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Show. Iexistence the French exactly 30 calumetS. Eidency no less than oliapsed. on reports that in the supply of agriâ€" ch less than twenty gone to town. |d pavement. made of. i is much cheaper ssiil dearer than the or this purpose. men, who have just , are said to have candidates professing gang temperance. L631 made an appeal maintenance fund of dsmiths and other re responding h'ber. i-eadalbane, who has Garter, was born in the famous name, H. She takes her xe Italian city in For fully twenty of seclusion. L1 relic in the shaye pars old has been I Constantinople surprzsing mag. 0 thousand per- ects are beauti- d all of which ng. ‘ ythe, Eng., was c: as Mayor, to : the other day. [urged to serve tha; to save the audition it. was ;ment has decided to money on strength- ’orr.lzm:! on the Eng- rcbfihe Shah of Per- aoc considered too sited England,is ex- :tance with Britain must; be_ proof in England has be- pnlpizs have been museums, galleries ed to the public on 'ed at Meibourne, w-eight days out; avigaSed to port d, having lost, her ad married Miss In objections to “male guests.” Daffy he?! fled to >oth eyes black filthough a tem- r'ected, the next 506. and all. [ing announced tities of nobility in the French : being but sixty- 2 in 1871. Then 33%, instead of dgwick, had to the gentleman of putting the concluded thus: I from a usually . and we regret. I: misinformed.” a Twins” of her ch_fro:nAI.im<_>g- fix a of the Interior, 13 sent. a secret. f districts, Warn- pf somalism and pssible means to a has been severely rer 20per cennof the med and most of the overnor-Geneml that “ Mr. Glad: try withppp p93. isor czstle on a special audi- ie: to dgli‘er up of the Gutter, 33511 of the late brong ligature, and give evi- Ll through into adime museum Interest Chroma“! g Happenings of Lnssia is one of the rope, but she holds the Continent. has purchased for she: Place estate in n in the market for retary' to the sion that Her 3 present of :s of triplets. sad under cer~ l corporation of their interesting era and 13an $66. will see the of the‘ Church fin Boyton has ask- for leave to utilize TBB SBA- in the Tuilleries :cc of tho ,, s ., ., . ‘ . . I "uv, nu. wuugu purpose Du Mr. Williams gave the ioxlowmg list Of: being sunk. When these are c< those hurt in the disaster, and who me not 3 dnl‘mg will be continued as far as wet well enough ‘70 be removed from the; The rod 01‘ the drill used at, Parusc‘ hospital :â€"W. Thaapson, WoodstficiI 3 : CO‘rrjposod 0f Mannesmann tubes, Mrs. S. H. Bushnell. BI‘OCKPOP?» 115$ 3.; Wd‘d’ 1t is doubtful if the prese Miss Belle Williams, Brockport,‘ h”! EdePth (through hard rock) could h J. Harvey Smith and wife an'l their aaugh- : reached. tor Nellie, Fort Plain, Montgomery county, . . W N. Y.; 3- Turn, Shoemaker. Munro count-y, .lNo 3‘01! chain, or outward force Pennsyivania ; and Miss O’Grady, Ugwego, km_d, can ever compel the soul of NY. 1‘" are gsimng strength rapNUY- ; believe 0! disbelieve. end all exg‘enses were paid freely and promptly. hose who wished it. stayed with their wounded friends until the Injur- ed ones were able to go home, everything being done at the company ’s expense. Speaking of his experiences after the wreck, Mr. “'illiamssaid :â€"“ N 0 words of mine can express the kindness shown to my. self and the others who were injured. At the Nicholle hospital, Battle Creek, we were treated as though at home with our families. Miss Cobb, the matron, and Mr. ‘ James Harmon, the surgical nurse, were i more than kind. All the peevish fancies and ‘ fretful utterances common to sick people were borne with gentle patience. Dr. Rey- nolds, of the hospital, and Dr. Briggs, the: Grand Trunk surgeon, were indefatigable i in doing all that lay in their power to aiie. ! viate our sufferings. They worked day and 5 night. N othing daunted them. The railway i company deserves great credit for the liber- al manner in which it has treated the suf- ferers from first to last. My wife. and in fact the wives, sisters, fathers, mothers, brothers, or friends of those who lay in the hospital, were all cofiveyed to Battle Creek 1 free of charge. Their beard billsnhac‘k fare3 5 Speaking to a reporter, Mr. Williams said that he had little to say regarding the accident beyond what has already appeared in the papers. Although his left foot; was badly lacerated and his body bruised Mr. Williams was fully conscious of everything that went on, and before his wounds were dressed dictated a. telegram to his wife and a. letter to his firm. flue Battle Creek Disaster-Story or a Toronto Summerâ€"List of Those Still in the Hospital. A Toronto special says :â€"-Mr. W’. H, Villiams, of 41 Ulster street, has just re. turned to his home after spending two long months in the hospital at Battle Creek, He is one of the many who were injuzed in the disaster at Battle Creek on the morning of the 29th of November. Although doing well, Mr. Williams, who is a. traveller for A. A. Allan, will not be able to do any business for sometime to come, and he is still under medical treatment. A woman has been arrested at Udme, near Venice, who was found carrying four tin boxes of dynamite. She said she found them in a street in Venice, and thought they contained cayenne pepper. AmAustrian force will shortly be sent into the Soudan to rescue Herr Neufel- der,a. merchant, and Slatin Bey, who have long been held as slaves by the Mad- bists. Major Nieber, of the general staff, has been appointed commander of the balloon department of the Prussian army, which indicates the extension of the balloon ‘ser- The threatened bakers’ strike at Madrid has collapsed, owing to the arrest of sixty men, including the promoters of the strike. A rupture is threatened between Chan- cellor van Caprivi and Dr. Miquel, which will likely result in the resignation ot the latter. Twenty-seven new caéevs and twenty-four deaths 'from cholera are reported at St. Petersburg. General Gourko is still seriously n A despatch from St. Petersburg says this there is a. famine in Central Asia. Mrs. Fannie Landers, an inmate of the almshouse at Brewer, Me., died on Saturday as the result of a. deliberate attempt to starve herself to death. Fifty-five days ago she commenced to refuse both food and drink. W hen she started upon her volun- tary fast she was in good health, but was depressed in spirits by the death of her husband. Dr. A. H. Ferguson, 8. leading surgeon 0f the North West, and a. well-known prac‘ titioner, has been offered and accepted the professa rship of surgery in the Post-Gradu- ate Medical school of Chicago. It is understood that Mr. Gladstone would have announced the arrangement made about the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg- 9095838 allowance more than aweek ago had act the MinistefiéiWig-panel‘s beggéd him to keep the thing quiet untll after the Accrington election. Despatches received in London from p.r1va.te sources announce the total annihila- tion by the Matabele of Capt. Wilson’s {0’0}, which was cut: off from Major Forbes by fléods; Ne otiations for the duplicatiPD Of a. cablegbetween Hong Kong and. angapggg have been completed. The cost 15 esuma at £300,000, and it is expected to be °°m‘ plebed next summer. Mrs. Gladstone, who capght a severe 053(1): on Thursday while travellmg from on to Hawarden,,is now much better. Thirteen animals, forming a part £2132: Ontario Agricultural Collegevdglrysda in Guelph, were slaughtered W e_ nit viler- the Presence of several prommedmhem inarians, ofiicials of the college, and L thé These animals had been nondemm:2 moyrtem lymph test for tuberculosxs. A p05 ‘3 found examination was held, and lb‘wals were that. all of the slaughtered amma. more or less diseased. CAXADLL‘ ' The Chicago Tribune says :â€"-0ne thou- ,, child was found on and men sought shelter from the weather Ge 1’0de 0f 3.111319 lvcrt in Hamilton, in the City Hall Thursday. Some slept on Saturday night 1n 3' cu 1 a few days old, lthe stone floor others actually slept stand- Ont. '1 he child was on y ing up, leaning in bunches against radiators, and was m a shoe box. : d for th e speed? and in the doorways of the various offices Hopes are now enterta‘nflqnty're, sr., of lnot .m use. Early in the night the long recovery of Mr. Dunc?“ ‘hb so much im- r corridor was so completely filled it was al- Montreal. His condition :8 will be able l11109.1: impossible to walk from one entrance proved that it is exPected e l to another without treading on 'an out- to leave his bed. McLeo d ' stretched leg or arm. By 10 o'clock it was A Young boy, son of Mr- Angus ‘ ' . found necessary to open the basement to‘ “f Ingersoll, was drowned \V ednesday while the homeless wanderers, and 300 were soon i ' nwnmjnj :..-L - , skating on a. nond there. cannula The body of 3, 111313 chlldt Saturday night in a. culVGT Ont. The child was only a and was in a shoe box. A young boy, 30,, of Mr, Angus McLeod, “Huger-3011, was drowned Wednesday whxle skating 9n a. pond there. TEE "V‘x’ EEK’S NEWS. HE WAS 5N THE WRECK. I' N ITED STATES . GENERAL. BRITISH. , _.- .. - v-.- -.-J .....v we- we.-.