The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-08-17

other cars. Mr.. Scotts position was
novel one and startled persons, who are
unused to electricity, as he stood on top
of the car amid myriads of sparks and
illuminated by lightning flashes
from the trolley wire.
"LAsT fall, when my chum and were
in the Maine woods" says sportsman,
1--WE captured chick loon. 1t was on
pond near our camp with its parents,
and the old birds flew away as we went
out with our boat, leaving the chick to
take care of itself. 1t couldn't fly, so it
tried to get away by diving, but by
chasing it about here and there we tired
it out and at length pulled it into the
boat. A loon wears its feet so far astern
that it can hardly waddle, and this little
fellow just squatted down and took life
easy. We stroked its back and talked to
1t, then told each other what fools we
had been for capturing it, and put it
back into the water Well, sir, that
loon followed us as if we had been its
parents, and wanted to come into the
boat again If we had known what to
feed it, we would have kept it, but we
didn't, and we left it at the further end
of the lake. We heard the old birds be-
fore night, so I guess it was taken care
of. From that experience I am sure you
can tame loons.'
ONE could hardly believe that mere
child should be so horribly hardened as
the boy of whom dreadful story comes
from South Dakota. He is but twelve
years old and was left by his mother the
other day in charge of his two-year-old
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her brother told her that if she did not
stop crying he would kill her. He took
down shotgun, and the baby, screaming
with terror. ran behind the stove. The
boy rested the gun across the stove,
and, taking deliberate aim. blew the top
of her head off. He then quietly re-
loaded the gun and put it in its place,
and taking the body of his sister, laid it
in her bed When the parents returned
home the boy refused to tell how his
sister came to her death, and was only
induced by bribe of money. 1t is said
that the young villain evinced the most
: stolid indifference to the fate of his
sister.
A SAD story is told of poor married
couple, Russians, who had settled at
Great Dombrowka, in Upper Sllesia.
, About two years ago they received an Or
: der to quit the territory, but on arriving
at the Russian frontier they were
not permitted to enter, "for," said
q the Russian official, ''the woman is blind,
! and Russia is not in want of such Grip
{ pies" The couple returned to Great
. Dombrowka, but lately received another
. notice to leave. The Russian officials
, were still obdurate, and, sick at heart,
$ without work or home, the husband grew
desperate. When the wretched couple
came to the Przemsa, the stream which
: separates Russia from Germany, he
caught his blind wife up and threw her
into the river. He then went to a tree
and hanged himself.
! Mrs. KAMENE, whose husband is one
of the owners Of the Hidden treasure
mine, near Iron Mountain, CAL, was re-
turning to the mine from Redding one
| day recently when she saw what she sup
posed to be three dogs playing in the
road These supposed dogs were lion
cubs. She had hardly passed them when
the ioness sprang from the brush and
planted two paws on the buggy. She
was badly frightened, but hit the animal
on the head with the butt end OF her
whip At the same time her spirited
horse started and the loness lost her
hold and fell in the road. She whipped
up and escaped, although the lioness
followed a short distance.
IT is seldom that an Indian does not
{ prove equal to an emergency. The
Wenatchee, Cal, Advance records an ln-
stance which illustrates how the noble
: red man rises, superior to even the most
severe misfortunes. That paper says:
As Cultus Jim lost all of his horses last
winter he decided to move to the Okano-
gan. When he was ready to leave he
did not appe~r to be worried on ac-
count of the lack of Cayuses, for he
packed all bis traps and iktas on the
backs of his two squaws and with simply
his gun in his own hands started up the
trail, Jim being in the lead and the
women bringing up in the rear. Heavy
loads necessitated doubling up on the
hill, which was sight once seen, never
} to be forgotten
Mrs. E. P. ARMENr, of Chester, Pa,
has lust found her mother, after thirty
years of separation, at the little hamlet
of Woodside, Del. Mrs. Arment was
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the child of Union soldier, who, killed
in battle, left his widow and children
almost penniless The widow in her
struggle for living had to part with
her children, and Mrs. Arment on learn
ing that the woman who brought her up
was only foster parent, began what
proved a successful quest for her real
mother.
SIX times did the relatives of War
saw gentleman assemble to hear his will,
only to find each sealed envelope bore
the direction that it was to be opened
that day twelvemonth. The seventh con-
tained the will, but even then there was
direction that one-fourth of the money
should be invested until 1910, when it is
to fall to that nephew who has the larg-
est family.
AN elephant has become so fond of a
missionary in India that it follows him
all over the country like dog. When
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