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The Clinton News Record, 1912-01-18, Page 3January 18th 1912 marimw Clinton News -Record tIEMAIIKABLE TRIP OF A SCIENTIST R. W. Williamson TOIIO of His Opeer, vations of the People in British New Guinea Mr, R. W. Williamson, fellow of the leritIsh Anthropological Institute, who has returned frcim a ecientifie expedi- tion through hitherto unexplored parts oe BrIttish New Guinea, has given an acCount Of his gourney to the institu- tion which, by reason of the thrilling personal experiencee of the narrator, and the remarkable conditions preemil- lug among the Mathlu people, the most zetrograde tribe on the 'island, swims - sea in intereet meet trips of the kind undertakeu in these modern days, Meet qf the world's race secrets have been revealed. Accompanied only by a Oingalee ser- vant and two ot the most eivalzed Palate endives of lemma, he spent nearly five months in tho country. e After a long and perilous tramp through almost impassable bush and undergrowth, infested by most vent). matins reptiles and wild beasts, the,,par- -. te who had been attacked by leolntleis and other denizens of the forest, reach- ed the Marina Mountains. "Beetles time," says Mr. Williareson, "my legs were covered with some from bites of animals and tears of the scrub. There is, I am sure, subtle poison in the atmosphere, and every • etep hurt me. 'It was between 4,000. and 5,000 feet up the mountains that We came ason the Mafulus; a small people en- tirely naked save for a strip of bark worn around the loins and under the 1,4* "Thell• skin. is a dark, sooty brown color; hair a grizzly, frizzy brown,and across their faces are weird splaehes of color, chiefly bright red, "Here in these wild out of the world regions I found two French .Tesult priests: I cannot express my im- mense admiration for tbese two men who Ilvdcl there quite alone and unpro- tected. "The' Mariana, I discovered, though they are cannibals, are not actually head hunters. They only eat human flesh when the victim is killed in bat- tle or private vendetta; but thee the acturd slayer is not permitted to as- alst at the feast. "At the big feasts pig flesh is largely eaten. One village of about 100 hous- 42i. killed 120 pigs for their meal. "The `religion' of the .Maleilus is simply primitive fear of ghosts and spirits. They have not reached the stage of idolatry, "They believe, for Instance, that the fig tree and certain trailing plants am spirit haunted. "A Jesuit priest who wanted to build R but was warned by the Mentes not. '10 cut through one of these trailing plants. He laughed at their fears and ettt it. through. . *Strangely enough he was taken very 111 the next day and Mid to be removed to the coast. And the natives were only strengthened in their euper- veltious fears. , "Marrige is a very simple process. .A., boy sees a girl he wants and goes to her house. A price is arranged for her, some pigsor a tomahawk, and the girl's parents accompany the bOY back to his bonte. 'Then they all slt outside the house land the teeth -1114 'is over. "Mafulus bury their dead under the ground, except the chiefs, who are pue into boxes above the ground or plac.ed lit the branches of the fig tree," ; SALT AND PEPPER BOX Shaker of Each Kind Joined Together by Set of Plates. . A device for transtorming a salt and p, pepper shaker into a combination htensil, so that both may be used elin- itaneously, has been invented by a ansas man. The boxes themselves ewe of the ordinary..cylindrical type, but each has a thumb lever on the bide. A set of plates consists of one that fits across the top and another Viet runs down the side of the shaker laben they are placed together. The -top plate has two Mrcular holes that Ilt over the neck of the boxes after BOTH USED SIMULTANEOUSLY -the tops have been removed. The tope are then screwed down again. To make the connection even termer, the •Ode plate bas slots .iu -it wee tea "thumb levers pass through these slots and clamp the plate fast. There are also movable caps at tbe top of tbe shakers so that one can be closed if the user wants either the salt or the pepper without the other. "There is nothing to health -giving is singing -class," says a cleetor. It le the neighbors who have the coin- s pleints." • HANGMAN OF 500 James Derry,- New Evangelist, Adoz- cates Abolition of Puniehment With the grim record of having exe- cuted 500 men and women, abandon- ing his calling to become.a preacher, James Barry the famous•E'nglish lfxs- tioner-htvcngelist is touring the P"' einem Me' Berry is