REAL COWBOY ARTIST "TIMBERLINE" KEPLINGER SUR PRISES AN ART CLUB. ranans, Peaks, and Aura Rkjr the Objects That Lad Him tu Hack to Hrprndaaa Thalr Urandaur — Vimng Woman Alda Him. OK fifteen years, ever since he was a boy of 12,a young man from Iowa has haunted the tlra berline of Colora do's mountains. As a boy be worked In the camps and did any kind of work there was to do. Gradually he be came un expert with horses, and for years has made a business of breaking and training them. He has always been called "Tlmberllne.” owing to his lore for the mountain heights, but his real name la 0. G. Kepllnger. He Is handy with his gun, Is as brave as a man cad be, and Is at present marshal of a camp called "Dillon,” not far from 'Breckenhldge, Col. His wonderful bight and strength make him remark able at first sight, as he stands six feet It four and so half Inches In Ills stockings, Perhaps "Tlmlterllus," who Is a typical mountain cowboy in dress, mannerism And speech, may have Inherited an ar tistic ability from bis parents, who ■till live In Sidney, la , and perhaps bis life, often in solitude among na ture's wonders up in the azure near the snow line, may have developed an artist's soul In his herculean body. At any rate, during the Intervals of his wild life among wild men and beasts, bo sought to portray wltb a sharpened ^ Wlece of lead ore the grandeur of the Kv uions and peaks. His hands wore * V accustomed to holding a Winches ter, but his success was sufficient to ■ncourage him. The look of refine ment and sympathy deepened In his face, and his study of the gentle art and still gentler nature, made him ‘ ' more of a man, with all the longings Of an artist for the beautiful. Like all geniuses lie was very modest and Hplid not think the trifling work worth 'Anything except to amuse his lonely hours. H’s rough companions twitted P, they dared, for the young marshal would not stand everything. He is ||| but 27 years old now, and full of all . the fires and passions of youth. While kis mountain friends sometimes laughed at him, they all respected him, ' and privately expressed their admira tlon for the young fellow. One day f last summer a young woman of Den Qf, ver visited the vicinity of his home In the clouds. She was a born artist, one who loved art for art’s sake. She saw the young man, marveled at bis tall, p well-knit frame, saw the look of re finement In bis storm seamed face and ^ soon gained his confidence. He hesi | tatlngly told her of his love for draw I Ing and she gave him some water col w ors to use. For a long time nothing *was heard of him, when suddenly he jf arrived In Denver the other day to show his benefactor some of his water color sketches. He had drawn them over and over again until he though he bad made them pretty nearly like the scenery about him. The coloring Is delicate and accurate, the perspective |k good, and the drawing In proportion. He did not expect praise, but received W It, and was at once made the idol of the Colorado Art Club. "Tlmberline” , Is like the deer of hU mountain home £ when It comes to close contact with the ally world. He made a quaint pic ture of himself as he stood In midst •f the little group of artists, with bis sow boy costume, the Immense som l brero, and the “gun” sticking in his belt. ' Haw tha Whale Ksrapad. A whale la seldom caught napping. ' When, however, one 1* waked from Its after-dinner aleep by a passing vessel, be makes off from the Intruder in great baste. The author of a recent book. "With ttusslan Pilgrims,” has a good story to tell of a whale thus disturbed. One day at sea. when 1 was chaolain on tbs Vancouver, n big whale created n sensation. Tbs upper deck was cov ered with loungers, for It waa a lovely summer afternoon, and nil tbe deck •kalra bad their novel reading occu pants. The wbsie waa sleeping In tbs sunshine, and suddenly felt bis tall lick led by tbe passing monster. He leaped bodily out of tbs water In bis anilely to hurry away The fashion able crowd gave a about, norsls Hew and chairs emptied themselves quickly, as every one rushed to the mil. but tbs whale dived, end aa infant's voles said. "Ms. did lb# whale Jump out of the snblo window f Ms* MMUa “la theta any necessity of your her lw« quits so many young Idiots bang ► n« around hare. Mahal** asked the Mther In I he properly deferential lone I if a modern parent “I am studying human nature, pap* ' answered the E| tint si'l lie know ike proper P study uf mankind sf womankind Is I maw * "Wst.be It la. hut I must say I e >» t like Ike war *<*u bsep tbe house Iptsrsd »p with four epo. imina-cm its as< i itaqulfor E