The Brussels Post, 1912-11-7, Page 7]PIL,ATE'S REPORT
An Ancient and Interesting Document Found In the
Vatican Flt Rome,
(Continued from last week.)
Jesus was dragged before the
High Priest and condemned to
death. It was then that Qaiaphas,
the High Priest, performed a deris-
ory act of submission. He sent his
prisoner to mo to pronounce his
condemnation. I answered that as
Jesus was a Galiloean, the affair
came under Horad'a jurisdiction;
and I ordered him to be sent thi-
ther. That wily tetrarch professed
his humility, and protesting his
deference to mo, the Lieutenant of
Caesar, reoommitted the fate of the
man to my bands. Soon my palace
assumed the aspect of a besieged
citadel, Every moment inor'eased
the number of seditionists. Jeru-
salem was inundated with crowds
from the mountains of Nazareth.
All Judea appeared to be pouriag
into the devoted city. I had taken
a wife—a maiden from among the
gaule—who pretended'to see into
futurity ; she, weeping and throw-
ing herself at my feet, said to me,
"Beware, and touch not that man,
for he is holy. Last night I saw
him in a vision. Be was walking
on the waters. He was flying on
the wings of the winds. He spoke
to the tempest and to the fishes of
the lake—all were obedient to him.
Behold the torrent of Mount Ked -
son flows with blood! The statues
of Caesar are fillekl with the filth
of Gemonide 1 The columns of the
Interium have given way, and the
sun is veiled in mourning, like a
vestal of the tomb! 0, Pilate! evil
awaits thee, if thou wilt not listen
to the entreaties of thy wife. Dread
the curse of a Roman Senate, dread
the powers of Caesar."
By this time the stairs groaned
under the weight of the multitude.
The Nazarene was brought back to
me. I proceeded to the Hall of
Justice, followed by my guard, and
asked the people in a severe tone
what they demanded. "Tho death
of the Nazarene," was the reply.
"For what crime?" "He has blas-
phemed. He has prophesied the
ruin of the temple. He calls him-
self the Son of God, the Messiah,
the King of the Jews." "Boman
justice," said I, `'`.punishes not such
offenses with death." "Crucify
him, crucify him 1" belched forth
the relentless rabble, The vocifera-
tions of the infuriated mob shook
the palace to its foundations. There
was but one that appeared to be
calm, in the midst of the vast mul-
titude. It was the Nazarene.
After many fruitless attempts to
protect him from this fury of his
merciless persecutors, I adopted a
measure which, at the moment, ap-
peared to me to be the only one
that could save his life. I order-
ed him to be scourged ; then palling
for an ewer, I washed my hands in
, the presence of the multitude,
thereby signifying to them my dis-
approval of the deed. But in vain.
It was his life that those wretches
thirsted for.
Often in our civil commotions have
I witnessed the furious animosity of
the multitude, but nothing could be
compared to what I witnessed in the
, present instance. It might have
been truly said that on this ma -
eke all the phantoms of the infer-
nal regions had assembled at Jeru-
salem. The crowd appeared not to
walk; they were borne along, whirl-
ing and rolling like living waves,
from the portals of the Pretorium,
even unto Mount Zion, with howl-
• Ings, screams, shrieks and vocifer-
ations, such as were never heard in
the editions of the Panonia, or in
the tumult of the Forum.
By degrees the day darkened like
a winter's twilight, such as was
witnessed at the death of the great
Julius Caesar, which was likewise
towards the Ides of March.
I, the continued governor of a
rebellious province, was leaning
against a column of my palace con-
templating through the dreary
gloom those fiends of torture drag-
ging to exedution the innocent Naz-
arene, All around me was desert-
ed. Jerusalem had vomited forth
her indwellers through the funeral
gate that leads to the Gemoniea.
