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attached, and your success will likely
lie more in knowing their couch than
their table. Find the route of incom-
ing and outgoing by being on hand
early. Conceal yourself on this line
by any blind you can find already at
hand-at least dress inconspicuously
and crouch low. Wading pants, al
lowing you to stoop to the arm.p pits in
the shallow edges, are ideal, if you can
stand the two exes-exposure and ex-
pense.
Take heavy, strong, shooting gun,
all the powder You can stand behind,
and the largest shot that your gun
will carry we'll at forty yards, and
reach out for anything you can see the
color markings on. It is down wind
and down grade, too, usually, remem-
ber-fight, sails and gravity combined
the speed about treble that of your
usual shooting. Eight to ten feet
ahead may not be too much sixty
yards away. Calls may help when
ducks are feeding, but are of little
avail when they are going to roost.
So, too, with decoys. Don't make the
mistake of setting these with the wind,
for ducks are apt to alight against
them, and always feed with them in
their faces.
This paper is written for the anna
teur, and all the sinkboat, swivel gun
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The Last of a Professional DuelSt

"1 WAS standing here yesterday
afternoon" said De Wine Nicklin,
down in the Bowery, wondering how
many tons of swords and pistols and
the like I had stacked up in the back
of my shop, when slender figure,
robed in black and thickly yelled, en-
tered the door and laid upon the show
case in front of me an ebony case con-
tanning the finest pair of fiint-lock
dueling pistols I ever saw. Convulsed
with sobs, the lady in black, who drew
aside her veil to let NE see that she
was of transcendant beauty managed
to inform me that the pistols which l
saw before me were the last and most
sacred relic of a once princely fortune
that had belonged to her husband. He
was professional duelist, she said,
but had been out of work for long
time and was utterly Unable to find
employment on Manhattan Island.
One by one his black coats and beauti-
full gray trousers-implements of his
art-had been pawned, and now there
was nothing left but the baby and the
pistols. They had prayed for heavenly
direction in their decision as to which
of these they should hypothecate, and
although her heart misgave her sorely
as to the result, her good husband had
finally decided that the pistols should
be 'spouted.' They were something in
the nature of family Bible to her, she
said, because the birthday of her in
FAINT boy, the date of her marriage and
other interesting domestic events had
been neatly nicked with bowie-knife
in the ivory handles of their beautiful
weapons. In the little silver-clasped
cavities, always provided in the butt of
dueling pistols for caps and the like,
she had instead been accustomed to
keep lock of hers and her husbands
hair, neatly intertwined. I bought the
pistols from her, of course, being
much moved by her suffering, and she
left me with bright smile upon her
face, promising, when these funds ran
out, that she would bring round the
baby. New York Recorder.
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At Close Quarters With Leopard.

