Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1895 — Page 9

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Shirt Waists, AN EVERYDAY AFFAIR. The Talented Young Attorney, after a late breakfast and a hasty perusal of the morning papers, walked briskly lown, town 7 ih"a good humor with himsetf '"and the -world. His father, a retired lumber dealer of considerable means, ambitious that his only son should distinguish himself in a professional career, after paying liberally for his legal enlightment, had fitted up elegant apartments In the most desirable business portion of the city, 'where the young man was to commence the practice of law. Arriving at the en;ranca of the building in which his office was located the gentleman halted a moment at the foot of the stairs. Perhaps he was regarding with pardonable pride a large, freshly painted sign on which his own name and vocation were artistically set forth in letters of gold against a background of black, or perhaps he was wonderirg it' some wealthy prospective client might liot have arrived before "that rascally office boy" had put in his appearance. " At any rate, he, after a moment's pause, hyUed the elevator and hastily passed to his own apartments. The boy had dusted and arranged the rooms for the day's work, and the stenographer, who had formerly been employed in the office of a large wholesale drug house, was seated before her machine, with its cover removed. Net a client had arrived. The young man laid aside his tall silk hat and suppressed a sigh. "Just amuse yourself," he said pleasantly, turning to. the young lady with an elegant bow, as he removed his gloves. "Business Jla not specially pressing thi? morning, and I shall be engaged for a tl.Te In thinking over soma legal matters that require my attention." The pretty stenographer looked knowingly at her handsom 'employer and smiled Slightly, and then, as if she had thought better of it, sharply compressed her roguish lips and drew forth an intricate piece of drawn work, whose airy meshes and mysterious figures were a continual source of astonishment to the legal gentleman in his leisure moments, whilst the latter comfortably ensconced himself, with a fragrant Havana, in the depths of a revolving office chair and regarded the ceiling with evident Interest. Soon becoming oblivious to his surroundings', as the delicious smoke rose and filled his patrician nostrils, the patent leather shoes of the dignified attorney glided into their accustomed resting place the polished surface of an elegant new mahogany desk. Visions of himself as a youthful prosecuting attorney engaged in such an address before the eminent, old, gray-headed lawyers of his .acquaintance, . as should command their respect and admiration and arouse their enthusiasm, even while it filled their jealous old hearts with envy and astonishment, floated over him. lie picture himself standing proudly before them, in a the dignity of his abnormal intellect and superb magnetic eloquence, smiling contemptuously down on old Colonel Jones (whose clients besieged him all day long, in a little dingy office just across the hall), who had dared to call him a "puppyish young upstart" and Here a characteristic knock interrupted and the T. Y. A. hastily pulled down his feet, and in less time than it takes to tell it, threw aside his cigar, assumed a bland, professional expression an artistic blending of polite interest and dignified condescension, and regarded the clever stenographer (whose feminine absorption had given place to an attitude of alert expectance) with a benign air of business abstraction, calculated to impress the most cynical person, whn rr.lsht be in quest of legal advice. The. T. Y. A. had dared to dream of a time when the portly form of some opulent dignitary, of nose glass and cane order, suffering under the persecutions of a malicious 'adversary, should block up the doorway of that cozy' office, demanding his services, with the result of a fabulous fee from the aforesaid client and such fame to the young atorney as would insure a steady and lucrative practice through life, with an occasional vacation and a trip to Martinsville (the expenses to be defrayed from his own purse) where he would be pointed out to strangers as. that famous voung lawyer, from Indianapolis, noted for his phenomenal wit, etc.. etc. "Here was th magnate come at last." he thought. The knob turned slowly, but there seemed to be some hesitation about the opening of the door, owing to the party in. iuestin parleying In indistinct, but hostile tones, with an unknown party outside. "That sneaking old Jones Is trying to inveigle him into his office,'" fumed the young lawyer in bis Iranatience. At that moment the knob turned again.

