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LATEST SEWS SIDDIAIIY. dead on the roadside at Ki!Jj, Ireland,
where be bad recently evicted some
tenants.
A company U organized in Seattlo to
put Herdio coucliea on the atreete. It it
though there it room and lutincta for
four vchii'lca.
Ditturbanoet Lave broken put among
Montenegrina in Ktlatcbin. Tbe gov
ernor of Bazaar baa aent a body of N'izult
to occupy tbe Turkish town of Kalaa
cbin. A treaty wat tigned in tbe City of Mex
ico on the '.Mtb. by Moritcal, Mexioan
l( TELEttKAPH TO BATK.
The hollow ware manufacture' ao
ciation of the United Htatea held an ad
jonrned meeting at Coluuobua on tbe
23th. Tbe scale ol prices w not cuangeu
Twelve thousand dollars worth of dia
nions and valuable jewelry were stolen
at tie ex position building in Cincinnati
on tbe morning of tbe rota from an ex
Libit,
One-third of tbo employes of the de
partment of construction and repairs of I secretory of foreign affairs, and Herrer,
Guatemalan minuter, uenmteiy aounog
the boundary between tbe two countries.
The lino proponed many years ago by
Mexico was accepted.
There is evidence ot cholera or cholera
morbus in the ttate of Chiapas, Mexico,
twenty-eight deaths occurring in Axtla
(population MJUUl in one day. ine gov
ernment has taken measures to prevent
the unread of tbo epidemic and qnaran
tine it established. Alarm is felt in the
inflicted region.
lleliurio - Hanson, exchange brokers,
are reported to have failed for 150,000
in nan r rancitco, sept. Zltx. uansen
was arretted this morning on a cbargo of
grand larceny. lie borrowed three
cheeks, aggregating $55,000, from the
Pacific bank, and failed to return them.
Tbe whole transaction is at proscnt in a
state of obscurity.
A Lancaster, 8. C, special of Sept. 28th
says: At a political meeting yesterday a
row begun between a white man and a
negro, and some indiscriminate pistol
shooting was done but no one hurt.
Soon after a posse of negroes rodo up
and a general row resulted, in which four
colored men were killed and a large
number wounded.
Two men returning to Knoxville from
Calico mining district on Hept. HOth,
found the dead body of James W. Sharon,
a miner, who was supposed had perished
for want of water. On bis iierson was
fonnd two dollars and a half, a pistol
and some letters, lie bad been prospect
ingat Calico and it is supposed was re
taming to Knoxville.
It it stated two companies of the 40th
rrgiment of Alexandria havo been or
dcred to Tsntah. The Egyptian gcvern
ment is in possession of a telegram from
Prince Ibubim to Arabi Pasha conpratu
lating him upon Hie supposed Egyptian
victory at Kanssnnin tnd hoping ut the
next feast of llainm, hogliHbmen would
be sacrificed instead of bbeep.
Lord Dnfferin has communicated to
Lord Granville a note from the porte,
thanking Ureat liritain fur re esttiblish
ing order in Egypt, and expressing bopo
the bonds of friendship at present exist
ing between Turkey and Engiuud may
become still closer. Mr. Granville bus
replied expressing satisfaction ut the sou-
timent of the Ottoman government.
A San Francisco dispatch of Sept. -7th
6oys: lo-mglit the republican county
committee .convention reconvened and
the following nominations were mado:
City and county attorney, J. F. Cowdery;
coroner, F. L. Weeks; public administra
tor, Walttr V. Lemun; survnyor, Chas.
S. Tilton; sucrinteudeut of schools, J.
K. Wilson. Convention adjourned until
tbe 2iltu.
A Vienna newspaper publishes a story
in effect that the emperor and empress
of Russia were Becretly crowned during
the recent visit to Moscow. If the em
peror survives till the public ooronation,
this secret ceremony will bo considered
void, but in event of his death it is mado
public so a to avoid any dilUcalty in
proclaiming the Czaro witch Alexandria
lawful successor of a crowned monarch.
