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THE SHARK A COWARD. 1 He Will Always Sheer Off From a Splashing Swimmer. A POOR little flabby two foot shark that I saw cast up oa one of the Jersey beaches the other ?laj brought a lot of shark memories back to me." said a youngish middle-aged man wbo ltat pot in a number of cruises, boy and ma a, in the nary. "I bad Quite a few abark experiences when 1 was on the old line of Gorernment packets, and I fonnd tbem out. I'm Just aa much afraid of a sea tiger now as you'd l>e of a ship's kitten lapping con densed milk out of a wardroom saucer <?n the galley deck. only, of course. I'd do a lot more moving when a shark was around and looking me over than 1 would In the presence of the kitten. "The first time a shark ever got gay with me was when I Was a tike of a 'prentice on the old Hwatara. down In llie harbor of Mazatlan. Mexico. 1 was a starboard side cleaner, and one af ternoon was cocked in a swing, swab bing paint, and with my bare feet banking nut above a twelfth of a fath om from the water. ? * "All of a sudden I noticed a little glittering, goggle-eyed and snout-nosed tish a-rnbbering around a lot In the ilftle space of water directly below where uiy feet were swinging. He looked so perky and impudent that I. was for throwing a cake of salt-water ?<oap at him. but then I got to figuring that the cat could look at the kind and iuat It wasn't doing me any harm to have this little fish watch me polish off my cleaning station, and so I let him look, and presently I became so busy In trying to light a furtive cigarette without the officer of the deck spotting me that I forgot about the little snout nosed fish. "Presently an old bo' sun's mate walked over to the starboard rail and looked down at me. " 'Hey. you cub,' he called down to me a minute after be had taken his IKMritlon at the starboard rail, 'you'd better be gittln' them tootsies o' yourn Home few away from th* water's edge If yon don't want to go shy a pair o' feet for the balance o* the cruise. See that pilot fish a lookin* at you an' heckonlu' his big shark mate down below?' "This old bo'sun's mate was n great stringer to the 'prentices, and I was so aure that he was stringing me then that I barely looked up at him. It was n good thing that I didn't look up just then? I'd probably be in the Snug Har iKir. with two wooden legs now, if I had looked up at him Just at that in stant. "For, continuing to look down as I worked. I saw Homethlng wliltey-gray swishing to the surface of the blue water? something about twenty foot long, and the for-ard ten foot of It, tis it seemed to me, all teeth, rows and rows of them? and then I got busy. ?? 'Hhln up, you whelpr the old "bo-sun's mate bawled at me through ihe funnel that he made of his hands, and just as I grabbed the port rope Hwinglng the l?o' sun's chair aud started 1o go band over hand up to the rail, there was a shower of suit water that sounded like the breaking of a water spout Just below me? and I had my lirst close view or a belly-up maneater. ? *'IIe shot up above half a fathom above the water for me, but I already bud a hold on the rail; and he missed me by quite a stretch. But as long art I was a siue cleaner I never swabbed paint from a Ihj'suu'k chair after that with bare feet. My bare feet had been the bait for that big ? hark, guided by his little pal. the pilot tlsli. "About three years after that I got -some more shark -education at Papetc, Tahiti. A gang of seamen gunners? 1 was Just out of my apprenticeship then? one dny got permission of the ?officer of the deck to take a beach swim. Ho we lowered away the long boni. sped her to the coral beach, stripped and went In In the buff, about eighteen of us. ?'It was very hot and gummy weath er, and so we were not thinking about sharks. although a thousand of them assembled about the ship every time the cook dumped a bucket of gnlley refuse through the swill tube. Any how. we were all pretty young. In addition to being young I was chestler lhan I've ever been since, particularly because there wasn't a man or boy 011 bonrd the old hooker that could teach me anything about swimming. That's how It came that, as soon as we .lumped Into the water ou the Papete beach that day. 1 proceeded to out swim all the rest. Just to show 'em. ?