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: REAL USEFULNESS.
‘Its; or ‘should be, every girl's de-
@ire, even ambition, to bé ‘as useful as
she can to her mother in the household
affairs, - Real usefulness does mot con--
sist in doing only what one is asked,
but in anticipating things to be done,
and relieving mother of the necessity
of asking for help, says the Cleveland
Plain’ Dealer. ‘The most important
partiof the service is willingness and
cheerfilness. One would much rather
do a thing oneself than beg or make
Some one clse do it, or eveu ask any
one who is not cheerful. . Be real help-
ful and try to make your mother won-
der what she would do without your
assistance.
BREAKFASTLESS SHOPPERS.
Department store restaurants com-
mand a peculiar morning trade. Few
of them advertise the breakfast, yet
there is quite a brisk trade drawn from
women who come downtown very ear-
ly in search of bargains. A shop which
features Monday and Tuesday morning
sales usually has a rush for the bar-
gain counters the moment the doors
are opened. Waitresses in the res-
taurants say that very few women
who attend these sales stay at home
to eat breakfast Many do not take
even a cup of coffee, and once they
secure thé: coveted bargains they ad-
journ to the restaurant, eat a: light
breakfast and then . continue their
shopping systematically.
FOR THE DARK-HAIRED DAMSEL
The genuine brunette, she of the dark
eyes and dark skin and neck, rich, red
cheeks—can wear cream, deep yellow,
orange, ‘cardinal, deep maroon, deep
blue; but-mnot purple, golden brown,
tans, grays and claret. She should
avoid all green, violets. mauves .and-
greeny blues.
The fair brunette must not think be-
cause she happens to possess black or
“emg APTOWT black hair that she must dress
up to it. The hair is a matter of quite
minor importance. It is the skin and
eyes that have to be studied and con-
sidered. Among the fair brunette’s
colors are cream, light blue, all shades
of gray, pale coral and pale salmon
pink. :
For evening the sallow brunette must
reconcile herself to Indian reds, orange
yellow, deep orange and flame color,
while for day wear steely grays, red,
tan, crimson, deep cardinal and deep
poppy red, tan and strong golden
brown are to be recommended.
WITH TAILOR-MADE GOWNS.
Fancy waistcoats, lapels, collars and
cuffs are very prominent in the fashion
scheme for street costumes. This fash-
ion furnishes an opportunity for indi-
vical taste; but it is rather a danger-
ous thing for people to go into rashly.
The question of contrasts of color is
not generally understood, and it is best
not to attempt anything too startling.
A touch of color, such as blue, green,
red, or white, against any dark ma-
terial often lightens a gown amazingly
and makes it more becoming, but there
are very few people who can wear un-
asual colors, and there are very few
dressmakers or tailors who" know just
what one of the many shades of color
is appropriate with the heavy material
of, which the gown is composed. How-
ever, among the more expensive models
for winter gowns this fashion of strik-
ing contrasts in trimming will be very
noticeable, and is a sa! ne to copy
advifedly and soberly.~Harper’s Bazar.
WHAT WOMEN MOST LIKE.
A woman likes to be truly loved and
to ‘be told ‘so.
She likes some noble, honorable man
to bé thoughtful of her, kind and con-
siderate of her welfare.
“YVhen well’ and becomingly dressed,
a quiet notice of it is always appréci-
ated. :
A word of praise for a nice dinner
or supper often more than compensates
(BET for the worry and work of prepara-
Aion. :
¥ She Wants Her husband not to be her
supporter, but her companion, Tre-
‘membering that, it is the kind word
hat often brings ber greater happiness
‘than a new Set of dishes, though pres-
‘ents ‘like the latter are always wel
‘come. ‘
© She likes fo be made to realize that
‘she “is good fOr something besides a
Taere household: drudge. {
She likes to be petted occasionally,
but not in public. The little private
pet names are very dear to a woman’s
heart.
HOW TO GAIN A CORRECT POISE
‘The best way to ‘obtain the proper
poise is to stand with the face against
the wall. The tcoes should touch the
wall and the arms bang limp by the
side. . This latter is an important sug-
gestion. Often when one begins these
physical culture exercises the muscles
become stiffened, and no benefit is
derived. Let the tip of the nose also
touch the wall, not the upper part of
the nose, which would let the head
drop too much, but just the lower tip.
