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WAYS OF FISH HAWKS A STUDY IN NATURAL HISTORY'ALONG THE JERSEY COAST. Winged Messengers of Good Luck Who Make Themselves at Home and Are Incidentally Sometimes Nuisances Diving Tor Fish nnd Getting Them. People who visit tho northern coast tounties of New Jersey in snnimer are struck with the curious, bulky nests of the fishhawks, which aro so common in that locality. These nests are about is feet across and about 3 feet deep and aro nothing more or less than a big heap of brush or doad branches. Tho hawks aro protected in these counties by the impression that they bring good luck, so that no one would think of even so much as throwing a stono at ono of tho big birds, much less shoot at one.

There is no sign of spring so satisfactory to farmers along tho coast as the coming of the fishhawks. Tho coming and going of theso birds are peculiar. You get up some morning in April, and they aro hero. After their young aro hatched and grown up it is October, and you get up somo morning and find thorn gone. Tho same birds como back year after year, nnd they occupy tho same nest, which always needs a bit of rebuilding and occupies the birds for a few weeks.

It is generally believed that there is a law protecting fishhawks, but it is a mistake. There is an unwritten law, and a well obeyed one, of custom. A boy is told that he must not disturb tho birds, and ho does not. The good treatment that the hawks hnve received has made them so tame that their nests nre built in dooryards and by the roadsides, and tho naturally timid birds havo no fear of mankind. The fishhawk is found along many of tho inland waters of tho state, bnt it is impossible to get near them, and it is a raro thing to find a nest.

Thoy are the shyest of birds in these places. Years ago the fisher folk along the coast used to think that if a fishhawk built its nest on one's land it was an omen of good luck, and that success would certainly follow him in whatever pursuit ho should undertake, and although there is less of such feeling now those who own proporty on which tho hawks build welcome them in the spring as old acquaintances and look anxiously for their coming as soon as tho winter breaks. Fishhawks got their entire food supply from the water. Their eyes aro so constructed that oven at great heights they can see fish that swim near the surface, and then dive with lightning speed. Tho flsh is caught in the claws and is takon to the nest of the bird beforo being eaten.

Tho writer has seen a hawk make a mistake and catch a hard crab, and when the crab got both his big claws fairly at work on tho tondor part of tho bird'B legs there was somewhat of shaking and diving in tho air to get rid of the orab, but it is not often they get fooled. It is genorally all in their favor. A hawk will fly away with a big eel wriggling in its claws that a man could not hold 30 seconds with both hands. The hawks sometimes, however, will dive at things thoy do not want, and a thing occurred a few years ago which is worth telling. A steamer was passing Seabright.

It was a big coaster from Savannah to New York, and a lady on board lost overboard a handsome and valuablo lace shawl, which floated away after striking the water. The pnssengors, being interested, watched the shawl as far as they could see it, and finally saw a fishhawk dive at it, get it fast in his claws and fly inland with it. Tho lady was very much put out at losing the article and advertised a reward for tho samo. A lineman took a notion he could get the shawl after hearing tho circumstances, and with his spurs he started to pay a visit to every flshhawk's nest in the county immediately back of Seabright. Tho shawl was found hanging on the side of a nest on tho Lewis White farm, near Little Silver.

What the hawk wanted with the shawl is hard to tell, for hawks use no such thing in building their nosts. Tho top of a fishhawk nest is as rough as the sides, and without any depression. Tho eggs would roll off bnt that the top of the nest is too rough for thorn to move. Tho tameness of the hawks has in many cases made thorn a nuisance. They build on telephone poles, on chimneys and cupolas of houses, and it is somotimos necessary to construct cupolas so they cannot get any landing place, for the hawks do not mind in the least having their nests torn up.

They build again right away. A story is told of a pair of hawks that built a nest ono yoar in a small apple tree on tho Hance property, on Kumson neck. Tho nest was built on a part of tho tree which could not stand the weight, and it broke down. The hawks built in another part, and a high wind came and entirely uprooted the tree. The birds then, for tho third time, built their nest in the hole where tho tree had been, and when they had hatched out their young a woasel killed thorn all, and they had to give up raising a family that season.

