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1 A SKILLFUL SHOT. The Way to Bring Down an Overhead Incoming Bird. One of tho cardinal rules of the old tme shooting school cautioned tho punner against ever trying to stop au overlieml incoming iinl. but to wait until it had passed by and to the rear and then take chances on what Is un doubtedly the harder shot of the two. It is surprisingly how difficult it is for some sportsmen to successfully vore on their incoming birds. Many who can seemingly cope with gniue in any other mode of iiiglit will habitual ly balk at this shot and acknowledge their inability to make it. Yet ouee its principle is understood and the lesson learned the droppin, or an overneau incomer Is as easy as anything can well be. The miss is al ways inside by the sportsman shoot ing under and behind the bird, and there is but one way in which the er ror is to be avoided. To make the shot the gunner should wait until the bird is about to pass over hiru, then, bringing up his gun follow iu from behind, cover the bird and swing iu ahead of it and, main faining the same rate of speed, press the trigger 'the instant the bird is hid den behind the barrels. Io not stop the swing of the gun and be sure the bird shall have disappeared from sight rf.the shooter will observe this rule he -will be surprised how easily and invariably he will kill his bird. Recreation. WISHBONES. On Their Shepe Depends the Force of Birds' Wing Strokes. Scientists cail the "wishbone"' the fureula, and it is the union of what are iii man two collar bones. These receive the brunt of the strokes of the Wing that turn the creaturo iu its Eight. Few of us appreciate the strength of the stroke of the bird's wing. A swan has been known to break a man's leg by a blow of its wing, and la like manner the wing beatings of , the larger birds are dangerous if they strike the human head or face. If, therefore, a large bird is in the habit of making sudden turns to right or left in its flight it must be fitted with a "wishbone"' capable of withstanding the great strain of the wing stroke on the one side when unaccompanied by action on the other. For this reason we find in the eagle and birds of its class that turn quickly a fureula that is a perfect Roman iirch, widely at variance with the Gothic arch, which is the shape of the "wishbone" of our common fowls. The I "eagle's fureula is everywhere equally strong and lacks those points of weak i:ess that make our sport of breaking the "wishbone" possible. Harper's .Weekly. , Lord Brougham's Oratory. We have uo orator in the least like Lord Brougham since the close of Brougham's public career. Everything that nature could do so far as appear ance, manner and voice were concern ed she hud done to prevent him from being a great orator, and yet a great orator he undoubtedly was. I wonder what the house of lords just now would think of a peer who gesticu lated and bellowed as Brougham was in the habit of doing. But it was im possible to listen to Brougham and not be carried away by the force of Li3 intellect, by his torrent of words, by the sudden whirl and eddy of his Japid illustrations and by the longer and shorter stretches of quietude and repose into which his argument occa sionally flowed From Justin McCar thy's "Reminiscences." History. nistory is made by one set of men end written by another. The character of the written history depends upon the politics of the his torian. Most histories are written many years after the history was made. In these circumstances no one can step forward and dispute the historian. History is studied at school and for gotten at borne. We are told to Judge the future by the past, and after we read the his tories we arj as badly muddled as ever. Some statesmen make history, but tnost of them make speeches. Judge. John C'Groat's House. John O'Groat's house was formerly Eituated on Duncans! ty head, the most northerly point of Great Britain. It took its name from John of Groat, or Gruot. and his brothers, who came, it Is said, from Holland about HSU. The expression so often heard, "From John O'Groat's to Land's End," means the whole length of Great Britain from north to south, like the other ex pression, "From Dan to Beersheba," meaning the entire length of Palestine. The Important Question. "What was the mutter with that cus tomer?" akr-d the proprietor of the eil restaurant. "When he was through his dinner," explained the waiter excitedly, "he atktd for his check, and when I gave It to him he just simply went crazy." "But did he pay as he went?" Catholic Standard and Times. All the Difference. "I understand tfcat the (smart set la snubbing the De Burks because they have a rkplr-ton iu their closet." "Not at all. The snub is because they didn't keep it there." Cleveland Lead er. The defects of the mind. like