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THE DAILY BULLETIN.
MONDAY DECEMBER 18 1009
A BIT OF SLANG.
Origin of "Making a Noise Like" Thlt
or That.
Captain Henry H. Lyon. D. S.
was the Innocent cause of the slang
expression about "making a noise like"
this or that. At Peekskill in liKXJ he
gave Instruction to otlicors of the New
York national guard dolug duty in that
tour of camp. The first day he formed
the officers into a class In the big mesa
hall which was open at the sides so
that all that went on Inside was seen
and heard by the enlisted men pass-
ing back and forth. In teaching the
Officers how to give the commands Cap-
tain Lyon impressed upon the class
the necessity of clear enunciation and
of making commands like an officer
saying "arms." not "umps." etc.
The privates' capacity for turning
things to their own amusement was
Shown a few minute after that first
class was dismissed for officer: going
through the.v company streets hoard
privates it. front of a group of men
shouting our. "Make ?i noise like an
officer!" whereupon the entire "class"
would roar 'Traps'." A reporter sent
an account to a Now York paper and
from this grew expressions such as
"Make a noise like a hoop and roll
away." tc.
However it is seldom one hears the
word "anas" or "march." the voice
finding it much easier to slur the word
till it may mean a ay thing and as the
preparatory command indicates whar
la to be done the command following
Is merely a signal for the execution
of what has already been specified.
Army and Navy Journal.
LEGAL ADVICE.
The Lawyer's Duty In Giving Counsel
to His Client.
In the realm of advice a lawyer may
choose between counseling his client
how to uphold the rights secured to
him by the justice of his cause or how
to obtain benefits from the application
of technicalities and the use of the
weaknesses of the particular statute
or precedents under consideration
whereby he may attain advantages in-
consistent with fair play between man
and man.
Every time a lawyer encourages such
an application of the law as.. resulting
in injustice casts disrepute upon the.
law or !ts administration he is plainly
promoting discord either in the present
or the future.
Every time a lawyer counsels con-
troversy for the establishment of a
right as recognized by existing law
or .for -the promulgation of new law
beneficial to the majority of society he
is exercising his true function and
the charge which he lays upon his in-
dividual client and through him upon
Industry and progress in the mass if
reasonable In amount Is well earned
and should be cheerfully paid.
When however a lawyer gives the
other kind of advice the expense per-
haps cheerfully borne by the client
who profits personally therefrom must
be finally laid upon society as a whole.
which is thereby paying for its own
Injury and naturally resents the
charge. Donald R Klcbberg in At-
lantic. Sitting on the Snakes.
"While in Paris last summer another
jjirl and I went out to Versailles one
afternoon" said a schoolteacher. "It
was dusk when we reached the rail-
way station and. as there was no
waiting room we sat down on two
crates that were out on the platform
among a lot of others. We noticed
that the station employees kept star-
ing at us with a persistence that was
annoying. Presently a man in a shab-
by uniform with a bucket on his arm
approached us. He touched his cap
deferentially and said in French of
course:
"Mesdames. pray do not let me dis-
turb you. but 1 am forced to open the
"boxes on which you are seated in or-
der to feed the boa constrictor and oth-
er serpents that are within.'
"When we recovered from our fright
we found we bad been seated in the
midst of a huge collection of snakes
that had just arrived from their native
jungles en route for the zoo near Ver-
sailles.' Exchange.
Letter Perfect and Looked the Part.
An amateur theatrical company was
recently arranging for the performance
of a play which contained a rich va-
riety of characters says London
Sketch. Owing to this fact little prog-
ress was made with the cast a few
members of the company making a
dead set at principal positions while
minor characters were going a-begging.
One rather vacuous looking youth
made himself particularly obstructive
and brought down the wrath of a
brother artist.
"In my;. opinion." exclaimed the lat-
ter "young .Jones must In the Inter-
ests of. oco0uiy. lake the part of Sim-
kins t be. Fool"
"Why economy";?" demanded Mr.
