perate leap for safety, and then had all the requisite conditions of his art so thoroughly at command that he could catch the extended figure in mid-air, with his shutter. so adjusted as to make the exposure only a three-hundredth part of a second!

The photograph from which this picture has been reproduced was exhibited at one of the annual Sportsmen's Shows, and convincing as are the evidences of its genuineness, one over-knowing cynic had the timerity to ask the buckskin-suited exhibitor how he managed to make a stuffed specimen look so natural. This particular idiot found it advisable to make himself suddenly scarce, and thus cheated the coroner out of a promising job.

Other pictures that make one marvel at the persistence, patience and knowledge of woodcraft that enabled the only man in the world who has devoted ten years to this artistic hobby of photographing big game in its native haunts, to secure so many perfect and priceless negatives-are, “A Surprised Band," "Deer Drinking," page 8, "Bucks and Does," page 10, a flashlight night scene, "Deer Swimming in the Lake," page 18, a "Spike" buck at thirty feet, "Startled Does,” page 22, a “Close View of Antelope," page 42, "An Ugly Customer" (mountain lion), page 50, and another ugly customer, "At Bay," page 54, a treed wild cat in the tip of a dry piñon, with a hound half way up the tree after him, page 58, "A Very Wild Female" (cougar), "With Telephoto Lens at Thirty Feet" (cougar), and another magnificent view of one of these ferocious beasts at twenty-five feet.

"Once or twice," says the artist, "I approached with my camera to within twenty feet of a lion, treed, but invariably he prepared to spring upon me, and I deemed it the better part of valor to retreat a few paces!"

As a whole the volume is sufficiently unique and startling to attract those who look at such things merely from curiosity and a craving for novelty and sensation; and it is an illustrated chapter in natural

history that might well be ranked with Audubon's "Birds of North America."

HOW PATTI RETAINS HER

BEAUTY.

ALTHOUGH Patti is nearly sixty, she appears like a woman of thirty. Her skin is smooth, her complexion clear and healthy, her physique strong and active.

To an intimate admirer, Mrs. Leonard L. Hill, the famous singer imparted the secret of her youthful appearance.

"When I visited Mme. Patti Cederstrom," said Mrs. Hill, to an Evening World reporter, "I found her at the little railroad station on her own estates to meet me. I was surprised at her youthful appearance and her extraordinary beauty. Afterward I learned the magic she employed.

"Every morning she gets up at 8:30, takes a bath and short walk in her gardens. At nine or a little after she eats a light breakfast consisting of fruit and rolls.

"While she is eating, her maids arrange her hair, and she looks over her mail, and determines on her evening engagements. Then she writes a few letters and practices a half hour on scales. Only twice in thirty years has she omitted this exercise.

"At eleven she is ready for a walk. Weather has no terrors for her; rain or shine, hot or cold, she ventures out just the same. When it is pouring she can be seen in a long mackintosh reaching nearly to the ground, high rubber boots and an old slouch hat on her head, sauntering off for a few miles' walk.

"When she walks she walks, and most American girls would be put to shame trying to keep pace with her. She does not pull her collar over her ears to prevent the rain from beating on her. Instead, she holds her face up and delights to feel the rain streaming all over it. 'That is how I keep my fresh color,' she says, 'that is why

there is no wrinkles around my eyes nor creases in my cheeks.'

"After her walk she rests, and then takes lunch in her conservatory. 'No coffee, tea, chocolate or ice water for me,' she told me. 'I trace half the ills of you American women to such things.' I never saw her drink iced water. Rich foods she sedulously avoids, though she is fond of them. She is a believer in eating enough and of plain, substantial dishes.

"After dinner, which lasts an hour or two, she sings, dances or plays, and at 12 o'clock every night goes punctually to bed.

"Mme. Patti is a fervent advocate of fresh air. She revels in it. On fair days she puts on a short skirt and a pair of thick, comfortable walking shoes and tramps miles into the hills and vales of Wales.

"What ails you girls?' she used to say to us. 'Where is your ambition, your life? Don't sit about doing nothing; get into the air and walk. Then, at my age, you will be as rosy and healthy as I am, and not broken down and suffering with all sorts of complaints.' She took us to the village, and ordered us heavy shoes, but no one could keep up with her.

"Although she allows no cards in her house, she joins in all kinds of children's games. There is exercise in them, she declares, and that is what the body needs. Like all singers, she avoids draughts, but she can't get into the air often enough. Cosmetics she abhors.

"Her voice is as fresh and tuneful now as when she sang years ago. The great English doctor, Sir Morell McKenzie, told her that on account of her excellent care of herself she would sing at eighty as well as she did at forty. The woman who commands $5,000 every time she sings and looks twenty-five years old, attributes her youth, her health, her splendid constitution and figure to a sensible and simple observance of Nature's laws."

THE ART OF LOOKING AND KEEPING WELL.

