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GIRL'S BATTLE WITH ALLIGATORS
Rescues Her Baby Sister from
Saurian s Jaws.
Savanah Walston, a pretty Texas
Kir, is the heroine of the little town
of Tunis, on the U.iyou Sarah, nn arm
of the Brazos. Bho miulc herself fa
mous a few days ngo by killing two
monster alligators that had entered
her mother's cottago during the night.
Few men would havo been capable of
performing the feat that this brave
girl accomplished. The house occu
pied by Mrs. Walston stands within
twenty feet of a largo Irrigating ditch,
across which there Is it small foot
bridge. The yard gate opens at this
little bridge, and a wire fence extends
Bomo twenty feet clthor way along
the bank of the ditch and then turns
At a sharp right angle and Joins the
comers of tho house. This makes a
small front yard which has but ono
gate
It Is supposed that tho two monster
alligators were prowling along th
Irrigating ditch In search of food
when thoy encountered tho foot bridge,
and In crossing over it they may havo
pushed tho little gato open. Miss Sa
vannh Walston was sleeping on a
cot on the littla porch In front of tho
open door of her mother's room, nnd
a llttlo negro boy 6 years of ago was
lying undor a china tree In the yard.
Mrs. Walston, who was sick at tho
tlmo, occupied a bed In the parlor of
tho cottage, and her little baby was
lying In n cradle within casyreach of
her hand. She says that she heard tho
alligators for somo momonts before
she called her daughter. The moon
was shining nlmost as bright as day,
and when Mls3 Bavanah was aroused
by her mother she raised up on her
cot and put one of her hands on the
head of ono of tho monsters. At that
Instant a little dog that had ran out
of Mrs. Walston'B room was snapped
between tho Jaws of another alligator
at tho young girl's sldo.
In hei fright sho Bprang over ono
of the monsters In order to reach her
mother's bed. Both of tho alligators
pursued her across the floor and one
of (hem turned tho cradle over. The
little boy fell out on th,Q carpet. Miss
Savanah had readied the bed In safety,
but when she henrd the cries of hor
baby sister sho sprang back on the
carpet and rescued tho child almost
QUEER "FACTS"
About Anlii.nl Told !y I up'
of it
I'hllaUrlphla School.
A teacher In ono of tho public
schools of the Quaker City who has a
BonBe of humor, has culled some rc
makable bits of Information from hor
examination papers. Questions bear
ing upon the habits of animals woro
found to bo particularly amusing. Ono
amall boy dcclnred, In a fit of poesy,
that "tho lion is tho queen of boaBts."
From another more practical "tho Hon
baa a great big mouth, and roars
Bomothlng fearful." One evident oll-
m mim "wii .y j i' w jJJrw
riwpi ii iiia"aimffitfFrfilMBmn
from the Jaws of one of the saurlans.
Mother nnd daughter woro now
standing up on the bed, but they were
not sure that they occupied a position
beond the reach of their hungty as
sailants. The noise awoke the little
negro, and the women saw him run
nlng towards them. They shouted to
him warning him of the danger, nnd
telling him to run outside or tho yard.
Kvldcntly he did not know what was
tho trouble, for ho ran towards tho
bed, stumbling over one of the alli
gators, nnd falling with his head right
Into tho mouth of the other.
Tho women were helpless to defend
the unfortunate little African. The
monster crushed the little negro's
hend between Its Jaws, and tho women
could plainly see the child's blood
streaming over the carpet.
"To add to the terror of the scene,"
says Mrs. Walston, "the other alligator
seized the little negro's legs and they
tore the child's body to fragments be
fore our eyes. Wo did not know whnt
to do. At one moment wo thought of
springing out on the floor and trying
to escape and run to thehouse of a
neighbor."
While the women were hesitating in
their fright a curious thing happened.
