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Robert Schwartz, the canon guide
paused an a little plateau ou the
Bright Angel trail, and shading his
eye e with Ma hand, examined an
.aeea o loess: reek, high above him
on the gigantic face of limestone
that rims the Wand Canon, He
was earrying a pack load of provi- ways and Canals.
sloes down to the Half Way House A ran of farmers and a
for the the use of touriete who shook hatted, city -suited person of giant
make the trip down the canon to proportions, were engaged in road
11' 1-) c'1"." live'. 1.TsuaIIy e building. The :scene was near Gan -
descended the steep path on burro anoque in Eastern Ontario, and the
back, • but this morning all the ani- farmers were skeptically watching
mals were in use, and he had been the trying out of a new machine,
forced to walk. There was an engineer along to
Schwartz frowned afixiouely. "It operate the machine, but something
that lou' steno up there Mime a went wrong with it, and it would
notion to du alittle tob.oggitelide,; nut operate properly. The farmers
I've gut tu nen e exit of time toit , smiled knowingly amung them -
he thought to himself. "The worst selvea although they politely tried
of it is, the path gam; back andto hide their amusement from the
forth like a snake right here, and I eyes under the derby hat.
ean't see even. a two-fo5t hole to 1,1en ti •ng ,aine to as•
crawl into if there's any trouble." that gave a new turn to evente.
H.: shifted hie paek, and began to ,rhe man with the derby hat and the
Pick his way down the trail agaia. ; creased trousers stepped up an the
A. vulley of pebbles popped against machine, The farmers allowed their
the reeke twenty feet to his right.
smiles to escape a little been eon -
Apprehensively, Schwartz gleamed
and looked bard at the "city
up again, Where the yeilow
.9)(' chap." They were now waiting
on the cliff had been he new saw
eieifident,ly for an opportunity to
a deep shadow, His ear caught a! „,
chortle ' epanly. But ame their
reverberating roar, that grew staile'faded , a
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51. and deeper. Larger pebbles and chup,• seemed te kn&w how to woris
small rucks whizzed past. him.
, that maehine. lie wheels began to
The guide saw that he eould net eel -Ohm. It began to do its work,
reach the turn of the trail towar(11 and the man in the derby ard the
safety before the slide came. Des-'
freshly -pressed suit, sat in his seat
perately but vainly he searchedfor, and ineoto a new and good piece
a crevice or an overhanging cliff l'of road,
under which he could flatten himm Beat Down Skeptleism.
self. Then he erawled on his hands
and knees to the edge of the thou- The "eity chap" was Mr. Archie
sand -foot ruck wall. There might 1 baM W. Campbell, now Deputy
be a ledge under the brink that, Minister of the Department of Rail -
would give him a chance of safety. ways and Canals fur the Dominion.
When he parted the bushes and The ineident took place in the early
leaked dewn, he saw only a nar-1 days *f the go-od roads movement
row shelf a hundred feet below. On in Ontario.
the top where he was bending over, So widely known did. Mr. Camp-
o. email spur of solid rock jutted bell become for his work in this
out into spaee. connection that it, was almost for -
Schwartz examined the jutting gotten that he had been christened
rock. Then he unbuckled his long "Archibald William." He received
peak straps, fastened them again, a new christening by the ordination
and threw the loop under the spur. of the people, and was known
The pack, on the other two ends of everywhere simply as "Good Roads
the strap, swung back and forth Campbell." Mr. Campbell started
three feet below him. Dangling the agitation for the improvement
from the strap, a man would be of the roads of the Province when
swung slightly under the brink 01 he was City Engineer of St. Mo-
tile precipice by the angle of the mac . He threw himself heart and
projecting spur. The rock seemed soul into the campaign and became
firm, but Schwartz hesitated on the viee-president of the Goud Roads
edge, unwilling to hang over the Association, and in 1806 was made
abyss until it was absolutely neces- Good Roads Commissioner for the
sexy. Province. While occupying that
The avalanche of rocks was al- .
most upon him. Hundreds of great
boulders crashed from terrace to
terrace amid clouds of dust and
flying debris. The roar echoed and
reechoed against the crags. The
cliffs seemed to have found voices,
and to be Flouting at one another
in anger.
