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She BondnvdLix
By HALL
CHAPTER III.-(Contlnued.
He wan crushed, but be was strong
of heart and would not despair. So be
pushed on over this green plain.
tnrough a bundred thousand mossy
mounds that looked like the graves
01 a world of dead men.
But when be came out of It bis case
teemed yet more forlorn, for leaving
the soft valley behind be bad come
upon a lava stream, a sea of stones,
not dust or cinders, but a bleached
cake of lava rock, with never a soft
place for the foot, and never a green
spot for the eye. Not a leaf to rustle
in the breeze, not a blade of grass to
whisper to it, not a bird's sweet voice,
or the song of running water. Noth
ing lived there but dead silence on
earth and In air. Nothing but that,
or In other hours the roar of wind,
the rattle of rain, and the crash of
thunder.
All this time Jason had walked on
under the sweltering sun, never rest
ing, never pausing, buoyed up with the
hope of water water for the fainting
man that he might not die. But in
the desolation of that moment he
dropped Sunlocks from his shoulder,
and threw himself down beside htm.
And sitting there, with the bead of
his unconscious comrade upon his
knees, he put It bimHelf to say what
bad been the good of all that he had
done, and If It would not have been
better for them both If he had sub
mitted to base tyranny and remained
at the Mines. Had he not brought
tbis man out to his death? What else
was before him In this waste wilder
ness, where was there a drop of water
to cool his hot forehead or moisten
his parched .tongue? And thinking
that his yoke-fellow might die, and
die at bis hands, and that he would
then be alone, and the only man's
face gone from him that bad ever
brightened life for him, his heart be
gan to waver and to say, "Rise up,
Jason, rise up and go back."
But Just then be was conscious of
the click-clack of horses' hoofs on the
echoing face of the stony sea about
him, and he shaded his eyes and look
ed around, and saw In the distance a
line of men on ponies coming on In
his direction. And though he thought
of the guards that had been signalled
to pursue him, he made no effort t3
escape. He did not stir or try to hide
himself, but sat as before with toe
head of bis comrade on his knees.
The men on the ponies came up and
passed him cloHely by without seeing
him. But he saw tbem clearly and
heard their talk. They were not the
guairflj from the settlement, but
Thing-men bound, for Tlilngvclllr and
the meeting of Althing there. And
while they weri going on before him
in their laughter and high spirits, Ja
son could scarce resist the impulse to
cry out to them to stop and taUe him
along with them as their prisoner,
for that he was an outlaw who had
broken his outlawry, and carried
away this fainting man at his knees.
But before the words would form
themselves, and while his blistering
lips were shaping to speak them, a
great thought came to him, and
struck him back to silence.
Why had he torn away from the
Sulphur Mines? Only from a gloomy
love of life, life for his comrade, and
life for n'mself. And what life was
there in this trackless waste, this
mouldering dumb wilderness? None,
none. Nothing but death lay here;
death in these gaunt solitudes; death
in these dry deserts; death amid these
ghastly, haggard wrecks of human
things. What chance could there be
of escape from Iceland? None, none,
none.
But there was one hope yet. Who
were these men that had passed him?
They were Thing-men; they were the
lawmakers. Where were they going?
They were going to the Mount of
Laws. Why were they going there?
To bold their meeting of Althing.
What was Althing? The highest pow
er of the State; the Supreme Court of
legislature and law.
What did all this mean? It meant
that Jason aa an Icelander knew the
laws of hit country, and that one great
law above all other laws be remem
bered at that Instant It concerned
outlaws. And what were they but
outlaws, both of them. It ordered
that the condemned could appeal at
Althing against the Injustice of his
sentence. If the ranks of the Judges
opened for his escape, then be was
saved.
Jason leaped to his feet at the
thought of It That was what be
would do for hi comrade and him
self. He would push on to Thlngvelllr.
It was Ave and thirty heavy miles
away; but no matter for that The
angel of hope would walk with him.
