THE HAPPY TIME. each time with precisely the same) movement—a shuffling, gliding trot, It} thus passed and repassed within ten or | twelve yards of where I lay. And with awakened faculties, I dis covered that this big male lon was | i blind. Instead of the yellow-green balls with cruel slits there were two] prominent grayish-white disks uuder its half-closed lids, It was a blind cougar out for exer cise. Surely, with the notch between us, there could be little danger from this unfortunate beast! Fascinated, curious, and forgetting my helpless | condition, I watched the lithe, power { ful, enormous promenading his | beat—a path which he had doubtless | trodden many thousand times, Just so | many steps in one direction, just =o | many back over the same line, At one | point he avoided a projecting boulder; The man who mixes work and play at another passed round a broken cedar At present and to-morrow | sapling. He swung himself back and Keeps life's poor little ills away | forth with the regularity of a pendu And finds few cares to borrow; i lum stroke. The merry time, the happy | Here, despite his infirmity, was uo The blissful day in view Is every day for him whose hand Is tuned each day to Who plays in reason, too, ~8. E. Kiser in the Chicago Herald. The man who caunot rest to-day, But says he will to-morrow, Finds, when his work is cleared away, New tasks or sits in sorrow-— The merry time, the happy time, The blissful day in view 1s never gained by them that wait To triumph and to celebrate With nothing more to do. now, The man who folds his hands to-day And contemplates with sorrow The pressing task that's put away Untinished till to-morrow Has neither rest of heart nor mind, For he that looks ahead To duties long delayed destroys The sweetest of sweet lelsure's joys— But borrows doubt and dread. cal time, i | eged, hampered and rod-beaten crea ture of the menagerie, By some means, the blind lon had been well kept. His hand fair deeds, and red-yellow cont was sleek and ana oilnd Times some, and his great muscles moved | glided over each other like well {1e drop and displaying i . parts of perfect machinery ASA NAALN Nf ed hic later The Blind Cougar. ’ FRANKLIN WELLES NAAN It was a good day for deer-hunting Two or three inches of en, and the alr seemed soft and heavy, as it does before a storm. We deter mined to utilize the favorable weather for the killing of meat Therefore, at ner, Curtis, our Debaw, and myself jaw now and then once gave a mighty yawn, fangs which might have ren an upon rows of the skin of alligator. Once halted the suggestive fashion that watching, back and forth and the whirling wad fall- | flak ) padded the path for his feet And now eddying gusts, stone in a horribl I rejoiced, Indeed And so 1 while the big panther glided CALKINS. he was blind. Iny SIIOW STOW es slipped off his glossy coat and again the wind in notch: IVES Acro tae and dry lea out our winter of a cross current nearly in part Pete our about sunrise my % f hi air the Hoe lit my woent! Imdian helper, of his lair the lion caught my scent Instantly the g set out from shack to make a circuit of the nearer was transformed, a hills. i In 1875 this rough Black Hills conn- | iB eager try Lame sheep, grizzles, black bears tain-lious. On that November « at o'clock or a bi later, 1 killed and hung up four blacktails : Then, Wrist rears abounded in big elk, deer, lion whi and moun- | made a ‘x toward nw 1 crouched, hb one ttle his ears twit one cotton buck, in close . ' a wounded doe Now he of suit of among a HE cauntious:s ully. He = seented « tumble rock ledges, a dent befell me. Hot was pushing through an nudergrowt! seriou upon the trail, “ reatiire posit of cedar, when I burst from cover upon ion, I dropped my gun upon the snow, grasped in bush and to stay my downward fight incline, rolied vain at boulder down an over uushe and dropped off the rim of nity a rock, t With TON some fifteen or twe feet in heigh For some time 1 lay paralyzed, j cally, by the shock of iL face Lhe « He overhung had leaped many times Horror str watchs him gather my fa lay on the edge of a rock and it. perilous position, narrow shelf of had not been blind always, one of my arms Upon I had no power to retire fr this | Where | Hn yet with a sitself curious vault in a swe gully Chasm and #i1LKEH sense of helpless indifference | looked ing down black dism which well the “hidden u canon,” Creek. it was from twelve width, a fnasses nearly one tom, and a8 small stream