—————_ a no Above Suspicion. They who imagine evil That does not meet the eye, Are the mean and base in spirit; Pass them by, pass them by! They who always cheer the worthy, Help them onward to the goal, Always think the best will happen, Hail them, bless them, heart and soul! —~ [George Griffith, in the Housewife. mss GI A “ROGUE” "ELEPHANT. BY C. B. LEWIS. I had read and heard a great deal of the famous “rogue” elephant of the district of Mysore, province of Madras, before I ever got within 200 miles of his stamping ground. He made his first appearance in 1868, and for years was a veritable terror to an area of country 50 miles long by 30 broad. A “rogue” been explained, is a either voluntarily left the herd because of defeat or has been driven into exile by his companions for reasons not known to man. He no sooner takes up this solitary life than he be- comes vindictive and reckless, and it goes without dispute that one of these “rogues,” if past the age of 50, is more dangerous than a herd of a dozen ordinary elephants. This fellow was called “The Wicked" by all the natives in that ter” ritory, and some of the stories told of elephant, as has often male who has especially his doings were really well as strictly His was along the Buddar Valley eastern edge of this walley, from one true. territory was his retreat. hunted after more than any ¢rogue’’ ever heard of in India. before he was finall reward had been He was hunted on by bands numbering least fifty different increased to £300. several 400 men, and at white try at him. It was wonderful Wicked” managed to escape death so long, but it used to he was only an elephant in form. The natives fully believed that he was the Evil One in disguise, and more than 100 how valley on his account. The records of his doings would make a big book. He began killing as soon as he appeared. midnight Le enertered a native village containing about seventy huts, pene- trated and killed five people sleeping in a hut. Even the dogs knew nothing of his presence until he got to work. He put his tusks under the foundation poles of the hut and tipped then he One night about to the centre it over and middle cf the mud floor. Only three or four people caught sight of him as he moved away. A grand bunt was organized, but he was uot even discovered. that he Lad been frightened out of the district, but two or three days later, as a native along a road at the edge of a forest, the «lephant, who was in hiding man off his seat with flung him 20 feet into the air. In the through the bullock and then disap- peared. hurt at a point up the valley, exactly 3! miles away, and killed a ryot, native farmer, who was at work his field. returns made, “The Wicked” killed mestic a vimals. [is aim was to kiil work in such a queer and mysterious manner as to keep all the people afraid of him. Wild elephants never leave cover ducing daylight, This fellow stalked abroad by day as well as by night. He moved as silently and swiftly as a tiger. On one occasion five natives, who had been stacking grain, sat down to eat their luncheon, It was high noon, and they were haif a mile from the edge of the jungle. The ele lant came upon them over hard and stony ground, where the faptsiep of a man would certainly ‘have been heard, and the first known of his presence wns when he struck two of the five down. The others es- caped him by leaping into a ravine, ~ When I reached the valley it was half depopulated, and all those re maining were in a state of continual terror: Not a day passed that the jalopliant did not kill ‘or atiompt to ————— kill some ono. As one of the precau. tions against his visits after dark the villages had been surrounded by walls of dry brush, The idea was that in breaking a way through or over the animal would make noise enough to betray his presence. On (wo ocea- sions he had removed enough brush to make an opening and done it so carefully that people sleeping ten feet away had heard no noise. When dis- covered and shouted at “The Wicked” always made off for the jungle with. | out attempting further ‘mischief, but he generally managed to kill some one before an alarm was raised. At the time I reached his stamping ground there were two British army hunting him at the other end of the jungle, but no one had seen the ele- phant for about a week. Ie hadn’t left the district, however, and neither had he been Killed. officers I took possession of an abandoned village at the lower end of the valley. Here the elephant had first and here he had killed appeared, over a dozen had at people, length become so terror had moved thirty miles away. huts still instead of occupying any one of them | I took up my position for the night in a ravine at the northern edge of the | town. I had