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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1857.
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BY BEQOtBT.
iur rmira souo or the last ekdman.
The following poem a written by Rev.
Wm. Hamilton, of the Otoe and Omaha Mis
won. It la based upon the supposition that
the aborigines of this country are t:.e rem
nants of the lost ten tribes of Israel. Mr.
Hamilton having been employed in the Indian
mission service in Nebraska during the last
fifteen years is as intimately acquainted with
the interesting snbfict presented, as he is w ith
the harmonious numbers in w hich it is exhibi
ted to the reader.
I heard, or seemed to Lear, a plaintive strain,
As once I sat retired in some lone spot
And list'.jng,thought I heard a voice complain,
But much of what it said is now forgot,
It seemed to be one mourning; hard his lot,
And from all lov'd on earth was fur away
Oppressed at heart.w ith feeble steps lie sought
Ton shady rock, beside it Kneeled to pray,
Then rising, mid his grief, I thought, I heard
him say :
All desolate I stand ! no friend ! no home !
No place of rest, no shelter for my hend,
Last ol the Redmen, o'er the earth I roam,
Through forests streams by some strange
fancy led ;
The clear blue heavens my tent, the earth
my bed.
Esch day I search one like myself to find.
But cannot, for my kindred all are de;-d,
Ai:i I, an o-phan lone, am left behind,
Ciicerlcss, and shelterless, the sport of cv 're
wind. "Jfr eyes, with longing, seek to rest on one
Whose heart and blood are kindred to my
But those, triumphant lorg,thcir race have run.
And in their turn but reaped what they had
sown ;
Long,ere tbePalcfacc was to manhood grown,
They were the monarch of theWestern world,
But now, tliey steep iu silence I alone
Still linger. Down to death the rest were
hurled,
While o'er their graves float Freedom's fairest
flag unfurled.
"A hundred winters rest upon my head,
.Now white us winter's snow 0.1 Mono's brow,
A hundred summers from my si;;hi have fled.
And left it dim, and I am ready now,
The lust, and strongest of my mcs to bow
ily head in pensive sadness to my fate
Tr no one comforts roe. or tells me how,
Or where to find some fond congenial mate ;
All seem the poor forsaken Indian still to
DATE.
"Our fathers saw the Paleface when he fled,
A lonely exile, o'er the vast blue deep ;
He looked like one returning from the dead
Like one awakened from his lung cold sleep;
Theypiticd him. they told hini not to weep ;
Their arrows caught for him the fleeting fleer.
Unknown, they nourished him, who now
doth sweep
The dark browed Indian from his home so dear,
Till o'er his grave there's none to drop affec
tion's tear.
Once as the stars in number, now we're few ;
Disease hath wasted us, diseases brought
By those whom fondly to our hearts we drew,
And through our kiudnes their diseases
caught ;
Now ad and lonely is the Redman's lot,
The pitied stranger pities not in turn,
Too dearly have we sad experience bought,
Since in thur bosoms fiercer passions hum.
Which make them from their hearts their fellow-creatures
spurn.
"Their hands are many, and where'r they please,
They lay those hands on stream and land
scape wide ;
Call them their own of ri;;ht, by firm decree,
Giv'n to themselves the saints and tears
deride,
Shed by the lonely orphan by his sidy ;"
But Time's kind hand will wipe those tears
away
Ere long the last poor Indi-iii will hurt died ;
Some whisp'nr.g .-i r! t ,st-.-ni s,ni thin Us, to say,
Why dost thou, lonely one, to come to us delay.'
"Thus has it ever been. By Gozan's slicam.
We hung our burps that gave harmonious
sound,
Nor since th.it fatal day .could the sweet theme,
We sung so oft on Zion's Hill, be found.
Those songs have ceased, bongs OI1C9 so
much renowned,
When Israel's Chieftain led in holier strain,
And list'iiing multitudes were gathered round
The victim, which, by Heaven's appointment
Main,
Foreshadowed One to come, who would not
die in vain.
"Our eyes were din) with watching, but we saw
No Prince, like him who led our tribes of
old
Who save from Sinai's Mount, that holy law,
'.Vbicii Ml our present miseries foretold ;
One, who tike him the f uture could unfold,
Whose voice we were to hear.whose word obey.
