Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1890, Page 14

UMAHA DALLY BEE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 fome Mighty Good Btories About Men and Other Animals KNEY WHERE THE HOSPITAL WAS, What a $mart. Candne DId in "Frisco- The =eal Went Mad -Fish Wil Fight Saved by a Bullfrog A luelrecently took place in o trvelig eirens tenpor statined in avillige out- side Paris, and very curlous were the conse- quences. “Two acobats,” says 4 aisptehito the Londm Dilly Dispateh, “quarreld, ad resolved 1o fight @ duel, ‘The vlice chosn was the ring -afterthe public prfomance, of coirse -the conditions belg two shots at tweity-five p: As uwsual, neither of the comnbatants were hurt, and their wounded bhonors being satistied the inc nt termin- ated, The dudists and thelr seconds owver- looked the presenice of two members of thir company, who were quictly munching nuts in acorner. Thes were two tr Kkeys, who bean taight to ride around ringdresed up as soldiers, and to firo pl en wute, The monkeys saw the perfy of their masters, vhen the way was clar they resovedto imitate it. Gravely loading their pisils they faced cad other-not at but at five-and fird. d nearly ned mon- the blown off andthe other shot in the breust. At fhe l;rl' i the still sounnd of the shots the master of hedin and found hodies of iveducistsin the ring with the simnoking pistols 1ying by then. Commenting on this interesting iter Loudon Saturd Review ot Vv glomy week t ately sacrificed ‘The § s01new hat rding to a French erit ever concerns death,” When we 'have heard whit mirth the monlke t must be deened appropriate —if, indeed; the story is notan unworthy wspersion m theinteligen of the auimals, . Acconlingto a corrspond- ent, twoncrohnts in the civus at Pans, had a dispute, followed by an afa Thedistince was the tice gentlemanly oueof twenty-ve paces, at whichevena giod pis- tol shot may missan opponmt with a weapon in ois hunds. Atall events, whether good shots ornot, the ombatants did mis, - Per- haps they were asnervous s the timd diel- istwhon M. Guy de Mauwpassant has de- scribed twice, onw ina volime of sketches andonce in anovel, ‘Bel Ami.’ “Now amomg the temons of tlis afair were two apes. The creature 18 initative and ingmious, but never hus moke ried amitation and ingenuity further than the Paris nonkeys. The fumed apeof the can- nou story hal no compurgitors, They mly male oie differmce in the arrangemomts which they had observed tobe sopicturesque, 80 safe, and to honor soconsoling. They fomd pistols and cartridges; they loade they swod up toeachother af five—twent five ds distance,and they blew each oth Of allmonkeysconcerning whom ks, these alone are dead on the wihe details have leen discovered, 45 the monkeys chose nosecoies, dos nolappar. Notris it known whether they had been long onill We for the lady' of this quar iPerlaps thatis the w whichde- nies that theapes hadany hostile motives at all. ‘Fhey thought, from what they hud ob- served of theduello, that it was an exerise v of “I'he Sleeping Bewty ' Per- the Bewty's litle by fnce with & mon Thisis, perhaps, the newest tou duel with cdvilized weapns that any Sinian creature ever came before the mon- eys of the Daily Telgraph The i a belligerentanimul with militacy (i and heis said tothrow stoies and do many other startling tricks of war. But a duel wit! pistols, anda doubly fatal duel,is a link too muy for him” Possibly the moukeys foighton Jipanese pinciples, wher init is dshonerable for cither combatint o relurn alive. Butwe have no evidence wbout the st mteresting points,as who gave the word tofire, whether it was nota barrier duel, and sofovth, We only huve the sud, Blnln Tncts tospeak for themselyes in the Diily Tele- gnph." “Bow-wow,” barkel the dog, and Dr. Wolf danppel h's' piper to take's look atthe caninesitting ona rug at lis fet., “Hello, whats the matter with you?™” The dog mised his right forepaw, and the wihine lie uttered was dog talk for, “Look at it} it hurts.” Dr. Wolfdid 1ok atit md found imbelded nthe under side of the paw a lirge piee of glss, says the Sin Francisco Examiner, “How didyou get that ¢ Doggie could not answerexcept by another whine, 3 “Well, come along, old fellow. DIl fix it for you,”” The dog limped palnfully after the physi- chn from the ofice of the Rectiving hospital o the o}n!rming room, where Steward Trewin lifted him to the padded table. Matwon Kur procured the pincas, needle aud thread, drainge, tube, iolofor, water aud lint, while the doctor tak the hflurcd piw inhis handand skillfully extrcted the glss. Then the womd was clemsed, the elges sewed togetherand