tfsy. W 7F'a "! r THE PTETSBUKG DISPATCH. SUNDi.T ' MARCH 13, '1892." 17' ' l Oflporn uiuiTr n rniiAKiT ML. OMURLU Wn TBAXSLATED FOB THE DISPATCH FEOM THE FEESCH OF GEORGE SAND. CHAPTEB I. One day we met at H. Lechien's house a n English gentleman who had traveled tcnsively in Asia, and who talked will rlvof the curious and interesting things iichhehad seen. As he was describing e manner of hunting elephants in ihe o, 3L Lechien asted if he had ever d one of these animals himself. ' Vever!" replied Sir "William. "The phant has always seemed to me so near man in point of intelligence and reason it I should have feared to interrupt the eerofa soul in the path of its transfor nons." Ah!" exclaimed somebody. "You have ed so long in India that doubtless you ire the ideas about the migrations of souls ich prevail there." 'After a certain fashion, it is true," re ed the Englishman; "but we might find lore entertaining subject of conversation the children who are listening." 'For my part," said one of the little Is, "this interests and pleases me. Could l tell me what I was before I was a little I? I think myself that I must have been bird, for 1 seem to be always regretting time when I flew about among the trees 1 did exactly as I liked." That regret mav be a proof of reeollec- n, taiQ air w imam, ".tacn 01 us leeis predilection lor tome given animal, and inclination to identity himself with that Dial's impressions, as if he had already them on his own account" What is the animal of your predilec- " I aked. While I was English," he replied, "I I TAKE SIDES WITH THE ed the horse in the first rank. "When I me an Indian I set the elephant before thers. In India everything tends to an hzation of the elephant. He is rever i eerywherein the past, under one oranoiher. I do not believe, what the old travelers sav about it, that he ever personally worshiped as a god; be has been, and still is, regarded as a ol and a palladium. The white ele it of the temples of Slam is always con ed a sacred animal." 'ell us abont the white elephant," cried children. "Is he really white? Have -.een him?" have seen him, and it was while lopk tt him in the midst of the triumphant s over which he seemed to preside that gular thing happened to me a thing h I hesitate to speak of, in real fear of being able to convince yon of my sin , at tell us; do tell us. "Ve will not in--t or criticise." onsent then," said Sir William. "If a simple dream that came to me dur ae ceremonies presided over by the - elephant, it was so precise and so ng that I have not forgotten its most g circumstance. I, too, had been an .ant, a while elephant, and therefore a i elephant, and I reviewed my whole nce from my babyhood in the jungles orests of the peninsula of Nalasia. is with that toantry, then so little n to Europeans, that my first mem are connected, and with a time which date back to that most flourishing d ot Buddhism. I lived in that ge desert, the Golden Chersoneius of ncients. a peninsula 360 leagues long 30 leagues wide. It is, in fact, only a of mountains thrown out into the sea rowucd with forests. These mountains not very lofty, but by reason of their td positions between two seas they nposing. Their slopes are in places esbible to man. He had gained no ry there at the time of which I speak. ttup free and happy on these heights, ; sublime light of a pure and ardent -ooled by the elevation and by the es from "the sea. How beautiful it that sea of Malasia, with iu thousands en isles and its rocks as white as ala r, oa the deep blue of the waves. the rainy season, in the shelter of ant trees, we enjoyed the warm moist t the foliage. The vigorous vegeta a little beaten down under the heat of ornd rummer, seemed to share our eing, and to drink afresh from the es of life. We slept in the perfumed ot mangoes, bananas, balm-trees and mon trees. We had more plants tnan .Jed for the satisfaction of our last i ual appetite. We despised the ierous carnivores; we never allowed to approach our pasturage. Ante- orvzesand apes sought ourprotec- Ileautilul birds alighted on our bodies -Kisied in our toilet. mother and I lived alone, not min- itti the numerous herds of common mis, who -were smaller and ot a difier l.jr. 1 d not know whether we were ' eient race Jrom them. The white it ifc so rare that he is regarded as an illv and the Indians consider him an it"in of the div inity. When such an J dies in a Hindoo temple he receives tiereal honors of a king, and many often go by before his successor can nd. e were what are called solitaries. We none to dispute a place with us. We :red from one region to another on " " ilUWIip III u ,. . Lli. mtUKtm L LLLfnlll. this mountain chain, according to our ca price or to our need of iood. "My noble mother loved me, toot me everywhere with her, and lived only lor me. She taught nc to worship the sun, and to kneel every morning at his glorious appear ance, raising my white and satin-skinned trunk to salute the father and king of the earth. Our thoughts were lofty and our hearts were lull of tenderness and inno cence. "One morning thirst obliged us to de scend the bed of one of those torrents which spring in rapid, graceful leaps from the mountain top down to the sea. It was near the end of the drv season. The spring which trickles from the summit of Mount Ophir had not poured a single drop into its mossy basin." We wanted to reach the foot of the jungle, where the torrent had formed a series of little lakes, pale diamonds strown among the deep green of the fig trees. Sud denliwe were startled by strange cries, and creatures unknown to me, men and horses, fell upon us. These dark men, so like apes, I did not fear, arid the animals which they mounted were terrified at the sight of us. We were in no immediate danger of death. Onr white