sors, tne” no lack on the mantel here. Oo ron-—on thist shelf. marvelous two-edged sword he rhittied trom tath himself. he made from a willow wand, r from a water reed— ms more could a pirate i bred” racers. | the reads. may at times be Sroaght within shot 1 by taking advantage of this trait; but, j ordinarily, it Is “your wits against theirs,” and this is the great charm of the sport. It is exciting to wateh the duck-hawk in pursuit of his prey. i Given an open field with the gusrry, it is astonishing to witness the ex‘. bition of speed by these “thorous. The hawk will often ov ertake and strike a duck in the air i though he seems to prefer to single out one from some flock, and, 1 possible, force him to dive. As the duck £omes | to the surface to breathe the hawk is #t hand, and down goes the duck once more. This Is repeated until the poor duck Is almost exhausted: and when the dunk passes a second too long at the surface, the hawk potinces, and the duck is secured. There is wonderful sagacity shown by these birds in fore- ing a diving duck away from the reeds into open water. They seem loath to j exert themselves sufficiently to capture their game on the wing. but will “dog him.” as it were. from the shallows to deep water where in sheer despera- tion the victim dives, fancying ‘hat one or two long resches under water will bring bim within the shelter of Seldom, however, ig he suc- cessful in the attempt; fea: and ex- haustion generally snd the matter ss jibe hawk wishes. A great many ducks { erippled by gunners will make for the marshes, where they hide: times if fortunate and not too severely wounded, they will recover. But even here they are not safe: the prowling fox or mink will strike thelr trail among the sedge, and often catch them when they ventures {00 near the shore. Om 10 Te Se ae i | ducks must exercise the greatsst ran- tion when feeding; for when the dusk jot ‘evening settles down on lake and { fen, and the mystery of ths twilight reigns, a most dangerous {onthe “still-bunting owl"-comes from the darkening woods, and on silent wing {the great bird quarters the marsh | backward and forward with the thor. joughness of a well-trained bound | Stll-huntiog is the high art of sport, wo = the Bg owls are experts in thelr Yhe Roosevelt Bors, President Roosevelt's sons were born In New York. The eldest ls Theodore, named for his father and grandfather {The second is Kermit. a nfms taken } from remots history of the Roosevelts The ancestors on the mother's zide may be trac to the Isle of Man Li Archibald gets his name from the! Beotrh branch of the family, and the he | Huguenot strain in the blood is hos. L{ ored in the baby, Quentin. Theodore. Jr, is fourteen, Kermit twelve, Archi ts | bald seven, and Quentin four, Theo { dore has been attending the Albany Academy, and the boys there will be sorry to lose him, as he belotiged to ® | the battalion and was 8 boy among boys Kermit was also an Albany Academy boy, and both “Teddy” ang Kermit are chips of the old block, not knowing the ‘meaning of the word | “fear.” They are excellent boxers. A room on the second floor of the OV: | [ernor's mansion at Albany was set ‘aside for thelr use, stripped of carpets {and furniture, acd a wrestling mat { was put on the floor. Here the boys received ipstruction in boxing three BIM. | {mes a week, stripped of clothing and 4 attired in bathing sults, Every day | they bad to punch the bag just #0 long, {then take a bath, and finish up with ia good rubbing. Roosevelt will have a similar gymoa- | Probably President +. | #luro in the White House. The presi- dent's plan of the education of young | a {men is to teach them to work, und o | frst and foremost to be American. He 3 went again with the in the cows, and iis particular enemy was him. She immediately 1 and Don ran just fast to keep out of resch of her She followed him clear to the he jumped through | @ and escaped. He veral days, and the pursue him madly was agywhere near her Don formed a bad habit o the field In the day- getting the cow to chase him, d run to a fence and slip over the rails. but the poor 1g to get through or over, ito the fence, breaking 8. She never learncd that no chance of her catching ald artfully keep just a faet ahead of her, barking and 1 n Bn most provoking uselesn pursuit of Don farmer sold her and ended “direc | says: “Then 1 have taught them to go {In with any person heedles: of Any ® | thing but that person's qualifications, and to work just