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KILLED A WHITE EXPLANATION OF A BOLD HUNTER’S TRACIC FATE. The Misfortune. Which Refrll Thon»» Rrouaon, Who Had Khot « '* IMuintom" Derr—III, Desperate Ft|(ht With » III* llurk—Hk> letons of Both Found Later. The recent statement that the .Smith sonian Institution offers a reward of $1000 for the skin of a white deer said to have been seen in New Jersey recalls to the memory of the old liunt ore of the Allegheny Mountains the fact that hunters would no more kill a white deer than a sane man would go over Niagara Falls. Aside from the fact that a white deer Is regarded ns an animal which nil hunters are in honor bound not to kill, tile belief has been elinost general that the slayer of one of these deer would meet with dire misfortune, so that from time Im memorial such white deer as from year to year flitted ghost-like through the thickets and woods of the Alle ghenies were safe from the Indian’s arrow or the white man’s bullet. There are hunters still living In Clearfield County, Penn , who to this day believe that the experience of one man proves the connection between the killing of a white deer and calam ity. This man was Thomas Bronson, who, with his wife and two young sons, lived In the Green Woods not far from the head of Cold Stream. Bronson was a man of taciturn nature, n daredevil who wns regarded by other hunters as a good fellow to let alone. He was reckless and brave, but was not looked upon as a good neighbor. Early In the fall of 1853 Bronson while hunting In the vicinity of the Knobs espied a deer whose coat was ns white as snow. He was undis turbed by what he styled the tSnid fears of silly sportsmen. Bronson’s rifle cracked, and the deer, after a few spasmodic leaps, fell to the ground with a bullet through Its heart, Its white skin died red with its blood. Bronson dressed the deer, which was a seventy-five pound doe, and, wrapping the meat in the hide, carried It home. If he gave any thought to the fact that he had killed a white deer It was simply to reflect that the hide might bring high price ns a curiosity. He afterward remembered thut a raven croaked overhead as lie was passing along the woodland road in the evening, but as ravens were nu merous he paid no heed. Six weeks afterward Bronson, while searching for the den of a pack of wolves near the head of Cold Stream, fell upon a pile of rocks and broke his arm, an accident that laid him up for some weeks, during which time he was visited by old Jim Morrison, the veteran hunter of Rattlesnake Run. Jim lind heard of the killing of the white deer, and he was not slow to tell Bronson that he had done a most fool ish thing. After Morrison had de parted Bronson got to thinking about the matter. But, although misfortune had overtaken him, he was not con vinced that the dentil of the deer lmd anything to do with it. Neverthe less from that time on there wns a perceptible change In his spirits. lie lost his bravado and was less ven turesome. He lost his nerve complete ly when, a year later, one of his sons ran away from home and left no trace and his wife died of a snake bite. Bronson became taciturn and moody, shunning such hunters as came into tae Green Woods and living the life of a semi-hermit. Three years after the killing of the “phantom” deer Bronson started out along the turkey path in the direction of Trout Run. He had not gone more than a mile when he saw a big buck cropping the twigs loss than 200 yards away. He stalked the buck until be was within easy shooting distance, and then, taking steady aim, he fired. The deer dropped In its tracks, and Bronson hastened’to its side to cut Its throat. He had approached within a few feet of the animal when the latter jumped to its feet and fiercely attacked him. The buck had only been wounded, and, ns in such cases, was a most danger ous antagonist. But Bronson drew his knife and fought desperately for his life. The battle continued for some time the sharp antlers and front hoofs of the buck cutting Bronson’s flesh until the blood flowed from a score of wounds, while the hunter repeatedly thrust his kuife into the deer's side in the endeavor to reach the heart. Ten days later Bronson’s only re maining sou, who had remained at home when his father started out hunting, appeared at the settlement and inquired for Ills parent. No one had seen him. however, and his disap pearance was a mystery unsolved un til spring. Two fishermen who were on their way to Trout Run for a fish ing expedition early in April saw the skeleton of a deer lying a few yards from the path upou which they were walking. Out of curiosity they inves tigated. and were astonished to see, some fifteen feet away, the skelctou ot a man. Jim Morrison proved that the human bones were those of Thomas Bronson, as he readily iden tified the latter’s rifle and hunting kuife. Morrison explained to the fish ermen liow the tragedy had occurred, the wounded buck having killed Bron son, and then dying from the wounds the hunter had inflicted upou him with rifle and kuife. Utah’. Industrial ProtreH. Utah has more than doubled its man ufacturing plants since 1890, the num ber increasing from 530 to 1400. Rich Canadian Indian*. ada, own $9,840,000 worth of property, or $615 a head. SAW A BLOODHOUND IN ACTION Unerring Work