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Show Y J ' CLAIM THAT BRIDE WAS HYPNOTIZED. M f Tracy. Th Chat The posae oma down Ilk Iht wolf on th fold, With rifle am) pistols add bolun ira- - I told, And th roll of lh.-l- r musketry rattled , around, Uks ih roll of the ot th Sound. 'l urt oa thf thoret " polio on th street when th town at ren. That death-deallpoaa at sunset wna Lilt I tdk aecn, pnlto fight. That pose to hypnotize. When he takes it from the water, after a series of strokes m. its sides with the hand,' the fish appears to be dead, not a movement of its gills being visible. Another trput will, before being fed, m. 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 Us career. at atrset at a general on th Bloodhounds for Hire. Chasing criminals with bloodhounds wilt he a business for the profit of a for tbo ronvtet mmo forth from th corporation. So many captures of crimbruah nrtth hi gun, ' inals have been effected by these keenAnd th poaa decided It aafer to run. nosed animals that what was at first And ther rod a Sheriff direct to th looked upon with mingled feelings of rear, With a bullet. uncomfortably clo to hlf sport and curiosity Is now studied with a commercial eye. oor.. . back Into went a And th-- r A stock company being organized town, with J. I). M Bride, sheriff of Cass With a aturdy for reward or re county, Neb., residing aPlattsmouth, nown. heard at the head, to own and hire out And the aound of hi panting w through the glade, bloodhounds. These will be sent tq 1.1k an. englna aacendtng a five per cent any point tn this state where their grad. And th convict departed, unmarked and presence may be desired in locating criminals. alone, ' Ilia movements unquestioned, hi doing The state penitentiary has a pack unknown, of hounds, kept to chase escaping coTh bloodhound ar plaintively loud In nvict. Chief Detective James Malone their wal. of Lincoln also has a pair which have for they never get half of a chanct at been used with success. Dr. Fulton th trail, of T3at rice also has a pair which freAad in bonnet continue nt pleaaur to roam. quently have been borrowed, New While the poaa sing softly I 'There York Journal. at of the use of hypnotism in conducting this mysterious courtship; power wielded by a garewd man to win a beautiful bride, the subsequent guidance of the elf by a continued practice of this magic influence, form the basis of g mo! romantic story that la claimed to have just been enacted In real life. Such is the theory held by the friends of Miss Maud Bhocfeidt of Omaha, who recently married Philip Deremus Watkins, formerly of Boston Of Its possibility the reader must himself judge. The story as It coiaes from the West, is as follows; A punmaa co&cir attached tog trda bound westward from Omaha fur r is bed the first scene of this strange HE possibility dawn had departed from -- tx-put- 1 dltt , " -- . - ' " no place Ilk I Mystery of Lost Sound. ' Aa English gclentlat noticing the mysterious tray In which aounds some- time are lost in space recently under took an Intereating experiment In n balloon, 'He found that while atlll ' within talking distance of earth ail aound of the human -- voice wa quenched In the mere Indistinguisha-ti-e bum of the human hive. Equally loat waa the striking of clocks and ringing of bells, but a dog'a bark rang out clearly, - So, also, the bellow of a cow far out In some field, would penetrate above the babel of n busy town, while the screeching of railway whittles pierced the aky tip to three miles and, gathered In from vast area, often. reached an Intensity positively painful. The strangest of all acoustic phenomena ia the unaccountable silence which sometimes ensues when sound la to he expected. In many cases it has been proved that, speak-tuliterally, the lost sounds issuing from n point on s seacoast were not extinguished, for they were heard distinctly farther out at sea. Heavy kaJutoA buheard by people wlMu twenty or thirty miles have been plainly audible at a much greater .distance, and this apparently not in a directum favored by the wind. The balloon scientist who conducted-thexperiment offers the theory that conditions of the aerial currents rather than the direction of the wind are responsible for these phenomena x g e Steers Interrupt Court. , The aldermantc court of Altoona, Ja., while in session the other day waa unceremoniously Interrupted by two steer that had been lighting In the street The alderman waa 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 born each other in the street, and one, finding It was getting the worst of the light, turned and made for the office door as. the nearest place of refuge. The entrance of the steers broke up the trial, the alder-- . -- :;.msn.lawyers..Pj!rijoc(palsnd;wiJ: nesses teavtng the officer by the near cut means of egress. In a moment or two the steers were tn possession ot 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 west back to the street. After the animals left the trial was resumed. . 