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THE. SEN, SUNIAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1890. 7 9 THE NATURALIST'S i i I ao3tr. xeit ttoxders at the ttUBKVM OF NATURAL HISTORY. A Assortment of Ancient Peravla.

Art Work That la tko Beit la (he World- Hiiim of tha Auelent Extinct Animal off ha Continent Object In the I Way or KaMianla and of "Our l.lt. lla ISratuer of ilia Air, tha lllrda." Tns officials of Ihn American Museum of Nat- I Ural History will receive members and Invited tatiU at the tnuaeum, on tlio west side of C'en-tral Park, to-morrow afternoon, for thu purpose of showing what they have accomplished to- ward making tlio musoum tho moit Interesting i exhibit of the kind In tlio world. And after to-morrow any reader of The Sun mar go thara and without txpomo, aavo sandflies- davs, when an ailmiMlon feo ii charged, and are for himself what thoy have done. A Rood many thousand people have availed them-elves of this privilege from time to time In Walt yean, but all of thoso and evorybody elso who la at all Intended in tho wonders of na- ture, will find that a visit now Is well worth the trouble. If only to see Uio insult of the last jtar'a work.

For Instance, there It on tho too floor, com-iortnbly reached by an clovator. a host of cates ahowing what the Americans of the dais before Columbus had doao In tho way of civilizing themselves. No matter whether tho visitor believes that the original Americans were at tha lost tribes of Isru-1 or a piople who uramt from the uionkoyt whoso bon are now to bo found burled in the sandstone of tho bad lands on the east slope of the llockUs. tho Implements and fabrics of tho old-time Americana will astonish htm. For there are shlrla tripped from tho mummlos of l'eru, and sandals from the dead In the gravos of the cavo dwellers, and stouo knives -keen-edged aud a foot lone from California, and axes that bruised Instead of chopped, frrm tlio region of the mound builders, and pottery and playthings and some at tides for ornament and others for worship, and terra cotta Imaces and atatuea the hols a story of red aliorlglnal life that is broken oil Just where It becomes most Interesting, and there is no line below tlio and to say "to ho continued." Tho most romarkable of nil tho fabrics, and the most beautiful as well are the shirts from l'eru.

Just No other museum lias a.uy such display as thoso now to seen for tha first time In this top-floor anthropologic eal department. Tho preservation of colors as well as of threads has Ixen perfect, though the troods were burled for hundreds of years. The eld Peruvian had barbaric taste, and he worked from six to eight bright colors usually with a background of red-into his cloths, but the artists who paint pictures, as well thoso who design modern prints and wnll papers, might well spend the time to examine the con-1 trasts as well as the figures developed. Tlio duality of the fabrics is no less interest ing. There aro garments designed for men.

whose threads of cotton and wool were fit to stand the wear of strong muscles, and there is one as delicato as silk lace and as soft as fleeco that once covered but did not conceal tho rounded form of a King's sweetheart. It may be that some of these fabrics have etories to tell that the pictures are hieroglyphics but the sharps In such matters have not worked that out yet. However that may bo the figures ore wonderful. And to help the Unlearned spectator to see how much better the aborigines did their work in the old dajB be- fore contaminating whit men came along, a 1 tnodern shirt of native work is exhibited. And then there are two ropes to see.

One is 4 tiger's batr rope mad for ornamental use taade by securing the ends of the hairs, fringe Cushion, between threads, and then winding the fringe around a core. Unseemly haste Was unknown to such workers as these. Tho other rope was made for use. It was a lariat. It had been used to strangle a woman, and she was buried with tho rope around her nrcx Just as she died.

The explorers did find any evidence that men were killed for the reason that prnmpted the killing of this woman. It was not a stone ago in Peru when these garments were made, for there are implements or plaits of copper and ornaments of liver and gold along with the fabrics. They even wove threads of gold and silver into the better cloths. And there were VYnltons, If not fly-rod fishermen, among the race. Very likely they fished to get fish, and not for sport, but one cannot be absolutely sure of this, for their fish hooks had no barb, and the Impaled lighter could have bo-n returned to the water practically uninjured after he had been conquered.

And then. too. tbey had Jigs and harpoons of copper for use when the pot wai to be filled. The fish lines (remain, and are Ann enough and fit for Use at this day good long lines, with a tidy sinker by which the bold fisherman might stand Lelly deep in the surf of tho Pacific and cast his lure half a cable's length away when the fish I' were setting In along shorn. Tho old Peruvians carried bags instead of ranking pockets to distort the shape of their clothing, and they knew the influence of wtiut Robert Louis Stevenson called "deifying tobacco." They made wooden combs like those for tale in the market place at Guatemala in these dars, and they made some that were different.

They bound thorns of equal length along a straight that was a comb that was sure to reach home. Just at prosent these things aro arranged fo. a wonaer-excltlng exhibit, and they urn Just tl at for any one who has any Interest In the arts of aboriginal races. Hut some time they will be arranged in such a manner that the spectator cm go to one case and study the Implements that pertained to food, and by examination ea that thus aud so tho peoole cooked and ute their meals and drank natural nnd brewed drinks. In another case one will be able to seethe knives cut the wool from the vicuna and the whorls and spindle that spun the thread, and tbn potn where the threads were dyed, and the looms where they were woven.

Then there will he fishery exhibit, and a war and hunting exhibit, ami a filoiiM exhibit, and a toy exhibit, so that, stand-tig over the ancient works of art. the modern man can read the life history. In parr, of this exterminated people. The c'Iff dueller and the mound builder, and all other pre-Columbian peoples will be so portraeil. The re.

xnalni of a village clan who llrd In Kentucky, near the Ohio, havo already buon arranged in this fashion, and to one win) la a In the ali. dy of such lore this is nt present the i most Interesting exhibit on the Uoor, een though It ba tho least showy. 1 Perhaps the patrlotio rltUens of Greater New York will tlnd a special Intetrstln thnnhnrlgl- lial remains from Van Colt land l'ark aud from Staten Island, but ho will needs confess that tho ancient New Yorker was unable to make much of a show beside the people a ho llve-i In western and southern centres of red civilization. Nuvertbolosa. It will bu observed that bill prediccsiura were right good fighters.

There are three skeletons of old N'ow Yorker who died fighting died because nf stnno-point- cd arrows that wrin idiot l.ito Hum--but it took twenty-one of the ragged projectiles to MToimt for one o( tlio thru, although several or tlieto ploiced or partly tunetrated his ribs As a matter of fact.no one who wants to pee, as distinguished from taking glimpse at. even tho new malterr In this top floor should devote leas than a day to what Is there. However, this anthropology department la jnly a beginning. To thu man vho boasts that tie is practical, and that he doesn't believe In meddling witli things that have no money in them. It will he perhaps tho must Important department.

Tho gold and the stiver ami the coppor nnd pottery that might still be used In practical affairs will Intel est the practical map. To the olio who loves knowledge for Its nirn sake the department wherein lh life history jf unlinals long since extinct considered, nnd the geuualogy of some animals now living Is I traced, will havo no less Intercut than the fit at. Ther tail it tho Ihpnrtuciitof vYiiibrnte 'a-lwuntology. The name Is enough to scire Hih practical fellow, and when ho heal that Ihn hhuw Inoludus the ultilnthero and the men-onyx and the metamynndon ami the six horned tirntorxrns. no will ask to be excused.

