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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-23
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
CHINESE WRITING.
Every Scrap of Every Kind Is Held to
Be Sacred.

The Chinese hold every scrap Of
writing sacred, no matter what the
characters express-the merest com
mercla message, advertisement, etc.
TO teach his wisdom they are holy.
In the average Chinese community
all letters and waste papers are laid
away in a clean receptacle TO await the
collector, who appears mt regular inter
walls to transfer the waste papers to
the sacred furnace. If the papers were
burned by the Chinese in their own
homes, the ashes of the sacred writ
ings would mlngle with the ashes of
wood and other fuel, and the ashes of
Chinese writing are ns sacred as the
writing itself.
The ashes from the sacred furnace
are placed In sacks, the sacks are CON
veyed by wagons to the sea and there,
In Mon War boat, are carried out
where the tide runs swift and con
signed to the waves.
The Mon War boat belongs TO the
Mon War Sher which is n lodge with
branches everywhere, organized and
maintained for the purpose of paying
reverence to the spirit of Confucius.
The furnace in the Chinatown which
nearly every large city in the United
States harbors is generally brick,
ovenlike structure about five feet high.
Opposite 1t on the wall there will usu-
ally be an inscription of the character
of the following: "The spirits Of our
ancestors are pleased that we keep
sacred the writing of our country"
The society of Mon War Sher Club
of the Beautiful writing is made up
In each case of the prominent denizens
of Chinatown, who support 1t by vol
untary contributions, which pay the
salaries of the keeper and his assist
ant.-New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
FATE AT The HELM.
A Curious Coincidence Of the Cruise Of
the Amity.

A Curious Coincidence Of the Cruise Of
the Amity.
Ralph ID. Paine while delvlng Into
the old sea logs kept by eighteenth CEN
tury captains and now stored In the
Essex institute at Salem brought to
light strange tale that yet was fact.
He tells about II In Outing Magazine:
"The Grand Turk, good ship be-
longing to Elias Haskell Derby OF Sa-
lem, n well known merchant, was re-
turning TO Salem from the West In
dies.
During the voyage Captain lnger.
soil rescued the master and mate of an
English schooner, the Amity, whose
crew had mutlnied while In the Span
ish main. The two officers had been
cast adrift In small boat to perish.
This was the first act In a unique
drama of maritime coincidence In 17Ii.
"After the castaways had reached
Salem, Captain Duncanson. the English
master of the Amlty, was the guest Of
Elias Haskell Derby while he waited
for word from his owners and an OPP
portunlty to return TO his home across
the Atlantic. He spent much of his
time on the water front as n matter of
course and used to stand at window
OF Mr.. Derbys counting house idly
staring at the harbor.
zone day while sweeping the sea
ward horizon with the Office spyglass
the forlorn British skipper let fly an
oath Of the most profound amazement.
He dropped the glass, rubbed his eyes,
chewed his beard and stared again. A
schooner was making across the bar,
and presently she stood clear OF the
island at the harbor mouth and slipped
toward an anchorage well inside.
"There was no mstaking her at this
range. 1t was the Amlty, his own
schooner which had been taken from
him in the West Indies, from which he
and his mate had been cast adrlft by
the plratlcal seamen. Captain Duncan
son hurried into Mr.. Derby's private
office as fast as his legs could carry
him. BY some incredible twist of fate
the captors of the Amlty had sailed her
straight to her captain.
"Mr. Derby was a man of the great
est promptitude, and one of his an
chored brigs was instantly manned
with heavy crew, two deck guns
slung aboard, and, with Captain Dun
canson striding the quarter deck, the
brig stood down to take the Amity.
at was Captain Duncanson who led
the boarders, and the mutineers were
soon overpowered and fetched back to
Salem Jail in irons. The grateful skip
per and his mate signed crew in Sa-
lem and took the Amlty to sea, a vessel
restored to her own by so marvellous
an event that 1t would be laughed out
Of court as material for fiction"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Her Game Blocked.

