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MOW a Doctor and Ws Patient Conspired to
get tire insurance Money,.
Within the last few years A pew and
eatrange induatry has aprung up among a cer-
tain clan of our people, that of beating life
ineurance companies. It is comparatively
e sy to beat a fire insurance company, al.
teough they are becoming sherper every
ear; but to get ahead of a life insurance
'convexly there must be a corpse as proof
eitive that a death has occurred. Only
the keenest rascals or honest men driven to
egration for the want of money attempt
ie swindle, and it is rare that a company
t ea been beaten. I worked on two notable
. saes as a detective, and aro certain that the
details will intereat the general reader.
About fifteen yearns ago a merchanz in an
Ohio town, who Was supposed to be a solid
bueinese man, took oat a poliay of $30,000
in a well-known Eastern ltfe insurance com-
pany. He was in the best of health and
wag readily patised by the examiner. Eighty
days later he was deed. The local agent
ealled as a wetter of form, the doctor in at-
tendance certified to the death, and hoes of
people attended the tuneral.
THE REMAINS WERE:VIEWED;
by at least five hundred people who had
known Mr. Harris, as we will call him, in
his lifetime, and the coffin was deposited on
-a Blab in a vault for a week previove to bur-
ial. There could not have been the slight-
eet cause for suspicion, and it was not un-
til several weeks after the money had been
paid that anything came to the surtace. I
was sent down to investigate, and the point-
er I got was thie : A servants girl in the
doctor's family—the doctor who had attend-
ed Mr. Harria—had Been the doctor have
lots of money, and the family were making
extravagant purchases. They frequently
quarrelled, and during ono of these querrels
the wife said:
"You dare not refuse me money ! Don't
1 know how you got it? Wouldn't you be
sent to prison if it came out."
Igot an interview with the girl, and she
'repeated all that and more, The doctor
was poor before Mr. Harris's death. After
-that he suddenly had plenty of money and
was very extravagant. She did not connect
the money with the Muir mice, bub had got
it into her head that the doctor had killed
and robbed some one. About this time it
-was found that Mr. Harris was head over
heels in debt, and that his wife repudiated
every obligation. I believed from the first
that 1 bad a caee, but I had to go slow.
One hasty move would set an alarm bell to
ringing. I shadowed the doctor utail I
found that he was flueh. He was also ad'
dieted to drink, and after a little mare:env-
rine I got him to the point of boasting of
his cash. He claimed that he had about
i$5,000 in ready money. His practice scarce-
ly brought him a living, and I felt sure
that his money had come from the life
insurance.
I called, as a real estate speculator, to
offer the widow an investment. I found
her to be very reaerved and uncommunica-
tive. She was
NERVOUS AND ILL AT EAsE,
and I judged she had a fear of me. She
did not want any investments, saying thee-
-the was thinking of going to a town in In-
diana. where she had. relatives. The doctor
had certified that Mr. Harrie died of
rheumatism of the heart. When I began
to question the wife about symptoms she
was much confused, and made a poor show
of answering my questions. When I left
the house I knew that she was a party to
the conspiracy. She had been told what to
Bay and what to avoid saying, but the bur.
den watt proving very troublesome. My
next move was to hunt out and interview
people who had attended the funeral. 1
did not let my object be known, but reached
my point in a roundabout way. I soon as
certained that a number of those who
attended the funeral had been surprised at the
change in the facial expreesion of the diseas-
ed. His whiskers had been trimmed to a
different shape, with more gray in them, and
his face themed fuller and broader. They
would nothave recognised him at first sight,
but ib was Mr. Harris, of course ; who else
could it be.
I spent a full month in making cautious
inquiries, and I was then perfectly satiefied
that Mr. Harris was alive and in biding
zomewhere. It was not to be expected that
he would write directly to his wife but I
wee satisfied that some agency had been ap
pointed before his death, and that she was
informed as to his movements. I could have
had the body taken up, but how was I to
prove that it was the body of some one elite?
To unravel the case I must first find
WHO THE DEAD ALAN WAS
when he we.a alive. A body had been sub-
etituted. Where had it come from? Mr,
Harris had been sick only two days. He
had died at 11 o'clock at night. On the op-
posite side of the alley from his barn was
another in which the coachman slept. I
went there to ask his opinion about horses,
and during my visit the death of Mr. Harris
was brought up.
