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WMES-EN'fERPRISfe, THOMASVILLB, ItEPTEMBBR iS, Ml f ' WALTER BLOOMFIELD Oopjrtrht iMb bra nm tmui ton. F CHAPTER XXIX. P Continued. "Ha! and bow are Jon oft tot money? Got none, I suppose." "Ob, not Quite so bad Is that) t have the four thousand two bunared dol lar you aave me this morning Intact, and the greater part of the thousand dollars which you gave me juat before I went to England.” t "Too are no spendthrift, I am glad bo And i but the sums you mention are fltilto useless to a man to take a wife, ior although In your case the wife will be wealthy, there will be many things which must. If only for de- coney’s take, be paid for by you and by.no other. Of course you will want to travel for two or three months be fore yon make your final plans for settlement, and during that time you will appear to better advantage If you refrain from drawing upon your wife's estate, bo I will place a sum of money to yonr credit at Drcxel’s, and provide you with a cheque-book. Too may re gard it as a loan and return It to me Uttsr, If you wills or you may accept Is as a gift—Just which you prefer.”. With these words my uncle rose from big scat and cast away the end of big cigar, paying not the least at- ternlbu to the tbdnks with which I greeted bis extraordinary offer. "I •roust really smoko less tobacco,l bo said; "that makes my elgbtb cigar to day, and It Is not three o’clock. I have sq-oked more this week tban I gener ally smoke In a month—1 suppose be cause of the worry I've been subject to. By tbs Poworo, I wish I knew that that girl was safel" i As, my undo turned to accompany me downstairs I noticed that tbo ex pression of hl3 face betrayed consid erable anxiety, and that hla general demeanor lacked much of Its accus tomed buoyancy- f CHAPTER XXX. ( - TJRCLB BAM DOWN. " 'About three weeks after tbe events re lated In the last chapter I eat writing In n beautiful room which my undo bad ordered to bo specially arranged and act apart for my use for so long ai I remained bis guest, when Con stancy unexpectedly entered and smil ingly handed mo a letter. Having ac cepted the missive and paid Its fair car- tier with that which among lovers is accounted cola, I moved from the tabic to a settee near tbo window; for no one cifiild have too much light who at tempted to decipher tbe callgraphy of the Rev, Mr, Price, which consisted of a series of hastily scrawled symbols Without tbo remotest resemblance to 'any known letter—In brief, that kind of writing wblck breeds errors, blinds Compositors, maddens proof-rcadent, and moves the Irritable to profanity. It took mo at tbo least ten minutes to acquaint myself wltb tbe writer’s meaning, and while I was so engaged toy faithful Connie sat on tbe floor at my feet and toyed with throe sequins -Which had recently been attached to my watchchalu—tho Identical coins al leged to have been found In the room which my undo occupied the last time bo stayed at Holdcnburst Hall. "Can yon make It all out?" asked Connie, looking up. “All but a few words, dear,” I ans wered; and then proceeded to read the following letter aloud: , N. —, East Fifty-ninth Street, New York City, October 27,18—. Bear Mlsa Marsh:—This day, the eve of,my departure for England, I bnve received from the worthy rector of Holdcnburst Major, the Rev. Mr. Silas Fuller, my esteemed friend mid former colleague, Intelligence of a grave nature that my Christian con science will not permit me to conceal from you, though In acquainting you herewith I Incur a risk of being cred ited with low anil personal'motives. t Tho Rev. Mr. Fuller informs me that on thb — ult., an ola man, who had been for many years In the service of Mr. Robert Truman, died very sud denly. from some unexplained cause, during an altercation with Mr. Ernest Truman. The altercation, which was la part overheard by another servant. Is supposed to have related to money. Circumstances attending tho burial of the tld butler are no less suspicious that the rnauncr cf Ills death, Inter ment having taken plnec by virtue cf 0 certificate given by the local doctor, a personal friend of the Truraaus.' A few of the more Intelligent among the inhabitants of Hcldenlmrst are ask ing (not unreasonably, I think) v.