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.A YOUNG FERC,
story or an Adventure on the Bea.
Ib wan ab Bourbon—bhp moat neglected of
the Frond) porta in the Indios,
A number of vol eelm rode at anchor in the
harbour, when with the rapidity which
generally accompanier' the appearance of
tidal waves, bile ann00000mant wan made by
the Semaphore thee a tidal wave was about
to burst over the 'port, and immediately a
canon allot from the fort conveyed the order,
usually given in auch odes in thew lati
Wes, that all bbo vetaola in the pore should
Mire to the open 000.
Tho crows hastily regained their voseele,
and in lees then half -en hour all, except one,
were sailing away towards the horizon,
The one which rerraiood, doopiaing the or-
ders of the harbour -mentor, was a large brig
in ballast, on whoa) dock nob a living maul
could bo seen, A seoond allot was fired to
enforoe the order to quit the port, and than
the brig was seen to pivot on herself, and
with gapping dila make for the open sea,
bub still no human being oould be distin-
guished on deck.
An hour later, we hoard with stupefaction
that the entire crew of the brig bed been
detained on shoe by uncontrollable oircum
stanoee, and that there remained on board
the voosol no other living being than the
apprentice, a lad fifteen years old, and the
captain's dog. In order to obey the repoab-
ed injunctions of the Semaphore, the little
fellow must apparently have let bhe anchor
°ham slip, and have cub the hawser with
his hatchet. But what could hie feebleness
do against the hurricane ; how could it pos.
albly be hoped than he would be able to
GOVERN THE HEAVY SHIP?
4 Where would he get the strength and
anergy to hold the holm and make head
against the oyolone? Ib was madness to
think of such a thing, and consternation
was groat all through Sb. Denis,
As the days succeeded each other these
lugubrious fear' gained ground ; all the
other vessels returned to port when the
storm had pasted, the brig alone did nob
come back. And yet, wibh a tenaeitywhich
savoured of madness, all the 'prantiae'a
ahipmatoe, from the captain to the scullion,
paned the entire day on tbo beach with
their °yea convulsively fixed on the hori.
eon,
Suddenly, on the morning of the fourth
day, the pitted profile of a mast wan
seen on the horizon. Ib woe at first bub a
etiok, but ie neemod to grow longer by
degroee, then the cradle emerged from the
waver', and the yards were seen, and last
ly appeared the hull. All the sails were
furled, the brig, for it was a brig, was
flailing under meets and cordage only, kept
on her course by her litblojlb hoisted to a
third of its height, and beating agoinabthe
ropes like a pocket handkerchief.
A shout, Immense, savage, delirious, es-
caped from the breasts at the twenty eat•
lore who were along the shore. Than,
rushing towarde the port with the swiftness']
of the wind, they dashed into the naval
office, and with tears of joy in their eyes,
implored the harbour -master to mend out
a tug. A quarter -of an -hour later the tug
was alongside the brig. The apprentice,
a hero fifteen year' cf age, Lad brought
the brig bac, to Bourbon, aftor more
than three days of inexpremsible strife
with
nue UNCHAINED ELEMENTS.
As the captain had surmised, the boy had
Drat waited, and then seeing no one conte,
had let the anchor go, as ho was not able to
hoist it, and had head the hawser in twain,
and than, ruching to the helm, had bravely
sob her head out to sea. Did he dispair ?
Not he. Instead of weeping and whining,
the little fellow formed the resolution oe
riding down the storm I Slipping a rope,
with a running -knot, starboard and lar-
board, in order to prevent the sudden lurch-
es of the tiilor whioh he wee too weak to
control, he remained at his dangerous post
during seventeen hours, measuring with his
eyes rho strength of the waves, and, with
the courage of a man, avoiding, time after
time, being naught by a wave on the broad.
side and Bent to the bottom.
Beside him, seated on his haunches, with
hie oyes tenderly fixed on the boy, as if
he undereto"d that his life depended on the
child's heroism, nab the captain's dog, mo-
tionless, and even when the mighty waves
streak the ship and sent her pitching in
the trough of the sea, the dog did nob budge
an Mob, But aftor seventeen hours, when
the cyclone had embedded, and the sea had
become calm, the hey, exhausted by tbo sod.
den thought of his triumph, remembered
MAT HR WAS reONORT,
To the horrible sensation of hunger there
was added the reaction arising from the enor-
mous expenditure of ebrengbh and energy
whioh he had put forbh, and he wan near
falling in a fainting fit on the deok.
But to fall thus ignominiously atter the
victory ho bad just achieved over the ele-
menta, ah not The young hero dreamed of
bringing book his ship to Bourbon, thab is
to say, of n000mpliahing the most inoom-
parable feat of the hind ever registered in
the annals of the sea, and to do this he must
not let himself die of hunger.
"Certahut" cried the youth. The dog
jamped up with minority.
