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BULLY .,L. 1 AYS.
The Pirate of The Pacific.
THE THRILLING STORY OFA DOUBLE LIFE.
CHAPTER III, Karl, Hayes partially dismantled hie vessel,
and hung out a signal of distl•eee. Following
LILLY HAlES'S LAST OROIY$. out bhe same taobloa es before, he oontrivea
po get oleo to the ship ae night was falling,
ti
bine tomo when the excesses of Batty with bear dooe wn Intention on bar in the darkness schooner
Hay ea, and other desperadoes encouraged by in the confusion of the collision, boarding ber
hie °ranula and impunity, rowelled the limit f roc bia boats and overpowering her crew.
of endurance of bbo European powers inter
• All went well up to the point ot the abhaak,
mated in the Paaifia. The amountingGodderoil had but there Hayes found bhab he had made a
thnfated. with liabilities to more terrible mistake. The ship was not an
than five million of dollars, mainly through Auebrelian liner, but a chines trader, well
the soaten of heir trading
reused stations
by these vil.en manned and armed, and thoroughly prepared
into the end their trading hotfoot had fallen for meetfn all °amera, Her lamer orew
into ntu hands The all most
aot fol andlon. fought like tigers, and Hamer and his men
adventurers, moeb beautiful and ds• thought themselves Lucky to get book into
]ightful portion of she globe, in short, had their gboats and regain the schooner, leaving
become a veritable pandemonium. Bull one £earth of their pumper dead or
Half meaeuree having utterly failed, the wounded on the deck of the other ship.
British at length took the bold step of an. Hayes himself hre deo a severe throat from
nexing the Fiji Islands, expelling the impu• apike,and the, together with mortifieabion
dent impostors who called themselves she at his ailure, and rouble of mind about his
government, pensioning the Bing and p.p.love affair, i
h
made m morose and quarrel.
pointing an officer of great ability as Gover-some and add ht drink.
unlimited
with the additional title and almost From that time forward the oaptein and
alimited authority of High Commissioner of the mate of the Belle lttoile were on !any
the Western Pacific. thio bub friendlyberms and before very
In order to meet the slaves and pirates on
longthe settled own into a bitter rivalry.
their own umber or rather, in theiwiser ownhe they
took care never be sleep without
waters,a number of small stem cruisers and his revolvers ready and a man whom he
swift -sailing whomera were built, in the could trust on the watch to give him the
navy yards ab Sidney end fitted out under alarm 01 an moment. Ha es however,
the command of young g tkie a who had al• showed no disposition to take advantage of
ready seen service among the islands, The him en board aha schooner, and they tame
exceadipgly elastic berme and boundaries of bo a aaotb agreemenb to have nothing to Bay
the Hieh Commissioner's juriediobion, gave
beyond what was nemeesar fkin the
these officers power to deal with suspicious
Y y orworg
versals In any way they thought beet, and /IMP,
the rearovers soon found the climate of bho Ib stood to reason that such an arrange.
I acifia becoming unpleasantly warm. Nob mans oonld not lana long between men of
a few of them gob long sentences of im•
priaonment in the terrible etcckadem of New
South Wales, while othere, spinet whom no
indictable offence could be proved, under
the civil law, were detained in ell
Levuka, the neat of governmenb ab jb
the High Commieeioner'e authority, A
few, who were clearly proved to have stained
heir hands wibh blood, were hanged.
Bully Hayes iamb with him usual luck dur•
Ing these trying times. He was three
times captured, invariably through treach-
ery; but twice he obtained an acquittal,
partly through the extreme difficulty in
obtaining any sorb of reputable evidence
against him, partly through his wonderfully
able defence of himself, and partly through
the sympathy of the jury with a bold ad-
venturer in a disordered abate of society. On
the third occasion, when things looked un.
commonly bad againsb him and everybody
thcngbt the game was up, be mysteriously
escaped from custody, and remained in hid-
ing until the affair had blown over.
After that things settled down rapidly in
THE BRUSSELS POST.
THE BACKWARD BOY. who thinke when be ieaveo the bonoheo of
hie school or college bhab the fight is over,
117 Ue Uresldoni o0Gornall Unlvoleity and the battle won. Forbunatoly society
soon moon ea sicoh a boy of hie notion,
bob aldose 1t does, we may say wibh Solomon,
thab "there is more hope of a fool than of
him."
The hope of the world is in the bop' that
like something, and like bheb something
with intelligent energy.
Beokwerd boys often Leoom° forward
men. Every one who is engaged in educa-
tional matters has obeerve that bho boy
who at the beginning of hie aohool life, IS
at the head of the oleos, seldom continues
to hold his rank to the end of his oourae, 1b
also often happens that A boy near the foot
of hie aloes, at the time of beginning, ad•
vanoee to bhe bead or nearly to the Beed be-
fore the time of leaving the school.
