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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14

house, and III waited for the coming.
Of daylight AZ Intervals Of If
teen minutes Captain White sang
out to us to know II We we're all right,
and about an hour before daylight he
warned me that the beast would no
doubt hy into fury with tho first signs
OF day. From midnight 70 two O'Clock
the tiger was not quiet over Ave min.
utes az q time. He would at and snarl
and whine and lick his wounded paws
for time and then 60 circhng around
the room and growing In q way to make
me shlver. As he. passed along the
partition, rubbing his head against it,
his eyes had I CLINT In them which
haunted me for months afterward.
Upon the approach Of daybreak the
man-eater began to grow more restless.
1t was time for him to be of to his lair,
but he was prisoner. just as the first
faint light came he tried the window
again, and his efforts to get out we're so
determined that thought he would sue
coed. When he finally drew back he
was ripe for mischief. We could make
him out plainly now, and as he dropped
back to the floor the native gasped out:
fBy my life, Sahib, he is the largest
tiger in all India" ..@
thought SO, too, and subsequent
measurements astonished every body.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14
Tho History of Foot. Hall.

The game Of football was known in
England prior to 1175, but II was never
regarded with favor by the law, and in
the reign of Edward III. (lse5) an ACT
was passed forbidding it. During the
reign of Richard II. (1sss) q similar Law
was enacted, and again, under the
Scotch Kings, James 1. (14s4) and II.
(1457), it was 'decreeted and ordained
that the foote-ball and collie be utterly
cryed down and not to be used" In
l471 James Ill, and In 14ol James W..
passed similar statutes. James I. OF
England also opposed it in his ''Basili.
kon Doron.' He writes: From this
court debarre all rough and violen,
exercise, as the football, meeter fol
lameing than making able the users
thereof" And in the reign Of Eliza,
beth, his predecessor, . true bill wa,
found against sixteen persons for play
ing the unlawful game Boston Budget
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WARREN Il AsTlN as.
His Remarkable Qualities and No Less
Remarkable Career.

His Remarkable Qualities and No Less
Remarkable Career. b.
What q romantic career was his, and
how much he narrowly missed! So great
were his scholastic attachments ct West
minister that the master was ready TO
send him to Oxford ct his own expense,
had not guardian with interest in
Leadenhall street interposed his veto,
and closing the gate to one brilliant
career, which might have led the youth
far at home, opened another to the East.
The bright student became writer,
chapman, merchant on the Ganges,
shouldered musket in the famous year
81, caught the eye Of Olive-wh0 knew
q man when he saw him--was at a later
period recommended by the victor at
Plassey to the council board at Madras,
thence selected to govern Bengal, and
finally appointed General.
Here were power and fame within reach,
and m ample field for the exercise of
his energy, courage, inventiveness; but
how terrible shackled! He enjoyed
power, he won fame, yet the
fruits OF his toll were spirited away.
Instead OF star and a peerage, he got a
bitter trial; instead of honor, obloquy;
instead Of modest fortune, pecuniary
ruin. In boyhood and manhood he de-
sired to purchase Daylesford, the home
Of his ancestors; but when his dearest
wish was nearly fulfilled the violence of
foes assailed him, and his fortune was
swallowed up in defense of his name.
He did get Daylesford after all. and
long he lived there; but the purchase
money came, like his pension, from the
India house, and not from the hardly
earned wages of his severe service of
thirty-two years. And how tough he
was; how serenely he bore alike fortune
and misfortune; how firmly he kept an
equal mind, never losing heart nor hope,
and believed even to the last that dan
gers and difficulties were things to be
overcome! What strange, what bizarre
contradictions beset his career. and
how we'll, ON the whole, he worked
in the murky and unwholesome
element where destiny placed him, SO
that while Burke and Sheridan painted
uim with big brushes and flaming hues
IS a monster, he was loved by the army,
by the civil servants, and, most re-
markable of all, by. the natives of the
country which he was paid to have
plundered and oppressed, yet where,
half u century afterward, as even Ma
,aulay admits, the natives talked OF
him as "the greatest Of tho English, u
and lulled their children to sleep with
songs in his praise. And after all he
was, in his last days, honored by his
country, and went down to his grave,
1t ripe old age, with the respect, il
not the approval, which he thought his
aue. His tomb is in Daylesford Church
as is best, though Macaulay exclaims
"Only one cemetery was worthy to con
tain his remains''-Westmins Abbey
that temple of silence and reconcilia
ton" Better as it is. In his days OF
obscurity he played on the village
green; his ashes repose most fifty un
der that humble village church, which
they light up with his hardly-earnly re-
nown.-London Spectator.
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IN CLOSE QUARTERS.
An Albright Vigil with a Man
Eating Tiger.

