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up and grasps a trapeze bar preparatory
to lifting himself to that.
Then the sea lion, with his hippers
Just grasping the edge Of the platform like
can be. up out Of he water and on to the
table. You have TO keep your eye on him
to see him do 1.-THE does 10 so easily and
quickly. The sea lions sleep on the plat
form nights.
The sea lions are perhaps most keenly
attendant who feeds them comes with a
tin bucket containing their food, which
he lifts over the low protection railing
that runs around the coping stone. Of the
pool to set II down pom the top OF the
sIonc WITHIN, while the three sea lions come
on the jump, to rear themselves, supported
by their fiippers. side by side in the
water, against the inner wall of the pool,
standing up with their bodies ont of the
water and their heads neHr the bucket and
80 close together Ina a fipper OF one OF
them nay be laid across the back OF an
other. They are here for their dinner.
Speak for it." says the man with the
food, and hen two of the sea lions, as thew
have been taught to do, will throw their
heads back and shake them vigorously
from side to side and bark and then
they get their food, generous sized pieces
Of cut up fish. handed down, with a fair
distribution. to one after another Of them as
they stand in that eager row Of three.
Occasionally one of the sea ions will
curve his body over away from the wall
in the shape Of half a circle Inc go head
first into the water n make a circuit Of
the pool. but only TO come back for more
great apTetites the sea lions have-and then
there comes a time when the feeding
ceases and the sea ions are likely all to
drop down, but in a moment they all come
back for what somebody standing by the
rool is sure always - describe as their
dessert.
For though the feeding had ceased for a
moment there IL still something left in the
tin bucket in the shape OF a few whole
dead herring for zach sea lion two or three
and now as the sea ions range themselves
again the attendant takes from the bucket,
holding IL by its tail, a herring, which he
hands head downward into the mouth Of
the sea lion at n end OF the line.
There is a little fash Of the behring's
glistenlng sides as the sea lion str aiRhtens
the fish out In his mouth. but that Il ali
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completeness surpassed anything in the
Moslem world.
Nc outlines Of the figure can be distin-
guished when this garment is worm, and
ever the thick, heavy veil of cotton or
linen fabric can scarce be seen. The Mos
lem women, odd figures, resembling. ami
mated black bags stalking noiselessly
through the streets, are one Of the sig hts Of
the ~Herzegovinian capital always inter-
esting to the stranger. 49,
When as. a body the unfortunate Bogu-
miles turned to Islam the women insisted
that one right remain to them. y. They
wanted to- do their own counting. So in
the outer wall Of every Mohammedan home
in Herzegovina and Bosnia there is always
a small slit.
Here on one night Of the week the daugh-
ter of the household, her feredji and yash-
max thrown aside and in all the elegance
Of her gold lace and rich silks, whispers to
the waiting cavalier without. Of course,
he can see only the black eyes and red lips
Of his inamorata, but she has the satisfac-
ton of knowing that for the time being, at
least, she is free from the yashmak.
A a result marriag es in this country
are not always the blind, mysterious affairs
to the men that they are in some other
Mohammedan lands. As children, young
people Of the two sexes play together and
become lovers. When the girl reaches
the age hat she must wear the yashmak
an opportunity for conversation still re-
mains through the medium II the slit in the
| wall.
Mohammedan women in some few places
| do not wear the veil. Frequently conditions
Of poverty or hard toll that falls TO her part
in the economy Of the home make it impos-
sible for her adhere to the rules OF the
church. One little body Of women have,
however, distinguished themselves by their
absolute refusal to take TO the yashmak.
These are the women Of the ne~ighborhood
Of Jablinica in Herzegovina.
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Prince Nicholas Of Montenegro, who as
all the world knows recently granted a
Constitution to his subjects of his own
free will, has gone n step further in his
reforms-and many bounds ahead Of any
other European ruler-and has ordered the
yashmaks and wells off the faces OF the
Mohammedan women Of the principality.
The women, who include some Of the most
beautiful Of Islam, are said to have haileo
the ediot with delight while their husbands,
fathers n brothers ave made a row,
fallen back upon their religious rights and
threatened to leave the country.
