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Show & INDEPENDENT. D. C JOHStON, rbUik. SPRINQVILLE. . . . UTAH j It takes two to make a quarrel - lice to mend it. It is said the czar may abdlcata, bat to not sit up waiting for him to do so. Sometimes the man who hesitates Is just the fellow who doesn't get lost. A few croaks from Austria again remind re-mind us where in Europe we are most loved. Verily the war is over. Arrangements Arrange-ments are being made for a world's fair at Johannesburg. There is no accounting for tastes. Still, what can any one want with a lock of Bandit Tracy's hair? Texas has more floods and more politicians pol-iticians than ever before. Both heads of her barrel are out at once. London is glad the Boers captured it the way they did rather than the way they wanted to some time ago. The Sei-Yu-Kai have won by a large majority in Japan. Now who knows who or what the Sei-Yu-Kai is or are? : They are building a wire fence between be-tween the United States and Canada. Is somebody trying to fence this country coun-try in? It is surprising that some enterprising enterpris-ing Americans didn't think to secure the kinetoscope privileges for the coronation. cor-onation. The tennis cup remains on this side of the ocean. Americans have a habit of clinging to such international trophies. Wall street estimates that by the slump in Colorado Fuel the Gates faction fac-tion has lost 110,387,500 some of it real money. Little Red Riding Hood is to be put on the stage. Someone will be dramatizing dram-atizing the mouse that ran up the clock next The heiress who hasn't driven some man to suicide or jilted a prince is finding it difficult to be accepted as the real thing. It Is estimated that this year's apple ap-ple chop will be worth 134,000,000. 'That is almost enough to attract Gates' attention. i There are much older men than Fltzslmmons in the prize ring. For Instance, Senator Pettus of Alabama is 80 years of age. Now the apple growers are to form a gigantic trust. Instead of diluting their stock with water they will be expected to use cider. ; One of the Vanderbilts has disposed of his stable of racing automobiles and will renew his acquaintance with the buckboard and street car. ' It la said that Rrhwh' trouble I fnnla caused by worrying. Why .Id anyone sympathize with a man ls worth $50,000,090 and still wor- t ? Since the fall of the Campanile a number of European cities have discovered dis-covered that their architecture is sadly sad-ly In need of good American iron framework. It is reported that one of the Hay-tian Hay-tian revolutionists made a mistake the other day and almost started a fight against itself before the error was discovered. ' The valued Kansas City Journal can tolerate the Wisconsin solon who wants to regulate fish stories, but protests pro-tests against any legislative monkeying monkey-ing with the bait. A Chinese edict prohibits the officials offi-cials from filling their own pockets out of taxes taken from the people. This is a blow aimed at a well-established precedent. Rnssell Sage thinks this country has too many holidays. Mr. Sage should remember that the bulk of us. unlike himself, are blessed by nature with a capacity for taking pleasure. That bulldog of the navy, the Oregon, Ore-gon, is being outfitted to join the Asiatic squadron. It is safe to bet thaty there will be peace and quiet where this canine of the seas is kenneled. ken-neled. The sultan of Morocco had an auto-accident auto-accident yesterday; the driver lost his head and ran into a fence. Doubtless Doubt-less he lost his head permanently as soon as the sultan came to and could summon help. Another case of poetic justice. The managing editor of a New York yellow yel-low journal has been robbed in Butte. It I sot improbable that the thief learned his business from a series of Sunday articles on "Stealing Made Easy." A Chicago man who hit on the smoke plan to exterminate mosquitos succeeded. That is, the mosquitos left for eight minutes. During that time the gentleman's rose bushes burnt up, along with $100 worth of other valuable valua-ble plants and shrubs. The latest proposition is a candy trust. It is not surprising to hear that the scheme is meeting with difficulties. dif-ficulties. If the trust makers get hold of candy and millinery they will know what real trouble is, for the women will be after them, and then look out! A government expedition has found a patch of the eatable but intoxicating intoxicat-ing Mexican cactus known as "dry whiskey." and now we may expect to hear of the Kentucky colonels whooping whoop-ing it up for high protection. Australia's desire for a navy of her ewn instead of reposing under the wing of England's shows that she has reached that pugnacious age when youth longs and looks for trouble. The sultan of Turkey has decided to license fishermen. If he makes them pay acording to the stories they tell his revenue problem is solved. A Philadelphia man has won a bride by whistling ragtime tunes to her. Evidently another case of marrying mar-rying a man to reform him. Ip - o - Date I r c h IIBSbBp ill b1 t J J 1. 