WAYS OF ALLIGATORS
THE 8AURIAN AT CLOSE RANGE IN
HIS FLORIDA HOME.
Bow tli Fcmatt Lavs Her Rats mad Care
for Her Taunt A Mother Will right
Anything That Threatens tier Babies.
1)1 rt anil LmnrlM of Alligators.
Ono of tho sight most PtiKrly wntrh
d for liy the newly arrived Florida vis
itor, aa ho glide over tho lukc and
river of tlint genial land, in the nllfgn
tor. A few year bro this desire was
easily grntiflod, lmt the gront saurlnn in
comparatively rnro nowaday along tho
older route of travel This i due pint !
to thn bullet of tho victor and pnrlly
to tho shot and trap of tho moro legit
imate alligntor hunter, who find in
that pursuit thn chief mentis of support
for himself and his family.
It is in tho ilenso fastnesses of tho in
land swamps and everglades that alli
gators may he seen in great number on
bright day, basking in tho sunshine.
They are gregnrious and love to ossem
bio in snch places, whero they brinp
their two row of strong teeth together
with a prodigious clatter and ronr with
a noise that resembles thunder.
. The female makes her nest in the sand
near the water' edge, scraping a hole
with her paw and dropping tho egg in
a regular layer. Then she scrapes grass,
leaves, mud and sand over them, on
these places another layer, and so con
tinue alternate layer until the nest
contains from 80 to 40 eggs. As tho holo
is rarely deep pnongh to hold all these,
the result is a decided mound easily de
tected by tho experienced hunter, who
find ready sale for tho egg a curiosi
ties. They are white, hard shelled and
rather larger than a hen's egg. If he
prefer to await their hatching, he se
cures a fine lot of little alligators, for
which also there is always a ready sale.
While she thn leave her prospective
children to the doubtful guardianship
of the earth, the mother doe not desert
them. Patiently she keeps wuteh over
the nest in which they lie, never allow
ing that mound of sand to be long out
of her sight. How she know exactly
when the little folk are ready, like the
emancipated chicken, to step out of their
shell and t:.ke their first peep at tho
world, who shall say? But, all the same,
it is a fact that, however far afield her
excursion may previously have been,
the day. and the hour of that happy
event in her family circle And her on
the spot ready to gather the little one
under her wing, a it were, and lead
them to their future home in the water
that lies before them.
This watchful care the mother con
tinue until her babies ore old enough to
forage for themselves and their scale
are firm enough to enable them to dis
pense with her protection. The extent
to which the young alligators or croco
dile require this watchful care can
hardly be realized by those that are not
familiar wi'h their habits, for the little
one are ter bly persecuted by bird and
beasts and even by their kinsmen, the
bull alligator, which sometimes eat a
dozen or two of their own children at a
meal. The mother on such occasion
ha been known to turn and fight the
unnatural monsters with such fi.ryas to
put them to flight. It ia not only tho
bull alligator that she will attack when
alarmed for the safety of her young she
often holds tho most experienced hunt
ers at bayMmtil her littlo charge hove
time to flee to a pluce of safety.
Tho sight presented by the mother,
surrounded and followed by a whole
brood of her little ones, is a pleasing
one, but lot nn enomy come in view and
the Bceno oensea to be pleasant In the
twinkling of an eye the little one dash
away into te mysterious shadows, and
the placid mother become transformed
into a raging fury, fairly churning tho
qniot water into waves in hor mad rush
to do battlo with tho intruders. Without
this incentive of maternal affection,
however, it is but seldom that an alli
gator or crocodile attacks a human be
ing. The lower animals are les fortunate.
Cattle in the far south, where the ope
range and shallow water extend a
tempting Invitation to room, are some
times seen with shortened tails, an ab
breviation for which tho wily alligator
ia responsible. Pigs rooting too near the
water's edge and unobservant of tho log-
like form lying close at their side are
ofteh caught by a lightninglike sweep of
tne alligator's formidable taiL
But the most cherished of all tidbit
to an alligator is a nioe, plump dog.
The saurian' peculiar attraction toward
this animal it so well known to hunter
that tbey frequently imitate tho yelp of
dog to entice their prey within range,
and the call never fuiUvcf it purpose.
The squeal of m pig i almost a effec
tive. These dainty bits, however, are rath
er in the line of luxuries. For a steady,
everyday diet the alligator depends up
on fish, and it hannta those localities ia
rivers or lake where its natural prey
most abounds. It catches the fish by
diving swiftly under passing shoal
- and snatching two or three in it open
jaw a it pasao through the shoal.
Then, rising to the aurfaoe, it tosses
them in the air, for the purpose of eject
ing the water that ha entered its mouth
along with the fish, and adroitly catches
them in their descent. Helen Haroourt
in Philadelphia Time.
i
V Latitude af VtmU
She colored deeply.
A girl in an ordinary story would
fcave blushed red.
But she was in a problem story with
poster illustration.
Aooordingly, in view of the uncer
tainty, she merely colored. Detroit
Tribune,
It is a certain rule that wit and pas
sion are entirely incompatible. When
the affection aye moved, there ia no
place for the iniagi nat ion. Hume.
