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1 ,1 f il m m- Si ir- if; -1 "0? 4 gj IMS HT"I ' P -"' ' f - 1 1 ' i m mm , n ---i - ever a sokosomhwhbhisi TILKESBOltO, N..O. " Socialism is , said progress in Spain.' to . make rapid Ordinarily "when- a European says 'America' he means "the United , The census of 1895 shows thai the German Empire now has a population - of -61, 758,000, despite emigration, an increase of 2.330;000 in four and a 9 half years, v ; , They are.raising a row in "Wisconsin over the State , university. It . is charged that it is being converted into an institution for the sons of rich men, and that poor men have no show there, j "Earely does the death of a public man call forth such generous, almost unqualified, and practically universal ) tributes of esteem both for the man and the political leader," notes Public Opinion, "as have been accorded the late en-Senator Tnurman." By the official census of 1811, taken in the; year preceding the beginning of hostilities with the United States, the population of England was 10, 200,000, of Scotland 1,800,000, and of Ireland 6,000,000, a total of 18,000, 000. !The census of the United States taken 'in 1810 showed the totals popu lation: of ; this country to be, States and Territories, 7,239,000. The last official census of Great Britain, taken in 1891, showed the population to have been 37,888,000, and the census of the United States, taken the year previous, showed the population of this country-to be 62,622,000. Dr H. K. Carrol, in the Independ ent, says that the aggregate of colored church members in the United States is, in round numbers, 2,674,000, dis tributed as follows : Baptists, 1,403, ,559; I Methodists, 1,190,638; Presby terians, 30,000; Disciples of Christ, 18,578, and Protestant Episcopal and Beformed Episcopal together, some . what less than .5000. According to the. census figures, there has been an increase of 1,150,000 colored church members during the last thirty years, which Dr. Carroll thinks is unparal , leled in the history of the Christian Church. iThe value of colored church property is $26,626,000i and the aum ber of edifices is 23,770. An Australian agriculturist, Mr, Krichauff, has called attention to the fact that the potato will celebrate the 300th anniversary of its introduction into England this year. It was in 1596 ;that Sir Walter' Kaleigh returned to England from America with the first tobacco and potatoes, which originally grew in Peru. Although the potato, it is ' estimated, now furnishes one sixth of the nourishment of the human race, for a long time it was a delicacy for the rich alone. Even at the be ginning of the seventeenth century nooiemen paid two shillings a twrand .for potatoes and seasoned them with (sterry. People often visited the gar dens of the botanist Gerard at Hol . born to see the plants- in bloom. There is talk of a celebration in honor of the anniversary. ' -i . . mm - The American Cultivator remarks: The fire fiend is an enemy to f orestrv more stringent measures are npoMcam to prevent forest, fires. The forests are becoming too valuable to be neg lected. Their destruction by fire means not only the loss of property, but, the serious loss of employment to woodsmen, teamsters, sawyers, wood workers and all v the kindred trades. Ordinary cutting of trees need not destroy a forest but a heavy fire works destruction.' Dr. Eothrock, of the Pennsylvania forestry commission, thins an outrage that while a man under our laws cannot set fire - to a hen coop without severe punishment he may carelessly or willfully set fire to a forest and burn up many thou sand dollars worth of property with out being molested. Pennsylvania loses $1,000,000 'annually throuch forest fires, andf $50,000,000 ; would nbt cover, the annual loss to the coun try from this cause. It is found in inany" cases - that when a man is pur- " sued 5 by i one holding a mortgage jon his woodland he sets firf to it to spite the man who . forecloses. It is very difScult to convict such a man. Care- ' lesaness and' ignorance are responsible . -., - : j for many fires, yet thousands of dol lars' worth are burned every year from thi3 -. cause without anybody ever ji ' Tffw-nflkindof froi-nrr tiumshed. Why one Kina ,oi ' -property 'can be burned up witn lm CUI10SU1C3O1 ici , fi he-ii" to ba looked after none n-niHr when Otner inu rw " I r- . --ou WifcU hibij: money fTZJZZL toes is one of the 9 i?d the makeway Tbre h eve a song somewhere, my dear : j There is eyer a something sings alway; There's a song of the lark when the skies are ' c' ear, . - ; ; And he song of the thrash when the skies : a re grey. ,- ' ' 1 " ' ; The sunshine showers across the grain, I And the bluebird thrills in the orchard J . fee, ' , - . . '. : ':' And in and out, when