An air of desolation andsadness
ds had
enveloped me. My guards
joined the cavalry, and the centur-
ion, to display a shadow of power,
was endeavoring to keep order. I
was left alone, and my breaking
heart admonished fue that what waa
passing at that moment appertained
rather to the history of the gods
than to that of a man, A loud cla-
mor was heard from Golgotha,
Which borne on •the winds seemed
fo announce an agony such as was
ever heard by mortal ears, Dark
of mils hovered over the pinnacle of
the Temple, and, settling over the
city, covered it as with a veil, So
fires; ful were the altos that were
seen, both in the heavens and on
the earth, that Dionysite and Aret<
pegYte is reported to have exclaim-
ed, Either the author of nature is
suffering, or the universe is falling
epart,i i
Towards the first hoer of the
/eight I threw my lnentlo around me
and went down into the city to-
wards the gate of Golgotha, The
sacrifice was consummated. The
crowd was returning home, still agi-
tated, it is true, but gloomy, taci-
turn and desperate. What they
had witnessed had stricken them
with terror and remorse. I also
saw my little Roman cohort pass by
mournfully, the standard-bearer
having veiled his eagle in token of
grief, and I heard some of tho sol-
diers murmuring strange words
which I did net understand. Others
were recounting prodigies, almost
similar to those which had so often
smitten the Romans by the will of
the gods. Sometimes groups of
men and women would halt, then
looking back toward Mount Cal-
vary would remain motionless, in ex-
pectation of witnessing some new
prodigy.
I returned to the Pretorium, sad
and pensive. On ascending the
stairs—the steps of which were still
stained with the blood of the Naz-
arene—I perceived an old man in
a suppliant posture, and behind him
several women in tears. He threw
himself at my feet and wept bitter-
ly. It is painful to see an old man
weep. "Father," said I to him
mildly, "who are you, and what is
your request?"
"I am Joseph of Arimathea," re-
plied he, "and am come to beg of
you upon myknees, the permission
to bury Jesus of Nazareth."
"Your prayer is granted," said I
to him, and at the same time or-
dered Manlius to take some soldi-
ers with him to superintend the in-
terment, lest it should be interfer-
ed with. A few days after the
sepulchre was found empty. His
disciples published all over the
country that Jesus had risen from
the dead, as he had foretold.
A last duty remained to be per-
formed, and that was to communi-
cate to the Emperor these deplor-
able events. I did so on the night
that followed the fatal catastrophe,
and had just finished the communi-
cation when day began to dawn. At
that moment the sound of clarions,
playing the air of Diana, struck my
ear. Casting my eye towards the
Caesarean gate, I beheld a troop of
soldiers and heard at a distance
other trumpets sounding Caesar's
march. It was the reinforcement
that had been promisecrene—two
thousand chosen troops who, to
hasten their arrival, had marched
all night. -"It has been decreed by
the fates," cried I,, wringing my
hands, "that the great iniquity
should be accompliehed, that for
the purpose of averting the deed of
yesterday, troops should arrive to-
day l Cruel destiny, how thou
sportest with the affairs of mor-
tals!" It is but too true, what the
Nazarene exclaimed while writhing
on the cross: "All is consummat-
ed."
"The report that Jesus had risen
from the dead created more excite-
ment even than the crucifixion. As
to its truth I cannot say for cer-
tain, but I have made some inves-
tigation of the matter; so you can
examine ler yourself, and see if I
am in fault, as Herod represents.
"Joseph buried Jesus in his own
tomb. The day after he was
buried, one of the priests
came to the practorium and
said they were apprehensive that
the Disciples intended to steal the
body of Jesus and hide it, and then
make it appear that he had risen
from the dead, as he had foretold,
and of which they were perfectly
convinced. I sent him to the cap-
tain of the royal guard (Maicus) to
tall him to take the Jewish soldiers,
place as many around the sepulchre
as were needed; then if anything
should transpire they could blame
themselves, and not the Romans.
"When the great excitement
arose about the sepulchre being
found empty, I felt a deeper soli-
tude than ever. 1 sent for Melees,
who informed me he had placed his
lieutenant, Ben Ishaen, with ono
hundred soldiers, around the sepul-
chre. He toldme that Isham and
the soldiers wore greatly alarmed
at what had occurred there that
morning. I sent for this man Isl-
am, who related to me, as near as
I can recollect, the .following cir-
cumstances. He •said that sheet
the beginning of tho fourth watch
they saw a soft itnd beautiful 1 g
over the, sepulchre, Ho at first
supposed the women had come to
embalm the body of Jesus, as is
their custom, but he mould not un-
derstand how they had gotten
through the guard. While those
thoughts were passing through his
mind, behold, the whole place was
illuminated, and there seemedto
be crowds of the dead in their
shrouds; all ahouting and filled
.with ectasy, while all around and
.above was heard the sweetest
music. The wholeair seemed full,
of voices praising God, Then there
seemed to be a reeling and swim
ming of the earth, so that he be -
name so sick .and faint that he
oottld no longer stand on hie feat.
