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'Many a man in the difficult cot:Mud of
L on Entine.
We were once camped in a grove on the
bank of a creek, our party numbering over
thirty people. We had homes, oxen wag-
gons and dogs, and were spread out over
life gets himself on to wrong licee—linee of two acres of ground. It was in the lion
country, and they 'night be expected to ap
preach at night, but on the second afternoon
of our camp, while all were engaged in cloth
ing up and making repaira, an alaem w s
suddenly raieed. 1 uppoind that some of
the aoimals stampeded, and ran around the
wagon to get a dear view of the space be
tween ua and the creek. This creek was 200
feet away, and was so nearly dry that one
could step acmes it. The bank on the other
'ride was rooky ground, pretty thickly
covered with scrub, and right on the brink
stood one of the largest lions I ever saw.
He was out in full view, head and tail up,
and stood so still for a moment that I doubt-
ed ff he was alive.
There was a light breeze blowing toward
us, and as goon as our animals got the scent
it required the efforts of every native to
prevent them from breaking away. My
guns were being cleaned and oiled, and my
two white companions were looking after
their horse. .No one had the least ides that
the lion meant mischief, and we were pre-
sently dumbfounded to see him spring aoross
the creek and come walking into camp. We
measured his leap and found it to be twenty-
eight feet. He made it without an effort.
I was to the right of him, and the center of
the camp was his objective point. The lion
advanced at a walk, uttering no sound, and
the shouts, acme= and whoops of the men,
Incited by the befiowing of the cattle and
the snorts of the horses, had no effect on him.
We had a new miloh cow tied to a wheel
of one of the wagons, and the lion advanced
to within thirty feet of her, and then made
a spring which landed him fairly upon her
back. She fell in a heap, and he seized her
by the neck, gave her two or three shakes,
which broke the grass rope around her
head, and he then got his right shoulder
under her and started off. The cow weighed
at least 500 pounds, but he carried her
with perfect ease, her hind feet dragging on
the ground. At the creek he made a jump
of eleven feet, ascended a eloping bank :with-
out a halt, and soon disappeared in the
broken ground with his prey. He was gone
before we had a gun ready. Indeed, we
were lucky not to have lost half ouranimals.
1 was no greenhorn in the animal business
at that date, but this was the first time I
had ever witnessed such cheek in a lion.
Had I been told that he had such courage
and coolness I should have laughed the
statement to scorn.
eeverwork, of worry, of geese—winch it is
impossible for him to sustain. Whether is it
batter to atop ow, and breve the check
land the preeent 10B0 or to wilfully persist
-Until broken health, or lunacy, or death
'prove to be the final alternative? Every
eMan, !should so live as that at sixty or eeventy
he may be able to give up his strenuoue
lalboure with a constitution unimpared, and
weth such a eegree of health as will enable
bin thoroughly to enjoy a "green and
pleaeant old age."
Wok and Aloehol.
Sven people who are in the habit of tak-
ing alcohol as part of their daily food abstain
from it wnen any exertion demanding special
execuractt is required of them. One mighty
Nimrod as maid to deolare that a single glass
of sherry with his lunch spoils his shooting
/or the day, and takes a flask of cold tea
with him to the moors; while a famous
violinist, who is subject, as men of genius
often are, to fits of nervousness when about
toappear before an audience, refuses to
give himself lintoh courage" by a single
iglus of wine. He says it would spoil his
laying; he would blurr the notes if he took
it.
The Children% Feet.
Wine mothers see that the children have
dry Mete Shoes should be loose enough to
be comfortable always—half an inch longer
than the foot, but not loose enough to slip
Mound. Never let a child wear a shoe that
is run over on the aide or heel, and constant-
ly discourage the habie of standing on the
outer edge of the shoe, turning in the toes,
,or xubbing one foot over the other. Have
the child taught from the earliest hours of un-
derstanding that the moment hie feet are
weet he must change shoes and stockings.
Some ohildrente feet perspire BO that wollen
eitockings keep the feet damp and cold; let
them wear cotton hose, and buy the elastio
woollen webbing which comes by the yard,
and draw it over the child's limb to the
ankle; this will protect the limbs, which, in
imow and alush, should be covered with leg -
gizmo. If mothers will make it a rule that
the child's hose must be hung up when taken
off, and the feet warmed before going to bed,
they will save themselves much trouble.
