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Show 4' TnE MOirx'ixtf ESLUIIXEEXIONTvaT OCTOTTITS MOR.VTXfi, 1ft, 1001. 4 d I FACTS AND FUN FOR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN wh;t Is siid to be the smallest full grown dale the iny in ntnl world, a creature only thirty-tw- o He ia not threerquarter inches so tall as some large dogs are. Ills name is Vulcan. The picture shows Vulcan out for a canter, with his groom holding his halier. An Ainrrl',uii indy, Mrs. Drown Fatter, an actress who now lives in Eng-laiihas also taken up this amusement of pony fanning and finds as much pleasure with her tiny Shetlands as ir Kin-dun- t!. lough the 1 i llie niuuth of e. .I' l ,f,, wh.-i- w ays to H A COMPOSITION CHILD PUZZLE. to the ! ,! : ground. No : i oiher animal m v i .. this work. .a,- - .iiiuicua, i) stiiing for thci'- v. A Shetland i y .. y n ard high could easily cr.i: i ., i ,n upon iia back if the man com ,.u, e to put j I his feet. L nlil. t'.iugs, the smaller a aheltie is v valuable it is. , a ony f.irm in Ur. K. liardli.g Kent county, E. . .. j., u.e picture ace Air. Iti; , img in a liny you -- 'I " ni'H.iM me uf carriage to wh'.h i his pets that h. inches high. It looks o tj K..p 4 gray haired nian in a child's j... y ..., r, y,-- t the lit whose iu see here can take ila master drive of thirty mile. A good b , . .... .an travel ala nnlri an hour. ! .i lv l.oi.uhguw often drives aoiue of i - t. v kiirltiea and It In a :y sight to see them trotting n r i..l; smooth road with their wUlr.. A'l have not , n Shetland pony OUT FOR A THIRTY NILE DRIVE. farming in Ann Uytie some of you will like to lu- - ij up a business . she were still a rtiild. In Scotland Lady when you are old.--Linlithgow also has a pony farm. But these tiny horses are also reared The Ckloess doss Mower. for more serious business than being The good luck" flower of the Chinese the pets of ladies and children. In the la a narcissus, ana m,y boy or girl in coal mines of England and Scotland this country can grow them to perfecare made to haul the they coal out tion lu a bowl with enough small stones or shingle to Veep tlie bulbs In place mixed with a little charcoal and kept moist with tepid water. The are clever enough to know exactly when the flirt bud will open, and they plant' their Joes flowers accordingly, for they Imagine that their luck for the yeaf depends upon the blossom being expanded on the first day of It. Rut in our more variable climate this is not so easy to insure. However, this bulb la of rapid growth and w ill bloom in seven or eight weeks from the time It la put in. Fur three weeks the bowl must be kept In the dark, but as soon as the points of growth show ths boat place for the bowl la a sunny window. Ns gas should be lighted when the bulbs are growing. SHETLAND PONIES, THE SMALLEST OF HORSES By ALBERTA PLATT ro.ncil Uhe climbed upon my willing kneo Anil auftly vhiqN-ni- i solo "1 love you." ag . tier dainty arms were round my neck; Her sunny curls were in my fata. And in her tender eyes 1 saw The wul of hmuous and - . pus i And like a sunbeam gilding through The elnuds that bide the skies ef biu Iter smile feund amwes to my bawt And bade the shadows all depart. d, many Tra men who are learned have been about what makes the pony ao much smallSome declare horses. other er Uat the h rses first taken to the Shet- FOR YULCAN'S MORNING RUN, never a stable of any kind. Winter and summer. It must stay out upon the bleak hillsides. Even the little foals have no shelter, but must trot beside their mothers outdoors in the wintry blasts that sweep directly down from the north pole. This exposure to cold and atom la aupposed to stunt them somewhat ao they will not grow tall and large. The cold snakes their coats like wooL You have noticed how baggy theaa often are. Shetland ponies, lu their native tales and In Scotland, are called sheitles. Moat of those you see In this country are imported, but Shetland pony farms are frequently seen in England and Scotland. Rich ladles rear the little creatures for their own pleasure. Two titled ladles, slaters Lady Dorothea and Lady Eatella Hope have a farm not far from London, and there they live and rear theae tnimala. They own 1 fra MBS. BEOWN POTTEE s FEEDDTG HEE 8HELTIES. while It wee quite dark one dreary cold mernhig. "It must be dreadful