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WALKING ON STILLS.

these artificial legs, and such thing
as a fall is unknown.
A person who can add six feet to the
length of his legs naturally has
great advantage over those who must
walk with limbs of ordinary length.
The French farmers mounted in this
way are almost match, in point of
speed, for horse, and shepherd can
outrun dog in rounding up his sheep.
The silt walkers can even run at sur.
prising speed through very rough
country or through underbrush sever
al feet in height.
A race was recently run near Bor-
deaux between three picked horses,
three silt walkers and three pedes-
TRANS. Only one of the horses fin
ished. It arrived first, but only about
20 minutes ahead of the first silt
walker. The last of the silt walkers
completed the course ~ hours ahead
of the first pedestrians.
The stills used by the French peas
ants are entirely different from those
sometimes used by children in the
OAAICO OldLCS. AC > Us "AkSA SCAS0
As toys in America, as rule, reach up
to the armpits, or at least to within
reach of the hands. The French stills
do not reach even to the knee. The
French stills have, besides, q much
broader rest for the foot.
The Frenchman never touches the
stills with his hands. They are
strapped rigidly to his foot and leg,
thus leaving both hands free to carry
his long staff or any other burden.
All the silt walkers worthy of the
name are able to mount their stills
without assistance. The children
learn to walk on great stills almost as
soon as they can walk, and men over 80
years old still retain their curious ar
tifcial legs.-Detroit Free Press.
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A PAPER PARACHUTE.
How Any Bright Boy Can Make q
Scientific Toy That Will Amuse
His Friends.

It is not difficult to make q para
chute of paper, as any umbrella can be
taken as model. But how can we
get an apparatus by the means of
which the parachute is carried into
the air and opened?
Let us proceed as follows: Suppos-
ing we have succeeded in making a
paper parachute; we didn't use whale
bone or wire, but thin pieces of card
extending good bit over the edge
of the parachute and fastened with
their ends to smooth wooden ring;
this wooden ring is pulled over the
stick of the parachute and moves
smoothly up and down. A bone but
ton with groove for broad rubber
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
QUAIL IN NORTHERN WINTERS
The Birds Have Demonstrated Their
Ability to Withstand the Se-
verify of the Season.

Reports from Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota show that the quail
in the southern parts of those states
wintered well; in the northern parts
there are no quail winter or summer,
says the New York Sun.
The hardness of the birds has
proved surprise, as in western Wis
consin and eastern Minnesota the
snowfall was the heaviest in years. In
January it was the belief that the
quail would be almost exterminated.
In that month came the kind of
snow that is the most deadly to
ground-bird life-soft and continuous
until depth of nearly foot on the
level was reached, then slight rise in
temperature followed by a drizzling
rain, which wet the snow thoroughly,
then fall and hard freeze, convert
ing the snow surface into solid ice,
roofing over the particles beneath.
When a storm of this kind comes the
birds take shelter under bushes, but
the snow finds them and covers them.
When the freeze follows their only re-
course is to tunnel their way to the
upper air and the quail is often not
strong enough to make way through
the frozen crust with it's beak.
An imprisoned flock takes turns in
hammering at the crust, but even If
they gain their liberty, coming out one
by one through a hole just large
enough to permit of egress, they find
their feeding places almost impene-
trably covered and have strong
chance of starva ton.
Now and then kind-hearted farmer
throws out wheat or chicken feed
near his barn, but generally the
bevies are left to look out for them
selves and whether they live or die de-
ponds entirely upon the length of time
the frozen crust lasts. Quail are ex-
ceedingly daring and ingenious in find
ing food under such circumstances.
Some bevies come up to the farm
yards and associate amicably with the
chickens, sometimes even going into
the henhouse to roost. The huge
Brahmas and Cochins regard the in
vasion with dislike, but cannot catch
the nimble little marauders who get
much more than their share of the
food until their small crops are filled.
Other bevies stay along the edges
of streams. Here the snow upon one
or the other bank is apt to be lighter
and to drift and leave the ground bare,
and it must be singularly barren
ground from which a snow-harassed
quail cannot manage to extract some
nutriment.
Others feed upon the still-clinging
seeds of weeds which project above
the crust and others try their already
sore bills along the crevices of old logs
and trees, looking for worms which
have gone as far in from the cold as
they can get.
The state of Wisconsin has been at
much trouble and expense as to it's
quail. Some years ago there were not
a dozen quail to county; they had
been shot, netted and trapped almost
to extinction.
Some thousands of pairs were i'm
ported from Oklahoma, territory
which does not now permit the ex-
portation of quail, and they were
turned loose in a cold and strange
country to die or multiply as they saw
fit.
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COMPOSITION ON HENS.
Literary Gem Produced BY an OBJ
servant Boy Pupil I'm = Cali.
10rnia Public School.