" Come here and hold the helm," said the
bey, with almost dramatic seriousness;
"you know, my good dog, that eine there
are only two of ua on board, we must take
our turn at the helm., So while you remain
hero I will run down bo the larder and see if
I oan find a morsel to put under our teeth.
You ere hungry, Cartahu, are you not?"
Mho dog wagged hie tail frantically.
" Well, then, come hare. You see bias
rope's end which I have made fast to the
helm ? Yes 1 Well, you will take it be.
tween your white teeth and hold on to it for
bare life. Above all, don't len go, Cartahu,
because if you did she would veer round,
and bhab is not my idea. Well, you under.
stand, don't you ? Be good, and I ohan'b
be long."
And then, making dm that the dog
HAD A 0000 Gale
of the rope end was holding on tooth and
nail, the child ruehed to the cook -house and
seized on a bag of bieouite, moms wine, sugar.
sausages, and a small keg of water, wibh
which he oame beak, placing them triumph-
antly on tho dock beside the holm.
"Thera," said heoyouoly, "you see, my
old Cartahu, that there 10 a good God for
bravo apprenbioea and bravo dogs than do
their duty. Wo have grub enough there for
a weak, and I ant biomed if in that time we
aro not in Bourbon."
And the boy Inept his word. On the fourth
day, navigating by sun and stars, be saw at
last the peaks of the Ielend of Reunion, and
the tug•boab throw upon the deck hie oom-
radee, who were mad wibh joy, anthueisom,
and happiness.
The ooloniets raised it subsoripelon for the
bravo child, and recommended by all, he
was e
enb to the
Merino School,whenoo he
name out an officer, Where ie is now
know not, but this 1, do know, he mud have
made hie mark, bhab hereto young appren•
gee of deye gone by,
Tion Hunting,
Wo were once Damped In a grove on the
bank of a creek, our party numbering over
thirty people, Wo had horde, oxen, wag
gone and doge, and were epreail 01111 aver
bwo soros of ground, It wee in the lion
country, and they might he expootod be ap•
preach ab night, hub on the 0000nd afternoon
of our oatnp, whdo all were °ngagod in °lean.
ing up and making repairs, an alarm wt a
suddenly rained, I euppoeed that some of
the anlmalostatnpeded,. and ran around ilia
wagon to get a plod YAW of the 'pace be
tween ua and the creek. We crook wee 200
foot away, and was 00 nearly dry that one
oould step ammo it, The bank on the other
side wan rooky ground, pretty thickly
covered with aorub, and right on the brink
deed one of the largeeb lions 1 ever naw.
He was out in full view, head and tail up,
and stood so still for a moment that I doubt-
ed if he wan olive.
There was a light breeze blowing toward
10, and as Boon as our auf,nale gob the sonar
ib required the offorta of every native to
proveub them from breaking away. My
guns were being oleened and oiled, and my
two white companion were looking after
their horaae. No one had the least idea thab
the lion meant mischief, and we wore pre.
sently dumbfounded to Bae him spring acme
the creek and comp walking into Damp. We
measured his leap and found it to be twenty-
eight' feet. He made it without an effort,
I was to bhe right of him, and the neuter of
bhe camp was hie objeativo point. The lion
advanood at a walk, uttering no sound, and
the shouts, screams end whoops of the mon,
baouod by the bellowing of the cattle end
the snorts of the horses, had no effect on him.
We had a new milah cow tied to a wheal
of one of the wagons, and the lion advanced
to within thirty feet of her, and bhen made
a spring which tended him fairly upon her
book. She fell in a heap, and ho seized her
by the nook, gave her two or three 'shakes,
which broke the grass rope around her
head, end he Mon got his right ahouldor
ander her and started off. The cow weighed
at leash 500 pounce, but he carried her
with perfect ease, bar hind fed dragging on
the ground. At the oroek he made a jump
of eleven foot, aaoended 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 luoky not to have lost half ouranimale,
I was no greenhorn in the animal business
ab thab date, but this was the first time I
had over winnowed much cheek in a lion.
Had I been told than he had ouch courage
and coolness I should have laughed the
statement to morn.
Al i ' '1
1 root a bit. 'he dookin told me yesterday
MINTING VOA COONS. whore I'm going tow pub use n, an we t
bile coons was worlds' like hops t aroand
'The :tweeted wee reported on a beautiful he wished I'd happen round some night,"
Indian summer morning--Jeliez, the hired Sure enough, beyond the broos was is worm
man, when he camo in with the milk, pane. tenon, and beyond the fence a corn•0e1d,
ing to nay that seven of the corking° were bha dry husks of th° standing corn rust•
lying under the roost with their heads eaten ling in a ghostly way. Mose dlaappeared.
