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"7* MAN'S MAN,* «THB VALLEY CMP THE GIANTS," BtC. ADOPTE An ttnuU| Instance where wlniMt The esaeatxnl met of "Green Pea Pirates" is a corabmatioo of 'i#i awl Ittrf narrative told in tke inimitable style wftHell IUM §§£MI tltt Peter B. Kyne stories such a strong pull witt -the public. It is jolly, even rollicking and has thrill, rftmanca and punch. CHAPTER I. vj* • >1 ' J ' ---1-- - u , • tbey M seen the fog rolling dq#» *. <*'the coast Rbortly after the Maggie fs~ bad rounded Pilar Point at sunset and readed north. Captain Scruggs had Ibeen ateanaboating too many unprofit» •, able years on San Francisco bay, the $££"*8u1«un and San Pablo sloughs and .j- "0,dogboles and the Sacramento river to I .V y'r'-' be deceived as tc the character of . v^feVjithat f*>g. and he remarked as uutch to r Gibney. "We'd better turn back ^ tf ii^to Ualfnioon bay- and tie up at the ?*'<>. ' dock," he added. fe!.f* . "Calamity howler!" retorted Mr. r* - . "~j; ' Gibney and gave the wheel a spoke or .two. "Scraggsy, you're enough to .make • reel sailor sick at the ^stomach." h "But I tell you she's a tule fog, Gib. |8he rises up hi fhe marshes of the . Sacramento and San Joaquin, drifts % ' "down to the bay and out the Golden i ga,c an<1 J«st naturally blocks the ' \v*f$3^wheels of commerce while she lasts. %."igjwhy, T*e known the ferry boats bet 'tween San Francisco and Oakland to sSjget lost for hours on their twenty-minute run--and all along of a blasted -tule fog." "I dont doubt your word a mite. I never did see a ferry-boat / skipper that knew shucks about •;v>. ^salJoriring," the Imperturbable Gibney \ responded. "Me. I'll smell my way •* f home In any tul® fog." ^ "Maybe you can an* msybe von -'JS . can't. Gib. although far be It from me ^ to question your ability. Pll take It g^l'V >4^.^for granted. Nevertheless, I ain't p- ... - '"**a-goln' to run the risk o' you havfn* scatarrh o' the nose en* confusln' your ^ 'smells tonight. Ton ain't got nothln' ?%" '! at stake but your Job, whereas if I j|lose the Maggie I lose my hall for- , • - y tune. . Bring her about, Gib, an' let's hustle back." ^ "Don't he an old woman," Mr. Glb- '*" ** ^ jiey pleaded. "Scrasres. you Just ain't got enough works Inside yea to All a wrist watch." "I ain't a-goln' to poke around In the dnrk an' a tule fog, feel in' for the Golden gate," Captain 8eraggs - shrilled peevishly. "H--l's bells an' panther tracks! *: - <v , rve got my old courses, an* If 1 foUer £'v/ them we can't help gettln' home." ||v ' ' Captain Scraggs laid his hand on Mr. Gibney's great arm and tried to ^ ^ smile paternaUy. "Gib, my dear boy." ~ v - p l c n d c d , " J o n t r o ! y o u r s e l f . O o n ' t $£&'; '<* ergue with me, Gib. Fm master here ^ 5«» you're mate. Do I make myself 8*" ' £ • eI*"fTlro?"o Scraggsy. But It wont *i avail you nothin'. You're only master deck and leaped furiously upon tt with both feet. Six times he did this; then with a blow of his fist he knocked the rain back into a semblance of its original shape end immediately felt totter. "If 1 was yon, skipper, I'd bold my temper until I got to port; then I'd git jitigie-j an' forgit mf troubles Inexpensively," somebody advised him. Scraggs turned. In a little square hatch the head aud shoulders of Mr. Bartholomew McGuffey, chief engineer; first, second and third assistant engineer, oiler, wiper, watertender, and coal-pusser of the Maggie, appeared. He was standing on the steel ladder that led up from his stuffy engine room and bad evidently come up, like a whale, for a breath of fresh air. "The way you ruin them bonnets o* yourn sure is a scandal." Sir. McGuffey concluded. "If I had a temper ns nasty as yourn I'd take soothin' sirup or somethln' for It." • • t « • • • Before proceeding further with this narrative, dtie respect for the reader's curiosity directs that we diverge for a period sufficient to present a brief history of the steamer Maggie and her peculiar crew. We will begin with the Maggie. She bad been built on Puget sound back in the eighties, and was one hundred and six feet over all, twenty-six feet beam and seven feet drift. .t becuz of