*! didn't turn to look back until I vns about n<)? yards from the beach. The only reason why 1 turned around then was because I heard a lot of noise from t I*o bench. "When 1 turned. I saw about a hun dred naked natives and all of the young fellows from our ship lined up o:i the beach at the edge of the water, jumping up and down and waving their arms at me and yelling with nil their might. But something else that 1 saw was a lot more Important to me, about a million huge, wet and shiny shark litis between me and the beach. Home of them weren't more than ten yards from me. The tins were moving slowly on the surface of the water. "1 could see my pipe out In pla<n view then. I stopped and trod water and nervously slapped the snrfaee of the water with my hands. I noticed that when I slapped the water par ticularly hard the sharks that were ucirest to me sort of edged back and circled at a greater distance from me. Ho I kspe on slapplnu the water. "The sharks were waiting for me to get tired, that's all. They knew that 1 wouldn't start back rleht through tin-in. and they knew, tco, that I '?onldn't swim right ahead a few thou sand knots to the Carolines or the Marquesas or the KlJIs, and so they wore content to take It easy, each (louring on getting what was coming So him when the moment arrived. ??Forty natives put out after me In *>r.e of those sixty-foot long and two f< r?i wide canoes with the outrigger ar rangement familiar In the South Hens, and in the bow of the canoe and direct la* Ihun was an old liuic juiccr of a quartermaster from a British trading sctioqper in the harbor. " 'Splash, ban' keep a-sptashlng, bleat y'r blaaln' hejeballa f r a Yankee pup heejltr bawled the old llme-Jolcer at mo aa the canoe approached where 1 waa In the middle of the' semi-circle of waiting aharka, and with thai 1 be gan to alap and kick the water like a aea skate fooled in the mudhook chains. , "I waa a lot rattled, bnt as the canoe approached I noticed that all of the natives that weren't helping to pnll the canoe were leaning over the side and alapplng and churniug the water with all their might and main ntul making all of the noise out of their counten ances that they knew how to. That settled It. The sharks dispertcHl like a bunch of stampeded mountain goats ami I was hauled Into the canoe anil bawled at by the old Uute-juiccr lor my bloomlnk Yankee heejlocy until we pulled up on the bench. "That was when I first found out by actual experience, what every deep going sailor in the South Sens knows, that the shark is the worst coward that swims and that he Is twenty times more afraid of a splashing human be ing in the water than a water mono a sin Is of a howling small boy iu nu inland creek." ? Washington Star. AMERICAN FURNITURE IN BRITAIN Sound Scolding For tht Naughty Yankees WIm Invade Them. The presumption of America iu sup posing that the Old Country Is to conic to her for furniture Is amazing. It is also, to those learned In furniture, rather amusing. The simple reason Is that American furniture is not good enough. It runs too much on the lines of what trade journals on the other side poetically term "very attractive lines in mission fitments"? gaunt, ungainly designs worked out by machine in cheap woods. | Perhaps the Idea that England is a [dumping ground where lubblsli way be shot is not yet eliminated from tho American mind. And yet several ex periments of that kind have ended sadly. A good many years ago cheap American cycles were almost hurled in our faces. Now one of the rarest birds on an English highway is a cycle made anywhere 6ut in England. Another attempt of a less serious character was made a Utile while ago with bedroom suits. They were not particularly cheap, but to quote an ex pert. "the design was bad. the work was bad. the effect was tawdry." and the American-made bedroom suit is not In demand. Of course England does import furni ture from America. Of the ?700,000 ($3,500,000) worth of cabinet-ware which came from abroad in ll?OCi Amer ica sent a larger part than any other country? ?250,000 ($1,250,000) worth. America and France arc indeed the only countries which send us as much as ?100,000 ($500,000) in the year. But those figures represent goods of a totally different kind. The French furniture is highly finished, elaborate work ^ the American cheap and machine made. In one solitary "line** can the Americans claim the hulk of t lie Eng lish trade. The roll-top desk was orig inally an American Invention, and for some years an American monopoly. Hut a desk Is now being produced In England which in price competes with the American-made article and in qual ity. according to experts in the retail trade, is distinctly superior. For the plain fact is that the English cabinet-maker has no competitors. Even the finest French work, which n:? doubt comes nearest, is a bad second. In "finish" the Frenchman can hold his own, hut in the actual cabinet-making, the putting together of the article, lie leaves much to be desired. The Ger man workmanship is not bad, but the design is heavy and clumsy. Omitting cheap machine-made furni ture? the only class apparently within American ken? the bulk of It Is not. made In factories at all. I.