as quick beside Pat i Doogan as the son of a millionaire, so { long as the work is good and the man { Is In earnest.” A Bird Used ss a Candle Petrels, variously known as witches and Mother Carey's Chickens, are pe- cullarly olly in thelr nature and in their feeding. The quantity of this oily matter in these birds is so consis. erabla that in the: Farce Islands the ‘natives use petreis for candies, with Do other preparation than drawing a wick through the body of the bira from the mouth to the rump. Petrels have the singular taculty of spurting | a quantity of oily stuff through their nostrils upon those who attack thelr ‘nests or otherwise annoy them: and fowlers who clamber up the rocks for | that purpose if not on their guard are often in this manner suddeniy blinded | by the birds, and, losing their balance, are precipitated ( down the oils Girl Who Can Not Langh Susie E. Jenking twenty years old of Philadelphia, says: “1 have seen nearly all the funny shows that have come to Palladelphia in recent years, end not one of them could make me laugh. My mother has often tried to make me iaugh by tickling me, but even that won't work, Ever since | can remember people have been tell | ing me Iunny stories and cutting up all sorts of capers in the hope that 1 eould be induced to smile, but all their | efforts pave becn in vain, ways enjoyed perfect healtn, I have al. 1 waht or a prize to anyone wh knocker on the from door—which, The sturgeott family of fish Is prac | A tenlly extinet so far ns the lakes of sre concerned, aod | c {makers of caviar are wonderitig what P| will Gl] thelr cans in the future. J {the passing sway of the sturgeon {comes the mnouncement that pone {but “cultivated” lobsters now exist. North America With When fish merchants took stock with the closing of the season for the Great Lakes they discovered that one of the former substitutes for whitefish | and trout daring the motiths of No veuiber, The public is already provided with a substitute {or smoked sturgeon in| the meat of the Mississippi River cat fish. Troe, the Bosh of the catfish Is slat as tenacious fis rebber hose, bat H Jouks good. Then thany persons { prefer the smoked halibut of the Va gific Ocoan. : The histor® of the discovery, in troduction foto ils market and ex Huction of sturgeon in Anwricsn inkes dates back twenty-five years. Then | the sturgeon was first placed on the toiarket, though few persons ate them, very dainty. The big fish could be token from lake Erie Ly the wagon ond and sold at 8 low price. Iu fact, the price was so low that few persons eugsged In catebilng the Bush. Then somes one discovered that the fish was more salable when smoked, Thousands of the fish were srooked and paloed off on the eredn lous public ss smoked halibat, which was gulte expensive. The Increases in supply of hadilaat ent off the price of sturgeon to such an extent that the bsbermien whe had been dealing in siorgeon were threatensd with bank uptey. It was about this time that caviar becnine very popular with Americans until some fifteen years sgo that the toe of the sturgeon frond Rossian seas was the only kind for cavier Borie one discovered that the roe of American storgeon made quite as} good caviar as did the Russisn fish That was the beginning of Uwe end of | the sturgeon tribe The great fish | wore hauled In by the boat load, and ninety-five per cent. of those taken wore females full of roe. Caviar be came cheaper and sturgeon became dearer, pound the fish advanced © tween: iyiwo cenis & pound. Even at the price the Great Lakes failed to pro duce the coveted fish. Then recourse fwans had to the lakes of Maniolas, Canada, ‘ Now the sturgeon have been anni hilated almost entirely. As the sup ply of this faznily beonie sCATORT SOMe one started to substitaie Misslssipol | iver catfish. When this robbery fish | is drossed and smoked It looks exact: ly lke smoked storgesn.~Chicage Chronicle, A Mik Dealer's Lamont. The milk dealer. who also sells ment and other necessaries of life, sighed na 8 customer went out indignant becanue the dealer insisted upon is kaviog a recepiacie for bis intended purchame of milk. “They come here” said the dealer, “sod expect me to furnish them with milk, bottles and all. But I've gotten [%ired of that sort of game. Those bot: ties cost us quite a sum-and in pine tases out of ten where we let them oo otit we pever see then again, notwith standing the promises of customers return them. Then, of course, wa have 1 was ‘easy money’ so long that the milk depart | to bny wore botiles. ment of the store was cutting inlo the profits. “What do they do with the bottles’ Why, they use them to put np catsup and fruit. 