CLIMB FOR MISS PECK Will Try Again to Scale Mount Huascaran, In Peru. THIS TIME WITH EXPERT HELP Woman Mountain Climber Will Start on Perilous Journey With Two Swiss Guides and a Native Soaler —Be- lieves Peak Is Highest In America. After a tedious rest of two years, with not a single adventure in them, the desire to fill her lungs with the rare atmosphere and to expose herself to the biting winds of the mouutain top lias again seized Miss Annie S. j'eeli, the champion woman mountain sealer. In the Clarendon hotel at New York the other night she announced that once more she wid climb the frosty sides of Mount Huascaran, Peru, which she regards as the high est peak on the American continent. She failed to reach the top two years ago because she was handicapped by native guides, who drank all her al cohol when she was asleep and other wise hampered her in her ascent. Tins time she is to have guides from Swit zerland who have no taste for pure al cohol and who know what assistance a woman mountain scaler needs, says the New Vorl; I'ress. The man who is to furnish the guides has assured Miss Peck she need have no fear for her alcohol this time. It might be explain ed that the only use Miss l'eck has for that liquid is for fuel wherewith to keep warm and cook 011 the moun tains. One native guide she will take, but he will be in such a minority that the alcohol Mill undoubtedly hold out until the pinnacle of the mountain is reached. Before next autumn Miss Peck hopes to stand on the topmost peak of Huas caran and look down upon all Peru ind then come back and tell all about the sensatiou in magazines find lec tures. None has yet reached the top of this formidable peak, so far as is known, and if Miss Peck succeeds she will indeed be the champion American mountain scaler, not barring even the men. Having done that, she will rest content unless perchance it snould be discovered that Mount Huascaran is not the highest peak on the con tinent. MLss Peck will not rest until she has conquered any mountain that dares rear its head farther above the sea level than Huascaran. Miss Teck and two Swiss guides will soon sail for Colon from New York city; thence she will cross the isthmus and go down the west coast until she reaches Samanco; then she will cross the Black range and rest for several days at n silver mine 12,000 feet above the sea level to let her lungs become accustomed to the altitude. When she has been there long enough to forget about the altitude she will descend to Yungay, which is at the foot of Huas caran. After increasing her equipment by one native guide she will begin the ascent. "When I made the other attempt to climb Huascaran," said the climber the other night, "I took four guides and two tents. This time I will have only three guides, and I will take with me Instruments to measure the cold, the moisture and the exact height of the mountain when I reach the top. I will also have a camera to take pan oramic views of the surrounding coun try and lower penks." Miss Peck says she has a trained eye for measuring the height of moun tains. When she makes a guess she finds it is pretty nearly correct, she says. She estimates Huascaran to be between 23,000 and 24,000 feet above the sea level. At any rate, she thinks it is so high that when she reaches the top she will have broken the world's record, now field by the Englishman W. AY. Graham, who ascended to a height of 23.800 feet in the Himalayas many years ago. In her last attempt to reach the peak of Mount Huascaran he attained a height of 17.500 feet At that time the mountain was seamed With dangerous crevasses. "Of course the feat will be attended by great dangers," exclaimed Miss Peck. "We will have t 1 wear masks to protect our faces from the weather and smoked glasses to protect our eyes from the bright sun. When we reach the ice and snow of the pe ' wo wii! have to use rop ■* and ii " ■ then I will chew quantities of the leavi fr :n which cocaine is e: •ractet l . It nc: ,is a sti; intent on such .1!■ ng trn .