i (iOOI) TIMES COMilSG.
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IV. Cft TA'-MAGE PREACHES
OM RETURNING PROSPERITY.
He Gives Three l'recn ption for the
Cure of l.'uiiiess Pepression and Elo
gently L'rgvs Their Claim to Coafi-deuce-1
he Vkjaac of Life.
Ogr Weeklr Sermon.
This discourse of Dr. Taliimge allows
Low all uiuy help iu the restoration of
good times and in tnmt appropriate. Text,
l.aiiieut.-itioug iii., 3!, "Wherefore doth a
living iiinu complain?"
A cheerful interrogatory iu the most
melancholy book of the Bible! Jeremiah
wrote no many mmJ things that we have a
word named after him, and when any
thing is turcharged with grief and com
plaint we call it a jeremiad. But in my
text Jeremiah, as ly a midden jolt, wak
ens us to a thankful spirit.
Our blessings are so much more numer
ous than our deserts that he is surprised
that anybody should ever find fault. Hav
ing life, and with it a thousand blessings,
it ought to hush into perpetual silence
everything like criticism of the dealings
of Jod. "Wherefore doth a living man
complain?"
While everything in our national finan
ces is brightening, for the last few years
the land has been set to the tune of "Na
omi." There has been here and there a
V cheerful soloist, but the grand chorus has
been one of lamentation accompanied by
f. dirges ocr prostrated commerce, silent
vnianiif.ictories, unemployed mechanism
' and all those disorders described by the
two short words, "hard times." The fact
is that we have been paying for the bloody
luxury of war more than thirty years ago.
"There were great national differences, and
we had not enough Christian character to
settle them by arbitration and treaty, and
so we went Into buttle, expending life and
treasure and well nigh swamping the na
tional finances, and North and South,
East and West, have ever since been pay
ing for those four years' indulgence in
barbarism.
Hut the time has come when this depres
sion ought to end yea, when it will end
if the people are willing to do two or
three things by way of financial medica
ment, for the people ns well as Congress
must join in the work of recuperation.
The best ploitical economists tell us that
there is no good reason for continued pros
tration. I'lelity of money awaiting in
vestment. The national health with nev
er so strong an arm or ho clear a brain.
Yet we go on groaning, groaning, groan
ing, as though God had put this nation
upon gruel and allowed us but one de
cent breakfast in six months. The fact
is the habit of complaining has become
chronic in this country, and after all
these ye'irs of whimwr ami wailing and
objurgation we are under such a momen
tum of snivel that we cannot stop.
Three Prescriptions.
There are three prescriptions by which
I believe that our individual and national
Bnances n.uy lie cured of their present de
pression. . The first b' cheerful eonvcrsa
V, tion and behavior. I have noticed that
fthe people who are most vociferous
against the day In which we live are those
who are in comfortable circumstances.
' X have made inquiry r,f thf.se persons who
are violent in their jeremiads against
these times and I have asked them,
"Now, after all, are you not making a
living?" After some hesitation anil
coughing anil clearing their throat three
or four times they say fttnuimeriugly,
"Y-e-s." So that with a great multitude
of people it is not a question of getting a
livelihood, but they are dissatisfied be
cause they cannot make as much money
as they would like to make. They have
only SU.flOO in the bank, where they would
like to hi.ve $I,(MKI. They can clear in a
year only $.r,0(M), when they would like
to clear $1),0('1(, or things come out just
even.' Or in (heir trade they get &1 a
day when they wish they could make $i
or ?". "Oh," says some one, "are you not
aware of the fact that there is a great
population out of employment, and there
are hundreds of the good families of this
country who are at their wits' end, not;
knowing which way to turn?" Yes, I
kno'- it better than any man in private
life can know that sad fact, for it comes
constantly to my eye and ear, but who is
responsible for this state of things?
