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!N GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
\EWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.
Sumter county Wl'l vote on the whisky
question on Aug. 17.
The tola! valuation of the railroad prop
erly in Georgia for this year is 168.000,000,
which is an increase of 7701,906 over 1897.
Gov. Atkinson has offered a reward of
|7’> for the capture of Lorenzo Berry of
Muscogee county, charged with commit
ting murder in 1801.
Messers. Fred and YY’ilHam Kuch of At
lanta, began proceedings in Fulton Su
perior Court Thursday afternoon lo fore
close a mortgage for s3o,9uu on the I lot
eiVVnmeister.
Mrs. Cornelius Moses of Augusta, compli
mented her guest. Miss Alma De Leon
of Savannah, with a biclele ride Thurs
day. The party, about twenty-dive in num
ber. after the ride, returned to Mrs,
Moses’ home, where refreshments were
served.
The time of holding the quarterly con
ference ot the Woodburn circuit has been
changed from the second Sunday and
Saturday before in September, to the third
Sunday and Saturday before in August,
at the same time of the meeting of the
Woman’s Missionary Society of the L>ut>-
lin district.
J. S. Hutchins of YVaycross has Invent
ed a simple device that will do away with
the weights and cords for window sash.
It is a spring, attached to one side of the
sash, and if it proves a success it will
save a great deal in the cost of building.
He also has a sash lock that is simple
and yet very effective.
The largest tree in or around Ware
county is a water oak which stands within
three miles of YVaycross, on the Williams
property. Judge E. M. Crlbb measured
the tree recently. It is 24 feel in cireum
ference six inches from the ground and
15 feet at thirty-six inches. The top meas
ures 78 feet from side to side, and is 276
feet in circumference at the outer edge.
The second shooting contest between
the Senoia and Greenville Gun clubs took
place at Warnerevllle Thursday, the
score being 167 to 149 in favor of Senoia,
out of a possible 225. An old-fashioned
barbecue was served on the grounds and
ti large crowd was present to witness the
shoot. This is the second time this sea
son that Senoia has defeated Greenville.
John YY r . Coleman of Clarks district took
to Eastman last week throe pieces of solid
gold which his wife fonn l in the gizzard
of a chicken. J. LI. King says that the
pieces are undoubtedly gold and he has
them on exhibition at his Jewelry store.
The question is, where did the chicken
find tlie gold? it may be that Mr. Cole
man is living over a gold mine,
Dalion Citizen: Robert A. Irwin of Sa
vannah is the guest of Miss Virginia Field.
He is a most remarkable musical genius.
He Is 16 years of age, and his perform
ance on the piano and pipe organ are
wonderful. His instructors are Profs. L.
W. Mehrten and Spencer White, the lat
ter having spent summer before last In
Dalton, and is well remembered here. Mr.
Irwin is assistant organist at St. John's
Episcopal Church, Savannah.
This is the way W. T. M. Brown of
Elbert, made ninety-one bushels of wheat
on three acres of land on his place near
Dewy Rose: He broke the land with a
two-horse plow, harrowed it over, ridged
up with ripper, broadcasted with manure,
then sowed wheat and harrowed In. From
the poorest acre of the three twenty-six
bushels were gathered. Next year lie will
sow ten acres with the same plow except,
tfiat he will break the land with a rip
per.
Gov. Atkinson received notice Friday
from the board of commissioners appointed
to manage the Yosemite Y’alley and Mari
posa Big Tree Grove, that one of the big
trees in the grove had been named Geor
gia. The information came in a letter
from J. J. Lermen. of San Francisco, the
secretary of the commission. The head of
the commission is Gov. James H. Budd,
of California. Gov. Atkinson will send
an expression of thanks in reply to the
communication, and will ask for particu
lars about the new Georgia.
Carl YVrlght, a wagoner of the Second
Regiment, under Gen. Shaffer's ■ com
mand, has just gotten back to Atlanta
from Santiago more dead than alive. Ho
has had yellow fever and is now down
with typhoid fever. YY’riglit went to San
tiago with the first licet of transports
which left Tampa. YY'ith them was YY'ill
Howard of Atlanta. Both boys wire
stricken with yellow fever and went to the
hospital together. Howard died, but after
twenty-two days YVright was pronounced
cured. He remained in quarantine eigu
teen days and was then allowed to rail
for Tampa. On his way back he was
again taken sick, hut went on to Atlanta.
With him was Patrick McDulTy of Rich
mond. Va., who stopped at Atlanta a day
and continued on his way home. They
arrived night before last and YVrlght be
ing 100 sick to go home was taken by
McDuffy to a room on 'Marietta street.