Too many mothers tie up a child's throat,
a. most pernicious habit, and allow the child
to wear thin shoes or sit, with rubbers on
lorlaours.
r Feedinn of Infants.
Thin caution cannot be Mo often repeated:
Never give any starchy food to a child under
four month. When, for any reason, it ap
pearls tbat the infant is not growing( proper-
ly, or that it seems continually hungry, a
physician should be at once consulted. In
regard to the quantity of food suitable for
an infant, there are a great many very er-
roneous notions which should be corrected.
The stomach of a child under four months
old will hold, in its natural condition, only
about a small wineglassful. Of course, by
stretching ---for it is elastic—it can be made
to hold several times that quantity, but
when so distended, it presses upon the other
organs, probes them out of place, aud cans-
-ea pain. When this fact is known, the folly
of allowing the child to feed from a bottle
.containing half a pint or more of food will
at once appear evident. When the stomach
is distended, vomiting ie often the measure
of relief. In distention when the superflu-
ous food is not thrown Off, the baby ie fret-
ful, and cries with pain. It is overloading
theatomach, which frequently distends this
organ, wbich is elastic, and loses its power
of contracting to its original size. When
such a condition exists, the eufferer wastes
away, even when the proper food is given
in correct quantity. Many mothers who
have believed that it is well only to feed a
email qoantity at a time find that the chil-
dren cry soon after and imagining that they
- have not given enough, immediately jump
teothe conclusion that this method is faulty
and/all back into the old way described.
The trodble here Is, doubtless, that the child
,cravee for water, not food. Often when
that is given it.at once becomea quiet, and
hesatisfied untff the time for feeding has az.-
,• Hired. •
POlitenetie in the Home Circle,
True‘pelateness is founded on considera-
" -Monier others, yet it is so much a matter of
-formor habit that politeness le sometimes
" abOvnilvhere there is no consideration; 18 18
erionietimets neglected where there is affection
aAnd every reason for kindly consideration.
—*Thus, in the intercourse of neer relatives
)made familiar with each other by daily
-meetings there is naturally less formality
than between people who are only thrown
together by the chance of a few hours or
days at long intervals. But along with the
laying aside of formality some necessary
features of politeness are sometimes sacrificed
by relatives and very close friends. The
youth who is careful to salute his lady
friends and acquaintances according to the
menages of good society sometimes forgets to
pay the same respect to his sitter, not be -
•cause he is wanting in affectionate regard,
but because he has grown so familiar with
be that it seems awkwark to him to treat
her in any formal way. Yet when he meets
her in company he should, out of his consid.
eration for her, be rneakedly polite and at-
tentive.
Although politenees necesearily follows to
a great extent set forme, it should have its
origin in affection for the individual, or, in
a more general way, in consideration for
ahem. When the young man begins to be-
lieve at home with less politeness than he
exhibits abroad, there is much danger that
gradually he will lose that consideration for
hbi immediate relatives which he should have
and exhibit. He may begin by entering the
family room withoutformal greeting ;absorb-
ed in his own thoughts or pursuita, he will
loon begin to leave his sister and his mother
to look out for themselves in the email affaire
of life, and gradually but surely he veili cul-
tivate a (selfish disposition in home affairs
that will make him a bad or indifferent son
or brother. It is a small matter in itself
*whether a young man finds a chair foe his
sister or mother when they should be seated,
Auticipates their wrape, and offers them the
*amend little attentions without which and
In his absence they could get along very well
by their own exertions, but it is not a small
metter when neglect of ouch attentions les-
sens his consideration for them, develops his
iselfiehneeta and gradually undermines the
affeetion that shotild unite the family, Pol-
iteness in aociety between acquaintances or
friends is demanded by custom. There is no
heed to remind that it should be exhibited.
Politehees at home and between near relat-
ives, even between huoband and wife, though
Of ranch more importance in every way, is
not so obviously neceseary, and is too often
tegleeted.
A now cotnbination sugar bowl and
spootiabend io a reoebt addition tO table
utensils'.
As soon as order had been restored the
three of us mounted our horses and, pre
ceded by five or six natives and their dogs,
crossed the creek and took up the trail.