off, while the other five w, rt, mivaiug, Mad. We eat down on a great flab rook neer the
elle° was oubin the orchard In a moment, fosse
ulpsolyy followed by little Cheuw76 and —t.' coon an'b nobody's fool," geld Zeke,
Crediton, the maid of all work, Thud reflectively, Dying the pelts, " an' he man-
dorkiugs hon boon the apeotat pats of the aged to gib a protby good Italia' without
household ; beaidee Mae, thio was the Drat humpin' hi If Frogs ie his usual fodder,
mtohap in our iemnaturottah far jieg, although
eopooially in winter, when he can't get muoh
sures ed by oleo, but he'll take muukrata, rabbits, quail,
frtonde, and we had not )Darned to bear ohtokene, berries, porn, anything that comes
losses with equanimity. Ttie head of the along. But his Thankagivin' is about bhe
hoods, hastily summoned from his desk, en last of September, whoa the corn's In the
roughing the spot beheld a pathetic seem—milli, an' lasts all through October," here
Madeline, Choowib, the Teuton maid, all in was heard a shore quick yelp from Mose in
As soon as order had been restored the
three of us mounted our horses and, pre
coded by five or six natives and their doge,
crossed the creek and took up the tulle
Attar going about half a mile wo diaoovered
bhe lion sitting beside the carcass in a little
hollow, Ho was sitting up like a dog, head
turned towards us, but as aeon as he saw us
divide he ran off with his tail down evi-
dently thoroughly alarmed, and aunt' was
his spend that wo soon lost him. We oould
count on hie returning to the body during
the night, and the natives were therefore set
to work to dig a pit and oonoeal it. They
regarded the lion as beteg as sunning as he
was wine, and the pie was not dug near the
body, but thirty teat away from it and in the
direction in whioh it was believed he would
drag the body.
If a lion or tiger leaves s body during the
day and returns to it at night the first ant is
to drag it some distance, as if fearing an am-
buscade. While the rule is not invariable,
it bolds good in moat cases. During the
night a dozen lions ecentod around aur
(lamp, but without Dousing any alarm, and
soon after daylight the delves wont out to
investigate the trap. No hunter over had
such a windfall before or since. As night
Dame several Lions must have scented the
emcees, end gathered for a feast. The
rightful owner objected, of course, and there
wee a fight, the result of which was that
three full grown males tumbled into one pin.
The fact did nob prevenb others from pink.
ing the carouse Olean. One of the oapbiveo
was the ohooky old fellow who had entered
our camp, and the other two were fully as
large, In the acorea of the forenoon we had
thom out and in the wages, and two of them
are in the United States to -day in zoological
gardens.
There aro plenty of instances where men
have been oohed by lione and lived to relate
the parbioularo, though no two agree as to
sensations. A week subaequenb to our cap
turn of bhe three lions I had been out with
some of the natives to prepare a bait in a
rooky ravine. We had built a stout pen of
rooks and loge and planed a calf as a bait.
The Hun was nearly down an we started for
oamp, and no one had the least suspicion of
the presence of danger until a lion, which
had been crouching beside a bush, sprang
out and knocked me down. In springing
upon his pray the lion or the tiger strikes as
he seizes. Thea blow of the paw, if ib falls
on the right spot, disables the victim ab
onto.
I was so near this fellow that he 'imply
reared up, seized me by the shoulder and pull.
ed me down, and I woo flat on the earth be-
fore I realized what had happened. I was
on my bank, and he stood with both paws
on my middle, facing the natives and growl-
ing savagely, The men ran off aboub 300
feet and then balled, whioh was doubtless
the reason why I was carried off at once. I
can say without conceit than I was fairly
cool. It had come so euddenly than I had
nob had time to get rattled. I had been told
by an old Boer hunter, if I over tound my.
self in ilia fix, to appeal to the lion's fears.
Had I moved my arm to geb my pistol, the
bead would have lowered hie head and die -
my throat. So long as I lay quiet he would
reason that I was dead, and give hie atten-
tion to the natives.
All of a sudden I barked out like a dog,
followed by a growl, and that beast jumped
twenty feeb in his surprise. He came 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
growls, bub wibhout moving a hand, and,
after making a oirole clear around mebhe
lion suddenly bolted and wont off with a
snare whioh would last him a week. If you
had pinked up a stink and dlsoovered ie to
be a snake you would do juob as the lion did.
Ho supposed he had pulled down a man.
The man burned into a dog, Ib appealed to
his Mare.
After the lion had gone I grew ao weak
than 1 had bo bo oerried to Damp. .lSo had
inflicted a protby bad bite on my shoulder,
and lb was a fortnight before I could hold
my gun for an offhand diet. I had the pros.
moo of a fourth °apbivo during thie time to
console me, however. No animal wonb near
the oalf eu the &rot or second night, but on
the third we s0ptured a fine half-grown
male, and gob him caged without trouble.
