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I THEme INDIAN HUNTER Timsislfe Object When lie is on the Trail. It Is a Case or Cause or (to Hungry With the Bed Ian. So llc Gels Close Before lie Shootsâ€"A Peer llnrksrnan. but a Good under-Indian Hunting Methods. Time isacommodity that has no value to an lndian. This, in connection with his stealth, cunning and knowledge of the habits of wild animals, makes the red man a good hunter. The expression "good hun- ter,” however, must be taken with several qualifying adjectives. He is a good finder of game, but the most ordinary white hunter will kill ten times asmuch in the same length of time. As a rule the Indian’s gun is of inferior make,and his ammunition is limited to barely enough to supply him with food it every shot is successful. He has no powder to throw away in practice, and as a result he is a very poor marksman. In the old days when he depended upon spears, bows and arrows, his accurancy in shooting was marvelous, simply because he had plenty of ammunition and devoted days to practising upon every conceivable sort of target. lhave seen some shooting done with a bow and arrow that would seem al- most miraculous were I to tell of it, but I have never seen an Indian who could use a rifle with anything approaching accuracy at any distance more than 75 yards. The Puestion then naturally arises.how does an ndian get his game? He does not get much. It is always a case of game or go hungry with the Indian, and he goes huncry ofteuer than he gets game. HUNTING THE MOOSE. In ” The Camp-Fires of a Naturalist“ Prof. Dyche gives a dcscrpition of how the Chippewa Indians about the Lake of the Woods hunt the moose. This animal is conceded to be the wariest and gamiest animal of all that are to be found on the North American continent. The Professor tells how the Indian found the trail and then, instead of following directly behind, he went Otl’a hundred yards to one side and followed in a parallel line, keeping well to the leeward. At stated distances he crawled carefully through the underbrush toward the trail. His movements were so careful that he fooled Dyche, who thought the animal was feeding near where the Indian made the stalk. The fact was the Indian used as much caution in approaching the trail as he would had he known the moose was there. He continued this procedure for hours, and . We. V tq¢itl~wtu,¢‘f ., _ . , R- _4:s\ q in- - im- l‘ ,v INDIAN Bovs STALKING ANTELOPES. finally crawled up on the moose andshot it at ‘20 yards. An average white hunter would go insane with nervousness were he to attempt such tactics, but with the Indian it made no difference to him how long he continued on the trail if he were only sure of getting the moose in the end. It was use- less for him to go back home empty hand- ed, for the tepee was also empty and he had nothing to do but no on until he killed something to take back with him. I have known Indians to sit for two days without eating by the side of a trail where they expected a deer to pass by. Their patience was finally rewarded by getting the animal. Tarour mo.“ ISFAXCY. As the wolf, the mountain lion and other lash-eating beasts of prey are taught from lnfancy how to approach and capture their food, so it is with the Indian. Almost as soon as he can run about he begins to prac- aise the ways of the hunter. It may be the - dogs and horses about the campthat are the object of the lesson, but he is taught to creep and ‘crawl up to the animal as if it were a veritable hunt that he was being in- dulged in. As he grows older he becomes possessed of a bow and arrows. These lat~ tor are blunt, it is true, for there is too much danger of some member of the tribe being made the recipient of a wound, but he kills small birds, rabbits and such smalll animals as he can slip upon and surprise All this while he is learning the habits of the game that one day he will follow and kill. He learns thediffcrcnt sounds of the forest or plain. He learns the tracks of the deer and of the bear and knows just how the velvet pad of the p-anther impresses the earth. He finds where the deer teed in the. morning and the route taken by the wild turkey in its regular round. Ho learns nature. What, to me, is the strangest feature of an Indian’s existence is the fact that no one of them ever advanced far enough to invent a trap. The nearest approach to a trap, or other device for capturing game, that I know of among North American Indians is the fish weirs of the Kootcnai Indians of British Columbia. These peculiar baskets m exactly the same now as they were de- scribed in the account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ninety years ago. In all of my experience with the Indians, and with all the investigation that I have been able to ire the sub'eci, 1 have failed tolindasingle instance of t s invention of any snare, pit~ fall or trap of any sort for the purpose of capturing wild animals. Since steel traps have come into the country. and since the coming of the white trappcrs, the Indians have learned of their use. but before that time such things were unheard of.