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TH E LION’S ROAR.
Vary Diffsrant In the Jungle Pram
What It la In tha Zoo.
Stewart Edward White, the fa­
mous American banter and writer
on outdoor »objects, recently re­
turned from a year’s hunt in Africa,
where he was fortunate enough to
see seventy-one lions snd to kill
several. In the American Magazine
he reports his adventures.
One o f the first observations Mr.
White made in Africa was that lions
and other wild animals are much
larger than specimens seen in
zoological gardens. He tells about
rhinoceroses which were five feet
nine inches tall and thirteen and a
half feet long. He says that they
loom up bigger than automobiles.
The roar o f lions be also reports to
be infinitely Ipuder and more men­
acing than that which we are accus­
tomed to hearing at the zoo. "
The first lion Mr. White and his
party killed was injured outside of
a thicket. It then crawled into the
underbrush, and Mr. White and the
native hunters who were with him
followed it. Mr. White goes o n :
"B igh t
before us the lion
growled, a deep rumbling like the
end of a great thunder roll, fath­
oms and fathoms deep, with the in­
ner subterranean vibrations o f a
heavy train o f cars passing a man
inside a sealed building. At the
same moment over F.’s shoulder I
saw a huge yellow head rise up, the
round eyes flashing anger, the small
black tipped ears Isid back, the
great fangs snarling. The beast
was not over twelve feet distant. F.
immediately fired. His shot, hitting
an intervening twig, went wild.
With the utmost coolness he imme­
diately pulled the other trigger of
his double barrel. The cartridge
snapped.
“ T f you will kindly stoop
down,* said I in what I now remem*-
ber to be rather an exaggeratedly
polite tone. As F.’s head disap­
peared I placed the little gold bead
o f my 405 Winchester where I
thought it would do the most good
and pulled the trigger; She rolled
ov er dead.
“ The whole affair had begun and
finished with unbelievable swift­
ness. From the growl to the fatal
shpt I don’t suppose four seconds
elapsed, for our various actions had
followed one another with the speed
o f the instinctive. T h e lion had
rowled at our approach, had raised
er head, to charge and had re­
ceived her deathblow before she
had released her muscles in the
spring. There had been no time to
get frightened.”
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An Alibi.
‘T a t has usually a very clear idea
o f the meaning o f an alibi, although
he may not be able to express him­
self in very lucid terms,” says “ Irish
L ife and Humor.” “ During a re­
cent trial the judge interposed in
the course o f the examination and
asked the witness if he knew what
was meant by an alibi.
“ Tfes, to be sure I do, yer honor,’
promptly answered the witness.
“ T e ll me, then,’ said the judge,
*what yon understand by it.*
" ‘Sure,’ said Pat, ‘it’ s just like
this— it’s to be afther proving that
ye wasn’t where ye was when ye
committed a crime that, sure, ye
never committed afther all.’ ”
•Iberia.
Great light has been thrown upon
Siberia in recent years. A genera­
tion ago the vast region was under­
stood to be practically barren, a sort
o f adjunct o f the north pole, which
would never be o f any particular
use to the human race apart from
furnishing furs. Today it is known
that Siberia is rich in everything
that goes to make for civilization—
healthful air, rich fields, mountains
full o f the precious metals— in a
word, all that is required to make a
great state. The future o f Siberia
is full o f richest .promise.— New
York American.
Trucks For Thslr Tails.
The flat tailed breed o f sheep has
been known from very early, times
and still exists in Africa and Asia.
In these sheep practically all the
fat in the body collects in the tail,
which may weigh as much as forty
pounds. In such cases the tail is
supported on a little truck, with
which the sheep is furnished by the
shepherds to avoid rubbing it raw
against the ground. This practice
was known to the ancient Greek
writer Herodotus and is still car­
ried on. ________________
FIGHTING A MUD RUStf/1)
A Perilous Resoue In ths Diamond Mins
Pits of Kimberley.
Miners in the diamond pits of
Kimberley need not fear fire or fall­
ing rock, suffocation by choke damp
or sudden death by explosion, but
they have perils to face neverthe­
less, as is shown by this thrilling
story of the rescue of a party of
native miners by the Englishmen
who were in charge o f them.
