WOLF CHILDREN, AUTHENTIC CASES OF HUMAN BEINGS | CARED FOR BY THESE ANIMALS. The First Circumstantial and Autoritative | Account of a Wolf Actint as Foster Parent te a Human Child— They Have All Been | Males. It is well known that the Hindoos | a8 a race have a strong aversion to] taking life of any kind. Strange as it] may seem, the wolf is regarded in| some parts of India with a peculiar | superstitious reverence, which makes | the shedding his blood something! iniquitous. As a the | wolves are bold and numerous, espe- cially in districts where there is lit tle or no European influence, Chil dren, also, are numerous, and the] wolves, having no scruples about the] sacredness of life, have on countless | occasions not only raided the village sheepfolds, but have carried off chil- firen. The vast majority of the latter] have been devoured, but here and] there a poor victim, by the agency of | some occult malign influence, has been | reserved for a fate worse than death. | In 1852 what was probably the circumstantial and authoritative ac count of t “wolf children” of India] was pub by Col. Sleeman, a British officer especially distinguished | for the leading part he took in putting} down the thugs and -Dacoits, Accord- ing to this authority, the first auth tic case a wolf acting as par ent a human child was discovered | accidentally by a trooper who was rid ing along the banks the River Goomtree, in northern India. As ravines in that were all infest ed with wolves solilier surprised wolf, panied by three cubs, com ert and go down to What surprised him ever, was the ture which little boy, friendliest panions and just “like creature went on from the stream The trooper cessfully, 2 Of consequence first | he ished of foster Lo of the | region i the at seeing a she accom a CoV- y drink much, another cr appearance evidently on the the river t« very how presence of had but terms with was treated ap of the all like tl} tried, 1t to intercept the phenomenon | before it escaped with the their He secured some natives and dug feet until the lair The wolf family then the open, and it chase and the “wolf seemed to years of age “They the said Col. Sleeman, for he was very hard to rush they came him speak, nothing him but an angry growl or snarl. Hel was kept for eral days at the vil | lage, and a large crowd assembled ev ery day to see him. Wi person came near . him alarmed and tried to stes when a child ear ft with a fierce dog, and tried t For about th lived in charge of a servants, Dun the Ol wis its brute con paren The | drank one family.” and ¢ of fours 1 hers. ' 4 wugh unso wolves into} den. the through several! almost reached made a bolt was only after ng of a was was into stiff that | figh captured. six and wimethi it boy" be between el took boy to the village.” had to tie him ' and struggled | “hut restive, into every ar. They tried tT ( ul id ged or den mak. Fe hole 1 i to but 1 Sy aen a grown became | ne near snarl, Ii bite it.” years this British officer's | ing all that in os ery fustinet and habit, he remained a wild animal. He was inoffensive ex cept when teased. and could never be induced to keep on any kind of ing. even in the coldest weather. rarely be was Kkoown semi-upright position; but he ran to on all fours, meat he devoured greedily, and would | aften take as much as half a lamb at} one meal. He was foud of cooked bones, which be used crunch and gnaw like a dog, holding them ou the ground under hands, | Just as a dog uses Lis forepaws. He would growl angrily if a human be ing came near while he was ting but seemed to have no objections tol a dog or a jackal: in fact, he would tins share his meal with such He was never known to laugh or even | 0 ree being time, cloth Very in ways! to walk a his fooq taw | very tol his of i ] § f i smile, and once only was he known to gpeak. This was just before his! death. He put his hands to his head, complained that it ached, and asked | for a drink of water. He drank the] water, and expired almost immediate. | ly afterward, ) Another “wolf boy” had been car ried off from a field where he had! been placed while his father and moth: er were at work. He was then about | three years old. Nothing was heard! of him for six years. His mother was! by that time a widow. She happened | to hear of a “wild boy” who had been | captured at a place several miles away while entering a den in com. pany with wolves. Curidsity drew her from her native village to visit the place where the boy was kept She recognized him by some indubit. able birthmarks as her lost son and took him bome with her. She found his quite irreclaiinable, however. and after a few months’ trial abandoned | him to the public