Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1894, Page 11

(| TRUNPET OF DAME CRUNDY Highly Deve'oped 3irl of Tolay is Btraight as an Ask and “uople a3 a Willow, COULD PUT THE GREEK MAID TO BLUSH Devoting More Tir 0—-A t Care of the Fest - tivating and K Pedicure's Advice eminine Facts and Fane The millenium, for which the world waits, to come with woman's perfect physical L] development This is one of the ideas put forth by Bd- ward Bellamy, and that the good time must be nigh at hand who ean question? For do we not behold both on the right hand and on the left a devotion to the cultivation of one's muscle that might even put the Greek malden of Plato's republic to shame? This is as it should be—biceps and chests and shoulder blades need ali the attention that can be given to them. The woman of lelsure devotes at least three hours to athletic exercises in some form or other. The woman of business gives ten minutes, daily, which s better than noth- Ing, for physical development To suggest simple exercises which one can take at home Is the purpose of this article, If possible, how easily and quickly one can g0 through with a few gymnastics every morniag and evening, without spending too much valuable time, and without the aid of very costly apparatug, in many cases without any at all. For Instance, one exercise which helps to expand the chest, raise the shoulders, and Eives erectness to the form—three great con- siderations—is prescribed by an authority. Bring forward the arms, raise the fore- arms, and place the fingers of each hand lightly on the front of each shoulder. Then, with a quick movement and without remoy- Ing the fingers from the shoulders, jerk the arms outward, then back again and repeat. Another exercise: Stand quite er:ct, ex- tend the arms above the head, interlace the thumbs and keep the forefing:rs in touch. Then, keeping the knees quite rigid, bend the trunk gradually until, without unloaking the thumbs, the fingers touch the toes. This is a very good exercise, seldom successful without a little practice. There isn't a better investment for $5 (you can pay more) than a chest weight, and they make them nowadays disguised as book cases with curtains, so that they are not unsightly bits of furniture for one’s bed- room or boudoir. “I have used the chest weight daily for twenty-three years, and I would give Wp every other piece of apparatus in gymnasium use before parting with it,” says one enth siastic admirer. She ix quite right, for it is something the old can use as well as the young; the weak as well as the strong, with pleasure, safety and profit, and the more faithtully you use it, the betier you like it. One of the first cxercises with the weight Is the following: Stand perfectly ercct, with the back to the apparatus, and raise the weights by pushing the arms stralght forward; this develops the muscles of the chest and arms. Then turn about and pull the weights toward you; the muscles of the back and the arm flexors then come into play. Next raise the arms above the head and force the welghts backwards; this motion benefits the muscles of the upper back, he neck and the extensor muscles of the arms. Hend back still further and the small of the back is acted upon beneficially Th:n bend forward at the hips and the most sensitive portion of the body, the abdomen, Will be strengthened. The abdominal mus- cles need more exercise perhaps than any other, and as a rule, they get least. The abdomen 18 heir to ail kinds of complaints, to remove the most of which only proper exercise is necessary. In using this pulley it should be remem- bered that a light weight is best. It s not the number of times of pulling that counts, it Is the rapidity with which the motions are made. Forty strokes to the minute is about the average, although one sometimes be- comes expert enough to run the number up to eighty. With ‘the chest weight about twenty or thirty minutes should be spent daily—a new motlon being made as soon as the old one bocomes tiresome—ten minutes work with the chest weight is, however, better than no work at all. chest Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger, “Julian Gor- don,” belleves In this apparatus, and one forms part of the furnishing of lLer bed reom, She uses it with religious regular- ity, both night and morning, and if the wrectness cf her form is due at all to its use there can be no better argument in its favor. Punching an inflated rubber bag Is a pet exercise with certain young women who Wish to be straight as an ash and as sup- Plo as a willow. This mode of precedure Is something like this: The bag must be hung in such a marter as to rebound aimost instantly after being struck. It should be set in motion Y.nd then hit as it is receding, not as it is approaching, The face should be kept to- ward the bag and the blows be made from the shoulder. The right kind of a bag is of the same shipe and about three times the 8izo cf a Rugby football. It is inflated with alr and secured to the ground and ceiling by rubber. The use of the striking bag brings all of the muscles into play, either directly or in- directly—the ~eyesight, even, is quickened and improved. ~ The balls are somewhat ex- Miensive, $6 being the price asked for balls sultable