coats inspired respect, even in those ferocious and cruel Malays. Doubtless they would try to cap ture us, but thev dared not make use of their arms. My mother repulsed them proudly at first and without anger. She knewthat they could not take her. Then they judged that by reason of my youth they would more easily capture me, and they tried to cast lassos about my legs. My mother set herself between them and me and defended me desperately. The hunters, seeing that they would be obliged to take herlife in order to capture me, hurled against her a shower of spears which pierced her huge sides, until with horror I saw her CAPTIVE ELEPHANTS. white skin streaked with blood. "I longed to defend and avenge ber, but she forbade me, held me behind her. and presenting her body as a rampart to cover me, motionless and stoically silent in her angnish, she stood there, riddled with darts, until her pierced heart ceasing to beat she sank down like a mountain. The earth shook under her weight The assassins sprang forward to bind me and I made no resistance. Stupefied before my mother's dead body, understanding nothing ot death, I caressed her and moaned, begging her to rise and go away with me. She had ceased to breathe, but tears poured from her dim eyes. They threw a thick covering over my head. I could see nothing. My four legs were bound with deer hide thongs. I did not seek to know anything. I made no struggle. I wept. I felt my mother near me, and was unwilling to be separated from her; I lav down by her side. They dragged me away, I knew'not how orwhither. Ibe liee they harnessed all their horses to draw me down to the sand on the slope of the beach to a sort of pit where they left me alone. "I cannot recall how long I remained there, without food, devoured by thirst and by insect greedy for my blood. I was al ready strong. I could have demolished this excavation with my fore feet, and have broken a path before me, as my mother had taught me to do on the steep slopes. But a long time passed before I thought of doing so. Without knowing what death was, I yet bated my life and did not seek to pre serve it. Finally, yielding to instinct, I uttered ferocious cries. They immediately brought me sugarcanes and water. I saw anxious faces leaning over the edges of tee silo in which I was confined. They seemed rejoiced to see me eat and drink; but as soon as I recovered strength, I filled heaven and earth with the trumpet sounds of my voice. They went away, leaving me to overthrow the vertical wall of my prison. At first I thought I was at liberty, but I soon learned that I was in an enclosure fenced with enormous canes of bamboo, bound to one another by cords so strong and closely drawn that I was unable to loosen them." I spent several davs in vain attempts to perform this impossible tisk, resisted by the perfidious aud skilled labor of men. They brought me food and spoke kind ly " to me, I would not hear them. I tried to tall on my enemies. I beat my head with a fearful noise against the walls of my prison with out being able to shake them; but when I was alone late. The imperious law of life triumphed over my despair and overcome by fatigue, I slepton the fresh grass with which they had strewn my cage. "At length, one day, a small black man, dressed simply in a white sarong, entered my prison alone and resoiutely, carrying a trough of rice, salted and mingled with an oilv substance. He offered it on his knees. sayini; with a gentle voice words in which I J caressing meaning. I allowed myself to be entreated by" his prayers to the point ot being willing to eat A his presence. While I enjoyed the delicate food he fanned me with a palm leaf and sang me something sad, to which I listened in surprise. He re turned a little later aud played me a plain tive air on a flute of reeds, which taught me the pity he felt for me. I allowed him to kiss nir forehead and my ears. At length I permitted him to bathe me, to remove the thorns which hurt rap and to fit down be tween ray legs. Finally, at the end of a time which I cannot precisely limit, X was assured that he loved me, and that I, too, loved him. From that time I was overcome, the past faded from mv mind, and I con sented to follow him along the shore with out attemoting to escape. "I think I lived two years alone with him. "He took such tender care of 'me that he filled my mother's place, and I could not live without him. But I did not belong to him. The tribe of Malays which had taken possession of me was to divide among them selves the price which would be oflered for me by the richest rajahs of India as soon as they should be informed of my existence. They had made arrangements for disposing ofmetothe best possible advantage. The tribe had sent deputies to all the courts of the two peninsulas to sell me to the highest bidder, and, awaiting their return, I was en trusted to this young man named Aor, who was reputed most skilful in the art of taming and caring for creatures of ray kind. He was not a hunter, he had sot assisted in the' murder of my mother. I could lore him without remorse. , "I soon learned to understand human sueech. hearine it constantly from him. The inflections of his tones revealed his thought to me. Later I understood this music of human speech in whatever language it came to my ears. Music, sung by the voice, or produced by instruments, I understood still better. "I soon understood from my friend that I must conceal myself from men for the reason that anybody who saw me would be tempted to till him in order to lead me away and sell me. We were then inhabiting the most deserted part of the province of Tenasserim. We hid all day among the rocks, and only went out at night. Aor then mounted on my neck and led me to bathe, -without fear of the alligators and