that have no competition Etc. THE "BROWNIE." the door opened quickly, an- the office boy entered. He came in rather suddenly, quite out of breath, and shut the door securely behind him, smiling and triumphantly rattling the marbles which he uad just won from the unhappy .ftlayatar, hoy. who, wild from heavy losses, aa. hearing . his. neglected bell for the third time, had, doubtless, unsuccessfully resorted io force. The disappointed young man glared savagely at the youthful intruder, who. entering so ceremoniously, had dared to deal the death blow to his fondest aspirations and without even a cane. Noting the expression on the face of his usually amiable employer, the boy backed hastily to the door, murmuring apologetically, "I forgot 'at you told me not to knock," but the infuriated victim, as the full measure of hi$ bitter disappointment was borne in upon him, could bear it in silence no longer, and, seizing a handsome new volume of "Parliamentary Rules, shied it viciously at the disappearing head of the offending youngster, whilst the discreet young stenographer calmly buried herself in a cheap edition of "Chimmie Fadden." "Confound that impertient office boy," the gentleman remarked, hotly, adding an apology in the direction of the bowed golden head; "that young rascal is always interrupting me. If I had a client in here (his face softened again and grew dreamy) it would have been just the same." And, resuming his former easy attitude, he lighted a resh cigar and sat with head thrown back and eyes half closed, watching lazily the fantastic wreaths of smoke as they rose ceilingward and broke in dim, feathery processions of portly clients besieging him, with tearful eyes, ror teal advice. - KATE A. NAVE. BITLCR TOO ORIGINAL. AVhy Ben Was Relieved of HI Command 1- General Grant. Boston Advertiser. Colonel Wood worth told some good stories about General Butler. He said that Butler himself told as late as 1S84 that he never knew the real reason why he was deprived of his military command by General Grant. It was only a few years asa that Woodworth got the facts from Grant's brother-in-law, .Major Dent, who was the staff officer sent with the order for Butler's relief. He said that while no reason was openly given at the time. Butler was actually displaced .because he was not a graduate of West Point. This would not appear on the face of it to be sufficient cause, but Grant explained it to Dent one day in the course of a confidential inter-Y.-W. "If." said he, "I -were to send Butler a specific order to do something with his army he might obey and he might not. He was too able and too original not to reason himself into the belief that I might have given different instructions If I knew all that he knew of the local situation. He, therefore, Almost always had a plan of his own that he thought was better than mine or anybody else'; so that I could never tell just what he Would do or where he would be at a given time. Of course that was fatal to any systematic campaign and I had to replace him with" a West Pointer whose first lesson in war is the necessity of prompt obedience to the commanding general. Butler was too brilliant to be reliable." '--' The Bachelor' Lot. Washington Post. - . There is a good deal of mauoun sympathy wasted nowadays over the loneliness of the bachelor's life. He Is pictured in a chronic state of isolation, and as lonely as a solitary penguin on an Iceberg. There is supposed to be no sweetness or light in his life. The favorite method of picturing bachelor desolation Is to describe him sick ard far from home. Harrowing details are given of the lack of woman's tender ministrations, and he - is supposed to be handed over to those tormentors, the lodging-house keeper and the hired girl. One has only to look around among his bachelor friends to see that life- is running pretty smoothly with most of them. They are not bothered ith capricious, faultfinding wives, nagging mothers-in-iaw, and squalling babies. They can always find peace from the heat and burden of the day In -their club or apartments. - If they are ill. they can go to a first-class hospital, have a trained nurse, comfortable quarters, a good physician, and much better attendance than they could possibly have if sick at home as married men. If agreeable and well bred, they find a welcome everywhere. They are often the recipients of the confidences of some of their much married friends, and sometimes, by their advice, keep the domestic peace. It goes without Haying 'that most bachelors have been over "the bridge of sighs." and some of them broken on the wheel of a coquette's caprice. They have lived through it, however,, and can now take a calm and philosophic view of life, thankful that they escaped as well as they did. They have no sons to start in life, daughters to marry off, end wife's relations to propitiate. . They generally find an ample field for interest and-affection, in nephews and nieces, cousin' and friends' children, to keep them in touch with human affairs. r

INDIAN SIGNAL CODE

