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of myself and I moved stealthily away. .The Commercial Advertiesr, .._ WEDNESDAY, gall npr A 91“an one sense, was familiar. The annals of history record no more atrocious cervelty than was committed duringthe Sepoy mutiny in India, in 1857. Meerut, Deli, Lucknow, Cawn- *pore, Bareilly, Benares, Allahabad, ani Lahore-these are names which must bring a shudder to all who have read the, terrible tales of outrage, massacre and death. * , 'T'started with a missfonary and his \wife in one of the most flaming days in midsummer,\ said Albert Anderson, an Englishman, \in the hope that we could make our way across the country to meet General Havelock andhis brave soldiers, ' who were fighting their way foot by foot in the effort to reach Lucknow in time to save the Tittle garrison, and the women * _ \and children who werein such awful -_ poril from men who were not men but myer, inasmuch as it gave me somethin in the way of a diversion. 1 \ms ar e * - we had reached a plateau some fifty fee walking. iquantity of dirt, and expending a vas amount of labor. a noticed, 'The whole country was seething with one we would be slaughtered by the mu- tineers before we could cross half the msl. ® t .n wen cll 2 i222 0. L sg 109 «e Ph ©. c pills s 3 Pp © Cou pallk n <M Ple { < Pe « < us and General Havelock, & us down. \In fact, on the fourth day, while hiding in the jungle, we heard distinctly | the guns of the Christian General and his -_ gallant boys as they hammered away at the Sepoys, and beat them out of their path - ~ proaching the edge of the descent, I looked scrutinizingly downward. M § ~ aaa s ded claimed the next moment, for I had § E20. s greatly cheered us, and afforde caught a glimpse of the brilliantly beau- - A C a compass as to the course we ought to tiful skin beneath some broad-leafed T poto pursue; but, atthe same time, the danger undergrowth, such asis common in Asi- < JW -_ was intensified, for the mutineers were atic jungles h (2 constanly increasing in numbers, and we, \Immediz; I was making my way & p: l Zgfiegzble to run against them at \57 down the descent, jumping, sliding and < Ti 0 a f h o “i \The weather was simply infernal, and catching the branches, by way of a brake, & a until finally I reached the bottom, with time and again we wondered how it was ; § gur European soldiers could stad ap anda mag use a\ Con chips orie C fight underit. Poorfellows! there were io 3 & R X hindreds stricken down by coup de soleil 1 turned as quickly as possible ”th § E-- >- cholera and other diseases produced b see nothing of the tiger-skin. This bos . : P 711 concluded, however, was merely due to K #: the frightful heat. To us, as we lay pant- h. f latiy it. a E e Ing in the dense, shady jungle, it seemeq|t© % Change in our relative positions, an - as if another de’ iereww ould st Léocabe us iI moved toward the bush underneath \ \'We dared 115; show ourselves out Af\ which I had seen it, a fow minutes before. our concealment during the day, for our' ktflgznvtgi 35:3 lwas reached, the tiger enemies were aB around us. Often we.\ ff; stood d n bf; ded. - There w peered through the shrubbery and saw' . umi ouncded. There was no the swarthy imps, somtimes on foot an, d'mxstake as to the locaylty, and the mys- sometimes on horseback, riding back and tery was incomprehensible. 1 jungle longi énofigh to Tearn to take care/cles and that restless gathering of the legs \There was no reason why I shouldj|ering himself fo‘r & spring . . NOV, 26, 1879._. make any blunder. Our.-hiding-place|- ''At that instant pulled the trigger.. =-=-=)/was more secure than usual, and I was ne 8 BEC « {traveling backward over ground that in/passed directly through the right eye|D€ Observed in times of danger; but as far \In fact I was so secure irt rtmy own con-| borhood of the ear. Theshodk atthe very! leffimlfd to It?“ 111391951- jigglfmfilfgg fidence that I remember feeling rather|instant of leaping, and the sudden blotting w 19°} on a t 98°: £136 jis Y p pleased over the mishap of Mrs. Heck-jout of half of his vision, destroyed fora 08 the sea a jar of o \I was quite clearin my own mind asthe trigger, but it was useless. The tiger PO beianfe brogfnz argd_lsl?t (1133351 to}; > to where the shawl had been lost. Inistruck six feet from where I stood, and,8°2 In the 1mm? (lift; yict 11; gm to an to. treading our way through the jungle. instead of following me up, seemeil Of the crew succeeded in getting fin elevation, and over which I was now \The ascent to thig was like climbing'flirting his paw against the side of his