So long we waited for him, but behold
n5 comes not to redeem us, still wo pray,
Though far from Zion's Mount, wo pas3 our
time away.
But it was just in Hun to cast ns off,
Whose temple on Mount Zion we forsook,
Whose holy ord'nances we made a co!f,
And turned from what was written in His
Book.
Now on that sacred Roll we may not look ;
'Tis lost, and lor bn years we could not find :
It sctiis some judgment dire hath nature
shook,
VThile visions strange oft pass before the mind,
Hope gleams, expires, and O, what a sad wreck
behind !
"Out prophets all have died ; our Jseers gone
God seems in anger to heve shut his ear
Jlnd still that day,they spoke of.does not dawn,
That One comes not, whoso voice wo were
to hear.
O'er artn our tribes were scattered far and
near ;
Forgotten too that Rest we once enjoyed.
NewMoousand Sabbaths.to tho soul sodear;
O, from the Truth, how have we been decoyed,
Until Time's wasting hand hath all our tribes
destroyed.
"No ; there was one that did not Gi l forsake,
That linger'd still when we were led away ;
That tribe did not f Bethel's sin partake,
They to Jehovah did not cease to pray,
And lie protested them, he wa their stay.
The rent were driven far on exiled land,
Unpitied, unprotected. Sad that day,
When for our sins, we from the Promised land,
Were carried by the fierce Assyrian hand.
"But whether now on Zion's Mount they dwell,
Or quench their thirst atKhirons gentle brook,
Or draw their water yet from Jacob's well,
Or ir they stiil preserve God's Holy Book.
Or Ho doth on them with compassion look,
I long to know. Perhaps their Shiloh's come,
And reigns their King while we who first
forsook
His temple,have been doomed on earth to roam.
Without a guide or friend far from our
much loved home.
"O, sad and bleeding is my stricken heart,
For earth encloses what on earth was dear,
All that is left, are dregs of keenest smart,
Dark ! desolate behind ! before all fear.
Long since is dried the fountain, whence tho
tear
Would fall, at times upon my sunbir.nt cheek,
The voice of love 1 never more shall hear,
Since I am last on earth, and old, and weak,
My heart so troubled that I can no longer speak.'
Thus the lone Indian sang, then set him down
In silent anguish, for he could no more
The thought endure, t hat he too should go down
As all his tribes, so peeled, bad done before,
Uncared for by thePaleface triumphed o'er,
By these he sheltered when the storm was wild,
His limbs waxed feeble, and his aspect wore
No longer that sweet smile, as when a child
Sporting on Tanai's banks, he all his cares be
guiled. Hark ! Heard'st thou that deep sigh T now still
he lies ;
Tit !if:irt so full of life tiaj nnnuml tn In. if
! Humbled before his conqueror he dies
An-1 yield his form submissive at his feet
No kindred spirit could he ever meet,
Since in the narrow cell his race was laid ;
Nor did a friendly smile this lone one greet,
His love toothers shown, was ill-repaid,
He died alone, lieart-broken, by false friends
betrayed.
I woke, it was a dream ; there yet is hopo
I cried, O! Christian, haste to rescue those
Who linger still by stream on mountain top.
Nor think them now, as erst.yonr deadly foes,
Lone, desolate and sad the Redman goes.
From place to place, pursued by t lie same hand
That should have rescued him from all his
woes,
And led him to a fairer, better land.
Haste then to help, for now on ruins brink
thev stand.
DOMESTIC RECIPES.
Gateal- de Pomees. Put throe-quarters of
a pound of loaf sugar in a stew pan, with a
pint of water, and when dissolved and ready
to candy, take two pounds of apples pared and
i cored, the peel of a lemon, cliappdl very fine,
j and a part of the juice. Boil it until quite
I still, and put in a mould j when turned out lor
1 use. stick it with blanched almond, uud iut a
rich custard in the dish.
Apple Float. The white of two eggs well
beaten ; add to it, four spoonfuls of sugar, and
six apples stewed, and drained until quite dry.
These ingredients must be beaten along time ;
ad l also a lemon to it. Then make either a
soft or hard custard, and put at the bottom of
the dish, and lay the mixture on tho top. Or
nament with sugar mites.
