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? ?? .y™*w,:?*:»*»• >-r *• ! f$.+\ Jirt*. ^jW£\ #$ t i/ % C * 7'; >$ '* . *«"£ -' ^ ' v, ' , . -" - 1 v * ' - * ,<u> <" *' * 1-4 ~7 ' L^r*:-jSf&* ¥2 '^A>;ff^ I! l/f' >•« :t*. iiililil sasaw jzfjarD&sos oriyzm Amcmm r̂ A2̂ ĉ JWMM& ,̂ jgmmi%z>#y "AW$®MO fis&f--M&?j 4 ' , HE differentiation between these two animals Is a subject of unusual Interest to the sportsman-natural­ ist. To trace the origin of the popular misconception that the two names are synonymous, a isi stake to which even some of our best known sportsman of today must plead guilty, we, have to dive into the not always limpid depths of early mediaeval history. For the event which has probably more to do than any other with the promulgation of this error was the famous hunt given by Charlemagne to the ambassadors of Haroun-al-Rashid in the «i«wir Hercyian woods that surrounded his hunt­ ing lodge, Heristallum. According to the original account by the monk Eginhard of St. Gall, the aurochs were of such terror-instilling appearance to the men from the east that they could not* erven bear the sight of them, and fled from the emperor's side- The latter, attacked by the fierc­ est of these monsters, missed the vital spot, with the result that before brave Isambart could •lay It the enjperor was slightly wounded in the thigh and had his nether garment torn Into •hreds. Rushing to his side, the assembled cour- . tiers offered to divert themselves of their own hose but the emperor laughingly rejected their offers, declaring that he intended to show him­ self in his sorry plight to the fair Hildegarde, who was a great huntress herself. Needless to aay, this adventure proved a mediaeval "scoop" of the gaudiest kind, but in the course of un­ numbered retellings the aurochs became a wi- sent, as was called the European bison, and since . that time a perplexing confusion has reigned be­ tween these two animals. That the true aurochs, which became extinct three hundred years ago, was an entirely different animal from the bison, whose name, alas! is also on the list of animals about to share the auroch's fate, is now a fact known to all scientific men. To the writer the poor old bison's pathetic fate appeals more par­ ticularly, for when shooting in the Rockies in the seventies of last century he still saw them in herds of ten thousand. But as the men who can claim to have seen the same marvellous sight will before long follow these lordly Inhabitants of the wilds to the happy hunting grounds, the atndy of the past history of these two swedes has for some qpople unusual attraction^. And ' not the least interesting phase of it is the col­ lecting of pictures made at a time when both •beasts were still roaming over the "wastes of the earth," or had but recently disappeared. Of the earliest of all pictures of what was prob­ ably meant to be the bison, an interesting arti­ cle which recently appeared in an illustrated week­ ly, in which the roof pictures in the Altamlra Cave were reproduced, gave one a capital idea. After a gap of untold centuries we reach the various pictorial records left to us by the chie- • ela, gravers or brushes of the classic ages. Among those who have made important discov­ eries respecting the distribution of the aurochs. Professor Conrad Keller, the well-known Zurich zoologist, occupies a prominent place. His dis- . coveries in the ruins of the ancient palace of v' King Minos in Crete of no fewer than sixteen horn-cores and one skull of what unquestionably was the original wild ox of Europe, or aurochs. show that .it lived there at one peflod, and that the famous legend of the mlnotaur has a sub­ stratum of truth. From his pages we borrow an Illustration of an important ffesco in Knossos de­ picting an aurochs in the act of impaling a help­ less-looking victim, while a hold bull-fighter Is actually turning a somersault over the back of the beast, a third, possibly female, looker-on at­ tempting to seise the bull's tall, the scene being probably enacted in an arena. It is possible that the Theseus story eame from the slaughter of captives in such exhibitions. Several other pic­ tures have been recently discovered which be- Ipng to the Minos period, 1. e., between 2000 and - 1500 B. C. Professor Keller's highly instructive writings contain many other illustrations of Bos prlmifenius. Skipping tens of centuries, we reach the Bes­ tiaries, the most ancient of which originated in the period we touched at the outset when speak­ ing of Charlemagne's aurochs-hunt. These ex­ ceedingly primitive pictorial records do not add much to our information; "the'choice hurts one," as Germans describe that state of uncertainty in regard to what the monastic artists meant to' represent by their crude attempts. Skipping a few more centuries, we at last reach, in the be­ ginning of the fifteenth century, fairly intelligent accounts of the animal's habitat, and are fur­ nished with drawings presenting features suffi­ ciently distinct to Indicate, even to eyes accus­ tomed to photographic accuracy, the identity of the animal the picture means to represent. Very curious is the circumstance, to which, by the way. nobody has so far drawn attention. that none of the French sporting books of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, such as "Roy Modus," "Gaston Phoebus," "Gace de la Buigne'* and "Fontalnes-Guerin," mentions either Ate 3i3&f IT/ BM&arr ,3ooec • . v#' J aurochs or the bison by so much as a word. As the authors of these classics were great sports* men and close observers, this would support the theory that both these animals had already then become quite extinct in western Europe. In the sixteenth century, when Europe, so far as art was concerned, had at last been aroused from its mediaeval stupor by the Invention of printing, and an extraordinary demand had sprung up for pictorial matter illustrating re­ cent exploration of new worlds and the various formB of the chase, there were produced quite a number of pictures of the aurochs by artists, very few of whom had ever set eyes upon a live wild specimen, though they may have seen cap­ tive ones. The one artist of whom we positively know that he hsd before him at leaA a stuffed specimen was the Viennese engraver Augustin Hlrschvogel (born in Numberg about 1503), who illustrated the famous travel book of Baron Her* berstein, the authority most frequently quoted in connection with the aurochs, for he was absolute­ ly tht; last Intelligent observer who saw the beast in its wild state, and left pictorial records of his Impressions. Herbersteln was gifted wi&i pres- ctent eyes, for he foresaw that the aurochs was doomed to speedy extinction. Hence on his sev- eial expeditions to the unknown Interior of Rus­ sia as the ambassador, first of Emperor Maxi­ milian in 1616-18, then on many different occa­ sions as Charles VVs and Ferdinand's emissary, he made notes about it. and, what was much more Important, actually brought back with him some skins and skulls, which be bad mounted In his ,house In Vienna, and from which Hlrschvogel probably drew his celebrated picture of the aurochs. To differentiate he drew next to It a picture of a bison. As these two "portraits.** which have been published scores of times, will be familiar to all Interested in this matter, we will merely quote the inscriptions placed by Her­ bersteln over the two pictures, for it is a per­ fectly correct differentiation. The picture of the bison has the following: "I am a Bison, am called by the Poles a Suber, by the Germans a Bisont or Damthier, and by the ignorant an aurochs." Over the woodcut of the" aurocos: "I am an Urus which is called by the Poles a Tur, by the Germans an Aurochs and until now by the Ignorant a Bison." The inscriptions in the various editions--Herberstein's volume appeared in several languages--vary triflingly, but the above, which are taken from the edition of 1556. give the sense in the best form. Shortly after Herbersteln the Flemish painter 8tradanus, who lived and worked for over fifty years in Florence (from 1553 to 1605), produced a drawing of an aurochs engaged in a terrific struggle in an arena where he was matched against a lion, two wolves and a bear. This original drawing Is not the least Interesting of the twenty odd ancient pictures of the aurochs In the writer's collection. In 1578 .the Antwerp publisher Philip Galle published this and one hundred and three other sporting drawings by the Florentine master, and