HOW HE MAKES STICKS AND STONES BEARERS OF HIS MESSAGES. - Device by Which. Indiana Command cate Tree and TttIk That Sometimes Give Information. Fort Sill Letter In New York Sun. If Indians were deaf and dumb they could communicate readily by their sign language and make themselves easilyunderstood by signs. The writer had occasion once to hire an Indian guide from the Los Pinos agency in southwestern Colorado to take him to the Salt mountains in northern Arizona. .The trip was over-one hundred miles through a wilderness. . Although the Indian had never been over the trail' before, he set out with perfect confidence In his ability to lead the way. He had received some general information regarding the mountains and streams, and depended entirely upon the signs left by other Indians for the trail. lie made no mistake, but reached his destination without for a moment wavering as to the true direction. His feat was the more remarkable from the fact that the trail was crossed by many others, and several times forked so as to mislead any one who had no means of knowing the proper direction. While hunting on the Republican river the writer once came upon a cluster of buffalo skulls peculiarly arranged. Sixteen skulls were set in a semi-circle, with their noses pointing down the river. In the. center of the circle was a single skull upon which ' were painted thirty-six red lines. Near the skulls were two small sticks upright in the ground, at the upper end of each of which were tied two small bunches of hair. A Pawnee Indian explained that thirty-six Pawnees had camped there. They had made a raid against a Comanche village of sixteen lodges and ' had taken four scalps. They were now returning home down the river. The ordinary observer of this arrangement would have supposed that some one had been amusing himself by placing the skulls in that manner. Indians use signs of this kind for several purposes. The most common is guidance, but they are also used to indicate departure, intention, condition, warning and claim or demand. Once In a hunt with a party of Utes in southern Colorado a rendezvous for meeting was made before separating. On reaching the appointed place it was found that one of the party was not there, but the Indians gave the matter no conr cern and started back without waiting for their companion. They said he had gone on ahead, and showed a long stick with a bunch of grass on the end. The stick had been stuck in the ground leaning, toward the camp. A similar pole had been placed In position on top of every elevation between the rendezvous and the hill from which the camp could be seen. This came sign is used by the Indians of southern Alaska and also by the Winnebagoes in Manitoba. The Sioux use an erect pole with a stick in a split at the top pointing in the direction taken. Similar poles without the bunch of grass are used by the Crows as well as the Cheyennes. The Bannocks use a forked stick upright in the ground, with the longer prong pointing in the direction taken. """ Mandans usually cross two sticks lying on the ground, with the longer stick pointing in the direction taken. It sometimes occurs that where a party of Sioux are in temporary camp for hunting some members of the party may be away when the others are attracted by the sight of game and wish to follow it. A pole is erected, leaning in the direction, taken, and at its foot is placed a flat bone, such as a shoulder blade of a deer, on which is roughly painted a sketch of whatever attracted them from the camp. This is rudely drawn with charcoal or red lead. Among the Crows and Cheyennes this flat bone is hung on the fork of a tremor a broken branch. In the case of the Cheyennes the picture of the animal is not drawn, but there is simply a notification that the party has gone after game. HOW THE CROWS DO IT. It is sometimes the case that a band of Crows appoint a rendezvous from which all are to return to the village. One of the band returns before the others and wishes to take a short trip after game. He plants a pole -three or four feet in length in the ground, and in the upper end makes a notch or split, in which he places a piece of bark or twig a foot or so in length. This is inserted near, the end and points in the direction he has taken. Should he know that he would make a turn in the trail he bends the bark. at an angle indicating the direction of the turn in his route. Sioux on the war path expecting reinforcements to follow place at the camp a stick set in the -ground leaning in the direction taken, and for each night spent at the place -a notch is cut in the stick. A Shoshone who wishes to inform his companions of his movements will place a leaning stick in the ground pointing in the direction taken. If his trip is short he crosses the pointer with a short stick stuck upright in the ground, meaning "not far" if it is close to the ground end and "gone far" if at the other end. Should he intend to go for several days he will cross the pointing stick with a short stick for each day. Sometimes, instead of sticks, stones or buffalo skulls are used to indicate the direction of the. party. It is not uncommon to see a pile of stones with a long, thin stone on top pointing. Instead of being the result of idle labor the pile means that some Indian has given information to other Indians. In the canyon De Chelly, In New Mexico, there is a certain short cut across the mountains. The opening of this side canyon is wide, and the trwil would indicate that it is easy of access, but it soon contracts and becomes almost impassable. At the mouth of this place some Indian in the past has taken upon himself the duty of enlightening those who might come after him. and