Jones indignantly.
'Well you see. my dear fellow." was
the quiet reply "you won't need any
touching up "
The Sacrifice.
"A Kentucky couple." said Mrs.
ElmpkinK. "got married few days ago
after a courtship which had lasted
fifty years."
suppose." replied Vr. Simpkins.
"tbe poor old man had become too fee-
ble to hold out any longer. Chicago
Record-Herald.
Doesn't Work.
"CheerYulness Is riches."
'Oh. no! If you can't pay a bill be-
. .. .... f nnln .rna Vena thm
? curcr.u. "" i '-r
TRAVELERS' TALES.
The Blunders In Books That Describe
Foreirn Countries.
A livuly article on the amusing mis
takes to he found in hooks appears in riie around the world on bicycles col-
the London Academy. The author in mns were printed in the newspapers
referring to the blunders often made a" over the land about the tours
in books that describe foreign coun- and the cyclists were great attractions
tries notes that a traveler's ignorance wherever they appeared
of the manners and customs of strange When that mode of covering the
peoples or deliberate imposition by his globe became more common some ven-
informants are both supposed to have j turcsome pedestrians started to walk
given a somewhat fabulous character the distance and intense interest was
to some parts or the writings of ncrod- jso taken in these Journeys. Now we
otus. He quotes these lines which he i have an around the world Journey that
found written m his desk when he : for novelty surpasses anything of the
was attending lectures at Oxford:
Herodotus. Herodotus.
You could not spell yoti ancient cuss.
The priests In ISKVpt Riinimonod you:
It was not very hard to do.
But don't you think you'll gammon us
Herodotus. Herodotus.
The. author adds: "The second line is
presumably a reference to the spelling
cf Ionic Creek. What follows alludes
to the story of the Nile issuing from
between the mountains Crophi and Mo-
phi which certainly sound like a nurs
ery tal. In justice however.-to the
historian wo must iviriombor that re-
cent "ives'gjUon.s have discovered
that many his narratives once re-
garded as mythical have been found to
have some foundation in fact.
"This is more than can be said of
in"ost mediaeval travelers" tales. Some
however admit of explanation as. for
instance. Othello's account of 'men
whose heads do grow beneath their
shoulders" Ualeigh is convinced that
the wonder 'is true because every
child in the provinces of Arromaia and
Can.uri affirms the same.' The origin
of the belief in such prodigies has1
been found in the account ghon by.
Olcarius of the Samojeds of northern
Muscovy whose 'garments are made
like those that are called cosaques.
open only at the necks. When fhe cold
Is extraordinarv thev nut rtieir co
saques over their htfads and let the -
1
sleeves hang dev. v.. their faces being
not to be seen Ian at the cleft which I
at the neck. "Whence some have lakeN
occasion to wiiie that in 'these north
ern countries there are people without
heads having their faces in their
breasts. "
FREAK CATALOGUING.
British Museum His a System That j
Few Can Fathom. j
It may eom ungrateful in" an old !
reader who has reaped so many bene i
fits fnm the great library in Blooms .
bury to t'l'ul. fr.ulr with the arrange j
incuts' 'and if 1 -stood alone in this 1
complaint T would retain My isolation
but the grievance is ventilated by (
many;-
In the first place. I and J are treated
as the same letter as U and are .
That w;as all right when the catalogue
was Itogun and was in manuscript but
now that printing has superseded
handwriting the obsolete fashion of
cataloguing Jones and Ives under the
same letter or Vale and I'nwin as hav-
ing the same initial might be discon-
tinued and the jmnh-rn usage adopted
In the second place anonymous
works arc catalogued according to a
bewildering system the object of which
seems to be to hide the Identity of the
work.
Take the case of the 'valuable little
book with-the following title: "An Ac-
count of the Origin of Steamboats. In
Spain. Great Britain and America and
of Their Introduction and .Employment
Upon the River i ha.mcs I'.etween lon-
don and Cratex-nd to the Present
Time"-i. c.. IK'J One whiuIU thin
that it would be catalogued under
"Steauiboat" that heing the "main
subject but no it i' catalogued Mule
"Spain." I. am told the rule is to Jake
the first proper name.
