' crag- Presence and set forth again upon
'i Slavery In United St a.
flowery existed in nearly all of the:
flush colonies tron: an early p‘erlM
until shortly before or men site he
mlutlonary war. and the African
mile was openly tolerated by the
mist: government. In 17W there
new 292.000 African slaves in the col-
m. scattered tram New ngiand in
Georgia. Slavery was not profit ‘ ‘
1”! Massachusetts until
Mont until 1777.1‘lle ,
ms of 1810 showed 310 slaves in
mnecflcut. 10,851 in New Jersey. 1.»
(in? in New York: 795 in Pennsylvania
m 108 in Rhode island. .Slav’ery was
gradually abolished. in the northern
«m. but in 1820 there were still 97
saves in Connecticut. 7.557 in New
my. 10088 in New York 211 in
grungylvanla and 48 in Rhode island
“the census of 1850 showed the disap
nuance of slavery in all the northern
wasps except in New Jersey, which
was had 236.
The Voice of Cornm’lnd. .
lag infinitesimal fiasco-haired atom
m in a puddle before" the Highland
m hotel... says Punch. splashing
mi and its clothes and shouting in
ease. Beside it stood a dignified
Maned figure pleading earnestly in
nmdustanl. "Humor," it said, "listen
as: the word ’0! thy Servant and rise: '
lux- honor, thy mother. will upbraid
not: site see thee there- And behold.
em tomorrow thy servant must leave
use black water! Shall he go with a
vilcwucast race because the Presence
em taken cold?" All this it said and
um: yet the “Presence" continued
l.“ wallow with callous joy. Then on
the doorstep of the hotel appeared the
are, red headed housemaid from Moray-
slim who has recently joined the
may. “Eh, _Sahndy," she cried, “get
mp out of thaht this meannit, ye babd
tidal" And Sandy rose.
W
Failed to Live Up} to‘LName'.
diner-t means “nobly bright. illustrio »
ans," a signification that did not al-
vmys flt its owner. The name is found
um frequently in German than in
usher histories. There was an Albert
you: Great away back in the thirteenth
«mainly, a Suablan: nobleman bishop
rat Ratisbon, who was so unusually
named for his time that the ignorant
amused him of being too closely con-
nected with magic: and necromancy.
Ikring the some century there was
.eliaert, son of Emperor Rudolph von
flabsburg, who made him tinge of
Austria and at the same time cordially
Rated by its peoWflW term
Aberi: I a monster and he seems
an haye worked energetically to
deserve the epithet.
Watch for These.
A familiar pest is the tent caterpil- _
‘Esr which is very destructive to all
knit trees. The reddish brown moth
in; its eggs in the form or incom-
uletze belts on the smaller branches.
and: belt or packet consisting of hun-
dreds of tiny eggs glued together and
covered with a varnishlike substance.
uysthe American Forestry Magazine
at “Washington. These, eggs hatch
only in the spring and the young'cat- 7
«pillars make their way to the near-
“ fork. where they spin a little tent
a silk to protect them. They work
at from this tent; teeding on the
Caves and adding to the tent as
any need more room. If theré are
many colonies working a tree they
M strip of: the leaves. .1‘ '
Discovery of 5ephaltr Roadway. .
the discovery of asphalt was made
fig accident. Many years ago, in Swit-
zerland, natural rock asphalt was dis
meted, and for more {ha-nee century
fi was need for the purpose of or
«acting the rich acreage! bitumen it ,
drummed. In time it was noticed that
nieces of rock which. fell from the
moon and were- crushed by the
wheels formed a; marvelously flue road
surface when assisted by the heat: of
ac sun. A proper- road of asphalt
melt was then made; and in 1854 an
experimental roadway was laid in
Earls. From that time“ the use of rock
cephalic for the making of roads and
movements has increased and extended 3
as many countires.
Early Pay lug Cards.
Early American playing; cards. ac-
unending to an article in the, American
its-inter, showed the national antipathy
do kings and queens bypresentlng, in-
send or the convenilo ~
The "queens" were ,
m and Minerva. Til “
{people knew nothing or many things
“in tine cloth, but had no shoes. The
good little boy; I
not on that horrible
princess whose father ruled over a
very wild dud strange country, for the
of which we have use. They dressed
men had never learned to fan leather.
so all, even the royal family, went
about barefooted. -
.0! course, the stones hurt the ten.
der feet of the princessum a carpen-
ter made her clogs, or wooden shoes. ‘
But these Were so heavy she seldom
Walked.
out in the mountains about tire
miles away was yotmg Knot, a shop-7
h'erd boy. who dried skins for rugs.-
He dyed the wool all sorts of been-
tiful colors and sold them at the
castle, ‘
One day he brought to the palace
a very large rug made from the. skin
of a huge-«mountain sheep.
snow white, and the soft, long hair
curled up with a silvery sheen.
As it was spread out on the floor of
the great hall the princess came run
ning' by. She stood on the rug! and
smiled with delight at its softness. '
“I wish I had a rug like this to
cover the whole land," laughed the
princess. “It would be fine fun to
.play out of doors then. I wish I could
“make an nut-ones in the kingdom nice
and soft and all of a golden color.” '
The idea took such a hold of her
that she Wept and asked the ltlhgjo
proclaim a great reward to anyone
making such roads in his country. The
old king smiled, thinkingouch an inn
possible :requeet too absurd 1' tomoticev
It was
5 x
illiliglilflllhll ,
princess desired.
made by the king. As he sat in his
but and played the date he thought
otrthe lovely princess whom he had
met; And he ‘wlshed with all his
heart that he could earn the reward.
for what he would ask would be not
gold, but her hand.
