WONDERFUL MAN.
A very remarkable fellow was he
Endowed with the widest of know!
edge.
In spit of the fact that to go on the
spree
Was his chief occupation at college.
He painted and played with most ex-
quisite skill;
He sung like a star operatic;
His friends, when they spoke of his
fanciful quill—
For he wrote, too—grew fairly eo-
static.
He lived
style,
Was more than a bit of a dandy,
Yet, when he considered the trouble
worth while,
Could put up his dukes pretty handy
He rode like a centaur, was quite a
dead shot,
At fencing no man could come near
him;
‘Neath skin of soft
cles he'd got,
Which made all
him.
in a splendid and elegant
velvet steel mus.
his enemies fear
With languid he scattered
his gold—
He never used silver
The ladies described him
and bold,
In all
But
profusion
Or copper—
as wicked
ways this chap was a topper.
him the heroes of modern
romance
beside e
Vould seem in the dust bin to grovel.
He's dead now, but
him by cahance—
He lived in the old-fashioned novel.
—Chicago News.
you may have met
Whipped DyEagles
BY DALLAS LORE SHARP,
with me, and after the day's work in
the museum he would often sit before
the tiny grate fire and talk. I punched
the fire and listened.
“When did I begin my life as a nat-
araliat?” he replied to a question from
me. “lI won't know. I can't remem-
ber the day [I wasn't collecting some-
hing." Then, after a pause, “But I
can remember the day I stopped col-
lecting one thing.”
“What thing?” I asked.
“Birds' eggs. No, it wasn't because
the minister got after me or the school.
teacher or my conscience—although
that Ras never stopped troubling me
since. It was two birds that got after
me. I was trying to rob them, and
oughly that [ have been ashamed ever
since to steal any kind of bird's eggs.
And that's been since I was seventeen
“About five miles from our house, on
the edge of a salt marsh, called Moses’
Windrows, stood an eagles
home of a famous pair of bald i
The eagles were known all over ti
county, and the ancient had a
place in the chart of every oysterman
in the bay.
“I had looked away toward th
ever since [I could remember
often stood beneath its at ant
nzad up at it always with a long
ount to it and lay hands on
To stand up in that eagles’ nest
the peak of all
And I did it
@ eagles in
Src.
“The tree was a stark old white oak,
Imc limbless, and standing alone
marsh. he eagles’ capped
its very top
“The nest had always
but not until I climbed up cle
it did I realize that the size
8 small haystack. There was «
alf a cord of wood in it. I think
must originally have been built
sh hawks.
“Holding forking
which the was placed,
put, but could not tou
any side,
“I had come termined to get
into it, however, at all hazard, and
[ set to work. | thought
how I was get nor
dreamed, either, of fearing the eagles.
A bald-headed eagle a bully I
would have soon have thought of fear.
ing our hissing old gander at home
“As I could not get out to the edge of
the nest and scale the walls, the only
possible way up, apparently, was
through the structure, The sticks
here in the bottom was old and quite
rotten. Digging was easy, and I soon
had a good beginning.
“The structure was somewhat cone.
shaped, the emaller end down. It had
grown in circumference as it had
grown in years and in height, probably
because at the bottom the building ma-
terials had decayed and gradually fal
len away, until now there was a de.
cided outward slant from bottom to
top. It had grown lopsided, too, there
being a big bulge on one side of the
nest near the middle.
“The smallness of the bottom at first
helped me; there was less of the stuff
to be pulled out. 1 easily broke away
the dead timbers and pushed aside the
tougher sticks. [ intended to cut a
channel clear to the top and go up
through the structure. Already my
head and shoulders were well into the
nest,
“Now the work became mare diffi.
cult. The sticks were newer, some of
tree, the
nest
nest
at nest
ove tron
sit Tee
my
on
nest
seemed big
under
of
ertainly
that
ii
Re
is
was
hal
it
fis
to the
nest
top n
I reached
*h the edge from
de up
850
never of
to down, never
is
cord-wood piles,
“1 had cut my channel up the-side of
tending little more than a foot beyond
the rough walls,
“Packing down, I saw that this fork
the support of the bulge which
A few large timbers had been
rested across it, small loose pieces had
gradually lodged upon these and thus
in time brought about the big bulge.