"Hens is curious animals. They
don't have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no
ears. ..
"The outside of hens is generally put
into pliers and feather busters. The
inside of hen is sometimes filed up
with marbles and shirt buttons and
SIGH.
A hen is very much smaller than a
good many other animals, but they'll
dig up more tomato plants than any
thing that amt hen.
'Hens is very useful to lay eggs for
plum pudding. like plum pudding.
Skinny Bate eat SO much plum pudding
once that it set him into the collery.
"Hens has got wings and can fly when
they are scarf. I cut my Uncle Will
liam's hens neck off with hatchet and
it scarf her to death.
"Hens sometimes make very fine
spring chickens Wa.
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No effort was made to take care Of
them, but law was passed forbidding
the shooting of quail under heavy
penalty for five years.
At the expiration of that period
they had increased marvelously
Then the farmer element in the legis-
lature extended the period by three
years more, which has two years to
run.
If the quail are not exterminated by
some savage winter there will be rare
sport in Wisconsin in 1904, unless the
grangers again intervene. The farmer
wants the quail let alone, because in
his opinion it is slaughterer of pota-
to bugs. 1t does eat potato bugs, but
one middling, well-organized hen will
eat as many bugs as bevy of quails,
and turkey will eat more.
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creek; and caught colds that laid us
up for month and cost big doctors
bills; and how we finally bought the
trout of fellow who had managed
to catch half a dozen, somehow, and
who wouldn't sell 'em for less than
two dollars. But they were for nice
old Mrs. Charles P. Darlington, and
we bought 'em, and took 'em to the
Darlington place, wringing wet as
we were, and all but frozen.
Charles P. Darlington came to the
door himself. We handed him the
.rout-nice ones they were, too
and told him they were for Mrs.
Charles P. Darlington. He took 'em,
looked 'em over, and then growled
out:
"sTde !rout's all right, I s'pose.
But It's wonder you wouldn't "a
cleaned 'em before you brung 'em!''
The landlord PAUSED to scratch an.
other match. The mouth of the
Pochuck newsbearer was still open
but whether news would have begun
20 issue from it is not known, for
Raldy. the landlord, spoke up again
right away.
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NOT IN THE SWIM.
The Travelling Man Who Did Not HAv<
Cheek Enough to Win
Girl,

"They talk about the cheek of the
men in this profession" said the drum
mer, in contemptuoust tones, according
to the Detroit Free Press, ''but it's all
nonsense, and I'm living proof of it.
I had couple of weeks off in an In.
diana town this spring, and met and
fell in love with as nice girl as you
ever saw. Her old dad was the big
gun of the village and worth barrel
of money, and have reason to believe
that he sized me up for my full value.
"In the small towns the chief source
of amusement is riding on the electric
cars in the evening, and after week
I took my girl out for a trolley ride.
BY the great horn spoon, but I never
saw so much spooning in all my life.
Everybody seemed to be in love.
Couples sat holding hands on every
seat, and every young man with an
arm had it around girls waist. 1t
was new sight to me, and was SO
staggered that sat up beside my girl
like bump on log. got to talking
after bit, but during that ride of eight
miles and back I hardly touched the
girl with my elbow. She grew silent
as we returned, and only word or two
passed between US as escorted hel
from the car to her fathers gate. She
did not ask me in, and of course I in
quired in what way! I had offended
her.
"'You must know she replied.
"'But do not
"'Then let me tell you that you
made both of us objects of ridicule to
the whole car
"'Good lands, but how?'
"'By not putting your arm around
me or holding my hand. I took you
for a gentleman, but I find I was mis-
taken, and I will therefore bid you
goodnight and good-by!'
81 offered to repairHny error" sighed
the drummer, assuring her at the
same time that I would never, never
be guilty of the like again, but she felt
that she could never, never be the
same to me as before, and so we part
ed forever. 1t makes me tired to think
of it, but that has always been the
way with me. Lack of cheek has pre-
vented me from knowing a good thing
when had it,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
band is fastened to the end of the par,

