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C1111tol'lt Dec.
Thlta Dtgerettess
fl.3'l'trtllt bol the Wawa lit Wire,
M ea' ver tail world ,uptoll el oolert „
dove,. wen methrht4 0 the. weed .30 xeF
►t@ tint of the *a was turel$,Inner•
Il wrap l h@ 4ts, sty beets, Q %veer,
‘NOSI.9tee',iftt.st rtaloiy beneath sift,feotn
Hoyt hlllx het I!'11'e+t Omitted ib its:e
Q Ghon east a errtel !turn sand .ilvklel
-LOVA, t implerad. theg nada, again:
1@ub taauey the litu>;ttter war, anrt tltiekte,
Row (WA VON the faggots Q@la(t vat flay,
Aa Outten, .the greybeet'el, west shay! •
Iieyl bilis het bet again he cntaoa,
Apo a finds theft tome, alas;, to thy acocnthg,
dove, haw merrily the parirlda:e drums:
ZON millets the whirl this Issins utornhtgl
And scarlet as lire the maple oopee
Against the geld of the oho ttnut to,s1
- vutly Rooth Siemens.
"TI,:1DY." '
There wandered an extra shiver
through the night air and It fell upon a
tiny, curled heap of eleeuins .humanity
upon a doorstep tat AILK tuatie street.
Thole were nu passers in Albermarle
street :after sundown. It is in the mer-
cantile quarters, where massive doors
have tnattsive locks; where darkness
grows dense iu being andisturbed, and
where cold eights get colder iu their
unrestricted surroundings. How the
wind howls in narrow A'berme rle
street 1
The moon, chilled and pallial in the
crispy blast, boa upon the roofs, but
down where the sigus swing told the
awnings tiap aril tate shatter.4 slain -11C
ntoou there, except in tlhe,hloerway on
the corner where the putter's clay was
lying.
Up a cot!1pie of blocks you cornu to tate
winter proitenade. Here are the
theatres. tite cafes, the gewgaw shops,
tite haberdashers and the confectioners.
Here the cubs stood and the police
patrol,
Here the lights from the windows,
the colored •dare over the cafes, and
music from the pltiyhou'es make it seem
warner. It isn't, out it feels so. Here,
at letting -net time, when the large stores
conclude the business of tite day, the
throng is dense.
Here the newsboys have a harvest for
u couple of hours, straiuin g their little
treble throats, poking their blue fin-
gers into teetr feverish mouths between
tines, rattling the little c .auge in their
pockets, turning up their narrow col-
lars and 'pulling their tugged caps
down over their ears and eveilasting; y
yelling the Ittadlines of the evening edi-
tions.
Tau supper -bound toilers have dispera-
ed. The prei•ses have stopped. The cafes
are full. The box office zit the theatre is
thronged. The street cars begin to run
light..
The cabby blankets his horse and rues
into a near -by shop to gaze through the
frosted pane for a stray passenger. Tho
electric lights swing and blink in the in.
creasing gale. Lieut. fleecy snow blows
in the gutters and along the pavement.
A winter's night had set iu.
Teddy liutps down the basement steps
of a tailoring shop beneath a fia..b•v res-
taurant told minds his last paper/to his
only friend, the busheler. Havi'ag made
this request. with a half-fa"uzen smile
he rubs his little purple hands together
and ttw•aits the iuvitasiou tate crippled
husheler extends in est -Change for the
palter. ' -
••Git eve( j o the stove, Teddy, an'
waren yesili
The:cyllu
r stove -lid is off. Teddy
crosses, tabes a seat upon a box,
stretches•out his little hands and almost
embraces the red hot barrel of stove in
„4-' .eagerness to absorb its warmth,
while he allows his face to droop over
the open top, so it may be thawed out.
r
He_makes, a atran„e picture, in .the
cheery. light. Long, tangled locks of
straw-colored hair ; freckled cheeks ;
swol,en eyes of blue ; a quivering chin,
transparent and pointed ; a titin percale
shirtwaist covering his truck ; tagged
oassimere punts almost reachiug the bare
and grimy knee asp, which is desperate-
ly close to the hot. stove. His little black
toes protrude from shoes that are literal-
ly uppers, -
Teddy says nothing, only gazes into
.the tire through tite top of the stove.
