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Show 6C6e INDEPENDENT. Relics of Heathen Times SPRING VI LLE, . . . UTAH Mr. Carnegie suffers from Indigestion. Indiges-tion. This is something he can't give away. The discovery of the kissing microbe mi-crobe won't necessarily bear the osculation oscu-lation market. The Paris sensation is the new danse du gateau. But it's only our old frjenl the Cakewalk. King Victor Emmanuel gives $ 40,-000 40,-000 to charity in honor of the baby's birth, even if it is a girl. A Minneapolis woman fasted for tb irty-nine days to get rid of apoplexy. She'll never have it again. A Chicago girl has been arrested for trying to be a second Mary MacLane. Give the poor thing a guardian. Parlor matches are forbidden by law after January 1. All right; we can do our courtiBg in the woodshed. Word comes from Como, Italy, that Mr. Schwab is enjoying himself. At the price he is paying, he ought to be. Signor Mascagni's next opera may be named "Cavaileria Americanna." A chorus of sheriffs would be effective. effect-ive. It's a wonder some lady with an ambition to dazzle before the footlights foot-lights hasn't made an angel of Mr. Friek. Great Salt Lake has fallen nearly ten feet in the past fifteen years. People who haven't seen It will have to hurry. New Jersey has a cat that eats raw onions. The cat is all right so long as she does not wash them down with applejack. Evidently the volcanoes of Hawaii and Italy are trying to get together. This is a kind of merger that ought to be discouraged. If the prima donna who swallowed a watch will swallow a piano as a chaser, she will be well equipped with both time and tune. In opposition to the theory that money talks, Marie Corelli declares that millionaires ' are singularly uninteresting unin-teresting in conversation. The young man who forgot to take his bride on their wedding journey would make an ideal witness for the defense in some court cases. A Sioux City man with the name of Pfaf has just been wedded. When he gets mad at his wife all he'll have to do is to pronounce his name In her face. The facts in that New Haven automobile auto-mobile case, which ended with a Jail sentence, ought to be put on posters and pasted along some of the boulevards. boule-vards. The fact that so jolly an old rounder round-er as the king of Belgium has been shot at teaches us that no sort of reputation will protect a monarch these days. It cost more than $16,000,000 to take the twelfth census, and 59,373 persons were employed. They can't help wishing wish-ing that the census could be taken every year. A Virginia woman who hunted forty-three years for her husband's grave has just found it. It Is to be hoped that, being positive, she will now quit worrying. A man seldom gtts in the habit of making Wednesday and Sunday night calls on a girl who Insists on pronouncing pro-nouncing the word either as If it were spelled eyether. J. Pierpont Morgan has contributed one cent to a church charity. Uncle Russell Sage is withholding his contribution con-tribution In the hope that the coinage of half-cents may be resumed. A new cult in Minneapolis preaches that the cure lor many ills lies in total abstention from food. It is merely a matter of fasting long enough to permanently per-manently cure the most chronic sufferer. suf-ferer. If the German crown prince does not find a girl to suit him in Europe he might try Milwaukee, where, according ac-cording to his discriminating uncle, Prince Henry, the prettiest- girls are to be found. Mr. John W. Gates is evidently deeply deep-ly hurt by the charge that he wagered large sums of money on the result of the late election. He offers to bet $100,000 that he made only two trifling election wagers. The Sultan of Turkey Las sent an autograph letter to the czar asking the latter to visit him in Constantinople. Constantin-ople. If Nick goes he will consult his own Interests by having a money pocket put in hla undershirt. A Parisian scientist estimates that the number of ants in a nest varies from 12,293 to 93,694. These figures are the result of an actual investigation. investiga-tion. The first estimate was the result re-sult of actual counting; the second was made after accidentally sitting down on a nest. President Schwab of the steel company com-pany is to have a romance written about him. The life of a man with a million dollars a year to spend ought to be