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nan.-erous Habit.

Amateur sportsincn encounter a good
many risks in their pursuit of pleasure and
game. In the copsc shooting, which Is
such u popular amusement in England, it
Is quite as desirable to know who and
where the sportsmen are as to ascertain
the whereabouts of the game.
"Who is that on my left3" inquired one
sportsman of a gamekeeper one day when
che hunting season was at its height.
THAT must be Lord Jay" said the
keeper after II moments reflection.
go and tell him where | am" said the
other, whose former experiences told him
that caution was desirable.
nd rather not" said the KEEPER. Lord
Jay Railways fires when &c sees hanything
mover'-Youth's Companion.
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This well known and popular resort
will always be conducted as a first class
saloon.
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TAs Inform ALTON We. Zoe Late.

-TEL - EE
Gould, Ltget a little information from
your" askedsa farmerlike looking man ut
the Northwestern station.
YES, sir" replied the officer.
Well want to know how these conf
dence men work." -
'fn varieus ways. Sometimes they Dor
row money and give a worthless check on q
bank"
They dc, eh~ gasped the with q
sudden start. az 81
"Yes, or perhaps they borrow money and
turn over a check for a trunk. When you
go TO look for the trunk It is not to be
found"
by G~eorger' muttered the man.
'Then again they sell you a bogus bond,
o. borrow money on itr
"SRkes alivei"
And they sometimes hire their victims
10 boss q mill or factory somewhere, and
then borrow money to pay . freight bill"
-Four different waysp' shouted the man
as he jumped clear: of the floor
Eyes"
"AndI9ibe hanged IL / haven been taken
In o. every one Of 'em In. . ride Of q hum
dred milesl Say. come down and show me
the river--the deepest spot in the riyer-the
place where ] can drop in and won't never
come to the surface again with my dough
filled head. "-Chicago Post.
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Are You Going East?

IF so, why not combine
speed and safety with
comfort? In travelling,
your convenience is well
looked after by the great
Rio Grande Western Rail
way. See that your tick
cts read via that road,
which offers choice of
three distinct routes and
the most magnificent
railroad scenery in the
world. Send 25 cents to
J., Ell. Bennett, Salt Lake
City, for copy of the beau
tiful. Illustrated book,
"Utah, a Peep Into the
Mountain Walled Treas
ury of the Gods"
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II the presents to President Elect
Cleveland keep coming on present lines,
he will be fixed to run a menagerie when
his term expires. From Indiana he has
received n magnificent white Brahma
rooster and a big and lovely coon, and
from Michigan n tame deer and q very
pretty one, sent by H. Tucker from Sag
NAV. It has a private stable yard to
itself and will be kept there till Baby
Ruth gets old enough to decide on its
future. II she adopts it, Is she prob
ably will, it will have the run of u parl
at the C~levelands' permanent home. The
big Brahma is already very much at
home in the yard of the family mansion
at Lakewood, N. j.
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He Was stuck.

Avery anxious young farmer, rugged out
in his Sunday clothes and his red pecktie
visible half a mile away called at the
Twelfth street police station the other day
and asked the sergeant In charge II he
would answer a legal question for him.
"PeYhapst So. What Is its" was the reply.
well, what Is breach Of promisei"
'Htis going back on the girl you are en-
gagged TO be married TO-"
but what Is IN engagement In lawi"
leading the girl to think you intend to
marry her."
Haven't you got to ask her to have you
right outf" !.
mo. What is your casef How far did
you go9"
well, l said to her that l thought we'd
make q good teamif hitched up, but that
wasn't nothing"
.It wasn't, ehs It was the same thing a.
asking her to be your wife. Ever call her
pct nauies"
II think l called her Birdie . few times
"Ever write any loving things to, herr,
III began nay letters. Darling Ons,s !
think" n So
rWeli, you are stuck, and II you want 10
go to state prison for fourteen years you
just tryrto give that girl the shakei Better
go right home and marry her.
fJupiterl but I've got toll kinder thought
she had a lift on me, but wanted to be SURE.
I've offered her q hoas to give up my letters
and quit claim on me. but she Wouldn't DO
It. Pil add twenty-four sawl logs and four
cords Of wood, and II she still refuses RI
h~ayestotoe the chalk line. So calm . gal
Birdie Is askin her to marry you'll
.VAbout the same thinr.u -
'Saltpeterl but II that's the case I'll have
about twenty Of EN- in my hair. Which
street leads to CanAdai"
Keep right down this street."
And he was walking In the snow In the
middle Of the roadAa s far as they could tracs
him.-Detroit Free Press. ~
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Very Remarkable.

