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fBBflf9Si!fff'i'," &: -"?rje t-)-?1? A: ...'A" TATVR OF TWO RAT) BOYS ten. perhaps, we can pursue our cos 1ALr,UJ! lYVUDAU UUIO. tomarvsiiinmeravocatkm-accordiii'towat Wniiam Sinn Is Punished for Lapse from Goodness. t. ., j HE noblest study or m an kin d is man. What boy who has learned to write by copy-book isn't fa- miliar with that Ten- c r a b 1 e assertion, made more than a hundred years ago , by the English poet, T V "T V in whose famous country house at Twickenham now lives Henrv Labouehere. the famous editor. It ought to be true, perhaps, that the ' 'Noblest Study of Boyhood is Boys," and perhaps it is true. Certainly no two boys on Manhat tan Island had more varied experiences in one brief day than did John Goode and William Sinn yesterday. There isn't a worse boy from High Bridge to the Battery than this same John Goode. His name, which is spelled just like that of a high official in the Department of Justice under President Cleveland, about whom every good boy's father can no doubt tell him, is not pronounced as though intended as a tribute to his moral worth. He is not a good boy, even nominally. He proposed be fore breakfast yesterday to William Sinn, who had never done a really wicked thing in his life, that they establish a Truancy Trust. "I am aware, William," said he, "that the operation of trusts has been confined .heretofore to the affairs of grown men. But everv bov who is not a chumD knows he's nuprr oww rwny'a fftthir nun Tin rinnnr. tell .going to be a man some day, and the sooner ' be learns all about trusts and syndicates the sooner he can read the paper intelligent ly and prepare himself to take part in the raKgovernment of our devoted country. School is over now, no doubt, but in timo of vacation we should prepare for the session. This is my scheme: "You are to be secretary -nd janitor and I will be president and treasurer of the Truant's Trust or Association for the Mutual Ecnefit of Schoolboys Who Play Hookey." "2Jot another word," cried William Sinn. "I will not. Oh, I will never aid in such a sinful enterprise ! Oh, John ! poor, misguid ed John ! Did you never hear that it is wrong to play hookey?" John, being a wild, untutored lad, was strongly tempted to welt William one in the jaw, as he put it in his heathenish language, but dallied with him yet awhile. "William," said he, gently, "I ara going to be a good, good boy all this livelong day. I wih to test the truth of what you have so often told me about the pleasures of right eousness. Do you, in turn, be wicked, just as wicked as you can, for this day only, and show me by practice as well as precept how wretched are those who trespass against the law." William's spirit revolted against the pro posal. He could not conceive of himself as a wicked boy. Finally he consented to yield to his sense of duty, for was it not his duty to show John once for all that "the way of the transgressor is hard!" Ho brushed his hand hastily across his eyes, and grasping John's horny fist, said: "I will go you just once 1" This shows the influence of the be ginnings of evil. No "sooner had William made up his mind to be bad though for a good purpose than he began unconsciously to talk wicked slang. "John," said William the wicked Will iam "I have read so often of 'fiends in hu- man form,' I think I should like to be a -fiend in human form' "but John, shocked at the proposal, had already run away to .his breakfast, leaving William alone with his wickedness. Then he, too, went away to breakfast, ate up the muQn his mother , had buttered for his younger brother, wiped 1 the spout of the sirup-jug on his napkin, threw the silver on the floor and put red pep per in the mutton hash beforo it was taken out to the servants' table. John, in the meanwhile, had plastered the fences of their two yards with this announcement, in duplicate : : Notice to Boys! : : The Nere Approach of The : : Swimmin an Drownln Cson ; : An of the Oreon Apl an : : Collck Cson renders : : It nessery for Boys to : ; Band together for : : Mutual Proteckhun! : Como and Band at 5:33 p. m. ! : William star tod out incontinently after breakfast on a career of wickedness unpar alleled In the annals of Sunday-school 1 libraries. John watched him with sorrow ful eyes, fished him out of tho cistern into which he had fallen while trying to drown tho cat; took him straight to tho jeweler's when he tried to rob a robiu's nest and fell out of the tree and broko his watch; picked SHE SEIZED HIM BT