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CAPTURING THE WILD DUCK
Clever Scheme of the Chinese Is Suc
cessful Among the Wary
Water Fowl.
A full-grown wild duck is one of the
most wary of all wild creatures. A wa
terman may be working all day long
with shovel and pickax, says the author
of “Bird Life and Lore,” barely a stone’s
throw from a large flock of widgeon and
wild ducks, and they will not notice him,
for they know that he means them no
harm. But let a sportsman enter the
meadows and hide his gun ever so care
fully, and make himself ever so small,
it is ten to one that they will rise In a
cloud when he is some four gunshots
away from them, and take themselves
ofT to a place of greater safety.
There is one method of taking wild
ducks in considerable Bombers, prac
ticed in China and la tom* Other coun
tries. which is so anHUtng and so little
known as to deserva notice.
The natives take care that a large
number of big calabashes, or gourds,
should always be left floating on the wa
ter frequented by the birds, till they
get to regard them as part and parcel
of their resorts. The duck-hunter
chooses his time, and, putting one of the
calabashes, with holes cut for his
mouth and eyes, upon his head, he
wades through the lake, taking care to
keep the whole of his body well be
neath the surface. He cautiously ap
proaches the unsuspecting wild fowl,
and, catching one of them by the leg,
pulls him, with a sudden jerk, beneath
the water, causing hardly more commo
tion of the surface than the duck itself
often makes when it dives, or plashes,
or plunges for its food. He wrings its
neck under the water and fastens It to
his belt. Then he deals with another
and another in the same fashion, till he
makes his retreat, equally unnoticed,
with a whole girdleful of captured wild
ducks round his waist
SOFT-EYED MEN OF PACIFIC
Roochoo Islanders Wlio Possess Most
Winning and Remark
able Optics.
A woman traveler who lately visited
the Loochoo islands, in the Pacific, de
scribes her first impressions in ths
North China Herald. The first thing
that struck her on landing was the fact
that the coolies who tumbled lazily
aboard her ship were “very much addict
ed to the use of hats, and very little to
the use of any other clothing." She
continues: “I can best describe the
hats by an exclamation of one of ouj
party, ‘What beautiful waste papei
baskets they’d make!’ These hats were
fastened on with loops of thick, brown,
hairy palm rope, through which were
passed cotton strings tied under the
-chin. Every man’s face was ornament
ed with a thin, brownish black beard
and mustache, and it was often hard to
tell where the beard left off and the
hairy rope began. Wisps of unkempt
hair also straggled about the neck, giv
ing to the man the look of some savage
creature. Taking in these details, my
eyes came at last to the eyes of these
seemingly wild savages, and lot I
looked into large, soft, black eyes, so
wide apart, like those of the ruminating
animals. And In their depths lurted a
good-natured smile, just waiting to an
swer one from me. I never got used to
the incongruous effect of those gentle
eyes and that fierce beard on each
other.”
COLLEGE GIRL AS MOTHER
_
Collection of Baby Pictures Shows
Conclusive Evidence of
Fitness.
An instructor at Vassar college has an
odd and interesting collection of photo
I graphs—the photographs of the babies
j of young women who are college gradu
I ates, says an exchange, are strong and
! beautiful. They number over 300. The
I instructor said of them:
“T Kotrnn tn pnllp.-t nictnres of thfl
! children of female A. B.’s and A. M.'s
j because I had heard so much talk about
the higher education unfitting woman
for her natural sphere, and so on.
“My collection proves that the high
| er education makes mothers of an ex
i rellece hitherto unknown. Highly edu
j rated women don’t weaken themselves
! with tight corsets, with overmuch danc
i ing and card playing. They are athletic
! and strong. Their bodies as well as
I their minds are developed,
j “They enter upon the duties of moth,
I <^rhood with a unique courage and wis
dom and strength, and the result is thaf
their babies are the biggest, strongest,
handsomest little creatures—’’
She pointed toward the 300 photo
graphs.
"But just look at those pictures,” ah«
cried. “Just look at them.”
Cento Books.
“This volume,” said the bibliophile
• is a cento. It is composed of de
ached sentences taken from the worm
of Thackery. It makes a novel, sen
sible, but short, and it was composec
in seven years by a bed-ridden baron
^ss. The best known cento is probablj
the Empress Eudozie’s ‘Life of Christ,
j nade entirely of lines from Homer
| There is a similar life composed b:
j Floss, that consists wholly of detachei
ines from Virgil. Centos are oftei
•ery valuable. One compiled by Alex
i.nder Hamilton from Milton’s ‘Para
ise Lost’ sold not long since l’or $500
The book was a history of America.’
Placing the Blame.
“But,” the young housekeeper pro
ested. “the milk Is sour.”
