The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1897, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1897. o & 1 Jok Rk ok Rk Rk Rk R Rk Rk Rk On October 17, 1892, Dr. T. E. Tynan, a wealthy ph¥sician of Modesto, mysteriously disap- peared. He came to San Fran- cisco to consult his lawyer, as his stepdaughters were at that time him for a share of his es- tate, alleged to be due them from their deceased mother’s property, still in the hands of Dr.Tynan. All efforts to solve the mystery of his disappearance failed, and the courts in duc time declared Dr.Tynan dead. Anotherlawsuit followed and the court divided the property. awarding two-fifths to the widow and three-fifths to the stepdaughters The widow was not satisfied with this de- cision, appealed and secured a new trial. W the latter was pending Dr. Tynan was discov. ered in Boston. He returned and ‘the jury decreed that Dr. Tynan was still masterof his own estate An appeal was taken from this, and the Supreme Court has just affirmed the verdict of the lower court, thus closing ome of the strangest cases ever tried in Cali- fornia. Dr.Tynan has been legally dead and his name appears in the court records as “Dr. Tynan, de- ceased.” The full story of what prompted him to desert the for- tune which he had toiled years to accumulate has never before been related. He has given it to The Call” for publication, and he will not now consider it neces- sary toleave a written statement, to be opencd at his death, as he suing v KRk hk 2 e e e e e e e e ek e ke A e A e ek ek Ak ek ek ek ek e e ke ke ek NAXNEHNNNN had contemplated, as he says there is nothing more to tell. NN RN NN KRR NN NN Men have been known to endure all E of hardships 1n or 0 gain wealth. Tiey bave left home kindred and gone into strange lands, they have suf- fered the oppressive he opical sun and endured the rigors of the frozen aretic, all in the quest of zold. There is ardly a torture either. by way of endur- ce or privations, t has not fallen to n in his quest for go Miilions of are to-day ready to any hard- ship to at.ain great wi ber of men who their sound senses would deliberately walk off and leave a FNH NN NN NN YA YN SN NN NN X NN N X YR YR XX i | | vast fortune is smali—very small, almost | nil. ~Yet such is the strange case of Dr. | T E. Tynan of Modesto. | Here is the one man who after toilinz | | some sixty-tive years, a whole lifetime, to | | accumulatea fortune, and being success- ful to the extent that he is rated as a mil- lionaire, leaves wife, family and fortune | | | and 1s mourned as one dead. W “ should leave the fortune he had d so long to accumulate and for nearly two | years hold no communication with his | life-long friends has ever been a mystery. | The. other day I had a two hours talk with him and the impression he left was | that the whole story of his going can be | summed up in one word—oversensitiv: n He admitted this in our conversa- | | tion, and his general deportment stamos | | the statement as geffuine. He is a man | | short of stature, heavy set, and though | his hair and beard are white he does not | look his eighty years. Manya of sixty is not nearly as well preservea. Most of the time during our conversa- tion he sat on the edge of his chair, with his feet drawn close to the chair and | crossed, his hands folded in his lap. for | all the world like an atashed schoo!boy. Once he unfolded his hands and spread one on his knee. He caught me looking at it—not the stare of rudeness, but only a casual glance. He fussed and fudged | | with that hand, placed it at his side, then | |on bis knee again, back to his siae, ““dl n | conceal u toy. more, finally cautiously tucked it under his coat, hiding it as a bashrul child would Not until we haa engaged earnestly in conversation and ths inci- dental glance had. been forgotten did he remove that hand from its hiding-place. Fifteen years ago, when he was 65, he ve up active practice as a physician. | He bad a large clientele at Modesto and in the surrounding country, and enjoyed a good income. Unexpectedly one day he announced that he would practice medi- cine no more. He was vet in good health, active and strong. The reason he gives for his retiring brings out the chief trait of the man’s mental make-up. Modesto | had grown in population, and young phy- sicians had come to the new city. Some one remarked within the hearing of Dr. Tynan that as he was wealthy he ought to retire and give the oung men a chance. To use Dr Tynan’s own words: *That was more than I could bear. I couldn’t stand it to have people think that I was greedy. 