crocodiles, whose heads I buried in the sand and crushed them under my feet After the bath we wan dered through tht forests, where I chose succulent branches for myself and gathered fruits for Aor with my trunk. "My life was smooth and completely ab sorbed in the present I did not awake to conscious thought about myself until, one day, the men of the tribe brought into my Eark a herd of wild elephants, which they ad driven with firebrands and a loud noise ot drnms and cymbals to seek a refuge in this snare. They had previously left three tame elephants to assist the hunters in con quering the captives, and who did assist them with extraordianary intelligence to bind the legs of one animal after another. But a few savage males, solitaries, were so furious that they judged best to associ ate me to the hunters in overcoming them. They obliged Aor to mount me, ana he, en deavored to obey, although with repug nance. Then the sense of justice awoke in me, aud I had a horror for what they wished me to do. These wild elephants, if not my equals, were at least of my kind. The submissive elephants who Were helping to consummate the slavery of their brethren seemed to me im measurably inferior to them and to me. Full of scorn and indig nation I attacked them aud came to the defense of the prisoners so ener getically that they were obliged to renounce their attempt to degrade me. They turned me out of the park and Aor loaded me with praise and caresses. ' "Never, ' said he to his companions, 'Has a white elephant been employed in menial labor or for deeds of violence. He was formed neither for the hunt, nor for war, nor to carry burdens, nor to mount in long journeys. Kings would not permit themselves to sit on his neck, and you think to abase him to help you in enslaving others! No, you do not under stand his greatness, and you outrage his rank. The thing you have attempted will bring on you tne power ot evil spirits. "And when in remonstrance they urged on my friend that he had exerted himself to tame me, he replied: I used no means but gentle words and the sounds of my flute. If he permits me to mount him it is because herecognizes in me his faithful servant, his devoted mahout On the day that parts us one of us will die; it becomes you to wish that it may be me; for npon'the safety of the Sacred Flower depend the wealth and glory of your tribe. To Be Continued Xezt Sunday. THE INFOEKATION BTJBEAU. Shirley Sara Answers Some Questions Tor Beadsrs of The Dispatch. Shirley Bare answers questions put to her by readers of The Dispatch as follows: I. K. leave a birthmarK on my cheek from ere to lip, of a bright red color. 1 have "been using grease paint lor It some time, but it gets rough and greasy after a while. I have also much trouble in getting the right shade to match my complexion. Do you know a cosmetic I could use? For immediate concealment of the defect, use the finest white oxide of zinc, or bis muth mixed with flexible collodion, all to be had of good druggists. The. trouble will be to get collodion worth the name. Perhaps your doctor can help you to the best qual ity. A brunette shade is given to the zinc or bismuth by mixing the merest trace of burnt sienna or burnt umber. You can mix enough to last a year and moisten it with collodion daily. It is tedious to apply any thing to conceal the mark and you had bet ter see an experienced electrician not one who removes hair by electrolysis, but a thorough practitioner. Visalia How is sage tea and alcohol to be used for the halrT All applications are most effective on a freely cleansed head. The yolk of a fresh egg beaten into a cup of warm, soft water and rubbed into the roots of the hair with a shampoo brush, or flannel, is the best thing to cleanse the hair without leaving it dry and lifeless. The hair must be well rinsed, the water absorbed by towels, and quickly dried. A hot air register or stove in cool weather dries it best, the heat bringing- the natural oil to the surface again. Once a month is often enough to wash the scalp in case of falling hair, but the head should be carefully shielded from dust, and a veil bound over it at night to escape the fluff from blankets and beds and prevent rub bing weak hair out by nestling against the pillow. Locations will do little good with out this care. To make the sage tea pour three pints of soft, boiling water on adouble handful of sage leaves, and let it stand, covered in a hot place to infuse without boiling for an hour or two. Strain, pressing the leaves hard, to extract the juice. Add as much common alcohol, a high proof spirit is not necessary, and bottle. To use nightly, heat half a cupful and soak the Toots of the hair, first brushing the scalp till it tingles slightly, and bind a thin towel over the hair to prevent too speedy evaporation. Heating the head by holding to the fire while wet with the lotion opens the pores and favors absorption. One doesn't apply hair restorers to have them fly oft in 'the atmosphere, but to be absorbed by the skin and hair bulbs. When a thick, strong suit of hair, accompanied by a skin which creates freely, begins to tall, a stimulating spirituous lotion is in place, and a few weeks' faithful use commonly prevents thinning the crop. Sallie Why do white spots come fn the finger nails, and what will remove tuemt The cause is obscure, either injury while growing, or defective innervation, which covers a great many troubles. Keep a little tin box with equal parts of pitch and myrrh mixed in it, and ran a trifle of this on the spots over night This is the. standard recipe for nail spots. Try also balsa pf Peru in'the same way. IHOCuXMUMT 70S KASIEB. A Poison From the Brains or Bats That Hay Serve a Cseful Purpose. The latest development of disease pre vention and cure by inoculation is