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The tide flows in witb murmuring sound, How pacefal looks the:tiay; - The sunshine falls on old -grey rocks And children at their play On happy folk, who softly tell The sweet old story known so well, The 6bviegtide.bas rolled far out How diferent the scene! The shore a stretch of jagged rocks, Blat k pools and elitry green; No childish laughs, no lover's vow, No rippling waves to veil it now. Se patient, 6zart, there is no ebb Without its tidal twin; The sparkling wavelets on the shore Wilfsoon be rolling in, t And rosy dawn in beauty trace Another day of tender grace. -Ehrich's Quarterly. A FALL FOR LIFE -0 The merchant ship Druid, fror Bombay for London, lay becalme off the west coast of Hindoostat between Goa and MacgalorE where the Ghautz mountains wer Been towering in savage arande=i thousands of feet in the alh with - wild torrents leaping dow: the rocks, flashing throagh th dark green shrubbery, and rusi ing with the din of thunder. 'If the wind doesn't rise ere tc morrow morning we shall have t, anchor,' said the captain to Rober Winfield, a handsome young nave lieutenant on leave of absenc from his frigate, stationed a Bombay. 'I don't want to lay the ship bones on that coast, nor do I lik to get too near it. I have hear bad stories of the natives there at any rate, I believe that almoe every Hindoo is a thief or mui derer by natu re.' Bell Upton, daughter of Majo Upton, who was bound home fror ibs India regiment on sick leave heard those words, and, shaddei ing, drew closely to the side c her invalid father. A quick glance was then e2 changed between her and th yoang lieutenant, whose reassui ing look seemed at once to dispc her fear. MajorUpton,noticing the glanci frowning, said to his daughter 'Come, Bell, let us go below.' Winfield had been a suitor< ~ Bell's since she came to visit he father at Bombay, some month before. The girl favored him, be not so the major, who wanted he to choose a wealthy. lover. Bell was beautiful, with a fort of unrivaled grace, brown eyes, clear, pearl-white skin, with ver little color, and dark golden hai that fell in rippling masses over pair of magnificent shoulders. The lieutenant watched her at miringly until she disappearedi the cabin. 'No harm shall befall her whil I live!' he thought, as he glance uneasily toward the coast. 'W have arms aboard, have we not; he added aloud to the captain. 'Ay, ay, sir; but it isn't likel we shall be attacked. We at full two leagues from the conis and before we are near enough1 be boarded, a breeze will sprin up, I've no doubt.' A few hours later night close around the ship. The sky wi covered with thick clouds, whic obscured the moon and seemed I betoken that a breeze would comt before long. Meanwhile, the ship havir drifted a league nearer, the lie tenant thought the captain ver careless not to have more tlu his one lookout forward postedC so dark a night. Before 11 o'clock the quarte deck was deserted by all save ti officer of the watch, a lazy fello' who was now stretched on tl carpenter's -chest half aslee while the watch forward, as Wi * field (who stood leaning over tI rail amidships) could perceive 1 the light of a lanter'n in the for rigging, lay reclining on t~ hatch, some of them snoring. Not feeling sleepy, the your Slientenant resolved to go aloft < the mizzen top-sail yard to wat< for the first sign of a breeze. Arrived on the yard the gloom was so intense that he could not sot see the water below, alt h,ough as be, he still gazed in that. dirt t" ion- boc was it rtalit v or o:ly in:agina th Lion ?-he thought he could de- his tect a dim outline of'something rai shooting around the bhip's steru. sta He was about descending, w hen the clouds parting over the moon ir a flood of silvery light was poured the down on ship and water, reve:ai fro ing a spectacle that thrilled the ocC young man with horror-a scene ant so sudden and unexpected that the hi" very heart seemed to stand the still. gar While he was aloft Bell Upton tre; bad.come out on the quarter deck, 3 and now stood with her back to so the rail, about two feet from it, fea her head bowed, as if she was in sub deep thought, -so that her beauti- bod ful white neck shone like polished not ivory in the clear moonlight. the Unseen, unheard by the young stri girl, a Hindoo, with a long, litho abc body, naked to the waist, had in f clambered up the side, from a her long canoe, containing half a her dozen of his companions, and had I contrived to glide, serpent-like, on by e the outside of the ship, until he