Separated from His Cruel Teeth and
Powerful Paws by q Frail Bamboo
Partition - How We BaYgeu
Our Gamo ut Last.
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THE ELDER BOOTHS WAYS.

Olive Logan Relates Some Experience
with the Great Tragodian.
Olive Logan, IN her racy volume COM
cerning women and theaters, recalls
some incidents in the career Of the cid.
or Booth. - -
strangely enough" says the observ-
ant Olive, "Mr. Booths artistic powers
were as strong when he was intoxicated.
as when he was quite sober. Many
aver that his sober Richard was tame
and puerile thing compared to the noisy
Richard of perhaps of hundred cups.
when was q little girl Booth was
once playing in conjunction with my
sister in Memphis, and she sent me one
night to deliver some message to him
on the stage. - III
"The curtain had not yet risen, but
found Mr.. Booth standing at the back
of the stage, inside the tomb OF the
Capnlets, for then bnce unoccupied by
any defunct member of that illustrious
house. e. .4,,-
II approached him timidly and deliv-
| cred my message; whereupon, starting
up with the graceful spring of a tiger
disturbed, he Kissed out:
"Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth
hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood IL
cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!
"Any one who has seen Booth and re-
members the terrible intensity of his
voice, the wonderful crescendo which he
placed on the word gh-0-d-rel in this
| sentence will not be surprised to learn
that a weak, sickly little girl should
have toppted straight over in dead
swoon at hearing it so Unexpectedly
| and unjustly addressed to herself in the
semi-darkness Of the Capulet tomb.
1T is needless to say that the great
tragedian was intoxicated.
ION this occasion, after I had been
discovered, and q couch had been ex-
temporized for me in my sisters dress
ing room, I remember hearing such
peals on peals of applause for his act
ing that I lay there in agonized fear
that he would add further to my distress
by playing so we'll that the audience
would tear the house down in their en-
| thusiasm.
1.-The next time saw Booth he was
playing with Jean Davenport (Lander).
The piece was The Apostate,' and on
this occasion formed one of the audi
ence.
"Ihe reader who is familiar with this
play will remember where Alvarez gives
Florinda to Hemeya, who, receiving her
with applause, exclaims: "Who now
shall part us?''
cat this moment on strobe the terri
BILE Pescara and roared the one word Il!
''Booth was intoxicated again, and his
whole bearing so reminded me of the
previous occasion when he had given
me fright from which l had not yet
fully recovered, that, forgetting deco
rum and every thing else, started up
from my seat and rushed pell-mell out
of the theater.
ION several occasion I saw Edwin
Booth, tall, slender boy, who seemed
all eyes, standing behind the scenes, in
tently watching his fathers perform.
ances, and remember wondering if the
little boys father ever frightened him
as he had frightened me-"
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DUEL WITH POTATOES.
How q Vicar Hammered an Impenitel
Sinner Into Reason.