Much of that responsibility I put upon
men in comfortable circumstances who
by an everlasting growling keep public
confidence depressed and new enterprises
from tstarting out and new houses from
being built. You know very well that
one despondent man can talk fifty men
info despondency, while one cheerful phy
sician can wake up into exhilaration a
whole asylum of hypochondriacs. It is no
kindness to the poor or the unemployed
v'tot J'011 to l"m '" "l'tl deploration. If you
fcave not fhe wit and the common sense
to think of something cheerful to say,
J then keep silent. There is no man that
can be independent of depressed con ver
nation. The medical Journals are ever
illustrating it. I was reading of five men
who resolved that they would make mi
experiment and see what they could do in
the way of depressing a stout, healthy
man, and they resolved to meet him at
different points in his journey, and as be
alepped out from his house one morning
in robust health one of the five men met
Dim and said: "Why, you look very sick
to-day. What is the matter?" lie said:
"I am In excellent health. There Is noth
ing the matter." Hut, passing down file
street, he began to examine bis symp
toms, and the second of the five men met
him nml said, "Why, how bnd you do
look!" "Well," he replied. "I don't feel
very well." After awhile the third man
met him, and fhe fourth man met him,
and the ffth man came up and said:
"Why, yon look as If you had had the
typhoid fever for six weeks. What is the
matter with you?" And the mini sgainst
whom the slriitegem hud been laid went
home and died. And If you meet a man
with perpetual talk about hard times and
bankruptcy and dreadful winters that are
to come on break down his courage. A
few autumns ago, as the winter was eoni
ing nn, people said: "We shall have a
terrible Inter. The poor will lie frozen
out tills winter." There was something
in the large store of acorns that the squir
rels had gathered and something in the
phases of the moon and something in oth
er portUMiU that made you certain we
were going to have a hard winter. Win
ter came. It was the mildest one within
- my memory and within your. All that
winter long I do not think there was an
Icicle tbiit liiiiil through tke day from the
eaves of the house. Mo you prophesied
falsely. Last winter was coming, and
the people Mid: "We shall hare unparal
leled nifTcrinf among (lie poor. It will be
u dreadful winter." Sur enough it waa
a cold winter, but there were more large
hearted charities thun ever before siured
out on lie- country; better provision made
for the Mior, no that there have been
score i,f winters when the sior bad a
harder time than they did last winter.
Weather prophets say we'will have frosts
this summer which will kill the harvests.
Now, let me tell you, you have lied twice
alsnit the weather, and I believe you are
lying this time.
Some jMiiple are so overborne with the
dolorousness of the times that they say we
sbaH have communistic outrages iu this
country such as they had in France. I
do not believe it. The parallel does not
run. They have no Sabbath, no Kible,
no (Iod in France. We have all these
defenses tor our American people, and
public opinion is such that if the people
in this country attempt a cutthroat expe
dition they will land in Sing Sing or from
the gallows go up on tight rope. I do not
believe the people of this country will ever
commit outrages and riot and murder for
the sake of getting bread, but all this
luguhrosity of tone and face keeps people
down. Now I will make a contract. If
the peo.de of the United States for one
week will talk cheerfully, I will open all
the manufactories; I will give employment
to all the unoccupied men and womeu; I
will make a lively market for your real
estate that is eating you up with taxes;
I will step the long processions on the
way to the poorhouse and the peniten
tiary, and I will spread a plentiful table
from Maine to California and from Ore
gon to Handy Hook, and the whole land
shall carol and thunder with national
jubilee. Hut says some one, 'T will take
that contract, but we can't affect the
whole nation." My hearers and readers,
representing as you do all professions, nil
trades and nil occupations, if you should
resolve never again to utter n dolorous
word about the money markets, but by
milliner, and by voice, and by wit and
caricature, and, above all, by faith in (tod,
try to scatter this national gloom, do you
not believe the influence would be instan
taneous and widespread? The effect
would be felt around the world. For God's
sake and for the sake of the poor and for
flic sake of the unemployed, quit growl
ing. Oepend upon it, if you men in com
fortable circumstances do not stop com
plaining, (iod will blast your harvests,
and see bow you will get along without a
corn crop, and be will sweep you with
Hoods, and he will devour you with grass
hoppers, and he will burn your city. If
you men in comfortable circumstances
keep on complaining, God will give you
something to complain about. Mark that!
