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1fgasga I iD t p * * * * ? ! !she i Jpom might c u m which would (poll p i . . irtw w u l d n III D t a t g l r i W tight t f U i t U i naturefij «oseat tatad sttttag la th# dartu treat evM m tij ______ t t o u M thnlr ^ u * « n « before they ware hatched. That preJta X * < fl c u m to grief. They Henry Laboucbere, It U »Hefed, amokaa poor cigarette#. This may * > covat for Henry’* Tlews on most thing#. = = = = = « The woman who knows that hor hus band's Ufa Is Insured for the benefit of kls mother may pretend to ha happy, bat what's tho uset Employers took at a boy’s fingers now when ha applies for a Job. I f the fingers hate a yellow stain on them tbs boy doesn't got i t ____ Up to the present no one has taken tbs pains to sympathise with the per son who auppUed the geographical names for South Africa. great others some have Some men are Ijprn achieve greatness and greatness thrust upon them by being tured by a patent medicine. Things In Ohlna seem a bit quieter, bat no one can tell what that terrible Dowager Empress An may be up to behind her prescription screen. The Immigration statistics show that tbs people of Qennany take but little Itock la their government's theory of this haing n germ-ridden nation. A Pennsylvania man criticised an other’s singing, and was killed for It The best thing to do when a man with a bad voice starts to sing la Just run 'away. HI* Royal Hlghneae the Prince of Wales must be o f the opinion Shat It Is worth while to be shot at semi-occa- lionally tt only to realise the extent of his personal popularity. A New Jersey man won a bet the other day by drtuklng a quart of whisky without stepping. Unfortunate ly, however, th# amount won was not Igrgo enough to pay his funeral ex panses. ______ \Inctrcumscrlptlbleneas\ Is not the longest word In the English language. “Nonlntercommunlcablllty\ la a longer one, which may appear In th# new Ox- fotd dictionary. It will be a great boon to space writers. Dispatches from Washington state thgt. there to \much friction In the army over s new explosive,\ The army * ought to be careful. Friction and ex plosives 'do not go well together, and freqVently result In terrific skyward tight of the trlctloneera. A Louisville woman had her husband •rested for kissing her. The Judge fismlMwl the defendant upon promise that he would never again be guilty of each conduct The Judge was under ths correct impression that the woman waa the ode to be punished, and he knew best how to administer the pun ishment Tou t women in a buggy were driving W old hone over the bridge that span ned an Ohio railroad, when a fellow on S locomotive blew the whistle, “ for fun.\ The hone ran away, the women Were thrown down an embankment— and tba railroad company bae Just paid $88,000 la damages. It to not reported how much the “ fun\ cost the Joker, personally, but we^ suspect that he does Wot now control a whistle on that line. th# fit «C tb s * ow « l I f the PbUadel- , ^ _ devote hto energy N ie n s t faeUanto Dnpacriaa tha some eolation s f this question o f feminine purses ha would b# a benefactor to half tha human race, I f ha cannot do ao hto •rttietoms a re wot likely to be heeded. k ’ V K t f l - 9 S R . - * J- «.■•.! A’’ x ? . r r tfO K i s rftO M t H t W & o r v a r i o u s H u u a f t i r r a . Wert# Over-hayings Ih a tA re Chare*: - ( U to Old er Xoaag-JTaaay #stoe* Wans Shat Taw W*U Enjoy* But ! cannot engage you as a house maid when you tell ma yourself that I f women are M ft to be reached on my friend across the street discharged the bird millinery question on monu o r yon for eavesdropping.\ esthetic grounds, I f they refuse to aee “ But tbs temptation was so great, tha cruelty o r the ugliness of museum You see, you don’t know what It was I millinery, th a n la still the financial heard.’ ground upon which they may be met Of course, this la putting tbs matter Into the hands o f man. for, no doubt he still pays the majority of the mUll- or tobedU k a w ret\ *T WO, .arom,” responded W ean Wiggins. “ W o tis der use ov ■toalto’ whan yor k in g it money dto easy.”