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The age-herald., 1902-05-11
WHY THE CRANE HAS A LONG BILL.

landing so close to the crane that It nearly hit his back. The crane had crouched in fear, with his long nill pointing heaven ward. The little curlew, finding itself so near the crane, crawled under It's protecting feathers to hide.
 The hawk, not to be baffied by the bird, dashed toward the crane; but the latter fearing the angry bird, raised the long, sharp bill toward the hawk, resting the head on his broad back to give strength. The hawk saw the straight, sharp-polnted bill, and stopped within foot of the foe.
 With angry screams the hawk flew up and down, and threatened to dive at the crane but the latter knew that his only hope was in keeping his single weapon facing the enemy. If the truth must be told, the crane was so Frightened that 1t was with difficulty he coald keep from trembling; but, with bird, like instinct he watched the hawk closely, and always faced him.
 For 10 minutes the angry creature flew around the crane which had dared interfere with him, and then, losing all control of his vicious temper, the hawk dashed down so rapidly that he could not stop in time to avoid the sharp bill. He went plump down upon it, his body striking the sharp point just above the center of the breastbone. The bill cut through the skin and flesh, and in- hicted a severe wound.
 Frightened at this sudden sharp pain, the hawk jumped up and flew away with loud wall of mixed anger and suffering. The crane continued to stand perfectly still, with his weapon, now tinged with the hawks blood, pointing up in the air. When the hawk disappeared the frightened curlew crawled forth from his hiding place and said
 Are you hurt, crane? shall never be able to thank you enough for saving my life. Now I know why cranes have long, sharp bills."
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

of them into spiral tube, as shown in diagram. This tube should measure half an inch across. When you have rolled up the first strip almost to the end lap the remain ing unrolled part about one inch over the second strip, and proceed with the rolling. Continue in this way until you have made long tube, measuring four or five feet In length. This matter of rolling the paper is very simple, and it only requires care to keep the tube the same size for its entire length. In fact, this is all the work there is in the making of the blow gun, and it is so little that in case, after rolling the tube you find 1t not exactly the same width throughout It's entire length, advise you to at once unrol! it and start to roll over again. If the paper is thoroughly saturated with pastel don't mean by this that paste should be laid on very heavily, but just enough to thoroughly molsten the paper
 you will be enabled to roll and unroll the tube a number of times if occas sion necessi- tates. When you have made the tube con- pietely to your satisfaction, stand it up in some dry corner and let it remain there
The age-herald., 1902-05-11
BY MEREDITH NUGENT.

until the paste becomes thoroughly hard ened. It will take some time for 1t to dry, but when once it does you will have blow gun which will seem to you fully as hard as wood or bamboo, and which will last for months. You see, then, 1t Is very neces- sary that the rolling should be done care fully, for then it will be as permanent as your baseball bat or top. Right here let me suggest, before I forget it, that as soon as you have completed the rolling, and be- fore standing. it in a corner to dry, wind pieces of string around each joint and at either end, and do not take these of until the paste is dry.
 To make the dart is very simple matter. It is made as follows: Take lsrge-sized carpet tack having a sharp point, and drop sealing wax on the head of it until you have formed quite large ball. Now, while wax is still soft, stick into it number of pieces of worsted, each measuring about two inches in length. There should be enough of these pieces of worsted to All the mouth of the tube without fitting at all tightly. You may easily judge of the number necessary
The age-herald., 1902-05-11
Funny Fishermen.

In England the boys-and sometimes grown men-haye a very funny way of catching fish.
 You would never guess what it is, so might just as well tell you right of. It was an English boy who told me about 1t.
 ''You must first catch a goose," he said, land that Is the hardest part. Then you tie a line which has a baited hook on one end, to the goose's leg.
 ''Then let her go. She'll make for the water every shot, and as she swims about she, of course, drags hook and line after her.
 Pretty soon fish bites and maybe gets hooked.
 ''Then the goose feels something tugging at her leg, and she swims along about as hard as she can, but this only makes the tug ging worse. The only way to get away from that awful something, she thinks, is to get out of the water.
 'So, with wildly beating wings, she makes for the shore at rattling pace"
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