materially isp- posed to capital putilahment, and 10 collaberatioe with Sir. Edware Leos - mere, of Tbe Hereford Times, has been instrumental in giving the ques- tion wide publicity, "I remember," said Mr, Berry, ''the ease of Mary Lefies, of Lincoln, ac- cused and coevicted of murderiug her husband. Nine years after her execu- tive a dying man in 'Wrangle, Lincoln- shire confessed to the atrocity. At the, hem' of execution IVIrs. Lefler was here self Bo near the point of death that: she had to be carried in a chair to; the scene of ker last moments, An" other case in Glouceeter, a laborer. on. purely circumstantial evidence Was executed for the murder of a police- man. Nine months later • three rob- bers In Carlisle on the eve of execu- tion confeseed Lo the inurder in Gloue cestershire. The mese or John Lee,' of Teignmouta, Devonsbire—On, these are meeely representative of a large, class of innocent men who have suf- fered the extreme penalty. "Oat of my 500 eases I can yecall only four, all men, who feared to fame' the ordeal. Two of these were forced to the soene shrieking to an insuffer- able degree, the other two literally fighting tooth and nail for their lives," RALPH SMITH Nanaimo, one of the chief Labor lead- ers at the Coaat. DESCENDANTS Of ARCADIANS They Live on Magdalen island, in Gulf of St. Lawrence Up in the ceritre of the Gulf of Se Lawrence the small group of Magda- len Islands are populated by three or four ot the lineal descendants of the Arcadians under Champlain and lie Monts, who were driveh out of New Prauce, Nova Bootie, by the English. Since the 'first settlement in 1763, etates a writer in Rosary Magazine, generations of the same families, have raised scanty crops in the valleys and fed sheep and cattle on the bigh cont. Cal hills which constitute a•prominEnt feature of an, insular landscape. Year after year men have gone out on the waters of the gulf in etarch of the cod, mackerel and lobstere on which a livelihood depends. They are O simple, primitive people, these na- tives of the Magdalene, laboring all the while under eircamstances . that am most discouraging. The archipelago contains twelve or thirteen distinct islands, including eev. eral grim rocks which are not inhabi- ted and never Will be. Rut the re- markable reatere about the physical formation of the whole group is the way in which one island is in some Instances connected with another by a long stretch of sandy beach, enabling a person, if be desires to do se to go for a score of miles or more along the most barren shore In the world, one that Is uninhabite.d and unrelieved by vegetation of any, kind, the only animal life being the thousands of guile, terns, gaunets and other sea fowl which are extremely outnerous 10 all this region. MAY CARRY SMALLPDX GERMS Bankers in Handling Bilis Exposed to Great Danger Mr. John Knight, editor of the Cana: dian Bankers' Magazine, has the fol- lowing editorial on filthy lucre: "The reappearance of smallpox In Montreal, although not alarming,.- reminds on'e of the risk to whMh bank tellers are pe- culiarly exposed in the daily handling of paper money. Vaccination and scrupulous attention to cleinliness are the surest means of avoiding this loathsome scourge. Let thoee whe de- ride the praetice of periodical vaccines tion reflect upon the strides made both in the practice emd study' of mediciae during the present century. Seyen years ago, an American doctor in re. ferring to the a,chievernents of his pro- fession in battling with disease, made this striking reference to the results following the introduction or "vaccina- tion. He said that a citizen or our times could be carried backwards and 'dropped down in the streets of Iioncloia of a century ago, nothing tbat he could see would so greatly surprise him as the large number of faces marked wii h smallpox. There were then over five th,ousancl deaths fro.m that dreaded Lease to each million people." An authority says eight million tons or ram recently fell on one day. No weeder the clouds had to deep it. Gustave IVIonkeynut wee the mons of a deseneant at Shoreditch, We eau - not tre,ce in Zoo's Who.come LESSON IN MANNERS 1; FROM VICE=ROYALTY A Correspondent Makes Observation Regarding Their Deportment A. correspondent meas, the tol.love Ing observe tions regarding the 'OW or the Duke and Duchees or Cell nalIgilt 10 To ron to : Among the good resulte which may be expected to flow front the vleit or 1,1,104-0. the Diik ant Duchess of Connaught ,will be a dis tinct "Mprevement In 001ne or the morals and some Miprovement in the