the paw bandaged @ canvfully and scientifically as though the snlh-nt were a luman being: Nevera whine lid doggie utter, buta slow movement of his tul} tothe right und loft testified tohis grati- tude, “Now, you'resll right." Down from the table jumped the patient with o Joyous “bow-wow,” ad after seam- wringaromd the wom a few times just to show that his paw didu’t hurt any wore he scurried out to the street, An lourlaterhe walled into the hospital again witha mournful expression in his eyes and the bandage gme from his foot. T, Wolf rebandaged the wound, made it sceure, and away trotted the dog, ““Why did he come in here!” sail the doc- cnsider- wtar of v laugha- ‘e what- i1 ‘seels tor inresponse to an inqui , ldon't know; he'sa tramp dog wnd hangs’ around here uearly allthe time. He's seen many an operation performed it this rom. I suppose instinet tanghthim that this was the plce to w-t his paw fixed. [ do hope, however, that 10 won't go and tell all the dogs in town aboutit, s tho maybe forced toestab lish 4 canine hospital,” Onthe rgister of the lospital the stoward mudethe et July 28, 1890~ A canite—leerated wound of puw—discharged 11 Remarks: Cameto the hospital un In the broiling heat the other day Charles kobbius of 85t Louis, was tilingup North Ninthstreet in no yamiuble mood, when o passingz remark about the weather taus bim to completely lose bis temper, ritability cost him £5 i the police e saysa dispatch to the Neow ¥ Considering the nature of the offen Robbius may congratulite himsell in off 80 cheaply, for by his act @ one Ninth street familyis now plunged in and aNinth street shopkeeper s obliged 10 poekit & considorable tinanciil Loss. Robbins was trudging almg nopping his rspiring brow, when le heard a voice call Ing at him: “Hi, there, you blueered monster, is this bot enough foryou!” Rabbins locked up in a rage andsawa beautiful poliparnt with his head cocked to one side waiting for o reply. He whippod out arevolverandat the fist shot killed the bird, The next went wide of the mark and erasted into adid plate glass window in the shopbelow. A policeman was amoig the firstof the big crowd that gatherwd round the testy RRobbins, and he was soon disarued and locked up. Mr, George Russell lives in a louseon the river road opposite Belleville, N, J.,a short distince shove the Jemey City waterworks, saysthe New York Sun, ~ One afternoon list week, his wife, Mrs. Mary Russell, awoke from a dize on thesofa in the parlor and no- theed with some curlosity that two young dogs wnd i cat, hoisehold pts, were standing us If turned o stone, staring wt some object in the wrner of the rom. Lokingto s what It wis that had apparntly parilyzed them, shes pawi blick siake fully six feot l“.:fi ded upon the carpet. The reptile seen ly Lo sted ke, but it was porfecly still, and oyom, Mes. [tusiell says, were protrudin it Beast an duch from their sockets, as ic gan Iutently it the stupified aninals, v, Mussell Jumped frou thesofaand en- ored Lo bi tfl Apell that bound thecat [l aflfl.flwz g thom with & cloth; stenlion W her, nor did the b smake seem tohead her presen all, She was done in the house, and she ran ont to call a neighbor. She was absent foraboit fifteen minutes, and when she returned, un- accoupanied Ly anybody, the not changed aparticle. The snal ing _oyes were still fierely protrading, and neither the catnor the doss seemed capable of moving, Then Mrs. Russell went into the BRAZIL AND HIS BRIDE. A ROMANCE OF MAXINKUCKEE LAKE. Chieago Herald: They have pretty good story tellersdown here in Tndiana, I wassitting on the verandaof one of the little club houses which now perch about it and the first he did know was when he was hitover the head with a | Clubund stretehed out in the sleigh as stiff as o mackerel. Then Jeff just bound him hand and foot, and gagged him, and tied hin toa tree s he would i be found by somcbody when it got day- light. | him, kitehen, and, ging back with her husband's | yround - Maxinkuckee luke, and was | m there Joft went to Teller's axe, she chopped the snake's head off A_u ! watching the boats and the bathers | place and broke into the house. How | the reptile fell dead theanimalsit had fas- | g the " et bodV avan iaw. for (e b8 dinated ncovered their volionund moved | below me. Four miles to the south, | he done it mubody ever kiow, for theld | , re0 mile: - y g rel a8 o good hunter, pasily —— Uik =l Pl tbepls e b L [\\’ul‘ml up, but he diddo jt.. He was on | hin the list month [ bave made an in- were the opposite shores, and all around | 15154 old mun Teller and had him bound s,L‘.‘.flf.'f...‘-“"'Ln.“'u.-"‘.