Newspaper Page Text
Ifofp .Voiiwlf.
S . • M :»*
Ml ;hat’s go.s.l, r,»rst r i•' h t\ ^siin.
'••r! what th-' |'M. i:i ’ a.'.■"•Mils
Hr:i•» * in rt’ftch »»f hau l aiul brniuj
Ho that, with a jnirp. luvblu.
\ ■ i way hold . f- >r • 't!i*■ r's - l.
That wltii h ht'.ljtaM jm.-r t»r*i«• r .
Who may ^faud ivhur*' you jiayt'.mood.
U*'!p yourself, I'ui j • ' !• honon
That .’I’d i'.\ r fairU w on
V’Hher join th ' T ni'y -
\Vhen t‘h i--S i. l.' -t .Ion *
* ; t it.vli,-;t\ r , 'T > lift GilTTV
>;.tt . !r<> n th* v th-IH *T
/‘-it tr. tlUT t.
It It.''
t. , • ;> 1 11T’.-t*.! f, 1 'nt ni.{ bj* t ST
he>\vii s'ltnf •strUjpr^hn huuI.
Who luvr ihT ymr strvuujth > ’ |»r*'s-ti^a t
Ihittiiui; fur a • l-ft»r y > >1.
<• i. arul ir.ru, v\ill honor
Kv'ry ai l to virtur CIV i'll :
ITwp y.'in’Hflf 1 1 \■ It**:; otlrn-s,
Earning tin “AN‘« II dolin' tn»ni hoavt'n.
‘Harry AiMor.s in iialtlnvoro Amorionn.
. THE BOER’S REVENGE.
There were four of us in camp—
my two chums, Charlie and .fad; As
quith, just fresh from the University
of Oiford, and myself. We were on
a shooting expedition, anil old Dan
Solomons,the fourth of our party-,had
.undertaken to not as our guide, philog
opher and friend and to show us where
tho best game could tie bagged. After
an excessively hot. day we had out
spa'uiied for Ihn night on the batiks of
the Utntali river, in Maslion ilaml.
We loved to hear old Dau yarn,aud,
what is more, we knew he always
spoke the truth.
“There’s only ono Kaffir that ever
I had anv feeling of resjiact for," re
marked Dan, and tic died 1 years
ago. But, there," he said doprecat
ingly, “I cau’t expeot you geutlemen
to feel the slightest possible interest in
a Kaffir.”
We soon disabused It is mind on that
seo re.
.“I was trying to recollect,” he re¬
sumed, “whoro it was I. first met Top.
knot, as we used to call him on «e
count of tlm thingamy ho wore on his
head, in MutabelelauJ somewhere. The
Matubele had rnidnl the kraal where
the poor chap had lived, and cleared
off evory man, woman and child they
came across. .Topknot only escaped
to tell the story. My partner, Jau
fcitoffel, and I had outsjianned on the
road with a wugonload of goods—I
y. a» jjt trade! 1II I b,j uy* Si i jnroo
or four Doys, when sudderiily a naked
Kaffir cume rushing into /the camp,
half-dead with fright, aud Jell down at
lily feet. 1 managed to make out
from what he said that he was flying
for his life before the dreaded Mata
bel‘. He begged for in v protection
and promised to be my slave forever.
Moreover, he s ti 1 he could sltow me
a oortftln stream where goi.l pellets,
such as the white m a loved, were
found in great abiiud tip-,t. My part
' net a typical Boat, prieito 1 op his
ears at this mi i iu .■ 1, in-more tor
wha*. we wvr. likely In ■ en by it than
iinvtliing ulstiv I fancy—to do tv hat 1
could for tip*'boy, w lip was really in a
terrible state. Then f remembered a
half- iii|.ity p icking cas.- w.hi -h wo had.
In less lime titan it takes to tell the
goods were emptied out- anil the Kaffir
told to jump in.”
“And did be?” queried Charlie,with
ia/.y curiosity.
“Didn’t he!” exclaimed Dun, with
ernphii-i'. “How fie managed to stow
himself away so comfortably fairly
puzzle I me, but he did.' We piled
goods of all kinds over him and had
scarcely finished doing so when one of
my boys paina running up to say that
the M itahele were coining. . 1 ^gized
mv gnn and jlret.cnded to bo tmsily en¬
gaged in cleaning it; dan Sfoffel did
the Name. 1’liCre wnre half adoZMi
voting Matubele together, As I could
sec by .lliti light of tin- moon, they
were iu full war rig and looked mis*
cbiovoos snd it Would go hard with
poor Topknot, I thought, it lie fell
into then clutches. They said they
were in search of-a runaway dog ot a
Mashona and had traced Ins spoor to
our camp. ‘Had I seen, hitn?' one
brayo asked with a swagger, 1 said
tho runaway had been there, hut hail
passed down the road and had crossed
tho river, At last our blood-thirsty
visitors took tliemsol vos off—aud wo
weren’t sorry to see tilts last of the
"mack.” .