underneath each of the engravings there is a Latin inscription. The one under the plate reproducing the drawing runs: "Some great lords are looking on at a spec­ tacle in the arena. A furious lion with revenlng fang and claws tears spme wild beasts. He lays the wolves low and defeats the Taurus' In n strug­ gle, while the bear cowers away in terror." Wheth­ er' the artist ever wltnessd such a struggle in an arena cannot be ascertained; but it Is quite possi­ ble, considering their great popularity during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The blasts were caught in pitfalls and transported great distances. The likeness is not a bad one, and in the above col­ lection of prints there are three othar pictures of aurochs, and a fifth depict­ ing the lassoing of the bu­ bal us on the island of Sar dinla. A contemporary and countryman of Stradanus, one Hans Bol. produced also an Interesting engrav­ ing of an aurochs hunt which forms the second print of his attractive little set entitled, "Venatlonis, Piscationls, et Aucupil typi," published in 1582 by the same enterprising Ant­ werp publishers that gave the world the last-named collection. Beneath the au­ rochs picture we read, ia Latin elegiac couplets: "Thus with darts, swords, and light arrows men every­ where drive the horned aurochs into pits." A rath­ er similar print was produced fourteen years after bmy the Nurnberg engraver. Johann Sib- macher, who etched nine other sporting plates. Then follow, In rapid succession, half a dosen "portraits" by Tempesta, the pupil of Stradanus, one of which prints we reproduce. It shows la what awe the gigantic wild bull was held, for it depicts a formidable-looking machine wherewith the bull could be attacked and brougbt down. Tempesta's pictures need not be taken seriously, for his Roman "studio" was nothing but a work­ shop where apprentice hands turned oul a vast mass of prints of little or no value in an enquiry of this sort. His English contemporary of the pen, Edward Topsell, In his illustrated aatural history hodge-podge called the "Historie of Foure» Footed Beastes" (1607) only added to the exist­ ing confusion. "A Bison," he says, "is a beast very strange as may appear by his figure pre- .flxed Which by many authors is takeu for Urus, some for a Bugle or wild oxe, others, for a Ranglfer, and many for the beast Tarantus or Buffe." And, to show that he really meant what he said, he affixes a picture of what is unmistak­ ably a reindeer! Fortunately, however, he adds, as pictures of the bison and of the aurochs, re­ plicas of the two prints by Hlrschvogel out of Herberstein's "Rerum Moscoviticarum Comnrtn- tarii," which, as %e have already mentioned, are among the most correct representations pub­ lished at a period when the aurochs still existed. In England, the bellf that th aurochs was a bison-like creature continued throughout the eighteenth century. The picture taken from Sam­ uel Clarke'4 "Julius Caesar," published In 171t„ •hows what extraordinary Ignorance still pre­ vailed, the animal with antlers like an inverted umbrella being a bison, or Bos germanus, and the beast in the center an aurochs. The graver of Holzab of Zurich, continues the misconcep­ tion; indeed, goes one better, for the bison is here turned into an "American aurochs." Of numerous other illustrations of our two beasts, we have not the Bpace to speak at length. One of the most characteristic of the latter 'type is the so-called Hamilton Smith picture of the au­ rochs. This is a painting, dating, It is believed, from the first quarter o( the sixteenth century, discovered In Augsburg not quite a hundred years ago. This painting has mysteriously dis­ appeared, but an accurate copy was made. For the first "modern" picture of the bison that ap­ peared in England we have also to go to Ger man sources, and, strangely enough, to the same city, for it was Augsburg's most famous animal painter, Ridinger (1697-1767). who drew the flrat life-like picture. A countryman of his, one J. S. Muller, who lived many years in London, engrav­ ed, in 1758. a fine set of plates representing wild animals after Rldlnger's drawings from nature. Among them is one of the bison, called by him the buffalo, and underneath is a lengthy and