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TWO UGLY ANIMALS. Trapping the big felines Is child's "play compared with the work of cap turing loose lunioenng. coiobsoi ani mals of the "big pig" family,, the rat- noeeros and the hippopotamus. Too stupid to tame or to break to a halter and too heavy to transport through hundreds of miles of wilder ness, it would take a man half a life time to bring one of these five to six thousand pound creatures out of a Jungle Into civilization. Therefore the expert's only chance is to find a cow with a calf and to capture the young one. , Compared with the alert, grim ex terior of the felines, there is llitlo '.n the appearance of a phlegmatic, pon derous Dig like a rhinoceros to indl cate its real ferociousness. There is hardly a wild animal , In existence which Is more dangerous than this rarest of all our menugerlo captives. Awkward aB the great creature ap pears when at rest, once croused it dashes through the densest thicket with the irresistible speed of an ex press train. To catch a rhinoseros the trapper proceeds with preparations much as would an explorer bound for a two or three year expedition In the interior of an unexplored continent for the difficulty confronting him is the three fold one of first penetrating a thou sand or more miles Into the Interior; second, of finding not only a rhinoce ros, but a rhinoceros cow with a calf eld enough to capture, and, lastly, of transporting his prize across hills and mountains and plains, over rivers and ravln?s, across swamps and through forests to civilization. Skirting swamps and rivers, the men are ever on the lookout for the deep, round spoors, like a pie plate driven info the n:ud. ,for in this wet low. rreqiifuTiy nve or six raonuis a calf are picked up. ' Noiseless and from well to leewar.l. the trapper and his men gradually steal nearer until the cow and the calf are inclosed In a circle. From rheid out of the maze of cane and creeper, sounds the uneasy stamping ot tie cow. With a half snort naif prunt. In an Instant the rhlLocfros is al attention. Head raised and nos trils sniffing she searches the air steadily. At sight of one of the sava ges the cow dashes with the speed of a race horse at the man. charging the human decoy and at that Instant he trspper's rifle Is heard, and her furious charge is over, provided the Pallet reaches ta heart by striking Just behind the left foreleg the only venerable point in the inch thick ar tror with which the beast Is clad. Now and then It happens that the trapper fails to kill In time his gun may miss fire. Intervening trees may interfere or the marksman may miss his aim. Then the life of the decoy tfepends npon his own agility. To run to ene side before the rhinoceros Is almost on top of him woul dbe fata ,' 7fb'ng. evn to the smallest de fer the swift brute wonld overtake him aB. Lady Florence Cecil in Waman'j with a few bounds. His only hope la to wait mill the deadly horn Is al- most at his feet and then with the 'swiftness of a mongoose dodging the' aim of a cobra, to leap to one side,1'"1 -apr. an orphan, the other while the ponderous creature, unable to turn short in time, dashes onward under Its own Impetus. Twice, ttree mcnl celebrltr. were not Inform times, a clever native hunter will d as to the ouwrr. marks of char dodge In this way, giving the trapper acter. unpie time to bring down the rbinoce-i toz. Then comes the tracking of the frightened calf, which had fled at the first sign of trouble, and soon It Is pushed, prodded and shoved op a bridge of log skids Into a cage of the bullock cart ; But even more dangerous is the trapping of the hippopotamus, for. ai though In Itself the "rhino Is a more.bltloa. spirit, originality and honesty. sarsge antagonist than the 'river borse," the trapper hunts the former, ots land and brings down at a aofe dv Unce. wrier.-? In the esse of the hl pt potamus h trust f ?M In the same Sometimes It Is supposed to be asso frlniltive fashion that savages tave elated with a hot temper and a spit osed tor ags. Hand to maw. as it ful disposition but there Is really no were, he must engage this two ton reason to regard red-haired people as , monster while stand. ng in the bow -f a frail canoe, for the blppopoumus. as its name, the "river horse, means Is a land and water animal and must, Be uarpoon! and brought ashore be- tore it expire, otherwise it woulj Whether the ambitious and indo eink at once to the bottom of the rl. pendent spirit resides In the red talr ft, the coveted ea'f escsp'ng among or In the freckles Is a matter of grave we oinr Hippopotamuses instead oi icnowicg me stricxen cow to short, m that the youngster may be caught. n. ... iwihrr ta ou .