replete with romantic incidents. Marie Corelli is screeching at the United States for having such quantities quanti-ties of money. Marie Corelli is mad because she is not getting more of it. Five hunters have been shot to death In the Adirondacks this year, fet people sometimes wonder at the bravery of men who go to war. According to a New York dispatch. Robert W. Goelet was arrested for "fast speeding." This is not so remarkable re-markable as it would have been had he been arrested for "slow speeding." The Idea of encouraging vocal music among the soldiers will be regarded by people with sentitlve ears as tending tend-ing to augment the horrors of war. The New Haven minister who thinks he can get the boys to go" to Sunday school on Saturday afternoon never was more mistaken in his life. Finds in Norway a Delight to the Archeol ogist Sites of Temples Dedicated to Idol airy Are Known Some Noted Spots, (Special Correspondence.) HE kingdom of Norway presents a rich field for archeological research re-search and hardly a day passes but some discovery is made of objects, especially from the iron age and the new iron or viking age, more rarely from the ages of stone and bronze, the latter of somewhat brief duration in Norway. Nor-way. The work of obliterating .idolatry In. Norway, at the introduction of Christianity by King Olav Trygvesson and King Olav Haraldson the Holy (St Olav), was done so thoroughly that none of the heathen temples (called Hov) and idols were left, but In numerous instances the sites of the Hov are known and they survive in the names of places, tradition and the sagas also furnishing corroborative corrobora-tive evidence. Thus, a temple to the heathen Nlord Sarpsfossen. at Naro, gave its name to the famous valley of Narodel (meaning Niord's dale or valley) in the district of Saga; at Thorsnor, near Balholm, there was a temple to Thor, and the numerous places called Hovland, On-stad, On-stad, Balstad and Froland suggest the existence of a heathen Hov, in the remote re-mote past, dedicated to Odin, Balder and Froya. The dragon ornaments of the Hov were cunningly introduced into the earliest wooden-church architecture, archi-tecture, the so-called "stave-klrker," which were very- frequently erected on the sites of the demolished Hov, whither the people had been accustomed accus-tomed to repair for worship during the preceding ages. Among the remnants from the remote re-mote past must be mentioned the numerous barrows or tumuli (popularly (popular-ly called giant mounds or grave hills) circular or elliptical (the largest sometimes concealing a viking ship) ; "bautastene" or monuments resembling resem-bling obelisks, with or without runic Inscriptions; "stensatninger" or arrangements ar-rangements of stones sometimes in the shape of a ship, sometimes an ar- BANDAK KANAL, ray of monuments; "belleristninger" or rude sculpture chiseled, on the face of smooth rocks, representing naval battles or men plowing the field; and,- in many places along the coast can still be seen the ruins of ship-sheds and boathouses, where the sea-king preserved his dearest treasure, treas-ure, the viking ship with its dragon-shaped dragon-shaped prow. To the heathen period also belongs the buildings of the "bygdeborger" or mountain strongholds, not a few of which still exist at strategic points on the coast, as well as in the interior. Of monuments from the Christian "era about twenty-five oul of a grand total of about 500 "stave" churches still exist with the more or less extensive ex-tensive ruins of stone churches such as the beautiful arches of the Hamar cathedral in eastern Norway, and ot monasteries, as at Selja, a small island in the district of Nordflord. The Trondhjem cathedral is famous all over the world. The cathedral of Bergen and Ste. Mary's church, in that city, are also from the Medieval ? n i v-vr mim -Sit- . Trondhjems Domkirke. ages, and so is the beautiful cathedral cathe-dral of Stavanger, dedicated to St. Swithin. Of secular edifices from the middle ages the most famous are King Haakon's hall and the Rosen-cranz Rosen-cranz tower at Bergen and the time-honored time-honored Aggershus castle at Chris-tiania. Chris-tiania. The cathedral schools . of Norway are venerable institutions. As educational educa-tional establishments they belong to the oldest In Europe and only In Italy schools of perceptibly greater age are met with. Thus, the