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HATCHED OUT HAWKS' EGGS. A Citizen, Country Born, Recalls az I Experiment of His Youth. "Just for the miscibief of the thing and to see how she would act," said a citizen up State born, ''I being then a 'way back urchin oi inquiring mind, I set a pet ibantam duck of mine to hatching out a couple of hawk eggs. Whether the experiment was a success in its results depends some what on the way you look at it. "I purloined the eggs from the hawk's nest in an old dead tree back in the Bald Hill woods when the old hawks were off their job temporari ly; but I was intercepted by them before I got down out of the tree. They claw-d and clutched at me the fiercest k'ad, but I got away with the eggs. "I lcst a yellow corduroy cap I was wearing at the time, though, for it 'was knocked off my head or was snatched off by one of the hawks-I don't know wbhich-and the old birds were making it so warm for me that I didn't daTe stop long enough to re cover the cap, but journeyed out of those woods and home with the eggs as fast as my legs would let me. "I hadn't thought of setting the under the duck, but she was ng a great fuss to set on some ing or other and so I let 'her ease her longing with t1he stolen hawk eggs. She went right at the job, and got the old gun and went back to escue my yellow corduroy cap, which was very fond of. The hawks were where to be seen when I got to the t neither was the cap. I supposed he hawks, having no other way to re venge themselves. had carried the cap away with them. I came home feeling sore. "The duck hatched eggs out all right. but the sight of the big-headed, big-eyed, big 'hook-billed, fierce look-! ing pair of eutters slhe had brought~ into the world gave her such a scare that she waddled away as fast as her short legs would carry her, mut tering all sorts of agitated duck talk. Only once did she come back for a look at that queer result of her ineu bation. "She approached the nest slowly and cautiously. At the sign of her coming both hawlings-there were only two-threw their big beaks op-] en. They were expecting something to eat. "The duck turned and fl-d. She never stopped until she got to the, dua ' er e1cY. aertes the road. She plunged into 'the pond, swam a! few strokes and dived out of sight. I don't know whether she thougiht those bristling .critters were hard on her strail or not, but she didn'"t come to the surface until she was half way across the pond. There she rest ed and lo"ked back. Although s'he saw she was safe sibe never ventured closer to those 'hawklings again than the edge of the pond. ''The experiment was a howling sucess so far as ,the fun of it was concerned anyhow, but I had the hawks on my hands. I could have killed 'em of~course, and t'hat 's what' I would have done, but I thought maybe it woulid be -nice to 'have a cou pie' of live hawks in captivity and I concluded I would raise them. "One of them died very young. The other one thrived and grew to be a fine specimen of a hen hawk un-t der my care, and I used to go out and look at him in the big cage I kept him in, fastened to a post in the back ard, and feel proud. "One day along in July there came upa gale that tore t$he hawk cage from its fastenings on tihe post and my hawk es'caped. He flew to the ded limb of a tall tree down back of the barn. "He sat there looking so lonesome and sorry that I scorned a sugges tion my ~folks made about taking the. gun and making a sure enough good hawk of him by killing him and went and rigged his eage.up again and put some nice chopped beef in it. believ i-ng tha4 he would retu:rn to his old home. I didn't know bhawks. "He sat there so long and quiet that I was on the point of going out and climbing the tree and helping him back home when out of the pond waddled my pet bantam duck. She sauntered toward the barnyard. "I saw my 'hawk straighten up. Then there was swoop, a squawk, a short struggle and away sailed t'he~ hawk with my duck in his claws and il~s disappeared in the Bald Hill woods. I was very fond of that dck. as I had been of my yellow cor duroy cap, and so her loss was an other blow to me. " About that time glaring big bills began to appear on the barns and wagon sheds annonacing that the cir cus was coming to town, and as fath er told me I could go to town and sees the cireus come in on show day and moreover could go to the show itself in the afternoon. I began to feel bet Show day came and I went to town to se the show come in and with two in my pocket to go to see it perform. "By