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
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