A 1 r.T. 'X- 'Sw ,. ..~ .... ife Jr*S. .f. «s3§? -Sa. A. mtmSm HER SMILE. strangling the" victim. Tfiey have a INDIANS AND BULLETS. CEE our line of white aiid habit of feeding on putrid flesh. This., I found myself constantly golhgto her gold linoges china, full dinner teeth makes wounds Inflicted by their home. We were still engaged vupou of the 8trenuous or claws liable to blood pd$0ning. the question of avoiding af* least .-j? set supplied it desired. We t&.. l^ntue|«y lr. 1777. Nothing in the .way of prey koines Where Other Things Failed thought we were-^a trial «f the *ase* a esdtle Thief and Even a It control the pattern for this district -Whtiii- Harrodsburg, Ky., sinks to them, from a cow In the pasture but got no nearer a solution. Tbeu all Worked Wonders. win^^so beset: lpfth Indians that the Hunriarr Befoff Thief. which makes it. entirely to a fowl up at roost, vr- of a sudden the lady returuHl to llw' -inl^Itaiits were- in straits for dally In the greet mountain ranges of Central exclustvely. dty, leaving matters Just wberevthey b*i^.,ajy^ sixteen years Asia the beautlful snow leopard is had stood from the first.- ^ld, io^de lrim|^ ex^emely useful by WORSE THAN UON OR TIGEIL found. It is a large creature, witit By EDWARD C. BINGHAM. I put into operation the- legalfpachlnery CLEDHILL & CO. .out of the fort before daybrei^^ttd thick, woolly coat and a long tall like preliminary to a: trial. (Copyright. 1910, by American Press Association..! retunaing with" a lpad: of a.fur boa. The color is whit^ clouded bound to admit that Joiiiert Watchmakers and Jewelers game. after nightfall. This intrq^id Siaises lis Prey, by the Threat and with beautiful gray, like that of an 1 am an attorney In a village about good case. There was very little effdence yout^ras James Ray,, afterward Gen,:^ral Clifkgs- ^ljtfifh.... Its. Claws Until It •ngora cat^ ^The edges of the cloud-' which cluster a number of prosperous Fort Frances, Ont. in writing, but. what there- Was lags, and spbts'sre. marked with black Break*: the Spina of tts Vietim or would Count for a good deal. For my termers. On^^y in-^el year just jnentiohed or darker gray^ The eyes are veay 8trangls«-ii. part, having made the acquaintance (hie day a man named Hugh Jorbert :^l^:^ftid- another young man- were larger bluish gray, or: smoke' colored.' of the widow, I did not attach any came Into my office and asked me ifhoo^grat a intirk near the fort, when Less In stae^ but even more ferocious^ It lives -oh the wlld sheep. ibex and serious meaning to what she had ^written. A M. JENSEN to take a case for him. Jorbert was -%h£|^ieco&d man was suddenly shot the leopard bas tf worse character tiuun other mountain animals. In captivity^ but the cold pen and ink words thirty-two years old and a fine specimen "^floWtTby the Indians. Ray looked in It is far the tamest and gentlest of the the tiger* or licA Living mainly in apparently^ meant quite enough to jus­ of a man. He was well looking, large carnivora. not excepting the puma. the direction whence" the shot" had tify trees and very nocturnal, this fierce Undertaker iuid a finding for the plaintiff. I laid Unlike the latter, it Is a sleepy, come, saw the enemy and was on the well off and a bachelor. When be stated and dangerous beast is less often seen out my plan of attack, got my written quiet animal, like a domestic. point of raising his rifle when he was his case 1 was astonished. A young evidence all where 1 could lay my Licensed EmbsUmer than far rarer animals. It is widely The West African leopard skin la. .setupon_-by another band who had widow from the city, twenty-four years hands on it and put all tbe papers'ln spread over the world from the Cape more handsome than the Asiatic, the crept_near him unseen the safe pending the trial. But 1 did' old. had spent a summer in the neighborhood OfyGood Hopjj? to the Atlas mountains a spots being very distinct and clear. He He took to his he^s and,, being not put tbe widow in the safe. -Sfifit and had turned the heads of and from southern Chlna to the Black A and she—they usually go in couplesare quick runner, reached^ the for^-amid ^a Full Line of Undertaker's Goods is, I put her there, but she would jtot half the young men who had me( her. sea. where it 4s sometimes met with in fond of hunting cantonments and shower of bullets, but the gates were stay there. She was constantly—looking Jorbert wished hie to., bring suit for the. Caucasus^ around native towns, where