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STBRUE " DE]OCRAT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
I3T. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA.
Exphrt.r Nau::en, whl w.s rec'sutly nI
a l ,,il'te.l profe,-.°,,r ,. zool.b y .. t
Cliris~iatia, i; ',1ctiL. fiils for ,
a i. out hi' nieit l:u, which is Wi
to c:' la s;'uc.t si'. Lc:'s .,!s n11 the p'lan ,u Ti'
the "1':u:. x :1 lt tr o l. r1'ift t aiard T
the: ith P,'lte!" :.i iellt Foints. An
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It was nlillni t a recec:t I AO.i- n
in"g of t'; C- !i;.r i:[ 'ta' b.;:ardl of If
cqu(lii'.a :ion tihait tle was a chil If
district in Ki,'. a (:'i:Itv in which ith, Yo
MIisso.uri Paciiic paid =1 i) in taxe':. A
The only famuily in the district live:d in An
a dugout, and they hal only one W
child. They kept the school in the
dugout and drew the i8'!0. TO
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T1
It is s.-idl that a you:ng womnan once If
asked Chief Joseph if hlie ha ever
scallped any one. When the question
was translated to him Joseph lolke:l
at the fair questioner iutcit!y, then
walked around beli:nd her and viewed
the knot of hair ouly half hidlden by
her bo:nnet. "Tel! he,'," he said to
the interct r, "that I hvie nuthing
in my c,,lectiou as tine as t'at."
According t) t thS Now Orleans Pic
aynue, hard Itines lhave set nea:ly
everybody trying t.) go.t federal ap
Spoinitmnents, and senators ant lrepre- 0
sentatives friendly to the administra
tion have not as yet been able to catch
up with their correspondents. Clerks 'J
in the postoffice department at Wash- s
ington have to write more than 100,- v
000 letters to amnbitions people to
notify them that their applications a
have been received. c
Farms laid out for republics, upon
,which to make model citizens of idle
boys, are being rapidly popularized,
says the Boston Globe. When cities like 3
New York turn 50,000 boys into the a
streets for want of school accommoda- ¶
tions, something must be done to off
set the danger of rearing a horde of I
idlers and criminals. The farm re- a
public makes a good citizen to order
by making him self-sustaining and I
even self-governing under proper limi
tations.
The Novoe Yrenmya says that the
Russian census gives a popuation for 1
the empire of one hundred and twenty
seven millions, exclusive of the Grand
duchy of Finland,which takes its own
census. Some other figures have still
to be added from the uttermost parts
of Siberia, as well as the nomad tribes
of the Steppes and the mountaineers
of the Caucasus, where an exceptional
snowfall delayed the work till the
spring. The full total is e.:pected
not to be under a hundred and thirty
millions.
Statistics show that the medical
profession is moire prone to suicide
than ally ,,the'. During the last three
years the numbnler of suicides occurring
among physicians has been respec
tively 45, 40 and 47 per annui, an
average of nearly one to 2000; or, as
the death rate among physicians is
about 235 to 1000, nearly one-fiftieth
of all the deaths in the profession have
been by suicide. It has been sug
gested that an explanation of this
tendency may be found in the devel
opment of morbid fancies in the mind
of a doctor, on account of his constant
association with the sick and dying,
or of an actual indifference to death,
or because he has the requisite knowl
edge of how to die painlessly and con
veniently. A medical journal dissents
from all these views, and holds that
the leading factor is thile accessibility
Sof the poisonous drugsr., which are al
most invariably used.
Says the Minneapolis Tribune: All
over the world there are Audu
bon societies na:mei for the great
Americu ornithologist. Their object
is to protect the singing birds and to
protest against the wearing of their
plunmage and also of herou's aigrettes
on latlies' hats and bounets. The Ear!
of Stanford presided at the last meet
ing of the B3ritish Audubon society in
Manchester, and urged the sending
forth of an appeal to all women to sac
rifice vanity to mercy, and set their
faces against the slaughter' of the
ivinged songsters for their personal
adornment. The decline of the traile
in stuffed birds was noted as an en
couraging fact at this meeting, though
J arklgahd lapwings are still being
slaugiere!, and the passion for
heron's aigrettes shows no abatement.
The Civitas club of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
is now holding in the interest of the
local Audubon society Rh exhibition
of trimmed hats and bonnets which
show exquisite taste and beauty, but
whose only feather .decorations are
ostrich tips.