those of the face, grow worse as we grow o'.d, j Eochefoueauld. COAXING SLEEP. Jimply a Question of Will Power and Self Suggestion. Ordinarily we do not sleep by accl Jent or haphazard. We simply resolve to sleep, and "self suggestion plays a great part In the productiou of sleep. Wo go through a variety of notions, all suggestive of a change from our normal waking condition. We un dress; we place ourselves in a com fortable position; we close our eyes r, e beiievo and expect we are going to sleep, and the result is sleep. One of the great preventives of slee Is the fear of not sleeping, but a write in Harper's Bazar says that once this fear is broken down we sleep anyhow The insomniac worries about his in Romnia. and this very worry deepens the mischief; hence the sufferer should suggest to himself again and again, "If I sleep, well; if I don't sleep, will at least gain rest by keeping my mind calm and my body relaxed." In a word, our chances of getting sleep increase if we assume the es ternal physical attitude which corre sponds to sleep if we relax every muscle and let it stay relaxed, if we breathe lightly and regularly, if we call up the Imagination of a sleeping person and talk and think sleep to ourselves, repeating silently and in a quiet, dreamy fashion such a formula as this: "There is no reason why I should not sleep. Therefore I can sleep Therefore I will sleep. My mind is at peace. Sleep is coming. I am getting sleepy. I am about to sleep. I am asleep." HIS QUEST FOR A WIFE- John Newcomb Was a Close Observer and Was Hard to Suit. The sister of Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, tells in McClure's of their father's John Newcomb's wan derlngs in search of a wife, whom he had decided to select iu accordance with scientific theories: "John Newcomb stopped at farm houses for his refreshment, and in each house, if there wa3 a daughter of marriageable age, he tarried perhaps a day or even longer to make a study of the maiden. He always made him self 'handy' about the place, drawing up water with the great well sweep, bringing in firewood doing anything that he could do and still keep near the daughter. "Disappointment met him at every door. At one house 'the cooking was poor, at another the house was not neatly kept, at a third there was scold ing or faultfinding, a want of harr mony and in all the maidens a lack of desire for learning or education. One young woman little knew by what a narrow margin she missed her fate. All was going smoothly till, when she was molding the dough for the baking pans, he noticed that . a considerable portion of the dough was left in the wooden kneading trough. He asked her the reason for this, and her reply was that she left It for the horse be cause he was fond. of it. She always did this, she said; there was plenty. 'Want of thrift,' decided the young man, and he shouldered his bundle and walked on." Told Who Ha Was. Dr. Beadon, a former rector in El- tham, Kent, England, one Sunday preached from the text "Who art thou?" After reading it he made a pause for tho congregation to reflect upon the words, when a man in mili tary dress who at that instant was marching very sedately up the middle aisle of the church, supposing it n question addressed "to hhn, replied, "I am, sir, an officer of the Sixteenth regiment of foot on a recruiting party here, and, having brought my wife and fanjily with me, I am come to church because I wished to be ac quainted with the neighboring clergy and gentry." This so deranged the divine and astonished the congrega tion that the sermon was concluded with considerable difficulty. Ringing For Gofer. Among the queer church customs in England is the one observed nt New ark paris-h church, called 'ringing for gofer." Thi3 custom, which has lasted for over 300 years, arose through a wealthy merchant named Gofer losing himself one October night In the forest that then surrounded Newark. He carried much money, and the forest was infested with thieves. Suddenly he heard the sound of Newark bells and was guided safely home by their music. To commemorate his escape Gofer left a goodly sum for Newark bell ringers on condition that they "rang for Gofer" every year on Sun day nights In October and November. Patti at Fifty-two. Adelina Fatt! wrote in a letter to Mr. Klein in ltf).": "Do you not feel proud of your little friend, who was fifty-two last month and has been singing un interruptedly every year from the age of seven? I am really beginning to be lieve what they all tell me that I nm a wonderful little woman:" Musical Life in London. Patronizing. "That man Pufferton has a Tery su percilious manner." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, "ne can't even say 'it's a pleasant day' without fseeming to patronize the cli mate." Washington Star. Just Bluff. "How Is It that the quail on your bill of fare Is always struck off?" "That's Just a fancy touch," explain ed the lieanery waiter. "We never bad a quail In the Joint." rhiladel- phla Bulletin. SHIRKING JAIL WORK. Bidwell, the Forger, Was a Champion at Malingering. Malingering Is common In Jail, but surely a. case quoted from his own ex peiience by Dr. Quinton, tho late gov em or of Ilollow.ty, In "Crime und Criminals" la a record. The "hero' was a violent prisoner who feigned stiffness of tho Index finger to avoid oakum picking. Ho was so ungry when the finger was forcibly bent that "on returning to his cell ho promptly placed tho offending tinge In the hinges'' of his table, which was attached to the cell wall, and violently raised tho leaf, with the result tha the finger was absolutely shattered and had to be removed." ' .,' Another case even more remarkable in its way was that of tho notorious American criminal Bidwell, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life in connection with the Bank of Eng land forgeries. "He was in good health on convic tion, but never did any active work. Feigning loss of power in his legs, he lay in bed from day to day and from year to year, defying all efforts of persuasion und resisting all unpleasant coercive measures devised to make him work. When I saw him at Dartmoor at the end of eight or nine years of his sen tence long disuse of his legs had ron dered him almost a cripple. The mus cles were extremely wasted, and both hip and knea joints were contracted In- a state of semiflexion, so that he lay doubled up in a bundle. Though he was efanimed time after time by experts, up one succeeded In discover ing any organic disease or any cause for his condition other than his owu firmly expressed determination never to do a day's work for "the British government, a threat which, I bel!eve; he ultimately carried out." Dangerous Sport. First Lady (reading a newspaper) This golf seems to be a very danger ous game. Did you see what hap pened to a man named Taylor? He went into bunker and was in two when he came out. Second I.ady How dreadful! "Yes, here are the words: 'Taylor getting out in two. Braid secured a half." "Does it say what happened to the other half?" "No. but there was worse to follow. According to the report, Taylor then fell altogether to places." Word oi Coif. A KIiir Who Left Home. pet the woild to talking, but Paul Mathnlkftof Buffalo. N. Y.. says he al ways KEEPS AT HOME the King of all laxatives Dr. King's New L'fe Pills and that they're a blessing to all his family. Cure constipation, headache, ndigestion, dyspepsia. Only 25c at all ruggista. D. S. Barlow and wife, of Eight Mile, ft Del J. F. Barlow, of Goose berry, visited Walla Walla last week and attended the meetings of tha Farmers' Union. 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The reason is because the north magnetic pole or area lies in the vicinity of King Wil- lam's Land, just off the arctic coast f North America, in Bothnia. When this magnetic pole is between us and the north pole the compass points due north. As wo go cither east or West I'om this line it is easy to see that the compass Is off to a certain degree. If we were to travel north of the mag netic pole the needle would point south; west of it the needle would point east. Sir James Boss in 1S31 located the north magnetic pole ap proximately at a point up in Bothnia. n 1903 Captain Koald Amundsen in the ship Gjoa set out on a three years' expedition, relocated the magnetic pole and made the "northwest pas- e" for which mariners have striven since the days of Henry Hudson. Ter- estrlal magnetic force is different in every part of the earth's surface and is not always the same at a given point,, It Is subject to regular dally nd yearly changes. Amundsen post ed himself near the seat of tho mag netic power and for nineteen months, day and night, with his party, took readings of their instruments, both in lluatlon and declination. lie also amde short excursions Into the region of the magnetic pole and was able by the aid of the declination observations to prove that the magnetic north pole does not have a stationary situation, but is continually moving. But the general location Is where Plr James Boss first had the honor to place It. Chicago Tribune. Attack Like Tlffer. In fighting to keep the blood pure the hite corpuscles attack disease germs ke tigers. But often germs mnltip'y so fast the little fighters are overcome. Then see pimples, boile, eczema, salt- heuni and sores multiply and strength and appetite fail This condition de mands Electric Bitters to regulate stomach, liver and kidnevs and to ex pel poisins from the blood. "They are the best blind purifiV," writes C. T. I ti iciann, or iracy, uant., 1 have ever found." 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