Ha would reach the Mount of Laws,
carrying bis comrade all the way. And
when he got there, be would plead
the cause of both of them. Then the
Judge would rise, and part and make
way for tbem, and they would be free
men thereafter.
Life, life,. life! There was left for
both of them, and very aweet It seem
ed after .the shadow of death that had
m marly encompassed them. Only to
lire! Only to live! They were
young yet and loved one another as
brothers.
And while thinking so. la the whirl
of his aensea as be strode to and fro
over the lava blocks, Jaaon heard
what his ear had hitherto been too
heavy to catch, the thin music of
falling water near at hand. And, look
ing up, he saw a tiny rivulet like a
lock of silken hair dropping over a
round face of rock, and thanking God
for It, he ran to It, and filled both
hand with It, and brought It to Sun
locks and bathed his forehead with It,
and hla poor blinded eyes, and moist
ened his withered Hps, whispering
meantime words of hope and simple
nothings, such as toy woman might
croon over her sick boy.
Tome, boy, come then, come, boy,
come," he whispered, and clapped his
moist kands together over the placid
6m to eat; It back to Itself.
It
Cos listed
Stsrv.
CAINC
And while he did so, sure enough
Sunlocks moved, his lips parted, his
cheeks quivered, and he sighed. And
seeing these signs of consciousness,
Jason began to cry, for the great rude
fellow who bad not flinched before
death was touched at the sight of life
In that deep place where the strongest
man is aa a child. w
But Just then he heard once more
the sound of horses' hoofs on the lava
ground, and, looking up, he saw that
there was no error this time, and that
the guards were surely coming. Ten
or twelve of them there seemed to be,
mounted on as many ponies, and they
were driving on at a furious gallop
over the stones. There was a dog
racing In front of tbem, another dog
was running at their heels, and with
the barking of the dogs, the loud
whoops of the men to urge the ponies
along, and to the clatter of the ponies'
hoofs, the plain rang and echoed.
Jason saw that the guards were
coming on In their direction. In three
minutes more they would be upon
them. They were taking the line fol
lowed by the Thing-men. Would they
pass them by unseen as the Thing
men had passed them? That was not
to be expected, for they were there to
look for them. What was to be done?
Jason looked behind him. Nothing
was there but an implacable wall of
stone, rising sheer up Into the sky,
with never a bough, or tussock of
grass to cling to that a man might
climb. He looked around. The ground
was covered with cracked domes like
the arches of buried cities, but the
caverns that lay beneath them were
guarded by spiked Jaws which only a
man's foot could slip through. Not a
gap, not a hole to creep into; not a
stone to crouch under; not a hush to
hide behind; nothing In sight on any
side but the bare, hard face of the
wide sea of stone.
There was not a moment to lose.
Jason lifted Sunlocks tf his shoulder
and crept along, bent nearly double,
as silently and swiftly as he could go.
And still behind him was the whoop
of the men, the barking of the dogs
and the clatter of hoofs.
On and on he went, minute after
precious minute. The ground became
heavier at every stride with huge
stones that tore his stockinged legs
and mangled his feet In his thin skin
shoes. But he recked nothing of this,
o.- rejoiced in It, for the way was as
rought for the guards behind him, and
he could hear that the horses had been
drawn up from their gallop to a slow
paced walk. At each step he scoured
the bleak plain for shelter, and at
length he saw among piles of vitreous
ftnara hummock of great slabs
clashed together, with one side reitt
open. It was like nothing else on
earth but a tomb in an old burial
ground, where the vaults have fallen
in and wreckoi the monuments above
them. Through the cankered lips of
this hummock Into its gaping throat,
Jason pushed the unconscious body of
Sunlocks, and crept In after It. And
lying there in the gloom he waited
for the guards to come on, and as
they came he strained his ears to
catch the sound of the words that
passed between them.
"No, no, we're on the right course."
said one voire. Mow hollow and far
away it sounded: "You saw his foot
marks on the moss that we's Just
crossed over, a:id you'll seem them
again on the clay we're coming t)."
