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Show V- 'TRAPPING HOW ;a .. TIGER. A YANKEE WITH A YANKEE IDEA SOLVED A PROBLEM f Iar1dQLtiy Earned a run 9500 and a Niuue a i Hero Hoar the Tl(A.r Prepare for an Attack Carried Off U Trap. A4 ' ' (Special Letter ) There jue no iuu along the highways of India, at the average reader baa probably been told before, but the traveler seeking rest and refreshment turns into one of the free bungalows He provided by the government. find cooking utensils, edislw and a bunk, and there Is goneralljr a satire caretaker Thd rule of the road is that no traveler stops longer than over night except In case of sickness or accident. Few of the bungalows have doors or windows, and unless In the height of the rainy season no blankets are hung up at the openings. It was in a bungalow( on the highway between the towns of Rampore and .Bag rah, In the province of Bengal, that Sir Edward Potter, an English tourist dolagTfla. hPf a tragic fate, bun. A patyof six had atrlved at theWhen before an dark. hour galow supper had been prepared and eaten, the gentlemen smoked and chatted for n couple of hours and then lay down on the veranda to sleep that Is, five of them did, while Sir Edward had ' n bed made up for him In the large room. The nearest ' jungle was n mile away, and as the grounds bad been beaten over for serpents no one felt any fears as he made ready for sleep. It was a starlight night, with everything quiet, and all the party fell Into a sound sleep. They were awakened at midnight or a little later by a shriek for help, and as they got to their feet they beheld an enormous Edward in tiger trotting off wltb-S- lr his jgrlp. ( 11,-Prepare, for Attack. The tiger had stolen out of the anU taken a thorough survey of the bungalow before seizing the victim. Any one of the five sleepers offered iilm an easy victim, but he passed them by. He made his way between two of them and entered the room by a window and seized Sir Edward by the shoulder. The shouts of the others did not rattle the beast in the least. Wih a twist of his head he threw the man over on his back and near-etcOr- er d the earth after hi first he fell upon the pan b! the trap- - and the jaws losed around both forelegs. Ttgvr BrMkt Ik i'k.ia. The trap was secured by a chain Mout enough to draw "a sawlog, but caught as he was the bea.t loon broke the chain and went off into the jungle ith the trap. It was while he was being followed that the body of Sir Edward was found. It seems hardly tredible but that tiger gave Reed and his native assistant a two days hunt He dragged the monster trap through thickets and up hillsides and across giound where a man could hardly nahe his way, and when finally come up with and killed he had traveled a distance of eighteen miles and had btttpn one of his legs off In hopes to get clear of the trap Not xiply that, but an hour before he was come up with and finished off the beast, fettered as he was, and covered with his own blood, hobbled Into a small and tried to seize a small child In its teeth. It was Reed's first experience with his Yankee Idea fur thinning nut the dangerous beasts of India and making a few dollars at the aama time, and he found that it wrorked very well. Though much abused afterward for his si rub way of downing the royal Bengal, be was made a hero of tn this case, and friends of the lamented Sir Edward presented him with a purse - Twt. a name which nothing van obliterate; which uiii.it,' bantngT of wse, physical disability, grow into a rWttaJon not one whit less glorious tha Nordic a's anti Melba's and Jenuy gen-Vrot- pos-alhl- l- ie vil-lu- of It Is pleasant Go, to note that Ml and Bjdi ited lloMun people. C 11 Bond of Commonwealth t. vsu, have made this triumph Jtirv has for tears been a protepp of their and Mr Bond has furafetjed. in I.hm pan the money JOSEPillMC I.IDWIGS MIIKSH. for ker must at idtnafion abioud To Josephine Ludwig was boru in St. Mr, ituiui and jis won acqu.uutailce local fame she where l,ouls. Mo., kindij uiitusi - due the opportunity fifor her excellent voice. She Ot the g.rl s met ting the gland opera under studied went abroad and nally Star while thev were In Boston. And Bouhy, Uapoul.Mo reheat and other It at 1 10 Parker is an A noted vocal teachers jeir and a HoBe'th.t engagement made (in,, known to these waa secured by Henry half ago she W. Savage and made fear debuj with gret sing is the marvelous voice that She has Castle Square Opera Company last October in Chicago, appearing as Mar- in which she guerite in Faust, scored an Immediate Bueeess Her next appearance was made in her native city, where as Ju let In "Romeo and Juliet, she duplicated that success. 