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Sumorousi part went. Limitations of Practice.?In an Iowa town an action for ejectment was not long ago tried "by the court without a jury." the suit having been brought by a religious society to recover possession of a cemetery. The defendant, a physician in active practice, had bought the ground for the use of the society, but when afterward he severed his connection with the organization, it was discovered that he had taken the title in his own name and evidently intended to hold on to it. After Hnlv weiehinp the evidence. the court ordered judgment for the plaintiff, stating briefly the reason for the decisions. Whereupon the defendant's counsel desired to be more fully enlightened in the premises. "Certainly." said his honor. "In addition to what I have already said, there are but two other reasons. One Is that the church seems to need a cemetery and the other is that the doctor has failed to show that his practice is sufficiently lar^e to necessitate his maintaining his own burying ground." Carried Out Instructions.?Every sailor has his story of the mistakes which landlubbers make over the names of things at sea, which always seem to be exactly the opposite of what they are on land. A new boy had gone on board a West India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship's side. The painter was at work upon a staging suspended under the ship's stern The captain, who had just got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy, who stood leaning over the rail. "Let go the painter!" Everybody should know that a boat's painter is the rope which makes it fast, but this boy did not know it. He ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter's staging was held. Meantime the captain was wearied with waiting to be cast off. "You rascal!" he called. "Why don't you let go the painter?" "He's gone, sir." said the boy briskly. 'He's gone?pots, brushes and all!" ?London Standard. She Waited to Know.?A little woman with wilton carpet floral designs on her hat came into the uptown Pennsylvania ticket office the other day and bought a ticket for a point down the state. She gathered up her ticket and asked. for a little folder because it had a picture on it in colors of a girl waving goodby to somebody on the end of a train. Then she placed her ticket inside her purse and the purse Inside a little satchel and put the satchel inside her shopping bag, which she carried in a small alligator traveling bag. Just before she started out she inquired of City Passenger iigent Dillion, who had been waiting on her, "How long before my train starts?" "You'll just about have time to make it," Dillon told her. "It leaves tne union station in aDout seventeen minutes." 'Seventeen minutes," she repeated, "and is that by central time or eastern time?"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. an Exaggerated Description?Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston has taken up the Audubon Society's war against the Merry Widow hat. "This hat is the worst omnivorous creation that the milliners have yet given us," she said at a recent dinner. "The number of things required to trim the hat is frightening. Its appetite, in fact, reminds me of a police court episode. "A detective was testifying in the case of a woman shoplifter whom he had arrested in her bedroom. " 'And, your honor,' he said, 'when I told her the charge, she turned her back to me and swallowed a purse, six suits of silk underwear, a silver candlestick, a chafing dish and, " 'Rubbish! Are you crazy?' the magistrate interrupted. " 'Excuse me. What I mean to say, your honor,' explained the detective, 'Is that she swallowed the pawntickets.' "?Washington Star. Chasing a Rainbow.?a story, said to be new, of Balzac, is related by a French contemporary. A burglar gained admission to Balzac's house and Mas soon at Mork, by the light of the moon, at the lock of the secretary in the novelist's chamber. Balzac was asleep at the time, but the movements of the intruder aroused him. The burglar, who was working most industriously, paused. A strident laugh arrested his operations and he beheld by the monlight the novelist sitting up in bed, his sides aching with laughter. "What is it that makes you merry?" demanded the burglar. "I laugh," replied the author of 'Pere Goriot," "to think that you should come in the night without a lantern to search my secretary for money when I can never find any there in broad daylight."?Westminister Gazette. Talking Up.?He was a well-meaning young man, but as a curate in a small village he had never had occasion to meet the class of people who frequented the fashionable parish to Which he had just been appointed. His new rector, wishing to help him on to success, had been liberal with advice, and had duly impressed him \vith the importance of always taking the 'tone" of the people with whom he mingled. Being invited to take dinner at the mansion of one of the members of the congregation and knowing that he would have to say grace, the young curate took his cue from the conversation overheard before dinner, and when his hostess nodded nieanimjlv in his direction, he delivered himself of the following: "O Lord, thanks awfully, jolly good feed, wot?"