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Jf JH fc py jC Tjffi jfiJGTOff gQST gUKPAyT MCHIO 1907 WHAT IT MEANS TO RUN A SHEEP RANCH IN THE DEAD OF WINTER CCHTKtt COUNTXMont lm been hard hit this winter it declared that not since 1S88 have th losses In stock been bo severe For weeks the thermometer has stood below aero The snow a foot deep on the level has been thickly orusted over that the cattle oould not break through It hot starved With their noaes only a few Inches from fodder Aa for the sheepmen they have been hauling hay for their flocks since the middle of December II Too Easterners seem to think It Is the ranchmen fault when their stock Is swept away by the thousands aald a Cvster County sheepman In this city The Montana ranchman you must remember Is not dealing with half a doten head of cattle lna ten acre pasture He probably has WJ 600 1000 head The biff outfits run up Into the tens and hundreds of thousands The ranches are miles In area miles And outside the barbed wire fences youve rot the whole prairie for your stock to range over eight miles to the nearest ranch to the east maybe twenty miles on the south and north and west nothing but sky and grass sky and grass with here a butte and there an old buffalo trail and yonder a water hole Risk His Life Every Winter Theres not a winter that the ranchman doemt risk his life to save hts Hock not a winter that some poor shepherd dont freeze his feet and lose em caring for his flock In the pursuit of duty I nearly died young myself back 18S2 trying to save my band of sheep I had 1000 sheep out with a shepherd and I was hoping to harvest my little CO per cent on my money come shearing Wed been having a fine spell of weather when one day the last of February a little soft moist dab of something fell on my cheek and began to trickle Into my beard I dldnt wait for a second I knew It were a snowflake and that It meant death to my sheep and my hopes if I couldnt get to Frisco Frank and help him turn the band Into my big pasture where the Badlands be Now if a blizzard strikes a band of sheep ther drive before It straight to destruction Horses will cut and run for corner Cattle will sometimes But a pand of sheep havent a quart of brains among em They drift before a storm Wherever drlres em I put a Cask of whisky and some bread and cheese In my pocket and was loping across the prairie In half an hour Already the blizzard was upon me The sky was thick with flakes The wind was blowing a baby gale and the mereurv was dropping down cellar at a fast clip It was going to be a hummer It was four miles to the place where I thought Frisco Frank waa camped out He wasnt there I could see wiere his tent had been but the weather being so fine he must have decided to throw the the sheep a couple of miles neare Fallon Creek Rode Into the Blackness I rode looking for em till the twilight began to falL Een when It were dark and God knows a Montana night can be the pitchiest black thing that ever happened I wouldnt gle it up I rode shouting Into the night then listening and holding my breath to hear a bleat or a voice And I rode and I rode till I was plumb lost Welt I managed to And a shallow cone half under a pinnacle kt sand stone and 1 backed the bronc Into it A horseless man In that country is dead man I found another under a ledge and crept Into It more dead than alive what with anxiety and exhaustion I lay In the cave all night and au night the storm raged and howled was somewhere In my own 20000 acrs pas ture but I couldn tell where Nor the next day either So all that day and the second night I lay In the cave desperate On the third day the sun rose clear Saddling the bronc I floundered to the top of the tallest butte and studied the landscape There not two miles away waa my shack and the stables and the corral I had not been at home an hour when In stumbled Frisco Frank both his feet and nose froze Wheres the sheep Frankr asked him as soon as I had thawed him out At the foot of a cut bank mostly cays Frank choking When we had pulled ourselves together we went out to see and mere heaped up one on top of another a solid wall of dead sheep five feet high was my band Eighteen hundred out of the 2000 that Is The others Frank had managed by superhuman efforts to swing oft to the left between the two hills Of these thirty died later from exposure and starvation Broke Hu Nerve Well that little experience did two things It cleaned me out financially and It broke my nerve for sheep that is By1 the middle of the following week I had borrowed 500 and was on my feet again but I was soured on sheep My nerve was broke When I read In the papers that It serves the ranchman right If his stock die I think of Cayuse Charlie and the time he was herding sheep back of the old Hank