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ATHENS, GEORGIA,OCTOBER 27,
1889
THE TWILIGHT.
-Over the purpling water
The evening hells axe ringing,
Sweeter thaa songs of women
The song those hells are singing,
^ver the purpling water
A dusky bird is springing,
Into the golden ether
Darkly his lone flight winging,
Out of what tend cf romance
Is that to*ely bird flight springing*
And why should one’s heart he breaking
To hear those faint bells ringing?
—Harriet Prescott Spofford.
A DYNAMITE STORY.
J
•‘Pupa, who Is the stranger I saw In the
library just now? Ho rras talking to your
secretary, Mr.- Winchell, as if he were quite
-at home," said Daisy 'Clyburno, winding one
plump, white arm around her father’s neck,
is sho perched herself on tho arm of his
thair.
Those who ’knewSflas Clyburn® only os a
business man, pretident of several railroads,
lirector in'a score of other corporations and
% shareholder in-every paying concern in the
-state, would -hove been amazed to see how
easily this fragile girl bent to her will the
Stony hearted, ‘iron handed man.
“His name is Osborne Palmer," replied the
Slder Clyburne, gazing affectionately at his
Idol.
“I didn-t‘Bsk you what his name is*, l ask,
who is he! And is that the way you dare to
answer my •questions, sir!" and as she spoke
Daisy playfully pinched one of his ears
“Oudh'l You little inquisitive torment!
Well, to be explicit, Mr. Palmer is to be one
at my-under secretaries. He is to—to assist
llr. Winchell."
“Come, come, sir! that hesitation shows
that you hro trying to hide something; 1
want the truth, the whole-truth, and nothing
tut the truth.”
“Perhaps you remember that a few weeks
•go you and your mother exacted from me a
promise that I would never again, under any
-circumstances, 'open the packages which
[ might come to me by mail or express."
♦Of course we did! If those wretches
would send yon a dynamite bomb once, they
might do it -more successfully again; it was
t>ya mere chance that the thing was out of
order and did not blow us all Up,” replied
Daisy, with* shudder.
“Hot one X>T the servants has courage
enough to dokt forme; Mr. Winchell 1msa
family, and since our recent experience be
"has no taste for the task; so I have employed
this young Palmer, whose special business it
will be to open my parcels.”
“Oh, paoa, why should he take the risk of
Ids life! fio is so—so young, maybe he has a
mother!"
“No, nor sister, nor any near relative He
Is highly educated and well born, but being
unfortunate in business, and therefore jilted
by a heartless girl, he resolved to put an end
to an unhappy life. He procured a quantity
of laudanum, but decided that that was un
certain, and sc shot himself in the head.
Either his hand swerved or his aim was un
certain, for the weaid proved to be only
serious, not fatal. He was taken to a hospi
tal, and as the letter he had written for post
mortem purposes proved that the shooting
was intentional, he was in danger of arrest
*^ri*3LforAttempted self murder.
i was Btruca mm
•a idea and so used my influence in his be
half, and there was no arrest. He placed no
value on bis life, and so readily accepted the
position I offered him. He came the very
day after you and your mother went to your
grandmother’s to spend Thanksgiving, aid
Mr. Winchell tells me that he is of great as
sistance to him. especially in my large
foreign correspondence. He is a gentleman
born, so he will live with ns as a member of
our family, and I want you to give your
cousin Bertha a hint that while she is with
us we hope she will be courteous to him. I
aip very fond of Bertha, my dear, but I can
see that she is just the least bit snobbish—
like her father. ObedJennoss is an inbred
snob I"
The famous Kilkenny cats might well have
been named Silas Clyburne and Obed Jen-
ness, for these two men were continually
fighting, tooth and nail. If onecould thwart
a scheme of the other it was rare sport to
him, but retaliation was sore to come in some
heart searching way. As they bad married
sisters and there was constant intercourse be
tween their wives and daughters, they out
wardly maintained an armed neutrality.
“Goodness gracious, Daisy, do you know
who Unde Silas has in his employ now!"
cried Bertha Jenness to her cousin when she,
too, had seen the young package opener.
“Yes, he told me all about him just a few
moments ago. Poor fellow! He has a ro
mantic and sad history," replied Daisy, and
then went on to relate what we already know
About Osborne Palmer.
Bertha listened attentively with a peculiar
smile hovering around her thin, soulless lips,
and when tho story was concluded she said
with a shrug of her shoulders, “Very ro
mantic, I admit, but; what a fool he was I”
“Oh, no, Bertha! Doubtless his troubles
bad temporarily turned his brain, yet surely
he is to be pitied.”