Curiously enough, he had offered bho o0 f no
Violence, being °veroomo by the eibu.tion,
Mill when we found trim the two domed on
the beet torn',--tOor. Now York Sun.
tears, while Jabez, loaning ou hie bush•hook, distant pure of the field, "Great Soot,"
woe regarding ruefully the stork, headless said Zeke," there another," end off we
corpse'', `raced, to ame up and God :Mae crunching
' What did it, Jahn," he demanded ; the life out of another of the brutes, I
"foxes?" ''too ed down and patted the dogea hie
"No," said Jabez, with a sniff; "foxes olim' mangy back.a" Mose," said I, " hudsome
trove 1 The ljee I It's coons' work, 1-7l10 , is that handsome does. Forgive me ; you
woods is full of 'em up arenod Iluokloberriy are certainly bhe prince of noon doge."
range and the Devil's den. Five fowls gone, Mese answered with u growl,
he continued, " that means there's five 00005 I Ib was now 12 o'clock, and wo were three
in the mass --last summer's litter—four miles from the faruvhouee, with a rough
young ons an' the old un." !country between. I suggested than we go
"We must have their eoalps, Jabez. How home, but Zeke declared thab he was "hol-
sholl we do it—traps, etryoontne— 1 ler clean down to hie boobs," end mueb have
"No," said he, "'boout tho only way to some provender first. He built a fire of the
oatoh the coons le to tree 'em with a good deacon's fonoe.raile, took from a capacious
noon -dog," pocket!). atone bottle filled with cold ooffoe,
"Who's gob one hereabouts, Jabez f" I and met ib down to warm, then broke several
"Wall, Zoko Rodney s old yeller dog Mose sora which hed nob glazed from the stalks,
Is jest the slickest 000n•dog in thoeo parts. and spitted thein to roast before the fire..
Zoko sorter projected a hunt up in these " Do you usually have much luck?" I ask -
parte d'ree'ly, he told mo last nigh ," ed, to fill the gap.
"Bring him up, Jabez," we said, "and t, Mosey. Than ar Mose," he oonbinued,
we'll bake a °hence ab these midnight mama. „fes 'markable animal ; an'b another in the
dorm' " ' country his equal. Got new lose hint, though,
Accordingly ab 9 o'clock than evening' Mose is growin old,
Lake and Mose appeared, and were ushered " I should think no coons would be left,"
by Gretchen into the long kitchen that ocou. I ventured, "Not a bib," said he. " Ye
Pea the whole north of the farmhouse. , see rho old 'un has four ab a litter, an' two
Zoko never shaved and rarely had his hair or three littera a season. An' there's nothin'
cub. Ilia long, shrewd, quizzical face was that hunte Doone in parts'cept Mose an' me.
so tanned and toughened by sun and wea-
ther A coon's good at gotten' away, tew, inter his
that it resembled patoifinent, while his hole if he oan—if he can't, up a tree. 011,
ragged slouch hat, faded greatcoat, worn no;there's no danger o' coons cyte' out."
over a brown jumper, and mud -splashed ,Zeke," Bated I, ae we gnewod our worn.
trouaere, tucked into immense boot -bops, did cobs, " what's the biggest haul you ever
not add to the elegance of his appearance. n
made in s Bingle night Mone was certainly the ugliest dog we had " Wall, let e n see. It was up in the
ever seen. It was not that his hide was a Boating mountains, jiat after the fuel snow
dirty yellow, that he was mangy, that hie fell. 1 woe gain' three nights, stearin' at
teeth wet% partly gone from age, that he was fright with the charcoal burners, an I
Groes and snappy, that he turned now and cum home wibh thirty pelts—not bad
then to bite fide—all therm features and dis-
advantages combined to form an instance of went home, and the city man lay
positive and unrelieved ugliness. 1 abed for three days with rheumatism.
Dark it was indeed as we fasued from the On the third day, however, Zeke acme in
kitchen door; the stare shone dimly through rwith some rattlesnake oil, which soon effect -
Dorn uabling in the breeze, and the tomb
the ut:b lnummer haze. Wo heard the dry ed a setisfaotory cure.—[Now York Tribune.
roaring of the Uequebaugh through the
gorges of the Devil's den, a mile up the val-
ley, We said to Zeke that we wiebed exaob
and poetic juetioe to be meted out—in shore,
that we wanted the very family of coons
that had done the mischief—non their inno-
cent brethren—and suggested that Mose be
put on the trail leading from the poultry -
yard, Zeke, however, was eminently woe- ! e
tical., "'Twoutd lead," he said, " straight
up to tee Devil's den, and be lost in a hun-
dred others. The way to dew," ho continued,
" is taw make fur the woods an' take the j
fuel' that comes."
Zeke'' "outfib" comprised a heavy, double
barreled shotgun of English make, an ax,
a hunting -knife, and a bull's-eye lantern ;
ours was a Remington breech -loader. Up
the river road we plodded by the lighb from
the bull's-eye, Moss trotting demurely be.
hind, and crossed the Uequebaugh at the
gorge by a fallen fir thirty feet above the
water. Ib was an adventurous transit, for
Zeke had drawn the shade long before resell
the river, and bee darkness was intense.
