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* v:\« % \ f-L"- *- - 1.1. w *' *4t - : •iiit':. © > YfOV/MPA riANOUT r#GTO J CO*>y/t/c**r /9o& &y <S/VO£*t>*?O0 4*6 ISJ*A£**WO0& tS/f/JYJY/S/<? THE: T/GER on o° f.. BMNGMG /4 BAG/N TO C/i/fP mmm (HEN a man goes hunting tigers from the back of an elephant, about one-third of the danger lies in the damage the tiger might do and the other two-thirds is contributed .by the vaxiquf things the elephant is li­ able to do. In fact, if the danger from the tiger were the only thing to consider, tiger hunting would be a favorite division for so­ ciety hunt data where tea is served at the end. In a tiger hunt, anywhere from a half dozen to 100 elephants are used. ¥^hen an Indian prince goes forth on & royal hunt, there are even more ele­ phants than that brought along. When a normal man issues forth, he en­ deavors to get along with the half dozen. For elephants are expensive; they cost all the way from $400 to $1,200; a dollar a day to feed, besides the pay of the guides, which is not cheap. So that the man who has a tiger skin that he has captured him­ self, upon his pallor floor, has probably paid close -• ; to $1,000 for it India is the only country in which elephants are used for hunting. In Africa the elephant is not tamed; he is captured almost solely for his Ivory. But in India the elephant is used quite entirely for hunting and working purposes. The excitement of a tiger hunt begins long be­ fore a tiger Is even sighted. The wild bees of , India build their hives in a hanging position on the limbs of trees. Very often these drop down close to the ground and the thick underbrush hides them from view. It is a not infrequent in­ cident of these hunts for an elephant to calmly walk into one of these hives and scatter the busy Inmates in all directions, whereupon the bees quickly recover and seek revenge upon the clum­ sy elephant and his riders, and all the other ele­ phants of the party. Such an incident is a com- ^jnon occurrence that helps to enliven a tiger hunt and for the time being drives all thoughts of tiger •kins from the hunters' minds. The basket or how- dah In which the hunter rides is another feature that often lends excitement to a hunt, such as »o tiger could provide. The hunter, that is the gentleman hunter, who has gone to India for the sport, occupies the howdah., This is a very lar&e basket fastened t0 the elephant's back by a very strong rope. The spectacle reminds one of a captain standing on his bridge, high above the lashing waves. The native sits on the elephant's neck, or, to follow the same figure of speech, he la down on deck. ' Now, elephants are often skittish and liSLble to fly off in a panic. They do this, quite forget­ ful of the captain on the bridge, and the result Is that the tiger hunter often has to cling with both hands to the sides of the howdah and re­ ceive a severe shaking up as though he were a , pebble in a tin can. Nor is this without its dan­ gers. Often when the elephant becomes panic stricken he will charge into a jungle and tear - madly about until he drops with fatigue. Another danger is when an elephant gets caught In a tropical mire and flounders about. At these limes the elephant will grope about for anything lie can reach, to poke down under his feet to get a firmer foothold. Small trees and branches are thrown to him which he dexterously arranges with his trunk and fore legs until he has built a foun- dation upon which he can lost. But at these times the elephant is not scrupulous in regard to CROSStNG A STREAM WTO THE z/UNGLE the material he uses. A story is told in Asia of an inexperienced hunter who, when his elephant was floundering about in this way, thought he would be doing it a ser­ vice by dismounting. He did so; whereupon the elephant seeing likely foundation material in him, snatched him with his trunk and buried him in the mire. And so, the actual ti­ ger dwindles into a minor role when he is hunted from the backs of ele­ phants. In fact, some sportsmen pooh pooh the idea of using elephants at all. They call it parlor bunting. And, except for these incidental dangers, they are right. When a tiger charges, as he sometimes does, it is only the native on the elephant's neck who is in danger. The man in the howdah is high aloft with a whole head. And if he should miss and the tiger come on, the worst that haniiM to *».«* v.