‘ first day a party of runners was sent out who were to push forward until they found game. On the evening of the second day these runners were seen coming toward the I was lying on a knoll a mile or so from a Moqni village in New Mexico, watching a band of antelope one afternoon, when my attention was attracted to a moving object 03' to my right among the grass. It puz- zled me for some time, as it appeared to be a bunch of grass that had the power of moving from place to place. Soon I saw a similar bunch moving in another direction and then fully a dozen were moving. The ground seeminzly was bare and’ sandy with clumps of bunch grass growing over it and it appeared to be an impossibility that lanytning larger than a rabbit could hide, but with my glasses I finally made out the forms of a lot of Indian boys, who were trying to stalk and surround the antelope which had excited my cupidity. Fully an hour I watched those moving bunches of grass, and then saw that the band of ante- lope was surrounded and the circle was drawing closer and closer. I was puzzled to know how the boys expected to kill the antelope even if they succeeded in getting close to them, for I knew that their weap- ons could be neihiug more serious than clubs, with perhaps an old bow or two. The antelope began to show signs of uneasiness, and the old buck stamped and whistled, which brought the band together ready to fly as soon as it discovered the direction from which to expect danger. Leading off from the band in one direction was a little draw, and at this point I saw that the greater number of moving bunches of grass had congregated. Suddenly on three sides of the hand there arose an Indian boy, waving his arms and yelling at the top of his voice. Like wind, the ani- mals were off down the draw, and all but one were seen out of sight. The one that remained was on the ground, rolling and tumbling, with his feet tangled up in a. lariat which the youngsters had skilfully thrown as the band was passing. It was quickly despatched, and the little fellows half-dragged and half-carried their booty to the village in triumph. The oldest boy of the lot could not have been more than 12 years, while the youngest was about 7. The campaign was planned and carried out entirely by the little fellows, and not one made a false move. a BUFFALO SLAUGHTER. l \Vhile the game was small and the area of country hunted over insignificant in com- parison to a fall buffalo hunt of the Sioux, I could not help drawing a comparison be- tween the two on account of the military character that obtained in both. In the fall of 1880 the Indians of Standing Rock Reservation obtained permission to make their annual hunt for bufialo, which were still to be found in scattered herds along the foot hills of that country. The Indians “‘WV‘ Mrimm‘w - HBli’hrfiTi” conducted the march with all the care that is exercised in going into a hostile country. Two hundred young men were appointed guard and were divided into two bands, whose duties were to conduct the march and hunt and police the camp. These men had their faces blackened and were well mounted. They rode on either flank of the main body from one-half to a mile away and were accompanied by a dozen “walking chiefs” Another party of“walk- ing chiefs” preceded'the main body and conducted the march. By walking they were able to tell when the women and children would become tired, and the halts were frequent and marches short. The outriding guards looked like welbmounted bodies of cavalry. 0n the owning of the camp. They were received with great ceremony. The main body of the Indians collected about the fires, singing and beating tom- toms, while about mo of the best mounted young men dashed out to meet the runners. They escorted them to camp, yelling and circling about them with every evidence of joy and welcome. Arriving at the camp, the chief assisted the runnersto alight from their horses and took them to the seat of honor close to the fire. The pipe was passed around while the chief invoked the runners three times to tell the truth about what they hadseen. The runners had kept silence during all these preliminaries, and after the request to speak the truth they reported that they had found buffalo. Im- mediately