1 thought it over that afternoon and lay awake all night worrying about it. Next day I went around town and told every- body that I would practice medicine no That night Ienjoyed the repose that comes with a clear conscience. I re- tained a few of my oldest patients, but snon dropped these. I did not give up my practice without regrets, I assure you, for I yet love my profession, but it hurt me | most to have people think that I was | greedy and depriving younger men of an inccme that 1 did not need.” Dr. Tynan has never before to!d the full story of why he so suddenly went away and left the large fortune tha the bad tried so long to accumulate. Many theories have been advanced and it has | been stated te had said that when he died | a paper would be found explaining the case fully. This hedenies, as be now says there is nothing more to tell than what he now makes public. His story, as he related it to me, is as follows: “I was hurt to think the daughters whom I had raised as every sdvantage in a social and educa- tional way and always treated as my own blood, I was hurt, I say, to think that they should turn against me and say harsh, cruel things of me. Sometimes old peighbers passed me by with oniv a half-hearty nod, so different from former times. Men gathered in groups talking earnestly, only to be silent when I ap- proached. The notoriety which the news- papers gave the case when my step- daughters entered suit against me and the many untrue stories that were told of me all hurt my feelings and all tended to make me feel that I did not know who was my iriend and who was not. *In order that the public may under- tand how deeply these things affect me it is necessary to review my life. I had my own, given | seen Modesto grow from a settlement to a city. I knew each family intimately, and as in the early days 1 was the only physi- cian in that section I naturally attended them in sickness; people made me their confidant and I knew the ins and outs ot the affairs of the whole settlement. As families came in I becawe quite as well known to them and thay to me. And thus it went on year after year. It was my chief pride to feel that I held the re- spect and confidence of the whole com- munity. I had always lived a life of peace and quietude. My stepdaughters I had known from infancv. In fact, I was the attendant physician at their birth. When the elder was two and a half years old her father died of consumption. I had attended him all through his illness. A little over one vear after his death I married the widow. The girls grew up to love, and, in fact, re- gard me as tbeir father, as they knew no other. I took vride in their love and respect. Later they married, and their mother having died I married again. Strangerscounseled my stepdaughters and they brought suit at law for a division of the property. Whatever excuse they may have offered, I could not help feeling that they had forgotten me as a father and only wished me out of the way. Itseemed to me that they were in a hurry for me to die and had got tired waiting. When the lawsuit had begun I felt thateverything had changed. A feeling of suspicion re- garding me seemed to pervade the very air. | surmised that everybody was talk- ing about me—and they were. When old, life-long friends cut me it went to the very quick. “I worried over my troubles, and the chief one of them was that any one should think me unjust. I lay awake night after night thinking over my affairs. One day I came up to San Francisco on busi- ness. I wasin the city several days and during that time I had perfect peace. People who passea me on the street went on their way without turning to look at me as though I was a monster or a curi- osity. No one came to me to question me as to my affairs or to bring me tales of what So-and-so had said about me. I had perfect peace and it was such 2 relief. I had thought of going away from the scenes of my troubles and the feeling grew on me. When I found what comfort, peace and quietude there was in being by my- self I resolved to go away. *I took with me sufficient funds to last me the rest of my days. I didn’t want much, for my wants are few and simple. I bad upward of $5000 in cash, and that was enough to keep me comfortably. In Boston I made no particular effort to con- ceal myself. I walked the streeis day after day, attended theaters, lectures and churcbes. I was thoroughly happy ana contented. I never wrote to an acquaint- ance and I was so glad to get away from the notoriety I had gained that I did not even get a San Francisco paper. *“When John Slater found me I was