Newspaper Page Text
A LION HUNT WITH ARABS.
ROUTING! OUT TWO LIONS FROM
THEIR STRONGHOLD.
An Arab Youth’s Daring Deed—A
Wounded Lion’s Terrible Charge
—The Hero’s Reward.
We were on a visit to one of the hill
tribes of North Africa, says a writer in
Chaniben's Journal. Our hosts were poor,
but to the best they could offer we were
made heartily welcome. There is no
lack of hospitality among the much
maligned Ishmaelites. Many an act of
genuine kindness was shown us, and we
should have been cravens indeed had we
refused to aid our dusky friends in their
hour of need. A lion family had taken
up their abode in a cave difficult of ac¬
cess, among the hills close by. Night
after night dire havoc was wrought by
these fierce marauders, and the time had
come when a determined stand must be
made to avert utter and irrevocable ruin.
While the mountain Arab is by no means
deficient in courage, perseverance or
physical strength, his weapons are of a
most primitive kind. The long, light,
flint-lock gun he handles bears no com¬
parison with our modern arms of pre¬
cision. Deprived of that comfortable
sense of safety and self-assurance which
the possession of a trusty breech-loader
affords, the Arab endeavors to make up
for it by an accumulation of numbers. It
can scarcely be said, however, that the
old proverb holds good on such oc¬
casions. Face to face with an angry
North African liou, there is no safety in
numbers; he has been known to rush
upon huudreds of men.
A glorious morning it was among the
hills; the sky all aglow with purple tints,
and through the veil of mist which hung
round the shoulder of the great granite
heights ing^ far off the summits were glisten¬
lilce so many blacl diamonds bathed
in sunbeams. Nature in its most rugged the
form lay before and around, us. in
pure azure above, moon and stars were
paling before the sun’s return. We were
surrounded by a motley crowd of Arabs
in their picturesque costume. Young
and old, all indeed capable of bearing
arms had turned out; some few were
handling their long, slender, smooth¬
bore guns, but by far the greater number
had only spears and yataghans. The
venerable chief beside us gave us his or¬
ders briefly but distinctly. The exact
location of the lion’s cave was well
known. At imminent peril of their lives
the scouts had found it, tracking its
mighty denizens to their very lair. A
large circle of spearmen was now formed,
and the men received instructions to con¬
verge gradually toward a rocky ledge in
front of the cave, whose entrance was
faintly visible from the elevated position the
of our trysting place. Presently
“battue” commenced. Amid much
3 houting and clash of arms the lines were
draw;r closer and closer, while all of us
who had firearms made as straight had as
possible for the cave. Before we got
within range an enormous male lion
showed himself for an instant, shook his
mane, and vanished, to appear again
when we had arrived at a distance of
about a thousand yards. fusillade
A brisk but harmless was
opened upon him by pur Arab friends,
and with a roar of defiance he withdrew
once more mto his stronghold; nor did
he show himself again as we drew nearer
and nearer until we came to a hale about
200 yards from the cave. The narrow ledge
leading up to it was separated Rom the
= which stood deep
hill on we by a gorge
more than forty feet wide. Above the
ledge towered a precipitous height; and
every cleft or gully in the rocky wail
around bristled with the arms of our
spearmen, barring escape in every direc¬
tion, a complete circle of glittering steel.
We locked carefully to our weapons,
and, when all was ready loud for giving and our
royal foe a hot reception, shouts
clamor were raised to draw them forth,
but all iu vain. No lion showed as much
as the tip of hi# nose. After brief con
3 ultation, one dauntless youth agreed to
along the , , ledge, , close , to the , cave
creep of dry brushwood and
colllect a heap the lions The
fire it, so as to smoke out.
redoubled tueir clamor, , and .
spearmen held readiness for instant
we our rinesm
use, wmle anxiously watching the lad s
progress. He pursued his perilous task
with great courage. Creeping wan y
along the l ec ^g e » he never paused the ti e
had gained the entrance of cave.
Quickly brushwood gathering near at hand together he soon the raised ry a
pile large enough to fill the en ranee,
and af ter firing it he made nis way back
m safety proud of his daring achieve
ment and warmiy welcomed by us a .
Y few moments and the fire blazed up,
sending a column of smoke mto the cave.
