A woman hits at Inst choked to
death from putting hairpins In lief
month, but probably all the other wo
men will go right ahead with thesatna
mad recklessness.
A revolution has jnst taken place in
Bolivia, by which tho Liboral party,
which stands for internal improve
ments and modern institutions, has
come into power, and great strides to
ward bettor things are uow looked for
lu that country.
Tho Kev. Dr. Combs, of Kansas
City, Mo., in tho course of a sermon
rnrcutly, protostod against tho giving
of "foreign" names to our parks,
ponds, buildings anil so on. "Wo are
jdtogether too willowy in onr attitudes,
national and civil," tho Doctor pro
tests, "and tho sooner we get over il
tho better
Tho experimental and tho practical
go hand iu hand in funning. Kvory
true furmor must bo looking for sug
gestion, constantly, and also with a
tike persistence ho should be making
trials. Indeed, if his mind is activo,
be must do theso things. Thus he
Htrongthens his foundation and makes
it solid for every superstructure iu
practice.
One means of gaining happiness,
contends a writer in tho Ladies' Hdnie
Journal, is the art of laying aside in
the evening all the work and duties of
the day. Every person ought to have
' Homo simplo evening inversion as a
rolaxtiou, even if it is ouly tho
pleasure of haviug a good magazine
to read aloud, or some topic of in
terest to dismiss, or some simple
pleasure to sharo with others.
TUoro is a bright Chicago woman
who says that "the Brooklyn School
of Literature is dovoted exclusively
to tho care of children, and domestio
hygieue." That was intondod to bo
cutting, but it is a compliuiont. Tho
Chicago Hchool of Litorature is chiefly
devoted to the psychology of what
are kuown in tho South as "Suudown
Wives." Surely bread without alum
and children who got daily baths are
the more agreeable, and probably tho
more useful topio ol the two.
A shepherd of the people, who is
called tho Tie King of New England,
has founded a sanitary pie, " made
nndor sanitary conditions " and war
ranted to be "perfectly digestible."
Suoh a pio may win the favor of weak
lings ami valetudinarians, but the born
eater ot pio, the allotted bondsman of
pio, will scarcely condesceud to tho lev
el of perfectly digestible pie. Tho little
touoh of donbt and danger is tho ro
mantic charm of pio. The timid bouI
may weigh out his diet and foci hit
pulse when be consumes a crackor.
The nature worthy of great pio il
above such scruples. A pio of gouius
is worth a twinge or two. From the
pio founder the brave expect not safety
but skill.
It is true we are an inventive peo
ple, and much of our success is due
to this fact; though it is open to ques
tion whether we have not profited
equally by onr quickness to adopt the
best inventions of others wherever
they may originate, and carry them
with a rash to their full development,
observes the Soienti&o American. The
locomotive, the possibilities of the
stoam railroad, the bicycle, the Bess-
.emer pi;qcs and all the heavy trades
that have sprung from it, roceived
their full exploitation in this country.
We rarely undertake the manufacture
of an article without making it first
cheaper and then better than our com
petitors; and tinlike them we enlarge
: our facilities so as to keep well ahead ol
the demands ot trade, being ready to
sell from atook a locomotive or even a
bridge, it the necessities ot the case
demand it.
, i - . 1
The ancient and picturesque town
of Mayence, or Mainz, ou the Rhine,
will be made exceptionally picturesque
within a few months, beoanse of tbt
gayeties and spectacles attendant on
an exhibition designed to celebrate
the 600th birthday of Qntonberg, a
native ot that place, aud the inventor
of printing in Europe. Printing, like
powder, had been invented in China
long before, but the relations between
Europe and the Flowery Kingdom in
those days were too slight even to bt
atrained, and Gutenberg, Faust and
their contemporaries are to be eredited
with the creation of an art. At all
events, books were not made for the
, general reader in civilized oountriei
until they had set the example. So
in Jane there will be illurainatious,
prooessions, deooratious and a Guteu
berg museum will be founded. The
exhibition will comprise a historical
eection, a section devoted to graphlo
arts, and machine section, to which
all the world has been invited to con
tribute.
CIVS MB MY DREAMS.