fairly correct description In English, which be also copied from Ridinger. But this and other Isolated efforts have not entirely prevented the dissemination of the old mistake, for living au­ thorities still tell us. quite seriously, they have grassed aurochs., American Puritans. •^foung Oxford's" complaint, in the London Academy, that Americans at Oxford have not the art of varying the monotony of virtue in an agree­ able manner may be well founded. The Rhodes scholars are gathered from all parts of the country, Includ­ ing those where the comparative sim­ plicity of life and manners is not con­ ducive to achievement In all the polite arts. "The very best type America gives us," says the Academy's com­ plainant. "bears the stamp of ineradi­ cable Puritanism, an excellent birth­ mark, perhaps, but an excellence that ia exasperating." Puritanism is unlovely and unsound, but It is a pretty. good process and makes a fairly good foundation for strong civilization. All the Puritanism we Americans have we got from Eng­ land. England had It hard and got much good out of It. Our west is full of it now--a fairly Intolerant brand, positive of much that is not so and insistent on much that experience will not retain. But along with alt that go the Puritan virtues--devotion to good as Puritans see It. eagerness to learn, resolute acceptance of the dis­ cipline of life.--Harper's Weekly. Win Odd Walking Wager. Gerald Hirsch and Eric Maturia. two members of a well-known club in Piccadilly, for a wager walked from London to Brighton, a distance of 60 miles, the other day in 22% hours, the former wearing evening dress, with­ out a hat, and the latter a cricket shirt and short walking knickers, the footwear of both being thin socka and dancing pumps. Mr. Hlrch and Mr. Maturln accepted bets of 1,000 to 1 and 50 to 1, respectively, in sover­ eigns that they would not walk the distance under such conditions In 24 hours.--London Wireless to New York Times. Borrowing Trouble. * Blight--What la yodt idea of bor rowing trouble? Tight--Letting the neighbors aae your telephone.--Judge. DINE MUSI WAIT ASSEMBLY ACTION CANNOT TAKE OFFICE UNTIL ELECTION 18 CERTIFIED. SO SAYS ATTORNEY GEfTERM. Steed Declares Deneen Would In­ fringe on Constitution If He Per­ mitted Governor-Elect to As­ sume Power Now., Springfield. -- Attorney General Stead's opinion requested by Gov­ ernor T>eneen Is to the effect that Governor-elect Dup.ne cannot take of­ fice until the result of his election as certified to the general assembly by the secretary of state is declared by the legislature. "Thi« declaration of the result," •ays the attorney general in his opin­ ion, "is lndispenslble tor the purpose of consummating the De Jure title of the several executive officers. I am of the opinion that the officers now in office must hold until the gen­ eral assembly shall, in manner pre­ scribed by the constitution, declare who are elected their successors, re­ spectively." One Question Unanswered. While Attorney General Stead meets some of the constitutional ques­ tions raised, he does not meet one of the contentions of William L. O'Con- nell, Governor Dunne's representative, who brought the problem to Spring­ field, that under one provision of the state constitution the state officers- elect, "shall hold office for the term Of four years from the second .Mon­ day of January next after election." The attorney general bases his finding on the constitutional provision that "thQ election returns shall be certified to the general assembly, opened and announced in the pres­ ence of a majortly of both houses, aud that the person having the high­ est number of votea shall be declared duly elected." "No provision of the constitution," says the opinion, "defining the meth­ od of procedure can be rejected with­ out nullifying In part the constitu­ tion." 1 Must Declare Bsllot Officially. Continuing, the opinion says: "Tlie decision of this question de­ pends upon the returns which arte sealed up and directed to the speak­ er of the house. Until the seals are broken and until the result Is pub* llshed and declared in the presence of a joint assembly it cannot be known officially who are elected to the several executive offices. The sole authority under the