Nevertheless iv story that will Interest man who doesn't knlw it Ureck root from a Maj apple nay be told of tha exhibits In thu Department of Vertebrate l'ani'oiitnlngy. Fur in-, rtanc.e. they will show liliu the skeleton of a beast long since oxtlnct that weighed two tens and yet had a train that weighed less ilian a pun ml. and they will rLuw It ni'Loitt sugkett. lug that thero Is any resemblance whatever between the beast and thu tuun who Is not In terested In knowledge for Its uwn And then thoy will show him a I orse pedigree that will astonish him, for they have the 'ull and feet ot the original Ann .1011 tiyiixi the four-towl scrub four hands high, that prauctd and syutaitd ou tho ihorca ul the Waatch Late In northern Wyoming.

They am; tho bones of this original horse out of what was the md of tho Kocene psrlod.and then thoy got other bonos from higher strata of rooks until thoy have eight links In the chain connect-Ins the bluo-grass racer with the tiny scrub. And all these links aro arranged so that tho practical horseman can take them In at a glanco-can see how the skull was developed, and how the toes were eliminated, nnttl only a hoof fit for a blacksmith remained. Less Interesting than tho pedigree ot tho horse, perhaps, to tho practical man, but still orth consideration, is the exhibit ot tho Amcr-can rhinoceroses. The hail-lands region once boasted two kinds, aud ono had tho limbs nnd barrel of a horse, with head that, to the unlearned eye. looked llko a horse, too.

It was a racer In its way.espvolally whon the mesonyx canin nlong looking for a square meal, the mes-nnvx being the largest meat cater that tho old days knew. It la to bo learned that the rhinoceros tribe began existence In humble fashion -they wero no larger than a burro. If bo lnrga; but as the nges of the Kocetie period passed away, they developed Into ft be st that would have classed with a New York truck linrso for sire. Tho other rhinoceros was a swimmer, aud a vory big brute at the last, nt his bones now show. For real able-bodied ugliness of features there was nothing to surpass the foitr-hornod Uln-talhcre of souther Wyoming.

What with horns and tusks and flattened lower Jaw bono, his head was na full of knobs nnd projections as that of anything that over walked the earth. Dut though not pretty to see. he had delicato appetite, and when tho elevation of hi I country destroyed an herb on which he fed ho died out completely. Then there wore tho ancient rats. New York has the only skull of the original cat.

Paris Is well pleased to have the fragment of a Jawbone. And there were monkeys In the old davs- the ancestors, perhaps, of tho well-groomed visitors at the museum who look nt the old bones of the ttlauiithero with interest because thoy are large aud Ignore the tiny remains of the first man because they uru small. The few visitors who ate learned in such matters will be more Interested, very likely. In the chain of proofs, completed this year. which shows thaOho origin il ancestor of tho sloth and tho ant bear, now living in tho torrid regions, originated up In the Mm Juan Itiver region of thn United Sta The museum 1ms only a plaster cast of tho big megatherium, but It haa the real bones of the father of that holo race.

And here NcwYork's tnuveuin leads tho world. If from tho region of the extinct races the reader lit go down to tho exhibit of North American mammals of tie present dar. he will find by standing at the right spot near tho entrance how easy It Is to look at a bull tnooso through the autumn leaves and not i-ce him. lie may also sco tho difference between a stuffed and mounted walrus. The mounted specimens were brought home by Mr.

Peary, lie will also see, if able to distinguish tlio mnrks. that there are four kinds of reindeer (caribou) in North America, instead of three, as naturalists used to suppose, tho fourth kind being tbnt found in Newfoundland. It was Prof. Allen who determined that this was a distinct sort. The exhibits that wilt delight the amateur naturalist and ought to delight everybody who knows a bird when he sees It aro thoso under thn charge of the ornithologists.

It Is not that thousands of beautiful birds have thero "achieved dusty immortality." thcugh tho number on exhibition Is prodigious and their be'tuty manifest. Put thero nre three distinct exhibits in all. One Is a general exhibit of the birds of the world. Another Is a North Arr.er-can exhibit, and a third shows all tho birds of which Mr. Frank Cnapnuin has written so ln-teretingly In hi book of the birds found within fifty miles of Now York.

Then in addition to ibis are a number of studies In birds' nests and eggs with birds alongside. For Instance, a plover and meadow lark stand together, and ni egg of each is at hand. The birds are very nearly of size, but the plover's egg Is five times the plzu of the other egg. If tho spectator wonders nt thl. ho can learn from a printed curd tbnt the plover comes Into the world full-tleJged.

and well ablo to shift for itself. It takes a large egg shell to hold such au sble-bodied feathered cltl7en as he. The newly born meado lark is more helnlcss than a blind pupuy. There Is a collection of costs tbnt shows also the difference in tlio needs of tho young -the 'nrm. soft nests that must serve as cradles ns well as Incubators, and the raged collections of sticks or scooped holes In sand that serve us Incubators only.

There are eggs arranged to show how long they must be covered before hatching -the big, tlilck-shellcd ostrich eggs, that raiulre fifly-i days of patient care irom their father, and the tiny white pearls of tho humming bird, that hatch after ten days beneath their mother There are collections showing the normal number of eggs a bird will lay. nnd there Is proof that where one bird was svstemallcally robbed It laid teventy-two ei gs In seventy-three Oavs Instead of tha usual clutch of five in five days. So the visitor may ask if tho mother bird is able to count and can tell when she lias laid enjugh under ordinary circumstances. Tne collections showing texture of nests are beautiful, and they show that birds ha. trades like men they are m.sons and weavers and feltors and log-cabin builders, and they hav an ej for colors ks we I The shapes of nette.

from the flat bed of sticks lo tho oriole's purse four feet long, are shown. Tho shapes nt eggi unl the textures and of shells tho rude, rouch barrel that a sea fowl lays Is beside the exquisitely pollshbd gem ot tho linamou, while the variation In colors of shells is shown to so great that no one tan determine the eggs of some birds save by observing tho bird that lays them. But qulto as interesting as all this to tho gen eral observer Is tho exhibit which shows tho manges In the plumage jf certain birds during the season. Thero aro tho bobolinks, for lUbtance. and the snow bunting and the orchard oriole.

The beautiful blade and white bobolink that in funn makes the Northern welkin glad with bis bubbling eong, becomes, after moulting, the vellow and brown fellow that, under thn name of reed bird or rice bird, la the pest planters. And hegooa aay to Brazil, when the crops of rleo arn out of the way. and there turns again Into the black aud white beauty ot the daisy fields, save that some of his feather are ended In brown in a way that would mako bis Yankee friends stare If they saw htm so. Hut these brown ends are rubbed off. Just as the white ends of the feathers of the snow bunting ar rubbed off under Pile circumstances, and he comes back to his nesting haunts In the dress that pleases bis old friends so much.

All tho changes cm be seen, not. Indeed, on live tilrda, but on birds that havo been mounted with rare skill In surroundings that mako them appear at home. The mow bunting Is in tbs snow drift, and the bobolink In the grass and daisies, tin. too. appears the orchard oriole and the scarlet tannger.

It not unlikely that.wltn all the rest whlco may not lie considered here, the men of the mil seum will be quite as interesting to some of tho visitor; as are the results of their laoors, for they are men who are at ease in dress suits now, aud in overalls. Uannel shirts, and butt-son hats In the season. 1'hoy can handle the pen and the pickaxe with master hands. They cull anpreclute a glass of fl.x" and they havo often existed on alkali water. They know the flavor of terrapin cooked to the Jlaltlmoro standard, nnd the fish oil as served by the Hudson Hay Ksklmo.