On tho previous day Mrs. Walston had
ordered a large mirror which she had
set on the floor against ono of tho
walls of the parlor. Tho male alliga
tor caught the reflection of his own
Image In this gliiBs und with a furious
bellow ho plunged at It and shivered
tho costly mirror to fragments. This
seemed to enrage tho creature and ho
began to bellow and run ubout over
the house, overturning everything that
came In his way. Miss Savanah says
that she threw pitchers, wash bowls,
gluBS tumbleis, and boxes of mntchoa
Into tho monster's mouth and ho
would crush and swallow such things
as If they wcte delicacies that tickled
his palate.
While tho smaller of the two crea
tures was overturning the stove and
destroying tho kitchen furniture the
other remained In tho parlor terroriz
ing the two women. Ho would doubt
less finally havo succeeded in overturn
ing tho. bed. It Miss Savanah had not
adopted a plan of battle, which put
mlrer of the world-renownod hero,
Colonel Cody, tells us "the buffalo Is
tho ono animal of the temperate zone,
which belongs to the Wild Man." nnd
adds; "Tho horse Is an animal what
plays and dances as soon ns he hears
music." Another brilliant one gives
the somewhat startling Information
that "the rhinoceros has a stone nose,"
nnd that "dogs Is n domestic animal,
which chows bones." Wo are also told:
"Tho llama is a becst of burden and
we get clothes off Its back." Another
animal evidently In the clothing busi
ness Is the seal, which, wo aro Infoim
cd, "makos coats." Upon other suh-
an end to tho existence to tho two ter
rors. Her brother's gun was hanging
against the wall on tho oppoalto aide
of the room. She determined to tako
advantage of tho first opportunity nnd
get hold of tho weapon. Her mother
tried to dlssuado her from such a des
perate venture, but tho moment that
the big saurlnn left the room she
sprang out on the carpet nnd ran after
tho gun. The alligator heard her steps
and lie pursued her to the bed, snap
ping his hideous Jnv;s and making a
noise that would have paralyzed u less
courageous girl.
Mies Bavanah says that she had
never shot u gun before In her life,
but she had often seen her brother
handle a rltlo and she had some
knowledge of tho way tho liner was
worked In order to load and eject tho
shells from "tho barrel. Her heart
bounded for Joy when Bho found tho
magazine of the gun full of cartridges.
Aiming well at one cyo of tho big
bull she fired nnd had tho satisfaction
of seeing him cavort about over tho
carpet ns If there was something hot
Instde of his head. She pumped a few
more shots into his body behind his
forelegs and it was not long before
ho rolled over lifeless. The fcmnlu
came crawling Into the room.
Savanah sent a hot bullet Into Its
body. The furious animal turned nnd
ran strnlghWownrds the bed with wldo
open Jnws, and, furious with pain and
rage, she got her forefeet on tho bed,
nnd the women were now worse fright
ened than before. Tho horrible Jaws of
the maddened creature were close to
their bodies. Savanah pushed the bar
rel of the gun Into tho alligator's
mouth und fired. It was a fortunate
shot. Tho big ball torn through tho
full length of the creaturo's backbone,
nnd It fell, quivering and lifeless, on
the carpet.
The smoke had hardly cleared nnd
the women had not yet dared to ven
ture from the bed when A. Nolson, a
neighbor, entered tho gate and asked
If they wcro having a battle with bur
glars. The man could hardly credit
his own eyesight when ho snw the car
casses of the two big alligators lying
on the carpet. Other citizens of tho
little town were soon gazing in won
der at the dead alligators and the
wrecked fuinituie. They proved to
be two of the largest alligators over
killed In tho country. The people of
tho llttlo town have voted Miss Sa
vanah tho brqvest girl In Texas, and
the young men of the place gave a bnll
In her honor and crowned her mascot
of their military compnny and the
queen of the hunting club.
Jects the answers were equally as en-
lightening. The miner, wo learn, "al
ways had a donkey to pull blm out of
tho mine, which la full of gas and
chokes him." One future citizen In
forms us that "the chief occupation of
Philadelphia Is taking ferry boats
across the river."
Muelilne t)lilacn Fur in llunilt.
