pn . boy, 4 % Wil mon omit wR) Piernppieie dN ow oscil Je Sto Baject the Dark and Dismal. —— EE » Oh, what is the use of looking On the dismal side of things? I am sure that course of action Only grief and sorrow brings #nd 1 really can's imagine Any reason why we should Rather view the side that's gloomy Than the one that's fair and good. Don’t meet sorrow on its journay, And enfold it to your heart As if from its chill embraces You expected ne'er to part, it will reach usall too quickly On its swift and gruesome way; Don’t anticipate its coming, But be happy while you may. Mournful looks and dark forebodings ‘Will not make the trouble less; While the tears laments and groaniogs Only make it harder press. And the heart that's ever shrouded In a veil of chronic gloom Can't appreciate the sunshine When it cheery beams illume. But, when trouble comes upon you, Look it squarely iz tho face: Sunny glances oft will scatter All its chilly gloom apace. Aud the darkest clouds that gather Silv'ry radiance often lines; So, behind life's clouds of sorrow Still the star of promise shines. A DETECTIVE'S STORY. The Moreton Bank was a joint stock affair in the North, with several branches. Each branch was under a separate manager, with high pay, good social position, and liberty to do wery much as he liked, for the central Board of Directors had great confidence in their men, and everything worked very smoothly and successfully. All the managers were men who had been from boys in she bauk’s employ, and were | very well paid, and thought much of by | the surrounding gentry. i Well, business was slack, and I was | sitting in my little office one October | day when my head {and only) clerk | showed in a visitor, This was Mr, | Sherris, a solicitor of good standing in the city, much in favor with commer- cial men. I had had two or three things | before from him. He was a man of few words, and liked | men of the same sort. “Stanning,’’ said he, “‘there’s a thing in your line one of my country clients | wad consulted me about, You, I know, | can keep vour tongue between your teeth, or you'd never have bad anything from me, Well, keep it closer than ever, for no one knows about this affair but my client, you, me. and—the thief, {he Moreton bank being 10bbed, How, nobody knows. That's for you to find out. Here's your note of intro- | iuetion to Mr. Dale, the manager. Go 8 soon as you can, Do credit to my ntroduction. Good-morning.!’ Well, I was rather glad of the job, so | by six that evening I was in the town of Moreton, a big but dull place, though I should say there'sa good dealof cash and property about. 1 saw Mr, Dale as soon as I could. He was a keen sort of man, with bright oyes, quick voice, and iron-gray mous- | tache and beard, over fifty. Wife pretty, and very nice mannered; no children. They made me welcome, asked me to take refreshment, and so on. Mr, Dale had evideutly, like a sensible man, told no one of my errand, for on reading ti note from Mr. Sherris he merely said: “So you wang to be recommended to “me ouse property, Mr. Stan- ning, for investment?” I said yes, of course. He was a wise man, Even your wife will talk to hes maid, and in our ling perfect secrecy as to what our business is is the first thing to be got, If we mean to make a hit, Well, by and by Mrs. Dale wished us aood night. She was, as 1 say, a very pretty woman, younger than her hus- | band by fifteen years, I should think, and they seemed very fond of each other; hut she wash’t, I should imagine, trusi- el by him with many weighty matters, being rather childish. Yet he wanted «me one to help him, as I saw when the door closed behind her, and he sened to me with his face full of worry | and perplexity. Briefly sketched this is what he told | ¢. Robberies of bank-notes had oc- | urred for some time. None could be | traced, Every care had been taken, cvery precaution had been adhered to, He himself counted and locked up all | hiscash, Yet, and at different hours, | the notes, with irregular intervals be- | tween, disappeared. He had, being well-to-do, replaced them for his monthly statements to the drectors, and being a proud man and most sensi- | tive tp the slightest breath tarnishing is or the bank's credit, he had not nentioned to any one—not even wife, nephews, or head cashier-—these robber- | ies, There was such a system of per- sonal supervision and control on his part | it the Moreton