The Cuero Daily Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 102, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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garden. Finally her house
came so troublesome that
them into the sand bed, digging holes
and dropping them in regardless of or-
der or system, and left thsm, as she
sup'posed, to die. . Her astonishment
may be imagined when she grew such
verbenas, petunias, geraniums and
other plants as she never n.ised in her
life. The neighbors insisted that she
must have used some commercial fer-
tilizer, but the fact was that the roots
found abundant nourishment in what
would be considered absolutely worth-
less soil.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
ragrant;
prs tight
ling.
lln burrs
>ples lie
M5 walls
Inlng!
le things
are sowing
?n and fair,
►*Kig;
on the brooks.
in the hush
Iting;
fsweet country
tether
it by hour,
oather;
ter a of June,
[together,
Mhe year
I weather.
»d Chgcbn.
of the Old *Be-
| Russia, probably
Wrongest fortified
t.is sect was for
jecuted, and at
ipproaching civil
["bey had several
rere fortified and
Several times
sieged, but in ev-
sfuily resisted the
f*s troops to cap-
exception of the
Rhe fortifications
pT fall into decay,
till maintained in
to resist a siege,
>unted in points of
lition being kept
[The fortress church
ich department of
surrounded by a
»et in height, hav-
^ents on the top and
rwhich shots or mis-
led against the ene-
were placed in po-
rt, while inside the
ire of rifle3, pistols,
iia church, which he-
ights Templars, was
guard the frontier,
jutpost of Christians
cens at first, and aft-
the Spauirds.
Getting Down to the Fir it Cease.
The professor of natural science, in
one of our best-known colleges, was
discussing in a recent lessor the proc-
ess of fertilizing plants by means of
insects carrying the pollen from one
plant to another.
In order to amuse the c|ass, he ex-
tended Darwin’s ingenious illustration
used in the Origin of Specie i, about the
connection between cats md clover,
and said that old maids were really
the ultimate cause of it all. The atten-
tion of hla hearers was str lined to its
utmost as he proceeded.
"The bumblebees carry 1he pollen,”
he declared; "the field milce destroy
the nests of the bumblebee^, therefore
it is quite evident that the more field
mice there are in any neighborhood,
the fewer the bumblebees *nd the less
pollen variation of plants. But cata
devour field-mice, and old maids pro-
tect cats. Therefore, the more old
maids, the more cats, the fewer field-
mice, the more bumblebees.
"Hence,” was the professor’s tri-
umphant conclusion, "old maids are
the cause of variety in plants.”
- At this point a fashionable young
freshman, with a single eyeglass and
a general appearance indicating that
-he was got up regardless of expense,
rose and asked:
“I sa-a-y, professah, wtat is the
cause—ah—of old maids--don’t you
know?”
“Perhaps Miss Brown
witted member of th8 clasO "can tell
you,” suggested the professor.
"Dudes!” said Miss Brown sharply,
and without a moment’s hesitation.
(a quick-
el to
If Sugar an Food.
lost German army
rles of experiments on
ir as food was carried
it Staff-Doctor Lelten-
men were selected
impany of each of the
ten of whom were
sugar diet, while the
red exactly the same ra-
it of th** company. In
»n for the special diet,
given to those who
private means and were
11 y.
of the experin^nt have
le known. According to
^port the weight of. the
during the man-
"that of the “eon-
tt waa proved that during
rchea the feelings of hun-
kept down for a longer
use of sugar, that the
suffered less from thirst
tars snd that a few pieces
Iced to still thirst for a
time. It was also ob-
symptoms of exhaustion
roke were quickly over-
' small ration of sugar,
le men experimented upon
slightest disinclination to
>d during the whole course
:t!cal result of these ex
Dr. Leltenstorfer now rec-
fthat sugar be considered a
icle of soldiers’ food, that
with the other provisions
ses. nospitals. and ships, and
ta all, soldiesn.on the march
ive a supply of it.
Destroying Locust*.