more than grieved. . I dreaded the ordeal Iknew I should have to go through. I did not want to go home, until they told me that I was dead when 1 wasn’t. That was a wrong thing t6 say about a man who was alive and in' the best of health. I concluded I would let them know I was not dead. After Iwas once discovered in Boston there was no more rest for me there than in California. I knew that, and people there were. just as curious about me as out here, and again that be- ing dead business worried me. I wanted to rectify that, so I returned. Yes, I am glad I came back, but 1 would much rather have escaped all this notoriety. “Yes, I have thought of leaving a paper toberead after my death, telling why I Wwent away, but truly there is nothing more to tell than what I have related to vou, only I thought if the case was fully explained people after my death might believe as simple a story, when now they think there must have been some mystery about 1t. What I can’t understand is that people should be so curious about in any way. “No, I am not a millionaire. I have been to considerable expense of late years, but still have 3000 acres of land, mostly under cultivation, at Modesto, and I own seventy-five city lots, many of them the most_valuable in- Modesto. My friends through their kindness, hurt my feelings very much when they named the hotel down there the Tynan House. I had in- tended calling it the Commercial House, but before it was completed my friends got together and concluded it ought to be named the Tynan House, and it became known as that before I knew what was zoing on. Ididn’tlike to hurt their feel- ings by not adopting the name they had christened it, but they hurt me by thneir action. Even if they did it was not right for me to hurt back. Now was it?” ‘What other answer than “no’” was thers to giveto such a question? When the sensitive child commits suicide—and children have been known to do so be- cause they felt themselves unjustly treated —is it not quite as reasonable that the sen- sitive man should commit social suicide by separating himself from all acquaintances for the same reason? To have the good name which he had guarded carefully for three score years toyed with by friend and stranger was more than Dr. Tynan could stand. The seltish man can never under- stand Dr. Tynan's case; only the man himself sensitive can. AvirpJ. MooORE. WHERE TEETH ARE PULLED WITHOUT PRICE ‘It wouid astonish you,” said one of my ‘co-ed” friends, with an emphatic shake of her pretty head, “if you should see some of the people who have their teeth | attended 1o at the University of California Free Clinic.” Now, as this especial co-ed’s brother is one of the dental students, it was natural o suppose that she knew whereof she poke, and as I am as hungrily anxious to te estonished as was the intrepid lad of e old fairy tale to “find out what shiver- CAN SMsLE AND SMILE |aND'BE A \Diurlsr—n—g \\ PART OF THE PROFESSION N \UGH! BRING \WME TAE 2\ CUSPIDOR Quick'! ne passenger besides my- a moment or ye're a stud- ing meant,” I straightway started out in pursuit of that experience. ‘There was but self in the eleva to my destination, and he was an elderly Milesian gentleman who viewed me with tisfavor as I asked to be landed on the \ xth floor. “*AsKin’ yer pardin, Mi gazing steadily at me for 1wo, *‘but I'm wonderi dier up there.”’ I modestly disclaimed the honor, and looking much relieved he laid a large and _impressive but rather grimy hand upon my sleeve. “Thin T make so0 bould as t0 hope, Miss,” he said earnestly, “that ye're n thinkin’ of givin’ yerself into the hands of thim young scallawags, fer they'll murther 'ye intoirely almost. My cousin Tim, that’s a bricklayer be trade, got fooled inter comin’ here wid the first toot- ache that he ever had, an’ bedad, they made him roar like a bull before they got trough wid him. I was wid him meself an’ I know. They said it was ulsterated or it wouldn’t have hurted him so cruel, but I belave it’s all in the knack of the thing, an’ I wouldn’t trust wan of thim, male or faymale, to pull the taythe of my old eat.” “Do many come here?’ I asked the ele- | vator man, as my kindly adviser disem- barked at the fifth floor and left us to our- selves, and he waved his arms compre. hensively. “‘Crowds,” he said, *‘and all kinds, too, Every one’s teeth don’t come so hard as that man's cousin’s, you see, or the place wouldn’t be so vopular.” And then he opened the doorand 1 found myself in the wide and airy hail- way where candidates for free dental treatment sit, day after day, in a long row on hard benches and wait their “turn,’’ with the patience which comes with the ertainty of getting somerhing for noth- % in this mercenary age of ours. sat down among them, devoutly hop- ing that I should not te borne off in spite of myself to have my teeth examined and operated upon, and sized up my com- panions to the best of my ability. There were uineteen ahead of me and the others jept dropping in as I waited, making it quite evident that the embryo dentists of our. State institution do not lack iiving material to practice upon if the portion of aday which I spent with them was a fair average, and, indeeqa, I was assured ch was to bear me | " he sald, after | | before I left that it was rather *‘dull’” than | otherwise. There were several children, frightened for the time being by the unusual sizhts and discomposing sounds around them and the thought of tue ordeal beiorethem into that state of unnatural quietude which we grown-ups count as *goodness’’ | in our voung. | Women were overwhelmingly in the | | majority. most of them middle azed or | elderly, and many of them bearing the | BUT THE SUBJECTS DO NOT SMILE- i stamp of that “gentility without ability” | which 13 more hopelessand far harder to | bear than downright candid poverty. Two or three pleasant-looking, modestly gownel young women were among | the would-be “subjects/’ and near me sat two girls chatting volubly in an undertone, with the evident intent to| keep up the spirits of the one who in- | formed me that one of her teeth had been “drivin’ ber near distracted for three days,” and she was “‘goin’ to have it out now or pbust.” Of the three individuals of the sterner | sex who sat clannishly together on the farthest bench one had a handkerchief swathing his jaw and tied in a hard knot with little wings to it on the top of his ead. He giared at the world at large out of eyes of unequal size, one of his cheeks | | having ceveloped a piumpness whici was not at ail becoming to his style of beauty, and was at no pains to conceal the fact that he had an extremely poor opinion of everything and everybody in his imme- | diate vicinity. Through various open aoors I could see the interiors of a nmumber of large light rooms, some of them furnished with luxu- riously cushioned chairs, gigantic cusp | dores and tall and slender jigsaw arrange- | ments; others with benches and work- tables feuced off into sections and laden | with all manuer of implements, machinery | and materials used for the correction and | | proper government of those troublesome attachments to the human jaw which cause their owners so much of gratuitous misery, and for ths cunning counterfeit- ing thereof after they have ceased from troubling and their owners are at rest. One apartment looked like a veritable witches' cave, for in it weird blue and green flames were shooting up mysteri- ously and uncannily here and there, and three-legged caldrons were sending up yolumes of white steam into the surround- ing atmosphere, while jaws and teeth, combined and separate, lay about in ghastly confusion or were being handed from one 10 the otner of the busy cccu- pants of the place and yzazed at by them with apparently ghouiish interest. As for students—they were everywhere. Time was when I, looking upon the den- tist's profession, as I do personally. as dis- tinctly unpleasant and undesirabie, won- derea how peopls enough could be found 1o step into the shoes of thoss whom time compels to lay aside their files and their scrapers, their borers and their torceps, and give up torturing poor humanity fore | dently and dazzlingly. ever. Seeing, however, flower of our youth eagerly intent upon gaining enough knowledee in this line to qualify them to go into business on their own responsibility I began to realize that dentistry is actuaily an attractive study to many, and tbat there is far more danger of the profession being overcrowded in the future than that of its becoming one of the ‘““lost arts over 150 of the | relatives or friende, or of students inter- ested 1n the case on general principles, accompanied at a respectful distance the two active participants in the affair, but more frequently they went alone, the pa- tients wearing expressions of dire fore- boding or grim and defiant determination, according to their several temperaments. Ever and anon, since mornings are spe- cially set apart for the somewhat trying— The *'studdiers” promenaded the cor- |to the subject—operation of extraction, ridor singly and in platoons; they leaned | there assaulted my ears unearthly sounds “THERE IS ACERTAIN FACINATION ABOVT FREE DENTISTRY EVEN THE