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f XHE JUS Tiiilt-LOL MAIN i?'AU,HJ'.R AM) liAOitXA N, 'LLKbDAl MoiLMM), 1'EBltUAKV 18, lOOlJ. 11 H I SKIES IN FEBRUARY. I Eight First Magnitude Stars to Appear Above the I HorizonConstellation of Mighty Orion. B Eight stars of the first magnitude will bo above the horizon at 7 o'clock at the close of the month. Named In the order of their brightness, thej are Skills, I the IViR-Star, below und at the left of Orion, which ivnds before us as we face Hue soutn; Cupella,, the She-eloat, nearly overhead, nigel. In the left foot of Orion, and rietelgeuise, In his right shoulder, 1'iocyon, the I.lttle Dor at tho left, or enst of Hetelgeuse, making It and Slriui u nearlv equal-sided trian gle; Aldibarau, the "Hull's i:e," at tho rlrht of netelgiuso and nt about the tamo altitude, Pollux, tho lower of the two Twins (Oemlnl), now to be seen In tho east at two-thirds of the distance from the horizon to the zenith, Hegulus, the principal star In the old lonstellatlon Leo, which Is now falily nbovo tho horizon In the east. This star may readily be ldentllled from Its position at tho end of tho handle of the "Sickle," w lch forms tho Lion's bushy head and shou'ders. Overhead sits Auriga, the Wrgonev. Tho constellation may easily be located by means of tho bright star Capella, In the left shoulder. On tho oll-fashluned celetlal chart, which gnvo figures of the constellations, Amiga was represented sealed, with a goat upon his left shoulder, her three kids In his lap, nnd holding In his right hand the reins with which he d-rtes Invisible steeds The constella tion, as thus conceded, li undoubtedly very undent. It Is sild to hae been found depicted, substantially as described aboe, upon Ass)rlan tablets, which i hows It to have been known to the Chnldcan astronomers. The llvo brighter stars of this group form a quite striking pentagonal llgure, the two more south erly stars of which are In tho Wagoner's feet. One of these Is the star Ul Nath, I of the second magnitude, which tips the northern horn of the celestial Dull This null (Taurus) consists merely of head, horns and shoulder. It may bo located by means of the star Aldebaran, ut one corner of the V-shaped cluster of the Hyadcs, which forms the Bull's fuce. The Pleiades nre In hM shoulder. At tho right, oi west of Taurus Is Ailes, the Ham, of which the most con spicuous portion Is a pair of stars, ono of the second and one of the thlid mag nitude which sere to locate the ltam's head llctween west and northwest the great squatc of Tegasus Is partly below tho l.oitzon. Trom the northeastern corner of this square the uppet right-hand corner, as tho figure Is now posed runs a curod lino of four second-magnitude stais In the direction of Capella. The llrst thice of these staig belong to Andro medn. the lowermost that at the corner of the square being Alpha, In her head, and the uppermost dramma. In her left foot The middle stai Is lletn It Is the brightest of three which form the maldcifs belt Near the northern extremity of this belt Is the famous Andromeda nebula, visible to the naked oc as a blurred star of about the fifth magnitude. Through an opera-glass Its nebulous character Is perceived unmistakably. The uppermost of the four stars pointed out is Alpha Persel, at about me center of the elongated group of stars which foims the body of the constellation 8 Perseus. At the left of a line drawn from this star to (lamma Andromedae is lletn I'ersel, ordinarily of tho second magnitude, better known ns Algol, tha 'Demon,' one of tho longest known of the visible stars. A description of Its peculiarity was given last month. i At the right of Perseus, in mtdheavens In the northwest may be seen the W-shapcd tlgure of Cassiopeia, the Lady In her Chair. At about the same alti tude In the northeast the Great Dipper, In the Ursa Major, stands upon lis handle, Its two "Pointers" at about tho same altitude at the Pole-Star, whose j osllkm they Indicate. Note that this star, of the second magnitude, stands about midway between the center of Cassiopeia and tho middle star In the Dip per's handle. , looking at the stars themselves and losing sight of the picture, we can easily make out among them a. crude likeness to a gigantic human shape such a giant as a school boy might draw upon his slate or an Indian upon a piece of birch-bark and we may feel fairly eel tain that this figure Is the original and true Orion. The Arabic name of this constellation wat Al Jauza, the Giant The name is perpetuated in that of one ot Its brightest two stars, llet-el-geuse Hat-aljauza, Armpit of the Olant. ltlgel, the name of tho star at the lower right-hand corner of the treat X. Is the Arabic rljal, which means foot. Salph, at the loner left hand corner. Is of the third magnitude. The name Is Arabic and means sword. Lollutrlx, al the upper right-hand corner, is of the second magnitude. This name is I.atln, meaning warrioress. As the name of a star Its point