116 said the earth teemed to swim.
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Does farthest for the money
from under him, his sonsee left
him, so he knew not what else did
occur. I asked him in what condi-
tion he was when he came to him-
self, Ho said he was lying on the
TORONTO CORRESPONDENCt
iNTERESTING GOSSIP FROM ONTARIO'S
CAPITAL.
$oma Characteristics of the Olty's New
Mayor --The Duke's Popularity—
Sir Thomas I.Ipton,
A dozen years ago Horatio C. Hocken
was a reporter for a Toronto paper on
the City Ball aosigumeat. To -day he 1s
Mayor of the town, with a salary of $7r
600 a year and a position of powor and
influence equalled by few men in this
Gaud try.
Mayor Hocken is a real journalist. He
began"at the case" and became a Jour-
neyman printer in the old Globe ofi)ce
underGeorge Brown. as did his pride•
cesium in the Orange Sentinel and in the
Mayor's chair, the late L. F. Clarke It
Is now thirty years since be left the Globe
for the News, where he became foreman,
ground with his face (down. I asked News etaifewoni later,
when
h ecrik'e lot
ngt Lo
him if he could not be mistaken as the introduction of 14nstype maobtnse,
to the light. Was it not day ap- Mr. Hocken helped thorn Pound the star,
preaching in tits East? He said at egf wh4c1L ho was the first business mann-
gger. LL a torn menthe be returned to the
first he thought of that, but at a Newel wrier( ho remained until 1900. when
stone's cast it was exceedingly
dark; and then he remembered it
was too early for day. I asked him
if his dizziness was not from being
awakened or from getting up too
suddenly, as it sometimes had that
effect. He said he had not slept
at all, as the penalty for sleep on
duty ie death. He eaid he had al-
lowed some of the soldiers to sleep
at a time. Some were asleep then.
I asked how long the scene lasted.
Be said, he did not know, but he
thought uearly an hour; it was hid
by the light of approaching day. I
asked him if he had gone to the
sepulchre after coming to himself.
He said no, because he was afraid;
that just as soon as relief came they
all went to their quarters. I asked
him if ho had been questioned by
the priests. He said he had. They
wanted him to say it was an earth-
quake, and that they were asleep,
and offered money to say that the
Disciples came and stole Jesus; but
he saw no Disciples; he did not
know the body was gone until he
was told. I asked him what was
the private opinion of those priests
he had conversed with. He said
that some of them thought Jesus
was no man; that he was not a hu-
man being; that he was not the son
of Mary; that he was not the same
that was said to be born of the vir-
gin in Bethlehem; that the same
individual had been on earth before
with Abraham and Lot, and at vari-
ous times and places.
"It seems to me that, if the Jew-
ish theory be true, these conclu-
sions are correct, for they are in
accord with this man's life as is
shown and testified to by both
friends and foes, for the elements
were no more in his hands than clay
in the hands of the potter. He could
convert water into wine; he could
change death into life, disease into
health; calm the sea; still the
storm; call up a fish with a silver
coin in its mouth. If he could do
all these things, which he olid, and
many more, as the Jews all testi-
fied, and it was doing these things
that created enmity against him—
he was not charged with criminal
offenses, nor was he oharged with
violating any law, nor of wronging
any individual in person, and all
these facts are known to thou-
sands, as well by foes as by friends
—I am almost ready to say, as did
Manillas at the cross, 'Truly this
was the Son of God.'
"Now, noble sovereign, this is as
near the facts in the case as I can
arrive at, and I have taken pains
to make the statement very full, so
that you may judge of my conduot
upon the whole, as I hear that An-
tipater has said many harsh things
of me in this matter. With the
promise of faithfulness and good
wishes to my noble sovereign, I re-
main,
"Your obedient eervant,
"PONTIUS PILATE,"
•(The End.)
for a year he edited the St, Thomas Jour•
nal. after which he returned to the News
for a period and then purchased the
Orange Sentinel, which he- has since
edited.
What is the eooret of his success in
politics? For one thing he is an optimist.
