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I? ?I j WOLF CHILDREN OF INDIA. j 1 have dwelt often on the vastness and mystery of Indlu. hut nothing. I think, ever I fought these home to me so closely us the discovery in tin tUsh of those enigmutical being* called wolf-children, writes \V. Howin the .Manchester Ouardian. I hed road of them before. but nlwny vlth a certain detachment, not - '* Incredulity (for I have seen too inain v oiideis in ?' ' be :ncrcdulmiu nf nnfllilniil .... .1 holH 11. <>... ... ii the light of those semi-mythica' eieut tiros with which every brnin is tilled. ** - perhaps. I mu?* ;t tnrr suffer some of the4 sc.enti cism with which I might have r." t r.rded them years aRn. Yet i hope I can prove that, apart fhont the fact that I have seen them with my own ej es. there is every roo?1 ground To*their existence. For countless ages from the remote drwn of history the wolf has been closely arsoc iated with mankind, it figures alike in the fables of Must and West. Sometimes it is the fox that takes its place, but always it is one of the Rreat canine breed. If it doet not live In the houses of men it is fond of close association with 4henv A nd it is to be remembered of 41, Indian wolf that it is a solitary creature. never RoinR in packs like the volveg of Itussia and North America It has no need, for the Indian rllmntncver kocs to that extreme of cold to render It desperate with hunger. Nevertheless, at the time she has young in her lair the female wolf get hard pressed. Perchance her lord ai.d master has been trapped or shot cn some foray, betrayed Into incautlonsners by the knowledge of all those hungry waiting mouths a* home. So it comes about that mother wolf must adopt the role of food-finder as well as nurse, and must fare forth alone, leaving her precious cub to chance, to pick up whatever she ca n. So much is hypothesis. What ac/ tllallv. happens is this In ninm irrr?.i Cold of crops. loll as a man and spreading lioilsoloss nn?l undivided fo miles the men and women are a* work with their reaping hooks. A wo man has laid her habv under tin shade of seme tree or hush on th< outskirts rf the mown crop The ey ft the hungry mother wolf falls 01 the morsel of humanity, and instantl* her cruel eyes gleam, she snakes her self rn to the ground ami stalks rouui I ehind the uncut wheat. The groin ef reapers i? far out in the center o' the I'eltl. There is a feeble wailinv cry. a mother's terrltled shriek am' the long gray form is dashing awn* across the plain at a pace that make ! hopeless to pursue. 11 and reds of chMdren are taken it India every yrar in this maiyiet 1'ndoubtedly, in the vast majority o* cases lite child is quickly devoured Hut it may happen that mother wol has lost n cub. and some accident o redden material compassion stirs he heart for the helpless little waif sh be>* torn fmr.y home Hogs nurse k't tens, ami cats puppies, and a due? eft-n will lc"d n brood of voun chicks proudly to the water's edgi In short, most animals seem capabl rt transferring their maternal affec tions to the young of other si'""1' in defect ? f any of their own on whlo* to lavish them, so that there is in reason why a wolf should not leaf 1 o suckle a human child. lie that as it may. however, I wil proceed to relate so much as I knnv of the two "wolf hoys" whom it wa my fortune to meet. In 1011 1 wn? stationed at Acrn, and among my du tic* was that of monthly visitor to th< a?ylun*. Heroin I found tlo> lir?t o' these nrfor'unato helnps- lie was r truly miserable ohjrrt. not at all th< 'Mowpll of the ".Tnuplo llook." and had no more resomhlnnoe to a Oroek pod than an orntthorhynolnis has to a swan. Ho was nearly blind and do void of human expression or intellipcnco. If he was not prevented ho drooped on his knees nod elbows to run, nod these joints were covered with callosities in conso?