, 1890-07-24


"rhe lion first eyed me second,
and must "a 'cluded thet wuzn't
worth a-botherln' with, fer he shied
aroun' me in circle like, an the
last | seed NV him he wuz a-nakiN'
some powerful Jumps arter thet air
buck, an s'pose he got him, fer L
never seed nutin' more NV neither
NV them. But atween you an me
that thar mountain lion cudn't n
cum along In IL better time to do me
"A rite down clean favor, an I'll be
hanged IL III ever forgit 1t either.
I've never had the heart In me to
kill one o. them air lions since that
time, an l s'pose l never WILL"
& II Il
Conquered by u Turtle.
At Stony Ford, on the famous
stock farm of Charles Buchanan,
two Holstein bulls were pasturlng
I'm different fields, one on one side of
the Waikiki river and one on the
other side. There had been bitter
feud between the two blooded ami
mails for a long time, and few days
ago one of them took IA position on
the river bank In his pasture and
beloved challenge to his enemy,
the other bull. This was quickly
answered by the Holstein, and he
lost no time In getting to the bank
on his side of the Waikiki, says u
Goshen, n. ", correspondent OF the
New York Sun. The two bulls
stood in that way believing, and
muttering, and paving dirt for u
long time, each working himself in
to deeper rage, until at last one
bull could contain himself no longer
and plunged into the river and
SWAN toward his rivals domain.
The rival did not wait for him
to get there, but jumped into
the river and swan to meet him.
The two ugly animals, their tempers
uncooled by their bath, met In mid
stream and attempted to have the
matter out right there. The lack
of footing and the strength of the
current prevented either bull from
making any telling assault, but each
tried his best to do battle.
While the bulls were butting and
believing in futile rage In the
stream, the one that had jumped
into the river first suddenly gave II
treme endous below, and turning
about, pulled back for his pasture,
following Justify all the way and
shaking his head violently. He
reached the shore, drew himself out,
and scrambled up the bank. Then
the cause of his sudden panic and
retreat became apparent. A large
swapping turtle, for which the Wal
kill Is noted, had been attracted to
the spot where the bulls were fight
ing in the water, and the tail of this
bull presenting an appearance to
its liking, the turtle had closed its
powerful Jaws on 1t we'll toward the
butt end. This attack i'm the rear
was more than the bull had calcu-
lated on, and he pulled for home.
When he got out of the water he
kept right on, tearing about the
field and making such n rumpus as
that farm had never known before.
The other bull, when it's foe re-
treated so noisily and suddenly,
seemed seized with panic, too,
and SWAN back to his pasture as
quickly as he could. When he
climbed the bank he gazed back at
the strange circus his rival was hav-
ing, and uttered not "a sound. After
tearing about the lot two or three
times the bull the turtle had caught
succeeded in shaking the snapper
loose. 1t was picked up and subse-
quently sent to a restaurant keeper
in New York city. The bull that
the turtle didn't catch has gone to
the bank and renewed his challenge
L.. At hA ID m,
the fight, but his rival pays no at
tention to 1t. He evidently fears a
repetition of his first experience.
4 II
The Rather aud the Cork Leg.
"Speaking of snakes" said gen.
tleman who was wasting an hour in
the rotunda of the Southern hotel, a
few nights ago, says the Giobe-Dem-
ocrat, al once witnessed IA sight that
made my blood freeze, and can not
think of it now without shivering.
was in Savannah, Ga, and stepped
into a bar-room kept by John Sulli-
van to get a drink. There was IA
crowd of jovial fellows in there,
laughing and chatting as they
drank, and suddenly one of them
exclaimed: Scatter, for Gods sake,
boys. tho apalxe,s ont, tboupht
he had sem hut he didn't A nero
wbo lived out near the swn,nns
about three miles from the city. had
canght a huge rattler fully five ftot
i'm ien 9th in "A barrel and had boxed
II nm and brought IL To the city. Sul-
Ivan boupht IL as n curiosity and
n,,t N In a caps, in the saloon. and
the rentile had got out of this caoe