Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-21

ANS 800 1oStOI- WOYldH. VINO N WHIv
known here and a great collector of an.
tiques, was looking up an address In
ursuline street. and stopped at a certain
mouse TO make some inquiries. While
taking with a widow and her auvht
who live on the premises, she caught
sight of a beautiful old Dutch cabinet In
the front room. The Doors were orna-
mented with carved figures of the Amos,
Ties, and the brass hinges and LOCK-
were in themselves fine examines or
carry eighteenth century workmanship.
Ihe Boston visitor was greatly interest
cd, or course, but she was in a hurry.
ana. Keeping the address,, promised to
can again and make an offer for the
curlo' "A day or two later, however, she
was summoned north, and it was only
iast month that she wrote to say she
Wuold be in the city shortly and would
De around to have a talk about the cab
met. Thls letter greatly excited the
WIDOW and her daughter, and they de-
cided 1t would be a good idea to Turkish
up the old piece of furnitusc before the
stranger arrived. Accordingly they
SCRUBBED 1t with I've and pumice stone
until they removed all the mellow lustre
or age: put on nice. strong hinges they
bought at a hardware store around the
corner. and equipped the door with a
patent Yale lock. Then they touched up
the Apostles with pink enamel paint, and
gave the whole thing several coats OF
shiny Varnish. When the Boston con-
holsseur arrived they met her with
canning smiles. Yes, we still have the
caolnet, said the widow, but Won
wouldn't hardly know tit looks exact
~ like newt. The visitor gave a. p1ancs
AT the thing and came near faintinr in
her tracks. She is an old customer or
mine' and when she told me the story
she shed briny tears. She declared those
salmon pink Apostles would haunt her
TO the last day of her life. understand
me widow and her daughter were highly
1ndignan of their failure to effect a sa1a
Ihey felt they had been imposed ~
somehow" -
Denver Republican,: There is one
nsh owned by the state of Colorado
which will. in all probability, never
dangle at the end of a line to make
sport FOR some angler. Instead, it will
subslst peacefully OIL ground liver and
be petted and cared for at the Brighton
fsh hatchery. of which E. l.. Hagar is
superintendent. For his fish is the
guiding spirit among all the small fry.
and leads them not only in the paths of
righteousness, but into the pools where
MI. Hagar desires that they should stay.
I'm fish at the h%atcheries are kept in
several small pools in order that they
may be separated according to their kind
and cared for properly. Occasionally ii
was desired to clean these pools Or make
some alteration in them. This used to
cause a great Deal Of trouble for the
superintendent. 1t was almost impossi-
Bile to get all the fish out Of the pools
without killing many of them. They
We're so small that they could easily
slip through the meshes of an ordinary
net, and many of them were crushed in
the net. Unless the pool was cleaned
ever so often the fish would die.
During Mr.. Hagar's superintendent
ne has made an especial pet Of one of
the largest trout in the hatcheries.
Whenever he fed the fish this trout vas
always am9ng, the first to come to him,
ana finally grew SO daring that it would
snap at pieces of the liver which he
held In his hand. Whenever he appeared
on the walks surrounding the pool his
trout would always come to him, and,
as he walked around the pool, it would
follow him.. The other fish in the pool
learned that the big trout always got
most of the good things to eat, and con-
sequently there finally grew a good-sized
procession whenever the big trout as
sumed the role of leader.
Finally Mr.. Hagar mad an inspiration.
One day when he wanted to clean the
pool which was the big trout's home he
opened the inlet leading into another
pool and got his procession started by
holding out a handful of ground liver
toward the big trout, which thereupon
was willing to follow him anywhere.
In this way Mr.. Hagar conducted all
the fish into the other pool without
losing any of them. Since then, when
ever he has wished to clean any of the
pools he has first secured the big trout,