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Show THE SEMI-WEEK- LI t. BYDB, & Customs of the Japs NATION. PwfcUabMh Habits and Manners That Seem Strange to Visitors From the West UTAH I.OQAN, "Why are thw newspapers so dull?" asks somebody. They aren't. the boiler, are skinned for the buyer, (Special Correspondence.) HO dares say a treaty port Is uninteresting, if that port be Mont Pelee continues to furnish Yokohama, the key of Japan? matter copiously for the magazines. After nineteen days on the vast Pacific, unrelieved by Rev. Small frankly admits that he underestimated the potency of Ver- whale or porpoise, passing ship or floating berg, we moored outside the mont rider. breakwater, and native sampans conus to shore. veyed Mr. Schwab should keep his nerEverything in this land works unvous system out of range of Monte der disadvantage. Machines are bareCarlo this time. la ly known, and human energy As a respecter of persons the trol- wasted. Conservation of force la no of the Japanese creed, and If It ley car Is closely related to the man part what would happen to the many were, .on the pale horse.' thousands who now eke out their life in labor? So we read the warning, Foreign crop reports Indicate a Since the only water supply is from light yield in all lines except King a well seventy feet deep, and the waAlfousos wild oats. ter can only be drawn by manual One of the city officers of Columbus, labor, guests cannot be allowed more than two baths per week. No O., writes his name CC. Pbllbrick." no no aqueducts, reservoirs, hydrants, He belongs to the 200. no Johnstown flood surely, and no In Philadelphia a pugilist was killed provision against fire! In the little in a slugging match, but all bouts do wooden washtubs, which hold perhaps a gallon, the Japs splutter and not turn out so happily. splash and soap, for they are scrupuclean. Through the open doors lously Japans progress is the real thing. The mikados government Is about to of the public bathhouse, the passer-bmake an influenza census. snails, unsavory rice, raw fish on spikes are revealed by the flickering torch. Huge poppers of 'beans shove hot ovens suggest our own popcorn. For a trifle wc may load ourselves with a forast of miniature trees trained to every spangleJ device of Japanese art. With three cents we buy a family of Japanese uables stretched on their stomachs and raising their bald heads to show a single forelock dangling on the ear. One child in this many-sidetown appeals to our interest, pity, love, and the outing would be incomplete without a visit to Katie of the Nectarine. We Bhall not find her in a native home, for this quiet white house, with green blinds, in a remote corner, caters to the foreign trade. We had thought it a cafe chantant, and winsome Katie met us and beguiled us before, we had recognized our whereabouts. How pretty she is so coy and artless, this child of Thu term sounds cold and harsh when coupled with the dainty gfrl, who suggests a bit of pink and white china. Her unblushing frankness has the naivete of innocence. She horrifies us d e. y It was a foregone conclusion that both the army and navy would do .well In the army and nary duel. Lord Beresfords advice to British workmen and employers may be simmered down to two words, Get busy. It used to be but a step from the cradle to the grave. Now its a step from the cradle to the golf championship. The Red Jacket shaft in Northern Michigan is 4.9U0 feet deep. Thats pocket enough for any jacket, no matter the color. And now the professional pessimist Is beginning to wail over the theory that it is going to be abnormally hot next summer. New York is reported to be running of chorus girls. The Grand Duke Boris will not be likely to tarry In that town. All kinds of trouble might ensue if King Alfonso and the crown prince Should become Infatuated with the v same American girl. It is said that fall hats for women will be as large as the moon looks. No doubt the price will be equally colossal and distant. A Kansas real estate agent has gone to Posen to start a boom. If Posen wants one she undoubtedly has the right man to run It. another man In Kentucky is thought to have been insane. At any rate, he had just refused a drink of whisky. An eastern paper is trying to find out what is the happiest time of life. How about the time when the children have been put to bed for the night? A Minnesota editor has, after a hard struggle, given up his paper and opened a bowling alley. Let us hope that he may now be able to keep on his pins, If you want to get on with women," says Max O'Rell, never criticise them and never olfer them advice. M. Blou- ts wisdom seems almost superhuman sometimes. A Kentucky judge holds that a typewriter will is valid. More than one recalcitrant business man has found nut that his typewriter's will is sturdy and Invincible. Cincinnati The inventor who burned his flying machine because it wouldnt fly shows the sort of common sense that disqualifies him for the genius class. Andrew Carnegie Is going to build a 95,00'V'hO home in London, nefore long it may he possible for the multimillionaire to travel around the world and sleep in his own palace every night. A New York boy who was being If yer tried in police rourt said: mother dont care for yer, yer ain't The judge wisely regot no mother. frained from trying to disprove the - ' statement. If the person who threw tacks la the way of the cycle trust can be found there Is likely to be something doing. But the public cannot resist the temptation to wiBh that some other