Wright made a start home, and stopped
by the place where his brother works on
Exchange Place. His own brother did
not recognize him for a moment, he was
so yellow and emaciated. He gave out
again, and was helped to his brother’s
room in the Holland House, at 27 Au
burn avenue. Here he stayed until af
ternoon, when a carriage was called and
the sick man was removed to his father’s
home at 40 Johnson avenue. Physicians
who saw YY'right say (hat he has typhoid
fever. YY’hen YVright arrived at his
father's home ho found the inoiiu r of
Will Howard awaiting him. She wanted
news o! her son and to Iter YY'right lmd
to bieak the news of o-r boy's death.
Thomas J. Jackson, one of the oldest
printers in the state, died at hn home In
Girard Wednesday night of general de
bility and old age. He was a oompqs'lor
for more than fifty years, a church offi
cer, a contributor to newspapers of in
teresting “Old Recollections.’’
FLORIDA.
J. L. Burroughs and Miss Sallie Knight
were married at Plant City YVednesday
night at the Baptist Church by Rev. Mr.
Frier.
The Orlando Icc factory is turning out
eight tons of Ice every day and finds u
market for every pound. The greater
part of the output goes to Tampa at
present.
The Town Council of Eustls has decided
to purchase a fire apparatus. It will !>e
u gasoline engine, ready for business in
ten seconds and guaranteed to be effective
as a fire extinguisher.
Orlando’s pineapple crop is selling at re
markable prices. In the home market
“nubbins” are bringing from 15 to 20 cents
apiece, while fruit shipped East and to
the middle states is bringing from 40 to
Cos cents net.
Spruce Bluff is in excitement because of
the appearanee of a black bear which is
dealing destruction to hogs. Hogs be
longing to Mr. Fultz came rushing homo
one day last week, one of them having a
large hole in its neck. Seeing this, and
having found one dead a day or two be-
- Fultz feared that some oue had
shooting them, and he started out lo
investigate. Suddenly a large bear rose
up before him and nearly ran over him
It Jumped into the lagoon ami swam
across, and is still at large, though sev
eral hunters have been out after it.
The little 3-year-old eon of Mr. and
Mrs. YY'. C. rainier of DeLand, mot with
a serious accident Monday, one which
came near proving fatal. He fell from a
picket fence and was impaled on one of
the sharp pickets, penetrating the abdo
men. His condition is still critical.
During the thunder storm of last Fri
day night lightning struck the hou-se of
Mr. Matt Kennedy, who lives about three
miles from Jasper. Mr. Kennedy,
and *his wife and daughter were
knocked dowrt, and (ho young lady
was rendered unconscious, In which
condition she remained for sev -ral
hours, and is at this time considered to
be in a dangerous sate.
Prof. Sayler will not teach the Now
Smyrna school and has left that place
under a cloud, which had a sensational
aspect. He is a marri* and man of family
and is accused of living whispered uweet
nothings lo a 14-year-old girl of that
place. The young lady strongly denounced
his proffered affection and before the
chairman of the school board couhl in
stitute an investigation Prof. Sayler had
left the county.
YY’aiucha's orange groves were never in
a more flourishing condition than now.
The growers contend that as the cold
wave came from the South last winter,
it will never occur again, and In conse
quence grove property is advancing in
prices. Thirty thousand boxes of oranges
and grape fruit were shipped from this
point last season, and, notwithstanding
the cold of last winter and the excessive
drought all through the spring and sum
mer, the best judges claim 20,iX)0 boxes for
the present crop. Albert Carlton esti
mates his crop above last year’s yield,
which was 3,500 boxes.
The residence of J. A. Melton at Ocala
was damaged by lire Friday morning. The
fire resulted from a defective flue. The
residence is situated on an elevated tract
of land. The pinnacle of the two-story
house proper caught, and owing to the
elevation of the building, which s on
higher ground than that on which the
water tower is situated, the pressure was
not strong enough to throw the water
over the roof. The result was that, not
withstanding the herculean efforts of the
firemen, ably handled by Chief Ed Car
michael, the upper story of the building
was burned, while the damage done the
lower story by water was considerable.
The neighbors rallied manfully to the res
cue, and by untiring work saved nearly
all of Mr. Mellon’s furniture. The tevi
dence was a very handsome one, and orig
inally cost in the neighborhood of $5,009.
It was insured for $2,000, and the furni
ture for SI,OOO.
