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Show W" f A 4 aw. hi w I'oh l8c2j " h- er'ff- the - piJ - 5 rh! rckuf ft ' Something. missing man By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of "The Bank Traurdy" t'upr right, rnl U t hiniMH b CHAPTER XV. I MW, t,r apcr. PIMd to ,le tn Itnii ro fzj j then tear tw Ptwn i ret. ) toffy of them ay ally Wy t won t mate library, ' JS COINS. by a Jure 1. central in crt eaeey. ot miklai coin to concluiloa iircnian ofth Ilea If they rth from he IS bud-yea- r hat uma In ilk mplo teat tor a. U wa t i Rood cola d edKe of tht uiected cola metal woit In to ahan i teat that where; on tht hop, and th Jnted with It mil teit th quite agreed he Jury i ta t and nild It TAYERS. the Boers ta rca. are used the hornet, lea maiden hai mother atlcki when It hai liters under for their de matron de a Tlalt ot ta Impressed Boers that iduce It Into ntly the elae Md hhepanl the woods afii-liatiitg iIH( These surniiM-- an, I ,ai,hkept Shelf Fired the Who the persons engag.-.- l lu ih.-n- i from obThe arat mornluR at an early hour serving the gn-a- i of Mrs. . plat ol BHot ranR out aharp and Hamilton and her agiiailon husband. They atilt the air aurroumlluR oon entered the house . Mick oa the It waa where Mr. Hamilton su.ldi-tilportion of Grovedale. fared Mfd by many and commented upon. him and asked, excitedly: the ahot with some Tht you know how he wax shot? Ooa or two heard made their way at once and r Assuredly 1 do not. Constance. I jl, heard the shot and Jumped out of lied u the direction of the Bound. It appeared to be, a I have Mid. at once, llclng quicker than Mr. Carat the upper end of the vtllaRe. and ter 1 reached the a moment men turned Into the earner, but I saw no spot two or three one. and 1 waa Mr. .Hamilton's ure from the llrst that he shot himatieet approaching kontc and walked toward it together. self." But the plain! It was uot In hla Three were the men who had followed hand." the aound. When they reached the grounda of "Doubtless he threw it before ho the house they taw a group of people fell to the ground. But you were niigry to hare him Handing about a .figure lying on the irate. The group constated of Mr. come here." I was angry, and I told the man aad Mr- - Hamilton and Mr. Carter, who atoud back at their approach and only yesterday In keep away, But he plainly revealed to their gaze the form came this morning. It seems. Served gl primus Edea lying, face upward, hint right. "But he is different from other peooa the ground. -Who did It?" naked one of the men, ple. and ho meant no harm, 1 ant convinced. Mr. Green, excitedly. That'a more than we can tel.u aaid Primus Edea did not die. Indeed, I heard a ahot and he began to mend rapidly, though hla Mf. Carter. jumped Into my clothes and came mind wandered, the direct result of Sown. Vane had got here, somehow, the Injury to his brain. Constanre, befm I did, and my niece followed though she felt much anxiety, never we all knew about the went near him, nor to the house, but That'a me. Mr. Hamilton called each morning, matte.' "Shot himnelf, most likely," said and questioned Mr. Fry regarding hla Mr. Dawes, a grocer on Main street. progress In recovery. He seems better "Eadea ha looked for said Mrs. long time. I wonder where the pisFry, nearly three week after the tol it? It can't be a great ways off, If shooting. He looks brighter and takes notice of things. But, somehow, h did It himself. That'a to," said the other man, he acts a little mite queer." How? Doesn't he know you? looking about. But the grata an short, there was "Yea, he called me Mrs. Fry, hut he to place where a pistol could be hid-le- a asked me why he was at my house, from direct gaze except behind a and I told him because be was fetched row of rosebushes a few feet away. here, and then he wanted to kow Grwi moved toward them to look, why he wasn't taken home Inslld. sat. to his surprise, aaw a small pist"It Is but natural that his mind ol plainly In light in front of, not should wander," said Mr. Hamilton. I wish you would Just step in ami bthinri, the rose bushes. "It is a wonder we didn't aee It the look at him. Mr. Hamilton hesitated for a mofrit thing, said he. "It Is a wonder, Mid Mr. Hamll-toa- . ment and tlii-ful hared Mrs. Fry to taking the pistol and looking It the comfortable apartment where lay stct. There la no mark on It. Primnn Edea on hla bed, pallid and No; but If I don't mistake that pistemaciated, his