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THE HARBOR OF DREAMS,
Only a whispering gale
Flutters the wings of the boat;
Only a bird in the vale
Lends to the silence a note
Mellow, subdued, and remote;
This is the twilight of peace,
This is the hour of release.
Free of all worry and fret.
Clean of all care and regret,
When like a bird in its nest
Fancy lies folded to rest.
This is the margin of sleep;
Here let the anchor be cast j
Here in forgetfulness deep,
Now that the journey is past,
Lower the sails from the mast.
Here is the bay of content,
Heaven and earth interblent;
Here is the haven that lies
Close to the gates of surprise;
Here all like Paradise seems—
Here is the harbor of dreams.
—Frank D. Sherman, in the Century.
IN A TIGHT PLACE.
INTERVIEW with a man-eating tiger.
While at Katamand, in the Nepal dis¬
trict of India, with Captain White, the
American tiger and serpent destroyer, a
delegation came m from a village called
Aliwar, thirty miles away, to get some
of the English officers to go out and de¬
stroy a man-eater who had rendered
himself a terror to a large district. Hear¬
ing of the presence of the American.they
came to him instead. The Government
bounty on the head of a man-eater at
that time was §60. The villagers offered
to make up sixty additional, and to give
the Captain a cow and four goats. In
ten minutes he had closed a bargain, and
on the afternoon of the second day we
reached Aliwar. It was situated on the
Scindwala River, which is one of the
tributaries of the Ganges, aud within
fifteen miles of the foothills of the
Himalaya Mountains. The countrv was
badly broken and covered with heavy
forestand jungle, and the Captain pro-
nounced it the finest tiger range in India.
The habitants,' village contained about 700 in-
and had considerable com-
merce with points lower down on the
stream. It was on the bank of the
river strung out for half a
mile, and the cleared space thus
occupied was not more than a
quarter of a mile wide. A day’s work
on the part of the villagers would have
been sufficient to clear away the cover
under which the tiger approached, but
not a move was made. The beast had
appeared about four weeks previous, and
the first intimation of his presence cost a
woman her life. She was cooking at a
fire on the north side of the village, not
over ten feet from the door at which her
husband and three children sat. when a
tiger, who had come out of a ravine and
...L kept the cover of some bushes, sprang r
upon , her. m. 1 his . was just at . sundown. j mu The
spring of xu„ the tiger _ knocked ,,__, . the woman
into the fire. Ilc it„ seized j i her i by xu the foot e x
and drew her out and although hold”of her
clothing was on fire, he took her
shoulder, gave her body a twist to throw
the weight on his back, iu and was off at a
run. mu The woman _ must have u been , killed ,
bj the blow oi his paw as hc sprung, as
she made no crv.
ln t„ xu„ the four weeks i which i • i i had i elapsed t i
since xu the man-eater x appeared , he , , had j* cai-
l t
. , a peope, . , , ..
rut o seiicn an oi a ongi is-
tnnceof ten miles around the people were
in J great 3 terror. 1 here were half a dozen
old , muskets , . owned , . Aliwar, ... and , these .,
in
,,, had been , loaded and ij discharged u 3 at ,^u the
ravine at .... high noon in . hopes . z to scare xu the
& 1
tiger away Two nights • , x previous - to x our
arrival the tiger had entered a hut through
an open window, seized a boy ten years
of age, and made lus exit by the door.
The cnes of the boy awoke every one in
the village and could be heard a long
way up the ravine. Hc had not come the
night before but was expected to shrnv
up on his the nigh of our arrival We
reached the place about two hours before
sundown and as soon as the Captain got
the lay of the land he made his plans.
Two huts on the northern edge of the
village were abandoned to us The Cap-
tam and one of his men took one, and a
second native and myself occupied the
other. All had guns, and the plan was to
watch for the tiger and pot him. The ---
hut I occupied belonged to a storage
merchant. It was a solid building, made
of small logs and a heavy thatch roof.
The ground floor, which was the only
one, occupied a space of about 16x24
feet. It had one door and two windows,
The door and one window were in front
and the other window at the rear. Six-
teen feet from the door a bamboo parti¬
tion ran across the room. In this rear
room goods belonging to various parties
were stowed at a fixed charge, while the
family occupied the front room a* a living
room. The door in the partition slid up
and down in grooves.
