Ttee Battleeaaaa's Awfal Ey*.
Hover seeing a snake cljarm a bird ct
animal, I concluded it w a a negro super-
stitiun or fancy, tievoid of fact. So I con
tinued to think till a few days ago, when
a farmer friend of mine, living four mike
south of Abilene, told me what ho had
lately witness! He said he waa riding
along on a prairie ami saw a prairie dog
wiLliin a few feet of him which refused to
scamper to hie bole, aa prairie dogs usu
ally do when approached by ma®; on the
contrary, he sat as if transfixed to the
spot, though making a constant nervous,
shuddering motion, a* if anxious to gei
away.
My friend thought thia was
strange. an<l while considering the
spectacle he presently eaw a large nt-
tlwuiake coiled op under some bushes,
hit head
uplifted. about six or
seven feet from the dog, which still
Iteenled him not. bat looked steadily npou
the anake. lie dismounted. took the dog
by the head and, thrust him off. when the
snake, which had up to that moment re
mained quiet, immediately swelled with
rage and began sounding his rattles.
The prairie dog for some time seemed l«e-
nnmlwd. hardly capable of motion, but
grew better anti finally got into his hole.
My friend then killed the rattler. Now,
| was this a case of charming* If not.
what was it* My fr.eod who told me thia
ts r.xmeti John Irving McClure, a farmer,
well known to me. a good and truthful
• man I now giw it up that snakes do
'>ERY PRECIOUS.
TUE BIG NEWSPAP’
7U-— -
HAS THE LIMIT OF THE RE
PATIENCE BEEN REACHE
The Xew«p*F«r >f
Smaller
Than
tUa
Fwtwr« ]
Prwant
A
Caadaaaatiaa la the J «diala««
The Plclwdl rraetlee.#
When tho big newspaper becomes i
ger bow is it to bo delivered! New
and carriers have already complained
hardness of tao task of hauuiing k
pounds of paper. How will it be w|
more pounds ore added! Why, it wi
possible, certainly at the prevailing k
The days of tbe cheap press will be
The price must be very consider
creased to induce the middlemen to dl
Mr. Jones’ larger sheets and n ere of i
The newspaper of the future will be
instead of larger than the present a
And it will be uo worse a newspaper
account, but rather better This res
be reached by condensation in the ji
sense I tloa’t mean by th s “boiling
everything,” so that there h little of p
substance left in the article or paragr
auything much but the Leading The
to which I refer is condensation by ex
The newspa • r of the future will
only what it is really worth wnile to |
Tbó newsjoner of the present prints
mas of m liter upo n which space is
which nobody is profited by reading <
ally wants to read, or having read r
»■men later. If all of this were orni
newspa: vr would shnuk rapidly.
IS OTHER DEPARntX.-.TS.
Î
j
WrÒdiDg. I
ret Baprrtittam
tw Fair.
XJRj excited I know oPnothing fa all nu-
Tbc other evenin'; I went to a party and tore of so dreadful appearance as»the eye
tried to find out the pçî superstition of • oi the riutlesnakk It is enough to strike
«ch girl I danced* with. And they all » not only birds and little an mais, but men.
havre them. One ww»;dp’t go under a j with nightmare. I have on several occa-
¡eaniug ladder, another would be sure- of ; sions examined them closely with strong
incoming ill if she saw,the moon over her glasses, and feel with all force what 1
' left shoufaen ano’bcr would not read- an ‘ stnie, and I will tell you thaVJ^ero are
epitaph for fear cd losing her memory. few mon on the face of the earth who can
One girl told me she could stop a dog’s look upon an angered rattlesnake through
howl any time by taking off her shoe and a good glass—bringing him apparently
-^rrtring « K. In drawing her kerchief within a foot or two of the eye—and stand
from her besom a narrow slip of paper 1 innre thaa a momenL—Forest and
fiuttrnd to the ground, on which were Stream.
sinx hieroglyphics. “Ob', my charm!”