to have te go about in the dark for tlx months." That Is the idee most children have of tha frigid sours. But it to not correct. In tho first place, there are not mure than three months of actual darkness, for the lorifc twilight helps to sliurtea the night at both ends ot ths season. Then, loo, during the time when the sun never comes above the horisou ur clone enough to it to make twilight or dawn, there to bright muon-lig- ht part of each month and auch brilThe principal figures end objects In the drawing have become misplaced. liant displays of the aurora borealis T Can yon cut them out and paste them la their proper poel Ilona that It Is far from "pitch dark," as on of tliie wonderful production to said te me." she mid, "doesnt a haras use two might suppose. have been In the poaaeaaiun ef the eldef hie legs for hands 7 An llloatratsd Proverb. est child of tha family to which the "Why, no, mamma answered. "A me we do." need horse doesnt hands manufacturer belongs. "But. mamma," the little girl persistSharp Eyes Weeded. ed. "I dont see what he dues when hie The drawing ahows oue of the big nose Itches." liners that cross the ocean and carry hundreds of passengers and many tune Knew When Ho Hod Kaeagh. The visitor was showing IllUa Oswald tha book af fairy tales. "But wouldnt you like to have been the two headed giant T" aaked the visitor. "lie had lota of fun. "No. Indeed," responded Oswald. how be must have suffered "Think of merchandise to foreign lands. Tha A Wooderfwl dspasese Racket, artist has taken great pains te make when hie mamma boxed hia ears!" A manufacturer of fireworks In Nathe growing correct except In a few Riddles to Read. gasaki, Japan, makes a most remarkpoints. Try te find out what they are. able rocket, from which when it exWhat to the difference between n plodes In the air there flies a large bird Roth and the Horae. dirty page boy and n barn door henf Little Ruth waa looking out of tha One to a foul domestic and the other n resembling a homing bird in its movements. For over 4M years the secret window at the bakers burst. "Mam- - donioetle fowL v WhstloltT - adoption of the latest safely devices, thsn all others It Is that both races NEAR AND FAR. such as headlights, gongs and air and national types uf .culture have their Germs of disease lodge In our shoes sides. That to a good showing for a brakes. day, grow old and die. lnd sre thus carried Into homes, where city with a population of leu than An Egyptian wig in the British muIn some parts of t'cnlral apd gouth 2,000,000. seum contains no fewer than 100 little Africa a single firefly gives so much they are turned loose to create havoc. Reduction of letter postage between By a new proceu milk .can almost braided pigtails light that it illuminates a whole room. the United States and Europe from 5 instantaneously be reduced from its It to estimated that the annua! yield The British residents ralrh them Jn orto I rents, It la expected, will be put ordinary liquid state to a dry powder. of the new gold field at lwatl, Japan, der to find the matchbox or lamp. Into effect early next year. The machine that does it waa made In will be 115,000,000. Tha poatofltce deiwrtmqpt has orderIn Tokyo every one bathea and has a Paris. A learned professor writes: "It to a ed an increase In pay of nearly Z2.000 The railway commission of Massa- colossal assumption that what we call rural free delivery mail carriers. good scrubbing every day. From 100,000 to 1,090,000 persons go to the public chusetts has published statistics showA Scotchman who had aniusaed a civilisation la the end of man or the baths of ths capital dally, and there are ing a rapid decrease In the number of best thing in the world. If history has large fortune left a sum the interest of tan iff thousands of private baths be surface street car accidents sine the any lesson larger and poors Impressivs which waa te be divided yeaily among THE OUTLAWS OP MANCHURIA Brigands Who Terrorise tho Country But Have tho People on Their Side. Mongolia and Manchuria have always tfen the happy hunting ground and retags fur outlaws and brigands. Tho mountains form a safe refuge, and tho rar fertile plains make the country rich and worth looting. An In tha mid-d- e ages In Europe, ao also In China, outlaws flert from justice to tho moun-lu- e. and banding gradually taune