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JJAINBKIDtiE, MARCH SO, 1901.'
mi q T I eat and myself no badly used up by
| HP nfi^,rCD*ljlgIlt« 1 nervous shock Uiat it nun three days
' hi'fort* I nun able to pet ultout again
In anything like pood ooudlttou I
never heard whether tln> wildest was
killed liy iii.v Mows or not. hut I have
au Ideu he wan I lio))i* no Science
may be all right in declaring that wild
animals will hasten to flee at the very
suspicion ’ of man's approach, hut if
ever I am going anywhere and near
there are wildcats In that direction I'll
go around some other way.”—.New
York Press.
FIGHTING A WILDCAT
AN ADVENTURE THAT MADE. ONE
MAN SHY OF THAT KIND OF BEAST.
Ho In Willing to Go m Long War
Aruuuil to Avoid I'erodon* Anl-
•oalo. Even Thonph Science 1*7*
Thor Will Flee lit XLan'a Approach.
“1 t'.nvc road In the papers certain
selonttllc assertions that uo wild anl-
mul will voluntarily attack or pursue
n human bolup, but that, on the con
trary. the fiercest of them, as tradition
and llie talcs of woodsmen classify
them. will make haste to escape the
possible slpht of man, unless. In des
perate eases, hunper may urge It to ap
proach him. Its most dreaded foe, such
eases bring extremely rare." said a
matter of fac t and veracious Now York
business man.
“If tlmt Ih so. I had a llttl ^experi
ence once with n wild animal that must
have been the most desperately bunpry
beast that ever longed for food. The
occurrence was In northwestern Penn
sylvania. where one winter I had Botno
business that called me ten miles from
the county town to one of the back-
woods districts. It wns late In the aft
ernoon when 1 started on iny return to
the village. The way was over u lone
ly. narrow, crooked mountain road, bor
dered by deep woods much of the dis
tance. Toward dusk, us I was round-
tup a short turn In t'.io road, my horse,
which had a pood deal of spirit, sided
suddenly and sprang forwurd on a
furious run.
"At the sumo Instant nn nnlmnl with
glaring eyes plumped down from some
where and landed In the slelph at my
feet It lmd evidently Ionis'd from a
tree at the horse, the quick movements
of which nervous nnlmnl lmd defeated
that purpose, and the attacking animal
lmd alighted with Its fore feet on the
robe that lay across my lap. It glared
furiously lit tun, with Its face not more
than two feet away, as It clung to the
robe with Its sharp claws, growling
th .cety. I had never seen a wildcat,
hut I knew Instantly and Instinctively
that I lmd one to deal with here, und
It seemed to lie a very large and suv-
ilpe one nt that. I had uo wenpou, but
fortunately the whip that stood lu Its
socket on the dashboard was louded at
the butt,
"Clinging to the reins with my left
hand—the hurso was running away—l
quickly drew the whip from the socket
and struck the wildcat on the head
with the heavy butt. Thr.t caused the
Hiiluml to loosen Its hold on the robe
u:.d drop Into the snow nt the side of
the sleigh, but the agile and furious
beast was up In the fraction of a sec-
ami and with one bound sprang on the
back of the sleigh, which lmd a low
hoil.v.
"Although the horse was running
mildly away along the narrow and
crooked road, throwing the sleigh from
able to side uml threatening It con
stantly with destruction against some
rock or stump. I was obligix) to drop
the reins and leave the result of the
runaway to chance, for the wildcat
was struggling desperately to gain n
foothold lu the sleigh uml tight me at
dose quarters. I knew that If the
sleigh should happen to come Into col
lision with any obstacle heavy enough
to wreck It I would he no match for
the catamount, now wrought to the ut
most ferocity, lighting It on 'he slip
ping snow, t ven If 1 were unharmed by
the collision, so-1 strained every nerve
lo mmpier the determined Itcnst while
1 still possessed tile advantage of foot
hold In the slolpli.
"Cnee I thought It was-all np with
me. for as the sleigh was carried
abruptly round o short turn lu the road
by the speeding horse one runner
Struck a stone or a root, and the sleigh
careened and run at least .‘0 feet on the
other runner alone. 1 mechanically
threw the weight of my body toward
the upper side of the sleigh, all the
time mining rapid blows on the head
of the wildcat with the butt of the
whip, anil forced the sleigh down lo Its
balance on Ixilh runners again. A few
more blows after tlmt, and l was re
joiced to sec the determined and tena
cious beast Hist loosen one claw, bang
for a second or so by the other, while It
tried to seize the top of the back of the
sleigh again with Its teeth, and then
tumble to tbo road aud lie motionless
In the snow.