In England during the past few
years, It Is claimed, 140,320 farm labor
ers have been displaced by machinery,
while tho making of the latter, it Is
asserted, required only the labor of
l,C00 men for one year.
CAMERA CATCHES FLEA
Plv "llimnmiul Tint I-urga m lie
ltrnllj- I.
The eye of the camera has been
brought to bear upon tho floa. Con
sidering the dllllculty with which tho
human optic meets In trying to ac
complish tho snme thing this 1b a re
markablo feat. Free and untinmmclcd
tho domestic Ilea has long cavorted
upon green pnsturej, so to speak, In
dcllnnco of direct human Investigation,
and It remained fur Fred Cloutmnn,
n photographer of Boston, to produce
photographic results, as shown In the
nccompanlng 6,000 times enlarged re
productions, No. 1 shows thn festive
creature ! a poso of Impending ac
tion. The long hind legs nro poised
ready for n leap that,- were the Hen
an elephant, would carry him twice
and n half around the earth, allowing
a dlstamo proportionate to thn lcln
tlvo size. Tho accompanying two
pairs of assistant lcgH also shown arc
Blmply aids In the clever "glvo and get
nway" tactics of tho active llttlo crea
ture. Tho small pair of antennae at tho
front of tho head aro reserved for tho
attack of prey and It Is these Hint aro
responsible for much human woe. No.
2 shows an enlarged photograph of
tho head, legs and nntennnu nud No. 3
tho antennae nlouc. In the points of
the antennae tho poison of tho Insect
Is concealed. When tho flea goes din
ing it Is tho antciuino that are prodded
Into the llcsh of Its victim and through
them tho blood Is absorbed, tho poison
being emitted In tho process. It Is ln
mentublo for San Franciscans thnt Mr.
Cloutmnn's nrt does not extend fur
ther than to tho photographing of tho
fiendish Insects. Did It portend tho
discovery of somo means for the per
manent extermination of tho species
his photographic triumphs might bo
pointed out and preserved with grati
tude by a long-suffering public.
FLAGSTAFF'S ICE MINE.
An Ineitiatintltile UnitrrR-rouml Supply for
Town In ArUotm.
Flagstaff, a comfortable logging
town on the Santn Fo Pacific railway
In Arizona, has been provided by na
ture with tho queerest, ice-making
plant known. During tho past sum
mer a largo part of tho town's Ice sup
ply has been secured fiom cavca In
tho pine woods, nine miles to tho
southward. Tho caves aro In lava
formation, tho geological capping of
tho entire country. Entering to tho
main envorn, through a narrow silt In
tho malapai rock, necessitates a vcr
tlcnl drop of ten feet to tho floor of n
passago that runs farther In, till
blocked by Ice barriers. Tho temper
ature In tho cavcH, even In the height
of summer, is about tho freezing
point. Many visitors havo been pros
trated by tho cold after making too
long a stay. The tee, which Is as hard
as Ice can be, nils every nook nnd
cranny beyond tho short black hall
way that leads inward from tho en
trance. When dug away In whatever
quantity, It seems to grow again from
behind In the manner of tho creep of
glaciers. The depth or size of tho de
posit Is not known. It Is oven be
lieved that there Is an underground
Ice lake of Immense dimensions. How
tho deposit was formed is a puzzle
that has not been solved by tho geo
logical Ice minors. Tho region Is ul
most destltudo of surface or well
water nud tho mean temperatures aro
far above the thermometrle flguro thnt
would appear to render such a" deposit
possible. But tho lco Is thero and tho
product of tho unlquo mine has been
hold dally In Flagstaff,
Htrcnuoua I.I fa In jt I.lRhtlinutr.
Mr. William McDonough, keeper of
the light at Yellow Island, near Co
max, was in town today, says the Van
couver (I). C.) Province nnd loaded
himself up with nil kinds of rifles,
HhotguiiB, ammunition and dynamite.
