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the People
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TIN, COPPER AND SHEET-IKON WARE
AND Z'JV ROOFING.
KespeeUally In Titos the atteni a at bis friends
and tse public 10 ifeneral to the fuel that ha is still
carrying on baslneKB at the old stand opposite the
Mountain House. Ebenshars;. and If prepared to
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(live in i c ill a 1 (dti'.n y - .r-u: vc n to my
work snd r.rlcen V I.l'lTKIMiEK.
.""OKhurK. April 13. lWUtt.
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house-clesjiing e.nd be h&pfy
ana ne a cliurnsu nusbana wno
OUR HOME.
Beloved! when wo pass away
from this lainiliar spot,
I wonder who will come and slay
In the deserted cot.
Beneath these elm trees who will stand
And think that home is sweet.
When tu have frone into that land
Where parted households meet?
Oh! who will walk beside the stream,
Or sit beneath the pine.
To dream aain life's little dream.
When 'tis not yours, nor mine.
Will sorao one Mi my favorite tree.
Pull down the mossy wal:.
The Uiinir so dear t you ami me
Will they destroy them all?
Whose name will be on yonder door?
Whose pictures deck the walU?
Whose feet press roughly on the floor
Where your dear foot.step falls?
And when the years to centuries awing.
Till all we love are de;xL
Wi.l any echo backward brlnir
The words thai we have said?
I Lope the brook down there will miss
An olii familiar tune.
When in a happi. r home than this
Wu talk with a'.l our own.
For oh ! this little home is sweet,
K.i' li corner Is so dear.
Can llenvcu without it be complete?
I would that Heaven were here.
I almost think that from the skies.
If I this home can sec,
I shall watch those with envious eyes
Who Iiv hero after me.
' Uusb : hush ! we shall not care," you say;
I)var heart ! It may be true;
We shall not th it. but oh. to-day
My life is lu re, with you.
Julia II. May. in Good Housekeeping.
A SET OF VIEWS.
They Oo to Make Up a Romance
in Real Life.
I.
AX INTERIOR.
'coin to the M'asilc? In November!"
Kinily lal t.ttKt)iod to pick up licr
rnunt tliimlilo, but now, like tho gtd
. iCnea. slio btixxl nmazeil, with oyes
uxotl on her companion as if i were
an unexpected omen.
"Yi' it i! oUl," sa'ul Clara. j,'aziiif
out of her winlov over the smooth
western htrctcV. of the lake; "but wc
must leave t-hicaj.i; and I'ncle David
has jit-en mother and me the use of
the town hoiw in summer and tlie
seasiile cottaye in winter. It's execed
inif'.V ith1 if hi tu. but it 1 funnyT'
"Dear! and Mas.ichusetts! You'll
Ik- just l)t t- our erovL Well, that
rose i.s linished; how d.x-s it strike 3ou?"
Clara felt chilUtl. Kmily had bt-en
"no end sorry" that shfc and her
mother hati lost every dollar; had wept
real tears when the time of separation
had lerun to seem near; and now she
was smilingly asking her opinion of an
embroidered rose.
With a rirl's quick pride, however.
-h- llnnjr buck two risin-j tears, and
-mile.l r-siwnsively. "It is a dear
ilo- y..n."she said; and no one would
nave (riiess-!! that she was disappoint
but in her heart was born a new
need.
11.
THAIN- LKAVIXO CHICAGO.
"Ilulloa! ISrown! Wasn't aware yon
were aboard: Goinir east?"
"Gofxi-morning', Mr. Willis; one
doesn't go to California via the New
York Central."
"I'hew! Cynical bacteria in the air.
You'd better come into the smoker and
smoke them out.
There wns something so irresistible
in Harry Willis pood humor that most
people yielded to it, more or less con
sciously. Some amiability is exasperat
ing and seems to say: "See how cool I
keep. Don't pet excited!" Hut Harry
seemed alsolutely unaware that there
was any sting in a spiteful remark. His
mother had once said of him that he
was like a lightning rod, a safe con
ductor for dangerous currents.
"That's all ritrht!" Mr. Urown spoke
less irritably, or, rather, as if his irri
tation had not been meant for Harry,
'.ut directed against the world in pen
rnl. "Uut people do say so many
hinps without any aim whatever or
with more aim than is apparent," he
:ilucd, as if a new idea had struck him.
"Hid you really want to know if I took
nn east bound train in order to go east,
or do yon ask my destination?"
"Oli! pshaw!" Harry made an effort
to speak juite carelessly "what's the
use of Blnirnming? You're bound for
a certain point on the Massachusetts
coast, and ho am I. There's another
point, figuratively speaking, that we're
oth bound for, too."
