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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

This father of hers was chOleric old
orthodox deacon named Simon 7.
Hatch, and by bad luck he came in an
swer to my frenzied summons, just as |
was climbing over his garden fence. 1t
wasn't too dark for him to see me or TO
note that had pulled about six feet Of
his bell cord through the side of his
house, and this did not tend to make
him more amiable than usual. He start
ed in hot pursuit, accompanied by a
large dog with bad disposition, and |
don't know what they might have done
TO me if | hadn't Skinned up the light
ming rod on the side OF the church just
in time l was in hopes that he would
try to shin up after me and break his
neck in the operation, but he contented
himself with leaving the dog on guard
while he went for ladder. Taking
advantage of his absence | climbed to
the belfry, descended TO the body of the
church, and dropped out of window
on the opposite side from the dog.
heard afterwards that in revenge
the old man had fed the sugar hearts to
his dog. Looking back now upon those
old-time confections, l wonder that they
didn't kill him.
remained constant during that year
and when the time came round | pre-
pared another May basket more beauti-
ful than its predecessor. In this labor
| received valuable advice and assist
auce from Harry Raymond. who was
three years my senior. l thought it
very kind of him, because l had Sns-
pected that he, too, was in love with
Alice. and I had wondered if l should
ever be big enough TO lick hin for
il. But he so assured me of his deep
and everlasting sympathy that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26
An Irishman's Hemorrhage.

He was walking along the sidewalk,
saws the Chicago Times, and at point
where Il Scaffolding was obStructing the
way be stopped and looked intently
down on the pavement. A painter had
evidently let fall bucket of green paint
and II was splashed and scattered about
most lavishly. As he looked at it an
other man came along, and he, seeing
the first looking so intently, began q
close inspection for himself. In a
city and q crowded thoroughfare it
does not take long to collect a
crowd. In very few moments
there was a complete circle around the
paint spatterS, AMI still they kept on
coming. The outside ones began to
crowd and push to get inside and see
what the trouble was. No one had
spoken until at last a man out on the
very outside, standing on tiptoe and
craniug his neck TO get as good a view
as possible. asked:
What's the matter in there? Any
one hurt2'
"Oh, no, said the first man who had
stopped; Il guess not, only an lriShman
has had a hemorrhage."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

sell strings of shells and photographs
to tourits. The south coast OF Null is
as lonely as Anticosti.
The high road from Ballachulish
through Glencoe to Tyndrum Is reve-
lation of the dissolute condition OF the
Highlands. Tourists never see more
than the first few miles of it. Ball
achulish itself is infested with summer
people." and there is slate mine a
little further up the valley, but beyond
the wretched novels where the miners
live there are only half dozen roofs
until the Orchy bridge is reached, twenty
miles away, and from the four or i've
houses at Orchy bridge, half OF them
tenantless and falling to ruin, to the
outskirts of Tyndrum scarcely another.
OF these half dozen roofs two are those
of tiny hotels and two more Of the hunt
ing lodges of Lord Breadalbane. 1t was
Campbell, of Breadalbane, who helped
to arrange the massacre OF the Melon
aids, whose cottages stood, where only
their blackened walls now remain, in
the valley of Glencoe. His descendants
hunt deer over the ruined farms. Hotels
and hunting lodges aside, there are two
or three shepherds huts at the head Of
Glencoe and one near the high road in
the moor of Rannock. That is all.
The MacGregors used to live in this
same moor of Rannock, after the clan
had been dispersed and most Of its rem
nants driven north by the Great Ar
gyle." Now it's a part Of the Breadal-
bane deer forest; forest without tree,
be it observed. For many miles along
this once inhabited tract, no trees are
to be seen, yet it was evident that the
land was once heavily wooded, for the
dried and whitened roots OF eyergreens
peep out of the peat everywhere. A
small plantation of evergreens still gives
a deeper gloom to the Somber land
scape at the lower end of Loeb Tullock,
surrounding the Blackmount shooting
lodge, but even here there is no tillage.
In Walter SCOTS country it's just as
bad. Everybody knows that Rob Roy
was "a cattle farmer in the braes OF
BalQuhidder until he turned his atten-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

thitber such food Of tourists, but the
Pencils, whose written and picturesque
description Of the country year or so
ago caused such storm Of discussion in
England, saw more clearly the unutter-
able sadness which one must expect
along with the beauty of the landscapes
in the Highlands. The loneliness there
is all very well as picturesque value"
in the idle gaze Of tourist and may be
pleasant enough, seen from the luxu-
rious cabin OF yacht, but the crumb-
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THE HIGHLANDER.
HlS NATIVE HEATH KNOWS HIS FOOT NO
MORE.
COPYRIGHTED. !