anc had gained a position directly be- ing hind her, when he had drawn a Soc 2 large dirk, which he was now on gai the point of plunging into the con snowy neck of the fair passenge-r ger that she might give no alarm. fea The lieutenant's hand clenched wit the yard like a vice as he beheld tha t the young lady's peril. tan Hs must save her-be would wh save her, he thought; and yet bow hac was this to be done ? bin To give an alarm would only th s hasten the girl's doom ; to descend, tim e no matter how quickly, by means I of the back stays would be of no ger use, as she would perish before he the t could reach the deck and attempt let ~ to stay the deadly hand ! des Thero was no time to use ; in fall r three seconds the dirk would do- cou ' scend, and the girl would be killed '. at one btroke, so that the mur- 'di( derer's cotpanion s, who had al for ready begun to :,scend the ves sel's side, could pounce on the wil drowsy .male occupants of the 'Gc e deck, and slaying them, make shi themselves masters of the ship, we almost before a warning could be I gireo! - ter ~'Like a lightning flash, the in- net stinct of love, the resolution totu save Bell in some manner from tea this immediate attack, sent a sud- ] r den thought to the agonized ma aspectator.' f tThe Hliindoo murderer, in his abl position on the outside of the wa ship, was under the lieutenant, 2although forty feet below him ;he a whbile the girl, standing two feet Iani ~from the rail, was in easy reach ret r of the native, whose arm and fall body, as stated, were no~w drawn wil back from the bulwarks, to give -- force to the meditated brow. The young m'an, therefore, deemed that it would be an easy - d raatter to reach the Hindoo in the e Ionly way it could now be done with sufficient rapidity to pre- Kez vent the accomplishment of his deathly purpose-a way at once noveI and desperate, and which coI would, perhaps, involve his ownl destruction. Imi In a word, Lieutenant Winfield,th not hesitating to risk life or limb th: d for the woman be loved, resolved kn to drop down from near the end ye h of the mizzen topsail-yard upon Dr ,a the Ilindoo, forty feet below, kn e and .thus dash him from the rail th< into the sea, perhaps kill him, re< g. ere be could deal the fatal blow Dr ~. with his uplifted dirk,.g y He could utter a shrill cry-a ste n warning to the crew-as he cleav- 19i n ed the air, thus rousing them, bra p)erhaps, in time to meet th eat sin r- tack of the robbers, and insure thejlho e .further safety of Bell and the lot v, ship. hi ec The emergency admitted of no ') p, jdelay. The young man, cluteh ye c- ing the yard near the end. hung kr eC by it a second to make sure he ga I was in a line with the Hindoo ich ebenea~th; then, just as the dirk ly e was about to descend he let go of m; the spar with a long, wild cry up that pierced .every corner of the th >n sjhip, and down he went, cleaviung Ti bthirough the air with terrific ve t Lbere was a whirling, rushing ud, then a loud tbud, as the vy boot heels of the falling iv crasbed upon the head of dusky native ere lie could use l knife dashed him from the into the sea, killing him in ntly. t:e watch had beard the warn cry of the lieutenant; and ere other natives could recover mn their surprise, caused by the urrenco which had so suddenly I unexpectedly broken upon i, the decks were alive with whole crew, upon which the g of robbers beat a hasty re ~t. lean w bile Bell Upton had been bewildered by that sudden, ful cry she had heard, and the sequent splash of the two ies falling into the water, that, -till a boat was lowered, ' nd lieutenant, who had been iggling in the sea, was brought ard and in the cabin, to explain faint voice how he had saved life, did she clearly compre d all that had taken place. 'hen she threw herself down I the prostrate form of'her lover, I hung over him in agony, fear. that he was fataily injured. n, however, the ship's doctor e cheering information to the trary. 'he young man had received a rful shock from his contact j b the iindoo's body; but as t body had offered some resis ce to his downward progress an he struck it-in fact, as it been simply driven before into the sea-his lower limbs, ugh partially paralyzed for the N, were not broken. le had, however, fallen dan ously near the rail ; a roll of ship to the other side ere he go of the topsail yard to cend would have caused him to on the bulwarks, when of rme he would have been killed. Never before,' said the doctor, I I bear of such a dariig per rnance.' Ay !' exclaimed Major Upton, h admiration and gratitude. ,d b!ss him ! Here, Bell, be ,11 nave you, girl, for he has l1 earned you ! 