MITER MADE OF IVORY. Unlqn* Present Received by the Blehop of Londont From the London Chronicle: There has just been presented to the bishop of London a miter which is the only one of its kind in the world. It Is of burnished Ivory, with gold orphreys. On the plaques or plates are written in pure leaf gold the words "Holiness to the Lord,” In Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English, These words, It will bs re membered, were ordered to be written on Aaron's miter—as it is described In Exodus xxvlll-xxlx. The Hebrew and Ihe English are on the front plates. The lining is of crimson corded silk, and the lapels are the same covered with cloth of gold, each bearing a Greek cross of thin Ivory. Otherwise there is no adornment whatever, and the effect generally is at once plain and rich. The shapes of miters have varied through the ages. There sqems to be little doubt that the original linen miter prescribed for Aaron was a fillet of linen. But In Exodus, xxlx., it Is ordered, "Thou sbalt put the miter upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mltar.’’ So that the effect of the original high priest’s miter was that of a fillet with a crown superposed. And so it has been since the Christian church adopt ed miters, there has been the fillet and the crown. In the eastern church th« crown has almost concealed the fillet. Miters In the west have been of various shapes. The papal tiara is a thrice crowned miter. The Celtic and old En glish form is much lower than that nrevaillng generally In the west. The best known type of the former Is the Limerick miter—whose lines have been here followed—which has been engrav ed times untold. Miters have been of linen, of silk, of gold and sliver, and all these plain or Jeweled. It does not appear to have occurred to anybody until this year to make one of Ivory. Unexpected difficulties arose, but they were overcome by a little Ingenuity and care. The miter Is "a thank offering, 1897,” and the donor, with whom the ! Idea originated, desires to remain un known. AT PARIS IN 1600. Sensitive Parisians have at times suspected that the Ingenuity of devis ing the Eiffel tower was matched, If not surpassed, by the construction of the Kerris wheel at the Chicago world's fair. Inspired by the patriotic duty of conceiving some stupendous project j whereby to reclaim their supremacy ' and outdazzle the American triumph, the novelty producers of the French j capital have racked their resourceful brains. The revolving palace Is the result. This structure, designed by M. j Charles Devic, will consist of a hexag onal shaft 350 feet In height, divided Into twenty-five stories. The entire palace Is to be covered with nickel plate, aluminium, ornamental tiling and glass. Illumination will come from 20,000 Incandescent and 2,000 arc lights of varied colors, arranged so as to bring out clearly all decorative lines, balconies, turrets, pillars and statues. In the loftiest part of the palace are to be a chime of sixty-four bells and a powerful organ played by compressed air. Above these, and crowning the whole, will perch the weather vane—a cock fifteen feet high and formed from 1,200 Incandescent lights. The entire structure is to turn on a pivot and to be moved by hydraulic apparatus, al ways at the same speed, making a com plete revolution once an hour. Spec if rKU11>8NI> RKVOI.V INQ 1‘AI.ACL tatora may Ibua occupy (he aame poa> Uou and aee. apread out before them the entire panorama of the eipoaltloa. j with the city of I'nrla and Ita environ* — origin ul aralplng. Tb# Indiana, like many other tribe* have peculiar ld«aa regarding a con* tlnulty of Ilf* and a hind of aplrltual Itnh between animate and Inanimate object* They believe a piece at any article connect# tham with tb# an tlrety Tb* hair t* thought to hava a cloae coanecllon wtih Ilf*, and one poa awaalng It may work hi# will upon who aver or whatever the hair belonged to Prom thu Idea came the tueiuui of i acalptag eoemie* i We r«t l kr*» | An etfcnsl nia*M>tiH tattoo of dead, a lev hut and ait gveae mallei* and the cultivation ul , new. Incoming budv .ell* with pc re, , **lartae-l buoyant t v»l« wh h akall | develop e»realty widow* end health, preyaiee the way and makre ike path , *trai*Ht hi tfc* deliver**, i el u*s •* , plraat epkMt h e It# m venal gyt*. ] Intelltgcwee TRUE SHARK STORY. HOW A MOTHER FISH WENT FORTH TO FIND A MEAL. And Foil Into • Cruel Trap Only On* ra**«ng*r on the Ills Hhlp Felt Borry nod lie Wen » Men with No Bportlng Inatlnrt*. “How very hard it Is to provide for a young fast-growing family nowa days,” said the mother shark, turning