THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA.
HE FOUND HIS GIRL AT LAST.
ROMANCE OF OLD VIRGINIA.
General Cronje and 1,500 other Boer
prisoners who sailed from Simon Bay
at Capetown for St. Helena recently
should have arrived there Monday a
week ago. The Island Is 1,100 milea
from Capetown.
General Cronje, because of his mili
tary reputation, and his heroic defense
of his position at Paardeberg. against
a force that outnumbered him ten to
sne, Is the most Illustrious of the
many exiles now suffering- the displeas
ure of Great Britain.
The policy of non-exchange of pris
oners adopted by England In this war
bears hard upon the captives of both
sides. The Boer prisoners at Capetown
are dying at an alarming rate.
St. Helena, will now more than ever
be thought of as the rock on which
warriors may militate even If they find
no rest. It Is a veritable prison. A
man could walk all around It In a day.
Us greatest length is only ten and a
quarter miles and its breadth eight
and a quarter. Its area would form a
square which would barely contain
central London and would leave all the
suburbs hanging over the sides. The
Island was once a volcano, and the
great, col dold crater still forms the
backbone of the rock. 1 There are sev
eral mountains of good height, cut with
extraordinarily deep and wide water
or lava gorges and marked with masses
af basaltic rock. The most quaint of
these great pinnacles have been called
the -Ass' Ears. Near by Is another,
christened Lot's Wife. A third Is
known as the Chimney. The shape of
them has suggested their titles.
For about a mile and a half In from
the coast the Island is as bare as a
rock. Lichens are there In plenty, but
not an ounce of soil. Then for about
another three-quarters of a mile In
PATIENTS WHO ARE STINGY.
Probably few patients have carried
parsimony to the height pursued by a
certain baronet, Sim William Smyth,
who, although Immensely rich, was nev
er happier than when trying to evade
doctors' bills. For Instance, he once
r.iade a bargain with a great oculist
to couch both his eyes, agreeing1 to pay
60 guineas If his sight was at all re
stored to him. The operation was made
and proved so successful that he was
enabled to read without glasses,
j No sooner, however, was this state
fit affairs reached, than the miserly
baronet began to grieve at the thought
'of paying the promised fee, and he
therefore pretended that he had only
the faintest glimmering of light, with
he result that the badgered physician
compromised the business by accepting
20 guineas Instead of 60.
j Cases of this kind are by no means
rare In the experience of medical prac
titioners. A doctor attended a patient
for lnfluenzt of a rather bad tyfre, and
when the cure was completed sent In
)ils bill at the ordinary rales. It was,
however, returned to him with a note
from his late patient hinting that, as
the Influenza was at the time In the
nature of an epidemic, and the doctor
had doubtless reaped considerable ben
efit from It, he ought to make a con
siderable reduction In his bill In view
thereof. However, the physician did
not fall In with this eccentric and
tlngy proposition, and eventually the
bill was paid as It stood, though not
without many more protests from the
payer.
Another patient, who prided himself
on his medical knowledge, was In the
habit of making suggestions to the doc.
tor who attended him during Illness,
which suggestions the doctor would
sometimes good naturedly adopt, more
for the sake of gratifying the patient,
STEEL ROADS
It Is only recently through the efforts
of the good roads agitation and the
work of several experiment stations
rd the office of public roa4 Inquiries
thai, any marked, Improvement has
been mads- In road building In this
country. The telford and macadam
roads are now familiar to all, and the
tcel roads that were first suggested in
1894 appear to be attracting greater
and greater attention. Short sections
of steel roads have been laid at Omaha,
Neb., during the Trans-Mississippi ex
position and recently at Ames, la., and
Bt. Anthony Park, Minn. These experi
mental sections clearly demonstrated
their usefulness for western and other
level state sparingly supplied with
s-ood stone or gravel, although as sub
stitutes for the Istter they are Incom
parably superior. Dirt and stone roads
for an object lesson were built In varl
3U sections of the country last year
jnder the supervision of government
oad experts. A great awakening has
'ollowed the building of these roads In
Maryland, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kentucky, Indiana and Wisconsin, and
)undrds of local organisations for the
(iprovements of roads hove sprung up.
Two powerful new factors In the
problem, as the bicycle can be consider
?1 nn old one, are the growing use of
tutomobllea and the extension of ruial
nail deliveries which are dependent on
rood roads. We are now pausing thro'
;hn stone age on road building, accord
tig to Martin Dodge, the projector of
iteel wagon roods. The latest Idea In
iiseb road is to support steel rails
wards the Island resembles some of the
wilder and more barren parts of Scot
land. Pines, brambles, gorse and
rocks, with here and there a grassy
slope, as the chief products.
