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THE HABBITS 0F JERSEY. [

 

A New York Sportsman Says The 37
Are Hares.

This Being the Casethe So-Called Rabbit
of This Country Belongs to the Same
Family—Distinguishing Marks

'3', of the Animal.

 

“It is rather a bold thing ’to ques—
tion anything one reads in the
Sun,” said a New York sportsman, “but
I think it must have printed an item
the other day on misinformation. Re-
ferring to the abundance of small game

in southern New Jersey, the item says '

that ‘the dry season has been favorable
to the survival of thousands of rabbits,
which, had the weather been even n01.1-

inally wet, would have been drowned '

in the burrows, as very many are every
year.’ . Now, if this is true, it is impor-
tant, for it has always been supposed
that there were no rabbits native to
this country, the only rabbits we ever
see here being the tame ones of the
fanciers, which originated from im-
ported stock. What are popularly
known as rabbits in this country, the
‘cottontails’ of the brush patches, dry
swamps, and bushy plains, the little
gray animal familiar to every school-
boy everywhere, and the pride of his
youthful trapping and snaring forays,
are not rabbits at all, but hares. The
animal does not burrow or live in bur—
rows. If it did, the enjoyable sport of
chasing the cottontail with dogs would
never have been known. If this mis-
called rabbit had been a subterranean
dweller, it would have no runways, it
would not be fleet-footed as the wind, it
would not be as fertile in resources as
it is and as it has to be to escape the
pursuing fox, its persistent and crafty
enemy, and the still more persistent
hound the hunter puts upon its trail.
For if it were a burrower it- would, like
all burrowing animals, he never far

from heme, and would hasten to its

underground refuge and disappear at
the first sound or sight of danger.

“Who, with memories of exhilerating
November mornings, when he has stood
on a runway waiting for the hounds to
fetch round to him the fleet game they
have started, and has heard their music
fade away as the chaserwent afar, and,
after a long time, heard it coming back
again, faintly at first, growing louder
and harder as the distance grew up, n11—
tlast the frightened bunny came
bounding into sight ahead of it to meet
his fa to, can believe that this verilc
little eieature is a common, logy bur-
rower? 7 If he has taken to the burrow
in southern New Jersey, to lie there
while the water comes in and drowns
him, he is a degenerate.

“The rabbit burrows its home in the
ground. The hare fashions its home in
bunches of tall, dry grass or beneath
the shelter of a thick bush, and its nest
is called its ‘form.’ The rabbit’s young
are born with their eyes closed, like
puppies. The eyes of the bores little
ones are wide open the monent they
ale born, and bright and watchful eyes
they are. .4. The rabbit’s 1 oung require
a. mother’ s care for nearly a month be-
fore they are able to care £01 them-
selves, six days of which time they are
helpless and blind. The young hare
scorns its mother’s protection when it
is six days old, and goes hopping away
to see the world on its own account. I
have come upon young hares not much
bigger than a rat, which have bounded
away with a briskness and evidence of
strength and independence equal to
full-grown ones. It is true that our
miscalled native rabbit will frequently
seek the burrow of a woodchuck or
other hole in the ground when hard
pressed, with the same instinct for safe-
ty that prompts him to creep under
brush piles and nestle there or into the

depths of stone walls or the hollows

of stumps and trees. But he' 1s ever an
outdoor dweller, brisk and alert. Even
the great jack rabbit of the far west
is not a rabbit. If he were there could
not be they periodical round-ups which
the people afflicted by the presence of
this pestiferous animal make of his
kind to slaughter them by thousands,
for then he would live in burrows, to
which he would naturally betake him;
self in time of danger, and no corral
could ensue. The jack rabbit is simply
an overgrown hare, and no credit to his
.family.

“If this plentiful small game that
abounds in New Jersey lives in burrows,
as alleged, it is the rabbit, sure enough,
and it is the first place in this country
that I ever heard of where the true wild
rabbit could be found. Consequently
it is important, if true.”———N. Y. Sun.

 

Geese from Shellfish.
Everybody in the Whole civilized
world between the 11th and 17th cen-
turies believed that the “barnacle goose”
hatched from that species of shellfish
called the barnacle. The story was first

 

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told by CambrenSis and was devoutly

believed by all christcm‘om for more
tho :1 500 years. A well—i 1101'. 11 scien-
till-c. \iritcr, reviewing he op nions of
Canfinvwzsis, says: “According to our
venerable authority, the barnaclc goose

is generated from logs of wood
allowed to deco‘mposc in the wa-
ter. When decomposition has fair—
ly ’bcgpn small bumps on the log
may be obseived. Little by lit—

tle these immense in size and finally
assume the form and shape of (amass
of barnacles, which is well known as a
kind of shellfish. Soon‘z‘ .ftcr thes hell,
01 husk, bursts open anda full—gromn
goose may be seen in the w ater clinging
to the log only by the bill. A few days
longer it continues to draw its nourish-
ment from the log, then breaks away
in the form of a perfect goose, exei cis-
ing all the functions of its kind."—
Detroit Free Press.

A NEW SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Lineal Descendant arid Namesake of the
Great Author.