“Pushing off this loose stuff and the
few heavy timbers, I discovered that
the fork would bear my weight, It
now projected a little way from the
wall of the nest. I got a firm hold on
them,
Care-
and drew between
After
myself up
a lively scramble, I got
to my feet, and clutching
sticks protruding from the side, stood
up, with my almost on a
with the rim of the great nest. This
cutting a channel, cer.
for the ascent,
eyes
least
the protruding
rim I looked, and caught
large dull-white eggs
P
“Egys shining
tainly, at
“Over
of
pse of
the
sticks
a glim
Money could nd
this.
mora
than ev
nes
the
far above
ing closer,
menacing
most in my ears.
“Their wild
golzed
i - mans
aed MIA
stood uprigh
eaglea hovered
came perilou
f.
The |
bay, the far-of
wl wide a
gel
‘ evel
on my
at
face until the
gereaming
geemad
male turne
mind and
The
i 3
swoopad
movement waa
8 mats wha
him
i her paasing with
ous grab at my face, |[ dodged,
or she would have hit me
“For the moment 1 had
whera [ stood, and in
and
It downward,
forgotten
dodging the
t
eagla I almost steppal over
! he odge
I caught my balance and
of the nest
iy unnerved
“Fear ke
on me. Only
Cage
immadiate dread of me
2 I was looking over, one
me a stinging
Wkil of them
struck blow on the head,
3 the air
That . Te
Tha must
climb
If only I
channel! to
within
aver the
flaring length and
swing
ward
touch it
what tha
me
was
gave
now
“Layin
the
sagles
chance cut a channel
no
hollow
for the time
tearing
to
AWAY
clear
down
of t order
in
which to
aver
hack
was momentarily in
being hurled off hy the
1d watch them and
growing bolder
tham, driving
fearfully from behind. flattened me
on Had the blow heen
delivered from thas front I should hava
been knocked headlong to the ground
“1 was afraid delay longer
good zized breach was opened in the
rimr of the nast time
now, if the sticks would not pull out,
I might let myself over ani reach the
fork Once my touched that 1
conld manage the rest, | knew
“Digging my Fande Asap into
danger of
for }
work, too
biris
cou
And they
every dash
not
wore
One of
the
out nest
to
by this
Fant
to back over the rough, stubby rim,
reaching with my feet toward
fork
“Tha eagles
seomed to
militating noszition offared them I
ronld ret have arrange 1 myself more
eonvenisantly to the'r mindz. 1 am sure,
And they mada the most of it. [ can
lan~h now, hut the memory of it can
ati'l maka me ehiver, too.
“1 had wirelad over so that 1 could
band my body at the waist and bring
my legs against the neat when a sharp
stuly caught in mv clothes and hell
me. I could get neither up nor down.
rious kind, and [ dared not let go for
break nor push aside. [ soon found
that it was not loose, but that it bo
longed to the oak tree itself. It ran
out through the neat horizontally, ex.
“I triad to back out and push off
from it, but it ssemel to come out
with me. It must he broken: and
pulling myself up, I dropped with all
the fores I could put into my boly.
That loosaned but it did not break It.
Suddenly, while I was resting between
{he efforts, the thing gave way,
“l was wholly unprepared. All my
weight was Inatanly thrawn npan me
hanls, The jagged sticks out into
my wrists, my grip vas pried off and
I fell.
“Once, twice, the stubs In the
of the nest caught and partly
me, then broke, [I clutched franti.
cally at them, but could not hold
Then, almost hefore 1 realized tha
I was falling, I hung suspended
tween two limbs-—-the forks of
white oak branch a the side of
nest,
“l had been directly above {t
wall
stopped
he
the
the
whan
it, and tha two branches had caught
me right under hoth of my arms.