by a Bog Valued at a Thousand Dollars. “I had an opportunity to observe the efficiency of the bloodhound as an in strument for tracking criminals while I wa.s at Wichita,” said a Macon attor ney the other day on returning from a trip over into Kansas. “An atrocious crime had been com mitted out in the suburbs. The Sheriff was promptly notified and lie respond ed Immediately with his large, som bre assistant. The dog was taken inlo the house and to the room where the crime occurred. It immediately started out with a bound, cleared the fence and dashed into the timber with the Sheriff and others following close behind. The hound ran to a stream, where it appeared to be mystified for a few minutes. It ran up and down the banks, panting and wagging its tall nervously. Suddenly it caught the trail again and dashed onward up the bank of the stream, ran around a free, shot over a brush pile and then took a bee line for town. “From this time on it never faltered nor seemed to be In doubt for a mo ment The trail led to a mammoth grain elevator. The dog burst into a side door without hesitation, and darted for the steps, dashing the sur prised workmen right and left. It went clear up to the topmost floor of the elevator, circled around a few times and then darted down another way. When it reached the bottom floor it ran out on the sidewalk, through the business part of town and then to the boarding district. It was blocked by a closed door at a small boarding house, but when the officers caught up with the dog they had the i door opened. The hound ascended the steps at a bound and went directly to a room occupied by one of the board ers, pushed I lie door open with bis fore feet and attacked the clothes (if a man who was in lied asleep. “The savage growls woke the man up and lie yelled loudly for protection. The Sheriff entered the room just in time to seize the dog and pull him from P'e man’s throat. By this time a large crowd had congregated at the entrance of the boarding house and was impa tiently awaiting the appearance of the quarry. The Sheriff telephoned for guards before attempting to remove his man to jail. A patrol wagon came and the prisoner and dog were seated in, surrounded by policemen with drawn revolvers. When the start was made for the jail the crowd must 1mVe numbered fully 1500. They were vo elferously demanding that the prison er be immediately hung. But there was no leader and lynching was averted. During the drive the dog never for an instant took his eyes from the trem bling victim. So perfect was the hound’s work and so thoroughly had it terrorized the prisoner that he con fessed to the crime soon after he was placed in jail. “I was informed that the blood hound was worth $1000, and was one of the best in the State. It was not a very prepossessing animal, but when It was in action, like a courageous sol dier, it looked much better than it did when on dress parade.”—Kansas City Journal. Tideci in Swiss Lakes. Tides of the ocean, as every one knows, are the result of the unequal attractions of the suu and moon on the earth’s surface as compared with its centre. As the proportionate dif ference on account of its lesser dis tance is greater in the ease of the moon, its tide raising influence is rath er more than twice as great as that of the sun, notwithstanding the dictum of the man who would not believe the moon had anything to do with it lie cause he had seen tides when there was no moon. Visitors to the lake country may not be aware that our small inland lakes have tides which follow the moon with even more pre cision than the ' The open ocean. water in a lake "rocks” as though it were a solid mass, but slowly, the sur face changing its level as the meridian of the lake alters its direction with re gard to the moon. It requires, how ever, minute observation to detect this tide. So small is it that the difference between high and low water in a lake 100 miles broad is little more than an Inch. In some of the lakes of Switzer land. besides the semi-diurnal tide, phenomena have been observed, called, locally, seiches, in which the whole body of water rocks or vibrates in twenty minutes or half an hour. Brit ish lakes are probably too small for similar phenomena to be easily per ceptible, but Dr. Forel, of Lausanne, has made careful study of the seiches of the Lake of Geneva, and his analy ses, showing that the movements aro often compound oscillations about two or more axes, are full of interest.— London Telegraph. An Kxpeimtve Kducntion. It is suggested, and the suggestion seems eminently reasonable, that whan England gets through practicing in South African she will have the ablest army in Europe; an army tit to be compared with Grant's in 1805. It Is the great drawback to the military art that a nation can’t learn it thoroughly without practice, and that usually, as the world is managed now, by the time any generation in any nation becomes exceptionally proficient at fighting the chance to use its skill passes, not to return until its veterans are past the fighting age. Nothing but a rare eonj bination of circumstances can enable any modern nation to recover the value of the money and the lives it has in vested in the making of an efficient army. The most profit that England can hope for from her 200,tXX) sea soned veterans is respectful treatment from her neighbors while she is nurs ing her wounds.