‘»\.l‘m-'.f'f-:u: { wasthe broad driveway on which at | before the girl couldeomeinto the ro sntme for hatching pirposes (having A that time broody and no ineubator) hens on these ce of mesmer- fe power. Theeges were not freth when 1 recelyed them, and to keep them with the un- certain hope of & hen becoming broody might fatil to their hatching, I, there- agilnst nature and set my’ ben up: in full lay at "the time, no hen 1 determined 1o setone of m eggsund keep her there by twoout of t stand poultr do_this, having _boc roody, althouggh for the first day or two after being set on egys 1 lave had lens lay ouce or even twice, who_u uo hen wi Marking theegss T set her upon, 1 was ableto kiow wd withdrw the egs She kot laghing. The first day I placed heron tlie egs it took me half an hourto bring her into a bypnotc eodition; but cach successive day,after having oused herto driule ad eat, Iy jle to scothlier to drowsy placidity much less tims; also there were I tad to go toher more than one she being in o restless. exc to get off the nest “T'he much tony own astonishment, of stven of these eges have hatched and are healthy, happy 1i At night I can still influcice their nal duties, butin the d notice of them, Vs, W to her mater- she time takes no Lonis Finkelst pariot were e rant swormn out b; the Kansis Cit y structions fron Colonel W, J. Nelson, editor and proprictor of that piper. The poli all others aware of the ficts in t treat thematter as a huge joke, but Colonel Nelson scems very much in eamest, Fiik- elstein’s barber siop i opposite th oftice and the parnt's casgo hangs in frout, says & speciil to the Globe-Democrut. OF latethe bird seemns to have selected Colonel Nelson as a special objeet of derison and for the past few days his been adv colonel to **get his hair eut” and to head,” wheneve thus addre red or lett hisoftice amoyed thes colonel,andhe had Finkelstin wrested for muintaining a nuis- ance, Frank Terry, a Wells-Fargo express mes- senger, his helperand a baggage man had a lively expericuce with o mammoth seai on a Santa Fo train at Kansus City the other day. There were four seals ordered from the seal islands in the Pacific for the New York zoological garden, They left San Francisco in large wooden ciges, says a dispatch to the New York Worl The heat and absence of water proved disastrous to threeof the seals. The first seal, a femaly, died at Denver. On the train botween that pointand Kansas City oneof the males wentmad and attacked male, kiling her alnost instantly by biting her head nearly off. He raved for sev. eral hours. and thé express messenger and other occupants of the car were considerably frightened lest hebreak the strong cege ind esape. Theaninal was finally quicted and e the messenger no further trouble until Argentine wis reached, ‘lhen he beeame furious and, raising him- sell on lis foremost flus, used his tail“with such force that he broke the cage into picces ess time than it takes to tellit, and then, bellowing loudly, made an attuck on Express erry, on ala day ona v reporter r He Junped ter, but was quickly tion, through the side doorof the carand dosed it behind them, The seal 1aged for about five minutes and ile of express mat- - from that posi The men at lst made their ¢ pe thn dwppet deal. The cavess, weighing 518 pounds, was taken to Armour’s packing house and Skinnet. The remaining seal was gumfully witered and sipped on to New ok, Harvey A Swith had a desperate battle with astallion, siys adispateh from Presque Tsle, Me., to the Globe-Demoerat. The stal- lion is dead; Smith still lives, but is in a sadly crippled condition. During last wintor hedrove a team in the lnmber woods, of wlich e animal was u stallion that no one but Swith could handle. This summer he has worked the stallin and his mate on the farm. Today, while hocing potatoes, the stullion became vicious and attacked his mate with teeth and hoofs, Mr. Smith quiclkly un- hoked the traces id succeeded inun- caupling thehoses when the stalli hin. He isa powerful and vory man, and after afierce strugglo, in was severely wounded in the hip by the ani- nal’s fect, he succeeded in subduing the horse, and leading him to the barn he hitehed him on the barn floor, He removed the ha ness and wis proceeding to take him to his stll when the vicious animal suddenly ut- tacked him, Tl wind blew the barn door shut and Mr. Smith found himself impris- oued on the barn floor with the frantic brute, For nealy half an hour he fought him with noweapon but his fists, leaping asidoto avoid the assiultsas much as possible, out ing often knoeked down and fearfully bruised. Fio found bis strength