The effect upon the inmates was in
stantaneous and startling Two mighty
roars mingled m one and lion and lioness
Pounded forth one after the other. ur
doings had ready goaded do them battle into fury and all
they were to against and
odds in defense of their young ones
their home. At first glimpse of them
. ompanion and I fired, but the movements
of the nrghty beasts were so rapid and
incessant that both of us missed. Our
Arab friends were peppering little away with
their firearms, but also to or no
purpose. Suddenly, while the lioness charged
down upon us along the ledge, her con
sort, with one mighty bound, cleared
the gully, alighting brink, in the very midst of
the Arabs at its and, for the
moment, carrying all before him. We
aimed carefully this time as the lioness
sprang upon us, and both our bullets
took effect; but it needed a second dose
of lead out of our breechloaders to
stretch her lifeless at our feet. We then
hastened to the assistance of our allies,
What a scene met our eyes! Bleeding
profusely from many wounds, but S 3 yet
far from disabled, the furious male was
making sad havoc among the crowd,
Cracking a skull there with one mighty shonl
sweep of his paw,and smashing already a ;
der with another, he had strewn
the ground with slain and wounded, with
as we drew nigh to finish him our
rifles. At that very moment the spear¬
men were likewise upon him. While
he was scattering his assailants in front,
more and more men had drawn near from
behind, and half a dozen lances were
now plunged into him simultaneously,
bearing him to the ground at last. The
short but fierce struggle was over. Our
terrible antagonist lay breathing his last,
with his victims around him. He had
killed five Arabs outright whom, and wounded
fourteen more, among to our
greatest regret, was the young hero of
the day, the same brave lad whose
perilous exploit we had admired so much.
A great broad gasn from neck to shoulder
will henceforih bear witless to his
prowess in the eyes of the whole tribe.
We were publicly thanked by the
chief for our modest share in the glory
of the day, and he informed us later on
that he deemed victory cheap at the
price, considering that thirty or forty
victims often fall in such encounters.
Two young cubs, scarcely six months
old, were found inside the cave half
smothered by the smoke. We afterward
learned that they had been sent to Al¬
giers for sale, and, for all we know,they
may now be inmates of some work zoological
garden or menagerie. Our was
accomplished. Probably for many years
to come the tribp would be exempt from
similar infliction. With high hearts the vil¬ we
held our triumphal entry victory, into blended
lage. amid shouts of
with death wails, and with lamentations
over the many wounded. Our young
hero of the fire met with his reward.
They carried him along in triumph, and,
as he lay on his roughiy-improvised blood, but
coach, faint from loss of
elated with the cons iousness of his
achievement, no mortal could have been
happier android, than he. The whole tribe, young
paid grateful homage to him as
he lay there, for “honor to whom honor
is due” remains the rule with these un¬
sophisticated sons of the wilderness, and
long may it continue so.
YITSfi WORDS.
Books are embalmed minds.
Gradual gains are the only natural
gains.
Keep ahead of rather than behind the
times,
Use your own brains rather than those
of others.
When a cloud arises be sure and look
after its silver lining.
The best way of avenging thyself
is not to become like the wrong-doer.
Our first impressions are full of
errors, Time is the only sure proof
reader.
Men often judge the person but not
the cause, which is not justice but
malice.
No one so old that he may not live a
year, none so young but he may die to¬
morrow.
He who gives life the best possible
employment affords it tue moat possible
enjoyment.
The world’s history is a divine poem,
of which the history of every nation is a
canto, and every man a word,
The darkest hour in the history of any
man> j s when he sits down to study how
g ° C t money without honestly earning
. wonderful , - , what . , strength and
boldness of purpose and energy will
come from the feeling that we are in the
wa y clu
•
_
Some Bare Stands.
Many interesting associations are con¬
nected with the stamps of Peru, whose
number now is almost legion, since they
have been surcharged by the Peruvians
and restamped by the Chilians, fold and
finally taken back into the Peruvian
again; with the stamps of the Shndwich
Islands, the first issues of which are
worth $500 each; or the double stamps
of Geneva and the classical stamps of
the Ionian Islands, with their Grecian
inscriptions. If we want strange in
scriptions £^y to decipher, we will find
pi ^ e to interest us in the stamps of the
ative States of Indill) China or For
mosa . jf we want colors that are pleas
• to the eye, we turn to the latter
- £sues j a p ail) Persia or Siam, but if
we ■ wan t to adorn our collections with
came0Sj we wou id always select the
stam p ‘; S Guatame’.a or Heliogoland.
