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Reading the Lion Tracks.

Abdullah still insisted that there
had been lions round the camp, and
a little later we found the spoor of
one big lion by the body of the half
eaten hyena. The ground was very
stony and there were 70 other tracks
to be seen, but one lion could hardly
have dragged the donkey and heavy
barrel away so quickly, so there were
probably more. The other hunters
had got hold of a man at the village
who said he knew where the lions
always lay, SO they went with him.
Soon after they left. Abdullah, who
had been hunting about, came and
told me that he had picked up the
track of one ZION on soft ground lit
tie way from camp, and that we ought
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side, and it was evident that some
thing was attacking our donkeys. 1t
was pitch dark, and we fired several
shots in the direction of the sound
before we discovered that the attack
ing beasts were hyenas. We did not
mind having a donkey killed instan-
taneously by lion, but we had not
bargained for the poor beasts getting
mauled by hyenas, so taking lamp
we went out to see what had hap
pened My donkey had got off with
a nasty bite in the hollow of the hind
leg above the hook, and we had him
taken into the camp at once. The
other was completely disembowelled
and must have been killed instantly.
We could not find any dead hyenas,
but we were pretty sure that on. or
two must have been hit. Seeing that
if the lions did come to the dead dom
key there would not De much chance
of hitting them on so dark night,
we pulled the carcass right under the
skerm or fence round the camp. and,
to prevent hyenas dragging it away,
tied rope to one, of it's legs, and
passing it over the fence, fastened it
to heavy water barrel inside the
camp. We sat up for bit and got
few shots at hyenas, and then we
went to bed, telling the sentry to keep
sharp lookout and to let us know if
lions came to the carcass.
Some time after I awoke to find
Abdullah bending over me, with my
rifle in his hand. He was frightfully
excited, and all could get out of him
was 'sLibah, sahib, libah!" ('fLion, sir,
lion!") Jumping up rushed out just
as my companion fired two shots into
the darkness. The first thing l saw
when l got to where he stood was that
great piece of the skerm round the
camp had disappeared, leaving a
broad gap. l could not for moment
think what had happened, and then it
struck me that when the carcase had
been dragged away the water barrel
must have got hitched against the
inside of the interlacod mimosa
boughs and the whole lot had gone to-
gether. 1t was frightfully dark out
side, and we stood peering out for
some time without being able to dis
tinguish anything; but after a few
minutes we could hear something
tearing at the flesh quite close by.
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Judge VIII Wa. and See.