<ondon is the centre of the trade, and Hlioredltch and Betlinal-green are Its sanetft sanc torum. The best furniture-making Is a home Industry. A man, his wife and family, with perhaps one or two work men, work together on their own ac count. and the large retail houses deal directly with these "garret masters." ? London Telegraph. The Illooil ot Men rend Apr*. An interesting departure from the usual methods of studying the hlinll arlty between innti ami the other pri mate* has boon made by Professor Uhlenmuth. n noted German anthro pologist, who has recently carried on n series of Interesting observations on tbo blood of mon, apes and monkeys. Between the blood of the first two there are many point* of similarity niul evidence* of a distinct relationship, but the blood of monkey* can readily be distinguished from that of men. The difference Ik more or 1o?k marked, according to the specie*, the greatest resemblance being aeon In the case of the gorilla and the least with the le mur*. a *mall specie* about the fclze of a cat and having a face somewhat like a fox. A singular fact I* that, judged by the blood, there Is le** evi dence of rclatlonahip found hi the American famlllo* of ape* than In those of the Old World.? Harper'* Weekly. tip ?nd Down. The following telephone conyor* j lion, recently heard botwoen n woman whose home I* In tho suburb* and a business acquaintance of her husbnnd, Illustrate* some of the curiosities of our language: Business Acquaintance? "fJood morn ing, Mr*. . I'd like to speak to Mr. ! ? for n moment." Mr*. ? ? ."I'm sorry. Mr. , but my husband Isn't down yet." B. A. (Inquiringly)? "Isn't down yet?" Mrs-? ."I mean he Isn't up yet. I'm letting him sleep late this morning; lie was so down last evening after his of fice troubles that be was ready to give up. He says he'll be down as ?oou as Uo gets up."? Harper's Weekly. Tb? botadUtfpaper* report that be* Vrlea, the great Dutch wptrlwifil evolutionist, has by loag can tinnrd ae lectlon produced a variety of i clover ?rhlch hu normally (oar lea Tea. Within halt an hoar of the death of Mm of a pair of twin boys at Leicc*- 1 ter, - England, the other one died, through, the doctor aald, a certain, zurtooe sympathy which cxlata be tween twins. The 8onth McAlester (Indian Terri tory) News relates that a negro crim inal in the Chpctaw Nation was so badly scared by being arrested that he has turned an asben gray, and has never recovered his proper color. Au English watchmaker lias Just finished making a tiny watch in the form of a shirt stud. Its dial is two sixteenths of tin inch in diameter, ami It is to be worn with two other studs. By turning the upper stud the watch is wound, while by turning the lower one the hands arc adjusted. Frofcssor Elrod of the University of Montana gives a striking description of the treasure that his State possesses In sapphires. The only systematic mln inj; for these precious stones In the United States is done in Montana. The annnnl output amounts to 430,000 or r?00,000 carets, including the stones that are suitable for cutting as gems and those that are only useful for me chanical purposes. It is said that the lapidaries in Helena do finer work than is done on the stones that are sent to London to he cut. Perhaps somebody will suggest that Montana should be called the "Gem State," in view of the fact that her output of preclons stone* exceeds the production in that line ef all the rest of tho United States. Professor Angelo Hellprin's opinion of the nature of the extraordinary j tower that rose out of the crater of Mont Pelec in Martinique a year ago, to a height of 1000 feet, has undergone a change. At first he thought, like other geologists, that the tower con sisted of extremely viscious lava, which solidified immediately on its Intrusion, and thus rose vertically under the stress of the volcanic forces beneath. But a later critical examination, he now says, forces strongly upon him the impression that the great pinnacle was the ancient core of the volcano, loosened