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WILD BEASTS GUARD HER

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The Strange Protectors of a

Southern Woman’s Home.

A Wildcat Once Saved Her Baby from a

Strange Animal, and Then the Cat

Brought Her Family to Reside

with Her.

Yesterday I rowed up to the mouth

of Little river, tied my skiff to the

root of a tree and walked slowly

toward a grove of oaks, in which there

is a small, white-washed cabin, where

lives the pluckiest little woman in

Louisiana. When I reached the gate

and saw there as fine specimens

of wildcat as I ever saw in the

Zoo sitting in a row on the steps,

and eying me with a “eome-in-if-you

darc’’ expression, my bump of brav

ery became ahn'ost flat, but my deter

mination bump puffed up to my rescue,

and, steadying my voice, I called loud

ly. Mrs. Benson immediately ap

peared at the door, and seeing my

anxious face peering through the

fence, she fixed her gaze on the ani

mals and pointing to the end of the

gallery, said firmly:

“March, boys; down quiet.” Then

turning to me she said with a smile:

“Lift the gate a wee bit: it hangs

heavy in wet weather, and come right

in. Don’t be afraid. They are harmless

as kittens when I speak to them. Now

take this chair, it’s the easiest in the

house. Here's a fan, not very pretty,

but gives a good wind. Won’t you

take off your hat and cool your head

while you're resting? Ah, there are

the babies. How like young kittens

they are, only more shy. They play

so all daj“, but the mother knows jou’re

a stranger, and, being suspicious, is

too much concerned about the safety

of her jealously-guarded children

to take part, as she usually does, in

their sport. See how she watches you.

Don’t let it make you nervous. She is

only afraid, that's all. lam the only

one they r know well, and they don’t

care to see anyone else here. 1 like to

watch them playing, and you have no

idea how much company they are to

me. Queer taste? Well, I don’t know.

Many people think so, but it doesn’t

seem queer to me. You see this is how

it came about, how I came to be jok

ingly called: “The Wildcat Farmer.’

“One day during the summer of ’BB I

went down to Cypress Drove, as 1 had

been doing for several weeks, to take

my husband’s dinner. When the

weather was favorable 1 carried our

baby, and then I'd stay and have a

long chat with Sam, and take my time

about getting home. But when I

thought it unwise to take baby out,

why I'd lock up the house, hurry to

the grove and back again, being afraid

to leave him alone too long. On the

day of which 1 speak the sun w r as ter

ribly hot, with_ not a particle of

breeze, i didn't dare take him out at

Dial time of day, and 1 was afraid to

leave him in a close room without any

:resh air. 1 opened one window half

way, and tied it so, kissed my sleeping

boy, locked tin* uoor, and hastened on

my way with Sam's dinner. My hus

band was in very poor health, but that

day was in such spirits that it cheered

m • greatly, and 1 came home singing

al tin* top of my voice.

"As 1 entered our gate such a scream

as few hear during a lifetime rent the

air. followed in quick succession by

ihrve others equally terrible. In one

»eeond 1 located the direction from

which the sound came, and then it was

my turn to scream, but 1 couldn’t. 1

had no voice to scream with. 1 had no

breath, hardly. 1 w'as cold and par

alyzed from head to foot. In one cor

ner of the yard was the sight that

nearly froze my blood. There was a

strange, ferocious-looking animal with

my baby; the skirt of his dress was in

; .> mouth, while the little fellow

dangled in the air. in front of the

animal was a wildcat. 1 had seen

many of them since living so near the

woods, but this one was unusually

urge. Every time the annual would

lake a step forward as though he in

tended going oil’ with the baby the cat

would glide up against him, lash his

tail, crook his neck—a certain attitude

of theirs—and look as if he intended

killing- him that second. And each

time the animal screamed feat fully.

The cat invariably barred his way.

Why he did so 1 don’t know, unless he

was jeub us of his prize and deter

mined to share it. I could account for

h h actions in to other way. 1 was

certain they were going- to tight over

the baby.

"Something had to be done, and done

quickly, or 1 would see my child torn

i i two and eaten. The thought made

me as wild as were the animal.. almost.

