F7. of
■fcinforms
ays a wruer^a^H|jpBt. Louis
; Democrat, “or that 200 peo
this country have ever tast
unless they have at some
isited Arabia and drunk it
table of some sheik or gov
ern
“ e true Mocha is the finest
coffe grown; it has a delicious fla
vor at makes it as superior to
the very best of other brands as
. sil is superior to cotton, but the
y'e p is extremely limited, and
h dly ever more than satisfies
purely local demands. Some
Arabian coffee may find its way to
this country; it may even be called
Mocha, but" it is not the real arti
cle, I am sure, and none of us has
ever had it here, though we get the
best of other brands that are
growm in Ceylon and Java, and
that means some mighty fine cof
fee. It is not Mocha, however, for
the whole of the true Mocha crop
each year wouldn’t supply the cof
fee demands of one ward in St.
Louis alone for a period of six
months. The best and plumpest
berries of the Mocha growth,
those with the most exquisite
flavor, are eagerly taken by
the governors and sheiks in the
vicinity, and they have to get their
orders in in advance, so that they
may be sure of their annual sup
ply. The second-grade berries go
to the wealthier citizens, not of
the governing class, and the third,
or poorest, grade of berries, which
are not much superior to the best
Java coffee, are sold to the people,
and the demand invariably ex
ceeds the supply.
“Sometimes a few pounds of
this cheapest grade of Mocha finds
its way to Constantinople, but it
is very, very seldom, and I don’t
believe an ounce of it has ever got
any further west than that. I pre
sume that if, by some hook or
crook, a, pound of the real plump
berried Mocha were landed in this
country it would sell for a price
thateren a Rockefeller mierhthes
rtnteyo pay. We get tlie best cof
fee ^rown, apart from the Mocha,
but'the local conditions which pre
r vail where that coffee is raised
prevent us from obtaining any,
and I hardly think the real thfnc
will ever be found in ourmarkets.”
POPE A GREAT FAVORITE.
Has Been a Pulpit Orator of Renown
from Very Outset of His
Priestly Career.
One recalls, writes William J.
D. Croke, in Century, those mov
ing speeches which, as car
dinal, he delivered weeping in the
conclave, setting forth all his im
perfections (his sins, even), and
the disadvantages of his career
from barefooted boyhood up, but
which really secured him the
throne, and the stories of him
which every one knows in Lom
bardy and Venetia. For no eccle
siastic can have been more widely
known than he. A pulpit orator
of renown from the very outset
of his priestly career, the sought
after panegyrist of great occa
sions when bishop and patriarch,
no wonder that lie was hailed by a
voice in Home when he took pos
session of his title as cardinal:
“No one has spoken so well as this
cardinal!” As country assistant,
then parish priest, then professor
in the seminary of Treviso, canon,
chancellor of the diocese, great
hierarch of Mantua, the successor
of St. Mark, everyone seems to
know him, and no one has any
taemory that is not pleasant.
Developed by Nature.
When the petals of the great
laurel magnolia are touched,
however lightly, the result is a
'brown spot, which develops in a
1 few hours. The fact is taken ad
vantage of by the South Ameri
can lover, who pulls a magnolia
i flower, and on one of its pure
white petals writes a motto or
message with a sharp-pointed pen
cil. Then he sends the flower, the
young lady puts it in a vase of wa
ter °/L in three or four hours the
/e written on the leaf be
-,mes perfectly visible, and re
Jjains so._
Charity.
There is too much charity in this
world—for worthless people.—
Chicago Daily News.
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P|A report comes from Conenha
that a grea^rat hunt has-been
organized there, and that the
skins of many thousands of the
victims are to be used in making
gloves. If the rat hunters in the
Danish capital cherish any such
hopes, says the Pall Mall Gazette,
they are doomed to disappoint
ment.
Rat skins cannot be made into
gloves fit for commerce. The be
lief that a valuable raw material
is being neglected here survives
only in the minds of the inexpert.
The glove maker knows much
better. A Norwegian merchant
once came to England and in
formed a well known glove maker
that he had collected over 100,000
rat skins and was prepared to re
ceive offers for them. He was
fully convinced that the skins
were suitable for glove making.
But the manufacturer found that
the largest skin was only some
six inches long, and he held up a
kid skin for the smallest size of
glove, a child’s, which was eight
inches long, and asked how he was
to cut such a glove out of a rat
skin.
Then he took up the smallest
kid skin for a lady’s glove, 11 inch
es long, and when he asked how
that was to be cut out of rat skin
the Norwegian merchant laughed
at the idea .and wrent away disap
pointed. The best offer he got
for those skins, which he had col
lected with so much care, was five
shillings a hundredweight from a
man who was willing to boil them
down for glue.
A famous glove making firm has
a collection of curiosities relating
to the trade, and one of them is
the largest pair of gloves ever
made out of a rat skin. The be
lief that such skins could be made
into gloves was laid before the
managers so confidently that they
resolved to put it to the trial, and
they ordered a number of skins of
the largest rats which could be
found in Grimsby. But the rat is
a fighting animal, and bears the
marks of many battles on his
body, and it was found that the
skins were so scarred and torn
that it was with the utmost diffi
culty that perfect pieces large
enough for the purpose could be
oorainea. in tne ena, alter ten
skins had been used, a pair of
gloves was cut and made, and
they are retained in the collection
to this day. But they are so small
that they would only fit the small
est of small boys. Thus it was
shown that, however cheaply rat
skins might be obtained, they
would offer no advantage to the
glove maker. The rabbit skin is
equally useless for the purpose,
and humane people may also dis
miss from their minds the fear
that the skins of pet dogs are
made into gloves. The dog skin
glove of which we used to hear is
made of nothing but the skin of
the Cape goat.