nearly as hard as a stone. Why, then, will 1t not do the same on a mountaintop?
 The reason is that it requires less heat to boil water on a mountaintop than it does down at the sea-level, and the water, there fore, does not get hot enough to cook the egg. Water boils on a mountain, say, three miles in height at temperature of about 1855 degrees, but 1t will not boil at sea-level at less than PIP degrees. Now, as it requires a heat of PIP degrees to cook an egg, 1t is very plain why the water that boils at 1So degrees will not do the work.
 But why will water boil at temperature of 1855 degrees on a mountaintop?
 When you put a kettle of water over a fire the water in the bottom of the kettle soon begins to get hot, and as 1t gets hot it rises to the top of the kettle, colder water coming down to take Its place at the bot tom. This goes on until all the water in the kettle becomes hot, and then, as 1t gets hot ter and hotter, little globules, or bubbles, of steam form at the bottom and ascend to the top, where they escape into the air.
 This rise and escape of the bubbles of steam Is called boiling, and it has been found that under ordinary co ''tions 1t will not take place until the water reaches temperature of PIP degrees, which is heat enough to cook an egg or any kind of food.
 Now. you must remember that the pres sure of the air on everything around you is 15 pounds to the square inch, and that pressure, therefore, Is on the surface of the water in the kettle, and has to be overcome by the bubbles of steam before they can esaape from the water. They have force
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enough to escape when driven upward by a heat of PIP degrees, but not until then.
 On a mountalntop, however, the condi- tions are very different There the air is much lighter than 1t is at sea-leyel. and the pressure is less than 15 pounds to the square inch. Hence the steam bubbles do not meet with so much resistance in escap. ing from the water, and a heat of 1S5 de- grees is generally sufficient to drive them out. In other words, heat of 1855 degrees will boil water on the mouutaintop, and as water cannot be made any hotter when the steam begins to escape, you cannot make 1t hot enough there to cook food.
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

The crane did not answer for some time, and then 1t said, as if awakening from dream: ''Did you break my neck? Oh, how my head and neck ache I don't think can ever move them againr'
 Indeed, the blow had nearly broken the long neck, and the crane felt unable to walk for some time; but all the short birds clus- tered around him and sang his praises. Some tried to straighten the neck out and wipe off the bill, and they even brought him small fish to eat. For several days he was unable to fish for himself and the other birds brought him food and pushed the live fishes down his throat, saying that he deserved them all. Of course, the curlews were satis- fed that the bittern knew what he was talk ing about, and that the cranes long neck and longer legs were not made so by any mistake.
The age-herald., 1902-05-11
Boiling Water That Will Not Boil An Egg.

no doubt, that although water may be made to boil at the top of high mountain, it cannot be made hot enough to boil an egg
 Perhaps they have puzzled over this good deal, wondering why the egg will not boil if the water does. They know very we'll that if an egg be dropped into boiling water In the kitchen at their house, and allowed to remain five minutes, 1t will be boiled
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

The old-fashioned clay pipe-perhaps you can find one by dlligent search-has little knob on the underside of the stem, near the bowl. don't think that 1t has ever been satisfactorily determined what this knob was put there for, and I assume that, hay ing procured pipe-to blow capabilities or to curl your hair, according to your age and sex-you will want to get rid of the useless knob as soon as possible.
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

Now, if you try to knock 1t off with hammer you will probably smash the pipe and leave the knob fast to the biggest frag- ment. The proper way is to ask friend to insert his finger into the bowl and to hold the pipe, as shown in the picture, with the stem slightly incp1ed and the mouth end resting on smooth table. Then lay an iron rod or piece of pipe-stem two or three inches long on the table so that it points to
The age-herald., 1902-05-11

and along the stem of the pipe and projects little beyond the edge of the table. Then strike the short rod or plpe-stem smartly with your hand and send 1t over the table and up the stem of the pipe until it strikes the knob and knocks 1t of. You may not succeed the first time, but keep on until you do. It is easier than it looks and makes a yery'pretty parlor trick.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
EXHIBITS
At MINEOLA FAIR.
Foxhall Keene, Harry Payne
Whitney and Mrs. Adolph
Ladenburg, with Others,
D.. Enter Horses.

MINEoLA. L. l.. Sept. 23.-The annual
fair of the Queens-Nassau Agricultural
Society opened here to-day and will con-
tinue until Saturday next. The display
is said to surpass n previously made
by the society and the attendance is ex.
pected to beat all records.
There will be ]trottlng races every day
and the show classes will be exhibited
on Friday ana Saturday. Friday will
be children's day, when all children will
be admitted free.
For the horse snow on the last two
days OF the fair there are over one hun
dred entries, including some blue-ribbon
winners.
The classes include harness horses,
tandems, four-ln-hands, r~unabouts,
uonies in harness and under saddle, polo
ponies, saddle horses and hunters.
Among the prominent exhibitors are
Foxhall Keene. Harry Payne Whitney.
Mrs. Adolph ~Ladcnburs, Harry w. Ban.
Thomas Hitchcock, jr.. w. r. Grace,
Reginald Brooks, Mrs. Edwin. Kirkland.
Miss Amy Dc Puy, Miss Male II. Bar
mum. Theodore f. Miller. SinGleH IN Van
Schaick, j. N. Dykman and b. V. H.
Vingut.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
BEACH ORPHAN
SENT TO GERRY
Police Gather in Youngest
Vagrant in Staten islands
History, Whose Home Was
Under Board Walk.