1 got after ohe woman that bad been working me for bottles for soe time and a search warrant showed thirty-five of my boltles on ber preserves’ shelves.” Detroit Free Press. Susnite and Shitte Falr Growth, The Mabometan religion is divided Into two principal sects, the Suonnites and the Bhiites. The members of these sects can be readily discriminated by the fashion fn which the hair grows on thelr arms, for while on those of | the Sunnites the growth turns down ward from shoulder to wrist on the interior shile and upward from wrist te shoulder posteriorly, the hair en the Shiite arms presents the contrary ap pearstce on both sides of the arms This singular divergence is produced by the manner of washing thelr arms #8 proseribedd by the tenets of the sects respectively, for while Sunnites held it orthodox to stroke thelr arms after washing them, from shoulder to wrist on front amd from wrist to shoulder on the back, the Bhiltes abhor this prac tice znd stroke thelr anus io the oppo gite ways, and hegee the two directions in which the hair is seen to grow on the arms of the two saois ~The Lan cell Front Deor Mirrors, Recently in passing through pos sibiy the prettiest village in the Cots wolds, 1 saw ap excellent idea that might with advantage be lotroduced in London and elsewhere, Within the in this Ingtavoe, was about 03 a Jevel with the face of the visitor-swas placed a small convex mirver. Sap posing the visitor is payieg a eall of either congratuintion or condolence, how advantageous must it be to pot i the tight expression on Bis counte nance—either festive or doleful-be fore he knocks at the door.~London * d Graple. when nope of theas varieties of the finny tribe Is allowed to be taken from the Jakes, was missing. There 16 no fresh sturgeon to be had | i 5 year. hin stay io the moantains, but be fGubd his children in care of a ranchinan. | The Besh was bot considersd Maustalon, ot far frets the. Wyom whith a generstion of nien have Bpearched in vals. And It I owned | operated and its Jocation kept secret by two young women, who have kept | Bp with the procession of the ultrs- fashlonables mast necessarily spend thelr secret since one was eighteen and the othef fourteen years old. The lode was discovered sixteen years ago by a tenderfoot named Smithers. He was ordered west by the doctors and came to Colorado. Leaving bis wife and two little girls st Fort Collins he went into the mountains to pros pect. In some unexplained way he discovered an enormomsiy rieh ledge of quarts, and recognized fis value his familly, having been shsopt about His wife had died daring The older one recognized him, 2nd hey were turned over bo his. He luek them up into the movninies wih bin awl they have Hyved there ever since in the cabin built for thé. Brnithers cleared off the ranch snd did 8 little farming, got a Hitle stock and raised bis own milk and butter and eggs, and lived outwardly ite thousands of emaall mountals ranel. men all over the Rocky Mountain re gion. But secretly be worked on the isdge of gold quarts be had discovered. He broke pieces from the veils ground them np in & mortar, panpsd them, | and got gold enongh to keep him and his children without other work than caring for thelr ttle farm, This lite began when the c¢hildren rere butt seven and three yeurs old, rispretive ly. When the older one was eighteen ‘and her sister fourteen, Hmitiers died, He had taoght them the seeret of the hidden mine, and when he was gone the two orphans lived alone in the same manber. They Jooked after thelr little stock, tended their litte Caviar is made from the roe, or egzm, | afm and in secret ground up pieces of sturgeon, bot it had been supposed of quartz and panned the gold from It. The ledge must be of falnlons richness, for these two girls, neliher of them very robust, and the younger little more than a child when they be gan, have taken out all the gold they have wanted in the four years they have lod thelr lonely existence Ar) rare intervals they take their horses and & pack saddle snd go down to the nearest town for provislone They | always have gold dust and nuggets to pay for whatever they (bocse tw From a fraction of a cent a | PUY. ; H. A Welle, timder appraiser for the BRtate lands board was in that sections recently aud