Thoy have shrivelled under the desert sun whore the thermometer rose 1 above lilo Fahrenheit; they have shivered be-I side Icebergs and glaciers, and they "nave smoked a soothing cigar whllo resting on silks 1 In rooms that wein heated fiom registers. Ilet-I ter th in lII else, they nre unassuming. nthu-plastic. expert In ti.elr branches of eclence thnt.when thoy do sneak, every one who knows their subjects listens with attention. Two IatleaC Compare Notes.

Frovl tha ISimgor IMlly AVtol. A Calais man who hat been drinking a glass of cold water before each meal for three mouths because his physician said It would make him I thin, met a thin man the other morning who I has heeu trying the same plan six months on I the advice of another physician, who told him It would mako him fat. JOHN H. FRENCH, Tvir.i. AT AUCTION couMHNviNo iinvnar, jvov.no, at 1 O'CLOCK, and fallowing dijrj.

tho larja stock of Indian Art Ware Antiques of S. J. TELLERY CO. at their store, ilh arH corner 221 it, SALE ABSOLUTE TO CLOSE THE BUSINESS, Mock will sold In single lots lo suit buyers. TUB AUCTION wu.r, CONTINUE I TIM- X1NTIB HTOL'U.

IB UUlJ. RKD AND YELLOW FOXES. STORIES ItT OUXJfKOTICVT 1TUO iJUAT TlIB3t. 4,000 Tnkea Every Winter-Stow Hennde and 1'aet Oaea-a. Uoua llnnt Without rJhot-Henewed Evlrfrneee or the Care.

fulness nnd Cunnlusr or the XMIicrere. I.iTCiiriEt.u. Nov. 0. Fox hunting has been an tdcnl sport among the rugged mountain of l.itclifiold county slnco an enrly day, Tho season is now at Its height, and moro foxes aro being shot than before In years.

"Fox hunting," said a German nobleman In exile among tho Litchfield hills moro than 100 jears ago, "Is the greatest sport In the world. You nave to uso your legs, your care, our eyes, and above all, your mind." Tho Uaron did much to promote the sport, and to-duy tux huutlng.forthn entertainment It affords. Is practised In this section much mora extensively than throughout tho rest of Connecticut. Almost ovory settlcmont In tho county liar Its trained foxhounds, and evory ono drops his work to hear thu baying of the hounds when thoy are In pursuit of the slsudor animal so Justly famous for bis cunning nnd his arts. Fox hunting Is now actually the burden of tho conversation ot the men In town or country, and oven tholhounds meet and seem to communicate Information about these matters bo-fore starting off alone on fox hunts in case thero is nobody at liberty to go with thum.

It was not very many years ago when, ono winter morning, thu driver of tho Litchfield stage became so intent In following a fox's track In the snow by the side of the road that ho upset the stage where the trail turned eft suddenly. Thereupon ono of bis passengers, the Chief Justice ot tho Stij.rcmo Court, of the State, scrambled out and buggestod to him mildly that It ho going to follow tho fox trail Instead of the stago road, he might belter take ono of tho horses and leave tha romalndor with the "It Is a fact." says T. Marsh, n'well-known merchant and enthusiastic tux hunter of this ptnro. "that our foxhounds will meet In the street and commune with one another, and tlio first vou know they are off to the woods together and working on the trail of some fox. Frequently thoy round It up so that It Is shot by some farm boy n'jead of tha hounds.

Many foxes aro shot In this way." Most of tho Litchfield county foxes aro bright red or yellow, although occasionally a cross fox and woods gray uru encountered. One of the handsomest sleigh roles ever seen Is Is owned by tho Dcrnlng family of this place, it is mide of the red. yellow, and black leg trimmings cut from more than COO fox pelts by Cyrus 1'erklna, an old whiplash braider and tanner of Morris, the bits of color forming a mosaic of rare and startling beauty. A tanner In Milton within ten years has cured more than fox skins. And yel, despite such warfare, which Is constantly going on from early In Ssptembcr through the winter months, foxes aro moro plentiful here than they were bait a century ago, for tho sportsmen protect the young frnmllietng dug out of their burrows by the husbandmen, or frightin them to safer fields before the farmer has had time to unearth them.

A bit of iron dropped at the mouth of a fox burrow, or a few kicks ot dirt In front of It, and tho mother fox and her bright family will quit the territory at the first opportunity. Tho running cf dog foxes Into this section from Dutchess county, New York, twenty miles distant, during the mating season In winter Is another Important source of supply. It is estimated by conservative fox punters that ll.OOU to 1.000 fox pelts ure taken la this coiiwiy every winter. The Canadian deerhound, thin, fleet, and nlry, has almost romplc'cly usurped the placo of the domestic foxhound of Kngllsh descent In this county within a lew vcar. Tho Ca.

nadlan is a faster follower of tho fox's trail than the domestic bound, anil for this reason some of the older hunters think they are more apt to drivo fox out of reach than the do-uiestt3 dog, tne theory living that If fox be started up too sharply and kept running hard too long It it liable to lead right awar from the hunters In a strnlght line, nnd to such dls-tancu thut it does not return. On tho either hand. If the fox be followed more easily, it will, after running few miles, usually begin to lead to ono side, plus lug about until It ttoaliv circles back through certain runs nnd pas-ivewnis until It comes near to Its stalling point, it her" porhaps tho guns of tho huntsmen await it. Tho quick movement of the Canadian bound Is, however, much more satisfactory to the nervous lingered huntsman of modern times than the slow motion of the older class of foxhounds, as the Canadian dues not keep the hunters waiting, providing the foxHWiug in Its circle as already outlined. The artifices of fnes hereabout have furnished renewed evidences this season of the prudence, carefulneis.

skill, and Industry uf this pretty pilferer. There Is a large and locally famous vellow fox on Coo's Hill that the Litchfield hunters worked for all last winter, and are again looking for this season. This old motlnr fox has exiled every one who has set out to capturoher. Hhn Is a very handsome animal, iiulte yellow, nnd hns a tall that Is two-thirds wtilto from thoilp. Not fow hunters have yearned for this cream-colored brush.

The animal pas been hunted so long that she has received the name of "cottontail." She Is very quick to scent thn dogs, but Instead of running before them she makes at onie for the clillson the hill, where her burrow Is so situated among the rocks that ehu cannot lie got at. although many deep threats have beon made against her life. Eleazer l'rattof Uosben. a farmer, has taken seventeen foxes this reason, lie uses the old-faihloned hounds, lie savsi "You want slow hound to follow a fox, so as not to care the animal straight nut ot the country to with. And the best time to lrn-k a fox is when thu ground Is hulf covered with stretches of snow.

