Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 22, 1906, Page 6

TAX REFUNDMENTS. - = pBoaRaSaBL R BERREER vkl SRBRI/ISTHRBINIGRILLAR SRR John Graham Minneapolis chine Co.. . M. G. Foley.. .. Andrew Engqulc Jcm Synnis. . Pillsbury. . E. Anderson Dilworth.. Threshing Ma- ieo. 13579 E. L. Geo. M L‘;;ma Lodmell Irwin_ & O’Brien.. Geo. M. Palmer.. .. Geo. M. Palmer, redemptmn Warren Van Hooser.. Peter Jacobson.. 6 Geo. M. Palmer. Henry Krahn.. - BAGS 14849 Dr. William Bzrry & 15162 J. E. Flatley.. .. .. .. = 8| wpab 2 8 WOLF BOUNTY. Freman W. Pike 2 Alyva Chapin Alfred Knud: Fred C. Tyson Iver Iverson.. F. W. Lucore.. Peter Syv:rson 7 Ernest C. \Velherby Geo. Clar] Bilie Ostie. Louis Tegner. Oscar Hanson F. W. Lucore.. Otto F. Freibag.. Bert Howard.. .. Erick Hanson Olans Melan Wm Aldrich . Aldrich i Linder.. . 0. S. Newman Tom Summers.. .. Halvor Williamson John Melin.. .. . Chas. Tabro.. Henry Lindgren.. Chas. F. Davis.. Herbert Brewster.. .. Chas. Matchegales.. 6 Fred A. Freibag. Gibb McLeod.. . Geo. W. Perkins Geo, Bright.. B. W. C.']. Alex l'orhes Freeman Miller.. Peder L. Sunde.. John Briner.. .. Wm. Foster.. B. W. Johnson Knute Olson.. Mary Blain.. F. W. Lucore.. John O, Jnhmon. _Joe Lisdell.. 0 Gilbert Peterson.. L. S. Gutherie Ray Phelps. Clarence El { Jesse Barrick Wm. Aldrich Tommy Meade Knute Olson.. Wm. Aldrich.. .. Halvor Nelson. Halyor Nelson.. Christ C. Hagen.. N. Bright.. T T T T SO R T e e P P P P Py e Ty BN NNNNNNS RS NG GHE NG5 N - DN 05 e gggggmmmmmmmmm A. M. Ekland, Frank Sundber; Peter Amden ¥red Kemper. 6 Alexander Foj Clinton L. Atwood Iver Iver: i SEESSEEES ess.. . \drich. Knutson Myhre. . [t [lmat i | (e s 826,00 L FIRE WARDEN SERVICE. 12812 Iver T. Brun, Buzzle. 12813 Peter Bakke 12981 Wm. V. midji. Harry Geil, V Geil, V! 1 Mike Downs, 1 I Peterson, 12986 Tom Newby, 12987 Lee Heffron, Vil 13113 Jas. A. Martin, Turtle River 14318 11. G. Thorson, Benville.. 18218 John Clear.. .. .. .. .. 15219 Gust Dohrma 114521 “M. Stoner. engi 0 miscalculated the strength of the ani- kae ditch. . Sefaaiio eer Grass 5.00|148% Geo. M. Palmer.. .. .. | ' i Lake ditch. . sridd e 1650 3 188.83 { M. D. Stoner, eer Grass - i Lake ditch. 5 18.50 BUILDING. {15105 Grest Northern Railway' Co., Ry 2 | cplacing _culvert . witi 12907 E. J. Swedback, material - A bndge ass Lake ditch.... 445.00 new cess pool.. .. .. .. ..$ 115143 Jinkinson, . balance. on : contract for constmctmn I INDEBTEDNESS. ¢ dltch No. 2.. .. - .. 400.00 3 15297 M. Stoner. lnspe:nng 12979 G. W. Campbell, redemption Grass Lake ditch.. 14.00 eekzr _;:ounty warn;n:fl 3”21'15 — M o -'l $ 889.00 ASSESS!NG UNORGANIZED TER- PRIVATE REDEMPTION. g 14015 Henry *W. .Alsop, assessing 13744 Frank Willson Investment first and second- districts. 35.00 GO ATt 36,53 114274 Joseph Barry, assesslng i 5 13760 Chas, S. Carter 9.48 district... oo B 12.00 13767 Frank Roeller.. 19.°5 | 15001 T. }%1533 (Sico. llrl vs:i‘llmer-- 2% seventh district.. 12.00 amuel 1lley. i 14313 E ~ Engebretson P {15002 Peter S. Nelsun, assessing 14644 s Arnold.. .. 25.93 sixth district.. 130.00 1479 Major C. Wilson 376 —_— 14810 Geo. M. Palmer.. 8.91 $ 189.00 FINANCIAL CONDI'I'ION OF BEXI.I‘RAMI COUNTY, MINNESOTA, ON JANUARY 1st, 1906. LIABILITIES. Bonds outstanding.. Warrants nutsundmg Total.. . ASSETS. Balance in sinking fund.. .. .. .. . Tax levy for 1905 for county purposes Uncollected taxes for 1904 and prior years (e:tlma(ed) 5 Due from state, care non-resident smallpox patients (estimated) ‘Due from state for wolf bounties paid Due_from C[edrwater county Total.. - Excess of liabilities over assets.. Real estate. . O O S PR o s Peéfdonialit sl i S e Total valuation.. .. .. .. .. . The foregoing smement, prepared b; and ordered published by the Board of $221,138.15- geEEkg 383883 5an o the County Auditor, is hereby accepted approved County Commissioners and respectfully submitted to the taxpayers of Beltrami County, Mianesota. Board of County (Attest.) Lok TR AW A. W, DANAHER, Ch:uman LHAS E. S§XR LS GEO