charity of the vil lage. He was fed on raw flesh, haves, birds, &ec. A favorite amusement of the village boys was to throw live frogs at him and watch how greedily he would devour them. Whenever a bullock died and was skinned he would gorge himself on the carcass in company with the dogs. During the day he hung about the village for the sake of what he could get to eat; but every evening he went off to the jun. gle and stayed there all night. In the year 1850, while he was being sent to Col. Bleeman, he escaped Into the Jun. gle and was never afterward heanl of. The “wolf boy of Agra” differed fn no material respect from either of the two already described, The strongest point of contimst between them was the length of tima be continued in cap - - tivity. He died several years apo, of consumption it Is sald, and had been in confinement for about twenty years before that, The name given him was Sanichar, and his home was the Be. cundra Orphanage, In the famous old city of Agra. He was discovered in 1867 in the jungle near Bulandohahr, in northwest Punjaub, Some natives who were hunting big game “surprised wolf which they followed to hillock. Out of this hillock rose a rock, and on this rock, evident ly suuning itself, sat a dark, curlous- looking object.” To the astonishment of the hunters, this “object” turned a little being When they jumped from the rock. ran on all fours and entered a along with the The hunters smoked the cave; approached, It cave panion rushed out. After a short, sharp struggle in which several men were bitten the latter was captured. On Feb, 3, 1887, he was sent by the | Magistrate of the district in which he was taken to the Secundra Orphanage, and because the day he arrived there happened to be Saturday he was named Sanichar. At the time of his capture Sanichar seemed to be about eight years old. He was entirely nude for thick hair which his body. Jiis behavior was altogether that of a brute, and it was long before he could induced to wear any clothing whatever in er ways conduct himself like a human He food the putting hands forepaws grawing hing the the short, be ur oti being. ate his froin his on it as a log does his the 1 from the bones and crunc themselves with amd evi dent enjoyment, bones case about the discovered One is males, It happened have wolf Two facts noticeable children” hitherto easily enough they have all of conrse. “just that only male had the distiaction of a mother, i more rogged male child, ena withstand the meidernt to such a life, wolf explained. been have children fO% tir otherwise, then iL Were of tter Tae ution constit the be fences a rea males only When ple 8% 0 exper would be why ed ordeal. thinks how weak and hs the human child is, toddlers of have surviy the one the stronges: old, one aay in unopatural wolf's de even HOPIA it wil three years even Or Aa MITTS 8 of a siiraculous that bh child could a few li i rl or even exist single the en ronment The tures i. ch crea- hildren me of cap than eight doubt, Is “moving waich other fact Is that all s when found ihe oldest of t ¢ could hardly or ten years iccounted for by the various flood and field.” hildren would be have been © at be nem the nore old. This, no weeldents of to all such foster cf more grew were nore resources have the nd endurance wssfully in with elitors, older and thrown on would neither the gtrength a $10 thelr own They instincts nor the struggle for their brute comrades and comp A BLOW To TH e OLD MAN, His Salary Raised. You ow fo an never tell where you ing encounter a romance The her evening half a dozen gentlemen after a dinper given by at his handsome residence on Woodwanl avenue, relates the Deo troit Free “No.” said an inquiry, “I married long before 1 thougl troit. Didn't 1 sat smoking Press, the host, in response (o her down east it of coming to De- tell you about cashier in a bank hope of ever getting a better the world than that of a sal- The president, who the entire institution, to his men, ex cept by way of reproval, and 1 liad special reason to think that he did not look upon me with favor. This made ever it? with littl ittle hold in practionlly ran vided I would get married within the next three months, He preferred hav. ing wen about him that were settled in life and felt the responsibility lm- posed In caring for a family. I had bound the bank to make me the raise, to keep me for five years, wo vided 1 did my work properly, and to raise my salary bandsomely each year. “Two weeks later I asked for an va- | eation and told him I oped to return with a wife. He was delighted and granted my request. On the tenth day I wired him that the deed was done responded with congratulations and an