Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY rni FRIEDNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited Owice: Maim Street Above Ckmtke FREELAND, PA. SimsCIIIATION KATES: One Year SLSO Blx Mouth* 75 Four MOB*hs .. .50 Two Mouths -5 The (late which the subscription is palil to li on tne address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be iou:rs a receipt for remittance. Keep the K ur*e In advuuee of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper ;* uot received. Arrearages must be puld when subscription ie discontinued. Af*)>eall monty orders, checks, eto,,i>ayabL u> Tribune PrintiKy Company, Limited. One good feature of the coming year is that we shall have said goodby to the expression, fiu de siecle. New Orleans exults that iu tho last j week of 1899 it handled for export f more corn than New York, Boston j iind Philadelphia combined during the same interval. Tho Chicago young woman and the Fort Win gate, N. M., man who were married the other day by telegraph, violated one of the safest axioms of life, "It is not well to set up house keeping ou tick." I Californians are beginning to culti vate the tomato tree, which bears clus- I ters of a delicious fruit, thousands of ; boxes of which are sent yearly to Lon don, and for which it is believed a good market could be found in our eastern states. The ratio of men to women among tho public-school teachers in Massa chusetts is Ito 10.2. During the first half of the past decade the num ber of men kept relatively diminish ing, during the last half it has been relatively increasing. Advertising makes the wheels of business go 'round. It helps to sup ply the motive force of commercial activity, and keeps the machinery of baiter aud trade moving. It has be come indispeusable in industrial af fairs, aud is a boon to the purchasing public. London will soon have four un derground electric railroads in op eration. Two have been in operntiou for several years; a third is nearly finished aud u fourth is being con structed. One of these roads lies in a tunnel from <><) to 100 feet under the surface of the streets above. Dr. Albert S. Ashmead, a reputable New York physician, who has made a special study of the subject says that leprosy is by no means uncommon Jin New York. He believes that there are 100 cases walking about the streets, riding in public conveyances and liv ing in lodging-houses. Jf this asser tion be true, it is well worth the J ittention of the local authorities, j Leprosy is a loathsome and an incur able disease a disease from which the public at large have a right to ask ; protection -and it would easily spread from such a nucleus in a city like New York. ' The spread of the English language is commented upon by tho Journal of Commerce. In 1800 only 22,000,000 people spoke English, as compared with 35,000,000 who spoke French,Bß,- 000,000 who spoke German, and 32,- 000,000 who spoke Spanish. At the beginning of 1900 127,000,000 people use English as their mother tongue; an i crease in the century of 477 per rent, and a greater number than tliose who speak German aud French taken together. Iu this period the United States has grown from 5,000,000 to 70,000,000 inhabitants; the United Kingdom from 16,000,000 to 41,000,- 000, and the colonists of England have grown from a few thousand to about 12,000,000. Iu the same time the population of the European continent has increased from 170,000,000 to about 343,000,000. Thus while at the beginning of the last century the na tives of Continental Europe outnum bered the English-speaking family 8 to 1 they now outnumber the English races ouly 2.7 to 1. Peacn or War. In the olden days, when the spear was used as a weapon of war, men had to be very careful how they carried it. If they were in a strange country and bore their spears with the point forwards, it was supposed they wero bent on mischief, and was regarded as a declaration of war. If, on the other hand, they carried the spears on their shoulders, with the point backwards, their visit was taken as a visit of friendship, end there was no disturb ance of the peace. Austria had strikes in 1898. in volving 88; cst n/i .!:uicm>. with w.noo laborers. WHEN JAMES MONROE WAS PRESIDENT. Though fashion plates were quite un- And tallow moulded round a wick known, When burning seemed as diamonds Was ever beauty like arrayed? bright, Enchantment's spell has never flown They'd scarce have traded candlestick Prom dainty lace and rleh brocade. For twinkling incandescent