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The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
TRAINING WATCHOOGS.
The Method That Ii Used by n Ger
man Instructor.

The Method That Is Used by n Ger
man Instructor.
Although 1t Is generally believed that
watchdogs are Ito the manner born,"
1t seems that a certain amount of train
ing helps very much to turn out a real
ly good one. This system of training
has developed into regular business
an academy from which watchdogs
are turned out by the hundred every
year.
His system Is educational and Is ap-
piled to almost every kind of dog. He
first teaches the animal obedience by
training 1t to perform certain tricks"
at command and then trains it to dis
tinguish between O visitor and bur-
glar and what part of mans body
should be attacked to render the man
helpless.
0ltside of the gate the trainer places
a dummy representing the burglar, and
to the latch Is attached a string By
means Of the string the gate Is opened
slowly, until the head of the dummy
becomes visible, when the dog Is
taught to fly at its throat. Herr Straus
is very particular about this. He makes
his dogs attack the throat or the upper
part of the body always. So etimes
real man well padded tax s che place
of the dummy, and of cor he is well
paid for his services.
All dogs, it seems, may be made good
watchdogs, but the st. Bernards and the
Russian wolfhounds are the best where
property of great value is to be guard
ed. For dogs not so fierce as they are
n different system of training is used.
They soon learn to guard anything
committed to their care, but are not so
quick to attack an intruder as the
hercer dogs are.-Phladelphia Times.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
PERSONALITIES.

Governor Stanley of Kansas employs
no stenographer, preferring to do his
own writing with pen.
Judge Taft, the new head of the Phil
ipplne commission Is feet 10 inches
high, with full quota of flesh for his
height.
A photograph of Dom Paul Kruger,
taken 20 years ago, shows him with a
face innocent Of all lines and beard
like that of Gladstone.
Congressman Charles Grosvenor of
Ohio is very fond Of roses and general
ly wears not a bud but full blown
flower, in his buttonhole.
Alan Arthur son of the late presi-
dent, finding that his income goes far
ther in Europe than In this country,
has practically expariated himself.
William C. Whitney probably has a
larger number of expensive hats than
any man In New York. They are made
to his order, and he devotes much time
to their selection.
Rev. Samuel r. Dunlap Of haywood,
Ills, claims to be the originator of the
intercollegiate debate. He brought
about what he says was the first Of
these u years ago.
Coils F. Huntington is building a
new country house near Los Angeles
His fine collection of pictures is to be
taken there and will be thrown open to
the public once week.
The reported insanity Of William
Steinitz, the chess expert, recalls the
fact that Paul Morphy, the most fa-
nous player in the history Of the game
went insane several years before his
death.
1t is said to he the desire Of Presi-
dent Diaz that General Bernardo
Reyes, his new minister of war, shall
succeed him as president of Mexico.
General Reyes has been governor of
Nuevo Leon.
Some one quoted to Senator Hanna
the other day Thackerays remark that
mankind was divided into the bores
Allu Nht bOAths ucta. odll AilN nAlld-
tor, "and the former live longer. They
kill Off their victims very rapidly"
james Charlton, the retired seEerai
passenger agent Of the Chicago and
Alton raj road, is one Of the oldest rail
road men in point Of continuous service
in this country, having started in lS47
as a Junior freight clerk in England.
Two members of the present con-
gress began life as sailors. Each was
a New Englander by birth, each ran
away to sea, and each finally made his
home in California One Is Senator
Perkins and the other Representative
Il. +. Loud.
1t is reported In the English papers
that the queeL Is so pleased with the
pomp and splendor with which Lord
Curzon has ruled India that she in
tends to decorate him with the grand
cross of the Order of Bath, and, fur
thermore, she will give his wife the
order of Victoria and Albert, decora-
tlon which no American woman yet
has
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02

Britain three times. Taylor won his
first two championships in 1894 and
1895, before Vardon was fairly started
OH his marvellous career. In 1896 Tay.
lor found a worthy opponent in Var
don, and lost the championship to the
newcomer after tie. Since that time
the two have been rivals for the favor
of the British golf loving public, and
have played numerous matches. In
these VardOn, on the whole, has come
out with the best showing, though his
margin has been little to boast Of 1t
is possible both will take part in the
national open championship at Wheat
on in October.
TaylOr's greatest skill is shown in his
work with the mashle, and his ac-
curacy with this club, 1t is said is not
equaled by any other player living.
Taylor won the open championship
this year with a score Of 800 for the y
holes, yardOn. who finished second,
having a score Of 3l7.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
ONE MEAL A DAY.
Pronounced secret of HumaI
Health and Happiness.