“ l I f0? levying blackmail, the Police Com- ;Emlssioners have been forced to shift cap- l Ita-ms through the city, and orders for 3. “Wholesale closing of haunts of evil resort ,flmve gone forth and are being ruthlessly l ; eXecuted. In fact, the Police Comissioners i seem'to have decided that the only way to l , get I‘ld of Dr. Parkhurst is to do What he 9 I demands and give the community an object ‘ { lessen of the results. New York has never ‘ { hat} such a. moral or immoral house-cleaning ias m the past fortnight. In the end, Dr. ‘ Parkhurst, like all reformers who have l Preceded him, will be borne down. On l ‘h" Comfortable theory that a. certain lamount of evil is necessary in a. wicked ' World, and the less said about it the better, he is_ all wrong. On the other theory, i that 1tis every man’s duty to fight sin lWherever he finds it, he is all right. and, I whatever the final result, he has proved to i all the World that it is still just as possible fas ever for a man of moral convictions, as W113 hrst said of the founders of the church, t° “mm the world upside down.” The deepest bore-hole in the world is at Peruschowitz, Kreis Rybnik, in Upper Silesia, Germany,which attained a. depth of 2000 metres on May 17, 1893: the diameter of the hole at; the bottom being 7 centimebv res (about 2.8 in.) Drilling was then inher- rupted, pending a series of thermometrlcql observations, for which purpose the hole 15 mg sunk. \Vhen these are completed drilling will be continued as far as possible The rod or the drill used at, Paruschowitz 15 composed of Mannesmann tubes, without which it is doubtful 1f the present great depth (through hard rock) could have been reached. mistakes. He has laid himself open to the worst misconceptions. Police and courts have united to “ railroad” his agents to State’s prison. Failure dogged all his early efforts. He has faced such public abuse as is rarely poured on the most- con- temptible scoundrel. The newspapers have been for the most part against; him and scarcely any one publicly for him. But gothing in this world makes its way like moral perseverance. Two police cap- Eains in New York city have been indicted Savonarola and John Knox are charac- ters more or less mediceval whose work and character most men would pronounce im- possible in a modern city, and the more such men knew of the world the more certain they would have been that moral earnestness might be a good thing in J udea and J eruSalem but was likely to weigh little in New York city. Yet Dr. Park- hurst, a Presbyterian clergyman, who not only looks but acts like John Knox, has surprised New York by lifting the New York police force out of its old ruts with no lever but moral resolution and no ful- crum but publicity. Everybody has always known that the hideous social evil which stains modern life paid toll to New York‘ policemen, from patrolman to commissioner. l No sane man has probably ever doubted it, I and most men would add that no sane man would ever try to prove it. In this, as in all other phases of prostitution the great mass of men of moral purpose pass by on the other side,perfectly satisfied if vice does not in- trudeitsell on private lives but carelessof its extirpation or reform. Dr. Parkhurst began- several years ago a systematic effort to prove that the New York police was levy- ing blackmail on this evil ‘and rpractically licensing it; He has made innumerable Thomas Cusik, the night watchman, was sitting half way down the corridor when the trouble arose. He hastened down the hall and commanded the men to be quiet. A few officers who were in} the Central station came out, but no violence was necessary in suppressing the disturbance. When the two returned with the. food each-carried a well filled box. They had no sooner placed it on the floor in front of their companions than others rushed in and seized the food. There was scarcely a crust left for those who had furnished the money to buy it. The skirmish aroused others, and soon every one along the line in that end of the corridor was attempting to get a portion of the food. In their eagerness the men trampled the sandwiches under foot and but few succeeded in getting any- thing at all. Those who had purchased the food resented the steel by striking several blows, and more than one in the hall re- ceiyed a bruised face. They were hungry, too, and when a few of them entered the place with sandwiches ' there was a rush for the food and the sand- wiches were passed from one hand to an- other. In an instant there were 200 men on their feet and blows were struck in all directions. No sides were taken. No one knew against whom they had a. grievance E and whefi‘oflicers commanded the men to ;remain quiet they obeyed and again took their places on the cold stone floor to sleep. There was a. small amount of money: among a few of those in the north end of the hall. While some could not have bought neingle