How q Vicar Hammered an Impenitent
Sinner Into Reason.
A story of the church, in an essen
TALLY militant aspect, comes from Coun-
ty Carlow. believe that in this divis-
ion of the kingdom clergymen confine
their remarks from the pulpit within
general limits when they inveigh
against the sins of poor humanity, but
in Ireland apparently their reproofs
take a more definite form. Atall events
it happened very recently in Carlow that
an aggrieved member of a certain con-
gregation declining to accept his par
sons assurance that he was not one of q
set of miserable sinners rather point
eddy referred to in the Sunday sermon
challenged his vicar to personal COM
bat and offered him his choice of weap-
ons. The challenge was accepted, the
clergyman declining, however, to use
such secular arms as swords or pistols,
but expressing his willingness to try .
novel kind of ammunition-zi. e., raw
potatoes-to be used as missiles, the big
ger the better. The morning on which
the novel duel commenced was as raw
as the potatoes, which lay in heap by
the side of each combatant. The pota-
toes were to be thrown alternately. The
challenger commenced, and missed.
The clergyman, aiming calmly and
scientifically, raised with his first shot
bump upon his opponents forehead
almost as large as the missile which
caused it. The layman promptly lost
his temper, and aimed wildly and reck.
lessly, hitting the seconds and missing
the vicar with great regularity. The
vicar, feeling that he could afford to be
magnanimous, put down his potato, ad-
vanced to his aggrieved parishioner,
held out his hand, and said: Come,
Mr.. Or, think we're couple OF
idiots. Let US shake hands and be
friends, and utilize these vegetables fol
more useful purpose at dinner TO-
night" So the duello terminated, and 4
doubt not that it might be we'll If other
ecclesiastical controversies could be
settled on such . simple and harmless
basis sometimea-Kathleen, in Leeds
Mercury. -r h. @--e:
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LAND IN BERMUDA.

1t Stays In Families for Generations, and
Is Not for Sale.
"What is this garden land worth?'' I
asked DR.. Harvey one day, as we were
driving past beautiful green field Of
onions.
"A million dollars an acre." he re-
piled. THAT is to say, it can not be
bought 1t stays in family for gener-
ations, and nobody wants to sell, but
every body wants to buy more"
1t is beautiful soil, rich and mellow
enough to make any body who likes gar
dening want to climb over the wall and
go to digging. However handsome our
gardens are at home, there come the
yellow leaf and the blighting frost, and
for five months the prettiest garden is
no more than pit Of mud or frozen
turnip-6eld. But in Bermuda there IS
no sleep for the garden. It is Is busy
in January as in July. And every gar
den is sheltered from the high winds,
because all of the good tillable land lies.
in pockets between the hills, the soil
having washed down, no doubt, in the
course of ages, slowly and deliberately,
IF course, but with an unwavering
certainty. 1t was we'll that circum-
stances required it to 60 down hill,
which was easy, or it would never have
got there. In the lazy Bermuda ci-
mate, if it had been necessary for it to 81
up hill, it would have lain where it waa
through all time. With only one aero
in five fit for cultivation, and the good
land down in valleys and hollows, the
general aspect Of the islands is of a sue
session Of cedar-clad hills. If you will
let the city Of New York represent tho
Bermuda islands, the space in it occu-
bed by liquor saloons will just about
correspond, think, with the space oc-
,upied by gardens in Bermuda, where
Ill the onions and potatoes are raised.
But am thinking more particularly OF
The Bowery and Third avenue, where,
perhaps, there are too many saloons to
epresent the Bermuda gardens fairly.
At any rate, five blocks Of hills, then,
,ne block garden, and in the garden
.1ou must imagine two or three colored
women down on their knees pulling out
weeds, with pipes in their mouths, big
straw hats, bare feet and tendency TO-
..top and rest on the slightest provoca-
non. - William Drysdale, in N. Y.
Nmaa Be-. lib, De
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PlTH AND POINT.