fcr women and children's use—the very heavy lesther covered striking bags cost all the way from $9 to $18, and weigh from ten to twenty-five pounds. Mrs. Dun- can Ellictt {s an advocate of the striking bag and also of Indian clubs, which she con- siders a fascinating form of exercise. Their use develops the muscles of the wrist, arms and to some extent the shoulders and back. One word more—when to exercise is en tmportant consideration. The afternoon or evening is better than the morning, and ex- erclse should always precede bathing, and not, as a rule, follow it. A man who has made the human foct an object of research and study declares that short stockings are very nearly as injurious as short shoes. Hose of insufficlent length press the knuckles of the toes upward, and When the shce forces them down the nat- ural result Is a painful excrescence that vulgar folks designate as a corn. “But surely ycu don’t consider an il fit- ting stocking the cause of bunions, do you?" 1 inquired, “One of them,” he replied. “Corns are the result cf pressure. You see, the blood 18 forced from the sebacecus glands, there- fore an excessive or unnatural quantity of ol is thrcwn off. This diseases the blood, and the oil forces its way to the surface of the toe. As it reaches the cuticle it evap- orates, leaving the top layer hard. Layer upon layer of oil forms downward and deep- ens untll it presses on the nerves. Corns have no roots. That idea is fallacious. But they cannot be cured until an instru- foent goes beneath all these layers of dis- eased ol and removes them. A soft corn s more casily treated and is largely the result of acid in the blood. “After a corn has been removed, find out literally where the shoe pinches, then bathe the feet in coild water every morning upon arising and rub the part with prepared chalk.” My informant added that for dry feet al- ways us: ice cold water; for molst feet, in- clined to perspire freely, the water as hot as the skin can stand it, and bathe just be- fore retiring. If the feet swell after much walking, put a little vinegar in the hot water; if they ache, use a few drops of ammonia or borax, Rest the feet often. To do this change the shoes as frequently as possible. Even from an old to a new shoe is & rest. The muscles of the foot tire of one position, no matter how easy the leather or last may be. Four or five times a day, if it Is convenient, 18 none too often to take this trouble, and its benefits are astonishing. Ingrowing nails are the result of the,cor- ners being cut too close, allowing the shoe to press against them. This again requires skilled treatment. The pedicure's patronage 35 b:coming as extensive as that of the manl- THE OMAHA DA ILY eare. for, apart from the treatment of pain ful oxcrescences, beautifyng the foot Is greatly in vogue. Preparations to whiten the skin are in use, and all the art of the manicure fs called upon to nssist that of the pedicure. Some soclety women ean now pre sent ms well kept a foot as hand, the nails rounded and polish:d with equal daintiness. One other suggestion the man who knows gave me, and that Is important to mothers. He ways that bables learning to walk should not be allowsd to wear the popular paper soled shoes. A stiff:r bottom should be supplied, for nall affections are apt to set in from rubbing the edges of the toes on the floor. Princess Blsmarck, nee Johanna Putkam mer, although her personality has always been overshadowed by that of her great hus- band, is a remarkable and intercsting woman. The story of Bismarck's falling in love with her, and, 0 to speak, marrying her by main force, Is often told in Germany. The prin- ess has never had reason to regrit the sud- denness of her wooing and wedding, for the ex-chancellor is absolutely devoted to his home, and even when occupied with the most important officlal duties he made a rule of going I to speak to his wife every few hours. Princess von Bismarck 1s now nearer 70 than 60. She has snow white hair, is spare ot figure, and her countenance would be ex- tremely agreeable were it not for the high prominent cheek bones. She is almost a tall a woman as her husband is a man, and has good reason to be proud of the physical appearanc: of her children. Those who have visited Fredrichsrub of late years declare that she fs vivacious and awusing in the family circle, and that al- though, as a good hostess, she allows her guests to-absorb the major part of the con vorsation, she has a vast fund of stories and anecdotes and a keen sense of German humor. It may safely be asserted that much as she felt her husband's semi-dis grace, Blsmarck's helpme:t |s far happler living the lifs of an active housemother and country lady than that she was formeriy obliged to lead in Beriin. The late Empress Augusta had no particular love for the Iron Chanc-llor's wife, and it is said that the Empress Frederick included her in the fear and dislike she could not conceal for Prince Bizmarek, The princess rises almost with the and till quite recently took an active in preparing every one of the meals eaten by her family. Her greatest personal pe- culiarity Is a horror of cold and draughts; like the princess of Wales, the moment she sets her foot inside a house, even if it be on the warmest day