branch that by a little | extra work, appearing nothing unusual, | = was able to keep these facts from the | nowledge of any one in the bank-—ex- | ept the thief or thieves, As for the staff, there were his two | nephews and five other clerks, and an | 4d head cashier, Mr. Mitley. His | nephews were cousing, brother and sister respectively, named | Adolphus Dale and ITugh Lenton. The | clerks. were all respectable and quiet, especially one Mason, who was consid. | ered a anost excellent young man, [ immediately resolved in ny own | inind to keep a special eye on this young | van, in consequence of his admirable | reputation. As for the notes they were | taken one at a time, and ngver a larger we thun a twenty-five one—mostly rialler ones, ! listened to all Mr. Dale's statements wid theories, not that I had much faith un either, but sometimes one may pick pa grain of sense from amateurs—be- sides us they pay the piper, they may to a cortain extent, be allowed to ink they eall the tune. But when he'd done talking. I felt this a very difficult busi- ness, Howeyer, he made me stay at his house alw as the wanting some houses; and I like a top till roused by instinct creeping past is I'm always late.” 1 went back to bed somewhat disgust- ed, for it was a sharp October night, and I was ti ed out with my long jour- ney. But his words put an idea into my head, and I remembered something I once read about. However, for the present I will put this aside, The next day he took me after break - fast into the glass panelled room where he sat, and through a little peephole 1 scraped in the ground glass I reconnoi- tred the bank staff. They were all scratching away with industrious pens, and shoveling out money to the custom- ers, of whom, being market day, there Were many. Now I don’t, know why, but 1 didn’t seem inclined to notice any one in par- ticular but Mr. Lenton (Mr, Dale's sis- ter’s son) and Mr. Mason, the clerk who bore so admirable a character. They sat side by side in the bank, and were evidently on very friendly terms. Lenton was a handsome young fellow, with what you call a **dashing’’ look about him; the clerk was just the con- thoughtful young chap, too thoughtful, I fancied, if he had only the ordinary bank business on his mind, As I sat looking out, the olsl cashier, Mr. Mitley, came in looking perplexed, Seeing me he hesitated. Mr. Dale told before me, ol, si In came Mr, Mason, quiet as ever, He stood waiting for Mr. Dale to speak, with an unruffled air of indifference. He was a cool hand. The manager came to the point at once, “How did this note come into your possession, Mr. Mason?” he said, showing it. ‘I have a particular reason for asking.” The young chap flushed crimson, and Mr. Dale looked sternly at him. I in in the cupboard thought, “Another point to you, Jim Stanning.’’ “It is a matter of my own, sir—-a pri- vate matter—nothing to do with the bank,’’ he said after a pause. “It has everything to do with the bank, Mr. Mason. This note is a stolen one,” Young Mason started as if shot, then saw, “I know nothing of that, sir. But I would rather not explain how I got it.”’ “Perhaps not, But you had better, and when my nephew returns’’ (he was out driving Mrs. Dale in her pony car- riage) ‘I shall ask him for an explana- tion of how he and you, my clerks, come to beat a pot-house studying a sporting paper.’”’ (Here the young chaj looked—if you wlll excuse my little joke ~guite chap-fallen, as 1’ve heard Ham- let say.) “However, I've known you and your parents so Jong,’ the manager “Well, sir.” said the old man, hand- ing the manager a sheet of paper, ‘this note account is wrong, There ought to be,’ “Nonsense,” said Mr, Dale perempto- rily; then, noticing the hurt look of the | old cashier, he said, carelessly, ‘1 beg vour pardon, Mitley; so there is, I remember I paid one away on my pri- vate account. Debit my account i." The old man withdrew Satisfied, Then Mr. Dale, wath an angry look, turned to me. day, Stanning, even since you've bee here. They were all right, as Mit I said nothing, but thought much; but I wasn’t going to commit myself, | When the bank closed (by the way, their three female servants, a boot-boy, ag the two nephews were the persons who glept in| the house, while were in Mr. | Dale's room, though that didn’t prove much, for sometimes notes ‘went’ in the daytime) I took a stroll, ostensibly ! to look at houses for sale; reaily