■]>• The natives use it much as tl Americans do tobacco, it is harmful as n habit, but a helpful stimulant when sparingly used." Miss l'eck has gone to Washington to make arrangements with federal of ficials for gathering information about the country nud the mountain she is t< climb. A Flower Bed a Mile Long. A mile long bed of rhododendrons hi Central park. New York's most beauti ful breathing spot Is the recent gift of Sirs. Russell Sage to the people of that city. It is estimated that the gift, which will be known as the Sage plan tation, will by the time it is finished represent an outlay on the part of Mrs. Sage of at least $50,000. Mrs. Sage drives in the park a great deal and recently visited Park Commissioner Smith and offered to install the flower ing shrubs In order to brighten up a sfreteh along the main east drive, of which she is particularly fond. The greater part of the thousands of plants which will goto make up the lied are of American growth, but more than 0.000 of them were Imported from Bel glum. Commissioner Smith says that the plantation will be, when complet ed, the finest of Its kind lu the world. » Mr. Green's Waterloo. Mr. Green had been paying $4 a week for board. His appetite constant ly increased. Finally his landlady saw that she must either sell out and quit or raise her boarder's rate. One day ifter watching him feverishly devour ing plateful after plateful she plucked up courage and said: "Mr. Green, I shall have to raise your board to $5." Mr. Green looked up with a start, then in a tone of consternation said: Oh, Mrs. Small, don't! It's as much is I can do now to eat $4 worth."—Wo man's Home Companion. A NOTORIOUS RASCAL Bold Exploits of Colonel Thomas Blood In England. TRIED TO STEAL THE CROWN The Daring Scamp Almost Succeeded, Too, and Managed to Escape Pun ishment After Being Captured—His Attack 011 the Duke of Ormonde. A daring, fearless scamp and one of the most reckless and brazen soldiers i«f fortune that ever cut a swath in England was the notorious Colonel Thomas Blood. Tills choicest of seventeenth century scoundrels was born probably in Ire land in or about IGIS. During the civil war he was active on the parliamen tary side, was made n justice of the peace by Henry Cromwell and received large grants of land. These were con fiscated at the restoration, and Blood forthwith began his career as a des perado. Ills first plot was to seize Dublin cas tle and the person of the Duke of Or monde, the lord lieutenant, in 1003. A crowd was to IK? collected at the castle gates, a pretended baker with a load of bread upon his shoulder was to stumble and upset, the loaves, and in the scramble which would probably en sue among the castle guards the gates were to lie seized, but the plot was be t rayed to Ormonde, and, although Blood himself escaped, his brother-in law was arrested and executed. After a period of seclusion among the Irish hills and in Holland, Blood cross ed to England and joined the fifty mon archy men. After one or two minor deeds of daring he planned and nearly carried out a desperate stroke in 1070. In that year the Prince of Orange visit ed England and was entertained by the city of London, lu his train on the oc casion was the Duke of Ormonde, against whom Blood nursed undying hate. The duke was dragged from ids coach in St. James street by Blood and his son-in-law, strapped on horseback to one of the conspirators and hurried toward Tyburn. So determined was the prime mover in the affair that ids enemy should die that he hurried on toward the gallows to arrange the rope. The duke's coachman gave the alarm and followed Ids master with assist ance, and a timely rescue was effected. On May 0 hi the following year Blood made his great attempt to carry off the Tower jewels. He set about the task in quite a modern style. Some three weeks before the attempt he and a wo man whom he represented as his wife —his real wife being then In the north of England—visited the Tower, where the lady feigned a sudden illness. She and her coiniwinion were Invited into the private apartments of Edwards, the aged keeper, that she might rest and recover. Three or four days later they return ed with a present of gloves as an ac knowledgment of the civility. Blood was courtesy Itself, admired every thing, but especially Edwards' pretty daughter, and presently proi>osed a match between the young lady and his "nephew." This was agreed to, and the visitors at once dined with the fam ily, Blood pronouncing an edifying grace. After dinner they were shown over the house. Blood managed to rid Edwards of a case of pistols by pur chasing them for a friend, and it was arranged that the "nephew" should be brought for inspection by ills future bride at 7 o'clock on the morning of May 0. Punctual to the day and hour. Blood appeared with three companions—Par rot, Hunt and Holloway. Each had a sword stick In Ids hand, a dagger in his belt and pistols in his pockets. Hollo way remained outside to guard the door. Blood, with a nice regard for the eti quette of the occasion, proposed that they should await the arrival of hi •wife before joining the ladies and th-.t Edwards should show them the crown jewels to while away the time The jewel room was entered and the door, as usual, closed. Edwards was ;.t once attacked, gagged and bound, an Iro: hook being even attached t . hi 1 ■ < "that no sound might pass from hlai that way." In spite of threats he ■ truggled gallantly, was knocked dov.