Then comes an almost sudden change
as if from earth to heaven. The center
of the island Is a marvelous haven for
the most wonderful and beautiful flora,
many of which are indigenous. The
entire center Is like a huge botanic gar
den. The only animals on St. Helena, ex
cept domestic ones, are rabbits, rats
and mice.
Even the rats found the island too
small or too hard for all the comforts
they looked for, so they left off boring
Into the ground and hare taken to
making their nests in high trees.
The population numbers about 5,000
and the potato forms the staple pro
duct, as many as three crops a year be
ing raised.
The first known Inhabitant of St.
Helena was a prisoner, but a voluntary
one. This was Fernandez Lopez, a Por
tuguese nobleman, who In 1513, twelve
years after the discovery of the Island,
chose to go there rather than remain
In Europe after some barbarous mutila
tion to which he had been subjected for
a misdemeanor.
The Dutch possessed the Island till
1651. In 1673 the English East India
company obtained hold of It. It was
not until 1834 that St. Helena was at
tached to the British crown.
St. Helena prospered till the opening
of the Suez canal. But what made its
name famous was its selection to be the
prison of Napoleon. The great French
man lived there from October, 1815, till
May, 1821, whillng away his time and
killing the monotony of It by quarrel
ing with the governor.
than for any other reason. Judge ol
the medico's astonishment, however,
when the amateur Hippocrates actually
refused to pay more than half the bill
on the grounds that at least "50 per
cent of the cure had been due to his
unaided suggestions In the treatment."
Audacity and penurlousness could
hardly have gone further than this, and
under the circumstances It is not sur
prising that the physician not only In
sisted on full payment, but refused to
attend the gentleman further.
Specialists can tell many tales of
parsimony In the people who consult
them. An eminent lung physician once
received a visit fiom a Sussex farmer,
whose trouble proved to be merely Im
aginary, nnd whose mind was soon set
at rest. On his departure he offered
the specialist five shillings, and on the
latter pointing out that his foe was
two guineas, the worthy agriculturist
scratched his head and said that he
considered such a sum far too much
for "telling a man he had nothing tha
matter with him."
Another gentleman of similar tenden
cies, who consulted an ear specialist,
was thunder stricken when he asked
for a fee of one guinea, as he averred
that scarcely three minutes had been
consumed In the consultation. The
doctor pointed out that it had taken
him over thirty years to obtain the ex
perience which condensed a consulta
tion Into three minutes, but the obsti
nate consultant refused to take this
view, and eventually prevailed upon the
physician to accept half the sum nam
ed. It may be added that this parsi
monious person was In receipt of an
Income that ran Into many thousands
per annum.
When a man doubles his fists he nat
urally becomes four-handed.
FOR TRAVEL.
eight or ten Inches wide on a continu
ous concrete foundation, and not' on
ties, as heretofore. The plates are riv
eted to steel flanges, which are embed
ded In the concrete of the road bed so
as to form a substantial part of It.
It Is asserted that steel track wagon
roads, which will doubtless receive a
great Impetus with the building of a
national highway, can be built for
about the usual cost of ordinary stone
roads; that they last mony times as
long as any other known material for
road purposes, and with very small re
pairs; that the power to move a vehi
cle over such roads Is but a fraction of
that required on usual roads, and that
they greatly Increase possible speed.
The Importance of the last claim can
hardly be overestimated. Its realiza
tion would result In either Increasing
the possible load or in diminishing the
mechanical power of automobiles or
of horse power. For Instance, It has
been shown that a load of eleven tons
requires about twenty horses to move
It on a common road, while the same
load on steel wagon tracks can be mov
ed by a single horres. This Ih twenty
two times the weight of the anlmnl,
and that load could even be Increased
up to fifty times Its weight and still
be started and moved wlth'out diffi
culty. ' I,
Kva Mother, Tlllle gets a dime every
time she takes cod liver oil. Mother
Arid what does she do with the money?
Kva Well, she puts It In a box until
she gets iu cents, then her mother buys
more cod liver olL
In a little school In a suburb of Ham
burg, Germany, sat three children a
maid and two lads. One of the latter
was the son of the merchant prince
it the town, the other's father was a
wagonmaker. One as a student, the
Jther a rover. Wealth beckoned one
the sea called the other.