— PhUadalpMa ttoeonl A a Xaaevatloa, ' Ida—A M c y c lt salt of khaki would be just the thing. May—I don’t sea why? Ida—It wouldn’t show the mod. “On second thought 1 w ill employ you. Run and take off your hat”—New York World. Tw o Uplifters. “ W h a tr exclaimed the orator, “ what two things a re helping mankind to get np In the world?” “ The alarm clock and the steplnd- der,’’, answered the dense person In tbs rear # f the balL—•Baltimore American. I pay aery bills, and If tradition be true he will welcome any new cause for com plaint Let him refuse to pay Tm the bird hat or to be aeen in company'wtth Us wearer. .. Th a n bare boon aoctotioa of women banded together for the pur pose o f boycotting the smoker, and why | should not men thus protect themselves against a w orm evil? Of course, some women go so fa r as to believe that four-and-twenty blackbirds gathered Into a pie fo r masculine consumption • to as gtfiat a sin against bird nature aa the placing o f this same feathered tribe upon a hat fo r the gratification of “ fe male vanity.” And deep In the femin ine heart Ilea the conviction that If to bacco plants were live things there would never be any protest against the sin of taking life for personal gratifica tion. But a man’s opportunities tor admonishment are rare ,and though he himself to an Imperfect being, let him not throw away this chance to ex hibit hie disapproval and hurl mascu line maledictions at this wanton dis play of “fem a le vanity.” i Went Too Far, Jilted lover—Why, why do you give me up. Marguerite? Do I not carry out your slightest wish? I would give up ay last penny for you—my Ust crust »t bread—1 would run my very feet off to do your bidding. Marguerite—That's just I t I cannot bring myself to marry a man who Is so easily led.—New York-World. A Greet Difference. “ Jerry Pontoon, tell us something about Oliver Cromwell.” “ Which version, ma’am V” “ I don't understand.” J “ Magazine or history?” Too Bed. A Slash at Hie Beard, H e —Miss Simpson, I'm a self-mads man. She—Yea? W e ll, why didn’t yon study the fashion .plates in regard to whis kers ?—Chicago Record. Had One at Home. ( A class waa being examined in spell ing the other day, when the teacher questioned a little girl os follows: “ Ethel, spell kitten,\ “ K, double 1, double t, e-n,” replied Ethel. ‘Kitten has tw o l’s then, has It?” said the teacher. “ Yes, ma'am,” answered Ethel, con fldently; “ ours has.\ lllliw S il S I S l _ n . Ip the Interest o f public decency, the Otty Council o f Mount Vernon, N. Y., adopted aa ordinance, two years and a p«tr ggo, providing, under penalty, that ho handbill, circular or poster o f any kind should he displayed or distributed without being submitted to the Mayor lor approval. Tho present Mayor Writes that, although the ordinance Is iwt stringently enforced, it has proved A corrective and a restraint, so that “ theatrical companies and bill-posters a r t very careful as to the class o f ad- rertislng matter they distribute In the city.” This plan teemed more effective and tore vexatious than the prosecution Of particular offenders. Prof. Pictet, o f Swltaerlaud, baa dis covered a method o f extracting oxy gen from tho air. W ith a s expenditure pf 800 horse power 800,000 cubic feet o f oxygon caa bo obtained from the air. The commercial tree o f thto oxygen. It la paid, w ill bo to product higher temper ature# in furnace*. In the process, of course, tho oxygen w ill bo converted hate carbonic oxide which to a poison ous air. This discovery has led some thoughtful awn to asking whether or pot modorm Invention assy not become h atenaeo to human Ilfs by exhausting r f ttay w a g properties o f the itmbe- fhara. As tho atmosphere to pretty taste and tha InrwrHoa to not likely to come Into general not fo r several geaer- pttOca than to ns Immediate call for aa against thn investors. Nev- toas tts tim e . m a y coma w h e t' i I % trust w ill are a corner on the m ta its Immediate neighborhood Bha t t# highwayman demand your At every meeting o f secondary teach ers addresses are made urging the Im portance of thorough Instruction In English. This to not only proof that English Is now Insufficiently taught In most schools, but It also shows an awakened Interest which cannot fall to he of effect T h e time may come when English Is studied as thoroughly In English schools as French to In the French school or German is In those of Prussia. One o f the best addresses on the teaching o f English was made by Mve. May W r igh t Bewail, teacher, club woman and author, at the North Cen tral Association’s meeting at 8t. Louis. She declared that the defects which ex ist In teaching composition In the sec ondary schools may be traced directly and principally to defects In