The log, too, was slippery and bead with
knots and spikes and broken limbo, after
the manner of dead firs. But at lash we
oroesed, and found ourselves in a deep
pookeb among the hills at the base of a ledge
of tremendous bowldera.
Zeke moved with a stealthy, cab -like tread.
The city man tried to. Mose won his ad-
miration ; be moved like a yellow ghosb
through the darkneee, obedient to bhe lead
tone or touoh of his master. "Sib here,"
said Zeke ab last, °roweling on a log. He
made a low, clunking sound with his lips,
and the dog wriggled off into the ender.
brush silent as the spirit of the night, For
five minutes we waited breathlessly, or one
of ua did ab least. Then came a single bark,
echoing strangely through the forenb, Zeke
cab unmoved. Five minutes more and there
dine a succession of sharp, eager yelps, and
the hunter sprang to hie feet, with the ex-
preasion, "Se's treed the hull gang, old un
and all," and dashed off through the under•
growth ab a rate that we wore quite unable to
keep pad with. When we came up he was
standing ab the foot of a huge oak scanning
its top by bhe light of the bull's-eye, while
Mose stood on his hind legs with hie fore
paws on the trunk in bhe awn of climbing.
'• Show him, boy," said the hunter, at
last, after an unsuooensful effort to find his
quarry. Thereupon the dog retired a few
panes and fixed hie gaze intently on a orotoh
about fifty feeb from the ground. We saw
two bright eyes peering at him from between
bile forks. Zoke raised his gun, fired and
with the burst of flame came o rush through
the air, and a heavy body struck bhe ground,
scabtering the dry leaves. Maas would
have rushed in, bub the same peouliar sound
from the hunter restrained him. Tho coon
was dead—a pretty animal, wibh sharp nose,
blaok eyebrows, small foxy ears, round
striped tail, and thick gray fur. " There's
four more up there, sarbin,' remarks Zeke,
peering up into the towering foliage. Soon
be raison his gun and sonde another charge
of buokshot into the tree -top, and a mond'
noon, with a terrible thump, comes to earth.
A third discharge, and the quarry elides
down the Limb and lodges in the crotch ab
rho mein stem, its tail hanging over.
Zoko studies it a moment. 'Shure dead,'
ho dye, "and lodged, bub we've gob tow
have his pelt." A straight, smooth spruce
wee growing near, The hunter neasured
with his eye the distance between ire top
and the oak's; then ho fell to with his ox,
and in five minutes had ie lodged against
the notch. To worm up it with arms and
lege and dislodge the body wee the work of
a few minutes. He then builb a fire and
proceeded bo strip the skins, Onee he stop-
ped short and aoanned the jaws of the sub•
soot before him, "Here's yet coon," said
he, pointing to small tufts of down wedged
between the teeth. Tho nits man pounced
upon the head, had it severed from the body
and carried it home, whore ib now sway' ab
the summit of a long pole in his poultry
yard, a warning to midnight marauders,
After than we went deepor into the foreab,
the bloody palte dangling from the wood-
man's belt like scalps from an Indian's
girdle. Indeed, we went so far and so feet
through hush and brake bhab the amateur
fele hie wind failing trim. "Zoke," said ho,
"how much farbhor,ie it ?" "Is what 1" said
r,
place where you are o-
tic. huuber, Tho
p
,
rs ng
tram to
ing. "Oh, on these tripe i keep tramp
in'
night mostly. Howaomever, jiabboyond
that clump Deakin Hardline' pot a corn lob
CATTLE ]SATE,
now a Woman Saved the Lives ora Couple
of Gamblers.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 28.—Mrs. Kate
Maxwell, the " Belle Starr " of Wyoming,
losod up a gambling house at Bessemer on
Monday night, recovered several thousand
dollars which had been lost by her oowboyo,
and then saved the lives of the bwo gamblers
net as the infuriated cowboys were going to
string him up. She is known as " Cattle
Kate," and rune a small ranch near Besse-
mer. Oa Sunday she was robbed of $1,500
by her own men, and her resenlmenu was
aroused againot the gamblers. Their room
at Bessemer was crowded on Monday night
when Kato strode in, accompanied by her
foreman, both armed to the teeth, While
Kate covered the dealer with a six-shooter,
Mason, her foreman, secured the box and
showed the crowd that the game was an un-
fair, or " brace " one. This enraged the
cowboys, and Gamblers Farley and Bedell
were terribly beaten and ordered to prepare
for lynching. The ropes were in sight when
"Cattle Kate" interceded for the bwo
wrebobes and announced that die would di-
vide their money. Bedell and Farley were
then chased out of town and,their place was
fired, and all hands went over to Mrs. Max.
well's rancho, whore a dance and general
good time followed.
Asilk trust nes boon Muted by bio load
ing houses of London and Mane/odor,
When a girl ie bent on getting married
mho 'bands up straighter thenen r.
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RUDOLF'S STRANGE DEATH.