GUNDERSON. J. H. WAGNER. Commlssloners Beltrami County, Minnesota. County Auditor Ex-Officio Clerk of Board. A Polish Sport. One of the favorite sports of a Polish country gentleman is to capture a wolf alive, and as his mode of doing it is probably new to many Englishmen I will briefly describe it. - A wolf being driven into the open, the well mounted horseman pursues it, armed only with a long whip and some rope. The wolf after a time tries to take rest, but the rider forces it on with his whip till, after repeated attempts at rest, it sinks exhausted. The rider then springs from his horse, jumps astride the wolf and, holding it by the ears, secures:it with the rope. Most men require the assistance of a mounted companion, who tles the wolf while the other holds its ears with both bands, and in thlsl way the capture {s comparatively easy, but to do it single handed is a difficult feat. Nasty bites and even dangerous wounds result should the hunter have mal. ' No one, however, is considered a perfect sportsman till he has done this, yet many never succeed, Of Vt‘h’e‘ large party assembled only our hosd 2 “two of \ds stalwart brothers and one other man had obtained this blue ribbon of Polish sport.—Blackwood’s Magazine. T, § 2 OF MINNESOTA. 1. II. Block, state zrenurer, ““March_settlement. . 13723 J. H. PBlock, ale of big ) Is 19071 18650 6,853.23 14123 1. H. June 14300 ], 1L Block, interest and state loans ,~ch()0| dmnct- and towns.. ...l e e e state xre’hurm principal _on STATE LAND. 1. H. Block, state tr J. 1L Block, state treasurer. § o AT HOSPITAL MINDED. N. Tate, Supt. school for , clothing and transpor- nuon Clara Satre.. .. Rogers, Supt. school for u-emc S indlen. amhmg and transportation inmates. 15157 JAIL E S. BOARDING PRISONERS. 107.50 5.90 206.40 301.00 207.92 Anton b September. . , October.. v, Nu\'k‘mbcr. o ) suppli v, supplies for 4.7 13286 W. Scl\roedcr: supphes for o Nangle, “for 38.80 13931 ]r:mk D. ngby, repau—s on G 1058 1. e et e 53.48 13077 ] Ludington 29.75 14174 H. Winter & 17.15 14177 E. H. Winter & Co., supplies 475 M3z A H. Wright, night watch- a 46.00 14367 M. matro‘n 7.00 4558 A night e o 60.00 U382 A. ng)t ‘watch- % 400 U707 Mary E. Bailey, matron.. 52.00 14756 Wm. McCuaig, ~supplies.. 61.05 14763 D. G. Miller, filing saws, etc. 775 14838 A }I Wright, mgm watch- TH. Wright, nigh i n 4854 ;\. H rig! t, night watch- A 20.00 15008 E. Av Schneider, Supplies. 4,00 15047 Wm. McCuaig, supplies. 9.16 15228 C. G. :McDonald, pamtmg county’ jail.. .. .. 5 130.50 73006 DITCHES: _ 14179 John Goodman, labor Grass 280.79 | but few, however, have any idea of the ‘53 high rate of speed at which such an im- 28 | mense ball must turn in order to ac- | Z"-zg complish the feat of making one revo- 50 | lution in a day and a night. 80| jdea of the terrific pace which the old ! ar after year-may-be | Conture and His Dainty Pupil. An old pupil of Conture tells how the master came into his schoolrovm one ' day when the model was in exception- ally good condition, the light especially fine and the circumstances of the se- ance altogether auspicious. As he en- tered one of the students got up and | went to the tub of water in the corner, leaving all the rest buried in their | work. “What are you going to do?” asked Conture roughly. The student ! showed his hands, which had some paint on them, and replied that he was ! going te wash them. Conture dabbed his thumb in some paint on the palette of the nearest student and made a ! smear on the dainty pupil’s forehead. | “You'd better wash your face, too,” he said. The face washing was the last act of the students when they had finished their work for the day. The dainty pupil took the hint to heart, i apologized and sat down at his easel without visiting the tub. If he had not done so he would never have en- } tered the school again. The Earth's Swift Motion. Everybody Lknows that the earth makes one complete revolution on its axls once in each twenty-four hours, earth keeps up had by comparing its speed to