elemen tary teaching In composition. Children are not taught from the start correct sentence structure, pains, and the hab it of selection In vocabulary and care ful punctuation. Just as a foreign lan guage can be most easily assimilated by t young child so can these funda mental elements of composition be most easily acquired, not only aa mat ters of knowledge but as habit0 by chil dren In the prim a ry grades. Aa such Instruction la seldom given In tbe tower grades pupils are weak In the mechan ical part of composition. A point made by Mrs. Bewail Is that the teacher of English In secondary schools often falls tb realise that In all hto Intercourse with hip pupils he Is teaching them Es- gllsh, and m any times tbe defects In English which the teacher spends a large portion o f the recitation time In endeavoring to correct bare been ac quired from him self In the hours when not teaching English and he was, so to speak, off his guard. It Is also true thst teachers of other subjects than English are not careful In their language, and while giving Instruction In’ mathemat ics or history a teacher may be uncon sciously giving his pupils direct instruc tion In halting or at best commonplace and Inelegant English. Rooster—Why, what brought you to the place of solitary coulluement? Hen—Bad judgment Rooster—How’s that? ,v. lieu—I roosted too low down. kxpcunlve Kuiuomn i “ Madge, we can’t afford new clothes this spring.” I “ Well, then, Albert, we must move. 1 don’t mind wearing my old duds In a new neighborhood, lmt I won't stay here aud wear them.’’—Indianapolis Journal. Papa In for It. “ Mamma, what would you do If that big vase In the parlor should get brok en?” e&td Tommy. “I should whip whoever did I t ” said Mrs. Bahks, gating severely at her lit tle son. “ Well, then, you’d better begin to get up your muscle,” sold Tommy, “ cos papa’s broke it.” Tbe Agonjr of Fear. Benevolent Old Cent—Are you not afraid you w ill fill a drunkard's grave? Thirsty Thingumbob—Not on yer life. De fear wot haunts me dreams Is dat I ’U die sober.—Philadelphia Record. Knew His Product*. “ H e writes for the funny papers.\ “ Yes: It must be a funny paper that will print anything he writes.”—Phlla delphla Bulletin. Peaperate Keonomtc*. ‘Joe, there’s a collar and cuff trust started.” ^ “ O h ,gracious! I've been tujaTng mine upside down; and now I suppose I ’ll have to turn them Inside out.”— Indianapolis Journal. Am enities o f the Club. Mrs. A.—Who on earth Is Miss Jen kins In mourning for that she perpetu ally dresses In hlack? Mrs. B.—Her husband. Mrs. A —Why, she never had any. Mrs. B.~ I mean the one she has sought for all her life and never found. —New York World. The Telltale Coir, pi Ini cut. \Dear rue! 1 must he getting old.” “ What makes you think so?” “ People have begun congratulating me on holding my own.\ A Pleasant Reckoning. \ I t Is queer about Cousin Valeria’* old admirers.” “ What Is queer?” “ Why, the further she gets y n j from them the more numerous they ap pear to her.” Shouldn’ t f t k Foolish Questions. M abel—Do you believe ,the peace con* foresee will accomplish'anything, Mr, Bohawk? Mother—Don’t be silly, \Mahel! ^ Bohawk Is the leader of'our cnaBK choir.—New York Press. Had a Pretty Good Ilunth. \How dkl you come to pluck up enough courage to propose to Miss Frlsble, Bunting?” “ Well, she suggested that I had bet ter not send her an expensive valentine thto year, but save my money to go to xousekeeplng,\ confessed Bunting.— Detroit Free Press. A n n ih ila t ion Obstructed. On State Street. “ You say he bowed to me, Jen? Well, 1 don't want any of his old bows.” \Then why don't you return them?” NEW BAIT FOR BLACK BASS. It Is a Real Monse, and the Fish Snap at Tt Greedily. To that big class of artificial fish bait that embraces artificial files, spinners, rubber Insects and many other lures there have been added several new and at tractive device# Oddr est o f all there Is a mouse, life site and c o v e r e d with real monse skin. This bait bas proven almost Ir resistible In the waters, o f the rapaclons but particular black bass wherever it has been cast so far. Tha soft rubber frog, with I Its wicked trio o f hooks, la familiar, I but tbe \ghost the newest aluminum spinner, Is a distinct novelty. Thto to ' s box-like affair, made o f the light metal and provided with four propeller I blades that make it spin and shine to ' the eyes of the larking bass. O ld L itght h o u