is obscure. Washington Post SHREWD. " Miss nings Are you going to send your sweetheart an expensive valentine? Mr. Dedbroko Yes. I'm going to send her a photograph of herself and tell her its tho dearest thing in the world. That's what I call complimentary cconum). ' MANY VALENTINES FOR ROOSEVELT. j Tresldent Certain to Receive Ilumo rous Tokens, Most of Them Comic fV Quito a t of valentines reach tha SR'W.tilto 11 jso by mall at this season e t very year. There ute alwa)H a good Rinany people scattered over tha country Sjwho aio uuxious to tnko advantage ot Minny excuso for writing to the President, fnnd the festlvnl of the nation saint of jBlovors affords such an oppoitunlty. Thus IHlt comes about that icmembrances of gHthe kind pout In when thu 11th of Peb njiuary anlvcs, most ot them, sad to tc Jul lie, being of a comlo lather than ot a sentimental description jjl Any sentimental valentines that ara (j! delivered ut thu Uxccuttve mansion mo flK usually addressed to tho 1. idles of tho HU 'resident's family, Doubtlcsi Miss Alice MlloosoMll will get, soino handsome ones, Buppioprlatcly orn iinentcd with hearts and cuplds Hut tributes ot this kind QHcnit tohcr fnthcrwlll he mainly humur Bws and will rcpiesent u tclull vnlue of tnlU cent apiece. The sendeis of there missives, ns a rule believe that tho President will per snnally open them, und It they niu In B tended to wound his feelings, thut he will personally grieve ovei tho slum SV they cast. Presumably, In some cases, they obtain gieut satisfaction from dls I patching such anonvmous cat toons with B their accompanying derisive verses, lint. IB unhappily for their alms, the Chief H Maglstrato never sees uny communlcft VJ tlons of the sort, nil ot v hlch aro opened fM by a clerk and pmmptly consigned to BJ tho waste-basket, save only a tow no Hi table ones that aio deemed woithy of J being put on lllo as curiosities. Hj Host Comics Are Playful, H However, It Is only the rnro and ex Hj reptlonal Presidential valentine that U HJ in any way malicious Of course, every H President of the United States has ene Hf mles a rule to which Mr. Hoosevelt U Hj no exception and now und then a ills Hj gruntled olHreseekcr or somo person Hj who has been put out of a Job In tha H Government employ, considers that lie m Is entitled to nurse a grudge agnlnst HJ 1he occupant of the Whltallouse. buch HJ Individuals may occasionally resort td H the expedient of sending a penny val H online of an Insulting chaiacter on a Hj means of venting their Bpleen. Hut Hj nearly always tho valentines ara merely H playful. H It may be said In a general way that 'Hj the enmla valentine sent to various H Presidents have rctlccted the aspects of each Pi sldent which huvo aroused crit icism, l'oi example. Chester A. Arthur, who was h bon vivant and always elicssed well was regarded us ft fop by many people who did not happen to ud mlro him. Consequently at all events, such Is tho lecollectlon preserved at tho White llouse-the valentines addressed to him represented most extravagant dudes. Doubtless they would have nnuised him greatly It he hail had a chance to see them. Send Original Doggerel. This leads naturally to a consideration ot Piesldentlal valentines ot a certain class nicessaiily the most Interesting ones which owe their nuthoinhtp to those who semi them. During Benjamin Harrison's ndmlnlBtrntlon wnB received a mild ana of this kind, which nnd. I title Hi uny, Have you any Office you cm send me? If not, sonny, Iteady monoy You may kindly lend me P a-Do It quickly. Ilab Mine, And I will buyou Valentino. Many of Mr. Harrison's valentines had referenca to tho grandfather's hat In ono way or another. It Is always somo personal uttilbute or chaiacterlstlc .lat conveys Inspliation In such matters. Reflected on Cleveland's Obesity. While Mr Cleveland was In the White House prnqtlcully all the valentines le eclved represented enormously fat men. That was too obvious nphy slcal trait to escapo attention. One of them bore the following Inscription, and on nccount of the originality of the verses has been preserved: I pray you tall me, gent'e Orover Why arn you always bubbling over With vanity und self-conceit 1 think you gee too much to eat If you would only trv starvation, It might bu better for tho nation. This wns only a part of the "poem." Therp weie a dozen other stanzas. Plenty of such shafts of wit. with ac companying cartoons in bright colors, will be mailed this week at a cost of a penny apiece to Piesldent Roosevelt. In most of them, presumably, ho will figure IB a comlo soldier, but he Is gifted by nature with a keen sense of humor, and he would not mind such playful assaults a particle. If they were hi ought to his notice, 11 Stories Told by Men in Public Life. Senator Mason ha written an article about The Kane of llxecuttve Se slons After telling of hN awe of ex ecutive sessions when he was a hepre sentatlvc he describes hi first closed session after tie became n Senator 'A Senator