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ft. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C\, MAY c,, 1897. 3 UK BACKWOODS. fin Qroat Old S'tor./-Toller Down on Rcolty Croali. b0ll . ,!« m.ln liu. .1™. tnd Ml.. CANNIBAL BLACK SNAKE. Nonn they laughoii till they eneil and Ktnved up late thinkin and talkin about 1 swallowed A clook. BURGLAR AND' I’ARSON. Th»* Itnitklim (.enornllou .if I**otilr— Tnlttiu utid r 1;i«- lioMiini—tlneL. to ttu* o:<| “l\ at ii I ut'U > ” llumr. IJ.dcy and truly 1 don't ^ee how 1 eoulil liidi* my time and wait my turn in this lost and mint Hi <lav and world but for the wicked faults and freaks and frailties of the vain and fall en human race. The fool people I have met up with, the fool deeds that are done and the \ fool things that l see in tins present generation keeps the world how they had weaned J.um from hi tiddlc. Hut bright and early the next mornin I where wiuv Hum Hankins? Down in the woods right back of Mu* old ilau- . kin.s plaee. with that same broad and idiotic smile on his face and his ax on { his shoulder. lie put in he did and dip|>ed a trrmendius big pine tree, and along indurin of the day he caught a tin cup full of soft pine rosum—which the same he took it to the house and hid it under the lied. That night some time between midnight and daybreak— 1 whilst dess was drenmin pleasant dreams and sleepin the sleep of the just ' as well as the unjust. Lvun didn’t do a blame tiling but slip out of hid and Caught in tho Act of Swallowing a Tiger Sn&ko. An Amcrlcnn \ntiirnIlM< Cniitnre* u New S|»eet«*ii of lirptlle Wlilcli l*er- forniN u StairtlliiK I'Vtit Wlille In Captivity. While hunting in the Orpuehe dis trict of Trinidad, says a writer in the New Orleans Times-Democrat, I made my way into the richest part of the tropical forest, where a clearing, sev eral acres in extents was being made preparatory*!® the planting of a new cacao estate. The immense trees had Ixhmi recently felled, their branches had A Kentucky Cow I’nrtnkri. of nr. In- illuotllilc Tidbit. George A. Newman, of 1721 Third street, lauiisville. Ky.. lias a cow with an upfietite for clocks. A servant lott a small silver clock, which stic had been * cleaning, on the kitchen steps while she stepped into the house for a mo ment. but on fier return the timepiece was missing, and dtspite the most dil igent search it could not be located, and vvjis given up for lonU Later in the evening the small boy of the Newman household was in the yard. Suddenly a silvery chime floated on his ear. He listened. Another and another, until Rov. O. W. Maggart Practices Muscular Christianity. The VInn of (,o«l Smote tin- .Vno of Sutnn hii*I Sat on lllm tntll the I’ollcr Arrived to Take Him to the Lockup. TOWED BY A SAWFISH. blackened waggin along smooth •ind easy and makes life worth the livin. All last week 1 v.aswown in the mouth.as Aunt Nancy Newton is so wont to say. and mopin and droojiiti around worse than a spring chielwn with a Ixui ease of the pips. Mother site was waikin on her head, so to speak, for fears that I was in for a had spell of the mully- grubs, :in<l for two or tiireedays I was right seriously threatened with an other through of calomel and snake- root tea. Rut all things ecrae straight to them that watch and wait. Soon Sunday mornin we heard the latest ami most freshest news from over on Huckle berry Kidge—whiehaftcr that l couldn’t elo a blessed thing but go out in the back yard, pick me out a cool and shady place and laugh ai! over my rusty seif, as it were. When 1 got up the* next mornin I had a comin appetite for breakfast and was feelin like a four- year-old shod all around, with packs in every foot. , , . .. . been chopped off. piled in heaps and pour that soft pme rosum s.lently and blirn<Hl< that notM remn i ue( , ,, ut . softly in .Jess s eyes. < onseip.entsally hu ch()nk8 , charn . d by fire nml , vll) g i when Jess woke up in the mornin be | couldn’t open his eyes and he couldn't tell daylight from dark. The more lie nihlied the worse he got stuck up. lie lifted up his manly voice in the dark ness and called for Miss Nomy to come and see—twas not a bird and not a bee. ■it of in confusion all over the ground. In the middle of this clearing, sur- . rounded by t he dark walls of the prime- val woodland on every side, was an j “ajoupa," or field hut. consisting of a . , roof of palm leaves mounted on intsts. was pme rosum-sof*. sticky pme Vvw . ltU this tlie n overseer haii rosum and a whole pa-ssle of pme ung his hammock: and there 1 swung ! rosum. , also, regardless of the vampires j ttnek to “Oli! tic In t tick r.