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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-9-29, Page 6eor D soonramed Parma. J1WES WiiiroMOS speak of ; but yon're another doctor, and that's enough. for me. Look here 1 I tell yoa whet I tell every doctor I see ; I've got an The summeat win& is sniffle: round the bloom= Mame trees. =wine of a hundred and severity thousand And *to elover in the paetur is a big day for francs a yeer, and I'll give ave-amil-tolventY the bees, thousand, money dosvn, to the doctor who'll And they've been a ewiggize boney above board cure me of this—aold. A pretty good fee— and on the sty. Tilt they stutter in their buzeinand stagger os eh t.'" they fin, "1 hope you don't think," wild De * * Calo, "that a physician can do for twenty- five thousand franca what he cannot do They's been a heap Mraiu, but the sun's out to -day, - Au d the olonEre a the wet spell lean cleaved " Gammon 1. Don't tell me that the doe - away • tors will leave a raillionare with the measlee Arid the wonis is all the greener and the grass for a coal -heaver with a cholera. Do you is gnome still, It may rain again tomorry, but I don't thiok it think I'd go to theni if they were a pack of wile fools? For twenty-five thousand francs I feel safe that the beet et them tries his • Some say the crops are ruined and the corn's drowned out, very best I've figurecl it all out, and based And prophesy the wheatevill be Manure with- my reckoning on a careful estimate of the out doubts highest professional income. I've reckoned But the kind Providence that has never failed yet that less mightn't be euough, but that _ us Will be on handonetmore at the Ieventh hour, more would be \vested. That'e business; I bet, i and a man that gives less or more than be need for wbat he wants is a fool." Does the ineadow lark complain as he swims high and dry " Pig!" the doctor would have exclahn- Threueh the waves of the wind and the Minot ed,. had. he spokeu his thought aloud. quail set up and syhistle in a tlisivir It was true he wanted money badly; bub he Does the qua the sky e pointed way. was far too much of a physician by, nature Er bang his head in silence and. sorrow all the to measure his interest in a case by its pos- day7 sible profits; though Merrick did not think health a faso, he would really throw over a dozen ern - Is the chiprciunk's. failure Does he ? wait or does he rani perms for a coalleaver, if the coal-heaver's Dont the buzzards ooze around up there just case ermined him more to learn, He had like they've anus donehall a mind to at once astonish his patient fs there anything-. Mae matter witb the rooster's lungs or voice 1 and vietclicate the honor of his profession by Ore a mortal be complainin• whet:trim-an am- coldly undertaking the case for nothing; but mare rejoice 1 the other half of his mind was wiser, and he did not tell Mr. Merriek that health is one Then lotus, one molten, be contented with our lot;of the only two thirige aid,* money cannot , The June is here this morning and the sun Is buy. . raining hot "Yan see it's really important 1 should Oh, lotus tlet our hearts with the glory of the den, get well," said Mr. Merrick, sinking into a And brutish <Wry doubt and care and. sorrow chair. "It's not as if Ism some poor devil far away! who doesn't matter whether he lives or dies. Whatever be our station, with Providence for I've got seven tbensand- a Yeax—Pulleis a guide. sterling! and how can a man get the good Such fine eirettnistancee ort to make ne eatim out of his namely unless he's weill It isn't Sett either, as if I didn't know the use of money. For the world. is full of roses and roses full of dew. I tell you, doctor, it's hard. There's such Andthe due is fella heaveuly love that drips a lot of good. I could do. I could go into for amend you.the besb society; I could keep a -cellar fit for --......----,-.1. a duke; 1 could have my wheel; and my illE HEAT VIATER-CRESS TRAGER fling; and I might double my capital 0.11 the while, for I'm one that knows how to make pleasure pay. Now, I put it as men to man —look at me, aud say if it isn't bard I" Dr. Oslo did look at him, and sharply, bat ha did not say. Mr, isierrickn huskiness had leecome a whine. "And then there's a pack of wretch- es, poor relations, withoutes hundred pounds among them, and serve them right—it's my duty to live to disappoint every man and woman .11We of 'em ; and I'll do it, if I die. (r. There was a good deal of flightiness about /eater Oslo, But anybody who judged him iy his mere manner would fired himself con- idembly mistaken. The Parisian professors tyould have told you tint they knew of no keener and. cooler brain than the youug Rehm). physiman s ; of no meow man from whom they expeeted greater things. It is igeg, I don't mean that ; but you know true that .his fellow statlents had, froni the what g te„tt Why, would you believe it? first, styled him "The Madman," and hied —there's a cousin of mine, a poor devil of collected, or invented, any number of anee- 1 a ourate, that had the face to write to me dotes to justify the title ;and it is also trite