When we began our watch we fastened
the door securely. The window beside it
was an opening about two feet square,pro¬
tected only by a cloth curtain. The one
at the rear had a woolen blind, and this
was fastened on the outside.
It was a hot and sultry night, and we
had a jar of water and brandy in the
Storeroom. 3Ehc front window com-
manded R good view of the country over
which the tiger was hours'I expected to ap-
preach, and for two peered and
listened and waited, but without re-
ward. The native was stretched out on
the floor and sound asleep. Weary with
standing on my feet, and my throat very
dry for the want of moisture, I quietly
aroused my companion amt told him to
watch while I refreshed myself. I was
boniud the partition drinking from the
jar when the native uttered a low cry of
alarm and bounded in upon me and shut
down the door. I had the jar yet in my
hands when a heavy body dropped to the
floor and I heard the snarl and saw the
form of a tiger in the hut. This was
what had happened: The tiger had ap¬
proached the house from the opposite
direction, and creeping softly around
had sprung for the opening and into the
native’s face. In his alarm the man had
started back and dropped his gun. while
mine was leaning against the door, how¬
ever, aud that saved us. There w T e were,
face to face with a full grown man-eater,
with only a bamboo partition between us
and his fangs, and I am frank to say that
for a moment I was completely done for.
The native flung himself down on his
face without a word, and I knew that
neither suggestions nor aid could be ex¬
pected from him.
. It was a starlight night, but the small
opening in the wall of the hut made the
room pretty dark. I could just make
out the outlines of the tiger as he moved
to and fro, while his eyes were like two
small lanterns. There was no floor in
the hut, the ground being beaten hard
instead, but I could feel a sort of jar as
the tiger moved about. He made a thor¬
ough inspection of everything in the
front room, and then turned his atten¬
tion to me. My revolver was in my bag¬
gage, and so I w r as entirely destitute of
weapons. I had seen the native wearing
a long knife during the day, and I called
to him to know if he had it with him.
He was crying with fear, and would not
answer me. I went over to him and
found the knife in a sheath at his belt,
and when I had it in my hand my cour¬
age came back in a moment. About that
time the tiger had discovered that the
only victims in the cabin were behind
the partition, and he sounded against it
nght . , , opposite ., me with a force that made
*> hirasel ^
W0 ul<1 ^ knocke d xt / lown u / short
ord 1 f r L b “ t 1 -Tf., l m $ e ! fere ’ T 1
backed l him with the knife and from the
^ had C f b,m IIe rr WlthdreW kn f to w the + ? at f ar 1
’
«nd of the room, growling menacingly
“p fa a™ U ° ^ b
which the knife had drawn,
The ^ eaera situation was far from
Peasant. , By knocking on the rear shut-
ter and ca ling out I could make Captain
White understand how matters were but
°“ secon f tho "? h \} felt th ^ lfc would be
? hlS nsk ' Th(i out at
the °f T? ^ lnoineQ t, and , if , he en-
countered any one outside a tragedy was
? bring e ? tain about \ To^ the alarm same the thing. vffiage Even was if to I
could get out of the rear window by
fo f^ open the shutter the tiger had
° nly [° 8° ‘ )Ut ° the other at tb ?
»me time to pick me up. I felt that I
^ P retty fair matcb f ° r lum ™ tb \ he
knife in my hand , and, hoping that he
would give up and leap out of the wm-
dow after receiving ° another cut, ’ I de-
cided , to . wait. .. _ I could ,, just . , make ,. him
J
out . , , lay the ^ floor near the door, ,
as ae f on ’
, * T staQ ding .. close , to . the ., partition ....
anf was
wbenbe suddenly uttered a roar of anger
aud ch,lr - eC ’ IIe f truck tbe door
with a great smash, and his right fore-
paw struck at me througn one of
he <*«■«*•• . T 1 u h f i ked j “ x 11 -x a " d n
cut the , k
“ n ‘ ", “'"L ln ».'