By A, t. Watorhonse,
(live ms my dream. Atl else Is nniigtit
At price o( pain auoftpss Is boimbtj
We triiRRlfl upward but to full;
The prlr-A ws irrasp but holds us tlirnllf
The lips that nlionr ns through the yours '
Pome ilny smlln not for all our tnarsi
We build a whlln we know not what,
And then the tollnr Is (orRnt
Olve me uir dreams,
fllva m mv drnsms. A child am I
Who stnnd In darkness but to slull
IT nt II a linnd ilotli backward roll
The Rrav.dntnp mists about my snuti
And then oh, dreain ot druams lb rt
clicsrst
They ennin, the loved ot othor years,
And voices whisper soft and low
The lovlntf wwls o( Ioiiii aito
llivs mo iny drenius.
A Thrilling Adventure
f With South
T was during tho early win-1
tor of IH'.I that I had my
first experience in limiting
largo game in Africa. Al
though I had boon a resi
dent of South Africa for
several years, my duties as
mining engineer iu the em
ploy of tho DoBoers Min
ing Company had taken up all my
time, with tho exception of a few
"off" days spout iu the voldt country
of tho Transvaal hunting African
gazolle and their much largor cousins,
oryx. While I bad managed ou ouo
occasion to bring down two of the
former diminutive creatures (but little
larger thau an American jack-rabbiti,
I was novor ablo to get within rillo
shot ot the wary oryx.
For a number of years a fooling of
diacoutont had been manifest among
the foreign or "Uitlander" population
of the Dutch republic, causod by tho
passage of obnoxious alien laws by
the Boers. This fooling finally re
sulted in a half-hearted insurrection,
during which Dr. Jameson, of the
British army, made his since famous
raid into tbe Transvaal, which re
sulted in tho death of some fifty Boors
and twice that numbor of English
soldiers. Although I had always had
muoh sympathy for tho original set
tlors of the Transvaal, my surround
ings at the timo wore sucli that I was
foroed to take part iu tho uprising,
aud as a result was incarcerated iu
tho grim, one-story prison at Johan
nesburg for several days. When,
through the iulluonco of frieuds, I
was liberated, I at first thought of
returning to the United States, but ns
mining engineers wore then scarce in
South Africa, the company at laBt in
duced me to remain, agreeing to send
mo out of the Transvaal at ouoe upon
a prospeoting tour iuto the wilds of
Central Africa.
Makiug np a caravan of "kafila," ns
it is oalled there, for the purpose of
penotratiug tbo wildornoss, is liy no
meaus a small undertaking, iirst
and foremost iu importauco is tho
soloctiou of computaut and faithful
guides and attendants. I mauagad
to got together a party of twenty.
composed of two while mon (myself
and an Euglishmau by the name of
Wilson, who was to take direct churge
of tho kafila), twolve Matabcles, five
Kaffirs, aud an old Zulu, by namo
linn Liba (which I soon shortoued
into uan), who was suul to uo ro
markably export in huutiug largo
game. He was a striking fellow,
several inches above six feet iu
height, straight as au arrow, his
chest, back aud limbs covered with
bnuohes of musoles as hard as bono.
He was a leopard-hunter by "profes
sion," and for many Tears had made
a business ot ridding the oountry of
these troublesome pests
We left Johannesburg in the lattor
part of April, with instruction to pro
ceed by rail to Port Lorenzo, where
a small coasting steamer bad boon
chartered to take us to the mouth of
the Zambesi Rivet, Mozambique. We
were to follow this stream inland for
about three hundred miles, then move
north to Lake Bnugweolo, latitude ten
degrees teu minutes south, tlieuoo
along the eastern border of the Congo
Free State ton degrees, aud then cast
to theooast, striking some of the many
small trading-posts between Cape
Delgado and Zauzibar, whence we
could embark for home. In addition
to our arms, we had six camels, twen
ty donkeys, and twenty-six ponies,
also one thousand five hundred pouuds
ot "gee," one thousand five hundred
pouuds of rico, a large assortment of
cooking-pots, water-casks, and con
densers, and several hundred small
trinkets for presents. Iu due time we
were aboard the steamer, and after a
very rough journey of uearly a week's
duration, were lauded "bag aud bog
gage" upon the barren shores of Mo
zambique, a mile north ot the Zam
besi. This is indeed a most desolate
country; the Zambesi and its flats a
broad ribbon of silver and greeu, bor
dered here and there by black oliQa
split the desert from east to west. To
the north and east as far as the eye
can reaoh stretohes a waste of inesg
laud; sand, oaotus, . sand, black rook,
and more sand sand that dazzles tub
eye like snow, with here and there a
olusler ot palms aud jungle grass,
which indioate where periodical
springs rme out of the blistering earth
to greot Mothor Zambesi, To the east
is the ceaseless wash of the quiet sun,
with its short reefs of gray ooral, shin
ing white in the eternal sunshine, aud
over all a dreary, deathitUe stillness,
broken only when tbe deadly simoon
sweeps the saud iu whirling chjiv
from the north, buryiug ul IV
Looking westward over tll
waste of desert, one eould hi
lieve that bat few hundred
Olve me my dreams. Oil, little maM,
With whom ol old t IniiKiied and played,
They say the Ivy loves to creep
Above the grave where now yon aleapt
Thny say the robin's song no more
(Inn wake ynu as It did ol yorn.