the eaves drip rain, The wallows are twittering carelessly. - There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,' i 5e the skies above dark or fair; - - " " There is ever a song that - our hearts may ' hear " , There s ever a song somewhere, my dear, 'i There is ever a song somewhere! There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, i In the midnight blaek or the midday blue; The ropin pipes when the sun is here. : And the cricket chirrups the whole night through, ' . !The buds may blow and the fruit may grow, And the autumn leaves drop cxisp and , sere; But whether the sun, or the rain or the snow, There is ever a song somewhere, my dear. There s ever a song somewhere, my dear, Be the skies above dark or fair; There is ever a song that our hearts may hear Thereds ever a song somewhere, my dear, Them is ever a song somewhere! James Whitcomb Biley. PERILOUS WOOING. T one time of my life I was govern ness in the family of Sir William Mor daunt. My only pupil W8S his only daughter, Mav, and both Sir William and Lady Mor dau n t were the kindest and most generous of employers. ' My pupil was a sweet, docile child about seven years old at the time the event I am about to re late took place. Then the inevitable "he' appeared on the scene in the person of Frank Dudley, a younger brother of Lady Moraaunt. J? rank was in tne army and had been in India for some time with his regiment, but was invalided home for six months. Before that six months was concluded Frank had fallen desperately in love with the pretty governess I am a staid old marped woman now, so this is not conceit but when it came to the cruical point I could not find it in my neaiji to say tne nine wora tnac wouia make him happy. For one reason, though I liked him and was pleased with his attention, I was not sure enough of my own heart to marry him!; and for another, kind as Sir William and Lady Mordaunt were, did pot feel by any .means certain that the marriage of their young brother to aj penniless governess would be al together to their min, and I was too proud to e'nter any family where I should only be received on sufferance. So I sent 'poor Frank away very deso late! He went up to London for a few weeks, and was thence to go to Ireland, with the regiment into which he had exchanged. . Our next visitor was Mr. Jasper Mo rdaunt, a brother of Sir William. Mr. 'Jasper had been ill, suffering with severe mental strain and nervous depression. He was not happy, in his married life, and it was thought the complete rest and change in the brac ing air and lovely scenery of our Welsh home would be beneficial in re storing him to health. Sir William I and -Lady Mordaunt went to town, but oni7 the " former returned with his brother, Lady Mordaunt having gone to LBrighton for a week or two with Mrs. Jasper. It was late Jin the evening when Sir William arrived,, but I own I felt somewhat scared as I caught a passing glimpse of our new visitor's sallow, cadaverous face and wild,' dark eyes. His appearance next morning did not tend to reassure me, more especial y I as fce immediately singled me out as I ""J0 oiuwyo bubumuu, and Kept nxing nis eyes upon me as 1 sail at the head of the table dispensing the tea and coffee, 4h a manner which was, to say the least, slightly embar rassing. He addressed nearly all his remarks to me, and keDt paying me such broad and unnecessary compli ments that I felt myself getting crim son, partly with vexation and partly with amusement. Sir William looked onj laughing, and at last said : r'Come, come, Jasper, this , won't do ; if you say so many things to Miss Monroe, I shall have to send for Susan (3rs. Jasper) to keep you in order. And, by the way, you have not told me haw you slept last night. I hope you were comfortable. " . . That set him oft 'Slept!" he cried excitedly. "Why;, j. never slept a ,wmk all night not one blessed wink, Miss Monroe."; . i - II expressed my regret, and Sir WiU iap inquired the cause ol Mr.' Jasper's insomnia. ("Well, 111 tell yon all about it," he saia ; Dut,' nrst oi ail, do you believe in the -transmigration of souls ?" . : I f 'Certainly not," replied Sir Will iam, -with' conviction. "It is an ex plodedwuperstition." ; "Qh, is it, .then?" answered Mr. 1 1 . 