-by nn Inquest was not held, and are haz arding various guesses as to what cir cumstances tho Truman family desired to conceal In avoiding so rightful a course. Though to my lasting regret there nay never be any love between us. I trust that ny respect for your honor and happiness Is undlmlnished; and I earnestly hope you may see fit to as sure yourself, ere It be too late, of the character of tbo man you have en gaged to marry, as I am unnl-li- ta contemplate without the most painful feelings, your alliance with a nan upon whom rests the suspicion of trail- . slaughter or worse. BellSvc me, dear Mies Marsh, always yo-r faithful EVAN PRICE. "What a mead, spiteful fellow Mr. Price Is, to be sure!” exclaimed Con stance, “I never liked the expression of that man’s face, nor bis manner, but I nm surprised he should write such a letter as that What good con he hope to get from It?’ "Don’t yqu see, dear, how much ho would like to separate us? I have al ready told you tbe facts upon which he has based tbls letter." “Yes, Ernest, and please don’t tell me again. I’m afraid I’m a little tired of speaking and thinking about these things"—alluding to the sequiab which abe was turning round and round with her delicate white fingers. “But sup pose Mr. Price could separate us, hour would that benefit him? Ha knowo I would not marry him In any case. I have told him so In plain Words many a tlme.’’- “SpIteMl and mischievous as the man Is, I don’t In the least dpubt, my dear Connie, but that he loves you as sin cerely as his nature allows him to love. Iodeed, it Is difficult to conceive of afiy man not lovhlg you who has once seen you, and It la the quality of never to entirely despair of achieving Ita object until that object Is Irrevoca bly lost This letter was written yes terday, so by now Mr. Price Is on bis Way to England; Baforo ho reaches Liverpool you will ho my wife, and when he learns that fact perhaps he will cease to Interest himself li our affairs. Only six days I Fancy that, pet!” 'Yes, fancy fit! How sudden It baa all been! I am In disgrace with my friends for deserting them, and In de fending myself I have laid tho Uamc on yon for monopolizing my time, say, Ernie, dear, one of tho six girls whom I have asked to be bridesmaid has declined.” Who Is tho?" I inquired. “Miss Chrlstlson—you know-who I mean: tho young lady who can’t marry without losing her fortune.” “O yes; I remember her. Who will take her place?” “Inez Juarrez.” "You must forglvo, Miss Chrlstlson on account of her absurd and cruel circumstances.” “Of course, dear, but— At that moment our conversation was Interrupted by tbe loud and continuous ringing of electric bells within the house, and the hasty running of ser vants up and down the stairs. Con stance and I started to our feet and listened for a moment, cud the'con fusion continuing we left tho room to ascertain Its cause. Outside tbe door, upon the landing, we met my nunt Gertrude, who was descending the stairs dressed for going out, and I no sooner saw her face, veiled though It was, than I perceived that she wus painfully agitated. "What la the matter?” wo both asked, as with one voice. "Oh, Connie, denr, don’t stop no! A clerk at Mills Building has Just tele phoned to say that Sam has been seized with sudden Illness, and I am not to lose a moment 1c going to him. I fear ho is dead, though they say he Is not,” ' “Dead! Impossible! An hour ago he was here nnd well!" But aunt Gcrtrqde could not hear the exclamations cither of her sister cr me, for alio had scarcely paused In her de scent while Imparting this terrible In formation. A world of confused nnd painful thoughts f iled my mind, mid a strange pallor overspread the face of the dear one at my side; tbe color faded from her lips, and but for my timely support Bhe would bare fallen. Tho next moment the street door was heard to close, null the carriage containing mint Gertrude was driven rapidly away. Lending Constance back Into the room, we both Bitt down upon a