they pick shut and the men Inside were so at me from anywhere, nowhere^ him agalnst her for $2fi,000 for breach frightened that they ^dared not open Coroner Koochiching County Any one who has frequented the up goat and now and then a baby. BOO With those eyes of hers and that imperturbable One night 1 was vamped in a native, them. Finding himself shut out Ray of promise to many him. for any time must have noticed: the smile, as much as to say: BIG FALLS. MINN. town and after I had -retired, the natives, threw" himself flat on the ground in No such suit had ever before been "Pear me! What a funny affair this difference in size and color between as was their customr were sitting the rear of a stump, and. here, perhaps i»r* leopards froih different parts of- the brought in the county. Such a suit about a great fire asking my caravan sevenvsteps from the ifort and within, When the case came up for .trial I world. On some the ground color is had rarely anywhere been entered by sill sorts of questions, for the African -sight of .his mother, he lay for four McDonald Bros. made the discovery that a young lawyer .almost white, in others a clear -nut a man against a woman, and Jorbert savage Is the greatest gossip in the hours, while the bullets of the Indians just admitted to the bar. one of I waft the last man 1 should ever suspect brown. Others are jet black. world. Suddenly a child's- cry rang tore up the ground oh either side of the men whose hearts she' had of wishing to demand damages for his Wherever they live leopards are cattle- DRAY him. out followed by a great clamor. Rushing wrecked, was to conduct her case. I blighted affections. thieves, sheep thieves, dog thieves out to discover the cause of alarm, At last he grew impatient and called also learned tjiat the defendaht had I endeavored to dissuade him from and human b£ing thieves. Though not 1 was Informed that, a leopard had -out t6 the garrison: been in town a fortnight and, although taking action In the matter, saying I N E formidable in appearance* they are Immensely stolen from the darkness and quick as "Foir.vheaven's sake, dig a hole under she bad not been to see me, she had that it would only injure him in the strong, and- it ts 'hot unusual the^cabln wall and takie me In!"' made the acquaintance of the judge a flash had grabbed a four-year-old community and would do no good. Now for them to turn man eater. Both in The^men inside.set-to work immediately. before whom the case would be tried.. child and made off with it The child and again one of. these fascinators are India and ih Africa they have been and the brave young hunter I knew then that I had nothing to hops* was seated in the midst of the grown Prompt personal attention let loose on the community and do a known to set up in this line as deliberately was speedily safe Inside the fort. for in the way of rallngs from fibat men and women. The latter could Crimen all work in our line. lot of harm among the men there-was as any tiger. They have four judge. I considered it fortunate that only lament their loss. They knew it no way to stop them or to punish or five young at a birth. The cubs can Phone No. 9 the jury would not be impaneled until was useless to try to pursue the beast FORTUNE ISLAND. theab the'best way .was to Ignore be kept tanker for some, time and are the beginning of the trial or she Into the dense bush. them. If men were, so foolish as to be amusing pet?, but it is extremely dangerous would doubtless hold every one of The leopard is so bold that even in The Story of the Buried Prize of ail duped by them they must take the consequences. to ha#e them about them by the heartstrings. As. they daylight he will wander about a town Englieh Buccaneer. In Hongkong an Englishman had a were being selected and she was asked. or a white man's premises. It is not MONARCH HOTEL An .English buccaneer, having looted tame leopard It was brought Into the But Jorbert was bent on pressing his If she objected to a juror she said at all unusual to get a good shot at a and fired a rich prize, found himself dining room .by a coolie to be exhibited suit, so I wrote a preliminary note to "Oh, no, not the slightest," and smiled, leopard, from a bungalow veranda or pursued in turn by a Spanish pirafe, to the owner's guesgL 'Excited by the widow, informing ber that I was just smiled at him that's all she needed a mud hut door.