Crackers roil Tiin Sick. One pound of
flour ; one egg vol beaten ; one tablespoon of
yeast : one tablespoon of cream ; a little suit ;
mix well together with milk to a stiff paste,
and beat them twenty minutes with a rolling
pin, to be rolled in small pieces round, sepe
rately, rcry thin.
Ciiarlks PtDMNO, (fine!) One cup of su
gar ; one cup of sweet milk ; one egg ; one
tablespoon of melted butter ; half a teaspoon
of soda dissoved in the milk ; teaspoon of
cream of tarter sifted through tho flour. Bake
in a loaf, and cat with wine sauce.
Arn.K Prt'DiNO, (delicious!) Ono pound
of apples stewed and strained; one pound of
sugar; six eggs ; one iint of cream ; six oun
ces of butter ; glass of wino, and a little nut
meg. Paste on the bottom of the dish aud
bake like a pie.
Fine Mcfjixs. One quart of milk, three
eggs, t .-aspoon of salt : four tablespoons of
yeast ; Hour to make it itill' enough lor a bat
ter; butler the size of an egg. The milk must
be blood warm.
Conines. Ten ounces of sugar, one quarter
pound of butter, one egg, largo teaspoon of
salaratus, dissolved in two-thirds of a cup of
milk. They should bo rolled very soft.
The Richest Community in the Won lb.
Lo ! The poor Indian ! A day or two since
we had occasion to mention that the result of
the late sale of the Delaware (Indian) trust
lands was $170,000. The lands sold were on
ly those comprised in the . eastern division
of this great reservation. The western divis
ion is now advertised to he sold. That con
tains some SjO.COD acres, and will undoubted
ly bring an aggregate of at least $600,000.
The tribe arc also tho owners of a home rcser
vation almost immediately adjoining Leaven
worth City, forty miles long by ten broad.
That would sell to-morrow readily for $10 per
aero, or an aggregate of $3,000,000. Thus
their total wealth, independent of personal
property and some of them are men of con
siderable means is about $4,070,000. They
number in all some nine hundred souls; and,
from the real estate described above, aro worth
and average of $4,410 per soul, or $22,220 to
e sell family of five persons among them.
C"IIoracc Grcely has lost his only son a
promising lad. Mr. G. reached home, from
his western tonr, 2 hoori sfter his son'sdeath.
From the West Chester Republican.
Tni; SILVER SPRINGS OF FLORIDA.
When the earliest Spanish adventurers land
ed on the islands of the West Indies, and re
duced to their sway the inhabitants of the main
laud of Central America, they found a strange
and remarkable myth among the Aborigines,
from the coast of Honduras to the farthest is
land to the cast ; a myth whose parallel mod
ern research has found only In the rich myth
ology of the Hindoo Vedas, and among the J
Magi of Persia. It spoke of a fountain, called
in the poetic phraseology of tho natives, l)i
mini, or "The Fountain of Life," whose wa
ters possessed the virtue of healing the sick,
rejuvenating the aged, and conferring immor
tality It located this magic fouutain in a
pleasant and genial land to tho northward,
where Florida now lies. Tho origin of this
myth is involved in doubt, but certain it is
from the combined testimony of all the Span
ish historians, that the belief was very preva
lent, that it originated several migrations of
the Aborigines to the northward, whose settle
ments were discovered in the southern coast
of Florida, and that it induced the adventu
rers. Prince de Leon, in 1512, and Fernando
de Soto in 1539, to undertake their ill-fated
expeditions. In default of a better theorv, it
seems not inconsistent with the Indian char
acter to impute this belief to the veneration
of some actual spring, remarkable for some
unusual property, and exaggerated first by the
art of the priests for selfish purposes, and next,
by tho stereoscopic power of time and dis
tance. The Silver Springs of Florida, no less from
their own beauty and strangeness, than Irom
the indisputable signs of a denso Aboriginal
population in their vicinity, such as Indian
mounds, pottery, arrowheads, Kc, I regard
well worthy the dignity of having originated
this widely expanded tradition. This will be
come more evident on an examination of their
beauties in detail. To appreciate them best,
we should approach from the Ocklawaha.