Christian Investment.
The second prescription for the allevia
tion of financial distresses is proper Chris
tian itiv-estrncnt. God demands of every
individual State and nation a certain pro
portion of their income. We are parsi
monious! We keep back from God that
w hich belongs to him, and when we keep
buck anything from God lie takes what
we keep back, and be takes more. He
takes it by storm, by sickness, by bank
ruptcy, by any one of the ten thousand
ways which lie can employ. The reason
many of you are cramped in business is
because ou have never learned the les
son of Christian generosity. You employ
an agent. You give him a reasonable sal
ary, mid, lo, you find out that he is appro
priating your funds, besides the salary.
What do you do? Oischnrge him. Well,
we are God's agents. lie puis in our
hands e rluin moneys. I'nrt is to be ours;
part is to be his. Suppose we take all,
what then? He will discharge us; lie
will turn ns over to financial disasters
and take the trust away from us. The
reason that great multitudes are not pros
pered in business is simply been use they
have hen withholding from God that
which belongs to him. The rule is, give
and you will receive; administer liberally
and you si all have more to administer. I
am in full sympathy with the man who
was to be baptized by immersion, and
some one said, "You bail better leave
your lockctbook out; it will get wet."
"No," sai I he, "I want to go down under
the wine wilJi everything. I want to con
secrate my property and all to God." And
so he was baptized. What we want iu
this country is more baptized pocketbooks.
The only safe investment that a man
can make iu this world is iu the can e of
Christ. If a man give from a super
abundinee, God may or he may not re
spond with a blessing, but if a man give
until he feels it, if u man give until it
fetches the blood, if a mini give until his
selfishness cringes and twists and cowers
under it, he .will get not only spiritual
profit, but he will get paid back in hard
cash or in convertible securities. We often
see men who are tight fisted who seem to
get along with their investments very
profitably, notwithstanding ail their parsi
mony. Hut wait. Suddenly iu that man's
history ecry thing goes wrong. His health
fails or his renson is dethroned, or u do
mestic curse smites him, or a midnight
shadow of some kind drops upon his soul
and upon his business. What is the mat
ter? God is punishing him for his small
heartediiess. He tried to cheat (iod, and
(tod worsted him. So that one of the re
cipes for the cure of individual mid na
tional finances is more generosity. When;
you bestow $1 on the cuuse of Christ give
$2. God loves to be trusted, and he is
very apt to tist back again. He suys:
"That n. an knows how to haudle money.
He shall have more money to handle."
And very soon the property that was on
the market for a great while gets a pur
chaser, and the bond that was not worth
more than !0 cents on H dollar goes at
par, and the opening of a new street dou
bles fhe value of his house, or In any way
of a million God blesses him.
Once a man finds out that secret and
he goes on to fortune. There me men
whom I have known who for ten years
have been trying to pay God ?U"Hl. They
have never been able to get it mid, for
just ns they were taking out from one fold
of their pocketbook a bill, mysteriously
somehow in some other fold of their pock
et hook there came a larger bill. You tell
me t tin t Christian generosity pays In the
world to come. I tell you It pays now,
pays in hard cash, pays in Government
securities. You do not believe it? Ah,
that Is what keep you back. I knew
you did not believe It. The whole world
and Christendom is lo be reconstructed on
this subject, and ns yon are a part of
Christendom, let the work begin in your,
own soul. "Hut, snys some one, "I don t
believe Ihnt theory, becnuse I have been
generous nnd I have been losing money
for ten years." Then God prepaid you,
that is nil. What became of the money
that rou made In other days 7
You say to your non, "Now, I will give
you ffiOO every year ns long as you live."