the other day for a loan of five pounds, be - that one exceedingly shrewd old physician j „me his wig, was tig and he'd got a had once said; " Cala ? the best brain in Isixth child, and a. lot of stuff about a wolf Franca but I'd sooner trust myself alone and a door—as if there were any wolves in with o tiger than with Cala A man with- England, and as if, if there was, they'd look out a heart is madder than a man without for flesh on a curate's bones I" a brain. Look at his eyea" But he never "it was eeet„geee for the poor man to sold anything more; and it was not such an have so rick a cousin," said Dr. Oslo, for easy thing to look steadily at Dr. Calo's1 the sake of saying sonactlung while he used eyes And long before he was out of his his eyes. studentship his nickname had becomes% title 1 si Wasn't it ? If he beeln't, he wouldn't of honor, and then forgotten. have had the lesson I sent him on the wick. Of course sueh a man was destined to be edness of giving to beggars—political aeon - a specialist by nature ; and gradually he oney, you kuow ; pauperizes the popula- directed his studies mere and more upon the .tiegeeatul the other wickedness of ono breething-appezatue of man and other 1pauper marrying another, aud keeping animals, until they exercised -upon him the up the breed. He's wiser now, He won'e born specialist's tascivation. He had not 1 try the begging.letter dodge again. hly really exaggerated one whit when he de- father, who was jut the biggest old feel scribed. to Guido his idea of the earthly that ever lived, made a fool of a will, so paradise as living in a greet bospital for that if anything was to hempen to me, and consumption, where he might earry on end- I had no children, all my rimaey go.s less researches into phthisis he all its forms, among my consius—as if it wasn't against with stethoscope, microscope,and dissecting - knife, and with occasional experiments of that darker kind which modern science, like aneient magic, prefers to conceal from the light of day. And as he proceeded in Ms investigation of demi and living nature, more and more convinced he grew that se- emlier' consamption is due to a single cause, whether germ or not, and thee to discover the cause would be to diecover the cure. And with this belief grew the ambition to be the man by whom the mutually dependent cause and cure were to be found. Neverthelese, into practice he had not even yet begun to fall. He had, in one way and another'some thousands of pa- tients, and yet hzid never received a fee. No doubt he did not go the right way to attract patients to come to bim ; but the same old professor who had made that soli- tary criticism on his sanity was fond of say- 1 some day I shall give a family party. I ing that a physician who would prosper 1 shall ask my relations to a feeti—won't they must bear in mind that even the most inter- open their eyes 1—and they'll find its a eating of patients is alter all, a eellow,lchristening. I shall have married secretly creature, and never goes twice to the prac- I Yon knew the first they know of it will be titioner who thinks of nothine but curing the sight of the sou and -heir." "What V' exclaimed Dr. Oslo at last, aloud. hlarry—you "Why do you speak as if that were any- thiug out of the way? To be sure. Am I to old ?" "No; but--" "Am I ugly?" "Oh, signori Ugly is very far indeed from being the word! Bub—" " Disagreeable ? A man who cannot be loved for himself alone? Why, if I were all that, haven't I seven thousand a year? But, as you say, I'm no fool. Pm going to marry for love, I am—love on both sides. A girl that I can marry here en the quiet, so that my little joke won't be spoiled; a foreigner, with no friends or relatione to bother one, only a sot of a father, who'll be no trouble; a girl of bum- ble rank, who'll look up to me, and won't have extravagant ways; and, last and best, the prettiest young creature in the world, who adores the very ground I stand on. I declare to you, doctor'she has such a passion for me that she'dhave me without a penny. What do you say to that, doctor Dr. Oslo had never come across a pa- tient who iaspired him with such utter loathing. Mr. Merrick had been odious enough while boasting of his purse, and of his malice and. meanness, but this last brag was the most repulsive of all. The very- idea of a young and pretty girl, who- ever she was, selling herself to this creature made the doctor feel positively Lumen veith anger. And—now he came to think of it—surely this must be the rival who stooe in his old comrade Guido's way. He did not think what sort of a girl she must be who would throw over her lover tor such a husband as this ; for he had nevezespeculated on women except as cases. Indeed, that a girl should take the richer bidder was, no doubt, only natural—more fools men to bid .for them, wben there were so many much more inter- esting things in the world. But he did. think it monstrous that Guido should be cut out by one with whoin he could not have even the satisfaction of fighting. "I'm hanged if you shall be cured I" he thought; to himself, forgetting for onee the obligation