Then thu fox finds that it ran keep ahead of tin dog so easily that It does nut run fust, hut phi) and circles about, and finally fetches around sooner or later to a pUce where you tit a thu. at him. A fox knows Just how much trouble a dog is going 10 make, and knows it mighty qui too." hud on unusual experience with a gray doz fox at the.btad of butternut llrwk the otn-tr day. My dog hal been running the tux tor a long time, uud I vras sitting down on a little knoll to rest. After a wblle I saw the fox Jump onto a wall down 11.

the vallei. and run back and forth over his track for a moment, and then Itap ott to one side to a fallen tree, where he lay down to teit. My dog cmne up and puzzled about the rros tracks for twenty mm-utos before he gut idler the.fox sglu, and by that time the fox was firsb. Then the fox rau dliectly toward wliero I oat, and I let him hare big charge uf bucksluit, ilo fell and lay with. his uvea shut, and Jumped for him.

and something possessed mo tugrsb him by the hind legs. As Id HI so lie begun to gluk vlcloilsll, bull swung htinquxkly uiuund uud dashed his head against a trot, killing him. I'pon examining him I found that not a shot had struct the fox, but he Wilier slunuel lor the mo moiit by tbo paailrg of tlm nhntuver Ii It, head, or else he pliving pnJbuui with me. I never got a fox wiuiuut leaving a shot mark on 11 before." Levi Coo of Prospect Mountain Is one of the oldest fox bunten III Connecticut. Jlo uses tbu ola-fashicniid hounds, lie always lias regarded she foxes as mora cunning than iln foxes, uud lie riiunilv had an experience that confirmed film in til belief, lie iiad been fid lowing this in rjilar fox, off ami on, for two wlulors, and th.

art time he got ou her track his dug was following bur up through a swamp over a light full of snow, uppaieutly In hie direction. Coo h.n gun and waited. The baying of bis pound began to sound further uud furihor auj, uud ul last ho know that his gnmu was guo again. T'uere vns no wind to wall his sceiil toward tho lux, lu hud not leen lu aiglu nr tier, nnd he could nut Imagine how olio luuldhaiu mlatrusloJ his presume and tumid away. Hut when ho turned to liutelhu pUio ull was explained.

There, on thu totl snow close behind him, he saw tho Hack of thu fox, whvie sue had lull near to hlin befuie taking noiu.0 of his pronuucu, so urent was sbo In her uud then turned sharply aud vanished "Fox hunting gives mo two or three hours In the early morning, when It is Kill thoro Is a dew Charlm Iliulloik uf Town lllli, "I wen this fall what I have no-tr seen befuie, though havo heard a good deal about It a iox coinpleluly ilitdout by tne dogs. Luke lllutou ol drum Hill started a fox up oer mar Mount Tuiii last Saturday morning, uud tlm um ill out lor hcui.uiul ho rcckoncii as going lulu Yoik slate, as wo frcuuuiiuy do nave Vm. Hut along in Hit afternoon tho swinging pack under the. iiiiiunuin again, und iliutou's dog. a filial tlllll t'uiiuuu noun', nbuiii hint an liour behind ll ami nearly tuckeied tint.

Well. PHI iu nog iiiuu the track, and ho prihul (lie up, They went around ami minimi MUJiiui several tlinoi, and finally my dot. Million grahbuii tho ion, which by nils was almost played out, I gun.H the 'ox hud leuu run ijy tlm tm(ru Ur lump's took It up. rinal sir. vviiuliluos tlml fo du but make its way dowii to i.on uml under a tiiloUiitof by'l bners.

whuio ll hulled llsulf ml uiulcr thu Hater hut its n. w. The dog held It thero at oay uuul I goi shot at It, but I tid lo go into iim wutur afterward lu briug thu carcass uut. i vi Mlhani Is a hunting partner of Hud- I i "I "lu isl Interesting dodges of unoia.iiu, id he, "Is to Jump Iniu well- Ki7 on a country road, run for Tii i ur i nu 'hen Jump out to ono the hounds beaten, tctr a hard attuir Wall one ot the worst tor tlfo uow lo smell. The ly way dog can plok no the trail again Is to make a wide detour until ho strikes It, andrnenntimo the fox mny ten miles off.

Holloek nnd I followed one of this strlpo one dar last winter, and while the hounds were nuking the woods ring down the road whero th( fox hud illppod 'em, we spied the fox In a theket that ran up the hillside. Wo arranged br lladlock to follow tho fox. Imitating a hound, while I sneaked on top of the hill with ur gun and wnlted for a chance fur a shot, llullock liegnn the 'oox, ook, uok' of tho hound, md struck into tlio brush, following the fox down and back through tho thicket twice, I could see thu fox, although lladlock could not. It was creeping along slowly, and lotting back now nnd then very carefully. Tho fox knew well enough that the slow work llndook was cutting out was not that of any foxlouud, but we kept therreaturo buay for half ai hour any way.

lladlock was gradually s-orllng tho fcx up toward me, whn I got ttroi of waiting, and shot nt twelve rods and missel. Thon the fox went out of llko a rcdntreak." Alf, lingers, fie sharp-eyed hunter nrd story tellur ofMohavk Mountain, who fancies that nil animals talkto him, relates two experiences lu fox hunting this season. Thellrthe had beforo the shooing of bis valuable- foxhound, Old Spy. llonijn: "Or Spy. ho Itarts up a tlog fox back sldo of Ivy Mountain In tloshcn.

an' he run him mighty hard rltbt straight to north'ard. An' 1 eels down, foi 1 knowc.i I couldn't keoD up. An' they run fir three hours before that fox would turn 'rouid. An' finally 1 hear 01' bpy a-comln' bade, nn' a-sit)ln': Alfi Alfl lift Where bo yot Hero It Is four hours one an' most noon nowj why don't )e roinu at' shoot this foxt' of coure. 1 wa'nt near rnousli to do nothln', an' so 1 Jest laid low.

An' Jest thon miiib stray turners fired at the fox, nn' the fox tnv: 'Shoot awny: shoot away, anybody. 1 don't care wlo shoots an long as taint that Alf. "Then I gits sight nt 01' Spy. an' ho looks up at the sun ai' lm calls out. 'AH I Alfl Alfl Whero to Hero's tho foxl I'm tired, an 1 want, tow knrtk off for "At th.s 1 get up an' the fox he sees mo an' lie savsi 'Vcrysorry, fee them evesl That a ol' Alf Ilogcrs i-coiuiu'.

I do bellevo. Now, look "An' 1 says. Here I lie. Ol nn' I lets tho fox hav It.and fetches him." AI f'B second sbrv concerns his ov ertakinc tw hunters tu the Jirusulem woodson the trail of fox. Alf took I stand by a runway to vvalt for the fox.

which dogs owned by tbo huutore wcrn following. At tho head of a neighboring ravine ho soon leard the baying of one of tho hounds, and loiklng tiiere. he saw that It was with what vns apparent!) a largo fox of a very daik red coor. "That's a foolioun', nn' he's a-nlavln' with ther fox." bawlecout Alf to his fellows. "Let's go up there." lardlv i-nd he t-poken before the fox fiew by, dmost nt his I id, ami vMakcd down tho glen.

The red animal Alf saw playing with th" houid was red Irish setter that belonged to one of tho hunters. Alf was so mortified at loslrg the fox In this Inoxcusablo vny that he has no, told story since. A fox was slut below Nnrthlleld tho other day while it wa robbing a neit of wild lees. It had disco verec tho nest In a small cava and attacked It. AHaough jiuny or the bees were torpid, fifno of Iheiu attacked the fox ho sharply that th" forced It to roll ov-rin thn dirt at tho hot ten of thn cavo to crush nnd kill them.

Then It renewed its wnrfurc. nnd at length broke diwn tlio honey combs nnd devoured honey, bci bread, bees nnd all. Tho glutton was watdied whllo pursuing the ns-snull upon tho l.cn, and was shot before It had time to clean Itsol, after Its feast of swiets. K.vj.r Mtusr. ami cAUinov.