-n, staM e l end left for de: » Parrot put : jila the - center inn 'ol ,roro pi-n'i : git At this moment, like a 1 It froi ;: ie blue, appeared Edwards' sen. new!., ar rived from 1 landers and ei .vr t gr.-ijt his fatally. He went first to his 1 .11- er and sister, and the thieves slip; . 1 out, but Edwardß,*regnlnlng cot: < : ■ ness, managed to give the alarm, and they were taken. Said r: 1 j . . sophlcally, "It was a bold attempt, but it was for a crown." After this one imagines there v. .. d bo short shrift for Colonel Blood, an we expect the march to Tyburn ;:vl 1 edifying "last speech." But he refuse 1 to plead unless in private to the in g :ind v is admitted to an Interview, got ight side of the merry 1:1011- 'ed at accomplices by the hmi fl! >uld avenge his death, v, as forfeited estates and was tie . . „ard frequent in the pres ence chamber. Then he quarreled with his patron, Buckingham, and was cast in damages for slander on the duke He died In 1080 and was buried in Tot htli fields; but, a "sham funeral" ru mor being started, he was exhumed two days later and identified at an in onesi—London Globe. Settled the Ownership. "There was a quaint old Judge who used to live in the Pine Tree State." said a lawyer. "One of bis decisions gained him the title of the 'Maine Soio mon.' Two women came liefore this magistrate with a fine, fat pullet, each declaring that it belonged to herself. The magistrate from his high seat frowned heavily at the first woman. 'Does this pullet belong to Mrs. Jones?' he asked her. 'No, indeed, it don't, sir,' she replied. Then he turned to the other woman. 'Does this pullet belong to Mrs. Smith?' 'lt certainly does not,' the second woman replied. " "1 he pullet,' the magistrate then de creed, 'does not belong to Mrs. Jones, nor does it belong to Mrs. Smith. The pullet is mine. Janitor, take it round to the house and give it to my cook.' " QUEBEC'S GREAT FETE Notable Pageant Planned For Her Tercentennial Celebration. SPLENDID OPEN AIR DRAMA. Finest Spectacle of Modern Times Promised In July, With 3,000 Per- j formers In the Tableaux—Famous ' Battle to Be Refought In Pantomine Warfare. For the greatest pageant of modern times, that to be given next July on the scene of Wolfe and Montcalm's I bloody fight on the heights of Quebec. | when the city observes the tereente nary celebration of the founding of the settlement, 3,000 performers are now ! being recruited In Quebec, Montreal j and Ottawa. They will shortly com- j nienee their rehearsals and drill under the direction of Frank Lascelles, who was the master of the Oxford pageant last year and who has gone to Quebec at the special invitation of his friend, Earl Grey, governor general of Can ada. "There Is no other such stage In the world for dramatic pageantry as the Plains of Abraham," said Mr. Las celles to a Quebec correspondent of the Chicago Kecord-Herald, "where the grandeur of the natural scenery 1 defies description and where the 20,000 spectators 011 the grand stand, facing the St. Lawrence 300 feet below, at a point where Wolfe's hlghlanders clam bered up the heights, will be able to see at the grand tlnale of the perform ance the combined navies of three great powers, consisting of twenty to thirty men-of-war, appearing on the scene to fire a deafening salute to the past, the present and thtfKuture of the Canadian nation. "The spectacle will be given hi the presence of the heir to the British crown, the vice president of the t'nlted States and the representatives of the president of the French republic and of the families of the French and Eng- i lish generals who met there in mortal combat a century and a half ago." Mr. Lascelles has been asked to ex- I plain what the coming pageant will lie like, what historic scenes are to be portrayed and how they are to be rep resented In the great open air drama. J This in part is what he said: "From the foot of his statue, where j stands for all time the bronze figure of the great Champluln, stepping ashore, as It were, as he did so long ; ago to take possession of this new 1 country of the west, the Prince of Wales and Mr. Fairbanks, with other illustrious guests, will see pass in pro cession liefore them all the great n\on and women who have made Canada what It is, and later