dark hair cropped ol belongs to Dan Fry, said Mr. short and his eyes shrunken. I sold him one like It not Gref a. "Mr. Hamilton has called In to see hag ago. you. aald Mrs. Fry, approaching and You don't think Dan shot him? straightening the bedclothes. aid Mr. Carter, aghast. "Mr. who?" asked the sick man, No. I don't; I think he shot him-ii- r staring at hla visitor, and at her, with a wild look In his eyes. "Mr. Hamilton, she repeated. Well, I am sorry (o have bad It occur here, said Mr. Hamilton, glane- "Are you my ghost? asked Edea, r s mn ,. logt-llier- down-hearte- d and candle t thouRh not wan one of after the to cnatom. the Ha pin la y. and after to a Inquire: your moth-He- r ounR woraaa Innocence, South Africa the Boera" OPENED, aationa Were And. at was up to and i collar catch a a pa re. Art you my ghoatf III at hti wife's face. Hitherto ahe had not spoken, but terror-stricke- n downstair; f her tongue was unloosened. don't some of you see If be Is mlly dead? ahe cried. "Because a Is sluit It la no reason for thlnk-that he is dead. Mr. Hamilton quietly knelt and laid kit hand on his breast. It beats feebly, lie may rally. It M ot old here. We will not risk fidarblng him until the doctor comes. Help mu with the harness. Green." Working together, one of his horses as quickly harnessed, and the quarto of mile distance to Dr. Peck's Vkly covered. The doctor waa at home and In the buggy, and In a few Bisutes waa kneeling beside the w course." Why drawer. h Iwaya do Ha ry.) d thlnp with a drawer a rush. 9 oa th he room, nigh the lid. land--a i with a itlly.Juat r of his re-be- figure. "The wound Is a bad one, but not fatal." he aaid, after he crily examined with great care the Jl We made by the bullet In the tem-M- He will have to be taken some- hip. end msy are be where." aMured "He boards unpIeaMit atterinc lla Carter. at Mrs. Fry's," aaid Mr. well He must be removed once." Mid the doctoi. and I will probe for the bullet. A door wm taken from Iti hinges four men carried the Insensible 10,10 to his boarding-place- , where he tenderly cared for by Mra. Fry. bullt wu extracted by Dr. Peck, the wound thoroughly attended T1 the physician left the house, ajlng he would look In at bis patient bur or so. onllle an excited group of men searching the grounda and r04 shout the Hamilton place for f would-b- e murderer, sup-B"'the affair not to be an attempt nichle. Many declared It most wnamly wu that, the Inclination of Bound being upward proved that jj 0WB hand fired the ahot, unlesa It tip some person who atood , r 4onfl Kim thuT on the other hand, the river waa r. and there were Indications of oust having been lately drawn up 'he alders that fringed the ' BI k,Pr on found a little w the village, where It had com under an over-,imi. in,'iral moorage of an Immense tree. The wax much shaded; It was not y for a person to have while attention waa and In , b1' fo he wounded caxe h- - had most likely taken to "Very i to Get reltobto it ne une g at-th- e b jmpAny . ' ea-a- nu; snatching at the bedclothes. "Am I dead, then, and you my other aelf come to haunt me? No. no," said Mr. Fry, soothingly, nobuddy xhs'nt bant you, not If I know It. He Just come to see how you was. that's all." His name Is Hamilton, you My. "Lor, now, did I? It's Hammerly, I meant, our minister, said Mrs. Fry, alarmed at the growing excitement or her patient and lying with a glibness surprising to herself. Mr. Hamilton, meanwhile, had left the room and stood watting for Mrs. Fry at the outer door. "Odd what Ideas sick folks take! He ain't as well as I she Mid. thought he was. "No. I am afraid his brain has been permanently Injured," said Mr. Hamilton. who seemed to be not little disturbed. "I will not go In again, my presence seems to agHare him. Mrs. Fry kept out of her boarder's room for an huur. and when she entered she saw that he was asleep. He drowslept a long time, and appeared sy for awhile upon waking, but afterwards he looked about the room, rlear-eed, though silent, and Mra. he Fry softly went out. fesrlng that would question her. But he did not try to talk with her at all until the next morning, when be Mid to her, quietly: MI want to talk with you. Mrs. Fry. at Why am I sick here Instead of home? "Oh. twas more convenient. T should hardly think so. Buck a short distance. Who was that man who called to aee me yesterday? Mr. Hammerly. our minister. He's a dreadful nice man. T mistook the name at Brst. or