Iluatere nnd f2ulda Who Have I.uld llnade on Hhy Creutirce of the Wnotls. jCinko, the vlslllng hunters hare btupped comlnt so fast the guides have had more leisure to hat around tho hotels nnd storos, and new tales if adventure In tho woods aro coming to the fnnt everyday. Last September Tin: SUN contilned a storytelling how-Joseph Slclrs. a youui sportsman from Providence, II. L.

padulcd his canoe alongside of some moose that wer feeding among the Illy pods In Hipogenus I.aks. Ity putting a Jackllght In the bow of his canoe ho succeeded In placing his hands on the fiaukaof two mooso und buckling a leather strap aroiud tue bod) of thu third While he was trying tu place a atrnp on another moose the animal git frightened and tipped the cnno9 over, spllllnr Steirs and his guldo Into tho water. Last -veek Frank Harlow, a guide who is also empisyed ou a small steamboat owned by Frank Wesson, tho revolver maker, of Springfield. shot a moose near I.oon Lake that hail a leather strap buckled around lla body back of tho foreshoulders. Though he la not sure, he believes It is the tame moose hlch Steirs met on Itlpogenus.

Kvcryboiy who knows Charles Anince. the French-Indian half-breed guide, ur ho stop about Lake, has heard him Ull his adventure with a cow uioose wlio. calf had been lied bv a bob cat. She came out lo Anance's camp und bung about for several days, bellowing and making heart-breaking out. rlei for her dead calf.

One night when she was drinking from tholukn Anance wentuptohersnd put nls hand upon her side. Instejd of Jumping away, Anauce had expected. she looVid at hlin fora moment, and slicking out her big nose, licked his hand with her rough tongue. She dedj eet Jus" lek me calf." said Ananee, when he told of It to the Us hcr'nt ii In his camp. Of course, the anglers did not believe him, and guyed hlin so much about nls adventure that he got mad and ottered to bet 55 that ho.

would go up to that cow moose and milk her while she was drinking. Tho mnueywaiput up. and the next morning Anauce took can und went nut and got more than a quart of mooso milk. Anauce sa)s the moose mil only licked him with her tongue while he was milking, but actually shed tears of gratitude. There are people who have duubtcd this story, but tbey have keut their opinions to themselves until they were far nw ay from Ananee.

because he Is a stout young trail and quick-tempered. Other strange tales about the ways of moose are told in camp Last summer John Oerrlsh saw a four-yrar-old hull iiioon -wlminlng in F.lbow Lake, a few rods nbov North Tw In dam. Sending lo the camp for a stout line he got Into a canoe and kepi the niooto-from landing until he had placed a slip noose uver It, bead and drawn It tip about it" neck. Then ho swam thn moose alMiui In the lake until It was and ied It asboie the way he would a cow. Oerrlsh kept it in a log pound for monib, and did not liberate ll tin til it gHiue warden lo'd him he would be liable toiiunnof IHOOnnd costs for keeping a moose lu rl-r lime.

The animal stayed near by In the wooiU all siimmtr, uud wa abut early In October by a New York hunter whocamedown fur game. Two ears nun Fred Wing, wno was running a hotel at Molunkus. found a pnlr of lining mousp In the woods that hud lost their mother He put them into tho hotel stable and fid thvm on cow's milk until they were as tsui" ns lainbv When a gamo warden Informed Wing be would have to pay S'-'flO tor keeping two moue in raptlvttv. ho pulled down their pen und let them run at lsrgtt. Though tbey had the freedom of the woods, they came tn the slahlo etv nlitltl for r-hHler.

In August he Hint tliem to Haugnr, nnd the) were on exhibition nt ihufiilr. Later be paid a fine fur his captive mouse anil cent then to the Maine fair nt Lcwlston, here they inrued him nearly $1, Poo. As he was atinut to carry them to MHSsachur-ett and show them at th" fans Austin Cmliln's agent came along and bought them for the prmi-rve nt Newport, N. II. ur vears ago next February lieu York of Mllltiorket tins fishing through the Ice of MH-liiock-t Lake for pickerel when he saw four large animals coining down the lake with the wind.

As thoy drew near he saw they were caribou, and, having nn weapon but an lie nisi 1, be expected they aoiiIiI gore nnd trainpie hlin tinliiath. Standing rigidly erect, heawnlted thulr oncoming wlih much unia-Itu'iu. They stopped about a rod nun) from blm.nndona came ip and nosed htm oter, licking his roal with lis tongue. Aftirthls tin- one that had u.ado thu Invesllgalion went back to In coin pan-lonn and nil trotted oil down tin lake, Mr. ork believes that mouse and million, while they are eiiiloncd with a leen miisu of smell, are vory hcur-sU'hlfd, i-i when they approach a man from the windward fide they cannot tell what maimer of animal tin Is until they smell of l.i.-jj When he li'i" been to the leeward of moose he bus bad tue iin.mals roup, up within rod ot him before taking alarm Mr, York is 70 years old, nnd lias hpent Ills llfeln tho woods.

In nil nf his exp'Tien es he has never known iv luoo.e toaitnck a mm uule-s tho i.ioote had 1 ceh wounded. I BffiSd I prostate" gland. I "r- II. II Kane's valuable lectures nn Diseases of tho III. MIIILIt.

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St-Every child In this city and every grown peson who lias been a child In this city In tholast fifty years has known Old Shlmo, the riser. Most of them have feared him as well. His real iinmo was Anthony Shlme, but he Us been known universally as Old Shlme, uudr which appollatlon be bos served as a bugabo to thousands ot youngsters to frighten theuinto good behavior. The familiar "gobllns'll r. yer if er don't watch out" has a dlffcrcn Auburn version.

Old Shlme will come after rou If you aren't good Is the way Auburn cottiers put It, and Old Shlmo has come after mny a child during tits seventy-seven years of lie, which ended a few weeks ago. Moreover, lie was as much i distinctive feature of the place as tho old Nrth street burying ground or tho Logan monttnont. It ho was of any other use In llfesnvo .1 picturesque ruin and a bugaboo, nobody knows yot. Ills death benefits a number of icopic, wherein it Is better than his life, becauao the fortune of about S200.000 which ho leftvill bo divided among his relatives. This Isn't ecaue he left It to them.

Ho navcr made a sill. It Is because he couldn't tako it with bin. 1 1 No mall was ever moro thoroughly a miser than Old Shlme. In appearance io was t) pknl of tho species. The writer has been chased many a time In past years by bin and remembers well the tall, bent figure, lb a tattered linen duster most amazingly sdled (lapping around it; tho thin face with Itsdeep-petejes and scraggly beard, and the hoirse voice lu which bo croaked out his threats like a superannuated crow, lie was a figure inspire fear and amazement, and not Infrequintly amusement.

It Is characteristic of him tiat his name was always coupled with the adjective "old," evcirbcforo he had nt tallied to tlo age which entitles man to what should bo nn honorable and honored characterization. That It was never that In Old Shlmo's ense Is hardly necessary to say. He was born In Moravia, this cennty, on the 4th of July, 1810. and moved to Auburn when ho was a young man, or rather at tn age when nny other man would have been young. He had one passion In life money.

Iiimediately he set about collecting money. Nobody knows how it was done, but he soon had a small fortune. To be sure It was a vory small one. but It was a fortune nevertheless, ns Shlme proceeded to prove. With It he began to buy old lumber nnd odds and ends, or If he thought ho could get them without buying, to beg them.

Nothing was ton useless or superfluous for him. What ho did buy ho cot at amazingly small prices. Thou ho would store It away sumewhere, nnd frequently somebody would turn up who wanted that trash. To that somebody Shlme would sell thu stuff at amazing rates. He was a veritable genius in tbnt branch of nnnnco hlch enables its master to persuade otliors lo give their good money for his bad poods.

