Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1889, Page 11

sei i - ss : 10 é Wiisead theta Gale ‘mere visitors, but | leave, and Patience’s watch began. About an "cuqnme =p wnarh: 9 rock falls.on him. Uhiw dete Dhegestt’ Cicassalie For one chicken thet caine jy bor sctaes arrived, itt bial : one be Mi —— ralil lines of taker on either dide of bast? the ot Valuables. She was the plainest-one almost might say | bad aan ere wore | ea EY mama Me. Abbott, and then the still Various Devices for Catching Game | forslel lines of stakes on cith say Bm Safety Fe = = er | Ee sve: Svein ik hse opel | tres noe as ya, eat SVG. ugliest—of entire cargo, there were now more equal broken child's impatient pias CHANGES IN THE BURGLAR'S PROFESSION—VALU- | " this world ee OR Se . pe psc: sh aa a - i sae oe nee The ‘things of Bet for | poverksie to cam Shr aoe eee ee SE = bait NEY—LARGE VARIETY OF ARTICLES PLACED IN| THAT CANNOT BE READ BUT YET ARE PASSED— es! Engl ev natives: tll the went day sho wonll cot tet he nonin @cHRR BIRDS—THE SET LINES—THE WELL-| by a figure four trap. Put strong ‘a ae iat wei pote sent out to become the wives of the bachelor rae and weary eyes close for one moment lest she KNOWN BOX TRAP FOR SMALL ANIMALS—DEAD ULTS—PRIVATE BOXES OF COUPON CLIPPERS. ‘CHANGE THEIR missionaries of Shikurore.’ The Trincomalee once a week. pe GS ‘When the doc- FALLS AND FIGURE FOUR TRAP—FISH SNARES, A successful burglar, whose professional.cs-| A rather shrewd-look: stranger walked into had brought them out from Liverpool and they reveled no more | tor came in for the third time on that day he a wae reer was finally finished neatly aff at the enid of Mr. Whelpley's aan par depart- | were now coming into harbor at Khansal, cha- of fowls, roast, | looked so grave that her fears were thoroughly [Coy t, 1889.) & rope, once said that a man who kept ar ment and took a seat in a business- | peroned by the wife of a leading mimister, who deserving a Sok koe re my C4 —— anything 5 Satarday - resul! tried. nt wt Now that the breech-loading shot gun and valuable in his house besides his wife was | like way across the desk from him. “I want to | as coming aut to rejoin her husband, and all one which struck pg more strength could not hold out much longer and rifle are im such general use the old-fashioned fool. There was no doubt » good deal of pro-| induce you to go out to Ohio,” he said, after | 8g0g to spy the first aspirants to their hands. that their social | when the doctor looked in at 5 o'clock on the methods of snaring aud trapping game are sel- fessional pride in the remark, but at the same | producing letters introducing himself as a|The principle upon which the brotherhood circle had gained by the arrival of the English second morning he Was scarcely surprised dom practiced. Still the demands of the bird time the record of the skill and ingenuity of | leading lawyer of that state. ‘There js a most | acted on these occasions was that of “first come was of the mis- | see se with mote ink Pain and exhausted fanciers and others for live specimens of rare - birds and of the fur market for aninjured furs keeps alive the art of properly constructing saares, traps and dead falls. First an | foremost among the simplest snares made is whatis known as “set lines.” To begin With it is esvential to find a spot most fre- quented by the birds you wish to snare. spot selected should for a limited space at least fairly smooth. Provide yourself with a jack- some of the noted cracksmen shows what a high point of excellence the profession has reached. In the days when people stored their valuables in tin boxes or in iron safes with old-fashioned locks the gentlemen who lived by their wits on other people’s money had a comparatively easy time. But in recent years so many improvements have been intro- important and interesting case in the court at ——, in which I want you to appear as an ex- ” Mr. Whelpley is the assistant United States treasurer and has for twenty years been hand- ling drafts and checks scrawled over with curi- ous signatures and representing millions of Money. As cashier, before he became assist- first served,” and lest some ill-favored maiden should be paimed off upon them through the carelessness of a proxy a good number of these missionaries had managed to get away from the scene of their labors so as to personally select upon their arrival at Khansal the future part- ners of their joys and sorrows. If once a young woman had been told off to'an absentee and z = 3 self to enjoy a pleasant chat with a son of Belial now and then on topics purely worldly. Indeed, before long the bungalow became a much-favored resort of several of the new- comers, with whom Mrs. Abbott was deservedly popular, and hardly an evening passed with- out one or more turning in at the gate for an hour's smoke in permitted him- | to = 7 he lived. fear he cannot last throngh the day,” said been ans ny age tei hos wered.” And cr rnb veranda and a pee ee i with the tears that duced and so many devices discovered that it | ant treasurer, he ived 1d drafts | Stitable escort found for her to the gentleman's | bit of harmless gossip with the man and | would not pack when she thought of knife, some strong cord, a quantity of horse- became necessary fot the burglar to undergo s | with but place at tee aa cashed Grafts | neighborhood objections were usciees and the | his wife. Patience, who kept Af a good | Graham's despair. “Oh God.” she murmured, hair, and two bits of hard wood. Make the special training in order to prepare himself for | Po 0. wan gies _ f hun- | not, Bet day she would be married to him | deal in the background on these occasions was | “take me, let little Juck live. “Unke two small stakes about six inchés long aud the successful practice of his profession. He | f°rgery wor ve involved the loss of hun- | from her escort’s house. drive them down into the ground at a distance of fifteen feet apart. Runa strong cord taut and flaton the ground from one stake to the other, taking care to securely attach it at either end. Atintervais of a foot or more bind se- curely to the main cord little branching slip nooses of horsehair. These nooses when spread out should be about six inches in diam- eter. In the loops sprinkle some grain seeds, "The snare is now set, but if you wish to take the birds alive the set lines should be carefnlly watched lest the suared birds in their exer to getaway should beat themseves to death against the ground. ‘THE PARTRIDGE SNARE Perhaps the simplest trap made ia the box trap for squirrel and rabbit. Get a box about 15 inches long, 8 wide, and 8 inches deep. The ordinary salt box will answer. 