Whnt mntlnr? mill In dreams you ereop
Unto Div able a tryst tn krnp
Olve me my dreams.
Olve me my drsnms. All else Is droM,
Hut still I count It IKI'c loss,
Hor yet In droiuns Ilia bright stars burn
An In the vmirs to which I turn:
W.'ilte hands roaoli to mo tluough the
mll;
fly lli t loved my lips are klssul,
nhd nil Wit's Drills urn lorn-iiKlow,
As they worn mine, oh, long no
tllru me my dreams.
African Lions.
away was a lend socond
to nouo in
point ot fertility.
()no evening iu tho latter part ol
May we encamped upon the outskirts
of a wadi of unusual size, pitching our
tents near a largo spring, the water of
which was as clear as crystal and vory
cool. As it was already dark wheu
we had finished supper, I omitted my
usual evening stroll and prepared to
retire at once, informing the men that
we would romaiu over here for at least
a day, the animals needing rent badly
after their long pull through the sand.
The camels had been driven iu aud
made to lie down in a circlo, when
they were secured bv the tying np cf
a foreleg. Around the liro in? native
uiou, their number increased; by two
we had picked up belonging to a
neighboring village, sat clieei fully
eating their dates aud rice. The star
light shone dimly ou the loug nocks
aud misshapen backs of the camels.
and showod family the solitary, white-
clad figure of tho sentry, ns he stood
at tho outskirts ot tho camp, crooning
to himself a mournful Matnbulo song.
Boon tho men had finished eating and
were stretched at full length about the
fire, tv hilo tho silence oi tho jungle
crept over all a sileuce brokon fre
quently by tho cry ot a jackal or the
weird howl ot a- hyena. As I lay iu
my tent I could look through the
oponing and iina?iuo that nt times I
saw tho dusky outlines ot hugo forms
iu tho jungle, while froqneut growls
ami in n 111 ml snorts and rours told mo
that it was not all iinngiuatiou,
I was rapidly passing into dream
land whoo, following a period of in
touse Bilenoe, came a fur away, deep,
moaning sound. Whilo it was by uo
means loud or startling, it brought me
wide awake and sitting upright iu an
instant, m nerves tiugling with ex
citement. Although I had never
heard the sound before, iustinct, or a
kindred sonso, told me thnt it wan the
roar of a lion. A souud of excited
voices from tho camp showed that my
men also had heard it, aud woro wide
awake in consequence in a moment
I could hoar them piling dry brush
wood ou tho slumbering coals,
Tho deep, rumbling roar was re
peated at iutcrvals, apparently grow
ing nearer, and dyius uway in the
same uioauiug note. Then an appar
ently interminable time elapsed a
creepy silence, iu which tho men hud
dled around the blazing campllre.
Suddenly there was a souud of n
brute's heavy gallop over the sund be
tweou the jungle niid our camp, then a
mighty roar, followed by a thud, as a
donkey was felled, while his bray rang
out piteously ou the night air. A
slight noise of struggle, a few mure
stifled brays aud tlion silence, broken
a moment later by tho sound of a
heavy body boiug dragged across tho
sand.