"You're wrong," said another voice,
"we saw one man's footsteps only, and
we are following two.
"Don't I tell you the red man Is
carrying the other."
"All these miles? Impossible! Any
how that's their course, not this."
"Why so?"
"Because they're bound for Hafna
flord." "Why Hafnaflord?"
"To take ship and clear away."
"Tut. man. they've got bigger game
than that. They're going to Reykja
vik." "What! To run into the lion's
mouth?"
"Yes, and to draw his teeth, too.
What has the Captain always said?
Why, that the red man bas all along
been spy for the fair one, and we
know who he Is. Let him once set
foot in Reykjavik and he'll do over
again what he did before."
Crouching over Sunlocks In the
darkness of that grim vault, Jason
heard these words as the guards rode
past him in the glare of the hot sun,
and not until they were gone did he
draw bis breath. But Just as he lay
back with a sigh of relief, thinking
all danger over, suddenly he heard a
sound that startled him. It was the
sniffling of a dog outside his hiding
place, and at the next moment two
glittering eyes looked In upon him
from the gap whereby he had entered.
The dog growled, and Jason tried to
pacify It. It barked, and then Jason
laid bold of It, and gripped It about
the throat to silence it. It fumed and
fought, but Jason held It like a vice,
until there came a whistle and a call,
and then It struggled afresh.
"Erik!" shouted a voice without.
"Erik, Erik!" and then whistle fol
lowed whistle.
Thinking the creature would now
follow Its master, Jason was for re
leasing It, but before he had yet fully
done so the dog growled and barked
again.
"Erik! Erik!" shouted the voice
outside, and from the click-clack of
hoofs, Jason Judged that one of the
men was returning.
Then Jason saw that there was
nothing left to him but to quiet the
dog, or It would betray them to their
death; so, while the brute writhed In
his great hands, struggling to tear the
flesh from them, he laid hold of Its
Jaws and rived them apart and broke
them. In a moment more the dog
was desd.
In the silence that followed, a faint
voire came from the distance, crying,
"fl'urd, Slguard, why are ftm wait
ing!" And then another voice shouted
hack from near at band very near, so
bear as to seem to be on top of the
hummock, "I've lost my dog; and I
could swear I beard him growling
somewhere hereabouts not a minute
since."
Jason was holding his breath again,
when suddenly a deep sigh came from
Sunlocks; thea another, and another,
and then some rambling words that
had. no meaning, but made a dull hum
in that hollow place, rne man out
side must have heard something, fur
he called bis dog again.
At that Jason's heart fell low, and
all he could do he did he reached
over the stretched form of bis com
rade, and put bis Hps to the lips tf
Sunlocks, Just that be might smother
their deadly babble with noiseless
kisses.
This must have served, for wben the
voice that was far away shouted again,
"Sigurd! Sigurd!" the voice that was
near at hand answered, "Coming."
And a moment later, Jason beard the
sounds of hoofs going off from bim
as before. ,
Then Michael Sunlocks awoke to
full consciousness, and realized his
state, and what had befallen bim, and
where he was, and who was with bim.
At first he was overwhelmed by a
tempest of agony at feeling that he
was a lost and forlorn man, blind and
maimerd, at it seemed at that time,
for all the rest of his life to come.
After that he cried for water, saying
that his throat was baked and bis
tongue cranked,' and Jason . replied
that all the water they had found that
day tbey had been forced to leave be
hind them where they could never re
turn to It Then he poured out a tor
rent -of hot reproaches, calling on
Jason to say why he had been brought
out there to go mad of thirst; atul
Jason listened to all and made.jio
answer, but stood with bent head, ami
quivering Hps, and great tear-drop3 ou
bis rugged cheeks. --
' The spasm of agony and an;;?r soon
passed, as Jason knew it muni, and
then, full of remorse, Sunlocks saw
everything In a new light
"What time of day is it?" he asked.
"Evening," said Jason.
"How many hours since we left Kii
suvlk?" "Ten."
"How many miles from there?"
"Twenty."