A Ueno on the 2Hth Ed Henry, con
ductor on a freight train was coupling
cars at tbo depot and after joining a con
nection caught bis left foot in the frog
in the track and was unable to extract it
before the train started, lie instantly
realized hit danger uud attempted to
throw his body clear of the rails, but was
struck and knocked ander; the wheels
passod over his stomach, crushing him
fatally und nearly suvenug his left leg
from his body, lie was about 25 years
old, unmarried, and an old and vilued
employee of tho road.
The supreme court of San Francisco
has affirmed tbejudgmont of tho lower
court in the rase of Dodi. vs. Mever
aaiunt defendant. The case arose out
of the failure of E. E. Morgan & Sous,
wheat shippers. Pluintiff is a wheat
grower, and the case aroso out of ad
vances mado by Meyer to tho Margins,
for which promissory notes and bills of
l'iding on wheat shipped were given.
Meyer kuew that tlio Morirans wore in
bad cirouinstuuees, but tho farmers did
not. Tho court held that Meyer had
converted the wheat shipped to Lis own
use, una rendered judgment againt him.
Governor Murray, of Utah, in obedi
ence to tho law of congresa providing for
appoiutiucuts to fill vacancies occasioned i
by a failure to hoi lau ileetiou 1:1 Aticutd.
bos appointed a number of otUViala
throughout Utah. In defiance of this
law and the Edmunds bill, which dis
qualifies polygauiistH, tho sppoiutees of
tbe navy yard at Portsmouth, X. M
have been appended, owing to lack of
funds.
A shock of earthquake was felt in Vin
cennet at 3 A. M. on tbe 2Nth, rattling
windows perceptibly. It lasted three
minutes aud was more distinct further
west.
The board of directors of the Veterans'
Homo association lield a meeting in San
Francisco on Sept. 28ta and decided to
purchase the Clark tract of land in Napa
county as a site lor the noma.
Portions of Illinois and Missouri were
visited by earthquake shocks on tbe night
of the 27th.' They were so violont at to
awake slocpers and cause general alarm
although no damage was done,
Washington specials say one of the
first acta of Gen. Sherman recently as
actiug secretary of war was to sign ao
ceptance of tho resignation of George
Btonnman as colonel on the retired list
of the army. .
Roberts. Ferguson, journalist, died
at Jersey City on the 27th. He wat for
a time an officer in the 14th U. S. in fan
try, but resigned hia commission upon
the loss ol nis wife and child in the burn
ing of tbe officers' quarters at a post in
Wyoming,
At New Orleans on the morning cf the
iiolh Melissa Powers and Addie Johnson,
young women, fought with butcher
knives about a man who bad been paying
attentions to both women, frightfully
cutting each others facet aid all parts of
their body. Melissa Powers received a
stab wound in tie breast from which she
died instantly. Addie Johnson is in a
critical condition.
Local inspectors have signed the re
port of their decision in tie matter of the
collision between tbe John LiOtnas and
Si-iota ou tbe Ohio river, near Mingo, on
tbe night of July fourth, by which over
fifty lives were lost. They recommend
the license of Keller, pilot of the Sciota
lie revoked, and as fi that of Long, of
the Lioniaa, disagreed. The matter will
bo referred to the supervising inspector,
The Ford brothers, slayers of Jesse
Jamet, are on exhibition in Brooklyn,
and it it said wore bully frightened re
ceutiy by the appeal auce ot a woman
cloiely veiled, whom they assorted was
the wife of Frank James, and who they
say has threatened to take their livts
when they are not expecting it. Tho
woman after glancing around tho place
entered a carriage and was driven rapidly
away.
A committee of tho National Woman's
Suffrage association is in conforonco at
Omaha with a committeo of the Nebraska
association to plan tho campaign in Ne
braska. Miss Anthony, Mrs. riaxony of
Iew Urleans, Miss liindmau, of Louis
tana, Madamo Neymun of New York,
Miss Plnebo Loxzaus of St. Louis, Mrs.
Shatfuck of Boston, Mrs. Foster of Phil
adelphia and Mrs. Colby of Nebraska
spean until tho election.
