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Show 1 ; v y t x. M SUCKING fISH WITH WHICH Probably the moat remarkable fish In existence la Ue little fish knows ha remora erheoeis By mean of a socking device on the top of Its hssd and shoulder the remora aohancl, sr soeklag fish, as it la called ntare commonly by fishermen attaches Itself as irmly to smooth surfaces that It la Impossible to detach It. This property of the sucking fish gave to It its curious nama. remora cbsnela. which signlfie Xat why It la called has never been learned with any degree uf ssrtainty, but fisheremn will tell you a yarn of how this little fish can atop ships. The Chinese most implicit- ship-hold- er (HIS! preaaing the laminae thus forming a By mason of the complete racuam aewum so formed the fish adheres tightly to the spot upon which It has placed Its dise, and can detach Itself only by sliding Its body forward In a direction corresponding with lb set ' of laminae When the sucking fih attaches lt-- i self to a monng body It always takas oe. re to fix Itself so that the water can-- 1 not wash It off and, from that fact S0A1E (AT(H TURTLES OF THE DAY 1 end of the line draws the fish in with Its prey f Before you can eat a fish you ksv got to catch It The same thing applies when you want to use a fish at s fishing hook And that la where the Chinaman finds hi hardest Job, for the sucking fish Is probably the hardest fish to catch A piece of raw meat Is used as s bait The sucking fish Is llrely and takes the hook eagerly The hooking of the fish, however. Is the at the GLIMPSES Of CITY LIFE d ly Mrs. wood was decidedly ruffled at tbs note the messenger boy brought her about 2 oclock la the afternoon. iUCKIHG FISH . (REMORA CCHENEU) Henrietta recently bought a massage roller to use on her face She hasnt any wrlnkhs, but she is afraid she may have, and decided to begin the fight for beauty In time. The roller had little rubber wheels and reminded her of an fluting Iron, but the accompanying instructions said if it were used with a firm and gentle pressure it would restore the bloom of youth to a mummy, so she knew It must be al! right The first time she used It she left furrows a quarter of an inch deep in her cheeks and people inquired where Bhe was when the She wagon rolled over her face. thought one eye was gone tbe next time she essayed to handle the machine, for It slipped and did a littlo excavating act. She bruised her nose after that and then she read the instructions again. "This dainty toilet The new wife, having Just received her own, made some happy com ment to which John Then tbe greed. stor m "Awntle s a id were ship-hold- from one morning bolding Hatties dainty Invitation between her thumb and forefinger as if It H'iu! said heT hostess, tartly. You were eu the road to Kankakee, so far aa I can make out! Mr. and Mrs. Wood fcVe been mar-rlaconsequent- only a fern week Iff w when I started out In the first place" her jusband,and It ran' Caroline: Am bringing Mr. Boyce home tonight Get a to : Henry. chicken. She bought the chicken, but her tears besprinkled the clgwnr foul as she prepared It for thd bven. Six weeks a horrid married and be couliF-wrltnote like that! He ordered her to do things, did he7 When their dinner guest departed the storm burst. The Unfortunate Mr. Wood explained that when he dashed off his message to her be bad about sixteen seconds to do It hi, three men Were waiting Impatiently to see him and stocks were at the moment going down. All of which to Mrs. Wood bad about as much bearing on the case as though he had tried to excuse his abruptness by stating that there had been a volcanic eruption In Mars. Her feelings were decidedly hurt. He could not care for her else he would have been kinder : It was next week when Mr. Wood discovered he had'tarrled downtown the key to the basement and he remembered a load of coal was coming that afternoon. H put the key In an envelope and with It this epistle: "Mg Own Darling Little Wlfie: Heree that blamed key I forgot With love and a million kisses, your ador; Harry." ing husband, She wouldnt spesk to him when be came home that night He says some women are awfully hard to suit e ty believe that by means of the sucker n the top of its head this little fish nan arrest the progress of ships, however powerful, as suddenly and firmly ns If they had struck upon a rock. The winds may blow, the sails may fill, and the masts may creak, but so long as the unseen fish below retains Its e hold upon the hun or the ship the vessel will be confined to the spot as effectually as if It had lowered Ms anchor At least, so the Chinese believe. Whether it possesses the power which the Chinese claim for it or not, fact remains that ones the fish fits has attached itself it cannot be removed without tearing the disc, or wicker, from the body. The disc which enables this little iah to accomplish such big feats is somposed of several flat, bony laminae, arranged In parallel lines much In the same manner as the slats In the common wooden window-blinThese laminae are capable of being raised or depressed at will, and are moved by a Set of muscles set obliquely. The fish attaches Itself to a surface by pressing the soft and slimy edge of its disc against the object and do lse-lik- d. th e Chinese conclude that It could Impede