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THEY WORK A BLUFF

A penniless man, who struts about in fine clothes, making people think he {s a man of money and position, is practicing the art of bluff. Bluff, to be explicit, is the art of making much out of little, of causing people to think your brains or your position - much greater thar they really are.

One would have thought that an art like this belonged to human beings, because it requires some intelligence .to bluft succesafully. Yet many membare

TSR RS Yok AR a Rs e Miﬂ_‘g&!ﬂ% tul here, w6O, e were Jdis appoiated,] dod gravitated back to f;;z:m,”n e hatl firet jost the spoor. We kew that the Hom bad pot goue @;23}:l on. nor. had he tursed back, & must Bave gOR® aloog the tip of he ridge and then rdssed into other wlony ‘hills where is waa Bopeless 1o fry to treck Bis. - Abdullal, who Is never defeated, 54 there was & hig river bed further g;m the direction in whieh the lion @an going. I seciged a very slender gmnmn Az Bo mishl heve turned off ivwhors fu between, bol it was the :pg::-%y_,c:mr-, 2 off we wenl We wers eridentiy I hick thal day, for we had iy gone about s gustier of 3 mile when we struck the spoor The lioo dooqued now 1o have made up his :gﬁ'gﬁ as ' his direstlon, for he ket an etralght down ih@mmgsn of the river bl The sun Bad come oul from bekind the clouds. and in places the wand was svery deep, 80 that wo were Bot surfy when at jast the track led tnto a littie feiand of busk in the great 0t sand Thers was 6o doubt the llon was &t home, for on castiig rothd no wign wgm;‘mﬁk#;ag%mg ol & track coming out. The Islend raised N Biftie aboye the river hed was formed of a mass of thickitangied bush and creepers elustored round a tow Big trevs The watef eoming down the rives after heavy rain had washe fthroughly inte the form of a triangle, the apex of which polnted up the river Prom this point the sides whlened out 1o the ofber end; wotlch Far- abont. thirty yards bropd, the whole jength being somewhal urder w hundred yards. ; Driving the Lion to Bay. i : _" The shape made (!_‘ 1 easy piace o Arive for a litle wae out from tos

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point one could easily command the whole of {t. The lon was almost cer. tain 1o break out of one of the sides towards the bush on the banks of the river-bisd, in which case 1 should get an easy broadside shot. I we fol lowed the track into the place, the nolse wd were sure to make wouid be very Jikely to get the beast on his lege, ahd he would speak out at oue nide us ‘we went in ‘at‘this other, es pecialiv as the water Had jeft a lot of dead sticks along the adges, over which it wonld be impassitle to walk guietiy o Abdullah Blso sald that from the way he had wandersad about this Hon mukt be very hungry, and would slees Irghtﬁ_xn These c(onstlerations dectded Mis 1o deive, . 1 vosted ipyxelf with Abdullab a few vards out from the point, and the other two men: hav{ng collectid some stones, began throwing/ thed in at the far end. Abdullah was right *about this Hon sleeping Hghtly: Vfor at the Brst stone there was a gfowl and a erash in the bushes and then, for a minute or two, not a sound. The men started to walk down, one, on each side, shooting and throwing in stones. I was watching them, and wondering what had happened to the lion, when there was a faint crackling just in front of us, and he appeared at the point of the island. Although we were standing within a few vards of him, and absolutely in the open, he did not gee us.

He was facing stralght towards us, and was so close that 1 did not like to fire at him as, on receiving the bullet, he would be very likely to plunge in the direction he was going and be into us; nor did I want him to come any closer; so; as he stepped down on to the sand, 1 moved my rifle up towards my shoulder to attract. his attention. He saw the movement .at once, stopped dead, and turned his head sharply towards us. For the fraction of a second 1 thought he was going to be startled into chargiag, but he plunged off to the left with an angry snarl at us over his shoulder. As he passed I pulled, and he skated along on his stomach and fell down a little ledge in the sand. This slewed him round, and he lay facing us, spread-eagled on the sand, evidently

of the insect world are just as smart and effective at bluff as men.