"Have you carried me all the way?'
"Yes."
There was a moment's pause, then an
audible sob, and then Sunlocks feit for
Jason's hand and drew it down to his
Hps. That kiss was more than Jason
couli bear, though he bore the hot
words well enough; so he made a brave
show of unconcern, and rattled on wlto
hopeful talk, saying where they wers
to go, and what he was to do for both
of them, and how they would be free
men to-morrow.
And as he talked' of the great ta.sk
that waa before them, his heart grew
strong again, and Sunlocks caught the
contagion of his spirit and cried, "Yes,
yes, let us set off. I can walk aloes
now. Come, let us go."
At that Jason drew Sunlocks out of
the hummock, and helped him to hla
feet.
"You are weak still," he said. "Let
me carry you again."
"No, no, I am strong. Give me your
hand. That's enough," said Sunlocks.
(To be continued.)
Econo--rI Royal Gift.
Queen Vic -rla'g favorite form of
gift was t.n Indjan shawl. Thousands
of theae articles of attire were present
ed by her in the course of her long
reign. King Edward 3 exhibiting a
partiality for distributing etchings and
engravings among his friends. His
majesty, who, while Prince of Wales,
was an Industrious collector of "black
and white" drawings, found himself
the possessor of thousands of
duplicate copies of published works of
art upon succeeding to hl3 mother's
unique collection. He hag therefore
set apart a big store of drawings to
be turned to whenever he desires to
make a personal gift. Wben one con
siders, that apart from frequent lib
eral purchases of works of art, botfc
Queen Victoria and King Edward ac
cepted copies of the majority of no
table etchings and engravings pub
lished In the last quarter of a century
and more, the magnitude of his maj
esty's present collection can be imag
ined. His friends are naturally grati
fied that he has decided to weed it out
tor their benefit. Leeds Mercury. ,
TlotaM an Itallaa RWert.
The crop of violets on the Italian
Riviera bas been ruined owing to the
bad reason. The growers have all suf
fered beavy losses, and the Russian
General Oorloff has sent 150,000 franca
to the Russian consul at San Remo
to be distributed among the poorest of
the peasant growers In order that tbey
may not be discouraged by this sea
son's failure and to help them toward
a better crop next year.
Kinship Among Pimm.
A cross between a headless cabbage
and the turnip produced the rape
plant Cabbages and turnips them
selves are relatives; the lettuce plant
also claims near kin to tbem, and far
back In plant life grew a parent plant
with some of the characteristics that
each now claims as Its own, from
which all three, and many another
plant also, descended.
NTr Rod on a Railway,
Mrs. 8. P. Mitchell, the oldest resi
dent of Fayette, Mo., now In her 100th
year, hss never ridden on a railway.
When the first train passed through
Fsyette, she went down to look at It
She vowed that she would never ride
In one of "them wagons" for anything
In the world, and she has kept her
word.
EleaaaaU la Slav Paraana.
The observations concerning the new
star In Perseus show that the star con
tains such substances ss hydrogen, so
dium, helium, calcium, magnesium and
eoronlum. The shifting of the spectral
lines shows that ths new star Is mov
ing away from toe earth at a low vs.
locitr.
UKINK WATER FOR 6TIIE DECK.
"The simplest temporary cure for a
stiff neck or any similar attack of the
muscles anywhere, explained a well
known physician to a Washington Star
reporter, "is the very free drinking of
water. A large glass full of water
every half hour or even oftener, should
be taken and the treatment kept up for
at least half a day. This, it must be
remembered, only cures the effects and
unless it Is kept up for a long time
will hardly get at the cause, which
Is now generally understood to be an
excess of uric acid in the blood. The
cause of a very large amount of water
baa a tendency to dilute the blood and
Increase the supply of the lubricants
about the sheaths of the muscles. It
Is the deficiency of those lubricants
that produces what are known as stiff
necks, stiff shoulders and the like.