for the hundredth time that morning upon her broad side in order to get a better view of what might be stirring above. For nearly a week she had been fasting; in fact, ever since she caioe in hurriedly at the close of a great feast upon the stripped carcass of a recent whale, says the 1/ondon Spectator. There, by dint of the en ergy of her massive shoulders, her fourteen feet of length, and fivefold rows of triangular teeth, she had man aged to secure a respectable propor tion of the spoil for the replenishing of her own huge maw as well as for the upkeep of the fourteeen sharkllng" that were now restlessly darting In and out of their coxy cave at the far end of her capacious throat. Within the immediate range of her glance a vast black shadow obscured a wide, irregularly shaped area of the blazing sunshine. It was so calm that the shadow seemed stationary. In the di rection of this cool penumbra her gaze, lingered earnestly. For hereditary in stinct as well as long experience gave her the knowledge that from the sub stance of such shadows came food dropping down, varied and toothsome, actually alive on rare occasions. Some what Impatiently she wondered at the long time that her little blue-and-gold attendant had been gone. He was so seldom absent from his place between her eyes for a whole minute that she got quite uneasy. But while she fidget ed fretfully, with many twitchlngs of her flexible “gaff-topsail," back came the pilot-fish in a tearing hurry. “Now, uicij, jmi i.iici , uiuvt; biuiik, uu, i iicic » a lump of fat pork almost as big aB your head hanging over that ship’s stern. I don't quite understand why It doesn’t sink, but It Is good. I nib bled Just a crumb, and you can be sure that this time It is no bagful of cinders like that nasty mouthful that gave you the chestache so bad this morning.” The latter part of this en ergetic exodium was lost upon the mother shark, being drowned in the wash set up by her great tail-fin, which was going In grand style, starting her off at. such a rate that two or three stragglers of the family had to skip like shrimps to get lndooors before they were left behind and lost. Straight as an arrow to the mark went the tiny guide, keeping Just In front of his huge friend’s snout. Together they swept Into the shadow, where, sure enough, a mass of meat hung Just below the sea surface, though gently lifted al most out of the water every now and then. "Oh, do look, mamma, there’s a big fish. Is he going to eat up that pretty little one, do you think?” "Oh, no, my little man," struck in the mate, “but you watch him now.” As he spoke the great gray body took a curve laterally, a dazzling glare of white ap peared, and there beneath the speaker was a crescentic gap in the smooth, livid white under side, fringed with innumerable points like chevaux-de frlse, and as big as the gap of a coal sack. Around it the small pilot circled excitedly at top speed. Slowly it rose beneath the bait, which the mate as gently slacked away, there was a gulp, and the big Joint disappeared. There was a flash, a splash, and an eddy. Then the rope attached to the shark hook concealed in that pork groaned over the rail as it felt the strain. "Lay aft the watch," roared the mate, and amid the tramping of many feet, a babel of directions and a tremendous tumult alongside, through the writh ing of the captive monster, she was transferred forward to the lee gang wdt whfirp hv the u ii\ rtf a ctout watch-tackle, she was hoisted out of water. "Don't take him aboard,” cried the captain: "make such an Infernal mess If you do. Just spritsle—yard him 'n let him go agen." So a piece of scant ling was got from the carpenter, pointed at both ends, about four feet long. This they drove between her laws from side to side. Another wedge shaped piece was planted diagonally lown through her broad snout, the upper end pointing forward. Then they cut olf the wide pectoral fins, let ting the quivering carcass fall Into the sea again hy the simple expedient >f chopping the hook out. "What ibonlmable cruelty," muttered a gen :le-fared man among the crowded pas sengers. as he turned away sick at mart. Hut the bustling seamen looked vltylngly at him. wondering doubtless ! it his lack of sporting Instincts. Thus disabled, the miserable Blon der plunged blindly In uncertain dl- j ■ectlons, unable to steer herself, un- | leading the frantic rareseea of her < ‘althful little satellite, who had at- } Host exhsuted himself by leaping up it her side as she hung struggling igalnst the vessel's side Neither did he notice the pussled, wavering move Bents of her wondering