Trees shot out as if fired from
catapults. Bounding reeks explod-
ed like bombs as they collided with
other 'boulders and shattered into
fragments, The first large rock
came spinning toward the trail. It
struck a clump of sagebush fifty
feet away, gouged the vegetation '
out ef its crevice, and rook, bushes
and dirt crumbled over the edge, ,
leaving a great yellow furrow be -
bind them.
Mechanieally. Schwartz swung I
himself out into space. By letting'.
both ef his hands slip simultane-
ously, inch by inch, he was able, to I
brine the two sides of the ettap1
ham together, and holding with both
hands, he managed to relieve the
strain somewhat. He swung slight-
ly under the spur. At least he
would escape injury frem trees and
smaller rocks. -
What if one ef the Imeelers, ten
feet in diameter, hit tie' spur? 11
he should fall, he would drop nine
hundred feet to a flat-topped butte
that looked like a little red mush -
them deep in the chasm. Or he
might catch in the branches of a
diminutive tree that he could see
on the cliff side a quarter of a mile
doter, That train of thought threat-
ened to destroy his presence of mind
and he turned his face toward the
tacks.
The strain of hanging by :straps
began to tire Schwartz's arms. By
bending one knee, he tried to rest
part of his weight on the pack it-
. sell. Inmediately, one of the sew-
ed strap ends parted, and the pack
wan left, hanging on one side, useless
as 5 support, Then, with a crash
of splintering rock, the main aval-
anohe rolled over the precipice.
Schwartz ehut his eyes. The branch
of a tree caught his coat, ripped off
part of his sleeve, and tore a gash
in his sena Every -second he ex-
pected th feel his hold slip; to be
eweptoff ,into space and down into
the eanon.
findslonly the tumult ocaeed.
Hardly able to realiie that he was
still swinging from the straps, tho
guide opened his eyee, Far below,
o faint roar indicated the path Of
the avalanche. Dust and leaves
etili,swept, in ft, thick cloud round
him, but the dangesiove rooks had
dropped over the en.
Schwartz began to hoist himself,.
elowly and painfully, by the two
Mannaffio tendons aching 'from
the heavy Weight of his body, were
almost exhausted, and he was faint
and dizzy. Level with the epur
,a,t, last, he grasped a clump of
oage-bush, anti let go of the strap
with one hand. The weak bush half
tore out of the soil. Quickly he.
seized it stronger clump with the
other hand, dragged himself up on
the fiat rock, and lay there, pant-
ing with .exhaustion, but este,
A MV I) W. (AM
.Canada's Deputy Minister of Dan-
,
Mr. A. W. campbezi.
office and later as Deputy Minid-
ter of Public Works for Ontario he
carried on the administration of
the "Good Roads" laws; and as
late as 1909—shortly before he camp
to take up his present duties at the
federal capital ---he went as; a dele-
gate frem Ontario to the Good
Reads Congress at Seattle.
'Old Middlesex Boy.
. The present Deputy Minister of
Railways is an old Middlesex boy.
He was born at Warclsville in that
county in 1803, and so has just re-
cently passed the half century
mark. He got his early schooling
there and at the High School of
St. Thomas. From school lie turn-
ed to the engineering profeseion,
int e which he graduated at the age
of 22. Six years later he became
city engineer of the Railway City,
and it was there that he began his
campaigt for good roads.
It is now somewhat over four
years since he left the civil Ber-
me ef Ontario, where he was De-
puty Minister ef Public Works,
and went to Ottawa to take charge
of the Department of Railwoyo and
Canals. When Mr. M, 3. Bulalor
left tho Government service to en-
ter the service of the Dominion
Iron and Steel Gorapany: Hon,
George, P. Graham wee§ Minn:ter of
Railways and Comale; and remem-
bering the good wfork that Mr.
Campbell hocl .-ono for the Pro-
vince, Mr, qraliaro, hi:might him
dawn to ;told over the aflministra,
tion of r.11'0 Government raalwaye
and (taxa ft, A8 DO* Minister he
became+ atitematioally cWristrin of,
the board of rrialittgeinent of the
Initereolonial and of the Prince
ward Island Railways; and he held
this responsible position with honor
until the present regime replaced
the board of management by e, sin-
gle general Manager, Mr. F, P.
