The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 3, 1890, Page 6

am « STORIES OF BIRDS. A Hawk That Undertook Too Big a Contract. Biddy Was Too Heavy for Him, aud Mr, Hawk Paid Dearly for His Sport—A Perch by scolding Swallows. 1 Rat-Destroying Ow! Driven from Its | | | | One day this summer. writes the New York Sun's Scranton (Pa.) correspond- ent, a big hawk darted down into Ethelbert W. Pearce’s barn-yard, up in Merrick township, seized a tough old hen, flew across the road with her, and settled down behind arailfence. Biddy was too heavy ‘or the hawk to sail away with, and she squawked to the full ex- tent of her lung power while her broad- winged captor was pinning her to the ground. The hawk appeared to know that its actions were being watched, for every fewscconds it raised its head and peeped between the rails toward the house, where Mr. Pearce, who had got his rifle the 1m nt the hen thief dropped behind the fence, was waiting to geta good shot at it. The old hen squawked right along, fluttered for all she was worth to free herself from the hawk’s big claws, and struggled in the grass, while the hawk held her down with apparent ease, glanced through the fence, and scemed to be afraid to begin to devour her so near the farm buildings. Twice the hawk made an effort to rise with its noisy prey, but the old hen’s weight was evidently several ounces more than it had been used to handling, and again it was forced to settle dewn. Mr. Pearce had drawn a bead on the spot in the fence where the hawk was and the next time it stuck up its head and peeped between the rails, he pulled the trigger. Fora moment there wasa lively fluttering behind the fence, and pretty soon the hen dashed into the road, with her wings spread out, and went limping and squawking toward the barnyard as though she was scared half to death. The hawk wasn’t visible from where Mr. Pearce had banged away at it, and he ran to the fence and looked over. The big bird lay sprawled out as dead as a stone, and when Mr. Pearce examined it he found that his bullet had cut the hawk’s brain out as nicely as a knife could have done the work. Early in the spring Farmer Lewis L. Hanley’s boys trapped a large malo horned owl on their father’s place in Poconotownship. ‘The bird was a flerce fighter whenever any one went near him, and the boys wanted to confine him in a@ cage. Mr. Hanley wouldn't let them, and he turned the owl loose in one of his barns where there were lots of rats and mice. The owl soon became used to the barn, caught and ate enough rats to keep him fat, and acted as if he enjoyed his new abode very much. From his perch on a beam the owl watched for game, and whenever a rat showed itself on the surface of the hay- mow he dropped down as light and as noiseless as a feather and never missed catching it in his claws. He cleaned out the rodents at such a rapid rate that within a month the remainder of them took fright at his murderous habits and fled to another burn on the opposite side of the yard. Mr. Hanley then trans- ferred the owl to the other barn, where he slew the rata in the same way. After awhile the farmer left the barn doors open a good deal of the time, but the owl never tried to fly away to his old home in the woods, sceming to be en- tirely contented with the living he was getting without an effort. At about this time the swallows ar- rived from the South and started to fix up their old nests to the peak of the barn, where the rafters came together. The ow] was moping onone of the lower beams when the swallows began to got ready to raise families, but during the day he flew to a higher perch and took #nap. In a short time the swallows caught sight of the big bird as he sat only a few feet below one of their nests, and no sooner had they spied him than they began to give vent to noisy protests against his remaining there. Presently the whole colony was in an uproar over the silent and mo- tionless owl. Every swallow in it flew back and forth from one end of the barn to the other, darted past the owl at close as they could without touching him, and made the barn ring with their sacails of anger. The owl didn’t scem to end what all the fuss and flurry was about, but the pugnacious swallows kept up such a racket and hammered him so hard that he finally came to the conclusion that they didn’t want him there, and so he dropped to a lower beam and clung to it. That pacified a few