?Bellman. Tale of the Dog.?One of 'em goes like this: "Yes, sir, that dog can do anything but talk." "Well, it's wonderful the intelligence they have. Why, I had a fox terrier once"? "And yet they say that dog's can't reason! Why, a friend o' mine"? "That's right. You can't tell me"? "And when he was killed, it was just like losing one of the family. My wife"? "Well, sir. 1 believe if there's a hereafter for human beings, there's one for dogs. I don't see"? "Here?here! Come here, sir! You brainless little mutt! Have I got to lick you every day to teach you to quit nosin' those scraps on the barroom floor? Go over in the corner and lay down!"?Puck. ittisffllnnfoua iJciitlini). THE WORLD'S SIZE. It Seems a Very Small Place?Sometimes. A party of travelled folk, men and women, were seated about a luncheon table at a "Washington hotel the other afternoon conversing on an old but always engaging topic?the smallness of the world. "While visiting the Pan-American exposition a few years ago," contributed a New Orleans lady, "I lost in a restaurant one evening a chatelaine bag containing most of my own jewelry and a diamond ornament, highly prized because it was my husband's wedding gift, belonging to my daughter. Naturally I was in a great state of panic and depression. "But on returning to our hotel I had barely reached my room before a bellman brought me the card of a lady of whom I had never heard. With my loss uppermost in my mind, however, I hurried down to the reception room to meet her, I found her a very charming woman, but she was a thousand times more charming in my view of course because she had my missing bag in her hands. "'You had missed this?' was heri first question, and then she saw how terribly worried I had been over the loss and how correspondingly relieved I was over the sight of the bag. She handed the bag to me, everything intact, Jewels, money and all. "It appeared that she had taken dinner at the same table at the restaurant at which my daughter and I had sat?having succeeded us at that table?and she had accidentally kicked the dropped bag with her foot. In order to seek something with which tr? (HenHfv thp nwnpr she had. of course, opened the bag, had found some recent letters addressed to me, and had hurried around to the hotel at once to restore the bag to me. "She was plainly a woman of refinement and wealth and was leaving the city with her husband that night. Before she went I sent to her hotel the nicest box of orchids that could be found in the city. "The world still would be of its customary largeness if the story ended there. But two years later my daughter and I were visiting a rug bazaar in Constantinople. We were dawdling over a heap of tapestries when I chanced to see, projecting from beneath a nearby pile of small rugs, a gold chain bag. Without being observed by any of the shopmen I picked the bag up and showed it to my daughter. We were undecided what to do with it. but we were of a single mind as to one point, and that was that we should not surrender the bag to the proprietor of the rug bazaar. A number of experiences that we had had throughout Turkey, and especially in Constantinople, had not served to give us the best impression las to tne nonesty 01 ine luraisn tradespeople. "So we hurried from the bazaar, summoned a conveyance and drove about while we considered what we .should do with the gold bag. I looked into the bag to see if it might contain a card or other means of placing its owner, but the bag held nothing of the sort. It contained a number of singularly artistic and valuable diamond ornaments, a bracelet of the most superb sapphires I had ever seen and a large sum in Turkish bank notes. As we drove about, leaving our route to the will of the driver of the carriage, we passed the office of the Constantinople police, and that decided us as to what we should do I with the bag. We had little knowledge as to the efficiency or honesty of the Constantinople police, but we decided, as the men say, to take a chance. "The police official in charge, we found, was a very civil man who spoke English well. He took the bag from us and commended our judgment in not leaving it with the pro prietor or ine rug Dazaar. "We were about to leave Constantinople, and the police official took j the name of our Paris bankers and told us that he would return the gold bag, with all its contents, to us in Paris should he be unable to find the bag's owner within a stated time. Also he took our address in Constantinople, so that he would be able to notify us in case he found the owner of the bag immediately before our leaving. We were a bit dubious as to these terms, but as we had 'taken the chance,' we had no other choice but to accede to them. "We returned to the rug bazaar and remained there for a couple of hours. When we returned to our hotel the charming woman who had found my jewelry at the Pan-American exposition two