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: THE MAN EATER f "The man eater is madP I looked at the tall T?xan appre hensively. ?Are yon certauir I*8|?ed. ?I know, it* I ha4 my, suspicions vestcrday, ai?P now there is no doabtofit." \^ This was serions. The man eat er was the largest and. most fero cious bloodhound in Texas. It was hon' enough to control him at any time but mad! I shuddered at the thought. \ My week's visit at the Bolton xancli had satisfidd me that my host Teally cared for only two things in the world?bis daughters and tho truin eater. ** Where is Miss Sallie?" I in quired anxiously. "Oh, that's all right," replied Bol ton carelessly. ''Su?lie took her pony and went for a ride -an hour ago* and the hound is safe ?uough. I took himjby the collar just now and locked him up where he won't get at anybody. But it breaks mo up, old fellow. I wouldn't lose him for anything." My interest began to weaken. Miss Sallie was safe, and the dog was locked up. What was a blood hound to me? If the savage mon ster died, so much the better. I walked off to tho stable. A ride over the prairie was not to be missed on such a morning, and there would be a chance of riding back with Sallie. . But I was doomed to disappoint ment. My horse was lame. It did not take long to convince me that somebody had been riding him tho night before. Just then Pedro came inx sight. The ugly little Mexican gave a start when lie saw mo and looked away. "You yellow rascal!" I shouted. "You had my horse last night!" "Xo, sonor." "\"oii are lying!" "Xo, by all the saints, senor." 'Then where were you at mid night ?" "I was attending to my business," snapped Pedro. lie looked so viciously mean and so impudent that I gave him a light cut with my whip and told him to get out of my sight. He muttered something and slunk off. There was j other animal that I cared to ride, and I made up my mind to walk. I had left the ranch several hun dred yards behind me when I turned and looked back. ? Even at^thst dis-^ tante I could plainly recognize Pe dro. He *iVas walking around' a lit tle cabin back of the kitchen and was apparently peeping through tho cracks. "Looking at the man eater," I said to myself. ^It is a good thing the beast is locked up." The bracing morning air and the level prairie stretching out before me for miles tempted me to take a long walk. A long way off I could see a hill, the only one in all that flat country. Why not climB it and see what was on the other side ? Per haps Sallie was over there. So I walked on with swinging strides for a couple o* miles. Suddenly I came to a dead halt. ''That sounds like the man eater's bark !" T. exclaimed. Again I heard it anu stopped a moment. For an instant my muscles were paralyzed. I was absolutely unable to move. A thousand horrible thoughts rushed into^my mind. If this mad bloodhound vas on. my track my case was hopeleis. I could not get back to the ranch. There was not a tree in sight, and the hill was still miles away. What was to be done ? I summoned all my strength and made a run at the top of my speed. I kept on as long as I could and then paused to rest and listen. The man eater was coming m way, bv?t not much faster than could run. I resumed my flight. Would a mad dog have his usual keen in stinct about him? Would he pur sue the trail or become confused and give it m^)? These - Noughts inspired me^with a faint hope. If tine dog's slow progress enabled me to reach the hill, where there was timber, I could climb a tree, or possibly he would be missed, and his master would ride in pursuit. From one point where there was a gentle rise in the prairie I could see in the distance a moving speck. It was the man eater steadily fol lowing my trail ! t My surmise turned out to be part ly correct. The animal seemed to be at fault. He would stop and run back a few 'yards and branch off aimlessly in every direction. But this did not last long. After a series of eccentric movements the hound would get on my -track again and rush forward. He was gaining, and my chances of reaching the hill began io look gloomy. For the next fifteen minutes I dii somo good/running,-but when I , --*V turned to cast a backward glance I could see the dog intoro plainly than ever. / _ - One thing encouraged me ; he did not appear to see me, but blundered on in a clumsy, dazed sort of way. There were no streams^' to cross, nothing that wouid throw, him off the scent. I had no weapon, only a small pocketkuifc, and. a fight with a mad dog was out of the