Gettelitts, He is still, an Deputy
Minister, responsible for the pro-
per administration of the road, al-
though under the present; system
the details of the management are
centred at IVIoneton. He has be,
eider: under his direct control all
the canals of the Dominion, which
are the key to, our magnificent in-
land waterways. If the Minister
of Railways, as contemplated by
the Art which passed the last ses-
sion of Parliament, becomes head
ef the National Transcontinental
ltailway, that 1,800 mitre of iron
road will also come under the con-
trol of "Goed Read," Campbell,—
Francis A. Carman, in Star Week-
ly,
DI:CHESS Nam ON A LADDER,
The Pe eseit t Queen A ided in Saving
Goods From Fire.
As 1 sat on a summer balcony in
Venice, writes a Companion toetri7
butitr, I heard from a charming
Dutchwoman this pleas/tot story
1.about Queen Mary a England, The
husband ef the Dutch linty was the
founder of one of the largest lase
houses M Venice, and she hied al.
ways taken an ;active past in the
business,
"Of course," she eatd, with
Dutch common eentiti, "Ile one can
afly that lace ie one of the neeessi-
ties of life, so they who sell it must
seek the places affected by the
wealthy. We have a branch estab-
lishment at St. Moritz every slim-
mer. One year I was there with
laces that eost us 200,000 francs.",
and I had with roe a young woman
to help me with the sate. The in-
suranee company refused to insure
ns because they had lost so much
through fires in that eountry. The
wooden chalets burn like tinder,
and the water supply is always in-
adequate.
'My chalet was often visited by
very great ladies, The sister of
the Emperor of Germany bought
little, but she loved to look at the
beautiful laces. The Princess
Laetitia of Savoy was another ha-
bitue, but the most friendly were
the Duchess of Teck and her tall
daughter, the Princess Mary, then
the Duchese of York.
'One morning I heard a great
commotion in the street, and I
stepped out to see what was wrong.
Ji elaalet was on fire not fax' away.
A turn of the wind, and we should'
be caught. More than the flames I
even, I dreded the thieves who take
advantage of such scenes of confu-
sien. I stepped back into my ;chalet
and locked the dour, that we might
be undisturbed. I pulled out pack-
ing eases and trunks, and the laees
and embroideries when the Dueh-
ecses of 'Peck and 'York eame by.
"Oh, let us help you!" they in-
sisted. 'It would be dreadful for
those lovely things to be injured or
"They worked like Turks. The
Duchess Mary was so tall that ,she
could reach everything, and as she
handed the laces to me I packed
them carefully in the cases. The
genitleman in waiting went back
and forth, and kept, us posted as to
the progress of the fire. The Dach-
ees Mary even went up on a ladder
and fetched down the mirrors her-
self. I have never had better or
more energetic assistance, and it
was all done with such simplicity,
good sense, and good fellowship.
Fortunately, although five chalets
were burned, the wind diel not bring
the fire our way."
HIS FIRST INVENTIONS.
A Remarkable Boy Was ;John Muir,
The Farmer's Sou.
Ir, his autobiography, jihn Muir
tells the story of his first appear-
ance in the outside world after
3oars ef desperate toil at the emu -
mend of a set -ere father. The par-
ent was forced to concede Sea from
bedtime until four o'clock belong-
ed to John, and after five hour's
sleep, the buy would work from one
until four in the morning on mech-
anisms for elocics, thermometers
and automatic beds.
One of my inventions was a them-
momenter made of an iron rod that
had formed part of a wagon box,
The expansion and contraction ,of
this rod was manipulated by a
eeriea of levers made of strips of
hoop iron. The pressure of the rod
against the levers was kept con-
stant by a small counterweight, so
thab the slightest change in the
length of the rod was instantly
shown on a dial that manipulated
the expansion 'abut 32,000 times.
The thermometer Was sensative that
when anyone approached within
feur or five feet of it, the heat of
the person's Body caused the hand
on the dial to move so fast that the
metein was plainly visible. When
he stepped baek, the hand moved
slowly back to its normal position.
The neighbors regarded it as a great
wonder, and so did his own father.
When 1 told father that I was
about to leave home, and inquired
whether„ if I should need money,'
he would send me a little, he said
"No, depend entirely on yourself."