First Party-You say you have metme
before, and 1 have an impression that ]
have met You before. Can you tell me
when it was?
Second Party-I can, sir: it was at the
same time that l met you.
First Party Tefccting)-Yes, yes, it
must have been. but what a rcriarkahle
northumberland Transcript.
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"No, I'll not marry. think I'll become
o sister of charity"
You don't know what that means"
"Don't II Haven't / sat up with you
every night from 8 to | for three monthsf"
Life.
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climate are especially liable to lung
diseases, and consumption is carrying
off number of them at present, but
some of them, too, were killed by his
own panthers and leopards.
Such mishaps, besides, are of frequent
occurrence in the life of large dealer
in and trainer of wild beasts like Mr..
Hagenbeck. 1t may be interesting to
know that this man has, up to year
ago, alone carried out of Africa 250
elephants, 375 giraffes, 200 antelopes,
$50 panthers, 7S lions and 81 ostriches,
besides 1856 snakes and crocodiles.
That of this large number, now and
then, there were some fusitives may
easily be believed. Thus, twelve
elephants that he brought with him
from Africa as part of large consign-
ment escaped, while in transit, in
Vienna. Mr.. Hagenbeck. however,
got them all back and by using the
following simple but original strata
gem: He recaptured the youngest and
smallest elephant of the herd, and
then he pinched the ears of his baby
elephant so persistently and vigorously
as to make the animal yell and roar
and trumpet with pain, thus inducing
all the ether fugitives to return to the
spot, driven back by curiosity and
sympathy.
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attendants were killed by bears within
short time, and there is no large men
agerie, no geological garden and no
performing circus of any magnitude
that has not had fatal accidents due to
the irrepressible ferocity of She bear
It will be q surprise to many to
learn that there is good deal of in
telligence and good deal of affection
slowed away under the hide of snake.
Trainers know how to avail themselves
of this fact and III that way get results
out these reptiles that could not other
wise be obtained. But snakes, too,
are never thoroughly brought under
subsection to the human will and their
voracity and their ugly temper have
been the cause of many tragedy that
the press never heard of. When am
ply fed, however, and treated with uni
form kindness a snake may be taught
many things which one would hardly
suspect. 1t is similar With alligators,
with panthers, leopards, pumas,
jaguars, the cinnamon and grizzly
bears, and with many other animals
that are hardly suspected Of a fair
amount of brains.
Even the ostrich, though pro 7oking-
ly stupid and intractable, may be edu-
Gated into something vastly different
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STEAM HoLYsToNE on WHEELS.

the stone one way with stout staff
fitted into little hollow in the block
while another hauls it in the opposite
direction with rope Oh iron handle.
Another follows them up with hose
or water bucket, washing the sand
after them, and two more are kept busy
with broom and rubber-tipped squilje
getting rid of the water and extracting
the last drop of moisture from the
wood. When the operation is prop
erly performed the deck is as dry as a
bone and white and clean enough to
eat from.
"Holy" stone is the word, because
holystoning is a Sunday morning job,
more likely to be ordered than prayers
or plum duff.
The steam yacht Oneida was the first
vessel to put the device into practice,
and that was less than eight months
ago, but n working model has already
reached Chicago. The steam holystone
will do the work of the entire ships
crew in less than half the time. In
stead OF one stone there are four,
mounted on three rub5er-tired wheels.
The motion of the stones is rotary, and
two little tanks on the bed of the cart
feed them sand and water in the re-
quisite proportions A dimirutive
oil-burning engine, also on the cart,
either generates sufficient steam to ro-]
tate the stones in its own interior on
draws supply through small rubbed
hose connecting with the donkey en1
gine, or the galley, if it be applied I'd
sailing craft, or with the boilers if
steamer. San Francisco Chronicle.
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Holyst0ning by Steam.