the progress of a ship, entirely overlooking the fact that the ship would drag It through the water. The power of the disc does not dlqp appear when the fish, ll dead Evert when cut off from the body of the fish, this curious contrivance can be applied to any smooth ssrface, and will hold with astonishing Aransas. The Chinese employ the sucking fish to c&toh turtles, using it as a fishing hook. They catch one of these flehes and before It la dead pass a ring through the tall fin and attach a line. The fish then la put back Into the water and allowed to awlm in search of turtles which are found sleeping on the surface of the water. Whan the fish has attached Itself firmly to the shell of the turtle the wily Celestial easiest part, for even when the fish Is hooked securely It by no means is caught As soon as It feels the sharp prick of the hook It darts to the bottom of the boat or some other smooth surface and affixes Itself so strongly and with determination not such a Spartan-llk- e to be taken alive that the hook may be torn out of Its mouth before the fish will relax Us pertinacious hold. By drawing the fish smartly out of the water Just as soon as It Is firmly hooked, however, It can be eaught without much trouble. And In this way hundreds are caught by the Chinese and used to catch turtles. The sucking fish Is seldom more than twelve inches long and Is dusky brown In color, being darker on the back than on the abdomen. accessory, said the circular, should be on evpry dressing table. Henrietta thought that advice good and put hers there, where it stayed undisturbed. She rime home the other afternoon and found her younger brother using It to "squeegee photographic prints into hie camera book. Tills la a funny sort of photo roller," he remarked, "but I'Ve lost mine, and I guess I can make yours do." Henrietta says she Is rejoiced to find out what the complexion roller Is really good for. Chicago New a How Hattie was not Humbled i Awntle" waa a peach. MIDWAY an - slot-pictu- re K t g, sod-hou- se neat-looki- I ral ss nu. es - - John's self-respe- ought to prevent his acceptance of any Invitation from his r b 1 1 1 o ns daughter, to say nothing of the deference due his wits John only smiled and guessed hed go. He liked cards, he said, and he'd Just like to see If Hattie had grown rusty at baccarat. Awntle knew John to be a man ol large decision and few words, so ehd set about mining the channel la secret. Bhe got Up a counter attraction In the shape of a card party at John's house for ths same night and sent out Invitations. "That," she mused, will spike Hattie's guns."- - Then she told John and hla new wife to make no engagements for that evening, as Uey were needed at home and ahe'went Into details. John listened, but mads no comment - The eventful night arrived and John and hla wife dressed with especial care. Bo, too, did "awntle, By and by s cb stopped at ths door and "awntle hurried Into- - Ue drawing room to greet the expected guests. After a brief delay she heard John call out to Ue maid: "Tell him to watt." Then John came down with hie wits and her wraps and got Into Ue cab and went away to Hatties and had the time of his life blessing haavaa that he had a daughter who was a bit different from hla sister, "Awntle" waited In chagrin the satire evening, but no guests came, which was strange, she thought. At midnight her spltefulnesa got the better of her . mod- judgment and she went out and told Ue cook to throw out every scrap of supper they had prepared for ths guests. But, John good-looki- e . It Is several years snd hls.w!fs, itmGuit J mLuent, the order was countermanded. j e sines "swntle" vowed to humble her niece. In fact, Hattie bad forgotten nil about it until her father second marriage n short time ago revived Ue- - recollection. Of this marriage awntle quite approved and came on to Chicago to visit Jobs and his new wife and to tell them the Just how pleased she was. On other hand, Hattie, loyal to traditions, evinced only s courteous interest In When awntle" regained her breath she asked "Why?" - "Because we may need some of it tomorrow night, said John. "Tou see." be said, wife and I trailed your Invitations for tonight wlU oUers which set the date just on evening later. We will entertain our friends tomorrow night. Whereupon awntle flounced out o! the room and took train 6 for home Ue next morning. Hattie and humility are still ss two ships that havs passed In Ue night WOMEN IN CHINA All women are not degraded in China. Witness Ue Dowager Empress, who rose, by U6 fores of her own will, from .the position of a slave to of ruler over Ue most populous nation on the globe. NotwlUstaadlng Ue prejudice against Ue sex among Ue Mongols women occasionally break U rough Ue barriers and achieve distinction. In Shanghai, Ue metropolis of the moet coveted section of that vast empire, Is a temple erected In honor of Huang, a woman deified for her great service to her people, and Chinese men do not disdain to worship before her her stepmoUer. However, she loved her father and sought to make his new wife welcome by giving n little card party In her honor. She brought out her finest napery and china and spent much cash and originality on favors snd et cetera!