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BY C. L. O. LUCKEN.
(Copyright, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. Co.
"Hello, Jolly more; when did yo
get back from South Africa?”
The remark wtu addressed to s
rather portly persor age, of mediun
stature, who was seated at the wit
dow of one of the most popular clubs
his chair tipped back and his feet or.
the sill, and a long, pale cheroot in
his mouth.
“General Jollymore, If you please,
duly commissioned by the joint gov
ernments of the Orange Free State
and the South African Republic. Well.
I returned a few days ago. Nothing
doing in South Africa after the Boers
quit; I put iu a month or so up in the
north country ivory hunting, * but
found it too tame,” replied the “gen
eral,” toying with a miniature ivory
elephant’s head, which was attached
to his watch guard.
“Hunting elephants, eh, and brought
back a trophy of the erase?"'
“Oh, yos. The &f’ enture was such
a pec--liar one that I felt disposed to
retain a memento, and so had this
head carved from the tusk of the ele
phant which so Dearly finished my
career.”
“Well, general, I should like to hear
of it, provided the telling will not en
tail the recollection of any unpleas
ant features.”
“No, indeed, not at all. Were such
the case I would not wear this,” and
the general twirled the Ivory head
between his fingers. “But there’s not
much to tell, after all, and perhaps 1
am disposed to magnify the danger.
“At the conclusion of the war I de
cided to go north, having been in
formed that lions, elephants and oth
er large game were abundant. I had
put In five days In Msiris land, reach
ing the native village of Mpweto on
the even'ig of the fifth day, without
having sighted an elep’ ant, although
the snoor was there in plenty, and
abundant evidences were encounter
ed which showed that 1- : ge numbers
of the animals were in ti e immediate
vicinity. I accordingly r sfoived to re
main at Mpweto for a few days, and
the morr'ng following my arrival
there, I started out, accompanied only
by my ex'ra gun bearer, n native
named Umbolalla, with the l ope of
encountering the game I sought.
"A few miles east of Mpweto there
is a circular plain, probably a mile
in diameter, almost entirely 'sur
rounded by forest. Upon approaching
this plain, it became evident that my
quest was at last ended, and that my
eyes were to be gladdened by the
sight of a” elephant, for the frequent
trumpeting* of a large bull-elephant
were distinctly audible. Pushing rap
idly ahead in the direction of the
trumpeting, we arrived within sight
of the plain, and there, standing in a
clump of small trees upon whose ten
der branches he was feeding, was the
largest elephant It had ever been my
good fortune to see. Cautioning Um
bolalla to keep close to me with the
extra gun, I maneuvered arou -d for
some time, endeavoring to secure a
position from which I could fire a
shot which would prove fatal, but the
frequent movements of the elephant
rendered this impossible. Becoming
impatient at the delay, I finally risked
a shot, the bullet lodging, as I after
wards learned, In the beast’s left
shoulder, produo'-g only a painful
and Irritating wound, without in the
'.east Impairing his vita!i+v.
"With a scream of rage, the huge
animal plunge^ wildly through the
forest and out Into the open, running
straight across the plain. Snatching
the extra gun from Umbolalla, and
telling blzn to follow as soon as he
had reloaded the empty gun, I set out
In pursuit, hoping to get another shot.
The trumpeting of the wounded ele
phant was terrific, and he had nearly
“I should like to hear of it.”
reached the forest on the opposite
side when I stumbled and fell, the
gun being discharged as it struck the
ground. On hearing the report, the
elephant turned in his flight, and, ob
serving Umbolalla, who had reloaded
the other gun and was hastening to
ward me, gave utterance to a terrific
cry of rage and rushed toward the na
tive. Without a second's hesitation 1
grabbed his gun and lired it point
blank at the massive head of the ele
phant, which by this time was less
than twenty feet from vs. Providence
must surely have guided that bullet,
for it entered the right eye. and with
one last ear-splitting screjim, the
monstrous bulk tottered and fell.