The buahelmsn crosse.9 his thin, bent
legs like a Turk, pulls the candle (dip-
ped in a bottle) close to hila, puts on his
spectacles and reads aloud to himself
the more intperteut items of the day.
Now and thou a rat scurries across the
fluor, but it disturbs neither Teddy nor
the but:helmet'. Down in the basement
taey form no. idea of what is going on
abate ground. They olid not I:uuw that
the stow had Leet tailing for an hour ;
that it has cleared away ; that the wind
has increased to a gale ; that the streets
are Quite deserted.
`'Coale, Teddy," exclaims the bushel -
men, clambering down from his bench,
folding his paper and placing his spec-
tacles it their old Morocco case. "Ye
must git out'ra here. I've ter lock up,
sonny."
Teddy awakes ties ttL a start, rubs his
eyes, heaves a long, hard sigh, staggers
to his feet and stretches with that relief
one Itas when the frost is out of the
bones. Then he gapes.
"Say, Bill," murmurs the treble,
sleepy voice, "kern't you let a feller
.sleep ityar the night? It'll be tough
down iu them: boxes en this blowy wed-
der-"
"Nor," replied the bushelman, button-
ing up his warm overcoat, ••I ain' gain'
ter have :tone er uze kids or inakin'
lodgin's er my shop. 'Null 1 gives ye a
smell or tire now an' ag'iu. Goon, now!"
Teddy stumbles up the steps. followed
by the bushelman. '!'eddy watches the
lock turn and stands shivering while the
bushellnten steps into the restaurant to
leave itis keys and get a drink. of grog.
Theo Teddy begins to 'curl in the back as
the wind costes around sue corner.
Tbeu he limps to the corner, looks up
and down for a moment, dodges into an
alley and disappears into a vile -shelling,
low-ceitinged dive.
Here he oats a nickel's worth of cakes
and gets half a cup of coffee and a good
long sit beside the stove, where he re-
flects that he has spent seven cents for
his supper and will be obliged to deny
himself the luxury of breakfast.
But the great Potter has him to break-
fast.
Until midnight Ted•ly sits close to the
bulging white stove and sleeps. Theo
all hands—Teddy and a dozen vagrants
—are hustled into the alley. It is clos-
ing -up time.
The boy feels the cutting wind more
than ever as ho hobbles up the alley,
crosses the promenade and makes a bee-
line for his accustomed box in the corner
doorway of Albemarle street As he
scuffs along he kicks the light snow into
the broken toes of his shoes and his feet
grow numb. Ito blows his fetid breath
into clinched fists and pucker up his
dirty, mottled face as the knife-like
wind whistles around the corner/ He
reaches his favorite doorway.
The box has been removed. Ile
wanders the length of the block. Nob a
llcl t tp , spelt . nnywhtreo esus' to steer
way!ttattitoltgrtn•l• tart )lin Covaete, '•,Nisi\"i.v..
=flute slowly tl'.0un• kletnEe;. with bile
iI ggardl -. yteR don
iktappotntnit^•'^llff
tacuttibleat baae 1,0 lata :torn r doorway*,
nasi, d>irttpthl>.I Ott. Iiia hands and knuett.*
crawItljnt' the meat sbelteiret'k corner„
where `sift risitl(, nit+?it I)eatll►tl b)C
ilpo►l lige, + •
fl:arlh. 00(11ed up In as Mall a !Kaman."
parcel as possible, he t nett is lain pooket;I
ot• the pennies of the tltt a business,'
There are not nuinyamad. Ile silently rea-
intkea bintttalt' for the e-Ytl'avagtince of
his t:uffeu•aud'oa.ke feast. After count-
ing them over several tithes his benumb•
ed flngurs gather ,thetn up inial they tare
stored away to the poor protection of
the ragged 1 reeches. Sitting close
against tite iron pith►r of the doorway
iota curling lie chilled legs under him,
the tired newsboy rest, hie (lead upon his
lt;ind and is quickly asleep.
Light; fleecy clouds stow acid attain
scut) across the moth's face, stragglers
of the spent storm, TlRiet there fulls
upon the face of the seeping lad +t
suadow, and for an instant the wind
seems to become hushed as if to hear an
apprehended some thing,
surely the whole mei I c trei nutiti't„
for :,tis houtele: s waif ! \Vika was that ?
