TWO IN A SINK HOLE.
A KENTUCKY PRINTER NARRATES A
THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Willi Pollowlnf the Call ef HI raltfcfnl
Dot He M With a Mishap tm a Dark
olt With a rierce Wild Heart Th
E.rape aod Reeoffiltlon.
Pretty ninch everybody In the crowd
bad told story of tbe Ron or dog or
flihpulo eacpt printer who looked
about as much lilt a hnnter or fisher
loan m he did like an angel.
"Iff your torn now, Muggins," laid
the reporter.
"I never hunted anything but board
ing hoaxes over in Brooklyn," he snld,
With a wan and dodging kind of air, ai
if people threw thing! at him whenever
be tried to tell a itory.
"fiat before yon came hero 1t whnt
we wnnt to know abont," pat in ev
eral, "and you've either got to toll a
tory or pay for the drinks every time
anybody else tell one."
He moved abont nneuiily and punned
hit choir bnck from the tabic, drawing
It close up again immediately and filial
ly renting hi hand clasped on the board
in front of him.
"Well, gent," be enid with the wan
and dodging look still in hii eye, "let
me think a minute. Before I came here
I lived in Chicago, whore I wai hunted
instead of hunting. Before that I wai
in New Orleani, where I only hnnted a
Job. Before that I wa in St. Paul,
where I was hunting a warm place all
the time. Before that I lived in Boston,
where it was too frigid to hnnt, and be
fore that, quite a long time before that,
I lived in old Kentucky, and, gents, I
did hunt there. Nothing but a coon,
mebbc, or a fox or a possum or as little
as a squirrel or only a dove in the dusty
road, but it was finer than anything on
earth.
"I was only a boy, and perhaps that
had something todowitb it, but I didn't
know any different then, like I do now,
and it was just the finest on earth and
no mistake." And bis wan face lighted
up as if he were looking through the
open gates of paradise. "I recolleot I
bad a dog that was considerable of a
hunting dog, but he was an nnrcstless
kind of n oass, and when be treed any
thing he wonld do a lot of barking at
first, but if somebody didn't come
mighty quick he would give it up and
go moseying along after the neit thing
in sight One night I was out with him
after coons, and about 9 o'clock I heard
him bark like he was over in a clump
of woods abont a half mile away. I
knew I was going to have to get to him
pretty quick if I found bim there at all,
and I started across a field toward the
woods ns fast as I could go. It was
stubble field with sink holes like yon
find all over Kentucky in the limestone
parts, and the place was dark, though
the moon was just beginning to show
above the woods. I was thinking more
about what the dog had than anything
else, and as I wont banging through tbe
field, all at once I seemed to drop off of
the earth and fall into a cellar, and then
I knew I had tumbled into a sink bole.
They are never very deep or dangerous,
and I wasn't afraid of being fatally
hurt, but it took the sand out of me
right quick, and I went down through
the weeds and stuff, not knowing just
what bad happened. Of course I hadn't
much time to think, and when I hit
bottom I bad etill less, for instead of
lighting on the ground or stones or
thicket, I lit on something alive. It was
a wild animal of some kind, I didn't
know what, and I was scared till my
hair began to feel funny on my head.