very re markable indeed. It has been fouad that an exceedingly poisonous substance can be extracted from the brains of rats that have died of hydrophobia, which, when ad ministered by injection to cuinea pigs and rabbits, produces immunity from rabies. In other words, the animals thus treated are rendered safe from the disease end do not take it when inoculated with rabies. Obviously, it has not been considered fracticable to make this test with people, ut it is generally admitted that what ap plies in this way to rabbits and (aim pigs may apply to human beings. BELL KOPE PATIENCE. Hott the Street Car Conductor Tnins Himself o Endure' Cranks. LBAENS TO BE A PHILOSOPHER. He Soon Finds That It Takes All Sorts of People to Make a World. PACTS ABOUT THE HODES OF SEE7ICB pnrmxif rtm lira cisrATCu.1 The conductor is a man with a grievance. His life is a continued struggleHo keep his temper in spite of the crankiness of ihe public that is ever trying to exasperate him and sour his naturally sweet disposition. Prom the time that he starts on his first trip in the morning, "until the evening when he steps ofi his car and sees it drawn into the barn for the night, he is engaged in a controversy with short-tempered people, who are always at their -worst when on a public conveyance. He is a man of many tribulations and all weathers. He knows what it is to be scolded by women, cursed by men and scowled at by persons of both sexes who will not take the trouble even to put into words the contempt for him that burns in their bosoms. He is supposed to know where each pas senger wants to alight, whether he has been told or not, and if a passenger should change his mind just before he or, more often, she arrives at the street at which he has been directed to stop, he must have intuitive knowledge of the workings of the passenger's mind, and take the car on toward the right place without being in structed. Some of Bis Commonest Trials. When the track is slippery, and the motorman or gripman runs the . car a few yards beyond a street at which he has been signaled to stop, it is the conductor who is sharply asked, "What made you bring me two or three squares past xay street for?" It is the conductor who enjoys the argu ments with recalcitrant passengers who in sist upon pulling the bell, and perhaps "ringing up" a fare or two by accident, or who will Temaiu on the platform, to ob struct others. It is the conductor who, on the "last trip" on Saturday night, has the difficulties with the gentlemen who have been celebrat ing the Arrival of pay day; with a playful "jag," that has left them with just enough strength to get on the car, but wanting in intelligence or physical power enough to pay the fare. How the conductor has to coax such passengers, and watch that they do not get past their street iu their drunken sleep, let the long suffering official tell. He has that sort of experience every week, until it becomes a weary story to him. In contrast with the trials and annoyances the conductor suffers, there are his 10 and 11 o'clock trips on Sunday evenings, when his car is occupied by a dozen or so of silent individuals, across" whose features there flits an occasional smile as they think of some tender episode in the evening visit that has just drawn to a close. A Trip With Meditative Beaux. These individuals pay their fares mechani cally, and generally keep gaze fixed on the toes of their patent leathers as they give themselves up to delightful musings. There mar not be more than two or three well- developed mustaches among the whole dozen, but-yon may be sure that their clothes are all of as choice a quality as their means will afford, and that their neckties, collars and cuffs are irreproachable. The conductor does not make any remarks about his pas sengers, but well he knows that he is carry ing more romance on those two Sunday night trips than finds its way into his car at any one time during the rest of the week. If he is a young man he has a kindly feel ing of sympathy with them and wishes it were his night off, so that he, too, might be going home from an' evening with his betrothed. Although conductors on street cars have to work as hard as any class of wage workers in the city, their labors are light compared with what they were five or six years ago. The times when they were com pelled to work from 14 to 17 hours a day for a pittance are over most likely for ever, rue conductor oi to-day is a comiort able, decently-paid employe, who does not work more hours a day than the average mechanic and who can spend at least part of his evenings with his family or in the pursuit of recreation, unless he happens to be a late man, in which case he has time in the morning instead of at night Bow tb Meal Hoar Is Curtailed. On one of the principal lines of Pittsburg the first car goes out at 5:15 A. M. The con ductor and gripman have to be ready to step on the car as soon as the bell rings in fact, a little before, so that the starter can be sure that everything is all right. At 4:50 the ear has completed its last trip, and the men have finished their day's work, having had 35 minutes in the middle of the day for dinner. Their breakfast they have eaten on the car or in the employes' room at the end of the run, about 8 o'clock, they having had a 'lay-over" to enable them to do it If from any reason there has been a block on the road, so that the car has not made its time, the chances are that the time for meals will be somewhat curtailed. Passengers have occasionally heard con ductors complaining that their dinner ttrip is thrown oat by some stoppage, and when we consider that a procession, a broken THE STARS FOR THE ' ''' ' " ' f" Iff r vrCaP'nl :?h f j f BArtiuruSi 1 IeJ sf .urtnu!oj 1 In. Tw"r I X. " ' " "' 'i.F - . I I ,- "V&t-" bao J J Vj -. . EeJiOirt . tfapiau j j ' a 7 at.t e.