Trondajem cathedral ca-thedral school was mentioned for the first time In the year 1217, and that at Christiania in 124S. By way of comparison it may be stated that the Ancient theological college in the university uni-versity of Paris, the Sorbonne, was fojmded A. D. 1252, the university college of Oxford was established In 1249 and Peterhouse college at Cambridge Cam-bridge dates from 1257. The oldest existing educational establishment Is England, corresponding to the cathedral cathe-dral schools of Norway, is Winchester college, founded in 1371. Harrow, Rugby, Eaton and Westminster all date from the sixteenth century. Bergen's cathedral school, popularly popular-ly called the Latin rchool, is believed to have been founde In the year 1152. when the chapters were established by Nicholaus Breakspeare (afterward Pope Hadrian IV. from 1154 to 1159) in connection with the cathedral of Bergen of that date, the Great Christ church of Bergenhus castle. In 1530 the Danish governor of the province of Bergen, Eske Bilde, surnamed the "Church Breaker." for military reasons rea-sons razed to the ground all the ecclesiastical eccle-siastical edifices within the fortress, the Great Christ church on account of Its proximity to King Haakon's hall, and the cathedral school was transferred to the city proper, while St. Olav's church, at the head of the bay, an old conventional church, became be-came the cathedral of Bergen, which dignity it has held for about four centuries. cen-turies. In 1840 the remnants of an extensive Franciscan convent, then used as a bishop's palace, were obliterated oblit-erated and on its site was erected a handsome brick building in which the time-honored school has since been established. The cathedral school of Bergen has recently undergone great changes, the instruction in classical languages having been abridged, and the primary pri-mary school of one-year classes abolished. abol-ished. It is conducted on the coeducation coedu-cation plan. The total number of scholars at present is about 400. The cathedral school of Bergen, though receiving some support from the municipality, mu-nicipality, is a state institution. IN THE GREAT WEST. Time to Drop the Silly Phrase "Wild and Woolly." It has been very pertinently suggested sug-gested that the terms "wealthy and wonderful" be substituted for "wild and woolly" in speaking of the great, abounding "West." If there is any advantage ad-vantage in a definition that defines or a description that describes, this sub stitutlon should be made. The new civilization that dominates the vast region, practically unknown half a century ago, is shown by a recent incident in-cident observed ten miles from a Kansas Kan-sas town and thus related in the Youth's Companion : "A farmer riding rid-ing under an awning on a sulky plow met at the end of his furrow the rural mail wagon. The driver tcssed the farmer a bundle of mail, and, as the team took up its steady course back across the half-mile field, the farmer unfolded the daily paper printed that morning 200 miles away and read of the happenings in China TELEMARKEN. and the news of the political campaign." cam-paign." Truly, there is nothing suggestive sug-gestive of a "wild and woolly west" in this picture. "Wealthy and wonderful" won-derful" will do. Bonaparte's Will. Napoleon Bonaparte's will, among those of great men, affords the nearest parallel to that of Cecil Rhodes in the fortune it bequeathed. He was surely the richest exile 6ince the world began. be-gan. From his lonely home at St. Helena he bequeathed to his relatives and friends $40,000,000. He had been rich, in gold as in power, beyond the dreams of avarice, and there must have passed through his hands a private pri-vate fortune such as mortal man has rarely dreamed of. His exactions from conquered States have been set down at nearly $375,000,000, which is, after all, but six times multiplying the gift he secured for himself from the Austrian Aus-trian Treasury after Austerlitz. He died forty times a millionaire. All Were Shrewd. Some peasants in a village in Burgundy, Bur-gundy, France, filled with a desire to show their cure their appreciation ot his services, decided to fill a large cask lying empty in " his yard with wine, to be presented with an address of thanks. Each grateful peasant stole to the cask at night, and emptied into it his tribute of affection and respect re-spect for