a gentleman's agreement be- >gf\ * * h tween us two, an' because I'm man K - . enough to flgger there's certain rights fc ;i • ?;4. do* y°n as owner o' the Maggie. But, don't you forget that acconlin' to the records tf the inspector's office. Pm Nk vf-'k mastpr °f the Maggie, an' the way I ®"~"" * ' ®eKer '*• whenever there's any call to ^ show a little real seamanship, that -~Zr $ j gentleman's agreement don't stand." "But this alnt one o* them times, Gib." "Yoate whtstlln* ft Ifc'^If we run from this here fog. It's skiffs to hatggf%"^ tleshlps we don't get Into San Fran- *^flV-s Cisco bay an' discharged before six o'clock tomorrow night. By the time • ,•' ^ we've taken on coal an' water an' I what-all. It'll be eight or nine o'clock, # 5^ w^h me an' MoGufTey entitled to t •> mebbe three dollars overtime an' bavin* to argue an' scrap with yon to fit it--not to apeak o' havin' to put to ig* same night so's to be back In flalfmoon bay to load bright an* early ^.ji j fiext mornln'. S<ragggy, I «in't no ^ jpjgfjt bird on this run." -fr./'Do you mean to defy me. Glbf <^ptaln Scraggs' little green eyes *f,eamefl halefully. Mr. Gibney looked down upon him with tolerance, as a Oreat Dane gazes upon a fox terrier. certainly do. Scraggsy, old pepperpot," he replied caJmly. "What're you goln' to do about it?" The ghost of i fmlle lighted his Jovial countenance. [ "Nothin'--now. I'm helpless." Captain Scraggs answered with deadly calm. "Btit the minute we hit the dock you an' me parts company.' "I don't know whether we will or sot S< raggsy. I aint heeled right financially to hit the beach on audi Short notice, "I'll get the police to remove you, you blistered pirate," Scraggs •creamed, now quite beside himself. "YesT Weil, the minute they let go q' me I'll come back to the 8. S. Mag gie ind tear her apart Just to see what makes iter go." He leaned out the pilot-house window and sniffed. **Tule fog, all right. Scraggs. Still, that ain't no reason why the ship's company should fast, is It? Quit bickerin' with me, little one, an' see If you can't wrastle up some ham an' eggs. I warn my eggs sunny side «p." Sensing the futility of further argunent. Captain Scraggs sought solace In a stream of adjectival opprobrium, plainly meant for Mr. Gibney but de- Kreref!, nevertheless, impersonally. He Closed the pilot-house door furiously behind him and started for the galley. "Some bright day I'm goln' to git tired o' hearln' you cuss my proxy," Mr. Gibney bawled after htm, "an* whM that fatal time arrives I'll scato* Kill-Flea over you an* the frorWil know you no more." . "Oh, go to--glory, you plg-lron polisher," Captain Scraggs tossed back at over his shoulder--and honor wai «j#|fled. In the lee of the pilot boqse Cfetitaln Scraggs paused, set bis 1 1 Certainly Do, 8craggsy, Old Pep* per-Pot," He Replied Calmly. -i Driven by a little steeple compound engine, in the pride of her youth she could make ten knots. However, what with old age and boiler scale, the beat she could do now was six, and had Mr. McGuffey paid the slightest heed to the limitations Imposed upon bla steam gauge by the supervising Inspector of boilers at San Francisco, she would have been limited to five. Each annual inspection threatened to be her last, and Captain Scraggs. her sole owner, lived In perpetual fear that eventually the day must arrive when, to save the lives of himself and his crew, he would be forced to ship new boiler and renew the rotten timbers around her (leadwood. She had come into Captain Scraggs' possession at public auction conducted by the United States marshal, following her capture as she sneaked Into San Francisco bay one dark night with a load of Chinamen and opium from Ensenada. She had cost him fifteen hundred hard-earned dollars. Scraggs--Phineas P. Scraggs. ta employ his full name--was precisely the k'nd of man one might expect to own and operate the Maggie. Ratfaced, snaggle-toothed and furtive, with a low cunning that sometimes passed for great Intelligence, Scrapgs' character is best described in a homely American word. He was "ornery." A native of San Francisco, be bad grown up around the docks and had developed from mesnboy on