in summer, she insists that every door and every window shall be at once clos*d. This is the real reason why the princess s0 seldom goes to with any one. Among her children her favorite is Count Herbert, and she has presented his young wife, among other us:ful presents, with quite a library of works dealing with German household management, cooking and housekeeping. sun part Fashionable stationery is severely plain- no oddities in shape of paper, or envelope or color being permissible. Now and then in correspondence between int/mates a little more liberty is indulged—just to satisfy one's tiste for novelty; for instance, in writ- ing to her very particular friends Mrs Richard Lounsbery s quite apt to use a three-folded sheet’ of paper instead of the usual one of two folds. Then again, when Mrs. Lounsbery uses wax she stamps |t with her Turkishi seal, that is, the initials of her mame in Turkish characters There Is a style which is quite French end very chic of ccmmencing cne's letter: on the fourth page and going backward as it were; any number of young women affect this style, which is considered quite smart. The letter begins on the fourth page and ends on what is ordinarily the third page. . Society has also put the seal of its ap- proval upon very few punctuation marks. This is quite English; for instance, a let- ter in the pcssession of the writer, rather recently recelyed from Miss Frances Arnold, daughter of Matthew Arnold, contains one period, one comma, one exclamation point— c'est tout, but then the letter is not a very long onme, but it is a brilliant illustration of how to write 4 letter when marks of punctuation are no more. Numerals, too, are quite at a discount eptember the twenty-sixth is much bet- ter form than the ordinal * and when it comes to writing out a strcet, let it be “Twenty-third street,” and not 230 street,” The Marquise Lanza is always very partic- ulav in this directicn. She writes a de- lightful hand, with the exception of the per- sonal prcnoun “I” which, as she writes it resembles a stralght line slightly slanting from right to left, *Clara Lanza” is h signature, and she uses white wax stamped with a coronet. Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger usually writes with violet ink and signs herself *J. Cru- ger,” in a not too legible hand. She uses paper a deep golden cream, upon which, stamped in gold, is her motto, “Fides de Non Fortuna.”’ Miss Helen Gould, being still in m-urning, uses stationery with a heavy black border Miss Gould writes a clesr hand, which dis- plays a good deal of character. She signs herself “Helen M. Gould.” Mra. William Astor uses, as a rule, cream tinted paper, with her address, “350 F.fth avenue,” in gold in the upper right hand corncr, and her coat-cf-arms in the left cor- ner—a lfon ramp:nt, holding a star, and the motto “‘Semper Fidelis.” Mrs. Eleancr Hewitt's deed white sta- tionery is adorned with an extra wise 100 ing owl, stamped in white, with the motto beneath, “Tam Noete Quan die Sapere.” Miss Hewitt writes a rather unformed, tol- erably legible hand. This winter is to bring us some things really new, for new modes and money move hand in band, and where money s not offered the novelties may not be lightly pur- chased. The newest antumn hats promise to be veritable aviaries. Last May and June the forehanded dealers in_ birds and feathers dyed, mounted and packed away for the fall trade thousands on thousands of pretty wings, destined to flutter their last over the cruel and gentle crowns of well dressed women. These birds are mounted with wide spread pinions on the front brim cf the low crowned picturesque feits soon to ar- rive, and all of them are elaborately trimmed with jet. The edges of wings and tail sparkle with fine lines of chipped fet, and on their heads nod peacocklfke crests, made of a stiff net crimped and powdered with the same. Hats themselves will be wider and bon- nets mere absurdly minute than we have seen in a long time, and the colors to prevail through the autumn promise to be bluette or cornflcwer blue, and a strange and wen- derful shade of faded red called Francals. Bluette is really both novel and charming, and, ueed for ceck decorations in velvet, chiffon and’ tufle, is delightful with ali gewns, while the Francais seems something of a s0p thrown to that Cerberus, the masses, and not in the least an indication of what smart women will affect. She usually makes up her own mind on this question, unblased even by the edicts of Perls, for last spring, when the fashion writers and dressmakers were busy making pred ctions, the women of themselves cnose to wear a great deal of lavender in the way of shirt walsts, ginghams and muslin, with scarlet hat bands and ribbon belts, and no- body had foreseen it would be so. A gentleman, recently returned from a visit to the Indians of the Onondaga rserva- tlon, sald the other day: “I was sur- prised to find the women of the nation held in such high esteem. My preconceived notion of the Indian squaw was that she is the drudge and slave of hcr lazy, semi- barbarous master, and that she is in no way honored by the males of her race. This Is the case, I am told, with most tribes of the American red men, but it was never £0 with the nations of the