Press the shoulders as far back as
possible, as if trying to make them
meet in the back, and then relax them.
The entire length of the body will prob-
ably now be reclining against the wall.
Draw the abdomen as far away from
the wall as you possibly can, and you
are ready to walk off. As you step
kway from the wall, test the position
now touch the wall and so should the
shoulders and the back of the head.
As. you walk forward a bock placed
flatly on the top of your head will not
drop off. - :
TO TELL LINEN FROM COTTON.
It often happens ‘that woolen goods
will be doctored with'cotton.: To dis-
cover this there are several tests that
can be made.” One is the match test.
By applying a lighted . match: to a
sample of the goods,.the manner in
which it burns will be evidence. of its
genuineness. , Ni
. Wool will burn slowly, while cotton
will ‘go like a train’ ‘of gunpowder.
Another test is to unravel the threads
and the cotton éan then easily be de-
tected. A »,
To the experienced buyer the “feel”
of linen is a suyfiicient indication, of
the quality, but for those who lack this
knowledge there is- an old-fashioned
test which our grandmothers used
which is unfailing to show if there is
cotton in the weol. Dampen the finger
and apply to the surface of the linen
fabric. If the moisture is seen on the
other side you may know at once if is
linen. If'it’is slow ‘in coming through,
without doubt there is an admixture
of cotton. Another method is fo un-
ravel thie threads, as in the wool test.
SHELL CANDLE SHADES.
Almost everybody knows, and has
periodically gathered from youth ‘to
old age, the pretty little yellow shells
scattered so abundautly -through the
seashore’s sand. Schentifically,- wor,
rather, by the. concholozist; they: are
referred to as “jingle” shellsy'and’ cdm-
monly dubbed the “daintiest,” ‘the
dearest” and “most desired” of all
among an upheaval of baby clam: shells,
mussels, ‘snails; cockies, and other
beach sand ‘life. They’ are ndt, how-
ever uniformly .yellow.: Thair tints
are oftén’ opalescent, in varied tones
of either shrimp’ pink or deep orange,
or ‘else they are found almost white,
with pale yellow and green shadings.
They, besides, are fortunate in retain-
ing their lustre even after being car-
ried away and given a good fresh wa-
ter scrubbing. ;
Among quite new uses to which these
beautiful little shells are put is that
of making them up in candle shades.
The foundation shade on which these
shells’ are sewn is made of coarse,
stiffened linen and has a narrow silk
fringe around the bottom. This
blends in with and considerably soft-
ens the loose hanging shells . which
have been strung as d finish to, the
shade. While these linen shades. can
be found without | difficulty, their
usual color is white. The shells, how-
ever, look best if made. up Qver pale
vellow, especially when the capdle’s
light - shines through them.> Kansas
City Journal.
MAKING A HOME, :
The principles which ought to goy-
ern in the making of a home—meaning
the material home, the house and its
equipment and immediate environ-
ment—should be clear in the ‘mind of
the home maker. But'they are apt to
be confused ‘by circumstances. redir-
ing energy and initiative to overcome,
says Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers. in Fhe
House Beautiful. These qualities are
not always possessed, and Iess often
exercised by the home maker. Thesin-
telligent housewife should demand that
the house and its environment be in
perfect sanitary condition, and refuse
to accept anything else. Landlords
and builders would find it then to
their advantage to meet the require-
ment. . ,
Convenience is a second principle
very often overlooked in deciding on
a home, and thereby, time, ‘comfort
and health are in a measure sacrificed.
The endless duties to be performed in
a house become, when. it is planned
without due regard to the ease of do-
ing the work, a tenfold burden. .
Simplicity is a third essention prin
ciple, and beauty isa closely allied
fourth. Either without the other is
impossible, and a home lacking in one
fails in both. Beware’ of the multi-
plicity of things!: This evil is the en-
emy of simplicity and beauty, as it-is
of time and comfort. One, of the great
architects said, in talking with me re-
cently about this difficulty of accumu-
lation of things in a home: “Pass
them on.” It is a wise saying, truly.
Some one needs them, and their going
will be a double blessing. Pictures,
books, bric-a-brae, furniture, which
we have outgrown or can do without
to advantage, “Pass them on” to glad-
den another llome, and permit simplie-
ity and beauty to abide in our home.
