—— NOW. Break now the alabaster box Of sympathy and love ‘Amid the cherished friends of earth Ere they are called above. How many burdened hearts are here That long for present help and cheer The kindly words you mean to say When they are dead and gone Speak now, and fill their souls oy, Before the morning's dawn, "Tis better far when friends are near Their saddened hearts to soothe and | cheer, with | The flowers withheld till after death Has closed their eyes in sleep If proffered in life's weary hours Would still their fragrance keep. While hearts can thrill and ears hear Let loving deed and word bring cheer. James J. Reeves. can - PPI IPTOSPSTTTIIPIIOSS I fdventure Wim a i § Cougar. i 5 I sah WHF 4 APPR IPOS HEHE ON veer FREPPEPREPRPPPPPPPRERPPRR Wherever | ERRRRRRRY § 8 abound, a timid, fighting hunters and dog the cougar, if found at all, is shrinkin voicele brute, only when brought to bay. learns and finite Hence the beast fallen into a certain con- tempt; latter-day naturalists even deny that it gives voice to the long, quaver- ing hat was formerly attributed to it. But I have often heard that cry, and [ know, that the tamed, man- hunted cougar differs from its con- genes mountain wilds, some- what Moravian Indian differed from Shawnees of old. The about to relate occurred near French Creek, in Blac} of Dakota, in August, untrodden by white 58 It caution. practices in has cry 1% too, of the as the the adventure I am Savage the 1875 a men, had recently g: sed ong this and expedit eral Custer an rofessor in g the ever: of h« were persti in th so that riginal 1 sient. There atmosphere ness seldom pine and cocked its head witl big, dun mule-deer pros with ops need, gaze not stopped by would often yme within a of The grizzly bear bands of mine except al ons Jenney. they guarded by thousan though pproac h is They themselves traditions and su- g with- pines; venturin their 3 from much ows of black und there ions, permane no trace of abo iia nt or tran- and wonderful primitive wilder- by men, The of bush or tree, suit fear. The approached the lone unscared approach. upon limb curious a bullet, few actually ed, for he had by there cougar, fear of man warm Sune hi left steps came into camp to be | never found hi living ¢ And never 1, knew not fF k ur cami 1 a ftern far a atroll i am path barred res. the lay on ong the is, and frem force of Sunday ha oy gun in my tent. As a revol I i I w in nats bits | e to feel I dislik against came ut upon highest cap- hill- oe of sured rocks grew and raspberry ruit. Many had ber been but ries gathered by enough yet re: to furnish me with dinner re When | solved to nore | luscious a palatable after- had eaten all I could, I re climb a summit of the rocks, that I might get a more ex- tended view of the beautiful region. But to reach those lookout heights was no easy task. I sought for a great cleft or split In the rocks, which offered an arduous line of ascent along one steep and rugged face. Along the fissured cleft I advanced slowly and cautiously, going up slantwise, now on my hands and knees, and again drawing myself up bodily by clutching rocky projec- tions with my fingers. As I passed along the face of the cleft, it deepened and widened, and the ascent became still more difficult and perilous. Below me lay two steep inclines, each with a chevaux de frise of rock points and scattered pines, reaching to a dizzy depth. Finally, when | almost despaired of climbing farther, and when descent seemed equally dangerous, | reached a flat surface of the rock, where there was a thin soll and clustering juniper busi, and there I saw an easier way of climbing to the summit, still fifty feet or gu above my head, After | scanned the ascent I lay, puf- fing with exertion, tired and heated, flat upon my face, to rest. A cool | breeze blowing through the cleft fan- ned my cheeks, and | enjoyed in an- | ticipation the grand expanse of horizon | which awaited me on the heights. 1 had lain thus several minutes, when I | became aware, with a quick and creepy | thrill, of some magnetic presence close | at hand. What sort of creature was it which could thus make itself felt? I ralsed my head, turned my face instinctively toward the wall of rock upon my right, and found myself look- ing directly into the yellow-green, | scintillating eyes of a great red cougar, The great cat had crept steaithily out from a shelter of bush and rock, and lay upon its stomach, facing me, to surface of this were pricked forward, and watching me with intense and curiosity. The big eyes, it 3 VA with dilating l i stare. There was no movement of the cou- gar's body or head, save a slight quiv ering about the muzzle. Its great paws and guid Ber ied my movement by that