fulingand was just muking up his mind that it was all up with him, when the horse, in some way, disen- gugeda sled stake from the side of the mow and Snith saw it volling toward him on the floor. Sebdng the stake he swung it with wll the stiengzth of desperation, and striking the stllion just behind the car, with ome blow laid him dead athis feer. The doctors hav- ing Snith in charge suy that he will recover. Oneday while wading and _casting for bass inLone Stone Inke, Wisconsin, saysa writer in Forest and Stream, 1 indvertently stopped o thespawning bed of o rock bass, or “gog. gle-eye,” as they are sometimes calied in the west. Thefishran out, and & moument later came backat me and struckquiten severe blow on my legas I stood inthe water, I stood quiet, and the little creature—it was only wbout half or threequarters of a pound inweight—ranat my leg acin and again, bunting quite forcibly with its head, Thewhole demeanor of the fish was one of great anger, As the water cleared I could see itvery plainly and it couldsee me as well, but itshowed nosign of moving off and evi- nlunuly meant fight. | stepped away from the nest [had unfortunately trodden upon and its possessor then abandoved the fight. This was June 15, I believe. We could sce a good many black bass nests shining on the bottom of the lakenear the shove, The men of b country said they often caught bass by ing the bait lying on thebed or *uest.” fiuding it thereupon their return one or the otherof the bass would seize it and carcy it off from the bed, and thefish could then bs hoolzed. Icaught ouly one bass here, o big- mouth, The same affection that the ancient Romans felt for the geese that saved theie imperial cty and thatthe peoploof Holland felt for the littlo fellow who stopped the leaking dike with his hand will from now on be felt by four newspaper men of this city fora vociferous bullfrog, whose name s unfortu- nutely unknown, says the New York Times, Several evenings ago, just Lefore miduight, the four reporters iuguestion were plowing their way at a tremendous pace through the sand and wirve grass of the meadows skirting Newirk bay back of Grecnville, N. J., to investigate a story of & yacht that had been missing, with eléven mén on board, for sey- eral days, The hour was lite, the story firnmln‘dw be a loong one, and much valui- lo time had been wasted in discovering the name of the place from which the boat had sailed, sothe young men were pushing on in the dark fowarl the shoe without stopping to search for footpaths. Allat once, from just beneath their feet, a voieo thit was almost human eroaked “Bloul-kout," andas the trvelers stopped stopped shortto take the advice a big frog jumped with a plink into the canal. One more step would have taks the young mon intoits muddy debths, where they would have certainly received a most unpleasent ducking md pssibly have lost their lives, as it would lave been no casy matier to have climbed out up the yielding clay walls of the waterway, he young wen think strongly of orgunizing a society for the cultivation wund protection of the frog. On erte btk e Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg, e ——— Onronie Infammation of the Bladder Is ptly cured by the waters of Excels IMSDHIII. mmm.’ | least half a hundred vehicles speeding, or slowly following the cuit, while scores of guests were enjoy- ing to the fullall that was beautiful and enchanting in the midsummer dream. I had been there for half anhour when an old mun cameup and asked me for a light. My own cgar hadgoneoutwhile Isatthere, 50 I lighted a new one with himand encouraged him to sit down with me, “Ever see this lake ina storm?’” he asked. No, I never pleasure, ersee it froze over?” No, I never hal been here in winter, either. “Well when she s wild with astorm youwant to wateh out. And when sie is froze over she I8 as dangerous, I reckon, a8 Ningara Falls himself, I've lived here on the bank for the last forty got rich selling my ground to e faney follows that come out from town to have a good time. They paid me more for thislittle patch right heve on the shore than they would for the bestacre of corn land I've got on the place. But that's all right. They like it, and Tain't got noobjection, Oh I'm what Ihv%‘ call an (»1]-! settler, 8 rade with the Indians right here you are setting now. Used to give thum blankets and rum—outside and inside _overcoats, we used to say— or furs and wild honey. “But [ was going to tell lako when she is froze oy And they ain't no better w. to do that than to giveyou a little story that some folks around here w king me about the other day. You