Two years ago last January he was beat.
on for the Mayoralty by a large -major-
ity by Mr. Geary. It had been a hard
tgbt and Mr. Hooken's friends bad been
confident. Some soreness might have been
forgiven. Mr, Hocken showed none. "Oh,
it will do my business good to have me
out of the Olty Hall for a year," he said.
And, anyway, Til be the. next Mayor."
And true enough he ie, As soon as Mr.
Geary steps out he steps in, • He will be
a candidate for re-election to January,
and with the odds in his favor. Tommy
Church says be will run against him, but
nobody knows what Tommy will do. Maybe
Tommy is just getting ie line to succeed
Hookea when be drops out.
TYploally Torontoosque.
Mr. Hocken is a clean, creditable typo
of public man, not partlautarly brilliant
Perhaps, but an earnest student and eon•
soientloue worker. On the platform he is
a ready speaker, and •n debate puts his
case clearly and well. He is not the wire -
Milling typo of ward politician who will
sell his support in return for support for
some pet measure. Nevertheless,• he has
several times proved his popularity with
the electors by heading the poll for Board
of Control. And the Council unanimous.
ly (hose him for the Mayor's chair. D, is
a strong church worker, temperance man,
a Sons of England (Cornish descent), and,
of course, an Orangeman. So, in many
respects be is typically Toroutoesque. He
is inclined to be tenacious of enmities.
R. J. Flooring of the street ra-1 ray is a
personal bete noir of long standing, and
he is inclined sometimes to embrace half-
baked propositions, as, for example, his
early advocacy of "tubes." But On the
whole he will undoubtedly prove to be a
credit to tae Minor's chair.
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WINNIPEG MONTREAL
Dr. Herridge has been minister of St.
Andrews Church, Ottawa, for nearly
thirty years and 15 one of the distingu-
ished alumni of Toronto 'University, of
which he wax for many yearn a Senator,
He has numbered among the members of
his aburoh Lord and Lady Aberdeen, while
Lord and Lady Minto, though members
of another denomination, were frequent
attendants, attracted by hbs eloquence,
thought and learning. Ten yearn ago he
was called to Frognal. a fashionable
West End London church, but deohned,
and other solicitations from the lfnited
States and dlsewhere have not shaken bis
attachment to his church in Ottawa,
which has been his solo charge since
graduation. He is an author of repute.
having written assays on Beethoven,
Browning, Milton and "Woman—Her Work
and Riese." He has recently been placed
in nomination for the position of Moder.
ator of the General Assembly, at whose
deliberations he has long wielded a
strong influence. Naturally, the congre-
gations at Westminster, and at Rosedale
church, which le one of the newest con•
gredations in the pity, are greatly pleased
et having so distinguished a preacher to
work among them.
POLES USED IN CANADA 1911.
The Duke Was Hoarse.
The Duke of Connaught further popn-
larised himself on his latest visit to To-
ronto, though he stopped oif only long
enough to have luncheon with the Cana-
dian Olub. 01 was not that he said any-
thing important, but rather hie democra-
tio demeanor that pleased everyone. He
intimated that he could not speak very
well and excused himself accordingly, be-
cause he had a bad cold and was there-
fore hoarse. He said it just as would
any other ordinary mortal who is called
upon to make a speech, and it amused
immensely the four hundred members of
the Canadian Olub who were present. It
is the sympathy with the rest of mankind
in little things that makes the Royal
family of England so popular. The
Duke's "cold' recalls the cheers that used
to greet a scene in the oinematograph
which showed his late brother, King Ed-
ward, on board ship, rise from his seat
and walk a few psoas past some ladies to
the rail to flick his cigar ash overboard.
just like any other man.
During the luncheon, Mr. J. S. Willison
spoke, as always, gracefully and acceptab-
ly, dwelling specially on the growth of
national spirit in Canada, but pointing
out that this growth was not resulting
in any weakening of the Imperial bond,
but rather the reverse. The function
throughout, at his Royal Highness' special
request, was thoroughly democratio. The
Canadian Club members attended, as
usual, in their business dross, and abso-
lute informality prevailed. As a matter
el fact, however, ,they did go to a better
restaurant and order a better luncheon
than usual in honor of the occasion.
Sir Thomas Lipton and Royalty.
