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' A SAD MYSTERY Cleared Up by the Confessit?, Of a Nurse Girl. A POISONED PEACH Fed to a Little Tot By Its Nurse Right in the Presence ot Its Mother Who Suspected Nothing Until the Poisoner Told Htr Tale. Ads It is hard to conceive of a sad mora unexplalnable mystery than death of little two-year old Wilbur Winshlp presented to the polioe authorities of Putnam County, near New York. L)bklng up from her book and glancipg across the table, Mrs. H. P. WmshlD was startled to see her bahv In nnnviilalnrm A rr befoie the nurs^ had been feedirg a peach to the child. la a few moments more the little one was dead. It has been Id its grave near the Wlnshlp estate, nos.r Brewsters, N. Y , since the middle of last September. The fourteen yeir old nurse, JeniNe Itutih Buro'u, clears up the mystery ikf a confession which It Is hard to i ailed In the history of crlmo In a spirit of blind revenge the nurse poison* d the peach, led the little one it a its m jther's prese-'ce and then fed the baby its fatal mouth fuls In front of its mother's eyes. The confession io as follows: O juo I ueard a preacher say, when he told the Bible story of how a geed mau had done something wioced that surprised all hU frioad , that 1 It wo..s the devil's day wiih that man." It must have been the devil's day with mo when I set tiro to the Wlnsbips' big barn, and then to their house, and, then again, it was the devil's black, awful day when, forty eight hours latter, I i:avn poison to little three year-old Wilbur aud took some myself. The barn was burned to tho ground, the house was saved, but little Wilbur is In Ills grave, and I am 1q Jill here at Walte Plains, waiting to go before the Grand Jury in Djoember, and to be tried in May, and then sent away to prison maybe for life, anyway to stay until I am a middle aged woman. I loved Baby Wilbur better than anyboby else on earth, better than my mother, because she lived in Danbury, Conn., and had married and had other children, and I hardly ever saw her; better than my grandfather and grandmother, beoauae they were very old and didn't understand nor o&re about what oiilidren Ulead, and I seldom saw them, aud then only for a little while, half uu hour or so; better than his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wlnshlp, because?well, because he was a dear, little helpless baby, and lovod me better Kt\i*u any one else had ever loved me. He.o&lled mo "Dennic," and ran after me wherever I went, toddling along and holding my skirt, and when he fell he didn't ory like most babies, hut laughed, and shook himself, and stumbled baok to bis feet like a dear little puppy. He had a round little faoe with a forehead as white as milk and eyes like blue pansles, and soft yellow hair that felt like the silk of ripe corn when I curled his hair. 1 never liked wash day, but I wouldn't uavo oarea 11 ovary aay naa oeen wssn day when I waa allowed to wash Wil bur's little white dresses for Sunday and his blue dimity apd gingham ones for every day. I took almost the oare Of him and was nearly always"'with him. I oould never love anyonelU 1 loved little Wilbur Winshlp, and yet 1 killed him. I o?n hardly tell why, but it must have been beoause it was the devil's da? for me. AU this trouble started when the barn burned down. All the neighbors oame running to help us and pot out the fire, and Mrs. Kinner told me to take Wilbur over to the Klnners, our nearest neighbors, and leave him there until things were quieter. I kept run- 1 ing baok and forth between the Klnners and our house all day on errands about the baby. Mrs. Georgle Gullom, Mrs. Kinner's daughter, said: "Who set fire to the barnDid vou?" N Mrs. Cullom Is always laughing and joking, but this time what she said soartu me. I answer "No, I didn't set fire to the barn either," but I went baok to the house and thought about wnat she said, and it seemed to make me orazy. "If they find out I set fire to the barn they will think I am a bad girl, and they will seperate the baljy and 7 me." Everywhere I went, wherever I turned, voices seemed to be saying that to me. The voices got