COST OF ROYAL YACHTS. ENORMOUS SUMS LAID OUT FOR THEM IN THE OLD WORLD. Examplen lu Itcc*nt K us*J an ItotiU—Five Million Dollara Expended for Two Yachts, One of Which Was Never Used—England's Ontlays anil a Protest Against Them. Admitting the impedance in a country which has a monarchical form of govern ment that tlio splendor and dignity of the sovereign should be maintained. The London Daily News remarks that '"there are extravagant as well as reasonable methods of maintaining all the splendor and dignity that may be desirable, and few people who give themselves the trouble of inquiring into the subject will be found to deny that an enormous amount of money has been needlessly wasted in connection with royal yachts. Great Britain is far from being the Dnly country in which such wasteful ex penditure has occurred and is occurring. Russia is a great transgressor in this re spect. The late czar already possessed half a dozen capital yachts when lie gave orders for the building of the notorious Livadia. She was to be the largest and most magnificent as well as the most original yacht in the world. Unlike all other vessels of the kind, she was to bo constructed with a beam equal to two thirds of her length, so that she might not roll, and the imperial family might be spared the horrors of seasickness. She was to be supplied with three screws so that she might lie handy as well as fast. And upon her spacious deck was to be built a veritable palace. The plans were carried out, and the Livadia was launched at Govan in 1880. EXTRAVAOANT CZARS. Probably no one knows what she cost, but it is certain that from first to hist considerably more than £500.000 was expended on her. Yet her imperial own er would have nothing to say to her. As a yacht she was a colossal failure, and today she is only useful as a kind of float ing barracks in the Black sea. The pres ent czar is, nevertheless, expending a further £500,000 over a new vessel, which is to be called the Polarnaia Zvezda, and which, should she be a suc cess, will haveall the magnificence, near ly all the size and more than the speed and handiness of the discredited Noah's ark in which his majesty once hoped to take his pleasure. The czar's extravagance does not in jure us. Neither does the yachting ex travagance of the young German emper or, who, although lie possesses in the Hohenzollern one of the prettiest and most comfortable craft, of the kind afloat, lias just applied to his faithful subjects for a grant of money equal to £235,000 in order that he may build himself a new yacht. These examples are interesting to the British taxpayer only because they illustrate what appears to be a very general tendency on the part of the Eu ropean royalties. It is not until the tax payer comes to consider the royal yacht question as it affects him personally that lie experiences any very discomforting shock. Her majesty at present enjoys the use of four yachts and tenders. The yachts are the Victoria and Albert and the Os borne and the tenders, which for all prac tical purposes are yachts also, and the Alberta and the Elfin. The oldest of the four is the little yacht Elfin, which was built at Chatham in 1849, and which is of only ninty-three tons displacement. Sho originally cost £6,168, or about £6B 7s. a ton. The Enchantress, the present ad miralty yacht, is a beautifully fitted craft o£ 1,000 tons displacement, yet her original cost was rather less than £47 a ton. It is clear, therefore, that, at the outset, the Elfin was an expensive bar gain. !Jhe has now been in existence forty years, and, during that period, with out reckoning the wages of the crow and the price of her consumable stores, she has cost an additional sum of over £40,- 000, or, on the average, more than £I,OOO a year, her total cost up to date being about £47,000. It is as if on ordinary citizen had bought a house for £6,000 forty years ago and had since spent £41,- 000, not in abiding to it, but simply keep ing it in repair. The little Elfin at this moment has cost the country over £SOO for every ton of her displacement. COMPARING ENGLISH VESSELS. Next of the four in point of age is the Victoria and Albert, the largest of the royal yachts. She is of 2,470 tons dis placement and was built at Pembroke in 1665. Her original cost, inclusive of in cidental dockyard charges, was £176,820, or over £7l a ton. She, too, was expen sive at the outset. In the thirty-four years which have since elapsed—setting aside as before the wages of her crew