see, along in the hot were had had that doubtful you about the days of summer, when these women and their men ean’t do nothing but lay in their hammocks and drink lemo they try to find out all the ghost stories andall the robber stories, and all tha sort of thing there is connected with the lake. Well, this story Tain't never told any of them, and you can have the first whack at it if you'lll give me another light.” We traded on that basis, though T ma as well say right here that T had to giv the purchase price over andover again while the story was telling. He could not keep his cigar going, and T was much interested in his narrative to stop him and refuse to honor his drafts. Ashe proceeded several of the “men and women” who were collecting stories came down the path, and finding a regular Peter Pindar among them, topped and listened. Gradually the crowd grew larger and long before he was done the audience was & good one, and was disposed about him in the most picturesque of fushions. Onthe soft sod., aguinst the great trunksof trees in the swings and the hammocks that were av- ranged everywhere, the party listened till midnight—till all the sounds on the lake were hushed and all the lights in the cottagesand the pretty club houses were extinguished,und only the stars were left to mirvor themselves in the still wal “Onetime there wasa farmer lived over there on the far bank of the luke, and hisname was Teller, He only had one child, and her nume was Minerva. She wasn’tmuch, of athing whenshe was little; but she’ growed up tobethe prettiest woman 1 ever see, and the prettiest that enylody ever see in this _-hole section of the coumntry, She had hair just the color of the maple leaves inthe early full, and her skin was as white as snow, No matter how much she went out inthe sun and the wind, sver got freckled or bluack, and tayed just thatpretty we yoing fellows were wild about her most all the time. It wasa good while ago, and I wiusn't more than twenty-ive, but I didn’t stand any more show with Min- erva than any of the rest of them, though [ had the best piece of land on the lake, or near it, for that matter. But her folks was not ziven muchto farm- ing, ifthey didowna likely place, Her father was a great fellowto trap and fish, and when it came to lhunt- ing there wasn’t none of us young fellows that could stand it to tramp through the woods with him. He would tire out the best of usin less than half aday, any time. He ‘was an_awful hundy man in a row, too, and them times that wasa good thing to say about aman, He waso't easy handled, and then he could shoot farther and shoot straighter than any other man on the lake, and we all knew if he got madat a man he would justas soon luy for him some dark night and put a hole through him that all the dectors couldn't sew up ina year. “Minerva was o good deal like her father in mostthings, and often went with him in his teamps, and I think she could stand a day’s jaunt and carry home more game at the end of it than most of the young fellows that came to court her. And shecould get mad, too; and whenshe did I'd rather have her father alter me than have her after me, any day—J tell you that, Well, weali tried to get on the soft side of the girl for a good while, "cause I don’t think there was ayoung man on the whole Potta- watomie reserve that wasn't inlovewith her, But Brazil Bradley was the only fellow that she seemed to warm to, and after a while we all got out of the way and let Brazil have the field to him Ie was a good fellow, anyway; there wasn't a better young manin the whole country than he was, and Ifelt, for one, that if I couldn't have her I would rather see him with her than any other man | knowed, +She and Brazil had ¥sen engaged for mosta year, and one time right along in the édgo of winter thoy went up to the Yellow River country to a dance, They come home in the sleigh, for the snow used to come earlier here than it does now, and they passed myfarm about 8 o'clock in the morning, I heard the hells, and I looked out of the window pect to see a pretiier sight, not even f’nu put yellow sails on every boat on the @, Brazil was holdin’ that beautiful girl with one arm, and was holdin’ his eam down with the other, and she had her mittens off and was putting one bare hand up on eich side of his fuce and was looking up into Ais eyes and saying something to himsolemn and low. "And whatever he was answering seemed to satisfy her, because hor face—she was on the further side from me—was as bright a8 sunrise, “‘Iain't nolady’s man, and never was, but she could have had my land and all the buildings throwed in