The police OF Staten Island to-day ar
rested the youngest vacrant ever IN
custody In Richmond. lie Is Frank
Decking, an orphan, ten years old.
with the whole length ana breadth of
South Beach and the board walk for
a residence.
According TO the boys story he was
born In Brooklyn and lived there with
his parents. His mother died when he
wrs quite young and two years ago
he lost his father, He was then adopt
ed by William Mcdonald, of North
New Jersey, who took him TO live at
his home in Newark,
But little Frank got tired OF that sec
tion. He wanted, like Mary MacLane.
TO know something OF the world, the
flesh and the devil" so he ran away
from his benefactor and early last
spring he arrived in Staten Island.
lie spent most of his time on South
Beach md slept under the board
walk az night, In the daytime he ran
erfAnds for the hotel people,
But the coast cason came TO an end
and the hotels didn't need his service.
any longer. but he had grit and kept
his troubles to himself. He had
20 other clothes than the ragged car,
ments in which he left Newark, bu;
he trusted to luck TO see him through.
Mrs Bulcer. of Tompkinsville, S. l.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
DIED WHEN NEAR
THE CENTURY MARK
Mrs. Elizabeth Giberson Was
BrookIyn's Oldest Woman
and Was in Good Health
Until Her Death.

Mrs. Elizabeth Giberson, said to be
Brookiyn's oldest woman, is dead at her
home, at No. eli Adelphi street. Had she
lived until Oct. 8 next she would have
been one hundred years old
Mrs. Glberson was a Quakeress. When
twenty years old she was married to
James Giberson. a member OF one of the
best known Quaker families OF Philadel-
phia. Her wedding tour was to Illinois
In a covered wagon n was a matter
of great in those days. she
was envied by all the brides of the East.
Some time after her marriage she and
her husband went to Brooklyn to live
and formed a large circle of acquaint-
ances. To these Mrs. Giberson was
wont to tell her memories OF the war
OF 1872.
1t has been the custom OF the children
in the neighborhood OF Ms. Giberson's
home each year ~ celebrate her birth
day.
Mrs. Gibcrson was Ill only three days
retaining all he- faculties until the last.
The doctors said her death was due Sim
ply to decline consequent upon old age.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
POLICEMAN HAD A
VANISHING WOMAN.
Turned His Back to Her
While He Sent in a Patrol
Call and She Disappeared
in a Twinkling.

Policeman Martin. OF the Communi-
paw avenue station. Jersey City. annot
explain It n has vague notions OF the
supernatural in telling how a woman
prisoner got away from him.
Martin has a post that takes in parts
Of the Hudson Boulevard, Boyd and
Virginia venue He was walking
along the Boulevard when he heard a
noise in q clump Of bushes near Boyd
avenue. He peered into them, when a
woman's head appeared.
what are you doing there?' de-
Martin. There was no nswer
and he proceeded to get her out.
When he succeeded the woman
pleaded that she had lost her wav, but
he lugged her OF to a patrol-box and
sent in a call.
Martin allowed his prisoner to lean
against a fence while he turned his back
IN closing the box.
He Wheeled about In a minute and
was amazed to lind that his prisoner
had vanished.
He searched in all directions and could
find no trace OF him. He thinks ghosts
had something to do with the disappear
anCe.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
MILLIONAIRE IN
PLIGHT FROM STING
James McC reery, Poisoned by
a Mosquito Bite, in a Seri-
Gus Condition at Atlantic
City Hotel.

ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 20. James
McCreary. the millionaire boot and shoe
manufacturer, of Rochester, Is lying in
a prccarlous condition at Haddon Hall,
suffering intense pain. the result OF
being bitL n by aE extra large New Jer-
sey mosQul o over a week ago.
Mr.. McCreary was bitten on the right
foot by the insect. He paid no attention
to tn" sting until his foot begar ID nsiie
and became greatly swollen.
The pain and swelling passed into his
leg and for a time amputation was
thought necessary.
Dire. Mar ;rl. SNOWFALL and f. L. Reed.
who have been attending Mr.. McCreGry,
have reduced the swelling. His coHdi-
ton Is serious.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
Maud Frue, Actress,
Awakes and Faces an
Alarming, Threaten
ing Intruder.
KICKS HER AND FLEes.
The Man Jumps from Fire.
Escape with His Booty, but
the Police Capture Him At
ter a Sharp Chase.

when Miss Maud Fruo. an actress.
recently from Toronto, awoke early this
mornint in her apartments in the Lor-
en9o, No. POO West Thirty-ifth street,
she saw a big negro crouching over her
brass bed. She rubbed her eyes, and the
negro, brandishing an open razor, said
to her:
"You keep mighty still, little missile,
or I'll send you down where the bad folk
60"
But Miss Frue did not keep still. She
ieaped from the side OF the bed, ran
through to the front window and called
for help. She had time to utter screams
only once or twice, but they Were
backed by remarkable energy. when in
an instant the negro was upon her.
A large Morris chair separated her
from the burglar. With his he knocked
her down, and in getting to the win
dow kicked her, but 1t is not thought he
did no deliberately.
Out of the window he jumped to the
hre-escape and descended from the third
floor to the first. There he stopped ana
removed his shoes, throwing them inio
tine street.
Miss HIuO huu tbdlANu IltHCiN' VI
mind somewhat and was screaming ut
the window with all her might.
The negro leaped from the first floor
to the sidewalk and started west just
as Policemen Stanton and Beary APP
peared, attracted by the screams OF the
actress. They followed the negro. call
ing on Rim to halt. He went faster and
they fired several shots Mt him.
AS he proceeded the burglar relieved
himself along the street OF several
pieces OF Jewelry he had secured in the
room of the actress. The jcwclry con
sisted OF a watch set with diamonds,
three rings, two pins. a long gold chain
and numerous little gold and silver
trinkets.
When near Eighth avenue. John Ryan
who had been out most OF the night and
who was staggering to mis- home On
Thirty-sixth street, under n cupious
stag essayed TO stop the burglar. who
was coming In his direction. ~ the
negro approached him Ryan put out his
foot to trip the burglar and instead he
tripped one Of the policemen who wa
close upon the negro. while one OF
the policemen fell the other grabbed the
burglar and he and Ryan were taken
TO the police station. ,
The burglar, who said he was Richard
Johnson. of No, 800 West Thirty seventh
street. was held under $500 bail for
TRIAL. Ryan. who meant wei, was lined
"a search was made for the missing
.teweiry End part OF II was found. Miss
Frue said that this wns her first ca
perielce with n burglar.
Il was not afraid OF him" she said,
II did rot have time to he afraid. I
saw that he was going 10 tax" cvcry-
fhiDg / had and thought | might ~
well have him caught. He ilu't hurt
me much when he knocked mo down. I
was stunned at first, but not hurt
The evening world., 1902-09-23
TO PLAY FOOTBALL
ON HIS HONEYMOON
Wealthy Westerner Comes to
Yale with a Bride and an
Enthusiasm for the Game
Was Champion Guard.

NEW HAVEN. Sept. 21-J.W. Wilbur.
the son Of a wealthy Western ranchman
and a married man, will be a member OF
the Yale Varsity football team this
wear while he enjoys his honeymoon and
his studies.
Wilbur skipped last year at college
he went into business. White
absent he married Miss Helen Clifford,
of his home in California, and now he
has returned to college, his bride ac-
complaining him. He was the ham
plon football guard on the university
OF California team and was the cham
pion weIght-thrower of the West.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
Music AND VAUDEVILLE,

