Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 The report of a fight between Indians and troeps on the 27th was a “plain” he. '■ Four men are alleged to have been killed near Charleston, S. C., on the 27th in as riot over wages. ™ | Dr. A. M. Turner, of Folkvllle, Ala., in on insane frenzy choked his wife and daughter to death. Lexington Ky., has voted favorably on the proposition to give 1250,000 to secure the State Capital. At Guthrie, O. T., May Bailey, a witness in a land claim case, was poisoned to death to prevent ter giving testimony. ; A race riot in Sumter county, South Carolina, resulted in the death of seven negroes. The malitia is on the ground. The census of Brooklyn, just completed by the police, shows a population of 855,945. The Government's figures were 808,000. Vale defeated Princeton, last year's champions, in the foot-ball contest of Thanksgiving Pay, by a score of 32 to 0. I Miss Lillian; Roundy, a New York Sunday Schoolteacher, married Yoong Shing, one of her scholars on the 27th. Miss Rouhidey is nearly 40 years old. ~ Thomas Allen & Co., cotton factors and commission merchants, Memphis, made an assignment on the 25th. They were one Of the largest firms in the South. ' The revised and final count of the population of the United States makes it 62,622,250. Ohio’s population is ' 3,672.316, Indiana 2,192,404, fKeutucky 1,853,635, and Tennessee 1,767,519. '.Fred C. Dunbar, while going home near Wichita, Kan., Monday night, was beaten until he was unconscious by footpads and robbed of S4OO and a gold watch. He was paymaster of a brickyard, and bad secured the money at the bank to pay his men the next day. Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, familiarly known in the literary world as “Mrs-' Partington,” died Tuesday evening at his residence in Cheslea, Mass., aged seventysix years. The death of his wife in 1883 was a sad blow to him. He leaves.four children. . Five of the six Irish envoys now in America have signed a paper refusing to further follow the leadership of Parnell. The five are John Dillon, Wm. O’Brien, T. P. O’Connor, T. D. Sullivan, Thos. P. Gill. Harrington alone refused to sign the paper, The accounts of the postmaster at New Orleans for the first twenty-two days of this month have been received at the Postoffice Department. They show that the receipts for the period were $1,124, against $33,552 for the first twenty-two days last year, whqn the lottery law was not in force. The G. A. R. Post, of Macon, Ga., has purchased the site of the old Anderson* ville prison and will convert it into a Na. tional G. A. R. Post. The grounds will be beautified by drives, fountains, flowers, etc., and in thp center will be erected an elegant club house. Each point of special interest will be marked by a monument. U.S. Judge Blodgett, Tuesday, fined Mr. Charles Counselman. a leading grain shipper, SSOO for refusing to tell whether he had secured rebates in violation of the interstate commerce law. He will apply to Judge Greshem for a writ of habeas corpus. If he should be sustained in his refusal the interstate commissionwould be seriously hampered in its work. • a dashingslooking six footer, has been arrested at Chicago, on a charge of bigamy preferred by his first wife, a pale-faced little woman from Pittsburg. Simon was first married in Belgium in 1870 and deserted his wife about a year since, leaving her in Pittsburg. He was married to Mrs. Lena jtlarke, of Chicago, five weeks ago, and she says he has succeeded in getting from her $5,000 of her money. Both women say they will prosecute him to the limit of the law.

FOREIGN.

