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Tho World ns I Find It,
They Bay the world's a weary place,
Whero tears aro never dried,
Where pleasures pans like breath ou gran,,
And only woes abide.
It mny ho I cannot know
Yet this I dare to sny:
My lot has had more glad than sad,
: Aud so it ban to-day.
They say that love's a cruel Jest;
They tell of women's wiles
That poison dips in pouting lips,
And death iu dimpled smiles.
It may be so I cannot know
Yot euro of this I am:
Ono heart is found above tho ground
Whose love is not. a sham.
They say that life's a bitter curse
That hearts aro made to aehe,
That jest and song are gravely wrong,
And death's a vast mistake.
It may bo so I cannot know
But let them talk their fill;
I ljko my life, and lovo my wife,
And in' an to do so Btill.
FrriU'rUk lAiutjbriil'jr.
A TERRIBLE MOMENT.
I had just rejoined my regiment in
India, tlio Forty-second lliglandevs,
better known as tho Black Watch, after
a year of fiick leave in Europe, and was
Heated in my friend Major McGregor's
cool and comfortable bungalow, gossip
ing over all that had occurred in the
coiis during my absence, when yonng
Alick Farquharson, one of the Inver
cauld Faninharsojis, strolled in with
the, to me, pleasing intelligence of
' Tiger."
"5y Jove, that old shikarroe, whut-vou-niay-call-'cm
I never can recollect
his name has smelt the beast, and tho
colonel is for getting up a grand hunt,
for the purpose of bagging tho brute
and tho skin; the latter for Mrs.
" mentioning a lady's name, tho
owner whereof well, I will not repeat
tho story.
"Deil take the colonel," grumbled
Sandy Mcrherson, who Kpoko with as
strong a Scotch accent as any " braw
chiel" north of the Tweed; "lie's a'
the time speerin' about tigers and var
mint, and if ane o' the laddies kills a
beastie, down he pops on him for tho
skin."
" It would be awfully jolly to cut out
this hunting expedition." I suggested.
" And how ?" demanded Farquharson.
J "Just to beat up a few beaters, get
out to tho jungle, and pot tho beast
while the colonel is ordering elephants
1 in impossible Hindoostanee."
J " By Jupiter Olympus ! I'm with you!"
cried Farquharson ; "but we must start
I right away, for I heard Old Bagpipes "
I I ho irreverent titlo by which our
j commanding rJlleer was known, ac-
quired from the fact of his ordering the
pipers of the corps to play at
chotohassuy, alias breakfast; tillin, alias
' luncheon, and dinner, till tho mess was
i fairly "skirted" to death " telling
1 Gordon to look up the guns."
; " We shall start now !" I cried. " I
havo brought out a capital pair of
I double-barreled breech-loaders, . smooth
! bore the Prince of Wales brought
down a stag of ten tyne with
one of them at Mar Forest this season
and a Snyder."
"Then I'll look up the beaters and
j,.old what-do-you-call-'em, the shikarree," I
' said Farquharson.
Farquharson and I left the compound
by diil'erent exits, having agreed upon a
rendezvous. When we arrived at the
trysting place I found the shikarree and
half a dozen beaters, armed not only
with rifles, but with rockets, the latter
for the purpose of driving the tiger out
of the jungle.
I had taken the precaution of thrust
ing a conteau de chasse, or deer-knife
given to me, by the way, by his royal
highness, tho Duke of Connaught, while
I at Lord Fife's in my belt, and armed
with my double-barrel J. lelt a match
for any tawny denizen of tho yellow
jungle.
The shikarree assured us with con
siderable circumlocution and after ex
acting a solemn promise to save him
from the wrath of sahib, the colonel
thut a tiger had been hovering about
this particular jungle for some time
past ; that a cow had mysteriously dis
appeared, and, having been hacked, its
bones were found close by whore we
wore then holding council of war.