Nave ranch between Terry and the Yellowstone Charlie and the sheep had both suf fered considerable that winter what with the cold and Its being a big year for coyotes they seem to go to cycles of three years like And Charlie resolved to have a crack at a couple of big fellows that had been pestering the band for a week So when the sheep had quieted down one night he rode round on the outer edge of the band and waited for the onery brutes to appear About midnight a big gray male suddenly sprank out of the blackness onto the back of a sheep burying Its fangs In the flesh and fairly ripping down the hind quarters Charlies bronco shied furiously reared lost Its balanoe and fell er backward the most dangerous game a horse can put up pn a man His Leg Wat Smashed Charlie went over with him When he succeeded In freeing himself his left leg wouldnt work The leg was broke Well Charlie sat and lay on the prairie all the rest of that night sometimes cursing and sometimes sobbing under his breath But he never lost his hold on the sheep From where he lay on the frozen ground he shouted his orders to his dog and the dog obeyed He was eight miles from the nearest Inhabited ranch When It grew light he saw his horse still saddled grazing near by He never knew how he did It but dragging his broken leg after him he crawled to the pony caught him up and slow hoisted himself into the saddle It took him three hours Boy he says to his collie hold em boy till I come back And with that he heads the bronc for the Bar ranch eight mllea off Four hours later Jim Boyd of the Bar outfit sees a horse with something on his back that might have been a man and then again It mightnt Jim ran out and the thing was Cayuse Charlie The sheeps with the dog says Cayuse Charlie as white as a snowdrift Get Happy Hawkins to take em Then he fainted Rattlesnake Frank had even a worse time than that the day he nearly bled to death In the pine Jdlls between Teedee and Knowlton It was herding One day he went out to chop firewood and one war or another In tackling a thirty foot pins his ax slipped and cut him a nasty gash almost cut off his foot In fact 1 was all alone except for the doty he said in telling the story and while he were a most engaging cuss and a corker with the sheep be couldnt rig up a tournequet to stop the bleeding Well propped my leg against a tree and tors my nehkerohlef up Into strips Then I laid violent hands on my shirt and ripped It up aa well as I could Stopped the Blood Somehow I mads out to hitch on the bandages and screw em up and by and by the bleeding slowed down Then I began to crawl back to cams At camp I made out to get some food and feed the dog Then lay down to think things out was his own sheep he ss7ss7tTkMiMssssssMeasrggasTisasKg i i mXKmMrrz gtttigjgjatr isTm MLsssBHHLsssssssraKBHlE iAu MmwLsMJKSMKKB3M BBBBBBBsf Plt2Fi4mrl iJNaT BBBBsB 1V isSBBBBBfBSBBBBPyBsHsBBBBl I L1 wWs l4mEffomjKWA7rtBnJmmVm IssstirsssWtlWIflsssssllsBsnsstr JasssssssssassssssflBsBssnel WWII I II II HI I Ml tssssst II sM I 111 BsBsssLissssWlrliSsssss HMI ssflBSBHHflBBHHDsssVHssBSa I 1 1 II IMJunli li i HI MP I sssi if i hi I lillM BBBB9BBBsnrBBBa ssssErTwi lKKbmBmmRtaum T3wasimKtlKmMM SMrsr 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hands and kneesr It took him all day QodI what a day About ho strikes Billy Madisons Bitty he says talking like a turtle from between his shoulder two feet from the ground hilt as steady as If hed Just loped over friendly from Teedee Billy wish youd send that or nary redheaded boy of yours to herd mr sheep for a day or two Jarred myself Ilk with an ax yesterday and think It may Mow up a norwester by to morrowmorrow noon he says The Montanan began to slide Into his great coat preparatory to breasting the uangera or Pennsylvania avenne No siree he said as ho clapped his soft Stetson on his head If they waa ny way a ranchman could save his stock he wouldnt lose em no slrf STODEUTS AT ODDS The Students Of the TTnlvermlfr nt nm bra Portugals most famous seat of learning are In the throes of a revolution The strictly up to date element have turned reformers and aim to abolish or at least ameliorate the practlce of hazing The conservatives are strurzllnr to ave all the old time traditions of tho university Between the two the fresh mL eng decidedly the worst of From time Immenvo ial It ha fcn th custom to can the newly entered student JT wan is equivalent to freshy and the calolro has been the Object Of all tha mnirh nnrflnt Jokes that the older students could In nu mere was in particular a sort of Initiatory process Groups of upper classmen in in for freshmen in dark streets at night nrineu wim large wooden spoons When mey caugnt a newcomer they demanded to know If he had as yet secured a patron and protector In an upper