Such °hengos of rank aro so common that
it may be abated, as a rule, that the boy who
is at the head ot the plate at the beginning
of the oourae is not likely to be in thee poet.
tion ab the time of graduation. Some other
boy, perhaps one who aborted wibh a poor
preparation, le not unlikely to succeed in
parrying off the final honors,
Nor do surprises of this kind end ab
graduation. It ie nob by any means oertaia
that bhe boy whose graduated with the high -
eat standing will be the most successful In
life. On the contrary it aom:Aimee happene
that it is the rather dull boy that achieves
the highest 8000055 in life. Valedioboriane
often tall in later years.
McClellan was a much better goholer ab
West Point bhan Grant. Indeed, neibher
Grant nor Sheridan ever took high rank at
soiled. They seem both to have been rather
backward boys.
The reason of all this seems to be the faob
that it ie nob what le generally oharaoterized
as forwardness or smartness that muo0eed°
best in life. In the ordinary relations of
business and professional intercourse, we
rely quite ae muoh upon whab le called
trustworthiness and good judgment as upon
ability and atbainmenbe. The person to
wbom we are meet willing to entrust oar
inbereste and our friendships are nob generally
the brightest persons of our acqueintanao.
In fact mere ability has nothing whatever
to do with trnabworthineos ; for ability is as
violent paselcns end natures hardened and lin to be enlisted in the wrong cause as
brutalized by long fam*iariby with deeds of in bhe right one. Nay, mere brightness of
darkness. inbelleot may be regarded as a dangerous
Hayes, neverbhelese, was not ordinarily bru- poseesalon ; for the blighted: people we
hal in hie imputees, though there was nothirg know are sometimes the ones whom it is
he was not tapable of in oold blood when he safest to have lftble to do wibh, The face
was bent oe any purpose. Bub he had hie thea we hesitate about trusting exoeptional-
own peculiar way of doing things. Magee, ly bright people, proves thee the quality
on the other hand, was a bob headed fellow, whioh wins our confidence is something he -
a perfect savage when his passions were aides ability. It is rather that oombination
aroused. but not really such a bad•hearted of qualities whioh goes bo make up the
man ae Hayes. whole spirit of the person. Ib is partly in -
The Belle Emile was nearing an island in tolligenoe, but ib fa also partly trusbwor-
the New Hebrides ane day, not far from the oiliness, and partly what we pall good jndg-
scene of the Karl outrage, and the mate was menti
sitting alone at his dinner, for the Captain After all, ib le what the person is, rather
and he never took their meals together. then wise the person is able to do. It ie
Hayes auddenly came down into the little his method of thought and feeling, rather
cabin, and seating himself ab the table, said than the oonolnslon which he reaches. And
in his pleasantest voice : so our fondness for him, or what amounts to
"Mr. Magee, 1 have a proposal to make the same thing, hie standing in society, ie
to you, sir. Things haven't been very determined by the profound brush of bbe
agreeable aboard tbie ship for some time maxim, "Ae he thlnkebh In his heart, so is
pasb, and I think it's about time we Dame to he." While, therefore, brightness or for.
a proper understanding. There fen t room werdness is not to be despised, ib is not to
for two captains on one deck, and what's be regarded as more than a single one of
bho elements of semen . The other elements
are perhaps quite as often found in bath,
ward boys as in forward ones.
HOW are backward boys most successful-
ly brought forward?
The first thing to be dors le to find out
if bbe boy under consideration has a strong
bias in any one direction. Hr' Is likely to
have some one enthusiasm. He is interest-
ed in a pertain thing, or a certain class of
things. It may be doge or horses ; it may
be horde or Sowers ; it may be any one ot
the various interests or studies that ordi-
narily come before a boy's attention.
But whatever ib is, that one thing is at
leaeb au indication of the direcbion in whioh
his mind is likely to be moeb suooeesfully
developed. There will, perhaps, be cxoep•
tions, bub ordinarily ib will be found that
the most successful results will ensue
when development Is encouraged in the
direction of least resistance.
It needs, perhaps, to be said that bhe
development and judicious guidance of
enthusiasm is an exceedingly delicate and
difficult teak. The most of it mush be done
et home. Oar public sohoole, I suppose,
oannob take much amount of differing tastes
and aptitudes. In the private schools,
so far at they are properly organized and
oonducted, there is, of °curie, larger oppor
tanity to ,sinister to individual pecullarfties.
But in any school the thief reliance mut:
be upon the disoriminabing wisdom of the
teacher.
Boys are not all alike, and they ought not
all to be treated in bbe same way. And
:bis is the reason why the teaeher'e bask, if
ib is to be skilfully performed, is one of 80
greab d,Riattlty. In the lower grades of
sohoole the mere imparting of instruction
should be regarded ab thea Meet important
and bhe leaet diflfoulb part of the teacher's
work. Of far greaber diffroulty and?mport-
anoe is the delioate task of determining
individual aptitudes, and ministering to
them by directing them into proper
channels.