"Yes," responded Mr. Urown; "this
train makes connections so that we
reach Gloucester at eleven to-morrow
morning. It's about five miles out to
the Point of Viae. Which of us will
get there first?"
"I think it would be a fair arrange
ment for us each to semi Miss Klein a
note, asking her for an interview.
Then the choice of order would lie
with her. See?"
"Very well, that's fair enough. Uut
it's hardly necessary for us to torture
each other in the meantime. I'll take
the next section."
"Wait a minute. We will send the
notes by mail when we reach Glouces
ter start even?"
"Yes."
Mr. Urown strode ' into the next seat,
and knit his black brows over a blank
sheet of paper, on which he finally
wrote with a lead-pencil which be
handled quite firmly:
"Dear Miss Kleui : Yon promised me an
answer this week. 1 could not be content tc
take it fnom the mails. I must aee you. l'lease
let me have an hour with you as soon as you
can. Send to the Grand hotel. Very sincerely,
"M. 1L Urown."
Harry, after summoning the porter
and contradicting each order once or
twice, besides squandering a very un
necessary number of silver quarters,
settled himself with a lap table and a
stylographic pen. and wrote; the final
version was finished just as the after
noon waned into gray:
"Dear CLARA: This stylofrraph la dissraee
ful. but circumstances make it impossible to do
any better. That bear of a no, I be if his par
donbut a certain Kentleman is running s race
K'ilb me to see you. Of coarse it must be s
fair race, and you must decide which shall
have the tlrst chance; but, Clara, don't you see
1 cun't live without you? Do keep that in mind.
Uut btiil, if you'd rathcrhavc tin, why I won't
pain you by ayinr anytuing brutal so good
by till we meet. You and your mother must
be lonely out there; oh! dear little girl. Rive
me the right to make you both comfortable
Send me just a little note, please, at th
Grand. Yours In dire suspense, Hakiit."
III.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
The cottage stood on a little perpen
dicular bluff, and commanded the bay
on one side and the ocean on the other.
As Clara sat out on the little three-cor-nered
balcony and watched the water.
she felt as if thsre were somethinjr
ridiculously suggestive in her environ
ment Harry and Mr. Urown, the bay
an I the ocean, and she between them.
The sun was brigtit and warm for a
November day, but the wind was f reh;
and in one of its whiffs it carried off a
little pile of letters that lay in the rirl's
lap, and whirled them over the sand.
She ran down, pursuing1 them; and.
having captured them with some
trouble, perched herself on a rock more
shielded from the wind and began to
reread some of the papes:
"Kasily prejudiced in judgment, enthusiastic,
uncritical. undi.-crirninatln;, but excessively
loyal in love, determined in hate. Little artis
tic power. Good humor under circumstances
irritating to most men; occasional spurts of
bad temper In unexpected places."
Stern and uncompromising in habits of
thought and emotion; uayiel.linjr in will;
gloomy disposition, tendency to extremes, aris
ing frem narrowness of view; self-centered and
utterly unsympathetic: cranl;y' in action com
bining with a general independence a singular
moral cowardice before the opposition of some
one person probably of the opposite sex."
"Well, I suppose that's Harry and
Mr. Urown. There's a sort of magnifi
cence about Mr. Itrown'sair of reserve
and importance, but I believe he t
selfish and unsympathethic I wonder
if it was a mean trick, petting1 their
'characters' read from their hand
writing1? It's a funny business any
way, for that man but he's remarka
bly clever at it; and fifty cents apiece
well it's cheap for the fun there is in
it; but I don't know note which I like
beM. Mr. Urown is so dUtimjnt, and
Harry is such a dear but he's only a
boy. Somclimi's I think I love neither
one. and sometimes I think I love the
both."
IV.
AXOTHEK BALCONY SCENE.
The afternoon was sunnier and
milder than the morning, and only the
Indian summer haze betrayed the fact
that it was not June.
Clara was sitting again in the three
cornered balcony, and directly in front
of her stood a young man, grasping the
railing with twitching lingers. His
hair was brown, but with more color
in it than brown hair usually has; his
eyes were bluer than most blue eyes;
and his fair skin had a flush like a
girl's.
"I asked you to come first," spoke
Clara, calmly, "lecause I have made
up my mind to say no to you."
Harry's color grew fiercer, and his
hold of the railing tenser.
"Won't you tell me why?" he said,
with a mixture of beseeching and bully
ing in his tone.
"Oh, you are so prcju,,'ced. so 'tin
discriminating,' and you have cca-
j sional spurts of bad temper in unex
. pectcd places." laughed Clara. The im-
pcriousnoss of his voice nettled her,
nnd she would not answer seriousl v.