on, 011 the Plains of Abraham, they will see the living pictures of the great events of those early days. "On the banks of that river this summer we shall see again, 11s Carrier saw nearly 400 years ago, a cluster of wigwams set beneath the trees. Away , on the broad waters of the river many feet below will come the little boats with Cartler and his crew, their names 6till preserved nud their descendants impersonating tliem. "Then we are transported to the court of France, the gardens at Fou taineblean, and high on the white charger, trapped with cloth of gold, rides the proud figure of Francis I. as we see him in pictures painted when he lived. Around him, clad In rich colored velvets and brocades, are the ladies and gentlemen of his court, some hundreds on horse and on foot, and Cartier, with three of the Indians with him, tells of the wonders of the country from which he has come. "So on through many scenes the floating clouds of incense which ac- ; company the ecclesiastical pomp and ceremony of the great and diguifud Archbishop Montmorency de Laval the booming caution, the gorgeous at tendants of the representatives of the king, the Marquis de Tracy, the br.l liunt uuiforms of * the soldiery, the quaint costumes of the habitants, the fierce battle of the Iroquois, tile fly it : arrows and the burning forts, the wiu dances of the savages and the May poles of the children, the powder patches of the ladles of France, t! curie 1 leonine locks of the cavn'.iet pass on and pass away. "Then in n final scene will march t! armies of two brave nations, side by side in a parade of honor, the scarlet and gold of the British and the blue atul white of the French, headed by four noble generals—Montcalm and Wolfe, Levis and Murray. The flags wave, the drums rattle, the trumpets blare, our dream of the past is over, and we see only the wonder of the present and the infinite possibilities of the future." Origin of Myths. The human mind, whether that of the savage or the civilized man, Is naturally a thinking machine. In early times, before science was born, the phenomena of nature required an ex planation, and the savage beholder shaped the r.-.yth, which satisfied his untutored mind. It Is out of man's natural craving to know the "reason why" that all myths are born. As the distinguished anthropologist, Tylor, puts it, "When the attention of a man in the myth making stage of intellect is drawn to any phenomenon which has to him an obvious reason, he in vents and tells a story to account ten. it." In such way all mythology orig inated. The Literary Sweatshop. Fair Visitor —Why, I had no idea that j novels were written In this way. Fore man of Six Best Seller Factory—Oh, yes! At these machines they punch in the plots, across the room they stitch in the description, the dialogue is put in by hand, and the whole then goes to the finishing room, where it is sawed into chapters.—Puck. Canadian's Odd Misfortune. Edward Spendlove of St. John, N. It., who came to Mexico recently to in spect tracts of timber land with a view to investment, is being taken home to tally blind. He found a peculiar tree in the forest and struck It with an ax. The blow caused the sup to spurt into his eyes, completely destroying his sight. • A. AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAe IA QUESTION 1 OF TIME. By Clarissa Mackie. Copyrighted, 1903. by Associated S Literary Press. • WWWWWWVTVWWWVVT • A night In India—humid, breathless, with great stars hanging In the dark blue sky and the dank odor of rotting vegetation from the nearby Jangle. From his seat in a bamboo reclining chair Welton stared unwluklngly at the blazing constellations. The punka boy had fallen into exhausted slumber on the mat, and the huge fan hung motionless overhead. Welton could bear the low murmur of voices from the Interior of the bungalow, and he knew that by slight ly turning his head he could see the pink glow of light from the shaded lamp and the retieetion of two faces i'l the large mirror in the corner. The two forms leaned over the pi ano, the white fingers of Marion Les ter drawing soft harmonies from the instrument, while Akerslie murmured tenderly in her pretty ear. And it was because of these two at the piano that Welton was very mis erable and stared at the stars. He knew that Mrs. Lester was nodding over her embroidery in some obscure corner of the room, and as for him self—well, lie seemed not to be in it at all! Colonel Lester was quartered at Lucknow, and when it was learned that Welton could not obtain the de rired leave of abseuce to visit his sweetheart