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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-2-14, Page 6Ali Advelituro with Beans beer. Doti% caine ene of the Otitis ar: Is as the leWs of avity demanded with hole through 1t4 iieab. The rifle wae heavily charged, and the ball had gone doer threugh I in not a bear hunter, by professien, but the bola sometimes oireuindunees canelAre tclo throW Downoante theeld bear ale° ; and according one out a hie acenetomed sphere (if aotion,Ito moms) story, not /ouch more slowly than and then4 Lille a wheel thowe out Of a 11b, the eub had come. If the reader thinks a hie aclveetete i mete tbtfilleg thee it bear is awkward in climbing cr &wending a We" an evetY"d4Y "eutreece• tree he ought to have been there, and aeon • The scene•of the adventure which I am that: old bear elide down thet oak! There about te relate is in Michigan, an the borders ,tits a slide of about six fsst, then a °law of the filettlet devastated by fire lh the f°11 hold, then another slide and a olaW hold, and sE 1881. Many wild animals were deetrored op on to the bottom. by the fire, and. a few bears with their ham As Pon as Tom fired he retreated a short singed and feet badly burnt, were afterwards distance, and stopped behind a tree to moat killed by hunters. But the most of tlaem riga. vtbou the weapou was again in survived, and were driveo by hunger to seek shooting order he boldly advanced. The re food in new fields where the fire had not wit of the grab shot inspired him with con - been, fidence. The old bear was smelling of lug • Some of theiu came down into our part dead oub, but when she saw Tom coming she t 110 ciountrY, and committed depredations reared up on her haunches, showed lser teeth, In our cornfields. This, of course, was sameand uttered menacing growls. thing new to us, an1 we kept a sharp look. Wheniwithin about four rods, Toni level - oat for them, but they managed in some WY led Ms rifie and pulled the trigger. The re. to keep gut of sight. suit was a faint snap 1 He tried Regain with One day when 1 was weary with reeding, no better memos. It was a p oor cap at est. I went out or a walk. 1 wandered nearly and perhaps not primed. This fact :Amok two miles away from home, and while walk- hisr, with terror. Rita sole dependence was ing along a new piece of road thickly shaded on his rigs, and that had failed. with woods on either side, heard a crackling He turned to floe, but suddenly confronted noise in the bushes a few.rods ahead. the boy with the shotgun, who was tint to I stopped to listen, and to my astonish- appear on the scene as a re -enforcement. He ment saw a large, black bear up behind the handed TOM the old piece, who quickly gave fence place her huge paws on the top rail, the bear a load of fine ahot in the face, and and look up and down the road. as if consider - then both retreated, i ing whether or not t Would be prudent to The second report quickened the steps of oross at that point. It did not take her long the rest of us, who by this thne had nearly to deolde ; after a, moment's survey of the reached the apot. But the dogs were ahead situation, she spratiag upon the fence, jurap- of us, and were already dancing and yelping ed down on the opposite side, and started around the enraged bear. Tom had put a across the road. • new cap on his rifle, and in company with My astonishment became greater as I saw the boy came back, and reached the ground two half-grown cubs quickly climb over the about thetaine time the rest of us did. As fence and follow their dam. I had never we came up an interesting spectacle present. aeon a bear before without first buying a. ed itself. The bear was sitting upright, ticket to the show, but here was a trio of brandithing her huge paws, and uttering them right before me, and so far the exhibi- angry growls. One oub lay dead beside her, tion had oost me nothing.• the other was ma a lower limb of the tree What to do I did not know. I had no whining piteously. weapon with me, not even a decant pocket- It was evident that bruin was determined knife. 1 did, not like to let the game escape, to fighb. This phase ot the exhibition was • and I had grave thoughts about how I could out short by Pete, who urged the dog to make my own escape in case I attracted too take hold. The yellow cur made a furious much attention. spring at the bear's side, bub one sweep of iTurit as the bears reached the middle of the her great. paw sent' him whirling.more than road, I did a very foolish thing,— I hallooed 1 twenty feet away, and he occupied a rear I was partly concealed behind a. small stump, position during the remainder of the con - and if the bears did not know before that filet. another party was near, they knew it now. The collie next manifested his interest in The oltd bear evidently understood this the work he suddenly darted up between loiptomptu shout as meaning much more the bear's fore legs, and tried to seize her by than I intended it should. In an inatant the throat. This was just where bruin want. she reared up on her hind legs, showed her ed him ; in an instant her paws encircled his teeth and made other warlike demonstra- shoulders, and an emphatic hug