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The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07

II was young lady but told the color
of her hair and gave her initials to-
gether with some interesting facts re-
garding her character and future; facts
which the company found highly anus
ing.
No one was within reach of Monkey,
so it was plain that no information
was whispered to him. Yet through
the rest of the evening Monkey con-
tinued to read characters and to tell
the past and the future
No trick from the clever president of
the Hickories could trip the magician
up or discover to the company how he
knew of whom he was talking. When
the puzzled guests finally went home,
the entertainment given by the Hick-
cries was outclassed and forgotten.
This is how the Go-Ahead Club man.
aged their crystal reading. The box
before which Monkey sat when he APP
peared to stare so fixedly into the mag
ic globe (Which was really only a fish
globe filled with colored water), had an
ingenious contrivance on the inside. A
view of this contrivance is shown in
Figure s. Figure shows it as it ap-
pears when looking directly down upon
it. The grace shown in Figure is
/ fastened in an upright position on the
outside of the box.
The top of the brace should be about
foot from the top of the box The
grip, Figure /, is fastened upon the
brace as shown in Figure 4.
Pierce a hole through each side of
the u at the end of the grip. 1t is
! better to burn the holes so that there
will be no danger of splitting the grip.
The lever, which is shown in Figure
6. must be pierced through the center.
Place the center of the lever between
| the two sides of the u at the end of
the grip and run thin bolt through
the holes which have been made.
This will make a joint which will al
| low the lever to swing easily back and
forth.
The so-called needle (see the needle
on Figure g. is thin round oak stick.
The end of this needle is joined to the
| end of the lever just as the lever is
| Joined to the grip, that is, there is a
U shaped cut at the end of the lever
/ and the end of the needle is fitted into
this cut. bolt is run through the
upper side of the u, then through the
end of the lower side of the U, as
| shown in Figure 3.
Hold the needle parallel with the
! floor and see where the end not Joined
to the lever touches the tox.
! At the spot where the needle
| touches the box, bore a small hole just
| large enough to admit the point OF
the needle. See point of needle as
shown in Figure six.
| Attach a rubebr band tc the side Of
the lever nearest the box at the other
end from the needle. Attach the run
| Der band also to the box. The rub
Der band is sho sn in Figure six.
Paint the point of the needle black
and if q picture design, such as Is
schown on fne front OF the box in the
| accompanying Illustration is too great
| task, at least paint tho outside Of the
| box black so that the point of The
| needle cannot be noticed:
| 1t can easily be seen that when the
signal string is pulled the needle will
be pushed out through the hole In the
side of the box. and when the signal
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might use in reading the past and
future, it would not be the sense OF
sight as long as the bandages remain
ed untouched.
The seer seated himself at sort OF
mystic table, and appeared in spite or
his bandages to stare into large
globe which hung just on level with
his eyes. He held in one hand thin,
black stick; ii was attached by long
cord to a second black stick.
Sam passed the second black stick
TO the company.
Someone please take hold" he said.
Paul Prior, the president OF the
Hickories. eagerly seized II. For a
moment there was dead silence, then
Monkey said in a deep. unnatural
voice:
"A mist obscures my sight. IL is
better that / should begin with some
one less young In years and expert
ence, one OF the female sex"
Paul Prior flushed painfully and
dropped the stick. The rest OF the
company We're amused and considers
bly, astonished; for since Monkey was
blindfOlded they could not understand
how he knew who had hold OF the stick.
A very popular young lady next took
the magic handle. and although Nor
Keys back WAS turned toward her and
b. WAS blindfolded, he not only knew
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push meant DIR. Graham. Monkey,
therefore, had no difficulty in playing
his part. He had arranged to meet
emergencies by agreeing that two
short pushes should mean, mo one
has hold" and two long pushes would
mean, two or more people have
hold" etc.
Had Monkey not known all the
people personally he could have ar
ranged a signal which would mean
a young lady. and one which would
mean a young man, etc. Even this
amount of knowledge, eked out with
details concerning some few people,
would have been enough to create a
sensation.
Figure seven shows the wooden
handles used by Monkey. Figure
nine is Monkeys cap. II is really moth
ing more than large cornucopia OF
paper
The globe Is held by a wire frame
such as shown in Figure five.
Figure eight shows how 10 arrange
the beard. A rubber band is sewed
20 each end Of a piece OF wooden cloth;
the cotton Is then sewed on the cloth.
The rubber band when Il ie slipped
over the head VIII hold the beard IN
place.
An incense burner, perhaps IN old
book o. scroll Or IN fact any queer
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and a mother grizzly fighting for her