from New Knglnnd arose and soltmnl) and earnestly moved that e go Into executive vision. The bells all over tho cnate end of tho Capitol ring and made music to my ears Tho chief page clapped hl hands three time and ihe piges all ruhed from our sacred presence Amid the ringing of In lis and rushing of fiet the no were all moved out tho iloors were ilosed and we wero alone' "Thereupon the Senator who hid moved the executive nlon struck a mntth in the usuil a and 111 a cigar utlillblj Informing his mlRlilir that It was tho only one he hail He thin moved that John Btnllh be confirmed In hli IW post There have been cattle queens, oil queens, mining queens and queens of finance, and now we hear of n iclndeer queen n woman who owns moie of these animals than my othei person In tho United htates nnd is earning n for tune by supplying them to the Govern ment for mall-currylng purposes and to tho nottlers In the far Northwest She Iivih In Alaska, and is, If one mav Judge b her name, a native of the Arc tic regions, where people aro familiar fiom Infano with the nature and hab its of the reindeer Marv Makrldolf Is the widow of a frontier eharacler who was known far nnd wlfo as Slnrock Charlie When he died some loirs ago he left her In entire charge of his im mense estate, w hlch means many mile of white tundra and the greatest herd ot reindeer ever owned by an Eskimo. Marj represents to her people not on ly the highest degree ot rank and honor, but of wealth, culture and fashion as well. Hor power over them la one with their time-honored superstition. Her mother before her was queen of Alaska Her father was a Russian who had the knowledge of a few written words, and this caused her to rank ns the daughter of a scholar. Her husband, Slnrock Charlie Auglnsook, owned and be queathed to her his famous reindeer herd This has given her the distinc tion ot being the wealthiest of all her people. Therefore Mary Is queen In every sense of tho word Her clapboard house Is palatial to the Eskimo eye. Her gar ments are regal, and her word Is law. Her home Ilea In the midst of the vast tundr where her reindeer pasture There In tho cold land stretch miles up on miles of her moss-covered ground, white, whether vdth or without snow, for the summer moss takes the place of the winter snow and whitens the ground, springing up in n few hours nf Ict It Is nibbled away, On approaching you see only white grounl. The deer are far of. where the moss Is thicker. Then of a sudden, as the sound or the scent of vour nartv reaches the ears or scent of jour party reaches the ears or their noses, the great herd of 400 comes llko a whirlwind over the tundra. The word has been passed nmong them that there la an excitement, an arrival. They come to see, ns boys rush to a fire. They come to listen, they come to smell. got ciiAtion or a iinuo. When reindeer wero Imported from Si beria by the United Stntes Government they were In many cases given to relia ble Indians Slnrock Chnrlle was a good Indian even before he was dead, and he was allowed 125 of tho deer. He wns so successful In raising them that ho had Increased his herd to 400 und died then, leiving Mary, his wife, to earn for his property. This sho has dona ever since, and sho has shown as good business ability as Charlie did. If Mary decides to receive jou sho will come out to meet you dressed In her best, which Is a costume of such fins as a queen may well wear. The parka Is of the finest reindeer fur, spot ted nnd dappled. It Is tremendous and flowing. The sleeves are, either one, large enough for nn ordinary shoulder cape. The pirka develops Into a sort of hood at the top and flares nt the edges, being bordered with long red fox fur that makes a halo nround her face. No wonder Mary's people look upon her as the rising sun. Marj's home Is a good-sized clapboird .war noi'ic I n buii-4.-u uia)iuu uu house that accommodates her and her adopted children and her servants. The servants attend to the work of tho house and help Mary in her Immense business of raising reindeer. The children nre countless They swarm. They havo been picked up here, there, everywhere, whenevei Mary has happened upon n vi alt who wns cold or hungry for his dinner which wns not forthcoming They are little nnd brown nnd greasy nnd they are bundled In miniature par kas with miniature halos nround their dlity little faces. Augook Is the most sinful of them and the most promising His hug is a very warm and furry arid dirty one, but you w,lll Ike it He will rench oul his lltllo arms to you, out of tho far, frozen up North, where even little bos' htMits urc frozen most of the enr. Tho house contains a wonderful room, with u diesses and looking-ghss There Is no such thing ns this In any other Ksklmo house. It Is on display In the pailoi nnd pioudest Hsklmo Is aluaja overwhelmed with Ills magnj licence. A Bight of that diessei alone would quell an unruly subject If Mary ever had one. Tho cleeplng-rooma nre In a loft above Thither one