a the public weal. Ay fogmed Pam Somebody Pr Sara A SN has started the ides that ‘pins nre capable of being the promo. | ters of disease, as carriers of infectious ¥ germs, and sounds a warning sgminst | putting them in the month. What- | ever be the capabilities of pins in this regard, it is certainly a bad and dan- _ gerows practice to put pine or other | nmall metallic substances in the month, | 33 The tnouth was never intended to be | 7% 8 pincashion. The fighting power of the new republir, the United States of Central America, is not great. Salvador has an army of $000 men, with a militia of 18,000, Its muvy consists of a custom house eruiser. Hondaras has an army of B00 men, with 20,000 militia, and ne navy whatever. Nicaragua has an army of 2000 men, with 5000 1a its reserve guards. The Chattanoogs News saye: The | : | Whe ‘newspaper helps to build up and oda- cate the people. It formulates and _orystalizes public sentiment, upholds my, pleads for justice and stands for It is certainly the best medinm through which to adver. tise our resomrces, build up trade, quicken thrift, multiply prosperity and emcourage the establishment of factories in our midst. No successful business man can afford to ignore the newspaper. It marches hand in hazd with prosperity, side by side with en- ferprise and is to-day the greatest ad- _ voeate the world lias ever seen for the betterment, enlightment and apbaild- | Mie vaineg epetem of 0 Toiied Btates employs 16,000 locomotives, 26,000 passenger cars and 8000 mail ~ and baggage cars. These figures seem large till the number of freight ears is stated, which is 1,250,000. A pawen- ger train consisting of locomotive, tender, baggage and six passenger to weigh about 184 tons. Freight trains sometimes reach s weight of 550 tons. An ordinary passenger fo $20,000. The system, with its gi- ¢ equipment, is practically the th of a single generation. With the additions of another quarter or half & centary posterity ought to stand _ Bat it will probably be gradu- ‘ally educated out of all its capacities wonder, as w# have been out of A crusade against consumption bas been insugurated by physicians ronghout the world, the object of which is to diminish the ravages of the dootrine of pure air. The n of esmpaign’ varies somewhat ferent places, but in general it concerns itself with the treatment of ase in sanatoris chinfly by aus of an abundance of fresh air. leaders do not lose sight of the that prevention is to be prized cure, and their crusade contem- a propaganda in the press and public lecturss against dirt and in the homes. iny one when in a low state of may become consumptive, but keeps the malady alive atnong as y sud distress, dirt and over | ding, darkness and lack of air. cure of consumption may be at- by fresh air in the open, but its is pure sir in the house.” An English naval officer expresses of Admiral Sampson's operations. his was the daily issue on the flag- of bulletins for the information squadron. The system was ed by Captain Chadwick, it On a small * possible through. , All that could be told obedience to others, This oar costs from $4000 to $5000, nnd » : eo ; | standpoint, will car anywhere from $10,000 pont of it, sometimes as to details | which are by no means unimportant. As onn writer | Vor spa Lupine 3 the su E £33 | fg WL, yet #t w. 1. Wars 8d the pallant Boval Fns:- ¥ Tipperary % Wwe i fiers, at weil ton early to break | Hp went to the veranda, id with another of refreshments was voted, and the conversation turned on tigers sport, as it often does in the East started the topic 1 can't say | When I joined the listeners, Harver, | of the Gunners, was holding forth, as Atm sf re sear in adventure. O ears, with their contents, is estimated chaffed aboat it. : tell the speaker he was fortunate to . have escaped so easily, but we did. psi I SRE AL SI Oo | follows: the right, suppresses the wrong, en- _courages enterprise, advocates econo- “My queerest adventure with a tiger happened years ago when I was quite a griffin, the youngest of 8 party | under the direction of Major B——, a noted shikares, whom we obeyed im | plicity, and whom we expected to show us no end of tigers, “The branches near me served as a gnn-rack, and as, putting rifle to shoulder, 1 sighted right and left, throngh interlacing boughs and leaves, every avenue of approach, I felt my self most favorably situated. The beat began, and at last 1 saw my first tiger. | Instead of passing within any of the ra 1 had marked out for him, he quietly trottered under my tree and Isy down st its foot. Swinjting round | hastily into an attitude not previously rehearsed, in the excitement of the moment I overbalanced, and, my rifis A DNS HAE re going off, descended in a heap on the tiger. Luckily