light. The dames, the maids, the gowns they The dames, the maids and gallants all. wore, Who long have slept 'neath earthly Were taste and grace and beauty blent, tent. And heart® were warm uhto the eore, The same whose presence graced the ball When James Monroe was President. When James Monroe was President. The beaux, rare gontlemen, forsooth, Ah. long the years that iutervene, Wore wigs combed up in powdered puff, Yet, laugh, ye scoffers, as ye may, And no one blushed to take, in truth. Still Purity's acknowledged queen, From sliver box a pinch of snuff. Aud Courtesy is king to-day. Bweet Courtesy held high command. Hearts beat as warm to-day as then, And men were peers to all intent, And charity's as kindly meant The mark of rank an honest hand. As 'twas 'mong those, God's noblemen, When James Monroe was President. When .Tames Monroe was President. —Roy Farrell Greene, in Youth's Compaulon. 1 A STORY OF SACRIFICE, f How tho Judgo Helped the Lovers, By George Lincoln. . ) the way of watch- If ing thorn naturally j '\ | I enough. After ' the court ad- i journed in theoarly afternoon he al- 1 ways took a ride on his bicycle and j t never failed to visit the beautiful ; : stretch of boulevard recently opened : i along the string of lakes. They both came of goo.l families, or . I at least well-to-do families, aud their i manner led him to thiuk there was ; i good breeding behind thorn. How, ■ s Mien, did he come to know that they j loved each other? you ask. How was : i it possible not to know it? He was I not always pa3t fifty, and he had a good memory. So when the judge noticed the way i "he" looked at "her" and the way "ahe" looked at "liim" and the ten- | J derness of the young man's courtesy che judgo knew well enough how mat ters were. ' She was a beautiful woman, j not over twenty,"aud gave one an im- i pression of trigness aud neatness. A 1 woman would say she wore a becom ing suit that fitted her. She was pe tite, with one of those fresh, spark ling faces so seldom scou among over worked society girls. He was a manly chap of twenty two, athletic, bronzed and thorough ly "fit," as my nephew says. My nephew plays ou the "'varsity" foot ball team and is authority in our family ou such matters. And they noticed the judge. After awhile he got into the way of bowing to them, although they didn't know he was Judge Storrow aud ho didn't know them. I One dreamy Indian summer after aood the judge went up among the trees on the side of the lake to a sheltered nook he knew aud lay down o 'rest. There had been a puzzling case before liim that morning, and while thinking it over he must have fallen, asleep. He was suddenly aware that just ; outside his shelter a man and woman were talking. He did not know what ' to do. He soon discovered that they were j | "his lovers,' as he called thorn, an.l I fcliey were discussing some unhappy j sircumstauce regarding thoir affec- j tion. What could ho do? There was no j way out except past them. Would it ! be better to come out and so let. them ' know ho had heard their talk, oi ; would it be more delicate to remain i till they had gone, not listening, aud fhey would never know that any one I Had overheard them. He decided Jon the latter alternative and remained 1 perfectly quite. But try as he would it was impossi ble not to hear their whole converse tion. "But what difference does that make?" asked the young man. "You j snow perfectly well, Alice, that if it were a thousaud times worse, that if it were you yourself, I would marry pou." "Oh, but think of it, Ned! Think what your friends would say I 'Ned Grant married the daughter of an duibezzler serving his time in jail.' " The judge couldn't help wondering ; Ifjtkis were the son of Grant on the i ; Supreme bench, whom ho lad never ! met, although he knew his father in- 1 umately. The girl's gentle voice I oroke as she said this, and Ned cried "Oh, Alice, [ wish you'.wouldn't j ibink of that. It just breaks me up .o see you cry, you know." Then followed a silence during which Alice must have been in some | way comforted, for she said in a steady j roico: "No, my dear boy. I have been j rery weak to see you so often and lave these rides. I should have re used and tried to forget you. But, Ned, T couldn't. I can't thiuk of auy ihing but you—and—l do love you 'o!" More silence. Then: "And, Ned, this really must bo the ast. I eau't marry you. No, dear, Mease don't go all over it agaiu. I uiow that it would be a groat wrong o you to say yes. It would always I