11 of Since that time she has sung r,4,h Ah BAH." original musical farce comedy, in tbr acts, had its first production at New Bedford, Mass, recently, entitled Ps(as Baby" It was written by Harry Watson and C. Herbert Kerr. Tbecene of the first act Is at Rhine- t ot something overlooked, Tor after hurried consultation they began to remove the nest ' can-ylnit away FOR OUR strew by strew. Leter it was discovSOME GOOD STORIES ered that they bad rebuilt in a thick JUNIOR READERS. clump of alders and only a fewjfeet from the ground. And the reason was Aw IlUneU Man's IrlSntn to HU too patent ev'en for speculation. "The Ini Dny A Story o I Iks robin's first idea bad been to put their hnAlaa and bom of Twn Bukina beyond tbs (each, of .boys and Pony. predatory aolmalf. .Here the mill race had seemed a safeguard to them. Then they muBt have looked forward BABY AND TWO FRIENDS. We left them at play on the nursery to the time when their little t ones would be dd enough to leave the pest, floor, As often and often wed left them be- but too week to fly. What would happen to them-- , with that mad rush of fore; But once when we looked they weren't waters beneath? there any more The baby, the cat and the dog from the era I N G pr ct-R-i Y next door. There were plenty of lfs" that could be used to explsln Curlys condiNow where in the world could the tion. It be had been horn in any other truants have fled? family, if his fatherhad lived, and if W looked In the closet and under the his mother had not act steadily spoiled bed, him, his selfishness would have been We searched through the house, and cut off with hi Curls at tbe age of five. But' as it was, both the cnrla and the the yard oer and oer, For the baby, the cat and tbs dog selfish streak In hla, nature grew from next door. longer every day of his s -- J0R Ltnrs 5 HUSBANDS V a edge Faith-Bnannnl- - ' eight-year-o- But some one bad tracked through the sunshiny street The trail of those ten little wandering f ld - off his a tbought ef the paths he might have shoveled, or tbs wood In the winter he dragged . sled, without r he could have carried ,ln to, help hla . , feet, And back to the much dismayed fam- mother and Julia. In summer he was ily they hors always tod hilly tailing chip boats and Tbs baby, the cat and the dog from chasing' butterflies- - to fob errands or next door. pick berries,, I "It isnt boys work!" he whimpered, Which mischievous brain planned the when Sister Julia .hinted that she wild escapade? would like his help with the dishes. Which, which was the culprit which Thats mans work!" he complained, , started the raid? , , when his mother asked him gently to No answer. We could but to favor split a little wood, j restore he said, "Toure work;." doing glrla The baby, the cat end the dog from his nose at np cornfuUy, tipping next door. Tommy Zane, In the next yard helpMary Hicks Van Derburgb. ing hla mother hang out the Hashing; "What are you but a girl, wlth yout SKETCH OF A FAITHFUL DOG. nrls - It Isnt girls long shaving He never wronged a human being. work.-o- r youd be .doing . It, Sissy He was the friend ot man. Denied by shouted, back, nature ths gift of speech. Tie yet nnSister But .Julias Jeers, Tommy's derstood. His chief delight was at hll scoldings and hia motherd sad looks masters side, where by silent glance could not make him change tbe way of or wag of tall he told his wants or exhis life, although they did make blm pressed content He was more than uncomfortable. One day Curly's uncle "Man said kind: his of great. Hugo them for a week came with to stay has three friends bis God. his mother Uncle Saul. ' who was Curlya godand hla dog. Total depravity and famfather, and- after whom he had been ily pride may cause the first. two to named. It was true that be had called desert, but tbs faithful dog never: but he had also talkCurly "trifling. While ' others slept he stood guard ed of taking him back to visit ths that "man,' tbe noblest work' of God,1 old hlll Iarmhousa. - The llttla lazymight not pillage and do murder.