h MM ) ————— PILGRIM FATHERS. The National Monument in Their Honor Dedicated, Unveiled Amid Impressive Cero: monies at Plymouth, Mass, THE NATIONAL MONUMENT, The grand national monument in honor of the Pilgrims has been dedicated at Ply. mouth, Mass. The sons and daughters of Plymouth were there in great numbers, with many visitors from far and near, The weather of the early was unpropitious, It was necessary to review the parade from beneath umbrellas. The celebration began at cunrise | with a salute by Battery A and the ringing of bells. The morning trains brought vast num. bers of strangers, and a great throng sur. rounded the new monument at 9:30, whea the dedicatory services were carried out hy the Masonic Grand Lodge, according to the ritual of their order. These exercises were very in. | teresting. The band rendered a choral by John K. Paine, following which the song of | praise, written by R. W. Thomas Power, was sung by the Temple Quartette. Following the song came the request of the President of the Pilgrim Society, ex-Gov. Long: the response of the Grand Master, Henry Endicott; pro- ! clamation by the Grand Marshal, George H Rhodes; reading of Scriptural selections Ly | the Grand Chaplain, the Rev. Charles A Skinner, and prayer by the Grand Chaplain. | The report on the examination of the monu- | ment fo. libations of corn and wine by the Junior and Senior Grand Wardens respect- | ively, and the libations of «il by Deputy i Grand Master, Samual Wells, ware fol | lowed by the invoeation by the Chaplain, Grand Master Endicott delivered an address. The assemblage sang an appropiate closing hymn by the Rov. R. Thomas Power to the tune of “America.” The exercises concluded with | a proclamation by the Grand Marshal, ben. ediction by the Grand Chaplain, and the “Pilgrim Chorus” by the band. Meantime the procession had been form. | ing, and at 11 o'clock moved over the exten- | sive route in seven divisions. At the com. lotion of the parade the officers and mem | ars of the Pilgrim Society, with the orator, | poet and invited guests took their places in the | great dining tent, and the feast provided for | the occasion was discussed for an hour The dinner was the big eveut of the day Ex-Governor John D. Long, President of | Grand | then | the Pilgrim Society, presided, and the oration of the day was delivered by William © | followed | OF Reilly. | followed | 2 BR of by Kentucky, John Boyle Breckinridge, by a poem The oration and poem were by ches from J. Q A. Brackett George F. Hoar, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frode | ick Greenhalge, Dr. George E. Ellis, Chief | Justice Durfee, William Cogswell, Nathaniel | P. Banks, E. A. Morse and other distinguished gentlemen, Mr. Myron W. Whitney, an invited guest, sang during the dinner Mrs. Heman's ode i “The Breaking Waves Dashed High. The monument is situated oo one of the | highest hills in Plymouth, northwest of the | rock on which the Pilgrims landed and west | of the anchorage of the Mayflower The monument was first thought of ia 1853 when the Pilgrim Society agitated the sul A. Inthat year a design was made by {ammatt Billings, a famous architect, and | the present site was selected. The monument | is of solid granite, and consists of an octago- nal pedestal, which, standing forty- five feet high, is surmounted by a figure | of Faith, who, staiding on Plymouth Rock, | holds in her left hand an open Bible, and | oints heavenward with her right hand is figure is thirtysix feet high. The | pedestal bears four tablets, upon which are | scribed the names of the foundors of the | <olony and historic facts connected with the first settlement | Below these tablots project foar wing ped. | estals, upon which are placed <one on each figures of Morality, Education, Freedom and | Law, and at their feet are alt-relief tablets, | representing the embarkation at Delfthaven, | the signing of the social compact, the landing | at Plymouth, and the first treaty with the | Indians, i The monument cost in the neighborhood | of 800000, the major portion of | which was presented by citizens, Massa chusetts gave £10000, Connecticut gave | $000 apd | the United States | Government gave £15,000 The cornerstone was laid with impressive ceremonies