win
dow and lay on the sill as if dead
4 few seconds afterward. to Ais
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
Here's Good Advice.

o. S. Woolever, one of the best
known merchants of lie Raysville, n.
Y. says: "If you are ever troubled
with piles, apply Bucklen's Arr:ca
Salve. 1t cured me of them for good
20 years ago" Guaranteed for sores,
wounds, burns or abrasions. % cents
at all drug stores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
afford quick relief for AL forms of kid
ney and bladder trouble. A weeks
treatment, 25 cents. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14


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21,7e7 DIE OF SNAKE BITE.
Record Of a Single Year in India
Wild Beasts Kill 2,O54.
From Baily's Magazine.

From Baily's Magazine.
The number of persons killed in India in
1905 by wild beasts was 2,054, as against
2157 in the previous year. and the number
of deaths reported from snake bite (21 .79O
is also little smaller than, that of 1904.
A feature of the 1905 returns is the in
crease in the number Of deaths, both Of
human beings and cattle, attributed to
leopards. 1t is suggested that these beasts
seek their prey more readily than they
used to do in the neghborhoodsof villages.
The fact that more licenses to possess fire.
arms were held in 1905 than in the previous
year may be noticed; but it has long been
recognized that it is impossible to discover
any relation between the number of fire.
arms in native hands and the number OF
deaths from wild beasts.
During 1905 more dangerous wild beasts
we're killed than in 1904. The official figures
are: Tigers, 1,355; leopards. Ash; bears,
1926; wolves 2,016. and hyenas. 554 Well
known maneatfng tigers were killed in sew
eral districts. A regular crusade against
central provinces where these beasts are
most numerous and most troublesome.
To the success Of the campaign no doubt
may be attributed the great decrease In the
number of persons killed by wolves-in 1904,
244; in 1908, only 153. efOre Gismissing this
subject It is worth noting that the Bengal
government in September last offered a spe-.
cial reward of Rs. 200 for maneating tiger
which killed seven persons last year In Coil
kera forest, Singohum district The ordi-
nary reward Tor a tiger Is Rs. 40.
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was last In the country directly tributary
to Duluth, said T. T. Peters of st. Paul.
my only reason for this belief Is the fact
that / do not see as many birds from the
car windows In travelling through northern
Minnesota as did a year ago at TINS time.
II have noticed. and the railroad men
have told me- that chickens always collect
near a railroad track in winter In this part
of the state, so as to be where they can
pick up gravel and scattered grain. The
loaded cars often leak a little, scattering
parts of their contents between the rails,
where the chickens and other birds can
easily get at the grain. This makes rich
pickings for them, and every winter they
are to be found along the railroad tracks
If there are any of the birds In the country.
After the close of the hunting season
the scattered hocks get together again, and
often two or three fiocks consolidate, MAX
ing one big bunch of forty or fifty birds.
When they fly up from the track they
generally create sensation among those
of tho passengers who happen to be sports
men l haven't seen a single one of these
big focks this year yet, seeming to show
there are not so many birds as formerly
The most / have seen together this winter
were six or eight, and generally they are
In twos and threes l guess the country IS
pretty thoroughly covered by hunters and
their dogs, and the chickens suffered Sc
verely.
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sticking out from under the front door.
Opening the door, Miss Kelly picked up the
CRYING child and saw that it's dress was
daubed with blood. Then making an in
vestigation, she traced the stains to the
closet door, and there found the body.
The baby was too young to tell what
had happened
Mr.. Lewis. husband of the dead woman.
was summoned to Altoona, where he had
been on a selling tour. He was unable to
give any motive, though there was some
suggestion that a former admin er of Mrs.
Lewis might have been animated to the
crime by jealousy. This clue was readily
run out, and the suspect proved a perfect
alibi
Then suspicion turned to Miss Kelly and
another boarder named Harry Somers.
Miss Kelly and her companion were ar
rested, but they, too, succeeded in estab-
fishing alibis.
A new director of public safety having
taken Office while the hue and cry was
on, fresh effort was made to trace the
criminal, but to no avail The character
of the injury that brought about death
complicated the mystery.
There was only one wound, and it a small
one, but it was in exactly the right spot
TO cause death, narrow incision in the
neck as though some one with an expert
knowledge of anatomy had thrust a
physicians lance into the woman's neck.
Case Was a Mystery.
Every physician or dentist in Philadel-
phia, or within a radius of one hundred
miles, was notified to make search and
report whether any of his cutting instru-
ments were missing. But even this drag
net brought no satisfaction.