-"H- a uncle had Riven out that time without "Iirhit, bones was very happy; hit mountains shot deer and boars In the indeand matter end without space now he himself was going to structible, and In ancient times, twas beyond;, do this same glorious thing, lie watchclaimed departed spirits seeking ed his mother' with such happiness resting place ofttlmea found lodgment while she packed .his trunk that it was In beasts and birds . and. erseplni; Just as well he had gone to bed before things, and these tn time becamd s "Martha, you just cred and were worshiped as gods. Uncle Saul said: 1 Who knows,' ' therefore, but in this lend him to me for a month, and will him set out road." fin ths right mat general mlxnp of time, space and At sunset , of the next day Uncle ter, but what the ancients were correct, and transmigration more than Saul jumped Curly down from" the. true? For in our imagination we can wagon and told him to run Tn the and fill tbe chip basket. ask tgreat Caesar " being wood shed dead and turned to clay might stop a Curly's mouth was ready to complain, hole to keep the wind away), why "It Isnt my placet but hla uncle cut may not my dog yet live and wield Into the opening note: "It is your a kingly sceptor, while he who poi- work, sonny. We All work. There soned him trots the dusty streets a are no women here, but if there were, ' -- ,k FAULTS CURED. - ' - Kidiic tha Staag Drunken M Ars Disciplined. In some portions of the world the customs of the good old days" still obtain. The method pursued in tha treatment of drnnken husbands In tha north of England is a survival from the time when there were no magia-- : trates convenient before whom the erring husband might be haled. This method la. known m Ridin- g- the Stung, and though a very old practice, quite recently two cases of its being enforced were brought before the public notice. The erripg husbands were tied astride long poles and carried in this ridiculous and uncomfortable position through, the streets of their town, and followed by a jeering crowd of men, women ana children, who did not hesitate to pelt them with refuse, according to the time honored usage on these occasions. There are variation of the methods of riding the stang, however, that mentioned aboje being perhaps the severest forpi. In part of Yorkshire and other northern counties, for Instance, riding the stang" la practiced more as a vicarious punishment for any frailty on the part of man or wife than a direct and personal punishment, as in the cases instanced above. Needless to say. In the cases in which the ceremony is performed vicariously, the person who rides the ftang is not subjected to bodily ill treatment St the hands of those who perform it It is usually some who la selected tor bestriding the stang. He' if carried through the streets in the dusk of the evening on the shoulders ot two men, preceded by another carrying a, lantern. At every fifty yards or so the procession makes a bait, during which the accommodating atang rider recites this verse: Good neighbors attend while I you har- . anyup, Tis neither for your sake, nor (or my ake That I ride the stang, But it is for the wife .of John Smith That I ride the stang. In the fullnesB of time the procession finds Itself Outside the house of the guilty husband, where It .disperses after a few choruses of boots and jeers. The vocal discord, however, Is seldom deemed sufficiently a supproduced plementary- pandemonium from pots, pans and kettles usually being employed against the offender. New York Press. Hy - , - - !' . nd BOTH STOOD STILL AND STARED, went off at a leisurely pace, and be war neltherflred oir nor parsued. No one dared shoot for fear of killing the man, and to have pursued the tiger Into the jungle would have been foolishness. Aa none of the party was a tiger hunter, there wag nothing to do but resume their journey and give notice at the next post of what had occurred. They had scarcely left the bungalow when a man named Reed arrlved there. He w as an American