1 i rZZZ ) 7. tjj jT1.',. fldSSr , I .. This is one of the most compact plans published. Absolutely no waste space and at the same time neat and handy. This house having a frontage ot 23 feet may be built on a city lot. Height of first story, nine feet; second, sec-ond, eight feet six inches. Solid stone WHERE HE WAS LACKING. Railroad Man Makes Professional Criticism of Minister. Ministers, as a rule, are not at all averse to telling a good story, even at their own expense. A Baptist minister min-ister was so much amused at- a witty criticism of his own preaching as he woulo have been at a similar comment on another man's sermon. One Sunday morning a well known railway magnate came in and took a Beat in a pew. It was the first time that he had been seen at the chapel, and his presence created some little stir. The minister preached his sermon, ser-mon, and then, perhaps to make the most of his opportunity, he traveled over the same ground again in language lang-uage calculated to be more impressive. impres-sive. Thus $he discourse was spun out to unusual length. When the service ended, one of the deacons waited for the great man and expressed the hope that he had enjoyed en-joyed the sermon. "Yes, it was all right," said the visitor. vis-itor. "There's only one drawback with your minister's preaching." "What is that?' "He doesn't appear to have very good terminal facilities." Personal Acquaintance Necessary. Governor Stone tells of an eccentric resident of his county whose wife died after a long illness. They had nrt been a happy pair, perhaps; but there was some surprise when ti e widower, replying to the comment of a relative that "Poor Jane's gone at last! Well, she's better off!" roared: "Yes and so am. I!' He went to a neighboring village to engsge a favorite preacher to deliver de-liver the funexnl sermon, and was told that his selection was no longer there, but had been replaced by a younger and equally efficient clergyman. "No!" he roared. "I'll have Johnson John-son or none! He knew her, and knows just what to say! If I can't get him, I'll do the preaching myself!" Plan of house to be HAD A PERSONAL INTEREST. Good Reason Why He Wanted Red-Haired Red-Haired Man Saved. William Dean Howells has acted as the literary godfather for many young native authors who sought him out early in their careers to ask his Cood offices. One of these, at least, was not ungrateful, for when he "arrived," "ar-rived," and had reached that position where his say in literary affairs meant something, he never lost an opportunity opportun-ity to say nice things of the author of "Silas Lapham." On one occasion, the younger author made an address before a body of literary men in which he virtually asserted that everything good and great in native literature owed Its inspiration to Howells. The address was printed far and wide and commented on at length, not always In a manner complimentary to its author. Mr. Howells' attention was. naturally, called to the matter, and he wrote his protege a letter in which he involved a story of two men who, bathing at the ,seashore; were seen struggling and heard crying for help. A crowd gathered to watch the efforts P'KSj 111 s" 1 1 47 " I llv'njRm , n 4- c"- J V I y V c'os 1 f I1- ; I5J '' d'&r i in. . 3 dr a"' Jiff rKJ-3 In V Hi V SU foundation. Hall and main room of first story finished in plain oak, with polished oak floors. Rest of rooms finished in white wood enameled. The large rooms and attached closets clos-ets make it much admired by the ladies. When Jane's relatives heard this, they bestirred themselves and saved the day by bringing the Reverend Johnson on from a distant town. Both Were Handicapped. On one occasion Bishop Potter was a guest at the Storm King club of New York. After a comfortable dinner din-ner he sent a telegram to one of the officials of the New York Central railroad rail-road asking him to stop the eight express ex-press at Storm King station, on the opposite side of the river. He drove down the mountain and hired a boatman to row him across. Arriving in good time, he and the boatman waited in the rowboat until the approaching train warned them to seek the station only to g the traifi arrive, rusk by, and disappear into the darkness. I The bishop was irritated. "Well," he said, "I am a bishop of the Episcopal church and I suppose my calling will not allow me to say anything." a Methodist and my principles .will not let me say anyiiiing." Mosquito's Hum Located. The members of the Royal Society of Edinburg, reports the Detroit News-Tribune, were interested, at a recent meeting, in the announcement by A. E. Shipley and-Edwin Wilson of the iiscovery of an apparatus, heretofore hereto-fore overlooked or neglected, at the base of the mosquito's wings, whereby where-by thrt characteristic humming of that insect may be produced. The species examined was the anopheles maeuli-pennis. maeuli-pennis. and the apparatus consists