Turning almost at right angles from the dense
cypress swamps that everywhere skirt this
muddy and obstructed river, into a edear and
rapid stream, wo emerge into broad prairie,
clothed in summer with thousands of brilliant
and oderiferous flowers. But the greatest
beauty is beneath us. Standing on the prow
of the barge, I watched with delight the chan
ges in the subaqueous scenery. Now the bot
tom is clothed in long, dark green, reedy
grass, waving slowly hi the current, hero a
sunken log is drapcried in mossy vegetation,
ns thick and as green as ivy, while there, s
bottom of greyish sand throws in bright relief
concentrated arecs of brilliantly white frag
ments of shells deposited upon the lower side
of the ripple marks in tho numerous circular
basins. Far below us, the sluggish catfi.ih bal
ances itself near the bottom, or the swift trout
hastens away, or the sullen alligator stares with
stupid amazement at tho noise of tho poles.
Th-s "run," as it is called, which furnishes
this living panorama, extends for ten miles,
ranging in width from sixty to one hundred
and twenty-five lect, and in depth from fifteen
to fifty. At first sight, the head or basin, from
whence it rises, disappoints. It is in shape an
irregular ellipse, its longest diameter, ranging
N. E., S. W ., about 100 yards, its shortest a
bout M0.
The east side is bordered by an open cypress
swamp, while on the west lies a dense ham
mock, of cypres?, maple, palmetto, ash, gum
and other trees. It is very unlortunato that
the scenery above is so tame compared with
that below. The water has its principal exit
at the north-eastern extremity. Here a sub
aqueous bluff, forty feet high, presents three
cragged ledges of limestone. Between the
lowest ono of these and the bottom is a cave,
the opening of which, as measured by the'eye,
seems about 5 feet by 15. From this gap
gushes the water, w ith force enough to deflect
a common plumb bob several feet from a verti
cal line. On a favorable day, when the air is
still and tho sun is bright, so great is tho de
lusion arising from the clarity of the water,
that ono standing on the bank would hardly
belicvo but that tho whole ledge of rocks
stands out of the water. 1 took with great
care tho temperature of the spring, and from
several observations at various hours of the
day, ascertained it to bo 73 deg., 2 Fah. This
comparatively high heat should not surpriso
us, as it is but little above the moan annual
temperature of tho locality.
Tho next point was to detcrmino as near
as possible the amount of water given forth.
The data obtained on the spot I have since
worked tip according to the formulas of Buat,
and after making all possible deductions for er
rors unavoidably arising in such a calculation,
tho result is that it ejects 8-0 cubic feet per
second, at least 400,000,000 gallons per day.
It is impossible for tho human mind to grasp
such an anay of figures, but with a different
unit it will be comprehensible. It is calcul
ted that ancient Rome, in her most flourish
ing period consumed 190,000,000 gal. water
per diem, that London now uses about 40,000,
000, and New York, SO.000,000, in the same
lime, so that this ono spring would supply all
these and yet have a stream as large as tho
Croton acqueduct besides, or would furnish
10 Londons, or 13 New Yorks, at once.
Where now does this vast mass come from 7
The question is not so difficult as it may ap
pear. To answer it we must examine the geol
ogy of the country.
The rocks from whence it springs aro a rot
ten limestone, locally called sandrock, which
belongs to what is called tho local formation.
This Is honey-combed by innumerable caves
and avenues, many of them filled with water,
and in fact there are strong reasons lor believ
ing that th-j w hole of middle Florida is a pla
teau supported by enormous arches and pill
ars above a vast subterranean lake. Some
times this cru t breaks, and a tract of forest
will sink and bo replaced by a lake, into which
numerous rills will run, be received, but never
visibly emerge. Such is Orange Lake, in Al
achua county, Alligator Lake to the north, and
numerous ponds throughout all portions. Sil
ver Springs may be very naturally supposed
to beau outlet of this lake, and though there
are some objections to this theory, it is proba
ble they will disappear on more accurate inves
tigation. Such aro the Silver Springs, an object will
worthy of a visit from the curious, aud deser
ving of a more thorough investigation in a sci
entific point of view than I was able to give it.
It is unfortunate that the means of access to it
arc so restricted, the nearest stage line run
ning 7 miles distant, and the journey up the
Ocklawaha anything but pleasant to him who
regards casti in travelling. I).
