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Emlle Zola once wroto In hU aweoplnjdictatorial mannor LethOatreneranatural-lsU ou 11 but as Henry Becqu

convinced one In hisIt was only when ha attempted tt put hitheories Into action that they oomploteljbroke down Alas I realism in the theatreafter all the gongBounding of cafe w6 ttolns after the desperate campaignof the ono clairvoyant manager In tho

Antoine is as dead as the romantloUm of Hernanl After the flamboyant-the drab and now they are both relegatedto the limbo of the triedandfoundwantlog

When Zola sat down to pen lila famouscall to arms Naturallizn on the Stage1Antoine was cUll In Dumas filland Bardou ruled the Parisian theatre

Unole Sarcey manufactured his divertingftvittelont and Augier was become a classic

IiABsommolr had like Alex-

ander sighed for new worlds to subjugateE0 bad won a victory thanks to Flaubertand the Do Qoncourtslnfiction remainedfor the theatre to provoke his Irestill clung obstinately to old fashionedoonrentlons and refused to beeither by Henrlotta MareohaT or byfurious onslaught of Zola and his cohortof writing men

In the essay referred to Zola mad thewell known speech that a piece ofwill always be a corner of naturethrough a He told thewhen he said that the romantlo

was a skirmish romanticismwhich corresponds topothing durable wassImply a restless regret of the old worldStendhal and Balzac had created the modm novel The stage did not move With

the other arts though Diderot and Meroler laid down squarely the basis of thenaturalistic theatre Victor Hugo gavethe romantic drama its death blow Scribewas an Ingenious cabinet maker Sardou

no llfe only movement Dumas theyounger was spoiled by cleverness aman of genius is not clever and a man ofgenius Ia necessary to establish the natur-alistic formula in a masterly fashionBesides Dumas preaches always preachesEmIl Augler Is the real master of the

French stage the most sincere but ha didnot know how to disengage himself fromconventions from stereotyped ideas frommadeup Ideas

Who then was to be the savior accordIng to Zola And thlswrlter did not under-rate the difficulties of the task He knewthat the dramatio author was enclosedin a rigid frames that the solitaryreader tolerates everything goes whereha Is led even when he II disgusted whilethe spectators taken en mss are seizedwith with frights WIth sen-

sibilities of which the author must take no-

tice under pain of a certain fall But every-thing I It the theatre willsubmit Sardods Juggling to the theoriesand wtttloiaaa of Dumas to the sentimentalcharacters ief Augler the theatre will beleft In the onward movement of oivillzaLion and as Becque said in his Souvenirsof a Author the theatre hasreached its end many times yet somehow itcontinues to flourish despite the gloomyprophecies of the professors and criticalmalcontents Every season declared MBeoque that same cry rises to heaven

la fin du and the next season thecurtain rises In the same old houses on thesame old plays

However Zoja trumpeted forth hisopinions AooordlAg to him the De Qon-

ootirt thi fflrst to put intomotion realistic Ideas Henrietta Mareohal with its dialogue copied from thespoken conversation of contemporary lifewith Its various iBOones copied boldly fromreality wss pagi brOker And Bocqueagain Interrupta Edmond de Qonoourtposed for thirtyyeara as a hissed authorpour panadea Henriette

Away with themechanism of the polishedmabtdnewmadeijlay of Dumas

life shiver its breath

passionately declaimed the simple mindedbourgeois Zola who then in default ofother naturalistic dramatists turned his

ThereM tiaquln an awfulmelodrama it was not without its momentsof power but romantlo and old fashioned-to a degree