Take caterpillars. Now, a caterpillar is one of the most defenceless creatures in creation. As a general rule—for there are a few exceptions—it cannot bite, or Kkick, or strike, or sting. But its enemies are so numerous that it is compelled to resort to some trick of self-defense, and as it has no weapons, it practiceés biuff. ; The caterpillar of the lobster moth

quite unasble to mw .Aﬁft&é {te In him ssemed conchnlrated i his evem, which glared at us foriously. Another shot put ko out of bis misery. The Bral shot s very bGad coe had grased the spite jusl in front of the withers; another guarier of an ineh Bigher and it would have miseed alto towr. This lon was duite maneicss, ex eopt for & few Jong hairs oo each slde it the neck, and bis teeth were worn down qlite short, so Be was pyidently vory ald He was in yery good condi tion, notwithstanding, but s stomach wak nuite empty. which sccounted for hin going so far betore jylng up. We had to wtop at the main camp for the night when we got thete and dld not fotlow up our camelx till the next day. | have described this track rather st length because it ix a good exawmple of many simptiar days ‘ . Perils of the Man Eater. My first experiencs in tracking Hons was eariy tn 1892 and the night be fore was rather mn exciling one After huntling elephants unsoccessfully for about & mopnth, we Wers on our WAy south, when we srrived one day at same viliages where the natives had been sery much bothered by five lons whirh were zald to be still in the neighborbood A girl had been killed two days bilore, and a 8 enormous amount of damage had been done o the shee and cattle. The first Aay we camped thers twa of our party Chaed shooting zevbas made at the vik iage to which the lions generaily came. and just hﬂ!{?t'w‘nuz‘i#_v! they wout off thers, - . ‘ I tied up our two donkeys just ont side the eamp. on the chance that the Hons might come and ook us up. Just after dark we were having dinner in Cthe tent when there was & scuffie ont-

#lde, and It was evigepntl toat some: thing was attacking our donkeys, It was pitch dark, and we fircd several shots tn the direction of the sound hefore we discoversd that the attacking hbeasts wepd hyenas,. We did not mind having a donkey killed instan. taneonsly by a Moo but we had not bargained for the poor beasts getting mauled by hyvenas so taking a lamp we went out to see what had hap pened. My donkey had got off with A nasty bite in the hollow of the hind leg above the hock, and we had him taken into tue canip at once. The other was completely disembowelled and must have been killed instantly We could pnot find uny dead hyenag, but we were pretty sure that one or two must have been hit s Seelng that if the lons did come to the dead don Key there would pot ge much chance of hitting them on so dark a night, we pulied the carcass right ahder the skerm: or fence round the camnp, and, to prevent hyenas dragging it ayay, tied & rope to one of itz legs, and passing it over the fence, fastened it to a heavy water barrél inside the cgmp. We sat ‘up for a bit and got a few shots at hyenas, and then we weatl to bed, telling the sentry to keep a-sharp lookout and to let us know it lion# came to the carcass. Some time ‘after 1 awoke to find Alduilah bending over me, with my rifle {a his hand. He was frightfully exclted, and all I could get out of him wax “Libah, sahib, libah!" (“Lion, sir, lon!”) Jumping up i rushed out just

as my companion fired two shots into the darkness. The first thing [ saw when 1 got to where he stood was that a.great piece of the skerm round the camp had disappeared, leavingz a broad gap. I could not for a moment think what had happened, and then it struck me that when the carcase had been dragged away the water barrel must have got hitched against the inside - of the {nterlaced mimosa boughs and the whole lot had gone together. It was frightfully dark outside, and we stood peering out for some time without being able to distinguish anything; but after a few minutes we could hear something tearing at the flesh quite close by.

leads a life of incessant bluff. While

very tiny, it looks just like an ant. Later on in life, when it is too big to pretend to be an ant any longer, it takes to sitting on leaves with its hideous brown head and its bulging tail stuck upright over tts back and {ts front legs projected forward in such an attitude of menace that spiders and ichneumons dare not vernture near.:

“That must be a dragon;” they would say if they could speak. “If I go near it it will surely tear me to pieces.” Yet, if they had the sense to look a little