to fol- | Lenton and Mason, who went off for a walk together, 1 follow- ed them along a dreary country road, with about the worst flints that ever cut their London boots, till they came some two miles out of the town to a public house, the Blue Lion. It was an ordi- nary place enough, and the landlord a stupid sort of a fellow, but he had some 3 tha Yo Lie Keys of mine. So I lit my briar-root, drank my beer, and studied the prospect while trying to hear what I eould of Lenton and Mason's conversation, who were quietly drinking a glass of ale each, in a very harmless way, in the window, Of of me in the bank, and as for strangers, | they were always plentiful in Moreton. Detectives are said by people who write about them to fit facts to their own theories. Perhaps they do, some- times, Anvhow, I did on this occasion, tlemen’s visit to the Blue Lion was to see a well-known sporting paper, which, with so strict view taken ia Moretonof banking people, they couldn't have gone to a town public-house to see, | of bought, or borrowed without the chance of a row; for Moreton isa place, big as it is, where everybody else, The two pored over this paper as if they had something “*big" on the next big race, and I began to think I could guess where the notes went, Not that I endorse the humbug talked about bet- ting whenever a young fellow comes to grief. There are many things quite as likely to be the causes of jt; but in this a8 Was than probable I had got something like a clue to the puzzle, Aftera time the young men retired, had heard-—not much, gertainly, but something. in my capacity of investor who couldnt kept my eves open. Several days paased, and no more notes were missed, Mr. Dale got rather more tranguilized, and tine he had been too irritable to .isten to, much to her surprise, as neither she nor any one else had been told of the very good-tempered with her, ghough short-tempered with mest people. young Mason, I told him I fancied he ing matters, and got for my pains an in- about detectives’ acutensss, This net- tied me, 80 I just told him about the scene in the Blue Lion. Ile was enraged, then, I could see, both with me and the two young fel lows; but just as he was going to say something about it in came old Mitiey, day cashed or Jed in, Mr. Dale ran then said, with an affectation of indif- ference: from, Mitley? It's very greasy." 4 Ny r. Mason asked me to change it, £. “Mr. Mason! Very good, you can go.” The door closed and the manager turned to me, hia Jute a mixture “Rig anger. ‘I owe you an apology. ge laughing at Jou about am most grieved this is one of the stolen notes. Still that doesn't only admit you've been betting like a couple of voung fools, I'll see what can be done, though I am very wrong in doing so, to hush the thingup.” The young man thereupon vowed and “Then he mugt know why was it paid said Mr. Dale. Here Mason looked very red agaio, and stammered ont it was fora prize Being urged by Mr, } colifessed that he and’ young Lenton had a joint stock of which they bred Henee their study of the sporting paper. Mr. Dale seemed some- what to believe thi breeding bull-terriers non-sporling heart), but I what a swallow such rubl sell 4 : bull-terriers. 5 s.ory (though even seandalized his didn’t, and muff he must be to } IRSA, th serie # Lough fel Recrecy and 1 Phillips, who very free-and- customer of However, he gravels on Mason, went dismissed hen with me to see ) EASY manners, anik not a Mr. Dale's establishment, Mr. Dale was too offici eer turned rusty, So | wink to go, and remaining 1 him to accompany me house of cull, where ther {I was supposed on this o sion to be the former owner of the note became very talkative, tog manner not uneommon who want doubtful manager” ina bills discounted. He confirmed Mason's story complete- iy, As for the note, he believed he took it of a book maker named Flash Dick, at Doncaster, on the previous *‘Leger Day"-—a tall, man with splendid teeth, I felt puzzled again, ting and the note had had some co but not according to my ti . So home I went, told Mr. Dale what 1 heard, and found him evidently very doubtful of my prospects of ! any good. He seemed thor rie said he should no nephew that nigh some chloral an he did. Now 1 had a curious fancy or recol- Jeetion of blac k.eved Certainly tion, FN g » something re: ormeriy, that $ ped a me hy said just i now, 1 found him prowling about the house at small