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D. HON. CARROLL NOTES ON A SKUNK SINGWA THE PRODIGY AT PLAY IN 1 SPORTS AND ATHLETICS Several hundred disciples of Izaal Walton gathered at the lagoon at Car- PRIDE OF IG0ROT VILLAGE AT THE SIMPLE RECREATIONS 07 INTERESTING STUDY OP THEIi BY A NATURALIST. THE WORLD'S PAIR. THE ISLAND NATIVES.

1 tricket, Marbles and Mumbly-Peg A Five-Year-Old Boy "Wonder from the Philippines Who Has Astonished All with His Pie- cocious Brightness. How an Italian Got His First Lesson in American Natural History from One of the Little Animals. Played by Young and Old by the Simple Folk Stevenson Loved. Apia, Island of Samoa. Ono Is al field park In Chicago one afternooa recently to witness the first open ccn-.

test of bait casting 'alone ever held la the world. The tournament was under the auspices of the Chicago Fly Casting club. Fly casting has been the principal con. tentlon of fishing clubs until qult9 recently when bait The greatest child attraction of the world's fair the pride and pet of every visitor to the Igorot village such is Singwa, the five-year-old boy wonder, most puzzled to divide the dally life -of our ocean neighbor into those accepted allotments, work and play. It is possible, however, that in time even the Not many weeks ego I went out Into the fields with two full-grown Bkunks which I have had under observation since their birth.

When we wers far away from all houses and and free from all chance of Interruption, I put my charges on the ground, and lay down, with a field glass, to see what they would do. As first they seemed too much delighted at the freedom of dally plucking of flowers becomes task and the few moments required to John Hohmann. spend the sleeping moments In the sun or to gather the over-hanging fruit suf casting became the proper sport. No onen contest of this sort had ever be the open fields to do anything but walk about, sniffing at the grass and the herbs they found growing there. Put presently they became Interested In the Insects ft which they found on the ground, espe clally the crickets, of which they cap tured a number.

When one of th skunks caught sight of a cricket, he would make a little rush at it and stamp on it with his fore paws, squeezing the who has astonished all with bis precocious brightness, and holds the record of $34 given to him in a single day by American admirers, Singwa Is a wonderful example of the possibilities of the Filipino savage and of the natural ability of the Igorot, lu particular, but he is a little more than that, as he is undoubtedly an exceptional child. He wa3 but five years old in August and there ha3 not been an American child visiting the Igorot village who could approach the little savage in wit, fun, sprlghtli-ness and real accomplishments. When the American boy in prettily starched sailor suit has been lined up beside the little savage from the Philippines the naturally biased mother of the homo product has never failed to admit that the brown-skinned Igorot with no advantages, but a brightly colored cloth about his hips, and a bright mind within his well-shaped little head was more than the equal of the American product. The surest way to spot Singwa when you enter the Igorot village Is to look for the densest crowd about the grounds. Wherever men and women are gathered like a city crowd about a street catas insect to death by rolling it over the ground.

Then he would put down his sharp nose and eat his victim with evi dent relish. After a time one of them managed to fore Iwen witnessed In the world's history of fishing. In 1900 an international fly and bait casting tournament was held In Chicago and subsequent ones In San Francisco. Chicago fishermen have made bait casting the ideal fishing sport. Chicago is the pioneer of that game and has more "overhead" bait casters than any other fishing port in the world.

The bait used is generally a frog. All other kinds are with a fly and in some cases the old style angle worm. The first event was the "delicacy" contest, with a one-quarter ounce bait at a target located CO, 63, 70, 75 and 80 feet distant. Two cast3 at each distance were allowed each man. This proved the most ecxit-Ing contest of the day, excepting alone long-distance throw.

Owing to the exceeding light weight of the bait the caster was obliged to use a very delicate touch in casting. It is considered about the finest piece of work the artist caster can possess. The target ia a float with a wooden circumference ol one foot of space, then one foot of water to an iron rod, which divides another foot of water for a wooden ball about six inches in diameter in the center ol the float. To hit the ball or cast the bait inside of the inner rim counts perfect, or catch a frog, which he deliberately rolled about with hU paws until it was dead. He picked It up in his mouth, but did not attempt to eat it, and The United States commissioner of labor who has announced his resignation to take effect the first of the year.

