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VOL. XXVI. NO. 38. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 1894.
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REP
.EST
Now Jersey manufactures more silk
than any other State in the Union.
Tlio Dutch Government will eventu
ally own ami entirely control all its
railroads.
Oeorgo Ooodloo, who recently com'
binod in Texan tlio ministry and
burglary, has given up both and is
testing in tlio priaon.
Thn city of Milwaukee, AVis., has
condemned the cottonwood tree and
decided that nil mich within tho city's
limitB ruiiat bo removed within ten
days.
Munbull, in bin "Balance Sheet of
the AVorld," pays ; "Every day tho sun
rises njon tho American people it gees
an addition of $2,500,000 to tho accu
mulation of wealth in tho Republic,
which is equal to one-third of the daily
accumulation of mankind outside of
tho United States."
Among tho successful farmers and
frnit growers in California are a hun
drod or moro Turks who camo to this
country to be farmers. A great many
of the small farmers on tho Fociflo
hlope are Chinamen, who carry their
fruit and truck to tho towns in boxes
and baskets swung from a yoke on tho
shoulders.
Somo New York shops maintain at
times a curiously primitivo messenger
service in tho suburbs. A messenger
is dispatched by rail to some central
suburban stntion and starting thenco
he delivers on foot small packages of
goods to customers a mile or moro
from tho railway station. It is an ex
, ponsivo and laborious system, main
tained to cneonrago trade from rap
idly growing suburbs.
American sailors on men-of-war who
desert in foreign ports cannot bo ar
rested and returned. This rule, ex
plains tho Boston Cultivator, is an
outgrowth of tho contention of this
country on which tho AVar of 1812 was
fonght, tho right of every man to
change his allegiance, and exemption
from interference by nny foreign
power. Sailors on merchant vessels
who violato their contracts can bo
held to them, but deserting from a
' man-of-war in a foreign port, though
more serious offence, cannot bo pun
ished. Say" the Age of Steel : Tho re
newed trend of foreign capital to tho
South is one of tho siguiticant feigns
of a coming revival of prosperity iu
that section. Both British and Gor
man capitalists are already in tho Hold
on a quiet hunt for profitable invest
ments. Representatives of tho Roth
schilds' interests are expected shortly
to make an investigating tour to ap
prise tho European capitalists they re
present of what inducements there
may bo for placing largo sums of
money in railroader mineral lands and
other enterprises. Somo German
capitalists arc, it is said, intending to
make arrangements for the establish
ment of a lino of German steamships,
carrying AA'estern cereals to foreign
markets via New Orleans. Other an
nouncements of foreign enterprise in
tho same direction are in evidence of
a coming movement of capital south
ward. The differences betweou city and
country ways have been illustrated in
a curious manner by an expeiimeot of
the Fostoffiee Department. Under tho
last administration about fifty villages
and small towns, ranging iu popula
tion from 800 to 4000 inhabitants,
were picked out for a trial of the sys
tem of distributing mail matter by
carrier, as in largo cities. At first
general satisfaction was manifested,
and the receipts of ninny of tho offices
for a while showed an increase, indi
cating that tho convenience stimulated
correspondence ; but as tho novelty
wore off, the residents very generally
tired of the change, and returned to
the old practice of goiug to tho office
themselves for tho mail. A majority of
the people would apparently rather
have their letters lie in tho oflioe until
they call for them, and thus have an
excuse for frequent visits to the centre
of local activity, than have their mail
delivered every day at their houses.
The carrier in such places is really a
foe to social activity, as "going to tho
postofflco" has always been ft recog
nized means of mixing with men, and
its occasional iuconvunience is prefer
able to the loss of what is oftou only a
pretext for making a break in the mo
notony of a retired life. In viow of
the evidence that there is not "a long
felt want" to be mot by thin system of
free delivery in small communities,
and of the fact that its general adoption
would involve an annuul expense of at
least 810,000,000, the First Assistant
Postmaster-General advises a suspen
sion, of the experiment.
REMEMBERED SONOS.
My lovo a ong of Fcotland sang,
One. merry, merry day,
And In my ears the pibroch rang,
I hoard the pipers piny )
I snw the plnlried clansmen mwt-
Bhie was tho morning sky
Th heather blossomed at my foot j
A highland king wns I.