hours, and that was of a man robbing himself when walking it his sleep. This might be so here, or which was more hikely, Mr. Lenton {whom I still suspected) might, having {seen his uncle taking his sleepit | draught, think if = fine chance todoa | little wide-awake walkidg on his own ! account, | Anyhow, T resolved : was quiet to watch, confess, Well, I hid mivself in the cupboard i which commanded a view of the safe, f and wrelchedly cold it was, besides a cramped position to stand in, I got i sleepy and disgusted, when a noise | eanght my ear, very slight, bu enough, There was somebody about. I was i alert—all eves and earsin a minate, | Now, at all events, I should discover something. And then a faint light OCC or >» Ig after the house I was piqued, I the bank, and came round towards the glass room, and carrving it was Mr. Dale: swear to his blue dressing-gown any- { where, for he would sometimes smoke { in it, and-<but-—why was it pulled over his head? And here, as the figure stooped before the safe, the dressing-gown was thrown of flewing brown hair and a pale beau- tiful face, the eyes full of terror—the face of Mra, Dale! I saw her from her shapely head to | the bare white feet that peeped under i the blue edge of ‘the drewing.gown, | Like a flash it passed throug my mind! | How clever it was to wear her huss | band’s dressing-gown, knowing how he | sometimes prowled about. Of course she took the nights when he slept tired out; and of course she had his Keyget ‘her command. But who would © thought it? x She stooped, opened the safe, took ont some notes, selected one, relocked the safe, and gave a long shivering look romd, Meanwhile, for duty’s duty, I | blew her light ont and snatched the note ; from her hand. She gave n scream that but if «1 hadn't called his owa eyes as evidence he'd never have believed me, I roused him, showed him the note, told lim the thief was in the back par- Tor, and him to come down. He threw his ony glanced at his wife's empty place, then, with a look of such y as touched even my tough heart, he ran down stairs, She was lying there, the keys clenched in her } He frantically kissed her, dashed water in er aces and revived bet, Then the «nee smilie ® / { 1 bing, miserable woman told all, She had robbed the safe, and no one else knew of it. The notes weresent to her only brother —g thorough scamp-—supposed to be dead, recently turned up, but idolized by his sister] and & mere gambler—in fact, the very Flash Dick Mr. Phillips knew, I left husband and wife together, The next morning poor Mr. Dale made the fullest apology to his nephew and Ma- sou, and resigned his appointment, No one knew the secret but myself, and 1 didn’t need his entreaties, when he gave me my handsome fee, to respect it. And he and she sailed for Australia. for his private means were good. Whether she was a good wife to him afterwards I don’t know-<anyhow, she ought to have been. & “ " ———_— — The Fiend of the Surf. There were five of us in the surf to- gether, or rather out on the extreme odge of the bar and beyond the break- ers, We stood in water about four and { a half feet deep and were walling to | ride in one of the big rollers which gath- | ered at intervals a mile out and came rolling in with a majesty and power to | make you wonder. The man next to | me was fishing for a clam shell with his | toes, and suddenly suspended operations | to whisper: “Look there, but don't say a word.” About two inches of the dorsal fin of a big shark was cutting the water eight or ten feet away, and 1 saw a flash of white as the fish partly turned on its | side, i “It’s a shark!” 1 whispered, “You bet, but keep still. If an alarm some will get « Work slowly in shore.” There were three men beyond us, and twice I saw the fin disappear as if the shark had made a rush, The presence of the life boat near by was probably what rattled him, but he was gaining confidence all the time, I felta chil creep over me a the fin went darting about, and the unt rtow r that could hardly move against it, I was working back alone when the man who i you raise i i one rowned. was 80 stro one called out: tonches the beacl Evervone slarted. and as turned 1 saw the fin si if sight. We + breakers almost in line, y first ! r end cried o n nabbed, but w } ow water he was there wi stood up we saw that one sid 5 bathing suit had been torn away, That is, the cioth from his arm his knee had sis