August 2, 15850, but it was not until Inst fall that the work was finally completed, THE WHIPPING POST, A Man Whipped in Maryland Under the Law for Wife Beating. A special from Hagerstown, Md., says: The first whipping administered in this coun- ty since the passage of the act of 15% for wife beati occurred hore this afternoon. The pris. oner was David C. Horbert, a_resident of the Carfoss district, this county, Herbert is a tell well-prop riioned white man, while his wife, who made the complaint is a fragile, delicate looking woman. At the trial before Justics Bitaor it was proved that Her while intoxicated last Friday, best and cho wife into unconsciousness, While she was in that condition he grabbed a chair, swear. ing that he intended to kill her. He was pro vented from carrying his threat into execu. Sion by his son wiithg the chair from him, Herbert has bean gullty of the sams offence sevoral times before, and the Justice deter. mined to impose a salutary restraint upon hig futare conduct by sentencing him to re- oive fifteen Inshes and an imprisonment of marning | { been literally ruined by constant rains | military or | to be represented in the Congress | he thanked for the batoment of the Bond Parchases LATER NEWS, Gronae D, Pexnosg, one of the Auditors at the Philadelphia dffice of the Reading Rail- road Company, was drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Ware Horatio Fraser and his wife and two children were boating on the Pawtuxet River at Providence, R, 1., the boat capsized and the children, aged two and one-half and four years, were drowned, Crantes Kemuer and Henry Arnett were drowned in Braxton County, W, Va., while attempting to cross a flooded stream. Tun low grounds around Galena, Ill, were visited by a frost, which did considerable damage to growing vegetables. Corn suf fered in most exposed places, Tue Ripley (Olio) Mill and Lumber Com. pany's buildings, with a large amount of lumber, were almost entirely destroyed by fire. The residence of J, P. Parker and the house of William Rode were also burned. The lose is about $200,000. Ix the Republic mine at Marquette, Mich., | two cases of giant powder exploded, killing two men and three boys. All the victims | were torn to shreds C. M. Hull editor of the Bolivar Democrat, was killed at Rosedale, Miss, by B. A Weissenger, editor of the Review. A news | paper war was the cause, A rerririe wind storm visite of Prince George County, 1 a portion Va, leaving de | Many | In the upper counties of Virginia the crops have 1 struction and bavoe in fis track bridges have been washed away Assis7 BECRETARY taken suddenly ill in bis offices ANT Ticnexon inthe Ty and had e has be ried an acute form way | asury | Vashington, wo be a in| His prin Departu ent at taken 1 I in anlth & AS Le : : cipal tronbie Is rheumatisy POSTMASTER-GEXERAL WANAMAXER has fssuod an « [ appointment service postoifie irty-five to forty | This mitation does not apply to i) persons honorably discharged from the ! der extending t) ’ ag letter-carriers in non-civil | %, from tl years, naval service. VexrzurLa and the United State lombia have notified the De partment at Washington of invitation to cas’ Washington next Octot their acceptance o take part in the three Ameri Commercial Congress to held in All the nations interested have now signified their be or intention | except Paraguay, Hayti and San Domingo. Tae Shah of Persia attended Cody's Wild | West show in Paris, and at its close ox- t Buffalo admirable pressed a desire to mes Bill, whom performance be had witnessed. ALL Europe is alarmed because 80.000 The Porte is buying uniforms and stores and work isprooweding atthe dockyards with fev. Turkish reserves have been called out. | erish activity Bie Wnraax Ewany ment for the porth division land, is dead He was a politics. of Belfast Consarvative in Ire Tne dervishes charged the Egyptian eav alry at Toski, Soudan, and killed twenty. seven men. Lieutenant Daguilar dislodged the dervishes at Masons village and killed fifteen of them, Muss Jessix Crovonen and Mis Ella Olive Parr, of Boston, were drowsad in Horn Pond near Woburn, Mass, by the capsizing of a sailboat, Coxxonong Wonaaax E Frreavoen, i United States Navy, died a {ow days ago in | the Naval