Cuban Cave-Fishes.
An interesting addition has re
cently been made to the Natural
History museum, South Kensing
ton, London, by the receipt of
specimens of some of the blind
cave-fishes of Cuba. The special
I interest of these fishes lies in the
fact that their alliance is with
salt-water forms which exist in
the neighboring sea, and not with
I fresh water fishes, as is the case
with Amblyopsis and its allies of
the great cave of Kentucky.
There can be little doubt that the
Cuban caves in which the blind
fishes are found were formerly in
communication with the sea, and
that the ancestors of these fishes
entered the caves from the adja
cent ocean.
Children Labeled for Traveling.
The practice of labeling chil
dren and sending them across the
Atlantic, addressed as parcels,
would appear to be getting rather
general. A number of children so
labeled have passed through
Queenstown from time to time
lately. From the Dominion liner
New England, which has arrived
there from Boston, was landed a
little boy not quite nine years old.
He was addressed to his uncle at
Kilkenny. He had traveled from
Chicago unaccompanied, and had
been transferred just as a parcel
would be by the various forward
ing companies through whose
hands he passed.
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A very keen politician going
abroad for an extended tour ad
, vertised for a man to relieve him
of the smaller worries of travel
ing, says the London Post. He re
duced the applicants to one, and
was about to complete the nego
tiations when the fortunate per
son began to tell him of his ca
reer, his ambitions, opportunities
and misfortunes—a genuine hard
luck story. The politician listened
for awhile,and then suddenly in
terposed: “I find that I do not
want you,” and when pressed for
his reason, added: “I never hire
bad-luck people, especially the
kind who talk about it.”
There seems to be an injustice
in this, and there doubtless is. |
At the same time this politician
was a judge of men, or he would
not have been a successful politi
cian. Most persons who have
achieved success are obliged to lis
ten to bad-luck stories, despite
their efforts to avoid them. The
main reason the modern merchant
or manager protects himself with
a guard of doorkeepers and ante
rooms is to escape callers who
want to take up his time by nar
ratives of their misfortunes.
Every large center of popula
tion has its army of bad-luck suf
ferers, and among them are men
of education, men who are almost,
but not quite, strong enough to
reach success. Their point of
view is out of compass, their bear
ings are wrong; their attitude is
that some one who has succeeded
must make amends for their own
shortcomings. These unfortun
ates are probably the most hope
less persons in the world—hope
less not so much in their owm
ideas as in the possibilities of
their reformation. When a man
places his own inadequacy on ill
luck he is not worth anything to
anybody—not even to himself.
Luck is the tide, nothing more.
The strong man rows with it if it
makes toward his port. He rows
against it if it flows the other
way. Fair or foul, flood or ebb, he
rows. And the world has very lit
tle time to waste on the man who
complains that the tide did not
turn at every bend to suit his
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NO TIPS FOR HIS WAITERS.
New York Restaurant Man Makes a
Discovery—Then Came a Change
in His System.
“My waiters get very few tips,”
said a downtown restaurant man,
“and I don’t have to print notices
to my customers that they are not
expected to tip the waiter. It is
really very simple and within the
power of a restaurant manager to
stop the custom if he wants to do
so,” says the New York Times.
“You see, when a customer tips
a waiter regularly he expects to
get extra service or to have his
, check scaled down, and the res
taurant is beaten by the game. In
other words, the tipping of wait
ers took money out of my pocket.
“I said nothing, but kept my
eyes open for a few days, and I
saw that it was in handing the
check to the customer that the
waiters got their tips. When
they were doubtful of a man they
actually made him ask for his
check. That observation made it
simple.
“Without a word about tips I
made a rule that wrhen a cus
tomer was served the waiter
should immediately lay down by
his plate the check for the amount
ordered and change it subsequent
ly if he ordered more. That left
no opportunity for the waiter to
dumbly suggest that his hand was
open, and it made it easy for the
customer to get away without giv
ing a coin to the man who had
served him.
“In a week tipping had practic
ally ceased in my restaurant and
the checks began to increase to
the right size. All paid for what
they got and others increased
their orders as soon as they were
relieved of paying tribute to the
waiter. It worked admirably and
helped my business. Restaurant
men are foolish not to stop the
tipping imposition. They can dc
it if they want to.”
Average Man.
The average man either boasts
about his good health or howls
about his aches and pains.
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In the good old Sommer I
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Blizzard Coolers. Ili
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Time Tells
The Story.
There is a big difference be
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
difference of price in the constant
cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines_do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
“The Sewing Machine Makers of the World.”
FRANK W. LYNN. M’g'r.
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TRY ROUND TRIP TALK.
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It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
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Don’t fail to get my figures
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My Work Talks For Itself
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Stone Walks apply to me.
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