My lov a song of Norway sung,
An old Qermanlo theme,
And where the mystic Eddas sprang
I wnndorod In a drenm.
I hoard a chant of Bunlc name,
Where Mlmor's fountnlns shine.
And with tho knights of Hiogfrod came,
An errant of th Bhino.
My love she sang a song of Spain
I wandered long and far,
And In the court of Charlomagno
I wntohed the morning star,
I listened to the rodondel.
Tones of Leys d'amour,
The canzo and the pastorel
I was a troubadour.
My love she sung a song of love ;
Her words were sweet and low.
As though the echoes from abovo
Had strayed to mo below.
No more my fancy wandored free,
Where time and change have part I
The wide, wide world bad somo to me,
The morning of the heart.
Laura F. Hinsdale, In Times-Democrat.
BELLE OF THE BIG DRAW.
BY ALICE HaCGOWAN,
oijti.Mjijii, gray
haired little woman
of fifty sho wns,
slightly bent from a
lifetime of hard
work, yet I speak
ILllviHAlllv vlmn Tuav
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rAxXrlji bellcship is calcu
fP'?WT'5".? Inted bv the number
oi ones masculine
admirers tho belle
of tho wholo Rio-
vriw country.
Everybody loved her. They couldn't
help it j but I think tho reason for the
cntiro admiration every man of her
acquaintance young, old or middle
aged gave her was that she was, iu
spite of her bravery in carrying on
alone, for twenty years, the trying
T , o
work of a ranch, so thoroughly a wo
man, Tho slender store of accomplish
ments acquired in her girlhood were
not thrown aside because she some
times had to ride the range, gun in
hand, looking for timber wolves.
There wasu't a young fellow in the
neighborhood who didn't make a con
fidante of her about Lis lovo affairs
particularly if they chanced to go
wrong.
Sho was always ready to give an
hour to listening to their woes, giving
them good advice or playiug Smith's
March or Maiden's Prayer for them on
tho wheezy littlo melodeou.
She could Bing, too, in a thin, sweet
old voice, songs that tho boys loved
and whoso choruses they could join in,
such as "Roll on, Silver Moon" and
'Araby's Daughter."
Her own boy, her only son, had
turned out, as widows' only sons seem
prono to do, not exactly bad, but tri
fling. Perhaps sho loved him too well or
humored him too much, but it is Bure
that her littlo court of admirers was
wrathy more than once over reports of
the hardships wrought for his mother
by AVado Moore's neglect.
reoplo had seen her out on the
rango in bad weather, doing a man's
work, ami been told in hasty apology
that AVado was sick at home, but
thoso seizures never kept him from
town of an evening, if there was any
.
iuu on nani.
Ho wasn t popular with tho boys
who adored Mrs. Moore, and they
would have been glad to let him see it
in some marked way, only they knew
that any blow aimed at him must
strike her gentle heart first.
Finally, some time along in the
summer, he went to Kansas City with
cattle, and bin mother had been ran
niug tho Bar 6 alone for nearly five
months.
Iler friends had not neglected her
in that time. Tom Andrews, the
yonng fellow who was manager of the
Three C's ranch, her next neighbor to
tho south, and one of her best friends,
rodo over nearly every day to see how
she was getting on, and whether there
was anything ho could do for her.
This fine crisp December morning,
the day beforo Christmas, he found
her sitt ing despondently on her porch,
with no work touched and her hands
in her lap, and in answer to his anxi
ous iuquiry she told him sho was
troubled about AVade.
"Worrying because you want him
home?" asked Tom. "Whereis AVado
now?"
As he glanced at Mrs. Moore he saw
tho work-worn knotted little hands
close convulsively together. Her
head wub bent, ami Tom thought she
was crying. "I don't know," she said
in a voice scorcely ubove a whisper.
Tom sat down on tho porch edge,
speechless with astonishment. "Have
nest you heard from him?" he said.
"I haven't heard a word since he
left," she replied, "and I've got so
anxious and worried I've got to tell
somebody. "
"I should think so," said Tom.
"Why, it's-"
"Five mouths," filled in Mrs. Moore ;
"but I wasn't uneasy until after the
fair closed. I was sure he was there.
Ho had plenty of money from the cat
tle to go all right, and stay till it
closed, and somehow I was sure that
was what he meant to do."