that of a cannon ball fired from a modern high | pressure gun. The highest velocity ever attained by such a-missile has been es- timated at 1,626 feet per second, which Is equal to a mile in 32-10 seconds. The earth in making one complete revolution in the short space of twen- ty-four hours must turn with a velocity almost exactly equal to that of the cannon ball. In short. its rate of speed at the equator is exactly 1,507 feet per gecond. This is equa] to 17 miles & winute. His Model. Critic—That villain: in your story is i Barchocheba.” E rcgrets that Captain Mahan, his flag i captain, cannot accept the invitation of i method of putting fodder up for win- A graphic : SRR %A Star Out of Jacoh.” In the time of the reign of Hadrian, about A. D, 130, a Jew appeared among the peopl- of Palestine claiming to be a messziah—the “‘star out of Jacob”— which Balasm predicted in his proph- ecy. (See Numbers xxiv, 17.) This Jewish - messial’s nume was Simeon Bar-Cocheba, which latter name in the Hebrew language means *“son of a star.” This individnal who so blatant- ly proclaimed himself to be of divine origin took Jerusalem by storm (A. D. 132) and actually ~ommenced the re- building of the teruple. He took the government in hand and issued coins and performed many other public of- fices. One of these coins, now in the British museum, has an eniarged star upon one side nnd upon the other a Hebrew legend meaning “The Deliver- er of Jerusalem.” The Jews, it is said, lost 600,000 men defending this mes- siah at the time when the Roman gov: ernment attempted to put down the popular delusion. In Itoman history Bar-Cocheba is known as *“Coziba of The enemies of the “son of a star” changed his name to “Bar-Cozeba,” which in the Hebrew means ‘“son of a lie.” A Speedy Recovery. On one of the visits of the American fleet to English waters Admiral Erben was in command, with Captain Alfred T. Mahan, the writer on naval affairs, as his flag captain. One morning Cap- tain Mahan came to his admiral with an invitation to dine with a duke which he had received. “I can’t accept,” said Captain Ma- | han, “as they forgot to invite you.” “I should say you couldn’t,” growled the admiral. “I'll answer for you.” ‘Whereupon the admiral wrote: “Admiral Erben, United States navy, ! the Duke of Blank. Captain Mahan is on the sick Hst.” An hour or so later a messenger from the duke returned with invitations fer the admiral and the captain, where- upon the admiral wrote again: *“Admiral Erben accepts with pleas- ure the invitation for Captain Mahan and himself. He wishes also to ad- vise the Duke of Blank that he has taken Captain Mahan off the sick list."” Curious Storage of Hay. An English traveler through Kash- mir found in practice there a novel ter use. The country lles in a yalley among the Himalayas. The chief in- dustry of the people consists in raising i fine wool and in making this into fab- ries which have carried the name of the country all over the world. A cu- \ rious custom in some paces is that of | banging quantities of hay up among the branches of trees. Why 1t was ‘done was more than I could guess, till ;my guide informed me that in winter the snow lles five and six yards in depth and that the supplies of hay, which now look only as if they were | Wonders of nuunee. ; Baalbec, or Baalbek, is thé name glven 2 ruined city Iying in ancient. Coele-Syria, torty-five miles northwest of Damascus. There is nothing partie- ularly remarkable about a ruined city being found in the locality mentioned,; but the sizeof the blocks of stone used’ by the ancient builders of this partic- ular city is something that has: puzzled the modern. engineers since the day | when Baalbec was first made the Mec- ca of the oriental traveler. There are immense stones on every side of the visitor to this ancient pile of ruins, bu# the three most remarkable blocks—said. to be the largest ever used in the con- struction of a building—are in a wall back of the temple of Baal. These im- mense stones