class ui course ce hadnt so thev felt on him and drubbed him unme elfolly with the wooden spoons Then he was ai lowed to choose a patron and was at least Immune from thrashing The liberals as the Innovating studonU call themselves consider all these proceedings beneath the dignity of twentiethtwentieth century scholars For the title calolro they propose to substltut novato which simply means new man or newcomer Realizing that the street thrashing are too dear a privilege to be suddenly given up they propose a compromise Instead of the wooden spoons which ato called mocas or maid servants they suggest the use of olive switches and Instead of administering the drubbings haphazard in the street they propota to hold tavern parties order the novates to be present two or three at a time and Initiate them as a feature of the festivities The conservatives blttery resent the se proposals They are determined to stick toHtbe good old ways The liberals ant full of zeal and the result is that Of late almost every freshman has had tw lickings the one administered In the oil way by the conservaties and the otrer In the new way by the liberals 4lgH4 4H SH rH r4 KK Fearless Negro JDeputy Marshal Has Killed Fourteen Desperadoes IN Muscogee Ind lives Bass Reeves a negro He has been a United States deputy marshal for thirty two ears and he has killed fourteen men In that time For thirty one years going on thirty two I have ridden as a deputy marshal sir and when Marse Bennett goes out of office I am going to farming for a llv lng Is the simple way that Reeves tells the story of his life as an officer In a country at a time that every days service was a hazardous one Reeves has served under eeven different United States marshals IemocraXs and Republicans With the expiration of the present Federal regime upon the advent of Statehood he will as he says go to farming for a living laying down for the plow the six shooter which In hln hand has been a potent element In bringing two Territories out of the relgn of the outlaw the horse thief and the bootlegger to a great Commonwealth Reeves is an Arkansas negro He Is six feet tall sixty eight years old and looks to be forty He i as never known to show the slightest excitement under any circumstance He does not know what fear Is and to him the one supreme document and law of the country is a writ Place a warrant for arrest In bis hands and no circumstance can cause him to deviate I saw him once arrest his own eon charged with murder take him to Jail and place him behind the bars It was for a most diabolical crime The negro had brutally murdered his young wife This was probably the most trying moment in the whole life of the old deputy He walked Into the office of Marshal Bennett and was told that there was a warrant for his son for murder and asked if he did not want some one else to serve It Give me the writ was all he said In the Days of Dating Ontlaws When Reeves commenced riding as a dcruty marshal all of Oklahoma and In dian Territorj were unaer me gui tlon of the Fort Smith tourt and depu i TYirt Smith rode to Fort Reno Fort SHU and Anadarko for prisoners a distance of 400 miles In those days the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad Ath across the Territory marked the western fringe of civiliza tion Eighty miles west or con omu It was known as the dead line and whenever a deputy marshal from Fort Smith or Paris Texu crossed the Missouri Kansas and Texas track he took his life in his hands and he Knew On nearly every trail would be found posted by outlaws a small card warning certain deputies that If they ever crossed the dead line they would be killed Reeves has a dozen of these cards which were posted for his special benefit And In those days such a notice was no Idle boast and many an outlaw has bitten the dust trying to ambush a deputy on these trails In the early S0s there were two principal trails that led up from enlson Tex Into the Indian country that were frequented by horse thieves bootleggers and others They were known as the Seminole trail and the Pottawottamie trail The former led up via old Sasakwa and on toward the Sacred Heart mission The Semlnoles bated the Pottawottamles and the two trails though they practically paralleled each other were never used by the same Indiana It was along these two trails which also led to Fort S1H Anadarko and Fort Reno that most of the scenes of encounters with outlaws were laid There were three principal classes of outlaws murderers borse thieves and bootleggers Added to the Indians and mixed negro and Indian were the white ontlaws that had fled from Texas Kansas and other States Han Hcntinz Was Profitable Whenever a deputy marshal left Fort Smith to capture outlaws In the territory tnnV with Tnim a una aCOOk and