of his profession to restore to the world for a. few more years of wickedness even one who deserved nothing better than hanging. "1 wouldn't do Guido such an ill turn for tee times the money." How- ever, he set to nserk upon hie exarnination justice that a man can't do what he likes with his own, married or single, dead or alive! So even if there wasn't my own en- joyment to think at, all wasting away in the prime of life, there's all those male and. female paupers to disappoint anO sell, as they deserve. Wouldn't you like to see their faces when they find I've got a sou and heir—eh? Dr. Oslo's own face could not help show. ing some of his disgust at the spite, malice, and atapid yet self -conceited sei fishnese dis- played in every tone aud grin of this wretched skeleton; bat the disgust was thrown away. "And I mean to see 'em, too," said Mr. Merrick, smirking and chuckling as well as his believe cough would allow. "I'm going to he married. as soon as I'm well, and then him; winch also may have had something to do with the matter. Sa,verio Calo—as a. fellow -student more flippantly and brutally put it—gave a patient an idea that he would rather prefer, on the whole, not to care him so that he might have another opportunity of looking inside for the cause. In any case, things began to be serious; they seemed to threaten a phthisis or atrophy of the purse, in which the most microscopic investigation would be unable to discover a centiine. Therefore had the doctor come on a visit to his native place, not for a holiday, which he abhorred, nor out of home -sickness, which he never felt, but simply to see if among the Calo family which is extensive and complicated in those parts, there might be some fractional inheritance waiting to be claimed. And therefore, also, he had not been sorry to fall across a briefless advocate ahnost at his first arrival, who rmght be glad to take a case cheaply. For, as mostly happens, his enthusiasm in one direction was balanced by corresponding prudence in most others. Seeing that " La Traviata," the only opera for which he cared, was set down for performance, he spent his evening ab the theatre ; and then, after the very few hours' sleep which he had trained himself to find enough, a long swim in theses., and a lounge • in the sunshine, he began to think of around of visits to his relations, in tee hope of hear- ing something that he might turn to his advantage. And he was engaged in putting She last touches to such a toilet as might became a physician from Paris, and arrang- • Irg degrees of long -forgotten cousinship itt • his mind to whistled scraps of last night's music, when— "Dr. Can ?" said a voice that seemed to come !men some cousim twenty times remoy. ed at the very nest, so feeble it sounded, • and so faraway. • "1 ant Dr. Saverio Calm" he answered, inetinctively stiffening into an extra -pro- fessional air at the emeciated figure which could easily have entered through the merest chink of the door. - "Ah!Tina doubtless yon have heard of Merricit—the famoue Albert Merrick— who has baffled your whole precious faculty for years/ "Von wish to consult me ?" "I hear you're fresh from Paris. I haven't been fn Paris for a long while, so maybe they've founsl out something or other since my time. 1 never, near.' speak of you till last night, so 1 suppose sou aren't much to with stethoscope and thermometer, asking a few pointed, questions the %elide, until at last— " Well?" risked Mr. Merrick, "How long will it be before len cured?" Bat Dr. Cato remained portentously silent and graveIle was once more only the physiman, wholly wrapped up in his case, and that cane a lead one. "Signor," he said at last, "it is my duty to tell you that you are very, very ill. There is nothing puzzling in rue case. I only wish it were not so plain. Well I am speaking, no doubt, to a men of omega We must all die, a little sooner or a little later; what does it matter when 1 It is true there are things one would not like to leave undone, so long as there is a chance of doing them. The discovery of the true theory of phthisis, for example; but that happily is not the case with you. Ah, it is a great thing to die in the knowledge that it Is the very best thing one can do -both for one's self and for one's frieuds. Yes; it is my only duty to suggest that you beconae rem oneiled, toyour relations, and to settle your affairs; and—to lose no time." ," What!" cried Mr. Merrick, trying to start to his feet, but iin.nediately sinking back tato his chair, where he crouched and shivered. You mean that I am go- ing to-- It is monstrous ; it is infamy! Look here," he whined, "I'll make it double the money—there 1—every .penny of fifty thousand fraucs—if yon'll give me a chauce of a cure. I'm not. fit ; I'm not ready ; and those cousins of mine will get it all." Dr. Oslo had never learned any tact; and if he had, he would no longer here used it, for the creature made him feel brutel. Signor, said he, "not your whole for- tune would buy you oue more of the few days still left you. I would cure eont if I could, but you are past curiug. I would give you