Pronounced secret of Human
Health and Happiness.
1t is by no means impossible that
the newest world lecturer will allude
to the delays Of the single meal re
form. The one meal n day plan was
successfully practiced by some S0,000,.
600 men of the healthlest, wealthlest
and most intelligent nations of an
tiqulty for nearly 1000 years.
No unprejudiced observer can deny
that for the vast plurality of our fel-
low men there is no other practicable
way to live up to the principle of the
sanitary maxim, "Never to eat till
we have leisure to digest"
Nine out of ten laborers have to hur-
ry from The breakfast table to their
daily work and cannot count upon
more than a few minutes Of afternoon
meal rest The same in rolling mills,
shipyards, railway yards, workshops
and schOolroOms
Less than years time would suffice
to give the one meal habit the force of
a second nature, and those who would
like to form an idea of its universal
observance during the classic period
of antiquity should read Peter Bayle's
dissertation on Domestic Life In
Athens and Rome" or De Quincey's
humorous essay, published in the Sec
ond volume Of miscellanies under the
title, Dinner. Real and Reputed."
There would be time for play, for
reading, for the enjoyment Of art and
entertaining conversation.
Sunstrokes would be known only
from the traditions Of lnsantary
barbarism The granger's youngsters
would get afternoon sports enough to
think life on a farm decidedly worth
living No after dinner martyrdom
would tempt truants, housekeeping
drudgery would be lessened two-thirds,
Felix NJ. Oswald, NJ. d., in Health
Culture.
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THE CRIMINAL CUCKOO.
He IL the One Exception to the Kind
ly Nature of Birds.


Bad temper and cruelty are perhaps
the most obvious signs of mental de-
generation in the beasts. The larger
monkeys, for instance, become as bad
tempered as violent man when they
grow old, and many In their treatment
Of other animals are cruel as we use
the word In regard to man. Among
the carniyorous beasts the cat amuses
itself by torturing mouse, and the
weasel tribe kill for sheer love of kill
Ing. No such cruelty is seen among
eagles or falcons. Fierce as their tenn
pers are, they do not torment other
birds which they catch or kill for kill
ing's sake. Good temper is general
among birds.
Except the cuckoo. such thing as
an Ill tempered wild bird is unknown.
Nowhere In the race can temper like
that of the Tasmanian devil or the
wild hunting dog or the Cape buffalo
or the baboon be found. Even those
which in spring are thieves and egg
AODDtlb uiC nOl Ut
other times Good temper and good
fellowship in society, personal affec-
tion to each other to which the beasts
offer no parallel, industry and inde-
pendence, intense devotion and fore
sight In tending their young, with 9th
er very human and engaging traits Of
character, must all be credited to the
race of birds
Among these kindly and simple ma
lures the cuckoo Is monster. Let
there be no mistake on this subject.
He unites In his life and character,
from the egg to the adult bird, prac-
tices and principles to which the whole
race of warm blooded animals offers no
parallel. He is an outrage on the NOR
al law of bird life, something so fla
grant and so utterly foreign to the way
of thought Of these kindly beings that
II he did not exist he would be incOn-
ceivable. 1t Is not merely that he is
supplanter and a changeling. His
whole nature Is so evil that in the
world of birds he is an incarnation OF
the principle Of ILL., an embodiment Of
vices which would If understood or
adopted by other birds put an end to
the existence of the race. - London
Spectator.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
FORGET BUSINESS AT NIGHT
That Is the only Way to Be sure OF
Doing Your Best Work.

