uifiiiyy f^^**WW& i" fr^^T HI UIIIHUBIII B. Pfefferle,B A Adventure With Lions. HUNTED DOWN. twenty or thirty yards, his Strength around the station, and it was plain money out of the bank, fell into the probably failing him, and" I jralied up} that he had a good deal of native wit. hands of sharpers, aud they were look-, Mr. F. C. Selous has been writing to DMleii at once, as I saw that an accident had' "Yes, that chap bought a ticket for ing in the river and lake for his dead the London Field some interesting experiences t*i I was in the active employ of Pinkerton happened to Laer. He was some ten Fond du Lac, but I don't think he body." with hons in Central South yards behind me when the lion charged for many years, and I took my went there," replied the lad when I began "Hem!" he coughed, and that ended Africa. In a recent issue he describes out, and turned his pony and galloped to question him. our conversation, though I did not share of the risks incident to detective an exceedingly fortunate day's off parallel with me but aboufctwenty ,-"#H "What makes you think he did fail to notice the look of gratification work, but the very first case assigned yards beyond where the lion had sport. While riding with a companion not?" which crept over his face. That he CANNED, DRIED & GREEN me had more peril in it than any stopped, I suppose the pony bad "Because," he answered, as he handed had hidden the treasure was certain. search of game tor food, his attention four others combined. I had done shied at something, for I saw his rider down a folder from the rack, '-he That he would visit it sooner or later ?4M was attracted by the shouting fall off, and at once reined in. Laer, "spotting" and "shadowing" andhad was studying this route, which goes to was dead sure. I watched him close FRUITS ot a number of Kaffirs. On galloping let me here say, had a strong thong Portage city. I think he meant to ly during the day, and I saw that he helped on two or three cases, when 1 Flour axici Feeci* up to them there W3re cries of "A fastened to his waistbeit at the one take this folder along, but dropped it. was nervous and preoccupied. I expected was sent to Milwaukee to look after lion'a lion!" "There'theie! close in end, and to a running loop on the See how he marked it with a pencil." that he would go out to inspect an embezzler. The case was stated in bridle at the other, in imitation of the fiont of you, lying flat on the ground." So he had. He could run up to bis treasure at night, and I took my STONE,WOODEN AND WILLOW thin thong I usually use, but which I a nut-shell. A Mrs. Pierce, a widow Watertown, and go through by way precautions that he should not escape Mr. Selous' narrative proceeds- "I WARE. ~^j always arrange in such a way that I of Beaver Dam. He had marked the of wealth, and a woman who trusted me, but he made no move. He NEW ULM, MINtf. instantly saw hima male lion, can looseen it in an instant. He, time of arrival at the junction and of went to work on Friday noon of Fr.Bur her servants altogether too much, received crouched perfectly flat, with his head however, had simply tied it in a knot the arrival at Portage and it could not one week and I on Thursday oi one day from the east by express on his outstretched paws, and certainly to his waistband, and was fast bound be that he would take all that trouble the next. When Sunday week came a package of money amounting not more than twenty yards from to the horse. to throw any one off his trail. There it was a bright, warm day, and to $14,000. She had been in the me. I was too close to feel inclined The position was now this: The was no one alter him, and he could 1^ made up my mind not to lose lion was standing with open mouth, not argue that the boy would hold sight of him for an hour. There were habit of sending her butler to the to dismount, especially as from which blood was flowing, growling the marked folder against him. I several acres of logs in the yard, and' I was riding a steady shooting bank to make deposits for her, savagely, and looking like nothing therefore changed my route to Portage Manufacturer of and Dealer in h, after breakfast 1 went to the mill, horse. To rein in, turning my horse and now and then, to draw but a wounded and ferocious lion, city, and at the junction 1 got track climbed up in the attic, and had the CIGARS, at the waine time, and to raise my money on her written order. He while right front of him, and within of my man. He had no ticket, but yard and the hamlet under my eye. rifle was the work of a moment. My :X thirty yards, stood Laer's refractory had paid his fare in cash. It was had been with her for several years At about 10 o'clock Lane came down TOBACCOS, pony, backing toward the lion, pulling night, and the state of his hair had horse, however, would not keep perfectly into the yard, wandered about in an as a sort of man of all work with him Laer, who, of course, was not been