The jungle in which his Tigerian
majesty was supposed to be ensconced
was but a short quarter of a mile from
camp, and of a very close and dense
nature, save in bald patches, which
yielded a goodly crop of boulders, or
where a small stream cut it in two. A
few stunted trees endeavored to beard
the tierce rays of the Iudian sun, but
King Sol had shriveled tip their foliage
I until it was ot tho tawny yellow of the
i jungle grass, that color so admirably
i arranged to conceal the hide of tlio
j tiger.
" Ah ! " suddenly exclaimed the shi
I karree, in a low tone, " it's all right,
I sahib. The tiger is in tho jungle. Ah,
j here's his pug" (track). " See how it
leads right into it."
, "That's a large 'fist,'" observed
; Farquharson.
" es, saluD, it is one great pug.
Great tiger great shiker" (beast) " for
sahibs."
The beaters, who, as a rule, aro tho
most cowardly wretches in tlio world,
now huddled together and held council
in low whispers, their heads close, their
eyes directed to the jungle, their burn
ished bodies in attitudes suggestive of
instant flight.
The shikarree ordered us to beat
that section of tho jungle on our
immediate light h bting thu uiut
dense, and where, in all probability, the
tiger was now enjoying a post-prandial
nap, good digestion having waited upon
appetite.
Tho beaters were accordingly assem
bled, and Farqnharson took tho nar
sido, while I took the other.
With a sharp glance nt our gunlo-cks,
and a general hitch to garments, wo
prepared to go into action.
" I say, old fellow," pleaded my coni-panion-in-arms,
" won't yon give me
the first shot ? It's my first tiger-potting,
you know."
"Certainly, Farquharson; I'll give
you the whole thing. I shall only lire
in case of aoeident."
Little did I amaginc that my words
were so soon to be proved prophetic.
In a few seconds the beaters began to
yell in chorus, and to Are bamboo
rockets, and I can imagine Low dis
gusted tho tiger must have been to have
his siesta so strangely and no rudely
broken in upon.
"How those, chaps yell," laughed
Farquharson.
"Keep your eye on the jungle,
Alick," I growled, " and let them roar
as much as they like."
I had been in a " tight box " before
now, by having my attention diverted
from business at which strategists are
pleased to term tho psychological mo
ment. Not a sign had tho tiger yet given of
his presence. Not a blade of the long
jungle grass stirred, save when a rocket
fizzed into it, setting it on fire.
The beaters were silent, a signal for
tho shikarree, who held up his hand,
while his head was parched on one side
like that of a bird, in tha attitude of
listening. .jj
Hush!"
Then came the unmistakable cough
(generally called a roar) of a tiger.
I glanced at Alick, to ascertain how the
music agreed with him. He had paled
a little, but his eyes were flashing and
his lips compressed.
" Wo havo him 1" he excitedly cried.
" Not yet, old boy. There's many a
slip between tho cup and the lip," I
retorted.
" Ho cannot escape."
" Not if we can help it, but if he's
lodia bagh a game-killing tiger we
may lose him yet."
There is, in my opinion, only one
variety of tiger, although the animal,
like nil others that I am acquainted
with, is subject to a slight variation of
appearance that may be more or less
accounted for by his peculiar habits,
which vary according to the locality and
nature of the country he ranges over.
In many parts of India over which I
have hunted, the natives recognize three
kinds of tigers, which they distinguish
according to their habits and range, by
the following names : First, the lodia
bagh, or game-killing tiger ; secondkv,
the oontia bagh, which lives chiefly
upon domestic cattle ; and thirdly, the
admee khane wallah, or man-eater,
which latter, happily, are 'Jew'and far
between.
A single tiger will kill a bullock or
buffalo every rive days, if ho gets the
chance, often eating the hindquarter
the first night, and hiding the remain
der in a bush to consume at his leisure.
Should he have been tired at, or dis
turbed on his return to his quarry, he
becomes cunning, and a great deal more
destructive, killing a fresh bullock
whenever he wants food ; and I have
known tigers that have become so sus
picious that they would not return to
an animal they had killed, although
they had only lapped the blood, and
the bullock was almost untouched.