Ladies Don't Read This! A "Disbanded
Volintair," stopping a few days at "Sent Nich
olas Hotel," New York, writes to the editor of
the Sunday Times concerning the present
fashions of the "wimmen," as follows :
When I foot it throo Broadway, or take a
"buss up that interesting buliward I alius thank
Providence that, when I writ to you from Cal
ifornia, tor a helpmeet, you dident fulfill the
order. Ide sooner marry a dry goods winder,
a jewelry store, and coopering establishment,
than one of them mixtures of figured satin,
dimiud rings, and .halebone, you call a fash
ionable bell. Somewhars in every circumfer
ence of silk, velvet and cetery, that riggles a
long Broadway, t liars alius a wumen, I spose,
but how much of the holler is filled with meat,
and how much is gimmon, the meer spectatur
ken never no. A poor feller marries at site,
and finds, when it comes to the pint, that he
has nuthen in his arms but a regular anatomy.
Ef men is "gay decevers," wot's to be said of
a female that dresses for a hundred and forty
weight, but hain't really as much fat on her as
wouldgreasc a griddle all the apparent plump
ness is only cotton and whalebone.
line told that hoops is beginning to be made
with jints so that at theatures and concerts, a
fashionable lady can bhet np her skerts like a
parrcsol, and give tho crowd a chance. This
will be a partikler blessin to the mail race,
speshly in stages. Ef all the world was actilly
a stage, as has been fablusly oss rted, it
wouldn't more'u accomniydato all the fashion
able wimmen in thur present habillyments.
The ruder sect would hcv to take a deck pas
sage on the ruf of the vehikel.
C7"Qnecn Victoria's loyal subjects in New
foundland are in a commotion, in consequence
of the Home Government proposing to trans
fer the fishery privileges of that province to
France. The Legislature and tho press are
indignant at this flagrant attempt to deprive
tho colony of its most "natural and sacred
rights," and which act, they allege, would
"sever the tie which has hitherto bound the
colony to tho parent State." This "tic" ap
pears to have been a fishing line. It will soon
be a sub-marine wire cable, which will not be
so casilv broken.
The Turkish soldier marches to meet tho
foe w ith the same nonchalance ns ho smokes
his pipe. Ho is taught from his birth that the
moment of his death is fixed, and that a whole
charge of artillery aimed at his heart would
mis him, if destiny had decreed his time not
come. Ho is taught also that he will go
straightway to Paradise the moment of his
death. With both these ideas, ho is so fully
impressed, that no danger moves him, and he
lies on his death-bed as calmly as on a bed
for sleep.
CirTat was hungry, and got out of the cars
for his refreshment. Tho cars very thought
lessly went on without him. Pat's ire was up.
"Ye spalpeen !" he cried, starting on a run,
and shaking his fist as he flew after the train.
"Stop there, ye old stanic wagin ; ye murther
in stame ingine ye'vo got a pastengrr aboard
that' left behind !" The "stame-ingine" was
relentless and the passenger "aboard" that was
"left behind," had to stay behind.
I.i the melancholy Bartholomew massacre,
in France, for three days every Protestant who
could be found was put to death. By order of
the king, Admiral do Coligny was murdered
in his own house, but Merlin, his chaplain,
concealed himself in a hay-loft. It is recor
ded in the acts of the next synod, of which he
was moderator, that though many in similar
circumstances died of hunger, he was suppor
ted by a hen regularly laying an egg near his
place of reluge.
Life is a romance which most young ladies
would lika to begin by reading the third toI
umo first as it is the ono that gonerally con
tains th marrisff.
SERVING A SUBPOENA
On LOVE VS. LAW.
It is singular what shifts love will make lo
accomplish its objects. Bolts, gates and bars
aro of little avail against Cupid's picklock con
trivances his cunning w ill devise ways and
means to open them all. A young gentleman
has courted a fair lady of this city, and it was
supposed the two in time would 'become one.'
Some little qnarrel of a trivial nature, as lovers'
quarrels generally are, occuired. Neither
would confess the wrong to be on their side
presents and correspondence were mutually
sent back, and the match was broken off. The
young gentleman immediately started off for
New Orleans, to enter into commercial busin
ess, thinking that distance would lessen the at
tachment he really felt for the young lady.
When a woman is injured, or thinks she is
injured, by the one she loves, she is more apt
than the male sex "to bite off her own nose,"
as the saying is, to inflict pain and be reven-J
god on the offending object. A gentleman
that the young lady once rejected renewed his
proposals and was accepted within a week af
ter her old lover had embarked for the south.