"That was a queer night," he said in reply.
tegbout 10 o'clock at niett some one drove
tip to his barn with a horse and wagon and
-opened the side door. I heard them filleting
around and gob up, but when I got out they
were driving down the alley. My wife says
it was death come to bring a coffin for the
dying man, and I sometimes wonder if I
didn't dream ib
I was now satisfied that the body was
brought there by vehicle. If so, it must
have mime only a short distance. I got a
team and drove out to the county house,
and from the moment I set eyes on the
Superintendent I knew he had something to
conceal. I therefore went right to the point
by raking;
"What was the name of the subject you
furnished to Dr. Lawton on 14bh Aug. 1'
He turned pale, and began to tremble,
"You know you can be sent to State
prison?'
"All—all county houses do it," he pro.
teeted
4'E I hadn't sold him, the doctors would
have dug him up.''
"What did you get?"
"Ten dollars."
"Do you mean to tell me that you only
got $10 out of the $30,0002"
W hat $30,000?"
"The Harris insurance money.'
"1 did not even know that Harris was in -
eared. Dr. Lawton wanted the body for a
skeleton, and I sold it to him. He sent and
got it in the evening."
"What was the man's name?"
"Joeoph Shearer. He had been here a
year, ad lied no friends."
"When did he die?"
"At 5 P. M., end they took him about."
" Would you know the body?"
From a thousand. The left arm had
been broken. There were many boars, The
great toe on the right foot had been arnpu-
taMd."
He aid uot know that the body had been
passed off for that of Hartle, and when I
told him he was very inalignant and offered
to help Mai in my hunt: He adniitted that
tt ere wee a great resemblanth between the,
two mea, but that Shearer WaS the elder by
several years. I was
ETILL ON THIi TRAIL
now, but if I sprung the trap too soon,
Herris would map% I moved geietly for
a week more, and then the Doctor's servant
girl brought me a bit ot news. She had
overheard the Dootor reading a letter to
his wife, and she believed the letter was
from Harria. It asked if everything was
all right, gave some directions about a busi-
ness matter, and, gave a town in Karam as
his address. The girl could nob remember
the town or the name Herds had assumed,
and so it seemed like looking for a needle in
a haystack as I started out. I argued that
he would go to some small town, and that
he would change his appearance as muola au
possible.
I was in the State six weeks before I
found him, and what do you suppose he was
doing? He was in a village fifteen miles
from a railroad, and was a journeyman in a
shoe shop. I droPped in to gob the lost heel
of my boot replaced, and had sat there a
quarter of an hour before I identified him.
We gob $22,000 of the money back, sent
Harris and the Doctor to State prison for
ong terms, and Mrs. Harris got a divorces
and married a better man.
Deteotina Frauds -
Among the traditions of the Pennsylvania
bar are preserved some mammies of the eud-
den detection of fraud by the quick wit of a
awyer during trial.
The late Devia Paul Brown was employed
as counsel for the heirs of a wealthy old
man, who had left a will devising his whole
estate to a stranger, Mr. Brown, the judge,
and the audience in the court -room were
convinced that the will was a forgery, but
It seemed impossible to prove it to be so.
The trained nurse, a sturdy Englishman,
was one of the witnesses, and swore stoutly
to the genuineness of the will. Something
in his manner convinced the lawyer that he
was swearing to a lie, but how could he con-
vict him of it?
When he was placed on the stand for
cross-examination, Mr. Brown opened the
will and held it before him.
"You swear that this is your signature 2"
"And that you signed this will two days
before Mr. Blank's death, he being then
confined to bis bed 2''
"Yes," etaid the man, doggedly, "1
signed it, and helped him fold and seal it."
The lawyer's eye kindled. "How did
you help him io
Joseph,' he said to me, 'fold this
paper.' So I folded it. Joseph,' says he,
look in yonder eloset and briug me my
seal and wax and a candle.' So I. brought
them, and lighted the candle. Joseph, he
say, 'drop the wax.' So I dropped it, and
as his hands were shaking so, I sealed it
with his seal."
.‘ You swear this to be true ?"
"Gentlemen of the jury," said Brown, im-
pressively, "this is the will. It has been
fastened by a wafer !" and he won the case.
Another suit, the incidents of which have
served as a basis for one or two novels, in-
volved the posSeasion of a large estate, which
a distant relative ot the late owner claimed
by virtue of a deed of gift, which he asserted
had been executed at a time when the owner
was on bad terms with his eons. There was
no:will.
The paper bore every mark of being genu-
ine; was formally executed; the witnesses
swore to their signatures, and experts testi-
fied their belief that the name of the dead
man was written by himself. All hope for
the hairs seemed to be over, when their coun-
sel, suddenly raising the paper close to his
eyes, sent a messenger hastily out of court.