noticed, but the conductor aimless sort of way, though all the still and as I Mas trying to get in the house, and she had found PIPES looking full into his open jaws, which described Lane's general appearance, time keeping his eyes open, and by the sight on to the lion's nose below him strictly honest. She gave h'. he did not seem to admire. I think and said that he had changed a $20 and by I saw him inspecting a hug"' the eyes, I saw him draw in his forelegs, the money to deposit without a I shall never forget the momentary bill for him. He might go no further log lying near a thorn-apple tree, Cor. Minnesota and Centre which had been stretched out under ,A/J glimpse I had of his face. He was, at than Beaver Dam, and I got off there which was the only tree or bush in the fear of his being tempted. He was streets. his chest then his whole body that time, only a lad of about fifteen and looked around for a few hours. yari. I had been hauling logs with not seen after he left the house. He NEW ULM, MINNJno. or sixteen years of age, and no wonder No trace of him had been had and I the cattle to the bank and dumping quivered. I knew what these signs did not go to the bank, and for three he was frightened, but frightened was at the depot to take the tram, them off for the elevator or car to portended, and that he was on the Neuman, or four days Mrs. Pierce and others he most certainly washis hat had when a conversation between two carry them up the incline into the point of charging. Just then I fired, labored under the belief that he had fallen off, his mouth was wide open, young men became interesting. mill, and had noticed the big log. It and made a very lucky shot, as, owing and his eyes staring, and he was "You ought to havetold somebody," had been there for years, and was been robbed and murdered. The to the slight movements of the Dealer in pulling desperately against the protested one. worthless. Now that I saw Lane in hunt for his dead body was going on Dp,Y GOODS horse, I could not get a steady one. horse, that was steadily dragging "Yes, and been laughed at," replied the vicinity I made up my mind that when I reached Milwaukee. him nearer to the lion. The the other. he had hidden his money close by, Seeing what was coming, I just touched Hats, Caps, Notions, whole scene would make a splendid and I slipped out and went for a ramble "And he had ten thousand dollars?" the trigger as the sight crossed the The name of the butler was John Groceries, Provisions^ picture. I was a little to the right in the woods. "Yes, double that." lion's face, and, luck being on my Lane, and he was described to me as of Laer and a little further off the "And he was counting it on the That night at midnight without anything Crockery and Glassware, side, the bullet struck him exactly lion, but not much, and he looked alternately a sandy-haired, red-faced man, weighing bed?" having happened to create Green, Dried and Canned between the eyes. It drilled a at the two of us. I am sure "Yes." suspicion on Lane's part, I diessed 160 pounds, and wearing a sandy Fruits, etc, etc. small hole tnrough the frontal it was only simply want of strength "I'll bet he was a robber." myself and crept out of the tavern to moustache. His habits were declared that prevented him from coming on "May be, but he was off early in the bone, where it struck and make a hunt for the money. On my to be above reproach, and Mrs. Pierce and mauling either Laer or the pony morning. Well, so long, Tomhere's way out I paused at his door, aud he blew off a large piece at the back of I will always take farm produce in exchange indignantly resented my suggestion for before I could raise my rifle he the train. was breathing like a man fast asleep. for goods, and pay the highest market price for a& the brainpan. Death of course, was instantaneous, sank down to the ground, but still that he might have run away. So The^ one who had seen some one I had my revolver and a pair of handcuffs kinds of paper rag*. and I at once set to kept his head up, and, with his mouth counting money was going west by my ready to take with me, but missed did the local detective who had the jvork to skin him. He was a fair sized wide open, never ceased growling 01 In connection with my store Ihaie a first-clax* tram, and I schemed to get a seat with them after I got outside. Everything case in hand. I held from the first saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table naf roaring (I donot know which is the better male in the prime of life. As soon as him and draw him out. He was a porter about was so quiet that I set to the theory that he had run away. my customers will always find good liquors aa$ word). Ot course I fired as quickly at one of the hotels inPortage.and we had skinned him, Laer and I again off, thinking to be back with the money cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lunch. as I could, the circumstances admitting He had been