its pastor. Next morning the cask was rolled into the presence of the cure, after a moving speech had been delivered; but when It was found that the cask yielded nothing but pure and limpid water, the peasants looked uncomfortable. Each of them had wanted to save his own pocket at the expense cf his neighbors. December and May. A marriage solemnized in Atlantic City a few days ago provided John Philip Sousa, the famous bandmaster, with an 18-yes.r-old mother-in-law, the father of Mrs. Sousa having been married mar-ried to a girl of that age. Henry Bel-11s, Bel-11s, the groom, is 74, but is as spry as a college graduate. Two of Sousa's children are older , than their new grandmother. His Words Prophetic. The late Henry W. Grady less than a month before his death at the early age of 39 remarked to a friend : "Imagine "Im-agine me as an old man! Picture me bald-headed, half-blind, toothless and leaning on a cane! It can never be It Is too ridiculous. A man with my riotous blood, tremendous energy and restless activity must die young! " . '&sP fate" w&s$c Up-to-Date Sofa Pillows. TTia newest sofa nillow covering Is of velvet or suede ornamented with applique designs in leather of contrasting con-trasting tones. A moss-green velvet Is appliqued with the rich-hued disks of the sunflower marked by the pyro-graph pyro-graph with brown shadings. Foliage and stems are also burned. A poppy design in red and suede has a background back-ground of tan-colored suede. Picturesque Pictur-esque heads cut from leather and brought into relief by the pyrograph's etchings are also appliqued on suede. Both Bides of the pillows are of the leather laced closely with thongs at the sides and decorated at the corners with leather tassels. Colored suede skins tanned whole are as popular as ever for table coverings cover-ings and sofa pillows, but are less frequently fre-quently than formerly decorated with the pyrograph and brush. Two of the skins are used for a pillow, which is laced between them with leather thongs and the extra length and breadth of the leather Is left hanging loose. Often these irregular sides are slashed into fringe. Some Gown Effects. A pale-green zibeline has a long skirt richly appliqued at the top and down the flat seams with broadcloth of the same hue. The contrast in material is decidedly smart. The bodice has blouse fronts garnitured with folds of panne velvet of a deeper green overshot with black baby velvet ribbon. These fronts pen over a vest of white chiffon done in soft folds and spangled in silver and strapped with black velvet ribbon an inch wide. A distinguished street costume, recently re-cently from Paris, in steel gray camel's cam-el's hair, is appliqued in a very light shade of the same material. A black broadcloth has "a blouse heavily embroidered in Persian designs de-signs and colors. The skirt is appliqued ap-pliqued in black zibeline, . elaborately stitched. The sleeves are of the broadcloth, appliqued near the shoulder shoul-der with the zibeline, with the lower fullness confined in a band embroidered embroid-ered in the Persian design and colors. A Simple New Waist. One of the neatest and simplest of the new waists is buff color batiste. It opens over a vest of white tucked mousseline and is arranged into box plaits that are held together by straps of white silk embroidered in black. The stock Is of tucked mousseline, with a finish of black and white em- broidery,- and the sleeves are tucked above the elbow, forming very full puffs from there on down to the pointed point-ed cuffs of black satin. A pointed belt of black satin finishes fin-ishes a very chic waist. Dress Economy. "1 have made the subject of how to make clothes last a study," says a lociety woman, "and it is surprising how much difference it makes how a gown is donned. It shouldbe put on slowly and carefully. A little pull or Jerk each time it is put on soon, ruins the best of gowns. "Never use pins. They not only tear the fabric, but are uncertain at CLOTH GOWNS The first gown is of drab homespun. home-spun. The skirt is plaited In the back, plain In front. The blouse, gathered gath-ered in front, plain in the back," has a double basque, the under one of the cloth, the other of deep violet velvet ornamented with buttons. This basque is attached under the girdle, which is of the velvet. The blouse fastens a little on one side, under a band of the velvet