question. *% stren.o^h was giving oiit, and I felUhat the end was not far off. iVheh ? again lo?lce?r hacK, tho dog -ras not more vhan 300 yards away, and the base of the hill was still a mile off. ? spasm of terror reized me, but to my surprise the gTeat brute sud denly sat down on his haunches and howled plaintively. It was a minute or two before he found tho trail again. If' his mal ady KadCdimmed' his eight and con fused himy there was still a chance foi-md, but it'rwaa a-, slim.one. With a tremendous"" effort I broke forward-on my last run. This time I would reach the bill or turn at the list moment and die, making a vain effort to choke the monster. The blood-rushed to my head, and I could hardly see anything as I darted on at the top of my speed. The hound was rapidly making headway and at last seemed to havo as in view. A glance over my shoul der showed him not a hundred yards behind. Everything was in a whirl. Some- i body was riding out from behind the hill and coming my way. The hat, the riding habit?I could not be mistaken?it was Sallie Bolton. But my race was nearly run. Even with help in sight I could bear up no longer. The girl was riding like the wind, and I could see that sho had a lasso in one hand. I knew that this cattle queen, as tho cowboys called her, could do anything almost with a lasso, but would sne get there in time ? The man eater came bounding on, and Sallie rode straight at him like a little thunderbolt. She whirled the lasso over and over around her head, and?but it was too late. I could hear the dog panting behind me! A wave of darkness rolled over mo as I fell to the ground just as I heard something swish through tho air. But I was up in a minute?just in time to see my rescuer give a-putt that tightened the lasso around the dog's neck. A few convulsions, and' the dog was strangled?dead within six feet of me. My thanks were cut short by the appearance of a ligHt wagon driven by one of Bolton's neighbors, who offered to take mo back to the ranch, an invitation not I to be declined under the circum I stances. j Sallie Bolton rode on ahead, and I when I reached the house her father was waiting to congratulate me upon my escape. "It was Pedro's work/' he said. "He unlocked the door and set the dog on your trail?at least I i think so. He had a key, and he has j disappeared." _ Undoubtedly it was Pe&ro. He had been trying to pay me back. I have never seen the Boitons i since my adventur? with the man eater, but I am not likely to forget the little cattle queen while I live. He Meant the Bird. Some time ago a man got a curi ous present from a sea captain. It was a fine specimen of the bird which the sailors call the 'laughing jackass/' and he was not a little proud of it. As he was carrying it home he met a brawny Irish navvy, who stopped him and asked : "Phwat kind of burrd is that,' sorr?" j "That's a laughing jackass," ex plained the owner genially. The' Irishman, thinking he was being made fun of, was equal to the occasion and responded with a twin kle of the eye : "It's not yersilf; it's the burrd Oi mane, sorr!"?London Tit-Bits. A Patron of the Realistic School, j "Do you prefer realism or the | ideal in art ? asked Mrs. Oldcastle i as they sat down in a corner of the magnificent library of the new neighbors. "Oh," said her hostess, "I would j not have anything but realism as : long as we can afford it. Of course ; if people ain't got much money I ; s'pose that them chromos are better j than nothing for the poor things, ; b?t I just told Josiah when we com- j menced building this place that I there wouldn't be anything except ' real paintings in it if I could have , my way, and every, picture here is j realism."?Chicago Record-Herald. Appropriate Texts. One of the restaurant men of New York who have popular eating houses all over the city likes to in terpolate little literary morsels on his advertisement cards. Here are three appropriate ones which he printed recently: "Coffee, which makes the politician wise," Pope. "Dispatch is the soul of busi ness," Chesterfield. "Let good di gestion wait on appetite," Shake- ! speare.?