invitation to dine with his folks on our arrival. We went. As we en tered the old gentieman almost fell in a faint. ‘You,—~you-—" he stamwmered, ‘are you married? You! “Yes, papa,’ began foy wife, but | broke in with: ‘Yes, sir, we're married, You knew that we were in love: you sent your daughter on a long visit to the south to get her away from ime, and then tried to bribe me into getting married during her absence, | check- mated you, that's all, and your son-in. law is your cashier for the next five years’ He simply threw up his bands, and he was a father to me as long as he lived, It did him a whole lot ef good to beat him at his own game.” At three of the large London raf). way stations—-Charing Cross, Cannes Street, and London Bridge more than 43,000 movements for signal and point fevers have to be made every tw four hours, quite apart from the graphic operations, § ELEPHANTS IN WAR TIME Some Points as to Their Employment by the British ia India. is furnished by of the ele- the layman Ff Indian the remarkable effelency phaut brigade, through the skill of handling the giant anlimals, usefulness in India can scarcely be imagined by one not familiar with the amount and variety of work which they accomplish, but it would serious mistake fmagine degree of usefulness Is attained through any aptitude of the unwieldy auhmals or natural tendency toward ft. It is due solely and entirely to the wonderful ability of the natives training the huge animals, and over- coming thelr natural inclinations, This cannot too highly praised. Nelther must it be imagined that the nse of elephants in army life nos attended by great disadvantages, not the least of which is the difficulty with which they are transported. Naturally the elephant is not an in relligent animal, He can taught remarkable things, In which his strength endurance play an im He can never, however, these feats without continual snd di Abstractly, work ble: when directed by skillful how it remarkable, transportation tex the are quite the Burmese to be is be and part, perform attendance ais rection unapprecia power of Is hanas, ever The provi is facilities which use of cable, i Tro and de ar for le are LOT NO elep! mnt #8 remnt Htnessed recently the training lot of Madras Railway loth able In loading a fastened to his fore leg a pull take the first of n elepliants on the were remark rope is a lot to induce into Processes, 3 nd of natives haul and the anhnal 0 Car. to sleps accomplished, the The first the the This is only by admonishing him means of dly tands a tusk followed isl Sie haunch by step taken Is raph by on portion of the comparatively compnred is timid and sii when the car Is wonderful to behold may ride a hundred overcomes this fear. ever, when At first ened, but he fHnes, never though it takes mols is much when his two civilizat wild 10 he ide af quaintance the fel’, BAY, fe ion He trumpetings with air with frultiessly effort ic n reds endenvors escape, and wh the cai en ote standstill wonderfully hold him iron, rs rising to a height of ten or fest the platform. Often these cars rendered useless by dus to the occupants only ceases his has Of are necessary io made agam « Cars are hinge COUrse, completely of iron 1 twelve above are the of tf twisting the bars, the plication of strength In transporting the difficultios They sling ap remarkable by the elephant wea are almost as great ised by means of barfto the and rending Once aboard managed, the bon ugwe are ra from the w gling to with 8 Canvas ship strug ROH pee cries ship they sasyy notion ting wal affee soe The they do before Pasy 1 not : movin Unloading lowered to not £ panoram ! thet is raft swim walter EWilhiners, hem, ite and take hey a beside the ship Thev “x fo ashore, and able to h without allowed to the enxils are being ten miles at a strets tiring. The usually of the about eight ten feet In length. tie larger, perhaps wighing about sine Indian elephant is feet in height and The male is a Ii eleven feet, and HOOOG pounds, French Rule a Success in Tunis Frame Las Lad possession of vighteen years, and under man- agement the country has reached a state of civilization and order which it had not before Known the Ro nan deminion, and, perhaps, rt then, It was banbLrupt when the French oc cupancy began. it is now solvent, and its yearly receipts regulate its yearly expenditures, In 1550 it had not a fur. long of decently made road: now falr Iy good ones connect all the principal towns, and the work is improved and extended year hy year: a prosperous railway system has Deen the harbor channels have been deep ened to admit the Inrgest ships to the wharves of the city: forty lighthouses, small and large. have been