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THE LAND SAILOR. Cone, fill try sails, you wastrel wind. And waft me o'er the fields. The golden fields, rich harvest lined With all that red earth jeilds. Come, blow me down the valley way Between the crimson hills, Where hardwoods make the landscapes gay And Nature's glad heart thrills. Blow, blow my craft where‘ 0 * * Swirl vagrant through tne Anti blow me where the rustling s iea\t Dot fields of stubble ban1 For I would sal! the autumn land While glow its radiant hues; With boat and breeie at tn> comman . Down all its vaies I'll cruise. —Frank Farrington in I.ipplnrott s. GENERAL JOLLYMORE’S IVORY HUNT. By C. L O. LUCKEN. (Copyright, 190!. by Dally Story Tub. Co.) “Hello, Jolly more; when did you get back from South Africa?” The remark was addressed to a rather portly personage, of medium stature, who was seated at the win dow of one of the most popular clubs, his chair tipped back and his feet on the sill, ana a long, pale cheroot in his mouth. “General Jollymore, if you please, duly commissioned by the joint gov ernments of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. Well, I returned a few days ago. Nothing doing in South Africa after the Boers quit; I put in a month or so up in the north country ivory hunting, but found it too tame,” repliea the “gen eral," toying with a miniature ivory elephant's head, which wras attached to his watch guard. “Hunting elephants, eh, and brought back a trophy of the chase?” “Oh, yes. The adventure was such a peculiar one that I felt disposed to retain a memento, and so had this head carved from the tusk of the ele phant which 6o nearly finished my career.” “Well, genera], 1 should like to hear of it, provided the telling will not en tail the recollection of any unpleas ant features." “No, indeed, not at all. Were such the case 1 would not wear this," and the general twirled the ivory head between his fingers. “But there's not much to tell, after all, and perhaps I am disposed to magnify the danger. “At the conclusion of the war I de cided to go north, having been in formed that lions, elephants and oth er large game were abundant. I had put in five days in Msiris land, reach ing the native village of Mpweto on the evening of the fifth day, without having sighted an elephant, although the spoor was there in plenty, and abundant evidences were encounter ed which showed that large numbers of the animals were in the Immediate vicinity. I accordingly resolved to re main at Mpweto for a few days, and the morning following my arrival there, I started out, accompanied only by my extra gun bearer, a native named Umbolalla, with the hope of encountering the game I sought. “A few miles east of Mpweto there Is a circular plain, probably a mile In diameter, almost entirely sur rounded by forest. Upon approaching this plain, it became evident that my quest was at last ended, and that my eyes were to be gladdened by the sight of an elephant, for the frequent trumpetings of a large bull-elephant were distinctly audible. Pushing rap idly ahead In the direction of the trumpeting, we arrived within sight of the plain, and there, standing in a clump of small trees upon whose ten der branches he was feeding, was the largest elephant it had ever been my good fortune to see. Cautioning Um bolalla to keep close to me with the ■»xtra gun, I maneuvered around for lome tine*. endeavoring to secure a position from which I could fire a shot which w'ould prove fatal, but the frequent movements of the elephant rendered this impossible. Becoming impatient at the delay, I finally risked a shot, the bullet lodging, as I after wards learned, in the beast’s left shoulder, producing only a painful and irritating wound, without in the least impairing his vitality. “With a scream of rage, the huge animal plunged wildly through the forest and out into the open, running straight across the plain. Snatching the extra gun from Umbolalla, and telling him to follow as soon as he bad reloaded the empty gun, I set out in pursuit, hoping to get another shot. The trumpeting of the wounded ele phant was terrific, and he had nearly I 1 “I should like to hear of It.” reached the forest on the opposite side when I stumbled and fell, the gun being discharged as It struck the ground. On hearing the report, the elephant turned In his flight, and, ob serving