cubs is about as fierce a proposition
as walks. But In the end both of the
cubs and the big grizzly were torn to
bits.
The hogs would rather fight than
feed. Their teeth are like razors their
skins are as tough as they make them,
and their tenacity of life is astounding.
The first and the most important rule
that hunter must observe when he
goes after one of these animals Is to
be near a tree. If he neglects this
precaution his first hunt stands good
chance of being his last And 1t must
be tree large enough so that the hogs
can't dig about the roots and cut them
with their sharp teeth.
The first time l wenr on a hunt aft
er these southwestern hogs 1 was in
clined to laugh at the warnings of my
Yuma Indian guides. About noon we
came on a drove. lite, one of the Yuma
guides. told me to get my rifle ready
and take my stand near thick spread
ing tree with some low hanging limbs.
He and Paul, the second Indian, step
ped off to the sides. each standing be-
sides saplTng. Then we sent the
dogs into the brush and awaited devel-
opments.
THE developments came The dogs
broke out of the underbroush. They
didn't pay any attention to U.S. but
acted like dogs that had some impor-
tant business at the other end of the
county.
Following the dogs, and only a lit
tie way behind, came big boar. If
ever l saw a truly demonic picture of
rage it was that. The white foam was
dripping from his great teeth: he was
covered with the blood of a slaughter
ed dog, and he was certainly out on
the kill. lite fired and hit him squa re
| in the forehead He gave a grunt OF
rage and wheeled
lite had made the mistake of not
selecting large enough tree. It was
only sapling, but he swung up with
out losing time, dropping his gun The
boar came at the sapling full tilt
struck 1t fair with his forehead and
the blow shook the little tree so that
/ lite was nearly shaken off.
AFTER two or three more attempts
to butt down the tree. the boar began
work about three feet from the foot
of it. digging up the ground until he
struck a root, then biting it with his
sharp teeth. | judged 1t was up to
me to take a hand in the game.
Il slung my rifle over my shout
der and scra mbled up into my tree. I
got a good range on the big hog and
let him have 1t. II I expected that bull
let to, bring him down / was a might
lily mistaken hunter. He saw the
smoke from my rifle. recognized that
he had new enemy to deal with and
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afraid Paul might have fallen into Sc
rious trouble. At last we got where We
could get clear view. and it was
about as exciting a sight as 1 ever
saw.
"All the drove except the big boar
had broken through the brush near
where Paul was standing. He promptly
Skinned up his sapling. and there he
was besieged. The tree wasn't big
enough for comfort. but IL was too
large to be butted down. The hogs had
begun vigorous mining operations.
however. and IL Paul had been alone
he certainly would have lost his life.
Like good many of the Yuma In
dams, who are a poverty stricken lot.
he had started out with only half a
dozen cartridges. When the hogs freed
him he made good use of his supply.
but there were more hogs than cart
ridges. So he was a helpless captive,
guarded by as angry lot of animals
as could be found on the American
continent.
UNLESS we had been there either the
hogs would have succeeded in bringing
down the tree. or they would have
waited until hunger and exhaustion
forced him to lose his grip. Like the
pecearies. these hogs can outwait and
outstarve anything that walks. and
have an absolutely tireless patience
when they are waiting to execute ven
geance on the man or animal that has
aroused their wrath. Once out of the
tree and Paul would have been torn to
pieces in a twinkling.
Title and clambered up couple of
trees where We had good range and
opened fire. We had plenty of ammuni-
ton. and, of course. the fight could
have only one issue. But not one of
those hogs ran away. Every one was
killed while raging and foaming at
the foot of one of the trees in which
we We're perched.
There were nineteen in all. which.
with the big fellow who had first at
tackled lite, made twenty in the drove,
larger drove than usual. When we
looked over our cartridge belts we
found that it had taken more than fif-
ty bullets to dispose of the drove. Yet
all three of US were accounted good
Shots
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was drawn back, and there stood dis
closed Monkey Tasker dressed so
Enthusiastically, so outrageously, that
he was for a time unrecognized even
by his own mother. He wore low
slippers of elaborate design; about his
legs were bound ribbons in the fash
ion of the cross garters of the seven
teenth century; on his head was a
high conical hat covered with mystic
signs; his short skirt was made from
a table cover, and his hair and beard
of cotton. In fact, Monkey was made
UP as only his wild imagination could
suggest. To add to the effect, he was
blindfolded.
Sam waited a moment for the ex-
element created by Monkeys strange
appearance to subside, and then he
called upon DIR. Graham, a leading
citizen, to come forward and make
sure that the seer was actually blind
folded.
The Doctor came forward as re-
quested, and after short examination
declared himself satisfied; then, at
Sans suggestion, he assured the other
guests that whatever senses the sheer
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07