tumbled through the channel. again So narrow was the cleft and al uj was into a I Knew as we had named it, of four or five steps o is : i Spring I expected instant were suddenly ra to twenty fee be inst INE t . ¥ $ : huge “rit Ween Wa a it hundred feet } broly nifting He ww, and the the scen He reared ! snuffing anx upon hix ain fously Then to my JOS fils have the of rock. to bot had feapod currents no boulder-fil longer carried where bristles lowered. his savage t changed to of leaped back across the cut, fe ment in a listening attitude of suspic and then, trotting away, peared with his lair it in that an active man could have leaped espe it at a running jump. On the side was a mess of rocks rounding off to the left, and below this narrow slope along the rim notch. “A poor place to look for deer,” was my thought, ana there was little liken hood of my hunting companions finding me soon, unless 1 conld send my shouts to their ears. But as yet I had thinking. [ dared not shout to attract volee for shouting. the attention of my fellow-hunters, and At the end of half an hour the paraly. | was in momentary fear of a reap- sis of my nerves had partially abated, pearance of the puma, or, worse yet, of and 1 succeeded in rolling over and its mate, gaining a reclining posture against the The weather warm, hardly at ledge. In so doing, 1 discovered that the freezing point, and I was warmly my right shoulder was dislocated, and clothed. I might, I concluded, survive that probably two of my ribs were twenty-four hours and longer if let cracked. J found that I was upon a alone by the lions, and long before that shelf of rock some thirty feet in length, | time Curtis and Pete would be scour and not more than seven or eight in! Ing the hills for me. Camp was not width. | more than two miles distant. [1 decid Still nothing seemed to matter great- od to lie quiet in fhe snow until I ly, and when presently a gust of wind! should hear some sound of searching. whirled by and great feathery flakes Within half an hour the wisdom of began dropping spirally into the notch, this course was made apparent. Then I felt a lethargic sense of indifference. | saw, coming down out of the storm. From this hazy condition [I was gpoo the far slope, two more red-yel- | roused by seeing a great reddish-yel-! low beasts, which soon proved to be low beast come out of a cleft in the! the blind lion's mate and her well rocks just across the narrow canon. grown cub. { It was a “mountain lion” of great size, I shrank in fear under my covering and it paused upon the slope with up-| of snow. Some taint of my presence lifted head and pricked ears, appar-' there was yet in the notch, for both ently listening and looking away the lions paused, at twenty steps or so, toward the higher ground. and snarled angrily, with bristling Now, for the first time since I had backs and pervous twitching of thelr fallen, 1 felt a thrill of fear. If the tails, big cat were hungry, how easily it. For a moment the two seemed to be might leap the gully and devour me glaring straight at me, and 1 closed my | where 1 lay! Most fevereutly 1 hoped ayes in fearful suspense. | walted, | the creature might trot away beyond hardly breathing for: some seconds; | ‘the rocks. { then, hearing no more of the cougars, | But the Mon turned its head and I looked again, to find that they had seemed to be looking directly at me. It passed on and gone into their lair. it walked deliberately down to the edge was but a moment, however, before | of thecleft, and for an Instant 1) they reappeared, and thls time the! thonght my time had come. blind male was with them, The three | Still the animal showed no sign of | passed together up the ridge beyond. | having seen me. On the contrary. Ri There had been a Kill somewhere, and | turned immediately to one side, and be! the blind lon's mate and cub had come | gan trotting back and forth in front) dutifully to conduct him to the feast, | of its lair. It travelled over a beat of Under safer curcnmstances, | should | some forty yards or more, wheeling have felt the keenest interest in this with precision at the same point 0! evidence of family devotion among each turn, and going ever its path fy opposite ole distrust, and he turned and| stood upon the brink for a mo a rough, of the ion, disap was pow and next few of intense reacting pains, 1 did some hard snowing very fast, the minutes, relieved no Was tunity, I should have hesitated to kill either the dam or her cub, As