and what the English call a "cute Yankee, He had gone out to India from New York after tiger skins. Instead of taking rifles and cartridges he had taken beartraps. Landing in Calcutta with no less than two dozen monster steel traps, he was making his way up to the tiger country to do business. He wasnt blowing his horn very much as he knew that every Englishman In India would look upon him with contempt, but as there was no law against trapping tigers be meant to send Rome a shipload of skins If Jfe could. A inert ran Baits His Trmp. Reed had no sooner beard of the tragedy of the night before than be baited bis trap for bis first tiger. He traced the beast into the jungle for 200 yards and1 then set one of his traps on a path and baited It by tying a kiLAo a stake just In the rear of It This was done early in the morning, but with no hope that the tiger would leave his lair until late In the evening. He did leave it, however, much earlier thaa that. Strangely enough, he contented himself with sinking his fangs into Sir Edward and killing him, but did not mutilate the body in the slightest The bleating of the kid called him from his lair about S o'clock in the afternoon, and at the same hour the beartrap man went forth to see If hia trap was all right As he was advancing along the path In one direction the tiger wag coming np from another, and the result was that as Reed halted within five feet of the bleating and frightened kid the tiger looked him In the eyes from a distance of about forty feet Both stood still and stared for a minute: Reed had-- rifle but he was a poor shot and dared not take the risk of firing. The tiger was no doubt astonished and puzzled, and perhaps a yell would have frightened him off, but as no yell came he began to work up his temper. For two or three minutes he switched his tail and growled and then of a sudden rose in the air like a bird. He had divided the forty feet Into two leaps', but the 4a he toiKh- second was rerr- - BOYS AND GIBLS. life. - $5oo- - k soul-stirrin- g, Emperor William Taxed SltS.OOO, William the Only (no relation to the Only William of New York) Is a believer in real estate as a means of salting away money, and Is the greatest property owner in Germany. He has no less than eighty-thre- e estates, npon which he had to pay taxes to the amount of 125,000. Next to the Emperor, the Prince of Pless la the largest real estate owner in the, empire, ha estates, npon which having seventy-fiv- e be pays nearly as much In taxes as does the War Lord. After these two, the largest landed proprietor In Germany Is the Duke of Ujest, who owns fifty-tw- o estates and pays $60,01)0 taxes on them. The Duke of Ratibor posestates in Germany, besesses fifty-on- e sides his enormous holdlngsln Bohemia, and Is the fourth largest taxpayer on real estate Ain the empire. Among the other large landed proprie- -. tors of the German Empire is the King of Saxony, who is the owner of fifty, estates, most of them provided with castles or fine manor bouses. New York Press. -- Rabies Are B coming gemrec. Rubies are growing scarcer. The most beautiful come from ' Ceylon, India, and China. Tbe mines of Pegu are nearly exhausted. or but - little y. worked The regions where are situated are dangerous of apthey proach; besides. In the states of the Grand Mogul the exportation of rubles is forbidden until they have been exhibited to the so verelfrOj - who retains the most beautlfakrTIre ruby of Siam is distinguished by its deep red color, somewhat resembling the garnet Carbuncles, to which the ancients attributed fantastic properties, werg is reality rubies.