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I A L ! Ut" A (iLUVti.
Unfailing Symotomsj of a Sever
Case of Love-SicKnS.
It wa an n.l,r i.f rr tout my
nej.how that tf t'i Ji-v-rr of the
ploye. I'p to hii nin-t.--iith tiirtlidar,
which arrive.1 a luotith a ho hrul ptie
thnmirli lift. ciiiteuiri-Miia .f button-
an-l I wa little taken ahat k
alHititlhat tiin wht-n I ran aaiiiKt him
at a n.m. r with a Marlnl N i. i at his
hreasf. II,. wJiijuH-l it Ltirriillr into
lim po-kof. an.l. t ina kiixllv iM i-ntle-mati,
I ireten.e. nct to n..tiV. I'.tit mv
faith in him was profoundly shaken.
Tins was the ,v who had n fi'ised j,int
hlank to rarry a iN.iniu.-t lowu the atrot-t
at a lrilMMf half acuiiiua. Soon I loarncl
That h. wa ronveyin- tastt fnl little btit-t-m
hol.-i int., the lorn v.- tip hit -oat
!h.' ; and he Mii-shM when he was
asktsl about a tumbler ia hi Usl-room.
Tin 11 his tuothor fount a Mix-button
j;loye, nie live an.J a half, in his junket,
whi. h none .f u could id. ntifv. For
s-.inc days he had only had nn'u Klove
hinis,-, whii h he carried spread out in
his hand to l...lc like two. We t onld not
tlunk that this was it lco;j-l.t com
pani .n.
TVndin-r investiirationi the clove wa
repU.-. d in Albert's pocket in t lie nice
little j-i.-ce oi tissu,.-p;,iH.r which tiroteet
edit. Thi-n we watched Albert. Ilithcrto
he had a habit ..f leaving the room when
the conversation t.H.k a feminine turn,
but now a rhaiiin- came over him. He
:it 011 when his mother talked -with hi
aunt over the relative merit .f the
waterfall back and the Norfolk blouse,
an I it was observed that thou-h he pre
tended to 1m re.i lin his lok he va
really drinkini; in the conversation. On
tie iMi aioii he c:une out t" his tihellin a
remarkable manner. The two ladies
were asking each other wliat w.xs the
other name f.,r the waterfall bai-k, and
Albert, carri-d away by hi interest in
the di'iis-ion, murmured "Itedinirote."
His mother and his aunt looked at him
in amazement, which made All mtI turn
l.th white and red. Not Ion afterward
it leaked out that he knew what "ai..r
collars"' were, and liked pale-pink one.
Albert even bejran to tike an interest
in his si-tors lr-se. 11 in sisters are
' yonner than hims.df, and there
is a story in the family that about the
time he was saving up for Home euvetetl
little treasurer he would Hot let them
kiss hint under kit in-ntv each. It was
statistical infortnatioii about hi sisters
that Albert n".v a-kel for in a casual
sort of w:y tliat did re d.wive bi. relat
ives. Once he ;ts discovered trvinj !
a-eert:iiii P.r himself bow much 4 iertrtide,
who is fourteen, measures annul. 1 the
waist. Not heiii;; aecu-totned to those
attention, Oertrtid.- liked them at lirst ;
but it was soon lrno in tip m her
tliouh she was only fourteen that her
brother was c.ei inientiti'4 n her for
privat" rca-Mis ..f his own. AlU-rt was
also curious t. know what sie in lots
tierttude re.iuir.d, and siciled 1.1 him
self w Io n told, i iertrude, w ho h as known
since she was i"! in. -on that she has larjro
l.-ct. .lid not like this. It must, 1 think,
have been 11 week after the discitverv of
the j.-!oe in Albert's NH-ket that he
a-ke. his mother, w ith an artilicial yawn,
w bother live and a half was not a "small
size in L'lovi s f.ii a lady. Then liis mother
ask.-d me to pi delicately to work and
find out what was Albert's condition, and
w ho ho w.ls.
I thought I would leave it to Alliert to
tell me who she was, but I experimented
oil him to discover his condition. Noth
ing, I f.-el, could havelieen more delicate
than the way I s-t aljout it. The iove
btfnii', so to jeak, the means of com
munication between me and Albert.
First, I removed it from hi pocket one
day when Albert lay dreaming on the
oucli. I took tho tissue paper oil" and
then .t'nt!y returned the naked glove to
its slumbering owner. That evening
Allert asked me for the kev of the book
case. This i lMcans: I liave literarv
l"anines and mliate writinr; a rrc;it
lxeoli when I settle down and have time.
Albert, however, so seldom ask for the;
key to the look-case indeed, it i rarely
to le found when wanted that I in
vited his confidence a to what book he
reiiuired. To ray surprise he naid "the
lare Shakeapeare." This latere Shaki--f
pearo is a sore subject with me. It is in
so many jrroat volumes that the nhe!f it
rests on freUently v;iv-s way. It i nlsto
p)rjisu-ly illustrated. Alliert took away
one of the volumes, and 1 Kat pondorini;
what he could want it for. iMibtle-s
Alls-rt's sudden devotion to Shakepeare
had something to do with the stove, but
whore the connection came it was not
evident. By and by Alliert brought the
volume back. When he had rono I
l'Miked through it, but timid dnnnver
nothing. Next morning Alliert'. mother
puzleii me by remarking that" nlie
thought that I had taken the ti-sue paper
oil the K'ove. On lx'in asked for an ex
planation, she Mid that Mho ha I looked
to see, and that the odove was still in its
wr.tpis'r. At this I went str.iiirht to the
lok-c:iso and aiin took down that vol
ume of Sh:ike-peare. It was aj I mis
jM:cted : Albert had torn out the tissue
p:ilN-r protecting one of the illustrations
the i.lav scene in I lam let."