Not being aware of vie "enaraeter
read I13' chirography," Harry failed to
appreciate the jke, and replied quite
seriously:
"Well, I don't see how you can call a
fellow undtirrinanatinq that chooses
yon; and if I'm hot-headed, it's in a
good cause."
"Yck, it $-iid you were enthusiastic
and loyal," Clara went on, smiling
faintly.
said! Well, I'm obliged to it, w ho
ever it is. Uut Clara, my love can't be
for nothing when it's my tiff just given '
to yvt; and you do love me I can see .
it your eyes. Let rne kiss you, and i
you'll lie sure of it, yourself!' j
And as Harry bent over hi-r, Clara 1
threw her arms around his neck, and !
said:
"Yes, I believe I to."
V.
THE TAIL-riF.CE.
The Indian summer had vanished
with the afternoon, and it was Xovem
ler again; but the sea was not so sul
len or so lonely as the man that stood
at its edge and gazed with aimless di
rectness on the vanishing line of the
horizon.
"She is right. I am a bear, too harsh
arid unsympathetic to enter into her
life. These fellows, like Willis, warm
blooded and gentle, always work it
better with women. I'll just let them
alone in the future."
And the last afterglow seemed to die
out of the sky, as the tense figure strode
away into the night. J. M. Anderson,
in N. Y. Independent.
Aee of the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army has been in ex
istence just thirteen years. It had its
origin in a sensational way in the Eng
lish town of Whitby, in the rough,
coal-mining district of Yorkshire,
where (Sen. I tooth, at that time Ilev.
William Itooth, was doing humble mis
sion work. Kngland was then in arms,
expecting to jump into the Kusso-Tnrk-ish
war. It occurred to Itooth that he
might attract a crowd by issuing a
declaration of war himself, so he pre
pared one forthwith, sprinkled it plen
tifully with hallelujahs and posted two
thousand copies of it aliont town. The
device tickled the Itritish sense of
humor, there was a "red-hot. rousing
meeting," to quote Gen. Uoth, "the
penitents fell down in heaps" and the
Salvation Army sprang into life full
grown. Three Notable Families.
This county contains three remark
able families writes a Milan (Tenn.)
correspondent. It is perhaps safe to
say that it contains the tallest, the
heaviest and the lightest families in the
country. The tall family consists of
four persons father, mother, son and
daughter. The tallest member, the son,
measures 0 feet 8 inches; the shortest,
the mother, fi feet 2 inches. The heavy
family i composed of father, mother
and daughter, and their united weight
is over 1M)0 pounds. The light family
numU'r ten persons, father, mother and
eight children, whose united weight is
jIU pounds.
Why lie Wanted a Niee I'irtnr.
A local photographer tells a story of
a young man who came into the studio
one day and asked nervously if he
might have a little conversation with
him. The visitor was painfully ugly,
and after some awkward blushing and
indefinite allusions he asked the artist
if he supposed he had among his sam
ples a picture of any young man who
looked like him, but was better looking.
"What do you mean, young man?"
asked the photographer. "Well," re
plied he, making a clean breast of it,
"I am just engaged to be married. The
young lady lives out west. She is going
home to-morrow. She says she thinks
I'm so gool she doesn't mind ray being
homely, but she wants a good-looking
picture to take home with her to show
the girls." Itostoc Traveler. -
i gel
FISHING F0K SHARKS.
Terrific Strug-glo with a Ferocioux
Man-Eiter.
The cool, dim shadows of early dawn
still clung to the leeward side of things
as old Cap'n Joel made sail ou the
little sloop. A mild breeze came up
from the southward and stirred into
lazy life the vagrant patches of mist
that hung here and there on the sur
face of Great South bay. Away out in
the solitude of water the lighthouse on
Tire island loomed faintly against the
rosy sky.
'Tide's on the change now," said the
old roan, as he let the sloop's head pay
olf. We're mebbe a little late for
the first run, but we'll get 'em further
along, and mebbc one or two on the
turn. Never can tell about shark's
ways, though. Mebbe won't get a bite
all day."
"Don't croak, Cap'n Joel," said I, as
I trimmed in the jib sheet, with that
ela1xrate attention to detail which
o plainly suggests that time is a bur
den on one's hands. "We may get a
whale before night."
"Meblic so, mebbe so," admitted the
old man, "but the chances are agin it.
I don't believe in raisin no hopes, an
sharks is mighty uncertain. I remem
ber one day last summer I had a city
man out after sharks and we sailed
and sailed and never a bite did we get."