ie a hindrance to you. Wo would I lave no friends, aud a young lawyer | nust have friends. Who would come ;o your house if they knew your wife ! was the daughter of Baud, tho em bezzler?" That was where tho judge almost Siscovered himself. Ho sentenced Rand to twenty years' hard labor, and ie had still fifteen years to serve. It was a queer case and not quite clear. So this was the moth erless girl he had aaard so much about. "Now, see here, Alice," the young tnau said, "yon know it takes two to bake a quarrel and it takes two to Hake a separation. Bo while you may think it best not to see me again T i shall not give you up and I shall see I you every opportunity I can, so long as it doesn't bother you. Dad knows I all about it and he's with me." The judge wanted to shout "Good for dad," but ho didn't. Then they got up to go, and after another longer silence they left him alone. He knew all about the trouble, and pretty menu he felt about it, too. As lie rode slowly home he turned j the little tragedy over and over in his ' mind, aud the more he thought about it the more he fe'.t that he had made u mistake by staying aud listening. At last he evolved a plan calculated to ease his own conscience and give ! the young man some courage. So the ! judge sent liim this letter: "Mr. Edwin Grant—l had the misfortune I to overhear part of your conversation with I Miss Rand to-day, although In quite an ae- ! iddeutal manner. If. as I surmise, you un tile sou of Grant, of tlie Supreme, you are made or the right sort of stuff to regard Miss Rand's views as ouly a temporary ob- j Htaelo to your hupplnesa. I sentenced i Rand, and If you cure to call on me I should ! bo glad to see you. Perhaps wo may thiuk ! or some urgumentsto make Miss Rand iool; at tho ease differently. At any rate I ttgreo with his honor, your father, and am ids 'with you.' Yours, Robkbt Btorbow." | The next day the judge was obliged to go to a distant city to act as referee I i i /. ease. The Bund case was almost purely a uuistnntial one and hung on the | .•andwriting in which the false outvies ! hail been made in the books. The 1 handwriting experts all agreed that j the entries had been made by Baud; indeed, tho prisoner admitted as much. Iko bad pleaded "not guilty," and j when he admitted the identity of the . handwriting there was little left to do i for him. His counsel was completely j baffled by the admission and Band re fused to explain it in any way. Try as he would, the lawyer could elicit nothing further and the jury bad to bring in a verdict of guilty. It could never be found liow Baud hud disposed of the sum he embezzled, i In fact, not a penny of the missing money was ever found, and the hank i charged it to profit and loss. Hooper, the president of the hank, ; was iu constant attendance at the trial j and expressed great sorrow for Band. | Shortly after the sentence Hooper left I the bank and weut to another city, ; where he engaged in a private bank i ing anu brokerage busiuess. it was ;in this city that Judge Storrow wa ! now sitting. I One night at the club the converse ; tion drifted round to money and ban I. - I ing. The judge inadethe remark tout lie wished to procure a letter of credi; for his nieco who was going abroad ! and some one suggested Hooper's ! house as the best place to get it. "By the way," said his adviser, "you sentenced the cashier of the bank of which Hooper used to he president, didn't you?" The judge said ho did. "Well," continued the man, "that's tho way souio men tieat those who have been kind to them. My wife grow up iu the village where Hooper aud Band were boys together. Band was not in very good circumstances, while Hooper had plenty of money. At that time Hooper was quietly buy ing up a great deal of land through which ho knew a railroad was pro jected. He lot Band in on the ground lloor, lent him money aud then, when thoy realized, collected Band's notes, I aud in this way they both made money aud Baud's share was a moderate for i tune to a man in his circumstances. It wasn't many years before Band had I lost his money in foolish investments. I Then Hooper got hiin the position of cashier in the bank wbero he was president. It seems pretty tough for | Band to have stolen all that money. ! The directors asked Hooper for his resignation, of course, and he was obliged to come hero and start fresh." Now this was a part of the story that the judge had never heard be fore. It little agreed with his per sonal impressions, which of course had