s e s . The oldest lighthouse to existence to believed to be that at Corunna, Spain. It was built to tbe reign o f Trajan and reconstructed to 1684. Britain and France have lighthouses which were built by tbe Roman conquerors. Tbs Tlimbufihffil, Good Man-1 fear that you have been drinking hard of late, my until? Larry—Niver a dhrop, yer riverlnee. Good Man—But your nose Is very, very red. Larry—Oi big ye’r pardon, yer river lnee, It’s anly th’ refllctlAn frow th’ rid fiannlls 01 wear. No Fun for the Purse. *Dld you go to the girls’ eofjsge ben- ad» supper, major?” •Yes, little gal.” ’ ’They say It was a clrcW .AvajA*” “ No, it wan’t, iifctle £ * ‘. I f only Seen a circus I could have bought a bag • f rancid peanuts for a nickel, Instead o f paying 50 cents for a burnt ball of popcorn.” Obituary. Editor—Callowman, the cigarette fiend, Is dead. Publisher—I can’t help It Editor—But he always paid up bis subscription. Publisher—Then I guess we'd better give him a puff. Soon to Be Accommodated. “ Yes,” said the sentimental Filipino, “ there’s nothing more pleasant than a, sylvan retreat.\ “Pm glad yon like the Idea,” an awered the general. “ We take to the. woods again to-morrow.”—Washington Star. The do^—Just my luck! They’ve gom 'and fenced that lion In go’s 1 can’t get at him! A J e a r t f d l Definition. “ Sny, pa, what Is an adult?” “ An adult, Jimmy, Is a person who doesn’t kick out a good pair of shoes every two weeks.” T w o K C tdi on One Pair Shoulder*. “ I peeped £»to the parlor as I came along the halls ' Remarked Mr. Famll- man, “ and X s a w quite a ■ -tinge freak o f nature.” “ Really?” exclaimed Mr*. ftomllmaSk. ‘tallth (s there w ith her yonng man.” “ Yea, I saw tw o heads on one pair of shoulders.\—Philadelphia Press. Arotnins the Cook. Stubb—1 compel our cook to ke«R alarm eleek t o he* room. ------- --- Penn—Does the gong snare her? Stubb—No; but It arouses my and then the goee up two flights stairs and reps on the cook’s door. Soared. Quinn—The money Simms famous Cordovan Tower o f France at b‘ nk ^’ent 1®_2,e ftrst Fear, the mouth of the Gironde, to the Bey ~ of Wsc*7, ^ !«a eOtopTeted' Th 1611, to the reign of Henry IT . A fter standing 287 rears It waa still considered to be one of tho finest lighthouses to tho world, although its height has been in creased, The famous Pharos Of Alex- had to, De Font#—What happened the sec-, -m tS-jm a f- ... — - ------ -- ----- --- -- Quinn—Why, the bank went up. j A Chess BxtrlcsSlea. “ Bow did yen finally get rid o f that man who wanted you to become a mflb andria antedate. . . . . . k,« 51* b7 te*®** P * I°u »8 OK * * * * * schemer many years, as it was bout 380 R. G, but It to not a lways considered a fight, boose. H i f i i M Adm iration. “ When would yon cell a man really great?\ “ When he gets to be as great as his ten-Ftnmld nephew thinks ha Chicago Record. : A l ere t a b * « r W E ) ’ f t a s r * ' tbatr I h y Ota total before him ed^a pocket- Cash ir-rf-TisItnrtas Oao small boy—My papa puts th* money he don’t g iv e to mnritar to a cof fee pot ’ Other smafi boy—Mine d otot; he puts K tom Jackpot I heard -rirPisr say so, —Datrett Free Prow . ta o f >eam r 1 I an the terr as , bat who teraaft l affiHtagaotiea. CM to the f f t ' at i frond a f takafii . r o a t a ! “ Oh, I gave him 88 cents to buy hto laneh.\—Chicago Tlmce-Hcrald. Btoctrical B fatsrbu c a . Hsrdacw—I reckon Zeke Grttblofr was surprised to find-be could buy a lightning rod from tbe agent for 12.\ I Crawfootv—Wby, man. be was thun derstruck. Those Steer C trl*. Miss OheBan - W toC a lovely piece of' tact that ta j Mias 1mf BeO—Tea, tret ft? Mam-. ! a x gave me that when I first a emt Mias CTuPm Realty? . Bow wsR k has worn?—Phfladstalria Press M a rretoro Speed re iO i,.om t On E summer Tramtog you may aee A returns high np to the south or south west to June or July, and further down to tfie west to August or Septem ber. Toe win know tt by Its red e^er. That atar bas been fiytog straight ahead ever’ since astronomers beeps Ig; observe tt at such a I p W d ^ ^ re would m from New York t * j Z * t e * & to a small fraction o f a fcfiw ta. t s s would have to be spry to rise from your chair, pot on y o re hat and overcost and gtavsa and go o a t an the street while K was crossing the Atlantic ocean firrea N e w T c r k to Liverpool. And yet I f y e * Should watch that rear t t ye*r Ufa. and t o e as long an weald not be able to see ttat tt moved at