all was pandemonium. The camp fairly Went wild with joy, the excitement, singing and dancing continuing until far into the morning, Strict orders were now issued that no gun should be fired until the general command was given. Some unlucky members of the tribe were unable to resist the temptation to shoot a deer, but the punishment visited upon them was so severe that others were de- terred from trying it. They were severely beaten with clubs,two of them having their ribs broken, and their guns were taken from them. On the morning of the second day from the return of the runners the buffalo were sighted. A herd ofaeventy wassurrounded and the entire number killed; It took three days to annihilate the entire herd, and on the first day‘s run c‘even Indians were thrown from their horses, two had their legs broken and one was shot. The men let the carcasses where they fell, and the sqnaws attended to skinning and cutting them for transportation. The meat was divided by the chiefausisted by the your); soldiers, and the return march began in a similar manner to that of the invasion. The mysticism of an Indian plays a great part in the hunting excursions. He is s :reat believer in signs and omens and never goes to hunt when the omen that he looks for is bad. The flight of birds, the fallinc of a feather or the crawlin of snakes are of import, and, unless he Ins belief in the efficacy of his amulet to overcome adverse circumstances, he will not go after amc until a more propitious time. The In fan. being very susceptible to cold, does ver} little hunting during the Winter. He i: not hardy, nor is he warmly clothed, con~ sequently he prefers the scanty warmth of his tapes to the blasts of the plains or mountains. LIGHTNING STRUOK TREES- Al'renelsmnn's Interesting Experiments With Electricity. Some interesting experiments have been made in France by M. Dimitre in deter mining the effect of lightning on difi‘ereni trees. Specimens of living wood of equal dimensions were subjected in the direction of their fibres to a spark from a Holtz electrical machine. Oak was found to be easily penetrated by the current, while black poplar, Willow, and especially beach, were more resisting. In all these cases the heart wood was the least conductive, and behaved like laburnum. The observations made agree in a general way with statistics of lightning strokes in Europe, Thus, in the forests of Lippe, from 1879 to 1885, and in 1890, there were 159 oaks, fifty-nine pines, twenty-one beeches and twenty-one other kinds of trees struck. M. Dimitre’s investigations establish the fact that the starchy trees, poor in oil, such as oak, poplar, willow, maple, elm and ash, offer much less resist- ance to the spark than beeches, walnut, birches and limes, which are “ fat” trees. One branch of the experiment afforded a singular confirmation of the wisdom of the recent introduction of oil as an insulator in certain departments of electrical work. It is shown that pines, which contain a good deal of oil in Winter, but have little oil in Summer, are much more resisting in one season than in the other. In Summer- time the wood is as easily pierced by the spark as oakwood, and in \Vinter as diffi- cult to penetrate as beechwood. When the oil of beech and walnut wood easily. The dead wood of starchy trees is more easily pierced than the living wood, a fact which militates against the common idea that sup conducts the discharge. The bark and foliage of trees are, according to M. Dimitre, bad conductors. JACK THE RIPPER IN AN ASYLUM A London Detectlve’s Story. ‘,‘ I have watched the movements of this man for three years, and from the evidence in my possession I hope to be able to bring home to him the charges of the Whitechapel atrocities.” So spoke an inspector of the Metropolitan Police to a London newspaper representative. A theory was elaborated and a story so circumstantially told by the inspector as to almost impel conviction. Briefly told, his investigations are as fol- lows :â€"”It was while I was on duty,” said the inspector, "in the vicinity of \Vhite- chapel, that I became acquainted with the outrages upon women that baffled the police and shocked the sensibility of London. I became a detective in more than the ordi- theories I eagerly devoured. My pertinacity was rewarded. After a time I secured evidence, in my judgment, ample to lay before the Scotland Yard authorities. I have in my possession now,and have already submitted it for inspection to the Scotland Yard authorities, the knife with which I shall endeavor to prove the 'VVhitechapel murders were committed. The Scotland Yard authorities believe in my story to this extent, that they