Jacksonville Times-Fnion Correspond
ence from Tampa: It seems that Judge
Phillips of this circuit has stirred up a
hornet’s nest over an order he issued to
the sheriff of Polk county yesterday. The
sheriff reported to him that he understood
that the negro soldiers encamped at Lake
land Intended to attack the jail and take
out a prisoner. Judge Phillips, as a pre
cautionary measure, ordered the prisoner
carried to the De Soto county jail. Peo
ple arriving in Tampa this morning from
Lakeland and Bartow say that the order
has aroused the Indignation of many peo
ple, who are opposed to moving a pris
oner just because a lot of lawless negroes
want to take him out of jail. These peo
ple claim that they are able to care for
their Jail, and desire to do so. From all
the information that can be gathered an
attempt on that jail at present would
mean a bloody war in Polk county, and
that the results would compare with some
of the battles of the army In Cuba. The
people say that now that the negro sol
diers have demonstrated what they ate,
there is nothing to do but simply wait
for another attack and then kill them.
The recent conduct of these soldiers has
made the white people very bitter toward
them, and there Is little doubt that either
in Polk county or at this place it would
now take but very little to ignite the
spark into a flame.
i:\t Ol NTER WITH A XEGIIO.
Sheriff I’nssiuore and Conductor Iln
ron Have Narrow Escape*.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 13.—Sheriff Pass
more and Conductor Baron of the Georgia
Southern train had a desperate encounter
with a negro last night this side of Lake
Park. Sheriff Passmore was a passenger
on the train when the conductor discov
ered a negro riding on the rods under the
car. The sheriff was asked to help arrest
the negro and the train was brought to a
standstill for that purpose. The conduc
tor and sheriff jumped from the car be
fore it stopped and the sheriff, being un
used to dismounting from a moving train,
stumbled and fell. The conductor fell over
him and before they could regain their
feet the negro was standing over them
snapping his pistol in ihe conductor's face.
The weapon was a tine one. bin a grain
of sand caught in the works and kept tt
from acting when the trigger was pulled.
The sheriff filed at the negro and the
negro fled up the track, both men behind
him. They ran a distance of 20 0 yards,
and the negro crossed the track. The con
ductor stumbled over the track and the
negro turned ujion him again. A half doz
en shots were fired and the negro dropped,
apparently dead. The officers got him on
his feet, and found out that he had not
been hurt. A search revealed the negro's
pistol hid in the sand near where he foil.
The negro was brought to tills city and
tried. He was sent to the chain-gang for
nineteen months on two charges. The ne
gro gave hts name ns YY'ill Smith, and said
lie was going from Jasper to Macon. Had
his pistol fired, he would probably have
killed both of tire officers.
COTTON PROSPECTS NOT Sq GOOD,
Ruin unit 1101 l Worms Detrimental to
Dnvisboro's Planters,
Davlsboro, Ga., Aug. 13.—The cotton crop
which recently promised an abundant yield
to the planters of this section of Georgia
has of late deteriorated greatly, and the
opinion now prevails here that it will fall
short of the crop of 1897.
The protracted rainy season has caused
the plants to shed badly, and rust lo an
alarming extent has appeared in many
places. 801 l worms have been reported
from different sections, but their injury
to this crop cannot be foretold, since they
are not remembered to have appeared here
in past years. The prospect, therefore,
for a large crop, which was so good three
weeks ago, has vanished.
Some Tweed Monsters.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Tween, Ga., Aug. 11.—A negro mill hand
while paddling in the Oeonece river Mon
day near Wells’ Springs came in contact
with an alligator. YVhen within a few
yards from the saurian he shot it with a
gun. killing it instantly. He rowed it to the
landing and hauled the monster to a tur
pentine still and placed it on exhibition.
The ’gator weighed seventy-two pounds.
A large rattle snake was killed bv a
young man in the cotton field of Mr.
David YV'ilkes last Monday. The reptile
had in time twelve rattles. This is the
rattler that has been coming in people's
yard hunting water and crawling about
tlie fields generally.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14. 1898.
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SAI’ELO ISLAND COLONV.
.James Garrard Stevenson Arranging
for Its Settlement This Full.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 13.—James Garrard
Stevenson, editor of the Individual, a Chi
cago publication, arrived In Brunswick
last night from Sapeio Island,' where he
has spent several weeks perfecting plans
for Ihe colony, which he Intends to settle
there during the early fall months.
The Morning News correspondent se
cured a clear idea of his intentions, and
here quote much of his conversation on the
subject.
On Sapeio Island, within sight and
sound of the sea, amid scenes of sylvan
beauty, of quietness and peace, an ideal
colony seeks a home. Its material life,
nourished by the generous yield of a kind
ly soil, under careful and intelligent culti
vation, its intellectual life nurished by the
best thought in education, from the kin
dergarten upward, including Industrial
training, thorough school and library and
iyceuin; its spiritual life nourished by the
highest ideals of culture, under the in
spiration and influence of characters
grown strong in the service of humanity,
its powers and Influence will be far-reach
ing.