It is erroneously stated that tho trees in which fishhawks build dio soon afterward. Tho truth is the trees moro often improve. Tho hawks soleot an old scraggy tree, and, being about dead, it does die, but oftener the trees improve from the fertilization given by the particles of fish dropped by the hawks about the trees. Within a radius of five miles from Long Branch inland there are no loss than 500 of these great scraggy, awkward nesta, but they form part of the picturcsuuenoss of the scenery and are a part of its Philadelphia Times. One of Cupid's Tricks.

Considerable amusoment has been caused in Germany by the fato whioh has overtaken Herr Walter, tho principal supporter and assistant of Ahlwardt, the notorious leader of the Anti-Semitic party in that country. Walter was recently sent to Arnswalde, and thero met a Hebrew named Miss Hermaunsohn. Her dark eyes oharmod the avowed enemy of her race, and a few days ago their engagement was announced. As a result, Ahlwardt Is to lose ius most trusted lieutenant. Love ia a Btrango and mighty thing.

MRS. CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY. A Woman Who Is Making a Brilliant nnd Successful Preacher. Cclia Parker Woolley published her first novel, "Love and Theology," in 1887. It wns a clever, resolutely radical littlo story, and tho critics at once classed it with tho "African Farm," "John Ward" and the renowned "Robert.

Its author, however, has since then gone far ahead of Mrs. Del and, Mrs. Ward and even Olive Schreiner in tho demonstration of her religious convictions. With "lovo" she had been tolerably conversant sinco her marriage in 1868, and by way of proving her familiarity with "theology" sho accepted tho pastorate of a church iv Geneva, Ills. Up to that time Mrs.

Woolley had had no intention of entering the ministry, although always attracted to the pulpit and its opportunities. Her career as a minister has been, however, eminently successful. Sho has aroused a fresh and widespread religious interest throughout not only her immediate community, bnt in Chicago itself, an hour's railway ride distant, many persons going out from that oity every Sunday to attend servico in Geneva. Mrs. Woolloy's sermons dnring this as yet brief pastorate havo had a wido range, dealing with tho most vital and pressing problems of our day, as may be judged by the following topics, taken at random from her past year's calendar: "Industrial Armies Versus Industrial Citizenship," "Compensation," "Loved of Country," "A Story of and "Pilate's Question, 'What Is It is interesting to also note that of the throe trustees of her church two, Mrs.

Jnlia Plato Harvoy and Mrs. Julia C. Blackmail, are women. Mrs. Harvey is also well known to the world at large as the former first vice president of tho General Federat ion of Women's Clubs.

Mrs. Woolley is by birth an Ohioan, although romoving toColdwater, at an early age. With the exception of a few years spent at the Lako Brio of the Mary Lyons schools Paiuesville 0., she was educated entirely in tho town of her adoption. Sho was graduated from tho Coldwater seminary in 1868 and two years later was married to Dr. J.

H. Woolley. In 1878 they removed to Chicago, where sho busied herself with contributions in proso and verso to journals both oast and west. Sho was tho Chicago-correspondent of Tho Christian Register of Boston for eight years, and in 1800 became assistant editor of the Chicago Unity, holding the latter position for nearly throe years. Her first essay in fiction was a short story published in Lippincott, which periodical has published muah other of her work.

Tho title of "Love and Theology" has, in later editions, been changed to "Rachel Armstrong," while two other novols from her pen have also appeared, "A Girl Graduate" and "Roger Hunt." Mrs. Woolley has been and is a conspicuous member of that conspicuous organization, the Chicago Woman's club. For two years she was its president, and sho is the present leador of its "Browning classes," her long experience as thinker and lecturer amply qualifying her for such responsibility. Within the past few weekj tho club has appointed a oommitteeof 25 to organize a "political equality league," Mrs. Woolley serving as chairman.