On reaching New Orleans he found that dis
tance, instead of weakening his attachment,
only made the lady dearer, and he became
melancholy and low spirited. The first letter
he received from New York, from a friend of
bis, announced that this old flame was shortly
to be married to another. His course was
quickly determined ; the next morning saw
him on board a packet ship bound to Gotham.
The passage unfortunately was long, and
tho poor fellow chafed and fretted so much
that the passengers began to think him deran
ged or elee a fugitive escaped from justice.
The instant the vessel touched the w harf lie
darted for the ofiice of his friend the lawyer.
It is to be supposed the latter was much sur
prised to see liis friend, imagining him a coup
le of thousand miles away. After tho usual
salutations he exclaimed .
"My dear fellow you are just in time to sec
the wedding. Miss , your old sweat heart
is to be married this morning at 11 o'clock.
To tell you the truth I don't belicvo there is
much love about it, and that the girl really
thiuks more ol ono hair of your bead than the
fortunate bridegroom's whole body."
Good Heaven ! where is she to be married
in Church
No; at her father's house."
"My dear fellow I I no yes. I have it.
Have you any case coming on in either of the
courts at eleven o'clock ?"
"Yes."
"Then fill up a subsocna with the bride
groom's name. Don't etop to ask any ques
tions. It matters not whether he know s any
thing about tho parties in tho suit. By heav
ens, Julia shall bo mine!"
His friend saw the object at once and prom
ised to carry on the matter. The subpoena
was made out and placed in tho hands of a
clerk to serve on the unsuspecting bridegroom
the instant he was seen to leave his residence.
About fen minutes before eleven, us the soon
to bo happy man was about entering a coach
before the door of his residence, he was served
with the subpoena.
"Can't help it," said tho clerk, on his ges
ticulating about 'not knowing the parties,' 'go
ing to be married,' &c. "We shan't reach
tho hall now before eleven o'clock the cas
is the first on the calender, heavy fine, impris
onment for contempt," ice.
The bridegroom, who was of a rather timid
nature, finally consented, particularly as the
clerk promised to send a friend of his w ho sat
in the cab, wrapped up in a cloak, to the house
of his bride in expectation, explaining the rea
son of his absence. Tho reader can imagine
who this person was.
Eleven o'clock came, but still nobridegroom.
The guests were staring at each other the
priest began to grow impatient and the bride
that was to be, looked pale and agitated, when
a carriage drove up, the bell rang, and "there
he is ! there he is!" murmured many voices.
A gentleman did enter, whoso appearance cre
ated almost as much astonishment as that of
Edgar Ravenswood in the Hall of Ashton Cas
tle, at the marriage of Lucy Ashton, in Scott's
"Bride of Lammermoor." The lady fainted
private explanations ensued between her pa
rent and tho lover and the result was that in
ten minutes after tho two real lovers wero
joined in the sacred bond of matrimony, much
to the satisfaction of all.
The bridegroom that was to have been, af
terwards made his appearance, puffing and
blowing. What he said, and what he did, on
beholding his rival and being made acquainted
with the condition of affairs, was really tragi
comical. The story of tho subpana shortly after leak
ed out, and has created so much amusement
that the poor fellow declares ho will sue the
lawyer for $10,000 damages in subpoenaing
him as a witness in a casa of which ho knew
nothing, ami by which he lost a wife. It will
bo a novel suit indeed if he should do so.
Xew York p'pcr.
C7"Tho Japanese aio said lo be tbe only
people who w ill not tolerate the hooped skirts.
These isolated people have tolerated no change
iu dress for; two thousand five hundred years,
although with increased intercourse with "out
side barbarians," they will donbtWs ad"nt
Jl'LES GERARD
TDE LIOS-KlLtER ff AMSEEIA.
M. Gerard was originally a private fn one of
the dragoon regiments of tho French army In
Algiers. He spent ten years In Africa, and,
as he tells ns, watched six hundred nights for
the lion. He had such signal success tn lion
hunting that he was continually sent for by
Arab tribes to deliver them from the destroyer
of their cattle, aud he seems to have been grad
ually drawn into the sole business of killing
lions ; a business, however, for which he never
would accept any remuneration whatever. H
was a genuine hunter, and a natural death shot.