~ I--VA no -- -- crvmmu iic niu uaw i|U driver to guide his elephant back to camp. Yet elephants are more or less indispensable in • this kind of hunting. The Asian forests are very dense and stalking is not only very dangerous but it is often impossible. In some parts of the jungle no man can get through. The elephant, on the oth­ er hand, simply beats his head against an obstruct­ ing tree and flops it over. , And then, too, he carries the supplies which, of course, are necessary on trips of this kind. * The control its mahont (driver) has over the huge but docile animal is truly marvelous, as he verbally directs It here to tear down a destructive creeper, or a projecting bough, with its trunk; there to fell with its forehead a good sized tree that may interfere with its course In the line; or to break some precipitous bank of a mullah (water course) with its fore feet, to form a path for descending into it, and then, after the same fashion, to clamber up the other side. And if its driver should chance to let fall his gujhag (Iron goad) the elephant gropes for it and lifts it up to him with his trunk. In tiger hunting, however steady an elephant may be, its behavior depends largely on the conduct of the mahout. If an elephant gets frightened he goes A WAIT Ot* THE E0G6 OF THE. dUNGLE •s \ among the tree jungle and then the chances of the man in the howdah grow slimmer with every Bttltje of the animal. The Call of the Jungle. &Y BERKELEY HUTTON. Many a time I've come back from a trip, leaving half my men and all my ivory rotting In some dead­ ly African swamp, half dead with fever, swearing that I'm done with the business for good. And some bright day, in six months, or even three, the smell of the jungle gets into my nostrils or the coughing roar of a lion's challenge--and that settles the business. Back I go again, knowing precisely what Is coming--the sweating days and the chilling nights, the torments of insects and of thirst, the risks and hardships, and the privations. For obce Africa has laid her spell upon a man, he's hers for­ ever. Hell dream of lier--of the parched and Mis- A RUSE THAT WOA • --- / ' „ '•"*> LOV« ORIVE8 RUSSIAN CAPTAIN tO EXECUTION OF GOOt) #t.AN~ The True Life Romance of a Convent * --Beautiful Prisoner in the Cloister Weds Her Daring Rescuer.- -.-f^ When Pastukhln, captain la a Rus­ sian cavalry regiment, heard that Irma Mazlenikoff had been placed in the Convent of the Passion at Simbirski, he vowed to effect her release. That he, her lover, should be debarred from entering the convent drove the captain nearly to distraction. However, he found consolation in the thought that Irma was ever thinking of him, and knew that sooner or later he would devise a plan for her escape. One morning a buzz of excitement ran through the convent. From nun and student it was whispered that the good sister superior had received an important letter from the holy synod at St. Petersburg. On the morrow, it announced, Father Solovieff would be pleased to pay the convent an official visit of inspection. Many eyes peered at the good father as he drove up in a carriage drawn by three splendid horses. But if the good father was pompous in coming, he was charming in manner, and de­ lighted the heart of the sister superior by his praise of the order and disci­ pline that marked her regime. In the afternoon Father Solovieff announced that he must examine all of the students of the convent, so that he should be able to carry a thorough report of the convent to St. Peters­ burg, both as to its conduct, condi­ tion, and learning. Naturally such an unlooked-for request created a flutter of excitement among the students. But every one agreed, from the humblest nun to the sister superior herself, that there could not pos­ sibly be a nicer priest in the world than Father Solovieff; and, besides, there was no reason to fear that he would find the students lacking in learning. So one by one the students entered the examination room and there were examined in their studies by the good father. And one by one each emerged full of praise that he had bestowed on them. He was the most charm­ ing father who had ever inspected the monastery! After the examination i ether Solcvieff made his report to the sister superior. The teaching in the convent he declared was excellent. All the students had done well. But there was one who had far and away ex* cefted all the others. This student was Irma