That rule -however is not applied in
the next ease. A well written little
book published in UfOT is entitled
"Devon the Shire ff the Sea Kings Vr
"Devon" would seem Jo be the natural
heading" but no in the catalogue it
will be found under "Croat- Western
Railway." London Notes and (Jnorlo.-.
Broke the Combination.
The- father of .ludge W. II Wad J
hams had a chicken 40041-311 a dog (
and n stable hand li begat to look I
to Mr. Wad ha m a tbotmh 'omi one
had disverc-l the "-oo.i hi nation '
he kept the limy and the sttble bird
but lie ct a new dog. Nexrdu Lie
bent id.i'"ro w ho.gr.'ui'l the W id
hams lior-e a;j'e't lit tit
"You los' o'u ft'tc tioti fob me. boss''"
he asked.
"No. Sclpio." ;!tf? Mr. WadUams. "I
like you as w-i-fl ever" -
"Then." ayfcMl Sipi.o peevish!-
"w'yn't you tie old l.'over In de Hii ken
coop slid of dat new dorg?"-Argonaut
Psnlmj Not Earred.
The other ewutti r Mis Y . a maiden
lady of uncertain -U' uspectiu;.' th
?ook was entertait.mg her iieau down
stairs called. Martha and Inquired
whether-she did not- hear some one
talking with her.
"Oh no. ma'am'" cried the quick wit
ted Martha "It- was only- me singing a
psjilrii."
"Very good." returned .Miss Y. sig-
nificantly.. "You may amuse yourself
ltb psalms but let's have no lilms."
Tho Gland One.
Lady What: You've just come out
of prison: 1 wonder you are not
ashamed to own it: Ne'er-do-well I
don't own it.- lady -e wish 1 did. I was
only a lodger.-New York Journal.
Lively Lazaruses.
Startled Visitor-Gracious: What's
that? Must be an earthquake! The
j plaster 1 falling too: Mild Mater Oh.
V"
no! h'H lust the boy- Two of them
A NOVEL TOUR.
t"wo Adventuresome Italians Who Are.
Rolling Around the World
Some years ujco when people used to
kind ever before undertaken. This is
the tour of two Italians who propose
to cover the distance with a barrel one
" ItOLLINH AMOUNT THE WOKII.
rolling it until ho gets tired when the
other takes his turn and as shown in
the accompanying illustration there is
always au opportunity for one of the
men to rest without delaying the jour-
ney. The 'moving home is a novel affair
and has been put together with no tit-
tle ingenuity. In It are a bed and
scat which are mounted on axles sr
wai as it rous mese remain in ponton
1 Here is a suggestion for the fresh alt
' i. ...i ..I i . i .1 : ..
crank who wants all the. windows in
the train open when he travels and
also for the parsimonious chap whose
hotel bills spoil much of the pleasures
of the trip.
A Devoted Couple.
One of the most devoted couples n
this country is Thomas li. Marshait
and his wife of Indiana. When Pros
ident Taft's trip down the Mississippi
was arranged . re
cently many gov
ernors were lnvlt
ed to make th-
journey with him
Including Govern
r Marshall. At
though fully real
izing and appreci-
ating the honor ot
ucompanylng Uie
distinguished par
ty. Mr Marshall
declined.- fruukly
GOVERNOR M.Wt
sn At t
stating that he did not wish to be scp
arated from his wife even for so
short a time.
The Marshal's have been most de
voted since their marriage and the
Closeness of tholr intimacy and their
mutual reluctance to he wparated were
foreshadowed In the gubernatorial
campaign of last year when Mrs. Ma.r
nhall was so frequently .with her hua
band at plaee-s where he was hilled
to speak. She was not always at ttH
..meetings but she was In the limbed!
ate neighborhood and was 'usually
Joined promptly by Mr. Marshall after
the sienking and resulting .handslmk
ing w ere ewer.