Only when little Nannie Hasselbrinck
smile did Frederick Kruse and George
A. Grambo learn that love was a lev
eler of rank and social barriers. They
became rivals for her affections.
As Nannie approached womanhood
she grew winsome. Her smiles, her
good nature, her merry laughter, won
scores of friends. Kruse and Grambo
were still her sweethearts. Kruse
dreamed of riches In America. Grambo
talked of deeds of daring on the sea.
On the threshold of manhood the
mother country called for their ser
vices in her army and navy. Kruse
led to America. John Hasselbrlnck,
N'annle's brother, was already in this
jountry. Grambo answered the call
and entered the nautical school.
On the night before he Joined his
ihlp he walked with Nannie and then
their trot hwas plighted. Each prom
ised to remain true to the other. When
3eorge's enlistment expired they would
marry.
Giambo Joined the Adler and sailed
to the China station In 1883, far from
postofflces and out of touch with his
friends.
A year passed. Kruno's letters told of
his successes In America as a glass
manufacturer. John Hasselbrlnch
wrote for his sister to come to New
York and forget Hamburg and the
sailor boy.
One morning all Germany was star
tled by the news of the loss of the
Adler on the China coast. She had
struck a reef In a storm and of her
brave crew of 500 men and boys only
75 were saved. In the list of the dead
Nannie read the name of her errant
sailor sweetheart.
Day after day she waited for better
news. Survivors of the wreck returned
to Hamburg, but all told the same
story of the loss of Grambo In the surf
by the overturning of a boat.
Nannie gave up her swetheart as lost
and In 1884 Joined her brother In Amer
ica, and here Kruse wooed and won
her. They were married In 1886, and
for years lived at 766 Hart street,
Brooklyn. Kruse made a small fortune
and when he died last October he left,
his widow In comfortable circum
stances. In the years of her wifehood
Crambo's wooing was a pleasant mem-
ry to which she never referred, but
ever cherished.
When the boat In which Grambo
started ashore was upset he was tossed
'nto the surf and the waves washed
ilm aay from his companions, but he
as an expert swimmer. After a hard
PRISONERS HELD BY ENGLAND.
The tranFportatlon to St. Helena of
General Cronje and the captured Boer
prisoners, selves as an Interesting In
dication of what England will do with
the other Transvaal leaders hi case
.hey are captured alive.
Whether Kt. Helena may be the ul
.Imate destination of these stalwart
varrlors or not, some Insight may be
sained as to the treatment In store
Tor those who may suffer defeat and
(all to escape Into either German or
?ortuguese territory, by a comparison
vlth that of princes and kings hereto-
bre held captive by the British govern
ment. A number of instances of the
ilnd have occurred during the past
lalf century.
In 1849 when the state of Maharajah
Shuleep Singh was finally annexed to
he Indian empire, that potentate was
'requested" to take up his residence
n England the Inducement of a ready
:omp!iance being aided by the promise
f a yearly income of $240,000, with
lothtng at all as an alternative. Dhu
eep Singh wisely acquiesced, purchased
.he Ane estate of Brandon, In Norfolk,
ipon which he resided for many years
is a wealthy country gentleman.
Though during this period the Maha--ajah
frequently expressed the desire
;o revisit his native country, profes
Hng the utmost loyalty to the empress
)ueen, yet he was never permitted to
travel east of the Isthmus of Sues. In
this case the bond seems to have de
fended upon the heads of his chll-
iren, for while his sons have entered
the British army, and one of them,
Prince Victor, recently married the
daughter of the Earl of Coventry, yet
they have never been allowed to set
yes on the land over which their an-
estors ruled.
Approaching Calcutta on the left
bank of the 1 1 u J 1 1 river at Garden
Deach, the visitor will have pointed out
the fine palace of the late Majld All,
king of Ouc'h. There, from 1S36 until
1 recent date, this prince was hold In
eml-captlvlty upon an annual allow
nice of $000,000, the only proviso as tn
his freedom of action being that he
should not leave the vicinity of Calcut
ta. The king of Oudh, true to those
prodigal hereditary Instincts which
brought about his downfall, not only
munnged to expend thin large sum, but
In the keeping of snake mounds, men
ageries, and other costly forms of
amusement dear to the Oriental mind,
was obliged to dtaw frequently upon
the Imperial treasury for further sums.