\Vas It not as if some leu_thr rep -ailing
lu icieles, strepa i111'os: tee •1,lestt•1,k of
tee vaulted skier': .fwd the route is Jac:.
aoitin?
And the .vim! !ease's so strlden;y you
eat' imagine it lurking itraind tat,, cord
el. she-..Ithily wnic IiII . t3 •e toe 1.1.1 le,
slnntherin : forst yviver ! 1s it tete toll ?.
Look! St•'p 1'I;;,,t it:v't• bet', eon sue hats
Lire ew c:rt,: lit; t ynn•I•'r. 1 tical not h
with'? A hoist. flo,iih•s, Ita•ni '.'
'11111 to ln:ti it w:t.til
:1 to i , t.tin, round, t11.1.8I,:IPewt sit is .'r
U.•:I 1,1, it is ei st ',n..iu iteuve L..t e.liiht'a
tool,
sen Feu it;.,lamer now. It i; the,
wand „1 4,91111—.,ie p.tlll irsa pllltCllnil nl'
in LI.. syntax of limo. S"e; Itis drappiwg
ever the c,lild's heart I Ilat,—.1•ncF.
.tut rt'ept it I leo, you Ole lou I ale. ih
has touched his 'tensile jacket and its
little legs ur,t sttttuhed eft and rte
ruckle•1 face 1., turned up to the tau ei
now 1 reabitg through inst:uttancoat
111'itt
'1'were is a football on tine crispy snow
it is tie patrolman niaiiulg his ruunu.
'i'loelchess utter i tt.lcres' hf wa:tt, wool
incase.; :es stole art• li;ure, an I -teat i
coact 111 ,1 tnutll. rs spare ilitu the I last.
lie conies sl,*wiv, ptndditg on to weer.,
little teddy lip's in the doorway.
•'\\rut's this:" titwnbit-s the ef.icer,
I"uhit.g sidewis is.. over tis coat eoliar 11;
ate quiet 1'et•nt tr little Teddy. .
I1u•1111! 1'.r think he'd attest tst,
.ere tight 1" ( •
Alii tee putriSsitan patrols further. It
i, not. his bite mass Lt nioh st the ,nolle 1-
srt•e. Iitrsi,lo i't is cold and he 1.05 Iii;
ginvo3 tn. •
'1'ue Lours pass. But the figure in t' o
doorway sties not. It is detvu. Truth
I,egi41 L•i rattle over the paving. ittaotet'.•
:tut by_ 10 their, %vot•k, flapping their
da and ru JIiug their ears. Tile pot•-
trr arrives to open the store wt We corner
of _'llnertnurle nuts+t.
'Olt tap ont'n her !" be exclaim. push-
ing the trail form with his toot. Then
no halt.;, drops his keys and bonds over
-tile 1m1 and puts his Laud _sax the little
freckled face.
Dawn the street 'stales the wagon of
t e puller and a str nig man hits the
cramped form and lays it tenderly in the
LL•teket.
'1'o the Morgue. To -oblivion. Ait•1
when the shrill cry of agile lads breaks
upon the still wintry air of this new
morning their comrade, the comrade of
the buslreltnau. the diner in the dive, the
cold
and cramped banker of the few
rusty pennies. Iris settled every scoro on
north,• and his purified voice, bursting
from a warm and white -mantled breast.
with the sunoll of eternity's lilies in ids
nostrils, tee so.ttttitg, iodinating 1ra-
gtretce of the garcleus of paradise risitg
before him, toe invigorating situ of
heaven tr•anging bis newly clad belt•„
another soul has liven sainted and the
tnsutlicieit clay of earth had been gath-
ered once more in the palet of the ever-
leeting Potter.—L 'tea de Ltiter.
SID)1107.' WRAPS 1 i th
Al,thnugh attaatbet't1h 'aligUt, Ni,* wizen.
five lel'► Itlltlie,, vttr trolly ,IiOWY 'Consisted
of seven,,,persons-mnutnelyt Colonel firth
and hia;,ttitcteeniyefr•oitl tun, Sidney ;
gt►rt•y Strong, Junk Gering,, 'F,ii .. ounlay.
and tnys.Hlf, natal, lastly, ;zur Strep !east.