Tii1 next exiH-riment I fried was also a
simple one. i le carried th irlove in an
inside Ni,'ket, over t!iesir.t where Albert
thou.'hl hi-heart was. Taking advautat
of a favorable moment, 1 t at the uat
and cli:iiij;ed the love to another pocket.
The net time I had an oppirtunitv of
feeling for it, it was li.u k in rlc old place
.tiriiii. This happs-ned several time.;
Altert, w ho is a simple yoiiih lor all hi
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i : i evi l -iitly tuiiiki.i;,' that lie ha li
put the love into the wron Jiocket.
Then I hazarded a lIder s:-p. A'.iin
taking possession of fhevrlove, 1 dmppe.1
it in a ti.rn.-r of the drawing-room.
Th t I'Vi-nln.' Alliert came hack front
the oitice in a perturltcd statu of mind.
I watched him on his kne s in the hall
looking for sonicthinj;, iwid w hen h- :tw
me he pretended to Ik' unl.ii iiiy; hit
shoes. e wandered from room to room,
an 1 was subsequently hoard fli Hiring his
thins nlut in his Ixvlroom. He said
not a word alxiut his loss, however, to
anyone. Next morning I was surprise 1
to s e him brL'iit and cheerful. I went
info th. draw in-pNim, an 1, Khold. til
love was u. iie. IV o:n tlie way in wliieh
the Mitsu-peciin.' Alliert was incov-antlv
jUtti:i' h:s hand in'o that insj e wicket.
I sin that th. re was miiv mop; a tive
and a-ha!f u'love in it. I had feared that
AltK it would treasure it soup-wliere cis'
n e.v, but ti... he evidently thought tii.it
h.' h.i I dr ;; -d it in the .haw ins; room
aii-id' nt.iMy rhap after jiassi.iiiately
'.iiii'.' mi it in secret.
I'.tit th j awakening came when I mn
cealed the little sluve in a va.su on the
Miiokiici-rooiu inaiit-'lpieee. .AlVu rt ran
it to earth in a day and a half w ithoiif
savins a word on the subjift toanylio.lv-,
un!c.s jHissihly the housemaid. "When
next I felt for it in his x-ket it was not
mere. 1 ii.iu that timr AlU-rt and I
were plavius t hide-aud seek. When I
was not foiliins for the sl"V he was. I
found it inside the caso of his cricket-hat
and dropped it behind the piano. Allert
s: arched it out, and soon altcrvvard I pit
it under a corner of the oariet in his bed -r
M.ni. Then 1 hid it aiuoiur mune imisic,
i.imwins tliat Allert would look then?
'ast. All this time I did not know if he
vi!--'oted who it was tliat was plat-ins
with him. 1 do not know now, i..r we
liave never opened our uunis uu tuu
subject.
Alln-rt did not find the glove anions
the xnnfiie. When two day had passed
I put it in an easier place, for Alliert was
Waring hi disapioint!Ucnt bravely.
Still he did iKt find it. Next I linns it
on tlie fl.Kir of hi ledrooui, and Albert
did nt eetu to aee it. I laid it on hi
inantlepiece and he let it remain there.
At last it struck me to look in Alliert'
pocket rvain. There wa another glove
in it ; eize eix QCl u,rter, eight but
tons. Then I nt i t Albert'fl ttOtUer nd
told her he wajj cured.
JOHN'S COUNTRY CUSTOMER.
f John Harvey had been a clerk in a
country store in Vermont ainee he was
fifteen year ol.I, and he was now over
twentv. lie had been reared and edu
cated hy his mother, w ho was no lonser
very youns when John wa liorn, and
ijii"nently entere.l upon the infirmi
ties of old as when her lioy had arrived
at the ase of manhood. 1 1 cr husband
wa Ions t-i ni. e dead.
John wa a handsome country laL
active, utilising and courteous. These
pialities attra-teil the attention of a New
York merchant who was f jiendins a kuiii
tner month in Vermont, and he ofrcrcd
him a situation in his store.
Although John' mother knew how
mor than lonely die would he without
her boy, she fett how valuable this chanse
would prove to him, and gave her consent
to his piins.
"1 know my lioy will not forset hi
mother," she said. "And one thins, tny
rhihl, let mo impress upon you. You
will le surrounded by s'.l'ly fellow
clerks, manv who will look with im
tempt on tno humbly-clad eople w ho
come to buy, and onlyjiervc them with
reluetam-e erhaps rudeut-as. Never
forset your mother, and that the humblest
woman may be Homcliody's dear old
mother. And rememlier, too, what you
have red in the school reader, that 'ai-jear.tn-es
are often deeei vins,' and that
a well filled purse may lie in the pocket
of a rusty coat."
That wa the mother's advice, and it
turned out that John heeded it.