As a lecturer und parlor reader she is perhaps better known in the wost than in tho east, although she is always suro to win appreciation, whatever the locality. During a recent visit to Boston she wns tho honored guest of those two formidable societies, the Browning club and tho New England Woman's club. Like her books, her "tnlks" are a mixture of literary interests with social problems, Voltaire, Ibsen, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Shakespeare and Tennyson each finding place in her programme. Mrs. Woolley was deeply interested in the world's parliament of religions, which distinguished body Bho had tho honor to address upon "The World's Religious Debt to America." Altogether it is not as the brilliant novelist that she is to be regarded, but as the earnest and sincere thinker, eager to receive tho truth, strong in the courage of her convictions and successful in a field where but few women have earned York Times.

To Keep Mnslins Crisp. To keep muslin dresses looking fresh they should not bo allowed to hang in closets with woolon dresses or where tho door is opened frequently. A dress that is kept in a wardrobe divan retains its sparkling orisp look long after one that is loft hanging in a much used closet. If you have no wardrobe divan, lay the skirt in a bureau drawer and fold tho skirt over tho at the bottom. Then put tho waist in a dress box, with all the ribbons and accessories.

If bureau drawers are scarce, there is still another plan. Buy half a dozen of the long dress boxes that dry goods stores use to hold ready made gowns when sent home. Put tho skirt nnd waist into one of these. These boxes can be piled under the bed or lounge, and so kept out of sight. Even tho dampness that enters a room through an open window is sufliciont to take the crispness ont of mnslins and organdies, and they never look as well afterward.

A Continuous Rail. The Cleveland Electrio Railway company is now laying a continuous rail without tho breaks that aro usually botween lengths. The ends of the rails are carefully welded together with entire disregard of expansion and contraction. A feature of the welding, as explained by the superintendent, is that it oan bo done only in streets that are paved. Tho Stone, brick or asphalt holds the rail in position and covers it so that it is not subject to heat and cold.

Experiments show that under these conditions the welding can be done without injury to the track and with great increase of comfort to Dispatch. Shutting Out Bunker mil. So the Bunker Hill monument is in ilangor of isolation? Tho old Charles liver bridge has for a long time been in a shaky condition, and two or threo weeks ago it was officially deolared to bo unsafe aud olosed to all travel except to foot passengers. Now City Engineer Jackson says that ho is in doubt how long only other direct connection with Boston MsslfcsAllsMpt LOS ANGELES HERALD. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1804 ANARCHIST MAD.

Europeans, Especially tb.o French, In a State of Alarm Approaching Panic. Tho French authorities are in a state of alarm approaching, panic over the warnings of fresh anarrjlyist plots. The information furnished principally by London and other foreign police, and extraondinary preoantions have boon taken to prevent tho execution of the bloodthirsty designs. These measures are so stringent "that all foreigners In France are likely to suffer inconvenience. Merely stopping to admiro the architecture of the public buildings is likely to lead to arrest on suspioion, as an innocent Englishman found whe gazed curiously for five fhinntes at the foreign office.

The customs inspectors have been instructed to investigate the contents of everything larger than a email orange. The bill for the suppression of anarchy is one of the most drastic pieces of legislation in history. It literally fulfills Macaulay'a propheoy that it might prove necessary to destroy liberty in order to preserve civilization. It almost forbids people to think anarchy. It oortainly forbids them to mention it in a private letter.

It tries offenders without a jury and on conviction sends them to solitary confinement and possibly to Cayenne. Arrangements for international co-operation against anarchists are believed to be making satisfactory progress. Germany is the principal obstacle. Mora complote police co-operation will undoubtedly be agreed upon. The French police system will be reorganized and placed under one national head.

Chief Inspector Melville, head of the special or secret politioal department at Scotland Yard, has been protty well worked to death in the lost few months, what with murderous anarchists and roving royalties. Tho latter aro a perpetual worry, for in theso revolutionary days they havo to be watched with the greatest care, and Melville has to do the work with a soanty staff and inadequate York Sun's European Lettor. MET THEIR MATCHES. Two Callfornlans Who Learned the Fair, Regulations a Moment Late. Frank Kappersberg, the sculptor, and Jim Yung, the restaurateur, were out viewing the remains of tho Midwinter fair a fow days ago, when both found themselves with cigars and without matches.

