SIGNS OF EARLY SPRING.
Some Seen by Prof. Von Joggleby
from His Study Window—
Backyard Scenes.
“I know when spring is at
hand,” said Prof, von Joggleby,
" aecording to the New York Sun.
‘"by the tilings I see in the range
©f haekyards in view from my
study window.
“In the shelteredcornerof some
of these yards, where it is pro
tected from the cold winds and
where it gets not only the direct,
but from the sheltering fences,
the reflected rays of the advanc
ing season's warmer sun, the
grass begins to grow green while
yet there may lie in other parts of
the yard patches of snow and ice.
The eager grass responds to the
first call of spring.
“And so do the dwellers in the
houses to which these yards are at
tached. On that same day in some
of these yards there were people
out raking up the winter’s debris;
the scraps and pieces of paper,
and the twigs and the sticks, left
on the ground after the melting
away of its winter covering. They
had sensed the approach of spring
and they were cleaning up; and on
the first occasion, anyway, they
were moved no doubt not so much
by a desire for neatness and trim
ness in their several yards as by
an inward prompting to get back
to them once more; to mother
earth.
“It doesn’t matter to me what
the ground hog may say, or how
manv other indications may
point, T always know when spring
Is at hand by these two signs, by
the coming green of the tufts of
grass in the sheltered corners of
my back yard, and by the appear
ance of my neighbors at work
cleaning up.”
NOT THE ORIGINAL BOAT.
Shell Seen by Visitors at Columbia
Not the One hr Which Her
Crew Won at Henley.
Columbia students and gradu
ates will be disappointed to learn
that the old shell liung in the uni
versity trophy room on Morning
side Heights is not the original
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'won the Visitors’ Challenge cup
at Henley in 1878. The shell, says
the New York Sun, occupies the
most prominent position in the
room and has been pointed out to
every visitor as the only American
boat manned by a college crew to
, win at Henley.
The first doubt as to the authen
ticity of the boat was expressed
several months ago by Francis
Sedgwick Bangs, a trustee of the
university, who has always been
prominent in Columbia’s rowing
interests. Subsequent investiga
tions have shown that on the day
before tin1 Henley crew sailed for
America Capt. Goodwin sold the
two shells which Columbia had
taken to England to Cambridge
university, where they were used
till a very few years ago, when
they were broken up.
There is some consolation for
the Columbia men in the fact that
the oars used by her crew in this
race, which are also on view in the
trophy room, are the real ones
brought back by tin* crew and sub
sequently presented to the uni
versity.
The Summer Season.
When one reflects upon the
delightful weather which pre
vailed so generally in October,
says Four Track News, and tin
even more perfect weather in No
vember, ii naturally calls forth the
query, "why do we call ‘the sum
mer season’ from July 1 to Sep
tember 1?" It is absurd! June
and September*—even October
and often November gives us more
/ delightful weather than July and
August. I, for one, vote unani
J mously for a longer summer sea
son, for a fuller ^period in which
to enjoy the beauties of nature,
for nature is so varied in her
\v moods, and so lavish with her
\wcharms that she deserves more of
^h^w»ur attention, and the more atten
^V'tion we bestow the more we learn
N to admire her every phase and
fancy, and the more we admire
the better off we are, for every in
fluence which nature exerts is for
the good.
Money and Happiness.
Money doesn't always bring
happiness, but the average man is
willing to take bis chances along
with the money.—Chicago Daily
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"NATURE NEVER GIVES UP.”
A Phrase That Is Full of Meaning for
the Sick in Either Body
or Mind.
A phrase from a recent magazine
article i.s so suggestive and so full
of encouragement that it seems
w ort li while to make it the text lor
one of our small sermons, says
Woman’s Home Companion. The
phrase is: “Nature never gives
up.” You may with profit say this
over carefully and thoughtfully
and let its full meaning come to
you: “Nature never gives up.”
Nature is on the side of health,
and sanity, and consequent ltnppi
ness. Hard as your case may be,
the great Mother is fighting the
battle with you. Has disease got
into your bones? Nature has mar
shaled her forces to combat it,
and with marvelous strategy lias
set engines to work which are en
deavoring to circumvent the en
emy. Nature is working in con
junction with the physician and
yourself. That is a thought
which ought to cheer you. ^ on
have been imprudent, possibly—
have done and left undone. You
have taken such ilheare of your
God given body that your friends
have set you down as hopeless or
worse. You have told yourself
that there is no hope for you. Na
ture has not given you up. She
W’ants you to live and w ork and be
healthy and happy and in the
event of your neglect of yourself,
she is still fighting for you. She
has no moral idea in doing this.
She just does it. Perhaps you de
serve to be given up. Many of us
do, it sometimes seems. But Na
ture is blind to that. Of course,
she is not all-powerful. She can
he overcome. She fails often.
But you wrill do w'ell to remember
that in every case while there is
a spark of life left, she is trying.
Let that thought brace you. Buck
uj), and give Nature some help.
I should like to think that we
could carry the analogy into the
moral world as well. Ho you not
believe that there are forces as
yet unvalued which are fighting
the fight for good in the souls of
men? Bad a man or woman may
be—there is exterior pressure to
make him or her better. There is
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all the societies and institutions
whose object is to help the down
fallen and the unfortunate. But
are there not other forces, too?