"Why, Mrs. Moore," said Tom,
"he'd never run off and leave you that
way; you wero intending to go to
gether when the cattle were sold,
weien t you?
Jt was a cruel question, and Tomre-
9 '
gretted it tho moment it was out. The
red roses in tho wrinkled cheeks bo
fore him faded till they seemed like
witliered rose leaves.
"That's why I think ho wont off as
lie did. I know AA ode better than you
do" Tom doubted that '"he's yonng
and likes to make a good appearance.
and maybe he didu't earo to have an
old-fashioned woman like mo around
with him everywhere."
"Au old-fashioned angel," muttered
Tom to nis boots; "any decent man
would bo only too proud of such
mother there, now; I'vo made you
cry again, when I was trying to say
something pleasant!
"No," said Mrs. Moore, raising
resolute faco full of cheerful courace.
"No, I'm not going to let it worry me
any more, I ve divided my trouble
with you now by telling of it, nnd I'm
going to put it out of my mind.
"I'm not going to spoil you hoys'
Christmas dinner by being dull or de
pressed, either."
"O, tho Christmas dinner," said
Tom (it was an annual institution with
Mrs. Moore). "There are ten coming
that I know of did you get the tur
keys?"
"Yes," the answered, "fine ones, and
my pumpkins turned out so well this
year. Teolilo fixed up apian for irri
gating tho garden. We won't have
the canned stuff like we had last."
"Well," said Tom, rising to go,
wouldn't worry about AVado. He'll be
homo all right when his money gives
out. lou must be ready to play and
Bing for us tomorrow. You know wo
boys expect plenty of music when we
come here.
"I will," cheerfully, "and I'll go in
and Btart those pies right now. Tell
the boys to bring any poor follow they
know that's away from home and has
no place to cat the Christmas dinner."
Tom rodo away, and tho lost word
from him, oddly enough as Mrs.
Mooro thought, rras a faint hail sent
back
"Mind we expect music!"
Christmas morning Mrs. Moore
baked her pies. A goodly row. Tho
turkeys were in tho oven, tho other
dishes baking, simmering or stewing,
as best suited them, when the wind
mill at the back of the ranch house
stopped pumping. That meant, since
tho store was already low, a cutting
off of tho water supply beforo night.
"I might as well fix it before I
change my dress," she reflected, and
catching up a heavy hammer sho went
out to the tower.
Forty feet seems a rather extraor
dinary climb for a woman of her ago,
the ladder, too, was wooden, old and
unsafe, as Tom Andrews had warned
her a week or two ago, but old Teolilo
was gone ; she was as fearless as au
urchin, and np she went, laughing a
little. A tap from her big hammer
set things right, and the wheel began
revolving, but the first turn struck
the hammer out of her hand, and
down it fell, kuocking off three rungs
of the rickety ladder as it went.
AVell, Bhe was finely caught.
A'isious of the Christmas dinner
burning up while she was imprisoned
so flitted through her mind.
Looking about for aid she saw a
pony and rider approaching the front
of the house cautiously. It was Tom
Andrews; but how curiously ho was
acting. Ho dismounted, tied his pony
in n bunch of niesquite and came up
to tho house almost on tiptoe, looked
in at every window, triod somo of the
doors, and then, standing on the
porch, called her name very softly.
She luughcd as she looked at him.
No, she wouldn't onswer. She'd
rather anybody but Tom Andrews
should help her down. He had
seemed so horrified at the idea that
sho should ever go up on windmills Bt
all when ho had warned her of the un
safe ladder.
As sho looked he stole softly back to
the littlo divido that hid the house
from the road, and waved his handker
chief to some one sho could not see.
An awful fear clutched at her heart
as, in answer to tho signal, a wagon
came in Bight along tho road.
wagon with the ton young men Bhe
had expected to dinner, some riding
in it, somo walking besido it, and iu
the body of it a long box, covered with
a cloth.
one Knew wnat tnat meant as soon
as her eye caught it. It was Wado
her boy, her baby, her only son
They were bringing hiui home to her.
Her tired arms nearly let go their
hold.
They were driving up in front of
the house now. They had gotten out
Bileutly and wero carrying the long
box iu. She could hear the shuffling
oi their feet.
"Oh, AVado, my littlo son," Bhe
moaned, "is this your home-coming !'