built; wells have been sunk all over the country, Tanis its since the most urgent needs; domestic dustries of all Kinds have been on couraged and promoted, and the safety of life and property is almost as well assured there ax In Aquitaine or Bri tany. France may point with pride to this prosperous and orderly of her capacity in the way of colonial to try on a larger scale. A Lh SS MA Destroyers Not Up to the Mark. The failure of some of the new for. pedo boat destroyers fo attain any. thing like the speed recorded of them while on their contractor's trials is engaging the serious attention of the admirality and of naval engineers, The difficulty has existed ever since the adoption of the 30-knot destroyers, but it has been especially noticeable in the cases of the Earnest and Grif fon, which only a few months ago, while undergoing their contractor's trinls on the Clyde, exceeded a mean speed of thirty knots on a continuous three hours’ run, the engines in each case working at 6000 horse power. Hinee they have been at Devonport completing for sea they have been | Subjected 19 no work Whateyes, yet on a two Hours trial, with the ens gines working at an even greater rate than when on the Clyde, they barely exceeded twenty-six knots, great reduction of speed In new vessels is regarded as surprising and even alarming, amd it is likely to the subject of close inquiry. — FOOD WASTED IN GREAT CITIES. Salvation Army's Work. The problem of utilizing the waste food of the great city of New York for the benefit of the poor, which Presi dent Guggenheimer is trying to solve, is one that has given General William 3ooth of the Salvation Army much thought, The Salvation Army only reached an approximate success in the work lald out for salvage brigade to do. Some of the waste food of New York and, in fact, of most other large cities, is gathered up by the agents of the .ittle of the Poor. Some of the high-priced hotels and restaurants sell food that is clean and wholesome to hotels and restaurants which cater fo a fastidious class of patrons; but still Colonel Holz, who hax charge of this branch of the work by the Salvation Army, estim that from the of the and wealthy there food can and Cleaning Dep child lnck its Risters less done fates tables wel Jl to-do the wh gar Sireet thrown into the todd off by 10 1 pCR ine bage Cat the artment feed in the of funds mpt of wtilizing brigade aste paper, every slums the to do much hungry For Ariny the salvage Salvation does not atter way waste food, ing old furniture {Ons attention giv ¥ Ww bottles, al bri three sis of the sal New old © whenever There the Cian clothes, which gade Ohi are officers be found In Brooklyn. and furnito at possible, cleaned, hey vage York sli0es, in The clothes, re this is dizinfect are then sold price to in are gi prefer than money. The ed and sold; tl sold to the cleaning. and amd repaired. 1 a merely nominal needs sone of ax. away: to old who then, or CHARS treme the things ven need the Army rather but always give work bot thos are sort per is also The this sorting. of Junk employmen New York hye sive men Sun The Empire of Barotse. There now remains only one and one little valley sotith of the equa. whose sovereignty has pot been It xty South by Valles % wide, And who some European power, of Barotse 3 of An ui in we only why Morotse, 1 Ve served thelr independence is that and and Portugal both therefore the work at a standstill It may Marotse when they are a tall, skin and in dignified tooded Marotse ix by birth iief, and acy of the or si worth 11 tl inhabit pre Eng clalm It ivilizat of “¢ won is not be so easy 10 conquer the time well sst-up In manners the CONC Tacs they very black In AOUrTeons bearing Every full 3 i right a « takes his place the bare ArIsioer fact that 3 r the respect of the empire The is a Mar he pee sures subservient tribes and as he grows to manhood a of superiority native the dignity usually of self-respect. Heat Measurements for Fogs Warnings by sound to vessels in fog being unreliable on account of the effects of currents, which inaudible goals of un tain ar often render nearby foghorns, are plainly heard, mapile is proposed proaches to danger tainty, This apparatus is capable of regis tering a8 change of temperatare small as a millionth of a centigrade degree, at a distance of a qoarter of a mile, By the use, therefore, of two horizon tally rotated thermopiles, the two heat oe the sig of of detec greater the ther ti ap fing oer the use for with it is believed that not only woukl the proximity of a it« heat radiations, but the and or a sunken wreck. —<8Ban, Freaks of a Jury Wheel Pittsburg peopls are ruminating over a jury wheel mystery. in the