HOW I FOUGHT
"I have heard a great deal about cats
and timers, their similarity of aperies,
their Insatiable desire for Wood. Hut
I used to think that cata were made
to suffer for the ln of their relative
tigers, a was difficult for me ti imag
ine how such a domestic, friendly, coo
ing creature as the cat usually Is could
turn out to he a 'blond-seeking beam.
Ordinarily the cat rubs against one,
seeks friendship, loves to be stroked
and asks to be petted, liut the horrible
beast which attacked me has upset all
my preconceived Ideas about tats, says
Tfvette Guilbert in the New York Jour
nal. Perhaps that cat was an excep
tion. 1.7 pon Inquiry, however, I find the
exceptions rather numerous. The hor
rible beast flew at me without provo
cation. X was alone.
As Ill-luck would have It, no one was
within call.
The cat's eyes glared like fiery balls.
It showed Its tiger-like teeth. It hissed
forth sounds such aa are heard when
one throws water upon the Are.
Jt wagged its tail with fiendish de
light. Then followed a terrific- spring, the
brute evidently Intending to land upon
my throat
Nature has endowed me with very
Ion garniH.
The gestures occasioned by my call
ing have strengthened these arms.
I had no weapon of defence.
With my arm I struck out against
Ihe cat.
Fortunately I did not lose my head.
The great thing was to prevent the
rat from getting a grip on me. This I
knew.
I struck with all my might. No prize
fighter ever mustered up all his force
with more energy than I. Prize fighters
usually contend for a championship. I
thnught I was fighting for my life.
The fxiliceman who fought two cats
recently in Paris was armed with a
sword. He- lunged and parried as tho'
he were fighting a duel. He pierced
their foodies with his sabre. Itut sword
less as I was, what could I do? Merely
keep op the fight as long as the strength
f my great arms lasted. I cannot de
scribe the fight by rounds, for there
was no respite. It was a case of con
tinuous action. Bvery secind I hoped
would bring some one to my assistance.
A!aj, no one came! Even my maid,
who rarely leaves me, was not within
the. sound of my voice. On (his occa
sion every one seemed to have deserted
me. I began to think what an awful
fa.te waa about to befall me.
An artist of my standing to be killed
by a cat! Perish the thought!
I struc k the brute a terrific blow. H
daggered; it rallied. It tnade one su
preme Jump at my throat. instead of
LOST TRIBE IN
Thomas Campbell's vision of "The
Ixmt Man" came near being realized
In the history of the trile of Eskimo
recently discovered by Captain Cro
mer, commander of an Arctic what
iner vessel, on .Southampton Island, In
the north end of Hudson bay. These
people are less than I'M) In number,
ttnd they believed that they were the
only human beings on the earlh. For
more than 400 years they had been
ohut up in that lonely retreat, which
is about thi size of the state of Maine,
living in the must primitive style. ln-crr-dible
as It may seem, not ,a single
iirthle Introduced on the American
continent since its discovery by Co
lumbus was found o nthls island.
Captain Cromer obtained a large col
lection of the weapons and household
effects used by this strange tribe. This
collection has Is-en secured by the
American Museum of Natural History
of New York, and It will soon be placed
on exhibition In the east wing of that
great Institution.
These Eskimo speak a language dif
ferent from that employed by the Ks
kimo of the far North, and different
from any other language known, but
their size, color and habits proclaim
lhcm undoubtedly members of the
name general family. The men and
women are clothed alike, in Jackets
and trousers' of deer and sealskin. The
Jacket Is hooded, with openings for the
face unci hands. The women- fashion
the skin into clothing and footwear.
Hewing Is done with bone needles and
thread of sinew from the seal.
Among their hunting weapons the
bow and arrow, plays an Important
port in shooting land animals. The
bow Is of Tmril, wrapped with twisted
(jlnews; tho arrows uru pointed wlih
chipped flint. How und arrows are
carried In a bow case and quiver that
Is slung on the buck.
In stature they are of medium height
and robust and miiseulnr, but the wo
men are much shorter than the men,
' pccaslonally almost dwarfish.
Much of their food Is eaten raw, but
they cook It when convenient. They
will split and devour the buck, fat and
flesh from tho body of a dee.r killed
In tho ehnse und while the fibers are
jet quivering.