"1 dropp'd back on the scot limp
aud weak and.too much unnerved lo
make the leant effort to ohialu control
or the runaway, which was still rush
ing wildly along the uncertain road,
made still more uncertain by the gath-
> ring dark nets. The horse ran st least
three miles farther and tlieu began to
slow up and ill last stopped half way
up tt long and steep hill from sheer
exhaustion. I had by HiIb time recov-
eml sufficiently to take charge of the
horse again aud drive the rest or the
way to ihe town, which wasn’t far,
uml where I arrived with the horse
coveted with loam, a sleigh splintered
and covered deep with scars and
•Alii'. Vs made ly the desperate yrlkl-
WHERE COLORS COME FROM
Africa lias a Bird Whose Plnmngf
Will Aot "Wash.**
"The man who devotes his life to the
study of color lb nil Its remarkable
phases occasionally comes ncrossasoine
queer facts,” recently said the senior
partner of a well known flrui of nrtlsts'
color men. "The printing of n newspn
per color supplement sets thousands o'
unsuspected tollers lb motion. The nat
ural earth of Sienna nud, Umbria. In It
nly, produces the raw colors, and the
same material fused the familiar ’burnt
sienna’ aud ’burnt umber.’ ’Turkey red’
comes from the Indian madder plant
'Carmine' and the ’lakes’ are squeezed
cochineal. ’Sepia' Is. of course, taken
front the cuttlefish. ’Gamboge' Is the
yellow snp of a Siamese tree. ’Ultra
marine’ Is. or should be, made fforn the
priceless lapis lazuli, while ’Prussian
blue,’ which was stumbled upon by ac
cident. Is the burnt product of horses’
hoofs aud Impure potassium carbonate.
'India luk' Is made lu China, ’blue
black’ Is the charcoal of the vim- stalk
and •bister’ Is made front ordinary
wood ashes.
"As you are probably nwnre. the dis
tinguishing feature of India Ink Is Its
refusal to Vun' when subsequently cov
ered with tinted washes. It Is what the
drapers rail a ‘fast’ color, and for this
reason Is exclusively employed by en
gineers. draftsmen and others.
"Most persons Imagine that nil nnt-
urn I colors, such as those of birds'
plumage, are ‘fast.’ This Is erroneous.
The well known African tollmen (plan
tain enter) Is a ease In point If tills
bird Is caught In n shower of rain, the
brilliant crimson found In his plumage
will ’run.' leaving the erstwhile crim
son feathers a species of dirty white,
notwithstanding tlmt his green feath
ers will remain perfectly ‘fnst.'^nqulry
Into this curious ’running' trait reveals
a marvelous provision of nature. A
careful analysis of the crimson feath
ers shows tlmt the brilliant coloring Is
due to the presence of a large quantity
of copper."—Fiber and Fabric.
LIBEL IN ENGLAND.
Sfot Hard There to Give Cause Foe
Action* at Low. |
England’s libel law is a terror to the
defendants. A short time ago a young
playwright sold a piece to a London
manager und drew a small royalty
each week, which was paid by check.
Cue week when the playwright pre
sented the check* to the bunk for cash
ing It was returned to him marked
••No funds." The playwright hud the
check framed and hung conspicuously
lu his study. He took pleasure In
pointing it out to visitors nud malting
biting comments until one day the
manager’s lawyer called anil told the
young man that he was committing
a scr.ous libel on the manager, where
upon the cheek was taken down nt
once.
Over In England the railway com
panies. or at least one of them, put up
in the station placards hearing the
names of passengers who lmd violated
rules of the road, with addresses, the
nature of the offense und fines Impos
ed. The offenders took the matter Into
court, and now the placards show only
the words opposite the offense, “A
passenger."
It frequently happens that names
given to villains ami ridiculous charac
ters In fiction will duplicate lu real life.
A certain English novel had Its scene
laid on the west const of Africa, apd
the villain of the book was a major
In the army, supposed to be stationed
there. To the novelist’s dismay there
uppeared one day out of the unknown
u real major, bearing the name of the
villain of the novel, who also had been
stationed on the west coast of Africa.
In vain the unhappy author protested
In the consequent action that he had
never seen cr heard of the plaintiff.
A verdict for the latter was given,
with substantial damages.
A Birmingham lawyer held that one
could libel a man effectually enough
by leaving out his name. He brought
nn action against a local paper for
persistently omitting his name from
Its reports of cases in which lie pro
fessionally was engaged. Presumably
he Imagined that the loss of the ad
vertisement he would hove obtained
by his name repeatedly appearing was
damage enough. He was uoasuited,
however.
