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Pipes when finished are classed, ac- 

 cording to the meerschaum of which they 

 are made, into first and second grades. 

 And prices for the simple pipe will run 

 from $3.50 to $10, or even $15 at the 

 factory. 



Carved pipes, of course, will range to 

 almost any price; twenty-five dollars is 

 perhaps the least for which one can hope 

 to get a fine pipe. Naturally, the price of 

 the meerschaum has much to do with this. 



Meerschaum is not, as so many sup- 

 pose, a spoil of the sea; but is quarried 

 or dug in Anatolia. The fair grades of 



the stone are 



found one hun- 

 dred feet below 

 ground. The 

 deeper you dig 

 the better is 

 the product. 

 The splendidly 

 carved pipes, 

 of which every 

 pipe lover 

 will have one 

 or two, are al- 

 most always a 

 deep mine 

 product. 



Good meer- 

 schaum pipes, if 

 of the softer 

 stone, should 

 color in a year. 

 Others may 

 take two or 

 three years. 

 There is no 

 better taste 

 with the "colored 

 thusiastic smokers 



Popular Science Monthly 



Fishing in 

 Bow 



Guiana with 

 and Arrow 



the 



pipe; though en- 

 often delude them- 

 selves with the belief that there is. 



INSTEAD of using nets or the con- 

 ventional hook and line, the natives 

 of Guiana shoot the fish with bow and 

 arrows. The arrow used is designed 

 especially for this purpose and is about 

 fi\-e feet in length, with no feathers. 

 The head, which is barbed, is made from 

 sheet iron and is provided with a socket 

 which is slipped over the end of the shaft 

 by a light, strong line about ten feet long. 

 When the fish is struck and the barbed 

 point is buried in its flesh the cane shaft 



floats free and 

 ' resting upon 



the surface of 

 the water 

 serves as a 

 buoy to mark 

 the catch, 

 which is hauled 

 in by means of 

 the line a t - 

 tachcd to the 

 head . 



Fish weigh- 

 ing from ten to 

 one hundred 

 pounds are 

 caught in this 

 manner. When 

 there are no 

 fish visible or 

 when they are 

 too far beneath 

 the surface to 

 shoot with 

 certainty the 

 natives resort 

 This is accom- 

 a low whistling 



With His Bow and Five-Foot Arrows the Guiana 

 Native Can Shoot and Kill Fish Weighing from Ten 

 to One Hundred Pounds After "Calling" Them Up 



The Floating Vegetable Gardens 

 of Mexico 



THE Lake of Xochimilco, near the 

 city of Mexico, is nearly covered 

 with floating gardens called chinampas, 

 on which ari' (iilli\ated ^•egetables and 

 flowers for the cit>- markets. They are 

 formed of floating masses of water 

 plants covered with soil and secured by 

 poplar stakes. The latter take root and 

 surround the islands with living hedges, 

 which arc useful as well as ornamental. 



to "calling" the fish. 



plished by uttering 



sound and waving the finger tips in a 



peculiar manner. Surprising as it may 



seem, the fish often approach the hunter 



within bow shot when thus called. 



But one does not nec^d to go to far- 

 away Guiana to see fish killed by the 

 bow and arrow. Our own Native Amer- 

 ican Indians are past masters of the 

 trick, and a sojourn with them in one of 

 the western reser^•ations will convince 

 the visitor that shooting fish is one of 

 the Indian's fax'orite pastimes. An 

 arrow much shorter than that used by 

 the natives of Guiana is used, and no 

 line is attached to the head of the arrow. 