The claimant continued to bring in testi-
mony in proof of the genuineness of the docu-
ment for an hour. His case appeared to be
ftilly established, when the 'enamel for the
defendants called a grave old Qaaker to the
wibnemestand.
"Friend Blank, please hold that paper up
to the light. What is the water -mark on
it ?"
"That of my firm, Blank and Son."
"When did you begin the manufacture of
paper ? '
"In 1849."
"What is the date of the document?"
"July 10, 1844."
"That is enough. Gentlemen of the jury,
we close our
The late Attorney -General Brewster was
counsel in a case which also hung upon the
authenticity of a will. He observed that
on the impression of the seal of the devisor,
twice used upon the document, was a mark
as light a hair. He examined the seal itself,
and found no crack which could produce
this mark. He then caused a search to be
made for engravers ca seals in Philadelphia,
and aucceeded in finding the man who had
made that need in the fraudulent will.
"I recollect the job," said the engraver,
"for the seal was aceidentally cracked ; but
the man who ordered it would not wait for
another to be made."
He had made the seal three weeks after
the death of the devisor. The forgery was
proved, and Mr. Brewster won his case.
Trifles made no Impression.
When the conductor of the Laming train
was making his rounds the other morning
after leaving Detroit, he came to a mao who
was not ready with his ticket. He felt in
all hie pockets, searching the lining of hie
hat, and finally remarked:
"1 thought I bought a ticket, but I can't
find it."
"1 must have your ticket or your fare,"
aaid the conductor.
"01 course. Nobody can ride tree on
railroads. Guees I've lost my ticket, and I
haven't got a omit to pay my fare with."
"Then I'll have to put you off."
"1 suppose so."
Ile wart allowed time to make another
search, but not finding a ticket he was told
to get off at the next station. He was ready
to step off when the train stopped, but he
had scarcely left the oar before a passenger
found his ticket on the fleor and milled him
back.
"So you had a ticket after all?" said the
conductor.
" Yes, it seems era"
" Very odd that you should have forgot-
ten that you bought it."
" Yetaiit is:; but I was kinder mixed, you
see. I was drunk for two days, got nulled
in and turned out by the police, had two
fights, mot my divorced wife, got rim over
by a haok, and some one stole my watch at
the depot. I couldn't remember whether I
bought a tickeb for Brighton or signed a
contract to split 10,000 rails., Please keep
an CO on me and the that I get off at the
right station, for dela car seems to be kern-
ing bottom side up."
Professot (roused by violent ringing in the
dead of night)—Well, what is it? What's
the matter? Student—One of your windows
is open. Professor—Which One ? Student—
The one you are looking out of—[Pick Me
Up.
MISCETJANIOU.
We learn from a late letter oa Professor
Saunders, of theCentral Experimehtal Farm,
Ottawa, that the results of his last season's
experiments with different varieties of two -
rowed and Chevalier barley in many parts
of the province were generally favorable.
Last year the weather just: before harvests
was too hot and dry for produoing heavy,
plump grain, and this ie the only kind which
will realize a good price in Englieh markets,
Except as to deficiency in size and weight of
berry, the experiments were satisfactory.
In order to preserve the eyesight of
eohool ohildrer, Mr. Priestly Smith, oph-
thalmic surgeon to the Queen's Hompital,
Birmingham, has prepared for b he School
Board of that town a (redo of precepts on
the aubjeot which are to be exhibited in all
the Board schooiroonam The maxima are:
—"Sit uprght, Bit square, keep your eyes
at least twelve inches from your work,
write on a slope and not on a fiat teble, read
with your book well up, do nob read very
small print, do not work in a bad light, and
if you oannot see your wo-k properly tell
your teacher."
Proleasor Satandere has ordered, and ex
petits to receive soon, a few bushels of the
very best Seale barley which he can get,
This is the description of German barley
which commands fanoy prices in English
markets, and is of the Chevalier variety,
standard weight, 56 lbe. per bushel. Mr.
Waunders is now actively engaged in dietrib.
siting sample batie, 3 lbs. each, of the varie-
ties he hes now on hand to several hundred
different points in the Dominion, from
Prince Edward Mend to British Columbia.
The Seale barley will aleo be diatributed
when received.
In an article on John Bright in the New
York "Independent" of the 4th, Professor
Gotdwin Smith says:— " 0 all the speakers
whom 7 ever heard John Bright was the
greatest, and of all the speeches of John
Bright that I heard the greatest was hie
speech in St. James' hall, London, on the
civil war in the United States. An Ameri-
can Unionist, if he had been present on that
occasion' would nob have thought that all
Englandwas against him." Yet, in defer-
ence 10 the Irish vote, which might be irri-
tated were homage paid to the memory of
an English Unionist, the Senate of the United
States has refueled to vote upon resolutions
deploring Bright's death.