Hospital at Philadelphia | sixty three years old Heo was A SAILBOAT containing five persons was sapsized on Silver Lake, near Pembroke, Mass, Fred. Allen, of Brockton, and Marcus Howe, of East Bridgewater, were drowned. Ix the trial of the United States cruiser | Boston for] speed in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, the vessel mado 15.6 knots with seventy revolutions under unfavorable conditions In Columbia, 8. C., William B. Meetse a y stable keeper shot and killed James 8 Clark, an ex-trial Justice of Lexington Jounty. They had quarreled about & wo- | man Hat Hanmtis, an’ old rosident of Monte vallo, Shelby County, Ala, was killed dar. ng a quarrel by his sondndaw, Will Mo | Call. Joux C, Coares, New York: Thomas G. Stoddard, Massachusetts, and R. J, Elliott, liv | Kansas, were appointed Postoffice Inspectors eord. on mail dopredations by Postmaster General | Wanamaker ] Tix President appointed John R. C. Pit kin, of Louisiana, to be Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plonipotentiary of the | United States to the Argentine Republic and tendered the appointment of Collector of the | Port of New Orleans to ex-Governor War. | : mouth, of Louisiana. ! Trunk Railway had passed St Lambert's | Canadn, after going through the Vietoris | Dridge, an explosion occurred in the oxpross ear by which & messenger named Rogors was killed, the car completely wrecked and the oxproes matter destroyed. Brooxn ballots for members of the Coun clis General wore taken in the cantons in France at the recont clection, The returns show the election of twelve Republicans and thirty Conservatives. M. Laguerre, the Bounlangist loader, was slocted at La Rochelle. Inafight at Atehin, Sumates, precipita. ted by the Netherland troops, nineteen Dutchmen were killed and twenty-two wounded. The natives have grown smbold- ened, and mattors begin to asume a serious aspect, MANY MILLIONS SAVED. Made by the Government, The United States bond purchases to date | thousand fighting men, your aga A DESPERATE BATTLE, The Egypto-British Forces Slaughter 1500 Soudaneso Dorvishes, Goneral Grenfell, in command of the com- bined British and Egyptian forces, engaged the Boudanese near Toski, Soudan, and com- pletely routed them. Wad-el-Jumi, the Sou- danese loader, was killed, The Arab loss was 1500 killed mnd wounded, The Egyptian loss was slight, Besides Wad-al-Jumi, the slain on the Arab side include twelve emirs and nearly all the Pebting men, Fifty standards were captured 4 the E, ¥ptians renfell marched out of Toski at 5 o'clock in the morning with a strong recon- noltring foree of cavalry and camels and ad- | vanced close to tho Arab camp. Making a feint of retreating ho drow the whole of | Wad-el-Jumi’s force to a point within four miles of Toski, Here the Egyptian infantry were held in readiness for an attack, and a was at once bogun. The Bou gallant defence, but were driven from hill to hill. The Egyptian cavalry made a suo. enoral action cession of effective charges, in which Wad. | ob Jumi and the emir wore killed. After soven hours of hard fightis vishes were completely routed. Gunbosts followed the scatfered remnants of the Arab force along the river, Goneral Grenfell, in his official report of | | the battle, says that the dervishes made re- | peated and | mon. | in desperate charges upon his line of battle, supported by Twentieth Hussars and the “gyptian cavalry, | The Egyptian horse artillery did excellent throo | The numbered The British troops service, dervishes will now return to Cairo, The latest advices give the Egyptian loss as sovendeen killed and 131 wounded. One thousand dervishes wore made prisoners, EE ——— J NEWSY GLEANINGS, THE corn crop is abundant LoXpox eoutalns 90,000 PruUpers CANADIAN Industries are prospering, 2,000 miles of railroad. Tne Shab is still the rage in Europe Tax debt of New Yo rk city is $55,000,000, ENGLAND is constructing 6ifty-two war sl ips Thneaw are! Aout 30.000 paople = day foe Tower COAL is » up the Eiffel F185 a ton and gas #8 a thousand in Heensed in New York ww 10] geographioal societies last dollar of Bate aa Yerrow fovea mus of Panama A NMOUNTAIX of pure manga on found in Colorado H the East Ix Chicago 1,324 000 hogs were packed this inst 1.557.000 in 