Seal's fat and seal's blood are put
Into a dish and stewed. This oily li
quid Is used like butter. Lean meat Is
dipped Into it to make It more pal
atable. Kulaks or skin canoes are the water
craft of these people. They are from
lg to 30 feet In length. In the middle
is & hole for the body, the rest being
entirely decked over. The chief outfit
of the Kulak Is a harpoon and spear,
which are used In the hunt for whales
tnd Ktli. These are from sli to eight
A WILD CAT.
landing Uon the desired spot, it suc
ceeded in sticking its fangs into my
arm.
The pain was Intense, and the cat was
furious to the lust degree. I now suf
fered a twofold torture one physical,
the other mental. The latter was the
worse. I feared that hydrophobia was
before me that I should go mad. The
thought occurred to me that It were
better to die bravely fighting even a cat
than to be locked up forever in a mad
house. With my unemployed hand I grasped
the animal's throat.
I got my thumb' on the apple.
I squeezed and squeezed as never wo
man squeezed before.
The ferocious light of the cat's1 eyes
was soon replaced by a glassy stare.
It loosed lis hold.
I flung the brute from me, rushed to
the door, slammed It, anil I, Yvett
Guilbert, was safe!
That feline fight was the most terri
ble I have ever had In my life. I have
had many struggles. I used to suffer
keenly when I knew I had talent and
people would, not listen because I was
not pretty. 81111 I fought my way with
out fear. I cannot say such was the
case In my fight with the cat; for I was
very much afraid, although my pres
ence of mind did not desert me even
for an Instant, and this proved to be my
salvation.
It Is said that women and cats do
not like each other. I can well believe
it after the attack which the cat made
upon me.
We frequently hear the expression
"Worse than the furies is a woman
scorned." I can only say that I did
not scorn the cat which attacked me,
yet it was more than any furies which
the human mind can conjure up. Hence
I Infer that an Infuriated cat Is more
spiteful than a scorned woman.
Cross-tempered women are called cats
although my unhappy experience goes
to show that feminine passion com
pared with feline rage Is not even as
moonlight unto sunlight.
A cat has thirty teeth.
It has six incisors above and six be
low. It has four molars above and four
below,
I felt as though the whole thirty
were stuck in me. The physicians will
not admit this, but, no matter, I am
speaking of my feelings and not of Ihe
mere dental marks.
It was fortunate for me that there Is
a Pasteur institute in Pai ls. Otherwise
I might now be foaming at the mouth
or in a madhouse or in the giave. How
ever. I a mhere, safe and sound, firmly
resolved to avoid the Ire of rats for the
future and to advise my friends to do
likewise.
THE FAR NORTH.
feet long, having sharp points of Ivory
which become detached when the game
is idiTced. The long line attucrhed
gives ample scope for play until the
animal Is exhausted.
On land the sled drawn by a dog
learn of from seven to ten animals Ih
the only means of travel. The hiirness
consists of two large nooses, placed
one above Ihe other and Joined by two
perpendicular straps four or five inches
In length, so placed as to allow tho
heads of the dogs to pass through, so
that one noose will lie aloag the back
and the other between the legs.
The body harness Is made of un
dressed sealskin, which does not chafe.
The whip are of plaited thonga of
sealskin some twenty-five to thirty
feet long, and the natives possess a
surprising dexterity In the use of these
whips, being able to flick the ear of a
particular sluggish dog the full dis
tance of the length of the lush.
The huts or houses of the Eskimo
are made by putting together the great
jawbones of right whales, which are
covered Willi skins and seem more fit
ting for the lairs of animals than for
the homes of human beings. There are
no windows In the houses, only a small
opening about two and a half feet high
serving for a door. Each building is
occupied by several families.
Walrus and seal meat Is stored away
In caves excavated In the snow. As
tho temperature never rises above the
freezing point, the meat soon freezes
scdld and keeps Indefinitely. They have
no furniture; the side effect used In
housekeeping are a limestone lump for
cooking, a dish made of the same ma
terial to hang above the lamp, and a
few cups made of whalebone.
The most Indispensable of these uten
sils Is the lamp, the only source of
heat ami light. One of the chief duties
of the women Is to prevent the lamp
from going out. The lamp Is utilized
for cooking" and drying clothes, skins,
boots and mittens, which ure hung
around on a ruck of bones.