hope if I could; but there can be no hope, becanse there is no doubt. A sim- pler and plainer case was never seen." For some time Mr. Merrick remained *silent, while Dr, Cale mentally grumbled ag ,inst fate for having, after ao much bril- liant promise, sent hen a, ease so utterly commouplece and an profoundly uninterest- ing. It must have been full ten minutes be- fore the case spoke again, but to hitnself rather than to the doctor. "Then it must be done at once. They shan't have It, that's flat --not a penny more than I can prevent 'ent. I'll marry Irene at once; and then, whatever happens, snap ray fingers at 'ern all." "What 1 you. will marry 1" cried the doc- tor, carried out of himself with disgust and. amazement. "You, on the edge of the greens?" "Yes, I will. You speak as if my life —mine—was no use. It te of use. It's to undo my fool of a father's fool of a wilL" "And he'll do it, too," thought the doc- tor, as the doomed mu fell into silence again, "Doctor," said he once more, «1 was once told that people had been brought back from the grave by water-cresses. Do you think there might be any chance of its being true ?" "Certainly not. Who ever told you such rubbish ?" "Well, it was only an old w0Man„ But WM.% VM.2 " S o 1 should suppose "But sometimes those ola women do say uncommonly curious things. And if it's the only chance left, 1 might try it. Would it do any harm!" "As much harm as good; neither leas nor more. But--" All at once it bril. limit thought flashed into the doctor's mind. " You're quite right,—it won't do an atom of harm ; and it some other old woman tells you something else, try that, San, And, by the way, there are famous creases at it place called San Glove. Only ' if you think of going there, go at once for there's no time to lose, whatever you try." "then you think--" "I think it is &coincidence that youthould have thought of waterelresses, just when you are within a day's journey of the finest and most plentiful in all Italy. And as to , old women—there's no knowing, after all. I Yos, go to San Giove, and. stay there; order I it post -chaise, add go now." "And Irenel" "Irene ?" "The girl I'm going to marry—" " Myna think of kenos before water- uresses, I've nothing to say. If you like to coramit suicide, that's no affeir of mine." "Is it as bad as that?" "Just so bal. Here's your one chance ; and there you site thinking*how you can throw it away." "No, doctor. Pin not it fool. I'll peck up and go." Da Cele sighed with relief as he heard his detestable ratient coughing his way down -stairs. " Waternresses What an ides to bring back to life a num who in three weeks will be in his grave. But Berin rid of him, and that's a bleasing. The brute, to be cheating me into interest in a common, vulgar case of straightforward galloping consumption 1" And. so forth he went to visit his ielatives and frieuds—and Irene was saved. (TO ng CONTrguED.) The Boy's .Room. Too little attention is given to the boy's room, who sometimes feels injured to see all the fancy articles carried off to his sister's shrine'though he will doubtless declare he hates fussed -up things. If you want to make the young man of the family thorough- ly happy, see that he has an ample wash- stand with a very large basin and room to splash. Then he prefers it single brass bed- stead, or, if this is too expensive, an iron one painted. He may be quite fastidious about this, liking a chintz flounce like his curtain and easy -chair cushion, or he may deem flounces and frills unsuitable for the abode of a boy. As he grows older there is one piece of furniture vehicle is just as popu- lar with young men as the dressing table is with young woinen. It is a .00mbination dressing stand with a mirror at the right height for shaving, above two small drawers for his ties, stud box and other small be- longings. Below are three or four large drawers for shirts and underwear. There are several varieties of these stimils. I saw a new combination recently which beside these drawers had a long one at the bottom for trousers and the watdrobe an the side for coats, with a railed -in space for canes and umbrellas, enabling the possessor to keep all his belongings in a small space. Collar and cuff boxes are a necessity, not a luxury, if you would teach him neat habits. His mani- cure set ratty also be just as elegant as his sister's. He needs a few hanging book shelves for those authors who are his pecul- iar delight, and perhaps a cabinet for the curiosities which he has interested himself to collect. "I will do anything to make my boy's home pleasant," said it wise mother, who was having several cheeps made to suit her eon's taste for antique objects. To enable him to keep these nicely, she had shelves put ia a clothes closet and glass panels placed in the door, forming a cabi- net -A -Brooklyn Eagle. HUNTING IN AMIGA. VaPenting a Ferocious Black -maned ann. M. Olergett, who was an eceeatric and it miser, died in Paris in 1869, For the last ten years of his life he visited the Royal Zoological Garden almost daily, and he al- ways took his stand before the cage of a cer- tain lion