against the walls in graceful attitudes ) which made my sympathetic blood well- and gazed abstractedly at what seemed to be bits of bone and flesh; they hovered | over hapless victims who lay gagzed and helpless in their inquisitionel chairs as buzzards hover over the fishtraps in the James River. And through it alil they smiled. Ah, me; how they did smil That is, most of them did—self-con Indeed, so 3 most universal was this Mr. Carker-like expression that the few who preserved a | grave and serious countenance when en- gaged in conversation laid themselves lisble—no doubt unjustly—to the sus- picion that they had private convictions that the condition of their own teeth was not what it should be. One of the young gentlemen after a time cume and sat down by me and inquired tenderly as to my dental ailment. He was a pleasing youth in manner, and what little of his countenance I could see over the high collar which fenced him away from the world at large, and with which he was trying, for reasons best known to himself, to amputate his ears, was fair to look upon. He seemed forthe momentdisappointed when he lcarned that I had come to ob- serve and not to suffer, for his educatea eye had taken note of asmall dark spot on one of my teeth, of which he disap- proved, and at which he gazed with em- barrassing directness and interest throughout our otherwise delightful inter- view. From him Ilearned many things, for he was a perfect encyclcpedia of infor- mation concerning' the college and its work. Had I wished it I have nodoubt that he could and would have given me a verbal list of every student end professor who had ever studied or taught in this de- partment of the university, every opera- tion performed there and the amount of material of different kinds used in the renovation of mouths since its foundation. While we talked (I trying ineffectually the while to rise above the consciousness of my offending bicuspid) I noticed that persons who had preceded me were de- parting into the various operating-rooms and that their places were being filled by newcomers. The mannerof theirtaking- off was comically suggestive of the initial steps of a fashionable zerman, for before the row of femininmity sitting in patient expectance with their backs against the | wall various galiant young gentiemen ap- peared, and, apparently selectinz their partuers, bore them off in triumph. Oc- nigh run cold. A noise which sounded for all the worid like the vigorous and emphatic remonstrance of a healthy but homesick and hungry calf against exist- ing conditions in hisespecial environment was diagnosed for me by mv chevalier of the moment as being & masculine expres- sion ¢f an unpleasing consciousness of physical pain, while a succession of small staccato shrieks, which rent the air like the explosion of half a dozen firecrackers, emanated from a portly elderly lady who wasdeclared to be far more “‘scared than hart.” “‘We have to get used to the howling,” was the serene comment,’”” but it breaks some of nsup pretty badly at first. The curious thing is that those who make the most fuss are generally the ones who are suffering the least. 1’ve seen a little slen- der woman sit down and have sixteen teeth taken out, one after the other, some of them bad ones to handle, too, and not maXe a ghost of a sourd; and I've heard great, strong, hearty people scream bloody murder beiore we even get a grip on them."” I had kept a sharp though furtive eye on the would-be patients all along, but so far bad not seen any to tulfill my friend’s promise as to astonishment, save, per- haps, the number of people who were willing to take the risk of unguaranteed work and immolate themselves upon the altar of dental education. The next opening of the elevator- door, however, was perfectly satisfactory in that regard, for I beheld two ladies whom 1 know to be dizzily far above the necessity of applying for *‘freé treatment” or help of any kind move majestically to seats upon the hard benches. They wer “‘dressed down’’ for the occasion, but one of them wors two fine solitaire diamond rings with the telltale stones adorning the soft palm of her hand, and the other I haa last seen riding with an exalted countenance in a luxarious carriage 1n the park. Later a young lady—a thing of beauty in a fawn-colored broadcloth suit and a white velvet hat burdened with many dead birds of snowy plumage and orna- mented with floating bird-of-paradise feathers—took her place, s one who had aright there, upon the “anxious seat.’” Ather I couid stare openly and could comment upon her freely, since né bond