The tlmid looking little woman On
the Euclid car noticed that her purse
was not in her bag where she had
placed it. Instead, 1t was hanging from
her arm on chain-hanging In full
view where it would tempt the nimble
fingers Of the pickpockets assigned to
that beat. With great forethought she
picked up the purse and started to put
1t in the bag. But the purse didn't go
In, because it was attached to the arm
Of the persimmony faced woman stand
ing next to her. OF course the woman
with the bag stopped right there and
dropped the strangers purse.
"You'd better let that Alone" spoke up
the persimmony faced woman. I've
been watching you ever since you got
On, and you needn't think I didn't gee
what you were trying to do."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
How CaterpilIars Build.

Many clever caterpillars which dwell
habitually in company build common
nest for the common benefit. OF these
Is the famous American tent caterpil-
lar. The tents are really nests of silk
spun among leaves and twigs. In them
the caterpillars dwell when young, and
to them they resort for shelter in rainy
weather even when larger grown. AL
lied species which pass through the
winter in the caterpillar state con-
struct winter sleeping places which
the bookish folk call hibernaculums.
These are often conspicuous among the
branches during the cold months Of the
year. If torn open they reveal sur
prlsing thickness Of spun silk, forming
dense nonconductiye wall. At the
center of the mass lie from thirty to
fifty tightly packed caterpillars waiting
for the return Of the warm weather,
when they will resume their feeding.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
THE ARTlCH0KE .-.aSS.
Where Clara Barton Spelled on Her
First Day In School.

Where Clara Barton Spelled on Her
First Day In School.
On the morning of her first day In
Irregular school, Clara Barton was
taken on the strong shoulders Of her
eldest brother, Stephen n mile through
the deep drifts to the schoolhouse. 1t
was the winter term, and the pupils,
as was usual at that time included not
only the large boys and girls, but in
reality the young men and young wom-
en- of the neighborhood. Little Clara,
then about five, was the baby of the
school.
She confesses in her book, ''The Sto-
ry of My Childhood" that she recalls
no introduction to the teacher, but was
set down among the many pupils in
the by no means spacious room, with
her spelling book and the traditional
slate, from which no one could sep
arate her.
II was seated on one of the low
benches and sat very STILL" Miss Bar
ton remembers. "At length the majes-
tic schoolmaster seated himself and,
taking a primer, called the class Of
little ones to him.
Gle pointed the letters to each.
named them all and was asked to spell
some little words, dog cat etc,
whereupon l hesitatingly Informed him
that 4 did not spell there
"Where do you spell? he asked.
"I spell in "artichoke," that being
the leading word in the three syllable
column in my speller."
The schoolmaster good naturedly
conformed to the little girls sugges-
tion, and she was put into the 'arti-
choke" class to bear her part for the
winter and read and "spell for the
head"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Extrayauance.

There is a clerk in the employ Of
Philadelphia business man who,
while fair worker, is yet an individ-
ual Of pronounced eccentricity. One
day a wire basket fell off the top OF
the clerks desk and scratched
cheek. Not having any court plaster at
hand, he slapped on three two-cent
stamps and continued his work. A few
minutes later he had occasion to take
some paper to his employers private
Office. When he entered, the "old man."
observing the postage stamps on his
cheek, fixed him with an astonished
stare. "Look here, Jenkins" he ex-
claimed, "you are carrying too much
postage for second class matterr
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Dianified Course.