lAtIl NUN
Ever since Goldsmith wrote about his
native Ireland:
To fastening ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
Green Erin's unhappy condition has
been the topic of pretty constant com
ment, but there's wee spot of land and
water, principally water, farther north
in Queen Victoria'S dominions whose
woes are as genuine and less familiar to
the reader.
have just returned from week
tour OF the Highlands Of Scotland, and
am tempted to say that the Highlands
themselves are there, but where in the
name Of history are the Highlanders?
They are gone, starved out, driven out,
exterminated like the American Indi-
ans. and in there places are only desc
late moors, sheep farms and deer for
rests. Winans, of Baltimore, isn't the
only offender, though unpleasant prom
inence is given to him because he Is a
Yankee. All over Scotland, north OF
Loeb Katrne, the same terrible tale oil
desolation is everywhere told by the
mutely eloquent face of the landscape:
Near DunstafTnage castle, the seat OF
the ancient kingdom of the Scots and a
famous show place for tourists, went
into a little Smelling upon one OF those
errands which curiosity prompts the
traveller to invent. ! told the old wo-
man in cap, its sole occupant, that l
was from America.
And hat you met the McGillivrays
there?" she said, eagerly.
| informed her that had heard OF the
McGillivrays, but that America was
tolerably large, and they might not be
the same family.
"And the McDonalds, too" she said;
they used TO be a great family here, but
they hat all gone TO America
should say they had. The MELON
aids are really as common in America
as the Smiths, but here in the green
/ Islands of their birthplace, where once
the lord of the isles could lead ten thou
sand men to battle, they are nc
moro to be found except a few scattered
specimens who sell ginger ale to tour
/ lists or 90 as deckhandS on the steam
boats which ply upon the lochs. The
excursion to Staffa and Iona, which Is
one of the commOneSt undertaken by
Americans in their European wander
ings. takes one through the heart of the
island region, and scarcely human habi-
tation does it reveal except at the little
/ fishing villages at one or two tourist
resorts. Iona island, the burial place OF
kings aud the seat and source OF the
Highlauders' Christian faith, is inhabit-
ed by few haf-Starved wretches who
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ton to the cattle of other people, that
he wooed Mary-not Acknowledgement
near the west end of Lach Katrne, and
that he afterward made his headquar
tiers on Loeb Lomond. Now Loeb Lo-
mond is dotted with English summer
houses and is lively enough with eXcur-
sionistS from Glasgow, but the braes and
the shores of Loeb Katrine are almost
as lonely as the Moor RannOckS or Glen
coe itself. The Trossachs, where Rod
erick Dhu's warriors met the SaXonS-
of course that's poetry, but there is
pretty good historic foundation for it in
the feuds of the MacGregors and low
landers,- a big hotel and boat
house and steamboat landing but no
HighlanderS. Many of the hotels
throughout these regions are kept by
Germans. 1t was a rather curious ex-
perence to be waited on at table by
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

grew to like him very mucn,
and | even offered to make a
Nav basket for him, because 1t was wen
known that he was too lazy to mako one
for himself. However, he generously
refused. IN 10.
pulled old Hatch's doorbell that
Nav night with beating heart ana
lost no time in taking fight. There
was long ward at one side OF the house.
and | whizzed through it like a cannon
ball. making for the open fields beyond
But unfortunately there was ciotnes
line stretched between two posts al
such height from the ground that IL
caught me squarely across the oridge
of the nose. My head stopped sudden
! " and nv feet continued. l landed on
INV back after a giddy plunge, and lay
there. | don't know how long, trying 10
decide whether / was dead or only
blind. I'LL -
By and by life enough came back 10
enable me to crawl toward the street
Roth my eyes were nearly closed, SO
that | could see only the general out,
lines of houses and trees. As L neareu
the gate. | heard the sound OF voices;
First Alice asked in plying tones: Diu
he hurt you much? Oh, why didn't you
run faster?" 100
81 didn't mind it," said Harry, $50
long as it was for you, though the ola
man laid il on pretty hard"
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He TaIks to the Monkeys.