The aura of the whole matter appears to
be embodied in the simple statement thee
000000e is generally to be obtained through
the wakening of interest, and, if possible, of
enbhatiaem. The boy who dawdles is good
for nothing, Arouse 0 fondness or zeal for
something, and then judiciously turn bhe
intereeb thus treated into a promising
channel.
It was in this way that manlike Watt: and
Stephenson and Davy and Lluooln and
Edison, and even Shakespeare acoomplished
their work. It is melancholy to think that
e. collegiate eduoetfon of bhe old kind, by
cramping that enbhusiabm which was the
real source of their summate would very like.
ly have done either of theme great men quite
as muoh harm as good. Ib is more than
peeslble that large and oontinuque doses of
such good things as Greek, Lean, teethe.
matioe, "et cetera," would have oheaked
their eccentric enbhneiaeme, and have re-
duoed them to a respectable and common•
place mediocrity.
Bub if muoh a result would have followed,
ib would have been chargeable, nob to bbe
nature of bbe studios, bub to the fact that a
foolish attempt: had been made to ignore
exiatiog aptitudoe, and bo apply the same
requirements bo all aorta and conditions of
men.
The evil tffeela of wbab may ae well be
called the old•fashioned Iollegiato mebtlods
sbowed themselves in bhe oharacteriettoo of
the vast majority of :he graduates as they
left the oommenoemenb stage, They had
nibbled a little at almost everything, but
they had ate:Arad no especial bade for any-
thing.
nything. Thus many a man left college with
no enthuelasm whatever, excepting, perhaps,
a kind of enthusiastic oelboontplaoenoy,
lb Was the large number of such persons
borbwn upon society by the oollegee a
generation ago, that brought collegiate eau -
batten into such diemptree.
The average boy had rubbed a ainet a
hundred different eubjects, end he had
emerged from the attrition like a emcoth
moonstone t b th waves f the tea
the Paola°, and Bally Hayes, cleverly more, there's a cerbaen lady, whose name I
adapting himself bo the new regime, became won't mention, that can't marry mora than
mite a respectable trader and was even of one man at a time. You understand me,
don b you ?'
Tha mate nodded and went on eating his
tinned beef and pickles, wondering what
was coming next.
"Well, then, that's all right," the Cap-
tain resumed, "What I suggest is that
hat smooth exterior, and before ver longwhen you've done your dinner we should
Y just step ashore with our bulldoge and see
he old Adam got the upper hand. who's the best man of the two. Don't you
great assistance to the authorities in detect•
tag and following np tbo el0vere. His fine
appearance and mild manners prepossessed
everybody, and among the merohante and
even the naval cmcers he came to be re-
garded as a muoh maligned man.
The pirate, however, still survived under
Like naso adventurers and dishonest
people generally, Hayes 0000 always a com-
paratively poor man. Though enormous
same must have passed tbrough his hands
from first to last, and though he always had
Iva pockets full of gold, he had never laid
auytbirg by, and now, when he had given
top hie old methods of supplying himself
with oast, he was aomebimes quite in
straightened circumstances. There is noth-
ing harder than for a habitual rogue to earn
an leeriest living, and Bully Hayes was not
the man to try very long.
During bile interval -of seeming respeota-
hiIiiby, too, he had once more become susaep •
•b hie to female charms, and oonbemplated
matrimony wibh Beebexom widow of a trader
at one of the islands, The lady. however,
wee not particularly eager for the match,
:She stipulated that Capt. Hayes should quit
dile sea once for all. and thab he should be
able to produce stflecient means to buy oub
her late huabend'e partner, and lemurs ter•
main lade in the neighborhood of the trad-
ing station for cultivating oo0oann0e and
coffee.
The truth was, Hayes was not nearly so
utbractive as he had been when a younger
man, and the widow was much more in-
clined to confer her hand and her late hue.
band's savings on his mate, a remarkably
handsome young Irishman named Magee,
commonly called the archbishop, from his
alleged relationship bo the celebrated pre.
late of the name,
Hayme had a enopiofon cf this, and wee
desperately jealous of Magee. At the same
time each of bhe men knew the oaher'e
strong qualities, and a great doal of mutual
reepeob and confidence existed between them,
They had been through many dark adven-
tures together, and either might have be.
trayed the other to the gallows ab any
moment. But each knew that he might
erns: the other implicitly, and, in fact they
Bad come to have that feeling of atbaohmenb
for one another which sometimes prevails
among the worst of men.