constitution to find and determine this fact Is vested in the general assembly. "Until the general assembly finds this fact no one excepting the execu­ tive officers now in office has the right to exercise the functions or to discharge the duties of such offices, respectively. It follows that a per­ son not having been declared elected to a constitutional executive office has no right to demand the books, pa­ pers, documents, files and insignia of the office which he claims. V "As the corallory it follows that the person now In possession of the office cannot legally surrender possession to any one other than a person who has been declared elected to that office by a Joint meeting of the general as­ sembly." Deneen Cannot Retire. This is tantamount to a declaration that Governor Deneen cannot legally retire to permit Governor-elect Dunne to take office. Governor Deneen says he would like to step out, but will not do so unlawfully. The attorney general cites an analogous case from the supreme court of West Virginia, where thp state constitution is said to be prac­ tically Indentical with that of Illi­ nois. In 1889 Governorolect Golf was not permitted to take the office held by Governor Wilson of West Virginia. He had a plurality of votes in the election but could not take office, ac­ cording to the court, until the result had beea declared by the general as­ sembly. In that case a contest filed hy Candidate Fleming, who opposed Golf in the election, caused the delay. Governor Dunne's right to the ..office Is uncontested. Breeders of Live Stock to Meet. Prominent among the speakers who will address the annual convention of live stock breeders when it assembles in Springfield on February 4 to 6, are Dr. Walter Williams, dean of the school of journalism in Missouri State university, and Dr. M. Dorset of the blochemic department of the bureau of animal husbandry in Washington. Stockmen in attendance at the con­ vention will be given a banquet on Wednesday evening, February 5. Thursday will be a big day of the gathering. That day' wljl be given over to stock judging. State Bosrd of Health Meets. The prevention of infantile blind­ ness was considered at length at the annual meeting of the state board of health, held in the state capltol, when, on motion of Doctor Webster, the state board approved a revision of the medical law, enabling midwlves to use medicines in the eyes of Infants at birth to prevent blindness. An appropriation for the purchase and free distribution, among midwlves, of the medicines necessary was also raoc&vrended. The epileptics of the state were given favorable consideration when the state board approved an< appropri­ ation for the establishment of the atate colony for epileptics, authorised by the Illinois general assembly some fourteen years ago. This recom­ mendation, however, waa made with the proviso that the institution for epileptics should not be established until after the creation of & state hos­ pital foj; consumptives, which has been Indorsed and recommended by the state board of health in annual re­ ports for 12 years pasL Master I*fumber4 to Meet. The governor of Illinois win open the convention of the Illinois Master Plumbers in Springfield on January 28 with an address of welcome. Follow­ ing the address of the governor, Mayor John S. Schnepp will extend the greetings of the city to the visiting plumbers. The convention will con­ tinue through three days. Early in' the convention, the resolu­ tions committee probably will be In­ structed to draw up resolutions favor­ ing the appointment of a plumber to the membership of the state board of health and advocating the establish­ ment of a state examining board for plumbers. Many master plumbers throughout the state are now advo­ cating these two measures and it is thought they will be embodied readily in resolutions of the convention. The three days' meeting will close with a banquet and ball in the St. Nicholas hotel on Thursday night, January 30. Provision is being made for the serving of 700 delegates and ladies at the banquet The ball will begin at ten o'clock. BEAVER AND OTTER BATTLE TO DEATH Hunter Sees Animals Ktfi Each Other in Fierce Fight, is Many Are Succeeeful. At examinations conducted by the state civil