Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-10

there was no other at the ranch. Hast
lily tearing into strips piece Of stout
cloth, Trudchen wove together o rough
headstall for the animal, with similar
reins, and springing into her fathers
empty saddle she fearlessly urged the
horse into the double darkness and dan
ger Of the blizzard and the night.
She knew that ranch lay six miles
distant and in the direct outward track
Of the storm. Keeping the wind, there
fore. full at her back. she. desperate,
but not despairing. pressed forward
upon her terrible ride.
Now plunging and reeling. now
stumbling. staggering and falling. now
down and now up, owsubmefged
and blixzard-beaten, the gallant girl
and the brave brute struggled onward,
until, dim through the densely driven
snow, shone the lights of the saving
ranch, the ranch to reach which SO
many dangers had been dared, so much
suffering sustained.
Kindly hanGs and commiserating
hearts cared for Trudchen the rest of
that night and in the early dawn of
next morning the heroic child rode
amid the foremost Of those who volun-
teered to search for her father. The
blizzard, however, still ragged and the
snow heaps still grew, the quest prov
ing fruitleBs for that day.
| All bopa op Mr. Grnatta'c c11rviyiDD
! the storm was now abandoned. and the
next search was made for his body,
which was finally found, ice-shrouded
and -eotfined.-Denver Times.
CHARGED BY AN ELEPHANT.
An elephant fight, If the combatants
De well matched, frequently lasts for
a day or more. The beaten elephant
retreats temporarily, and Is followed
leisurely by the other, until by mutual
consent they meet again. The more
powerful elephant occasionally keeps
his foe in view till he kills him. In
"Wild Beasts of India" G.. p. Sander
son describes an encounter with de-
feated tusker:
A shrill trumpeting and crashing of
bamboos broke the stiffness, and from
the noiss we knew 1t was a tusker
fight. Before We could reach the scene
OF combat, one elephant uttered deep
roar of pain, and crossed the mullah
some forty yards in advance Of US.
Here he began to destroy a clump Of
bamboo in sheer fury, grumbling deep
ly the while In rage and pain. Hood
vas strsa ming from deep wound In
his left side, high up. He was falsly
large elephant with long and R$rly
thick tusks. His opponent must have
been Goliath to have worsted him.
This tusker presented picture OF
rage and power as he moved the ham,
boos down with trunk and tusks, and
sppled thSm with his forefeet.
Suddenly his whole demeqnor
changed. He backed from the slump
and stood like statue. He had scent
ed US. The next moment forward
went his ears and up went his tail, and
In the same instant he wheeled and
bore straight down upon US with as
tonishing speed.
The bamboos behind which we stood
were useless as cover, and I stepped
out into the open to get clear shot.
l gave shout, hoping to step or
turn him, but in vain. 1 fired when
he was nine PAGES distant feeling con
Adent Of the shot but made mistake
In not giving him both barrels. Tho
sHske momsntarily obscured the eIe-
phant, and bent down to see whore he
hy.
Good gracious! He had not even
been checked, and was upon me! There
was no time to step to the right or
the left. His tusks came through the
smoke like the cowcatcher Of q loco
motive, and I had just time to fall
fat to avoid being hurled along In
front Of him. l fell little to the right;
the next instant down came his pom
derous forefoct within few inches Of
my left thigh, and 1 should have been
trodden on had 1 not hastily drawn
my leg back from the sprawling posi-
ton in which l fell. AS he rushed
over me he shrieled shrilly, but for
| tunately he went on, for had he
stopped there was no way Of escape
for mo. 1 was covered with blood
from the wound inflicted by his late an
tagonlst. This was one of the closest
calls ever had In the wild life of the
| jungle.
HAD FIGHT WITH BALD EAGLE.
The carcass Of a huge eagle. which
measures more than seven feet from
up to tip, lies at Jobstown. N. J.,
/ 80 AL toh