and welcome if she’d just look once in my facelike that, **Well, they went home, and Brazil put her down at the door and bid her ood-night, and then he drove on toward ome. Butabout half way there Jeff Moler, a horse thief, and the worst case we ever had in this country from the time the first white came in—Jeff Moler he clum in the hind part of Brazils sleigh without him knowing anything d . When she did come in she fought like a tiger, and he had all he wanted to do in tieing her into achair. But he got it all done, at last, and then he stood up there and looked at her, and he told her she was the handsomest women he had over saw in his life, and for the sake of her beauty e wouldn't touch a thing in the house if she'd only go with him, He showed her a lot of money—more than she hud ever seen before—and he told her how he lived athome and what she could have if she just said the w And then he got down off the stool where he had heen sitting and looked at her and touched berhairand her white cheeks, and he patied her hands and kept begging her to go with him and live where her looks would count for somethi And at last shesaid she'd go. She said honest,if he wanted heor and would untie her she would stert with him that nfght and go any place he siid. So he trusted her,and he didn't touchn thing in the house, wlthough she told him where her fathe lot of good gold hidin astone j id they'd have to leave her father tied, and shesaid she s'peeted 20, 'enuse the old man wouldn't like it, her going away,and if he got out he was likely tomake trouble. So they left him there on the bed, tied tight,and cursing everyboly in the whole countiry, as if that would cut the ropes. But it didn’t, and so he had to wait till along about noomn, when Iwent over to take come powder home, and heard him yell- ing before Tgotwithin half a mile. “Well, when Jeff and Minerva started away, they rode in Drazil Bradley’ sleigh, and’just left thebells on as if was their own rig. Theard them a-going and gotup to look who that was, ‘ciuse it was getling well along to daylight then, and therewas that same girlinthe cutter—I couldn’t be mistaken abouther and aman I tookto be Brazil by her side. But they wasn't nearso loving as they wus when they went by at first,and I said to myself, saysI, ‘Hello, had a tiff of somesort.’ And [ wondered why they didn’t go home instead of riding around together when things didn'tsecn to go right. “But Minerva knew just what shewas doing. Not long ufter they left home = they came to Brazil Bradley there inthe woods, tied up tight and fast toa white oak tres; and they stopped long enongh forJeff Moler to tell him that Miner- va was going out of the cowntry to live with him, where people kiew hoy toappreciate her beauty. Jeff laughed athimthat way for awhile, and cven a told him he ought to have been atching out and not let Jeit take ad- vantage of him, Then they drove on, upthrough the thick wools and out on thestate road, and pulied for the coun- trysouth, There was=n't no telegraph then, and all they needed wa three hours start with them hor and all the people in_ this couldn’t cateh them, the country just south of here, and even if the team il:ul b talien he would have dropped out and some honest-look- ing farmer would have had them and swore he bought themof atrader; Oh, the country was full ofa good deal move crookedness than it isnow—spite of all that the preachers tell us. *Jeff was afraid of Rochester, the first town southon the state road, and he would have given a heap if he could have dodged it, but hecouldn’t without losing too much time, S0 heputon a little morespeed and was driving right down the middle ofthe street and think- ing things was coming his way, when all ofa sudden that young woman throwed both of her arms around hisneck and rolled with him out of thesleigh. She yelledlikea catamount as she fell, and then buckled her arms tighter around him than ever before. He lad to let the horses go, and finally had to m: uphismind thut he was trapped by the hundsomest womun he had ever seen, He foughtlike a wildeat, butit didn't dono good, and the people came to the road und took the job off Minerva's hands, They sent her and Brazil's tean buck with a deputy sheriff, and they all got home about sundown. I had let both men loose before that time, and the girls father wias out after blood. But he had turned the wrong way when e got out at the stute road, and he wouldn't have found his girl in @ hundred years if heshad mone on, But along about noon, when he couldn’t hear no more about her, he turned and came back, and before he got r the turn-off he