He retires from office to accept the presidency of Clark university, at Worcester, Mass, while he was still amusing himself with It, the other skunk camewaddlin up. Then began a squabble for the body of the frog, which was sometimes MONT ST. MICHEL'S STORY BECOMING VEGETARIANS. PLAYING MUMBLY-PEG. in one mouth and sometimes in both.

And all the while the skunks squealed How the Ancient French Abbey Came flclent for the day would use up all of Consumption of Vegetables by Americans on the Increase Every Year. as though they were being killed, and stamped their feet at one another one's surplus energy. to Be Located on a Lone Island. trophe there you are sure to find a spot As the Samoans are of a simple and with an earnestness which seemed sim of Igorot yellow dancing about in the childlike disposition, their amusements ply absurd. Eventually I saw thera both Mont St.

Michel has the romantic air. sunshine the happiest creature at the whole world's fair. An habitual visitor partake of the same character and it walking gravely away, with the body of takes but little to delight them. Base to the village finding Singwa In a ridic the frog stretched out between them. It suggests Dumas and Scott.

Its history is a romance, but it was curious to earn that the first monk did not settle bail has not found Its way thither, even ulous American boy's suit of large pro When they finally disposed of It, they with the advent of the American, but 100. If the bait hits the wooden outer cricket is their most popular game there because of a position I thought too portions which successfully concealed all his cuteness, queried of Dr. Hunt, were out of my sight, but I don't think they ate It, for I have seen them refuse There is but little difference made be to eat frogs at other times. When I ring it counts 99, For each foot or fraction from the target a demerit of ten from the perfect score is counted. Be-fore entering the contests the pole, bait, tween the sexes In these flowery isles, so that the fairer portion of the com Striking though the decline in meat consumption as shown by the census reports is, none of us will take it as evidence that we eat les3 generously than our ancestors.

Indeed, Americans as a people never fared better In food than they do to-day, says Pearson's Magazine. To make up for the decreased meat diet there is but ono way to turn. Have we increased our vegetable food our wheat, corn, oats, garden vegetables, fruits, sugar? The census gives interesting results. In 1850 Americans consumed 430 bush munity joins with equal fervor in the etc. of each contestant was weighed.

obviously, even ostentatiously made for monks, writes Elizabeth Robins Pen-nell, in "In the Peril of the In Century. When they came, Mont St. Michel was not an island "in the peril of the sea," but rose in the midst of a great forest, with a Roman road leading through it to the hill, where the Romans games. Cricket or crl-keet, as they term it, is hardly played according to standard measured, and the make of the roJ noted. This was for the purpose of filing with the international clubs in Eu rules.

To begin with, instead of 11 on a side there may be any number from rope and in the United States, as an open 10 to 50, or double that number, often had long before worshiped Jupiter and caught sight of them again, a few minutes' later, they were Interested in a blueberry bush, which was laden with ripe fruit. They ate many of the berries which they could reach as they stood, and some of those which grew a little higher they got at by pulling down the twigs with their fore paws. During the afternoon I saw them feed on blackberries In the same way. Later on, one of the skunks amused himself by starting to dig a burrow under a large rock. He went at it with ais fore feet, and his great long claws one village of 50 or 100 playing agaLnst event for world's records.

The winne of the first event was Joseph Hohmann, the Druids had long before that set up another village of perhaps only 15 or 20, whose averaged record was 98.5. Mr. their mystic stones. It was after the Christian hermits had been there a Hohmann will be remembered as the couple of hundred years, and Aubert There Is no hard feeling, however, and all the bystanders applaud. The game somotimes runs on for two or three days, but is evidently just as interesting winner of the 1902 and 1903 open tournaments for all around casting.

There bishop of Avranches the white city you see with its towers glistening in after were 3S entries for the second event. In the last contest as in the beginning. which was for "distance and accurate noon sunlight, on the hills across the sands was busy building the shrine to Some enterprising trader has made a bait casting. This was an exciting con St. Michael, that one day (it was early in the eighth century) there was a ter test and was won by A.