service commission on Oc­ tober 12 for applicants for assistant superintendents and physicians at state institutions, and also an examin­ ation held on December i4, for the po­ sition of assistant state fire marshal, the following were successful, accord­ ing to lista given out by the commis­ sion : Assistant superintendents, promo­ tional--Max C. Hawley, Watertown State hospital, Watertown; Isaac F. Freemmel, Chicago State hospital. Dunning; Samuel E. Clark, Kankakee State hospital, Kankakee; Clessan C. Atherton, Elgin State hospital, Elgin; Walter L. Treadway, Jacksonville State hospital, Jacksonville; Whedon W. Mercer, Lincoln State hospital, Lin­ coln; Emll Z. Levitin, Peoria State hospital, Peoria; George W. Morrow, Anna State hospital, Anna; Romney M. Ritcbey, Anna State hospital, Anna; Francis J. Sullivan, Kankakee State hospital, Kankakee; Angelina Hamilton,-Peoria State hospital, Pe­ oria. Assistant physicians--Colin Thom­ as, Cook County hospital, Chicago; Harry C. Rolnick, Cook County hos­ pital, Chicago; Oliver P. Bigelow, Cleveland, O.; Harry J. Dooley, Cook County hospital, Chicago; Peter S. Wtmmer, 1423 Turner avenue, Chica­ go; Victor A. Bles, Elgin State hos­ pital, Elgin; Minerva Lt. Blair, Jack­ sonville State hospital, Jacksonville; Graham M. Lisor, Chicago State hos­ pital, Chicago; Harry J. Freemmel, Chicago State hospital, Chicago; James J. Mendelssohn, Lincoln State School and Colony, Lincoln. Assistant state fire marshal, promo­ tional--Adam H. Bogardus, Jr., 184 Walnut street, Springfield; Ira B. Adams, Lexington. Lucey Names Hla Aids. Ci Attorney General-elect Patrick J. Lucey of Ottawa announced the mem­ bers of his official staff for the next four yean£, the appointments to be ef­ fective with his installation Into of­ fice. First assistant--Lester B. Strawn of Ottawa. Second--George F. Ramsey of Mt Carmel. Third--Arthur B. Roy of Qulncy. Fourth--Don N. Detrich of Chicago. First Assistant L. H. Strawn is now a deputy under Attorney General Stead, having been placed there for the purpose of gaining aneIasight into the business of the office. Thomas E. Dempcy and Charles E. Woodward, assistants under Stead, w£-l remain under Attorney General Lccey until the end of the sessions of tfie present legislature, and Miss Mede Cook of Streator has also been named as pri­ vate secretary to the new head of the state legal department. To Honor Isaac Funk. The Illinois Farmers' Hall of Fame will be the scene, for the fourth time since its creation, of the acquisition of a. new portrait. The portraits to be admitted is that of the late Isaac Funk, a pioneer Illinois farmer. The exercises will be held at two o'clock In the afternoon in Memorial hall, col­ lege of agriculture, at the State uni­ versity, Urbana. The program will include: Music. Invocation--Rev. John Andrew Holmes. Opening remarks by the president of the commission Illinois Farmers' Hall of Fame, Hon. A. P. Grout- Address of welcome--Dr. Euvene Davenport, dean of college of agricul­ ture, University of Illinois. Response--D. J. T. Montgomery, president Illinois state board of agri­ culture. Addreas, "Isaac Funk, the Farmer and Legislator"--Hon Thomas C. Kerrick. The unveiling of the portrait of Isaac Funk by Miss Elisabeth Funk, the great-granddaughter. Artlclea of Incorporation. Secretary of State Doyle issued cer­ tificates of Incorporation to the fol­ lowing: Consolidated Chiropractic college, Chicago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators --D. W. Metcalf, Elsie Merkle and Anna Z. Kirwan. Chester A. Harris & Co., Cham­ paign; capital, $40,000. Incorporators --Chester A. Harris, John M. Dillavou and Edward S. Scott, Jr. Craig Letter works, Chicago; name changed to Everingham & Van De arr. Freeman's Department store, Olney; capital, $35,000. Incorporators--Jacob S. Freeman, Abe M. Freeman and Amelia D. Freeman. South Side Swedish "Good Templars' Hall association, Chicago; capital, IS.- 500. Incorporators--Eric Lager, Klas E. Ostergren and Carl Anderson. Aamax Cabinet company, Chicago; capital. $5,000. Incorporator*--John G. Llnke, Paul J. Huxmani and Max G. Hoffman. Cutting Motor company, Chicago; capital. $5,000. Incorporators--Nelson M. Mackey, John P. Klein aad Bugeoe (X Mapledoram. FOUGHT UNDER WATER They Came to the Surface Several...., Times to Blow the Water FroMt Their Lungs, but Quickly Went at ( ^ It Again. * * Seaberry, N. T.