nothing to ilo uitli the "law and evidence." lie had un idea that Band was not that sort of a man, and curi ously enough, he had acquired an antipathy for Hooper. | That night he woke thiuking of the | case. Gradually he found himself forced to a conclusion for which there was little reason—he somehow J thought that Hooper was the guilty man and Band the innocent. He had I known a few similar cases of quixotic gratitude. The next day ho called at the bank ing house of Hooper & Co. As he was leaving he met Hooper face to face. The man went white aud staggered against the door jatub as if he had been struck. "Why—how d'y do? Why—l didn't expect to see you," he stammered. "Anything we can do for you?" The judge looked him square in the eye and said: "No, Mr. Hooper, noth ing you cau do, unless—but never mind now," aud he gave him a pecu liar look under which Hooper quailed. The judge had not gone two blocks before one of the clerks came rushing after him aud said Mr. Hooper wanted him to come back. He fouud Hooper striding the floor and mumbling to himself. "My God, judge, do you kuow!" ho cried. "I kuow you are a scoundrel," the judge replied, surprised out of his | self-control. ! "I did it, judge; I did it," "I know it," calmly replied the ! judge. "I came to this city because 1 couldn't stand meeting you and I havo never had a happy or an easy moment since.l |l'vo lived in constant fear ol ; apprehension." The jndge looked at him and could scarce restrain his contempt and in dignation. Stepping back, he turned the key in the jock aud put it into his pocket, i Then he went to the telephone and ; told police headquarters who he was and asked them to send him an in ! spector at the banking office. "Now," he said, "before either ot j us leave this room you are going to write the whole story. You will sign it iu the presence of witnesses and in side of two weeks Rand will be a free I man. You will be arrested at once, hut j for two weeks, for my own reasons, you will continue to conduct your business j and a headquarters man will he always j with you. You can explain his pres enee in any way that you like. Now I sit down and write." | Hooper shrank from the task, but | the judge insisted. When he had | finished aud was ready to sign there ; came u tap at the door and a strangei ' was ushered in. He locked the doot after him and the judge had a Jowcou I versation with him. The confession was duly signed and witnessed, j It set forth Hooper's necessity to j obtain funds further tliau tbose avail able and how he had taken from time to time, showing Rand fictitious notes, so that Rand had every reason to sup pose the bank was making loans. Iu j short, he had made the entries in per feet good faith at.d then wheu the ' stealing was made known ho had kepi | silence remembering all the benefits | received. It was, of course, a ques tionable thing for him to do, conaid i ering his family. But there was no I doubting the nobility of the man's j character. That night the. judge started fot ; home, having disposed of tho case. There the next day he laid tho coul'es ! sion before the governor and his lawyer, who took the preliminary j stops to release Rand. flint evening Ned Grant-called, say i iii.ee ho had failed to find the judge at home on previous evenings. He knew ! enough of law to - appreciate some tilings the judge told him. "Now," said the judge, "this tail glo cau be straightened out. You | tiring Alice here two weeks from to i uight and I'll try to change her views.' i At last the night came. The judge was decidedly nervous. The bell rang aud in came Ned and Alice. He had | told her about tho judge and she I blushed prettily when he was intro duced. | After he had explained at some I length that liis) eavesdropping was .quite accidental he begau to argue again with lier 011 the matter. She | took the same high ground as before— tiiut it was doing Ned a wrong. And she had a pretty good ease, too. At ! last ho said: "So there is 110 way of turning you? You would marry if your father were not in prison for embezzlement?" She nodded and the judge silently handed her a loug typewritten docu ment. If was the witnessed coufes- I si-.u. Ritud had been living quietly with tho judge for the Inst few days and knew the whole story. Ned stood near carefully watching her, and us tlia door opened noiselessly he saw John Rand waitiug for his 1 daughter to look up and see him. I She read it through without looking up. Then as she lay back iu the chair I she caught his eye aud rau to j with a cry of "Father! Father!" ! Hooper is still serving his tirne.