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Xatet (german Sir Cruder ii snows tub latest l.VD.4f HARBOR, OX v. -v'-srV xe V- POWERFUL ENGINES USED IN MONSTER DIRIGIBLE MARE SPEED OF FIFTY MILES AN rw In com- engines proprllfiiK mi)' an hour, while J7 aerial i 'h the aircraft can run for Ploob Jfreesi xtle SIBERIAN PRISONER WINS RELEASE THROUGH REMARKABLE SCARLET Ut-taiis of thexperi- ru a native of Austria was by the Russia tJ Siberia, and manner in isjoct-deI in sending an ap-. Gov ernment, thereby re-? liberty, are told In a letter by a Chivagoan from a ThA Austrian. who for two yeara lived had left hij home coun-a. takn a position as forester in r1 luihwestern Russia, i hre.in ti.e letter follow: of tiie Austrian aroused of a native Russian who had tiie iosition of forester.

ti the latter formulated some harzrs against the Austrian. Lt given oplKjrtunlty to 'e protection of his own Gov. tii'- Austrian was given a hasty the aid of counsel, and -j uhorities, witli hom the dis-I iiiisijiiin seemed, to have had nr.l-red the Austrian exiled to Auir.an w.is sent to a faraway w.oeria and for several months i hardships. Then fortune inter in his favor. Through his in tlie forests theAustrian had i ito a "eraek" shot with the.

'-Jovernor- df the district to rn.m had 'oeen exiled discovered 1 '1- vatetl the prisoner to a posi-' nis duties consisted chiefly of t.i:ne and fowl the Governor' tjovernor discovered j.poke excellent Ger-i decided to allow the i At two sons in the German were taken l.y the Gov- (Tigers JBattle 3Co tfje eatft TERRIBLE STRUGGLE IN INDIAN JUNGLE IN WHICH FEMALE PROVED MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE r.WlJe World MK time ago I lead with much interest an account of a bat-rv royal between two buck In Maine wood. Fights of thla Inscription among- wild animals haunts are by no means ul.irly in the breeding season. ii 't often that one 1 privileged uch a combat. years' residence In India, traveling and hunting expedi- tMer lands. I have seen several i kind, and I will endeavor to I.

the like of which I hall i.ever see again. vrir.g -on the veranda of my at Ofsoor, Southern In-i-inlrally pulling at a Trlchlnop-'. when I was disturbed by the of a 6ft, mild voice. I oment it wb Ramiah. my i.

rins himself and salaaming both hands. Ramiah proceeded me that he had "boat atcha a' news of game) tiger In 'i- "Two tigers, sir," he con- 1 k. rn bla. eyes sparkling, and full of suppressed excite-i tr for Ramluh always k' whenever he found had touched a tend.r chord in hi oi-eedeJ. with many gesture i pointing, to describe the exast HKtiun of a certain village some, 46 away, aad be grew in t-awina; hu aerial mas uccssdil la a I zeppelix airship flying over LAKE HOUR POSSIBLE.

1 shelter if oaug.it in a Rale. Germany is now concealed airship ahti in Heligoland. novl ho-ji i le placed in a dep l.nllow. and can le raised or lowered at will. LETTER.

Xews.l ernor. however, n-'t to give tae prisoner an opportunity to communicate with the outside world. The prisoner' kind manner with the children served to win his way Into the g.d feelings of the Governor's tvlfe. and lu her be gained a friend who stood" liira in good atead eventually. For more than a year Austrian waited for his opportunity.

Finally, during oiie. of hi periods Instruction he succeeded in stealing a sheet of writing paper from one of the children. On hi next hunting trip the Austtlan killed an From one of the feathers of the dead bird he improvised a quill pen. Thn he pierced a vein In his arm and squeezed out a quantity of With this ghastly writing fluid and his queer pen tae-Austrian wrote a note to hi home Government at Vienna, describing his plight and railing for aid. Another ix month elapsed, during which tlme-the Austrian took special care not to permit any one to discover the letter.

In the meantime the friendship between the Governor's wife and himself ripened. The exile then asked her to mall the missive for him. He pleaded with her not to belray him. She told him she would do It as a' reward for his kindness witli her children. The.

letter the in was mailed and opened in Vienna. There was little deliy. An Investigation was ordered at once, and negotiation between the Government of Austria and Russia resulted. It wa explained lhat the local authorities in the Russian district where the Austrian had been forester bad acted without consulting the Government. The Austrian was given his liberty and he returned to bis native home.