—Pittsburg Dispatch. FORT FRANCES, ONT. and in order to save his treasure sought the smell of, food, the leopard refused instructed by my client to claim damages to do to make sure that he .would~ some isolated shore on wh{gh to bury to go out when one of the women, who for his wounded affections and find a verdict for her. Surprises In Chinese. it until the time came to divide the did not like his looks, asked that it be "Some people," said an American would be pleased to receive from her a For my part. 1 found a temporary spoils with his followers. So he ran removed. The coolie took hold of its Good Room and Board consul to China, "live as long as antidote In my professional position. into th6 Bahama grou| and, landing on collar and began to haul it out It twenty years in China and never learn 1 became absorbed in my work of placing aUow/lying strip of sand and palm aeized him Egr the neck, bit it through $7 to $10 a more than a dozen Chinese expressions. my evidence before the jury lu its trees/ cached his plunder and, and in a minute the coolie was dying, naming But not so my little girl. She most favorable light. Though I say It the.jilace Fortune island, sailed away. covered with blood, on the dining used to meet me each evening with myself, 1 did my work well and made H^ left a number of. negro slaves behind room floor. IX- some new Chinese expression which a very Strong case. As for the defense, to guard the juried treasure and The Chinese leopard ranges as far Furlnace Heat she had learned during the day. Now, there was no defense made worthy of ttie-Vresent Inhabitants are said to be north as the Siberian tiger and,-like the Chinese language, like the Japanese, the name. But all the while the widow descended from these slaves. The Fortune the latter, seems to. grow larger the Is full of bonoriflcs. and I fondly sat in the presence of the court feniijf Islanders believe the old sea rOver farther north It is founder- The color imagined one evening, when my little smiled. If the judge wa» called lipool never returned for his chest and that of these northern leopards ls very pale, girl greeted me with some entirely to make a ruling she: smiled at htm it is still bidden somewhere near the the spots are large and the fur is very new expressions, that she was saying MONEY and he ruled In her favor. If 1 was tide, level. It Is no uncommon sight long. something like this: "Here comes the making a strong'point against her She for tourists on the rare occasions, when The natives of all countries are unanimous honorable personage, my father.' smiled at me and I desisted she a steamer stops there to see some half In declaring that the leopard Is "To verify my guess I asked a little smiled at the jury, the spectators, the O A N E naked black man digging in the sand, more dangerous than the Uon or tiger.. At reporters—any one. every one in the Chinese boy to translate- first he probably In obedience to a dream, or They have no fear of the Hon, provided was rather backward, but 1 urged him courtroom. other sign. they are not bunting for it, for It wUl until he finally said: When the evidence was all in find The- xiatlves are half 'civilized, exceedIttgly not attack/unless provoked, but a "'Your excellency, your daughter the rebuttal had been made—or, rather, superstitious and very poor and leopard is never to be. trusted. says, "Here comes that old wooden had not been made—the case was live mostly on fish .and fruit. They on lands suitable for faraifngr In Africa a number of natives wiere headed bottle." .': Yes, there are some submitted to the jury. I knew before do hot attempt to plant vegetables, prefering purposes. "We^buy and sell firing the reeds along a stream. One of surprises in Chinese." they retired that the widow had made to rely on the'bounty of nature, them, a boy, being .thirsty and hot timber lands." the impression On them, as-she bad on as the fierce hurricanes that sweep the stooped down to driiik. He was immediately every one. that the whole affair was a Not Interrupting at All. Bahamas soon uproot .and destroy gardens. seized by a leopard. The boy's farce, besides having captivated them. At the piano Mrs. Eaton was guiding The little colony Is huddled together brother,' with an admirable iaim, hurled They were out ten minutes and, returned, Edith and Edward and Jack through RAINY RIVER in a collection of squalid huts spear at the leopard while the boy Ma finding for the plaintiff "andawarding the intricacies of an old English melody that are blown clear away in nearly