louder and loudor until they seemed to soream. I oould hear nothing else while I was taking Wilbur home. On the way I gripped his hand ru hard he whimpered and said, "^J^ghty Dennle. Bad Dannie hurt Wilbur." I kneeled down In the orohard beside him and put my arms around him George W. Gengogle, Jr. .died from blood poisoning - after scratching a pimple on his nose. Charles Morris, a merchant of Wakefield, Va., committed suioide by shooting himself in the head. L A i cried, and he orled loo ac he always did In sympathy with ma. He put his little arms around my neck and hlrcool, pink little oheek against mine, and then I vowed that nothing on earth should separate us. I took him to the house and left him with blB mother and went up stairs. I groped around In my room, I for it was growing dark for the matchbox, and I ran aorosa the hall and struck two m&tohes and turned up the badolothes and set fire to th* mattress In the man's room. Then I went to Harry's room and set fire to his olothes. Next I climbed the last stairs *and set fire to the ourta.n and a pasteboard box In the back attio. I went down stairs and kept my eye upon Harry. That was not hard for he always left his mother to oome to me. After a few minutes Mrs. Win ship said: "I smell smoke," and got up and went from room to room downstairs. She oame back looking very pale. "I can find nothing, although I still smell Bmoke. Bun upstairs, Jen nie, and see what you can find." I ran up and she follswed me. When she saw the bedclothes burning In the washroom, Mrs. Wtnshlpscreamed and there was a rush upstairs. Mr. Wlnshlp and Harry and ti e hired man and tto^coe ran up and got blanksts from tho bed ar.d smothered the fire. Mrs. Wlnshlp leaned against thn door, ne&r'.y fainting. She talked In a low votco to hor husband, and I hoard the word "incendiary." Nobody hoked At or psdd any attention to me exoept WTbur. I put him to bed 1u tho room around which the smell of snviVe still hurg and kneeled beside his bod, and with my hand on h's curies prayed God that the nex^ time I tried to t*k Wilbur away with me I should no fail. The next day I walked around as though 1 was in a dream Mrs. Win ih1p looked at me In a queer way and talked in a low voice with her huRband \ gecd deal. When nMgbbovs camp in tlioy would say. "Hatj ynu any idea who set fire to the bam? ' and Mrs. Winsbip would answer. "Not yet, but we think we will." 1 was terribly frightened, not be osure they might punish* me but be causa they might take me t way from VViibur. All of that Thursday Dight 1 lay awake and thought, what 1 could do to keep the baby with me. At least I formed my plans. I The next morning.. Friday, about 9 , o'clook I went to tbe south front j room, downstairs, got up on a chair and took tbe bottle of strychnine from j the top shelf in tho oloset. 1 slipped it under the gingham apron I always i wear and oarricd it to the baok stoop, where I hid it under the washer, or . stationary washstand. Then I went ( upstairs into tbe south front room and got the bottle of iodine from the olos- ( et and wet a pleos of cotton with the , Iodine, lfifcvint/ t.h? hnfr.t.l* t f .?W . ?B T ?W MVVVAV T? UU1 U JL j fouud it, and went downstairs. Hav- | h:g done this I went back for the pan under which 1 had hid the bottle of stryohnine, put the bottle into it, and , dropped some leaves over lb In o&se some one should see me with It. Oar- , lying these X vrent out to the garden to pick some beans. At this time and nearly all morning I was all alone. I had noticed that Mrs Winship and the others seemtd too busy to talk to me, and that every one either stared at me in a strange way or kept out of my way. It seemed to me that every ore was pointing at me or saving, "You burned the barn. You set fire to the house." It made me wild. I picked a panful of beans, and went to the orchard to get some poaches. I ploked a few off the ground. One big peach I ploked from the tree. Then I oarrled out my plan. I poured some stryohnlne from the bottle upon tbe cotton. The bottle I threw upon the ground, ooverlng It with some grass and dead leaves. With the cotton in my hand I started for the house. On the way there Wilbur ran out to meet me. He pointed to the big red peach in my hand, and walked with me to the house, trying with his little hand to pry the peaoh out of my strong one.