THE CUNNING MOORS.
Dogs
Used by Them to Drj
the
Spanish Fire. .
We have beard u great deal in t!i.
' past few years "about dog p1Ve and
1 dog dclecthes but these clever c'l.
nine: inns' n.w make room lit the
limelight for. some other fourfooicd
.marvels. These-are the dog .soldicri
that are being used with sXith good
effect In the Spanish-Moroc- an Iron
hie.
Major Richardson of England. h
bloodhound expert who recently r-
HOW DOOH AUK USED tlY TIIK WOOIIS T(
UUAW TIIK Hl'ANIHII l'IKK.
turned from Morocco gives an Inter-
esting account of how the Moors use
dogs to draw the Spanish fire. The
animals he say's aro dressed in white
turbans and gowns and sent In front
of the Spanish soldiers; who soon be-
gin firing at the supposed Moors. The
Riffs who meanwhile have taken cov-
er; now have the enemy located and
have no difficulty In wounding and
killing a number of the Spaniards.
This is only one of the many tricks
used by the Moors In their affair with
Spain and they have ohown them-
selves to be foe;.fi o-ivlly conquered.
The e ecu tu; nu '. Illustration gives
oi-ffM prei : i'- d ui huw they use
tXtv Miii. i- il ut4imla.
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W jl
MOORISH SOLDIERS.
Their Methods In Battle and Their
System of Signals..
At fighting ou horseback the Moors
are adepts and extremely mobile. Hut
they are Incorrigibly lazy and seldom
indulge in night attack. When they
attack in force the horsemen usually
give a lift let the fool soldiers who ac-
company them uf allow them to run
ulungsidc at d hold on to a stirrup iron.
The mounted men then make a charge
wheel round and-retire uud make way
for the footmen who crawl along the
ground almost Invisible and who rise
to the attack If they come within strik-
ing distance of the enemy. As a rule
the Rillians prefer to lure detached
parties into ait ambush or defile and
thus inllict heavy loss upon them. The
mounted men seldom dismount to fire
and their firing being from I he sad-
dle is very inaccurate. Should. the ad
vance of the while iroops be slow or
hesitating the Moors . effect u hold
combination between " horsemen and
footmen' and generally succeed in in
dieting heavy losses on their enemy.
The prime tactics of the .Moors are (0
delay the advance of an enemy as
mm li as possible by-mounted ritle lire
until they an discern its extent and
direction and subsequently to try en-
veloping the -uh aiu-ing force. The
tribes also indulge in sniping but not
to a vet y great extent and they also
light individually. 'They'do not neglect
opportunities for stratagem and can
effect some very- clever ruses. They
are also guilty of abusing the services
of the white tlag in action.
The .Moorish intelligence system Is
an excellent one. and the tribes are
seldom without information regarding
the movements of an enemy. The;
have also an excellent system of sig-
naling at night by means of small fires
dotted about the hills and ravines
which are obscured and revealed in
accordance with an ingenious code of
signals known to themselves. Chicago
News.
DREAM INSPIRATION.
Intellectual Achievements Born of
Visions In Sleep.
It Is well known says II. Addlngton
Bruce in Success Magazine that
dreams have- stimulated men to re
markahlc Intellectual achievements
nnd hare even supplied the material
"for these achievements. Thus Cole
ridge composed "Ktiblal. Khan" in n
dream TartinJ got Ids "Devil's So-
nata" from a dream In which the devil
appeared and challenged Mm to n mil-
slcal competition. It was a dream that
gave Voltaire the first canto of his
"IJenriade." and Dante's "Dlvina Com
i. media" Is likewise said to have been
Inspired by a dream.
Many novelists on their own adrnls.
sion have obtained the plots for some
of their lHst works from material
provided in -dreams. A particularly
Impressive Instance Is that of Kobert
Louis Stevenson whose "Chapter on
Dreams" In his look "Across the
Plains" should be read by all who
would learn what dreams can do for a
man intellectually. The solution ot
baffling mathematical problems the
Ideas necessary to complete some In
volition have leen supplied by dreams-.