ornamented with buttons and cut with little straps, also fastened with buttons. The shoulder collar is of white silk, trimmed with wide bands of the velvet vel-vet almost covering it. The little square yoke is of guipure, the standing stand-ing collar trimmed with a bias band of the white silk, bordered with vet-vet, vet-vet, which forms a point in front and continues on round the neck. A band of velvet finishes the top "of the collar. col-lar. The sleeve is plaited at the top, full at the elbow, where it Is gathered jUI times. Do not economize on dressmakers. dress-makers. If you can't afford good material ma-terial and a good dressmaker also, economize, on the former. One dress "well made is better than half a dozen poorly made. In conclusion, buy as good material as you can. Haye it PRETTY GOWNS 'j The first gown is of pearl gray crepe de chine. The skirt has a deep hip-yoke composed of shaped bands of the material, and falls in the form of a long tunic over an underskirt, "also of the crepe de chine, the edges of each finished with a band of guipure. gui-pure. The blouse is composed of the fitted, or shaped bands, over which there is a bolero similarly made and edged with .guipure. The sleeves are made to correspond and are finished with cuffs of the guipure, of which the collar is also made. . The cravat is of narrow black galloon, and the girdle gir-dle is of black velvet ribbon, knotted in the back with long ends. The sec- made by a good dressmaker, then take plenty of time to get into it. imn i 1 1. j. V wueu you are in iu, nave respect for the dress. Walk with a quiet, even sten: irive it a erood chance and it will do something for you. Remember that jthe best of gowns, like the garment of righteousness, must be well worn." Silk Evening Gloves. The' elbow sleeves of the summer forced all womankind to take an interest in-terest In silk gloves and openwork mitts. So' we all laid in a supply of them, and most of us have them yet as fresh as ever, for when the thermometer ther-mometer was below 70 degrees we needed something warmer than network, net-work, even if it was in August. But take comfort! We may even yet wear those expensive mitts. Word comes from Paris that the fancy silk glove is considered smart for dressy Indoor occasions. Ladies abroad like them far better than the long white kid glove. Peculiar Combination. One of the new and pretty flat neck ruffs is composed of white plaited chiffon ruffles that fall pracefully about the shoulders. This is not peculiar. pe-culiar. But the long ends are. They are composed of latticed cordi (soft, FROM PARIS. into a deep cuff of the violet velvet. The other gown, of mouse gray cloth, is worn by Mile. Mitzy-Daltl of the theatre de i'Odeon, in the first act of "Monsieur ie Directeur." The skirt is plaited all around except in front, where it is plain, forming a sort of tablier. The plaits are stitched down in three places, thus forming three wide bands of flat stitched plaits, between be-tween which they open out and again at the bottom. The blouse is covered with a shoulder shoul-der collar or peplum, which extends over the girdle and down to the hem of the gown in the back, forming a box plait. In front it forms a sort of blouse plastron, embroidered in the same shade as the gown and fastened at the top with a passementerie ornament. The- sleeve is plaited at the top, the plaits opening out to form a large puff gathered Into an embroidered embroid-ered cuff. Le Luxe. , ;m II , tic a heavy cords are bigger than one's little finger) that are caught together with little tufts of white chenlle showing threads of black. Lest this fall in a jumble at the foot there's a broad ruffle of white taffeta. It is edged with big balls of black-marked white chenile. All these combinations combina-tions sound peculiar, but when they are the result of skilled designing and workmanship most of them are as FOR WEDDINGS. ond gown is of pink pongee. The skirt is finished with a shaped flounce headed by a band of guipure, in which a band of golden brown velvet ribbon is run. Above this is a group of tucks, ornamented in front with a row of gold buttons. The bodice is In the form of a bolero plaited over the shoulders and bordered with the guipure gui-pure and velvet. The plastron is also of guipure, the velvet run In the collar, and is finished at the point with a knot of velvet, the ends of which are finished