Atter going about half a inn° we discovered
the lion sitting beside the carcass in a little
hollow. He was sitting up like a dog, head
turned towards us, but as soon as be saw us
divide he ran off with his tail down evi.
dently thoroughly alarmed, and such was
his speed that we soon lost him. We could
count on his returning to the body during
the night, and the natiees were therefore set
to work to dig a pit and conceal it. They
regarded the lion as being as cunning as he
was wise, and the pit was not dug near the
body, but thirty teet away from it and in the
direction in which it was believed he would
drag the body.
If a Nether tiger leaves a body during the
day and returns to it at night the first act is
to drag it some distance as if fearing an am-
buscade. While the rule ia not invariable,
it holdgood in moat oases. During the
night a dozen lions scented around our
camp, but without musing any alarm, and
soon after daylight the natives went out to
investigate the trap. No hunter ever had
such a windfall before or since. As night
came several lions must have eeented the
carcass, and gathered for a feast. The
rightful owner objected, of course, and there
was a fight, the result of which was that
three full grown males tumbled into one pit.
The fact did not prevent others from pick
ing the carcass clean. One of the captives
was the cheeky old fellow who had entered
our camp, and the other two were fully as
large. In the course of the forenoon we had
them out and in the cages, and two of them
are in the United States to -day in zoological
gardene.
There are plenty of instances where men
have been seized by lions and lived to relate
the particulars, though no two agree as to
gensations. A week subsequent to (bur cap
tune of the three hone 1 bad been out with
some of the natives to prepare a bait in a
rooky ravine. We had built a stout pen of
rocks and logs and placed a calf as a bait.
The sun was nearly • down as we started for
cramp, and no one had the least suspicion of
the presence of danger until a lion, which
had been crottehing beside a bush, sprang
out and hocked me down. In springing
upon his prey the lion or the tiger strikes as
ID seizes. This blow of the paw, if it falls
on the right spot, disables the victim at
once.
I was so near this fellow that he eimply
reared up, seized me by t he Bhoulder and pull-
ed me down, and I was flat on the earth be.
fore I realized what had happened. 1 was
on my back, and he stood with both paws
on my middle, facing the nal ives and grown
ing savagely. Tbe men ran off about 200
feet and then halted, which was doubtless
the reason why I was carried off at once, I
oan say without conceit that I was fairly
cool. It had come so suddenly that I had
not had time to get rattled. I had been told
by an old Boer hunter, If I "ever tound my-
self in this fix, to appeal to the lion's fears.
Had I moved my arm to get my pistol, the
beast would have lowered his head and seiz-
my throat. So long as I lay quiet he would
semen that I was dead, and gave his atten-
tion to the natives.
All of a sudden I barked out like a dog,
followed by a growl, and that beast jumped
twenty feet in his surprise. He Oalli0 down
between me and the natives, and I turned
enough to see his tail was down and that he
was soared. I uttered further barks and
growhe but without moving a hand, and,
after making a circle clear around me, the
lion suddenly bolted and went off with a
scare which would last him a week. If you
had picked up a stick and disoovered it to
be a snake you would de) just as the lion did.
He supposed he had pulled down a man.
The roan turned into a dog. It appealed to
hie Mara.
Alter the lion had gone I grew so weak
that I had to be carried to camp. ele had
inflicted a pretty bad bite on my shoulder,
and it was a fortnight before I could hold
my gun for an offhand thot. I had the pres-
mice of a fourth• oaptive during this time to
commie me, however. No animal went near
the calf Oh the first or second night, but on
the third we captured a fine half.grown
anal°, ran.d got him caged without trouble.
Curiously enough, he had offered the ea f no
violence, being overcome by the fifth otion,
and when We found him the two meemed on
the beet terma—Mor, New York Sun.
A silk trust nag been formed by the lead
Ing houses of London and Manchestele.
Whoa a girl is bent on getting beerried
ale ands up straighter than ever.
lallil()ELLANEOUS.
A. "Christ Before Pilate," painted by N.
A.Primus, a colored artist of Beaton, was re.
cently destroyed by fire in Horticultural
Hall. A fund of $1,000 is to be raised to
enable him to repaino the scene.
