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the log. I did not know what to expect and was balanced between hope and fear. The big cat sprang over the log; the most magnificent animal I have ever seen; gaunt but graceful, the play of his great muscles under his hide, was beautif uL No mountain lion I had ever killed was more than three-quarters hi3 size. Then settling his body down between his shoulders and crouching low, with long, cautious steps he started down toward us, but on the opposite side. Bigfoot was rapidly pacing the edge of the rock, sniffing and snorting angrily, tossing his head in impatience, his every aspect obviously a challenge to all comers.

His presence was entirely ignored by the lion who showed no signs of anger. From his actions I inferred that he intended to pass us idly by. But the big cinnamon knew him better than 'that lion did npt go according to schedule. Twenty feet across the creek was the counterpart of the rock occupied by the bear; arriving'at the center of It, the Hon was suddenly transformed from a thing of beauty to a most diabolical fiend. His yellow eyes flashed red and green; every hair stood forward.

He was the embodiment of hate and fury; I can conceive of nothing so devilish as when with arched back he advanced sidewise to the bank. A harsh, grating snarl answered the challenging roar from Bigfoot. Crouching at the brink, with ears flat and teeth showing horridly, he settled his hind feet to the rock and launched himself swift as a shaft of light, at his enemy. Imperceptible as an arrow, he shot over that space, but the bear arose in time to receive him; the impact would have a cow. A confused mass of tawny color, twisting, rolling and bounding over the surface of the rock, was all that was discernible from the tanele.

The roars and screams were appalling, while a sickening sound of heavy blows and tearing and rending of flesh came to my ears. Suddenly the lion appeared on a projecting ledge ten feet above his antagonist and out of his reach. He was wounded and bleeding profusely from a deep gash in his breast; great strings of hide dangled loosely from his sides, where the bear had tried to hug him. Blood poured from Bruin's neck as he caved up and down before the ledge, and I noticed that one arm hung limp and helpless. But he was none the less eagei for the next assault as he cried in impotent rage.

The tawny brute above him licked the bWd from his horrid mouth and again sprang at the bear's throat; but he received a stunning blow on his head, and went spinning. Following up his advantage, Bigfoot piled on and endeavored to hug him. I saw the lion's back heave and straighten convulsively; the bear delivered a powerful blow, then broke away. He reared upright as the lion flew at his throat. I saw the bear's entrails fall out upon the ground, where they were literally torn away by his feet.

Again the lion sought the safety of the shelf of rock, as the famous Bigfoot fell dead. My tawny deliverer sat and licked hla many wounds, and from our respective perches we watched each other interestedly and for my part very anxiously as those great yellow orbs shone upon me. Indeed, it was with intense relief that 1 heard the report of a shotgun down the canon, and my friend vaulted away. I was soon busy removing the bear skin, out of which this coat was made. I surmised that the shot we heard came from a party of.

amateur nimrods who were camping down below. They were coming up the canon, and smiling grimly I seized my pick, dabbled it, my hands and overalls in the animal's blood and was standing heroically over my game when the noisy gang arrived. Amazement? Well, it'll do. I said nothing, but they made a few deductions, and the tale of my slaughtering a cinnamon with a miner's pick is still used as a crowner to all others in those hills. That lion still haunts the Apache Canon, 1 admit that it is not an ordinary one of its kind.

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LOUIS, MO. Established in Su Louis in 1S38. I be (bost "Aw, shaw!" The sonorous sound issued from the throat of a portly gentleman and rolled through the spacious smoking room of the Southern Hotel. jx. uuuiuci vi uavnmg uicu v-un- versing, and making themselves informal ly comfortable round a table, while a storm raged outside.

Slightly apart from this group sat, a man who had not participated in the conversation, but a cynical smile played at the corners of his mouth and formed a wrinkle on his nose. His rugged features proclaimed the mountaineer. As for his form. It was hidden, even when standing, by a great bear-skin coat; culture and refinement evinced themselves 'In his countenance. "Say, Bill," continued the reverberating voice of the disgusted landlord, then turning, "gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you my old pal, William Saunders, Bill, these are friends and patrons of mine.