One morning a band o f natives
hard at work in a corner of the
mine were startled by a dull noise,
as if a few tons o f some soft sub­
stance had been hurled against the
high door that separated the spot
where they worked from the long
tunnel that led to the shaft.
“ The mud 1” they cried and drop­
ped their picks in an instant.
A mud rush means certain death
to all in its track. It gives no warn­
ing. It comes silently, like an ugly,
wriggling snake. It works its way
swiftly, spares nothing, covers ev­
erything. The Englishmen at the
opening o f the tunnel roared out,
“ Climb to the top o f the wall!”
which the natives promptly did.
There, fo r the time at least, they
were safe.
“ Stay where you are!” the Eng­
lishmen called. T f you jump down
you will be sucked in and suffocated
in two minutes!”
Soon the tunnel was a tunnel no
longer, but a mass o f quivering
slime. The mud flowed for hours.
Then it gradually slowed and
ceased. The Englishmen outside
sat round on a neighboring rock and
looked down helplessly into the pit.
All manner o f suggestions were
made, most o f them worthless, but
in the end it was decided to try to
reach the men, not by removing the
mud, but by passing over it.
One man laid a plank upon the
mud and stretched himself on it. A
little spade was handed to him, with
which he began to cut into the mud
and pull ’himself along as a man
face downward in a canoe might
pull himself forward with a paddle.
He worked bravely on, half inch by
half inch. Then another man put
down a plank and followed him.
In half an hour six men were laid
flat on six planks in the midst of
the mud. There was sixty-five feet
o f mud, and between them and it
were these thin planks that might
heel over at any moment and send
them to a suffocating death. And
behind was the hidden spring o f de­
struction that might let loose its
slime again, flood the tunnel and
capsize the planks like cockleshells
on a turbulent sea. When the man
on the first plank'reached the wall
on which the natives were huddled
he called to them:
“ Y ou’ve seen the way I ’ve come.
Well, I’ m going back, but I ’m leav­
ing the planks for you to follow on.
Crawl along the planks as much
like a snake as you can.”
Slowly the men on the planks
slid back, leaving the wooden line
behind them. Slowly the natives
followed.
Nobody
spoke.
The
black mass underneath looked as
hard as a rock, but was as soft as
porridge and trembled horribly.
As each man reached the end
plank he was hauled in to safety
and carried, half fainting, out of
the tunnel. The rest dragged them­
selves wearily on. When the last
native arrived his mates thought he
was a stranger. His hair was per­
fectly white.
NOSEBLEED IN ADULTS.
Praotioal Joke That Was a Boom- fUcurring Attacks May Moan Kidney,
orang to the Woodsman.
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Heart or Livor Trouble.
There is nothing that so cheers
the heart o f the lumberman as to
practical joke on one whom
ta s calls
k a “ greenhorn,” or, in other
words, any one unused to the ways
o f a lumber camp. One o f the
harshest and most dangerous, al-
though it is the most admired,
writes Charles G. D. Roberts in
“ Around the Campfire,” is that
known as “ chopping him down.”
This means, in a word, that the
stranger in camp is invited to climb
a tall tree to take observations or
enjoy a remarkable view. No soon­
er has he reached the top than two
or three vigorous axmen attack the
tree at its base. Long before he
can reach the ground the tree be­
gins to topple. As a general rule
the heavy branches so break the
fall o f the tree that the victim finds
himself uninjured. There are cases,
however, where men have been crip­
pled for life.
Mr. Roberts gives an experience
o f his own which did not come out
exactly as the lumbermen expected.
He had climbed into a magnificent
>ine tree one day. No sooner was
is two-thirds up the tree than the
umbermen set to work to “ chop
lim down.”
T thanked them for their atten­
tion,” he writes, “ and climbed a few
feet farther up to secure a position
which I saw would be a safe one for
me when the tree should fall. As I
did so I perceived, with a gasp and
a tremor, that I was not alone in
the tree.
“ There, not ten feet above me,
stretched at full length along a
branch, was a huge panther. From
the men be^ow his form was quite
concealed.
“ I laughed to myself as I thought
how my tormentors would be taken
aback when that panther should
come down among them. I decided
that there would be no more danger
to them than that to which they
were exposing me in their reckless
fooling.