"Aroused, undoubtedly, by the dying
scream of the elephant which had
)ust fallen, and which was probably
. . . —. . --
tfc# leader of the herd there ftppefti1
'd from the forest which Surrounded
he plain, a herd which in points of
umbers outdid anything I had pro
iously encountered, and I flatter :..i
“If that I have, In my time, seen con
derable of them. In fact, ft sceme.
i if all the elephants in Africa wo o
scmbled at that particular place
mi were bent on my (iostr.icfim.
vVlth trunpetings which were de
ening, they came rushing toward t:
"rom every point of the compass.
Tight was impossible, for we were
'ntirely surrounded, nor-was the:. a
listance of even ten feet between the
oremost ones, and as the loaders in
this magnificent charge neared us, of
-ourse even this space was narrowed.
“I felt that my time had con:;.-. for.
unfortunately Umbolalla, in his haste
to reach me before I was crushed by
the wounded elephant, l ad dropped
the ammunition, and we were with
out arms other than my two army re
volvers and Umbolalla's assegai, a
weapon without which ro native Afri
can can be induced to enter a forest.
The bullets from the revolvers would
have proven as effective ngaii st the
tough hides of the elephants as from
a boy’s sling-shot, and I did not.
therefore, deem it worth an attempt
This plan worked well,
to use them, nor did it then occur to
me, as I remember it now, that I had
them with me.
"Then it was that a most remark
able thing occurred. You know what
will happen if you place a number of
moving bodies at an equal distance
from each other, upon the circumfer
ence of a circle and start them to
ward the cer.ier? Well, that is just
what happened in this case! Those
elephants in the lead reached the cir
cumference of the smaller circle at
precisely the same instant, and there
they stuck, utterly unable to approach
an inch nearer!
“Not only bad the terrific momen
tum of their huge bodies served to
wedge them tightly together, but be
hind the elephants comprising the
inner circle were, scores and scores
of others, each possessed by an un
controllable desire to get at the some
thing which formed the center of the
circle of which they were the cir
cumference, and serving to hold fast
in their positions the elephants on the
inner circle. ,
“Conceive, if yen can, the picture
of two men sea.'-d upon the carcass
of a dead elephant, surrounded by a
living circle of other elephants, and
these in turn pushed and crowded and
wedged in still more tightly by hun
dreds of others! The elephants on
the inner circle might as well have
been trees, so far as their powers of
locomotion were concerned. With al
most over-powering trumpetings, they
swayed ^from side to side, lashing
each otfier with t>'eir trunks in their
rage, but absol +''ly unable to stir
either forward or backward. Al
though I had, but a few moments be
fore, resigned myself to a speedy and
apparently inevitable death, the hu
mor of the situation now struck me,
and I rolled from the carcass in a
violent paroxysm of laughter.
“To make a long story short, it was
a simple matter, considering the po
sition in which we had the herd, to
finish a few of the elephants nearest
us by well-directed shots from my re
volvers, as a builet penetrating the
eye would readily reach the brain. We
had killed perhaps half a dozen in
this manner, the bodies retaining
their upright position in the circle
through the pressure of others, when
Umbolalla reminded me that the re
maining revolver cartridges might
better be saved, and that we could
kill the elephants as well with his
assegai. His plan was to climb upon
the backs of the elephants, place the
head of the assegai over the spinal
cord at the point where it enters the
skull, and using the heavy elephant
gun as a sledge, drive it home. This
plan we found upon trial worked
well, and after seven hours incessant
labor we had stilled the trumpeting,
and out of that vast herd not one re
mained alive.
“Returning to Mpweto we enjoyed
the night’s rest, and in the morning I
had no difficulty, such is the simpli
city of the African native, in arrang
ing a trade with Chief Mugbokuku,
whereby I gave his tribe the car
casses of the elephants in exchange
for the services of his men in remov
ing the tusks and carrying them to a
point on the Nile at which transpor
tation to Cairo could be secured.
From Cairo, two months later, I re
shipped the tusks taken from the 168
elephants to Copenhagen, where the
ivory was disposed of at a profit of
$300,000.
Oen. Brag is invariably followed by
Gen. Knock.
A raid of fita Chcito.
BY MRS. CE.v ,.). E. PICKETT.