- - Chicago Journal, to-da- " -Some men, said Unde Ephm. "1 like fish. Dey don never come to de toy ontell dey die, Chicago Tribune. JOSEPHINE LUDVIG. the leading female foies In the grand opera repertory ot the Castle Square Opera Company, wlnnliig other especial successes as Alda, Elsa, Nedda and Musetta. Her first New York appearance was made at the Broadway theater the other day as Musetta in La Boheme. BOSTON GIRLS LUCK. A Boston girl of 19 years has been -- engaged by the management of the Berlin Royal Opera House to sing the trying role of Marguerite In "Faust, says the Boston Journal. And what Is mors she has been engaged for a period of three years, and will be allowed to present the part In Italian, something absolutely unprecedentednpon the official German stage. Six months of each year this slip of a girl, not yet, even, woman grown, may have for her own sweet. self to travel where she wills It, to sing whenever she wishes. Geraldine Farrar has been engaged at an almost unbelievable price, a price so large, In fact, that her own, parents will not yet let their friends on this side of the water know tbe exact amount At least it is $8,000 a year, for that is what Maurice Grau offered two years ago and he did not succeed in booking her. Probably tbe salary is nearer $10,000 annually! Think of It Truly a jtrwpeotso alluring as to invite the envy of some of the foremost operatic singers In the world today. Takas Bsrlla by Storm Miss Farrar has taken Berlin quite by atom. There, where dwell some , ths trials pi Petef Rhlnebeck, a German brewer, and Us friend, Reuben Green, an invent The complications are many and kughable and hinge bn a baby that Shlnebeck finds In his home and hides when he hears some one coming. The servant finds ths baby and lnherhurry to dispose of it puts it in an Incubator which Green has Invented. Then the. mother demands the child ft Is finally traced to the servant who acknowledges having had the baby Ind says she put It in the Incubator. The incnbator is opened tnd out steps a full grown boy, which makes s laughable climax of the first set Act Second takes place at Reiters Puk, where a masquerade and Summer festival ia belng held. Tbis act Is given np entirely to specialties. The cut: Peter Rhlnebeck, Harry Watsoa; Reuben Green, Ed. Edwards; Billy tin Biter, John Roland; postman, Robert Harty; Burt, Master Redcay; Reubdh McCluskey Green, the baby; Sophronia Cecelia St Clair, Lulu Nichols; Mr. Green, Mabel Nichols; Mrs. Alice Hutchings; Rosy .Rhlnebeck, Mrs. Orein, Mabel Nichols; Tottie Fresh, Lulu Nichols; Maggie, Lottie Dart; Mrs. Milby, Frances Gerald. Miss Morgan; Theo Leon; John Robert Harty; DeFreezlngton Smyth, John Roland; Charlie New, Edward Duffia, During, this act Watson,- - Hutchings and Edvards gave & sketch, entitled, "The Dramatic Agent; ths Nichols Sisters ling their lullaby duet and Mr. Roland sings Davy Jones,9 with a chorus ty tbe. company.' The end is reached if the collapse of Greens patent folding bed and, Rhlnebeck being carried np in the files by a monster bat. beckT flat," and depicts A CLEVER PRESS NOTICE.' anybody should tell yon about a crop of corn growing 'within half a block of Broadway what would you think of him?9 inquired Willard Hol- "If comb, literary representative for Mr. Hackett at Wallacks. "Well, I should say he had been dal lying the distilled spirit of corn, until his Imagination had become disordered, was the reply. , , "Well, yea Just take 4lUtiewalk and see tor yourself, for otherwise, 1 know yo Nould doubt my statement unproved." Sure enough, we found in a little grass plot adjoining the stage door of Wallacki theater, on Thirtieth street, a small patch of green corn Just com Ing into ear. There were not' bo than a dozen stalks, bet thev servdd to prove the statement that agriculture la possible wlthlq six doors of the busiest street la metropolis. By ths way, there may be grass in Utile plot, but It does not grow the under the feet of Mr. Hacketfs representative. - Willard Holcomb. New - GERALDINE FARRAR, of the finest musicians In tha world; where criticism Is most acute;' where encouragement of foreign talent Is the great exception, not the rule; where hundreds of "prodigies fall each yeai by the musical wayside there, Miss Jerry, only daughter of a Yankee base hall player, whose name was npon the lips of every sporting man a dozen years ago, has made, within ttko YorE CUpper. the-questi- common enr, or more becoming still, crawls the earth tn deadly serpent-llk- e fear, hated by all mankind? Man, this noble work ot all creation, bath formulated laws, tis said, to govern human fiction, but some insist because the dog la a rogue by nature and needs restraint, the law must consign him to a final resting pises for dogs In the potters field. But after all, this may not be so bad, the sweetest flowers grow outside the garden wall, and the