-- -m The planisphere of the heavens given above shows the positions of the principal stars that will be above the heavens at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening, March 15. To compare this chart with the heavens, .one should hold it overhead, or nearly so, when the points of the compass will come right and the stars indicated on it will fall into their proper posi tions. Orion still maintains his splendid leadership among the winter constellations, al though by 9 p. 3. be is npw well over toward the west Everyone is. familiar with the appearance ot this striking group ot stars, whicn hangs in the heavens like a gigantic letter X This constellation is sal d to contain 76 stars visible tosthe naked eve. of which ,two are the first and four of the second magnitude. The very bright star to the left of uuvu it D.ru, pwpiuanj jtuuwu a vue uug pui. .luib is us ua uiv ungates Mar lu mc heavens, its light being estimated to equal that of five ordinary stars of the first magni tude. Under the same Sothis this star was an objeet ot especial interest and veneration to the ancient Egyptians. It was believed to be the residence of the goddess Isis. Its heliacal rising, or first appearance above the horizon at daybreak; which occurred in July, marked the beginning of the Egyptian year. Upon the rising of tils star the over flow of the Nile began. The story ot aek of the other stars cwn be re4 in aay taadard "work. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. wagon, a collision, a fire, or what not, may mean theloss of his dinner, it is not to be wondered at that he is inclined to be rather short-tempered over the delay. The early men, whose work is over at 10 min utes to 6 in the evening, can spend some tide -with their families, although, as they have to rise a little before S, it is not likely that they stay up very late at night Workins at Irregular Hoars. The other end of the story is told by the men who take out the last car. What is known as the "late straight" trip com mences from the suburban end of the line at 11:45 P. M. The conductor and gripman have been at work since 11 o'clock in the forenoon surely a fashionably late hour at which to commence a day's work; leaving them a good many sunny hours to -walk in the park or improve their minds by study. The last trip, the car leaving theeityat 12:20, is a ''swing." These "swings" -are not favorites with the men, and it is gener ally the Jiew conductors, who have not ar rived at the advantage of possessing a regu lar car, -who are put on them. This is a specimen "swirgr" The crew -conductor and gripman go on at 5:15 in the morning and work till Ikil This con stitutes the morning "run." Then the crew goes off and has a rest nntil 4:23 in the afternoon, when it takes hold again and keeps on till 8:15. This is a comparatively easy "swing." There are others that seem to keep the men at work all day and most of the night, although, as they have time off the cars between whiles, they do not work more hours than the fortunate possessor of a regular car, who works ''straight," and is done well within 12 hours, including his meal times. The Bnforcement of Bales. There are a number of rules laid down for tke guidance of conductors, all of which are for the benefit of the passengers as -well as the company. The "conductois are told to enforce them, but it is understood that they may exercise discretion. Por instance, pas sengers must not stand on the platform when there is .room inside, but there are always passengers on the platform who do not care to stand up in the crowded car, inhaling the close atmosphere, and losing temper as thev were jostled to and fro. The conductor does not think of compelling the platform riders to eo in, unless there are so many outside that he has no room to work. Then, when he requests you to "Please step inside, gentlemen," he is almost sure to have a difficult task in finding anyone willing to leave the platform. Conductors are cautioned to be polite to passengers under all' circumstances. To the credit of the men, it must be said that they are all polite, as n rule, and often when the demeanor of the passenger does not warrant respectful replies. Host men would find it difficult to listen to abusive language from oine half-drupken man or snarp tongued woman, who has been carried a few yards too far. on account of a slippery track, witnont replying in land. They Get to Be Philosophers. But you mav see conductors standing quietly, with their hands on the bell-rope, waiting till the indignant individual is jtafulv off the car. and not intimating by word or look that they hear anything of the stream ot billingsgate hnrled at their heads. This is discipline. Conductors are trained to that sort of thing, and it is ncees sarv that thev should be, or they would co home almost every day with a record of half a dozen fierce quarrels, if not actual fights. . It must not be supposed that conductors are all perfect, however. Everyone who rides habitually on any line of cars knows that there are two or three conductors who are so cantankerous that it is hardto un derstand whji the toompany tolerates them. Usually such conductors use their zeal for the interests of the companv as ah excuse for their disagreeable ways. They are the men who try to enforce the rules to the let ter, and who seemr to enjoy themservesin proportion to the annoyance they can inflict npon the patrons of the road. It is they 1 that haul passengers aooard almost by the scruff of their necks, that demand fares os if they were highwaymen with pistols in their hands to enforce the order, that make the cars either unbearably hot or miserably, cold, that push their way through the car when it is crowded without regard