sandwich the entire amount was enough to purchase three or four dozen. . A collection was taken up and some twenty had combined their money for the purpose of buying food. While two went out to make the purchase the others cleared away a place large enough to accommodate them and spread clean papers on the floor. Here they intended to eat. All around them, however, were hungry men, and when they heard their companions talk of sandwiches they were even more hungry. I-vv. ,“fl --..,, .....u vvv wcu: suon crowded just; asinear to the furnaces as it was possible for them to get. They were not. all tramps, the proportion of “laboring men out of a. job” to the professmnal idler being three to one. Hum Men In the Chicago City Ilall Come to Blows. Parkhnrst and the Ponce. The Deepest Bore. , orient-ward force of any FOUR IT FOR F000. to “ You might say Skiqgles blows in more money now than he ever did before." “ How’s that?” “-Boughb him a $50 comet 13.51; week.” The worst point about the Eskimo is his greediness and gluttony. One of his ideas of happiness is to lie on his back, and let his Wife drop pieces of fat or spoonfuls of oil into his mouth until’he can hardly stir. But we must; remember the awful climate. Much fat is a necessary food in such cold. Then they leadsuch a. hard life; hunting the seal and the reindeer over ice fields, and harpooning Whales on stormy seas in their little canoes, and setting ice-traps of slabs of ice for the wolves. Food is often scarce 'and hard to get ; it is not to be won- dered at that they make a. feast when they ‘can. But the Eskimos are a wonderfully : honest people ; stealing is unknown. They are so hospitable, too, to strangers, and so unselfish With one another, having all their goods in common, and cheerfully sharing the hunter’s spoil together. There is also another good point about them I am sure English children would like. In the Eski- vmo language -â€"which, bye-the-bye, contains longer words than any other ; some as long as seventeen English words !â€"â€"there are no scolding words, and a. naughty child is never whipped. If any one “ grown-up” haspfi‘ended another, they all sit round in a circle, and the two sing songs against each other, making fun of one another, and the one who makes the audience laugh most 15 afdiudged to be in the right. 'Waxwell. "’ said the proud maiden with a. fierce joy shining in her eyes, “ I hate her "’ “ If you refuse me, Mabel Benderby,” howled the desperate young man, “I shall offer my:_seÂ¥_f to_1}lqg Scaragvay l’f “Do, Mr. The Sort of bough she stood beneath, For, being kissed, she shrieked out “ 0h 2” And swallowed her new set of teeth. “And why do you want me to give you a. dime?” asked the benevolent old gentleman. “Well.” replied the bright beggar, “to tell 1 the truth, I’m in the soup, and 1 want to reverse the situation.” The world a scanty pittance gives It's teachers, priests. and scholars, But Patti sings one little song And gets $3,000. These tight and economic times This paradoxic lesson teach ; The closer money seems to get The more we find it out of reach. “Well, Uncle Silas, your boy is home from college?” “Yes, wuss luck.” “Worse luck? Why ‘3” “ He’s larned so much he can’t plough up nothin’ but my feelin‘s nor harrer nothin’ but my soul.” 1 Mr. Saphead (during the honeymoon)- “ When did my ittie duckie darling first discover that she loved me ‘2" Bride (sweetly)â€"“ When I found myself getting mad every time anyone called you a. fool.” “ Here. Sammy, is a. dime. Now tell me, did your father ever say what he thought; of me. 9” Sammy â€"“ Yep; but he’ d lick me if he caught me swearin’ like 1’ d have to tell you. I £321 quite sug'e she did not; know At the theater. â€"Wii1â€"“ Say, Jack, how much did you pay far these seats ?” Jack â€"“ Six dollars and a. half.” Willâ€"“ \Vell, next time let’s save our money and go to a milliner’s opemng." Waiterâ€"“ Perhaps you would like en omelet?” Uncle Joslx-â€"“ No sir ! Never could eat ’em. I guess you may bring me some aigs. Kind 0’ beat ’em up a. little an’ then cook ’em.” Proprietorâ€"“ what’s the row at the bar- gain counter” Floor-walkerâ€"“ No row at all. A party of college girls are among the crowd, and are working to the front by a; flying wedge.” Sheâ€"“ Dearest, suppose you didn’t love me nearly as much as you do now, would you marry me?” Heâ€"“ You bet I would. You don’t know how much I think of your father.” " No.” “ (Jan 1 become a. Brazilinâ€"n ihsur- gent ‘3" “ Yes.” The wifeâ€"“ How did you ~dare, sir, to scold me before Mrs. Brown '3” The husband â€"“ Well, you kno 5*, Maria, I daren’t scold you when we are by ourselves.” “ Man wants but little here below ” Is soothing