(Copyright. 102, l.y Dally Story Pub. Co )
Rachel Rie.. or.sat with her
hands folded, l.er i.-es fixed away be
yond the housetops, where a line o,
blue marked the r.o on.
Rachel was busy with her thoughts.
She was only a poor girl with no
ethic training to guide her to the
right path nt this parting of the ways.
Joseph Rosenthal came in, as he al
ways did when the twilight wavered
down and the cant las were not yet lit
and Rachel had a little time to give
him. These moments wore to him
the golden strand in the gray web of
the day. He tack ler hand and raised
it to his lips, it was ttie old-time
■chivalry in Joseph’s manner that had
first attracted her.
"My Rachel, do you know what day
this is. and why there has been a
song of joy In my heart through all
its sunny hours?"
She trembled and bent her head.
"I have thought of you all day. I
did not even wish that you might see
me take m^ diploma because I was
looking down the way to tlu time
when you woul 1 he always with me.
T e thought of you has been avrose
b ming in my heart. Has it brought
no appiness to you?”
"I am very glad. You have worked
wi h noble purpose and deserve to
succeed.”
“Why, as for that, you have been
the largest part of my purpose, and
you are noble, so in that view my
purpose lias I: on a noble one. As for
my attitude, that might strike a man
as selfish.”
“You are always unselfish.”
“Philosophers say that love Is the
nn st selfish passion known to man.
T1 en 1 must he intensely selfish for
all I do is fer love. Is it thinking of
my unsclfishress that had made you
so serious when I hoped you would be
glad as the light and the songs of
birds and the bloom of flowers?”
"Partly that. 1 have been thinking
many things.”
"Tell me of them.”
“You were very your •. four years
‘‘Yes; so were you. The difference
is that you have remained young be
cause the soul of innocence and
goodness is the soul of youth, wulle
1 have grown old delving among
bones and drugs. What matters it?
Shall 1 not grow young again in the
sunshine of your love?”
Her great dark eyes turned toward
him pathetically. With just such
eyes, he thought, must Hackcl of old
have looked upon Jacob when in cool
irg his parched lips with a draught
of life-giving water she had inllamed
his heart with the fire of love.
“You know how the girls of the
Ghetto do. They grow hopeless and
weary an 1 sad In a life of grinding
toil and no pleasures. They lose out
of their hearts the youth and strength
that belong to all young things. Then
they think to find a way to lift them
selves out of the groove in which
their lives have traveled. A girl
makes a contract with her lover to
help him through his course of study,
he to marry her when he is establish
ed in life. I would not let my father
so bind you. I said, if he loves me
he will come. If not, he must be free
as the air of the plains.”
He stooped and kissed her hand
reverently.
“I have come. Love is the closest
bondage in life. He who once falls
under that power can nevermore be
free. He is a willing prisoner to
whom the opening of the door would
be death.”
“You think now that you love me.
You have accustomed yourself to that
thought until you believe it to he true.
Some time you will know. The world
opens wide to you. Life offers you
far heights to climb. I could never
go with you. Either I should be a
V
Joseph Rosenthal came In.
weight to drag you back or a burden
to slip from you and leave you to go
on alone."
“You could never be either. You
are my inspiration. Some men find
in their work '>'1 the motive that they
want. I hope that I am as earnest
in my work as any man, and as de
sirous to do good in the world. Rut
it Is you who are my life, and all that
I do or can ever do is for your sake.”
“It will be different when you
measure weapons with the world's
workers.”
“You mean that I shall play the
poltioon and go out in the world and
leave yoi who have sacrificed all for
me?”
She shrank as from a blow.
“Thai is it. You feel under obliga
tion. You do not see that it was my
way of giving to the world what I
—-- -
might bav* givdn in iny own life hat
Uh'RS been different. Might bot I
ive an ambition too great to be corn
i?SRd without the help of another,
cl thus have callsd on you to give
’uorsion to my own aspiration?”
And you never loved me?"
Oh!”
r e sharp pain In her tone told him
ciat her words had cost her.
"If you do why not make me happj
tnd let me do what I can to fill youi
ife with pleasure?”
“I must not. You would weary of
me who is versed only In the toll ot
the narrow life that 1 have known.”
