Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-03
A DESOLATE SCENE.
AN INDIAN VILLAGE DEPoPuLATsD BY
 A MAN EATING TIGER.

ing came down the hillside by the widen ing path to the jungle village, no sound whatever arose from its few and humble habitahons. Nobody came out to make salutation or to offer supplies. No cat tie were perceived wandering about, no children, no birds, except indeed many vultures upon the tree in the square and upon the temple roof. The pots in the grain dealers shop were empty and over turned; piece of cloth just begun was left with broken threads upon the loom in the next hut. On the other side of the way the chatties at Il potter's were tum- bled and broken, and a sheet of copper lay at the blacksmith's forge half bent to make some vessel, but precipitately aban- doned. Wherever one gazed there were signs of nasty flight on the part of the inhabitants, who did not seem to have left anybody to represent them.
 Yes, there was one silent and melan- choly representative, and the sudden ap- pearance of her would have startled the party very much more than 1t did but for discovery made by the sahib's ghorawallah-the groom-close by the silent and empty temple. There Was a muddy patch there in the square, from which the last of the rainwater had but recently dried up, and in the black slime so left were deeply imprinted the ''puds" of an evidently immense tiger. It was of course evident now to the English man and those with him that the striped terror which left those footmarks had given the villagers notice tu quit and was somewhere or other near at hand in practical possession of th" fee simple of the village.
 Desolatc beyond expression was the little unpeopled place If the hamlet and the look of the helpless red god staring from his portico npon the huts that he could not protect. and the ex- citement of the horrible vultures perched on the cotton trees. aware. no doubt, of the deadly secret of the place, for round the corner. by the dyer's shop, where two or three newly stained turban cloths still hung upon walls to dry, they came upon that secret. Across the threshold of mud hut. evidently dragged off from the broken charpov on the earthen floor. lay the body of woman, torn on the delicate brown neck and along the shoulders and breast with long red claw marks. \ dead infant. also manSled by a savage bite. lay half concealed under the corpse, the appearance of the bodies showing that they had only been lately killed. No one could doubt what had killed them. The sign manual upon their bodies was surely that of the royal beast who often i'll this way disputes the right of his human rival in India and roars to scorn the illusion that man is master of created things.
 The sahib's party was badly equipped for tiger shooting and passed not with out anxiety and the closing up of the three or four servants and coolies through the outskirts of the evicted village. At any moment her ladyship the tigreSS or his lordShip the tiger, who had taken possession of the place, might emerge from a grain store or a COW pen. or even from some milk bush or jowari patch to ask the travellers what business they had upon the royal property. The English man hastily put bullets into both barrels of his shotgun and walked his horse as quickly as his men could follow ont of the i'll fated gaum.
 At its outskirts they were astonished to hear a voice high above their heads which came. as they afterward found, from young Hindoo low caste man sit ting concealed in the branches of large mango tree from which could be seen both entrances of the village. He had made a rude platform in Il fork of the tree and watched on 1t with the long barrel of matchlnck protruding and by his side an carthen jar of water. They invited him tn com" down and to tell them the meaning of the extraordinary spectacle they had witnessed. He de- scended and informed them that for months past his village had been infested and prosecuted by Il tigress which. after killing cattle and goats, had slain and partly eaten three or four children out side the hamlet and had taken during the past eight or nine days to entering the village at night and carrying off somebody or other sleeping, as the Hin doos do, outside their huts under the verandas. The woman slain that morn ing with her baby was the wife of the poor matchlock man, and he had perched himself i'll the tree hoping to avense her death when the sahib's party passed.
 IL was too serious q case not to be re ported i'll the proper quarters, and an expedition of practical tiger shooters ! was equipped among the officers at the nearest station. The beast was tracked and was killed after receiving II bull i lets. and then it turne1 out that she | had Il half grown cub which had lost Il l limb. and thus the maternal affection of the ferocious parent had driven 1t to these desperate ways. Indeed tue spec tacle of that village was full of philu- sophical suggestiveness. The dead hu- man mother had been slain by reason of the very same instinct which had made ! h,4r S,a.alE -,lin n -,A hpr child from the attack of the tigreSs, driven to 1 its wits ends to find food for its own helpless offspring. The tigress was in her way as tender parent as the lov- ing mother whom she murdered, and then besides there was the whole viii lage depopulated to make one wonder what sort of world il would have been if, as might we'll have happened, tigers had envolved as masters uf the globe in stead of men.-Edwin Arnuldin London | Telegraph.
 China makes q poor show ill the jour nalistic world. For all its 4O0, 900, GOO inhabitants it has only 24 newspapers. 10 of which are daily and II appear at longer intervals.
 Longs Railway Safety Clock.
 Peter Long of Greensburg. Pa.. is the patentee of one of the most useful rail. way appliances of the age-a railway signal time clock which accurately indi cates the time intervening between the passage of trains. It is mounted simi larly to danger signal, and the engi neer can readily tell by simply glancine at the dials the length of time which has elapsed since the preceding train passed ! that point. The clock runs regularly and indicates the hours and minutes just as an ordinary tinepiece does, but all