of the swallows, but the majority continued to sail past his head and to tell him that he had better clear out of the barn entirely, until the owl sought a still lower perch, where he sat and blinked at his loud- mouthed assailants. This one-sided warfare for three days. Mr. Hanley saw that there would be no peace for the swal- lows so long as the obnoxious owl re- mained in the barn, and so he caught the big bird and put himinacage. As soon as the owl was out of it the swallows quieted down, resumed their nest fixing, and were as happy as ¢ be. Mr. Hanley has kept the owl up all summer, but as soon as the swal lows sail away to the South he will le him have the freedom of the barn once more. A Negro Millionaire. Daniel Seales (colored) is a r Senator Doug! and his acquain tinguished men of the sive. — is of fine appea: Ile « his dilits in Denver yesterday ar the St. James’ ann he went to Californi vestments in San Fr made him ri¢th. Mr. 3 s has never been in politics. He has confined him- self entirely to law and realty. Al- though in‘his seventieth year, he is as lively as acricket. He believes inem joying life. was kept up| on- | He is a friend of | | NOT TAUGHT iN SCHOOL. Seme Things the Perceptive Faculties Shoaid _ Trained to Do. ions, in the ve facul- Loui ties, | Stockton: When you go to can you walk se your room at night, directly to the match-box and put your hand on it? | When you turn out your light and | leave your rc do yo ve to fumble for the door, or can you go straight } tress wi | keep the gar would we ng into th a# direc te the size of any know enough of feet and a fair guess by looking at Can sight? you guess the height of a hat by weight of a a balla nolding it in re there is sound which way they are coming? If y a steamboat by sound? Can you use your nat: edge of music in anal} be pr ons of a steam whistle? ‘an you te Nl on which tone it stops? With your eyes shu kind of a flower is p Can you tell from the trees the points of th Can you, t of a vehic horses are the differenc by eight hoc Can you match colo: carry colors and shad By the touch only, can you tell which material is cotton, which is woolen? Can you from a bunch of different col- ored zephyrs pick out a black strand, kéeping your eyes shut? Can you, by the tean you tell what it to your nose? of the bark compass? tell Do you know in sound made by four and hout samples; n your memory? tell what kind of meat you are ea) Can you decide what flavor has been used in a glass of soda water? Does a rose petal tast that of a violet? alike? In short, do you use your senses? Do you train your observation, and then re- member what you observe? Do hard and soft water taste CHAMPION OF TRUANCY. A French Boy of Ten Years with an Un- conquerable Love of Travel. A Paris newspaper correspondent saw at his mother’s little home in the Cite de Popincourt Master Hippolyte Brise- mur, @ young gentleman who had been emulating Joe Frank, the Chicago run- away. He is only ten years of age, but already he has run away from home twelve times. He is a small, wiry, bullet-headed little Parisian gamin— shrewd, intelligent, cunning, false. His sharp, ferret cyes are never still and never look one straight in the face, though their restlessness proves that they are watching every movement in momentary expectation of agcuff or akick, and the wiry body twitches in preparation for immediate escape from either. He stolidly refused to talk, but whined out a sort of plea to be released. ‘The mother and father, respectable peo- ple of the ouvrier class, said he was ab- solutely incorrigible. He has been im- prisoned in the Petite Roquette for beg- ging in the street, has three times been in reformatory homes, twice at Poitiers and once in the Rue Dauphine, but no sooner is he out than his nomadic in- stincts lead him to another flight. flis last escapade, for which he was onco more sent to Poitiers, will show the dar- ing as well as the untruthful nature of the little animal. Fifteen days before he was missed, and when he was brought home his parents were told that he had been found hiding ina freight wagon atSt Maizent. He had stolen the ride from the Orleans terminus in Paris. When taken and asked what he was doing, he boldly replied that he had heard so much at school of the cele- brated battle-field at St. Maixent, where Charles Marcel had conquered the Saracens, that he had been filled with a desire to visit and see the