Englise of those who from one cause or another found themselves in the Viceregal preseece, or who hava lakee the trouble to read carefully the replies to the formal addresses Both the Duke • and the Duchess, wherever they wet, wherever , they aPPeared, whetever thy spoke, were in themselves the expression of the bigheet culture and charm in bear. Ing, manners and Ittaguage: Those who had eyes to see aud'eare to hear could not fail to olsserve in thent, well as in their immediate entour, age, dignity without PoloPOsitY, gran without pose, gracionseess without familiarity, good humor without hilarity, all united to supreme tact and graced by ability to use the tug lish language with consummate skill without purism in words or affecta- tion in their utterance. There were also conspicuous manifestations of those lesser yirtues wlech so mane people affect. to despise, but whIch are always expected in the Royal Faniily of Great. Britain ---punctuality in keeping appointments, lively in- terest in what makes for the social and moral well-being• of the whole people, and constderation for the aged, the sick and the afflicted. As to their manners M public,•thesa august personages mid their entour- age, we hope it Is not impertinent to remark, never permitted themselves to do what many people who con- sider. themselves, or -wish others to consider them, perfectly , well bred make it their constant • habit to do. They did not notice with disdainful smiles any faux -pas an the part of thew, wen apereameett mem, Nor did the'Y point with the finger at any- thing that claimed their attention up - .en the street. In circumstances that might be supposed to provoke risibili- ty they never moved an eyelash, so perfect was their self-control. It goes without saying that they did not loll In their carriages, nor spread their arms over the sides ot the vehicles, nor sit in public with knees crossed or feet spread far apart, nor at any time indulge in loud talk and laugh- ter. Such behaviour in tbera would be unthinkable. Nor 'was tbe Duke seen to walk about with his hands in his pockets puffling tobacco smoke in people's faces. Nor did he when he took a seat gather up the tails of his coat, as if he had never heard of Lord Chesterfield's dictuna on. that 'point. Nor, without further particu- larizing, did they do many other ()Moue things which all decent people are supposed to he trained to leave undone before they have quitted the nursery or emerged from school. There are, of course, not a few peo- ple -ailed Wine of them who do not liv bli ners are just as correct as if thee tad been bred in Court; but it cannot 20 gainsaid that in this democratic age, when one mate is as good as an. other, and oue woman a great deal better than another, there is too much disposition to ignore or to despise perfeetly polite manners, and to imi- tate what le flashy, bizarre, ostentee tious, and eveit inevetricious. It is not to be presumed, bowever, that the Mike and Duchess in coming amongst us, ever thought of setting an example in manners and language to the Canadian people. All their tact, charm, and graces are simply the outcome • of the most careful and prolongod training he childhood and youth and the meticulous observance is mature age of what would be most becoming to their exalted station. In our rerent visitors we have, it may be seid, without the faintest- tinge of adulation, the finest product of edu- cation and tralning in their widest S91150 upon a basis of Christian char - eater. TI1E CITY or TRIP01.1 1 The city of Tripoli' has between thirty-five 'aud forty thoueand inhabi- tants; the indigenous races Berbers . Arabs, and neglOOS, of course, making m the bulk of the population. There are eight ' thoueand Jews, and four ;thousand Maltese.' The Eeropeane are almost negligible; the Italians :(chiefly Sicilian), who are most num . erects, tallyiug about six hundred. • :The Turks consist only of the few troops sled the governing officials, ai whoee, head' is the governor -genera' 'and commander-in-chief, now one Re• geb Paella. He is, of course, the per- eional representative of the Sultan. . The desert population' of the entire :viliayet or province M very difficult to estimate, but 'iu the most recent acmal ancl official report.