and the price of her consumable stores — she has cost, including incidentals, an additional sum of more than £387,000, or on the average nearly £12,000 a year —her total cost up to date being, rough ly speaking, £565,000. As she lies in Portsmouth harbor today she has cost the country about £225 for every ton of her displacement. Third in seniority is the Alberta, which was built in 1863 at Pembroke, and which is of 370 tons dis placement. We regret that we have not succeeded in finding out the exact cost of this vessel. We are informed lliat.it is about £70,000. We believe it to be more; but, accept ing the estimate, we pass on to the fourth and newest of the royal yachts, the Osborne. She was built at Pem broke in 1870 and is of 1,850 tons dis placement. Including incidental charges, her original cost was close upon £134,- 000, or about £72 Bs. a ton. In tho nine teen years that have since expired she haf cost, including incidentals, but ox cln id price of perishablo sir />. r nearly £3,000 a yr ..as, i .crefore, been sunk it of about £153 for every ton oi , .acemont, or some £285,000 in a) .a the expenditure that has been incurred on (he fabric and furniture of the four royal yachts is not less than £060,000. We have good ground for supposing tiiat it is very considerably over £1,000,000. The average expendi ture per ton of displacement lias i con more than £2OO on a total tonnage of 4,683, and the average age of tho four vessels is about 29 years. That a great part of this large sum of £960,000 lias been wasted becomes tolera bly apparent when we examine into the relative cost of other ships. Tho Incon stant is a large iron and wood steam frigate launched in 1863, and is there fore 21 years old. Her displacement exceeds that of all the royal yachts put together by more than a thousand tons. A man-of-war is not, of course, decorated and furnished as a royal yacht is. On the other hand, she has much more wear and tear and contains expens ive guns and machinery such as find no place in a yacht. The original cost of the Inconstant, including, incidentals, was just over £383,000, or under £SO a ton. There lias since been expended on her a little over £172,000, or say £456,000 in all. This represents less than £79 a ton, or very little more than one-third of the cost per ton of the four royal yachts. Tho oldest of our ironclads, the. Black Prince,to take another case, was launched in 1861, and is therefore of approximately the same age as the average royal yacht. She is of 9,210 tons displacement—about twice that of ail the royal yachts—and she lias cost up to date £740,000 in round numbers, or very little more than £BO a ton. Yet in her twenty-eight years' ex istence she has seen a great amount of service, and when we contrast her cost per ton with that of the Elfin—£Bo with £SO0 —with tiiat of the Victoria and Al bert—£Bo to £l2s—or with that of tho Oslxirne—£3o with £ls3—it becomes very evident either that sho is very cheap or that the yachts are terribly expensive. The latter is, no doubt, tho fact and the main reason of it is not far to seek. 1)1(1 the DOB: Ileuson? Billy Lynch tells a story about a dog he used to own in Chicago, which goes far toward proving tiiat a brute can reason. Ho had a fine St. Bernard which was a good retriever, and on Sundays would take him about half a block from his house on Indiana avenue and let him carry the papers home he purchased from the newsboy. One morning it was rain ing, and Billy said he spoke to the dog just as lie would to a child, and told him that he didn't care about walking over to the corner, so he might as well take the nickel and go and get the paper. He wrapped a nickel up in a piece of paper and gave it to the dog, which immedi ately went to the corner and waited for the boy. Billy watched him and saw that he got the paper all right, and was so pleased that the next Sunday he re peated the experiment, and the next Sun day did the same thing. The following Sunday lie overslept himself and was awakened by a scratch ing at his window. Getting up he saw that hi-; dog had come out of the back yard into a little passageway between his bedroom and a neighboring house and was endeavoring to wake him up. Knowing it was Sunday, he gave the do;, nickel and told him to go and get the paper, which lie did. Billy was awake next Sunday, but concluded to see what his dog would do, and, sure enough, it came around to the window and scratched. The next Sunday and the next were tried, and the dog was always on time. Now, whether the dog knew when Sunday came or was aware of the fact by the newsboys beiug more vociferous on these days is not known, but lie was thoroughly tested and would not come to the window except Sun days. Billy thin ks that the dog reasoned; that it would be a hard task for any one to say that he didn't.