are respectively sixty- four, sixty-three and sixty-two feet in length and each is thirteen feet in thickness, but the most wonderful thing in connection with them is the fact that they are at a place in the wall twenty-five feet from the ground. How these immense blocks of granite ‘were ever raised to such a height is a question that has never yet been an- swered. Silenced Him. A Kansas City woman tells this sto- ry on her husband to demonstrate the inferiority of the masculine mind. One morning as her husband was sitting down to the breakfast table he glanced at the dining room clock and said, “We must be later than usual this morning.” “Don’t place too much con- fidence in that clock. It stopped at 5 o'clock this morning, and I just set it going by guess.” replied the good- wife. “Were you up at the husband, “Of course not.” “What time did you say the clock stopped ?” “At 5. “If you werer’t up at 5,” replied the man, with a puzzled look, “how in thunder do you know when the clock stopped ?” “Why, dear, it stayed stopped,” was the reply. The man did not say an- other word that morning.—Kansas City Times. 5 o'clock?” asked Dangers of Cocaine. Cocaine, an alkaloid of cocoa leaves, ‘was discovered in 1859, but remained in comparative obscurity until 1884. In minute doses, whether taken internally or used as a spray on mucous surfaces, its effect is wonderfully exhilarating, producing for a time the fresh and buoyant sensations of youth and per- fect health, that bave apparently no unpleasant reaction, and therein lies the explanation of the subtle and ir- resistible power It quickly acquires over its victims, ca ng them to the very brink of destruction before they have dreamed of danger. Being a cu- mulative polson, the first warning symptom does not appear until the fatal chains are riveted that shall drag them, horror stricken and powerless of resistance, over the precipice to com- plete mental. moral and physical ruin. Foreign Flags In America. The first flag to float over American soil was the royal standard of Isabella, emblazoned with the arms of Castile and Leon. A white flag with a green CToss its companion. Some years after Columbus landed at San Salvator the Cabots planted the banner of Eng- land and of St. Mark of Venice on the eastern shore of North “America. In the centuries that have intervened since a variety of national flags have waved where now only the stars and stripes is the accepted emblem. Over Texas have floated the Krench, Span- ish, English, American and Confeder- ate; in Louisiana the lilies of France, the Spanish flag, the tricolor, the Amer- ican and Confederate flags; in Califor- nia the Spanish, Mexican, Russian and American. The Cocoanut. The cocoanut tree is the most useful of all plants in the tropical region. Its seed furnishes food and an intoxicating drink. The shell gives drinking cups and vessels and a hard mate! capa- ble of a high polisk, from which per- sonal ornaments may be manufactured. The trunk furnishes wood for dwell- ings and boats. The leaves make cloth- ing, cordage and ropes. The fibers of the bark and of the nut afford matting and carpets. The buds furnish a succu- lent vegetable, and from the trunk & palatable liquor is drawn by making an incision- As Good as Married. First Sailor—No, Bill, yer don’t real- ly know what life is till yer get spliced. Second Sailor—W’y, shiver me timbers, messmate! I've never been married, true, but I've bad yeller fever and cholera, I've been frostbit, drowned, burned alive, eat by a shark, blowed up at sea and operated on for cancer.- Wot more does a reasonable chap want?—London.Answers. The Real Thing. Express Clerk—Value of this pack- age, please? TFair Damsel — $25,000. Express Clerk — Huh? Fair Damsel— meant for camelopards, are then easily reached by the flocks of sheep whlch abound there. Mitigating Circumstance, the bench had a criminal placed before a perfect masterpiece. Where did you get the character? Novelist—I imag- ined a man possessed of all the forms of wickedness which my wife attrib- utes to me when she is angry.