It (haply -Well educated ttii fellow and a
lemons guide and ltu.ntrl', w iltt t WO
had picked up on the .way, and whose
part.culur chum young. Gray at otos
became.
We had been - :atnped out for ten
days, un a entail stream ninety tulles
northwest of Austin,,,Texas, anti had so
far enjoyed excellent sport: though it
muss be confessed that the Moura share
had fallen .to Ezra and Sidney, these
two having shot Ettore wild turkey's and
deer than all the rest of us cotabitted.
As we sat at supper one evening,
Colonel Gray laughingly :moused the
guide of unduly storing his young Wm -
pitmen. but Ezra stoutly asserted that the
boy owed his success entirely to his owu
skill and activity.
••He's a born hunter," said tlie old
man ; ••brave, a first rate rine shot. and.
he don't know what tired is. \Vhy,
Ire's kill Vireo more turkeys than I have
Myself, told I've done my best, Ou tl,e
count of deer we stand even." -..
•'1Ve11. Ezra," rejoined the Colonel,
"we've already got more gauze Haan our
pack mules can Carry ltouto. We'd
Letter go into the wilts• bettat business
now. Can yen put us ou the right
track ?"
"Easy as saying so, colonel. Fourteen
miles from here there's a `tact of broken
conutry, full of rough Bills and gullies,
but its it ell timbered everywhere, and
is :i great place for bears, :wolves, pumas
aid lynxes, and I hear Haat two jaguars
-called Mexican tigers by the people
hereabouts—have been Seen there lawly.
I don't believe that yarn, though, for
I've never conte across a jaguar in this
part of Texas, and I'm hunting most all
the time, to."
••That's great news, boys," exclaimed
Conway. "What do you say to starting
out al three in the morning, so as to
reach the bilis before sunrise, and make
a long day of it ?"
All agreed to Ed's proposal, and we
went early to bed in anticipation of the
morrow's fatigue, though Sidney Gray
was so jubilant over the prospect of kill-
ing a bear, or possibly even a panther,
that he declared he would not close his
eyes. And. really I dou't think Ise slept
at all, for, when Ezra got up shortly be-
fore twe o'clock to prepare breakfast, he
found tite boy had already built a litre
and put the great kettle on to toil.
It was beautiful October weather, and
when sifter a breakfast of venison aud
grilled turkeyg with numerous et ceteras,
we climbed into our saddles, the full
moon rendered traveling as pleasant as
by day.
While riding along we saw a small
herd of buffaloes, one- of Elia very last
then (1873) left in that region ; but we
decided not to nlo:est theta, as a slaugh-
ter of the lumbering beasts would .have
been simply a sinful w•a.te.
Al sunrise ,we arrived at the foot of
the rocky range, whore our hunt was W
begin.. Ezra proposed that we should
tether our horses and the two pack -
mules out on the open plain to feed,
while we divided into pairs, each couple
taking a route independent of the others.
The suggestion was acted upon as
nearly as possible, but, as two does not
usually go an even number of times into
seven, after Gray and Goring. Conway
and Strung, and, of course. Ezra and
Sidney, had parer! elf, 1, the tint'urtuiate
"reminder." weslelt to waiter away
alone.
It did not matter much, however, as
each one of us carried a pocket-compasa,
and hence could not well get loss.
Iu five minutes atter entering the
labyrinth cf densely -Wooded hills, the
several parties passed- beyond sight of
each other, and. as I strolled leisurely
along keeping u sharp lookout fur game,
I did not fur a long time hear a sound,
extent two rifle shots, far away and with
a short interval between, nor see a living
thing.
By -and -bye, oppressed by the solemn
stillness and somewhat fatigued by mo-
notonous clinibing,I sat down on a frag-
ment of rock to rest, and, whild I thus
remained motioilets, a fine black wolf
sneaked out of cover, some foriy yards
away, and began to turn over the loose
leaves and sticks—evidently in search of
moles, lizards and mice. -
As I had long wanted a black wolf
pelt, I lost no time in sending a bullet
through the creature's head, and was
busily engaged removing the dkin,wilen,
off to my right, I fancied that I heard an
anguished cry,as'of someperson iu dead-
ly peril.