leave the water antl ik ont « t ery We been cond not coat was brought him, “Must have hit a spike on an old bit of wreck,” be explained as ie walked up the shore, “You came just that near by a ten foot shark!” repled the m who had first detected the monster, being seized Sauer Krant Ripening. — a————— 4 in front of the grocery stores are slicing boards a foot wide, a yard and equipped with knives sat dingonally, They have appeared sim- witaneonsly with the wagon load of eab- beuges that come by 16th 13th street, Mary's Follow boards home when the thrifty German house- wife buys it, and you will see it placed over an open barrel and the crisp heads of cabbages sliced into shreds, Three, hall a dozen barrels are r packed with 1 water belt down ing them, and the whole remained with a heavy piece of wood, a paver hammers his stone drives home a charge. Two weeks at the earliest after the barrel is filled and h#aded belore it Is ripe, “My mother used to cook a large kettle full of saner Kraut--some of it five or six times over,” said a German grocer, “and tlie more times edd it the better it was, You were told that we sold imported saver kraut? We don’t have any that is imported from further east than Chicago, know any one in Omaha who That in Chicago is put up by skilled old German people, who Know just how to i make it. Some of the Trmers around | this eity make it nicely too, and bring it in to sell, We sell a great deal of It ~~ Americans as well as Germans use Fit” “Yes,” put in an eastern man who | was buying grapes to take 10 the hotel, | *“in the East Americans are among the largest consumers or saver kraut, The | doctors have recommended it as an | article of food, and their patients find when it is properly pre- Hanging 1 ong into the city of reel and and St Avenue, one of these ive, perhaps pled, sail an as elapse } . 1. SE COOK ~ pared,” iinet citadel Dangers of Kissing. faults of my fellows as well a8 the aver i age observant man can, I'd forma i got to come to that, anyhow, within the next ten years, All that Keeps it alive is its qualities as a foil for the gen- fuing article.” So a very worldly and | a very bright little woman told-me, in a burst of frankness, recently. . Said she {olf a woman didn't kiss So antomatic- | ally apd insincerely they wouldn't Kgow | what the beaaty of the real kiss was, * i And I guess she was right, Apemantus, {my old friend of medieal proclivities {and cynical instincts, growled when | asked him what he thought of it, and said: “Au elegant disseminator of dis- ea ¢. Fever is spread by it; so are lung troubles, and such physical scvthes as diptheria, ete: 2'd drive kissing out of the land and save one tenth of 1 percent, of human lives every year-if life-sav- ing is the end and aim of s¢ience which you know I doubt,”* II 3 i A Street Beene In Pa A novel way of advertising caused considerable amusement on the bouk evards recently. A procession of about thirty shabby-genteel men were walking pom along appearing tently a yellow covered they were holding before their eyes in such a manner that the title could be soen by . The mock gravity of the peripat was really laughable, eo ————— A frult-grower in California sayy ibat should the Chinese go the fruit interest me VALLEY OF OROTAVA. A Winter Resort For Invalids. At this season, when those unfortu nite invalids who cannot withstand the rigors of our New England climate are anxiously looking about for a suitable place abroad where they can pass the approaching Winter and Spring with safety and comfort, it seems to be an } appropriate time to bring to their notice one of the finest climates in the world for this purpose, which is but little known on this side of the ocean, al- though long well known to Etropeans. This is the Valley of Orotava, inthe Is. land of Teneriffe. Hitherto two grave difficulties have existed to deter invalids from going there from this country, the first being the want of direct communication with it, and the second the absence ot suita- ble accomodation with all the necessary comforts such as invalids require when they shall have reached their destina- tion. The first, thought still existing, has been made comparatively easy by going first to Europe from the United States, and then taking passage in one of the numerous lines of steamers, go- ing to distant parts of the worl, which now stop regularly at Teneriffe en route to replenish coal and