At St. Johns, N. 8., six men were killed by a boiler explosion. Parnell has been re-elected leader of the Irish Nationalist party over the pro test of Gladstone. The German Kaiser has given orders that woman shall not be employed at night In any government factory. Parliament reassembled on the 25th Parnell was on hand. The Queen’s speech contained nothing out of the ordinary. Severe frosts and heavy snow-falls are reported throughout Europe. In Paris snow has fallen to a depth of several 'nones. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says a financial crisis prevails in that city. Several credit hour’s have closed. There was a tumult on t’;e Bourse, and the police were called upon to quell the disturbance. A clerk of Sofia, who was afflicted with lupus, and went to Berlin for treatment with Dr. Koch’s remedy has returned home, appearing quite cured. The medicai corps of the Danish army has received a plentiful supply of the lymph. A Paris dispatch says that in s sermon delivered by Father Hyacinthe on the re lationof church and state, he advocated that priests be allowed to marry, following bis own example, which, he said, had been most happy in its results to himself. * A meeting of the Irish Home Rule members of Parliament was held on the 25th, before the opening of the session of the House of. Commons. Mr. Parnell wh* present. He was loudly cheered as he entered the rpom. A motion was made that Mr. Parnell be re-elected Chairman of the Irish Parllamentsjy party. It was carried unanimously. It is announced that Mr. Parnell will retain the leadership at the express desire of his followers. Mr. Parnell made ao address to the meeting in which he '.hanked his followers for bis re-election He said it was for the Irish members to decide whether he should lead them. If their decision had been a negative one, or If there had been a diversity of opinion among them, he would Cheerfully have withdrawn from publio life Nothing but the conviction that his colleagues still desired to utilize his services in their common cause induced him to resume a position, which, under his altered circumstances, exposed him, and them through him, le the attacks st theis opponents-

VIEWS OF GENERAL MILES

He Says the Indian S tnatlnn- Is Grave and Expects an All-Wiater Campaign, i' The departure of Gen. Miles.commander of the Department of the Missouri, for Washington on the 28th, is more than significant. In short, the General has been summoned to the National capital by Gen. Schofield and the Secretary of War for the purpose of discussing the details of his plan forstoncedismountingand disarming the hostile Indians in the Northwest. Gen. Mileswasseen by a reporter just before his departure, and be confirmed all that is stated above. “I go to Washington,” said he, “to confer with the Generyl of the Army concerning the Indian situation. Yes, the situation is jrave," he continued"and the necessity for a vigorous winter campaign is becoming more and more aps parent. We are probably face to face with a winter campaign. The hostile Indians ought to be compelled to surrender, and they ought to be dismounted and disarmed, and they will be. That is all I can say. Oh, I will add' this: They will probably find themselves in a position in the f uture so that they can not so easily mount and arm as in the past. You may look for a winter campaign in the Northwest. We have only 2,000 mounted men in the Indian country, over a stretch of country five hundred miles long. The infantry is doing guard duty only.- With this force we hope to keep the peace until we get ready to crush the uprising.” Another dispatch says General Miles postponed his departure until the arrival from Pine Ridge agency, the seat of the alleged troubles, of Colonel Ludington, of the quartermaster’s department. This official arrived at noon Friday and his report to the commander of the Depart-, ment of the Missouri was to theeffectthat the energetic action manifested by the troops had bad a most salutary effect upon the disaffected red skins. He adds that the anticipated danger might be considered as fairly past. This report tended to confirm the dispatches received here by General Miles since Tuesday , as well as to strongly bear out the theory that the extent of the red skin uprising in the Northwest has been more than exaggerated. As one of the prominent army officials at head quarters put it to-day, “It was more of a correspondents’ than an Indian scare.”

WASHINGTON.

Congress has much important business before it, a very small proportion of which will likely be disposed of before its expira tion at noon on the 4th of March. There are the necessary appropriations, without which the business of the government would be suspended, at least in part, and ♦he reapportioument bill, which has as yet received consideration in neither bouse, but which the Republicans in both house 8 have said must be passed at this session Then there are many measures of importance on the calendars, which bave passed one house, and are, therefore,half through the legislative journey. The most important of these is the Federal election bill, which passed the House at the first session’ and which was resisted in the Sen. ate by the Democrats so firmly that it was necessary for the Republicans to agree to a postponement of its consideration in order to bring about the passage of thetariff bill and an adjournment of the first sess sion.-There are also on the calendar of the Senate the national bankruptcy bill, which is being pushed by the representatives of the commercial convention: the bill to transfer the revenue marine service from the Treasury to the Navy Department, which was debated at some length during the first session; the bill to discontinue the coinage of the $1 and S 3 gold pieces; and the Conger lard bill. These measures have passed the House. On the House calendar are the subsidy and shipping brils which- have passed the- Senate; A number of other measures of great importance are on the calendars of both bouses which have received final action in neither.

Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, introduced Monday, a bill to regulate immigration. The first section of the bill excludes from the United States any person who is obnoxious in any way to the existing laws of the United States, including what is known as the “alien contract labor law.’’ The main point, however, of the proposed bill is in the succeeding sections, which require that every immigrant shall obtain a certificate from some consul or diplomatic representative of the United States, and that without such certificate he can not land in this country. The certificate thus required certifies that the holder is a person of good character, not obnoxious to any law of the United States self-supporting, not assisted by charity or otherwise to emigrate and able to read and write his native language and to read the Constitution of the United States either in his native language or English. To this consular certificate the law requires that a medical certificate testifying to the physical and mental soundness of the holder be appended. These certificates are to be verified and examined by the port officers of the United States by whom they shall be copied and after indorsement returned to the holder. Any alien who arrives in the country after the passage of this law will be required when he applies for naturalization to present this consular certificate indorsed by the port officers for a certified copy. This provision, of course, isintended toprotect tbehonestimmlgrant and prevent persons who have evaded the law and entmed the country fraudulently or illegally from benefiting by their fraud.

POLITICAL.

Okiabctna leg.slatcrea arc still having daiiy combats. The Kansas Repcbllcass are «sio to hare decided co suppofif Ben F lalacpscn, cf Topeka, for United States Senator, ct account of the impossibility of .’s electing Ingalls. In tbe House cl Representatives a bij.l extending suffrage to women in Guthrie Territory at al) elections has passed. It will probably go through the Council also, as Is will be championed by its ablest ■embers.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Laporte a street railway. - A lynx was killed nbar Gfirfieid Saturday. Miss Feltie Dows was fatally burned at Seymour. • Eight, people were baptised at Hartford City, Sunday. ’ ’ s==t .. .. ... Logansport and Muncie young men have the polo craze. Fort Wayne - grocery clerks are pushing fer shorter hours. The Rush county Republicans have or* ganized for 1892 business. J • .. . ■< .< There is said to be a gang as counterfeit* ers at work near Anderson. The Shelby ville Republican is crying for moral reform in its municipality. The Huntington Gas Company is to sap ply the neighboring town of Warren. A Crawfordsville man has for his fad the collection of ancient Hoosier farming top* plements. At Ahder&on, Wednesday, Wm. F. P.F.I, a widower, aged sixty, was publicly whip* ped by two young ladies whom hehad.it is alleged, annoyed by his attentions. —Waldo E. Hills, under indictment at Ft. Wayne, for defrauding farmers by the lightning-rod method, has fled and forfeited his bond. A former trial bestowed two years in the pen upon him. Dr. Munhall, the evangelist, has closed a four weeks’ session of revival meetings at the First Baptist Church of Shelbyville. His success was crowned with over three hundred accessions to the diderent churches. ~ . g While Butler’s foot ball club was celebrating their victory at Indianapolis on the night of the 27th the tallyho, on which thirty-five of them were loadea, broke down. Eight of the men were injured, some of them quite badly. The corn crop in Jackson county is bars vested in excellent condition, and the yield is good beyond all expectations. The average run is from twenty-five bushels on the uplands to sixty bushels per acre on the best river bottom lands.

Joseph Lindis, living near Montpelier, lost his three*year«old child on Monday by its clothes catching fire while its mothqr went into the yard for a load of wood. She was only gone for a few minutes, but the little one perished in the meantime. The foot ball game between Purdue and Butler College clubs at Indianapolis, on the 27th, fer> the championship of the State, was won bj Butler a close and exciting contest. Score 12 to 10. Five thousand people witnessed the game. Saturday night Jacob Creed, one of Blackford county’s pioneers and a wealthy farmer, was assaulted on his way home Hartford City, and terribly cut with a knife. His wounds were dressed, and he is now at his heme. Bis assailant is supposed to be a neighboring farmer with whom he was seen quarreling over F. M. B. A. matters, both being members of the order.