have allowed me a bonus for the information I have supplied. I do not, however, rest satisfied With that. The manis incarcerated in the DartmoorAsylum, and has been there continuously from the date of the last VVhitechapel murder. In my possession I hold the knife, of Chinese manufacture, with which the \Vhiteeliapel crimes were perpetrated. I at the same time can disclose the movements of the man, whom I am prepared to name, during thc‘iutervals between the murders. I am able to trace him to the asylum after the last crime, and although he is now aban- doned to insanity, he has yet remembrance of the past, and all his conversations and confessions are relating to the East-End horrors. All I wish is that the authorities may be moved to interest themselves in my investigations, so that my story may be either confirmed or refuted. Cannibalism in India- In spite of the scepticism of Mr. Tyrrel Smith, the Bombay Gazette affirms that the existence of cannibalism in India among the revolting sect of the Aghori is placed beyond a doubt, both by the testimony of travellers in the past and the records of the Indian Courts of Law in more recent times. Re- ferences to ancient Sanskrit literature show that human flesh was sold publicly in the markets. The Aghoris, it is proved, still exist, and practise their foul rites. The astonishing thing, in the opinion of this writer, is that these ghouls are permitted, or were until quite recently permitted, to frequent the burying ghauts of Benarcs and in Nassik to levy blackmail, which was given them lest they should devour the re- mains of the defunct. To them, it is said, there is no distinction between casts or be- tween the righteous or the unrightcous. Their “ doctrine ” is to reverence no one except God and the “guru,” or religious teacher, to have no care in life, to sleep any- where, to have no scruplcs about anything. to subdue the natural tastes by eating hu- man flesh and all else that is human, as well as the carrion of reptiles. A Congress on Shipboard- The Congress of Norwegian Physicians which recently met at Christiania instead of hiring a hall held its sessions on a large steamer which moved from place to place, so that they had fresh air and ohan e of scene while they were holding their elib- erations. Thus they were hygienic as well as scientific, and possibly less depleted in purse than if lodged in hotels. -â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€" Honor to thoscwhm «.mleeds thus help us in our daiiy v is extracted by ether,the sparkgoes through- nary sense. Dates, clues, suggestions,and~ PEARLS or TBU in. lieu have sight : women insight. Earnsstness commands the respect - mankind. All human power is a compound of tin. ind patience. Conceit may pufi a man up,but can neve prop him up. Take not- too short a time to make : world-wide bargain in. “'ords are an amazing barrier to the R“ .:e tion of truth. f you would have the nuptial unio' last, let virtue be the bond that ties i: fast. A smile is the color which love wears- aud cheerfulness, and joyâ€"these three. He that can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. The showy lives its little hour ; the true to after-times bears raptures ever now. Who lives to Nature rarely can be poor ; who lives to Fancy never can be rich. We are ashamed at the sight of a man. keyâ€"somehow as we are shy of poor rc- lotions. hold the opinions of another age, past or future. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. One day at a time! It’s a wholesome l.byme; a good one to live by, a day at a time. Every real and searching effort at self- improvement is of itself a lesson of pro- found humility. The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Let truth and falsehood grapple; who- ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds ; therefore, let him seasonaby water the one and destroy the other. Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty or heroism. ‘ The first main thing a man has to do in this world is to turn his possibilities into powers, or to get the use of himself. Serenelwill be our days and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy her own security. Next in importance to freedom and just- ice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom‘ can be per- manently maintained. , I don’t like those mighty fine preacher, who round off their sentences so beautifully that they are sure to roll off the sinner’s conscience. It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. If I were to say what I had really been to the Germans in general, and to the young German poets in particular, I should say'I had been their Liberator. It is a strange and solemn power which conscience wields. Conscience comes to us in lonely hours. It wakens us in the night. It stands at the side of the bed and says, “Come, wake up, and listen to me.” And there it holds us with its remorseless eye. It is the man of vbluntary or compelled leisure who mopes and pines, and thinks himself into themadhouse or the grave. Motion is all nature’s law. Action is man’s salvation, physical and mental. 