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4 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1911, Peru’s Garden of the Gods. s, half a thousand feet | higher than P’ike's peak, is to be found i rden of the Gods, ad- y traveler fortunate writes William V. S., in the Century. enough to visit it,” Alford, F. R. G. “It i locally called the Rock forest. though in no sense of the word is it a forest. It simply resembles one when viewed at a distance of ten miles. The traveler may be forgiven the error of thinking it a forest as he sees it for the first time and forgets that he is no longer where trees grow, but with- in half an hour’s ride of the highest city in the world, Cerro de Pasco, perched like a condor on the high peaks of the Andes. “The Garden of the Gods in in Colo- | rado boasts of a few spectacuiar rocks, | but they are few in number, and the Huea which they cover is not large. 4The Andean garden covers nearly a | hundred times the ground and in ‘bez\uty and Interest surpasses its northern counterpart in the same ra- tio.” The Day of the Carver. «Carving was once u serious thing. professional. He had to make the joint fit the guest. The size of his slices was the thing. Then he had te know his guests and cut accordingly. A lord, for instance, at the table, and a pike was dished up whole. Smaller fry, and the pike came on in slices. The same procedure with pig. The The sixteenth century carver was a rank of the diners dectded whether it should appear at table in gold leaf or naked, whole or sliced. With bread. | too, there was a difference. New or three days old.baked was at the dis- cretion of the carver us he sized up the visitors. And as for the apportioning of-the tidbits according to precedence there was no end. The old time carver, in fact, was born and then made.— London Standard. Big Hearted Goldsmith. Mills, a fellow collegian of Gold- smith’s, called one morning to offer | Oliver a breakfast, when he was ad- Jured in answer to his knock and in a smothered voice to force open the door and enter. When Mills and others had at last forced the bolted door they found Goldsmith so entangled in | the ticking of DI§ bed that he conld not extricate himself without help. e | explained that as the night before h'ld | been piercing cold he had given a poor perishing woman with five children all his bedclothes. What could he do? He had nothing else, not a penny, to | give her. “It was a cold night, too,” he i added, “for I couldn’t at first sleep till I thought of ripping open the mattress | to lie in the ticking.”—“Oliver Gold- smith,” by . Ashe King. i i { The Limit. Eaton—Gilmore is so egotistical that he is jealous of his wife. Nettle— Jealous of his wife? Eaton—Yes, Jeal- ous becausce she has such a paragon for a husband.—Puck. A Surprise For Swagger. “Yes,” said’ Swagger, “this is a tur- keze ring.” “Excuse me,” said Bangs; “the cor- rect pronunciation of that word is ‘turkwoise.” “No: turkeze, excuse me.” “I say turkwoise.” “Well, let's go to the je“eler and ask him.” “Right.” “In order to settle a wager,” said Swagger to“the jeweler, “would you | mind telling me if the correct pronun- ciation of the stone in this ring is tur- keze or turkwoise?”. The jeweler took the ring and ex- amined it carefully. “The correct pro- nunciation,” he said, “is glass.”—Lon- | don Tit-Bits. 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