|uonoo. When upright and hcinp led by his keeper he rhowod what physicians call "festieant" fruit, running forward a If he were about to fall and were tryinp to catch himself. No articulate sounds came front his lips; lo could only utter a sort of "poo! poo!" lie had been there more than a scor of years and his history of havinp i n c.iupht in it wolf's don was well s . tieuticated. < 'no of the points that r'tuck me was that the native keepers did not seem to consider his ease as in any way remarkable. This familiar attitude of the nativi towards wolf children was en farced on me more strikinplv in the second cure. I was then superintendent of the jail sit Hareilly. One day one of my clerks, an old Mohammedan, came to ntc ami hepped that I would pivo him some assistance. "Why yes." said I; what is it, Mahomed ?" "Sir." said he. "I have lost mv wolf hoy." You may imagine I was considerably surprised, but none of the other clerks who were in lite otllce showed much inlercsV Keeling rather puzzled. 1 asked the chief clerk to explain. and he told me I he whole story. It seems that some 20 years before edd Mahomed had been darogha of a small .i'il out in the district, t ?ne day the local collector while out shooting shot a female wolf and proceeded to fellow her trucks with a view to tlndIr.g her lair and destroying the cubs, I lis surprise was great at finding a young child playing about fraternally with the cubs. He was, of course, unite naked and savage, and he scratched and bit fiercely as the collector dragged him away. However. he was brought lit and lodged | in the Jail as the most convenient i quarter, being placed under the j charge of the worthy Mohomcd. The collector died but the voting foundling remained in charge of the daroghn. and grew up into a reasonable huntnn l>? lug. He played with the oil man's children, who were as fond of him as ] of a big dog. swept up the yard of the j little dwelling, and became one of the family. The old man's distress at los. ing hint was evident. He said It was the third time it had happened. Some | ONLY (lOVKKNOR'R WIFE. Until one duy lust week Mrs. James Mlddleton Cox. wife of the governor of Ohio uqd the Democratic party's choice for "ttrst lady of the land." never hud been interviewed by a news, paper person. "Excepting, of course, .iiy hu-.band." she laughed. "Dut he never had interviewed me professionally." The reason Is that she deliberately dodged publicity. If site happens to i e down stairs when a newspaper man alls upon the governor, she dlsan ears without leaving a ripple. Hut die consented to what she plainly cxcctod would he an ordeal. She cam? into a small library on the second'floor >t Trail's End house at Dayton, shook RiMiium-ij ? < e.n II.PIIII, IUIIR ing as though she wanted to say plunge the knife in ?iuickly, doctor, md got it over with." "1'loaFe don't ask me anything thout politics," she said. "I know tothing whatever about it. Sometimes I see something in the papers about my husband, but when I ask' him tlioul it and lie tells me, I can't make Stead or tail out of it. When I rend a Republican paper I feel sure my tusband hasn't the ghost of a chance, and when I road a Itemoeratie paper, l don't see how he can fail to l?e elected." "Are you a suffragist?" "No," Mrs. Cox replied. "Anti. then?" "No." "What are you. then?" "I'm-the governor's wife," Mrs. Cox cplicd quickly. In those four words she gave a holier character sketch of herself than .ny interview! r could d,( in four columns. Governor Cox had home out her own self analysis before be Intro duccii the correspondent, saying: "Any woman, the wife of a man in public life, who can smile every hottof the day. is a remarkable woman ..ml she is just a plain, home loving, a by loving American woman." The Interviewer asked Iter what she did with "her day." Site replied that die