The plague of locusts
and northwest has become
that the most strenuous
be made to devise some
which they may be destroy
periment i3 identioal
ployed for destroying chin
number of insects are inoc|u
a fungus disease and t
among the locusts In various
The result 13 that the disea
rapidly and sweeps off ent
of the insects. This mean^
the country of a pest is
covery, but it entails poss
are by no means agreeable
plate. The sparrow was
destroy caterpillars, and n<
come necessary in some
take the most, thorough
get rid of the sparrows,
the locusts are concerned
could be worse than their
and we may well take the
clearing them out by the
ported fungus.
the west
so serious
irts are to
means by
jd. One ex-
that em-
:h bugs. A
lated with
.uirned loose
localities.
,se spreads
ire colonies
of ridding
great dis-
abilities that
to contem-
mported to
it has be-
ocallties to
Measures to
As far as
, nothing
devastation,
chances on
help of im*
Lamb’* Foible*
Charles Lamb was gene:‘ally late in
getting to bis desk in the India office
in the mornings, and remained no lon-
ger than he was obliged t> for decen-
cy’s sake in the afternoon.
One day the chief in his department
remarked, “You are late tills morning,
Mr. Lamb; Indeed, you are alwayp
late”
*Y-yes,” replied Lamb,
must remember that I
away e-early.”
It is said that moat of
says were w/uten there, and when not
engaged on taese he was s< ribbling one
of his unsuccessful plays
play, so written, was loudi
the night of its production
Lane theater, and Lamb, sitting in the
pit with a friend, hissed and hooted
as loudly as any at his felly, making
erwards against the Spaniards.
One Good Result of Khartoum’s Taking -Fat
Khalifa’s Fall Was Swift.
**LynI«,” the Story of » Tame Canary—
Latin or Roman, Every Day a Lemon
May Re Learned—Telescoping Three
Meals at Once— The Sand Man.
BDULLAH was a
slim and active
man 35 years old
when he cast in
his fortunes with
the Mahdists. He
came of & promin-
ent family in Dar-
fur, the kingdom
Slatin governed for
Gordon, and while
yet a young man
had gained great influence over his
tribe. He had masterful ways, gr«at
bravery and much ability in those
days. Nothing daunted him. When
the M&hdi died he left to the Khalifa a
great empire, and the Khalifa enlarg-
ed its borders. He boasted that he
would conquer all Egypt and Abys-
sinia, and sent messages of defiance to
the queen, the sultan and the khedlve.
Had it not been for the barrier which
British troops and British discipline
erected, he might have knocked at the
gates of Cairo. He was a fighter in
those days, and wherever big black
flag went was victory. He could in-
-spire his men more if anything than
the Mahdi, with wild fanatacism.
Now he is a fugitive in African re-
cesses, his nerve lost tnrough excesses
and his ability destroyed by ease and
high living. He Is 52 years old, white
haired and fat. He fled, leaving his
treasure behind, and strewing the line
of flight with his wives. But his fol-
lowers fought, and while the fat Khal-
ifa was fleeing they rushed against the
repeating rifles and the Maxims to be
slaughtered by the thousands, still ad-
vancing that black banner which, a
few years ago, would have seen the
Khalifa fighting under its folds. The
banner changed hands many times, as
fast as one bearer was killed another
taking it and rushing on, until at last
there stood one lone figure, still up-
the Duke was in a train traveling to
Vienna to visit the Imperial family. In
the coupe with him was a banker, who,
misled by his fellow traveler’s simpli-
city, patronized him, and in the course
of a conversation Cold him that be had
a daughter in Vienna who married
very well. She was, he boasted, the
wife of one of the richest bankers in
the city. “So?” eaid the Duke. *fWhy,
that is quite a coincidence. I have a
daughter in Vienna who has married
very well, too.” “Who is the husband
of your daughter, my good man?” ask-^
ed the banker, and. in the most harm-
less tone, Maximilian answered, “The
Emperor of Austria.”
“GYP,” THE WRITER, AND HER
WORK.
Very few people are aware, when
reading, the works of "Gyp,” one of
the most recent of which, “Bijou,” has
Just bfcen translated into English, that
the author is the great-grandniece of
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mira-
baeu. It is a fact, however, that the
Comtesse de Martel de Janville, whose
family name is Marie Antoinette do
Mtrabeau, Is descended In a direct line
from the man who figured so promin-
ently in the French revolution.