Mr. McDonough states that these war
like Instruments are not to be used
for the purpose of extinguishing the
aborigines of the Island, but aro
merely for self-detenso against the
ducks, gulls, loons and other birds
which haunt the light tower at
night, and keep him awako by the
emission of weird, long-drawn-out
screams, besides contributing largely
to the maintenance cost of the slntion
by breaking the panes of glasB In tho
tower.
Hrir-Cu'ttira I I'oilbW.
Self-culture Is possible, not only
because we can enter Into nnd search
ourselves we hnvo still a noblor pow
er, that of acting on, determining, and
forming ourselves. This Is u fearful
as wcl as glorious endowment, for It
is the ground of human responsibility.
We havo the power not only of trac
ing our powers, but of guiding and
Impelling them; not only of watching
our passions; but of controlling them;
not only of seeing our faculties grow,
but of applying to them means and In
fluences to aid their growth.--W. E.
Cbannlng.
Photographic 1'rlntlnft.
There seems to be a likelihood that
beforo long movable types for printing
will be done away with altogether,
and their function, hitherto regarded
as Indispensable in tho art, performed
by Ingenious photographic processes.
Tho books of the '"near futuro, It Is
predicted, will bo made by photogra
phy, and It Is not Improbable that
even newspapers will be issued by
methods In which the camera nnd dry
plate will tako the place of tho font
of metal letters and the stereotype
from n paper matrix. Saturday Even
ing Post.
An Egyptian contemporary snys;
"Our whole island Is now girdled with
golf courses. All the world Is no long
er a stago, but a golf links."
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
WERE HELD EVERY FOUR YEARS
UY ANCIENT QHEEKS.
rmm ail 4 A. It. Until tfiOO Thorn Wern
No Olympic lniui -Amerlcit l.tfit In
MoiUrn i turn Willi Nine Ktutit to
I lor Urnllt.
Beginning with 770 11. C, tho Greeks
reckoned their time by olympiads, or
periods of four jeais when the Olym
pic games were hold. A sacied truco
lasting for a month put a stop to all
war between tho various states at tho
time of the games. This enabled ev
eryone to travel In safety, ns none
would dnro to offend tho terrible god
Zeus. Almost every town In Oroeco
sent icpresentallvcH either to compete
or to look on at these coutosts, and
f i oni tho Islands along tho coast as
well as fiom the colonics In Asln, Af
rica and Western Europe visitors
came for btislneas or pleasure. No
women, except ono priestess, were al
lowed to bo resent at tho contests All
competitors wno obliged to prove that
they worn of pure Greek blood nnd
that they had spent ton mntnhs In
preparation for tho contests. Then,
If accepted, they were obllgod to pass
tho thirty days Immediately preceding
tho gnmis In training at Olympla un
der the dliectlon of tho otllclals. Dur
ing this period the athlcto nnd his
friends made ficqtient sacrifices and
prayeis to the various deltlos whom
they thought might assist In giving
him the victory. On tho day of tho
games all tho competitors wcro obliged
to take a holcmn oath at the altar of
tho god Zeus tint they would abide by
Uin rules and would tnkn no unfair
nduiutngc of an oppuueut. Oilglnally
tho games consisted of but n single
race, tho stidlum COO frnt; hut at tho
tlmo of their greatest glory five days
were consumed In deciding the con
tests. They wcro then ns follows:
Foot races, the pentathlon, horso nnd
chariot races, boxing, wrestling and
Blackmail by
Lawyers..,
Fortunately for tho avcrago lawyor's
client. It Is not often tho case that a
Rollcltor so far betrays tho confldenco
reposed In him ns to utllizu tho In
formation poured Into his private ear
for tho foul purpose of bhicknuill, yet
tho records of legal malpractices con
tain a certain number of such cases of.
moro or less holnousness, Bays Tlt
Ults. Not so many yoars ago a young
lady residing in a Midland county had
occasion to consult a solicitor regard
ing n rather dollcato matter in which
.she had been, through no fault of her
own, Involved. For obvious reasons
sho avoided tho practitioner who at
tended to her family's buslnosu, and,
rather rashly, pitched upon the first
gentleman whoso doorplnto caught her
eyo.