1 Movements In the Rocklea "The mountain are constantly moving," was the remark of an officer of the Denver and Rio Grande Road recently la speaking ot the great landslides in the canyon above Glenwood Springs, Colo.We find from actual experience ia maintaining tunnels, bridges and track In the mountain that the mountain are moving. It coats a railway passing through the mountain a great deal of money In th course ot ten years to keep the track In line, and maintenance ot tunnels is even more expensive. Drive a stake on the side of a mountain, take, the location with the greatest rare, and return after a few months The stake la not In the same location. The whole tide of the mountain has moved. This - experiment has often been tried and In all cases the result proves that the mountains Are moving. The mountains are gradually seeking the level of the tea." " . Hypnotized Flah. I M. J. Ring, a retired farmer of Char-do- Ohio, Is firm In the belief that fish reason,1 and can also be hy Five years ago Mr. King built a pond near bis home and stocked it mountain trout from a govern-rftt- t hatchery. ''The fish thrived and Ther developed remarkable growth. are over l.ooa trout In the pond now. some of them Weighing two and a half no-tire- , h pouGda. jt t Mr, King exercise a wonderful over some of the fish. He ran ' reach down and take some out ot the water, pat others on the back, while hundreds of them will cat out of his band. One large trout he claims to be able f Lads Capture Big Eagle. Douglass Dunn and hit brother, smalt boys of Merchsntsvllle, N. J., went to the Delaware for a stroll yesterday, 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 bad 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 aucceeded 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 feet from tip to tip. It had been shot and crippled by a gunner. Used Sparrows for Food. of -- the Square of Vaugtrard, Faris, noticed for some time past a young man who was evidently in the last state of poverty, but who shared hie sneap-o- f' bread 'each day with the sparrow's. After some time the birds got to know him, and The Inhabitant -- descended 'fir flock stfie-mmen- t he appeared. The residents in the square took great teturest 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 band they were transferred to his pockets. When arrested the young man said that he cooked and ate the sparrows because ot bis inability of getting food otherwise. - Odd Place for Serpent Ia Alsace recently a child, the daughter ot a workingman, became very 111 one day, but speedily four-year-ol- d glass-strew- blood-suck- Nor-man- ' r eta-min- : Philip Watkins. love story. It was during the firsts! last June. Miss Maud Shonfeldt, tk daughter of Henry Shonfeldt, one f Omahas wealthiest and most respected citizens, had started on the train with the Intention of visiting her Aster, Mrs. A. L. Ball ot Ogden, Utah The young woman, who was proal-Bein Omaha society, was a modal, well-breand extremely beautiful of the best young men in Omaha had sought her band in marriage, and In each case she had told ter father, declaring at the same tine that she was too young to think of getting married. The other principal character in tils Fullman coach, so far as the story Is concerned, was Philip Doremua Vitkins. He is tall, standing two lncks over tlx feet in height ; has an athMe face, way figure, a smooth-shaveblonde balr, dresses exquisitely jad combines a distinguished appearance t. With the manners of a French-coOne thing more, however, a dlserra-testin- g person might notice in fits youth of I A In the glance of fcieVy there is something more commanding, more persuading, more conrladng than in all the rest of bis external per sonality. Here le tbe secret of his magnetic qualities, and In this the friends ot Miss Shonfeldt find what they believe is the hypnotic power of a Svengall, to whlca power Miss Shonfeldt acted the part of Trilby. Speeding along in the luxurlov car the young man Watkins noticed pretty Miss Shonfeldt, and became Interested in her. It did not take bin long to discover that she was trsreling alone, and it waa likewise etsy for him to ascertain through the conductor that her journey was to cover a . considerable distance. While Miss Shonfeldt was t one who would be regarded as dlkmctly impressionable, she could not hip noticing the refined and elegant ippear ance of Hr. Watkins. The fad that be was, a stranger made It nt diffl. nt d THE TUKEFUL n recovered, and for some days afterward 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, . cultforhfrtqtmaglnehljnarr-ntle-Wcc : ta.; Attend her.