On the other hand, I have known a
tiger returning day after day to the car
cass of the ox he had killed, and pick
ing the bones clean, notwithstanding he
had been twice tired at by a native shi
karree. But to return to my adventure.
The shikarree suddenly gave a low
" coo" twice, which told me that he had
gotten on a warm scent. Suddenly I
heard a slight noise like the crackling
of a dry leaf. I distinctly saw a move
ment or waving in the high grass, as if
something was making its way toward
us.
Then I heard a loud purring sound,
and saw something twitching backward
and forward just behind a clump of low
brush and long grass, about forty yards
oil'.
" He's there !" I cried, in a low tone,
to Alick, but without moving my eyes.
"I know it."
" Keep cool !"
" Hang it all. I'm as cool as alet-tuce-leaf
!"
Another second and we saw the ani
mal, its white chest shining like silver,
its cars laid back, and its open mouth
full of gleaming ivory teeth.
"I'd like to stuff him in that posi
tion," observed Farquharson.
" Hush!"
"Shall I let him have it?"
"Not yet."
The tiger advanced about ten ' yards
or so in that low crouch j which (is the
prelude to the spring.
" Now, Alick!" I cried.
; Farquharson fired at the second I
I spoke, letting the brute have one barrel.
On receiving the shot the tiger
j doubled its head and paws into its
chest, and, turning completely over
I head and heels, disappeared over a
I boulder into the jungle.
"I've hit him!" triumphantly ex
claimed my companion.
" You have."
" I fetched him between the eyes."
I "Not a bit of it; you struck him in
! Ihe chest, and 1 don't thiuk he's badly
I hit."
' Clear that juugle a little !" shouted
i l'ftiqviliiusoi), why, with all the rashness
of the neophyte, was for dashing after
the brute in hot haste.
Wliile the men were tremblingly en
gaged in obeying the orders, my prac
ticed eye perceived a disturbance in the
grass a little to the left of the spot at
wliich the tiger disappeared. A " chuck "
of the tongue against the teeth from
the shikarree, confirmed me.
"Look out, Alick, he's there!" I
yelled; for Farquharson was already
treaating I have no other word for it
the grassy billows of the jungle in a
frantic eagerness to grapplo with the
quarry.
Farqnharson had reached an open
space, when the tiger leaped forth, and,
with a tremendous bound, buried its
head in Alick's throat, both their heads
going down together.
" Great God I lie's done for!" was my
exclamation, as the blood gave a mail
throb in my veins; then it became cold
osiice, and I resolved to save tho poor
fellow, if I could.
It was an awful moment, and as I
write I see the enormous head of that
tiger, its gleaming eyes, its quivering
wliiskers, its distorted upper-lip, its
enormous form; while I also behold the
face of poor Alick Farquharson, white
as death, the terrible beast's nose touch
ing his cheek, wliile beneath him lay
his gun, the great paw of the tiger
stretched out beside it on the yellow
earth.
I repeat it was on awful moment; but,
thank heaven ! I was equal to the emer
gency, and made my calculations with
as much sang froid as a clerk might tot
tip a row of figures in the assured safety
of a counting house in the city.
I was but ten yards ofl, and at that
distance there was a considerable risk
of shooting both man and beast; for,
unless I let tho tiger have it in the
head, it was all up with my friend.
I leaped forward until I came within
two yards.
My heart gave one beat backward
as I raised the weapon to my shoulder.
I aimed at the side of the head, and
the bullet went from ear to ear.
The shot was mortal; the dark blood
rushed from the tiger's nostrils a slight
tremor passed over all his limbs, and he
rolled off.
Alick Farquharson, who scrambled up
to his feet, very white, with his left
arm besmeared with blood.
His first words were:
" By Jove 1 that was a shot. We've
done old Bagpipes out of the skin !"
I don't know how it was, but I flung
myself on the young fellow's neck, and,
hardened sinner that I was, burst into
tears like a woman. It was rather lucky
I didn't feel that wav half a minute be
fore, wasn't it V"
Al ick's wounds were not dangerous,
and he was all right in a few days.