"When I wont down, I went hard,
and I kind of knocked the wind out of
the varmint at first, hut in a second it
began to yowl and snap and sr arl and to
twist under me and try to get out and
to raise the dickens generally. In the
meantime I was yelling end squawking
and trying to scare the blamed thing,
because I thought it was a wildcat, and
I knew a boy of my size didn't have
any show with a wildcat if the varmint
ever took a notion to fight, and I knew
pretty well that a wildcat wns about as
sure to take a notion to fight as any
thing on earth. I don't know exactly
what I did in that hole or how I did it,
but I remember it seemed about a month
of Sundays that I was all ousted up in
there with some kind of a wild animal,
;and finally tbe thing got from under me
;nd scooted as fast as it could for the
etop of tbe sink hole. I followed after it
;Sts quick as I could, for I became braver
.when I saw it run, and wben Z got up
.-on the level tbe moon had come out,
and I could sea the varmint fairly skin
ning it out for the tall timber. I jelled
at it with all my might, tbongh I didn't
ma .after it very fast, and began to call
my slog. On the second call the varmint
topped, and I began to get ready to skin
out myself, when I got a better look,
and, by the great horn spoon, gents, it
Was my dog. I called him then, and he
wma back to me, and I oould see for
myself chat he had holed something
( down there in the sink, and his barking
had been smothered and sounded away
off to me, and of course when I dropped
in on him unexpectedly like that he
didn't know anything about it, and nei
. cher did I, sad there we was. Ia any
event, gentlemen, " oonoluded the for
mer Corncrnofcer, "that dog come trot
ting back to me, and when we met face
to face in tbe moonlight he sorter look
ed at mo, and I sorter looked at him,
and I don't know wbioh one of ns felt
most like apologising. I do know,
though, we both knocked off for that oc
casion, and on the way borne we took
torn abont sneaking along behind each
ether, ne and the dog. "New York
Sun.
FarUlaa Pagan.
Paris Is threatened with a renaissance
- ef paganism. Several well known litte
' rateura, poets and artists have banded
themselves into a society for the adora
tion of heathen deities. This romantic
fevlval has already caught the Parisian
fancy, and converts are announced v-
HEROI8M IN MINES.
Instance Where Brave Mea Have Risked
Their Uvea to Sava Other.
Never was there a mining disaster of
any magnitude without several in
stances of individual gallantry in sav
ing boys alone, says a writer in Chums.
As a colliery manager said the other
day, "There may be a score of oases of
that kind after a single accident and
nobody be any the wiser. "
"A boy told me onoe," he proceeded,
"that after an explosion one of the men
Who was with bim brought him along
a considerable distanoe in the working.
At last they met the afterdamp. The
, lad was so terrified, so anxious to get
i out, that be wanted to rush through
: and make bis way to the shaft If he
had gone on, he certainly would have
dropped, but the man would not lot
bim. He stopped him by force, and
j though the lad bit and fought like a
I little demon he stuck to him and held
I him near to the ground, so that they
oould breathe. How do you think he
calmed the boy at lastf Sang comio
songs to him. Well, they had to keep
where they were for about five hours,
and then, when the air had got better,
the man started off and brought the
yonngster out safely, though onoe he
was nearly suffocated by tbe afterdamp.
Now, there's a oase that nobody would
hare heard of probably If the lad hadn't
happened to have told me about it "
As an lnstsnoe of heroism in this di
rection that is known, however, I re
call a story I heard near tbe batik of the
Hyde pit aftsrtbe explosion in 1869.
Ton know that the slightest delay in
flying for the shaft may mead death.
In the neighborhood of Bolton some
few years ago one man out of a party
of colliers stopped behind for a minute
or so to look for his son, a boy of 14,
who was working olose by. The two
met, but, alas, they perished there to
gether and ware found olaapsd in each
other's arms. And paternal devotion as
thus manifested has oost many a brave
fellow his life.
Well, on the occasion referred to a
man named Haalam brought from the
workings, or mat as be was Marrying
along to tbe pit month, a youth about i
16, and throughout tbe terrible journey
he stuck to the lad with the most heroio
determination. Twice the boy stumbled
and fell, but the noble collier dragged
him to bis feet and urged him to push
on with all speed. Other mishaps befell
them, yet both, I rejoloe to say, gained
the surface alive and comparatively
well '
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Something About Partridge.
Among the habits of the partridge
one is that when a covey Is roosting on
the ground, with their tails buuobed to
gether in a circle, tbe bunch is sur
mounted by a line of watchful heads,
like sentinels on duty. Another is that j
they run the instant tbe ground is
touohed after a "flush," tbe dogs often
trailing them in rabbit hunting fashion.