•'tVliiit became of a hat' -hi.-name?”
ssked Jack.
“Meaning /Topknot?” asked Dan.
"Well for two whole days 1)0 Jjy ij j,|
tu that packin': ease. tdld W had sonre
ddfie.uf-tv * in gotAhig., hini to oomo
'
out.” '
“After H i’ , jo oiveil'ed 1) m, leis
urely, pull..'matins pipe, 1 opkn ot
settled.Alowti, and the tarthei we got
a'wav from M mbelelimd the livelier
he became. Ills devotion to mv.self
, X! ' ' nlluar V - in f “T JttU
-
.....along of d.
I bin )viii54t*fi ;v hiotaent. a ml 1 in
( J ’’ " ' " •' '' ! ' U0 ‘ h,,a K, “’ w "
h; i the river w 10 th.e gold came
(t Ota, ‘ '
* Wt li, »U1S\> i Dim, with a smile,
“he pi>mii d on' t lie river sure enough,
but .we vo i much as a grain
of gold is is bed. A year or two
after till " s somothing like a.
t nnmc ,auil trade with tlie
K vfUi A. iisi at a Standstill. .1 an
.
Stop t the best of times a
swee’ mail, -becumo brutish
and i in consequence. There
w as a witless between us.
One i -eturned from shooting to .
hod 1 ifYol hn l tied Topknot to
tho • >d was thrashing him un
mcr with a sj unhok. Topknot
j 00 j ( me appealingly. ‘W hat’s
bn dun?’ I asked, quietly.
>y; ( . iiarled Jan. ‘Then why
q,,, ?’ I asked, ‘Because it
pie to do so,’ ho returned.
‘W i, I think the poor chap’s
b(l gb, considering lie’s done
no 'ling > deserve such punishment 1
tSiipposi you drop that sjambok,’ ‘I’d
si jo you hanged lirst,’ said he, ‘and if
Villi irdyrfero with mo I’ll thrash
you!’ !As he said this he raised the
whip , vlth T<)| jjj m)t -' d id ood and
madfl H „ ,( bo would strike me. 1
l(e ijj ed the follow liy the waist and.lift
mg him bodily up, sent him crashing
among tho pots aud pans inside the
wagon, When he pulled himself to¬
gether ho was simply livid with rage,
aud ho swore (ms only a lloer can
swear) that ho would bo oven with me
some day or other. 1 snid nothing,
but cut tho thongs that bound Top
knot to the wheel.
“For three months after that ray
Boer pnrtuer never spoke to me unless
through sheer necessity. For my
purt.l instictively avoided him.
“Well, matters came to a head at last,
; At the end of that year our partnership
was to bo dissolved under the terms
of our agreement, and wo would theu
go our several ways. The end was
but n week uff.iyU‘1 iino .1 I rinneui
ber it was Christinas eve —-I found my¬
self quite alono in Caiup. Btoff. l and
ttie boys were out seeking our Christ¬
mas dinner. / looked nt the sky and
saw tho black clou Is gathering for a
i storm. Then 1 lighted my pipe and
planted my hack against a wagon
1 wheel to have a good think. I suppose
1 must have fallen asleep. At any rate
I hud a most peciiliar dream, a dream
which hauiHs me to this day.
i “1 dreamt th.it f-was Jonafi,the ehat>
1
whir’s mentioned -in the Bible, vou
know. I thon-'ht 1 »t<b.d on tin deeic
■
of a ship. With the spray of an angry
sea beating upon me. 1 thought the
sailorsT all looked tlireatiiniugiy upon
iim, and the , rem irkahlc fact about
this dr. u'ui was that the fact' of every
man Jack on board was the face of ray
pnrtuer S: 11 ff'i.T! Tlie.n I imagined
1 that 1 heard the sailors cry. ‘Wo
j will endure it no longer! Cast the
{ evildoer into the' sea!’ Aud with a
loud cry they lilted mo on high and
cast me with all their might into the
raging sea. 1 felt, the cold waves
about me, nnd ns I rose to tho surface
a great sea minister floated toward me.