The generosity and leniency with which
he was thus treated was probably due
to the fact that be offered no armed re
battle he reached the beach, only to
fall unconscious. Hours afterward he
was found by his fellow survivors. His
rescue was reported officially, but the
news did not reach Hamburg until af
ter his sweetheart had sailed for Amer
ica. When he returned to Hamburg he
sought In vain for news of the woman
he loved. Impatiently he waited for his
discharge.
In 1887, the day his time expired, he
sailed for America. In New York he
could not find Nannie. Disappointed,
he enlisted in the American navy and
was asMgned to the Trenton. Once
more he sailed for the far east.
When, In 1889, the Trenton went
ashore In the harbor of Apia, in the
Samoan Islands, with her flags flying
and the band playing "The Star Span
gled Banner," Grambo was one of her
crew; and again he was rescued from
deadly peril.
Grambo served on one ship and an
other. But never In all of his wan
derings could he find a girl to tike the
place of his sweetheart, Nannie.
Re-enlistment followed re-enlistment,
He rose through the grades of petty
officers to that of chief quartermaster.
In the Spanish-American war he served
on the Indiana and helped Smash Cer
vera's fleet at Santiago.
Two months ago his time expired
The Indiana was In the Brooklyn navy
yard, and Grambo decided to spend a
few weeks ashore before he re-enlisted
and so he visited old friends from Ham
burg. From them he heard of Kruse. his
schoolboy rival.
Less than a month ago Grambo call
ed at 1189 Grene avenue, Brooklyn,
where Hasselbrlnch lives.
Nannie herself opened the door. Be
fore him stood the woman who had
kissed him goodbye nineteen years be
fore in Hamburg. Grambo recognized
her In spite of her widow's weeds and
shouted her name In Joy.
She did not know him at first. She
had left him a stripling, clad in the
uniform of a German sailor. He re
appeared a man of 40, dressed in the
conventional garments of the day.
When Grambo revealed his Identity
Mrs. Kruse promptly and properly
fainted, and was caught as promptly
and properly In the arms of her old
sweetheart. That evening- was spent
in explanations and recollections.
Grambo was Just as ardent a wooer
a ever. Although Kruse had died only
in October, Grambo Insisted on an Im
mediate marriage. His Impulsiveness
won the widow, and they were mar
ried. Today they are living at No. 202
Harman street, Brooklyn. Grambo has
decided to give up the sea and spend
the rest of his days ashore, where he
can make up for the loss of nineteen
years of companionship with his sweet
heart and wife.
sistance to his own disposition. Blaz
ing with Jewels and seated in a smar
equipage with servants In royal liver
les, the king of Oudh was often a con
splcuous figure on the Calcutta maidan
tne famous park where the society of
the Indian capital takes an outing
after the heat of the day has passed.
.Fa rdifferent was the fate of the poor
old Bahadur Shah, last of the great
Mokhuls. After the fall of Delhi, in
1851, he was tried for high treason, and
sent as a state prisoner to Rangoon.
I here, In a small hut, the only lineal
descendant of Shah Jehan and Aurang-
zeb paesed the remainder of his days
unnoticed, and upon a more pittance.
ab, nowever, Dotn nis sons were
slaughtered and a less culpable rebel
leader, Tantla Topi, was executed, he
may have thought himself fortunate to
escape with his life.
Near Colombo In Ceylon, England
still holds In light durance Arab! Pasha
and his colleagues of the Egyptian re
bellion of 18S2. While Arabl has not
ceased to bemoan his fate and useless
ly petition the British government for
permission to return to Egypt, yet,
considering the nature of his offense,
and that he was sentenced to death,
his lot can not be considered burden
some.. Provided with an Income suffl
clent for his wants, a pleasant res I
dence, permission accorded him to re
ceive visitors and a considerable meas.
ure of freedom within the district, he
would undoubtedly have been worse off
had his successful enemies been of his
own race and religion.
Of minor potentates, England has at
present one African, being confined to
the limits of that Island In the South
Atlantic made famous as the prison of
the great Napoleon; and another even
the far less desirable residence of Cape
Coast Castle. For several years Cete
wayo, king of the Zulus, was held an
unreslgned prisoner at Ohowe, near the
scene of the present military operations
In Natal, where he died before the
promise of restoration to his throne wag
carried Into effect.
A teacher of music In one cf the pub
lic schools of the south desired to Im
press the pupils with the meaning of
the signs "f" and "ft" n a song they
were uhnut to-mtng. After explaining
that "f" meant forte, he sold: "Now,
children, If T mean forte, what does
'ft' menn?" Hllence for a moment, and
then he was astonished to hoar a bright
little fellow shout: "Eighty!"