to corns or clothing, that Do Ket Answer Fassensers who ask them to stop at certain streets, so, that one does not know -whether they hear or not although they are sure to stop at the street), that run the cars on the principle that their chief dutv is to make time, and who are, in a general way, detested by all the regular patrons of the road, and very often rebuked by strangers. There are some of these men in every walk of life, but thev have a better opportunity to show their cloven hoof on the platform of a street car than in a private capacity, and we know them'there when we might not notice them elsewhere. As a' class, the conductors do not remain on the cars very long. While there is a certain proportion that does not wish to be anything else, exemplifying the old-fashioned saying that "once a street car con ductor, 'one always," most of the men you meet in the railway unuoim are only work ing atthe business until they can get into something else. G. C. 3. I What He Did Knew. Harrier" Yowig People. "Johnny, do you know your alphabet?" "Yesum." "What comes after T?" "Evening prayers, ma'am." MONTH OF MARCH. FISMNG FOR A SHARK. VatrtAt t7aed tor Bobbers fm the Sanerons Sport Tie Bast Sort at Salt to Xnra Them How be Xatlvsf f the Bahamas Treat Them. iwanxtar fob -rmt vur xtca. l We never let an opportunity pass to kill a shark while in the Bahamas. So one ever does. The waters -were full of them. Every now and then somebody would be killed by a man-eater quite frequently enough to give a fierce zest to the sport There were two or three 'ways of catching the terrible creatures. We would tie a rope 15 or 20 feet long around k small barrel that had been well plugged up and made water-tight; to the end of the rope we fastened a short chain, to whieh -was welded a large steel hook, baited -with dried fish sailed hake we found the best .Several of these con trivances would be made ready. Then, loading them aboard tht yaeht, we -would start for the noted shark ground just outside the -bar, always accompanied by the good wishes of the boatmen and loungers on the dock. Great Sport Sar Ibe Natives. As soon as we were fairly underway the excited anticipation of revenge on a relent less and natural enemy easily broke through the acquired solemnity affected by the crew of the boat (they considered themselves far superior to the rest of the blacks, as our yacht was the fastest in the harbor), and they would chatter, dance and sing. Every few minutes one of them would come run ning aft, his bare feet slappinsr the deck like hand-clapping, and excitedly relate some bad deed oi some noted shark, and prophesy that we -would certainly catch him CAPTUBED. this time! Then in five minutes there would be almost a fight forward as to how the shark was to be divided, where he was to be exhibited, bow many people -would come to see 1dm, etc. until 1 would have to go to still the disturbance, and suegest that the settlement of all these questions had better be left until we bad caught the shark; this would instantly restore good nature. On arrival at the grounds the casks and lines would be thrown overboard a hundred yards apart Then we woulcLcrnise around and await developments. If we were fortunate one of the barrels would nresently bejrin to bob around at a great rate: some times disappearing under the water and re- J appearing at a distance, tne rjarrei Demg too buoyant lor the shark to keep it under. Cbaslnc the Mn -Eaters. Then the chase! Backward and forward, in irrTA nnn winning Jl-ne. wn would rrur- sue the elusive cask until success crowned our efforts and we could drag our fish along side, tiometimes tittle, sometimes ms, out any shark was always welcome on deck. Evenings we fished for them off the Gov ernment wharf; but then ihe method -was different. An inch line, over 800 feet long, the same kind of hook and chain as we used on the yacht and baited in the same manner; but now ne tied one end of the rope around the flagstaff, and throwing the well-baited hook a few yards away into the middle of a patch ot moonlit sand'in four or five feet of water, we would coil the remainder of the line so that it could run freely, and then make ourselves comfortable. We never waited long. That was a very favorite place with the sharks, and we always had good sport boon a uars: oDjeet wouia giiae siientiy as a shadow across the moonlit spot of sand; then it would check its noiseless movement, then, after a moment's hesitation, approach the bait Of course we all sat still as statues. Slowly the thing would move off, and the rasping of the rope over the string piece of the wharf would tell ss that it had the hook in its maw; then not till then we would jump for the rope and, grasping' it, run a lew steps in tne otner direction. No Holding to the Kope. I sav a-"few steps," for generally tig 4 rooe would be torn out of our hands as the shark felt the hook and threw himself out of water in an effort to get rid ot it. For a few moments the water would be cut into foam as the taut line would be drawn, whizzing, through it As soon as we thought the sharkr-was tired we would take hold of the line and try to draw him up to the little beach alongside of the wharf. Then the procession commenced. First we would pull the shark up close to the shore and think we had him. But just as often lie would haul us to the water's edge and we had to let go in a hurry to avoid a ducking. Sooner or later, however, we would get him to the shallow water. Then he would splash and fizht In a few minutes we would get him up ou the sand. Then a 'shot through the backbone where the head joins the body would settle him. The largest shark we caught was 13 feet long plenty big enough to have on the end of a line I assure you. Ravens tor a Sailor's Death. ' ' One day we