-Kew York Tribune. Keep vour vital organs in good con dition if you would have health du r?og the malarial season. Prickly ; Ash Bitters cleanses and strengthens . the stomach, Aiver and bowel? end i helps the system to resist disoase germs. Evans Pharmacy. ? Some men are so lucky that when they get up in the night and go dorrr J to tho dining room to get a drink of j water they will walk on the fly paper with their bare feet if it is stuck to the ceiling. ' ? It is but natural that the board ing school girl would .'rather board than keep house after she is married. ? The man who says he never makes a mistake probably doesn't know one when he sees it. ? If you start out in the morning with a smile on your face you will bo surprised at the number of pleasant people you meet. PHILOSOPHY OF LAUGHING, j Optlmi&m a Supreme Sedative?Worry I Is Bad For tho Health. Again a word about the philoso phy of laughter. When the system is nerved, and is making conscious or unconscious effort, the nerves that tighten the walla of tho blood ves sels are hard at work, and pressure in the arteries is great; but a hearty laugh, as Brucke's interesting exper iments show, tends to bring the blood over into the veins where there is no pressure, relieves the arteries and brings the exquisite sensations of relaxation of rest. This is fa vored even by the attitude of a hearty laugh. To draw in a fuir* breath, throw back tho head, open the mouth and let the expiration "gurgle forth with sonorous inter mittence," to quote a phrase, from the "Philosophy of Laughter," and to do it again and again slowly throws off the chains of the world's ?~real taskmaster and brings us back, ack toward the primeval paradise, where there was nothing out joy, and sin and e or row were unknown. Once more, optimism is one of the supremo sedatives. There are men who worry because the sun will sometimes go out ar d the earth grow dead and cold like the moon, or tho coal measures be exhausted, or the fertile areas of the world dry up because of the denudation of for ests, but the philosophy of health is that the best things have not hap pened; that man's history has only 1'ust begun; that, on the whole, there ?as been steady progress; that in virtue, comfort, knowledge, arts, re ligion and nearly if not quite all the essentials of the further develop ment of man, faith in human nature and belief in a future better than the present is the conclusion of ev ery philosophy of development and evolution. ^It is our good fortune to live in a day of the evolution of evolution, and this is giving a new meaning to the very word progress and makes us feel that the world is rational and beneficent to the core and that whore conscious purpose and effort fail wo sink back into ev erlasting arms. This is a sanifying point of view authorized now by both science and religion and is a good psychic state to sleep on or in which to enter the great rest.?Ains lee's Magazine. Too Much Fault Finding. Hemy Crabb Bobirison, the kind ly and philosophic barrister, once gave an effectual rebuke to tho hab it of fault finding. It was, as we read in Iiis diary, during a visit to Paris. He had spent the day in sightsee ing with a London acquaintance, who said to him at parting, "I will call for you tomorrow." "I will thank you not to call," re plied Robinson. "I would rather not see anything else with you, and I will tell you frankly why. I came to Paris to enjoy myself, and that enjoyment needs the accompaniment of sympathy with others. Now, you dislike everything and find fault with everything. You see nothing which you do not find inferior to what you have seen before. This may be all very true, but it makes me uncomfortable. So I shall be glad to see you in London, but no more in Paris." A Judge Of Sermons. A clergyman in Scotland^ invited Bishop Selwyn to preach in his church. As usual his lordship gave an impressive and beautiful sermon, wliich at the same time was perfect ly plain and simple The rector was delighted qnd said as much on meet ing one of the most regular members of his congregation. "Well, sir, I don't think so mUch of it," rejoined the man. "It was so simple any child could have un derstood it. For my part, I like a sermon which confuses your head for a week. I don't know any which beats yours for that, sir."?London Tit-Bits. A 8afe Refuge. A certain wild beast tamer had been on bad terms for some time with one of his neighbors, and tho other day, as the result of a violent quarrel, the latter, with a frend, at tacked the former just before he was timed to give his performance. The tamer, unwilling to make a scene, took refuge in the lion's den. Judge of the amusement of the spectators when they beheld the two men standing in front of tho cage and shouting through the bars at regular intervals : "Come out of that, you big cow ?rd ! Come out of that !"