played golf a little, drove a motor or, rode horseback, played bridge and ended the Powers about the house, u' nrinei li.t 11 .v she looki <1 after "Itnhv Ann." their seven-mnnths-old- dattgh < r. Tin* lrter\icwi'r siskoil her if ho t'vi-r played golf with the govern r and rite it|iIiciI, IiiiikIiIiik: "Thai's a tender subject. I In used 11* nk I played well, though, before .vp wort* married." " * "<l ilnoii lie ever pla.v bridge with you ?" a <.?. and h? '< as had at thai as lv hinks I am at golf. We play hushand ind wife lirldKo, if you know what hat is. We never play together." She has made n<> personal plans at ill. "I am entirely at my husband's a tiers," she said. "We shall tin whatvi r lie wants its to do. I am not used to < ontat'l with political cam aigns its exciting as this. The third line my Im-dinnd ran for gov >rnr,r \a<; exciting enough, hut this is e\ ca mire so. and from what I hear,' <-h< tided naively, "the campaign hasn't enlly begun." "I>o you tlarn the governor's socks?" Mrs. fox laughed. "Sometimes I lo. When there is no one else around o do it. I can do it very well, for oil see 1 was brought tip in it family if boys. I was the only girl, and ' suppose I am terrlblv snoiled. Mv 'in.band hasn't tried to cure me. it Iter, but I nippose a wife has tin' ight to be spoiled by her husband." I St it it became evident the next mo ent that there is something els' Mrs. fox likes hotter than playing olf or bridge or motoring. front iround the corner of the hall came a 'ow. sleepy wail. "Itaby Ann!" exI:iii>ti*i1 \l r? i '/tv * ! ?.??...* ? ? - < nm-< K". iMUl I;:?t wjis the end of llio llrst interview ith I ho ppiiidcrni'c party's ohoioo for liist lady of tho Inntl." IVrslilrnt's HrniKlfalhcr a Pirate. John Fllmnre. great grandfather of ijillard I'Mllnuiro, tilth president of tho 'I'ltotl States, was a pirafo ihnuali ?ol hv ohoioo. Marly in tho ISth rntury Mlnok Hoard. How. Phillip15 od otl-or froohoot^ra sxvopt tho At'antie const fr?un Jamaica to Now 'onndland In ooo of his attack* hilMps captured John Fillmore am' '''dt'.ifl < 'hoo.'-ivan and forced them 0 become pirates. They had de? rmlnod either to escape f-oia the 'rate's clutches or to capture his ves. el a??il bring him and his crew to 'nation. Together with A ml row llar' id< n they planned the er<ape. At 1 time when only three men, inclining I'hillips, were on deck the signal was given. one of the men waa hrovn overheard ami the others captured. The captors then sprang into the hold and placed the rest of the ' rew in chains. after which they leered the vessel for Itiston. arriving there on May 2, 172 1. Two of he pirates were hanged, while Fillmore, Cheesman and his confederate < were pardoned. hudmashCR in the native city were al w:?ys spiriting liim nwny for tlie purpose of exhibiting him and making tinnry. I put the police on to llnd him, and in three days it was reported *o me that he had been brought back. I asked the old man to bring him over to my bungalow, and there iccordingly 1 made this strange creature's acquaintance. lie was more nearly a normal man than the other, but when standing up he kept his legs in a curious scissors fashion. lie vould not look me in the face, but held ills eyes ever downcast on the | Hour. To every remark I made to him I he could only answer the same thing: ! "Ilum kya janen?" (What can I ! know?), Tlie interview was rather ! painful, and I speedily dismissed him. i and never saw him again, though he went hack to Hie old dnrogha's hut. A soldier who was at Hareilly since T was toid ntv that in the asylum ' there they had a "monkey child," I v hleh had been found with a pack 1 of monkeys in the hills, and that I many of the soldiers of the garrison . used to go to look at it. It was quite I wild, and covered with lialr. I had ?iot heard before of monkey children, ! but there seems little