Show report seemed as the crashing roar of a cannon and with a snarl the big cat apparently bounded against the low roof of the cave Involuntarily Saint drew back as he rested on his elbows and knees and BY ALVAH MILTON KERR with ihe movement the rifle somehow came across the mouth of the narrow The accident opening like a bar V were stringing the fourth wire pale and set anci in answer to an Insaved him for the next Instant the of the telegraph-linthe quiry of mine he said: “I’m through mad and frightened cougar plunged Siskiyou range- when It happened As after that beast" The impact of its against the bar day by day we climbed toward the sky I a gun across my shoulder breast bent the rifle barrel far out of now hldxleij in canyons or working high and slung Saint’s bosom and left arm line followed him There was an itchon thj open sides of cliffs yet ever ing in my own fingers to get a shot at were slightly torn by its claws ' That which Saint witnessed then rlslngp’foward the towering spine of the savhge creature I graboed a lanthe range wq beheld many impressive tern before leaving thinking we might fearful as it was proved very much sights near and distant lion The mountain track the animal to his lab in the to his liking Dandy was one of twin brothers rocks" When we came to the spot bounced back and went lound the whom I took on the construction force where Dandy had fallen we pushed cave like a flash while the bear at Bedding a town at the northern direct into the forest looking danced across the floor with iis mouth end of the Sacramento The keenly everywhere I confess to little open as if laughing but in 'reality valley Peek twins while naturally very alike creeping thrills in my The next moment scalp by times highly irritated in exterior wore i a temperamental as I peered about lest the terrible the cougar sprang upon the larget as we thing might fall down upon me from animal’s back The force of the plunpt way very dissimilar Dandy called him was of catlike agility and some tree like a the wall and tearing crushing carried the bear against was soon promoted to "climber” that bolt they tell With a wrench and twist it to tying the wire to the insulators Above us not far away loomed a bruin got himself free but instantly on the poles lie always great seamed and closed again and hugging and wrlth wall nf rook laughing and whistling and chaffing wrinkled with the eros’on of countless lng and bitter fighting began the others with jokes w'hile the storms and winters When we faced it The Saint saw something that ‘‘Saint" an ironical tlf’s that ere long close at hand it towered above us hun- opened his staring eyes wider The fastened itself to the other brolher dreds of feet brown and gray and cougar was close in and seemed tearwas and of quiet demeanor ing at the bear’s vitals when the with clotted here and there green He stuttered in talking and somehow bear seemed to wrench the infuriate We caught tufts of growth we got the impression that he was clinging thing loose ns with human hands and a glifupse of the mountain lion at the penetrated by a streak of timidity that base of the mighty rampart as we ap- struck it a resounding slap The But events proached but it vanished like somecougar dropped lifeless approached cowardice Saint backed out of the hole with proved that we did not know the melting into the wall When we "Saint" The brothers were touching- thing came close to the brown barrier of all speed and came panting into my ly loyal to each other stone we found many fissures and presence his bent rifle in his hand The Saint was a "puller” that Is to The next moment an enormous bear shadowy hollows in its face and at say he was one of two helpers who one of these — a low narrow hole — burst out of the opening and made off down the slope I threw my rifle worked out ahead but behind the reel some shale ' rumpled to my shoulder and aimed at the lohooking onto the wire and pulling up Saint at once dropped on hig knees the slack while the tie was being and ping shape Saint seized the barrel of I crawl into the hole to began On the mornmade to the insulator (he gun dragged him back by main strength “Don’t he gasped "the and planted myself before the opening bear me kill the cougar!” “That crea“Are you mad?” I cried I put down the- weapon and we ture will tear you into shoestrings if looked at each other We were both you go in there!” trembling all over me in!” he demanded “You Some hours later we got the moun pantingly glaring at me “that thing lain lion from the hole He was a big hurt Dandy and want to fight it!” fellow with a superb skin In remov Before I could stop him he had lng the latter we found that Saint's grabbed the lantern and disappeared shot had done little damage having I shall not attempt to relate what taken effect In the muscles of the hip happened in Saint’s own language for The destructive agent had been the misfortune bear’s terrible blow which crushed considering his lingual that would hardly be kind That which the great cat’s skull Dandy recovered occurred however even as he told It in a few weeks and joined us when ws to me afterward was stirring enough were working up in Oregon When he “entered the cavern the lantern revealed no sign of life The Excitement in Florida In a Florida town a visitor from the place was as the black mouth of some The light shone on north hailed a native great monster short stone pillars and ragged points “What’s the matter with the people that shut together along the walls here?” he asked "What are you all like teeth the roof was corrugated running so hard for?” r like the roof of some animal’s mouth “Can’t stop to talk stranger” the No cougar was there VZZJftl Throwing the man answered over his shoulder as he flare of light along the outer edge of rushed on He Demanded Me In!” “v0u the floor he found an outlet a black Men dashed out of their stores lng of our adventure with the mountain sunken hole into which he instantly slammed the doors and sprinted up lion he was left having a touch of crept pushing the lantern and rifle the street some in aprons some in An epidemic of fever down at camp in the canyon be- before him It seemed the very In- their shirt sleeves low where we were working In the sanity of courage but the vision of madness seemed to have struck the