1TTT.H T ill . uaopcjr. -vyeu, x can- teu you it is nothing of the sort, but a real certain fact, and I'll prove it to you, and tell ypu wny x could not sleep last night. I Bpme years ago I knew a lawyer ; he uooipo me, ana was recK I r , respecxaDie memoer oitne i &0ffi8sion -nw thi. mon (- f . ... m .... . . . - 1 scoundrel and swindler ; used to get tuuui uo was trustee, and wnom be I completely ruined. Well, at last this man failed for I don't know how mny A thousands, and numbers vrexei involved in this ruin, among others the three sisters I told you of. Then tne man shot himself. .: jtfow, that man had not the soul of a man at all he : had r the soul of a rat. a miserable, speaking vermin of a rat. and when he died his soul went into? a rat's body. It was late one evening when Tsaw. a big black rat run through my room, wnicn wss oa the other side of - the wall tohis. It was an enormous rat. qmte black, with long, white whiskers and very bright eyes, and it run squeaking and shrieking through my room, and then disappeared. I could hot see where it went to. The next morning I hear d the man had shot himself. Then I knew it was the man's soul which had gone into the body of the black rat. Of course, they had an ' inquest, and brought ih the verdict, 'temporary in sanity,' and they had a big funeral, and all his relatives cauie. They in vited me,' and I went, out of polite ness, you know ; but when they; came to that bit in the service about 'the soul of our dear brother ' resting in neace,' why, I could have laughed in their faces, for I knew it was not rest ing in peace at all, but careering away somewhere in the body of that, black rat." - , ' Sir William, who had been, looking crave during this tirade, here broke into a smile, and observed : WeU, ola xeilow, x dare say you are not so far out; it would be the fit test punishment for such a scoundrel as you describe, xsut did you never see the rat again?" ' "Yes, many times: but the last time of all was here, in this very house, cried Jasper, excitedly. "Indeed !" said Sir William. "Why, then you must have brought it with you." "No such thing," retorted Jasper, scornfully : "a rat like that does not wan t to be brought anywhere. But, ne continued, "l am oonndent it is also identical with a little dark man who has taken the lawyer's house, and who goes to business every day carry ing a black, shiny bag. I watch him every day as he passes, and I always sayi 'Good morning, Sir Rat, under mv breath. You mark my words, though, and look out for that rat. I got up and chased it all around the room and out into the passage, and I am confident it disappeared in the drains. You have not seen the last of it yet." Before Mr. Jasper had been very long in the house it became evident that his mental derangement was of a more serious character than had been imagined. At time s he was quiet and lucid enough, and tUeii he would suddenly break out into some incoher ent rhodomontade. His inconvenient penchant for me still continued, and he would haunt the school-room with gifts of fruit and flowers, or sweets and music, or anything for which he had heard me express a liking. One morning, soon after breakfast, I was on the lawn with May, snipping dead roses off the bushes, and gather insr a fresh supply for the table. "Here comes Uncle Jasper; let us hide," said May. . I turned, and .beheld Mr. Jasper ad vancing in his peculiar ambling fash ion. Flight was impossible, so I held May's hand, and waited until he came no with us. He held an enormous full-blown crimson picotee in his hand, and came eagerly up to me. "Ah, .my princess, I have found you; I nave oeen looking every wnere i, m i - for you to give you tms, pressing tne candy blossom into my hand. "Don't you . remember the old rhyme, Miss Monroe! I The rose is red, the violet's blue, Carnation s sweet, and so are you. "You, you," he cried ; "you are my rose and my carnation, and my morn ing star, all rolled into one, I" Where this outburst of poetio elo- nnenee would have ended. I do not know, for at this moment Simpson, the butler, came up to Mr J asper. "Mr. Jasper, he said, "will you please come and speak to Sir William inthe study? He wants to see you on business, very particular. "Now, why do you come and taiK about business when you see me talk ing with Miss Monroe?" demanded Jasper testily. ; "Go away ! I cannot attend to you or, business now." ' On my representing to Mr. Jasper, however, that I must attend to mine, and take May in to do her lessons, he consented to accompany' Simpson to the study, saying as he walked away : ""Well, I will go now, but i shall come again ; I hre something very particular to say to you. " & About a week after this Sit William and Lady Mordauntwarned by the doctor that though Mr. Jasper was not dangerously violent at present, he might at any time become so went up to town to see Mrs. Jasper and arrange about having her husband placed un der proper control, even if only for a short time. ;': , : ' ; "Simpson has experience in mental cases, and will take charge of Jasper, so you need not feel nervous," said Lady Mordaunt to me, as she went away. Sr; 'PVSV;"' -v-y. ;:; 'J resolved that I would spend the day in the school-room, and give my eccentric lover a wide berth. , In the afternoon, however, May complained of a headache, and I sent hex to her nurse to lie down. Then.tempted by the beauty of the day, I took my book and went out, intending to spend the afternoon on the cliffs i For a little while I read undisturbed. Then a sudden shadowicross my book made me look up, and there, with a wild glare in his eyes and a look f savage frenzy on his face 'stood Mr. Jasper. ' -' ' u r I started to 'my feet with- a cry mi horr6r. There was no mistaking the deadly : light of insanity in his eyes. I was on the edge of a dangerous cliff L with a madman! 