—Helena (Mont.) Independent. Trittucplanting Evergreen*. During the month of August I wit nessed the transplanting of several hun dred Austrian and Scotch pines, writes Joseph Median in Garden and Forest. The result was the loss of nearly the whole lot. and it was such a surprise to mo that I think the facta in regard to it worth recording. The weather was all that could be wished for, being warm and moist, and the soil was in the same condition. The pines had been growing close together in rows and were from four to five feet high. As they were not as bushy as could be wished, we thought best to prune them in well, and after the transplanliug a man was sent with shears to clip tliem closely. This he did, cutting off all the latest growth, taking from six to ten inches from the branches. Out of 300 plants all were so trimmed except some half dozen, which were pur posely left unpruued to see which would do the better. At that time I confident ly expected that the pruned trees would show the benefit of (lie work. However, they soon began to turn brown, and in the end every one died, while every one of tho few left unpruued are alive today. As soon as it was observed how the matter was going to end another row was set out, unpruned, and all the plants in it are thriving today. No doubt the severe pruning was the cajuse of this failure. AIJ tho younger or active foli age had been cut away, leaving only that which was past its usefulness and which was about ready to drop off. The trees were, in fact, in just the same condition that a deciduous tree would have been if stripped of all its leaves in the middle of summer. It was a costly but a valuable lesson, and one worth putting on record as a warning to others. But He Will ie Con lined. A New Brunswick man has been found guilty of murder while insane, but tho Canadians won't turn him loose to kill somebody else. Ho will bo shut up just as tightly as if his head was level, and given the remainder of his life to "'think it over" and get r. udy. to die. Our cli mate is different, vou know.—Detroit Free Pros . Scuttling A Ship. Inquire y—Pa, what do sailors mean by scuttling a ship? Pa (worried over family expenses)— Tiicy moan, my son, that they put a big hole in it like tiie one which Bridget's scuttle has made in that last ton of coal. -New York Wickly. HON. SAMUEL J. RANDALL. INTERESTING INFORMATION REGARD ING "THE GREAT COMMONER." Ilia liOtitf Record iw u Worker iu Congress. An Incident of His Cuuvumw for the Speak ership—His Love of Domestic Life —A Story of Mrs. Randall. Since July of 1888 the seat of Phila delphia's popular congressman, who has been called the "Great Commoner," has been vacant on account of the serious illness of the incumbent. Mr. Randall was regularly in his seat for twenty-five years, or from the time of his first election in 1862 until his sudden illness in midsummer, 1888. The history of the ailments wltich have unfitted him for congressional duties is intimately con nected with his indefatigable labors as a public man. Mr. Randall was made speaker of the house in 1876-77, at the time of the disputed election ease be tween Hayes and Tildeu, and he con tinued in that position five years, or until 1881, when the opposition had the majority. In the speaker's chair he gained national promineuco as a party leader, and after leaving it ho retained his position as a party leader. Witli his reputation as a worker, public life could not lie a sinecure, and lie devoted all his energies to official work. During the congressional recess of 1884- 35 Mr. Randall made a southern trip, stopping at Louisville and Nashville, and exploring the new Iron developments in northern Alabama. Throughout his ca reer in congress his status was that of a growing man. and he held positions on every important committee, and when ever his party was in power was honored with a chairmanship. For months before his health crisis in 1888 Mr. Randall's physicians advised him of the dangers of overwork, and wanted him to take a long rest. The session was a try ing one, extend iKg? A ing into midsum flnpb ( mer, and he raj/i promised to take a long vacation \A > k 1 after the ad journ y. j men t. Several 1\ * /-v h times during the V session he suf- V/B s fered with hem // jj orrhages, and his work was at ' V / length brought to SAMUEL J. ItANDALL. 