Under the title "To the East by the
West," "The Colonies sad India" rives a
full and appreciative aocount of the new
route from the Mother Country by way of
Canada to Australia and China. Our con.
temporary concludes with the following
sentence: " For the Empire ab large the
route means a new bond of unity, for it
opens, as has been truly said, a New
Queen's highway right across the Empire '—
and one that will do great things for the
commerce, the industries and the seeurity of
the Empire." Whatever unpetriotio pessi.
raids in Canada may say in disparagement
of their country. ita progress and advantages
are being widely appreciated.
There is some question whether the
Times will be able to survive the oonse-
quences of the Parnell case. eNot one of the
Times' counsel has yet received a penny in
fees: only the expellees of witnesses have
been paid. The explanation is that the
Times entered non the Commithion business
confident of an ultimate grant from the Gov-
ernment. Bat the oollapeo of the letters
alters the sinuation and a grant is oat of
question. The Times, therefore, has to face
an unexpected expenditure of £50 000 of the
law expenses plus another £50,000 for
libels. Mr. Vileater is a very rich man, and
he may come to the reeoue of his fellow -pro.
prietors, but the position of the Times is
threatened.
There is a motion before the United
States Senate to do away with the secret
sessions of that body. The Senator who is
promoting the motion finds that whenever
She Senate considers measures privately
wrongimpressions get abroad as to what
hie opinions on the particular matter under
discuesion were, and he is not at liberty to
set things straight. The secret session may
suit the star chamber of a bygone age, but
for the Legidature of an aggressively "free"
country 15 hardly suits the spirit of the
times. The Uaited States Senate, however,
knows its own business best, and keeps up
the privilege to dispoth of proceedings that
could not bear the broad light of day.
It is said that the United States Senate's
refueal to confirm the President's nomination
of Mr. Murat Haletead for the German mis-
sion is likely to cause trouble in the Repub-
lican party. General Harrison maintains tb at
in not withdrawing the nomination after the
first day's discuesion he gave emphatic no-
tice that he wished it confirmed, and he con-
siders those &imam who persisted in op-
posing his wishes guilty of a breach of party
discipline. He has intimated therefore that
they need look for no more favours from
him, and that their recommendations for
offioe will be coolly received. The situation
is semewhat like that which arose under
President Garfield, and led him to say :—
"The Republican Senator who votes against
my nominees will feel the need of a letter of
introduotion next time he cornea to the White
House."
-.111.11411.
The Dreams of Long Ago.
From Memory's crowded oloeet place, like
faded leaves, sometimes,
I gather these old dreams of mine and kiss
them o'er with rhyme&
And my foolish tears upon them will glisten
like the dew
That used to gem the flowers which the old,
sweet mornings knew.
I know the faded leaf bath lost the balm to
soothe again
The heart that arriarts from sorrow and from
dagger -thrusts of pain,
And I know that every dream of these will
only bring regret,
Yet 'tis sweeter to remember than it could
be to forget.
So I listen to the murmur of the brook's en-
chanting wave
Singing mystic aonga of glory that the dig
Wince never gave.
And I watch the Summer rainbow down the
heaven's vista bead
That vanished like the treasurethat were
hidden at the end.
The birds that sang at morning, the noon
hum of the bee,
The trees, the fievrers, the waters—oh, they
all oome back to me;
Come like the tender gla,uces that made
sweet my mother's eyes,
And leave me as she left me when she fled
to Paradise,
Chantilay net is to be much used for dim
ner dreesee during Lent.
The total approximate value of the mer.
chant navy of the Britiah Empire is stated
to be 193,000,000. That of the morehant
navies of the United State, France, Ger-
many, Rely, and Russia, taken together, is
add to be only £33,000,000, the value of
that of Prance alone being only 40,000,000,
or tete than ene-terlth of that of England,
A PRISON DI NOROGOO.
•
mare Ilistaalls Awant unishuseat with
liteslitututten.