Nearly all of the so-called mineral wa
ters can be used and those that have
lime, iron, potash, lithia or sodium
should be preferred If they are handy,
but If none of them are getable tb
ordinary drinking waters, hydrant, well
or spring, can be used. The point Is to
get an extraordinary amount, so as to
dilute the blood as rapidly aa possible.
I have no objection to the use of lini
ments or external use of lubricants,
but water can be depended upon if per
sisted In to do almost the same thing.
Medical treatment, if people do not
care to keep up the water treatment.
Is necessary, however, to keep from
a recurrence of the attack. I really
think the success of many of the fa
mous water cures Is not the quality of
the water used, but the quantity of tt.
None of the water cures would think
of promising any cure or relief even in
the use of three or four glasses of
water In a day, but they have but little
hesitancy In doing so If from thirty to
forty glasses are used each day. For
the same reason If a cure Is expected
from drinking water a very large quan
tity of it must bo drunk. Six hours'
treatment, however, should cure th
ordinary stiff neck."
AN OPTICAL ILLl'HION.
it
This diagram, taken from the New
York Herald, is one of the best optical
illusions that we have seen in a long
time. Look at it in the ordinary way,
and you cannot persuade yourself that
the long up-and-down lines are parallel,
but hold It on a level with your eye
and look at It endwise and you will
see that tbey are.
SYMPTOMS Or tOMSCMl-TIOX.
Now that the value of the open-air
treatment of consumption has been
demonstrated, the great Importance of
an early diagnosis of the disease Is ev
ident Unfortunately, It Is by no means
easy to recognize the disease In Its
iuciplency, for the early symptoms are
not distinctive, and the cause of the
failing health Is often not suspected
until the disease has become firmly es
tablished. The symptoms calling at
tention especially to disease of the
lungs are generally late in appearing,
and the physician's suspicions will
usually have been aroused long before
there la any severe cough or profuse,
expectoration. At first there is merely
a falling off In health; the person Is
"a little below par," and his friends
remark that he Is losing flesh. He is
not actually ill, and his condition
causes him little anxiety, being attrib
uted to a rush of work, or to worri
mnt caused by a business hitch or
some family trouble. But as time goes
on and the supposed cause " of the
trouble has been removed, the patient
does not recover his strength; on the
contrary, the gradual decline continues
and a noticeable pallor appears. The
lips are bluish, the eyes are abnor
mally white, the pinkish hue of the
nails fade out, the mucous membrane
of the mouth Is pale In medical lan
guage, the patient la anemic. This
pallor is a suspicious sign; an another
symptom of marked slgnlflcence is a
rapid pulse, one that beats continu
ously ninety or one hundred times a
minute. At this time there Is usually
also, more or less fever, although It
may he so slight as to be detected only
by a frequent use of the thermometer.
A fourth symptom of importance Is In
creased perspiration, usually most
marked In the first hours after mid
night night sweats but sometimes
troublesome In the daytime as welt.
Cough during this period is aa often
absent an present, and In any esse Is
seldom more than a nervous backing;
later it becomes more persistent, and
some expectoration appears. But by
this time the phylslclan can generally
detect signs of lung trouble by an ex
amination of the chest and the discov
WW:
M
tl
ery of tubercle bacilli when the ex
pectorated matter Is studied under the
microscope will remove all doubts as
the nature of the malady. Of course
one who bas persistent anemia, a
rapid pulse, night sweats, and perhaps
fever, is not necessarily In the early
stages of consumption, although there
is ground for suspicion. Even If he is,
however, there need be no excessive
alarm, for the disease at this stage is
almost positively curable, and Its early
detection is therefore a blessing.
A SOLAR MOTOR.
A practical demonstration of the pos
sibility of running a steam engine with
THE SOLAR MOTOR,
heat derived directly from the sttB
shine has been made at Los Angeles,
Col. The rays of the sun are focused'
upon a boiler by means of a reflector
83 feet In diameter, composed of 1,788
small mirrors which are so adjusted
that they all concentrate the sunlight
upon a single central point. The heat
developed Is sufficient to melt copper,
and a wooden pole thrust Into the fo
cus bursts into flame at once. The
steam from the suspended boiler Is
carried to the engine through a flexi
ble tube. An energy of 15 horse-power
is developed and used to pump water
for Irrigation. The reflector Is mounted
like an astronomical telescope and kept
facing the sun by a driving clock..