Fault-finding is one of the ways in whio
men seek to appear wiser than they are,
seems to invest them with a degree of mit
ority in the eyes of those who do not reali
that it is one of the easiest of all things t
find fault. To expose errors, to forete
difficulties, to criticise methods, to mak
objections, May all be done volubly by pe
sons who have no power to originate bette
ways or to overcome the obstacles whio
they spread forth, and who are in ever
way inferior to those whom they oritioise o
contradict or interrogate.
The telegrams from Indiata report an in
Indent whioh is hardly as big am the mora
attached thereto. A practical joker wante
to frighten a negro, whom only fault appar-
ently was that he was supercilious. The
joker attired himself in a white sheet and
concealed his shrouded form in a dark wood
near where the victim was to pass. He pass-
ed, and the spectre duly made its appear.
mace. If the negro was supercilious the axe
he carried on his shoulder eves not, and the
practical joker was laid flat by the terrified
man, who at lomat ended the idiotic tricks of
one person, for he is not living to perpetrate
any more.
Aecording to a speoiel cable despatch in
this morning's Main the collapse of the
Electric Sugar Company ' bee caused the
breakdown of a magnificent scheme for the
colonization of Palestine by the Jews. A
gentleman who sad invested largely in the
shares of the fraudulent concern intended to
devote his profits therefrom to the further -
once of this philanthropic plan. It ia some-
what doubtful, however, whether any per-
son so easily gulled as Mr. Roberts was by
Professor Freund would have been equal to
so large and so difficult a task as the re -
peopling of Palestine with the widely -
scattered descendants of its original inhab.
haute.
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r erature. The leading magazines as a rule
do not permit their pages to be
- I degraded to the level of coranion
1; Owen in which foul -minded writers with
d Satyr.like notions about realistic art in
and congenial company. They are worse A FRIIIND 111 11110.
I For three or four days , after I got on
than Pheroahla frogs. They Oolne up every. --- e ,• , Phore I Was in bed, beiplees ; but the kind
where, even into bed °hellebore and,nneeding I had not been naarried a great while, and People who took c+re OPP, took care of net
troughe and the only refuge of women and was as happy as it was poesible to be, eloog kitten es Welh Oho recovered quicker thee
non-smokers is appannartly either to learn with mM y Mary our snug little home. But 1 did, and as 1 lay there, I used M Wafdlb
the vice or die. or p eying about the floor,
The depraved .1)c)ndition to vshich not a On my way home, a thought game into
little of the meet popular magazine fiction my heed, and I Rimmed a BUYIDIBe fer Mary.
literature of the (ley has sunk is attraoting I ' had, of °eerie, got the; people ' who had
attention antaken care d eliciting disapprobation and .
of Me to let her know I' was wife
,
rebulee even frona some who cannot be ao- but the didn't know the exaot time I ahould
oused of extreme Puritanical niceness of be at henna.
view. So very thin has grown the dividing It was quite dark when I arrived at the
line between fleshly suggestiveness and groat cottage, with the kitten Weide my coat. ' If
eensao.lity of deecription, that even critics opened the door quietly, and found th
who have been loudest in their defence of parlor door .ajara and looking through th
the nude in art are becoming alarmed at the crack I (mold see Mary sitting by the tabit
rapidity w,ith which bold liberators are at work. I stopped down and planed tif
stripping the clothes of reticency from 1,t- kitten on the floor, just ineide the room.
' She teemed to know where she was in
end, jumping into hair lap,
moment, for she trotted rowed iii4tare 1
Was sitting, e ,
stretched up rulobed her face again's') her,/
I watched through the crack and saw'
wife start and turn very pale, and the
she seemed te recognize•the kitten,she 4,.
in a half whisper, 1 oeuld just hear: t
"Why, kitty, where did you come frd"
A mew was all the answer she reedit
But „Mary seemed to guess that I was no
offinand she rose up and came toward
door. • • •.
I could not stand it any longer,, andhe
nextmorneat she was in my arum.
Boys, I am ashamed to say for the nexlen
minutes kitty was forgotten. And where
did remember her, he WW1 curled up, est
'Weep, in her old place in front of thane,
and seemed quite to have forgotten thaOhe
had ever saved my life, for if it hadnot beefor
her putting a little courage a ad hope in my
heart I should not be here now talkM to
you.—[Goenett DAY%
the time of parting had come. I was gala
tain of the schooner Lightning, and she WaB
to sail that night. It was the lamb voyage I
meant to make. Providence had been good
to me, and I had saved a comfortable little
neet-egg, which was safe in the bank.