The sreat iron dry s'uxls shop in Broad
way, with it white facade and its millit
ers inside heajied high with marvellously
lieantiful fabni, ws indeed a change to
John, and the richly and astonishing! y
dressed women in great contrast to the
country dame in suiilKiiuiets and gins
ham gowns that he had Iwcii aecustoaied
to sen t-.
ltnt now and then came customers
from the mnntry ; there was no mistak
ini them. Their dresses had a liome
niade l.sik, and their bonnet utterly
lacked the j uliar audacity of city hat.
They preferred their replets in a" timid
way, a.s if feeling lost and strange, and
uncertain if thev had any right in so
grand a store. The clerks suuMm-.I them
or were insolent. Hut to John thecoimtrv
faces were alwavs pleasant, and he W;ia
invariably s noticeably kind to rural
customers that discounter ver-Kin
came the centre of country custom. Hi
fellow clerk would cry ovut when there
was an appearance of "coiiiitrvti.uius."
' t'listoiuers for you, Harvey!"
But one .lay the country women missed
the very obligins clerk, and upon inquiry
were told that he had been transferred to
the cloak, department. Very well! tine
old lady w ho had a youns girl w ith her,
said she wanted to buy a cloak.
So up-stair they went a quaint-look-ine
pair that set the clerks in a giggle, and
they felyly winked a tin y ent around
the password: 'Harvey 'a frien-ls."
"ijood luck to you, Harvey," laughed
one. "Now" your chance to get rid of
those last year Ijeaver aatijues ! Mavbe
they will g., M high a ten dollara."
Hut if the old lady and her niece had
ls-eti dowager and princess, they could
not have leen mor.i courteously "treated
than they were by John.
"She' somebody's ilear old mother, I'll
warrant," he said to himself, and then in
a pleasant manner he aked the old lady
what she would like to aee.
"Velvet cloak," she replied.
John took from the hook of the ward
robes cloaks varying in pric from fifty
to three hundred dollars. The clerk's
kept up their fun at John's expense, but
he did not care.
After considerable delay in making up
her mind, the old lady paid she wanted
t see how some fur would look over a
velvet cloak valued at two hundred and
fifty dollars. John readily gratified her
with dressing up a lay t'iirure with the
cloak and a four hundred dollar set of
fur. A fter a little hi customer said they
suited her, an-l aked how much all would
lo. John made a feint at eountin!- up tho
figures, and said it wa six hundred and
l.fty dollar.
kVery well; I will take them.M nhe
said, and drawing a rusty pocket-look
from her petticoat proceeded tocount out
the money.
A the bills were mostly lives and tens,
they male a noble pile, and a John t-ok
Diem from her hand, he held them ptir
I wisely so as to exaggerate their apjear
anee und skipped around amon the
clerk with great gusto.
"Nearly seven hundred dollars from
my rurul friend," he excited. "No last
year Iicavers for them, if yon please, and
the girl is a sweet ss the "roses and pinks
in my mother's garden."
Tliat day's saie wa a nmj, tie l,hnir
for John Harvey. It gave him an im
jwirtanee in the eyes of his employer,
w ho increased hi salary and placc'Vhiui
at the head of hi department.
Two years later he wned and won the
girl "sweet ;us the pinks and rosen," who
brought him, beside her sweetness ami
beauty, a suns little fortune, which
soem.-d all the licttcr from having I teen
a.vumnlated where the pink and rtetes
bloom. He then returned to Vermont to
remain with hi mother during her re
maining year, not a A clerk in the old
country titore, but as its ow ner and pro
prietor", and w hich is today, liecatise of
itt neatness and tasteful ordering, and
abundant f iirnishinsr, noted the country
rn'ind as the "Ix-st store in the Stat"."
The villagers, too, like John' wife, bis.
cause of her si:n. le and sweet way; and
it was her aunt the oi l ladv herself
who told me the siorv of John's
fortune, which all grew out of well di
rected kindness to country people.
Klcellent llonirstir AVInc.
A housewife who make excellent
cherry wine does it after the following
foruri.a; Stone and mash the clevne1
and stiaiu the juice. To one quart of
j ure a 1 1 on or one an 1 a half p.nis of
water according to the richness ,.f the
juice. Some juice w ill bear more dibi'.ion
than otheis. To every gallon, of the
mixture add three jtound oi sugar. 1-t
stand in an open mouthed j.ir w:th mus
rju:to netting over it nntii it ceases lo
forwent, then bottle and cork.
XYh.-it I a Trump Steamer?
A tramp steamer is one that seek a
cargo wherever it may be found. Some
kitulhcarted jw-ople are g.wi I enough to
call tramps traveler, but the c licet would
U; o.st if this gentleness wer- extviidcd
ty a steamer.
JiE HAD LIU;.).
THE OR AN D WIND-UP OF A
MIGHTY HUNTER.
'TliOiat Spirit Gar. Him Life and tlio
C'rent .Spirit Te.k It Away."
Pay has finally broken, an-l there i a
reddening of the eastern sky. Tho faint
flushes d.t'jen, the purple fades to gold,
the gold turn to lire and the topmost
rim of the son ri" frotu. the plain nd
l.i'ri.islies the crag aii."! 'ik.".1" the
I'owder Kiver Mountains as if preparing
them lor tenrj'les of worship.
Five minute later and a great conti
nent is s-amed iijni by the full sun of a
glorious morning in Indian Summer.