it was, I was to witness something very like a tragedy. The lions had been gone a half-hour, perhaps, when I heard the booming crack, crack of a rifle just the rock ridge In front of me. 1 answered the shots with a hallo as lusty could ghve, and hitched myself to a more conspleuous posture against the ledge. again and again, a rather feeble wall, but loud enough to be heard at no considerable distance, aver as | 1 shouted Then, as if by magic, I was confront ed by the three llons, which had slid down an inward enrve of the rock ledge They came on in great fifteen or twenty There gight of me, the two foremost came to a halt, and united thelr volees in men upon my left, bounds to within yards of my perch, catching It was easy to be seen that some thing and had hap pened to the puma family The blind one, apparently cowed by his helpless to hoarsely as he ace, exciting unusual ness, slupk his cavern, ran. Despite their sav age demonstrations, the dam and cub did Some the to not attack new fear seemed to 1 oy Kil ard am mn whirled about repeatedly, 1st RUIPrises amd lashed themselves upon the snow, their tails Xf edly via 3 ¥ . rstooa thal I unde Oar Pete they and bullets, hen nt fant bullet 1) racked and 1 Hon again, Lis \ y a close saw the cougat n out the wildly, spltti bounced about $1 GIO Wg, Well Worthy of the Prat, took A new He wen ut to hunt 1'it-Bits, and day returned hie L newspapel reporter on ently trial re for after be EWE, Ras He away with the following. which anid was the host he could do “Yesterday sight which blood man, driving down Market Wwe San a froze our with horror. A cab gtreet at a running There ovat rapid pace, was very near over a nurse and two children of the catastrophes ever re would have been one beartrending with the children atid not the nurse, left went had derful forethought, home corded won at before she oul, shop just before the cab passed, “I'tien, too, the cabman, just before the of something he had forgotten, and, turn ing about, the opposite di rection. Had it not been for this won- derful concurrence of favorable cumstances a doting father, mother and affectionate brothers reaching crossing. thought drove In oir and funeral expense.” The new reporter will be retained. Hie Was * Terrible Bashlul"” ture young woman to the immature young man is generally acknowledged. It is a fact that is recognized by some very small ladies. The little ten year-old girl in the country was visited the other day by a small boy neighbor of the same age, The two sat iu the hammock for a time swinging, and it might have been uvoticed that the young woman did most of the talk ing. Undoubtedly that is a feminine perquisite, but this particular young woman felt that she was obliged to do more than her share, on account of a noted lack of confidence in the youth. ful male of the human race. “What did your little friend have to say?" asked mamma after the small boy visitor had departed, “Oh, you know how boys of that age are, mother,” replied the litle lady, with a commiserating alr, “terrible bashful” New York Times, The average girl rather admires ex- travagance in a man, until she mare ries him, FLORIDA SPONGE FISHERY. HOW THEY ARE CATHERED IN SOUTH® ERN WATERS. Professor Wilson's Experiments — Why | the Divers Are Not Successful Use of the Water-Glass ~We Use the Ske.eton | of the Sponge. For a great many years scientists de nied to the sponge the honor of being among those things in nature; which possess animal life, but now the sponges have been placed above the protozoa in a subkingdom of thelr own, with the individual men of Porifera, probably on account of the multitude of pores. Other scien tists class the sponge with the corals, classed sefentific cogno sea-feathers, and jelly fishes, H. V. Wiison, Ph. D., biology In the University of North Car professor of olina, has recently conducted a series of most interesting laboratory exper Corer a of Raising Sponges from the ¥ sponge is hermaphrodite, and that at duces chiefly male elements, and at an other period mainly female elements Thus the egg is fe the its early the lively littie away from mat ithin the mandated w body of and there under mother, goes development ral control, and a feeling individual Importance, perhaps a wounds f hero t of by the 0 be washed, strolls out into those pores, wh i i i OCs n current fully interestin It is a twenty-fi Sioux i we | eye, it like formation and or grapm man siay valuable : das depth Divers, in their heavy around