“Those who have the deepest interest in
this colony's welfare have been at work
for many months to make the way perfect
for those who are to bring to tlie new
home. In the island we find that which
we desire as far as nature could do. It
only requires the hand of man to develop
it and make the iand, literally speaking,
blossom as (he rose. In this oitr people
will not be found wanting. Sapeio is sit
uated about thirty miles from Brunswick
and forty miles from Savannah. It is
twelve miles in length and about three
and one-half in breadth. It contains, ex
clusive of tide lands, about 20,000 acres of
as fertile and fruitful land as may be
found in the South. In the days before the
war it was the beautiful home of people
of culture and wealth, who gathered large
revenues from the cultivation of sea Island
cotton and sugar cane. Everything can
be grown in the soil, except wheat and the
fruit of the tropics. It is the natural
home of the sea Island cotton and this
product the colonists will raise extensive
ly. The island, from an asthetlc point of
view, is no less attractive than in
its physical aspect. The great pine woods
and noble groves of live oaks that spread
their welcome shade around are a constant
source of satisfaction and delight.
The movement of this colony to Geor
gia will mean that an island will be turn
ed over to a people who believe in an ideal
life as secured through imparting prac
tical business Ideas to their daily work,
but at the same time tempering all that
they do with the milk of human kindness
and brotherly love.
BOY AY ITH AVAR EXPERIENCES.
A Youth(nl Soldier AVlto Didn't I/ike
Camp Lite,
From the Jacksonville Times-Union.
He was a little bit of a boy, not more
than 10 years old, and yet manly and
very military in his bearing. He wore
a full uniform, with the epaulets of a
major general, lieutenant general, or
some other kind of a general. He had
leggins, a regulation army hat. and, in
fact, the full paraphernalia of a soldier,
ready lo go and do battle for his coun
try.
His name was Charles Winslow, and he
hailed from Jacksonville, 111., coming
her*' a few days with the Ninth Illinois
Regiment as mascot. Before the boy left
home he exhibited a very strong inclina
tion to go to the front, and so his father,
Dr. F. C. YY'inslow, who is superintendent
of the Central Hospital for the insane at
Jacksonville, decided to let him come
along, placing him under the special care
of Col. Jackson. The colonel was also
gifen SSO to pay the boy's expenses, and to
send him home if the youth should desire
to return.
The lad endured camp life for a few
days, and then tt grew exceedingly mo
notonous lo him, and he longed for the
playmates at home. If there had been
the excitement of a charge on the Span
ish forces, either in Cuba or Porto lUoo,
it would have been different. Anyhow,
he expressed a desire to go home, and he
was taken to the Plant System office
where F. M. Jolly, division passenger
agent of the system, addressed a letter to
conductors, requesting them to look out
for tlie boy, and then providing him with
a ticket, he was put on the train and
started for home. YY’hen he gets to .be a
hundred or more years old he can relate
ills early “war" experiences.
THOM IS COUNTY'S STATISTICS.
Only About Two-third* of tlie Coun
ty's Area Returned.
Thomasvllle, Ga., Aug. 12.—From some
statistics compiled by City Treasurer J.
F. Evans, after a careful checking of the
county tax books, It is found that the
county returns 3.085 polls, whites, 1.810;
colored, 1,275. The number of acres re
turned is 408,735, which Is only about two
thirds of the county’s area, and may be
taken as some Indication of the vast
amount of land throughout the state which
escapes taxation entirely on account of
Ihe deplorably defective system of return
ing property in Georgia. Thomas county
certainly is no exception. The negroes re
turn 22.489 acres. The average value per
acre for the county Is $2.73. The Thomas
ville district pays two-thirds of the taxes
of the county. The total returns are for $3,-
724,229.
Tlie excessively heavy and frequent rains
of late have filled the streams and lakes,
which have been about dry or verv low
for a year. The ground is thoroughly soak
ed and the wells once more afford abund
ant water, while the toads and streets are
.badly washed and still it rains
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AA ILL l SB HER FATHER'S A AME.
Lelit Small Jackson Getting Heady
for Her Stage Career.
From the New York Journal.
The Rev. Sam Small's daughter is going
to Ire an actress, and this with her fa
ther's approval.
The Georgia preacher said to her: “Go
on. Be sure to succeed. Do everything
heartily as unto tlie Lord. Gol bless you."
Lola Small says she has taken for her
motto, “Do everything heartily as unto
the Lord.”
She intends to be as devout as she was
in the old Georgia home.
She will say her prayers every morning
and evening.