We bad a sbot or two al the sound. and ihe beasts, whatever ther were, went away As al ihatl Uoe we know pothing about llogs, we were Sot Guite mure that thes were fnol Kyenas sfter ail, but Abduliab sturk 1o it they wetre lions, so we gol our bods and lay down one on each side of the apenitig. fust behind the fence to walck boping (sal t!wépm‘!m wonld eome back. Nothing furll r happened, however At dasbroak we salibed out 1o sen i 1 by Aty chancs we had mmx; agesi 1o hit a llon, bot we only found | two or three dead hyenas One of these brutes had been partiy oaten we thought at the time by other hy onas, ar 1t was still oo dark o make out tracks We came to the conciu | slon we had made Ldicts of ourseives, and had been shooting all night szi hyenas, and we did pot feel any me:i bhetter when dur friends came burxi from thelr night at the yilage wd‘ told us we had prodbably frightened | every Hon outl of the country by our bombardment o Reading the Lion Tracks. Abduliah etill insistvd that there had been lions routd the camp, and a little inter we found the xpoor of one big llon by the body of the haif eaten hyena The ground was very | stony and there were no other tracks | to be seen, hut one lHon couid h’zm!!y’ have dragged the donkey and heavy | barrel away 8o quickly, so there wore probably more . The «:tmar‘hu:xth! had got hoid of a mian at the village who said bhe knew where the Hoous | always lay, #o ther went with alm. Koon after they left, Abdullah, who had heen hunting aboutl, came and told me that he had plcked np _tbeAi track of one ion on soft ground a Ht-‘”g tie way from camp, and that we ought i

| to foliow it At that time none of us . Knew much about tracking, and we ‘ had had such bad luck after the ele- | phants that we did not think much of our.shikaries, and' 1 did not think it was much good, Abdullab persusded I me and 1 went - After we uct followed the track for sowmwe distance 1 quite | caught his enthusiasm, dnd when the ' single track was joined by three othLers, 1 was divided between delight at the prospect of having four Hons sll : to myself and the thought that per ‘haps 1 had miore on my bandw than 1 - could manage alone. . After a {rack of about an hour weo :c:mm in sight of two or three big | thickets of “irgin” bushes surrounded | by open mimosa scrub ano intersocted | by narrow paths, My second shikari {4t that time was a very tall fellow, | called Jama. with enormous feet. Sev. L eral times during the track Abdullab | had turned round to pitch into him for i making such-a nolse, and pow he con- | fided to me that “Jama walk all same i-'c(’:sw," and that we had better leave i him behind here with the pony and iboy, as the lions were sure to be in { the place in front of us. Knowing ?uoth!ng about it, I agreed and went {on with- Abdullah. We were walking - guietly along the outside of one of the thickets when Abdullah suddenly clutched me by the arm and pointed towards a tree standing on the edge of the bush yards off. The tree was divided into two towards the bottom, and the sun was throwing the shadow of a bush on the ground inside the hollow. . :

This was where Abduilah was pointing, getting more excited but I could make out nothing at all, until a great vellow beast moved suddenly out of the shadow and slipped away on the far side. I fired from the hip, letting off both barreis into the tree. We rushed round to the other side of the thicket just in time to see a fine lioness come out. I could not get a clear shot -at once, and when [ did, after running some distance, 1 was shaking so that I could not get on her at all, and missed. She kept lobbing along just ahead, every now and then stopping to look around and show her teeth at us. Each time she stopped

more closely they would discover that

it was a defenseless caterpillar, capable only of wriggling when attacked. The caterpillar of the common moth is another master of phe art of bluff. When born it looks like a tiny scorpion, and no respectable spider or ichnenmon attempts to attack it. As it grows bigger it develops a violet saddle down its back and a decoration round its face something like a monk's cowl Out of its tail proceeds two long horns. When approached by an epnemy or touched by human hands it instantly