I had the gold sovereign that me,
grandfather had given me when I
left Scotland, and a few dollars,
perhaps ten, that I had made by
raising a few bushels of grain on a
little patch of sandy ground.
Father had carefully taught us
to consider ourselves worms of the
dust, and devoutly believed in
quenching every spark of pride and
self confidenee, without realizing
Olathe might, at the same tiine, be
quenching everything else. Praise
he considered wicked, and he often
assured me that out in the wicked
world, makink my own way, 1
would soon learn that although I
might have 'thought him a hard task-
master, strangers were far harder-.
On the contrary, I found no lack
of kindness and sympathy. All the
baggage I carried was a package
made up of the two clocks and a
thermometer, the whole looking like
some very complicated machine.
The parting from mother and my
sisters was of course hard to bear.
Father let David drive me down to
Pardetville, a place I had never
before seen, although it lo only
nine miles south of Hickory Hill
farm. When I got to Madison, I
thanked the conductor for iny glori-
ous ride, shouldered my inventions,
and walked to the fairground.
When I applied for a ticket at
the window, I told the ;agent that
I had something to exhibit.
"What is is?" he inquired.
"Well here it is. Look at it."
When he craned his neck through
the window and got a 'glimpse of my
bundle, he cried, exeitedly, "Oh,
you don't ne•ecl a ticket—some right
10 1"
So I Went up to the Fine Arts
Hall and looked in wondering if
they would allow wooden things in
so fine a place. .
I was met at the door by a digni-
fied gentleman, who greeted me
kindly, and said, 'Young man, -what
have yon got here?"
"Twa clocks and a thermometer,"
I replied,
"Did you make there 'I They look
wonderfully beautiful and novel,
and must 1 think, prove the most
interesting feature of the fair." '
"Where shall 1 place theta?" I
inquired.
"just look round, young , 0105
1,
choose the place you like best;
whether it is occupied or not."
So 1 quickly had a obeli made
large enough for all of them went
out on the hill and picked up eorne
glacial boulders of the right size for
Weights, and in litteen imputes the
cleeka were rnrming. They eeeme,d
toe ettr 6 more attention than any-
tlhing Se in the hall, 1 gob lots of
praise rom the eland and the. new&
PaPer reporters. It *Was considered
Wonderful that a boy en a farm hal
been able to invent and make ;etch
things. They gave me a prize of
1;en or fifteen dollars, and a cliple-
Illa, for wonderful things not down
he the list of exhibits.
THE PRINCESS WAS FOOLED.
Wooden Soldiers Stood as Sentry
at Her Door.
In 1805, Ferdinand IV. was driven
from the throne of Naples. All the
members of the family except an
aged half -sister, fled to Sicily. Of
the lonely old Bourbon princess who
remaineel in the land where her
family had reigned, De Gate Kama -
rad tell a touching little story.
The victorious French, who had
driven Ferdinand from the throne,
treated' the old lady with every con-
sideratoin. The new King Joseph
Bonaparte, left her property and
her income virtually intaet. But
he did order that the sentry who
always had stood before the door
of the princess .and had saluted
when she passed, should be remov-
ed. And on this point, in spite of,
the princess' pleas, ho remained
firm. The Bourbon's had ceased
reien, he said, and no royal honors
could be properly be accorded to
a member of the family.
Thio loss of this mark of respect
wounded the princess, more deeply
than many more serious losses had
done. For the first time she felt
herself an outcast,an exile in her
own land. She grieved so steadily
that her strength began to fail..
Finally the loyal servants who had
stayed with their mistress, decided
to resort toe subterfuge in order to
'restore the old lady'e spirits. Ac-
oordingly they fashioned a groat
wooden soldier, of dignified and
martial appearance; on this dummy
they painted the gay uniform of the
Neapolitan grenadier. They met the
figure in it sentry box by the gate
of the prineeses' residence, and
ltaiitted for their mistress to dtive
ov
They counted on the nearsighted-
ness of the princess, anel on the fact
that elle always passed through the
gate in her earriage, to make the
ruse successful. And when el,,t•laab
the carriage did Nee, they naw by
the glad flash that came to the grin-
oess' face that, she had not &tee -
WO, the deeeption,
From that time the princess re-
vived, The sentry never left his
post, and the princess never dis-
covered the cusp by which her loyal
servants had restored her spirits
and her health, Set occasionally
she did complain that, under the new
regime soldiers did not present
11,41118, as they' lind clone in the days
When hor brother was king,
The bodies of the four ,drowned
in the °paled River Were Teeeliefett
A bag <A mali founcl in a, yard at
$t, Thomas WAS apparently stolen
from o train.