supplies, | second is now removed by the opening {of a first class sanitariam hotel, well | situated, equipped and directed in Port { Orotava, Teneriffe, | group of seven, situated between 27 de- i grees and 30 degrees north latitude and is miles in { tude, It abouv seventy {length and thirty«ix in | Through the center of the island runs a in some places of seven { sand fee 0 | vides to form to eigl the crater out of peak, El of 12.820 feet, This valley lies on i not really a from the sea to the inclosed on it ix from the center is about fifteen miles from mit and about ten miles side to side. It is about y Cruz on the which , but a slop summit, 7 s sides with spurs to the sea, It sea Lo sum- value twenty-five east hi i traveler will first land, and is reached in four ts five hours from thence over a very fine Government road, This ride on a fine day is very ble from its varied and constantly « ging views, On ar- riving i ition the tire eler will find a beautiful hot rounded with pleasure gardens commanding views of maguificent scen- of the broad At- h, and with moderats { 8 the puri were ihe £1H0% it the destin itrav- 1 . ¥ ise Bur- and aru Mi The climate of Orotava, ™although it some three hundred miles south than Madeira, is more bracing, owing to its greater dryness, and the temnperature in Winter to the human frame that rarely stops to think whether it is too { warm or too cold. The thermometer fluctuates between 60 deg. and 65 deg... suited one between day and night or from day to ‘day that invalids may enjoy the open air at any hour, and at night can go to bed pretty certain what temperature they will find the morning. This uniformity led Baron de Belcastel {who passed two Winters in this place for his health, and who kepl accurate observ which are to be found in his book,} to remark “that in T the the appears to The such a climate are {| obvious and are not to be obtained any- where in Europe or Northern Africa. For the stronger there are many ex- | cursions, either in carriages or on horse or donkey back, while those who are too weak for these can enjoy riding in a palanquin or in a hammock earried bs | careful men. Here the naturalist or botanist will find muoch to amuse him, ‘and the sketcher and photographer a | never ending variety for his pencil and { camera——and all can enjoy the fine scen- | ery which the island presents on. all sides, Teneriffe can in i { tions, rmometer advantages of be reached from rope in many ways: from Liverpool | weekly by West Africa packet, from “ymouth by the New Zealand packets, {from Havre by the Rio de la I'ata | packets, from Cadiz by the Spanish } packets, and by many others from other | ports, It is a free port and there is no ex- | travellers, It is in the postal union, | and books and packages can be received i and sent, and it has telegeaphic com | interinsular communication, and as | points visit the island every month a Good and Bad Habits If any of you have paid a visit to a dentist's office, and have had a tooth { extracted, you know what a painful ! operation it is, It has been growing {and rooting there deep in the socket, | from vour childhood up, and it.is hard severing it from its attachments, Just as hard and sometimes more painful is it to break up bad habits; they have grown with your growth, and Yecome a part of yourself, but they must be root- ed out or they will destroy yon. ‘‘Re- metaber,’ said Lord Collingwood to a young man he loved, ‘that before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.” Dr. Johnson says that the habit of looking at the bright side of every- thing is worth more than a thousand pounds a year,’ There are other habits, even more valuable, which the young should most carefully cultivate. The habit of temperance in all tig, of curbing the Temper, of Jove and . ness to all, of ilifente : these are a few of the good habits "Bad hats is as strange as sald that bad are tenacious, we can not place teo high a It far more AN ELEPHANTS FRIENDSHIP. A Very Ugly Beast's Attachment for His Keeper. A ———— Perhaps 1 should explain to you on the start that my title of “Colonel” was given me when I was an eight-year-old “child wonder,” doing bare-back riding in a well-known circus, At the age of eleven, when still at the business, I re- ceived a fall which resulted frnva broken leg, and I recovered the use of the limb to fing that I had imbibed a strong dis- like to the