It was my last evening at home, and I was
a bit down in the mouth. We were nibbling
together, in our little parlor; the fire MO)
burning brightly, the little white kitten was
rolled up like a big seowloall on tbe hearth -
rug. The.ourteins were drawn, and every-
thing was snug and ship-shape as could be.
• The only thing 1 41,d not like seeing were
my coat and,comforter hanging over the back
of a chain warming for me, and the bright
tears in Mary's eyes. Id d not like going,
I can tell you. But what ',YEW to bo, .was;
the time had come, so I got up and put my
coat on, Ann Mary, the tied the comforter
round my neck,
Poor, child; how be did fumble with it !
But then, she could not see for tears; and
—I am not ashamed to own- it either—I
felt as if / had got an apple in my throat.
• "Glocl bless you, my dear," 1 said, as 1
took her in my arms, "and keep you safe
till I'm back,' .
"Oh, Bob, you'Il want more taking come
of than I will. •
"Well, dear, He's able and kind enough
to take care of the two of us."
"Yes, I know that, Bob; but it's hard
parting, nevertheless."
And my poor wife burst out crying worse
than ever.
I knew it, was no good staying longer
the parting had to come, and the sooner it
was over, the better. I gave len one long
kiss, and turned to the door, when, just at
that moment, the little white kitten awoke
and atretohed itself, and a notion came into
my head, all in a moment, that I would take
it with me, I pioked it up, and buttoning
it inside my ooat, I hurried away from the
house and down to the wharf.
Often and often I have wondered what
could have put the Idea into my head of,
taking the kitten and the only conclusion I
oan come to is that it was Providence; and
boys, I believe you will agree with me when
you have heard my story.
We set sail that night, and the kitten
very soon made herself at home in my cabin.
I was glad I had brought her with me, for
seeing her curled up before the stove gave
the place a home -like air.
Things went well with no, and the voy-
age promised to be a prosperous and happy
one.
We had reached our destination in safety,
discharged our cargo, shipped a return; one,
and were nearing the New England coast,
when the weather suddenly changed for the
worse, and we saw clearly that we should
have some knocking about before we were
safely berthed in Boston Bay.
The wind rose gradually, but surely, till
it was blowing great guns, and, to make
matters worse, the cold became intense, as
blinding ehowers of sleet and snow swepb
poet us.
For two days we ran before the storm
close -reefed, but the strain and buffeting
the teasel had undergone at length told upon
her, and she sprang a leak.
We were now off the coast of Maine, and
I made up my mind to try and get into
Portland.
All hands went working the pumps, but,
work as we would, we found the water gain-
ing on us, and in my own mind I very much
donbted any of us ever settinng foot on dry
land again.
Night was coming on when the ship be-
came unmanageable. A tremendous sea had
smashed the rudder, and we were a play
thing of the waves, tossed about like a
feather, but ever slowly driftieg on to the
rook -bound coast.
Ah, boys, it was a night the like of which
1 had never been out in before, and I hope
I never may be again. The sea swept clean
over us.
The ship was doomed, I saw that, and
we couldn't let the people on land know
our position, for the water had got into the
powder and blue -lights.
The Eiffel tower has been well advertised.
The whole world has been hearing about it
for months. The last reporta were sensa-
tional in the extreme. It was said that the
tower was out of plumb, and references were
of course made to the tower of Pisa ; that
engineers were detailed to examine it with
theodolites, etc. But it may, perhaps, not
ID generally known that the Eiffel tower has
been built expressly with a view to tbe pos-
sibility of correcting a t any time any deflec-
tion horn the perpendicular by a ;nuking of
the foundations. It is supported on four en-
ormous hydraulic jaok.sorews, as. they are
called. Probably theme reports arosefrom the
fact that observations were made to see whe-
ther it was neceseary that these should be
brought into requisition.
The Chinese Government appears to do
its best to discourage the universal desire to
enter the Civil Service. Applicants are
examined every three years. At the last
examination each of the 1,300 candidates
entered a small, narrow and solitary booth
ID which he was practically imprisoned for
an entire month, the examiners themselves,
not being permitted to leave the enclosure.