brae he seat up such , a dreadful
roar of - pain . and / rage xu that x 1 half ir xu the
1
village was aroused i u by xt the noise, • m lie
drcw back and ran along JS the partition,
l ,,„ bl J h ^^x- ; t0 „ weak spot 1
and xxu three several tunes i he reared -i up on
, his u hind . w legs, , „ seized - j xu the i bamooos ; in u- his
teeth, . and i shook u. i xu them _ as vou i have seen
’ ,*
dog , worry at , a root , when digging at .
a ^ J Sen
tfae of ome wild animal . he
bouuded toward ^ x ho front and s0ll!?ht to
J t of the wi ow but ^tuck'ia the
qUy j snarling and growling, and
/ dropped ^ back. He tried this
thre ti me ud then gave up. As we
aftmd discovered> th ere w as a huge
9liyer on the j at the t0 of the open .
. * This J pointed inward. As the
fa crowd hU bulk into the opening
he £ d this sliver up a ^ inst the log.
w a he undertook to out the s i iver
diminighed the size o{ the openiog and
stuck in his back n ke a dagger. The
r r he raade alarmed Captain White,
and he called out to know what w as the
matter.
“The tiger „ toe front , room aud ,
is in
cant get out. I answered
“Mhy dsn t jou snoot him.
‘7, he g^s are in the room with him.
W hen \ had fairly explained the situa-
. , advised that I be on my guard
antl r f ad y to use the aa<1 that jt
wouid Dot f fc make a “- v uew move
until we had daylight to aid us. I did
not know at that time that the tiger
could out where , he . I
not Sf came in, or
could kave forced the rear shutters and
f 3Ca P ed lrom tnt ‘ “ ut ‘ The beast slunk
into a aml la * the «; for a time,
" himn S and ? rowlm ^ T hen tned
tke a ? ain » and ‘ when he f ound
ums d f a prisoner, he sat up on end a and
howled , without fear. I believe I could
have then driveu him about with a
stick.
As the tiger lost his ferocity the na-
tive with me regained his courage, and
by and by he got up and found a heavy
stick among the bales of goods and
stood ready to assist me in beating off any
new attack. While the entire village
was awake, no one moved out of his
house, and all waited for the coming of
daylight. At intervals of fifteeu minutes
Captain White sang out to us to know if
we were all right, and about an hour be-
fore daylight he warned me that the
beast would no doubt fly into a fury with
the first signs of day. From mid-
bight to 2 o’clock the tiger was
not quiet over five minutes at a
time. He would sit and snarl and
whine and lick his wounded paws for a
time, and then go circling around the
room and growling in a way to make me
shiver. As he passed along the partition,
rubbing his head against it, his eyes had
a glint in them which haunted me for
months afterward.
Upon the approach of daybreak the
man-eater began to grow more restless.
It was time for him to be off to his lair,
but he was a prisoner. Just as the first
faint light came he tried the window
again, and his efforts to get out were so
determined that I thought he would suc¬
ceed. When he finally drew back he
was ripe for mischief. We could make
him out plainly now, and as he dropped
back to the fioor the native gasped out:
“By my life, Sahib, he is the largest
tiger in all India.”
I thought so, too, and subsequent
measurements astonished everybody. In
most cases the man-eater is an old beast,
with most of his teeth gone. This tiger
was full grown, not over five years old,
and every tooth was perfect. When he
dropped to the floor he spit like a mad
cat, wheeled with a snarl, and at his
second jump he struck the partition like
a battering ram. He not only struck it,
but he stood on his hind legs and pulled
and shook, and it must have gone down
had we not attacked him. The native
dealt one of his paws a terrific blow
with the stick, and I cut half way
through the other witlf a blow of the
knife. The beast let go and fell back.
It was now broad day, and we could see
him plainly. A photograph of his head
and face wculd make a woman shiver.
He backed off, laid his ears flat to his
head, showed every tooth, and his eyes
wandered up and down the partition
looking for a weak spot I expected
a rush, but he was not quite ready.
He made three circles of the room, and
then, springing like a flash, he fastened
to the bamboos again. If we had not
been ready the partition could not have
held him more than a minute. He used
teeth and claws, and the whole hut was
shaken with his exertions. I got in a
savage cut on his hind leg, and stabbed
him in the shoulder, and the native hit
him an awful whack on the nose. When
he let go this time he was done for. He
retreated to a corner and howled and
whined like a puppy, and Captain White
now called out to know the situation. I
explained that the tiger could not get
out, as I could now see the sliver which
obstructed, and he opened the rear shut¬
ter and passed me in a rifle. When I
took aim at the tiger’s head he was
moaning and shivering and whimpering,
and I almost felt ashamed to shoot him.