sawdust ring. My father was a ring-master and my mother an equestrienne’ and I was about to re- enter the old life—I had, in fact, as- sisted at two performances—when some- thing occurred to change the routine and bill me for a new profession. We had with us a big, black-skinned ele- phant named Cato, At that time he was the Jumbo of the road for size. and he was of such ugly temper that it was hard work for any one to handle him. In two seasons he killed three keepers and crippled two others, and at the time of which I am writing, which was about the 1st of August, he had become vicious that everybody in the show was warned to look out for hin, There Cato weuld stand and sulk for honrs. never came out of one of the fits until he had smashed something, If on the highway when one of these ugly spells seized him be would tear down a fence, puil up a tree or soma of the wagons, We had entered the ring for the after. noon performance, Deen su Pp allempl to upset Ww when Cato, who had all day, began to trumpet 1, and next moment be brok« take to which be was 'e had a big audience, and ne into the tent laying hm with histrunk in a way » your haw stand. sheer good everybody the and then Cato pulled down about We of th gat on speciators There were five or six > men trying to coax or suddenly swept pushed for us. My me at the first spring, rs escaped, I was just up out of the dust when nn his trunk, I was oo to even cry out. He swung with a jerk, evidently intend- me a fling to the right or uddenly changed his nind. 1 me to the ground, Sndied moment with his trunk, and then for the benches again, As be menagerie men flung iron hook which Oato’s sed to fasten in his ear to lead and called to me that $eounld without fear. I hook and ram over to where he was tearing down the benches, and at the word he desisted. 1 patted his trunk and spoke kindly te him, and he followed me back to his stake and ") kino king vi out of crit wv + ane of the at my feet an Keeper 1 him with, i } approach the beast that hour 1 was Cates keeper, say thal for the pext three vears 1 was not out of his cempany for four consecutive hours at any one Lime, He was so vicious the moment I left that I had the menagerie t in thu nmer and a rosin beside stall in Winter quarters. The beast wt a large sum of money, and was a great draw on the road. It was there- fore an object to keep him. Boy as I was, 1 was paid §2.000 per year as his keep Many and many a night 1 t to sleep on the hay under his feet, nm Sundays I would remeve my vest and let him play with me at a time. He would lift me i Swing me ap anddown tass me ten feet high and catch me wth: ! and it came to be a all the circus people A yer amd s the fun. 1 taught him to put his fore feet on a pedestal and move arouwnd: to go lame in a hind leg: to trumpet in imitation of a bugle; to y beat time with his trunk to perform seyeral glher tricks, and he was the first ‘‘educated eleph- ina circus ring. ie and water from Some one else, but it ended there. If any sought to order him in the least into a rage. 1 had a real and no human being From a col in apd coat and for hour s hig tre } 3 AMS Lrunk, Add ever sen iq one affection for Cato, in We had been three vears together asd the fourth had begun when 1 was ill.» A fever came on ne ver: at a public bouse in # Pemnsylvania village. Cato missed me at once, and men had all they could do to get {to the next town, He was on him all that afternoon and exhibited symp- toms of a coming *torm. A suit of my clothes was placed befors him and be grew calmer, bul when oul an the road again and not finding me beside him he could contain himself no longer. Whe: the elimax came the circus was water ing the horses ut a brook. Cato upset three wagons, killed a bhopse and » camel, and then flung down the fence and rushed across a field and into a piece of woods. All efforts to control him proved futile, and his rage in creased until no one dared to go near him. After watching him for three days they sent a carriage for mo, but I was too ill to be moved. They waited two days longer, and as Cato then be- an desftoying valuable property and lockading travel on the highway, it was determined to kill him. He was a 0 leg, and a number of them were filied with poison and placed others where he would find thom, over and Ue mimber is ammaalie, Tw oduct WEDS VR DL dgeR a 18
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