oeueh nnd regarded each other lu silence. I consulted my watch; the hour wanted twenty minutes to midday. Uncle Sant bad loft Lome to go to Ills effleo at 10 o'clock, he being then in souud health nnd high spirits. Constance was the first to speak. "I can't believe, Ernie, dear,” she said, "that anything very serious eau bo tbe matter, though Gertrude seems so frightened. Hotr could there be?" But tbo unconcealed agitation cf the fair speaker belied her words, and I wun in no rendition to support them by argument. “Lot tie go into Sam’s study pud Inquire by tbe telephone bow be Is Lew," she presently added. "Yes, certainly; tLat is r. gocO thought. But deesn’t uncle keep bis study locked?” “Yer; tut Ccrtlc also hat a key of It, nnd I don't seppoco she ctayed to loci: It la her baste." The suggestion was no sooner made titan adopted, and the study t'cor being open, as Connie had rurmised, she en tered and at once made Iter Inquiry. I can never forget her appearance aa cite stood with the tube applied tc her ear. her youthful beauty showing grandly despite tbe pallor inducedJb.v iter anxiety, while I watched with deadly intcrcot the varying expressions of her face ns a clerk at the Mills Building Informed her of rude Sam't condition. Presently Cot-ole restored the tube to its place, and throwing her arm* around toy neck. Burst Into tears in tile manner of one whose fortitude falls at unexpected release from soifi* supreme dread. "What has happened r I asked, catching my breath. “Sam learned on arrival at his ofllce that Miss Wolsejr had died suddenly In Paris, and the news so upset him that he talked incoherently tor a time, nnd then had some sort Of seizure: greatly frightening his Clerks; but bo is conscious how and Gertie is With him,” ■ There ore few tasks which tbe com- : plex relations Of humankind Impose : upon OS more pstnful or dlfllcult than PLUCK, ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE. 1 A BOA CLEARS A SHIP. © HAT boa wbicb is caus ing to tnticli trouble Captairi iJlcktdtir tit thft Yankee brigantine' #ais/* got loose, and as a result two watchmen in Sdntli Brooklyn aro mourning the loss of two faithful flea beaten curs. Ever since Captalif Dicfc- , . son caged tbe boa Jn hi* coal locker, being called td comfort a sdrrbwfdl • tho snake has jp*en trying to smash one whose burden presses with equal • the door; He would coll up as far or greater weight upon ourselves, and ; trom the door ^ tie cori i d Hnd tUen I could scarce restrain my^own grief ) j ea p forward with all the force 6t his while endeavoring to pacify Constance, 1 twenty feet of steel muscled energy.- whose agitation arose entirely from th* ; The door was reinforced, but some 1 present circumstances of uncle Sam time after midnight he battered if so and aunt Gertrude — circumstances that it swung only on the upper binged which, though I was by no means in- i Then the shr’ue glided out through the different to them, were In my ease ob- j apace at the bottom, scurcd by consideration of tbo tragedy j Toward 1,30 o’clock “Tom” Walsh, in Paris. Con3tancs Marsh had never j one of the watchmen, heard his dog seen Annie Wolsey, nor was it until ; Screaming iii agouti Walsh’s dog is (JUlte recent days that she had been Iff- j one of the flea riddert '‘yaHe**' fflri* formed tit the existence of that tm* j ty, but he had been A faithful ttfmpatb •'happy woman; and cot cnly that, bbt t ion for nearly nine years, arid Walsh for other and ctrongcr reasons it wdu14 • thought great deal of him' lie have been abated to exoert that Con- rushed 10 tbe dog’s rescue, and to bis stance should regard tho dectb other- •; horror saw a huge snake wrapped wise than as the welcome extinction of j closely around him. His ardor abated an unseen but petent power for mis- ! somewhat, but be hunted up a com- c!ilef. While recognizing this to the ; panlon, and armed with crowbars they full, I could not but think of the girl-! advanced on the boa. The snake than- companion of ny childhood; cf hew j doned Its prey and placed himself in after Annie’s brothers and sisters bad © posture of defense. The men were