Another Account el the Meeting TruScdy
le be maidally CouYrmed,
CoLoaxm, Feb. 21,1909, --The "i°rankfur'
ter Zeitung " publioheo what ib olaimo to be
the only authontio amount of the Crown
Prince Rudolf'° death,
Rudolf, it dye, is Deoomber last declared
that rather than Bee the Baroness Vermeer°
marry a young French livandier, who was
encouraged in his suit by her family, he
would resign the auooedoion to the Crown
and live abroad es a private gentleman.
Arrangements for the lady's marriage nom
tinned, until on January 29, the learoneso
suddenly vanished, Oa the evening of the
nest day the Crown Prince's absence won
noticed, and at ten o'aloak at night Count
Hayes gave directions to search the
forest.
A FORESTER'S DISCOVERY,
The forester Werner saw light in his hut,
and as he lived alone he was surprised, and
finding the door looked lie broke it in and
Sew, stretched an the humble pouch, the
bodies of the Crown Prince and of the
Baroness. The latter had taken abryuhnine,
while the Crown Prince had shot himoel
with W erner's gun.
Tan enexcu CRISIS.
Loxno,, Feb. 21—Premier Flogneb and
his minietry have bean toppled over ae last
for the moment, as you know, and every
wise man who makes a epocialty of pro.
phoeying is oonentrating his attention on
the question r'5 to which way the Galli°
oat will jump. Nine out of ten agree that
Boulanger's day has come; that he did the
overthrowing of hie duelled° opponent
Floquab, and that a few weeks will show
him riding into power and Europe in a
blaze. The real wine man, in truth, is he
who knows that ae far as Franco and her
politics are concerned he knows nothing,
Almost anything is poeeible except the
immediate triumph of Boulanger.
Women as School Trustees.
"
Am. Exchange :" Mr. Charles H. Ham,
author of "Manual Training." in the lash
number of the "Teacher " maintains and di-
lates upon the following propositions wibh
reference to the oervioe of women on boards
of education : (1) They are less selfish than
men and devote themeelven to their work
wibh more singleness of purpose. (2) They
have, as a rule, "been spared the stupefying
influence and lose of time involved in col-
lege end professional training." (3) They
are more economical than men and will pre-
vent waste. (4) They are more honest. (5)
They are more moral, and their intuitions ae
to school environment keener. (6) They
have more leisure and oan visit the schools
more frequently than men. (7) The majority
of teaohers are women, and their wants and
capacities are bettor judged by women,
There will be a disposition on rho part of
some to add to or aubtraot from these claims,
but they come from an individual who has
given the subject of education years of ob-
servation and thought,
n DEATH OF 0. J BBYDGEB.
The Great Railway Manager Drops Dead in
Winnipeg.
The whole city of Winnipeg was shocked
and startled the other day at the an-
nouncement that Mr. C. J. Brydges. land
oommissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company,
had dropped dead at the hospital. Mr,
Brydges had been in the beet of health and
attended to his urinal business affairs during
the day, and in the afternoon paid his cus-
tomary visit to the Wianipe$ General Hos-
pital, an institution in whioh be took the
deepest interest, and bbo prosperity of which
was largely dee to hie untiring exertions,
On reaching the boopital he took a seat in
the board room, Mr. Clarke, clerk of the
hospital, told him there was nothing requir-
ing attention, and he said he would come
back on Monday. Mr. Clarke then resumed
his work, die back being towards Mr.
Brydges. Almost immediately be heard Mr.
Brydgee' feet slip on the floor, and turning
around he saw him gasping for breath with
his head leaning over the back of the chair.
He ran to him, lifted his head and celled hie
name, but no response 0005 made. There
happened to be throe ur four doetero in an
&,looming roans who ears quickly summon-
ed, but when they reached the room the
spark of life bad ded.
Mrs. Brydges had ncoompanied her hus-
band to the h000ital, but had gone to visit
another charitable institution, intending to
call for him on her return.
The cause of death was apoplexy of the
brain, from which he had a slight attack in
the morning, but on taking a restorative
easily recovered.
It is noticeable, We, ourious incident, that
on the Friday evening previous, while at a
dinner with Justice Bain, at wbioh Sir
George Baden•Powell was present, there
were thirteen at the table, and this was
mentioned by several, who asked who was
to be the arab of them to die.
Another Arctic Expedition.
The footsteps of Greely, Nerd, and the
host of other Arctic adventurers are about
bo be followedby another expedition. 111 is
to be fitted oub in Norway, and will make
its way northward during the summer of
1890. The route selected is thee by way of
Franz Josef Land, the scene of bhe efforbe of
, Payer a leeto hoha sw ecure are Dr,tg
o. For
leader it pedto seFrithiof
Nanoon, bhe gallant youngooiontieb who lasb
year tramped across the snow -fields of
Southern Greenland. As he is, however,
spending the winter in ice -bound seclusion
on bhe shore of Davis' strait, it is not known
whether he will consent' to assume euoh a
back. There is a fascination in Arotio ex-
ploration that will doubtless continuo to
draw men toward the North Pole, regardless
of peril and the ghastly record of their pre.
deoessors, until the seorota of the unknown
lands shall be revealed.—[Now York Tri-
bune,
An Old White Telephone.