Magee chafed under idleness and repeat-
ability not less then Hayes did, and as he
oleo had his reaoone for wishing to make a
good large haul—reasons not altogether un-
connected with the widow aforesaid—ho
was heartily glad when Hayes propoeed bo
him one day that they should make just one
more cruise in the old style before rolinqui-
obing the Bea forever,
Having obtained poseeesion of a hue
eohooner by a deliberate and singularly
clever freed, they loaded her with produce
ab Levuka, under the very nose of the High
Commissioner, end, having gob their PPapers
n duo form, sailed sway under the Brlbteh
[fag, nominally bound for Sydney, No
sooner wore they clear of hoe track of vee•
eels, however, than they ran to an unin•
Whited island, lauded their largo, repainted
the eohooner, changing her name and poet
of registry, holeted the French flag, whioh
wee then becoming rather common in those
seas, and sailed due north.
Well knowingg theplansandwhoreaboutsof
the British oruilerm, the freebooters easily
eluded them and making for the Solomon
Iolanda and other equatorial groups, carried
out a 001100 of depredations on the native
'villages and trading stations there whioh
quite recalled the bed ell days, The Belle
Etolie of Tahiti became a name of terror
throughout that pottier' of the horrid zone,
and the plunder the obtained, together wibh
the prion of the ill fated laborers she carried
off, tomb have eiheunted to a vary large sum,
itoburning eeubhward, Neve and Magee,
emboldened W their auocere, end becoming
reoklseo in their sagernes1 to AIMS A fortune
tpeodily, bad the autlaoiby to attack a large
b tit be._ took to be an Ane.
+sailing ship Which they
tralian liner, and from whioh they hoped to
obtain a great rise in gold, Adopting his old
•dovios whioh had answered' mo well With the
burry, it's early yet. There's eight belle
going now. You try mime of bhab pudding.
You'll find it very good. I'll go and bring
her bo anchor, and then we'll get out our
1 this tatter
settle sri
it and go and eb
shooting one
snugly and comfortably like gentleman."
The mate saw nothing for ib hub to tom•
ply, and, indeed, be Wee not marry to see an
end to his buspenee, for he knew there mush
be a death struggle sooner or later.
As soon as the schooner was moored bbo
Captain and mete went ashore, with two
other men to see fair play, the rest of the
crew going aloft to get a better view of the
prooeedinge. The emit ohoaan was a smooth
terrane just above the beach, The distance
was twenty paces, the oombatante being
pieced back to back with an agreement to
walk ten pewee straight ahead and then turn
round and fire,
The momenb they turned Magee fired ;
but Hayee stood dill with his revolver in
his hand at his side, looking calmly ab his
opponent. The mate, Boeing that he baa
relined, and aurprfeed ab Hayes'e seeming
heeitatton, lowered hie weapon and called
cue, "What's the matter?" Hayes, having
teas gained time to take a deliberate aim,
raised his revolver like a fines of lightning
sad sons a bullet Into Magee'e breaeb,
Magee at onoe returned the shoe, and Reyes,
throwing up bio kende wibh a shoot, tanned
half round and fell headlong on the grass.
Be was perfectly dead when the men got
up to him, the bullet having etruak him in
the throat and severed the jugular vein.
They buried him where be fell, and raised
a cairn of stones to hie memory.
Mageo's wound way not dangerous, the
bullet hoeing run along the breed bone and
come one ab the side. He sailed the Belle
Etolle back to Fiji under ber old name, and
reebored her to her ownere, paying thorn
handsomely for the use of her ;and, in con-
eiderabion of his having rid the Paoifio of a
scourge and his promise to lead a new life,
the authorities consented to overlook his
offerees.
He married the widow and did well in
trade, and many a time, when in a mood
for reminiecenoee, he told bho bele of Bully
Reyee's lash cruise, with judioious selections
from the adventures of the pirate of the
Paola°. EDWARD WAI0EcIELD.
Civilian Control of the British AImY,
Our system of military administration bas
been growing more end more civilian in char.
anter since bbe days of Wellington. Then
the commander-in-chief had far more power
and influence in the decision of military
questions bean abprosenb. Than the supply
of guns, arms, ammunition, and of all sorts
of military materials was in the hands of an
cffioer seleoted oh account ot great expert•
enoe in war. He was styled the Maetot•goner.
al of the ordnance, He was a member of the
government, and often a oabiueb minleber.
He woe, in foot, the advisor of the govern.
menti ma all mflibary matters, Thee tide
was abolished, and at presont all this duty
of Supply, which requires great teehnioel
ata e ole b•
training and military , Tuella , i x ga
ea to A civilian member of Pailiamenb, Sold-
iers don'bjthink the arrangement a good one,
[General Visooune Weiseley, 1L. P,, "in
Harper's liagtcinne" for February,
Speak Gently.
Boston Coweier 7 "I think," maid the pastor
who was Asking a parishioner, "that it is
easier to oeax children then to drive them,
Gentle words are More effeotivo than harsh
eneif Yon know what the p001 eey0:
"'Speak gently; it is better far
To rule by love then fear."'
„
n
i end m thelay, Then o
tie ad a a mh
Y at
cheated one of the window to hot little boy •
"Johnnie, if you don't ()erne in oub of that
mud•holo ICI broakyour book."