a power in together, the land. To make themselves more feared these outlaws grew beards and dyed them. red. Hence, uey are known' to the Chinese aa Huang Houtxee, or "Red beards," of vhlrh former name Chuarhtues" la a In North China It la a eruption. Jjommon custom to frighten children jjto obedience by laying "the Huang Moutzs is coming" as wa at homo talk the bogy man. . A , GREAT BANDS OF BRIGANDS. Ike Huang Houtxee are not a trbe, enormous secret society or band JJ1 brigands, and used to be solely recruited from outlaws and others fleeing Justice. Since 1900, however, on the Boxer rlelng took place, they we been Joined by thoumnde of Box-er- ieome because they dared not re-I- n In their homes, having taken advantage of tha rising to loot all tha rich men of the village; others nce having texted the Joys of Rwleea life, they could not go back o settled occupation The Russian of Manchuria also added large-- v to their number' The Inhabitants J Manchuria were . moqtly armed and Into a kind of village militia Protection against these very The Russians looking, perhaps rifnlly. on all Chlneae aa their enemies, warmed large numbers of the Man-- u and, in return did not give them jriiuate, if any, police protection. the wretched Mancha farm-ar- e, by Russian command- and exaction and defenseless Htlnrt the brigands, were wholly ruin--u. Md. having nothing left to do, took brigandage themselves, with the 1 the Huni Houtxeq have In flv yaara trebled In number - time there must be l.i ?rpMntvery I tbO.OOO of them scattered over junrtiuria. The Ideas of the outlaws nndergone considerable change, tw are now a largo and powerful n to "ach other mainly by hatred of Use Russian and their ""Uni for revenge. Nearly all have . real or imaginary wrong to One may have had his farm toother hia women folk out-J- X third, baa been perhaps fourth has bad looted. Other lost their all u of Mukden, d,yu a Russian tck General because the Mendarln caused a Cossack (who oT outrage) to be wujSJJJ11 Itt be-ue- e, rd brl-M- nd ly, ha.f-niin- , re-5.- ao-iv- "j bt: or-w?- ,7 THEIR ORGANIZATION. Ita this ot Mukden To .mta powerful 71 chief of the caught by the Mu. 7?1 il nnfTtunately tor them, sjJJjrato escaperthe day before his ka taken place, and ilnM 1h name a terror In Una The organisation of these fctohTi" Chunchusea la simply wonderfuL Each band consists ot one chief, with a number of nflnor chiefs under him who are always with him, form hia bodyguard, and are the nucleus iff the band. Each ot these minor chiefs, who number about fifty to each detachment, to fallowed by some ten to twenty brigands, all picked men. In this way the gang with each chief numbers from 1,000 to 1,200 men. Then, the relations of these men, their friends and others; living In the villages near headquarters and In ths neighborhood, are all on the books of the secret society. In the ent of a large raid, or an attack on the Russians, or on another gang being contemplated by the chief, theae ontaide men are called In, and tha original band easily swells in a day or two to 5,000 or 6,000 men. Every head chief employs a staff of one or more clerk These men keep the rolls of the band and the account books. Every mans name to entered, with the pay he receive and all details connected with him. All moneys received and loots taken are also carefully entered up, and the whole concern to run on strictly business line Every man la paid a certain fixed share, and baa a portion of loot according to the work lie doe These present at headquarters get actually their food, etc.. the other In the outlying villRoe; age forage for themselve TAXES AND TOLLS, All the villages, and even some of the towns round about, pay taxes to the chief of a band resident in the district, and very heavy taxes, too. These are all regularly collected and entered in the books of the bond. Each village to taxed according to the. wealth of It inhabitant and in return for these taxes the band protects them from other molestation No member of the band robs or raids any of the villages which pay taxes to its chief, and in case of any other body of Huang Houties attempting to do so the band to whom they pay taxes sends a body ot men down to A small guard drive off the Invader of from four to twenty men is also stationed In each village. Very often the town (or the mandarin In