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Chapter of 'His Original.')
The effort in this sketch is to
depict probable appearances re
lated to some individual occur
rences, there for limited in scope
and intended to be located near
Mukden.
In the mind's eye of the reader
and writer and as portrayed, the
central figure of the piece suppos
edly in quest of war news would
be situated varyingly at different
view-points in the front lines of
belligerents. If there was some
fidelity to a drawing of something
in a few particulars akin to human
nature, not of a refined character,
it was thought, excusable though
notin keeping with the motive of
the piece. The heathen mind of
Yed, a Japanese convert alternated
between idaletry and Christian
teachings crudely imbibed and is
not wanting in pathos of a kiud in
real life. We ought avoid literary
precider of a common quality
even if it illustrate a moral.
Animadversion upon any one is
riot intended, anything invideous
is certainly not merited and if any
term of expression seems to have
either of these effects, the fault
ought be laid to the media. It
perhaps may be execusable in a
less painstoping effort, while some
thing is chargable to space limits.
Some indulgence inclines towards
a few adtnitedly perfervid fancies
not exactly senile, if a mite mel
lowed by growing years. The ar
dent mind recreates in lettered
effusions. As our scene is laid
near Mukden and supposedly an
tecedent to the great battle threat
ened, Yed's former life is touched
lightly and at random and only
sufficiently to enable the reader to
supplement desirable details. Al
lowance is asked for deviations
not in a writer's control.
If there was reference to certain
pronounced characters of military
proclivities copied from real life.
It was because of decided impres
sions made by them. Some of
their exagerations, though found
ed in fact, relate to thrilling inci
dents, belonging to past wars and
told by survivors themselves, hop
ed not to be obtrusive should not
suffer disparagement by a partial
perusal to the exclusion of other
and inter-related parts. K
JUMPED FROM WINDOW.
Thomas Munday Tries to Take His
Own Life.
Thomas Munday, of West Salem,
aged 23 years, leaped out of the
third-story window of the south
side of the old factory of the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company at
1 130 this afternoon.
He fell a distance of about forty
feet and sustained painful injuries.
A few minutes before jump ng
Munday attempted to cut his
throat with a knife. The weapon
was taken away from him by Mr.
John Oyler, foreman of the smok
ing department, where Munday
has been employed for five years
In his effort to get the knife au
ugly gash was cut in Munday 's
hand Mr Oyler also received a
slight cut on one finger.
A. love affair is said to have been
responsible for Monday's attempt
to take his Own life. About a
month ago he drank a bottle of
laudanum and his life was saved
by the prompt arrival of a phy si
dan. : ". ,--k,K ; .
Just before he leaped ont of the
window today Munday : remarked
that he was in trouble and propos-
ed. to. kilt himself. '0'
Very Ukelyr-Friend-rHow , do
yon suppose your baby caught the
' whooping coogh? Ho hasn't been
, near, any other thlifct&r-B&Sgfii
- : Motber-f-He probably Inherited
it from me. ' I had it when I was
just Ibis ge.---Free Press.
DOGS' VOICES.
Persons Familiar With Them
Notio
Peculiarities In Tones.
''It may sound curious to persona
not familiar with the pleasures of
hunting and who know little or
nothing of what I may call the lan
guage of dogs the language they
use not among themselves, but when
they want to address their masters
in the woods I say it may sound
eurious to state that the experienced
hunter can tell the kind of game
traced by the way the dog barks,
but he can do precisely this very
thing," an old hunter said as he gos
siped with a crowd of friends in one
of the hotels. "Of course I have
reference to the all round dog and
not the dog that may be trained for
a particular kiud of sport. There
are deer dogs, bear dog?, fox dogs,
coon dogs, squirrel dogs and other
dogs that have what we could call
among human beings specialties,
and, no matter how tempting the
game, they will not depart from
their training to chase only a cer
tain kind of animal. But I was just
thinking of the all round dog the
dog that will chase any old kind of
game. I recall a dog of this sort
owned by a friend of mine in Ar
kansas, and he was about the most
useful member I ever saw. He was
good at any old kind of game in
the woods and was intelligent enough
always to know just what his mas
ter wanted him to hunt. He would
tackle anything, from a rabbit to a
bear, and had enough hound in him
to always bark when he struck a
trail. This barking constituted the
language he used when he wanted to
notify his master what kind of trail
he had struck, and his master would
know quite as well as if he had call
ed out the name of the thing. He
knew by the way the dog barked. If
he merely struck a rabbit track he
made but little noise, and he was
not very noisy on a squirrel's trail,
though the bark was somewhat dif
ferent from that used when he trail
ed a rabbit.