Now boys, Bill has probably killed more game in Colorado than any other one man; I want him to express his opinion as to the practicability of attacking with Impunity a mountain lion, and killing him with a knife any old thing." The gentleman In the coat switched his cigar across his mouth and said, in a low musical vpice. "Glad to know you, my friends; but, as the opinion of a stranger would scarcely influence yours, I shall not commit myself. However, If you care to listen, and my friend will vouch for me, I'll relate an experience of mine from which you may draw your own conclusions. I confess to a weakness for prospecting, and I was humoring my natural bent, in the North Apache Canon. With one companion, I was camping in an old deserted cabin said to be haunted.

A year prior to this, a young prospector who had occupied it was found one day dead, but In almost a standing position, braced back in a corner of the room In an expostulating attitude, eyes staring and his hair as white as snow. Aside from the convenience and protection afforded by the shanty this story had presented an attraction to me Irresistible. In about a week my companion's fears had nearly worn off and we were sitting before the fire one rainynlgnt when I said "I guess Schoony, the" only spirits In this place are those you brought with you "You thinkin' of that too? Huh! Don't It gives me the shakes. "Snakes you mean," I said; then gazing suggestively around continued, "wonder which corner 'twas that fellow died "Please don't; if ye don't cut that out now, I'll git drunk right here." Schoony took a lengthy pull at his bottle and, knowing nothing more disgusting than Schoony when he was full, I desisted. I For ten minutes we puffed our pipes In silence, our minds busy conjuring up for 'their own delectation, the scene of the tragedy of a year ago.

Schoony was nervously relighting his pipe, his eyes probing a shadowy corner, the air was split by the most unearthly, terror-distraught shrieks that ever smote the ear of man. It filled the cabin; the canon -vas full of it, resound-jing from rock to cliff and back again, and ijust as the furthermost echoes, sounding Jike a distant cry of distress, were returning, the very atmosphere seemed to shake and fall apart in chunks, as another cry, if possible more harrowing than the first, ending in a plaintive wail, seemed to issue from a spot about five feet over my Wad. a "My God!" Schoony fell senseless to the ground. I must have retained my presence of tnind, I remember everything so distinct-y. But I was paralyzed with fear could not move a muscle.

My rifle stood ready to my hand, but I was deprived of every faculty except that of thought: I could not reach for the weapon. With my knees knocking helplessly, my hair on end, my tongue like a dry stick and my stomach contracted until It was sore for a week and with eyes 'glued to the ceiling I waited for the something to appear. But I waited in vain: nor was the cry repeated. A glare of lightning and a clap of thunder smote the hills but that was all and it was plenty. I could not have believed that night that I would ever welcome that awful sound as a voice from Heaven.

aid a rew aaj-s later. With an effort, I recalled my faculties and proceeded to revive Schoony. At first I thought he was dead. But at 'last I managed to get him up. I never admitted to him that I had heard anything and Schoony swore a solemn oath he would never touch another drop.

Next morning after a thorough inspection of the roof and the loft in the cabin wfthout any satisfactory result, we moved our stuff farther up the canon and proceeded to build another shack. That the young man who was found dead was scared to death I have not the slightest doubt. One day while making my way up the canon with my prospecting kit-pick, shovel and specimen bag on turning a bend in the creek, I heard a peculiar noise just ahead, behind some willow and quaken-asp bushest It sounded like some animal splashing in the water; for all Jhe world like a large hog besporting himself in that manner. A hog, however, was out of the question; but so, likewise were all the other animals that I could bring, to mind. I had never seen any thing larger than a deer, aside from a stray steer, in the Greenhorns.

Silently as possible I drew near the spot from whence the noise emanated a lonely pool about fifteen feet across, lying between the rocks in the bottom of the gorge where I stood. At the edge of the creek channel near the bushes which obstructed my view, grew some quakenasp saplings. At last I gained them and stood with my hand on the largest one. The splashing and floundering continued, but in order to see, I resolved to shin up the sapling and look over. A sudden silence ensued, then a familiar "woof," another flounder, and the head and shoulders of a monster bear appeared above the thicket.