5 by removing the top and one end. Hinge the top on to the end from which it has just been removed—leather hinges will do very nicely. At the same end nail in an ug) stick 12 inches high: bore a through the middle of the same end of the box and put through it a trigger of a figure four trap; run a string from the top of te opening end of the box, over the rear stick. trigger; at this end of the string sliver of wood set in a notch in t box an inch higher than the hole through Halve the box loosens the trigger. falls and you've bagged your game. THE WILD TURKEY TRAP. For all large game the familiar snap steel traps cannot be improved upon. Ina wild turkey trap you have to rely, in a measure, on the natural stupidity of the A four-sided pen of proportions best adapted to ground on which you elect to erect it is built of twigs and grasses. should be about two feet high. For a roof use pine or hemlock boughs and weight them down securely; leave one very small opening in your wall and in it leading into the pen strew corn. The turkey eats its way in. Y having consumed all the food the bird looks for au egress, but in turkey fashion endeavors to get out through the roof. The opening in the side is smail and the inturned twigs prove He never thinks of trying to crowd out the way he came in, and is, there- fore, a close prisoner until released, With a snap the cover mee inside and an effectual barrier. had to study locks and the hardness of iron and steel and invent new tools, and in addition the difficulties of procuring an opportunity to pur- sue his calling, even if the requisite knowledge was obtained, were greatly increased. In fact THE PROFESSION 18 NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE in the good old days, There is a long interval in time between the old stocking and the mod- ern safe. The people who used to put their money and securities in the chimuey piece or in some secret drawer are nearly all dead, ex- cove in cases where the pure air and simple habits of some remote country district has kept them alive. ‘There is another change that is noted. It used to be the custom to have a some vault, Massive walls, with heavy welded steel doors, now inclose the larger part of the money aud the valuable household and per- sonal effects of a community. Burglar proof isthe name that makers of safes and vaults give to their products, and they consider that is the chief merit, LOSING HTS OCCUPATION. The burglar may see that his occupation is gradually dwindling away. He can have the satisfaction of knowing, however, if he consid- ers it worth while, that, owing to the skill and perfection obtained by his profession, entire communities have changed their habits. THE SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES, It has only been a few years ago that in this city it was the general custom when a family arranged to leave the city for a month or so that the silver and other valuables were packed up and taken down to some bank. Perhaps, however, the next-door neighbor was going to stay in town all summer and so the valuables were intrusted to his care. That -vas before such a thing es a safe deposit company was @reds of thousands of dollars, It was this experience with signatures that eee the lawyer to see him. ~The case,” the lawyer continued, “is one in which we charge that a forgery has been com- mitted. I want youto make a study of the matter and testify as an expert. We—the par- ties I represent—honestly believe there has been a forgery, By which we are threatened with the loss of 250,000. A man died leaving a mi ese see Seber After his death a wp appeared with a document purporting to be a contract between the dsooieadl and the party producing the document, by which ‘the former agrees that on the day of his death he will give to the latter 250.000 in consideration of his the signature to this document isa forgery. We want you to study the case and testify.” The assistant ¢reasurer was forced to decline toactas expertin the ease because of the duties that kept him at his desk, It is 5 pe common thing for Treasury offi- cials to be called on for such services, tap- pears a good endorsement of the credibility of an expert on signature to say that the govern- ment stakes hundreds of thousands on his judgment in this respect, and for ten or twenty years has lost nothing by it. If association with signatures, and hard ones, will make a man expert, one who has been cashier of the United States Tréasury ought to be able to tell a forgery if anybody can, Mil- lions pass through his hands in checks and drafts each year, and to the asad are attached some of the most unintelligible signatures that man can write. There are thousands of differ- ent names, some foreign and diificult to sound, some not to be deciphered by any possibility, and others that are different at cach writing. They keep a book of signatures, and a pretty big book it is. It might pass for the transcrip- tion by some archaeologist from an ancient Speculations, conjectures, even dreams had formed the staple of the young ladies’ conver- sation on the voyage out; neediess to say whither they tended. Were not the seventeen coming out to be married? What harm then to give the reins to imagination and tongue on the subject of their futures? The prettiest aimed high, for, of course, on so sketchy an acquaintance the charms of the outer woman would principally attract the suitors, and the most engaging in ap- pearance would be the first chosen. 1 ough, in- deed, the passing triumph thus obtained might well be neutralized by the ‘possible undesira- bility of the “first come.” If a hard-fextured and elderly person be ever so capable a house- wife, and a noted teacher of Sunday schools be sister, ignorant, perchance, of the best recipe for strawberry jam—not, after all, of over- whelming importance in the east—or the names. of the kings of Israel and Judah. But Patience! She was small. and a little bit lame, Her poor little face had a pinched and half-starved look; her little gray linen dress was skimpily made; her hair was turning gray, although she was only twenty-five, and, from hi wing always been the butt and fetich of her own family she had grown stupidly awkward, apt to blush and to nock things Over in her nervousness, afraid to say what came into her head lest she should be lwughed at, and therefore remaining silent, shy, and apparently dull, She was far too much afraid of the children to an efficient Sunday school teacher. and her mother was a notable lousekeeper Who had