THE INDIANS PAID.
HARD TO PURCHASE.
Tire -Pectillar lied Ribbon of the
French l.rulon of Honor.
Tin* peculiar red ribbon which tuem-
liers of the l-cglon of Honor of France
an> entitled to wear Is to be had In
New York at one establishment, which
Is naturally sought out by Americans
honored with this decoration. But
they never have the satisfaction of get
ting the ribhon until the linn that has
the exclusive sale of It has received
ofilelnl notice that the persons applying
have the right lo display It.
"1 know It." said one of the clerks
the other day to a would he purchaser
of the ribbon. ”1 know tlmt you are a
mctnls-r of the legion and have a right
to buy the rlblmn. ts'cause I read your
name In the paper nud know who you
are. But we hove not received official
notification of your appointment und
you have not your diploma. So I could
not sell you any of It.
"YVe hud lo make this rule first be
cause the French government required
It of us when we received the agency,
but we nlso realize the necessity of lu
All kinds of persons who hare uo right
to this rlblmn try to get hold of lu All
of them pretend when they find that
we cell It ooly to persoua entitled to
wear It either that they are meinliers
of the legion or that they are buying It
oo behalf of persons who do belong to
the order. The ribbon Is Dot like any
other, and we know that If any of this
ribbon Is bought In New York that It
comes from us. For that reason we are
particular to the extent of requiring
documentary proof from every appli
cant unless we have received official
notification of bis right to wear It.”—
New York Suu.
It Alll l Holt Oil.
The egg of the guillemot Is one of
the most peculiar and furnishes an
admirable example of the way m
which nature provides for Uic condi
tions of life.
This bird Is found cn the coast, and
the eggs are usually laid on the bare
edges of high rocks, from which posi
tion tiuy ordinary six-cluien of the egg
would probably roll off.
But the guillemot’s egg won’t do
this, li has been fashioned by uature
to stop on. The egg is nearly conical
lu shape, broad at the base aud sharp
at the point, so that it will only roll
In a circle.
From an Author's .Notebook.
The following is an extract from the
diary of an Impecunious author: “ltose
at 5 nod had a sonnet aud a glass of
colil wale.* for breakfast. I retired ear
ly In the evening without supper, as 1
feared the neighbors would tie annoyed
by the rattling of the knives aud
forks.”—Atlaa.ta Constitution.
PAINTING BIG SIGNS.
ARTISTS WHO DEVOTE THEIR TAL
ENT TO ADVERTISING PURPOSES.
Some of Them Have Had Year* of
Trnlnluz In Urawlnj* M<1 Color
Work, and Some Have Studied In
Famous Old World Atelier*.
Although the vivid advertisements of
tbo excellences of foods, ointments^
clothing, all mechanical appliances
known to man and a thousand other
thipgs urver dreamed of lu the philoso
phy of a hundred years ago are contin
ually catching the. eye and possibly
shocking the artistic sensibilities of the
beholder, few of the ordinary observers
give a moment's question to the mak
ers of advertisements. The advertis
ing craze has grown of late to such
huge aud unlovely proportions that any
brief account fails to explain Its work
ings. The office of a large advertising
concern Is one of the busiest places lu
town. Artists are constantly appear
ing with designs for the firm, a small
army of men with paint pots and brush
es are hovering about waiting to be
sent out. and everywhere are gay evi
dences of the results of all this labor.
"Vi’ho are the men that paint these
■heroic’ pictures one sees on unused
walls nud lofty fences?” asked a re
porter of one of the men who keeps
these subordinates busy.
"They are not the people you think
them. I fancy.” was the answer. “In
stead of being daubera. with about the
ability necessary to wield a whitewash
brush, our best men are real artists.
By this I mean that many of them
have had years of training In drawing
aud color work. Several of them have
studied abroad In the ateliers of well
known men. A man whom I saw paint
ing a bend on a wall yesterday is a
night Instructor In a Brooklyn art
school. Recently one of cur men paint
ed on n Inrge wall the biggest portrait
ever attempted. He had studied five
years In the I’nrls art schools."
“Why do they take up this work?”
"The other doesn't pay. It’s a case
of 'commercialism In art.’ They find
that they can’t make the real thing
pay, so they come to this common
calling. There's money In It. YVhy.
our star palmers gel $50 a week. The
daubers, who put In backgrounds,
don't earn more than $10 or $15 a
week."