Soldiers armed with lances, watched the
booths and saw that the rules were strict-
ly observed. At one time there was a heavy
rainstorm and many of the booths wero
flooded with water, m which the oandidates
squinted, woiking away patiently with their
bamboo pencils. Only 86 out of the 1,300
succeeded.
Germany appeare to be moat unfortunate in
all her colonizing experiments. Wherever
in foreign lands she is brought into contact
with other colonizing nations, misunder-
standings and unpleasantneeses occur. At
Angra Peqttina it was thus. At Zanzibar it
is the same. And Samoa is only another
and signal proof of her want of tact. Ger-
many apparently does not know how to deal
with native character. In this she differs
widely from England. The Anglo Saxon is
looked up to and cbeyed where the Teuton
is hated and rebelled agaiost. Wherein
lies the secret of Germany's failure? It ie
probably to be found in the eeoret of Eng-
land's success. And this is, we think, her
keen seine of justice; in Lord Dufferin's
large phrase, her "august impartiality."
It seems that tobacco has been smoked in
the West Indies from time immemorial.
How far back that may be, TRUTH will not
say, nor is it worth while to discuss the
question whether Sir Walter Raleigh really
was the person who first introduced the use
of the weed in England. Sufficient to
know that though Popes have thundered
their anathemas against it and though rulerr
have punished the smoking sinners with
death and mutilation, yet the use of the
weed has steadily and rapidly made its way,
and now it would seem that within the next
fifty years, the non smokers will have en-
tirely disappeared. Whether that will be
a blessing or the reverse, TRUTH will not
say. Only it ia evident that non-smakers
are already eked upon as poor
wretches who have neither feelings nor
rights which ought to be respected.
iterature may pour the products of their
imaginations, but there are some quite pop-
ular and allegedly respectable periodicals of
the magazine variety which do this. A
very flagrant case of the kind is hown in a
very recent Mane of a popular magazine
published in Philadelphia, the leading feature
of which is a"Story' eo uncompromisingly
prurient that it called forth two columns
of vigorous criticism and dertunolation froin
the New York World which has never borne
a reputation for being "too particular."
Great is Cheek and will preeetii. We
wish it understood that the word is meant
to be spelt with the very biggest kind of
capitals, for nothing leas than such can do
anything like justice to this overpowering,
stupendous and all but infinite Cheek of
which some people are possessed. Angels
may fear to tread in some l000.lities, and
have some modest reluctance to lay them-
selves open 'to the charge of preautnption,
but the cheeky man or woman knows no
fear, no backwardness, no modesty, no re-
luctance about doing, saying,going, any-
thing or anywhere that will allow him or
her to secure what they have set their minds
upon. Hesitancy with such people isfeeble
indecision, modesty is imbecility and re-
luctance to presume is the sure sign of an
idiocy that will never make its way in this
world at anyre.te, and may prove a serious
drawback to "getting on even in the
"world to come." Such persons are of the
pig -iron order of mind and heart, and are
separated, by a whole circumference from
the necessary but always respectful,
and self-respecting boldness which in
such a world as this is an essen-
tial part of everyone's mental and moral
equipment. Those whose endowment in
this reepeot falls short of the average to any
serious extent, are certainly vary badly
handicapped in the race of life. Bub proper
boldness and courage are as different from
cheek, as self-respect is from self -winch, or
love from lust.
When the scientists deal with the early
history of the earth, its formation and de-
velapment, they have the general p dello
pretty much at their mercy. Professor B oyd-
Dawkins has been discoursing to a Manches.
ter audience on some of the early geological
conditions of the globe. He tolt1 his hearers
that, as off the coast of Great Britain the
depth of the sea was from 500 to 600 fathoms,
and at the bottom, mountainta hills and
valleys wer.e all as plainly marked beneath
the water as they were on the land, ao evi-
dently the large traota of the earth's surface
covered now by the sea must once have been
dry land. Earthquakes, though seldom felt
in certain places, were really as plentiful as
blackberries. The similarity in density and
weight of Mars to the earth, and the general
conditions of the two bodies being pretty
much alike, convinced him that life in some
shape or ther must exist there. Possibly
creatures like therm which once inhabited the
earth and of which relics were preserved
ID museums existed in Mare, the conditions
being favorable for those forms of organic life.
