The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-06-11

/ at that instant needed all my nerve.
This time chose a tree for cover and
waited. He came on, without halt,
straight towards me. I fired again,
missing him. was just about to try
the third shot when the test came Of
which / have spoken"
# '"Fhe test!' murmurs the society.
breathlessly.
Ihe test to my courage to which
had always felt / should be unequal.
| The thing [ dreaded in my forest wan
! behring's with jack
What" the society demanded, with
one voice.
II had raised my rifle, when 1 felt
something futtering in my hair. I fan
cied leader had slipped from my hat
rim. Oh, horror! it was spider!-and
as I shook my head violently to dis
lodge it, it struggled into my ear.
s'Ihave never been conscious OF hay
ing fired the third shot. Somehow the
rifle was discharged, and by the same
chance the bullet laid the bear low.
Il tainted and when came to my
self I was lying across the bears body,
with six strange men standing around
me.
''Ten thousand boiler factories were
at work in my brain. Hear the
noises?' 1 cried. will no one stop
themv
"And now comes the strangest part
of the story. -. -
''The engineer of Jacks yacht once
got a mosquito in his ear. 1t drove
him quite mad before we could find
doctor. He hung over the yachts
side, held by six Of the crew, begging
for death. When the doctor arrived
upon the scene he applied a handker-
chief wet with ether, to the mans ear,
quieting the mosquitoes struggles and
restoring the man to sanity.
Il believed myself in the mans
plight; stark, staring mad, when, upon
this peak of Darien, 500 miles from an
ambulance and surgeon, I heard one Of
the men to whom had so wildly ap-
pealed, reply, quietly: Have no fear,
madam; you are in safe hands; we are
all DOCTORS
''They deluged my ear with water
from 4 pearly stream. which they
brought in a tin cup. Finding the spi-
der still unsubduad, one of the doctors
asked for a hypodermic syringe. Five
were Instantly proffered. An icy ar
row penetrated, seemingly, to the seat
of the gray matter, still without effect
upoH CAc Spiuci, WHOSE pcIulClOuS dcl-s
witty caused me indescribable agony.
Either is the only remedy said,
at last, and as coherently as 1 could,
repeated the story of the engineer
"'Ether,' cheerfully returned the doc
tor who was attending NEWLY, Of
course. Brown, fetch out that ether
BOTTLE and if Brown did not produce,
from the depths of his waistcoat pock-
ct, small bottle of ether, may be in
stantly retired from the presidency of
our society. 1t TRANSFERRED later that
Brown was Il physician with an alien
hohby-entomology- and carried ether
with him everywhere 10 anaeSthiZe his
specimens.
SIN an Instant relief came-such Il
blessed relief as only one who has
passed through an experience like mine
can appreciate.
''The rest of the story is soon told
When I gathered myself together the
six doctors presented themselves to
me with due formality. They dined
that night i'll our camp on my elk.
"Jack was thoroughly ashamed Of
me. For what did the elk and bear
matter, with the memory of the spider
fresh in our minds?
mo, decidedly" Mrs. Jack repeats,
as the maid fetches her second cup of
tea. I shall never dare to look tiger
in the face, after my Waterloo on the
Big Muddy. 1t would have been a
pleasing legend for my tombstone
| this:
zone
| To whom the forests were an open
book;
Who joined to Diana's daring the skill
of her spear,
Lies here
Slain by bug IN he1 ear
/ San Francisco ArgOnaut.