named Majestic. The beast wear; very large andpowerful animal, and between him and the miser there came about a friend- ship which was the talk of all visitors, hi, Clergett was the only human being who dar- ed put his hand into the cage and caress tee beast, and had it been perniitted he would have entered the cage. He had only oue fault to find with Maiestio, The monerch Yeas note, blacken twat-1.11mi. A great French hunter who had travelled in Aide% liacl told him, of seeing a. black -maned lion, which was a far larger beast, and he was never satisfied with his pet after that. The lion after it captivity of sixteen years, died in April, 1869. M. Clergeth died. twenty days later, It is said that he died of grief at the loss of Majestic. Be that as it may, be left awill in which. the sato of $15,000 was donated to the zoo " to pro- cure from Africa a full-grown specimen of the bleak -maned lion, who shall be named after me." It was provided that "011 each and every Sabbath day the said lion shall be entitled to five pounds of dressed fowl ia act- eition to his regular diet of fresh meat," and at death he was to have a tombstone setting forth his name and other pertiou- lareh Te bequest was accepted, as the oldrnis- er turned out to be very well off, and hed no relatives to go to la -W over his Will. An order Was at once despetehed to TIM ORKAT Annan dealer at Hamburg, but black -maned lions are like white elephants—few and far be- tween. The home had not bad one in five years. The order was placed to be filled, however, and one day, weeks later, while I was in the Buchuena country, and heti se- cured a rhbloceros and two leopards, a let. ter was received by messenger from the coast which read; Prop all other work until vou have eaptuved fali grown black-mened lion. Muse ba perfect speeimen. To read was to obey. Within half an hour I was sending out couriers to the natives with the promise of a musket and fifty charges of powder to any one who could fernish the information wanted. The news reached it village fifty miles away be- fore anything came of it Then an old man sent me word to come and eee hity, aud when I had arrived I found that he had just reached home from it visit to it 'village nearly afty miles to the wee. Theme he had beheld a black -maned lion with his own twee, ond had cone very near falling & vic- tun to him se well,. 'The beast had just made its appearance= the locality, and was described as the largest, lion nay of the no.- ttves had ever seen. He had an nuusually heavy inane, end it was almose jet black, while his color was that of a mouse =stead of tawny. This letter feet, if it Was it fact, proved that the animal was not yet more than 10 years old, though full grown. The old man offered to guile us to the village, and after a throe -days' rnerch we reached it to find a collection of about fifty huts on the banks of it small river, Stretching away to the uorth was A STEMIX MAIN, and. two milee in rear of the village was a range of mountains. Between the stream and the mountains the ground Was fertile, and the villagers were living in peace and plenty. At night their cattle were securee in a kraal or pen, constructer' of logs and thorn Weitzel au d up to the date of the appearance sthe blook-maned lion no wild beast had. ever got into the pen. The new arrival had signalized his Fes - once by carrying off mu: of the herders, and only the night before our arrival be had leaped the barricade, killed a steer about two years old, and removed the body to it mass of rooks fully a mile front the village. The trail was still fresh, and could have been followed to the spot where the lion was sleeping after bis meal. The fence was seven or eight feet high. A lion could leap into the pen easy enough, but the fact of this fellow leaping out again with his prey was something to -excite wonder. There was plenty of bloods and hair on the theme and sharpened sticks, but it ap- peared that he had. neatly eleared the fence with his heavy and awkward burden. In- deed, a dozen or more of the villagers who had been turned out by the rumpus in the pen saw the lion as he came out He also saw them, and roared damns and waited for them to dime forth and give battle. When In wont away he had the carcass of a steer by the neek, and he drew the body along the ground. A lion does not leap into a kraal until he has made the circuit of in two or three times and selected aparticular spot. If he comes again hemakes use of thesame spot, provided it has not meanwhile been repaired. Know- ing this to be a fact, the natives seek his destruction by digging it pit inside the fence ata spot where he will alight. This fellow, as was clearly to be seen, had made his bound six feet from the base of the, fence aud had alighted at about, the same distance ou the other side. It was not to be expect- ed that he would return that night, but we at once began work on apit. When com- pleted it was ten feet long, six feet wide, and twelve feet deep, and we out and drew up a lot of heavy poles to place across it in case we had to keep him prisoner for two or three days. No attempt