Mrs. Lester had good na turedly undertaken the journey to Welton's isolated station at Gola Chat. The unexpected visit of the two wo men had i.nown the little station into a blissful confusion of preparation. The depredations of a man eating tiger had furnished an inexhaustible source of conversation and had been the occa sion for many tentative trips into the jungle for severarl weeks before the ad vent of the visitors, but now all was forgotten save the fact that there would be new faces to break the dead mo notony of the days—the fresh faces and low toned voices of refined English women. And then Akerslie had stepped In and spoiled it all. lie bad come up to see Welton and to try pot shots at the man eater, but he had met Marion Les ter, and in spite of the fact that he was Welton's guest and that he knew the relatons existing between the two he paid assiduous court to the girl. Thus far she had repelled his ad vances with a dignified coolness that seemed to inflame him to greater ardor. This evening, however, the gentleness of her manner toward him and her careless treatment of her lover had driven the latter to sulky solitude in the veranda. When the blue smoke wreaths from life fll ;.Jl§ V / "WERE YOD liKALLY ASLEEP, UILLX?" his cigar had formed a dense cloud which obliterated the starry heavens from his gaze Welton dropped bis eyes and stared ;it two points of yellow light that oscillated near the ground. They were ten inches apart, and they moved iu unison. Welton calcu lated that they i :nst lie Just without the bamboo stockade which inclosed the compound. There was a prickly feeling along the spine, and h< could feel the liair rais in.!,' slightly around Ills forehead as he realized that Cbunl I I neglected to close the great gate mid that there was perivip.-. only a hundred feet in tervening. between the nan eater and the open window of the little drawing room. lie thought rapidly, with bis eyes fixed ou the lambent points of flame in the velvet gloom of the gateway If he made a dash for the window and the safety that lay beyond the beast would spring before be could close the shutters behind his retreating form. If he could make Akerslie hear, at least the women would he safe. "Akerslie!" be called in a low, clear whisper. "Yes!" came the other man's lazy tones. "Close these shutters instantly! The man eater"— Ills words were lost In the quick manipulation of the iron rods from within, and the shutters fell with a clang, blotting out the glenv of light and leaving Welton alone to face the tiger. The momentary confusion roused the beast Into action. Welton could see the slow approach of the yellow eyes, could hear the padding of the great paws on the sandy path, and now his long sinuous form was dimly outlined in the starlight Welton remembered that he had left his revolver on his dressing stand. It could not be much of a fight with all the odds on the other side. At any rate, when the tiger had borne him nway to his lair Akerslie, the coward— Suddenly there was a terrific roar, a stifling odor of fur. Welton's band In stinctively flew to his pocket, and to bis surprise the revolver was there. There was a sharp crack at one of the yellow spots of light and a rush of air as the beast sprang toward him. He dropped to the floor, and with a tre mendous thud the animal struck the closed shutters and bounded back with a bloodcurdling scream of bathed rage and pain. Welton had leaped over the railing and sliDned behind the protecting trunk or a giant teajt. 'rue animal snunea about the veranda, and presently there ton remembered the sleeping punka j boy. He saw the tiger stepping down I the path, his jaws gripping a dark. I moaning bundle. He knew that, unmolested, the beast J would now retire to the jungle with j his victim and that the occupants of the bungalow as well as himself would ] lie free from danger, ne ground his j teeth and aimed for the other eye. He j put it out In the light of the stars he saw the j beast shiver, drop the dark bundle, i which sped affrightedly away, and then come toward him with bleeding, blinded eyes and snarling mouth. It was only a question of time now. Around the tree he dodged, and then farther away from the house toward j the stockade. He would lure the beast; from the vicinity of the bungalow and fight it out with him In the open space before the jungle, which rose dark and forbidding in the background. One would win out, aud the other— Again he heard the crack of his re volver, and yet again, und still the beast did not fall. Still he tracked the man blindly, remorselessly. There