Then, us it, gripped me byIthe waist,
I shrieked •aloud in ray agony and
awoke, to Utid mv • H-saturated with
rain and Stoffol, mv partuor, standiug
over mo with a devilish leer upon his
face.
“I tried to rise, but I could not
tiiove. A. leathern rein hal been
passed twice around my body, and 1
wus securely lashed to the wagon
wheel.- For n moment I could not
grasp the situation. Then I remem¬
bered bow Htoffel had »w irn to be rev
vonged upon me. The heavens were
lurid, and tho '■nin was descending in
torrents. I tried, to move in vain.
Then I said: ‘Stoffol, what is the
meaning of this!’ ‘It mean",' he re
plied, with peculiar huskiness in his
voice, ‘that your time has come. I
g wore to bo revenged upon you, and I
will keep mv word. Your boys arc
dr.iwtued in tins slnioo yonder, and if
you shout your lutidest you will never
be heard save by me. You shad see
what good mark
With that he - went v,
took a loaded rifle—mini
hung there: I was too ast, tu to
speak. 1 found mvself ivi tering
w , mt lu , wouU , do n „ xt . ‘I g ' yon
two iniaittes, ’ he said, ‘to m d ’ vour
pence nb . .v bvon Lngllv. 'fen, T I
, have . hopes ot eyhr after.
suppose, au co|uld
“I tried to speak, lint act,”
eimtiuned old D ili, “and fhilse two
nuniites Nt'i*m «I . like , . an t’tevftitv. . u, m. ibe
lightning flashed in the far distance
aha t , ,, tho nun 1.11 , ,, in. sheets. . . I , kit, m- .
deed, that my last. . Initr • find come.
‘Now,’ said Stoffol, at leugin, ‘you'd
see how straight a lloer cun shoot at
5 1 'puces.’ So.saving', he turned his
buck upon mi. and stm lo iway from
mo full 51) paces. Then, h i turned
round and, raising his. r 1 1J seciuud
to mo to point it deliberately nt my
heart. I'hcro was a loud crash, and.I
felt a sharp pain in my shoulder;
StotVel stepped Vnidt aud |nico Again
pointed his Weapon at report me.' As he did
so, however, the sharp of a rifle
ou , t jud L behl!li , s-,,^ }h ,. ow
4 his arms ’ and fall with i. sickening
thnd faco forWftrd , to the earth. Tho
next moment my Mashotia ‘boy,’ Top
knot, had out the rein which bound
me to the wheel and set mo free.
Gentlemen,” added the old hunter,“I
blessed Die day when first I taught
that Kufiir the way to haijd‘<- a rifl -.”
‘‘So I should think, l)an," said
Charlie, approvingly; fund Stoffol—
what of him? Was lie deaiV;"
“As dead as a doornail,hir; the bul¬
let had penetrated his turnip.”
“Ami what became of poor Top¬
knot? ’ asked .Tack.
“I’uor chap!” said old Dun, with a
tremor in his voice. “He was drowned
a few mouths afterwards us wo Were
fording tho Sbunguui. —The Golden
Penny.
sciknufm scraps.
Whales are never sej-n in tho Gulf
Stream.
One inch of rain falling upon one
square mile it equivalent to 17,500,000
| gallons of water.
J A-tronoiners sav that 1.000,000
‘Shooting stars” fall into tho sun for
every ono that crimes into our atmos¬
phere.
According to tin deductions of it
well known astronomer, wu receive as
much light froth tli < Uf ^J.8 could bo
emitted by fi.sn.Von 111 "kroons. i
'
Two patents lnr recently been
granted to “Georg'li Washington,” of
Brussels, Belgium, I 'of a system- of
lighting with iucau. scent burners.
j At adejith of 3001 ieet in the famous
Comstock mine at^ 4iui,i City, Nev„
j* tlie waters tlmt trie le from the sides,
ri „,j t hayo n. nuiform tem
p,.,aturc of I7J def ,ves 1’.. lire age if.
Toe eyeball reals Ii aeiistfiou of fat,
, l)V Which ■ hllii.led i . 5
it is alii on every
* r
i sine. \\ nett t , he aVatvoi J , . comes gr. atiy
! rmneiateil , tsiroitgh ' ; ilt-ease, ...... tins fat
is
stir-orbed ‘ and tlie eve sinks further
I I into the hem!, thus giving the sunken
appearance so common in disease.