must rllinb every night by means of n shaky ladder Odds und ends ot rooms nre used for the ser vants nnd tl") woik Tor Mary, al though a qu in, works like ull of her people, except hat she cairles on busi ness on a larger scale. She lives by the pioftts that hei reindeer bring her, and those ate large. In the llrst place, tho deer cost almost nothing The land Is ns good as hers Tho food upon which the unmlnls live Is tho white moss which covers the fun di a nnd grows of Its own free will In great plenty. Tho deer nre estimated to be worth about 1200 apiece This means a foi tune ot JiO.OUQ, which is immense to an Indian. The Income Is larger to Mary than It would bo to most people, for sho is ft business woman born and made, nnd sho gets every cunt out of those deer that there Is to get. She gets It In different wuss. hi a system of economic Industry that Is ni up-to-date as a great Ameilcan packing-house or cotton fnctorj. Not one product Is lost In working for others. usns or thu ri:indi:ur. Somo of the doer lirlin In nn income for use In transportation, Tho troops hire them for this purjiose. One Is fur nished by tho shrewd lady foi some thliuf like JlOw ft month. The creatures are well worth the money she gets for their hire, however, for they can travel ton miles an hour, draw ing us much as 200 pounds of freight, to say nothing of the sledge. They sometimes cover 100 miles a day, Tho deer nre nt certain times killed nnd sold fet- food. This Is when they can not brine a better Income by haul Ins Mary watches, and she never slips office at Podiink The lee-Presllent of tho I nlleil Stat.s sild 'Without objec Hon 11 Is so (ink red A motion to ail Journ wns carried In one moment m dream was broken ' President Gompers of the American tetUliltiuu of Labor protested betnuse Vll Ting Inng thi Chinese Minister had spoken of labor nuttRtors How odd' ' sail Mr Vo See here He opened two dictionaries nt Ihe word 'sund lot In each dellnllton Dennis UiNirnei Is sicken uf as a labor agita tor ' ... What Is a poor foreigner to do In the face of iiuh hlHh authorlti asked Mr Wu Mnndlv I am mil n native 1 must fall baik on th dictionaries Mr 11 on pers must rev I thi dictionaries lffore he eon i "tin it mi Then he wlnkir a s! Orlentnl wink It fell out that Representatives Ijieev ef town n.l Uimlls of Indlina called to pal their itspul t" Serelurv Shnw al the s mi time Ihiv went In togither nnd of c airs l dk d if Iowa men REINDEER QUEEN OF ALASKA RULES OYER WIDE DOMAIN, i on he! transactions Reindeer porter house steak Is u Nome elcllcuc and It hi lugs a fnnei pi Ice In the market Hut the deud leer lu worth far more than his pike us vli iks Ills skin is ns precious as cloth of gold and when Mori and her women hive wrought It Into purkns and muiklucks It brings In a goodly sum Daj after day tiny sit und ittt and sew muking the garments, which aro later pent on down the thirty mile road tint lends south to Nome On the coldest daja they work Indoors, when the sun makes It posslbh they ma bo seen sitting under tho .shelter of nn upturned boat all bundled In their own pirkns eneti with the halo of fur thrown bark that she may sen It is this same hilo tint can be drawn over the face in a snowstotm to break tho force ot the cutting wind a ki:i:n uusinhss woman Mary is a healthy specimen, und therefore, remarkable. She Ins nevev taken to the'houch habit, which is kill ing off the Alaska Indian In great num bers She is too keen In business to be Intemperate, and she has no uso for drunkenness She Is nn Immense wo man, tall and broid, with a heavy, masculine face and n shock of straight, coarse, black hair Her right arm Is a. splendid one nnd deals promptly with emergency cases, but never under tho Influence of liquor llei education Is profound as the In dian regards It She knows a few words of English, nlso Russian. This Is being a scholar Sho Is wonderfully quick to grasp new Ideas and can bo taught any words readily. DEVOTED TO HKH HUSBAND. Mary Makrldoff Is as superstitious as the rest of her race, but her great love for Slnrock Charlie broke down her su perstition upon the occasion of his death. She left him dte in the house. Such a privilege has never been accord ed to any other Eskimo by his people. The Eskimo's terror of death Is supremo and Is born and bred In him. A diing parent, child, husband or wlfo Is cast out of doors like u poisoned int and left to finish what little llfo may be left on Ihe snow-covered bleakness of the tun dra. Hut It vus not uu with Slnrock Charlie Augensook. Mary loved hlin. It wns the love of her life, a romanco that lasted for years. Charlie was n goes Indian, a bus. In telligent and ralthful one, nnd Mary loved him with nil tho heart there was In hei. When she knew that he was going to dlo sho did not caio If his cold body lying In tho house hi ought de struction to nil the members theieof. It might for all she cured. She wns going to care for him until the last bitter mo ment when she had to let