Beware tf
Fake,Baking Powder Tests
("THE SPICE MILL" (N.Y.), SEPTEMBER, 1913,)
'Unscrupulous manufacturers of baking powder, in order to sell
their produet, sometimes resort to the old game of what is known as
"the glass test," In reality it is no test at all, but, in cases where the
prospective buyer dubs not understand that the so-called "test" is
a fake, pure and sixnple, the salesman is sometimes able to malce him
believe it shows conclusively that the se -called baking powder he is
selling, and which of course contains egg albumen, is superior to other
brands which do not contain this ingredient,
Bulletin No, 21, issued by Daisy and Food Bureau of the State of
Utah, reads as follows:— •
"The sale in the State of Utah of baking powders containing
minute quantities of dried egg (albumen) is declared illegal. The
albumen in these bakiaig powders does not actually increase the
leavening power of the powder, but by a series of unfair and deceptive
tests such powders are made to appear to the innocent consumer to
possess three or four times their actual leavening power,"
STORY OF TF EMBEZZLER
HIS EXPERIENCES SHOULD BE
• yEAD BY YOUNG MEN.
Step by Step on the Downward
Grade With a Ban Who
Went Astray.
It started eery soon after I mar-
ried. We were a high-epirted tem-
ple, and the doctrine ef cutting 'our
eoat isi accordance with the cloth
at our disposal was not part el our
phi)oeophy. We know bete ef people
and if We were invited to a card
party or a dance --well, we simply
had to do the thing properly in the
matter of dress, and it was only
human that we should desire to re-
turn hospitality, says a writer in
London Answers.
In short, we lived up to every
penny of the five pounds a week
which I was receiving es cashier
to Messrs. —. Then illness
came, and on top of that one of my
ewagger friends, who had airily
asked me to back a hill for him—
more matter of form my bey"--:
disappeared,
Hiding the Shortage.
I woke elle morning to the dismal
realisation that I was heavily in
debt, and, moreover, there was a
little liklihoocl of my being able to
pay a quarter of what I owed for a
good many snonths to come.
The fatal thing about the crime
of the embezzlement is that it is so
exceedingly simple. Every trusted
servant who lead to deal with the
money of his employers knows of
means by which he can "borrow,"
and also of various ways in which
he can cover up the shortage for
months, or, perhaps, for years.
• I regarded my position at this
time as ,desparate. I little knew
how really well-off I was even then,
compared with what was to happen
after.
The first step was easy. A couple
of entries in any books, and 51. five -
pound note was transferred from
the coffers of the firm to nay own
pockets.
It was net enough to clear me;
but it was all I dared to take at
that time. I grew more ambitious
later.
I put the fiver ot a horse. It was
my first het, but I had made up my
mind to follow ray swagger friend
into obscurity and beg, borrow or
steal our fares to Canada if the
bet did not come off. But begin-
ners luck operated in my favour
The horse wen at twenty to onel"
I remember the bookie grinned
when he paid me my hundred and
five pounds. He had cause to smile.
Drifting Backwards.
Winning the bet put me on my
feet. I paid all I owed, and re-
placed the borrowed fiver, the false
entries were corrected, and for it
time all was well.
I made up my mind that never
again would I sail so near the wind,
and for a Couple of months we econ-
omised.
But gradually we drifted back to
the old ways. I had told nay wife
teething of what had happened and
ootisequently she upbraided me at
times for meanness, which is an im-
putation that rankles in any man.
To out the gory short, an three
months 1 had madon second "dip"
into the firm's money; but this time
the' horse did not win.
After that I seemed to lose
sense of shame for the act itself.
My only fear was that, I might be
founcl oub. As I look back 1 nutr7
vel to think of „the time the thing
wont en; but, oh, the long agony
of it all I
Deeper an -d deeper in the mire 1
got —discovery grew nearer with
each bleak =lath that I lived
through.