1 rushed in the house, grabbed the

shotgun, and. trembling like u leaf and

praying wLh every breath, fired

lorough the window at the animal

hat had my baby. Aly aim was un

steady, and 1 only maimed him. It had

.lie desired effect, though, for he

limped off as rapidly as he could, the

wildcat at full tilt after him, pouncing

oa him every second, biting and

scratching him, and the baby was

icopped on the ground. In a moment

iho baby was safe in my arms and lin

lit of hysterics. The two animals

were just outside the yar I and fight

i :g in a way to make one’s flesh creep.

» i.-ir cries became faint, and then I

id not hear them again, i bugged

•ur boy and trembled the rest of the

day. My turves were completely shat

tered over the excitement. Every mo

ment i would draw my baby closer

•ad promise never to leave him again.

And 1 never did.

“When Sam came home he examined

the trails. He knew those of the wild

:.t at ouee. but the others he had

ever seen be.ore. The feet were as

'out again us the cat's, but he did not

•.now just what animal it was, nor

> ver had an opportunity of finding

out, for the animal did not call again.

“The next morning, about nine

o'clock, what should 1 see walking

around but the same wildcat as had

saved the baby the day before. lie

was very blood 3' and, besides looking

as if he had been in a terrific fight,a p

peared to be half starved. I was not

mistaken. I knew* it was the same

cat, and. while his intentions might

have been the same as the other ani

mal, 1 felt ( rateful to him for saving

my child. But for his repeatedly

barring the other’s way. which pre

vented his getting out of the yard be

fore 1 came, both would have gone,

and we’d ne. er have known the fate

of our babe. The thing looked so bad

I felt sorry for him and tossed a bone

out of the window. He went for it

and was gone in a minute, and the

next morning he came back for an

other bone, which X gave him, with

•crape from the kitchen.

“He came without fail every morn-

iu* about the same time, ate the small

pieces of J»read and meat, and carried

the bone sway with him. He came so

regularly that I prepared his break

fast early, put it in a plate and set it

near the fence where he came in, and

then I’d watch for him. His morning

calls lasted for about two weeks, when

one morning, to my surprise, I saw

him come out of the hollow tree in the

corner of our yard. His impudence

frightened me a little and amused me

also. He came out, ate his breakfast,

or a part of it, and then made several

trips back to the tree, taking some

thing in his mouth each time. Most

of the day I watched to sec what lie

was sharing his meals with, but did

not see or hear anything. That night,

however, after we had gone to our

room, Sam looked out through the

window and saw the old cat and two

young ones playing in the moonlight.

“She had liked the place so well she

had moved her family there. Sam

laughed, and said we had three board

ers. He felt toward the old cat as I

did, and we concluded to let her stay

awhile if they behaved. This they

did. Not once did they do anything

to cause us the least alarm. They be

came more gentle every day, and

plaj’ed over the yard like house cats,

in a year the young ones were as

large as their mother, and the three

were glossy and fat. They would run

up afnd down the gallery for an hour

at a time, and never pay the least at

tention to the baby, who was then

toddling around.

“Not long after this my husband

died, and in less than six months later

our boy joined his papa. I was almost

in despair as to what I should do. On

account of his ill-health we had man

aged to only a little for a rainy

day. I had no relatives to go to; be

sides I couldn't leave our home. I

came here as a bride, our baby was

born here, a good many years of hap

piness were spent under the roof of

this little cabin. In spite of the dark

shadow, I felt drawn to the place.

They are both buried out there under

those trees, and I can't ever leave

them.

“I had been very successful with

raising chickens and turkeys, for

which there’s always a ready' market.

That field was open to me as a means

of livelihood, and I concluded to try it,

my only fear being thieves, both

kinds, tne two and four legged. But

do you know that now never a ’coon,

’possum, mink, stray cat or anything,

man or beast, enters this yard at any

time.

“The wildcats, this old one I’ve had

so long and her two children, keep

them all away. They are better by

far than the best watch tlogs to be

found. Before they took up their

residence here and became our pets,

something could be heard prowling

around every night. And not only

that, but making off with a duck or

chicken in his mouth. Now nothing

of the kind ever happens. They may

come around,but are met or frightened

away before they ever get in the

3 r ard. And Christmas week every year

I bring home from market a small for

tune from the sale of my turkeys,

chickens and ducks,a number of which,

besides eggs, 1 dispose of readily all

during the year.