charge) pay heavy taxes or bribes to this local band so aa to ba loft In peace. In order, to secure protection, caravans passing through the district generally pay toll, and sometimes met chants hire a party of the brigands to go with ths caravan to its Journeys end, as a guard. So that one way or another a chiefs coffers are usually kept In a flourishing stale. I have myself seen a, large caravan of three cart laden with merchandise, fur and silver (a very valuable caravan, Indeed) With it were four Chinese merchant their families and servant chuThey were emigrating from Man rl and had hired no fewer than thirty Hoang Houtxes to act aa a guard, and sea them salfely through This was actually twenty miles inside casta the Great Wall, a fact whichadmin-lstradon a lurid light on tha present of China. Here, within the barrier of the Great Wall, were Chin merchants traveling who had to hire brigands to protect their property! The reason ia not far to seek. ih Thera is no police force worthy the name; ths "Yomen runners,! or armed retainers of the various Mandarins (magistrates), are very little use, and aa bad ae the brigands themselves; In fact, as likely to loot the whole caravan and arrest the merchant as to protect them. Another great source of income to the Huang Houtsea ia to abduct a rich merchant and to hold him to ransom. I know of a caae when, within five miles of a Magistrates Yamen (official residence), i band of brigands tatrrod a small town and .abducted two merchant Within three days the husoms, was paid and the men released. SPLENDIDLY ARMED AND WELL 50,-00- MOUNTED. The Huang Houtsea are splendidly armed. The majority have Mauser and Munlicher rifles; a few have big All are armed with bore Winchester revolver a few of the leaders have service Webley revolvers, but the majority have cheap Dutcbmade Webley reRussian pistols and few pin-fi- re volvers are also to he seen In their possession. A good many have ordinary heavy curved Chinees swords as well Ammunition seems to be absolutely Inexhaustible, and Is of good European make, as are the rifles. Every kind and and sort of cartridge Is to be seen, many of smokeless small powder. They have started factoriiw, and make their own ammunition as well, but it is very inferior, and black powder ia ued. Where all the arms come from is a mystery. There must still he an enormous trade In rifle pistole, etc. Thousands of rifles were brought from runaway Chinese soldiers In the China-Japa- n War, when the Chinese soldier not having been paid, deserted and ran away, and aofd their rifles to enable them to get hmae. In 1900 the arsenals In Tien Tsin, Poatlnafon, etc., were looted, and arms were distributed gratis by the officials, but even this would not account for the enormous number of rifles going about, nor for their cheapness, one pound being the average price paid for a really good all the Huang Mauser. Nearly Houtsea are mounted on good strong Chines ponies, and although the men are, as a rule very tall, broad, big Chinamen, they ride fairly light, as they carry nothing with them exenpt a long fur coat in winter, which they wear, and a quilt folded over their The ponies are never peaked saddle groomed, and are exceedingly dirty, but extremely strong and hardy, and as long aa they are fed are quite up to day. thirty mile a PIRACY. The Huang Houtzea do sot confine themselves to simple brigandage, "but go In for piracy aa well, and also raids on a large scale. They either merchant Junks put to sea In peaceful Joined afterword as merchants, being of members othrr coast the by along the gang, or go to sea crowded fn mall coats and capture trading Junka. From 1899 to the present year piratese have been plentiful In ihe Gulf of and on the coasts of North China. In 1901 1 happened to have business on the coast between Taken and Bhankai Kuafl. Everywhere I heard dreadful tales of pirate and when within eight of nine miles of the coast aaw traces of their handiwork --houses burnt, villages almost deserted, shut marks on walla and roof and lamentation everywhere; tales of men killed, valuables looted, and young girls aliducwd. r waa Beaching A British Po-chil- man-of-wa- i . for them, and in the early morning I saw nearly eighty large jui&s sailing along the coast and eventually comThese ing to anchor in the river. eighty junks had on