Colonel " Old Bagpipes' endeavored
to nibble the skin, but Farquharson
didn't see it, and it now, I believe, dec
orates the grand old hall at Invercauld
which, as everybody knows, is the next
residence to Queen Victoria's Highland
home, Balmoral.
The huge brute was eight feet eight
inches long, including the tail, which
was three feet in length.
I have potted two man-eaters since
that memorable day, but I hope never
to realize -so terrible an experience as
that which Alick Farquharson's rash
ness so happily or unhappily afforded
me.
A Seventy-Five Dollar Goat.
One of them was a stockman from
Western Texas named Bob Gazely,
and the other was an old Galvestonian
named" Colonel William Griswold.
They were talking about stock-raising.
The man from Western Texas
said, impressively :
" I tell you what, colonel, there is
more money in goats than in any other
critter that eats Texas grass. People
will keep on raising fine horses and
cattle, and lose money by it, while there
is more money in one goat than you
can shake a stick at," and he went on
to tell of the rapid increase, the price of
goat-skin, etc.
"You are right," replied Griswold.
" I am a goat man myself. I've got a
goat in my yard right now I wouldn't
part with for seventy-five dollars."
He must be a fine animal. He is
half Angora, I reckon.) II must see
him."
"Come along, then."
After they had trudged about an hour
they reached the residence of the Gal
vestonian. The goat was tied up in an
outhouse. Tlijl Vestera Texas man
looked at the goat with a bewildered
air.
" There ain't no Angora in that goat."
" There is money in him for all that,"
responded tho owner.
The stockman felt the animal all over,
looked at tho texture of his hair, and
then said:
" I can't see any points that goat has
got over any other goat. Did you say
you paid seventy-five dollars for that
scrub V"
"That goat cost me seventy-live dol
lars, and 1 1 expect to get my money
back."
" Well, you couldn't get out of me."
" I am not trying to get it out of you,
but I hope to get it out of the goat.
But, I'll tell you candidly, if you had
chawed up my vest pocket with seventy
five dollars in it, like that goat did, I'd
have it out of you somo way or other."
Then tho stockman caught hold of
hifi own vest, and laughed until a crowd
began to gather. ltilrettn Now.
It cost Colonel Wilder, the noted po
nologist, 2.V) to obtain the original
camellia from which those to be found iu
America were grown. It was imported
about forty yetus. go,
OCT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Hew Koine of I lie Prenldentallave Relived
Feature of" Inauguration liar" Hi-Idem
been or Heard.
Before the building of the southern
front of the treasury department, which
rendered a change of the inclosure of tlve
White House necessary, there was an
entrance facing Pennsylvania avenue a
stone archway, with a large weeping
willow growing on each side of it.
Mrs. Madison, who was a very bright
womau, when congratulated on her hus
band's inauguration and occupation of
the White House, said: " I don't know
that there is much cause for congratu
lationthe President of the United
States generally corses in at the iron
gate and goes out at tho weeping wil
lows.
John Adams, who was the first Presi
dent that occupied the White House,
was crashed with shame and filled with
indignation when his old friend,
Thomas Jefferson, defeated him in the
presidential election of 1800. He took
what vengeance ho could by continuing
to make appointments up to a late hour
on the evening of March 3, and the
next morning before sunrise lie left the
White House and the metropolis forever.
Washington had attended at his inaugu
ration four years previously, but he
could not bear to witness the swearing
in of his successor. Retiring to his
farm at Quiney he devoted the remain
ing twenty-five years of his lifo to
political correspondence.
I Jefferson, Madison and Monroe in
turn attended the inauguration of their
successors and decorously vacated the
White House for their occupation with
the best of feeling. But when General
Jackson was elected there was a differ
ent condition of things. President
John Quincy Adams Mas bitterly disap
pointed becanse he had not been re
elected, while his successful competitor
was incensed by some abusive articles
which had appeared in the official
"organ." When General Jackson came
to Washington, saddened by the sud
den death of her whom he loved so de
votedly, he refused point blank to call
on Mr. Adams, regarding him
as her tradueer. Mr. Adams
was equally unwilling to participate m
the triumphant inauguration of his suc
cessor, and he removed from the White
House on the third of March. On the
fourth, as he was taking his customary
horseback ride in the vicinity of Wash
ington, the booming of cannon announc
ed to him that his successor had taken
the oath of office in front of the capitol.