"Ah, I have it," remarked Yung. "Come over to tho Manufactures building. I havo a friond thero who has a match exhibit, and we can get what we want." They walked to tho booth, and as the proprietor wasn't there Jim took tho liberty of helping himself to tho great pile of wax matches. "Take all you want, Frank," ho remarked. "He's got a wagonload here and don't want them." Happersborg commoncod filling his pockets.

"I'llnoedsomo at my studio," and ho filled his trousers pockets. "Ought to have some at my room, too," and his vest pockets were loaded. "We always need them on my naphtha launch," and his coat pockets commenced to bulge. "Guess I'll take some home," remarked Jim as he commenced loading his clothes. "A fow wouldn't como amiss at tho restaurant either." Then they walked out looking like a pair of smugglers loaded for a customs officer.

At the door they met tho owner of tho booth. Happersborg had been scratching matches on his trousers the whole length of tho building, but they wouldn't light. Yung had also worn slick streak on his pantaloons. "What's the matter with these matches?" ho inquired of the exhibitor. "What matches?" "Why, yours.

We helped ourselves to a box or two, as you weren't there." "Oh, there is no phosphorus on them. The fair managers wouldn't allow genuine matches in the building. Those are just painted wax." Yung and Happersberg stole down to Stow lake and Francisco Post The Retort Conrteona. In the course of the debate on the bill to dismiss railway postal clorks Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio was giving tho house the benefit of his knowledge of the experience in the postal service as far as Appointees in his own district woro concerned.

He thought that if the bill were amended so as to require the old employees to pass an examination and grade 50 per cent not ono of the dismissed clerks, who, of oourse, wore all Democrats, would come within 1,000 miles of getting back. "Tho gentleman is a distinguished member of congress," said Mr. Pendleton of West Virginia. "Does he think he could pass the examination required to enter the railway postal service?" "I think Mr. Grosvenor, "if the gentleman from West Virginia had to put the Post.

AlShe. Mmo. Casimir-Porier married her cousin and ia herself a Perier. She is tall and fair, with a commanding figure, and dresses in admirable taste, with a nuanco of royal magnificence. The strong face and deep set eyes give her a sad expression and make her look older than her husband.

But she is still young enough to lead fashion and will draw all the nrtlesse of the rallies, and particularly tWralliees, to her receptions. She has two boy, who is at the Lycee Janson de Sailly in Paris, and a girl of 14 at a convent sohool, who will be one of the best partis in France within a few years, fot the Casimir-Periers are worth at least £2,000,000. In spite of their plebeian name, they belong to the very best aristocratic set and aro by no means nouvoaux Cor. London World. Anything- to Oblige.

The conductor approached the man who carries lighted cigars into public conveyances. "No smoking," said the conductor. "I ain't smoking, was the reply. "Your oigar is." "Well, I can't help it. That is a strong cigar, and it does as it pleases." "Well," said the oonductor, "you can take yonr ohoice.

Either you or the oigar will have to be put out." And the man, after some thought, rubbed the oigar on his shoo and put it CAUGHT A HUGE SHARK. Guests at Atlantlo Highland Land One Eight end a I'eot Long. Guests from hotels of Atlantic Highlands wont, lilnafallillg early Tuesday morning and returned with a shark feet long. The sloop yacht Brunhildo, Captain W. D.

Overton in command, was engaged for tho day. When about three milos at sea, the flsh began to bite. One of the.party felt somethiug tugging on the end of his line and gavo a sudden pull. As a result" he was nearly pulled overboard. Ho called for help.

The captain, crew and his companions went to his aid and in the line. When they had brought tho monster to tho surface ho was found to bo almost exhausted. A ropo was fastened around him, and the fishermen started for home in triumph, pulling the shark astern. A landiug was made at Curtis' bathing pavilion, snd tho story of the unusual capture spread like wildfire. Tho shark, Which was dead by this time, was dragged ashore.

The flsh tipped the scales at 200 pounds and measured 8 feet in length. His mouth is nearly a foot in width, and he has throo rows of sharp triangular shaped teeth. Tho fish is on exhibition. Professor L. Wcnger, tho local taxidermist, will stuff and mount the monster.