She will close her eyes and “say grace"
silently at every meal, wine supper or
what not.
She will read a chapter from the Bible
every night before retiring, no matter
what the inconveniences or delays of one
night stands.
But she will play the direputable ad
venturess if needs must, an*l she will
wear tights.
Tafia Small, or Mrs. Jackson, or Mrs.
Stewart Ford, talked a good deal to a
Sunday Journal reporter about religion in
the home and a great deal about lights.
She is as tail, slender and straight as a
reed. Her carriage is uncertain and girl
ish. Bright, dark eyes bespeak an active
temt>erument. Her hair is brown enough
to suggest the too often lamented “Sweet
Alice, Ben Bolt." She has long, delicate
pale features. Her hands and feet are
those of patrician. She has a pronounced
southern accent and a curious habit of
closing every sentence with the rising in
flection, that will Interfere somewhat with
the force of the lines she speaks before
the footlights; unless she cultivates the
manners of a “heavy" and the downward
slides of viilainly unabashed.
Though only 24 years old, Sam Small’s
daughter has been married twice. Her
first husband' was James A. Jackson, son
of Maj. B. C. Jackson of Knoxville, Tenn.
She became Mrs. Jackson when 18 years
old, and on her nineteenth birthday
brought suit for divorce on the grounds of
cruelty and desertion. She was awarded
absolute divorce, goodly alimony and the
custody of her child. Baby Isabel’. Three
years ago Sam Small was conducting re
vival services in Columbus, O. One ' Veil
ing he was reported dangerously ill and
the revival was discontinued. The reason
for his illness was a telegram announcing
the marriage of his daughter to Stewart
Ford, scion of an old Richmond family.
The wedding had taken piace at old Point
Comfort a week before.
“I haven’t anything against young
Ford,” said the eccentric Georgia preacher,
"but my daughter’s first attempt at mar
riage was such a rank failure that t don't
want her to repeat the experiment."
The second experiment was as “rank a
failure” as the first, and ended in a formal
separation.
“My name is really Ford, but I usua’ly
use the name of Jackson because it’s my
baby's,’’ says Sam Small's daughter,
naively. “Still, I think it’s better to. use
my father’s name on the stage, don't
you?”
“My father is a Methodist, and I believe
he has preached against the stage some,"
she remarked, “but my mother and I are
Episcopalians, members of Si. Philip’s
Church at Atlanta, and we have always
viewed the matter differently. By degrees
papa changed his mind as far as I was
concerned. He believes thoroughly in the
cultivation of talent. He thinks it is a
solemn duty that God has imposed upon
us. YY'hen he found * Hat I had really made
a hit as Juliet, Desdemona and Parthenla
at the Conservatory at Boston, and when
people told him I ought to be in the pro
fession, he gave in. I would have been on
the stage the past five years if it hadn’t
been fog my matrimonial experiments that
turned out so badly.
“Papa yielded to my persusion and ar
ranged for lessons from Robert Downing.
He came to see me last week on his way
to Honolulu, where he Is to be an army
chaplain. He impressed upon me that he
was resigned to my becoming an actress,
but that he wanted me to be a success,
as he kneW I would.
“I do not expect to lose a particle of the
beautiful aroma of Christian home life
when I go upon the stage. VVe used to have
family prayers at home every morning!
There is no reason why my baby, my
friend, my maid and I cannot have them
here in the room. YA'e do. YY'e always said
grace before air. Cal at home. I continue
to do so. I read a chapter of the Bible
daily. 1 do so still. I said my prayers
every morning and evening. There is
nothing in my new life to prevent that.
I was always regular in my attendance rt
church and Sunday school. I shall rot
change that habit in the least.
"Certainly, 1 shall wear tights if my
part calls for them. It is a false modesty
that shrinks from lights; the same inedll
cacy that turns away from the works of
the old masters in the form of nude stat
uary.”
TAX RECEIVER HAHRELJ* DEAD
AAoulil llnve !!een Ilenoniinnted for
Office Witilin n AA eek.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 13.—Tax Receiver
F. H. Harrell died last night, after ait ill
ness of two weeks. He had been an in
valid from childhood, having had white
swelling when a lad. He had suffered
periodically from attacks about once a
year since then. He is the third brother
to die within the past four months. Sheriff
A. J. Harrell and a brother at Louisville,
I G. H. Harrell, preceding him to the grave.
He leaves a wife, three brothers and t sis
ter. He would have been renominated for
another urm in office Just a week from to
day.
AA lilsky of Fnlsc Proof.
\ r aldotn, Ga., Aug. 13.—Revenue collec
tors made a visit here this week and seiz
ed nearly twenty barrels of whisky in the
saloons because of irregularity of proof.