Her mind went through all tho tor
ments we feel when our dear oues are
taken from us that all mothers know
for their sous who go astray. AVould
it have been different if she had been
tinner, if she had been moro lenient,
if she had followed him at once when
Bhe failed to hear Oh, the tragedy of
those us.
She thought of dropping to tho
ground and ending it all there, but
she louged to see the face of her boy
in the cothn.
Tom Andrews peeped cautiously out
of the back door, and she called softly
to nun.
"Why, Aunt' Mat; why, Aunt
Muttie," he cried a name be kept for
state occasions oi great excitement.
"How did you get up there?"
"O, help me down, dear, lift me
down," she moaned. "I'd rather die
on the ground."
Tom ran and lifted her down in his
strong young urms, and set her on a
bench against the windmill tower, and
stood looking down at her.
"I saw you," she gusped.
"Then you've been up there all the
time. The boys sent me ou ahead to
spy out the ground. They didn't
want to- bring it while you were
in the house, and ifryou wore about, T
was to get you away on some pre
text." A shudder went over the pathetic
little figure before him. Poor Wadel
Already ho was "it" to everybody bnt
her I
Tom was fanning her vigorously
with his big cowboy hat.
"Don't you feel better now well
enough to come in and peo it? Tho
boys '11 bo cut up about your getting
sight of it before they were ready
but you had to see it sometime, of
course."
Tho utter lack of sympathy in tho
young voice quito broke his listener's
patient heart, "O, AVade, my son, my
son!" sho cried, and burst into a storm
of sobs.
"Why, yes," said poor, bewildered
Tom. "Wade's all right. He's iu
thero with tho others. It was him
driving, but . ho kept his hut pulled
down for feo you'd see him nnd know
him. Says' fc's been sick, and gavo
the folks at tho hospital the wrong ad
dress is the reason his letters didu't
get here, but he's all right now why,
what's the matter?"
For she hud risen and was gripping
his arm hord with both hands. "If
Wade's all right,"she whispered, husk
ily, ""what was in that box?"
"A piano for you," said Tom. "A
piano that me and tho rest of the boys
sent to Emerald City for, and hauled
out here to hear you play on."
And when the dinner (which wasn't
burned in tho least) had been dis
posed of, any passerby might have
heard the melodious strains of Smith's
March as performed by the belle of
the Big Draw, on a resonant new
piano, to the great delight of her
audience, saluting tho prairie breeze.
Washington Star.
Kleplimit Shooting In Ceylon.
Our first attempt at elephant shoot
ing was in "tho Pork." Appu Sinhu
made an excellent stalk, and H., who
had tho toss, had the satisfaction of
shooting our first elephant a bull
with short tushes. Next day it was
my turn in the thorn jungle. Appu
Sinhu took mo up a game path to
within twenty feet of tho herd one
ottered a fair shot, and down he wont.
AVith screams of terror the herd fled
My clophant struggled up again only
to perish by tho loft barrel. H. killed
our third as it dashed by him in
game path, but not till he and M. hai
emptied their rules into it. This was
a good beginning, but the firing had
disturbed the game, and we now had
to go farther afield for it. We found
it again in the thorn jungle a rogue
H. fired first, aud the brute promptly
charged, but was turned with the sec
ond barrel. Knowing he would not
go for, we advanced against him by
parallel game paths. He charged M.,
wjo faled to stop him. M. tried to
retreat, caught his foot and fell on his
back. Tho brute stopped in tho
smoke, aud commenced beating for
with its trunk. M., I afterward learned,
was trying silently to get in fresh car
fridges the elephant being between
him and his trackor. Fortunately,
caught a sight of tho brute across the
thorns aud gave him another ball. He
at once charged at the smoke, but the
jungle or his wounds impeded him,
and gave me time to run a few yards
to windward. When he emerged
brought him to his knees, and M.
who had followed him in the track,
gavo him a coup do grace behind the
ear. Outing.
Row to Avoid Colds,
For many years my occupation took
mo to crowded political and labor
meetings, generally held iu rooms des
titute of any means of ventilation,
Ihe heat was intenso, the air fetid and
poisonous. 1 have left such meetings
named in perspiration aud plunged
into tho chill of a winter s sight,
thereby running the risk of catching
the severest cold, lot, strange to say,
I enjoyed a singular immunity from
such aggravating ailments. At the
first touch of cold air I took a deep in
spiratiou and then held ray breath for
hall a minute, in the meantime walk
ing as fust as I could. During that
half minuto tho pores of tho skin were
closed against the chilling atmosphere,
and by the time tho lungs called for
reinvigoration the body had consider
ably cooled, and the risk of a chill was
over.