Mazlenikoff. She, the good father informed the sister superior, was too far advanced for the {earn­ ing of the convent, and he decided to remove her at once, and to place her in the famous Convent of the Kremlin at Moscow. ~ y Flattered by Khch praise IEV DISTRICTS AID CANADA AFFORDS Bl TER CONDITIONS THAN EVER FOR SETTLEMENT. __ Editor -- Sir:- _ many" of your readers will be to have some word from the fields of Western Canada, where such * large number of Americans have made their home during the past fffr years. It is pleasing to be able to port that generally the wheat yield has been good; it will average abfut SO bushels to the acre. There wlH be many cases where the yield will go 35 bushels to the acre, and others where 50 bushels to the acre has been recorded. The oat and barley Top has been splendid. The pricea * of all grains will bring to the farmers a magnificent return for their labor*. An instance has been brought to wj * notice of a farmer In the Pinchar : Creek (Southern Alberta) district-* where winter wheat is grown--who made a net profit of $19.55 per acre, or little less than the selling price of his land. 30, 40. and 50 bushel yields aro recorded there. The beauty about tho ° lands in Western Canada is that they are so well adapted to grain-raising; *hile the luxuriant grasses that grow everywhere in abundance make the best possible feed for fattening eattio or for those used for dairying pig*: One toy One thfe Students Entered the Examination Room.: superior bade Irma Mazlenikoff r fare­ well. * A few days later the papers an­ nounced the marriage of Capt. Pastuk­ hln to Irma Mazlenikoff, and the good nuns Of the Convent of the Passion nearly died of horror when they learnt how they had been deluded by the charming "Father Solovieff." Bishop to Indians #r STORY OF HEROtSM A ̂ DEVO­ TION OF RT. REV. W. H, HARE, ' • • Episcopal Churchman Who has to Remain with the Red Meil ^ He has been Leading to God and Civilization. ». ' " tered veldts he's crossed light; of the nights, th when he's wah-Ue game to < oumi ripple of ping of I monkeys/ov which dt ORDEAL OF A NOVELIST Plnishsda Book on Time the %*er Daugh|»r Ditri. W~~.'ilstable Instance of mental trol and application is told o' th< f Mrs. Cashel Hoey, the Irish n * abd journalist, who dltd "the £ at the age of 81. * „ One of her early no 1 serially in "Household JrfcdB leave Charles Dickens, had «cepi the story on monthly notel, was about W ith the most exacting unwritten, the author y called to France by as of a beloved daugh- of this daughter fol * week, and found the continent and within two days of the date Whtfn must be furnished. Although Mr. Dickens, on® the circumstances wrote to not expect copy that montt Hoey immediately after the" Jng scene of her daughter's d tired to an adjoining room an<| at one, sitting the entire fous tjers required, and posted them land just In season for their tion. Mr. Dlckeps, In writing soo# to a friend, said that the author .-as-. the blazing sun- li haunted nights itlng for the siened to the c aioalthly snap- him, the scurry of ened t o the vast silence, into sounds are cast as pebbles are pool.--Everybody's Magazine. i n<rver written more clearly or car- ! i'Jd characters and plot along mors cleverly than In those chapters, and that it was one of the most remark­ able examples of an author's power of concentration of thought which he had known. The authoress In the subsequent 45 [years of her-life was never heard to imenUon even the title of this novel. Russians Flock to America. During each month for the . last two years about 21,000 Russian immigrants have entered the port of New York. "The Indian Bishop," as he Is term* M by the Episcopal church, is truly an appropriate title for the Right Rev. William Hobart Hare; but he has well earned a title which has been given him by other denominations besides his own fchurch. It is that of "Mis­ sionary Bishop." There are many clergymen who have gone Into the great western country to spread the gospel, not only among the pioneer white settlers, but among the Indians also. The Metho­ dist church has sent some of its ablest men. Baptists and Presbyterians have also been represented in this broad field of labor, but the Episcopal church was the first to consecrate a bishop especially for the mountain and prairie region. The selected man was Bishop Hare. Bishop Hare Is descended from a family of churchmen for his