and by in the crowd of others who were waiting at the edge of town to see the show come in what should rise in full view of me, but my be loved -and mourned yellow corduroy cap! It crowned the wolly head of Black Dan Sykee's boy Joe, who liv ed in the squatters' settlement over back of Bald Hill. Forgetful of all else I made a gra)b for that cap and got it. Black Dan 's boy Joe made a grab for me and got me. "I never knew just .how it happen ed, but when my cousin Sam Fletch er got me away from Joe both eyes were going shut and th-ey soon went entirely shut and wouldn't come op en. And it was a day or so before they did come all the way open and then the ?how had come in, perform ed and gone miles and miles away. "That's about the way that exper iment of mine with hawk eggs and ducks panned out. Whether it was a success or not depends somewhat on the way you look at it, as I said be fore.'' $2,000 Value on Two Teeth. New York Press. A grain broker's teeth were ap praised at $1,000 each by -a jury sit ting before Justice Platzek in the su preme court. It ordered the New York Central railroad to pay $2,000 to Robert T. Crosses, a grain broker on the produce excbange, with offices at 20 Broad street, for the loss of two teeth. The plaintiff lived in Fordham, and came to his business in the local trains on the Central road. After leaving a .train on the morning of August 28, 1906, he dis covered that a part of his watch chain was missing and started back to the train to look for it. He was stopped from entering the train by a guard, and when the -broker tried to explain his reasons for reentering the car, it was testified, -the guard struck him in the mouth, knoeking out two of his front teeth. Has Only Half a Stomach. ew York Times. Charles H. Dean, a patient at the city :hospital, has only half a stomach yet he must' eat six times a day or suffer from the pangs of hunger. At each meal, however, he can only eat alf the amount of food he lad been accstomed to. Surgeons Saturday cut Dean's stomach into three sec tions and removed the middle sec t-ion' because of a cancerous growth. The two outside sections were then sewed together, and the patient is well on the 'way to recovery. Mr. Taft As He Is. President Taft 's smile is more in fectious than that of any other mem ber of the Optimists' Club of Ameri ca. It is a big, wholesouled smile, al together iresistible. It is surprising ow little Mr. Taft's pihotographis prepare one for the man himself. Al though weighing over thre hundred pounds he ,does not look like a fat man. The impression of strength ad keenness is much more dominant than these characteristics. He has a lear, .ruddy complexion and a face that is not too theavy 'to be handsome. Unlike most men, 'the nearer you ome to 'him the better 'he looks. His ves are his most remarkable feature. Were .he insignificant in every other respect his eyes would mark him as o ordinary man. They tare a red brown in shade, witi -euriously slant ed lids, and they indicate kindness, shrewdness, inflexible determination. Their expression is const.antly chang ing with ligh.tninglike rapidity from mirthfulness 'to intense seriousness. There is disaster ahead of the indi vidual 'who mistakes this big smiling man's good nature for easygoingness. -May Circle. The New Idea Woman's Magazine Fnis ueor June. In ts unenumber t'he New Idea Woman 's Magazine offers many at tractive features. One of the articles that will be enjoyed is Ada; Patter son's description of "The Gods of the Girls.'' The various matinee he poes are sketched with clever art. "Six Month Away From My Own Kind' by Honore Wilisie, carries with it th~e outdoor spirit. The writ er tells of her experiences in a min ing camp on t.he Arizona d esert. "Makinz Commencement Worth While'' by Maude Burehit Akers, gives good advice to the girl grad nate. In "Woman As a Good Citi zen' Mary Eastwood Knerels points ot the dutie.s of the non-voter. Al len Sutherland offers suggestions con erning "Intensive Farming in the City" a most suecessful method of helping the poor to help themselves. The fiction for the month is just what the summer reader wvill want. The stories include "With Changed Ending.' by Eugene Ramey, and "A Spin wit:h Sammy.'' by W. Bert Fos The fa 1hions cover a wide field of feminine interest. There is much avs. - all fie latest Meas from Par is ibeing reviewed for the benefit of the u)-to-date woman. Kathrine Langthorpe supplies "Seasonable Suggestions for the Dainty Ward-, robe,' and Helen Peabody gives "Simple Lessons