Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE

SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. N0YE3IBER 13, 18S9.

THE BEHEMOTH AT HOME.

PERILS Or KILLING HIPPOPOTAMI. I.rke VTlialin ; on m Small Seal An Aal. mil 1'nga.inlw on Land, bnt MarreU lotuly Agile In the Water Inter eating Incident, Ktc. At last we reached the bathinj place of the hipFOtamus henl, says a writer in the London Herald, and I could hear the Pound of their blowing in every direction. I found it rather tiresome to lie still within easy Bhot of the game, for it is the practice of the natives not to give chase to any particular animal, but to wait until one of theui comes close to the raft. Teering through the rushes, side by side with Makata, I could see the huge head of a hippotamus as it swam near us. Only the eye, ears and nose could be seen. These parts were of a bright scarlet, quite unlike the dull, leaden hue which these parts assume in captivity. ilso neared the swimming animal, ro-'e on one knee. "When he his harpoon he trembled with exTaent? I had been told to remain per fectly still, and to do only what my native companion told me to do. Seguini, the brother, noiselessly coiled the harpoon rope so that it wouid run out easily. The most perfect quiet was observed, as even a splash or a strange, sudden shadow would scare the herd and put them to flight, and our chance would be lost for the day. When at last the brute was so near that 1 could almost have touched him Makata, with one movement, rose to his full bijrht and hurled the harpoon. As he did so he made a hiasina sound as if he were proornirs?ahorse. With a dull thud the heavy spear sank into the neck of the brute and quivered with the force that had driven it borne. Stung by the etranjre and unexpected ja;2, the animal pave a convulsive spring, shook from the rude socket the head of the harpoon, which still remained attached to the shaft by its many stranded rope, and dashed down stream at full speed. Srpruini paid out the ÜDe rapidly, while Makata and I sprang into the canoe and continued to pay it out as he followed us. Eut as he took his seat he held the line taut, and the hippopotamus drew the canoe trom oft the raft of rushes and towld it along a if it were a cork. It was like whaling on a small scale. Now and asain, as our speed became too preat, or the hippopotamus made a sudden turn to left or right, the rope was paid out or hauled in. ()ur object was to tire the m nttr out sufficiently to bo able to steer or drive it into shallow water. Our party of three squatted in a frail craft, which apparently was not large enough to carry a loy. Sepuini sat in the low, his whole attention directed to the rope, and between his knees res-tod a heavy-bladed, keen-edped knife; I sat amidship with a rille across my knees and the water washed my finger tips as I pripped the punwale. In the stern stood Makata with the paddle in his hand and a harpoon at his feet. His face was ablaze with excitement, and he looked like an avenging demon. A noise up-stream attracted our attention, and we saw another hippopotamus with a canoe towins? behind it 'Take care!'' shouted our steersman, "you will run foul of us. Steady, Seguini, steady! wait till I give the word now, then -cut!" As he spoke the infuriated brute made straight at us, open-mouthed. Srpuini fevered the roje attached to our animal at one cut, and, with a deft turn of his paddle, Makata shot the light canoe sixty feet from the threatening beast Our course was still in the direction of our wounded animal, above whose back floated and . I - 1 Lf t.,1 1 1 iL. i: . BHUuc uie jiarpuuu cuiitit iit-nt ny me mm strands to the iron head buried in his neck. Clumsy as the hippopotami appear, they swim with astonishing rapidity, and it was only after a long chase that our light boat caught up with it At Makata's direction, I pa.Nsed the harpoon to Seguini, who stood up in the bow with one foot slightly raised, and the spear poised above his head. "Ming yonr rifle on your back, bogs," said he; "his strength is failing, and when he feels the iron he may dash at the canoe." As I secured my rifle we ran alongside the hippopotamus, and Seguini deftly placed the harpoon almost side by side with the other one. The brute turned round and came at the boat. Makata seized a spear and thrust it deep into his throat. Then in a flat-h the boat was overturned and we were floundering in the water. "Pive, boss, dive !" said a voice, and I obeyed as well as I was able. When I came up I found Makata by my side, ready to help me if necessary. Seguini was near the shore, carrying the rope's end in his teeth and the hippopotamus was engaged in rending the frail canoe. Had I not dived the beast might have wreaked his vengeance on me instead of on the boat. Iut he does not follow his enemies beneath the surface, and the natives, in case of an upset, dive and hang on to roots and grass to keep themselves under until ho begins to break up the boat. it was not easy to swim with the heavy rifle on my back. I felt it gradually drag me dovn, and in my struggle to" pet it clear I unfortunately attracted the brute's attention. "Swim, boss!" shouted Makata, and he 4 called to his brother to make haute to f-hcrey. ". w as no chance to escape by speed, swam steadily along and had not a coro ot j-aris . before .Makata ,ed back b ehind me, and, taking the reai from his mouth, prepared to meet me enraea piani in nis native element. I mii't own that I had been badly scared since the upset, but as poon as I saw the pluckv black drop behind to cover my retreat 1 lost my nervousness, and, turning round, began to tread water and to watch the strange fight. The beast wam rapidly on with Ids head level with the water until he waa within ten feet of the black. Then he opened his terrible month and made straight for hirn. Carefully timing his movements Makata suddenly sank below the purface, and in another second a terrific plunga and an angry snort from the hippottoUuiua showed that the black's spear had been driven borne. As soon as Makata' head reappeared the brute made for him again, and, to my horror, I saw that th(fc)lack'A spear was broken off at the head. My feet touched pomothing in the water, and "th next moment I was standing on the submerged trunk of a tree that was slowly drifting down with the current. Twice I slipped from its slimy surface, and twice I regained my footing. Then mv foot rested upon the fork of a bough which g.tve me a footing. I saw Makata as ho dived to and fro, 1OTsued bv the frantic animal, but the irave black's strength was giving out Seguini had gained the shore, passed the Top round a tree, and wa hauling in the slack for dear life, but it was evident that he would not get a purchase in time to be of ranch use. It was tnen, as if by a flash ti memory, thct I felt the rifle in my hands. I knew rny waterproof cartridges would explode,