In a sordid vestibule whose walla or
covered with torn matting, the jeiler omoke
hie pipe filled with kiff, that aligh .ly opiat
ed Vent which takes the place of tobacc
in these parte, igtyfs Berjatilin Oenetant
"Harper's Magazine" for April. Three wo
men, draped in their haik, are weeping nea
O grated opening in the prison door, and i
the interior darkness a human face is seam
ly discernible. As we approach, the wo
men tand aside, and e, lean arm is passe
through the grating and stretched tow ar
as auppliantly, without a word being utter
ed. I put a silver piece in the hand; ine
mediately one of the women takes tit
money and hurries away toward the town
doubtless to buy bread. I look through th
grating, and distinguish a vast, foul smel
ling and somber room, vvithouti air, in wide
are human forme, crowding and crouching
with ttte noise of chains, and the lamentabl
and ainister murmur of words uttered in
low voice. The criminals in this priso
are, perhaps, none but people' accused o
penalising a few douros whioh they neve
even aaw, and who are now waiting in th
horror of this black hell until the efforts o
their parents or the charity of some travel
er like myself shall help them, by degrees
to made up the Bum of their ransom.
In presence of such ruisery AS this one oan
understand how the ardent imagination o
these nations is exalted by religion, an
how they seek in religion comfort, commie
tion and hope of a juetice hereafterwhich
will compensate terreStrial woes by oelestia
joys, and rcquite their sufferings in chain
and dungeons by the delights of paradise
One can comprehend these people attaching
themselves with fierce With to their belie
in God and hi a future life, and lming
proof egainet the atheietio skeptioinin
which hovers over the Western world
They have need of God more than tha citi-
zens of Europe; they wand a master and a
judge above their earthly judges and mas
ters.
I wished to see, also, the mom under
whose authority these victims groan, and I
saw the Paha. In an Arab per tie° he is
seated on a carpet, cross-legged, motioraese,
clad in white woolen He is fingering the
ebony beads of a chaplet, and in the midst
of his prayers he seems to be listening atten-
tively to the story of a tall soldier, a black.
faced Hercules, who is perorating with as
profusion of gestures and much volubility as
he points to a poor fellow crouching at his
side in a posture of terror that does .., ot
even dare to take the form of a prayer for
mercy. What can he hope for ? The least
possible number of lashes, the least number
of days or of months tolive in the irons, the
smallest tale of douros to redeem his life.
He does not even try to defend himself
against the soldier's charges. In his orient-
al fatellem he waits with reeigetation.
Selfish.
Courtesy to women, young and old, should
be a part of every boy's 'home training.
Without it he ie likely to be boorish and
selfish; and a rude over -bearing brother and
son is in danger of developing into an exact].
ing, discourteous husband. Be is likely to
belong to the class of boys who come into
the house and say to their sisters :
"Here, Mary, you've got the chair I
always like to sit in, and Kathie has the
paper I want 1 Let me have them 1"
He receives the chair and paper without
a word of thank, and then says, " There's
a button oft my overcoat, and I want one of
you girls to put it on before morning. Mary,
run and get my slippers."
His hat and gloves and overcoat have been
thrown down in different perts of the room
for his mother or slaters to pick up and put
away. His mother comes into the room,
and he says, "Isn't supper moat ready? I'm
hale starved 1"
"Et will be ready in a few minutes,' his
mother replies.
"Well, I wish you'd hurry it pp."
At she table he is served first, and always
has the beat of everything, a course well
calculated to footer his aelfiehness and auto-
cratic tendencies.
In his own home he is a sort of despot.
He feels that hie personal comfort should be
the chief end and aim of his wife's life. A
delayed dinner is an unforgivee.ble offence,
and a raining button brings on an acute at.
tack of that disagreeable mental disorder
known as "the sulks."
He is likely to be one of the men who
keep their seats while ladies stand in the
home -oars, arguing vehile he does so that
" wornext have just as much right to stand
as men."
Obtrusive discourtesy of this kind nearly
always has its origin in the early home life
of the man who manifests it. t
A Terrible Indictment,
Tobacoo kills both wives and flies. If it
were destructive to vermin only, it might
be put to a very good use, but it is altogeth-
er too deadly when it kills off wives.
When will Chriatian people learn that rea-
son and religion have set up their warnine
signals against this vile atuff, and that these
voices cannot be refused attention with im-
punity.
Not long since I was walking in the city
with a celebrated physician. Aa we passed
a house surrounded with every evidenoe of
wealth and refinement, he spoke I have
O paVent in there, an idolised wife, who is
dying and beyond all help, and none of
them know what ie the matter with her, and
still her husband has killed her."
"Why, doctor," said I, "What do you
mean ?"
"I mean just thie :—Her hneband is
literally steeped in tobamai until the insen.
aible perepinetion from his body has hicomo
a deadly poison, and his wife has absorbed
enough of this and had before I was called
in to Immo her death."
At an establishment where they treat
patients for the euro of the tobacco habit a
man was brought in, washed as dean as
soap and water could make him, and then
some flies were allowed to alight on him. In
five minutes by the watch they wore dead.