% It is given as about 900,000, Tripe/I has thirty ; mosques and thirteen , synegogues, but until within a few years it land no [schools whatever, tee children re- :ceiving a sniattering or letters veld iKoran texts in the 1TIOS(PeS. 0115 bet iter now; theee am eight publte iscinges of.various grades, elementary, normal, technical and military, whose 'good effects are already to be seen on ;the young's', genexation. . REINDEER TO THE RESCUE Alaska Could be Made Great Breeding 'Ground to Supply Food Reindeer meat from Alaska linty be a food common to the Canadian and American table in the near future, to supplement the dwindling beef supply. This was the opinion expressed by William le. Lopp, pharge of the Melted States Government's reindeer service. bas just returned from a 14,000 -mile tout. of inspection through Alaska. "A commercial shitnnent ef reindeer meat, the arst made into this countey, bas just been received at Seattle," said Mr. Lopp. "In 26 years from novo, at the present rate of increase, there should be 3,000,000 prime beef rein- deer in Alaska, on which the people or this country can depend /or Much or their flesh diet , "in. taste reindeer meat is a erOBS between mutton and beer, but more palatable than either. Reindeer can le • raised more cheaply than cattle, because they will thrive on wastes so barren that even goats would starve. There are 400,000 square miles of rozen tundra in Alaska, fit for noth- ing else, but which as reindeer ranches would provide 'abundant pas- turage for 10,000,000 of the animals." SHOT SILVER FOX William Barber, of Hespeler, shot a silver grey fox in Puelinch Toweship, ten miles from Hespelev. The skin et the animal is considered worth $450. s SAMUEL BARI&R, M.P. East Han:titian, FARM FOB OPPOSUMS 0. Peculiar lndpstry In an Australian • Locality Foxes are not the only animals 'which are being bred in captivity for commercial purposes. From Australia comes the.information that a farm ex- clusively for opossums has been start- ed in Gippslaud, Victoria, This farm is said to contain 2,000 acres of euca- lyptus bush land. Another farm COM - prising 500 acres has been started in southern Tasmania, and another of 160 acres in New South Wales. The cbairman of the Sydney Stock Ex- cbange has become ranch interested In Um possibility of commercial breed- ing of opossums for their fur, and ex- pects to start a large farm for this purpose near Sydney. In Western Australia there seems prospects of a. company being formed for the breed- ing of opossums on a stretch of euca- lyptus country comprising about 200,- 000 acres. Many instances are also being reported of farmers in various parts of Australia taking the breed- ing of opossums as a. special -feature oe their farms, in this way using the timbered sections of their land, which Would not have much value for any other purpose. SUNFISH WASHED ASHORE It Measured Eight Feet From Tip to Tali. An enormous sunfish, weighing about six hundred pounds, a,nd measur- ing eight feet from tip to tail; was washed ashore dead at Bangor Bay, County Down. The sunfish is a deni- zen ot tropical seas and the death of this specimen is explained by the fact that it could not live in water of se. loNit temperature as that eurrounding, the Mash Islands, As It would have' been an inconvenient task to bury the carcass It was towed out into deep water when the tide was up. A smais ler sunfish was washed ashore on an- other part ot the coast and this gives else to the idea that these fish were attracMd out of their own waters by the great heat that prevailed this sum - Meg SMOTHERED IN FLOUR The little two-year-old child or Mie Bernard Farrell, living near 'Westporti had been left with some playthings in the kitchen by its mother while she went about her work in another rooms, Thinking the child was unusually; quiet she weat to see if :it was ala right, but it was nowhere to be found.; Sorao flour scattered about near the' barrel led leer to look there, and td her horror she found her baby head[ in it, with his- feet visible: Life was extinct when she took him out The child had been smothere4 in the doors FORTUNE FOR FORMER CANAa DtAN Patrick Lyons, the New York police- man who last week reeeived a legacy of 320,000 from an Elniira, N.Y., wos men svhom he befriended fifteen years' on Broadway, New -York, when she! Was attacked by .pickpockets, is a na t - ive of Melton, a village tear King, ton. The box was a beauty, weighing about twenty-five pouricls, and Was about seven months oldsvith a tine pelt, The popularity -of tbe ghoet is on the wane, but good spirits are a:ways ee--' • "Biers on Sale," Is an announcement' on the menu of a Brussels restaurant: Evidently. dead stuff. A correspondent wishes to know Whether the ehange at the ,Asimiralty; M Ken a ere s diff Tice. • 'AUTO-BIOGIIAPHY OF A FAILURE Admission by a Man of Good