C. Smith, who secured an average of 98.5. The third and last event was the long distance rifle trembling of the earth, and out at 3ea the tide rose, as never before In the els of wheat for each 100 persons; in 1900, 623 bushels a very marked rise. Corn and potatoes give very similar percentages of increase. But the most surprising change is In the consumption of oats, presumably on account of the improved methods of the manufacture of oatmeal; 90 bushels in 1850 to 386 in 1S90 over fourfold in 40 years.

During the last decade, however, the consumption of oatmeal has lost ground relatively, dropping to 301 bushels for each 100 persons. This decrease is probably due to the substitution of other "cereal" and "breakfast" foods, which have in some families wholly taken the place of oatmeal. Now, take the market garden products, fruits and sugar. Anyone' whb will stop to think of the present-dav grocery store with its rows upon rows of inviting canned goods tomatoes, proved excellent Implements for the purpose. Presently there came across the field in Italian workman, who, from his general appearance, had not been In this country very long, and whose English vocabulary, as I presently discovered, consisted of a few sentences about as complex as "Two fer fife." He looked hard at the skunk and then at me, and then at the skunk again.

Then he delivered himself: memory of man. It swept in over wood' casting, which was held on the lawn. With a broken rod which had befallen him in the first event, Ernest Bartholo land and village, and when it swept out again there was no forest. Mont St. Ml and Tomberlaine near by were the mew, of Kalamazoo, sent the buzzing little leaden bait 169 feet, ten feet of which were taken off as a demerit for having fallen shy that much of the center tape.

There was a gusty, choppy neat sum from the introduction of marbles. This fascinating pastime struck a most responsive chord in the tropic breast, for wherever you go you see groups of and children standing about In excited groups or kneeling at the game. It is most ing to see a stalwart chief come strutting by, and catching sight of some favorite opponent, stop, produce a handful of marbles from the folds of his loin cloth, and squatting upon the ground enter Into the game with all the zest of the 10-year-old. It frequently happens that the players will congregate In such- numbers in the public thoroughfare that the native police will come up, confiscate some of the marbles and disuse the crowd. I was aulte Interested Uth the promptness with which he attended to this duty until one day I discovered him with a few Df his cronies having a quiet little game with the confiscated marbles.

There is wind blowing and under the conditions the throw of 158 feet was considered a marvel. SINGWA AT PLAY. the superintendent of the village, "Whj have you put those ridiculous clothes 05 "Watdat?" "Skunk." "Wat spunk? Gude feet?" "Fine," with a nod. (This on the statement of one of our most eminent naturalists, not from personal knowledge.) "You goin' eat 'Im?" "No." A look of surprise came over his face, and he stepped quite close to the hole where the skunk was working. Presently the little animal backed out of the Remaining submerged for nearly foul minutes Is the remarkable performancl of Thomas Ml Singwa.

Don't you know It takes away all his attractiveness?" "Yes," replied the enrewd corn, peas, beans, and all manner or fruits, and of the excellent displays of green vegetables and fresh fruits, from huckleberries to watermelons, will find himself convinced of the important parts these play in our common diet. And then our candy item, our preserves item; no one whose memory can supply a compari "and that's just what I want to do. That boy would be pestertid to death if I didn't only dry spots of land in a vast bay; the hills of the Cotentin were far to the west. Northward was the open sea, never before seen by the monks from their hilltop. Southward the sands stretched toward Poutorsou, Had there been no earthquuake and rising of the waters, the story of Mont St.

Michel would be very like that of any 3ther medieval abbey in France: the story of saintly monks and miracles, of shrines and pilgrimages of piety expressed in noble architecture, of love of irt and learning, of increasing wealth and power and abuse of it, of reform and revived ardor and fresh relapse, and Snally the revolution. Only Mont St. Vlichel answered too well as a prison to be destroyed. And when jailers and prisoners had got done with it enough was left to. be turned into a national monument In 1870.

But if the monks were like all other monks, their abbey was by no means ike all other abbeys, either in its architecture or as a fortress. When the other abbeys increased in importance, and the give him a rest once a while. In his natural state he is entirely too popular burrow to rest or to survey its worK, and the Italian saw two things. First, that its skin was of probable value, and, for comfort." son or the candy stores of 30 year3 Singwa i3 now an attendant at the ago with those of to-day can fall to second, that it was a small creature eas- Model Filipino school, which holds daily be impressed with the increase of ly overpowered. Then he spoke again, this time with a covetous look on hl3 sessions on the Philippine exposition Smultzer of Denver, who has star tied the swimminj world.