THE COLLAR. powder out of his neck and face when ho laid a mine into the hen-house with intent to violently break up in business a hen of too sedentary a disposition, and in other ways followed William about like a guar dian angel. By the time lour o'clock came John was compelled to acknowledge that William had succeeded in being very thor oughly and very disagreeably wicked. He even tore John's clothes, tried to poke peas into his ears and called him a "doughface." This last came very near bringing John's Day of Goodness to a sudden close. But he resisted temptation like a little man. When 5:30 o'clock came the other boys came, and John explained: "Fellers, robody likes bein' drowned wile in Bwimmiri, shot wile stcalin' watermelons which I greeve to say some bad boys do steel (here he looked hard at William, who grinned derisively) or doubled up -with gripes after takiii' and partakin' of young apis. My father (the boys -looked surprised he generally said 'pop') belongs to a Mu tual Accident Association down town. Whenever a member gets kild or drowned or run over by a street-car or goared by a savjgo bull, the other members all hare to chip in and make it pleasant for him wile he's laid up, and for his fambly if he's laid out. - , "Let's organize a Juvenile Mutual Asso ciation to cover the watermelon, the green -apl aud the drownd wile swimmuv ram. Vfw r I rede in the comick weeklies with more eze an' freedum of mind if not or body." There was a load murmur xof approval. Just then Miss Frishie Quoghe, an'old lady whom John on his wicked days had often "deviled" very nearly to the verge of frenzy, walked suspiciously along the oppo- site 8ide of the 8treet keeping a wary eye 0Q the assemblage of lads. John's good heart moved him to run and pick up the c9 Bne j in her agitation dropped on tha ;jq,iv with hinrfrtimn nhiwt in view, he mae a quick lunge from the crowd, and with beaming eyes, darted across the road towards Miss Frisbie. With a shriek of alarm, divining some evil. she turned to run, when he, already by her side, picked up the spectacles and was just about, as he restored them to her trembling fingers to jg her pa, he had eiven her. Bi on for all the trouble Miss Frisbie had replaced ber glasses on her nose,, recognized her tormentor of oft and many a time and before he could get the words of love and pardon from his breathless lips, had seized him by the collar and begun screaming shrilly for the "police!" At the sound of that dread word all the .g ran awa except wicked (pro tem.) n?n? ? tt- -.-..a ..n . .i. r-. V llliaiu. Dinu. HO tiuaacu utcr vj uun iu goody-goody (pro tem.) John Goode's hu- SZ . K, -., &- FISHED OCT IS TIME. miliation, and reached the scene just as a policeman hove in sight. John saw that his doom was sealed. He made no remon strance and uttered no entreaty. He heard the six o'clock vhistles blow, and a thought struck him. His day of tentative good ness was over. "Please, ma'am," said he, in his modest, most insinuating tones, "if I must be dragged away to a dungeon, grant-me first just five minutes of grace!" The ancient maiden lady's heart was not touched, but she thought John Goode's re quest reasonable. She relaxed her hold on his collar, and before the policeman could get in reach of them, before a word could be said, a prayer uttered or a shriek shrieked, he had fallen on the jeering "fiend in human form" at his side and licked, thumped, cuffed and walloped William until his own mother would have known him only to lick him again, and the fiendish jeer had faded forever from his once proper features. Discerning boys who read the "World of Young Folks" will have no difficulty in extracting from this true story two morals. The first is that William should have ceased at six o'clock sharp to be a bad boy. The t second is that "you may break, you may shatter, the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will hanir round it still." It was the pernicious recollection of his pristine and theretofore wickedness which thwarted in its first flush and, as it were, nipped in the bud poor John Goode's first effort at real goodness! N. Y. World. PETE WAS RESIGNED. He Was Willing to Help the Hangman Make a Good Job. HERE was only one man waiting execu tion at Fort" Smith when I visited the post, and he was only one of the ordi nary run of white men in the Indian Territory. The hang man rather wanted to show him off, and so we paid a visit to the guard house. Upon entering it the exe cutioner said: "Pete, here is a decent white man