“Once in awhile a chicken-hawk

swoops down upon some unsuspecting

fowl,but that isn’t often,and is theonly

thing that ever gets a.lead of the cats.

I was surprised a week a- o by seeing

my old pet cat had an addition to her

family. It had been so long since her

babies were born I did not think she'd

have any more. But there they are,

two fine little fellows, as you see.

Well,three were enough,but I shall not

complain or interfere with her keep

ing the other two. I don’t know what

I should do without them. There’s

one thing sure, I couldn’t live here

alone nor meet with any success with

fowl-raising. They are uncqualed as

a guard.”

When I left I was escorted to the

gate by Mrs. Benson and two of the

cats, who walked along slowly at her

feet, their tails under them and as

meek and docile as any dog I ever saw.

The old cat stayed on the gallery, still

eying me uneasily, # as she had done

all along. But the moment 1 was out

of the yard she was relieved, and gave

expression thereto by leaping off the

gallery and tearing like mad over the

yard, her two babies after her. A

wilder romp I never saw than these

Sve cats —for the others joined them a

moment later—enjoyed. As 1 pushed

the skiff out and picked up the oars I

glanced back at the small cabin and

smiled with admiration at the little

widow who has lived for nearly live

years miles from a living person, sup

ported herself nicely, and her protect

ors wildcats. Peterson (La.) Corre

spondence St. Louis Republic.

FACTS ABOUT SCHNEBELITE.

A N*w and Powerful Explosive Whose

Manufacture la Simple and Cheap.

The advantages of schnebclite. the

new explosive, are thus enumerated by

the New Science Review: “Its manu

facture is simplicity itself; it is adapt

ed for all war. sporting and mining

purposes; it is almost smokeless, with

a very slight recoil; it is not perma

nently damaged by heat or wet: the

gun does not foul or become oxidized;

no noxious gases are produced from its

combustion; it is very cheap to make:

a temperature of 540 degrees Fahren

heit is required to produce a combus

tion; when a lighted match is applied

to it in its uncoufined state it simply

burns, no explosion being produced:

the pressure developed by the charge

of schnebclite. required to give the

normal velocity to the bullet fired from

a military rifle, is from 1,000 to 1,800

atmospheres, as compared with 2,000 to

3.200 atmospheres, the pressure devel

oped by charges of other explosives

when the same velocity is imparted to

the ballet, and as compared with the

best dynamite its force is as 55 to 45,

or 20 per cent, greater, while it does

not pulverize the surounding rock as

dynamite does. The inventors assert

that schnebclite can be manufactured

and sold at least 50 per cent, cheaper

than any other known explosive of a

similar character. Its adoption by the

French government would, it is be

lieved, result in a saving of 50,000,000

francs per annum.”

The Field of Lies.

The Field of Lies was the battle

fought by Louis the Good Xatured

against his three sons. The unfort u

nave monarch was deserted by his own

army; he was twice shut up i n a

cloister, twice compelled to do public

penance and twice released to pacify

the quarrels of his family. He finally

died m a campaign against his own son

Louis.

ROMANCE OF THE MOUNTAINS.

The Story of a Fugitive Pirate and the

Disappearance of Ills Daughter.

Seventy years ago, says the Pitts

burgh Dispatch, there came to the

county named from Massachusetts a

young man named James Hoar, son of

a prominent citizen of Hoston, edu

cated at one of the leading eastern

colleges. Heyond this nothing could

be learned of his life. He secured

work as a day laborer at the old Whar

ton furnace. Everything about this

stranger bespoke the gentleman of

culture. This fact, added to the mys

tery of his life, led to the conclusion

that he had left Massachusetts for rea

sons which he did not care to divulge.

One (.lay as he was handling a large

piece of metal it fell and broke his

leg. He wai taken to the home of

Benjamin Bronson. Bronson had a

daughter named Jennie, a typical

country girl. When Hoar was taken

to her home her spare time was de

voted to the care of the new arrival.