The principles of simplicity and
beauty need to be heeded as carefully
in the house itself as its equipment ahd
furnishing. Everything within or with-
out the home departing from the lines
of. simplicity may well be tabooed as
detracting from the real beauty essen-
tial to the home of the.people sensitive
to the finer things of life. If health,
convenience, simplicity and beauty are
the guiding principles in the essentials
of a home, we cannot go very far
astray on minor matters relating to it.
In a dairy, near San Franeisco Cali-
fornia, the other day, an overloaded
hayloft collapsed upon sixty cows that
were in a barn. beneath, and either
crushed or smoluered to death all of
them,
by turning round. The heels should |
A SERMON. FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED.
"KNQWLEDCE OF CHRIST.”
The Rev, Winfield Scott Baer Tells Those
Who Would Receive Light That They’
Must; Exercise: Self-Control and:Sacri-
tice Pleasure to the Work
BrooREEN;:'N. Y.—Tie Winfield
Scott B rector of St, ’s, Church,
préached Mmday morning one Knowledge
of Chrigt?® He took. his text from Philip-
pians iii. 8: “I count all things but loss for
the exgelléncy of thet knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Fozd.” Mr. Baer. sald among
other things: Eb :
A quarter of a century had passed since
Paul onithe way to Dangascis saw, a great
light, sineé he who was the fiérseeutor of
the chureh became Apostle tothe Gentiles.
They were! years of ental .and’ spiritual
growthicof missionary zeal and ‘activity, of
suffering dnd privagion, and beyond that. of
jov and gladness ich no man could tell.
Now, looking back over his life fFom
prison in Rome, he passed judgment upon
his zain and Jess. There was no tinge of
despondency which might have come ‘from
age or weakness, no’ touch of bitterness
-showing that the iron .micht have entered
.into his soul, but with the calmness of.a
judge and’ the fervor.of.'a seeker after
truth, “he cried: “I count all things but
loss for the cxcellencv of the Lnowledge of
Christ Jesus may Lord.”
There aré: many: kinds: of knowledge,
gained in different methods and ways.
Some comes through exercise of memorv;
some through careful observation of: the
facts of nature; some by experiment in the
laboratory; some bv careful reading of the
past and wise judgment upon it; much
from the careful study of ourselves. In
varying degrees these all'are precious, and
they ar€ given only for a price. The school
system tof hich we are proud is costly.
The vast expenditiire of nione¥ is but an
item ia the cost. Fnergy, time, thought
of myriads interested in the work of knowl-
edge and in training those eommitted to
their’ care harder far’ than:hearing lessons
froma a book. The years of school, the
hours: of study and. practice, the physical
confinerent when eh'ldren: would rather
be on the street or inibhe-field, all these
must be counted in. “We are almost disap-
pointed when we do not read among the
honbrg of college commencement some men-
tionfeof gifts of moncy to. enable the col-
lege to, pursue trath; ‘and ‘give.it out to
those who seek it; and here alse.are time
and labor and research.” So tHése who
would receive the full benefit ofthe prof-
fered knowledge must cxercise self-control,
sacrifice play and pleasure *o the Work.
_ This is but the beginning of knqgwiedee.
In every realm of life men seek if Haply-
they may find. The borders of th@ un-’
known aré béing pushed bick day bv doy,
and the light of truth is seen and known
over. ever wider tracts. In scientific. re-
search, invention, explorafion © of the
earth, knowledge of society, knowled&e of
“third. en are thinking, working; waining
knowledges, They.pay the ‘cost: Thé ice
of the north. conld it speak; jyould tell of
those who sought the pole, merely. that
they might know; the jungles of Asia and
the forests of Afrieaxr-are known to ws from
the traveler; missionary. scientist, soldier,
seeker after cold: with- their different mo-
tives: impelling them, they bring forth
knowledge, or the world, Human trials,
privations and death have been paid for
that knowledge. Tew 'as they. take it,
think of the price at vehich itis purchased.
There are degrees of worth in knowl-
edge. That which has most, f-the human
in" 3t contains most interest’ for us. Per-
‘Sons are the highest facts: the. kuowledge
of persons is the highest knowledge. Tt is
a wonderful story which science tells us of
the development of the world. It is a more
living story for us to know of the develop-
ment of mankind; hence, history, biogra-
phy and social matters have a deeper in-
terest for us. . Nor is it an.easy matter to
read “the past or the present.; From the
same. chemieal ingredients we expeat the
same results. Personality .may conceal or
may reveal itself by its words and deeds.