ML The Journey that ttweaM ta UME yearn would ha as tta distance^—YMdfc’k llllllll1111 II'* w * V r e - ' S l J THE SADDEST TH ING . They asked me once, when life was young— Ita tale uutold, Its songs unsung— And Hope still near. I laughed and said: “ T o know iny cheeks must lose their red, And ev’ry shimmering, golden thread In this fair coronal, its glory shed, Be coiled and folded, snowy w h ite— A sign of sorrow, loss and might— This Is the saddest thing!” They asked again when partings came, And Death, triumphant, breathed the name O f one held dear, I wept and said: “ T o Bit alone, here, with one’* dead And list lu vain their footsteps! This— T o wait their coming .and forever mis* Their voices. Purely life’s sad tale when told N o other grief so deep can hold. This is the saddest thing!” But now—I sit dry-eyed and cold, And wonder that a living form can hold A heart so dead. And if you ask; “ What la It now? What new, bard task H a s left you hopeless? Thus, to-night, I answer, with a clearer sight: “ T h e saddest thing—to sit alone And face, all tearless, Love out grow n — This is the saddest thing!” —Dramatic Magazine. ig a a a a a a a a a i * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Belated Opportunity. EE$ up • • • a a a a a a * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AROII was coming In lik e a be draggled lion, when Alonzo Jackson, tbe stage driver, drew in front of Miss Jane Fartnelee’g gate and sat patiently waiting until she should make ber appearance. T h e wind roared through the leafless trees, and Alonzo’s rubber coat resounded with tbe beating of the heavy rgin. Shouldn't wonder If she backed ou t after all,” be mused, stooping to let his hat brim discharge its pent-up flood. “ Ain’t many women who would start out In a storm like this. Just to go a-vlsltln’, If they had made all their arrangements and wrote they was coinin'.” But all doubts as to Miss Jane Par- melee’s strength of will to c a r r y out what she had determined to do were presently dispelled by the appearance o f that spinster at the door o f her cot tage, with a large glazed traveUng-bag In one hand and an umbrella In the /Other, She set the bag down on the atone doorstep, spread the expansive fold* of the umbrella over her head, took the key from her pocket, and care fully locked the door. The stage driver got down from his wagon, opened tbe gate, and 'csine rustling up The gravel walk In his rubber coat “ No need of your comto’ fo r that satchel, ’Lonzo,\ cried Miss Parxnelee through the roaring wind, as sha torn- ed and put the key to ber pocket after a Anal test of the locked door. ‘T v e got a free band, and I reckon I could carry tt Ml right\ “ Mebbe you could,\ replied Alooxo, cheerfully, “of course you could. Jane, bat 1 ain’t my way to let lady pea- aawgers tote their own baggage.” T W quiet familiarity with w M e l Jackson addressed Miss P r e ss “ Jane” nod ber qtrtot s u r e d acceptance o f it bespoke a close of friendship which was vreffl an te the comaoatty, and which bad lasted for twesty years « r rears ■ stece they were “ young folks” sad had been said to Da ■ r j b t t r J i M up enough courage actually to pop the question. Others declared It was be cause he was jealous of a young fel low from tbe city, who bad boarded wltb Jane’s auut during tbe summer, and used occasionally to see Jane home from church or take her to a Sunday school picnic. At any rate, time passed without any formal declaration from Alonzo; and In the meauwhlle Jane’s parents died, aud she went to live with ber widowed aunt. Then ber aunt died also, and Jane was left alone In the world, save for a brother who was a minor In the fur West. Jaue converted the little prop erty that had been left her Into money, and bought a small cottage on tbe out skirts ot the village, where she now lived In genuine old-maid fashion. Alonzo, who was 43 years old, still lived wltb his aged parents, and cared for them. For ten years he had driven the stage between Gilead and Gilead station—where a remote corner o f the township was Intersected by a railroad. He had never been to see Jane I’ar- meiee since she meved Into her own cottage, but they were still “ ’ Lonzo” and “ Jane” to each other whenever they met, and the memory o f a faded romance did not seem to embitter their present friendship. Jane Indeed some times wondered, with a choking sensa tion In ber throat, why Alonzo Jackson had never