I recommend this practice to public
speakers, vocalists, entertainers, and
those who are obliged to frequent un
duly heated rooms. In my own caso
tho practice never failed, and, although
1 lully holieved in its value, I never
understood the reason of it until a
learned soicutist came forward with
the remarkablo theory that while hold
iug the breath the skin could bo main
tained impenetrable to tho sting of a
bee. Providence Journal.
The Teeth Tell If a Snake's Venomous.
There is a certain physiological dif
ference between the poisonous and
harmless suakes, which exists verv
phtiulv in their manner of dentition.
All snakes are objects of aversion and
dread to mankind, so much bo that to
be bitten by a snake has at timeBbeen
so fearful to the victim as to have pro
duced death, although tho suuke was
harmless. Such is the instinctive
dread with which these reptiles aro
thought of that it may be desirable to
have some easy mode of distinguish
ing tliCvone kind from tho other. This
distinguishing characteristic is af
forded by the teotb. Iu all poisonous
snakes thero are only two rows of
teeth, the fang, or fungs, beiuir ar
ranged either within the two rows or
outside. The harmless snukes have four
distinct rows of teeth, and when tho
bite shows this kind of wound and not
any Bingle deeper or larger punoture,
there need be uo apprehension. New
York Times.
SCIE.M1FIC ASH INDUSTRIAL.
A year on Jupiter is equal to eleven
yearn, ten months and seventeen days
on our globe.
A Russian scientist has miccc eded in
tracing all man's diseases to tho fact
that ho wears clothes.
The surface area of the moon is said
to bo fully as great as that of Africa
and Australia combined.
Among other articles niado from cotton-seed
oil, once regarded as useless,
is artificial India rubber.
Thero aro forty-eight distinct dis
eases of tho eye. No other organ of
the human body has so many.
The latest explanation of tho rain
which usually follows a great battle is
that it is caused, not by the smoke,
but by tho perspiration of tho sol
diers. A new system by which smokeless
combustion of coal is rendered possi
ble has been adopted by the North Ger
man Lloyd and the Hamburg-American
Companies.
London electrical supply firms are
not only lending out electrical cooking
stoves to customers but nre prepared
to supply a separate meter and charge
half rates for cooking.
An instrument has been invented for
sounding the depths of tho sea without
using a lead line. A sinker is dropped
containing a coi'tridge, which explodes
on touching the bottom ; the report is
registered in a microphone apparatus
and the depth reckoned by the time at
which the explosion occurred.
A new method of producing steel
has been suggested to M. Jules Gsr
nier by M. Moissan's diamond-making
experiments. He claims that it is suc
cessful. The steel is instantaneously
mado by placing a bar of iron and a
stick of charcoal together iu a parallel
direction in an electrical fire brick fur
nace of a temperature of 1000 degrees
and subjecting them to a strong cur
rent. Sir Charles Lyall, basing his esti
mate on modifications of certain
species of marine life, assigned 240,
000,000 years as tho remiirod length
of geologic time. Darwin claimed
200,000,000 years; Crowell, about 72,
000,000; Geikie, from 73,000,000 up
ward; Alexander AVinehell, but 3,
000,000; McGee, Upham and other
recent authorities claim from 100,000,
000 up to (380,000,000 years.
It may not be known to the general
reader that a rifle ball deflected from
its course immediately resumes its lino
of flight after rimming the object it is
nnable to pass directly through. That
is to say, a ball turned from its course
by a rib posses under the skin until it
reaches a point mathematically opio
site to tho point where it entered tho
soldier's body and then passes but, re
suming its exact line of flight, if I
enough of its initial velocity remains,
Snow Sheds or the Union Pacific.
A correspondent of the New York
Observer says : AVith two and some
times three engines, our heavy train,
now dividedinto two sections, climbed
up the giant wallof the Sierra Nevada.
AVe passed through the magnificent
scenery of Shady Run, Blue Canyon
and Giant and Emigrant Gaps. In
running one hundred aud seven miles
wo had climbed nearly seven hundred
feet, sometimes over very steep grades.