- I Chicago Record. ■illliiii 111 Her Hnl. Genius is the only word to describe llio ingenuity ot the Freuch actress | who wou 11 prize at oue of the act j resses' clubs for the most utistio and ; startling innovation in dress. The present rage for fur gave her in ! spiration. She was the happy pos sensor of a very docile and very white kitten. Selecting a black hat, she l-e --| uiovod tho feathers and trained the 1 ( kitten to lie on the rim in such n j manner that .bar face was framed by a huge gilt buckle, appearing to rest 1 upon her front paws. Arter a train | - itig that would do credit to 11 circus performer mademoiselie appeared at the club with the wonderful hat, aud | it is not beyond the impossible that , Parisienues who adopted the live I | lizard and turtle craze will now adorn ' : their headgear with cats instead oi I I birds. I'll Ills Foml let tin. l'liyaical Task. I Feats of strength require a diet in . ; accordance with the needs—that is, : • prolonged or otherwise. If you want to perform for a short time the great j ost possible amount of muscular | labor, as in playing a game of ball, j rowing, running, bicycling, lifting, or accomplishing any unusual feat of strength requiring an extraordinary 1 eflurt, always select a diet rich in I 1 protein. If, on the other hand, yon want to take a great amount of steady | exercise daily, or perform a great II amount of uniformly heavy work every I day, but at no time of a very intense ; | character, you should partake of n I diet containing littlo protein, but rich |iu carbohydrates—that is, starches i j and fats.—Ladies' Home •Journal. NEW WAY TO MAKE A FARM. | Y.aml Wlioiio Value Wn* Increased #49 l'er Acre. Doubtless the largest body of laDd ever held by oue individual in Indiana is the B. F. Gifford tract, which by recent additions consists of 32,000 acres. There have been larger farms, but thoy have been held by tirms or men representing the centralized in terests of others. From the view point of the large farms of the West the Gifford farm is not so notably large; but in Indiana, where a farmer who has from eighty to 160 acres, is considered in good circumstances, the size of this large holding is enormous, j In one respect the Gifford farm is a notable one compared to any tract, j It is the largest cultivated swamp farm in the world. It was only ten years ago that the section which Mr. | Gifford is now converting into pastures and vegetable and grain-producing , laud, was a series of marshes, pools and lakes—a part of the Kaukakee , swamps. Mr. Gifford had previously j developed a great tract similar to this : utar Champaign, 111. When Mr. Gifford first conceived ! the idea of converting a portion of the Kankakee lauds in Indiana to agri cultural purposes he acquired at a nominal price about 10,00(1 acres. He then bought two dredges similar to those used by the Government iu its river dredging. The dredges were put to cutting large ditches, almost the size of small rivers. This work has been going on night and day for years and now there are 8000 acres iu a high state of cultivation. Last year the tallest corn and probably the best in Indiana was raised on this tract. Instead of fences Mr. Gifford has waterways between pastures. He has seventy-live miles of large ditches through the farm and has thousands of miles of smaller ditches. In ad dition to this lie is now putting in drain tile. The soil taken from the river and ditch beds has been shoveled back over the fields, and thus the lields have been raised little by littlo as the ditching work went on. The work is still going on. but it will take reais to put all the tract into culti vation. Mr. Gifford has between 1100 and ♦OO tenement houses on the farm and I he popnlatiou is probably 2000 people. ; He has a spur to the farm from the | uearest railway aud ships his products j direct to the markets. The laud, wheu iu a state of cultivation, is as | productive as any in Indiana and is worth from §SO to 875 an acre. It j cost Mr. Gifford from 81 to 81.50 an j acre. The Caru of Derby Hutu. I Some men will buy two or three I black derby hats a season, and these i wiil always look rusty aud old. Other I aieu will buy not more than one a year, aud that will never lose its deep lud brilliant gloss. ••I'll tell you why t is," suid the best dresser iu Ger aiautowu the other day. "It is be muse oue man brushes his iiat with a itiff-bristied