you did. Any way he looks enough Ilk me to b my twin brother. Where Is Constance and the children?" "Constance!" said Mrs. Fry. staring-- at him with all her might. Yes; la there anything strange about my queatlona?" No: oh, no. not a rail. Constance home, n' the children, too. over Is moat like. "You any Constance is over home. to see me?" Why docs ahe not come She's dreadful busy." He started up In a momeat and asked, keenly. "Are you deceiving me? I ahe dead or very alck? Ha or the chilanything happened to her. dwfl No. they are 11 right, all of them. y MENACE TO ALL - t'l'-.i- - e 072 or d There aint nothin' the nialar with none of c t ill " !e ni'-- i r.-to c me. for ;.,i, ait's- is im to her" He :i!j it it new and Mm. Ki) xtraii-- . to grow alauntM. 'Tttil I'en't run hoe, Mr. Kites, it wnuliln't look well. teln' a mar rieil woman m in: s tmle man. "Are mi era's, my ko,i woman? My namr is not amt I am not a single man. thoiig!i I know very well that xhe x a iimmi.vl woman. "I'm sure you told me that your name was Kites, amt that you were never married. "1 neier told you so. Edea! I never heard the name until now tn all my life." "Well, then, whal t your name? she axketl, endear orlng to quiet him return to her acquiescent manby ner. Vane Hamilton, as you very well know." All right, and now will you have your drops? The rlork is Just striking the time." Yes. if you will go over and aak my wife to cotue to see me." "HI ask her." "Thank you It is only a little way. and she wont mind the walk. One ought to see the house from that window." You ran ace It plain." and Mra. Fry gave him the drops, and then went and stood Irresolutely In the middle of her kitchen for several minutes. I promised, an' It won't do no great hurt." ahe said to herself at last. "It dooz beat all what's got Into the man, rlnlmln' to tie Vane Hamilton. an' he with a'most black hair, lie's crazy as a lisin." Taking the simlioiinet from Its nail on the wall she closed the door carefully, and then called to Iter next-doo- r neighbor' to ask her to "keep huiise" a little while for her. Don't disturb Mr. Edea unleM he wants somethin'," she said, and then she hurried tn the house of Mrs. Hamilton, and was admitted by that lady herself, wlio had Mi-- her coming. (To be continued.) i Giant Mail Order Concerns Are Sapping Country of Its Wealth. SMALLER By TOWNS t !. ly IN SUMMER I ! LYNX GNAWS OFF A ! . I LEG OF HER CUB! I MOTHER ADOPTS HEROIC MEASURES TO SAVE TRAPPED OFFSPRING. ticularly leiider-l- Bled, bat Tata never raised III ilflo whaa tka old lynx r.lowly moved off with hw Ua ' lug cull. He lei them go ud Own as pronctifd llie trap. Hera It wa tvh TOOT IS CAUGHT IN A TRAP dent Hint the old lynx had sihiwisd every means known In her Mure aba decided lo cut off he foot of har off Hunter Seas ths Operation and spring Mho Imd torn at ths chain, bit ion the tree to which It wu at Out of Compassion Ha Spares tseheil slid lacerated her ows Jaw Lives of tho Litilo gnawing llie sharp teeth of th trap, Boastt. I never knew a lynx to rescue bar In Hint way," aaid Tale, after ClianilMird JiiiicIiiui, (Jim Henry young Tate, a Irsi'i'cr, pul I ruck of a ullvi-- r rolling of the incident; bnt I once' ara fux a lew vn k hoi niul used knew a whole family of barn owls to Ill Uiniiisl skill lu i stcli llie valuable aiiimiil. lie set tcvrinl Irai-sand was sure Ihiit lux Hpruiu one ol litem. Thinking I Imt ih steel Jaws were not In enough lo hold so clever a prisoner, be lliully sel a wolf liap near an idd log and I lien balled It with a llte ehlrkeii. For three da be Ted Hie chicken without even getting sight of Hie fox but on Ills fourlli he heard sounds a lie neared Hie sniIs. The sounds were evidently made by two animals, lam 1oMiida? If he will ask himself this question blit itol foxes, and he nppronehed Peering through the hughes and consider It soberly and fairly In all of Its plmaes. Including the many lio saw au old hay lynx and aq elght-inontold cub directly over llio trap. which cannot b touched upon within the limit of a single article, we think The voting one was frying out with pulit. while llte old one now and then his answer must lie (hat lie cannot. The wonderiiil prodiirrivlly of this sttai led and grunted. Tale thought that he had both anicountry ha Imen sufficient to overcome the various adverse economic In mals In the trap, but he soon saw he fluencea which have existed during the wna mistaken, for the old