come to see you. Do your purtiest, now, to entertain him. You've got two more days to live, and I hope you'll try and work into decent society as much as possible." "I'm sure I'm glad to see him," re sponded Pete, as he came forward and shook hands. "That's good. A born gentleman couldn't have said them words better. If I could only keep you six weeks, Pete, you wouldn't know yourself, and you'd do me proud. Butl-can't I've got to hang you day after to-morrow." "Well, I'm ready." "That's good, and just what I expected of you. I've used you white, and I naturally expect tho same in return. If there's any one thing that riles me above another it's to have a man go back on me at the last end. Did vou see me hang Cherokee Jack, Pete!" "Yes." "I made a bungle of it, because he kicked at the last Wny, sir (turning to me), he held up until the very last hour, deluding mo with promises, and then went dead back on me. Think of his refusing to be hung after every thing was ship-shape and regu lar." "I'm not going to kick," observed Peter. Good for you ! Some of the boys are bet ting that you will, but I'll give odds that you won't When a man knows he's got , to be hung, what's the use J People have got a mistaken notion about hanging. It don't hurt a bit How you ieciur,ireteri" "Resigned." "That's right You hadn't orter killed your old woman, but being you did, and being as you must pull hemp for it, the best way is to feel resigned. You come mighty nigh being a gentleman, Pete, and as I said before, I'm sorry I can't keep you and watch your mental improvement You'd improve fifty per cent in six weeks. Want to ask the gent any questions, Pete!" "N-o, I guess not Will he be here to see ma go?' "He'd like to ever so much! But he can't He's got to go on to Van Bursn." "Can I do any thing for your' I asked. "No, thankyou." "Well, Pete, we must be going," briskly remarked the executioner. "Would like to stay longer, but time presses. I'll come ia to-morrow and cut your hair and re hearse a bit I made such a poor job last time that I want to do extra fine on you. If you'll stick to what you say I'll do the purtiest job ever seen at this post" "I want every thing to go off all right,' responded the condemned. "Of course: why shouldn't you! It's I01 your interest, too. Well, so long, oid boy. Keep your grit up and do your best anal 1' guarantee a first-class job or quit the bust ness."-N. X. Sua. .darffaiawa.M...a.feaafc-M;... ' .. - J - &&?. at -sflK8B(ix7sij Fttfi, J1..1 kit'. ' 4 w sgmrmWv" ' 4 -SSsSXT '" LIFE IS SWEET. Life is very sweet just now Full of lhrlitaad flowers; Not a single clond to mar. Or give a hint of showers. iife is very sweet and fair, Eosy-hued and smiling; With lhe music of the birds, Happy hours beguiling. T.lfe C f on. ,-. IT 1 j ..v. ,-j oncW 1UU Uli What can be lh rencnn (Looking blankly at the clouds) Of the rainy season? Life is very sweet because Because why not assUt met Sweet in spite of rain or clouds Just because you kissed me. Spectator. HABBOEINGr A PAUPEB. A Erave Deed Followed by a Happy Event. It was near night of a raw, gloomy day, in the autumn of 1886. tbatnseedy looking tramp turned up to a lonely farm-house on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river and asked for something to eat and a place to sleep. A widow with two children, a son find a daughter lived there. The son, a young man of twenty two, had gone to Maysville with a small drove of cattle, which he expect ed to dispose of at that place in time to reach home at an early hour in the evening, and he intended to bring the proceeds of the sale with him. The daughter, a rather pretty girl of nineteen, was delicato and timid. In view ol these facts, the widow, though somewhat robust, courageous and sympathetic herself, felt a good doal of hesitation about harboring a strange tramp, not knowing what such a needy individual might be tempted to do, even if not already working out some sinister design. She did not liko to refuse him right out, for fear she might not bo exercis ing proper Christian charity, and she did not liko to grant his request, for fear it might result in some wrong to her children and self. Ho was not tho worst looking of tramps, but he had a shock head, and a full-bearded face, out of which peeped Vnall. glittering eyes, and his dress vas old, poor and soiled. "I'll give you what you want to eat," aid the widow, whose name was Chal mers, after sho had looked the man carefully over and taken a little time for reflection; "but as for lodging you, I