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INDISTINCT COPY . . 1 wfc * • >-• g* \;•A 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’. 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