a river steamer to master of bay and, river steamboats, although It is not of record that he ever commanded such craft. Despite his "ticket" there was none so foolish as to trust him with one--a condition of affairs which had tended to sour a disposition not naturally sweet. The yearning to command a steamboat gradually had developed Into an obsession. Result-- the "fast and commodioua S. 8. Maggie," as the United States marshal had had the audacity to advertise her. In- th^Sbeginnlng, Captain Scraggs had planned^to do bay and Hver towing with the Maggie. Alas! The first time the unfortunate Scraggs attempted to tow a heavily laden barge up river, a light fog had come down, necessitating the frequent blowing of the whistle. Following the sixth lone blast, Mr. McGuffey bad whistled Scrnggs on the engine-room bowler; swearing horribly, he had demanded to be Informed why in this and that the skipper didn't leave that dod-gasted whistle alone. It was using up his steam faster than he could manufacture It Thereafter. Scraggs had used a patent foghorn, and when the honest McGuffey had once more succeeded in conserving sufficient steam to end tte Maggie the ebb. McGuffey dedpjjj^jk^gi* new tubes in the boiler HTOWMT40 lli» trick, but on the other hand, Mr; Gibney pointed out that the old craft was practically punk aft and a stiff tow would Jerk the tall off the old rhrl. Ia despair, therefore Captain SctMg* had abandoned bay and river towing and was prepared to jump overboard and end all, when an opportunity offered for the freighting of garden truck and dairy produce from Halfmoon hay to San Francisco. But now a difficulty arose. The new run was an ^eutslde" one--salt water all the way. Under the ruling of the inspectors, the Maggie would be running ••oastwlse the Instant she engaged Sri the green-pea and string-bean trade, and Captain Scruggs' licence provided for" no such contingency. His ticket entitled him to act as master on the waters of San Francisco boy and the waters tributary thereto, and although Scraggs argued that the Pacific ocean constituted waters "tributary thereto,** If he understood the English language, the Inspectors were obdurate. What if the distance was less than twenty-five miles? they pointed out. The voyage was undeniably coastwise and carried with It all the risk of wind and wave. And In order to Impress upon Captain Scraggs the weight of their authority, the inspectors suspended for six months Captain Scraggs" bay and river license for having dared to negotiate two coastwise voyages without consulting them. Furthermore, they warned him that the next time he did It they would condemn the fast and commodious Maggie. In this extremity, Fate bad sent to Captain Scraggs a large. Imposing, capable, but socially indifferent person who responded to the name of Adelbert P. Gibney. Mr. Gibney had spent part of an adventurous life In the United States navy, where he had applied himself and acquired a fair smattering of navigation. Prior to entering the navy he had been a foremast hand in clipper ships and had held a second mate's berth. Following his discharge from the navy he had sailed coastwise on steam schooners, and after -attending a navigation school for two months, bad procured a license as chief mate of steam, any ocenn and any tonnage. Unfortunately for Mr. Gibney, he had a failing. Most of ns bare. The most genial fellow in the world, he was cursed with too mnch brains and imagination and a thirst which required quenching around pay day. Also, he had that beastly habit of command which Is Inseparable from a born leader; when he held a first iniiie's berth, he^wss'wout to try is "run the ship" and. on occasions, ladle out suggestions to his skipper. Thus, in time, he acquired a reputation for being unreliable and a windbag. with the result that skippers were chary of engaging him. Not to be too prolix, at the time Captain Scrnggs made the disheartening discovery that he had to have a skipper for the Maggie, Mr. Gibney found himself reduced to the alternative of longshore work or a fo'castle berth In a windjammer bound for blue water. With alacrity, therefore, Mr. Gibney bad accepted