KaM«an Sy*t*m of Colonixatioo.
she exclaimed. I supposed she had lost
The announcement that Russia has or
an article of jewelry, and was searching
about for it when she seized upon the dered all fertile lanas along the Murghab
■ scrap of paper as though it were a deed to river to be colonized sounds strange in
_ a San Diego corner lot. My curiosity was this country, where the only colonists the
' vrouseJ. and she explained that it was a general government orders around are the
x rharm insuring success in undertakings, Oklahoma boomers. When the Czar wishe*
purchased by her at a great price from an ; to populate any green spot In his Central
Egyptian fortunes teller in Paris, and that i Asian dominions he orders a lot "of Cos-
its yosjxresion akme amounted to nothing, I Mtckx to pack up their belongings and be
» but it it . qm be put into the pocket or in ' ?arted off to new homes beyond t be deserts.
the bcKxm of a dress during the recital of I that, like a sea. dirive them from their
an Egyptian verse. If one failed to re- • fatherland. It must be said that they
menJier that, however, tbe Lord's prayer thrive well under this violent process of
! transplanting. The government feeds and
might be substituted. _j,.
(.
I have taken ixkcs since then, and I /find .belters them until they tare taken root
U m vv is not one of tbe sweet creatures that . in the new soil. The lovely valley in which
ùus ' not her pM superst’t»us whim. 1 ■ naruarcand lies is filled with well tilled
have a little friend rtn Via Ness «avenue ; farms, whose owners are there simply be
who would go to church with her scrlfkin -muse.f*tbe little father" shaped their des-
jacket wrong «de out, if by any improb- ' unies. without consulting the bumble peas
ants — who
al»Ctv she tapjwmed to get it o® thdt wav. ,-----
— did his bidding.
- It is thus.
raxber than .acur the bad luék sure to ioabdesa, that tbe Czar will revive the
mnake her by
it off to chxnct- it. Mcrr oatix. which, irri^ted by hundreds
I know * girt on Fourteenth ftraet. in' »t channel, from the M urghab. one« bkw-
CtekHnd. «V- heoreres qwte rat:lent when otneJ like the rose —New York Sun.
j her driwsmakrr is otJiged to rip a seam 1
I she has jest sewed, as she » sure she wUbyr*- bi««»»«« from “Ixrwrr Animal*.**
|hve te» wear Tbe garment c « t . I remem
The "lower animals,” as we are pleased
ber voting a rztich where bees were kept A to call them, have a way of revenging
and tbe bnsiess tclliag me tbe borer was Iibcmselves for s-^rne of the injuries they
a failure risxi year
Bcsnmt of their receive from the* higher animal, man.
negiect^xg; to rxj» c® ti»e lee beese to tell . They contract diseases in a. mild form,
ibe «rupiaEi« that her fatter had dievL lad communicate them as virulent epi»-.
"He d>ed very snd^- my.** she said, ps- iemk> to their masters. The cow has a
ihrTieally. - and m the surprise and Lurry ; flight attack of scarlatina—so slight that
- aud all we fergr« all ahceri it until dzy- 3 hardly causes her ineeuvcuience—and a I
Ughx. and h was too hue then, fee be d leadly infection breaks out among those I
been dead f«ur hcurs. and tbe lees must who drink of her milk. From a report
he Tend wixLia tbe Lc-ur or y«a'H k*e 'em which
just been compiled by Dr.
—we did."—Sas Fran- veorge Taraer for ¿he local government
risco Post.
boari. it appean tirvt diphtheria may be
.line of the diseases which we catch from
lmtnaLK
Pigeons suffer from croup.
* txirses and swine from "strangies,” latubs
« 'n<n
throat; all which affectKma. Dr.
Purser thinks, may develop into diph-
& :beria in human be:ng«. The worst of-
• '’-D-lrr is the «kenesrir eat, which is very
to daidb to suffer from a cold in tbe bead and
be -best, and to poMB* on inn much worse
p- ’orm to children.—S*. James’ Gazette.
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But it is not only the literary dep
that condensation is“ advantageously ]
cable. The commercial department is
viung u field. I doubt laat the pre
teta of «»¡vertismg will lie in opcr
1987, or ♦ven in 1937 An illustrati
point tha case. If all the newspapers
York<jpuJd agree to double their adr
rato«, and if in cunsrqueuca the ad
shockl buy haif as much space as be
it is, of cours?, mathematically de
bio that th- newspapers would be
off pecuniar, y . I think it is morali;
strabi? that the advertisers wouk
worse off iu resp xt to the publicity
business, but that all bands by and by
be a great deal better off in every way.
— The mivertibeTnent wonld
neariy as much attentkMi. It w
quite as much if the advertisers i
stami upon a level. It is the comj
magnitude—the struggle for a k
nouncetnent and for bigger letters,
nious alphabetical blotches which
so many daily journals—-that eha