—E. S. Martin, in Har per’s Weekly. A level-headed man is one who al ways agrees with us. U imtSS A novel system for heating cars is in vogue in Christiania and Stockholm. Under each seat is a perforated metal lic box, and in this are little red-hot bricks of compressed coal, so prepared that no smoke or odor results while they are burning. The worn or soiled Bank of England note is seldom seen. This Is because no note of this bank is ever reissued by the establishment. When cashed it is kept and put aside for destruction, The average term during which a note remains in circulation is about a month. A curious tombstone has been dis covered in an English graveyard. The inscription rends as follows: “In memory of William Griffiths; died Oc tober 25, 1835, aged 127 years. Also Willm., father of the above, who died October 2, 1845, aged seventy-two years.” According to the dates given the son was sixty-five years older than the father. Bologna's two square leaning tow ers, the Garisenda and the Asinelli, which are more startling that the tow er at Pisa, are safe. A rumor was started that they showed signs of weakening, but a commission of engi neers pronounces them as solid as ever. The Asinelli tower is 315 feet high, and was built in 1109. The Ga risenda was built a year later and was originally taller, but is now only 153 feet high. Its inclination, however, is greater than that of the other tower. Mme. Ilubertine Auclert, a French woman, who favors equal rights for women, lias hit upon a novel way of preaching the gospel. The new French postage stamps represent a young woman resting her hand on a tablet which bears the words, “The rights of man.” Mme. Auclert has caused to be made a quantity of blue stamps which show a young man resting his hand on a tablet with the words, “The rights of women.” She recommends persons who believe in equal rights to affix one of these stamps to each let ter, side by side with the official stamp of the Government, -- A Chinese manuscript in the Paris Library proves that anaesthetics for surgical purposes were used in China 1700 years ago. It states that when a surgeon conducted a serious operation he gave a decoction to the patient, who after a fe.w moments became as insen sible as if he were dead. Then, as the case required, the surgeon performed ! the operation—incision or amputation —and removed t*c cause of * he 1 ady; then he brought together and se- j cured the tissues, and applied liui- : ments. “After a certain number of '■ days the patient recovered, without having experienced the slightest pain during the operation.” In a southern department of France, not so very long ago, a well-to-do young lady married a youth of spend thrift tendencies. Anxious to win him away from his undesirable compan ions, the girl hit upon the notion of j employing her husband as secretary in : connection with some charitable work I iu which she was from time to time ; engaged. For his services with the ! pen she paid him a fixed salary of $20 j weekly, and, as the gentleman in ques- j he tion possessed compelled no to means accept of the his queerly own, j j was conferred berth. It is related that from time to time he “struck” for ! higher wages, but the wife was ada- j mant, and refused to increase the weekly payments by a single cent. Key-Wliulliig Watches Seldom Seen. “5 “Speaking of things that are disap pearing in the upheavals and transfor mations which mark the age in which we live,” said a New Orleans jeweler, “how long has it been since you saw a watch that you had to wind in the old-fashioned way with a key? You may still find them, and occasionally you may find one for sale. The chances are, however, that when you do run across a watch which is to be wound in this way you will find that it is now ; regarded as a family relic, a sort of \ heirloom, which is kept simply because of its sentimental value. The fact is that a majority of the watches of this make, in cases where they are worth it, have been sent back to the factories, made over and put on the market again with stem-winding works. The disappearance of key-winding watches was natural. It was too much trouble. It consumed too much time, and there was always the perplexing problem of a lost watch key. The stem-winding watch was a business necessity, and that is why it is in such universal use at this time. It is a time saver and consequently a money saver. In my judgment the time will come when only open-faced watches will be found on the market, for the same reason, j It takes time, you know, to open a ! watch. That’s why railroad conduct- i or*, the men whose business is run on seconds, use open-face watches. The old key system of winding is gone, and tin next change will be the disappear ance of the double-case watch.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Tlie Vatu* of a Rich Mind. A rich mind will cast over the hum blest home a radiance of beauty and wholesomeuess which an upholsterer or a decorator can never equal. Emer son says, “There is no beautifier of complexion, form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.”