two native hunters with me, and to lead the elephant to be- lieve that the villagers had returned | we tied five or six dogs to as many doorposts. It was looked upon as doubtful if “The Wicked” would | show up, and after midnight I turned in The villagers stricken that they abandoned the fertile spot aud | There were | about forty standing, but | watching until for a nap, leav- ing both natives on guard. Itap- peared that they dozed off after an hour or so, but hour before day- break ona of them awoke and found the elephant standing on the bank and an looking down upon us This bank was 12 very steep. The man plucked instant I feet high and my the | but the moved elephant vanished. I would not be- lieve that he had been there, but day- It was | soft ground, and the prints of Lis feet | were so deep that both natives declared | he had stood in ono spot for many minutes, perhaps half an hour. We further found that “The Wicked” had and that so quietly that not a dog had | given the alarm. The natives of this valley had long | before resorted to pitfalls, traps, and but all to no had set other practices in vogue, pupose. The white hunters spring guns and even poisoned some of the pools where ha was supposed “The Wicked" move. 1 to drink, but had out- determined to follow it until | One of the natives re- wilted every take up his track and Iie was found. fused to enter the jungle for any price I could pay, but the other pluck and agreed to stay with me, had more We found the elephant had gone straight nto the jungle from the ravine, and was moist from a recent | storm, the tracker had no difficulty in following him for about five Then all evidences of the trail were | lost on groond., A wild ele- ring through a jungle gen erally leaves a plain path by breaking | and trampling. If in rotreat it looks | as if a troop of cavalry had forced its This fellow had moved as cautiouzly as a deer, and no white as the sail miles, rocky mile. At the spot where the trail was lost there was an immense outcrop of rock, and, after looking around for three hours without finding trace of hausted, and sat down for a pull at the water bottle and a bite to eat. The himself, and then, while I had a smoke, he started He had not been out of sight more than five minntes when I heard him shriek. After running a distance of 400 feet I came to a small del! or glade | in the jungle. About the centre of this lay the body of my tracker, It could hardly be called a body; it was rather a mass of pulp. There was no living thing in sight, but there were footprints to prove that the elephant had been there. “The Wicked” had been in smbush behind a large mass of rock. Ile had only fifteen feet to go to seize the unfortunate tracker, and he had made short work of him by trampling on him. I ran through the forest in several directions, per foctly reckless of the probability that the elephant was in ambush again, but I got no track or trace of him. He had vanished as silently and swiftly as a siartled wolf. 1 returned to my quarters fairly beaten, and to learn two days later that the elephant had killed one of the British ofticers the day after kill. He liad smbushed him Jimb from lf nb. It had now be. come utterly impossible to hire native assistance. At least no one would consent to beat up the jungle with me, and I saw that I must depend entirely upon my own resources or leave the flold. ln this emergency I determined to meet “The Wicked” with his own weapon-——trickery. For several nights he had not molested any of the vil- lages, but during each day he had committed some depredations. His Inst victim was a woman, and she was killed within miles of where I was stopping. She was working in a field with a heavy of bushes along the north The elephant rushed out of cover and killed with a blow of trunk, gone before the husband, who working 200 feet away, g two fringe side. her his and was was ot the alarm. The night was dark and rainy, and I hired some of the natives to yo with me and prepare the plot. We dressed up a lay figure to represent a ryot's wife in the act of reaping grain. We placed this about forty Then at the and feet away straight line to the “dummy” bushes, edge of this ty we dag arifle pit deep enough to hide me. natives retired I went to neither hoped nor looked for “The Wicked” to appear during the night. If he did, shot, find me as I and he might even The night passed without an alarm, and I was awake when daylight came. CArry- ing a two.ounce explosive ball, and I knew that elepl hant was my meat if he I was well covered in with but had peep- clearly appeared. bushes and branches, holes through which I could It was 9 o'clock in the morning before anything moved, and had 1 not been watching Wicked” would have