reason why they should not exist equally with wolf children. roRT IULL STORY OF 8TEDE BONNETT. Pirate, Executed In Cliarleeton, Familiar With Scripture. One would .scarcely expect to find ? plrute who waa notoriously bloodthirsty so fuuilllur with the Bible that he liao un appropriate Scripture quotation ready for every occasion. Yet i.uch was the case of Stede "Bonnet, who in 171R to 17IS preyed along the New England and South Atlantic coasts. Stode Bonnet was born a gentleman. His family was one of wealth and good standing. Bonnet hlinself had served faithfully and with much distinction with the king's army It* Barbados, being commissioned to the rank of major for brave conduct. He was n man of refinement and education. with many accomplishments for those days. How he ever became a pirate, and such a cruel one. Is bebond comprehension. "linn ui-Kiui iiii< piratical carwr In company with Rdwurd Thatch, the notorious "Black Beard," whose name had spread such terror uloitK the entire Atlantic coast. They had a dispute finally and Bonnet separated from Thatch. Proceeding to Rngland he availed himself of a proclamation issued by King William. which granted pardon to pirates on certain conditions. Bonnet took the proper oath, received his clearance papers and sailed away. 1'nder the pretense of privateering with Iho king's sanction, he entered upon a career of plunder, bloodshed and diabolism an accou-.t of which it chills the blood to read. Bonnet would our/to Scripture to l is miser>blt> victims while making them walk the plank into the sea. As their white faces appeared above the surface of the water and they stretched imploring hands to him. he would look down upon them mockingly and inote further from the Bible. lie was known on more than one occasion to unite ver es of Scripture to some wretched victim, and then take ids head off with one sweep of the sword. Bonnet became such a terror to the Carolina coasts, under the name of Captain Thomas, that Governor Johnmil of Carolina in 17is determined to nilforii 111. I 1II.1 Kin 111. .Ilo patched Colonel William Ithett, who "ante upon the pirates in th?'ir hiding place, and after a desperate one oun or and much h'oodsheo, nccompllahod the enPtlire of Bonnet and the remainder of bin crew. Itonret was brought to trial on November 1<>. 1718. It was a reinarkihle trial. The pirate pleaded eloquently to have his life spared. He quoted largely from the Scriptures. At that time there were few chapters in the Saered Hook that he could 1 not repent from memory, verse after verse. lie was convicted, however, ml executed in December of 1718. Today as one walks nhrtuf the beautiful Mattery in Charleston he may be told he Is walking above the graves of the old pirates, one of whom was Stede Honnet, the Scripture-quoting freebooter. SPEAKS FOR SARIIATH. Rev. Mr. lluukiiight Indorses editorial In Tlir Times latst Week. I alitor Kort Mill Times: I heartily congratulate you ami I ant sure that all ihe good people In ltd around Kort Mill commend you | for your editorial last week on Sabbr.th observance, flive us more like hat: we need it. and need it from he printing press more often. I ap- I relate the power of the printing j oress in this day. when so many nro rending the newspapers. All most people know comes from I be nnu?n>n. i in rs. Wo got our politics and sentiments largely from the newspaper. 