Scraggs' offer of seventy-five dollars a month--"and found"--to skipper the Maggie on her coastwise run. As a first mate of steam he had no difficulty Inducing the Inspectors to grant him a license to skipper such an shsndoned craft BS the Maggie, and accordingly he hung up his ticket In her pilot house and was registered as her master, albeit. under a gentleman's agreement with Scraggs he was not to claim the title of captain and was known to the world as the Maggie's first mate, second mate, third mate, quartermaster, purser and freight Clerk. One Neils Haivorsen, a solemn Swede with s placid, bovine disposition, constituted the fo'castle hands, while Bart McGuffey, j* wastrel of the Gibney type but slower-witted, reigned supreme In the engine room. Also his case resembled that of Mr. Gibney in tbat McGuffey*s job on the Maggie was the first he had bad In six months and he treasured It accordingly. For this reason he and Gibney had been Inclined to take considerable slack from Captain Scraggs until McGuffey discovered tbat, in aU probability, no engineer In the world, except himself, would have the courage to trust himself within range of the Maggie's •hollers, and, consequently, he had Captain Scraggs more or less at his mercy. Upon imparting this suspicion to Mr. Gibney. the latter d»»<*ided that It would he a cold day. Indeed, when his ticket would not constitute a clnh wherewith to make Scraggs. as Gibney expressed. It. "mind bis Ps^and Q's- t It will be seen, therefore, that mutual necessity held this queeriy as-' sorted trio together, and, though they quarreled furiously, nevertheless, with the passage of time their own weaknesses ahd those of the Haggle had aroused in each for tbe other a curious affection. While Captain Scraggs frequently "pulled" a monumental bluff and threatened to dismiss both Gibney snd McGuffey--end, in fact, occasionally went so far as to order them off his ship,*on their part Gibney and M'-Guffe* were~wont to work the seme racket and resign. With the gubsidence of their anger and the return to reason, however, the trio had a habit of meeting accidentally In the Rowhead saloon, where, sooner or later, they were certain to bury their grudge In a foaming beaker of steam beer, snd return Joyfully to tbe Maggie. Of alt the little ship's cotniwiny. Nells Haivorsen, eotUN«u!ally destgoniy fndfviduflf wHi> #a«*fR in fact, his own man. Ni steady, industrious, falthfgl, ami .reliable; any one of a deckhand jobs were ever Hfltaf, yet, for some reason bes|' kftOftt to blDMelf, be preferred te Stick toy* the Magpie In his do!) vrty it I» probable that he was ffcaetnnted by the agile Intelligence Ot Mr. Qflteey. the vitriolic ttiilgBe of Scraggs, and tbe efoplMntine wit and *ri**lj bear courage of Mr.'McGuffey. At any rate, he delighted in hearing them snarl and wrangle. However, to return to the Maggie which we left entering the tule fog a faw^Ues north of Pilar peto^l < CHAPTER It. Captain Scraggs and The Squarehead partook first of the bam and egg*. j»ffee and bread, which the skipper prepared. Scraggs ther, prepared a similar meal for Mr. Gibney and McGuffey, set It in the oven to keep warm, and descended to the engine room to relieve McGuffey for dinner. Neils at the same time took the course from Mr. Gibney and relieved the latter at the wheel. By this time, darkness had descended upon the world, and the Maggie bad entered the fog; following her custom she proceeded in absolute silence, although as a partial offset to the extreme liability to collision with other coastwise craft, due to the non-whistling rule aboard the Maggie. Mr. Gibney bad laid a course half a mile Inside the usual steamer lanes,* albeit due to bis overwhelming desire for peace he had neglected to inform his owner of this; the honest fellow proceeded upon the hypothesis tbat what people do not know is not apt to trouble them. Captain Scraggs read the log and reported the mileage to Mr. Gibney, who figured with the stub of a pencil on the pilot house wall, wagged his head, and appeared satisfied. "Better go for'd," he ordered, "an* help The Squarehead on the lookout. At eight o'clock we ought to be right under the lee o' Point San Pedro; when I whistle we ought to catch the echo thrown back by the cliff. Listen for It." Promptly at eight o'clock Mr. McGuffey was horrified to see his steam gauge drop half a pound as the Maggie's siren sounded. Mr. Gibney stuck his ingenious head out of tbe pilot house and listened, bnt no answering echo reached his ears. "Hear anything?" he bawled. 