- - Everything poestble was done to please her fathers bride and Hatties good intentions were heartily seconded by her husband. Just at Uls point Is where "awntle" wheels her batteries Into action. Bhe came down to Johns breakfast table Image. flret Is more or less bohemian, Ue second tries to be, and Ue Uird Is frankly and grossly material, wlU no object In life except the diverting one of increasing the population of Ue city to the number Indicated by Ue name of Ue society. And yet there are peouse-fu- L ple who Ulnk that clubs ara not There was another numerical club also, a Thirteen Club, which wm built to defy Ue ancient superstition. Its members were only admitted la batches of Ulrteen, warranted not to itlL TiT Chicago also there was once s club called the Midway, designed purely for social diversion. But Us most whimsical of all clubs, Ue most desperately foolish, the most beguiling and impossible, was Ue Whitechapel Club, which once made Chicago Us footstool. It was organized In raUer a haphazard way by a gay, band of young importers, who dined together now and then in an obscure chophouse, where Uey had a way of taking forcTheir dinners grew ible possession. more and more frugal as the week progressed, but Uey made up for It wltt great splendor on pay day, ng n. broke. ern Caudle lie awake nights for fear hed dream about her. She was tall with Jaws like a steel trap and a manner to match which forty-nin- e years of existence has nqt softened. "Awntle" never approved of her brother Johns marriage. She never approved of his children, nor of the so when marriages of his children, Hattie, Ue niece, with the snapplag black eyes and the ready tongue Uat was always primed for "awntle," mads bold to marry well and to live haphusband pily with her awntle" decided Uat the last atraw of Impertinence bad been laid, upon her devoted back, ungrateful tribe" 'and she determined straightHattie way to humble The black-eye- d U It took her n lifetime to do 1L N -- n. big-bone- d, T bad Ue queereit dream tbe other night, sail) tbs girt who was making A round of calls "I thought I was about to' take n steamer somewhere across the lake and ment features ever attempted, advanDarkness And dawn, African vUlsga, The midway at the Tom SUsbee that of all Mexican not been taken a is tage hut, Infant previous middleway, having exposition Incubator, village. was going along, the stadium, which seats IS,? experience of the kind. Borne Z.ooo ap- Venice in America, trip to the moon, Md people, runs across one end of the plications,- covering over- - 0l subjects, aerio cycle, Hawaiian volcano h boat didnt and thecome and finally ma(position grounds and sweeps grace-fmll- y have been received and passed upon ater, moving pictures, around and down on one side, for concessions within ths mile of chines, war cyclorama, Colorado gold Tom said: Oh, trfclle all buildings and Inclosed conspace, and they continue to pour In mines, Pabsts Temple of Gambrtnus, pshaw, lets walk cessions are laid out and made to con- - upon the director of concessions In a mirror mase, Cleopatras court, scenic out and meet it!' I, said, All right, Just as though he had asked ms to dance Ue next two- ' step with him, and we started The lake seemed not exactly froeen, hot kind of and r snowy, rough and we walked on miles Finally, we cams to a bugs mountain of what looked for all the world like a meringue. It was not smooth, bid all bulges and holes and little peaks and looked no fragile that I know if we stepped on It we would break through. But Tom said It was all right, so we began to climb it. We were still looking tor the boat STADIUM AT THE MIDWAY. all Uls time. Tom Insisted we should form In harmony of architecture and most exciting manner, especially since railway, captive balloon, Temple of find It on top the meringue and It so lor scheme with the buildings and the close of the Parts exposition. The Isis, Japanese village, ostrich farm, seemed quite likely to me, ' so I clam decorations of tbe exposition proper. house upside down and several other statuary while you wait Johnstown bered up with good grace. But when ws got to the very top Tom broke The original midway at the Chicago foreign attractions have recently been flood, souvenir mailing cards, Alt Nurn-berminiature Chicago Worlds Fair, through. As he disappeared I shrieked, fair, which has given s new noun to accepted. Among other novelties the 'What on earth are you doing? IndigShe English language, "growed like Filipino village, covering eleven acres, glass factory. Indian concession, 0 opsy, but this one has been prear- is expected to be exceedingly varienantly, and be answered he was fallvillage and wild animal show. Of the (10,000,000 expenditure to pering very slowly It's shorter going ranged with scientific and artistic pre- gated and picturesque. The following vision, and promises to be one of tbe- Is a partial list of concessions granted fect the expoeltlon, 13,000.000 go into Uls way. Besides, my last bowling the Midway. score was only 19L Bast selected and most compact amuse- to date: "That seemed to satisfy me, so I set down on the fattest peak of Ue boots with pointed toes, meringue and began to polish np which cramp Ue feet like oriental banA DANGEROUS PR.ACT1CE THOM GAY TO GRAVE kitchen knivsi. And Just as the merdages, and become Instruments of toringue suddenly melted away I woke wearer. to to Next ture Ue