There are not as many real sailors
to-day as there were twenty years ago.
In these days steam spreads canvas on
sailing vessels, squares yards, handles
cargo, steers and does away with Drawn
and muscle in number of ways, and
now some genius has contrived de-
vice calculated to send some more Of
poor Jacks occupation on the trail OF
Othello's.
A sailor learns to manipulated holy
stone almost before he knows the
difference between the main sheet and
the spanker brazil. There is only one
plan of operations that will give q
ships deck proper appearance, and
that consists OF dragging and showing
heavy granite block back and forth
end on and beamwise over a sprinkling
of wet sand. One man usually shoves
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she readily and instantly yielded to
the sympathetic influence her master
exercised over her. A young lion that
had proved quite unmanageable, and
that for four weeks had not learned a
thing, was recently in the sole charge
of Philadelphia, one of Mr.. Hagen
beck's best trainers Philadelphia
we1t into the lions cage, and when the
lion disobeyed him, he went for him
single handed with, a pitchfork, reduc-
ing him into complete subsection in
side of five minutes. The lion since
fears, respects and loves his trainer
who, on his part, has not been forced
to resort to punishment once since
that time.
It may sound odd, but it is, never
theless, a fact, that fattery, encour-
agement and commendation are among
the most effective educational methods
employed at the Hagenbeck establish
ment. A lion that has learned his lesson
is Immediately rewarded by bit OF
juicy steak, and the bear gets such
dainties as fruit, sugar, candy and
bread for recompense. They are ap-
provingly stroked or slapped on the
back-just as humans would be under
the same circumstances-and the big
felines, lions and tigers have enough OF
the cat nature in them to be fond OF
being scratched on the head and neck.
After the animal has been thoroughly
trained-for which purpose it needs
not only the services of an expert
trainer, but also the almost constant
attendance of some particular assistant
it is punished with rattan or with
tough rawhide whip only when the
offense has been fragrant one. The
punishment is, in such cases, quickly
ard Immediately administered, and
soon after the same animal will be
shown that it is forgiven by receiving
some bit of dainty food OF caress.
One of the greatest difficulties in the
laborious process of training isto wean
the wild beasts of their inherited an
tipathies for other animale, especially
those belonging to radically different
species. AS in the whole business OF
training it is patience, lots of patience,
that is needed to overcome these feel
ings of aversion. For the recipe for
training wild beasts IS nine parts OF
patience and but one part of all the
rest. The same thing, no matter how
simple, must be impressed hundreds
and hundreds of times on the brains OF
the animal in order to be thoroughly
learned. Once acquired, however, il
is hardly ever forgotten again.
But to get them first to live together
and to perform side by side in the
same arena, to dwell peaceably in the
same cage, is great difficulty. But
since it is an indispensable prerequisite
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Pe0ple of Ancient Yucatau.

Although the language and history
of the ancient people of Yucatan have
been lost to the world, they have left
behind them monuments by which it
is not difficult to determine the fact
that in many respects they were OF a
wonderful as we'll as warlike race
previous to the discovery of the com
try in 1906. That they were warllke
the early European adventurers found
to their cost, but apart from that all
along the loW-lying coast OF fucatan
and extending inland are found small
watch-towers of stone, standing on
terraced mounds, so arranged that
tidings of forays OF enemies could easily
be conveyed from one to the other. In
addition, mural paintings OF warriors
in battle array have been numerously
found. The wonderful character of
the people is amply demonstrated by
the ruins of their cities. All of these
are declared by the Philadelphia Led
ger to display remarkable architectural
ability. Massive in structure, intrl-
cate, rich and grotesque in carving,
many of these buildings stand to-day
almost in their entirety, thong h nearly
or quite 500 years have passed away
since their erection. And all this rich
carving and general stone cutting was
done by chisels of nephrite and mallets
of wood. On immense terraces the
temples of the people stood, while
macadamizcd roads, raised two or
more feet above the general level and
surfaced with hard, smooth cement,
led from terrace to terrace and from
one community to another.
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A Distiuctiyely American Plant.