name of Coroner Heber placed in the wheel six- teen years ago, while Mr. McDowell was a constable in Pittsburg. Also the name of John GG. Reading, Jr. that was put in the wheel over fourteen years ago, while he was a law student Mr. Reading iz now a leading Pittsburg lawyer. In con tradistinetion to the names that have been in the wheel so long and undis. turbed, twenty-six of the forty-eight at the recent drawing were among those pt in the last time the wheel was filled The wheel always con: tains 200 names. When a jury is drawn as many ames are substituted as are taken out—Philadelphia Press, Shot an Albino Deer. Among the deer brought to Bangor wa a handsome albino, or white deer, with a good set of antlers, shot on the east branch of the Penobscot by Fred flubbards of East Berlin, Conn, The deer will be motnted whole by a Ban- gor taxidermist.—Maine State Press, A SSA Why Did We Beat Spain? Becanse we are as strong as Samp. son, we are as Schley as a fox, we are | Miles long, we possess Merritt, we are Hobson's on Mid la more De 2 'PARM AND GARDEN NEMS. {TEMS OF INTEREST 0 ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, Save the Soft Corn —Cows Golng Dry Too Long Mulching Small Fralts -Regralftiog 0Oid Apple Orchards —Etc., Etc. SAVE THE BOFT CORN. At most farmers who grow corn have much of it that is soft keep well, Bo it is indiscriminately or whatever this season 10 fed ont rather 10 hog poultry and else will eat it. Only wach good out of it, She swallows the corn and all, and then cates it, mixing grain juices of the which are sweet apd antritious. No animal does not chew the eud should soft corn. It will sour the uachs of hogs and horses, giving them teeth and neotralizing most its nutrition night otherwise OWN, the cow can got cob re-1nast) thie w.'h the then that feed cob, foes Bil Bore of the good du. COWSR GOING DRY of the there TOO LONG, fall danger the the wi In last amd in nter in dry to calve and thus go length of ti extra fe to maintain best to off itable Hie Th sone culent, Bive is milk. niddlings FOOLS, will fatten rather with war i A slop w lies Aare By keep it only 1 $i +1 g Wily f 1s sel i ie mil ’ I winter n« the ber K-produ if riods pay iil ing capacity of unborn cs for long pe foundation the is Increase must the of good arp INN, SMALL FRUITS way to mul MULL HING The proper not to put on ground is fozen ¢ of mulching bed is to keep the plants thrown out in the season when pl freezt ble manure io of coarse of sol as cheap 3 had gt fae lumns large lum; can be place on and a over them, The canes of tender varietd raspberries, blackberries and grag mld be be up a mound of on, and covered 4 1 i protect i first t need #11 hrowing earth for to rest af soil may ! from one Ww Ug away fwd the ¢ with a plant, Canes over wooden pin or peg ¢ with soll IEGRAFTING OLD ARDS ith old apple APPLE ORCH wi that i% a are to do have at w 1rd area long ceased to be profi tabi There orchar ost mporiani question doubtless hundreds of many of which w ith o plant could not Ix idapted to the product has some ere years varieties that because not or not sutficienty orchard and if orchard largely composed of sue he is better prepared 10 go g growing than frees « ex ery this character, a farmer has &n h trees fruit could be by planting all young trees, Often a ree will bear the third of the nto he year from the setting graft. ght to en Years or even more fo get s The varieties that are come in bearing do best when re w EAR slowest to graft number of grafts are set, This re. quires cutting off the limbs far from the centre of the tree, and putting grafts in each place where a limb has been sawed off. In the olden time grafters took pay for the number of set that would be glive the next year. It was their in- terest, therefore, to put as many grafts | iv the trees as they could, It was also the interest of the grower of the tres, for a healthy tree that has only a few grafts put in it will probably put ont #0 many suckers that the graft will be killed. or possibly it may never have started to grow, and thus be a total loss to both the grafter and the owner of the tree. to make a change, the green food they get in summer, | to have warm quarters, warm enough to prevent [freezing the combs, There should always be plenty of gravel. We have sometimes thrown hard coal ashes in the henhouse in winter thme and have found them to make a sub. stitute for gravel. Bones and nieat are good and there, that reminds me of a true story, one that came tnder my own observation, A certain man who was working for another person. owned & stunted calf, That calf was the apple of his eye, the light of his life, the joy of his heart, but lo! one day