After itrHe you say, "Well, my son, you
prore yourself no worthy of my confidence
I will ;ut gWe you $20,000 In a single
lump." And you it to him, and be
starts olT. In two or three year he does
not compiiii against you: "Father is not
taking care of me. I ought to have 5iKJ
a year." You prepaid your son, and he
does not complain. There are thousands
of us now who can this year get just
enough to supply our wants, but did not
God provide for us in the past, and has
he not again and again and again paid us
in advance in other words, trusted you
all along, tiustcd you more than you had
a right to ask? Strike, then, a balance
for God. Kconomize in :. nythiug rather
than in your Christian charities.
A Divine Promise.
People c,uole as a joke what is a divine
promise, "Cast thy bread upon the waters
and it will return to thee after many
days." What did God mean by that?
There is an allusion there. Iu Egypt
when they sow the corn, it is at a time
when the Nile is overflowing its banks,
and they sow the seed corn on the waters,
and as the Nile begins to recede this seed
corn strikes in the earth and comes up a
harvest, and that is the allusion. It seems
as if they are throwing the corn away on
the wafers, but after awhile they gather
it up iu a harvest. Now says God in his
word, "Cost thy bread upon the waters
and it shall come back to thee after many
days." It may seem to you that you are
throwing it away on charities, but it will
yield a him est of green and gold a har
vest on earth and a hurvest in heaven.
If men o.ufd appreciate that and uet on
that, we would have no more trouble
about individual or national finances.
Prescription the third, for the core of
all our individual and national financial
distresses a great spiritual awakening.
It is no mere theory. The merchnnts of
this country were positively demented
with the monetary excitement in 1857.
There never before nor since has been
such a state of financial depression as
there was at that time. A revival came,
and 5i)0,iOO people were born into the
kingdom of God. What came after the
revival? The grandest financial prosper
ity we have ever had iu this country. The
finest fortunes, the largest fortunes in the
t'nited States, have been made since
1N57. "Well," you say, "what has spirit
ual improvement and revival to do with
monetary improvement and revival?"
Much to do. The religion of Jesus Christ
has a direct tendency to make men honest
and sober and truth telling, and are not
honesty nnd sobriety nnd truth telling
auxiliaries of material prosperity? If we
could have an awakening in this country
as in the days of Jonathan Kdwards of
Northampton, as in the days of I r. Finley
'if Hasking Uidgc, as in the days of Or.
Griflin of Host on, the whole land would
rouse to a higher moral tone, and with
that moral tone the honest business enter
prise of fhe country would come up. You
say a great awakening has an influence
upon the future world. I tell you it has a
direct influence upon the financial welfare
of this world. The religion of Christ is
no foe fo successful business. It is its
best friend. And if there should come a
great awakening in this country, and all
the banks and insurance companies and
stores and offices and shops should close
up for two weeks and do nothing but at
tend to the public worship of Almighty
God, after such a spiritual vacation the
land would wake up to such financial
prospeiity as we have never dreamed of.
Godliness is profitable for the life that is
as well us for that which is to come; but,
my fricn Is, do not put so much emphasis
on worldly success as to let your eternal
affairs go at; loose ends. I have nothing
to say against money. The more money
you get the better, if it comes honestly
ami goes nn fully. For the lack of it sick
ness dies without medicine, and hunger
linils its coffin in an empty bread tray,
and nakedness shivers for clothes and
tire. All this canting tirade against money
as though it liiul no practical use, when
1 hear a man indulge in it, it makes me
think the best heaven for him would be
an everlasting poorhouse. No, there is a
praetie-il use in money, but while we ad
mit that, we must also admit that it can
not pay for our ferriage across the Jor
dan of death; that it cannot unlock tha
gate of heaven for our immortal soul.
A Word of Wornlna.