as to sound, But doesn’t count, most people know, When pay-day comes around. Hungry Higginsâ€"" Wot’s dis? You been buyin’ socks ‘2” ‘Veary Watkinsâ€"“ 0h, dab's all right. I ain’t goin’ to wear ’em. I jist bought ’em to hang up for Christmas.” “ Can I change my occupation under the terms of this insurance policy ‘3” What do you web to be '3” “ A football player.” “ N o.” “ Can I become a. Brazilian insur- He smiled, this victim of a. cold 3 At last he can endure it, He met a. man who doesn’t know Of anything to cure it. Sheâ€"“ I understand you are engaged to be married to Miss Fussanfeather ‘2" Heâ€" “ Yes, she makes a perfect fiancee. ” “She ought to! Practice makes perfect, you know.” reminds me of a certain scriptural 'injunc' tion.” “ “’11“ is that 9” " She dces not let her lefbhandfiknow what her right. hand doeth.” “ How can you be certain that it was aslate 8.32 o’clo3k when Harry came in last- night ‘3” May-â€"“ Because he stum- bled over a. chair without swearing out loud.” . The politician isn’t narrow-mindedâ€"hf 13 willing to put himself into “ybody 5 place. “ What 1 d makes y 011 think he married the a. y or money ‘2” “ I have seen her 1" indulged in habitually. 5-5 P ' man’s countenance. That {a :4- ...:n -L, - - The The Eskimo at Home. ‘ Wn'en one is not iichflenough to devote much money to good works, one must take pains to discover how to do the most good with a small sumo Man’s value is in proportion to what he has courageously sufi‘eredâ€"ua the value of the stee} blade is in proportion to the tem- pering 1b has_undergon_e. A good reindeer will travel 100 miles a. day over frozen snow, and can draw a weight 0f 300 pounds, thus surpassing the dog by one-half in distance and two- }hil’dfl in drawing power. â€"â€"‘[The Spectator. The herd of a Reindeer Chukch came down from the pasture every morning to meet their master. The leading stag came first, and bade him good morning by gently rubbing his nose against his master’s hands. All the other deer were then allowed to do the same, the master taking each by the horn and carefully examining its condition. The inspection over, the whole herd wheel- ed and returned to the pasture. It would be difficult‘to name another beast of bur- den soltame and so eflicient as the rein- deer. The Cuaét Chukchs always c_arried dog shoes, neatly made of bags of soft leather, with straps attached, to put on their dogs’ feg't‘s‘if c311: lgy the sharp_snow. M. Nordenskjold, in his voyage in th Vega to the Asiatic shore of Behring sea. noticed a. marked difl‘erence between the Dog Chukchs, the inhabitants of the shore, and the Reindeer Chukchs of the interior. The latter were better clothed and in bet- ter circumstances. Both showed a kind- ness to \their animals unusual in semi- say-age peoples. According to El Globo of Barcelona, an Englishman residing in Madrid has made a remarkable offer to the Spanish Govern- ment. Mr. Dorick Cheaterâ€"this is the name givenâ€"is the inventor, it seems, of a. mechanical solider. It is a figure construct- ed of iron, and carries a rifle which fires forty shots to the minute. A supply of ‘cartridges is hidden inside the apparatus, ‘and by an ingenious Contrivance the rifle goes ofl' automatically, the rapidity of the re having been regulated beforehand. This is not all. When the ammunition is ex- hausted, the iron soldier is still formidable. The head is charged with dynamite which can be exploded by an electric current. Me. Dorick Cheater had offered to start for Mc- lilla in command of a company of these iron soldiersâ€"that is, if the Spanish Goverment would pay him five million pesetas for his invention. It has been tested, we are told, ‘ in the presence of a numbor of military offi- cers and journalists, who were immensely pleased with it. The military authorities, however, do not seem to have availed them-! selves of Mr. Cheater’s services. We always have sympathy with the man who struggles manfully for existence in the world and fails, owing to some cause unex- plainable. But we cannot find it in our heart to sympathize with a man whose failure to succeed is attributable to his own loose habits. If the latter has others de- pending upon him, his act is criminal. No imnMBaflfltmdmgmmnmmhm innocent people. Yet, how many there are who, conscious of their wrong-doing, con- tinue to descend lower and lower, until the final Crash comes and poverty stares them in the face. In the days of prosperity they never see the dark side or life. They drift along heedlessly, doing things that are detrimental to health and damaging to busi- ness. They squander money that should be converted to the payment of honest debts. They never comprehend