were sailing among the "out islands," when we noticed a small eponsine sloop in distress. We ran down to her and found that one of her crew had fallen over board, and that as he took hold of the gun wale to pull himself aboard a shark had made a dash at him and bitten one of his legs clean off; the man had died in a few minutes. Xext day that shark was on ex hibition, having been caught by the com rades of the dead sailor; it measured over 1G feet iu length. None of the white people would go in swisssaing, unless in protected places. But the negroes daily followed their avocations bf sponging and gathering sea curiosities work that required them to be constantly 1 uuucf water viuivut, our apparent va) although they well knew the danger. The negroes hunt the shark iuveterafely and take such revenge as they can that is, they eat him when other food is scarce, and use' bis akin as a substitute Cor files. At their work they keep a sharp lookout for his three-cornered dorsal fin that, showing above the surface of the water, gives timely notice of his approach and they generally manage to get out of the way ot the great, murderous mouth, with its three rows of cruel teeth. P. P. Pezkostt, Lieutenant, TJ. & A. GLADSTONE AHD THE SOUTH. His Hatred at War Xed Sim to Be a Par tisan ttZ Jefferson Davis. During those first dark days of your sublime conflict to sustain the Union, writes Sir Edwin Arnold in a recent letter, Mr. Gladstone went to Newcastle and delivered a memorable speech, in which he declared that "Jefferson Saris had made a -nation and a navy." I, who was in my bumble -way an earnest Xonherner, wrote to him, pointing out reasons convincing me that this was a great error of prophecy as well as of policy, and asking the illustrious orator not to east the serious weight of his eloquence and character into the scale against the North. With the great est condescension he at once invited me, then but a novice in political affairs, to come and see him and talk it all out , I went, carrying a formidable bundle of papers, and for the first time in my life en joyed the rare delight of conversing tete-a-tete with that fascinating statesman whom I then and always have found just as genial in antagonism as in agreement He per mitted me to attempt, at least, to overwhelm him with arguments tend- ing to prove that the North would never allow the mouth of the Mississippi to be cut off from itsfountains; that the South did not understand the resources or re solves of its powerful opponent, and that the conflict could only end in the chastise ment of the rebellion and the emancipation of the slave. T wonder still, as Ilook back so far, at the patience with which he listened to me, but in the end he sprang -up from the chair and exclaimed: "I am half inclined to think you are right, and that I shall have to retract, and perhaps hereafter even deeply to regret those -words which I spoke the dav before yesterday; but, to tell tbe truth, I lave such a constitutional horror of war that -when I find mv own country or anv other countries which interest me involved in one, the instinct of my mind,I am afraid, is rather to find the nearest way out of it than the best" ABSOWS OF PEATES. A Fretty Superstition or the Tillers or the Soli In Far-Oft Japan. In Japan, writes Iiafcadio Hearn, I see everywhere, sticking np above the ripening grain, objects like white-feathered arrows. Arrows of prayer; I take one up to examine it The shaft is a thin bamboo, snlit dnwn about one-third Df its length: into the slit a strip oi sirong wnue paper with ideographs upon it a mamori, a Shinto charm is in serted; and the separated ends of the cane are then rejoined and tied together just above it The whole, at a little distance, has exactly the appearance of a lon& light, well-feathered arrow. That which I first examine bears these words: "Yu-asaki-jin-jo-Kozen-son-ehu-an-zen." (From the God whose shrine is before the Village of Peace). Another Teads: "Miho-jinJMho-gwan-io-j-u-go-kito-shu-go." signifying that the Deity of the temple Miho-jinjagrantetb fully evey supplication made -unto him. Everywhere as we proceed I see the white arrows of prayer glimmering -above the green level of the grain. Par as the eye can reach, the fields are sprinkled -with them, so that thev make npon the verdant surface a great white speckling as ot flow ers, sometimes, also, around a little nee field, I see a sort of magical fence, formed by little bamboo rods supporting along cord, from which long straws hang down, like a fringe, and paper streamers, which are symbols (gohei, are suspended at regu lar intervals. This is the shimenawa sacred emblem of Shinto. Within- the con secrated space enclosed by it no blight may enter no scorching sun "wither the young shoots. And where the wite arrows dim- mer the locust shall not prevail, nor shall hungry birds do evil. Electricity In Stael -iw.vic. A Sheffield inventor has taken out a pat ent for improvements iu the manufacture of steel' by passing an electric current through molten iron or steel either during or after casting. The effect is to cause the mole cules to arrange themselves in such a man ner as to condense and consolidate the metal The current may be passed by fix ing one electrode in the bottom of the mold, while the other is held in the Stream of metal coming from the ladle. The Fox Flatus In Victoria. Poxes are so much on the increase in the Australian colony of Victoria that they threaten to become as great a plague as the wild dogs of former days. Young rabbits form their chief food, but when these, are net available sheepfolds are attacked 'and poultry yards pillaged. It is" calculated that during the past year 7,350 foxes have been destroyed, la addition, to the destruc tion of 1,600 wild dogs. HEROES AMONGHORSES