Yet iheie are men who act ns though
packs ot bonds and mortgages could be
trailed of! for a mansion in heaven and
as though gold were a legal tender iu that
land where it is so common that they
make pavements out of it. Salvation by
Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in
heaven are the only incorruptible treas
ures. Have you ever ciphered out that
sum in loss and gain, "What shall it profit
a man it' he gain the whole world and lose
bis soul?" You may wear fine apparel
now, but the winds of death will Mutter
it like rags. Homespun and a threadbare
coat have sometimes been the shadow of
robes white in the blood of the I.anib,
All the mines of Australia and Brazil,
strung in one carcanet, arc not worth to
you us much as the pearl of great price.
You remember, I suppose, some years ago,
the shipwreck of the Central America? A
storm cnine on that vessel. The surges
tramped fhe deck and swept down
through the hatches, and there went up
a hundred voiced death shriek. The foam
on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of
the steamer, as though it would leap a
mountain. The glare of the signal rock
ets. The long cough of the steam pipes.
The hiss of extinguished furnaces. The
walking of God on the wave. Oh, it wag
a stupendous spectacle. Hu tthat ship
did not go down without a struggle. The
passengers stood In long lines trying to
bail it out and men unused to toil tugged
until their hands were blistered nnd their
muscles were strained. After awhile a
sail came in sight. A few passengers got
o(T, but tin? most went down. The ship
gave one lurch and whs lost.
So there are men who go In life a line
voyage they are making out of it. All is
well, lilWsome euroclydon of business dis
aster cones upon them, and they go down.
The bottom of this commercial sen is
strewn with the shattered hulks, but be
cause jour property goes shall your soul
go? Oh, no! There Is coming a more
stupendous shipwreck after awhile. This
world, God launched it 0,000 years ngo,
and it Is sailing on, but one day it will
stagger at the cry of "Fire!" and the tim
bers of the rocks will burn, nnd the mouu
tniiiH flume like masts, and the clouds like
sails In the judgment hurricane. God will
take a good many off the deck, and others
out of the berths, where they are cow
sleeping ill Jesus. How many shall go
down? No one will know -mill It Is an
nounced In heaven one day: "Shipwreck
of n world! So many millions saved! Ha
many millions drowned!" Itecause yoni
fortunes go, because your house goes, be
cause nil your earthly possessions go, d
not let your soul go! May the Lord Al
mighty, through the blood of the everuwt
lug rsvsuant, sera your souls!
N
O," said Tom Moran, "adven
ture! don't seem to come my
way. My experience in that
tine would hardly be worthy of men
tion, but somehow Brother Bob has a
genuine talent for tumbling into all
manner of adventures. Brother Bob
has had cjulte a number of pretty close
calls in the wild regions In which we
have traveled, but be has plenty of gTlt
and ha.s always been able to pull
through."
Tojin Moran Is a miner who was grad
uated iu the Comstock whool of mining
years ago and who haa sln?e had much
experience In Mexico, Australia, India
and other gold-producing countries.
"It Is singular that you should have
been able to travel through m many
strange countries without a few hair
breadth escaiM-a or some other experi
ences worthy of lelng related," said one
of the old Oomstock friends who were
questioning Tom in regard to his trav
els In foreign lands. "IMd you never
run against a tiger while in India?"
"Tiger," said Tom, with a laugh.
"Well, yes, I've run against the 'tigers'
of nearly every country on the two
side of the glole."
"I am shaking now of the real, roar
ing, ramping Bengal tiger the striped
leat of the Jungle," said the Coin
stocker. "I saw quite a number of tigers
while in India and went after the
animals on regular hunts. I killed a
few while I was there, In order to get
some good skins."
"Never got Into close quarters with
one?"
"Well, not very; but Brother Bob had
rather a Iwid lsut with a big hill tiger
up in Nepaul."
"Did Bob get away with the tiger?"
"Yes, Itrother Bob is true grit; the
tiger was kilb-d."
"As you bnd no adventures of your
own during your travels, Tom," said a
Conwtocker, "suppose you give u.s the
story of Rob'H tiger fight."