None of us needs to be Jekyll and Hvde
to appreciate that he is not always ‘elear
23 crystal, to be read by‘all the world.
Deeds may belie the heart. None of us
knows apother, perfectly. perhans we do
not know ‘ourselves. The mathematical
fable we: know, bat the knowledge of man-
kind is. higher, and .more secret and. diffi--
cw't to gain, To imei som
“Tf study of man be our. true study” then
the studv of the best i§ our iwise part.
How foolish for the student in art to
study the chramo when. the masterpiece }
is before his éve!’ Why strive to read by
light of Jamn-when-therglorious, sain in the
heaven floods the: earth with Light? Seek:
the noblest, and }éarn of him. It'was this
which ‘Paul whs doing. The desire of his
heart, ‘the end of his thoucht, the goal of
his purpose was that. he might know
Christ, and for. that he would feount all
things but loss. » Tt gage
There has been loss in Paul's Hf# as he
gained! this knowledge. Tipss of. money,
positign, friendship;. bitterly! hated:by his
people, hind now. loss of: liberty, ag captive
at Rome. - But these he countdd loss for
the knowledge of Christ. “4. © ° .
This was more than a knowledge of the
o AIS W j0re.4n ’
facts of ‘Christls life; more than an: ac-
knowledgmienit of his past and presént-high
dignity in the ‘spiritual world; more than
a: recognition sof the place! of «Christ in
God’s work for ‘man. Ofte might know all
this,’ yet not kmow. Christ, as Paul longed
to know, in the communion of friendship,
in the inspiration of Christ within, ia the
power" of Christ raising ‘him from sin‘ fo
righteousness, making him a‘ipaptaker of
His own life, so that he could say: “filive,
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me?’
We may not follow Paul's intellectual
flights nor gaze with his vision atjthe mys-
teries which are unveiled. Bui we may
Jnow the purpose of. God for. us,” which is
that. we shall seek the teuth of life, This
is found in Christ.” To know .Him is the
rivilege of all. There is ne exclusive
dass of rich or poor, but the knowledee is
open to ail who are wiliine to take if as it
can be taught, and are willing to pay. the
price.
This knowledge of Christ can he known
but partially through reading of the skies
above or the Scriptures beneath. Many
through these come to a knowledge of, God.
But such study is foo easy a school for
charatter, as we strive to know the living,
loving God. ; Li iB E
One has told of the search for the snovw-
white bird of truth. How, after, weary
journeyings. toils, temptations, struggles.
at last in the hour ‘of death a climpse of
the passing ereature is given, and a feather
dropped from its wing is grasped by the
dying. man. No such cold truth as that
do we seek. Tt is the knowledge of the liv-
ing person, Christ Jesus, our- Lord. He
can be known truly only through sympa-
thy, kindness of mind and heart and life:
through personal experience. ; :
For suceess in any pursuit of truth there
must be desire, ‘concentration, work and
vatience, There must be the desire impel-
ling the searcher; the concentration of en-
ergies on the pursuit; study of the laws of
the subjeet; willingness to serve in the hall
of patience ere passing into the palace of
dom t is unreasonable to expect that
the highest knowledge of man, the knowl-
edge of life, can be secured without paying
the price.
For it there is needed a desire which
shall overcome all other desires. There
must be a purpose of the will, the lifelong
endeavor to attain. Paul counted not him.
self to have -attained, but he pressed on
for the pris There m be purifica-
tion of life, for God is }
f and noR-distinguished visitors.
love not His things, aid without thisisym-'
athy- there cannot be the knowledge of
pefsdn to person. Because of “this meces-
£ity of knowing God through the earnest-
ness of desire, thé bending of our will, the
sobedience of our life, there comes the
struggle in man’s life with trial, tempta-
tion, suffering. For if it be the life of
Christ we are to know, then itis a life of
“truth, of holiness, of love, of self-sacrifice,
of consecration to ‘the Father's will. No
Jnan can know that life in its fulness save
as le ‘cexperiences if. He may discuss it,
and’ compare it witii others, but only he |
‘who lives it' knows what it is. B08 the
disciples asked the Lord for the “€hief
places in the kingdom. He. told them that
‘they knew not ‘what they dsked. Can ye
drink the cup that Idrink. be baptised
avith the haptism that Tam? They fhought
#hey could. Tater, in a» measure.-they did.