was made to conceal the pit, as the fence was thick at that point. It was a full moon that night, and from my post in one of the huts' I caught sight of the lion at about 9 o'clock. He did not roar when leaving his lair, bub came out of his thicket as silently as it cat moving on its prey. He came down to within 200 feet of the kraal and then STOon5D LISTutigo and sniffed the air as it his suspicious had been aroused. He was a fine target for a rifle, but under the circumstances he was safe from my fire. The cattle soon scented him and crowded to the other side of the pen, and the dogs of the village likewise made a great fins, but his lordehip was not in the least put out. I could not have seen him better by daylight. By the use of my glass I had han within a few feet of me, and I saw that he was a grand speci- men. Aside from his mane he had black tufts on his legs, with a black plume at the end of his tail, and I was determined to make him my prize if it took a year of wait- ing and Planning. The natives said that the lion was not hangry, but had come out for exercise and to epy around. He was in full view for more than a quarter of an hour, and what startect him off was the dis- tant roar of another lion. He roared in reply, and it seemed as if the sound would hake down the roof of the hut Half an hour later we heard the sounds of a terrific combat half a. mile away, and the natives whispered: • "That is good. Fighting will make hien hungry and less cautious, and to-morroW nireht we shall capture him." Next morning some of the men scouted around ond foetid the spot where the fieht took place. It was on an open spot between thiekete, with grass. four Indies high cin the earth. The struggle had been a terrible one. The sod wee torn up, the grass revered with spots of blood and tufts of hair, and a trail was found where one of Mgt fighters had dragged himself =to the thioltet. Two of the men followed ib and founil a grand old lion lying dead. Whoa he had, been pulled out we found hint to be above the usual size and about 16 yeers old. The bones in both fore lege and in one hind leg had beim crush- ed, an eer torn off, his throat drea,dfaIly mangled„ and his hide so torn that be was not worth skinning. Male lions never meet without a terrifie battle, but it seidom oc- curs that one is killed, The one that getzi the worst of it take e to flight, and the vic- tor is satisfied with holding the battle- :sae:dad to rush for the kraal as soon as he That night no man in the village went to bed. It was expected that our lion would show up at an early hour, and all were pre - should leap in. A bit of carelessneas on the part of the herders brought about another disappointment In driving in the cattle they had failed to round up a yearling calf, and we heard nothing from the estray until She lion had shown himself. just at dusk he roared loudly, and as the moon came up wo. caught sight of him advancing upon the kraal. The calf was on the other side of the enclosure keeping very quiet, but as the lion stopped and roared again VIZ IOIMUTENED began running oromed the pen to seek for the gate. As he mune eround on our side, running blindly and never seeing the lion, the latter crouched and aprang: The dia. theme was about fifty feet. He oivided this into three leape—the first two et fifteen feet each, aud the third at to elite,. I had& fair- ly good look at his movements, and I was astonished at his activity. The pause be- tween bis bounds was only a breath. As he struck the calf he seized it by the neck and wrenched to right and left, killing it on the instant He did not offer further violence, probably being satisfied that his viotim was deed, but for five minutes he stood 'facing us with hie paws on the carcass and growl- ed. defiance. Had 0. mem shoven himself out-. side of a hut the lion would have charged right at hint. After awhile, finding that, his defiance was not accepted, he picked. the calf up and trotted away as a dog would with a bone. Twice before he reenhed the thicket he paused to look back, but we had no thoughte of moving out, of our alleluia Aa the calf was not in good condition, the natives believed the lion would return next mete, but he dui not Orders were issued for the people to keep very quiet during the day, and for the herd to be pen- ned an hour earlier than usual. On the second night, just at duet, we heard the old fellow roaring good and strong as lie left his lair,and the head man said. to nee "We are sure of him this time. Can't you tell by his roar Ilia bela lumgryl Ho will come straight to the kraal.' It is doubtful if the lion ever roars be- cause of hanger. His roar may rather be considered it challenge to Ms enemies. It is it signal 545 he has finished his nap and is ready to Meet all comers, and all the smaller animals flee in contusion when Ma tonea are heard. Tho natives insisted, how- ever, and. they were right, except that he did not appear tao, soon as expected. He • went off in tho other direction, roaring at lutervals, and, perhaps, looking for a change of diet. It was° ose on to 11 o'clock, end we WA not heart