tolerated not so much: as an offer of help from clumsy Patience. But she could sew neatly, and would no doubt darn her husband's socks to perfection; her voice had a pleasant tone whenever she dared to use it; and she was the most unselfish creature upon earth, with a heart like an artichoke and the courage of a mouse. She had been shipped off to the happier at Pagiri than she had ever been be- fore in her life. The soothing warmth of the atmosphere, both moral and climatic, had done wonderful things for her, and she began at length to look her age. At two years old she might have been a hundred, at fifteen thirty- five, and at twenty fifty. Now she was twenty- five and looked it. The pained, drawn ex- pression had left her face: her smooth skin had taken a faint tinge of pink; her white dress was made with less re; gray linen, and she had developed a latent genius for housekeeping and a handy. helpful | way which made her friends regard her as a | valuable acquisition to their houschold, and | congratulate themselves upon her rejection as | & missionary’s wife, randa one afternoon six months after Patience bad become an inmate of their hous». “Pre. destination is at the bottom of it, you may pend. Providence intervened on her behalf. “It was time somebody did,” answered his wife, rather irreverently. ‘Poor child, she has | had a ead life, and I think she must have been | half starved into the bargain, now that I see the difference being here has made in her. I shouldn't be surprised if she married and left us afterall, She isn’t so very iame, and she’s a nice. sweet-tempered, handy little thing.” Patience, who was iaying the dinner table, unintentionally overheard these remarks, und blushed and trembled. startled by the joyous leap her heart gave, and half afraid to contem- =e the wondertul vista of possibilities which irs. Abbott's words had opened out before her 4 ‘lost her heart, and without the slightest encouragement. Among the engineers was one who had lived for some | hag in the district. He had lost his wife when | is little boy was born, and the child was now four years old, strong and hearty for one reared. in the east, but, to an eye accustomed timid eyes. For she hai to English babies, only « poor little scrap. i for economy than the | and let me be atrest, for Lhaveno place her Ob "Little Jack opened his eyes, and whea she looked at him she knew her prayer was vain, When the doctor hed paid his evening visit, and was on his way back tothe town, he met Graham, hurrying with a gray, set face to his bungalow. sel sa “Is he—alive?” he asked hoarsely, “My dear fellow, he is corscious,” said the doctor, and sped on, knowing he could say no more. Graham st ‘don the threshold to take off his boots and then softly entered the bursery, Patience was seated beside her charge, with » tiny hand clasped in one of he the other she screened her face f z box is now | great deal of sil table in private | Marrying acertain lady, The man named as | afflicted with a cast in her eye andabadcom-! “he is ‘reserved for some other fate, my | lest he should see her tears. But he was lying Memphis Te scabs the lees Sadiliaseit Gite ee plate | beneiiciary in the document appears with his | plexion, men (and missionaries are all men) will | dear,” Mr. Abbott had said to his wife with | Quite still, with closed eyes, aud tt wes cate ple or an ear of corn. The rabbit or | in the every-day table service, but it is gen-| Wife and proves thut he wedded ber in aecord- | fail in properly appreciating their good quali- ! some solemnity as they sat together in the ve. | When Grabam w pered, “Jack little enters the trap, nibbles the bait and | erally plated ware. The solid silver is kept in | 42¢¢ with the terms of the contract, We think | ties, weakly preferring some better-favored man, daddy is here,” that he showed sigue of consciousness. Then be tried to raise himself, from his pillow, but fell back on his father's shoulder with a sigh and a piteous murmur of “Jack's so tired, daddy,” that went throngh poor Graham's heart like a knife, He took the child in his arm: unquishing the little hand, tr ¥ unobserved. But Jack's “Not go ‘way, P brought her back to her post and kept her there until the end came From time to time the child would swallow @ few spoonfuls of food, uttering a few words plaintive remonstrance—either “Jack so ti or “Let Jack alone.” Once he asked “P: Z to sing “Fox,” and, steadying her voice with an effort, she gently crooned “When shepherds watched their flocks by night,” He was too weak to say the customary “adenn” when she finished and lay Quite motionless till just be- fore his death, Then he looked up mto his father’s face and said: “Kiss Jack, daddy ; Jack goin, bye. Pacie, kins Jack, too.” Five minutes later Patience knew that her vigil was at an end, and she crept lessly from the room, ees Ape tet nt ea : Ne John Graham was grave beyond his years —_ DOE 5 ; ssyrian or Egyptian slab. Some of the signa- | east because she was no longer welcome at (which were thirty-five), but kindly and gentle Al i a little more ee Lochs arensd bes pete rece gpteerhrephe penal oie tures upon which money hds been and is being | home, Her mother was dead, and her brother, | {0 the women aad decgiee send Jack, ia ped Rot at all intricate, The snare proper is simply | d slip noose made of strings, but when properly constructed it 1s very effective. Familiarize yourself with the haunts and habits of the par- tridge. Bear in mind that partridges and other game birds rarely fly over an obstruction if it is possible to find an opemng through which to pass. In constructing the partridge snare be- gin by erecting a wall of sticks, stones and mud about two feet high and six mehes thick. It should be as long as is necessary to inclose given place. relying on the undulations of the ground or some other natural cause to com- plete the restof the inclosure about the par- tridges’ haunt. Build a few arches in apertures in the wall. The arch should be a bent piece of wood like a croquet wicket in shape. It should ex- tend to the top of the wall and should be about seven inches wide. Make a slip noose of a strong piece of cord just big enough to bang in the arch, Make the free end fast to the top of the arch, spread the loops apart and keep them in this position by catching the strings | lightly in either side of the arch. The noose should be one inch from the ground and three | inches from the top. The (sclgpen ag in seek- ing their usual feeding place will naturally walk into the semicircle and in endeavoring to get out will poke about until they come