usually a posseman depending on what particular outlaws ne was axier government allowed 75 cents a day to feed the prisoners captured and mileage tar the distance they traveled at 10 cents a mile A deputy going west was not Al lowed to arrest a man east of the Railroad but he had to wait until on the return trip If he caught a man a mile west of the Railroad however he was entitled to pay both for feeding and mileage both ways if he carried him 300 miles west to Fort Sill and back again to Fort Smith A deputy was allowed thirty days time to make a trip as tar west as Fort Sill and return If he had to stop for high water he was paid for the delay Every deputy was then on fees and took chances on mklne a living It was a hazardous business and the deputies I made big money Reeves says that he never made a thirty day trip and got back with less than 400 worth of fee and expense money He went to Mud Creek and brought In sixteen prisoners at one time and the tees amounted to 700 while the total actual expense to him was less than J100 The biggest killing he ever made was one time when he captured seventeen prisoners In the Comanche country and took them into Fort Smith His fees for that trip amounted to 900 A deputy was allowed to take a posseman a guard and a cook The posseman drew 3 per day the guard 2 and the cook 30 per month The deputy paid his own expenses and got alt the fees The deputy of course rode horseback and ranged wide from the wagon Which was simply his base of supplies and his prison He Had Many Close Calls Each wagon was equipped with a long heavy chain When a prisoner was captured he was shackled with old fashioned brads At night all of the prisoners were shackled In pairs and the shackle passed through a ring In the long chain One end of the chain Was locked around the rear axle of the wagon In this manner one man could handle thirty prisoners If he wished to His only precaution was to prevent the prisoners from ever getting within reach of the six shooters This danger was ever present No guard or cook was ever allowed to gamble with the prisoners for fear that they would lose their six shooters The first thing a prisoner wants after he Is captured and shackled to a chain Is to gamble During his lifetime Reeves has had some mighty close calls His belt was shot In two once his hat brim shot away a button on his coat was shot off the bridle reins In his hand were shot In two yet he has never had the blood drawn In a fight though fourteen men In all have had their lives snuffed out by bis deadly gun and In not a single Instance did he ever shoot at a man until the other fellow started the fight Killed Two Men Once Reeves says about the tightest place he ever got Into was in 1884 when he was riding the Seminole whisky trail looking for two white men and two negroes He was ambushed by three Bruner brothers who knew he was looking for them They had their guns on him and made him dismount He got down and showed them the warrants for their arrests and asked them to tell him thCday of the month So he could make a record to turn in to the government Tou are Just ready to turn In now remarked one of the outlaws but they relaxed their vigilance for the merest Instant and that Instant was enough Reeves whipped out his six shooter and killed one af the Bruners quick as lightning and grabbed the gun of the other in time to save himself He also killed the other Bruner while he was still holding the gun of the third one who shot three tlns with Reeves gripping the barrel of the gun Reeves finally struck him over the head with his six shooter and killed him The Bravest Man He Ever Saw The bravest man I ever saw said Reeves was Jim Webb a Mexican that I killed in 1884 near Sacred Heart Mis sion He was a murderer I got In between him and his horse He stepped out vTrTvTJT wrT iy I ZHrHr7rtr7rZrtV7 mBammtmmmMfmmmKmmmmai0tmmmmamJii A CRAFTYCHEME Cholly In background Gee but those two fellows are lucky His nance She doesnt care a rap tor either Of them Cholly I know but they always divvy up on exptcss Into the open 500 yards away and commenced shooting his Winchester Before I could drop off my horse his first bullet cut a button off my coat and the second cut my bridle rein in two I shifted my six shooter and grabbed my Winchester and shot twice He dropped and when I picked him up I found that my two bullets had struck him within a half inch of each other He shot four times and every time be shot he kept running up closer to me He was 600 yards away from me when I killed him Reeves has been tried for murder but was never convicted always proving that he was discharging his official duty One time he was out with a posseman so the story goes when the latter became enraged and threw some hot grease on a favorite dog