"I am ftorry Brother Bob is not here
to tell you nlKiut his iwttle with 'Mad-
THE TIGEK SPRANG
nine Sti-iiies,' but a.s he is not with us
this evening, I will give you a little
sketch of t he affair as I .saw It
! "Brother Hob and I were up on the
Nepaiil frontier, headed for the lower
slopes of the Himalayas.
"Iu place of the ducks, cranw, coots
and pelicans of the lagoons along the
lowland course of the Koosee we now
legnu to sie quail, partridges, pea fowl,
Horican and other upland birds. In
places hidden in patches of dense Jungle
and overgrown with vines and creeers
were dilapidated temples Indicating
that the whole country had at some
time tx-en luhalrited, though In the pres
ent age only a few scattered villages
are to be found. Outside of the villages
there are here anil there huts Inhabited
ly the 'gwalla,' or cowherd caste, and
these huts of tlie men of the cattle sta
tions are often in the heart of almost
impenetrable stretches of Jungle.
"While in this beautiful region our
guns kept us well supplied with all
kinds of game, and we first and last
killed many wolves, jackals, leopards
! and alsnil a dozen tigers, great and
small. The British and wealthy na
tives nltiMist always use olepliants In
hunting tigers, sometimes having fifty
' or more of the huge beasts In line; but
' as we were not In a ixwltioii to com
! numd a supply of eleplisunts, we did our
work on foot, hiring a score or more of
I coolies, with toin toms, firecrackers and
: horns to beat through small patches of
Jungle. At first we mounted ourfjclves
on 'iiiyeha!is,''laiiboo platforms, at the
point where we expecU-d the game to
aps"r, but after we had learned some
thing of the nature and ways of the
tiger we did not bother with platforms,
but took our chances on the ground.
4 "The gwallas of the region were al
ways ready to bring us news of a tiger
having killed one of rhelr cattle, and
when we got news of a 'kill' we were
soon out after the killer. Often the
gvniJhis would lie able to point out the
patch of Jungle to which the tiger had
retired after making tlie kill anil feast
ing his nn.
"It was here In this foothill region
that Brother Hob had his adventure
with a big Mil tiger. A 'sliekarry,' a
ttitive e a pert hunter, wiho keeiw him
self well ptcd In regard to the move
ments of game and nxiaiges Mints for
,Uth BritMi and rich natives, one (lay
came to our camp and proposed to give
us some sjiort. He said that as neither
toe Bof Uh nor the native prlucea were
1 1
hunfUng at that season business was
very slack with him. He offered tor a
very reasonable price to bring out his
people atid beat -through a piece of Jun
gle which he knew to be alive with all
kinds of game. As a part of the bargain
Brother Bob and I were to kill as many
wild hogs, deer and the like as we could
knock over, the shekarry saying his
Xeople were all very hungry for meat.
"The particular piece of jungle se
lected by the old game expert to be
beaten through lay between the forks
of two large streams with high and
steep banks. A more favorably situ
ated jungle for siort could not have
been found. As Bob and I would sta
tion ourselves near the junction of the
two streams nothing could pass that
way without being seen. We took sta
tions about fifty yards apart at a point
where the jungle becnine somewhat
thin and ojeii, each thrusting into the
ground a leafy branch of ' parass to
serve as a screen or blind. After a long
wait we heard faintly In the distance
the sound of the torn toms and the
shouts of the beaters as they advanced
into the Jungle.
"Presently we heard a rustling upon
the stray leaves in front, and a troop
of monkeys, loudly chattering their
alarm, came hopping out of the dense
jungle.
"As yet we had seen no deer or other
detrtrable game, but the beaters were
still far away. Taking a iieep from le
hind my screen, I was somewhat stir
prised to see a large female tiger come
gliding out of the thick Jungle, crouch
ing close to the ground as she passed
into the open. She was on Brother
Bob's side of the Jungle and was mov
ing straight toward him, apparently
more concerned about the commotion
behind her than afraid of danger in
f ront. Bob had also seen the tiger and
had dropped to one knee behind his
screen nd loveh! his rifle. Every mo
ment I expected to hear the report of
Bob's gun, as the tiger was within ten
yards of his blind and was moving
slowly.
