FRIENDS IN NEED.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

FRIENDS IN NEED.

Jenkins, « newly-wedded naVurtjSiiite, kissed his vrif© good-by© the other morning, and, telling her h© would fee home at six o’clock that evening* got into his motor and started for town. At .six o’clock no hubby had appeared, and the little wife began t* get nervous. When tho hour of midnigUt arrived ahe could bear the suspense oe longer, to she aroused her father and sent him off to the telegraph office with eix telegrams to as many brother olttbmen living in town, asking each, if her husband was stopping with him cV'®rnight. morning came, and the frantic wife had received no intelligence of the raising man. As dawn appeared a farmwagon containing a farmer and the derelict husband drove up to the house, while behind tho wagon trailed the broken-down motor. Almost simultaneously came a messenger-boy with (in answer to one cf the telegrams, -folio-w----ed at intervals by five others. All of them read: “Yes; John is spending tho night with me.” CONFIRMED FOR RHEUMATISM. Rev. Joshua Eimber, in his "Reminiscences,” tells the following anecdote of the late Bishop Horatio Potter:— He had been, journeying up the east bank of the Hudson River, stopping for confirmation each day at adjoining parishes. WTien ho reached Poughkeepsie he saw a woman at tho rail waiting for confirmation whose face ho was sure he recognised and was somewhat' familiar with. Ho was also certain that she had been confirmed within tho week at another place. The Bishop whispered to her to remain after service, and said “My dear madam, what do you mean ■by coming for confirmation? lam sure I confirmed you on Monday at X . Did I not?” Sho raid : “Yon certainly did. f hare been following you up the river end have been confirmed ©very week." Ho astonished, said: “ Why did rou do that?” Wherepuqn she replied : “ Because I heard it was for rheumatism.”. i THE CAROB BEAN TREE. The carob bean is tho commercial name for tho ripe pods of fruit of a tree called botanicnlljf .Cera tenia ailiqua funn of tho pea, family of plants. The fruit'of this ti-eo is variously known as carob, carob bean, algaroba, algarroba, karoub, caroubier, locust, sweet bread, sugar pod, and St. John’s bread. It is supposed that these seed pods are the locust and wild honey which St. John found in the wilderness, hence tho -derivation of the common name of St. John’a bread. The “husks” on, which tho prodigal son of scripture subsisted wera -tho dry pods of the caro-b bean Tho tree is a native of the European, African, and Asiatic countries bordering on tho Mediterranean Sea, but it has now -become naturalised in practically all leer.litics in which oranges are grown. It is a beautiful evergreen tree attaining a height of from 40 to 60 feet, and in now being cultivated very generally and plentifully in southern Europe, both for shade and for the edible pods. The carob tree is at present cultivated' in all warm countries which suffer from periodical droughts, its long roots penetrating to a groat depth in search or water. It will grew in almost any kind of soil, provided it be thoroughly drained. In southern Florida it grows very rapidly on the dry, shallow soil underlaid with tho .porous oolitic limestone. It is said to prefer limestone soil, but it will,flourish on almost pure sand or on rich alluvial soil. Til© carob tree is very common in gome parts cf the Canary Islands, and in 1883 was introduced to Jamaica. Its int-roduetkm into the semi-arid parts of Chile and Argentina has been attended with considerable success. It is grown also very extensively in South Africa, Australia, and Sandwich Islands. In all these countries the carob tree can be grown in places where no other trees will grow, notably on the dry, arid regions. Not only does the carob tree furnish food for horsee, but also shade for cat-t-lo and sheep.

TWO OF THEM. A judge and counsel being upon indifferent terms, a client of the counsel's making his appearance at the bar with his jaw terribly swelled, the judge remarked:— “Mr. , this client of yours would make an excellent counsel, for he’s all jaw,” which set tho court in a roar oi laughter against tha counsel. On silence being restored the counsel remarked : “My lord, I think he would make a better judge, for his jaw is all on one side.” This retort turned the laugh against tho judge, and trom that day they weoo on the bait terms of friendship. ■HOPELESS. A young officer, lately returned from border warfare in India, was told off to dinner with his host’s niece, with whom he found it.hard to make conversation on general topics, and consequently commenced to tell her of some of his fighting experiences abroad. “It was a narrow squeak,” he informed her at the conclusion of one incident. “I had a horse shot under me.” “ Dear me!” the lady replied. “What was tho matter with it?” Tho soldier was not daunted, and made another gallant attempt to get conversation going. “ Wo’ro a fighting family, you know,” he observed. “My great-grandfather fell at Waterloo.” “ What a coincidence,” was the answer. “My grandfather fell at Euston—slipped on a piece of orange-peel and broke his ankle.” HE WAS STILL ALIVE. Tho young lady’s feelings were outrage a. Her young man had actually bean seen walking out with that heartless flirt, Gertie Green. It was not to bo expected that she would take such a slight philosophically, and when next the fickle lover called on her she Bent him about his business, and dramatically handed back the ring. A few days afterwards a little boy brought a note from tho wretched young man, which read as follows: “ Darling Fanny—My sufferings are greater than I caa boar. I cannot live without your love. 1 have, therefore, just taken poison, tho effects of which I am already beginning to feel. ]3y the time you read these lines I will have joined the great, silent majority. When I leave this mortal ooil, I trust that you will shed a silent tear over my tomb in remembrance of happy days gone by.— Your dying Lover.” After reading the note, tho young lady paled, and, turning to tha boy, asked what he was waiting for. “ Tho gent tole mo ter wait far an answer,” he replied.