After tho first shock of excitement
I graspod my rifle aud ran towards the
men. Wheu the lion begau to drag
the carcass of the donkey iuto the
brush I moved instinctively towards
the souud, at which the Zulu cried
quickly: "KUabdurl sahib! bars khabi
jauwar" (havecaro, sir, a very danger
ous animal). Wheu I turned to up
braid them oil for their cowardice
they explained that the nntives who
had recently joined ns had told them
that this wadi was inhabited by a pair
of dreaded mau-eating lions, which
had kilted soma fifty natives in tbe
past. As thore is nothing in the world
that a native dreads so much as a man
eating liou, or leopard (the latter are
soarce, but really do exist), I curbed
my anger, aud, resolving to square
accouuts witu tlie marauder ou tbe
morrow, if ho could bo fonud, re
turusd to my tout, where I soon fell
atleep again.
Our Cook awokoned me at daylight
the following morning, and after rub
bing my eyes sleepily, I found the
darkness aud the lion had faded away
together, while the wadi was alive with
the notes ot bird and wild fowl. After
a hahty breakfast I at onoe filled my
jaoket pockets with cartridges and ae
oonipauied by Gan, the Zulu, started
oat nponthe spoor of tho lion. When
we had proceeded about a mile we
came upon the half-eateu oaroass of
the donkey, lying in a small tUioket.
After boiuo careful reoonnoitering we
ascertained that the lion was not there,
and so continued on bis spoor over
the thin growth of grass. As it bad
rained lightly during the early raorn
in.T, this was very difficult, and after
following for a half mile we lost it
altogether. There was nothing to do
but return to camp, which we did re
luctantly, trusting that fate would
throw the game in our way before we
left the wadi.
Vith tbe oool of the evening came
fsnal fe
igto Ga
llw, riial
feeling of tesllessness, and
an,-who was sitting apart
the rest, olusnina his eiirht-bore.
L. took mi thaauoor of the lion.
following it leisurely until we reached
the oarcasa ot the donkey. When we
reaohed the spot we were delighted to
discover that the lion had boen there
ihortly before our arrival, his great
tracks showing plainly in the toll-tale
sand. We followed these in lint haste,
and soon an excited exclamation from
the Zulu told me that tho gamo was
oloae at band. The spoor now led
towards a dense thicket of wait-a-bit
thorns, about two hundred yards in
diameter, which we approached with
extromo caution,
"Lion there, sure, sahib," whis
porod Gan in Zulu, adding that I
should approach from the front, while
he went around to tho rear, to inter
cept him iu case bo tried to pass
through. As I npproachod tho
thicket, with tho hammer of my gun
drawn, I eould at first sco nothing. I
was about to rail to Gnu when I sud
denly in n do out the backs of two
largo, yellow animals In tlie grass,
aud a moment later discovered that
there were two cubs with them. They
were evidently disturbed, but were
gazing in tho diroction takou by Gan,
apparently not liavin, uoticed me.
A moment Inter a line lion sprang out
into tho open, and seeing mo less than
fifty paces away, gave a low growl
and disappeared into tho thick brush.
Tho other, a lioness, stood looking
about, evidently reluctant to leave hor
cubs. Khe was eyeing me closely,
aud it required a great deal of effort
to enable mo to scrape up enough
courage to approach ncaror. As I did
so, slio tnrtied aud ran about tan foet
to a thick clump of grass, in which
she crouched so low I could only ec
her bead.
A lion's yellow eyes are singularly
impressivo, especially if yon happen
to bo watching them somethirty yards
distant, with nothing but the open,
lorel ground between. They incline
one to a great deal of discretion, aud
it was with extreme caution that I
slowly approached her, hor eyes fol
lowing my every movomcnt anil wntch-
itiir intently on my part for tho first
sign of a coming charge. Whon I had
reached a point about fifteen yards
from her 1 concluded that I had bet
ter open hostilities, and taking n vory
caroful aim nt her head, between tho
eye and the car, I pressed tho trigger.