In abort, Pofessor Boyd -Dawkins left the
impression that there is a very wide
margin for speculation about these matters
and no positive information to check a lively
imagination.
The Final Answer.
"11 that is your final answer, Miss Rob-
inson," the young man said, with ill -con-
temned chagrin, as he picked up his hat and
turned to go, "1 can do nothing bat sub-
mit. Yet baa it never occurred yo0 that
when a lady passes the age of thirty-seven
she is not likely to find herself as mach
sought.after by desirable younr men as she
once was ?" "It occurred to me with mid -
den and painful distinotnees when you
offered yourself just now," she replied.
"Good night, Mr. Jones 1"
Was far too Iiinoh for Him.
First Dude—" Aw, Chappie me boy, where
is Powsonby, the dear old fel, of late ?"
Second Dude—" At —aw—his memman
residence, very ill, don'tcherknow, Ha
took little Dollie Footlite out to supper
ma fter the opera, donnoherknow'and the
tually—aw—kissed him. The deah boy
as beer going from one swam into another
eh einem"
There may be a difference between homceo-
thic and allopathic pills, but there is very
tle perceptible in the bills.
a0
Smokers never seem to imagine that ee
tobacco smoke is intensely disagreeable
to those who don't burn incense at that)
idol's feet, and that they ought to keep their pa
smoke and their expectorations to themselves lie
'yJi11)11101110E1S VOITOlt.
While other minds from hie cheep lotfein are fedi
Impending horror hovers o'et bbs head,
It was just about midnight, as well as
we could judge, when the vessel struck
with a oraeh that knooked be all off our
legs, and a big sea, dashing over us at the
but, just as he was going to kick it again,
same moment, washed away three of our
At wriggled out of his reach and moved about
among the underbrush with the alacrity of
a wonnded rattlesnake.
• Waterman saw that he had hurt the wild-
cat internally, for it did not attempt to
spring ab him again, and then he picked up
a hard hemlock knob and beat ita braine oat
as it lay quivering across the roots of a tree.
some life -naming (mew. There was noth-
ing for us to do but to wait. Both of Waterman's arms were severely
What a night it was Nono of us would torn, and he lost a lot of blood, but he put
go below, for the ship were washed off quids of tobacco on his wounds and bound
take dawn with her all who were below oat had made so many rents in his hide that
deok. •
moaning not far away, for the vicious wild -
them up as well as he could. Major lay
the rook, she would founder at) once, and
When say none of, us went below, I he was suffering intensely, and Mr Water -
make a mistake. I did, at a great risk. I man slung the wildcat over his shoulder,
t the little white kitten. When strapped his gun and gamebag on his back,
went to ge
and started for home with the wounded
I entered my cabin, there I saw her ourled
up fast asleep on my bunk. pointer in his arms. The wildcat was an
I was determined she should not be lost enormously large one for that section, for
it I could help it, and, as on the evening its weight was 28n pounds.
•
when I Mit home,, I buttoned her up inside
my coat, next to my breast, and again made
my way on deok.
There were only three of us left—myself,
the cook and a sailor. The cook and I made
ourselves fast to the mast as well as we could,
and we shouted to the other man to come to
08.
Poor fellow 1 he was doing his best to obey,
when a sea came and we eaw him no more.
I don't know, bot s' that I can describe our
sufferings all throughthat night. You May
imagine them, but words wouldn't paint
them.
We were wet to the skin, and the cold
seemed to go through us like knives. I
tried to keep the kitten warm, but it was
wretched enough, poor little thiv.k 1 and
kept on mewing, and every time I heard it
my theughtes flew over the raging waves to
my own snug home, where gems one, I
knew'was preying for me, and the thought
of that gave me oourage again.
Day dawned at length, and I WWI able to
see my companion's face. HD hadn't spoken
for some time, and I was almost afraid he
was dead, but I then fouled it Wati the sleep
produced by the cold.
He was only kept up by the rope with
which he had fastened himeelf to the mast,
and, as the light became ettonger, 1 found the
knot had given a bit, and it dM not seem very
(safe.
1 could not rouse him, and at last the
knot gave he rolled on the deck, and a
wave dashing over ue that moment carried
him away, and his sufferings were at an
end.
I and the kitten were all alone now, the
only two living things out of those who had
been so full of life and hope but a few clays
before.