Maaailne. imlntim a Dicture which I readily under stood, and In which I aaw sport, fun. a snap of danger, a tingle of glory, nd perhaps an element of disappointment. It was In the hot weather, and my shikarees were put looking for game. Ramiah had been In the heart of a well-known tiger strict, but for some reason or other tigers were carce that eaon.

The hior.aoon had been very heavy and water was plentiful; eonaequentty the big game was scattered, and tigers In particular. Ramiah had heaid of two In the neighborhood of the somewhat remote village he had indicated, and had gotie there to get kubba (news). He found that there were two. a tiger and a tigrea. hanging around thc 'place and apparently hunting together a very uncommon procedure on the part of tigers, which generally geek their prey The beasts bad become pretty boM.

and killed several water buffaloes belonging to the ryot, or little farmers, and to add sorrow to Insult and Injury, one of them had walked off with chokera (little native boy) a day or two before Ramiah arrived at my bungalow. The villagers were In great distress, he told me. and had sent "puenty salaams to master." begging him to come out and kill the tigers, which. I need gcsrcely add. readily contended to do.

I applied for leave Immediately, and that night aaw my kit. tent, c. In charge of Ramiah. on the march to the beleagured village. I starred dawn the next morning oa my favorite Jsngl pooy.

THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1913 11 We rested under a "tamarind tope" In the. middle of the day. and arrived at camp before dark, where I found my tent pitched, bath ready and everything prepared. Ramiah was at my tent before dawn the next morning, sitting on his haunches, waiting for me to get up.

and upon my doing so told me that nothing had been seen or heard of the tigers during the night. He suggested that I should lay up that day. "tie up" for I hem at night, and. await results. I objected to the shikaree's suggestion, on this occasion, for I felt convinced that, as the tigers had not been disturbed, they would return to the village for more cows or more boys, as the case might be; and as the moon was up and the nights very light, I to be polite and ait up to receive them.

Accordingly, I liought a young cow. and In the evening, when all tlie other had been driven into the huts, this heifer was left out. and later on broucht into a kind of Inclosed yard with low mud walls, at the end of which was a native hut. The pla' answered admirably for my purpose; there were no trees, the ground was level and the coast clear. I ha-1 Instructed the natives to make no noise, and to leave everything to Ramiah and myself.

Accordingly, Just us the long Indian day wa gliding softly and almost imperceptibly Into the fleeting hours of night, the heifer was brought to the yard, tne sun-baketl mud walls of which were about three feet high. Just as. the un went down Ramiah and myself clambered on to the bamboo, and palm-leaf roof of the hut, keeping well out of sight on the farther side, ami making ourselves as courtable as possible In the circumstance. Hamlah was at one end and unarmed, except for hia knife, which he almost worshiped, and Invariably woie; I. with a .300 express, was a Short distance from him.

We must have been lying there, hidden a best we could with palm leaves, for an hour and a half, when Ramiah, with an almost Imperceptible sign, drew my attention to a couple of dwarf palms. He had seen a tiger pass from one to the other. A moment later I saw the beast for an instant, and then lost track; he seemed to have gone back. We waited and waited, when all at once I saw a tiger crouching along toward the far end of the enclosure nearest to Ramiah; he was a bout 150 yards away." parenlly smelling It, he seized it by the On came the tlger-cr tigress, as It later proved to be till she got close up to the wall and out of sight, so near did si.e keep to It. Then, all at once, with out the slightest warning, a tiger jumped over the wall on the opposite side.

The brute crept slow.ly up to the heifer, crouching low on the giound. exactly like an enormoua cat stealing up to a bird or mouse. His tail was carried straight behind him. Sometimes It gave a nervous twitch, which seemed to denote that he was rcaJy for his spring. His legs would gather under his body, and you would have sworn he was going to make his bound: but no, lie would alter his direction and creep on a little farther.