SING A SONG. wo
caf
If you'll sing a song as you go along, i
In tiie face of the real or the fancied wrong; 511
In spite of the doubt if you'll fight it out, ca]
And show a heart that is brave and stout: ]
If you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse the e
t:ars.
You'll force the ever-reluctant cheers an
That the world denies when a coward cries, te:
To give to the man who bravely tries; vi
And you'll vwin sucess with a little song- c
If you'll sing the song as you go along!
co
If you'!l sing a song as you plhd along,
You'll find that the busy rushiang throng
Will catch the strain of the gla refrain:
That the sun will fo!tow the bliiunding rain: CO
That the clouds will fly from the blackened w(
sky; fa
That the stars will come out by and by;
And you'll make new friends, till hope de
seentls
From wi.ere the placid rainbow bends; Coi
And all hecaucse of a little song--
If you'll sing the song as you plod along!
If you'll sing a song as you trudge along, of
You'll see that the singing will make you w
ntrong; T
And the heavy load and the ragged road,
And the sting and the stripe of the tortur
ous goal
Will soar with the note that you set afloat; :
That the beam will change to a trilling m
mote;
That the world is bad when you are sad, )
And bright and beautiful when glad; I
That all you need is a little song- d
If you'll sing the song as you trudge along!
-Rufus McClain Fields, in Nashville Amer
ican. ci
ti
IALI'S PERIL. t]
S /,,A'ý!'/'/'' " Ir nr- (I,
UNDA-TSANG was an
innkeeper. He was S
sole proprietor of the
Bnallawari-Dak, which p
is a very big name for v
a very small native ho- v
- tel about sixty miles s
north of. Penang, and c
on the high road to the hunting a
steppes of the Bakit, or hill country.
Punda was a good sort of Malay,which
means a bad sort of anything else. t
That is, he would plunder only on the I
securest principles, and never quarrel c
with a bigger man or a better armed I
one than himself. In this he diff'eed
from other Malays, who would plunder t
and knife upon no principle or provo
cation whatever, if they thought there I
was a ten-anna piece to.be gained
thereby. i
But a deeper reading of this pros- t
perous Boniface of the jungles revealed I
the fact that he was capable of love- i
yes, even a tender, human affection;
and that little Iali, his five-year-old
daughter, was the object of a worship
in his heart even more fervent than
that which he bestowed upon the five
home-made clay gods before which, in
a dark corner of the Dak, he burned a
vast deal of ill-smelling incense. The
second year of Tsang's married life
had hardly begun when his beautiful
- wife was bitten by a yellow viper while
gathering healing herbs down in the
valley. When they found the poor
3 creature she was dying-with her new
r born babe in her arms. This calamity
the bereaved husband regarded as a
direct visitation of the clay gods in the
corner; only the day before he had
a robbed a Kling hunter of his rifle,
I leaving the poor fellow to make his
s way unarmed down to the sea, where
he ran upon a pair of half-starved ku
kangs, a vicious species of Malay
Y chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he
I fell over a cliff and was dashed to
e pieces. And Panda-Tbang always felt
Sthat that yellow viper was sent direct
from the land of the judging gods to
Y avenge the blood of the poor Kling
hunter. But there was one thing that
mitigated the harshness of this ven
L1 geauce-the presence of the little
e child, whom he tenderly cherished,
e and whom he had called Iali, which is
g to say, "forgiven."
One day two officers of H. M. ship
" Scorpion stopped at the Dak on their
n way down from a hunt in the hill
s country. We were seated under the
Spalms before the bungalow after tiffin,
Ssmoking cheroots, while I listened to
their exploits with interest. Suddenly
3e four native Malays approached, wheel
. ing a live tiger in a clumsy wooden
is cage, and halted before the Dak.