were two cartridges left in the cham ber, and then—again Welton fired, once, twice. With a shudder, he felt something soft on his cheek. "By Jove! Billy seems a bit sleepy! j Wake up and hear the news, old man!" i Welton recognized the facetious tone of Akerslie, his faithless friend. He opened his eyes slowly, wonderfully. Overhead the great stars were hang ing in the dark blue sky, and there j was a rank odor of rotting vegetation ! from the nearby jungle. He was reclining in the bamboo chair, and Marion stood behind him 1 with her soft hand upon his rumpled hair. There was a glow of lamplight from the open window of the drawing j room, and iu the opposite direction he' could sec that the gate of the com- j pound was closed. "The—man eater?" he asked dazedly, | moving his cramped limbs. "What made you tlilulc of that?" | asked Akerslie ruefully. "I was just j going to spring it on you! Chuni—the brave, the incomparable Chuni —has' slain the man eater just without the I stockade! Look!" Welton roso stiffly to his feet and looked sheepishly at the flaming torches and the crowd of brown skin lied natives who were triumphantly dragging the huge carcass through the gateway. Chuni, proud and victorious, salaamed before his master. "For the honorable sahib," he said solemn ly. A little later Marion bade her lover good night. "What do you think, Billy?" she murmured softly, with a side glance at the stalwart form of Akerslie. "Major Akerslie has been telling me about his engagement to Marjorie Booth—a dear schoolmate of mine—and I'm afraid we were so much interested in talking about her that we forgot you! Were you really asleep, Billy?" "I hope so," said Billy Impressively. | The Glory of Life. The human race is still iu its infancy. Up to the present moment, with a few grand exceptions, man has lived mostly an animal existence. The brute Is only partially educated out of him. He has not yet evolved that superb character, that diviner man, foreshadowed iu the beast How few people ever get any thing more than a mere glimpse of the true glory of life! Few of us see any real sentiment In life or anything above the real animal existence and animal pleas ures. Most of us look upon our occu pation as a disagreeable necessity that somehow or other ought to have been and might have been avoided. The trouble with many of us is that we think too meanly of ourselves. Our sordid aims and material, selfish am bitions have so lowered our standards that we think downward instead of up ward; we grovel Instead of soaring. Our lives are materialistic, selfish, greedy, because we live In the base of j our brains, down among the brute fac- j ulties. We have never explored to any) great extent the upper regions of our' brain, never developed our higher Intel-' ligence.—Success Magazine. A Ccurtecus Pirate. That even a Chinese pirate may have a strong idea <>J chivalry is proved by the following excerpt fi :n an item In the North China Dallj News:"The launch at once stopped when ordered] to do S" The leader ot the pirates was the:, heard to < rdei his i ie:i that they v , riot,to mole t :t.j • • <»:) board who voluntarily handed ovet his or her valuables. Among tli • pa:e: s. how ever, were a father and s. n. the latter' of whom. It seemed. Tt :is a little too slow iu obeying the i irates' order to hand over his money, with the result that he was shot Upon bearing the shot the pirate chief, who was on deck, 1 came down into the cabin and, seeing the father of the unlucky young man; lamenting ovjr his son's death, ad-, dressed the old man and condoled with' him ou his son's unfortunate and 'un deserved' death. The chief finally brought out of his pocket a roll of SSO and handed the sum to the old man as a solatium, bidding him to 'efrain from further lamentations." Building Industry Exposition. An international exposition for art I and building Industry will be held in St. Petersburg, liussia, from June to October under the direction of the So ciety of Civil Engineers of liussia. j The exhibition will have sections for the display of building materials, car pentry anil metal work, sanitary pro tection, flreprooflng materials, electrical apparatus, artistic furnishings, litera ture aud methods of technical Instruc tion. Washington Shuns Jewelry. In Washington it is rare nowadays to see a woman wear more than a brooch or a stickpin except on formal occasions. The rage for necklaces and bracelets, earrings and chains seems to have vanished. Baroness Moncheur Invariably wears either all white or all black for the promenade or calling, and not one ornament Is visible except small diamond plus to bold her high collar In place. Beneficial Exercise. "Are you taking any exercise for your health?" asked the wolf of the fox. "Oh, yes," responded the latter, "and I am improving rapidly! I am taking part In an amateur country club fox hunt."