There are not 80 many new things under
the ban as people suppose. The telephone
has the oredit of being en entire novelty, yob
Robert Hooke, two hundred and twenty-four
years ago, wrote : "I have by a distended
wire propogabed sound to a very consider.
able distanoe in an instant', or with as seem-
ingly quick a motion am that of light ; and
tine not only in a otraighb lino, or direob, but
in ono bonded in many angles." Here was
the invention of the telephone right In hand,
so to speak, only Hooke did not follow up the
load. So bhe world had to wait two °eateries
for the admirable instrument which eaves se
much of humanity'e tiro to-day,—[Golden
I Deena
iK
Derek Ileseue,
Private Coyle of tee Twenty Second In.
Mary, U. 5. A., has recently dfetiogulobed
himself by his heroic rescue of a lady from
a horrible death, Coyle wee one of a detail
of aoldlers in the guveronreet park et Yoflow
atone, guarding the property, end sbationod
near. OidFalthfulgoysor, wbioh la well kuewn
to tourlabs who hen inspeoted the woadere
of the Yellowstone. A few days ago a party
of ladies from the .Bast wore doing the park,
and in the course of their rambles they
strolled in the vicinity of the crater of the
geyeer, and one daring apirit eseeyed be
penetrate the mysterlea of a epee where
frequent but Melded efforta have been mado
TO FIND THE BOTTOM,
She passed in safety along a narrow ridge
wbioh divides a pool of boiling water, and
peered Into the dangerous ureter afea feet
distant. Ofd Faithful geyser derives fie
name from the fact then ovary fifty live
minutes there in a disehargo from ftp depth°
wbioh rep sundae the pool near wbioh the
venturesome tourist atuud, Premonitory
syrndtomo of en orupbicu ere conveyed by a
hissing sound, as of escaping steam, and the
day in question the tourists lied been fre-
quently notified of the Moe. Female curios-
ity, however, would nob be baffled, the lady
approached nearer to the forbidden ground,
which ie a mere crush of limestone and eul-
phur formation, Suddenly there wan the
usual sign given by old Old Faithful geyser
of de intentions, and the lady tourist, start-
led by the sound, ehrioked and fell book in-
to the pool of hot water. About tea feet dis-
tant the crater yawned in front of her, and
in her frantic offurbo she was rapidly drift -
Ing towarde the bottomless pit, At this
juncture Private Coyle bravely sprang into
boiling water to the rescue of the unforbun.
eta victim of her curiosity, and, unmindful
of the feat that he was b 'ing badly scalded,
suooseded in saving tourist and himself
bub not without terrible results, It was
only about twenty feet across the pool, and
the water was not mora than three feet deep,
bub in an incredibly short space of time
both the lady and
HER DRAPE DELIVERER
were terribly scalded, and in a helpless con-
dition. When the lady fail into the pool mho
meds an abtempt to spring forwaed, and fell
upon her face in the seething waters, and
her principal injuries were found to be about
thefaoe and head, while her clothing had
protected other portions of her body. A few
second' and all would have been over with
her, for in her struggles she had approached
the brink of the ureter, and as she grabbed
with her hands at the apparent rooky forma -
bion, it crumbled like powder. Luckily,
Doyle knew the dangerous character of
the surroundings of the pool, and amid the
plaudits of a few speotatore he carefully re-
traced hie steps along the narrow pathway
to firm ground and sank nnoonsoious beside
the senseless form of the rescued woman.
At regimental parade that afternoon the
heroism of the brave fellow who had dared
so much on behalf of a women was fib.
tingly oommended, and a story of the affair
sent to General Roger, who will transmit
the details to the Secretary of War.
It is proposed by friends of bhe lady that
an appropriate reward shall be made for the
morellos of Private Coyle, and it has been
suggested that a Lieutenant's oommioeion
would not be too great a recompense for his
self-saorifioing performance.
Poulticed Foot.
Where is a time to keep silence, but It was
evidently not bhe right time in the Daae of
a boy who lives in a country town. He go.
a splinter into bis foot, and in spite of his
proteetationa hie mother and his grand•
mother decided to place a poultice over the
wound. " The boy resisted vigorously.
" I won't have any poultioe I" be declared
stoutly. " Yes, you will, Eddie," declared
both mother and grandmother, firmly ; and
there being two to one, at bedtime the pout -
doe was ready. If the poultice was ready,
the boy was not, and he proved so refrac-
tory that a switch was brought into requioi-
tion. It was arranged that the grandmother
should apply the poultice, while the mother
was to stand with the uplifted switch ,b the
bedside, The boy was told than if he
" opened his mouth" ho would receive that
whioh would keep him quiet, As the hot
poultice touched the boy's foot, he opened
his month. "You—" he began. "Keep
still l" said his mother, shaking her ewiboh,
while the grandmother applied the poultice.