—London Tit-Bits. On and off. Mrs. Hightone—You are having trou- ble with your cooks? Mrs. Flashly— The first one carried on so. Mrs. High- tone—And how ‘about the last? Flashly—She carried off so. I lost two dresses dand a hat. 7 him accused of some very modest vio- lation of the law. Of course the baillie knew the prisoner well. He heard the charge stated. , *“John, man, I'm sorry to see you bere. We'll just fine you half a cmwn." The clerk here intervened.: 15 “But the charge 18 not yet prond‘ we have not heard the evidence.” Then the benignant baillle:> -~ - . * “Ah, well, John, my man, as‘ the charge is-not-proved we'll just fine you | an. eighteenpence.’—London Tfiemh. A Scotch baillie recently advanced to | You heard ‘what I said. Those are love letters from old Bagsocoyne, and I'm sending ’'em to my lawyer.—Cleveland Leader. Translating the Definition. Johnny—Papa, what does precocious mean? Papa—It means—a--it is a term applied to children who know more than is usual at their age. Johnny— Oh. yes; it means a fresh kid. Awfully Slow. He--Darling, I 'have loved you ever since first we met. She—Well, why "didn’t you say so long ago? Did you think I was a mind reader? ' A man should be upright, not be kept‘ lprlght—ercus Aurellus L Eleetrlelty. The electrical properties of amber were known to the Greeks before the | Christian era. Electricity takes its ‘name from the Greek word for amber. Gilbert in 1600 was the first to employ the terms “electric force” and “electric attractions.”. In' 1748 Franklin's elec- trical researches had progressed so far that he killed a turkey by the electric spark and roasted it by an electrie jack before a fire kindled by the elec- tric bottle, and in 1752 by means of the kite experiment he demonstrated the identity ' of electricity and lightning. The first magneto-electric machine was made at Paris by Pixii in 1832; the first. telegraph line in 'the United States was set up between Washington and Baltimore in 1844; the first sub- marine cable was laid between Eng- land and France in 1850. As early as 1802 Sir Humphry Davy produced ‘an electric light with carbon points on al- most the same principle as that now employed. The first electric railway on the continent of Europe was built by Siemens.at Berlin in 1881, the first in” England’ was constructed in 1882, and in America the first electric ling was built in 1885. Royal Roads. People will discover at last that roy- al roads to anythivg can no more be laid in iron than they can in dust; that there .arve, in fact, no royal roads to anywhere worth going to; that if there were it ‘would that instant cease to be worth going to—I mean so far as the things to be obtained are in any way estimable in terms of price, for there are two classes of precious things in the world--those that God gives us for nothing—sun, air and life, both mortal life and immortal, and the secondarily precious things which he gives us for a price. These secondarily precious things, worldly wine and milk, ecan only be bought for definite money. They never can be cheapened. No cheating nor bargaining will ever get a single thing out of nature’s establish- ment at half price. Do we want to be strong? We must work. To be hun- gry? We must-starve. To be happy? ‘We must be kind. * To be wise? We must look and think.—Ruskin. The Tip of the Alligator’s Tail. A great delicacy in Florida, accord- ing to the Cleveland Leader, is the tip of an alligator’s tail. It tastes like frogs’ legs, though a bit more gamy. Alligator tails are best just after the ricebird season, The big alligators float in the .water with only their eyesi showing. When they see a flock of these fat, juicy little birds they dive to the bottom. Their long, wide snout scoops up some of the loam, and they float to the surface again with just the rich soil showing. The birds think it is an island. They alight upon it When the whole family is there the big | reptile