?Chums. A Careless Boy. Mrs. Boggs?Little Johnny has lost his knife, and I was thiuking? Mr. Boggs ?What? Has that boy lost another knife? It's out rageous 1 Here I am slaving my self to death to support my family md everything going to rack and ruin. That was a good knife, and t's a shame. Mrs. Boggs?I was thinking, my lear, that as I have found six or right knives that you have lost you night give him one of them. To Care a Cold In Ooe Day. Take Laxative Brotno Quinine Tab ets. AU druggists refuud the money f it fails* to cure. E. W. Grove's ignature on every box. 25c. ? According to the small boy's vcr ion a thin slice of cake is better than 10 bread. ? Many a mad makes a fool of him elf because be ha.-u't the moral cour ige to do otherwise - ???? uvu AXT x MUIAJUMXXX MAXIMS OF A WITTY ABBE. A Notable Eighteenth Century Figure !" Trench Society. Some of the maxima and anecdotes of Nicholas de Chamfort, the witty abbe, who during the latter half of the eighteenth centhry was such a notable figure in French society, have been translated by Mr. W. G. Hutchison and published by a Lon don firm. Here are some samples of the abbe's wit as rendered by tho translator: "Living is a disease from the pains of which sleep eases us every sixteen hours. Sleep is but a pallia tive; death alone is the cure." "The worst wasted of all days is that in which one has not laughed/' I . "Tis not generally known how much wit a man requires to avoid being ridiculous." "The best philosophical attitude to adopt toward tho world is ? union of the sarcasm of gayety with the indulgence of contempt." "Society would be a charming af fair if we were only interested in one another." "There is no history worthy of attention save that of free nations. ! The history of nations5, under tho sway of despotism is.no more than j a collection of anecdotes." Some of his anecdotes are good. Mme. de Talmont, seeing M. de Bichelieu neglecting her to pay at tentions to Lime, de Brionne, a very beautiful woman, but paid; to be rather stupid, remarked to him, "You are not blind, marshal, but I cannot help thinking you a little deaf." I 'Mile. D?the having lost a lover and the affair causing some talk, a man who called to see her found her playing the harp and said with sur prise: "Good heavens! I was ex pecting to find you desolated with grief." "Ah," she exclaimed in a pathetic tone, "you ought to have seen me yesterday !" A woman was at. a performance of the tragedy of "Merope" and did not weep. Surprise was expressed. "I could cry my eyes out," she said, "but I have to go out to supper to night." _ What Causes Fogs. I Fogs are, generally speaking, caused by the precipitation of tho moisture of the atmosphere. They are formed when a warm stratum of atmosphere comes in contact with a cold stratum or with apportion of the earth's surface, as a hill, by* which it is cooled so that it can no longer hold as much moisture in so lution as before. This causes the frequent fogs in mountain regions. When a cold stratum of air comes over a moist, warm part of tho earth's surface, a fog is also formed. This is the cause of tho miBts that appear over lakes, rivers and marsh es in the evening, since the water is then warmer than the atmosphere above it. The blackness and density of London fogs are caused by the simple fact that the mist formed in the upper air mingles with the as cending clouds of smoke from hun dreds of thousands of chimneys and, descending, brings the smoke with it and settles like a pall above tho buildings and in the streets of tho city._ A Bsy Who Bid Kiis Duty. A gentleman went into a fancy shop one day to buy something. It was early, and the shopkeeper's lit tle boy and ho were alone in the house. The shopkeeper had to go upstairs to get his cash box in order to procure some change, but beforo doing so he went into the little room next to the shop and whispered to the boy : "Watch the gentleman that he doesn't steal anything," and, bring ing him out, sat him on the coun ter. As soon as the shopkeeter re turned the child sang out: "Pa, he didn't steal anything. I watched him."