wild birds delicious song- - is bealthfnl music beside the rattle of dead mens bones and walling ot the nightly ghosts that stalk among the tombs where Ilea the precinct politician and his kind. So chary doth old Nature seem of all her laws that our philosophy at times doth seem a dream, and yet who can doubt through all her seeming contradictions there Is a systematic rule, and jumping cogs Impossible, and by this rule time will somehow even np with him whs voluntarily kills ths nobis horse or dog. "Master Rex,9 good-b- y. First to say good morning, last good night First to welcome Mistress home, last to say good-by- e. and masters all will miss you sadly. Base was tbs act that called yon hence, hut death, though fonl or fair. Is but the common lot of alt passing through life to eternity. I IL OCon-o- r In Austin, lit. Vindicator. A CASE OF BIRD REASONING, In a small village in Rhode Island are two woolen factories, and between the upper one and s pond la a long canal or mill race. Through this racer when the factories are running, the water flows vary swiftly. Near the upper mill, end leaning over the race, Is a small tree. Its slender branches bending down almost to tbe waters surface. One day a pair of robins were noticed examining this tree, and an hour or so later, they had busily engaged in building a nest tn a fork of one of the branches, directly over Many the swiftest part of the race. enrions eyes watched them from the factory windows. The place was so exposed, and yet so inaccessible; al- lost within arms length of the pnbllo beyond the reach of the P1084 a11 cat whos weIht would b too heavy for the slender limb. By noon the next day the nest was completed. Then suddenly, to the surprise of the two or three that happened to be watching at the time, the robins cessed work, as though in sudden doubt Evidently a new Idea had occurred to them or .he knowl- two-thir- ds you ebould learn to be useful. After that Curly found that work he must, for Uncle Saul couldnt be made to see the Importance of a playtime that lasted all day long. Even If the little wooda that patched the tallest hills had been full of game. Curly wouldn't have had time to bunt It.' He bad to carry so many palls of water that he grew to hate the stream that never bore the boats he was too busy to sail So one day Curly ran away homer4dder bur Hiserfor ths lesson that duty must fill a part of every ones Ufa His mother and Julia wer surprised to find him, a tightly curled little bnnch, id the entry one morning, but they were even more astonished when Curly said, after breakfast, "Sister Jo, Fd Just as soon wipe the dishes, and mamma, dont call me Curly any -more; I want to be Saul, Alice Van Leer Carrlck. INDIAN BOX AND HIS FONT. - Per la a lad who is getting hl first lesson In Individual responsibility. He has been on the hunt before, but only as one ot the fkmlly; now he must begin to set the mhn. His father has saddled n wild pony, and tells hla son to mount It The bo hangs back; the colt Is a fiery creature, and-- la' already chafing under restraint. Tha tether tells the boy that the pony shall be his whea he has conquered it, but the boy still does not move. Suddenly he seems to wsks up. . He advances slowly but steadily towards the pony. The pony hacks away, hut tha boy, hy a quick movement, grasps its mane and springs 'into the saddle. The pony Jumps', wriggles, humps lta hack like an Infuriated cat, stands on Its fore legs and kicks at Its bwn tall, paws tbe air and stamps the ground, but tbe boy clings to it, .when suddenly the saddle-girt- h breaks, and the pony tosses the bdjr ovcf its' head, and run away tor life and liberty. It Is soon caught and brought back, shaking its head angrily the while, as If protesting against such foolishness.' Again the boy mounts, and again he Is thrown. This happens- several times, and the bors mother gets -- - anx-io- oa She goes up to him and feels him all over to see that no hones have been broken. He becomes Impatient it the delay; he la going to ride that pony now, or die! So he mounts again, and this time he stays on. In vain the pony throws itself about in every direction, and lashes itself into foam and fury the boy sticks, and the pony is his! Philadelphia Times. |