Dandy lying senseless with the red place Saint’s absence I got into his rent down his neck and side goaded The town policeman sauntered along and set the work going the boy to battle in a narrow at last Policemen never hurry We were “stringing Within half a dozen feet his head “What’s the wrong?” slit slashed through dense cloud of stranger on a mountainside early one and shoulders emerged In a smaller asked “Ain’t nothin’ wrong” 'said the poday As I leaned back with my weight cavern and 12 or 15 feet farther stars liceman “The railroad agent just In the straps and t looking toward he saw two reddish-greeOff to the left got a telegram that the down express Dandy who was at the top of a pole flaming in the gloom saw something flash lay a big hairy heap which suddenly is cornin’ through in a few minutes making a tie like smitten emeralds in the branches stirred with a snoring suspiration and with snow on the roof and the boys of a pine to the left of him and the rose up to the height of a man At have gone to fetch their families down next instant a great flying shape shot the top of the shapq a mighty mouth to the depot to see the sight”— Newinto the air in a long curve and fell opened with a yawn 'and two little Jet- ark Evening News like eyes widened with sudden interapparently upon him Echoes from Another World The master of the house had I saw it extended to the full as it est O music! Thou that bringest the shot through the air its powerful paws awakened to the fact that he had visipast and the future with their flutterand claws outstretched its short ears tors Palpably he did not like it the lan- ing flames so near to our wounds art laid back its teeth bare to its red A little wave of light fled tern’s glow and the baleful gleam of thou the evening zephyr of this life' gums rethe I flew as it cougar’s eyes and the strange or the morning breeze of life to come? Us skin satin along white face thrust In over the threshold Yes thy notes are the echoes which I canmember how strange that was not say why — my helper and I may of his private chamber troubled him angels catch from the joyous tones of have "sprung” the pole from the start He growled and sniffed end looked another world in order to drop into aur mute heart and our desolate night the vision gave us — but the huge cat angry The giant cat paid the bear no at- the exhaled vernal harmonies of the did not strike Dandy squarely Its left fixed its blazing eyes on heavens that fly far from us — Jean but tention on side the him strike to seemed paw of his head tearing down across his the light and the human face at the Paul Bichter wrinkling its sides and right shoulder and nearly to his entrance The man who Invented money crewaist and taking strips of skin and working its claws as It prepared to Saint drew the lantern back ated a popular thing all right but clothing with It The animal’s body spring struck across the three working tele- under his arm lifted his Winchester it's too bad that he also didn’t create head The a popular desire t6 work for it graph wires and cut them from the and fired at the cougar’s It whirled cross-arlike a knife with a snarling completely over scream of fear and pain and fell to the upon its side Through one swift breath the cougar sprawled and writhed wrinkling Apology of “Cub” Repor‘r Something sonal search of every car on the train of a Masterp-jhe had failed to find Senator TillIts shining hide In agony then leaped man up and away into the wood turning its "Whenever I see the name of Sena“ ‘Do you mean gleaming eyes back toward Dandy in that you looked terror as it fled Doubtless the burn- tor Tillman in print” said an ofolda news- into all the sleeping car berths Bud?’ “I am little man reminded currents paper said I ing thrusts of the electric “ ‘Yep that’s what I done’ said Bud which met the animal when it fell incident that occurred several years “ ‘But Bud’ I exclaimed In consteracross the wires were the inspirers ago when I was city editor of a little paper in a southern city of its fright rather than Dandy nation ‘weren’t a good many of these “Late one night a South Carolina berths It goes without saying that we got occupied by ladies?’ to Dandy’s side as quickh has our correspondent wired that he had failed “‘Sure’ said Bud “ ‘But what did you do when bounding legs would take us The to get a desired interview because the ycu Washyoung fellow was quite unconscious senator had taken a train for found a lady who had retired?’ We hurriedly carried him down to the ington but that we might catch him “ ‘When I busted the curtain open dewhen train the not in were ourselves we passed where long camp and looked in and a woman Jumped up termining that Saint was not at all a through our city Hastily searching a and screamed I took off my hat and saint for what with the sight of time table I found that the train men- says: ‘That’s all right lady you minutes due in a few bit w'as the tioned and senseless torn and Dandy ain’t the man I’m looking fer!’” of fever in the Saint’s own blood his There being no other reporter at hand anger was something to see As soon I seized ‘Bud’ Lunkly a raw reporter Alas Poor Pittsburg!-I- t as Dandy had his reason back which fresh from the country told him to does seem as If everything but we were happy to see arrive a few mo- meet this train at the station and get ments after we brought him to camp some sort of expression from the sen- good luck has Btruck Pittsburg these last few years — and jealous outsiders Saint took a Winchester from the lit- ator on a subject then of much imporsay that if good luck should appear tle tent In which the brothers slept tance In their midst Pittsburgers couldn’t "Some time later Bud strolled calmand began buckling a belt of cartit — Harper’s Weekly His face was ly in and informed me that after a per recognize waist his about ridges THE CAVE DUEL in Tc Raze Vesey Street “Light House” the district was willing to swear that a century ago and more it had served as a lighthouse to guide mariners on their way up and down the river This has always been the tradition attached to the place colo: being lent by the fact that in former days Greenwich was the river front street Washington and West streets huving been laid out on made land This tradition has been disputed It never was a