The Prince, perhaps next to the German
Emperor in strenuousness, has not per-
mitted the Constitution to prevent him
from introducing reforms with the ire
sistihle command Of an enlightened auto
Graf. He has closed up schools or changed
them from public to private charges in
order to maintain a court in keeping with
the dignity Of a relative OF the Gar and
the father-in-law Of the King Of Italy. He
has obtained from the Pope special per-
mission to rave mass read to his Roman
Catholic subjects in the Servian instead
OF the Latin language and he has'increased
the size OF his army and at the same time
almost entirely cut on the pay % his
soldiers.
All these feats are as mere child's
play beside the latest reform that he has
undertaken. He issued an edict and
spread it from one end Of the country to
the other through his newspaper, the Glas
CTnd0o RIGA, declaring that the Moslem
women within the boundaries OF Monte
negro must show the full beauty OF their
faces to his chivalrous men subjects, just
as their Christian sisters Dc The edict
said:
Whereas, the women OF Podgorica. Dull
eigno and other parts Of our domain have
hidden their faces behind yashmaks or other
sorts Of wells upon the streets OF our towns
and In the bazars and carsija: and
Whereas. such custom Ia unnecessary, use
less and harmful under free constitutional
government such az Montenegro by the grace
Of the ruling Prince now enjoys:
Therefore, We declare that henceforth the
wearing OF such yashmSt or veil 10 hereby
prohibited.
Il may seem strange to many that within
Montenegro there should be any persons
who would oppose this order, Inc that after
che long, bitter warfare the country has
conducted against Turkey there should re-
main any Mohammedans within the II
cry. Beating back the Moslem horde
On Mr.. Gladstone expressed il, was for
, many centuries a persistent occupation Of
ths Monteneg rins, and, at last, when they
bad nothing more to fear from their heredi-
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and pushed with that while he pulled on
the drawer, viciouely.
-The drawer did yield at last. but
when that came the bureau went over
under the pressure Of the foot he had
against it, and the heavily loaded drawer
came down with its sharp back edge square
on the toes Of the other foot.
All the neighbors said-the windows
being open everywhere, AZ at this season,
40 that all could heaT-that they had never
heard anything like it, never; n my friend
has got to move. All were willing to ad-
nit, when they learned the cause, that
the ~provocation had been great, but they
won't take another chance, and my friend
must 90.
And all because Of . sticky bureau
drawer!
Bureau buildersl Think OF the benefits
you would confer upon humanity by max
ing bureaus with drawers that would open
and close easily! But ! don't appeal to
your philanthropic side. ! appear 10 your
cupidity. A fortune, q Himalayan fortune,
awaits the bureau builde who first puts
on The market a bureau with drawers that
wOn't Gti0k
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When their fathers and brothers turned
from Christianity to Islam the women
aid that their mothers had got along with
out concealing their faces and they could
do so too. The matter was referred TO the
head Of the Church at C~onstantinople and
the .chadja of the district was directed to
enlighten the refractory ones upon their
duties as the women folk OF the true be-
levers.
Have they covered their faces7" the good
man was asked the following year.
NO. he replied.
HWhy not?"
because they will not"
well, after ALL" YEARLY said the multi,
to whom the report was made, @Jablinica
is not the only place where a Mohammedan
sees the face Of his wife before marriage,
end if a woman will not, who can force herr
So the matter was dropped and the good
looking, freedom loving Jablinica women
nave ever since stood on their rights.
Austria in taking the stewardship OF
Bosnia proclaimed equal religious rights
to all people, and the Government has APP
parently been faithful to the promise. The
development Of the country has, however,
brought about a condition OF affairs that
may effect whab Primo Nicholas has at
tempted in his reforms. Women work at
many of the industries that the Government
has established. They are working in the
great tobacco and cigarette factories and
earning their own money.
They are, too, studying in the schools
and learning under Government tutelage
the art Ct embroidery n the domestic
sciences. In fact, they are fitting them
selves to become wage earners.
what may he the effect Of the spirit n
independence upon the girls and women
OF the country" said n Bosnian, remaIn
to be seen. But many are inclined to be-
lieve that il will work for the emancipation
Of the women from the yashmak and feradjl
Such things are encumbrances TO workers
and may result at least in their modification,
II not in their entire abolition"
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tary enemy they made It 30 unpleasant for
the remaining Turks that they all packed
up and sought homes under the nag Of the
Sultan.
The Powers Of Europe, in attempting to
adjust things in the Balkans after the Berlin
Treaty, gave Montenegro a slice OF Turkey;
but the bandits and brigands that went with
the gift sat up over night with long barrelled
guns and took pot shots at any persons who
they thought might be surveying the prop
erty.