"ELECTRIC GHOSTS."
Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, in an address
to electrical engineers In Birmingham
on February 27th, thus defined an elec
tron, that new term of science which
bas recently assumed so much import
ance: An atom Is ordinarily associated
with a charge, and force is required to
separate the charge from the atom.
The atom charge, when separated, is
called an electron. In an electrolyte,
1. e., a substance decomposed by an
electric current, there Is a bodily trans
fer of atoms with the charges; In a
metallic conductor the charges are
handed on, as electrons, from atom to
atom. In the discharge through high
ly rarefied gases the electric current
Is In Its most simple form, "for here
there Is a flow of electrons traveling
by themselves, of disembodied charges
or electric ghosts." Electrons, Dr,
Lodge added, are the fastest moying
of all known terrrestrial objects, their
speed being one-tenth that of light,
which Is 120,300 miles per second.
EIGHT MILES CP.
The exploration of the air by means
of balloons carrying self-registering
instruments is pursued with much vig
or In Europe. On February 7th there
were simultaneous ascents from many
points extending from France to Aus
tria and Russia. One unmanned bal
loon near Paris reached an elevation
of 41,656 feet, not much short of eight
miles. The temperature of the air at
that height as shown by a self-registering
thermometer, was 67 degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit Another bal
looon near Berlin found the same tem:
perature at an elevation 10,000 feet
less. These experiments are expected
to throw much light cm the laws of
storms and of atmospheric circulation.
NOTES OK SCIENCE.
Bow tna Spaart of Ship It Meainrad.
The speed of a ship Is measured by a
log line a cord knotted every fifty-one
feet; 120 of these lengths make a geo
graphical mile. At one end of the line
ia the log, a piece of flat, light wood,
generally triangular, and weighted
along one edge, so that when thrown
overboard it floats vertically with lta
flat face to the ship, and theoretically
stationary.' The number of knots In
the cord being equal to the number of
half minutes in an hour. It follows
that aa many knots as pass over the
stern every half minute, so many geo
graphical miles or knots are being
made In an hour.
Ufa Naar the Eqaater.
The Reverend Father Grispn of Stan
ley Falls, Africa, writes that Euro
peans have a very Inaccurate Idea of
tropical temperatures. He passed eight
years at the equator on the Pacific
ccast, be says, and never saw the mer
cury above 85 degrees, while at Stanley
Falls the maximum Is 90 degrees, and
the nights are dellclously cool. On the
other hand, there are frequent temp
ests of indescribable violence, and
Father Orison has counted 66 lightning
flashes In one minute, the thunder be
ing continuous and has seen ten thun
derbolts strike within a radius of a
few hundred meters In the space of
two hours.
Generosity makes many acaualnt-
ances. but It doesn't know Its friends
until Adversity singles tbem out In
dianapolis News.
NEW YORK'S WIS MJlAMt
Thar Kaow Flak Day aad she Milan
f jIIIbc Day.
Every day is In a measure a flsh day
at Fulton market, but the seagulls
know the chief fish day of the week,
says the New York Sun. It Is thea
that they feast to their hearts' content
Their coming and going has for years
amused and interested the ferryboat
passengers, and some of the latter have
been observed to look up from their
papers, glance out of the cabin win
dows, catch sight of the army of gulls
and exclaim, "Bless me, there are the
gulls. It is Friday again."
The long-winged travelers of the
sea are always to be seen in the East
river, opposite Fulton market in the
day time, but tbey gather there In
greater numbers on Friday because so
much refuse Is thrown away that day.
They hover over the surface of the
water by hundreds, taking from the
water such food as is to their liking.
They are the scavengers of the East
River in this respect. The Intelligence
of the gulls is remarkable in one way.