Cooking Is done in an oblong dish or
pot suspended above tin) flame. In thli
their meal of blublier and fat and
whalemeot Is always kept slowly sim
mering. The people are obliged to
make their cooking vessels and lamp
out of slabs of limestone, glued togeth
er with n. mixture of grease and deer
blood. The lamps are burned by mean
of wicks of moss arranged around the
ed ge.
m
At a meeting of the Baptist Social
union In Boston last week an announce
ment was made formally of an offer ot
John D. Itockefeller to five H 50,000 to
Newton Theological seminary, provided
a like sum be raised by the Institution.
ST. HELENA
lyondon. March 27. Napoleon, em
peror of France; Cronje, farmer-soldier
of the Transvaal. Wlih almost a cen
tury between them, they unile in con
ferring a sad Immortality upon the
name of a lonely mid-Atlantic isle.
St. Helena! The name sclls tragedy.
In 181.",, broken ambition; In lOOO, crush
ed patriotism. For It is here on this
volcanic speck In the ocean that Eng
land cages Ihe rnighllest fo her beaten
enemies.
Seek it out cm a map and see how
remote it is from th world 1,2.'0 miles
from the coast of Africa, 1,800 miles
from South America, the same from
Cape Town, 4.0.'.0 miles from London,
of which it has been a dependency for
250 years.
Its extreme length is ten and a quar
ter miles, its extreme breadth eight
and a quarter miles, its area 45 square
miles. Its population 5,000 human be
ings, three-fifths of whom are clustered
In Jamestown and innumerable goats.
The islan dis an ancient volcano,
thrust up in fire from the floor of the
sea, long since dead and cold, some
what enlarged by the slow processes of
nature and garmented not alone with
an Indigenous flora so varied as to be
the delight of the botanist, but also
with exotics from all climes, so that
It presents the aspect of a botanical
garden the oak growing side by side
wlih the bamboo and banana, and date
palms shooting skyward from fields of
English gorse.
St. Helena was quite a flourishing
island before the Suez canal waa open
ed. It was a port of call for ocean
traffic between Europe and the Orient.
With the Junction of the lted sea and
the Mediterranean It becai.ie as un
fashionable as Cape Hern will be when
the Nicaragua canal Is open for busi
ness. Cronje and his 4.0"O burghers will al
most double the population, which is n
shadow of what It wus in Ihe pre-cnnnl
P"rlod.
One of the most Interesting residents
Is M. Moillleau, the French consular
agent In charge of Ixuigwood, Napole
on's home. There he lives with bin
family, religiously precc rving nil me
mentoes of the r.rreror.
An Important feature of the place Is
the garrison. II Is quartered In bar
racks on I-adiler Hill so named on ac
count of the wooden sleps by which
the eminence of Hmo foci must lx waled
from the seaside.
The highest point of the) Island Is
2,704 feet above the sea level. This Is
Din mi's peak. It has one near rival,
High peak, rising 2. (Via feet. Both ore
tusks of the principal ridge, the north
ern rim of a vast crater which belched
fire thnusnnds of years ago. There Is
a legend that England se ized the island
before It was cold, but this Is untrue.
She grabbed It when the Dutch and
Portuguese found they could do noth
ing with It.
On August 7, 1815, when Ihe world
was reverberatln with the echoes of
Waterjpo, a boat waa rowed Into Ply-
j MM .11 -- " " "
AND ITS HISTORIC
mouth Harbor from H. M. S. lieller
ophon to H. M. S. Northumberland. 74
guns, flying the pennant of Hear Ad
iniial Sir George Cockburn, undpr or
ders for St. Helena.
In the -'t.-rn of the boat sat he who
was designated in England's official
papers "Napoleon Bonaparte." The an
c hor was weighed and the Northumber
land stood out to sea, bearing forever
from Europe the man whose ambition
her shores could not confine.
One month and ten days later the
Northumberland dropped anchor In the
harbor of Jamestown. Napoleon was
escorted ashore and found a lodging in
the town.
Sir George Cockburn selected as the
exile's residence, Longwood, the coun
try seat -of the lieutenant-governor.
Thither next day the fallen emperor
cantered along the lovely road, escort
ed by his followers and a guard of
English officers.
On December 9 the French exiles
moved to Longwood. With Napoleon
were Count and Countess Montholon
and their child, Baron Gourgaud; the
Count de Las Cases and his young son,
Captain Piohtkowskl and Dr. O'Meara,
the young: Irish surgeon whom Napo
leon had picked from the British naval
service as his private medical attend-
ant. Caunt and Countess Bertram! and
their three children were quartered in
a little house at a distance.