place for himself. Such a story from such a child, was, of course, disbelieved, and, after some difficulty, his name and ad- dress being found, he was sent back to Paris. So incorrigible is this young- ster in his truant ways that his parents have ceased to worry when he disap- pears, feeling certain that when he comes to the end of his tether he will find his way to the nearest police sta- tion, give himself up and be sent home. A Patient Man in Court. Julian Ralph tells a story of an En- glish laboring-man’s trial for wife-beat- ing. His wife was in co h hereye bound upina bandage ve h stained j with blood. The ate was very stern in his I ne wife-beater. With fine and with s he asked t The ved this was lu- n€L I've drawed ‘blood on be e had tell a strong sense ¢ the story many a ye he bh se be th 1 $100 notes, The n those . upon The $1,000 a well-executed of General Meade, te with a similar like- s tal Farragut. The back of the notes are printed in green 4nd has jthe denomination plainly set{ forth in large figures across the eatire length and can not be easily altered j 200, 000. medal ior simply | 1 tell by the | you are near a river, can you locate | across the room and take hold of the knob? Can you ight, walk among the = = FASHIONABLE COLORS. Some Shades That Promise to B+ Popular for Some Time. Fitf out in p with the heliotrope t. yel- low of the golden-rod, are the first and | longest array of shades on the im-!~* porters colc umn sea- son. Yet no r so poate ——- with rose of Pers ian}, J mone, rereeine chardon DLESS OF COST ji REGAR ! 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With heads uncovered, their long black hair waving wildly in the wind they tossed themselves hither and thither, throwing their bodies violently backward and for- ward, keeping up a fiendish yelling the whole time, and every now and then breaking out into the wildest shouts. Suddenly they ceased, and, surrounded by all the crowd, and followed by the tomtoms and pipes, above which their voices were distinctly heard, they rushed on into the “Soko,” and there began the whole scene over again, I was watching them intently, through good binoculars; and though I had been anx- ious to miss nothing, I saw, in the end, more than 1 dosired. We had been told that it was customary to present them with a live sheep, which they tore limb from limb, and then and there, in its warm and quivering state, devoured. This seemed hardly credible, yot as I was looking, I distinctly saw, just after a great rush had been made to one spot, where previously three men had grovelled on the ground, a tall, power- ful fellow in a white garment, which was dyed from head to foot with blood, hold high up above the multitude a mangled carcass, which the next instant was flung out tothe raving crowd. ‘The glance bad been brief, but sufficient to assure me that what I had heard was no myth, and, as the people dispersed, I ob- served that the garments of many meet Anties in = iam, Hanna, Munger & Op. H. M. Gee, Agent. G' Money 7° BATS COUNTY LOAN & LAND CoO.. . WEST SIDE SQUARE, BUTLER, MO. Capital, - $20,000 Are prepared to make Farm Loans—giving borrower THE BEST AND LOWEST RATES AND PRIVILEGE TO PAY AT ANY TIME. Also buys and aell Real Estate and deals in all kinds of good securites. Bates County Loan & Land Company. JAS. K. BRUGLER, Presipext. . F. DUVALL, SECRETARY. H. 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They did not leave Tangler till the afternoon, and I shall never forget another scene that occurred as they came back. A woman, who apparently had not joined them before, came tearing down the hill in a perfect frenzy, and in her anx- iety tobe in time for some of the last performances she pushed headlong on at the pace of an Atalanta. Suddenly a long scarf which was wound about her waist came off and flew into the road. Utterly unconscious of her loss she sped on. nearly knocking over several people in her way, and whea she reached the returning throng s de even her ‘ellow-fa owing her- self into r of ‘the group, sur- od them all in her frantic evolu- The ma at 11M MROD'S aoe CURE if” ASTHMA saath, Hay f . BCUX & CO. XY IRDERCORNS.. 7 oe op) Ot paid. GRATEFUL- COMFOTING. _ EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. knowled, and Common Cal. a thorough ‘ORS, P tions. CUSHIONS. Whiepors beara Seeorsnfal where all Remediee fal. 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