Consequently Nicholas demurred at ac-
cepting it, and the Power then presented
him with a rich slice Of Albanian coast land.
1t was in this way that Montenegro acquired
It's MOhammedans.
They nave been a humble and submissive
people. A royal edict deprived them OF their
arms, 30 they SGT about keeping shops and
lending money while tbs Montenegrins
strutted around in the full glOry Of poverty
and small arsenals.
They took care OF their families. and il is
said were really better to their women
than their conQuerOrs, for, in spite Of some
admirable qualities, the Montenegro is a
%tyrannical husband. 1t il a Black Mountain
proysrb that He who doesn't beat his wife
is no man. and that Twice in his life is a
mar hsppy-Once when he marries and once
When he buries his wife, A song for the
Vomen runs:
Love ne true, love me quick,
> " Pull my hair and Use the stick.
The lazy life Of the Moslem cme within
the harems tende to preserve their beauty.
while the hard work and privations OF the
Montenegrin women, their toll upon the
poor farms and the burdens imposed by
the men robbed them Of their good looks
and made them haggard and worn old
women before they were 80. The beauty
which the Moslem women possess, in cOn-
trast with their less fortunate sisters, is
given as one reason for their willingness to
go unveiled.
The MOhammedans paid the bulk OF the
taxes without a murmur, for they were
the principal wealth producers Of the dis
trict. They even permitted their young
men TO do military duty without remon-
STRANGE.
But when the edict about the yashmaks
reached them they made a decided stand
against the Prince. They were Mortified.
they declared. that he should OverlOo X the
most sacred right Of their religion. A
great indignation meeting was arranged
10 take place in the principal mosque at
DelcignO. The population OF the town
is Overw helmingly MohAmmedsn, and the
crowd at the meeting was increased by fol-
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BLACK BASS.
Declared 90 he the Most Popular Game
F1Eh-NOt Easily P~rOpagated.
From Quinn

From Outing.
To-day the black bass is acknowledge
TO be the best and most popular game flsh
Of America. Manufacturers are giving
more thought and care TO the production
OF tools and tackle for black bass than for
all other game fishes combined.
Some idea may be formed OF the popu-
larity OF the black bass from the fact that
the demand for young bass for stocking
waters far exceeds the supply, notwith-
standing that the national and State fish
commissions are untiring in their efforts
to augment the supply by the most APP
proved methods OF fish culture.
So far, however, the results are not at
an Commensurate with the labor and eK-
pense involved. This may be explained
by the fact that while millions of trout.
salmon, grayling. shad, whitefsh and other
fry can be produced at pleasure, by strip
ping and fertilizing the free eggs OF these
species and Matching them or trays or IL
jars, the eggs OF the black bass are en-
veloped in a mass OF glutinous matter,
from which they cannot be separated AMI
manipulated.
Tx only recourse il pond culture, allow
ing the fish TO breed naturally, or at h'~'
to furnish them with artificial nests, from
which the fry are collected after screening
OF the parent hsh. The best plan woul'
be TO stock barren waters with adult basS
In the manner already referred TO, II u
were possible TO secure them In sufficient
numherA- ,,'--S
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MIR. SNORTLY,S APPEAL.s
A BuSIe Can for n Bureau with Drawers
Tina Won't Stick.

a fortune, a large, a mountainous for
tune" said Mr.. Shortly, awaits the furni-
ture manufacturer who will put on the
market a bureau with dra wers that won't
stick.
AS it IL, I suppose that half the bureaus
in The world have dra wers that can be
opened without a struggle, that couldn't
be entirely closed without a mall and that
could not then be opened without an axe.
l have one such bureau myself-a bureau
with drawer that will never close entirely;
a bureau that tries me sorely; and 1 am a
man Of even temper.
IF bureaus Of this sort affect a man OF
my seIf-command in this manner, what
must their effect be upon myriads Of people
Of dispositions more excitable and ex-
pIosive2 See what trouble one OF these
sticky drawer bureaus has brought 70 a
friend Of mine:
He was a nice man, but impulsive and
somewhat given to self-indulgence, and
he fought with himself until one after
another he had cut out. all his vices except
swearing, n last spring he cut that out
and came forth hat strongest OF all men,
the man who has conquered himself. In
that splendid strength he continued until
dav before yesterday, when he fell.
vi that day' connden OF MS own strength
OF mind, never doubling, never thinking
OF IL in fact, ne had become now as he sup
posed 40 settled in his power 90 s~elf-contrOl,
he tried to get a collar out Of his top bureau
dra wer.