band is fastened to the end of the para
chute stick.
We get paper mailing tube open
at both ends and just wide enough to
allow the parachute to slip in when
folded together. On the lower end of
the tube we fasten a strong piece of
rubber band on both sides of the open
ing. We insert the parachute into the
tube and place the bone button with
it's groove on the rubber band. Then
holding the tube with one hand, we
pull the bone button; with the other
stretching the rubber band. Then let
go, and the parachute shoots out like
an arrow, reaches a considerable
height, opens up, and then comes slow
ly DOWN.. Y. Herald.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
SHEPHERDS ON Stills.
fetal Legs in q Way That Az.
tonishes All Visitors.

Most expert of silt walkers in the
world are those to be found in La Teste,
in France. The rural postmen of this
region, the shepherds and farmers go
about on tall stills with perfect ease.
The stills worn by these people in
their ordinary work frequently meas
ure six feet or more in height. Years
of constant practice has made every.
one remarkably expert in managing
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
Now Ha. Umbrellas to Burn.

: A well-known English dean recently
had the misfortune to lose his UNI
brella, and he rather suspected that
appropriation by another had not
been altogether accidental. He there
fore used the story to point a moral
in a sermon in the cathedral, adding
that if the present possessor would
drop it over the wall of the deanery
garden during the night he would
say no more about it. Next morning
he repaired to the spot and found his
own umbrella and As others.
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Unpopularity of ChauReur,.

Even in New York city, where
reverence for the native aristocracy
is inbred, they are beginning to mob
automobilists who run over people
in the streets. This should serve as
a caution to local cbauiteurs, says
the Chicago Chronicle, who have to
deal with people more or less wild
and woolly-not to say strenuous.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21

His royal hignness, Prince Michi grand
son of the present Mikado Of Japan, is the
youngest heir presumptive to a great
throng among all the royal personages in
the world. The first two symbols in the
above oriental inscription mean Imperial
Grandson" The third and fourth Etapd
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
Three for q Quarter.

Three for q Quarter.
Lady-Poor little chap! You say
my dog bit you? Well here is dime.
Boy-Say, Misses, let's let him bite
me twice more and call it quarter!
Puck.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21

him her who gets through the days lessons with
they would like be of that who the lesson
and the class with flying colors But be
heroes they fall Easily learned is oftenmes easily forgotten
and the days Of final examination drawing
the duties Of life that
have passed The who FORCES ahead without first acquiring
1dments OF the business profession which he has
always be found the end Of the The lesson
hare and the tortoise applicable these modern days. Push
along, gradually if you must, but push along.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21

for ''Michi," while His Royal Hignness"
is distributed over the fifth and sixth. The
three remaining symbols form the one
word photograph" Let us hope the
youthful prince will become as good a
friend to us as his grandfather 10. and al
ways has been.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-21
THE HARE OR THE TORTOISE
BY MAX OWEN.

ANY the wonders the plodders of this world have
accomplished. Take history through and you will find
that greatest need of progress the plod
ders. Don't be ashamed of being of them
The Young man or Young woman in school is inclined
The Washington times., 1902-01-26
AN UP-To-DATE CHURCH.
Contains Kitchen, Gymnasium, and
IA Nursery for babies.

memorial church with many unusual
architectural features has just been. .dedi-
Gated 10 the cause of Methodism in Whea-
ton Ill. the gift of Judge Ebert II. Gary.
president of the board of directors of the
Federal Steel Corporation. in honor of his
father and mother. who were pioneers in
that section of Illinois.
The church is one of the most elaborate
memorial structures in the West. and cost
more than 500, 900. Under one roof have
been combined the various features of a
modern metropolitan church.
novelty is a fireproof vault in the
basement which is large enough to hold
tbe church records and communion serv-
ice Another Is the church parlor. fitted
bouse with o great open fireplace and
many easy chairs'
The pastor has reception room as well
az a private office or study. The church
Kitchen is as fully equipped as that OF any
small hotel and Is connected with a
large banquet room. There is also gym
p,sium and room In which amateur
theatrical performances can be given,
which has dressing rooms for the partici-
pants.
Nbeaton babies will no longer have the
,ov of crying in church. for the church
nursery will receive them at the begin
ming of the service and guarantee to keep
them better amused than they would be
listening to the sermon.-New York Tri-
bune.
The Washington times., 1902-01-26
ONE HUNDRED RARE STAMPS.
Valued at Nearly 100000 by Cali
fOrnin plilateIist.

