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Show IN THE 01)1) COJtiNEli" ,t JUbeh and cunious THINGS AND EVENTS. , ' Tha llan lh th. Ilr- Malna Town. Illg liana Kiln la Mhlch til Hi. . ' lagan Ilia. Th.lr llmni In . ( unuuun " l.n -lllll- XL. ,r Imprl.l.r ,Tli linn Hh Ilia I!.,, .Mlsluh Malkums rll poem 'llout roiua KrinniHii wld u hno, , Which dey say In luhned euhclM, Wmls wide an ninmlroua rw ';- Hut dey my n Inn a Flashlight" 1)11 ile pupil bit won do, Dal do Mies au tropic wrllnk Takes do liomimilatlc view Now 1 Be read dat ioem kyartul, WW a hypocrlllcryc, l .An' do meat il.it In iu amokehouse Am a linuglu mlghlr high Hut 1 has dli nbtuhtaahun ., "Wont do Hoof oli dem nli llnca , .An jo II nml It Ills da 'cathun Hame ex latere fits do vine MJ'al li poem urn a falluali, I'l all fahnilu' ptisnoiit know, Fob do nut bill pine-blank rcaaon, liar's no nlggnh wld dut boo Frank Armneld' In Nortli Georgia I Citizen ! 1 alrl Thine on I our !(. Tbo horse la a noble animal, aa all ( the world knows Hut when It cornea to speed and Maying power ba la not In It with the camel or, rather, to I apeak quite correctly the dromedary, alnco.lt la the dromediry which la , li.pl for HWlttncse the tnio camil be ing tbo beaal of biirdin In most un- -ilvlllxed and open countrlei tbu bear J r of Important (ommunlcatloiui who la denied the all of llio railway might I . with mhanlago to hlmaelt exchange " h horse for a dromedary The lhor otighbreil dromeilary In the pink of . condition can do tits twenty mllcj an J I our for a surprising number ol i I ouri, a Mood horse would bo hard j put to It to exceed, on a long dlstanco I Hallo)) eomo fourteen miles an hour, I and llio fifth hour would nlmoat Infal- llbly find him p!a)cd out to tbo point of exhaustion With hilf a doxen I liuitrs' rest per day, not mtcssirlly In- I eluding food and water, tbo "crack" ; dromedary can bo prewicd to Its ut- , moat speed fur u week famous as the Tartars mo for tliolr small, swift horses, they jet reserve their greatest enthusiasm for their cumol races. In which thero compete tomo of the pur est- blooded animals In all Asia Had 1 though the character of tbo nicrnge ' oont" Is, thero aro among bis aristocratic aristo-cratic rcpiescntalhoa bcaats as loyal CJ and gentle as" any that over wore hoof. i ttvery achoolboy has liy-buart the dro- BfcjSsynwnmww ., Inty MnlrtulMVucHr for Blor- y Ing.bolh nutrlrrcnt In. Its bump and , y m' 'water In IU ancles of cellular stom-ll stom-ll acb Add to this the fact, not too well W known of Us nlmoat Incredible spei K when highly bred and trained and on! 11 " hirdl) help wondering that I'u- i ropenna, and especially Huropoan war I' -officials lure not paid moro attention I to Its inariclous qualities as a means V ot rapid communication It Is utelcai, of course for civilized countries with B: pautl roads, Iti feet being too sott to j B stand the hard, monotonous level of modern hlghwaja Dut on suitable Around there Is nothing that can compare com-pare with It for speed and bottom," xcpt, perhaps, tho dog which, how-eicr how-eicr cannnt carry a rider Tha elephant, ele-phant, though, can outstay tbo horss, and Its lumbering trot of eight miles an hour can hold on for half a day at n stretch and keep this. Its greatest degroo of speed, going for many days i horao, pressed to lla limit of swift- nesa, must rest on alternate days or It j will celhpsc-I'xchango lUlne Town a Ilz !,. stun. j Tbero is n couifortablo little town I called Illuo Hill, because It Is situated under the brow of a little mountain of that nnme, way down In ono corner cor-ner of Hancock county, Maine, which claims tho distinction as being tho only town in the universe which baa a town lean kiln- beanklll tho natives na-tives call It It Is nn old Institution, whereby over 03 per cent of the beans eaten In tho town nro baked. It was way back In tho CO a when tho Un-U Un-U mtt a went to Illuo Hill. Ono of tbo 1 ' family whllo on a visit to somo of bis pcoplo In Illue Hill chanced lo get i mired In n mud puddlo and wntlo scraping tho clay from his boots no-. no-. llced that tbo consistency nnd grain was that of the finest brick clay. Ho prospected n little and found that the bills about tho placo wero of the same , kind of clay nnd that aand of prlmo ' quality wiu close at band Illuo Hill bay was n natural harbor There was u steady demand for bricks overy-wbore, overy-wbore, nnd eo It was that tho Un-acotta Un-acotta went to lllue Hill and started tho brlckmaklng business Tho Hack- I " iruiuu nun) enterprising nnd their crew of emploos grew larger and larger until it absorbed all the aallab!o natltts, and It was necessary I to Import men from the neighboring towns This necessitated a boarding-house boarding-house and so It was that Mrs Lin-ncott's Lin-ncott's big four story frame house bo-camo bo-camo tbe shelter of forty or fifty able-liodlfd able-liodlfd men with enormous appetites Thoy were not particular as to the - menu so long as there was plenty of food and Mrs Llnscott's beans were pronounced Just about right. Although the bouse was equipped with a spacious brick oven, what with ths bread and plea and puddings and other tilings thi rapacity was considerably con-siderably strained Mrs I titseott was complaining of this whsn her bus-Imnd, bus-Imnd, ' 01' Have Mnacott," said ho'd - e about It He talked the mMter