Th st of Guatamela are very
SU gg ^ e 3 t;i ve> Guatamela is a republic in
Ce ral America like our own. The
bird in tJie center of the stamp) wh i c h
] 00 -£ S a £ p arro t; j s a quezal, which, £
nQ matter h w teaderly is cared fo
ia cap tivity, ’ never lives over three or
four if it cannot have iiberty
- t dies _ liberty ^restricted, or death
nootheraltemative) ths dcsiga there _
j- ore be for” j E g quite suggestive of a repub*
ljcarl of governrnent ° .-Mail and Ex
press.
Modern Mammies.
The result of a recent experiment seems
to warrant the conclusion that human
bodies can be preserved m a life-like
condition, without the use of cereclothes
and antiseptic drugs, merely by the ab
solute exclusion ot atmospheric air. A
quarter of a century ago the body of
Mrs. W. I Peters, of Frankfort, Indiana,
was buried in an air-tight lead, casket the of whole zinc
with an outer sheet of
enclosed Id a wooden coffin. Two weeks
ago the grave was opened for the pur
pose of transferring the coffin to the new
burial vault 0 / the family. When the
lid was removed from yellowish the glass tinge front
piece, only a slightly of
the skin distinguished the face of the
dead from that of a sleeper. Her fea
lures were smooth and round, and
lips, though somewhat discolored, were
neither sunken nor wrinkled. The use
of similar caskets might have saved the
Egyptian embalmers a good deal of
trouble. —Drake's Magazine.
S S13 [©] WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. MS
CURES Tastes good, Use
%Z Best Cough in Syrup. Sold by druggists.
M^oiaisigiflEahifiKi; time.
e
I believe Piso’s Cure
for Consumption H. Dowkll, saved
my life.—A.
Editor Ena uirer, Eden
ton, N. C., April 23,18S7.
PISO y
The best Cough Medi¬
A cine is Piso’s Cure for
V Consumption. Children
Si take it without objection.
By all druggists. 25c.
H Mr.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
. Uso
in time. Sold by drurrists.
C O N .S U M P T I ON
Dobbins’Electric Soap
THE BEST FAMILY SOAP
IN THE WORLD.—
ilisSMcilyte Mom in Quality.
otwHE original formula for which wc paid $30,000
J B l twenty changed years the ago slightest. has never Til been is modified is or
-B H in soap
identical In quality to-day with
43 mt made twenty years ago. in
VT contains nothing that can
1 jure the finest fabric. It bright¬
ens oo’ors and bleaches whites.
I T washes flannels and blankets as no other soap
in the world does—without shrinking—leaving
them soft and white and like new.
READ THIS TWICE
* xKtjaBmsea i!MB*rzri®rtauia mnmm
mi 1— nmmr>rmrr—1 hhkc
H J 3 KEK.E is a ffjwrfit feavimsr the fabric, of lime, where of labor, Dob¬
of soao, of fuel, and of
bins’ Electric Soap is used according; to direc¬
tions. It
ASE teial will demonstrate its great merit.
—' wili pay you to makeuhst trial.
J IKK all best thin®*, it is extensively imi
tuteU and counterfeited.
psware of Imitations,
* VVWVVWV w ^
TNSIST upon PobM r»«i* Electric. Don't take
** Magnet other tic, fr:iud, E!eclro-Mag’o. simply because Philadelphia it is cheap. Electric, They
or nnv
v.’ill ruin cblher-, and uve dear at any price. Ask fur
—<> 0-4 BOBBINS’ EIASirmM
and take no other. Necily every grocer from Maine
to Mexico keeps it in stock. If yours hasn’t he
will order from his nearest wholesale grocer.
T5 HAD carefully the inside wrapper around each
JH-k each bar, and be careful to You foiittW c*3*4*»ot <t£rc(PlS<iBn 5
on outside wrapper. reliable, ic
wait longer before trying for yourself this old,
and truly wonderful
Dobbins' 4 Electric 4 Soap.
Tie S tbuw Os,
Manufacturers of
PlMiivni
•1
O-'i ■: mill v'j'] m
THE STIRLING PIANOS,
waxen foe
Quality of Torse, Beauty of Design,
FIW3SH and adaptability for stand¬
ing in Tune have no equal.