whisk, aud the other rubs his softly with a piece of woolen i uloth. The felt of a hat is such a ! delicate stuff that a stitYwhisk applied lo it has pretty much the effect that a 1 •urry-comb or a rake would have ou a i *uit of clothes. It wears the nan off, | exposing the bale gray foundation in I abort order. A piece of woolen cloth, rubbed over a hat with .ft circular I motion tliat coufo ins to the grain, | doesu't rub off the nap at all, but keeps it lustrous aud firm aud of good color. I buy one two-'un-a-lialf hat a year, aud rub it each morning with a bit of flannel. I guarantee that it outlasts three live-dollar hats that are I raked and scraped with whisks every day."—Philadelphia Becord. The Booster was Game. A Rockland young man is the owner of a smart rooster and has long enter tained suspicion that the bird might • have inherited gaiuey characteristics from some long-forgotten ancestor. To apply this theory to an actual test, he went home the other night, sur reptitiously conveyed the parlor mir ; ror into the hen-pen, and held it be fore the gaze of Ihe wondering roos ter. The youug man was not kept long in suspense, ;ig to the bird's fighting qualities, .{iter a brief, iu j credulous glance at the proud reflec tion in the glass, the rooster deseeud -1 ed upon the object with spurs set and wrath gleaming from each head-like eye. There was a crash, a smash aud a clatter, and when the dust aud feathers cleared away, the youug i sportsman stood a dismayed spectator i in the center of a pile of runs formed of broken inirrow, slats and pulver- I ized plate glass. He is now satisfied with the rooster, but how he squared I himself about the broken mirror is not known.—Bangor Whig and Courier. II in Will Nil Bye. ! On oue occasion the; 6 was an argu ment going on before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, and the attorneys wore using a map lo il lustrate the case. Oue attorney, in the course of his presentation of the case, pointed to the map iu question, wheu Justice Gray asked him what 1 the map was. "Why, your honor, it it is just a bird's-eye view of the land in controversy," answered tho coun sellor. "We'll," said Juslipe Gray, "I wish you would bring the map a littlo nearer; I haven't got- a bird's eye."—Argonaut. ill* Kliin Call oil. I One of the boys was bragging of his I manifold accomplishments until one of the company at the round table lost patience aud said, in a gruff' toue: i "X6w, we've heard enough about what you can do. Come, tell us what there is you can't do, aud I'll under take to do it myself." "Well," replied the student, with a yawu, "I cau't pay my account here. So glad to find you're the man to da it."—Collier'a Weekly. I TALIS OF FLOCK ] ! AID ADVENTURE. § ILsviWwwx?>!S®3^ llootnlng With n lloar. ~T~ IV ONI A is a part of our globe I f* where fondness for pets co- J V exists with love of sport. A I Russian subject from that provinco tells me of the strange con sideration evinced by one of her | neighbors for the feelings of a bear, writes a correspondent of the London • News. The animal had an odd fancy 1 for sleeping indoors and in a bed. To humor him a room in a tower was al- I ways left open for the animal. Some nights he came and availed himself of the hospitality, but often he stayed out in the woods. If he arrived at his tower, and mouuted the long flight of I steps which led from outside to his ! own door, and found that anything prevented his entrance, the bear made ! a horrible noise, growling and batter ing tfca door. In Livonia, during the brief North ern summers, the local magnates visit each other without prior arrangement, and they arrive prepared to stop the eight. it not infrequently occurs ;hat many carriages converge at tho ; same time on one country house, with i ;he result that as uiauy as forty beds | may be required. A large influx of visitors arrived one night at the house ; where the beav had his room. Tho ; last comer was a timid youth, a cousin I >f the house. The host met him, radi ant: "What a pleasure, Ivan. You'll snd half tho relations here. But, ilas, you'll not have a good room. Every other corner is full. There's inly tho left. As you know, tho hear comes there. But never mind. He does not put iu an nppearauco every night." The young man would faiu have gone further, but the nearest country house was teu miles off, his horse tired, and the hospitable relations very pressing in their invitation to him to reraaiu. Ho was greatly afraid of tho bear, but still