'Heard the Maggle'a siren," Captain Scraggs retorted venomously. Mr. Gibney leaped out on deck, selected a small head of cabbage from a broken crate and hurled It forward. Then he sprang back into the pilot house and straightened the Maggie on her course again. He leaned over the binnacle, with the cuff of his watchcoat wiping away tlijt moisture on the glass, and studied the instrument carefully. "I don't trust the danged thing," he muttered. "Guess I'll haul her off a coupler points an' try the whistle again." He did. Still no echo. He was Inclined to believe that Captain Scraggs had not read the taffrail log correctly, and when at eight-thirty he tried the whistle again be was still without results In the way of an echo from the cliff, albeit tbe engine room howler brought him several of a profuse character from the perspiring McGuffey. "We've passed Pedro," Mr. Gibney decided. He ground his cud and muttered ugly things te himself, for bis dead reckoning had gone astray and gti mlrnammJt •Hern. ' AT.ft* Broke. b«t «Mt SOOncled la for full efficient iS^nffey^ tnlqplCjr jiilij) ber wide open, and the Vats* decreed that, having doce so, Mr. MeQrfey should forthwith climb the is4dnt end thrust his head out on deck for a ferefttfc et fresh air. Instantly a cftomii «9 shrieks op on the fo'casttt head attracted his ittegttea to such a degree that he failed to befer the engine rcem bowler m 1& Gfbney blew ftaatlrflliy Intc It. Presently, out of the hubbub forward » Mr. McGuffey heard Captain Scraggs wall frantically; "Stop her! For the love of heaven, stop her!" Instantly tbe engineer dropped back Into the engine room and set the Maggie full speed astern; then he grasped the howler and held It to his ear. "Stop her!" he heard Gibney shriek. "Why In blazes don't you stop her?" "She's set asterp, Gib. Shell eus np in a minute." "You know Itl" Gibney answered significantly. The Maggie climbed laxity to tbe crest of a long oily roller, did recklessly down the other side, and took the following sea over her taffrail. She still bad aome head on, but very little--not qvftfe sufficient to give her decent steerage way. as Mr. Gibney discovered when, having at length com-, muBleated his desires to McQaffey, he ipnn the wheel frantically In a belated effort to swing-tte Maggie's dirty nose out to sea. "Nothing doln'," he snarled. "SheTl have to come to a complete stop before she begins to walk backward and get steerage way on again. Shell bump ns sure as death an' taxes." <TO BE CONTINUED*) LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY FEW Vagrants in East End of Lendon Has an Ancient Celtic Tongue Among Themselves. Shelta Thar! is a language used secretly among people of the tinker class and principally to be met with la Scotland and Ireland. Its use was first discovered and made known In UIB by Charles K. Leland, an American antiquarian, and Prof. John Sampson of Liverpool. One day. while walking by the seashore at Aberystwyth, they encountered s tramp who addressed them In an unknown tongue. Both were versed in the Boaaany or gypay language-and were mnch surprised to meet one who spoke a tongue of which they knew not a word. They collected a number of phrases from this man and found on Inquiry tbat be had acquired this strange speech from his wife, who waa a tinker. The tinkers, be said, kept their knowledge of the language a secret, speaking It only among themselves. Later I/eland encountered many other persons who spoke 8helta. He found that in many of the drinking places In the East end of London, where vagrants wften congregate, the language was freely employed, but tbat when an outsider made his appearance, it ceased at once to be spoken. Scientific methods applied to the study of Shelta proved tITat It is no mere system of back slang or cant, bnt