The facl that Smultzer ft only 16 years oli makes the feat all the more remarkable. In a recent sensational feat performed in London, England, he was able, by reason of his extraordinary lung power, to swim the distance of 112 yards-five Inches in the re grounds, but long before the school face: "You get 'im skin, eh?" "No." "Me get 'im." opened he had picked up more English than any of the natives in the village. It Is not that Singwa can greet the visitor in English and take a pencil and sugar consumption. Here, indeed, the figures tell a striking story: In 1850 each man, woman and child in America ate '23 pounds of sugar; in 1900, 65 pounds of sugar. And in the 20 years since 1880 the consumption of market garden products and fruits As he said this, he took the last step draw all sorts of caricatures on the vis towards the skunk, which had now re turned to his work.

itor's card, but the way he does it that has increased more than threefold. creates astonishment. It is the sly nonks in number, new courts and clols- T. M. Smutzer, cunning with which he invariably does "No, no," I said, rising to my feet to prevent a catastrophe which I felt was And here is another Interesting point: Ten years ago potatoes outranked market garden products more the unexpected and asks the visitor hla Imminent, but the Italian mistook my Intention.

He apparently thought that own age and name after telling all about were added, more ground covered. But at St. Michel, after burrowing down Into the heart of the rock, there was lothing to do but to build upward and ever upward, to pile story upon story, Singwa. His first passion was drawing, than two to one. The last census puts and when he had learned the alphabet them in the opposite relation, potatoes falling behind by nearly $10,000,000.

until the abbey, springing higher and higher heavenward, became everywhere risible to the people on the mainland. I wanted to prevent him getting a prize which I had no use for myself, and quickly reached down, and dragged the skunk out by the tall. Now I have known that skunk for a long time, and he is about as good natured as any member of his species which has come under One of the most striking features of this increased eating of market garden products Is indicated by the remarkable increase of land covered by markable time of two minutes 3 seconds, thus giving him the title of world's amateur champion. The management of baths in London, where this wonderful feat took place, considered it presumption on the part of such a youngster to aspire to break the world's professional record, held by Prof. Finney, who swam under water a distance of 113 yards and one inch, but, as he was a stranger, they agreed to allow him to test his abilities.

He desired that the water should be regulated to a temperature of 75 degrees. Plunging into it he did 112 yards and five inches, to the amazement of the attendants and others who came from other parts of the to see him. He beat Finney's records In the model school, his next was writing his age, name and tribe on the typewriter. Being a Suyoc he does not eat dog, while the. much advertised Bontoe in the same village do.

If a visitor asks Singwa if he eats dog, in great disgust he points the finger of scorn at the inquisitor and replies: "No, Singwa Suyoc no eat dog. You eat dog." Singwa draws some remarkable pictures of chickens, wild hogs, and different types of visitors on the souvenir Who Supported Atlas. Not long ago the genial superintendent of a public school was asked by ono of his youthful friends to listen to the latter's rehearsal of a lesson in which there was a reference to Atlas. "Do you know who Atlas was?" asked the superintendent. glass to supply our modern bills of fare with early and late "green stuff." It is scarcely a dozen years since this increase began its expansion, and yet the census of 1900 reports over 300 acres of land covered with glass in New York state alone, and nearly a9 much in Pennsylvania and In New Jersey, with over 200 acres each in Illinois and Massachusetts.

my observation. But he had never been treated like this in his life before, and the next instant the Italian let go of the tail, and was reeling backwards under the effects of his first lesson In American natural history. ERNEST HAROLD BATNES. Men Gossips. Men are as bad gossips as women.

Only they deliver "straight man to man, instead of backbiting and then gushing with pretensions of regard when they meet. Good Housekeeping. True Enough. books sold in the Igorot village, and there is always a struggle to get the ones he has signed with his name. He has no pocket in his scanty trousers and so for time at this distance.