turns suddenly. Just as the; birds secramble off he opens his mouth | once. They are gone. The birds are neat | little feeders, and the alligator is an epicure at this time of the year. The ricebird diet makes the tip of his tail, | of which he is most vain, tender and sweet. A Famous Dyarf. Geoffrey Hudson, the famous dwarf of Charles I., was introduced at court during the festivities attending the coronation. By an odd conceit he was | concealed in a - cold pie, the crust of which being removed disclosed the dwarf fully dressed and making his | bow to the king and queen. At the age of twenty he was eighteen inches high, but before attaining the age of thirty he grew several inches addi- tional. Geoffrey, like most dwarfs, was of limited intelligence, but of intense ! vanity and large self congeit. It is as- serted by many scientific authorities that this is a characteristic of dwarfs. | The Theater of Dionysus. ‘What was probably one of the earli- est theaters built was the theater of Di- onysus, which v begun five centuries before Christ. The seating capacity of this remarkable building is said to have | been 30,000. The theater of Inouysux, was erected when Greek art-and litera- ture were in their prime. Here were presented to appreciative spectators the wonderful works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. - The Burglar’s Grasp. “Did it ever strike you that a bur-' glar of all men is most sensitive to the fitness of things?” SCan’t say it ever did. make it out?” “He always throws light on his shady transactions with a dark lantern.”—| Baltimore American. How do you Perfume of Flowers. It is claimed that the perfume of flowers disappears as soon as the! starch in the petals is exhausted, and | it may, it is said, be restored by plac- ing the flowers in-a solution of sugar, when the formation of starch and the ! emission of fragrance will be at once resumed. Encouraging Him. Mr. Faintart—Miss Brightly, I—aw— that is—Mabel, I—er—desire to—aw— rehlly— Miss Brightly—Keep right on, Mr. Faintart; I’ll consider your propos- al and have my answer ready by the time you have got it out of your sys- tem.—Philad=lphia Press. On. Other Nights. Mr. Goodtiing—How does ‘your sis- ter like the engagement ring L gave ber, Bobby’ Her Young Brother—| Well, it's a little too small. an awful haid time getting it off" ‘Whes the other fel ows call —Puck. ! So ne Reduction. 3 _ “Then the doctor..didn’t succ ‘reduclng your weight?” By “Why, not very much, but he left me with quite an attenuated pocket-- book.” | “in’ards.” . the juices cannot escape. | treated in this manner the inside will : office was for some time hereditary in . suppose I'll be misrepresented by the 1 Anger Mout ‘capse; s - guek Money. “Handsel” is the first money received for the day (“luck money”), that whiel is given back ‘for luck” by the seller to th: buyer. Spitting upon it is the essenge of the whole transaction, vand it is practiced today, not only all' over. 2 Engladd, but all over the world. - We: know from many classical authors what virtue was believed by ancient . Greeks and Romans (see Potter, “Ar-- 1 chaeoj, Graec.,” §., 417) o lie In the [ act, #nd ‘there is also abundant evi- - I,' dence of the belief all through the mid- H dle ages, and now in the twentieth century it remains as strong as ever. Otto Jahn says: “I have often seen the fishwives of Ellerbeck, when they had got handgeld from my mother, how they spat upon it. They say that it brings them besonderes gluck. They i will not tell the reason. Certainly it is’ i £l done to keep off witcheraft.” The same thing is done by modern Egyptians and by Italians. At Posilippo I gave a penny to a deaf mute. He first spat i on it, then put it, to his forehead, and lastly devoutly crossed himself with lt. precisely (except the crossing) as is 2 Jone by modern Egyptians. Even in 1S l faroff Celebes the natives spit in the same way as a protective rite.