Morcer, Penn., special of tho 2Sth
says: Five expert burglars and cracks
men in jail here for robbing tbe express
otlice ct Greeuvillo, have escaped. They
suddenly seizod ami bound the guard,
gagged him aud put him in tho cell and
forced other prisoners into colls with
revolvers, seized tho turnkey as he en
tered and locked him in a cell, took the
keys from him and passed out. They
then bound and gaggod tho sheriff's wife
and fled.
The foundation for the talk about W.
II. Vanderbilt advancing United Suites
lmnds to ease the money market, is that
a bank offered to borrow from him $10,
000,000 in United States four per cent,
bonds, which he holds, advancing thereon
the lull market price, about $1:2,000,000,
and charging him for tho money advancod
a low rate of interest. It is understood
this offer of tho bank is part of a scheme
to have Unitod States internal revenue
receipts deposited in tho bank, which
wonld give the bonds borrowed from
Vanderbilt to tho government as security
for internal revenuo receipts on govern
ment money thus left with it. Two pur
poses would bo served by tho ojwratiou.
The first would bo that the money, in
stead of being locked up in the treasury,
would bo diverted from its way from the
treasury of the national bank, whero it
could be leut iu the market, and the
other, which would concern tho bauk
alone, wou'd be the profits which it could
inako by lending government deposiu.
The Evening Pvst says: Our under
standing is Vanderbilt declined to lend
his bonds which are all registered in bis
name and that tho schema has boon abau-
Cld BUI Urldl'j.
"You may say what you please about
old Dill Gndley," said a gentleman jnst
down from xsouie to the crowd who were
springing for hot acatches in Phil Mo
Govern'a back room tbe other night. "
know there's lota er fullers talking
against him 'specially now that he's
dead but I alters speak of a man as
find him, tnd old Bill was as fair and
square a ono aa I wish tor see, pie of
I ' I,;....
"Putty bad tempered, wasn't he?
said Phil, who was sprinkling red pepper
oa tne tan nerring u encourage traue.
"Well, he was and be wasn't. I've
seen that man keep his grip on himself
and co along cool and easy like when
any other man in the csmp would have
stood on his hind leas and rared. I call
to mind sutbin' that happened once away
back in the flush days that showed what
a big heart old Grid ley had in bit shirt,
lou see. we were at a mining camp
culled Lone Skull, np on tbe Feather
river, and Bill's claim had panned so
rich that he began to put on a good deal
of style. He hod the largest thsntv in
the place four rooms and what must
(I rid ley do but send clear ronnd tbe
Horn for a carpet for tbe parlor. It took
him nearly a year to get it ott. and then
it was tho only carpet in that part ef the
State. White ground, with yellow and
red flowers. Folks used to come for
miles to see it." f
"ie this yarn ono act?"' growled a
friend of the miner who was wistfully
watching the barkeeper tale tho lid off
some hot chowder in the other room.
"It's in one scene," continued the
party from Uodie. "Lemme see; where
was I? Well, to make a long story short
I was playfui? pedro in Bill's best room
one night, with some prospectors just
uu from I risco and was loosing consul
erable dust when I droppel on one of
em taking a jack om of bis sleeve. As
luck would have it. I wasn't heeled tbut
mailt, so I inst picked up a tobacco
knife that lav on the table and cnt the
fellow's throat clean scrota."!
"Gjod scheme, too," grunted a faro
steer in approval.
"Well, us I was saving, old Gridley,
who was in the next room, heard tho
scuffio and came in. There was that cut
chap lying on tho flaor with his blood
all over the carpet the wholo thing just
ruined. Everybody was s.-ared to see
Bill s face. He looked just awful. I ex
pected to get a bullet through my head
nuicker'n a wink."
"This is pntty tough on me," says
Gridley, looking upon too carpet.
"I know, Uill, says 1, "and I axes
yer purding, old man. I never oi.ee
thought of the carpet. I wouldn't er
done it. if I had."
"No, I don't believo you would.Tom,"
savs he, kinder sorrowful like. "I don't
believiyoa wonld," And ho actually
helped me to heave the corpse out the
winder and kinder wipo up the muss a
little. I tell you, gentlemen, olJ Bill
Gridley was a white man, he was, and if
ever I go back on him after that, I'm u
coyote!
And they all agreed that a man- must
have a big heart to act like that, ufter
all. San Francisco Post.