Moat of the whisky was higher proof than
represented to be on the barrels. It is
probable that the manufacturers will be
allowed to pay additional revenue and the
Svhisky returned to the saloon mea
OIT OF THE JAWS OF A LIOX.
Terrible Adventure of n Yount? llrit
fsh Teleft rn|ili Ist.
From the \Y,<le World Magazine.
My name is Ernest Brockman, and my
present age 28. In May, IS£KJ. after having
served the Chartered Company as post
master and telegraphist in Mashonaiand,
I returned to England for six months’ hol
iday. At the expiration of this period I
went back to Africa, making straight for
Beira.
About the beginning of October last year
I found myself fairly settled down to
work in the telegraph camp, about thirty
miles distant from Kota-Kota. My mate—
the only other white man at that place
besides myself—was a stout-hearted Irish
man, name! Dan Morkel; and we had a
following of about sixty niggers. Our
camp was established in a small clearing
in the great forest, about two hundred
yards in circumference. This clearing
was almost entirely encircled by oil palms,
which stretched away on all sides for
countless miles, interspersed at intervals
with groups of rubber trees and prickly
cactus. This open space also contained
three regularly made huts, built for us by
the natives, while they themselves put up
curious little brushwood shelters for their
own use. .My friend Morkel occupied
one of the huts, the second was used as a
storage-house, while I was the occupant
of the third. These huts were circular in
shape, and about 10 feet in diameter. It
is necessary here to say a word or two
about the construction of the huts. Stout
poles, two feet or three feet apart, were
first of all driven into the ground to form
the skeleton of the hut, and the walls
were simply of matting, woven out of
strips of shredded bamboo. There was,
however, an inner coating of twisted grass
and a thatched roof of the same material.
On the fateful day I arose soon after
sunrise—say about 5:15 o’clock—and, as I
had no very pressing business on hand, I
went out into the forest around about for
a little shooting, accompanied by two or
three of the niggers. My luck was not
very great, however, although I succeed
ed in potting a hartebeest; and I returned
to camp about I o’clock, when I had tea
with Dan Morkel in the open air. When
the meal was over we sat smoking before
the big fire our boys had lighted for us,
and we continued to tell yarns to one an
other until nearly 10 o'clock. This gossip
in front of the camp fire in the open air
was our regular custom on fine nights.
At this time the dry season was drawing
to a oiose, and the weather was not quite
so warm as it had been. At a little after
10 o'clock I began to yawn, so I rose to
my feet and tried to peer out into the ex
traordinary dense darkness of the night.
I said good night to my companion, and
we each went off to our respective huts,
intending to go to bed without further de
lay. I was not sleepy, however, and after
getting into bed I commenced to read. I
gradually dozed off and lost consciousness.
The next thing I remember was waking
up suddenly at about midnight and listen
ing to the doleful howlings of the hyenas
that surrounded the camp. The silence of
the night was strangely oppressive—so
much so, in fact, that I thought of going
across to Morkel’s hut and asking him to
come out and have a shot with me. I
changed my mind, however, as he was
not a keen sportsman, and went noiseless
ly over to my hut, when I fastened up the
door again, and then slipped into bed.
I couldn't have been there long before I
fell into that sound sleep from which I
was to have such a ghastly awakening. It
was—as near as possible—2 o’clock in the
morning when I suddenly became conscious
of something moving backward and up and
down underneath my bed. Just as con
sciousness was growing clearer and strong
er, a loud long and indescribable sniff, sniff
broke the stillness of tile night. Though
my experience of Africa w’as not extensive
I instantly realized that my death was at
hand, and that a man-eating lion was un
der my bed. No other animal, as I knew
perfectly well, would be bold enough to
come right into my hut in this manner.
Now, every one will ask what were my
feelings in thus dreadful situation. Though
perfectly conscious of everything that was
going on, I was unable to utter a sound.
My heart beat as though it would burst,
and its tremendous tlirobbings almost suf
focated me. I was almost fainting with
terror at the thought of so dreadful a fate.
After a moment or tw r o I became aware
that the lion had got from unde/ the bed,
and was sniffing his way along the edge,
perhaps a little puzzled by the mosquito
curtains. I then seemed to realize that I
must do something, and instinctively, yet
as noiselessly as possible, I huddled all the
pillows and bedclothes up over my head
and face, actuated by the same instinct,
perhaps, which prompts little boys and
girls to dive under the bedclothes when
afraid of the bogeyman.