An army examiner once had can
didate before him who apparently was
unable to answer the simplest ques-
tion. At last the examiner lost his
temper and, with sarcastic emphasis,
quite lost on the youth before him,
said:
Suppose, sir, that you were cap
tain in command of company Of In
fantry; that in your rear was an i'm
passable abyss; that on either side Of
you lowered perpendicular rocks Of un-
traversable height; that before you
stood the enemy, a hundred men to
each one Of yours. What, sir, would
you do in this emergency"
"Sir," said the aspirant to military
honors, Il should resign."-Pearson's
Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
A Witch's Weiuht

Il was weighed this morning at the
grocery" announced Brenda, small,
dainty young woman of trim figure,
"and weighed just ninety-nine pounds
and half. When | stepped down old
Mr.. Follansbee laughed and said
That's a lucky half, miss. Ninety-nine
is witches weight | asked what he
meant, and he said: My, my, didn't
ever hear of witches weight? Well,
that is queer. Your gran'ther kin tell
We, though
"And now, grandfather. what is
witches weight"
"Ma'am JONES'" said grandfather
tersely, was witch, and her weight
was witches weight"
There was a chorus of exclamations.
"Yes, witch in my day." he reiterat-
ed, ''as much witch as any witch, and
as much believed in, If not as widely.
"As for her weight, 1 believe ninety
nine pounds is indeed the traditional
limit Of weight for witch. Perhaps
1t is the utmost broomstick will car
ry."-Youth's Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
A MERCHANT.
He Used TO Be One Engaged ExoIu-
sively In Foreign Commerce.

siVeIy In Foreign Commerce.
Originally the term merchant was
applied only to one who traded with
foreign countries and who owned or
chartered ships for that purpose
Chaucer's "Marchaunt:"
He wolde the see were kepud for eny-
thinge
Betwixe Middulburgh and Orewelle.
The merchant of Venice had "on the
ocean" his "argosies with portly SAIL"
and so had all the other merchants
about whom poets or historians have
written. So also in the Bible there is
no confusion about the meaning of the
word. One passage alone will serve as
an illustration, "She is like the mer-
chants shlps-she bringeth her food
from afar" proverbs XXI, 14. De
Quincy, writing in the early part of
the nineteenth century ("Autoblograph-
ic Sketches'O, says:
"My father was merchant, not In
the sense of Scotland, where 1t means
retail dealer-one for instance, who
sells groceries in the cellar-but in the
English sense, a sense vigorously ex-
clusive-that is, he was man en-
gagged in foreign commerce and no
other, therefore in Wholesale COM
merce and no other"
But now it is no longer necessary TO
'plow the Spanish main" to give one
this time honored title, for any one
who sells eggs by the dozen or flannel
by the piece is at once put down as
merchant.-London Notes and Queries
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15

In very warm water often gives relief
at once. And another good idea is to
lower the head for a few seconds to a
level with the knees. Above all, one
should never give in to the feeling Of
drowslness by taking a short nap in
the hope Of waking up brighter after
1t. At the same time the condition Of
the office might be looked to. The
slightest defect in ventilation will
often cause one man to be affected by
office drowslness even If other persons
in the same room feel nothing Of it
whatever."-NewY York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Webster's Home Squadron.

A few days before his death Daniel
Webster wished to leave his slckroom
once more to look upon the little para
disc which his taste had adorned about
his mansion. Dressing himself with
the utmost care, he went through the
house on the arm of a servant and
finally reached the library. The night
before there was terrific storm, and
the great statesman expressed solici-
tude for the safety of the fishermen
off the coast AS he looked from the
window his eye fell upon number of
pleasure boats which had been moored
to little mound in the artificial pond
in the rear Of the house. "Well," said
he, "the home squadron is safe.
think l will go back" 1t was his last
playful remark. He never left his
room again.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Late at the PLAY.