Aa Aral) Custom.
At the closo of ono of tho great re
ligious festivals of the Moslem war a
number of Arabs are seen to detach
themselves from the crowd and to lie
lown sido by side in the dust, face
downward, liko logs upon a "corduroy"
road, while their friends, crowding
around them, press down nn arm here
and there, in order to make this living
pavement as compact as possible. hen
all is ready the crowd falls back, while a
horseman coming up from behind
pusses at a quick walk over the prostrate
bodies. This is called the Dosch, or
"trampling." Each man receives the
full pressure of tho iron-shod hoof in tho
small of his back, and not a few may bo
seen to writhe under it like trodden
worms. Tho moment this horrible
pageant is over the friends and relatives
of the trampled men rush up to them
and do their utmost to make it appear
that they have received no injury from
tbo pressure. lbe odious farce, how
ever, is always unsuccessful, the groans
and writhings of the sufferers being suf
ficient ovideneo to tho contrary. The
whole spectaclo is revolting iu the ex
tremo, and deserves attention as a strik
ing proof of the lengths to which super
stition and fanaticism can go, even in au
age of highly developed civilization.
Chasing Her Baby.
dolled.
The Hun says: Chief Engineer Mel-
villus cruise ended ou the 2iith, when he
formally reported his return to tho acting
ciner ol the navy, lie borrowed a full
dross uniform from a brother officer, pro-
scnU'd himself to tho department, and
said: "Mr Secretary. I have the honor
to report my return and to turn over to
you the srtieles that have been in my
chargeThere was no further ceremony.
and Melville said ho wonld be willing to
taVe command of another expedition to
tho North Pole, provided ho could have
lull command and could have a ship
bailt, fitted aud equipped to suit hi m
Ho believes that the course to tho North
Polo is by tho Franz Joseph raute. Mel
ville was directed to continue his custody
of tho records of tbo cxpeditioa which he
found, and DeLong'a private letters) and
journals will bo banded to bis widow.
Tbe other records will remain in care of
Melville nntil they are produced at the
official investigation. These records are
of great historical value and were pre
served with extreme cure by DeLong to
the eud that, wbeu published, they will
lirovtt to be of greatest interest and will
the governor have been refused the rec
ords and places to which they have been
named. This organized nullification is
iu obedience to orders of tho Mormou
leaders. Those who thiuk it criminal to
hold over arc whipped on. congress to
tho contrary. Writs of mandamus wero
applied for to enforce the title of officials
appointed. The action of Gov. Murray.
iu firmly executing the law. in the face
of tho Mormou leaders, it upproved by
all law-abiding citizens.
Iu the city circuit court of Baltimore.
on Sept. 'JSth tho American- Bank Note
Company of New York, aud others, bv
Attorney General Johusou. tiled a bill
against the Yorktown Centcnuial Asso
ciation for an injunction appointing a
receiver. It is charged tho Yorktown
Centennial Association was formed for
the purpose of celebrating the surrender
of Lord Cornwallis; that it created largo
debts and acquired considerable prop
erty; that its officers ami managers have
taken no steps to secure its assets, and
pay debts; but certain parties have pre
soutod claims to judgment so as to obtain
the property, and thus secure all assets
to tho injury of general creditors. Court
shed much new light on the work of the appointed Bradley Johnson receiver.
exKditicn. Melville sayt that only a This it the association that purchased
small portion of them have been printed, I the Sample farm at Yorktown and pro-
ana mat me oooxt contain a largo nuia- posed converting it into a government
ucr oi careim maps ana nvicuei. I pars.
One day a ladv left her baby on a
railroad train at Plainville, Conn., ex
pecting to return before the train
started. This sho failed to do, and the
infant was carried on to Forestville, and
there placed in chargo of the station
master. In tho meantime the frantic
mother had telegraphed to Bristol to
have tho child returned, but in order to
save the agouy of delay a kind-hearted
messenger volunteered to go io Forest
ville on a freight train and bring luck
the baby. Ou tho trip the ougine broke
down, and ho tramped tho rest of the
way to Forestville. found the object of
his search nud carried it back in his
arms to Plainville. Tiie mother, mean
while, inpatient of delay, had bourded
the engine of a gravel train, and was in
Forestville by the time her offspring
got buck to Plainville; so to Forestville
agaiu went the impatient messenger with
the baby, to Ibid out that tho mother
had returned to Plainville. At that
point patience ceased to ho a virtue, and
the womau was sternly ordered by tele
phone to sit Mill for half uu hour if sho
wanted over to behold her child again.