"foil have seen a grand old horse al
most blind almost ready to die from old
age, rise from his grassy lied of a sum
nier morning? The morn seemed to put
new life into him. Then- is fire in his
eyes a he llhigs hi head alwuit and
riiiitf at the sunshine, and for the mo
ment he i voting and strong again.
So on this morn, from his camp in the
foot-hill, rises a grand old man, and, a
he draw himself up to hi full height
and faces the gloriou east, bis eyes grow
bright, hi muscle quiver, and the
strength mines back to every limb. Hut
it is not for long. The sun i scarce! v a
foot als.ve the plain wln-n the tall form
slojis, the limbs iiegin to weaken, and
the lire dies tntt of the eye and is re
placed by a dull stare.
It is the wreck of a man a might v
hunter and lighter. Tint" plain anil
mountain and valley have lieen hi
home for a score of years. Face- chest
liinlrs ,'vcry-w here about him, are near
of wounds dealt by savage or U-ast. Tip
going down of the suit has found him
alone; the dawn of day ha found him
solitarv. lireak a man's heart and he
turn fnnii the world and hates vice and
virtue alike.
He is old and his strength ha waned.
Death has been long in coming, but it lias
drawn night at last. The chill of death
drives some men back to the woild, to
die with tender hands alwmt them.
thers defy the grim monster to the last,
and they die alone, unwept, uncared for.
"It i my last day on earth!" So says
the grand old man as he slowly turn on
hi heel to look alxnit him. The vision
that muld once discern a moving bull'alo
half a smre of miles away can now
scarcelv make out the ragged trees across
the little valley. The arm which muld
have once lifted the most ijcrliil
wariior high in air for a dash to death,
can now scarcely bring the rifle to an
aim. He has run hi race and his time
has mine.
The sun climlis up and up, and the dav
burst lorth into full strength. Th'e
moiintains stand out with sncii rugged-ln-ss
and gran.lness as never U-fore. The
valleys and hillsides never held the sun
shine as t-lay. Nature is to gie the
old man a grand funeral.
And the sun climb higher, and it is
midday.
And how should he die one whose
summers and winters whose mouths
and years - have Ihi-ii passed in the sun
shine of the sterile plain in the shad
ows of the rugged mountain with the
growl of tho grizzly and the shout of the
red warrior in hisYars? I n the dramas of
the staw men die as they have lived;
w hv not in real life ?
The old man is ready, llille in hand
his grizzly Lx ks halt hidden by hi fur
cap - his strength mining back" as if he
had lecu l-rn again, he scats himself
upon a great rook and scans the winding
valley at his feet. God gives him hack
his sight once more, and 110 creeping
thing escajes his vision. To the right all
iswell. lo the left wait He half rises
for a la-tter look.
Enemie warriors !
Have they got the word that-to-dav is
the old man last day on earth, and "are
they to sit in front and applaud a the
curtain goes. down? It i well. That
long rifle has sent more than one warrior
to his death. That great frame, now so
rapidly wasting, bears the scar of bullet
and tomahawk and knife.
A dozen warriors a war party bent on
rapine and murder mine "galloping
swiftly np the valley. The old tighter
grow you nir in year as he watches the
advance. The thrill of excitement brought
the blotvl to hi cheek the whisper of
danger strings every nerve. Fate has
been kind to him; as' he has lived so shall
he die. Would you have the hero of a
score of battles die in his lied, alone and
unseen, or in front of his foes, lighting
gallantly to the last, and hi death ap
plauded even by those who slew him?
Ah! they have caught sight of him.
The gaunt figure outlined against the
sky is a familiar one. It has Ik-cii feared
for its strength, hated for the destruction
it has wrought. Escape is rut orT to the
right-to the left in front. The back
ground is rugged hillside, on which the
warrior are more at homo than the
hunter. And so shout of defiance and
exultation till the air as the warriors dis
mount and advance.
Make ready now ! The drama of life i
near its close. The life and strength
which excitement brought are beginning
to die away. Their shouts come faintlv
to his ear; there is a blur before his
eyes; the hands which hold the riile
tremble with weakness. Death i sweep
ing up from the valley in it war plume
death is creeping down from the liill
ride with swift step hut invisible form.
And now the shout of the warrior are
nearer and louder, and their rifles are
blazing death at the hunter, and he turns
his face to heaven and pleads:
"A few last . set onds of strength and
siirht and I am ready to go."
They are given him -his eye clear
his form grows erect -he i the trrand old
fighter once more. Up mines the rifl
up up hi eve covers the sights the
weajxin i held as lirm as a rook, and
when the red flame leaps tint a chief
flings up his arm and titters his death
cry.
The drama has ended and the curtain
has gone down. The warriors creep
nearer and nearer. They wonder and
are mystified. They linaily roach the
rock to tind the old inau lying dead, hi
face upturned to the simj whos rising
will si-e him no more. There is no blood
no wound. They gather about him
like children almut'a mvsterv, and thev
whisper to each other:
"It was not for u to shtv him. The
Great Spirit gave him his life, and the
Great Spirit took it awav!" .V. Jr,J.
Children of the fit t.
Ix't any one visit one of or.r rural
districts, for example, of New Jersey, and
take notice of the strong, hcalt !i good
uatiiivd children he sec upm cither
hand, and laudins at any o n; of our
down town ferries on his return, let him
observe the little, pale, slender, wee.el
faced youngsters lh.it crow I our .side
walks looking as if it were an ell'ort re
quiting allthcir strength to live, and he
w ili need no argument or strons array of
statistics to convince him that something
should he done, and that loo, at once,
toward inipiox ing the physical condition
of this liiiiueroiii growing jHjpui.it 1011.