And this was Zolas punishment He con-tumaciously usurped the throne ofnever realizing his life long thatromanticist of the deepest dye a follower

f Hugo thai melodramatic tale toIlerAll the while he fancied himself a linealdescendant of Flaubert LikeMoses he saw the promised land but thereit ended Searching ceaselessly with hisDtoganose lantern for a dramatist he nevertheles overlooked not only a great onebut the true father of the latterdayment In French dramatic literatureBeoque What a I Hero was the un-

fortunate the bouleYards night and day with plays under hIsarm plays up his sleeve plays In his batuly athome and ho shown

door only to at the mana-gerial window Calm In his superiority

by his trials Beoquepicture of the true Parisian

man of genius witty Ironical on theof his misfortunes and absolutely un-

daunted by refusals He persisted until hInto tho Frangalse

the intriguing the disappointments-the broken promises and the open hostilityof reigning pontiff ofPreach dramatic criticism Jules Claretlapretended a sympathy that ho did not feeland It was only when pressure wee brought-by Edouard that his masterpieceLos Cor on the stage after

many disheartening delays after it hadbeen refused at the Vaudeville the Gymnase the Oddon the PorteBalntMartin-theOatt Buchperseverance la positively heroic

I know of few more diverting booksthan Beoques Memoirs and the record ofhis Literary Quarrels If he was gaycareless and unspoiled by his inhis dally existence be musthis bile feeble books They are vitriolicTho lashing he Sarcey andis deadly put his re-

v egeful feVUnjcs carefully awayand onlyrevived them when the time came whenMe UDOOMSS his discIples his election as-

tb master1 tof a powerful school warrantedbB deoafctliiB the bitter vintagE Howit sparkle how it bltosl He pours upon

head f Rarcey his choicest irony Aftersnubbing th young Beoque pompoualy t that hethat should take Scribe for a

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have known a long time Ho brought mhis first Heowes It to me thatTho Prodigal Son was played

cap his attack Beoque prints thismeat at the end of the miserable historyOf his efforts to secure a footing It I

almost too good to b true Diabolicallyclever also Is his Imitation of a Sarco-crilqv on MoUere for Sarcey wasfriend of character dramas

In his preface to The Ravens Becquannounces that ho to not a thinker notdreamer not a psychologist not a be

in heredity As Jean Julllen truljthe Becquo prove nothing

not photographic deformations o-

llfu but sincere life Itself The authorrelates that in composing ho had a largeapartment on tho rue lioupenmuch time in front of a mirror Rcarchinjfor the exact gesture for the exact glanceof the eye for the precise intonation Thisfidelity to nature recalls a similar proce-dure of Flaubert who chanted at thoof his formidable voice bis phrases to see 1

they would stand toe test of breathingBecquecaught the just color ofspeech and it is this preoccupation withessentials his art that enabled him to

their feet solidly all his charactersThey live breath of life

when they walk or talk wo believeThe peep he permits us

Into his workshop is of much value to thestudent

He admired Antoine naturally and hisopinion of Zola I have recorded Hrapped Brunetiero sharply overknuckles for assuming that criticism con-

serves the tradition of literature Vainwordscxle Becque literature makes itaelldespite criticism it is ever in advance olthe critics Only a sterile art is the resultof academies Curiously enough Beoquehad a consuming admiration for SardouHim proclaimed the real master

of imagination observationmanipulator of the character ol

characters This is rather disconcertingto those who admire in the Becque playajust those qualities in which Sardou Is de-

ficient Perhaps tie fact that Sardou ab-

solutely forced the production of BecquaaLEnfant Prodlgue may hove accentu-

ated his of that prestidigitator ofMany entertained a qualifiedopinion of Ibaen and ah overwhelmingfeeling for Tolstoy as i dramatist TheRussians Powers of Darkness greatlyaffected Frenchman Beoque was bornin 1837 and died in 1000

And what is this naturalistic formulaof Beoques that escaped the notice of thezealous Zola and sot the pace for nearly-all the younger men Is it not the absenceof a formula of the tricks of constructionreligiously the ScribeSardou the casethe disciples have gone their master onebetter in their disdain of solid workman-ship The taut of the artificial of thesawdust is missing in Becques master-pieces yet with all their large rhythmsunconventional actends and fromthe clicht there is noindeed close study reveals the presence of adelicate intricate mechanism so shieldedby the art of the dramatist as to illude usinto believing that we ore In the presenceof unreasoned reality Setting aside hispessimism his harsh handling of character-his want of sympathy true objectivityBeoque is as much IkeatermentcJi as Sardou He saw the mad the liter-ary men who Invaded full otarrogant belief in their formulas in theirnewer conventions that would havesupplanted older ones A practical play-wright our author bad no pattenosthose whorattempted todispenseframe of the footlights who would turn theplayhouse into a literary farmwhich would gambol all sorts ofpatents aa original dramatic