At last he was in the right position. He had juige-hls distance to the hieh. His bound was sure, his aim was true, and be landed with a low growl on her houlder, seising the back of Ler neck as he did so with his teeth. Placing hi enormous paw acroas her nose and face, be gave that awful wrench which dislocates the neck and kills Instantly. The Impact mut have been terrific, for he went down a if she had been shot, with the tiger on top.

and never moved a limb. At this moment the tigress we had seen first leaped over the wall. Just about opposite to where the tiger had. and walked leisurely up to where her lord and master lay calmly stretched out, facing his victim. The tigress then lay down and the tiger got up.

and. after walking around the car -ass of the cow several times, and ap-neck close to the body and dragged ft to the wall at the place where he bad Jumped over. He Ihen elevated his head, still retaining hi hold upon the cow, and looked up over the top of the wall. Gathering his hind legs beneath him he made one or two attempts to spring. Just as a cat dee.

At about the third crouch he Jumped, but did not quite succeed, and fell back, cow and all. into the lnclosure. He soon got up and made another attempt, with the same result. On this the tlgres came up. and.

reix-irtg the cow Juat a the tiger had done, crouched and bounded on to the top of the wall, and then Jumped down ow the other lde. dragging the cow with her. Immediately the tiger sprang up with a frightful roar, bounded over the wall and attacked the tiger furiously. My pen fails to express what followed then. The tigress received the tiger's charge with a terrible hiss and was on him In a minute.

They stood up and tore and clawed, the tiger appearing much bigger than the tigress. Now he had her by the shoulder, now hc was fastened on to his throat, but they did not seem to held- In another instant the tiger had the tigress on ber back, and his head appeared burled In her body. She was clawing him fearfully down the flanks with both bind legs, while she truck and tore at hi shoulders and sides with ber fore one. A moment they remained like this. Then they broke away and flew at each other again.

The tigress appeared to me much the more active of the two. she was evidently the stronger. She bit and tore again and again, charging the tiger with all the fury of madness every time they seemed for an instant to be relieved from each other' clutches. I could plainly see that the fight was a la mort, and the tigress too much for her older and less active mate. Again they separated, and then, with a charge which see me 4 to me to carry all the wfld deviltry of which her frantically savage nature was capable, ber jaw wide open and grinning, the angles of her mouth drawn back, the, tigress hurled herself upon her companion, and.

seizing him by the throat, left him dead, stretched upon the crimson sand. The tigress knew he was dead. She evidently knew, too, that she would soon be dead herself, for. she was mauled beyond recognition. As she sat there unsteadily upon tier haunches, rooted, as it were, to the ground, I gazed for a moment longer upon a sight I shall never see.

again, then a bullet from my ride, aimed straight for the well-known spot the second strips behind the shoulder, about halt way up laid her, without a atroggle, peacefully beside her dead told. nt Wi)tn tSTncfc Jfatleb MAGICIAN WHO CUT OFF WIFE'S HEAD AND REPLACED IT FLEES WHEH ASKED TO DO SAMI FOR EXECUTED COOLIE. (New Tork Bvestog World. the Oceanic, which arrived I from Southampton Wil-ssssssl llam and bla wife were passenger. Mr.

Nicola 1 an old-time showman, whose fame ha spread to the corners of the earth. He keeps to pie little places, avoiding the big His great stunt is an Illusion, In which his wife Is the principal actor. He elevates her In midair and passed hoops about her body, to show there I no deception. He throws her into a cataleptic state, and when she isn't good cuts off her head. All ot which doesn't hurt Mrs.

Nicola and amases the uninitiated and brings In the ducats to the family vaults. The last performance of the Nicolas was given in Canton, China. The fame of the illustrious illusionist hsd spread from the provinces to the city, and crowds thronged to the show. Nicola carried his own portable showhouse. All the Chinese dignitaries occupied front sests and all the European dignitaries connected with the embassies were in choice locations.

Outside the showhouse waa a mob ot Chinese coolies clamoring for admission. Nicola was properly Impressed and gratified by this great showing of Inttrest. But liUi Joy was dimmed by the reflection of the many Chinese coins he had to turn away. He went on with the show and a specially engaged Chinese orchestra. Amid the crash of cymbals and beat of tomtoms he levitated his flfe and passed the hoops about her.

The great applause which greeted this wonderful feat found echo in the murmur of the crowd out-slje the tent. The coolies were growing Impatient. They were getting mad at being shut out. The show went on. The eyes of the Chinese dignitaries bulged when Xlcola cut off his wife's head.

It was marvelous, and when he brought her to life again the applause was unbounded. Again came the murmurs from the mob outside. The murmurs were snarls. A rock came through the roof. Another rock followed: then lots of rocks A riot was on.