Her choice proved an unfnrtunnto
one. The lnwyor In question was an
unmitigated scoundrel, whose chief
harvest was reaped from lnd scrlmlnnto
blackmail, and very soon tho girl dls
covmed this fact to her sorrow. For
tho unscrupulous scoundrel, having ob
tained full details of her position, to
gether with certain compromising doc
uments, proceeded to obtain from her
various sums under threats of ex
posure, nnd It wtiii not until sho had
parted with all her savings and was on
the verge of desperation thnt she sum
moned sufllclent coutago to lay tho
whole distressing buslnoss bofuro hor
father, Tho latter relative at once took
very nctlve measures to bring the vil
lain to justlco, but, owing to somo
legal technicalities, the cavo fell
AASVWA
ENCOURAGED BONDAGE.
One. New York Had a Municipal Ware
Ship.
When New York city owned a slavo
ship Is told In an article In Poarsou's
Magazine. Tho greatest Impetus was
given to the slave trade by tho act of
parliament of 10X4, which legalized
slavery In the North American colo
nics. This does not moan that slavery
was unknown In whs, is now tho
United States beforo thai :!mo, becnuaa
as early as 1G20 a Dutch man-of-war
landed and sold twenty African ne
groes at Jamestown, Va. In 1C26 tho
West India company Imported slaves
from tho West Indies to Now York
city, then Now Amsterdam. The city
Itself owned shares In a slave ship,
advanced money for Us fitting out und
shared In the profits of Its voyages.
This recognition and encouragomout
may account for the astounding fnct
that In 17G0 slaves formed one-sixth
of tho entire population of Now York.
Tho general prevalcnco of slavery Is
shown by the fact that at this time
thero were sixty-seven slaves in New
York's small suburb of Brooklyn, and
that In London Itself there wore resi
dent 20,000 slaves. Slaves woro at that
tlmo publicly dealt in on the London
exchange. No wondor the traffic In
human flesh was a recognized com
merce, and that In 1771 the English
alone sent to Africa 192 ships equipped
for the trndo and with a carrying ca
pacity ol 47.HG slaves por trip. Now
York Press.
Don't Scorch In KiigUnil,
A wheclrnan named Grlmwood has
been sentenced In England to fourteen
days' Imprisonment, without tho op
tion of a fine, for alloged furious rid
ing. The constable estimated the
speed at from fourteen to eighteen
miles an hour, but tho defenso put It
atflvooralx. Orlmwood, who la chief
tho pancratium. Tho foot races con
sisted of the slnglo course, nlroady
mentioned, tho double course, tho Ions
raco, sometimes twenty-four times tha
length of the courtlo, and tho raco In
armor. Tho pentathlon consisted of
five events, leaping with dumb bclto,
throwing tho discus, throwing tho
spear, running nnd wrestling. A victor
wilt obllgod to win tlueu out of the
five eveiitii, Tho wrestling was not
very different from whnt c havo now
adays; but tho boxing was done with
tho hands enclosed In strips of leather
on which woro fastened pieces of
metal. ThlH arrangement was called
n cestus, nud you can lmnglno what a
terrible mass of blood nnd bruises
would result from such n contest. Ono
day was given to the contests of boys,
tho otheig to tho men and youths.
After each contest tho victor was giv
en n palm branoli. At thn end of tho
games there was a formal presentation
of olive wi oaths to all the winners,
thou followed feasts nnd sacrifices al
most without number. When n cham
pion neared homo, tho wholn town or
city camo out to meet htm. If thorn
was a wall about tho city, a now open
ing was made for tho glorious ono to
enter through; songs woro sung re
garding him, stntucs woro made of him
ami bet up In his native town nnd at
Olympla, I'resontK of all kinds wcro
mndo to him In such numbers nnd of
such magnificence thnt all necessity
of woi king for tho good things of llfo
was taken away from htm. From tho
year .101 A. D when they were dis
continued by thn order of tho Emporor
Thcodoslus, until 18'Jfi, thoro woro no
Olympic games. Hut In thnt year,
through tho efforts of Haron Plorro do
Cnubcrtln nud a commlttco represent
ing nil tho nntlnns which take an nc
tlvo interest In gymnastic nnd nthlotlc
exercises, n modern edition of tho
Olympic games was hold at Athens.