A fearless man Is the greatest of
feminine attractions.
There is a White House in Virginia,
not many miles from Washington, ac
cording to a Virginia department clerk
at the national capital. There is noth
ing In its exterior to warrant the name,
he says. It does not, in fact, get its
name from Its appearance.
"It never was white," continues the
Virginian, "within my recollection, and
I have known it for thirty-five years.
I reckon the people who live in It never
thought to ask why it is called the
White House. They are not people
who would look up the reason. This is
the story, and I know it is true, but
if It ever was printed I never heard of
It:
"The house became the property of a
young woman after the' death of her
people. Her lover and affianced hus
band was a student at the University
of Virginia. It was his ambition to be
president, and as she believed he was
deserving of the honor, and because she
had high social aspirations, she en
couraged him in his aspiration. They
had some sort of vague Idea that If
they were sincere in their wishes and
woul pray for the honor they would '
succeed. They did not understand pol
itics as we do. They used to come over
to Washington and wander about the
presidential mansion and the grounds,
and g oup to the capltol and sit in the
galleries and occasionally attend the
public receptions. I have been told that
the young woman confided her Becret to
President Johnson, and that, doubtless
to please her fancy, he told her that her
young- man had presidential chances.
It was quite natural, too, that Mr.
Johnson should have believed this.
"When she returned to her home In
Virginia she entertained after the man
ner of the president at his public re
ceptions. Her young man, of course,
had the post of honor. I do not know
whether the people who attended the
receptions understood that this young
man and woman were rehearsing for
White House receptions or not, but the
RICH MEN GROW MUSHROONS.
It Is not every one who can afford to
have their own mushroom gardens and
give away $20 or $30 worth of the deli
cacies every day. Of the three of four
gentlemen In this country who have
such a garden Is Henry Clay Frick, the
Pittsburg Iron magnate.
Mushrooms are exceedingly difficult
to grow successfully, but Mr. Ftick's
gardener and horticulturist, David Fra-
ser, does It. He was the pioneer in
mushroom culture in Pittsburg. After
his great Buccess there other gardeners
tried to take up the business, but with
Indifferent success. ' Fraser Is an ex
pert at the peculiar business. He says
that during his eighteen years of
mushroom gardening he has never had
a failure In a plant.
Sometimes fifteen or twenty pounds
of mushrooms are picked In a day. As
they are worth about $1.50 a pound,
something like $30 a day is represented
In this product. Of course, Mr. Frick
or his family does not eat all these.
He eats some nearly every meal, as he
Is particularly fond of them. The rest
he gives to his friends and others, for
the steel and coke magnate is noted for
his liberality In this respect. In an
underground corridor in the conserva
tory, back of the Frick residence, at
Homewood, the toothsome delicacies
are grown. Under the big shelves that
are filled with plants and flowers of
all kinds extend long boxes filled with
fertilizer and top soli. Over all Is a
glass roof, for this Is really a wing of
the conservatory, with the roof on a
level with the ground. In these boxes
the mushrooms are grown.
Every one Is familiar with the ax
FIGHT WITH A
The story of a fight with an ostrich,
which would prove an interesting chap
ter In one of Captain Mayne Reld's
books of adventure, Is told by an offi
cial of the Soldiers' Christian associa
tion In South Africa. He says in his
letter:
'It was an enormous bird, and was In
a rage. It stopped some dozen paces
from us and whirled around, flapping
its wings and looking truly awful. I
gave Crewdsofi my pocketknlfe the
only weapon we had and as the
wretched thing went circling round
us, getting nearer and nearer, I sug
gested to Crewdson that If we came to
close quarters Its neck would be our
only chance (Its body was higher than
my head) ... It came on me like a
whirlwind. ... I did not wait for it
to reach me In which case It would
have picked out my eyes and struck
me with Its claws, probably tearing my
chest open, but sprang to meet It.
Death seemed absolutely certain, and
though my nerves were set, and as It
were I mentally gave up my life, I met
the bird with a thud. With both hands
I caught Its neck before It could lift
a foot to strike. We both rnllod over,
and with a strength givs'n me at thr
moment I clung to its neck until 7
came up 'top dog.' Hut then, with full
fury, It begnn to kick, and had I re
ceived a full blow I Humid probably
have died; but T hugged too closely to
It, and then wriggled onto its buck, so
that it kicked Into the air away from
me' and I only got a 'snnrtnrm' blow
and received bruises Instead of wound?1.