Occasionally the dreamer has beer
known to rlso In his sleep nnd Joi
down the Information thus acquired
In such case he usually forgets a!'
about the helpful dream and. on wan-
ing Is greatly-surprised at finding the
record he has made of It. whi h shows
that as with the visions so potently
Influencing health it is possible ror
dre'ams to aid a. man In an In.tellectua'
way without tils being- conscious'.
aware of them
Bud's Milk.
"I fed him wltli "bird's m'rik." ThN
curious .expression was used 'by .the j
old sultan of Turkey. bile a prisoner
ou his wav to-Sniontlii. whh reference;
to his brother Mohammed his prede-
cessor on. the throne. Abdul llam'fd
was lamenting his own fate and tell-
ing his captors how little he deserved
It and how kind he had been to his
brother.' "I fed him with bird's milk."
he SJifd. as If (tint were the greatest
kindness he could show. - What is
bird's milk? Not the Turkish equiva-
lent of the milk of human kindness
but a European brand of condensed
milk bearing on the can a picture of a
bird on a nest.
His Conundrum.
"Mistah . Walkah. kin yo tell tne do:
difPunce 'tween a cold in de head an'
a a chicken coop wif a hole In de
rufe?"
"No. Sam: that's a hard one. What
Is the difference between n cold in the
head and a chicken coop with a hole
In the roof?"
"De one inn a case o inlltienzn. an
de uddah am a case o' out Hew hens
sub."
"Ladies and gentlemen the vocal
wonder. Professor Wabbles Izzeers.
will now sing the popular ballad en-
titled The Ups That Carets n stogy
Shall Never Touch Mine.' "-Chicago
Tribune.
What's In a Name.
Returned Traveler -By the way. Mr
Mnnn. your daughter. Miss Etta. I
married. Isn't she'.' Old Resident-No:
she could have married a fine young
fellow once but she threw him over
on account of his name; She said it
was bud enough to be Etta Mann but
sue drew tho Hue at Etta Knox. Chi-
cago Tribune.
No Economy There.
Rronx In Russia they never say.
"What's In a name?" Lenox Why
not? Bronx--lts taken for granr.'d
Idot HV thit wholi alpha!. Llpplo
coll.
WHAT IS A WHITE MAN?
A Puzzling Problem For the Racial In
vestifjator.
The chief of the naturalization bu-
reau at Washington is of the opinion
that the "average muu in the street"
understands distinctly -what a "white''
man la. Appavently some persons can
master a subject without studying It
at all while othors who have looked
Into It deeply are not so dogmatically
certain as the "average man in the
street"
For example the encyclopedias tell
us that mankind was divided by Blu-
xnenbach Into live races namely Cau-
casian Mongolian Ethiopinn Ameri-
can (Indian) and Malay. The words
"Caucasian" nnd "white" are used
synonymously. This classification was
first published in 1781 und must have
been known to our national legislators
when in 1S02 they passed the first
naturalization law.
Tho Caucasian race includes Arabs
who are certainly no "whiter" than
the Turks yet Turks the olticlal says
cannot be naturalized because they are
not "white."
We' are also told by the naturaliza-
tion bureau that the Hindoo is nut
"white" within the. 'meaning of the
statute. P.ut the encyclopedia says that
it is a great error to separate the Hin-
doo from the Caucasian race. The
Hindoo. It thinks. Is much nearer thtr
"white"4-ace than the Arab.
To puzzle the racial investigator still
further while everything Is so clear
to the "average man in the street."
we are told by the encyclopedias that
the original Caucasians that is the
inhabitants of the Caucasus are no
longer 'regarded as Caucasians. They
have been thrown out of the "white"
camp and forced to go over to the
Mongol
Nor Is the enigma any nearer solu-
tion when we are told by the. natural-
ization bureau that Asiatics cannot be
naturalized but that Siberians can.
although Siberians may be anything
from Russians to .Mongolians or Mon-gol-Turco-Tartars.