it the places. are reserved - for “those
fo. whom it, is anpointeql,. for those who
régfitted. for it. It'is the inner prize of
cha er, of holiness, of love; of truth,
after the ‘likeness of Jesus Christ whi
entitles one to stand near im ‘in gpiritual
power and dominion. This is not always
dasy "¥@hrist had His struggles. His agony,
His creas’ Tho disciple is nat above the
Master.. Tt may not mean: the giving ‘up
of life.~ Tt does at times in mission lands,
But to «ain that knawledee ‘of.Christ will
abst. 4s righteousness gained without tef-
forts Is forziveriess: of one who has in-
jured us a mere bagatel’e? Do all the re-
wards. go to the honest and high princi-
pled in polities? Ts ‘truth “in business al-
ways at a premium? In thé presence of
the pleasure and the business of the day
js it a simple matter to keen one’s head
erect, and work as a son of God, and thus
acting, know Christ in truth and love?
Does it demand much of us that we shall
give ourselves up for those who may scorn
or hate ns, so following the examnle ‘of
Christ. who gave Himself for us? Ah. we
know in our daily life how great the task
is set for us in the school of character, that
we may know Christ; that we may be like
Him; that we may grow in the knowledge
of human truth and love as we not only
see it in Him, but know it in. ourselves.
It costs much because it is'life: and be-
cause it is life, it pays. For chief in the
joys and glories of truth, there ‘stands this
excellency of the knowledee of Christ as
apprehended by man: it is the truth of life,
the life of God, the life:of man, who is the
child of God. Gt ng
Read through the history of th& past of
those noble ‘ones who have aided, the'maral
uolift of the world through thi§ personal
living kitowledge of Christ. « They know
truthyand love, hecause thev have lived
trntheand love. They paid the price. Tt
might bé&&poverty, persecution, martyrdom:
struggles withins ahd trials without. In
the power of Christ's strengthening them
to do the things which were right. in the
suffering for others that they might be
drawn unto (od, thev cime into possession
the knowledge of "Christ. through exper-
ience. With one accord that noble multi-
tude’ which no man can’ number,” of apos-
tles, prophets, martyrs, known ‘and rvs
known, giving’ thanks unto God for. Hig
goodness, ascribes to this knowledge p-o-
eminence and’ surpassing glory ‘above al
others, ervine out with Paul, We count #1
things but, loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus .our Lord.
Liberty:
There is no .sweetef word in human.
speech than liberty; no. finer thought in
human mind, no richer gift in hwman life.
What is freedom? ndependence of
law? So. many think. But they are mis-
taken. He who imagines “freedom -con-
sists in getting rid of law is totally and fa-
tally wrongs "x ht s Yo eX
We offer the Ten Commandments to a
man for his moral code. He rejects the
code,. saying, “I will be bound by no _ta-
ble.of Jaws. I am free.” He is'not free.
He may as well reject the multiplication
table or the law of gravitation. =» 5
“I will be enslaved by no creed.” Tn-
slaved "by a creed? Creeds do not en-
slaves i they are “declarations of religious
independence, proclamations of emanci-
pation, ‘affirmations of freedom. A creed
1s much like a political platform--a state-
ment of opinions. No one platform’ ever
contained all the political opiniong of the
men who adopted it. No one creed ever
contained all the religious opinions of ifs.
adherents. It is at best only an attempt
to state the essential. doctrines in which
its makers agree.” *
A bird is free in the air. The air is its’
clement. A fish is free in the vater. Wa-
ter is its element. Man is free in obedi-
ence to the laws of his being. The Bible
contains thgse laws. Moral judgment con-
firms ttm. Conscience approves when we
observe:them, accuses us'avhen ave violate
the? A man who persists in ‘sin is as
truly ou of hisi‘element.'as a trout in
thesaie ox’ a spprrow! in. water. And the
end i3:thé, same when any living creature |
gets but of its element, out-of; harmony
with daw—the penalty. is death:
But an intervening hand may Testore
the #ish and thelbird to t eik eldments?