I knew there wouia oe someimng aoing i right away and with a gasp "Bigroot. I started up the tree. There wos on lucky circumstance con Afraid it Would Slip. -ft Senator Tillman piloted a constituent around the capitol building for a while, and then, having work to do on the floor, conducted him to the senato gallery, relates the American Specta tor. After an hour or so the visitor ap- reached a gallery doorkeeper and PLciebe Ganon nected with that move it was started about two seconds before Bigfoot crashed through brush.

I didn't wait to receive him; I had another appointment farther up the tree and time was pressing. The doubtful question with me was. If the tree was long enough Of one thing I was confident it led in the right direction. He waved to me as I took my departure and I left a part of my overalls with him as an assurance of my regard. He rushed past on all four's, but I knew he-would return on his hind legs and endeavor to press me to a lengthier Interview.

By dint of hard climbing 1 managed to rise to the occasion. His savage paw just grazed my shoe and peeled the bark off the tree. My lower extremities possessed an almost uncontrollable desire to climb on top of me, yet to go higher was to endanger my life for the tree was already yielding to my weight and bearing to one side. After vainly trying to dislodge me by shaking the tree, he stood and growled at me awhile then gave 'vent to his disgust by shambling around and round the tree. Unless something new should develop in his favor I was safe as long as I was able to maintain my position.

But something new developed. Not far from the sapling was a rock the size of an ordinary cook stove it oc-cured to Bigfoot to spring from the top of it and drag me from my perch; I saw that It was possible and there being no alternative I must go higher, even if the tree should break. Rapidly as I could I heaved myself upward, while farther still farther bent my support. Bruin launched himself from the rock with a snort of rage; I felt a terrible blow below my left knee and my legs were disengaged from the trunk of the tree. 1 found myself suspended in mid-air clinging for my life to that little quakenasp, which my weight was bending to a horizontal position or nearly so.

Though 1 hung within easy reach of him Bigfoot was evidently waiting for me to drop. One of my legs was nearly helpless from the blow it had received, and my efforts to reinstate myself in my former position were futile. Almost insane with frenzy, I changed my hold on the tree and faced the other way; then I could see Bruin and the top of the sapling. The monster deemed it wise, and high-time to again assert himself and as he stood erect and lunged forward, with a frantic effort I wound my legs around the top and smaller branches of the tree. My little friend bent lower of course, but it was the best I could do, and gentlemen, I thought it was all over with your Uncle Fudge.

I closed my eyes and waited. It was a horrible thing i to contemplate. I tried to faint. To have lost consciousness would have been a mercy. But I couldn't faint to do any good, so opening my eyes and craning my riecE to look at my tormentor, I saw him standing about six feet away, eyeing me quizzically.

Humor glinted from his little brown eyes while the corners of his mouth seemed to turn up in what I may have mistaken for a smile. But he lurched forward to a position directly under me, with one paw raised to its utmost length. And there I was doubled up in a knot under the leaning tree, wrong end up hanging down to meet him. Apparently I was too high for him, and ihe spark of hope which still lived in my heart blazed forth and my blood started again tingling through my veins. But alas! At first I didn't konw what had happened, but I was conscious of rising or being thrown through the air, I gripped the tree like grim death.

Was I dying? Had I fainted, or what? Now I was falling! down! down! down! Whack! I received another, terrific spank on tue most exposed part of my anatomy, and again I soared skyward. The tree almost resumed its natural perpendicular position then down, down again. This performance continued for maybe five minutes. Talk about your tossing billows! or "Life on the Ocean Wave," Their turbulency was not to be compared with ours. Aside from the awful spanking and my cramped position, I will confess to no great bodily inconvenience.

Bruin had probably never before amused himself with a punching bag, and he entered the game with a vigor and vim, which, for a time gave promise of overdoing the thing. Spank! Spank! up and down. After a time, when the novelty of the thing had worn off, I noticed that I could maintain my position while ascending, almost without effort; I resolved to take advantage of that fact, by" sliding downward when the tree rose upright and thus gradually get out of his reach. So the next time my heels pointed skyward I reached down the trunk, grasped it, with one yank, I gained at least a foot. I could have shouted for joy.