IIND ERNEEA H TaI'AN•
A Volcano Starts Up, and* Weil Digger
edge Through.
Tokiojourna.e report bhab the volcano
Shiraneean, which rime from the shoree of
Lakes Ohuzenji, near Nikko, broke out in
eruption early on Deo. ru, Ib was observed
by the local people on bhe evening of the
4th that the water of the ebreems whioh
have their sources near the mountain was
much discolored and gave forbh an unpleaont
,mei]. About midnight the sound of thunder
peals Was heard boa diabanoe of seven ri
from the volcano, the noise continuing
during the whole night. The watchman ab
the bob springs ab foot of the mountain WAS
so alarmed by the phenomenon bhab he fled
to the nearest hamlet, where he reported
that the springs wore :browing up jobs of
muddy water bo a height of several feet.
Twentyfonr hours afterward the country
folks became aware that the mountain was
in aobive eruption, bhrowing oub fire and
ashes, the latter of whioh spread over the
country to a considerable extant, reaching
as far as 'match', The eruption took place
from the orator formed in June, 1572,
when the volcano became active for a
time.
Sbiraneoan was in eruption in June, 1572,
The heighb is about 8 600 feet. The crater
is irregular, and contains depressions filled
with water. Ab the north end there is a
pond of a remarkable green color.
Ab Kumamoto, the scene of the recent
dieaetroua earthquake, while a well digger
was excavating for water ab a depth of
aboub eighteen fathoms, the base fell
through and be was only saved tram a dee-
sent, how far ib is not known, by a rope
whioh connected him wibh the top of the
pit, Examination has shown that a very
large cavity, depth and width unknown,
exists, and this was probably caused by a
recent °ertbquake, The people of Kama•
motto are veritably living on a cruet.
About midnight on Deo. 9 the inhabitenbe
of Miyasaki•ken were alarmed by rambling
noises prooeading from the sea and moun-
tain in the direotion of the aouthweeb.
Inquiries elicited the faob thee the rumbling
was caused by an eruption of Mount Kirfehf-
ma. No damage was canoed by the fire,
&I., emitted from the monnbein.
Duel Between Cows.
Two families living aide by side in a ream
bryvillage had each a cow, Tl-ecowegrazed in
different pasburea, bub often came together
in the highway when going bo and from pae-
tur°. They ware on good tame, for they
had been aaquaiatod several years.
One of the cows was sold, and a new ono,
a younger cow, cams to take her plane.
When bhe young 00W and bhe old cow of the
the other family met for the drab time, the
younger attacked the older. They looked
horde several timet, each trying no drive the
other, bub they were so eveuly matched that
no advance wee made by either.
Ae the fighters became more enraged, and
as the younger tow bad no buttons on her
horns, they were driven apart, fearing that
injury to one or both might reeulb. The
owners of the cows regretted that bhe cows
could nob "fight ib out," for until one did
1
resumed ab
b battle would bec
conquer, the w
every opportunity,
Several babbles followed, always with the
same result—they must be separated, for
bhcy became more furious at every onelaughb.
This state of things 00ae inconvenient, The
owners were not formers, were away during
the day, and mush depend on the children
to drive bo pasture and drive home, and
there wee no way to either pasture except
borough the highway. The cows were
driven in and out at different times, bub
when they owe to the plate of battle, they
lingered, threw up the earth, and the ohild-
ren bad difficulty in driving them farther.
The owners had nearly reaohed the con•
deafen thab there must be a change of oowe
before peace was reatored, when the duel"
oocnrred and setbfed the matter. By a mite
underebanding on the part of the drivers
one deer, the oowe came together ab bhe
usual plane.
As they hadnob seen each other for several
weeks, and lingered lase at the former
place of meeting, their enmity might have
diminished. At all events they were nob
" on guard " so muoh as they had been, and
owing bo tbie fact, and to intervening road•
side trees and bushes, they did hob see each
other till they were lees than fifty yards
aper:.
Evidently obey saw each other at nearly
the tams moment, for both Started into a
ran, whioh increased es they went on, and,
heads down, they come together, heed to
head with a orash, a report that was heard
in both hooses. The older tow tell, and did
nob move again, She was dead—knooked
in the head as with a butcher's one. The
other was uninjured.—Goo. A. Stockwell,
in Country Gentleman.
Locomotiv es and Storms.