Yes. "And is. there no han to. yestore a
lost man to his, element? 1 Gad’
Chiist \
answer ito that question. “Whom 'ghe Son
makes free, he 1 free indeed.” —Philadel-
phia Ledger. .;. 7 * a Tags gn 1
§, Pray Not Alone For Self.:.. x.
A gentleman who was: trayeling in The
lantlisat down one day in a cottage to, talk
with an old woman. As they were having
theiry, ‘dish of discourse” there came a'clap
of thinder, and the old woman &t once
spread put her. hands in supplication, cry-
ing: Bo ge
“God. bless and saye us! : And save his
honor, and save thg people and all of us!”
For she space of “half ‘an hour the thun-
der was frequent, “and? each time she
prayed. Then she told. the visitor this
story, which has a’ good ‘moral ‘in its defin-
ing ol. the proper spirit which should be-
léng to prayer: ° a
“There was a man, and he was working
ina figld like, and it came on’ to thunder,
and he put his head in a hole in’ ‘the wail
and he said: a
“ ‘God save what’s out 0’ me!’
“But he ought to have prayed for the
whole of him, for he mo ‘sooner said that
thai theswall fell and took his head.off. ©
“It avas telled to me that this wasia
judgment on the crathury becausé if is not
right to pray small; just for yoursilf. But
vou sirould pray.large—to save us all—pray
biz' and open hearted. Dit that may be
only a story, sir’?
*' Sensitive to Every Impression.
In the quaint little house Shere Shakes-
pearc once‘lived, writes Peter Ainslee: Tor
many vears no register was kept, and vis-
itors wrote their names upon the walls md
ceilings, until every bit of space had been
occupied with some handwriting, and it
must nod be forgotten that fully 40,000 peo-
ple ;visited there every year. Sir Walter
Scott: had. written with his diamond ring
his namg upon, the window pane, and there
were tHe names of ‘Washington Irving,
John Raskin, and a host of distinguished
i Standing
there, F' felt as though that little room
was like the human heart, sensible to every
influence, and inviting every comer to
write his name upon its. walls, for. the
heart is the most impressionable of all
God’s works. It gets a part of every pass
ing - thought, word, look, picturé—every-
thing, and here lies its salvation, if it
catches the good, or i nation if it
holds the bad. Luther wisely said, “1 am
more afraid of my own heart than of the
Pope and all his cardinals. And hence
that imperative demand, “Love the Lord
with all thy heart.”
A Pure Home.
On a recent Sunday Dr. W. B. Leach, of
Chicago, - informed 5 Methodist hearers
that pure home rth a thousand
women’s clubs for 1 and elevation
f tha massag,
+ SEevees
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H mamal upon his own
x * ground, each after its own
: fashiom, need never be shy
of game, though his outfit ‘be old and
wild life in “his region, secarce.: But
‘stalking does ‘not mean lying in: wait
‘all ‘night. at some water hole for deer
or wildcat or lion, nor yet. the immo-
lating of.one’s self in a blind of tules
surrounded ky wooden ducks.
Stalking in an open country is in-
estimably-harder- than the same kind
of sport as followed by our grand-
daddies in the heavily wooded slopes
of the Adifondacks and later by . our
fathers in the Rockies, and even. the
nearer Sierras. Hunting of this kind
requires infinite patience and not a
little knowledge of the animal life of
the hunter's country, and was the main
standby ‘of the Indians before the com-
ing of the white man brought to his
use the shotgun and the rifle.
In stalking coyotes, the returns from
whieh, in this Section, will’ be. one or
more good hides and a day’s sport,
strike out in the'early dawn of a mid-
winter day, on foot, for a coyote will
not noticé* a -man on foot. when he
would run like a scared deer from the
same’ man on a horse. In the early
dawn all the little wolves will be com-
ing up‘the draws and dry washes from
the baynyards, where they have put in
the night. So it is wandering along
the foothills, down one little valley
and up the next, that the stalker should
80, eyes and ears open, his whole body
ready to “freeze” inte a fence post or
a crooked stump at the instant sight
of game: Then softly, Aunning low in
the shadow ef, a bank’ or the shallow
wash, dodging, imaginary: hounds in
every ielump of bush, ¢omes the wild
gray dog of ‘the foothills. Then, if
ever, the (hunter's museles stiffen, he
tries to keep’ the coyote in eye without
letting the animal gee him. Slowly, as
the wind might raise the limp of a
young’ tree, the rifle comes to the
shoulder, but the coyote sees and is off
splitting the mornimg ‘air ike a gray
cloud.: All at once he seems to melt
into the ‘landscape; unless one keeps
his eye on the gray dog he is apt to lose
his chance. If the'eye is good and the
arm quick, the 2520's crack will be
followed by ‘the sudden: leap and fall
of the coyote,” whose fur at this time
of the year is thick and long and
brighter colored than it will be later.