1586 r has broken out on the Isth- » has just br MAN sacrifices are still quite common African coast on Tue Georgia Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sals of cigarettes to minors indioations throughout the country the largest yield of cats ever re Cnor point to port wd A Brrrisn syndicate Is said to have paid $3,000,000 for an American patent medicine | busines Me Panssii bas a surplus of §100.000 alter paying his Jegal expenses before the Commission Tix now French army law axtends the | age of Habdlity to service from Years to fifty. Momraxa's Constitution makers have ree Jectod woman suffrage by a vote of thiriy- three to thirty th forty-five Nisgrenw salmon canneries are in Opera. tion in Alaska. They are thick in waters that the boats often csanot crowd through them “0 i] WIA Las caught the counmon rompiaint, and recently two unbears- magants were placed under $50 bonds » Hae praca, Remixes sugar has gone from six and a ball to tem cents a pound at retail and the re- fiers have got 300,000 barrels of it stored away in Brookiyu Hoase stealing has increased to such an ox- tort in Nebraska that it is proposed to revive the oid vigilano committes, which ceased to exist over twenty Joars ago Sixcx Buffalo Bill has been showing in Paris he bas bad offers of marriage from twenty-nine French women, The women ware of all age and conditions, three or four of them being enormously rich Tae headless skeletons of 20 people, be. lieved to have been white, have been une earthed near Yankton, Dakota. They are believed to be the skeletons of victims of an Indian massacrs of fifty years ago, Trave statistics in France show that the export of French kid to this country is falling or The French kid gloves are nearly all made of ratskins tanned, rate being more plentiful than kids in La Selle France, Tie United States War Department has about decided to adopt the smokeless and noiseless powder invented by Captain Noble, an Englishman, The powder is of a gray color, and comes in long threads like a whip —— THE MARKETS. a NEW YORK. Beoves. ...... Sia 4m Milch Cows, tom. to good... 50 00 @as om Calves, corumon to prime... 2 & 80 CXR» 0.0.0. 4 0 0m wt 4 Aspins Lambs Hogs Live + “8 3 ® SIRSHSIBL86S 2.88: Se Create - Patents, Wheat No, | Rye-State .... - F7 Mized. .... OnteNo. 1 White. .... -_ ARBEIT ES ES a 5 i « SEY] BER! BERAES Pa 8688664546658 =! = ome 3egs sgssiases Face x ¥ orthern..... Corn 0, ollow. ooo. Barley No. 1 Canada, BOSTON. Flour—8pring Wheat Pat's. A LE RE EY Sena ER ER ite 1] PHILADELPHIA, [Ar 1h) eau un uni 4 don’ Ae Wott Fors 1111832 eso made nn | tho der. | They were met by the tnntry, | f i 0 | THE NATIONAL GAME, DuNLAr Is sald to be for sale by Pittsburg. , Basunars, has becogue a fixture in Aus- ralis, Kerry, of Boston, leads the in sacrifice hitting, ; augun DURYEA, of Cincinnat, still leads the Amociation pitchers, Tue Boston club has already cleared ex- penses on the season, Hantronn, Conn., is trying to support an amatour baseball league, Every Pittsburg player caught drinking will have to pay a fine of $0, COLUMBUS has released Catcher Peoples and signed Rudolph Kemmler, Tue Boston club has purchased the release of Shortstop Smith, of Pittsburg, GuMeERT, of the Chicago team, is the champion home-runner of the ssason, Keere, of New York, leads the League pitchers still, on the number of strike outs, IN the Frwaiian Islands they are so far advanced as to use the double umpire sys- tem, | Sowders's release and received £1000 from Pittsburg, Tune triple plays have been recorded in | the official statistics—one each by Cleveland, Washington and Chicago, i i | { 3 3 : ! i Boston paid St. Paul $2500 for Pitcher | IT Is a remarkable fact that Boston has | | never been quits right at short field since George Wright left the club, BosTON recently led the League in the | total of bases, average 578, with New York | | only 8 margisal point behind. Tue sum of $7500 snd Bhortstop Quinn, | was the offer made by the Bostons : | cock, of the Indianapolis club, BEXATOR Gonsawn, of Marylabd, has a assion for baseball, and once played second base on the Nationals, of Washington, Jonx Iave, brother of Arthur Irwin, {| Caplain and sbortstop of the Washingtons, has replaced Swoeny at third base