one by cno all been laid to rest in • o n the brink of the wharf, while the the shadow of Holder.hurst church she finakd find tile dog were close to a alone remained, and was tho only de- , abed some twenty feet from them, light of her widowed father’s Jirc; I Suddenly the snake shot straight for- of how, later* che had Ced from him j ^ a rd at Walsh. The man was on the who loved her co well, and Hw tiro- j alert nnd as the boa lenped forward, lcssly bo had sought her again until ; ho fell on his face without delay. The at last Ids efforts were crowned with | boa, missing bis mark, went more than success, though only to preci pitate vfco j two-thirds of Ills length over the edge needless and <vwfnl waste cf her young ; of tne pier, and then got a purchase life. I thought aiso of the cruel effect w jth his tali in a crac; in the flooring, this disaster must necessarily bare j Before he could utilize his hW to get upon my grandfather, and wondered j back the two crowbars were brought if that careworn old man was yet r.c- j down sharply on the tail and the snake quainted with it. .The fear to which-- plunged overboard. The two men saw my uncle had several times given ex* him swing away in the darkness, his pression now being realised, it occurred . head two or three feet above the wa- to mo that Its ill effects upon my pow* j ter, but did not care to follow him. erful friend, said to bo already cevcrc* j About two hours later a slight com' might possibly bo of a permanent char- motion wrs heard at the end of the acter. Something of these troublesome thoughts and cpeculatlccs rnpst fcavo been apparent in ray face to have in duced Connie to smile at me through her tears, nnd to repeat those vows with which we bad consoled each oth’er in previous difficulties—that come what might, and wo were both alive, nothing oLonld again separate us. Coustnuco and I quitted the ctr.dy and returned to my room. When acked to decipher Mr. Price’s letter I was en gaged in making n fair copy cf a list of my future wife’s possessions, which un$le Sam had roughly drawn up for my use—a heavy task, to which I bad already devoted two whole days. Though not more than tbres-fourtbs of my transcript was completed I per ceived I was too disturbed to advan tageously crply myself to it again that next pier. The watchman there, Janies Elsoa, whittled for his dog, but no dog appeared. He went to the end of the pier whete he knew the dog hnd been, and found only g slimy trail and some deep scratches that had been made, apparently by the claws of bis dog. He did not know what had be come of the cur, until later In the morning when he compared notes with Walsh, and the fate ot the cur became apparent. About 8 o’clock Captain Dickson went on deck. To his mingled horror and joy be found that the door of the locker was partly open. He did not wait to make further investigation, but Jumped into the forward rigging and went aloft. He stayed there for awhile and then cautiously slid down a /rtay to the roof of the coal locker. day, and -therefore hastily put awry Peering cautiously through a small ray papers and devoted myself to Con ctance. After nearly an hour had been spent la a profitless exchange cf opinions and the venturing of various surmises, wc decided to go together to Mills Building nnd ascertain by actual observation exactly upon wbnt our anxiety was founded. Whon wo arrived at Mills Building we found my uncle’s offices deserted peephole, ho saw the boa curled up on the coal, asleep, and with a much increased girth amidships, marking the Inst resting place of Bison’s dog. The captain thought it a good chance, since the snake was asleep from its gorging, to capture him, but ns be ap proached tbe door, he heard; or thought he heard, the snake move. He then slipped aloft once more, gave the snake by all but one clerk, and the usual j another chanco to got quiet, and, dc- buainess of the place oospended for tbo scendJng, braced and nailed up tbe rest of the day. Telegraphic tape was door until nothing less than artillery automatically unwinding from a score ' could dislodge it. Next day the suake or