With a furious roar she sprang into
the air aud seemed to fly back through
her lair. I quickly threw in another
carlridgo and fired just as sho disap
peared into the bushes, and an iustant
later I heard the roar of Gau's ele
phant gnu, followed by tho snarling
of a liou. I quickly ran around the
thickot, and nn'ived iu sight of him
just as ho was iu tho act of discharg
ing bis second barrel into the vory
month of the lion, which was charging
straight for him. As ho fired ho
quickly juiupod to ouo side, while the
lion turned acomploto somersault, but
regainod its foot iu an instant and
stood wavering, evidently too sick to
attempt another churgo, but growling
horribly. I was about to fire at him
wheu he foil over ou his sido, and as
wo npproachod nearer we could sco
that he wus in his last gasps, and be
yond tho possibility of doing harm.
A few couvulsive struggles, a last at
tempt to gain his feet, aud ho was
dead. .
After lunkiuir sure that the lion was
done
. for, wo retraced our stops to tho
r side of the thicket, cautiously
'
othc
approaching the placo where I had
11 .. n . -
seen the linuesi. disappear.
0 had
not proccedou fur when we came upou
her, stretched under a thicket and
hrcuthiug her life out, so uearly done
I. ,i... .... ... .....i i : .. , ..
or that slio was uuablo to rise at our
approach. I gave her a shot in the
head, aud sho settled back with a
shiver and luy still. For a mmueut I
stood, lost iu admiration nf her grace
ful proportions, with the mighty mus
cles beneath her glossy skin, when
my attention was uttracted to Gun,
who was trying to capture the cubs.
Although they were very young, not
much larger than kittens in fact, thoro
was much infantile growling aud bit
ing aud soratohing before be was ablo
to make thorn prisoners. AVhcn he
had finally bundled one nnder each
arm we started for camp, as it was
fast geltiug dark. We mot several of
my moil on the road back, whom I
sent ou to Bkin the lions, and arriv
ing at camp we faslenol tho lion
whelps to the ccutrc-polo of my tent,
inteudiug to keep them as souvenirs
of my trip; aud very interesting they
proved tim ing the remainder ot our
loug journey. Field and Stream.
'Iu Amid Error.
Wheu Mr. Johusou cuiuo into the
dining-room ahead ot his wife aud
pulled the chair out for her, Mrs,
Greeu turned to her husband aud re
marked in a funny tone ot voice:
"ThoiuAH, did you aue that? How
attentive Mr, Johnson is. So thought
ful. Always takes out the chair for
hts wife, aud sees tint she is comfort
oblo." But Greeu wasn't out np a bit by
the suggestion of sarcasm, the why-dou't-you-do-the-samo-note
iu his
wife's tones.
All he said was: "It's a habit with
Johusou. He can't help it."
"Why can't he?" asked Mrs. Greeu.
"He used to be a bead waiter."
Detroit Free Press.
Tim Centr at Population.
"Census experts estimate,"' says
the Chicago Post, "that the centre of
population will be fouud next year to
be in Indiana, alose to the Illinois
line, at a point not far removed from
the town of Viuoennes. The last cen
sus showed the population centre to
be between Columbus, Ind., and Cin
cinnati. The increase iu the popula
tion iu Georgia, Texas, the Indian
Territory, Oklahoma, New Mexico aud
Arizona during tho last ten years baa
been auflioient, it is thought, to offset
any inorease in tho Northwest and to
possibly pull the centre somewhat to
tho south ot the 1HU0 parallel. The
wealth oentre ia thought to be in the
neighborhood of Sandusky, Ohio."
THE WAR CORRESPONDENT. J
Aa ApnerTOlml Kplanrte of the tlnerftrlt
lull Mtruiale Reported by Pmib.
Haiti" said Colonel Bir Grahams
G'holmondeley-Carew, of the liumbny
Fusileors, in a commanding tone.
There was no need tn speak so Im
periously. The troops were tired
toiling up tho side ot the inoti'itnin,
anil they would have boon clad to halt
at any time within Mie past two hours.
Jlut Colonel Hir Grabamo Cholmondu-
ley-Carew was accustomed to com- '
niitiin, nun ne ns'i acquired me uami
of talking like that.
I think, he said to
Miiior Kit I
Angus MacLnrcn Murgatroyd-Mnc-Lcod,
"it will be wise to send for
ward a roconnoitering party. Tbo
Boers may have taken up a position
at the base nt tho mountain and I
should profcr to have them try their
infernal marksmanship ou a recoil
uoitering pnrty."