1 shot. tat so badly that | wasted seren bullets al dilloront ranges witbogt tourhing her The firet six did pol seemsn o aonoy Ber 3t all bt the iast bit the grousd just under ber teeth, wnd either the bullet so close, frightensd ber orf a stone hit her, for she sprang of with a snarl and a fourish of ber tall and, putting o 8 'the pare, in & minule or two ran clean away from us | owas terribly disap poitted and annoved w3tk myself and { thought of endrse tha! everyibing was over for the day after all this shaoting - ot Alddlial, who was sb modt, wooping, bardly gave e Lime e gt mir wicd a liUle befors he rashed toe back sgrin. As we ran pound the place where we had frst soon the loness, a fine Hon sgpeared walking slowly oul of another thicket towards us As 1 shot, he tarned and plonged thoragh ab opeting in the bushes to our right We ran rousd sn outstanding boah to head him If be Broke out. and met a Hos facing us Jost as | fired | heard a rhoan 16 Ihe right w 0 1 was sure U was oot the sams This nne stagpered awar st the shat and fell stone dead close by Death of the Jungle Lord. Abduliabh calind up Jama and the pony bay, and they soon had Ihe hide off and tied on the pony 1 thought all the time that Abduilah knew all about the other one but ax he ied to be golng right Home, | saked him 1! we had 'hot hetter go and look for 3{— and Be replied that it was the samee lon all the Ume and that 1 had mitseed it the frst shot 1 U not feel guite sure sbout ¥ mysell, but the moan in the busbes conld only bave come frot a wounded beas?, so | toid him we had better go and ook m!'way. He evidentiy ibough! it was waste of time, ut when we go! baek to where the lion had been hit we soon found some biood, and golog qutetly down a little path between the “frgin” bushes we came round A cor ner aimnost on top of the on. He was stone dead | was very pleased at scortnig off Abdullah, as he had shown such evident disgust at my shooting We et Gue 0% our pAarty on our way back to camp, and told him he might riun across the Honess i he followed our track tack to the place we had come from. :An hour after we got back to camy he came galioping up, having seen two llons, | curlously snough both males, and hm} shot tno with a better manse than either of I have at another time described

two d!fferent methods of hunting lons. One. of them could bardly be called & method at all, as it depended on news brought in by natives as to where a lon had actually been seen. The second plan consisted of tying up & donkey for a balt, and sitting up to watch at night. A much more in teresting way of hunting lions than either of these and & very success ful one ir the pative shikaries empioyved are dny good, 18 this process of tracking them. A Hon lies up in sorge cool, shady place for the day, unless the sky I 8 overcast and the sun cannot get out, when he will oc casiopally be found hunting at any hour. It you can strike his spoor of the night before there I 8 a very good chance of following #t up to where the jion lHes sbould the ground be sultable. There s no.form of hunt ing so exeiting as this. When the spoor is found there iz generally nothing to show if you have struck it early or late in the lon's wander ings, so that it = guile a chance whether it leads you for hours over all sorts of country, or whether, after half & mile down on a sandy river bed or path, It turns off fnto a thick patech of reeds or bush close by, where the lon is lving It is extraordinary how the excitement grows as time goes on, and still you keep the track some times very slowly, where only now and then part of a footprint can be seen on & soft placs between the stones, at other times as fast as you can walk over scil where the track

is visible many vards ahead And when the spoor is lost .and minate after minute goes by while you cast about vainly in every direction, how wretched you are, and how quickly your spirits rise again when a low whistle or stlapping of the fingers anpounces that one of the trackers has bit it off further on! i

At last certain signs show that you are getting near the end; the trackers take off their sandals and tuck up their loin-cloths under their belts, lest a corner flapping In the wind should scare the lion. For the first time you take your rifie from the native who has had charge of it, and, with your head shikari carrying a second rifle,

‘sits boit upright, turns {ts dreadfullooking face on its tormentor and shoots out of the top of each horn a waving scarlet, sting-like thread. ;

As a rule the enemy retreats in great fright, believing it is about to be pounced upon, bitten and stung to death. Yet, in sober truth, the artful caterpillar is practicing bluff. Its terrible face is a “false alarm,” for it cannot bite or strike hard enough to inflict a wound, and the two sting-like scarlet threads wave about in the air without ejecting any poison.