Beoques major quality is his gift oflifelike characterization Character withhim is of prime He did nottear down the the dramamerely removed much of the scaffoldingwhich time had allowed to disfigure Itsfacade While Zola and the rest weredevising methods for doing away withthe formal drama Becque sat reading

MoUere ls his real master Moand life as Auguatln Filon truth-

fully says In his endeavor to put beforeus his people in a simple direct way hedid smash several conventions He usu-ally lands his audience in the middle ofthe action milting the oldfashionedexposition act careful preparation andsometimes development aa we know itin the well regulated drama But searchfor bla reasons and they are not long con-

cealed Logical he Is it is notthe cruel logic of Paul his mostdistinguished artlstlo descendant Theloglo of Becques events must retire before the logic of lila characters that is allHumanity then is his chief concern Hecares little for literary style Heis not astylist though he has style the starkindividual style of Henry Becque

Complications catastrophe denouementall these are attenuated In the Becqueplays Atmosphere supplies the exposi-tion character painting action The im-

personality of the dramatist is profoundIf he had projected himself or his viewsupon the scene then we would havebeenback with Dumas and his preachments

was right when ho wrote that weto the Mollero comedy of

character Movement in the acceptedsense there is but IJttla Treatment andinterpretation have been whittled away toa mere profile so that in the Antelnanpertory the anecdote bluntly expressed and

the boards a slice of reel lifecomment without skill one is

tempted to addBeoqu was nearer the fountain head of

lana than Hervieu Donnay DeGeorges Anwy Leon HenniqueFabre Maurice Donnay Lemattre-

nri Lavidan and the rest of youngerthat delighted in honoring him with

title of supreme master After allcques was a modified naturalism He

recognized the limitations of his materialsubdued his hand to them M Filon

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work into line with the philosophy-of Talc aa Dumas and Augler ideascorresponded with those of Victor Cousinthe eclectic philosopher Positivism ratherthan naked realism is Becques note Thecold blooded pessimism that sounpleasantly many of his comedies wasthe resultant of a temperament sorely triedby experience and one steeped in the mate-rialism of the Second Empire

So we get from him the psychology ofthe crowd Instead of the hero ego of earlierdramatists He contrives a dense atmos-phere into which h plunges his puppetsand people heartless

is Like Ibsenthan he would ever acknowledge celiaexposure of social maladies And what-a storehouse have been his studies of char-acter for the generation succeeding Mini

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<lAPS DISGUISED 48 CHINESE

TUAt PENETRATE EVEiMANCnVIUAN WILliS

RuMlans Know if but Cant Prevent i-

fkperlenoM of a Japanese Wuo liedPlayed Many Holes HrU heard lien

Help TbPlr OrganlzaUM

It Is no secret that there are JapaneaIn dlugulao as Chinese going with impunityamong the reel Chinese nil over the Russianlines as coolies or navvies barrack buljdentrench diggers peddlers hewors off wowand drawers of water vendors of boorcigarettes and cheap pocket kniveseverything else imaginable The Russiansknow It say the Singapore Strait Budgetbut cannot prevent It for there Is absolutelyno tolling a Japanese from a Chlneee I

made up alike and the questionbe solved by excluding tije

get along without the ChineseIn India without any lndoo

would not be more help euhear so much of Russianpeasant soldiers pouring into thisof the seem to have been swal-lowed up for when there is work to be

done it has to wait till Chinese eon be gotWithout them the Russians seem unableeven to carry on the war And WhenChinese are admitted one never knowswhich one among them may be a disguised

as he is in Manchurialie keeps his closely as thefor his life probably depends on Ithaving got away he to be rid

of pigtail garb oncemore a clean and decent Japanese Usuallytho transformation Is effected in privateso that none but his Intimates know forat a lodging house used by both nationalitiesnobody keeps count or notices if a Chinaman goes iti or a Japanese comes out So

it is rather curious work getting on thetrack of these men from Manchuria andfinding out anything about them