1- They were going to dispose of him to
a naturalist down on the coast, who
d had a method of killing and staffing
at animals by which the marvelous lustre
, of their skins was preserved. The
forest king was certainly a magnificent
' specimen, and the officers evidently
1- thought so, too, as they concluded to
i- buy him, perhaps to swear that they
Shad captured him. They bought the
animal for a good round sum, sent the
natives back rejoicing, and started
Y down toward the coast, while Punde
1- Tsang,- not contented with exacting
fifty per cent. commission from the
poor fellows for using his Dak for a
11 tiger mart, committed the meanest act
of his life. He slyly sawed one of the
hind bars nearly through in four
t places. Then he went to work planing
et to waylay the; tiger on his way back to
to his haunts after he should break loose,
which he knew would happen before
the purchasers could get many miles
s down the valley. He quietly pursued
rl his planning until late that night,
t- when he heard from good authority
in that the tiger had broken jail, and
nearly killed one of his owners. Then
ig he prepared to put his plans into ac
C- tion.
ir Punda knew well enough that the
Sinstant a tiger smells blood he will
Sdrop flat, and, even if the feast is a
mile away, will begin a sldw, creeping
le journey toward it, wasting hours, per
n- haps. When he has approached with
h in twenty feet of the prize, quivering
with desire and terrible with greed, he
Swill leap into the air likes a cannonball
or and plunge down upon his victim.
t. Punda-Tsang knew all this; so he dug
Sa pit down the valley, constructed a
h network of brpnches over it and laid a
quarter of. b~ullock upon it, Then he
n waited for tih tigr to scent the blood
ch and make his slow,0'rawijng journey,
ut knowing that when he mlth.~ai4
re twenty feet leap he would go ~ras
through the network into the pite
. Then Tsang planned hat e
'.-,~·":I
would starve the beast, let down a doi
cage baited with more fresh meat, and, libi
sliding the bars from above, haul the art
captured tiger out and sell him over buI
again. All of this might have hap- rel
pened, but events somewhat stranger gr(
and more terrible for I'unda-Tsang .in- bri
tarfered, doubtless as another direct
visitation of the vengeance of the little th
clay gods, in the bungalow corner, half ho
concealed in clouds of punk smoke. th<
Sa
As little Iali was the innkeeper's a I
coustant solace and companion, she go
went with him to the pit digging, her do
father explaining to. her the manner of on
capturing the '"four-footed jungle god," or
which facts, instead of frightening the m(
child, only helped to increase the stock mc
of her play gods and demons, which lif
she moulded deftly from the red clay ge
of the ravine. For two days nothing tit
was heard of the tiger, and Puuda- to
Tsang began to fear that he had gone th
back to the hills by another route. sli
On the afternoon of the third day I
sat on the cliff's edge, watching the de
g mists rise from the roaring river ex
bottom, a phenomenon which al- at
ways accompanies the closing g(
day. Suddenly there was a grat b(
shuffling of sandals about the L
compound, and I knew something ex
traordinary was taking place. I turned
quickly; the big form of Puuda-Tsang,
the inn-keeper, burst upon me sud- A
denly, his flat face as pallid as a
; demon's, ferocious, but with the fero
city of nameless fear. a
n "Iali!" cried he hoarsely. "Have b
Ls you seen Iali!"
e "No!" I replied, almost in a whis
h per. He did not wait, but sped to- S
)r ward the so-called bullock sheds,
- which were really caves cut in the
s solid rock beyond the Dak. I had be
d come attached to the child, whose
g marvelous beauty had charmed and s
F. whose weird ways mystified me. S
h The coolies were flying hither and s]
thither, making the air ring with their °
te loud wails. Such agitation on the part
el of these vagabonds roused me to a
d realization of the child's danger.
,d Suddenly I turned my eyes and i
r thoughts in the direction of the ravine s
o- where the tiger trap lay. I recalled '
re vividly the child's interest in the a
d "jungle god" who was to be captured e
in the deep pit; and knowing the lit
ýs- tle creature's absolute fearlessness, a
,d thought that acting upon some child- t
- ish impulse, she might have strayed
n; down the narrow path to the pit.
Id Meanwhile the wailing about me in- e
ip creased.
in I dropped over the ledge, soon
re reaching the pathway by a short route.
in As I penetrated the jungle, now suf
a f used with mist in the ruby glow of t
he the expiring day, I realized with what
fe risk to myself I was entering this dan
ul gerous spot, all unarmed. I was still
le debating whether or not to return for a
he weapon of defense, when, as I leaped 1
or over a soft spot in the red clay, I saw
!w two footprints that shot terror into my
ty heart; one was that of a mammoth
a tiger, the other belonging to a little
he child. I dropped down beside them.
ad No. There was no mistaking them, so
e, clear and fresh were both. Then I
is crept forward, scarcely daring to
re breathe, my heart beating faster and
I- faster with apprehension.
ay The distance to thattiger pit seemed
he to be doubled, and the time that
to elapsed before reaching it everlasting.