wouldn't like to agree to that before consulting my son, who may not be home till eight or nine o'clock." ' 'How far is it to tho next house?" he asked. "Which way?" South." ' "Nearly two miles." "And night just coming on," re turned tho other. "I don't like tramp ing a lonely road after dark. Won't you let mo stay till your son comes home and take my chance with him?v "I don't know that I ought to object to that," was the somewhat reluctant consent of Mrs. Chalmers. She gave tho tramp a good supper and permitted him to sit by the general fire she or her daughter, one or both, being constantly in the room. Eight o'clock, nino o'clock, ten o'clock came, and the son and brother had not returned. "Oh, mamma, what can be keeping George?' at length exclaimed the daughter, in tho anxious tone of alarm. "I don't know, Mary, dear," an swered the mother, in great anxiety, as she glanced at the clock for the twen tieth time. "I suppose he didn't get through with his business as quick as he expected to. Surely he will be here soon now." She got up and went to tho door, and her daughter timidly followed, looking over her shoulder. "What a dark, dreary night!" shud dered Mary, as a gust of wind came in, bringing a little rain with it "Oh, mamma, do you think any thing serious has happened to him?" "I hope not," replied her mother, feeling more alarmed herself than sho chose to have appear. "Tho night is verj dark, and it may be has to walk his horse." "Where did your son go?" inquired tho tramp from his comfortable corner beside the blazing fire. "To Maysville" "That's a good distance off and tho night is dark and tho road none of the best I don't think you have any occa sion for alarm yet awhile." "Thank you!" "Ah, hark!" exclaimed Mary, just as her mother was turning back to shut the door. "1 think I hear the tread of a horse." Her keen ears had made no mistake, the tread of a horse was soon audi ble to tho others, and shortly after the son and brother rode up to the door. After some warm greetings on both sides, and the brief explanation that he had been delayed in starting, while the darkness and condition of tho road com pelled him to move slowly, he proceed ed to stable and feed his horse, and then came in. On seeing the tramp and learning why he was there, he felt more uneasi ness than he cared to show, for he had brought home with him a considerable sum of money. His decision, however, was prompt and full of the kindness of charity. After two or three pointed ques tions to the unwelcome stranger, which were satisfactorily answered, he said: Certainly you can stay through the night I could not find it in my heart to turn adrift any well-behaved human being on a night like tuis.' i - rJu,: t;,fcB Thank you kindly, sir," politely re sponded the man. "tfou will not re gret your hospitality. n The language and manners of the poor fellow indicated a certain degree of refined culture not'in keeping with his present forlorn appearance, and while the young host ate his supper he held a conversation with him which convinced him of this fact His first intention was to throw down some horse blankets and robes and let him camp down before the fire, but this design was altered with his opinion of the man's antecedents, and so he finally lighted him to a decent bed up stairs under the roof, and then he and the family retired for the night occu pying two rooms on the ground floor. While these things were taking place inside of that lonely farm-house, somo things were occurring outside that vitally concerned the parties we have introduced. Two men met in tho road a few rods from the dwelling. "Hi, Sam!" said one. "Ho. Ben!'' replied tho other. Then they came together and spoke in low, guarded tones. "Well?" queried Ben. "All right" answered Sam. He's home, and got the money with him. There are $1,700 I know about that I know he brought away with him for sure, and that ought to pay us for tho venture, if wo don't get any more. "All right, then! Whon shall we be gin?" "I reckon between twolve and one will be the best time. He's been homo about long enough to get his supper and turn in; and after the long, hard day and night he's had of it we must give him a chance to get sound asleep." "Oh, of course! 