cently, that ‘flthm'lgh he 11:11 Eng k‘ngwn the side of a ravie, and we only accom-/héad, which he also leaned over a.nd:°f the wonderful 'effectsof oil poure gm plished it by catching at bushes, clamber-!rubbed upon the ground in the effort toa rough Sea, yet h? hadmnff’eli pg“ Is ing over rocks, displacing an immense|remove the annoyance. [knowledge into practice till his last voy- 29 a haps I It must have been|tage unimproved. This can-can was not Nis lately ”by a little artlclceigf one there that the shawl was dropped un-[likely to continue long, when the infuri'of the- sea-men's tracts, he de \'This romatic spot was about half a mile|geance,. fends from camp, and I made my way back to ends it with the care of a Sioux Indiantrailingland I ran to that. ; -cl an enemy through an American forest. cli rebellion, and the -c es were ten to Our footprints were go distinct that I had little dfficulty in my retrogression, and \If a company of the Sepoys should/a blunder was committed. I was lessl'fmed‘to'swamp the vessel, - Reniember. run across our trail, I reflected, with athan ten feet above the earth, and the ing his oil, he punctured the canvas bags, . ~s shudder, and should suspect our identity, (trunk was already bending beneath my 420,.caused each one to be towed over fully fifty miles, and were confident that they wouldn't have any trouble in/weight, and within a half-dozen yards cach quarter, no more than half as many lay between M A f , I reached the descent at the very point 4, CC intervening “mt“?‘a' rar where we had left 'it. ~ $040 \We stole along by night, hiding du- £s ring the day and carefully reconnoitering kyi s the ground in front, until we had passed \However there was no evidence of! mitted me to climb to double that height same height no longer broke over danger to distract ny attention from theland beyond the reach of the brute. search for the shawl, and carefully ap- \I knew I should find it heref I which instantly tort JEWELRY. - ao nme n neenee hss ec 222, \Saved From A Shipwreck By On. A ies b th- ' . ‘ seon in the cat species, that he was ga l Pouring oil on troubled waters general-] , ly is regarded by sea captains more as a Watches I - # 0 - % \A curious result followed, The ball fine sentiment than as a practical hint to of the animal, and outagain in the neigh- back as 1770 a Dutch East India trader Later, an- j ; inati ther instance is recorded in which a ves- gitime his power of co-ordinating. 0 stanc R p Co sfiraglgaside the instant after pulling sel, having oil, which was kept in a small % *' 4 ocks! w ‘Jewery! ; r land near by. tito become wild and bewildered. U , He-acted as if heimagined a splinter,_ Capt. Jarman, of the four- masted ship 'had been thrust into his eye. He kept ROLsdal, stated to a Tribune reporter, re- t/ - \I did not leave my remarkableadvan-88€. - The subject having been recalled to ed to ; .ltest the receipt. He caused to be made ated beast would go for me with a ven two canvassucks shaped Hiko a battle. \The nearest tree was a rod distant, 60h having a capacity of about three gal- No such desperate !Ons of ofl. These he filled with com- ing was ever witnessed as I dis. MOn lamp oil, Soon after, in the mid-, played for the next few seconds; but l‘dlf- of the Atlantlc, 'he encoyntered a ascended, and perched myself at the‘vmlent hurricane with terrific seas, highest point which would sustain me: .Y hich lasted about twenty hours The \'Then I stared about, and saw what'waves broke over the stern and threat- AT THE The effect, was magical. was another tree, which would haveper. The waves, although remaining at the L t F R e IC the stern; but for several yards around “was I “res ® \\In my trepidation, this important facti‘Vhé-rq the oil had spread upon the wager, was unobserved. there was apparently a calm. - The ship \''Perhaps I can still do it,' was the was thus relieve from the tremendious! FOR THE MONTH OF me. shocks of heavy seas breaking over her,, I made a move to descend, and tllenfand the danger was considefiably les- checked myself in a perfect rack oflsened. Captain Jarman thinks that the doubt as to what was the best course to use of oil in the case of aship hove-to persue. jin a storm would bea very good thing. ''The proper thing was to reload my gun He says that although this was the first on the instant, and I proceeded to do soltime he had ever tried the experiment, without further delay, almost rendering it was not novel by any means. He has myself cross-visioned in the effort to known cases in which crews had escaped keep one eye upon my weapon and theffrom vessels