That hs the Only way to BE sure OF
Doing Your Best work.
EVERY business man of common
sense knows, whether he chooses to
acknowledge 1t or not, that the farther
away he gets in the evening from his
commercial associations during the
day, so that his business associates or
thoughts of it or them cannot get at
him, the healthier he Is, the wiser life
he leads-in short, the better off he Is
in every respect and the ADLER for the
duties of the morrow" writes Edward
Box in The Ladies' Home Journal.
Now, what does he get in the city
in the evening, even If he lives care
fully regulated life? There is no mode
of life he can possibly follow which Is
In any way recuperative to his mental
or physical being He has never been
out of hearing Of the noises of the city
or out of the range of it's lights. Every
night he has slept in the polluted air Of
the city and in the morning has looked
out on the gray sidewalks which he
SCC6 I'LL ddJ AOhBs w baA nONo ohNh -
man know of the exhilarating, refresh.
ing and blood qulckening experience Of
opening the shutters of his Chamber
window upon landscape of space and
sunshine? And, what is far worse,
what do his wife and children know Of
such blessing?
yet he deludes himself into the be-
lief that he must live in the city, so as
to be in touch with things If you
ask him what those things are, you
invariably discover that they are Of a
business nature. either strictly busi-
ness or some social convention which
he feels has bearing on his business.
But it is always business, businessI
Now, a man living under this pressure
rarely does his best work, although he
fully believes that he Is doing 1t. But
be cannot be giving out the best be-
cause he does not allow the best TO get
within him."
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
LYCEUM THEATRE.
AND ARBIE Is WITH THE
HIGH ROLLERS,

There is never a day that does not
bring with it to the most careless of
us all, even to our queens, the reali-
ization of some great truth or the ex>
istence of some hitherto unsuspected
marvel in nature. This is because
in the mad world in which these
Queens of the stage plunge with their
satellites in the mad chase after the
rainbows of pleasure, regardless of
details ard the trivial realities of life.
For instance, Abbie Carlton, of The
High Rollers Company, who are at
the Lycenm Theatre, commencing
next Monday matinee, never knew
until yesterday the natural color of
a lobster; going along in her happy,
needless way. she had supposed lob>
sters to be at every stage of their
existence rich, apoplectic red, and
she is a well.informed girl. She
knew that Holsters did not grow in
hills like potatoes, and are not bagged
with shotgun and retriever, hut
that they are created with hectic
flush, she accepted blindly as a fact
beyond controversy. 1t is not strange.
therefore, as she entered restaurant
she gave startled cry of alarm and
shrank back af'righted, when she saw
the huge blackish-green octopus wig
CLING its claws conyulsively in the
glass refrigerator at Harvey's. She
was incredulous when assured it was
merely a lobster, and that it would
change its color when it became red
with indignation at being boiled
alive. "Such cruelty is Infamous"
said Miss Carlton, and her dark
brown eyes grew eloquent with sym
pathy, "they might at least chloro-
form them first or use laughing gas.
| was certain that one had been gath>
cred before it was ripe But Miss
Cartoons ignorance in this instance
is in no way discreditarle. How
many men pass the posters and show
bills of The High Rollers and decide
they represent show which is like
the rest, because show bills are as
familiar as Holsters, either human.
boiled, or la Newburg.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
WILD BEASTS IN BATTLE.
Two Panthers and Sen Lion In n
Fight TO the Death.

FhS ~ hhG DGAths
Among all fights of wild beasts per-
haps the most terrible are those In
which the combatants belong to differ
ent elements The struggle then seems
peculiarly wanton and unnatural. Not
long ago two men on a small island Off
the Californian coast declare that they
witnessed such battle. The men
were amusing themselves watching
the antics Of a number of sea lions on
reef when all at once the creatures
began to below in alarm and dived
into the water. One huge fellow alone
stood his ground and moved his head
slowly, as If watching.
A moment later the men saw creep
ing from the shadow of rock two
large panthers, which had evidently
swum over from the mainland in
search Of prey.
simultaneously the panthers leaped
upon their enemy and a terrible COM
bat ensued For nearly 30 minutes 1t
went on, till the reef was skirted with
crimson foam.
Twice the lion struck panther
squarely with his fipper and knocked
him dozen feet away. But the great
cats kept to their work, and finally one
of them buried his teeth in IL fiipper Of
the sea lion. and tore II, off with a sin
gle savage tug.
Believing hoarsely with pain and an
ger, the wounded bull caught the
panther's throat between its jaws and
dragged him into the water, but the
big brute was weak from loss of blood.
The panther escaped, and, with its
mate, swan off for the mainland
across the narrow channel, while the
sea lion struggled out toward the ocean
to die.
The men went down to examine the
field of battle. A hole deep enough to
bury a horse had been dug in the soft
mud, while the shore was stained blood
red.-San Francisco Call.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02