- We went Into the house and I fcund Mrs. Wtnshlp sitting at a table, reading. She looked at me coldly and dropped her eyes upon her book without a word. "Wilbur wants some of the pe*ev. May I give him some of it?" I asked 1 "Yea." aha aalri "ff U ia rir- ? My chanoe had oome. Wilbur followed mo lo tho table, and I weut and | eat down direotly opposite his mother , I peeled the poaoh In plain sight of ; Mrs. Winship. She didn't notioe us. , I stopped for a minute after I had ; peeled the peach and looked at her. I i quickly lifted up the tablebloth. The ootton was damp and dark with the ( iodine. I was afraid Mrs. Winship would smell it, but she bent her head lower over her book. Holding the tableeloth up a little, so that Mrs : Winship oould not see If she turned i around suddenly, I rubbed the iodine and stryohnlne sprinkled eotton on i bh Attptflh T handed H w.wwvuf a unuuvu TTHUUI A (IACUV 1 of p and ate the rest myself. I watched him eat every morsel of it. Then I put him Into his little rooking obalr and left the room. Going to the kltohen stove I threw the cotton Into It and watohed it hum. I Lurried out on the poroh and threw the peach pit into the high grass in the yard. Almost as soon as I went back the baby was then slok. He twisted his poor little body and oried as though he was in terrible pain. I almost cried, James H. Hayes, the Richmond negro leaders, denounced the republicans in a speech. Judge Thayer Melvin was paralyzed while presiding over court at Wellburg, W. Ya. I ' loo, bul at that Wlnahlp telephoned tor the dootor ano put us both to bed. 1 lay their and waited and waited. 1 wanted to hear that the beby had gone. Iu a little while I heard his screams and I twisted the badolotbes and cried beoauee he was In agony. The screams stopped, and the doctor, coming to my door, said. "Wllber la dead." 1 did not ory. Why should I? Would I not see him In heaven In a few minutes or hours? I was very sick, but after awhile the doctor said: "She has an overdose, and will live." Taen 1 cried. The neighbors, who bad oome In, put their bands over their 6ars to shut out the sound. The next day 1 asked them to 1st me see Wilbur, and when they showed me the baby In his little white dress, his hands orossed on his breast and his sweet faoe smllllng, I threw: my self aoross the o ffin and orled "Ikilled him but we are seperated after all. O, Gndt Let me die, too. Thev brought me to the White Plains ja.il. ?nd hero I welt and watt and wonder why Wilbur should have died and 1 was left behind. 1 loved him and 1 killed him. 1* was the devil's dav Hith me. BIG MED THE W&ONO NAME And \jw it) Wanted to Correct TIiIh Blitflit Overnight "IT Mir! Is that, the cftl^erf the repo*f ? Well I just, wanted you to out & 'want ad ' in the paper for me L s-en cvvrefully uow and 1 will rcau it to ycu. The reporter turned to get his lead pencil and made a mental voh? to be j ist as poll'e as he oould be?for it it) i he bare of a reporter's existence fcn be foroed to receive "want adds" over the'phone after tho "business ctlljhad cl<:88cV Knell and p per secured, the r^p"rtcr turned like a martyr to the phone. "WANTED?Information a* to the whereabt utnof a. young n an who Kitted the wrorg name to a ohfck, got it ?uhed and ) as not he -n seen siaos. D*3crtp .lon?" As these words can e over the 'phone the reporter hid vis loon cf a "story" and his face beamed with plea, ant ixpecttors "Now how would )cu tlx it about the description ask? d the Informant at the other end of the 'phono. Hut by that time the reporter had recov. sred from his tit of ennui and was all attention. ''Dont bother to dictate the description," he answered loyful Iv, 4'J jsc give me the particulars and I will write out the advertisement for you." "Well, you see it was just this way," continued the Yoioe at the other end of the line. "Raymond McGulre, a young man about 22 y^arB of age signed the name of A. M. Teaguoto a oheok, secured $30 on it from a main street merchant and has not been seen since." The story, as further unraveled, Is to the effeot that this young man who in a printer and has been working at ll.;rl Rvillf funriA VlAl-A in Tuna ?r?