Tho first thing Auburn knew Old Shlme was building a block. Next It was an opera house. Then came a skating rink. Auburn was paralyzed with amazement. Old tho despised nnd hooted miser, a public benefactor 1 It wasn't believable.

It Isn't so, either, as the outcome proved, A blight was upon his enterprises. His block burned down. Thon tho opera house went. When the crao for roller skating died out the I'rlncess Itlnk became profitless, though nobody knows how much he made on It while the sport was popular. Tho strangest part of It was that.

In spite ot increasing misfortunes, Shime's fortunes Increased. That the destruction of the block nnd the opera house was a misfortune cannot be doubted. They were not insured, nnd Old Shlme almost went crazy when tbey burned down. Still ho continued to amass money, lint for his III luck bo might and very likely vrould have dlod a millionaire In a city which has never mado a millionaire, but counts ammg its citizens a score of them. Fart of the increase of his fortune was due to block In Chicago vv hlch he purchnrd for $.10,000 In one vear and declined lo sell for $100,000 (Ivo)ears later, to the great surprise of theagentwho came on tn Auburn to see hlm nbnut it.

The Cbiciiffo man found Old Miltne waltzing along the street with bis linen duster waving in thu wind. At first tho Cblcagnnn wouldn't believe that the strange Individual was the man he had Louie lo deal ith. "Why, that old guy never owned tt square meal, let alone a block," said he to the men who had pointed out Old Shlmo tn hlm. "That's very truo about the square meal," said thu Anburnlnns; "but he owns the block 1 ou're after and a hit moro besides." So the agent approached Old Shime. and a conversation somewhat as follows ensued: The Agent- Is this shlmo? Old Shlme Yes; I'm Shlmo edging away suspiciously.

What do you want? The Agent (following up) I wauted to speak to you Old Shlme (sidling oft Into tho gutter)-Keep ana), can't you I don't know jou. The Agent I want tn talk to you abont business. Takes two side stups. Old shlme (marling) -Ou 'way. Can't you talk from there? he Agent (wrntbfully) Why.

you old scarecrow, do you think I want to pick your pockets? Chorus of Haw-haw bnw! Whoop! Old Mn mo -I appeal to you. gentlemen. 1 don't know this man. lie comes up tn mo An Auhurnluii- He's nil richt, Shlmo. He wants to buy somu of your rubbUh, Thereupon Shlme honked his arm Into Hint of thu I hlcngo man, to the extreme dl-gust of the latter and the val amusement of the and lea hlm away, lint bis temperrbnnged wnen he found that the stranger wanted lo buv the block.

Nab.b.li,"was all be would say to continuous raise In price, until the agent, lifter offering his limit. SUIU.OIU), 111 vain, departed, cursing volubly. At the time of Shime's death that block was worth botweuu 3150,000 ami J175.000. To look at his home notiody would have guessed that ho had a cent of property. It as a ramshackle old house, always surrounded piles of lumber and trash, from old tills uf roof to remnants of steam engines, in theau heaps of rubblnh spiders nnd olher noxious Insects nourished eXLfcdlngl).

it wnsn byword lu Auburn that there was snider of enormous tt.o thern which was tbo old man's familiar spirit, and lain home comets lu advanced statu' of exhilaration werehald to have been pursued bythe horrible Insect. All the children believed In this tule Implicitly, and used to loiter fearful')-ii bout the place at dusk In the hopu of i niching a of the monster's eyes, which were said in he nf fiery green appeal mice. Although tho existence of this phimnmenun was never scientifically established. It la fact tbnt rare specimens of the nrachiii ho wciu frequently peon scurrylui, about thu old bounls. A visiting entomologist who knew a great deal bout spiders, Put very little about shiinu heard of rare striped specimen which had been seen lu the plneu and soul up there one dnv to see If he cnuldn tmakeivinpture Thenlghtof hlm Iran-tleally burrowing Into piles nf rubbish and ev cry now mid then liondlmr over to peer eagerly at the bottom of a board lil'ed old Sliliue, was watching from window, wltlin great curiosity uud fear.

The former iivcrcamo the latter Just as the scientist had captured Ills spec linen. Old Shlme appeared in the) aril, As soon ns ho saw the rare spider hustled Into the eiitouiolnglsl's lint tin curloblty lu luui gnvn way tu cuplilll). "Hey," he reirarked, what you alter tlieru?" "1'vu gut hlm." replied the collector. Ill gieut glee. I've got hlm," and lie held up the Clanhlo not tlo In which thu striped spider wnsnlienily folding hi, legs for their lung rest to thu view of the old miser.

"say." remarked Shlmo, "whoso spider d' you s'pnsu thai Is Whim snlduri" repented the entomologist. his (clentllla cxaltmloii giving way to blank surprise. "That's what I raid whoao spldor 1 Where'd you vet that spider?" "Why, right here; out of this rubbish heap. It tool; me a good search to find htm, too, Surely vou don'i wa' hlm." "hulferin' Moses!" w.tlled old Shlme. "Hero I go nn' raise rare spiders, un' tills man comes an' commits a larceny of 'em un' then Hsks mo If I waul 'em, la this heru a law-ubldiu' land ur clu'l it? "Of wluit use Is the spider to you?" Inquired theoihei "lle.irhim' Jusi hear hlm! Ot what use Is thut spider In nuiV" Ho was casting about In his mind mi-it suitable icply, uinl presently his Inuouity In thu resouo of ids cupidity, "Why, that spidiir'd catch moro files In day i than any other spider ill the place'd catch tun week.

And now inu'vo went an' killed hlm! Oli. ho was worth money to me, that spldur I was. The) ain't another like hlm In Auburn, i Takelniii out before lie dies." "Fmalrald he's alrr'idy dead," said thenther renretfully. "Hill I'll I'll I'll he very willing I lo pny iiiu what you think hu's worth," Fifty cents," said old Shlme tugcrly but doubttully. Uulelly handing over the required amount, the uulKinnloglsl carried his prize nut onto the tidewulk.

from which sufo neutral ground ho I delivered a parting shot. In the llrlllsh price lists that Insect Is worth I $1.75 to boy," he remarked. I almost killed old Bhlme. TUg worst of bis misfortune wis Ui0 forngui I i JH A New York literary man relates that he recently had occasion te consult weB. 'JH known physician for a stomach treuble which was pronounced a typo of d) tpepsla.

'jiH After consultation," he utiles, "the Doctor roe a rtenntloii, and I was rH somewhat surprised to note that tho formula was nearly Identical wltli that ol t'aH RipansTabules I for hlch I had, on mora than one occasion, prepared advertising matter. I hac" I prescription filled, and ll proved aatlsfuctoty, jiving quick relief. A week later, ffM when IhadtaVen all the medicine, I ejaln called on the Doctor and mentioned the fNaH similarity of his prescription and the proprietary remedy spoken ef, showing Mm both the remedy Itself and the lormu la. The Docwr was at first somewhat lncllced iM to criticise what he cilled patent medicines, but appeared to bo surprised wkjh. f'JJH noted to what eatcnt his own prescript Ion conformed to the formula 1 showed him.