As rule a man does not 60 out
leopard shooting as he goes out snipe
shooting or tiger shooting, says Long.
mans Magazine. Usually the news is
brought by some excited and alright
ed native that leopard has entered
his premises, and, after killing child
or O goat or fowl, has hid itself in
some shed or outhouse. On such IN
appeal it is usual to go out to try and
kill the leopard If companion can
be found, it is better for two men to
go together than for one man to 60
alone with native followers. Almost
the first case I remember to which we
were called we found that the leopard
was ensconced in mat-and-thatch
cowshed, of which the door had been
closed on him.
We rather rashly opened the door
in order to peep in. There was rush
and a scuffle as the leopard tore the
door open wider and jumped out to
escape. We were lucky in not being
knocked down or even scratched. But
the leopard did not get right away. 1t
foolishly entered another shed, which
was promptly closed on him and we
had to begin again. My companion
climbed on to the roof with his gun
and an active native got up with him
to tear open a hole in the thstch of
the roof. I stood on the ground with
a clear space before me in case the
leopard should turn out in my direc-
tion.
The eager crowd of natives, who had
come, regardless of danger, was in
duced to retire to distance, while the
most nimble of them climbed up into
trees or onto the roofs of the adjacent
huts. It takes longer to write this
than to give an idea of what actually
happened. The native who was tear
ing hole in the thatch of the shed
had rsshly tried to look in to see where
the leopard was. In a moment the
leopard sprang at him, and it's head
appeared through the thstch. Ny COM
panion put his gun to the beasts head
and sent bullet lhrough it's brain, SO
that it dropped dead into the hut. But
there were loud cries from the native
on the roof, for the bullet, after pass.
ing through the leopard's skull, had
grazed the mans body, SO that he was
bleeding profusely and crying out that
he was killed. He was quickly brought
down from the roof of the shed, and
his wound was washed and found to be
little more than skin deep. A Apresent
of few rupees soon comforted him,
and he became, not undeservedly, the
hero of the day among his fellow vii
layers. The carcass of the leopard
was swung from bamboo and brought
to our house, and the skin became the
property of my companion.
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The species mentioned are those
most generally found inland Many
an old hunter has notseen all of these.
But there are others that frequent the
seacoasts exclusively thats struggle to
us sometimes in passing. While all
pass in the fall, on the way SoHth and
afford good shooting at wen known but
limited haunts, it is mostly III the wake
of the warm spring rain and on the
south spring wind that ducks come to
us everywhere. The earth then is
keeping open house for them. Large
swamps that atwsre dry in autumn are
flooded nowto Just the proper depth,
and little pools are strident with the
screech Of frogs and other wriggling
things that ducks delight in.
This, 600, lis the stimulant season.
Inthe blotchy patches in the sky, the
squawk and quacks and wing swishes
that fretfhe air, there is larger hope
ahead Than larder or couch. Ducks
have come, are coming, are every
where. Any one that can pull trigger
can bag them. The ''hardpan" ponds,
whose dams afford such sure approach,
the narrow prairie runs, the sloughs
and deep cuts of the wooded creeks,
the stalk field burrows, the very way
side puddles, are dotted. Everywhere
are skulking, creeping figures of men
and splashing steps, and lumbago and
rheumatism find food and lodging all
over the land.
Where are the ducks from?
The mallard, that prince of inland
ducks, Just spreads himself during the
colder months from Labrador to Pana-
ma, reveling anywhere thatice remains
Uniformed, beating about with the low
storm centres. The pintail keeps him
company, with a penchant for Cuba
when it is very frigid here, while the
black duck acts very like them both
over space much farther east. So,
too, the gadwall, but the baldpates,
spoonbills, scGups and most others
hail from Mexico, the West Indies and
Central America, and come up from a
feast on the Southern lagoons for love
anda new suit of clothes on the North
ern lakes to the music of the melting
ice crash.
The blue wing teal goes farther
south than the green wing. 1t is the
greater traveller of the two-in fact, it
has perhaps the swiftest wing among
webfoot birds. These are apt to be a
little late because they have been so
far away. The mergansers, too, come
up as the the crawling things loose
their hold upon the shiny bottoms
for they are animal feeders exclusively
true fish ducks The sea ducks,
too, are apt to be little late for the
same reason. But many of them make
a mixed meal, and our canvasback is
so fond of Potomac celery that it is
rather loath to leave the limits OF our
territory.
The wood duck may so South some
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How the thing is done it is impossi-
BILE to explain in detail, but the prin.
ciple seems to be that in the case of
each column Of figures the machine
keeps q record of the number Of fig
ures which have been printed or given
out, so to speak, and is so able to an
nounce at any given time the total
which must be placed at the foot OF
each column. With ono single COL
umn of figures this might not seem
so very remarkable, but the marvellous
point about the machine under notice
is that, in addition to adding up COR
rectly, it executes with unfailing pre-
cision that more or less delicate opera
tion of carrying forward. Thus if the
total of the pence column amounts to,
say, IS, it calmly records the odd sd
and carries forward the 5s, adding
them without turning a hair (if ole
may use SO disrespectful an expression)
to the shilling column. and repeating
the same thing, of course, with the
shillings in their turn and with each
column of the pounds. No wonder
the machine took lifetime to con-
struct
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Bartering for Furs.

The system of trading at all the
posts of the Hudson Bay Company is
entirely one of barter. The standard
of value throughout all the territories
of the company is still-as for CEN
turies past-the skin of the beaver, by
which the price of all other furs is
regulated. Any service rendered by
the Indian is paid for in skins, the
beaver skin being the unit of compu-
tation. To explain this systeDsj let it
be assumed that four beavers are
equivalent in vslue to silver fox
skin, two martens to beaver, twenty
muskrats to marten, and SO on. An
Indian wishing to purchase blanket
or gun from the company would give
say three silver foxes or twenty beaver
skins, or 200 mnskrats, or other furs,
according to their proper relative po-
sitions of worth in the tariff.
For very evident reason the trap
per price paid for furs is not fixed in
strict accordance with their intrinsic
value; if this were so all the valuable
r-bearing animals would soon become
extinct, as no Indian would bother to
trap a cheap fur while high-priced
one remained uncaught. He may pos
sibly have to pay five silver fox skins
for blankets worth about $15, the
value of the skins paid representing
5000, still he can if he chooses buy the
same article by paying for it in musk
rat, yellow fox, or other furs of in
ferior worth. Chicago Times.
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An Iron ArithmetiC.xl.