for me, the report of the shooting iron, and the vision of a dark body in the air, frightened him #0 mueh, he was off at a gallop at the moment I crashed down upon him. A braised shoulder and damaged rifle were my only reminiscences of that by preaching and practis- | i dant remembered clearly was secing ion of one minor feature Of course, I got horribly It was scarcely necessary for us to Veracious men who have witnessed the same scene, from almost the same differ in their de- Human nature is liable to err in tiger stories as in the witoess box, beosuse of the difficulty of observing and re. membering accurately in moments of | excitement and danger. Many, many years ago, I knew a man who once saw o tiger serenely basking at the foot of 8 tree under a hot sun, and, taking » steady aim, shot the brute stone dead {sa he thought) with a single ball. To ' make assurance doubly sure, he fired a second time; then, as not a limb or muscle quivered, dashed forward on foot with more valor than prudence to survey his prize. His native shi- karee, having vainly urged him to wait, followed 1u his wake. The next thing the faithfn! atten. the tiger stand upright and the sahib a recognition of the fact that at the gunsand in the engine- s think and reason as truly as the : ) . nearly dead, and a handsome subscrip- \ the bridge, and can be counted | {for greater alacrity and more ef- | ve co-operation if the officers do make a mystery and a monopoly ir information, It may be true s the sailor said who was cap- with Hobson, men in the Ameri- {avy do not know, and do not | know, the reason of the orders | m to execute; but there can bt that they will appreciate ibute to their intelligence and | ght the better for knowing what assault. hanging in his mouth like a bundie of clothes, With nothing but a short, thick spear in Lis hand, the brave fol. low rushed on the enemy and be labored it so fiercely that, amazing to ralate, it dropped the bundle and | disappeared into the jungle without doing farther mischief. The mauled officer hovered between life and death for three months, and the doctor who attended him with great skill told me the dressing of his wounds was enough to make a strong man faint every time that operation had to be performed. The poison of tiger fangs and claws rangement, but the best we conld make | will render the healthiest person dif ficult of approach, and will sometimes finish off an unhealthy, weakly con. stitution before that stage has been Shock often kills before reached. blood-poisoning has had time to set in, especially with the ordinary ran of | the ! nerve and stamina of the European to natives in India, who have not resist the shock of having been in a tiger's grip. Fortnoately for Lo, he pulled through, to swell for many years the noble army of generals and colonels who groan at enforced retire. ment in London clubs, till they are fit for nothing else. * 1ne point sud wonder of the story, sceording to the version of it which lingers in my memory after six.and. thirty years, lay in the tiger's being successfully routed by the shikaree's He could easily have made mince meat of both men, but for some extraordinary reason did not. “How do yonaceount forit®” Iasked a famous hunter of my scquaintance, shortly after I had seen a hole in 1,8 side, into which, though long healed, yon might have put your fist, “Did you ever hear of a tiger with two | bullets in him treating Lis foes with such clemency?” “Never,” he replied. [remember Li being brought to his houose tion being raised for the shikaree; but my private belief is that no bullet ever touched that tiger —though I shonle not | like to say so to Li———, who is firmly persuaded to the contrary, and can’t { believe he missed the beast clean, From what I bave heard, I am in- clined to think the tiger was gorged and asleep when L—— first saw him, | though 1 can't explain why he did not move when the shots were fired It seems pretty clear his blood was not up to boiling point when he hel L-——in his mouth; he may have seen or heard men shouting not far off; he was evidently impressed by the an- dacity of the shikaree's attack, muck Ha oan adpoarn- | relay i and y balieve we oa At any rate, 1 tiger being tracked "marks, and it i» certain no found his skin.’ Oddly euongh, several vears after ‘after this escape, Loo told me he cama aerows a warrior in the smoking. COI orf a Neotel hatel, who arconnted for having lost an srm by a story =ull more thriiling than his own, wounded a tiger from su eleplinnt, the tiger charged, the elephant through the jungle To save himself from being brained and swept off by overhanging branches, he soon caught | hold of a stout one and parted from | the alephant as it crashed through for | est ton thick to admit of his holding | on with any hope of safety. Then, to his dismay, he found he had not strength and agility enough to swing himself up so as to sit on the branch Lookiag down, he discovered that the tiger had spotted him and was waiting below. The horror of the sitanation words can pant it —it seemed to him an jeternity. shonted, ea<ed one arm, then exhausted nature gave way and be | dropped. He remembered thrusting lone arm into the figer's jaws and then lost consciousness. His life was | saved by the arrival, just in fine, of a friendly barrel held close to the tiger's head, and through stbsequent ampn tation of the mangled arm by a skill | fal surgeon. held forth as follows. “The people of a village in one of my districts reported to H-——, of the the monster. Ioped off to their village forthwith “The report was ouniy fou ss! confirmed as to the awlu! at that moment. Hastily borrowing a carbine from a native policeman, a ' most wretched weapon at best H the tiger rose as he entered, and be gan to walk off slowly. and Lit him, and then followed his ap. victime. “More terrified than ever by this awful tragedy, the villagers came to me to implore assistance. | wentover to Hoe, of the Opiam Department, and we managed to get an elephant, but conld not anywhere find a howdah, 20, 8% a last resource, we tied a table upside down on the elephaut’'s back withlropes round the legs of the table. It was not a very secure kind of ar | nnder the acircusastances. his body! rose, and with a terrible | came straight to ns ' much for the elephant, which straight ly turned tail snd bolted, parsaed by the tiger. We bad not gone very far before the table began to work loose, {and the certain prospect of being { thrown violently to the ground with ‘the infariated tiger on the top of us | being anything bul cheering, I sag i gested to H— that we had better fire whilst we bad the chance. The sort of aims we could take can be im agined when the joiting of the ele- phact, saperadded to the looseness of our perch and the bounding of the tiger, is taken into account. Sull, fire we must, and we pulled trigger lo- gether just Lelore we were projected | bullets having hit Lim in a vital part i Never had two men anarrower shave, { *1 remember the case of a survey officer in India who ‘ki1ll" near his work, it unarmed. he his meal, rushed out went tirer, suddenly at the party, and in his headlong fheht the officer, most fortunately fur himsel! tripped and {ell into some long grass wind basher The tiger's being drawn fo the nalives, who were trees hike monkeys in itleniiug {elimbing | trerabling as quickly as he could. ‘But in the case of the man-eater, | sreryihing is different. Having dis. covered hiz pover to kill the genus. He bad boalted | must be left to the imagination; no How long he | dangled in the air he never conld tell He the other: then hung by both—till at last Just one mare queer tiger story, told | by s superintendent of police in one of the districts of Northern India. On my expressing a desire to hear it, he Civil | Service, that a tiger bad jast killed several of the villagers, and was | then lying near the village, and mm plored him to come snd rid them of It so happened, bow. ever, that the young magistrate was pothing of a sportsman, and did sot | éven possess a gun of any kind, but] on hearing their ghastly tale, Le gal | i7 | : : hasoe sam-] °F 1° the tiger, planged the bayonet mitted by the brate, which had not! eaten any of his victims, bat was said | to be in arice-fleld close tothe village | *" | the house, hut before they could reach Hw fired | Coming upon him saddenly, the | tiger charged, and in a few minutes; poor H-— was added to the list of A good ] many hours, about five or six at least, | had elapsed since poor H's death | hat on arrivisg of the viliage we were | { told that the tiger wax still lying ou “As we neared the piace the tiger TORT This was too | into space, H-— on one side and my- | | self on the other. We were both dazed | and badly shaken, and when we re-: covered we fonnd that H—— had beed | thrown right in front of the tiger, | ' which was dead, one or more of our being todd of a tO InRpecE distarbed at % hurry, he made for them, allowiag | the officer %o craw! away iu fear and 1 . : i | homo more sasily than a big apse, hs | “takes every possible advantace of mt every tara, Neither hy day are they anfe, and life beeomes i en bong terror, for sre working so Brew ond B/C SEITE RAE SO ¥ fo crawl gn 3 2 nut his Bo Fn sbong ddenly i pUsnen ? AR ranching the man i Tandunsy’ “Pat amongst the rantitnde of such think that the foltowing bears away the palm for grassome horror, and itz trath has been confirmed from many sources 1 had it from a relative, the owner of the tea estate