Two incidents in the railroad life Of
Payson Tucker are told that well IL
lustrate what a worker he was and
his attention to the details Of business.
Several years ago he was up on the
mountain division of the Maine Cen
tral road and looked over the grounds
Of one of the stations. Nothing more
than the usual conversation passed,
and he returned to his car and went
back to Portland Nearly year pass
ed before he had occasion to call at
the station again, and then he stepped
off the car and asked pleasantly:
"Do you have all the help you want
hereW
"Yes, sir; all that we need"
"Quite sure you have enoughP
Yes, sir There is not much to be
done at so small station"
swell, feared you were rushed to
death and could not find time to re-
move that pile of old bricks saw the
last time l was here" "''-
With that the general manager Of
the road stopped over the pile of bricks
and, without removing his kid gloves,
continued the work until the last one
was neatly piled up.
At another time a break had been
committed at one of the stations on
the back road, and the next day after
the notice Of the break had been wired
to Portland Mr. Tucker chanced to
pass that way. After looking things
over, Mr.. Tucker asked what had been
lost, and the agent quickly ran over
the amount of money and tickets
stolen.
"That all? asked Mr.. Tucker, when
the agent had concluded.
"Yes, sir; nothing else"
"That soT' said Mr. Tucker, taking
in the untidy appearance OF the room
and station at a glance. II feared some
one had stolen your broom. Perhaps
you have not missed II. / will send
you one" "-Presque Isle (Me.J Star
Herald. ----.--
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A Monn IIng ,TOrY.


An English magazine tells a novel
tale of !, dog to which interest is added
by the fact that the incident really oc-
Cured Zig was fox terrier of daunt-
less courage and an Independence OF
spirit that defed authority.
He had the self taught accomplish
ment of diving, but his method was
wholly different from that Of other
dogs. He would walk to the edge OF
the pond and then into it, keeping
along the bottom until he came to some
treasure, which he brought to the sur
face.
One day while thus engaged he found
a water pole about six feet in length.
1t was very heavy, but he struggled
valiantly and brought his prize to
shore. Notwithstanding his masters
orders to the contrary, Zig in his usual
independent way insisted on carrying
the pole home, and he started across
the fields, taking a short cut.
Presently he came to a paling fence,
and, being unprepared for such an
emergency, he laid down the pole and
sat beside 1t to think out plan Of ac-
ton. This made him master of the sit
uation, and he jumped up suddenly,
caught the pole by ore end and drag
ged it after him In between the palings.
Then, with short bark of satisfac-
tlon, he took the pole In his teeth by
the middle, balancing It nicely, and
soon reached home, where he dropped
It ON the lawn. His master had follow.
ed him and had seen the whole per
fornanca
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would boom Whist.

1t would certainly be a grand thing
for the whist interests of the country,
says writer on the subject, II the
leading clubs In all sections used prae-
tically the same system Of play and the
games were won by superior science,
unaded by any advantage Of system.
There is no question that the standard
game has been greatly simplltied and
improved. but II will continue to be the
standard game for many years, be-
cause. above all others, 1t makes n pair
play together as one and makes 1t
necessary for player not only to read
his partners hand as shown to him,
but to fathom and follow also his
partners method of reasoning every
time a play is made that differs from
the conventional, and thus affords in
tellectual enjoyment Of the highest
order
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
AXTELL TO BE SOLD AGAIN
The Great TrOtting stallion VIII he
AuctiOned at Madison square.