11 b T a severe attack on tlie night of July 10. For several weeks following this his case was very critical, and was further imperiled 011 election day by his exposure in going to the polls Lo cast his vote for Cleveland. Mr. Randall's political work will best be remembered by his position on the tariff. He was the leader of the con servative element of his party on this issue, and about two months lief ore he was stricken down in 1888 made his great speech on that question and one that marks his tariff record. Mr. Randall, as speaker of tlie house, ruled witli a heavy hand. An incident of his canvass for tlie speakership shows the character of tlie man, a character that distinguished all his public career. A railway magnate said to him: "Mr. Randall, you want to be s)waiter. It is in my power to elect whom I please, and you know it. Allow me to name a majority of Iho Pacific railroad com mittee and you shall be tlie mac. Will you do it?" "No." "Is that your last word?" "Yea" "Then you will not be speaker," Rut lie was, all the same. Mr. Randall began public life at an early age. He was born in Philadelphia in 1828 and received academic and mer cantile training. He was at the conven tion that nominated Buchanan, and was a city councilman four terms and after ward state senator. As a lneinberof tlie famous Philadelphia "City Troop" he volunteered for a campaign in 1861. and was elected to the Thirty-eighth congress, taking Ids seat in 1863. From that time forward lie represented the only Demo cratic district in Piiiiadelpliia: one, too, that gave Republican presidential candi dates a majority. The principal workshop of the ex speakcr was at his home on C street, Washington, llis offices were filled with documents and papers, with but few books. His clerical work was done large ly by lii.s own hands. He was not a social man and had few intimates. He dined out occasionally, but rarely attended theatre or church. He was sometimes seen out pleasure rid ing, but bis principal recreation was his work and his family circle. Mrs. Randall is the daughter of the late Gen. Aaron Ward, of New York city. An incident of Randall's southern trip of 1884-85 is often recalled bv his Kentucky friends as illustrating the in fluence of Mrs. Randall in the sphere of her husband's public life. It occurred at Winchester, Ky., when, although it was Sunday, two or three thousand people had gathered at the depot to meet the Irain. A brass band was present, and amidst great cheering and drumming Mr. Randall appeared on the rear of the ear and made a speech. Soon the crowd began to call for Mrs. Randall, and the delighted congressman, pleased with all this display of Kentucky enthusiasm, hastened into the car where she sat. "Come, mother," lie said, "just show yourself at t lie car door. People are calling for you. They want to see your face. Just step to the door and liow to them." "Do you know, Sam," she replied— "do you know that this is Sunday, and that it is a wicked and outrageous tiling liioso people aro doing? You ought to bo ashamed of yourself. I shall not go out." Very greatly taken aback, Mr. Randall returned and faced the crowd again. "Fellow citizens," ho said, "Mrs. Ran dall desires m ■ to express her thanks to you for your flattering kindness in wish ing to sr-o her, and to say that she is too ill to appear." Mr. Randall is a man of striking per sonal appeaiunco. Ilii boyish looking face, smoothly shaven, was long con spicuous on Capitol Ilill. His dress was what would be called aid style. That is, he did not change with the fashions, but wore the same cut of garment in 1888 that he did in 1803—a cutaway coat, baggy trousers, low vest, broad shoes and a remarkable full crowned hat. He was a good walker, and when in Wash ington covered the four squares into; veiling between the Capitol and his hoar' in a remarkably short time. This was ilii custom regularly, when not troublac with the gout, of which his dining oj:1 occasionally gave him a touch. Then In: spun rapidly over the car tracks in 15 coupe. His carriage was well knovvti among the capital vehicles. When bar influence was at its height the wags usct! to say, on seeing the famous carriage f the door of any of the departments tl government: "There goes another Philadelphia mnv. into office." Notwithstanding his long and actiil