when it would have been other upon the tiger. «Impossible to lower a boat without its be- ''The latter's antics were almost inde-'ing swamped except that oil was thrown scribable. He darted here and there, over the ship's side, and the seathus suf- Io y back and forth, toward ever point of the ficiently calmed toallow the boats to be“ * compass,: rubbed the wounded side ofllowered without danger. He has alsoi his head again.t the ground, whisked it seen whaling vessels lying quietly, | with his paw, growled, snarled, and raised while near by them other vessels were vi- himgelf on his hind-legs, and then sud- olently tossed about. - The whaling ves- denly became still and stared around him. sels were so thoroughly saturated with: \He W‘sgqrohing for me, and my gun oil that the water remained calm all: goods in Washington County. was only half-loaded. 'about them. He says that the method is! **Would he look upward? was the ques- so simple and so inexpensive that he in-! iS At ~ DECEMBER I Call and convince yourself that the best place to buy these £009 forth and here and there, in a way which: __\ \NCC seems to be some magic going . I left no doubt they were hunting for fu- °\ here- Jslight noise would draw his attention to tion which thrilled me. Istopped reload - tends to have oil bags alawys ready for. p ing my rifle, for fear the movement and use hereafter.-New York Tribune. And Silver Ware! - - - -- \Added to the dangers from SPpoys‘gytlge. am}; tumftti‘g mgfltle'mgz ttl'wre stood some distance off, and my elevation was' and the weather, were the perils from {DC within fifty feet! gitives. --> ¢ -gm- **A rustling of the leaves attracted my me: but it will be remembered that I was MENDACITY'S REWARD. R his R ifty-Seve; 8 i . wild beasts and serpents. In that strange alive and brigtling with fury. Instead of:sn slight that if he gazed in my dimvtinn-fl“1 Fifty-Reventh Street Police Court empire, the jungles swarm with the most Fhe shawl, it was the terrible | w Zeb arrss cf ify i l 3 It was:unimportant. and the angle of vision was ¥hen Zebe Harrss came to testify in EVYERLY'S, a. dangerous reptiles and animals on the itself which lay beneath the bush. globe 1 \\I was surprised, as you may say, to: \The missionary and myself were ind - myself confronted by the most 'AAAA.aAA Ll l to us, and consequently we took speciabm‘fl0 abou? it. f bus pains to avoid all cobras and tigers, and Bult a tiger never shows indecision att | Tike foes. _ such times, and I have no doubt the ani- \\We ha hed intn : al-leokedrgrpenumewfihemh ~* * __ were grouped together, talking in low.\ “jihad certainty. mething horribly fase; fones and listening to the faint boom of, Normbly fasct- OC. - She had lost, * f- © My shawl, 'she answered. * 'I do not‘xssued from his vitals. Koo. . understand where it can be.' ' , ; . \\We joined her in the hunt, and a few fronted each other, I discovered anothert] nith inl LPT \alele - 3 was searching lay on the ground between , Ir 3 > , L j been dropped somewhere on our path un the tiger and me, noticed. © «Little need had the lady for such an ornamented tiger-skin of the finest text- had now come. - If I could shoot and kill}} that it was presented to Mrs. Heckmyer tenacity of the tiger's life, it isalmmtim-‘i woe bya loved sister just before her death, . 4 \It was exceedingly tiresome these longm“ him on the instant. He will often days of waiting in the jungle, apd pteAr around and make horrible havoc, was glad of an excuse to start back H C o Nk ~ '160K for the missing garment. It would, '* mortally woundel. afford a relief for the weary monotony, _ \All this was well known to me when a ''The missionary protested against my I raised my gun and took deliberate aim Poke incurring so great a risk? but I assured at the beast. I held my fire until it was him with a laugh. that I had been in the evident from the twitching of the mus- bov e ko L armed, as a matter of course, but we dreaded dot-xizen oi\ the Asiatic juygleam‘gtraight (toward the tree. ' were fearful of risking a shot, , lest itS‘I sinful staring at him, lund'nd gun mhandwprnper point, he made one of his mxnn-rIuL reassuringly. might draw the attention of ourenemies 8° if ! were really undecided as to what;ous bounds, and I closed my eyes, with ~ a prayer to heaven, sure that my last mo-] ment had-come, '*During that second ortwo that wecon- and returned th my friends. - Three days Zebe pondered. and then hung his head u *- minutes sufficient to prove that it had thing. The skin or. shawl for which I lines, and were safe.