Jnst so, said the Major; "it is
well, in this blareted .country, dimiii
ye Icon, to find out what ye'rn up
against. Yo'll pardou the expression,
Colonel I picked it tip from the cor
respondent of the New York JJaily
Hustler."
"I have beard nf the aw gentle
man," said the Colonel, "but 1 have
n't mot him."
But just then a wild eyed man
clamborod rapidly up the side ot tho
mountain.
"What the mischief doos this mean?"
ho said to the Col-.-nel. "Why stand
paltering here when .the foe is before
us?"
The Colonel regarded hira with a
hauteur that is seldom found outside
of novels designed for boarding school
consumption.
"Who iu thunder are you?" Le in
quired. The wild-eyed man returned the
hnntcur on the spot, with sixty per
cent, intorest.
"I'm the correspondent of the New
York Hustler," said he.
The Colonel, being an old Indian
campaigner, tlnln t lose hie nerve,
though it was plainly not in the same
class with that of the correspondent.
"I must humor this maniac," he
said to himself.
Then, speaking to tho correspond
ent, he said: "My friend, am I to un
derstand that you are running thia
campaign?"
"Sure!" said the correspondent.
"That's what the editor sent me here
for. The situation is jnst this. I
cabled my people, yesterday, that we
were on tho eve of n big battle. I've
got New York excited. The people
are standing this minute in crowds, in
trout of the bnlletin boards, waiting
for nows. I feci it iu my bones that
Extra No. 11 is going to press. And
yon bait your regiment and dare to
disappoint the readers of the Daily
Hnstlerl"
"But," romonstrated the Colonel,
"you don't want me to lead ray men to
possible slaughter. I want to reeon-
I noiter before we attack. I take it yon
are not anxious to bn shot."
I "That's where you're wrong," said
j tlie wild-eyed man. "I nearly lost
I my job for going throngh the Spanish
I war without getting shot. Y'ou ought
I to hear the roasting I got. I tried to
I explain to the editor that it was the
I , I. .1. LJ 1 1 . 1. L I. I ,1 (1
' " " op". wuu.uu ,
lieij to me. 'A war correspondent,
Knnl 1m aul.mil.l liA 11 hinn if fins Alul if
. ' ,, , . ' ..
hA wfA 1-j.nllv iiliwiiiirnna Avpn t tin
0 . ... .f . . ' ..... .
Dpaiuai uif output iu dh ftiim 10 uiluiiu.
Didn't the Liiiily Shouter man get
slict? When bullets are flying the
u i If. ........ I. It. ..I 11. ,l,...i.
' mmiit-r VAiieuii. in. Burnt. i u nun i
.... 1 , , . .
uiniKt tin a Rcrioua wuuuu a liesu
I wound will do but remember that we
pay yon to be ubiquitous.'"
I "Well," said the Colonel, "suppose
you go with the reconuoitermg party
Keeounoiteriug party, beblowed!"
said the correspondent. "What I
, wiiut is a battle."
"In duo time," said the Colonel,
soothingly, "but not uutil after we
reoonnoitor."
1 "Yon persist in this infernal ob
stinacy? Y'ou decline to advance
without fnrther delay?"
i "I do," said the Colonel.
"Then listen, Sir Grahame CI ol-mondeley-Carew!
I shall denounce
you to the Americau public as an in-
competent aristocratic British ass!"
The Colonel shuddered, but, by a
great effort, he regained his cou.po
sure, and adjusted his monocle.
"Kemove this person," he said to
Tommy Atkins. And Tommy Atkins
advanced his not to reason why, his
I not to make reply and boro the
struggling correspondent to the rear,
aud deposited him on a rock amonu
the ammunition wagons, and stood
guard over him to see that he didn't
blow up anything. Puck.
H iinifira or lli TrwnnvitHl. j
From South Africa comes this story
ot a clatsio bou mot ou tte part ot a ,
British gunuer, apparently marked ,
for doom. It happened during Gen
eral White's luckless sortie Iroui
Ladysinitb, when the British battery i
mules ou the left llauk we" siam
puded. The captain of oue ot the batteries,
seeing his first sergeant flying . y viit'
the first gnu, shouted angrily:
"Hi, sir! where are you gom?"
To which the gunner citrlly replied:
I "Hanged it I knot Ak tho
mules." Collier's Weokly.
