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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.
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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
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tVn and Holy (lht; the aarrod l'ttcr
cm lh? ris ft-re I lire in nuutlwr, they
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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.
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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.
At the table of Cambaceres a sturgeon
of 187 pounds wns served, brought on by
four footmen, preceded by two flutists,
four violinists and a Swiss guardsman,
halberd iu hand.
Charlotte, N. C, boasts of a double
faced potato. One side is claimed to be
a perfect representation of a bear, and
the other, it is said, is a fair mold of a
calf.
St. Charles, Mo., during its existence
has lx?i'ti under the dominion of three
flags namely, Spain, France and the
United SUtes.
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