of a siightly movable bar provided with a series of well-marked teeth which, as the wings are raised and lowered, rasp across a series of ridges. The structure of the apparatus is described de-scribed as very complex, but the mu-fic mu-fic produced, as everybody knows, is extremely effective. built at cost cf $1,500. of the life guards, who could hear above the roar of the ocean and the noise made by the Crowd a voice tel-lowing: tel-lowing: " Save the red haired mati! Save him first! The red haired man-, sure!" Both men were saved and the guards, going after the excitable fellow fel-low on the beach in the hope of a gratuity, asked: 1 ' Red haired chap relation o' yems, sir?" "No no relative at all," he replied, "but he "owes me nineteen dollars." JOKE WASTED ON ENGLISHMAN. Utterly Unable to Understand American Ameri-can Sarcasm. Singer, the sewing machine manufacturer, manu-facturer, owned a beautiful country place in the south cf Erg2and that was regarded as ore of the sights' ot the neighborhood by travelers. He was so annoyed by miscellaneous visitors, however, that he gave orders to all his ground keepers that none but bis personal friends should be permitted to wander about the estate. Singer, himself 'orping encount- i t e a f u r e Furnace heat and modern plumbing. In fact, this house is modern in every detail. Cost, outside of heat and plumbing, $1,500. John L. Nichols of Bloomington, Ind., is the architect. BEGGAR'S NEAT COMPLIMENT. Certainly Worth the Small Contribution Contribu-tion Taken Up. Speaking of beggars the other day, Judge Lee of Trenton told a story which is clever enough to bear repetition. repe-tition. On the night when the late Gen. Sewell was chosen by the Republican Repub-lican caucus as candidate for the senate Judge Lee and two other political po-litical friends were standing on a street corner, after the convention, discussing the nomination. While they talked a ragged and rusty specimen speci-men of humanity approach1' and, with a courteous sweep of ACJ.at-tered ACJ.at-tered hat and a bow that wo5;. ave done credit to a count, au sed Judse Lee. 'A" Said he' "r trust wiU paf mo for intnfdfngT Vatiy moiPt straightened circumstancey,iIn I would like to solicit your assistance in my distress. I have a small amount of money, sir, but not sufficient for my purpose. I wish to get to Njewark to see my daughter, whom I have not beer with for many years. You are a father, perhaps, and you can doubt less realize the heart hunger of a man ? m my position. Might I ask you in some way to assist me?" Judge Lee was struck by the man's Ch?sterfieldian bearing and manner, and his hand sought his pocket. Turning Turn-ing to his two companions, he asked if they would care to assist the man, ana Ihey both contributel to the little fund As the tramp bowed his hanks and voiced his gratitude he turned to Jifgt Lee again. 'Sir," said he, "are you the gentleman gentle-man who was nominated to-night as a candidate for the United States senate?" sen-ate?" "No," answered the judge. "Great heavens," replied the tramp, "what a mistake the convention did make." Then he ambled along. SAFE IN FIXING DATE. Sister Took No Chances in Predicting Predict-ing Brother's Funeral. Judge Pennypacker, in a public address, ad-dress, once predicted a certain popular pop-ular movement a3 sure to occur within with-in a given time. A friend asked the judge if it were not rash to make a positive statement regarding a specific spe-cific date for any occurrence, arguing that nothing is certain. In reply, the judge told of a Celtic cook who asked he mistress one Monday for leave of absence the following Sunday to attend at-tend her brother's funeral. "Why," exclaimed the mistress, "this is only Monday! Surely, nobody's no-body's going to keep a dead body a whole week!" "He's not dead yet, mum," explained ex-plained the cook. "No? Well, he may die to-day. or he may live a month. No doctor can safely say. that, a person will die at such a time that a day may be set foi the funeral." "The doctor's nothing to do wld it, mum," was the further explanation. "Oi'm sure Sunday'll be all roight, f'r he's sintinced to be hung Friday." ered a stranger in the person of an English gentleman who had recetly taken possession of an adjoining estate, and had wandered over to take a look at the American's famous place. The uninvited visitor was in neglige, with a brown velvet smoking jacket for a coat. Singer ordered the stranger away, and, his eye catching the velvet jacket, added, pointing to the nearest gateway : "You'll find the organ and monkey outside, I guess!" The story came out through the victim's vic-tim's telling it in his London club, where half a dozen American visitors were sent into shrieks of laughter when he added: "What do you suppose the beggar could have meant by that?" An English Joke. Once a farmer had a son. and this son left home to be a bootblack. Thus the farmer makes hay whilst the son shines. London Tit-Bits. A straightont enemy is more of a friend than ' devious