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and I held the rifle up by the muzzle to let the water run out. Then, as the hippopotamus turned his head toward me, I fired. He was 200 feet away; the bullet struck at the base of the brute's skull and diverted its attention from Makata, wlio feebly swam to my side and took a stand on the tree. The hippopotamus, apparently confused, ewara round and round, snorting with fury, and I knew ray bullet must have injured the spinal cord. I would have given him another shot, but the cartridge had fallen out of the chamber, and my lwlt was either on the raft or had dropped in the water. Seguni had by this time got a purchase on the roe. "Come to shore ! Come to shore before he feels the rope!" he shouted. Makata was now somewhat recovered, and we swam to the shore and began to haul in the rope. As soon as the animal felt the strain of the rope he rushed for the shoals. The two blacks, armed with the spears Seguni had saved, attacked him on both sides at once, while I drew the rope tighter and tighter. It was a curious sight to see the hunters maneuver in the endeaver to strike the spoar into the animal's eye, which is the only part vulnerable to the light spears. As the hippotamus rushed to one side aud the other to meet its assailants I hauled in the slack, until at last, in one of his rushes, he fell forward, dead, in the shallow water. HIS BOOTS ARE NUMBER 16.

A Six-Foot Connecticut Hoy Who Has Astonishingly Large Feet. Mr. Arnold of Thompson is only sixteen years old, but he is over six feet tall and his feet are famous, writes a Connecticut correspondent. They are bigger than any other feet in Windham county and perhaps in the New England states. Young Arnold stepped into Eli Tracy's shoe shop at Central illage the other day and said he would like to have the shoe man make him a pair of boots. "All right," said Eli, "just put ymir foot on this measure and I'll get your size." Arnold tried to do as he had been bidden, but found it impossible to comply with the request. Although Tracy slipped the marker out to the jumping ofl place on the measure, there was not nearly room enough to accommodate the young man's extraordinary foot. "Well," said he, looking up aehast "I never! You beat the record. What size boot do you usually wear?" "Oh, generally I can get on sixteens," replied the youth, with ingenious complacency, "but latterly they've pinched my feet some, and I guess I'll take a 6ize or two larger this time." Tracy then made an approximate estimate of the big foot, and found that it called for a boot one inch longer than his measure. "I can't fill the bill for you," he said, "for you take a loot that is tigger than any last 'that is made." So young Thompson had to go away without hope, and he is in a dilemma. The prospect is that he will have to go unshod during the remainder of his life unless he can persuade some lileral-soled contractor to make a last especially for his use. which will be expensive. Thompson iii not the only six-footer and big-footer in his family. He has a sister who is six feet tall, but it wouldn't do for any one to draw further conclusions. COLUMBUS NOT MUCH. A New York Drnmmcr'i Experience With m Iloosier l.nn llord. JNew York Sun. "On my last trip through Indiana," said a N"ew York drummer the other day, "three or lour of us put in a night at the tavern in a small town. It was kept by a dreadfully innocent-looking old chap, and in order to guy him a bit the boys put him on that I was Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America. The old fellowgave me considerable attention, fixed up the best room in the house and introduced me to his aged wife. Next morning as 1 sat on the veranda smoking a cigar he came along and queried: "Let's see. What did vou do?" "Discovered America,'' I soberly replied. "Oh, yes." He looked disappointed as he went away, and in about ten minutes he returned to say: "I've had it all wrong about you." "How?" "Why, I kinder had it that vou was from Washington, and I was thinking you unu&s MIB OUL'Ul to have an extra quarter for making real coffee for you. Y ou orter told me last night that you didn't amount to nuthin' 1" A Sorrowful Cenm The Iluffaloen. Washington Poet. Twenty yean sgo there roamed over the plains and mountains of the far West nearly eiht million buffaloes". To-day there are lets than fire hundred head of the animals in existence. There are but eighty-fire head of wild Imlialoes, 304 alive ia captivity, and about two hundred under the protection of the government in Yellowstone park. There is also said to be about five hundred and fifty head in the British possessions, north of Montana, but this is rumor. Of the eighty-five head of wild bufTaloei which are known to exist, twenty-five are in Texas, twenty in Colorado, twenty-six in Wyoming, ten in Montana, and four in Dakota. The statistics have been carefully gathered by the officials of the Smithsonian inmit ition, and it is absolutely known that the number stated comprise all the wild buflalocs of the world. The skeletons of the numerous herds of a score of yean ago are bleaching on the western plain, a tribute to the prowess of the American Nim rod. Kuvnlan Awe of Authority. A writer In the Fortniqhtly Jleriew, describing Russian characteristics, comments upon the awe of the authorities which is usually uppermost in the minds of the people, lie translates from a Uussian newspaper part cf the evidence taken in an inquiry into the circumstances attending the suicide of a peasant who, when guttering from hunger, hanged himself. Lottie of his friends discovered him a second or'two after he had tied the knot, but refrained from cutting him down. "Now he is stark ami cold," one witness remarked, "but when we first come np and saw him hanging, he was warm enough; and he dangled his legs about a good deal. There was plenty life in him then, and for a food while after, too. It's gone now." i). "Why didn't you cut him down at once?" A. "Cut him down, is it? Well, at first we were going to do it lint, then, we said, 'liest let him take the road he chose for himself : for if we cut him down and save him, we shall Lave to answer to the authorities.' Ho we let him hang there. And he's at cold at a toae now." How to Arrange Ilalil. N. Y. Mercnry.J Municipal Dignitary (to police officials) "Order the force to have everything in readiness for a descent on the gambling houses to-night" Tolice Official (to subordinate officer) 'Tell the men to get ready for a raid on the (rambling places to-nij-ht." Subordinate Officer (to squad of police) "Boys, be around hereabout 11 o'clock. We are ordered to make a haul ot the gambling houses." Policeman (to gambler) "Jerry, we're goio' to raid ye about midnight. Tell the byes." II IV rs Not PnrtlenUr. IVale Record. J Lady of the House "No, I make it a principle rerer to glre away money at the door. Tramp ""Very well, madam, if you hare any feeline tnt it, I am perfectly willing that you should hand It to me oat of the window.