“Gyp,” too, is a revolutionary, and
of so pronounced a type that it has
been said that she detests everybody
and everything; such is the vigor with
which she ridicules people in her nov-
els—now so numerous that all count
of them has been lost. Her work has
been done too hastily to be first-rate.
There Is one character which "Gyp”
has created, however, which is a stroke
of genius, namely, the chief character
of the novel "Petit Bob.” Bob is the
depraved child of rich and degenerate
parents, not the enfant terrible uncon-
scious of his faults, but the conscious
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it is interesting to consider the view
which the early church t<»ok of gam-
bling—a vice prevalent in
ing the time of the emptror*.
Christians In the first cqntury
very lenient in their |
games of hazard, and frequently re-
garded them as merely games of pas-
time. Recent excavations have shown
that the graves in the catacomb* con-
tain the various implements of such
sport. Friends would hi Ing one of
their number to this last lesting place
and lay in hts coffin what had, during
his lifetixno,' been his fa rorite . play-
things. The Christians evidently did
not consider the game wi h the little
cubes wrong in itself; the members of
the church never played for money,
and never quarreled over iheir games.
And gambling with them did not seem
to lead to evil consequences.
A Twin Cucumber.
Mr. Alex. Weir, Ravensf orth P. O..
Musk oka, Ont., writes to
Herald and Weekly Star
I have taken the liberty
ing you per parcel post a i win cucum-
ar which I raised this year, and as
it is the first I have met
my growing as a gardener,
you might make use of it i i yqur curi-
osity colump. * I notice mention made
of onp in the Scotsman in June last,
but I consider this a more perfectly
formed one>—Family Herald.
the Family
as follows:
of forward-
with in all
I thought
j
* THE KHALIFA.
rearing it above a heap of slain. It
waa luxury and indulgence which kill-
ed the Mahdi. That ascetic, whoee
food was roots and the gum of trees
and whoee bed was a straw mat be-
came, after he had taken Khartum, a
luxurious despot lolling in Persian
rugs and surrounded by all the mag-
nificence which he could collect from
the ruins of the plundered city of Gor-
don or gather in any manner. Ease,
luxury and self-indulgence put an end
to his career. Neither the Mahdi nor
the Khalifa could stand success. But
the black flag went forward when the
one was dead snd the other a fugitive.
SIMPLE FATHER OF AN EMPRESS
Playod Zither for Money and Said HU
Daazhter Had Harried Welt.
The death of the Empress Elizabeth
of Austria has brought out many ator-
ie& of her and her family. Some of
the most interesting are about her fa-
ther, the Duke Maximilian. This man
was a remarkable simple and genial
character. Once he was making a ^.d-
estrian tour and stopped in a small tav-
ern to eat. He had a zither with him,
and some guests asked him to play,
thinking he was a strolling musician.
He obeyed readily and played every-
thing that he could think of till coins
rained into his hat. Then he ordered
a meal that was so expensive for a
strolling musician that the tavern
keeper became suspicious that hie
strange guest intended to run away af-
ter eating, without paying. There was
hesitation about serving the food, and
while the Duke was waiting, a corporal
of one of his regiments entered the inn.
He saluted, much to the Duke’s embar-
pfigment, who threw the money for the
meal on the table and ran away. Once
little sinner, surrounded on all tides
bf bad examples, who does hie level
best to shock everybody he meets.
The salon of the Comtesse de Martel
de Janville is one much frequented by
the fashionable people of Paris. Many
literary men visit at her house. "Gyp”
is one of the few titled ladies who is
an avowed socialist. Another thing
Th« Sand Man.
The Sand Man drops in every night,
The Sand Man with his sand;
To sprinkle grains in little eyes
With unseen, unfelt hand.
He comes about the hour when all
The baby work is done;
When toys lie scattered round the
room,
Abandoned one by one.
4 hobby horse once rocked with vim
Stands quiet in his stall—
A consecrated space between
The trundle bed and wall.
A Jumping-jack, an iron bank,
A painted rubber ball, ,
A rattle with a whistle on,
A bruised and battered doll.
A dozen little glittering things
So dear to bahyland;
But now the Sand Man comee aroundf
The Sand Man with his sand.
Two chubby little fiats are forced
In two small sleepy eyes,
To rub away the sand which sifts
Across some tired sighs.