Those who court popularity arc
afraid to speak the truth.-The Amer
lean.
Only truly selfish man can realize
fully how utterly selfish other men can
be.-Somerville Journal.
Speech was given man to conceal
bis thoughts" but 1t was needless
precaution in many cases.--Puck.
Sometimes 1t is those who have
seemed the hardest to gain as friends
who afterwards prove the most faithful
ones. 81 s-... -
Ask favor from your enemy and
you make him your friend; ask favor
Of your friend and you make him your
enemy. ID ~ ...E..-
The man who is always saying that
he wants but little here below generally
means the little he hasn't got already.
Toronto Globe.
The good are said to be happy; but
1t is probably not because they spend
the time thinking how much better they
are than the rest of humanity.-Boston
Transcript.
-Antisthenes wondered at mankind,
that in buying an earthen dish they
were careful to sound it lest it had a
crack, yet SO careless in choosing friends
as to take them flawed with vice.
Life is like an ocean, some souls,
like the great waves, bear heavy bur
aens and carry treasures to far-off lands;
others, like the foam, sparkle fora mo-
ment in the sunlight and then are cast
upon the rocks or dissolved in empty
air.
The world is upheld by the veracity
Of good men; they make the earth
wholesome. We call our children and
our lands by their names. Their names
are wrought into the verbs of language,
their works and efagies are in our
houses, and every circumstance of the
day recalls an anecdote of them.-Em-
erson.
There are legitimately in every hui
man soul two opposing forces-the CEN
tripetal which draws US to our kind, and
the centrifugal which causes us to isolate
ourselves. We are impeled by an in
ward necessity to seek social exist
ence, and so create human society, and
at the same time to vindicate the great
fact of personality, and so secure indi-
viduality.-Once A Week.
| -People-and sometimes those who
call themselves, or would have others
call them, good and upright-are
pleased with any thing that has in it An
element of chance. 1t is for this res
son that, though they would not sit
down to game of cards, they will risk
a ticket in a lottery, or make invest
ments in speculative enterprises that
are wild with uncertainty.-United
Presbyterian.
knowledge, like the blood, is
healthy only while in brisk circulation
Its work is to supply the veins and ar
cries of our mental life, thus contin-
ually being transformed into new
thought and fresh activity. 1t
should feed our whole lives, making
them richer, happier. more powerful,
more valuable. The knowledge that
does this has attained its object, wheth-
er it be the highest culture of the
schools or the practical business Of tho
Office or the factory.-N. Y. Ledger.
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MEMORY IN INFANCY.
Frequently It Lies Dormant for q Lon
Space Of Time.

frequently 1t Lies Dormant for q Ions
Space OF Time.
A curious instance of this took place
in our family. My mother went on 8
visit to my grandfather, who lived il
London. She took with her little
brother of mine, who was eleven months
old, and his nurse, who waited on hel
as her maid. One day this nurse
brought the baby boy into my mothers
room and put him on the floor, which
was carpeted all over. There he crept
about and amused himself according tc
his light. When my mother was
dressed 8 certain ring that she generally
wore was not to be found. Great search
was made, but It was never prod uced,
and, the visit over, they all went away
and it was almost forgotten
Exactly ) year after they again went
to visit the grandfather. This baby was
nova year and eleven months old. The
same nurse took him into the same
room, and my mother saw him, after
looking about him, deliberately walk
up to certain corner, turn . bit Of the
carpet back and produce the ring. He
never gave any account Of the matter,
nor did he, so far as ] know, remember
st afterWard. It seems most likely
that he found the ring on the floor. and
hid II, as IN 8 safe place, under CORNER
Of the Brussels carpet where II was
not nailed. He probably forgot all
about Il I'LL he saw the place again, and
n /.
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WIG OPonAAB, Snar1Ang anu grOWllng, ana
finally dropped back. He tried this
three times and then gave up. AS we
afterward discovered, there was huge
silver on the log at the top of the
opening. This pointed inward. As the
tiger crowded his bulk into the opening
he pressed this silver up against the
log. When he undertook to go out tho
silver diminished the size of the OPEN
ing and stuck in his back like dagger.
The uproar he made alarmed Captain
White, and he called out to know what
was the matter
The tiger is in the front room and
cant get out" l answered. ss=
81 why don't you shoot him?'' Fiji
7 1.-THE guns are In the room with him"
When I had fairly explained the sitn-
alton he advised that be on my guard
and ready to use the knife, and that It
would not be safe to make any new
move until we had daylight to aid us. i
did not know ct that time that the tiger
could not get out where he came in, OF 1
could have forced the rear shutters and
escaped from the hut. The beast SUNK
into . corner and lay there for time:
whining and growing. Then he tried
the opening again, and when he found
himself q prisoner, he sat mp on end
and hoWled with fear. I believe could
have then driven him about with s
stick. ....8 b s..
As the tiger lost his ferocity the nar
tive with me regained his courage, and
by and BY he got up and found heavy
stick among the bales Of goods and stood
ready e assist me IN beating of any
new attack. While the entire village
was awake. no one moved out Of his
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14
The Health Of Children.