America led the prlzo winning, with
ntno events to her credit. Tho other
winning countries woro France, Eng
land, Greece, Uormnny, Australia, Hun
gary , Austria, Switzerland and Den
mark. Some Unscrupulous
Members of the
Bar Guilty of this
Crime...
through, and ho escaped hlH well-mer-Ited
punishment.
A case thnt threw n third light upon
tho methods of theso human vultures
was tried somo tlmo ngo In ono of tho
westorn couita of America. A young
lady typist employed In u fancy good
firm sued n solicitor of shndy rcputo
for attempting to obtain monoy from
her by threats. It thon transpired th it
tho girl, having got Into a scrnpo
through nn unfortunato lovo affair, had
consulted the lawyer as to tho best
means of getting out of tho trouble.
Instead of giving her tho nccossary ad
vice, tho roguo had proceeded to de
mand fiom her tho sum of $100, add
ing thnt, unless tho amount woro paid
to him within n month, ho would pub
lish her story to tho wholo world. By
a lucky chance, n friend of tho girl who
had accompanied her to tho ofllco hap
pened to overhear tho conversation
fiom tho adjoining waiting-room, und,
nrmed by tho presenco of this witness,
tho plucky girl lotallatcd upon tho vil
lainous solicitor by placing him In
tho dock shortly afterward. Ho was
sent to prison for a long term, tho
court complimenting tho fair prosecu
trix on the courage Bho had shown in
bringing tho scoundrel to tho doom ho
deserved. A blackmailing lawyer who
dlod some ton yoars ngo In the West
Indies confessed that, while tho ordi
nary excrciso of his profession had
brought him In a llttlo moro thnn a
bare livelihood, he had earned no less
than 30,000 by the exerclBe of black
mall. onglneer on a steamer, was not' present,
as his duties callod him away, so that
a surprise awaits him when he returns
from Ma cruise. Tho only corroborative
evidence of tho speed, as given by
tho prosecution, was that of a, man
who was knocked down, nnd whp salJ
the rldtr was upon him before ho
could turn round.
I.lplun nnd IIU 1'urk Cornnr.
Sir Thomas J. Llpton's poik corner
In Chicago has Increased his popular
ity in England. Tho details of his op
erations are not understood, but 'there
to a goncial impression that be haa
succeeded lu rivaling Chlcaga spocii;
lators In business shrewdness nnd cool
ness of judgment. This achievement
nearly equals In reputation tho hon
ors he has won In New York by com
peting with yachtsmen nnd not luaUU
Ing them when they have benten him
fairly. London tatter.
Ainu llc V lilting. v
Tho curious Ainu race, which
originally occupied the whole of the
Island of Yezo, is rapljlly vanishing
before the Influx of Japaneao "etnlgra-
Hon, According to recent Investiga
tions they now only number tome
1C.000, and In a few more decades they
wilt probably be totally absorbed.
They are tho halrlestf "Vaco in the"'
world, aro fllthjly dlrjr in tqlr ban,
Its, and terribly nddlcted to drunken
ness. Tljey worship bears and snakes,,
and In somo cases Uvp in cayea.
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Qnren Victoria'. Iiirirmltlc. " .
An English paper enys thut the oply-
reason that Queen Victoria doea aot
nppcnr personally at tho opening of
parllnmont Is tho sho Is physically
unable. She would havo to 'walk a
iook ur.;anco and el mb a fl eht of
stairs, and 1ms now passed the us t
when she can do that "
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