board at least 4,500 if not 5.000 men. Junks draw very little wattes and the river was not possibly follow them, and ihe Chinese were powerlesa to drive them off. I heard afltrsArd that a Japan-- 1 ese gunboat raptured two of these; Junka and took 250,000 taels of silver (30,000 pounds) out of them. In 1902 the Junk trade at g waa completely stopped for nearly two month aa, owing to Huang Houtxee, hardly a Junk came down the river Liao, Finally the Russians sent a gungnat np the river, and within two days over 2.000 junka cams into Newchwang. They had all been held up by the brigands. Some couldn't toll demanded, others pay the wouldnt and a large number had remained at ilia various towns, not daring to leave for fear of being plundered altogether. CRUEL, BUT BRAVE. New-chwan- The Huang Houtxes are Chinese, and therefore by nature cruel. They are probably more cruel than the or dinary Chinese ,aa the hard life they lead is bound to make them, but ihey ari brave, and care nothing for death, though they fenr physical pain and being wounded. This ia natural enough, as having no skilled doctors or surgeon anything worse than a very light wound xtrana a slow and lingering death. They are hard fighters, and can shoot straight; and, if they really combine, the Husalsaa will have another formidable foe to reckon with, ae the following story will show: In the spring of 1901 a band of about 1,400 Huang Houtxeg broke through the Great Wall and advanced via toward the railway. The Chinese asked for help, and a company of the Fourth Punjab Infantry waa sent ten miles north of the railway. Tha Chinese informed Major Browning, who was in command, that the brigands bed taken possession of the town of ten miles farther north. Major Browning left at daygreak with eighty men, and on apg was fired on proaching from a village. He, with some men mounted on mules, commence, a a flanking attack, but men from another village In the rear began firing aa wall' Major Browning and three aeprna were killed Immediately, and Lieutenant Stirling, In command of the remainder, waa wounded. Several other men were also immediately hit, and, aa firing' waa general from all aides, a retreat waa begun. The Huang Houtxes pursued our men fur ten Mounted as they were, they mile continually got' around our email party of Infantry. Again and again the Huang Houtxee closed round, and again the men of the Fourth Punjab infantry kept them off, until they at last reached their pout and subsequent safety. Not till next day did we know that the Huang Houtxes had lost nearly 150 men, If not more. In the fight. Next dav a columff composed of 700 uf the Fuurtli Punjab infantry, 300 Japanese, and twenty Zonaroa went out, and after four hours heavy fighting, drove the Huang Houtxes out of and then only when their retest, waa threatened. The Huong Houtn-lost over 3K) men in the two days lightlLg. Thst Is quite 20 per cent of tb:lr number. If they fought when there so well at Tstttai-ylng- , the youngest, the oldest, the tallest and the shortest brides In his natlvs village. Ostriches are being successfully reared In Australia. They produce magnificent white feathers as much aa twsnty-seve- n inrhes In Isngth and fifteen Inches In width. Tha first birds wsra Imported from Africa. Tha number of vessels which passed through tho Pure canal waa I, Ml In ifOt. 1.700 in 1M2 and 1,701 In IMS. of which 2,075 In 1001, 2,105 In 1002 and 2,275 In 1901 carried the British flag. The Uernien hydrographsr Dr. Unheal i 4. s 4 . r i ; i I I . r , t i r - f 4 i 1 r ,i f - - aye that there ere not less than 20,000 bridge. The Mlnneoota to distinctive In tons of mineral matter per day added other ways Khe to the only ship afloat te the store which the ocean already that has all her cargo gear. run by elec, bolds In aulutlon. trie' poorer, and only on other merThe deepest sounding ever mede by chantmen is steered by electricity. A new landing gun has recently been eny vessel wss by the United Htstes a Introduced Into tho Austrian navy. It ship Nero while on tiie cable survey with apparatus la the product of the Hkoda works, F t I t I liimululu-Aia-nil- bor-rew- ed from tbs Albatross. Whan near Guam tha Nero got 5.200 fathom anly ixty-si- x feet less than six miles. Tha Minnesota, the largest steamship ever built In America, ia CM feet long, 7 1 to feet wide