brood, do she , llaappeared from the view of the eughtng happy crowd on dwk Hut • btehever way she rushed she always fetched up at the surface promptly •eeauae of the vane In her head Thus or n day and a night she fought aim w*#ly with all the forces of amaktag Halit y pent ttp In her huge body against those lavtwrtng dteahlernsota mill merelfutls she fw|| in with a ought of rameows tnayvavrs gssnt ng fresh Wood they mads kg her • Mightwav I,the mad things they elk upon her (stag an I hard (hey Ma*v Usnsg th*ra. Nowhere on iny travels so far have I seen so much warm-blooded rejoic ing life as iu this grand arctic reserv ation by so many regarded as desolate, says the Atlantic. Not only are these whales In abundance along the shores, and innumerable seals, walruses and white bears, but great herds of fat reindeer on the tundras, and wild sbeep, foxes, hares, lemmings, whist ling marmots and birds. Perhaps i more birds are born here than in any other region of equal extent on the continent. Not only do strong-wing ed hawks, eagles and water fowl, to whom the length of the continent Is only a pleasant excursion, come up here every summer In great numbers, but also many short-winged warblers, thrushes and finches to rear their young In safety, re-enforce the plant bloom with their plumage and sweet en the wilderness with song, flying all the way, some of them, from Florida, Mexico and Central America. In thus going so far north they are only going home, for they were born here, and only go south to spend the winter months as New Englanders go to Florida. Sweet-voiced troubadours, they sing in orange groves and vlno clad-magnolia woods In winter, in thickets or dwarf birch and alder in summer, and sing and chatter more or less all the way back and forth, keeping the whole country glad. Oft entimes in New England, Just as the last snow patches are melting and the AAn 1m * L .. Mnm ikn blessed wanderers may be heard about orchards and the pdgcs of fields, where they have stopped to glean a scanty meal, not tarrying long, know ing they have far to go. Tracing the footsteps of spring, they arrive In their tundra homes in June or July, and set out on their return Journeys In Sep tember or soon as their families are able to fly well, , WEBS WOVEN INTO A NET. Balloon Coverings Bring Marie from TliregiU Spun Uy Rpldtru. According to the Paris Temps' cor respondent at Antananarivo, a special fine net, made entirely of spiders’ webs, is being manufactured in the profes sional school at Antananarivo. The process is a very simple one. The thread of several dozen spiders Is wound on winders, the quantity pro duced by each spider ranging from fif teen to forty yards. The covering of the web Is removed by repeated wash ings, and the web made Into a thread of eight strands. When the thread Is spun, It Is easily woven Into a tfauze, which is very fine but very strong. It is to be used for an experimental covering of a navigable balloon by Mr. Renard, the head of the French mili tary balloon school at Chalais, near Paris, who has been engaged for many years In experimenting in aerial navi gation. It is believed that the differ ence In the weight of an ordinary spiders’ web net will make a great im provement. Anatralliin Oynterv. The Australian mollusk is of two kinds—the mud oyster and the rock oyster. The former grows to a larger size, hut the rock oyster is more gen erally esteemed for flavor. Their names indicate their place of growth. The rock oysters love the beds and adjoin ing rocks of tidal streams. They grow In clusters, In a variety of shapes and sizes, and each cluster is attached to something solid. Here they are alter nately bathed In salt water and In fresh or brackish. They are also left for hours high and dry until the in coming tide refreshes them. Nor do the oysters always select rocks on which to dwell. These accommodat ing mollusks may frequently be found adhering to the roots and lower branches of the mangrove and other trees which delight in a sort of sub marine residence. It is doubtless to this peculiarity that the sailor referred when he wrote to his mother at home telling the old lady, and not untruly, that in Australia oysters grow ou trees. —Chambers' Journal. Hoinrlh'a Abt«nr« of Mind. The celebrated Hogarth was one of the moet absent-minded of mea. Soon uricr n« nau h«i up mu carriage ue uau ocraelou u> pay a rtelt to tha lord mayor. When be went the weather waa flue, hut he waa detained by bual- , neea. and In tha meantime a violent . rain etoriu came up. Hein* let out of i the manalun by a different, door from that which he bad entered, ha imme diately began to call for a back nay cinch, but one could not ba procured. Hogarth determined to brave the atorm and actually reached hla home In Indrewterfleld without a thought of hla tmrriage until Mre. Hogarth, weing him ao wet and hurried, naked him a here ba had left It. WuUe'l It* tint tv ah "No. air " autd the Kaaaaa editor, "your aervbea are ao longer required " May I venture to aak why I am la charged T‘ “V cu re too blamed funny that atf!