followed. holm. Fortunately for the dog the hold linS a little I must confess my fear, but still I dared too high, and his head being smaller than his not run, but looked direA17 at the bear. 1 shoulders, after a brief but desperate strug- was sorry 1 had nob done what the bear no gle he succeeded in sliding out below. This doubt would have done, just mindedmy own unexpected turn of affairs cooled his enthus- • bueiness, and allowed others the same privi. lam and he ceased to be a conspicuous figure lege. She had made a bold challenge, but I in the action. wisely atoned for my folly in provoking it, Meanwhile, the bull -dog had been watch. by gracefully declining to accept it. ing developments. He seemed to know that She retained her warlike attitude a mom- the side the paws were on was not the point ent, and as I made no farther advancea, she for him to attaok. Ere walked around the dropped down on all fours, and deliberately bear,—who tried to keep her eye upon hiin, walked off Into the woods.; the cubs fellow- —as if looking for a favorable place to fasten ing close behind. I drew a long breath, upon. We knew that if he once took hold, my heart gradually settled downto its normal there was no relaxing. place and pace, and I began to make plans Finally his hair bristled up, his white for the morrow. I went home, called on teeth shone, and the next instant they were 'Several of my neighbora, and the result vrae buried in bruin's back. She gave a sudden that a big bear hunt was planned for the start, tried to turn around and stalk° the dog next day. with her paws; but the position he had Early in the morning the company gather- selected was unfavorable for this; then she ed at my place, and we made preparations to tried to shake him off, but he held on like a capture those three bears,—a new business vice. for all.of us. A terrible scuffle followed; the bear rolled • We were five in number, four young men over, and twisted around in her efforts to and a boy. Our weapons consisted of one rid herself of the dog. Finally she suoceed- good heavy rifle, another with a very short ed; but his jaws did not relax. We saw barrel, supposed to have been out off by him, faint and bleeding, stagger off to a some impatient owner to allow the ball to clump of bushes near by, with a fragment of get out more quickly—two rifles that had bruin's hide in his mouth. This was the done good service in the Civil War, and first time in his life that he had acknow- were afterwards chimbered out, and would ledged defeat. "throw shot terrible wicked" as the boys ex- Thus far we had been silent spectators, pressed ib. and in our eagerness to witness it we had These rifles we loaded with buckshot, come up to within twenty feet of the bear, but as our stock of buckshot was small, the forming a semicircle. But we could be old shot gun the boy carried was loaded spectators no longer; the job of killing this with fine shot. But the weapon had eeen bear was abruptly thrown into our hands, its best days and had done better shooting and it was evident th it she did not intend than the mat sanguine among us dared to to wait for us to calculate on it, for she was expect of it again. oiready looking around to see which one to Three clogs completed the force. We attack first. would have taken more, but this was all the "Fire on her, bays!" cried Tom, and the neighborhood afforded. One was a small two Springfields responded witha bang 1 yellow cur, another a large collie, and the bang 1 sending two charges of buckshot at third a bulldog by the name of Tige. The the bear. A howl of pain and rage answer. canine division of our force was not over. ed to our fire, and the bear turned towards stocked with experience in bearhunting, but us, and no doubt would have sprung upon the doge seemed glad to know that their us, but at this critical instant the intrepid names were on the programme of the day. Tom, who had advanced a few steps, fired a A half-hour's walk brought us to the ball which entered the bear's side. niece where I had seen the beara the day This bold act nearly oost him his life. before. They had entered a block of timber Her attention was now directed to him. He covering about half a section, three hundred saw his danger and turned to flee, caught his and twenty acres. After considering the foot under a root, and fell heavily on his matter, we decided to single out and march side. back and forth through the woods, keeping In an instant the enraged °ruts was upon in sight or at least within shouting distance him, and her teeth and claws were tearing of each other. We were not to fire a gun his flesh. It was a moment of terrible agony unless we saw a bear. to us all 1 thoughts of our own danger were After trampiug in this way for some time, 1 overwhelmed with the desire to rescue our I was startled by hearing a grunting noise, 1 companion from the jaws of death, and with and a rustling in the dry leaves behind aoj one impulse we rushed forward. old log about four rods away. I could just The bear bad seized Tom by the arm the ace a little of the black book of some large boy frantically be her with the butt] of the animal as it ^moved along toward the butt oldshot-gun, reducing