1 don't think we'll have much difficulty in finding the money somewhere about his clothes or the apartment, but without the chloro form ho might wake up and become troublesome, and then wo miglit have to silence him. and midnight murders are not tho most pleasant things to have to provide against." "Well, tho women?" "They won't bother us, I reckon. I don't intend they shall know any thing about it till Georgo Chalmers, after coming to himself, goes to look for his pile, by which timo we'll be safe enough out of the reach of all." "Without any blood on our hands?" "That's the way I want it." But sooner than bo taken or dis covered, Sam?" Why, you know, Bon, Til cut every throat and burn down tho house with the bodies in it. Taken or discov ered? Heavens! Death sooner than either!" "That's so. It would be a bad thing for us, and a horrifying thing for our families and friends, in any caso we must wear our masks. I suppose we're to enter the general sitting-room first?" "That's the best His room adjoins it on the south. When he fastens his door at all it is with the key, which he'll likely leave in the lock. I'll turn that with my nippers if he does. I'll use a skeleton key if he don't It's a good night for us dark, windy and rainy so that a slight noise won't be heard." Tho two eyil plotters got under a shed and waited till the time fixed upon for their burglarious work. Thoro were no shutters to the win dows only inside fastenings. To enter, they decided to cut out a middle pane of one of the two family room windows, pass an arm through, remove the fastenings, and crawl through the lower half. They cut the pane with a diamond near the sash, but in trying to get con trol of it they pushed it inward, and it fell into the room with a sharp crash and jingle. The noise disturbed the sleeping host without fully waking him, and he mumbled out "What's that?" in a tone that showed he was sound asleep again by the time tho words were fairly ut tered. Then the two burglars, their face3 concealed by black masks, worked their way into the room, each assisting the other, and Hashed a light all around them'from the bull's eye of tho lantern they carried. To their surprise, they found the door of the young man s sleeping room partly open, instead of being shut and locked, and they were disposed to take alarm at it till they heard his steady, heavy breathing. Then both, after another sharp sweep of the light all around them, noiselessly advanced to the bed of the sleeper one prepared with the chloroform to seal up his senses, but both ready to murder him ratiier than fail in their purpose. Just at that critical point of time another human figure, unseen by them, came silently gliding through the dark ness, and stealing up behind them. It was tho tramp. In his hand he held a rope with a noose at one end not unlike a lasso. He stopped so near the two midnight prowlers that he could have touched them, and poised the hand that held the rope, while every nerve secretly quivered with intense excitment It was a moment big with fate for all concerned. A single mistake, the slightest er ror, might cost his own and other hu man lives. The robbers, both intent upon their evil design, did not look behind them. They stopped close to the bed of the sleeping man, one looking oyer the shoulder of the other. The forward one held a handkerchief in one hand saturated with chloroform, and in the other the lantern, whose light he streamed full upon the face of the sleeper. 1 Just as he reached forward to press t. . Jl.- -J the handkerchief to the nostrils of their intended victim, the second robber, armed with knife and revolver, pre pared for deadly assault brought his head close up to his companion's, the better to note the slightest movement at that moment the tramp skillfully threw his noose over the heads of both. Then, with a vigorous backward spring, he tightened tho noose around tho necks of both and jerked them down stumbling, floundering, crash ing surprised, terrified and almost strangled. "Surrender and throw down your weapons or I'll beat out your brains!" cried the tramp, as he jerked and pulled upon the rope, in order to strangle the scoundrels into submis sion. The answer was three pistol shots from the man who held the revolver, neither of which hit tho tramp, but one of which entered the brain of hii companion and ended his wicked work for this world. Tho noise roused the sleeper, who started up in alarm, with loud cries of murdor and for help. This in turn set the women shriek ing, and the late silent and peaceful d welling became for the time a bedlam of horrors. "Keep quiet, Mr. Chalmers, you shall not be harmed," said the tramp, as, still pulling at the ropo he pounded the head of the living robber with the butt of his revolver, till ho sank under tho blows. "Now