An earnest plea was made by Attor-
ney Charles Pettijohn to Judge Pritcb-
ard of the criminal court for leniency
to a client who had entered plea Of
guilty to larceny. The burden of the
attorneys argument was that his eli
ent was the father of twins and was
tempted to theft in order to feed the
mouths of the infants
"Your honor, will say frankly"
said Mr.. Pettijohn in closing, that if
were the father of twins and needed
food for my family, 1 would not hest
tate to go out and steal it."
"Mr. Pettijohn, when you are the
father of twins 1 will consider your
proposition" said Judge Pritchard.-
Indianapolis News.
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point one could easily command the
whole of it. The lion was almost GER
tain to break out of one of the sides
towards the bush on the banks OF the
river-bed, in which case l should get
an easy broadside shot. If we fol-
lowed the track into the place, the
noise we were sure to make would be
very likely to get the beast on his
legs, and he would sneak out at one
side as we went in at the other, es-
pecially as the water had left lot of
dead sticks along the edges, over
which it would be impossible to walk
quietly Abdullah also said that from
the way he had wandered about this
lion must be very hungry, and would
sleep lightly. These considerations
decided us to drive. l posted myself
with Abdullah few yards out from
the point, and the other two men, hav-
ing collected some stones, began throw
ing them in at the far end. Abdullah
was right about this lion sleeping
lightly; for at the first stone there
was a growl and a crash in the bushes
duu Iu0u, lOi d uiuuIO Va wv, NV q
sound. The men started to walk down,
one on each side, shooting and throw
ing in stones. was watching them, and
wondering what had happened to the
lion, when there was faint cracking
Just in front of us, and he appeared at
the point of the island. Although We
were standing within a few yards of
him, and absolutely in the open, he
did not see us.
He was facing straight towards us,
and was so close that l did not like
to fire at him as, on receiving the bull
let, he would be very likely to plunge
in the direction he was going and be
into us; nor did l want him to come
any closer; so, as he stepped down on
to the sand, l moved my rife up
towards my shoulder to attract his at
tention. He saw the movement at
once, stopped dead, and turned his
head sharply towards us. For the
fraction of a second thought he was
going to be startled into charging,
| but he plunged off to the left with an
angry snarl at us over his shoulder.
AS he passed I pulled, and he skated
along on his stomach and fell down a
little ledge in the sand. This Slowed
him round, and he lay facing us,
| spread-eagled on the sand, evidently
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to follow it. At that time none of us
knew much about tracking, and we
had had such bad luck after the ele-
of our shikaries, and l did not think
it was much good, Abdullah persuaded
me and | went. After we nGI followed
the track for some distance I quite
caught his enthusiasm, and when the
single track was Joined by three 9TH
ers, l was divided between delight at
the prospect of having four lions all
to myself and the thought that per-
haps l had more on my hands than 1
could manage alone.
came in sight of two or three big
thickets of 'tirgin" bushes surrounded
by open mimosa scrub ano intersected
by narrow paths. My second shikari
at that time was very tall fellow,
called jana, with enormous feet. Sew
eral times during the track Abdullah
had turned round to pitch into him for
making such noise, aid now he con-
fided to me that "Jama walk all same
cow" and that we had better leave
him behind here with the pony and
boy, as the lions were sure to be in
the place in front of us. Knowing
nothing about it, 1 agreed and went
on with Abdullah. We were walking
quietly along the outside of one of the
thickets when Abdullah suddenly
clutched me by the arm and pointed
towards a tree standing on the edge
of the bush yards off. The tree was
divided into two towards the bottom,
and the sun was throwing the shadow
of a bush on the ground inside the
hollow.
This was where Abdullah was point
ing, getting more excited but 1 could
make out nothing at all, until great
yellow beast moved suddenly out of
the shadow and slipped away on the
far side. l fired from the hip, letting
off both barrels into the tree. We
rushed round to the other side of the
thicket just in time to see a fine
lioness come out. l could not get a
clear shot at once, and when 1 did,
after running some distance, l was
shaking so that I could not get on her
at all, and missed. She kept lobbing
along just ahead, every now and then
stopping to look around and show her
teeth at us. Each time she stopped
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I shot, but so badly that l wasted
seven bullets at different ranges
without touching her. The first six
did not seem to annoy her at all, but
the last hit the ground just under her
teeth, and either the bullet so close,
frightened her or a stone hit her, for
she sprang off with a snarl and q
flourish of her tail and, putting on the
pace, in a minute or two ran clean
away from us. 1 was terribly disap-
pointed and annoyed with myself, and
l thought of course. that everything
was over for the day after all this