trusts also ran on pneumatic tires. n sand to rippled pur- ple pool. From the dawn to twUlght hour. The sen spreads out Its petals wide and cool. Like a morning glory flower; Emerald, opal, amethyst and blue In Its nectary-cu- p It holds, TUI It yields each lovely hue to the darkness and the dew. And the great sea blossom folds. Then wrought with silver, and rlramed In rainbow pearl, A porphyry goblet lies. Where the dazsllng waters scintillate and whirl To the glow of the lustrous skies; For budding splendors In Its deep heart hide, And the full-bloglory breaks. When radiant petals wide unfurl at morning tide, And tbe great av& blossom wakes. -- Fall Mull Gazette. TEMPLE AND GATEWAY. (Osaka.) the with her honest statements. She is so may see (he inmates wearing pristine glory of Adam in his birthday decidedly a child of nature that her dress; or they are foundering like manner of life iyj part of herself. She nude.-Iwhaica-1is barely slxtw this little one, the last year the government made doomed by Fate, who recks not the a reckless demand for decency, and end in store nor cares for the shame decreed that men and women should of the present. To her there is no no longer occupy the same tank, and Bhame. It Is life simple and natural. thin, half-wapartitions now separate She supplies a market demand. Let the shame rest elsewhere. Katie cudthe sheep and the goats. Shame and modesty are words un- dles down beside us in the little parknown to Jap vocabulary. So thought lor where we order coffee and chocothe young American guest in the late, and she chatters happily in her home of a Japanese gentleman, and broken patois. The matron fills us he delayed his bath till the other little glasses of a tempting drink, and hesitates. Is gentlemen had retired. Alone he went the innocent to the den, dextrously soaped and it a put-ujob? Aren't you afraid lathered from his little wooden tub, they will dupe us and do us up? Have rinsed off in clear water from another no fear of trickery in Japan. Methods and management are tub, and had entered the of Infant shades when, bath, purity! open as the day; as transparent as is a Japanese Eve In absolutely native little Katlje's heart when we turn to nudity entered the room, went read it. There 1b a summons for the through the same formula, and calmly girls and she joins the troop of airy stepped Into his own big tub with midgets who throng for inspection. lamb-lik'Scuse me gentlemen come mus Indifference to the United States lion who thought he had pre- - go. she explains, as she bows herself out. Many are railed but few are chosen. and Katie returns quite unabashed. He no wantee me, I come back. she gently says, and she rolls and roars with laughter as a merry girl shows her how to dance a jig. The waltz step strikes her fancy, but she feels herself outside of Its to a and says, half sobc-rly-, When dancer. "I am jaluze of you. we ask her where she learned so well her pretty English, hei frank answer confronts us with the terrible truth, and sets us thinking, with a heavy heart. As I strolled to the corridor and looked off to the court of flowers a dozen little sisters In shame threw wide their doors and urged me to their parlor. I mnet Inspect their belongings. und sit cosily with them on the little mat'. No one was so pretty as we Katie, but all were polite and gracious. Dear children of the Nectarine! Quartered alone, cut off from all the world, unless it comes to you, and then too generally the victims of your guests! What, for you. Is the solution of lifes great problem? For you are so dainty and pretty, so kind and Shiba Temple Gateway. gentle, so polite and gracious, so faith(Toklo.) ful and submissive, so winning In all empted It. At the close of her ca- your ways; has life no richer meaning reer,' she lett without apology, leav- than this dally round of sin? Have ing the horrified youth to ruminate on you a higher uature which craves a queer customs. The story sounds uetter fate? Does the present bring children, whose merry laugh rings true fishy, but It Is no dream. Are you all Theater street Is the scene of gay content? night life, whore brilliant lanterns to pleasure? dangle, and long white banners with Pretty little KnMe! You will never bunches of black chirography adver- fade Trom memory. May the great All tise the shows, lloothu of food, flow- Father remember that you are his ers and crockery stretch Into the child. ? v : solve for you the probItreet, sweet potatoes steaming from lem as none other can. n - y well-regulate- d full-lengt- h e West-ervel- t, Hugh Hague of Jersey City. Westervelt was badly injured ten years ago by a ladder falling on him at a fire. Both legs were crippled, and he was given the position of driver, as it called for less activity. At the fire Saturday at the National Storage docks, at Black Tom Island, Westervelt, notwithstanding his disability, helpea man the hose and was in a dangerous position when one of the walls was seen to totter. Chiefs Conroy and Hague both saw tbe peril of the man end they started to assist him, fearing that he would be unable to save himself. To their astonishment Westervelt, who had realized his danger, started off on a run. Since Saturday Westervelt says his legs appear to' have gained all their former usefulness, and he Is an agile as he ever was. Dr. Lcckner, surgeon of the fire department, says it waB the fright occasioned by bis peril tna. restored to Westervelt the full use of his legs. The doctor says, in his opinion, some of the muscles of the legs bad been contracted ami