A French officer who was In the audlenco slipped out a messenger to his ship, which lay in the offlng. The dignitaries tried to address the mob. but It wss intent on wrecking the show to which It had been denied admission. The local police were unable to cope with the mob. They only kept them In check until the arrival of the French marines, who went qheerfully and cheering through the mob.

It wasn't king after their arrival that the riot was a memory and the place In darknese. Nicola quietly folded what was left of his show-house, tied his money In a bag and crept aoflly away In the night. Next morning at his hotel he wa waited upon by Chinese official, whose raiment made the rainbow a mere mist tn the-sky efBeial-ssrUaisieel and produced a scroll and asked that the honors ble head rutter. leritator and showman of many accomplishments listen to Its read' lng. Through an Interpreter the Illusion- 4 NEW STRUCTURE PLANNED WILL BE NINE TPopulIar Specifications for a suspension bridge to be built over 8an Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland were recently presented to the San Francisco Supervisors by Los Angeles engineer.

His plans call for a bridge 9 miles In length, including Its approaches In the two cities. This bridge, to be the longest and In every way most massive In the world, would be supported by 10 piers, placed 2.230 feet apart, and It would cross the bay at an elevation of 180 feet above the water. The proposal has been Indorsed by many Important commercial bodies on both tides of San Francisco Bay, Including the Ban Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The United States Senate acted favorably upon the measure, granting permission to land at Goat Island, between San Francisco and Oakland, and also upon the Presidio. The estimated cost of the structure la S2.OO0.OOO.

two thirds of which would be equally borne by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland. It would necessitate a general election and subsequent bond Issue by both cities to carry through the project, which would require seven years. The bridge proper, supported by 10 stee cables, cut through the top of the piers. (getting garter GTo WATCHFULNESS OF BONDING COMPANIES MAZES GETTING AWAY WITH FIRM'S CASH ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBILITY. fXew Tork OR the man who is bonded there' are 100 eyes to watch.

No matter which way he may turn be must feel that -there some one who has him under He may steal lor awhile and be 1st learned. In the language of the moon and the stars and the typography ot the typhoon, that the high muck-a-mucka of Canton were visibly embarrassed and deeply chagrined at the unfortunate circumstance of the night before, and were prepared to make all reparation In their power As a starter the varl-colored costumed messenger stated Nicola would confer heaven's own delight upon the muck-a-mucks of Canton If he would be their guest at an entertainment to be held that afternoon. Nicola responded that they could bet their lives and those they hoped to enjoy with Confucius that he would be there like a duck. The messenger bowed to the ground and took his departure. Dignitaries of all countries were gathered on the field to which the showman was ld.

Oay colors were flung to the breeze, soldiers marched with the tread of war. Cymbals crashed and tom-toms were beat and the showman wondered what was doing. Out from a tent marched six and with them six men. who appeared to be prisoners. Behind.

In solemn black, walked, with stately tread, a huge man bearing a long sword. The prisoners were ranged side by side on their knees, their hands tied behind them. The executioner rested on his long sword. Nicola rubbed his eyes. A great Chinese1 official, clad In gorgeous raiment, raised his hand and let It drop again.

There was a fanfare of cymbals and a rolling or tom-toms. Like an eagle swooping down upon It prey swept the sword of the executioner. Swish: swish! 'There were six swlshe and six bleeding heads rolled out into the field. The official made a graceful salaam to Xlcola. whose eyes were bulging out of hia head.

Two ofllclals approached Nicola and through an interpreter, said, with many bows anil bending of their knees: "Will the gracious great white foreigner, the favored son of the sun and the stars, condescend to put the heads back in their places?" The noble son of the sun was paralyzed. But he hadn't been a showman for year for nothing. As soon as he recovered from hi fright, he huskily asked who the men were. He was told they were coolies who had been engaged In the riot of the night before. Quick as thought.

Nicola whispered (he couldn't talk) to the interpreter, that the men were bad men and richly deserved their fate. That the oracle of the Sun decreed they should never again wear their heads. The Chinese nobles were mightily pleased and smiled In content. The crowds cheered and the compliments of the dignitaries were conveyed to Nicola and he was asked If he didn't think the show was quite as good as his own. Nicola fled.

Arriving at his hotel, be called for hot 'whisky and Immediately plunged his feet Into a hot bath, where he kept them for the rest of the day. lie goes from here with his Illusion to South America. TO CROSS SAN FRANCISCO BAY MIXES IN LENGTH. Mechanic. would be a three-deck structure.