There was poison enough in the perspire -
tion that came out of the man wriehed as
clean as poasible to kill them. You can
imagine how much more deadly it would be
when he wasn't washed, perhaps, to apend
ileum each day in a warm bed with hint. --
T. B. Terry in Albany Argue.
Some of the Redical pripers of Paris are
talking of reviving the uao of the guillotine
as a political engine against General Boulan-
ger. If this could be accomplished La Pah*
and other organa of Mr. Mercier could almost
imagine therneelves back in the dee% of
their dearly beloved "great and glorious
Revolution." Such a revival would aimed
make amends for their disappointment at
there being no official participation in the
glorification of that blood-stained epoch.
The erection of an altar to the Gladdens of
Reason would almost complete their Weston
that they were beck again under the regime
Whiela excites thole affiniration,
••A BLOoDy tATTig.
Terrine r ight Between Wild Hoge awl
Beare.
" There have been savage fights between
wild bowies of An ononisti nature meeting in
the forest depths, the jungle. or unobstrut t
ed said an x entity ffioer who spent
many pare on the great Western frontier,
" but I doubt if ever there was one in which
all the elements of foroolous, unrelenting,
bloody csmhab were eel completely and
fiercely engaged as they were in one it was
my fortune to be a witeees to some years ago
among the mountains of Warm Spriug
in the wild region drained by the Upper
Wind River and its tumbling tribm arms.
In no other region that lever heard of could
ouch a combat have occurred, for it ie uot
probable thrill a similar race of animals
exhibit anywhere elite,
"A number of years ago there was an offi
eel at Fort Washakie who was a great lover
of blooded dogs, and he alwae a had several
of different breeds at his quartere. He had
grey hounda for jackrabbit and antelope
coursing, etaghounds for deer, bulldogs for
fightiag, and dogs of many other kinds and
degree. Once he imported a magnifioent
epeoimen of the Scotch staghound and one of
the ugliest, most inieshapen, vicious -looking
English bulldogs I ever aaw. The latter was
O female. A few days after these two dogs
arrived at Fort Washakie they disappeared.
The country was
SEARCHED FOR MILES AROUND.
hub no trace of t be missing animal's could be
toand. They must bave taken up their
ebode somewbere in the fastnesses it the
Upp• r Wind River Mountains, fur a rie
of wild dogs, with a resembiiii ms to both tin
stag -hound and the bulei og, possessiug
the speed, endurance, end intellig,ence
of the former and the ferocity, pewee.
oity, and tenacity of the latter, him
developed in that region since the two dogs
diesappeared. These dogs are nob the non.
deecript animals known as the Indian dogs
of Moutaua which are a mixture of dog,
wolf, and coyote, and pirtelie of the nature
of all throe. These animals are savage en-
ough, as every frontiersman knows, and can
way be domesticated by Indians, around
whose tepeks they swarm ; but you might as
well compare a pet Maltese kitten with a
catamount for lie camas as so conipare one
of these nottelescre te with the wild doge oi
Upper Wind R ver. The latter are a mon
dreadee and daegeroue beast even than th,
rare and ferocious timber wolf of rhe Cana-
dian border, which has claim like a tiger
and peva; six inches long, and the timber
wolt is the herdeman's and the hunter's par
duller terror. The wild dogs of Wind Ri •
ver are the scourge of the region. They
hunt in immense packs, and are the iraplam
able enemy of every other living thing that
roams mountain or plain. Speedy, tireless,
savage, and stubborn, the fieeteet footed
denizens of the woods cam ot escape them,
the most formidable and ferocious fail to
long withstand their attacks, and nedifft
cultiee or obstacles can deter them in the
chase or turn them from their purpose.
They have but one mission—to pureue, slay,
and devour.
"The king of the Rocky Mountaba bear
family is the dreaded silver tip. This bear
is believed to be a mongrel, a cross between
the true grizzly and the brown bear of the
Rockies. All the qualities of both these
bears are possessed by the eilvet tip, and
the curions tact is that he holds all of them
in a numb greater degree than either of his
progenitors. The grizz'y bear is of enor-
mous size, ferocious, and possessed of
fabulous strength end toughnese, but he
has little sagacity and no agility. The
brown bear is agile, wily
SAGACIOUS, AND STIJIIEoRN.
The silver tip is bigger, more ferocious,
stronger, and tougher than the grizzly, and
at the same time can gtve the brown bear
points on agility, sagacity, and stubborn-
ness. Consequently, when a hunter runs
across a silver tip and concludes to bag him
heinuit make up his mind that he has taken
the contract to circumvent a grizzly, a
brown bear, and a silver tip all at the same
time.
