THii OLD GTOPY.
I stand b»Kiiif-
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li•• w!r.5ow here
An«: p.'i'.'.tr a: Johlj and May,
As in ii.ll, u: lu-td:!is auirht,
Tlu-y w::.ti tiiir wcolr.K way:
jAnii, oh, It tji inss ire baik tin- days,
Erii agu had ehanscd my vitw.
And ivory tuH I heard or told
I sii)l bfc!iirVi.d was new.
Go or., ko cn. rr.y hnijpy boy,
iLr.d rtad yor.r romance:
Tout!) is the time- for love and rhyme.
So do not lo.-x- your chance.
The joys that b'.i s=rd my early days
I would not keep from you
For soon you'll (ii.d the- happy tale
Won't always seem so new.
We used to stroll, long year: ago,
About th'- same old way
You were a blushing maiden then,
And I a lover nny.
I t'old you how my heart was yours,
And that I'd prove it true,
'Twas un old, c.-ld tale 1 told you, Kate,
But r.J:, we thought 'twas new,
I
And as I stand and watch them here
It all comer: back to me:
The shady walks, the loving talks,
In days that/ used to be.
There they go walking slow, ab.sorbed,
Just as we used to do:
It's an c'.d, old tale he's telling, Kate,
But, ah, they think it new.
But can it be that I am wrong,
Have I grown crabbed with age?
Let me turr. back life's closing book,
And vic\v that older page.
I'm partly wrong, I'm partly right,
Love's story's old, 'tis true
But though 'twas born In earth's first
morn,
Love's self is ever new.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, in Good House
keeping.
•!. yMj. Mt. JjVi, yM/y •?», yMj. .Mi. vMt.
Watching a Troop of I
Elephants by Moonlight fe
By E. Vaughn Kirby.
tit-
LET
me endeavor to describe the
camp and its surroundings, so that
the reader may become a participator
ill the thrilling
1
events, and share in
imagination the feelings of awe and
wonderment, with which I gazed upon
a scene such as f-jw hunters have wit
nessed. A clear, limpid stream, 30
yards wide, flowing over a smooth
sandy bottom, between low banks cov
ered with reed- ten to twelve feet in
height. On the right bank the reed
fringe, dense but narrow, separates the
stream from a wide level terrace, cov
ered with short grass, straggling bush,
and here and there a tine spreading in
chenga tree. This terrace—which in
Hood time is covered with water—runs
back for a distance of 3D yards to the
real flood bank of ihe stream, 20 feet
above its present leicl. On the top and
edge of the bank, under shelter of a
huge inclienga. camp is pitched.
Forest trees surround it, and in the
branches of those nearest to the tent
are hung masks and skins dry or dry
ing, skulls and horns finding a rest
ing place in some trees at. a greater dis
tance from the tent, while on a plat
form of logs, under grass thatch, is
a pile of tusks. IJeyond camp stretches
an extent of park-like forest. Across
the river there is no open bench be
tween it and the flood bank but a broad
and almost impenetrable area of reeds,
growing on the sandy ridges j.tid in the
intervening hollows, through which at
times brandies of the stream flow.
Above, on the opposite high bank, the
forest is excessively dense, full of low,
thick jungle, and lacking the park-like
appearance of the country on the
right bank. In the tight of day the
view is a color-scene of great brilliancy,
for it is now nearly midsummer, and
the green reeds are in flower, the aca
cias in blossom, and hung with sweet
scented balls of pink and gold flowers,
many of which give forth delicious
perfumes, are spread in clustering
spangles through the vivid green of
the young grass, or hung in festoons
of color from the larger trees.
The forent itself is a wealth of fo
liage and color, to which my descrip
tive powers cannot do justic. llrilliant,
butterflies flit from flower to flower,
while every now and then a black and
yellow swallow-tail darts through the
forest openings, skimming past the
tent into the forest beyond, and drag
on-flies of startling color dart on gauzy
wings among the reeds. Iflngflsliers
seek their food among the arching
branches, sweet-voiced birds at morn
and evening court, admiration, while
myriad's of insects swell the murmur
ing voices of these solitudes even in
the intense heat of noonday,
r.ut
now
the sun has set in the glowing west,
ancl the threatening thunder-clouds
have passed away the troops of th
"monkey-people" have drunk their fill
and sought their resting places among
the topmost boughs in the forest
doves have coned their evening lulla
by. ancf francolins uttered their cheery
good night the brief twilight is past,
and the moon is over all. hanging like
a silver shield in p. sky of blue, stud
ded' with stars, whose brilliancy the
dweller in northern lath tides cannot
know. Tn the open it is still as light
as day, but in the shadows is the dark
ness of night. It was a moonlight
night, such as might be experienced in
any other part- of the tropical zone,
and confirmation was yet required that
the scene was that of a hunter's camp
in the wilds of Africa. About 9:30 p.
m. 1 had finished 1 he various little du
ties which have to be attended to in
a eamji after the day's sport is over,
had eleaned my rifles, written up my
diary, and. having smoked my evening
half-pipe of tobacco, had turned into
my mosquito-net. both ends of the tent
remaining open. Perhaps there was less
talking among the boys that night—at
any rate he camp seemed quieter than
usual—and in half an hour I was asleep.