E,ch ".at,ument.“lain some par
I ticuiur' piissage, thi’pninoiu scale pas
Hag. s, tlie harp in nrja-ggio, tlie man¬
i dolin in the rapid repetition of one
note, the banjo in the rapid playing
j of ' broken chords, and so with other
instruments, Imt tie violin can beat
cr all on their >wn ground, while
zr is much violi| music that can ho
| played on no othorj instrument.
Nitrate of potash accumulates in
vain iblu quantities in Ibe organically
i rich, alluvial plains of India and
Guina, the nitrate rising to-the sur¬
face with tho mo stare by capillary
attraction in the hot, dry season.
There have been di coverieB made lately
in South Africa of nitrate deposits of
a high degree of purity, ami said to
ini in erortiious ijnaniiwes, derived
from the direct putrefaction of uiiimal
excreta.
Cash ta. Credit.
Isaacsteiu, Sr. —Vy.do you ulvays
pny for gash? - ■
Isaaosteln, Jr.—Id vas two borccnt
ehoaber, vuter,
Isaacsteiu, Sr.-j jBab, Yon vill nefar
ged rich dot vay. Id vas viftv bor
cend ehoaber on fliiVailttre,
A Bid Case.
“Ho is so good that 1 fear his wings
itro about to spro jt. ”
“Is it as bad as all that? I always
Utu w ho was u bit lligbty.”
I yflfs T j': v
—r
5*1 i
*
vV as
.
tittle kttt^l'w^d ■nv^iyn, R KITTKns.
’i'wo hut one day,
To hunt for wav.
A r -a the street (e an' old Imrn shed y
Tims., two little kittens fluiokly sped .3fc 1
1 /’ : •
in.' ■‘uthe inside near a hole
From which the ruffle Came out to -i roll, 1.
The other outside htysUU near by. . %*’ ht •t
W illi neither murmur gflr faintest t ry.
A mouse's head popped|h,p in sight. V-■
And the inside kitten sliowi'd delight.
Tin' mouse came out and ran o>r the floor—
The kitten followed it through tho door
Am! t. the place where the other lay,
Which joined the race without delay.
The mouse ran on 'most soared to death,
And entered A hole all out of breath.
I'wo little kittens went home that day
From hunting mice the usual way.
Across the street from the old barn shed,
These two little kittens sadly tread.
.'AT AND I'Ct'. ~
A Los Angeles correspondent sends
to the Piiiladelphia Times a pretty
story, partly pathetic, partly amusing,
about a Maltese cat belonging t) a
maiden lady of that city. The cit’s
name is Angola, aud one of its oddest
characteristics is that it is a confirmed
tea-drinker. Angela led a quiet and
happy existence .till one day she
brought, to her mistress a litter of.
three kittens. Augela’s delight - in
her little ones knew no' bounds, and
she ran about the place like a thing'
possessed, carrying one air tho other
of Them in her mouth. Oue day, in
a apir’t of undue pride, bIic took-them
out on tha pavement in front of the
house, depositing them, one at a time,
in a bright sun-spot amid the shade of
overarching pepper-trees,
Suddenly, without a sound of warn¬
ing, a liig dog from fover the way
swooped down, upon Ilia happy family
tearing the kittens to piuces one# by
V>u« before the poor, scared mother
had time to iuterposo in tniiir
It wus an awful tragedy, aud poor
Angela’s grief was aim ist human.
For days she refused to bo eom-_
forted. She would not eat, and her
teacup remained uutuueheil. TVLhs
H astings despaired of ln r life, aud
strove In every way to asMUtgo him
griefj but m vain.
Finally,when things seemed to have
r.-Jicbeil ibe lowest pu-'ib', - ebb, .poor
\iigela disappeared aiPl tue most erff
n st ellort to discover her \vher. -
aliottls proved fruitless. Two whole"
days had passed, wimn hit.. m_Jiio
evening Miss Hustings was delighted
beyond Measure to see poor Angela
coming up the atcps, bringing what
seemed to be u young kitten in her
mouth. But upon going down tojnp ' t
her Mins Hastings discovered that in¬
stead of a kitten Angola's, burden was
a tiny young prairie-dog.
• Tin; poor thing, bereft of her own
offspring, yet with a heart overflowing
with mother love, had doubtless
wandored away, in her grief to - the
outskirts of tho city, where she had
found, perhaps, a motherless little
prairie-dog ready for her adoption.
At all events, she did adopt it, aud"
now seems as happy and proud in
lavishing her love upon it us if it wer>
her very own.