Little Lord Fauntleroy and his sis
ter are going to let their hair grow
For a long time they have worn locks
chopped off behind their ears. They
have looked like the children in the
days of King john and the girls have
worn big bows on top of their heads
instead of the ribbon knot that once
one mother has deplored the fashion
that decreed the square cut couture
and sacrificed pretty hair, yet children
who have looked queer and Country"
beside the smart, though severe, style.
Now that there is nothing distinctive
in them the short tresses will be al
lowed to grow, and little girls will
have curls and braids, and boys Will
have pretty much what they always
had-the regular boys hair cut, so
dear TO the young masculine heart
1t is also getting to be more and
more the fashion to dress children
simply. The youngsters of smart So
ciety folk wear cloths that have a
simple cut and air; and, no matter
what the fashion books say these are
the children who, like their elders
within the same pale, set tire fashions
In America. Their dressing, simple
as it looks, is as serious a matter as
their manners, and quite as much
time, thought, and money are spent
on them. Every child of mice pso-
ple' must wear handmade clothes,
and fashionable papas have some Jol-
ly big bills to pay In consequence.
The children of Paris look like mod
ern fairies this season. They are all
frills and curls and ribbons. They
wear big hats and bonnets and heavy,
furry coats, and their little buds are
the acme of daintness, displaying, as
they do, the finest sort of work.
American children of wealth are
quite as picturesque, but their things
look palmer. Little girls wear hats
and collars big enough for their
mothers, and the exaggeration of each
item in their costume seems consis-
tent when in grown up people 1t would
be outrageous extravaganza. Black,
which once was considered fit only
for old ladies, is especially smart for
children now, and their fair faces
look as fresh as wild rose buds above
the black velvet and cloth coats and
peeping out beneath big black plumed
hats.
The short, white socks that leave
child's appearance, but many people
let their children wear them only in
very warm weather for hygienic rea.
sons Still there are not few pathetic
Illustrations of the vanity of parents In
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The Hickories, the famous rivals of
the Go-Ahead Club. gave an entertain
ment to which all their friends, includ-
ing the members of the Go-Ahead Club,
were invited.
The evening was so great a success
that the Hickories began to insinuate
that the Go-Ahead Club was a back
number, a thing of the past, altogether
unworthy of recognition.
The members of the Go-Ahead Club
naturally found this irritating and put
their heads together to give a Christ
mas entertainment that should lower
The pride of the Hickories. Sam Fac
tor the president of the Go-Ahead
Cluh and Monkey Tasker, the sec
retary. were the two leading spirits
of the organization, and all eyes
naturally turned toward them to up
hold the honor of their followers
ment in a barn belonging to Sans
father.
Have you any ideas as to what we
ought to do?" said Sam as he stretch
ed himself out comfortably on the
~ have not planned it all out yet, u
Monkey answered. But 1 have
thought of something that will set
people guessing and will make ten
times more talk than a banjo solo by
Jim Harrison, and The Boy Stood on
the Burning Deck recited by Paul
Prior"
"Out with it," encouraged Sam; "let
me hear the result of your profound
meditation"
I'VE will pass around candy and
cake and things just as the other fell
lows did," said Monkey. But instead
of Rotations We'll have a crystal read
ing"
"Why, telling fortunes by looking
into a glass GLOBE" said Monkey.
One week later, all the friends OF
the Go-Ahead Club attended the
Christmas entertainment of that So
ciety. With the other guests came
the Hickories in a body.
After a few preliminary readings to
allow the company to become quiet
Sam rose and addressed them as fol-
lows:
Ladies and gentlemen, guests OF
the Go-Ahead Club: we, the members
of this organization have been at some
pains to furnish entertainment for you
this evening. We have secured the
services of a seer or magician from q
no less distant place than the far, far
East. He, merely by looking into the
magic globe which he has brought
with him, will tell you of the past OF
the future, or will outline for you your
character"
A curtain at the end of the room
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DIAGRAM.