"Crewdson did not know whether 1
young pair had that In mind, "fhej
prayed for a realization of their dream
as earnestly, from all I have heard, ma
old Stonewall Jackson prayed for
strength to whip the Yankees. Tbere
was an old black servant In the family
who preached salvation to the darkle
on Sunday and stripped tobacco duriar
the week. His young 'missus' bad
great faith In Ephraim's influence with
the Almighty, and she used to call htm
in to exhort in behalf of her lover's
ambition. Ephraim became so imbued
with the idea that his supplication
would win that he grot to calling- the
young man 'Mr. President' wbea he
visited the plantation.
"I reckon you have heard of the
tournaments they used to have in the
suth? This young- presidential aspi
rant was a fearless and graceful horse
man. jJe rode at a tourney one day
for the last time. He was confident he
would take the necessary number of
rings to entitle him to choose and
crown the queen, and of course there
was only one woman in the world upon
whom he would bestow the honor. Sfcs
saw him, in Tils saddle, lance couehant,
start for the wire. Before he reaebed it
his horse stumbled. There was the us
ual shout of horror. The Knight of
the White House, for that was his title
in the tourney, was carried from the
course dead. In the fall he had broken
his neck.
"The moment the young woman real
ized what had occurred her reason
fled, nor did It ever return, in spite of
skilled care. Her hair whitened, but her ,
face remained young, so I am told.
Her derangement never took on a vio
lent form. Instead she became the
mistress of the White House. She held,
levees and receptions and gave elabor
ate dinners. Her servants were her
guests. A chair was reserved for the
president who never came. In this
hallucination she died. That is why
the place was known as the White
House. "New York Sun.
iom, "grow mushrooms in a night"
Cultivated mushrooms, however, do not
grow this way. Gardener Fraser say
it takes about six or seven week tqt
bring them from the spawn to maturity
fit to serve on the table. They will
grow more quickly unless kept back.
Thousands of mushrooms spring; from,
a single spawn. This latter looks Mae
white silk thread. When put in the
ground this runs in every direction, and
from all quarters the little white eat
ables spring up. Mr. Fraser is an au
thority on mushroom culture, and is so
recognized all over the United States.
He wrote a treatise recently on the sub
ject, which was widely read.
Mushrooms can be grown in an out
building, under the benches of a cool
greenhouse, or In a cellar, provided the
temperature can be kept at from. 40 t
' rn A. ,v . . '. i, i , - ,?V
uv aim me piuce ury. it is
necessary to keep out the frost or the
mushrooms will spoil. It is highly Im
portant that the fertilizer and soil be
kept moist. The raising of the growths
in greenhouses is beyond the reach of
all but wealthy people. The best results..
are attained, however. In this manner,
though mushrooms can be raised la,
the cellar of an ordinary residence. Ia
such a case the yield is not as great or
the time of bearing as long as where
every detail Is expressly and especially
provided for; still enough mushrooms
can be raised to supply the larder of
any ordinary family.
A former OWo girl has Just been,
awarded a verJtct for $50,000 against a
rich mine owns in Colorado for breach,
of promise to marry.
BIG OSTRICH.
was alive or dead at first, but at my
shouts brought my knife, and while I
was gripping Its throat with both
hands so that it could not breathe, and
rolling about to avoid kicks, Crewdson.
tried to cut Its gullet. This he could
not do at first, so I took the knife with,
my left hand, holding the neck wttbj
my right, and dug the blade under the
uplifted wing. It took effect, and, the
wing seemed to lose force, but the?
blade of my knife was broken, leaving
half in the bird.
"I threw Crewdson the knife, and he
opened another blade and managed to
cut the gullet. The thing was nearly
stifled, and, feeling the knife. It gave
a last and awful struggle, and I realty
feared I should be beaten. However.
I also put forth a last effort, and
gradually the kicks and the struggles
subsided. I loosened my grip and let
the blood flow, and when I thought It
was pretty far gone I Jumped un and
Joined Crewdson.
"Even then It made a wild attempt
to rise, but could not. Covered wl'h
dirt and blood, we plucked a few feath
ers, thanked the Lord for life and
trnrnped to Arundel, and arrived truly
tired out. . , .
'The nation master told us that in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the
ostrich would have killed me. He says
there Is not a man In thn pnnntn
would attempt to do what I dld."
New York Journal.
When a woman resorts to art for a
youthful complexion she Is only trying
to make up for luit time.