A STRANGE COMPACT. It M as a dreary night in the winter of 17 . Outside a heavy fog filled the narrow unsavory streets of the metropolis, and the lungs and eyes' of such unfortunates aa chanced to be abroad. It even invaded the small wooden sanctums of the night-watchmen, interfering with slumbers to which the inmates were both by age and office entitled. Across the river, in the dingy ill-paved lanes of the borough, the fog seemed at its worst, a light warmish haze being the only indication of the presence of those Bhops which still remained open, and round which small ill-clad urchins with the most unmistakable intentions persistently hovered. "A sweet night for footpads," muttered young Dr. Mostyn, as he disengaged himself from a chance rencontre with a post, nnd felt his way along by tapping with his stout stick at the housewaLs, a proceeding by which he had already severely damaged the legs of three of hn suffering fellowcreatures, and poked a large hole in the kitchen window of a fourth. "And now," he continued, talking to himself for the sake of company, "for home and supper and a fire. Ah, and a patient or two, perhaps. Who knows?" At this cheering prospect his spirits rose, and he banged mightily at the wall with his stick in consequence, until at length coming, to a small 6treet on hU right, he turned smartly down, and having made sure of his own door, knocked briskly at iL "Who's there?" cried a shrill female voice in responce. "It's I, Bet," paid her master. "Open the door, mv good girl." "Not if I knows it," was the cheering reply. "You take yourself off, young man, whoever you are. There's two bulldogs and three men with loaded guns standing by me, to say nothing " "Open the door, Bet!'' roared her master throuerh the keyhole. "Don't you know me?" "Is it 9 o'clock, or is it 11?" propounded the damsel; "because, if it's 11 o'clock, my eyes deceive me; and if it's 0 o'clock, your voice deceives me; for the doctor paid he'd be home at 11 and not before; and. considering the fog, I should say a good deal arter." "Open the door!" said the surgeon sharply. "I'm back already because my patient's dead. Come; open at once!" There was a creaking and shooting of bolts as he finished speaking; and the door being cautiously opened discovered an angular woman of some five-and-thirty years, whose nervous face cleared directly she saw her master. "I'm asking your pardon for keeping you so long, sir,'' said she; "but one never knows who's who; and judging by the noises and runnincs there s been rare doings round the corner to-night?" "Anybody been here, Bet ?" asked the surgeon, as, ten minutes later, he sat down to a carefully grilled chop. "Not a soul," replied his handmaiden. "And a nice person you would be to open the door, if an accident had arrived." "Oh, I f-hould have opened it at once," said Bet with decision. "Directly they used the word 'accident.' I should have opened it and chanced it." Her master, smiling at her devotion, drew his chair to the fire, and, having carefully filled a long clay pipe, fell to smoking with an air of great enjoyment and content. Then, thinking it extreme! unlikely that he would be disturbed at that late hour, he dismissed his retainer to her quarte rs in a neighloring houße, and, being left to himself, lapsed into a brown-study. It might have been the fog, or it might have been the unexpected death of his patient; whatever the cause, his thoughts took a very gloomy direction indeed, and he shook his head desDondinglv as he thought of his future prospects. Iiis mood was not made more cheerful by the room, which was large and dark, and panelled with oak", and ornamented with battered oil-portraits of dead and gone worthies, with whom ht claimed some kinship more or less remote, who seemed to stare at him to-night in a particularly ghostly not to say wooden manner. Besides all this, he was in love ; and he had no sooner built a magnificent castle in the air and placed her in it, than an anything but airy landlord called for the rent, and the dream was spoiled. He had been sitting thus for some time, nursing his woes and sipping a glass of hot cognac which he had prepared, when ho was disturbed bv aloud, imperative knock

ing at the front door ; whereat he snatched up one of the guttering candles and marched down the narrow stairs to open iL The feeble light of the candle, when he had done bo, showed him a tall, strongly built man of middle age. whose naturally fine proportions were increased by the fog, whicli.clungto them and exaggerated them. The surgeon noted that he was richly clad an also that the emloflped hilt of a sword Erotruded from the skirts of his coat, while is face, from some powerful emotion, was pale and drawn. "Are vou the surgeon?" asked the newcomer abruptly. "At your service," was the reply. "Come in. The stranger obeyed, and waiting until the 6urgeon had secured the door, followed him upstairs. "Examine me!" Faid he, taking off his laced coat and standing pale and erect be fore him. "Unfasten your shirt," said the other, falling :n with his strange humor and com mencing a careful examination. "Well?" inquired the stranger, when ho had finished. "Sound as a bell and as hard as oak." "N'ot likely to die suddenly?" suggested hw visitor. "No. I should think that that would be the hud thing to happen to you," replied the puzzled surgeon. " hy, what is the matter with vou ? lo you feel ill V "No; 1 feel hale and strong, capable of enjoying life with the best. I've never had nn illness in mv life. But for all that I shall die at midnight. "Of course," said the surgeon.somewhat I provoked at all this mvstery, if vou nro going iu Km voiirntii, you can BpeaK Willi more authority as to the tirno than anybody else." "f have no intention of committing suicide," was the Hern rejoinder. "Neverthe less, at midnight my time expires. The manner of my death is unknown to me; but I shall never see the lifting of this dreadful blackness, which on my last night ujKn earth has fitly interposed itself be tween me and the heaven I have re nounced." The surgeon, listening to this strange outburst, turned to the table, and filling a glass with brandy, handed it to his extra' ordinary patienL " Twill put heart into you, said he. "But not a soul," said the other; and shuddering convulsively, drank it at draught; then placing the glss upon the table, he drew a purse from his pocket and looked at the surgeon, "lour fee? "doming, l Know not what your trouble is; but I wish much that I could help vou. "I'm past all help," said the other, sadly, moving toward the door; then pausing, as the surgeon took up one of the candles to light unn down, he paid in ir resolute tones: "As you shall judge, if you care to hear." "By all means," said Mostyn, heartily, as, replacing the candle, he poked the fire and drew up a chair for his visitor. "Twenty years ago," eaid the latter, ac efptieg the proffered seat and leaning tO'