Suddenly awoke, conscious that- a
loud, bourse sound like—yet unlike-
that made by a lion when seizing its
prey, was ringing in my ears, followed
by a rush, a crash and a plaint ive cry.
such as a buffalo calf utters when
deprived
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of its dam. I sprang up in
my cot. listening, and saw a dark form
creeping toward the tent, and then
Doiambi, one of the carriers, crouched
at the open doorway. "A lion, master
a lion! It has caught a buffalo!" he
whimpered excitedly. Wc listened again
no longer con id we hear the bleating
cry, but twice or thrice guttural sounds
were borne on the gentle wind. I
jumped out. courting the attacks of
myriads of mosquitoes, which pierced
through and through my pajamas, and,
taking refuge in the Mnoke of the fires
with the awakened natives, listened in
tensely. The sounds appeared to em
anate from a spot about a mile up the
river, ann the boy:? said that a couple
of lions had seized a young buffalo
out of a troop in the reeds, and, hav
ing dragged it on to the opposite bank,
were devouring it and growling be
tween whiles. But 1 was not satisfied,
for I had never before heard a lion
without recognizing the sound be
yond all dotibt, whereas in this case I
had many doubts.
Later on we heard a renewed crash- I
ing among the reeds, and grunts I
failed to recognize. "That's no lion,"
I said "buffaloes would never con
tinue moving about and feeding eon
tcntedly in the reeds close to where
a lion had attacked them. I believe
it's a trocp of elephants." I ordered
the boys to remain quiet, and keep the
fires low, as it was evident some big
beasts were advancing in our direc
lion. A quarter of an hour later and
the question as to their identity was
decided, as the slumbering forest rang
with the shrill, trumpet-like notes of
an elephant then a brief pause, dur
ing which the echoes still vibrated on
the caim night air, and once moie
pealed forth the shrill, defiant chal
lenge. How that sound electrifies a
camp, and what a thrill of excitement
it sends through the heart, of the hunt
er! The grand music of the lion's voice
lias its special and unequaled charms,
but it silences a. camp in a wonderful
way. The boys cluster round the fires,
speaking with bated breath, and glanc
ing fearfully behind and around them
into the darkness or the deceptive
moonlight, as they strive to make the
dying fires blaze up, hardly daring to
look one another in the face if the beast
be close at hand. But the shrill chal
lenge of an elephant excites and ex
hilarates. for every one realizes that
mighty though his strength is, huge
his bulk and loud his voice, yet the
merest child need not fear. To slip int
my tent for two rifles and ammunition
and back into the fire smoke to await
events, was the work of a moment
and how anxiously 1 watched that
wavering smoke as it blew sometimes
straight across the river, then in the
opposite direction, responsive to the
shifting currents! The elephants were
still leisurely feeding toward us, the
bulk keeping in the reeds and the bed
of the stream, but a few apparently
moving through the forest, on the
other side, still had hopes that as the
bank on our side was above the stream,
fortune might favor us, and the ele
phants come within sight, so that I
might have the novel experience of
tackling them bv moonlight.
We had not long now to wait. f«r
every moment the crashing of reeds
and branches as the huge animals
passed through became louder, till at
last we could hear the splashing of
1
lie water as they walked down the
stream, some collecting it in their
trunks, throwing it over their bodies,
and blowing through tlieir trunks with
a sharp, rattling sound. As I took up
my position on the bank in the shadow
of tent and trees, with my ten-bore
rifle at hand, and my double metford—
on to which 1 had slipped the enamel
sight—on my knees, there enters the
first of a vast troop of mighty crea
tures. With my eyes fixed on the spot,
among the moonlit reeds, which
stretched away like a silver Viand be
tween the somber forest, where the
constant crushing and deep rumbling
indicated the advance of the elephants,
I marked the waving of the lofty
stems, among whose feathered heads
several black, sinuous objects, twist
ing and twining about Kke great
snakes, were visible. Then from the
stream bed rose a dark mass and stood
on a high sandbank, a huge figure,
deep black in the shadows, glistening
gray in the high lights, with iwo small
points of white where the moonlight
shone on the tusks. She was only an
ordinary-sized cow, but in the spectral
light she. looked like a monster, stand
ing for some moments with trunk up
lifted testing the air. then outstretch
ing it in front of her she sounded a
low call, heard doubtless by every mem
ber of the troop, and simultaneously
all moved forward.