He pleaded with her until she. lr
utter weariness, begged him in pity
'o leave her and then he went away
She lay the whole night with her
eyes looking upward to the celling
where there seemed to tie a flaming
sword dripping with her heart's
blood.
As the days went by and he could
gain from her no other answer thar
the one that filled him with pain, hr
ceased to come. She heard of him
sometimes as the fame of his wort
carried his name wider into the world
and ever farther from her. Then the
fever came and she heard often ol
Dr. Rosenthal, the "Angel of the
Ghetto.” He hgd gone out of her life
< I
“I shall not leave you," she said softly
forever and she was glad—glad for
the good he could do without anyone
to drag him down.
For years the Kenston tenements
had seemed to waver between stand
ing and falling, sagging out here,
sinking in there, growing loose joint
ed and wobbly at the knees.
"Why don’t you pull them down
and rebuild?” someone had asked the
owner.
“What’s the use? They are bring
ing me in money all the time and it
will cost no more to clear the ruins
away and build after they fall.”
"But the people in them—they will
be crushed when t'’° buildings fall."
“What of that? There are always
plenty of tenants for that class of
house. In that grade the race mul
tiplies rapidly end immigration can
always le depended upon to fill up
any possible vacancy.”
One morning Rachel Meyerberg, in
the top story of the Kenston, felt a
peculiar sensation of giddiness. It
seemed that the floor was trembling
and the walls had a tendency to
shake as if with a chill as she ap
proached them. Once a sound as of
gravel rattling in the walls startled
her. She laughed at herself for being
so nervous. The walk to her work
would take away the foolish feeling.
She had leached the door and was
turning the knob when suddenly there
was a crash as if the earth was fall
ing to pieces and she went down,
down, into black night.
She was in a very dark place and a
heavy weight was crushing her. Far
off -she saw a ray of light. If she
could push off, that heavy thing she
would crawl toward It.
Outside an old man who had just
been dragged out unhurt was wring
ing his hand.; and crying:
“My Rachel! My Rachel!”
There was a pile of Bwaying tim
bers in front. A fireman had ven
tured under there, led on by the voice
of a crying child. One of the timbers
had fallen and he had been taken out
dead. No one could tell when the
next would fall.
Some one seized the olu man’s arm
with a grip that made him cry out.
"Where is she?”
"Behind that wall.”
A man dashed Into the ruins, one
of the threatening beams falling as
he ran.
“He’s gotm ”
"No; It just missed him.”
He passed tt .ouch a gallery form
ed by the fallen timbers, crossed by
bodies, some lying as if in slumber,
some crushed out of human sem
blance. Beyond the wall of. masonry
he found her. By an effort of his
wonderful strength he lifted the beam
anil carried her out, pushing her
away from him as a timber which had
become dislodged fell and struck him.
For the first time seeing 1 is face she
cried out, “Joseph! Joseph!”
When Joseph Rosenthal next knew '
the world he was in a hospital ward.
A woman with a gentle step and soft
touch was tending him, and the eyes
with which she looked at him were*
like the eyes that lit the soul of Ja
cob when he was athirst.
• “Why did you risk your life for me
who am of so little worth?”
“Because my life is but darkness
without your love to fill it with light.
If you leave me what matters life to
me?*
She put her hand into his.
“I shall not leave you,” she said
! softly. j
They loved for love’s sake.
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,'ondrouc Sdlhie. e.. . an Fran
Cisco Ca;-iqj..t.
At a Chinese dinner g.\cu sn San
Francisco In honor o. Robert
Louis Stevensou these were among the
queer things served: Birds nest soup
came in lour different courses. Accord
ing to one guest, it wu3 t.anfpareut,
tasteless, utterly uninviting, and more
like wallpaper paste than anything
else. Chinese nuts took the place ot
salted almonds. Then there were
dried eels sliced in chicken broth,
sharks cooked in a dozen ways and
setved in' several courses, ‘lotus
flower,” consisting of a slice or fat
pork, a slice of dried duck and a piece
of preserved watermelon, so arranged
that one could take a bit of all three
at once; dried m-'chrooms, turtles, pre
served ducks’ eggs, sharks air blad
ders in oil, anulone meat, a dainty
worth its weight In gold, being a tiny
part of a little sea animal; the web
of duck's feet, duck whlru had been
baked, stuffed with mucurooms aud
steamed, and almond gruel.