And now the Sand Man yields his place
To a fairy with a rod,
Who beckons toward that mystic
shrine,
The babyland of Nod.
The Sand Man drops in every night,
The Sand Man with his sand;
To sprinkle grains in little eyes,
With unseen, unfelt hand.
—Times-Herald.
. *
down on the shelf and Lynle caught*
bis reflection in it, so he sat right down,
fiat on the shelf and made love to that,
birdie and sang one beautiful song
after another. He would stand np to
rest and being taller than the glasses
was unable to see himself. This
seemed to puzzle him and he seemed
to ray, “That’s queer. I’ll have to In-
vestigate,” so he hopped all round the
glasses to see, with his head first on
this side then on that, till he got back
to where he first saw the reflection;
then down he sat and sang agaih an-
other long sweet song. Wasn’t that
cute of him?
But the cutest waa this? At Christ-
mas the nurses always give each other
some funny thing, taking off their in-
dividual aversion or diversion so that
breakfast was always very happy and
lively that day. The birdle’a friend
was given a tiny wool chicken, made
tike two balls, size of marbles. Its.
beak was open and its-eyes made of
beads, looked very black. She took it
to the sewing room and after letting
Lynie out, left the chicken for com-
pany, and went off to church. When
she came back she found her new pet,
the wool chicken, had been in a fight*
with Lynie and had got much the
worst of it. for there he lay on the
floor, under the shelf, and what do yon
think, he was blind; fofc Lynie in his
rage had picked out both his black
bead eyes!—M. H. in Family Herald.
Lynie—A Tame Canary.
Listen, children, I am going to tell
you a true story about a tame canary
bird. This little bird lives in a hos-
pital and was given by a grateful pa-
tient to one of his nurses as a Christ-
mas gift, and it was named Lynie.
It was just like any other young
canary at first; sang its song, ate its
seed and slept on one leg with its little
head tucked away under its wing. His
cage hung in one of the waiting rooms
of the hospital, quite near a large win
dow which was filled with plants
growing in a-box. The young woman
who cared for the plants used to take
the bottom off the cage, and put it
down on the. earth to let him hop
about on it, and sometimes his seed
would take root and sprout so that he
got a bit of green now and then with
his food.
There were often visitors waiting in
this hall and they would speak to the
little birdie and he would answer, then
when they left him alone he would -call
and call till some one else came to
speak to him. After a while his own
er, who often talked softly to him
would put a few seeds on her lips and
hold her finger inside the cage, he
would hop on It and eat the seeds one
by one. Soon she tried letting him
ont in her room, but* he was such
frightened little thing he used to fly
to all sorts of places ^here he could
not secure a footing and ao fall off.
He caught a bad cold and then
seemed to have such difficulty to
breathe they feared he might die, so
he was taken to a sewing room where
there were no draughts and many
shelves all round the room. Here he
had company nearly all the time, for
the young lady who took care of him
did all the mending there. She petted
him a great deal and gave him so
many dainties, such as chick weed, fig,
apple, hard-boiled eggs and red pep- readily accepted them.
Latin or Roman?
Charley,” asked little Lotty, the
other day, when her twelve-year-oldl
brother was studying hiB Latin lesson,
did anybody ever speak Latin for
real?”
To be sure they did,” returned
Charley, grandly; "it was the language
of ancient Rome.”
“Oh!” said Lotty, much impressed.
Soon she looked up from her dolly
again.
"Charley, I should think they should
’a’ spoken Roman in Rome. Why
didn’t they?”
"Because they didn’t want to,” an-i
swered Charley, not exactly knowing!
what else te say.
"Ob'. But—Charley!”
"Well, what is It?” *
"Where was Lat?”
"Where waa Lat, you little chatter-
box?"
“Why, Lat, where they talked Latin,
you know.”
“Oh, go down stairs, and don’t both-
er me!" exclaimed the puzxled young
gentleman. "Don’t you see I’m trying
to study my lesson? Run down and
play with Jenny.”
Lotty went, like a dutiful little sis-
ter. But that evening Master Charles,
who had had a talk with the teacher
after school, took the child on his lap,
and asked her if she remembered what
she had asked him in the morning.
“I asked you for candy,” answered
Lotty, quickly.