Goo 1 aii, clean water and healthy food,
and enough of them, are cheaer in the
end than pest houses, infirmaries an 1 in-
j aaiiu lilUic. list's Jiturim! vf llc'llt.
Amazing Advent are
. Tiarr. '
Willi a '
1 was in charge of a partv making a
survey for a railroad line between Nag
poor and Hyderabad, India (said Major
White 1, ami as there was no hurrv a! tout
the "work our party w as as much a hunt
ing as a surveying party. We numbere.l
alxitit o jMHiple, ten of whom were white
men. Owing to the ditlienhios oj jni
country we had n.1 saddle horses, hut
took nlong six or eight pack animals, and
t nch nat- . also Jia I a pack to bear. The
very .!!!". nines 111 thy way of 'uijl lio a
line made the country a sporlsm.ifi'
paradise. Twenty years ago there was
more wild and savage game to the acre
in that district than elsewhere south of
Luckiiow, but the march of civilization
has doubtless driven the big wild game
awav by this time.
We were traveling along the north
branch of the ( 'adavey Hi ver sometimes
ujion its bank and again a mupleof miles
from the water, sometime travelling live
or six miles a day, and again halting for
a couple of days to fish or shoot when
a 111. -t singular incident ls-fell me indi
vidually. 1 had left camp at an carlv
hour in the morning to lish." While I
carried my rille with me, I had no inten
tion of going out of my way to lind game.
n the previous afternoon I had observed
w hat seemed to 1m; a caj.it al lishiug sjnit
in a liend of the river, and it wa to this
place I hastened as I left amp. Sonic
of the native servants were astir and saw
in e set out, but I did not want their ser
vices. It was nrettv thick tuti-le l.i tir..,.n
the camp and the hend. but at the Lend I
there wa a clear sjot an acre in extent,
with a heavy forest growth and a ledge
of rocks for a background. As I took a
l'Kik around liefore sitting down on the
bank to my sjiort 1 remarked that it was
a good sjHit for wild beasts, but as there
was nothing moving I went right to work
with my iishing tackle. Catching a frog
for bait, I Huns in the hook, and it wasn't
live minutes liefore I was meeting with
such luck that all thoughts of tigers
snakes and hyenas were driven out of
my mind.
I had landed half a dozen good-sized
fish, and was just then playing a larger
one; when a slight noise startled me, an-l
I looked around to see such a sight as
has seldom come to the eyes of a sjiort.s
maii. A full-grown tiger was within live
feet of me, playing with one of the lish.
It was the hist lish pulled out, and in it
dying agonies it was jumjiiug alwmt on
the grass. Every time it moved the tiger
would reach out" a paw in a playful wav,
and once or twice he struck hard enough
to move the lish three or four feet. I
toll you I was a badly frightened man,
and al! I could do was to sit there with
month and eyes ojien. The tiger had
crept down from the bluffs, and why he
hadn't attacked me was a mystery. He
went from lish to lish, turning them over
with his paw, and time and again brush
ing me with his tail as he moved a!jout.
My rille was ten feet away, leaning
against a bush, and 1 might have been
idiot enough to try to reach it but for a
warning. My jK-rsonal servant had fol
lowed me, to see what luck I had. He
came into the neighloihwjd while the
tiger was playing with the lish, and,
softly climbing a tree, he uttered the call
of a bird to attract my attention, and
then sang out :
"Do nothing to'provoko the tiger,
master. He is a tiiloimlr, and if you do
not croud him he will go away."
He meant that the sjiirit of a good
native had been transformed, and it was
clearlv the common-sense way to follow
bus advice. As the beast gave me no at
tention, 1 turned to the tish tugging at
my line and landed him. He was of
g.MKl size and full of vitality, and the tiger
w aited in a playful way until I removed
the hook and threw the fish on the grass.
Then he sprang for it as a kitten would
for a ball of yam, and he played with it
in the same way. It was laughable, in
sjite of the circumstances to witness
his action. He would run around in
circles, a you have seen a young clog do.
sometimes almost leaping over me, and
then again he would ln-eome the cat and
creep softly forward to lwninee ujwin one
of the lish. Each one as caught was
flung to him, and it wa a full half hour
lie fore he grew tired of the sjwjrt. I ex
pected he would turn to me siwjner or
later, but the native saw the change of
demeanor lirst and called :
"Master, the hilmrrUr is going to play
with you '. He as clay in his jwiwer."
The tiger suddenly left the last fish
landed, and came stalking up to me,
purring like a cat and acting very play
ful. Hi first move was to worm his
head under my left arm, and, I'm telling
you the sole inn truth when I say that I
smoothed down hi fur as if he had been
a favorite dig. I had on a big straw hat,
and this he got hold of in hi teeth, and
plaved with for ten minutes, or until he
hail torn it all to piece. I had no more
bait to lish witli, and drew in the line,
and sat there waiting for the tiger's next
move. When he had finished the hat,
he came over and rubbed against me,
and tirred in a pleased way, and I rub
bed him with my hand from nose to tail.