The then ex-President remained iu his
own house on F street (nearly opposite
the F.bbitt house of to-day) until spring,
and he received many acts of courtesy
from the citizens of Washington, includ
ing a salute from a volunteer military
company commanded by Colonel Sea
ton, one of the editors of the Xaliunul
Intelligencer.
It may not be amiss to say a word or
two abont the inauguration of General
Jackson, when, for tho first time, the
President-elect was escorted by military
bodies as he rode on a spirited horse
from the hotel at which he had lodged
to the capitol. After he had taken the
oath and gone from tho capitol to the
White House he was waited upon by a
motley crowd, which soon drained tho
barrels of punch which had been pre
pared, broke the glasses and behaved
like a drunken mob. Such a scene had
never before been witnessed at the
White House.
When Martin Van Bnren was elected
as General Jackson's successor it was a
political family arrangement. The two
went together from the White House to
the capitol iu a phaeton made from the
wood of the frigate Constitution, drawn
by four gray horses. After Mr. Van
Buren had been inaugurated in front of
the capitol the two returned in the
same vehicle to the White House, where
the new President received his fellow
citizens. At four o'clock in the after
noon Mr. Van Buren formally received
the foreign ministers, who, with their
suites, wore the full court dresses of
their respective countries, and he rather
astonished their dean, tho Spanish min
ister, by addressing them as " the Dem
ocratic Corps " instead of the "Diplo
matic Coips." Four days afterward
General Jackson bade farewell to the
White House and returned to his be
loved " Hermitage" to end his days.
As the expiration of President Van
Buren's official term approached the al
dermen and common council of Wash
ington City followed the custom aud
passed a vote of thanks to the outgoing
chief magistrate for the interest which
he had taken in the prosperity of the
national metropolis during his four
years administration. These thanks
were not acceptable to Mayor Seaton,
who, with other whigs, had been
excluded from the hospitalities of the
executive mansion by President Van
Buren. So tho editor-mayor formally
refused to approve tho complimentary
resolutions, and transmitted a veto
message to tho city government giving
his reasons for this marked slight. Mr.
Van Buren was greatly annoyed, and
took good care to have tho White House
ready for the occupation of his succes
sor, General Harrison, whosestay there
was brief.
Mr. Tyler's family were soon sum
moned from Virginia to the White
House, and while lie was President he
married the estimable lady who now re
sides here, who turned over tho White
House to Mrs. James K. Polk, now a
resident of Nashville, Tenn. She was
succeeded by Mrs. Zachary Taylor, a
matronly old lady, who loved to remain
in her room vpstaira and smoke a corn
cob pipe, while her accomplished
daughter, then the w ife of Colonel Bliss,
tho President's private secretary, pie-
sided over tho hospitalities of the man
sion. Tho Taylors left shortly after the
death of " Old Rough and Beady," and
Mrs. Fillmore, came, aided by her
daughter. They extended the hospital
ities of the White House to General
rierce when he came (heart-broken
over the loss of his only child by a
railroad accident) to be inaugurated,
Mrs. Fillmore left the White House on
the fourth of March for a hotel, expect
ing to go South on a tour with her
husband, but she took void and died a
few weeks afterward.
Mrs. Pierce's J(ife at the White House
was saddened by the loss of her darling
son and clouded by a dread that her,
husband might become intemperate in
his habits. These fears, fortunately,
were never realized, and General Tierce
was probably more poimlar at Washing
ton than any other occupant of the
White House has been. Hospitable
and generous in his disposition and
cordial in his manners, he was beloved
by all who knew him. Correspondents
of whig newspapers were among tho
I guests cordially welcomed at the White
jiouse, and the departure of the Fierces
from Washington . was regretted by
friends and foes. They went on the
fourth of March to the residence of
General Cass, since transformed into
the Arlington hotel, where many thou
sands called to pay their parting re-
! spects.
