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THE TOOTH 0F SIVA;
BY GEORGE G. FARQUHAR.
“I reckon this trip is a downright
failure,” exclaimed Louis Henley, ir-
Iitably, as he sat with his friend, Dr.
W orrall, in their tent one night, after
a ten houns’ stalk in the desolate re
gion at the foot of the Himalayas. “I
vote we give it up as a bad job and
make tracks homeward.”
“We’ve been unlucky, that’s all,” re-
turned Dr. Worrall. “There are yaks
about, for we came across their ‘spoor’
to—day up the lake. ‘Halloo, Louis,
what’s that thing?”
Louis had pulled out his chronome-
ter as he was speaking, and the doc-
tor’E eye chanced to catch the gewgaw
that dangled from the chain.
“This?” replied Louis, nonchalantly.
“Oh, it’s a little present I had from
I'ollard before he leftCalcut-ta. Neither
valuable nor very ornamental, but I
keep it in memory of him.”
The object which Dr. \Vorrall now
scrutinized with some degree of curi-
osity was a conical—shaped piece of
green jade, about an inch in length;
from the base of it projected a short
strip of tarnished metal, and through
this metal a hole had been bored. Dr.
Worrall looked long and carefully at
the article.
“Where did Pollard get it?" he asked,
a grave look on his face.
“Well, he came, across it in this very
neighborhood, I believe. Perhaps, I
ought to say—putting the fact into
plain English—he stole it. ”
“How did he become possessed of
it‘)?’ .‘.{f‘»-.L-'__h«_
“Oh, by some means or other he se-
c‘.'1etly obtained access to a Brahmin
temple, in which an elaborately jew-
eled image of Siva. was enshrined. The
jade teeth of the idol were fixed into
their sockets with golden screws, and
Pollard, desirous of having a memento
of his hazardous enterprise, broke one
of the teeth off, and carried it away
with him. It was the act of an icono-
clast. a vandal, but—”
“You don’t mean to tell me, cried
Dr. lTorrall, excitedly, “that this is the
120t01i0us Bharatra tooth ?" ‘
“.‘V'OVV .'ou mention it, I recollect
Ihat VV as the name of the temple—the
Bharatra temple. But why notori~
0113‘?"
“It appears that the Bhootaneese
11.1Ve a special regard for these teeth.
(C-ltfllll scores or inscriptions upon
them being attributed to Brahma s
own hand. It VV as the (10111 le tr1a1.g it
cut into the face of this piece of jade
that caused me to question you respect.
ing it. A description of the missing
tooth was circulated throughout the
district, the rajah of VVaysnu offering
,7
la. substantial reward for its recovery.
If you value your comfort and safety,
Louis, I would advise you to get rid of
the stone'at the earliest opportunity.
Many a fanatic would not count the
cost if he could only obtain possession
of the tooth, and many who are not
fanatics would have little scruple
about killing you for the sake of the
rewarc ."
“I had no idea I was carrying such
a dangerous article about with me,” re-
jo: ned Louis, with a laugh. “Here it
goes back into my pocuket. ”
“Hark!” interposed the doctor, sud-
“What was
that?"
He rose to his feet, strode past the
tent pole, and lifted the flap of the
tent. For a minute he looked keenly
out into the night, listening.
“I must have been mistaken,"he said.
returning. “I thought I heard stealthy
footsteps in the grass. But there‘s no-
body about. ”
“The VV 111d among the leaVes, that
VV as all, ” opined Louis, with a yawn
“I say, Worrall, I think I'll turn in.
I'm dead beat.”
The doctor followed his companions
example, and within half an hour the
tVV ain w ere dee ep in slumbcnr How long
Louis had slept he knew not before
he awoke with a shiver, the cold night
air beating full upon'his face. And
no wonder—for there, not a yard from
his head, the tent cloth was dangling
loose. While he was dreamily debat-
ing the means by which the canvas
could be refastened with the least-
amount of exertion to himself, he saw
a hand thrust into the opening. Louis
gazed fixedly. The cloth was cautious-
. ‘y raised, and now the moon‘s rays
g'listcned upon a forearm which, pro-
truded into the tent, swept gently
from side to side, in an ever widening
semi-circle.
Louis rolled over noiselessly and
clutched the groping limb with both
his hands. The tug of war was violent.
but brief, for Louis’ fingers slipped
down his adversary‘s arm as if it were
the. body of an cc]. The vigor he had
used, thus unexpectedly released, shot
him backward upon Dr. \Vorrallawho,
alarmed at his friends halloos, had
risen into a sitting posture. Before
they could “sort themselves out” the
V\ou1d—be pilferer—for there could be
no doubt the intruder was upon plun-
der bent—had utterly vanished into
space. Nor, although they at once
roused the inmates of the camp—their
llindoo bearers, porters and attend-
ants—could the slightest trace of the
marauder be discovered.
