The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13

AuAleE SAW LIl6 DEduIiIuA hlAu lAAl4Ss
 and she was caught by the sparkling eyes of the youth. as surely as the l birds by his snare. When he spoke to her father he at once received the same 1 answer as the rest.
 Tiszu smiled, "Mahindo, don't be a
 fool,' he said. Give me your daugh- ter and come with us to the valley
 among the people. Leave the rupees
 to the evil spirits and let us live!" But AIahindo was obdurate. st
 ':Then the money must be found, old man.. By the head of Buddah, why don't you seek help from others when your own wisdom is not sufficient? In
 the village there is a wizard of good reputation, by the name of Loano. Go to him."
 Mahindo liked the idea, and departed with Saramawu for the village. Loano was a short, thickset man, with pro- jecting eyes and matted beard and hair.
 The wizard shook some powder into
 brass dish, and soon a blue smoke
 enveloped him. He mumbled incanta- tiens, and began to dance. At last he
 fell to the ground in convulsions, while his hand was scratching with the pen
 on the leaf. Rising, he said, Here are the mysterious words, What will you
 give for them?"
 Mahindo turned pale; he had no mon- ey. Seeing how the wizards eyes hung
 on the girl, he shouted; ''I promise you
 my daughter if you will have her; but give me the leaf"
 The wizard smiled contentedly, and handed him the leaf, saying, Before next noon expect my pay-noney out of your treasure. or the girl.' Outside the hut, Mahindo devoured the writing on the leaf:
 Let him tie the skin of a golden snake about his right foot and go to the forest where his money is hidden. The spirit of the snake will steel into it's old home, and with a light pressure lead him to the place where the treas ure lies buried. If the pressure ceases, let him stop and begin to dig" ".s & .,... From that day Mahindo spent his days in hunting for a golden snakeskin, but in vain. Tired to death and i'll he
 came home. one evening and was un- able to climb the. tree. Thus Tiszu found him. ...-
 Bring me golden snakeslin and Saramawu will be yours" Mahindo called out to the young man. Tiszu had learned with consterna-
 tion the agreement with Loano; but this promise gave him new courage,
 and he went out to hunt for snakes. All in vain. When, a few days before l the new moon. he came to see Sara l wamu, he was in despair. But Sarawamu smiled, and took from a hollow tree an object which she
 handed to him. A snaleskin- golden, shining. -s---+ .-' -a.... q found it on an aunt hill. Go to l father and say that you found it. It is not easy to say who was mad
 dest with joy, Tiszu or the old man. l But the girl was quite calm, and only
 said: You have promised me to lis 1 gu; am his"
 l The old man agreed ito everything, l and the hunter carried him to that | part of the forest where the money was | hidden. With the golden skin tied | about his foot, he waited, full of ex- l pectation-but the wonder did not hap
 pen. He felt no pressure from the 1 skin. Then he was seized with fury, | and, as if all sickness had gone from l him he rushed to Loano's hut. Your wisdom did no good, old vil- l lain! Your writing was lie, your trance fraud" he cried, flinging the snakeskin in the face of the wizard,
 who could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw the skin.
 You have not done as said," Loa- no replied, struggling his shoulders:
 "go your way. It is not my fault" l ,Mahindo was foaming with rage. Just then sarawamu, Tiszu and a
 brown policeman, brought by the hun- | ter, came into the hut. The policeman
 heard both parties, and decided the case in favor of Mahindo.
 1 #l" AN isH st
 In the valley on the other side of l Pedrotallaga1la, Tiszu and Sarawasnu
 soon built their hut, and Mahindo came
 to live with then.2 %sA8 4;;.'.t;~
 One evening, when the young people
 were sitting in the moonlight before l their hut, iTiszu remarked; Strange that the wizards formula did not help
 your father"
 His young wife smiled. Tt was not real snakeskin, beloved. I suspected Loano, and feared that there was no
 such skin to be found. So dyed the | skins you brought me in the juices of plants until got the right color"
 Tiszu shook his head and said, sn1il- | ing Love is and will be the greatest
 "Hoggs have much keener sense of l hearing than most people seem to think,' said a man from the country
 "They can see well and at a consider able distance, but the nose and eyes of
 the hog must give first place to the ears. & ss ,...
 This is so, no doubt because hearing
 is probably the most useful of the
 senses in the hog life, particularly at ! that season of the year when the hog in the wild state must rely upon the l fruitage of trees, in the main, for food. Even with this advantage it is fre- 1 quently fierce race to see which hog
 can get there first. It would be inter
 esting to know just how far a log can
 hear an acorn fall. It is remarkable
 the fact that an acorn has been blown 1 from it's outer shell, and tumbling
 toward the ground, and he seems to
 catch the sound quicker when he knows I sr xrrI,r ry,s1I Tai,