“I am not so sure tbit he is not now—but
tell me, Daisy, did you. ever hear me speak
of a young cavalier I liad who used to deluge
me with rare roses anc choice bonbons until
bis fortune vanished t-nd then showered on
me tender verses of his own composition!' 1
“Oh, yesj and how I envied you for having
a real poet at your feet! But where is he
now! Does he still send you poems?”
“Doggerel, you mean! No, I hope not. In
Osborne Palmer, your father’s clerk, you bo-
bold the man!”
"No! Not really! Isn’t that odd! And
now that be has come to life again, so to
speak, tho lovely romance will begin all over
again," said Daisy, with a faint shade of re
gret in her voice.
Each of these cousins hod something the
other lacked; Bertha was one of a’ large
family, and how Daisy wished that she too
might have one or two brothers, or ono or
two dear little midgets of sisters. But
Bertha regarded these younger ones as chan
nels where a large share of her father’s money
must go, while Daisy was the sole and idol
ized heir in her home.
Then, too, Bertha bad so many lovers and
Daisy so fewl To be sure, the former, ever
eager for attention, met them fully half way,
while the modest little flower waited quietly
for notice or attention.
Of course it was not now at all surprising
that Osborne Palmer was soon made quite at
borne in the Clyburne mansion. Ho and
Bertha had one day a long and confidential
conversation, aud after that there was no
restraint in their intercourse.
If, however, he wrote any more verses on
bis lady’s eyelids, Bertha neither spoke of nor
exhibited them.
About this time there appeared in the social
firmament where the Clyburnes sparkled a
new stax* of great magnitude, neither more
nor less than a genuine sprig of British
aristocracy; be was poor, to be sure, but he
was unmarried, and more than one managing
ils fault if the young man wero uot attracted
>y his Daisy. Thereupon ensued a series of
jatortainments of all sorts; Clyburne began
lone of them, but ho gave the last of ouch
series, for so much more costly was his din
ner or ball, or theatre party, or luncheon, or
piyety of any sort, that no ono ventured to
jucceedbim.
“Papa," said Daisy to him one evening as
ao chanced to- be alone in the library for a
tow moments, “1 have a piece of news for
fou.”
How bis heart jumped! Tho foreign fish
had certainly been swimming round and
round the bait on the Clyburne book; was he
really going to nibble?
“Well, my d&rliug, what is It?"
“Did you know or suspect that my cousin
Bertha was the girl for whom Mr. Palmer
was willing to throw away his lifer*
‘No! You don’t mean ttt Well, well, I
un surprised. Heartless littls jade that girl
is, anyway, just like her father.”
Oh, papa, you do her injustice. She did
discourage him then, because—well, because
ho was poor, but, of course, sho never
dreamed he would take it so to heart,"
“And, of course, she knew her father would
frown on any such match!”
“Of course, rich men don’t like to see their
daughters wed poverty.”
“Oh, that’s nonsense, my dear: any father
of sense will look first at the character and
capabilities of his daughter’s loser, end if
they are all right the purso is eecondai y. As
for Osborne Palmer, I assure you, mj dear,
l havo watched him closely since ho has been
here, and I consider him a very fine lollow.
Of course, his would bo suloldo Is against
him, but I’ve cose to the conclusion that
worry and starvation had made him two-
thirds crazy.”
“Do you think a girt would"
“Be lucky to marry him! Yes, I do, and
If yon know of any girl that thinks of doing
m—now, hush, my dear, don’t speak! Don’t
trill moiAnythrhtf! I have a very particular
reason for not wanting to know anything—
you tdl her or him, or both of them, that to
save all fuse or awkwardness I, if 1 were him
or her, would dip off quietly and be mar
ried."
“But, papa dear, do you really mean that
you would forgive”
“There’s no question of forgiveness. You
just tell Osborne what I have said, aud if be
has the sense I give him credit for he will
understand me."
At this moment Palmer himself came into
the room. There the conversation terminated
abruptly.
For some days thereafter Mr. Clyburne
was so good natured, so almost generous, that
every one observed It; his fellow director*
and associates nudged one another and said:
“Now’s your timd to talk to Clyburne on
inch and such a project;” and his dorks
whispered: “How queer Mr. Clyburne ssemsl
Wonder it he’s going to die!”
One intimate friend, a venturesome fellow,
had the hardihood to say:'
“What the mischief has come over you
lately! I never knew you to be so genlaL
Whom have you floeced this week!"
“Oh, I’ve got such a rich thing on Obed
Jenness I” replied Clyburne, chuckling to
himself for the thousandth time. “Didn’t
cost me anything but a little advice—cheapest
thing in the world, you know. He can’t get
ahead of me on this score!”