—Baltimore American... NOTES C.M.BARNITZ RIVERSIDE , 6 JiJK CORRESPONDENCE JjmdZ I' . SOLICITED U/V k? g' THE CHICKEN HAWK. Satan Is compared to a bloodthirsty hawk whirling iu great concentric cir cles through the air, falling like a thun derbolt on his prey. Of the USO mur derous vultures wheeling, reeling, re volving, falling like fate, sweeping with fearful velocity on their victim— this must have l?een the chicken hawk, known in books by the alius Accipiter coopere, but feared by poultry men as the demon of the air. Alert for prey, he poises in midair over all America and the world. Uead his description from the rogues' gallery: Head, back, wings, dusky brown; tail white, crossed with brown bars; eyes amber, toes long, talons curved, long and sharp; from brown beak down breast to long yellow legs white-brownish red bar spots. A large hawk measures from head to tail thirty inches, three feet from tip to tip and male smaller than female. Ite is known among sportsmen as "the long tailed pheasant hawk" and, it is said, kills as much game as the average hunter. This is rather mild, for the sportsman's average game to day is often himself when he doesn't know it's loaded or some other fellow who's such a deer or bird. But he is the great game scourge from the California quail, the midland prairies chicken, to the Pennsylvania pheasant aud the New Jersey reed bird. Ills s[vecial delight is to nest in the trees of the wood near the farm house, where he may relieve the farm er of his surplus poultry. There may be found his rough, shallow nest and its four white bluish brown splashed eggs or his hawklets that graduate from the chicken thief school in eight weeks to pirate for themselves. While pigeons, white chickens and white Holland turkeys are his favor ites, perhaps more frequently caught because easily seen. Of ninety-six hawks eighty-six contained chickens and birds. One hawk hooked fifty hens before the farmer shot him. A pair bore twelve young turkeys a w ay in a day.and. like borrowed umbrellas, they were never returned When Mr. Ilawk appears, circling In the sky, it makes as much excitement on a farm as the annual circus or a barn afire. "There's a hawk!" hrfnps mother from the baking. •Mary from the sprins house, Jerry from the corn and dud from the plow. Uut he wheels away as if to say. "I'll set your chickens sumci other day." Shotguns, } \»el traps and scarecrows for hawks. Cornfields around chicken C" >ps are hidi-g place; fir daj an I night hawks When chickens come h :ne with si nne.i necks and lacks be hawk eyed. DON'TS. Don't let those chicks waddle in the milk. Milk spots on chick feathers arc worse than spotted fever. Don't forget to cut out corn in hot U jather. Cholera. You may forget highballs, but don't forget fresh water. Don't forget that geese pay big. Chase that worthless dog. Take the tax and buy goose eggs for hatching. Oh, what a roast you'll get! Don't cry over spilled eggs. If you had set that hen in a decent box she wouldn't have broken the eggs. There now! Don't listen to the fellow who is tell ing you to build a cheap hennery, lie's got a hallucination or is a cheap ar ticle himself. Wait till you get more cash if it has to be an old shack that your next door neighbor would like to burn down. Don't forget to sow for litter. Oats and wheat are prime, but buckwheat goes to pieces too soon. We prefer wheat to oats because the wheat is harvested before young stock can work on it. Oats on young stock range Is terrific for hard crop. HIQ.H EXPLOSIVES. Bald Mrs. Smith to Farmer Brown. "Are these eggs laid today?" "Oh, yes!" said the man Just come to town. "I saw the Barred Rocks lay." So the sister paid a bonton price And got some old hen fruit. She placed them in her cupboard nice, Not knowing they could shoot. That night good Parson Smith cam« home As hungry as a bear He went to get a chicken bone, Not knowing eggs were there. But when he op ed the cupboard door Twelve guns went off—Ttoot! Toot! They knocked him senseless to the floor And smeared him well to boot. C. M a. KUBIOS FROM KORRESPONDENTB Q. Can you inform me why my Leg horns have flat, narrow tails? My breeders have full spread tails. I have six brooders and seven small col ony houses and raised 750 chickens last year. A. Adding the ordinary per cent of loss to your 750 and noting your hous ing capacity, you crowded your young stock so their tail feathers could not develop properly. Breed froaa the same old stock again and bouse better and you will have a different tale to tell. Q. 1 have lost so many little duclca. They just seem to be paralyzed. Can it be that I let them go into the water too soon? We have only a small stream of spring water. A. Sorry! It's that cold spring wa ter. We have had the same duck fu neral to cry over. Water isn't a neces sity to duck raising except for drink. Q. I have written to several journals about my Wyandottes and get no satis faction. Will you inform me why some of my new stock have single combs? 