he has left on the rocks of the canyon an unmistakable indication of the condition of the pass. A goat is there to show that a goat can climb through, but near by are a . horse and his rider falling over backward, indicating that if the horse attempts to follow the goat he will fall on his rider. To the right are a man and a bear track, indicating that a man or a bear can also climb over the rough places. There are other pictures on the rock, but they have evidently been placed there for some different purpose, as they have no meaning that can be allied to those of the warning to horsemen. In many parts of the -country the question of water supply for travelers needs serious consideration. Frequently men will pass within ; a few hundred yards of water without knowing it. even though signs may have been f placed in plain view by the Indians. It is true there is no nnger Doara pointing In the proper direction and marked "water," but not a trail that runs near a spring or .stream is without dintlnct signs. Among the Sfcoshones the water supply is sometimes so scanty that it Is necessary to go some distance from the trail to find It. At the point oa the

main trail where the water trail leads off there is always to be seen a large heap of stones, on top of which is a flat stone used as a pointer, and along the trail are smaller heaps of stone leading to the spring. These stone heaps are to be seen on all mountain trail3 in the Shoshone country. The writer knows of several Instances where travelers suffered for want of water simply because they were unable to read the Indian signs. While hunting near the Ottawa Indians the writer once saw a piece of bark hanging from a tree near the trail. On the bark was a rudely drawn figure of a man with a black line across his abdomen. Supposing that it was the work of an Indian and positive that there was a meaning attached to it, the writer took it down and carried it to an Ottawa village that evening. The chief immediately Insisted that the bark should be taken back and hung where it was found, and straightway sent some of his men to see that it was done and to carry provisions. After reaching the spot the men followed another trail until they came to a lodge where an Ottawa family was found in distress and almost starving. The bark sign told all Ottawas that a family needed help. This same sign is used by the Pottawatomies. CROW AND SIOUX METHODS. The Crows and Sioux strip the bark from trees near the trail to indicate a starving condition, and they hang a piece of smoked bark to a tree to tell passers that the Inhabitants of the nearest tepee are ill and need assistance. The hunters of these tribes sometimes leave marks to tell those who pass along their trail the luck they have had. A stick stuck in the ground with the bark cut from one side says that the hunter has had pook luck, cut from two sides poorer luck, ,from three sides poorest luck and from four sides the hunter found no game and is starving. Should the hunter exhaust his ammunition and need more he goes to the nearest open trail and erects two sticks leaning toward each other, and places a cross piece something after the shape of a rude "A," which indicates to all the members of the tribe who may pass that way that he has found plenty of game and used all his ammunition and Is willing to trade the proceeds of the hunt for more. Should he discover a bear and be fearful of attacking the animal single-handed he goes to a place where he expects other Indians to pass and erects a pole, on top of which he places a rude imitation of a bear made from grass or fibrous roots, with the head pointing in the direction that) the bear was last seen. The fibrous matter forms the legs of the bear, and the size is indicated by the size of the dummy. Probably the most unique use of signs among Indians is the way one Indian duns another for a debt. In such matters an Indian has delicacy that puts to shame the way some civilized people have of hounding a poor debtor. When an Indian thinks the debt has been owed long enough he does not harass his debtor with importunities, but quietly slips to his debtor's tepee by night and leaves at the door a bundle of sticks. The sticks have rings painted around one end, and are in number equal to the number of articles owed. Sometimes the debtor ignores this gentle hint, and then the creditor waits with patience until some more propitious time, when he again tries the sticks. When the dun is ignored it is taken for granted that the debtor is not in condition to pay up or he would do so. The very nature of an Indian's surroundings compels him to be constantly on the lookout for information regarding the country through which he is traveling, and to this end he studies every rock, bu ,h and tree for signs that may enlighten him. If other Indians have gone that way it is always possible that he may find something which they have left that will give him information that may be of value to him. Should he discover something that would interest or instruct his friends he is sure to leave a bent twig, displaced stone or tangled bunch of grass to be his silent messenger to those who come after him. Army officers have often received information from their Indian scouts which has seemed marvelous, but had they known that this information had been entirely received by their scouts from other