#tos! torward MUI the on is sigdted oF ringed (o a siall clump of bush Then, whea all ix-oter, sod the skin B being taken off, boy pleasati it b 1o it {n the abade stpsing 1o the exvited talk of the ualives sod ot ling syour perves guisl down agsin after (he Bapes and foars of the mo o tog You ride home o camp *ith the Hon skin belind your saddie. whiie ofte of your tnes altor anether gives Bis version of the morsiag’s proceed fngs in 8 Bunting sane On (he other Band, when ron got 5 abnl, and siles afiee a oaz and difcel track, 0 Bhetna A 8 I ARy pumiber of Hoss Bild iB5 the foture Wil pover make up for the bes of this one, whick s alwars the Bipgest Jlof, darrving the fnent Sans rou have vl seen The ride Bovss to canp is then x sibent Goe as Bh Hon wesss no sbeep for the then, afd they are correspondingly doweHoaried ; _ CThe frst thing 1o he done in trackgie o Bnd frésh epiwr. Natives iﬁé%ﬁ often bring news of spoor. but aninekily the average villagers Hea of & fresd frack ia rather bazy | Basve soveral Limes gone & long way 1o find &l the end a teack seviral Save old On ops pooasion (w 6 gelives arrived, ssviag Vhere ware (resh flon traoks jo s river baesd, Wekily pol thore ilhat haif a e from cump. ol when W got thére the fredk e tracka turned ol o be the spon of Iwa by BHAR A% feast A week oid ol The apoor of the large spoited hyens Isx vot unbile that of a legiess on cerigin sround, butl the diffetence. can eanily be loid. bevause & hKyena has claws like a dog. whervas the re traclive caaws of & flan are slvars ahenthed and leave no ok Thae Lot WAy to frd spoor 15 o ok for it Fouirselt with good trackers Rhonkd there be any vijjages nexr camp which Hone have et In the . paidt O rabiing 1L I 8 vers necessary (o get there as carly as posxibie ip ihe moraing Ifonce the large Bocks of sheeo at:d goats and berds of oamels which have been shat u: ig the il fages all rigit are let out, the ground all about s a wask of ind stinguish ahle footnrints, and ever: pail from the village s choked with long sirings Bl beasts going. off to thelr fesiing grounds. - Hitting off a lion's spoor uhider these circamziztces is almost Impossibis, and the dust raised by the herds {8 vers dispgrovabbe e Besides village®, suy well in the neighborbood {8 a good place o look for Wiy ¥ a Bon s abhout there ought to be no Jifeuliv o pieking up his spoor within s Jday or two Baffling Ways of the Jungle Folk. . Rather curuivs colacidetnces are sometitnes hrought te lght by spoar. Not very joang after the date of the ®ory just relaled, one of our party went to a place where two Hons bad been Xilling regulariy, and sat up two aix(sis for thew «ith o donkey as balt The Hous must have et the disiriet. for a das or two while he WEs {here, a 8 there were ao fresh tracks (o be foun:t anvahere shout, The day &fter he came back o gamp 1 happetied to ride out in that dirdetion. Soon sfter we atarted we came on the spoor of WO ’!3(%:‘. which lod us aleng a path tHI we came to the shooting gercbay The night after he bad 1«1 the llons basd walked over the very spol where his ‘donkes had been tied up in the midile of the path. = A lttle later, aguin, | happened o be at a place where he had camped A few days before A Hon roaréd near my cump several Umes i the night, and next morniog | heard be Yhad taken & sheep from w village close by, We picked up his spoor tn 8 riven Dbed near the camp,. and after follow. fng 41 for some distance came o some wells. The Hon had drunk twice, and between the drinks had lald down utider the fence 6f 4 shooting percba, which had been made o wateh the water. After drink.g the second e he had gone awas : Now and then when tracking you come across places where liohs have kiilesd, and 8 i an ssud or bare soil, you can tell evervihing that has happened almost ae well w 3 H you had seen 1, We were camped once o the edge ot & river hed and thick covert ran right down 1o (he back of the camp. Ome night there was a trememsions scufMing in these bhushes, so In the morniag | owenl oul 1o see what bad been going on, amd found thay two lions bad been chasing a warthox, which had ust. sived s ‘bacon by getting undergmund. It must have been a yery pear thing, as the Hons had ploughed great furrows in the sand at the mouth of the bole, showing they had puiled up pretty sharp. Warthogs geoerally go to ground when pursued, and as'there is 1o second opening to the burrows, and presumably no chamber ar the end where thev can turn, they aiways go fn backwards, This has actually been seen by sportsmen who have been riding after them with a spear. 1 should think this plg can hardly have had the tirie to do this. Perhaps he got jammed in head first, as he re futed to be smoked out when we tried . ; T . By' permission of lLongmans, Green & : o, ‘New York. : . {Copyright, 1%% by Benj. B. Hampton.) Agitation regarding the pay of French military officers has had some effect, for the minister of war has asked for an extraordinary credit of $400,000 1o supplement the pay of the officers, which has not been increased since 1870 In that time nearly every grade of state official has had his stipend raised. but the sublieutenant has had t make both ends meet as best he could with six franes a day and the lieutenant with eight. . B e o e e o ~ Hospitable. ~ She—And did you enjoy your Af. rican trip, major? How do you like the savages? R - He—Oh, they were extremely kindhearted! They wanted to keep me ‘there for dinner. e