The scene becomes grand beyond
words. One by one, and in compact,
black and gray masses, the huge crea
tures seem to glide into view, till tho
whole stream-bed is alive with their
massive forms, and their gray shad
ows pass across the open moonlit
spaces in the otherwise deise forest
on the other bank, while the whoie air
is full of deeply reverberating sound*,
and the crackling of the reeds and
crash of the branches fall sharp and
clear on the ear. Once when the lead
ing elephant^ were abreast of the
camp a trumpet, loud and clear, rang
out from among the, dark masses a
hundred yards back in the reeds, the
forest caught up the sound and car
ried it to the stony slopes of the Piri,
and thence to the gorge-rifted heights
of the range, which reechoed it in ever
softening cadences. 1 seemed to live
a lifetime in that brief hour during
which these mighty creatures visited
our moonlight encampment, and- I
felt when all was over that there was
nothing more to live for.—From Sport
in East Central Africa.-
Motive* and Mnnlfontntlon.
Mrs. YVipps—I liate winter, but tny
husband revels, simply revels in cold
weather.
Mrs. Dipps—Oh. he doesn't look so
full-blooi?oil.
"Oh. he doesn't enjoy winter be
can=e he is so full-blooded, he enjoys
it because he's so full ot' contrariness."
—Washington Star.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Johnny—"raw. what is a probltkH
no\el .'" Fat her—'"One of the kind
that you can read clear through with
out finding what it's about."—.Sau
Francisco Call.
Editor—"Ah! here's a contribution
from a poet of the right stamp." As
sistant—"(iood stuff, eh?" "No hut
he incloses return postage."—Balti
more American.
"Please, papa, give me a quarter to
see the big snake in the menagerie."
"Morris, my dear, nere's the magnify
ing glass, vio look at an angle worm."'
—Fliegende Blaetter.
"It is a pity so many children look
so stupid, isn't it'.'" "Yes. it is."'
"Just sec that one across the road?"
"Hold on. That may be one of mine."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I No Substitute. The Missionary—
"Why do you drink this awful liquor?"'
Hungry Ned—"By gosh, parson, it's
the only licker in the camp. We have
to."—Philadelphia North American.
-Magistrate (kindly to prisoner)—
"I'll give you another trial." Magis
trate (to same person next morning)
I —"What are you here for?" Pearly
Sam—"1 'specs 1'se here to get da1
udder trial.'"—Green Bag.
".My visit, sir. may be a little ill
timed." remarked the poet, "but 1
trust you will hear me out." "Of
course I will," replied the editor
graciously "in fact, you can be surf
of it if you just bang the door a littlf
as you go."—Philadelphia Kecord.
He—"Here's a collar I bought foi
the dog. Isn't it a beauty? Only cosl
$l.,jii." She—"What! for that worth
less cur? 1 thought you wanled t:
get rid of the beast.'" He—"That"?
my idea. Somebody will be sure tc
steal liim now with this collar OE
him."—N. O. Times-Democrat.
COFFIN FOR A TRUNK.
A MaHHiiohuncitk .Vunogennrinn Trav
el* nltli a Queer Iluis
gage ltox.
Anthony Simpkins, a nonagenarian
of Lanesboro, Mass., started one (.lay
lately for Hopkins Station, Mich. Tin
nearest railway station to Lanesborc,
is in Pittsfield, anil when Anthony ar
rived in that city, with his blooming
wife of years, he created a sensation
of considerable magnitude. It was
neither the nonagenarian nor his wife.
however, that was the real cause of the
excitement, but a peculiar article of
baggage which the aged traveler had
wiih hi in.
When the baggagemaster came to
look over the traveling equipment
which Mr. Simpkins unloaded from a
wagon and offered for transportation
lie was somewhat surprised to see, in
the midst of bandboxes and carpetings.
a coflin. with all the usual funereal
adornment. The collin apparently con
tinued a body, for the sturdy old man
handled it as if it were heavy, and with
the greatest care. The baggagemaster
at once asked for the death certifi
cate.
"I guess I don't need none." said
Mr. Simpkins. grinning.
"We can't take the body unless you
show a certificate of death."' said the
baggagemaster. firmly.
be."
The bii{rraffoman admit tcl that ho:
would like to look into the cofiin. and
straightway Anthony unfastened the
lid and exposed the articles which he
had mentioned, and many others as
well.