It as practically tlio same. After a short time demoted to noting the careful man. I IM ner la which the proprietary med cine was prepared, he uound tin byprecribing It L'H For my case" Of Eourse I had to pay hlm fir telling me to do tldV but I was worth the cost to hare such hi3li professional assurance that the adverUaed article 4H fact, the scientific formula that it purported to be. might have hnth.P.l lM tary medicine in the beginnirg and saved the Doctor's fee, but I think tho confiaecce 3H 1 have acquired In the efficacy of the remedy, through the Doctor's Indorsement ol; 'iaH It, wall worth the fee," Harriet Tubman affair. Harriet, the Moses of her people," so-called because sbo led party after party of escaping blacks from the slavo Slates into freedom, was visited by two ex-slates some years after the war.

when she was living In Auburn, who told her a tale of how they bad dug up a large amount of gold from their master's plantation in the South, had got it as far as Auburn, aud were ready to exchange it thero for greenbacks because of the ln-conveuieuce of transporting the heavy box to Canada, whither they wore bound. In the Innocence of her heart old Harriet approached several realty men of Auburn who one nnd ah refused tn have nnythlng to do with so doubtful a project. In some way old Shlme got wind of it. Uold was at a big premium and the temptation to make money so easily outweighed his prudence. With a clerk and Harriet he drove out to a road houso eouio miles from Auburn, where Harriet left them, taxing Shime's money with her, as she was to act as go-between.

An hour later she crnwled back lo tlio inn on alt fours, covered with blood, und bearing marks on her bend and face as if she hud been pounded with a club. Fvery cent of Shime's money was gone. For a lime bis reason trembled, but he eventually recovered and went on to matte money lu safer enterprises. At the lime bis opera house burned he had another escape from being driven crazy by grief. Indeed, many persons thought thai ho wns crazy whrn he rushed around from fireman to fireman shrieking out supplications to each und all to save his property.

When It became evident that the huthting was doomed, the frenzied owner, gathering ine talis of ills highly Inflammable linen duster in his hands, madu it rush for the front entranco. A fireman went uftur him, catching him close to the door. "Let mo In." howled Shlme. "Let mo In, I say. I don't care for the lire." The fireman sternly hnuled him back and extinguished the smouldering linen duster "You'll be howling lor somebody to let you out before you'ru long dead," observed the rescuer curtly.

"Walt till then aud jou'll get all he fire you want." For weeks after that fire the old man pottered about the place picking up bits of metal or Pieces ot charred wood nnd carting them away to Ids )ard. His skating rink camo to less abrupt ruin, nnd after it ccaced to be a skating rink It still brought in something to Its thrifty ner. When the roller i-katlng crnzo died out Shlme used the upper part of tho building, us be did ali ids oilier property, ss a lumber room. The luwer part he used lor tome) ears as a stahle fur farmers coming Into market, and the spectacle of the disreputable-looking undent sitting in the big doorway and collecting ten cents npiece from thu farmers for the prlvilego of putting their trams in the murky old place Is one jat fow Auburnians will forgot. In lb" midst of his multifarious business interests the miser found lime for one amusement.

Tills was hunting. His old gun, which lnuked us if be had manufaclured It himself out of lead pipe, wasa deadly weapon to rubbils and small game, for shlmo was nn unerring shot. It wus snld that he knew mnru about tbo good hunting placet around the city than any other man hi Auburn. Certainly be seldom came home with, out till gnme bag, or lo bo accurate, without a goMi bruceof game, fora bag would have been regarded asnsluful luxury by this Nimrod. Kven here, hu mlngitd business with pleasure, for ho alwa) sold the trophies of Ins skill; and It Is a question if this did not form the keenest delight of his day's sport.

Sometimes youthful hunters would be unsportsmanlike enough to trail the old fellow In order tu tlnd nut bis haunts, which gavo him bitter ulfence. Hut these attempts were always unsuccessful, be-causo he would sit on a fence lor nn hour. If necessary, waiting fur his followers to relinquish their purpose. As hits been stated, Shime's personality Is most vivid to Auburnians from their childhood memories, it was one of thu tenors nnd delights of the youngsters to gel hlm to chase them. In Justice to him It must be said that the fault was not on his side.

With the instinctive genius for Indicting suffering chuiucterlbtlc of children, the young Auburnians would follow- him about, twitllug hlm upon his personal appearance, aud howling upjirobriously when he threatened them; nor were words always the sole abuse ho had to bear. Occasionally missiles fiew In bis direction. He was not malicious orciuel, nnd If hu did turn on his turuienlors It was rather In self-defence than revenge. The writer cannot remember ever having beard of Shlmo'n maltreating any living thing. He as consistent mlMr, uud the sins that lio outside tho limits of tho love of money were not his sins.

Let it not lie said that Shlme died without one good deed to hisiredit. Hu once treated two itinn to drink. Iloth the men are dead now. ll Is. perhaps, only right toslntu that the shock, while severe, wns the cause of their death.

They died separately nnd somo time after, but the memory of that treat will never die while Auburn ban au oldest inhabitant. Wherefrnni the motive sprung Is a mystery, but thodetulls nro history. Thu two men stimd on the corner. They greeted old Shlu.e, who returned tho greeting with nod. Then lie suddeuly turned ami asked them to have a drink.

"1 mean it." he said, when thev looked ut each other In stupefaction. i The two men snld the) 'd have ginger nle. Old i Shlme took hitter beer, thu largest glass ho i roi.lil get for llvu i mils. He asked thu bar- tender if there weren't two small glasses of ginger ale In one holtle. and then ordered ono bottle fur thu two men, thn bar lender belnc ton much overcome with nmazuinulit to rep.

i. He recovered twin enough to time old Shlmo on the drink. It took three minutes nnd a half In transit. Afterward the two men went amtind town telling about It, and aggregated fifteen lights with men who cnlloil them Kara. Tho fact that one of thu men was Shime's nephew Is not llltiminntlte.

Shlmo wns not mnru prone, to gonernrdty timuid his own relatives than toward any one else A Shlme llteil, so did Shlme die. Consistent to the end, ho bitterly resented thn efforts of certain charitably Inclined folks tu put a phy-l-clan In charie uf hlm. Never was ducior sent more peremptorily lo thu right. about than the one who vlsltnl old Shlme. Not until day befoie the end would hn admit to himself that he was going to die.

Then he faced the lacts bravely enough, securu In consciousness of rectitude thai was little less than sublime, "I ain't spml but mighty little money In foolishness durlii long life," ho said lo tela-live who had como to see htm. It Is said that he put on tho old Inllcoat which he had bought for St! at an auction ears beloie, and had since worn only on gala casinos, to dlu In. Iludied quietly, us befits a mini tin lias lived his llfemit. No will was found. All his existence had bleu devoted to getting nnd keep-lug inline), but them his Interest dideil.

lint beramu of Ills hoard aflvr hi. dentil was nothing jniilin. Ills heirs ure lighting oiur It now. Ho has left his greed along with his money ns an Ihlierllance. Old Milmn will be missed here.

As a t) pe ho was perfect; ureal Institution; the must picturesque object in a picturesque oily. Ono of the distinctive features if the place thut AiiburiilniiH liked In piiint out lo visitors lost in bis 'lentil. Auburn's unique charncier Is gone, and lie left a vacancy that nobody wuuts lu ate filled. III F.xeuae InsuQlclral. Vom tin nvaitlphia Hccoid.

The witty remnrks nf Judge Crnlg Diddle, If gathered together, would fill a good sled vol. tune Here Is a good one gotten olf by hlm re. cently while sitting In thu guaitrr Sessions mil t. A norman Juryman asked tu bo excused from serving on the Jury. "Why?" asked the Judge.

Honor, I dou't uuderatand good Kngllsh." "Ob. you will do." replied Judge. "You wuu UtarmucU Hood JiuglUb tier aitt.g," ADIRONDACKPOTHUHTEfiS. fl JS Turin jiktiovs ways asd tiiexb. XM ma xr ritiExna ox juries.