"Had you hired by the hour, I sup
pose. "
Cap'n Joel looked hurt. I always
manage to hurt the old man's fwlings
earlf in the morning, so that he will be
tractable for the rest of the day.
When I fisli for sharks I want a skipper
who will obey li'.:e a Chinaman. In
return for hurting the old man's
feelings I invariably make it tip to
him in some other way at the clo.-i of
the trip.
"Man-eaters plenty this year. Cap'n
Joel?" I asked, cheerfully and brisk-
iy-
"Xot so darned plenty," the old fel
low grumbled, marting a prct.-asi? of
squinting carefully under the boom, as
though he was calculating the danger
to be feared from two other sloops
about six miles off.
"Anybody caught any?"
"Xot as I know on." He was still
grumbling. "'Taint many fol!:s as
lish for sharks. Most people's got
something better to do." l'or Cap'n
Joel this was very severe, but I had
hit him in a very tender spot. "Where' li
I head for?" he asked, almost sullen-
"For the inlet, to be sure. Seems to
me tiiat you forget things very quick
ly." I was still brisk and cheerful.
The old man muttered to himself. He
knew well enough where to go, but his
feelings were hurt, aad when the old
fellow's feelings aro hurl lie acts like a
boy.
As we went along close hauled for
the Fire island inlet I mad.; ready my
new shark tackle. Ca;"u Joel had
never seen it lie fore, and in ordinary
circumstances he would have been as
curious and as eager about it as a
child, but he said never a word. When
I had last fished "with the old man I
had used a heavy trolling line, one end
of which was made fast to the boat.
When I hooked a shark I simply hauled
in hand over hand by main force. This
year I decided to put a little more skill
into- shark fishing, and for that pur
pose I prepared an extra strong bass
rod and reel, and fitted to it as stout a
line as I could find that would run
readily on the reel. I intended to play
the shark as I would play a bass. Old
Capt. Joel sniffed contemptuously, but
silently, as he took note of the new
fangled shark tackle, but I let him
alone in his shell.
It was my purpose to meet the in
coming flood tide at the inlet, and to
reach back and forth across it until I
was satisfied with the day's sport.
Sharks follow the smaller fish into the
Great South bay with each tide, and
sometimes a big one will come along
and stir up the bathers on the beach
at Fire island. The fun that a shark
can have with a lot of women and
children along a bathing beach i.s
something out of the ordinary run of
American humor. The shark probably
enjoys it, and it never does the bathers
any physical harm.
The wind came in a little fresher
with the flood, so that the sloop had
good working headway. She would
jibe quickly, and not too hard, while at
the same time she could be luffed up in
a twinkling. I baited the large hook
with a plump rhossbunker, which the
old man had provided the day before,
and threw it overboard.
"Slack away and stand off and on
across the flood," said I. The sloop
filled away with lifted sheets. The
long line trailed astern with constantly
increasing pressure. Away off on the
lee quarter Jiere was a slight commo
tion on the surface of the water, and
in a minute or two I fancied that I
could catch a glimpse now and then of
a shark.
"Do you see any sign of game?" I
said to Capt. Joel, as he came about
and stood back toward Fire island
beach.
"There's one or two sharks about,"
he answered, but he did not explain
where they might be found. Then we
stood off and on again without catch
ing sight of the triangular fin.
Suddenly there came a tremendous
jerk on the stout line, the reel gave a
wild scream and Wgan to revolve like
a buzz-saw, and the stiff rod bent like
a whip. I had struck big game. I put
on the chee'e very quickly, and as the
velocity of the line lessened I thought
of the pain that the big hook was
causing in the mouth of the ferocious
sea deviL The pain would stop him if
the line would not. Presently the line
slackened and I reeled in furiously.
'Ease off and run for it," I shouted,
"or he will be on us."
The little sloop gathered headway
and darted off before the wind, but still
the line was slack. The shark was
tryiug to see what held him. In about
two minutes I had the line tight again,
and then I had the sloop brought up
into the wind. The shark then took a
notion that he would go across the bay
on his own account, but before he ha
made away with half of the line th
lively little sloop was chasing him. Al
the time I kept up a steady pull on th
line, now holding fast and then slack
ing away, as the necessity of the situa
tion seemed to require. The shark was
getting vicious. Suddenly he made a
lunge and changed his course.