'He only is truly wise Who lays himself out to work till life’s latest hour, and that is the man who will live the longest and live to the most purpose. Good manners, which give color to life are of greaterimportance than laws, which are but one of their manifestations. The law touches us here and there, but manners are about us everywhere, pervading society like the air we breathe. Goad manners, as we call them, are‘neither more nor less than good behavior, consisting of courtesy and kindness. Only One Deduction Possib e A member of it well known club in Lon- don lost his umbrella in the club and was resolved to draw attention to the circum- stance. He caused the following notice to be put up in the entrance hall :â€"“ The nobleman who took away an umbrella not his own on such a date is requested to re- turn it.” The committee took umbrage a this statement and summoned the mem- ber who had composed it before them. “ Why, air,” they said, “ should you have supposed that a nobleman had taken your umbrella. ?" “ Well,” he replied, “the first article in the club rules says that “ This club is to be composed of nobleman and gentlemen,” and since the person who stole my umbrella could not have been a gentle- man, he must have been a nobleman.” Colour at the Cape. The Boksburg station was, says the Johannesburg Standard and Diggers' News, on the morning of the 25th the scene of a disgraceful affair. It appears a lady hail- ing from Benoui, whose complexion is not of the fairest, has been accustomed to travel in the compartment set apart for Blanken (whites) for years, being well-known as a highly respectable woman although a little dark, and she was without lot or hindrance allowed to do so. But this morning, when she had taken her seat for Johannesburg, a guard ordered her out, and commanded her to take up her quarters in the compart- ment used by niggcrs. This language not being understood by the traveller, she of course did not move, whereupon three of railway officials caught hold of her and literally dragged her from the train, tear- ing her clothes, from her back, leaving her standing on the platform almost in a nude state, and inflicting several nasty bruise on her. ' Good Advice- Oue day recently a Scotch publican was endeavoring to remove from his spacious bar one of his customers who had partaken not wisely but too well, when, noticing the shoemaker passing the door, he called to him to give him assistance. But the man of leather replied : " Na, us, my man ; when l feenish a job I aye put it in my window tee show my work ; so ye can jist das the same." In every age there are a few men who EB GREATEST 0P PEDAL OOIr ~ 011158. stuns. (‘rlmlaa‘f‘sjr Brutal lndla are Sent. A few weeks a convict at Port Blair. l the Andaman slands, rushed upon Col. Iorsford with an axe, cut off two fingers of is left hand, and wounded him in the head cfore he could be disarmed. Col. Horsford, who is the Chief Commissioner of the is- .inds, has since been reported as out of longer. Thirteen thousand convicts are living at 'ort Blair, which is probably the largest .ieual settlement in the world. The Auda- can Islands are in the Bay of Bengal, and 0 Port Blair is sent the refuse of 260,000,- }00 people. The worst criminals of British ludia and Burma, if they incur long sen- .euces of imprisonment, are sent to Port lilair. Over 8,000 of them are serving life xentences. :m E ATTACK. upon the chief official of the islands is all the more noteworthy because, since the . settlement of Port Blair was started in 1857, with the mntinous Sepoys as the first colon- ists, there have been only two murderous assaults on Europeans by convicts ; and yet :0 guard this army of evildoers only one com any of British infantry and several ‘iun' red Punjab police are employed,a very small force when it is considered that there are no prison walls, and that the convict barracks are scattered all over the settle- ment, which is several miles square. The hundred or more boats and canoes required for the work of the settlement are far more carefully uarded than the pris- oners themselves. gI‘hore is no chance to escape, except by capturing these boats. Even then there Would be little hope of freedom, for the Audamans are far from land and lie in a