string is loosened the rubber band will
pull the needle back into place.
The box was placed against a pair
of folding doors and the signal string
run through a crack between them.
If a pair of folding doors had not
been available the box might have
been made a trifle higher and placed
against an ordinary door. The signal
string could then have been run
through the keyhole. BY a series of
small pullies or screw-eyes, the signal
string was run through hall and then
back again into the room in which
Monkey sat.
A member of the Go-Ahead Club
sitting among the audience slipped his
foot through a loop in the string and
pulled it when he desired.
When Monkey sat down he placed
his leg against the point of the needle.
1t was not difficult to arrange a code
according to which the number and
length or quickness of the pushes
would mean certain things. Thus, in
this case a long push of the needle
meant Paul Prior, and a short push
Miss Smith, and a short and long
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MARIETTA'S
CHRISTMAS GRANDPA.
Continued from Page Twenty-Five.

Continued from Page Twenty-Five.
a modest one, for when the colonel
sought out and offered to promote him
to vacant sergeantcy for bravery
on the field Of battle, he simply shook
his head and said:
mo; give the place to one OF the
boys. don't deserve tall I'm good
for is to cook and carry water"
Cook and water carrier he remained
to the end; and when Appomattox
came and the cannon ceased their
growing, John Dee was swept north
ward with the returning wave of SOL
diery. And by some strange irony
of fate he was left stranded in a
Pennsylvania village scarcely a score
Of miles distant from the home from
which he had gone forth to do battle
for his country.
His once dark hair and beard were
now silvery white, and that and the
hardships through which he had
passed had made so great an altera-
ton in his appearance that even If
any one who had known him as John
Fairfax had met him there was small
probability Of his being recognized.
And here, within a few hours walk
ing distance OF the wife and daughter
who mourned him as dead, the ex-
water carried and hero of Company
III lived and toiled for fifteen years,
a cherries, lonely man, with great
strange, indefinable longing for some
thing, he scarcely knew what.
At last one week before Christmas
John Doe, no longer able to work,
friendless and forlorn, went forth into
the highways a homeless tramp, clad
in the tattered uniform of the coun-
try he had helped to save.
And in his wanderings he came to
a little white cottage. As he stood
gazing at its inviting porch a sudden
faintness came over him, and he
reeled and fell, striking his head heav-
lily against the gate post.
When he recovered he was lying
helpless on his back, and by his side
sat a blue-eyed, flaxen-halred girl
holding his hand and artlessly pra-
Ting to him.
Poor soldier man, did It hurt you
to fall that way? I'm so sorry, cause
l love the brave soldiers. Ny grand
pa was a soldier, but grandma says he
went to war and never came back.
wish he'd come, cause grandma is 20
lonesome and always cries when che
tells about him, specially at Christi
mas time"
The homeless veteran struggled to
his knees and gave one eager in
curing look at the form and features
OF the pretty little one before him.
"Oh, thank Thee. oh, my Godl" he
cried, stretching forth his hands.
"Can II be that / have found myself,
and the home and dear ones 1 have
longed for, at lastl"
Then suddenly growing calm, he
asked:
What is your grandma's name, lit
tie one 2"
MARY Fairfax, and mammals name
Is Eta Fairfax Field. and mine is
Marietta Field. Isn't that a lovely
name?"