trd that Moler was in jall and that Minerva was at home, *But you could never make Brazil be- lieve that Minerva didn't want to go with that fellow, and he wouldn’t hav anything more to do with her, He she made funof him when he w, up there to a tree, and ho was dor her. Then after a while we otheryoung fellows tried to make friendswith I again, bat it didn’t go. She said loved Brazil,and would #s long as lived, whether he ever thought different about heror not. That had to settle it, even if it broke our hearts; and some of us thought hier heart was broke, too. “Well they give Jefl Moler o fair trinl and sentenced him tot ye in the penitentiary. He took it justus casy as pie. T was down at the state road when le went through on the conch, Lots of people were there, too, Everyboly wanted to see him, for he had been a terror for many ayear. He seen me us he pussed and wayed both hands at me —couldn't wave one ata time on account of the handeuffs—and he says, says he: ‘Hello, Bob Kennedy; I'1 come k and eall on you before this time next year,’ ‘Well, you won't. eatch me in bed ‘when you do ‘come, Jeff,’ I suid,and he langhed and said, *Maybe 1 won’t,’and rode away a3 pleasant as you please by the side of Sheriff Bain . *“Just about a year after that weheard he had broken out of the penitentix and there couldn't anybody find hin. And right then, when everybody talking about him and wonder- il he was reully coming back here to Maxinkuckee, Brazil Bradley got married. Hemet Minerva in the road the morning after he had been up to his father-inlaw's house, and he showed her the preacher’s certificate, and he told her that she could go with Jeft Moler for good and all now, if she wanted to, for he heard Jeff was out and coming this way, Minerva neverun- swered him at all, but her father said he’da’ shot the stuflin’out of Brazil if he had heard him say it. **That winter was uncommon long and cold, The luke froze over o solid that l:zu]»lc drove across it withloads, and epl it up for months, It got so thatno one thought of going any other way to the cast or west., But spring cameat last, and when things were thawing everywhere else we looked for the ice to break up in the lake, and none of us tried to go across any more, even if we were only afoot. One evening, just be- fore sundown, Minerva was do nf upthe work iu her father's bome, for Ler n " mother was dead long hefore th tothis country, when she heard some one oulside call for help. Shelistened awhileand then she wentto the door, and there. as plain as I am talking to you now, she could hear Brazil Bradley lling for God's sake come and help She run down to the edge of the lake, and out there in the very center she saw the man that had won herand then throwed her away, and beside him the woman he lad married and ngged about to this girl—this girl that any of us would have died for any day, “You see, 0s the warmer weather came on, the ice got softer, and then there isa lot of springs down there in the bottom of the lake, and they help the iee to go away in agreat hurry when it does start. Them springs ave seittered in a sort of cirdle, and the water from them is so much warmer than the wiuter that has been in the lake all the time that it melts vight above them, so that every season you will il you come down early enough, that all the shore will be solid with ice, soft, yet strong enough to bear up most any weight, and the center of the lnke will be covered with a round. islahd, thick and solid, too, while between this island and the shore ice will be a great broad ring ofopen water that lies right over them springs in the bottom. Of course the'r the same wost side ing of open water don't come all at time. The springs on the ker than any- where olse, big island in the conter of the luke will be con- nected to the west shore by a neck that hangs onjustas longas it can. “Brazil and | fedrove right down there onto theice, the snme as we all had been doing all winter, and it being prettynear dusk and him being busy talking about other things, he didn't sce the open water there ahend of him, and didn’t think of danger till he he the ice erack under his hor and that he was on thelittle strip, too ng row toturn round on and too weak to hold him up. He whipped up and tried togeton the center,but that brought the crash, and there he was with his wife and a horse and sleigh inabout ty feet of water, “Brazil was game and he took the woman under his arm and pulled for the island in the center—for it was an island now—to keep out of the way of the horse, He got there and at last h able to push her up out of the wat she could