/> out of kindness Mr. A. M. Teayue, formerly of Newberry, took the unformate young man to hH home at 1108 Oik street. For MiGulrooould dad no piao? to stay and he is a cripple. He is 22 years of ago, humpbacked, has a mole on right s'de of face, has light colored hair and blue eyes with arqulnt. lie came to Columbia looking for work, it is said. He made applioation for work at The State office. It Is said that MoGuire had been sen j to this store soyeral times by Mr. Teague to get checks cashed. The youDg fellow saw a chance to work a deoeptlon and did so. It is said, furthermore, that another boy from Waverley is missing and is believed to have gone off with McGulre.?The State. Forest Fires. A dispatch from Diokinson, N. D., says reports reoaived there show thai the prairie fire wbioh swept the country south of there Sunday was the worst fire of its kind in seventeen years. The fire started nortbPof Stillwater and burned a path seven miles wide Buildings, hay, cattle, horses and sheep were destroyed. No fatalities were reported, but several persons were badly burned. Shot Himself. At Salem Ind., Charles P. Williams, bookkeeper of tbe Citizens' bank and sotlng oashier, was found dead Friday in the vault of the bank. A load of ihot from a shotgun had penetrated his heart. The gun was kept in the bank vault and it Is believed that Williams, in changing its position, accidentally d'lcharped it. ] Itua Down by Oar. At Philadelphia, Pa., with her infant brother in her arms, Jennie Donatio, aged 13 years, was struck by a -1 J M? A.I o-. 4.1 uruuey u*r unuay in toe aoutnern section of the city. She was dragged sixty feet and both were dead when the oar was stopped. The father is a prominent Italian citizen. Not New*. President Samuel Spenoer, of the Southern, passed'through Greenville the other day and In a short talk with a newspaper man remarked that Ohar leston is soon to beoome an important seapo t. This is very Interesting: but it is not to be taken aa news altogether. There are lots of people all over the State, who have been quite sure of this fact for several years. The man who fails to attend the primaries has no right to kick about a boss-ridden part If men were a zealous In religion as they are in partisanship there would be more doing in church circles. HUMANMONSTER Cut Up Seven of His Wives in Little Pieces. l'HE CRAZY EMPEROR Of Aonam Invents Some Undreamed of Tortures and Trlea Them on Hla Wivea Until French Soldiers Seise the Palace and Stop the Brute. The strangest corner of the earth probably la far Southeastern Asia, hloh includes the countries of Slam, 0*mbodU and Annano. Recently It was the King of Cenobccla who was ^ttract'ng attention by reason of his wonderful crops of ballets girls, whom he spends ah his life training exhibiting. II j took them to Frano, where thov gave exhibitions. Now It Is tho Ecperor of Ann&m who Is exciting the Interest of h large part of the clvllizd world. His claims to notion are lost agreeable t>an Mv>He of the King of Oam O'ia, hut m ?re senasitiooal. Ho hes h rrl n a t,no w iropcan community in Ms mm\nii hk by torturing and murdor 'og unveil of his wlvdii?tuivcn gr:?.oo ful, dainty 11 * tie women of the type n^ca-ed to English-Speaking people b-' Kuiyerd Kipling, in liia poem, "Oi bo Road to Mandalay." The pr*nent Emperor of Annioxi bears the uimo of Than Thai. He a only twenty-seven years old. Hnrccerdod to the throne In 18U1, upon the deposition of Horn Ngui, whe >7?? aoouaed of planning a wholesale raftstcce of the French residents of A'-'na o. The country I* a proteoto s.te r f F-snoe. Horn NgM ban stnoo married 2 French gM, M'de Lilo?