mere cylinders, and falling unread was sound asleep after its feast. In into tho baskets placed to receive it. j anticipation of this he borrowed a On my uncle's desk, In an Inner private ; shotgun nnd the fate of the snake was room, lay n pile of correspondence, < sealed, the greater part unopened. The clerl; ——— In charge was brushing bis hat pre- STANLEY’S GREAT EXPLOIT, punitory to locklns the doors uu do-' .Although tho fume of Sir Henry M. purling, nnd hud tvo been n few min- | gtnnley, who died In London on- May utes Inter we should bnvc found the j j 0 rc3t 01l i l)s exploration of the office closed. From this Indlvlduul we j upper Congo nnd equatorial Africa, it learned that Mr. Truotm had become I ln hls search for David Livingstone violently agitated Immediately after; through tbe African Jungles and bis rending a Idtter, the envelope of which j flndlng of the missing missionary at boro the Furls postmark; that he hail j xjjijl, on the shore of Tungnnyikl, rapidly paced up and down his roctn, tlM t appeuls most to the dramatic Incoherently talking to himself rteac- 1 feeling of the world. In “Eeccntrlcl- wltlle; and that altogether his bchnv- ; tics of Genius” Major J. B. Foud tog the region* to the west xnd sooth of Tanganyika, cared for and alded by the satires, who reverenced him ss a superior being. Stable* Stored Inland from Zanzi bar to the siring ef 1ST1. By June he had reached Cnyaiyerebe, .where he was again delayed. At last he inei able to proceed Into that vait Wudef* new, somewhere In which was LI* Ingstone. Whether Livingstone had Hone across toward the west coast or bad tried td move northward toward the Nile Htantif did not know. The fact was thdt Livingstone, is extremity, had returned to Tangan yika and had reached UJlJf. There, wher^ fnvw supplies should ndvif reached him, * tto learned ■that all had been stolen. He wai Almost hopeles* and helpless, an old man, til, alone, with only tbe friendship of a feW to* live! tribes between him and death. In the' nick Ot time Stanley arrived, after a month of wandering and ter rible hardship. The meeting between the two was most dramatic. To Liv ingstone it meant new life. It buoyed him np till all the hardships were for gotten. Together the two explored Tanganyika and then went back to Uttynayembe, where Stanley provided Livingstone with new supplies and a new party of faithful blacks. The old missionary returned to the jungle, to die ft few months later, and Stanley retraced hift steps to give the world the story of his achievement. ON THE DESERT. ^ - Mr. Stewart Edward White, in his serial, “The Mountains,” now running in The Outlook, thus ’describes his ex perience In the California alkali plains. Most of the time we got on Well enough. One day only the desert showed her power. That day, at 5 iu the afternoon, it was 120 degrees in the shade. And we, through necessi ty of reaching the next water, Jour neyed over the alkali at noon. Then the desert came close on us and looked us fair In tbe eyes, concealing nothing. She killed poor Deuce, the beautiful setter who had traveled the wild coun tries so long; she struck West and the tenderfoot from their horses when finally they bad reached a long-legged water tank; she even staggered the horses themselves. And I, lying un der a bush, where I had stayed after the others In the hope of succoring Deuce, began idly shooting at ghost ly Jack rabbits that looked real, but through which the revolver bullet* passed without resistance. After this day the tenderfoot wenl water crazy. Watering the horses be came almost a mania with him. He could not boar to pass even a mud hole without offering the astonished Tunemab . a chance to fill up, even though that animal had drunk freely not twenty rods back. As for himself, he embraced every opportunity, and Journeyed draped in many canteens. After that it was not so bad. The thermometer stood from 100 to 105 or 100, to be sure, but we were getting used to it. Discomfort, ordinary phy sical discomfort, we came to accept as the normal environment of man. It Is astonishing how soon uniformly un comfortable conditions, by