1o put both hands of his daugh who had clasped her lover's :k, in the lieutenant's, and ned his head to hide a few rs on his bronzed cheek. mmediately after the yonng n had been brought aboard, an shore breeze sprung up, en ing the captain to head sea rd. a due time the vessel reached home port, when the lieuten , who had by this ti'me fully overed from the effects of his ,claimed his beautiful and ling bride. LIVING ELECTRIC BAT TERY. tucky's Marvel who Discharges Elec tricity and Foretells Storms. densed from the Louisville Coimer c-ial. ri Spencer County, about t birty'I es from this city, lives one of' most marvellous curiosities t has ever come within the owledge of science. The mar is Everett Gilbert, a son of .Robert S. Gilbert, who is own and honored throughout State. A Commercial reporter ently visited Waterford, where .Gilbert lives. Everett was nd at work in his field. He nds six feet two inches, weighs pounds and has muscles. as Lwnr as a smith's. He has a gularly prepossessing face, mely but honest arid faithful king. His st.ory aN rold by i, i m. su I a, ce as:' ~ Vw..: urig~ a I bui.Jee ge'rn . four ar ago, I picked out muy picket ife, and, opening the Ilade, be n driving it into the top of the air-round. I remem ber distinct that I1 laid the little fing.er of i eft hand careiessly across the right knife, and that is about s last thing I do remember. ~ere came a blinding flash from cloud and that was- all I knew. rible pains in every part of the body. I had been powerfully shocked by the clectric discharge, and for weeks afterward [ was so sick as to be thought almost o yond recovery. One night just before a heavy thunder-storm I happened to be home from school, and was sitting on the front steps. I was suddenly seized with the most riolent spasms and had to be taken into the house. Then my father noticed that these spasms an'd twitebings of the hands and arms always came be fore a thunder-storm, and be be. gan to experiment to.reiieve me. He soon found that I was sur eharged with electricity. He be gan to devise means to draw the electricity off me, and has suc ceeded in some degree. My . ef. forts at first were rude enough. I remember one day that I was Dut here in this very wheat field and under this same shed we are standing under now. I was auf Eering such horrible agonies that I thought perhaps if I would strip naked and lie down in the mud the ground would act as a conductor and free me from my intolerable burden. I took my clotbes off an,d tbrew myself down. Tie ef ect was frightful. I never felt anything like it before and I hope that God may never make me en dure such an ordeal again. When I laid down on the moist earth, which made a fine conductor, the electricity left my body like a flash. It was like an imprisoned spirit freed, and I felt as though my side had been rent asunder. tt was as though a red-hot iron had been passed down my side with inconceivable rapidity. I felt a tearing off of the flesh from the bones, and for several mo ments imagined that I bad been torn asunder. The agony for an instant was terrible. I after wards went at it more delicately. By taking oti my shoes and stock ings and wading in the mud I foand great reief when over ciarged. I can foretell thunder storms, and during the aurora borealis a few months ago I was awakened by the electricity in the air. Once I met a young friend of mine, a delicate, white faced young fellow, and he reached out his band to me and 1 seized it heartily, and he cried out, *ou burn me ;let go.' I did so, and he wrung his hands, saying be feit innumerable darting needle like sensations pervading his nerves. Everett's bed is in a neat little room on the second floor and is between two windows. Around one bed post, where he can lay his hand on it at any mnomenzt, is a heavy magnetized iron wire which goes down the outside of the house and finds a resting place in a soft basin of morta- at the bottom, whbence it is conducted to the earth. Everett seized the wire in his fingers and it began to tremble all the way down. -Tfhere it goes now,' said he. A me ment later the reporter placed his hand below and there was a very apparent discharge of electricity. He afterward seized Gilber-t by both hands and a circuit was established. In a mioment the electricity, in a weak form, how ever, began to circulate, tingling every nerve. 