from its moorings, and lifted bodily outward. This lifting of "giant rock masses or mountain cores'* , through the crater axis of a volcano has not been heretofore an entirely unknown phenomenon, although Pclee's tower is the graudest exhibi tion of the kind on record. TAXING MEN'S APPETITES.' Men Kti Mnch Hon Than Woimi and An Cb*rgM> More. In a smnll West Side restaurant that caters to persons on economy bent the bill of fare is headed by this no tice: "Regular dinner? Men, twenty-five cents; women, fifteen cents." "How is this?" asked a chance cus tomer belonging to the sex most heav ily taxed. "You charge us fellows ten cents more than you do the women. What have we done that we should be so discriminated against V" "You eat more/' was the plain re joinder. "It doesn't cost nearly so much to feed women as men, but we are the first concern in this part of town that has l?een brave enough to say so in plain print. Many foreign restaurants have recognized that fact and have regulated their charges ac cordingly. Hoarding houses, too, are well acquainted with the masculine appetite, and satisfy its longings at a premium. "However, If the male border is sub ject to excessive charges, he always has the satisfaction of knowing he gets his money's worth. Walters in institutions of that kind are required to report In the kitchen whether an order is for a 'lady* or 'gentleman,' and the cook dishes up in proportion to, the capacity of the diner. "Some cheap restaurauts have adopt ed the plan of serving 'ladylike' por tions at rock bottom prices, thereby en* abling the man with an appetite to> double up on his order ami preserve a fair ratio between the cost of men's, and women's meal*. But we like our plan better. It gives everybody a fair show and prevents confusion."? New York Press. Wide Field For Weoklies. The dny of the weekly literary home niul farm paper has Just begun, aiul in my opinion then? never was a better dny for the right kind of weekly papers than to-day. In raying this I wish you to remember that the weekly paper that eomes to the family filled with able editorials and feature articles, Ac tion and poetry, and has departments for the women, for the farmer, for the mechanic, and especially for the little ones? a paper that is clean and leane toward a higher ideal in journalism than does the present sensational daily ?Is the one I refer to. . , . These papers will always be factors In our national growth. No matter how many improvements are made In the malt service, they occupy a place not Ulled by the average dally, and the better the weekly Is made along the lines set forth the more certain it is to main* tain a high place.? W. T. Moore of the Indianapolis Sentinel. Munirr 1>ok?. "Alaska dogs are getting the worst fare they have had since the early days In that country," wild Robert Pas chal!, who recently returned from Daw. son. "They arc eating anything and everything they enn find now, when a few months ago they were living on the best of dog bacon, an inferior prod uct that was shipped north just for dog feeding. "You see. this packers' Jrtrflto was beginning to bo felt even by the dogs. The dog bacon that was formerly shipped to Alaska for feeding the pups In now in general use, and the dog* have to hike the best they can get. I guess those dogs up there are glad It is the end of the strike."? Seattle Post lntelligenccf. i Queen of Greece and Russian Admiral* The Only Woman Admiral T HE remarkable contingency that a woman Admiral may coinaiuiiil the fleets of Russia before tbe ending of the war with Japan has pre?emed Itself to the minds of those who are Intimately acquainted with the personal affairs of the rulers of the Old World. Should all other Admirals of the Russian Navy perish, it would lie within the power nud right of Queen Olga of Greece to claim com mand of the ships that remain to that Nary. Not only does she rank as full Admiral of the naval forces of llussia, but she Is a good sailor and as thor ough a naval expert as are many of the Captains who are her subordinate In rank. The possibility of a Roadicca of the sea coming to the succor of the beaten forces of the powerful Empire of the North, already has been the subject of more or less amused comment iu the MOROS IN AMERICA With Sultans of high and low de gree, accompanied by their harems, with Moliamedan liifcli priests ami tbe rigid rules of this fanatical religion, and with political plot and counter plot revealing all the subtle qualities of an Oriental race. 