Not knowing whether the dead man-
eater had a mate or not we scoured the
jungles for his lair, and found it in the
ravine not more than half a mile away.
He had not devoured any of his victims
at the spot where he rested, but all had
been eaten within a radius of a few rods.
From what we could discover it was con¬
cluded that he was a “solitary,” and as
the village suffered no more, this must
have been the case. In removing the
skin we found a spot on the shoulder
where the beast had been severely cut
with a knife. The slash was fully four
inches long and quite deep, and the hair
had not grown out to cover scar. Ninety-
nine chances out of a hundred the native
who had inflicted the cut had been eaten,
—New York Sun.
Curing Bow Leg?.
Mrs. Bassett had twins, three-vear-old
boys, who were bow legged. She con¬
sulted a doctor and asked if she must put
their legs in irons.
“Irons!” shouted the doctor. “Fid¬
dlesticks! Take off their shoes and
stockings. Their muscles have probably
been cramped aud weakened already and
irons will only increase the trouble. Oil
with their shoes.”
Another suggestion of the doctor was
to let the boys w r alk up hill, and w r hen
they could not be out of doors, to have
an inclined plane arranged in the house
for them to practice on. In the effort to
walk up a steep incline one naturally
throws the feet outward. After some
months’ treatment of this sort the boys’
legs straightened and their muscles grew
strong. It was learned by the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil¬
dren that a baby girl just beginning to
walk was toddling around in her little
bare feet, aud a committee visited the
mother.
“But does your baby actually go bare¬
foot, too?” asked one of the visitors.
“Yes. She has never worn a shoe in
her life. When she goes out for an air¬
ing she wears warm woolen socks, for
until she can walk she cannot, of course,
take sufficient exercise to keep her feet
warm. But in the house she is as bare¬
footed as the boys. She is just begin¬
ning to get on her feet, and her little bare
toes are almost as useful to her as fingers.
The\ r have saved her many a fall.
One of the members of the committee
was the wife of a shoe dealer; she sat
aghast. “But do you never intend to
have your children wear shoes?” she
asked.
“Oh, yes, when J feel quite sure that
the muscles of their feet and ankles are
strong enough to endure them, but the
moment they begin to indulge in that
hateful abomination of toeingiu, off they
come again until the difficulty is reme¬
died.”
The society decided not to interfere,
and the campaign against bow legged
ness continues.— Home Maker.
The man who never smiles is a centn
of gravity.— Jlochester PoU-Krprcst.
BREAKING SAVAGE BRUTES
FORCE, BUT NOT CRUELTY. NECES¬
SARY TO THEIR SUBJECTION.
Patience, a Cool Head and Quick Per¬
ception Required—Mastering an
Elephant by “Quartering,” Him.
“Every animal, unless deficient in
some cf its organs, is capable of being
trained to a greater or less degree,” said
Hermann Reiche, head of the firm of ani¬
mal importers. “Of course, ->n ele¬
phant could not be taught to fly, nor a
fish to jump rope out of water, simply
because they are not built that way. The
essential traits in a trainer are patience,
cool head and a quick perception. lie
must be ever ready to detect and coun¬
teract any fault in his pupil, and to tn-
courage it by proper means to do as he
desires. Oftentimes the least show of
impatience will undo , ,, the work , of , days ,
or even months. The only true way of
breaking or training a savage animal, or,
indeed, any animal for that matter is by
force This does not exclude kindness
nor does it admit of cruelty. Only such
as are ignorant of the true methods of
training apply uncalled for and unneces-
sary cruelty. It is necessary as a rule,
even among our domestic animals to
thoroughly subdue them and prove the
superiority of man over their species be-
fore proceeding to train them. When
once fully and properly subjected, the
pupil becomes tractable, and the trainer
need fear no rebellion or attack whi e
giving lessons, for it is at that tune that
both the minds of pupil and teacher
should be centered wholly in the study
to be mastered.