“ The great mass o f foliage made
the fall a comparatively slow one.
Then came the final thunderous
crash, and in an instant I found my­
self standing in my place, jarred,
but unhurt.
“ The next instant there was an
other
roar, overwhelming the
laughter o f the woodsmen, and out
o f the pine boughs shot the panther
in a whirlwind o f fury. He turned
half round and greeted his enemies
with one terrific snarl and then
bounded off into the forest at a
pace which made it idle to pursue
him.
“ The men seemed almost td
think that I had conjured up the
panther for the occasion. I thanked
them most fervently fo r coming to
my rescue with such whole hearted
good will and promised them that if
ever again I got into a tree with a
panther I would send for them at
once.”
, In the young, epistaxis, or nose-
; bleed, is o f slight consequence; in
the mature it is more significant,
and in the elderly or the aged it
may be a serious symptom. When a
middle aged person has attacks o f
, ------------
• nosebleed the underlying cause
must be found, for it may be any-
thing from some slight change in
the mucous membrane o f the nose
to organic disease or a malignant
growth.
The bleeding may be a symptom
of disease in the heart, the kidneys
or the liver. Although the blood
gomes from the nose, the nose itself
is not always at fault. Sometimes
the hemorrhage is so slight as hard­
ly to cause remark on the part o f
the patient; sometimes it is so se­
vere as to menace life itself; in still
other cases the loss o f blood is dis­
tinctly beneficial, for it relieves
some overburdened organ. That is
the case with middle aged persons
whose nosebleed is the result o f
increased blood pressure due to
troubles o f the heart or kidneys.
Any disease that interferes with
the return o f the blood from the
head into the body may cause a pas­
sive congestion o f the mucous lin­
ing o f the nose, sometimes seen in
esses o f valvular disease or in
chronic bronchitis. Goiters or tu­
mors o f the neck act mechanically
to produce the same result. In
stout, full blooded adults an attack
o f nosebleed is often preceded by a
severe headache or other symptom
indicating too much blood in the
head, in which cases the hem­
orrhage will relieve the headache.
The same thing is often true in
cases o f tinnitus or noises in the
head. I f the hemorrhage is severe
the same symptoms— headache and
tinnitus— may follow as a result o f
the anaemia.
A person no longer young who
has recurring attacks o f nosebleed
for which he can find no local or
mechanical cause should have a
physician make a thorough exam­
ination of him, to see that nothing
ails his kidneys, heart, lungs or
liver.— Youth’ s Companion.
A Bad E xoum .
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N ever scums off the top when properly
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The Purest and Best Drugs Only Used in Our
Prescription Department
Fireleea Cooker«.
W e may not be the nearest druggist to you but w e ’ll try to
com e the nearest to please you.
Thoy Pawn Gravoo.
Among the countless inventions
In times o f financial difficulties on which the modern world is ac­
the Loochooans, residents o f the customed to pride itself, the fireless
southwestern islands o f Japan, cooker has had a modest but hith­
sometimes pawn the graves o f their erto unquestioned place. If, how­
relatives. They are always redeem­ ever, there are new things under
ed, however, as failure to do so the sun, the fireless cooker is not
means family disgrace. The turtle one of them, for the device turns
back shaped tombs, usually located out to be at least as old as the
in a hillside facing the water, are Christian era and probably much
elaborate affairs o f stone and ce­ older.
ment, and their cost and upkeep o f­
Friedlaader, in his “ Roman Life
ten bankrupt the family.
i and Manners,” says that every Jew­
ish household had a basket filled
K m w What Was Canting.
with hay, in which food prepared
Mrs. Wise— I f you are going to on Friday waa kept warm until the
the club tonight you had better take Sabbath— Saturday.
your overcoat.
It is an interesting question
Mr. Wise— Are you going to sit whether the modern fireless cooker
up and wait for me until I come is an independent modern develop­
home?
ment of the same principle or the
Mrs. Wise— Certainly.
. direct descendant o f the Jewish
Mr. Wise— Then I’ll take my j hay baskets o f the firat century.—
storm coat.
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W e have in slock a com plete line o f Furniture,
Paint, W all Paper, Picture M oulding, Glass,
Heaters and Ranges. W e are always pleased to
show our goods.