*’ v.liich every night flitted in and out | H id in along on horseback one pleas- at their pleasure. Into the surround- ant summer day way up there in the hill mg woods and along t he adjacent river country of West Tennessee I fell in with hank 1 made my daily hunting e.xpedi- a traveller along the big road. He was tions. roliin aerost the country in a covered One day in the thicket near the river i wagon, drivin a pair of broke down 1 caught a young black and white tiger mules, and he had his family—one wife j snake (spilotes variabilis) and put him and nine children—along with him. i into the usual linen bag. hoping to find It was nothin to me and none of my others before sunset to keep him coin business. but after passin the regiar pany. Hungry ami fatigued. I was re- b Larry Hamilton, burglar, thug nml all-around villain, met a preacher in his rounds laat night and was knocked out forthwith, says the San Diego Union. Like David of old. the dominie smote the monster heavily in a good cause, live times the chime had sounded, unU but he did not linish the job by cutting ^ , off his head. Tho inao of God simply straddled the intruder and held him i down while members of tlie congregn- . tion hurried for the police. Hamilton is now in a steel cell at the county Jail, and if justice docs not miscarry lie will s[vemi the next few years in San Quentin prison for burglary. It is not his fault that murder was not added to his crime i of housebreaking. Rev. C. W. Maggart preached a ser- ! mon at the Lutheran church on "Some : Hindrances to Faith.” It. was a good | sermon, full of wisdom and sage advice. | and the admonition of the preacher to | his hearers to Ik* ever on the alert and ; repel with all the force of one’s being the common foe of humanity was illustrated in a doubly striking' manner immediately after the benediction had been pronounced, when, with the a.id of a ilower pot made of uncommonly hard pottery, the preacher smote a rob ber on tlie skull aud stretched him on the grass. llev. and Mrs. Maggart live in a house .«fcj -JL e HEARD THE CHIMES RINGING. he recognized it as coming from tlie lest clock? Hut where vva« the clock?There was nothing near but the cow. The boy He Swnni Away with n titer llrliiK liuriMioneO. The sloop yacht Hull aril*ed in Miami (Fla.) harbor Sunday nigla. She had on Imurd John !’ I’oherts. '*f Chicago; W. J. I’urcell. of Waslungion. and Clmrles Christian, of Miami. The party has been on a cruise through the keys for two weeks. The cruise ex tended os far os Flamingo Flats and Cape Sable, where they went to pro cure specimens of birds, fish. ete.. fu<- the National museum. Washington. A thrilling episode of the cruise w n* the capture of a sawfish measuring tsy. feet. Cruising off Maduro key they came upon tho huge fish, and Hoberte. who was keeping a sharp lookout. ii'a compliments in regards to the weather turning unsuccessful in the evening. | marched all around the yard, and then adjoining the church on the north. The F.'Odter*!* Revensre. Kveryliody for ir.ilesurmind knows the Hankins generation of people— Luni and Jess and Miss Nomy. Jess is a farmer and nothin but a farmer, whilst Lum is a farmer to some extent ; and likewise also a tiddler. Of n;y own individual knowledge Lum Hankins has liven play in on the fiddle, more or less, for 13 years. lie never did play any jxirtieular tunes and no music to speak of. lie never did play anything forcer- tain. It is my own private and public opinions that Lum Hankins wouldn't know "Honie. Sweet Home” from “Hon Nigger Run" if he was to meet bath of them right out in the hig read with linen dusters on. I don’t honestly be lieve he could take a crooked stick and turn a tune. Hut Lum is a fiddler all tlie same, and be ran twist