Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-09-02
A Reconnaissance.

n Reconnaissance.
Mr.. Rawson's mule had strayed
away, and Pomp had been sent to ind
it. Instead of running along the road
In the direction in which the mule
had been last seen, Pomp scrambled
up Prospect hill as far as he could go
and surveyed the countryside.
When he returned in triumph with
the mule an hour later Mr.. Rawson
inquired why he had wasted time in
climbingth hill.
Twain no waste OBJ time said
Pomp Indignantly. Don't you know,
Mr.. Rawson, sab, dat mewel is one
OBJ dose animals you is got t 'proach
from de front end fob yo' own safety?
An how could l 'proach dat newell
from de front end till / knowed whar
he P-Youth's Companion.
Kept HE Umbrella.
The composer Panseron, while driv-
ing homeward in his cab during ter.
rife shower met the aged composer
Cherubini plodding along on foot, pro-
tected from the storm only by a shah.
by old umbrella full Of holes. Panse.
ron took compassion on the old gen
tleman and begged him to make use Of
the cab, saying that he himself would
walk home. Cherubini accepted and
took the others place in the cab. Then
Panseron naturally asked the old gem
tleman for The loan Of his umbrella.
oh, no, my dear boyr said Cheru-
bini. 1T is a well known fact that a
man never again sets eyes on an um-
brella that he has lent" And he drove
on in Panseron's cab.
Skill In Nail Driving.
1t usually takes a woodworker's APP
prentice a year or more to learn that
he doesn't know how. A fiedgeling me-
chanic who spoke sneeringly of a man
whom he heard using several blows OF,
the hammer to drive single nail
was somewhat crestfallen when told
that the nail would hold better when
driven "home" by several light taps
than when driven by one heavy one.
Why" asked he In surprise.
Because, said the other, when you
drive a nail home with a heavy blow |
1t is apt to rebound trife. loosening
the grip OF the wood fibers ON 1t. Drive |
1t almost down, IL you viii, with as
hard blows as you wish, but finish the |
Job with several light ws."-Sclen. |
tific American.
Get the Best.
An American motto which particu-
larly commended itself to the late DR.. |
Edward Everett Hale was, Get the |
best" He tried hard to get some |
western state to adopt this for its state |
seal. He also vainly endeavored 10
discover the original inventor of the
pithy phrase. It appeared upon the
Of Webster's Dictionary as "a
sort of trademark" but DR.. Hale
found 1t first In one OF LOwelrs pleas /
ant letters describing canoe voyage
IN Maine. Lowell. however. when ap- |
pealed TO by DR.. Hale, could not re- /
member whether he had picked 1t M
n conversation or invented 1t himself.
For myself" added DIR. Hale wistful.
y, Il like to associate 1t with him.
The Supplies.
The old Scotswoman who referred
% the surplice as a ''sark" or shirt was
was perfectly correct. For that Is
what 1t originally was. according to
he Lor don Chronicle. After the in
1asion OF the northern barbartaps n
was a common custom to wear a white
'hirt over the sheepskln or otter skin /,
hen in use. Hence. In the twelfth Il
century" writes Dean Stanley An his
christian Institutions. ''arose the bar.
'arous name OF superpeleliclum or sur.
'liee-the overfur. Its name Indicates
hat 1t Is the latest OF eccles.auttr.,
'estments, and though. like all the
'thers, generally worn both by clergy
md laity, indoors and out Of doors. II
the most remote In descent from
times"
Spelling.
On a member of parliament being
eeused Of bad spelling Dlsraell hu-
aorously defended him by declaring
hat "a man must be an idiot who
ould not smell word mora vxavs than | /