Dr. O'Meara used only portions of
his diary In compiling his book. The
entire MS. he bequeated to Louis Mail
lard's descendants In the V'nlted
States.
Those parts that O'Meara did not dare
to publish are at length be ing given to
the world in the pages of the Century
Magazine.
They show that Napoleon was dissat
isfied with the treatment accorded him.
He found fault with Sir C.eorge Cock
burn because of bis seamnnlike lack of
ceremony, which O'Meara endeavored
valniy to explain away. Hut this was
mild compared lo his haired of Sir
Hudson lyowe, who In April. 1M6, suc
ceeded Cockburn as governor of St.
IMctia. '
"I am convinced," he said, "that this
governor, this chief of jailers, has been
sent out on purpose to poison me or
put me to death In some way or an
other, or under some pretext, Ly Lord
Cnstlereagh.
"I had reason tn oipliln of the ad
miral, but he, though he treated me
roughly and was not inclined lo do as
much good us lay In tls power, never
behaved In such a manner as this new
Jailer, this Prussian more than Eng
lishman." In such mnnner, more Indolent and
f rt-t ful as the weary years passed, did
Napoleon live, until In 1X21 he died
from a cancer In the stomuch.
Hut Napoleon was not the only royal
prisoner to fret away his days on
England's prison Isle. General Cronje
will encounter there two princes with
whom he may have had former ac
quaintance Dinl Zull, son of Cetewayo.
PRISONERS.
and I'ndabuko. brother of the fame
redoubtable monarch.
There were many disturbances aftei
the Zulu king's death. His people, tht
Usutos, rose against their British pro
tectors and were suppressed. Cete
wayo's son and brother were exiled tc
St. Helena for taking part in thy re
bellion. Prince Dinl is described us having a
noble bearing and courteous manners
He and his followers make their home
in a house known as Rosemary.
Four years ago the Natal government
consented to Dinl Zulu's release and a
steamer was sent out from England tc
take all the exiles back to Zululand.
Transported with Joy, the blacks made
preparations to leave their island pris
on. At the fast no,nt the British war
ship Swallow arhved with an order
countermanding the first. There had
been a fresh outbreak between r the
Boers and Zulus, and it was deemed an
inauspicious momnet to restore Dinl
to his own warlike people.
The present war makes still more re
mote this prince's procpeet of liberty.
In sending Cronje to St. Helena the
British military authorities are prob
ably Influenced by a variety of consid
erations. In the first place. Cape Col-
ony, with its threatenings of an upris
ing of the Cape Dutch, and with the
pronounced Boer sympathies of Afri
kanders lof Dutch; parentage, is no
longer a safe place in which to keer
prisoners of the Importance of Cronje
and the men who defended themselves
so heroically against Ixrd Roberts'
great army. The most secure place for
Cronje upon the arrival at Cape Town
was deemed on board a British ship,
but this for mof Imprisonment prompt
ly called out continental criticism, and
possibly on that account, but more
probably with view to the greatest
possible security against rescue, the
famous1 Boer Is now to be sent to
Great Britain's inidncean prison. That
not only the Boer general, but also his
men, are to be deporte d to this prison,
2,000 miles from Brazil and 1,400 from
Africa, with Ascension Island, lis near
est neighbor, 700 miles away, Is a
great compliment to the prisoners. Tin
fact, also, that It is announced that nu
prisoners will Vc eiclmngad ft a eltil
fvrtbfr tfifccl fo the valor of art en.
emy which hits tested Brlt'.sh couraga
and generalship more severely than It
has been tried since Balaklava and
Malakoff.
e. - .
Pretty fancy waists are mads of al
ternate rows of Inch-wide velvet and
tucks running around the waist and
sleevrs. The rows of tucks fllll an Inc h,
wide space. Other waists have (he rib
bon running lengthwise, with Us width
In tucks running across them. A pretty
silk waist has narrow tucks set some
distance apart, running lengthwise of
the waist, and over this bands of the
silk stitched on diagonally from the
shoulder to the waist.
Khaki Is the latest EiuJIIsh Shade It.
faahlciieetkli tatt
BURGLAR 1IO0D0OS.
One would hardly imagine that tha
irofessional thief would be swayed la
lis doings by superstition; it is difTl
;ult to conceive, for instance, an armed
jurglar, a man who breaks Into your
aouse with the fixed intention of pitt
ing a bullet Into you or hitting you.
ver the head with a Jimmy If you sur
prise him and try to prevent his es
cape, being deterred from carrying out
iiis nefarious plans by the sight of a
black cat, yet this is one of the small
things of life which are regarded by
thieves as sufficiently important to up
set a well-laid scheme.