A recent foreign letter told of the
success in London of an American in
vention called the "Arithmometer." :"
The Westminster Budget says of it:
In general appearance the machine
is not at all unlike the typewriter,
but it's internal construction appears
to be considerably moro complex.
Yet it is declared that it is almost I'M.
possible for it to get out of order.
About twelve inches square, the upper
surface consists, as is the case of the
typewriter, Of sloping keyboard,
composed of keys OF buttons corre-
spending to the various numerals.
By pressing down these any amount
desired, from 81, 900, 900 10 penny,
can be printed by means of types
operating through an ink riband on
the paper which is fixed on the back
of the machine. Line after line of
figures can De printed this way,
pounds, shillings and pence falling
into their proper places according as
the respective keys are pressed down,
and then at the end, in virtue of some
mysterious mechanism which seems
nothing less than miraculous to the
uninstructed, you pull a lever and
your sum is done. Each column OF
figures is correctly added up, giving,
of course, the sum total of all the
amounts, is printed in its.proper place
underneath.
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An Inmate of Thirty.two Prisons.

Vastly Vasilievich Berry. the latest
addition to the Russian political
refugees in London, is a remarkable
man. He is sixty-four years old and
twenty-six have been spent in exile
and Imprisonment. He has been in.
side no less THAI thirty-two prisons
and yet has committed no act hu.
manity or civilization cen regard ss
crime. He was arrested IN 1862 on
suspicion Of taking part in the pro.
paganda of e revolutionary society
and sent to Siberia, as ''no proofs OF
his guilt" were forthcoming, to quote
the terms of On official document re-
ferring to his case. He endured terri.
ble privations with his Young wife and
child while in Asia. In 1870 he was
allowed to return to Russia. bat for
writing o pamphlet advocating the
abolition OF class distinction md
tyranny he WIS soon after cxiled for
another fourteen years. - Chicago
Herald.
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CANvASBACKS.

times as the ice holes close up, but he
is generally with us, and you may often
scare him with the tinkling of your
skates.
Where are they after they do come?
Wig, when abundant, almost anywhere,
as have said, but when scarce you
want to know their pet regions. They
have them, ] assure you. 1t is largely
matter oi local experience, and il
the country is strange to you IL guide
will be al Essential! OF success. On
each side of the writer, only mile
away, is creek, bat on one ducks are
often plenty, while not feather is to
be found on the other. But generally
rich muddy shallc VS. full of grass roots
or crustaceous cre atures, haunts Of the
spring frogs, rice II celery fields, bot
tom woods, rich in acorn or beach
mast, or even the cornfelds, and at
times the upland growing wheat, con-
tain them.
In all these ducks are hard to ap-
proach. Cold. blustery days. with a
thread of snow, are apt to drive them
to the wooded streams, where they
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

All sour grapes are not out Of reach.
Gossip is the sugar of old women's
tea.
Judgment is forced upon us by e1-
perience.
Who bravely dares must sometimes
risk fall !
They lose the world who buy it with
much care.
What is mind? No matter. What
is matter? Never mind?
Vice is a sponge which sucks in
honor and gives out tears.
A mans own good breeding is the
best security against other peoples i'll
manners
Humility is not necessarily virtue.
The violet would smell just as sweet
on tree.
The man who fears being taken at
his true value is always on the alert
for Sights.
The old man who has forgotten that
he ever was boy is but living tomb
stone to his buried youth.
When any calamity has been suffered
the first thing to be remembered is,
how much has been escaped.
The tears we shed for others are
mellowed by inward congratulation; !;
those shed for ourselves. are brine.
< milestone and human heart is
driven ever round; if they have moth
ing else to grind, they must themselves
be ground.
The circumstances of the world are
so variable that an irrevocable purpose
or opinion is almost synonymous with
foolish one.
No school is more necessary to chill
dren than patience, because either the
will must be broken in childhood or
the heart in old age.
People are always talking of perse.
verance and courage and fortitude, but
patience is the finest and worthiest
part of fortitude. Patience lies at the
root of all pleasures as well as of all
powers. Hope herself ceases to be
happiness when Impatience compan'
| ions her. .
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WILD DUCKS.
HAUNTS AND HABITS OF THESE
WARY BIRDS.
There Are Many Varieties-Some Gen
orally Found Inland, While 9th
ers Frequent the Sea Coast
Hints For Hunters.

~ ONE ducks are cosmopolitan
~ others only so by spells. So
| = extensive is their migration
that many are common to four
continents. The mallard is the same
on both sides of the Atlantic-mono.
gamous everywhere except in contact
with man.
So, too, the caldwell, spoonbill and a
few others are common to all the
regions of the Northern Hemisphere,
but while the hooded merganser, the
golden eyes, the three little teals and
the buff1ehead make their homes with
us they are sometimes projected by
their swift flights like missiles on
foreign coasts. The English teal Is
likewise occasionally found on our
shores. The wood duck, however, the
redhead and the scaups are ours, along
with the ringneck and the ruddy. We
have, too, as American widgeon, and
of course the canvasback is one of "our
institutions. ..r. . ~
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He Went 10 the CirclS.