friend is less of an enemy. DEARTH AND BOUDOIE SOME FASHIONABLE FANCIES AND FASHION FRILLS. Early Fall Co-t That Will Soon be a Necessary Garment Some Hints on the Collar A Paris Novelty For Cool September Days. Swagger Collar. The collar is a paramount essential In early fall costumes. Of course, the stock, or throat dressing of any sort, is always an important matter in the treatment of a woman's temperament and her gowns, so the term "collar" as a perfectly new idea, applies to something some-thing recently sprung by fashion builders. This "something" in latest importations is an exorbitant, berthalike bertha-like affair cut low in the neck and worn round the shoulders. In the front it shows a relationship with revers and fichus. You can easi'7 Tea and house gowns of the showrooms show-rooms are on the most elaborate order, or-der, in all manner of handsome materials mate-rials from the heavy to the transparent transpar-ent Most of them reflect empire styles, though there are a few models tight fitting at the waist, these usually in cashmere or henrietta cloth. Moire in black, white and delicate shades is a new material for these gowns, and, whatever its shade, is beautifully trimmed. Lace, all kinds of embroid- understand that this new collar gives a chance for original voluminousness. A deep type of collar in yellow silk batiste is embroidered in black and cream silk and has insets of ecru lace edged with yellow silk. It adds distinction to a gown of tobac brown peau de soie. Another collar is of black silk mous-seline mous-seline over black taffeta. It is embroidered em-broidered in white silk and spangled with tiniest cut jet. The edges are finished with black silk lac an inch and a half wide loosely ruffled at the joining. A Paris Novelty. One of the taking Paris novelties is a flat-topped pyramid braid, either in one color or in black and white. Two or three fine silk cords outline the pyramid, and many dressmakers in Paris are putting the braid in double widths upon the material, thus forming squares. Another braid is a heavy, wide basket weave in brilliant bril-liant silk, and still another is a scallop scal-lop which has deep points in its upper edge and is bordered on the scallop with a cord and loop-edged braid. This comes in fourteen styles and colors, and in sizes varying from one-fourth of an inch to an inch. Scytne braid in five sizes, with corded effects, is another an-other popular braid for fall, and button but-ton effects in braids, together with all the flat braids of irregular and pointed point-ed outlines promise to hold their own the coming season. For Cool September Days. Miss matched effects are not very popular this season with 'wo notable exceptions. One is the covert ccat, to be worn with skirts of dark blue or black mohair or serge, and the other !s the skirt of shepard's checked cheviot to be worn with close fitting body coats of dark blue or black matching the check. In this costume the coloring is black and white, the material being brai 1 in radiating tucks, each of which shows a tiny piping pip-ing of black cloth, and is stitcned with black Corticelli silk to within about twelve inches of the edge, where it is freed to give the flare. The little close fitting Eton coat is made of the black cloth and shows the favorite velvet faced coat collar. The mm -2 rocf- '.r-.--i..-'-r4 --Yvi Hi pei ' TY., revers are faced with white moire, and ornamented wit. a sint,i9 row of fancy braid. Quite Inforrral. A new social fad for the fall season is the "afternoon surprise." One member of a certain set makes it her business to know when a certain other member will be at home on tn afternoon. Then arrangements are made for the "surprise." This surprise sur-prise Is made up from six to twelve women, all friends of the prospective surprised hostess, a tea given by the guests, and a gift to the lady of the aouse by those who entertain her and - -t i fill 4 mm ! i themselves on her premises. Little "surprises" of any jolly social sort may be introduced as "varieties." Virtues in Sorrel. A bed of sorrel is the inevitable feature fea-ture of a Frenchwoman's kitchen garden, gar-den, for the plant Is used in France much as spinach is used here. French sorrel, unlike sheep sorrel, common here, has a large leaf, but the same acid quality. Sorre! soup, made after the manner of a French cook, is sure to be pronounced good. Wash and break the leaves and cook them slowly in butter without browning until most of the water has been drawn out. Then chop potatoes fine, season them with salt and pepper, add sufficient water, and turn the mixture into the kettle with the sorrel. Cook until the potatoes pota-toes are done and serve. An Early Fall Coat. The Directoire Eton front, arranged arrang-ed to be worn open or closed as the exigencies of Dame Fashion and our equally capricious climate demand. Is ery, cording, braid, rose ruchings, chiffon, mousseline de soie and Insertions Inser-tions appear among the trimmings. Ribbon also enters largely into their