his voice for an hour, when 1 suddenly heard something walking with it tread as heavy as that of tut ex. I thought it was an ote until I saw the lion himself. The moon was now up, 8,nd ho edvanced upon the kraal svithout even look- ing our way. kris bearing exhibited grim determination. Ile walked STRAW= TO Tag sr= where he had leaped in before, halted for an instant to see if the fence had been strengthened, and, with an angry growl and a switch of his tail, he went over. The °netted bellosved and rushed about, but after a couple of minutes the head man whispered: He fell into thepit See! the -cattle have become more quiet Let us go at once." .At a signal we all rushee for the gate and opeued it. A mistake would mean death to Inc or three, but the native had reasoned correctly. We were nota moment too soon, hewever, as the fellow Was springing up and catching the banks with his paws. We hustled the poles across tbe excevation, weighted them down, and then everybody in the village began to sing and yell and dance. I had promised the people it keg of rum, ten pounds of powder, and five muskets in case of a capture, and the reward was a big thing to them. The cattle were turned out, fires were lighted, and all spent the night in watching and rejoicing. Ninety- nine times in it hundred a lion is sio sooner trapped than he loses all his send, and will whine and beg like a puppy. This fellow was the exception. He roared, growled, and menaced, and bat for the poles he would certainly have got out and wreaked dire re- veengleie When morning came we began building e cage and a cart. He must be transported 430 miles before we could get water trans- portation, and more than 1,000 before we could trensship him to it vessel. The °Igo was made with double bars, eaoh nes large as a man's atm, and of hard wood. We had it ready by night, but the lion was by no means ready to enter it. Our only way was to noose him, place the cage over the pit and draw him up into it by main strength. For two whole days he defied every effort, seeming to grow fiercer with every failure on our part, but on the third clay we got the better of hien. We kept him from food or drink for four days, but he neither fell away uor abatetl one jot of his teroeious spirit 1 aid not start him until the tenth clay of his capture, hoping for a change, but as none came be was finally turned over to a guard of thirty natives, and his journey began. In due time he reached the Royal Gardens, as savage as ever, and even after ten years of captivity he was the most fer- ocious brute in the whole collection, and feared by everybody. He was one of few lions of spirit that taming is an impossibil She Wanted Pia -Money. Mrs. Gruff (timidly): "I'd like a little pin -money to -day, dear, if you can spare it," Mr. Gruff "Pin -money, madame? What do you want with pin -money? What have you done with the ten gross of pens that I brought into this house only last Monday?" What His Attentions Amounted To. Pilkins "So Joinison didn't marry the girl he used to go with !" Wilkins:: " : "Tit" nwhat did his attentions a mo u n itint tseir Wil"They to amounted five thou- sand pounds. The girl sued him for, a breach of promise." age W/17 MANTiOBA.NS ARII BROOMS: At:wintry With a nature stecause the In • habitants Relieve ha it The lifetnitoban of Winnipeg, in lee Sep- tember issue had the following:—Withia the last twoyears Manitoba, by the simetmene of suck laws as The Public &horde Act, and by its strong prohibition sentiment express- ed in the vote on the plebicite, lias sadden- ' ly attained, the exalted posteion as leder ef ' thought among the Canadian Provinces. As yet that thought lies been confined to the framing of what may be called Domestic Legislation, or legislation relating to the homes of the people ; but from domestio legislation it is bourol to spread to other fields of thought aiati action. The questions naturally arise, How are we to accept for this sudden exaltation? What eau* led to its attainment, and is it a natural Pettit' e Lor the province to ocoupy ? The population of Manitoba cans . ta largely of the restless young spirits of other lands, more esoecially of the older provinces. The vast majority of the inhabitants being young men who have come here from it desire to advance their position in life, but a great many of whom have come shnply from a love of change and a fondness for apeculation. This spirit of fondness for claaage and novelty has diffused itself throughout the entire population end penetrated every walk of life. The business inan who has been in business five or six years becomes restless for a change of occupation and location:; the mechenic who has been employed for a O8 n or two in cute place desires to Move to some new sphere of operation ; the teaehe er who contiunee to teach for over two years le a rare specimen of the knight of the rod; while the preacher who in the ease would spend it life time with 0126 flock without either flock or pastor become ing desirous of a change, here seeks fresk fields and pastures new at least every fettle years and the flocks rarely raises