belonging to Reeves Reeves whipped out his six shooter and shot the negro posseman dead He pitched forward Into the camp fire and the deputy was so enraged thatbe let the body lie in the Are until it was charred Reeves denies part of this story but he stood trial for murder on account of It and It cost him practically all he had ever made as a deputy marshal to keep out of Jail for the offense Knows Negro Criminals at Sight The old deputy says the worst criminals and the hardest to catch are the Seminole Indians and negroes They stick together better fight quicker and fight to kill A Seminole on the scout Is always on horse back never sleeps until after midnight and gets lip with the sun every minute he Is not asleep he is on his horse He does not get off to eat Riding up to a house he says hombux which means he wants something to eat He Is given a piece of meat and bread and sits in his saddle and eats It watching all the time for an expected foe Even while be related bis tale Reeves commenced to shift uneasily and when I asked him what was the matter he said There is a nigger across the street who ought to be arrested When 1 asked why he said he could tell every time when a negro had been breaking the law Just as soon as he saw him and when I asked him how he could tell he said Every nigger who Is guilty has a fear on Win and when he sees an officer he cannot hide It but tries to get away as quickly as possible Gen Miles Thoroughness from Upplncstt Some years ago Gen Miles started to drive from Red Lodge Mont to Cody Wyo to see bis friend Buffalo Bill The road was rough and the reckless driving of the man holding the lines made it Seem rougher but the Indian fighter compressed his lips and clung to the seat without complaint When near Cody the general suddenly prodded the driver in the back with his walking stick and said curtly Driver turn around What exclaimed the astonished driver TDo as I tell you commanded Miles So the man turned the horses about and started back to Red Lodge Now turn here ordered Miles after they had driven a few yards Convinced that his distinguished passenger had suddenly lost his mind the driver turned about once more and started for 1 Cody There exclaimed Miles in a tone of satisfaction as the side wheels struck a stone and he bounded Into the air Tou hit It Now driver you can go back to Red Lodge and tell them that you drove seventy five miles and never missed a rock Xouverhlt them every one He Knew yrom Llpptacetts A teacher In an Isolated school situated In the cattle country of Wyoming where the children learn their letters from the brands on cattle before they learn the alphabet was endeavoring to teach her pupils the different sounds of a as denoted by the marks above the letter Now children she Inquired hopefully pointing on the blackboard to the letter and the mark signifying the long sound what thisT3 There was a long and dlsconraalnir sil ence then an embyro cowboy cried exclt i ruij naiou nu nana aauw 4 teacher thafa Br A 5 Hard working Fish Builds a Nest Then Seeks a Mate to Fill It THE nest building habit said a I well known naturalist the other day Ms generally associated A vntth birds but there ar other members of the animal king dom which Indulge In It Strange tOkre late some of the most typical examples are to be found among the fishes Probably the best known finny nest builder Is the little stickleback which Is found commonly In brackish water The male alone Is able to build a nest When the mating season arrives the little bachelors thoughts are centered upon providing a nest The site selected is generally among tho stems of aquatic plants where the water always flows but not too swiftly He flist begins by carrying small bits of green material which he nips off the stalks and tugs from out the bottom and sides of the banks These he attaches by some glutinous material that he has the power of secreting to the different stems destlred as pillars for his building During this operation he swims against the work already done splashes about and seems to test its durability and strength rubs himself against the tiny platform and scrapes the mucus from his sides to use as mortar Then he thrusts his nose Into the sand at the bottom and bringing a mouthful scatters It over the foundation This Is repeated until enough has been thrown on to weight the slender fabric down and give it substance and stability then more twists turns and splashlngs to test the foundation The foundation onco complete the next operation Is to collect materials chiefly tleces of straw roots leaves and build the walls of the nest The nest or nursery when completed is a hollow somewhat rounded barrel shaped structure worked together much In the same way as the platform fastened to the water plants the