110 s|>ot at the World's Fair holds more of the strange and interesting atmosphere of a far off corner of the world than the Moro Tillage. Philippine Kxpoaitlou. Here the dignfled and polite Datto Facundo, who visited the President In Wash ington, stands at the head of forty Samal Moron, the ever-steadfast friends of Uncle Sam, while housed In another end of the same village are to he found the hostile I,nnao Moros, bitter enemies of their Samal cousins, and a race which has never been sub jugated by either Spaniard or Amer ican. It lias taken the utmost diplo macy on the part of Frederick Lewis, the manager of the villages, to admin ister tbe affairs of the two races, so that the spears of the Samal Moros are not hurled over the hamlxto fence at their neighbors, or the wicked bolo knives of the tanno* do not tlnd a lodging place in flie patriotic breasts of the Samal Mofos or Sea CSypsies. The village of the latter, built on l>nm? l>oo poles over the waters of Arrow head I>ake. offers the most character* istically striking village at the Fair. GROUP OF LANAO MOROS. Sultans (left to right), top row: Sultan SunKud, Sultan Pltulean, Sultan AmbuloiiK. I>atto Asume. Bottom row: Datto Maratml. Mandae, bright Moro Interpreter, the lost Snltan neniasanky. l'rlest Ilajali Mudn Lumbayangui, In wbot<u household Daniasanky served as a menial. Courts of Europe, nml It is certain, within a short time, to ho a topic of universal discussion, if not of serious belief, throughout Japan. There Is no question that the possibility of Queen Olgn's command of the Russian Navy will receive more credence in Japan than in any other portion of the world; for It Is well-known that already many Japnnese women have attempted to to In disguise to the front: and a course which is natural with them will not seem unnatural In a sovereign who,' by formal appointment, holds a high and definite rank as a part of the Bghtiug force* of the Crar. Queen Olga enjoys the unique dis tinction of being the only woman Ad miral In the world. This high rank was bestowed upon her by the late Czar of ltussla. Sometimes royal titles are distributed promiscuously and without regard to the fitness of things; but In this instance the honor is ap propriate and merited. The present Queen of Greece appreciates and un derstands the tittf. She loves the sea; she takes a practical Interest in the welfare of sailors, and 011 a recent naval Inspection made such a thorough examination of one of the battleships as to win the admiration of some of the naval experts of her own country. This gifted woman, besides her other Accomplish incuts. Is a diplomat of a high order. Her voice always Is for peace, and In the recent disturbance between (Ireece and Turkey her ad vice was potent at the council board and at the conference that Anally healed up the differences caused by the war. Queen Olga is the eldest daughter of the (J rami Puke Constantino of Itus xla, who was a brother of the late Emperor Alexander II. She was mar ried to King (Seorge of Orceee In 1S??7, when she was only sixteen years old.? New York Tribune. Tlie Introduction of electric traction n the Tranvla Kural, city of Huenos j Ayres, 1? contemplated. Queer Name* For Children. In Home parts of the Continent of Into years the prnetiee has inereiiHetl of Hiving children fantastic name*. A little girl, for Instance, horn In the KifTel Tower, hi Paris. not long since was christencd "Kiffellne," ami a Swiss mother chose "May 1st" for a child l>orii on that day. The authorities, however, refused to sanction the lat ter. and now the Swiss < Jovernniont Is considering proposed laws for the pre vention of such christening eccentriel tles.? New York News. HAMOAN H< l?')IR .1 IN TIIK AMKltlCAN 8F.RVICR. ? By comtci) of 'flic ludcpeiulent. New York City.? Tucked coats worn ( (With belts that confine them at the j back and sides are exceedingly Ikv i coming to young girls nnd are among | misses' tucked ooat. the latest and most attractive ukhIcIs shown. Tills very excellent example is adapted both to the costume and to the general wrap and to the many materials of the season, but is shown In a uilxed brown velvet edged with fancy braid. The long lines of the front, provided by the tucks -which pass over the belt, add greatly to the style and make a specially noteworthy feature. The sleeves are the new ones that are full at the shoulders aiul are j finished with roll-over cuffs. The coat is made with fronts, back and under-arni gores, and is linitdied at the neck with