more bluod- curdlin. halr-splittin noise out of his fiddle than any livin mortal man any- : whores in the Hocky ( reek regions, y Old man Dave Hankins and his good | wife- the father and mother of Lum I and Jess and Miss Nomy—they are now dead and gone. In their lifetime they use to bring action in self-defense rne-t in awhile and tab? out papers of di vorcement between Lum and his fiddle. They w ould grin and suffer am! bear up tinder the affliction as long as they could—till patience was plum wore out and life a dreary drag—then the old lady would levy on the fiddle and loci; it up. gently but firmly, in the big fam ily eliiat. whilst tlie old man would give it out to Lum. all in a family way. that if lie didn’t shuck his dirty duds and retire to bed lie would soon feel the heavy hand of fatherly chastisement, or words to that extent. Hut last fall when tlie < Id folks bad went cn aerost—they didn’t more than , reach the shade trees on the other side before Lum had his old fiddle strung up and screak in and sqm uiln and fccrenmin to beat six bits, livery night I the good Lord sent Lum would git out his fiddle and make the air quake mid tremble, whilst Jess and Miss Nomy must suffer and be strong. They won! I sometimes mildly siigrvst to Lufh that enough of a thing was a gracious plen ty. and J.um would respond back that he was free, white and three times seven, and didn’t have a blame thing to do but play on his fiddle and make the time pass pleasant with him. Tallow nn<] I’tnr* ttoHoni. Through the winter Jess and Miss Nomy they had grace sufficient to pass under tlie rod and stand the strain right tolerable well. Hut when the Lspringtime come—when the days got ingand the nights gut short—they b it need of rest from their troubles nml tribulations—which, you understand, Lutn and his old fiddle murdered sleep ^as well as music. I So finally at last Jess felt like he didn't have the grace and strength to stand it any longer. One night last week—way along in the dead hours— he got up lie did and found Lutn’s i fiddle. He never played any music, i but he played hut weather with that old fiddle. He told Miss Nomy to fetch yiim a big hunk of tallow, and then he Mt in and greased the cussed thing— sit rings, bow and all—till by gracious the tallow stuck out an inch thick ail ovV*r. The next night after supper Luin put a big bundle of tobacco in the rack and went right on down into the chis^ and got out his fiddle. But when he drug his bow aerost the strings she wouldn’t screak and scream a blessed bit. She was slick as soap and as si lent as the graveyard down there at old Cool Springs church. And you mought maybe think that under them tryin surrounding Lum Hawkins naturally searched tlie air in My in everything exceptin his Sunday school lesson. It would raley seem to me like that was a mighty good time of year for Lum to pull off Ids coat anti spit in Ids hands and play for even if it bning on another war. Hut he didn’t do that. He had all the appennnents of a man that was sent for and couldn’t eonit* aerost. lacked like a native born idioli for a few minnits. then put the greasy thing away and sneaked off to and the crops I didn't have a continental w itli only the tiger snake to console me thing to do but try and find out where .lust as I was about to come out of tlie he come from and where he supposed woods into the clearing. 1 stepped into he was goin. I a thicket of young palms to reconnoiter. “By the seven stars, stranger, we '■ Seeing nothing from where I stood. I come from over the river, and we arc moved out into the open, making my now on our way back to God’s own conn way over the great trunks lying pros- try—hack to old Kaintucky." says he. ; irate across my route. Coining to one “livery day and every night wo hoi.I | <,f these of unusmtily big diameter. I family prayers in the hopes that the climbed upon it and was about to jump brittle thread of this vain nml fieetin | down on tlie other side when I noticed life will be stretched till we can return I a long black snake slowly making his h:n»k home. Then may the good Lord wav Lmong the cloffs aud bits of charred fashion. In live minutes concluded, as it afterward proved cor- ; When the congregation was dismissed, reetly. that the clock was in the cow. j about 8:45 o’olock, some of the church lie rushed to his father with the news | members noticed a moving light in the of his discovery. “The cow’s swallowed the clock! The cow’s swallowed the clock!