Rats sharp trick. me a he would, but so quietly that but for have credited He covered the ground seeing him I could not his presence. between the jungle and the lay figure He tossed it sky high and wheeled to go back, and 1 stood ball behind the shoulder. As he received it he wheeled and started across the grain fleld, buy [ rolled him over before he had gone ten yards, The trickey last, dead at had lured to de- struction by one of the simplest plots old boast was and he been ever pul into practice against him, | had to walk around him three or four that Indeed, been downed. rejoice over his death, I was afraid that I had missed the “rogue” and herd. He was soon fully identified, the hide, there was another on the trunk, where a native had slashed him with a big knife; once he had The Government paid the re- ward without hesitation, and it no sooner became known that the dreaded scourge of the valley had met his fate than the people began {o return to their homes, and the anniversary of the event has for years been celebrated Louis Republic. All Chinese Are Not Educated, The common belief in the United States that all Chinese read and write and are well informed does not con- tain one particle of truth. The higher classes, who do not exceed five per cent. of the population, reccive what might be called a good literary edu cation. As for the Chinese language, there is no such thing. Every prov- ince has its own language and every district its dialect. The native wso- called written language is not a lan. guage, but an ideographic system and is ono of the greatest marvels of human genius. It could be applied with almost as much facility to Eng. lish, French and German as it is to the numberless languages of China, Korea and Japan, Largest Orange Trees. J. T. Hancock, Sr., has an orange tree on his place, two miles west of Fort Meade, that measures 24 inches in diameter two foot from the ground, Six years ago it bore 7000 oranges. The age of the treo is not known. It One of the Simplest and Most Remunerative of Industries. A Dainty Relish Easily Propa- gated In Your Cellar. The usefulness of mushrooms as an article of diet is very cated by ture. Dr. Taylor will tribute a few remarks on the subject to the forthcoming report of the Sec- retary. He says: ‘In the progressive of all countries mushroom growing, one of the simplest and most remunerative of industries, is almost unknown. Mush- rooms are a healthful food. No one carnestly advo- Thomas CON most ically than the farmer. He has al ure and the loam, and all beds. Nothing is lost, The manure, been used beds, but is not exhausted of is well its fertility, rotted and in before being The used for the farmer will not feel the “There is no secret whatever con- with mushroom culture, and it successful. The common and Near ly all covering it w the ith the labor for next taining an cven temperature and and marketing the crop. Many women are searching on the farm. What can be d profitable work for more teresting an than mushroom growing? “After the farmer has made mushroom bed his wife can attend to or ds; its management with any tax upon her time and wit duties. It is clean work, too. nd would | the then, lady in the | wesitate to pick MUsrooms in open field. How should she fresh fo beds in her Mushroor come wuen they are most needed. pid pin money often The winter long much less, to gather the nigi from the own ns are a winter crop; supply of eggs in the c¢ SOABON tionately short. market for musrooms all satiable at good prices, so that care whether hens lay cggs at Christmas or When mushroom intelli growing is ed there is more mone; in it than in bens, with less trouble “The cellar of a dwelling house capital place for mushroom beds. A private family which desires to ils use may partition a part of the cellar own within be structed along the wall and boxed in from with boards and make the bed the inclosure, or a bed may cOn- cold draughts and from mice Bear in mind that rooms thrive best in a temperature of 50 to 60 8d rats, mush. from degrees, give them this in your house cellar you ought to get plenty of good mus! - rooms. Supposing that the natural temperature of the cellar is not warm enough the necessary heat may be supplied by boxing up the bed or by spreading a piece of old carpet or matiing over the boxing. “The beds may be made upon the floor, flat or banked against the wall, ten or twelve inches deep, in a warm cellar, three feet wide and any length desired, Boxing may consist of any kinds of boards for sides and ends, being built about six to ten inches higher than the top of the beds so as to give the mushrooms plenty of room. The top of the boxing may be a lid, hung on hinges or straps, and ma'e of light lamber, say of half-inch