get a light" ho con tinued, or turn tho light of tho villians' lantern upon their faces, and see what your tramp has done for you." It took somo minutes more to mako Ueorge Uhalmers, Ins mother and sis ter understand tho true state of tho case that tho man to whom they had given shelter had saved them from be ing robbed, if not murdered. But what was their further amaze ment and horror to discover that the dead burglar and tho living burglar wero two of their neighbors, with whom they had long been intimate, and whose reputations stood high as well-to-do, upright, honorablo men. When they came to pour out their profuse thanks to the tramp for his courageous and timely interference in their behalf, ho quiotly responded: '.'You havo much to thank mo for, it is true, because you would certainly havo been robbed, if not murdered, if I had not been under your roof; but you have to thank me for it in a different way th::n you suppose I'm not hero by accident; but design. I'm no tramp, but a detective. I've had my eye on these villains for some time, but needed proof before arresting them. By chanco 1 overheard a plot to rob Georgo Chalmers on the night he should get paid for his cattle, and I worked out tho rest, as you see. This villain, Sam uel Jennings," nodding to tho now tightly-bound living robber, "must either go to State prison or the gal lows." "Neither, you miserable scamp," cried the man, with a long string of blasphemous oaths. Ho never did for on the day of tho coroner's inquest on his companion, he was found hanging and dead. The whole affair mado a great sensa tion in its locality. On removing his false hair and beard, the tramp detective was found to be a young and handsome fellow. A warm friendship sprang up be tween him and Georgo Chalmers, and shortly after a still warmer one be tween him and Mary Chalmers. It seems enough to merely add that she is now his happy, grateful and lov ing wife. Saturday Night EDISON AMONG KINGS. The Great Inventor Honors Any Soverlgn to Whom He May Speak. Thomas A. Edison, the greatest in ventor the world has ever known, is now receiving honors in Europe from tho hereditary royalties who aro far less use to tho world than he. Thero have been inventors beforo whoso dis coveries have revolutionized the in dustries of the world men like Guten burg. Watt, Stevenson Whitney, Ful ton, Morse and Ericsson; but it is doubtful if there has ever lived a man of such versatile inventive genius, of such bold originality in conceiveng, and of such painstaking patience in carry ing out his marvelous conceptions as Thomas A. Edison. His invention of the telephone, of the electaic light and the phonograph, each in itself honor enough to immortalize a man, places him at the top of the list of the world's great inventors not to mention his in numerable minor inventions, many of them of the greatest utility to man kind. Measuring him by the standard of the practical good he has done the world what man is worthier of honor than Mr. Edison? Surely none of our living statesmen members of Con gres. Governors and diplomats are to be compared with him in this respect We have probably produced no poet or literary man who will be remembered longer than he. Considering the won derful inventions that may still lie in a formative state in his mind, there is surely no man whose death would be a greater loss to the country. The kings of Europe can not honor Edison by granting him receptions and giving him titles. In accepting these gifts at their hands he honors them. Surely Tom Edison, the ragged news boy and impecunious telegraph opera tor, honors any king to whom he con descends to speak. He is the biggest king of the whole crowd. Yankee Blade. One county (Custer) in Montana is , said to have an area about five limei J greater than that of MassachuaeU I USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. Tie best covering for a poultice or a mustard paste is tissuo paper. If the surface of fine wood cabinet has grown dull go over it with a very little linseed oil on a soft woolen rag. To romove tar rub well with clean lard, afterward wash well with soap and water; apply this to either hands or clothing. Hands may bo kept smooth in cold weather by avoiding tho use of warm water. Wash them with cold water and soap. Sugar burnod on hot coals, and vinegar burned with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room, are excellent deodorizers, An expeditious way to lower tho temperature of small vessels of water is to drop -into it a fow crushed