*' he shout ed. Mr. Newman did not believe the bey. parsonage. They at once suspected that something was wrong, for both Mr. and Mrs. Maggart were at church, and the house is always locked during their absence. F. J. Villa, who was one forgive us for Hie k r.g, fool journey we ! have made.” "Where have you been, if it is n fair ! question?" says I. "Over the river and way out ther * I into the most lonesomest aud Hod-fcr- | saken country on tlie broad bosom of the earth, perhaps.'* the sad -eyed trav- | eh r went cn. “Three years ago we ' pulled up stakes and k*ft our old Main- ' tncky home and lit out for the great , northwest. The first year we lived in ;* i section of country where tho In.ml was rich, and it did look to me like the whole entire face of the earth would turn to corn. Never s::::•:* the Huy and hour when first I was horned into this ; world have 1 ever saw sieh stacks am! scads and dead oodles of corn—corn a ; plenty and to spare--corn or. top of ; corn. * | “Hut then along in the fall and win- I .The latter insisted. So at 5:55 Mr. New- „f those who first saw the light, noti- mun went out in the yard and took his ; fied the pastor, and he hurried to in vestigate the matter, followed by Mr. Villa. R. II. Young, and several other raen of the congregation. Mr. Maggart and Mr. Villa took their stand on either side of the frontdoor. /// Va >N''- 'V ' \VJ V' ! .Cg3 V - . *'?&**’'*». rZyS: ^■ : _ isition a few feet front tlie cow. which still cropping grass in reflective a silvery chime floated again on the stiil air. Another tend another, and this time six sounded. While they were | sounding the cow lifted up her head in 1 that inquiring style peculiar to cows ami listened. When Hie sounds bad ceased she resumed her browsing, satis- ; fied that she was keeping r T ght timeu:.d ; (.id not have to be wound up. Mr. New man decided that his son was correct. Dr. Ki-senmnu was sent for. | lie said that probably tiieer.w had swal lowed the clock, and that it had not gone further i! nvn than her first s-tom- i -h. It would not eh.inge j • sitian un til it came time for the cow to chew its cud. when tlie bovine would’ he I laced in the painful position of hav- irg t > chew a ban! bit of silverware ami steel springs. A powerful cimMiv «il I the work. The e was a b.ttii ter Hie weather was must hcllatious , void—wood was high and scanty—corn . SHOOK* THEM OT was cheap ami j !e: tiful. And what do ! 1 1 n-r ii* * * . done, strur^er? ON you reel.on the prop! Not a darn thing but | itch in and use 1 ( ,‘ ( ' ranches with which the grim. <1 was ev.n. I at orce rushed at is m.p'iuic l k \vn ids I’.oad with n;v st'.i’K corn for firewood-burnt it up s.r. as i h() . ;( t;f v> . ;< ., natural and free as you would bun, a ; , , 1 ad of pnte knots. I ut that aitit a.l. It lU . was a je males my old heart ache and .deed t,. I ... 1(] uil!l;jut a l( , rea | shlt . :( m hi lack ci lubrinc tell it. stranger, but in. that orfu! ease of puskeney I b.urut corn like it was noth in more than common wood. Only thiak of that—a man bora and broil aud l.rur.g up in the gnat and ginrous state of Kaintue! ;•—building fires oi.ten corn to keep from freczln skip to death. In r. v dnv and hi 'catli. In r. y dav and g’encratior: i have been through vairious and sundry | trials and troubles : ml temptations am! tribulations. 1 have* buried two wive- and followed my own dear father am! j mother in sorrow to the grave. 1 fit j ing w!: plum through the v.or—all the way from Hurt Sumpter to the famous apple tree. In that little shootin match we had one day up there at Good Hope church I got out* bullet through my ku.ee aud another cue in my knee. Hut i i ever raley knowed what it was to suffer in the flesh aud weep great gobs of grief Jill I had to go out to the end* after a turn of firewood, whilst my thought turned I r.-ek to old Kaintucky. where they have learnt to use their corn for higher and l etter pun ores. , ... . . 