Philadelphia Press. A person Is prematurely old when baldness ocours before the forty-fifth year. Use Hall's to keep the scalp healthy aud prevent baldness. 3 IN MKMOBIAaI. Died, at the home of her parents, on Boyle Heights, Satarday evening, Septembers, 13! Miss Minnie cbmminos, beloved daughter of George and Maria L.

(Jummings. Onus more the reaper death has csrrled from our midst one of earth's brightest jewels; once more has the radiant form of youth robbed of life, and dear Minnie, the tender, loving daughter, the sweot the true friend, is with us only in In tbe Influence of her beautiful life, only in the memory of her snnny smile, her winning voice, her lovely face, her kindly deeds. She came to in in the sweet May beantilul as the (lowers that bloomed all about sho left us in the twilight of a lovelj day In the summer's waning, leaving in the hearts of xthose who loved and cherished her a breathing, pulsing echo as of 'Low, sweet music passed away," for so (rente, so steadfast and truo was she that only tbe lnfluonoe that clings to all that is dearest and best will he felt when her image is recalled or her name mentioned. For seventeen beautiful years, crowned with fairest of mind and soul, sh walked life's bright by Its csres or fond and idolized companion o' her mother, the joy and pride of her father, the dilight of her brothers and little lister. To her young associates she was ever a devoted, sympathetic friend, endeaiing iiorceli to nil by lier loving uattMS and gracious manner, that gave promise of a well rounded womanSood.

Music and floweis were hsr ever-abiding de light: and love's teudercst wish is that "in the bleated somewhere" she is reve.in? in her soul's desire, the boautiful and tbe hirmonions. It is sad to think that one so well fitted to enjoy life's choicest blessings Bhould be overcome at the very threshold of "Where the broqk nnd river meet" whllethere wero, oneveiy hand.thosoto whom life had become a weariness; that ihis fair young life should be snapped asunder by tho relentless hand of the grim messenger, that his so long passed us by, choosing tills love bud to bloom among the llowere of Eden. But it Is not for us to know why, or even doubt the wisdom of such a crushing blow. To the heart-broken parents, bowed wilh their weight of woe, we who havo suffered an only say tno augel of pnttonce stands ever near to strengthen and su-taln. "Oh thou who moiirnost in tbv way, With longmas for a closing ly, He walks with thee, that sngel kind, And gently whispor.

'E-3 resigned, Boar up, bear up, the end shall tell The dear Lord doeth all things And to her, the dear one, only gone a little in advance to a wider, grander sphere of a broader lite, where sbe dreams no more, but realizes all that living we cry; of spirits not for thee Oar tears are shed, our sighs are at vent Why mourn to know that thou art free. Partaker of the joys of heaven? And beautiful as sky and esrtb, When autumn's sun is downward going, Is tho blesstd memory of thy worth Around thy place of slumber glowing. But woe for us who linger still, With feebler strength and hearts less lowly, And minds less steadfast to the will Of Him whose every work Is holy." AUCTION! -V I.ARGK STOCK OF MERCHANDISE At Salesrooms, 413 Spring Tuesday, Sept. 11th, at 2 P.M. And continue afternoons and evenings until the entire stock Is disposed of.

This stock consists of clothing, furnishing goods, hats, caps, dry goods, ladles', goats' and children's shoes, notions, etc Will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. Lsdles are especially Invited to this sale. C. M. STEVENS, Auctioneer, No.

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It is a grand procession of scenic wonderlands pictorially presented in a realism that is bewilderingly charming. By means of this most exquisite of all art works, the reader is carried in his easy rocking chair to ALL OF THE PICTURESQUE IMS OF OUR COUNTRY From sunny lands where zephyrs are redolent with the breath of orange blooms to regions where frosted peaks catch the gleams from Ithurial's spears and bathe glacial rivers in a light that rises from behind the polar hrone. And while giving pictures of surprising beauty, Glimpses of America ALSO CONTAINS FULLEST DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Written in an eloquently graphic style aud diversified by charming stories, legends, adventures and comical incidents that are most fascinating. Everybody ought to secure this entrancing, beautiful and valuable serial. It is at once a history, a school and a picture gallery of extraordinary merit, and the rush indicates that everybody is getting it.

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