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T H IE AMERICAN 3 i:ri.oirsor rtww M (Ihll S tl Pyt Ml Wit AS iNtsvu I S Mm A ft 4x4 M WV ha I rm ta(li ! H4 IVft ! tHlfcr4 tttn4t 4 ktitt Ha tM .wt M . "VMtrn Hn tTgiKW htHifif nil m' V ! (.., t. till nl I t.f IVU M "., I tuliol ywir.tf ( I'til ( li in 1 tir. k hiv in r l tm-l tviiiMc.t imt f tho t-l Wf r t 4l rwottgh t.t fly, I hsmi'.t litin At mil tsiur l htm, ut It iJfVplcjtit Into th t-ii.Mi"l ltrl I rr mw, l.iV nil Imiw rtvwt. At tiiimliirvoim ntul ln.jnif.ilms TliPr Iran a atinthol in tln f.irf nurrUttrn, rut th ctvw cmiMnl lUilnit what Uhilrr tt,ltti.nh li trtnl vrr hard, "Nwl Iiiwm, da? Al flpw down to tlm twk, himtl up m1M mid carrW it in liit bill u tho floor of the ciMrn, whrr lie tinp"l tl thruUKh tli knothoR The imtaut ht k-t th -tUlc drop lie would ut liia put rl.woto the hol ami Imt.ti. He chuiUI hoar tin b lile utrikp the 'atir, ami thti noiwi out of hi night exfitoj hi curiosity m iinn h that lit drod a half bushel of jH-hbloi into the ridtrrn Ix-fora lie kv op. "AbcaccouipaniiHl me on all my hunt lug trips iu the fall and winter, and he eaw uie kill tivo or nix wolves, half a dozen wildcats and several deer. The wood 8 were full of deer, and there were o many wolves that we couldn't keep any sheep. Abe took a great liking to deer and rabbit, but ho hated wolves and wildcats, seeming to understand that they were destructive and danger ous. One afternoon, the summer that he was a year old, Abe flew into our little clearing and cawed and fluttered about as if he wanted me to leave my work. "I knew the crow had seen something that displeased him, and so I picked up two rifles and told him to go ahead, just to see what he would do. lie went squall ing through the air toward Bell Meadow brook, and when he alighted on a tree he kept yelling and looking down in the ravine. I looked, too, little expecting to see hut I did. A pair of wolves were tearing at a doe they had pounced on and pulled down. I killed them both before they got three leaps from the doe, and when Abe saw that they couldn't move he cawed and croaked as though he was glad. , "The next winter there were three feet and a half of snow on the level, and we had to wear s.iowshoes to get around. While I was splitting wood near the house one cold morning the crow came sailing and squalling to the settlement from the direction of Lake Henry. He was excited about something, and he perched on the log and went to flapping his wings and dancing up and down. 1 understood him wejl enough to know that he had seen something that he didn't like the looks of up in the woods toward the lake, so 1 and my brother and cousin put on our snowshoes, shoul dered five loaded rifles and started into the woods, Abe leading the way and yelling. "He led us to the lake, where we saw a sight that I shall never forget. In a space where the wind had blown the snow from the ice a flock of seven deer had been cornered by a pack of five wolves. The deer couldn't get out on account of the deep snow, and the wolves had k.Jed three of them when wqgot there. While we were blazing away at the brutes the crow flew overhead and shouted his approval. We killed the whole puck, and Abe felt so good that he rolled over on the crust several times. "One day in the spring the crow aw a fisher catch a rabbit and carry it to a hole in a basswood tree, thirty feet from the ground. My brother and I were chopping near by, and Abe squalled around till he attracted our atten tion, when he flew up to the hole where tho fisher was concealed. We chopped the basswood down, and the fisher skipped out and ran up a hemlock tree to where the leaves were so thick we couldn't see it. Abe flew up, alighted above the fisher and begun to squall, and squinting through the foliage below him I could see enough of the fisher to fire at. I banged away, and down came Mr. Fisher with a ballot in his hoad. Abe fairly laughod when tho fisher tumbled. "One morning I found six pullets on the floor of the hen shanty. A mink had killed them, and that night I set two steel traps and put one of the pullets be tween. In the morning a mink had it forefeet in one of the traps and one of its hud feet in the other. Abe tagged me in, and when he saw the mink strug gling to get out he ran up in front of it and began to yell in Its face. I let the crow torment it, and while my back was turned the mink caught Abe by the neck and bit him so hard that he died in a few minutet." Cor. New York Tribune. A Flnnmilnl CrUI. "My mothor-in-1 aw never understands a joke," say a correspondent. "I finish a good story, and she always looks up and asks, 'Well, what did the othor man say? As Bhe can't appreciate wit, I was surprised to receive a letter from her a few weeks aftor my little boy had swallowed a farthing, in which the last words were, 'Has Ernest got over his financial dillloulties yet?"' Exchange. The Work of tlm Interior Department. The duties which devolve on the sec retary of the intorior were performed prior to the establishment of that post by the heads of the other departments. The patent office was attached to the state department, the land office to the treasury department, and the pensions and the Indians had been looked after by the war department. New York Sun. The Limit of Population. Philosophers and statisticians have compared figures and find that the limit of the earth's capacity is 5,294,000,000 human beings; also that this number will be reached before the close of the Twenty-first century. St. Louis Republic. i t Vif it -'- r .' ti I -1 I ..1 .! 