?London Tit-Bits. A Simple Change. The little daughter of tho house watched the minister who was mak ing a visit very' closely and finally sat down beside him and began to draw on her slate. "What are you^doing ?" asked the clergyman. "I'm making your picture," said the child. The minister sat very still, and ^the child worked away earnestly. Then she stopped and compared her work with the original and shook her head. "I don't like it much," she said. "'Tain't a great deal like you. I think I'll put a tail to it and call it a dog." A Somewhat Clever Rat. The Pioneer tells a story of a rat which on one occasion was caught alive on a ship and thrown over board. A sea gull was floating by the side of the ship. Immediately there ensued a battle royal, and the rat strangled the sea gull to death. He then sat upon the carcass of the sea gull, unfurled its left wing to catoh the wind and, working the right wing as an oar, set sail for the shore ! ? Ti.ue works wondrous ohauges. Diogeneb- bunted for an honest man years ago but now detectives are hunt ing for dishonest men. ? If a eirl has two proposals, one from a man she understands and the other from a man she doesn't, it's ten to one the mysterious man wiii win out. ? The poor girl thinks it's posi tively wicked for a uian to marry for money. FATIGUE SENSE. Tho Fooling That Notifies Man When It Is Time to Rest. "I hardly know who are most to bo pitied, the rich or idle and lazy who underwork or the very poor who must overwork to live," says a writ er in Ainslee'8. "The former grow flabby or tense, according to their heredity, in both musclo and mind, become fastidious, finicky and sen timental, are especially prone to yield to temptations of drink and excesses, must aimlessly cUango their interests, location and pur suits from sheer ennui, are easily bored and finally lose the power of being strenuous about anything. The effects of an inactive life upon the offspring are sometimes sadly and markedly degenerate. "The overworked, especially if young, are prono to many forma of arrest. Children are undergrown in both height and weight. They are robbed of the paradise of leisure, which is tho literal translation of tho Greek word school. Tho high ideals and ambitions normal to ado lescence fade into a dull state of apathy and discouragement and at worst of smoldering revolt against the existing order of things. To be always tired is miserable, and indi vidual or social misery is a powder magazine liable to explode at any time. "Man is endowed with a fatigue sense that tells him when he is ! tired. It seems to be a specific feel ing, due perhaps to accumulated products of decomposition in the muscles. This pain tire is a warn ing to stop or let up. It is, however, possible to press on in defiance of it, and if we persist in so doing there comes a point when this fatigue sente is itself fatigued and tired out and censes to act. This is when runners get their second breath; when \ho&Q beginning night work have fought through tho period of sleepiness that comes when they have been wont to go to bed and feel very wide awake and alert, as if they could go on forever. But the day of reckoning comes. They are now living on their capital, which is be ing rapidly overdrawn." What a Dozen Is. The child is taught at school that a dozen means twelve every time, but when the child grows into a man he finds that a dozen is a very elastic term. A baker's dozen is thirteen, and so is a publisher's or a news agent's in many parts of the world. In some sections a dozen of fish means twenty-six, and there are other anomalies of this kind. But to find a dozen indicating anything from two to fifty it is necessary to go to the earthenware trade. Here the size and weight of ar ticles decide how many make a doz en, and in jugs, bowls, plates and so on there are two, four, six, eight or mere to the dozen. A dozen com posed of twelve articles is a very un usual thing in the wholesale pottery trade, and as a result there are few clerkships more difficult to hold than in this line. I tried the work once and foiled ignoiuiuiously. To havo to find tho cost of 500 articles at so much a dozen when that dozen may mean anything is a very diffi cult task until a man gets thorough ly used to it.?St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. _' Superstitions About Crows. There are perhaps few who have not heard of crows that "one is lucky, two is unlucky, three is health, four is wealth, five sickness and six death." The unluckiness of one living crow is of ancient date, since the Greeks believed that if such a bird appeared at a wedding breakfast there would be a divorce, to avert which all roared out, "Maiden, scare away the crow!" But of far greater antiquity was the belief that if . the one crow were dead the evil portent also perished, since, according to Horus Apollo, it signified extreme old age or a very long life. According to what Hesi od tells us, the crow lives nine times as long as a man. Origin of the Word "Money." In tracing