Jibe over! otiick!' I oall.-r! .,i
"He's after us again." The nimble
sloop turned like a top and went racing
away toward Uabylon, with her lee
rail awash. I reeled in as fast as I
could turn my hand. The shark came
on like a raee horse, dragging the
slack line after him. He made straight
for the lMiat,
"Luff lively," I shouted; "luff, or we
lose him." The sloop came into the
wind shaking and fluttering. It may
have been the change of course or it mav
havc lieen the pull of the line, but
whatever it was the shark just missed
the rudder. If he had fouled it, we
should have lost him I saw him plain
ly as he darted past, ami in my H-r-spiring
and panting condition he looked
to lie the living incarnation of devilish
ferocity. The sloop lore awa', and in
a moment more I had the shark towing
by jerks at the end of the line, and the
line well in the reel at that.
The shark was by 110 means snMued,
however, for he led us a lively chase
for fully half an hour after that. The
nimble little sloop ran, and reacht d.
and luffed, and came altout, ami jdn-d.
and spun around like a crazy thing, and
all the while old Capt. Jcl said never
a wortL He was kept nearly as busy
as I was for it is no small task to keep
a sloop dancing about on the water like
a monkey on a hot brick. The old man
was perspiring freely, but he worked
to perfection. He knew as well as I
did what to do, and when I gave an or
der he was already to obey it instantly.
He could have done it all without an
order, but on board ship nothing is
done without instructions from the
man in charge.
"What do you take this "ere sloop
for, anyway; a top?" he gru uhlcd, as
he tilled away for the twentieth time.
"Ueen a dancin' alout like a looney for
the past half hour." I knew by this
that he was warming up to the excite
ment of the occasion. His su'len and
resentful feelings had oozed out of him
as he licgan to perspire over his work.
At the end of three-quarters of an
hour I was about to give up the fight
as hopeless but I resolved to keep it
up until 1 fairly oropped down from
sheer weariness. I never had been so
completely tired out in all my life. The
shark was altogether too heavy for
this sort of fishing. A smaller shark
would have been sport, but this was
something like hard work. After a
time, however. I noticed that the big
fellow on the end of the line was le
coming less ugly and energetic. He
made a dash now and then, but he did
not keep it up. Uy degrees I reel-.-d
him in toward the loat. I did it all
very slowly and cautiously, f.w I did
not wish him to make a particularly
de.-perate break for liberty and get
away from me. I felt that I hail not
enough strength left to resist hiiu.
After some trouble I got him within
a short distance of the lioat.
"Stand ly with the lance. Cap'n
Joel," said I. The old -man dropped
the tiller and took up a lance made of
a bayonet fastened to the end of u
bamboo fi:,hing-ro.L He knelt 011 the
deck l.esi '.e me, with the lance poised
over the water and with His toes braced
against the standing rigging. 1 gently
coaxed the shark alongside directly
under us.
"Stab him." said I, and almost be
fore, the sound of the words had died
away the keen bayonet had flashed in
to the shark's head ami out again
twice. The third stab went into the
unresisting water, for the shark
thrashed the water into foam with his
great tail and tore off across the bay.
The reel screamed again and again as
the wounded thing, crazed with pain
and rage, darted here and there.
W Herever he rushed he left a thin trail
of blooL Although I was no longer
so heavily oppressed with weariness I
took my time about checking him, for
I knew that I ha I him then.
When the wild creature's fury was
spent 1 reeled him in again to the boat,
lie was weak, but still game to the
last. Cant. Joel stabbed him four times,
but even with that the fish made a des
perate struggle for life. Capt. Joel
put a noose around under his forward
tins and we hauled him altoard by
means of tackle already prepared for
that purpose. We let him hang in the
rigging while we bore away for home.
When I was rested a bit I started to
measure him with a tape line. As I
fussed about him he made a lurch and
gave a vicious snap with his ugly jaws
that caused me to fall headlong on the
cabin roof. His razor-like teeth missed
my left arm by barely six inches. Old
Cap'n Joel grinned like a fiend and
chuckled to himself all the way home.
It must have been the shark's last
death spasm, for when I took the lance
and prodded him with it he made no
further demonstration. He was dead
lieyond all recall
On the way home I put the tape line
on him I found that he was a little
more than five feet long. This is not
large for a man-eater; in fact it was
merely an ordinary sort of Great South
bay shark. While I was.cutting off a
fin he slipped out of the noose and fell
overboard, and that was the last we
saw of him He might have been a
man-eater for all that I could tell to the
contrary. I f he were not, it was solely
through lack ot proper opportunity.
N. Y. Times
The Saltan' .UN take.
Everybody knows that the Emperor
William is German to the finger-tips
and that his patriotism will not permit
him to allow French to appear even
upon his bill of fare. The sultan is
nothing if not polite, and when William
was his guest a few weeks ago was ex
tremely careful that all his prejudices
should be most scrupulously respected.