to one Of the archways. In going through they wili be caught in one of the nooses. ANOTHES METHOD ae iC not meaning nets, are hardly worth the while wasted on them, but one of the simplest made can be described in few words. The-pickerel | lift is a slip noose of very light copper wire. It should be about three feet long or adapted to the depth at which the fish are lying in the stream. The free end should be attached toa pole about two feet long. t from your bpat with the utmost quietness lower your noose into the water. the fish, working toward the head. careful not to touch the fish with the noose, From the bank or the special purpose of taking care of the valu- ables of the public. They have great vaults, which are believed to be burglar roof, and these vaults are inclosed in great buildings, which are built to defy not ouly the burgiar but fire and accidents of all kinds, A VARIETY OF VALUABLES. “It used to be money and silver ware mainly that people wanted us to take care of,” said the president of one of the large institutions of the kind in the city, “but now the list of articles that we take care of is along one. It includes nearly everything that you can imagine. We have the boxes in our vaults for money and securities. Then there is provision made for the storage of large packages, boxes and trunks, We have everything from an oil painting to a lace handkerchief. Costly dresses are intrusted to our care, the plates of valu- able books, engravings, rare manuscripts and even violins, Some people are afraid of burg- lars and others are afraid of fire, and then there are some who are afraid of both.” WASHINGTON DEPOSITORS. “In this city,” he went on, “there area large number of people who come here for a art of the year. They have their own estab- Fahmente,which they, perhaps, rent furnished. When they leave for Europe or for a trip through this country they want a secure place to keep their costly — and paintings and paid out, are accepted on their general ap- pearance without the name having ever been dis¢overed—they know that certain eccentric lines and curves are good for so much from a certain banking house or corporation. They know it is the signature of the president or the treasurer, as the case may be, but they do not know his name, HOW MISTAKES ARE AVOIDED, “How,” Tué Star reporter asked Mr. Whelp- ley, “are you able to avoid mistake: and fraud?” “We keep a book of signatures as banks do, and by long practice are able to make accurate comparison, There are signatures we can swear to without being able to tell the namés. There is a signature I know because it is that of a treasury official; see if you can make it out.” He produced a document at the bottom of which was a scrawl that looked like an intri- cate combination of short-hand characters. ‘The lines were heavy and crooked, but there was not the form of a {étter of the English alphabet in the scrawl. “That is 8. Davis Page,” he said. “It isa fair specimen of some of the signatures we have to deal with, but there are some worse than that. There isan old signature of Gen, Rucker’s; it would be ag intelligible if written in Hebrew. But even that is not the worst. One I think of looks like the rough sketch of a whirlwind, Another is like three Chinese char- now the head of the family, and his young wife despised her, and jooked upon her as an incumbrauce. She was not very strong- minded; and when the minister under whom they sat suzgested a means of providing for poor little Patience, her relations showed such eagerness to seize the opportunity that it was Pa. per to withstand them, even had she had any reasonable objection’ to offer, which she had not. So here she was, standing, one of Seventeen, on the deck of the Trincomalee. “Cheer up, my dear,” said her neighbor, a buxom damsel, unaftlicted with nerves and no- tions. ‘One good thing, there'll be no mothers- in-law, at least none to speak of. For my own part I would not object to marrying a foundling. 1 don’t hold with taking on a pack of your bus- band’s relations for your own.” “Ab,” sighed Patience, “perhaps you're right. It isn’t always too ensy to live at peace with one’s own family, let alone some one else's.” “True, my dear, for such as you who couldn't hold your own with a daddylonglegs. But we aren’t all made alike, thank God.” With which pharisaical observation she turned away, leaving poor Patience to reflect upon her shortcomings. These reflections had not materially improved her case before the ship came to an anchor and her thoughts were diverted, not too agreeably, from their channel by the sight of swarms of scantily-clad natives jabbering aud scuffing in the shoreboats alongside. None of the candidates had. come In his profession he was highly esteemed, and by all held to be an upright and honorable man, though more reserved than many of his associates quite understood or approved. His reserve had broken down before Mrs. Ab- bott’s motherly concern for his child's welfare, and almost every evening, when the little fellow was in bed, he would come over from his unhomelike for the most part in sil while av: —_ on which with the world at large he kept hen the others were gone, chatting on is own counsel, It was a sort of worship which the girl gave to the tall, grave man. They were too wide apart for love—indeed, there was something almost ludicrous in the mere suggestion of such a thing, and Patience’s cheeks burned when she thought of it, and she rated herself soundly for giving way, even for @ moment, to the wild flight her imagination had taken when she heard herself pronounced not unmarriageable. Mrs. Abbott had carefully kept the secret of Patience’s rejection from the gossips of Pagiri, but she could not close the mouths of all those young women—eye witnesses of the incident— who were now scattered broadcast through the district as missionaries’ wives. Graham rarely hanty and sit smoking, lence, in the missionary's veranda. He never omitted, however, to pay | his rgspects to Mrs. Abbott and Patience, whom he treated with as much courtesy as if she were queen, and often allowed himself to stay a ety of subjects with the two women—sub- Next day Patience had sickened with small- Pox, and Mrs. Abbott hastily migrated to Gra- ham's bungalow to nurse her. It was a sharp attack,but the little woman weathered it brave- ly, thanks to ber naturally wiry constitution and her friend's caretul nursing, When she was allowed to sit up in bed she asked for ” looking-glass, trembling exceedingly lest one more trial might be m store for her in the dis- figurement of her poor little face, at no