"One fall I heard that a number oftifiver
tips were in the habit of coming down from
the Upper Wind River Mountains to enjoy
their favorite sieetas on the bright, sunny
hills of the Warm Spring Basin. I was in
that region, deer hunting, and one day
thought I would make a quiet tour of the
elopes, thinking that I might happen to get
sight of some of the mountain monsters, if
not a shot at one. After half an hour's clam-
bering about along the slopes without seeing
or hearing anything to indicate that there,
had ever been a bear in that locality, I con-
cluded to return to camp. I stood in apiece
of thick timber, but looking ahead through
the trees I saw that there was an open space
a short distance further on, and thought I
would make for that to see what prospect it
overlooked before turning back. I found
that the open space was a wide plateau, ex-
tending along the face of the hill for a long
distance. it was only a few rods in width,
and terminated abruptly, having evidently
O perpendicular face. I walked to the top of
the bluff and found that it overlooked a beau.
tiful valley not more than 2C0 yards wide,
the bluff forming its boundary on one side
and a dense growth of timber enclosing it on
the further border. The timber was on
ground that led in a gradual elope to the base
of a high and rooky mountain a mile or more
away. The valley lay at least a hundred
feet below me, and at any other time I would
undoubtedly have lingered in rapt admira-
tion of the charming picture it acid its envir-
onments presented, but my eyes rested on
another tight, and valley, woods, and sun -
capped heights faded away before it.
"Seattered about between the bete of the
bluff and the edge of the woods, and all with-
in range of my eye. some s'zetched lazily at
full length on the ground, others wrestling
and sparring in comical eport among them-
selves, and still others shambling
LAMA' AND AIMLESSLY
about, was a collection of sliver tips such RE
I had never hoped to gaze upon. There
were fifteen ofthem, and every one was an
enormous specimen of its kind. For ten
minutes I looked down upon this meet inter -
eating spectacle, and wee about making up
nriv mind to try what i ffast the sendine of a
rifle ball into one of the unsuspecting bears
vvonld have on the gathering, when sudden-
ly a change came over each and every silver
tip. Those that were snoozing in the ram
sprang to their feet. The wrestling and
hp errina ceased, and every bear stood in an
attitude of intenb listening.
"A few secorids later I heard a pro.
longed wailing or baying, evidently subdued
by diettence, and borne from the direction of
She mountain beyond the woods. It did not
seem possible that the bears I now saw be-
low me could be the same ones I had tasen
few minutes before, the personification of
supineness and listlessness. They tramped
to and fro every poeture and treevement
thawing that they were farious with rage.
The stiff hair on their nooks stood erect,
and I could see, even at that distance, their
eyes glaring fiereely. A ohorus Of savage
growls denoted their intense displeasure.
"The strange baying I had heard rapidly
came nearer, until, 7 could distiuguieh that
it was made up of savage yelps and barks
and victims building. I suppehod that a
pack of wolves was rushing toward the
valley, and that the diver tips We're proper-
ing to give it a bloody greeting for intrud-
ing upon their retreat. The smith made by
the advancing pack had become one wild
wave of diecordant sound, made tip of
tram) CURDLING YELLS
end yelps and howl, The bears had messed
themselves nob far from the base of the bluff,
and immediately beneath where I was stand-
ing. That there was to be a terrible coni.
bait of some kind I knew, and as my excite-
ment and suepenee inoreased 1 threw my-
self flet on the ground and peered over the
edge of the bluff, feeling thab 7 eeould not
possibly stand with safety on the height;
and witness the !settle.
"1 had scarcely taken my position when
the edge of tho woo& seemed to become sud-
thinly alive. From between the trees along
the timber border for a long distance, yell-
ing and beveling like demons, crowding,
pushing, and tumbling over rem another in
their haste for blood, swarmed a horde o
the most form:lama-looking beasts it could be
possible to imagine. I WM at once that they
were not wolves, and then I knew they must
be a pack of the dreaded wild dogs of Wind.
River. They had come down front their
mountain heuets and trailed the silver tips
to their sunning place in this quiet valley.
There must have been more than a hundred
wild doge in the pack. The bristling, savage
front them fifteen ponderous bears presented
would have halted the fierceat, hungriest
peak of timber wolvee that ever sought prey
and sent it back in hasW;telreat. But these
wild doge rushed on like a compact, unhes-
itating billow. They threw themselves upon
the massed silver tips, and the terrific con-
flict began The mingled roars of the bears
and the enerling, howling, and yelping et
the wild dogs filled that peaceful vale with
such sound as has assailed few human ears.