Sir Thomae Lipton wee a guest at the
luncheon to the Duke of Connaught, and
his presence was quite appropriate, for
the famous yachtsman. no matter how
numerous are his enemies in high places,
Whits not, in recent years, lacked for
friends among the Royal family. The
late Ring Edward was always a strong
booker of Sir 'Thomas, though he didn't
secure his election to ,the Royal Yacht
Squadron, the premier yachting alnb of
the world. The King and Queen of Spain,.
the Empress Eugenie, the Queen of Nor-
way and other royalties aro all friends,
frequently acoepting his hospitality and,
it is said, being sometimes associated with
him in business ventures.
This friend of Icings and Queens began
life at the bottom as a grocer boy, but
he never hesitates to talk of his early
struggles, or of his "trade," They say
be is too proud to attempt to hide any.
thing, He ha long held the reputation
of being the has advertiser in Bug.
land, and no doubt be is a good -one. Even
the money he has sunk in yacht races
has no doubt returned to him many times
over in. the forme of free publicity. A
certain type of Englishman is contemptu-
ous of advertisers, and of trades people,
a feat which explains many of the rebuffs
Sir. Thomas has received iu English ea
cioty. His First Employe.
Sir Thomas is a typical Irishman who
talks Scotch. He always has a story on
tap. Here is one he told in Toronto:
`In my first little shop I woe so peer
I could afford only ono assistant, a boy
of fourteen, whowas faithful, honest and
willing. lie complained that his clothes
were so shabby ho was ashan.ed to go
to church. 'Thomas ne chance of my get.
ting a new suit this year; he told me.
Dad's out of work and it takes all my
wages to pay the rent.'
I tbonght the matter iter Alla took a
sovereign from my carefully hoarded eat•
Inge and bought the boy a et,ut eatm
edit. He was so grateful I felt rewarded.
Next day he didn't come to work. I mot
his mother and &eked her why.
'Sure, Mr. Lipton; she said, curtsying,
'Jimmy looks so. reepootable, thanks to
You, sir, that I thought I would Bond hien
around town to see if he nouldu't gat a
butter jot.'"
Fkomomaered Reporter.
Sir Thomas demonstrated his remark.
able faculty for remembering faces dur-
ing hie vielt. Ono of the newspaper mon
who called on ltivu had been a reporter
on a Now York paper nine years age.
When Sir Thomas was elmllengfng for the
America Cup, Sir Thomas remembered
Ulna immediately, and recalled how on
bord the
the rin beeporter's sup of
reporter sl knee. a
Dr, Horridgo as Revivalist.
Something now in apa0ial services--"ra-
rivals" they may be Milled In other planes
fled by other people• -is being tried by.
Rosedale and Wastiuluetor Presbyterian
Cherohoo tussled in out of the fashion,
able resldontiel dietriots. Condoning the
services le Rev, W, T. Hcrri,lge, D.D., et
110 the re:tbytorian 60' o1011 )1 other ]chu ell,,
in North Antorioa. ''rhe services aro, now.
aver, distfnotly ,evangeli{cal, and mitaai
good is oitpooted to result teetettolti,
Nigh Rats Cause Lawsuit. ,
Unique proceedings, designed to
test the might of worsen to wear big
hats in theatre boxes, has just been
instituted in Berlin, Germany. A
man is suing the management of a
popular playhouse for the return of
the =omit he paid for four places
in a box on the green() that his par-
ity's view of the performance was
prevented by two women immedi-
ately in front. Tho women declined
to remove the obetructing milinery
beeanse the German courts only re-
cently repealed the decree which
forbade the wearing of ;hats in thea
tie boxes.
2
The Turkish Soldier.
The Turkish soldier presents a
blending of qualities such as no
European soldier possesses in the
same degree. He is astonishingly
sober;•he never touches wines or.
spirits; a handful of rice or a crust
of blank broad, with a little rantton,
form, his sole food. He is preof
against febigne, .colds, heat, and
poverty, and his fanatioism inspires
him with dauntless courage. Death
has no tessera for him, for he has
ever before, his oyes the picture of a
delightful paradise awaiting him
after all the misevie3 of this earthly
life, ,1
Tiolicved to be a world's record,
the White Stier liner Olympic hes
taken :aboard 4,000 ikons of coal' in
141 hours,
FOUR OLDEST PEERS.
Canada's Lord Strathoona Tops the
List.