time of more than passable comeliness, Was it wrong of her to thank God tor having spared her this further affliction? It meant so much to one of her shrinking disposition, whose path through life would have been even harder had she be- lieved herself to be a repulsive object as well as stupid.dull,awkward,and unwelcome, And she had dreaded—for was she not a woman? the — impression which her countenance, lurred and altered, would have produced upon her hero’s mind. kindly as he would have striven to conceal the fact When she was considered out of quarantine | Graham came to see her and her shyness in re- ceiving him was much tempered with gentle sympathy, for she had shared his sorrow with him and no longer felt herself on a different — He aid not allude to his loss, but ept the conversation on everyday subjects, never permitting it to flag and drawing ont his companion’s ideas with so much tact t she forgot to be nervous and delighted him with - - it is about him just back of the gills | °° waetd be hank io rung on & curved line, They | out to the steamer, but awaited the arrival of | left Pagiri, where he was in charge of thy | her quaint sayinge and simple uacondiy wee b- eerap mr Cpe so give oankk tech satis Geet favk iootisad of Gling cre a Bee mould Fle We mutate but to rend them is | its fair freight at the shipping office. Thither | works; but others went further aficid, and one | dom. Now Graham had just heard ths. tr ans to thrs day. ta reed, or better still, | will land your fish. ts impossible, e can always identify them, a bamboo pole about twelve feet long. Plant One end in the ground so that the pole will lean Sideways. Cut a birch twig about two feet long with plenty of leaves on it and place it cross- Wise on top of the pole. at the same time bind- ing it on securely. Place a horse-hair noose lightly over the leaves. Pass the end of the horse hair down through the pole and out throught a hole bored a foot from the bottom. Tie this end of the horse hair to a strong cord, which in turn is fastened toa rock. The trap is now set and when the bird alights on the top | of your pole his feet will invariably draw -the | Roose tight around them and he is caught in Very short order. THE SPRING SNARE is a very simple contrivance, but an excellent method of catching birds. Cut a switch about five feet long and of good thickness, Bend it in the form of a lawn tennis racket—that is, two feet of the small end of the switch should be curved around and fastened to the body. Place this flat on the ground, make a iow arch. some- what smaller than the partridge arch,and drive itinto the ground over the handle of the Bwitch at a point one foot from the base. The arch should be driven down to within three inches of the switch. Two inches trom the arch and toward the bend of the switch make a notch and drive a little peg lightly into it. To a small sapling, which should spring from the grounda few inches immediately back of the big end of the switch, attach a strong cord. Bend the sapling and attach the free end of the cord to the peg in the handle of the switch. the cord first passing under the arch. The tension should be strong enough so that the least twitch from the bent sapling would free the peg. Now abont midway on the cord connecting the peg and the top of the bent sapling attach a light strong string. This runs out as far as the bend in the switch,where it forms a «l p noose. The slip noose is spread over the curved end of the switch; grain is strewed about and all is ready for the birds. A very simple spare is made by weaving a net of silk or horse hair in running nooses. Spread it on ground frequented by birds and fasten it down with pegs. Throw some grain about and your snare is complete. Rabbits may also be caught in this same snare. Dead falls are effective if properly con- structed in killing anything from a bear to a ground squirrel, and, as the name suggests, ‘wrries with it instant death, The handiest kind of an eel which can be easiest construct barrel hoops and strips of wood. Get the ordinary barrel hoops, pl of one foot apart and nail over them strips of wood. The strips of wood should be an inch wide and half an inch in thickness. Nail these strips on longitudinal. The object of this is to sufficient width to permit the water to freely pass through, but yet not wide enough to allow At the ends invert oint 12 inches within Vhen the sticks come int leave an opening just large jueeze through. ‘it it with small tish anchor it, Attach a float toa line which connects the trap toa float on the surface of the water. This marks where your eel pot is Crarence Hype. — ~~~ — ee ___ THE FASHIONABLE PALM PLANT. Its Sensitiveness Described—Its Social Service from the Greenhouse. , is made of e them at a distance half an inch apart. ve these apertures of the eel to escape. strips to an imaginary the middle of the pot. enough for the eel to is now complete. From the New York Mail and Express, “If you want to see a fine lot of palms you should come in the early part of the fall. Then we're getting ready for the winter campaign. It’s out of season now.” So said an old Scotch nurseryman up town, who makes a specialty of the fashionable palm. But in spite of this he led the reporter through two greenhouses completely filled with them, In all there must have been several hundred of «But there’s one thing.” suddenly said he, “that yap're going to see now that you couldn't see in the fall, and that’s the ‘boarders.’ inted to a paim whereon was tied a little wooden tag. On this appeared a fashionable name and address, “Lhe lady has gone away for the summ: ation, “and while she is continued, in exp! away her palm stays here. plants to take care of for private “You see,” as he strolled along, ties of the palm are very sensitive indeed, and in a private house their care is generally left to the servants, and you know just what that means. Now the temperature about one should never be less than 60, somewhere betw: aud 80, and shouldn't vary much. Bi ant in cleaning the room where a palm is,with- ple have confidence in our ability to take care of their property. They know that every pre- caution is adopted and that neither burglars nor fire is to be feared. Burglars, or at least the more intellectual of ‘the craft, have given up the idea that a modern vault can be opened in the few hours that they can command for such work. ‘Lhe time was when clever cracksmen were feared. This was before such progress had been made in the building of vauits, In the first place it is laptgion # impossible to force an entrance into the building. But, even