told to hurry back. He he had seen a guest answering Lane's in a few minutes. The big log lay started on in front, closely followed of no delay. I aimed right for his open description countingsuch alotofmoney within twentv feet of the bank. There could have reached the bank in a walk by the Kaffirs. All goods purchased or me will be delivered t mouth, and at the shot his head fell that it covered half the bed. The was a hollow in one end, but no money. of fifteen minutes, having only two or any part of the city free of cost. so suddenly and in such a way that I porter had made his observation The other was solid. I climbed "We had just entered the belt of Minnesota Street, New Ulm, Mian three turns to make. It was at knew the bullet had reached his brain. through the keyhole of the door, and, over it and passed around it, and had forest on the further side of which 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and The whole of this scene, which has taken being ashamed of himself, had hesitated just discovered a hollow which had ran the valley where my camp was Meat Market, so long to describe, was, of course, he could be in no personal danger. to go to the landlord. The man been the base of a big limb, when Igol situated, when Laer, who wa-3 some only a matter of a few seconds." had arrived without baggage, but had a blow on the neck, which rolled me No one could be found thirty yards in front of me stopped, there purchased a valise, and his nervous over and over for ten feet. Before I and turning around, beckoned to me. who had seen him between the house manner and the sight of so much could get up Lane was upon me. He M. EPPLE, Prop'r. As I came near, I said 'What is it, and the bank, although he was well Made a Fortune in a Few Days. money in his possession had led the was a good deal the larger and stouter Laer*' 'I'ts another lion, sir,' he MnranssoTA S T. NEW ULM,MIN N. known. But the best clue was found porter to finally conclude that there man, but he could not hold me New York Sun. answered. 'Where?' I asked, dropping was a mystery there somewhere, although in Lane's room. There was a handful still. I could roll under him, and TNewundersigned the rems and working as hard as I One of the handsomest equipages HE desires toin'orm the people o* he had not spoken of it to any while his object seemed to be to clutch of sandy hair in a paper under the could to unfold the skin that was on Fifth avenue recently was driven Jim and vicinity that he has re established one around the house. The man had my throat, I gave him two good blows* his meat mnrket and is now nreapared to waiton '^twisted round my waist, while at lavatory. There was" another paper by a young Irishman who arrived in purchased a suit of coarse clothes, nis eld customers and friends with only th in the face and got to my feet. Not the same time I sought everywhere spotted with lather, in which were best fresh and cured meats, smisages lard and everythin? this city from Cork two or three with hat and shoes to match, and a word was spoken by either of us. i with my eyes fiont of me. usually kept in i fit 't-cl.ins market Tbhighest weeks ago with $500 in his pocket. enough bristles to make a moustache. leaving had taken the highway leading We stood for a moment gasping for market price will be paid foi FAT CAT* However, I could not make him out TLB, HIDES, WOOL, ETC. He had come to see the United States, to ward Oshkosh. He had purchased breath, and then he rushed at me like Behind an old trunk was a bottle but just as I got the skin loose and M. EPPLK. and the $50X) was to pay his expenses. another bottle ot hair dye in Portage, an enraged bull, and we both clinched. let it drop to the ground, upjumped a which had contained hair dye. NEW but had apparently given his red hair He handled me almost as if I had been One of the acquaintances he made lion with aloud purr some fifty yards Mrs. Pierce received the money up as a bad job. He not only left a boy,and it wasn't over a minute before was a newspaper man, who took the in front of me, and went off through about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and Meat Market. the bottle in his room, but by means we were on the bank above water visitor down into Wall street to show the forest as hard as he could. Luckily she remarked to Lane that she would of soap and water washed off what twelve feet deep. There was a thin have him deposit after dinner. He thiough the stems ot the trees, him the sights there, and quite by dye he had put on at Milwaukee. skim of ice over it, and the man who waited on the table at noon, and there was but little undergrowth, and chance introduced him to one of the JOS. SCHHOBBICH, Prop'r., went in there could not live long. there was no change in his appearance, Lane had given the landlord to understand the grass was nothing like so long and Stock Exchange magnates. The Irish and between that time and 2 he that he was a