it to splinters. There of the log where ib would soon come out in was but one gun loaded, it was the ahort bar - full view. I placed myself in a position rel rifle in Pete'a hands. commanding the butt of the log, cooked the 1 seized Tom by the ihoulder, and was old Springfield, and brought it to my ehoul- trying to pull him away, when tke bear let der. I brought the sights to bear on a go of his arm, gave an angry growl and open. point near the end of the log, intending to ed her mouth at me. Pete saw this oppor- salute bruin with a dose of buokshot in the tunity, and was not slow in improving ib; the ear. My hand shook as a black SIMIlt be. muzzle of his rifle was thrust into her mouth came visible. •and discharged. I waited to gee the side of the head,—it There was a muffled report, and the over was fast comingin sight,—I was already charged weapon flew back out of his hands, pressing the trigger, when crashl crashl but thegreatest effect wasfelt at the otherend went something at the other end of the log, Bruin threw back her head, and rolled over and fish/ ughil snorted two black hogs as they on her side. I (lid not wait to ace how bad - sprang from behind the log with the yellow ly she WAS hurt, but dragged Tom away cur, yelping at their heel::! from the scene of danger. The bear had • Laterinthe day anothertnember of our coin, received her death wound. party saw the largest hog in a thick clump "The oub is coming • down 1" exclaimed of bushea, and labored under the same Pete, "load up, somebody, quick 1" mistake that I did ; but fortunately for the As he spoke he grasped a club and ran to hog, and the poor settler who owned him, the butt of the oak, and he began to beat the mistake was discovered just in time. upon it. The cub had. been watching for a At noon we sat down on a. log to eat our favorable time to elide down and make off, lunch, and dieouss the afternoon pros. but so far thee had been too mil& noise pects, A few tracks had been seen, but nob and fire under the tree. It took advantage pIaiu enough to follow. We had looked up of our withdrawing a short distance to inake in trees, behiod turned -up roots, in hollow the attempt. It Woe quite determined to loge and stubs, and, it fact, into every place come dowt, and rio the other two boys help- laroe enough for a bear to hide, but as yet ed Pete, cuid they mu:deeded in driviiig it had Ewen hone, back to the lower limbs, In the meantiree The often:mon was epent in a wOiry tramp- It loaded the heavy rifle, and a shot ended Mg, It was nearly sundown and we were the life of the cub. By this time the old all on the point of abandoning the searoh, bear had ceased to struggle. when the moriotony was broken by the But a very eliort time had elapsed Blue sharp meek of a rifle. It was the rifle in Teen fired the first ehob, until the last one, Tom's hands Ito Was walking alon g but it was a vety blISY time. It was fast under a large oak tree, whezi his euriosity growing dark, and our woutided companion was excited by the felling of several acorn WAS not able to, walk, Atter a short ocn- shuck)). He looked ep and disebvered the aultation it was decided that two of the boys liable trio in the oak feaetieg on sorts I •ehould Igo home and get a tearn, and waggon, Tom Was a ceetheaded MAW and a good axe and blankets; while I, with another, re - marksman, , The leaves pattlY obecured the omitted to talre care of Tom. etenee but he soon fotind goodpobitioo, and ekarained his waande. He Was wretched •eeee d A coiven to thia )0 DeitA torn In several, places, Ancil,ozte leg wan s 0 an n )300 '3tOtrtbi:r V.Ilt T.134, arm had an lesaen in 'healthy living 'which all Mee ow lx tthd hhha hot 1,0 .40,mh • y y I /IL WOt ani e, an children WM a() ha to moth to 1,0t, Fthhtewt ,bltegiAnoe no bear, but 1..stainebed the flow ed blood, and with handketoltiefs and strips of our clothing bandaged. all hie wounds. After eating what remained of our lunch, and drinking SOMO water tbe boy brought in a hat, he felt quite oomfortal3le. The moon rose bright and clear, and after two hours' absence the boys returned with the waggon and more help. They turned in at all old lumber road, and after some diffit- culty reached the spot. We loaded the three caroames into the wagon, and with the blankets made a comfortable place for TOM; who afterwards recovered from his injuriee, As we rode horneward, we all concluded we knew More about bear hunting than we did in the morning, and all acknowledged that it wag quite different from what we supposed it was, and that bears were harder to kill than we had imagined. Furthermore, not one of ue ever oared to try his hand at it again. W.S.B. Fear of Death. The fear of death is natural. Even those who are decrepit with age and infirmities, in most cases, cling to life. Criminals glad.