Every Piano Warranted for Five Years
And satisfaction guaranteed to every purchaser.
Also Manufacture the World-Renowned
STERLING ORGAN
Factories, Derby, Conn.
1THAT FIGHT
The Original Wins.
Mr C. F. Simmons, St. Douis, Vrop’r
iJ M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, list’d
J - H. 1S40, in the U. S. Court defeats J.
f Regulator, Zeilin, Prop’r A. Q.Simmons Liv
er Est’d by Zeilin tS68.
i'i I I M. A. S. L. M. has for 47 years
cured Indigestion, Biliousness,
I e L Dyspepsia,Sick Headache,Lost
we I’ Appetite, Rev. T. Souk Stomach, Etc.
\ q alChurch, B. Reams, Pastor M. E.
^ O Jthink Adams, Tenn., writes: “1
I should have been dead but
Er & 4 j for your Liver Genuine .Medicine. M. A. I Sim- have
—— a mens
j /P|.JER0/~\\ I f I sometimes “Zeilin’s stuff” had for to substitute .Medi
I I^BilRTsI Crr*f but don’t your
c ‘ ne > it answer the
&P°LE purpose.” R. Graves,
Dr. J. Editor Tke
., Y — I Baptist, Memphis,Tenn. says:
received a package used of your Liver
'1 Medicine, It and have charm. half of ir.
♦ works like a I want no
« \ better Liver Regulator and cer
tainly no more of Zeii-u’s mixture.
(Bjaft Patent Pest-Sole
i Di6CE3 m ISWSPliHIEB.
,
»•
; Ltsht. Simple. Strong and Effective.
IrV i
t 7 1 tj
t nil If T . ho , cu
I j j soil, matter how sticky, with perfect
: *} kJt!' h orVailoiw-rdi^r^’^if \vithu‘ainari can^easffy dV 5 *" 'vo
jypk tV7 to4C0 ^£ holes et ft^^° per day. nglyntadawidwaf it is exceedingly
'
ran t v
G. PETERSEN S CO.,
MOLIKE, 17,1,.
NEW HOUSE! NEW GOODS!
NEW PRICES.
M. L. PARKER 9
HILTON 1 GEORGIA,
-DEALER IN
General Merchandise, Dry-Goods,
Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, &c.
lias just opened at the Hudson <0 Johnston corner a stock of fresh
goods which low prices and courteous treatment must sell.
Cash paid for Country Produce—Chickens, Butter, Eggs, &c.
C. SCHOMBURG
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER M
DEALER 1ST
DIAMONDS, FINE JEWELRY
WATCHES, CLOCKS a ad SILVERWARE,
Repairing Watches, Clocks and Jewelry a Specialty.
No. 1115 Broad St, Columbus, Ga.
HARRISON’S SHOE STOKE,
1132 BEGAD ST., COLUMBUS, GA
Everybody is invited to call and look at our stock of
BOOTS A 2 f» SHOCK*,
■ ' v ■ v»>
REGULAR “ALLIANCE” PRICES
ON EVERYTHING.
Hamilton Boggy Company •sm
X-I^MI3LTOTnT 3 OHIO, *
Manufacturers of Hamilton Grades of Vehicles.
BUGGEES.
EDITORIAL SPECIAL BUGGY OP ARTY STYLE VEHICLE.
SPECIAL FEATURES :
Proportion, Durability, Porfoction of Finish.
This “Mirror” finish work i3 the bejrfmedlum-priced work in the United States.
write, for catalogue. HAMILTON BUGGY CO.
*B * SENSIBLE LOW-COST HOUSES.-HOW
‘•^i&sN°wreadljr. SJO BUILD 1 THEM. hie contains plans, illustrations, and complete descriptions of 54*
Shows Beautiful, how and build Cheap iOOO Country Koiihch, costing from $800 to $ 7500 .
you can a $ k house for $ 1750 , and how make them
Kllliwmwi * iandwoino « convenient, healthy, liirht. cool, and airy in summer,
IP*- f. —4=JrUl_Lr;*“I 5 what warm and cheaply and heated in winter. Telia Intending builders of home*
- . mm 1 i ....... »a if ,—m U> all cUmatm. to do, NAT warns IONA them what not to do.- Describes houses adapted
1 er A KUIUTICUT’S UNION,
^ 1.00 by mail. J nr Chestnut Htrt-et, Philadelphia, Pa.