ward the surgeon, "my circumstances were very different from what they are now. Young and strong I had at the death of my parents rejected the bread of dependence offered me by relatives, and full of

nope, had come to London to make my fortune. It proved to be harder work than 1 nad anticipated and in a verv snort time I was reduced to the verge of starvation. One dreadful night, of which this is the twentieth anniversary, I was half crazed with poverty and despair. For two days I had not tasted Trod, nor did l see the slightest prospect of obtaining any. Added to this. I was deeply in love, though un happily the interference of those who 6üould have been our best friends kept us apart. As I crouched shivering in the garret which served me for a lodging, I think I must have gone a little hi; mad." He broke off suddenly, as though unwilling to continue, and" stared gloomily at the fire. "Woll," said the surgeon, who had been listening with much interesL "Have you ever heard of compacts with the evil one?" demanded the stranger. "I have heard of such things," replied the surgeon, on whose ßpirits the occasion and the visitor were beginning to tell. I made one. said the other, hoarsely, "Crouched by the empty grate which mocked me with its cold bars and white ashes, my thoughts turned, as though di rected by some unseen power, to all that 1 had heard and read of such compacts. As my inind dwelt upon iL the subject lost much of its horror, until a gentle rustling in the neighborhood of the fire drove me with quaking heart to my feet. My fears, however, were but momentary, and with fierce determination I called upon my unseen visitor to lend me his awful aid. As I spoke the sounds suddenly ceased, and a voice seemed to crv in my ear: 'Write, write'.' I dragged a small table into the moonlight which struggled through the begrimed panes of the window, and with my own blood and the miserable 6tump of a pen wrote out the terms of an agreement with the prince of darkness, possessed, as I did so, with the horriblo consciousness of something in the room watching me. I vowed that if for twenty years he gave me wealth and the possession of her whom I loved better than my own life, my soul should be the forfeiL If the next morning brought change of fortune, I should take it for a sign that he had accepted rny conditions. I signed it, and swooned. When I awoke from the sleep into which the stupor had merged, the sun was shining brightly into my foul lodging, and below was a messenger who brought me news of a large fortune which had fallen to me through the death of an uncle. God forbid that my rash vow had aught to do with it! Since then, everything has prospered with me. I married the woman I loved. We have a large family. I have kept my secret to myself. To-night, at twelve, my time expires." "The change in your fortunes was a mere coincidence," said the surgeon, uneasily. "Another coincidence for you, then," said his visitor, whose face was now livid. "In the morning, when I awoke, the agreement which 1 had left on tho table had disappeared." Mostyn arose, and, taking great care not to extinguish the flames, snuffed the candles. "As I supposed my death would be a strictly natural one," continued the stranger, "I thought I would consult a surgeon, in order to see whether my heart was sound, or whether I was to die as I have said, in a perfectly natural manner owing to its disease. A watchman whom I met directed me to your door." "Do you live in the neighborhood?" "No, at Westminster," was the reply. "But having put all my affairs in order, and wishing that my dear ones should be no witnesses of my death, I have been roaming about the streets to meet it there." "Alone?" queried the wondering surgeon. "I hope so," said the other, shuddering "Be guided by me," said the surgeon, earnestly. "Return to your home and forget all aoout this mysterious compact you fancy you have made." His companion shook his head and turned to tho door. "Are you going to roam about in tho fog again?" asked Mostyn. "Unless you will let me stay here," paid the other, glancing at him wistfully. "You are not nervous? do you think I shall die?" "You will die of fright if you die at all," said the surgeon, sturdily. "But stay, and welcome, if you will." And to avoid the thanks of his gijest he poked the tire until the resulting blaze almost caused the candles to snuff themselves out with envy. For some time thev sat silent. The streets were now entireiy deserted and no sound save the flickering of the fire disturbed the silence of the room. Then the surgeon arose and, upon hospitable thoughts intent, busied himself with the little spirit case which stood on tho sideboard; and, after sundry most musical gurglings lrom tho bottle as it confided its contents to the glasses, appeared in his place again with two steaming potations and a sugar bowl. "Cognac," said he, "with all its fiery nature subdued, now in its tranquil old nge." "Thanks," said the visitor, taking the proffered, glass. "The last toast I shall drink: Long life to you." Ho tossed off the contents and lapsed into silence, while the surgeon slowly smoked his long pipe, rtfnovingit at intervals in favor of tho spirit he had commended. Half an hour passed and a neighboring church clock slowly boomed the hour of eleven. Une hour more. The surgeon glancing at his companion to see what effect the sound had upon him, saw that his eves were closed and that he breathed heavily. Ilising cautiously to his feet he felt the pulse of the strong sinewy wrist. which hung over the side of the chair, and then, returning to his seat, sat closely re garding him, not without casting certain uneasy glances into the dark corners of the room. His pipe went out; tho fire burnt low, and seen throueh the haze of fog and smoke, the motionless figure in the chair seemed suddenly to loom lareo in front of him ami then to be almost ob scured by darkness. for a iew seconas u seemed his eyes closed. When ho opened them ""tho fire was out and tho figure in front of him still sat in the chair, though its head had now fallen on its breasL Full of a horri ble fear, he glanced hurrid'y at the clock and saw that it was just upon the stroke en iour, men ne sprang to tue side ot lus guest and seized the v.rist nearest to him. As he did so he started back with a wild cry of horror, for some slippery thing. darting swiftly between his feet, vanished in the gloom of a neighboring corner. Kro he could recover himself the man in iront oi him stirred uneasily, and rising unsteadily to his feet, gazed stupidly at him. "What's the mutter?" he asked at length in dazed tones. ".Matter I" shouted the still trembling surgeon. v hy, its lour hours past mid' night and you arc alive aud well. With a violent start, aa he remembered his position, the stranger glanced at the mantle-shelf. "Four o'clock 1" said he "four o'clock 1 Thank God, there was no compact I" Then another fear posse ssed him: "Is It is the clock right?1' "To the minute," said the surgeon. standing gravely by with averted head, tin his visitor, heedless of his presence, fell upon his knees and buried his face in bis hands. As he rose to his feet the old church clock slowly struck the hour of 4, appear