The friend didn’t mention this to any bnt
ten of his most intimate friends, and as they
were equally secretive it did not take long to
on’Changtoin-siyiy: wazcnin^
THE FEAST OF BARMECIDE.
I saw a banquet, many guests wore there
Who sat beside the board and made as though
They ate rich cates and drank rod wine—And let
When I came near and looked, the board was
bare.
But still they reveled, lifting high la air
Their empty glasses, seeming not to know
The truth. With flashing eyes and cheeks aglow
They sang of Love, the conqueror of cam
Is not the feast Lord Lots himself hath spread
For thee and me as immaterial?
Who knows If It he really wine and broad
We drink'and sat at tht* onr festival?
Ah, Love! What matters it, ae we are fed?—
if we believe so, fhlth atones for all.
—Sydney Herbert Pierson in The Journalist.
A NEAT SCHEME.
mamma was quite ready to exchange her
daughter's ducats lor n share of his lord
ship’s title.
Aud Silas
cifer, made
ibitious as- Lu-
it should not be
WW . _ ...
Obod Jennnes. They naturally supposed
that Clyburne referred to things financial,
hot matrimonial.
Bertha visited D*!*y quite often about that
time, aud Mr. Clyburne lost no chanee of
publicly insisting that Bertha must send for
her “things" and remain the rest of tho weok
with Daisy.
One morning, during a visit, a servant
came to Mr. Clyburne as he sat at breakfast
and tremblingly said:
“Mass’ Clyburne, sah, Mias Daisy ain't tn
her room, sah!”
“Nb! Gone for a walk, I suppose."
“I—Ts feared not, - sah. An’—an’ Miss
Bertha done gone too.”
“They’ll probably be bere^oon. Keep
some coffee hot for them.”
“B—but, sab, Mary she say as how de beds
ain’t ben slep’ in."
“Neither of them!" asked Mr. Clyburne, a
little anqi
“N—no, sah; an* yur’s a note Mary foun*
in Miss Daisy’s room,” added the man, hand
ing a tiny envelope to his master, but stand
ing as far from him as the width of tho silver
salver and the extent of his long arm would
permit
Mr. Clyburne opened the note calmly; he
suspected that ho knew what was in it; he
merely glanced «t the first lines:
“Dar'ing Papa—This to tell you that Mr.
Palmer is about to act on your advitb; Bertha
and I are to meet him at Dr. ’a at 11
o’clock to-night, for we thiuk it best to have
a friendly witness to such a matter."
“Ha, ha, bar’ laughed he heartily, to the
surprise aud delight of the alarmed servant.
“I understand it now. bliss Daisy will be
home pretty soon, but it is not necessary to
give any hint of this little affair to your mis
tress. Sho has a severe headache aud it will
only worry her. Send Mary hero."
Mary quickly appeared, for Silas Clyburne
was a terror to evil doers, aud sho, too, was
cautioned to silence and her fear > all allayed.
8ilentl Yes, truly they would be very
silent, especially when each of them received
a $20 bill with the remark, “Pll give you as
much more if you will ever again bring me
such good news."
“And now,” said ho to himself, as he ■ was
on his way down town, “how best to break
the news to my dear friend Obed! Ha, ha,
ha! How he will rage and fnme! Wonder
what I’d best say. Guess Pll just band him
Daisy’s note to me and watch his face while
he reads it. By the way, I haven’t read it
all myself.”
Drawing the note from his pocket he be
gan to read: “ ‘At Dr. V um, I’ve read
that, um, um 'such a deed, and who can be a
better one than a cousin! Bertha goes home
to-night.’ Oh, pshaw, then the tun is over.
But what is this? ‘I go with my husband.’
"Why, why, what—‘Your loving daughter,
soon to be Daisy Palmerl’ Am I crazy!"
No, he was not crazy. In his greed to
work a mischief to his enemy he had not
allowed his daughter to explain that it was
she, not Bertha, with whom Osborne Palmer
was in love. Ho jumped to tho conclusion
. hat sho was referring to Bertha all tho time,
and, lot he had done as tho wicked often do;
he had himself fallen into tho pit that ho had
so carefully digged for another.
“If I am fooled, old Obed shall not know
it; I’d not give him that satisfaction,” wu>
his decision. .
But though bo put a brave face on the
matter, no one was deceived,.and he knew it.
They whispered to ono .-mother and won
dered “where is the little game he was.to
play on his enemy!”
Of course Daisy’s husband, in Daisy’s eyes,
Is far too precious to risk his lifo in opening
aixy mere of papa’s possible bombs, so Mr.
Clyburne is again in search of such a deputy.
—New York Graphic.
The Old Latin Form.