The old home of Sir Walter Scott. Ab-
botsford, is now presided ov 01 by his
:rreat—granddaughter, Mrs. Maxwell-
.Scott. In a sequestered corner of the
ivy-walled garden 11t1‘1bbotsl'ord stands
a sundiai. Sh adous glidln v .111'oss its
time— 410111 face have s- l:1 :11'.’ marked
the l1o111s since Sil \‘l' alt. ‘1 ’cott. then
in the midst of his finilliififid troubles
and liarrassmcnts, carved with his own
hand upon the stone: “I will work
:.:.:l1i‘1e it is day.”

Sir \‘1'11ltcr’s daughter, Sophia, mar-
ried John Lockhart, the historian.
They had three children, the youngest
of whom, Charlotte, married James
l-Iope, Esq, who, by act of parliament,
took the name of Hope-Scott. They
also had three children, the eldest of
whom, Mary Monica, my hostess, was
sole heiress of Abbotsford and other
large estates, the other two children
having died. In 1874 she married Hon.
Joseph Maxwell, a younger brother of
Lord Berries, of Everingham Park,
whose title and estates he will inherit,
as Lord Ilerrics has no son.

Mr. \Iaxwell also legally took the
name of Va: (w ell Scott and the first
child was named Walter Scott. Upon
this auspicious occasion the queen tele-
maphcd with her congratulations:
“He shall be limghted ‘Slr \\ alter Scott’
when he is 2]. ” This boy is 110w 19
years of age and has six rollicksome
brothers and sisters. ll'alter is des-
tined for the army, )Ialcomb for the
navy. Then follow Josephine. 17 years
old; Alice, 12; Michael, ten; Margaret,
seven, and Herbert, two.—~Cosmopoii—
tun.

130M BSH ELL, AN ARTILLERY ope

Be Saved Two Little Children from Se-
rious Danger.

While a gun was being loaded, Bomb-
shell would sit on the para-pet and
watch the operation. That finished, he
would jump up and look outto sea over
the range, and then scamper down
from the parapet and fbllow us into the
bomb—proof.

As usual, Bombshell was on hand to

see the test of the new big gun.

lIe supelintended the loading, and,
while I v. as aiming the gun, he looked
over the range as carefully as did the
lookout; and from his air of responsi-
bility one might have supposed that to
him had been intrusted the duty of
seeing that the range was clear.

But when we started for the bomb-
proof, instead of following us, as was
his Custom, Bombshell remained on the
parapet, looking out to sea and sniffing
the air. In a moment he dashed off
through the bushes which covered the
narrow beach between the parapet and
the sea.

Though thinkinghis actions peculiar,
I was sure that he would not remain in
front of the gun, because he had done
so once, when quite young and inex-
perienced, and the burning grains of
powder—which are always thrown out
by the blast of a gun—had buried
themselves in his skin, burning him
badly. He had never forgotten thil.

Certain that he would take care of
himself, I paid no further attention to
him, but went with the others into the
bomb-proof, and took my place by the
electric key, ready to fire at the Com-
mand of the. captain.

Just as the command “Fire” was
about to be given, Bombshell reap-
poured on the parapet and ‘began to
bark furiously into the very muzzle of
the gun.

I called to him, but he would not
come. Annoyed at the delay of the test,
I tried to catch him, but could not do
so. As I. approached he retreated, still
barking and apparently urging me to
follow him.

Finally, convinced from the dog’s ac-
tions that something was erng, the
electric wire was disconnected from
the gun, and I followed Bombshell.
\l'agging his tail with joy at having
accomplished :his object, he led me
through the underbrush to the beach.

There, concealed behind a clump of
bushes, were tw 0 little childi e11 quietly
digg ing in the sand and entirely uncon-
scious of the danger in which they had
been.—Lieut. John C. W. Brooks, in St.
Nicholas.

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SPECIAL.

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FIRESIDE FRA'GMENTS.

 

-—To render linen, cotton or muslin
incombustible dip it in a solution of
common alum.

—Creamed onions are simply small,
white onions boiled in salted water and
dressed with hot cream and butter.

-—Pound cake (measured in cup, and
always reliable).—Two cups butter,
three cups sugar, three cups flour, eight
eggs, rind and juice of one lenien—~
Prairie Farmer.

—Beef Croquettes.—Take any remains
of cold meat, chop fine, add twice the
quantity of mashed .potatoes, well sea-
soned, one beaten egg. Form into cakes
and fryin hot butter.

~Steamed Indian Bread—One pint
of sweet milk and one of sour, three
pints of Indian meal and one of flour,
one cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful
.ofsoda, one of salt. Steam one hour,
then bake one hour. .Eit-her eat warm
or cold—N. Y. Ledger.

—Minute Biscuit—One pint sour milk
or buttermilk, one teaspoonful soda,
two teaspoonfuls melted butter. Flour
to make dough just stiff enough to han-
dle. Mix, roll and cut out rapidly with
as little handling as may be, and bake
in a quick oven—Marion Harland, in
Farm and Fireside.