- ly accept imprisonment for life in coranautat tion of the death-sentenoe, To bid a final farewell to loved friends.'to look for the last time on the bright and beautiful world; to think of conoxiousness as utterly suspended in, the grave—this, apart from she hopes of the Gospel, we cannot but shrink from. But there is another fear of death to which many people are painfully subject. We do not now refer to the fear of what may follow death, but to the aot of dying the supposed suffiering connected with it, Dr. Traill Green discussed this eubjeot at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Medical Sooi- ety. He said, "1 attended an excellent man, rector of an Episcopal Church, for disease of the heart. His wife said to me:. " 'Doctor, my husband has had a dread of death, believing it attended with great play - sleet suffering. Excepting this he has no fear.' "1 replied, tM&dam1 I have no doubt that his fear of suffering will not be realized. He will pass into a gentle sleep, and unconsci- ously into that future life in expectation of which he has lived.'" His prediction was verified by the event. Even death from a false membrane in the larynx, as in croup and diphtheria, is affirmed by Dr. Rushmore, of Brooklyn, to be far less -painful than he once supposed it to be. He says: "When patients have died of laryngeal ob- struction alone, the picture has always been the same—gradually increasing restlessaess and dyspncess with paroxysms of spasms added at times and threatening death:" Then the spasm is in a few moments relieved, but a very considerable amount of distress contin- ues, and then a rapid development of uncon- sciousness, the coma continuing for several hours, an the patient dying quietly, the breathing being still abstracted." The doctor is wont to tell the friends that the patient will not ohoke to death, with great struggling and distress, but will die unconscious and with comparative ease. There are Ave other fears that trouble some persona. One is the fear of being eaten by worms ; but worms cannet live ab a depth of more than a few inches below the surface. As to the other fear, that of being buried alive, although it is of course possible, and in some oases has occurred, yet Doctor Prime who investigated for years everyreported i case, found not a particle of truth n a single one of them. REMARKABLE SUICIDE. Farmer Smith Deliberately Drowos Himself In His Horse Trough. LANSING, Mich., Feb. 6.—Hy. L. Smith, a well-to-do farmer living near the village of Holt, was, up to last December, a genial and happy man. He was passionately fond of his wife and children, and when in Decem- ber last the former died he became moody and unhappy. Mr. Smith left his bed early on Saturday morningand went out to his barn yard, where was a large trough oontaining nearly three feet of water, tightly covered with boards, all except a small hole, over which a cover was placed. Smith lifted the cover, stepped into the opening, eat down in the water, carefully replaced the cover, turned over on his stomach and buried his face in the water. In a few minutes he was dead. A few hours later a farm employee, going to the trough and removing the cover, was startled by seeing an old ooat. He had a pitchfork in his hand, and in endeavoring to raise the garment discovered the body of his employer. Smith was 38 years old, and leaves four children. Coon Hunting. There was sport in the coon hunt for our fathers, says a writer in the Philadelphia Press, and in a measure a man's importance in some communities was judged by the number of coon skins he could nail to his barn door after a hunt. Why the coon has come to be despised by sportsmen in these later days is one of those things about which the remark has once or twice been made that no fellow can find out. He is as cunning as the for and more difficule to trail. He is, =weever, the cleanest of animals, and eats only the most wholesome of food. He should not be despised, surely, because he can be hunted only at night, for in treading the woods in the darkness, fol- lowing dogs that you cannot see, and whose bayingaline breaks the stillness, there is a most singular enchantment. I Even in localities where coons are the most abundant, nine out of ten of the present generation never saw one, and few people know anything about them or their habits. Although the coon prefers the vicinity of civilization as his habit at; he plans to keep aloof from the eyes of men, and his habits render this an easy task. By day he lies in outof-the-way re, treats, in the depth:: of hollow trees or isolated crevices and holes in the kooka, He wanders forth only at night and although his foraging expeditions may take him to the very door of farmers, and even within the boundary lines of villages, he never betrays his presence. If more than one coon le brought to bay in a tree they will invariably be feltnales or a mother coon and her offepring. The scent the coon leaves on the trail hi at all timee less than that of other game quadruped, but when the female is nursing her yoimg during the summer months her ecent le hardly percep- tible to the dogs, time saving her and her litter from many a rade for life. The scent of the coon grows stronger ae the cold weellide advance)), and through November and Decerilber the dogs follow it with coon paratively libtle difficulty. W'anted---Somel3ody to talk for three minutes who will not, use the word '.guite," 19 tinie for the men and Women who inelst on retying they are "quite "well, or that the day hi "quite" cool or "quite" pretty or "quite" beastly, or that a