In less than it minute the ground was strewn,
with the bloody and mutilated bodies of
wild dogs, and two of the enormous bears
were literally torn to pieces.
GENER
Frank Whittle, a deaf mute, attempted
suicide by drowning at Hoostok Mole be
oeuee of disappointment in love. Be wo
arrested.
Steps are being taken by the owners of
reo.I estate to prevent Jews residiog at the
summer resort of Atlantic Highlands, N. J
Rich placer diggings are said to have
been discovered in the Bear Paw mountains,
fifty miles north of Forb Benton, Montantal
A dynamite bomb to protect fiehetnen by
giving warning of ocean ateamera, was re-
cently tested. off Gloucester, and worked
very satiefaotorily.
Twenty thousand people live in Alexandria/
Pa., yet during the month of March not a
wedding occurred.
After a Wisconein public school tee,oher
has done faithful work for twenty-one years
a pension is granted to her or him, Tully
her.
Two Vermont hunter e trapped lost winter,
near Bradford, over 100 foxes, on which
they received a Sante bounty of 50 cents a
f ox.
The battle monument at Bennington, Vt.,
has reached a height of 120 feet, and work is
just being renewed on it. The contractor
expects to have it completed before the close
of this year.
Mrs, Elora E. Haines has been employed
during the past year by the Maine Lobar
Commission to gather statistiee concerning
women wage-earnera. She finds in that
State over fifty different employments in
which women are engaged, ranging from
cotton and other manufacturers to the pro-
fessions. By far the greatesb number are
employed in manufacturing, there being
About 7,000 thug employed: The average
weekly salary is $8, and one maker of por-
traits in crayon gets $1,600. One woman ie
the proprietor of a prosperous newspaper;
another owns an extensive orchard; there
are a dozen regularly endorsed physicians in
practice, and three ordained ministers, all
Universalists.
Martin Beheads and Joseph Drudel, of San
Francisce, were great friend& Joseph, who
came from Austria, had corresponded with
a young woman there, Annie Swabeck by
name, and was loud in her praises toiMartin.
Martin fell in love veith the picture drawn
by Joseph, and asked him why he didn't send
for Anuie. Joseph said he hadn't the need-
ful me, "I'll let you have the money,"
said Martin, "and if she'll marry me
call the debt equare." So Annie was sent for
and came, and Martin was introduced to
her as her future husband. Give me time to
think," said Annie. She thoughtfor six
month.s and then rejeoted Martin's „suit. He
asked Joseph for his money. Joseph refused,
saying that he didn't control Annie's affec-
tions. All this came to the public the other
day when Martin sued joaeph for the $130,
It is asserted that the wieldiest sorewa in
the world are those used in the production of
watolaee. Thus, the fourth jewel -wheel screw
is the next thing to being invisible, and to
the naked eye it looks like dust, with a glass,
however, it is seen to be a small screw, with
260 threads to the inch, and with a very fine
glass the threads may be seen quite clearly.
These minute screws are 4 1,000th of an inch
in diameter, and the heads are double ; ib is
aleo estimated that an ordinary lady's thim-
ble would hold 100,000 of these sorewe. No
attempt is 'ever made to count them, the
method pursued in determining the timber
being to place 100 of them on a very delicate
balance, and the number of the whole amount
is Aetermined by the weight of these. After
being out, the sere,es are hardened and pub
in frames, about 100 to the frame, heads up,
this being done very rapidly by sense of
touch instead Of by sight, and the heads are
then polished in an automatic machine, 10,-
000 at a time. The.plate on which the pol-
ishing is performed te covered with oil and a
grinding compound, and on this the machine
moves them rapidly by reversing motion.
John Lewis, one of the pioneers of Cala-
veras comity, California, telis of a remarkable
shot that he once made. It's a true story,
too. For many months a fox had been play-
ing havoc with Mr. Lewisawhene and, do
what he would, he could not catch or shoot
the fellow. There was a big tree, about 300
feet long, that had fallen justiabove his cabin,
and when he tried to shoot the fox the sly
beaeli would dodge around the upturned
roots i sneak along the further side of the
tree main' it reached the top, and then make
a bolt and escape. Ono xnoonlight night`
Lewis heard a commotion among the hena,
and, running out with his gan'saw the foxi
as usual, slip around the root end of the
tree. He raised his gun, and with the Eauz•
z1e followed along tete tree at about the rete
he thought the fox would travel, and when
the muzzle cleared the upper end of the tree
he fired into the shadow. Then he went
book to bed. The next) morning he went
out to the :tree top, and there ley the fox
dead, riddled With buckshot.