’ Out in his backyard there was a
puddle of dark water which had
drained down from. some wood shav-
lugs. And into it had fallen some
weeks before‘ a bit of sheepskin, and
there it had lulu undisturbed. Knot
picked it. up.
at all like the fresh skin.
He patted and dried and smoothed
woolly side with hot water and soap
oil till it was soft and pliant. -Betore
him in the damp sand he saw the
print of his foot.
princess: foot of this skin," he said
aloud.
Inside, having first dyed it a golden
hue. That will keep her feet warm
and preveutzrmks from hurting her.
And this outside skin will wear against
the ground and stones."
So, first dyeing the wool a lively
yellow, he‘ wrought with his bone
needle 21 lorely,pair of shoes: The
the outside. 0n the inside was the
clean w,ool a beautiful golden tint.
The next day he went to the palace
and presented them to the princess.
“Put these on your feet," he said.
“then you can run about over stones
and dirt without being hurt. Your
road through life will he a golden one;
every step you take you will tread 0n
golden softness."
The delighted princess ran to show.
the king her present. and in a few
days the led had orders to make leath-
the whole nation got shoes. The
princess wedded Kant. who had asked
for her hand, and at the {coat she
were her first golden ties.
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ASA week one my trieu gotta pretty
seeds. For tree. four day he no
feela good een dn stom. He losa plen-
ta dat- stuff wot maka you weigh whole
lot and he dunno wot’s matter.
He feela tough so mooch he decide.
go see (in physish._ Dat guy geeva-
heem somating and tella heem go get-
ta filled en druga store. My frien
geeva look and 'wae only leetle piece
paper Weath- som'ating on wot he no
can read, He tink dat piece paper- -'no
holda ver mooch, so he aska da pity;
sish Wot he gonna getta filled weeth.
Da physish tella heem was pre-
scripsh, but he no say wot‘s da writ-
ing mean. Anyway. My frlen go een
druga store and trade dat paper for
box of leetie pill and dolls. fieefiity
cent to boot.
He take dat pill for tree, four day,
but he keepa right on feeia tough. He
begin tinka do. physish duno somating
‘wot's matter weeth do atom. 80 one
day' he go see (in chiroprac and dat
guy almosta gotta hees goat. He turna
my frien upaslde down and punch een
do back so harda he can.
My trien try explalun bees pain cos ‘7
no een do back and (int only place he
gotta trouble ees da stem. But da
chiroprac no care for Out. He keeps.
right on puncha my trien ecu do back
when ees upaside down.
Now I no link ees right for do (lat.
Ee’t he wants. fight wot for he no tells
my frien can do face? I fee'gure any-
body wot puncha one can da back ees
(raid for lights square.
But my frlen say nexa- tithe he go
8 See dat chiroprac he télla bee-m he
gotta da pain ‘een da back. He feegure
hectn eeti da stem. My idea an {ear
he can fight righta Sid phe‘can; Ck v -
_ dat son-ot-ajgun een tree mean , V R
And I both: you eeexa bits‘my fried
Willem
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SPECS.
A year ago you didn’t need 'em!
What would you give to have your free-
dom
' As then you had it? But an ache
Began. when you wodld read. to take ’
Its place behind your trontlspiece,
And stubbornly refused to cease.
The doctor whom you first consulted
(Fromewhom no help {at allreeulted)
Informed you, when he couldn’t get
Another bone from you, "I'll bet
_ prob'ly.
You better see old Doctor Robley.”
You went‘and equintod at a card '
And tried to ‘see (tried awful hard!)
The smallest letters at the bottom.
But, save your soul! you couldn‘t spot
. 'ém.
Doc Robley charged you seven bonds
A And sent you to the specs man, Grones.
Since then you’ ve “teatime: forgotten,»
And wondered why you felt no rotten;
Till you’d remember, and produce
The glasses made for reading one.
Now, though at first you- c‘ouldn'twbeor
'em,
You' re growing reconciled to wear 'em. _
eef he do dat da chiroprac pnncha,
.- Diana—.5
t 3 . ~
You Know It! .
The fountain of perpetual
youth uni never be found by a
man or women without a tooth-
brink as n gutde.
I 3 Q
Where He Was. _
“Where is year oldest brother, Wile
lie?"
“He is away taking his entrance
examinations. "
"Oh! He's starting to collegel"
“No, To the insane asylum.”
- ' censors 7‘ KID “s i
.Knut heard or the announcement
It was smooth and not. , k: '
the skin having met washed 01! the n
Then be robbed the skin at 1th agweet .
"I Will have the wool turned -
‘s‘xin, which was now leather, was on
This headache comes from eye-strain._
he would give any inward asked to the ’
One who weal‘d accomplish What the“
“I will make a covering for the
er shoes for the king and court. Then v
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There have been no coats made. No telling when any will lie—for both employers ~
yworfiers seem determined to “fight it out." .3 ‘ .
W Because of this, it will be very who Ito cfio ose a fur coat new.
{In the first place one will be sure; of pass easing a coat. , 3
.:,_,.’,.s;.t 3'
Am"...
I.
'l
.3 3.; Of course, the “strike” is for high” wages. It’ s“ reasonably sure that, in the end, the T
{certain that any such increase will result in highchprl‘
some time ago: Prices then were more-attracllvd i
care that accompanies early-season work. Stylus ha
fixed Pelts were the early ohol '
iElliotu'ed a coat chosen from that stocE.
In tfiese new styles, there is a fine 30m nation of graceful lines with‘ comfort. {There 3rd
a length which does not add extra weight but their" ‘
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