"So the toon yelp and the possum
yelp were different as to each other
and different as to other yelps and a
trine louder than the barking on a
rabbit or a squirrel, trail. But let
him strike a deer trail or a bear
trail well, you would think the
world was corning to an end. He
would make more noise than a whole
pack would make. The bigger the
game, it seems, the louder he would
bark. And yet his master could tell
from the way the dog intoned his
yelp whether he was chasing a bear
or a deer, and he wouldn't have to
wait either to learn the character
and direction of the dog's move
ments in. order to determine what
kind of trail he had struck." Pitts
burg Press.
Concerning Tears.
Cut what you expect in half, sub
tract what you would like to have,
add nothing and multiply the result
by naught, and you get what you
get in this vale of tears. Expect to
do without the things you want
most, take what you Can get and be
satisfied. Sew York Times.
White Oranges.
In a few years white oranges maj
grace the American dinner table or
the Italian's fruit wagon. One of
the explorers of the agricultural de
partment discovered this freak of
nature in his rambles along the
shores of the Mediterranean some
months ago and brought some cut
tings from the tree to the United
States., These were carefully graft
ed on an ordinary stock at thVde-,
partment grounds and are now
three feet high. A cutting of this
plant was sent to Santa Ana, Cal., to
be' tried in that climate. A couple of
years will see the first fruit. If it
proves of fine' flavor, cuttings will b
widely scattered,: ana in. tune. w
white orange may be as plentiful as
the seedless orange. v v t? i
ANCIENT DOG TONGS.
They Were Used to Eject Quarreling
- Canines From- Church. "
Among the many) quaint customs
existing in remote country parishes
in Wales until early in the last cen
tury not the least interesting was
the use of the dog tongs, known as
"gefail gwn" in the vernacular.
These curious and somewhat formi
dable instruments, it need scarcely
be said, were intended for ejecting
quarrelsome dogs from church dur
ing divine service.
The Welsh farmer, living in his
solitary home, some distance from
the church and combining his spir
itual needs with his matejfial occu
pations, would take his sheep dog
with him to church, looking after
his flocks and herds by the way. His
canine friend was in some instances
allowed to remain under the seat so
long as he behaved himself and re
frained from quarreling with other
dogs within the sacred precinct. At
the slightest sign of a quarrel the
parish functionary, who was provid;
ed with a stool, "set at the church
door for the officer that clears the
church from dogs," forthwith eject
ed the offenders with the tongs,
which were sufficiently strong and
secure against any resistance.
The intrusion of dogs in church
was not confined to Wales. As early
as 1597 the farmers in the parish of
Workshop took their sheep dogs
with them to church, while as late
as 1817 the same custom prevailed
at Kirton-in-Lindsey. One of Arch
bishop Laud's reasons for ordering
the erection of communion rails is
said to have originated in his desire
to keep dogs away from the altar
and from defiling it. Sometimes
these dog tongs were of wood, some
times of iron. English Country
Life.
A Protective Duty.
The whistling boy has been cele
brated in sentimental poetry. It re
mained for a New Jersey farmer to
clinch sentiment with a sound prin
ciple. He wanted a boy to pick his
grapes and went among his -neighbors
looking for one who whistled.
He found such a boy without diffi
culty and sent him up the ladder
with the order not to cease whis
tling until the last grape was picked.
Any one who has tried to whistle
and eat grapes at the same time
knows how little of the farmer's
harvest was deflected into the boy's
stomach. But the tale recalls that
older one of the boy whose father
sent him down cellar to draw a
pitcher of cider and ordered him to
whistle while he was doing it. The
whistle ceased for a time, however,
and then went on again. When the
boy reappeared he was asked why he
had stopped.
"Only to wet my whistle," he said.
Escaped In Time.
"Is that the way you always get
off a street car?" exclaimed the po
liceman as a man leaped off a trolley
car and barely missed bringing about
a collision.
"Xo, sir, it isn't," was the reply,
"but there was special need for hur
ry in this case."
"Trv a bogus nickel on the con
ductor?" "Xo. A man asked me whether
Caesar killed Brutus or Brutus kill
ed Caesar, and I got a hump on
me."
"Couldn't you have told him?"
"I could have told him that Bru
tus was the man who did the killing,
but then the durned foOl would have
kept on and asked me what he did
it for, and I wasn't -going to stay
there and admit that I didn't know !"