crawl where it was thic and safer, Then he got out himself, though he had tofight with that horse and drive him away, or he would have pounded man and womaun both down under water with his feet. When Minerva seen Brazil he was standing there on alittle cike about twenty foot across, holding up the woman, for she had fainted, and tiying to scare that horse away. ‘The colt had hisfore feet up on the cdge of the cake and was trying every littie bit to0 elimb up, aud was breaking off great big pieces every tim Then he would fall back in the er and swim up, dr: g thecutter, and try it agai Finally, though, the horse couldn't stand it no longer, and he sunk and was lost. “But what could a do? She was agood girl d so she didn’t wait a minute to think that this was the man n that she ought to hate; was nota man in hearing, and no one likely tocome for an hour. She run out toward themas far us she dured on the shore, butthat didn’t do them no good, and 8o she started to the house to pull the boat down there, neavly half amile, to the open water. She knew that wus just hopeless, but it was the only thing there to do. Well, sir, right at the edge of tho ls as she was climbing up the cliff, a big, tall man rushed past her and bounded over the fence at her father’s barn. He wasn't gone no time at all,when he came out again, just taking that stake-and- rider fence like adeer and carvying a spool of his fine binding wire they use on harvesting machines. Then sh it was Jeff Moler, It pretty near para- lyzed her, but she followed the robber, and when he unrolled one end of the wire she took it andstood thereon the bank and watched to see what he was going to do. *Just as soon as he had put that wive inher hand he started run around the shove, carrymg that spool in his hands and unroliing it as he run, calling out to that man and woman on the ice to keep up their courage till he could get around, and then he would get them out of all trouble. And he did. He run clear half way avound the lake and by that time, of course, the wire run right across, and was so close to Brazil's hand thathe could reach out and get it. pe called to Jefl Moler when he had caught hold of the wire, andthen Jel he went buck to where he had left Minerva and he took hold of the little thin wire that you wouldn’t think could hold up no weight at all, and he commenced draw- wand over hand, and calling to zil to brace his feet and he would pull himashore. Well, sir, he done that very thing. “Brazil just wrapped the wire around him, and that man, pulling there by the sideof Miner hauled that freezing couple clearout of the middleof the lake and brought them safe to the shore. Then he stayed there and helped them up 10 old man Teller’s place, ‘cause thit wiis the nearest, and they couldn’t wait to o on then to Brazil’s own home—and then Jefl Moler just grabbed Minerva avound the waist and kissed her once on the check—and he gone, and we didn’t none of usever himagain from that day to this,” “What came of Minerva, asked one of the young ladics. “Well, sir, when her father died she sold the place and went out west, and I've heard she met Jeff Moler and mur- ried him, and isliving with him some- where in Kansasor Utal, or somewhere out there,” The women were in ecstacies over the dly beautiful” story, and were f thanks to this Indiana min- I'silently gave him a fresh cigar, for he had chewed the other upin® re- peated lightings, and thenone of the men broke the silence that had fallen sinee the women had gathered up their wraps and went away to their rooms in club house or cottage. “How long ago did that rescue oceur, Bob?” It was one of the men and I could have throttled him, “Must be forty year ago this winter, I'L‘!)“l‘l] Mr. Kennedy, reflectively. ‘Well, there were no self-binders, no wire-twine machines in this country for twenty years after thut—nor in any other country. They were not yet in- ted, “Poor Bob looked as blank as the face of the lake fora moment, and then he said: “Well, don’t say anythin®about that to the women, They wanted a good story, and they got it, didn't they?”’ We all laughed ‘and admitted they had; and then we went to bed. But [still think this is the place where they breed romancers, ——— Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee Bldg, —————— A Notable Report. “Por disordercd mensturation, anarmia and sterility, it may properly be termed a specific, Extract from D the waters of Ex finally,” W. P, Mason's report on ior Springs, Missourl, s Lot i Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. Established 1866. 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