Of course they do not reveal their identityand tell all they know to any one but onthe other even the most discreetman can an acquaintance or twowith whom he may converse about his ad-

ventures so long as he is only telling ofthings which can be seen and known by allIt Is no secret that hawkers go from village-

to village in Manchuria selling buttons andtapes and doing otherbusiness even in by theHunghutze the Red Bandits Itis no secret that a man the banditsraiding towns stealing whole of

forces antly and mysteriouslyas

OH De Wet in the Transvaal or Intho Philippines And It Is welt knownhow resort if hotly pressedthe bandits can either make termstho loot with the Cossacks or resume therole of peaceful and intho as Innocentlythat ever lived on a farm

The do not o a rule betraythem reasons Firstfear of vengeance secondly tho

the style of

brigands than thoon the and

ing the influential people carefully alone

say It U all the same whether weChinese officials or or we are robbedIn either case Chinese or foreign soldiers

bully us take what they will andor nothing do will with

women and can resist Heavenwills that human must suffer certainevils That Is the attitude of the Chineseat large

Of have been in Man-churia In find their wayback via Shanhalkwan somevia Corea and some steamer from

There have been a dozensteamers leaving Nowohwang since the icebroke and took over 16000Chinese artisans tradesmen farmersand so on all anxious to fromthe war with its dangers and troublesrod Its stoppage Out of the15000 might be five dls-gulaed I not know and I

know of only oneHe belonged to Osaka and been

dealer bankrupt railwayclerk school teacher on a steamer

ault of his then became touristsrulde for Europeans and Americanshe sights of He was in the

War in 1694 but would notwhat capacity I verified his

and of some detailswould not DO known to a man who

was not there From 1805 his movementsmust remain his own secret up to the Boxertime when he was again In a certain

China which Japaneseformula saying

Since 1900 man had been in variousof Manchuria Sometimes be

a Japanese but at other times It waspurposes of trado with the

natives to pass one them Sothere are some hundreds of EuropeansAmericans in missionary who find ittest to do ho some kept a medium

class beerhouse soldIersa certain town

I e he hadpassed bribery the civil service

to ofbut was still in want of a berth again-

a the army unemployed

10 was a ia small waydistricts added laugh

I bad no horsesno customers neveror sold on animal I asked well

knowing Then what did you do HeTak

a rest truly And we both laughedirony of It

Well he there were things whichcould not be divulged of there

whichwere for all the to see

themselves moresame as himself Naturally

not be stated even Ifprobably not more than two or three

men knew Itany one that there well be ora

or number and that they couldeverywhere

to a or barrack op fortlay a railway siding to ferry B real

across a river ato repair a

warship mustEuropean con when a Chlna

About that a happenedsaid my informant I was one

and I with a Monaccent we passengers all huddled

together in the the junk toat and with

clothes on a repulsive to aapanese and next

stale hides pretty strong At nightboat to at a

other While wewere all asleep there

groat and crash and theroof with a of snow fell on us

and everybody seemed to be shouting Thewet snow con

uslon and dark ness dazed me in wak-ing momenta I myself andIJul wildly both The tannernext to me only half awake

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man had been a banditHo had seen the as overone had who travelled fa the country

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Ho soldthe were atent for several The coming

meant agricultural activityand therefore menpursuits The bandits had nooonoert i

nor settled Some Ofof bands were

whethercould be organized In tho summerautumn work would wslack and recruits for bandsbe plentiful Probably something couldbe not outer World

of national liberation nor ansuch ambitious thing

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Manchu Mongol urdos uuta

from the Siberian Most ofhad no aspirations or thoughts

of the stoat sordid and politicalquestions issues never

except mao far as mightdirectly bandit business They

to the business for a livelihoodThe stories about the

in the of Japan were absurd It wplain that was no way topay to them nor means to guarantee

the pay would be earnedAny might become a member o

a come to Influencethe other of that in andesired was couldbe done and it could not amount to muchStill It worked up into awith some cohesion In a few andif they could show a few