Some three or four years ago a sans
of three men had decided te break into
the office of a large factory and make
in attempt on the safe. At certain
times, as they had fouad, a large sum
of money was kept in the safe for a
day or two, and on this occasion they
had resolved to divert this money from
going into its proper channel, and tarn
the stream toward themselves.
All the circumstances seemed favora-
and not far from the railway, where
the rattle of passing trains would
drown any noise they might make, and
where It was highly improbable that
they would meet anyone a they made
their way late at night to the srene of
action. They had nearly, reached th
factory when a cat started from a cor
ner and ran across their path, and by
the light of the moon which peeped
forth at that very moment, they sawt
that it was black; immediately they,
halted.
After some discussion one of them
refused to proceed, and went bacfe;
while the others, although! they" were
nervous at the thought of m luck, wen
on. They were cangfot in the very act
of drilling- a hole into the safe door, and
semtencecj to long terms.
The sound of a child sobbing at night
In a house near the one into which. hA
intends to break is quite enough, td
make many a burglar go back home; li
is a sure sign of misfortune. Why thia
should be so regarded is not easy te
determine, but, perhaps-, the idea ot
Innocence usually associated with In
lants has some indeflned effect upon this
hardened heart of the criminal.
There are some who regard the 0Uu
den stopping of a clock as an intima-1
tion that some friend of relative ha
died at that minute; in the same way,
if a clock stops in a room in yrhlca
a burglar is at work he will conside
it advisable to leave the premises with'
out delay. This occurred to a man wha
was recently convicted, and he sor
rowfully remarked to the policeman
who took him into custody that if he
had paid heed to the J!l omen, he woujd
just have got clear before the mastei
of the house returned.
If a cracksman's path is crossed by a
blind dog, or if a dog of any kind fol
low him, he will give up the Job if he
yields to his own inclinations; there is
just as much chances of disaster in these
circumstances as there is in "working"
on a Friday or en the thirteenth of the
month.
To kick against a piec of coa.1 in tht
street is a sure sign of misfortune
should a thief attempt to continue his
professional duties cm that day, unless
disaster be warded off -by some lucky
omen. 1
It is but rarely that a pickpocket will
steal anything from a blind man. One
can hardly imagine that the man's af
fliction and helplessness appeal to th
finer feelings of one who would nol
hesitate to steal the last penny from
the pocket of a poor woman; yet, as
matter of fact, it is because he is con
vinced that a long run of bad luck will
dog his steps as a punishment for hav
ing taken advantage of the man's lu
firmity.
THE DQBIE STEER.
One of the notable exhibits that win
represent Texas at the Paris exposition
this year Is the Dobie steer, which
started on February 10th across the wa
ter to take its place in this great show;
This steer, which belongs to Mr. J. Ml
Doble, proprietor of the Kentucky
ranch at Ramires. Tex., goes by the
name of Champion, but is known
throughout' the state as the Dobie steer.
It was calved in 1891 near the Mexican
border and was bought by Mr. Dobie
In 1S94 in a herd of 1.000 head of cattle.
It measures fifteen hands and weighs
between: 1,600 and 1,700 pounds. Tht
horns measure from point to point nine
feet and seven Inches, and they could
easily be made to measure ten feet it
taken off the steer nml steamed and
straightened somewhat. When th
steer Is standing in a natural position
on level ground the tips of his horns
are fully six feet from the ground.
While; the Dobie steer In on senst
represents Texas, In another it Is" ho
more representative of tne present ca.t-
tlcjJiiteTChis of the Male than the mam
moth and mnstadon ate representative!
of the animals of this country. The
long horn, of whioh the steer Is an ex
ample, is as practically extinct as aro
the monsters of tho Miocene period.
Time was when long horns approaching
those of this steer were common enoit,li
but now one could travel all over Texas
without finding another animal with
pair of horns like these. He la the last
survivor of a tribe erf monster horned
tattle, whose place has been token by
better blood under the operation of the
law of the survival of the fittest, and
he goes to the Tsris exposition not as
a specimen of the cattle now In Texas1,,
but of those that formerly roamed In
Creat herds over the prairies from thl
.led river to tho Rio Grande.'
The siie of a man's bank (account haa
nothing to do with hit dlnMralgnt u
man.