him slip from her hold care for hlin ns sho always had done. She gave him food nnd ten derness and warmth ns long ns ha could feel them nnd she defied the god of her people, of her fathers and their fathers before them to punish her for her love. Slnrock Charllo died in her arms. Not far from her house Is tho burial ground, which Is not a pleasant sight. There lies or did lie the body of Char lie nnd of nil other dead members of the tribe. It Is u pen fenced In with driftwood, a mere pen built out on the cold tundra, and there the dead bodleH aro Hung. Mnlamut dogs prowl there by night. ' MAUY GIVES A PARTY. Mary recently gave n gorgeous party. Tho guests Included no white womnn except the guest of honor, but there were whlto men of every nitlonallty, such a mixture as only mining countiles know. The native women wero not enough to go nround, but nobody placd wallflower, for there was too much gay ety on hand for that. An accordion fur nished the music The company danced until the little Klondike Btove with Its glowing box had to be squelched 'lhey were put through n quadrille under tho white visitors' leadership und lhey fell to with magnificent splilt. caring not n whit for mistakes and making fewer, she says, than seemed possible for n first attempt. Mary watched with tremendous de light while she, three Eskimo women and four miners went through the fig. ures She was delighted again when the guest eang 'The Iilsti Wushei-wo. man," nnd returned the compliment by chanting her own native song and somo Russian ones as well which she had learned from heii father, American games followed, the Indians became so excited ovei ' button, button whos got tho button?" Hint Mary had to break tho stilng on which they wero passing it In older to get them awuy to bud. pel The supper was n marvelous conglom. eratlon There wero seal ment nnd poi torhouse steak thero was dried codfish dipped In senl oil foi an entice, together with solid unleavened blend spread with hud The dersert was the plot ode re slstnnce n splendid pudding made of blueberries, stirred Into n mixture of flour nnd mashed fresh fish liver Chi cngo Chionlele Y0UN0 LOVE AT THE GROCERY STORE The following account of n newlj man led society young woman placing her first order with n grocer has been cent to tho Oregonlan The Incident Is said to have happened In Portland However, the story will lntinst many loung women, wherever 11 hnpened, Tho oung wife was greeted by the obsequious grocer with n, request to know whut he could have the pleasure of serving her with, and sho proceeded to place her first order as follows- "Pleaso send me up llvo pounds of paralyzed sugar for froatlne." "Ycs'm. Anything else?" "Yes, send niu thico cans of con demned milk " "YiH'm. What else?" "I want sonu suit. If ou have any that Is fresh You must be sure that It Is nice and fresh." "Yes'm: 1 have some perfectly fresh Just came In this morning. Do sou want anything else, mum'.' I have somo very flna horseradish " "No, I thmktyou. I do not care for any We do not keep a horse " Port land Oregonlan, o 'I tell eu salt Mat leey proudly, then ire a lot if I right peopl who com from Iowa len leplhd iri esnlcnl laindls, "nnd Ihe brli,lili tlii are the sooner the Sinater llolllver Is the sllver-tonitued orator of Iowa lie canipnlsns from one end of the Slate to Hie other before elections At Washington In the Hepub llian cloakroom he told of his visit to a little town In the western part of the tlnte last full lie found that an old tllend or hl who lived In the rolintv was there In Inll having chosen to slsi In a tell rallur Hum pal a tax he con sidered imleist and Illegal Pointers friend wiote lo the Sh. rilT Hear blurllt -It will be n great favor If Voll Will let me e.ut ef tall for two hours ieo I e in hear m friend Dolllver Ihe HlurllY wns ie good fellow salj Mr Polllvei He wreite his lonsenl on th baik of the tmle and then ndileel theme weirds rin lemaliider uf sour punishment Is remitted Jin Embryo Actor. 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P empt arm choir PB P, h, how do ou do, uncle? PB K he roptlfd, chutmlng his olco to a p p shrill treble "How lu tho world P. P. did ou Kit down from heaven?' P. P. ' O," he said Knln back to tht P. P. deep tone 'Mosc nnd I cumo P. P. down together Mose U In tho oth- p Pi er room Did ou ever pliy horse, P P. uuntlo' P. K P. P. P. P. P. P. P. p P. P. P.P. P. P. P. P. P. LOOK AND LISTEN. When It Is Not Legally Necessary ot a Railroad Crossing Tho rule requiring a traveler on a public rUhwav before croslnp a steam railroad to look and listen Is hei 1 hi tho Court of Aupctls In the rnso of Apnlonlu IVJowskl. na administratrix, ngulnBt tho Delawnro and Jlndson Can.il com piny not to apply when IhH situation nun such that If tho traeler lonktd and listened ho would not Ii.im dlscawrrd the danger Tho plaintiffs Inlestaiw was killed whlln ertmslnff tho trackH of tho defendant at Kdlson avenue In the city of hchenectndy Tho ncchhnt hai pened