THE carriage and position of the body, during both the day and the night, have much to do with one's figure, health and appearance. How quickly one can distinguish an army or navy officer on the street, though he is a stranger! How many would give a fortune to possess such a figure and bearing! And yet almost any one who has not some natural deformity can acquire it, by observing a few simple rules and practising a few easy exercises. As you know, it takes but a few weeks, or months, of discipline and drill to change uncouth, slouchy, raw recruits into fine, erect and dignified soldiers.

Always, when standing or walking, hold yourself as erect as possible; throw the shoulders back and down, elevate the chest a little, and draw the chin in a trifle. When standing, the weight of the body should fall upon the ball of the foot, neither upon the heel nor the toe.

No one can have a good figure without throwing the chest well forward, the shoulders back and down, and carrying the body in an erect position. Follow these simple rules strictly, and you will greatly improve your figure and bearing.

Do not bend the legs too much when walking, and let the weight fall slightly more on the heel first. Swing the arms naturally but not too much.

Be careful not to bob up and down when walking. A graceful walker seems to glide easily along. Curves are always graceful, and an angular, jerky movement is always ungainly. Grace is an acquirable quality, but we must remember that Nature abhors angles and spasmodic movements; she always uses curves which are most graceful and delicate.

The reason why woman is more beautiful than man is because her form is made up of graceful curves. There are no angles whatever in a model female figure.

Most people, when sitting, slouch at the waist; in fact, this fault is very nearly uni

versal, except in those who have been trained. It is impossible to slouch about on chairs or on a sofa all day, and then expect to have a good bearing and poise when standing or walking. Again, slouchy positions will very soon react upon the mind, and produce mental shiftlessness and slouchiness in thought.

Every faculty and function sympathizes with every other, and a defect in one affects all. No one can do good reading, writing or thinking in any but an erect position. The thought immediately sympathizes with the body.

A habit of reading in bed, or when lying down, or in a careless position, slouching down in one's chair with the feet up, will very soon tell upon the quality of the thoughts. It is impossible to do good thinking in these positions. The body must be in an erect and dignified posture without being cramped by position or dress. No one can think well without freedom and ease of body. November Success.

WOMAN, LOVELY WOMAN!

AN Oriental legend narrates: At the beginning of time, Twashtri-the Vulcan of Hindu mythology-created the world. But when he wished to create a woman, he found that he had employed all his material in the creation of man. There did not remain one solid element. Then Twashtri, perplexed, fell into a profound meditation. He aroused himself to do as follows: He took the roundness of the moon, the undulations of the serpent, the entwinement of climbing plants, the trembling of the grass, the slenderness of the rose vine and the velvet of the flower, the lightness of the leaf and the glance of the fawn, the gaiety of the sun's rays and tears of the mist, the inconstancy of the wind and the timidity of the hare, the vanity of the peacock and the softness of the down on the throat of the swallow, the hardness of the diamond, the sweet flavor of honey and the cruelty of

the tiger, the warmth of fire, the chill of snow, the chatter of the jay and the cooing of the turtle-dove.

"He united all this and formed a woman. Then he made a present of her to man. Eight days later the man came to Twashtri and said: "My Lord, the creature you gave me poisons my existence. She chatters without rest, she takes all my time, she laments for nothing at all, and is always ill, and Twashtri received the woman again.

"But eight days later the man came again to the god and said: 'My Lord, my life is very solitary since I returned this creature. I remember she danced before me, singing. I recall how she glanced at me from the corner of her eye, that she played with me, clung to me,' and Twashtri returned the woman to him. Three days only passed and Twashtri saw the man coming to him again. 'My Lord,' said he, 'I do not understand exactly how, but I am sure that the woman causes me more annoyance than pleasure. I beg of you, relieve me of her."

"But Twashtri cried: 'Go your way and do your best.' And the man cried: 'I cannot live with her!' 'Neither can you live without her!' replied Twashtri.

"And the man sorrowful, murmuring: 'Woe is me, I can neither live with nor without her.'"-The Indian Medical Record.

CHARACTER TOLD BY THE LIPS.

PEOPLE who have studied the subject claim that the mouth is the most instructive feature in the face. They say that not only does it originally show certain fundamental and inherited traits, but it also acquires lines which reveal an individual's efforts to mold his character one way or the other.

Thus persons with thin lips, sharply drawn down at the corners, and rather bloodless and spare, are generally men and women of narrow and unchangeable views, whose sympathies it is almost impossible to arouse. Obstinacy and self-righteousness are their besetting failings.

Again, the woman with very full and very red lips of the "pouting" variety, is generally fond of ease and pleasure. Great constancy and enduring tenderness are not likely to be numbered among her virtues, but she is ardent in her temperament and very impulsive.

Lips continually curved upward, slightly pouting and red, may be very pretty, but do not denote that their owner is full of sympathy or has had any deep experience of life.

Sorrow, either of a personal or indirect nature, earnestness, and gravity are all shown by those lips which, though not sharply drawn down, naturally curve downward when in repose.

POWER AND NOSE.