--An otter lOSf s' known to woodsmen In this region a» vj White Eye was killed in a fight with a beaver on Big brook a few days ago, ' fs according to Lem Lawson, who wit­ nessed the encounter. The beaver also lost it^'life. White Eye took its name from a circle of white hairs around its right' eye. Fishermen on Big brook, the West Canada and Metcalf stream had^ often seen It and trappers knew the animal by the print made by ita twisted foot in the snow. Lawson caught the otter in a No. 3 jump trap three years ago last spring, but the otter cramped the trap In a snag fork and pulled loose. The beaver was an old male of th# type known as a "scout." There had been no beavers on Big brook tor many years, but the stocking of the Adlrondacks with a few pairs has re­ sts 1 ted in colonies all over the Adlron­ dacks and the appearance of outlaw males in various parts of the woods. A year ago the scout beaver appeare# on Big brook and took up its quartern in a hole In the bank at the upper alderbed. Working from this holew the animal built a dam across the brook, which is here only a few feet wide, and raised the level of the stll£ water more than two feet The otter White Eye usually spent Its winters on Big brook pond, but traveled during the summer. II hall a hole In the bank near the head of the upper alderbed and whau th* beaver built the dam the water wsfl raised enough to flood the otter's mi treat It Is supposed by Lem iJiwsnf that this was what started th* flgk|; between the beaver and the otter. Lawson was stillhuntlng d««»r ale* the headwatera, when he saw th# beaver closely followed by White Ry% the otter. He waited with Interest and thefl heard a sharp barking sound, followe# by a hoglike snuffling. The tope off the alder bushes began to wave baefc. -M 4 I ' i' i/i The Beaver Was as Eager to Fight a# S. 'V' the Otter. " %;l: % and forth and little wavfes came laMafe' ^ through the overflow, showing that two were In violent combat. The ws* v ^ ter began to sprinkle around througHif the alders and fall on the open stillr . water. After a minute or two th* fighters came rolling over and over 1% the water through the alders Into tke open. They broke apart after a momenfc and then the otter shot in again an<f the beaver carried it down. The ter boiled up white over their paws, but there was a pink glow in the foam. They came to the surface three rods nearer the dam, and after blowing the water ^from their lungs went at each other again, the beaver apparently as eager to fight with its chisel teeth a» the otter was with its powerful weasel Jaws full of canines and incisors. They rolled over and over, the bea­ ver throwing the otter half out of the water with one vicious uplift of ita Jaws, and the otter came boring down with a savage snapping of its jaws. The end came just as Lawson real* ised that the beaver was spoiling a $25 otter hide. He was trying to get a sight to shoot the beaver and so * save the otter's hide when the otter t } suddenly bored in under the beaver's '.|gjj stomach and cut it open. As the bea- ver rolled over, struggling helplessly* the otter knew that it had won, andt JhJ came swimming down the Stillwater. straight toward the hunter. There was a red gash through the white eye^. fy and behind the otter the wake waa^ . ill crimson and foaming. ^ The otter crawled np on the daa» and as the long, black body left the water Lawson saw four gashes on the* right side, one nine inches long on the. . back, and on the right side of the ot~ ter's paunch waa ripped open so badlj^'"" "F ? that the heart and lungs were eK* *^ posed. '|| The otter gave a quick shudder, ba4' ' gan to roll over and over, and dleA; M within three feet of where Imm crouched. Children Burned to Death. Universal. Pa.--Trapped In a tan* Ing barn. Elisabeth Sophan, five year* old; John Chasley, aged four, an<| Mary Rands, eight years old. w«rt , j burned to death. They had fastened^ V' •' $ v:.' the door on th® inside and in s*>m*W manner set fire to the hay. The thret»v w mothers attempted to pull boarda '} from the side of the building were ravine like arrived. < "ai