Does not the great Mother of
Souls tight continually for the
spiritual health and sanity of all
people? The thought is comfort
ing. stimulating, encouraging. It
is the business of every individual
to add all his personal strength
to all encounters with evil, physic
al or spiritual. rTe can do so more
heartily and with better faith for
success if he remembers that “na
ture never gives up.”
INTERESTING CHILDREN.
Youngsters of Oriental Ministers at
Washington Never Heard of Christ
mas Before Coming Here.
There are in tlit* foreign colony
in Washington quite a number of
children who never heard of
Christmas until they came to the
land of the free, says the Wash
ington Times. Among them are
tht two sons and the daughter of
the Chinese minister, the young
sters of the Korean legal ion, and
Osman Sureva and Ali tlaidas,the
black-eyed little sons of Chekib
Bev, the Turkish minister. When
Wu Ting-Fang was < 'hinese minis
ter he adopted the American
Christmas to the extent that his
young son was allowed to go to
the white house each Christmas
morning with a bouquet almost as
large as himself designed as a
token for the lirst lady of tin'
land, in the Chinese colony are
several children who have been
enjoying an American Christmas
for some years past. These for
tunate youngsters are the chil
dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary
interpreter, whose wife is a New
England woman.
Magnificent Distances.
The diocese of Kiawatiu, in Ru
pert’s Land, is one of magnificent
distances. Bishop Loft house once
walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor
for his wife. Many of the Indians
walk 25 miles to church, and the
bishop has baptized scores of ba
bies which had been carried 150
miles on their mothers’ backs
over hard frozen snow. At night
the family sleep, wrapped in the
deer skins, on brauehes laid upon
the snow. ,. *—
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THE CATCHING OF CR'aBS.
Some Facts About the Chesapeake
Soft-Shell and His Captors—
A Summer Industry.
The Chesapeake soft-shell crab
is a delicacy and a luxury in every
market between the.Atlantic and
Denver; and he grows more and
more popular as season follows
season.
The season of the soft-shell crab
is from the early days of May to
the late days of September, and
its chief or best cultivated and
most patronized habitat is the
shallow and warm nooks, sounds
and inlets of Chesapeake bay.
Here it swarms like ants in a hill,
like bees in a posy garden, like
prairie dogs in a rodent town.
Jersey waters produce some crabs;
but the Chesapeake crabbers
supply the market; and they make
money by doing it.
The crabbing fleet numbers per
haps 1,500 boats — little crafts
they are, usually with a tiny cabin;
manned by two or more men. Not
less than 500 of these boats sail
from the little village of Crisfleld,
Md., alone.
The crabs are caught by trailing
along the bottom of the shallow
waters, through the sea grass and
sea weed, a light cage of iron, a
sort of skeleton and coop, called
by the crabbers a drag. It is
drawn up frequently; empty but
seldom. The take is from 200
crabs a day at the opening of tl\,e
season to 1,000 crabs a day in mid
season, to each boat worked by
two men.
The crabs are graded by size,
crated and shipped to market.
Hard-shell crabs are taken to
the “crab yard,” where they are
detained imprisoned in frames,
and examined daily to see if they
have shed their hard shells. Such
as have are taken out and packed
for transportation to market.
The captive may shed his shell iD
a day or two or he may wear it
for a month.
NEW USE OF PHONOGRAPH.
British Cabinet Minister Dictates to
the Machine and the “Records”
Are Sent to His Clerks.
Since his accession to cab
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made a still greater use of the
phonograph for the conduct of his
correspondence as secretary of
state for Scotland than he did
during the period when he acted
as lord advocate in the same de
partment, says the London
Graphic. Some five or six dozen
“records” are now constantly in
use, and to these the minister dic
tates the replies to his numerous
letters, together with a mass of
other detail work connected with
the office over which he presides.
These are then forwarded to Lon
don, if he happens to be in Scot
land, and the contents are taken
down by his secretaries in White
hall. This done, the “records” are
scraped off and the cylinders are
once more ready for use. By keep
ing a phonograph both in London
and Scotland the secretary of
state, alone among his colleagues
in Mr. Balfour's reconstructed
cabinet, is able to give viva-voce
instructions to his department at
a distance of some hundreds of
miles.
Queer Speculation.
The sermon of a British vicar
charging great immorality in the
pottery towns in Staffordshire has
caused discussion of life in the
potteries. A curious feature is
speculation on the lives of others.
The business of the insurance com
panies there is largely directed to
persuading people to insure the
lives of others as a. speculation.
Wives are urged to insure their
husbands, and sons and daughters
to take out a policy on their
parents’ lives. For a penny a
week a girl insures her father for
£o. No medical examination is re
quired, and it is simply a gamble
on death. This was amusingly
shown by a recent case. A doctor
in one of the pottery towns was
reported to be dying of cancer.
The rumor was false, and the doc
tor, completely recovered of his
illness, was surprised to learn
that his charwomae had staked
twopence a week «« his death.
Before After.
During courtuMp a girl thinks
marriage is a haven of rest in
which she wit* ** free from all
worry and caiv. kfter marriage
ahe has another think cciniug.—
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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.
"TheSewing; Machine Makers of the World.”
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