I gradualy got over my scare, but was
yet very "anxious to know how the affair
would end. The sun was getting well np
and very hot, and the beast would siw-iii
be seeking his lair. In aliout thirty
minutes from the time he appeared the
tiger liegan to show a change of demea
nor. He acted nervous and uneasy, and
the hair on hi back stood up at inter
vals. I judged that he had got the scent
of my servant, and such proved to be the
case.
I dared not rise to my foot, but T ma le
tiji my mind that if the tiger attacked me
I should make a spring oil tlie iiani. into
the river. It was infested with croco
diles, but there was not much choice lie
tween being eaten by boast or saurian.
Once the tiger glared at me and grow led,
but next moment whined as if afraid,
and edged uj toward me as if for protec
tion. The servant had been keeping a
watchful eye on my strange playmate,
and he now lielieved the time had conn'
for tie isive action. He therefore tired
his j'istol and shouted a' the top of his
voice. The etlect was immediate. The
beast dr...ed his tail, uttered a long
drawn whine, and with a sort of farewell
glance at tne he boltM for the forest and
disappeared. I had looked him over
pretty well, and had noticed, among other
things, that he had a broken claw on the
right jciw.
We did not break camp that day. Just
liefore sunset, as we sat in groups smok
ing our pijies a tiger charged boldly in
among ti e servant and seized one and
attempted to make oil. We rallied to
prevent, and the lieast knocked two other
men over liefore he was desj.atehed.
When we came to examine the lioly I
had not the slightest diliiculty in identi
fying it as that oy my playmate of the
morning.
Tnr itv tit New Ym!; will sum Ve
lighted throughout by electricity. Con
tracts cover.ng all streets were le: last
week. The low est pi ice named w . s
ilwnit ".'( cents per lamp p. r night.
TifK oi.niisr jair of twins ;ep iried this
season are Mrs. Heisib.ih Everett and
Mrs. Sally Cole, jf Dtilham. Ma.-s., who
were ".mi years old l.isi May. Their
sister, Mrs. Nabhv Smith, of th.-ntmc
pLKt, is '). A
An
STAMl'DDE.
Did you ever see a stampede of bulla
hies? No! Well, the man who has seen
one, and lived to toll of it, has witnessed
asj.eot.e-le to Le vividly icmeuibeivd all
his days.
A stamp-do was a common occurrence
ia the life of every western hunt r
twenty year ago ; but no one w ill over
look iiJhi;i one again. The hide hunter
hn.- e U"t lest a b -ore of the ani-ua's a'ive.
V. hr.t crcnVs a st.11npc.lc ? Xothing
fiiivtltins. While the buflalo is born in a
will tate, and ought to get a customed
lo sfor.iifJ. the sight of wolves, and all
kinds of noises, he is the most timid ani
mril 011 1 artli. I have s. on th- coining
up of a dark cloud stanipodoten thousand
biili'al i; s. I have known the howl oi a
wolf to sot a big herd in motion, A ll.ish
of lightning or a claji of thuu 'or seemed
to scare the n half to death, all hough oti
y.onld argue that thev would d ! used to
i.. And once started nothing Put a
mountain could turn the great w ave aside
and only exhaustion would bring them
back to their si Uses. After a herd had
fairly st irled. terror seemed to take com
plete jM.-sfssion of them, and it was the
devil seize the lai one. Then it was v.oe
to the pioneer or hunter w ho'hapjiened
to b. in their path w ithoiit a grove to
shelter them.
1 saw, in lsr7, on the I.ouji I'ork of ihe
Platte b'ivcr, an emigrant oaui which
had been run over by astamjNiie. There
had been seven wagons and '1 peojile,
with alxmt 'SO head of horses and cattle.
The rushing, terror-stricken In r I struck
th? canij. just at daybreak and was lo or
1M minutes :issiug. Only one human
being escaped .1 man w ho was carried
oil' f.11 the hack of a hiillalo, and left at
a sjiot in miles away. Not an animal
was left, not a vehicle osoaj.ed destruc
tion. 1 saw the site of the camp about
noon of that day, and there wasn't a
piece of any of the heavy wagons w hich
I could not have carried oil' under my
arm. The jnnjile had been tramped into
the earth annihilated wiped out. The
remains could scarcely be recognized as
those- of human beings.
Hut as to my own adventure. There
.were four hunters r.f u in the locality
spoken of, killing various kinds of game
and doing a little trajiping, an t though
Jpieiity of re !skin'. were in that cuiitrv,
they did not get on to us for a week. We
had a cainji on a small run or creek, with
a grove of about a dozen trees for shelter,
an I about two miles to the north was a
sj.iing and another grove.
The in. ban- hadn't got hold of AVin
cheslers an I Une'v nothing of revolvers
in tho.-e days, and a war paitv of less
than '" w.nild have hesitated to attack
four humors. We kept our eves open,
however, and one was on the watch
while the other three slcjit. We had
been in camp nine tir ten davs, and cm.
stanilv mii loiui led by bullaliw-s, when,
one alteniooii, just bcion sunset, it was
apparent from the actions of the animals
that something was in the wind. The
detachment. were consolidating, all stray
bulls joining the herds, and almost every
builalo ceased feeding and acted anxious
ly and ill at ease.
That meant indians. Curious its you
may think it the presence of an iu.Ii.m
will disturb the butialoes sooner than
that of the white man. We couldn't say
whether it was a war party hanging
around to attack us or a hunting party
hovering on the Hanks of the great herd,
but we made all preparations that niyht
to defend ourselves.