Oftentimes a good stalker, even a me-
diocre rifle shot, can in this way pick
up two or three nice skins on a fogg
morning when the animals hunt later
in the lowlands than on clear morn-
ings.
Another favorite way to hunt these
wolves is by hiding at the edge of a
little pool or spring in the early morn-
ing, as ‘coyotes’ almost always stop
for a drink before going to ‘roost’
after a night's hunting. The writer
has killed a coyote in this. manner that
had for months ‘outrun the dogs of
about half a county and outgeneraled
the men .swho owned. the dogs until he
| came to.be a sort.of Joirah to.all the
hunting: grounds of that section. EF
But, probably the most difficult of all
California” game: animals ‘to’ stalk is
any ane of.our deer. .The large Vir-
ginian, deer is a particularly unaccom-
modating beast in this regard, seldom
freqhienting country free <nough from
underbrush to afford good stalking.
But the king of the stalkers is the
man who can get out.on a foggy morn-
ing “and, beating up and down the
canyons of the lower hills, bring in
a bobeat. Of all animals, not even man
excepted, the cat tribe are the most
expert hunters, and their whole sys-
tem is based’ on stalking. From ‘the
lion stealing up on the eland in the
African glade to the .lynx creeping
through the piny woods to seize a
sleeping grouse the game is the same,
always patient following, always wait-
ing for a time when the blow cannot
fail. Hunters from the Canadian for-
ests tell -of being followed by great
tuft-eared lynx, trailing like shadows
from tree to tree; ever following, never
offering to attack, but merely sneak-
ing along behind from very inborn love
of that style of hunting. The wolf
tribe hunting in packs seldom exceed
by speed; what “the cats. capture Ly
stalking.
The hardest thing: for the stalker to
grasp at first is the Thet ‘that unless
a hunted animal. catches his pursuer’s
eye In seven eases out of ten he will
not see: the hunter at all, and the
greatest art of the human hunter i
to be able to see without being’ seen,
which is, after all, much like the pre-
cept of the old merchant that “io do
without being done is the candinal
point of success.”—Los Angeles Times.
BROTHERS STRANGE MEETING.
“During the Civil War, while the
Trederals were lined up on one side of
the Rappahannock and the Johnnie
Rebs on the other, in an interval of
fighting there was Some trading of
tobacco for newspapers,” said Mr, ‘G.
R. Tipton.
“The Yanks and Johnnies would al-
ternately cross for the purpose of such
understanding that while the trading
iln
was 31
> on the fighting should cease,
seventh New York; one tLat had been
recruited from the young men of
Sarato We had in our
company ¢ Tommie Mat-
nat an ol
Oy name,
he Confe
toga, his na-
y 9g1-gitio is past master of the
of ‘meeting bird or
barter, and there was no breach of the |
in Company G of the Seventy- !
I
s{ OMe of
tive town, when a child, to go and
live with his aunt, down .in Macon,
‘Ga., and as he grew up he naturally
imbibed Southern ideas and prejudices.
“I effected a trade one day with a
good-looking young private on the
other side, giving him a copy of a home
paper for some tobacco. As soon as
he looked at it he said: ‘Great heav-
ens! this paper is from my old home.
I was born in Saratoga and have a
brother living there. I am named John
Matthews and my brother. is named
Thomas. De you happen to know
him? Did I know Tommie Matthews!