-wer-e man and a hero. unable to explain why the food The glance of his eye had thrilled did Tier no good. Finally the riddle this modest girl, and she wondered to was solved, for a serpent about herself at her weakness. II fate twenty inches in length issued one was sealed. : morning from the child's mouth. No less conscious of hts poser was The serpent was killed and sent to Mr. Watkins. Without further 1 the University of Strasburg, and since he then the little one hks enjoyed exseatei himcellent health. It Is supposed that self beside child awallowed the the serpent while the v young drinking some impure water. womin and -- eere-moiy- with,, melll- fiuoi vole i stroie to ah Prisoner Aske for Death Sentence. Convicted by a jury In the Norfolk county court, Va., of murdering his wife, William Treadwell will not sanc- ' her He fearf tion the application of hi counsel tor n new trial. He declares that he purchased the pistol with which h killed his wife with the intention of killing 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 have nq desire to live, Tb esse U one of the strangest ever tried in a After ahootlng his Virginia court wife th man turned the pistol upon himself and waa weeks recovering from the wound.. Strange Meeting of Relatives. Charles Gardner, who was kidnaped 10 years ago at the age ot IS from his home near Quincy, 111., by two tramps, met his father at Wichita, Ksn., a few days ago by accident Recently Gardners parents moved to Andover, Ksn. Father and son met at the postofflee, and recognized each other. Young Gardner says that the tramp took him to Fort 'Worth, Tex., where ha was compelled to beg, sod be finally escaped. Rooster Mothers Chicks. A Ilalloweil. Me., rooster Is mother tng a Bock ot little chickens- .- Incidental to this story comes the news of a tragedy of previous occurrence, when the mother hen met death beneath the wheels of aa electric car. The head ot the Rock cares for the little. chickens with apparently a full realization of the duties Incumbent upon him. -- to-wi- t, t home." Portland Oregonian. all the attendant ceremonies which usually delight the feminine heart and which. It would have seemed, toothless mouth. The knuckle of tbe The Old Swimming Hole. might have - been according to the We have bathed In the warm, clear wa- Index finger forms the cose. above It tastes of . such a social favorite as ter where the Indian healed hi are the eyes. By draping the face pain; Miss Shonfeldt. The legal form was vtth s towel e have the feature of plunged In flee to the sufficient to unite them In wedlock, We have an old tomiD. especially effective In the toaaed aea and have dived and thus Mr. Watkins was able to when the light is not very bright aalty main, avoid publicity in Ogden, where the But memory ever takes us back, with After a little practice you will succeed aoul.-friends of the bride might have caused -To hingingoncetn our more as tn the day ot in moving the thdmb (representing jump him some embarrassment. the lower lip and chin) up and down, amimmlng-hole- ! yore In our lo hood The knot lied they boarded e westwhile you sing a song in a nasal voice ern bound train on their way to San or carry on a conversa'ion with the below the high trestle, and Francisco, and while en route to the Tea as Just audience in the voice of an old womnear the train passed Pacific coast, Mrs. Watkins sent a Wi waved wild hands from the warm an. To make the audience laugh brief note to her sister at Ogden, shore aands and gave them a lusty heartily let the old woman cough and cheer. sneeze and open her mouth wide while telling of the strange romance, the rascal. ece., we .then. 'fief bf' their mtmagtf and their' desti- Happylngyoung Shd IS laughing' ' Ter make 'the'deeep--lion a thoughtless role. nation. For never a care could reach ua there complete it is advisable to stand The next appearance of this tall at the dear old swimming hole! ' behind a sheet drawn across the room young man and his beautiful bride was The and let the doll perform a la Punch big boy dived from the trestle. an June 22 at Santa Monica, near Los and Judy. some ten feet high or more. Angeles, Cal. They were registered at While the young one dropped, feet flrat. or hopped from the old springHotel Arcadia. Watkins readily beDoll From Martinique. came popular among society people, And board on shore; An relic of lie Interesting O, th thrill of that moment when and was soon a leader in golf, tennis-anan town of Saint Pierre our first high dive was made From the trestles hlght. in the envious ping pong. Martinique doll has been alght of tbe others who were installed at the Musee Pedagogique. They visited other points in Calafraid! ifornia, making only brief stops, and where there are dolls representing have so that finally Henry How well we had noted the danger the many French reigns and nearly all the disappeared Shonfeldt of Omaha has not the slightFrench colonies. The doll from