hard-working In a boxing match I could have got thick as in the valleys, except indeed ii lad had a story or two, new and succulent shaved off his moustache, cut off a New Ulm, Minn- young nian who had started out to the better of Lane. In such a clinch at the bases of the enormousant-heaps the Stock Exchange man liked lot of his hair, applied the dye, and look for a job, but he had departed his brute strength was a terrible advantage. with which these forests are studded, them and an offhand friendship sprang Mrs. Pierce remembered that he was without fixing on anything definite. I His object was, of course, wheie the grass always giows longer A large supply of fresh meats, satrage, up forthwith. The Stock Exchange muffled up as he went out, leaving bv did not believe he would go to Oshkosh. to pitch me into the river, but I hung and thicker than anywhere else. As hams, lard, etc., constantly on 4l man was a bear what more natural the side door. He was acting like a man to him so well that he was baffled. 'the lion made off, I dug my spurs into land. All orders from the country than that the youth from Cork should Now came the hardest part of the who reasoned that if he could hide We were still struggling on the brink, my horse's ribs, and, after a race rompt,l attended to. be invited into the ranks? In went work. When you know which way a himself away in the country for a few when a great slice 6f the bank gave of three or four (hundred yards, the criminal is heading it is quite easy to his $500 promptly. He didn't have weeks his crime and his identity would way and we went into the ice-cold water, CASH PAID FOR HIDES I lion, finding that he could not get keep his trail, but when you can't sav both be forgotten. To catch the embezzler both having a firm hold, but I on long to wait httle by little the stock away from me, stopped suddenly at whether he is in New York or Omaha, without capturing his swag top. Lane must have had his mouth one of the large ant-heaps I have market began to split soon it was or that he may not be hiding within would have been no credit to me. He open for he began to strangle at once, spoken of, faced round and stood with wide open. The $500 swelled into THE HEW ULM two blocks of you, it is quite a different had several days the start of me, and and if I ever worked hard for three glarina eyes and open mouth, his head 5,000 in a few days then it grew to matter. From the servants in the had by this time got a job of some minutes it was to save him. He was held low between his shoulders, looking twice $5,000, and when a recent crash house I learned that Lane had always CITY PLANING SSfLL sort. I procured a rough suit of unconscious when I got him to the as savage as he could, growling came the figure doubled once again,and declared that he hated the very bight clothes, hired a horse and set off on bank and pulled him up, while I wasas hoarsely, and twitching the end of his $20,000 stood to the credit of the of cities and towns, and had no care his trail. He headed toward Oshkosh good as frozen. By a liberal use tail from side to side. Pulling in my mere chit of a boy who had never expected for fine clothes and society. He also for five or six miles, and then tinned of my voice I aroused three or four horse, I tried to lire asain from his to handle so much money had a great horror of the water. This directly north. It was in the fall of men,and we got Lane to thehotel.and back but he was excited by the gallop, MANUFACTURES many a year to come. He has bought seemed to argue that he would not the year and th roads were in bad worked over him for half an hour before or prehaps the growling of the DOORS, WINDOW SASIU head for Europe, as I at first feared. a horse and carriage. He has moved condition, but he made twenty-four he opened his eyes. Then I tucked lion disconcerted him, and he would It was well known that he had a holy from his quiet boarding house to a miles that first day, him up and gave him a big dnnk of not stand still at all. My antagonist VENETIAN BLINDS. horror of the west,having read of savaee not stopping at all for dinner. He hot whisky, and went out and got the Spoked so nasty that 1 scarcely liked first-cla'-s hotel. He is going to make Indians, prairie fires, grizzly bears went to the notheast for six miles* money. He had spent about $40 of it. dismounting, as I was pretty close to MOULDINGS AND FRAMi.S: that $20,000 change to $100,000 before rattlesnakes, etc. That seemed to argue and then he turned due west, almost Not a word did he reply as I told him him, and when a lion is driven to bay he goes to his home over the Pfaning, turning and nil that he would not go west. Would on a line with La Crosse, and went who I was, who ne was and showed it is impossible to tell at what instant oceanso he says. There is just a he go north or south' I was helped eight miles before stopping at an inn. him the money. Not a word did he he may make