\ **I speedily recovered from my paraly-Itific survey that the surface of the water additional protection in that intolerable: 88 204 comprehended that if ever thereat the mouth of the St. John's River, climate; but the shawl! was a beautifully- was a call for excellent marksmanship it Florida, is only three feet six inches ure, dressed, by a native physician, to the !\ tigerathat was the end of it; if Iother words, the river has but an average flexibility of silk. It was very vdluble should miss or only wound him, that fall of less than a sixth of an inch to the even in the country of tigers, besidea|WOUId be thho end of me. And the worst mile. - Another singular fact worthy of fal } which it was highly prize for the reason Phase of it all was that, owing to theleonsideration is that it has a course-tak- 'possible to wound him so as to incapaci-/of between three hundred and four hun- dred miles, yet its source is not more New than twelve miles from the shores of the and y hen a half dozen balls are in him, and be/same ocean.into which -it emties feelf: < + Trutird@GaIways | to the swelling at the back of your head, 1 2WATE: hut falschoad is troublesome, and don't apprehend anything serious; f you must keep your eye on it!\ Gi creature‘and simply along the ground, he could that he seen two brother darkies knock not fail to see me. * , Willis Pollard down, he showed all his; \Such proved to be the case. at sight of the awful front of jus- \All at once he discried me, and trotted tice and “P“m‘f‘l inclined to br?a.k for the: door on the slightest provocation. \You're Mr. Harris?\ said the Court. 1 Fort Edward, N. Y. \Yes sah,\ blubbered Zebe. . \Did you ever swear before?\ (handing la. \\But that distortion of vision causing. b%£he bible) im to miss the tree altugether, and he} € 7 East Street, Reaching the arkey recoflilzéa afififlfl’figd TTT 1 M OC struck the ground upon the other sidefmphthally, with a dull thump wtihout, having Havelock's on, when Mrs. Heckmyer nating in the appearance of thetiger, with grazed me. « N luved his tail irregularly waving from side to up, suddenly hlookeflr sharply ahnutAher, and'side. his Tong, white, dapgpetiike teethfthis began such a spasmodic search for some-. & a M . said. _ \What I want to know is, did you thifig, that her husband and I asked “flay-displayed. his huge greenish eyes aflame;before he stired from thespot I gave him > 8. M ball gvith passion, while a cavernous growla second charge. which finished him. \No. sih. There he paused and looked 20°\ TOU Swarin' and cussin', puzzled and growling I W'ed‘amt'\ + s U a # respite to finish my reloading, and No I don't mean that.\ His Honor: I'm no cullud pusson as 'Deed I; ever take your oath befor® - Under- \I then descended picked up the shawl, stand?\ . REPAIRING ! ater, we made our way into Havelocks® penitf'ntiall) - \Wal. | did say T'd take my oaf wunst W atch 0° twiste, but I don't use much bad wuds,' ' aah. - *Deed I don't.\ | pairing a Specialty -both in \Oh you don't grasp my meaning at: R a all\ quoth His Honor. in a quandary,\ Price and Qnahty' Then. a happy | thought struck him, and he said ; \Look here! don's you know what In it is to lie-to bear false witness-eh?\ Zebe's face came up full of intelligence. \Yes sah. - 'Deed I do.\ j \And you know Ise witnessea!\ \Yes sah.\ with emphasis. “3701 . what does become of them?\ . \Dey gets ols in the Iawyah's offices.\ )e | Zebe's afficlhivit was dispensed With—fl W lt’h/ 1&1” expenses, qlllflk York Herald. ' Clock and Jewelry Re- ~-ip~ cn _ It has beemruscertained by actual scien ower than it is 280 miles above. what becomes of all' ng its many megfdetings into account- , ~ ---ap- @a -o- 0 0000.00 ys consistent with itself,! jand needs nothing to help it out, It is always near at hand, and is upon our lips: anl ready to drop out before we are sales, and small profits, ___ _.. We Defy: Competition! => --no @- agre 22 2. -Medical man: \And then, with regard toa man's invention upon the rack,, but and one untruth \ needs a gr m more to make it good. great many R > \l_ t * \ub « 2 uve a ; i R Aa cc .C # 4 o , , \ i hil us | Cul C * * eal | £00 cae co . f . 20. . , h ~ ' ~I ~ no C a.. ath\ tu . . * - , coa r h M s 2) aie mls ae bp aw o Athige «3g» * an K) 3f 9 Eh mre . ~ Tks t. foos nk \ye retin 1%. 4 f Night every ° Felgw' C. A. m Kings Unite Room 0; month., J. S. Co Sand Mutualy Durkee, Derb 1st gird 3 2 DENP Att Saxoy ] Prix FINE AND SMO: No. 12 ~- FOR - Bumoj: T -~--C2 CJ C Sash, Blin Fram all nece: Sawing, .P I®\ Agent f Patent BJ | goor Moj * B. Sandy £ Desires to Dry Gion Elou constantly ®\ xotcr - taken in exe __ ,J 08 Prinrinc