crystals of nitrate of ammonia. Tho crystals will reduce the heat about fifty degrees. For a sprained ankle take caraway seed, pound it put in a tin basin with a little water, put it on tho stovo and stir it until it thickens, then bind it on the anklo;it tikes out the inflammation and eases the pain. Hair brushod regularly night and morning, if only for a few minutes at a time, will require less frequent wash ing, and inoanwhilo will be cloan and glossy. Too much washing renders tho hair harsh and dry. Keep on hand a good supply of bolts, screws, nails and tacks, together with a screw-driver, gimlet hammer and hatchot, so as to bo prepared for emergencies which call for theso arti cles. It is very well to keep putty, also, and learn to be your own glazier when you live far from professional ones. Household. Geraniums, kept by tho house keeper for window culture, aro linblo to beconio stalky and unsightly if left to themselves, because of the excessive growth of stem. Tho plants aro set in the ground in summer where they grow vigorously until frost lfenotting sud denly checks this growth, tho loaves drop off, and often none are left except a small tuft at tho top. Tho stomach is a very delicato part of our organism, and consequently anything which presses upon it iu any way is vory apt to derange its functions and lead to various alTections. There fore the wearing of a belt around tho loins is not coiibiderod ndvisable, as it constricts the muscles of that part of tho body and often retards the proper circulation of the blood. A Good Way to Fry Chicken. Cut up a fowl and let it sterp covered with vinegar, salt, cayenne pepper and a teaspoon ful of onion juice for an hour. Mako a batter after theso directions: In half a pint or more of hot water mix smooth half a pint of flour. Add two ounces of butter and tho whites of two eggs well beaten. Roll tho joints of j'our fowl in this batter and fry in lanl or oil till brown. It improves this dish to add a dash of curry to tho flour before mixing it with the hot water. SHREWD AND COURAGEOUS. Fierce Struggle Itetirsen a Motha Turkey and a Uawk. The following incident, witnessed by the writer, will strengthen tho faith of thoso who believe that birds and other animals are not only endowed with in stinct, but are capable of reasoning. Five or six of us, well-armed for hunting, were passing through tall ferns and over fallen troes along the level summit of one of the highest of tho Alleghany Mountains in North Car olina, when we came upon a brood of wild turkeys, consisting of a cock and hen with thoir j'oung ones. A short distance ahead of us tho ground rose abruptly to an elevation of two hundred feet As wo pursued our game it made toward this hill all ex cept tho gobbler. Ho at once flow far away from danger, leaving the mother bird to defend herself and her brood. Suddenly she gave a cry of alarm, and instantly the young birds ceased their flight and concealed themselves in the tall ferns. On looking up toward tho hill be fore 113, we detected the cause of this strange action. Hovering above, and apparently oblivious to the presence of danger, was a large hawk watching intently tho approach of its prey. The mother turkey was certainly in "the toils of battle." Deserted by her com panion, besot behind by huntsmen with murderous intent, and before by her mdst dreaded enemy, she illustrated tho maxim of war, "It is tho unexpect ed that happens." Trusting to tho instict of her young to keep quiet and hidden, sho flew swiftly to a high crag on tho hill above, keeping well out of sight of her chief enemy, now gradually circling nearer the earth. When she had reached an elevation above the hawk, she mado bold to at tack him. Up to this time ho had not detected the strategy, and now it was too late. Vainly and frantically ho en deavored to secure the advantage of his antagonist With tremendous flight and a wild scream of mingled fright and fury, the turkey struck the hawk a blow that carried the two combatants so close to the earth as to bring them within easy range of our guns. Up to this time we had remained quiet spectators, but now wo took our part in the fray. With one impulse wo aimed our guns and fired. When the smoke cleared away, wo found only the mangled remains of the hawk. Not one of us had fired at the brave mother bird; nor was it possible now to do so, Aven if her courage and motherly devo- ion had not altogether disarmed us. Tn the confusion she had summoned her little ones and scaped, Youth,' Companion. V lift