up his mind to charge. work with rib-saw prompt hjand bare possibility, though, that if he out of my dilemma in a curious way. I only made the same number ofmiles utter ah the way back to Milwaukee, I du.nounted, however, and. taking a doesn let Wall street alone he mav neatly executed. I had been at every steamboat office **&*, on horseback, but as he had to he by and it was only after Mrs. Pierce had quick but steady sight, planted a be disappointed. If he stays in Wall and railroad depot, meeting with no the next forenoon on account of the refused to prosecute him and he was bullet just between kis neck and street long enough somebody else may success, and was standing in front of All work guaranteed. Rates reasonable. ram, while I had good weather, Igained turned loose that he sullenly muttered: shoulder, on receiving which he reared be driving that horse, and he may be the Second National bank, when a half a day on him. He proceeded himself up with a loud roar and fell glad to borrow money to get a ticket farmer-looking man accosted me with"What toward La Crosse for ten miles more, over sideways, while I inwardly said C. ZELLEft, Prop'r^ "I was just fool enough to argue do you say about this bill? over the sea. and then went north two miles, and to myself, I've got him.' The lion was that no detective living could overhaul NEW GOODS! PB1CESL I say it's good and the old woman stayed over night with a farmer and lying half in and half out of the long LOWLST me."New York Sun. says it's bad?" talked about going to work in a sawmill. grass but on regaining the saddle I It was a five he had, and the "old Next day he headed due west, again looked -at the same spot, the OM-Fashioned Housekeepers. woman" sat in a wagon on the opposite A Tale of Irish Evictions. and reached the Wisconsin river at a lion was gone' I felt sure I had given Eeary J. Luder^ 1 know one, and I would like to see side of the street. hamlet called Little Bend. It was on him a dead shot, and I thought he In a reference to evictions in Ireland "Why does s*he suspect it to be the man who would try to palmoffon the sixth day after he left Milwaukee I must have managed to wriggle himself the London correspondent of the New bad!" I asked, as I surveyed the that I located him, and he had then into the long en ass, and might be lying her oleomargarine. Those housekeepers, York Sun says- No blood-and-thunder Dealer inDRY bill. been at work in a saw-mill for a day there dead. I rode closer, then right those mothers who pride themselves writer chronicling acts of savage "Well, it was given to me four or and a half. I entered the hamlet on jup to the grass,whieh stood mapatuh GOODS, on bringing up their children atrocity originating in his own brain five days ago by a chap who rode out foot, as he had done, having a few jound the base of the ant-heap, but well, and who keep a constant eye on ever invented scenes of much greater home with us, had supper, and then GROCERIES, clothes in a bundle, and it was soon was over six feet in height and was their servants, can only be bent from hoiror than those which have accompanied cut aeross to the railroad station. I known to the seventy-five or eighty very thick. I could, however, neither the strictest rules of propriety in the the evictions atClenbeigh. The shouldn't have charged him over seventy-five population, that I was in search of NOTIONS ETCL ,see nor hear anything. The sun was b'irning of cottages over the heads of cent at the most, and his household by housekeeping considerations. work. The owner of the only store in now nearly if not quite down After Kieiling'. Block. C: liberality seems queer." women and children a farmer's wife, There's one this dear, old the place also kept a saloon and a a little hesitation, I decided to take I was dead certain from his first soon to become a mother, dragged tavern, and, under pretence of being the bull by the horns, and so, dis'mountmg, fashioned school up town who has a NEW ULM, MUSIE^ words that I had got track of my' foot-sore and used up, I remained idle from her bed and laid faintin? upon walked into the grass.holding v-ery pretty servant maid a very tempting man. We went into the bank to satisfy for two or three days, although the my rifle cocked and ready for action. the ground, while policemen load their servant maid, who always gets him that the bill was all right, mill owner was short of hands and I soon found out that the lion rifles around her a mother vainly served first in the morning,and has all and then crossed to the wagon. I desired me to go to work at once. _was not there.either dead oralive,and begging shelter for a dying infant in a the tradespeople interested in the want to tell you that country people the blood tiack showed where he had It may be thought strange that I hut from which she had been torn, house. The milkman tries to come are bead and shoulders above the gone out on the other side. did not