OrasalioptMiM Kill IJnjr IllnU.
lbomaa Warreu who lives uear Wil
mington, N. C, the other day saw a
amall bird, knowu as the topknot,
fightiug a grasshopper. The insect
was picked np and the bird was about
to fly away with its pr.y when the
grasshopper, by a quick movement ot
ill legs, so ohoked the bird that it fell
to the ground. The bird had been
killed wheu Warren took it from the
alutohes of the luaect. While stand
ing there a number of birda encoun
tered a swarm of grasshoppers, and in '
the tight which followed tuuteeu birds
were choked to death.
JUDAS THE BETRAYER.
The Dsrny Htr nf the f!hlro fllaeM
Tanli and Ills Work,
One of the sights of the great cattle
yards nf Chicago is an old white1 ox
named Judas. An ox may rise to
ominenoe by bis ennning and wisdom
ns well as a man, and Judas has risen.
Ho came to the yards a good many
years ago, while lie was yet a frisky
steer and he was immediately pur
chased by one of the great packing
houses nml driven from the train
whioh brought him from bis Iowa
l borne to a distant vard.
Tho life of most animals' at tbe
rattle yards is very short a week at
tho very most. A few days after tbe
arrival of Jndas the herd of cattle
which occupied the pen with him was
selected for killing. The way to the
packing house led down a long alley
way with high fences on each side,
i then up a narrow chute and into the
building. For some reason the oattle
seem to know what is coming, for
they always object to being driven np
tho chute. Judas was no exception.
He plunged madly about among the
herd and the cattlemen had more
trouble with him than with any other
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animal. At last, however, be seemed
to realize that sooner or later he must
go, and he made a virtue of a neces
sity, trotted quietly up the chnte and
the other cattle followed rapidly after
him. Thus he ran nntil be had jnst
reached the door of tbe packing bouse.
Then, qnick as a wink, be turned and
galloped down a aide passage and
escaped, while the other cattle went
onward into the building.
Judas bad been so very clever that -the
good-natured cattlemen let him go
for that day, for genius is to be ap
preciated in a steer as well as in a
man. The next day, however, they
drove him up again with another
herd. This time he made not the
slightest objection, bnt trotted for
ward qniotly, and the other steers,,
having a confident leader, behaved
admirably. Bnt just as Judas reached
tbo door of the building he dodged
again, so snddenly that the men
couldn't turn him, and escaped, as he
had done before, while the herd be
hind him went careering into the kill
ing room.
Since then Judas has been a regular
employe of the cattle yards. Every
day he leads np a herd of cattle and
every day he dodges just at the door
of the building. He has saved tbe
cattlemen no end of trouble and delay
with riotous herds since be began his
sorvice. Ho has grown fat and sleek
on the good living ot the yards, and
so highly are his services regarded
that the cattlemen provido him with a
while blanket on cold days to keep
him comfortable.
And thns he is living to a green
old age, but be bears the disrespect
ful name of Judas the betrayer.
Ilncra' Monument Af Indpnlne.
The sturdy Dutchmen of the Trans
vaal have erected in the environs of
Johannesburg this pillar of stone and
dedicated it as the fetich of their free u
life. If the British army succeeds in
reaching Johannesburg the first thing,
they will do will be to demolish this'
monument, for tho effect on the snpor-'
stitious Boers will be as bad as the
loss ot an important battle in the open
field.
PILLAR OF FREEDOM AT JOHANNESBURG
In the Transvaal a superstition ex
ists that the libertiea of the people
are assured as long as thia pillar ot
atone endures. It may be that the
British will regard it aa a wise act to
commit an act of vandalism, jnst as
they were forced to become barbarous
in India and blow Sepoys from the.,
guns to destroy their caste. . v
Pari Preparing for the Influx.
The omnibus company of Paris, on
tbe occasion of the Exposition, will
bave ninety-two lines aud 1500 ve
hicles, performing 25,000 jourueys a
day, aud capable of transporting 1,
082,000 passengers.
Overworked There.
The only place where a tramp was
ever known to be overworked is in
the funuy papers. St. Louis Beunb
lio. There are 4200 species ot pianta 1
uaed for commercial purposes. " Of
thtse, 420 are used fur perfume.
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