118 feet In height and 180 feet wide, and capable of accommodating 24 railroad tracks besides automobile ways and footwalks. The cables would be 20 inches In diameter, with a tensile strength of 35.000 tons. The suspension of the bridge Is planned so that, even should It sway with heavy winds, its decks would be kept parallel with the earth's surface. The most notable feature of the bridge. In' the opinion of the engineer who planned It.

and likewise the most difficult problem to be encountered in the construction of any bridge across San Francisco Bay, Ilea in the establishment of foundations upon which the piers would rest. In the proposed bridge the piers would rest upon steel caissons 320 feet long, 225 feet wide and 150 (eet In height; these caissons, to be constructed in dry dock, would be towed out to the points at which the piers sre to rise. The caissons would have a weight of 80,000 tons, but a buoyancy of 110,000 tons. By releasing the air within the caissons they would naturally sink to the -ottom of the bay and deep into the mud. The deepest pier, it Is estimated, would sink to a depth of US feet below the top of the mud at the bottom of the bay.

Press. safe in it. But that time will not last long. Soon will come the accounting, and then The surety company of to-day takes no chances. It must be absolutely sure that the man for whom It stands good does not place It In a position to lose money.

And to save money that surety company will apend thousands ot dollars. The burglar may break into a house, steal the family Jewels, and unless the family Itself spends money on private detectives the search will end when the robber leaves the city. He may be caught at some time In the future by accident. He may not. He may even remain In the city and steal from other houses and still be safe.

The confidence man may work his schemes and get away. The ordinary holdup man may be successful. The police department admits that It la not Infallible and that now and then criminals elude It But In the code book of the surety company there Is one great rule which blasons forth the order; "No one must escape. No matter what the defalcation or the shortage, whether ft be 5 cents or S3 or the refugee must be caught No matter what the he must be brought back, from Africa, If necessary. Spend thousands, tens of thousands, rha-e a roan around the globe and back again, but do not let him escape!" Four agencies are constantly ready to track his every step.

First of all. there is the employer, who by the terms of the bond must see to the auditing of his accounts and be responsible for the reporting of the first sign thst he Is doing anything out the way. If the Information comes that the bonded man is spending more money than he should then comes the time when the second agency of guardianship springs Into active lire. There is a telephone call to the general offices of the bonding company, and for a few moments the employer and the special detective of the bonding com, any confer over the phone. That night, when the bonded man leaves his work, he has acquired a shadow.

That shadow sees his every movement. He follows him on the cars. He watches him at his home. He notes every time he leaves, where he goes, what he does. He learns the names of his intimate associates, of hi "hangouts." He knows to the penny how much money he is spending.

"He finds out exactly in what manner that money Is spent, and he makes his reports. The defalcation may amount to fSO. The chase may begin in New" York, extend to San Franclsc), into Mexico, t'ance to South America, acrosa a continent to Rio Janeiro, on to New Orleana, Kansas City, thence to Chicago, up Into Manitoba, back to Buffalo, to New Tork again, then London. Paris, Madrid, St. Petersburg It makes no difference.

The loss was $50. The chase may cost But tn the end the man will be caught. As a rule, the chase does not go far, according to officers of various surety companies of New York. The man who embezzles, who steals because the money seems easy to get is not a brn criminal, used to the ways snd tricks and foils of the criminal world. He know not the wiles of the paid catchers of men nor how to guard agalnat them.

And in nine cases out of ten before he even gets a chance to board the aln that is to carry him away he Is under arrest. And when all other means of catching the thief fail there Is one which misses Are only about once In a hundred That mean Is the tie of Mood, the tie that will pull a man' baca across oceans and from out of the deepest hiding places of the earth. The rry of a child has called more men back from apparent safety to a life In prison than any other medium that Is known to the surety companies. The tear of a lonely wife has sent more embezzlers over the long road and Into the "big house on the river" than all the Sherlocks who ever traveled the pages of Action. The embezzlers and bonded men who turn thief do not know this.

But the bonding compsnlrs do. and they profit by It At the first report of a disappearance there comes a question from the man catcher: "Married?" "Yes." "How long?" "A year and a half." "Is there a child?" "Ye; three-months-old boy." "Good! Married life happy?" "Apparently ao." And ao the shadows come to life. They haunt the house In which the wife and the baby live. They do not worry-. They do not Inquire what the national branches of the detective agency are doing, for they do not care much.