Duss and his band began their last
week at tho St. Nicholas Gardens. The
farewell concert OF the remarkably sue
ressful scason Will be given at Madison
Square Garden Sunday night.-The
EaltenJorn Orchestra rendered another
OF its high-Class programmes at the
Circle Auditorium.--Tony Pastor pre-
scented an excellent vaudeville bill, Which
included Florence BIndlev, Reno and
Richards and others.-Proctors places:
'fnr bankers Dau-A.er' was given an
rlc'tiye production US the Fifth Avenue
Theatre stock company, with Minnie
lcd the vaudeville. The Drury Lane
production of The Great Ruby packed
II" flfty-eiShth street house. THE
rhorOuSlhreds," given by the stock com
pany, kept the Harlem house in roars
u laughter. Georgia Gardner and
Joseph Madden, In a comedy siit called
Too Many DarlingS." led the vaudeville
Dill at the Twerty-third street house.
Goolman's cats and dogs and tho Four
Gllitans were special features of the
bill at the Newark house.-Mmc Ca
pelI, n European attraction. created a
sensation at Keith's by her splendid
equeSirihniSn. and Charles Grapewin
success In The Awakening OF Pipp.--
Williams and Tucker and the Fillmore
sisters were fcaturCs Of a good show at
Hurtl% x Scamon's. DeK olta gave new
evidence o. his skin ns n magician at
the Eden Musce.-"FingerE," the boy
who. runs To- digital development. shares
tho hpnors win Jones's troupe OF must
cal pigs ut Huher's Museum-Th The CITY
Sports Burlcsqucrs gave a lively show
at the Dewey.
The evening world., 1902-09-23
CHASE FOR INTRUDER.
PatroImnn WnRner'S Day on Duty
SignaIiEed by Capture.

James Casey, thirty-four years old. of
No. 90i East Twenty-ninth street. was
this morning held In 5000 bail for trial
by Magistrate Brann in the Yorkvtlle
Court on the charge OF attempted
burglary.
According to Patrolman John Wagner,
OF the East One Hundred and Fourth
street station. he had an on day yester-
day. He was mt his home, No. 1885 Sec
ond avenue, when he heard SUSPICIOUS
sounds coming from the apartments of
Mrs. James r.. Corrisan, across the hail.
ana went to make an investigation. \
few moments later Wagner declares he
saw two men, one of them Casey, run
ring from the apartment. He gave
chase and caught the prisoner. h
other man escaped.
The evening world., 1902-09-23

The Question at Days Theatre last
night was whether Miss Minnie Ash
ley would, should or could, in the
language of Broadway. make good"
1t seemed un age since Broadway
had taken that fragile piece OF ami
mated Sevres porcelain to its heart.
That was in the first days Of San
Toy" you remember. when she kit
tened with Mr.. James T. Powers and
made the "Rhoda" song so grievously
popular that | aftcrward heard 1t
rendered at "A ships concert by n
Cooks tourist lady whose Cockney
accent was made in Connecticut,
Th" san Toy triumph. dazzling for
a gin who hadn', long shaken of the
,hrall Of chorusd0m, was cut short by
Illness, ana at one time Broadway heard
with dismIy that the big, round eyes
Of the little Ashley person were threat
cncd with blindness.
Bat The fates were kinder. and tho
baby stare which gave 'Rhodn" half IT.
effect came to town last night and
proved that It was us good MS new.
She MnkcE OOOd.
Yes, Minnie Ashley made good"
Nothing startlingly clamourous, you
know she has had enough Of thai for
the lifetime OF one morsel OF scvres
porcelain promoted from the chorus
but enough to demonstrate for good and
an tia, tho Ashley OF San Toy was
10 lucky incident, but n competent little
crc0ture with n strong sense Of humor
and n personality as ligh;gome as a
moth miller.
In "a Country Glr'' she kittens with
a diminu;ivc comedian named William
Norris, who does very handsomely by
her. They have two song-aud-danC"
duets which threaten to be more popular
than anything since '"rhe Geishn." Ina
first IS called Two Little Chicks" and
involves some excellent b~arnyu~d mimi
cry-and h%nrnyard mimicry in Minnie
Ashlcy's hands is a very dainty affair.
The second is a quarrclllng duet. which
is lighter and quicker, and has mora
human nature in 1t than any of tho
thousand or two quarrelllnE duets with
which You may be familiar. And the
dance with which 1t winds up Is a de-
l!gh;rul expression of character. slightly
mlr"cd to my thinking by the hnal
reconciliation.
Come to think Of 1t. Minnie Ashley's
strongest claim to Immortality Is that
she has humor in her feet.
As Tor "A Country Girl itself It Is
very muuh Ike its predecessors only a
little bigger ard rt,dsIc-. Plenty of the
The evening world., 1902-09-23
Louis MANN,s CONSUL"

HARTFORD, Conn. Sept. 23.-Louis
Mann and his company opened the sea-
In II new play. "Hoch the Consul" by
Charles +. NirdlinGsr. 1t Is a comedy Of
h gh order, satirizing diplomatic life. and
shows MIR. Mann to especial advanta2c
as the German Consul representing the
A large audience was In attendance
and y special car brought New York
folk here. The play was a success from
the start. Mr.. Mann n,ceivinG an ovl-
ton. He was called upon to make a
Spperh.