“Fetter any animal, so as to render it
powerless, and forever after it will ac¬
knowledge you its master. If you throw
a noose over the head of a lion atld draw
him up to the bars of the cage, and fas¬
ten him with ropes and chains so that he
is quite harmless, enter the cage, ap¬
proach him fearlessly, caress him until
he ceases to struggle or show any resist¬
ance, and he will be so thoroughly im¬
pressed by your power that even after
his release he will cringe before you like
a whipped cur.”
“Is it true that the human eye has any
power to subdue the large cat animals?”
queried the reporter. for
Mr. Reiche laughed quietly a mo-
ment and said: “Well, I don't take a
great deal of stock in that old fable. I
have seen a good many lions,some pretty
wild ones, too. but there wasp t one
among them all that wouldn’t have
snatched your powerful, subduing eye
right out of your head, and probably
have taken half your head with it, if yni
had stared at him from a point within
reach of his claws. No; that’s an cx-
ploded idea, but there are some people
who actually believe in it, nevertheless.
Whenever I have to stare at a lion or a
tiger, I want plenty of room and a stout
club. The latter has far more subduing
power than the human eye.”
4 (. How about elephants? It is gener-
ally believed that these great brutes are
mastered solely by kindness.
“No; they are mastered as all other
animals are, by force. lake any eie-
phant, no matter how wicked and vicious
he may be; shackle him fore and aft by
means of heavy straps or chains; fasten
his hind feet to a stake or to a stone wall;
then apply a block and fall to his fore-
legs until the animal is brought to his
knees. It kept m this position a few
mmmes he will generally roll on ms side
If he does not do so he must be rolled
over by force A short tune m this po-
sirion wul suffice to conquer him. Should
he, however show signs o mper on
being released, a second dose, with a ju-
dicious application of moral suasion m
the shape of rawhide and steel hook will
make him as gentle as a lamb. So great
is an elephants tear of bein g ‘quartered,
as tins process is called tha for years
after ff has been applied he will lie down
of his own accord as ropes are attached
to his feet, or he is m any way reminded
of his former iesson
The same treatment will work equally
well with a vicious horse, or even that
wildest of all auimals, a zebra. When
propeny cast, or thrown, either of them
wiU become pwfeetly gentle and will
submit quietly to further handling. The
quickest and safest ivay to cast or throw
is to tie up the near fare foot, either by
applying a strap around the pastern,
drawing the foot up aad making fast at
the surcingle, or by drawing thc foot
up under the elbow and making fast to
the arm by a turn of the strap. A long
rope, having been previously attach id to
the halter, is passed through a ring on the
off side of the surcingle, brought forward,
and held by the man standing in front
rf the animal. A steady pull on this
rope will draw the horse's head around !
to the off side and throw his body out of
balance. This wi*d cause him to hop to
one side, but his fettered and cramped
condition will soon bring him down to j
his left knee, and from there, if the j
strain on the halter rope is continued,
down on his near side. To insure the
horse's permanent submission it may be
necessary to repeat the casting several j
times until the animal allows himself to i
be handled all over while down, and
even when released.”
“Have you ever trained an v horses
* I
vourself, Mr. Reiche!”
“Oh, yes; and zebras, too. In 1885 I :
trained a four-year-old zebra that was so
vicious that he could no be touched by
any one. I trained him in six lessons of
about an hour each, and when I was
through with him he would follow me all
over, lie down at the word of command,
and go in harness as gently and kindly as
e pet pony.” ;
“The breaking oi' animals is still J
aoeording to the rules laid down
turies ago, although of late years rapirj] mard
progress has been made in the
with which the result is obtained, a
sidered instance, quite whereas satisfactory it was formerly to perfect! e]
saddle horse in a year or even two y e J
a good horse can now be educated ia 1 1
than sis months./’ —New York Sin.