ing to both the listeners to do so with an emphasis as unusual as it as welcome. As the last stroke sounded, the stranger, who could even now hardly realize his position, threw up the window and extended his head. The fog had disap peared, the air M as crisp and clear and the distant rumbling of the early market carts betokened the beginning of another day. "How came I to sleep?" he inquired, closing the window and turning to the surgeon.

"I druerged your drink. It was the only thing I could do. You were in such a strange state of alarm that vou would either have died or gone mad if I had not done so." The stranger extended his hand and caught the young surgeon's in a mighty grasp. "You ran a fearful risk. Suppose that I had died. My death would have been attributed to the drug, and you would have been accused of mv murder. "I chanced it," said Mostyn, simply. "There was no time for consideration." "It has been a strange business," said the other. "What could it have been that was in my garret that night, and what could have taken the agreement?" "I lata," said Mostyn, smiling. "One of them frightened me terribly just now; but it would not have done so if I had not been in a very excited condition. The same state of mind, perhaps, though in a milder form, that you were in on the night you wrote your agreement." lhere were rats in the room, 1 remem ber," said the stranger; "but I never once thought of them, l ou have saved my reason, if not my life," and he again grasped him by the hand. "You shall not find me ungrateful." Nor did he; for, aided by his influence, the young surgeon rose rapidly to fame and fortune, which he shared in the most liberal manner with the girl for whom his poverty had long kept him waiting. "VOT EES ZE ZGORE?" The Sad Experience of a Foreigner With a Haaa Hall Enthusiast. A certain foreign musician, who has just located in Boston, had an experience Saturday afternoon which puzzled him very much, says the Boston I'ranfcripL In fact, he is not yet entirely clear in Iiis mind what it all means. "He tells the' the story himself: "I come troo Hamilton blace from ze Moosic hahl," he says; "it vos five-und-von-haluf o'clock. I am in a beeg hurry to be by my hotel. First I pais troo a beeg crowd in ze Hamilton blace; I tink zey are eenterested in ze zymphony consairts. By and bv a boy come ruin out from a shop in ze Hamilton blace! " 'Meester ! meester !' he said, vair moche axcited, 'vot ees ze zgore?' " 'Vot j'ou say ?' I ask him ; 'vot zgore you mean ?' " 'Yy, zc zgore!' he Eay ; 'don't you look at ze board ?' " 'Vot board is dot?' I ask. But ze boy look vair moche surprised, und say nodding; sol valk along. In von minoote I come near to ze corner of ze Dremont-sL, und zere, as I valk kvick along out of ze Hamilton blace, a dzhentleman toche his hat, und he say: " 'Axcoose me, sair, but vot is ze zgore?' " 'Iot ees vot I like to know,' 1 say; 'vot ees ze zgore you all dalk about?' "But ze man he smile a leetle, und he hurry into ze Hamilton blace. 1 come down Yoshington-sL, to go to my hotel. Zaire I zee a beeg growd in ze street, mit moche excitement und zhouting. So I ask a dzhentleman who sthand zare: " 'Bardon me, sair, but vot ees ze excitement!' " Yiy are looking at ze zgore,' he say. "Zaire vos ze zgore again! and he tell me nodding more. Now, will you dell me, blease, vot ees ze zgore ?" A 1'icture of Lincoln Spring. A beautiful ; rl.ic situate! in La Rue coonty, Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Liaoola. As visited in August, 1?'3. A narrow road, where grass grows tail. Lies curved adown a hill. Where nature Luids high carnival, Uutrammclod by maa's will. But at its foot a beauteous scene Lies spread before the view A spring set in a valley green A monument unchanging, true. And the wild grandeur round It thrown No pen can fully paint; 'Tis walled about with massive stone, By nature carved with figures quaint. IIu?e trees stand round like sentinels, Their leaves by south winds stirred. And from their midst, as clear-toned bells, Come the sweet songs of mocking bird. The cool drops trickle down a slide Into the pool below, And waka soft echoes on each side, With fairy music as they flow. Peeping from o'er a far hill top Tho western sun slants down, And paints a rainbow on each drop, A benediction and a crown. O, spring of beauties, long may peace And pleasant mvin'ries round thee twine, And long may thy pure waten flow Through shadow and through shine. IIessib Adam 3, llowto Kntortttn Woll. Ladies' Home Journal. A nostf is should tnink twice bciore ue inrites people to her houe. She should be so generous es to let her friends alone, unless she wishes to treat them well, then, having made up her mind to invite them, she taunt remenv ler that, from that moment she is their slave She is to be all attention and all puavitv. If the has nothing to oiler them but a cup of tea, she must make it a "Leuker full of the warm south" by her manner. In the smallest house, the humblest surrounding, the hostess is queen, aud he must be gracious. If she is not, she is a snob, a vulgarian and a poor creature. no matter if her husband is a millionaire, a president or a great scholar. A lady should be Tery particular to specify whom she wishes to S"e, and no lady should eo to a trance house uninvited, on the spoken belief of some other person that she will be welcome. Still less should a gentleman pre sume too much. A youncr gentleman may be taken br a married lady, who is all powerful, to a ball, as she is supposed to indorse his re- . l-f. t 1. Aspeciatmiiy, duv it is aiwnys ueiier tor unn 10 leave his card, and for him to receive nn invitation. If, however, through any misaprehension, a person gets into a house uninvited, a hostess should never show by word or manner, that she observes it The very fact that a person has crossed her threshold gives, for the moment, that person a claim on tho politeness of A hostess. 11 ow to Keep Your Watch. Epoch. Strolling tip rtroadway the other day I dropped in at Tltlany & Co.'s to Ascertain whether they had any device for holding mj watch to my rocket in order to defy the attempts of pickpockets to relieve me of it. "I'll tell vou the very best thiiuj to do," said one of the gentlemen in charge at the watch counter; "have a button-hole msde in the outer lappel of your watch pocket, and then pull your chain through that before fastening the bar of your chain in the center button-hole of your vest. The liitht-finKcred usually pull the watch up straight out of the pocket, but when the chain passes through the hole In the watch pocket the pressure thus caused blocks their little game,' A Vast PlflV renee. Fpoch. Two little girls of Montrose, N. J., were sitting together on the grass near the sidewalk, one day last week, and one was heard to say to the other in a very solemn tone: "You ought to do just as I say, for I am a great deal oldr than you are. ou were only seven on the 10th of May, and I'll be eight on the 31st ot March!" A Sat Without a Combination. (Lawrence A.verican. Johnny What did the minister mean when lie said something about t place where thieves do not break through and steal f Mr. Dumpaey He referred to your mother'f dress pocket.