This draw er had stuck before, but up
to that day he had always managed to open
il somehow. and what was far greater, to
keep his temper in opening II; but on that
day IL wedged and stuck and resisted in a
manner that would have tried any man
and that proved. alas! too much, in the end,
for my, friend.
For when the drawer wouldn't come,
nyway a cloud seemed 81 ooms over his
mind. and he grasped the two handles of
il with his two hands and planted his foot
firmly against the face Of the drawer below
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PROFIT.
Mrs. BIInxIy's One Objection 20 link Sleeve
Buttons and the Moral.

Mrs. BlinKly tells me. said Mr.. BlinXly.
that she wishes they'd wea Cae old style
Of sleeve buttons, not links.
The old style buttons, going through the
~buttOnholes in such q manner as to make
the ends Of the cuf lap, made the cuff round
when worn and so made IL present a uniform
weafing surface; whereas link buttons,
tending ashley do to fiatten tho cur, tend TO
break the cuf at the bend in the back,
made sharper as il is by the aattening Of
the cuff. while sticking out there as
Il Hoes and 30 brought in chatting contrast
with the inner side OF the coat sleeve the
cuff wears out sooner than a uniformly
rounded cuff would do.
That's what troubles Mrs. Blinxly. She
doesn't object to the link button az such.
but because Il makes il cost us more for
shirts. | tell her not TO worry; we can't
expect TO have everything come our wa.
link button may be bad for ua, but
anyway, it's good for tho jeweller and the
shirtmaker.'
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Week Charge Whom Her Jockey Traed 70
Pun Her-BOOlrOOm Closed.

HOok Chars 70 when Her Jockey Tf1So 70
Pun Her sOoirOOm Closed.
several year1 ago. said the old pool
room operator, sin the erratic course OF
human events I was thrown In with the
management Of q poolroom, which, though
nothing bad been proved against it. didn't
have the name OF being exactly straight.
sOne day, just after getting the track odds
on one OF the secondary tracks, / was
astonished that tho owner Of the room
seemed to b placing his judgment against
the conclusions Of the majority Of the racing
fraternity and was willing TO back his de-
ductions with his cash. Notwithstanding
hat the figures from the track had Lady
Belle the odds on favorite at 5 TO s, our boss
was giving as good a. ? to 1 on the horse.
There was a rush TO get the wise money.
down at the juicy figures put up by our
poom.
Il couldn't for the life OF me tell what
the game was. The jockey who had the
mount on Lady Belle was supposed to be
one OF the best in the business, and the
track was dry and much to her liking
3 ".At the post being announced for tho
third race on the telegraph sounder in
my berth, l began to receive the description
Of the race. Lady Belle got OF TO a good
start and was having no trouble with her
field down to the half mile. the race distance
being a mile and a 'steenth. Then the
mare seemed to lack a little steam, as Stand
ing Water and HOity Toity appeared 70 be
closing up on her. Then the boy on Lady
Belle let her out a couple OF nCtches and
was evidently plotting her in a ure win
ner.
AS the ponies noared the three-quarters
Standing Water and Hoity Toity again
began to make difficulty for the mare.
Entering the stretch they both passed tho
odds on favorite. and as things commenced
10 shape out tho good thing was going to
the bad in the field. From the way it.
looked the jockey had let the mare go too
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hard az the start, and in tho finish she
wasn't there with the steam.
Coming close TO the wire Lady Belle got
her legs again, and IL was anybody's race
to the end. winneri' 1 shouted. 'Winnerl
Lady Belle, Hoity Toity second by q nose,
Standing Water third
AT this tho boss bounded out OF his
private room to whore ] sat.
You sure you got that right. nave you7'
shouts he, his face AZ white as a piece Of
skinned cheesecloth.
The room stood to pretty nearly 20 out
OF business tho way the horses finished.
The boss clearly lost his head when I as
sured him OF the correctness OF the result.
He rushed back into his room, leaving his
door partly open SOS l could just dis
tinguish another person In the inner Office.