“Yes, I know you did. But what
else? Don’t you remember, you want
ed to know where the Latin language
came' from?”
“Oh, yes; ao I did.”
“Well, Lotty, it was originally spok-
en by the Latins, a people of ancient
Latium, in Italy, and afterwards intro-
duced into the Roman empire.”
Lotty nodded brightly, and ran off to
kiss papa for good night
Noble Charles!
Well, both of them had learned
something that day, so there was no
harm done; but the teacher did not
know it was Lotty’4 inquiring youag
mind he wa^admlring jrhep be patted
Master Chamy’a heed,—Joel St
St Nicholas,
TelMMplas Tbtoa ttooU la Oo4»
An old miser owning a farm found it
impossible to do hla work without as-
sistance, and offered any aab food
for performing the labor. ▲ half-
starved man, hearing of the terms.
“GYP.”
which distinguishes her from the ordin-
ary aristocratic lady of France is her
dress. She is noted for wearing the
most extraordinary dresses and bon-
nets to be found in the whole of the
gay capital of France.
Couldn’t Son an Opportunity.
He—“Do you know that for the last
hour I have been watching for a good
chance to steal a kiss from you?” She
— Indeed! Don’t you think it might
be well for you to consult an oculist?”
—Chicago News.
per, that soon he got better. He had
a rusty nail in his drinking water, too,
for tonic, and by and by his voice
came back. Meantime he had grown
so tame that he was let out of the cage
every day, and when he got nsed to it,
would fly from shelf to shelf, or light
on any one’s shoulder that came in, ex-
cept a man’s. He once got too venture-
some and while examining the sewing
machine to find where the noise came
from, he lit on the foot lever, which
being quite loose, slipped round, catch-
ing his poor little toe and breaking it.
Then he had to have a nurse. One
came and put some tiny strips of plas-
ter on, binding his toe into good posi-
tion, but he was not a good patient,
and kept*pulling at the bandage till he
got things all out of place. So they de-
cided there must be an amputation.
Every one felt sorry for the poor little
fellow, but fortunately he didn’t seem
to mind it at all, and was very soon
able to hop about as lively as ever.
Now this birdie was sometimes lone-
some, with none of his own kind to
speak to, 60 he would fly out of the
linen closet into the hall, where a hat
rack stood with a looking glass in it,
tut instead of being glad to see an-
other bird—this one was so real to him
—he used to get angry and try to
fight with it I am sure he was jealous
and afraid some of the petting he got
would be lavished on this bird in the
glass. So after a minute’s fighting he
would fly back into the linen rodm and
make a great time, aa much as to say,
“I beat him! I beat him!” He was
very fond of sitting on one of the
shelves, near the edge, and if any one
would run his finger along he would
run after iOat such a rate he some-
times slid right off and had to fly to
save himself a fall. Then he would
scold and chatter.
One day the young lady, who treat-
ed him so kindly, laid her spectacles
Before going, Into the fields
in the*
At to
m
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This was
unsatisfied
morning he invited his servant
breakfast; after finishing the
meal, the old skinflint thought
would be a saving of time
should place the dinner upon'fhe"t*-
ble after the breakfast This
readily agreed to by tbs
stranger, and the dinner was
dispatched.
"Suppose now,” said the
farmer, "we take supper; it will
time and trouble, you know.”
"Just as you like,” said the eager
eater, and at it they went.
"Now we will go to work,” said the
delighted employer.
"Thank you.” said the laborer po-
litely; “I never work after supper.”
A Famous Battle.
A traveler in England asked a cer-
tain waiter if he could direct him to
the field where the great Tewksbury
battle was fought.
“Certainly, sir,” said the waiter,
"and as business is alack I will show
you myself.”
As they crossed the bridge the visi-
tor expressed his surprise and pleas-
ure to find his companion so fi
with such a battle, “for.” Bald
battle was fought four hundred
ago.”
“Four hundred years ago, sir!”
the waiter. "Bless you, no! I
believe it’s ten.”
“I think you’ll find I’m right,”
the traveler.
"I reckon I ought to know, for I
there,” was the reply.
"You were there!”
"Yes, sir, I were! Th
battle of Tewksbury as ever I
on, and that’s the great fight
Conky Jim and Porky Pete!'’
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