'Mv 'cem. -my princess and star, 'r ; to ciietfi 'l haye found you at feist; they hare been trying to keep us apart an aay, duv uaw we nave found each otner ana wiu never part any more. ''. "His gem, princess and star though I imagined I must have te-- sembled a frightened thunder cloud more than any of the above similes- turned on him indignantly, and ; I did the most foolish thing. under tK mr- cumstances that I could do I forgot that I was dealing with a lunatic, and spoke to him as if he were sane. "Please to go away at once. Mrl Jasper ; I came here to be alone, and do not wisn jor company." "Oh, now you are going to be cross, j us1 1 like my wife ; she is alwavs scolding ana nagging, never gives me a minute's peace. Bat I love my wife. I do," he added, reflectivelv. as if hv way of afterthought ; "I love my wife ; do you believe me?". . . This; under the circumstances, was a satisf act ary assertion on Mr. Jasper's part, and I hastened to assure him of my perfect confidence in his conjugal fidelity, adding: "But she would not like to see you behaving in this way; loose my hands, please,. Mr. Jas per, and go away." For answer he drew me' closer to him;;I could feel his hot breath on my face, and my terror was increasing every moment. , "I love my wife," reiterated Mr. Jasper, "but I love the morning star, and you,, you are the morning star. Come, let us jump over this precipice into the glorious space, and we will circle round the moon together, and be happy evermore." Then to my horror, Mr. Jasper placed his arms around me and forci bly lifted me off my feet. In another instant we should have started on that aerial journey Mr. Jasper wished to take. To struggle in that vice 'like grip was unavailing ; there was not a human being within reach to come to my assistance ; one more step, and we should be over the cliff, and must inevitably be dashed to pieces on the rocks below. I uttered one Jong, piercing scream. Then a loud, clear voice rang in my ears : "Jasper, Jasper, what are you about? For heaven's sake loose this young lady ; do you want to kill both yourself and her ?" Then I felt myself wrenched from the grasp of the" madman, and almost flung to a safe distance on -the grass. "Frank, Frank." I ciied, "oh. how thankful I am you have come.". Later in the evening I was sitting k in the same drawing room, pale,, but quite recovered, whea Frank Dudley came in. "Ob, Mr. Dudley," I said, "lean never thank you enough you have saved my life; but for youj I should now be lying crushed and lifeless at the foot of the Great Tor." "Mr. Dudley," he said, seating him self on the couch beside me. "I. was 'Frank' this afternoon ; please, may I not stay so ?" T "Oh, I forgot then; I was so frightened, I . did not think what I was saying," I replied, and I know I got very red as I said it. "Well, it was very nice. I wish you would always be so frightened, and not know what you are saying when you are talking to me. But you have not asked me how it is I am here instead of far away in Ireland." "No, I have not ; but how was it? 'Well, you see, the regiment is not to sail for ' a week later than was at first arranged, so, having time to spare, I came down here. ,!They told me you had gone on the cliffs, so I went out to find you, Eleie, I came back to see if you would reconsider what you said to me if you would give me any hope." I don't know who spoke next nor precisely what was said, but I know I found Frank's strong arms around me and felt his kisses upon my lips. All this happened many years ago. My husband is Cplotfel of his regiment now, and my two little girl will leave their play in the compound and come and sit in the veranda while mother a!1b the storv of i how poor, mad Uncle Jasper tried to jump over the cliffs with her, and father came and xescued her. Household Words. A Moving Monntain. This province ' is cstated to have a moving mountain. It rises near the Cascades, a gigantic mass of dark basalt, six or eight l miles long, 2000 feet high and with a three-pronged pinnacle to tempt the adventurous. Xear by year this mountain is moving down toward the river, and some day it will dam it and form a vast lake. The forests at its foot are being gradu ally pushed . beneath" the water, and are fringed with