“For a second | was tee daz
Then a awish of wings, a hard
blow on the neck and a sh
made my m clear
yet nor out of
birds still had ma
positi
dang
angry
“Hanging w
th
round until
$1
THE ALBANIANS,
is the Tribal
Badye
Sign of Individuality.
banians have r :
capable of
are
character wonderfu
velopment T
hey
superb race
but
allied,
type, their rudy hue ing the stain «
You ean
Albanian i
Hs cannot
a European
Arison
the sun
glance an
Turkish army
guishad from
a better o«
1
i
¥
m
{
n Appearance
Gibson tyi
contrast tr
the
are
tha
On
ou have
in order
any
the
red z
which tapars
knes A
ied
gorgeous
brilliantly ool
underneath
hue
yrathor
alt
or twelve yarda of matsrial
takes ten t+ to wind around one
~forms the dividing band b
and a irt, and
gerves as holster for pistol and knife
without
sleeves reaches down to the top of the
sash ssos meeting across the
chest by gix inches. There gra varia
tions of this costuma, hut it is mate
rially the same ali over Albania
The cut of the hair is the tribal
m
tween
trousers low-cut
mi
¥
but mi
Albanians Followsrs of one chief
will keep their heads closely shaven
New York City.—Fancy walsts that
“lose In the back are much in style and
attractive in the
son's materials, This very pretty May
ire exceedingly
Manton «
Og tie entire
waist, to the
rics,
and all
wools, but,
pointed
uid
id
ranering
apering
sleeves f
are (he fashionable
ows and f
neck
are tucked above the ell
below At the
collar.
twenty
yards twenty
seven
and two
Mechlin and the heaviest
with this at
Many of the most desira-
{ ble stock ties of linen show insets of
this Teneriffe
| pattern in this
maze of needlework
{ forts of laces,
Irish
| tractive lace,
other
Ince combine well
lace, The most notable
r one thinks of
it Sugeests
i * a cart-wheel
is
4 much
a much as
does its namesake peak.
Benatifal Hats,
Flowers Grow in Favor,
Flowers of ribbon work, fi
for hal
Garnitnres of Biaek Bpangies,
5 1 tures of
Pa I'l
the adornment
» tollettes,
ne garn
pier 11
Misses’ Sallor Blouse,
1its young girls more per
sailor one. This
Manton blouse is
cotton and to wool,
ain or
ue simple
ing May
nen, to
made absolutely pl
7
he
’
73
i y
v
hes wi
Ge,
Woman's Tucked Eton.
ng are much
readiness
The
" Ey ies ¥
shown in ti
yh Mo
i jarge «
fancy liar
extensions, and is adapted bo to
suit and to the odd wrap. As shown,
it is of black taffeta, stitched w
ticelll silk, and Is trimmed with a stole
rollar of white pean de sole edged with
black and white,
with fronts
elitat
Yery siviisa
stole ox with shoulder
#4
h
ith
oor.
is
aa
fancy braid
The Eton is made
der and under-arm seams,
inch across, which is never ent. This
faz like an Indian's secalplock
will ghave the top of the head where
the cap rests, and thers is gense in
the arrangement, for they never re
move their fezes, and the heat (s
thereby equalized over the head
There are a dozen other cuts, all of
whish apoil the intellectual physiog
nomy of the Albanian from a Euro
pean point of view; but when his hair
is sllowed to grow naturally and he
drossss acording to civilized ideas,
he ix unrivalled In appearance. It Is
sad to think that Mussulman fanati
cian 18 s0 deeply ‘engrained in these
people! It is not a racial Inherit
ance; It is an Infection from the Turk.
New Thief Catcher.