on the the grow uneven, ocean upon which SPOT Les fast, dest iv thie YOAr's A edd iterranean sea were brought out to the With there from rop. Some expert divers in the Florida coast a few years ago these three Greek sponge divers was also an experienced diver New York: but the experiment was not The salary of each of the was $150 a week, the sponges were nowhere found in dense beds, and the hookers, in the same length of time, secured more sponges than the divers. Ro destructive of the of YOung | sponges have the cumbersome apparat us of the divers proved, in Europe and in Turkey, that laws prohibiting div ing for sponges in this way bave been passed in those countries; and there is! the statute of Florida | a law that prohibits diving for sponges in the gulf waters, either with or with crop books When sponges were to be obtained of Florida, the fishers used a short pole weighing from one pound and a half to two pounds, with a shank of six by the deep-water fishing have | shank, and they welgh about five | pounds. The only other apparatus that | the sponge fishers require is a water glass, which is nothing more nor leds | than an ordinary water-bucket, from | which the natural bottom has been re moved and replaced by one of glass, By pressing the water glass down a few inches into the water, the sponge fishers In our country clearly see ob- jects on the bottom of comparatively deep waters, One of these water glasses is carried on each boat. One man paddies the small boat along, while the other leans over the side and manipulates the water-glass and the grappling pole. When, by the aid of his water-glass, he locates a sponge, he inserts his: hook, detaches the spenge, and pulls it to the surface. The sponge fisher, like any other ang- fer, does not always succeed In land. ing his fish. If the sponge gets away from him it is with the greatest dif flieulty that he ean secure it. The sponge thus liberated from the bedrock of the ocean and floating free on ix surface is by the spongers called a seoller,” or a “rolling John.” The sponge that we use is merely sponge that his dingey. It has to go through a processes of purl fit When of the a to use, water it fleation before it it is first taken out black ang slimy. It to kill Then, is put the gurry, beat the paddle, knives, may Inrge vessels it. week longer, It shore, where of the or on animal mutter, which is called «till more. Next, sponges with a wet = and them with residue, what them, 18 squeezed out by hand, pens the men Soden Rerape be Then, with a large needle and coarse twine, the in bunches about tive with water in are gtrung circumference, sponges {feet The sponges are usually sold at Key in West. and it would seem that the soc cessful buyer must be divinely guided, The sponges are unloaded on the deck, the of looking them over, but not of weigh buyers have the privilege where After they have looked them er the the entire The y 8 second cleaning ¢ cargo on the wharf, auction. RPONEges and tri abont minin ils a loss of which [He recovered IDENTIFIED BY A SKULL CHIP. 0dd Experience of a Medical Missionary With a Native African. and work of “When the there wa MOAI tice thickness of jece of parchm of the wound the brain, and the it the {0 Ree skull over had practically healed lag jong journey to his distant home this degree of damage He had the idea that the piece of the skull should be set hack turned out that vite had made me, because troubled him in place, and he seemed to have great confidence in ability to do it it was a great disappointment to him that my his skull chip could not be stuck back. Although 1 did all that surgi prescribes for the protection of the thin spot in the cranium, patient kept harping on the fear that he might fragment of bone, which might fall into improper hands and thus play the mischief with him. The pacify him was to string my jose his only way to it about his neck.” Louisville Com mercial, Killed by a Fly's Bite. A case of extremo rarity came be- fore Mr. Langham, deputy coroner, at &t. Bartholomew's Hospital, says the into the death of a little girl named it was shown hy Mr. A. L. Cham when she suddenly complained having been bit ten by a iy. flamed and swollen. Afterwards she consciousness, ually sank and died, Dr. Nixon, the houses surgeon, in answer to the coroner, said they had records of one or two cases of the kind, but they were very rare. was due to general blood poisoning. ANI SIS the highest value to the greenstone They are