Before we reached the summit, snow
sheds began to appear, aud Boon bo
camo practically continuous. It was
tho month of May, aud tho mountains
wero still covered doep with snow.
AA'e rodo through forty miles of these
wooden tunnels, from whoso windows
we could now aud then catch glimpses
of wild wastes of snow-covered moun
tains, and at other times of forests of
pine and fir trees. AVithout these
sheds it would bo impossible to oper
ato the road in winter. They are
built in tho most thorough manner,
often upon solid foundations of mason
ry, and aro separated by iron plates
into sections, to guard against the
spread of fire. There ore automatic
electric fire alarms in one of tho long
est shcdM, and au engine with a tank
close at hand iskept ready to flood any
section that should catch on fire. Tho
sheds are patrolled and guarded iu a
careful manner. Such attention is
duo not only to tho passenger and
freight trallic which the road conducts,
but to tho value of the sheds, which
average from eight to twelve thousand
dollars per mile. Several miles, where
bridges and precipices make the con
struction difficult, cost as much iui
thirty thousand dollars per mile."
Fireside Hcroet an! IhTjitie.
Tho noblest aud the commonest
heroes and heroines are thosu of tho
fireside. They neither iutroduco nor
obtrudo themselves upon tho public
observation. They aro usually un
conscious of their heroism. They
suppose thut startling occasions and
crises arc necessary iu order to tlio
unfolding of heroiu character. A'et
all tho time in the simple rounds of
home they are displaying fruits whieh
express the finest sense of heroism.
lathers, husbands, soii.s, brothers
lose lives are utterly unselfish, who
give up without miirniuriug persuuul
wishes at the cull of affection or duty ;
mothers, wives, daughters, listers
who tuke up and carry heartbreaking
griefs and back-bending burdens that
others near and dear to them may bo
eased an I benefited are not these
true heroes aud true heroines? They
what they do without any expecta
tion of fame; nay, they hide their
Helf-reuunciutioii, and bear their
rosses with silent dignity. All the
moro do th -v weur the hulo of saint-
ioo.I, visible to anointed eves us the
uurtolo on the cauvad of Murillo or
Tit iuu.
God bless ull mute and inglorious
Leices and heroines! St. Louis F.e-
ublic.
BEAR VERSUS ALLIGATOR.
A FIERCE FIGHT IN A LOUISIANA
BAYOU.
IVhlle Drinking Hrnln Is Attacked
by n Huge Saurlun A Duel to the
Death.
WALTER D. KLAPP gives
in tho New York Post a
vivid description of a
fierce encounter between
a bear and au alligator which he wit
nessed while hunting with a friend iu
Louisiana. Snys Mr. Klopp i
AVhilc lazily enjoying our siesta we
wero suddenly startled by a loud
crashing in the bushes on the other
hide of tho bayou. Snatching up our
rifles, wo rushed to tho water's edge
just in time to see a largo black bear
oomo out of tho cnuc brake and walk
leisurely to tho opposite bank. He
was evidently thirsty, and had sought
tho cool waters of the bayou instead
of tlio easier obtained but hot and
stagnant lake water. As ho had not
yet caught sight of us we concluded to
wait developments beforo attempting
to secure so enviable a prize.
ihe bear climbed into a low treo
that grew out of tho sido of the bank,
and proceeded to crawl out on a stout
limb overhanging tho bayou. His
weight bent the thick limb till it
dipped into tho water, nud tho bear
squatted himself on tho interlacing
branches and began lapping vigorous
ly. So eagerly did ho drink, and so
intently were we watching him, that
neither noticed a fierce swirling of
the water just below, until a long black
Bnout shot suddenly from beneath the
surface and two gleaming rows of
teeth closed on tho outstretched muz
zle of tho bear. Tho shock of this
unexpected onslaught was so sudden
that tho bear had no time to clinch
his hold on tho tree, and so he turn
bled headforemost into the water, and
turning n complete somersault, fell on
his back at somo distance from tho
alligator.