The Magnificent Animals Used in , ifew York to Stop Eunaways. HALF THE PICKED ANIMALS FAIL. Their Training Is a Marvel of Skill Willi the Bridle and Spur. TSEOWIXG 1 PAIR OP WILD 0XE3 nTRITTIM TOB TBI DISrATCH.1 In a building in Central Park. Xew York, a low, red building, facing the beautiful South meadow, and shaped like ahorse shoe, are the stables of the mounted police force of the park department Their occupants are 24 of the finest horses of their sort in the whole world. There is not a horse in these stalls that is not a life saver. If the Humane Society were to bestow its medals npon four-footed as well as two-footed heroes these horses would be spangled with decorations. Several of the two dozen horses have been with the force ever since runaway stopping was made a part of the police duty. Of these John Wilson's "Dick" is the most famous. He is a noble creature and took the second prize at the Madison Square Garden Horse Show. "Dick" has probably saved more lives than any half dozen surf men. There are eight new horses added to the force every year upon an average. Of Throwing a Runaway. these, four are finally rejected. Tbey haven't the heart for the work. They are cowardly, afraid to rush in where death is often to be met It is with horses as with men. Your heroes are born, not made. Breaking the Hones In. The green horses come on the force upon trial. This lasts two months. The first work of the trainer is to accustom them to the saddle and rider. Thev r then tk'n into the park and walker1 to and fro midwa between the upward and downward lines of carriages, carts and wagons. 1'uis i uono to familiarize them with metropolitan life to the presence of many vehicles so that when a runaway does occur they will pay as little attention to the crowd and rush of men and teams as a downtown man does to a street fight This trial and discipline of nerves may require weeks and cannot ba dispensed with. After the recruits have been taught to look upon a moving, hurrying crowd as merely an ordinary incident.the active work is begun. This is the way Boundsman Mc Kenna goes about it He trots his green horse by the side of other horses which are in harness. After he finds that his horse will go well mind the bridle and spur he beginsthe third lesson. He secures the co operation of some horseman who exercises his horse in the park early in the day when the drives are comparatively deserted. He suddenly rides up close to his friend's horse and instantly reaches over the pummel of his saddle and grasps the other horse's bridle near the bit about six inches from it He repeats this day after day, and scores of times each day, until his steed learns what is expected of him aud will ooey at a touch. Training In Actual Service. Next he practices the horse in concert with a rider who rides at full speed; he pur sues, catches, intercepts, stops hirn Only one saddle horse out of two picked animals proves to be suited to such service. All this is but preliminary practice; the real Training and trial and test come in actual contact and contest with runawavs. Two years of active service on the mounted force are needed to develop a "hero." Of course, the horse could be disciplined in less time if it could have the necessary practice, but runaways cannot be made to order, and the horse must wait for his opportunities. In turning his horse in toward a runaway team the roundsman spurs it on the opposits side from the direction which he wishes it to go and pulls his reins "bridlewise." That is to say, he steers his horse by the neck rather than by the bit All police horses have two bits "and two pairs of reins. To turn a horse "bridlewise" vou pull both pairs of reins over the neck of the horse in the opposite direction you want to take, pressing your hand at the same time heavily over the mane, indicating to the animal by that means, more than by the pull upon the on, im course h snouia lase. A mounted life-saver's horse must stop suddenly, must come to a full, sudden halt at the word of command. Of course, the double bits, the snaffle and the curb enable the officer to perfectly check his mount at will, but the horse should be trained to stop without any use of these painful methods. Throwing a Knnvway Team. When a runaway team comes tearing np the drive the policeman hat to think with lightning quickness He must decide whether it is better to tnrn them into some shrubbery on the green, where thev will bo forced to stop, or whether they should ba thrown. Sometimes it is dangerous to stop a team of horses, especiallv when they are attached to a carnage. The vehicle hits them in the rear, and fright makes them -wholly unmanageable. The policeman's first thought must be for the occupants of the carriaee. if there are any. Next he must consider the danger to other drivers in the vicinity. If there be no risk in either of these directions he must try to save the horse and vehicle from injury. The surest way to stop a team hitched to a carriage is by throwing them. It is a one Bided wrestling match. The man on horse back is almost certain to win;the conquered horses seldom survive the ordeal. To throw a team the policeman rides up and catches the lines near the bits and gives one sudden and powerful pull toward the right or left as the case may be. This checks the speed of the runaways, and in bine cases out of ten it throws both horses to the ground. A skilled man can invaria bly throw a horse on a smooth pavement, and a team of horses is even more easily upset than a single animal. The policeman must bo quick, however, to jump out of the way or he will be at the bottom of the wreck. Last year a mounted policeman was killed because his horse could not get out of the way quicklr enough. 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