A LARGE nose is always an unfailing sign of a decided character. It belongs to the man of action, quick to see and to seize opportunity. A small nose indicates a passive nature, one less apt to act, although he may feel as deeply. He will have many theories, while the possessor of a large nose will have deeds to show. Persons with

small noses are most loving and sympathizing, but their friendship is not the active kind.

A nose with the tip slightly tilted is the sign of the heartless flirt. A long nose shows dignity and repose. A short nose, pugnacity and a love of gayety. An arched. nose-one projecting at the bridge-shows thought. A straight nose shows an inclination toward serious subjects. A nose that turns up slightly indicates eloquence, wit, and imagination. If turned up much it shows egotism and love of luxury. A nose that slopes out directly from the forehead, that shows no indenting between the eyes, indicates power. deeply at the root the subject will be weak and vaccilating. A nose that turns down signifies that the possessor is miserly and sarcastic.-Ladies' Home Journal.

If the nose is indented

THE TREES OF CALIFORNIA.

AND everywhere and all about you are the finest forests on earth-on any earththe forests which are the birthright of California, and to destroy which would be agricultural suicide. Enormous pines-sugar pine, yellow pine and the high mountain pine-cover the flanks of the Sierras; great firs, spruces, and cedars, rival the largest trees on earth, while above all, supremely prominent over all vegetation, towers the great sequoia, mightiest of trees. Some of these are eight thousand years old, and on one of those murdered at Sequoia Mills I counted nineteen hundred and two rings of annual growth. This (small) one was a sapling four feet through at the time of the fall of Rome. Many were twenty and thirty feet through in that far-off time. There will never be such forests on earth again. Neither the State nor the government should ever let another acre of land on the Sierras be denuded of its timber, for on the preservation of our forests depends the fertility of our plains. To destroy the noblest groves and the grandest for the lumber that is in them is simply brutal. suggests barbarian demolition of the Coliseum in the middle ages for the old iron which held its stones together. But it is easier to build a hundred coliseums than to restore one sugar pine forest.-David Starr Jordan.

BE BIGGER THAN YOUR ACHES.

THERE is a topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have pains, aches, sciatica or leprosy or even a thunder stroke, I do beseech you (by all the angels) to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning meal (to which all the housemates should bring serene and pleasant thoughts) by your descriptions of corruptions and groans.-Emerson.

Brevity Club.

THE VALUE OF SULPHUR.

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THERE is a traditional and inherited antipathy to the very name of sulphur. fabled fire that is never quenched and "the smoke of their torment that ascendeth forever and forever," and the lake that is filled with dreadful and unquenchable combustibles-all these depend upon sulphur and superstition as a basis, in popular belief. It is a misconception which has no foundation in fact or warrant in science.

Sulphur is a very necessary element of every rational dietary, is found in all the tissues and fluids of the body, and on its presence depends the color of the hair, if not of many other items of the physical economy. It is found in comparative abundance in eggs, and to a slight extent in most other forms of animal food and in some vegetables.

Furthermore, it is a valuable therapeutic agent. It is the base of sulphuric, sulphurous and hyposulphurous acid and is found combined with many of the alkalin bases forming some of the most useful compounds. While it is not itself soluble in water its compounds are freely so and it occurs in many natural spring and well waters. In some of its combinations it is disagreeable and highly deleterious, as in sulphuretted hydrogen and some other compounds evolved during organic decompositions.

In medicine nothing has ever had a higher domestic reputation than the traditional sulphur and molasses of our grandmothers. It cures biliousness, bad blood, the blues, constipation and the itch. It was a sovereign remedy in sore throat, and its use warded off whooping-cough, measles, smallpox, scarlet fever and scabies.

The fumes of burning sulphur still hold high rank in the disinfection of rooms, clothing, the holds and cabins of ships and the infected wards of hospitals. The same process is universally used in bleaching and sterilizing the "evaporated" fruits-apples,

peaches and apricots of the market.

The homeopaths consider it a valuable specific in certain stages of pneumonia and other disease symptoms too numerous to be recited.

A somewhat eminent English physician has used it in over 600 cases of diphtheria without losing one of them. He also uses it in nearly all diseases of the head, throat and lungs; in diarrhea, dysentery and cholera infantum. He has also had success with

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it in diseases of the urinary organs. applies it to cuts, burns, scalds, ulcers and wounds of all kinds, with uniform success.

Sulphur baths are considered a specific for nearly all forms of skin diseases, and the drinking of sulphur water as it bubbles up from sulphurous rocks in many places has acquired world-wide repute in curing

most of the chronic ills that human flesh is heir to.

Probably the secret of all this, as of scores of nostrums widely advertised and extensively consumed all over the world is its germicidal potency. It is death to nearly all varieties of germs, from the itch mite to bedbugs, cockroaches, and almost every form of pathogenic bacilli.

THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.

And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I hold the world, but as the world, Gratiano,

A stage where every man must play a part.

Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both.

You have too much respect upon the world. They lose it that do buy it with too much care.-Shakespeare.