play is "quite" good or quite the, revere)), ought ta he Made tb move along. It is quite time that s —41, sorest on flue Words 1= 4 t we 3'6 an 4/41 r. a • • Otntwa, FobrtifoT 1889 I In Front of the Muir Glaolell The fined feature of a trip tb .Alaska is the Muir Glacier, at the head of Glacier Bay. Dior le there probebly in the whole world a really' Woe:male region where the phenomena of glimial action Oall be better seen by the tourist. The excursion eteamers go up the bay to within four hundred yards of the ioe pre* pima in which the glaoter terminatein—stand, ing waist -deep, so to trek, in five hundred feet of water; blee-White oliff woes 04.13 head of the bay, two Milos in length by three hundred and fatty feet in height; a vertioal wall of ice like azure -tinted marble, rent, fissured, and conetantly breaking down with thundereue orashee, like the disoharge of whole parka of artillery, ,and an out -rush of heavy swells which rock the vessel like a skiff, and would overwhelm smaller craft. • Fragments ot ice, some of them no larger than a belief hay, while others greatly exceed in size the eteamer from which we watch the mouth of this ice -river, float down the bay in endlees procession, and eometimes so fill the channel as to obstruct navigation. • It is estimated that not less than a hun- dred thousand toga of ice break Gff daily from the gladieee front, which aay in strictest truth be regarded as a river of ice, --Ito sources in the eternal • anowe of the Alaskan Alps Ito mouth in the ocean In width the Muir Glemer varies from two to eight miles, and its length is estimated at forty miles. Fifteen tributary glaciers flow into at from out of as many alpine valleys. But the entire glacier may be regarded as the outlet of that vast neve or snow -field winch covers all the high areas of this lofty range.. There is opportunitity to land and climb the moraines on each: side of thelee dream ; vast masses and windrows of bouldere and gravel which the ponderous glaoier, like some gigantic ploughshare, has turnedup. It is practicable also to climb upon the glacier itself, and even to °roes it, though huge fissures or crevasses render the passage dif- ficult, even dangerous The forward widen of the ice stream has been estirnated,—rather than measured—tat from one to two feet a day. Clambering up the erumbling moraines, or rambling over the wide gravel flats strewn with bouldera, and utterly barren of vegeta- tion, or skirting the worn and torn bases of the incloaing mountains, one gains a vivid idea of whae the whole surface of the earth may have been like during the long millen- niums of the glaoial epoch. All round to the north, the west and the east the landscape is a inaze of gray rocky peaks and white snow -fields. Hashing torrents, turbid with glacial silt, brawl, tumultuously past, or broil up from beneath" the ice cliff. The slowly moving mass,—a thousand feet in thickness,—oraoks loudly at intervals. Boulders roll and rumble along the stony beds of the torrents. The tides ebb and flow, leaving huge, blue blocks of ioe strand- ed on the beach. Seals rise from the water amid the ice cakes with a soft sohish, and stare with lim- pid, wendering eyes at the steamer, while, at irregular intervals of two or three rninutes, resounds the deep roar of an ice tall. Such is the front of the Muir Glacier, a slowly shrinking relic of the earth's great image, a little miniature picture of what was once universal scenery. She Caught Rim WI the Fib At eight °Week the other morning a wife • followed her husband down to the gate ite he w,,aws gyofuorkt4e0wwn ahnodwkinsaddlylyearwtoanhtim, a blue bunting dress.'' nwes dear," he remarked, "but you know how hard up ISM. As SOOri aft 1 eau eee my way clear you ellen have the dress and a new hat to boat Be patient, be good, and your reward shall be great. Forty inioutes after this he emerged from a restaurant with a big baeket and a fishing rod, bound up the river. In the basket were a chicken, pickles, oake, fruit pie, and a bottle of ligour ot ^ rich oolor, and he was just lighting a fine cigar when his wife came along. • hat 1 you here ?" he exclaimed. " Yes ; I was just going to the market, Where are you going? What's in the bas- botV' "1 was going to carry this fishing rod to a friend in Fenchurch street," he modestly an- owered. • "And that basket ?" "This basket? Well, I was going to take it to the orphan asylum as a present to the children. It is a donation from six business friends." "William, I don't believe it." • don't talk so loud,' "William, I shall talk louder yet." she exolahned. "I'll bet you are going fishing." "Mary, have I ever deceived you ?" he plaintively eeked, I never have. • As proof of my sincerity you can take this has. ket to the asylum yourself." "And I'll do ib," she promptly replied, she relieved him of it. "Mary, hadn't you—" "No, sir, 1 hadn't. You had better mak), haste with that fishing rod, as the man may want it, and be careful how you stand about in the hot sun," She left) him there. He watched her take the car for home, and then he returned the fishing rod and crossed the street and said to an acquaintance, "Toni, IM suffering from neuralgia andthe excursion is off till next week. Too bad, but we oan never tell what a day may bring forth." There were chioken and pickles and other good things on the table ab dinner, but he never smiled, even when she wished that she was an orphan, if that was the way they were fed. He never betrayed the gloom of his heart. It was only when she handed him the bottle he had so carefully tucked into the basket, and saw it labeled "Good for little children.," that he said: "Mary, it 18 an awful thing for a wife to get the impression that her huaband is a designing impos tor." "It must be," she replied as she took up the other chicken leg.