Was in his jiaws. The point separated FARM LAND CO. a damage of 2 cents. when she became a were that the every storm and have to be built anew. the vertebrae of the heck, and the A very small sum to pay for a -broken twins were adding their voices from The island is nine miles long and a leopard fell- stone dead. But the boy R. C. NMSCR. Manager heart. •. an indiscreet distance and- stopped mile wide at the broadest part and lies could not recover. The leopard's fangs playing. When the widow left the courtroom 110 'miles northeast of Cuba. New had torn open his chest an4 injured the "Children." she exclaimed, "you are •very man in it arose and bowed to York Press. lungs. The latter were exposed to not allowed to join in the her as she passed out. She smiled pn. chorus with view through the cavity of the ribs. Edith and Edward!" us all. It was not a smile of triumph He died during the night He Pleaeed Her. H. H. Gordon, Pres. ./ "We weren't," the twins protested. it was smile of good will. Any other "She asked me bow old I thought Leopards are essentially tree living In slightly resentful tones. "We were J. R. Uunu, Vice Pres. and Gen'l Mgr. kind than the latter was not to be she Was.*' and nocturnal animals. Sleeping In "I SAW TBDS'JUDQB." conceived of from, this woman, who singing something quite different."— "What-did you say?" trees or cayes by day, they are seldom M. M. Gordon, Treas. O. E Gordon, Sec. imposition for settlement. Although seemed' to possess a heart big enough Youth's Companion. "Well. 1 perjured myself like a gentleman."—Detroit disturbed. They do an Incredible It was September, she had not yet returned to take In all mankind. Free, Press. Amount of mischief, among cattle No Temptation. to the city, and within a day The matter being settled, I saw. noreason calves, .sheep and dogs, being especially "James, can I trust you with tbe key No amount of effort to save the or two she came into my office. why I should not call: upoh' fond of killing and eating the latter. to the wine cellar?" world can make up for failure to sacrifice- Border Wholesale Mrs. Kate Alvord was unique. Small, Mrs. Alvord. As I entered 1 met h^r They seize their prey by the throat The New Butler (stiffly)—Certainly, for the salvation of your own slender, with a black eye never at rest attorney coming out. He looked Uk^ a and cling With their claws until they air! 1 have seen ail tbe labels.- Life. little world.—Henry F. Cope. and a perpetual smile forever playing man bent on suicided Strange to isajr, succeed In breaking the' splne or in Meat Company his condition did not prevent me from about a pair of exquisitely cut lips, she appeared to be quite able to walk taking his place, proposing to the widow through a whole regiment of men. and receiving in reply a smile and a refusal. I had not got a block away mowing them down as she proceeded. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN MEATS from the house when I saw the Judge She had not been in the office flye minutes A Good Thing who had conducted the trial walking before I began to feel myself OF ALL KIND! In the direction from which I had coming under a spell. I endeavored come. I knew that he was going to to induce her to consider tbe matter lb follow In my footsteps and to meet the hand seriously, but failed. 1 asked her The commonest thing we hear from men forty years same-fate. I could not learn that any if she proposed to settle or stand suit. of and older is, I wish I "Insurance is a good thing. age Poultry, Fish, Oysters.: Eggs, of the jurymen tumbled in on me and She smiled and said that'she hadn't had taken out when when the rates more young, were low. the judge, but none of them had ariy made up her mind. I proposed that Butter, Cheese, Etc. ^Shipments would have it all paid for now." acquaintance with the widow. she have an Interview with my client. A few days after the trial and our She smiled again and replied. "Not at They that instead of its being an all these years, Receive Prompt realize now, expense defeat. Jorbert came into my office to present." When she left me not one they would have been They say, saving money. "Just like finding it Would settle up. He was the only man. connected Attention. step had been taken toward compromising hav^ bloOT itjn." with the case who had had no the case or fighting It. I had connection with It except to bring, the ~. Old Line Life Insurance Companies will distribute in payment gained no evidence