No sooner had I done this than the lion,
with a horrible purr, purr, grabbed me by
the right shoulder and dragged me out
to the floor, bedclothes and all. The brute
immediately commenced to suck the blood
that streamed down my neck and chest,
and every time I moved he bit them more
savagely; as I raised my knees to get into
a crouching, protective position, he gave
me a little pat with his paws which nearly
broke my leg, and Inflicted a dreadful
wound. After a moment or two of awful
experience on the floor of the hut the mon
ster dropped me out of his mouth, placed
one proud and massive paw on my chest,
and then, throwing back his noble head,
gave one, two, three, four terrific roars of
triumph and defiance. As these mighty,
reverberating sounds died away in deep,
hoarse growls I could hear the devil’s
own uproar outside. The niggers were fir
ing oft their guns like mad—the wonder
is they never killed each other.
It seems that Morkel was awakened at
the first roar, and without a moment's
delay he got out of bed, put on his trousers
and hat, and then sallied forth with his
rifle thinking that the lion must nt least
be very close to the camp, judging from
the loudness of the roar he himself heard.
He made his way, or rather felt his way,
over to my hut, doubtless wondering why
I had not come out to meet him. He was
guided partly by the excited tries of the
Kaffirs, and partly by the loud purrs of
the fearful brute that had got me. When
Morkel got to the door he cried out:
"Brockman, where are you? Speak to me,
for God’s sake!” I heard him, as, indeed,
I had heard everything else, hut was ab
solutely unable to utter a sound, though
I was fully aware that my life depended
upon it. Morkel must have worked around
my hut, and seen the hole made by the
lion, which simply pushed the poles on one
side, and then tore out the mat walls and
crawled in under my bed. Then, of course,
poor Dan realized what had happened, and
he ran around to the other side and kicked
the door down.
his reeking Jaws. T could not realize the
full horror of the thing. I had been lying
on my back on the floor of the hut with
my neck and head resting against the side
when Morkel kicked in the door. As he
did so the lion drove his terrible fangs in
to nty right groin, and next moment, with
another loud pur-r, he leaped out of the
hut into the darkness—almost into Mor
kel’s face.
You may Imagine Dan Morkel’s feelings
as he groped around in the inky darkness,
screaming out first to one nigger and then
to another to bring lighted torches, for
God’s sake. He found his way into my
hut, and on feeling in the bed he placed
his hand on a large poo! of blood, which
gave untnistakeable Information as to
what had happened. The lion ran across
the clearing with me for about thirty
yards and put me down under a big bao
bab tree. Even as he ran he was sucking
violently, and as the flesh became dry In
one place he let me half drop out of hia
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jaws and then bit savagely in another
place and commenced to suck again. 1 lay
on my back at the base of the tree with
the lion on the top of me, occasionally
gazing at me with his great, luminous,
greenish-gray eyes, which seemed to fill
me with unutterable loathing and horror,
so expressionless and cold were they, yet
so diabolical in their ruthless cruelty. I
ought to tell you from the very first I
had not ceased to wonder how it was that
the lion didn’t kill me outright—either by
biting my head or tearing me to pieces
with h!a terrible claws. But the lion
seemed perfectly content and quiet with
his prey. I felt his long, rough tongue
scraping up my thighs and abdomen, and
as it crept up higher and higher, I felt lit
tle gusts of his horrible, stinking breath,
which was so utterly vile and loathsome
that I thought I should faint, so Intense
was the disgust that filled me. I half
turned my head away, but still the long,
greedy tongue rose higher and higher to
ward my throat. Up to this time I had
been reflecting in a strangely calm man
ner on the curious aspect of this frightful
affair, precisely as though I were a dis
interested outsider instead of the dying
victim of the man-eater.
As I felt the lion's carrion-soiled Jaws
near by face and throat, however, I was
seized with terror, and instinctively 1
threw up both arms and thrust them far
In between his jaws, and, indeed, almost
down his throat. As I did so the mon
ster snapped off three fingers of my rignt
hand, and, horrible as it may seem to
the reader, I actually left my arms and
hands lying idly in the lion's jaws.
"Thank God,” I thought, "he is satis
fied with sucking the bleeding fingers he
has bitten off, and as long as I can keep
him at arm’s length with my hands in
his mouth I will have yet a few moments
of life left for earnest prayer.” And I
prayed—God how I. prayed. Sometimes
it seemed to me it was a iittle hard to
die in this way, and I felt I didn’t want
to leave my bones in that horrible place.
My life, however, was fast ebbing away,
and later on I didn’t seem to mind it so
much. I grew fainter and fainter, and—
so I am told—l kept moaning feebly.