region of tempests. The only refuge is the forest, where runaways are sure to die of starvation, if they are not shot by the natives. The authorities, therefore, have so little fear of any attempt to escape that as many as 500 of the con. victs are often sent ten miles away with out any guards escept their own officers. _ Even in this isolated place a remarkable incident occurs now and then to vary the monotony of incessant road making and forest felling. Nearly eleven years ago gouuds were heard like the firing of big anus, and it was thought a war ship had gone ashore on South Andaman. The sta- tion steamer was sent to carry relief to the crew, but no wreck was found. The noises came from Krakatoa, 1,500 miles away, where the most TREM ENDOUS YOLCAN IC DISTURBAKCE of modern times was in progress. Years ago the ship Runnymede sailed from Aus- tralia and the ship Briton frein England, each having on board a. battalion of the Eightieth Foot.‘ The regiment was to be reunited at Rangoon. One dark night a terrible storm caught both vessels near the Andamans, and a great wave carried them high oh the shore. Next morn- ing, the regiment, without it man missing, was reunited on the island. The battalions had travelled around the world to meet, and a stranger meeting never occurred. The administration of this penal colony is a remarkable system of rewards and pun- ishment-s. Invariable good conduct secures better food, increased comforts. and finally wages for days’ work. Twenty years of obedience to the rules secures a pardon for life convicts. _ Pardons are often granted for deeds of gallantry, and murderers, red- handed and with weapons ready, have been seized by their fellows, who risked their lives to gain the coveted freedom. The at- tempt to assassinate the chief official of the colony may result in restrictions that the convicts have hitherto escaped. IRELAND IN 1893- APeacernl, Prosperous Year. According toEngllsli Authority. The year which has just drawn to a close has been remarkable as one of the most peaceable and prosperous which has passed within the century. In view of recent occurrences it can hardly be considered uneventful, but these occurrences wore exceptional and do not affect its general character. The people, as a whole, have never been freer from distress and the evils which follow in its course, according to a correspondent of the London Times. Since the year 1820, which is treasured in ie: membranes, they have not been favored by so dry a summer or a season more favorable to agricultural pursuits. Although the total area under cultivation showed a decrease of 5,305 acres in cereal crops and 21,236 in green crops, and some of the crops were light and thin for the want of mimyct the droughtwasnot felt so severely in Ireland as in England, the soil retaining a large store of moisture from previous years, which was drawn to the surface and pre- served the vitality of the seeds and roots. The result was that the harvest Was saved in such good condition and so much earlier as to more than compensate for any deficiency in the acreage under cultivation, which, after all, was but slight. The total extent under cereal crops was l,489,393 acres, and under green crops 1,153,527 acres. The extent under clover andgrusses was 642,050 acres, being an increase of l8,- 170 acres, and under boy or permanent pas- ture 1,525,108 acres. showing an increase of 6,184 acres. There is also an abundant supply of sound potatoes and of turf, which are appreciable elements of comfort in the smallfarm housesandlaborers'cabins. These advantages have had a tranquilizing and encouraging effect upon the agricultural classes, who are heartily tircd of political agitation and disposed to apply themselves to more profitable pursuits. There are many satisfactory signs ofa beneficial chan e in the moral as well as the material con! i- tiou of the people. Not the least impressive of these are the willingness and comparative punctuality with which rents are generally paid, the utter failure of the attempts which have been strenuously made to revive poli- tical excitement, and the greater readiness to adopt the practical suggestions of those who are competent to give good advice and have no selfish object to gain. «0â€"..- mWantsd 9. Chang: Wifl'ersâ€"“ How do do 2 " Eidersâ€"“Congratulates me, old boy i I'm the happiest man alive 2 I've got a wife who can run a whole house without the least bit of help. I married a servant-girl." Wifl'crs (a month later) --“ Hello, what’s the matter? Trouble with you: wife! ” Billers (dolcfully) --" Y-e~s, she has given me notice." .._. , 9-p- ._ w... m-â€"â€"â€" ..._. ._.......-..... _... .7 . “a..- s..