Besides knowing which Is the big flsh
day on the East river, they know the
chief sailing days on the North river.
The American line usually dispatches
a steamer for Southampton at 10 a. m.,
every Wednesday. Some minutes be
fore the ship leaves the pier the circl
ing of the gulls In midstream begins
The birds know from experience that
before the ship leaves quantities of
food are thrown from the ship's ports
and they make a dash to recover it
the moment the ship pulls out. It is
amusing to watch one of the gulls try
ing to lift from the water a piece of
food twice as heavy as itself. Some
times these gulls will hover around the
American Line pier until noon of
Wednesday. At this hour the Red Star
liner starts for Antwerp, leaving the
water of the slip filled with discarded
food. More frequently, however, the
birds will hurry off to the White Star
line piers directly after the American
liner leaves her wharf. The White
Star steamer sails each Wednesday at
noon. On Saturdays and Thursdays
the gulls go to Hoboken to get what
the Hamburg-American liners leave
behind. These are about the only lines
that have a fixed hour for sailing and
the gulls have become acquainted with
the fact. The harbor gulls fare better
than their kind far out at sea. The;
latter frequently have to follow a ship
for days to supply the demands of
their appetite.
A RAZOR-BACK'S SENSE.
One Caaa, at Leaat, In Which Bog
Wai Stupid.
But while dogs have been celebrated
for semi-human intelligence, and cat
tle have been known to evince, some
practical understanding, it was a sur
prise to discover something like Intel-,
ligence in an animal whose stupidly
had given occasion for a proverb. Not
long ago one of the rasor-back swine
indigenuous to the State made an essay
on the fence of a place nearby. "Jt had
been the site of a sawmill, and the
fence was built of waste boards re
maining after the removal of the
works. The boar commenced his at
tack at the end of the board part of
the fence by swaying sidewire as far
as possible without losing balance, and
then hurling his bulk against the
board as close as he could to the post.
He bad apparently decided that draw
ing out the nails would be the easier
manner of entrance. The force of im
pact wa3 really formidable, and tha
atchers of his movements were not
a little fearful of his success. . After
several unsuccessful attempts, he de
sisted, but went grunting along the
fence as If examining the quality of
the lumber until a split plank was
found. A sharp crack followed the
throwing of himself against this. He
returned to the charge again and again
until the barrier was removed, when.
with a astiBfied grunt and a squeal of
invitation to bis numerous family, his
long bristly snout appeared through
the opening. Our Animal Friends.
Cata to Eradicate Rabbits.
Australian papers state that the ex
periment of the West Australian gov
ernment In turning domestic cats
loose in the southeastern districts of
the colony to check the invasion of
rabbits from South Australia has been
a pronounced success. The felitfes
destroyed immense numbers of the
nests, and in some cases almost clear
ed the squatters' runs of the rabbits.
In anticipation of the demand which
ts expected for cats for this work
breeding establishments are being
started. It is believed, however, that
it will be found much cheaper to
import the animals.
Ejecting Fauenfer from Straet Car,
A passenger on a street car who acts
In such a manner aa to Justify the In
ference that he Is intoxicated, and falls
Into a sleep from which the conductor
falls to arouse him by shaking him,
may be ejected, holds the Supreme Ju
dicial Court of Massachusetts, In the
case of Hudson vs. Lynn and B. R. R.
(59 N. E. Rep., 647), but the court
holds further that it Is not due care
to put hlm.on a dark and stormy night,
in an unllghted road some distance
from buildings, though street cars are
passing at the time and teams are
likely to pass.
Oladstoae's Daacbter Aeeepte Paalllaa.
Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of
the late William E. Gladstone, has ac
cepted the post of warden of the Wom
en's University settlement, Southwark,
London. Miss Gladstone will go Into
residence early In September.
roWav Ravfciwtlaa af the stow.
Forty-four years ago the Kansas
Kaw river was navigated from Its
mouth up as far as Lawrence. Now
railroad: tfo.tof business.