secured $1006 worth of puggels the young Women bad saved up. One he Is wiaring a A watch chars. It is 8 great chonk of native gold, not melted tuto & bake tori, Dot just as it fell from the ernabed rock. According to weight, Its value would not exovud 830, or por haps $25. But ss 8 f5e speeinen of native gold and as x mementn of the lonely mountain ranch amd hidden tolne, hundreds of dollars wand not | buy It "Never mind” says Mr. Welle, “I'm going to nd the extunsion of that Bidden ledge some day 8 Louis Post-Dispatels. An old gentleman came into 8 buy | Sowg-town office the other day and came up to the table whet James the office boy, was reading the next to the last chapler In ope of ‘he Dead wood Dick porels. James did not know | for several minutes that any one had called, #0 eager was be to find ont if Dick was really going to kill the vil Iain at last snd save the bloeeysd Catherine. Looking op fet it moment before getting ready to pinnge into the crisis, James caught sight of the gon hastened to make op for the peglect, “Anything I can do for you?" James asked in the tone his employer nes when he wants to make the best pression. The old gentleman sald! nothing, but he looked st James 0 a strapge way | that made that young man fuel a litle ashamed of himself *l am very sorry, sir, 1 kept yom walting. Ids you want fon see some ane, xir¥ Bt the vitor was silent. Then the boy ralsed his volew, sud 8 glimmer of light came into the old guntlanan's ere. He took out of his pocket 2 bang tube. put ote end to his ear snd hand. ed the other to James, to peak to your employer” “Certainly, ir" sad office boy; “bold the Hne™ Journal Fra diets Two New French Caves. Two remarkable caces have been dis covered In France by Messmi Caplan and Breil fn which the walle sre ror. ered with drawn and paioted Sgures of the palealithis epoch These are mostly fGgures of animals sod some of them have been drawn with srrike ing correciness, In the Set cave, 21 Combarelles Darlogne, the are drawn with a deeply engraved line and sre vigorous In exscution. They inclode the mammoth nelndeer other animals extinet in Frames In the second eave, at Fopt-de.Gaame. pat far distant from the former, Dlsck Hnes are used. and soueiimes the whole animal is painted black, form | Bed ovlier '2 also used | Ing wu silboutte, in the figures, wiich are sometimes four feet Jong. Many of the Seures | are covered with a stalagmite deposit which often reaches an loch in thik pess.— Scientific American A Philadelphia firm bas caloulated a there still remain unmined OTR TIS.00 tons of coal in the Satan | moods of the men who set the paw latest thing out many men in the world whe cannot | Then he retormed to Fort Collins for | average of four seits of anderwenr 8 & lifetime. Now, on the Dasix of eal enlation, 8 wen would spend about | tosis would probably demble the fg mal coat of the artidhe would be noth. i 6 twenty five comnts a meal in thirty average of my ; ont position. thar I'm not equal to the average is the differepce Geman sanding beside biz. In soins | way the offire boy felt that the visitor bad been there a long time” and be bowerer, is nol the world of the fat. pest of the world as In this fact, that | “1 shogld lke the obiiging | acted so is to the typleal Englishman Strong reason for trying some otier | way. Harper's Weakly, figures | selool children of East Abendeenshive, § distrivts of {nie bxve str tithe when you come to ehiak of 27 | 5 said an obwervant oitinem, “and ss 8 matter of fact the aversge | Suppose will be surprised by the Sgeres. Of course, the nian who attempts to keep | a good surn of money during his fe time. He piost humor the changing In fashion. He must have the very His cat must be the proper rut, his Lat the proper | shape. bis irousers just so sd bis tie the priper color. Fut thers sre Pay su much reset to fashion. and liens we muy eiriks an aversge bo | { tween the Pro extremes lin dress, i Bypothetically “We will put the cae and assnine that 8 wesn lives to be! thirty five years of age. We wil oe yume thst be will wear the slothewn i of & grown man for this length of tine. Ou an sverage, | soppdes a teen Will rear ont pix shirts during the year, or a total of 210 tn & life | thme. Buppose he pays seventy five twits each for them This won be $4.50 5 year, or $157. pay out In a lifetime of thirty Bre yours. He would wear twelve col lars a year, of $10 {no thbity five years, and it be wore the chenper grade of eolisrs, I15