> Hundreds of acres of land near Chesterton, on the line of the Lake Shore railroad, are being purchased for factory sites by eastern capitalists. Large tracts of land which formerly sold for |2 and |3 an acre now demand good prices. English capitalists are negotiating for several hundred acres bordering on the shore of the lake. The American car company, capital sl,000,000, will establish an immense plant midway between Porter and Chesterton. Real estate men are reaping a harvest. ' The tenth annual report of-the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Hom?,filed with the Governor on the 27 th, makes a strong plea for more room. There are now 574 pupils and eighty-seven employes in the institus tion. The chapel and main building were built with a capacity of 300 to 350 pupils, and the overflow two years ago induced the Legislature to authorize the erection of six cottages. Superintendent Harris says these are now crowded, "while the applications of over one hundred soldiers’ orphans have been favorably passed upon. Many of these, Mr. Harris says, are now in county asylums in a miserable condition of poverty, awaiting an opportunity to get -into the institution. The Commissioners of the Home say one of three things must be done: A part of the orphans now in the 'institution must be discharged; there must be a refusal to admit others, except where occur, or increased facilities must be provided. It is stated that with the improvements recommended the institution would accommodate 700 children. The institution is in debt >13,511.60, due to a lack of appropriations to cover actual expenses.

The quarterly meeting of the Montgomery county Farmer’s Council convened at Crawfordsville on the | 28th. Mr. Jasper N. Davidson read a paper upon “Farm Fences,” in which he advocated less fencing off the farm into fields. He also favored the use of good, plain wire, and the setting far apart of the posts. By this means it was claimed by some of the farmers that the wire was not so apt to break when the stock ran against it as when the posts were closer together. Their was a divided opinion as to putting coal tar on the posts before placing them in the ground, but the thought, that it was a good plan. Jacob Harshbarger thought it not best to saw off the ends of tbe boards used in building fences, but to lap them—putting one rail in the under board and two in the top one. Capt. H. M. Billingsly’S paper upon “Fruit Culture” elicited quite a discussion upon tbe best plan to follow in order to make tbe apple crop sure. It was thought that tbe best way was to place over the orchard an abundance of fresh stable manure during the winter, and some farmers reported that by this means they had ah abundant crop in orchards that had never borne before. Salt put under the trees was also considered au excellent plan. A report of the beet sugar-raislng experiment was made by Mr. Anderson, of Ladoga. Last spring be received over half a bushel of sugarsbeel seed from the Agricultural Department at Washington, and this bad been divided among various farmers, who planted the sued and raised the beets, which were brought to Mr. Anderson. From these beets he had ob. tained nearly 18 per cent, of sugar, which shows that this kind of beet could be ■ato as industry ot this country. The

only obstacle in the way was the fact that there was no factory near where the beets could be sent and the sugar extracted. Saturday 'night there occurred in Vin cennes a rather sensational clandestine marriage, which was soon followed by an exciting sequel. Miss Emma Callender daughter of Capt. Jno. R. Callender, Jolt her home, saying she was going to the house of a lady friend to spend the evening. As the evening wore away and she did not return, bar brother started out to bring her heme. Just as the young man started the following astonishing note was received: Captain and Mrs. J. R. Callender. You will be surprised to learn I have stolen your daughter. We were married this evening at 8 o'clock. She is now a* my house. . p A T Ryan. Pat Ryan is a oar-greaser, and has on several occasions figured in court for an alleged undue intimacy with women. He lives near the hrme:of the parents of the girl. Captain Callender, followed by his son, rushed to the residence of Ryan to bring his daughter home. On entering the house he met the girl face to face. He took her by the hand to lead her home when Pat Ryanandhis brother, Mike Ryan, pounced upon him, knocked him down and used him in a brutal manner. Just at this time the younger Callender arrived upon the scene and rushed to the defense of his aged father. Both Ryans then turned upon him and he fared no better than the father. In the fight a revolver was discharged and young Callender was shot in the hand. The girl, who is an invalid, was so shocked at the excitement that she swooned, and physicians had to be called to her aid. She is still in convub sions, and her recovery is doubtful. Captain Callender is one of the most highly respected' citizens of Vincennes.

THE NATION'S VISITORS.