make-up, and some are alternate bands of satin ribbon and insertion, while in other gowns the ribbon is velvet. Three different shades of chiffon are used for some tea gowns. Thus a foundation is white, a middle chiffon is delicate green and the outside one is rose pink. Fluffy ruffles trim the bottom of such a dress very prettily. a special feature of many of the coats of the season, whether long or short. This natty little coat is an exceptionally exception-ally happv examule of this design. It Is made of satin finished clotb ot a brilliant dark blue color, all the edges being finished with a strap of tan broadcloth, stitched with Corticelli spool silk in self olor. The coat collar col-lar is bordered by a similar strap, but the facing of revers is of white moire antique. The buttons are very handsome hand-some examples of baroque. Importance-of Linen Chests. The linen chest is or.ee more assuming assum-ing importance in American homes. Housewives have always had their household linen, but the linen chest as an institution means more than that. In Europe it has always kept its prestige, but in modern days the linen of the American bride has been bought in wholesale fashion at the same time with the trousseau. Perhaps Per-haps it has been because the modern girl is less prone than her great-grandmother great-grandmother was to consider matri mony and a home of her own as the great essential things toward which all girl life moves. It may be that the linen chest was elbowed aside with many other traditions, tradi-tions, in the emancipation of the youDg woman, and that higher education educa-tion rooted out the old-time feminine taste for hoarding fine linen against a day of home-making. If all that is true, then the tew ad for linen chests may be a harbinger of a welcome reaction. The day of a golden feminine femi-nine mean may be at band. Fashionable Frills. . Many novel effects are shown in white linen braids. White mousseline is banishing tht green veil from the smart hat. In fall suitings Is a sleek and silky shot stuff with a nap like velvet. The size of the season's hat renders a parasol a mere accessory of dress. An imported gown distinctly presages pre-sages the return of short gown and petticoat. Pique is less modish than linens and crashes. The lace and embroidery vogue makes a yoke almost a necessity of the modish gown. Useful Hints. Hot cloths wrung out of a decoction of lobelia are good for neuralgia. Half a teaspoonful of mustard mixed with the water poured over beans in the baking gives a fine flavor and make beans more easily digested. The mica in stoves can be made clear by washing with vinegar slightly slight-ly diluted. If the black does not come off immediately, allow the mfea to remain re-main in the vineear a short time. -.-s. ( - The Chase of Tracy. The posse came down like the wolf on the fold. With rifles and pistols and shotguns untold. un-told. And the roll of their musketry rattled around. Like the roll of the surf on the shores of the Sound. Like police on the street when the town Is serene. That death-dealing posse at sunset was seen; Like police on the street at a general fight. That posse at dawn had departed from sight. For the convict came forth from the brush with his gun. And the posse decided it safer to run. And there rode a Sheriff direct to the rear. With a bullet uncomfortably close to his ear; And there went a Deputy back into town. With a sturdy distaste for reward or renown. re-nown. And the sound of his panting was heard through the glade. Like an engine ascending a five per cent ' grade. And the convict departed, unmarked and alone. His movements unquestioned, his doings unknown. The bloodhounds are plaintively loud in their wail. For they never get half of a chance at the trail. And the convict continues at pleasure to roam. While the posse sings softly: "There's no place like home." Portland Oregonian. Mystery of Lost Sounds. An English scientist noticing the mysterious way in which sounds sometimes some-times are lost in space recently undertook under-took an interesting experiment in a balloon. He found that while still within talking distance of earth all sound of the human voice was quenched in the mere indistinguishable indistinguisha-ble hum of the human , hive. Equally lost was the striking of clocks and ringing of bells, but a dog's bark rang out clearly. So, also, the bellow of a tow far out in some field, would penetrate pene-trate above the babel of a busy town, while the screeching of railway whistles whis-tles pierced the sky up to three miles and, gathered in from vast areas, often oft-en reached an intensity positively painful. The strangest of all acoustic phenomena is the unaccountable silence si-lence which sometimes ensues when sound is to be expected. In many cases it has been proved that, speaking speak-ing literally, the lost sounds issuing from a point on a seacoast were not extinguished, for they were heard distinctly farther out at sea. Heavy salutes unheard by people within twenty