Their aeuse of smell is evidently very
acute, for during the nesting season, if
the eggs, wbinh number from 10 to 20,
are disturbed in any way or a hand even
Inserted in the nest, it will be immedi
ately deserted and a new one built. A
short time previous to the netting tbe
males are often involved in desperate
combats for the choice of mates, who
stand by and quietly watoh the encoun
ter, aoeming not to care which one be
comes the victor. The incubation is
performed entirely by the female, tbe
malo, when not feeding, often being
perched on some slight elevation, en
couraging her by his mellow toned call
of "bobwhite." Two and sometimes
three broods of young are reared during
a season, tbe nesting beginning as early
as May 1. Later in the full the broods
of young occasionally join forces, but
whether from a want of oonipauy or for
protection is not known.
When feeding, the birds are some
times scattered several yards apart, but
at the first sign of danger an alarm Is
given, and they immediately "bnuoh,"
with their beads placed olose together,
as if in consultation. The first shot into
a oovey will often cause them to break
and fly in all directions, and if not dis
turbed again for several minutes "scat
ter calls" will be heard an every side.
These are mado tooollootthe remaining
birds, who again bunch. Many of the
market gunners seem to have no qualms
of conscience and very often kill with
out hesitation an entire oovey, when al
least one or two pairs of birds should
be left for breeders. Baltimore Sun.
Queetloa ef Adipose.
A criminal lawyer of long experlenoe
at the bar was heard to say the other
day:
"I have made juries in murder oases
an especial study. There are a large
number of men, largor than most peo
ple suppose, who have samples about
finding death as a punishment for a
murderer. I need to make it my busi
ness to study jurymen's faoes and see if
I oould read by the lines whether or not
they had temples abont tbe death sen
tence. I gave this up, though, as being
beyond my power of com prehension.
Later continued study of the jury box
led me to a dlsoovery. That was that
in nine cases out of ten a jury composed
mostly of tall, lean men would, when
the evidence was sufficient, never bave
the slightest hesitation about fixing ex
treme sentenoe. On tbe other hand, a
jury where short, fat men predominated
in number would occupy twice as much
time in finding its verdiot, and when
brought in it would generally be a term
of imprisonment for tie murderer. "
Louisville Commercial.
Tot garaeho.
The following cure may be tried in
oases of severe earache when ordinary
remedies have failed t Get a small quan
tity of dried arnioa flowers and put
them into two small bags. Put half a
pint of whisky into a small sauoepan
on the stove, and wben it is heated dip
one of the bags into it and apply to the
ear of tbe sufferer. As soon as one bag
begins to oool and the steam stops com
ing from it change it for tbe other bas
remtalae SaVrtde.
Statistical tables yield ourlous in
formation to the oareful student. For
Instance, they show that over one-third
of the women who kill themselves are
not yet SO yoars of age. They show that
women take poison, where men shoot
themselves, and they show that the
poor, alok and the infirm are not by
any kind of reckoning in the majority.
A physician who makes a study of at
tempted suicide said this:
"(Jet a girl past SB, and she'll go
through poverty, siokness and dosertion
and misery enough to kill ten men.
The more people suffer the more they
cling to life. I've seen it in hospitals.
It is not the patients with the inourable
diseases or the hopeless cripples who
beg to die, but the young, strong, vital
woman, who bates pain and doesn't
want to suffer It, even for the chance
of getting well. It is a strange thing,
this getting of a girl past 86, bnt not
uncommon. Any physician with a large
family practice will tell yon of a doeen
oases in his own circle of knowledge.
Sometimes it it called pyromonia, some
times kleptomania, sometimes catalep
sy, sometimes hystoria, somotimes foign
Ing and sometimes tantrums it's all
the same thing nothing else to da"
Another physician told of a girl who
committed suicide and who left a note
stating that her reason was that she
was tired of doing the same things over
and over every day. The monotony of
life bad become unbearable) to her.
Philadelphia Times.