boots A timely hint to tight There Is an usher at, one of the be parents up. I wish I knew where I was going may most potent factors for found in e news downtown theaters, says s Philadelphia and shoes, the paragraph from Cinare feet tender bearer causing badly fitting cinnati telling of the harmful results papet', who Is a professional pail "12.60 socks and stockings; these should alfollowing a distribution of sample during Us day. "I get, he says, be as with chosen few seams as packages by ways and LATHER HARDEN THE SINGER lor every pallbearing engagement, patent medicine vendors conto In feet the such keep good possible In Uat city. The I like the work. It Is, you see, packages, dons up in When Mme. Emma Eamea, the fafrom dition there is nothing better than envelope fora, were left by boys on a complete and pleasant changeI must them with warm frequently bathing tbe doorsteps of residences. Directions mous opera singer, wss making a westmy theatrical employment water In which pas been placed a hand- were ern tour recently she consented to sing wear a gala smile at the theater at ful of printed on the envelopes, but in Is especially efficaThis salt Us thtre, gayety many cases little children who were at a church festival in aid of the all times, and the of a certain prominent city. prove very cious for those who suffer from tired unable to read found Ue mirth and medicine, The churth euthoritlea decided to or tender feet which trs lozenge-shape- d monotonous. I long for something in and cabdled, of gloom la and ate It greedily. The medicine It charge an admission fee to the cathe- gloomy black, with a look the a violent purgative, one tablet a doss dral to all who wished to hear Ue Copysr PiwSssttoa. my eyes, and U sobs I hear, and lugubrigreet singer. Most people paid wllling-l- y lamentations The copper production of the entire fT Vn il3ulL and the children who pargroans, the aftbut one person demanded admisms to ous music are very soothing world is the subject of an exhaustive took of the supposed candy war Is' sion on tht grouDdlhat he should'hot er Ue eternal heartless Jollity of the study by M. Leon Demaret of Belgium. several cases talen seriously ill. be caarged for going into a public kinds ofwork --The playhouse. The two following table summarizes his of worship "Do you mean to on two explace diversify my life; I touch ItweatM OstpoaW XMr at deal statistics: he argued with Ue doorkeeptell me," s good besides, I make, tremes; Copper production 1800 1900: In as the I straits "Uat Russia shall require n ticket to eaAmweek er, a Bering ISO and made of money. I have Metric erica shake bands. Big DIomsds Is- ter the kingdom of heaven?" my salary Ueater At the . pallbearer. Tons.-a land and little Diomede stand side by "Well, no," explained Ue ticket sellThere are certain pr-r- United Is only 7.60. : 2,726.608 States tbe former Russia's outpost. Us er euavely, "but Ue you wont bear side, however, (sides at Ue theater, 1,870,600 Chili, Bolivia, Peru other our own. A litte strip of nar- Mme. Eamea In heaven." Then when won through seating people, 1,181.600 row sea lies between tbe two, and as Ue enormity ' of his remark dawned Spain and Portugal income. my Increase - which materially 165,800 clear la the air on a fair day that it upon him Ue ticket seller turned and among u England It Is mot an uncommon thingduring 611,600 seems as If from one Island yon could fled.Ue Germany, Sweden, Norway be to pallbearers tubers A ns trails 663,800 easily reach across a band to Us other. Old Cists sf Cklcaga, day.' 292,600 North, across Kotselln sound, is Point Japan Monroe, In Llppinootts: ChiLncy countries All 86M00 barren a other sand Hope, spit, extending far Tesder Frt- Cm Into ths Arctic sea. ' H is the borne of a cago Is responsible also for the Forty caused by are usually Club, the One Hundred snd One Club, Tender feet Total 6,860,000 tribe of Eskimos, who go to ths misboots snd shoes, and tbe'Two Million Club, though why and to sion school and church and learn igbt comsuch these painful particular figures should have a rhlch also produce Christ wss not a good man if He was ting hymns, to speak a little English fascination is not quite enUrf cletr. The use to God-maand plaints as corns, bunions. soap. Avoid not Ue Mats and Ingrowing toenails. I THE She was the tort of person to make some poor germ-ridde- Marble U said to exist In of our states. twenty-fou- r A pathetic story Illustrative of ths faithfulness which seems to he a predominant trait of Ue canine race is related In Ue London Express. At ths Southampton docks, it says, thers waits and has welted for nearly a year, a terrier dog; out on the veldt, under a rough-hew- n cross, lies the body of his master, who has gone to answer his "last roll calL" But the dogstlll waits, and meets every in-coming transport with an eagerness pathetic In its intensity. It mingles with the lending troops, yearningly searching for its dead master, and when Its quekt results In the usual failure it disappears as mysteriously an ft cams. -- lb! Coyot Sau Sauk. ran anluck through the streets of Deming, Tex., Ue other day and bit dogs coming and going Persona who saw him said Uat ho was frothing at ths mouU and his eyes hone like halls of fire. Tt la supposed Uat Us coyots had hydrophobia. He A coyote escaped. Hi . ' |