1 * , , Immune! Naturally, cf course, in the next fo!- , ,, low in spring we thawed out and packed . up and moved our washin or.ten that waste howlin country. Last year we rented land and pitched a crop dov.? ; here in the Mississippi bottums. From the first day arc! hour when we left tbi* old Kaintucky house it would seem like the cards were runnin ugia me like a shot. Hut I had heard a heap of talk j j about Hie Mississippi bottoms, and it i raley v. as«n fair and prosperous eoqntry ! tvi look upon. Hut dadlduir.e It. tlie next i news I got they had vvi rhed up a tie- j mend!us hot fight on the wet or dry j question, and dura my eats, if the dry side didn’t win in a walk. About that | time the spring freshets come. The min hit mined in |>crfert wads and i s*reams and sluices t 11 the face of the tel!-ia!e hcad-platc. the atse.ee which marks the deadly Klaphkte. I j pried o; en Ids jaw *, but fenud ti.at I. was i-it an. liiaps. for he had un fa: g-. i luf four rows of teeth in the nj.p r j jaw. There was. however, a red spot j a tl ■ uppM* gums idirost umler tl.c I -ye in i .i —'i of the u»-per teeth rows. “i’erlui; s th's is something entirely ■ : \v." tlioue'.:; I to myscif. as ! joytnl- I ly stowed lum away in tbe bug with tl: • iiy r snake anil eoatiu.ued n:y c.jurs.- toward the hut. i After sap; cr the overseer aud ! chat- te I r.nd sn.ol wl fur same time, ai d u .mi threw iiurscl.es into our litim- a.i.i'ke—lu* to dream of wood ciitt r.g e.ed I of s"..:! e hi’iitiug. The smil e I hug was hanging under the caves of the "ajou;>:;.”so as to be vvel: out of tlie way and safe from any animal that | during the night might wander in fiom the words, it must have been some where about two o’clock in the mur:- i discolored, but \ as still t ickiug away. GJURACE Of : DESFAIR. ; Ker.inte Convict !.c«;is t::t;* n Top pent to Seen re t'peei’om. Hut her tiuui be reeautured. Mattie : I 1 ! ‘ ’.ills, of Atlanta. Git., a female ccnviet | i who had escaped, leaped bum the iror ! i l.iudge that, spans Head tree creek, and | dived into the seething waters i ashing j beneath, with one of Hied' g> follow mg . :er into the water. The creek wa- | | swollen from recent ralu.s. au.d the tin id i was at its height. When the woman struck the water j there was a loud spl.u-l:. vvh.ch drovvue ! ; 3,* m THE BLOW THAT TOLD ker cry of terror. The puck of blood hounds reached the bridge, am! the guards, tnougted on fast I’.ot-es. came ut a quick gallop. '1 heir gains were iouded with buekslmt. and f.. *•1 n ;*. voice froir. my i.cgk l:or’.-. awoke me. says he. "and llgiit tlie ^ there’s surely something’ wrong earth was under water. There was wa'er. water everywhere:-, and not a I durn drop of anything stronger and Ix’tter to mix with it. After so long a ! time the floods run down, and we made j a right tolerable good crop. Hut in tlie I main time we had lived one year in n with those snakes. Tlie re lias been a j great snapping and hissing in the bag I for the past half hour.’’ Springing up and lighting the lamp. I took do.vn the bag and opened i‘. i The negro was right: something was I wrong. The black snake, my new dis- I cover*,’, was in the act of swallowing my t ger snake. Indeed, lie had Idmal- teady lit 1 If swallowed, and this must have Liken considerable time, for tiic tiger snake was at least five feet long | and fully as thick as the black Wishing to save my t iger snake. I shoo > them both out on the I'oor and made j the swallower disgorge. ! then pul | him back in the bug. but the Tiger snak.