Marspot where the barbed wire lay; n est knowledge of his daughter's where- Tbe place, and the jagged tinique left the island a few days beface of th rock where the big abouts. Detectives have . been emfore the great eruption. This playcrabs stay! ployed to search for the couple. The Over there is the sunken log: and here's thing is a survival of the time when where the young brldea father recently received Ilea; black slaves wore certain stuffs Inwhere the weeds troduced Into Martinique by the the following letter: Why do you On the other bank, grow rank, were the snakes and not answer ray letters? I hare not who originally colonized it As stinging flies. kern'd n word from you." He had been did the planters' wires of former times But O, .we would love these dangers and as do the negresses of the presending telegrams to her every-day- . Another-lettecould we only meet them today! received on the followent day, she wears a red and yellow If we could cheer when tha trains passed ing day read as follows:, "Send ms near and shout In the boyhood way I handkerchief tied round her bead, (200. You are lucky to get off so In spite of the great green ocean there's with the ends rising up above her e a longing in our soul easily," forehead, and a gown of coarse From his childhood young Watkins To dive once more as in the days of so called becanvas or cloth, yore in tbe dear old swimming-hole- ! cause it preceded the hair sieve at a Oasett. strainer, and a cambric apron of stuff that In the early days of the last cenMiniature Borer. Who can bore a hole through a pin tury the children of the Saint Pierre by blowing at it? It la Impossible, Orphanage used to weave. The gown everybody will declare; to do it you and apron are much longer than the need a sharp instrument or a boring rudimentary legs. The head is large, and the body stuffed with bran. The doll waa found with other toys in a press after the decease of a very old lady, who received it, when nearly grown up, as a relic of her, grand-- , mother's childhood. The fashion in which it is dressed prevailed from the time the island was first colonized by Normans, In the plantations, almost to the present day. London News' Paris telegram. thss - led hereto dts el oil her Identity, her d equation, her fortune, gradually on to bvs top- ics So skill- ed was he, and go comhIs plete m istery, thff within fj' MUX has been a social lion. He is well educated and has been in the habit of spending much money in the pursuit of pleasure, The Pipg Fong Champion. She was ontof Fortunes favorites rich, talented? beautiful, and young and as she walked down the aisle to the strains of the Wedding March" some marvelled at her wondrous beauty, while a few worldly-mindewhispered, What a shocking match!" The bridegroom was handsome, but comparatively poor. For his sake she had rejected a duke, two earls, and a host of lesser lights In the way of hankers and diplomats; for had he not met and defeated slngle-hanuethe finest exponents of the game and now rejoiced in the proud title of Champlayer of the state? pion ping-pond d g Lunatics Wonderful Escape. An extraordinary adventure befell a Enlunatic near gland, the other day Having effected Streatiey-on-Thame- ants, the search after him was fruitless until his father, a gamekeeper, noticed some tracks in a field. These were followed and were found to lead to a disused well, upwards of feet deep. The lunatic was at the bottom, and after some difficulty was dragged up by a rope. Curiously -' Bixty-eig- enough, he was unhurt, although he must have fallen or jumped to the bottom. . He had been in the well thir- ty hours. machine. 'Very .well! We will make a boring machine by following the law3 of gravity and equilibrium. We need only a few things, a sewing needle, a of equal cork, two pocketknlvea weight and a bottle closed? with a cork. We insert the pin In one of the corks and the eye end of the sewing needle in the cork, closing the bottle. Then we open the two pocket-knive- s and insert them in the free piece of cork, as shown in the illustration. Now we have to balance the two knives on the pin. For that purpose we place the pin on the tip of one finger and have somebody else move the knives to and fro until the balance is reached. Then we place the whole apparatus on the point of the needle, aa shown in illustration. The balance la easily reached by slightly moving the pin one way or the other. When tbe balance is fin ally reached we set the knives and cork with the pin In motion by blow-Ing- tbe sew leg needle is cf at it, hard steel, the pin of softer metaI, lhe turning motion of the needle will bore a hole in the pin like a boring machine. The Mesmerized Hat. Provide yourself with an old hat and an ordinary black pin bent In the shape of the letter C. Put the hat on a table, crown upward, and secrete the pin In your right