When discovered burgling a house
at Avignon, France, Peter Rousseau
made a dash for the roof and climbed
the lightning conductors. All efforts
to capture him falled until the fire
brigade was called out, and he was
wadhod af hia parch with a firg hoan
i
i
and In backward turning pleats from
to form a postillion and is ald In box
ts of the
fiited by
Both
eh
Lae
ATI Seams
ered at
drawi
BHoase
neck of
finished
standing
and
at the back
shield being held in
place by buttons and buttonholes
worked in the blouse beneath the col
lar. The sleeves are full at the wrists
but snug at the shoulders and finished
are gati
but moks
tightly while the
hitly and
blouse is
the
down
The
and
The
shield
becom
away
with a big sailor collar.
fo
close
cut
collar is joined the to-
gether they centre
figure. Beneath these pleats is
tached a shaped belt which is brought
round and fastened
fronts. The neck Is fastened with a
taney collar whose exienrions fall over
the shoulder reams. The sleeves are
pleated for their entire length, but
stitched above the elbows only and
form frills below that point.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is four and three
fourth yards twenty-one inches wide,
two and one-half yards forty-four
inches wide, or two and one-fourth
yards fifty-two inches wide.
- —-
A Dainty Lace,
Teneriffe lace is the charming novelty
of the season, Just how much of it Is
made by the natives of the cliff bound
island, which Is the largest of the
Canary group, is a question, It is a
fact, though, that the most character.
istic pattern of this lace suggests the
conleal peak of Tereriffe, In fact, the
last has much the look of very fine
drawn work. One of its peculiarities
Is that it looks equally well on a soft
silk evening dress and on a linen morn.
ing rig. On certain lovely new dresses
of white crystalline this luce figures in
The
for the
twenty-seven
three fourth
quantity of material
medium size is three yards
inches wide, vo and
yards thirty-two inches
required
forty-four Inches wide, with
seven
—-— 3 )
MisaRs’ SAILOR BLOUSE,
eighth yards twenty-seven or five.
eighth yards thirty-two or forty-four
inches whic for shield, collar and
enffe .
oe
-
In ancient Babylon, according to tab
lets discovered, a surgeon
who performed an unsuccessful opera-
tion got no pay and if the patient died
the law decreed surgeon's
hands should be
recently
that the
stricken off
In twenty-five working
United mint at
coined 2.500000 presos,
dollar, for Phil
with 100,000 bronze piece
p
000 ni
Phila
the glz¢
State
faye
4 ;
he ippine
xels, also for th
Parisian female
ne Adie
ig Giff
mf
wavs show when they feel o¢
and fc
tour
by abroad
confident
of travel
The contents and general dezign ob
the seal Department of
Commerce heep
AETee 3 bo) Over
to the engravers he devices are
i consisting
surmounting a large
the upper half of
of the new
and Labor have
upon
ipon
Tory
of a spr
design
emergency us
ntroduced (we
t« the
hich i8 a very
the first
avle incandes
%
per
one
wa
and
water Thi
it floats upri
Th
ie
wird or
anced that tiy it
nie the light is made
in from 300 to 10,000 candlaepower, ac
ng to size,
water
Cora
Queen Amelia of Portugal holds twe
for saving life. The first was
awarded to her for saving unaided a
boatman from drowing at Cascaes;
the gecond was gent to her by the Hu
mane Society for her courage in jump
ing into the Tagus to rescue her ow
child from drowning. She is quite
devoid of fear when her help is asked
for any sufferer. She nursed the he
roic Dr. Pestana-—whoze devotion to
fae sufferers from the plague cost his
life-—~and remained by his side when
he was dying
meas
The following table gives the officia.
statistics of the United States post
office department for 1902: Number of
postofices 75.924; «xtent of post routes
in miles, 507.540; mikes of mail ser
vice performed during the year, 474.
234.687; gross revenue of postofice de
partment, $121.382.472; paid to post.
masters, $20,783,919; ordinary postage
stamps issued, 4.629 987.473; stamped
envelopes and wrappers issued, 853.
128,000; postal cards issued, 549.204.
090; number of letters registered, 22,
831,400; dead letters received, $300.
351; money realized from dead letters,
ders issued, $313.551.279; amount of
foreign money orders issued, $22974,.
473; number of pieces of matisr af 211
kinds mailed during the year, 8,085.
446,850