1 !-'t t- . . t f : I i - t t till' 41 I I .! a e , K t i A.U-n t 1 1 " ! Hh I ! t t!lfl. - k "t'S S.MlK !tM wiirt H. ti!4 t! ti ft ti ! ! tVio trt, t, IV !:. ,4 4Mttti? tM tun, ti, M fc At"1- J.tl ldl ti.lv Vtl t li t. Uin lliiw immati ti Alrtiin, n I Jmvk hamml was 'Hixl tltlW tlHin; IUlj)l l'xlrt-t lltttt-if thtw liii.- .-n tlip ilnt Ui.ty.vf Hum 1,0 t, Hittfett dovtwl I VtiUh ttur tiitw ' fii te di"veiw U -n"t f hi ; irrr-st r. ftiid t)t T' ltiln. , lumiln ftvtrft di livwd tlw Illicit day. Jmitth ft ihv ily and titbit in the whalf'a U-lly, "Nimn, loveel l)im tnr-Y wm rrn-li thrr linn, Paul j lliakp lueiitiiilt -f the TliM tlrmtt- j Faith. II") aud I'liauty. The famou j allegoru al ilivamstr the lk r ami tut l.r were t ciine to ut-n in thm daym Then we have the Holy Trinity Father, tVn and Holy (lht; the aarrod l'ttcr cm lh? ris ft-re I lire in nuutlwr, they biing I. H. S.i in! elm) the famous K man motto was comjHtwtl of three worU via., In hoc Mgtio, t. Louis ltepublic. A Tut nf Two Hum. There was a man named Hiblis who Ixingbt a farm, built a large, stately dwelling at the end of a long, shady avenue of maples and nettled down to enjoy the comfort and independence of a farmer's life. He built a coity little barn of logs and shingled it with clap boards. There was another man of the name of Hubbs who bought a farm in the same neighborhood, built a cozy little dwelling of logs, shingled it with clap boards and settled down to the hard, grinding monotony of a farmer's life. This man Hubbs built a large, stately barn at the end of a long, shady avenue of maples. At the end of ten years Ilibbs' big house had broken him up, and Hubbs' big barn had enabled him to buy Hibbs' stately dwelling for about half price and move it over on his own farm. Hubbs has a big dwelling and a big barn and represents his county in the state legislature. Hibbs has a little log cabin and a little log stable and is try ing to boII out to Hubbs. He wants to quit farming and travel with a peddling wagon. Toronto Mail. Uncnnacloun Feminine Cruelty. "Let me off at Thirteenth street, con ductor," said a woman as she paid her fare on a Broadway car at Cortlandt street. The car was packed, the place just two miles away and the woman a New Yorker. From 50 to 100 people would get on and off, half a hundred stops were to be made and something like a half to three-quarters of an hour would be con sumed before reaching Thirteenth street. Yet this woman, who bore evidences of more than ordinary intelligence in her face and from her easy self assur ance every indication of being able to take care of herself, expected the con ductor to remember her request and to put her off at the right street. The Broadway conductors are the hardest worked, most abused and criti cised railroad officials in this city, but this is the sort of thing they are called upon to endure every hour in the day. It is usually. at the hands of women, and is unnecessary, foolish and cruelly in considerate. New York Herald. Modern Matrimony. Jones (calling on Smith in the even ing) I thought I would find you at home. Yon don t go out much at night now? Smith No, I've given up all my clubs and societies. I should be glad to have you come up and spend an evening with me occasionally. Jones But your wife might think me in the way. Smith Ob, she's never home at night till late. Tonight she's at a meeting of the Ladies' Society for Supplying Thim bles to the Destitute Poor. Tomorrow night Bhe goes to the Queen's Daugh ters, next night to the sociable of the Royal Women, and so oh every night. Come up and see a fellow. It's awfully lonely to be married, I can tell you, New York Press. Hufl'ocated by Sweet Odon. The Sybarites slept on beds stuffed with rose leaves; the tyrant Dionysius had his couch filled with thorn; Versus would travel with a garland on his head and around his neck, and over bis litter he had a thin net, with rose leaves inter twined. Antiochus luxuriated upon a bed of blooms even in winter days and nights, and when Cleopatra entertained Antony she hand roses covering the floor to the depth, it is said, of an ell. We are told that Heliogabalus sup plied so many at one of his banquets that several of his guests weresuffocifted in the endeavor to extricate themselves from the abundance victims of a sur f eit of sweet odors. Philadelphia Times Ammonia In Coal. Some 18,000,000 tons of coal are burned in London yearly. About 4,000,000 are utilized by the gas manufacturing com panies; 9,000,000 are burned in house hold and industrial fire grates. Each ton contains sufficient ammonia to pro duce, if treated with sulphuric acid, twenty-two to twenty-eight pounds of sulphate of ammonia. The total loss of this fertilizing agent is therefore, say, 9,900 tons. As the price of sulphate of ammonia is 9 10s. the ton, the mone tary loss is 94,905 every year. If we were less wasteful we should not be so much obliged to ransack Chili and Peru for artificial manures. National Re view. Ilur.1 to Kind. Walter Satterlee, the artist, says one of the greatest difficulties he meets is the lack of models iu this country whose hair is so black that it has blue or pur ple lights in it. He ad 3s that what he vants is common in Europe, but al most unattainable he:e. Fhiladolphia Ledger. t ' t - i ",.