WHY SUCCE3S Du. .
Many Men Allow Th>:^ Ofpaitu
to E80i[“.
A great many men have ' U>
behind because of their list
their easy-going ways. They \
slow. Opportunities would
for them. They would have
vantage of them, would hav
ed, If the chance b»d not hui
fast. If the opportunities had
while, had given them a c
look them over and consu
friends, or If they had only con
these gentle people would nos
the heights instead of lookl
fully up from the foot of the
tain. But alas! opportunities
return, and he who is not i
seize them as they flit onv
have only regrets for his pi
Success.
Remedy for Sieeplessr --
A physician, writing to r
journal, declares (hat he in:
permint water an efficient r
sleeplessness. This is a \
pie cure, and it will not ' i ;
from the organs of p;o'
opinion ary declars" 1 of ui r:
It is added that a mi;. -c of
chloroform and t" , , nr i. i
given in hot water to th 1
insomnia will produce c!e
perhaps in the case of ‘.he a ’
of chloroform wafer may clay
cided share In relieving the if
It Is as least easy to try pirn
water, and the theory of Its ■
believed to be founded on i:
in withdrawing blood from «
by attracting a fuller flow in
stomach.
Secretary .. .cy Sili. c-d
Secretary M od} t-ied to ha
with President R swevelt ov
failure to kill a bear during lie
cent hunt In Mississippi. “I mn
have killed a bear but I did rC
take a colored woman for a \v i ‘
key,” retorted the president. ”1
have just as much fun with you as
you can have with me,” Mr. Roose
velt continued, and he spoke very ’•
as he told how the secretary w ■ li
on his recent hunting trip In Sum;
Carolina filled a colored woman f ill
of shot, mistal y her for a turkey.
The president a few fine torn os
on the story a . before he had fin
ished it he had the secretary buying a .
flock of chickens at a. fancy price in
order to pacify the angry Degress.
A Bald-Headed Monarch.
Edward VII. Is tl e first English sov
ereign to figure o i the coinage us
bald-headed. It is very possible that
several of his predecessors had less of
nature’s crown than his majesty and
that when taken to pieces for the
night they became almost unrecogniz
able Instead of . "lining in the ever
tne-same condition of present-day
kings and emp .crs. However, their
coinage repreae U these bygone mon
arch? in caps and crowns or volumin
ous wigs and wreaths or skillfully ar
ranged toupees thut are very like the
genuine thing.
Extreme in Experiments.
I.ady Bancroft, the London actress
(this was before her husband got a
handle to his name) accidentally cut
her hand one morning. In the even
ing she was talking about it to her
fellow players. “It is a lucky thing
for me,’ said she. “that I am not a
drinker, for a wound such is this
might be a very serious thit r . I had
much alcohol in my syste .” “Oh,
yes,” coincided a bon vlvant in the
group, ‘that’s a well-known fact. In
deed, I often cut my fingei to see
whether I’ve had enough.”
Single Thought and Two Souls.
“Smoking on the car!” exclaimed
the disgusted woman as Dennis Fla
herty with his short-stemmed pipe
took his seat tm°)de her. "Oi am!”
rejoined Dennis he -een long and de
termined puffs. "An" av ye don’t loike
ut go w-an up froont These sates is
resairved fer smokhers.” "If you were
my husband I’d give you poison.”
“Would ye, now ?” Puff, puff. “Oi
think av ye wor me woife”—puff, puff
—“Oi’d take ut."—Lippincott’s Maga
zine.
Stonework Resisted Gates.
A French scientist visiting the
ruins of St. Pie; re. Martinique, notes
that while much of the stone masonry
Is well preserved, every vestige of
it on-work and other metals was des
troyed by the fearful blasts of hot
gases that came from Mt. Pelee, noth
ing left but a black powder. Evident
ly some extremely rapid chemical
action took place, which cl anged the
metals into oxides, etc.