in that team. CiicAGo up to late date bad made the test number of doubls plays, sixty-nine; soston sixty-four, and Indianapolis third, with sixty-ong Tix breaking of the Southern League throw a host of players on the market and most of them have been signed by the Inter national and Western clubs Raxsey, the new 8%. Louis pitcher, isonly twenty-four years old. He bas a record of fifty strikeouts in three consscutive Eanes, and of seventeen in a single game Prremen Wares y's contract with Buffalo is rather a peculiar one. He cannot bs re soryed at the end of the season and must not be pitched more than twice s week Bunpock, the ex-Bostonian, never did bet ter work in his life, both in batting and field. ing than he is mow doing for New Haven, and he is also handling the team skilfully O'Braxx, the Cleveland twirler, whose mystifying curves have been a source of worriment the heavy batamen of the League, Is a protege of Tim Keefe, of the Now Yorks, GerERAL Arion Dixwery, of Boston, is perhaps the most remarkable baseball es thusiast in the country. He bas retired with & fortune from active business and spends every afternoon at a ball game No young player in either the League or Association has made the “first year” record that Holliday has this season. The Cine cinnati Club made no mistake when it in. vested big money in this young player, Tag New Yorks bave signed Pitcher O'Day, late of the Washingtons, and Lyons, who played fn the outfield with the dis banded Jersay City club, Fielders Tiernan and Blattery, of the New Yorks, are on the sick list. Becnerany Rusk and United States Sen ator Kenna, of West Virginia, were preset at a recent game Detwoen the New Yorks 0 or Glass | AN AMERICAN PRIN CESS, Miss Gwendoline Caidwell is En. gaged to Prince Murat, The recent report of the engagement in | Paris of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, of New York city, to Prince Murat, a grandson of Marshal Murat, who was one of the officers of Raposo L, has been confirmed by a cable h from Miss Caldwell, isn Caldwell is very well known in New York city, says the Sun, for her gifts to Ho- wan C lic enterprises. Bhe contributed MISS GWENDOLINE CALDWELL. $300,000 toward the fund to build the omed Catholic University of America, Peng buflt in Washiagton lowed this gift up with 8 donation of $50,000 for her share of the Caldwell ostate, The coming American Princess is petite in figure and not so noticeable in social gather ings as her sister, Mis Linda. Bhe is fond of travel, and has spent a good deal of time in Europe. When in this country she lives during the summer at the Caldwell villa at Newport, She is at present in Paris with her sister and Miss Donnelly, a relative, who always acoompanios them a their travels, Miss Caldwell's mother was & Kentucky bells of the Breckinridge family. Her father pro was the son of an Foglish theatrical mana | or, who made a fortune in building gas ouses iz Chicago, St Louis and Mobile, TWO MONARCHS MEET. A Grand British Naval Roview Honor of Emperor William. The in arrival of the Emperor William, of ny, nt Portsmouth, England, was made the occasion for one of the grandest if not the grandest, naval parades the world has ever known. According to programme the Prine of Wales at noon wentoutside the Solent in hi yacht, the Osborne, to await the arrival of the German monarch on bosrd the imperial yacht Hobsugollern, The weather was Outside the German squadron was , and the English men-of war y their pos. se Osborse aj Jorn the Prince of Wale greens ne proached the Hohenrol ignaiad his greeting: | to the Kaiser, 10 which the latior responded | warships—the Slower of the Brith pavy— | and the Washingtons in the National Capi | tal. The head of the Agricultural Depart ment frequently attends gaines, AS u sample of the expenses of a bail team it may be stated that Cleveland's 1853 team, in which were McCormick, Dunlap, Glass cock, Bushong, Dally and other stars, cost for salaries Jess than $16,000, and the present team. in which there are slars, cosls $31,000, Prorxsson J. HH. Pansoxs, who bas just beens chosen principal of the high school of Augusta, Me, and who was formerly princi. pal of the Pittsfield Academy, was the crack jitcher at Bates College in 157. 