They know that sooner or later the memory of that child will call the quarry back for Just one moment with It, Just one kiss. And when that' time comes they will be ready and waiting to catch him. For the tie of blood is the one. which pulls the runaways back more often than any one else: Such was the case with a County Treasurer of Iowa who had been bonded by a New York Arm for more than I0O.0U0. He had stolen 15,000 and departed, leaving a wife and child at home.

As soon aa the bonding company heard the report the detectives started, but they were late on the trail. They went to Honduras. They shadowed him. They watched his every action ami they saw his every letter. They knew that bis heart was aching to see those he had left at home.

They felt that some time that longing would become so great that he would leave Honduras and seek to return to his own home that he might see his wife and child. If only for a few moments. And they were right But months went by before that time came, months in which the man's face showed the effect of the mental struggle that was In progress, and the lines of his forehead deepened and furrowed. Still the dogs of the law hung grimly on. notifying their ofllcea of even' move he made and every symptom that showed his resolution stay sway was weakening.

At last he came. One day there flashed over the wire this message: A. T. sails. Steamship Oceanola." Detectives missed him at the port of the ship, for he had left it In the night and swam ashore.

They missed him in the city, for he hsd become a tramp and lived in the part of the town where derelicts drift to and fro and where identification ic hard. They missed Kim here and there, but they did not seem to mini. They knew where the big trap waited, baited and ready to spring. They knew where he would finally walk Into, the meshes and they were right. A crouching figure slunk into the front yard of the embezzler's Iowa home one night and hurried silently to a window to took in.

Tbere wa a muffled signal, a start for the porch. It was all over. Tne detectives were there. They had their jnaji and the search was ended. pe Snbtcates; Wtiqfoi of Pram 'I'd v.v-- ILLUSTRATION THAT PROVES WEIGHT OF BRAIN IS INDICATED BY 1XM OF EYE.

EXPERIMENTS WHICH PROVE IT IS POSSIBLE TO JUDGE MENTAL ORGANS FROM OPTICS. (IUastrated London News It is often asked by what means the weight of the brain in relation, to the intellectual, development of animals can be determined. It Is obvious that formation and weight of brain alone are not in- dicatlons of Intellectaul position. Were they so. the whale (whose brain may weigh about IS pounds), and the elephant (whose brain may weigh about 12 pounds) would be Intellectually superior to man.

whose brain weighs about pounds ounces. It is now suggested that the eye Indicates the weight of the brain, and it is asserted that experiments have proved that this is so. The idea emanated, in the first place, from the observance of fish. There are caught, on the Breton Coast, pink and gray dorados (of the family Coryphaenidae), and it has been noted that the eye of the pink pawum's. lecture Boom GREAT SHOWMAN PRODUCED "JOSEPH AND HIS HRETHREN" BEFORE THE; WAR.

CN.w Tork gun. IO- they are here again, are they "Joseph and Hia Brethren?" Ttl time I saw them must I have been in 1859 or thereaboutbefore the war. anyhow on the stage of the little theater In Bar-num's Museum pardon me. I should say the "platform" of the "Lecture Hall." for the great American showman well knew the susceptibilities of the good people who believed the door of a theater and the portals ot the inferno to be the aame. and therefore never countenanced a "playhouse" on hi most delectable premises.

And what a run that play had! My father, for Journalistic reason, always had a season family pass to Barnum'a. and Tar particularly good behavior permitted me It use on rare and occasional Saturdays. Other and much more frequent days I got It by taking out the rear panel of his desk, where It waa locked up. 1 I guess I saw "Joseph and His Brethren" scores of times. It was given thrice every weekday, and I know there were several days when I felt that there was more real Instruction to be got from it than from Trinity School, so I stayed through all the performances and lunched and dined on roundheerts and taffy, bought In exchange for big copper pennies at the stand just the glassblower's as you went In.

It is a much more moral and edifying drama than that of Mr. Parker. Whole Sunday-school classes used to go to It at 10 a. m. after Mr.

Barnum had made clear to the pastor in his own alluring way how much good It would do them. They hsd the front seats In the top gallery, while we unregenerates heaved peanut shell and certain wet-paper missiles st them from the hard-back benches; that is, when the Irishman who kept us In order with a rattan was not looking. I don't remember the plot If It hsd any, but Joseph waa the unforgettable Mrs. J. J.