shooting; but Abdullah, who was al
most weeping, hardly gave me time
to get my wind a little before he
rushed me back again. AS we ran
round the place where we had first
walking slowly out of another thicket
towards us. AS l shot, he turned
and plunged thorugh an opening in the
bushes to our right. We ran round an
outstanding bush to head him if he
broke out, and met lion facing us. Just
as I fired l heard a moan to the right,
so was sure it was not the same lion.
This one staggered away at the shot
and fell stone dead close by.
Death of the Jungle Lord.
Abdullah called up jana and the
pony boy, and they soon had the hide
off and tied on the pony. thought
all the time that Abdullah knew all
about the other one, but as he seemed
to be going right home, l asked him if
we had not better go and look for it,
and he replied that it was the same
lion all the time, and that l had
missed it the first shot. did not feel
quite sure about it myself, but the
moan in the bushes could only have
come from wounded beast, so told
him we had better go and look any
way. He evidently thought it was
waste of time, but when we got back
to where the lion had been hit we
soon found some blood, and going
"irgin" bushes we came round a cor
ner almost on top of the lion. He was
stone dead. l was very pleased at
scoring off Abdullah, as he had shown
such evident disgust at my shooting.
We met one of our party on our way
back to camp, and told him he might
run across the lioness if he followed
our track back to the place We had
come from. An hour after we got
back to camp he came galloping up,
having seen two lions, curiously
enough both males, and had shot one
with a better name than either of
mine.
l have at another time described
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Another Woman Cured.
Christiana, Tenn" I suffered from
the worst form of female trouble SO
that at times thought I could not
live, and my nerves were in dreadful
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hill again; but here, 700, we were dis
appointed, and gravitated back to
where we had first lost the spoor. We
knew that the lion had not gone
straight on, nor had he turned back;
he must have gone along the top of
the ridge and then crossed into other
stony hills where is was hopeless to
try to track him.
Abdullah, who is never defeated,
said there was big river-bed further
on in the direction in which the lion
was going. 1t seemed very slender
chance, as he might have turned off
anywhere in between, but it was the
only one, so off we went. We were
evidently in luck that day, for we had
only gone about quarter of a mile
when we struck the spoor. The lion
seemed now to have made up his
mind as to his direction, for he kept
on straight down the middle of the
river-bed. The sun had come out from
behind the clouds, and in places the
sand was very deep, so that we were
not sorry when at last the track led
into a little island of bush in the
great fiat sand. There was no doubt
the lion was at home, for on casting
round no sign was perceptible of a
track coming out. The island, raised
little above the river-bed, was
formed of mass of thick-tangled
bush and creepers clustered round a
few big trees. The water coming down
the river after heavy rain had washed
it roughly into the form of triangle,
the apex of which pointed up the
river. From this point the sides
widened out to the other end, which
was about thirty yards broad, the
whole length being somewhat urder
a hundred yards.
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more closely they would discover that
it was defenseless caterpillar, capa-
BILE only Of wriggling when attacked.
The caterpillar of the common moth
is another master of the art of bluff
When born it looks live tiny scorpion,
and no respectable spider or ichneu-
mon attempts to attack it. AS 1t grows
bigger it develops violet saddle down
its back and decoration round it's
face something liPe a monks cowl.
Out of it's tail procseds two long horns.
When approached by an enemy or
touched by human hands it instantly
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. they cannot reach the dis
eased portion of the There is only one way to
Deafness and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an infamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is infamed you have rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing. and when it is entirely closed Deaf
ness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi
ton. hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases
out OF ten are caused by Catarrh. which is nothing
but an infiamed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case Of
Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
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sits bolt upright, turns its dreadful
looking face on its tormentor and
shoots out of the top of each horn a
waving scarlet, sting-like thread.
AS rule the enemy retreats in great
fright, believing it is about to be
bounced upon, bitten and stung to
death. Yet, in sober truth, the artful
caterpillar is practicing bluff. It's ter
rible face is false ALARM" fer it can
not bite or s>Ike nard enough to in
f1ict a wound, ~ the two sting-like
scarlet ts->aaaS wave about in the air
without Ell any Poison.
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Wealth of Melody