It is also worthy of notice that while Smultzer had the water at a temperature of 75 de grees, inney recora was maae ai ou wanders up to the visitor and in a cute tone that is never refused asks for a "pencil." If the visitor he Is picturing has glasses, a large hat or other distinguishing mark of attire, he puts it in degrees, which is considered among swimmers as of great advantage to the "Yes, sir. He was a giant who supported the world." "Ah! Supported the world, did he?" went on the superintendent. "Well, tell me who supported Atlas?" The little fellow looked as though he had not given the subject any particular attention, but showed immediate willingness to think it over. The superintendent stood looking on, trying hard to keep back a smile; but the youngster finally brightened up and answered: "Well, I think he must have married a rich wife." N. Y.

News. A CRICKET PLAYER. never any trouble nor violence and the games go happily on. Across from the hotel is a large native hut which contains several generations and seemingly untold visitors and relatives, Here all sorts of games are hourly In progress, but the most interesting is that played by the hoary-headed grand-Bires. Two old wrinkled men will sit for hours over a game of small stones, Eimilar to that youthful delight, "jack stones." Here also may be seen nearly every day an rld man crouched opposite to- an equally old tremendously fat woman and with a little knife they will play mumbly-peg for hours.

It is the most delightful thing to see -old and young living on a common basis, everything, even to the games in the street, being shared alike. ANNA H. CLARK. One Sacred Secret. Parker I have noticed that nearly all ihe articles on "How to Manage a Husband" were written by unmarried wormen.

How do you account -lor it? Kerwin Oh, you don't suppose a latter. It is also pointed out that if the Denver lad had essayed the task from the If one could remember, when asked for advice, that his friend wants only confirmation of his own judgment it would save much heartache. Toledo Blade. the caricature and then laughing In high glee points to it and says, "You, you." Singwa Is here without father or mother, his parents trusting him to the care ol C. A.

Pettit, who brought the Suyot Igorots to the fair. Cause and Effect. Mrs. Dlggs Did you hear about Mrs Bells. to Guide Vessels.

By agreement with the Canadian government 30 bells are to be installed in the river St. Lawrence and off the coast of the maritime provinces. Twenty-six of the stations will be worked from shore, and four from lightships. In order to use the system ship3( are equipped with telephone receivers, which pick up the sounds of the bells at a distance of four to ten miles. It Is claimed that a vessel thus equipped can easily pick its way through a difficult passage, even in fog or storm.

It is expected that all ships making Canadian ports will be equipped with telephonic apparatus for picking up the sounds of the bells. Chicago Daily News. The Next Step. "At that point, he was afraid wouldn't be in a condition to home." he go Price Everything. Mrs.

Newrich I got rid of our old 'phone this morning. Mr. Newrich Why, didn't it work? "Oh, yes; but I had them put a longdistance one instead; it's eo iw.ch more expensive to talk through tnem, you know." Detroit Free Press. deep instead of the shallow end of the-bath he could have beaten the world's record. Young Smultzer is going over to England again soon to try for the under water swimming record of the world.

Decollete. Little Mable, aged three, likes slippers. One day her mother took het to a shoe store, where a pair of shoe was tried on her. She looked at them and said: "Mamma. I don't like these.

I want a pair of low-necked shoes." Little Chronicle. Small Talk. "Mrs. Brown," she heard her young daughter, who was entertaining the old lady, ask as she neared the parlor door, "how did your face get eo rum; N. O.

Picayune. "Ha! Ha! What did he do then?" "Why, he took a few more high balls and stopped worrying about it" Puck. Naggsby's misfortune? Diggs No; what was It? Mrs. Diggs She lost her voice suddenly a few days ago. Diggs Huh I wondered why Naggs-by looked so cheerful when I met him this morning.

Chicago Daily News. A Question of Honcr. Slimson What was the trouble between you and the little boy nexl door? Willie He said he was a worse bo; than I was. Smart Set. married woman Is going to give her little plan away, do you? Cincinnati Enquirer.

Changing OS. Stout I suppose you swear by your Feminine Charity. Maud Young Simkins is what I would call a prize Idiot. Clara' ten the report must be true." "What teport?" "Thafhe's been making love to you, dear." Chicago Dally Nev a. Her Mother's Prognostications.

He Why does your mother insist on your having an elaborate church wedding? She She says it's the last chance I'll ever have to show oft In good clothes. N. Y. Weekly. Comparison.

She It inns', be awful to owe money and not to be able to pay it! He Yes almost as bad as lending It and not being able to get it back! Detroit Free Press. (iout-Not always. Sometimes I wear at him. N. Y.

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