lynx Jumped away a few feel, sniffed for danger Mriod of years In which llie mall order business has accomplished Its signs and then relit rueil lo her offspring. which had been securely nlpiied by a hire leg. Hite seemed to bo exceedingly busy, and Iho trapper, always on llte lookout for some now phase of biiIiiihI Ills, determined to The Mother Lynx Waa Gnawing at Har Offsprings Lag. fathom Iho inyalery before ho shot tho animals. alt about ae Imprisoned om until II Working roll ml to a better point of died. Tim owl Imd been caught la vantage, hit observed tliut the mother mink trap, and from ths nuaibar of lynx waa liberating Iho rub by rutting bones lying alMiut I am sure that Its off Its leg wlih her sharp leoth. Aa comrades brought U food nnlU death alio gnawed Iho rub squealed, hut the rsme from exposure. How loaf If liarcni paid little atlenilon lo hla out- waa a prisoner I dont kaoar, but I cries. Evidently ho lindn't Iho nervo am aura It waa mnra thaa two weeks; to do the Job himself, so she had aa I irnssed near the spot now and taken limiters Into her own bauds. then, and remember aerial the owls Who worked rarefiilly, bill with detercircling alsiut. It wu a month later mination. and al Iho end of a few that I stumbled over Iho trap which in I mile the lynx wa free. had Isfii set by another busier who A lrapsn la not mipishum) to lie par forgot It." CRUSHED s Alfn-- Every year millions upon millions of dollar dud their way from the towns, villages and rural districts uf the country to the roffers of the mall order houses In the rltles, and go to the upbuilding of enormous Institutions in the centers of imputation. Naturally, the sources' from which the contributions are made Buffer accordingly. Figures ever tell a better story than words Here are figures which tell n atory so stutmndoua that its full atg nlficauce cannot be graxix-n m,. ment, but the mere alglit of which wre awe iuspirlng: In tho year 1905 two mall order houses. Iocs ted In Chlcsgo, did a bust-neaamounting In round numbers to 180,000,000. in the year 1904 these Mine concerns did a business of about (83,000,000, a gain of (IS, 000,000 or nearly 30 per cent, lu a single year being thus exhibited. These figures represent the asle last year of one dollar's worth of nterchau-tllsfor every nmu, woman and child in the country by two catalogue houses alone, and those operating from the Mme central point. Dozens nioro of varying slxe and Importance are operating all over the country from coast d s , 1 1 ran-llousl- h 1 e n SLEDS I tnhi-1--hl- Assisting in ths Centralization f Wealth, Patrons ot Thoso Institutions Contribute to Thoir Own Injury. (Copyrlalit. amounts In a comparative few eeateia of population. The.efore. the man ho sends away from his own comniuniiy money which he might have spent at home and per- milted a fair profit to (he home merchant to lie retalued there for the benefit of tho community, la community, and thereby the pros pects for Ills own future prosperity. In a large number of Instances he Is doing more thau this.. Iliwltllngly, or unthinkingly, perhaps, he Is violating his own prim-lpleof right and Justice, for. at the expense of his own community, he I needlessly contributing combinations profits to the which he continuously cries out are menacing the country. Tho mall order giants direct thcti energies particularly toward the peo pie of the smaller towns and the agn In hundreds of cultural districts. llioiiMind of the home of these the catalogue of (tie mall order house Is as regularly received as the home paer. The man on the farm last year sent a very large portion of eighty millions of dollar to two of these Institutions, In one community, stone. In all sincerity we ask: Admitting, purely for the sake of Hie argumeut, that the farmer or tho resident of ths small coininiintly cun suvo a few dot lari on some of his purchases, or even that he could do so on all of them, can he afford to continue to Impoverish hts own nunmiinliy, uimn which his own prosperity, the very value of hi. CLIMES. ! Strangs Kind of Vehicle Used In Island of Madeira. tha the Island of Madeira one of the strangest kinds of vehicles that the world affords. He secs walling quietly near At Funchal, the traveler In And the wharf a number of sleds, with oxen yoked tn carh. sleek, It li always high summer time In Madeira and to see a conveyance which he has ever associated with snow and Ice and xero weather la at first