career. Sir. Randall did not acquiror fortune. His home, like all his stCP roundings, is plain to simplicity. THE EISTEDDFOD. Something About the Welsh lUtiNintl Fes tival ii Chicago. The Welsh "Eisteddfod" held in Cen tral Music hall, Chicago, Jan. 1 and 2, was one of many recent revivals on American soil of an ancient institution of Wales, the musical and literary congress. The only one held in Chicago previous to this one was in 1881. Since that time Chieago Welshmen have competed in the exercises at Racine, Wis., where the congresses are held almost annually. They are also held at Utica, N. Y., and at Pittsburg. The original "eisteddfod" was the national bardic congress of Wales. The object of the American congresses is to revive old memories, renew social ties, and show recent prog ress in national literature and music. POWELL, JONES. At Chicago competition for prizes was open to the world, and several produc tions came from the mother country. The competitions were for soloists, choirs and bands. The prize for the main choral contest was SSOO. The concert programmes were conducted principally by W. E. Powell, W. Ap Madoc and Professor J. P. Jones. Professor Jones, whose production, "Unto Thee, O God," was in competition, lias been the con ductor of the Welsh Musical Union of Wisconsin for twenty-five years, lie won' the principal prizes at Racine in 1858. Among the choirs represented at the Chicago "eisteddfod" were the Western Avenue Choral union, the Scottish chorus, of Chicago; the Root River chorus, of Racine; the Gotner Male chorus, the Mahaska Glee club from Oskaloosa, la., and a chorus from Youngs town, O. The Pullman military band, the South Chicago and the Milwaukee hands played in the band contest. In th • hoi I contest no chorus having less thai,. .iy voices was allowed to sing. A .Mllkj Way. I learned the other day that the big milk supply companies of the city found it necessary to exercise a surveillance over their drivers, hut it has been al ready reduced to an elaborate system. An experienced and dishonest driver can start out with fifty gallons of milk in spected pure at the depot, and from the supply deliver sixty-five gallons, the fifteen gallons accruing to his own profit, and being secured by judicious watering at various points on the route. Before tht> discovery of this practice some of the drivers had a regular run of customers of whom their employers knew nothing. The companies' inspectors now go about the city at random, and, following a de livery of milk, as soon as the driver is gone subject it to an inspection with the lactometer. If it has been watered that driver is discharged, and, by an agree ment with the other dairy companies, ho cannot enter the employ of any of them. —lnterview in St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. History of the Ilt. No, not the slang phrase, but the bothersome little rodent. Hats are na tives of Asia and their raids westward belong to comparatively modern times. The little animal was unknown in an cient Europ.-. Tie; ! 1..0k rat first cams to Europe from Asia in the Sixteenth century, oed the beginning of the SOT- ..'I :,.!<• 'im ending of the Six teenth century he arrived in America Tlii-. mack rat was the common house rat until the brown or gray rat made his appearance in 1775. The gray rat came to Europe from India byway of Russia, and is n.nv known as the Norway rat from aml -!-ikon tradition that it came from Norway to England, and from the latter country to America.—St Eouis Republic. ?* t . Ildbsou'it Clioio . Mrs. Hcbso-i—l wisli I had something to read Did you get only one Sunday paper? Mr. Ilobson—Yes, my dear, but it is in two part-. ' "Well, let me have one while jou aro reading the other." "Certainly, love. Which half would you prefer, tb political half or the base ball h.i! r .- New York Weekly. You CV nut I!.. Too Speoliic. A f. ntlei.-.-m wad - <1 into a rosinuraut yes: rdr.y d ordered "a dor. -a fried." The wait -I totucl of Pnliteuen*. Old Judge Fernald, of Santa Barbara, has the reputation of being the politest man in California. lie never loses an opportunity to doff his hat or to offer some slight attention to wayfaring men and women. One day, as he was about to take the train for San Francisco, he reached the rear steps of the last car just as they were approached by a young priest. "After the cloth," said the chivalric judge, stepping back with a courtly bow. "Gray hairs have the preference," re turned the priest, with a splendid wave of the hand. "The church always has precedence," retorted the judge, taking another back ward step, hat in hand. "The church follows in tha footsteps of the fathers," replied the priest, bow ing low and indicating the way to the steps. 