I have spoken of the second grove. It
w as mmiiosed of a few stunted cotton
wool Is. and was in no sense' a shelter.
Now this i what happened during the
night. A war party of about .'! Indians
took uj) their position in this little grove,
calculating to swoop down on us at day
break and carry our caniji by storm.
Along toward daylight thev mounted and
rode softly dow n to within a quarter of a
mile of us. and there waited for day to
break. They would be observed by" the
sentinel, but would make a rush and
carry the camp. Well, it was just com
ing day, and live minutes more would
have dis.-overed them to the sentinel,
when the big herd, which had been
gathering to the north of us, began a
stamicde. Th" sentinel heard Ihem at
the first start oil", and roused us up, and
by the time we hail our guns in hand we
could see the iudiau war party. They
knew what was uji lictter than we did,
but they were caught between two fires,
and the chief was too slow-w itted for the
occasion. His jHilicy should have been
to charge u. He might have lost six or
eight men, but. the shelter of the grove
wo ul I have saved tho rest and given
them our seal j is to boot. He might not
have known our strength, and so, after
spending the valuable minutes in reflec
tion, he ordered the party oil to the left.
The only hope they could have was in
riding across the face of the herd, but that
was out ot the question. The front cov
ered, as we afterward knew a distance of
seven miles, and the indians had barely
gtt started when the lirst butialoes were
in sigh.
They came thicker than bees, their
heads down, horns rubbing, and feet
miking a great clatter, and while we
looked we s:iw the war party swallowed
up in that great heaving sea of animal
life. A moment later an ol I hull dashed
into and through the grove, and every
man sprans for a tree. As I was climb
ing up mv feet struck a builalo on the
back, and before I was secure only the
five largest trees in the grove were stand
ing. All oth rs had been ujtrooted by
contact, and three crippled animals were
lying on the ground lieiieath me. Our
horses, camp, everything, went in two
minutes. The noise was 10 times more
di!ifeiiing than a hurricane at sea, and the
terror of the animals was something ap
palling. I have told you that the front of tho
herd w as seven miles across. You can
judge what the depth must have been
when I tell you that they were three
hours in pas-ins. Every animal was
running for his life, and his pace could
not have Ik-cii less than 10 miles an hour.
I shouldn't hesitate to make allidavit
that the herd was a go wl 'SO miles deeji.
The aniiii.i s ran, as we afterward knew,
fully -H inil-s he lore they slowed down
at all. When the last one had passed us
the country about us was a sight to be
hold. There were at h ast 1"0 dea l or
crippled animals in sight, and there was
a swath seven miles wide, which had cut
t he very life out of the prairie. I f all
our cainji equipage we could not find one
solitary 1 rtiele of wood, or iron, or leath
er. Ail our horses had been trampled
under within less than a mile of the
grove, and their bodies were sight no
one could lo k at twice. We spread out
to see wh it late had la-fallen the lndi ms,
and we did not have to go far. They had
been knocked dowh and stamjied Into
tho earth. A member of thesame tribe,
with whom 1 talked a year later, told me
that not one survived, and the loss had
almost demoralized the tribe.
AVk praise the dramatic jwiot who pos
sesses the art of drawing learn a talent
which he has in common with the mean
est onion.
Luv "What is the matter w ith the
baby V"
Little .-ister ' h" nothin much ; he's
only hatehin' teeth.'' , - .
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Oueer Fccne in tlie Ituriitl of the Old ami
i Minis.
I will describe two funerals s.ivs a
.'o- spon. lent of the I,oll. loll o'Vyc,
that 1 w itne.-sed in one day at the great
comet- ,y at Seville, four little baro-fo-it"d
boys arrive at tho cemetery gates.
Hetw-een them they carry a little blue,
and w hite cotlin. They jog along, chat
ting and l.tu .-hiiig, ui tlie long avenue of
trees. Pr. s iitly tlioy s-o '" something
which attracts their atfetitiou a bird in
a tr.e. Do vu they drop the tofiin hy
the roadside, and fill' they scamper acros
the grass to the tree. " They j.ick up
st on. s an I begin to throw at tins bird, in
the jiroerss tlcy quarrel alwmt some
thing, and two of the boys have a fight.
Jn the iiit aiitime the co'lin lies in tin
roadway. I walk up to it, and through
the gla-s set into t ie lid 1 sve the dead
child's face. It had been dead porhajis
1- ho i's, so the foater s :;r ' en h tnged,
and it : pears to be calmly sleejiiug.
Several ) oplc jm.-s me ; no one lakes any
llotie of the l oilin 0:1 the road. tne old
gentleman ic-arlv tumble-; over it and
t wears. Jt i.s evidently 11 dhing unusual.
Presently these ragned lwiys have ar
range I lln ir little ili.i'eronccs," return and
pick up tiie coilin. Two of them have
lighted cigarettes. They carry their bur
den right a -i es t he cemetery to a little
house, wior; two or three 11111 with
bra"- numbers on their aj.s are smoking
cigar.-tfes. lb-re thev show a pa tor, and
one of tin- men, picking uj a spado, tell
the boys to follow- him. Oil they go,
jogging the coilin now this wav 110 w tliat,
and I follow lU'in.
We come to a long lin- of brioV vault.
Pome are empty ; some are tilled opto
the toj) with wiiat I presum-' to be mold.