Iroquois confederacy. In fact, the women were held in 50 high regard by the Iroquois that they were spoken of as a people ruled by women. “This pecullarity is evidenced in their life teday. It Is true that there isn't much werk done by any of the Indians, but the en do most of what is done, the squaw only being called on to attend to her house- hold duties. The superiority of the squaw 1o the buck Is shown in the fact that the children, according to the custom of the Iroquols, belong to the family or nation of their mother. If a Semeca Indian marries an Onondaga squaw and they have children the latter are Onondagas, and should the father be of the family of the Wolf and the mother of the Suipe clan the children are Snipes. It is as If John Smith married Mary Jones and a child of the marriage w named John Jones. Another indica- tion of the superiority of the squaw is shown in the Indian manner of speaking of a man and a woman. fn English they habitually refer (o ‘her and him' as doing something, belng somewhere or saying something. Pos sibly they are more grammatical in the of thelr own dialect The old lady wha entered a train at a country station had an anxious face and soon conflded to her neighbor the fact that she had but once before been on a railroad train. The lines in forehead appeared to deepen us the hours went on, and every time the train stopped she inquired, “'Is this ew York ‘posin’ this train mebby Lyddy would be would late,” she said, think 1 wa'n't comin’, iy lake? Oh. yes; I made sure to tell her to meet me at the N.ow York afternoon train. They Isn’t more'n one in, Is they?'" She was calm for a while after the neighbor had assured her she would try to heli her find Lyddy, but presently she re- marked, “How'll I 1't 'em know I want to gt off at New York? Just then the cenduetor passed and she seized him by the cuat sleeve, excluiming, “Look here, Mister, I've got to land at New York. Won't you plewse stop the truin for me when we git there?™ “All right, ma'am,” said the man soberly. “Youw'll not forgit?” ‘“Trust me for that. you teil ber which train you would 'l remember, sure.” Thank you kindly, sir,” she answered gretefully n much obliged." And the man not smile till he had left her. “While we have heen away this summer relates a woman, “my little girls, 11 and 13 respectively, learned for the first time that by reading three chapters every week day and five on Sunday the bible could be fin- ished in a year. They forthwith resolved to begin, and all would have been well, ex- cept that there was only one bible between them. This fact created difficulty every day. for, with the perversity of children, they in- variably select®d the sams time to do their reading. The climax was reached the other day when 1 found them deep in their favorite game of cribbage, and was warned not to in pt them, ‘because Annie and I are play ing a game of cribbage to see which of ug can have the bible first. ashion Notes. The struggle to make paniers a success still continu . The Bourdon laces for this season are in deep Vandyke designs, Millinery laces have the design with tiny pailletes or spangles. New crepe-finished wools are imported for imn and winter tallor g wns. outlined White leather driving gloves are loosely fitted and have perforated palms. Two-toned driving gloves are a novelty. They have double palms and gauntlet tops. ew millinery garnitures show beautiful flects ir. shaded green and iridescent beads. Four-button black Suede gloves are fancy stitched in white, and have white silk sewn seams, A band of ribbon in irregular folds acr.ss the bust and finished at the arms with ro- settes is especially becoming. A new and elegant fabric for evening we has a ground of ivory whits moire on which are tossed long stemmed roses in color. So_long ball on shoulder effects prev the simplest deseription background. Dogskin gloves in stitched in a darker tened with four larg traveling and shopping. Velvet and silk pip'ngs. milliners’ folds about an inch and a half wide., and narrow ruches and tiny lapping frills will all be em- sleeves and spreading draperies, except of will remain in the gray or reddish brown ade of silk, and fas- buttons, are used for pl'yed to decorate the bottom of autumn dress skirts It is whispered by modistes who are in ue with the arbiters of fashion beyond the sea that hats and bonnets are to be worn back on the head, exposing the front hair, A pretty fabric for accessories is an ar- mured sateen in light tints, overlaid with a net-like weave of black and gold. It is also employed for entire dresses with black satin or velvet garnitures. Round waists continue in high favor, and the seamless bodice is still used for all t whom it proves becoming, as well as for many strict followers of ‘“style’ to whom it proves quite the reverse. Fir decorating handsome evening gowns of brocade or shot silk is the new velours peluche, a deep-piled velvet which promises to be largely used this winter. It appears in all the evening shades. This season it sezms to be the trimming on the gown that gives it its style. There are beautiful laces and jet and chiffon and a great varfety of trimmings used, but ribbon holds its own among all others. The newest black-and-white giwns prevail- ing at day