t The crackling of the leaves and twigs 4
t on the moss beneath my feet added to
tomy trepidations. Almost before I re
ug alized it I had reached the big trap,
at and then halted short, thrilled by the
u- sound of something human. Looking
tIe ahead through the deepening mists
'and intervening boughs I saw the lit
1s tie child figure of Isli creeping out
upon the withered branches over the
.i pit. For the instant I had no power
eir to move, nor dared I speak, lest, over
ill come with sudden fright, the frail lit
he tie one, might lose her foothold. Sud
'n, denly a new horror disclosed itself.
to What were those two glaring, cold,
ly yet fiery points just beyond the pit,
el- burning their way through the shad
en uws? It was the tiger.
In moments like these one's reason
i ing powers become superhuman. I
ing saw that in all probability, either Iali
otre r I was to be sacrificed, which one
he depended merely upon the caprice of
the wild beast. I had heard that the
tl calm, steady, fearless stare of a human
to is more terrifying to wild animals than
guns that kill. On the instant I re
e solved to practice it; it was my only
the expedient. So I stared at those two
ed coldly bright' and glowing points of
e- light like a madman.
ng Suddenly I saw the little figure
he waver on the dead branches over the
Sa mouth of the pit, and then, with a
act weak little cry poor Iali had lost her
the foothold and slipped slowly through
our the yielding boughs into the cave be
ing neath. For a moment all was silent.
to Then I heard her childish prattle.
se, The "soft sand had broken Iali's fall
ore and saved her life, while I was brought
les face to face with the mostmswful .p'ob
ned lem of my life. For whet seemed
ht, hours I stood like a pillaj of btone, the
ity perspiration pouring ddwn my neck,
nd my tongue hot and parched.
hen Suddenly, as I stood like one in a
ac- trance, facing this growing problem, I
was conscious of a stir in the reeds
the and underbrush at my right hand.
will Though the sound caused me to trem
is a ble, I dared not take my eyes from the
cing crouching monster beyond. The next
er- instant a 'strange, huge shape crept
ith- stealthily out of the underwood and
ing advanced into the clearing toward the
, he pit--a ponderous black monster. It
ball was a mammoth orang-outangl
tim. The tiger croucnohed lower. He
dug seemed to be as nonplussed, as stunned
d a by the intrusion of this huge inter
a loper as I was. In motionless silence
he he transferxed his burniig 'gaze to the
ood mammoth monster.
ey, Advancing to the very edge of the
Spit, the huge ape slipped, but he re
pyered. He saw that the brsnches
e- wiltet a blind. Then he walked
around tItdgeof the trap and knelt
-s'- ·
down like a human being, slowly, de
liberately reaching out his long, hairy
arm till his "giant hand clutched that
bullock bone. Then, to my intense
relief, the orang slowly dragged the
great mass of flesh off the network of
branches upon the solid ground. Di
For a moment longer the gleam of
those two terrible eyes, now like peep
holes into a fiery furnace, followed
the unsuspecting pilferer. Then caIme
a rustle, a strange shriek like thunder, he;
a bound and a roar, and the "jungle Je:
god" had sprung into the air and come hiu
down like a flashing avalanche full up- sh
on the broad body of the kneeling on
orang. A single paw struck the mam- wi
moth ape in the back, and with an al- we
most human groan the rescuer of my he
life and hers gave up the booty, to- Ti
gether with his own life. Then the w1
tiger, with a final flash of eyes full in- pe
to my own, snatched up the carcase of sti
the bullock in his flaming jaws, and uli
slid off into the thick of the jungle. ou
After that, when he knew all, Pun- pl
da-Tsang burned incense harder than in
ever, for he avowed that the gods had an
at last forgiven his former crime; and, "i
generally speaking, Punda becaie a sa
better sort of a Malay than before.
London Mail. of
hi
SCALING WITHOUT A LADDER. h,
hi
A Pyramid of Soldiers Enables Men to gV
Surmount a 31-Foot Wall. '
Corporal Leary, the limberest man n
at Fort Sheridan, took the chance of u
breaking his neck and tumbling the tc
storming pyramids of forty-one soldiers w
in a bruised heap Saturday as he a
sprang upward from the shoulders of b
Private Miller, caught with three a
fingers of his left hand the top of the h:
high wooden wall behind which lurked 1l
the enemy, hung for one perilous imn- O
1 stant, and then gallantly pulled him- ti
self to the top, seized his rifle, and w
sprang into the midst of the foe on the e,
other side of the improyised parapet in
t the Coliseum gallery.