After the patient was able to be about

his attentions to Jennie became ap

parent, and a quiet country wedding

followed. They took up their abode

in a little log house about a mile east

of Dunbar. A household of children

came to their fireside. James Hoar

had become a typical woodsman, and

many stories of his prowess as an ath

lete are still told. The tranquillity

of the little mountain horh’6 was

broken by the appearance of a south

ern punter named Lc Clair, lie was

accompanied by his wife, and together

they secured quarters at Hoar's cabin.

The latter had a daughter. Le Clair

pretended to have become enamored

of the fair-haired mountain girl. The

secret of his pretended love was kept

from liis wife, and when the Le Clairs

left she disappeared. What became of

her is still a mastery*,' and it is be

lieved that she was kidnaped by the

Le Clairs and taken south. The broken

hearted mother never recovered from

the loss, and from that time life for

her was on*; long sorrow. James Hoar

died at the age of eighty-three. It is

now known that his connection with

some of the Cape Cod pirates drove

him into this mountain exile. He was

a cousin of Senator Hoar, of Massa

chusetts. Jennie Hoar made a liveli

hood after the death of her husband

by selling roots and herbs.

EXPERIMENTS WITH TADPOLES.

Extraordinary Results of a German Scien

tist’s Operations.

Dr. Born, of Breslau, has experi

mented on the embryos and tadpoles

of frog's, with reference to the subject

of regeneration of parts, with some

striking results. For example, says

the Xew York Independent, he by ac

cident partly cut off the tail of a tad

pole so that it hung by the skin; in

twenty-four hours the gap was tilled

in. lie then cut a portion of the tail

olf, and found on nutting it on again

that it grew together.

lie has cut pieces off from one part

of the body and spliced them on to

another individual; at first he spliced

together two parts of the same tadpole,

lie then cut a number of tadpoles into

two and let the two parts grow to

gether again. Encouraged bj 7 his suc

cess in these plastic operations he took

the anterior half of the body of one

tadpole and applied it to the posterior

half of another tadpole, and the two

parts grew together again. Then he

took the two anterior halves of two

tadpoles, making a double-ended

creature, which lived a little while.

He also took a minute larva and

grafted the anterior half of one to the

tail end of another; aiso the dorsal

half of one tadpole of the one genus

was made to grow to the ventral half

of the tadcolc of the other genus. He

then sliced off enough of the ventral

surface of two tadpoles to make a

double-tailed animal. Finally he cut

off the ventral surfaces of Bumbiuator

and a frog and applying the freshly

cut ventral surface to each other pro

duced a double monstrosity which

lived for several days.

STRANGE EASTERN CUSTOMS.

Prominent Men of India Who Pass Into

Utter Obscurity.

Some five or six years ago the son of

the late rajah of Tanjore, a man of

some forty or fifty years of age, and,

of course, the chief native personage

in that part of India, made up his mind

to become a devotee, lie one day told

his friends he was going on a railway

journey, sent off his servants and car

riages from the palace to the station,

saying he would follow, gave them the

slip, and has never been hoard of since.

Ii is friends went to the man who was

known to have been acting as his guru,

who simply told them: “You will

never find him,” Supposing the G. O.

M. or the prince of A Vales were to re

tire like this—how odd it would seem!

To illustrate this subject, says a Lon

don.Times writer. I may tell the story

of Tilleinathan Swam, who was the

teacher of the guru, whose acquaint

ance I am referring to in this chapter.

Tilleinathan was a wealthy shipowner

of high family. In 1850 he devoted

himself It) religions exercises till 1855,

when he became “emancipated.” After

his attainment he felt sick of the world

and so he wound up his affairs, divided

all his goods and money among rela

tives and dependants, and* went off

stark naked into the woods. His

mother and sisters were grieved and

repeatedly pursued him. offering to

surrender all to him if he would only

return. At last he simply refused to

answer their importunities and they

desisted. lie appeared in Tanjore after

that in 1857, 1850, 1804 and 187”, but has

not been seen since. He is supposed to

be living somewhere in the western

Ghauts.

INDIANS AS HUNTERS.