Caught Through a Slip.
And, oh, the torture of the hell -
day season, 'When, perforce, some -
One else had 80 have charge
those proolous books , which he
within them the seeret cc o 0111118
of my old employer, that all VMS
known.
"'Ton, that we trusted—you that
we paid. well, and showed every
consideration—nothing but 55 thief,
a miserable, slinking reread !
ought to proseeute, but we think el
your wife. Get 011{; of the pas'
Never let mo ;see your face again 1"
I walked into the street, 41. met
without work and with is char-
acter, with lees than a sovereign
to fight a world Which has no ur,..e for
charaeterless.clerks; to fitee a w ap-
ing and reproachful wife e hut 'all,
the relief I
shainexur. BleorythipgWas known now
rawite, 4.nd fIrst we got anoll.BY
ram. friends: to make up the balance
whiell 1 was bound to inlaid over at
holiday time ; then I had reeotree
to moneylenders and overy possible,
method of raising money,
Disoove,ry cave one morning
through a. ',Slip of ray own.
knew when1 saw the angry fate
ORIENTAL VIEW OP ('ll'ALiIY
A Hindu Gentleman Tells How to
Treat Women.
The "Times of India" (Bombay)
publishes the following solemn
warning from. Mr. Ramehand Kash-
inath Dattraya, a Hindu gentleman
concerning a much -vexed question.
He says
My purpos for writin on you this
is to, enform many English Brothers
to give honor and devotion to your
lady s because they will in the end
becum proud and then they will
want to vote. 2 or 3 things happen
at Victory Garden tomorrow (yes-
terday) and then I all of a sudden
made up my brain to write .to you
immediately. There was many En-
glish womans and when mans are
sittin on the bench and, womans
come mane stand and give their
sits to womans. This happen 2 or 3
times tomorrow (yesterday) and I
question you why?
I again tell you why? Mans and
womans are similar in this world
and then why mane honorwomans 1
If they honors olcl, old womans, one
thing, but they honors young lady.
My patrpos to write this is to enform
the English Sahib (Englishman)
that when they do this they spoil
their feminine lady and then this
lady gat proud and walk like pocock
and then ask vote and then spoil
Ken Gardens and throw bomb on
Loid Gorg put bursting powder in
envelope .and poet and create other
MiaThCheifreef'Ore, I say to my English
Brothers, please don't spoil En-
glish womans because by honoring
them you people put in their brains
the side (seeds) of Suffnagitism and
then they will get wild like Misses
Panours. Please, please print thia
letter near the Ruter'e Telegram
with big, big worde.
0
WRONG BREAKFAST.
Change Gave Rugged Health.
Many perorate think that for
strength, they must begin the day
with a breakfast of meat and other
heavy foods. %ate is a mistake as
anyone can easily discover for him-
self' carpenter's experience may
benefit others. He avrites
"I used to be a very heavy
breakfast eater but finally indiges-
tion caused me such ;distress, I be-
eame afraid to eat anything.
"My wife suggested a trial of
Grape -Nubs and es I had to eat
something or starve, I Concluded
to take her advice, She fixed me
up a dish and I remarked at the
time that the quality was all right,
bub the quantity was too small --
I wanted v saucerful.
"But elms said a .small amount of
Grape -Nuts went a long way and
that I must eat it according to dir •
ectione. So I started in with
Grape -Nuts and cream, 2 ft -
boiled eggs and some crisp toast
for breakfast.
I cut out meats and a lot of
other stuff I had been used to eat-
ing all my life and was gratified
to set that I was getting better
right eking. 1 ooxicluded I had
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way working at the carpent-
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Wounded Lion
The r„ was a, viviinte report ea Ile
fired, but too lute -'a shout, a cough-
ing grunt; the man was down. No;
he was up somehow. - There was
another report -close beside; a eraeh
of spl te red, par led reeds;
whirling, yelluw, blaek-tuft-tipped
tail, and—silence,
Tlu lion went on through the high
reeds, mashing his Way Withettt
seeking a path, galloping e wonder-
fuh'eneg'lelePtalnienagrlirticZlei•r.L1 !"elli;jecnhalt a
in the middle of each bound,
11 bad certainly intendod to kill
the scan who fired nt him -had, in
fact., got him Oter, 1,:11,0;,j1 hint
down like a ninepin; but ;the other
man had fired l his face, aed—
miseed. And the beast would rsvile
him for—missing.