Miss Hastings, says that Angela's
first act upon gettiug home was -Xl<
wash the little prairie-pup's face, and
begin at once to initiate it into
mysteries of tea-drinking; and though
only a few days have elapsed, tho dog
is almost as expert at sipping the cup
that cheers us Augelu herself. ~ —
11(01 SAVOY WENT TO Tits C1H0VH.
Hamiy wus not a very bad boyt^but
be was sulky that afternoon, »ud_-all
because his mother was not willing
that he should go to the circus until
Saturday,when school should bo over.
So he wandered off to tho barn to
brood over bis fancied wrongs, _flud
i threw himself on a heap of hay.
*‘l shan’t Study my lessons,
how,” he said, with a pout. ■imiuf*. \
the rain pour-' It makes me
sleepy. I otilv \\ t- ii that every dro]^t
was u gold dollar, and thou I fiUSSS ”
I’d have all the money 1 ivaot> I’d go
to the circus, ami then I’d liafl#
hieyele and follow them all
eoui.ti i ; nod peril qw l‘.l learn to
barebuok, or—-or— hello! what’s that)
A gold dollar, at true as I live! Aud
there’s another—mid another! Why.
it’s really ami truly ruiuiug gold I I
mii-t till my pockets before it-stops.”
lie sprang up and went to work
eagerly to gather up tho dollars; but
just as he stooped to • seine one it .
melted and disappeared in tho ground.
One after another vanished, until
Sandy was in despair.
■“Oh, wit is too bad!” he cried.
“Here’s enough money to buy the
whole world, all ineltiag before iny'
eyes. I mUBt have some of it!” And
he held out both hands, which were
very soon filled.
“Now I must be off quick, or tb#
circus will be over.” Ho he ran and
ran till bin breath was nearly gone,
and then he came in sight of a great
tenk
Just then a hoarse voice exclaimed!
“There’s a boy outsidu—lot him
in I” The tent parted suddetily, and
there he stood in tho midst of all the
animals.
--“Snow your ticket!” cried the gi¬
raffe, who was in front
“I haven’t any I” stammered Sandy;
“bnt I’ll buy one."
“Ha, liu, hal" came a eonrao laugh
at his side.
“Oh, what’s that?” cried Sandy.
“Only the hyena,"said tho giraffe.
“He’ll eat mo np!" cried Sandy, in
terror
“No, he won’t," replied the giraffei,
“if yoif oply say something funny to
make him laugh.”
Saudy caught sight of tho byena’n
gleaming white teeth, and in sheer
deeperatiou he cried out:
The jib-boom went oa a jamboree.
Ami danced a jig with the wbltfle-irea.
There was a general loud laugh at
this, and the hyena’s was loudest of
11. “Well, I have heard worse than
that, but very seldom; so I wou’t ent
said iny \
Just then beli licgwu. to vine 1
loudly, aud the clown turned over
with a spring, while a buzz of excite
meut filled the air.
“MuVo on, move on!” shouted the
olowu; “we’ve got to be in I’utagoni*
at ti o’clock for tho next perforia
anc*." v
“Alay I go too?” asked K mdy.
“Y.-s, if you can keep tip with as.”
sfiid the clown.
"All right,” cried Study. "I’ll
hurry ami get a bicyole.’’ So off he
started for t he-towu, and ran for a
long while, and at lust came to the .
store just us tho mm was putting np
the shutters. “Wait a moment!”
cri' d Sandy, all out of breath, “I
want a bicycle! ’
“Very sorry,” said tho man, “but
it’s too late.”
“But 1 have a pocketful of money
to buy one.”
“So have I," replied the man, “anti
barrels full too. Wo had a shower
just now, and it rained enough gold
dollars to last the rest of my life.”
Kvery one, it seemed, had all the
money he needed. So ho turned, sad '
.and disappointed, to go back to the
circus, when he heard a faint voioo in
the ' distance culling: “Sandy I
Sandy!” It wus Fetor, the gardener.
saying:
“You’ve been asleep, Your supper
has been waiting for you for the lost
fifteen minutes; didn’t you hear the
bell?”
“Yus, I think I did, in my dream,”
replied Sandy, and he hurried to the
house.—New York Journal.
Be Wot an Answer.
’ Hearing » faint rustle in the darkened
hallway below,the elder sister.suppos*
ing the young man had gone, loaned
over tho balustrade and called out:
“Well, Bessie, have you landed him?”
There was a deep, sepulchral sileno#
for hoiuo momi-nts; ii was broken by
tlie hesitating,constrain, d vuice of the
young man: “Shu ha#,"