Ronton Globe.
AN ARCTIC TRAGEDY.
The Body That Was Seen Floating In
the Icy Water.
On Aug. .10 we arrived at Rudolf Is- '
land the most northern of the Franz
Josef group and simply a mass ot Ice
land high glaciers where we had plan-
'ned to snend the winter. While cruis-
ing near Northbrooke island I saw one
lav from the "crow's nest" a singular
dark body just awash on the surface
of the water. As we came nearer and
nearer I was possessed by a. rather
unusual- desire to know what this
durk mass was. Putting up my glass-
es I gave the order for "dead slow."
and we passed the object closely on
the starboard side. I saw clearly that
It was the body of a man clothed In a
great skin coat with the usual hood
and with mittens on the bauds. The
face was not discernible but it dawn-
ed on me suddenly that this might be
the remains of tho Swedish balloonist
Andrec. who had been lost In the arc-
tic about two years before or perhaps
.t. .. .u Kr. i in
one of. the men who had been lost in
. .. . i.i
th? A ?!"! i. ... .h
... .u-
and nrocure the body when it occur
red to me that to take a corpse on
ltoard would destroy the good spirit
and courage of the members of the
polar party for there Is a general su-
perstitlou among sailors that a ship is
doomed when a dead body is on board.
The first officer a'nd myself were the
only ones who witnessed this ghastly
spectacle and neither mentioned the
fact fearing that the discovery would
cast a shadow over the entire party.
We have both always believed that
this was the body of Andree. and 1
have often regret t ed . that it had not
been in my power to give him decent
burial. Captain Edwin Cottin of the
Ziegler Polar Expedition in National
Magazine.
The Kamily Tree Grew Backward.
A Kansas City man married and his
mother-in-law came to live with him.
About a year later a friend met him
and asked:
"Has' there been any increase in
your family since we last met?"
"Well yes. There's pne more of us."
"Well! Glad to hear . It. Boy or
girl?"
"Neither. It's my wife's mother's
mother who has come to live with
us.".
The lifst man was silent n moment;
then he said. "It looks to me old mnn
as if your jMistority had got headed in
the wrong direction." Kansas City
Times.
The Rhyming Speller.
A correspondent mentions the dlfli-
culty experienced by budding authors
in spelling words in -which diphthongs
"el" and "ie" appear. An easy man
nor to recall the order of precedence
of the vowels Is contained In an an
olent rhyme:
"I" before "e"
Except after "c"
Or when sounded like "a"
In "nelKhbor" and "welRh."
New York Sun
They Sometimes Are.
"Wei! have to promote that clerk
FJe takes the stairs four at a Jump
He's always busy."
"Yea." commented the observant
senior partner "too' busy to do any
thing." iouisvllle Courier-Journal.
Unopened.
DId opportunity knock nt youi
doorT'
'Tes. but tho cook always maintain-
ed that it waan't her place to answer'
-Puelt.
Bc?od fete pewcr the braresC manor
SUPPRESSED.
Story That Won a Prize and Yt
Was Never Published.
a number or
prbvs for the
was offered by
years ago a series or
best detective stoi
a certain well kuowg.
western newspaper and the late F. R.
Burton. In collaboration with a fellow
craftsman entered the competition
Their story the theme of which &
volved au Ingenious method of' rob-
bing a safe In. spite of the protection
afforded by a time lock wus one of the
rive which wou prizes and the authors'
portraits were duly published in the j
issue or the paper which announced J
the resul; of the competition. The i
prize money constituting a considera-1
hie sum. was promptly paid over but 1
to the author's surprise although Xho 3
vther four winning stories were pub-
hshed. that of the time lock railed to
appear. After a tesv weeks a repre-
sentative of the paper called upon Mr.