The human pyramid swayed, but
held its sturdy place while gallant
1 infantrymen swept up the stalwart
shoulders and over the thirty-one-foot
wall to Corporal Leary's support,while
a platoon of twenty-five men kept the
d enemy away in front of the wall.
It was at this point that the regular
army officers, who were watching the v
fray from the Coliseum gallery, led
the applause, for Corporal Leary and
his comrades had broken the world's
escalading record by three feet. As
a partial reward for his daring feat
Corporal Leary will be recommended
b iy Lieu'tean Piercival G. Lowe, in t
command of the camp, for promotion. I
When Corporal Leary climbed to
the apex of the pyramid and stood on t
the shoulders of the men in the top t
row, the tips of his nfingers lacked five t
inches of reaching the top of the wall.
a The highest wall that was ever escaladed
before was twenty-eight feet, and the I
' men who climbed over that in the I
' military carnival at New York broke i
the world's record then. The wall at
the Coliseum was thirty-one feet high, 1
' and it took just four minutes to scale
' it.
Eighteen of the heaviest and strong
est men in the regiment formed the
base of the pyramid, ten mounted on
their shoulders and leaned against the
d wall, six stood on the shoulders of the I
t ten, four on the shoulders of the six,
* and three on the shoulders of the four.
SCorporal Leary scrambled up this
Sescalading pyramid of blue, and stood
- on the shoulders of the top three,
P braced against the wall.
e When he stretched out his arms,and
Sfound his fingers would not reach the
s edge of the wall, he crouched, and
t- then, as the human mountain swayed
t dizzily beneath his feet, with the
e mighty and yet delicate effort of the
r trained athlete he sprang boldly five
- inches upward at the edge of the
it barrier. He tried to grasp the top of
- the parapet with both hands, but only
If. three fingers of his left hand went
d, high enough. The pyramid under
t, him was still swaying. He held to
- the hazaidous edge by the three
fingers for an instant, and then, witha
n- heave and a twist, pulling his whole
I body up, caught the wall with the
li other hand. An instant after he was
e ohnthe enemy's side of the barricade.
of --Chicago Tribune.
n Bicycles In the German Army."
n The German military papers have
Sjust published the report of the MIinis
ter of War regarding the results of the
O introduction of bicycles into the army
f and the training of a bicycle corps dur
.ing the year 1896, says the Philadel
e phia Record. A large number of ex
e perimental runs were made and the
a bicycles were also employed in maneu-,
cr vers to advantage. The average of
gh the runs was about thirty-five miles,
8- with an average speed of nine and one
t. half miles per hopr, including stops.
le The greatest speed obtained was twelve
all miles per hour in a run of thirty miles.
ht The greatest distance covered in any
b- one run was onethundred and thirty
ed niiles an hour, including stops. The
he soldiers attached to the bicycle service
k, were given practical' training on. the
wheel, but also received instruction in
Sa reconnoitering, readizig of the map,
L, I etc. Not long ago Lieutenant von
is Puttkammer tried to dispatch a mess
d. age by relay bicyclists going and com
n- ing a distance'of twenty-eight miles.
he He had pladed four relays of three bi
xt cyclists each at p6iots sfi miles apart:
pt and three dispatches were takemi each
ud way,the cyclists' speed exceeding thir
he teen miles per hour. It is estimated
It by the Minister of War that after for
ty days' training a company mounted
He on bicycles should be able to coverone
ed hundre' and twenty miles a. day with
er- full arnus aind equipment. The present.
Ice weight of-the military bicycle, which
he is of the folding type, is thirty-two
pounds, but thd new type, of which a
he large number has been ordered,' will
re- weigh six pounds'less. The principal
bes economy willbe found in the abandon
ed ment of chaii gearing. and the substi
elt tution f a cog-wheel diiving gear. ,
--N -
RAISE SS ST AKiTO SELL,.
nb
THE QUEER OCCUPATION OF A NEW
JERSEY FISHERMAN.
Disposes of Steaks in the New York IMar
ket and There Are People Who Pro
nounce Them Good Eating-How He go(
Discovered This Fact-A Shark Pond. RCT
Wilson Fastnet, who lives on the .r
beach at Seaside Park, over in New ho
Jersey, summer and winter, and makes
his living in fishing. knows more about sp
sharks than any other dweller along th(
our coast, and during his of-days, inE
when fish are not plentiful or the
weather is too inclement for sailing, If
he supends his time in "sharking."