They Do Not Frighten the G.;uie Out of

Districts, as White Men Do,

It is a remark often made by old

timers who knew the western country

when the red man was as common there

as the tenderfoot is now. said a sports

man from the Kockies. that Imjuans

never scare away game from a region

in which they hunt.. But, they say,

wherever the white man comes with his

firearms game is bound to be killed off

or driven away. These sayings are

true, with the qualifying statement

that by reasonable game laws game of

all kinds can be preserved and even

when nearly exterminated restored to

almost its original pTentlfulness in dis

tricts not too fully occupied by man

and his domestic creatures.

Note the Indian in hunting as he

searches out and steals upon the deer

or wild turkeys with his soft tread of

raoccasiue '* *a the twang of his

bow stri g n:: flight cf the whist

ling arrev \o explosive sound

to alarm . - .res near the one

that is struck. He, like themselves, is

in sympathetic accord with the tints

and tones of plain mountain and for

est. and while endeavoring 1 to match

their craft against his they are satis

fied with trying to avoid him without

abandoning the region where he abides.

It is when white hunters of the

sportsmen variety invade its haunts,

their presence heralded by the tread of

their booted feet, their clothes alien in

appearance to the hues and contours of

the creatures of the wilds, and their

purpose shown by the crack and crash

of firearms, that game begins to mi

grate to other feeding grounds. Add

to this the increasing ana indiscrimi

nate slaughter for slaughter's sake that

characterizes the white man's hunting

and it is easy to see why the depopula

tion of the forest and plain, when un

restricted by law, is speedy and sure.

Ever since the general adoption by In

dians of firearms for then* hunting it

has not been found that large game

has diminished materially in regions in

which the white man is an infrequent

visitor, although Sir Samuel 1 taker, the

explorer, asserts of African game and

predatory creatures that “animals can

endure traps, pitfalls, fire, and every

savage method of hunting; but fire

arms will speedily clear them out from

extensive districts."

USES OF THE CACTUS.

Serve* as a Reservoir in a Thirsty Land,

Also Used for Medicine.

In the arid plains of Brazil and Mex

ico, where all r.ature seems parched up

for six months in the year, the cacti

serve as reservoirs of moisture, we are

told, and not only the natives, by

wounding the fleshy stems with their

long forest knives, supply themselves

with a cool and refreshing juice, hut

even the cattle contrive to break

through the skin with their hoofs and

then to suck the liquid they contain,

instinct teaching them to avoid wound

ing themselves with the spines.

\\ here the prickly pear cactus grows

to an immense size the branches are

fed to cattle and sheep after the thorns

are burned off. The fruit is large and

pear-shaped, blood red in color wnen

ripe and very sweet. The fruit is used

in the fall to color preserves or jellies.

The fruit of all kinds is edible and

some very palatable. The leaves of the

prickly pear are used for poultices for

wounds or bruises, and the root is rich

in medicinal qualities. The Mexican

Indians are said to be very fond of the

leaves of different varities of opuntia;

they fry them in batter like cakes. A

luscious beverage is afforded the thirs

ty traveler by some of the larger speci

mens. The tops are cut oil’ in such a

manner as to leave a basin-like cavity,

which is soon tilled with the juice of

the plant. It is said that beautiful

furniture, tables costing as much as

four hundred dollars, are made from

the large-growing varieties, and vari

ous ornaments, napkin rings, paper

knives, match safes, inkstands, etc.,

are made from the beautiful wood of

the candle cactus. It seems strange,

says the Ladies' Home Journal, that

human habitations can be made from

thsese queer succulent plants, yet we

are told that huts are built with the

lumber of cereus giganteous. Fences,

impenetrable to man or beast, are made

of opuntia tuna and of various rapid

growing cereuses, and hedges from a

variety known as the strawberry.

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Eureka Chemical & M’f’g Co., La Crosse, Wis.

Office of THE PIONEER PRESS COMPANY, C. W. Hornick, Supt.

St. Paul, Minu.. Sept. 7,1894.

Eureka Chemical and M’f’g Co., La Crosse, Wis.

Dear Sirs—l have been a tobacco fiend formanv vears, and during the past two years have

smoked fifteen to twenty cigars regularly every dav.* My whole nervous system became affected,

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