or thirty miles have been plainly audible at a much greater distance, dis-tance, and this apparently not in a direction di-rection favored by the wind. The scientist who conducted the balloon experiment offers the theory that conditions con-ditions of the aerial currents rather than the direction of the wind are responsible re-sponsible for these phenomena. Steers Interrupt Court. The aldermanic court of Altoona, Pa., while -in session the other day was unceremoniously interrupted by two steers that had been fighting in the street. The alderman was trying a case of assault and battery. Each side had lawyers, and things were lively when two steers came through the front door. They had been trying to horn each other in the street, and one, finding it was getting the worst of the fight, turned and made for the office door as the nearest place of refuge. The entrance of the steers broke up the trial, the alderman, alder-man, lawyers, principals and witnesses wit-nesses leaving the office by the nearest near-est means of egress. In a moment or two the steers were in possession of the office, but the vanquished one kept on through the room, going out the back door into the lot in the rear. The other turned and went back to the street. After the animals left the trial was resumed. Movements In the Rockies. "The mountains are constantly moving," mov-ing," was the remark of an officer of the Denver and Rio Grande Road recently re-cently in speaking of the great landslides land-slides in the canyon above Glenwood Springs, Colo. "We find from actual experience in maintaining tunnels, bridges and tracks in the mountains that the mountains are moving. It costs a railway passing through the mountains a great deal of money in the course of ten years to keep the tracks in line, and maintenance of tunnels is even more expensive. Drive a stake on the side of a mountain, take' the location with the greatest care, and return after a few months. The stake is not in the same location. The whole side of the mountain has moved. This experiment has often been tried and in all cases the result proves that the mountains are moving. mov-ing. The mountains are gradually seeking the level of the sea." Hypnotized Fish. M. J. King, a retired farmer of Char-don, Char-don, Ohio, is firm in the belief that fish reason, and can also be hyno-tized. hyno-tized. Five years ago Mr. King built a pond near his home and stocked it with mountain trout from a government govern-ment hatchery. The fish thrived and developed remarkable growth. There are over 1,000 trout in the pond now, some of them weighing two and a half pounds. Mr. King exercises a wonderful influence in-fluence over some of the fish. He can reach down and take some out of the water, pat others on the back, while hundreds of them will eat out of his hand. One large trout he claims to be able to hypnotize. When he takes it from the water, after a series of strokes on Its sides with the hand, the fish appears ap-pears to be dead, not a movement of its gills being visible. Another trout will, before beiig fed, at a wave of the hand make a circuit of the pool, jumping clear out of the water at intervals of five or six feet, and sometimes turning a somersault in its career. Bloodhounds for Hire. Chasing criminals with bloodhounds will be a business for the profit of a corporation. So many captures of criminals crim-inals have been effected by these keen-nosed keen-nosed animals that what was at first looked upon with mingled feelings of sport and curiosity is now studied with a commercial eye. A stock company is being organized with J. D. McBride, sheriff of Cass county, Neb., residing at Plattsmouth. at the head, to own and hire out bloodhounds. These will be sent to any point in this state where their preponce may be desired in locating c.eninals. The state penitentiary has a pack of hounds, kept to chase escaping con victs. Chief Detective James Malone J of Lincoln also has a pair which have been used with success. Dr. Fulton of Beatrice also has a pair which frequently fre-quently have been borrowed. Xjw York Journal. Lads Capture Big Eagle. Douglass Dunn and his brother," small boys of Merchantsville, N. J., went to the Delaware for a"stroll yes-terday, yes-terday, and while walking along the bank saw a huge bird struggling in the current. Douglass stripped and swam for the bird. When he reached It he was amazed to' find it bigger than he had supposed and full of fight. He bravely attacked it, however, and managed to tug it ashore. As soon as they were out of the water the bird renewed the battle with fresh vigor and gave the lad a fierce fight, but as the bird had one wing broken the boy succeeded in mastering it before his brother came up. They tied its legs and head and lugged their prize home, where they learned that it was a gray eagle. It measured nearly five feel from tip to tip. It had been shot and crippled by a gunner. Used Sparrows for Food. The inhabitants of the Square ol Vaugirard, Paris, noticed for soma time past a