* I was dead. How tlie other had killed ! him I was unable to learn, but he was | evidently a cannibal snake and I could STRUGGLING IN THE WATER store no more snakes in the bag witi: peered to find the woman at liny. Pres ently they saw an object in the muddy waters. Then appeared the head and then the arms of the woman ►;)!::>!:- ing and st ruggling in the swollen creek. The body was rolling and pitching in 01 " ' ! the sweeping tide. Tlie waters rolled her over ami over, and ut times she was ilmost dashed out of t he foam. It was a struggle for life. The most expert swimmer could barely live in the (load of waters, and the guards stoml look ing at the woman, expect Ing - every mo ment to see her sink. la a moment which was a large, gtns-s panel. Mr. I.’aggart had hastily armed h'mseif with a flower pot that stood near by. They were just in time to secure tlie job they were after, for the burglar, alarmed by footsteps nn t he porch, evi dently made up his mind that tin* door offcrcl t he only means of escape. liais ing l.is foot he kicked a hole in the ; glass, and. shoving a lidge revolver out | in advance of ids body, began to slim ! out. liis head had scarcely appeared when : it was struck a resounding blow by Hu* flower pot hurled by the athletic ’ young preacher. The robber fell out of the door like an ox under tin* force of a sledge hammer, and before he i could recover himself was grabbed by .Mr. Villa and Mr. Maggart. Mr. Vilbi gave his attention to tin* big icvoiv *r. ! which the burglar still held, and which i !:c was attempting to discharge at Ids captor*. Hither through accident or by the i efforts of the villain, the gun was dis- | charged, but the ball went wide of its ( mark. The report served to increase j trie excitement of the occasion, and the j women and children of the congrega- ■ tion. nearly all of whom had a more or i less vague idea that something was j j happening in tin* parson's yard, at once j became hysterical and tried to get out : of range of the revolver. Worse than all. the burglar, a lusty i brute, about five feet six inches tall and weighing perhaps 1G5 pounds, kept up a volley of oaths that were indescrib able. He fought like a tiger, and tried to shoot one of Ids captors, but they had him <«i all sides, and tightened their holds until he gasped for breath. They gave him no unnecessary pain, for they were Christians, but they were lighting Christians, and imbued with righteous anger. The robber's gun was taken away, and six of the preach er’s friends used the fellow tor u sofa, waiting for an officer. TOWED BY A SAWFISH. seized a harpoon and sunk it deep int4 the monster's body. Quick as a lUsfi the fish darted down the char.tie!, imifi- ing the line whiz out of the boat. Hub erts, whose hand was burned from tltr running line, culled to I’urei'll to make a turn around the mast. The latter l*jd no time to do so before the end of thr line was reached, so he seized it r.utk Roberts, who had nearly gone over board, and together they manag’cd tc hold it until Christian contrived to make the end fast. Then the fist tewed the boat down the channel. Christian maneuvered the limit im-t shallow water, and here Huberts put the grains into him again. Then the fish made things fly. throwing, in his frantic rage, sand and water high int«e the air. Roberts contrived to get caugltt in tlie line, and was in an instant pulled overboard, a distance of 40 feet from the boat. I’eing an expert swimmer, be got hack without any damage. Ths towing process then again began, this time with two lines, and the cruisers went flying down the bay lik:* sports behind a spanking team of stallions. After a full hour of this the big fi-k grew weary and was again lund'xf aiongside. when a big load of buckshot was put into him. Stil he was not dead, but very weary. Huberts the* performed the dangerous feat of get ting on his back and placing a line around his huge saw. It then required tlie combined efforts of the three meft to haul him onto tlie sands, and here | lie began to slash about again. I’ur- cell got a cut on tlie foot that he is nurs ing yet. The men. after rizing him up. decided that lie was a pretty, dangerous cus tomer. and might have cat the:r boat in two with one stroke of his saw. He was 1SH, feet long, about 4 1 feet across tlie body, aud his saw was 5 ! ,J feet long. HIS GOOD INTENTIONS. Tliey Cos; Hlri tl 1m Comfort nml Vladft Itli-i Snpremely Itlitlcnlous. There was just one vacant seat in the Wabash avenue cable car. says the Chi cago Tribune, when a woman carry ng a large basket and leading a smail boy by the hand came in aud took the seat, 'she placed the basket carefully in her I lap nml let the boy stand leaningagamst her—an arrangement that suited every body except tlie boy. "i ’ant to sit