Of his first encounter with the lion Mr. Ge
rard remarks : "The heavy roar of the- lion
sounded in the ravine below. I was so wilJ
with delight that I sprang Into tho woods to
run straight to tlu lion, followed by my two
comrades. When the sound ceased I paused
to wait. Bou-Azlz and Ben-Oumhark were
close on my heels, pale as two spirits, and ges
ticulating to each other that I had gone mad.
In a few- moments more the lion roared again,
about a hundred paces distant, when I rushed
foi ward in the direction of the sound, with the
inipetuosi'y of a wild boar, instead of tho pru
dence of a hunter.
"In a moment more I heard heavy steps on
the leaves that carpeted the wood?, nndtli9
rubbing of a large body against the trees that
bounded the clearing. I knew it was the lion
that had risen from his lair, and was coming
right to where we stood.
"The lion slowly approached, and I could
measure with my senses the distance that sep
arated us. Now I heard his steps now his
rustling against the trees and now his heavy
and regular breathing. I stepped one or two
paces farther forward, toward the edge of tho
opening, where he was to come out, to have as
clcsc a shot as possible. I could still hear his
steps at thirty paces distant, then at twenty,
then at fifteen, and yet I was all the while a
fraid lest h" might turn back, or in some man
ner avoid me, or that my gun might miss fire.
What if he shculd turn aside ? What if h
should not come out of the woods 1 With ev
ery new sound my heart bent in heavy throbs
with the intoxication of hope. Now nil th
life in my body rushed t'-irough my veins; then
again my very life was stilled by the emotion.
"The lion after a momentary pause, that ap
peared to me an age, started .again, and Icocid
see the slende tops of a tree, whose base h
brushed, trembling as he passed almost within
sight. Now no more barrier between me and
him but the thick foliage of a single tree.
But still the animal did not show hinisrif, and
I began to fear lest he should have the instinct
of my presence, and, instead of walking slowly
out, would clear the mastic tree with a sin felt
bound.
"As if to justify my fears, he commenced
growling, at first with two or three guttural
sighs, and then increasing to tho full force of
his voice. There in the sc'eiun- fjiest Ol a
thicket from whence are coming roa:s that
would drown the roll of the thunder, I thought
of my single bail to hurl against a Joe thpt has
tho strength of a hundred men iu his 6ingl
nrm, and that kills without mercy when he is
not killed himself.
"When I heard tho lion making his last
steps, I moved a little to one side. His enor
mous head came out from the Iene foliage,
as he stepped with a commanding grace izio
the light of the open glade, and then he halt
ed, half exposed, half concealed, while liis
great eyes dilated on mo with a look of aston
ishment. 1 took, my aim between the eyo and
ear, end pressed the trigger. From that In
stant, until tho report of the piece, my heart
absolutely ceas-.-d to beat. With the explosion
of the gun, the smoke shut out everything
from my view, but a long roar of agony at aim
ed my ear, and frightened tho forest.
"My two Arabs sprung to their feet, but
without moving from their places, I vr ited
with one knee ou tho ground, and my poinard
in my hand, until the smoke that obscured th
view should dissipate. Then I saw, gradually,
first a paw and, heavens 1 what a paw for
living beast then a shoulder, then the dishev
eled mane, and at last the whole liu:; stretched
out on his side w ithout sign of life.
'Beware! don't go near him!' shouted
Bou-Aziz, as he threw a largo stone at the
body ; it fell on its head and bounced 'Q t the
lien teas dead ! That was the evening of the
eighth of July, ISM.
"Without giving me time to approach my
prize, the Arabs sprang upon nit like two mad
men, and I was nearly thrown dow n and crush
ed by their transports of joy and gratitude.
Atter me, it camo the lion's turn f and they
overwhelmed him with recriminations and
blow. and then from time to time fired their
guns in tho air, to spread the glad tidings to
the distant douars. After they had leaped,
and gamboled, and hurrahed over the auimal,
I was permitted to draw near him, and cx-ai-ine
him at my case, to look at the size of his
teeth, to measure the strength of his limbs,
and place n y hand on his tawny mane. I had
no difficulty in recognizing hi-a by the Arab
description of the rtntrabU."
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printer wide him air "Mot. rTspfiiijKj V
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