with passemen terie balls or tassels. The blouse Is plaited pink mousseline de soie, as are also the sleeve puffs. The girdle Is of the brown velvet. Weiner Chic. pleasing as they are novel. Most of them are Importations direct from Paris. Splendid Carriage Gown. Th6 carriage gown shown is of fine black broadcloth. The Eton coat has long tails and the box plait beginning at the neck gives them the necessary fullness and spread below the waist Black embroidery In heavy silk floss, with the material cut out between the leaves and flowers, trims the edges ol the cape and tails, and forms the belt and the curved lines at the sides. Under these curved lines, however, white silk is inserted. Rage for Fur. This is a good season to utilize the old fur boa which you have been saving sav-ing so carefully. Fur is used everywhere every-where and anywhere, and a little of It as trimming will give a smart touch to the homemade gown, cape or hat. A heavy band of fur just above the flounce of the skirt is especially stylish. styl-ish. It may look as if you had just fastened your last year's boa around your knees, instead of at the neck, but a glance . at the best show windows will assure you that you are in the fashion. 3ho JZatest Ideas from Paris Enameled ware is easily cleaned with powdered pumice stone. The flare is entirely eliminated from the skirt of the new walking suit. Some dressy winter waists are of panne velvet with elaborate trimmings trim-mings of Irish lace. Full-blown pink roses, form one of the most charming of the new band tirmmlngs. Pink taffeta, mink and Irish crochet lace are employed In the making of a "dream" of a new hat. A pretty all-white hat in French sailor shape is of beaver felt with trimmings of white grapes. Materials cf a . reasonably heavy weight are fll lined with soft silks now, but for diaphanous stuffs like chiffon, net,, crepe de chine, etc., taffeta taf-feta Is still used. - Cat Adopted by Monkey Queer Companionship in Suburb of Chi cago Little Foundling Has Been a Protege of Jocko From Her Early Kittenhood, UT - In Washington Heights, Chicago, there is a cat that knows all about the strenuous life; in fact, it has never lived any other kind. Several months ago before its eyes had been opened to the great world's in- difference the cat was a little waif, left on the doorstep of David Miller. The misery of the kitten at first at- tracted no atten tion. Then, at a time when assistance assist-ance was badly needed, a friendly hand was out-stretched, out-stretched, and since then puss has had a surfeit of attention. The kitten became be-came a foundling the ward of the queerest, homeliest homeli-est foster parent that ever lived an African monkey, with a record for killing chickens and stealing eggs. Jocko, during the three years of his life, had been accused of almost everything else but being sentimental. He ran at little girls with pink frocks who passed on their way to school; he made faces at the boys, and ran away with hats and mittens, tops and marbles. Jocko fought "everything that offered of-fered battle and came out of a hun- d r e d encounters with scarcely a scratch. The kit ten's misery softened soft-ened the heart of the little beast, whom every one supposed was incur in-cur a b ly vicious. Every day the monkey supplied the kitten with food, sometimes from Its own rations ra-tions and some times by a stealthy foray into the pantry or some house where Jocko had a calling acquaintance. In the crisis that must come into the life of any ordinary kitten Jocko was a valiant and ever-ready champion. cham-pion. When mischievous boys or passing dogs threatened it with real or fancied danger the monkey made horrible grimaces and pelted them with stones. When the battle grew too hot Jocko would tuck the kitten under its arm and ascend to the top of the house. When aroused to a frenzy the monkey often shook the kitten at its tormentors, threatening to hurl puss at them. But he never did so and the kitten thrived on. When night came Jocko took his little protege to bed. Going to bed Involved a leap of a dozen feet to a little cage in the fork of a tree, and this matter of retiring has always been a fearful strain upon the nerves of the kitten. While Tabby was yet a kitten it could not have wished for a more playful, livelier acquaintance. ac-quaintance. T o-gether o-gether the strange companions while away many a long