Umbolnlla, who had reloaded the other gun and was hastening to ward me, gave utterance to a terrific Cry of rage and rushed toward the na Clvei Without a second's hesitation I grabbed his gun and fired it point blank at the massive head of the ele phant, which by this time was less than twenty feet from us. Providence must surely have guided that bullet, for it entered the right eye, and with one last ear-splitting scream, the monstrous bulk tottered and fell. “Aroused, undoubtedly, by the dying scream of the elephant which had just fallen, and which was probably the leader of the herd there appear ed from the forest which surrounded ! the plain, a herd which in points of numbers outdid anything I had pre- j viousiy encountered, and 1 flatter my- ^ V This plan worked well, self that I have, in my time, seen con siderable of them. In fact, it seemed as if all the elephants in Africa were assembled at that particular place, and were bent on my destruction. With trumpetings which were deaf ening, they came rushing toward us from every point of the compass. Flight was impossible, for we were entirely surrounded, nor was there a distance of even ten feet between the foremost ones, and as the leaders in this magnificent charge neared us, of course even this space was narrowed, j “I felt that my time had come, for, unfortunately Umbolalla, in h!s haste to reach me before I was crushed by the wounded elephant, had dropped ; the ammunition, and we were with out arms other than my two army re volvers and Umbolalla’s assegai, a weapon without which no native Afri can can be induced to enter a forest. The bullets from the revolvers would have proven as effective against the tough hides of the elephants as from a boy’s slingshot, and I did not, therefore, deem it worth an attempt to use them, nor did it then occur to me, as I remember It now, that I had them with me. “Then it was that a most remark able thing occurred. You know what will happen if you place a number of moving bodies at an equal distance from each other, upon the circumfer ence of a circle and start them to ward the center? Well, that is just what happened in this case! Those elephants in the lead reached the cir cumference of the smaller circle at precisely the same instant, and there ! they stuck, utterly unable to approach j an inch nearer! Not only had the terrific momen turn of their huge bodies served to wedge them tightly together, but be hind the elephants comprising the 1 inner circle were scores and scores of others, each possessed by an un controllable desire to get at the some thing which formed the center of the circle of which they were the cir cumference, and serving to hold fast in their positions the elephants on the inner circle. “Conceive, if you can, the picture of two men seated upon the carcass of a dead elephant, surrounded by a living circle of other elephants, and these In turn pushed and crowded and wedged In still more tightly by hun dreds of others! The elephants on the inner circle might as well have been trees, so far as their powers of locomotion were concerned. With al most overpowering trumpetings, they swayed from side to side, lashing each other with their trunks in their rage, but absolutely unable to stir cither forward or backward. Al though I had, but a few moments be fore, resigned myself to a speedy and apparently Inevitable death, the hu mor of the situation now struck me. and 1 rolled from the carcass in a violent paroxysm of laughter. “To make a long story short, it was a simple matter, considering the po sltion in which we had the herd, to finish a few of the elephants nearest us by well-directed shots from my re volvers, as a bullet penetrating the eye would readily reach the brain. We had killed perhaps half a dozen in this manner, the bodies retaining their upright position in the circle through the pressure of others, when Umbolalla reminded me that the re maining revolver cartridges might better be saved, and that we could kill the elephants as well with his assegai. His plan was to clim » upon lie elephants, place th< issegai over the spina where it enters tht the heavy elephanl drive it home. This upon trial worked seven hours incessanl stilled the trumpeting vast herd uot one re Mpweto we enjoyed and in the morning l ty, such is the simpll native, in arrang Chlef Mugbokuku, his tribe the car