lighthouse some say and they add that the story that It was arose from the fact that in the eighteenth century or perhaps early in the sales” As to the building itself everyone in nineteenth the place was a tavern known as “The Lighthouse" And so all that may be said definitely of the building is that it is old and that in the minds of all who live in the district or who have their places ol business there the conviction that at one time the building served as a lighthouse to warn vessels against collision with Manhattan is firmly intrenched YORK — Another old landmark famous lighthouse building which has btood on the southwest corner of Vesey and Greenwich streets for more than a hundred years — some say that it is the oldest structure in Manhattan — will soon be razed The occupants of the little and fruit stalls some of whom have been in and about the building for thirty-fivand foity years were told recently that they would have to vacate and now the walls are papered with notices of bargain "removal NEW Charter Changes Are Proposed in New veto repoit of the New York Charter made public the other day proposes few fundamental changes in the old charter but perhaps among the most interesting is the recommendation “that no person shall be eligible for the office of mayor unless he shall have been a resident of the city for at least ten years preceding his election” and that the salary be increased to $25000 a year The revision commission provides for a uniformed superintendent of police appointed from the ranks of the force and the age limit for entering the police department is raised to 25 years It is proposed to abolish the board of aldermen and in its place create a council of 39 members to serve without pay The council will have large ordinance-makinpowers but will have no control over the administrative business of the city or over franchises It THE will have the right to specific appropriations In the budget and will the tax levy Altogether a much broader grant of legislative power is vested in the council than the board of aldermen enjoyed A good deal will be accomplished the commission thinks toward simplifying the complex financial system ol the city and doing away with much extravagant and unnecessary expenditure by making the board of estimate and apportionment the great business executive committee of the city with complete control of the city’s financial affairs This board will continue to be made up of the same official members as before including a borough president to be elected from each borough The department of street cleaning will be abolished and the entire control of streets and sewers and street cleaning will be vested in a department of street control for which the mayor will be responsible The board of education will cease to be a separate corporation and will be reduced to 15 members The office of coroner Is abolished and all the duties he performed turned over to the department of health’ Other minor changes are recommended make Mutual Life Gets Big Sum from M’Curdy Mutual Life Insurance Company settled suits aggregating near$6000000 brought in 1906 against its former president Richard A McIt received from Curdy and others the defendants it is said a total of $815000 The suits were brought for the recovery of money alleged to have been obtained by the defendant officers and agents of the company or improperly expended by them “Proposals looking to an adjustment of the litigation pending between the Mutual company and certain of Us former officers and others had been under negotiation for several months” said President Charles A Peabody "They were referred by the board of trustees some time ago to a com THE ly mittee which carefully examined the situation and decided that in view of the conditions and circumstances it would be wise to settle the controversy on the terms proposed This decision of the committee was approved by Joseph II Choate the company’s special counsel in the litigation and by James McKeen general counsel of the company and was duly reported to the board and approved “The result of the settlement is that all of the claims in dispute by and against the company have been settled and released and the company has received the equivalent in value of $815 ail 000” It is $750000 $815000 understood the Mutual got The balance of the cash was represented by a claim against the company for supplies The suits included actions against former President his son McCurdy Robert II McCurdy Louis A Thebaud and Charles H Raymond who with Thebaud formed the firm of Charles H Raymond & Co metropolitan agents for the Mutual Homes to Be Built by Mrs Sage EASILY SET MATTER STRAIGHT Model buildings Mrs Russell Sage has THE name of The become linked with philanthropy through the purchase of a large tract of land in Jamaica county of Queens New York on which model houses are to be built for those who are unable to live in sanitary and comfortable quarters nearer the heart of the city While no official announcement has been made it is understood that Mrs Sage will spend several millions of dollars in this latest plan to make her vast fortune do the most good and reach the farthest among those who are In need Several other persons have become Interested In the scheme and have agreed to contribute to the expense of building the tenements and keep them up are to after those recently built In England for poor persons They are to be as large and roomy as possible and every effort is to be made to do away with the uncleanliness of those occupied by the poorer class in the city Baths are to be the features many of them of the model tenements and ventilation will amount to almost a craze with the builders The site of the buildings includes t more than acres just outside the Polish and Italian sections of Jamaica If the experiment proves successful and the poor tenants of th squalid In the city flock to seize the buildings opportunity many more buildings are to be built throughout Manhattan by Mrs Sage and her associates The rents &n the apartments in the model building are to be cheap and low as possible so that they will be within reach of even the poorest head of a family Every facility 13 to be provided for the comfort of those wlm have children The more children the tenant will receive warmer welcome t |