During all this time the boys kept
screaming "Nkanga, Nkanga!” (the lion,
the lion) just as if they themselves were
in any danger in the lofty trees up which
they had swarmed. Poor Dan Morkel
was simply waltzing around the clearing
in utter bewilderment of agony of mind.
The appalling blackness of the night add
ed a horror to the thing which no pen
could describe. At last my friend did
induce two of the niggers to make a cou
ple of torches of dry grass, and by the
lurid and uncertain light of these Mer
kel was enabled, though very Indistinctly,
to see the Hon standing over my pros
trate body. He was an enormous, gaunt
brute, over ten feet in length, and with
a luxuriant tawny mane that imparted
to him a most majestic appearance. Dan
told me afterward that as he approached
with his gun, I was moaning or eroning
softly to myself. Up to this time my
unfortunate companion was afraid to
shoot lest he should kill me instead of
the Hon. He screamed out: "Keep cool,
Brockman”—a funny admonition this
"only keep cool, and I .will do what I
can for you!” As he approached the lion
took his fangs out of my groin, which
■was by this time a mere pulp, and he
faced about, growling and snarling horri
bly, and with one big paw on my chest.
How Morkel kept his head at ten paces
from the lion I don't know, but, anyhow,
he leveled his rifle and fired. The lion
immediately staggered back a few paces,
clear of my body, for he had been hit
fairly in the eye, and the ball, after
touching the brain, had come out through
the lower jaw, which it had broken bad
ly'. Mokel instantly proceeded to reload,
but he was in such a desperate hurry that
the lever of his rifle jammed, and he
found himself practically helpless. Will
it be believed that this desperate man,
now fairly at his wits’ end, rushed for
ward toward the lion and dealt him a
terrific blow on the head with the stock
of hi3 rifle? This did the Hon no harm,
whereas Morkel’s gun was literally
crumpled up. My friend, however, rt
once informed his torch-beafer to run
over to the hut and get my rifle, and with
this lie killed the lion in two other shots.
It is important to remember that when
Morkel’s first shot rang out In the night
air the lion had been worrying, biting and
sucking me for about thirty minutes.
Well, the moment the brute retreated
from me I actually got up on to my legs
and ran for twenty or thirty yards! Then
I fell like a stone to the earth, and I
remember no more until the next day,
when I found myself in a warm bath
that had been prepared by Morkel 10
wash my wounds—of which I had one and
twenty! My poor friend tells me that my
naked body presented so shocking, so re
volting a spectacle—my hands, groins and
thighs being chewed and bloodless, like
paper pulp—that he nearly lost his rea
son and became delirious. AM that night,
however, my heroic companion had sat
by my bedside until daybreak, and well
do I remember that with awakened con
scionsness came the first poignant shot k
of agony from my wounds.
When Dr. Prentice saw me at the mis
sion station he told me that my case was
utterly hopeless. My right leg, I was told,
would have to go, but owning to my con
dition it was deemed Inadvisable to am
putate It immediately on my arrival.
Then there was no chloroform at the mis
sion station, and the ether had gone wrong
through the climate and, there
fore would not aCt. Thus I
had to lie conscious and screaming
in agony while the doctor was cutting and
carving away the mortified flesh from all
parts of my tortured body. It Is perfect
ly clear that my day had not come, for all
the bites in the thigh had missed the arte
ry by about’an eighth of an Inch!
And night afier night I went through
the whole fearful business again. Ghast
ly, horrible nightmares took possession of
me, and I would have gone raving mad
were It not for the powerful opiates that
were administered. A slamming door, the
sudden appearance if a man before me,
anything and everjjhing threw me into
a perfect agony of jerror, pitiful to wit
ness. My mind and reason were all but
gone, and I, who hd been a giant of
strength, was like dtimid little child, a
mere wreck of a manin mind and body.
—A curious clause, ('.King one right back
to the middle ages, Spears in the tiile
deetls of a house whia is now to he sold
in the village of Offhart in Kent', says the
Westminster Gazette. Scheduled as part of
the "messuages, lands, hereditaments, and
premises,” is the villaje quintain, which
stiil swings on its stoujoaken post before
tne house, and the pufhaser must cove
nant to keep the relic o a bygone pastime
in good repair. One eid of ihe swinging
crossbar of this quinnin (said to be the
only surviving specimen in England) is
shaped like a square luget pierced with a
number of holes Intq which the point of
the pluyer’s lance vould enter. When
struck it would swiig round, and unless
the player were nimble the sand-bag hung
on the other end of the crossbar would
swing round and unseat him. Here is a
chance seldom met with in these modem
days of getting ba'k Into medievalism.
The owner has onijlto don the contempor
ary costume, tilt at quintain, and imag
ine thai the clock h(s been put back a few
centuries.
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