the dangers that threaten. They go from bad to worse, and when it is too late, regret that some influence more powerful than their own weak minds had not interposed and put a stop to their recklessness. Men who descend so fast, develop little faith in God. If they. were possessed of the graces of God, their religious intelligence would direct them in the right path. God stands by them who stand by Him. He cannot . be expected to guide and protect those who I are continually battling against His laws. Those who fall by the wayside, while faith- ful to God, are lifted up by Him and started off again with renewed vigor. How delight- mHHmdematokaWMMhmaw keep Him constantly in view. His is the bright side of life, eten in misfortune. In His company burdens are trifles. It is His followers who deserve ' sympathy when they fail in their undertakings, while the reckless, thoughtless, Godless ones can expect only the sufferings and hardships that follow in the wake of an un-Christian 1i fe. It is difficult for mothers, particularly the young, or those who have not overcome the wayward tendencies of their youthful nature, to properly estimate the influence they exert over their little ones, for they are constantly surrounded by critical mothers or grandmothers, who are ever giving wholesome advice; who copy the shortcomings, morals and manners, or meth- of the young mother in the difficult task, as atiny-bender, in bringing up her little ones, and then make them the subject of scandalous criticism in the neighborhood. where she may reside. If she is all she should be those loving criticisms will only make her the stronger and better woman and mother. It is almost always true; as the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children be blessed with an intelligent mother, who is delicate and re- ‘ fined in her manners and all she may have ‘ to do in her household affairs, and does not consider it necessary to be one woman in the parlor, and an entirely different person in every other room of her house, but who is y a true mother and always a tender, charm- ‘ ing woman she will invariably see her habit of ruling over her children, in love, evenness of temper and speech, and perfect manners, reproduced in her children. Great rough men and noisy boys, that are seldom still, will always tone down their voices and step lighter and try to be more “ manner- 1y ” when she stops to give them a kind word or a pleasant smile. A true mother _ will never fail to say or do all the pleasant things she can that will in any way help to lift up and cheer those whosellives are shad- ed with care and toil. The mother of today rules the world of to-morrow. How essential is it, then, that they rule it with that love which is born of the sensibility of the afi'ec- tions, and the rightly cultured emotions of the heart. Then they become a grace unto themselves and their children after them. A Mechanical Soldier. A Criminal Act. As the mother ls. Reindeer- But though it was feared at. firEt that something serious might come of the bikes, thegentleman ls rapidlj reoewriég .ZekieL however, declares that not for all 8the world would he leave the door of $.84. fold 0pc again. With a shriek of agony the big wol rolled over on the floor, clawing at the planks for something to apply to the wound. and, running up to him, 1\ r. Butterfleld brought down the iron once more on his skull, this time breaking it, and killing the wolf. He now called his wife, and they succeed in restoring the unfortunate Zekietl, and be aided Mrs. Butterfield in getting the rsnchman to the house, for his feet and lims were in such estate as to render wall:- ing a. most painful enrizperilous thing. The latter now abandoned his prostrate prey and ran at the ranchman, who, being now undefended, resolved to flee for his life. But his enemy was too quick for him and was almost upon him before he could reach the door. However, near this exit Mr. Butterfield found a branding iron,such as is used to mark cattle, and with this formidable weapon the ranchman prepared to finish up his dauntless foe. Raising it in the air he threw it directly into the face of the wolf, shattering the nasal bone and reducing the entire muzzle to a mass of blo_o_dy flesh._ THE CREATURES SKULL. breaking the weapon short of in the bar- rel, and without seeming to daze the wolf an all. 