sending a very handsome one as a present to Lord Roberts in token of admiration of his prowess, KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST SNEWS GLEANED FROM VARL OUsS PARTS, THEY THWARTED A PLOT. An Obstruction Placed on the Track Near Laflin Farmer Used a Hazor and afhot. Gum in His Vain Forts to Die But Will Recover (isorge Carter Thrown From His Wagon at Phoenixville Powell Ruchinski was arrested at Mill Creek on the charge of attempt ing to wreck the Delaware and Hud- son express train. An obstruction was placed on the track near Laflin., The spot is a deso- late place on the mountain side with a twenty-foot embankrzent at oue side of the track and the wgoas ou the other, If three hunters had not dis- covered the attempt, the train would have swept around a sharp curve and crashed into the obstruction. Three short rails were lald on track, backed number of stones and several raliroad ties, hunters say that Ruchinsk! was put- ting the last log on top when they emerged from the woods near by. They saw him long enough to get a good de- scription and then he They did not but worked hard to and finished the work a few minates before the train came down the Detective Crippen rested Ruchinski was sullen 1d would say nothing He was sent default of $5000 bail the large The by a ran attempt pursuit ti ciear the track mouniain was notified and who jail Jail His Vain sed with was fighting him, rier perate Efforts to Die. the idea that Wilson Orwell attempts hache Posse P fig the devil Glenn, a wealthy of Township sell-de-~ about 49 made des at or vears of age and ; lived LIVES many zt ried . siruclion is alone for was Cove . n i } found »arky “ fron {f blood When 1: ived b doctor he of his OWN acca i a2 | w nade two fa 1 i $5 ialeq Wo Killed in a Runaway Carter killed at from aged 70 years Phos ry 4 au rid po b ghiened by a Was strik- crushed, Cartier head Was passed over chil. grown a Rist. 253 1 £11 enango arn Four Shets In riot at the Si oe, al and Negroes wounded a navill laborers were shot Shar e, between strikers I orted mostly " 5 : 4 men and bu fainll) Thre e armed Negroes cepted by the strikers and sued All night long 3 a field and kept up a continuous fire on the top fillers at the furnace, neces- jown. Twen- of town and cut. Severs) furnace at vi gitating a temporary si ty men were chased had his head deputies are guarding out one badly the Two Fingers Worth 85,000. James F who sued the Vul an iron $15,000 damages for the two fingers, Was $5000 by a Wilkes- Newion Was AS @a molder in the Vulean works, and while he was at work asting it fell on him. The allegation was that the Vul- can gent in not “ Company was negli properly guarding against the acci- dent. Newton, Works « of "nr joss awarded at Barre Moved on a « Despondent Girl's Sujeide. Elizabeth Murray, aged 25 years, of S8outh Avenue, Allegheny, committed suicide by swallowing poison. Miss Murray, it is sald, was engaged be married, but the engagement was recently broken. Since then the girl frequently de rlared that she had nothing to live for and that she would take her own life. to Tired of Suffering. With his throat cut and both wrists mutilated with a razor, Philip Myers, aged 78 years, threw himself from an attic window of the almshouse at York, and, landing on the brick pavement thirty-five feet below, met instant death. The dead man had been a suf ferer from aliments which were I» curable, Nobbers Ransack a Store. Robbers entered the general store of A. R. Pennington, at Fairmount This place is only two miles from Cam- bra. where an unknown burglar was The Pennington place was robbed six bonds were stolen, Blew Open Two Safes. Thieves entered the feed store of An hour later the safe in Colilngdale Station, on the Balti. more and Ohio Railroad, was blown open. The thieves secured little Gifts to » Hospital, Generous gifts have been announced by Dr. Estes, of St. Luke's Hospital, at Bethiehem, Including a fund of $10.- 000 from former President BE. P. Wil- bur, of the Lehigh Valley Ralircad, for the support of a children’s ward, and a now $20000 operating ward to be erected by Samuel Thomas, of Hoke endauqua, plans for which are already ‘n the bands of the contractors wom Won't Collen: Tax on Bileyolos, The Franklin County Commission- ers have decided not to attempt to collect the $1 tax on bicycles provided for in an act passed in 1898, as the constitutionality of the law is in ques tion.
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