'Hie duel of politeness was not half through, neither yielding an inch, when the train pulled out, leaving both bow ing and smiling on the platform.—San Francisco Examiner. Tattunod Algerians. In Algeria every girl born of native parents is tattooed on her forehead be tween tho eyebrows and just at the root of the nose with a cross formed of sev eral straight lines of small stars running close together. These tattoo marks are a dark blue color. Algerian women are also considerably tattooed on the hacks of their hands, their forearms and chests, as well as 0:1 their shoulders, their wrists being especially adorned with drawings representing bracelets and flowers strung together. As a rule, women are the op erators, and it is principally 011 children between the ages ol' 7 and 8 that they have to exercise their art. They use sometimes a needle, but moro frequently a Barbary fig tree thorn. They employ kohl as a coloring substance. It is a kiud of fine powder made from sulphur of antimony, which is also in great re- quest by tlio Algerian xvomeu for the purpose of faeo pointing. —Chicago Her ald. Shooting Caiimbnck. "The only proper way to kill canvas back clucks is to shoot them on the wing as they fly over you. If you are a mu(T you will have lots of sport, and will not hurt the ducks. You will blaze away at them as they fly toward you, which is precisely what I. as a Lover of the species, would best like you to do, unless you are generous and CJ " disposed to' ivide your bag. ' > long as you shoot them in this way only a rare accident will enable you to do • harm to the beautiful crea tures. j'ltev wear a breastplate of feath ers which is practically impervious to shot. If you are a sportsman you will let thrt:' (!\ over, and shoot them as they rececV "T! • t.'t that the ducks fly high and are vc y swift of wing renders it diffi cult t kill (!: on the wing at all, and as v few i.ie.i are really good shots, reioi! 1 'tail b;. the majority to such 'blir ■ hooting as is p rmitted Bat teries are, of < ;rs", forbidden, and so are sue: I; bo:: d the like, i'-ut it is perniill- '.tot half skilled sportsmen to build blinc reeds along the shore and to shoot i ta behindilient wh-ntlie duck.: 'i wi bin ran In this sort e: very little 1 .rin would be dm, : / the tact Unit tlu- canvas back is I; ha curiosity urpussiug that < ! a "If I. ■-■ , anything in motion cti the shore v , mil ! ci i s not understand, no com-i : i i ; rtt-l nee will rc train hitu from ddlin; tit, once towards it, regard!. of all danger, and tlio duck shooter tal, • advantage of this 1 y train ing lit'.'-' d' to run about in a frisky, absurd 1 i ion in front of the 'blinds' when do nr.; in sight. As soon as the dirts: . what is going on tlio whole flock n .ikes for the shore,and the sports men can : ooi t at what range they will. —Philadelphia Record. OREGON'S WHITE WOLF. ' DESCRIPTION OF A BATTLE BETWEEN WOLVES AND ELKS. Sevoral Ruaelier* or Southern Oregon start Out on a Hunt After t!ic Marauder* of • Their Shepj, Flock* ami Moot Willi an Kx-*j rlt.int; Adventure. Tito owners of the large sheep ranches! in the vicinity of Linkville, Ore., have! been so much annoyed by the depreda-l tions .committed by the white wolf inf their herds that a grand hunt for these daring marauders was organized. The white wolf of southern Oregon is the fiercest anitnal—not even excepting the bear—to be found in the country, and is a formidable looking boast, often at tank ing five feet in length and nearly as largeS as a yearling calf. His strength and* ferocity arc remarkable, and his courage undaunted. Knowing liirn to bo a rather tough cus tomer to tackle at close quarters, the hunting party, which const-ted of half a dozen of the neighboring stock owners and a correspondent of The Independent, went thoroughly armed against him with hunting knives, revolvers and rifles. The cunning of the animal in evading pursuit is incredible, and after chasing a couple all night we found ourselves no nearer than before, so just at daybreak a halt was decided upon and breakfast was eaten under tin immense pine growing in a narrow glen between two rocky crags about a quarter of a mile or a little more in length and through which a little shal low stream trick led over a