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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. frrt