Pausing in my work and intently
listening, I awaited a repitition of the
sound. which, in a moment or two again
'floated through the air—this time so
clearly as to admit of no mistake.
Leaving the half -skinned wolf, I
snatched up my rifle and ran in the di-
rection whence the alarm had come; but
the way being encumbered by loose
rocks, thickets and deep gullies, my pro-
gress was necessarily slow, or seemed so
to me, as half -wild with anxiety,l heard
slse appealing shout resound again and
agtti:i.
Su far as I could judge, the last cry
had come from a point not more than
three hundred yards distant. I was tear-
ing through an intervening tangle of
sbrub oak, when a sharp rifle report fol-
lowed by an exultant yell, met my ears,
and,finaliy bursting ont of the thicket, I
came upon a strange tableau.
Close to the edgeof a sheer precipice
knelt the old guide, supporting in his
arms the limp form of Sidney Gray, be•
tiveen whose lips he was trying to force
some water from his own flask.
The boy, seemingly unwounded, was
not wholly insensible, and, after a little,
he managed to swallow some of the
water, and was shortly quite himself
again.
Meantime, wondering what It all
meant, I cast my eyes around in search
of a cause, but could see nothing which
appeared to offer a reasonable explana-
tion.
True, there was lying, within a few
yards of us, a great wind -prostrated yel-
low pine, the upturned roots of which
were still laden with earth and gravel.
Thirty Or more feet of its huge trunk
rested upon the plateau, while fully fifty
feet of the upper stem, merging into a
yet green top; projected at right angles
over the edge of the vertical cliff and
hung suspended above the dry bed of a
creek, eight feet below.
Now it was plain that, as tho'free had
lain in its present position for weeks,
most certainly Sidney had not fallen
over the precipice i and I could not read
the riddle.
Ezra Stevens, as yet busy with Sidney.
saw the puzzled expression of my face,
and said
who Cotbtr.
Ono of the most neglected. and there-
fore dangerous departments of the
hiilsvhold, is the cellar. This is quite
Ruble to be mote or less cheap, surd
cnnwg t••ntly to grew »fusty and
ntatldy, even if fre- :Emu toe infection
of dec.tying t•e;t0t,lt.Ivs, as 18 not al,
;says the ease. Besieges, in sot a few
instance', :t tit rough ial yestiLatL41
would disclose the presence of rough
old bottle's, laden with germs of dis-
ot•s..• Clear them all out ; use brush,
froom end shovel • get IOe whole area
as clean as possible. and then iso n
siron, disinfectant—A solution of cop -
p' -its 14 as good ne nn•'tlling. Then
t•••ntilato thoroughly, apply tvtitewasit
freely and ventilate again. Then go
cellar fled compare he e art-
in,n the ee the P
neat with tvbat it was before in the way
of air and odor. Having done this, do
net wait for the annual cleaning, but
keep it clears, day by day and month by
onnnh. paving especial attention to yen-
li'ation. The air in the cellar, however
ciiiatetl it may be, inevitably finds its
way to the living rooms above, and into
the lungs of the occupants, with all its
load of infection and danger.
01' course, these ere only a few p-tin;t
iu connection with the great matter of
souse cleaning sly en annum ft-stivul
but they aro important in their way,
and deserving of cot:sitleratb
9'hs "code" 1 Plato's.
The code is tl thing of the past in the
Month. Yutlic opinion has done away
w it.h it. The time has been when it was
as much us tt 1111111.E repttlatien to refuse
a challenge. Ilencefortit, it welt ci ^,t a
1111111 the good opinion of thep111 t': to
.end one. 1'uo code is annihilated. Pub-
lic opinion has done its proper work.
But its mission in the South is not end
ed. Next itnutst take in hand the too
prevalent habit of carrying concealed
:yen puns. , It should be a disgrace for tt
nem to walk abroad as though he ex-
pected to commit murder, for toot is
want ter hulas iu final analysis amounts
to. There is rarely any necessity for it
man to commit murder. even to save the
honor he imagines may be otherwise
lost. }lit if he carries a pistol,' tto is
very likely to act on impulse as to tee
tte'Cessity for the crime whether his lre-
put:ttion is liable IA1 he damaged od of 'not.