years before was in the hotel's reception room awaiting us. I was delighted to see her, but I could not connect her with the ownership of the gold bag until she spoke. " 'I am too grateful to wish to appear axiomatic,' was her lirst greeting, 'but one good turn surely does deserve another, does it not?' "And she held uo the gold bag I had found. She had driven to our hotel straight from the office of the police chief, to whom she had reportled the loss. He had given her the bag [upon her naming its contents, and he also had given her the name of the bag's finder. On the following day we met her husband and we journeyed to Paris together. Since the termination of that incident I have had a very poor opinion of the world's size. "A few years ago I was seated one evening on the lanai, or portico, of a hotel iti Honolulu, chatting with our manager out there," said a Boston man in the Oriental shipping trade, "when a man strolled along the porch whose face was very familiar to me, though 1 could not possibly place him. He took a seat at a table close to ours, and 1 noticed that he eyed me as if he too found my countenance a familiar one. "Our Honolulu manager spent most of his life in Boston, and he asked me a great many questions about the growth of the town of Chelsea, where I live and where he had lived also. At the mention of the word Chelsea the man at the other table whose face was such.a puzzle to me got up and walked over to the table at which we sat. " '1 trust you will not think I have been eavesdropping.' he said to us, 'but I heard you use the word Chelsea. Will you pardon me for inquiring where you were adverting to Chelsea in England or Chelsea in Massachusetts?' " 'Massachusetts, of course,' I replied, and even as 1 spoke 1 remembered why his face was so familiar to me. For years we had been going in to Boston from Chelsea by the same route every morning. And even as this recollection Hashed upon me it caught him. He sat down with us, and upon comparing notes we found that we had been living within three blocks of each other in Chelsea for a matter of fifteen years. He was a lawyer and on a trip around the world for his health. He was a member of the Chelsea Democratic club and I a member of the Chelsea Republican club. We knew all about each other, I as suburban folks usually do, but had never happened to meet socially or otherwise. " 'That's an odd name of yours,' he said, after we had exchanged cards. 'The only person 1 ever knew of that name was a shaver with whom I used to play shinny and duck on' the rock up in Bangor, Me., way back yonder in the '60s. His name was Jim, but we called him Smudge, because he was always smoking corn silk and dried leaves wrapped up in yellow manila paper, and'? "Well, there was the second extraordinary feature of that meeting, for I was the Smudge of Bangor, Me. I grieve to say it, but I fear that we were rather sad dogs together, that Chelsea man and boyhood playmate of mine, during the remainder of our foregathering in Honolulu." "During the Knights Templars' conclave out in San Francisco," said a Buffalo business man, "one evening while riding in a crowded car out toward the Sutro baths, a sharp faced fellow, a typical nickpocket, grabbed at my watch chain, broke it, got the watch and leaped from the car. I leaped right after him, turning several somersaults In the sand dunes on landing, and when I picked myself up took after him. I am, as you see, rather long legged, and I got him. He handed me back my watch. I was content to take him by the back of the shoulders and give him a good kicking, which I did. Then I boarded the next car that came along for the Sutro baths. "Last fall I was ridinc on the rear of an electric car in Budapest. A man beside me asked me in English, what the time was. Without turning to look at the man I pulled out my watch. " 'Very well?it's all right?I merely wanted to see If you still had the same watch.' said the man who had asked me the time. I turned about and saw . the American pickpocket whom I had chased and kicked so soundly and satisfyingly out on the San Francisco sand dunes years before. There was a broad grin on his shrewd, weazened face. "'But I might nave known that you still had the same clock,' said the pickpocket, as he clutched thfe rail preparatory to swinging off the car. 'Say, d'ye know that I've been taking my meals standing up ever since,' and he jumped off the car and mingled with the passing throng."