if such an attempt succeeded, there are the vaults, which are a build- ing themselves, every precaution having been taken to make them absolutely secure against the operations of burglars or the efforts of fire. A large force of watchmen is kept on guard day and night, both on the inside and outside of the building, and an electric arrangement watches the watchmen. “Absolute security is what we guarantee," he added. BOXES OF SECURITIES. A large proportion of the customers of a safe deposit company only keep their securities there. They have boxes to which they alone hold the key, and no one elve bas access to them unless expressly delegated by the owners of the boxes, ‘Those whose duty it is to attend the door must have good memories for faces, Many owners of safes or boxes visit them only for the purpose of cutting off coupons. The guardian must. however, recognize them at once and lead the way to the box rented by them. There must be no delay or hesitation, for all men are sensitive about being forgotton and some would, if their right was questioned to enter a company’s vaults, immediately sever their relations with the company. Private rooms are at the disposal of the patrons of the com- pany where they can perform the auduous duty of cutting the coupons off of their bonds or ex- amine their papers. The utmost quiet pre- vails, as is befitting a place whe: rsons are engaged in the discharge of such solemn duties. The precautions taken by a safe deposit com- pany to avoid the possibility of a loss would seem rather unnecessary at first sight, but they are all the result of experience. The entire business is based upon the confidence of the public, ‘THE COMMODITY OF SECURITY. The commodity which the deposit companies have to sell is security against loss, and soevery safeguard is adopted that can possibly be de- vised. It cory i seem rather superfluous, for example, to have more than one tht watch- however, and are not afraid to pay money on them.” MEN WHO CHANGE THEIR SIGNATURES. “The greatest trouble,” he added, “is where the man changes the form of his signature. It metimes happens in the case of claims that require an appropriation that ten or twenty years elapse after the claim is presented and the signature taken on our book before the draft for the money is presented. There is then often no sort of resemblance between the first signature and that on the back of the draft. ‘The last signature has then tobe proven. A man who signs his name many times each day seldom changes it, but a farmer or mechanic, or any oue who writes his name occasionally only is apt to vary it s great deal, In the course of a number of years the change is sometimes complete. Usually, however, there is some vharacteristic retained to the last. Some men have two signatures that they use for different purposes, with no resemblance between them—one for drafts and checks and one for their ordinary correspondence, A case of that sort might lead to legal complications after the man’s death. I have twosignaturesmyself. The one attached to drafts on the ‘Treasury is, properly speaking, my signature, but when I write a hurried ‘note or in private correspondence I run the letters of my name together very differently. I do not think my signature has changed in the ot twenty years. Every onc is familiar with the signature of F. E. Spinner, that curious signature that appears on the old Treasury notes, ‘The old gentleman is now eighty-five or eighty-six years old, and hero is a letter I got from him the other day almost like the engraving on the notes,” » WHAT A PEN WILL Do, Tue Star man was talking with another treasury official on the same subject. “Did it ever occur to you,” said the official, “thata forger has half his work done when he can*get hold of the identical pen with which the owner of the signature habitually writes? A great many-men, bank presidents and the like, use the same pen for their names only, for a year or two without change. .A pen that has been used by a man in writing his name hundreds of times, and never used for anything else, will almost write the name of itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of the signature. In the hands of a fairly good forger it will preserve the characteristics of the original. The reason for this is that the point of the pen has been Ground down in a peculiar way, from being the gallant seventeen were duly conveyed un- der Mrs. Abbott's maternal eye, and indeed no better guardian could have been chosen than this shrewd but kind-hearted woman, whose task had been no sinecure since she iefi Liver- pool a month before. hb itleman in the order of his arrival at the office had been presented with a numbered ticket No. 1 having been secured by a small, pale patient missionary, whose first wife had been similarly purveyed, and who knew exactly how to proceed on this, the second “auspicious occasion.” He sat quietly on a packing case, with his ticket tightly clasped in his hand. parently unconscious of the envious glances cast upon him by Nos. 2 to 17. Seven ‘of the number were ministers and the remaining proxies, who were distinguishable from their clerical brethren by the informality of their attire, whereas the missionaries were de- cently and unsuitably habited in black and wore chimneypot hats. Mrs. Abbott was the first to ascend the steps, and advanced with becoming solemnity along the qua toward the shipping office, where she stock hands with one or two of the brotherhood, the great majority of whom, it must be ad. mitted, wore a sheepish air, as though the sanction which custom kindly extended to their resent business were not quite sufficient to eep them in countenance. The young women, while endeavoring to appear unconcerned, shot many @ curious glance at their future lords—in the mass, all chaotic and unclassified —and more than one, even in the brief space which preceded the ceremony of choosing, breathed a hope that the one really handsome man of the purty might be inspired to choose her for his bride, Buthe was a Proxy, and, sad to say, the proxies were a better Scone set than the missionaries, Let us hope that no embryo Lancelots lurked in their midst. With them at auy rate we have notbing to do, Drawn up in two long rows, with Mrg. Abbott and the shipping agent between them: and with all the appearance of being arranged for some country dance or rustic game, the thirty-four contracting parties stood, and, at a word from Mrs. Abbott, the process of ‘selection began. Five minutes were allowed to each gentleman in which to “suit himself,” as the servants gay. No. 1 