In falling ho hod jerked himself freo
from t Iio alligator s teeth, and now he
began to mako frantio oflorts to swim
to shore. But the alligator, with ouo
flirt of his tail, was upon him again,
this time seiziug him by a forepaw
aud crushing it like au eggshell. AVo
could hear tho bone.i crock. The bear
uttered a terrific howl of pain and
rage, and with his other paw gave the
alligator a blow which Bent his long
body flying through tho air for a con
siderable distance. This short respite
tho bear utilized in paddling violently
for tho shore, for ha wns at, a deadly
disadvantage iu tho water against tho
lightning speed of tho alligator in his
native clement. If he could only gain
the shore, it would soon be "his pic
ntc, for tho alligator cannot turn
around, his littlo stumpy legs being
too far apart.
Like a flash tho alligator caught tho
bear by his hind leg. They were now
iu a place where the water was shallow
over a hidden sand-bar, so tho fight was
a lime more even, with a vicious
snarl the bear turned on his back, and,
bending double, caught the alligator
hy tlio soft wfnto flesh of his throat.
It was now tho bear's turn to bite, and
bite ho did with such good will that
tho blood spurted iu streams and the
alligator, letting go tho foot ho had
been chewing, emitted o series of howls
that made tho woods ring. Then the
fight grew fiercer. Tho alligator beat
a lomi tuctoo with his tan on tho bear
tough hide., but they were at such close
quarters that ho could not give it swing
enough to break any bones. He was
gradually working around to a better
position, however, and suddenly
planted a vicious blow square on tho
breast that sent tho bear flying head
over heels into deep water. Ho was
up iu a second and both rushed to
gether. The bear aguin sought tho
alligator's soft throat, nnd with his
sharp teeth tore irreat mouthfuls of
bleeding flesh.
Now, we thought, tho victory will
surely be with the bear. He certainly
did seem to have the best of it. The
alligator used what breath had not
been squeezed out of him bellowing
like a bull. Tho sounds he uttered
were so full of rago that tho wuter-fowl
and small animals near the bayou fled
iu affright. Tho two struggled back
aud forth. Tho water was lashed into
foam by tho furious beating of tho
alligator's tail. Straining and strug
gling, this wuy and that, suddenly tho
writhing mass of ferocity slipped off
of the narrow strip of sand and was in
doep water again. Now tho conditions
are reversed and tho advantage ou the
sido of tho alligator again. AVith a
suiiko-like twist of his litho body
ho slipped from tho bear's
clutches and, wheeling around, tho
long, powerful tail flashed for au in
stant in tho air and descended with
crushing force full on tho back of tho
bear. Ihe thick backbone snapped
like a roed. With tho cry of a human
being iu distress tho bear rolled over,
limp and lifeless, and sank to the bot
tom like a stone, and tho fight was
over.
Tho victor, apparently lifeless,
flouted motionless on tho surface of
tho water an alligator always floats
when dead so we wero preparing to
leave, when u low inoaii recalled us
and we found him in great puiu and
slowly bleeding to death from his la
cerated throat. Tho water for many
yards around was dyed crimson w ith
his blood and his moaning was pitiful
to hear. Wo deemed it au act of
mercy to kill him, und a well-directed
bullet iu tho eye soon put au end to
his sufferings.
Upon druwiug him out of the water
aud measuring him, he was found to
stretch a full sixteen feet from tip to
tip, ouo of the lurgett known.
Since the reduction of cab fares in
London the ratio of patronage to
population has risen from 14.0 to
seventy-si yen,
WHICHEVER WAV.
Whichever way the wind doth blow
Home heart is glad to have It so ;
Then Mow it east or Mow it west,'
The wind that Mows, that wind Is host.
My little eratt sails not alone j
A thousand fleets from every zona
Aro out upon a thousand seas ;
And what for me wero favoring breeze
Might dash another with the shock
Of doom, upon some hidden rock.
And so I do not dare to prny
For winds that waft me on my way,
But leave it to a Higher Will
lo stay or speed me trusting still
That nil is well, ond sum that Ho
Who launched my hark will sail with me
Thro' storm and calm, nnd will not fall,
Whatever breezes may prevnll,
To land me every peril pnst-"-
Withln His sheltering heaven nt la.t.
Then whatsoever wind doth blow
Some heart is Kind to have It so.
And blow it east or blow it wept. ' -The
wind thnt blows, that wind Is best,
--Woman's Record,
HUMOR OF THE RAY.
A good dresiug down Swan's
You usually love people bocauso yotl
do not know them. Atchison Globe.