A Brooklyn man who advertised for a r4fe
received 250 answers. Ansv*, by tho way, is
tho old Homan form of “«joso.”—Harper’s
'• ->¥v.. '/T~
Business was rather dull in Wall street one
September a few years back. There had
been a dearth •£ speculative movement, most
of the large operators were still enjoying
their vacations, aud the ticker moved in a
fitful way, betokening to the initiated that
about all the activity there was depended on
a couple of hundred perspiring and shouting
mortals who pass by the name of “room
traders.” As these gentlemen, however,
under such circumstances usually engage in
transactions which may aptly be compared
to swapping jackets, it can be understood
that there was little in the conditibn of the
market to gratify those brokers who depend
upon public patronage for their commissions
'and profits.
Mil. Frank Safron accordingly sat in his
front office, and though outwardly philosoph
ical in appearance and conversation, chafed
inwardly over the fact that he had noth
ing to <&. Not an order bad reached him in
several days, fie had wandered disconso
lately over to the board only to find the
“traders” aforesaid “scalping” one another
for eights, and corning back to his office,
found no better employment than reading tho
newspaper. It might be remarked that un
der ordinary circnrnstanoes Mr. Safron’s
K rly profits averaged upward of $50,000,
be nevertheless found himself meditating
is to whether he should reduce expenses by
firing up his yacht or his horses.
This melancholy train of thought was how-
tver averted by the opening of the office door,
and the entrance of a stranger. Be was a
man of tatl stature and powerful frame, and
a pair of keen blue eyes, and hair and ride
whiskers which, originally brown, seemed to
have become prematurely gray. Be was at
tired, though the weather was quite warm,
In an 111 fitting, double breasted frock coat of
dark material, and wore on his head a felt
tat with a high crown and broad brim, his
general appearance corresponding, as Mr.
Safiron noted, to that of a prosperous west-
ton business man.
“Ts this Mr. Safron!” odd the stranger, in
i loud, hearty voice.
“That b my name,” replied Safron, rising.
“An bid friend of yours,” resumed the
itranger, “a Mr. Halstead, who lives out
sur way, recommended me to you. My name
is Coit—Homer N. Coit, of Omaha."
“Glad to know you, Mr. Coit,” said Sa-
fren, taking the stranger’s outstretched hand
and remembering the former client whose
name was mentioned, and who, having come
to grief in the market, had fdllowed the sage
advice about going west. “What can I do
for you f 1
_ J* well,” to* reply, “I am here In New
York partly for business and partly for
pleasure. Dm in the lumber trade out my
way, and there are some big contracts to be
let here, so I am looking after them. Now
I’ve always wanted to try my hand at stocks,
sad as Halstead spoke so well of you, I
thought Ta come down and pat up a Kttlo
money, end see If I couldn’t knock my ex
penses out of this game of yours. What’s the
ante, anyway!”
Under ordinary circumstances Safron
would have required a more formal identifi
cation of a prospective customer, fie was,
however, somewhat taken by the westerner’s
frank, hearty manner, and remarked, as tho
latter drew a pocketbook from the breast of
his coat, that tho custom of the street was for
the deposit of margin equal to 10 per cdht. on
tho par value of the stocks carried for a cus
tomer’s account.
“That’s all right,” said Mr. Coit, unfold
ing a roll of bills, which Safron could e?e
were of large denominations. “Heae’s $4.,-
000 in currency. Yon see I expected to be
moving around between here and Boston,
and Philadelphia, and not caring to be both
ered with bank drafts, brought the stuff with
me. By the way," added he, “perhaps it is
dangerous for me to carry a loc of loose
money around with me. Can’t I put it all
up with you, and have you check it to mo os
I want any!”
Safron saw no objection to this, and Mr.
Coit accordingly transferred about a thou
sand dollars more into the hands of his -
banker, and, replacing his pocketbook in its
place with a sigh of relief, proceeded to ask
what could be done in the market.
Now, although dullness reigned through
Wall street, there were some stocks which
Safron thought might in a little while yield
a fair return to a patient speculator, and
Mr. Coit accepted his ad vice; he strolled over
to the exchange, and bought a few hundred
of the shares in question for the former, after
which the westerner, who had given a quiet
uptown hotel as his address, took bis depart
ure.
