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Show HUNTING THE PUMA. ADsngerons lgtibnr to liar in a Dark To rest. Tho Cosmopolitan Magazine has a description uf tho puma from an old hunter, which is scarcely calculated to encourage any except tho most hardy in scoking that troachcrous animal, You hate traveled far The sun goes dowu. You build tt flro and cook your meat, and then good tea and the tabae. It U pleasant. You hear ! tho loon crj lng on tlin water, or tho last whlstlo of the heron up tho pass. The lights In the sky eomo out and shine through n thin mist; there Is nothing llko that mli,t, it is so fine and Bof t. You aro sleepy. You bleas tho j good flod. You stretch pine bianchos, vrop in your blanket and lie down to Bleep. It Is nil quiet. As you sleep, ' oomothlng comes, it glides along on I its belly llko a snnko. I It Is a pity If you have not rnrs that feel tho wholo body ns cjrs. For there Is a swift lunge, n snarl uh, I you should hear it! Tho thing has ' yon by tho throat, and thero Is an end. I To kill tha puma yo.i u.Ukt natch, j alwnys v.-utch. Yo will eeo his yellow eyes sometime, ii a troc. t.i will hear his brejt!i rt night as you protend pro-tend to .Icrp, u: 1 i-i wn.t till jou tco his f Ml oi ' nut i.f .' o shadow; then you havu ''i From a i-"unu.ln v. M ut v teh In the morning, nnd when you seo him you follow nnd follow, nnd do not rest till you have fouud him. You must never miss tire, for ho hns great strength and a mad tooth. Rut when vou havo got him ho Is worth nil A UauMlin. M.M.tow ..jIMUeil by Itf Owner for One Tlist Conttlnrd Money. I arrived hero just beforo tho first bunk bufpcnslon, Niys a Denver correspondent cor-respondent of tho St. Louis (ilobo-Dcm-ocrat, and ono of the first calls I ruado was on n merchant vho.o nervousness tnado it painful to do business with him, no matter how largo a bill could bo sold to him. On thlu particular occasion oc-casion ho seemed nUllotod with nn excessively ex-cessively sovcro nttnclt of his chronic complaint, and ho told me ho was too much worried about fluanco to talk about giving orders. Aftor awhllo he beonmo communicative communica-tive nnd told mo ho had succeeded In withdrawing from tho bunk thnt day rather over four thousand dollars, which ho had put away In a strong box In nn nctually burglnr-proof vault, Into which thieves could not poislbly break through and steal. He procaodod to tell mo In addition t'mt ho hnd mndo up a dummy package representing, and indeed counterfeiting, tho pack-ago pack-ago of currency, which ho had caiefnl-ly caiefnl-ly labeled with tho actual cmtrnts of tho valuable roll. Tho touoj package, pack-age, ho explained, woi In the b-iek of his ordinary cash drawer, which ho showed me. Ills explanation of this peculiar precaution wan that as ho had been seen by scverul people v ho hud helped start tho run on tho bank ho was afraid his placo might bo burrlar-Izod, burrlar-Izod, and that if It was tha uummy packago would undoubtedly bo taken without being opened and examined, and tho thief would hurry nwny without with-out searching for further booty. 1 smoked n good cigar with tho merchant mer-chant and tried to conviuco him thnt his bank was all right and thnt lie hud taken a great deal of unnecessary trouble. Lr.to in tho rcmo duv, however, how-ever, tho bank had to huspand, and when I saw my customer the nuxt day ho chuckled over tho success of lii precautionary measures. When I got htm down to talking business ho sud denly remembered ho owed our house n fow hundred dollars, and said if would wait ho would goto tho varlt nnd get the inonoy. Ho came back in nbout ten minutes looking as thourh lightning had struck him. Ho carried ii his hand what I presumed vas his rol of bills, und when he throw it on tho counter and rushed headlong to hit cash drawer I began to doubt his sanity. san-ity. Hut In a mlnuto his peace of mind was restored and the explanation was Obvious. Ho had made up tho real and dummy packages so much ullka that he had deceived hltnsolt and had placed a roll of brown paper In tho vault, while tho package containing over four thousand thou-sand dollars hud been lying loose In his cash drawer without any protection protec-tion against flro or thloves, UIs remarks re-marks on his own blunder wero abusive abus-ive In the oxtramo. |