Next morning, while the hunters
were imbibing their early breakfast,
their guide, a Bhootane-se shikari,‘
Chuta Sen, came runing breathlessly
into camp. He had already'been to
the top of an adjoining hill, from
whence he had seen a herd of yaks
grazing in the valley beyond.
Swallowing a hasty meal, the Eng-
lishmen shouldered their weapons and
set off to the spot. There, far be-
low they could discern a. dozen or so
of the wild oxen, mere brown dots on
the plain, browsing placidly upon the
sparse herbage. It became necessary
to exercise the utmost caution in ap-
proaching the herd, and a course was
accordingly shaped round a humm‘ock
of the hill, to leeward, this detour bring-
ing the hunters within gunshot.
Singling Out their animals, Dr. Wor-
rall and Louis fired together. The.
alarmed yaks- broke up in disorder,
most of them stampeding up the vale
ley, while three only—and one oft-hese
cvidentl y wounded badly—burst away
in the opposite direction. Dr. Worrall
followed by the two Hindoo servants,
rushed pell-mell over the bowldcrs in
the hope of heading the larger herd
at ”the neck of the hollow, and so of
getting another shot at them. Louis,
on the other hand, elected to pursue
the bull he had wounded, which, from
its labored flight, he saw must soon
dropof exhaustion. Handing his gun
to Chuta Sen, and ordering that worthyr
to keep close at his heels, he broke out
into a run eastward.
“Look, sahib!” cried the shikarl,
pointing. “Yaks make for the nul-
lah. \Ve cut off corner this way.”
“Is this our path?” exclaimed Louis,
hesitating.
“Yes,
who, hampered with the 'gun, had once
more taken up the rear. “Yaks soon
pass below. Haste, sahib, haste!”
Louis needed no urging. Down the
steep he went—recklessly enough, con-
sidering that but six feet of stony ledge
separated him from the brink of a. gulf
300 feet sheer—over bowlders and tus—
socks of coarse growth, where a slip
of the foot would have been fat-1i.
Down, down — now leaping, now
scrambling on all fours—for fully five
minutes. Then he stopped dead, with
blanched face. Before him and to his
right yawned cavernous depths; on
his left hand was the perpendicular
face of the mountain. The cliff path
had curled.
“What do you mean by choosing
this route ‘3" cried Louis, angrily. “We
can’t get any farther. Let us go back.
or we shall miss th'e—”
As he spoke he turned wrathfull'.‘
upon the shikari. The words choked
in his throat. Half a dozen paces be-
hind him stood Chuta Sen—half smil-
ing, half scornful, wholly self-pos-
sessed—the loaded gun held at the “pre-
sent.”
“Fcringhcc,” he said,a metallic ring
in his voice, “1 want the tooth—the
sacred tooth of Siva!”
“Ah!” ejaculated Louis, fiinching be.-
fore the black muzzle. “That’s it, is
it? So it was you who were prying
round the tent last night; perhaps it
VV as vou, too, V1 110 attempted to rob us
VV hile w 0 VV ere aslcc. -.’)
"The tooth!” 'rcpeated Chuta Sen.
“Give me that and you go safe. If no,
then 1 shoot and take it.”
The bantering tones in which Chute
Sen spoke told Louis that he had not
to deal with a. religious ze-alot——i11deed.
the mere fact of th( man’s reflaining
1101 1 killing him VV ithout scruple made
that point suilic icntly cei tain. N0;
clearly the shikari had in his mind the
reward offered by the rajah to the‘re-
storcr of the purloined tooth. This
knowledge inspired Louis with some
degree of hope. It would be idle to ex-
pect aid from Dr. Worrall, who at that
moment was probably miles away; and
yet Louis did not relish yielding up his
possessions without even the show of
a struggle. Only one course remained
—l1e must temporize with the fellow.
and if possible outwit him.
“Look here,” he said, pulling the
wedge of green jade from his pocket.
“The thing’s of no value to me. You
shall have it if you put down that gun.”
“No, no,” replied Chuta Sen, warily.
“Throw it to my feet, so I can pick it
up. The sahib must not move till I
reach the top of the rocks, or 1 ifi’e.
There I cast the gun over the edge, and
then the sahib may catch me~if he
can."
“Very well,” said Louis, biting his
lip. “Here it is.”
The piece of jade dropped a couple
of feet in front of the wily hillsman.