With this hospitable end in view he
ordered that William should be
served with German champagne
only and i.s mortified now to know
that this delicate attention was
not appreciated as it ought to have
been. The emperor it i.s understood
has a weakness for champagne and
does not trouble himself alnrnt its na
tionality so long as the flavor is all
right. On this point his patriotism is
not inilexible.
Two-IWUr Counterfeit.
The ways of the wicked are most
always found out at the last. The coun
terfeiters of the United States two-dollar
silver certificate forgot to turn the letters
Two after photographing the bill and
making it otherwise so like the genuine
note that it deceived the liest exports
for awhile. The letters on the counter
feit read backward: o w t. They are on
the top of the figure -J, and are so mi
nute as to require a magnifying plass to
be vbiblc.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Tho' patriotic to the core.
I never have W-'T. .'artial
llefore to-day, 1 mul admit.
To uia'.ters thut were martial.
Uut. sir.ee I s.-.w tI1.1t s.j-.iaJ ot girls ,
Tiie.r evolution matiing,
1 own tfiat in a r.nifonn
There'!, somethititr very "taking
At n'.l event, one uiilferm
Or. rutner !;nt ;; iu It
Sc. ver '-tauiri-" 1 roved, it took
Me caj.tivc in a i:iinut.
T.'.o' ::ll were lovely, rank and file,
ATI each the nanu il :ilt in.
Th- l.ta ier wa the l..v:i. st
Sly tapior wan the captain.
A rrnn nnyhap. rr.!ht meet, unmoved.
A rl!arre from leveled 1 inees;
Hni note.-. I'll v. .ar.cMii I im : wit h-.! and
T.Uf. lijtit'rv of iri."lit iri.rie -s !
Nav. n;i : Who .m-1ci -1 hi tier must lay
liciica'.li tliiise f, J m rdenuer.
1 1 1 -J f-.i-.iH !:i Ui.C'TI'llt !ii'j:ll
Al-'l vet 11. fTlii.l .ur-.Tider.
A li't !e enr i:eon b'-r rur's.
i. I I s' r-:p- 1: '! lo-r siioiilder,
Hr:i I. ji .! H.i 7.i i' in a way
Tc. t.lln.l the m-li holder.
Sslie leo': Til' ri .-.'oi r oa the hjn.t,
ThU maiiii "1 nil i':iry.
Tho' I'm a ma i. aii.i 'ho' a mouM1
At home mllit uial:u her "M ary."
When flrt she drw her sword and sen.
Her silv'rv vo'-- a sr,:ii.ii,tia
A!"nj tli lino. My l:e:ir1 ti med up.
As to Hie ' 1 .i'.l'"i'- iK.iiiiliu;
1iit, e'er a v:iv ne .mil'' to w in
Kron. 1 -r I. iv- eoiil.i 'iisc:iv.r.
She i:i.:t r:y heart .4 blow Iron) which
I klioiv I'll ne'er leemer.
But tho' to tln.t Im Uii-rent
Yet Im ant if il y-.'ivir dau-bt r
Of Tiia--.. Imsett. 1 pave in.
And liiinit'ly c-ri.il for j'iartcr.
O, tho' of wars and srr's alarms
I've ever ln a Later.
Here's bopiuir I may live to tell
Of an engagement later!
Hilton Globe.
A HUNTERS NERVE.
Calmly Facing a Ferooious South
American Tiger.
It was in the state of Mirandea. New
Venezuela. It was lluee n'clivk in tha
morning, snd I was with Manuel, the
tiger hunter, on the mountain. After
a half-hour of earn ions walking Man
uel paiLsed at a turn in the narrow
path, and I felt rather than saw that
the dawn of day was at hand. There
was a strange stir in the air. as though
the fe-.-Me breath of life had come
hack to the dead mid inanimate nature.
Over ln-yor.il the t-ie-tern mountain tops
the stars w.-rc growing pale. The fir-t
faint gray ling.- of dawn was coming a
long wa v i.:7.
Day came slowly. I noted this w'th
surprise, for I h::l any number of times
read descriptions of !.iwi in 1 he ! Top
ics w hi-rein it was r;-: ,r -sentcd t hat day
came wit!i a In mhi.1 i ml . if t he blackness
.f the t:i;'it. Perhaps the writers of
these descriptions hail waited until the
sttn had already r.-iiiicned the eastern
j.ky before watching for the dawn.
From tho time that I noti.-e l the first
faint gray streaks in the sk- unfit the
un was aeluaUy shining on the moun
tain to;., it was perhaps a little more
than an hour. I have seen the day
break in the Koekj' mountains in the
varne length of time, with the only dif
ference that in the tropics the day came
more swiftly after the rosy lights
had come into the sky. Dctween the
fir -t grays of the early morning and the
rosy hues of actual day there was little
'.inVr.-iicc in the Cordilleras and the
Koclxv mountains.