AU10ST ONE CENTURY OLD.

THE U. SUPREME COURT. Many Changes on the Bench Only Two 1.x-Associate Jufttires ow Livirnj Tho Work of the Judges 3Iotle of Procedure, ttc. The iuprome court of the United States ia nearin;,' ita one hundredth anniversary as the highest judicial power in the country, says the Washington Pout. Although it has been more than a century since it was established by law it was not fully organized until 17'.K). During its century of exist ence it has passed upon all phases of tho law, interpreted the constitution of the country, and is the only tribunal belore which law-maker and law-breaker a'.ikc must bow in pubnmsion. From its findings there is no appeal. Its decisions are final and its mandates are enforced even if it is necessary to call upon the military power of-the government to enforce them. It is the sole arbiter of all legal disputes between states. ana in iact. is the sovereign ot sovereignties. Questions of law of all kinds come before it on appeal from all other federal courts, and in criminal cases where rjuostions which which involve rights claimed under the constitution, laws or treaties of the United States. In civil cases where the validity of a law is attacked it can be appealed to without regard to the amount in controversy in the case. When the statute of a state conflicts with an act of congress the court is made the arbiter of the dispute, and by its action only can the state law be declared a nullity. When congress passes a law which ia in coDllict with tho constitution the sunrtme court has the power to declare it void. Uut the construction of a law, cither etate or national, cannot be decided except it comes before the court in a case, and it must have regularly passed through the lower courts. Thus it is that this court, whose decisions have come to bo looked upon with awe by the majority of men, and with respect by the legal fraternity, has come to be called the expounder of the constitution. It is in one sense, but it goes farther, and besides fettling questions involving law, has also at times decided those where life and life and liberty was involved. The supreme court, at Its organization in 1790, consisted of a chief justice and five associate justices. The number of associate justices was increased to f-ix in ISO" by the appointment of Thomas Todd. For thirty years it remained the same, but in 1S:7 it was increased to eight by the appointment of John Catron and John McKinley. During the war, or to be precise, in 18i5, President Lincoln raised the number to nine by appointing Stephen J. Field, onn ot its present members. Two years later its number was decreased to eiarht by the death of John Catron, and the death of Joseph M. Wayne, in 1M!7, decreased its- quota to peven. In 170 President Grant increased its membership to eight by the anuointment of Joseph P. Bradley, who still retains a seat on the wool-sack. At the present time the crowd consists of seven associate judges and a chief justice, the vacancy among the associate judgeships having been caused by the recent death of Stanley Mathews. The associate judges of the court are Samuel F. Miller, Stephen J. Field, Joseph P. Tjradley, John M. Harlan, Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford, L. (j. C. Lamar, and Chief Justice M. W. Fuller. Of these Justice Miller is the oldest in time of service, and he enjoys the proud distinction with Justice Field of being the two oldest justices on the bench. Both f.re seventy-three years old, and each has been a member of the supreme coart for over a quarter of a century. Justice Miller was appointed in 1SG2, and Justice Fields the year following. The tenure of office is for life, during good behavior, and a member can only be removed by impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. As an instance of the old maxim, that few die and none resign, it may be said that in addition to the present members of the supreme court, there are but two living ex-associate judges. One of these, Judge John A. Campbell of Alabama, was appointed by President Pierce in 1833, and at the breaking out of the war he opposed the secession of his state, but went with it. resigning his position on the bench. He is now practicing law in New Orleans. The other, Justice Strong, was retired in 180 on full pay, and is spending his declining days in this city. inee the organization of the court there have been eight chief justices and fortyfour associate justices. Of this number nine resigned, five were retired, one failed of confirmation by the senate, and the others died in office or are now holding the position. Justice Campbell is seventy-eight years of age, but Judge Strong is three years older. Of the eight chief justices which the court has had two resigned John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth and one, John liutledge, failed of confirmation. Chief Justice Marshall and Justice Story had the honor of serving- on the bench longer than any of their confreres, each serving thirty-foiir vears. The act of" April 10, lsGO, permits them to retire with full pay for life, after reaching tho age of seventy, provided they serve ten consecutive years. The pay is 10,500 for chief justice, and $10,000 for the associate justices. Prior to 1870 the docket of tho supreme court was not very voluminous, and it was Ecncrally an easy matter for tho court to eep pace with the cases, and usually dispose of them within a short time after they were submitted. But a chancre has come over the spirit of the court. Shakspeare, when he wrote of the law's delays, must have had in mind the litigous penpie ot America in tins year oi our uru, 1 1SS'.). For surely if ever a litigant deserves sympathy it will be w hen ho appeals his case to the supremo court, with the expectation of having it decided at an early date. At the present time there are 1,481 cartes on the docket, and new ones are being added constantly, while there is but one day in the week on w hich decisions are rendered, Monday. The court ia able to dispose of about 425 per year on an average, so, providing there is no delay in the pending casen, the man w ho has his cae docketed to-morrow may reasonably hone to have it rt ached bo tween three and a half or four years. Only ono term is held annually, beginning on the second Momlay in Octolx r and lasting until abopt May. By Felruary the judgas are usually behind in their opinions on the cases which have been submitted, and that month is ta!.en as a recess in which to write up opinions. The mode of proceedings is similar to that in every court of any importance. When tho case is appealed the record is made up and sent to the clerk's office. Usually the record is printed, and then put away until it is placed on tho calendar to be reached within A few days. When reached the arguments are made and the case submitted. The justices consult about it, reach a decision, and one of their number is assigned to write, up the opinion, which is read usually the following Monday. i .- Sucenasfol. N.T. Sob. First Dentist "Are you meetiDf with any success?" Second Dentist HCrb, I am pulllDj right along.