from ber as to bow during 1910, International Falls, Minnesota suit. Of all of us he seemed In the far the matter had gone between her of Endowment^ Annuity and Matured Policies, oyer- and $150,000,000, most contemptible position. The jury and my client, whether he had a good ih death losses vThe. amount will increase every year. W decid­ as much more. had virtually snubbed him by or a poor case, whether she would set-, ing in his favor and assuming thit hft Ten, fifteen or twenty years will slip by. Now-is the time for yeu to buy soon tie or fight, whether she really cared broken heart was worth but two cents. --when, your your low—while you are and rates are low, expenses earning good money anything for him or not. Indeed, I was REX BOTTLE But be showed no mortification at his can no better informed than I had been pass a medical examination. x. defeat. I assumed that, having done before she came into the office. the. best he could to show the condemnation We" issue policies clear: down to especially adapted to young people* fifteen years o£ Nevertheless one thing I had learned. of the woman who had en-' Consult your, father and mother and to call andexplain age. ask our nearest representative It was this. Mrs. Alvord was a snared blm, he was content to let the our Twentieth Ceitttury Policy or our Endowment Annuity. J- witch. I was a bachelor and had never matter rest. He paid my chargear and been in the slightest degree affected a a HOPES OTHERS WILL PROFIT BY HIS EXPEDIENCE by any woman. Yet here within half Soon after this I received a note an hour a woman had infatuated me. THE PEOPLES CHOICE Batavia, N. Y., Oct 26.—(Editor The Life Insurance Educator Monthly)—I became conyinped from Mrs. Alvord asking me if there When she had left me with such a of the y^lue of life insurance when I was a young man, twenty-four years oldr and took out a would be an appeal. I replied that I. smile as she might have given me had had not received from my client any $5,000 policy, to be paid to me when 1 was fifty years old"* 'WHciTI was ^a^lTi^rty-^le^yeai'S' ord^" I been her attorney Instead of Jorbert's. notification of such. This brought, another a business opportunity presented itself, requiring the temporary use of: some funds, and the Companyj Ask the Man and the door closing shut her note in Which the writer laid, loaned me a large portion of the face of the policy* on the ufeiaTt^fins. As a result, by the time from my view, it seemed as if I had that: If the plaintiff thought of .piking 0k the $5,000 came due, I had made an additional 50^ out of rYou may put me down as a taken hashish or some other drug to an appear she would prefer that /strong believer in life insurance and especially for youq& men^ even diough it may involve set my brain waltzing through paradise. Duluth Brewing he make it to her instead of in the '"Tgrekt temporary sacrifice. Rates are then more fayorable and they foon get .into the habit I spent the afternoon attempting courts. %fsP' considering their premiums as muph apart of their anniial expense as their house to At my mind on my routine work, At last after' all this fuss, after winning ^rent and provide accordingly Wouldi be glad if my e^ferletice couldjiavc the.et but despite all 1 could do was still over not only her opponent's E. & Malting Co. feet of inducing some young man to go and do likcwisct talking with the young widow' about a counsel (myself), b|it judge and Jury, 1§ suit Was to bring against her for this' woman hikd shown her colors. breafeh of promise, which seemed to' me Cramming back my feelings, I sent my -1 ridiculous. client the note &\f: Within a week, the widow came to He wrote me a reply directing me see me three times. Her object, so she to inform the late- defendant to :hls 'LEONARD KrTHOMPSON-PRES. N sakl. was to find .* way out of the matter. suiCthat, having shown her na^iodi CD BANCROFT. Rcsldsnt Agent It occulted to me that she was to the world as a cautlon il^l to iffl m4 more likely to find bar way into another I. R. SKVBRTSON. General Agent. BADDBTTB5. MINN." young men, he had no further interest Tckphetie Wlo. 74 G. N. MILLARD. Firsl NAtloDfti Pank. lDternatioDal F^Us, Miqn, matter of the same kind, with !n:the"affalr. v..^ me for accuser. The second week she This was my last official act In the did not need to come to my ofljet^ te case. The widow went back to the, V« i'4^, the dty engaged to Is, now Jorbert. Mrs. r®sstas«ssfes5si« ia ikju ismmmMmmmmrn