We know from Pepys and from
passages in the plays of contemporary
dramatlsts that the manners of thea
ter audiences in the restoration epoch
were not nice, but there Is no reason
to believe that even the fops habitual-
ly arrived at the theater late Mr..
Sparklsh, Mr.. Novel and their fellows
would talk loudly while the play was
going on to show the superiority of
their wit to the poets, but they likely
were on hand early to lose none Of the
fun. In later epochs Of English the
atrical history theater going was a
serious undertaking, not n mere pas
time. One can tell from the begin
nings Of old plays that the authors
counted on audiences closely attentive
from the first. LADY Randolph is the
first speaker in Douglas" Orestes in
"rhe Distressed Mother" Almeira in
"The Mourning Bride" The custom
OF playing the audience I'm" with q
short piece was Of still later origin.
Perhaps about that time the habit Of
going late to the theater became COM
mon. "Half price" for late comers was
a custom Of Thackeray's time.-West-
minister Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15

There are certain delicate shades Of
expression Of which Frenchman is,
as a rule, past master. One member
of that fluent nation, stranded in New
York. was setting forth his troubles
to lawyer.
81 understand from what you say
that you are convinced your friend
Lecomte has stolen your purse" said
the lawyer.
mo, no, monsieur Not so fastp'
cried his client. II only say that IL
Lecomte had not assisted me to hunt
for it should have found 1t again."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
OFFICE DR0WSINESS.
Il May Be the Beginning Of Serious
Mental Trouble.


"Some men are quite martyrs to Of
fee drowsiness," said physician to a
patient who was complaining Of that
feeling ANY monotonous sound near
them, the hum Of traffic outside or
even the scratching Of clerks pen Is
sufficient to induce feeling Of sleepi-
ness which it is almost impossible to
resist. The worst Of it is that this
symptom seldom is regarded as any
thing serious, though 1 have known
1t to be the beginning of critical mental
trouble. Far more often, however, it
is merely the effect Of constitutional
eccentricity, though in either case a
few simple remedies might be tried
with advantage.
'For example, l always advise the
old indigestion cure-a glass of hot
water-when the feeling comes on. To
keen the eyes tightly closed for two
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Reform He Advocated.

The editor Of British weekly Jour-
nal, wishing to know what reforms
well known men desired to see effected
during the year, once applied to Sir
W. S. Gilbert among others. The au-
thor Of ''The Mikado" answered: ''Dear
Sir-A reform which 1 am particularly
anxious to see carried into effect is
that editors would cease to trouble
busy people for gratuitous contribu-
tions.'
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
In the laundries,

Troy is the greatest of collar, cuff
and shirt towns. Therefore it is well
equipped with laundries. In these in
stitutions the Methodists provide the
fire, the Baptists the water, the Pres
byterians the bluing and the Episco-
palians the starch.-New York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Sure to Be Converted.

When the south sea islander said to
the missionary, 81 will call and dine
upon you tomorrow" the missionary
realized that he was bound to be con-
verted.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Fun of II.

Dear, l only play poker for fun"
"But you bet, don't youY
'Well, there wouldn't be any fun
without a little etting."-Louisvill
Courier-Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Didn't Like His Head

Manager-My stock in trade Is brains.
Principal Girl = You've got a funny
looking sample case.-London Pick-Me-
Up.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15

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saw ye till tn day before me unforch-
nit marriage! Mr.. Houlihan-An' l Of
ten wisht ye hadn't seen me till tn
day afther.-Puck.
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From little things men 60 on to
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Bilious Spells

Year after year you suffer from attacks Of
bilious headache, indigestion. constipation al
ternating with looseness Of the bowels, d1zi-
ness, dependency and i'll temper, until your
trouble becomes a habit, or develops into
Bnght's disease Of the kidneys.
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The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-23
Insomnia and Alarm Clocks.
The patient complained of insomn

The patient complained of insomnia
"You must go get an alarm clock at
once" said the physician.
The patient started.
81 mean it. What time do you
waken usually in the night?'
1.-TWO o'clock lately"
"Set the alarm for fifteen minutes
before two. AS soon as it strikes, get
up, dress for the day and take a walk
of not less than two miles. Do not go
to bed again that day under any cir
cumstances, nor take a nap, even sit
ting in your chair.
1.-The next night set the alarm at a
quarter past two You will sleep until
it wakens you. Get up as before, and
take another two-mile walk.
''The third night you can venture to
set your alarm at three. Repeat the
walk. If you are not cured by that
time you will be a more difficult case
than any 1 have had heretofore; but If
the habit of lying awake is not
broken. begin back at two O'Clock
again and repeat.
Another sure cure for insomnia is
sitting up with the sick. Just bind
yourself to sit up alt night with some
good, strong invalid, and if you are
not permanently healed of insomnia
| before morning you may come bach
here and 1 will not charge you any.
thing for another prescription. New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-23
Gentlemen,

