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.
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IA QUESTION 1
OF TIME.
By Clarissa Mackie.
Copyrighted, 1903. by Associated
S Literary Press.
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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
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"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...
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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»
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