-..viioian. - THE UVPIRE WAS CAME. Bpoarifig or th rtoing of tt. vetr - aa umpires, an old tfnwr cUlms that !onet John Kelly Is erltled t the4reey companion, and always Is to rrora tor ira ooinga among tne in- djcatrw hnlrB. Kwk In the AmTi- eia associatlrm days. In a rime play-, m " V ""0 r-smds la AIKv gnny. caiv.n we p'chiiig for Pitt; ii-.g against Casey of the Athletics. l!y wan the umpire, in the ninth Irtjlng. with the cre 5 to 0 In favor , it thw AtM-tirs, th- nrtt fun np f-ir mory due to "increased local dpos rr'tsburg n.ade a h'.rre ran hit to en- it of pigment granules In the eplder tr, and the vUitlng tam at once set; mis.- The accepted speciile for their p claim mat it was too aoam to play, removal l hyposulphite of soda, But The cuter Beld-r csme all the way the question whether their artificial ia and pretended that he could Mi removal has an effect on the cfcarse the ball In the gathering darks iter tending to lessen the spirit of In--Hwe" said Kelly; "give me a glove," dppndnce la the Individual need not sianed ror center field. 111 see how dark It Is out nv r.u,.,. -'j o u vln, bat me out a few," Mayers and spectators gospel, but Kelly mad; good Lis biuff. He went out tao deep eenur snd, with the smoke of the mills ljing low about him, actually . caught tr or fifteen long line drlm aad blrb fl'ea from the bat of tba two pitcher waf out missing one. Then the umpire came In and, tak- tog off bis glore, said: "Play ball, if Ji can Bee 'em out there.vyou fellows can." The game was resumed, and the Plttsburga won in a great batting rally by 6 to 5. New York World. WOMAN'S POSITION IN CHINA. In China, as in other eastern coun tries, It Is . imperatively necessary t women are to be reached to reach them by women. Thougn not absolute ly secluded as in Indian tenanas, a Chinese woman is practically unap approachable ito men who are not near relatives; she does not, it is true, turn her back and evert her face when a stranger appears, as a Korean woman does; neither doea she veil her fac as a Mohammedan wo man would do; but, nevertheless, she is kept apart from Intercourse with men, and to l'-sten freely to male teachers, though far more possible In these latter days of emancipation than It ever was before. Is still a difficulty and an impropriety. A, Chinaman's best friend never th'nks of asking aft-er his wife If he entertains the guests; the higher" class women are seldom seen driving out, much less walking about the street A missionary bf many years experl ence told me of a breach of etiquette ha once made In bowing to a lady whose husband he knsw Intimately; she hurried by, blushing deeply, and returning bo sign of recognition to so unmannerly a salutation; he nevr attempted such a thing again, hence- for:h ignoring any Chinese lady he might happen to meet. v Medical work among them can best be -undertaken by women. In point of fact, th? Chinese women flock by thousands to the women's hospitals, carrkd oq by 'ady doctors and nurses. One lady doe'or told :ne she had deal: with as many as 5.0110 out patent cases la a rr.ontht: another lady doctor as well as a staff cf Ch'nee nurses under her. entirely trained by herself. As their shyness of foreign men and rlVru?t of the motives, cf msionar'es we?r o5 the wcir.en do l;;Kd frae'j attend hoppl m$ taffed by rea'e doctors, but un doubtedly th s part'cular fleM of wo man's work wMl a'ways continue ro need many laborers. , Much. too. has been done in the way of training and teach'ng young1 Chi tiess women, both as doctors and nurses: they are tachab'e creatures, very doe'le and ager ta learn; deft fingered and nr-at; but no ori'ential can entirely , believe In the absolute necessity for rig'd cleanliness and for antiseptic precautions. A surg'on told me that one of i's most onerous duties was to Insist on his students obej-'ng the ordinary regulations of an operating room, or to make them nndersrand that they must wah their hands aga'n f thy stroked their heads '.r touch-d their queues, or, sga'n. that they must not pen a note in the ni'd d!e of an operation;' conwnent'y, the lady In charge of a hospital has ardu ous work in perpe'ual supervision of Magazine, IN PRAISE OF FRECKLES. The persons who reused to adopt "X. because he was freckled, and thereby endowed Jasper with ephe- If tbey had Wn ihey -xou'd have 'preferred Jasper, and not have