TrainIng--Lacks the "Essen- tials The following letter, headed "The' Autobiography of a Failure" received by the Globe tion London, OntarM, is accompained by the writer's full name anti address, -and a short note in Which 110 says: 'Tt 'le not written as a cry tor aid or a cheap advertisement, bet ie tvritten in the belief that th reading Usenet may be profitable some young men who have abilitie but lack some of' the .eseentials," The letter followe: Yes, thirty years of age I am failure, ai3d I know It! A sad adenis SiVa, you eay? Wait until you bay read this little story', which le abse lute fact from beginning to end, all IS written wham I am in despair. Successes are Wazoned forth in. al most every newspaper or periodIca we read, leit failures are rarely re corded. Ties fact emboIdene me t write this accomit, for I boleive tha the reading of my reeordmaY. Vra way, be or benefit to some whes youthfel exneriences promise to be th same as is'eire. Of good Scottish birth, careful', nurtured aed instructrd,, at an eaee age seeeeaeteel symptoms of an is tellieamca obeve the nrelinary bv tsk in the lead In .reY olasees a' ssh "1 both in treetal and mane& deeter le At the see 'if twelve the eY"ar) ` became mole: megeleeet, for I ol goo ed, without eny preraration or Et.'. di a rateable seholarship in open teen petition at ore of the welaknewe Erie lish public schools, From the age o sixteen, 'anti/ twenty there Is nothleg of iniPoel e ee to record, except ebst perhaps I e as full of a glowing an) bition which bid fair to be ree'e 00 fOr I was the recipient of Creme ri "vetoes" and a meed of proem fr nie, employers. At the age ef twee- ty-one I made my second chenem o' employment: hitherto I had been in the office and warehouse, now went on the 500(1. A ready tongue, a "savoire faire." and an extensive general knowledge, S0011 =fee me appreciated, and after one year, the retiral of the manteeer In charge nr the firm's works made O vacancy which I promptly asked for and obtained. So at the age of twenty- three I found myself in sole charge of the affairs of a company employing 'upwards of 200 men, and I was quite competent to Undertake the work. I continued in this position for bus years, but—and this, to my mind, the central fact or my story—betore that I had discovered by a process of self- analysis, to which I am prone to sub- ject myself, that I VMS lacking in those essentials to success, concentration and application, or "sticleaaltelveness" though I was well equipped, mentally and physically, for almost any job. At the end of that time the raw raaterial we mined for manufacturing showed symptoms ot exhaustion, so I gave up in order to come to this land of opportunity. Landing here with $200, a heart of hope, and a firm de- termination to overcome my tailings, I soon obtained employment of a kind, but the ease which I could make $2 a day lulled me into a false sense of, security and' iny failings again showed themselves. I had never any of the vices of youth, I never gambled or drank, or had an undue fondness for amusement. My natural ability and tandiness enabled me to perform the reeular journeyman's work in quite a few trades, but the intermittent character of some trades in Canada, the "waits between jobs" so to speak, soon dim - fleshed my Store of savings. I applied for better work, but I found to my regret that my Canadian experience, which was solely in the direction of manual labor, del not commend Itself to those prospective employers. I do not blarae them in the least, but I felt like saying some- times: "Well, I'll never get the ex- perlence you want if I never make a beginning, nor will anyone else." I, however, retrained from uttering suoh e. childish retnerk. Now, we are in the year of grams 1912; for seven weeks I have been oufettobalie,caston ecure employment of any kind in the town in which I write this, nor have I the wherewithal to proceed elsewhere. And this is the land of opportunity! I say so without a tinge I will not throw up the sponge and write for aid to those I know in the 51d land. Perhaps this will be a turn- ing point in my career; the mere writ- ing of thie makes a stirring of hope within me, It le the festive season, but not for me. Lendladies must be paid and in a few days et mot I must go out— and I, "whither shall I go?" 