?Washington Star. TIME ISN'T MONEY IN LONDON. A Draft Asked For at 10.30 O'clock Ready at 3.30 That Day. The operation of the great banking houses of London is typical of England, says the Kansas City Journal. The Bankers, like most of the business men of the metropolis, are very polite, but, also like other Englishmen, carry on business in a way that seems extremely deliberate to Americans. An American called at one of the London banks a few days ago to buy a New York draft for $30. It was then about 10.30 o'clock in the morning. The teller requested a memorandum of his wants and then, bowing, said: "Thank you, sir. The draft will be ready for you at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. Will you call for it or may I mail it to you?" This was not an isolated case. It is simply London's way. When a person makes a deposit he is given no pass or deposit book, and he is required to pay a small amount for his checkbook. On beginning business with the bank he signs his name in a large record book and the signatures on the checks he draws subsequently, which, of course, must correspond with that in the large book, are the only evidence of deposit he has to offer. A woman depositor must, immediately upon her marriage, furnish the bank with her new signature. Some bankers even require her to produce the certificate of marriage. io Ith o 1 IIC pat> lllg ICI1CI JO IUVU U *HI U small shovel, and when a person withdraws a portion of his account or cashes a check, the clerk lifts the money in the shovel and from that utensil empties the coin upon the counter in front of the customer. DECISION ALL READY. No Harm In Arguing the Matter as Long as Desired. Senator Nathan Bay Scott of West Virginia, enjoys a wide acquaintance among his colleagues on both sides of the senate chamber, says a Washington Herald. He is always brim full of quaint and interesting stories that generally have some local application to current situations. "Scotty," as the late Mark Hanna used to call him, has, if reports be authentic, provoked many a hearty laugh during the sacred executive sessions of the senate by his blunt and original humor. Not long ago the junior senator from West Virginia felt constrained to op * 1? ?...?- . .< d..ao! pose nit* L'uniiriimiiuii m owe in x icedent Roosevelt's nominees at an executive session of the senate. Mr. ScoU made quite a long speech, giving his reasons why he thought the man should not be confirmed, but he stated frankly at its close that he realized that his opposition would be futile. "The situation reminds me," he said, "of a case that was being tried by a justice of the peace out in West Virginia. The attorneys on both sides took a Jong time to present their arguments. Finally, late in the afternoon, the justice, who had been fidgeting in his cha'.r. pulled out his watch and sa ill: "'Gentleman, it is now my supper time. My doctor requires me to be regular in my habits, and I shall, therefore, now go home to my supper; but. gentlemen, he added, with a drawl, you can keep right on with your arguments. When you are through you will ?.. <1 /.Alul/kM tVm #4k,? .Imu'on ixt 1IIIU my Urtl.^lUH III lliv iwp uiunvi wi my desk here.'" How ha!) It Was.?"You were having a quarrel with the prosecuting witness, were you not?" said the judge, in an effort to straighten out a complicated case. "<)i wor," was the reply. "And it was a very severe quarrel?" "It wor. An' it kep* gettin' worseran' worse.*." "Clan you give me some idea of how bad it was?" "Well, yer honor, at wan toime Oi tink it wor 'most as bad as what's been goin' on bechune the lawyers in this case."?Harper's Weekly. A squirrel can bite deeper than a dog. IN YUCATAN. e t A Little Known Part of the Mexican s Republic. ? Yucatan. Ask yourself how much ? you know of Yucatan. Ask any one ( else who may be at hand, what he j knows of Yucatan. Large odds could , safely be given that the most of the answers to this question from any , number of even well Informed per- < sons would be somewhat to this effect. | Yucatan is one of those Central | American republics that are mainly < miasmatic, tropical marsh and the s rest volcanic mountains, and the In- , habitants are divided between moun- ( tain bandits and political revolution ists. I Even the all knowing Baedeker has no knowledge of Yucatan, or at any rate none to Impart to the traveller. , Yucatan is a sealed book to the Cuban, as the writer failed to get even , the slightest data regarding it after ( many diligent inquiries in Havana. < Yet it is only thirty hours sail from , that city and the Ward line of steam- , ers from that port to Vera Cruz, sailing twice a week, all touch at Pro- j greso, the chief commercial port of , Yucatan, both going and coming, and , there are no cleaner or better admin- ( istered steamships in the world. The writer, after a visit to Mexico city and the enjoyment of that splendid mountain capital, on his return trip visited and explored a portion of Yucatan, including some of the most interesting of the prehistoric ruins of that wonderful country, photograph- 1 ing their most salient features. ' The peninsula, Yucatan, instead of 1 being like Central America, or even like a large part of the mainland of 1 Mexico proper, a land of marshes and ! mountains, is a level coral formation, 1 very much like the Bahama Islands. ! The climate is dry and healthful; ' the temperature Is high, even in win- ' ter, but is tempered for a large part ' of the time by refreshing breezes from ! the sea; an ideal climate for invalids, ' with almost perpetual sunshine. ' The capital city, Merida, is some ' twenty-five miles from the port of ' Progreso and is connected by two ' lines of railway. Merida is a city of 