She obeyed, and proseutly was mado
happy. N. Y. Tribuue.
.Net Large t conga.
Iu response to an inquiry for court
plaster the other day a Detroit druggist
handed out a piece about six inches
square, and asked the boy if he thought
that would do.
"I duuno," was tho doubtful replv.
JrWhat is it for?"
For father.
"Didn't he say bow large a pieee?"
"No; but I know that isn't half large
enough. Ma hit him with the whole tide
of a washboard at once, and that won't
begin to cover the clip." Detroit Free
Press.
It is said that 16,000 men are em
ployed in railroad building in Florida.
FOX lllXTlXQ IN SEW ENULAXD.
Did yoatrertiaul foxes In New England?
If not there ii t chord in your system that hat
not jet been itirred, nor will it ever vibrate
nntil yon hv killed a "Yankee fox" that yon
have previously cliaaed into race-borne coudi,
tioo. Tbe mere tliooting of a wary old red fox
is of iUelf no glory when It is only a simple
quwlion of mtrkiuiuuhip, bnt when every,
thing In connection with its capture is taken
into account, the hunter prondly fceli bit iuc-
omi ii born of no mean skill. When I speak
of iUooting t fox, I imagine I tee a frown on
the fice of Pioui Jeemt, and other diaciplet of
tbe cbue who lire iu a country whore follow
inK houndi without burses would be u great a
farce m keeping house without a cook ttove;
but uuntinK fuxo in tho "land of cotton" is
one thing, and hunting foxei in the "Und of
woodun uutmeKt another.
The facile txiu of Pious Jecmt hu not ore r
drawn the pltuure of a fox clime In the genial
outlt, for I lute myctlf followed many a
"gnr" on a thoroughbred, and on a mule, too,
and I know that oue't hopes of a iuocenful
chase, la the fullest meaning of the word, are
more likely to be realized than they aro to be
blasted; but to follow a pack of bounds after a
red fox in roKSMl New England, it simply out
of the question. It is true that portions of
thatcouutrr are not too still tor good bono
and good riders, but there the hunter, would
no; be likely to Hod any foxes to follow.
Where foxes abound, fields are niall, and sur
rounded bv treacherous stone walls; swamp
are miry, and iu all directions barriers appear
that wonld atop the bin I or steeple chasers. K
y iu capture a fux at all you must shoot him,
and because this is true, shooting New England
foxes is legitimatized by all ew hngUod
hunters.
An fox after he is bii; enough to care for
himself, shows an amount ot cuuuing that is
remarkable, but there are a great many de
gree of cunning iu foxo. As a class, the
hew England red outranks any I have ever
met, and a three or four year old male, ac
quainted with bounds, is io October or No
vember, the very essence of cunning intensi
fied. I captured one of this class a uuuiber of
years af;o, and so bard bad I worked to get a
shot at him, that the glory I felt In seeing him
laid low is not to be sketched on paper. I had
followed him for three years at every season of
tbe year, under all conditions of weather, with
fast hounds, slow hounds, and with relays of
bounds, but only onee, nndor the variety ol
circumstances that I had given him chase, did
1 get bun within ranco of inr shot gun. Oth
ers beaidei the writer had followed him many
a day to no purpose, and so notoriously cun
ning was he that all the fox-hunters of the
neighborhood shunned him, as it was long
odds against a day's sport when the doga
struck tbe trail of the "Old Dog Fox of Hack
stone," a name by which be was known for
miles around the country where he made his
haunts. I never started him on a day so hot
that he could not send the best hound in the
pack to the shade far in his rear, and I bad an
account against bim for one valuable, bound
that pnuseil from bit trail one August dav to
the happy hunting grounds, which account was
squared according to Mosaio law when he
dropped to shot in front of Tom, the old time
partner of the faithful anil departed Jerry,
Tho "Uld Dog rox of iiaekstone was not
only intensely cunning, uut from a longac,