pebbly bottom. We kept as quiet as possible, for then tracks of different animals in the sandy banks of the stream showed that it was a frequent resort of wild beasts, and sure enough before the meal was finished we felt the ground begin to tremble under the tread of an approaching band of some large animals. Quick as thought we had dispersed and taken up stations about two hundred yards apart in the underbrush, which was denso enough to conceal us completely, and yet admit of us getting a good view of the game. We had scarcely time to freely breathe before the lower growth of trees closing the entrance of the little vale parted and the form of a huge elk appeared, advanc-]' ing proudly toward the stream we had just left. A nobler looking creature' than the elk found on the Pacific coast, with his stately antlers, such as the hunters of the eastern states have no conception of, and his dainty tread and sensitive nostrils, cannot well be im agined. The line fellow I have spoken' of advanced cautiously, snifHng the air with the excitement of suspicion, but he had already passed our most distant out post, so, apparently thinking return equally hazardous, he brushed forward and was followed the next moment by a herd—one, two, six, ten —it was im possible to count them. But before our rifles could lie brought to the shoulder a new actor appeared on the scene. A white wolf, quite six feet in length, and the largest the writer of this article ever saw, came howling from the belt of small timber already spoken of, howling frightfully, and sprang on a fawn drinking near its mother, which screamed loudly as the woif bore it to' the ground. This seemed to be the sig-' nal for the rest of the baud to appear,' 1 and they came yelping down the glen in' pairs and threes, their bloodshot eyes] and gaping mouths, with smoking, 101 - j ing tongues, proclaiming that they were hungry. Inspired by the same feeling ■ of curiosity to see what would come of the wolves during the attack every man i forbore to interfere and quietly watched the combat that ensued. For the elks, which had at first scarce ly seemed to comprehend the intentions of the wolves, soon collected themselves, j and, tossing their great heads, began to paw the earth with their fore feet, mak ing the air resound with their wild and ; furious bellowing. They formed a circle about the wolves that i •! crowded around the body of the pi • T .'e fawn j and presented to them a form fable ram-, part of bristling heads. The; circle nar rowed and narrowed until it completely I inclosed the wolves, that now began to realize their dac;: r. for they'! ft their, prey, plunging forward !.t ah . r with snapping jaws and sijitfi:.)- in a fright ful manner that revealed their sharp,, gleaming teeth. ISut their fee cious on slaught was received on ilie lowered ant lers, that in turn struck at them and sent tlieiu howling back for a few moments, but only to roturu again to the attempt to break through the bristling wall of their antagonists. This performance was repeated again '.and ngain, the elks elos- , iug together nearer and nearer at each repetition, until they finally assumed the offensive altogether and be gun to attack the wol vex with hoof and horn. For a few minim - the scene was ono resem bling pandemonium. Th plunging and leaping of the maddened trapped wolves •and the ady vi ing and striking of the bodies of the door, with howls of pain intermingled v. iih the shrieks of rage and fearful snarling, mado it an occasion never to bp forgotten by any who were present. As one of the wolves, making a desperate dash for liberty, broke at last from th'.. circle and fled down the valley, Mr. T , who was my nest neighbor in the brush, sent a shot after him, but it was apparently without effect, and was likewise wholly unnoticed by the elks. In half an hour the combat was ended, and the fury of the elks being appeased —as it might well have been, for they had killed the hi f cue of tho wolves— they withdrew so that wo could sec tho torn and bin ding bodies of tho wolves that lay i altered about tho dead fawn. Tho dec r'• an now to betray their old uneasinc• • a' . hidden presence, and wc, judging it was timo to have soma sport m our < ..-it behalf, sent a volley of shot into them. Three of tho beautiful, stately creatures fell plunging to the ground in the death agony.—Helena (Mont.) Enterprise. liuiio I>y lluiul. She (dotes on art)—Do you draw? lie—Well, that depends on the cards I get. —Philadelphia Inquirer.