at> ancient Celtic speech. Romany, the language of the English gypsies, is still spoken by a large namber of persona Among the majority of them it has become corrupt, bat the elder gypsy folk still apeak what Is known as "deep" Romany, that is, the gypsy languag* la Its pure state. The dialect of Shetland, although Its grammar Is Lowland Scotch, la vefry largely Norse and as spoken by the Shetlanders smoug themssltts Is scarcely uadeiaiaadaMe by the average Scotsman. On the fade of Man, a Celtic tongne dlffarsat from Gaelic or Welch to still aaed by a number ot tha inhabitants. Answer! t^JEc Mis as Wmvn ilerhv hat r>o n»»l tin Hvjr Hi« Hd* had tnrn«it ! noted as "The Squarehead, Mf- the K'h f -r - - • v* ' 9 ^ V ** t ' ' - • » " v' ~ ' • ' v /, , > J, ' f , # f - J* * y i 4,-> " he was worried. The fog. If anything. w*a thicker than- ever. - Time paaaed. Suddenly Mr. Gibney thrilled electrically to s shrill yip from Captain Scraggs. "What's thatr Mr. Gibney bawled. "I dtmnoL Sounds like the sort Gib." ~Ain t yon been on this run long enough to know that the surf don't sound like nothln' else in life hut breakers?" Gibney retorted wrathfully. "I ain't certain, Gib." Instantly Gibney signaled MeGnffey for half speed ahead. "Breakers on the starboard bow," yelled Captain Scrngga, "Port boar," The Squarsfeaad corrected him. "Oh, my great patfeaeal** Mr. Gibney groaned. "They're OS both bows an' we're hen dad atralght for Ma "Spendthrift Will#* Cuaaiisn. "Spendthrift wtfle." in which the heir la plaead virtually at the mercy of the executor, who mnst watch his conduct doaely to determine whether the money properly can be turned over to him. are common. Monthly payments to heirs are often specified and provisions made for burials and the erecting of monuments. Conditions may be attached that a proponed chnrch building to which the testator desires to leave the money must l»e built within a certain thne or the bequest Is forfeited. Money Is placed in trust for sending children to collage or for other i«nrpuses,, and the trist company must see to It that tt Is used for the pnrpoaaa specified and for no other*. perstss is a very tfcla thread of ttwd it one WMI and lUikfmtaBy. The »»croicopic «(bJeces to he weighed are ytaer-d apqp U*e-*M» thread oeer tt» fre* snd a«S ffc» of Harare produced is microscope timpaJfying 100 A mote weighing on*-thousandth of a a milligram perceptibliy bends the thread. MOTHER, QUICK! QIVE CALIFORNIA FIA SYRBP FDR CHILD'S BOWELS •k-J *«:.i ' V" ' mmm--rnmmm, Even a sick child lores the "fruity" taste of "California Fig Syrup." If the little tongue in coated, or tf yonr la listless, cross, fevarish, tm of or big colic,-* taaapoeaftf W JWPK BOW att eoMttpBMb'aad waste from the $e»de*, little bowels aud glvea you a win, pliff*! child again. JMTOIPBI of mothers kaiep "California fig Syrup" handy. They know a tea- VOMBftil today «mw a sfck cMM «f- <be tamona V$FS». less tasaotar, ha» Jest shown that ha is not above learning, even front a schoolboy," says the writer. V "The schoolboy in qnesttoe, It I seema, discovered a novel ntrfhmf of helping other pupils daring s<ftoat.'ex^ Ernlnattocts by making use of whwless. "Two small pieces' of apparatus were constructed, one for the ringleader of the boys, and the other for a well-known professor alio was propared to give suggestions during amfnations. "The trick was discovered by the teachers, who noticed an unexpected improvement in tbe entire schoolboy community. "The young inventor was immediately invited by Senator Marconi te explain Ms method, and Matron I perceived at once that the little device contained certain remarttable Improvements on the iiraaoul wlreieea system. The boy was therefore promoted to the rank of awfiM«a| «o 4|g "Califerola JTg Syrup" which has «- teetieos foe babies and children of all MM printed oa bottle. Mother! You mnei aay»*,Oa1ifortiB" or yon may get an imitation Ig syrup.