Indians who had passed alons ahead of , them . it would not have seemed so strange. During General Crook's campaign against the Chiracahua Apaches the writer was with a lieutenant and an Indian scout crossing a ridge on a short trail away from the main body of troops. The Fcout bent forward in his Eaddle and examined a little hillock. On it seemed nothing except a few bits of twigs, some tangled grass and a heap of stone. He said that nine Apaches had gone across the trail and were leading three ponies which they ' had stolen. They had raided a Mexican sheep herder's camp and had killed two Mexicans. They stole the ponies from another place and were hurrying to get out of the country before the soldiers came. All this information was conveyed by the arrangement of sticks, grass and stone3 which had been placed, in positions by the fleeing Indians for the information of their companions who might come over the trail. The scout was thoroughly versed in their signs and told at a glance where the Indians had got their plunder and where they were going with it. The information thus gained led to the capture of these marauders and the recovery of the stolen stock. When Worth Waa Generous. Westminster Gazette. The great Worth couli be generous as well as great. In the empire days, a cee-. brated Parisian fashion leader, allowed a larg income by her husband in that capacity, found the year's allowance run out, and a fancy ball coming on to close the season. 'Much or most of that income flowed vear after year Into Worth's till. So the iadv, not permitted to run In debt, drove to the Hue de la Paix. and made a proposal to the great man. llt;ht she hire a dress for the ball? This revolutionary proposal nearly produced apoplexy. The Rue de la Paix had never sunk so low as that. Worth refused. The lady presseu. Worth hesitated. The lady besought. Worth gave way, (being generous as well as great. The lady thanked him. But he made his bargain. Hhe was to wear, the dress exactly as he should design it. Then h put all his mind Into the transaction. Sh1 was a handsome woman, who carried dress well. There was a great deal of patriotism rife and active in those, days. Worth decided the lady should go as the flag of Paris. It was then a new idea. So her dress, with its folds and its swirls, reproduced the tricolor. festooiieVwith silken ropes, and all kinds of nautical gear, that lent themselves to millinery were pressed into the service. Her earrings were the tricolor flag in enamel. Her shoes were the tricolor flaar in satin. Her stockings were the tricolor flag in siik. And the great Worth sent for another great man subsidiary to Him in rai'k. a mare aid-decamp, but still to be mentioned with becoming respect the famous hairdretwer of the day. And they, together. In solemn eonferejiee. decided that the lady's hairit was dark and curly should represe.it. by the aid of tongs and other method. ' tumbling, tossing c&. In the midst of which should ride, as her only head ornament, the arms of Purls, the famous threemasted gallev. The dress wa delivered on a Wednesday, worn on a Thursday, sent for on a Friday. "And." said the lady, "all ho charged was l,500f." - A Trilby Story. Washington Post. ., "Trllbv" stories are a little of a drug on the market, but here is a brand new one, which is perfectly true. A young woman over In Baltimore is engazed to marry a young man who lives on Capitol Hill. Shs ha literary tastes, and a fortnight ago she sent him a copy of "Trilby" an a birthday present, but inasmuch as there are p.sss.iges in "Trilby" which she feired .might weaken

j her- fiance's religious convictions, she cut . cut a lejf here, and a 'paragraph there, till ' the book was expurgated to her taste. And J that edition of "Trilby" was the youas i man's birthday present.

TEKEIBLE IS THE OWL

IT IS A POWERFVIj BIRD, SHREWD, AND MAN V ARB ITS VICTIMS. A Silent Company of Rat Catchers A Sknnk and an Owl Pate of a. Yellovr Cut Maikrnts, Owl nnd Mink. Scranton Correspondence in New Tork Sun. Farmer Ralph Belyea, Jr., of Beechwood, missed a lot of eggs from his cellar last month. He laid the loss to rats, and one evening ho placed a rair of ferrets in the cellar. The next morning the snow between the house and road was full of rat tracks, and the farmer found that the ferrets hadn't nabbed a single, rat. The agile egg thieves had become terrified over the presence of their relentless little enemies and had skedaddled to the barn. Mr. Belyea carried the ferrets to the barn in the evening, and the next morning he discovered that the rats had fled to the hog house. He removed the ferrets to the hog house, where they killed two rats that night, the rest of the demoralized army having scurried to a stack of hay a few rods out in the meadow. After supper that evening the farmer carried the ferrets to the haystack, and within a minute or so he saw scores of rats scoot from under the stack and go to scampering around on the crust In the bright moonlight. They steered straight away from the farm buildings, and their actions showed plainly that they were afraid to return to them for fear of encountering the dreadful ferrets again. The intense cold soon made them furious, and they squealed and fought and tumbled over one another in a vain endeavor to find hiding placea in the snow-covered field. The ferrets stayed under the stack, and every