The men who paint the designs In
various Inaccessible aud conspicuous
places have with tlieui small copies
of the desigus to lx> reproduced. Long
experience makes them expert In ac
curately tracing the design upon the
chosen surfueg. Although the familiar
advertisements scattered over the city
Bceui exactly alike and odc face seems
the exact counterpart of another, yet
closer inspection will show various
points of difference. In the case of a
very familiar picture which Is display
ed from one end of the United States
to the other, when It was first brought
out one man was hired for the sole
purpose of painting that one design,
aud to do this be traveled from Maine
to California.
“Not the least of our difficulties,"
said the advertising man, "Is finding
places to put our signs. We hire men
who do nothing else but go about and
obtain permission from owners to put
up billboards on their premises, use
a vacant wall or decorate a fence or a
roof. It needs great tact to do this.
When there ore objections, they must
be overcome, and after this Is done
the owner often gets the idea that his
available space Is worth thousands of
dollars to us and to him. The expe
riences of advertising rneo among
farmers and tramps would make o
mighty interesting book.”
- "Why do you say tramps?"
“Oh, the tramps ore our worst ene
mies. They build fires behind our
billboards and burn them or else tear
thejji down out of sheer waotouuess.”
When asked about the price a blank
brick wall lu a conspicuous part of
New York would bring to Its owner If
be let It for advertising purposes, the
advertising mau laughed nnd sold he
could not tell tliut. but he did not .mind
saying that he was now paying $<>.iMin
a year rent for a wall In the middle of
th«? shopping district. “This Is not on
imuKual sum to pay.” be added, ”fot
| such prominent positions.”
I Advertising firms are liberal sub
scribers to all art magazines,' particu
larly to those French url periodicals
which display the uewest drawings of
the still popular poster. The Ideas of
the foreign artists are taken fn-ely and
converted Into gaudy desigus for ad
vertising the latest song or a new cigar
without the lerst compensation, since,
ns the advertisers assert, American
Ideas are assimilated abioad Just as
unceremoniously.
Not all the large reproductions of fig-
I nrcs nnd faces on opr streets und along
j the roof tops are handwork. Many of
them are machine made. By a process
akin to that of making lithographs ma
chines have been Inventix] to Iny the
colors automatically. The finished
product, quite devoid of personality,
! presents accurately a copy or the work-
| Ing design.—New Y'ork Post.
The ancient Mexicans had a year of Some Polynesian languages have on-
18 .months of *20 days each. ly seven consonants.
What the White Men Charged Them
| For Killian; Oae Donkey.
In •’Reminiscences of Old Times In
Tennessee” a story Is told of the good
faith aud honor of a party of Chicka
saw Indians. While hunting one fall
they shot a donkey, mistaking tl:e
creature for a wild animal. They sold
the hide, and It flt^ly eaire to the
hands of John Bar:™ In l.ipton.
When the Clilcknsaws returned to
the region of Llpton for their annual
hunt the next fall, Barnes Invited them
to a shooting match, the prize to be
tlie skin of a very rare animal.
Thirty bt ives uppeared at the con
test, and one of them won the prize.
When he saw the skin, he turned It
over and said: "Ha. ha. me kill him!
Me shoot h.m! See!" And be pointed
to the fata bullet hole.
Then Barnes told them that they had
killed n donkey, a very useful animal,
but lie was sure that they had done
It by mistake, believing It to be u wild
animal.
| The Indians listened attentively to
the white mail's words and then con
sulted together a few minutes. Finally
I they separated, each brave going to his
I pony, unhitching him and leading him
! to tlie spot where a gang of white men
stood. Barnes lu the midst of them,
j Then one of the Indians spoke:
"We sorry we kill donkey. We think
i he Ix'Ioqg to the woods. We find him
! In cane. Te think lilm wild. We
| sorry; now we pay. We tne uo white
man’s boss, pony, uothlng of white
mau. We honest. We have ponies,
that’s nil. Take pay.” Aud he mo
tioned to the long line of ponies, held
by their owners.
“How many?" asked Barnes.
' "Vv’hite man say,” returned the In
dian, "lake plenty.”
The honor of the red men was not
equaled by the white meu, for, be It
recorded to their shame, they took
I from the Clilcknsaws 35 poult's to pay
for the accidental kllllug 0 of one dou-
! key.
Yonr Cnnnrr,
Don’t forget to give your canary the
best of water anil set-d every day. See
I that he has a good fish bone. Clean
his cage every day. Keep him out of
the hot sun ami the glare of night
lights nnd yet let him have sunshine.
Talk to him: talk to him with a kind
i voice. Let him out of the cage occa
sionally. We give crumbs of bread
soaked In uillk. lettuce, chlckwced. n
little piece of egg, soul crimes a little
I fruit, n nut and lots of good things aud
let him eat or reject ns he pleases.