asked her to be his wife, but she had long since got over the keen anguish of her girlhood disappoint ment, and schooled herself to believe that since God willed It so, It was “all for the best” On this stormy March day Jane Par- melee was going to Gilead station, to take the train for Lancaster, where lived her life-long friend Busan Rich, In a pleasant home whose welcome Jane had often gratefully tasted. Tbe day and train having been set, Jane would as soon have thought o f betray ing ber friend's confidence as falling to arrive at tbe precise hour named In ber letter. Fidelity was the bed rock of her character. It would seem as If Alonzo Jackson might have known this, as be sat doubting In tbe rain before ber gate. Jane was the only passenger that morning. Bhereat on tbe middle seat under Der big umbrella, and Alonzo chatted intermittently with her over his left shoulder, as they Jogged along through the storm. One would never have suspected that these tw o sober, middle-aged persons had been lovers In the sweet days gone by. When they reached the covered bridge over the river, It seemed as If all the clouds of heaven had opened their sluice-gates together. A perfect torrent of rain was fallin g . ___ “ ’Lonzo, can’t you stop for a few mlnntes to the bridge, till the worst of this shower Is over?’ asked Jane. “ My new bunnlt tt giftin' awfully damp, The rain drives right through this um- breL” “ Leranje see,” said Alonzo, coiwredt- tog ids watch. “Yes, 1 guess so. W e’ve got twenty minutes to spare, and It dote rain middling hard. Myl but the river Is high, ain’t It? A little more, and tt would he over the floor-boards of the bridge.” Alonzo drove to the midffie o f tbe gloomy covered bridge and stopped bis horses. Then he and Jane sat listen ing to the th raider o f tbe storm over their “ The bridge kted o f quivers, doesn’t nr said Jane. “ Yea, tt done asm la Joggle hind re Jane uttered a cry o f terror and caught hold of Alonzo’s arm. He could feci her whole body tremble. The sen sation sent a strange thrill through him. His lethargic nature at last was stirred 1 \There- there!” he said, soothingly. Don’t you he afraid, Jane. There ain't any real danger. The bridge ain’t a going to sink. YVe’ll ground against the shore somewhere and then 1 can drive right out again.” But the bridge tossed and spun and careened, and the muddy water raced aloug the floor. Jane began to sob like a frightened ehlldF’ \Come come,\ said Alonzo, drawing the reins hard as Iron over the plung ing horses with his right hand. “ Don’t be scared. I ’ll—there!\ His left arm reached over the back of tbe seat and slid around Jane Par- melee’s waist, her head dropped on his shoulder, her best bonnet heedless of the drippings of the old felt hat \There now—there now!” murmured the etrong man, tenderly. “Oh, Jane, I f something of this sort had only happened twenty years ago!” “ Yes!” whispered Jane, all of a trem ble still, but not wltb terror. \But It has happened, ‘Lonzo, and that’s enough for mel”—Philadelphia Item. I Marvelous Marksmanship. The accompanying illustration Is a scene which goes to show Just what an expert sharpshooter the average Boer still is. This scene represents tbe Boer' method o f killing cattle f o r food. The Boer does not poleax his beef, but has i fiprtafcter sad w»- E l t t f f t l l i i i i B i “ tTbrnrs tSk-wm.: tohtarfci BOBBS SLArOBTBBOra BZtVZS. It driven up by the herdsmen. He then casually selects the animal be wants and puts a bullet through its brain with tbe utmost nicety. When he goes out after game be Is even more skillful In bringing down food for his larder. He can pick off with the ntmost unconcern a deer at a thousand yards and while going full gallop on horseback. Although the yonnger generation of Roers are not, perhaps, such expert marksmen as tbelr fathers, tbe present w a r in South Africa has shown that their shooting Is by no means to be despised. ^ G o ing bv the K jtL Unless one has sbme sort of knowl edge to contradict it, it to natural to accept the evidence of the eye. There fore the answer which a teacher recent ly received from her elans of small children was not altogether surprising. “Which is farther away,” she asked, “England o t the moon?” “England I” the children answered quickly. “England?” she questioned. “What makes you think thst?’ “ ’Cause we can see tbe moon, and we can't ace England,\ answered one of the brightest of the class.