Membership of the English peer-
age seems to make for longevity, for
there are at least four active veter-
ans alive to -day who are well over
80 years of age. The palm goes to
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,
the High Commissioner of Canada,
who not long sines celebrated Ms
92nd birthday. He goes to his office
every day like any $50 a week man,
and is rather proud of the feet that
he has subsisted on only two meals
a day for seventy years.
Older still by three years is the
Earl of Weanyas, who has lived in
six reigns. His title to fame came
when, as Lord Riche, he established
the National Rifle Association, and
a shield. that is competed for every
year will perpetuate the memory of
585,903 Purchased, a Decrease of his' enthusiasm. But even he has
25 Per Cent. From 1910. not sat in the House of Lords as
long as Earl Nelson, the "Father"
of the Gilded Chamber, and the
grand -nephew of the hero of Tra-
falgar. The Nelson family has re-
ceived in pensions and from other
national sources the sum of quite
$2.500,000 since the Battle of Tra-
falgar.
Tho last of "the historic four,"
as these aged peers are sometimes
Balled, is Lord Portman, who,
though in his 83rd year, still fol-
lows the hounds during the fox -
heating season, and taboos an active
interest in polities. When in agar-
rulons mood he can tell amusing
stories of old-time elections. He en-,
terel Parliament in the "good old
days" when boroughs practically
belonged to the great landowners.
He represented Shaftesbury, in
Dorset, which was a "pocket bor-
ough," with 600 voters and had
only one election fight during the
period from 1850 to 1905.
01,
The Forestry Branch of the De-
partment of the Interior has lately
finished the compilation of statistics
dealing with the poles purchased
in Canada during 1911. The total
number of poles purchased was
585,103, a decrease of 55 per cent.
from 1910. The total value of these
poles at point of purchase was
$1,056,277, and the average pries of
poles was $1,80, greater by 47 cents
than the price per pole in 1910.
Steam railways, telephone and tel-
egraph companies used almost nine-
ty per cent. of these poles, the
remaining ten per cent. being used
by electric railway, power and light
companies. Over ninety per cent.
of the total consumption were ce-
dar poles, whichfor their cost give
better service than any other wood.
At present practically none of these
poles are treated or preserved by
any (method, in which respect Can-
ada is far behind the United
States. The United States, using
in 1910 3,870,694 poles, found that it
paid them to use preservative meth-
ods. During the last four years the
treatment of poles has advanced
rapidly; in 1910 over 31 per Bent.
of the total number were troated
by the creosote or other methods.
This is an increase of some forty-
five per cent. over the number
treated in 1909. At present the
United States have a large number
of timber -treating plants, while
Canadian pole -users are only now
beginning to treat their poles. It
is to be hoped than this great in-
equality will Baan be done away
with and that pole -users in Canada
may take up this cheap and rational
method of securing greater service
from the poles used, and thus les-
sening the drain on the forest.
Tho Trouble.
A lot of man may know enough to
keep still, but the trouble is they
don't know when to do it.
The trouble with a lot of would-
be leaders is that they have to de-
pend on somebody else to show
them the way.
Holkus—"Toothache-eh? I'd
have the thing pulled out, if it were
mine." Pontus—"So would I, if
it were yours !
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SUBDUING AN E.LEPICANT.
Description of Au Elephant Drive
In Thelia,
Few sights are 3a interesting and
oxoiting es the capture *2 a herd of
elephants in an Indian kraal, or
stockade The enormous size of the
creatures, their furious efforts to
escape, and the courage and akill
that their captors must show in the
act of noosing and subduing them,
combine to make a spectacle that
even the crowded benches of the
Colosseum would have found Ethril-
ling. One of the incidents of an
elephant drive is thus described by
E. Alexander Powell in the Outing
Magazine;
I was particularly struck by the
air of utter dejection worn by one
of the jungle Samsons that the
trained Delilaha of the kraal had
shorn of his freedom. no was the
very picture of elephantine despair,
or rather, that was the impression
he wished to convey, his wicked Iib
tle eyes being, in truth, but half-
closed, and keeping careful watch
not only of the throng of spectators
beyond his reach, but of the decoys
on either side. Several' unsuccess-
ful attempts were made to untie
him, but he proved so savage and
gave the attendant decoys such a
very bad time of it that the task
had to be abandoned as too clanger.
nus.