1 nearly 50,000 inhabitants. It is built 1 on the site of an ancient Maya city, ' every trace of which has been obliter- 1 ated by the Spanish conquerors in ' their efforts to destroy all national ' and race feeling on the part of the inhabitants and to reduce them to servitude. The Spaniards found the Mayas ' much more difficult to conquer than 1 even the fierce Toltecs and Aztecs of central Mexico, and after these latter { were reduced to subjection it took them twenty years of hard fighting to overcome the Mayas. There are in fact remnants of these ancient people still existing in the remote parts of the country nearest to Central America who have never been conquered by either Spaniards or Mexicans. Modern Merida cannot but be a surprise to any traveller, especially one who has travelled in Spain and Spanish-American countries. It is laid out in regular rectangular streets and squares. The streets are nearly all paved with asphalt, the public squares are filled with superb flowering trees, plants and shrubs, more perfectly kept than the writer has ever seen such places in any city in the world, and the whole city is one of the cleanest in the world. It has many fine public buildings and there is in process of erection a beautiful national theatre which any city in tfce world might be proud of. The exterior is of light carved stone, Renaissance. The city has several fine model hotels, tramways, banks and all the conveniences of modern life, and the people have the reputation of being extremely hospitable. The women and children are very beautiful, and the writer will not soon forget one charming fair one, who in her newly acquired English uttered that flattering phrase: "The house is yours." The traveller who wishes to penetrate to the interior of the country to visit the prehistoric ruins must be prepared to rough it, for even in the large towns there are no hotels or even humble inns of any kind. The writer and his party carried hammocks to sleep In under the stars, provisions to cook, eat and drink. Our first objective point being the most famous of all the ruined cities, Uxmal, we travelled by a narrow 1 gauge railroad to a small town, Muna, having arranged by telegraph for a conveyance to the ruins. This con- 1 veyance was a most primitive affair ' called a bolan; a two wheeled cart hauled by mules three abreast. It is ' a covered box slung by ropes between j the wheels, and in it a mattress, and in this four passengers and the driver had to find room, one of the party Deing a lady. We were packed like sardines in a box, and as the roads were the roughest that any conveyance could by any possibility be forced over, we j were a very mixed up lot; jolted from . side to side, scratched by the sharp ! thorn trees overhanging and bruised j by being thrown about by pounding , over the stones. i Late at night worn out by our jour- 1 ney, we arrived at the great hacienda ] or cattle plantation near the Uxtnal J ruins, where we had by favor obtain- I ed permission to sleep. We were dis- j turbed during the night by the bark- . ing of a lot or cur dogs. I We were all well repaid for all our 1 inconveniences by our visit to the J grand ruins, notwithstanding the , fact that we suffered from the several 1 varieties of ticks, who bore into your J flesh and inflict grievous wounds. ( There are millions of them, and it is ! a constant light to keep them, from 1 getting in their bills on your person. { We were cautioned by the art director, from whom we were compelled ' to get a government permit tu visn the ruins, to wear only white clothes, so that we could see and light the bugs. It Is, of course, impossible to give a detailed account of the ruins in an article of this description. We climbed the pyramid, picnicked in the Grand Convent building, which ' is 280 feet long and 200 feet wide and which contains more than eighty- < eight compartments; visited the Gov- < ernor's Palace, so called, which has a wonderful frieze 325 feet long; the ] Canipo Santo, photographing the an- 1 cient tombstones, which bear the ' skull and crossbones as do modern j ones, and studied the carvings and 1 mouldings?images of gods and ser- ' pents, doubtless objects of worship? . and photographed the salient points . of all. ? One of the most interesting features J of these ruins is the recently discov- ( ered queen's head within a chapel or 1 crypt on one side of the pyramid. It was our desire to visit the other , notable ruins at Chichen Itza, Labna j md other places, but when we found ' hat there were some fifty or sixty of luoh ruined cities we concluded that is we had but little more than a week it our disposal we could hardly acjompllsh this extensive exploration jut must leave the rest for other visits. There is not a doubt that this Maya people enjoyed a higher civilization :han any other on the North Amercan continent, their rule extending to the whole of southern Mexico and juatemala. They were and are a fair ind apparently mild mannered people, but one that could maintain their ground not only against the fierce Aztecs and Toltecs, but