whole firmly glued together The Inside of the nest Is made as smooth as possible by a kind of plastering system the little architect and builder continually goes In then turning round and round works the mucus from his body onto the Inner sides of the nest where It hardens like tough varnish Two apertures are constructed In the nest one for Ingress and the other for egress They are smooth and symmetrical as the hole leading Into a wrens nest and not unlike It Picks His Mates As soon as the nest is completed Mr Stlckelback begins to cast his eyes around for a suitable mate Watch him as he swims toward a group of the fair sex en Joying themselves amid the water plants arrayed in his best and brightest livery all smiles and amiability steadily and In the most approved style of stlckelback love making this young bachelor pleads his suit generally with success Then the pair return to the nest In which the female deposits her eggs emerging when the operation is completed by the opposite hole On the female leaving he Immediately enters deposits the milt on the eggs taking his departure through the back door And now comes the saddest part of all Immediately after leaving the nest he seeks another lady love introduces her as he did the first and so on wife after wife until the nest Is filled with eggs layer upon layer He then devotes all of his time to guarding the eggs In his nest until the young are hatched out and have attained an age at which they can shift for themselves Nearly all the nest building fishes construct nests for the purpose of holding their eggs but the African mudfish builds one for his own salvation The rivers which this species Inhabits are liable to protracted droughts each year When such a drought Is Imminent the fish retires to the deeper water and excavates a pit In which It lies covering Itself over with a thick layer of mud Thus sheltered It can suffer the complete drying up of the river as being gifted with lungs as well as gills it breathes air directly through an aperture left In the top of the nest The rains of the wet season dissolve the mud and liberate the fish when It resumes breathing by its giCa BomeUmes these ftl are dug out from their nests and eaten by the natives Others have been shipped thousands of miles In these nests and when the mud was dissolved In warmish water the fish came forth as lively as ever Ingenious Nests It Is doubtful whether protective mimicry among fishes is better exemplified than In the case of the species commonly known as the marbled angler As It Is a poor swimmer It spends most of Its time clinging to the floating masses of Sar gassum weed to rest on which from Its peculiar armlike pectoral fins It is specially fitted and the color markings of the fish closely resemble the weed itself so much so In fact that It is very difficult to distinguish It Not only does the weed thus furnish a home for this species but the fish actually constructs a nest from it and therein deposits Its eggs Each nest is made of one seaweed the different twigs being brought together and made fast to each other by means of silklike fibers probably secreted by the parent as In the sticklebacks The eggs are attached by more fibers to the nest from which they hang like large clusters of grapes To the superficial observer the whole thing looks like a tangled mass of seaweed floating on the surface a most com vmon sight The gouraml or paradise fish builds a very Ingenious nest A muddy bottom Is generally selected for the purpose Tha fish prefers to use for the nest tufts of a peculiar grass which grows on the surface of the water and whose floating roots rising and falling with the movements of the water form natural galleries under which the fish can conceal themselves The nest Is constructed by entangling the stems and leaves intermingled with blades Of grass and Is of a nearly spherical form much resembling in shape those of some birds and when completed Is attached among the plants In one corner of the pond After the eggs have been de posited In the nest both parents carefully guard It for a month when the young are hatched out and then continue their loving care until the young are large enough to shift for themselves Fishes Sleep is These Houses The wrasses of the Atlantic Ocean also build nests during the breeding season These are generally built In crevices of rocks The nest is usually In the shape of a crescent and Is about six or seven Inches wide at the widest part and twelve Inches high and Is made generally of tufts of coralline seaweed zoophytes broken saells fixed together at their bases by a seml solld mucus It Is the work of both the male and the female There Is a small opening leading Into the center of the nest Aery remarkable thing about these nests Is that they