R. R. KADWAY'S READY RELIEF. The Cheapest and Best MedU cine for Family Use in the World. tn from ors to twenty mlnnt, tif rer falls to r!!er PAIN with one tiiorooRh p?l ct:on. No mattrr bow violent or fifrac;al at th pin, tfie Phenmtic. Bd-ridd-n. Infirm, Cripple J. Xcrvou. N'LiV.irc or prriu tratrd w:ta d. ntr iclirr, HADWAV'o ttAPf THE TRUE RELIEF. R.rWATS PEDY RrLIEP I the only r-7n!'t r-n: in rogii that will inbUaUy top ptin, InLnUy relieves and boon cures RHEUMATISM! NEURALGIA! Sciatica. Ilealache, Tno'hncbe, Inllimmauons, ConcestioDS, Asthma, laHuei.zi, -ore Throat, JjifScult F.reathinz. Summer Complaints, DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA. Cholera Morbus. It wiU In few minete. when taken ftceorJ!?. t flirt-ctlon?, cure Cramps, yasrr.s. Soor Stomtch litrartDnrn, Nauva. Voia t'Ti, Nervounetw, S!eiIrwine, Cho era Morbus, .k-k lleaieh-. SI M M ES COMPL.AI.V1' UUrrlitPO, Dvh-iuerj, Colic, Wind ta Bowel. nd ail irtfrnal pair:. It is t:i:h!T imnor'.a it that ev-r farr.;i keep a m V'y of KAUWAi HliADY l.KLILF ilwsra is tb house. It use w 11 prov- bTine.al on ail öcrasiona cf pain or sicins. There is no'.hir. in the world täat will step pu n or srret the pro;res of disease M q-nrklT aa ti. Ii. IL Wtat-re epid-inic difw preTTiH. a-irt, as Fvt-m. Dysentery, Cholera, Influenza, Diphtheria, Fcarlet Fever and other malirnint disease, RDWAY'$ t:EADY KFLIHK w''l, if taken d:rec-d, protect the irstem against a'.tata, and IX seized wub ticaoeaa quickly cuxa lha paueut. MALAHU IX ITS YATJOUS FG2K FEVER AST) AGIHi PADIV AY'S READY RELIEF. Kot only ewre the pat'ent eia wti malaria, hnt it peopl-expos-d to it will, every mornicj on gettiDf cut of ted, take twenty or thirty drop ot the ItEtDf Ice i.i ef in a R'.a-s of water, and dr. at, and eat cracker, they will escape attacks. Practicing With R. R. R. MoxTAorR, Texa. Dr. Rad way A Co.: I been v:rjr your med, eine for the last twenty yeara. and la ail cases of Chills and Fever I hve never la led V core. I never ose anytliinf but RK VDY REL1KF an 4 PILLS. THOS. J. JONES. FertTiAVD, Iowa. Dear Fir: We aro nsip? yone medicines for Tyjhoid and Matarihl t evert w.tb the ertatest benefit. What Ii. B. R. and Kau war's PilU have done no one can tX JOHN fcCIil'LTZ. VALUABLE TESTIMONY! C ikvtow Lakdwo, K. T., Jone W. IMi-Mwiii, P.adwpy & Co. Oent emen: Lact season I employe about b0 men, and dnr.c; the season th-y boiigbt of me sixteen doxen bottles o.' Radway's Resdy Kei.ef, a la-fe namber of boxes of Fil sand some Resolvent. Tbev use the Ready Reitet In their drinking water. It to 15 drcrf in a class of water, ta prevent cramps act keep oS fever and z us; they alo ose It (externally) for bmlsea. sore hac Js, rheumatic pa ns, sore throat, eve. If by any chance we ron out o. your tuedie.nea, we have no p-ace octil onr stock, is rp'red. I, mi self, take R. R. R. before poinit oat in the yard earlf in the morntne. and am nrer troubled with fever en4 arue. This year I was aU-acted with rheamatism, and your Fiiia did me more Rood than any other med ome'l tor.lt. Yours triUy, (.lened i S. HAMILTON. JO. Mr. John Morf on, of Verplnnck Fo.nt, N. Y., proprietor of the Haoi River Brick Manu'aeturinf; I'omrany. says that he preveuta aal cures attscke of chilis and fev'.