19 and "50, n which years Dates won the college cham. pionship Ix fielding Comiskey leads the Association first basemen, McPhee the second baseman. Kappel's average i= the best at third base Holland leads at short. Hornung in left Seid is above all competitors. Corkhill easily leads among the centre fislders, and Dowie, of Baltimore, the right fielders, LEAGUR RECORD Tost Percentage b 1] MH 0 Ne] wo 618 Ra ke] 512 402 x} it Philadelphia , Cleveland ANRIICAR ASSOCIATION St. Louis Brooklyn. ............ Baltimore. . ... Athletic Olincinnati. ............ Kansas City, ....c.... : Columbus HON Louisville. .... .... THE INTERNAL REVENUE, The Osborne then accompanied the Hobensol- Jorn with har escort through the lines of war yessels drawn up in parade to receive her Every vessel, both Gorman and English. was in be liday attire, and the spectacle ss the German Beet steamed slow y through the narrow aisle left between the gayly-<decked was imposing in the extreme As the imperial yacht passed esch ship she was saluted by loud buzzes from the tars proad out upon the yards or ranged upon the k, followed by the booming of the ship's guns, which shot out their tongues of flame again and again until the Hohenzollorn was hidden by the smoke, Then other voioss took up the welcoming huzzas and other cannon boomed forth thunderous greetings Through this gantlet of fire and Suoke the Hobensollern passed with the iron. clades Deutschland, Kaiser, Fregeses and Friedrich der Grosse and the frigate Tieton in her wake At Trinity Pier the Kaiser disembarked and poseded to Osborne, where be was om sraoed by his gr Linother, the Queen, The wror dined with the Coen at Osborne | that evening A Total of $130,805,432 Collected | During the Last Fiscal Year, the operations of the internal revenue sere vies for the fiscal your ended June 50 last : The total collections for the fiscal year net ended wore $150,805, 430, against $124 « 475 the ious year, an increase of #0, - BOS, 957, cont of collection for the fleoal sar just ended will aggregate about $4,155 - i exclusive of the amount expended for : The Jrimting of internal revenue stanips, | which is 9,007, Colorado... 204,116 Chmnacticut. TEETH “orn Jai.08 . [$0 : oh 3 The spectacie attracted to the shore of the So. lent hundreds of thonsands of people, while the water was literally covered with every conceivable form of crafi bearing sight seer, most of which as did all of the war ves sels and the transatiantic bers serving asex- cursion steamers, displayed the German flag BOULANGER'S FALL. France's Whilom Idol Meets a Crush- ing Defeat at the Polls, Returns from the elections in France for wuncils-General had been received from 195 cantons on the day after the election "he Republicnns have been successful in 744, he Cotiservatives in 410 and the Boulaagists ni12. There will have to be second ballots 0 149 cantons The defeat of Boulanger was more crush. hj And Complete thar oven the most san- fuine followers of the Government had antici. bated, The rabid on all fides that had Bou anger stood his ground sod submitted tral the result ar . ‘hat the fight of Bou Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason jam b the at little has made the following preliminary report of | TWO MURDERERS HANGED. Dramatic Scenes On a Scaffold in the Lonisville (Ky.) Jail, Charles Dilger and Harry Smart, murderers, ware hanged at 6:04 o'clock in the morning in the jail yard at Louisville, Ky. At the conclusion of the religions service Smart and Dilger bade goodiyy tall the turn. than took oe on the trap. he Prcani fate) ‘leather Mo and both ; | the bawk’s tugging at it, and | was 60 deeply imbedded in the pickerel's now | Her sister fol | | some distance: A BATTLE WITH A HAWK. A FIERCE CONTDST OVER THE POS. " BESSION OF A VISH. The Bird Seizes a Hooked Pickered and Attacks the Fisherman io His Boat-Game to the Last. George Decker, a Monroe County fish- erman, was fishing a few days ago in Goose Pond, says a Pocono (Penn. ) letter to the New York Sun, He hooked 8 | pickerel, and while he was recling it in | big fish hawk that had been salling around st a great height above the pond all day without favorably locating soy | prey swooped down and seized Decker'’s | pickerel in its talons. | ot the