.and therein lies the danger of 'this i.at,i1
to society.
A Doniestio Problem.
A certain debating society in dieset..-
sirng the question as to which it ilia
angrier—the husband who goes chain.:
and finds that the dinner is not ready.
or the wife who hes dinner ready and
whose husband (Pee not come home. It
is believed that the debate will en 3 in a
draw.
"Prig detx4 Mita the molt •seri,
g rtre*t' •
• raid so, and: there, ser my utttlt •tt►nttz,,, •
1lleaf, lay the eaticttaa, of J;It . t'tiut'tlleltts.
it:T;t1hteir:a14:i4ite'
a. Issue ,wash $ 1'.ud it aha-
s, lJf nlg sittaller t b nlal, the sl,eciaa
ivlaicll ouu)tl ttot.tl..laai tleterlr,,itie,
ry dtieprilad,fcould not solve lt, nnd, ferning to $i duty,, I
ed fur hip story, wlhielt I now give rn
own words'as sourly ata I Can. Sald
"An hour after my father and the
rest of you left us, lazru anti I, not
haring seen any game, cttttte to this big
pine, and eat duwu on it to have a good
talk.
"Ezra was telling me about some of
his Indian lights in the old times away
off in Arizona, when he suddenly jump•
ed up and said that he'd just seen a
black beta• dodge behind a rook away
over there, and lie naked tae to ettiy right
here 41tile lie went after it..,
"-I begged hard to go along, but Ezra
said l'd better not, because I hadn't had
experience enough to crawl quietly
through such places pts the bear would
likely, go into. So he went off again, and
I stayed, still as could be, on the tree
trunk.
"After a little while, I heard a rps-
tling in the -top of the pine, and the
next instant I saw a wildcat, creeping
round among the branches, hunting for
birds.
' 1 took steady aimand killed it at the
first shot, but it stuck tight in a crotch
instead of tumbling dorsa us I expected.
"A minute before I shot, 1 heard
Ezra's rifle crack. It didn't seem very
far away, and,' thinking he'd soon be
back; I sat down on the loo again and
waited, without making a bit of noise,
bute didn't come.
-Alt lust I couldn't keep still any long-
er. I wanted the eat so bad that I laid
down my rifle and walked out to it to
the tree,
"Wt:en I got to the animal I found
that it was pretty heavy, and, seeing
that there was a side gully I could go
down to get it ugnin, I pitched the dead
cat off to the bottom of the thy creek.
"Then I turned to go back, but the
tree was such a height above too ground
that it made my head kind of dizzy to
walk along it this time.
"So I got down on my hands and
knees, and was progressing :111 right
when 1 heard a sort of purring noise. .
"I looked up then and saw that terri-
ble jaguar creeping along the tree
straight for me. 1 knew what it was in
a moment, for there's lots of stuffed
ones in Austin, and I tell you 1 was aw-
fully scared, as I had nothing to fight
with only this huutiug-knife.
"The jaguar came very slowly, flat on
his stomach, but itis eyes looked like
green iir'e.,and Ito kept switching his tail
just like a common house cat does when
Ws stealing upon a bird.
• "I scrambled to Guy feet in a hurry
and retreated into the thickest part of
the treetop, and then began to yell like a
good fellow. I knew very wo11 that it
would bo certain -death to jump, but I'd
made up my ntiud to do it ranter than to
be torn to pieces.
"Every time I &touted the brute cattle
to a dead stop for an iustunt ; but it
wasn't very long, atter all, before he'd
got so close to the that I could count his
big yellow teeth and see every hair in
his long whiskers.
"When Ito cause within six feet of me
he stopped and bristled up his hair, arch-
es back, switched his tail fasten than
ever, and began to growl like a tiger
does when the man in the show is put-
ting a chunk of raw meat through tite
burs of ,Its case.
"I knew then that the old rascal was
getting ready to spring, and I shut my,
eyes and began to say a prayer, thinking
all the time how sorry father and tuuthet•
would be and how they'd blame it all ou
poor Ezra.
"1 could hear the jaguar tearing the
bark with his claws now. In another
moment 1 rnust drop down if 1 wou.d
escape his spring. But just as I was
going to let go, 1 heard a loud shout of
'Hi 1 tt ! there!' and 1 saw Ezra, ruuuing
out on the tree, all the same as if it was
a sidewalk.