The thousand-leg is another defenseless creature that reliec on bluff. In this case all the bluff is in its ugly legs. Considered as legs, they are weak, ungainly limbs, easily broken and frequently in the creature's way when it tries to crawl through crevices. o

But all the world is afraid of those legs. . Grls and boys run away from them, and every insect thinks tha! it must be an uncommonly ferocious and terrible bug to bhave such frightful limbs.

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy Rules | ~ Great Transportation Affair. - President of Cansd an Pacific Ralway | and Stearmship Lires Began as : Pufth‘&xﬂe Aqtnl»--.ﬁmi?ﬂf of Britaah Empire i .- Riwagkve T oo ’“' AT W R sl a 4 bDarvioo! pewalwy L i Sol earyy wales 1o lafwrers nor wai be @ serilon band 1038 Sbaszhneasy ¥ :::»_" B S¢S OB B low 8 round of the iranspociation aader &s a Lraseiman s fsl he was pee of hose duepi bl : -,.f'*':_i.j despicabic 1o oveér enginge oaaeueior and ofihe 2 L must feewy N ,ﬁ tse i % i litm Fasy wEn efgraied T t sigladiys wehodrle i MBwaukewr and wben he Bnishesd Lis studicg i WA A LSS ‘.“Lu'f:"x‘a,:, T SiENTY or eator hpdfess Yot with the t‘;.‘lﬁwil- %5 vt hßavi: £ 5 w ) 2 . ot shases, afy peossinnal ! PR rord R Hitie boed dearning Too 32 spp Fedind g rushes thoough seversl somall ssls ged % pow Bir Thomes Shaugtooss 14ra Hent of (ke Casadian Pacife Haiisas ! J‘c Biean shix wavk thae “‘"., goat LrALY v_ porintion x¥air y the w 4 This o P Ly s ,;"#j & V'V'l;'-.‘ﬂ. REZD anid wha J 0 yours fale woan afofe’ Kewpar of the 8t Pas! rosd indd ¢ hale e of the Miißmagkes ' iy . receives & salnry of §id A yE st is tros X 1""“':.;.«"1 and wiells et 30 ﬂ. ‘ er In ARy waks than the gaverdar peseral of Uanada and ore mmde A fai he dows 8502 Have 1o 4 3 itartiman or Morgan ur Hill whaf e and Bis rosd are ARG Aiwais st be indesd g nilens i F the K rperi g » $ IO > Sir Thomas REaughnéssy t» gudoubl el { et lOt A - ERTE ? one who has risen ¢ u e | Eilae hiomors ’ theé raliws S 4 etk i ing througl what is b nove a 3 e Bee raoute, 8 i s the hest rofs af the oft Ceiped i esld SEATe Tt i ‘v' & man (o sucessd in raiiroad werk oKt come through this '?',g'. ~y",. the Sdeparimients ¥i raac Lz evidetoe ‘ v \. . 0 1 i P "{‘ - " i } e i 2z A /,1 g 1 " S \ ; 2 f{( o P ) ‘A i Ao ¢z ‘ ' e i s > y- 4 N oy ] A t\\ "‘%f N\ | gt 4 b TN -t e &\ ; NG ‘\\:—\' ‘Bir Thomas Shaughnessy. oo that after sii braln s the meat in Torm Nhatiehnes GO R e pae whrita ‘ol A ? g - g bueing” §0 Nogit oante wilh Iy e Afhg thes diseount, he went further and wouid | learn” the weight a steel rale MO bear under certals conditions bow & spliced switeh o 1 a - cortaln s frog waorked the best material for Box Cars wnd the bagliug powsr and spedd '.-r.