Pineapple Jmce for Diphtheria,
Medical science has long sought f 0l
sovereign remedy for the scourge
childhood, diphtheria, yet the colo:
people of Louisiana, and perhaps
other localities in the South, have |
years known and used a cure which is,
markable for its simplicity. It is aothii pj
more nor less than the juice of the
apple. remedy is not mine,” J
“The said a
tlernau when interviewed; “it has A iJ
used ,. / es in the sw children!
gouth Qr . One of my J
down with diphth eria, and was in a J
ica , condition . An oid colored ma J
h( , ard of the cage asked if we had
^ pineapple * juice . We tried it and J
ld * welL j have known it tri frij
hund dg of cases . I have told my ]
about it whenever i heard of a case
never knew it t0 fail. You get a I
^ ineapple > squeez e out the juice, and] \
Qt gwallow it . Xhe juice cut]
go corrosive a nature that it will
di | htheric mU cus, and if vouwillJ 7
j th ? fruit before it is ripe and „ iv(
: u j ce to a perS on whose throat is wel
makes t he mucous membranes of
I throat sore, Among those who 1
i tried the cure on my recommendatij
may mention Francis J. Kennett,
Board of Trade man, whose child
were all down with diphtheria andw
cured by this remedy.”
Mr. Kennett confirmed this statemt
— Chicago Tribune.
Woes of an Undertaker.
“I have a friend in Pittsburg wi
an undertaker,” said the Gen
j come diau, Gus' Williams, “and he:
me j ic j s utterly miserable and t
he W ould never have entered thebusia
had he known what to expect, WW
last saw him I asked him how busii
was. I always ask any man that. ]
sa j d b was pretty fair and picking!
The Coroner, he said, had advised J
j buy out his partner and he would
} lim ad of tbe coun ty burials. business] When'
d j d g,^ con trol of the whole
Coroner came around and wanted a ‘j a
cen tage on all bodies he buried at
county’s expense. Of course he had,
gj ve U p. But what worries him mod
his position socially. He says if he I
a friend whose wife is sick he can’ll
him how she is getting along, for it
does hls friend wiU think he 1S i ook
after trade. His brother is a cigar dei
aud caa drum up customers legitimat
__ tha t is, he can go to a man and I
Him he can sell him a cheaper and bet
cigar than any one else. The undertaj
say3 he can't approach a man uiftl a°
to bury him cheaper and better than!
one else, so there he is. Doyoukno*
never happened to look at an until
j taker’s business in that way?”— Chit
j Herald.
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Goldfish Have Fun With the Turt
Fighes are not ordinariJ sd
be gifted with any great amount of
telli bllt ^incident which,
| | curred in a Washington * home a few d
£ g that fche ha ve a keen se
of h mor aad are fond of J actical \ j
. 0 ne of the S omeR o{ J
: house in question has for pets a
mud turtIe and 8everaI goldfishes. 1
turtltt is frcqueil tly placed in the ri
with the T he other day J he I
: floati ou thc surfacc of he wa
asl ‘ and with his four , \ out .
Th e a'trick ldfigh saw ia thig chatice
k on Mr. Turtle, and, d
tti » their heads together > a j |
minut the divide(] in four gro
and, seizing & h,s feet in their moat
d d h to the bottom of the tal
VV hen awakened _ A bv , , his . sudden ,, imin . „
„„„ hc had c0n5iderable Jifficult(
shaki Mmse lf free from his torment.
Tierc CMnot the hte8t doub , „
=
, he fisbes bad mmc m(J3 s of commual( A
ing their ideas to each other, for it
plain to those who observed the incida
that the trick was the result of preccl j
certed action. — Washington Critic.
Pussy and the Porker.
^ Dorado Springs (Mo.)
s P 01K| cnt tells of a singular
between a Berkshire pig and a
Doth animals fed lrom the same
eacn aac | appeared other. During to take delight the winter, in
*he kitten’s feet got cold, kitty WO!
bunt l°ud up piggy, now and then giving
meow, upon hearing which
P or ber would answer with a
gT UQ t. Pussy, in finding its
wou ^d take the nearest route for thc
back, generally climbing up its
snout -_
During cold nights kitty slept on
P*S s back, and in the morning
found in the same convenient place
L ° *be barn, about a furlong
w ^ere amusing puss caught sight mice. to It piggy was, wadij indefij
an see
through deep snow with the cat col M
turne d in) on its back, evidently as
*°riable as a Queen in her carriage af
f° ur - Globe-Democrat.
of The reducing idea has cows’ originated milk in Switzerlsj powrij
to a dry
as being better for transportation f*
superior to condensed milk.