summer day, their antics usually attracting at-tracting the attention atten-tion of passersby. But the time came when natural instincts in-stincts inclined the cat to dignity and gravity of demeanor. de-meanor. It longed for the time to come when it could JAMES R. KEENE AS HE IS. Graphic Pen Picture of Great Wall Street Speculator. Here is a pen picture of James R. Keene, the Wall street speculator, drawn by a writer in the Cosmopolitan: Cosmopoli-tan: "A man past 60, tall, slender, with a marvelously well-shaped head; hair and beard half gray; bushy eyebrows; eye-brows; fierce, feline eyes cold, with a curious menacing look or gleaming with sardonic humor made restless as a caged tiger by the wear and tear of a lifetime of stock gambling, yet with nerves of steel; cynical in his views of men's motives; possessing a literary style of remarkable lucidity and distinction, yet habitually over-strong over-strong of spoken language; a man of culture, yet a crony of race track habitues; ha-bitues; coldly calculating as a Talleyrand, Talley-rand, yet impulsive as a scheolgirl; a surpassingly keen judge of security values, yet often an investor in worthless worth-less shares; possessing the great gift of patience in his campaigns, yet the most dashing operator in Wall street; extravagantly generous with some who serve him and incredibly insensible insen-sible to gratitude with others; often distrustful of disinterested friends, and as often victimized by not over-plausible over-plausible adventurers; full of contradictions contra-dictions as of abilities such is James R. Keene." SLEPT IN CHESTNUT TREE. Queer Abode Chosen by Impecunious Venezuelan. A policeman on duty in the Champs Elysees, Paris, the other night was surprised to see a man climb up the trtink of one of the large chestnut trees and disappear among the branches. The officer obtained a ladder lad-der and ascended the tree and discovered discov-ered a hammock slung to the branches and with a man lying comfortably in it At the police station he gave his name as Aosario Paz. He said he was a colonel in . the Venezuelan army; that he had taken part in the revolutionary revolu-tionary struggle then going on, was taken prisoner, but escaped. A price being set on his head, he fled to Europe, Eu-rope, but having very little money when he reached Paris he took up his abode in a tree to save hotel expenses. ex-penses. He produced papers in proof of his assertions and was pleased with a caution. Claim Motto Is Welsh. "Ich dien," the motto which belongs to the Prince of Wales, is usually translated "I serve," and tradition has It that it was taken by the black prince from the royal helmet of the blind king of Bohemian who was killed on the field of Crecy. It is a notable fact however, that the late Dr. William Wil-liam Ihne, professor of English literature litera-ture at Heidelberg, rejected this theory. He held that the motto was of Welsh origin and took its rise at the time when Edward I presented his ill sit by the fire or doze and think all day on a soft sofa cushion. To Its surprise and apparent disgust, the monkey Insisted that they be "children" "chil-dren" forever. There was no doubt in Jocko's mind that "giant swings" up in the branches of the trees, or headers from the top of the house were as enjoyable for cats as they were for monkeys; and therein he made a great mistake. The cat was a victim of too much kindness and showed it But for too many hair-raising escapades the cat's fur would have been fine and glossy as soft silk. As it was, there were so many terrors connected with the pranks of the monkey that its hair, from constantly being "raised upon end," became stiff and bristly like a hairbrush. A favorite sport of the monkey was to seize the cat and jump out of a window. Its agility and probably some share of luck generally gener-ally prevented in juries to either, and cats are nervous nerv-ous and monkeys are not, and that is the reason one was happy and the other oth-er was miserable. With all thearti-fice thearti-fice of animal persuasion per-suasion the cat sought to convince the monkey that the time of the parting of the ways had come. Jocko resorted to the "If we must part let us go together," and several times when the cat "left home" Jocko went and brought her back. Quarrels between the two became so frequent that Mr. Miller Mil-ler decided to get rid of one or the Other. So