The 'grave digg.-r turn over the loose
earth with h;s sjiade, and strikes a coilin
here and the-". It is too full. He moves
on to another bricked square, pushes his
sna le in, and says there is just room.
He digs a little hole and lavs the coilin
Hush with the top of the brick work.
Then he throws a few spadefuls of earth
from a mound close by, an I the ceremony
is over. There are thousands trf thes'o
bricked squares in the cemetery and each
contains a score il coiiins. There i.s no
stone over tic top, only the loose brown
earth. So, no of them are so full that the
earth has to be piled un to coyer tho
coilin an 1 thus the coilin is actually
above ground.
The next luuoral arrived as I was leav
ing tho cei o 1 ry. A car, drncu by a
man smoking a cigarette, came up. H
w ! I' e. 1 hy a c-ah. lYoni which
a!;g itcd .111 "Id gentleman, also smoking
a e.g. re:;e. The car jeille I up at the
gate of ih.- "dep is:t..ry," a li'lle house in
the g -minds arranged for tl: r.-cejitiou of
the i -ool ' who have died too I.ito to be
buried that dav. The guardian of the
h lis.-, oi jarelte ill mouth, (hugs open the
d s. speaks to th" gentleman, and then
oal.sso ii" one to come. A man with a
cigarette in h,s mouth now appr. laches.
lie and th-' cer-.irircr lift out th iliii
and ca .i.,.: hmw and biv it on
the t i-.-st I -s. They then ligu, .-..'.Heat
the hea l a i l foot, and come out ana
.-hilt the door.
On drives th" car. the man lighting
another cigar -it -, and the 'gentleman to
whom the corps, belongs strolls aeros
the ceinote'-y with the grave-digger to
choos -his phii-e."' Th" era vo-digger
turns up a little earth in one brick square
and th'.n in another. "Too full," says
the gentleman, jvi:Ihig his cigarette. He
goes from square to square and jiokes at
the loose eaith w ith his cane. At last he
settle on a square which is only half
full. "That will do," he says, and" then
he returns to his cab and drives away.
Marvelou ITorsemannlilp.
A St. Petersburg correspondent, writing
to the London Stmohinl says :
"This morning I witnessed a wonderful
disj'lay of horsemanship. It took plant
in the Petrotl'sky Park. Here, in the
jn-eseiieo of the Grand Duke Nicholas,
and most of the foreign odicers and
guests, tin: regiment of Cossack Guards
went through an extraordinary scries of
exercises w hich threw the most daring
feats of ih" circus in the shade. The en -tire
regiment passed at full gallop, in
loose order, with many of the men stand
ing upright ill their saddles, other upon
their heads with leg- in the air, many
leaping upon the ground and thou into
the saddle again at full sjioe.l, son.
springing over their horse's heads, and
pi'-kiug up stones from the 0101110I, and
yet regaining their seat. While per
forming t hose feats all wore brandishirrj
their sal ires and firing pistols, throwing
t heir carbines into the nir and catclocg
tiiem again, and yelling like maniac.
Some men wont jxist in pairs, standing
with a l.-g on each other's horses ono
wild fellow carried fill auot her dressed as
a woman. T he etlect of the scene wu
absolutely liewildering. and it seemed aa
if the' whole regiment had gone mad.
I'jwiu a signal being given, the regiment
divided into two parts. One rode oil';
sheii halted and made their horse lie
lown tori tho ground beside them, wait
nig a in w ar the approach of the enemy.
I he other section of the regiment then
charged down, and in an instant every
horee was on his feet, every rider in hi
saddle, and with a wide veil they rode at
1 heir supposed enemy. When the man
evres were over the regiment rode jiast
-inging, and uncommonly well together,
:i military chorus. Altogether, it was a
marvelous exhibition of daring horse
manship, and one hardly know whether
to admire the docility and mottle of the
steeds or the skill and courage of the
riders. All the foreign olliecrs ami
guests were no less astonished than de
lighted." A Oneer Fnnlon Story.
tueer things hajipen in this paraoti
business. Historian L. H. IS. Proctor,
author of "Hem-h and Bar" and several
other standard works, was telling me the
other day of a peculiar jiardon case under
Governor Seward. Mr. Pnwtor was a
student in Governor Seward's law oiiiee
in Auburn when .lude Samuel ISlatch
ior.l was a partner 01 Seward. A man
and his wife had been convicted of a
crime, and both were sent to State Prison.
He was sent to Auburn, and she wa
serving a term in Sing Sing. Sympathy
had been aroused for the woman, and a
jieiitioii signed by many influential
names was jiresented to Governor Seward
for her pardon. After mature consider.-r
tiou he decided to grant it, and on hi
way to New York one day slopped at
Sing Sing and delivered the pardon pajier
himself an unusual thing. The woman's
name was Frances and her husband's
name was Francis. She was handed the
jiardon and walked tint. Seeing that the.
masculine form "Francis" apj wared in
the pardon, she took a train ul once lor
Auburn and jne-ented the jiardon to tho
Warden, with the statement that she had
just been pardoned by Governor Seward,
and been allowed to bring her husband's
pardon in person. The Warden looked
at it. It called for the release of tlie
man, and he was brought out, handed
the jiardon, and allowed to go free.
When Governor Seward found out tho
mistake he thought it U-tter to say noth
ing alw.ut it, and the prisoner was never
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