A week or so passed, during which
the market became more active, and
prices underwent a decided advance, the
stock in which Mr. Homer N. Coifs
margin was invested sharing in tho
rise to the extent of four or five points,
thus justifying Safron’s opinion of it. Coit
had neither been seen nor heard from, but
one morning be made his appearance, ex
plaining that ho had taken a run over to Bos
ton on busin&s connected with his lumber
contracts. Ho was pleased with the success
of his speculation, and at once agreed with
Safron’s advice to take his profits, which
amounted to nearly $1,500, and to sell a few
hundred shores of another stock in which
Mr. Safron anticipated there would be a de
cline.
loarty western ways afforded mere or loss
mi us am out. Ha made frequent use of tho
otophone in tho office to communicate with
jarties w Ub whom he "aid ha was negotia-
ing in regard to his lumber contracts. At
ho same time his speculations progressed
avorably on the whole. He showed himself
o be conservative, ye* willing to follow
Safron’s advioe; aud though once or twicehe
not with slight losses, ho took them good
laturedly. His docility was rewarded with
‘nrther profits to a considerable amount, so
;hat Mr. Safron, who prided himself on his
judgment concerning the market, and his
success in steering his customers through its
lumerous quicksands, was genuinely pleased.
“I tell you,” ha remarked, in a moment of
»nfidenoe, "the people who lose money in
Wall street are those who think they know
lomething. when they are unmitigated greon-
lorns. Now, Coit, you do know the west-
irn country and the railroads. But you are
villing to taka advice on the immediate coa
lition of the market, and are brave enough
o follow it; to you see you have made money
vhere others generally drop It I guess you
ire about $3,o5o ahead of this ‘game,’ at you
•ailed it when you first came here. At the
aune time I am satisfied, for I have made
no re in the way of commissions out of you
ban if you had been lorisg your money the
vay ordinary lambs do.”
Coit took the compliment with his usual
nodesty, and a few moments later told the
thief clerk that he wanted some more money.
3o had been drawing such sums as he needed
rom time to time, receiving checks for them,
Thick he usnally took and had cashed at the
3ankoftho New Netherlands himself. On
•his occasion the amount he desired was
arger than usual, being something over
B,000; but, of course, in the condition ctf
Doit’s account, his request was complied
rith, and a check promptly handed to him.
Boon after this, Coit announced in his
isual frank way that he had completed the
jrasiness which brought him to New York,
md was about to return to his western home,
ffo found the money he had placed in Saf-
•on’s hands was needed in his business, bnt in
i short time he hoped to be able to start a
ittle aocount again, and conduct Jt by tole-
jrfcph. His account waa accordingly closed
md a check given for the balance, which, In
iptto of ell the drafts made upon it, was
arger than the amount be had originally
! fiaced tn his broker’s hands.
I A tew days passed, and Coit made life ap-
■ scaranco one morning with a valise in his
J land. His train, he said, left In an hoar,
' sut having some final business to attend to
i town town he had called in to say good-by
x> hit Wall street frienda
“By the way,” he remarked, looking at his
watch, “there is one man I wanted to see,
md now I am too late to go to bis place.
I Can I talk to him over your telephone?”
| Permission was readily accorded, and Coit
; passed some minntes in the little boxed in
j floect In which the telephone bang. AH that
| was heard was therefore the nsn&l amount of
| signaling, and considerable talking by Coit,
■ who, however, came ont in a little while de-
; :1ared that the instrument did not work, and
; :hat he would therefore have tp see his man
if ter all. fio therefore shook hands with the
sroker, and receiving his wishes for a pleas-
! ft journey battened away, not without some
• regret on Safron’s part, who was naturally
! lorry to lore so successful and profitable a
; Justomer. .
j A few moments later a clerk from the
! Bank of the New Netherlands hurriedly en-
; ttred Safron’s office, with an inquiry as to
1 whether he bad that morning drawn a check
n favor of Hexner N. Coit for forty thousand
| lud odd dollars, numbered about one hundred
{ igures higher than his cheeks of Fee preced
ing day, producing at the same time the slip
>f paper which in all respects was a perfect
iuplicate of the ehecks Safron used, and
with his own signature so perfectly Imitated
ihat only the fact that he had signed no such
iocument convinced him it was a forgery.
“It is a forgery,” he finally gasped. “Did
rou pay it!”
‘•Luckily not. It was presented by a
young man, whom this Mr. Coit introduced
is his son, and who lately cams several times
rith largo checks, which were all right.
Hie paying toller, however, had some doubts
ibout paying as largo an amouut cs this, and
Jhe young man suggested telephoning you to
ico if it was all right Tho teller called you
ip, but juat os he commenced to tusk about it
;he telephone broke down, and ho couldn’t
«nlk to you. When he said to the young man
that he had bettor get some one hei'e to econo
wound with him, ha mads a sudden break
for tho door, leaving tho check behind him,
md I’ve been.sent to see about it.”