at once arrest Lane and have and then seeking to protect her babe average city residents iu the matter late, he may find her, aad the buttermon Here, again, the grass was short and done with it. Had I overhauled him from the cold by covering it with of observation and in remembering is wild about feec, and the sparse, and by the-da.0 evening lisht I en route that would have been the straw in a pig stysuch are the scenes what they see. could see a whitish line through it that bnteher sometimes comes himself to plan, for the money would have been wiich accompanied one landlord's efforts "Well, one reason why I suspect marked the lion's track, which Ioould in his valise. He had taken board at see that the meat is all right. Those to extort his impossible rents, this man," said the wife, "was because lot have seen by sunlight. Mounting the tavern, and during my first half advantages have not been lost upon and such are the items daily added his hair was dreadfully haggled .and ^.y horse, and followed by Laer, I day there I had found his room open the lady .of the house, but she is to the score which Irishmen have to then dyed. Sueh botch work you vJ,'tV-.'.V-VVV eat rapidly along this track. About and his valise unlocked. There was "i stickier lor propriety. So, when, never saw. His hair was all in streaks wipe out. ,It is for his desire to free a ne hundred yards inrther on there nothing in it which anyone would of black and red, and he'd got the dye the other morning, she found the great empire from scenes like these .vasapatch of Ionggrasp and as soon want to take away. He "had, like a on his ears and neck." that Gladstone is assailed as the butcher's boy kissing the pretty servant is neared it I walked my horse very sharp man, taken his money out and The fellow had tried to play smart enemy of his country's greatness and slowly, as I fully expected to find ttae maid, she was shocked. She planted it. He could not justly suspect in leaving the city by one of the highways, rounded beast lying in it. Nor was I unity. In the case of the woman to that I was after him, for after wrote a note to the butcher and. told but accident had revealed his mistaken for on reaching it I saw hint whom shelter was refused for her three or four days I went to work him if he couldn't send a boy who AF trail. He had taken the train at a ymg, as I thought, dead, about five alongside of him. and held him at a child, it is positively exhilarating to behaved himself she would take he* station about fifteen miles away, and ards in frent of me. He was lying distance. He tried hard to get acquainted hear of a buxom young Irish woman name off his list of customers and he had four days the start of me. The tretehed on the ground not fiat on with me, but I was taciturn who used her muscle and a shovel and first move was to run out to the eounfcry she'd get lier meat elsewhere. At is side cewtainly, but half on his 6ide, and unsocial. He gave me an opportunity knocked down a bailiff who was nailing station at which lie bad taken the breakfast they spoke about it. $ nth his hindquarters nearest me, and to ask him questions, but I refused up a door. She was arrested, of to train. I there found that he had writ*1 "Well, mamma, you'd better ertainly dymg, although he was not. to profit by it. I admitted, for course, but as she was being escorted made many inquiries about the northern the butterman, to. He kisses her I thought, dead. 'Here he is/ I a purpose, that I left Milwaukee four and western part of the state, and off by the policemen with rifles there every morning," sai^tbj daughter oi ailed out joyiully to Laer, under this or five days behind him, and after had finally purchased a ticket, for was a rush from her friends and she the house. ^-^rPWr npression. Hardly were the words out seeming to reflect for a while, he asked: Fond du Lac. The description of him was rescued. Columns could be filled "What? Thebulfcerman, loo?" my mouth then the lion was on his was good, and I was about to with details of absolutely incomprehensible "Certainly. I saw him yesterdav et, and round on me with marvelus "Was there any special news when buy a ticket for the same place and brutality on the part of morning." you left?" quickness, growling savagely but take a train due in half an hour,when just me!o it, for i can't ef any landlords agents, and eachwouldadd "Dear Well, I can't help it. Ha "J don't remember." & the first movement I had wrenched in came a boy who had been there on to the satisfaction felt by every man mi horse round and dug the spurs in- "No murders or robberies." the evening when Lane bought his in America whose money is backing him, and was in fult flight closely thing like as good butter any wherq "There was a mystery of some sort, tbket. He was a lad who helped BestintheWorM tins anti-landlord Gght. jrsued. He did not corns more than else/'San JFranciseo Chronicle. I believe. Somebody drew a lot of a f^a