Show BRAVE DEED OF A garl how a surgeon year oid ellsa dragged a death A most remarkable story of frontier bravery the heroine being miss pauline collier a young lady sixteen years of age comes from childress a new town in the panhandle pan handle country this state says a letter from san antonio teai miss collier is a pupil in the childress district school and although she lives tan miles from that town she makes tha trip back and forth each day on a spirited texan pony one morning last week she left home at an early hour and was riding leisurely along when she espied an enormous panther immediately in front of her crouched in the short prairie grass ready for a fatal spring with admirable presence of mind miss collier seized the lariat hanging at her saddlebow saddle bow and with great dexterity the animals neck was encircled with the deadly coil at a word from its mistress the pony which miss collier was riding sprang away at a gallop dragging the savage but helpless monster to its death upon becoming satisfied that the animals life was extinct the young lady undid the rope from the pommel ot her saddle leaving the panther stretched upon the prairie behind her proceeding on her way to school she met johni perry in company with several cowboys and ref the story they went to where the dead panther lay and proceeded to denude it of its hide which will a robe and presented to the young lady the panther weighed two hundred and ten dounda in a uie A man who argues hat one pound of tea makes four hundred small or three hundred ordinary sized cups states his case as follows tea testers ordinarily use a silver five cent piece for weighing the exact quantity required for a cup As there are about five five ti pieces to an ounce and as there are sixteen ounces J a pound it follows 5 that one pound of tea will actually make four hundred cups according to x the standard of strength ordinarily re by professional testers the cups fused for this purpose contain however one than the average domestic teacups tea cups irwill there 1 fore be seen that after making due 1 allowance for the difference in the size of the cups the number very close io most flatter persons more easy to than to praise THE moral value of life is not a fancy faiths purity and endurance are not mere names biye way to repining no habit is worse than that of useless grumbling Action and work will mend the worst fortune home to Is that there isaio place like a wholesome laugh partiality but to another mans home to scorn because it is nota fac ones own is illiberal and unmanly 4 f sa W r 4 uki |