— [Christian Intelli- gencer. Ralf a CentnrY in Prison. Wililam Pierce, who has been pardored by Governor Hill, and transferred from:the Au burn State asylum for insane criminals to the Willard asylum for chronic insane; has un- doubtedly undergone the longest term of im- prisonment on record in this State. • He was sentenced in Malone, Franklin county, Aug. 15, 1889, to life imprisonment for the murder of his father. He was then 16: years old.. He is now 66. When he palmed into confine- ment he was a lad of slighe build, '5, feet 3 in. ches in hei ht h df bh g . en e emerge rom e • Auburn asylum Monday and started for his The Collie. Probably the name collie, or more proper ly speaking, • coney, is derived from the term colly or black, that originally being the color. Their use has always been as a shepherd's or cattlekeeper'e dog, and it is from the lonely intimacy ot solitary shep- herds that the dog has obtained his know- ledge of, and affeotionfor, man and his ways. Away on the mountains, miles from every ' one else the shepherd, with no one to talk to but his dog, has evolved that almost human sagacity which is so great a feature of the collie. Steadfast, faithful, thoughtful he has become, and were he endowed with the power of human speech, he would equal, nay, excel, many members of the human family. Though actual speech may be denied, there is nearly always between tke shepherd and his dog an ability to cominum- °ate instructions on the one hand, and to understand, even to anticipate them, on the other, so that speech is needless. These dumb signals are all that are required. In days and districts where different breeds were scarcely known, one kind of dog was kept to do all kinds of work, and to this 77e owe the versatility of the sheep dog, which may be trained to meet all demands upon him—to be a tender of sheep or a hunter ?f deer, a watch or a retriever, a participant in the hunt of otter, of tox or of badger— ready, in fact, for anything (inland or water. To watch a sheep dog at work is a most interesting sight, especially in the lake coun- try of England or the highlands of Scotland. The careful way10 which he will gather in all the sheep, even though widely scattered, the gentle yet firm control he has of _them, and the readinees with which sign from, or i word uttered by his master is obeyed, s remarkable. It is no uncommon thing for doge to be left alone vvi oh a flock, for days, or to gather a flock from a whole mountain side, not one to be missing. Shepherds can tell Many tales of the sagacity of collies. They will, during the dipping season, guard the undipped sheep, and sepal ate one by one as rapidly as they are required until the whole have passed through the tub. And a recent writer tells how one of these doge will gather into a certain hollow, only indi- cated by a slight wave of his master's hand, all the sheep scattered over the hills and valleys for miles around. In one 00)80 when the hirsel or upwards of twelve hundred Sheep were counted, four only were missing, and the good dog on being directed to go instantly and find them darted off and was over the ridge in a few niinutes, Within half an hour his bark was heard from the top of a steep ridge to the left, and he was seen bringing the four to complete the tale. Of the faithfulness of the collie much can be said. The &trick Shepherd tells how at one time he had several huncleed lambs which he was taking to the fold. They scampered off over the hills in three separate divisions and in opposite directions, defying all efforte to find them. Night cam and search had to be given Up. Bub the dog remained at his task, and in the morning he was found in a gorge standing oter all the larabs, which he had gathered during the night. And the story of the drover's collie, which, losing his master in crossing by the river ferry In the north of England, for nearly two yeare re. gularly went backward and forward' on the ferry, seeking in vain for the lost shepherd, refusing all the blandishments of °them, merely accepting the food given bins, is but one proof mote of the collie's faithfulness. These cotild be multiplied indefinitely. Every eh, pherd could recount) taleo equally won - &dui, and the exception wduld be to find among the true shepherds' Woge—not the show apeelmene, whiehnsay not be quitepure 00 Nome have suggested—those Whieh Would have failed to do what theee have done. Of morn, some dogs are endowed with more sagacity then °there, but the more appears to be predominant,. future home at Ovid he presented the ap- pearance of a veritable giant. He is tall and erect and weighs 340 pounds. The trip was ' the first opportunity he had of seeing the outside world in nearly 50 years. It was the • first time he had seen a locomotive and train of cars,. and all the confusion and bustle of a railroad' station. Twenty of the 50 years had been vent by him in Auburn prison and 30 years in the State asylum for insane criminals atAul3urn. He hasnotemembranee of his crime. He has no friends, and in the 50 years never corresponded with anyone in the outside world.