Gentlemen, my experience must
have chased shivers up and down your
spines, but 1 have every reason to be-
lieve that 1t did not compare with that
of poor Abijah Lovejoy He had
large and liberal ears that stuck out
from his head like the ears of COW.
For years his wife made him tie 'em
back. He was bow-legged by nature
She made him tie straight sticks to the
inside of his legs. He was big-footed
She made him wear boots two sizes
too small, and thus he got hobble.
From morn till night she was pester-
ing him about this or that, and there
could be but one end to it. 1 knew
what was coming years ago. / was
in the field with him planting 'taters,
and his eyes were so full of tears that
he tried to plant many of the hills on
top the fences. When 1 found him
hanging it was no surprise to me. 1t
was simply a case of another good
man gone to his doom from not know
ing in advance that a red-headed
widow is a powder magazine lying in
wait to blow somebody sky-high. Poor
Abijah is gone at last, and I shall
take it as the sense of this meeting
that we consider he should have a
special room to himself in that bet
ter land. copyrighted, 1908, by T.
c. McClure.)
The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-23
Two Types of Negro Towns.

Interesting examples of towns act
ualIy governed by negroes may be
found today. One of these is but 80
miles from Chicago and 95 miles from
Detroit known as Calvin, Cass county,
Michigan. Its history is characteristic.
The Ouakers among its founders made
it a haven of refuge for the fugitive
slaves on their way to the Canadian
borders, so that by 1850, of the 1858
negroes in Cass county, 795 lived in
the majority of the population, and
have continued to be so ever since,
being. in fact, so per cent of the popu-
lation (about 1,500) today.
1t was not, however, till 1875 that
the first negro was elected to office,
years that the town government has
been chiefly in the hands of negroes.
The officers of the municipality are
supervisor, clerk, treasurer, road COM
missioners and school directors. All
these except the treasurer are colored.
The negroes who make up the town
ship are as a rule landowners and
| the market value Of their property is
about 100000.
There is another negro governed
community which presents a very dark
| contrast to this agricultural township
ruled by negro farmers. 1t is the sub
urb of East st. Louis called Brooklyn,
| Ill. This negro town also rose from
an early station on the unOer-
ground railroad" for fugitive slaves
Many of the runaways remained in
Brooklyn, instead of continuing their
flight to Canada, and the population
| is estimated at over 1000 today.
The negroes of Brooklyn, Ill, are
| principally railroad hands and labor
ers in the stockyards and steel works
| there There is a standing offer tC
the chiefs of police of the surrounding
| towns for all the negroes they car
send to Brooklyn, so lively is the de-
| mand for the coarser kind of day la
| Dor. The corrupting influences of the
large corporations have produced the
| type of negro politicians who fix ac
commodating taxes upon corporation
property.
AS the paper in the Southern Work
man (organ of Hampton institute.
from which these facts are drawn
says: Instead of paying the tax.
am informed that the corporations of
ten buy off negro politicians, so tina
they have only a small tax to pay
The politicians permit an employe o
the company to be elected assessor, s.
as to assess the company's property
Thus. as in a hundred other munich
palities where politicians rule, cor
ruption is rampant" Then the en-
The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-23

forcement of the liquor law by Gov
ernor Folk has driven the saloons and
other evil resorts and their patrons
from ST. Louis across the river. The
colored ministers are in despair over
the situation of their town, although
the mayor, treasurer, clerk, inspector
of streets, fire chief and chief of police
and the six members of the village
council are all negroes. = Boston
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