dan- signal. When the tail switched too nervously, and lay inert, Hitehing myself actually suc inch in delaying forward wweded # a footing for a leap. Well out of reach of a single bound of the animal, den in the soft fur which them. The tail curved upward in curious twist, not unlike the hook an interrogation point. of one of half-fierce, half-wondering questioning. It was as if it saw in me a big and probably harmless reptile— perhaps a huge kind of lizard or turtle I cannot recall that cowardice was ever attributed to me, even in child- but looked into the I was afraid afraid. I dared not get to and thus invite immediate at had PF possessed Was no way to run. a small and ket-knife, recourse was to lie as | eves terribly for there I had no w worse ha u eapon, save se less poc in should if animal and haply, off 10 perfect quiet until the grat its hungry, take tse I had not lk was a sudden unshe 1 the It came toward me ify curiosity until there the ng wait athing of yel and « leaned Heht et low claws ONE: ly to its fe fear lessly, its Sick with a slow, cat's tread, holding its tall helplessness, | and lashin of head sidewise with a sense could only lie inert, waiting to grapple beast, movement ce to the re. the final to D the to bareh with resort. anded, My a8 a only was soil and clas K with both lower hands the outset led down at me Then it gave houlder—a tenta- {-playful stroke, in my apparently back of my n f prevent a fatal 2 at in me The cougar snar a a to test defensive me of a brute « took oolly my woollen me over ¢ tu hes hh 11 YE 13 its heart thump its red lips parted at the for hard soil as if a banquet! d keenly If over the « 1y despair | regrette flung myse my lown its steep, taken chances in a terrific ragged she 30 | resolved to mak he desperate | yrtunity should offer igle whi nust come, There co » no doubt of the intention of ti The cougar was in a bit of cat 4 x 3 3 2 3 when this shou anda, yald an Opp lve y ly indulging play, and fre a cat does thrust at me as a mon its head its big eyes na: and its hot my face. Its tail and forth, lashing first boots and then my head, from the hat had fallen. In every the creature there 180 animal down lewise and gid rowed 1 switched back Was a under the I felt vy. and word muscles i Was strong by the it over the ledge 1 beast » from such a lar a rash AT Was ge one e famed it it of the varie lion as the moun tain id instantly Iy asunder if 1 wou with { nd seratehed with hind claws, side, tore my sliced me painfully. ordeal 1 lay in perfect breath and appear- tear me grappled t The brute snarled a vehemence against and this my ne quiet, ing ance of animation. the cougar sprang to its ped litl away. I turned in a great hope that it would abandon but only to see it sink behind a spray yards distant. ing visible the light play of its tail. Despite its great size, the animal was still young enough to be eager for play with a too easily caught victim. Was it poss the finally go away and leave me? No; amid the cedar sprigs | caught the gleam of. its yellow-green eye—an eye fastened upon me in cun- ning, waiting cruelty, Evidently 1 was expected to move, and furnish sport in the killing. Without doubt, too, the cougar shrewdly suspected me playing the part of the turtle or the porcupine, 1 thought of trying to escape now. How far and how fast might I go? 1 rolled cautionsly over until 1 could look down the steeps To throw myself over at that point would be destruction. The descent but quite ap- SUDDres suppres Suddenly and lea my face, feet ely me, There it lay, with noth- save ible creature might clusterin of flance, and jumped outward with all my might. projecting rock, and instantly for the pine top below. There dizzy swoop of twenty feet crashed among the branches was a and 1 and lodgment. I could, if nimble enough, leap down | upon a jutting point of rock, and | thence into the thick of a pine beneath. What lay immediately beyond was hid- den by a projection. It was a deaper- ate chance, even if I might crawl so iar in safety—simply a chance of out- doing the cougar in daring a perilous descent, . I crawled slowly forward along the rim of the declivity, keeping a close me. By sheer luck, lodged head downard tangle of lower limbs which turned aside in their growth by face of the rock. Before there as it seemed, 1 in was time to move, 1 ghs over the snapping of a big limb and a muffled thud upon the Then, clinging face downward, but few limbs to intervene, 1 enemy, the cougar, in a light ting at the eared head, slope below. with Saw my go down the ning and Epil rocks app among some pine tops below, Two minutes later, safely seated, aw my enemy, now limping. i bottom of oping tail, al i mg the The cougar had