very lack of contrast, do lose their power to color the habit of mind. I imngiuo j merely physical nubappiness Is a mat- j ter more of contrasts than of actual ; circumstances. We swallowed dust; j we bumped our shoulders phllosophi- cally under tho beating of the sun; we breathed the debris of high winds; wo J cooked anyhow, ate anything, spent j long. Idle, fly-infested hours waitinf ! for the noon to pass. ior had been so extremely different from Lis usual habit cf self-possessicn that the people about him became alarmed. Mr. Truman’s secretary, Mr. Fisk, who enjoyed Ids employer’s con fidence more than anybody else, took tho letter from Mr. Truman's uurezist- hamls, rxd read it to c^ertai i what had crea.cd tldo disturbance. Th? letter, which w:.s very I rief c:ul couched in affectionate terms, stated that the writer would that night seek oblivion in the waters of tho Seim, r.n v l that she commence J her sou to hla core. It boro tho signature of Amis Wolsey. “And how is Mr. Trrman now?” i inquired. “I3 h; better, and has ha gone heme with >'rs. Truman?” “I think ho is better than h*was,” replied tho clerk. “We were afraid he had become crazy and scut, fer Dr. Hermann. Dr. Hermann, who ar rived befero Mrs. Truman, caid that Mr. Truman w,u3 cu.Toring from intenm excitement, but tLat with proucr treat ment there wxs no cause .'or alarm. Tho do;ter scou arterwards took Ida patient 10 Astor House, where L > net: is.” To to continued. quotes a witty reference to this achievement, which was made by I Mark Twain in introducing Mr. Stan ley to a Boston audience: j “I nm uot here to disparage Colum bus,” said Mr. Clemens. “No, I won’t do that. But when yon come to re gard the achievements of these two men, Columbus a'nd Stanley, from the standpoint of the difficulties they en countered, the advantage Is with Stan- ley and against Columbus. “Columbus started out to discover America. He. didn’t need to do any thing at all but sit in the cabin of his j ship, hold his grip and sail straight on, and America would discover it- j self. Here It was, barring his passage ! the whole leugth and breadth of two ; continents. He couldn’t get past ML He’d got to discover it. j “But Stanley started out to find Dr. | Livingstone, who was scattered—scat tered abroad, as you may say, over tho ! length and breadth of a vast slab of 1 Africa as big as tho United States. It ! was a blind search for one of the worst scattered of men.” In October, 1S70, Stanley started out ■ from Bombay on his search for Dr. j Liviugstone on behalf of two uewspa- j pers. The great missionary and geog- , rapher, on the last sad trip of his life, had plunged into the heart of Africa from the east coast in the spring of ! I860. For five years he had been fight ing for his life against the ravages of fever and disease, contending, vainly against his old foes, the slave traders. The Water Power of Fmnr*. The water power row run ii'.y to waste in tin livers of Frruca l: cel*. ciliated by a French engineer named • Tavernier tc be between S.OOC.JXj ?iorse row"r xnd 5,0X),00) ho'sc p Tver, j and only 200,003 horse power or tb*j - . . . . . _ cuonuoua total Lzs.jet been utilized., “<» wanderinc slowly about, study.; EXCEPTION TO THE RULE. ' If you would grow a busines; pitot, Vnnr Harden won t be nest : You'll find you can’t allo "' th * To grow beneath yo>ur Iwt.^ ^ IN THE NEAR FUTURE. “Mode a colossal fortune, you sayT'; “Yes. He was the first man to pub lish it Jilao-ecnt magazine.”-Puck. ^ TRUTH. “Consistency’s u Jewel.” “That’s all right, but you can t work It off oa my girl instead of a dlamouA ring.'' '4 frank. Osmond—“You always pay as you go don't you?’ Desmonde—“No, Indeed; I P«y » 9 other people come after me.” ’■ THE BRUTE! Mrs. Jawkins—“I've been trying .to (alk to Mary over the telephone, but- i couldn’t understand half she said.” Mr. Jawkins—“You’d find it easier if you were to talk one at a time, my, deffi/’-Ally Sloper. v \ , CAUTION. • ’i “I don’t want .to be too easily won, ,r she said. “Naturally,” ho conceited. . “So if I say ’No’ now.” she went on. “yon won’t get cross about it and never ask me again, will you?” > v * DEFINED. “Ask me wlmt the present is,” saiil the epigramist. “Well, what?” we v obligingly re sponded. “The present,” he replied. Is tne advance agent cf tbe future.” \ A NEW EXCUSE. Ofllce Boy—“Mr. Spotcasb*. may T Rb and attend a choir rehearsal this after noon?” x Merchant—“Ah! That nn improve ment. Of course ycu may go to the hall game, my boy.”