submerged stumps. The railwav that ' runs along it has been displaced to the extent, m parts, of ten feet within a-few years. The cause of the phenomenon is supposed to be a gradual subsidence of the soft sandstone, at the base of the mountain, which is continually, washed, away by the swiftly flowing waters of Columbia Biver. -Vancouver (British Columbia) World. -- . . : v t, . '; j - v- A Curious; Batch Custom. ' ' In several towns in Holland a birth is announoed by exposing at the door a silk pin-cushioh, covered and edged by plaited lace, the sex of the infant being-shown by the color for a boy, red ; a girl, white. ; The house which shows in this manner that the number of its inhabitants has been increased enjoys, by ancient law and custom, various immunities and privileges. The Organist ExpressedJIlis Feelings, After waiting half an hour, for the contracting, parties to turn tip at a swell wedding in a Providence (R. L) church last week, the organist, having played almost everything ' he knew, finally,' with; a- keener sense of the feeling of: the congregation than of the proprieties, played,' "Oh,- Dearl What Can the Matter Be r New York SELECT SIFTING The Tigris ia 1150 miles 10Cg. ' On the Pacific-coast are well-defined wet and dry seasons. ' Hlinois's corn crop yields an averr age of thirty-nine bushels an acre for the entire State. This a has been ex ceeded but four times in 1875, 1877, 1879 and 1888. Doylestown . (Penn.) people were treated to a movel Sight several days ago, when a coach passed through the borough -with a little Ted pig trotting along ibehind like the proverbial yel low dog. . - v A man released from jail in Win chester Inda few; days ago, after serving a long term, went straight to the railroad station to take a train for his home,' and in . attempting to board it fell under the wheels and was killed. Lee, Mass., prides itself considera bly on its spry old people. Mrs. Swan celebrated her 103d birthday recently. Captain Norton is ninety nine years bid, Mrs. Harriet Hinckley is ninety-four and Mrs;; Baker is ninety-three. ; Octogenarians are too young to be taken seriously there.' At Waterloo, Mo., midway between the towns of Napoleon and Welling ton, is a tree sticking out through the roof of a mill, which the owner oblig ingly built around its trunk: The tree is dead and rotting now, and will have to be removed, but for many years it grew, right alongsidejthe chimney of the steam engine. After seventy years of married life together Mr. Snowden Files and his wife Eliza, of Sheperdstown, W. Va. , died on the same day, within a few hours . of 'each other. Mr. Files was ninety-one years old and , his wife was eighty-eight. Up to within a year the old man was in-full posses sion 6t all his faculties, and rode about the country on spirited horses. Indeed, he broke several colts when he was nearly ninety years old. ' Justice in Norway. Speaking- of our court? and their unsatisfactory and expensive methods, the Savannah Press says : It is a Norwegian saw that "a poor settlement is better than a fat judg ment." Founded on this idea are its unique and admirable courts of con ciliation. Every city, village and dis trict in Norway has such a court; It is made up of two ' members, one of whom is clerk. The best men in each community are given the places. Pol itics have never entered into their se lection. The court is secret even to the higher courts. The law courts will throw out any case that has not been submitted first to the court of concil iation. Litigants must appear in per son. Lawyers are 'rigidly excluded except when litigants. Fees are but twenty-five cents, fifty cents being added if conciliation is effected. There are no rules or forms. Documentary evidence may be submitted sometimes. The plaintiff, the defendant and the two members of the court get togeth er secretly and. informally talk the case over. The court weighs all matters "well. It reasons with the litigants and asks both sides to make concessions and settle their differences. The costs that follow, the- vexations, the uncertain ties and the delays of law are made plain to them, and we have it from Nicclay Grevstad, a magazine writer, that - seventy-five per cent, of all cases coming before these courts of concil iation in Norway are settled therein. Suspicious ot the Cake. - - n - Hans Christian Ander3on received a box of cakes from an unknown ad mirer, says the Critic; and was all gratification at the compliment. Sud denly a strange apprehension assailed him. T He had just read some account " of poison conveyed in this fashion ; possibly the gift was the murderous : device of a rival. With more aptitude : than grace, he decided, in a half ab : sent fashion, to send them on to his friend, Mme. A , to test their qual ity. A day or two later he called. "Is Mme. A- in?" "Yes, sir.1 Js she quite well?" "Quite, sir.'