*, \nd i? kepi a priioner by tne French In Tunis. Within the past yf ar Than Thai, ba? been tff'Oted bv the m\ni* of cruelty ami blooRb Irs tineas which frequently attacks thOBo who are In P< s ?t?8lon of unlimited power o*er a a sub tils* We and c mparatlv^ly Ignorant population. It was this mania that se's^d the later Emperors of Id Home and caused thorn to hold faaafca of blood and rack their minds to find new ways of torturing their violin s. The mania has always been especlaly liable to affect Oriental rulers be cause or the abso.ute power which they usually wield tod because of the hot climate and their habits of life. Even the ordinary inhabitants of Southern Asia, It Is well kuown, are /r< quently selzjd by tits of sanguinary wanness, In whloh they blindly seek 1,0 murder ivory poison they meet, t proceeding known as tunning amuck Than Thai gave the firat evidence of maniacal fury by shooting down one of his venerable unoles, who wa? a. member of the Council of the Royal Family. Th's was but a prel'mlnary, which, like the first taste of blood to the tiger, excited his passion for more. The next day he!assembled all hi i wives in the throne room, according to the accounts of native eye witnesse?, which have reaohed Paris. The poor little oreatures knelt before him, as if he were a divlnty. His eye* were bloodshot and inflamed with cruelty clapped his hands and huge, brtual muioular slaves sprang foward to do bis bidding. He Indicated one of the youngest and prettiest of his wive* and ordered them to sets? her. He derided and cursed her and then the torture began. The Emperor himself with his terrible Malay sword out long strips of fl'Sh from the woman's body. The demon King gloated over every detail and thrilled with pleasure as he listened to the victim's shrieks. All the other wives were compelled to watoh every detail of the torture In order that they might be filled with terror and suffer even more when their own turn osme, because they would know what to expeot. The first wife was allowed to bleed slowly to death. The next day a new vlotlm was seleoted. She was tortured to death iu ft uiuaiouv wftj, ju?ery u*y another victim vu taken and put to death with some variation of the torture. In one owe the Xnperor fr-d a woman slowly dlsseoteri, Joint by Joint and limb by limb. Another was burned with Irons. In one Instance he began by having the wo man's nose, ears, hand and feet out . ff. One of the victims was the Emperor's favorite wife. He killed her with his own hands and sutjsoted her to peculiarly atroolngs tortures, the de tails of whloh it would be impossible to describe. When she was at last dead, he cut her body to pleocs and bad them served for dinner. He then partook of them and oompelled the remainder of the wives to share in the cannibal feast. Two of the women were hung to the celling with hooks. O.ie was burled alive in oil. Two or more were thrown into the oages of hungry tigers who devoured them. Judge Witt removed from otltee Justice of the Peace Ashby J. Duke, of Ricnmond, Va., convicted of selling iquor on Sunday* Ttn man who is not proud of his suf1 Irage |is not a source of pride to the oommualty. Ths Frenob resident at the Em psror's capital had protected vigor ously whan tha monarch shot hi unole, and after that ha had been ex eluded from the palace. For this reason he did not learn of the atrocl- i Mrs until they had boen going on for some time. Then he entered tha palace with a force of soldiers. A hideous spectacle met him. The K uparor'a throne ro< m and adjoining apartments were il.tcred with tha remnants of dead b idles. Many vlotims of the torture were still alive, Several of them were hanging from the walls by hooks passed through the fleshy parts of the S legs. Some were lying about without noses, eyes, ears and hands. The surviving wives and Inmates of the harem were In a state of unspeakable terror. The Fronoh offlola! arrested tha Emperor and Dr. Dumas, tha ohlef medical ofHoer of tha Frenoh forces, examined him and declared him insane. A foroe of 160 soldiers was U left to guard the palace and medical b attendance was given lo the V'oro n ^ who were btlll suffering from injuries ^ There is naturally a strong demaud m amor g the French puhlio that such a . monater as Than Thai should not be allowed to remain In power In a conn c try which la under the control of Franco, and considerable Indignation K is expressed that 1 ? should have been c permitted to ommlt such horrible *tr? cities without lu^orfrrenco. Undoubtedly the French Govern- y rent will now interfere, and probably ' it will now abolish the Aunamlte monarchy altogether and make toe 1 o junfcry a r gular colony with a j v y,rcv t: m^nr inn oznar (, tnoiaiH. A TlirlllniK Kt HOUfl. <3 At New York firemen mado t t Hilling tescue of two men from the ^ ro f of a seven story building and nev t r.