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THE AMERICAN A lOVtHICK 131 WL. 1t ttt mm I . kj Mm rout tneVtn tlllt I tn.it lli ptae l I'lHi't'r that 1 loft Without Ih f lovriuy 'tl l H lnrHt; Ami trlliy Joy io wny Itimi nut Hni, nrii lli liir'-dk'c o't'i itiltie Tlml liiftlli'ti nil ln'iwwn I y liturl Mint Inlne; lrnl UK lli )HUiig mini, lli blithe mini win Tlit hIihII wtiN my mud lir huilim. What morrow brinuri It? Ah. m fr ny Tim hi'ni'it nmriiiw white hIou 1 wlt, 1C nihil If u I In without Hip I'Mmi jinii'; 0, mii lu ma Hut Mitimiiiiiii sung lodn)'l Th sonid Yc, .verier thsn the ilrowy llUIII Of yelhiW belle.) liii'i. If short or long, II hill line golden ili-iii'li, vet Minn, Ami xlill oii II Inn llio milo word, t'omol J.nl tun fliiniA buck! O all nrtiln to in Jn laitinl within tln'K ml fl rrinii (fii'iiro 01 Ilia sweet sylsblei that, bid m hence, Prom alien wity, limn banishment, to thee. To put HWny my pride of hrnrt nnd sue Kor my old phice In lniirtmiennd weep, Id only ltd: "Jicrp rilitii( unto deep." A llimililntlH Moroni ihliiting lor till) dcW. Asking my own iijniin fur mine; for me A r into, hnvtm, Iwnvon, to rwt me Mini', Hnfo lima the hiiiijnwt-M.ro of my do Hiiiir; J, tt ma cnmo buck, let mo dome back to tlm-l Itomiliiiil J'!. Jones, In New York Bun. warm III. A TlflKK HlhNTRIwS NliUVE. T was m the Hlato of Miran- duo, Now Vene zuela. It was 8 o'clock in the morning and I wan with Manuel, the tiger huntci, on the mountain. After a half hour of cautious walk lug Manuel pann ed at a turn hi the narrow pat h, ami I folt rather than Haw the dawn of tiny wan at hand. There wan a strange Mr in the air, as though the feeble breath of life had come hack to the dead mid inanimate nature. Over beyond the eastern mountain tops the l am were growing pale. The first gray tinge of dawn wan coming a long way oil. Day came slowly, I noted t hin with emprise, for 1 had any number of timen road descriptions ot oawn in mo tropica wherein it wan represented f lint day came wit h a bound out of the blackness of the night. Perhaps the writers of t hese descriptions had waited until the Hit n had already rod denad tho eastern sky before watch ing for t he dawn. From t he timo that 1 noticed the lirnt faint gray streaks In the sky unt il the nun wan actually shining on I he mountain t ops it was iiei'hapn a little more than an hour, have wen theday break In thoKoeky Mount ainn in the same length of time, with the only ililTereneo that in the tropica the day came more swiftly after the rosy lights had come into the ky. Ilotwcon the lirnt graya of the early morning and the rosy hues of actual day there waa little difference In the Cordillera and the Kooky Mountains, J could have watched the coming flay for another bout, but an noon a It waa light enough t o ceo surround ing object Manuel carefully chose. pot which I could occupy (luring the impending gladiatorial exhibition. Jt waa the peak of a high rock that al most overhung the pii h that he even tually dune, and with some difficulty I climbed to the top of it. Nature evidently bad intended the rock for some audi purpose a thia, for It pave a good view of I he path for lorne dint mice on each aid-. I could easily have wen any animal walking upon it. for a considerable distance In either direct ion. There wan plenty of evidence, too, that the advantage of thia peak a ft lookout elation had n apprwiatfd end o-iilby itbrr liiinlrm tbnn limn. lnU n.tonhn nl llirtl whd ht nlpitiiiinnbly tiM, liitd clout bed bet III itfr Mumin pi Must prey. Thin inoeiy gn Hip n tiuld iw-tiomioii. I iniulit h rennuiv nlily fe from I be tt. k of a ig r in (he pi til belmv, lull I benil tiled to think what would be the ivnult if a tiger cftiiie up and found in oc ciipviug Inn tiiivnt pi rnoiuil oul look. W hen I w n comfort nlily concealed behind the rock, nil hough in ft poni tion to kecprnrefol watch of the ex YMinut part of the path Manuel din appeired. llo w-in ntandmg by the bane of the rock one moment and the next moment ho had vanished, lie mtmt have gone like a Herpeiit, for I heard no wound. Then J wan alone on a t iger'a lavortle Co nor! in an unliannled South American forest. It wan hardly apleanant ncna tion, PKpccially an my revolver aecm edtobe, an dotihtlena it wan, a very inmlequ'ito weapon. A mixpicion might have croaned my mind that Manuel had left me there as a bait for a tiger, hut I would not j;ive it a mom ent 'n credence. Thero wi re noinca on the mountain aide by thin time, and some of them were ho dint inct that I could distin qiii.Mh thi'in, Small animala wen; acampering about in the undergrowth and hirdn were calling in the tree. A coniiuol ion among the birds sometii tanco down the palh attracted my attention, and I wondered if a tiger had atirred them up, or if Manuel had st rayed ai far away as that. A few moments later there wan another conunotion in the dintance on