The controversy had attracted tIn
attention of the people who were
waiting in the station, and by the time
the owner had raised the lid of the
collin he was surrounded by a large and
curious crowd. Somebody asked the
old man how it happened that he used
a eoftin as his trunk, and he explained
the matter in this way:
"Three years ago I had an idea that
I waif goin' to last much longer, so I
thought I'd better make sure of a good
coflin while 1 had money to buy it.
bought this coffin then, but 1 ain't had
no chance to use it until day 'fore yes
terday. Then Mary told me there
wan't room enough in the trunk for
all the things v.e wauled to take out
west, so I said thaf coffin would make
a good trunk. I wanted to take it
I along, anyhow."
Despite Mr. Simpkins" plausible ex
planation, the railroad officers refused I
to accept his coflin trunk, and with
good deal of grumbling he and his
wife transferred the contents to a dry
goods box.—X. Y. Tribune.
••nnaltlns" Monneliomi I.like.
Moosehead is now "bushed" from
Greenville to the carries. Many who
never happened to visit a larjre hike in
winter do not know that "bushhisr" a
lake is planting- a line of trees on the
ice for guidance of horse and man,
else they niitihl lose their way. and an
unbushed lake has many of the terrors
of an ocean or desert. The trees are
placed about 50 yards apart and are
frozen firmly into holes cut clear to
the water when the ice is not over font
inches thick. They are set out by eye
and hold wonderfully true courses from
point to point. Quite a job. too. to thus
plant the 1.500 add trees now direetini
the traveler's course from Greenville,
40 miles to the carries. They are no
shrubs, but stand six feet above the
snow.—Lewiston (Mo.) Journal.
BokImii'k Cathedral.
The Church of the Holy Cross at Bos
ton, Mass.. is Jarjrer than many of the
old world cathedrals, covering- more
than an acre of ground. It is tm im
posing- edifice, and there are but twe
in America that can be compared with
it—the cathedrals at Xew York a:.v!
Montreal.—Detroit Tree IVess.
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MOTIVES MISUNDERSTOOD.
Dovr tlie 1'pronrlovis Hosiery of
Swell Young Mnn Struck a
Simpkins grinned again. "There ain't
no corpse in there,"' said lie. "There's
jest some of my wife's dresses, and velopment of the younger minds, thus after
some chiny and tinware, and the big
Hotel Clerk.
There is a young business man who has
more hosiery than he knows what to iio
with, lie was quite recently on a business
trip, and happened to stop for a roupie ot
days in Philadelphia, lie wanted tn pet
some advertising, hut he was not tixt-d In pay
for it, and he had read about the "kin# of
the dudes" and other freaks who manage to
get some brief notoriety because of their
antics. He had ten dollars to spare on a
scheme, and he accordingly went to a bar-
gain sale at which they had kit of last sum
mer socks at 50 cents a pair, lie spent the
money on these things, and lie went out of
his way to pet the most outrageous combina
tions of color and the most bizarre effects
that were in the place. He succeeded won
derfully. He had socks which made the
asphalt sidewalks curl as they do under ex
treme heat. His extremities fairly shrieked.
Then he spent the day in the corridor of the
li-otel sitting in a conspicuous place showing
off the socks. He would wear a pair for
about 20 minutes, go to his room, change,
and. coming down, show off another design
for about the same time. He 1 id this for al
most ten hours, and naturally attracted
quite a good deal of attention. That was
what he wanted, but he could not break into
the newspapers. The clerk when he was
paying his bill said:
"You ought to patent that invention."
"What's that?" asked the sock man with
an anticipatory stnile, as lie expected some
thing complimentary about his scheme.
''Don't you do that for cold feet?"—Pitts
burgh Daily News.
Misnlng CttmiiiniMliitcnts.
The brilliant young preacher, when he
makes his parochial calls, endeavors to
cultivate an acquaintance with the
a
Bible and some of my hings. I guess other ahernoon while he was waiting
1 don need no certihkit for them, do drawing-room of a beautiful Cass
I I'd jest as soon show yer what they avenue residence for the delayed appc-ar-
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fashion keeping tab upon his Sunday
anee of Elsie's mamma he was entertained
by the little daughter herself. Taking her
upon his lap, he began a review of the
church lessons that had been given to a
little maid of five.
"Can you tell me. Elsie, how many com
mandments there are?''
"Yes, sir: seven or eight."
"Oh, no, dear: there are ten."
"Yes. 1 know, there used to be, but I
heard papa tell mamma yesterday that you
had broken two or three of them at least,
and that would leave only seven or eight,
you know."—Detroit Free Press.
Too Great a Strain.
Muggins—Poor Wigwaghas gone insane.
Buggins—You don't mean it!
"Yes. he started to calculate how much
alimony Solomon would have to pay if
he had lived in Chicago."—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
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