in exchange of his men in rernov carrying them to a at which transpor could be secured, months later, I re taken from the 468 where the of at a profit of ECONOMY? a Failing in This you?” asked the chief buyer. ’t buy matches the buyer, you with matches ” said the Nearly P®1, ecoDOm>' Ami one Nearlv was right and wi a fet pfonomy, dulge i ,ength t0 ln‘ ()f 8 they still tell tieular who was par' certain kind of Thev „ to “• took the clab’ and be them. aa be needed ■ v n in small 8tuff them butt ,that n° «as plate and would not pencil. To others write £* so it goes. , , money saved tha theSe m. “ desire to ecoaoun wApd Tex., says ' and three other s°“td in the 3ta*e ' Mexico, fmbiai This land 13 no; a four ftrand to be the largest .f116 and 100 ” miles of barbed to fence U ranch proper for about lf„ its pres ent ra’ The nish g cattle be gre ranch propos rigatio give n A hi years bright, ade ai think to the tor. She bedtin first, e with p 0U3 n sexes, to the ment then I “An “Wl that! for?” “We pher, ■ as met “Talked AS |i The neighbors talked her (&dy *••• ry where in, v , S They talked about her diddl'Sey ‘ ‘ h The high and ],m mil’ll her « did old And every gossip tosse ante upon •■"r ndu...H 'Twas she who kissed tlflrat *u . i'l-st its happy Ur$m/m Iwas she who help,,,] , (t| ... through all the ; Mrtbr iW 's she why wan h, | the Wh'T,„,l. I h„ ,.j,!iir S iwas she who sooth,-,'strickea friends when one { away. The neighbor* t.tlk-d n» nearly 1 “-j ■'-k»‘<i about her ti ml: th«r • 1 hey taike.j about her wjhand*, her heart *„ fi||, „f MH A ddw°*i the, n w who I •J*-is With t tn Mxon Uat- rmanin i. Only Trying 8 iff! There are many way Tib ling* in the pis.atoilal art ijBur- I Iingame, who was up' tj ,9tie*f Bose f,,r Ashing on S gave f a peculiar reason hi* Sabbath operations. - see, iTTV "as e3tPer!mentln new treditV f7,ne Beav fl8h / 1 ‘f ,th'' fivfr and lots Creelh U dldn'1 "skiver bait :'h!n°n!y Pxporlmenti ®y fijhin ’ ho '6 p“op,<- "o ••That- rf'nion.stratf,(] ¥ i ; i and Burlingame'wj^ ; moderate fine as a row, »J» loquacity^ East Liver^f | Betty Lietep Robert E. Catxoi* ss# One afternoon last month Mrs. Betty Lieter, a school teacher near Sheridan. Wyo., remained later than usual at the school-house, then on her way home stopped by a pile of huge bowlders to examine some curious in scriptions cut into the surface. She let the pony graze along the trail and soon was deeply engaged in decipher ing the marks. A low rumbling sound startled her. She sprang to her feet. A large heard of cattle was coming toward her, their noses to the ground, their horn3 clanking together and envel oped in a cloud of dust. At the same moment her pony became frightened, tossed his head in the air, and dashed away across the plains. She uttered a scream and sank down. Yells arose from the cowboys. They rode madly into the heard, try ing to check the onward rush of the leaders by firing revolvers in their faces. Betty crouched for a moment on the rock pile directly in the path of the stampede; then, impelled to make an effort to save herself, she rose and darted off across the country ahead of the herd. The cattle came thundering after her. She heard the angry roarings, almost felt their hot breath, and, weak from exhaustion, blinded by the dust, she stumbled and fell. Without strength to rise, she could only lie there and await the oncoming merci less hoofs that would soon trample out her life. At that moment, from out of the clouds of dust, dashed a snorting broncho, maddened by the gashing ; spurs of his rider. A few leaps and [ he reached the prostrate form I bending down from his saddle! strong arm lifted her from the grcl i hardly checking his speed, ami! | study pony sprang forward unde® double weight. She was saved® A little later the cowboy rein® his pony at the Meter gate, an® the first time Hetty opened her® and looked into the face of kefl cuer Hubert Catton. Her arms fl his neck tightened for one bricH ment, she hid her blushing laH his breast, then she struggled H his arms and ran into the hen® Tlie next day she received a H no less than the little pony thtfl saved her life. I Young Catton is now a fr<Ht visitor at the Meter ranch and He other cowboys in the country aiH.i solir.g one another, cacti regrettHe could not have been the lucky H0 save the life and w in the heart lie intrepid girl. 1 It is said that Miss Meter willrh no more school, and that all thlw boys on the range have been Bsd to the wedding. I Reading by Sound. I M. de Turine has invented !