Prior of the tightly curled raven ringlets and clarion voice. You ought to have heard her roll out "R-r-r-eleaae him, r-r-rufflan!" or the melting pathos ett iflett Catxi'eij jUuffs ENGLISH AND FRENCH DANDLES WORE HUGE HAND WARMERS FOR A CENTURY. Chicago we should see a fashionably dressed man walking down the street carrying a muff we should probably explain it as some advertising scheme ami look about for the placard of a new medicine. Or we might think that the man In question was taking a novel way ot paying a bet or was perhaps being initiated Into the secrets of some college fraternity. We should never dream that he was wearing It for useful or decorative purposes, and yet it was not so very long ago that muffs were worn quite commonly by all men who could possibly afford them.

Until the eighteenth century In England as many men as women carried them. In the wardrobes accounts uf Prince Henry of England it la recorded that he paid IT for an expensive one and So shilling- for a smaller and more ordinary one. The- costlier was made of black -dotlt dorado is much bigger than lhat uf the gray dorado, while it has been shown that the fish with the bigger eye has the bigger brain. srie same state of affairs has been noticed in a number of animals. For instance.

If a comparison be made between the little tree frttg (Hyla Arborea) and the little swamp toad (Alytes obsaetricansl, it will be found that, while the weight of their bodies differs considerably (Hyla 4 gr. 8. and Alytes 7 gr. 7, the weight of their brains Is much the same 0 gr. (43 as against 0 gr.

041); while the diameter of their eyes is almost the same (4 mm. 6 to 4 mm. 7). The illustrations show, on the left the brain and the eye of the pink dorado; and. on the right, the brain and the eye of the gray dorado.

The flah are of the same proportions. a her po-o-o-o-x-re, po-o-o-r-e faw-ther!" How we boys did worship her as the perfection of feminine loveliness and. grace, and wonder what Prior, the envied possessor of all those charms, looked like. Did she wear boy's costume? Heavens, no! Only her toes In pink stocking glinted at intervals from beneath her abundant draperies. And Jacob Joseph E.

Xagie. fine old thesplan of the sterling school, air, as extinct now as the dodo. Has anybody ever dons the back fall as he used to do It? Why, when they told him about the pit he just tumbled rearward and hit the stageplatform, I mean apparently with the back of his head. And with such a slap! I tried to do it for weeks and got black and blue all over. I couldn't do it even now.

What could have been more proper than the treatment of that little Indiscretion? The Mrs. Potlphar was chosen for a certain Indian summer mellowness, well calculated to Impress the Sunday-school children with the belief that she really waa Joseph's elderly aunt. Even In lta most delicate moments there was nothing In the scene which could have brought roseate glow to the cheek of Boston modesty, for wsa not an interval of at least 20 feet strictly maintlaned between the participants, and even when an Invitation to Joseph to come sit on her lap an-peered perilously imminent did not a coa venlent century plant open its pasteboard leaves and reveals a warmly clad young woman who waved him off with a palm branch? There was a low comedian, Tom Had-away, aa unctlous almost as Burton, whose quips from Joe Miller's jest book were In perfect keeping with the antiquity of the period. The plagues, too. were thrllllngly displayed, althu-h I recall only one, that of locusts, which was Indicated by lowering from the flies a small square of black gauge with blacg on it while the entire company sang "From Destruction Save the Land" the tune of "I Want To Be an Angel." in which all the Sunday-school children, because they knew It vociferously joined.

Tribune. and ornamented with gold and stiver decorations, while the other was of cheap black silk and without trimming of any kind. During the reign of Charles I. and II. a curious douole muff was used.

This was made as a separate covering for eaca hand and was in the form of a long, loose cuff, attached to the coat sleeves. With the coming to the throne of William of Orange small muffs attached 'by a long cord to the -bottom of the eat or suspended by a bright colored ribbon weie much in vogue. There was no uniform size, but the muffs were on the whole rather amati. After JT10, however, the size of the muffs took a Jump and they becamednlveraally huge. The larger the more fashionable tbey were, and by 1700 It became so that women and men carry their favorite dogs In their mi'ffs.

After 17S0 the vogue of the muff for the men seemed to die down, and a few rears later it waa so out of date that only so' centric individuals a till clung to them..