Well, I guess so! We had enlisted to-
gether and were especial chums. After
telling all this, and finding ‘out how
eager the Cenfederate was to see the
brother from whom he had been sep-
arated for ten years, I proinised to
‘arrange +a. meeting between them, if
possible, that very night.. A lot of the
boys were told of the affair, and when
Tommie Matthews himself heard of it
he was almost crazy with joy at the
thought of the reunion. -
‘That night the brothers were
brought together, and a touching meet»
ing it was. - A number of the boys who
had known John Matthews were wit-
nesses, and they begged Him to come
back and join his old comrades who
were fighting’ for’ the Union. , ‘No,
boys,’ he answered, ‘I have cast my
fate with the South; and shall stick by
it. I am glad to have seen you, and
maybe we shall be friends once more
after the war is over’ I never knew
what his fate was or whether the
brothers were ever reunited.”—MWash-
ington Post.
A TIGER SIEGE,
The police station at Katigora was,
a few days ago, the scene of great ex-
citement and borror when the corpse
of unfortunate Nidan Patni, who met
his lamentable death from the claws of
a tiger, was carried there for inspec-
tion. : ;
* Four persons were killed during the
course of a few weeks, besides a num-
ber of’ persons mauled; while carrying
away of cattle is going on almost every
day. The tigers that have caused seo
much havoc here are’ now proved to
be four in number, one tiger, one tig-
ress and two big cubs, and our sym-
pathetic deputy commissioner is said to
have offered a reward of Rs. 40 for
the destruction of each of them.
The ferocious brutes, having taken
their abode by the side of the only
important road leading from Katigora
to the village of Gangapur, have prac-
tically laid siege to «the village, with
the result that communication.on foot
has been stopped. Several attempts
that had.been made to,afford zéljef to
the unfortunate villagers Were ‘all un-
successful. 78 i 3 :u’
A party of local shikaries mustering
strong and equipped with firearms
marched into the jungle at the head
of our energetic Naib Tehsildar Maulvi
Mahommed Israil to hunt the tigers,
but with ‘all their efforts they could.
not make tha master stripes'come out
of their recess. The pext day, how-
ever, another party, éonsisting of four
European ‘gentlemen, with a large
number of coolieg, ‘surrounded the jun
gle and succeeded"iprarousing the tigs
ers, which managed, to. escape through.
the line without giving the hunters.
an opportunity of discharging bullets, -
. They pursued the animals and made
them swim aeross a beel. It is a mat-
ter of regret that, they brave hunters,
failed to hit the animals while they
were struggling in the water, although
a good number of shot§ were ‘fired. The
tigers got to the other .side of. the beel:
without encountering further Qpposi+
tion and fell 'upen the said Nidan. Pat-
ni, who was grazing cattle near his
house, and killed him on the spot.
MACEDONIAN RELIEF PARTY.
Each day’s work brought some sad
story or picture of its own before us.
Four little girls, whose parents had
both been shot as they: fled ‘from their’
village; three . others—mere babies—'
whom we found sitting youdd a great
pot in their ‘smoky cabip, their mother
dead from exposure, their father in-
curably ill at the hospital; a young girl
in deep distress, because her wedding
clothes had been burned, and. DOW no.
one would want a portionless bride:
the widow of-a village priest, a woman
with wild, hunted eyes, who had not
slept since the bodies of her husbgnd
and his brother had been found on the
mountains weeks before, and ‘who, un-
able to rest even ~in° eur hospital,
passed on to die a few days later; hag-
gard boys and. girls, whose wounds
had remained undréssed some six or
seven months; men just out of the
unspeakable prisons—“*We could live.
{ere through the winter,” but had it
been summer we must have died’—a
village priest crippled for life, and’
still. prostrate from the bastinado he
had endured three times ‘some eight
months before; an old father and mot-
er, who came every week. on.a hope-
less mission, a five hours’ journey, to
ask if I could give tMem tidings yet
of their deaf and dumb boy, wham the
soldiers webe supposed to have carried
away; sometimes. young girls, for
whom one could only hope that forget-
fulness or death might come; and al-
ways a tale of widows, old and young,
to which there seemed no end-—such
| ware a few of the cases that dame to
us for what help or comfort we could
give. An old black woman in St. Vin.
cent, whose husband and son had been
killed in the hurricane, speaking of
ter loneliness, said to me, “And when
{1 go to market now there is only me
| and my shadow.” But there is somé-
more pathetic still, perhaps, in
| a phrase one heard often enough in
Macedonia in answer to the que
| “How many
algne.”—Corn
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