-r in h. larui'y and anion? t!.e men la his emfloy by the use of Ratiwats Rkadt Reuf.s Pills. Also the men in Mr. Frost's brickyard at the same plaee rely ent'reiy on the R. Ii. R. for the ours) and prevention of mslsr.a. Tbr-e is not a re ratty sent In tbe world tnstwfj cure Fever and Afue and a 1 other Ma'arlona. H.liouS and other Fever. aiieJ by HAD WAV'S PILLS; aa quickly as R ADWA Y'ft RE KDY RELIEF. Eadwav's Ready Relief Is a cure lor every pain. Toothache, Hcaiiche, Sciatica, Lumbago, Neura'.jria, Rheumat sru, Hwel'.ing; of the Jo.nta, Sprains, bru.eea, i'ains in tbe Hack, Chest or L'imbs. The application ot the Ready Relief to the part of parts where ths dlSuuity exists will aJord laitant ease aud comfort. FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLE. Sold by Druggists. tiH AD WAY'S SarsapariNian a Resolvent, Tho Great Blood Purifier. Pnre blool makes aonnd flesh, stror bone an 4 rlear skin. If you would have your fh firra.you Imne soord and vour complexion fair, cae Bjkl WAY'S KAK3APARILL.A RKSOLVKNT. It possesses won.lerfui power in curing all forma of Ferofulou. and Eruptive Diseases, byphtloid, I'lcerm, Tumors. Sores, Eniarsed Glands, etc ., rapldlrand per manentlr. Dr. Randolph Mclntyreof SU Hyaelntbe, Can., aaVs: compltttlv and msnreiomlr curad a victim of Scrofula In its last s'aire by following yo s tdvire riven In vour 1'itle treaties on that d.sesse." J. F. Trunnel.'.sonth St. Loui. M... "was cured of 4 bad ewe of Scrofula after bavin been fciven mp aa incurable.'' Soil fry all Protista. ONE DOLLAR PER DOTTLE,' DR. RAD WAY'S REGULATING PILLS THE G3EAT LIVER AN3 STOMACH REMEDY. Terfert Purgatives, Footbirtjr Aperient, Act W about i'Rin, Always KeliAhia I and Xsaiural ia their Operation. Perfectly tatele, elegantly coated srllh sweet f an purge, reulut, cleanse an! fctrenKthen, HADWAV.1 FILLS lor the euro of (.11 d'sordera of the Stomach, l.iver, HoweK. Kidneys, Bladder, Nerr ona luseaaes. Loss of A pp tite. liealach. l'onrtipa lion, Costivenraa, Indiceslion, I'vspeoaia, liiliousne, 1-evrr, Inflammation oi the How 1, J". l-s and all rie ranrenients of tiie Internal iscera. Purely yevetaUiftj containing co mercury, miner 1 or deleterious drus". what i Physlclas Says or Riday't PiUt. T am aelltnj your-R. R. relief and yonr Rerulattn Pills, and have recommended them above ail p. 11 and aell a (reat many of them, and have them on han4 alee, and use them in my prall e and in my ewaj laiiuly, and expert to, in pre sence of ail piUa. Yours re(ec;i'u'iv, DHL C MlUULÜBituuK, DoraxlU, Oa, DYSPEPSIA. Tr. Radway's Pills are a enre for this eemiplaln They restore utrenjlh to the stomjssi and enable it ts Str.orra its funct ors. The Mini mi of Uyspepaia. issppesr and with them tue iimWMj of lUe ejaicne It OooUatt diaease. KADWAY'S PULS AN3 DYSPEPSIA. KrweoRT, Kt. Messrs. tr. Radway A Co ftentat I have been troubled wtb Dyspepsia for ahont font months. I tried two dulrre il doctor without anf Permanent benefit. I ssw your ad. and two weeks ar-e) love hi a bos of vour Ke.'u'laior and leel a art-at deal better. Your Pili have done me more rood than ait the Doctor's Medicine that 1 have Wk-n, ew. I anw yonrs respectfully, ROBLiiT A. PAG 14. Dyspepsia of Ionf; Standing Cared. Ir. Radway I have for many years been efHict4 with Dyspepsia and Uver Corr pia ut. and found bot little relief antil I rot your 11 . ia and Resolvent, n they made a perfect cure. They are the best tued.c.BS) 1 ever had in my hi. Your'fr end forever, Blancoard, Ba.cL. WILLIAM NOOXAX, Eold by Drugpiit. Price 3o pee B0X4 Radway A C., K. SI Vi'arran-nV, Kw Yerk. To th Publio. 9 tvrtj end ask: for Radwav's and aesQuü Iba Bsvai UPWA.Y" lion what rou W. 1

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