• No ono oars tell the feeling of thankful-
ness and joy with which I B0013 after (saw
the hfe-lsoat nearing mo; but by the time liner° is no fib search after truth which
I VW sofa in her, I was pretty well at'my cloeg not, first of all, begin to live the truth
last gasp. ' which it know,
A LIVELY TUSSLE.
An Unarmed Hunter's Experience i1Ik a
Wildcat in Pennsylvania. '
Christopher Waterman had a lively mune
with a wildcat near Choke Creek, in Ithigh
township, Pa., recently. Waterman I es in
Tobyhanna township, Monroe county, cross
the Lehigh River from where he was b Ming
the buthes for partridges with Hs
dog Major. He bad bagged half a ionber
zen
plump birds that forenoon, and, was eating
himself on a log near the creek, when be was
startled by the howling of Major in the
bushes a few rods distant. He couldn't see
the dog, and Major's howls of dittrese came
so quick and fast that Waterman rushed to-
ward the spot, leaving his gun leaning against
the log on which he had been sitting. The
pointer was in a pitiable plight when Water-
man got to him. A wildcat had pounced upon
Major's back from a hollow log, and was
making the fur fly from the hatmleal point-
er's back and sides when the hunter
GAME ON THE (WEER
Waterman's first impulse) was M kick t4.
wildcat in the side, • he dia so with all his
might. He had on rubber boots, and the
blow, instead of kaooking the wind out of
the ravenous beast, for a time, only hurled
it from the dog's back into the brush, a
couple of yards away. At this the wildcat
screamed with rage, recovered itself in an
instant, leaped upon a log, and sprang at
Waterman's chest. He had not the time to
grasp any kind of a weapon, and the yelling
wildcat came at him with so much force and
fury that he could do nothing but seize it by
the throat and dash it from bim. Four
times the wildcat repeated this, screaming tf
at every movement of its lithe and wiry 't
into
hyt,aebushes.ndfour'M
times Waterman ph
When the bloodthirsty beast sprang at
him the fifth time Waterman dodged behind
a tree, but that did not save him from the
sharp claws of the supple animal, for the
wildcat dashed past the tree and landed on
the hunter's left arm. It bit him on the
shoulder and tore half of his sleeve off before
thenhoueld do anything to protect himself, and
h
GRABBED IT BY THE
throat with his right hand and herd it out
at arm's length. He might have ()beaked
the wild cat to death in a short time, if it
had not frightfully scratched his arm with
its hind feet, but it curled up its limber
body and dug its claws into his wrist until
the blud spurted and compelled him to drop
it. He kicked the wildcat in the ribs as it
atruck the ground,and partially stunned it •
Crow.
It now became merely a battle between'
the vessel and the sea, and we were the un-
willing and helpless spectators. Our only
chance for life was that she would hold tin
gather until the morning, and that we might
be seen from the shore and pioked up by
WIRELETI3.
Armed brigands are causing trouble in
Servia.
Wm. O'Brien has been sentenced at Tralee
to another six menthe' term.
On the 1615 inst. 2,500 men were diechar-
ed from the Panama canal works.
Great excitement is said to prevail in
Tahiti over the trouble* in Samoa.
Mr. Cook has given notice in the Rouse
of Commons of a Home Rule resolution.
James Leverence Carew, M. P. for North
Kildare, has been arrested in Scotland for
not answering an Irish summons under the
Crimes Act.
The Netv York "Sun's" Washington cor-
respondent says the correspondence in the
Saokville matter will soon be laid before
Congress.
• The third daughter of the late Hon, Thee.
White was married in Ottawa the other day
to Major John Cotton, of the N. W.
Mounted Police at Regina.
• A beauty show ie to be held in Paris in
April, in which women representing the
African, Asiatic and Catioadan races will
participate. The first prize will be $6,-
000.
In the township of West Zorra, near
Ingersoll, the other night, a riotous de-
monstration took place over the possession of
a ahem factory One of the assaulting
party, named Murray, was shot, inie feared
fatally.
Mr. Trtidel created a emulation in the Que-
beo Legislature recently by giving notice of
a resolution of spinpatlay with th Pope, ein-
bodying a suggestion that Queen Victoria be
urged to use her influence 10 restore the tern.porl power.
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