As he crooked his back in order to seize
it, the gun in his right hand was neces-
sarily depressed for an istant, and in
that. instant Louis had flung himself
upon the bent figure. The weapon fell
with a clatter to the cart-11, and the two
men grappled in fierce conflict.
. To and fro they swayed in mud striV—
lugs, now on the varge of the dizzy
height, and anon close pressed against
the adamant face of the beetling crags.
Suddenly the lithe shikari shook him-
self free. With a snarl of hatred, the
light of murder in his eyes, he rushed
afresh upon Louis with outstretched
hands. The other sprang aside deftly.
and Chuta Sen, unable to check. his
own impetus, was launched over the
edge of the narrow platform into space.
There came the hiss of the falling body
—a long-drawn wail—a. sickening thud
—-—and silence.
Taking up his gun, his face pallid,
his eyes wide with horror, Louis fired
into the air. After an interval he
slipped in another cartridge and fired
again. Soon he heard Dr. \Vorrail’s
cries, and presently that gentleman,
with his attendants, appeal ed upon the
Spot. Louis 1elated VV hat had occurred.
“I was afiaid of something of this
sort,” said the doctor, p cl: ing up the
jade tooth, which still lay whel c it had
been flung. ‘ilavc you run furthei
desire to retain this thing?”
“I never wish to set eyes 011 Itagain,"
1eturned Louis, firmly. “I’ve had
quite enough of it.”
“Then heIe it goes," and VV 1th that
Dr. Worrall cast the “sac1cd tooth’
far out over the rocks; it fell w itha
splash into the foaming torrent at their
base. “NOVV, VV e 11 look for Chuta. Sen 5.
body and carry it up to the nearest Vil-
lage.
is call. You understand? At the same
time, Louis, in case ugly rumors should
arise, I think it would be well to ter-
minate our hunting expedition. at
once.”
And that is precisely what was done.
—Leslie’s Pleasant Hours.
-—The eyeball rests' 1n a cushion of fat,
by which it is surrounded on even
side. When the system becomes great-
1y emaciated through disease this fat
is absorbed and the eye sinks further
into the head, thus giving the sunken
appearance so common in disease.
sahib,” returned Chuta Sen,
He stumbled over the cliff, that-
THE COLLECTORS.
The ‘ finest collection of Burns
tIlobert) MSS. in the world is'in Lord
Roscbery’s collection.
The famous collection of coins which
the late Mr. William Bayne spent 00
years in getting together is to be sold
at auction in London. I
An expedition under Prof. Sollas will
leave Sydney soon for the South Sea
islands to make deep borings in coral
utOllS.
An English dealer 1n stamps has laid
away 100 8%, ”pence Nova Scotia stamps
in a. safe dc posit vault, not to be opened
for three years. Then he expects to
reap a reward of perhaps 1,000 per cent.
on his original investment- of $15. This
beats gold mining.
Victor Robert, of Paris, has paid $30.—
000 for the collection of postage stamps
-~—all ner-—of Count Primoli, Princess
:‘lathiide’s nephew. The stamps were
Valued one by one; Moldavia’s, $1,600,
leunions, $1, 000; Tuscany, three In C,
$000, and so on. M. Robelt is a famous
“timbrophile.”
A twv-o -shilling stamp of the 188:;
type, printed in light emerald-green, on
white paper, watermark "'V & Crown,“
was issued. in Victoria on August 12,
and withdrawn on the 20th of the same
month, owing to its color being so muci.
like the current nine pence as to cans..-
mistakes.
The Transvaal republic is about to is-
suoacommcmorative penny stamp. Itis
not staed what the stamp istocommem-
crate, but as the. issue is to be limited
to one year, it is quite certain that the
republic can rely on the sale of several
millions to the dealers, quite irrespec-
tive of what may be sold for postal pur-
poses or private collection in the coun-
irv.
BOOKWRITERS AN D BOOKS.
‘Mark Twain writes to a friend in
Iartford that he went away in debt
and will come back in a first cabin.
Ruskin is very fond of gems and
usually carries a number of diamonds
loose in his pockets.
Edward W. Townsend, author of
“Chimmie Fadden,” has been giving
readings from his books at San Fran-
cisco.
Paul Bourget- is to be sent to Japan
for impressions of travel by the Revue
des Deux Mondes, and Pierre Loti to
Persia and India.
Princess Helena of England (Princess
Christian of Schleswig-I'Iolstein) is
writing a book of etiquette for women
in good society.
Miss Balfour says in her book that
she saw in Dr. Jameson the hardest-
working man in South Africa, a firm
ruler and a ‘humane reclaimer of the
native race.