A correspondent of the Northwestern
Railroader advances acme odd bheorles bo
account for the frequency and severity of
eborme in modern times. He gives the figures
to prove that there are now over 30,000
locomotives in aobnal use in the United
States, beeidee the hundreds of thousands
of stationary enatneo of all kinds and s'zam,
From a round 80 000 t000motiven be nebi-
mates as muoh as 13.000 000.000 cubic yardo
of,vapor oath week, 7,000,000,000 cubic
yards a day, all to be returned ae rain—
quite enough," he says, to produce e
good rainstorm every bwenbyfour hours,"
He estimates other engines of ail descriptions
at 180,000—probably a vary low estimate—
and oonoludeo bhat these, with the loos.
motives, tend aboub 470,000,000,000 yards
of vapor into the alt every !even days. "Ie
ib not enough,' he caked, "to give um fisod of
terror?" Hundreds of gae•wells Bending their
poison into the atmosphere ; millions of
cesepools and sewers, Would lb be any
wonder if soma blighting plague would. lay
Waste theism: ?
FEB. 14, i89A
TRIGKEn BX A DUMMY,
ASiory of the Indian Jungles.
We had been beating the jengloe in the
Bengalee district, to the west of Calcutta,
for two weeks before any big game Dame our
way. Our parby was boo large for a moues -
fel hunting party, being composed of over
twonty °Moore, civil and milibery, who were
out for e. vacation, and the servants meet
have numbered fifty. We had plenty to
sub, drink, and emoke, and now and then
knocked over a wolf or hyena, bub we could
nob expect to get within five miles of any
thiug worthy of a bullet with such a camp
AS bhab, One day a native cams in with a
request that some of us return with him to a
village called Dohur, aboub twenty tiivs
miles to the north-wesb. lie said that en
old tiger had taken up his headgear•
here near the village, and during the
four weeks he had been there the binge
had killed and devoured a man, two women,
a girl, end a boy. The natives had set traps,
but he would nob enter them. They hal
poieoned the aareas0es of goats and oolvos,
bub he would not touch them, Ib had got so
that ab 4 o'clock in the evening every one
entered bis house and made himself mute
for bhe night, while
TUE TIGER HELD POSSESSION
of bhe villege, and carried terror to every
soul.
Major Iaham and myself got this news ex•
elusively, and after a bit of planning we
stole oub of camp with our home and arms
and following the guide. It was about 9
o'clock in bhe morning when we left, and
as ib was a cool day and we had a fairly
good rouse, we pushed ahead at such at
a rape bhab ab 3 in the Afternoon we were
in Daher, We found the village bo omelet
of seventytwo buts or cabins, covering
about two acres of open. One the northern
edge of the village was a creek flowing
toward the Ganges, Bixby miles away, and
beyond this oreek was a fertile spob of
200 acres, which was devoted to orop raising
The creek was bordered wibh a thick
jungle about five rods in breadth, and it wan
at the aro: ming that the tiger had gob in his
deadly work.
" Thie tiger, sahibs," said the head man
in explanation, "knows no fear. While we
were working in the field at noonday be
name oub of a jungle, aab down like a dog
and looked ab us for a long time. He Raw
that my brother's wife was very Eat, end
therefore (elected her for his enpper. We
numbered over bhirby es we started to re -
tarn. We wale singing and shouting to
soars him, and the Ann was yet half an hour
high, but he came out of rho jungle, looked
each one over as be passed, and when my
eieter•in•law came up he sprang upon her
and oarrled her off. Ho did not even growl.
As he knocked her down his long tail whisk
ed around and struck me In the side. Lost
night was the worst of all. As none of us
had gone into the fields for bare° dive bhe
tiger came into the village for his supper.
An old man further up the street unfasbe'fled
his door to go into the house of his son acmes
the street, and as he stopped forth the tiger
seized him. He was a very large mAE, but
the beast oarrled him off ab a brob, You
have, smite, an old and
OUNNINO BEAST TO DEAL, WITH,
and if you do nob have your wise aboub he
will oat you both."
We had plenty of time the next day to
look the field over and make our plane. The
natives were sant off to the fields to work,
And we skirted the banks of the creek to
the east until satisfied tbab the beast had its
lair in a mase of rook so overgrown and
eheltered by jungle that it did not seem as if
a raeblb could penetrate it. He doubbleek
came and went by a path of his own at the
goodone
The tttuation was a
water's edge,
to burn him oub when the wind oamo right,
bub we did nob want to try that until our
obher plane failed. Fires were lighted again
on the Nomad nighb, and the raokeb main•
baited for the first bwo hours after aundowo
was sufficient to snare any ordinary tiger
out of the district. It was about 7 o'clock,
and the Major, the head eau, bwo or three
others, and myself were Bitting aboub the
head man's door smoking and balking, whet
an interceding event occurred. We wore
almost at the northern edge of the village,
and bhe noise was all to bbe south of tie. I
eat in bbe door faolrg to the west. The
others sat so that their faces were toward
the door. All of a sudden.
We then book poesessiot of the next cabin,
only aboub thirty feet away, and out two
0gontugge in the wall to oommaud the door
of the drab, The people want to their work
as usual and returned ab the usual time, and
everybody wee inside before the tun went
down, What we hoped for wee bhab the
tiger would prowl through the village, try-
ing each opening bo affeob an entrance, and
we had left this door so he could open lb.