—Chicago Tribute. A STARTER.* SKRYDLOFF’S DARING EXPLOIT. Tho several successful sorties which j Admiral Skrydloff has made since he j assumed command of the Russian Via* dlvostok squadron leads a writer In Harper’s Weekly to describe the dar. ing exploit which first made 8kryd* lofTs name familiar to the Russian people. The occasion was the passage of the Danube by the Russian army ot liberation which was being sent to put a stop to the Bulgarian atrocities which Turkey was carrying on at the time. Russia had no Black Sen fleet then, while Turkey hnd n number of powerful ironclads and monitors. Ad miral Skrydiofrs exploit was to go out in a small launch, and, nproaching n Turkish ironclad, attempt to discharge a “torpedo”—a mere charge of gun cotton,on a pole—as close as possible to the Turkish warship. The first at tempt was unsuccessful, owing to the fact that when tbe electric current was turned on Skrydloff found that the wires had been cut. presumably by a bullet, and there Gas no way to dis charge the guncotton. “May I kiss your hand?” “Well, that will do to begin with.”— New York American. THE DIFFERENCE. “I am afraid,” said the very wealthy young woman to the titled wooer, “that our ideals differ.” . “In wlint way?” “I should like to be loved for my own sake, while you expect to be loved for the sake of your family.”—Waii» lugton Star. BRIGHTENING THE PAPER. * Bangs—’“Wonder what there was in the paper to-day about Masterson?” Grimes—“Didn’t know there was anything.” Bangs—“Oh, there must have been. He was saying to me that to-day’s issue was unusually interesting.’’—' Boston Transcript. HOW HE GOT IT. De Bore—“How did you catch your cold?” De Bristle—“You know colds are con tagious.” De Bore—“Yes.” De Bristle—“Well, I caught it asking other people how they caught their »olds.”—New York Weekly. WOMAN KILLS A TIGER. ' Mrs. Luela Morris, aged twenty- three, recently killed the largest tiger ever known in the Kentucky moun tains. She lives in n lonely spot of Nicholas County, and while her three- year-old child was playing in the open door a tiger suddenly sprang from a tall pine tree near by. Mrs. Morris heard tbe big cat growl, nnd seizing a broom she ran to the child just as the tiger was preparing to spring. Mrs. Morris struck the cat j a blow across the head, breaking the | broom and causing the tiger to spring, j The brave woman then struck tho 1 beast again, and it sprang away into tbe bushes. Mrs, Morris feared the tiger would i return, so she locked the baby in the ] bouse, and taking her husband’s rifle, 1 started to kill the beast. For two miles into the dense forest she trailed the tlr 1 ger and at last brought it to bay in a ! tree. By a well directed shot the Ken tucky woman put a bvtllet through the big cat’s brain. Mrs. Morris summoned help and skinned the tiger, and has placed the skiu in her home as a re membrance. NONE FOR SCHOOLS. “That billionaire is a curious per son.” “In what way?” “He’ll give hundreds of thousands cf dollars to establish universities. But it makes him cress to sec tbe tax collector coxing around for Lis share <Jf support for the public schools.”-^Washington Star. IN HIS LINE. “What is it, sir?” asked the work man, who had been taiied by Mr. Crab- ley. “There’s a piano in here that I want yon to fix,” said that gentleman. “Eut I ain’t a piano-tuner; rm*a car penter.” “I know. I want ycu to nail tho lid down.”—Philadelphia Ledger CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. “When a nan goes cut for a spin Jwhat should he wear?” “Oh, that’s easy; a top-ccat.” “And when he goes out in his auto- Ucbile?” “Why, he should be dressed to kill.” “When a girl goes to a musical, what Should she wear?” “An accordion-pleated skirt.”—Yon kers Statesman.