This does not mean, in his vernacular, to
what the ordinary reader might sus- bh
pect; it has nothing to do with Wall
street "sharking," or killing sharks mC
upon the high seas by means of varin- r
ous lines, hooks and harpoons. It im- ac
plies a peaceful vocation that is unique on
in this country of strange employments
and trades. To understand the 10
"sharking" of Mr. Fastnet it is neces- 1)
sary to go back a little in history.
About five years ago, while fishing a
off the coast, Mr.' Fastnet caught a
huge shark on his line. Thinking he er
had a gamey fish of unusual size on er
his hook, he began to play with him, of
giving the creature more line as it so
swam from him and hauling it gently to
in as it approached nearer. In this ar
'way he induced the shark gradually bl
to swim toward the shore, where there st
was a possible chance to hook it with M
a gaff. The shark, blinded probably ,
by the pain of the hook in his stom- w,
ach, permitted the fisherman to get re
him across the sandy bar, where at ,
low water a small inland pond formed. tb
Once inside the pond the shark was at o0
the mercy of its captor. As the tide tb
went down the shark was soon strand- m
ed in the shallow water. d(
Mr. Fastnet then, with the help of di
others, -succeeded in getting a rope
around the monster's body. They
dragged him up on the beach, and by
means of several other ropes they ft
made a regular harness for the shark. 4,
Then he was turned loose and allowed tl
to swim about in the deep water off it
the shore. For several daya the shark t,
was kept a prisoner, and at regular in- h
tervals he was hauled up for exhibi- c,
tion. Many people went down to see ti
the huge monster, and Mr. Fastnet t]
charged ten cents a head from the s
spectators.
Finally it occurred to the fisherman v
that it would pay to make the shark a o
prisoner in some inland pond of water i;
where he could be unharnessed. On t
the Barnegat Bay side of the beach p
there was a small cove, which was pro- v
tected by the beach on three sides. A e
strong dam was built across the neck f
of this cove and the shark was trans- f
ported across the beach by a team of t
horses and dumped into the water. In c
this prison the old shark thrived I
mightily and seemed gradually to lose s
his ferocious temper. It took all the'
small and useless fish from Mr. Fast- i
net's net to keep the creature from
starving.
It was while watching the growth of
i this captive shark that the fisherman
3 conceived the idea of raising other
sharks in his artifidial pond. Now I
sharks' eggs are easily found along the '
Jersey coast.' They are contained in I
s capsules or horny mitter resembling
1 seaweed. They are popularly known
Sas "mermaids' purses," and the shells
are gathered by visitors to the seashore
Sfor ornamental purposes. Generally
a they are enipty of all eggs, but in the
I breeding season one can easily pick up
I these shells'full of eggs.
e Mr. Fastnet collected a humber of
e these eggs cases and threw them into
e the pond which he had formed, and in
e a few months he was agreeably sur
f prised to find young sharks swimming
y around. The old shark in his greedi
t ness devoured,these little creatures
r about as fast as they were hatched.
o Then a portion of the pond was shut
e off from the rest and new eggs were
a placed in the water. Here the young
e sharks could live and develop without
e danger from the old one. When they
s became half grown they were turned
, loose in the main pond. Immediately
there was a combat of extraordinary
ferocity. The old shark pounced upon
the youngsters and commenced to de
Srour them as fast as he could.
s- For a time the young ones fought
io back and tried to defend themselves,
Ly but they would have been destroyed
r- had not Mr. Fastnet come to their res
1- cue. He managed to land a harpoon
x. in the fleshy body of the old shark and
ie nettled his fate in a few minutes. He
a-, thought it better to destroy the big
of monster than to lose all of his young
s, sharks. When he was hauled up on
e- the beach and bled, his body was out
s. up and while the fat was boiled down
ye for its oil, the meat was cut up into
s. teaks for. eating. These proved so
my juicy and sweet that the fisherman sent
ty some to his friends. A New Yorker
we who tasted of them thought they were
ce too good to escape more general riotice,
he and he sent some to his friends in the
in city.. Everyone declarsed that they
p, were more than palatable; that they
wn were unusually delicious.