Eventually they decided to thrash
him into ,submission, and the largest
and strongest decoy present was
sent to tackle him in single combat.
With the mahout seated well back
toward the tail, this majestic ores-
ture bore down upon the unruly
one like a battle -ship going into ac-
tion. Then there ensued an epic
struggle. As the combatants came
within reach of each other, they en-
twined their trunks, and the awed
group of human beings witnessed a
display of brute strength such as it
has been the lot of few men to wit-
ness since the wild beasts fought in
the arenas of Rome. Again anti
again the combatants, bellowing
with rage, would raise their fore-
quarters off the ground and for a
second or two poise themselves in
mid-air, only to fall back with a
thud that seemed to shake the
earth. Every time the captive's
trunk came within range, the ma-
hout gave it a vicious shear -thrust.
This fellow pluckily kept his seat
throughout, and appeared rather to
enjoy the frightful risks he was run-
ning.
The, fight did not last long, but I
fancy that if there had been no ma-
hout and no spear -thrusts to de-
pend upon. the wild animal, in
spite of his eras» ped position,
would have emerged eictoripus. As
it was, honors were easy. Toward
nightfall, covered with dust,
streaming with blood and panting
from exhaustion, the monster was
tackled by the three largest decoys,
one on each side and one butting
him from behind, After many des-
perate struggles and much bellow-
ing, they dragged him from the
field, wounded, angry, and protest-
ing, but doubtless • tinseled in the
knowledge that he had pmt up a
stout fight for the liberty he had
loved and lost.
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A FORTUNATE MISFORTUNE.
A Seasick Passenger Discovered a
Pushed, Not Pulled Upward.
David Lloyd -George, who is per-
haps the most conspicuous Eng-
lishmen of his time, is a man of the
people, in a position of power, who
does not forget his humble origin,
and remembers gratefully the hum-
ble friends of his yoirtb.
On the day he became Chancellor
of the Exohegner, says a contribu-
tor to the London Daily News, he
left the House of Commons with a
friend of his boyhood, a man as
poor and obscure as he had once
been. They talked of his advanoe-
ment.
"In all my career," said Mr.
Lloyd -George, "1 do nob remember
a hand being held out to me from
above, or a voice saying, `Oome up
higher. Climb thou up here.'
"But don't misunderstand me,"
he added, with a smile. "There
have been thousands• of hands that
have pushed me up from behind."
An Excess of Riches.
"He has nine tons of coal in his
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"That's nothing, I've got only
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When you hear a man complain
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world it's a pretty safe bet that he
doesn't deserve any.
The average girl never gets more
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will not get another.
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Fire in Time.
When affairs in France, in 1848,
made possible the return of the ex-
iled Bonaportes, among those who
went from America was a grand-
niece of the great Napoleon, Prin-
cess Caroline Murat. In "My
Memoirs," the princess tells how
they chose for the passage. -be pre-
ference to "one of Mr. Cunard's'
puddle-boats"—a sailing vessel, in
which they were tossed on the seas
for twenty-seven days. During
those days it was demonstrated, that
even so undesirable a thing es sea
sickness may have its weloome. re-
sults.
I remember one inoident of the
voyage worthy of note,
I was dreadfully ill, anti while all
the other passengers were able to
be deck, playing games or enjoying
music, I was forced to lie down all
day, sometimes on deck, but more
frequently below in a small ladies'
cabin, where a mattress was put en
the floor.
It seemed as if those weary weeks
would never end, as I lay there,
thinking and wishing the days
away,
One evening, some little time af-
ter the bell had summoned all to
supper, I was lying, trying to read.
The book was "The Vale of (hi-
tless."
Suddenly I thought I saw a streak
of light from under the door of the
cabin belongine to the second mato
across the alleyway. For a few
moments I watohed, wondering
whet the light could be. As I
watched, it got brighter.
Springing up, forgetting that I
felt both sick and giddy, T made my
way to the saionu to give, the alarm.
Soon ell hands were at work to
extinguish- the flames. in a short
time we were out of banger,
I tel it not so happened that T was
on the floor, and noticed the light,
no one would have known that a
forgotten candle had set fire to
some article of Clothing, and ws
Might have been burned to &catb in
laid -ocean.
Self, control is one thing a 100111
always boas until lie needs it,