hand. You wUl borrow the hat from somebody in the audience. On receiving It, take it In your left hand, and while walking to the table place the right hand inside and quickly push the point of the pin up through the crown and stand the bat on the table. - You make a few passes over the hat as If you were mesmerizing it Lay your left hand flat on the hat Slip your second finger in the hook and slowly lift the hat from the table. After this bring the hat to the table, remove the hand, and in returning the hat you can easily withdraw the pin. Electricity to Promote Rainfall. A number ot prominent Japanese scientists are at present engaged upon a aerlea of experiments for the artificial production of rain by means Of electricity. The first trial waa made tn the Fukushlme prefecture, and the results obtained were very aatlsfao-tory- . Operations were begun at 11 in the evening, but no change was noted until the next morning, when clouds began to gather In the vicinity of tbe place where the experiments were The Binging Doll. being held. Rain soon began to fall The experiment shown in the illusover an area several miles in extents and continued without intermission tration is bound to find favor with for twelve hours. an hour after ah had act him Bride Want Separation. the girl had admitted herlov and had contented to marry him. A very precocious child la Wllhel-min- a To her it waa like a dre&a; to PhilMcIntyre, of Bethlehem, Ky. who ia IS years old, became ip D. Watkins it was reality. Notwithstanding the fact that ho posed a bride April 2, marrying a farmer 45 aa n wealthy man, he had wry little years of age. and now she has brought ready cash, and, so far as known, no action toannul the marriage. The doestablished resources. He had noth- mestic bliss of the couple ing to risk in nn immediatt marriage. waa early disturbed, the husband abusThe beautiful face of this g)Urg girl ing tbe bride, so she claims, and she pleased blm, ber complete surrender asks for $2,500 damages In addition to flattered blm, and be lot her, at the annulment The ceremony uniting least he told her so, better than any the child in marriage to tbe farmer was performed with the consent of other girl in the wide woriA At Ogden they alighted from the her parents and they are the. moving train, and were quickly we&ed. The spirits in the effort to annul the marceremony was of the slmp!t nature. riage. Mina Shonfeldt did not sister sehr in that city, aa ahe Intend-!In the rattle of money one heart th sought ne advice from friends, bt' Mindly rustle' of silk, the clatter of silver followed the will of this gtranger. service containing rich viands and Ther was nc church weeing with many other delightful melodies. - ' TAi upon Iheisncodolh sii t doleful ty.. mwici? umit Mof ) wish Wa,he'd - fo?ry! 1. hew the v.iot Jf W r vere jtrinQV music GWjK&I thiJ1 doth jprTnjp1 from hep interji& . furmhinp'. Kill Snakes. How Wonderful sagacity la shown by the bird of Southern California known as the As these birds V can outrun the awlfest horse they usually choose to escape pursuit by howtheir speed. The ever, has one mortal enemy, the rattlesnake. This reptile. la fond of de"Road-Runner- road-runner.- ". - . road-runne- vouring the rd&d-runne- r It r, egg's when-eve- r comes across a nest in the sagebrush. But the birds ofvan have opportunities of revenging themselves. Whenever they come across a sleeping rattlesnake sunning himself on warm rock they Immediately prepare a trap for h:a destruction. Prickly pears abound in those regions. The jad runners, generally a pair, at once d begin picking up the leaves of this plant, and piling them about the Bleeping snake in 'a circle. When their work is completed they give their enemy a few peck to awaken him, and then retire to watch th ' spiny-covere- . result In vain the rattlesnake trie to ea- cape. The ring of prickly leaves hold him a prisoner. At every move he makes the aptnea prick him, until at last In despair he turns, bite himself a, and dies. - , CLAt. like - lhe c&J Travelers often come across these , circle of dried leaves, with the dead snake In the center. At first no white man would believe tbe Indian tales of thi strange method the employed In killing their mortal enemy, but they have since been ob-- - served in the act by several eminent naturalists. who have corroborated the stories told by toe Indiana. The male bird is not larger than a common barnyard rooster, and his ' feathers are as gayly colored as those of lbe peacock. The hen is of a dark, road-runne- people aa well as with young folks. All you have to do la to paint two eyes, and underneath them n nose on the knuckles of. your index and third finger, as shown. tn the lower part suf the Illustration. Tbe thumb pressed against the index finger and moved up and down will represent n grown-u- p , brown sagebrush color. - r - |