- .1 . . ,t . " -, 1 . I f. r-ftlrv t t ' - '-'ft . ). ft;. ft. AM I'.. , l lv I'..m f t4 (H , V k'tt J t . Us. tlt MH!tti 4n4 w. l. 1 - t ! I Hvl liwt , I I t. . tK 1 ll !' Mm ft. T ft l-i! t ft! I . ft.t tft llt M "4 4.ft9 t Iv4 114 twftA, m ., t ll r m w fw ftnft Ml l..ft ft M.ftT ftftft ftTHft j ti tirt, fttxl Mf ) 4tM ) H, likft tttr trl ft ! ttli M (iiMk, llill ll r.t. )! It. Intine. K, tftti l.idftt lt trr Hi. 1ft ftrftaft ftt ftwtftlt la lw.c, ar able ta tim k their martyr tliroiuh ortiftdod irwu, w hi-r m-ogtii tioii by tKt i quit iiupuKMbt, and ran fiud a hidden biwiut even when It faint Miu ll s Mill further d!gnt.l by eau d cologne. In nune eierttiienU Mr. Romanes lately mado with a dog lie found that it cmld eaMly track him when lie was far out nf sight, though no fewer than eleven jxH'plehad followed him, stepping exactly in his footprint, In order to confuse the soeuU Tho dog seemiHl to track him chiefly by the smell of his boots, for when with out them or with new Uxits on it failed, but followed, though slow ly and hesitat ingly, when his master was without either boots or stockings. Dogs and cat certainly get more information by means of this seiiso than a man can. They often get greatly excited over certain smells and remember them for very long pe riods. Chambers' Journal. The Woodpecker' Home. The woodpecker's home is very like the kingfisher's, but it is dug in rotten wood instead of being bored in a bank of earth. From the great ivory billed species down to the little downy fellow of our orchards, the woodpeckers build their nest, or rather excavate them, on the same general plan. The hole at first goes straight into the wood, then turns downward, widening as it descends, un til it gives room for the home. If you will go into any bit of unshorn wood land during early spring and will keep your eyes open, you will see a bright red head thrust out of a round window in some decaying trunk or bough, and the woodpecker will sing out, "Peer! peerl" which always seems to mean that his or her home is a most comfortable and en joyable place. Maurice Thompson in Golden Rule. As Good as He Cave. A reproof which was just and not dis courteous was once addressed to a young rector who had been reared under the highest of church doctrines', and who held that clergymen of all other denomi nations are without authority and not entitled to be called ministers of the Gospel. One evening at a social gather ing he was inlroducted to a Baptist clergyman. He greeted the elder man with much manner and ostentation. "Sir," he said, "1 am glad to shake hands with you as a gentleman, though I cannot admit that you oro a clergy man." There was a moment's pause, and then the other said, with a quiet significance that made the words he left unsaid emphatic, "Sir, 1 am glad to shake hands with you as a clergyman. San Francisco Argonaut Why the Child Cried. A Brooklyn physician says that he was recently attending a family where the little man of the house was in a some what refractory humor, and thinking to quiet him he said, "How would you like it now if to punish you I should take your little sister away from you?" The boy sulked and did not reply, but as the doctor arose to take his leave the child burst into a woeful blubbering. He was asked what was the matter. "Doctor's goin away without takin sister," he an swered. New York Recorder. Two lloiieat Men. A Paris furniture dealer recently bought from an architect an old writing table, and in overhauling it he found a packet containing 1,(100 francs. He at once informed the former owner of bis find, and he was rewarded by an honest declaration on the part of the architect that the latter knew nothing whatever about the money and would not accept it. Paris Letter. Alwayi Willing to Loan. Merchant (to persistent peddler) Oh, don't bother me this morning. 1 wish you'd kindly leave me alono. Morris Abrams (producing wad) Why, shertinly, my front, how much and vot inderesht vill you gif? Kate Field's Washington. Sumatra llulTaloe In Water. The buffaloes in Sumatra, according to an English traveler, in fear of the tiger take refuge at night in the rivers, where they rest in peace and comfort, with only their horns and noBos sticking above the water. Handling a book with apparent re spect or disrespect is of couse too fan tastic a standard to be accepted literal ly, since physical awkwardness or nerv ousness may be responsible for harm rather than a lack of mental grace. 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