After hard day in Wall street he
had been dragged by his spouse to the
opera, where he promptly proceeded
to take nap. In the midst of it he
was awakened by this in the most
soulful accents:
'Ah! What rich chord! Isn't 1t,
dear?"
"Er-ah-yes-how much would you
say it's WORTH" he murn ured.
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THEY WORK A BLUFF

of the insect world are just as smart
and effective at bluff as men.
Take caterpillars. Now, caterpil-
lar is one of the most defenceless
creatures in creation. AS a general
rule-for there are few exceptions
it cannot bite, or kick, or strike, or
sting. But its enemies are SO numerous
that it is compelled to resort to some
trick of self-defense, and as it has no
weapons, it practices bluff.
The caterpillar of the lobster moth
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l. / O.
Shooting
i'm
SOnaliland
BY Lord DeIQmere

Foremost among the great hunt-
ing authorities of the English speak
ing world IS Lord Delamere. He is
credited NTH being the heaUiest kill
err IN the party Which bagged the
record number of african lions some
fen gears ago. In East Central At
RIGA has pro,Uess is familiar to every
native. Not long ago a locality beset
Nth lions sent delegation four
hundred miles to call on Lord Della
mere to ask him to come and wipe
out the destroyers of their cattle. In
this article he viuidly contrasts the
theory and practice of lion hunting
IN the region which Er-President
Roosevelt UiH inuade.
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The thousand-leg is another defense.
less creature that relies on bluff. In
this case all the bluff is in it's ugly
legs. Considered as legs, they are
weak, ungainly limbs, easily broken
and frequently in the creatures way
when 1t tries to crawl through crev-
ices.
But all the world is afraid Of those
legs. Girls and boys run away from
them, and every insect thinks that it
must be an uncommonly ferocious and
terrible bug to have such frigNtful
limbs.
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Agitation regarding the pay OF
French military officers has had some
effect, for the minister of war has
asked for an extraordinary credit Of
100000 to supplement the pay of the
officers, which has not been increased
since 1870. In .that time nearly every
grade of state official has had his sti-
pend raised, but the sub-lieutenant has
had to make both ends meet as best
he could with six francs day and
the lieutenant with eight.
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A penniless man, who struts about
in fine clothes, making people think he
is a man of money and position, is
practicing the art of bluff. Bluff, to be
explicit. is the art of making much out
of little, of causing people to think
your brains or your position much
greater than they really are.
One would have thought chat an art
like this belonged to human beings, be-
cause it requires some intelligence to
bluff successfully. Yet many members
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Two of my men got badly mauled by
lion, so our camp had to stop where
it was till they could be moved. After
a time one of them was able to walk
about with his arm in sling, and the
other was getting on well, so one night
/ decided to leave the big camp next
day and go with two or three camels
to some villages only a days march
away. Early the next morning Ma
homed Moor, the headman, started
with the camels. l stopped behind to
get some breakfast. Just as we were
going to follow, a Councilman, who had
gone up the river-bed close by to get
some water, came running back to say
that lion had been down to drink
at one of the shallow sand wells insthe
night. l started at once with Abdul
lah and two other crackers, telling my
pony-boy to follow on as soon as he
could get the pony saddled. When
tracking, have always found it the
best plan to have the pony led some
distance behind. The boy ought to
have no difficulty in following the
tracks of two or three men and a
lion, and if the pony is kept close
up, it is sure to stamp or blow its
nose at the critical moment.
When we got to the we'll there was
the spoor plain enough in the sand,
but rather blurred by some rain which
had fallen at daybreak. This made
the tracking a little difficult after we
left the river-bed, but when we had
followed it slowly for some distance,
we came to place where the lion had
lain down uader thick bush, evil
IDENTIFY to shelter from the rain, as the
Epoor after this was quiet distinct on
the top of the damp ground. This
made us think we were in for a short
track, for it must have been light
when the lion went on again from
here, and lions generally lie up short
ly after the sun rises; but this day
proved an exception, be cause it was
cloudy and cool through the forenoon.
Trailing the King of Beasts.
The spoor now led us along sandy
path, where we could follow it as fast
as we could walk. When it turned off
into the bush we quite expected to see
the lion at any moment; but not bit
of it-he wandered about through
endless clumps of mimosa a-d "irgin"
bushes, as if he did not mean to lie
up at all.
The track at last ed us down a
little sandy watercourse, which it fol-
lowed for some distance. Up to this
time we had had no real difficulty
in making it out, but now came our
first serious check. The nullah turned
off along the side of stony ridge,
and, instead of going along it. the
lion had turned up the hill. We had
got the general direction tn" the lion
had been going in, but this was no
good to us, as on casting forward in
the same line to the bottom of the
other side of the ridge where there
was some sandy ground, we could find
no sign of his having passed in that
direction. We spent some time hunt
ing about, growing less hopeful as
time went on. A man following a
trail by sight certainly has an enor-
nous advantage over hound hunting
it by nose, because time is of no
particular object to him, and every
direction can be tried in turn. After
making out cast forward we went
back to the little water-course, and
followed that down for some distance,
hoping that the lion had turned down
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ical condition when I began with
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leads a life of incessant bluff. While
very tiny, it looks just like an ant.

very tiny, it looks just like an ant
Later on in life, when it is too big
to pretend to be an ant any longer, it
takes to sitting on leaves with its hid
eous brown head and its bullying tail
stuck upright over its back and its
front legs projected forward in such
an attitude of menace that spiders and
ichneumons dare not venture near.
THAT must be dragon" they would
say If they could speak. 'If go near
it it will surely tear me to pieces" Yet,
if they had the sense to look a little
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three years I SUI.
fered everything
with rheumatism in
my limbs and a dull,
ceaseless aching in
my back. 1 was
W e a k, la n g u i d ,
broken with head.
aches and dizzy
spells, and the kid.
ney secretions were
thick with solids. ]
was really in a crit
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Hospitab!e.

She-And did you enjoy your At
rican trip, major? How do you like
the savages?
He-Oh, they were extremely kind.
hearted! They wanted to keep me
there for dinner.
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d long Clmc. LUZ
tors had failed to
help me. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound was
recommended, and
1 decided to try it.
It cured mytrouble
and made me well
and strong, so that
I can do all myOwn
work. !" Mrs. JOS
EPH HALL, BardS-
fNwn wv
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MADE
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STRONG
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Bardstown, KY suffered from
liberation and otherfemale troublesfor
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Driving the Lion to Bay.

The shape made 1t u easy place to
drive, for a little way out from the
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lmnortant TO bdothara,
And Saves Time,

0HNVS
"He lets his wife do just as she
pleases."
Nothing startling about that"
mo; but he does it without an argu-
ment"
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HE best piece of
lion tracking l ever
saw lasted five full
hours and is so
memorable in sew
eral respects that l
purpose to use it as
an introduction to
that general method
of lion hunting.
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NEW STRENGTH FOR OLD BACKS.
No Need to Suffer Every Day from
Backache.

Mrs. Joannah Straw, SIG North
Broadway, Canton, s. D., says: "For
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Kill the Flies Now
before they multiply. A DAISY FLY
KILLER kills thousands. Lasts the sea.
son. Ask your dealer, or send zoe to III.
Somers, l49 De Kalb Ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Woman's taste for dress is so in
stinctive that dairy maid could read
lily and becomingly change posi-.
tons with society queen.
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SHE KNEW.

The MASTERPIECES your sister know
am waiting out here for her?
The Boy-Yes! She gave me nickel
to tell her when you had gone.