—Success. CURIOSITIES IN LAW BOOKS. Caic Was Beverseii Because of Voice licet ion of the Judge. “Law books arc full of curious de cisions,” said a member of the legal profession, “and frequently the higher courts have reversed cases on the most peculiar grounds imaginable, But I recall one case which is probably more peculiar than any other case which one may find among the many reports which have accumulated since the ear liest report was handed down. As strange as It may seem, the ground upon which the Supreme Court re versed the finding of the lower court was found in tin exception which had been taken to the intonation of the voice of the trial judge. It wns in a suit for damages against a railroad corporation. Action had been brought against the company by a former em ploye who had been discharged and blacklisted by employers during a dif ference between the corporation and members of the Switchers’ Union. De tarnation of character and loss on ac count of being out of employment, ex emplary considerations and other grounds were assigned in the declara tion filed in the case. The trial came on and the evidence tended to show that the man had been discharged and blacklisted without reason, and that he had sustained positive damage on ac count of these things. “But when the time came for the judge to charge the jury and to give the jurors the law from the books, as the saying goes, the interesting part of the yarn began to unfold. The judge was a deep-toned, deep-lunged follow, and when lie bellowed in earnest it would sound like a peal of thunder from Mammoth Cave. But when lie made an effort to soften and modulate his voice he could make it as soft and as gentle as an angel’s whisperings. This is exactly what he did, according to the attorneys for the plaintiff. While charging the law which affected the rights of the plaintiff, his tone was mild, meek, scarcely audible. ‘But, gentlemen of the jury,’ he stormed out with thundering emphasis, ‘if oil the other hand, you find so and so to be the case, you will return a verdict in accordance with your sworn duty for the defendant.’ Emphasis settled that case. But the attorneys had been sharp enough to note an exception to the way in which his honor charged the law, with particular reference to the intonation of his voice. The mo tion for a new trial was made on the exceptions noted, tile case appealed and the Supreme Court finally took the matter up. The attorneys ex plained the difficulties in the way of giving the judges an adequate idea 0 f the effect of the trial judge’s voice on the jury, but they gave a fair idea 0 f it by saying that the law for the plaintiff ‘was charged in nonpareil, w hile the law respecting the rights of the defendant company was handed down in bold-face box-car letters. The Supremo Court reversed the finding 0 f the lower court, the case was re man ded for trial again, and damages were finally assessed against the cor portion.”—New Orleans Times-Demo crat. WORDS OF WISDOM. Good counsels observed are chains of grace.—Fuller. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.—Longinus. The one prudence of life is concen tration.—Emerson. Admiration is the daughter of ig norance.—Franklin. The golden age is before us, not bc hind us.—St. Simon, Tlae beauty seen is partly in him w jj 0 set!S it.—Bovee. Levity in behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.—Seneca. Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.— Dana. Loving kindness is greater than laws, and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.—Talmud. Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of that of other people that does not belong to you?—Terence, Don’t Gel Rich, “Fapa.” The children of a certain family, dur ing its prosperity, were left In the nur sery in charge of servants. When ad versify came, the servants were dis charged and the parents lived with the little ones. One evening, when the father had returned home after a day of anxiety and business worry, his little girl clambered on his knee, and, twining her arms around his neck, said: “Papa, don’t get rich again. You did not come into the nursery when you were rich, but now we can come around you, and get on your knees and kiss you. Don’t get rich again, papa.” A man whose wealth keeps him from his family, sleep, healthy recreation, or the time to enjoy the legitimate pleasures of life, is managed by money.—Success. How to Teach a Pet to Ride a Rail. Many readers have doubtless seen hears standing on a rolling ball and maintaining their balance perfectly while rolling it about the arena. I have a bear who delights to do the trick. He can scarcely wait for his time to come to perform. He was taught, as they are all taught, by jog gling his pedestal while he tried to keep from being jostled off. Gradu ally the pedestal was substituted for a ball with many flat places on it. and this was followed by a perfect sphere. He has been performing two years now, and I have never known him to slip and fall off.