the monkey was sold last week to a dealer in Chicago. But when poor Jocko had been carted cart-ed off the old lonesomeness came back, and the cat wept miserably. For two whole nights the cat kept up a pathetic call for the absent one. Then Mrs. Miller felt so sorry for the-lonesome the-lonesome cat that she cried, too, although al-though she has since confessed that a liking for Jocko also had something some-thing to do with the matter. So Saturday Sat-urday morning Mr. Miller was hustled off to the city with instructions to buy him back. This he did. Mr. Miller sold the monkey for $10 less than he had paid for it originally, and on the second purchase paid $10 more than he sold it for. Jocko Is very popular in Washington Heights. On Sunday mornings he goes up town and helps the bootblacks shine shoes. Customers enjoy the novelty of these "monkey shines," and pay the usual price for them. Farming at Wellesley. Wellesley college is planning to taker up farming. A new department of learning is to be installed, which will teach young women scientific gardening garden-ing how to treat diseased wheat and grain and how to become expert grafters, graft-ers, writes the Northwestern Christian Advocate. The promoters of the new idea at Wellesley assert that no other female institution in America pos- . - i x j m ti:,;.n. sesses equal advantages auu laaaue to conduct such a department ana as an argument point to the spacious, well-kept grounds of the college ?ndi the world-famed Hunnewell esti with its magnificent greenhouses. Besides Be-sides the farming department there will be an up-to-date dairy, in which students will learn the science of perfect per-fect butter-making. In a poultry-yard they will learn to rear and feed chickens. chick-ens. Some Parisian restaurants charge a shilling extra for the use of the tablecloth. table-cloth. new-born eldest son to the Welsh chieftains at Carnarban castle as their future sovereign. He held the child up in his arms and exclaimed in Welsh, "Eich dyn," meaning "This is your man." The explanation is accepted ac-cepted by many antiquarians. ieners iviarK twain uexs. Mark Twain is long suffering la ther matter of a correspondence loaded with requests for favors from un known people. He has, consequently,- received the impression that when people find time hanging heavily on their hands, they sit down and write a letter to him asking for somathing. These requests are always preceded by profuse compliments. "In my judgment," said Mark Twain recently, "no compliment has the slightest value when it is charged for, yet I think I never get one unaccompanied by the bill." The latest letter he has received Is somewhat in the nature of a climax even to those that have gone before. A school teacher asks for his portrait in oil. "There is nothing we would appreciate so much," wrote this admirer, with true naivete. "It could be used for years and years in the school." But the fact that it would cost the author a thousand dollars or so entered nowhere into the enthusiastic enthu-siastic brain of the correspondent Brought Back from Death. Howard Smith of Coudersport, Ohio, was brought back to life recently, after having been dead, as announced by physicians, five minutes. While running through a hall with a brass rod in his mouth he fell, cutting a deep gash in his throat Three physicians physi-cians were called, and shortly after putting him under chloroform his heart stopped beating. For five minutes min-utes he remained in that state, during dur-ing which physicians used electric batteries bat-teries and resuscitated him. Gov. Bailey Reported Engaged. William J. Bailey, the new governor of Kansas, will, according to persistent persist-ent rumor, be married shortly to Miss Clara Williams of Seneca, Kan. Miss Williams is the daughter of George ... . v hi v. riioi National bank of Seneca and a reputed re-puted millionaire. Mr. Bailey was practically pledged to get married in the event of his being elected. Question of Anatomy. Attention of medical men who have had cases where patients have been kicked in the corridor or vestibule is now directed to the man stabbed in the crap game. If we could all be just sufficiently mad to be happy it is the sane who would be locked up. And quite right, too. Wen a man starts ter run fer office hit's most Inglnruly wid de idee dat him en d Iawd Is erbout all dat kin save de country. J - 1 |