in Dressmaking." The magazine is beautifully illus trated. It contains something for women of every age and every inter es. THE COLORADO DESERT. How ,Sound Carriers and the Way. Mirages Come and Go. Talk about wireless telephones! The Coloroda desert goes science one better in that line. According to travelers in that neck of sand and sagebrush, you can dispense with any kind of telephone, with or without wires, at least up to a certain dis tance. Two men a mile apart can carry on a cenversation in an ordinary tone of voice, particularly if .here hap pens to be a small hill behind each, writes Harvey Hall Kessler in the Travel Magazine. The prevailing silence is so intense that it might be called deafening. Perhaps, after all, the weirdest among many strange features of the desert is the mirage. We have camp ed perhaps and gone to bed early in the evening with the thermometer registering aont far below the hundred mark. We awake, shivering with cold beneath our blankets, and look toward the east. There is the slightest suggestion of light in the sky there, which as we wateh grows slowly in strength. A grayish haze marks the hoizon's edge, which stands out more sharply at one point, from which broad, pale rays creep up and out high above in the sky. These again slowly fade as a point of brilliant light appears at their base. This point grows to a half -circle, tlhen qhreaks and runs along the sky line in a surging, gold en lake. Upon the shores of this lake cities spring up, towers, spires and solid blocks. These fade into fields and forests and farming scenes-fields of golden grain, cattle standing in green alfalfa, sheets of water. The moun tains near the edge of the lake separ ate from Their bases and float up ward, topple over and stand on their beads, their nwieldly feet rn air. Soon our lake begins to contract and colleet into a big 'round ball of dazzling brilliance hung just above the horizon. Farms and forest dis appear. T)he mountains, as though abashed at being. caught in such an unseemly attitude by the broad light quickly resume their -normal position, while all the stark landscape stif fns into unstirring e.ndu.rance of the garish light and blazing heat of the desert sun. The mirage- is, gone like a ubble. Only the gray 'desert re mains. La Bourse Auix Chats. London Globe. To the various bourses of Paris, 'the bourse with the capitaI letter, the Bourse dai Commerce, the Bourse du Travail, .the Bourse aux Ti.mbres, there must be added another which a Paris contemporary has discovered near the Faubourg du Temple, viz, the Bourse aux Chats. This interest. ing establishment is si :uate'd in a big chamiber at the rear .of' a wine shop. Here, we are told, 'are legions of cats of all sizes and colors, which are to -be seen jumping and heard ".miaulent.'' Our contemporary mjakes some very dark suggestions about the clientele of the wine seller. It suggests that the customers are by no means fender-hearted old ladies, but for the most part furiers, cur riers, glove makers, and, what is worse, cooks. A good sleek "matou'' we learn, realizes from 50 centimes to 1 franc. The skin ihas 'a number of usages, and the flesh finds its way in to the stewpans of certain restau ranteurs possessing more ~enterpn]se than scruple. That Clever Preacher< Tit-Bits. A negro preacher. whose supply of hominy and hacon was ranoing low. decided to take radical :o(1s to im press upon his flock the necessi.:y f4r contributing liberally to the church exchequer. Accordingly, at the close of the sermon, he made an impressive pause, and then proceeded as fol-! "I had found it necessary, on ae ount ob de astringency ob de hard times an' 'de ginera'l deficiency ob de circulatin' mneju.m in connection wid dis chu 'eh. t' interduce ma new ot termatic e'lecti-on box. It is so ar anged dat a 'half dollah or quahteh fall on a red plush cushion without noise: a niekel will ring a small bell distintly heard by de congregation, an. a button. ma fellow mawtels, will fiai off a -pistol; so you will gov 'n o 'selves aceordinmely. Let .do c 'lee ton no p'eeed. w 'ile I takes off ma at an g ms u a hymn.'' SOME OF OUR POLICIES: To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To calculate interest semi-annually. To bond every employee. To be progressive and accommodating. To lend our money to our customers. To treat our patrons courteously. To be liberal and prompt. To secure business from all classes. TO BE THE VERY BEST BANK FOR YOU TO DO BUSINESS WITH. 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