—Frank C. Ilostock, in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. / household Stv HINTS • \\ li Cliaira For the Drawing Room. Rush bottom chairs have for the time being quite superseded leather ones as the most correct for dining room use. They are exceedingly durable. The Right Height For a Divan. Many divans lose much of their com fort and effect by being too high. One foot high, two and a half feet wide and six feet long is the proper size. A Helpful Hint. If your woolen dresses look dreadful ly creased and wrinkled after pack ing, try the following plan, and don’t, however, if you are tempted, try to iron the creases out. Instead dip a clean piece of stuff of the same mate rial as the dress, if you have it, in hot water. Wring it slightly and sponge the creased places with it. Then hang the dress in the open air, but not in the sun, and the creases will disappear as it dries. To Preserve Cut Flowers. A bouquet sprayed with water and placed under a bell glass will last many days longer than if simply placed in a vase or bowl, while if a buttonhole or a spray for the hair is required to look fresh all day or at an evening fete a dab of scaling wax at the end of the stalks will keep the flowers fresh for many hours. Violets, primroses and many other simple flowers, if placed in a bed of sand and kept moist, will keep fresh for some weeks, while such flowers as foxgloves, campanulas, etc., if placed in water, with the bottom leaves on the stalks kept under water, will last thrice as long as if the leaves were stripped off the stalks. Ferns, when placed in water, should always have some of the fronds left in the water, as it has been proved over and over again that no nourishment can be taken through the stem alone, The Ideal Red Room. Every bed room should be provided with the essentials for healthful sleep and the daily sponge bath. As nearly* as possible the room should be kept free from anything that would tend to contaminate the air. It should be as large as one could afford, and the windows so arranged that they may be opened at the top and bottom. If possible, the floor should be bare and the rugs so small that they can be taken outdoors with ease for clean ing and airing. Everything about the room should be washable. The bed should he light and fitted with strong castors, so that it may readily be moved. The springs ought to be firm and strong, and the mattress of a kind that will not allow the heaviest part of the body to sink and so cause the sleeper to lie in a cramped position. Above all, do not overfurnish the bed room. •f ,— -i tf.j :nj ■eg Cream of Squash-One cup of cooked squash, one quart milk, one slice on ion, one and one-half tablespoons but ter, two heaping tablespoons flour, one teaspoon salt, a few grains pepper and celery salt. Scald the milk with the squash and onion; remove the onion. Stir in butter and flour rubbed smooth; add seasoning; cook two or three min utes. String Bean Salad—Select small, ten der beans of uniform size, string and wash in cold water, then cook in boil ing salt water, uncovered, for fifteen minutes, when tender turn out in a colander and rinse in cold water. Let them dry and put them into the ice chest until ready. Mix them thorough ly with the French dressing and ar range on a bed of crisp lettuce leaves. A garnish of water cress is an addition to this appetizing salad. Cream Filling—Put one and one fourth cups of milk on the stove in a granite ware pan. Mix together one-third of a cup of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of flour, one-fourth cup of milk and add to the boiling milk, j stirring constantly for several minutes I until the mixture has thickened. Take ! off the stove, add a walnut of butter, 1 a teaspoonful of vanilla, and the yolks ' ! of two eggs beaten up with a table spoonful of water. Mixing in the 01 - der given will insure a smooth filling. Apple Catsup—Peel and quarter a dozen sound tart apples, stew until soft in as little water as possible, then pass through a sieve. To a quart of the sifted apples add a teacupful of sugar, one teaspoonful of pepper, one of cloves, one of mustard, two of cin namon, and two medium-sized onions chopped very fine. Stir all together, adding a teaspoouful of salt and a pint of vinegar. Place over the fire and boil one hour; bottle while hot, and seal very tight. It should he about as thick as catsup. 1 DIFFERENT NOW. Biggs—Suffering Aesop! Look Bluggers! Did you ever tee seedy-looking clolhes? such Buggs—They are surely a tri fle bad, that’s true. Biggs—But when I knew him he used to wear expensive and "•ell-fit. ting clothes. •‘Yes; but he’s rich now -”-San Francisco Bulletin. ails “ I tried Ayer’s Hair Vigor hair from to stop my falling. One half a bottle cured me.” J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, Ill. — ii ] ■ certainly Ayer’s the Hair Vigor isj most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. It doesn’t take much of it to stop falling of the hair, make the hair grow, and restore color to gray hair. $1.00 a bottle. All drnjfists. It your druggist cannot supply you I send us one dollar and wo will express’ 1 ' you a bottle. l?e sure arid give the name .1 r»r TSKggJjJg-jJkj | w 50U DOUG by I,AS ' stores direct i to wearer j Stewr- % A Y\ profit; at- one also ' a yv ' [by ill the best shoe j E dealers j where. every • j j S–;, m Wfj I-? Of / j •am /• IU •7~- Fin I*- ” ; j ' 1 Notice increase of salts in talle la'ir.v: 1839 = ns.:oa r,ir«. II 1 ■ 1901=1,566,730 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled in Four Years. THE REASONSs VV. L. Douglas makes and sells more men’s $3.00and$3.50 shoes than any other two man | ufacturers in the world. W. L. 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