“It is mighty lucky for the bank,” said
Safron, “as the loss on a forged check would
have been theirs. Perhaps, however, I would
Have been chargeable for my negligence in
letting an outsider use my telephone, for
•vldently Coit timed himself to be at the in-
itrumout when tho bank called me up, and
>ay it was all right”
The chief clerk here remembered that Coit
had inquired who their stationer was, and on
Inquiry it was ascertained that on pretense
jf having some similar work executed, he
bad obtained a sample of Safron’s engraved
i jhecks. The attempted forgery was there
fore laid bare, and subsequent development
! In criminal history showed that the Omaha
lumber merchant, Mr. Coit, was none other
ihan “Coyote Jim,” a daring western forger
u»d bank thief, who had lately served out
long term in a western penitentiary, and
who, after victimizing some western bank,
bad escaped with a share of his plunder.
“Well," said Safron, “I’ve learned not to
accept a customer without a personal intro
duction; and as for tho telephone, the best
jervice it ever did me was when it broke
down.”—Gavin Pendergast in Once a Week.
Conquering a Lasting Peace.
Skobeleff met, during one of his travels in
tho Danubian region, with an English Quaker
lady, who had a daughter married in some
town where he was quartered, and who used
to lecture him on the sinfulness of war.
Her remonstrances, indeed, made a consider
able Impression upon him, and he felt much
admiration for her fidelity to Christian prin-
“f think,” said the westerner, when this 1 ciple. Hence ha derived a high esteem for
| was done, “I had better have a little money,
as my cash is running low. Suppose you
give me a hundred and fifty."
“Why, certainly,” said Safron; “give Mr.
Coit a check, Wilson.”
A few moments later Safron’s chief clerk, ( choked by her r’s.”
Mr. Wilson, handed Coit a check for the
amount in question drawn to his own order
on tho National Bank of the New Nether
lands, with tho remark that if he would in
dorse it they would seqd to the bonk and get
him the amount in currency.
‘Suppose you let mo go with the messen-
Quakeresses, whom he pronounced “most
worshipful." He liked old American ladies
better than young one3, but his special aver-
lion was “tho staring, stuck up British peer
ess. who clipped her words and was half
SaSfEh’i'
'
ger and have him identify me at voter bank,”
I said Coit, artlessly. “I shall keep you draw
ing checks for me all tho time, and if I can
get them cashed it will save you trouble.”
Wilson saw no harm in this arrangement,
and so Coit accompanied a clerk to the Bank
of the Now Netherlands, and was introduced
to the paying teller of that institution as Mr.
Homer N. Coit, in whose favor the check
was drawn, and accordingly obtained his
money.
For some time Coit was a frequent visitor
at Safron’s office, spending sufficient time on
each occasion to make himself familiar with
the office and all its occupants, to whom his
1 He was not a stranger to the existence and
aims of a Peace society. Once, in a conversa
tion with an English journalist,' ho said
“You must not publish this or I shall bo
called a barbarian by the Peace society; but
I hold it i3 a principle in Asia that the dura
tion of peace is in direct proportion to the
daughter you inflict upon the enemy. The
harder you hit them, the longer they will
be quiet afterwards. We killed nearly 20,000
Turkomans nt Geek Tape. During the pur-
Bait, after fac'-v killed S,000 of both
sexes. I had them counted. The surv* *ors
will not soon forget the lesson.”
Such words and such deeds show, afresh,
tho horrible influences of war, and its tend
ency to brutalize all men, even those in
whom, as in Skobeleff, there may have been
manifest a measure of sincere appreciation
of the things which pertain to humanity and
justice.—Herald of Peace and International
Arbitration.
TWILIGHT IN ACADIA.
The sunset gold fades tn the eky,
The night winds moan across the sea;
Beside the tide of Acadle
X watch the golden splendor <fia
O'er etlft and headland, shore and tea,
A mystic shadow seems to lie.
The sunset gold fades In the sky.
The night winds moon across the sea.
O, mistress mine! It is for thee
The sable pine tree* toss and sigh;
The sea bird's sad and soulful cry
Suits well my dream and reverie.
The sunset gold fades In the sky.
The night winds moan across the sea.
—ganborn Gove Tenney in Outing.
THE MAN WOLF.
&H(1 OTtf on *t __
pwb'ngandgL& d ' bit!
last over
sprang up, Rhook 5
2N1
'While with the animal hunters in the
jungles and foothills to the north of Bsnaree
we heard of a man wolf. On two former oc
casions we had received like reports, but
bad given little attention to them. Tha
superstitious natives of India hava many
strange beliefs. One of them is that* a
brother who has murdered a brother turns
into a man wolf, and roams the jangles 100
years as a penance. While they hold this
animal in fear and terror, as well they may,
they reason that if he is killed, another rela
tive of the family must take his place aid
serve out the remainder of his sentence.
Therefore, while they would talk to ns of
these monsters, they were always very care
ful uot to locate them and bring them into
danger. We had long before mads up our
minds that there was nothing so very queer
In finding a wild man in the jangles of Indta.