rejecting, perhaps ‘through bitter expe- rience, the comelier of his vis-a-vis, announced, after only three minutes’ deliberation, that his choice had fallen upon the third young lady from the top. They were accordingly pre- sented to one another and fell out to make ac- quaintance, while the game proceeded as before. Sixteen selections had been made, and now evening young Jameson came back from Pamba with a wonderful tale to tell, and brought it straight to the engineer's office, where they had just knocked off woi “You know that girl up at old Abbott's,” he said to his chum. while Graham, unnoticed, was tarning over some papers at his desk. “Well. wor get married that she left her good home in Wales and came out here six months ago with alot of others, in spite of her people's ishes, to be married to one of the bachelor mission- aries—and not one of them would have her? I suppose they had been warned of the flighty sort of young woman she was. So she was in a nice fix,and Mrs. Abbott had to ask her to come and stay with her till she could find something to do, for the Missionary society re- fused to give the girl her passage money back to ae deep one, then; she looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Where did you hear the story?” “Oh, a fellow who had been up at Katali told me. The missionary has the only bungalow in the place, so he was staying there, and Mrs. Missionary, who was one of the cargo herself, told him.” “Excellent authority, no doubt.” interrupted Graham. “Perhaps you might hear something to the disadvantage of the lady at Katali if vou asked Miss Owen. It would be a valuable ad- dition to your collection of “Queer Stories,’ and make you a welcome guest at some houses where gossip is thoroughly appreciated.” And Graham, who rarely — to his subordinates fave on matters of business, gathered up his papers and left the two young men uncertain whether to be more surprised or offended by his observations. Gfaham himself was disgusted. He did not believe that what be had just heard was correct in all its details. but he feared that the main fact, that of. Patience’s having come out to Shikarore to be married, was likely to be true, It was a shock to him to find that the demure little woman with the sweet voice and quiet ways, whom he had got to like almost insensi- bly, was after all nothing but a vulgar bus- band-bunter, and he was pained and irritated by the idea, ’ His horror of gossip forbade his broaching the subject to Mrs. Abbott, so he ut itaway atthe back of his mind and, but Exo alight shade of osldnesin his masemiree Patience, it produced no outward effect, But. keenly alive to all that concerned Gra- ham’s intercourse with herself, Patience immediately reeived the change, and, conscious of the weak place in ber armor. id you believe it, she was so wild to | Owen, are we no’ owing to you. Do you life brighter? Patience, will you let me try?” But before she could a: bad story of Patience Owen from Mrs. Abbott and itied her sincerely, though he could not rid is mind of the notion that a girl who allowed herself, without a word of protest, to be putin the undignified position of a candidate for marriage witha total stranger wo’ bardly have the strength of character to stecr astraight course through life —speaking the trath and, shaming the devil—and so he proposed to bim- self to put her to the test, with the idea that if she came through triumphantly he would con- sider the advisability of asking ber to be his wife. Therefore, when at length a pause oc- curred in their conversation, Graham, instead of rising to go, suddenly resumed his serious manner and remarked. “We are friends, Miss aad faltered Patience, all at once grown shy. And friefids will not fall out for a trifle?” No, indeed,” she answered, “I have so few | that I could not afford that,” “Then. will you tell me what brought you out to Pagiri?” Poor Patience blushed painfully, twisted her fingers in her pocket handkerchief, and showed every sign of distress. “I ieft home be- cause they didn’t want me,” she said hurriedly and with downcast eyes, “and came out to marry one of the missionaries, No one would song me, so Mrs. Abbott took me to live with er.” What it cost her to make such a confession Grabam dimly guessed. He hated himself for his cruelty, as great wave of compassion for the poor, forlorn girl swept though his beart—compassion mingled with admiration for her couarage. “Forgive me,” he said. “Poor child, there is a great deal of happiness think 1 could make your him Mrs, Abbott CHAPTER V. The directors at Prmba telegraphed for Gra- ham once more on the day following his virit to Patience, and she made up her mind that on his return a week later he should not find ber at Pagiri. “He shall not marry me out of pity,” she said to herself. ‘He cannot possibly love me, and without his love I could not be his wife. It would break my heart.” So with « good deal of difficulty she persauded Mrs. Ab- bott that she had centered all her bh on be- cor & hospital nurse, begging ber to use ew her influence with the matron of the great hos- —————_—_—_—_— t it, too, mor c by th hand and for t! there remained only the two who had no| concluded that the hated incident had t Khansal so that she might be tak t™ tai pine! hg And thee a | man inside the building. They are locked in, peat dea eeea It would peal berveegg 7) choice—Patience and the seventeenth mis-| been made known to him. Her face began cars os = peeetianer. ‘The day dame Hg ‘ later I amasked: ‘Oh, whut is the | #4 rule, and they can't get out themselves 07 | hoid at a wrong angle or forced on ——— me THE FIOURE FOUR TRAP, The simplest dead fall is made with a flat matter with my palm? Its leaves are all turn- ‘ a 2 ln “Beside this the palm needs a good lot of water to be poured on it from above so that all the leaves will be well wet. that @ plant in a private house gets a good wet- or, you see, it generally rests on a fine carpet. Butthe business is principally im. the renting out for balls and receptions. with the people direct and not with the caterer. When au order is given we first visit the rooms and study out just what plants will be needed for the proper arrangement, That, you know, is a series of groups, groups of sizes, built downward from a hi cost of the service varies a estimate on the whole wor It’s very seldom deal. A fair be from #50 to let any one else To effect a forcible en- trance would be a difficult undertaking even for an attacking party whose object need not be concealed; but for the burgiar, who has to guard against surprise from the outside and