Stamp collecting is by most persons as
sociated with schoolboys, but the consid-
cradle number of stamp dealers through
out the country are supported by adult
collectors many of whom have consider
able means to devote to their hobby.
Such collector is Henry ]. Crocker, the
San Francisco capitalist.
Mr. Crocker may be remembered by
Eastern newspaper readers as having Of
fered some years ago to buy all the wine
grapes raised in California for seven
years. Mr.. Crocker is a man in middle
life and is kept busy looking after his
numerous investments, but his chief di-
version is the accumulation of rare post
age stamps.
For ten or dozen years he has been
known to stamp dealers throughout the
world as a good customer for scarce
items in their lire. To small selection
of his philatciic treasures has been
awarded the first prize offered by the Phil
atelic Society of New York for the rarest
group OF one hundred Cancelled stamps
shown by any collector at its December
meeting in this city.
Mr.. Crocker values the exhibit OF one
hundred stamps he Sent here at s1S.915.
His rarest and consequently most valu-
able single stamp is the 20-cent label is
sued in 1s45 by the St Louis Postoffice.
before there were any regular United
States stamps. For many years only four
copies of this stamp were known TO be in
existence. but several years ago about
twenty more came to light. Mr.. Crocker
considers his specimen worth $500, but
conservative dealers say this is too high
an estimate.
The 5-cent and 10-cent St Louis stamps
OF the same series are valued at $3.50 and
$500 respectively. and those valuations are
nearer the market prices. The Brattle-
boro postmaster's little stamp, valued at
$500, and the label bearing a facsimile Of
James VI. Buchanan's signature as post
master at Baltimore, are also scarce
relies Of the days when Uncle Sam had no
star6ps CT his own.
The Hawaiian missionary" stamps, so
called because they were used almost ex-
clGsiyely by missionaries, whose presence
Ia Hawaii started the use of stamps there,
are among The rarest in the world. An
other great rarity is the curious Mo!da-
Wan type. An uncanceled copy OF the
81 paras sold recently in London foT
s1.100.
The vertical halves Of the double 10
rappen Swiss stamp, issued by the Can
ton of Geneva in 1913, were sometimes
used separately as five rappen values. The
first stamps OF the Reunion Islands,
French possessions in the Indian Ocean
OFF Madagascar are oE their original en-
velopes in Mr.. CroCker's exhibit, a con-
dtion greatly increasing their value in
the eyes Of collectors.-New York Tri-
bune
The Washington times., 1902-01-26

ever the flag has gone up let it not be
pulled down"
Along with the quasi patriotic senti-
ment. was n more sordid one the desire
to obtain for Danish commercialism spe-
eihc privileges in the islands. Again there
was the recognition of duty to perform
by the mother country toward the island
ers, the securing for them OF United
States citizenship. the free entrance into
the United States OF the islands products
and the safe keeping OF their material iu-
terests by the maintenance of ST. Thomas
as-a free port in times of war as we'll as
peace.
Race Feeling n Consideration.
The last and least important consid-
GRAFTON was the race feeling. which pre-
ferred to see the islands pass into the
hands OF more nearly kindred people.
the Germans. than into those Of the Re
public across the seas.
No doubt Germany. though fully aware
of the impossibility under the operation
of the Monroe Doctrine Of any realization
of this sentiment. zealously fostered 1t
through motives of rivalry In dominion
and in commerce.
The Washington times., 1902-01-26
One on Mark Twain,