nt 6 30 In the cvn luir of October 7 lb'G 'I ho deceased wis sentt-d on tho eat of a two-horto market wagon Urhlng When about tlftecn feet from the rtllroad tracks ho utopped to allow a freight train to pans Tho nlRht was cloud) and dirk, with nellher moon nor stirn lBlble There w is no flagman at the crossing nor light near It Tho frcltrl t train made a loud uolso und after It had reached u point about 10 fiet past (ho cioxslng tho deceisid sild 'Get up," the team started, and hh he wan thus driving aerofs tho lrat.k ho wan struck bv an englno foltonlne a short distance behind the train and Instantly killed 'J hero wan no evldoieo Hndlng to show that tho defendant either looked or lis tened, and It did not appear whether ho wis familiar with tho crossing; or not A witness, whoso eeiight nml hearing were good, wiu wnlklng on tho sidewalk Ho also slopped and waited for the freight train to pass As the decedent started to tlrlvn over tho track tho witness walked alongy.de, und. as ho testified, looked and listened as ho went upon the track, but neither siw nor heard the appro iching cnklno until the irnh came Ho was where he could hie Men tho engine If It was vWthlo, and could have heard It If It was u udl bio aboc tho roar of tho train On tho trial a Jury gavn the pUlntifT a erdlct which was affirmed by the Ihlrd Annulate division The Court of Anuecls while hollln that tho railroad couiuanv In backing tho engine In Ihe wa, It did Whlnd Ihe height, train rannot bo rild to hivo exeritjrd reasonable cm crderr a recrsal Uciusa of an irror hi tho charge of tho Justice Judge Vann. for tho court of list rtsnrt Biya that In the nhome of any evidence that the rti Cfaued Hlher lonktd or listened before gt lug upon the track, the trial Jury should not hae been permitted to assume, that Ln did so from tho circumstances of tho nccldbiit nnd a charge that they might to Inlcr and permlillng tin in to rind a erdht upon that theory Is reversible er ror -Ullca Dally 1'rcss THE GUDRRILI.A IN HISTORY. Woid First Camo Into Common Use In tho Peninsular War. The word guerrilla Is Spanhh, and first tamo into common uu In this country during tho lime of the I'enlnsultr war lint Spain throughout htr long hhstoiy baa alwau btcit n cognized us the coun try most ldeull) suited for gucnlUa t ic tlcs There In no region In Kuropo In which It la more difficult to wane u suc cessful wur "If tho urniy uf lm union la small It Is defeated. If It Is Itrge It Mjn" i:en In Ihys tlmo the truth of this was npiric luted b the Itomnns I ho remnants of the CarthagenlaiiM who had takui rifuge there urter tho full of Carthage had delUd the Homan power with rreat pt ralstency. while tho bninUh insunectlon of Qulntus btrtoiliu hud -rlnutdy shaken the siahlllt) of the repub lic Its If Tor eight ears that able (Jtn eral held the fortes at b i His Inwirl able nolle "as to uold a pltehetl hittlo whin con f i on 1 with sunirlor force", an tlto conllp himir to liarflsslns hla opponent unr, Jttfng his lines of coin mil. motions Hertorlous h Ibutennnia wero frequently dtfeutu.1, but their chkf man aged to Inflict nCAere. checks oven upon Mt tulhift nnd Cnaeus Pompiliii, nnd then when the tahlin appeared to bo tumid, the l,uiltnnUui nriny would tdlently melt away and gather uguln In some distant part of tho province Home grew impa tient ami depressed as the seemingly en I less coldest continued, and as army after aimy was sent to Bpain with uipireutly no detlnlto result t us the ttmt proved, the power of Bertorlus rested up on fand Ihe lAitltunlnn troops whUh at one moment gat hei td In their thous ands und dwindled away just as spedll), could accomplish nothing permanent, and with the assassination or bertoilus, tho end camo quickly Tor eight tnrs Sptln had threatened to be to Home what many entries afterward Cub i uctually Ucaino to bpoln, et Itomau ptruUUncj tri umphed In thu enl It was in Hiwln. too, that tho two sons of l'ompelus the Ureut, Cnaeus and hextus, maintained a stub born opposition to the Generals whom Ju lius sent Into the held against them and eeu after Cnaeus had been slain Hextus t-turned to the scene of his furmer ex ploits und Indicted far mor danidge than hu ivctiw-d until ho trunsfr rred li I inc. If to Bldlj and pitted himself agilnst Oe tulan und Agrlppa l'ortnlghtly itevluw, A Good Catch, Tom When I went flshlnir down at tha beach this summer I landed n twenty-pounder Dick Oh, I landed a 130-pounder thete Tom AVhut, Q Hsh? Pick No, a tftil. Chicago News. Not Circumstantial Evidence. She And jou ivally think ou love me, Geonje? Hut tell me. do ou really and trulv Know what loe la? He Well, I should hope so. You aro the third fflrl I've been engaged to,- Chicago News, By the Aid of Birds I This Snnkc-IIunlins: Priest Hopes to Exterminate the 'I Poisonous Reptiles of the Southwest. I To eimiintei Pt Putrid, nnel ilo feir hl e-uiiti ns eltil tho trailltloniil Irish nalnt Is the life orK of 1'iitheT lVelro Hnelrl Ktie To ko ccn further, nml