weddings and receptions are those in shot and flowered patterns in shepherd's check silks of rich quality, and in stripes. both wide and narrow, in silk and satin al- ternately, Feminine Notes. The wedding dowery of the women of the Vanderbilt family is $50,000 per annum. Japan boasts of but one woman lawyer— Mme. Tel-Sino. There are about 100 in this and it is said country, there are nene in England. In Holland a lady is expected to retire precipitately should she enter a store or restaurant whete men are congregated. She waits until they have t ness and departed. Queen Marguerite of Italy is an enthusi- astic bicyelist. She rides two hours every day in the Quirinal gardens and “all” Rome has loyally followed royalty's lead and the ‘eyele mania reigns suprem The latest word of Parisian eccentricity is that pet dogs in Par's are ncw dyed to harmonize with the prevailing tint of their mistresses’ boudoir. Two shades of violet are now the most popular coloring for white dogs. What Is called the rational cycling costume for wemen is (n dang r of going out of ex. istence in Paris, for the prefect has caused letters to be written t) some well known women_cyclists, cautioning them thal they are infringing the law in wearing men's clothes. Senator Blair has introduced two bills in congress for the manual training of women. One Is for instruction in the art cf cooking, sewing, care of health and nureing the s'ck and another for a school of mechanical arts and instruction in the culture, care and train- ing of domestic animals. A Russian Jewess, Mlle. Odessa has successfully to choose a trade. . She has learned watch making, and having been awarded the d ploma of master watch maker by the trades counctl in Odessz she has come f.rward as the first Russian woman to adopt a trade hitherto monop:lized by men. The London papers announce with pride that Mme. Bricka, the woman en- trusted with the duty of looking after the baby English prince at White Lodge while his mother s in Switzerland, has been in- structed to send a letter evcry day t4 ap- pease the enxiety of his parent. This is not wonderful at all. Few young mothers would do lees, leaving their first born at the tender ags of 2 months. The remarkable part of the afair is the fact of their sep- aration, but this is probably too royal to need ccmment. Miss Frances Willard divides her twenty-s| four hours into three periods: Bight hours for work, eight hcurs for slecp and ‘eight hours to do as I please,” she says. M.st women would find the latter period the hardest one to hold to its text. The doing ac she pleases of any women is contingent nsacted thelr busi- Tartonovski of ssserted her right some upon so many qualifying conditions—the pleasure a nvenlence or comfort of others, accumulated duties pressed out of place by work and slecp—that the eight hours would often be consumed in finding time to do as she pleased. In the United States there are 2,000 women practicing medicine, of whem 610 are special- i8ts In the diseases of their own sex, seventy are allenists, sixiy-five orthopaedists, forty ceulists mnd aurists and thirty electro-ther- apeutists. Seventy women hold appoint- ments on the medical staff of hospitals and uninety-five are teachers in medical schools. Of the 2.000 130 are sa!d to be hom-epaths, while 580 are classed as “allopaths.”” What particular “pathy” is professed by the re- nainder 15 not ststed. There are ten schools of medicine for women In the states, one of which Is homoepathic. S —— Cook's Imperial. World's Falr ‘““highest award, excellent champagne; good efferves- cence, agreeable bouquet, delicious flavor,” BEE: et "FOUR OF A KIND, ALL KINGS Royal Trophier of the Hufit jn the Wilds of Northern Africa, BZARDI'G THE PANTHER IN KIS LAIR Adventures in Natives Dare Not Beasts Lured to at Night. A Hunter's Thrilling Jungles Where Go —~ The Death (¥ French of M. Tourbonnel.) 1t s with interest I recall the fact that my first great game was killed in a ravine nine yards wide, which had be:n crossed and re- crossed by a panther several times within twenty-four hours. He had even passed over since the rain, which had ceased only at 6 o'clock in the morning. This was the sum of my observations. It was then 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I sent my man to bring me @ goat and her kid as quickly as possible. While he was gone I planted a picket on the top of the ravine and prepar:d a clump of bushes, behind which to hide, fifteen paces away at the bottom of the opposite bank. When the man returned 1 tied the goat firmly to the stake and took the kid, whose feet [ had fastened together, with me into the bushes, Lakdar went back to the cafe, and night found me alone in the Asiatic forest, munching a thin biscuit for my supper. From time time 1 pinched the kid's ear; Lie called his mother, and she answered 1n a clear, sonorous vole: that could be heard nearly a mile away. What sweet music it I was enchanted. Much to my annoy- a few isolated Jackals visited me, but succe:ded in inducing them to de- m the to camp It was bout 9 o'clock. Clouds passed at frequent intervals over the moon, at which times my goat was in absolute darkness Soon after she gave a cry, but very different from that used to reply to the kid, and not another noise save a smothered sound of struggling. 