Chicago Tribune.
Righteous Indignation.
A lawyer making a specialty of di
vorce cases was recently consulted
by a woman desirous of bringing
action against her husband for sep
aration. The lady related a harrowing sto
ry of her ill treatment at the hands
of her better half. Indeed, the law
yer was so impressed by her recital
of woes that for a moment he was
startled out of his usual profes
sional composure. "Madam," he ex
claimed, "from what you say I gath
er that this man is a perfect brute."
Whereupon the applicant for di
vorce rose with dignity and said :
"Sir, I shall consult another law
yer. I came here to get your ad
vice as to a divorce, not to hear my
husband abused!" Harper's Week-
.
Hard Work Dons by the Heart
I have always considered the heart
the most perfect organ of the animal
economy and one that never shirks
its duty. Without one second's rest,
night or day, often without the in
termission of a single pulsation, at
every beat it propek two ounces of
blood through its structure. "At 75
pulsations "per miniite 9 pounds of
blood is sucked in and pumped out;
every hour, 540 pounds;. every day,
12,960 'pounds; every year, 4,730,
'400' pounds; every 100 years,. 473,
040,000 poundyi;
gan! Medical Brief. .. ,. - , ,
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HAWAIIAN SHARK FISHERS.
How the Great Man Eaters Are Caught
by the Natives.
It appears that the Hawaiian
chiefs of some years ago were much
addicted to the use of human flesh
as bait for sharks. It came cheaper
than pig, was equally acceptable to
the shark and gave the chief an op
portunity to kill any one whom he
disliked. The victim was cut up
and left to decompose for two or
three days in a receptacle. Kame
hameha I. was a great shark hunter
and kept those of his victims who
were intended for bait penned up
near the great temple of Mookini.
Mrs. Beckley gives a particularly
interesting account of another meth
od of capturing the huge niuhi, or
man eating shark, followed by the
natives. They first of all captured
a large number of the small com
mon shark, saved their livers with a
portion of the flesh, wrapped them
in ki leaves and baked them under
ground. From fifty to a hundred
canoes were loaded with the baked
meat and large quantities of the
pounded roots of awa, mixed with a
little water and contained in large
gourds. The fleet would sail many
miles out to sea in the direction in
which the niuhi is known to appear.
Arrived at a comparatively shal
low place, the canoe containing the
head fisherman and the priest and
the sorcerer, who was supposed to
be indispensable, would cast anchor.
Meat and a baked liver would be
thrown overboard, a few bundles at
a time, to attract sharks. After a
few days the grease and scent of
cooked meats would spread through
the water many miles in radius. The
niuhi would almost always make its
appearance after the third or fourth
day, when bundles of the baked meat
were thrown to it as fast as it could
swallow them. After awhile it would
become comparatively tame and
would come up to one or the other
of the canoes to be fed. Bundles of
the liver with the pounded awa
would then he given it, and it would
become not only satiated, but also
stupefied with awa.
A noose was then slipped over its
head, and the fleet raised anchor and
set sail for home, the' shark follow
ing, a willing prisoner, and the oc
cupants of the nearest canoes being
careful to feed it upon the same
mixture from time to time. It was
led right into shallow water until it
was stranded and then killed. Every
part of the bones and skin was sup
posed to confer unflinching bravery
upon the possessor, and tjbe actual
captor that is, the one who slipped
the noose over the niuhi's head
would also ever after be always vic
torious. Forest and Stream.
The Impossible Proofreader.
- Former Employee And what's
become of old Ballemup, who used
to be working in the proofroom ?
Editor (sadly) Gone. Hated to
part with him too. , But the pres
sure became unendurable. Although
he made me say that old Munny
baggs, who died, had "by industry
and -frugality accumulated a lone
some) future," when ? I wrote it
"handsome fortune," I forgave him
and let him stay on. s But when he
had me say in a society item; that
Miss I; Fitznoodle's ; coiffure "was
frightful by reason; of ; the awC
derangement of her soft brains," in
stead of "delightful by reason of the
careful arrangement of her soft
braids," the ' pressure " brought to
bear by influential citizens was some
thing! could no longer withstand.
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A parrot in a country district es
caped from its cage and settled on
the roof of a laborer's cottage. ' The
laborer, bad never seen such a thing
before and climbed jap with a view
"of:' securing it,S s ; When " his - head
reached the level of the' top of the
roof, the parrot flapped a wing at
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