In Manchuria would be to

however for nothingwanted was a of men to

the without waiting forbo already losing Of such men the

numbers to raise were small com-paratively But were With-a they made distinctlybetter soldiers in every way than thesians whether or

My informant while denying that heever witnessed an engagement betweenHunghutzo and on

a superior number of Russians Thethemselves to be outwitted

and neglected the most ordinary precau-tions

TIlE OPKHA SINGERS ABROAD

Mile Uestlnn8 Huceeti at Covent GardenMark Twains Daughter In

Ernesto Tamngno not to boaltogether in the present fame of his youngercontemporaries Enrico Caruso and Alessandro Bond has just made his reap-

pearance In Rome He appeared in a re-

vival of Verdla Pollute which had notbeen sung In Italy for years Mascagniconducted the orchestra and the

are said to have aroused great en-

thusiasmSignor Caruso has been very active sine

he left this country After theCarlo season he went to Barcelonathe journey for the of singing onlytwice In the Spanish He has recentlybeen travelling through some of the Germancities two stagers and SIgnor

The was a PoleIinkert who Is popular In Italy assoprano The in operaswere by the resident German

Caruso wee as successful aa he hasusually been elsewhere

Clara Clemens the of Markwho her career tentatively

improvement since she resumed her studiesgoing to follow a professional-

career and use herfor the pleasure of herself and her

The great success of theof opera at Garden seems to be

has shown her ver-satility by singing in both German and

she sanCaruso Ho finally decided

go to Garden for aicesMile Destlnn la at the Royal Opera HouseBerlin and is under a contract for

years longer She is a Bohemian andnow most interesting prima donna

of the German opera houses MauGrau had her under contract for the

season but his retirement fromcancelled the engagementParklna in

lonof has been muchn her singing of Siebtlnt Garden It was not a trying part forwoman who has

Miss Parklna U an example of what pluck willaccomplish Sheinco more than a In

so nervous that she failed entlrelv-t seemed as if her career bad and

ended on that night Undismayed shewent back to kept her up fo-rt

the Opera when she was abledo justice

Alice American prima

operetta because tho orIfIce knew that shesing In comic Else her

voyoked that comment

Suzanne Adams for the that timepart of the which ought t

within her voice newDanish tenor named Herold seems to have

an agreeable Impression In the lighterWagnerian

Edouard de Reszke are afterto return to tile stage for a performanceopera only one

durIng the last week in Juno Theormance which will be given In Gorman

is for a Paris charityThe two de have also been

to come to London to for thebenefit of Queen Alexandra

been ono the tenorseat admirers But even influence

not seem equal to securing anfor him at Covent He was

most popular tenor beard there in yearsit was only to announce

tome In the operas to fill thetheatre Tho journey to Is short

M de his greatest fameGarden But for some reason he

engaged to there forseveral years and among the various en

from time to timedo mentioned

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of tobacco yet the he carries inmouth Is ulwaya unllclited No be Istaking the cure he explain It la tbl

that during the war Senatorwas ridins by

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8CaAQBTICOKM MOUNTAIN

WxMeaand a D Captcra Right JUtU-Md a Copperhead Tteee fSnake Taken Alive RattlersLike Ilonans In Some Rcproti-

Kmr Miuroab June 11

to be a good snakes remarkedGeorge Coggwell one fo rIng Indians on thevatlon as the party of snake huntenrtcath-ered under the cherry tree In his door-yard preparatory to starting on thehunt of the Sohaghtiooke RatttamakiClub