there." he bawled, trying to push Ids mother aside. "Look out..Johnny! you’ll break tlmai eggs." remonstrated the woman. "Don’t care if 1 do!’’ sobbed Master Johnny. "I’ll make vou care!" answered i:i« S) V r# ! , i\ ✓. -<->v TX him. Ken-.nrlvuitle WIinte Story. A curious story, which comes front ; country where they burnt corn for fire- Caen, is told by the HariscorrespoadeM : wood, and one year In the low lands I of the London Morning Host. A. M. I of the Mississippi, y here they had a Dubosq was duck-shooting at the | most hcllatious plenty of cold water | mouth of the River OrneWhen a whait* j aud nothin else to s^K'ak cf. Hut people (rose near his boat. lie fired both bar- ; must live and learn. And if tlie good , Lord, in IDs wisdom and ir.crcy. will only forgive me for this long fool trip | end spare us Till we can return back ones!, more unto the land of our fathers. ''here they burn firewood instill of i corn and don’t need no whole tretpen- ; turned to the attack and filially sue- I dbts big lot of water, durn my buttons I ooeded in driving the whale arhore. M. if any mortal man will ever live long Dubocrfhas v-old hia capture to a corr- : enough to see me. a hen scratch from I*' 1 ?’ n,l(! '* l,n ‘ s bo?n towel to Caen. rels of ids gnn into the animal, which dived. The water being very hallow, the whale soon rose again, whereupon M. Dubosq jumped ii|K)n its back and lugan stabbing it with a large knife. He was tossed into the sen. hut ro- t?> o'd Kaintucky home." RUFUS SANDERS. It is lJ» years since a whale was cap tuml on this ivirt of the French cca.t. i tin* woman steadied herself fora mighty effort. She raised her head high above the waters, and. turning upon her *ide. began to strike out with her hands. Gradually she moved out upon the stir- lace of the waters, fighting bravely in the unequal contest. A mile flown she ■ truck for shore, vvli rq L-h.. took to the woods. Hi * dogs m ain getting on the scent and treeing her. when the armed guard cane up and secured her. The Mule Is .Now Dc«t<l. A su’t for the possession of a mile was instituted by a cit’z*n of Hunt county. Tex., several years ago. The mirlc lias s’nce died, but the lit'.ga- i on is going on still, $300 ia easts lias ,! ;*rn piled up. and 100 witnesses are nt- J end ing the. trial of the er.se. in Green ville. When citizens fall out lawyers amt the tax consumers reap the fees. I fll Itllill® lu BEFORE THE LAUGH BEGAN*. mother, sharply. “Five dozen eggs, as every last one of’em fresh!’* His answer was a kick aimed at tb* j basket. A man sitting opposite heris- Sergt. McGinnis and Policeman.lohn- ' ^ l . , Come, mv little man. and s:t on ins son arrived on the scene within a few v m . .*• minutes and'took charge of tire bur- ! "V 1 ! . ... . , . glur. who. Sergt. McGinnis recognized * ; V,r ; 1 i, -* r(,,n to Ri * ° n • vo " 1 r Un, -‘’ a» a worthier* habitue of "Stingaree" i ,,n<, ,,R * ,he name«l Larry Hamilton, who was lust in the poliee court a hunt two year* ago for knocking a tamale man down at Fourth and 1 streets and robbing hun of his wares. Hamilton was fined $25 the following day. and not unless after ward left town. Calif with Three Ear*. A cow belonging to A. J. Cnrroiton. who lives north of Belle Center. O.. has given birth to a calf perfectly devel oped except that, the left fort leg is but a mere stump, having nn extremely large hoof. The. animal's ear* are in proper position, and just back of the right one is a third car growing straight tip at the side of the head. The calf appear* quite strong. : again. "I just wish I had you home. U'oiihJn'fc I lay it on!” >nid the mutlier. “Fit I trounce you right here if I knew what to do with tills ’ere basket.” "I’ll hold tlie basket, ma’iiin.” said the man opposite. He reached over and took it. Kver? body hoped to see Johnny get his <£r- ; serts. and a hush of expectancy felloe, the car. Hut what that scheming wtui>- au did v* as to'pick up the boy. ctiddift hint in her arms, and give him a coa>- portable seat in her lap. Aud tHa little wretch smiled ut tlie general di*- eonillturo. while the man oppevlti.* tea the basket of eggs jsnnee c* they nml glared with m‘.irderous Johnny and hi* motbj