survived i » courage I had no much scrate I had no by the hard it | got safe iy Then, thankful and bones, It st kind of scram to the top of the gh for life way back to mn. hed broken 'Y enou nade my Compan ic WAYS OF HUNTINC SPIDERS. Some Stalk Their Prey and Others Build Rafts to Seek it on the Water, web, its own image dead leaves, pursuit of rafts not which are the i do ompare with their nests shaped, lined with the finest water- f web with clusters of the mother upon her ntangled in her and bu air bu wed which wn by diving ith the bubble « flog Lies {der takes do Ww the siz» of omething No in workman-like wi, al young spider » creatures have from in two yes each youngsters ap- se their spinne as children bu Spiderwebs rots uch i doll houses 2 Ereat vogue were held specifi . 4 1 TT; | once pad They ption, medicine. consum and certain fevers, as They have Even spt urting if well as the best il that a terial wholly ful of of styptics 8 use blood may be checked not by a generous hand- cobwebs held bard against the staunched Spiders are wonderfully weatherwise. They will neither bulld new nests nor repair breaks In old ones in face of a storm. They have, moreover, a cer- tain prescience which foretells weather changes. Wherefore, f you see a half- destroyed web, with no spider-body making haste to build it over, though the sun may shine and windk caress, be certain stormy weather is not twelve hours away. Few more wonderful adaptations are geen in the whole round of nature than the webs spiders spin to entrap the wary ant. They are not high- hung, lacy affairs, caressing every breeze, but low-set silken tubes stretched in the grass, the crevices of rock, or about‘tree roots. Ants of ev- ery size creep heedlessly into them. The spiders eat them with relish. but occasionally a very little spider and a very big ant engage in a duel to the death. If the spider can bite the ant can sting--and does it with a right good will. The spider does not try to get rid of such an ant as he does of a wasp or bee too strong to be safely at- tacked, ens destruction to the web, is often cut out of it by the web-builder. The en- web-rays neatly snipped in two, first go of such a captive means destruction to hall the nest. wiser than some people. They know not merely when they have enough, | but when they have too much.—~New York Sun. To widen a business street, the round tower in Copenhagen-—150 feet tn height—is to be bodily moved a distance of 50 yards, Attar of roses sells at $100 an ounce, which ig exactly five times 5 A CREAT CONVENIENCE TO THE PEOPLE OF THAT CITY. ost $5,000,000 and Took Three and a Half Years to Build ~Manner in Which It Was Constructed and is Maintained at Present. Boston's thirds loop two- track subway is one miles long, with systems at each of one-half mile double-track it, thus greater and double end for and an addi- system straight making four tracks part of the entire dis- W. H. Hills in the Chi- a | tance | tional through { for the | tance, writes Record. cost $3,800,000, exclu CARO it lamages of land totaled sive which reckoned as a five miles run length Lo whereas and purchases, Its trackage track, i $1,000,000, | single is Cars in eight on the | through entire twelve face tw its five minutes in twelve thes: required t was built tions sfireet has the thoroughfare hs the retail ave materially taken ng the huge build- ht work atwo ac and $1 ACK © and $2,307 of ty oh 000 damages and irances ’ ohtpad rel aul and equ throughout and venti y being supplied A third-rail system is being on the two straight tracks which clear through, this being designed when the “L” construction, is will run Nowers ating «! aft ma it vy power by motors introduced run for the elevated cars road, now in process of pleted. The “L' Roxbury to the southern entrance the subway, and there, by a sharp de- cline, enter the tunnel and run and one-quarter miles underground, when the cars will emerge at the north- ern end of the subway and again run overhead across the Charles river bridge and through Charlestown to Sullivan squar:’ vated tracks of five miles, The subway was built by the city un- der legizlative authority, a commission being given full power. The city leases it at an annual rental that is equivalent to 4 7-8 per cent. interest on the net cash. The city raised the money at a fraction less than 3 1-2 per cent. on forty-year 4 per cent. bonds, which will be paid at maturity by the accumulated rental of the subway, which goes an- nually Into a sinking fund. The city keepa it in repair, and after this ex- pense ig met there is a handsome mar- gin of profit from the lease. The success of the subway has led to road to ones the harbor connecting the island of | East Boston