out the origin or deri vation of the word "money" you find it is from tho Roman word "Moneta," because the first regular coins of the Romans were "struck" in the temple of Juno Moneta. The word "coin" is no doubt from the Latin "cuneus," meaning a die or stamp. Many coins are so called from their original weight, as the English "pound," the French "li vre" and tho Italian "lira." Talleyrand's Clever Retort. Napoleon described Talleyrand as one whose face would preserve a smile while he was being kicked from behind. Talleyrand had his revenge. "It is a pity," he said, "tnat so great a man should have 6uch bad manners." And the mot will cling to Napoleon forever. Ma caulay has said the same thing in comparing C sar with Napoleon. "But, after all, C sar was a gentle man." The bent physic?Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Kasy to take. Pleasant in effect. Fur sale by Orr-Gray & Co. ? Fortunate is the young man who possesses a full set of good habits. ? Most men would rather borrow than be caught begging or stealing. ? One active cau-e of a shrinkago in values is the as-o'ssor's visit. ? If there is anything ridiculous about a wig it is the head it covers. WAYS OF THE SHAD. Their Migration? and How They Live at 8pawning Time. Shad fishing is hard and precari ous work. The fisherman must count on having his clothes always soaked with icy April water. Often, too, the nets como in empty, and then there is nothing to do hut to make another cast and hope for bet ter luck. A remarkable fact noticed by fish? ermen is that the identical shad ap parently frequent the same streams year after year. To provo this they ' point out that those taken in Flor- . ida waters are smaller than shad caught in the north, while in dif ferent streams the fish differ in form, thickness and shape. After entering the rivers the shad take littlo if any food previous to spawning, but afterward they will bite at flies or uuy shining object floating in the water. They have even been known to snap at artifi cial bait. The toothless mouth of the adult is unfit for feeding upon anything except minute animal mat ter found in the water. Food is rare ly found in their stomachs, tho only substance commonly seen there be ing something closely resembling black mud. From this it is sup posed that the shad swim with mouths extended, swallowing the animal life that swarms in tho wa ter and on this growing plump and sweet.?O uting. Character In Umbrellas. One's character is said to bo re vealed with infalliblo accuracy by the way he holds and carries an um brella. One enthusiast, who has made a study of the public's umbrel la manners, hns announced that he would want no better guide in choos ing his wifo than to watch her furl and carry her umbrella. The man who pokes you in the ribs with his umbrella, for instance, docs not nlone announce by such an act that he is rude or careless. To the experienced eye ho actually lays bare the innermost secrets of his character. Th > man or woman who carries an umbrella with the point back ward and downward is unassertive. On the other hand, persons who in walking carry their umbrellas by the handles, with the points contin ually extended or pointing forward, will be found self assertive and en ergetic. The pedestrian who grabs an umbrella in the middle and goes forging ahead with it in this posi tion is likely to bo found alert, but of a selfish, even conceited disposi tion. ? In the game of life the one armed man plays a lone hand. ? A man never knows whether a woman's hat is on straight or crooked. ? The average wife imagines her husband would have remained a bach elor if he had not been fortunate enough to meet her. ? A man is always wondering what his neighbor thinks of him?and his neighbor is probably wondering like wise. ? Most women would despise them selves if they were as innocent as they preieod to be. ? Any pretty woman's jaw is a thinft of beauty?when it isn't working. ? It is one thing to do a good act and it is another to say nothing about it. ? A man must have self-confidence to enable him to ignore his own mis tikes. ? Few women make successful law yers; they are unable to break them selves of the habit of giving free ad vice. ? Social training enables one to appear interested when he isn't. ? Some men like to fish because it's the next thing to doinn; nothing. ? A* hobby is an idea that goes around with a crank. ? About the only perfect people in the world are the perfeot fools. 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