any serious objections to the change; even the farmers, who would be expected to settle down and become attached tn ono locality as they do ire other lands, are here given to roam. This innate desire for novelty has led the youthful population of the prairie province to desire to manage the public affairs of the country differently to the manner in which they are managed elite - where. The popular demand ha,s found ite leaders who hex° carried into effect the wishes of the people and brought Manitoba to the front as it progreasive land, But as the years go round, is thin spirib of unrest uot likely to euhside? Are the inhabitants of the province int likely to gradually develop into a quiet easy-going class of toilers of the soil, satisfied with following the thought of the outside world instead of leading it? We must expect this restlessness to decrease as the mass of tho population gets more older beds mm hued with ideas of conservativeism amongst it. Besides it is a wed established fact in Ethnology that matt in every stage of civilizable and in every quarter of the globe, is influenced by his geographierd sarrnuudings. In it level plain like this prairie province of ours, the hardy and daring mountaineer, with his strong imaginative powers and superejection tainted religion, would he an numnaly. In this northern plain we would naturally ex- pect to finci the grave northener tamed and subdued to a monotonous level of thought and action by the monotony of WS physical environment. The fineness of the lanil does nob afford any opportunity ior the develop- ment of the sinagmative faculty and of egger- Manus faith, such as are found in thmeug. god mountain regions. And as ineeritive- nos is a direet result of imaginative power, We can never hope to remain it progresstve people as we advance in years, mikes soma other causes can be found which tend to counteract the effects of the level nature of the land. This country Aloes not possess the luxur. lent a.nd Varied natural growth inoillent te the tropics and which tends to make the inhabitants of those regions MIs and loth- argia These plants which as food for man and beast are cultivated. with labor, for, although the regioe is frigid, still "in the sweat of Our brOwS we have to eat our bread" and as it result activity and phyoical strength is a prime necessity for the in- habitants of the land. The clear, dry iu- vigoreting atmosphere alas fends to pro. duce a buoyant, native spirit, and with bodily activity and strength, mental activ- ity and vigor will coma as a matter of course and must have free exercise. Separated as they are from their eastern fellow eitizens by long stretches of unite, habited wilderness, and from their western compatriots by almost impenetrable moun- tain barriers, the Canadian dwellers of the plains are to a certain extent isolated from the densely populated regions of older Cana- da; consequently the ideas common to the other provinces .will not readily diffuse amongst the mass of the prairie population. The only outside influence likely to operate in the original thought of Manitobans is that of our neighbors to the south, but even that is, to it certain extent, precluded by the restrictive trade relations existine be - tenon the two countries, owing to tho"bigh protective turiffs imposed on both sides of the Inc. Being thus isolated from all out -side centres of population, the vigorous, buoy- ant, mental activity of the people of this province is compelled to find an outlet in its owri originality, and as there is not like- ly to be any change in its physical relation- ship in the near future, Manitoba is bound to keep its lead as a progressive and aggress- ive province for many years. to come. a With The Bleotioians. 4 It is said that roore than half the 4017 street railways iu the -United States have adopted electricity as a motive power. It is officially stated that in England clur. ing July there bad not been a single fire that could be traced to the electric light. The telephone companies of the Pacific coast have been and are now spending a great deal of money in extensions and un- derground work. An electrio screen for doors and windows is so arranged that an alarm is given when- ever an abtempt is made to dieturb them when conneeted with the battery for alarm yurposes. The Edison night lamp consists of ,two fi laments, which, connected in series, give it feint light. The same switch than con- trols the lamp also short-circuits ona fila- ment when a bright light is required. And now a Canadian electrician asserts that elearicity causes the tides and nob the moon. His way of dernonserating ide theory is by eleutrifyleg a rubber comb, which, when drawn over -the surface of the water in a glass filled \ vith thae liquid, is 'followed by a slight wave !nano, The problem of 'long distance tzonsmis- sion of electricity, according ta a new the- ory regarding it, will probably be nelved by the use of high tansiou alteatetiog curren generated at low voltage, then transformed to high voltagened sent aver the line, and finally transformed to a lew teneiete foruse with motors,