Children are carried off by semi-wild men or
wild animals almost daily, and even the
civilized countries have their wild men roam
ing through the forests. W* wars wilting te
pay a round sum for the capture of a man
wolf, believing he would turn out to be only
a wild man, but at the earns time a greater
curiosity than a gorilla.
We had been making our headquarters in
a village for several days, baiting our traps
for hyenas and having natives on the lookout
for serpents, when one mid-afternoon I got
into a hammock slung between two tress on
the outskirts of the village and drooped off
to sleep My two white men were aJready
asleep in hammocks some distance away, and
each of the natives as were not out for us
were lying by to pass the heat of. the day.
There were two or three children playing at
the door of a hut near me, but making kittle
or no noise. It was as quiet as if a spell had
been placed upon every inhabitant. I had
not slept over half an hour when a mosquito
bit me on tho cheek and started me up. I lay
on my right side, and through the meshes of
the hammock could see the edge of the jun
gle, about forty rods a war. The children
were still at play, and w^a a hundred feet
nearer the jungle than 1 was. Almost as
soon as 1 opened my eyes I saw a dork object
leap from the cover of the thicks* to the
shelter of a single bush on the cleared
ground. It looked to mo tn the brief glimpse
_ had like a gorilla. I measured the leap
afterward with a tape line, and it was
twenty-three feet.
I did net start up, but rubbed my eyes
wide open to identify the strange creature.
It had cowered until I could see nothing but
a black spot, end it was two or three min
utes before it moved again. Then it sud
denly leaped into view, bounded for the
children exactly as a monkey leaps, and be
fore 1 could call out it had seteed a little boy
about two and a half yean old, and waa re
treating with him. It was « its hind legs,
both arms around the child, aud running
with great swiftness. The body was naked
and hairy, but I was convinced that ft was
that of a knmaa being. I yelled out. and
the creature whirled about, raised fbe child
on high, and, with a shrill acream of anger,
dashed it down on the hard baked earth with
terribie force. Then it shook its fists at tha
villagers swarming ont, and, dropping down
on all fours, bounded away into toe jnsgta
tTe found the child gasping Ha last. That
fliug had broken almost every bone in his
body. It was not until the villagers were
convinced that I bad teen toe creature and
was assured of its identity that the head man
acknowledged it to be a man wolf, and that
it liatl long been a menace to the locality. It
was, kc said, liis cousin, who had killed a
brother fifteen years before. As the creature
had now killed three children, against whom
it seemed to have a particular spite, and os
ite presence menaced the safety of tha vil
lage, he would give his consent for us to seek
its capture. I helped him to reach this con
clusion by a present valued at $20, and by
agreeing not to give the matter away in any
other village.
The first thin* to bo done was to learn the
habits of tho creature. Ho was known to cat
meat, roots, barks and almost anything else
which rar.ic iu hia way. He must sleep, but
no one ccull say when, as he had been seen
prowling around at all hours of the day and
night. He was very strong and fierce, and
it vr^s doubted if one of the tiger cages
would hold him. YYe derided to tempt his
curiosity, and, to this end, one of our cages
was placed iu the jungle, and the door so ar
ranged as to shut the creature in if be but
entered. But he took no notice of the curi
osity, or, if he did, it was to fight shy of the
suspected trap. Twice in three days he was
seen again on the borders of the village, evi
dently bent on further, mischief, end tho na
tives finally found a path which the man
wolf used in going and coming from a water
hole. As soon os they came in with the news,
We started out to set a different trap for him.
The steel traps to catch wild animals have no
teeth, and the jaws come together in a way
to give one a leverage on the other. I
have known of a full grown tiger being
caught by the foot and firmly held in a trap
no larger than the boys set for mink and
muskrat. We replaced the chain with a half
inch rope made of native grasses, and as
soon as a suitable spot had been selected wo
excavated a hole, buried the trap out of
sight, and then bent down a sapling and tied
tho end of the rope to it. This sapling was
held down by a trigger, which a sharp pull
would release.
!? When the trap had bec$ set no eye could
detect anything suspicious around the spot,
and we felt certain that the creature would
get into trouble if he passed that way. When
we could do no more we retired to the vil
lage, about a mile away. It was about sun
down when we arrived, and we were just in
time to see a wonderful proceeding. A large
and savage looking hyena came out of the
jungle and sniffed and snuffed and growled
at us from a distance of about twenty rods.
We refrained from shooting, for fear the
reports would frighten the man wolf away,
and while a hundred of us stood gazing at the
beast another suddenly appeared. It was
the s<une creatuto I saw from the hammock.