--Advertisement WOULD HAND LORD DOLLAR Bnt 8ome People Will Doubt Whether £udr a Man Will Ever Oppr ^ ? Cloas Enough* li v A yooag man In Missouri wig collecting .funds for a benevolent institution. He tried hard to get a dollar from an old gentleman who waa noted for his closeness. When the young man had stated his mission and asked for the dollar, the elderly person asked: "Weil, young man, bow old are youf* "I am twentv-flve." said the vunth. "Well," continued the old gentleman. "I am aeventy-flve years old, and as you are only twenty-five years, I think that I will get to aee the Lord sooner than you. I will hMH *lgp the ftoilar myself."--Pittsburgh Dispatch. When Wlnisr Begins. The first of December Is generally considered to begin the winter senssa, but in reality wtnfer does not COHH . mence until DeceedMT 22, the day on j which the sun reaches the solstice | and turns back for its northward journey. In the northern hemisphere that day is the shortest of the year, in the southern hemisphere the longest, ! though for a month thereafter there Is little perceptible cbangg-..:lfc^&lif' length of the days. '•tf tf % $ $ I Dogfish and Sharlca SWli'al varieties of large dogfish and sharks are found eroond the British coast Tbe fax-shark, or thresher, follows the sboela of herriags, pilchards and sprat* destroying grant numbers snd often dolag mnch damage to neca. It ofteo attains a length of IS feet, including ita long, marrow tall, which often e» coeds in length the remainder of the body. The Greenland shark, which somethaae grows to SB feet, occasionally strays from arctic waters to the latitudes of Great Britain. Tbe tope ia a dogfish common on tbe coast of England and Ireland. It Is Of e alate-gray color and attains ia letogth of six feet Another dOgSsh' Is also common. It attains a length ef from tbfree to four Met. f ^ *•** .. ;• "i Strictly Neutral. Dean was playing with bis brother, Dick, and a neighbor beg, John, when Ugh* god Dirt began to fight. j&«ii came in the honaa and 1 aapM' him why be didnt help his hfrtfrer, far 1 had been watching out Urn window. "I juat t«d him he conld battle Us own fights*" bo aald.--Chicago Trihliving by OMRs wits has been smmended as an antlfat remedy. . The Leading Lady. 1FWO Brooklyn men were greetings the other day, when them exclaimed: "Why, Bill, old chap, you're In fine trim. You're positively beaming I Tve never seen you look so satisfied with yourself and the world. Any particular reason?" "Yes," aald Bill. "The fact la, I*ve just succeeded In signing ttp our lead* lng lady for another season." "I bad no idea you were in the theatrical business." "Nor am I. I am referring to 'Wtt? cook."--Milwaukee Sentinel. r-:1 j*' •tern 176,000^000 Lives Saved. Superintendent C. F. Culler repeat*-* that approximately tfMSO.OOO fish were rescued from landlocked waters along the Mississippi river during tfee season which closed November 1. This work establlabes a record IB the history of the bureau's operations and est tt» to Illustrate the tremendous . mortality to which the river fishes are liable because of physical con#*-- resulting from freshets.--Flsfc- 8ervid» Bfelletln. Women In Sculpture Society. Ten American women sculptnso have -been honored with membership in the National Sculpture society. Cresses Oosan Itf Times. W. P. Willis, a buslaMi man j* New York, has eroeeed tbe AMsiiQs 180 times. ' Studying Alaskan^glndera. Prof. W. & Cooper Ante that MOfar fhder has receded 60 miles In tbe last 127 ysnM. •A \ ~1 Even~your worst enemy probably baa no Idea how mean yon could be tf fep wanted to. When a man sings Ms Ism pralaa bo invariably gets an octavo blghec. American Poisonous Snakaa. i There are four poisonous groups of snakes within tbe boundaries of tbe United States, These afo: "the moccasin. rattler, copperhead .nd harlequin. AH are easily distinguished t»y their large. Mend head% deep-get black eyes, small neck, stent bulky body and short tall. Tbe most dangerous of these perhaps is the mocra sin, for. tt usually rests of low trees aad fbtub* s passing victim, fiowi fratn from striking antes* irritate"? wW glee battle oaly when teased man may by heart yet be unaole to V'S:- •«£%?• ••*":;"fr 11^: 'TS Never say "AspWiiw without sayfaig WARN1NGI Unless you see name you are not & physicians over 11 winpinM-• 'Mis, Ot 24 ead My-An Mr. F»nI 1#'F"ADLE tism Neuritis Lumbagofl^ - . Z Pain, Patf tkCtyi only aiiidi conll