1 tried in vain to see through the darkness. When the moon reappeared it reveal:d, to my great disappointment, that the panther had simpiy decamped with my goat. The rope which had been around her neck, though thick &s my little finger and hemp of the best quality, had be:n broken like a thread. A thunderbolt would uot have been more sudden. BY THE LIGHT OF THE 1 wrapped my little kid in my blouse, tak- ing every precaution this time to keep it from bleating, not wishing myselt to share » fate of my goat, and tien I spent the st of the night in my bushes, Rain fell during a part of the following day, which vexed me very much. Neverthe- less, at sunset I went to the same position I had occupied the night before, fastened to my picket a new goat, for which I had to pay a good, round price, and was soon sit- ting in my thicket, holding my kid. About once in fifteen minutes I made him bleat by pinching his neck or hisears, at the same time holding him up above my head so that he might be heard at the greater distance; but this I did oniy at the intervals when the moon was not hidden by elguds, The moon had been darkened for a moment by a heavy cloud, when 1 heard a body fall on my goat with such a shock as would be made by the tumble of a horse thrown from a third story of a building. The goat gave a stified cry. I could see. a black, confused mass, but could distinguish nothing clearly I shut and opened my eyes several times 1o accustom myself to the darkness, but I could not see clearly enough to send a bullet with precision. I noiselessly withdrew one of my balls, which 1 replaced with a cartridge of twenty-four large molded- shot. With a charge liRe this I bad demolished more than one wild liog. In my second barrel I had a steel-pointed ball. A diamond which served for a bead at the tip of my rifle shone brightly enough in the light of a few stars. I glanced once more at the sky, to make certain if the cloud was likely to last still longer; it was too large for me to wait for it to pass. With my loss of the night before still in my mind, I was unwilling to expose myself to a fresh misadventure. 1 took aim at the black mass and pulled the trigger. Nothing followed my shot; not a sound, not a sigh, not the slightest movement. I rubb:d my eyes, asking if 1 had been the vietim of an crror, and had fired on the bank after all. 1 waited a few minutes, and then, with my rifle on my shoulder and iy hunting MOON. knife between my teeth, I set out to re- connoiter. A DEADLY EMBRACE. Coming within & yard of the object at which I had fired, it was quite a surprise to see a panther, for it was a veritable pan- ther, and a fine ony g stretehed out in a beautiful position, holding the goat's head in his jaws. His postur: was so natural that not ‘knowing but he was alive and stiil in the act of devouring his prey, I put the end of my rifle to his ear and apostrophized him brutally. Stll receiving no respense, I put my knife back into its sheath and tried to roll the b:ast over by pulling its tail; but it seemed he was Inseparably fastened to the goat. I touched the hands of my watch to learn the time; it was a quarter before mid- night. 1 could not refrain from speaking aloud: “What glorious luck! to shoot in the most abeolute darkness and succeed like this!" T tied my Kid to the picket and went back to the bushes. The little kid, sensible of the panther's presence, cried so much and so loudly all the rest of the night that he brought to- gether a regiment of jackals. But 1 did not need to take the pains to put them to flight; they kept at a distance, contenting them- selves with plaintive howling. Day came at last, and 1 could see panther holding in his enormous jaws my goat, crushed as thin as a board. I turned the goat over on her side and opened her belly to ohserve the position of the panther's claws, which were locked in the creature's heart and lungs. The poor thing had three ribs broken, besides, and her skull looked as if it had boen crushed by a hammer. It was easy to understand why she had made 10 complaint but the death-rattle. I wished to make sure of the direction from which the panthor had come to enable him to arrive thus suddenly. The goat had been placd on the bank formed by the side of the ravine and two yards back from the edge of the latter. I drew a semi- circle around the goat, enlarging it gradually 1 found nothing. Lakdar, whom I had sent to the other side of the favine, pointed out to me @ little thicket, Awo: yards from that edge, and we were able/fo ascertain from unequivocal signs thatjthe panther had bounded from this pointi ¢ Now, the ravine, as T sail, was nine yardsiwide; the animal, then, had made & leap of thirteen yards, and that explained the prodigious noise that 1 had heard. The panther, of mediwm size, had been instantly Killed by a #hot, that had entered the eye and pierced the brain, by a second one entering the ear, antkird which pierced the the heart, and eeven-gthers in the neck and other parts of thes bedy. On the 16th of November I left Algiers by carriage, and on the s@me day at 8 o'clock in the evening arrived at the Moorish cafe of Bab-All. The Arabs-wished me to sleep in the settlement. Biit"’the weather being clear, 1 was anxious to!det out at once, for fear of losing a night whish promised to be fair. ¥ 90 1 asked for a goat, took care to muzzle it, and with a half-dozen Arabs I entered the wood. We first followed the narrow and tor- tuous footpaths marked out by wild beasts, and finally came Into a clearing my men rec- ommended as a good station. 