Mark Twain's humor Is not quite under
stood by the British workingman. An
drew Lang, in current English maya
zine article, tells how he made this dis
covery. 1t seems that he had loaned a
copy of "Iranhoe" to the workingnian
who duly returned it with the candid re-
mark that he hadn't read it through be-
cause there were SO many characters he
couldn't remember them all. He then
offered to lend Mr.. Lang a book, which
he said, he was sure he would like This
proved to be 4 volume of alleged wit
and Humor," which, so far from anus
ing him, caused Mr. Lang 10 feel sad
and discouraged. Mr.. Lang in his turn.
then read aloud to the workingman what
he considered very choice extract from
one of Mark Twain's best books. But
the workingman smiled in a wintry, per-
functory way, and Mr.. Lang knew that
the man. whom he pitied, pitied him. So
they parted in mutual commiseration.--
Harpers Magazine.
The Washington times., 1902-01-26

Home. There IS one old fellow named
Russell who gets SIS month pension. All
but 81 of this he gives TO his sister TO
Keep for him. He works in the cemetery
watering flowers for lot owners and
makes pretty good money. and will go up
Town an tine on an errand for cents
and car fare, but he never uses the tick
cts. He viii walk every steD of the way
ard sell the tickets. The money he soaks
away in his pockets until thev bulge out.
I'll bet right now ne has as much as $40
in his rockets. lie is too miserly even 10
buy tobacco, but will nick up old 'quds
and cicar and cigarette stubs. carrying
with him all the time little sack to put
them IN.
Weakness for Financial Matters.
'One or two here have a weakness for
financial matters. and pension day will
End them around on f Street among the
money offices. trying TO see what is going
cn. Naturally they always come back
with their wings clipped. Very few OF
the older men skyrocket their pension
money in gambling at cards. but some OF
these young Spanish war fellows now at
the nome are expert poker players. The
old soldier always wants to be sure OF
getting something In return for his money,
even IL il is only Sood-sized jag.
-''Of course. il is the general rule that
pension money is rut TO a good use. l
say il is as 4 rule but that is wrong. 1t
is the general belief not one-hsf of the
money paid the cid soldier for pension
goes for good purpose. Most OF the men
get their money. roll high for few days
and then go broke. They treat every
body in sight. feed the gang, and are
kicked out when their money is gone.
..nottyc Eonp.. I,crcrsi,r
4 regret to say that the Bottle Gang
seems to be increasing in numbers, and
when one of these fellows can't get the
stuff any other way. he Will slip some
thing out of the home and dispose OF it:
blankets. sheets, pillowslips, towels,
clothing, and things of like nature are
almost daily carried out and sold to peo-
pie who are willing to buy such things
for a small price. Half the negroes in
this section of the city wear articles
stolen from the Home. The Government
only furnishes the best of everything to
the inmates of the Home. and when one
of the men takes a notion that he must
produce another bottle. articles will be
almost given away in order to get the
money.
Come out here some pension day and
you will see how the old fellow is watched
and pounced upon by some of the never
work young fellows who loaf around here.
These ducks manage to live we'll, and es-
pecially @fter pension days. They jolly
the old fellows until they get all they
want. ! regret to say that the average
pensioner in the Home is easily guled.
Just talk to him a short time, and brag
on his war record. which he is sure TO
give you, and you can get anything he has.
Il can1idly believe the payment Of
pensions monthly instead of quarterly
would prove blessing TO the old soldier
class
The Washington times., 1902-01-26

ually into other territory until the entire
country is covered.
In the case of Albert Thompson, who
recently jumped his bond in this city.
where he was awaiting trial on charge
of the larceny of several diamonds from
Gait & Bros, not only the police OF
other cities were notified but all the ho-
tel and saloon Keepers in the cities IN
which he was known and where it was
thought he might seek asylum were pro-
vided with copies of the circular Offering
a reward forth arrest of the man.
Similar methods was followed in the
casessof hmes Harkes and John Morgan,
the alleged pic1pockets, who were arrest
ed here during the inauguration and who
after securing their release on bond left
the country. They returned to their
homes in England only to find their pic
lures and descriptions in the hands of the
authorities there and they were at once
placed under arrest. They were charged
with only the larceny of a pocket5ook
containing SO. but bringing them back
to this country alone cost over 500. The
work was done by order of the authorities.
but whether they will settle for it re-
mains to be seen,