I coid.l have watched the coming day
for n;v. ther hour, but, as soon as it was
light enough to see the surrounding ob
jects Manuel carefully cIiom; a spot
which I could occupy during the im
leniling gladiatorial exhibition. It
was the peak of a high rock that al
most overhung the path that he
eventually chox-, anil with some diffi
culty I climbed to the top of it. Nature
evidently had int -nd - l the rock for
some such purjiose as this for it gave a
good view of the path for some dis
tance on ch side. 1 could easily have
teen any Unimal walking upon it for
a considerable distance in either di
rection. There was plenty of evi
dence, too, that the advantage of this
peak as a lookout station had lecn ap
preciated and used by other hunters
than man. Indications showed that
wild l.cas.ts presumably tigers had
crouched there in wait for unsuspect
ing prey. This discovery gave me a
mild sensatiou. I might be rca:onahy
safe from the attack of a tiger in the
path Ik-Iow. but 1 hesitated to think
what would l-e the result if a tiger
came up and found me occupying his
private personal outlook.
When I was coin fort a IVy concealed
1ehind the r.x-k, although in a position
that permitted me to keep carAul
watch of the -xposcd parts of the path,
Manuel disappeared. He was stand
ing by the base of the rock one mo
ment, and the next moment he had
vanished. He must have gone like a
serpent, for I heard no sound. Then I
was alone on a tiger's favorite resort in
an uninhabited South American forest.
It was hardly a pleasant sensation, es
pecially as my revolver seemed to be,
as doubtless it was a very inadequate
weapon. A suspicion might have
crossed my mind that Manuel had left
me there as a bait for a tiger, but I
would not give it a moment's credence.
There were noises on the mountain
side by this time, and some of them
were so distinct that I could distinguish
them. Small auimals were scampering
about in the undergrowth and birds
were calling in the trees A commo
tion among the birds some distance
down the path attracted 1113- attention,
and I wondered if a tiger had stirred
them up, or if Manuel had strayed as
far away as that. A few moments
later there was another commotion
in the distance on the other hanJ of
me, but I gave little heed to it. On
the right-hand side of the path u small
creature, something like a North
American woodchuck, stopped short in
his leisurely moi ning walk and sniffed
suspiciously at the air. I was to lee
ward of him in the light breeze that
bad sprung rip, and so he could not
have scented me. He sniffed n moment
in the direction of the lirst disturbance,
and then suddenly dived headlong into
the undergrowth. As-ured!y there a;
something off to windward that he wa
afraid of. The disturbiftice ceasea
after a time and then the mountain side
was still again.
Looking down over the rock a few
moments later I found Manuel gazing
up at me. He pointed away off to the
left in the direction of the second dis
turbance and again disappeared. It is
probable that ou this occasion he hid
himself in the tmcrgro'-th alongside
the path. I pare my un.i.'v i-.Vd Mira
tion to the (ii-tant fluttering of birds.
It was a curious sort of circus that th
birds were having. The little things
circled alwiut in the tops of the trees
and sere:-. med shrilly one to tin other.
Jt mt;-ht have Ih-cii a huge snake that
tru'liteiicd and fascinated them, or it
might have lc.n a tiger. Manuel
Uticv, in all probability, but he made
jk sign.
1 he disturbance came a little nearer,
but it seemed to me that it moved very
slo-.vly. If a tiger were coming along
the path he should,' in my opinion, have
mad.- better time. 1 calmed my impa
tience by assuring myself that if it
"i iv a ti-i r lie would come fust enough
wh--ri iie once yot wind of me. It was
a loii:,' half hour of susiicn.se before, the
dis' m-ii.iiice came within reasonable
di:-'..i:ice. Itefore half of that time had
pa .s-d I wns satisfied t hat something
vi'iv objectionable to birds was walk
ing leisurely along the path, aud per
haps stopping now and then in the
hope of surprising one of the birds un
a vi arcs.
At length the thin g was just lieyond
the turn in the pat lu In a moment or
two I should see what it was. Then I
iM-camc conscious that Manuel was
standing in the middle of the path,
with his short spear held in a horizontal
Msition over his shoulder. This was
interesting and at the same time very
suggestive. I concentrated my entire
nervous system in an intense contem
plation of the turn in the path. The
susjH'iise was awful.