and 00 feat from keel to A Berlin that a red f physician has announced nose may be cured by the repeated application for- a few second without friction, of a- folded piece el lint moistened with ben sine. was absolutely no necessity to fight Washington, Oct. S. Major A. W. at all, wbat will they do when It Glassford of tba algnai corps has been cones to fighting the Russian whom ordered to Seattle to assume charge of they hatoT the Alaakan cable system, relieving lAeutenant-Colone- l R. A. Thom perm, METHOD OF SIGNALING. assigned la duty aa chief signal officer The dally papers continually report in the Phillpiflne mall raids and gatherings of Huang Houtsea along tha Russian I Inca of communication. The Huang Houtsea have of course no military training althongh there era many old aoldlera In their ranks, hut It la possible that they may ba slightly trained. They know the country perfectly, and If the ONeill Bro Fro Na. 232 25th SL Dealers ia first class liquors of all inhabitants do not heartily sympathise with them they, at any ratqt fear them kinds, wiaea and brandy. Ail goods de more than they do tha Russians. Their livered to an y part of city every Whlaky 7E eta to 91.75 quart. Intelligence in perfect. Every village Saturday. has ell her Huang Iloutae, or one of Wine 36 eta pr". quart, I quart fL their agents, living In It In Mukden Brandy, It quart Whlakay pr. gaL In Liao Yang, Harbin, and In every 62.21 to 65. O'NEILL BROS- - Fro Ruaetan camp, they have their iplM. 13S 'Phene the bells and smoko By day temple give them early warning of the approach of any enemys patrol; by Theaa signal ulgbt, signal light lights are wooden peg hollowed at tha top and filled with some com- position. Through n hula half way down the peg bangs fuse, or a amall When the cap there are two kind fuse la lit, or the cep struck, the composition bursa np for a aMind, , giving an Intensely bright,' round light, like magnesium fir Ihe signals are OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. passed on from village to village, and Everything hare the beet Short erdere C. fare been thoroughly worked out, one at all hour flash meaning one thing, two another, All klnda ef game and fish In acasdn. three another, and so on. London Extra fine dinnero Sunday, from Daily Graph! 12 to 2 p. n 25 Fins lunch from 11 te 4 and 6 to B New York, Oct I. 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"I am glad 1 dont live at the pole," aid a little girl who hud te gut up four-in-han- d, $gs$sV fstes a' God bless the darling little rhild , Who looked up in my face and smiled And wro'igbt into my heart a spell More sweet lhaa songs at Israel. O ssgels, llsi-- n while I pray That you will make her life as sweat As that brief moment waa to ms Whena'er 1 beard her lips repeat, "1 love yeu. . 1 fr"1, certain. At any rat In the Shetland Islands ths effort now Is to keep the pony as Even In that far small as possible. northern latitude the tiny horse has - 1 - knd islands were as large as any of their kind Just plain horses. In fact. But ths Shetland Islands, which belong though they are very far to gorth, 210 miles west of Norway, have a cold climate and a very barren soil, jltrdlr anything grows there except a jttle oats and barley and some turnips and potatoes, with scanty pasturage. So some men who are supposed to be wlae say that, having to contend against weather and having short feed, the common slued horse In the course of many centuries became smaller and smaller in the Shetlands till It was dwarfed to Its present slue, frequently less than thrsa feet high. Then, again, other men, believed to be equally learned, declare the Shetland pony always was a miniature horse that in fact, when It started it was the But nobody knows for little kind. i LOVE. To unload achoouera at tba Lake Beer bale It la tha place to get the kmgeat sal tallest, tha biggest and coldest schooner of beer In town for five cent Choicest whiskies brandies and wins and fill kinds of soft drink Finest line of cigars la town. Call In everybody as yon pan by and sample our good Comer 25th and Llaenln avenna D. W. CATTiS Proprietor. THE ITALIAN SWISS The Terms of Sale Are Positively COLONY on the Pacific coast raise tha finest grapes on the Pacific coast. Their wiaea are absolutely pure. 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