end of about fifty feet of line when { the hawk struck it, from the water with the fish it quic kly | reeled out all the line, which was 150 feet | in length. | hung: on to his pole, which was a long {| bamboo in one piece. | had run all the line out, the hook being { still firm in the pickerel's jaw, the big bird was brought to a standstill. The pickerel was As the hawk arose Decker braced himself and When the hawk The line was strong enough to hold out against all the hook bony jaw that the strain, great ss it WAS, | did not tear it loose. The hawk's strength | started the boat, and the bird was KOON the fisherman's hands, The hawks audacious act in sw oping down upon the hooked pickerel so dum founded Decker that he had been towed before he awoke to necessity of making an effort if he wanted to He had a medium-sized sis ter with him, and drawing it, he began pepperin at the hawk Only one of the shots took effect, that was the last It strock the hawk in one of its legs, With a sharp cry the bird released its hold on the pickerel, and the latter tumbled back But the hawk was not through with Decker yet. Upon drop- ping the pickerel the ugly bird darted savagely down upon the fisherman, and d him int This was movement so entirely unexpected to the fisherman that he was carried completely off his feet by force of the hawk's assauit. The hawk fastened its claws in Deckers shirt at the vigorous omnsis beak, the ave his fish and tackle shox ov ££ AWAY ana one, into the water. s hoat “ Lhe waist, and began a its powerful (ing to drive it into the fisher hie Decker had dropped his tained is hand. wht with | oe his pistol in hb is was empty, however, and the only e he could make of it was to use itasa billy in defending himself. By raining blows on the bird's head and neck, while he protects d h other arm, he managed to fight the bird off u ye regained his feet, when he thought that the bird would ether give up the fight or could be easily disposed of. The hawk, however, showed not the slightest disposition to give up, but re- sumed its attack with renewed vigor. The narrow boat placed Decker at great disadvantage, as it rocked and tipped at | every movement he made, and rendered his footing so that he had to guard against tumbling into the pond as well as the hawk's desperate lunges and | strikes. Decker st last managed to make a successful grab at the hawk, and seized it with both hands around the neck. This would soon have choked the bird to death, but in making the grab the fisher- tran tipped the boat far over to one side, and before he « his balance his pitched the pond, : To save da to his face and eves with his ntl nil uncertam mld recover head] into him. wining he was force | carrying the hawk with himself from dro the from ! water, and Derker struck out for his cap The hawk's blood still | up, and as the swamped sherman was swimming to his boat the bird swooped | down upon him and fastened its talons in {| Deckers hair, his head being the only part of him above water Decker's hair | was thick and heavy, and the hawk se. | cured a firm hold in it and tugged away { at Deckers scalp like an Indian prepar- | ing it for the knife. Decker dived be. neath the water, and, seizing the hawk with one hand by one of its legs carried | the big bird voder with him. A desper- | ate struggle ensued below the surface, | but there the hawk was so entirely out of its clement that by the time Decker was | himself f oroed to come to the surface he | had succeeded in drowning his bold | antagonist, | Decker reached his boat and climbed | upon it, dragging the body of the big | hawk with him. Then for the first he | had time to think of his fish pole and the | pickerel, He discovered the pole, which | was in the water 200 yards from where | he had dropped it, and from the way it | was moving along Decker was satisfied | that the pickerel had survived its experi- ence with the hawk, and was still alive and active with the hook in his jaw. Decker was in the middle of the pond, on his capsized boat, and helpless to get near his rod, or get ashore without swim- ming. He took off his clothes and struck out for the fish pole. release hawk which rose the sized boat was
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