disThe stranger rubs his concerting. res and aska what those things are for. blit he anon finds that they are the public hacks and that unless he carea to walk he must step Inside, -ensconce himself cm the cushioned sent and wait for the driver to prod hla slow steeds with the gnnil that he always carries. Very soon the vehicle begins to slip, very slowly to lie sure, hilt surely, over the smooth little cobblestones with which the streets are At any particular difficult paved. turn of the road or when coming to a rise of ground the driver places a little bag of grease under the front of the runners which makes It comparatively easy for the sturdy steers to pull the sled. The "Man Behind tha Plow last yaar contributed a large portion of tha vaat Even up a king steep hill these oxen number of millions which found their way Into tho coffers of tha mall will slowly make their way. In coming ordsr houses. Tho smaller communities to which It belonged, and which down again no such tedious process Is ware thus deprived of It, suffered accordingly. a Into wide, finely used, but, getting upholstered sled with wicker sldea to coast and from border to bordr. greatest growth. Everyone has been A fart not generally known la that "getting along pretty well. While the the passenger trusts himself to the tender mercies of two more or less hundred! of concerns throughout the Increasing flow of golden millions from villainous hsiklng guides as steerswhich now are doing business their source In the laud of tha counmen. Each one of them holds a rope Jhrough the regular trade channels are try to the already great centers of tied to the back of the sled, and when awaiting only a parrels post law to money and population has held back the toboggan, as It Is ofien called, unloose literature, already prepared the growth of the smaller communigets to Jumping and bounding too In many Instances, which would pro- ties, It has not yet occasioned a great hilariously the guides Jump off and ject them Into the mall order field, and disaster. The lest will come with the this doea not take Into account the first pinch of hard times, a condipull with all their might at the ropes. hundreds and imrbapa thonsands of tion which no country ever has been MAID WAS TOO TRUTHFUL. entirely new mall order concerns able to escape at recurring Intervals. which Inevitably would spring Into ex- When llil time arrives those communities will heat stand the test which And tha Result Waa Family Went istence under such friendly auspices. The two Chlcsgo Institutions re- have best conserved and husbanded Without Sunday Dinner. David Wilcox, the president of the ferred ta already occupying Immense their resources. JOHN 8. POTTS. Delaware and Hudson rompany, was buildings, found themselves cramped opposing the Idea that a coal strike for room. One of them expended not Historic Toy. would occur again. pm than (1,000,000, and probably more, In Independence hall at Philadel"There will be no danger of a for a new home. The other lately has phia there la preserved among notstrike," hd said, a long as the oper- secured a new location and also will ator and the miners are perfectly expend at least (1.000,000 for an Im- able revolutionary relics a quaint little doll dressed In the fashion of open and fair and reasonable with mense new building. one another. And they must not sudAnyone who will reflect even rasual-l- liuls XVI. lying before there was on the subject must become Im- e United States this pretty Parlslenne denly leap up with unexpected demands that require Immediate an- pressed that the Influence of the mall found her way over sea, carrying with swers. They must give one another order busIneM la toward the central- her Into William Penn's woodland n time for thought; they must give ization of wealth, and how enormous little of the folly and fashion of the plenty of warning when they have lu a part It la playing In this direction old world, fir ahe waa not only n will be understood from a second plaything, but the fashion platet of contemplation any rhange. "Should they make audden, unex glance nt the figures which have beee her time. Can you picture to yourself the perted demands. It should not do for given above. them to excuse themselves with such It la due to himself that every patron countless multitude of dolls that lias In her way? In the last six specious argument as that which a of the mall order house should Inquire followed e mouths, for Instance, Paris sent over certain kitchen maid employed upon honestly of himself what the final Is to be if the mail order busI- to New York toys worth (218,(19 her mistress. continue to make the great and over half of that aum wm represhall "This maid said, calmly, one SunneM In recent - years strides which have marked Its prog-sea- s sented by dolls. day afternoon: France has lost a little of her su"T don't see how I am going to luring the last half decade. 