W'iliiam Morris says the poet laureate-
ship of England is a mere court office.
a business aqfi'ail and that it was only
by accident that it happened to be held
lv two great poets.
The late Paul Ve11aine, the French
poet, lived as a social outcast, but his
funeial was attended by distinguished 1 warships
Pol
ABSOLUTELY PURE
men of letters, including many academ-
icians. Francois Coppee spoke at the.
grave and said that Verlaine had won
immortality in letters.
BITS AN D BREVITIES.
In A. D. 304 the breeches makers were
expelled from Home, and all persons
were ordered to discontinue wearing
breaches.
During the reign of Charles I. of Lug-
land, every body wore boots and spurs,
whether he 'ever mounted a horse or
not.
A naturalist, who sewed bits of red
silk to swallow-s caught in England,
identified one of the same birds in the
neighborhood of the Pyramids.
Prof. Ilebra, of Vienna, asserts that
the sun does not produce frcclx les. They
never appear, he says, in children un-
der the age of six or eight years,
whether exposed to the sun or not.
It is said that the ameer of Afghan-
istan has been devoting considerable
study to the subject of electricity, and
has determined to personally superin-
tend the introduction of the electric
lighting system into Cabul.
John Alden’s house at Duxbury,
Mass... wh10h was built in 1650, and in
which he lived during the latter part of
his life, is now occupied by the ninth
John Alden in direct descent-from the
famous magistrate of: Plymouth colony.
The quiet but beautiful town of Ox-
ford, in Worcester county, Mass, claims
the honor of having produced three per-
sons now prominent in public view,
namely, Secretary Olncy, Miss Clara
Barton and Senator Volcott, whose
mother was: a native of that town.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Last year the mines of Alaska yield-
ed $3, 000,000 in gold.
The aV erage life of a tortoise 15 from
300 to 150 y.ears Some hacv been
knOan to live 5350 years.
Birds which construct hanging nests
(arefully select limbs or twigs which
are thor'oughly sce’muie
OVer 130, 000 canarics aic sent cveiV
year to the I nited States and Canada,
from the Iiartz mountains, Prussia.
A wonderful well exists in Olympia.
\Vashington. The bottom is gradual
1y ascending, and is likely to soon reach
the surface of the earth.
A lady in Covington, Ky., makes a
liVing by managing a cat farm. Only
Angora cats are raised, and the price
( f these is about$ 25 each
The with: of machinery on English
pieVents the satisfactorv
working Of_speaking-tubes, so they-are
to be equipped with telephones.
At. the Stadt theater in Leipsic no
person is permitted to go to his seat
after the performance has begun, un-
less during the intermissions between
the acts.
The sultan of Turkey has a mania for
collecting carriages. 'He has nearly
500 of tliem, and often loses half an
hour before deciding in which one he
' will ride.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S PEACH.‘
A Hostess' Mistake and‘the Guest’s Good.
Nature.
A voung lady sends to the Chicago
Tribune a little anecdote of Abraham
Lincoln. She says that a good many
years ago, when her father was a small
bov, her grandfather brought Abraham
Lincoln home one night to supper. He
"was then a poor young man practicing
law in Woodford county, Ill:
It was a cold, stormy night, and
giandm a hurried around getting sup-
per. To haVe something nice, she
opened a jar of preserV ed peaches. Lin-
coln spent a long time over his peach,
and finally left it on the pla..te
Grandma noticed this, and as soon as
he and grandpa had gone into another
room she went to look at the dish.
Then she saw that instead of a peach
she had given the visitor the little mus~
lin sack which contained thed peach
kernels’ and the spice. She hastened
into the other room and began an apol-
ogy, but Mr. Lincoln said:
"That was all right; lxirs. Perry. My
mother uscd the. same thing, and it
was so good that I wanted to get all
the juice out of it.” 4-1..
CLAIMED BY DEATH.
William Shivers, a negro, reported to
be a little more than 104 years old, died
in Blackshear, Ga., recently.
James, Dills, who died near Paints-
ville, Ky., recently, was credited with
being only nine days short of 105 years
old.
Mr, and Mrs. Stephen G. Thurber, of
\Varren, 1.. I, aged respectively 86 and
80 yea rs, died ’Vvithin three days of 'cach
other, and were buried together in the
same grave.
The heaviest man in western Rhodc
Island, Stephen Andrew, died at \Vest
Greenwich recently. He was 81 years
old, stood six feet tall, and weighed
498 pounds. His chest measurement
was 78 inches, and his biceps 19 inches.
He cameof a family of big folk.
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