‘W style of hook for the blind. It Ats of a sheet of transparent paplith signs representing the Ietterslhe Morse alphabet printed on it iles.j The signs are small white sqia on a black background, and wljthe' sheet is placed between two i» of glass and illuminated from bel/the light passes through the whitfcns. The blind person reads the by moving an opaque piece of emird ( alDng the lines from left to right Be he ‘‘anno* see the ill,mil nattci signs, but the light passing •rough them falls ou a selenium cell J. £ rCU,t with a battery and tele phone, or some equivalent device, and he can hear them. J The Shah's Wives. ;jyho Sfiah of Persia is the happy IXm SB°r °f S'X,y w,ve9 and thirty Children, quite a small household J?°.n . "f remember that the late Shah had over 1.700 Wives and nearly - r, ° 8on8 an,, daughters! When the 1 |.fchab 8 wivcs go out for a drive the j oyal subjects of His Majesty do not „ t Fthrorjg the streets to welcome them as would he the case in a European country. A band of running footmen precede the Royal carriages, crying out: Run and hide yourselves!” and on reclpt of this hint every passer by scampers up a side street to avoid j the crime of high treason by looking J on the Royal ladles. Insurance Against Being Out of Work. Insurance against non-employment a an accompUshed fact in Germany. Working men who have resided two years in the city of Cologne and are over eighteen years of age can Join the society. The subscription Is six [ fents a week- If no employment can A be procured for a member during the C dull season sixty cents per day is paid to him If married, thirty-nine jcents if single. Bats Are Poor Walkers. A hat is the worst walker of any four legged animal. ROUTE OF THE TELEGRAPH MEjlGE THAT WENTR-OUND THE WORLD _ ’ I The twentieth century, aa foretold by the mechanical prophets, has sent a telegraph message around the world. The message was started from Boston and in thirty-eight hours and twenty minutes was delivered at the point from which it had started. The message around the world by cable was made possible by the com pletion of the British line from Van couver, B. C., to Brisbane in Austra —■——«i „i , ..—■m— -—— -—■ wrote out the message: A via Vancouver, British cattle, ,a!ia, Glidden, Boston, around the •” , The dispatch was filed in 8os ton office of the cable eonual1^ when the rest of the busint,eatl of it was sent off the operat8 8 on the wire for Vancouver, the operators along the line thoi,f 8 is a matter for surmise. awa* all new business to them, knew there was a shorter w;Bos* I ^---—---1 cable to Canada and down to Boston The message handed Mr. Glidden had met with a few mishaps on its tour of (he world, but was still recogniza ble as the one originally sent Mr Glidden's name had been changed to “Gleddon” and "Around tho world" read "Armund the world.” An ex tra "Boston" had been inserted but in ail other respects the message was the same. The time it took to get around was Route of the All-British Cable W°r,d' I The last gap had been filled in on evening of October 30, and the day the British officials were t to send messages of con to the new stations across Pacific ocean, but to none of did the idea occur to try for a girdling word. es J. Glidden, a Boston bus! in no way connected with company, was deeply Inter iu this latest achievement of engineering skill, and decid- \ put it to a practical test. He , on than by way of the ot* t°n he world. The message *° banning Island in the ]/£! •t was relayed. There by an operator in light t'lme and ticked ahead ' a touching p0int it, ,h„ ajJ rum there to Norfolk / to Brisbane. Afi< r Brisbane it Wa, c,^r - '»• line <;'a. across the Red g,., and | ranean, through Franc* /tic lh,'n 011 ‘ho oid estab# 1 due in part to the relays needed In the transmission and partly because there was nothing on the message to show that any haste was desired it waa, in fact, only an Idle experiment with no idea of making a record The cost has not been computed ac curately, but ft will be only a llttia J over $12 for the first six words of the ^ message and a proportionate sum f0 the others. Mr. Glidden thinks b has secured a bargain at that price. Wisdom seldom runs In a rut