are generally built at half tide mark which leaves them exposed to tne air at least twelve hours each day six hours at a tide The fish have been seen Jumping out of the wate In order to reach the nest when the tide Is rising but had not yet reached the nest It was In this family of fishes that sleep was first observed in fishes the fish when In an aquarium seeking a sleeping place at night and lying down on one side In Brazil Is found a fish shaped some what like an eel which burrows In the mud during the dry season During the wet season the animal stores up In Its system a reserve of fat and then when the dry season arrives and the rivers dry up It constructs a deep tubular bur row in which it doubles up with head and tall together The mouth of the bur row Is closed with a most Ingeniously constructed mud flap through which are several small perforations which permit THE GOLF CKAZE From the window she saw him coming up the steps He comes she exclaimed Joyfully There was a bit of Ice on the top step He struck It Then be struck each of the other steps In succession fvjAvensl she crci He has foozled his approach the animal to breathe air directly ai It Is also one of the few species gifted with both lungs and gills While Inclosed In its nest the fish Is frequently dug out by the natives who highly prize Its flesh In tha period of Incubation It lives upon the reserve of fat aceumn lated during the rainy season When tha early rains soften the soil the fl1 emerges from Its burrow and resumes Its aquatls existence This is a very rare species but few specimens having ever come Into the possession of scientists Watchful Finny Fathers In Lakes Huron and Erie and 1 some Of the Interior lakes of New York Is found the bowfln At the beginning of the breeding season the fish raakM Its way from the de per water where it has remained sluggish during th winter to the spawning ground which Is usually at the swampy end of a lake where there Is an abundances of aquatic herbage Intersectei by channels of cle water Here the fish circles round and round until the soft weeds and root lets are bent and crushed aside so as leave a crude form of nest In which th eggs are deposited and which may bj found adnertng to the parts of the nest In enormous numbers The male remains on guard until the eggs am hatched out when the young appear leave the nest In a oody still und the watchful care of the father who keeps the swarm together by circling round and round It Gobies which are found In almost alt quarters of the globe sometimes build nests The nest Is usually made of sonr mollusk shell or of the carapace of a crab with the convex side turned upward and covered with sand The sand underneath the shell Is hollowed out and a round opening at the side coated by a mucus secreted by the skin of tho male fish gives access to the Interior Th eggs when ready are stuck to tho Inner surface of tha shell forming the roof An Australian catfish forms a mound or nest In which to deposit Its eggs This nest Is formed either of sandy grit or pebbles If the latter are available and Is often at least three feet In dlam eter The fish are said to carry pebbles In their mouths to the desired spot Certain catflshes construct nests about eight Inches by six Inches This nest which Is always located In a spot where the water Is quiet and there are plenty of aquatic plants has a soft water envelope and after the female has deposited her tgs In It tho male hovers over It forcing fresh water through th mass by rapid vibrations of his Una until after about a week they are hatched The parents Jealously guard the eggs from all enemies Many of the nests are nothing but shallow holes scooped out of tho sandy bottom by the fins and snouts of tho fishes Such are the nests of tho black bass and salmon The little fresh wate MlUers Thumb and the larger marfno Bullheads deposit their eggs on stones weeds or other submerged objects or a sort of rough nest and here they are guarded by the male The lnmpsuckert when tlo breeding season arrives prepare a nest by digging a pit between two stones at the bottom of a shallow portion of tho sea in which the female deposits several hundred thousand eggs He Wasnt Sure from Cvartr oat Leo Harrison who Is on tho bin at the Orpheum this week was walking along Fifteenth street Wednesday when he noticed two Irishmen preparing to dig a hole In the street and ho stopped to watch them mark It off on the asphalt As they worked one Irishman saldi Did yes work ytsterday TlmT At course not replied the other Tlsterday wor Lincolns Birthday The ohe who had sooksn first finished marking off the asphalt and then said Tim what makes em cflibrats tho birthday av Lincoln rOl dont know replied the other unless If because Wllfum Jlanlngs Bryan cosies from there.