not only to rM tho Puuthuial of Hb post of riittlosnnktie but to eltrey the Inse'ct lift? on tho ailil laiiels. Is the hope of Pnthcr Hoeltl ue riftv jenrs no he nine to Atlzona niiil bcRim his Inliorsi for Ihe church through New Mexico, Ailzoniiiml Mux Ico A slioit time Inter he bioiiRlil West hi sister mill liiother nml eatnhllsheel them een a sntnll Itut prolltable much In the upper nlloy of tho Vaqul liver Ilo tiltiixeir n Btntteineel ut elm) inns nml his elutlen fieeiientl culled him to thn l'upblo In the Ynqul alloy, thus glvlns hint the otportunlt of sumetlnieH nieei Ing his ielitles One ila u mi'ssaeo euiiie telllnu hlin or the elenth of his luother nnel plslcr The hitler Intel Bono to a spring for it huekel of water, nml ns hhe stoopoil a warning rMtli'r umler her hnnel preeoeleel the eeiieuuoun stioke ns the fanes fnsleneil in her eheek 8ho tore the leptlle loose nnel, hurryliiK to the house fell fnlnt Her brother eauio home to llnel her eljlne; ami, Kolng to tho spring kllleel tho etiomoui snake The follow Iiik J5 nt the sprlns he loo, was bitten b a tattler, eloubtleew tho mite of the one ho luiil kllleel rather lloelrlRiiei: burleel the boillea slele by shle, aiul for neaYly twenty ents icmalneel lu the solltuelo of tho monaster). Ten e.ir asto he kuo up the prleBt hooel, fallliiK health foreliif; him to a llfe'ln the open air Most of the time he haB elcoteel to a selentlllc and iternlstent BtaiiRhter of snakes, ami the walls of IiIh country home arc e-oeeteel throughout with Bklnn nml rattles No, It In not a feeling of revengo thnt urRea mo on ni) war on the ret tiles ' sa)H rather Hoilrlguez, 'hut 1 must In come manner tmproee my time out of iloors, nml I Know of no better way than to kill snnkeB Then, too. It la not an unprofltnblp bunlness, anil from my BnnkeskliiB nml oil I am enabled each )enr to gUe quite a nuB um to tho ehuich ' rather Pedro has killed nearly ISM rattlesnakeu during the pant ten )enrs, with a alue of 3 each on tnnned skins anil half bh much more for the nil, which the Mcxlrann litem an Infalllbto cuio for rheumatism. In nil that tlmo the venernblo hunter hOB nceer felt the fangH of tho rntller, nearly all of hla vlctttna bclnir aecureel l hla tamed nnd tralnerl "road-run- SSJ lulls those reuinrka'ili blrdn ot the) H elese-rt nbctll wlitth an much Is said ulne H mi little la known '1 ho road runner,"' H or chniinrrul bird, is the hereditary en- H em) of the inttlei ami his most danger- H ous foe, ami It In b) Ihe use of theao 'H blrdn tint Tnther Pedro hopes to forco H the inttlera to extinction '1 Never before has the long legged H rnnd runner the llghllng coi k of tho H desert " been elomestlcated although 1 Arlroun nnel New Mexie-o Inns make It H n i rime lo kill him H 1'iithtr Pedro however, hai su ceedeel H In brlniilng tho bird to Its hlrheat point H of usefulness nnd with n flock of over M n score, he hoa neliieve'd wonderful iuc- eess H The birds hunt lu p'llis and It la thus H tint the) lint vest then master's strango H erop, one pair BOinetlmei bringing In j hnlf n dozen snakes In n days tlme M They get llielr lew aril In thi anako meat H ami thllve upon It H All thiougli notthern Mexico and tho 1 Territories Put hoi Pedro has hunted H with his birds, nnd It la In the hope of H neetirlng tho general tnmlng nnd uso H ot the elmpnrrnl birds that he hopes to H rlel the Southwest ot snakes, tarantulas, H scot plons and ecntlpeeies M As far hack as go the traditions ot tho Indiana the ehaparral bird has been M looked upon ns a benefaetur of mankind. H while putugiaplu hive been found H which Indicate that In prehistoric times. H he wns a fnmlllar object many rudo H pletuien carved In stone showing tha H long-legged birds In the act of devouring H sn ikes H The name "toad runner" the blnl H eurned by his hihlt of frequenting tlio H rooelw eys, peihnrs to better discern In H the dust the trails or his reptilian vie- H llins and his pmpcmdt) for remarkable H speed He Is Indeed posiessetl ot abll- H ity to keep pare with a horse for a short H instance He Is poorly equlppeel wltlt H wings In fnct, the short nippers which H tnke their plnce. nro only valuable In H aceeleratlng running tiowers H Plilnsmen wlio have Been the bird at H work tell remarknhlti stories ot his H fighting qualifications and his immunl" H t) from tiolsn When ttie marveloua H qulrkness or the bird does not save hlin H from the llghtnlng-stioko of tho rattler, H he resorts to n remedy which ho gathers H from the stem or tho smaller cactus. Ho fH caieful, though. Is the assault of tho H blrel that rarely does the snake escapo H oi Injuie his assailant Coming upon H a victim, the birds attack from opposite H sides and sn ileree Is the nsstult that It H Is usually but a matter of a few mo- H meats until one ot the lilnln has hit H beak around the neck or tho snake anel M the rest Is easy, the heael nt the Bnako H being quickly ciushed to a pulp, by rap- H Id luminei Ing from the birds At timet H nn especially ulert snake Is found, and H then the plan ot attack Is changed. On H opiosltn slds nnd running rapidly, tho H birds circle their victim until he Is vvor- H rleil Into n frenzy of rgc Then an op- H portunity offers nnd llko a Hash tho H birds nre on htm H AMiKitu is tun Tim:r wiiuinou nn: Miuiifs iiATt ;H TIIEDEADWOOD COACh. 