the other hand of me, but 1 gave little heed to it. On tho right hand side of the path a email creature, aomething like a Nortli American woodchnck, atopped abort in his leiHiiroly morning walk and an i (Tod anspicioilwly at tho air. I waa to leeward of him in the light breeze that had aprung up, and ho he could not have acented me. lie anid'ed a moment in the direct ion of I he first disturbance, mid then sudden ly dived headlong into the under growth. Assuredly t here was something oil to windward that he was afraid on, The dinlurbmice censed alter a time and then the mountain side wan still again. Looking down over the rock a few moments later I found Manuel gazing up at me. lie pointed away oil to the left, in the direction of the second disturbance, and again 'disappeared. It is probable t hat on thin occasion he hid himself in the undergrowth alongside the path. I pave my un divided attention to the distant llutlering of birds. It waa a curious sort of circus that the hirdn were hav ing. The lit Mo things circled about in t he tops of the treea and screamed shrilly ono to the olher. It. might have been a huge snake that frighten ed and fascinated them, or it might havo been a ti;:er. Manuel knew, in all prohahilily, but he made no sign. Tho disturbance came a little nod r cr but it seemed to me that it moved very alowly, If a t iger were coming along the path he should, in my opinion, have made belter time. I calmed my impatience by assuring myself that if it were a tiger he would come fast enough when ho once got wind of me. It was a long half-hour of suspense hi fore the ilisturbance came within reasonable distance. Hefore half ot that time had passed I wa ealisllcd that something very objectionable to birds was walking leisurely along the path, and perhaps stopping now and then in the hope of surjirising one of I ho hirdn unawares. At length the thing was jmt beyond the turn in the path. Ina moment or two I should sen what it wan. Then I became conscious that Manuel wan standing in themiddleof the path, with hi short spear held in a horizontal position over hisshoulder, This was interesting and at the same time very suggestive. I concentrated my entire nervonn system in on in tense contemplation of the turn in the path. The suspense was awful, Ah! what was that? A striped and spotted animal suddenly stood out in the open. Ilia long tail swung slow ly bom aide to aide, an i his smooth toit tnoed ncnouvly with Nni (in timm iMiioi ion. Itft the tigro( thftrOMtll AlnclicMl fnnt. II bud lopil with on loot Hdvaurrd, and Willi bin hrtd in the altitude of nttrn tion. lie lifid mi ii aomi'thina In lb pathlefoii him, It wan Manuel, who wan mtrtttdiiig inmovahl an a rock I'l'oniit bun. It wan a 1m-uI ilul beaM, nil silk and softnenn and graceful curve. I I bought it a pity that so beautiful a thing should lie hunted to death, but nt the same timet nihil nl that thin wonderfully beauti ful exterior covered a nature that was the living incarnation of ferocity. I do not know how long Manuel and tho tiger laced each other there in tho narrow path hkegladiatora. It seemed a very long I line. Thin wan the text. The tiger wailed hint inctively to see the strange thing before him turn and run away nn everyt hing else in t he for est invariably did, but greatly to bin surprise the t hing stood itagroundlike an immovable rock. The tiger was king of the forest, and he knew it, and when he had made up his mind that thin thing wan not going to run ho came forward slowly to investigate. This was courage, even in a wild brute, and I respected him for it. 1 doubt if the lion or tiger of India has this un shakable nerve. I looked at Manuel as thetigercame hlowly and cautiously up tiie path. He stood like a bronze statue, with his sjiear held over his right shoulder. Not so much nn an eyelid moved. I confess that during this trying timo I wan a bit nervous. This wan a now way of hunting to me, and a decided novelty in the act ions of a wild beast which had not been attacked. I should expect an attack from a grizzly bear after it had been wounded, but assuredly the bear would not take the aggressive an this lithe and beau tiful beast was doing. I will acknowl edge that my heart thumped against my blue flannel shirt so hard that I waa afraid that the noise would at tract tho attention of the tiger. (Slowly came the tiger; like a rock stood Manuel. It looked as though t he case had been reversed, and that tho tiger instead of the half-breed, was the hunter. At length the tiger was within touch ing distance of the man. He looked the bronze figure over from head to foot and then thrust forward his head nnd an i lied at the man's feet. Hack the great beast sprang like a steel spring. Tho figure was flesh and blood. Tho tiger's tail twitched back and forth like a Hail. Tho great jaws opened in n snarl. Quickly the beast; measured bin distance and