the sudden fright caused them to relax and restored to tnem their proper luiictlons. New York World. smart young cavalry officer was recently exercising his regiment uim the drill ground when the familiar words of command suddenly slipped from his mind and the strenuous effort to recall them was utterly futile. In order to cover his embarrassment he was complied to retlfe fromtew mand under the plea of illness. The fugitive sentence came to his mind when he reached his rooms. Another Interesting example is that of a popular novelist who had nearly finished an important work upon which be was engaged, when a sudden failure of memory deprived hfm of his plot and necessitated the laying aside of tt. book for more than a week; then a:--, association of ideas recalled the missing plot and the novel was brought to issue and enjoyed a wide circulation. Two Wondrous Plants. Plants are really living beings, tbe same as animals, and like the latter they are obliged to absorb nourishment to develop them and to remain alive. But since they cannot, as do the beings of superior species, go In 1 1 The Darlingtonia. lightly. The leaf secretes a digestive juice similar to the gastric juice of the human Btomach, and the prey is slowly dissolved and absorbed. Another plant, the darlingtonia. feeds on Insects, but in a different way. Its leaves form a hpecic-- cf urn, which ordinarily holds some water. On Hie inside there is also some honey, which attracts the insects. These unhappy animals slip at the smooth incline, fall lo the bottom and cannot get up again, for there are Bharp hairs that are directed from the top toward the bottom to prevent them. Little by little the plant absorbs them, just as dues the Venus. But it has an advantage over the latter. It can save its food if it does not wish to eat it at once. Its urn is a larder In which it can heap its provisions up. forming a bountiful reserve on which it may draw when it is hungry. j Years Before the Plow. What was conceded to be the oldest Worse in Pennsylvania has Just died at Finleyville, at the age of 39 years and 3 months. The animal was owned by John P. Sheplar, of Snowden township. At the age of 22 years the horse paced a mile heat at Homewood park, Pittsburg, in 2.20. It was of tbe St. Lawrence strain and had been owned by Mr. Sheplar since it was 2 years of age. It was worked at the plow and on the farm for thirty-siyears and had never been sick until two hours before ite Thirty-si- x x death. Philadelphia Times. Badly Stung by Jellyfish. Mayor Adolph Lankering of Hoboken, N. J., who was stung by a Jellyfish while bathing in the Shrewsbury river a week ago, had to have an op-- , eration performed on his left foot a few days ago. The foot has swollen to three times its natural size and the doctor who performed the operation said that the mayor would not be able to walk for at least a fortnight. Wine by the Hour. In the province of Padua, Ita'y, the price of wine Is unprecedently low, owing to the enormous overproduction. In some districts the guests in the osterias, or inns, pay by the hour for the wine consumed. Wine is rarely sold for money, but usually bartered for milk, maize and fowls. em-brac- lignt-hearte- d slightly concave surface, strewn with glands. These glands distill a liquor which attracts insects. The stiff hairs on the edges are placed in such a manner that the insect which hovers near the leaf Is almost certain before long to touch one of the hairs. And as these are endowed with great Irritability, when they are touched the two lobes of the leaf close quickly, one shutting againBt the other, and they interlace their spiny lashes so firmly that the prey which they have seized cannot escape. 8o long as the insect straggles the leaves remain closed. As soon as it ceases to move the lobes open Fright Restored the Use of Hie Legs. Fright is said to have restored tbe full use of his legs to Cornelius driver for Fire Battalion Chief Freaks of Memory. first-com- A man who ahot Flower of the Sea. shell-strew- A short long From Some Odd Facts. It Is a notable fact that most of the subjects of King Edward VII. are Hindoos. It has been observed that a mans hair turns gray five years sooner than them depend on their leaves to draw moisture from the air and their roots and absorb food through the earth. Some, however, do not content themselves with the food obtained in this way from the air and earth. They vary their diet with a little animal good. The most remarkable of these carnivorous or animal-eatinplants is the Venus flytrap, which Is common in North Carolina. All its leaves radiate from the root and form a rosette. A strong vein exspread-ou- t tends from the bane to the summit, and their edges are furnished with stiff, spiny hairs. Eaoh half of the leaf presents a g a woman's. Out of the 316 recent cases of persons wounded with bullets in the brain, 6 recovered. The hardest wood is not ebony, but cocus. It grows in tbe West ladles and is used fur making flutes and similar instruments. The yearly rental of a hotel soon' to be built in Manhattan will exceed 3300,000 for each of a long series of years nearly 1 1,000 a day. The forceps, the probe and the speculum are all considered Instruments of modern Invention, but specimens of them were found In the ruins of Pompeii. It Is said that the Greeks had a cuirass made of linen or woolen fibers, which was impenetrable to the sharp, est darts or spears. That, by the way. Is one of the discoveries that have not been rediscovered, for we do not know the secret of Its manufacture. |