re- Jected him on the recommendation of his freckles. Though the matter has never, we believe, been sclent!' Orally investigated and reported u on with the authority of the faculty. there Is excellent reason to believe that freckles on the face of a white boy or girl are a very fair sign of am Freckles are very frequently an ae- companfment of red Lair, and red nair baa been Immemorially regarded as a mark of spirit and Independence. of a more violent nature than others. f a person possesses high spirit, and stoutly resists Imposition, those whom he resists are quite likely to call his spirit "bid temper." doubt The doctors have not yet at tempted to tell us. But from Cicero down, red-haired and greckled people nave oeen surdity independent. Col. (Roosevelt Is not exactly red haired. ,but he Is said to have been covered with freckles when he waa a boy The freckled airl'ls slwavs a tnnil . trusted. When It comos to p.ig naclty. It ned only be mentlonpd tint Mr. Robert Fltsimmons Is one of the moit freckled ma that ever lived. The aasoclRtlfO of character with trtY seems to suggst that they ar more than skin dp; sod yt science tells us that froekla r. to be discussed became neither hvnn. sulphite of soda nor anything else really removed freckIes,New York Mall. ' A VICTIM OP WORRY There is always a cloud on bis face because he la constantly expect, leg Uist something unfavorable Is to hg to fiappeo. There Is going to b a slump In business, or he Is going to have a loss, or somebody trying to undermine him, or he la worried about his health, ortfim his chtldren will be sick or go wrong or be killed. In other words, although he has achieved quite a remarkable Success, yet he has never, really had happy day in hia life. All his life this mau has been chasing rainbows, thinking if he could only get a little farther on a little higher up, he would ht happy, but he is Just as far from it, asy'yhen a boy. " r,-,";;,.t.,,4i,v 'I believe this condition has all come from the habit of unhnpplness whln be formed during his hard boyhool and which he has never been able to overcome. He has learned to look for trouble, to expect it, and he gets It-' - - r.V " ' I have been his guest many a tlim. He has a beautiful nome, a very charming wife, a moat delightful family, but there la always the saint cloud on his face the same expres sion of anxiety, ot unhappiness, of foreboding, X little property directed training in hisboyhood would have changed his whole career and be would have been a happy, joyousXharmonloua man In stead of being discordant and unhap py. There is everything In starting right What is put into the first of life is put Into the whole of life. Success Magazine. - ROQUEFORT CHEESE. A shepherd boy with a poor appe tite discovered the soeret of mak ng Roquefort cheese. ' True as gospel. They 'swear by that story today In Roquefort, France, and If they only knew the lad's name they'd rase n monument to him. He was out teend ng sheep, and the sun smlt'ng d$wn hard he went into a cavern to eat h'a cheese and rye bread. He fal'.ed to get away with all of it and "hrew a hunk of tha cheese off to one s'd It happened to uiop on a natural she'f. and a few months lator tV btw found the cheese still there. Ha saw that It j had undergone a constitut'onarchange. for Instead of being dry and hard It mas mo'st and creamy. Besl les. there were veins of green'sh moid running through It.. The boy took a nip, and the taste was so pleasing he carried a crumb home to bis mother. She mut have been a woman of Intelligence t?r no sooner had she tasted than shei took one, of the largest rolls of cheene from her dairy, had her son guide h r to the cavern and paced It one the xfcalr T .-. .v. was wrought, and Roquefort cheese had arrived as an art'cle of com-, merce. AH the natural caverns arounl ' the quaint old town now are used for i Tli FourtHi Estate i How the power of the press may be wielded in behalf of the people A Romance of Newspaperdom NOVELIZED BY FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Much Talked About Newspaper PJay by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford Realistic, Thrilling, True to the Life of Today ripening cheese, and the women work is found by the light ox the sun fall n them w th small oil lamps strapped lng on the moon, and the horns are around their chests.-New York Press, naturally in a line pej-pendlcular to .: . :.. the direction of the sun from the '".4.A. SMALLlWORD. .' , moon. That la all tberejs to thlaolJ, " To define one word in the English superatltlon.