over with tbe foreman, and so It bap-pned bap-pned thst one Saturday afternoon, when work waa a little alack, the crew turned to and built an enormous arrangement ar-rangement In ths Unacott dooryatd It waa like a huge brkk oven aa much a anything elae They called It a beanklll because It was not much of j anything elae The Orebjx was ar- ranged to take In foir foot wood and the arrangement of flues and frata waa j the result, of many conferences and j tbe consensus of opinion of all tbe expert ex-pert brick burners of th" works ' llulld er big enough said t)ae and It was big enough for hundreds of beau pots The kill wss a great success Nothing Noth-ing was cvir aeen like It No such Leans ever tlrkled the palate of a bun err brick workers as camo out of tha Mnacott bean kiln Then tbe neigh bors began to brlag their beans Juat as a sample order And when they brought them once tiler did again Klnallr the kill became so extremelr ' popular that thrifty Darld thought there might be n chance for "spocla. tlon," and so a fee of 1 cent per pot waa established And this was tha origin of th kiln The original structure struc-ture bas been rebuilt and altered many tlaaea The l.lnscotta got rich and moved back to New Jcraiy, but their successors kept up the kiln The price lias been advanrcd with tbo Increased price of wood but the custom has not fallen off, aa more people have moved In, and the town has become a famous ummcr reaort And now of a Friday night all the ynungatera of tho village may be seen about sutiiet heading for the bean kill with the family bean pots ' lllll Mender, the present proprietor pro-prietor of the kiln, Is n Jovial old soul, and crams In the dry, bard wood lo cordwool lengths and nnon runs tils arm Into the Immense ovens lo gaugi the heat, while his purse becomri hcevy with the nickels nnd dimes which flow In Ho knowa Just how all his customers Ilk; their beans, bow Mrs l'erklns wants hers "rather under' un-der' and Mrs I'cabody tikes hers "most burnt," how the hole! peopla want theirs ' 'thout the 'lasses " IJos-ton IJos-ton Herald I.nrrV Walk. It has been estimated that there art at leaat a couple of hundred lovers' walks In Great llrltaln, all of which alo more or less renowned In story, song nnd tradition As for Ireland, no ono baa ever yet been bold enough to try to count the number Ono of tha most renowned Is that at Matlock, thi benutlful Derbyshire tow.i Next Is order of merit la the lovcts' walk al Itothesay Its aha tineas In summst has made It a fitorlte spot for many other persons than sweethearts. Thi beautiful Bpencer road, at Hyde, lata of Wight, can boaat of royalty having shared lta charms. It Is said, to hava become known as Hie Ioera' Walk," alntpljr lweu there was berillr n ptl or lovers In Ilyds but used It for tbeli repetitions of ths 'old, old story," though tho authorities never seemed ti fnvor the name, but have nlways referred re-ferred to It officially as Spencer road. One rngllsh town can boast of har. Ing a municipal lovers' lane This ll Illackburn, In tancashlre It Is a winding walk, arched In by tall treee bordered by old stones nnd kept trim and lldr Here the girl from tbe rail! or factory listens to tho samo old tale, ind It thrills her juat as It does tbi daughter of an earl, who bears It under un-der tbo lofty elms at Hyde. In Derbyshire, Der-byshire, near lluxton, there Is a renowned re-nowned lovers' leap Tho story goti that a maiden who had quarreled wlti her sweetheart In a lit of despali threw hcrsolf over tho cllffa Into tbi rocky gulf below The talo whcthoi truo or not has survived for over I couple of centuries Cnla nn I Thiln loralorma. Walter 1'ollock, an Kngtlah natural 1st, writes of the conduce of two cU during a rccont electrical storm. Tbi storm was an unusually severe one "J have nover before In Fngland." hi says, "watched for so long such lnces sant. vivid, nnd seemingly ublqultoui lightning Of two cats In the house, one, and that the elder, waa so scared that, having found shelter Indoors, II fled out again, seemingly In sheei nffrlght, and only returned, a drlpplni rag when tho terror of tho storm was past Tho other and younger cat pru dently stayed Indoors Hut both today are 'bags of nerves ' Cats, to be sure, aro normally baga of electricity, so oni understands their condition, Mori curious Is It that an elderly, specially courageous experienced, highly educated edu-cated nnd, as to travel Ulysseslike col. Jlo dog should bavo obviously goni through much the same gamut of emo tloq as did the tats though hit dig-ntty dig-ntty Impelled him to conceal the fact as much as ha could which was not much It may not bo uninteresting to noto that after the storm tho unmistakable unmis-takable 'IOydcn-Jar smell' clung strongly to every room where then bad been even a chink of window left open " Pleat n TrfirnmotlT. Three tramps Jumped on a locemo-tlvo locemo-tlvo which stood In tho yarda of tbi Denver & Itlo Qrando railroad at Ouray Ou-ray Col , on July 0 and started out on a heavy down grade As the speed Increased In-creased two of tho tramps btcami frightened and Jumped One however, remained on the locomotive, but was unable to control It and about Ave miles out tbo engine Jumped tbe track at a curve, badly wrecking Itself and the track Tbe tramp escaped with but a sIlRbt scalp wound and was aft-orward aft-orward irrosted |
