BANDON RECORDER. A ChlnM« Stratagem. Rajab Suran. who was oue of the • idlest rulers of India, overrau »lie entire - mi with the exception of Chi­ na, killed Innumerable sultans with his own hand aud married all their daugh­ ters. It is said that when the Chinese heard of his triumphant progress and learned that he had reached their frontier they became much alarmed. The emperor called a council of his generals and mandarins, and upon the advice of a crnfty old mandarin the following strategem was carried out: A large ship was loaded with rusty nails, trees were planted on the deck, the vessel was manned by a numerous crew of old men and dispatched to the rajah's capital. When It arrived—the most wonderful part of tjie story Is that It did arrive—the rajah sent an officer to ask how long It had taken the vessel to make the trip from China. The Chinamen answered that they had all lieen young men when they set sad and that on tin1 voyage they had plant e^^& Rev. Walter Dunlap, mln solid hours before 1 landed him. I the use of two hundred and fifty words ing. since first I came to the Pacific— later of a-Utilted Presbyterian church forget how much he weighed, but he during the first year, and after that it and still few are the days when I am In Dumfries, saw a member of his flock was about from three to four feet in is plain sailing. In three or four years not In some physical distress. And the nodding while he was preaching, lie length. He was a beauty, all right.” a child who isa deaf mute has advanced battle goes on-ill or well Is a trifle so that it goes I was made for a contest, stopped suddenly and said: “Cut oil' the head and tail of that yarn, "I doot some o' ye line taen owcr Jim, and 1 will believe it,” said one of far enough in its studies to take its and the powers have so willed that my place in the fourth grade in the regular battlefield should be this dingy. Inglori­ tnony whey porridge the day. Sit up. the gray-haired trio. “1 never fished grammar school classes. It is expected ous one of the bed and the physic bot­ or I'll name ye oot!" Another Caledonian preaeber, on like in Blue Lake, but 1 have trailed my that within a few weeks at least thirty tle. At least. I have not failed, but I provocation, cried out, "Hold up yer line many a time in Clear Lake and of these afflicted little children will be would have preferred a place of trum­ ¡leads, my friends, and mind that Del have caught lots of fish, but never one enrolled. A new world will dawn on pet Ings and the open air over my tlier saints nor sinners are sleeping in ax large as that Blue Lake pickeral of these mute little folks when they begin head." the next world.” yours.” “Don't know anything about to read and understand the language Goinic to CanoBRa. Then, finding that tills general ex­ your lake fishing,” said a third mem­ The saying “going to Canossa” refers interpreted to them by the lips of Mrs. hortation was Insufficient to deter a to the humiliating pilgrimage made certain well known member of the ber of the party, but you can’t tell me Holden. Usually they are quick to by lh< Emperor Henry IV to Italy In church from getting Ills night's rest anything about brook trout, for I’ve learn and retain the knowledge they re­ the year 1077. Henry had objected to forward, the reverend gentleman turn­ fished more or less in all the streams ceive as well, if not better, than their the claims advanced by Gregory Hilde­ along the California Northwestern more fortunate brothersand sisters who brand and. refusing to submit, was ex­ ed toward the offender and said: "Janies Stewart, this Is the second Railway, ft looked pretty dubious for have been blessed with all their senses. communicated by that pontiff. The time I have stopped to waken ye. If 1 trout fishers a few years back, for all It is well, for to Polly’s mind there eti.'peror at first laughed at tlie sen­ need to stop a third time, I’ll expose ye the finny beauties had been just about should lie some compensation in one tence. but look a more serious view by name to the whole congregation.” fished out. Realizing the situation and way or another for these silent little when lie found himself deserted even by Ills personal attendants and resolved the disappointment of anglers when ones Hawk and Partridge. on a Journey to Italy to make bls peace they made the long jaunt for nothing, In "Reminiscences of a Falconer” Major Fisher describes the tactics of a except the satisfaction they got out of The above reminds me of a man who with the pope. The hitter was then at partridge when pursued by a tame a never ceasing supply of pure fresh air said in all seriousness, “In the twenty the Castle of Canossa, a fortress of the Countess Mathilda and situated In the falcon. and the beauty of the picturesque scen­ years of our married life my wife has The falcon was descending upon the ery, the California Northwestern Rail­ never uttered a cross or an impatient mountains of Modena. Thither the em­ partridge when the partridge stopped way Company at the suggestion of word, but she has frequently turned a peror hastened, but the pope refused io see him save under the most degrad­ short and fell to the ground as If dead. He seemed to be lost in the short stub­ President A. W. Foster, built the fish deaf ear to me.” “No wonder, she’s a ing conditions. Tlie desperate situation of Henry ble of tlie Held. He was far too know­ hatchery near Ukiah with a station at deaf mute,” whispered my friend. compelled him to submit, and for three ing to trust himself again on the wing, Willits where they gather the spawn flays and ulgbts, barefooted and bare­ and the hawk bad no alternative but every season. I can’t begin to tell you BRIEF REVIEW. headed. clad only in a hair shirt, the to take him on the ground, which he of the thousands and thousands of little raiment of a penitent, he waited at the speedily attempted to do. trout they turn loose in the streams gate. At the end of this fearful pen How Biograph Film is Made. But on the ground the partridge was every year. But for the efforts of this far more agile than be, running this company the