Whilo General Pierce was the most
popular of Presidents, Miss Lane, the
! niece of his successor, Mr. Buchanan,
eclipsed all other ladies who have pre
I sided over tho White House in courtesy,
I in hospitality, and in her reception of
all, whether they were her uncle's po
j litieal supporters or opponents,
i The exodus of Mrs. Lincoln, 'of the
' daughter of President Johnson, and of
Mrs. Giant, as each one sncee ssively
left the White House, is well known to
every Washington reader. Ben Pa-ley
I'ow-p, in. Washington Republic.
The Migration of Birds.
Familiar as this migration of birds is
to us, there is, perhaps, no question ih
zoology more obscure. The long flights
they take, aud the unerring certainty
with which they wing their way between
the most distant places, arriving and
departing at the same period year after
I year, are points in the history of birds of
I passage as mysterious as why they select
a moonlight night to cross the Mediterra
: netui. But that their meteorological in
stinct is not unerring is proved by the
fact that thousands are every year
drowned in their flight over the Atlantic
ii7wl other rcinw Xoetlicrii Afn'cn, mid
' Western Asia are selected as winter
quarters by most of them, and they may
' be often noticed, on their way thither, to
: lumg over towns at night, puzzled, in
spite of their experience, by the shifting
lights of the streets and houses. The.
. swallow or the nightingale may be some
times delayed by unexpected circumstan"
ees. Yet it is rarely that they arrivo or
depart many days sooner or later, one
year with another. Professor Newton
considered that, were sea fowls satel
lites revolving round the earth, their ar
rival could hardly be more surely calcur
lated by an astronomer. Foul weather
' or fair, heat or cold, the puffins repair to
some of their stations punctually ou 'a
! given day, as if their movements were
I guided by clock-work. The swiftness of
' flight which characterizes most birds eu
! ablesthem to cover a vast space in a brief
I time. The common black swift can fly
! '27C miles an hour, a speed which, if it
I ... ... -IK 1 il Vtfl
count oe maintained ior less xnau nan a
day, would cany the bird from its winter
to its summer quarters. The largejpurple
l switt of America is capable ot even
! greater feats on the wing. The chimney
I swallow is slower, ninety miles an hour
! being about the limit of its powers; but
' the passenger pigeon of the United States
' can do a journey of a thousand miles
; between sunrise and sunset. It is also
'' true, as the ingenious Herr Palnien has
! attempted to show, that migrants during
: their long flights may be directed by an
! experience purtly inherited and partly ac
quired by the individual bird. They
i often follow the coast line of continents
ami invariably take, ou the r passage over
' the Mediterranean, one of their routes.
1 But this theory will not explain how they
. pilot themselves across the broad oceuns,
! and is invalidated by the fact, familiar to
every ornithologist, that the old and
young birds do not journey in company.
Invariably, the young broods travel to
gether, then come, after an interval, the
parents, nnd finally the rear is brought
up by the weakly, infirm, molting and
broken winged. This is the rule iu the
j uutnmn. The return journey is accom
! plished in tho reverse order. The dis
j tanee traveled seems, moreover, to have
no relation to the size of the traveler,
j The Swedish blue throat performs its
! maternal functions among the Laps, ami
j enjoys its winter holiday among the
j negroes of Soudan, whilo the tiny ruby
I throated humming-bird proceeds an
! nually from Mexico to Newfoundland
' and back again, though one would
' imagine that so delicate a little fairy
; would be more at home among tho cacti
j and agaves of the Tierra Calliente than
; among the firs and fogs of the North.
1 Loudoit tftuinlitrit.
I .lohn Duncan, a poor Scotch weaver'
I has presented the University of Aber
deen with Ins herbarium of nearly
British plants, collected by him whilo
mining about as a harvest laborer over
the Southern districts of Scotland and
the north of Fngland. In his extreme
old age this self-educated devotee of
science is dependent ou parish support.
Michigan supplies half the pin tin -ber
ue'l in the United StM.