AucthOneO nt MhulsOn SVuhre.
Axtell, the great trotting stallion is
TO be sold in November at the Madison
Square Garden horse show at auction.
AXtell was sold at the fall race meet
ing in Terre Haute in 1889 to syndi-
cate composed Of w. j. Ijams of Terre
Haute. Colonel Conley Of Chicago,
since dead. and Frank Moran and Mr..
Brush of Detroit for $l05.000 two
hours after he had made the phenome-
nal stallion record Of 2:l2 to an old
high wheel sulky. He was then only
3 years old. and the time was the best
up TO that date for any stallion. He
was owned by c. w. Williams, then Of
Independence, Ia. sired by William L.
dam Lou, by Mambrino Boy The sen.
sational sale at the then unprecedented
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02

price caused much comment every
where It was the intention Of his
owners to both exhibit him at race
meetings and place him in the stud
He went lame, slightly, however early
the next season, and for that reason
he has never since been seen on a
race track, except occasionally when
brought to the track at Terre Haute
from Warren Park farm to be logged
In front of the grand stand Last fall
he was speeded somewhat. and horse
men were as much pleased with his
straight gait as when he finished the
world record mile ten years before.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
Handy.

"Thls man." said the keeper softly.
'fmaelnes he has millions"
isn't that niceY answered the Wis
Itor whenever he needs money oil
he has to do is to draw on his imagina
lion. kansas City Times.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
Had 90 BE Taken Down.

Mr.. Figg-Mr. Brown tells me You
gave his boy n beating. Did you?
TOmmy-Course did. His paw got
him new bicycle and dog.-Indian-
apOlls Press.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02
~Mhnt Is a skeptIc. pn?"

W nut 70 q NIN ININf III .
"Well, the most hopeless kind Of
skeptic Is woman who has lost her
faith in doctors. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-09-02

The advertising manager Of Ches-
apeake Beach, last week, was picked
up a "hoater." His head was so
light that it kept his rotten carcass
from being food for suckers.
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THE CHAMPION GOLFER
J. H. Taylor, Who Is Now In
This Country.
A GREET RIVAL OF vARDON.

The Men May Meet Again at the Open
Championship mt wheaton Next
Month--raylOr's Great skill with
the Mnshie.
Joshua II. Taylor, open golf cham
pion Of Great Britain. is giving a series
of exhibitions in the United States,
Like Vardon, Taylor is an Englshman,
and both are about the same size. Each
has won the championship Of Great
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-28
The MONTH or NAY.
It Generally Is Somewhat Cloudy, But
Nevertheless Pleasant Month.

The following data for the month of
May, covering period of twenty-seven
years, has been complied from the
weather bureau records in this city. The
mean temperature has been 56 degrees;
the warmest month was that Of May,
1879. with an average of 81 degrees; the
coolest month was that of 1891, with an
average of So degrees; the highest tenn
perature was So degrees. on May 20,
1896; the lowest temperature was "a de-
grees, on May 2, 1887 the average date
of the last killing frost in spring was
April 21. The average precipitation for
the month was 1.09 inches: average
number of days with .01 of an inch or
more, 6; the greatest monthly precipita-
ton was 4.S5 inches, in 1897 the least
monthly precipitation was a trace in
1890; the greatest amount Of precipita-
ton recorded in any twenty-four con-
secutive hours was 2.12 inches, on May
IS and 10, 1897; the greatest amount Of
snowfall recorded in any twenty-four
consecutive hours was inches on May
80, 1895. The average number of clear
days were IA; partly cloudy days, IL:
cloudy days, 3. The prevailing winds
have been from the southwest; the
highest velocity of the wind was flfty-
one miles per hour, from the southwest,
on May IS. 1883.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-28
Large Cattle Shipment.

Robert Roberts. of Pagosa Springs.
who has the contract to furnish meat
for the Jicarilla Apache Indians at the
sub-agency, located at Dulce, Rio Arri-
ba county. is loading LOO head of steers
at Silver City for immediate shipment
oyer the Santa Fe railroad to this city.
From this point the cattle will be ship
ped north over. the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad on Monday or Tuesday
of next week. Three trains, or about
sixty three cars, will be required to haul
the shipment over the narrow gauge.
Mr.. Roberts will use all the steers over
1 year old in filing his Dulce meat con-
tract, and will turn loose the yearlings
on the Piedra meadows above Pagosa
Springs