Brazilian War Ships Given Royal Greeting at New York. The Brazilian war ships, the Aqidaban and Guanabara, which arrived off the southwest spit, lower bay, late Tuesday afternoon and anchored there for the night, weighed anchor shortly after 8 o’clock next morning, and steamed slowly up the bay and the North river to a point opposite Twontysfourth street, where they came to anchor again. They were escorted by the American gunboat Yorktown and the dispatch boat Dolphin, the vessels pro* ceeding in the following order: First the Dolphin, followed half a mile astern by the Yorktown: then came the Aquidaban, followed by the Guanabara. the same distance intervening between each vessel. As the Dolphin passed quarantine the guns at Fort Wadsworth fired a salute. As the fleet steamed on in single file the bay was dotted with tugs and small sailing craft filled with interested specta. tors. At 9:40 thenavy yard dispatch boat steamed out past the battery and fell into line threesfourths of a mile ahead of the Dolphin. As the latter passed the statue of Liberty the colors were run up and at the same moment a puff of white smoke came from old Castle William on Governor’s Island, and cannon roared out a welcome nine consecutive times. The Bras zilian cruiser Aquidaban responded with fifteen guns. The little fleet continued its way up the North River, the revenue cutter Chandler acting as police boat to keep other crafts out of their course. It was about 11 o’clock when the fleet finally dropped anchor at the foot of West Twenty-fourth street. This will be the permanent anchorage of the Brazilian vessels while they remain in this port. The United States steamship Philadelphia, of the North Atlantic squadron, Admiral Gherardi’s flagship, lay up the river about 400 feet above the Brazilian vessel.

SETTLERS BADLY SCARED.

The Indians Making Hostile Demonstra. VAU D AVCtS lIVAII. The Indian troubles are causing much alarm to the settlers in remote places west of Dickinson, N. D. Citizens of Belfield, twenty miles west, were surprised on the ! 30th ult. to see settlers with their families coming in from all directions. They were all very scared, having heard that the Indians were camped on Grand river, fifty miles south. This situation was so alarming that a leading citizen arrived here from Belmont last Sunday to consult with the authorities and learn the truth of the situation. There is good authority for saying that bands of Indians are congregating on the Grand river and are acting suspiciously. The alarm among the women and children at Belfield is such that they will not be comforted only when the man keep in bodies to watch. A mass meeting was held there on the 30th, and a delegation will be sent to confer with the Governor. This place is contiguous to an extensive stock country, consisting of ranchmen several miles apart. Should the Indians begin depredations they could cause great havoc. Another mass meeting has been called to take action looking toward protection.

INDIANS TAKE THE FIELD.

At Last a Hostile Move Among the Sav» ages. A special from Fort Sully, S. Dak., on the 26th. says: “It is evident from the de* velopments of the last twenty-four hours that hostile Indians from the Grand River, Cheyenne, Rose Bud and Pine Ridge agencies are massing at some point for a stand against the troops under General Brooke. From squaw men just in from Zlebech county it is learned that bands of red men in war paint have been passing through that country for several days southward. They were well armed with Winchester rifles, hsd plenty of amunition and were well equipped with ponies They were uniformly insolentand reticent. The place of meeting agreed upon is reported to be a heavily wooded point on the White River, ten miles above the mouth of the south fork of the White. This point is a day’s hard ride from the Pint. Ridge Agency and nearly as far from Rosebud. Tbe squaw men have been threatened with death by the bost’iles, and are running away from the Indian camp and giving up the secrets of the Sioux. They have been excluded from all ghost dance* and are subjects of special hatred

FOUGHT IN A JUNGLE.

New Tork’MaH and Express. Some years ago it was my fortune to be attached to a Englkh cavalry regiment which was ordered to India to take its turn of foreign service. While many of my brother officers grumbled loudly at the change, to me it was agreeable, and although I had an excellent Opportunity to exchange with the home-coming regiment which were to relieve I preferred to remain. The reason for this was that I had a soul-consuming desire to face and kill a tiger and enjoy a share of the other exciting big game hunting to be found tn India. Shortly after our arrival in Madras I was attacked by a low fever, and was ordered to the Neilgberry Hills for my health, and this gave me the chance for which I was longing. My distinction was Ootacamund, a place' which is a favorite resort for retired officers and civilians, who pass the evening of their lives amid scenery and in a climate which can no be surpassed. A few days after I arrived I made the acquaintance of a very volu* "blelndividual, wha turned but to be a retired army surgeon and one of the most famous tiger hunters in India. ‘•Low fever,” he said, ‘‘all bosh, my dear fellow. All you want is a thorough rousing. We have plenty of hunting around here. I am going out the •shikar’ (hunt) this week. Come with me and I will show you some sport. I can give you a chance at a bear, pig, neilghan, or tiger. What say you—will you come?” I need hardly say that I accepted my new friend’s offer, and ten days afterward found us encamped about three days’ march from Ootacamund, with all our camp followers, dogs, elephants, and the innumerable paraphernalia necessary for a hunting expedition in India. The spot chosen for otir encampment which formed a species of cul de sac, in which upon our arrival we found a colony of Totegers, the cave-dwellers or troglodytes of India. Some (.of these we immediately impressed as beaters, and for the first few days had fairly good sport among the smaller game, but there were no sings of tiger. One day, however, one of our shikaris came to us in great excitement. He was a tall, commanding looking man from the country of the Pathans. Walking into my tent, he salaamed profoundly and said, his voice quivering and his eyes flashing with excitement:

‘•Sahib, there’s a tiger not far from here, and I have marked him down. He was in our camp last night. I have seen his footmarks and tracked him to his lair this morning.” While Ram Singh was speaking the I Doctor had come in and stood listening to him, while his frame fairly trembled with a hunter’s ardor. No sooner had the man ended than my excited friend gave a yell loud enough to wake the dead, and the next mo- 1 ment the camp was all in a stir of bustle and preparation. The beaters were collected and dispatched ahead, guns and rifles were quickly overhauled, oiled and loaded; horses were saddled, and in less than an hour we were on our road to the lair of the treacheraus ‘ cat, and before sunset we were en-■ camped within a mile or two of the * spot to which Ram Singh had tracked the brute. Early next morning, under the guidance of one of Ram Singh’s sons, we started for the scene of the encounter, i Silently we wended our way through the dark jungle, pressing through the 1 thick underbrysh saturated with the ‘ heavy dew of the previous night Troops of monkeys followed us, lenping from tree top to tree tqp, throwihgTfaiiiaTuls of leaves and twigs down, upon our heads until we were thoroughly tempted to disperse them by a few well aimed bullets; but we were after tigers, and monkeys would not suit us, and the brutes continued I their jabbering and their pelting. At length, after a long and fatiguing march, we came to a sort of natural) clearing, where we halted and Ram Singh joined us, “Well, have you found the tiger?” exclaimed the Doctor. “Bhot abjtcha, sahib,” (all right, sir), was the reply. “He is not more than a mi.e from here, and the beaters are driving him up.” He then placed us in the positions which we were to occupy—the Doctor in a clump of tamarind bushes, while I was posted in a peepul tree, with 1 strict instructions not to make the' slightest noise, and above all, not to smoke. There we remained hour after hour. The sun rose high in the heavens, i and its rays beat down so fiercely that ! the touch of the rifle barrels was pain- j ful to the fingers. We-sat in our respective positions listening with ; strained intentness for the slightest) sound. The heat grew so intense as i to be unbearable. At length, and jus ; as my patience was about exhausted. It heard the shouts of the beaters apparently within half a mile, and the next minute Ram Singh bounded into tbe clearing. “Bagh, bagh! chuprav” (a tige-, a tiger, be silent) he said. ••He is coming fast. Be ready for. him. Be ready for him.” The next moment the shikari dis- '; appeared in the tall, rough grass with ) a noiseless step, and we waited another quarter of an hour, eagerly scouring the jungle and listening to the shouts of the beaters, now drawing nearer and nearer every moment. At Lngth.l saw the tall grass directly in front of me move quietly. It could not be the wind, for there was none stirring. My pulse beat madly and tjjq blood rushed to my head with a surge which almost blinded me. With a resollite effort I conquered my excitement. Yes, the grass was moving, and' m I look-d I saw for a fleeting mo- 1 meat a black and tawny body crouching fiat-in the graee and caught the