“It is the man wolf!” moaned a score;'of
natives in chorus, and at least a dozen of them
slunk away into their huts.
Bub the beast Lad not jeome to disturb us.
He had evidently been ’^racking the hyena,
and be was there for revenge. He bounded
over the ground with great leaps, and the
hyena did not suspect his approach. The last
bound was a tremendous curve in the air, and
ns the man wolf came down it was full upon
tho hyena’s back. Ho uttered a terrible
scream as be struck, and the hyena gave vent
to something like a stoic In They rolled ovc r
couple 0 f minutes ro*L
tongue bitten nearly rfr 0 ^ I
horrible gttfhesin the “ *4
the creature was a II C
aud we bepan to fed ^ for W!
advice of the head^J^x ^
fires and kept a sham i
;‘Thefello P wC!l e ^ 1
p ained the old marL v «r?
and he is not plZ To « «,
vulture for striking hi, £ I
who was turnS
cursing our faith. Either* **
the new*"*
We placed sentinels on * h
ready to turn in, but ■
quirtly until about miS^J
of shrieks and
1
sleep with a bound. T had A 04 *^14«
toon that the man wolf hau *
yva hav ® caught th*
It was a mile, as I her*
village to the spot whew H
«dy* the scree
When the news went 7^ 1
nodanger too ri!l^ «
there wee no further
Whether caught or not, the t
won*. He bad a voice at atront i
and ho was notqa* for
time. He roared, screan&M. ^
mented and growled, andthi w
us every sound. He stffi had aLt i
steam on when daylight ctraaS
moved in hie direction. H.
u» coming, for hi. Mgw WM
aiKi pretty eooa w# oould hw kimi
toe bushee.
I am free to ssy that theflmoAi*
man wolf caught by the hind Zm
trap, and hanging bead downwwd J
swaying eapling, took the couru. m
sooner than m if I had net
face on toe path. He hung about\ul
from the earth, and u far m In eaflTJ
m every direction he bad puila!
bushes by toe roots. He wmu nJ,l
monkey, end oould doable himaetf^l
reach the trap, but, strong u h 1
oould not spring tbs jawsopn ***
bin foot. There was a toot of -hsiat
he could get to the rope, sad tb. *»k
on that chaiB made us hold oar breatta ]
It been eft soft iron I have no doubt U>
have cut It in two. Hs had be«a et_
when w* first heard him scream out, ail
been suspended for over four boon
would have thought he would be til
with pain cud struggling, but bteal
As soon as we cams near him ht mak ■
tremendous effort to get away, or tog
us, that all the natives lied In Urrcr,
We quickly understood that w»o
notoht* with the beset anti! be bed 1
strength and temper, and we retanadt
village and left him hanging. All
he yelled out every two o» tfcm
and ail that uight we heard from bfetl
te reals. On the eeoood morning kimil
ugly, but late in toe afternoon buopr]
pom m «tcred him. We brought w M
gottoree or four ropes around Um, i
ally made him a prioooar. HI. foot i
were terribly swollen, and be Kuala buifij
restetaaee.
Wo now had opportunity tokxdktao
He was certainly a man wok—tut it,
tire child bed been carried off J
and brought up with the wtH I
twenty years or more. Tlx!* *mtu» I
human face and form, but th. bol?»
ered with coaroe hair, the teeth *tf* i
the bands out of obape, and he btdh
go as a four footed animal He w» I
a horrible looking sight, but the *ori I
turn about him was his ey»i 5o ten* t
beast ever saw through a more ugly I
There was a villainous squint to M
the balls seemed to be aflame, to
gratulating ourselves on bit euj <
when the head man replied:
“Wait a bit. Wait until h's stresj
turns. You will uover gat him***! 11
here." ,
We drew tho cage to tbs viUje
tho beast food aud water. He res^l
cepted both, and his conduct wm «
as wo oould desire. He was kriding
however. On the third (fey he
amined the construction of ™e 1
tested every bar. He did i Jfl
thought he was unobserved. On
he began to snarl and growl wdfbjr
temper, and on the sixth W9
him, the cage being dragged^ y |
rives. Everything went well P
when we stopped for a rest «da|
As all were sitting down the man j
denly sprang out of a corner w . 3
been sulking, seized a bar m either
with a tremendous effort wrenchrit^
One ho retained for a wtapon ^jj
the earth. It was so sudden that “. J
prepared. He did not •»* ^
venge, and before we could pi^op
and open fire he had ^ three^i
rives and severely wounded t ,
was still laying about b™
rage when one of the . bl3 ^ee’. I
charge of buckshotand ended hb .
had struck only single b ’°’” , cripp i8CfJ
one had been hard enough yjjrf*^
But forpurgunshewouUh
man in the party.—bO"
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