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r O MINT.9..18,9
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Balance oa1{, hand, let January
Taxes coileeted on roll •
Taxes collected on roll, previous year
Bills payable
Arrears of Taxes
fJ•ANT Q ' rrA', ITTI .
1882,
:5,853 SM.h
1 .• 2,227 84
2,000 00'
89 72
2104
80 00
50 34
50 3Q 0000
890 80
10,00000 0070
Property•Account
Street account, Sale of Lumber
Cemetery Account, Sale of Lots, etc
County .Account
I►fagis rates' Fines
Public l ahool„Government Grant
License Account
Proceeds Sale of;Debentures
Interest. on do (oft Deposit)
EXPENDITURES
Interest on Debentures
Public Scholl, 'fawn Grant
Public School, Government Grant
Cemetery Account
Street Watering -
St't•eets ttnd Sidewalks
Fire and Water Account
Electric Light Account
Interest and Discounts
Charity Account
Salaries Account
Printing Account
Postage and Stationery
Property Account
Insurance
Board of Heaith
Bills Payable
Incidentals
County Rate
Election Account
Park Account
Mechanics' Institute Grant
Pound Account
Debenture to retire L. H. & B. Debenture 10,000 00
"The jaguar heard the shout, too,
and turned round like a flash and made
a jump fur Ezra. Then I heard a rifle -
shot and a mighty big cheer, and the
next thing; I knew Ezra had my head ou
his arm and was giving 1110 some water
to drink."
"Yes," said the old bunter, "I heatd
the boy shoot just after I{d killed the
bear, aud 1 thought that he'd maybe got
a turkey. 1'd had a hard road to travel
before I got a shot, and being nttaitred
out, sat gown for a rest.
"After a while I began to skin the
bear, intending to take the hide and
hams to camp, but hadn't got far along
with the job when I heard that first yell,
I knew Sydney was not the fellow to cry
out for nothing, and I started for hint it
n hurry, feeling mighty mean . about
having left hint.
"It had taken me au hour to come up
with the bear, but he'd 1'ed sue animist to
the old pine, and it didn't take me a
minute to teach the spot. 1 saw then
that there was no time to lose, and yet I
dare not shoot front the bank, because
the jaguar was right in a line with the
boy.
"So I ran out on tate tree and I gave
a shout so as to attract the varmint's at-
tention. He turned like lightning and
came at me, and when he got so close
that I could shoot downwards he went
on an exploring expedition to the
bottom of the valley—deader than last
July!
"Then 1 jerked Sydney up and brought
him here. I tell you he's a game one
There's not one youngster in ten thou-
sand that, in such a fix, would have had
the nerve to hold on to the last moment,
It's all right now, but I reckon Colonel
Gray will give ale a precious blowing
up, and I can't blame anybody myself if
he does."
Ezra's fears proved groundless, how-
ever, for when, in answer to our repeat-
ed signals, the two parties had joined us
and been told of Sidney's adventure. the
happy father had only wannest words of
gratitude for the preserver of his son.
It did not take long to remove the
richly -spotted pelt of the jaguar and
that of the mountain cat. Then we
stunted up Ezra's bear and my black
wolf and peeled off their jackets.
Though it still lacked an hour of oon,
there had been killed this mornine-
sides the four animals already mention-
ed, one black bear, two timber wolves,
a half-grown puma and a lynx.
But as this is not a hunting story,I need
not describe the incldents•attendtng the
chase and destruction of several ani•
mals. These were told in elaborate de-
tail by each one of the sucoessful sports-
men after we had got back to our pack
Mules and were discussing an early,
well-earned dinner.
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301 00
51 88
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133 17
'720 00
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271 61
1,204 25
101 75
10 01
258 04
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35 00
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839 81
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Property Collegiate Institute $9,000 00
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Unpaid Taxes and Cash on hand
Sinking Fund on Deposit in Bank
LIABILITIES.
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Fire and Water Debentures
High School Debentures
From Dec. 15th to January 1st; 1893.
• Ri~CEIPTS.
J. Wheatley, account of Roll..$4,281 00
Statute Labor Tax 41 00
Peoporty account 19 70
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