Once more the little fell,w opened his mouth,
"I—" Bub the uplifted swtioh awed him
into dictum, In a minute more the poultice
was in its place, and the boy was tuoked up
in bed. ' There now," said his mother,
the splinter will be drawn cub, and Eddie's
foot will soon be well," As the mother and
grandmother moved away triumphantly, a
shrill small voioo came from under the bed-
clothes—" You ve gob it on the wrong
foot 1"
COTTONS FOR CHINA.
The Export Assuming Large Proportions—A
Growing Trade.
The export of cotton goods from Camels to
China, though only commenced some nine or
to months ago, is already assaming large
proportions, the total amount already ex-
ported being about 12,000 balsa. Although
this innovation was started by the two
largest holders of cotton stock, the first
orders were generously divided amongst the
various factories, and the trade has been gen-
erally taken up. The goods made here for
the Chinese market are known as " ehirb-
inga," but instead of being Se lbs. for 37j1
yards, whioh is the standard make in Eng -
for the Chinese market, they weigh about 10
to 12 lbs, being 3 to 3if yds, to the pound.
They are shipped per Canadian Pacific Rail-
way and steamers to Shanghai at lower rates
than the American manufocburers oan obtain,
consequently the Canadian makers reap an
additional advantage. The goods have met
with groan approval in this new markeb and
are in good demand, so that the trade is like-
ly to be a constant and inoreaobug one. The
effect on the Canadian cotton trade has al-
ready begun to be apparenb, but will speedily
be felt to a far greater degree. An advance
of 10 per cent. has already been made on
gray cottons and this ie not unlikely to be
followed by another. The position of bhe
manufacturers at present is a very abrong
one, and as they have not been making any-
thing more than a bare living profit at the
best for a long time book, it is likely than
better tines are in store. Buyers have been
confident that stocks in all handl' were very
large and have net been in a hurry to fill up
tneir own wants, believing that lower prices
could be obtained, Buba generaletocktaking
reoenbly revealed the fact that the stook of
grey cotton in manufacturers' hands, all over
the Dominion, wee only 1500 bales, or about
two weeks' supply. The oonsequenee is that
orders are pouring invery fast, and it has now
become evident that cotton stooks all round
are very low. The orders being received are
not large, but are very.general in the variety
of goods, and in the wideaproad detractor of
the orders. The cotton trade will now have
a means of disposing of its surplus produc-
tion and the mills will be able to run ail their
maohinery on full time, at bhe same time al-
lowing a fair profit to manufaobnrers, ae well
as to wholesale and retail merohants.
Royal Blood in Everybody's Veins.
Every man has two parents, four grand-
parents, eight' great-grandparents, sixteen
great•greab•grendparonte, &o, Now, if we
reckon twenty-five years to a generation,
and onrry on the above oaloulation to bhe
time of William the Conqueror of England,
will be found that eaoh living person mneb
have had et that time evon the enormous
number of 35,000,000 of ancestors. Now,
supposing we make the usual allowance for
the oroaaing or intermarrying of families in
a genealogical line, and for the same person
being in many of the interseotio0e of the
family treo, still there will roman a number
ab that period oven to cover the whole him -
man and Anglo-Saxon races. What, there-
fore, might have been plows, princely, king•
ly, or aristoorabio, stands side by side
in lino with the most ignoble, plebeian sr
damooratio, Each man of the present day
may he certain of having had, nob only
barons and'squires, but oven Drowned heads,
dukes, princes, or bishops, or renowned gen-
erals, harridan', phyeioiane, ,to., among his
ancestors.
A fund is being relied to esbablleh annual
"Arnold prises" in she Westminster eehoole
in memory of Matthew Arnold,
A Story of Dickens.
Says Jamas Payn in the "Independent" :
"Dickens used to tell a abory of meeting
with a olegyman in a railway train, who
held forth to hia follow.p0neengors ever so
long upon the novnliob's private failings.
' Diokene is an atheist, sir, as I happen to
know ; he f5 also a gambler, and I regret be
Say drinks,' and so on, ' Dear me, how sad.
Have you over seen him drunk?' asked
Dickens. ' Well, nob exaobly drunk; no,
bat oertainly overtaken by liquor.' ' Have
you ever seen him Bober?' ' Well, that is
boo much to Bey. Oh, yea, I have seen nim
sober,' ' Often ?' ' Yes, often,' ' No, sir,
only ono. You see him now for the first
time.'" (Ourtein. )
Jacob's Mistalte.
"Veli," said Mr, Ioaaostein to' hie clerk
as he took off hie coat, " how Yoe peezaf05
vile I vee cud?" o lied the
"I sold a bwo•dollar pistol, r p
clerk.
"Dob vas goo', Jeoob—goot."
"Do eheubleman wanted (t to blow hie
his brains oud," nontineed Jeoob.
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