Bnaila vara oooa thought to be a our
for eoaaamptioa.
rolling Mallgmnt.
A tnaliclons person, who took pleas
ure in giving puin, tried to mortify Dr.
Guthrie, the eloqnont Scotch preacher.
But the young minister the incident
happened at Arbirlot, his first parish-
took the wind out of hi sails and left
him bobt-ng in tho shame of failure.
The malignant man had been very ill.
and being an attendant nt the parish
church, tho minister, as soon as the
doctor would permit, visited him. The
man expected tho call and was prepared
for it. It was at a time when the con
trovcrsy that resulted in the formation
of the Free church was raging through
out Scotland, and a scurrilous pamphlet
had been published against Dr. Guth
rie, which he had hoard of, but not seen.
The malignant man, who had secured
a copy of the pamphlet, thought to
mortify his minister by getting him to
take it homo and read it No sooner
had the clergyman finished praying
with him and risen to hi feet to go
than the man said:
"Oh, Mr. Guthrie, hore i a pam
phlet about yout"
Guthrie, seeing malice gleaming in
thn man' eye, and suspecting the
truth, asked, "Is it for or against m?"
"Oh, " ho replied, "it is against you. "
"Ah, well, you may keep it" nn
swered the minister, with a laugh.
"Had it been for mo I wonld have read
it I never read anything that is against
met"
"Never did at man look more chap
fallen than he," Raid Dr. Guthrie, re
lating tho incident He added, "My
answer i one which, if given in sim
ilar circumstances, would put nn end
to much mischief. "Youth's Compan
ion. Victors Supply Bard Dolled Egg.
There i a strange custom attendant
upon local election which has existed
in Brown township, Delaware county,
O., for the last 80 year. It is that of
eating 40 dozen hard boiled eggs on
election night at the expense of the suc
cessful candidates. Neither the bill of
faro nor the number of eggs is ever va
ried. Each year a committee is selected
to secure tho eggs and prepare tho feast
When the count ia finished, the egg are
passed around and the banquet begins.
The person who are elected foot the
bilL Party feeling never interfere with
this part of the election proceedings, and
it is an unwritten law that tho feast is
to be furnished. But one man ever dared
to brave popular sentiment and refuse
to pay his share of the expense. Ho had
been elected by a good plurality, but
was turned down at the next election for
no other reason than his want of respect
for tho custom. The election for the
township ia held at the little village of
Eden, where the greater part of the
township is gathered on the night of the
feast No one knows how the ceremony
originated. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Jttj Gould's Orchids.
"Shrewd as Jay Gould waa in every
branch of finance," a flower merchant
said to me tho other day, "he hod no
idea whatover of the value of orchids
his great hobby. The old orchid collec
tion up at Irvington has run down
now, but during Gould' lifetime it
waa one of the finest in the world. The
amount of money that had been spent
on it, however, was enormous. Careful,
conservative buying by an orchid expert
would have gathered it together at al
most a fraction of the sum actually paid
ont Many exquisite and rare varieties
wore numbered in it it ia true, but an
excessive price waa paid for the most of
them.
"The old finanoior' ways in this
were well known, and people with fine
orchids to sell seldom failed to get the
sum they asked. Actually, he used to
pay as much as f 50 at times for orchids
thnt were hardly worth a quarter of
that In London he had agents constant
ly on the lookout for rare plants of this
species, und he paid them prices that
they could have obtained nowhere else. "
New York Herald.
Documentary Evidence,
"If lever have a daughter alio shall
be taught to apeak every known lan
guage, but not to write one, " declare
John Drew in "The Squire of Dames. "
The average parent does not half ap
preciate the necessity of pointing ont to
his daughter the dangers that may arise
from the too free use of hor pen. Men
are taught in their business life to be
careful what they put on paper, and
this same caution ought to be part of ev
ery girl' education. One prudent New
York society woman, who haa enjoyed
life to the full, la very fond of saying,
"My motto haa always been, 'Avoid
documentary evidence. ' "New York
Journal.
Obliging a Lawyer.
A celebrated criminal lawyer, having
just defended a noted assassin so bril
liantly that the wretch waa acquitted in
the face of overwhelming evidence, steps
up to the judge. "A word in your ear,
your lordship."
Judge Well, what I it? .
"I would ask that the prisoner be de
tained in jail until tomorrow morning.
I have to cross a lonely field on my way
home, and the rascal happens to know
that I have money about me. "
Obliging Judge Oh, certainly.
Strand Maguine.
Vegetable Paper.
The ancient Mexicans made a good
article of paper from the pith of the
maguey plant. By pressure the libera
were condensed into a tolerably strong
fabric, whioh received ink and' eolor
very well. Many specimens of the Mexi
can paper are to be found in the world'a
museums, and in the National library
in the City of Mexico there are great
numbers of mannacripta and documents
composed of thia paper.
Proof Pool tire.
The First Girl So you think they are
engaged?
The Second Girl I am sure of it
Why, aba haa stopped apeakfng of him
a Tom West and always refer to him
a Knew Bis Bights.