'In falling,the boy struck his head against the doorsill, and for several minutes was too dazed to take any further part in the combat. The wolf bent his head to worry the remains. as he thought, but Mr.Butter- field, crawling toward the two, secured Zekielis gun and put a. couple of shots in the animal’s body, but did not kill him, as he had hoped to do. The wolf whirled sharply about and, still standing over Zekiel, made a. snap at the other man, which Mr. Butterfield parried by getting to one side. He then brought the gun down upon The door being left open by the newcom- er, most of the caged creatures escaped by it, but Zekiel continued to pursue them i with a. running fire, managing to kill half a doxen himself. But one old fellow,engaged in eating a lamb he had slain, declared war to the knife and refused to be routed, but turned on Zekiel with a determination to kill or be killed right there. The boy fired upon him, tearing open his side and send« ing the blood all about the fold, but the big wolf gave no token of fright, and rush- ed at his enemy with a furious yell. Zekiel fired again, but the ball went far over the creature’s head, and before he could aim again the wolf had pinnedhim down. ENORMOUS MALE WOLF leap upon the exhausted man and seize him by the throat. Mr. Butterheld fell, with this monster clinging to him, and gave himself up for lost,but the boy, placing the muzzle of the gun to the wolf’s head, blew out his brains. Mr. Butter-field shouted loudly to his wife to bring him help, but such was the yelp- ing, snarling, and howling in the fold that he doubted that his voice would reach her. But she heard the pistol shots and the noise of the struggle, and screamed afresh for Zekiel, who, by this time, was approach- ing the house, whistling merrily. Mrs. Butterfield flew out to meet him and in- formed him what had happened, and gave him his master’s gun to go to the rescue. Nearing the fold then Zekiel heard his em- ployer’s cries for assistance and reached him just in time to see an The robbers then tried to run out of the door, but the ranchman determined on re- venge and closed the only exit and con- tinued firing. But finding themselves trapped the animals seemed to grow frantic, and before Mr. Butterfield could suspect what was about to happen, flew at him with such force as to cause him to stagger back against the wall. His pistol was now empty and he was only able to defend him- from his bloodthirsty foes by knocking about him With the butt of his weapon. They tore at his limbs, but poorly covered by a. pair of light boots that he had drawn on in coming out, and his feet and lower legs were soon bleeding freely, while the sharp fangs of the animals found the bone itself under the lacerated flesh. CAUGHT BY THE THROAT, 'the cry stifled and choked, as if a cruel 'clutch killed it before it was well given birth to. Mr. Butterfield threw open the window and called for Zekiel, and, receiv- ing no answer, dressed himself hurriedly l and seizing his revolver, made for the spot ‘ . There was a. moon just going down, but It gave sufficient light to show that the door was partly open, and on approaching still nearer, that the sheep were huddled together in terror of a score of dark objects almost as large as month-old calves which were running about the fold, pulling down a. mother sheep here or devouring some ten- der lambling there. At first Mr. Butter- field could not distinguish what these creatures were, but took them for dogs. Convinced, however, that whatever they were, he was justified in preventing the slaughter of his poor sheep, he drew his pistol and discharged it at the nearest, when his shrill yelp told him that these marauders were wolves, and wolves of the large ferocious gray variety. He fired again and. again, a wolf falling at every shott 7 ous sounds caused him to, spring quail} from his bed. These sounds were of several sheep, and the young being a neighbox’s "buxo7n daughter, and it we? . ‘ while thinking deeply of the fascinating damsel, enjoying in anticipation the even- ing with her, that Zekiel forgot to secure the door to this place. He was still absent when Mr. Bubterfield was awakened by his wife, who declared that there was some one in Ehe “lambs’ house,” as it is called. -..- .1.wa uvuav, :5 Au vacuum The ranchman was prepared to disputes this with the lady: when a. series of suspjci- A.-.- _-.. Situated about 300 yards from his min dwelling house is a. roofed-in fold, where are placed at night. the sheep having little ones, and this fold is intruated to the care of a boy named Zeklel. But. it happened that Zeltiel’s young afi‘ections are played 01} . _‘_-, Shut up in a. Dark Sheep Pen With 3 Pack of the Hungay Brute:- Lance Butterfield a. ranchman near Gor don, Neb., is richer today than he was in: week by the possession of some dozen wol skins and an exciting experience with tho the animals they originally covered, with about twenty more thrown in to make good measure. A BAD NIGHT WITH WGMES.