Remember lie Is a prisoner In con
finement. dependent on you every day
for licahh and life, nud constantly
strive lo make him happy. A little 111
cent looking glass will add greatly to
his huppim-ss. Tn.e care that neither
still nor other light reflected shall daz
zle him.
THE BLACK VENUS.
An rely Stone FI am re TForshw,
Peasant* of Brittany. ^
Even fulse religions die ham
there are reminders of all
faiths still existing lu the world,
of the most curious relics of p as J
which are still worshiped in a °NT
tiuu country is the gigantic
stone figure of a woman which |<
found In fl forest of the dltmifl
Morbibau. In Brittany.
It is known ns the "Black V e
but probably dates far back
time when the Greeks null u 0Ul
worshiped tliat goddess. Anfiquarl
assert that this ugly idol U'loim
the age of the serpeut Worshiper*,
of whose subterranean temples !
the neighborhood. This would t
the figure tag older than the thru
era.
The statue Is that of a huge,
couth woman, with a sullen, 0
countenance, her form enveloped"!
loose ihautle.
The superstitious Bretons bate
ways worshiped the figure,
that It has power over the weather;
the crops. If the Idol Is neglected.)
declare that the grain dletf ou the!
nud If the anger of the black worn
further roused a tidal wave
over Morbibau.
Twice the stone was cast into (hj
by pious folk who hoped thereby ij
nn end to this Idolatry, and twin
peasants dragged it buck and set t
altar before 1L
Aliont two centuries ago Count r
de Imunion, ou whose estate the E
stood. In order to save the statue l]
both friends and enemies, drngjt
by 40 yoke of oxen to bis own din
und set It up In the courtyard,
an Inscription on the base of thep
tab declaring the figure to be a Vg
carved by Caesar's soldiers.
The count and bis chateau are
gone, but the huge black woman.t
grown with moss, still stands la
forest, nnd the peasants still
her lo bless their cro]«.
TEACHING A YOUNG LA!
How Vta Mother Coach on It to
Ahont and Fly.
J. M. Barrie, the noted Scottish
writer, in Scribner's Magazine
how n young lark got Its first li
A Imby lurk hnd got out of It?
sideways, a fall of a foot only,
dreadful drop for a baby.
“Y’ou can get buck this iv::y.
mother said, and showed It the
But when the baby tried to leap it
on Its back. Then the mother i.b
out lines on the ground on will
was to practice hopping, and It
along !x>nutlfully no long as tfeei
was there every moment to say.
wonderfully you hop!"
"Now teach me to hop up." mil'
little lark, meaning that It trail
fly. und the mother tried to do
vain. She could soar up. op.
bravely, but sbe could not explain
she did IL
"Walt till the sun comes out
the rain,” she said, half reiiieiulm
“What Is sun? What Is rami'
little bird nsked. "If you ennuol
me to fly. teach uie to sing."
“When the sun comes out uf.er i
the mother replied, "tbeu y«i
know how to slug.”
The rain cuuie and glued tbo
bird’s wings together.
”1 shall never lx* able to fly or<
it wnlleil.
Then of a sudden It began to
Its eyes, for a glorious light bad (
over the world, catching e\ cry
and twig aud blade of grass la
und putting a smile in every tear
baby bird’s breast swelled. It
know why; It fluttered f'-ou
grouud. It did not know why,
“The sun has come oat aft 01
rain."’ It trilled. “Thank you
Thank you! Thunk you! Ob.^
did you hear me? I can slug-’
Then It floated up. up. f
“Thunk you. thank you. tbu'ik
to the sun. “Oh. mother, do
see me? 1 urn flying!"
A Good Memory.
A bad memory lu most cuf*
! be more properly described as ou*
Ing from sheer waul of use.
Is our brain cells are always
oblige," but we do nol give tbeu*
dent encouragement in
meant efforts. Naturally tb 1 * "
ual may cultivate a memory 11,1
tain details more readily than <
era, but tlie general basis of al
lectlve nets Is the same, and tb* 1 ^
department of human mental 11
In which the motto that P r
makes perfect” Lolds more lru!
In the science of mnemonic’
view may be expressed. Indit
we never forget anything preset
our brain cells. When we say ®
forgotten, we really meaa that (
not find the mental photograph
tlve whence we can print off 81
reproduction.—J-otulon t'bronb*
Trimming; Her Sail* •
Nanule-Oh. dear; my fail* > s
klcil! It's just awful!
Aunt Hannah—I wouldn’t
nle. Of course the freckles
Yery Itecomlng. but. then.
they serve to cover up yotii 11 j
Boston '1 ransenpt.
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