streams would have been The making of biograph film is an nice, which was undergone lu the month of January, lie was admitted to way and that with great speed. The elaixirate and delicate process, says Roy hawk would Jump awkwardly up and fished out long ago. Every angler in McArdle in Everybody's Magazine. the papal presence, was absolved and dart nfter the scudding partridge, who the State should take off his hat to the First is manufacured a celluloid ribbon received Ids dominion as a gift from the pope. The expression lias ever Just at the right moment Jumped from Northwestern Railway Company.” of the required width and transparency since been current as Indicative of the ground and over his back, descend­ coated on one sideonly to an invariable abject submission on any terms im­ ed on the other side and commenced “Did I ever tell you of the trick thickness of one-thousandth of an inch. posed liy the conqueror. running harder than before. Time after time this was done. At George B-----tried to play ou me last It is sensitized in an immense dark Tbe>- Were«'! Fed. every nttempt the partridge met the year? Well, we came up here with a room in an absolutely dust-proof fac­ hawk with outstretched neck and rais­ party of friends and pitched our tent. tory. The emulsion consists of a solu­ “Some years ago," said a San Fran­ ed hackles, in the attitude of a fighting Now I would rather fish than eat, any tion of bichloride of gold floating on cisco man, “a globe trotting English­ bantam cock. Jumping up to avoid be­ day. It is vice versa with George. great glass tables 100 feet in length. man enme Into the city by the Golden Gate, and It fell to my lot to entertain ing clutched whenever the hawk struck Sleep and rest is his motto. 1 knew When dried the film is wound on spools him So one night I took him to dine at him. In fact. Ills whole action was he was sort of tricky and I would have in boxes, and no gleam of light must at the far filmed Cliff House. It was that of a plucky little game bantam. This went on for some time, until, as to watch him. It seemed to me I wax strike it until, at the proper moment, a beautiful moonlight night, nnd from I regret to say, I ended the unequal minus some of the trout 1 had caught it is held behind the camera lens for "•here we sat upon the porch we look­ strife by putting the partridge once on several occasions, so I concluded to one seventieth part of a second every ed out upon the broad bosom of the more fairly on the wing, when, of mark my fish. We started off with two inches of its entirety. Even then Pacific ocean. The moon’s light made course, the hawk readily overtook and our lunch one day bright and early. it must be guardeo from stray lieams a path across the waters, and In Its captured It, not overmuch to his credit We fished in the same neighborhood all until developed and fixed in the bio­ •enter the Seal rocks lay like a black and still less to mine. The Englishman Inquired what morning. Several times I found George graph factory. In taking the Sharkey- patch they were and upon my Informing film lying flat on his back with his pipe in Jeffries prize-fight a strip of film over e which vividly lights up a large gave her the look that used to scare the dubs who tried to stay four rounds who absorb all they read and return It veiling of the trees with the delicate early in the same state, only a little smokevine that spins itself lovingly over area for a considerable time. The ex­ with me. Well, sir, Sarah gave one dirty; second, sand glasses, who retain the branches like some beautiful bridal periments are for the purpose of im­ long, mournful howl and fainted away. proving and perfecting bombs that an* After Hint she didn’t Jabber any more, nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through vail. It is ax dainty and hwy ax a cobweb. now made for the purpose of exposing for she'd found out who was living up the time; third, strain bags, who retain Of course some people cannot lie choos­ the |s>sition of an enemy at night, and stairs.” merely the dregs of wliat they rend; ers, for they must come when the chil­ to reveal the character of defenses to tie Nnnth America. fourth, mogul diamonds, equally rare dren have their summer vacation; but attacked. These projectiles explode on Competent authorities assert that and valuable, who profit by what they to those who can, I say avoid the wild impact, liberatinga flaming compound. South America lias greater undevelop­ read and enable others to profit by It rush and |s>st|M>ne your outing until ed resources than any other portion of also.” the fall. Then the mad caprice of the Chewing the crustof rye bread is con­ the world Any crop grown elsewhere wind is past, it stops playing pranks for sidered by German experts one of the can lie duplicated there, nnd the conn Hail Trouble« of HI« Own. "Sir," began young Timkins as he a while, the harvest is over, and people liest ways of exercising and preserving try abounds In mines of coal, silver and gold, most of which have been ouly entered the presence of the dear girl's are not so busy except with tlie vint­ the teeth. slightly developed_________ father, "1 want to marry your daugh­ age, and in the hoptlelds, canopied for ter”— Western Australia was last of the sis­ It mny surprise some to hear that acres with its green mantle jeweled “Oh, don’t bother me with your trou- with millions of graceful little cones, ter colonies to receive the privilege of Florula stniids tenth as n fish produc­ ing state. It Ims n const line. Including iterrupted«the old gentleman, and it never ceases to lie of the greatest responsible government. Islands, of 3.500 miles. The annual d me some time ago that she atcli is about 30,000.000 pounds, with a to marry you, so you’ll have interest to me to watch the gleeful, The Chinese iiava superstltihus hor­ total value to the fishermen of about to settle It between yourselves.”—Ex- happy-go-lucky hopplckers at their tTOOisvi work, singing and picking, cracking ror of being caught in the rain. cnange. A sinsle »mile from her rosy mouth, A 8U»1<1» n (lance from her soft eye« «