One day there VIA circns in town
md the elevator boy at the Atlanta
Constitution, as he vas carrying the
late Henry W. Grady down. sad:
"Mr. Grady, ] want ~ 60 to nc
show"
"Why don't yon go, Shen?" ;ia!;ed
the editor.
who'll ran :hc clevator?' ASKED
the boy.
"5top it," said Grady.
The boy took him at his worl. pro-
ceeded to the bottom, locked the Gle
vator, and editors, reporters, printers
and everybody else climbed un and
down six flights while the &il went to
the show New York Jnurnal
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Miles OF Apple Trees.

In the Sandwich Islands the apple
has become wild and forests of tree Of
many acres are found in various parts
of the country. They extend from the
level of the sea far up into the moun-
tain sides. 1t is said that miles Of
these apple forests can occasionally be
seen. One traveller gives the extent
of one of them as between five and teD
miles in width aul about twenty miles
long.
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August, !. ],
Flower

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism;
but did me no good. / could not.
speak aloud. Everything that took
into the Stomrch distressed me. I.
could not sleep. I had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through g
neighbor I got one of your books.
I procured a bottle of, Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. I am to-day
stout, hearty. and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gave me my health:
Mrs. Sarah 7 Cox. Defiance. @. o
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Power.

The recent record breaking perfor-
mances of ocean-going steamships
have been done on American coal from
Pocahontas, Va.
1t would take 720, ,030 rowers, work
ing at their oars in eight-hour shifts,
to develop as muchpower as the steam
ship Lucania's engines.
The first electric railroad for coal
carrying purposes has just been com.
pleted from Buck Mountain to Eek,
ley, Penn.
The initial installation of the Nj.
agara electric power arrangements
provides for Is, horse power. More
can be obtained almost beyond limit.
The Tivoi waterfall, which provides
light and power for transmission to
the Rome of the dead Caesars, iur-
dishes as yet only 26OO horse power
New York Recorder.
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Bengal Peasant Proverbs.

The wisdom of the Bengal peasant
cultivators finds expression in proverbs.
of which a collection has been made
by Babu in the Agricultural Depart
ment of that province. His apprecia-:
tion of the outwardly reyered Brahmin
betrays itself incidentally in the
maxim. Grain and inundation disap-,
pear when south winds blow, like the
Brahmin as soon as he has received his
fee."
Other Bel gal rural aphorisms are:
"Have the land which receives the
washings of the village, and the bullock
which walks fast, and marry the girl
whose mother is good" ..He who
works in the field himself with the
laborers gets the full profit he who,
being unable to work himself, super
vises the workings Of the laborers, gets
half the profit; he who orders the;
laborers from his house does not get
enough to cat. London News.
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it reaches the hem there is a glimpse
of an ecru cloth petticoat headed by a
wavy design of gold braid. The tight
fitting bodice is cut to show a yoke
and pointed vest of the ecru cloth
outlined with the gilt braid. The
sleeve scorns all trimming.
A new coat attracting much atten-
tion in an uptown shop is of dark
brown box cloth. It is made with
passementerie yoke in varying shades
of mauve and violet. This yoke is
outlined with woven gilt braid. The
sleeves are capped with an epaulet
edged with the braid. and they have
most elaborate cuff of passementerie
and braid combined.-New York
World.
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A Simple Gown.

Here is a costume for the woman
who still clings to the plain gown. 1t
is just the dress to wear beneath coat
and does much towards bringing out
the beauties of a well-rounded figure.
The material is dark-blue habit
cloth. The skirt is perfectly plain ; as
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being; will attest
the value to health, of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced In the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to. its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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OF the recruits il the British army
30, 094 were Inst year laisc;! in Eng
land. 1867 in Scotland. and $500 IL
Ireland. One Thousand three hundre!
aud five of these young soldiers were
under seventeen years Of age.
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and other professional methods OF
capture are omitted. Go out with m
old hunter some time and learn of him
If he will let you.-James Newton
Basket.
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, lss
I,rrN q ftnrNrv oe

STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO, L. :
LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior partner Of the firm OF F. ]. CHENEY &
Co., doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL
cannot be cured by the use Of HALLS CATARRH
CURE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. d. 1885.
-, A. w. GLEASON, :.
t) Not1rU Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly ON the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Send for test:montals, free.
> F.J. CHENEY e. Co., Toledo. o. ,
wSold by Druggists, TO-
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huddle against the lee bank, or tbs
high north bank of some prairie pool
may furnish them a haven. In all re-
gions they will have their favorite
roosting lakes, to which they are much
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DR.. HoXsie's Certain Group Cure
Removes Inflammation from throat and lungs.
No remedy so good for colds. so cts. A. P.
Hoxsie Buffalo. 4. y. Mfr.