against Cortes and mall clad warriors. On the return of our party to Muna we came upon a most interesting scene, a carnival ball and saw the Maya and Mestizo belles and beaux in ill the glory of their peculiar native costumes and in their native dances. They are very graceful and many of them very beautiful and extremely modest in all their life and actions. In all the incidents of the carnival in both Muna and Merlda, the writer saw no rudeness or unpleasant behavior on the part of even the liveliest af the street gamins.?Boston Herald. A SALMON RUN. Interesting Inquiry Into Habits of Famous Game Fish. The real fishing season in Alaska Joes not begin until the salmon commence their migration from the sea to their spawning beds in the fresh water streams. Then It is that the ' * * ? a 41. ? a Im t K a no rt h innaouunis Ul lUC ail emu uic ?... seem to vie with each other in an effort to slaughter the most fish. While i few fish begin their mad rush to certain death?for it is said that having once ascended a stream they nevpr live to return to the sea?in May and June, the migrations are not at their height until July. Then it is that the most prized of all the salmon, the king salmon, begin to run. and soon after come the red salmon, then the silver salmon in August, and with them large numbers of humpbacked and dog salmon, but the two lastmentioned species are dry and coarse and will never be considered fit for food until the better grades of fish tiave been exterminated. To describe these salmon runs without seeming to stretch the truth Is difficult, yet when I say that this subject is one that is practically impossible to exaggerate, the reader will be somewhat prepared for the coming story. Words can hardly express the wonderful scenes enacted at the mouth of a salmon stream during the heigni: 01 me saimon ?ea?uu, unc must be there to see for himself In order to appreciate them. Every stream is not a salmon stream and why not Is known only to the salmon themselves. When the tide is out the water at the mouths of some streams is often too shallow for the fish to ascend, so keeping well In shore the salmon work their way from the ocean, and congregating at the stream's mouth await the rising of the water. Soon the pool swarms with huge salmon that chase each other hither and thither and poke their noses into the shallow rift in their anxiety to begin the fatal battle against man and beast, rapids and falls. Having watched the fish here, let us move on further up the stream and await their coming. While working our way through the tall, luxuriant grass and weeds that usually cover the flat about the mouth of a salmon stream we cross or follow numerous paths beaten deep into the mossy ground. These Lrails were made by the brown bears and black bears as they journeyed to and from their mountain homes and the creeks where they fish. Practically every bear that lives near a salmon stream becomes a fish-eating bear at this season, and the trails from the timber intersect and cross each other like cow paths In a pasture. Along the edge of the stream the grass is matted, and lying here and there in all stages of decay are quantities of salmon with oniy meir bellies eaten, these fish having been tossed up on the bank by a quick flap af bruin's paw. About a hundred yards from the stream's mouth a cluster of tall spruce trees grows close to the bank, the high branches of which make a capital lookout from which to study the salmon. From our elevated position the mouth of the stream can be plainly seen, and as the tide rises the rift that has held the salmon in check gradually disappears, at first liberating the small fish, which flounder over the barrier, soon followed by the giants of the school. On they come like a herd of stampeding cattle-pushing, crowding and throwing the water in every direction. Now they sink into ieep water, now they reappear on another shoal, and as they draw near us the noise made by their floundering and fighting sounds like the splashing of some gigantic sea monster. By the time the advance guard has reached' us the entire length of the stream as far as we can see is one mass of writhing, floundering fish. On the rifts their backs protrude several Inches above the water and the big fellows turn upon their sides and scoot over, sometimes running high and dry upon the bank, where they flop about until they gain deep water ar die from exhaustion. The fights between the jealous males are in their way as desperate as the battles between more ferocious animals, for they often result in the death of one af the combatants. In their frenzied aharges one will sometimes drive his apponent through the water at such a rate that he will shoot high up on the shore and there die. In streams where the runs are not so large as the ane you are now watching the fish seem to travel in pairs, and after a fight, momentarily shrouded in a curtain of spray, you see the victorious fish return to his mate. As the fish reach a cascade the basin under it congests with them, and ? i.,, co,.nu i? one nf leaniner and falling