1 stopved them in a spot as clean and spacious as a beautiful room, and after wet- ting my finger and holding It up to see which way the wind blew, took my position with my back to the breeze and the forest. I then tied the goat five meters away, stuck a few branches Into the ground, and crept be- hind this improvised screen in case the ani- mal should arrive facing me. The moon was up, but had not above the treetops. I dismissed my men, directing them to unmuzzle the goat, and before leaving took a biscuit which I dropped into my hood, with some hard boiled eggs, fgs, raisins and dates, enough to have oc- cupied me all night if 1 had o chosen; then they bade me good evening. It had been lmpossible to procure a kid, yet risen SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1894 ———e but, fortunately, my goat was youns. Find- ing herself unmuzzled and abandoned, she eried a long time in a loud and sonorous volce, a circumstance which gave me great pleasure. A Pl It was about standing in the tremble in every anguish. She tried to dray frightened RILOUS MOMENT. 10 a'clock when my goat clear moonlight, began to limb, in fits of nervous suddenly became silent and away from me as if 1 had her. 1 immediately understood that the wind, which was at my back, brought her tidings of great danger. With the utmost precaution | turned halt way around and saw through the trees two glow- ing coals of fire, perfectly motionless. ing my breath with Hold- my face all the while covered mosquitoes, which I dared not brush . 1 took aim. The bead of my rifle shone with full brilliancy; the two pale lamps went out, and slow, light footsteps scarcely rustled in the dry grass as the stealthy steps drew near. Seelng nothing, 1 was beginning to feel anxious, when sud. denly a large open eye gleamed out, appar- ently in contact with the end of my rifle I fired, saw a mass rise In front of me like a rearing horse; it was the panther. My second shot was not long delayed. Taking effect in the breast, it threw the beast on his back at a distance of eight meters from me. I sprang back, my rifie in my hand, expect- ing an attack; but it was over. I heard three powerful, irregular sighs, and then nothing more. Five minutes later 1 went up to examine the beast; she was stiff medium size, measu It was a female of ng two meters eighty- five centimeters from the nose to the tip of the tall. With my first shot I had sent a steel pointed ball which had entered under pierced the head and had made its exit at the left shoulder; with the second I had cut into the heart and lungs with twenty-four large moulds. MY THIRD PRIZE. Accompanied by Nabi, a clever Arab who spoke French fluently and at t same time understood the idioms of the country, we came into the land of the Faez, a tribe situ- ated on the coast, where two days before a panther had eaten an ox. The remnant of the carcass had not yet been touched by the Jackals, proof positive that the beast was not far away. Nabi (ntroduced me to the chief of this tribe, Aghasua, who, after the usual compliments, asked Nabi the reason of my presence among them, and then inquired in what manner [ intended to hunt the panther. ASTONISHING THE NATIVES, When my interpreter had explained my method, he shook his head with a look of pity and explained to the bystanders that I was crazy. He aid it was impossible that a sane man would stay alone In the forest with a panther, especially when he took a goat along to allure the animal the right ey “It is easy to see,"he “that this Rouml knows nothing of the panther. Twelve of you would not go together to pass the night where he proposes to go alone, and if you were obliged to go, you would build a Are to keep the animal at a distance. 1 am ot willing to be responsible for this man's death. If he spends the night in the ravine he will certainly be devoured, and the Arablan bureau will call us to account for him, and we will have plenty to pay. abi translated these words to me. Tell your chief,” 1 replied, “that if one of us is crazy, it is he. Today is not the first time 1 have gone hunting. Let him get me a goat, and quickly, too.” He answered that if 1 would bring a cer- tificate of my sanity from the Arablan bureau le would give me a goat, a_cow or horse, or anything 1 wanted. He offered to furnish two horsemen to accompany me to Alglers for this purpose. I left in a fury, followed by my escort I only hoped the panther would devour them and their cattle together. One day, the next month, Nebl came to me in great haste. A panther had just de- voured a cow in_the territory of the Outed- ben-Assenatt. There was no time for us to lose. We traveled seventy kilometers that day. When we arrived we found the cow en- trely eaten by the jackals. On the top of a hill, near a deep, weoded ravine, we found a sméll, open, sloping field with & clump of bushes; this was the post I selected. My @out was tied five