ofeven slight acquaintance fettered my tongue. casionally small retinues of sympathetic | I thought that this was simply and i solely a charitable affair,” I said tenta tively to the courteous gentleman in charge, who bad by this time taken charge of me along with his other responsibili- ties. *I thought that only poor people— that is, persons tco poor to pay for dental work elsewhere—were ailowed to avail themselves of the privilege of making themselves object lessons for these den- tists of the future;” and then my escort sighed heavily and sadly. “That is the rule,” he made answer, LARGE,5TRONG MEN SEEM To__ DISPLAY THE MO5T NERVOUSNESS. “and as far as we can manage to have it obeyed it is. But there seems to be a fascination about ‘free’ work always which makes even many generally honest people resort to subterfuge snd actual deception in order to reap the benefits of it. One of our hardest tasks is to separate the sheep from tne goats in this regard, and some- times we have rather unpleasant scenes and experiences with persons who insist that they have as much ‘right’ to be treated here as any one else, even if they have money enough to employ a dentist on salary the year around if they wish to. It is the same way at the iree medical clinics, you know,” and he sighed again, more heavily than before. Two girls went by us, arm-in-arm, critically observing as they walked an upper set of artificial teeth, which seemed to interest them greatly. One was 1all and fair, with quite the most fascinating dimple that I ever beheld; and thke other was short, plump and altogether charm- ing. The other ten girl students were scattered around in the difterent rooms, and they were every one of them pleasing of face, gentle of manner and dead in earnest about mastering the mysteries of their chosen profession. The *iren,” they told me, had become guite reconcilea to their presence there, and the current of their coilege life flowed on most smoothly and pleasantly. One thing, however, was a trifle vexing, and that was the prefer- ence shown by the awv e patient for having his or her work done by masculine hands. *The general public has not yet learned to trust usin such matters,” said one calm- eyed young goddess of the forceps; *‘but time will change all that. Meanwhile we are all trying to make the mos: of qur op- portunities and leave a zood record to help our successors along.” 1 made a tour of ail the rooms and be- came eonvinced that here all of the many dfferent styles of, dentiste known to a suffering public are being, as it were, in- cubated. The purring* and consolatory ones, the experimental ones who make jabs and dabs at their victims and then stand off to note the effect, the hard- hearted ones who apparently take a agedelight in their avocation, especially in working the treadle of a certain in- fernal machine with which it is their cus- tom to bore artesian wells in one’s molars, bicuspids and incisors, are all to bs found herein the shell,as are the altogether lovely ones who are fated to be the ‘‘fashion- able’’ deatists of the future, and depari- ing I wished them all well from the bot- tom of my heart, for civilization demands their work, though indiyidually we shrink from it. When “slumber my eyelids knew” that night I dreamed that I was a croco- dile with quadruple rows of both upper and lower teeth and that a crowd of stu- dents from the College of Dentistry were in pursuit of me, fired with a determina- tion to examine, scrape, file, pry, punch, fill, bridge, crown and afterward extract every single one of them. FLORENCE MATHESON, It is not often that a globe-trotter settles down to being a theatrical man, but J. Charles Davis of the “Lost, Strayed or Stolen” Company has had a varied experi- ence covering the wilds of Africa and In- dia’s jungles. In chatting with a CaLL reporter the other evening Mr. Davis described a very novel day’s out- ng given by the harbor master of Port Louis, the metropolis of the island of Mauritius, to a party of travelers, this being one of the many ad- ventures he has had number of them having been described in letters by him to the Eastern press. ‘“We had been living quietly at the Ho- tel de I’Europe,” he said, “‘awaiting orders for some time until life began to hang rather heavily on our hands. We had visited the grave of Paul and Virginia and made the ascent of the celebrated Peter Botte, the mountain of mirages, and were reduced to the necessity of spending the hot afternoons stretched out in the long chairs that stand invitingly along the shady nooks of the broad veranda of the hotel, when