Raising Watar With Air.
As all schoolboys know, a suc­
tion pump can theoretically elevate
water only about thirty-three and
one-third feet, a column o f water
of that height balancing the atmos­
pheric pressure. A means has, how­
ever, been found of causing a suc­
tion pump to raise water to a height
of even sixty feet. The invention
workman in the
was made
French marine. M. Eysserie, the
chief engineer o f the marine, re­
marked that one particular pump
showed extraordinary qualities in
drawing water from ships’ holds.
Inquiry developed the fact that a
workman had thought of the plan
of introducing air into the water at
the point where the suction was ap­
plied, thus producing an emulsion
of air and water, which, because o f
Irish Wit.
its diminished density, was capable
A smart man saw an Irishman of being elevated to considerably
whose bibulous appearance led him
eater heights than pure water.—
to remark:
arper’s.
• “ Pat, what makes your nose so
red?”
Our Valuable Frame«.
“ Shure,” replied Pat, “ it’s the re­
If we were to reduce our bodies
flection o f me soul.”
to elements, what would they be
“ The reflection o f your soul.
worth? It is estimated by a chemist
What do you mean ?” asked the
that their market value would not
now senator.
exceed $10 in any case. Our bodies
“ Shure, it’s the reflection o f me
contain a certain quantity o f water,
soul,” retorted Pat. “ It’s glowin'
8h i Was a Boy.
phosphorus,
lime,
albuminoids,
wid pleasure at me ability to ’tind
iron, sugar, traces o f magnesium,
. Dorothv
“ 7 was the sister and Frcd-
die was the brother, but the order to me own bizness.”
sodium, potash and sulphur. Each
should have been reversed to have
one of these components has a com­
How It Started.
satisfied the characters o f the two
mercial value, but all united would
It is a not unreasonable supposi­ bring very little in the market. A
children, for Dorothy was a scream,
tion that many, if not most, quar­ man of regular corpulence contains
while Freddie was only a whisper.
“ Gracious, D orothy!” exclaimed rels are like that described in the grease enough to make seven bars
a visitor after one o f her audacious Washington Star.
o f soap, iron enough to make a key
“ So you and your husband are o f medium size, sugar enough to fill
athletic stunts. “ Y ou ought to be
always quarreling?” asked the law­ a small sugar bowl, salt enough for
a boy I”
“ I am a boy,” she replied proud­ yer.
a salt cellar, lime enough to bleach
“ Yes,” answered the young wo­ a small room, phosphorus enough to
ly, “ a regular tomboy! Mamma says
man.
so.”
make 2,200 matches, magnesium
“ What do you quarrel about?”
“ But Freddie is the boy o f the
enough for a strong dose o f citrate
“ I forget the subject o f the first o f magnesium and albuminoids
famil
oily.
‘ Wee ll,” she sniffed in scorn, “ if quarrel, but we have been quarrel­ enough to make a good basket o f
he is he’s only a pussy boy.” — Wil­ ing ever since over who waa to eggs.—Hamper’s.
blame for it.”
liam J. Lampton in Judge.
They were twitting a friend who
stuttered upon the fact that he had
never been married.
T kn-kn-know, boys, that I ’ve
never b-b-been married, but I was
pre-pro-pretty near it once.”
“ How was that?” they inquired.
Well, you see, I ask-ask-asked mi
girl to hav-hav-have me, and she
said that she’d rather be ex-ex-ex­
With Humboldt's Notes.
cused, and I was such a fo-fo-fool I
Auctioneer— This book, gentle­ ex-ex-cused her.” — Woman’s Home
men. is especially valuable, as it Companion.
Contains marginal notes in the
Two of a Kind.
handwriting o f Alexander von
“
How
did
you ever come to mar­
Humboldt. A hundred marks are
ry,
old
man?
Thought you’d deter­
offered.1 Going— going— gone! It
mined
to
sta}
single?”
is yours, sir.
T had, but I was introduced one
(The autograph marginal note by
the renowned scholar was as fol­ day to a girl who had determined
lows: “ This book is not worth the never to marry, and our thoughts
iper it is printsd on.” )— London seemed to harmonize so completely
that— well, we married each other.”
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