boards. In this way, by opeaing the lid, the mushrooms are under observa- tion and can be gathered without any trouble. When the lid is shut they are secure from cold and vermin. With this protection supplied the cel- lar can be ventilated without interfer. ing with the welfare of ths mush- roving, “The notion of manure beds in a dweiling house may seem queer to many people, but when rightly man- aged they emit no bad odors. Manure should be prepared away from the house and, when ready for making into beds, should be spread out thin, #0 as to become perfectly cool and free from steam. When it has been for two days in this esndition it may be brought into the cellar and made into | beds. After a few dus it will warm tio and then be and if you can with » spawn aud covered over wiih a thin layer of earth. Do not bury the spawn in the manure, but merely set it In the surface.” Sem ————— A Sailor's Life on a Cruising Ship. The sailor's life on a cruising ship has much improved in the last few years, and many of the stories told of the unhappy lot of the men on the (ine food. with all its repulsive new ships are pure fabrications, of the The old features is entirely done away with. The **weevily’” biscuit and the putrid “salt horse” improvements is the ration served out there are no longer on board the warships; nor are things # fing appics, stich now as rotten butter, wormy dried ” goffee, the term applied by sailors to bouillon, of “bootleg and the vile ‘soup and bully,” the making which he usually de- and The rations good navy coffee roasted in flour, tinned ham, pilot bread, tea, oatmeal, hominy, desiccated vege- In got liberty once in succotash, ete. former a sailor rarely on oftener than three was sometimes kept on whoie without being But le year times twelve to twenty-four hours, and become riotous Most of the sailors of read rare instances that sailors of the navy on shore, today can and write; in fact, it is in acquirements. The ships, the methods of discipline, of undergone a com- general conduct service have Each ship has its library, and its interest and walne when it is added to by philanthropic citizen, as, for in- the gift of an entire library by State The books of be found a well-known citizen of this New York. well-thumbed over. of of the engineer's de- have been instinet the enlisted men or the sallor—— As life of adventure, fiction. have a of strong they love have a a—— on — A Twelve-Mile Whisper, A marvelous tale Da been comes from which has made in the moun City. Itis telephone the BI On each side of a valley kota of a discovery identally Ace west of Rapi slated that there is a natural line between (wo mountains in ack Hills range. twelve miles in width stand two which tower above the mountains, and landmarks. These mountains are h, and only have is known of their rare occasions they so but little make the ascent. They divided into two parties, one for each peak, taking with them heliographs tor the purpose of signaling to each other across the valley. The ascent was made, and, so the siory gocs, while the members of one party. were preparing to signal to those of the other, one of the party on the north mountain was sarprised to hear voices which apparently came out of the air. {le moved his position and the sound was no longer heard. By changing his position several times ho dis- covered that at a certain spot of the mountain he could hear the voices, and it was not long before he dis- covered that they proceeded from the party on the other mountain. Ile called the attention of the others to the phenomenon, and when the at- tention of the opposite party had been attracted it was found that an ordinary conversation in an ordinary tone of voice was plainly heard from one mountain top to the other. There was only one place on the mountain where it could be heard, and this ap- peared to form a natural telephone. No shouting was necessary, and the words were perfectly distinct. As suming this story to be true, an ex planation may be sought in the form of the mountains, which might serve as elliptical reflectors of sound (the speakers placing themselves in the foci at the and of the ellipse), and in the low density of the atmosphere at the altitute at which the phenomenon was observed. —[ Electricity. A Sensitive Point. Jack—How did Misa Fitz come to ask you to release her? arey=The last time I dined there her 'nothar baked a delicious cream decided 10 ~[New York It is estimated that there are to-day 12,947 Jesuits, In the United States there are 564 in Marylard, 403 in Mis- souri, and 195 in New Orleans. Mayor | Tillbrook Keesport, Pa., Cured of Scrofula in the Neck By Hood's Sarsaparillia suffer from discnses fol. 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