Ah! what was that? A striped and
spotted animal suddenly stood out in
the oen. His long tail swung slowly
from side to side, and his smooth coat
moved nervously with some passing
emotion. It was the tiger of the South
American forests. He had stopped with
one foot advanced, and with his head
in the uttituieof attention. He had
seen somctuing in the path liefore him.
It was Manuel, who was standing as
immovable us the rock iH-side him. It
was a beautiful In-ast all silk and soft
ness and graceful curves. I thought it
a pity that so ln-autiful a thing should
be hunted to the death, but at the same
time I reilcctcd that this wonderfully
beautiful exterior covered a nature that
was the living incarnation of ferocity.
I do not know how long Manuel anil
the tiger faced each other there iu the
narrow path like gladiators. It seemed
a very long time. This wus the test.
The tig,-r waited instinctively to see the
strange tiling before him turn and run
away as everything else in the forest
invariably did, but greatly to his sur
prise the thing stixnl its ground like an
iinmovab e rock. The tier washing
of the forest, and he knew it. and when
he had made tip his mind t:.at this
thing was not going t rtm he came
forward slowly to investigate. This
was courage, even 111 a wild orute, anu
1 respected him for it. 1 doubt if the
lion or the tiger of India has this un
shakable nerve.
1 looked at Manuel as the tiger came
slowly and cauti" isly along th path.
He stood like a bron.e statu -, with his
spear held over hi-; right shoulder. S'-.t
so much as an eyelid moved. 1 confess
that during tiiis 1 1- iiig time 1 wa a oil
nervous. This was a new way 01
hunting to me, and a decided novelty
in the actions of a wild beast w hu h
had not leen attacked. I should e.
pect an attack from a grizzly War ufLe:
it had been wounded, but assuredly tin
bear would not take the nggressivc a;,
this lithe and lcaiitiful beast was do
ing. 1 will acknowledge that my heart
thumped against my Hue ilannel shirt
so hard that 1 was airaid that the noise
would attract the attention of the
t g-r.
Mowly came the tiger; like a nx-k
i-tood Manuel. It looked as though tin.
case had been reversed, and that the
tiger instead of the half-breed, was the
hunter.
At length the tiger was within touch
ing distance of tii; man. lie looked
the bronze ligure over from head to foot
and then thrust forward his head and
sniffed at the man's feet. Hack the
great lx-ast sprang like a steel spring.
1 he figure av us fl.-sh and blood.
1 In' tiger's tail twitch.-I baek birJ
fortli like a flail. Th- great jaw s opened
in a snarl. Quickly the liea-t mea.urud
bis distance and crouched with quiver
ing sinews for 11 spring. Such calm
courage was grand ln-yoiid ull descrip
tion. It was matched only by the
steadfast nerve of the man.
Now came the crisis. I could see the
huge muscles heaving under the striped
skin. In another second the tiger
would leap upon His prey. In that in
stant the hunter made a motion with
his left arm as quick as light itself. He
tore a Handkerchief from his neck and
thrust it full in the tiger's face. Fp
went the tiger's head in a quiver of
electrical amazement. Then the hun
ter's, poised right arm shot forward
with incredible force and the spear
buried itself Half way to the Handle in
the tiger's neck.
Ah, it was nobly done; and through
out it all. from the beginning until the
wonderful ending, the hunte r's nerve
never faltered so much as by a ha. r's
breadth te fore I could-catch my breath
and swallow the lumps of apprehension
that had risen unbidden in my throat
the fierce beast was dead in the path
1 scrambled down from the rock and
stood In-side the dead forest king:
Manuel picked up His handkerchief and
pulled out his spear. There was a faint
suggestion of a smile about his im
passive face.
"Does the Senor Americano believe?"
he asked.
"He does." I answered, and I reached
him my hand in that universal brotlu r
Hood of man which civilization can
nevcreffaee. Dy the side of that dead
tiger the Ha v a 're and the son of civiliza
tion were 011 1 lie one common level of
man. Then- could be no diiTcivucc.
N. Y. Itecordcr.
He Wanted to Know.
"Excuse me." said Mr. ,1. H.-ty Seed
to the i.tranger who had so cordially
shaken bands with him; ' excuse my
askin, but air you a regular profes
sional or jist a amatoor?"
"Eh?"
"I mean air yon a buneo man or
merely a candidate for cfiice'.'" Indian
apolis Journal.
The I.aio;li Was on Him.
She How big did you say the hail
stones were that you saw in Dakota'.'
He Some of them were thr -e inch s
in diameter. Why (trying lo be liumv).
when 1 wanted to treat n girl t.i an ice
all I had to do was to hold two plat s
out of the window.
She Uut we are not in Dakota now.
Jure.