Asean, where if pureed, HRs Poi WAS, BOL MARY FAs azo-—and for all | know still 1s the anager of a tea.garden 1a Assam, where a mer cater was in the habit of carrying off the estate coclies for bis dinner, probably finding them much Jess tronbie than a deer ora pig. At ast, emboldened no denbt by nn. hindered snceexs (1 obtaining victims, he took to carrying off coolies who stories. | ventures to ja Lh were sleeping in the verandas of the | manager's bungalow. Many traps had i been laid for him, the bodiex of has | vietimn poisoned, watchers with gmas on the look-out over the killed men, hut so great was his cunning that he bad escaped them sl! “Everything having failed, things bad become desperate, sod Bo — and some of his planter friends determined ; ap for the tiger in the veranda, F with native blankets disguising them | —~an excesmiingly exciting business, for, be it remembered, so lights wars ! allowed, and the brute earad nothing for numbers, so that his sppearsace might be too sudden for unsteady | nerves. { “One of the planters, after they i had sat a long time in bresthiess sus entersd the house for some thing that he wanted, snd whilst Jook- to %% | pense, fing for it, was siartied by a sudden | terrible uproar in the verands which ‘ he had just left Seizing his rifle, be i rashed ont to find all the party gone, but from the durk tea-garden he heard the voice of Some Bore calling Loni, in agony “ “Help for Heaven's sake’ Help! Halp! help!’ “Fixing his bayonet he ran towards i the spot, and ia the dim gloom made § The tiger's got me, ont the outline of the ger dragging B , who was walking by its side, | his Band in the brates mouth! Wub. Pont & moment's hesitation, be rushed i into its side, at the same time pulling i the trigeer The tiger fell, releasing B , and both men rashed back to the steps, the Liger was upon them, and again seized poor Bo, biting snd clawing kis baek and shonidern in ia ternble manner ft was, merc i fully, an expiring effort, for the luute fall dead before it could kill Bo “It then transpired that the Lyer had stolen 16 upon the watchers like a shisdow, without the siiohiast wars - Ling, and had seized the nearest one, | whe happened to be B—, by the hand, which be had raised to defend | himself, and had commenced to draw i him off. In his agony he rose to his feet, and after descending the steps {off with his hand 1a the tiger's month, {to be devoured, when his friend, by i his courage and presence of mind, rescued him from an swial death § | of the bungalow, was actually walking : The other watchers, utterly pense had made for the nearest | door. and bad it not been for the coal | ness of his brave resener, Boo would have been added to the long list of the rmaneater's vietime, After being | ill for many months Bo. recovered, | to tell the awfal tale of how he had : stricken, | been ‘led away to be eaten.’ ” So ended my frisnd's yarn, exsisting enough 1a all conscience — Wide World Magazine. Victoria to an Indian Chief A recent arrival at Ottawa, Ontario, from the Kitimaat distriet, B. C,, and a chief of the Kitimaats privilege below the falls ou a stream close by. The chief sold 60,000 fish, for which the manager of a cannery paid him 85000. ingly done. letter showing ber appreciation of hus luyalty, and she asked him to accept a steel engraving of herself, set ia a | handsome frame, together with piaids of sheep's wool, jast the kind to deitght any native chief, Shakes called bis peopie togsih on the day preven tating Indian agent road asd iaterprete reen a Pile? Tr in heart gH being resid good mother kal by addiagz thar, although econld never expect to see her earth, he would try to lead such a Life anid ? he venerabie i 1d iT masie Lo 3h Bat au panna 13g so far away from wen 1 ress aah 1 her, Ol is | that would enable him to meet her mn | heaven. And then, overcome with | emotion, the chief barst into tears — New York San. By on Alrange | cod an little Lord Fauntivrovs tells a story concerning Queen Victoria | Chief | Shakes, who has a very good house at Lowe lalet, also owns the Hashing | t Peeweia Mitia A 84 | Phailpaburg Ia the exuberance | of his spirits and loyalty the cil df sonceived the ides of sending $100 as a present to Queen Victoria, and » handed the sum to Indian Agent Todd | to be forwarded, which was accord In dae time the Queen | cansed fo be sent to Chief Shakes a | L § 2 i i Patton Poaey, RI i Be hesler : A 0 eecls for Houtzdais and Ramer with OLD AND NEW SHANGHAL Oficial Cerraptien Prevents Progress and Ly nigat nor 5 Fulightenment. wh si KANE YE ome? : tats a demire HIAREE. Fins a Brcush the Digi Fost iy { menarates New f retpasa 1 Qe. fry pm the : Jone | gy Wa pak the citizen i | Swe Fe Hinees oY an ¥ i a Sy. Poy Sk * rita in TRE Rat if they would not tke wre water and clean grestit | with grass plots around them and they may “wo Omir anos EVEL RAE tare for thousands penssd with such things, and stall set un Durseives nH He WRT and than they? | wes todd that tor CAN E:H ha! was sent over to examine ihe water ts members want back and ro. ported that they did not like it, that if had no Body to it like the water of their canals znd that wad neither “taste nor smell” It might de thought that thers would be some hope from the litterati of the country. but ioe it an ofc» under the Chinese sygem. 