A tree seems more polito in winter
because you can see' ita boughs, Ga
zette. The best "quarter-back" The one
returned by the man t(? whom you
lent it. Chicago Record.
Jagson says hot water will dissolve
almost everything, including a busi
ness firm. Elmira Gazette.
Stranger "Who owns this store?"
Oflieeboy "Tho boss says I do, but I
don't. " Detroit Free Press.
I aked a gay chrysanthemum
What mado her flourish po :
She answered, looking frolicsome;
"I get such lots of show !"
-Puclf.N
.Tones "Does Dnubre paint for a
living?" AVright "I should say not,
to judge by his pictures." Now York
Times.
"No," she exclaimed with emotion,
"I can novcr forgive yon, but but
I will try to forget you." Boston
Transcript.
Tho warlike spirit never dies.
Iu pence "tls present just the same;
When Nations know no enemies
Their youth will brave the football Rnine.
Washington filar.
Mis. Brown-Jones "So he married
you after all?' Mrs. Brown-Smith
"Yes, after all I had, but he didn't
get it. "Truth.
To borrow money is to borrow
trouble, nud somo men find it a good
deal of trouble to borrow money, too.
Somerville Journal.
A New Jersey exchango urges the
use of the spring trap in dealing with
thievish tramps. It's a snappy arti
cle. Philadelphia Ledger.
'I have lost my heart," he whlsperod.
Gazing in her lovely eyes :
But the maiden coldly answered.
"Why don't vou advertise V"
1'ich Ma Up.
Professor Garner says ho can tell
what monkeys s-iy to one another.
But who wants to know that? There
is too much talk of that kind already.
Chicago Tribune.
He "Was tho Suddenly elope
ment a success?" She "Hardly ; her
father telegraphed them out AVest to
stay where they were nnd all would bu
forgiven." Brooklyn Life.
Police Magistrate "Havo yon ever
seen tho prisoner at tho bar?" AA'it
ness "Never, your Honor; but I've
seen him when I strongly suspected
he'd been ot it." Tit-Bits.
Columbus was considered a great
Italian because he made an egg stand
on eud, but nowadays Italians think
nothing of having c, peauut stnnd ou
tho corner. Buffalo Times.
Thero was a young nvui la Hellairo,
Who said. 'When I w.is at the fuiro--"'
Ho they Jumped ou his neek
Aud left him a wreck,
With his heels stickim; up iu the aire.
Indian ipolis Journal. .
"You seem to bo a-frayed," ob
served tho tlat-ii on. 1 hat s because
I am hard pressed," retorted th
collar, st.irehily. And the ironing
board got hot under tho collur. Chi-
i-uifo Tribune.
A fitio collection of fossils formed
by her father has been given to Cam
bridge University (England) by Mrs,
Monro of Beurdley. Several interest
ing specimens arc s1ul at huge on this
side. Philadelphia I.edner.
Oflieeboy "I'll get even with the
old suoozer for not letting mo off this
afternoon." Janitor - "What can you
lo?" Oflieeboy "Every crank, book
agent and bum that comes will go
straight iu. " Brooklyn Life.
Crusty Old Gentleman "A'oursing-u-,
Miss Taylor, is like attar of loses
." Miss Taylor (with a gratified
smile) "Oh, vou nro too flattering."
Old Gentleman continuing) "A littlo
of it goes a long way." Tit-Bits.
Teacher "Who can teil mo what
useful urtieln wo got from the whale?"
Johnny "Whalebone." Teacher
"Kight. Now, wh'it little boy or girl
knons whet wo get from the seal?
Tommy--"Sealing wax." -ibicket.
"Mr. Smartly, " said the professor
iu tho ttetrouomy clu.-, "how far
should we let ourselvo:: be guided by
t he t heoi ies of Copernicus?" "As to
that," replied Mr. Smartly, "I should
prefer to iii'.riist so important a de
cision entirely to you, jur. "--Chicago
F.eoord.
' I have see l somo pretty ignernt
people umunx tho summer boarders
my wife takes every ycur," said old
Mr. Jafou, "but they ain't never none
f them up to th't yuimg wutuun thet
wanted to know if apple butter wu:'.
made from feodiu' apples to the cows."
- iudiuuiipolis Join uul.
Ths btit whispering gallery is iu
the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in
London. , .........