Aei0 York Efc0rQer.
One OF the keepers Of the monkey
house in the park has been very much
attracted Of late by the regular appear
ance of a little, short, thick set man
with iron gray hair and long whiSkerS,
who makes daily visits TO the monkey
house and stands for hours chattering
to- the beasts, and he has come TO the
conclusion that the man is Darwiniln,
a philosophic linguiSt who has discov-
cred the monkey language and who is
making himself fluent in it by conyerS-
ing with them.
cone thing is certain said the keep
er. 1.-The monkeys know him, for they
always come TO the front OF the cage
when he appears and chirp and chatter
aud smile as If he were telling them
funny stories Ii seems ridiculous, don't
it? But he is the only visitor who can
get their attention. Maybe he hypno-
ties them"
The noises he makes are exactly like
their chattering and seems to be done
with the lips closed and teeth tightly
shut. and his eyes seem TO sparkle as the
monkeys chatter back. Sometimes
when they answer him he almost bursts
with laughter, and when he leaves the
railing they all bid him goodbye with
much feeling.
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Mr.. Briggs related an interesting ex-
perience that be and Charles and w. f..
Johnson, of Clearfeld, Pa, had with a
lion ia a cabin on Oak creek, near
Ouray. During their absence from the
cabin lion would enter the open door
and carry away all the fresh meat.
A trap was set or rather kind OF
dead fall the front part being just out
side the door and the end of the log
used for weight being braced under
the bed in the cabin. Way late in the
night" said Briggs, while we were all
sound asleep the lion came, pulled at
the bait and down came the dead fall.
We were knocked out of the bed by the
fall Of the log and for few moments
things were quite lively and exciting.
But before we could get our rifles, the
lion, bait and all were gone"
Hall, Haskell, Briggs and other
hunters consider the lion cowardly by
nature. But when hungry, or its young
are in danger. or she hunter is near
where the lion has food concealed, then
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

many of them persisted in the snow,
was not much more cruel than the mod
ern landowners. Every heart-breaking
story of eviction in Youghal or Achill
could find its parallel in Null or Skue.
Perhaps all this does not impress an
Englishman quite as strongly as Yam
kee. Americans can hardly be expected
to realize what it is like to live in a
country where one IN every thirty-five
of the inhabitants is pauper. This
must be why William Black, the novel
ist. who has in a sense rediscOvered the
Highlands, and whose novels are scarce
" more than guide books with thin
thread Of romance running through
them, has so much 10 say Of the beauty
of the scenery, so little Of the ruined
homes and squalid novels which serve
as apologies for homes. Blacks novels
have unquestionaby been worth a good
deal to the Highlanders by turning
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

..The lion was up the tree about
tyventv-Gve feet" continued the hunter,
s.and bv giving the lasso "a quick swing
Landed the loop over the lions head,
and raveit hard pull around the neck.
Then the circus began. The lion, feel
ing the coil tighten around the neck,
gave a fearful leap into the air. Well,
i hardly know how far il jumped or how
often. With powerful blows from its
p,ws the lion would knock the dogs
head over heels. All this time l was
milling az the rope, which, with the
worry cansed by the dogs, got all the
wind out OF the lion. Tex then, watching
for a good opportunity, gave an under
hand throw with the laSSO, catching the
lion bv 4 hind leg. Then with one
lasso over the head, and another on q
hind leg. we were perfectly safe, for by
milling both ways, the lion could reach
neither one OF Us. We put the lion in
\ wagon. hauled him 20 town and there
heis now 10 the cage.
Arkansas explained that it is easy to
tr,in dog 50 follow the trail OF = lion
and tree 10. well-trained dog will
nor tackle a lion or bear, but run IL
into \ tree. and then by barking an
noupce the locality. Teach the dog
tbat the trail, no matter how perpleXing
n may BE-. leads somewhere, and 10
must be- followed until the game is
fOund.
Among she well-known hunters are
A g. Haskell and Thomas ketcham, OF
Nontrose. Col, who Ia one season
Killed twenty-siV mountain lions. Has
KEN is from SanduSky county, Ohio, and
Ketcham from Missouri
"Rrbce. shepherd, and Prince, q
h,lf shepherd and half hound. are Has
kelvs favorite dogs; and ketcham'S Is
,,Iip.~ q half English shepherd. whose
father was an Indian dog. "Jip' IS
lively dog on the trail of "a lion. and Ia
ONE encounter had his belly torn open.
Ketcb,m sewed up the dog aud pat q
strong bandagc around him, and in q
few weeks "Jip" was again able % FOL
low his f.vorite game. kctcham has
killed six lions this winter.
q. b. Briggs. of Curry, Col, is from
Fov-roft few miles above Bangor,
Ne lie came west twenty-three years
400. and is an expert in the use of tee
rife and uas killed lions and bears. To-
a talk i had with Briggs, in referring Co
fbe game. they each sad, Mountain
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-26

1t was with such pastimes as these
that we made May night merry in the
older time. | wonder if there is any
spot on earth where it is now celebrated
as we used to do way down in Maine
years ago? Perhaps not; but there are
men scattered all over the country who
would give half of what they have since
laboriously stolen from their fellow
men to have again the hearts that beat
under their jackets in those May days.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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DRAGGING ms PREY 10 CoyER
look out, for the lion will fight, and the
sportsman needs u good rifle and steady
nerye.'
There are usually two cubs, but some
hunters tell me they have seen as many
as four cubs with a liOneSs.
Owing 20 the great slaughter OF stock
by these lions, ten-dollar bounty is
paid for their ScalpS. Their hides sell at
from five dollars TO twenty-five dollars.
WILL c. FERRu.
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the champion lion king Col Edgar Daniel Boone and VIII
Feroc Let a Circus Rins Five lions 1g
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The National tribune., 1891-08-13