quaintauco with him, the writer and a few
friends dmcovertd bo was full of character
mado up of his other fox qualities, which was
as inhume as his cunning. In the spriug.while
watching over his yimng and eiring for their
nmthor, he showed an auionn t of boldness and
energy that was remarkable, and as a coiiko-
inenen hisianuly was alwavs superior in ap
pvarance to those l his neighbors. While the
annlv duties of Jlrs. lo deuiauded her full
teulion, nn lorusiup was ever near to note
tho movements of anv prowlers about the
neighborhood of his family quarters, or to lead
If any curs or houiuls that came too near for
the safety of madam aud her little ones. He
was ever readv to thrust himself between dan
ger and his houi-choUl, and all efforts to get a
base with his partner at this season were a
failure. If bv chance some early hounds struck
he trail of the mother fox aud started her, she
would run but a shun distance, when bur part
ner would put in an appearance between her
and the hounds to lead them oil' while sho re
turned to duties at home. It wai amusing to
see tlio tactics he would emplov to keep the
munds after him instead of bis mate. If by
nee the dogs kept ou tho trail of the madam
tho Old Dog would follow on, overtake them.
ml by a series of pranks, made in full sight of
the hounds, attract their attention and divert
t toward himself. Ait ho went off at a good
exercise gait, lie would glanco hack to see that
all the hounds were following bim. and if the
pack had linen split so that part of them were
still following my lady, ho would return and
ma iauiver until he got thorn all on bis trail.
nee satished that tho whole pack was at his
Is, h would lc id tliein a merrv chare of
bout ten milts, straight awav, whero he
would cut ut) some of his "shines," lose his
pursuers, and return to his domestic duties.
After his family had reached an ago when his
ssiirtanco to their welfaru wat not cilled for,
he passed hit timo in comparative easo, always
u prime condition ana ready lor a Irolio with
the bounds. It seemed as if ho would put
himself out of the way at any time for a run.
an opportunity to exercise the instincts he had
ultivated to sucli mature form. If lie was
mar tod with t fast pack ho went away like a
race horse, and out ef tho neighborhood so
nr that the hounds would 1)3 several dayj fet
ing over the chase and nt to return home;
but he was always promptly iu his quarter tho
next morning, and if his previous day's chase
had been severe, aud hounds disponoi tomsko
nn run on that day would be shaken off, after
short run, by liw wonderful cunning. It a
ow hound followed him, ho was ever accom
modating enough t j grant him a chase, wait
ing for him, and in nianv instances helping
iiu out of snmo snare he had led him into.
ut "every doe" has his dav, and foxes as
oil, an 1 one day tho "Old Dog Fox of Hack-
stone was compelled to surrender that life
Inch had come to be looked upon as almost
harmed.
Tho night "before tho old fellow started on
his last run, the writur, a visiting friend and
neighbor, bad planned a day s xport for tho
morrow, which was to open with a idiort, sharp
uaso wun me lull pvn neiore oreaKlast, then
quail snout unul dinner, and some Bimrt
ith the rabbits bv in ilu.'ht. We hail antici
pated starting the "Old Dog Fox of Hack-
tone within a half hour of our loavinc
onio, and as we would onlv hear the mnsie of
the hounds for less thsu au hour, we reckoned
ut npjn gjttiug a shot at the nchlo old
uirser, bnt ou just excitement euouk'h for
breakfast, which, by arrangemeut, was to bo
on board in au hour after the hounds opened.
lortunate circnuntauce occurnd before
bed time, by which it became necessary ts
forego our forenoon work over the seiters. and
at the last moment wo concluded to take up
more of the morning on a fox bunt, and make
des)M'rate effort to capture the wily old nias-
r of the lUekstoue. While the shades of
iuht were yet lingering in the western horizon.