father was the noted scholar, the Rev. George Emlen Hare; while his grandfather, Bishop Hobart, was one of the lead­ ers in the councils of the American church. Born in the classic city ot Princeton in 1838, he is now nearly past the three score and ten years, but despite hi^ age, he is as hearty and as vigorous as many a man 20 years younger. Early he decided to follow the vocation of his ancestors, and was admitted to the priesthood when but 24 years of age. For 10 years the future missionary labored among his brethren in the eastern cities, officiat­ ing in centers of culture and piety. Then came a call for those who would go into the wilderness. What was most needed was a leader who should not only have wisdom and judgment, but who should be courageous, deter­ mined, and above all willing to endure hardship and suffering, and have zeal enough for his calling to Isolate him­ self, if need be, from his kind. It is needless to say that the mls- mlonary bishop has met with many A FRIEND IN NEED. The other day a man traveling on a shore line train noticed, protruding from an overhead rack, a dress suit case which he recognized as belonging to a friend. He knew that his friend always got off at the station which they had just passed, and as he was not in the seat the conclusion was in­ evitable that he had jumped off the train and forgotten it. The man called the conductor and explained the case to him. After some discussion, and a mild protest on the part of the conductor that it wasn't a part of his duty, the suit ease wa« put off at the next station, with instruc­ tions to send it back on the first train the other way. The man. feeling that be had done an able and friendly act, ^settled down for the rest of his journey. But not for long! The face of his friend--who had been in the smoker, and who happened, on that particular afternoon, to be going on to New Lon­ don to attend a dinner party--Loomed before him. f. The moral ot this is, of course, .w.\.y. ' * ' 1 - strange experiences in his remote life, and has had an opportunity to study all sorts of Indian character. In re­ ferring recently to the. great changes among the Sioux and other tribes, he said: "The work began with the Santee J Sioux, and has gradually, stretched over a district, some parts of which, are 12 days' travel by wagon from others, and reaches Sissetons, Yank- tons, Brules, Yanktonais, Black Feet, Sans Arcs, Onepapas, Minneconjoux, Two Kettles and Ogalalas, some of the wildest and most reckless of our North American tribes. When first I met them, the Sioux were, almost to a man, living in tents and pursuing a roving life, and in some cases indig­ nantly tore down log-houses, erected for their chiefs by the government, as innovations which infringed on their known tastes and wishes. Now, the great majority of the people-- nine-tenths, I*should say--are settled in log or frame houses. Farming 20 years ago there was none. The people were hunters and lived or game. Now their country is dotted over with essays in farm life, and in favorable seasons many of them raise considerable crops. In 1872 their chil­ dren were all running wild. "The result of school work has been in the most marked way beneficial. Before schools were introduced there were but two or three persons in a tribe who understood English as well as Dakota, and the poor people, when they came together to make known their wishes or grievances, and to learn the will of the government, were entirely at the mercy of one or two interpreters who might easfly be bought up by Interested parties to misrepresent grossly the Indians, or the government, or both. From this proceeded great misunderstanding and incalculable evils, even wars. Now. thanks to the work of the gchools, there are dozens of persons in- every tribe re?dy »nd competent to expose any such baneful misrepre­ sentation. A marked improvement In the general intelligence of the peopla as a body has resulted, too, from the educational work." Some married men are diplomatic enough to hide the fact that they are henpecked. quite evident. Be sure you're right, .astd then mind own business.--Life. Extenuating Clrcumatan<*ilt,.:'3;,"S Cobble--You certainly have a good cook. By the way, where do you get your servants? Stone--From our neighbors. When we hear of a good one among them we offer her more money to come with us. "But my dear,fellow, is that honor­ able? "Why hot? Cait you develop a sense of honor «tth a pobr digestion?"