a simple roll-over collar. The sleeves are full and are pleated into bands thai are concealed by the cufTs. The belt is adjusted over the back and fronts to the centre tucks, where it passes through open I the first place In llnoc cornered, the beaver skirt being most deftly manip ulated. The brim is likewise shaped, pointing -well at the front. Voids of brown tulle cover the bandeau and the edge of the brim is decked with two tiuy brown taffeta pleating* with three rows of mat beads lietween them. The two outer rows of Iwads arc brown, the centre one being, no. not orange, bat u delicate apple green. At the left front, on the under side of the brim, is a brown bird, or rather, the fore part of a bird. From this bird sweep* a splen did paradise plume which shades froAi soft brown to delicate apple grcen.\ It is a chef d* oeuvrc. ??Knlckrm" For School Glrla. * For school girls plain serge and Scotch plaids will be the favorite ma terials. l*p to fourteen years the choice ' of make is Wtween the sailor suit and the Russian-blouse frock. Cirlf from eight to fourteen years vvir knickerbockers for school ami play time instead of petticoats under their dress skirts now: the practical side of this fashion lias rc<>om mended It to most mothers who have the comfort of their children at heart. These knlck erlmckers are made to match the dress; in winter of serge, in summer of ging ham or linen.? Fashion Number of Harper's Bazar. I ^ For llrMkfRit. A pretty matinee set seen recently had the Jacket made in bolero shape. This, like the skirt, was trimmed with quantities of fluffy lace. Kllt?xl Skirt With Ilouad Vttkc. Skirts that arc pleated below ft smooth fitting yoke are among tlje smartest of all smnrt things for the coming season and will be worn for all street costumes. This one is pe culiarly chic and attractive and is so arranged as to give a plain effec' at the front, which is always desirable. As illustrated, it is made of cheviot in mixed shades of brown and tan, trimmed with handsome brown braid. A Late Design by May Manton. lugs loft for the purpose and is closed invisibly. The quantity of material required for the medium sl/,e Ik live yards twenty Beven Inches wide, two and three fourth yards forty-four inches wide, or two and one-eighth yards llfty-two Indies wide, with one-half yards of velvet and one and three-fourth yards of braid to trim as Illustrated. 1)o?il>t<?-Oiilll*<l Crown lt??n<t. The crown bands on hats intended to be worn on <*ool mornings in the J mountains are quite different than any thing seen before. To begin with, they resemble a cart ridge belt more than anything else, and have a double tier of ipiilllngs of ribbons around the crown, The lower quilling Is of light-colored rlb bon, the upper one a very dark shade of the same color or of black if white be used for t lie lower tier. The rlblton used is of a heavy, handsome quality. The quilling is stiff enough to stand up like n stockade around the erown. The light-colored tier comes up outside of the lower edge of the dark quilling, and Is also broad enough to lie out tlat for a little on the brim of the felt hat. Cream-colored felt hats are hand some thus trimmed wltlj two shades of brown ribbon or with cream and deep leaf brown. A swirling plume of white cock's feathers, poised slightly to the left of the front, falls down over the broad belt of double quilling*. In Hroirn Hravrr. A lovely brown beaver turban is val uable III two ways, besides its beaill.v. It shows that Paris has decided to divorce brown and orange, and intro duces us to a new trlcorne! This charming trlcorne turban is doubly three cornered. The crown in hilt Is stilted to nil seasonable mate rials. A? a matter of course 1 1 ? ? trim ming ean lie varied to suit i.i<?i ? .dual taste. but the little straps coining from beneath each pleat are eminently styl isli and attractive. The skirt Is col in seven gores nnti Mi laid in backward turning pleats which meet at the ccntre back, where ihe closing is made. The yoke is . irctilar and In stitched to tin* skirt v illi cor tleelll ?llk, the trimming struts eon ceniing the seam at sides and hnck. Ah Illustrated, it is made in instep length, which is the prevailing <?ne for the incoming Reason, but can t? made still shorter whenever desire 1 The quantity of material re< ?? tr the medium slao is eight and ? te-half Kii/rici> hktht with norsD voki, yard* t wonty-m-von Inch' * wide, IIy? ntiil one-fourth ynrdn forty four Inched wide, or 11 vo yard* Ofty-two Inches wide.