few seconds a rat would come kiting out as if the hay was on fire. Presently they all huddled together and began to jostle and Jump and claw and climb as though each was bound to force its way to the center of the bunch to get warm.' The struggling heap was larger than a half-bushel basket, and the colder the fighting animals got the angrier and noisier they became. The weakest ones stood no show whatever and were obliged to remain on the outside of the pile. While Mr. Belyea was studying the lively antics of the harassed egg steal ers a huge owl dropped irom tne SKy without the slightest noise, alighted on top of the squabbling group, flapped its wings twice and tnen arose wun a squaling rat in each claw and sailed away. Tne suent arnvat ana uepuriuio of the fierce night bird didn't seem to attract the attention of the smvenng little beasts, and they continued to huddle together and claw one another as if th&r lives were at stake. Hardly had the owl vanished in the moonshine than another one with mammoth wings settled down on the moving mass and bore away two more rats. The heap kept on trying to get warm. More owls came flitting to the spot Bhortly, and Mr. Belyea said it was clear to him then that the shrill voices of the rats had reached the ears of all the big-eyed birds in the near-by woods. When the owls had carried off more than a score of the rats the remainder suddenly took fright at the appearance of an uncommonly large owl that swooped upon the 0 Un V.nn nt4 conn V0 aA at rY"1 f A Some of them ran under the haystack, 1 . n . n m.HaiI ftam In a 4 1 ff X? Wilt I t! Liie xi:iitrt iiativA incut while others skipped up the sides of the stack and crowded into the hay. The ferrets must have busted them in the night and driven them out where the owls had a chance to gobble them, for when Mr. Belyea removed the hay to the barn in the morning there wasn't a live rat to be seen anywhere on the premises, while four dead ones were found with the ferrets at the bottom of th6 stftCrc AN UNPLEASANT ANIMAL. A team belonging to farmer Amos M. Partridge, of Maple Vale, stopped suddenly in the road one evening last month, snorted and tried to turn around. The snow was so deep that they upset the sleigh, but they couldn't wheel about. The moon" was shining, and after Mr. Partridge had quieted the horses he saw that the causa of their fright was a skunk in the track a few yards ahead. It was pointed toward the team and it stood and blinked at the horses as though it had the right of way and didn't propose. to budge. Owing to the depth of the snow it was impossible for the farmer to .turn out or to back up, so he decided to let the independent animal take its own time to get out of the track. He waited ten or twelve minutes, but the skunk still stuck up for its rights. He at length became tired of humoring the stubborn animal, and, as the wind was in his favor, he got out his revolver, went In front of the horses and madei ready to shoot it. Just then a large horned owl alighted on a fence stake not far from the skunk and Mr. Partridge changed his mind. On spying the owl the skunk crouched close to the side of the track and tried to hide. The owl saw what the skunk was up to and at once flew, to a stako across the road, whero it had a better view. The skunk evidently understood why the owl had shifted Its perteh. for it immediately crept to the off frcack and again attempted to secrete itself from the sharp eyes of the big bird. In a moment the owl sailed away, clrrieri h round over a field for a spell and then flew back to the first stake. The skunk peeped over the top of the snow bank after the owl had disappeared, but failed to keep an eye on the Whereabouts of the silent night bird. It was fairly puzzled as ,to where the owl had gone to, and that was Just the effect1 .the cunning bird had set out to produce whbn it took the turns around the meadow. No sooner had the owl atic-htcfl the last time than the skunk cowered again, as if in mortal terror. Once' more the owl flitted across the road, seeming to take greati pleasure in tormenting the skunk, flying back again before the skunk had time to stir. The skunk continued to squat in the snow, and pretty soon the owl arose a hundred feet or so and went to hovering directly over the trembling animal. That was apparently the sort of tactics the f-kunk didn't like at all. for it was unable to watch the broad-winged bird's movements up there, and It immediately started to steal toward the team. On seeing that It was bent on finding refuge under the rig th? owl instantlv pounced upon the skunk and seized it by the hump. The skunk wriggled and squealed and made frantic efforts to flsht the crafty bird, but it was of no use. The owl had all the advantage, and It flapped Its wings and worked its claws vigorously until it had got a double hold in the skuuk'a hide, when It arose slowly and went flitting away to the forest with its wellearned prey. A mewing yellow tomcat on top of u rail fence awoke Howard Chase's entire household In the Dutch mountains one moonsblny night this winter. The cat was a visitor, and Mr. Chase waa about to fire at him from window when two gigantic horned owkWoppcd upon the noisy fellow slmultaVjusly. One got him by the neck and thO-her by the rump, nailing him ro suA iy that he changed his plaintive mi it c lovo sons to a piteous ws.il of paia.