The record-union., 1896-10-04

MN purity bad. He he'd his head raised
out the coil bout two feet an he vvns
strlhln back an forth a. the smoke thet
/ CURED out at him FIN the brush pile
but ne stood his sroun. Now and then
ne make is rattles sing as eff they'd
oil d nam duzen rattlers thar All of
| suuulnt like thar came a tongue o.
iaihr cut o the pine top an snapped
Oh the rattles slick an clean. Jist like
an Ola warrior as has lost his sword the
Dis snake made one last awful attack.
| She rlz UP on her tail, standin nigh
| onto three feet above groun'. then list
as wicked tongue o. fame shot out at
her the snake darted at it, Course the
Varmlnt was burned, an sees if
sfulrmln' III the fire as the hot pine
| hurs fell on it,
| Ahotner queer thing that / sees on
TINS casIon Wus wildcat on fire. The
Narmlnt wus an ole she cat The durr
thihg came tearin' down the side O. the
i'iE splttin an 4 mewin', as eff reg
| luieht dogs WIS after her. But | soon
9oeH aus now the fur on the poor devil
wus smokin'. every now an then tbe
cat stop an paw at her back. then
start Off at orcal<rec,l speed. The last
/ Z
cfaWiln' into hollow log, an arter she
got in little tvaI O. blue smoke came
! ctrlln out the log Guess the varnint
| burned to death in thar kalkarlated
as now she'd stayed with her Kittens
| soineWhar TIL the fire struck EN- an
| siie got her fur a!ire an then sleda
cled. d."-Philadelnhia Times.
WOMAN AT 4 TIGER HUNT.
| No one is mora daring or courageous
IMAM a woman III the field after largo
aad dangerous game. one If these
| women writes to "Gameland" and tells
OF tiger hunt III the Sewalike that
resulted in the death OF a man and oi
man-eating tigar
AS usual, tie tiger mad worked up
| considerable of a repute ton for itself bv
ie' ding on human flesh in large uuanti-
ties. and It AT last became imperative
thGt the beast should be killed. To do
tt-s IL was necessary TO build a stand
Va tree. then tie out a living COW as
Lait, and when the cow was killed.
winch happened the first right. the
hrI ter took dis stand in the tree on the
following afternoon. accompanied ly
MS wife, Wha tells the story
IL was t1e Won!lns eyes that first
saw stripes coming and it was she
NAo poIAleI IN" animal cut for her
husband TO shoot. The tiger was
eunded in ona leg ana through the
heSh Of the haeH- The next day eight
men ana the womaa went ID the thick
81 ush, where the single elephant c,,uld
ne; go, and the men had no taste for
&C into tigers den afcot. 81 the
hunters went up a hill to see if they
could sight or drive the beast ont. ;eoy-
y
cr tor her. Il'a men We're gone SO long
that the woman became tired of wait
ing, and climbed a nearby knoll. "a
most difficult piece of work. she saws
because the pebbles rolled dowr from
uhCer our feet. and we had notbin.r
bIt slippery tuftS Of grass To catch hold
oI Meanwhile the hrintcrs had
sighted the tiger but did not get n
sEot- The tiger was down in q c4,Iv
ec'Ween the hill un which the hunters
Fad gone and tha one The woman had
climbed Stones anu yeIls wore cast
down at the br1sa. but the tiger
wouldn't come out.
A lame man, Lengra. joined the party
ana he saw the tiger down IN the null
ian little distarce away He was told
TO pitch rocks 1T x, but the beast re-
fused 10 come out. The men were TOLD to
ger INTO the trees, and they did so, but
Lengra, after getting in a safe one.
thought 1T wasn't Good stand, and
tcok to a smaller one. All of a sud
den the tiger charged, and it saw poor
Lcngra's leg dangling from a branch
Up 1t leaped, and the bone of the leg
was scraped clean of 1lesh. while the
tlGer, standing on it's hind legs. reached
up for more a bullet in the chest. an
other in the throat, ended the beast
aho a minute or two later the man fell
down beside the tiger.
1t was not safe to go after the beast
then, as il might be playing 'poesum;
but later it was found that both man
ana tiger were dead The mans head
was rubbing the tigers, and the mans
hand was on the tigers shoulders, and
the tigers forepaw was on the mans.
HYPNOTIZED THE BEARS.
j. E. Newsome is Port Arthur
Canadian and Alexander Anderson
GENES from Pearl River. An Fnglish-
man nalned Atweu wanted TO get q
pear, and Anderson tried to gratifv his
desire NewsOme told '-Foresc and
stream about it. Atwell was the Kind
o. man who would like to kill bear
In a trap, so Anderson took two bear
traps and lot of bait up a gully near
Orlmet, looking for a sign. The Eng
hshman went looking for bears and left
Anderson to set the traps
All Of q sudden a big she hear an
peared before Anderson at the foot of
a tree between q couple of whose roots
one trap was to have been set Not
having any gun, Anderson. so Newsome