with the city. {this has begun. This tunnel will cost | approximately $2,500,000. It is about | one mile long. Other subways are con- | templated, and legisiative enactment has been asked for the construction of lone the entire length of Washington street—the most congested thorough- fare in the business section-—running parallel with Tremont street, another from the Cambridge bridge through the woeat end section, and stili another | through the Back bay and under Bea- con hill. These projects have been agitated for a couple of years. They | represent stupendous undertakings, and it may be years before a sanction for | them is secured, the lawmakers and merchants watching the present sub- Yay and studying out improvements a thereon which will yt ideal rapid transit, Up to date the bring abc with a trial of two vears, has proved equal to all it, has to large the of rapid with growth the in business and population another similar subway will unquestionably be needed within ten years, even allowing for the relief which will be afforded by road. ubway upon and i olved But problem transit the of POLITICAL SPOTTI™C. A Recent Development of an Involving Millions. Political spotting a recent devel of the profession, but it has necessary in the establishment of political gning as a enterprise millions of Enterprise is i opment become campni business involving al doi- BCien- jars’ and 1% Lilie has WOrKers f41) capit on strictly principles Every State chairma at his command a corps of “trus » money where in others, JUrsers hether the other than tter wherein the minor officeholders. Others hope lition to the for their and 5 a week others are managers the are doing the confi- H. draw $10 or § while still stili but hope work Nobo iy know dent Adams voiunteers the maelves mon wk of a Ainelee’s campaign. —8. An Amateur Savant Fooled The stories ommon enough of fire engines being turned out to quench an and, her hand, has not seldom happened that a very mundane conflagration has passed muster for a “celestial display.” the memoirs of Baron Stockmar amusing avecdote is related of Herr von Radowite, the information. went to an evening fort, where he expected to meet Herr von Radowite, barn burning, stopped his carriage, as- sisted the people, and waited till the flames were nearly extinguished, When he arrived at found Herr von Radowite, previously taken the partly of the bullding to see a ing on terrestrial magnetism, ity, eto. friend, ar « aurora, on the ot most of easily to ihe top dilat- electric Radowitz asked Stockmar's “Have you seen the beautifol He replied, “Cer tainly; 1 was there myself; it will soon be over.” An explanation follow Radowits was silent some ten minutes then he took up his hat and quietly disap peared. Knowledge. i aurora, There is the story of the bullying colonel who turned on one of his aids during a battle and cried, “Captain you are frightened! You are, gir. You are seared!” “You're right” replied the “and if you were half as scared as I am, you'd be six miles in the rear. wa Richard Harding Davis in Every: body's Magazine, Coral, both white and red, is found on the Florida coast. yo FHIUMAN NATU fat, “He was far too and an awful bore: oft While round he Bhe n thought. carried Conviction of her lack of brains, Pe fore Long they fle were happily married, Puck EEBLE IMITATION. society Why ne “He takes ardon, inher isla market, : Se - a money market? gains ?"—In- Oh, d Are Gian there bar apolis He isn't teeth Maybe | that hur 's his him! Friend- through Bachelor kalir coming -Puck MISTRESS S ma JOKE. rry the police THE “So you're going to “Yes, mum.” “1 suppose you'll trouble with him i've band.” “Shure, what's that, mum” “Oh, he won't give up his club. = Yonkers Statesman. NO GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT. “Yes, we aré receiving and answer. ing messages from Mars every day,” have the same had with my hus “But, if you cannot understand the asked the Obtuse Person. “Hub!” replied the Eminent Scien tist, “they can't understand the an swera, either.”-—Baltimore American. TESTING THE THEORY. Mr. Kerrigan—Kape shtill minutes, for th’ love av hivin! Mrs. Kerrigan (six children, crying and fighting)-—Phat fer? Mr. Kerrigan—O! want to givé this moind-cure book a fair trial. Ol want to see can Of convince mesilf thot there is no such thing ez matrimony! Puck. NOBLE CONSIDERATION. “Why did the bride insist that the bridegroom’s present should be a necklace of twenty-one pearls? Does she think there is luck in odd num. bers?” “No, | guess not. You see she had been engaged that number of times other fellows, and, being one of kindest-hearted girls in the wanted the necklace as folve
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