-- Life. * Sarcasm of the Road. . "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "dat bulldog o' yer's mighty near caught me!" "He did!" exclaimed the woman with a firmly set jaw, "TH give him the worst beating he ever had!" "Lady be mercinU. If dat dog find* it as hard to git anytlng to eat around here as I do 1 don't blame him fut reachin' fur anyting dat corns* along.' ^Washjpctoh Stfr»v» - ' / -- , ** .. s The new homestead regulation* which went into force September, attracted thousands of new settlers. Is now possible to secure 160 acres la addition to the 160 acres as a freo grant, by paying $3,00 an acre for It f Particulars as to how to do this an4 as to the railway rates can be a#- if/j cured from the Canadian Government Agents.« , *'•' "The development throughout Westk U ern Canada during the nfsxt ten years# will probably exceed that of any other country in the world's history," is not the statement of an optimistic Can** dian from the banks of the Saskatche­ wan, but of Mr. Leslie M. Shaw of Jfew York, ex-Secretary of the United jBtates Treasury under the late Presi­ dent McKinley and President Roose­ velt, and considered one of the ablest financiers of the United States. "Our railway companies sold a good deal of their land at from three to five dot' lars an acre, and now the owners are selling the same land at from fifty seventy-five' dollars, and buying mors up In Canada at from ten to fifteen^', The editor of the Monticello (Iowa) Express made a trip through Westers Canada last August, and was greatly Impressed. He says: "One cannot cr ss Western Canada to the moun­ tains without being impressed with Its Immensity of territory and its future prospects. Where I expected to find frontier villages there were substan­ tially built cities and towns with eveiy modern convenience. It was former­ ly supposed that the climate was too severe for It to be thought of as sk agricultural country, but its wheal* raising possibilities have been amply tested. We drew from Ontario many of our best farmers and most progres­ sive citizens. Now the Americans ars emigrating in greater numbers ts Western Canada. 'Seventy-five par cent of the settlers in that good coun­ try located southeast of Moose J air and Regina are Americans. Canada Is well pleased with them and Is ready to welcome thousands more." LAMENT FOR CHANGED TIMES. Adonlram Comtop Discourses on •" ent-Day Extravagance. = ^ "Yes, siree, Bill, times Is chang# since yon an' me was dolh* our court* in'," said Adoniram Corn top, with a note of sadness in his voice, to old Andy Clover, who had come over ; "set a spell." "When we was doln' c&tr courtls^ Andy, a gal thought she was belli' treated right harnsom if a feller bought her ten cents' wuth o' pep'mints once in awhile, an' If he tuk her to ; any doln'B in town she didn't expect : ; him to go down into his jeans to the tune of a dollar or two fer ice cream an' soda water an' candy at fo'ty cents a paound. My son Si tuk his duckey- doodle to the band concert in town yistiday an' there wa'n't a quarter left of a dollar bill he struck me fer timo he got home. Beats all the way young folks throw the money away nowa­ days. I tell ye times is changed mightily since we was hoys, an' ths Lawd only knows what the $nd. wlU be with a feller layin' out 75 conts Oil a gal In. one day."--Puck. , .'Mt- •J&r* MODESTY. Teacher (encouragingly) - fcow, Willie, spell chickens. ;;T Willie--I'm afraid I'mtoo young Ml spell chickens, teacher, but you might try me on eggs. Mot an Up-to-Dats Church. : Two colored slaters living In s su­ burban town met on the street ons day, and Sister Washington, who had recently joined the church, waa scribing her experiences. " 'Deed Mrs. Johnsing, I'se J'ined tfcs Baptist church, but I couldn't do all the j'ining here, 'cause they had to take me to the city church to baptist me. You know there ain't no poat> room In the church here."--Success^ - ' • : „ Disgruntled Dad. „ * ** saa?* said the Wall street quM|» "that you are engaged again." "I am," admitted the son and hefeiw,' "Just when violets and theater tlcfh, •ts are due for their fall rise. Why must you always fall in love on a bttti market?"--Kansas City Journal. Lewi#' Sjk$le Binder -- the famoss straight 5c jcwar, always best quality. Year daatar or Lams' Factory, Psoria, UK. Many a man lies In ytssd up fer another." effort