Dropping Ball Through the Karth.
"O. H. " of East St Louis asks the
following curious question, "If it were
possible to bore a hole a foot or more in
diameter entirely through the earth,
and to fien start a 100 pound ball to
falling through this 8,000 miles of bole,
at what point would it stop?" In an
swer to this we will say that weight,
In the sense to which our correspondent
alludes, is the measnre of attraction of
gravitation, or, in other words, it is
the measure of force with whioh a body
is attracted to the earth. This attractive
force decreases both ways from the
earth's surface. Therefore If a ball
,hould be started on the tour outlined
in your query its weight would decrease
to a certain extent with every yard of
its flight (or fall), until finally, upon
reaohing the center of the earth it
would have no weight whatever. This
curious state of affairs would be brought
about by the gradual lessening by tbe
force of attraction, or gravitation, until
the center of the globe would have been
reached, at whioh point the ball would
be held in snspension, as though fixed
by numerous magnetio points. In other
words, at the center of the earth the
phenomenon of weight Is entirely want
ing. St Louis Bepublio.
' Making Allowance.
"Confound the boy," heexolaimed as
he opened one of the letters the post
man bad brought and spilled half his
ooffee.
"What is the matter, dear? Look out!
Ton will spoil the tablecloth," remark
ed the wife of his bosom.
"Tablecloth be hanged. It's that boy
Tom. "
"What has he been doing? I am sure
he's getting along finely. He writes me
that he is on the eleven."
"That's all very well, but here I
bave a bill from bis tailor, and I only
paid one last week."
"But look at the nioe set he is in. "
"Yes, but why the mischief doesn't
he economize? Doesn't the young rascal
know the value of money?"
"But ' Tom is so young, dear. Ton
ought to make allowances for him. "
"Allowauoesl For heaven's sakel I
have been making allowances enough
for bim, and I'll stop his allowance this
month," he cried as tie left tbe break
fast room to go to the offloe. Chloago
Times-Herald.
No, IS la Rome.
An observing tourist wbo visits Rome
and walks through the streets is doubt
less surprised that there are very few
bouses bearing the ominous number
18, nearly all the houses that should
bear those figures being marked 13b
or 14a. Nor la the superstition re
garding the fateful 18 absent from sol
eutiflo and phlegmatio Germany, for
the other day a merchant in Berlin ap
plied to the magistrate of tbe distriot
to have tbe number of his shop obanged
from No. 18 to No. 18b. Tbe magis
trate, however, refused to grant the pe
tition. In Frankfort, on tbe other hand,
the owners of buildings bearing No. 18
are allowed to change the figures upon
a simple application to the proper au
thorities. New York Tribune.
Seed Fa Paragraph.
A well known Dublin journalist tells
tbe following aneodotei
One night as a messenger from the
office of an evening paper was passing
along the quays on the banks of the
Liffey he beard tbe sound of some on
Struggling in tbe water.
"Are yon drowning?" he shouted.
"I am," replied a feeble voice from
the water.
"What a pity I" said the lad consol
ingly. "You are just too lata forth
last edition tonight, but oheer up you'll
have a nioe little paragraph all to your
self in the morning." London Tit
Bits. Da Manrler Portrait.
George Du Maurier's last portrait of
himself pictured a man faintly resem
bling tbe author of "Trilby" and pro
vided with the wings of an angel and
the tail and hoofs of something else.
Over it he wrote: "Some seem to think
he's got wings like an angel; some,
that he's got a oloven foot and a forked
tail. He is quite an ordinary little man,
1 aware you."
In heraldry nine different varieties
of tbe crown are recognized as insignia
of rank tbe orientul, the triumphal or
imperial, the diadem, tbe obsidional
crown, the olvio, the crown vallery, the
mural crown, the naval and the crown
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below cost. You will find
some very desirable suits
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AH Underwear Reduced.
It will pay you to buy for
next year. We have a
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sold at a sacrifice. We
need the room for other
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values in
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