gleam of fiery, flashing eyes and the outline of a flat, wicked-looking head. The next moment, with a roar which made the jungle ring, a mag* nificent tiger leaped into the middle of the clearing, lashing his sides with his tail, glaring first at the Doctor and then at me. as if uncertain which tc attack first. We did not give hitn much time for deliberation, however, for both out riflee cracked simultaneously, and J plainly heard the clip of a bullet as for a moment the savage brute fell disabled to the - ground. While we were reloading he crawled back into the undergrowth and disappeared. Al this juncture Ram Singh and his beaters, having heard the shots, came upon the scene. “Where is he,sahib; did you hit him! Ha! yes; blood upon the ground,” sat'd the keen eyed old Nimrod, glancing at the tiger’s tracks. “Let us follow him, ” said the Doctor. • *He can’t have gone very far. I too was anxious to see him again, but our shikari would net hear it for a longtime, urging t&at it was madness to follow a wounded tiger in a thick jungle. The event proved that they were right. —However, we overruled Ram Singh, and despite his entreaties and even tears, advanced cautiously into the thick tangle of un* dergrowth into which the wounded beast had crept For more than a mile we crept silently forward, followed at a safe distance by the crowd of natives, but could find no trace of the tiger. The spots of blood had ceased, and it was only by the trampled grass and broken twigs that we could tell we were on the right track. At length we heard a sound close by which sent the blood from every cheek, and brought us to a sudden halt, It was the roar of the tiger in close vicinity. Instinctively we threw our rifles forward as we halted at a pool of blood where the brute had evidently rested for a moment. “Come back; come back,” whispered the Shikari in a tone of agonized entreaty, plucking me by the sleeve. I I shook him off impatiently and looked at the doctor. He commenced: “I think we”—but got no further, for the tiger just then made his spring, landing about six feet in front of us, where he crouched, evidently collecting himself for another spring. Our rifles rang out together, and the fierce brute rolled over in the agonies of death, while the Doctor and I silently hands and inwardly thanked God for our providential escape. The tiger, which was eleven feet in length, proved to be a man eater, and his skin therefore, was mangy and worthless, but I have his claws and teeth as trophies and mementoes of the narrowest, escape from death I have ever experienced, Upon examination of the carcass we found that the right fore paw broken by a bullet at the first volley and this alone made him fail to reach us in his last death leap. As soon as the na» tives were satisfied that their arch foe was dead one of them advanced and begging some matches from roe burned off the tiger’s whiskers, while the others danced around the dead brute, singing the praises of the brave Feringhis and reviling the tiger, his moth- ! er, father, and relatives to the fourth ' gene-ation. When they had tired of this the dead animal was slung on poles and carried - triumphantly into camp, which we reached j ust before sunset. Since then I have shot many tigers, but always from the safe vantage of elephant back. Never have I been foolhardy enough to follow on foot a wounded ' tiger through thick jungle to his lair.

Bereaved.

Let me come in where you sit weeping—aye. Let me, who have not any child to die, . • Weep with you for the little one whose love I have known nothing of. 'Hie little arms that slowly, slowly loosed Their pressure round your neck—the hands you used To kiss. Such arms, such hands I never knew May I not weep with you? Fain would Ihe of service—say something Between the tears that wou’d be comforting. But ah! so sadder than yourselves am I, Who have no child to die. --James Whitcomb Riley in November Century

The Old Story.

A pretty girl with a horrid cold Spoke to a horrid man, And said: "A cold’s a horrid thing,” And then to cough began—- “ Sometimes I think—in fact, I fear”— This said between each cough—- - "That by this horrid cold some day I will be carried off." The horrid man then told anew The story that is old—- " 1 wish," said he, “that I might be That horrid, horrid cold."

Then She Put on a Frown.

Paid Adam to Eve as the pair sa> alone, And night over EZeii ber mawle bad thrown: • Come let u* go out, love, and view the nigh’ skies And watch the horizon and see the moon rise.* Said Eve; "I’d be glad, as the'night is bo fair. Bnt really I an’t go, for I’ve nothing to wear.’* —Cape Cod Item.

A Rise in Horse Flesh.

Munsey's Weekly. Farmer Roots—l dunno but we’d better kill old Roan tomorrer. The hoss bain’t wuth his keep, and Bill Roots (rushing up). The train has jest knocked ole Koan ollen the irack an’ broke his neck! Farmer Roots (one day later in the office of the Auditor of the F. D. Q. Railroad) —Wai, I reckon $350 would be about right fer that thar hoss o’ mine you killed. Jest five years old last grass, an’trotted a mile In 2:50 less’n six months ago. Didn’t he, BiUF

Bill—You bet.

Whiteside Herald.