‘!. diterent Binds of engines o And e fng liz work as storekeeper: i:'..w vards of the Miwaukes & Nt “Paut road In Muwaußkes D 0 ars mgo b gave all Big spare tims 1o grudyisg | raiirduids He studied the sulijort as & student i a Gehoal would £indy guy piher aetenoe and b father has - s¥sid that many a fime he bas seen a Tight fn Torn s oo at three o'vipek in ihe inarning. the boy sortug ovepr techpis cal ralirosd probivns S characteristic of every myr Cwith any percentage of vigorous lrish :«41’: was alao in evidernes in his o case While connected with theé St - Paul road In Milwaskee and havisg - st passed 21 he was elvcted aldermian and later chalrman of the elty eoun. | et Tt was while serving in thisioffice that he was offered the podition | of purchasing agent for the Canadian | Pacific road, the offer coming {from | his old friend, -Bir William Vag Horn, | then president of the Canadian Pacifie, | snd who was general superintendent | of the Milwaukee & S¢ Paul at the | time Shaunghnessy was storekesper. Once in the Canadlan Pactfic - or .’ ganization. Shaughnessy's promotion i was rapid. From purchasing agent he | was made assistant to the . general | manager and then assistant to the | president. : S Co To his friends Sir. Thomas Shaugh- | nessy {8 still “Tom,” and it iz t(he | ‘eastest thing in the world for any one’| of these old pais 1o gt into his private | office in Montreal. The Canadian Pa- | cific's president is pleasant, personal- | l¥. He is of medium stature, with a | healthy color, and speaks rapidly and | directly. While to a stranger he talks | business In order to shorten unneces- | sary interviews, still .if the vlsimrg strikes him right there is liable to be | -an hour’s chat. i Sir Thomas and Lady Shaughnessy, | who is also a native of Milwaukee, are. | leaders in Montreal society. They are | the parents of five child_ren—fmrge* girls and two boys. Two of the giris | are in school in Europe. . - g Brought Out Buried Treasure. | A curious fact has come to light inl cconnection with the late famine in | India. Even in the districts which | were raost affected, it is now “possible i to coliect the suspended land revenne and takavi. and district officers havet noticed that many of the rupees paid | in on these accounts have obviously been buried. It seems quite evident | that the famine, severe as it was, did not exhaust the resources of the peo- | ple and that at least a portion of the. takavi advances were promptly buried against the day when the sircar sbould demand their repayment -

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‘ ~ Grievous Offense, “No, sir,” said Plodding Pete; *I would not stop another minute to talk .to dem folks. Dey passed me out a short an’ ugly word.”_ ' - : “What was it?” “Work.” Kill the Flies Now before ‘they multiply. A DAISY FLY "KILLER kills thousands. Lasts the seasori. Ark vour dealer, or send 20c to H, Somers, 149 De Kalb Ave., Brookiyn, N. Y. ‘- A man’'s religion never dies so long as he uses the goiden rule in measur--ing his actions. ) . Lewis’ Single Binder straight sc. You pay loc for cigars not so goog Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peorma, Il The American eats more than his own weight in sugar every two years. »m Winstiow's Boot '8 Pvremiq:'nt mmmn:“ rs&m ™ mm;%.mmm 25¢ s bottie, ; "”"l'ha average life of a dog is from ten to twelve years.