—[Albany Journal. ,• Da,tod tele aeeeild bay'ei 0111 U ft 0 1:" II' .444 Face to Face with Christ. When an intelligent soul has been drawn up face to face with the Son of God, -ander the plan of redemption, all outside inter- ference has to cease. The tremendous is- sues of this world and the next must there be met personally; they will have to be solitarily wrought out. It is fair to say, however, that this ie not admitted at once by all. There is a kind of wilful independ- enee in some minds which Waists upon'per- feat freedom when thp preastme is made perceptible on the side of duts or obligation, and yet claims a measure of help ftorn the • mune^ sources, and of intereession from the same voices that have so long been disre- garded, when the pressure is beginning to be felt .on the side of warning and retribu- ' tion, Some turn back the love and yet rest on it. It is not difficult to find a great • many people, who admit a very distinct un- derstanding of the aupreme value of the • countenance they' • receive, in ease they be- long to households of friends who love them and plead constantly for them. They even trade upon their ancestral piety' at titnes, and express lively hope:: of benefits hereafter ; to arrive. And yet, if urgently; driven to candor in their statements, these persons ' would insist that they have duly pondered and no w fairly accept the fact which is open to all eyes alike, that a moment comes in • every instance when the practical benefit of household religion as an organic force ceases so far as the individual is concerned, and personal action comes in. Browbeating Lawyer (to opposing wit- ness)—Were you ever arrested for felony? The Witness, (desperately)—Yes. Lawyer --Aha I What was that felony? Witness —Arson. Lawyer—What building was it . that you set fire to? Witness—The ice palace at Si) Paul English farmers are apparently 'as one- seevative as ever. An attempt was mado recently to databliah a butter factoey in Bridgewater, West bonnersetshire, with the view of competing with the butter imported daily by tons from Denmark, France, and Holland. A first•olitas article was turned out by the faotory, but the dairy farmers will nab support the new system by supply- ing the milk, and the factory,may have to be closed for lack of " patrona. ' There is a good deal of agricultural distress in the country, but, as an English contemporary says, if the farmers Will riot move with the tirnes it is diffioult to see what can be done to alleviate it. , FRAISLD FOWL OR MEATS,—ThiS iso good way to cook it tough fowl or meat which 18 not tender. Singe and clean alowl thorough- ly. Skewer it into shape e put it into a pan, add halt a•amall onion oat fine, 0130 sliced 13arrot, a sprig of parsley, a bay leaf and one quart of hot water. COver closely and cook horn one and one-half hours to two, hears, Batesthe fowl often. To braise' a plisse of beef take a oubieal piece from the round and brown it in pork fat, then put it hit o the pan, Put in also a little carrot, Whip and obiOnt. A little Worcestershire swim: will improve the &Yen, The gravy Will be ridit and contain much of the "good-. iieSsP of the meat, How the (jowboYe Brand Cattle. The word "roundup," so often seen in print, is known by moat people to be a west- ern term, hat its real significance is not gen- 'mealy known, says a Denver letter to the Philadelphia "Press." , Po the northern ranges in Dakota, Wu. taria, and Wyomilig territories the cattle are all allowed to rua at large through, the ter and summer. They do t ot etray a great tilt:mime off, hoWever, and, unless stampeded may usually be found within thirty toile:: or so of their respeotive ranges. To collect these immense herda of cattle iu , the spring easel fall is no easy matter, and to do this a "round up" is forosod. This is made up by the owners of the ranches which a. are on the some range sending a "round:up"' ! outfit and their quota of cowboys. "round -up'' outfit oentiate of, besides the indispensable eowboye, a camp•wagon drawn by four horses or mules, at least five horses for each cowboy, branding irons, cookitig utensils, and last, but not least, a cook, who generally drives the wagon. These respective representatives of the diffrenb ranches meet; at the encl of their range of distrait and slowly go through the country, oolleoting and branding the cattle and calves. The wagons do not drive more than ten or fifteen miles a day, but the cowboys :in search of cattle ride Bixby or seventy, miles. This is where the necessity for each cowboy having 80 many horses conies in. The cattle collected &Ong the day's riding are all driven to the nearest ranch where there is- a corral. Cattle are not