'rook the dinner, ma'am. There Is no It la uselees to repeat the well worn premacy In Hie toy market. Bhe ran coal.' argument ot the mall order concerns no longer rouipete with Germany In enough homely tnya the trifles that are sold "'No 01?" cried the mistress. that they are selling good 'Good gracious. Marla, why didn't you more cheaply than the merchant! la for a song; but In playthings uf n tell me before?' the regular channels of trade to leave finer sort she still holds her own. "The maid answered, calmly: their customers more money than Not without effort, however. The 'I couldn't tell you there was no ever to devote to home enterprises loral authorities of Paris offer temptand Institutions. The fallacy of this ing rewards for the invention of new coal, ma'am, when there was coal. statement has been proved over and toys. Vance ThuniMion, In Every-byijr'Than Hs Stepped. over again by actual and minute comA certain preacher In a small town parisons of goods, as to their quality Tha Russia Solved- and prices. Te refute It finally and had a reputation for hla long and dry Borne time ago a inerrUanl In Mar sermons. One Sunday he was living Indisputably by a simpler and more well up to his standard and one by one direct method It Is necessary only to blebead. Maas., was discovered In hla men of any store at a very tale hour, and In replyhla congregation left the church. Un- aak the reliable bualn'-ato Inquiries, he Mid: dismayed. the preacher continued, un- of the anilller communltlee to show ing My confidential rlery is missing. til finally ail had left but the faithful the evidence from their books and acAnd s hai of !T counts of the barm the mall order sexton. At last the old aexton cam "Why, I'm looking over the books, forward and. putting th kea on the habit la doing their communities. It Is n truth as old aa the hilla and but they seem to be all right. pulpit, aaid: "Have you counted your rash?" and setting of Say, doctor, when you're through as certain as the rising Yes; and It Is correct to a dollar. the sun that no country or section of lock up. will ye?" over your bank book? unleM Lookel the peocan a country prosier 1 have, and Child Coughs Up Nail. It la satisfactory. aa a whole shall be prosperous. ple Last October Thelma Thornton of Buch general proaierlty as may exlat That's the puzzle, you aee. He's Denver, four years old. swallowed a cannot be retained If the institutions skipped, and I can't make out what nail It lodged In the lower part of of the already larger and wealthier for. Been home since soon?" the left lung. Since then the doctors communities are to continue to be "No." have been treating her fur pneumonia built up by contributions that should "Perhaps hes eloped with your and bronchitis and would uot belleva be spent at home from the thouMnds wife. th little sufferer's alory of the nalL of smaller communities. He hurried home, and found tiiia to The need of the country, n desperFinally sn abscess formed and when ate need npon which the welfare of be the rase. It broke the nail was coughed up. I1 . th Individual depend I , ' WiaauDavId. Csum and EfftcL upbuilding and continued pfogreM of Wife Why do you always sit at Rosa-W- ere yon angry because he the smaller communities, io that the the David? You know you distribplana mayV th wealth country 0( kissed you? a note! David Neither cant play count hs when ovARie 7. entire uted apo Nell No; lm I was elae. while I am here! can anyone ! t IfBe congested sad rontrollr-glzed for It later. d YOUNG at, 4 y oul-rom- BOY BY ATTACKED BI6 GRAY EAGLE Monster Bird Bwoops Down on Child. Carries Him B0 Yards, Than Releases Him. son Cowela, I. T. The Nero Clisrles, a farmer living near Coweta, was attacked by a large gray Cagle a few dsya ago, and narrowly eacaiicd with hla life after being car rind W yards by tho fierce bird. Ro far a known, this Is Ihe first lima to the history of Indian Territory that it A .. above Iho ground with him. TtefhlM wan not