more afraid of of fending host, hostess and all tho other ! cousins and neighbors. He decided i ;o stay, and at last retired to rest in a large, squaro room, with two bods in i it. lie inquired if he might uot bar i >ur tho bear (the door had but a ; latch), but he was told that no fasteu i ings might be used; tho boa- was too Qoisy if shut out. He "would not let i soul in the place have a wink of sleep." Besides, "he wasn't coming very like i ly." And further, "there wasn't any means of altogether fastening the door." "It was left on the latch on purpose." The last words of a rather ileepy cousin to the new comer were; "Better take the bed in the far cor ner, Ivan." The guest cftu hardly be said to nave slept there. The terror of Bruin kept him awake at first, and ;hen Bruiu himself. For in the small lours a shambling step and a sound >f claws on the steps and balustrade froze thebloodiu the unhappy youth's veins. The noise came nearer. There was a fumbling at the latch. With great growling and grumbling, Bruin entered and put himself to bed iu the 1 couch near the door. Then the beast grumbled, grunted, and seemed to ; ' sniff. That snifling alarmed the other ! occupant of the room most of all, for ; j he thought it meant that the bear i scented him, aud might resent his - presence. The wretch dared scarcely i breathe. Dawn was breaking, but r that was only another danger; the bear ' might see him. Bruin, a great, curled lump above the blankets, became in ! due time visible to bis fellow lodger. * Tuen the beav snored! There was ! . comfort in that sound. But soon he ; t rolled about, and growled and groaned I , discontentedly. The heart of the : watcher beat painfully loud. Ho j dared not rise. He had not nerve j . enough to pass tho sleeping animal . and rush dowu tho steps. Terror . paralyzed the youth, and prudence . whispered that "inactivity" can be t Bomotiuies "masterly." H The slow hours dragged on. All the . compauy had assembled downstairs at . breakfast, but Bruin still slept, and . tho timid cousin watched him with I eyes that burned and throbbed. At 3 last the host said: "Where's Ivan? I Where's the bear, too?" and a messen -1 ger was dispatched to the tower, thore r to find a pallid guest aud his unin i- vitcd companion. The messenger J routed out the bear, who had been . kept as a pet wheu a cub, and who I was really only half a wild beast—and I helped the nerve-shattered youth to t dress and join the breakfast party. Pocl<t Knife lllx Only Weapon. , A wolf skill, badly cut about, the loft side and slashed across the neck " aud back, has bepu received by W. J R. MoFadden fc Sons, taxidermists, of ' Denver, for full mounting. * l There is a story in these slashes 1 and cuts aud the order that the skin 0 be full mounted as a trophy. It is full of desperate courage and goes to k ■ prove that a lone wolf is not the J cowardly creature that he has been 1 represented. It shows, too, that a * 1 man, aimed with only a pocket knife, * is a terrible power among beasts wheu 3 it comes to a hand-to-hand conflict. '* - The hide >Vus sent in by William K. Bouldin. Bouldin encountered the wolf in a ! hand-to-haud fight. The hide aud s the gaping slashes around the heart u tell how tho battle waged and was * j won, and Bouldiu's mangled arm aud '• several loug, gaping parallel outs I | jn his left side near the flank tell how t - desperately tho baudit of the plaius '• | endeavored to maintain "his right of I sovereignty. ( Bouldin is a sheep herder and grazes . his flock near Deer Trail, Col. One k day last week he was out as usual with the herd and about evening, as he was grazing back to the ranch, he Saw a huge gray wolf galloping to wards the head of the flock. Bouldon was armed with only a pocket knife. He had barely time to jerk tho small-bladed weapon out aud open it before the wolf was upon him. Bouldiu held the knife in his right hand and guarded his throat and ab domen with his loft arm. Tho wolf's first spriug was at the man's throat. He was warded off but his teeth snapped together on Bouldin's arm with a grip like a steel trap. Bouldiu dug the .brute in the left side with his kuife time anil again before he would release his hold. The next spring the gray wolf made was for the herder's flank, just above the hip. He missed his hold but cut two long gashes in the flesh. Ha got a terrible rip from Bouldin's knife as he came. Then the man and beast fought fciriously. The wolf would alternately snap at Bouldin's side and then