collected every day, as the cowboys stop every other day to brand the oattle caught. The cattle collected in a day' ride by a "round -up" of thirty dOwboys make' an immense herd. This herd is watched -very carefully during the night, and the next] morning the work of "rounding them out" begins. "Rounding -out" is the term applied to separating the cattle of different brands from the herd. This is difficult work and is done only by very expert oowboys. They ride into the herd, and when they find ene of their own brand they slowly drive it out front the bunch. When it is driven: out it is taken In charge by another cowboy, who drives it to a small herd which is entirely composed of cattle of its own brand. It will take two or three hours to get the large herd eeparated into as alanY small herds as these brands are represented in the "round up." After the small herd is separated the cows with calves and unbranded cattle axe rounded out from the branded cattle. The branded cattle are put into a herd and 'driven several miles back over the same ground and turned lam. A fire is built in a corner of the cor- ral, where the "round -up" is, the bars are let down, and one of the herds of cows wiqa, calve:: and unbranded cattle are driven 114 Two ropers walk their ponies into the cor- ral, the bars are put up, the brands of the man who owns the cattle in the corral are heated in the fire. The work of branding beghitt. • , The ropers ride around the corral, swinging their ropes around their heads!' . As* they see single calves on the edge of the herd •l their lassoes leave their bands with a snap and wind around the calves' two hind lege. This is called "heeling," and is a great deal more difficult to do than catch them by the net*. The calves when caught are dragged up to tbe fire where they are held and branded. Brandintedoes not take long and soon the corral is ready for the next herd. Thiropees, are quite expert with the lasso and keep the men at the fire busy. The calves are not only branded to mark them but some owners out their ears in different shapes. Other owners even go so far as to cut one of the ears off entirely. After a herd that is marked this way has left the corral the ground is sometimes oovered with ears. In almost every herd that is driven into the corral there are Some cattle that were not branded the year before and these have to be handled more carefully or else they gore the handler. One Of the ropers walks his horse around until he Sees a good chance, when'quick as a flash, he catChes the steer by thehind legs. The steer knows he is caught, and turna at, the matt who caught him. As soon as he turns the other roper throws his lasso around the animal's horns, which holds him fast. The steer is thus held fast, and in that con- dition is branded. When done the lasso around his head is taken off and he is allow- ed-toriee. The men all get out of the way, and then the rope is taken off the steer's hind legs by a, skillful twist of the roper's hand. When the whole herd is branded they are driven out of the corral, and the next herd, is put through the same proms. When all the cattle are barnded they are driven back over the same ground that the " round -up " traversed the day before, and turned loose. ' On the " round -up " each man leaves his horses to the care ot men called " Wranglers," who keep the horse!) in herds which are eas- ily guarded. Every morning one of the • herds is driven in near the wagons, and after breakfast some gond lease -thrower stands near the laerd, audits the ,cowboys come after horses he oatehes ponies for them. S'o the cowboys cl.) not ri4e their own horses but have to take whatever is given to them. Some of the horses are "bucking bronohos. " Any one may be the unfortunate man that gets a "bucking bronoho. ," • Breakfast on round up is at 3 o'olook, and by 4 the wagons are all moving and the cow- boys are riding off in different direotions. They ride all morning and at noon stop an hour for dinner. After dinner they change homes and abort eat again. Life on the round -up is hard work. The cowboys are in all sorts of danger, have to sleep on the ground, rain or snow, ride hard one day and work hard the next at branding. TheKind or a Beau to Freete%Te• t "Veil, Berm). you visas proke oop dis morning. 'Vos dot young r, lirles- tein here to see you again last night." "Yohhnifadder, he vas here till two o'clock dim 0 Two o'clock ? Ach, mein, gracious, vet a vaste of gas I It Must shtop, I dell you, uncl you must say to him (tot I can't afford •z "Yah, I did dat, fodder," "Did vot, Ropeoca?" "1 dold him last veek dot ve muat not burn so much gas." " Und vot did he !lay ?" - "He said "Yah, Mein loavy doavy, I ap preciai e dot und 'ill tiring a lantern mit nie hereof ter."' "Und did he?" "Yah, legit night he brought a lantern, unit ve hung it up on de door knob una ve wire gust so hobby like two turtle cleaves all der time." "Ah, Repeeoe., dot vas a fine yming uild you freeze to him like a postage stamp." Mr,Smith—What do you suppdse makes the new mmilater so undersized? He loolts as If he hadn't gothis growth. etre. 13aRooni—I clunno, but I kind o' suspoot he was brought up on the Shorter Ce‘teohisni."