Wo did nob look for him before 9 o'olook,
and were baking things easy at 13 when we
heard an uproar at bbo other end of bhe
village. We bwo rat out, bub were too late.
The tiger had appeared, butte in a door
by flinging hie weight agalneb lb, and bad
seized and parried off a boy aboub
years old. The vlllagero wore franbio with
grist when bhoy learned of the faob, and tit
head man said to as, while the bears ran
down hit ohseka ;
"Ah, Sahibs, but WO may 0s well abandon
our homes to morrow. This is a wise and
gunning tiger, and you oun do nothing with
him. If we do nob go away he will eat an
up We quieted the people as hoab we could,
and next day went aboub in person to make
every hub secure, Every window opening
wan barred, and ovary door provided with a
prop. Ib was characteristic of bhe simple
minded natives that, while they lived to
mortal dread, more than half bhe huts were
eo badly secured that the tiger could have
entered. Wo had to waib again for the
the tiger to gob hungry. Ae the crape
could now take oar° of themeelveo for a few
days, we ordered that bhe villagers keep
quiet and show themselves as little as
poesible, and two nights and days were thus
worn away. On the afternoon of rho third
day
WE TILLED A GOAT
and dragged ite bleeding bcdy from the
oreek to bhe door of the hat wherein we had
planed the dummy, and at twilight the
village was as quite as a graveyard,
The Major and I stood at opeoinge aboub
BYO feet apart, end at 10 o'clock we had gob
no alarm. He mune over bo me to gay bheb
he was dying for a smoke, and to ask if I
deemed it advisable to lighb a oigar, when 1
beard a pati pat 1 pat t outeide, and caution-
ed him that the tiger woe abroad. The
Dunning beast had not come by the trail we
had prepared, but had made a circuit and
atruok into the upper or oaubnern and of the
village. Ae we afterward ascertained, he
had been prowliogaround for an hour, softly
tryiog every door in enooeeeion. Our open-
ings were on the south side. The °whiing
beset seemed to be posted as to this fact,
and lingered on the north side. We plainly
heard him push ab our door and rear up sad
olaw the bars of the window, and we hardly
breathed for fear of frightening him away.
There was a crevice under the door through
which one could have shoved hie hand, and
the tiger gob down end sniffed and snuffed
at this opening for fully five miuutee. Then
he gob up and remained very quiet. He
must have had the anent of the treat blood
only bwo rode away, but ib was plain that
he had his suspicions. We stood ab the
opening, snob one with bis gun thrush oub
and ready to flee, when the beast suddenly
made up hie mind to act. With ono bound
he emerged from slither and covered half
the distance to the other cabin, At the se.
cond he went bang against the door, pushed
ib in, and was bidden from our eigbb before
we had had a ebow to pull trigger.
" Take him when he comes out 1" whisper
ed the Major, and both of us watched and
waited,
1'he beast no doubb expected to find a
victim in the hut. He seized the dummy,
gave it a shake, and. the discovery he made
broke him all up. Inebead of coming out
with a bound he sought to play weak, and
was jam clear of the opening, hoed down and
tail dragging, when we fired and keeled bion
over. He proved to be an old tiger, having
lost many of his teeth, but he was big and
strong, and would doubtless have made
many more viobime bob for our interference,
I OADORT SIGHT OF THE TIGER
approaching us from the north. He walked
up to within ten feet of the group and sat
down and stared at nu. 1: oould see him in
the reflection of a fire as plain as day, and I
noted hie unusual size and abrengbh, and the
faob that he had a white apob aboub the size
of a silver dollar on his throat. There wan
a oonvereetion going on in whioh I was not
included, and 1 bee been looking ab the
beast a full minute before I was appealed to
Then I replied; "Gentlemen, make no move 1
The tiger is only ten feet away 1 By my.
ing backward five feet I can reaoh my
gun. Should any of yon abbemp to epriog
up be will doubtless seize yon,"
The natives were ebrnok detmb, bub the
Major, fully reel sing the situation, begun
singing a song. I moved backward inoh by
inoo, and the tiger remained quiet while J
was in hie range of vision. Ae soon an I got
my hand on my rifle I rose bo my feet and
stepped to the door bo deliver a shoe but the
beast was no longer there. No one had board
or seen him move, bub he had disappeared
"He oamo to see if yon sahibs wore really
here or if we were deueivlog him," explained
the bead man when he had reoovered hie
power of speech . "Se has seen you. Lid
knows that you each bie life. Ib will now be
between you three, and you meat look out
or he will get the better of you•"
Nothing further was heard from the beast
that night. and next day we seat bhe people
off to the fields again, After dinner we goo
A Seib of clothes and stuffed them with gram
bo represent a human figure—a man. We
planed it in a kneeling position at the creek
with gourd in band, ae 0 dipping up water
and at 3 o'oloak all the people came in, and
we took our Libations in a tree whioh oom-
mended the crossing.