avoid detection by the guardians inside, the undertaking is a hopeless one. It is not at- tempted in these days, and the enterprising burglar when he “burgles” tries his jimmy on other brick and stone than that which incloses the treasnres intrusted to the keeping of a safe deposit company, ‘ THEY NEVER SPEAK. In one of the safe deposit companies in this 8 against ite will, It almost guides the sensitive hand of the forger when he attempts to write the name.” Soe EES * Hot Water and Digestion. From Medical Classics, Opinions differ as to the effect of the free ingestion of water at meal times, but the view generally received is probably that it dilutes the gastric juice and so retards digestion. Apart from the fact that a moderate delay in the process is by no means a disadvantage, as Sir William Roberts has shown in his explana- tion of the popularity of tea und coffee, it is more than doubtful whether any such effect is sionary. We cannot here enter upon the dis. cussion of a dificult ana painful question—that of the suitability of certain persons to hold the office of spiritual pioneer to the heathen, but if ever there was a bad ‘imen of a mission- ary it was No. 17, That he was No. 17 was due toa partiality for cooling drinks at intervals, and he had swallowed the last three on the way down to the ship) office, coming in hot, dusty and anathe: later than No. 16, “I say Mrs. Abbott,” he began in » loud coarse voice. “‘I say, this 1sn’t fair, "ll complain to the authorities. It'sa swindle. ‘the girl's lame. I saw her coming up the steps. I won't have her at pr bavi not if Iknow it. You don’t catch A once more to assume the careworn ex ion which her kind friends had believed banished forever, and she no longer sang as she went about her work. Graham came no less fre- quently to the house, and scarcely a day ‘don which Patience did not see him. it this was now more a pain than a pleasure to her, and she was almost glad when he an- nounced one evening that he had been sum- moned toattend a meet of directors at look in on the little boy now ee en confidence in the chi ayab; id Patience ham returned to Pagiri, Patience had left, and as she was being deposited twenty-four hours later with ber modest luggage at the gates of the hospital, tired out and hearteick now that the excitement of ber flight was past, : : should not during his stwence, phus Simkin making such ® fool of him- | him that they would look after little Jack dur- he gave himself forty. hours’ leave, " . water may do by washing out th be to wish you good his father’s absence. But "1 Fern are wood stick. The weight | ee eee eee ee pken ene Tiss ch tao company they tot seis dtngeas!| Sengnien tod abd by arpotiee’ tae toaeane Sovaing,” sed, Ghia i EERE Se ee | eh mnt en a oe her ‘heart | ‘20k the train for Kibs arith Cire cae ote of the rock depends on what game it is ex- ement in a room of any size Inent and the result was they ceased to speak | part more thoroughly to the action of di- | ironical flourish (th he never lifted it to | and she wished she had not spoken. her journey, but on the second day she had be- d to kill. The sticks are put together in least fifty plants.” to each other. Night after night they came | gestive ferments. in is a catalytic any one in the hao he took gun her training, and in the ola gray linen form of a figure four and support the rock. |" Asa spade is a spade/’s0 isa to their post of duty, were locked in the | anda given quantity will work almost indefi- | his de; » blundering as he went over the mL wn, large white apron. and mobcap sbe bad Whuttle out four sticks of oak or asb. The first | put there are many different building together and were relieved in the | nitely, provided the peptones are removed as litter of he aaay. Graham had been away for ten days, and Been all day jong, sessiving, instruction a her is the trigger stick, and if intended for a mink | eral use is the broad fou t they never broke the silence of | they are formed. good effects of water! Patience s shame and ter- Patience had not passed one without making a | future duties. sights which she saw made hee twelve inches a gradually | ‘The most popular, it is sai the night by a word. a ut the | drunk freely before gd have, Bonet ror. ee eee see that : ~~ pilgrimage to his house in the faithful fulfill- bee ey ee ee the tapering off toa int at ms t should be grace: difference was not same ficial resul washes better than with such i fession she choson, trom at its thickest part one inch through, te the There fs the vaphis' of eee spreading out sueiaes of anian was performed in silence, | mucen» which is secreted by the mucous mem- but where was she to go? What could she do? | ment of her promise to look after his little about for so many hours she was tein Serr Middle @ sixteenth of an inch notch | like fingers in ite excellence. the most se ‘They were together. but far apart. ‘They base Deane daring the intervals of repose and favors | Her heart failed her, and but for the welcome | lonely child. They had become fast friends, | With ‘She could not eat and = 4 should be cut and at the thick end on the same | for of “all, certain specimens being valued at | yet to speak peristalsis of the whole alimentary tract, The she "s” com- Tin owe to the sry lat dato Atio side two notches close together. The second | $100. The sago palms has a different ane trom | tot pea has thy age eee aah beer veranda to meet | she was ‘and on her way to her own little stick is the greund support. That shouid be | the others With ite horny and - | mosity in their manner condition to receive — convert it into which he had | cubicle, where she hoped to lie down for an six inches Ligh and am inch through. | visible stump it is act orbameutal thet ee | coanitaatly wo bet pie eal ne ¢ oor ine opm hand at telling. | hour before bat she was stopped by 8 Que end of it should be small and| funeral palm’ ‘Two of ite long. graceful leaves ! uot Seer ae = with hee, Sahib be message from the matron to the gue to half-inch "top. The third at the stem, where a long a beard om Saad antotig tar een which the ayab thas mas 0 ae oe ee es phew unt, perpen gor ill be as she followed | amorpbosed one inch thick Death this time will become covered with this tena- Little Jack wes | she “step down” into the dining ball? Won- cious coating, which for x—<me protects it from haven cont a moment. went down seas in yi ala ‘ = be as refuse ne a an it except formance if if i tried stick place the small end of Ss pose A " : Bithe perpenticuiar post. ponte Ad Fleet — ” resemble the figure four and you find that ‘The