Far, far better had he net bungled
the joh, and let the heavy 470 Ex-
prese bullet finish the work the first
lotus's 275 bullet had begun.
As it wee, he hung. •,e1 his stride-,
and dropped to a irot—a hortyy,
100, doff. like t rot, lhit this trot
fell 1,a walk, and the walk stopped.
Ile looked around, growling hor-
ribly 1, himself in hollow rumblinge.,
He stared back at the bent and bro-
ken reeds, and for a moment it
looked as if he Was going balk to
finish the fight he bad not com-
menced, Then he moved on again,
and a host of flies swarmed, buzzing
on to the pool of blood that had
collected where lie steed.
The heat was intense, and tho
air thiek with a thousand swarming
insect; plagues. A single vulture
thing hung as if suspended by a
string from the brazen-oopper dome
of the heavens, and none antelope
being crashed away, unseen, to one
Fide of him.
The lion took no netiee of any-
thing. licf,o was limping now, and
the flies followed him like a halo.
He stopped by the river and
drank in the shallows feverishly,
till the water reddened about him,
and his quick eyes detected a swirl
made by a crocedile following up
the bleed scent. Thereafter he re-
tired into the bathes and lay down,
He was still growling a little, and
his eyes, burning deep in the groat
head of him, were awful to look
upon.
Night Came down swiftly, as it
does in these sinister lands ; the
flies game way to the steady sang
of mosquitoes, and the beast came
to drinka-zebra, antelope, gazelle,
jackall, hyena., giraffe, elephant,
rhinoceros—and the lion, with his
burning eyes, watched them.
Something they, the nervous ones.
—the zebra, antelope, gazelle, and
giraffe—"winded"_ him, and fled,
stampeding in a confused thunder
of hoofs and clouds of dust,
hut the Icing of 'beasts never TWoVed.
His wound was stiffening. A gileaf
pool of blood Marken where lie lay.
His coat was sopping.
Sleet before dawn he went down
to drink again. He was very thirsty
even for a, lion. A single hyenum was
at the edge when he appeared and,
though well out, of reach, it bolted,
as the hyena, always does, at no-
thing. But it eame bark; it hung
round; sniffed, and the lion saw
it and knew.
The long, stifling day, with its
-maddening, black swarm of ;flies
around the wounded beast, drag-
ged brazenly on, and, except for
his snaps at the tormenting winged
fiends, one might have ;thought the
lion was dead there in his bash.
Then a, tiny, graceful gazelle
came by, and the lion sprang out;
bit he fell shoat, and nearly pitched
over on his nose. Things had got so
bad as that
Night -again came striding west.
wards over the trees, and the vul-
tuiaon that sat on num all around
croaked their disappointment. Tho
guinea fowls called one to the .ether
as ;they flew up t* roost, and a
Jackal howled somewhere, -
Then the ;hyena appeared, with
glowing eyes, lurking in the shed -
MWS. But he Was not alone now;
there were dens of other cruel
eyes glowing, the, and suddenly
a most infernal chores ail cackling
laughter burst from them.
The lion Was still now, lying on
hie side, groaning a little.
Then, about: them hours before
dawn, thehyonas rushed him from
all sides., and. he .died, fighting fee-
bly, the death o nearly all
o prey: to the hathsome hyenas. ---
London Answers,
Deaden Paln Locally.
Professor Leduc, a Preneh selentirst,
1144 dieeevered 55 system of Meal an
esItesia for rendering patients locally
insenetble for operations, Galvanic
carmats Of certain intensity and coin.
ItiWilitityrteork oilatutn; I inntetrbvca pnrt oodeuctieli avoc4;
to aableh thee are implied, tool there
qo Oki to be none of the 111 ofCe,cte
venally accompanying anesthesia by
Willett; methods,
Bride Got Poesy,
Scott—How long were you away
op 'Nur wedding boss? , •
Mott—Too long; it developed into
`it lecture tour,
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