The case stood perfect mystery.
Then Price came to the front with his
confession His story was a most de-
tailed one and at first recital it bore APP
parently convincing earmarks of truth. APP
D,lo n NJ rr-tll x1xy III
self a murderer. The story seemed only
to be wrung from his unwilling lips when
his tortured conscience could not longer
sustain the strain of REFRESHING it.
In his own thrilling narrative of why he
divulged his guilt he said: -
THAT babys cries are ever in my ears.
1t Is horrible. Perhaps when l am hanged
I will no longer hear them"
In this effort to put the moose around his
neck Price traced his every movement dur
ing the hours Immediately before and after
the performance of the crime. He de-
scribed how he and a pal had planned to
rob physician, and did SO, securing among
the swag a lance, which he took along for
use in case a weapon should be needed
while he was doing the Lewis job. Accord
ing to Price, he gained access to the house
as plumbers While Price pretended to be
fixing the bath room pipe his pal was rif1ing
the bureau drawers.
Coming upstairs, Mrs. Lewis saw the
help 1t was to stif1e her outburst, Price
says that he plunged the lance into her
neck.
Described His Escape.
Then he went on to describe his escape.
In telling the story Prince did not spare
himself and seemed animated only by the
one hysterical desire to make PREPARATION,
and give his own life for the life he said he
had taken.
Had the police unquestioningly taken his
confession for fact they would have been
entirely within the law, and could have
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Dogs Pace a Turkish Train.


Ours was not a rapid train, and yet when
compared with those of the Spanish rail-
ways 1t could not be called slow. In fact, 1t
went as fast as dog can run. know this
because / tried the experiment.
At one of the stations l fed a sleek
looking animal. AS the train started he
followed and l kept on feeding. The dog
kept on running His eyes were upon my
window. Never once did he look to the
ground, save when l threw mOrsel Of
chicken or "a bone. and even then he did
not slacken his speed. With slight move
ment his head would bend, there would be
a snap. and II bone or morsel was picked
up, we'll and good; II not. he looked to me
for further donations.
Every one on the train became interested
in the race From every window Turks
held tempting morsels to entice the cur.
Mile after mile. and still our companion
kept pace. The engineer drew his head out
of the car window and put on extra steam
and the dog an extra squirt
Ten miles further on We reached the
next station and our dog was with US.
Every one was delighted. and have seldom
seen a more enthusiastic and pron,iscuous
reception given to any human being. After
that 1t was the sport of every one to tempt
the dogs of each station to run races with
the train. At one time We had q line of
dogs stretching out for miles behind.
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Madame LIE Bret has posed frequently be-
fore the camera, and much of the art print
ing and art photography from France that
comes to the United States is the repro
duction of her lovely features.
Madame LIE Bret, an artist with tempera-
ment to the finger tips, and woman of
more culture than Is usually credited to the
artists model, is wearied of the eternal
has to be done in summer. when the heat
of the skins worn for long time becomes
almost insuppOrtable, but she cannot es-
cape. Artists, both OF brush and camera,
will have her in that guise.
Ida Bart 10 considerably younger than
Madame lie Bret. In fact she has only
been POSING for the ast three on
Her fine shoulders, ANAL head, with curling
mass Of black hair, have put her much in
demand' VIII" ARTISTS who aye seeking fit
ting mode. Tor blooming youth.
Woman Of Business Ability.
Like the president of the new organiza-
ton, she Is woman Of business ability,
and she Is the author Of a plan for event
ually securing system of pension, or at
least sick benefits, for the Partisan model.
1t is her thought that If out of sheer
patriotism the models of the Parrie are
willing to give up lucrative engagements.
done Should i Ss 5Isss ITO to subscribe to
fund that has for its aim the protection OF
the model against the financial troubles
that come with illness or age. This fea-
ture has been generally approved of, and
her hope is likely to be realized.
Mile. Clemence-she could have changed
1t to madame a dozen times during her
reign one of the most sought of Paris
models-eaped into her popularity stimuli
taneously with the sudden popularity-or
rather revival-of the Gainsborough hat.
No one -couff wear the big picture hats OF
Sir Joshua Reynolds time and look as
well as she, and she has been painted and
pictured and photographed hundred times
in plumes of huge dimensions.