The partridge berry is distinctively
American plant and is an important
element in American forest scenery.
1t is an inhabitant OF almost every
portion of the United States east OF
the Mississippi River, extending from
its extreme northern to its southern
limit, and it is rare that any inteli.
gent writer gives details Of the attrac-
tive vegetation OF any part which IN
terests him without including the
Mitchella repens in tie list OF species
found there.
1t is remarkable That plant so at
trectivo in SO many ways should not
have become more attached to the pub
lie mind OF receive more attention
from polite writer's, but Thomas
Meehan says that he can recall no In.
stance in American poetry or general
literature in which the partridge berry
plays conspicuous part. The dis
covery of the white c-berriel form was
first made by Miss Kate Fisher kurtz,
Of York, Penn. and proved source OF
great delight when communicated to
Professor Asa Gray.
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brought under subjection, the most
reliable and harmless pets? Yet such
is the case, if forty years experience
enables Mr.. Hagenback to be a
good Judge. Of course, he says,
no wild beasts are ever thoroughly
trained if brought under human infu-
ence at too late period in their lives.
Such beasts, even if taught all that can
be taught them, are liable at any time
to have their innate savage. instincts
break out and overcome in a moment
all the fruits of tedious and painful
training. But when caught young
in the days of babyhood-the lion and
the tiger are easiest to deal with. They
both learn their lessons well, and their
memory is tenacious and retentive.
They both appreciate kindness and feel
q steady affection for those whom they
have come to look upon as their friends.
While in course of training they must
be handled with great care, and pun
ishment must be meted out to them
only when absolutely required for the
safety OF the trainer or OF the other
animals. But even then this punish
ment must be madeup for by redoubled
kindness soon after, so as to impress
strongly on the minds of these animals
that it was punishment for the ofense
committed, not cruelty, that caused
them to suffer, and that they have not
forfeited the good will OF their friend
because of it. The elephant is much
more intelligent and cunning than both
lion and tiger, and he easily learns all
sorts of tricks and stage business which
require judgment, tact and the exer-
else of reasoning power. He, too, is
very grateful for kindness showl and
has very affectionate disposition, but
he is revengeful, crafty and never
wholly reliable, but liable to sudden
outbursts OF fury, spite or willfulness.
The bear is likewise very intelligent
and may be taught as many things use
full or ornamental as the elephant.
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k(7OME here, Prince, old boy; !;
come here!'
W The great, tawny mass
slowly, majestically strobe
nearer, and when close to the man that
had called him herubbed his enormous
head against the hand that was
stretched out in greeting. The long,
muscular hand of the man buried itself
in the name of the king of animals and
playfully stroked it, to the evident sat-
isfaction of the great beast. The man
ner of the latter was curious mixture
of feline grace and canine affection,
and the great pupils of his eyes dilated
and contracted with the pleasure of
being fondled.
The man who thus treated lion, a
full-grown, able-bodied one, with a
complete set of enormous grinders, and
claws that would cleave a one-inch
board, roar that would knock down
a Worlds Fair hotel and stomach
that would conceal a months provi-
sions for a small family, was Carl
Hagenback, whose performances with
trained wild beasts, says the Chicago
Herald, are among the chief attractions
of Midway Plaisance, at the Fair. A
man who is on terms of the closest in
timacy with lions, tigers, bears, snakes,
panthers, and other ferocious horrors
of the desert and forest is a rarity in
itself. But when that man has spent
his whole life among such brutes, and
has taught thousands of them during
that time how to obey, perform and
play, when he has had score of hair
breadth escapes from the awful fate
that has overtaken nearly every pre-
ceding trainer of wild beasts and when
that same man is chockful of interest
ing, often blood-curdling, anecdotes
and incidents of a biographical
nature, he becomes an acquaint-
ance doubly worth having.
In the course of a day spent with
this gentleman, who is by all odds the