• may do in the blare and beartlewe neat, but when you refer to i a daalb la a vyclone an i terrible blow' to the family you eterdo It mu here Tea aaa • lu ee a# Kagliahmea Uriah «*e ttmea aa much t h a* • Bee. dam ■•.aaa eight 1 U«u ur 1 peddler nui here (a 4a allay dat a bin tauhra tu b aa' Nil d««a. aa' dare a a elarh fur ua lar «lt away aid a «>»••! I Ib« Com# ua " I I ta*a aa* a*e*a*4 Miaa Miaa Coidaaier la it puaaitthi Ora, < you hall*** la lb* ua* *1 tptruuou* llt|4*ra fur medloael put (a<*e* • * Th# Nt i|Hi hr« ' Mu, tlatur bald »uu ih*i wr»a«*d me I dua'i ha ? Hare la aaaiiai liquor ua people • %» ar* I tar rl- h lu *ppt», la'r || * t*t#, , >• laud l eader | An Allnrlnff I den. "What I want to see," exclaimed Senator Sorghum, "is the annexation of Hawaii. I envy the men who will one day come to this capitol to repre sent the interests of that far-distant state.” "Yes,” rejoined the enthiiBtastio young friend. "They will loom up as giant reminders of the progress of civ ilization and of the increasing power of this young republic." ”!Je they will,” answered the senator; "so they will. And in addition to all that, Just think of the mileage!”-— Washington Star. Not In Plillndolphin. Diggs.—"Something occurred In po lice circles yesterday that caused gen uine surprise." Biggs.—"What was It?” Diggs.—“A detective started out on s clew in the morning and at noon ar rested a man—” Biggs.—"Pshaw! That's nothing' they usually arrest four or five in that length of time.” Diggs.—"But this man, strange as It may appear, was the real criminal.”— Chicago News. Were the Corn Shock. Visible? Business Man.—"You say your mapa ire absolutely true to life? I don't know as to that, but the workmanship Is on the blacksmith order. Look at this map of Kansas! It’s all covered with dirty little ■»«'•, looks like fly jpecKB.** Map Agent.—“Ah, yes, I neglected to explain. Those are to represent farm ers marketing their crops.” The Wretched Middle Class. Doctor—You ought to take that child Into the country for several weeks ev ery summer. Mother- Oh, doctor. I’m sorry to say we are not rich enough. Doctor—Well, then, have her sent by i fresh-air fund. Mother—But, doctor, we’re not poor enough!—Fliegende Blaetter. A Klondike Croesus. First Klondlker.—"Wealthy? That nan Is wealthier than the hero in the fairy story.” Second Klondlker.—"Ah! Hag plen ty of gold, has he?” First Klondiker.—"Gold! That man aats genuine butter on his bread three times a day.” (I»n Her Away. The blushing bride-elect was re hearsing the ceremony about to take place. "Of course, you will give me away, papa?” she said. "I'm afraid I have done it already, Caroline,” replied the old gentleman, nervously. "I told your Herbert this morning you bad a disposition Just tike your mother's.”—Tld-Blta. Didn't Want tlia Kindness, Charlie—"Will you lend me a quid, lack? I'm awfully hard up.” Jack—"Certainly, old man. Here you we." Charlie—"Thanks, awfully. I can never repay your kindness." Jack—"On, hang the kindness! Re pay the quid, and I’ll be satisfied."— r Id-Bits. A Bargain. Aunt (wbo has received a letter from iuuuuio a iiwiuv./. vu, uuuuu>*, / vu* mamma has got two nice new ba bies." Johnnie—"That's Just like mamma. [ suppose by having two she gets them :heaper.”—Punch. A no* Hit of Look. "Oh. Queente, such sweet news! What do you think?" "No Idea. Flo. What Is It?” "Papa has been bitten by a mad dog, md now we nrs ?.!! s"‘is to Paris, isn't it a bit of luck?”—Punch. Always tho Cm* Hank*.—"I don't mind the lnflueasa tself so much—It's the after . Beet* I'm tfrald of." Ittver*.-"Th# after effect* la what tils ms. I'm dodging th* doctor lor IS •killing*. " -Tld-HItA "Hullo. Juno*, you In tkl* dlegrnee ul condition agala. and you rnigkt bs lulls n rlcn man if you dldn t drink!" "My dear tier, shad be tksr une ir both'rt*h man III didn't drinkT"— *Uk Mr I p III* Hossty Tbnt follow * hum I in* Je mi *> uu*inird with Is nn sapsrt rtase . lower." Jaglot “| n«ttrod how • * pertly h* ‘low every bit of loom off ' (Mt. #•****# mm-i Mlee Wool lake I »o»;ly believe I outgo ferawomA is *t*| rntadeg, M»** t‘HMi*g tt by to r hi* bn sen making !->%* In « . * <**o»*leng #«4oe