'I hat Is all most people read, "i norefore, the power of the newspaper i.nnot he overestimated In Its power for good In any community. If we ad more editors who would fearlessly do their duty in upholding the purity of society, womanhood, manhood anil the moral law as well the ws of our country we would have much better country to live In. We often hear that law will not lrnhlhlt. I tw was not Intended to ernhihlt, hut to create a sentiment, with the help of all law abiding pooI 'e and the printing press will build a sentiment for the moral law as well v the laws of the country that will diminish crime to large degree. Hv doing this we will save many girls and boys from a base life to lives of service and respectability. Mr. Kditor, we hope that you will mi- iii iiiiacK inc cvti anil lawIrsnnow iih you hop it, as well as to oomiupnil virtue. I hope you will print this week a ilippinit front a Texas paper which contains the remarks of a candidate for Kovornor of that State, who makes his position plain on Sahhath observance. etc. W. It. Baukninht. Port Mill. July 19. last Around the Cornor. Morton Braley in Leslie's Weekly. tlo just around the corner, brothers and sisters; the fare is just as good and the price is lower. Are you tired of payittK for sham and show?move just around the corner; it isn't so fashionable, but there's comfort and content there. Are you lonely and friendless?why. just around the corner are some people who are simply waltini; for your rint? at their hell. Are you bored by too many folk who aren't your kind, do you want seclusion and the ipiiet companionship ot your own sort with whom you can le natural and homey and comfortable?their address is Just around the corner; all you have to do is to hunt them up. You've plodded alone Poverty I.ane until yon arc weary and discouraged yet if you push on n little further you'll find Rosy street is Just around the corner. Opportunity lives in that block and her latchstrine is always out if you onlv have the enersrv to walk up her steps and find it. Three. Ouarters of our troubles are due to the fact that we ro to the nearest place for whatever we want, instead of walking u few steps further and FORT MILL, g, O. [KM REMK This Remnant T 1 i /: i juiy i o, and continue find in this sale Remr Satins, Voile, Crepe < cale, Calico, White G Wear Clothing, Ladie Remnant Sale. KIMXTAL SILK IMUCFS. Cut yrloea on nil Silks during the Kemnant Sale. 1 CLOTH KKMXAN'TS One counter full of Ucmnnnts of ItlenehinK and White Goods. TAFFKTAK AXI? MKKSAL1NF.S New lot of Taffetas and Messallnon. Heinnant Sale $'2.20 MIDDY KI ITS 150 I-adies' and Misses' Middy Suits. Itemnanl Sale price $2.!IH t > $1 I. OH. MIDDY TIKK. 1 at dies' and Children's Middy Ties. It em aunt Sale IOc to I PILLOW CASKS Orient Pillow Oar.es, worth :15c. Kale price 2rs' MUX'S SOX Men's Course Knit S?>x. Itcinnant prlee 15c TABL.K OIL CliOTH Table Oil Cloth, fancy patterns Kciununt Sale IOc _ I TAHI.K OK YAIA'KS Crepe de Chine Silk ShlrtiiiK. Kcmnant Sale I SCITIXOS AND KIIIKTINOK One table of Kemnunts of Suitings and Shirtings. Keep in mind th [Bargains that will g Thousands of dollar in sale, which lasts tl KIIV timling the shop just around tho cor- 1 ncr. I Would you escape from the hum- \ drum and the dull, the everlasting a routine and the grind?you needn't KO round the world, take a few steps ofT your worn and beaten track, your limited haldtual path, and you'll meet ' adventure Just around the corner. ' Just around the corner. If you have <1 only the sense to venture so far, is a the girl you've dreamed of and never > passed you by?she is yours If you take t passd you by?she is yours if you take c her to the little church around the | corner. And then, for the rest of your r happiness?seek always for what lies I just around the corner?the kiss that .> Is Just around the corner front a quarrel, the understanding that is just a around the corner front a mlsunder- 'I standing; so shall you tlnd life ever a I Joyous gamble and a fresh delight, I and you shall go together down the n V1BREL1 IANT Sale commences her _ i-1 -L 1 unuugii .ociiuiciay, lants or every class of de Chine, Ribbons, L ooJs, Suitings, Bleacl s* and Children s Dres Remnant Sale. si?i:ri.\i, waist ruin's All lipiirKi'lli> :m?l ?*?-??! ?