mangle the protecting arm. Bouldin kept digging at the wolf's heart, catting him once down the mane on his neck and once between the shoulders. Finally the mau got in a hard dig that weakoned the ani mal. At the next lunge he got his knife into the brute's heart. They had beeu lighting for over a quarter of an hour. Bouldiu was covered with blood and very weak, hut managed to reach the ranch, where his wounds were dressed. Tho wolf was brought iu by the rauch hands. He was a huge one and evidently an old marauder. The carcass weighed something over 100 pounds aud was in flue condition. His skin was stripped off, the skull taken andHjoth sent to Denver for mounting. The animal's canine teeth, both upper and lower, measure consider ably over an inch in length, and the grinding teeth were sharply cusped aud terrible weapons in tearing. Coolness Saves Hlin. George Laud ford, one of the great eat oarsmen ever graduated by Vale, uas lost bis left arm in an accident in the Joliet (III.) mills of the MoKenna Steol Working Company, of which he is superintendent. While inspecting somo of the faulty machinery, in a position so perilous that he had hesi tated to order any mechanic to perform tho task, Langford was blinded by steam, and, groping, caught his baud in a pair of cog wheels. The cogs wound in his hand and arm to the shoulder, and then Lang ford managed to free himself. Ampu tation was performed forty-five min utes after the accideut. The patient's life was despaired of during the evening, but later he rallied, and now, ou account of his magnificent physique, he is said to be out of dan gel'. At the time of the accident the white-hot steel bars wero rolling through the presses, and in between tbem Langford crept. A misstep would have burned him to death. Just before the bars enter the rolls streams of water are turned upon them. When the water was turned on a dense cloud of steam rose aud completely enveloped Langford. Langford retained uot only his con sciousness when his arm was caught, but presence of mind, and, throwing his weight to one side, gradually worked the arm to tho whoel and ex tricated it. Then creeping out he rose aud walked quietly away, with the arm hanging limp at his side. He fell cxhnusted at the threshold of the factory, but did not lose conscious ness. AVhen relief came be directed the method of binding up the arm to stop tho bleeding. Langford refused to take ail anaes thetic, and for the success of tho oper ! ation the physicians were obliged to ! administer chloroform by strategy. Langford rowed in the Harvard- Yale-Cornell race of 1.897, aud iu the Henley regatta of 189 G. • Brave Nettie McWtlllnms. I Miss Nettie McWilliams, daughter of Captain James McWilliams, oue of I the richest ranchers and cnttlemen iu I Texas, has won for herself a reputa ' tion of being the bravest girl iu the ! State. Wheu she was iu her nine teenth year a baud of twenty Apaches made a descont in her father's ranch one day when but three men were at home, her father being away with the rest of his employes. As the Indiaus approached the house with yellp aud tired guns at the doors aud windows, the young girl aud her three meu fired back and killed threo of the Savages without themselves receiving a scratch. The Indians fell hack and concealed them selves behind the stockade of the cor ral. Iu the meantime it was neces sary that tho little band in tho house should have reiuforcemouts, aud Net tie, assuming command, insisted that it should he she who should risk her life and go for help. Giving three sharp notes ou a little silver whistle, her pet horse came to tho back door and was let into the house. The girl saddled and bridled hitn, and, riding him ont of a door op posite to the hiding place of the In dians, was half a mile away befora they discovered her. She fortunately met a force of eight cowboys, who gladly agreed to return with her. Net tie acted as guide aud leader. As they neared her home shots were falling hot aud heavy. Night had fallen in the meantimo, and under cover of the darkness they came within a hundred yards of the marauders unseen. Then they fired into them, and but five In dians escaped. Nettie herself shot the leader, Black Wolf, who was said to be the worst Indian on the border. The time a telegram needs to go from London to Alexandria ia twenty minutes; to Bombay about ona hour; to Pekin two hours, aud to Melbourne three hours; from London to New York 2J minutes.
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