UPON BK0TI1ER BOB."
"Some noie in the jungle frightened
the skulking beast and, after a quick
backward glance, it blindly bounded
forward. At tlie second bound the
tiger landed almost on top of Bob, as he
crouched behind lite fragile screen. In
stantly lie fired, thrusting his rifle at
the beast without aim. Wounded by the
shot, the tiger uttered a howl of rage,
dashed aside the screen and struck Boh
a blow with a fore paw that sent his
gun flying and left him stretched seiise
lsi on his back.
"I rushed forward at once to Bobs
assistance. As I ran the Infuriated
beast threw herself upon Bob and be
gan tearing at Mm with her teeth.
Hearing a sound as of cracking bones,
I thought every rib in poor Bob's body
was lieing cruwhod. As I feared to use
my rifle I threw It down and drew my
revolver. My yells, as I rushed on the
tiger, ca used her to cease tearing at
Bob and fix her eyes upon me. But she
still retained her position across Bob's
breast while showing her teeth and
snarling at me.
"I thought It prolwble that she was so
badly wounded as not to be able to rise
uihmi her legs and so decided to take her
at close' quarters and make sure of her.
With my pistol In my right hand and iu
my left a long-bladed knife, sharp as a
razor, I crept forwa: I advanced
crouched almost upon my kiie, as the
tiger's position across poor Bob was
such that I feared to fin? with a down
ward range.
"I had got up within ten feet of the
tiger when she suddenly left Bob and
leaied at me. The charge of the loat
was a surprl, but by n backward
move I avoided her leap and as she
passed fired my pistol Into her mk, at
the same moment plunging the knilfe
Into her side up to the hilt. She fell
and did not move from where he land
ed, the piwtol shut having broken her
neck.
"Seeing the tiger was In lis death
struggles I turned my attention to
Brother Bob, who was Ktlll stretched
unconscious tijton the ground. The
liealcin were fast approaching through
the Jungle with great uproar nnd
thumping of tout toms, wild igs In
:! both bhudi and gray, were
rushli by, spotted deer were charging
pturt ci.ii the wlmle Jungle seemed alive
with Kme of all kinds, some droves of
wild pigs almost running over me.
"I was Just stooping over Bob when
a hug male tiger bounded out of the
Jungle nhd" 'halted within ten fc at
where I stood. I had my pliriol upon
niin fn an InKfauCaixl hta hid wm
mi held that a bullet would not jrlane1
from his skull I took good aim and gave
him a shot iK-tweeti the eye that
brought him down as dead as thoufrh
he hud been a sheep or an ox. Seetng
that the shot had killed the tiger I ran
down to tlie river, filled my hat with
waiter and went to work to try to re
store Bob's son's. He had bee a badly
stunned and was breathing heavily, but
I saw he had no bad wounds and soon
had the satisfaction to see Mm open M
eyes, when it was not long before bte
wits returned and he was able to sit up.
The paw of the tiger liad struck Mm on
the side of the head and knocked him
senseless, but had only slightly wound
ed his scalp. The weight of the tiger on
his chest liad almost stopped Ms breath
and he felt some internal soreness. We
found that his life had been saved by a
lucky chance. In a game bag he had
slung to his side were some quail and a
pea fowl or two, and it was these the
tiger had seized upon and crunched In
her blind rage, not Bob's ribs.
"Bob was much astonished and be
wildered when he saw two dead tigers
stretched out alongside of him. I told
him that he had gone Into a sort of de
lirium of rage and killed them both, and
for a time he Indieved my story. He
said he had an Indistinct recollection
of having done a good deal of fighting.