Injured mvs fcr a few bruises and acratrhes whaa hla par cilia found him. Th eagla mad no lla takaa Into the Bllcmid to ali-lchild nor heat him with ft wing. It has been known hr amne time that there were two gray atgHa nt-In- g on the Verdigris Hair lot r'lT from Jackson's Ferry. dhant ten day ago a farmer aamad Khkbrida, ' who lives near the ferry, kilted one of Urn eagles with a ilia They were very cunning, and K was Impoe-- ' slble to get close enough Is Uft them with a shotgun. Whaa this angle was shut It was devoariag t pig which It had killed. Macs Ms child was marked by th. sagto another one has linen killed, and H te I that these two are th Mty on the river that are large sal fierce enough to cause trouble. Each sf lb two killed measured over from tip to Up of wings. ' Hare's Head Like a Catla Cowansvllle, P. Q. A wiM rabbit, with n head like a cat ud tbs rari of Ita body like an ordinary ksra ksa been brought In here by Hsh Yard and la an object of much cariosity. Ford got Ihe hybrid while nsalag rabbits with a hound. As It Jampsdakmg In the ordinary way ha acted aaUdag peculiar about It until ba pkkad K ip He then mw that he bad a rial cariosity. An elimination sf tha ulmaTs stomach showed that It had base sating flesh, the remains of bird brief found. Ita teeth, Ilk tbcas sf eat, accounted for Its pee altar appetite Aa Ihe hybrid waa fat ud atroag, K appears to have bees able te nt all the food It needed. Probably birds, Tho Fierce Bird Carried the Child mistaking It fur a rabbit, failed 'to flit out of the way. A cat that cm Jump Fifty Yards. 10 feet Isn't liable to go hungry, ta uy a child has actually been picked up event and carried by an eagle. Persia Wta The child, with others, was playing In a field on Its fathers farm, near Muxaffared-Din- , the shah of Farate d of th Jackaon Ferry, on Verdigris river, who la believed to be eight mllea northeast of Coweta, hla earthly raroer, Is H 7 when the mgls swooped down upon He Is aa unlike the convMttaul Idee him, catching the child's clothing of an absolute monarch a H I pe with Ita talons and starting off. Th slble to Imagine. He ta swra t jl screams of the other children ap- Inhuman methods of to. parently frightened tha eagle, and. Boiiielinu-s- , In fact b I ladlasd finding that It could not make much he too generous. Oa oa program with the child. It dropped when a particularly bloodthirsty bead him GO yards from the place where of deaiieradoea wer brought bswro he was picked up. him on a charge of robbery he The child weighs GO pounds, and at them with a wave of btabaau no time did the eagle succeed In get- on the plea (hat they bad pmbaMr obliged ta ting mors than eight or ten feet stolen because they Easy-Goin- g sr P0'1 d s. OOD NOTIONS OF BEAUTY. Pointing Tssth, Cramping Toss and Breaking Noms Resorted To. e Rom ladles of Japan guild thoir teeth, those of ths Indies paint them red and In Guxerat they are dyed black. In Greenland the women color their fares with blue and yellow. However fresh the complexion of Muscovite may hs, ahe would think her f very ucly if ahe waa not plastered over with pa'.nt. The Chinese must have their feet w-l- alon to red hair. The Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers of It In China small, round eyo ore liked, and tho girta are ooatlaurilr plucking their eyebrows tbat they may be thin and tong. M The Turkish women dip brush lu Ihe tincture of black drug which they pass over thrfr eyebrow. It Is too visible by day, bat looks bluing by night. They ting theli nails with a roe color. An African beauty must hav small d eyes, thick lips, n largA a akin beautifully black. Au ornament for tb bom ta con- oldered by many absolutely essential to beauty. Th Peruvian women wear a noon ring; tb IhlckncM of which Is proportioned by tbo nab of -- "V.'' husbands. t no-an- aa diminutive es those of a goat, and to render them thus their youth Is passed In tortures. In ancient Persia an aquiline nos waa often thought worthy of the crown, and if there waa any competition between two princea the po Quean's Exhibits Not by this criterion pi generally went ! Bomg.of tho wolor rotors of majesty. , of Jfkg lto!y Helena toi Atone .AV by Queen fa wim countries d Mill bo sent to m exhibition at Venice .Jr break the noses of two under an assumed name, so her males " In other pres th A Th ty wishes to keep her IdentltB to board that It my MOIL nuulwa lrrsltji kro . - r , 1 - I ... f r' iS v1?.' 4 |