the apple, the light, the joy, was quenched, for the quadruped died; there was great mourning, but the carcass wns given to the hens, and lo, they began to lay and lall so much and so many eggs that these sold come to more than the real market value of the calf could ever have done. The fowls eeded just this stimulus to start them ln the good way and they ihe th a most amazing ——— - crm——————— cr mm———— While remembering to feed propersy do not forget to always keep a supply of drink on hand; the fowls like wateg above freezing, and they like milk, sweet, sour or buttermilk. Keep the poultry house as clean as you can, the fowls free from lice and trust your hens to pay for their keeping. Wheat is the best single food. if one can have but one kind. New -Fagland Home COLD BTORAGE The farmer as a producer finds him. self lhnited regards the sale fruits by impossibility of keeping ON FARMS, uf the when tin In |0on market re is always a glutted large cities cold for the keeping of fruit, other products are built, very large cre obliged 10 snd to pro. more than it could be put up for by most farmers. We coming when the fruits until the best them will be re the legitimate busi. of ‘2¢ orchardist as and management of his trees and of their fruit, farmer i aR nel y make ost ments and and their realize they OWHOrs thou ini cure ce that costs much the Lime 18 of believe keeping for as enson selling much ' Hess the ls is the ering ghborhiood worth togeth ows enongh this hile, a n nhine to bujld house, allotting to the better ionied A he cost of ut fund to amount of ice ing year. It up the ng as vide each the entitle allowi rooin amoupt him to often be would i slorage may paid in labor in putting up and if hold room 1 1 of to those ers do not may be will make + best offer ut for ¢ pg time the the ice, the want disposed all the ius iit growers who originally invested il want Those original stock- + obliged to form anol h- ablishment, and irown themselves in as 8 ns for the alone for fruits and vegeta. Tage prove valu- ¢ cold stor be kept i the night 20 together ay tha ay take to one pur- yery 11ers auy probably sSOOU uses that it can be put them greater profits found for he farm itself, The far as produc. + per before arming sO speerned te have been is only because not been paid after they are ‘ultivator. GOOD TEETH PREVENT LAME. NESS Some me Years t was made by had 600 twenty-five of 820 a tes An express company who ' ¥ in constant use ndis treatment dental tre ITSes selected and sep- ed . ir oats and two quarts each, a great improve- was ying during the second when they were was found that of for iy eight result. The the months of September when apparent in vet not one single case had awong those twentylive Since this trial and whenever carload of newly purchased young horses arrives, it is considered a waste feed them until their teeth are ex amined and put in proper shape. As a preventive for lameness, to commence operations the teeth ich were riminately proper ; Wels reduced first month inaize After pent in apparent were the their general condition . Contin and third weighed, months, again ans an average increase pounds per bead was test lasted during July, August fatulent the hot and colic was very the stable, occurred horses! on convince them that this would be the etice, one of the chief causes of lame- Young horses fully developed show signs of fatigue and weakness after a | journey, and interfere. Some grap the quarter of the forefoot with the toe of the hind foot, or overreach, In such cases the ordinary practi- tivner would treat locally, possibly ad- vise different shoes, order tonic balls or condition powders and a few days’ rest (the latter would benefit mostly and give temporary relief.) Now, supposing there were irregular teeth, as is usual with all young horses, the first treatment should be to put them in order, 80 as gestion, to enable proper assimilation of the nutritive qualities of the food, and there ensure increased strength and condition. thus removing the orig. inal cause of the weakness, It may seem equally absurd to some of our readers to assert that operating on the teeth will prevent pulling and other vices, but that it Is not so is proved by the following incident: A pony that we treated had egal owners for no offer cause than that none of them had been able to drive him with ease, although various bits and contrivances had been used. The primary cause most be first discover ed, which in this instance was a de cayed tooth, the removal of which at fected an instantaneous cure, The pony is now driven in a plain, straighn bit without a py hain by the p
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