'BONAR LAW, M.P. Andrew Boner Law, the new Metier of the Unionist party in England, is a sou of the Manse, Hts' father was Rev. James Law, Presbyterian mine ister in. Rexton, Kent County, NOW 13runewiek. Law, the statesman, arrived hi the world In 1858. He "VMS brought up in the atmosphere of the Kirk and public schools et Berton end Itichibucto., .Whon he was twelve years old, his aunt took him to Glas- gow, Scotland,' to -finish his education. Since then, Mr. Law has resided main- ., ly Glasgow, though he frequently comes to Canada, arid has always 0 been proud ot hie Canadian rearing, $ ce his mother's side he had a 211111ther of Glasgoev relatives called Kidatou, 'who conspired with his .aunt to start O him in the iron business In GlasgoW. He prospered at ft, becoming at length e chairman of the Scottish Iron Asso- - dation; Incidentally-, he gained know - d ledge of more matter than iron. 700 learned to think after the Scotch - • modee In the city. of Adam Smith, 1 father of poillical economy, Boner • Law began to be enthusiastic about 0 theoretioal questione of trade and commerce, in. the year 3,e00, a par- ' liarnentary deputation got after him tb contest Blackfriars, Glasgow. Law ' captured the seat. • His aptitude for politica was such that, two years ' later, he was appointed Parliamen- • tart, Secretary to the Board of Trade. The Conservative party ran on the • rocke in 1006. and Law went down in a laneslide, hurled by a labor vote. Since then, he has sat for Dulwich Division of Camberwell aud Bootle ' DiVil3.10n of Liverpool. From a New Brunsevick kirk znanse to leader of the Opposition in Mei Bri- limb House of Commons, with a fleet, " big chance of being Imperial Premier some day, is a rise without record. In eleven 3'eS parliamentary exper- ience, this sadien has proved his nealities for leadership among- the best brains ancl blood in the capital of the world. Joseph Chareberlain pieked him out as an "repressive fig- ure years ago. Boner LAW'S personal aPPearance snettly suggests intense earnestness mere than anything else, in the heays brow, the bull -dog grip of the mouth and the fixed eyeglance. His .speeches have the ring of respon- sible utterances, DISPATCHING PHONES C.P.R. Will Equip One Thousand, More Mlles With Device Over a thousand miles of new tele- phone circulte will be added by the C.P.R. to their present system next 'ear,' On most of the eastern lines; the service has already been installed, and has proved highly successful in - despatching trains. A phone service will Im lestalled on the C.P.R. short line to Ottawa, and with this excep- tion, it is expected that all the phones will be placed west of Port Arthur. 1 The C.P.B. have already over four thousand miles of line equipped with lphones, and when the program for aext year is completed, it Is expected *Mat the railway wil bave the laregst phone circuit mileage of any railway in the world. At present it Meads second in this respect. \ IMPERIAL CABLES Tbe British and Canadian Govern - meats May Go -Operate In a It is only a short while elude "The - N ew "Cable — cable lines owned by two British companies, the Anglo-American Cable Company and the Direct United States Cable Company, were absorbed by the Western Union, which leased their lines for a period of 99 years. For national purpoites these two British companies were wiped out. From a conunercial point of view there ls no reason to suppose that the amalgama- tion is an evil thing, unless by remov- ing competition it Was able to strengthen its monopoly and increase rates, As a matter of fact, rates have been reduced, although the usual his- tory of combinations begins with a re- duction of prioe, soon to be followed by a series of increases. It is not al- together from the commercial point of view, hOwever, that the cable business to be coneidered. There hs an Im- portal and political significance attach- mce, ing to it that is Worth pondering, and is this was diseuesed at a recent gather - Ing 01! the: London Chamber of Com - The chief speaker was Mr. Charles Bright, who remarked: -- "There are moments when the Mother Country and her children have things to say to each other which strangers should not overhear. But if we are to be dependent for ottr com- munication with Canada and other parts ot the Empire on cables under American control, we shall have to face the proapect of our messages be- ing known all about at Washington, for it would be futile to place reliance on the secrecy of codes." The Chamber of Cornraerce then passed a resolution urgh2g that licenses formerly held by British com- panies shotild not be transferred to foreign companies, but that it the transfer had already taken place it was the duty or the British GOVerft- ment to co-operate with the Canadian Government in the laying of an all - British