Sarah Martin Is often painted In riding
habit that is highly English. This, to-
gether with the somewhat English sound
of her name, might lead to the idea that
she Is in some way connected with Johnny
Bulls tight little isle. AS q matter OF fact,
Mile. Martin Is a Frenchwoman of French
women. Her first name she says proudly
is just as good French as that of her
genius of the last half century, and she
pronounces the last syllable of her surname
tan" with fawless French nasal.
Marie Lestrade is chiefly famous for her
superb neck and shoulders. She never
lacks for clients, and has posed for artists
OF dozen different nationalities, but like
her sisters in art, she seriously affirms
that she has drawn the race line for all
future time.
So has Mile. Fourchette blonde of
statuesque proportions, who is never SO
happy as when she is portraying grande
danes, especially those of the empire
period, for in princess gown the dainty
Fourchette Is truly a picture over which
to rave. During the recent Napoleonic re-
vival she was much in demand.
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sent him to the scaffold, even though sub
sequent developments had shown the error.
But certain inaccuracies in the story were
quickly disclosed.
The physician whose Office Price said he
had robbed. came to the front, and proved
that he had not suffered the theft of any
surgical Instruments or anything else. De-
tectives traced the movements OF Price,
and found that he could not have been at
the scene of the crime at the time he said,
and eventually the department; was COM
PEELED to vote the story fake.
Questions as to the motive man could
have to put himself under the severest PEN
atty of the law for the worst crime against
law instantly suggest themselves.
Psychologists have ready answer.
They say there are certain, minds Which
become victims of suggestion. Sane in other
respects and able to follow the normal
courses of life, they cannot throw Off GER
tain ideas which take possession OF the
brain and will not down. In the case OF
Price an expert has reasoned that when he
read first reports of the murder the horror
of the helpless child in the house with the
murdered mother took possession of him.
He thought about the infant cries, he
dreamed about them. AS he himself says,
they were with him night and day, until
finally he could thin ? of nothing else.
Imagined Himself the Murderer.
Then gradually his mind, now obsessed
with one controlling idea, pieced out the
remainder of the tragedy. 1t did not seem
to him to be merely theory or imagination.
The form the murder took in his BRAIN
cells he came to accept as the exact YER
sion of what had happened.
Eventually he imagined himself par
ticipant. Then the cries of the child still
further racked him, just as the sleigh bells
of the murdered Jew haunt Matthias OF
1.-The Bells made famous in this country
by Sir Henry Irving.
The elimination was such frightful
stress of mind that only confession and
prospect of death brought any comfort.
This incident brings gruesome thoughts
that other confessions accepted as real
have been equally Pigments of hypnotized
brain. Perhaps in the future the psychol-
ogist will play just as important part in
murder trials as the detective.
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don, Rome, Florence, Genoa or Berlin to
pose for particularly important pieces OF
work.
1t can be imagined that such engage
ments are highly remunerative, and I'M
til the present time they have been
eagerly sought by French women, who
in point of thrift and business ability
are certainly not much behind their sis
tiers of other climes.
But these journeys are now all over
What talent the French model has will
in the fueture be at the disposal OF
French artists only. She who can at a
turn portray Venus in her dazzling
beauty. rising gracefully from the sea;
show the horrors Of Medusa's smile; pic
ture the destinations of a Gree, Turing a
Ulysses to his doom; show the tear-stained
face of Niobe; be the wifely Penelope.
sewing patiently while waiting the return
Of her recreant lord; give to the betrayed
Medea all the horrors Of expression to sat
lsfy the needs of the realist; show grim
Lady Macbeth with bloody dagger: pose
the seasons>and a dozen other allegorSSal,
classical. Psychological and religious figures
will do SO in days to come entirely before
the palettes of men, who, like herself,
claim La Belle France for q birthplace.
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per cent, and other experiments confirmed
the conclusion that the air in the store
room was ordinary air containing less than
its proper proportion of oxygen, owing to
admixture of air deprived of its oxygen
which issued from the well.
The source of the impoverished air from
the we'll was finally traced to tunneling OPP
erations close by in which compressed air
was being used. The air must have found
it's way through the soil wherever it was
sufficiently porous, and so into the shaft OF
the we'll, and on it's passage through the
soil must have been deprived of part of its
oxygen by contact with some substance
such as pyrites.
Evidence In support Of the correctness
of this conclusion was furnished by the
analysis of the mud from another well
shaft near the first. This mud was found
to contain pyrites. and air left in contact
with 1t for some weeks was deprived of al
most the whole of its oxygen.