Eyes, II ls," said John Fairfax (now
John Doe no longerl. rising to his
feet and taking her by the hand.
Come on, deary; let us 80 and ind
grandma and mamma, and tell them
that grandpa has got home at last"
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came for my tree without loss Of time.
He started I'm to try and dig up the
roots. The tree was too big for him
to succeed In this design, and, besides.
] didn't give him a fair chance az IL.
] pumped bullets at him az short range
until he keeIed over. But II took seven
shots.
After the big boar had been dis
posed Of, lite and / thought we would
soc how Paul Was making out. He
Was concealed. BY intervening under
brush. We could hear this rife popping
~ n he was being kept interested.
Then the rife shots stopped. That wor-
Tled ua for we could near the Enarls
sn1 gFuntH from the pigs, and were
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to the death. The drove will not turn
back until their vengeance has been
stated.
Col. Jack Rogers, who has hunted
along the southern course OF the Col
orado river IL an enthusiast on the
subject Of wild-hog hunting.
There is no sport In the world"
says he. that is attended with az
much risk or more excitement. Wild
hogs will XIII anything that walks. No
grizzly will tTine with a drove. lie
knows n n sure death The only IN
Stances ! ever heard 81 where a Rriz-
zlyrEot mixed up in a night with these
wild hogs was where the hogs tried %
Xiii couple ~ grizzly cubs Of course,
the mother gFlEziy defended her cubs,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07

dogs of India. If a grizzly or a noun
tain lion kills one of a drove of either
wild hogs or peccaries the rest of the
drove start on a mission of vengeance.
They will follow the offending animal
for hundreds of miles, travelling at
quick little trot, which seldom fails to
tire the fugitive. When the object Of
their pursuit is freed they will wait
with unwearied patience until he de-
sends. Then it is a fight, and a fight
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07
CHILDREN MAY
WEAR HAIR LONG

Youngsters of Americas Smart
Set Are Befrilled but Little,
While Partisan Tots Are Ar
rayed Like Fairies.--White
for Wear All Winter Is Cor
rect, Hygienic and Not Too
Expensive.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07
HUNTING WILD HOGS
Fierce Beasts that Do Not Hest
tate to Attack Man or Grizzly,
and Will Follow an Enemy
Until They Corner Him.

The wild hogs of Southern Colorado
are distinct in breed from the pecca-
ries, though the hunting of each has
somewhat the same characteristics. The
South America than to any part of the
United States.
Both are absolutely fearless and re-
lentless to a degree not found in any
other animal except possibly the wild
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07

thing which can be found will add
much to the effect If it is placed on
the box. Work in all the oddities
which can be invented. The more
unique the setting the greater the sue
cess of a crystal reading.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07
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CHRISTMAS MAGIC

The Queer Crystal Reading
Given by the Go-Ahead Club
to Its Bewildered Guests---
How to Do 1t Yourself.
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the little bare legs. chapped scarlet or
blue with the cold, carrying about
little bodies covered with rich furs
and winter toys. This Is more true OF
French children than of American.
American mothers, generally speak
ing, spell common sense yith capital
letters in the dressing and care or
their little ones.
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