1 Col. W. r. Cody, known over the world ns "Huffalo mil." Is considering the advisability of prcbeutlnK his fa mous Deadwood coach to the National museum. lib Is In tho elty for a tow days In thn Interest of the Irrigation ot Ihe arid wastes of W)oinlng and other Slatcu of the West, and has been a fnmlllar flguient the Capitol this week. Ihls morning he visited tho National museum nml lift j. long tlk with fcev cral ollli luls of tho Institution When seen by the Sun coi re'epondont at the New Wlllaid he admitted that the objcel of his visit to the museum was to confci with tho olllclnls regard ing a pioposlllon to have him donato the toieh to the collection. In tho past few months tho museum authorities hue coi responded with hlin about the coach, but he has been loth to part with It, although he desires ti ulti ma, 'y piesent It to some Institution, lluft.j ho heard from the National mu seum hu contemplated having a largo glass care made, in which ho might store the bullet-riddled old vehicle at his homo nt Cody, W)o ' I have not reached uny decision re garding the donation, ' said Col I'ody this aftcrndon "After I return to W)omlng I will do so, ' ' Strangely enougb," Col Cody said, "the National museum has no stuga coaeh of the type used In the West years ago In Us wonderful collection of locomotives and vehicles of transporta tion. Thero li) r.n old prairie schooner, but no stage coaeh They aro getting scarcu now I havo seven or eight of them, but none so hlstoiie nnd Inter esting as tho old Deadwood coach In addition to tho fnct that It figured In many thrilling affairs In tho West, It hus a doubly Interesting history from tho fart that eveiy crowned head uf liuroiKi has ridden within or upon It, 'The Deadwood coath," he) eontlnued, "Is ono of the old Concord type. It waa built In ISM by Abbot, Downy i Co. of Concord. Vt. It Is numbered, and tho records show It was shipped mound the Horn to a California firm It was ones of GOO contracted for In that year. Trace of It was lost for some tlmo. In eleven years It had worked Its way eastward urioss tho country from California to Wyoming, whero It was found lunnlug In 1871 on the stage lino between Cheyenne, Wyo, nnd tho Black Hills. S. D 'At that time It was H a traisuro coach In 1S7I. 73 una '7S H It was usi-d to trinspoit gold from tho H Hla. k Hills mines tojho Union Pacific B ralhotd On that route It figured In M muny fights with the bloux Indians, fM the greatest or which was In the early H spring of 187(1, during whit was known as the Hut creek or llonnet creek fight. M The coach wai" attacked by somo of thn jniiru'er Sioux Indians, and eleven men were killed defending tho coach within fl and without tho vehicle I wanted a M hlstoite' coach and picked up the Dead- wood coach, which was practically abandoned shortly after the ltonnet erw k tight " Col Cody referred to tho eontrasts In the life of the old vehicle A demo cratic Institution In every respect, typ ically American and Identified with, ono or the most Interesting puges of Ameilian history, the development or tho West, It had served ns a coich for the crowned heads of monarchical Ku lope and runke'd with tho royal coaches , of the continent ns a telle "The Princess of Wales, now Queen Alexandra," said Col. Cody, "was the ! llrst rO)al personage to rldo In It. Sho set tho fashion. Her Innovations have f for years been followed all over 13ng- ' land In the year 18K7. when the show wus u l.ngland. she expressed a deslro to occupy a seat in the ooach Her re quest was granted With her wero her two soni and two daughters. I . drove the horses. This started a fad, and all the time we were) lu Kngland members of the nobility and royalty rode In tho coich We booked en gagements for weeks ahead ' On another occasion tho Prince of Wales commanded' that I drive tho coach for four gntlemen who wero examining It curiously The gentlemen enteted while I mounted to the box. Tho Prlnco of Wales asked to rt al lowed to sit beside me while I drove. A band of my Sioux Indians chased ua around the Inclosiiro and the entire party of llvo enjoyed thu experience i wondet fully. Aftet the ride tho Prince of Wales said lo me 'I suppose yoet . never before had the pleasure of hold ing four Klngsr This refernce to tha national game led me to reply "YetV ' I have often held four kings, but never four kings with the royal oker nt thn same time' I was Introduced to tho four distinguished personages who rode , In tho roach. They wero Leopold, King or the llelglans the, King of Sax. ' ony, King CJeorge of Oreece and Kin ' Oscar of Norway and Sw eden "Wash. ' lngtou Corrcsipondence Daltlmore gun,, J1 . 'Jm