We found that his shot had plowed
through the muscles of the female tig
er's left shoulder, only slightly wound
ing her, but probably paralyzing her
left fore leg.
"When the old sbekarry came up with
his crowd of beaters he was at first
much disappointed that we had killed
no deer or wild pigs. 'Alas, sahibs,'
cried he, 'no meat no meatr He, how
ever, soon cheered up and took great
credit to himself for having said there
were tigers in the jungle. After the
tigers were skinned we went down to
the river and killed for the old fellow
quite a lot of pigs. We were well satis
fied with our prizes, the skins of the
two tigers. The male measured, as he
lay on the ground, eleven feet two
inches from tip to tip and the female
ten feet four inches.
"They were unusually large hill tig
ers, which are of heavier build than
the tigers of the valleys, but average
less in length. To kill tigers with a pis
tol was a feat before unheard of on the
frontier, and obtained for us great
credit for nerve, but give a tiger a
square shot in the head and he will go
down like a bullock. Many tigers are
killed by single shots from rifles, but
the man who goes after tigers on foot
must have a considerable amount of
nerve. I could always bet on the nerve
of Brother Bob."
Nervousness of Motormen.
Neurologists aw watching with
great initercst a new expression, of
nervous malady which has appeared
since the laiitroductiian of the Broad
way cable cars and the Brooklyn
trolley sys-tom. With the exception
of Clw-ago tlicie are no other cities
liaivtoig- m much street traffic as New
York, and where these methods of
transportation are in operation. A
nervous 'state, unlike that which is
excited by great noise or sudden
danger, has developed in several grip
uncin employed on the Broadway road,
iiwul yjtuoiiig the motonnen of the
Brooklyn trolley lines.
Tlie coinsitainit lookout for callisdons
in the overcrowded district below
!a.inl street, in Broadway, keeps tlie
gripman in a state of extreme ner
vous taieiion from the time he goes
on his car till he goes off. Besides
Ueep!ii)'g an eye open for visible trouble,
his mind dwells on possibilittas that
are under Ids feet. He does not
know where there is to tie a pool
tag of initercstis between the grip
and a broiken strand in tlie cable,
which will whisk him along the street,
crashing into trucks, smasiMng
wagons, frightening people and exas
perating the city fathers. This nervous
strain results first in wakefulness,
then In loss of appetite and extreme
.irritability; after this a tremor In the
faciail museles. Ait the end of a week,
says tihe medical examiner, all these
symptoms disappear, and do not come
for ten days, but afterward the tar
tcrva.ls are regular, about a week a
part seven days In a state of ner
vous terror, and seven days In a
hetilthy state, apparently. These
symptoms apply only to men of ner
vous. nervo-iMngiiiifie and bilious teon
peraiineiit.s. While present im other
toiiiiwra incuts, they are not pro.
noumced.
Dally Occupation.
It is not unusual to banish from thta
portion of life any Idea or hope of
peace. That is kept for the evening,
when labor is over, and the comfort
of home and rest takes its place; or it la
reserved for the evening of life, when
exertion ceases and energy droops; oi
It Is relegated to some time In the fu
ture, when sufficient means have been
secured to make work appear unneces
sary. It stands for the realization In
some way of ease, comfort, leisure, lux.
ury, opportunity. On the other hand,
toll, effort, hardship, struggle are all
put In oiositlon to It. Thus men will
often live lives of lalior and sacrifice,
hoping by this means to obtain peac
and tranquility when flie toll Is over,
But, to unite the two, to enjoy peace ll
toll, tranquility In effort, seldom oc
curs fo them. Yet no peace worth hark
Ing exists without power, and powei
must luive Its outlet In activity.
Uniformity of Hlie.
An evidence of ihf striking uniform,
lty of size among the .l.ipauese l foun4
Iu the fact that iccc;it measurement!
taken of an Infantry regiment showed
no variations exceeding two laches It
height or twenty pounda in weight
A model husband Vets Ms wife hart
her own way, even wlMt be know
la not good for her,