P.mti.ii. explaining that the editor was
anxious u know what authority ho
had for his story and whether it would
r'-ally !. possible to rob a bank after
the fashion that he had set forth.
With the help of a pencil and a few
diagrams Mr. Iturton easily provf
the accuracy oi.the method to the ap-
parent satisfaction of his interviewer
and thereafter looked forward to a
prompt appearance of the story. Bojf
a few day's later the secret of the de-
lay was revealed. A special envoy of
the paier waited upon him. full ot
consternation and apology und pre-
pared to make any amends within rea-
son but was 'emphatic In announcing
that it was absolutely impossible to
publish the story because after ex-
pert investigation they had becomp
convinced that if it should appear In
print it would destroy the protective
power of every time lock safe in the
country and the representative of the
newspaper did not take his leave un-
til he had obtained what Mr. Hurton
under the circumstances easily grant-
eda signed agreement releasing the
paper from its obligation to publish
the story :-nd solemnly pledging him-
self not to attempt to publish it else-
where. Accordingly the curiosity
( piqued by this bit of inside history la
i likely never to be gratified. Bookman.
HE BOUGHT. IN PARIS.
i
j Tnen He Found He Could Have Done
Better wearer nome.
Enrico Caruso the famous tenor.
tJtl curious story once while In
conversation with a man prominent In
musical circles in miladelpnlu. The
two were a.-cendlug thp stairs from
the. basement of the Bellevue-Strat-ford
wtieu at the tirst lauding they
halted and Caruso pointed to a mar-
ble bench of ancient Florentine pat
tern.
J "1 am ji gr-at admirer of those
benches." he sijld. "and last summer 1
had a strange experience with them. 1
had just purchased a villa In Italy and
was always on iberlookout. for som.e
thing decorative It) the way of novel
I furniture. - -
I "While in Paris I happened to see-
""V l' T ' " Z
eluded to put a dozen of them about
;
' th grounds. L found the dealer and
Usked the price. Ele aaid 550 apiece.
! I ordered the dozen.
"A few weeks later I Was at my
villa looking it over and happened to
discover across the hedge at the bor-
i der a marble yard and there was the
marble cutter working on one of those
same benches.
"I climbed the hedge and after chat-
ting with the man a few minutes and
admiring the great care he was exer-
cising I asked if he usually made such
benches 'Ob. yes! he replied. '1
make many I have an order now for
twelve of them for the great tenor Ca-
ruso He ordered them la Purls.'
"When I recovered from my surprise
I questioned him and found that he
was really the man who supplied the
Paris dealer. I asked blm how much
he would make me some for. and he
replied. Twenty dollars apiece signor.'
"So I was paying ?50 for the priv-
ilege of buying in Paris what was be-
ing made at my own door. In addltloD
to freight both ways and extra inci-
dental expenses. Now when 1 want
to buy anything for my home I go to
the nearest place first." Philadelphia
News.
A Chinese Joke.
There was a man in Ch'angan who
.was very fond of giving dinners but
the food given was atrocious. One day
a guest throw himself on bis knees la
front of this gentleman and said. "Am
I not a friend of yours?"
"You are. Indeed." replied his host.
"Then I must ask of you a favor"
said tho gtiest. "and you must grant It
before I rise from my knees."
"Well what Is it?" Inquired his host
in astonishment.
"Never to invite me to dinner any
more!" cried the guest at which the
whole party burst into a loud roar of
laughter North China Herald.
Persistent.
Shopkeeper (to commercial traveler) '
Can't give you an order. Quite over-
stocked. Traveler-Let me at least
show you my samples. Shopkeeper
Spare yourself the trouble. I
look nt them Traveler Then jjt a
nllow me to look at.them.mj
Is three weeks since 1 have faruier to a-
London Penny Pictorial.
Djjmi man the
English Cigars
"Do cigars ever contalinsej given by a
"No. That's Just a plerjpeace
Jokemakers. As a nijrea(e3t tarriflerl
hemp I:" too expensiv
cheaper brand- id " -
Mall. -t '
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