Is- This was the beginning of the de
n- mand for shark steaks. Mr. Fastnet
,s. received steady orders for shark's
ii- steaks until he nearly cut up .all his
rt young sharks to supply the demand.
eh Then he decided to raise sharks to sell,
Ir- He increased the sizeof hispond, gath
ed ered more eggs and began to breed the
r- savage cfeature for commercial pur
Bd poses. He now kills about twenty
ne sharks every summer for the market.
th Shark's steaks are quite the thins for
nt. a'big dinner. Mr. Fastnet raises a
ch good proportion of the sharks that are
wO sent to market. He kills them when
Ia they,are pbout three feet long. At this
rill age tiheir meat is very tender and juicy.
pal In order to keep up the supply he is
n- kept busy breeding new flocks every
sti- sumlier, and even then he cannot meet
th deand-.-Phiadelphisa Times.a,
A REMARKj
What a hog' ItootljDid
Rev. Eli Owen, of
country, is the posses
which has afforded him
aand a great deal of n
good many years ago a bOl
across a part of Mr. Owen
dropped in a hole not f
it rose. One year lr.
hog inclosure on the s
spring ran into the eartk
a lot of hogs. Gradually
their rootings, filled up
ing through which thei
spring sank into the
first thing Mr. Owen
pond was forming. As
the spring had no esca
backed up, and then.ba`
more. Higher and high;
rose, from a quarter of.
an acre, then an. acre,
acres, till the alarmed o"
ously perturbed as tow
pond owned him or h
pond, or whether he vas=
be the owner of a fa
water; Finally Mr. O
a pipe in the pond and
water;, saved himself from
croachments, and now he
erly cultivated, one ofth
of fishing territory in tle
some places the waters'
to fifteen feet deep,'w
are still submerged.
black-perch and otheir
stock the pond. A alk
Mr. Owen set out a
which the fish had.greA
which a large majority
returns were broken: _
weighing is high as
thirty 'ponds were h
one or two icaptured.
this body of water i
markable, as showings
do when it turns itself
dead earnest.-Glasgow
A New Baitfto
One observant 9
found out that mice n
do not invade the
the same time. Thy
the bugs. In a cons;
two evils it is rather
housekeeper's point; o
choose. This same li
the New York Eve
that the ordinary rk6u
spring traps, baited
soft, like a piece, of:
will cling to the'hook
of the wily little.crea
is the best means <e
them. With this me
L practiced also ther
which is to have every"
every dust, of sugar, of
farinaceous substance,
fact, that could aff
f tunity for osatisfying
carefully away. from.th
I by which theylfindi
3 shelves should befillt
9 gum camphor. With
- perseverance, that;i'
1 success, this, pest, :
nfestea houses,can rk
Light Fro
r A scientist has dim.
may be procured fr
succeeded in takin
graphs by the light
only. The sugar w
a direct sunlight, fot
then placed in a dark
e ately on being plaed
the sunlight stokred i
e glow, faintly at first, b
after a few mii
twenty minutes,d
, photographs'were i
Sgan to die away,
n out. Thephotogr
light are quite dist
clear as an ordiari
. scientist who ma&(
Sclares that, by ex
L to strong sunligtd
t enough light cod h
Sit to illumine :a n
g sameperid .:
d Fish Commissi
of Connecticut, hai
o giving some trikii
culture. In F
. nine miles from thie
neoticut, the Fish o
placedexperimei
shad fry. o shadeiid
• river for years, but fq
1893, more than 10
- year the fish have b
n ous there and in the
than for any one of
e fore, and the best fi
Shas bee- done in the
SCommissioner Bill say
n size of the shad has
increased by stripping
n shad to obtain spa
3o Post.
it Electric BoadS la
.r In mileage of elec
ie nany is foremost in
e, 259 miles. France
me Great Britain and :re
y Austria-Hungary, 44
y land, 29 miles; Italy,
via, Russia, Belgium a
e- from' 6.21 miles to 18.
et the ll' lines of ele,
's IEurope, 91 art worke
is head trolley line sys
d. underground ,yste .
11, of accumulators. F :
Le P Pitc i Headlong by
ir- Ernest Gadboise, a
ty plpyed on his father
t. Salem turnpike, in
or struck by lightning
a while 4riving home.'
re him from. tle wagon
eI 'andl r~idred him uncO
mis horse was knocked
y. wagon overturned.
is unconscions heis unabl
rybut he was helped into.
let dwelling. Neither h
wa .penrmanently injU'