“Yes’m.” replied the honest milk
nan; “it’s shameful how lazy then
farmers is gettin’. Ye see, ma’am
hey’ve been oversleepin’ theirselvei
lately and before they git their cowi
milked the stuff turns.”—Philadelphia
Press
THE LAKE OF SACRIFICE,
; Louisiana Body of Water Abonl
Which There Is an Indian
Legend.
Lake Ca-ta-ou-la, the 3acred lake of
the Indians, lies ensconced, as it were,
in the deep solitude of the forest i
which skirts the Attakapas prairie on
the east side of the Teche at about
nine miles from the town of St. Mae
tlnville. The beauty of its scenery
and its picturesque landscapes hav*
probably no equal in the state, says
| the New Orleans States. Its water*
have the transparency of crystal, and
its depth averages from 90 to 100
i feet
The word Ca-ta-ou-la means the !ak«
• of sacrifice. The following legend, as
' dramatic and tragical as the Biblical
| narrative of the death of Jephthah'*
daughter, gives us the origin of that
. name.
The Tetlmetchec Indiana, being
threatened with dire calamity, the na
ture of which we know not, their
■ prayermen consulted their oracles, and
I were informed that to propitiate thr
■ great Manitou and to avert the calami
: ty a fair maiden of the tribe was to
be sacrificed to the cruel god and her
I soul drowned in the placid water* of
Lake Ca-ta-ou-la.
The beautiful At-ta-la, the fair
daughter of the chief, offered herself;
aa a willing victim to propitiate the
Great Spirit.
Dressed in all the finery and plo
‘nresqueness of apparel of an Indian
princess, she repaired to the lake in
whose waters she was to find a watery '
grave, followed by the weeping maid- j
ens and the stern warriors of the i
tribe.
She glided In her light canoe on the
waters of the lake until she had
reached the middle of the stream, and
with her eyes upraised and hands ex
tended toward the heavenly mansion
of the great Manltou, she offered him
her youth and her life blood as a
sacrifice to propitiate him and to
avert the calamity that threatened hcf
people.
With radiant smile she then turned
toward the shore of the lake where
knelt the weeping maidens. She waved
i her hand gently to them, bidding them
an eternal adieu, and plunged Into It*
waters, to be seen no more
Supersltit.ous persons assert that
even to this day in times of gTeai
calamity and misfortune, when the
moon spans the sky and shines serene
hi the high heavens, streaking wltt
silvery fringe the gentle ripples of
the lake, a shadowy form Is seen glid
ing on its waters in a light canoe, with
1 hands extended heavenward, and the?
say that all at once, uttering a wild
and unearthly shriek, the shadowy
form plunges headlong into the water*
and disappears, while the terror-strick
en denizens of the forest answer the
shrieks with howls and lugubrious boot
ings.
From that time Lake Ca-ta-ou-la be
came the sacred lake of the Indians,
and every year they repaired to this
spot to propitiate the great Manltou
v/ith their offerings and sacrifices. Into
its crystalline waters they plunged
themselves to get cleansed of their
moral and physical impurities; into its
1 sacred waters they dipped their amu
i lets and arrows to avert approaching
calamities and to protect themselves |
against the devices of the evil spirit !
He who could not make this yearly
pilgrimage felt despondent and uu
| happy, and his inability to follow the
j others in the saintly journey boded
him no good.
If while performing his tmmersio*
in the lake one should happen to
drown, his memory was execrated, and
his death was considered the Judg
ment of the great Manitou as an atone
ment for the crimes committed by
him.
The lake is still called Ca-ta-ou-la,
the lake of sacrifice, but the great
Manitou, like his Indian worshipers,
is now a thing of the past.
■
Frost Makes Fat Turkeys.
“Cold weather makes fat turkeys,”
said the poulterer.
“Why?”
“Because in a warm fall the ground
keeps soft, the vegetation lingers on
and the fields are full of worms and
bugs. What’s the result? The result
Is that the turkeys, from sunrise till
I dark, tramp the tempting fields on long
forages, eating the worms and bugs,
j which thin them, and walking-all their
I soft and fine flesh into tough; stringy
! muscle.
“A cold fall, with early frosts and
j snows, freezes the ground and kills
i the bugs. Then the turkeys are fiot
j tempted to wander. They loaf. In the
i farmyard, gorge an abundance of
j grain, and put on flesh like a middle*
1 aged woman at a seashore hotel.
! “But in a warm fall, hunting the lr
j resistible bug, the turkeys do their U
j or 20 miles regularly, and become ath
j letes. For athletic turkeys there is no
! public demand.”
The Lawyer.
: Now, guess who it is that takes aa
j oath “whereby he invokes God’s help
1 | that he may do no falsehood nor con
! sent to the doing of any in court; that
| be may not wittingly or willingly pro
I mote or sue any false, groundless or
unlawful suit, nor give aid or con
sent to the same; that he may delay
. ! no man for lucre or malioe, but that
] he may conduct himself with all good
■ | fidelity.” Guess who takes that oath,
i But you would never guess it in the
j world. It is the lawyer.—Kansas City
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