The SchaghUooko reservation lies alongbank of the Housatonlo

the town of Kent in the western part ol

Connecticut Oboe New York Statline Sloping up westward runethe Sohaghticoke mountain and hall

the mountaindirectly Jimcabin is rattlesnake den

The den is not over half an acre in areabut that half acre Is so jagged and roughthat it Is difficultto travel or hunt throug-hit The ledges are broken in places andtheformation of the rooks has left innumerablo little shelves on the rattlerscome to lie in the sun

This year spring was backward andordinarily the snakes are out and

lively by the middle of Maylt was not untillastweek thee they really began to thawout and get active and at the same timevicious nnd fighting angry if disturbedThe rattlers winter in this ledge and

lire hunted each year theirdoes tnot seem to decrease

George Coggswell who ls the boat wingshot and trapper alongridge always pilots the hunt Sundayla always set for the rattlesnake huntfor the that Oil weekdays the hunters-are farms about the reserva-tion There wore half a dozen on the huntlast Sunday Coggswell John Munroe

Niokerson Ab Hyde Dad Barberwriter

Putting on rubber boots leather leggings-

or high topped shoes as a safeguard againstthe fangs cf the venomous reptiles the

started Each of themfork a stick of ash

eight feet long with the two branches cutat the top so as to form a crotchforks are used to pin the snakesthe ground and hold him there till he lakilled or captured alive as may be pre-

ferredNickernon carried along a small

a wire netting stretchedone side sliding lid over that in

which to confine such snakes as were wontedalive

Hall a mile up the from Coggswellthe party stopped cabinto see if Jim wanted to join JimIs the last full blood of the

and carries themall from the town of Kent through thereservation to Bulls Bridge

He was out in the gross playing with hischildren Near him In a rope swing sathis eldest daughter Jessie a girl ofwith hair and eyes as black asteeth as white as chalk and thepickets on a fence

Want to go on the hunt Jim askedCoggswell-

Vo feel sore legs Hard ollmblnup them rooks Guess I wont go todayanswered

Aint Dub 11 get bit askedJessie for long haired shop

bit exclaimed the owner inderision Guess dont know that dogHes more rattlesnakes than ye everseen

Up tbe side of the the littlea had been

back and to their coalthe off a score ofago hundred yards-a Be halt was taken tothe leaves under had become dry andwere like tea to

Go quiet sold as Ab Hydefell over an old beech log which hadacross the trail years ago and was rotting

the dustIf you step on a snake stand still ad

visedMunroe for If youvarmint loose an strike

The now aa the snakeden was one sneaking overthe rooks as quietly aa and beingcareful not a step until he had care-fully scrutinized inch of ground

the step wasfor the rustling of dry leavesor the cracking of a foot therewere no save those of tho hermitwrens and the blue circled aboutoverhead

Ive him came aIt was Munroe who was hunting to the

scramble over the rocks to to theture for It takes more than onecapture a rattler alive with anything like

though the veterando manage It at times

Tho tail could be heard rattling beforeMunroe was in sight

by the tune of his rattlehes a one said Munroe Hes

back Git that box ready Wewant him alive

Munroe had the rattler a four footerunder his snake stick midwaybody The rattle in

the air Its Incessantand the snakes head was backmd forth striking angrily at everythingthat

about six inches behind thelead said Munroe and then well

the noose over his headWhile Coggswell held the snake Munroe

a to a short stick and onend made anoose This he dropped

down the rattlerThe snakes neck arched as he drew

head back and like an arrow fromhead snot forward and the

mouth the lips moistcaught the twine it tight

a devlll saidSeveral hard taps on the head were re

ulred to make let go of the twineMunroe the noose again and

trIed to head againflat head darted forward and the nooseheld fast

rattler succeeded inthe noose in his but the

time won successful Thedrawn around tho snakes

nook just behind the head and be wasat full length

The rattle and whenthe snake Is conquered aC

the time won slippedIT the box and carefully the oldhe had nine on his toll was

lowered Into itWhen the squirming body was all in the

his was close to thoand the twine was out off close to hisand he dropped Into the box a

series of swallows the snakethrew the noose free from iris neck and

two minutes was rattling tall aa hedone when first pinned by Munrooa

forked stickThe hunt proceeded up the side of the

In a the bark of Dashprize dog rattlesnake hunter of the

rang out at a point highin the ridge i

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up and to strikeJam stick on him just enough to

hold him fast but donttake him alive too fer hes good sizesaidAb Hyde-

Down on the snakes back went theforked stick and it struck him so hard thatthe snakes mouth flow and his rattlestarted to whirr its anthem of defianceand hate for man The snake was a pris-oner now and the knowingwork was done retired to a stone aboveand watched operations