meters in front of me, and higher up, so that to me, sitting below, she was in relief against the sky. The kid was with me in the thicket. Three nights passed without my secing anything. On the fourth evening at 10 o'clock the Kid cried, and the mother failled to answer. A GOOD SHOT. Suddenly on my right I heard the branches of my thicket agitated, and at the same mo- ment my peor goat uttered her dying plaint. The panther was upon her, held her in his powerful claws and grasped her head in hin big, huge jaws. The animal was full @n front of me. I could see his head per- feetly. I attempted to take aim, but the sleeve of my coat, which was too long and had therefore been fastened up with a pin, fell down and at this instant dropped over tho hammer of my gun, hindering me from sighting. 1 reste y gun against a branch, held my breath, and using every possible precaution rolled up the sleeve. 1 then took fresh aim. But at the imper- ceptible rustling 1 had made the pinther let go the goat's head, but continued to in his paws. He looked toward himself of the sound which This movement set him too me to allow of an instant’s hesitation. 1 fired and the beast fell dead; my steel pointed ball entered between the eye and the ncse and came out at the back of the head, having pierced the brain. The Arabs living near came running with grasp her me, to inform he ‘had heard, Aairly before Nabi, whom I had called loudly. The panther was fmmediately carried to the tribe, end the women were called up to look et h'm. Words fall me in which to de- coribe the wild joy of men, women and children when they ssw stretched lifel before them the animal who had caused them so much fear and done them so much harm. They gave themselves up to ex- travagan of demonstration that cannct be imagined. MY FOURTH PANTHER. In the month of December, and eight days before the full moon, my scout, Lakdar, who was very devoted to me, cime to re- mrt that he had discovered tracks of a panther; that the Arabs in that locality could not furnish me with bait, but for 10 francs he could buy me a goat and a kid at the market ¢f Bouffarik, and would meet mo at the rendezvous any day 1 might choose to arpont. I gave him the 10 francs and something besides, knowing that, although the rogua loved me well, he at the same time did n.t despise my money. As soon as we had arrived in the country my guide hastened to tell everybody who I was and why I had come, and every boy made it his business to come and take a look at me, as if 1 had been some curious captive animal The fourth night of my watch in this new territory, at 2 o'olock in the morning, 1 took my kid up by the skin of his neck and held him over my head so that his voice might penetrate to a greater distance. My goat which was answering but feebly, and with long intervals of silence, began to look un- easily to my right and struggle to break loose from the stak:. The moonlight was superb. 1 turned my head in the direction in which the goat was locking and saw a shadow which gave.the effect of a man lying on his belly. This figure came creeping forward until it was twenty-five or thirty meters from me. I had never before been in this country, which was as uncivilized as ile in- habitants, and 1 made up my mind that some Arab had taken a fancy to my arms and was coming (o assassinate me to get possession of them. I was ready, quit: de- cided to finish his affairs for him in case be should come nearer, But [ was mistaken; it was a panther ap- proaching along the hillside, creeping ho zontally and without cover to conceal him taking advantage of th: undulations and shadows of the soll. At the end of a cer- tain pause, quicker than lightning, he pounced on the goat. 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A LUCKY ESCAPE Tired of waiting, I aimed at the back of the shoulder and fired. The smoke of my shot was not yet dissipat:d when the pan- ther rolled past me, crushing a part of my thicket, but fortunately without secing me. He fell down to the bottom of the ravine, rearing fearfully and puffing like a blacl smith's bellows. I turned about, turning my back on th: expiring goat, to face toward tk panther, which I cou.d hear for a good gua ter of an hour longer. 1 leave you to imagine the impatiens with which I awaited the day. The Arabs, who had heard me fire, were as much In haste as 1 to learn the result. Twenty of them came for me, and all went down into tha ravine, which the animal had watered with his blood; but the place was %o con- tracted and so dificult of access that they r-fused to go forward, and I, in spite of my cagerness, was obliged to give up looking further, ~We threw a great quantity of stones into the undergrowth, but there was no movement in response. 1 was forc:d then to return to Algiers, greatly disconcerted to have lost %0 fine an animal. 1 gave the affair over to my Arab, promising him a good r ward if he should get possession of my ga A fortnight later he brought me a mem- ber of my beast. 1t was a paw armed with all its claws, but partly eaten with worms With this I was obliged to be content, and I still keep it as a souvenir of on: of the hunting adventures in which I incurred the greatest danger. 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