salmon. Some of them mount the falls at the first attempt; others fail and drop back, only to try and try again; still others gain the apron, but in spite of their struggles the current gradually carries them back over the brink, or, catching on the apex, they manage to overcome the point of resistance and continue their journey to the next fall. In this manner some of the salmon manage to work their way hundreds of miles up the streams. On descending from our outlook to study the fish at close range our wonder gives way to pity. The salmon that have just left the sea are fine specimens of health, vigor and beauty, but those that for weeks have been battling with each other, and the boulder-strewn creek bed and the jag* e 5 A nhiontQ gt'U cuges in iuim tut- iiiuou uuj?,v.? of compassion. With bodies a mass of bleeding sores, noses skinned to the bone and fins so nearly gone as to be useless, we see them feebly attempting to resist the current and the onslaughts of their stronger kin. In the quiet pools near the banks we find hundreds of these poor creatures too weak to move out of the way. Frequently the body of a once fine fellow, who died while stubbornly resisting the elements in an attempt to obey the command of nature, floats seaward to feed the gulls and eagles.?Forest ind Stream. THE PRESIiDENTE GOT THE BAND And the Philippine Councilman Was Arrested on Nine Warrants. A United States army officer who was returning home by way of the Atlantic after a long stay on the Island of Cebu in the Philippine, asked the reporters who met him at quarantine whether the story of the row between the mayor of Cebu and one of the aldermen over th.e municipal brass band had yet reached this country. The reporters said they hadn't heard of it, so the army man told about it. "Presidente Llorente. the Cebu mayor hadn't been getting on with the members of the city council as harmoniously as mayors and aldermen generally get along." said the officer. "In fact, a strong faction developed which had for its purpose the UUWI1III5 ui me mtt^ui at IIIC cauicni offering of opportunity. "They concluded that the occasion of the presidente's inaugural ball would be the proper time to commence, the ball having been postponed for some time after the presldente took office because he was In bad health. The ball was set for a Sunday night early In March. "The opponents selected that night for a big ball at the Nacionalista club, the swell club of Cebu, with the Idea of keeping as many persons away from the presidente's ball as possible. In order to make the Xacionalista ball a success and to knock out the Inaugural ball, the presidente's opponents planned to secure the municipal band to play on that occasion. "This band, it must be known, is the premier musical organization of that part of the islands. When Councilman Alburo, one of the leaders of the opposition, made application for the band's services on that date word reached the presldente and he refused the request. "He made it exceedingly plain that he wanted the band for his own ball, and being boss of the town he had the power to get it. Councilman Alburo fumed around for a couple of days, but finally subsided, and everybody thought he had decided to let the presidente have the band. "On the morning of the ball, however, Alburo visited the homes of nine of the bandsmen, got their uniforms and took them to his home.- When the band turned out for the inaugural ball the absence of these nine uniforms was exceedingly and strikingly conspicuous. "The bandsmen had dressed up in their best clothes, but they didn't match well with the rest of the band. The presidente found out what had become of the uniforms, conferred at once with the police judge, who was at the ball, and the result was that nine separate warrants for larceny were sworn out against the council "Alburo was found at his home and arrested on one of the warrants. He considered his arrest a very jolly affair and gave bonds at the police station at once for his appearance In court the next morning. He hurried right over to the Nacionalista club ball then and was joyously received. "He hadn't been there long before the chief of police dropped In and arrested him again. Alburo became a little worried then and asked how many warrants there were against him. He was told that there were seven against him. He was told that there were seven more still unserved, and was ordered to give bail on the seven. "The councilman then sent all around town trying to find a man able to give bail for him on the warrants, but found no one and had to stay in jail all night. From where he was locked up he could hear the dulcet strains of the town band at the presidente's ball very clearly. The next morning he was released under a heavy bond and was suspended as a member of the city council. "Alburo took his arrest very much to neart. He saia mat as a memoer of the city council he had done all he could to encourage the band and when the town was out of funds he went Into his own pocket for money for the uniforms. 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