Very few people know THAI in the late civil
war, out Of the Thousands Of heroes on the
rolls. but FIVE hundred were awarded the COW
eted distinction Of tho medal ai honor. The
record Of many OF the exploits for which the
medal has been given shows that they have
been - grand as any in the age OF chiyalry,
and that they shed a brilliant lustre upon our
National escutcheon. A new work just pub
lished tells the story Of many Of these heroes.
IL IS grand, thrilling, exciting. Among the
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Illustrated with battle scenes and war pictures,
also portraits Of the gallant men who won the
medal. Such work is sure OF an enormous
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those who love deeds Of daring and adventure
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in which these brave men tell their story. The
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The National tribune., 1891-08-13
lnnnr PEOPLE.

EK-Spcallor Thomas B. Reed Of the Fifty
first Congress, who has been visiting Europe
for the past six months invited the Speaker OF
the House Of Commons 30 visit America aud be
his guest this Winter. The Car" proposes 30
extend 10 the EnElshmau every courtesy, aud
viii perhaps give him a few points regarding
the control OF a troublesome minority. Even
the eX-Speaker's worst enemies will acknowl-
edge that he is posted on such matters.
Gen. J. NJ SchOGeld, The Commander Of the
Army and wife, returned 30 Washington last
week, but thoir stay was so short that they de-
cided not even TO unpGck their trunks. They
went TO Lake George. aud viii also take in
Saratoga, but viii return to Washington about
the FIRST Of October.
Gen. Alex. ID. Anderson, Of Missouri, Special
Commissioner Worlds Columbian Exposition,
who is in charge Of Eastern Headquarters, was
in Washington last week on business connected
with the coming fair at Chicago. The General
is a familiar figure in Washington, and says he
has to como here once in a while TO keep
abreast Of the times.
Gen. John Eaton, at one time United States
Commissioners Of Education. and latterly Presi-
dent Of the Marietta o. College, has resigned
the latter position, la order 20 devote has time
to educational lecturing and writing
The wife Of Scnator-eect Hansbrough, or
North Dakota, had almost recovered from a
recent and prolonged serious illness, and about
a fortnight ago went out for drive and had a
relapse, so that her life is now despaired Of
The National tribune., 1891-08-13
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- of the Pen.Lon onIre.

During the week 1881 claims were r.
ceived, Of which 2,Oi3 were original invalid,
7lG widows, bounty land % navy, 20 old
war. l54 accrued, aud 2,l6l applications for
increase; act Of June "a, 1880, 2325 original
invalid, s2i widows
Number Of claims received 10 date under act
Of june 21 1880 G73,77l. Claims disposed Of
10 date under said act, O.
Number Of rejected claims Teopened, 203.
The names and postolice addresses OF 2g9j
comrades were furnished for the use Of claim
Rnts There were TOO, l39 pieces Of mail matter
received; q, So Letters and blanks sent out.
Number OF cases detailed 10 Special Examin-
ers, d05; reports and cases from Special Er-
aminers, 33i, cases on hand for special ex-
animation, 364G.
Report OF certificates issued: Original, 5.9ss:
increase, 25a; duplicate. 4 accrued, ll2: 20
tai, 6344. Total number Of claims pending,
g23l43
The National tribune., 1891-08-13

Capt Games Chester, 81 q. s. Art. who was
detailed b. tie Secretary Of War 70 inspect the
encamUmcut oi the First Brigade of s5ouDgvl.
Vania h.-uas Hi Devon, between suly DO ard
~. las 1nt submitted his report 20 the War
Department re says " the members Of the
I1Ifi Brigade are bright intelligent aud en-
thuslasur They lack tho snap and military
bearing @. Regular troops. but they look eg-
hci.s Ikr tHr mon who won our hardest. fought
hatte JOE as Considering their opp0rt mi.
t.es they DO remarkably well, aud Tie state
Las eFc.y reason 10 be proud % them. As a
body tAu officers 0f The Guard would take Eilh
FAnk iof efficiency la any army. what they
laeA pa ,te s'giulcalitic ~ tho profession they
noir taaa make up boz practical good sense aud
lu0Hirl Tl VI human nature They arc entIip.
hiaaiic soldiers easy 10 learn, aud unconscious
q. then gHn tIausceudout merits The state
a. Nation THAT commands such defenders has
nothing % lcaI."