\l firemen ;vnd ono policemen were o p-ilnfully burned and cut In a tire arly Friday which thro^touod to do- t itroy an on tiro city block and damaged to the o*ront of flOO 000 th 0 buildings *t 334, 340 and 342 Stanton * street. Fir Kimon*. ha f An hour, Sol t nrann J <,nmark and Marlon S>ng? r ? who ha 1 been a>l-ep In one of the ^ building and were awekened by tho amokc, aiood on the roof of .no of the * buildings waving their hands wild ) tf *nd nxplorirg the people below to P savo them. The fUmes wero eating iway tint cornice work upon which t they were Btandli g and it seemed & that, tbey uauoh perish, but they were 14 rescued In time. * - li IJoll WootII Marching On. j Search to determine whether the o boll weevil has crossed the Mississippi o river from L)ulalaa& into the State l< of Mississippi was begun Wednesday in the vicinity of Natohez by ofllolals of * the orop pest commissi n of the State, a At the beginning of tho year it was n anuounoed by government experts u that the weevil would probaby make iti tirso oroaslcg of the Mississippi a thlu f%lla an it was i((rnorl that tht a river would prove no barrier to the d post's east ward progrehS. R cent cold a weather, however, has retarded the m g ration and the present search Is * conducted uuder the hope that the * weevil may be found still confined to a fcue western side of tho river. r ? c So?l<l( Ci to Doath. t Five persons were scalded to death < by & oolumn of escaping steam from a broken boiler drum In a sugar house 1 near Vacherle, La., Wednesday. The J cene of the tragody, the Shell II1U J plantation, is remote frcm telegraph t ooumuolOAtlons and details of the explosion reached here tonight. T ie t dead are; Alexander Stolu, Augustln * Filgoust. Oias. Ojkman, Stephanie * Martiniz eevsn years old, and a ue ^ro. A hole two feet iquare burst in 1 the boiler drum, which stood for years ? in the sugar house. The sugar house L was tilled with steam and when found the three men, the girl and the negro, wore still alive, but fatally burned ? and in intense suff iring. J o Hutoidc on Htreet. At Philadelphia E. Bailee Jones, L member of wholesale liquor firm, shot 0 himself In the head walking on a J street in the business seotion of the f city. He was qulokly disarmed and carried to a hospital, but died before 6 reaching the institution. Ill health * III flilrl fen hava Vuuin kha ? no. ?# * -* V - ? ?v ? ?v mvwu ?uv vnuaa vjl WA suioide. 0 a Ought to Haas Him* 0 At FlUjerald, Ov, Reason Hand- fi lay, charged with poisoning his wifa, si was oonyloted Friday of murder, In the first degree with a rcoommenda- a lion to maroy and was satenoad to a life imprisonment. Handlay and his d wifa ware prominently oonneoted and r< had only been married two weeks a when Mrs. Ilandlay died. a Uoea Dp For Lilfe* w At Atlanta Alex Walker, a negro a ohar,;ed with being among the negro n rioters who fired upon and killed ti during the recent raoe riot, was oon g victed of murder, but reooommended u to the maroy of the court. Ha was <* lentenoed for life to the penitentiary, a Wanted to LjrDob Them. F">ur negroes were carried lo Little Rook, Arte., on Monday from Conway t ojun y and confiaed in the penitentiary 1 >o save their being lynched. They had G dred on several white people on Suo- l 1av night, killing William Hoore and t wounding Joseph Jonee. 