A leading st. Louis physician, in M
interview few days ago, said: 'Some
statisticians say that the most delicate
age is from sixteen to twenty-three, but
I have different opinion, based on my
practical experience. I think that
children from one to ten years of age
are the most delicate, and yet the most
neglected members of q community.
People often say that . child is strong
and healthy, requiring no attention,
but this is . mistake. Because parents
conflde SO implicitly in the health and
strength Of their children, great por.
ton Of the deaths occurring annually
ere young children.
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HE SEIZED HER BY THE FOOT.

this, the night OF our arrival. We
reached the place about two hours be-
fore sundown and as soon as the
Captain got the lay Of the land he
made his plans. Two huts on the
northern edge Of the village were aban-
doned to us. The Captain and one Of
his men took one, and second native
and myself occupied the other. All had
guns, and the plan was to watch for the
tiger and pot him. The hut ! occupied
belonged to . storage merchant. It was
solid building, made Of small logs and
: heavy thatch roof The ground floor,
which was the only one, occupied 8
space Of about 16x2A feet II had one
door and two windows The door and
one window were IN front and the other
window Of the rear. Sixteen feet from
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14
JOHN 3. HEIRESS-LOVE.
Extraordinary Achievements Of America
SiGhtless Ship Builder.

The most notable blind man now liv-
ing is John B. Herreshof. He lives at
Bristol, r. l., and he is at the head of
one of the largest ship-building firms
in the United States. He has been
blind since his fifteenth year, but he
has designed and superintendent the
construction of some of the finest steam
yachts now afloat. So completely is he
the master even Of the smallest details
Of his vast business that when the rep
resentative of South American gov
eminent called upon him few years
ago, and asked for what sum he could
build and deliver three torpedo boats
of o peculiar size and pattern, he re-
quested only half an hours time for de-
liberation before giving his answer.
Before the half hour was up he had
mentally gone over the whole matter,
cost of building and the time that would
be required, working from the new and
strange plans submitted, and had de-
cided at what price he would be iusti-
fed in taking the contract. His offer
was accepted, the boats were built and
delivered at the time stipulated, and
Herreshcff Brothers made o handsome
profit from the contract
This incident, one of many which
might be quoted, only goes to show what
sort of q man is John B. Herreshoff, the
blind ship-builder. Not since he was a
boy has he been able to see the graceful
outlines of the ships and schooners
which pillow the blue waters in sight of
which he was born, but he carries per-
feet picture of each and every one of
them in his memory. and it is this gal
lery that he draws upon in devising the
plans which have made his name ia
miliar one to ship-owners in all parts of
the world. So thoroughly has he trained
all his mental faculties to bear upon
his life work that when description of
q piece of machinery is read to him he
can at once point out its merits and
defects, while SO fine and true is
his sense of feeling that by merely
running his fingers over the lines OF
a design he can gain as accurate an idea
of it as though he saw it. But John B.
Herreshoff is more than q skillful
designer Of swift and beautiful sailing
vessels and steam yachts. He is also a
man Of great executive ability. He
looks carefully after the financial affairs
of his firm, and personally superintenda
every department Of plant employing
hundreds Of men. A visitor, ignorant
Of the misfortune, seeing him seated in
his Office debating letters or receiving
reports, or strolling unguided about his
ship-yards giving directions to lis fore
men, would never suspect that he was
blind. He possesses all the require
ments OF q great inventor-some Of his
conceptions have done much during the
last twenty years to revolut!onize ship
building-and Of great captain OF in
dustry. But for his blindness John B.
5Herreshoff would leave as deep and en-
during mark upon the history Of his
chosen calling as did the late John
Ericsson. As it is, he is the most re-
markable member Of an extraordinary
family which three generations of abil-
ity and skill have made illustrious.-St
Louis Globe Democrat