young man who was evidently evi-dently in the last state of poverty, but who shared his meal of bread each day with the sparrows. After soma time the birds got to know him, and descended in flocks the moment ha appeared. The residents in the square took great Interest in the proceedings, which they regarded as a touching evidence of humanity under a ragged shirt. Unfortunately for the young man, one more curious than the rest watched him closely, and observed that when the sparrows came to feed out of his hand they were transferred to his pockets. When arrested the young man said that he cooked and ate the sparrows because of his inability in-ability of getting food otherwise. Odd Place for Serpent. In Alsace recently a four-year-old child, the daughter of a workingman, became very ill one day, but speedily recovered, and for some days afterward after-ward dismayed her parents by eating a good deal more than a child of that age is wont to eat. Instead, however, of growing fatter, the girl grew thinner, and doctors, who were summoned to attend her, were unable to explain why the food did her no good. Finally the riddle was solved, for a serpent about twenty inches in length issued one morning from the child's mouth. The serpent was killed and sent to the University of Strasburg, and since then the little one has enjoyed excellent ex-cellent health. It is supposed that the child swallowed the serpent while drinking some impure water. Musical Snails. A German scientist recently pointed out that snails were able to draw immense im-mense weights, and now a French naturalist claims that there are few, if any, animals which have a higher appreciation of music than snails. Place some snails on a pain of glass, he says, and you will find that, as they move over it they will make musical mu-sical sounds similar to those which a person can produce by wetting his finger and then rubbing it "around a glass tumbler. Complete airs, he points out, have been played on tumblers tum-blers in this way, and he expressed the opinion that quite as good results can be obtained by using snails instead in-stead of fingers. As Greedy as a Cormorant. With respect to the war bsing waged against cormorants in Scotland a correspondent writes to "The Scotsman": Scots-man": "When a hoy I had tame gulls and other birds, and among the rest a cormorant, and I can assure your readers that its eating powers were fabulous. No one would believe what a quantity of fish tnat bird consumed unless they saw it; and if you multiply that by thousands, you can form an idea what a destruction takes place among the young and immature fish round our shores. It is painful to destroy de-stroy birds, but we should protect the harvest of the sea as well as the land." Prisoner Asks for Death Sentence. Convicted by a jury in the Norfolk county court, Va., of murdering his wife, William Treadwell will not sanction sanc-tion the application of his counsel tor a new trial. He declares that he purchased pur-chased the pistol with which he killed kill-ed his wife with the Intention of killing kill-ing himself as well. He desires that no new trial be requested and that sentence upon him be executed as soon as possible. The man appears to hare no desire to live. The case is one of the strangest ever tried in a Virginia court. After shooting his wife the man turned the pistol upon himself and was weeks recovering from the wound. Dog Takes Care of Fox Cubs. An interesting family is being exhibited ex-hibited by James Wrilson of Town-send, Town-send, Del. It is composed of a motherly moth-erly dog and three half-grown fox cubs. The mother fox had been traced to her den and killed when the cubs were found, their eyes not yet open. The dog was just then raising a family, fam-ily, and the little foxes were . taken home and given to her. The dog welcomed wel-comed the little orphans and is raising them as her own. Strange Meeting of Relatives. Charles Gardner, who was kidnaped 10 years ago at the age of 12 from his home near Quincy, 111., by two tramps, met his father at Wichita, Kan., a few days ago by accident. Recently Gardner's Gard-ner's parents moved to Andover, Kan. Father and sen met at the postofflce, and recognized each other. Young Gardner says that the tramps took him to Fort Worth, Tex., where he was compelled to beg, and he finally escaped. Rooster Mothers Chicks. A Hallowell, Me., rooster' is mothering mother-ing a flock of little chickens. Incidental Inci-dental to this story comes the news of a tragedy of previous occurrence, when the mother hen met death beneath be-neath the wheels of an electric car. The head of the flock cares for the little chickens with apparently a full realization of the duties incumbent upon him. Dies from Eating Matches. William Miller, aged 63 years, ex-sheriff ex-sheriff of Scotland county, Missouri, and a veteran of the civil war, died from the effects of eating matches, a habit he contracted while serving in the army. He thought that the phosphorus phos-phorus was a stimulant.' |