This one was a backed rattlerHe was placed in the snake box by thesame as the first one He was athreefooter but his disposition was a good

snakeRattlers are as different In dispo-

sition oa folks are saidSome of the varmints ore and others

are half peaceable of thingshuman

Tho of the don wasnow Progress was slow andwhen these reptiles-

no one thinks of taking hold ofas there is no what moment a

might handwas a noise of somethln

sliding over rooks

Ive cornered one under a rockcame the call

It was Dad Barber The snake had es-

caped his fork and managed to crawla flat rock under the

rook tho snakes rattle could be beardwhen a stick was into the holethrough which he

ne a big one asked MunroeFair

The work of prying and stones

something struck the rocksbelow It was

who had slipped and droppedthe in It wee

to free from the boxbeen off and the heads

of the two rattlers were already dartingover the sides of the box

Look out for the devils yelledwell leaping down on top snakebox in there ye and theold snake hit yellow backedrattler with fork

The snake did dodge back into the boxtoo Then slid the lid backon the box and the reptiles were sate oncemore

Perry Niokerson was feeling himselfover to ascertain the extent of his bruisesHe was not hurt but severalpainful scratches from coming in contact

roughIll a bit said Ab Hyde taking

the box tohad been rescuing

the snake under flatrook had been momentarily forgotten-But Dash was on tohole when the operation of prying wee

againwas loosened and rolled

over And there underneath it therattler in a nice little cup of a hole that hehad no doubt slept many nights Aforked stick was overhad a chance to uncoil and run And in

ho was a prisoner in the

The hunt continued to the of theden and by that time five more rattlers hadbeen The hunt had two

and tbo stomachs of the werefor something to satisfy the

The start down through the den wasand it was as hard

down as it was The sumocare had to be exercised in going down asthere might be a rattlerself overlooked before

The hunters all in a little bunchsliding down over the rocks

a word of warning Coggswell aean to one

Look He suetThe had seen the eunIce a he

truck at him and bad jumped In thetick of time

Close call Cogg laid Dad Barber

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sneak rattlesnake Ive seen fer a good

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If hes a hell rattle Ease up-on theIf hehe

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were pinningThere yo he was a sneak

to the rattlesnake tribe declaredwell In disgust and he proceeded to stabthe to with

Indian Jim Harriss cabin Dash thea loud in the brush

back of the cabin ran over tothe dog and found a chubhead which to the

name for the copperhead a nnakomore venomous If than the

and more dangerous for the reasonnever before

So netted three liverattlesnakes five dead ones and a chubhead

SENDING COINS IN LETTERS

Venues Device That Ale Employed toKeep Theta From Out

Coins sent loose in a a clerkin an establishment receiving much moneyby mall are always likely to break throughthe envelope and get lest but there ore vari-ous ways in which this zany be avoided andpeople generally now show more care insending coins by mail than they formerly-did

There are now suede devices especiallydesigned for use In sending coins throughthe carriers One of these con

the thickness of the coinand having punched in it a hole of the exactsize of the coin to be sent this card havinga patch of thin paper pasted on the back ofit across the coin hole while on the otherside there Is pasted bone edge a flap thatdan be pasted down over the tool on thatside when tho coin has been inserted in it

In such a holder it is obviously impos-sible for the coin to move about in the letterSuch devices are used by concerns Bondingout circulars Inviting subscriptions toperiodicals the holder sent having an open-ing of the exact size of the coin required

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people now who acom downon which they are writing

near one corner cornerof the paper over the coin and paste Itto the around It

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