BEWARE? BE PRUDENT*
When the proprietors of a blood remedy tell you
that iodide of potash is a poison simply because
their opponents use it, their assertions are made to
deceive, and your use of 100 bottles of inert stuff
their object. Iodide of potash is as essential to a
true blood remedy, as pure blood is essential to good
health. No remedy has proven
QUICK CURE itse,f eradicator so safe,sure of and tgercujjal, quick
an
syphilitic, scrofulous, malarial or other poison, for
eign to health, that gets into bone and blood, when
all else fails as B. 15. 15 . Send to Illood balm Co.,
Atlanta, Ga., for illustrated “Book of Wonders,”
filled with convincing proof of QUICK CUKES of
seemingly incurable cases.
A. F. Britton, Jackson, Tenn., writes. “I con¬
tracted malaria in the swamps of Louisiana while
working for the telegraph company, and used every
kind of medicine I could hear of without relief. I at
last succeeded in breaking the fever
POISON but it cost me over $100.00, and and then
my system was prostrated satu¬
rated with poison and 1 became almost helpless. I
finally came here, my mouth so filled with sores
that 1 could scarcely eat, and my tongue raw and
filled with little knots. Various remedies were re¬
sorted to without effect. J bought two bottles of B.
B. B. and it has cured and strengthened me. All
sores of my mouth are healed and my tongue entire
ly clear of knots and soreness, and I feel like a new
man.”
R. R. Saulter, Athens, Ga., writes: “I have been
afflicted with Catarrh for many years, although all
sorts of medicines and several doctors did their best
to cure me. My blood was very impure, and noth
ing ever had any effect upon the
CATARRH disease until I used that great B. i
Blood Remedy known as B.
B., a few bottles of which effected an entire cure. I j
recommend it to all who have Catarrh. I refer to
any merchant or banker of Athens, Ga., and will [
reply to any inquiries.”
Eenj. Morris, Atlanta, Ga., writes : “I had no
appetite, my kidneys felt j
SORE TONSILS sore, my throat was ulcerat- of 1
ed and my breast a mass i
running sores. Seven bottles of B. B. B., entirely
cured me.” to
m ill
\
\ 'mmm
x \
\ /
P UR1F¥ YOUR
BLOOD.
Gut do not uso the dangerous alkalino
and mercurial preparations which destroy
your nervous system and ruin the digestive
power of tho stomach. The vegetable king¬
dom gives us the best and sates) remedial
agents. Dr, Sherman dsvoted tho greater^
part of his life to the discovery of this relia¬
ble and safe remedy, and all its ingredients
are vegetable. He gave ii the namo cf
Prickly Stefc Hitters!
a namo everyone can remember, and to tho
present day nothing has been discovered that
is LIVER, so beneficial for KIDNEYS the gLOOO, and fcr fcr the the
for the
STOMACH. This remedy is now so well
and favorably known by ali who have used
it that arguments as to its merits are use¬
less, and if others who require a correct¬
ive to the system would but give it a trial
the health of this country would bo vastly
improved. Remember the name—PRICKLY
ASH BITTERS. Ask your druggist for it.
PRICKLY ASH SITTERS S3,, '
ST. LOUIS, MOf
tflTo Htwlat.Hachinp establish
at once
a \§LW trade in all parts, by
* ^JJEEand placing goods our machines people
where the can sea
-Superson them, we will send free toon*
rHH i» T 9 best in each locality,the made very in
the sewing-machine
► I Wc world, with all the attachment*. complete
m will also send free a
■ line of oar costly and valuable ait
& samples. In return we ask that you
fshow what we send, to those who
'Lmonths L may call at your home, and after *
a all shall become your own
Hpropertr. This fraud machine t*
IT \_Nifmaflc which after have the Singer out: before patent*, patent*
CBurl run *****
m run out it sold for
« J Attachments, and now self* for
• Best, strongest, most u*«
Lt- * *' So neg 9 mar-bine So capital in the required. world. AMi*
n m «e
s etion* given. Those who write to us at once can
th«* best e^wing-machine in the world, and the
. .f art ever shewn together in Am ypcw.
i <tt t A VO., Mo* ^40, Acctutu, Maiw*
CARRIAGES.