Annual Incursion Into the Fine Gams) Fields of (he Mouther Hectlon Advss. tuitra or Ilunttnir In Their Favorite Re Jl aorta Deer That Kibble Unjatacka. anal A man who has passed several successive sea eons with rod and gun In the Adlrondacks says 'B ono reason so many city sportsmen have poor tsenfl success In the woods Is that they do not go to sJH the right places to find game. fal "As soon as the season opens tn the fall." he 'tiH said to a Sc.N reporter, thero Is a great rush of "JlH gunners to tho extreme northern parts of tha wilderness, where hundreds of camps are annu- -al ully established near the Hacquct, Fulton Chain, nnd other lakes. The hunters go In from ik thu railway stations on both sides ot the woodh.

yf and evcu on tho opening day ono can hardly jlftl walk a mile in the forest without hearing tho 'IH crack ot a dozen rifles. Their constant shoot lng, day after day una season after season, ha a mado tho game very wild, and It It were not for tho cleverness of the guides In sparing- big xH game, dtcr would soon become exterminated In that section of tho woods. "Now, thu southern lakes are quite as far from 491 the railway lines as aro thoso in the northern part of the woods, and as city sportsmen do not visit that section, perhaps because It Is not nHJ fashionable, even If they are aware of its ad. 'H vantages, which Is doubtful, the pot hunters cH have the woods practically to themsolvcs. The rjl linn.

Titos Sheard ot Little Falls and soma other residents of the Mohawk Valley era -JH aware of tho fine sport in the southern part of fH the woods, nnd make annual visits to It, In- variably meeting with great success, but tha 'H total number of such outside hunters does not exceed a score. "aaa "Some eight or ten miles south of West Lake, "lal In the uelghlKirhood of Oak the farm line commences In what are known as tho foot- aaal hlllsot the Adironducks. I know it lo be a faot 'anafl that thu farmers havo been compelled to bnlld 'H high wire fences around their havslncka to aafl keep the deer from eating up ibe winter fodder of thu cnttle. I have personally seen the hoof- bH prints ot scores of deer around those stack lieu I hav started out in the morning to hunt. jl "As I have indicated, tbo region Is the para- lanfl disc of the pot hunter, nnd.

unfortunately, hi f-lH name is legion. These pot hunters have not th tfBBni slightest regard for the gnme laws, or any other -H laws. In the winter, when the snow Is deep. they become timber thieves, and ll Is Impossible tH to convict ono of them. No Jury can be teal Impanelled in that section that will not have pot hunters or timber thieve "-H among its members.

These men have their aH homes from Salisbury on the south to Beaver "'aB Hirer ou the north. Il Is comparatively easy to liH ship the game to the market, for there are any number ot outlets from the woods to the rail- ai way stations. From tho southern side of th afl wilderness there nre roads direct to Fort Plain. vanfl St. Jolinsvlllo, or Little Falls, with Dolgevllla fnH and its railway an occasional favorable medium raM by which to connect with tbo New York Con- 'iaH tral.

Venison Is usually shipped dressed anil jana! packed lu balsam boughs, is perfectly concealed. and tho whole bundle Is fastened to a slngl InH tree trunk in such a way as to give It the op- pcaranceof a fine Christmas tree carefully pre jt'H pared for shipment. That is one way, but it is lai not uncommon to box nn entire carcass tn 1fl shoe-packing case, the meat being covered with bulsatn boughs and moss to keep it fresb. ai "Two winters ago 1 happened to be doing busiuess In Herkimer county, and heard thai pol hunters were encamped near West Lake. I 'f: determined to get evidence, against them If possible, and persuaded three friends to accom- i puny me on suow-thne trip Into the woods.

Wa .5 1 drove to Stow art's Mill, from which point fc I entered the woods. We got thero early in th v'j day. Intending to como back that night, tor tha wenthtr was ver) cold. The lakes wire frozen I over, nnd we bad no difficulty in making I our way over the ice. On our way if, I across West I.nko we found a well-bcuteu aled track and followed It Into the woods.

About a mile up a little vally we came I to a substantial cabin which, although deserted, contttlmd plenty of uviduncuuf having been r- ceiilly occupied. Theru was a lot of blood on Ti I the snow all around, but not a bldo nor hair to show what kind of au animal, or nnlmnls, had I been slaughtered. Wu did 1'nd, bow ever, fur- I ther up thu valley, a phiro wlpru theru had been a )ard. There, also. as a lot of blood.

Indicating that the slaughter must have i beon exlenslvu. I Wu decided to remain In the cabin over night, hoping tlio i ampere won't! return, but they tint not, nnd we were compclml to hurry back becn-ise of luck of prot'tlous, I am con- fideiit, or course, thai word wus conve)od In sumtiwuy to the pot hunters to warn them of our coming. The uttentlon of the gamo war- ileus wure called lo the alTnir, but uoibing ever came or It. I have reason tu believe, however, thai the men wtru local hunters uud thai they havo he, doing thu same aurt of nefarious work fur years. Notwithstanding the pothunters, though, as long ns th great army nf rlty spnrtsmen begin ihn hunting scuiuii In the northern part of the wilderness, the subsequent shooting la the southern pirt will be super.orto that In any other tertlon of the blir woods.

There aro many of the common black buais in the southern slope, and 1 have seen some that wtighed fully MOO In fact. I killed uue that tipped tho beam at Dan Dal), a farmer who lives near thu foot of Oak Mnuntiln, killed four black bears In ono day last winter, the Ural nun within a doen rouH of his huuao and thu others all within five in'lee, "There Is no heller hud nhootlngln this coun- try than un Hint part of the iiiiithern slnpu In the town uf Salisbury, lu the tpiltiru part of Hi rkltner county. Wooiliock und partridge ara a very abundant. Along the still waters of tha Illg Spruca la stretch uf uhb-rs. twenty mile In length.

This is full ol woodcock, hut the it shooting Is tlirficull because uf the density uf the grow lb. The uut) unv In limit thn wood- cuk successfully is to have a pari) of three and I a good dug. Olio man must go lulu the alders with the dug, whilo thu others station them. -f. enuson each side, unn soiuinvhul lu advunc nf the dog and tlm uiber an uiualdlslanru o.

hind. The man In the bra.es will have little opportunity to shout, but nun of the other two villi be preti) sure to get a shot when bird 1 rises above the bush. "All the co mir) south nf the Canada lakes to the Moliawk ftivcr Is full of partridges. '4 There uru gieaintrelrhes uf beuch fort els autt 14 humlock and spruie wlih lluwlng il streams short distances ni art. Tho birds ara fond nf beech nuts, and wl en tbey havo fat- tuned thuuseliiis nn tuls savory food, after th frost iiptns thu burrs, they mo in the best pos.

slblu cundli.nu. 'Tie woodcock are migratory, and go south soon alter 1 old Heather sets In. "All and lakes In that southern slope are full of I run! Th finest mess nf brook tp'tii I ver saw enmo from It tlo stream not nur a mile long, o.ilWd J'ortur Jltnok. win 11 mptle Into tint Hie Spruce. In thu town i.f -aiisbury Thu brook Is formed by nserhsi.r spiingsof Icy mid wuter thai gush from the bntiiui of a meadow.

It la neither wide nor dnv, hut there uru tnuntless pools, and IIicmi are famous for thu luru.uus trout thai hide 111 thtm. Its exlstenro la almoat unknown. i save to tho few prpulu hu llvo v-itUa Afa uU uf the tprlujc." 1 i.