-Boston Herald. j language one modern dictionary takes r j eighteen columns of small type. And. , Robins Play at Being Dead . this solitady word upon which the One morning a well known natural., dictionary bestows such a waelth of 1st was greatly surprised to see a rob elucldation Is one that hardly anybody In lying on his hack evidently dead, except a dictionary maker can define being rapidly pulled around and at all. The ordinary educated, Ens- around by another bird of the same Hsh speaking person's knowledge of Bpecles. The naturalist at once came It could be expressed in about half a to the conclusion that ho had come single line. ' In time to witness the end of a dea l-, This fecund "word Is "of." If you y encounter and that the live robin were asked to define it unless you was Indulging In the cruel triumph are a dictionary maker or of an al-of dragging his victim's lifeless body lied trade probably you would have over the stones. But he was mlstak to reply: "Of? Why. of. Just meana en, for suddenly the live bird weut; of." You might add defensive-'.' '! down upon hlB back, his wlnga and ' always comprehend perfectly what it legs were stiffened, and ho gave every j means when I see or hear it and can appearance of being dead, while the use It correctly in speech, so what do other robin who had been shamming i I want to define it for anyway?" death hopped On his legs and proceed- But lr you were a cnnt your ncTii"i ca to serve nis companion in me snme mastery of "of would stand you In Ry as he had done him. Finally the no stead whatever. You would ne two birds flew away together to a set to digging out and raemoriing the neighboring tree. Exchange. things the dictionary had to say about ' , it. or the driest and least informing - Value of Laughing, of then,' as. for Instance, that In some An eminent surgeon says: "En cases It Is such a kind of prmosttion courage your child to be merry and .o and In other cases some other kind laugh aloud. A good, hearty lauga and that prepositions have such and expands the chest and makes the such properties when they dont hv biond bound merrily nlong. Commend some other, every bit of which you me to a good laugh not to a little would nbsolutely and mercifully fo inlggerlng laugh, but to one that will get at tlie frst possible moment Ionk over a child's grammar or "language" lessen, with Its ghastly array of nse- less bones Saturday Evenlnf Post, be an Important meana of driving the blues away from a dwelling. Mem WET AND DRY MOONS. mcnt is very catching and spreads in There is an old superstition wh'cii remarkable manner, few being ab!? dies hard and that la that the posi- to resist the contagion. A heart v tion of the horns of the new mwrn igh is delightful harmony.; Indeed, tclis what the weather will be. If tle it the best of all rnusia Ev horns of the crescent are on the sam:rnango. level, it wi'l hold water, and it! . ,, Is a dry moon, but If it Is tipped uo, j) . cot of Livino. then the water will run out, and it sj rr!e at largo are ascribing the a wet trroon. fnt high cost of necessaries in One thing has helped keep this be- ?Ms country to one or ail of sever lief alive. The moon Is "dry" In the'geparate causes the world's Increa part of the spring that is usually fair. ,DK gold production: exhoustlon ot while k 13 "wet" during the season or'parti4i exhaustion ot notural re- autumn rains. If this were a sure sign of the weather we could have our predic tions published many years in ad vance, for an astronomer can predict the exact position of the moon at any time In the future. The cause for the different positions of the crescent Is simple. The moon Is south of the sun In the autumn and north cf It in spring. T be crescent M V gound right through the house. It will not only do your child good, but will be a benefit to all who hear anl sources; the exactions of the trusts protective tariffs; forestalling opera- lions by spectators; habitual extra vagance by the community as a yboie. and. finally, the demands of labor Our own Impression l that except possibly for the last-named influence, all of the above-named causes have operated, though In widely varying de gree. New York Evenicg Post, 4 ' The story of an edit or's sacrifice of love on the altar of principle Warn TkpeattngShoim The U gauge BT. repeater is a gun of oerfi- proportions, and has one-third tn parts than any other repeater. handles quickly, works smoothly and iboots close and bard. 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