the ‘major’ (we had all grown sufficiently acquainted with the narbor master to call him ‘the majer’) joined our party and suggested that we go on board a Government steam launch and R0 to the lightship, just outside the har- bor, spend the night there and enjoy a morning’s shark-shooting. Now, none of us had ever done any shark-shooting, al- though there were several very ardent Nimrods in the party, but we hailea the major as our preserver. The major prom- ised us a rifle or two and plenty o: ammu- nition. I lugged out and cleaned up my old 44 Winchester, and by dinner time everything was in readiness for our de- parture. After the usual table d’hote dinner we were soon steaming down the beautiful harber. *‘A run of little underan hour brought us alongside the lightship and we were soon enjoying a hearty welcome offered by the captain of that retired old sea wagon and his crew of three men and a cook. ‘‘Grouped arouna the captain of the light- ship enjoying the balmy tropical land breeze, we were soon waist deep in shark stories, some of them recounted with a convincing air of truth, while others were so truly wonderful as to require more salt than was bandy for their proper digestion. We soon learned that Mauritius was the most sharky spot upon the face of the globe, and were told how -the Malabar coolies would for a few rupees dive over- board outside the harbor and attack a shark with no other weapon than a long Shark Shootingfor Sport thin-bladed knife. So expert do these black fellows become that when a shark is sighted they will go overboard, diving as | deeply as possible, while the shark will turn and hover above them. They come | up immediately under the creature and with one skillful siroke usually com- pletely disembowel it. “A comfortable night's sleep in the roomy bui rather hard bunks, an early call ana a cup of black coffee brought us on deck with the first gray of the morn- ing. Then our attention was attracted to a shore-sloop towing the carcass of a dead horse down past the lightship. This was carefully anchored abous fifiy yards from us, and the little sloop filled away and got out of range, and wo were drawu up be- bind bulwarks watching for an opportu- ity toget in the first shot, After waiting for some time we were called to attention by a remark, ‘There’s one! from the major, and we saw the knife-like fin cut- ting through the water in the vicinity of our decoy, and knew from the size of it that there was an unusually large shark underneath it. Itsailea carefully around the bait, and was soon joined by another and yet another, and in the course of fif- teen minutes the outlines of at least a dozen of the tigersof the deep could be seen circling round as though afraid to make an attack. We were all anxious for a shot, but were restrained by the major, until finally one fish bolder than the rest gave a quick turn over on his back, made a rush at the horse and was soon tugging at the side of the dead ani- mal. ** *Every time you see a flash of white, it’s the belly of a shark; shoot at it,” said the major, and we did until the bow of the old lightship almost disappeared in smoke, “The major was shooting an old-fash- ioned Martini rifle with a long bottle cartridge—one of the kind that will kick you over and kick at you after you are down. Wherever a bullet would strike a shark a thin red streak would indicate the spot, and it wasa very short time before the monsters become so enraged with the sight of their own blood that they began tearing at each other like a pack of wolves, and the water immediately around our bait was literally boiling with stru:gling fish. This was keptup for over an hour, when we became tired of shooting at the seething mass, as well as short of ammu- nition. It was doubiful whether any single shot killed a shark, but our fusil lade caused a ‘terrific battle and many were slain.” THE SMALLEST BABY IN THE WORLD. Mary Pollock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pollock, resi ng at 167 Clybourn avenue, Chicago, celebrated the sixth week of her advent into the world recently by drinking a pint of milk and crying for more. She had no outside callers except her attending physician. tively denied admittance. She was in bad humor and all visitors were posi- She had as good as told her mother, in her own peculiar language, that if anybody called to give them the answer that she was busy and didn’t care to be disturbed. Miss Mary Is the tiniest healthy infant that lives in this country. A few hours after her birth she was weighed and the scales balanced at one pound and three ounces,