nd the rey light of day was just peeping
over the eastern hills, we were in council 1
tore the k mud; diseusdng the wisdom of sev
eral proposition': Dilly favored taking Tom
aud Jack, while Horace thought tbe full pack
would atlonl the most sport. a nnallv voted
our chalice for the coven d brnsh was best wilh
teadv. lazy, reliable, level-headed old Jack, a
ouud as renia: kxble for his cnuning and iud.'-
ment as be wa for his laziness. Once on the
trail of a fox. he kpt him moving at a steady
pace, not sutU.'ientlv fast to force the fox oo't
of the country, bnt he always prvftmd seme
other bound should 't the fox a going. With
Jack, and a full auow It-due of the fox we were
after, we hnpvil to have at least a good morn
ing's sport watching tbe battle between the
fuuuing cbased and tbe ingenious (Lu r.
or little Tom, lbe pet ut the pack and the
cutest hound in the country, looked very wiatfnl
at us as we marched offwitiiout bint, lleaetmed
to ask in such pitiful tonw, why am I thus for
the first time left at home? It'waa really sad
to e him. stretching the fall length of his
aiu, quieUy peeping around the coiner of
his kennel as we were fast going out of tight
down tbe road, while the rest of the pack
danced to a lively tune of maapDotntuieut
Old Jack, not mindful of hit dianatiitied com
pauloua, seemed to feel hit importance as he
iogged along iub ruau, tun pictur ui supreme
lappinoas, due in a great measure to the dis
tinction of going alone, i
It was one of those clear, crisp, frosty Octo
ber morningt peculiar to Sew England, and
just tailing the work before ut. "If old Jack is
not too lazy to stir around aud find a trail, we
thai) have a rare morning's sport," said JJtlly.
"And by the way." ho added, "our best plan
will be to keep the road, and strike bis trail
where hs crossed." This ws did do, but
strange to say we failed to find where he had
crossed. I suggested that in all probability
we bad passed along before the old fellow bad
returned from the morning excursion to the
neighboring hen roosts, and as it was a que
tion of doubt whether this wat t or not, we
concluded thai instead of taking the chaiicea
of wasting time by testing it, we would strike
toward the river road, where we would be like
ly to run across the trail of tome young fox in
the habit of crossing that way. We bail fol
lowed tbe road in vain, aud feeling very niucb
out of burner with old Jack for covering so lit
tle ground, were ou the poiut of giving up the
nunt in disgust.
"It serves us right," said Horace, "for do-
pending on that lazy old rascal ; he never was
of any use in starting a fox."
It is a retribution for leaving poor little
Tommy at home, when he wanted to go to
badly," said Biily.
lou are both right," I replied, "and 1 11
promise never to go fox hunting again with
out Tom. I!ut there is no use fretting over the
matter; let's sit down, and whilo we are rest
ing we can arrango for"
Look at Jack! said Billy, and we were on
our feet in an instant, intently watching the
hound iudustriously working out a trail down
the road.
What do yon niako of it?" Inquired both.
Wby he's got a fox trail" said I, "sure, and
as toon as he gets out of the sandy road and
over the wall iuto the woods, we shall bare
some music. I think is a young one that has
taken a trot down the road out of pnre curios
ity: it is a good track, I know, from the inter
est Jack shows iu it.'1 Instead of going into
the woods on tho right. Jack jumped the wall
wall on the left, and went away over the frost
covered pasture in full cry. We could not un
derstand the trail giiug off that way, and nat
nrally were at a loss what to think of it.
"I guess it's a young one gono to the brook
for a drink," said Billy, "and while Jack is
getting around ou the trail to where the young
fcllo lies in the woods, let us each get ou a
stand so as to be ready for him when he comes
out."
"But Jack is already across the brook," said
Horace, "'and going direct toward Hack stone."
"Tbat settles it," said I, "it't tho 'Old Dog
Fox,' so we may as well follow on, and, as we
go, arrange which of hit runways each of us
will Uke.
The giing was so good, that Jack moved
right along on the trail at his best gait, with
out once making a balk, and before we could
get to our stands Jack had tbo fox on his feet.