On my descent I heard the powerful blow of the great paw pass harmlessly under my back. I noticed also, that the brute did not manifest his original interest In the game. He kept sniffing and listening nervously. Then I heard him shuffle over along the bank of the creek and I made use of the interval between acts to turn over on fop of my tree and make myself as safe and comfortable as the circumstances would permit. For the first time I had good look at Bigfoot.

He was ambling Impatiently back and forth across a smooth rock that formed the brink of the creek. He was a monster cinnamon; I had killed a score of bears but none so big as he. His track was fourteen inches long. He had a reputation in the Greenhorn mountains and it -was not a good one. I came near to being his third victim.

As I watched, his peculiar actions puzzled me, until a terrible scream rang down the gorge and echoed and re-echoed from mountain to mountain. It was the same as I had heard a few nights before only at a greater distance, and because of the distance I reeogniz it at once as the voice of a mountain lion. "Ah! The Ghost of the Apache Canon!" I thought with delight. Not that I expected any animal to attack Bigfoot, but anything to create a diversion which might enable me to escape. rxmg I waited, and began to despair of jnis appearance, when oti the opposite jside of the creek and farther up, behind ja fallen tree I saw the tail of my friend "My name is Swate.

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A southern lawyer tells of a case that came to him at the outset of his career, wherein his principal witness was a darky named Jackson, supposed to have knowledge of certain transac tions not at all to the credit of his em ployer, the defendant. "Now, Jackson," said the lawyer, want you to understand the importance of telling the truth when you are put on the stand. You know what wil happen', don't yon, if you oon't tell the truth?" "Yassir, was Jackson reply; "in dat case I expects our side will win de case." Harper's Magazine. AMONG THE STARS. Tfr it Facts of Contemporary Life Stat- tr rV rl in tka Atrhicnn lnh va 1 Man's Own Way.

Speaking: of old-fashioned things, what has become of corn pone. If you must lie, it is better to lie for practice than for profit. ft Learn to be patient: you'll find a lot of use for patience before you die. What has become of the old fashion ed boy who had his school books cov ered with calico. ft There are so many two-faced peo ple in this world that they even keep each other guessing.

ft When a a marries he thinks his wife is an angel, and what a pity it is she doesn't keep up the bluff. i ft We have an idea that the weather clerk loks a good deal- like Mr. Hyde when he is having one of his fits. ft The average man Is willing to let his wife entertain all the company except officeholders and politicians. ft When it is announced that a woman has arrived to make an "extended vis- It" it means she has come to stay.

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If the talk that is going- on around Kansas City concerning "Coming Thro' the liye" can be taken as a criterion, the Willis Wood Theatre will be packed to its utmost capacity next week, commencing Sunday night. Seldom has a show been so g-enerally discussed in advance of its coming, and there is no doubt that the forthcoming verdict justifies it. Everybody seems to know that the great organization of 80 people, which has been so phenomenally successful in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, is coming here, with all of the original principals in the cast, and with every detail of the stage representation, and this condition of affairs warrants the interest that is so manifest Thoroughly good comedy, and plenty of it, and a charming musical score, with entirely capable artists to inter pret it, make a potent drawing power, and these elements are assured in the performasce of "Com-ng Thro' The Rye." Besides we are to nave the celebrated "beauty chorus" of 60, and the charming "girl with the white hcrse," both of which adjuncts of the show have created such a favorable impression everywhere. That this will prove to be one of the most delightful theatrical events that have occurred in this vicinity for a long time, goes without saying. The great cast includes Stella May hew, Bessie (iibson, Floi-ence Town send, Frank Lalor, Frank Doane, John Park, Win.

Riley Hatch and the others who are identified witt the suecess of this production. There will be a special popular matinee Wednesday and regular matinee Saturday. this. "What's the word?" he asked. "Idiosyncrasy." "What?" "Idiosyncrasy." "I guess I'll stay in," said Swate.

Speaking of the departure of old fashioned customs; what has become of the woman who took the table cloth to the door after a meal and shook' it 7.