crouched with quivering sinews for a spring. Huch calm courage was grand beyond all description. It was matched only by the steadfast nerve of the man. Now came the crisis. I could see the huge muscles heaving under the striped skin. In another second the tiger would leap upon his prey. In that instant I he hunter made a mo tion with his left nrm as quick as light itself. He lore a handkerchief from bin neck and t hrust it full in f lie tiger's face. Up went the tiger's head in a quiver of electrical amazement. Then the hunter's poised right arm shot for ward with incredible force and the spear buried iisell half way to tho huddle in the tiger's neck. Ah, It was nobly done; and through out it all, from the beginning until the wonderful ending, thehuntcr'a nerve never faltered so much as by a hair'a breadth, licfore 1 could catch my breath and swallow I ho lumps of ap prehension t hat had risen unbidden m my throat tho fierce beast was dead in tho path. 1 scrambled down from the rock stood beside the dead forest-king. Manuel picked up his handkerchief and pulled out his apear. There was a faint suggestism of a smile about his impassive face. l)oe the Senor Americano believe?" ho nnked. "He does," I answered, and I reached him my hand in that univer sal brotherhood of man which civili zation can never efface. By the aide of that dead tiger the savage and tho son of civilization were on the one common level of man. Thero could be ito difference. New York Itccorder. TROUBLE 9 OP AN INVENTOR. ! Ik ! M Ha'vlr ot Mcllnll Ma tttrtrl ) t Mi . Al thi c!o of ths year It wa an nmineed In I'reech newspajairs that new eplolv had bona Invented, mm iiovd ti which dynamitu ami uitm jilyivriiio worn an plaything. The nn mo or thin new article ni innliuiUt, nnd tho Inventor wh a M. Turpi a, a French chemist. Army engineers toh-d It and found It "altogether satisfactory." A shell which w an fired into an old condemned fort nonr I'nrla blew tho whole struct ure to ntiiinn; not a stone or a handful of oarlh wan left in its plneiv In ox plod ng. tho melinite reiolvoJ It.wilf Into such powerful panes that nothing could withstand Its dontruet've force. The invent on meant a revolution in warfare; even the boht modern works of do eu io were now rendered quite useless. Tho Inventor reoeivod tho due amount of pra'ao. II. s explosive was called boulanglto In honor of the tliotl popular m Ulster of war, and the French government promiaod to buy bis tnvout on. Hut Itoulanyor foil, and his succoss or, M. Camponon. seemed to have for gotten both Turpin nnd tho melinite, as it again was called. Tat Holism is a very noblo quality, but the best patriot must have money, and M. Turpln coneluilod to sell his invention to somo other gov ernment, or to somegun manufacturer. He thought, of the Armstrongs, la Kngland. says tho Detroit Free Press, who are the most extensive manufact urers In their linn, next to Krupp, la Esson and ho uddressud himself to M. Trlponnot, tholr agent lu l'aln. Trlp onnet advised him to go to their works nt Newcastle, which Monsieur Turpln did. His astonishment may bo imngtnod when he upon his arrival found that his invention wan already known la England. The Armstrongs had it com plete knowledge of tho relative quan tity of tho component purls of the mel inite ns well as of nil other seorots connected with its manufacture, and the firm hud called him only to obtain his personal alllrmation ol tho correct ness of the process, and tho genuine noes of the article, for which they of fered him 760, 000 franc. Thin prop osition M. Turpin ro.octod and went back to I'ar!s In a rago. Here he very soon learned how the English firm hail come into poHnesslon of hln secret. '1 heir agent In l'arls had ulinply hud his father-in-law steal the necessary document from the archive of tho war department. M. Turpln now made formal com plaint to tho government, and a com inlttee of investigation was appointed. The chairman was an army officer who had iisnisted Trlporinot'a father-in-law In the theft, and tho investigation ended in smoke, of course, After four yearn of wailing and fu tile agitation, M. Turpln ban now finally taken the bull by tho horm and,, publhdicd a puiripbiot In which he given a complete account of the ease and tho treatment he has suffered. Tho publication of several of the documents and facts contained In this pamphlet wan very annoy Ingf to tho government, and the unsold halanoo of the edition whs recently conllseatod by order of the war depart merit. Al the same time Trlponnot ruid Turpln were both arrested. 'I'd pun net's father-in-law, the actual thief, had already "evaporated." II I tin for AM Tl.lii j. Deacon Khony --"Now that th wa teriiiilllon cron Is boi t owih, It seen, ter me, MlMah .lelt, It would he a good time tcr aiiirt, a revl al. ' I am in .ictt ."Not ylt. Jirmldor I'bony, not yet. The spring ihl'ken crop fa Je begun."