Old Jack and tba fox bad become pretty
thoroughly acquainted with each other, and
we knew that as soon as the fox discovered
that Jack was alone, he would just play around
home with him until ho was tired of the sport,
when ho would take a trip eff and lose him
Billy bad gone on to guard one corner of the
pasture and woods, whilo I was to put Horace,
Mho was not familiar with the ruuwavs, at a
stand. Now Horace was something of a "ten
dcr-foot," and as the boots he wore "fitted
nun a littlo too mncn, lie was hardly as
swift of foot as the ntcjssities of tho caso de
manded, and bef uro we got to what was to be
bis stand, we beard Jack driving ou through
tlio woods in that direction.
"It's no use to try to get thero now," said I,
"for ho will reach the point ahead of us; hurrv
along, and wo may get to the other corner of
the woods whero be will come out into the
pasture for a run iu the opcu and ou the stone
walls."
Hardly had I finished, when wc caught sight
of a lithe, red figure, as it popped up upon the
wall, aud looked back in the direction of the
hound. After standing like a statue for a mo
ment, down he came iuto the open, aud gave
us a full view of his graceful figure. The
sight ot the fox had put new life into Horace,
ami offeamo his coat, hat and boots, and he
was ready to get to the next stund in short or
der. As au started tho fox had again turned
into the wood, and unlesa we made haste wo
would not reach our stand in time. Wo had
got half way, when wo knew from the sound of
old Jack's voice that hu had made another
tnrn, and as he Deemed to be working along
toward tho point we wished to reach, wo com
eluded to stop. We wero a, .out five hundred
yards from the stand, and by carefully work
ing our way along a wall wo could get into a
field two hundred yards from the runway; then
we could Wait and take the chance of his com
ing to us. Wo had just crossed the wall iuto
the field, when we saw the f 'X come out of tlio
corn r if the woods, jump tip on the wall,
then off agaiu, tlieu back on the wall.
"Now you go to the wall behind us, and
crawl down to the barway and wait for him,
whilo I go to yonder tree, and I guess ono or
the other of us will get a shot at bim, when ho
pets ready to leave this field. Take plenty of
time," said I. "for you have not far to go."
But not a word or a move from Horace.
There be was oh one foot and one knee, with
his gnu in his hands, intently watching the
fox, as staunch as a poiuteron a bevy of quails.
He was so thoroughly fascinated ' with the
graceful movements of the fox, the music old
Jack was making, and the thought of getting a
shot at the notorious fox, tbat ho could not
speak. So thoroughly was be intoxicated with
the spor t, that he seemed oblivious to every
thing around him but tho fox and the music of
the hound. This was no time for argument.
and as I, too, was a little nervous, I concluded
to make for tho tree which was onlv a few
yards off, and wait patiently for the fox to
come. This he seemed iu no hurry to do, for
he was running up and down the walls, jump
ing oft and cutting up all sorts of pranks for
the benefit of Jack when he should come along.
After he cut the ground nn prettv well iu all
directions, he deliberately jumped upon the
wall, and sat down m watch for Jack who
would pass within tiftv yards of him. Along
came the honnd. and quietly sat tho fox watch
ing nim pass, .ri. r feeing Jack piuzvle over
the grouiid he had so nicely prepared tor his
bene'it. he started straight toward us.
I whisiiered to Horace: "Cock vour khu.
and ;;ive it to bim afier h passes me." But
Horace did not move, and it seemed as if hu
held his bn-ath. so thoroughly was hefasciua
Ud wub the graceful movements of the fox:
hu: f was readv, au 1 as he cot clos-j enough
for me to see his bright eyes. I thought of ihe
many times he hadecapd me. aud that at last
our day of reckoning had come. Bang! weut
my gun, and as the smoke cleared away, I saw
the "Old Dog Fox of Hackst-ipe" at the end of
bis long race. J-'i, Ider," in AmiTican Fulil.
There iinn enticing; romance associated
with the wild nomadic idea of eamt iutr
out which induces many pet-pie to adopt
that mode of travel in spending the
an naier vacation. In reality, however,
it i an ocenpution fit onlv for b&rbarians.
It is a weak uttempt to return to barbar
ism, which rarely confers a real rest or
pleasure, and more often induces rheu
matism and exposes the camper to ma
larial fevers. In short, it is a smsre and
a delusion. Sacramento R?cord-Union.
A Bird That Eaiikf.d. A large bird
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one o'clock and attracted the attention
of pedestrians ami others by the pecu
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