1 wrote to the dealer from whom I bought the eggs and received no reply. Am 1 cheated? My birds are white, well formed and lay well. A. You aren't cheated. Single comb ed hybrids are occasionally thrown. It results from mating narrow rose combs. Your dealer might easily have defended his sale and perhaps retained a customer by showing common sense. Q. I am anxious to know what your opinion is in regard to moisture or nonmoisture incubators Which ma chine do you prefer? A. We have tested both styles and now use only the wet sand pan ma chine. Under the old hen tl» humid ify is 00 per cent. In the tibnmoisture machine it is only 2h to 30 per cent. Tiiis dryness causes many chicks to die in the shell and causes white diar rhea. We can set mixed eggs in our machine and get more, larger and healthier chicks. Q. My chicks' wings grow so fast as to drag them down and weaken them. Is this natural? A. The quills of Leghorns' wings grow in the shell and develop rapidly. Heavy breeds feather slowly Run your brooder at lower heat, as too high temperature has a tendency to push feathers. Clip the wings as you prune grapevines, and the strength will go into the chicks instead of feathers. Q. My young Iteds are so crazy for blood that they kill each other. What Is wrong, and what will stop it? A. This is natural to chickens and is easily stopped by feeding beef scrap or raw meat. Hang chunks of beef or veal lights before them. Be careful in punching the foot web not to draw blood or they will drag the bleeding chicken to death. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. A strong constituted chick ought to weigh one pound at the least when six weeks old. Nice green food for brooder chicks is fresh lettuce. Tender clover makes a chick smile all over. The heavier the hen the greater the smash of eggs in the clucks' nest. In cubators never get lice nor tantrums. You wouldn't think it, but tinted duck eggs tire the clearest of all eggs to test. You can see almost everything inside but the color of the eyes. When you buy a chicken by the chicken you are entitled to the giblets. Just remind the dealer that you like them chopped in the gravy as well as he. Advertise and dispose of surplus breeders and birds when the first bell rings. Then you can swing the ham mocks while the other fellows wring their hands. You can't sell every product all the year around, but eggs and poultry al ways go. A good hint: Raise a few extras next summer, and don't forget the family potpie. To catch a pigeon that you have heretofore failed to capture just fasten grains of corn on the end of three foot strings and tie the other ends fast. He'll soon bite fast. Then just cut the string. Restraining a River. The Platte rlvt r ha« made trouble l for Nebraska railroads over since the railroads were built. It wanders around over •• wide plain wirh no channel to spea: ; d I- lii-ely to rip out. a piece of brie e■' re. ■ IV>uc times a year. The Burt' 1 : i railroad is just trying a new scheme at Fre mont and apparent! with ' "--at suc cess Heavy e\ ! I:: ts 1m ve beea built on either a; ; all £ the wa ter is I'ing fore i 1 t!i >us_!i one main "hannel TM- -ehe- is mnktnj the river dig a decent bed for it elf. A Gr-.at Change. First Gentleman (entering the apart ment of second gentleman)— About * year ago you challenged me t • fight a duel. Second Gentleman (sternly>—l did. sir. First Gentleman—And 1 told you that I had just got married and I did not care to risk my life at any hazard. Second Gentleman (haughtily} —I remember, sir. First Gentleman (bitterly)— Well, my feelings have changed. Any time you want to fight let mo know.—TTnmnn T tf» aSTrai A Rellatal# TD SHOP for all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Central Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QIIJLiTY TEE BEST! JOHN HIXSON Ha IV E. FRONT ST.
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