—Notes ang Queries.” ‘When Watches Were New. i At first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights and was used as a “pocket clock.”” The earliest known use of the modern name occurs. fn the record of 1552, whick mentions that Edward VI. had “one larum or watch of iron, the case being I likewise of fron gilt, with two plum- mets of lead.” The first watches may readily be supposed to have been of rude execution. The first great im- provement, the substitution of springs for weights, was in 1550. The earliest & springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and, being wound up twice a day, they could not be ex- pected to keep time nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve hours. The dials were of silver or brass. The cases ‘'had no;.crystals, but opened at the back and front and were four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost the equivalent of $1,600 in our cur- rency, and after one was ordered it took a year to make it. : Trolling For Tarpon. It is not easy to hook a tarpon while trolling, for his mouth is very hard, says Julian A. Dimock in Country Life In America, and much skill may doubt- less here be shown. In the playing of the fish the work is about the same as in still fishing save that more care must be used, as the hook is probably not firmly imbedded. Anold fisherman told me that he liked to be sure of his fish and so preferred still fishing, but to my mind it is one of the objections to that meth- ' od. Another and stronger objection is the disturbance of my feelings in think- ing that I am pulling against a fish's If the line does break the chance of the vietim’s being able to free himself from the hook is problem- atical, while in trolling it is the work | of a minute after the strain is off the line until a sore mouth is the only ‘e ! symptom remaining. The Greek Symposium. .The Greek symposinm was literally “drinking together,” but before the drinking fully began there was & ban- quet, more or less elaborate, as the wealth and taste of the host might dic- tate. The guests came in their best. Even old Socrates, Plato tells us in his “Dialogue” on the subject, was not above taking a little"extra pains when he was invited out. Some one met him ~ o - one day in the market place, ‘“fresh from the bath and sandaled,” and as the sight of the sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he was going 4 that he was so fine. “To a banquet at oy | Agathon’s,” he replied, “and I have put on my finery because he is a fine crea- ture. What say you to going with me | unbidden?” Properly Boiled Meat. To boil meat so as to retain the juices and soluble salts and yet cook it suf- ficlently 1t should be plunged into boil- ing water and boiled rapidly for about ten minutes. After this fast eooking the kettle must be pushed over to the ! back of the fire, where its contents will simmer gently. This tends to eoagu- i late the outer rind of the meat so that If meat is be found juicy and tender, but If the meat is allowed to boi} it will be found hard and chippy, the goodness having all boiled out of it. f Britain’s Oldest Office. The oldest office under the crown is that of lord high steward, which was ,f in existence before the time of Edward | the Cenfessor—indeed, -some -authori- ties say that it was instituted by Offa in 757. For a long period this official was second only to the king, and the certain noble families.—Tit-Bits. His Expectation. “I suppose,” said his friend, “that 1 when the investigation takes place you will be represented by counsel.” “Yes,” said the statesman, “and 1 = opposing counsel.” On the Common Highway. - ‘We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travel- ing a sequestered pathway, but by walking ‘on the thronged and common | “another, and at least'see the size of one another's burdens.—Jane Addams. 4 | Foollsh, & By six ¢auses a fool may. /W ‘Enown: { ! “without| i t; change without metive; inquiry ! ‘ without an object; putting h'ust in a} stranger, and wanting capacity to. Qh-‘ ungullh between fris nd und foe. S