~'What kind Of a jolt you giving mel he
fairly Kissed TO the other occupant OF his
office. l was astOunded to recognize the
second person e. the owner Of Lady Belle.
~ hopeto die, Jack, returned the owner
q Lady Belle, IL the boy didn't frame IL up
with me to pull the mare at the stretch.
He's given me the throwdOwn. III have
his DANCED neck for thisl'
AT this juncture the telegraph instru-
menC resumed its ticking and in a supple
mentary description Of the race told how
Jockey So and-SO on Lady Belle, as he was
putting his mount to the gruellinG pace in
the stretch had been suddenly attacked by
some sort OF paralysis Of the nerves, causing
him to lose control Of his arms and drop his
bride. and that Lady Belle had dashed out
q the bunch OF horses under the wire an
unguided winner
$50 there you see an agreement had been
framed ZIP to pull an intelligent horse at a
crucial moment in the race but a mysterious
something had taken a hand and wrested
the control Of the morse from the hands Of
the jockey just as he was doing his work.
Released from restraint the knowing
animal had thrown all her force INTO play
and had dashed the short distance TO the
wire with no guiding hand. The room went
out VI business N Q result
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~AOUARIUM'S SEA LIONS.
Three OF Them on Exhibition NOVA
Great Attraction.


The Aquarium's greatest attraction at the
moment is found in its sea lion POOL, which
Is surrounded all day by rows OF interested
spectators.
The pool is % feet in length. and OF sea
lions in IL there are three. one OF them
about five feet in length, and the others
zach about five feet and a half.
In the centre OF the pool stand two stout
and heavy tables, placed end to end, their
tops thus joining making a continuous
platform about eight feet by three; this
platform, supported on the tables stout
legs, being about two feet above the sur
face OF the water.
The sea lions are great swimmers, and
they swim much on their backs. Il might
make any human swimmer envious Of the
sea ions power and ability as swimmers
to see one OF them, on its back, swing it's
long sidefiippers out in the water easily
aud then bring them back to its side with
a powerful sweep that makes it fairly shoot
through the water.
The sea lions swim, and swim, and swim:
round and round the POOL sometimes. and
sometimes cutting OF in the circuit, one
or all OF them, and swimming under the
platform, between the table legs, which
they do as easily, in and out of these
more contracted spaces, as they do in the
open waters around. Very able swim-.. -.
and playful in their way, lie - ,lFny
dogs. the sea lions.
Sometimes they vary their perform
ances by climbing up on the rlatform;
a height that might seem quite inaccessible
to them, but to which they mount with great
ease. Sometimes they get away at one end
Of the pool and make a rush and a leap for
it; but oftener they come up close to the
platform n raise themselves in the water
enough to enable them to get their forward
hippfrs over the edge Of IL, somewhat as
the kymnast, standing on the floor, reaches
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the onlooker secs OF the herring, which
disappears with that flash. There is n
series Of such brief flashes, two or three
as the herring are thus handed down, and
then the attendant turns the bucket up
to show that it is empty, and one after
another in quick succession the sea lions
curve away from the wall, back into the
water.
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YELLED BEAUTIES OF
ISLAM UNCOVERED

PRINCE NICHOLAS'S EDICT F~ORBIDDING
WOMEN TO WEAR---THE YASHMAK
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CARNIVAL ACCIDENT.
Horses Become Frightened and Serious
Runaway Results.


Houston. Nov. l7.-As the sad sequel
20 having taken 'he first prize IN the
flower parade. two ladies were most
severely injured and three others SUI.
fered bruises by reason OF the horses
taking fright NJ confetti throwing and
bolted up Main street. All the injured
ladies'. with one exception. are rela.
tives Of Chief OF Police George Ellis.
three being his daughters.
Mrs. W. +. Ellis. wife Of his son.
who Is station agent al Waller for the
Central. was wounded worst OF all. re-
celving Commissions and cuts that are
OF an extremely serious nature. Mrs
f. Coles. Mrs George Wyles and Miss
Dee Ellis, all daughters OF the chief.
were thrown 10 the pavement. sustain.
Ing deep bruises and cuts about the
person.
Mrs. Davis. wife OF the bookkeeper
for w. S. Hipp Of this city, was run
into by the wild animals. and she. also.
was pitched to the pavement from her
rig. Her injuries were almost OF as
deep a nature az those received by
Mrs. Ellis