* Waists a cut pilots for lioiiiiianl Salo. i wash diti'.ssr.s t'hihiron's Wash I ?ro ilciiinanl Sale 91.110 in $;l.iiii i si?k?'iAi. siir.r.t oi'tt.ii SIoi pwoll Shoots. Slx'.mi, worth $11.7.1. Itonmant Salo prior $-.1.1 I ta.iama "G-incli I'njania I'lirrkK, worth I ??". Itcmunnt Half price Itlle < <jrn/r ci.otii ::c-hnfi tjullt cloth. lifiiui.tiit S:il?* Illil'O 2llo ' | cm'NTKUI'XMm Counterpanes at Itcinna.U Half I'rlco!!. IH'X<;.\I.<>\Y AI'ltONS Bungalow Aprons, jjoml colors. Kiinnan: Sale. 1 liOWNS AM) I' X I) > '. K All SI.IN Muslin < Jo was and I'mlorshlrts at 1 rt'diic'.l price for I;< utnanl Halo. mux's Mtu.ss sinicis t too tfll.l.. of M.o.'o I 01.:..... Ui'llinant Sale $1.0(1 SPIUIAI, IN SOAP Arrow ISorax Soap. Itciunaiit Sale : " -U" I PII.I.OW CASKS Slrcpwrll Pillow Cases, worth ('>(?<:. Koiiinant Sale prior l."?o i ie dates of this sale reatly reduce the 1 . i ** ; worth ot tirst class hrough nine days. IBRELL ong, long tr.iil, until :ii last you I urn I earlessly to meet tin- tinal a<lventi vhleh waits for all of us?Just a iroiliul the corner. ; lliill-l.igiin WcililliiK. a A marriage of much interest in *ort Mill was that of Miss Nell li higenia I.igon of Shelby, N. t'.. laughter of Mr. and Mrs. I:. K. I.igon. nd James l*'ranklln 11 all, formerly of tlielliy, last Wednesday morning at a lie home of the I ride's parents, the eremony being performed in the , >l csence of a few close friends and datives of the young couple l?y the v lev. t\ A. Wood, pastor of Central i dethodlst ehureh of Shelhy. > The marriage eame as a surprise t ml no formal invitations were issued, r 'lie ceremony took place in tin- paror of the I.igon home, which had I v >een attractively decorated with | 1 lowers and ferns. The bride and s a "i Us\ Sf I c e Friday morning, July 24. You will merchandise?Silks, aces, Gingham, Prilling; also Ready-loses, Etc., Etc. Remnant Sale. rMti i: \rin:i> siu.i ii I' t) I Irai'l.i'tl Sltoi I ill worth I >'? ...'.illlalu Salo |.l'n?' . .S." ?TIST\I\ (illoHS New ('in lain (hitxls. w <>ii ii (.no .i'oll..l lii Sa l<- |Hii-o lit. I.AIIII'.S' SMIM'S All I >:i?i t ^i-irlH :ii i > I it. iI | i. . or I .cm nanl Sale. <;l\(.ll\M \N 11 IIIKMIS Kit; coiinli i lull < i Ki iuiian11. oi ' inchains ami I'l-i'i al". ui.i.\( 111:1? siii i i i su I :i I'hoil s km t! in;, tun ill lit ,..i.<i >* I' 111 11 < I 11 I Sill- I'l'll'f I'll" I'l MI'S .(Ml ??X 14 ?ICI?S ^ I >!!? lilK 11 > I til l.:iill?s I t ' 11111 > ; lul i ixful'ils. lit i 111:t lit S.ili' pl'tif 7.ii' .. vl -.?i son \ it \uo.\i\ ICilKle 'I llislli' SimIu. I le.iilia it) Sa I * H'iiM' it l-i!r |ine<t;t:'.e vai.it. in snniris orient silicic, sl\:nt. worth $l.'i.V ii'liiliiilil Sale pi tee SI.la ( ANNON < I.OI II ('anilltll Chilli, Well It lite. lieiutlant 'si le 11rie :t??i I. \< I . I'lCMT.K ( I T one lalile lull el Kenilialit; hi ares. T\l.( l M l'0\\ |>|:itS I '.a henek's Talcum I'mvtlcrs. lain lalll Sale price i!."iC and come here for liorVi met- of liirinnr a*^aa WUl. \^1 II V 111^? merchandise goes 'SS. >ri)li'KI noil! eiiteretl tin* I >: I tl I 1111:11 t litlt tl Till' hl'iile \v:is hea III i IIIII \ lliretl in :i I r:ivclinu suit of Iri?->?l iI ml wnli- a large rnrxuKi- nf ruses. Mrs. Hull is a nnlivi- i?f I'uil Mill ml is a KramlilaiiKlitiT nf Mrs. Aline I arris, Inil has liv?-i| in Shellty willi ier parents sinen they innveil In thai iiy from l-'nrt Mill several years a ^ In- has lii'i-n a fri-i|Ui-nl visitor In In r a nil iiiol her anil nlln-r relatives here I'll has many frit-mis in this sm-linn i lm w ill In- interested ill ln-r ma I' iuue. Mr. Hull is a prominent young man i ho is now making his Imnn- in 'harh-slnn, W. Va.. where In- ami ilrs. Hull will rt'sitle after a hrulal rip tn U it-It innml. Va.. ami other Ities. Anions tile guests at the wedding rere Miss .V/ilee Harris, aunt tif the iriile, ami .Inlin MeKee SpratI. rollin nf the hritle. Imt It nf Kort Mill.