A little bowlegged Jap abotit 4 feet
high made the conductor on a Market
etreet cor feel very uncomfortable yee
terday. The Jap got on the car at
Powell street, and in poyment of hie
fore gave the conductor a transfer. He
glanced at it and observed that it had
been punched an hour before,
"Fare, please I" he growled a he
held out the transfer.
"I have gave you one transfer," said
tho Jap very calmly and deliberately a
be stared ahead like a wooden Indian.
"That was punched an hour ago. "
"I cannot help if the conductor punch
a wrong hole," declared the Jap.
"But it il not good. I want your
fare."
"If it ia not good, why he gave it
met"'
"Will you pay your fare?"
"Na"
"Then you will havo to get off."
"I neither pay any more nor got off, "
declared the Jap deliberately, and his
face never moved a muscle.
"Then I will have to throw you off. "
And tho conductor stopped the cor.
"You arc afraid to put me off, if you
even could The law says you must take
transfers, and your employer says you
mnst take it too, if you cannot make a
man pay again. You cannot make me
pay again."
Tho conductor gavo the bellcord a
jerk, and the little Jap continued to
stare out the window opposite. Son
Francisco Post.
Wee Orate fill to the Preacher.
"The man who said, ' 'Tis the unex
pected that always happens, ' waa a
preacher, I'll guarantee, " said a clerical
member of the Lnuch club. "At my
time of life I ought not to be stunned by
anything, but after service a good wom
an of my flock did manage to take my
breath away. I was preaching about the
Father's tender wisdom in caring for us
all," he ald. "I illustrated by Raying
that tho Father knows which of us grow
best in sunlight and which of ua must
have shade. ' Yon know you plant roses
in the sunshine,' I said, 'and heliotrope
and geraniums, but if you want yonr
fuchsia to grow you must keep them in
a shady nook. ' After the sermon, whioh
I hoped would be a comforting one, a
woman came up to me, her face glowing
with a pleasure that was evidently deep
and true. 'Oh, Dr. , I am so grate
ful for that sermon, ' she laid, clasping
my hand and shaking it warmly. My
heart glowed for a moment, while I
wondered what tender place in her heart
and life I had touched. Only for a mo
ment, though. 'Yes,' she went on fer
vently, 'I never knew before what wa
the matter with my fuchsias. ' "Chi
cago Interior.
Persian Peasants.
There is probably no peasantry in the
world so ground down as the Persian.
The agricultural laborer there, as in
China, never triea to ameliorate his con
dition, for the simple reason that if he
earns more, more is taken away from
him by the rulers of the land. The gen
eral condition of the laboring classes,
however, does not seem to be so bad as
might be supposed. In a country so vast
(660,000 square miles) and so thinly
populated (6,600,000 in all), a small
and sufficient supply of food is easily
raised, especially with such prolific soil
at tho command of the poorest At
Shiraz there are two harvests in the
year. The seifl, sown in summer and
reaped in autumn, consists of rice, cot
ton, Indian corn and garden produce,
and the tchatoi is sown in October and
November, and reaped from May till
July. This ia exclusively wheat and
barley. Here also grow grapes, oranges
and pomegranates, for which latter
Shiraa ia famed. Outing.
Dlood Showers la Olden Tlmes
In tho "Annals of Remarkable Hap
penings In Home" mention is made of
14 different showers of blood, or blood
and other susbtanoea mixed, which oc
curred between the years 819 A. D. and
1170.
In 1229 we find record of a ahower of
blood and dust which covered the larger
port of Italj . In 1920 a "snow" foil in
Syria "which presently turned into
large brooks and pools of blood." A
monk who wrote In the year 1261, and
whoso manuscript is now preserved in
the British museum, tolls of a throe
days' shower of blood "all over south
ern Europe." Burgundy had a blood
ahower in 1861, and Bedfordshire, Eng
land, witnessed a similar phenomenon
in the year 1460. In 1680 hailstones
foil in Wurttemberg whioh contained
cavities filled with blood or blood red
liquid. The last "blood shower" on
record occurred in Siam in the year
1802. St Louis Republic.
Tho Batcher.
Customer That meat that I bought
here last, Mr. Cleaver, waa frightfully
tough.
Butcher Do yon know, marm, that
one reason why there are so many poor
teeth nowadays la because they do not
have enough exercise?
Customer But that steak couldn't be
cut with a knife.
Butcher Yea, there ia aome mighty
poor cutlery in the market now. Did
you aay five pounds, marm? Boston
Transcript
. Tho lonrod Bachelor.
"I wonder," aaid the vealy boarder,
"if there ia any truth in the theory that
the advancement of woman to an equal
intellectual plane w ith man will destroy
her beauty."
' 'Of course there la, " aaid the soured
bachelor, "and there are more pretty
women than ever nowaday." Indian
apolis Journal.
Haass In Chisago.
If the name of the man who first
thought of sending floral tribute to
Chicago aldermen could be discovered,
he would take first place on the roll of
fame aa the great American humorist
Chicago Record. I
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