If the tiger appeared ab the usual epos we
had him at short rause. We watched until
the afternoon faded into darkness, but he
did not appear. If he saw the figure et all
he wanted the Wok. Then we fastened e
goat to the tree, and took possession of s
oebin a hundred feob away, From a window
looking oub to bhe north we had
A EINE SHOW TO DROP TUR TIGER
if he appeared. Bub he did not appear.
While all bhe village elepb we etood guard,
Gorilla. cook though the goat
A Tame (rifles on rho 00 but, g g
An English trader at Ngova, on the :south. kept up a aontiinnal bloating for hours, she
weer ooaeboi Afrioa, ham had for :Rome time drew no other audience than a few jackals
a young female gorilla whose docility is and hyenas. Next morning :he head man
deeoribed as moat remarkable. Jennie, as geed to us:
rho baby gorilla has been named, tries to "Ae the 00eman was very fat she would
follow her master wherever he gene, weeping last the tiger for an extra meal or two. He
tone ono oda up y o o like a ehiid 0 it is loft behind. She reeenbly would not have touched the goat anyhow,
sappily the oollegee are now doming to acoompanied him on a jeurnoy of twenty bob tonight he will come into the village to
Bee that a graduate ought to knew a WWI milea or more, walking all the way. She search of a deft. You musb plan award
deal of eomebhin , and that that something hem Required many civilized bastes and habits in ly.bhn afternoon we had one of the foci(•
o a kind around which he tan and will drink boa, eta., out of a eup or En
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Children's Chatter.
Tom, who was forbidden to climb trees
in his new trousers, had disobeyed and wee
receiving a leoture from his father for injur•
Ing hie olothing. Tearing bhab a flogging
was to follow Tom sought to create a diver.
sion. "Pa," he exclaimed, "my teacher
soya some pleats are maeoullne gender and
some feminine ; now 1 know whioh treats are ;
do you 7" The father's ouriosity was excit-
ed ; he was fairly trapped. "No," he said,
"whioh are they 7" "Masculine," said Tom,
"'clause they wear boy's pants :" and for that
time he escaped the switoh,—(Youbh's Com.
panic n.
Little Miss Rose ie a person who finds it
very easy to interpret moeb things to her own
advantage. One day elle eat holding the
kitten and asking her little playmate various
questions, to none at whioh had the thus far
obtained an answer. "Who gime you milk,
kitty?" itquired Rose, Kitty sbruggled a
little to get down, bub made no reply. "Do
you love me, Kitty 1",No answer. 'Who is
the nicest liable gtrl in the world 1" "Mew 1'
oried kitty, making a deeperate effort to es.
nape, "There,'ien'b she polite 7" asked Rome,
triumphantly. "She said'You /' "
Grandma had taught our 2 -year-old to
answer a great many bible gqnestione, and
was fond of "showing him off," Un ono of
these 000aaione she asked him : "Who was
put into the lion', den?' "Daniel," was the
prompt answer, "Did the lions eat Daniel?"
"No." "W Ity 7" The answer should have been
"Baoauee God shun their mouths," bub the
little fellow reflected a minute and then
said ; "1 deet Daniel wasn't deed to eat."---,
(Texas Siftings,
A little girl of tender years, who had been
attending one of the public kindergartene,
fell from a ladder, Her mother caught: her
up from bhe ground in terror, exclaiming : 0
darling, how did you fall?" "Vertical,"
replied the obild, wibhoub a second's heeiba.
bion.- [Ohrisamae Register.
A boy was asked whioh 0088 the greater
evil, hurting another's feelings or his finger,
"The fee#inge,' he said. "Right, my dear
child," said the gratified questioner. "Bub
why le it worse to hurt the feelingo 11' "Be-
cause yea aan'r tie a rag around them 1',
answered bbe onild.--[Life,
Little Polneaa did not tare much tot hie
name, so it has quite natural when his lite
tie Bieber tante bhab he should attempt to
solve a perplexing problem by saying :
" Lee's Dail her Phineas, mamma. I'll be
Willie ether this.'"—[Harper'e 'Young
People,
Mother : "Why, Johnnie I What on earth
osvo you been doing 1" Johnnie ; "Flghb'n'.
'N' say, you owe me half a dollar on it
Know that tooth you was gain' bo pay a fel-
ler to jerk I" "Yoe." " Well, Billy Biffer
knocked 'or oat,"—[Texan Siftings,
Old gentleman (to email boy ): "I wibh
you a happy law Year, my son, and hope
you will improve in wisdom, knowledge, and
virtue," Small boy(politely and innocently)
"Thank t yo , sir; the
he eatea to you. [flew
York Velem.
Anson oalls matrimony "a ene.aot faros,
He Mat up with the tints on the divorce
gonaHnn.
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