30 that they stand like a stone wall of op position againgt ail changes or reform The education of these men oOnNiElS wmrgely in from 1006 1s 1000 years old. and the things hey know ars things that some 83 smear as anything in the worl] could rome to lweing worth absolutely noth. £ wo £34 receive Sut a nomined They are supposed 10 im smeh WAFS ns hey tant by ¥u as supplement this can--ty pilifering mosey through thedr hands sRlary accnded persons nntil the nighedt amodnt soasible in wrung ross their | pe relatives in order lo wesurs their ro lease Theres ia nothing that presents steh tramendons obstacle (nD our mi sion work, says Dr Cheater earrstary of the foreign mission noard of Preshivterian chureh south as the off cial system in China The Different Dolls. 3 rhea doll populations males form perhaps 5 per cent and females 6 por Many dolls are capable of pase ing ax either, preording to he sav in which they are dressed. it sex ix jandicated by pmrting the aide, Apither po. + boy dolls is thar a grent represent types. Many game of theh Yes gr imo white fanme] sults of the regulation ent gud ith fhe broad top making very trim apd fgares There ara Jolly dreay- There is a boy doi! known from its dress as 4 miarguiz and there fn & farmer bav, standing with hig suspenders ¢ver his shaonlders and Wearing a straw’ hat » yory pretty figure indeed. There ars many harlequin Sgures and many San Sgr LER i ASL ped ie Fog to + ae their salior bats I aunty ta Classes and many pegro hovs thew fneluding dolls of worsted. Scape bay dolls and gir! dolls are sold tage her tn pairs There Ix for instance a souls known 38 the bride anid tride- Ero Ham and the Goddess at dd Among more conventiuaal siyhms tore | : L dalla dressed as ithe gen and warring bats and Dew dois dresuas as old men and as childen ans then there are handsome hig Lew dressed in silks and satiss ay are sold at all sorts oo! prio Sailer bova for instances cos) xl re. tall foom 35 cents to $30 enh are Das deri COW DENSED TIME TARLE. ia effect December | 1897, Eastwasp— Week Dap AN. has aN 1235 1a i204 Lois cdmie, 19.68 AX Woek Daya AX oN ii.38 Led 33 2.81 L090 “33 BornaY Thana ro Sanna i . 3 34h ros. Leveoin Mids, Pulipaburg TRaIvs AN itipebarg (1 sin Sime | rn ne | “and | Batirowd will Led £ @ ” sus; Chemrte 4, Metinffer pera and Loa ixway, Bradiord, Bulla 2 OR OR trains leavieg Iyrcae m1 PLN GM 8 GOO, Gouwsi Supt | Pennsylvaaia 2 of years have Ou tht ritizpens of New Shanghai offered 10 ex i tend their water supply free of charg to Od Shanghai in the hope of avert: ing the pestilence that came from (he A rommities from O34 Shang | Lmy the memoriziag of DOOKE | Those who by bribery amd some | , other means do at last receive in nif. fekal appointment Te po wiact ing money from litigants and by torturing ancther pair is Known az {'n- of liberiy. | Curwensvilin bnBos, Puax-atuws | sud PR EEE TTY ey Railroag ime ‘Table £313 16 May 18, 198, Main Line hot Hee as 50 i wr Bier Hed £0 Raving $08 4 Moen Aomiiees Gi Dea nark’'s Lenlent King Some years ago a frank courtier who | Was protesting against a propiesd aet © of jeniency. told the king of Ieamark | that he was | should de” joined: litterat! [ive in the hope of obaining “mot feared 33 3 king His majesty laughing re “1 can forgive you 3 ng as yoru do not tell me | am sot loved as a kisg should Se.” “Thar is a iriticism ro one would wish to make’ replied he courtier. "Then | mast five Sp 0 Foot, tion.” said the King as he “ened the pardon which bad heen an- * Msrussion —~Ti-Bits, Bofsle Rochester god Pltsbiorg Us. LMR TY eacleea ore 00 {esrfield as fale w- vy and er Fuk Peawiy Orwell Joi, NATE Yeveoldevitie Kesar meals oo Sar $ fra ods, Falls Urowil a0 vise frathviy fw nig. zal Sow ol See tiag o Prado Ca ge. HofBala Foxpes, for 3 inode ant Falls nek § asi . sa fede, Par Ridgioay, Johnsons fart and Mafia IB x awd Ponzeatpw ¥ ye oar TH iBois, Falls Crook ard "uae wi SW ry Gino es = 2d oa wm. asd HY apd © Cohen tables and MI RS a tion, des FC latey, Cont Passer AQ a Howlipeter, 8 3 ita % pent Riis pth i Beiardt fr es a RR bt ARAL SRI. FN A. A a E> panes In Foy tr pe Beech (Creek Railroad. 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