most successful trainer. of savage beasts
that the past or present knows of,
whole string of popular fallacies were
reduced to deserved absurdity. First,
as to the comparative intelligence, do
cility and reliability of the principal
wild animals. Who would believe
that the lion and tiger are, once
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for everything that is to follow the
animals must be taught harmony and
neighborly relations. Of course it is
only possible to teach young animals
to forsgo their inherited hatreds-
adults are past redemption. Young
beasts-the younger the better-are
chained and placed in the same cage
(of course,out of harms way one from
the other) with other young animals of
different kinds. Thus they accustom
themselves to the sight, the odor and
the peculiarities of each other and
begin to apprehend the fact that they
belong together and must, therefore,
get along with each other somehow.
By and by the tanner animals are al
lowed to circulate freely among the
chained and half tanned ones, and at
last the point is reached when they
may be left to themselves, living peace
ably together. During their hours of
play, and recreation this system of
forming happy, though incogruous
family groups, is seen at its greatest
triumph. To watch lion playing tag
with polar bear, and to see an ele-
phant and tiger gamboling like merry
boys at school makes one dream that
the millennium cannot be far distant.
Perhaps the most distinctively motley
group that MI. Hagenbeck ever gath
cred under the roof of one cage is the
one that may now be seen, composed
of six Javanese and Sumatrese bears,
dirninutive but very comical fellows,
one striped byena lone of the most in
tractable beasts, three codomonthys,
one pig, one African hunting dog and
several monkeys. And curiously
enough, it is the monkeys that are the
police force-the guardians of peace
and order-in this motley throng.
Like that superior animal, man, these
beasts are also subject to all sorts OF
disease. In fact, the mortality among
them is much higher than it is among
the human race. For this fact, OF
course, the inclemencies of climate are
largely responsible. The influenza
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Another time, just on the point "f
loading his wild animals on board q
steamer in suez, Mr.. Hagenbeck was
leading a giraffe, having rope slung
tightly around his right wrist. Sud-
denly the animal took fright and ran
off with that hacte and speed for which
girahfes are so famous. More from
necessity than from choice Mr.. Hagen
beck, unable to disengsge himself from
the rope, was obliged to share the|
flight of his giraffe. More dead than
alive he was finally rescued some dis
tance from town, after having beer
dragged along for several miles by the
panicky animal at six-lnile-per-houI
gait Another time an enraged and
entirely untamed elephant made q
thrust at him with his two immense;
tusks. As luck would have it they
were so far apart as to just take his
body in between them, his sides being
but slightly graZed.
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RACES among them to the same extent
that it did in the ranks of the human
bipeds. Pneumonia, consumption,
dvsentery, fevers, stomach complaint,
etc, are frequent sconrge among
them, and Mr.. Hagenbeck feels still
very sore over the fact that he has lost
a large number of his most valuable
animals and among them some of his
best trained and rarest ones, such as a
couple Of highly educated black pan
theirs, some gorillas and mai. lrils,
several chimpanzees, half n dozen
lions, tigers, etc. c.-since he expatriated
his big quadruped colony from Ham
burg. All told, some 120 of bis
trained beasts have succumbed to
various diseases since he began training
for the Worlds Fair. Monkeysin this
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There are, however, a. great many va
rictics oi the hes. :amily, and these
'liff.r largely among themselves i'll in
tclle>t:!al anl moral qualities. The
least intelligent among them and the
lenst tractable is the polar bear, and it
required years to teach the specimen
now performing at the Hagenback
Arena what little he knows. The Amer
ican bears, even the grizzly, are more
easily managed and acquire certain ac-
complishmcnts without much trouble.
The black Russian bear. TOO. is amen
able to cirilizing influences. and SO is
:hc Alpine brown bear. But the cum
uingcst and most cornical as well rs the
most graceful bears are those from
Tlihet and from the East Indies, es-
pecially from the Malay Islands. Those