1 For attacking his niece, Jessie May Popkins, John Hopkins was sentenced { Washington in to 10 years in the peuitentiary. i The man who forgets to vote has very little right to bemoan bad government. ? < LIONESSBITES V Woman Before An Audienoe Of Five Hundred THE FURIOUS BEAST inks Her Teeth In the Tamer's Cheeks as She Puts . Her Head In Her^Jaws.'aod Is Rescued by Hard Work. Mme. Enomo Schell, & professional Ion tamer, famed almost as muob for tor beauty as for her daring, stopped o wave a greeting to her catering udlenoe before she pat her head rlthlu the jaws of ? lioness at Huber's luscum In New York on Thursday v<?ulng, and tbat^eoood of deiv savd her life. The Naw York American lveb the following acctmnt of the Inicient: The great rows of teeth snapped nger.lur and Mme SoUell Is In iialleue Hospital with both ohco'<8 nearly hole.i ctT by the nand leued beast and :*r t eauty Is hu marred that alts will trver euter a lion cage again. M qo ScheU'rt appearance has beon k drawing card at the Fourteenth treet museum for two weeks. Seviral Umes each day she h?a entered he cage to compel tho lion and lloni8S to do tbe trloks alto had taught nem. IIor daring r/as ooDaidored uarvellouH, for the two busts* alio laved with are only half tamed, and ho lioness eapeoUlly la forooloua. E rly 1 vit ev snlug, before a t auilnci o/ 600 peraou3, uevrl/ a'l of thorn /omen aud ohlldrei, M a* S3 toll ottered tho oatfo with nothing but a bort whip to protect hor. Ah abe petted tho door, the female sprang at or, but alio cowed the bruto with rhip lashes, cl.jsdl tho gs.to aud beau to put the lioi.a through their accs. Though both growled and roared at lutes, botnooejbd the commands of le menacing whip and M uo Sjhell .t her audience Into a whirlwind of pplauas when she mode b 3th beast it aiugle tile, walk over her prostrate ody, then leap back again to the orner of the oage^ where they bedlently stood upon their hind 9KS. The oil max oomes In the flnalerhen the lion tamer drives the llon3a Into the centre of the stage, open is Jfcwa with her hands and thrusts ler unprotected head Inside. It tonlr mimilaa i\t ? >mHdin,. v.? u. ^iuuuiuk v/ iidi ShlsWit oulslde the don to force the ngry lluncssfrom her oorner WednesAy night. Then sbe sprang out with , great leap a.id wouid bavo foiled icr mistress wltti a blow of ber maalve paw If a athigiug blow of the vbip bad cotsubdujd uer. Hut oven g sue raised herself sulkily up >n ber ear leg.1), nhe snapped savagly at ber aiuer aud tbo wblp bad to be used uisparlugly before hbe was again >roughs luto submission. Tben Mm). Souell opened the huge noutn witu her nandn, ran ber ttngsre .long the two rows of glistening teettx ,nd bent her bead to tnrust II between be menacing jaws. Sne stopped to bow smilingly at be audience and wave ber band, j all performers do before attempting a hazardous feat. The bow and tbe snide saved her lfe for at tuat Instant the lioneis, ?lth a fearful roar, thrust Its paws ipun ber Bboalder and burled ita ueth in ber left cheek. Tbe woman sbriekod and staggerd oaoic: tbe beast lunged, wltb op an aws, ai her head again and tore her ither cheek. Tnen, as it was about to spring ipon her for the third time, sae nrew up her hands and fell, unoonoioas. The audienoe, horn tied, Had rora the building. Mme. Souell would have been torn o pieces but the lion, who had been rowllng in his oorner, sprang forrard, and attaoked the frensled lion88. While they fought gnashing ud olawing at eaoh otuer aoross the age, women in the audience faluted, mile even the men bolted for the treev. moment later the tamer* aaslstnt, revolver end prodding pole in and, had thrown open the door and **hedln. He fired a dcienehotsatihe tging Hone, J ebbed with the pola ad succeeded in forolng them apart nd Into d.ff *rent corners. Then he oarried the unoonsolous roman outside and attaches of the luseum summoned a Beilevua am burn c a. Mme. Bahell was oarried to tie hospital, still, unoonsclous. Sureons put twelve stitches In the gapig wound In her right cheek and Uhteon In the torn flesh of the othr. Tney said she would recover. KlIlAd hw ? -rj uuamon A statistical paper on India showa hat in 1904 there were killed In that u i ry by snakes and wild beast 24,i34 persons? 21 880 by snake bites, 98 by tigers, 395 by leopards, and he rest by other animals. The num* ) t of oattle killed was 98,682. A bad candidate Is the result of careless citizenship. A vote in the box is worth two kicks against bosses. Politics is not a business; it Is & duty. ,