! "Could I see her?" "Certainly, sir." Face to face with Mme. A -.he recurred V VMW fcJ III w aw IJ . MUW jt i? Ml. WT . ( Yes. Tne cnildren well?, xes. And had she received the cakes' he sent? Eaten, some?1 And was quite well? And the children had eaten , some, ? And were quite well?" And then at last the old man's excitement : boiled over. fYou can't thinkL how pleased I am," he said ; J'those cakes were sent me by an unknown admirer, and I was afraid they might be ' poisoned. So I sent them on to you. And you have eaten them, and are quite .well. . You can't think how pleased I am I" And he passed out smiling and in high good humor. ' . Scalded by a Yolcano. San Augustine Peak, forty -miles" east of Las Craces, New Mexico, is in a state of. eruption. A week ago last Taesday Day King and . luge Davis, who were out upon the mountain, heard a rumble in the earth, which was followed soon by a distinct explo sion. About half a mile from! them oh the north side of thepeak a large granite boulder soared aloft and fell ; with a crash among the loose ! rocks. The flight of the boulder wasf ollowed by a puff 'of steam and ashes. The family of Mr. Hufford also saw the , eiuption. The next day Mr. Berger not went to the place where . the ex plosion occurred and found a depres i sion partly filled with ( ashes, ' from " which the boulder had-, been, ejected. The snow was gone for some distance around the hole, and the ground was perfectly dry., Mr. K Bergerhot soon became aware that his feet were un comfortably warm and that steam was goin up his trousers and scalding his legs, and, fearing a repetition of the volcanic eruption, he hastened away from the spotSt. Iiouis Globe-Dem-' ccrat, . . Drug Store. erry oros., 1 Wilkesborp, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints, Varnishes and Everything kept ia a First-Olass Drug Store. Prescriptions Carefully- Store in the Old Steve Johnson -Building, just opposite the Court House. " . - . Be Snre to Call and See Them. R. I STALEY & CO, DEALEE IN DRUG PATEWT WIEDICEflES, TOBACCO. CIGARS, . . t " -, - - . . . . . Cigarettes, Fancy and Toilet Soaps, etc. j etc. Prescriptions promptly and accur ately filled. Situated in. the Brick Hotel Building. LIYBRY & FEED STABLES, A. C, WELLBORN, PROP- ' Situated on Main Street, east of the Court House. Good horses aed new ve hicles of all kinds reidy for the accom modation of the traveling public Horsei ' carefully fed and attended to. Gire us a trial and see how we feed. A .C. WEiiliBOIlN, Wilkesboro, - North Carolina. R, HAGKETT, Attorneys at Law, WILKESBOBX), N. C. - . Will practice' in the State and Federal 0onrta.6:SVK . IOAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney - at - Law, - 3ST. o. "Will practice in all the courts; Dealer In real estate. Prompt attention paid io collection of claims. T. B.' FncLSYV H. L. Oszxk. FIIILEY & GREENE, Attorn eyo v at - Law, WZLEE SPORO, N. O. T7U1 practice in all the courts. Col lections a specialty. Real estate sold on ' , Fighting a Deer.. A fearful , battle took place at the ranch of J. H. Mullison recently, one mile north of Saratoga, Wyo., in which a mad buck and three people- were the combatants. " ; . .; - A tame deer, owned by W. B. Cowan, entered ' Mullison's "promises, and when he returned from town attacked . him viciously. He caught the animal by the horpi, and until his strength gave out held it at bay. His wife and 12-year-old son came, to his assistann?, and all became involved in a desperate struggle," lasting nearly an hour, be fore they could escape from the fu rious brute. " j It was T a r frightful ordeal, and the ground in front of the house bears evi dence of the desperate v struggle for life., .The deer dragged th'em, maultnl them and-trampled them in a fearful manner. They were1 covered with bruises, their clothing torn in shreds, and Mr Mullison got two -bad nesli wounds in his leg that will lay him up for some time. - . r After they had succeeded in gettinsr away from the beasjb and dragged themselves to the house, almost faint-, Ing from exhaustion and loss of blood, the . animal tried to get at then through the window. A charge of shot did not turn it from Its purpose. Fin ally George, the boy, slipped out through a window, secured a horse and aroused the town. , A posse of armedl men went to the rescue, and thp vic ious brute was" 'dispatched with a couple of rifle, balls. ; Giant Lumber Trust. . The largest trust ever formed on the Pacifio coast and representing a capital of over $70,000,000, has been consum mated at Port Townsend, Wash., and put . into effect. It is the Central Lumber Company, of California, Compofiiej .T
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