Atlantic cable, and the same connected with the all -British Paelde cable that was built from Canada to Australia a few years ago. DR. SCHAFFNER, M.P. Lowns, Man, SNAP-SIMI TING TIGERS IN INDIAN JUNGLES ExcitIng Experience, of Richard Keae-i, ton VVhile Taking Picture Record ' Riehard '<carton, who has made world-wide reputation by photograplaJ 'Mg birds and beasts in their native, haunts, has returned to London after' a jeep to 'India, where he has been en- gaged M taking pleematographs in the jinagle of the ;wild anlaaale, neon which King George tested his prowess as a "Many of my photographs were taken from the back or an elephant, thus presenting viewof tae jungle ere actly as the Ring saw it," Mr. IteaKol said. It took me twenty days to fin,' a tiger, though tiger spoor were Pleni 4 ful. The tiger I gothad seized a bull lock by the, nose and bad dragged 14 on all fours into a dense Jungle, forme, ins- a tunnel by doing so. "e15800 ou my hands and kne01 along part of the tunnel, and foen that one of the legs of the bullocet had been newii eaten, so I retained anCarraiiged a drive, With 400 nien I &Wilma aspace in the jungle finale Yards Wide, where the tiger was j.o be driven, put tip a thin leafscreen to hide the' from the beast, and wetted on the greund, not up a tree, for him_ "I had no drearms, but I had three spearme.n lying on the ground beside tne. Photographs taken from a tree would not give the true result. I wait- ed there for half an nour. I knew the tiger wassapproaching by the beaters, some ot whom were up trees, tapping' like woodpeckers; others were on the ground, making hideous -sounds with every' noisy thing they poseeesed-- lust as the beaters did for the King. "The tiget- came down the tunnel e.nd out Into the open, and I photo- graphed hint directly he got half way eerose. He gave vent to a number of most terrific coughs, "The natives wanted to kill Cho eiger, since it was a maneater, TheY mould not understand why I only wanted to turn a handle at the animal. Fifteen, saying they would be his next victims, got behind' tho bush with,. epears, and ,when the tiger was driven tip to them, three ot the men rushee out with their weapons. "The tiger leaped from the dense jungle. The man on the right ante the man on the left bolted. The man in the middle turned round to emulate them, but fell upon les face. Upon that the tiger threw himself *mom him, With his claws lat his shoulder, like a Rash of lightning, and put his> head down to the back et the nnues neck. "I shouted, thinking itte wan gOlagi to bite through the man's spinaii Column. The beast looked up at me, gave another great cough, growlect bayagely at me, and then jumped side - [wise arnelkappeared." e, , FACIALsaMASSAGE AID Respiratory Apparatus Enable's-a:One ; to Breathe Under Water. A devtee that will be found of as - instance in methods of facial massage, Where the patient is required i•o Meese her face in liquid for a period, has been patented by a Washington man. It enables the wearer to breathe. areely with both nose and month 111 - Tier the surface of the liquid. A little iplip tits over the nostrils and holds them closely enough to keep out the ander, er whatever the preparation 'may be. A little tube has a mouth- AIR COMES IN THROUGH TEMP., piece attachment with a bit to ho between the .teeth and a rubber shieldi that fits closely around the mouth. 'With her nostrils pinched shut and this respirator in her mouth, a woman, may rest her face in a basin of mas- sage liquid for as long as is necessary to have the skin thoroughly softened by it and prepared for the manual+ Work. She breathes through the • mouth, of course, and the air contest , 'in through the tube TO THE POINT. The British working Juan came home, late on Saturday evening. 'Ilia 'facie was red, his voice suggested; mid there came no welcome jingle from his pocket. "Oh, I've had a fine eireel" he said. "I'pe been to an Empire meeting. lb was grand!" He ceased speaking, and there wale an ominous silence. He looked roue& suspiciously. "What's the matter with supper?"; he asked angrily. "Ain't it ready yet?" His wife, who Was sitting peeling, potatoes, and taying to quiet a crying baby at the same time, rose slowly,„: and handed him the infant. "Here," she said, "take hold of your bit or Empire while I fry the 'petal toes." A QUESTION OF SHAPE. (who had ordered a pancakez half an hour previously); "Er—I say will that pancake be long?'' Wietrees: '"No, sir, it'll be round.' The N'evinaillecord leads for ship and • Iluron County Town, News Town= generall