—Fig Layer Cake—One cupful of
sugar and one mixing spoonful round-
ing full of butter creamed together, one
egg, one cupful of milk, in which dis-
solve one tcaspoonful of soda, two level
cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoon-
fuls of cream of tartar are mixed. Beat
thoroughly and bake in two layers.—
Good Housekeeping.

-~-Apple Compote—Pare the apples,
cut the cores out, leaving them whole;
111ake a syrup, allowing three-fourths
of a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit;
when it comes to a boil put in the. apples
and let cook until tender, but they
should remain whole. Remove the
apples to a glass bowl, and‘rliss—olve one-
th‘ird of a box of gelatine in a half—cupful
of hot water and stir briskly into the
syrup, first taking off the fire. hen
strain it over the apples. When cold,
heap whipped c1eam ov or it. This
makes a very p1 esentable dish for tea
or luncheon.— Housekeeper.

GIVING HIM A CHANCE.

 

A Bit of Western Chivalry Which Was
_ Quite Uncalled For.

“Speaking of the tales of chivalry,’
said a government official, whose du.
ties some years ago took him to points
in the far west. “I heard' of one in a
locality I once visited which for un-
called- for chivalry rather exceeded the
limit.”

‘ But chivah y is not one of the things
that can be exercised to excess, is it?”
interrupted the reporter.

“Wait till 1 have finished my story
and then I’ll leave the question to your
own ideas of it and let you settle it to
suit yourself. It happened in this 10—
cality I mention that there was a ‘bad
1nan,’ as there is in greater or less de—
gree in all of those western localities,
or, for that matter, in every new lo-
cality at whatever point of the com-
pass it may be situated. Well, this bad
man had killed nobody knew how many
people and had run the gamut of crime
generally before he struck this neigh-
borhood, and the people there, most of
of whom were trying to get out of the
old "way of doing things, gave him a
wide berth and did as much as they
could decently to get him to move away.

“But the place seemed to suit him and
he w ouldn’ t leav e. Then it w asn t long
until he began bulldozing the inhabi-
tants by threat-s, turning himself loose
in the streets and shooting 11p the town
and now and then banging somebody
through the leg or arm and narrowly
missing the same sort of adose himself.
The people didn’t want to spoil their
1cputation by lynching him, for they
hadn’t had a lynching f01 a couple of
y cm s and didn’t want to hav e, any more.
h‘bither did any of them want to shoot
him down in cold blood, because they
proposed to be law-abiding.

“Nor did they want to assassinate
him, for that was cowardly and sneak-
ing, and they would give a wolf half a
chance for his life. Still it was neces-
sary for the good of the community
that the bad man be put out of it, and
finally five patriotic citizens fixed upon
a plan. It was carried out one day
after the bad man had done more devil-
try than usual, and one or two prom-
inent citizens were" laid up for repairs,
and the bad man still held possession
of a saloon and was treating all comers
lo the owner’s liquors. The five patri-
otic citizens, armed to the teeth, w alked
quietly into the saloon and tackled the
bad man right there. They refused his
proffered treat, and he got ugly and be-
gan to swear.

“ 'Now,’ said the spokesman, firmly,
‘you let up on that. We are here to set-
tle with you; we ought to shoot you
down in your tracks,but we are going to
give you a show; you’ve got two guns

. and we’ve got ten; you may get one of

us, or two, perhaps, but in the end ‘our
combination will win, and the commun-
ity will get a much-needed rest; it'may
come a. little hard on you, but you can
never say we didn’t give you a fair
chance; get ready; one, two three,
fire!’

“And the firing commenced. The
bad man was game, but, as had been an-
nounced, the combination was too
much for him, and when the smoke
cleared away he was dead and two of
his five assailants were in the same fix.

Two good men were gone, but the bad '

man was with them, and the communi-
ty felt better. Now,” concluded the of-
ficial, “what have you to say about an
excess of chivalry?”

“He should have been lynched,” said
the reporter, with promptness.—Wash-
ington Star.

 

Progression. .
Alice—What is J ack’s occupation?
Lucy—He is a. consulting engineer.
Alice—I see. If he should get any

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- SA SAILUR’S STORY.
‘An Old Salt Speaks in Norwalk.

The life of a sailor has many ups and
downs. The hardships of lhe man who
(mile the briny deep are not appreciated
by the land lubbers who know not what
it TS to struggle with the elements to
keep above water, it takes brown and
muscle and good constitutions, to
stand it. While men, even thehardiest
when they return from nautical life
find the exporuxe has left them Will) a
legacy, as a constant reminder of the
past. And often when a Jolly Jack
Tar IS relating an experience the back
that has carried him through it all is
burdened with a far heavier burden.
Our representative had a. pleasant chat

the other day with just such a man. A ‘

sailor for thirty years. Thos. Cooney.

by name, :1 Norwalk citizen residing at'

No. 73 Haibor Ave. he has also held
the position of duckmasler for ten
years and to add to the di‘ficulties he
has had to contend with, he fell from a
tree when 11 boy striking a fence. This
accident left lnm Wlil] back trouble and
the bio on» the water with its
hardships added their share until he
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