'An odd circum stance,' said young Gilbert, 'is that whenever I am surcharged my mouth begins .to taste of' sul. pbur. 1 can feel it in everything I eat, and sometimes for dlays to gether 1 cannot eat enough tc sustain me. Whenever I get ex cited or hot I also begin to have my mouth filled with this strang taste. Do you see the tips of my fingers? Well, they wvere burnec by the electricity passing through When I was first afflicted in tie strange way the ends of my fin gers were, nearly scoreched off. b'ut now the akin Eas biadene-d.' A Goon LIKENEss.-Ami AustiL man started in the livery stabli business last week, and the firs1 thing he did was to have a bia sign pain ted, representing himsel: holding a mule by the bridle. 'Is that a good likeness of me ? b e-asked of an admiring friend. 'Yes, it is a perfect picture o you, but who is the fellow holding nn b he h bridl h?9-Sitina. THE NEW M LLMOVES! IE First Strokes of a Great Enterprise-Striking Results of Tireless Energy-Two Hundred ] and Fifty New Citizens for Greenville. Rej Greenvile News, July 18th. Just three months and a halflme ago there was nothing but a vacant ise< lot and a small dwelling house on the Reedy River in the rear of Cox & Markley's Factory. ow pr In the Huguenot Mill with its com the plex machinery and large build ten ings almost entirely of brick, er stands complete and ready for thi n;ction. A more forcible evidence ter of what energy can accomplish, be and what the nineteenth century b0 progress can render possible, does be not exist anywhere. The amaz ing rapidity with which this work Ca has been pushed forward and the An perfect manner in which every ald part of it has been finished are high tributes to the skill and vim pal has displayed by-Manager C. H. Lan. Afr neau. Without the assistance of No an architect or machinist he plan ned the Mill aqd Supervised its Jill sen construction at every stage. The abl consequence is that yesterday morning at twenty minutes past th ten when steam was gotten up in the boiler house and when the wit big fly-wheel moved, it turned all t the shafting in the mill and a Ale number of looms, the whole mov- bei ing without a jar or stop. Only a few gentlemen were present at the little ceremony which attend- Isi ed the starting for the first time It of the Huguenot machinery, these th( being hastily summoned by means the of the telephone to view the new be( factory in operation. All at once o the pleasant and familiar hum of of the innumerable wheels was beard, all of them running as im smoothly asif they bad been in use the for many months. Besides the e slight 'cracking' noise which pro. cceded from the stretching of the ba, new belts, no one would have sup-. posed that everything was new, t so evenly did the intricate wheels ten and interlacing hands do their c0t work. A number of mill hands fail who are to be among the ope. edi ratives o: the new factory stood I. by and united with the citizens in wb expressing their admiration of the the Hugienot's movements. 1n The. electrician was at the mill yestei-day making arrangements th4 for lightiuig the mill by his wvon- d derful curr-enV which will be one car of the most striking features in fi the new enterprise, ill About 100 hands will be em- in ployed in the mill, and the In- br< dnstry brings to this city 250 see new people, most of whom come ari from this vicinity and have work- as ed in mills hefore. n Other details ii reference to the w new factor-y.have been given fr-om time to time in Thre Dady Aews , as the work has progressed. pa pographical ei-rors are funny hit things, as well as most exaspera- a ting. In a local paper at New port the r-eporter- wrote of a new apparatus for 'washing wiudows in second soi.'The composi a tor left out a single letter, and i the article appeared und~er the he-ading, -How to Wash Widows l to in Second Stoi-ies.' A still funnier. mistake also occurred in a New- in port paper. Wishing to pay a d distinguished citizen. who was abroad, a pr-etty compliment, the o editor wrote that he was enjoying 1 himself at Paris-at a convention -with prominent savants and radicals. The printer caused it to be announced to us that our t distinguished and most uprightm townsman was having a good time u abroead in company. with eminent 'ser-vants and r-racals.' I wrote' somiethingr once about 'nuggets of r "uld.' To my horrior it was _ printeid *b~ oif nu .megs.' And cc agami, nting or the delicious hi restfulnes. we found lying on the p pine needles in the Georgia for ests, tile printer made me say tbat I took my daily siesta on a 'bed of w Efine needles.' One can get used to p4 almost anything ; but I remember m well how, in my early days of newspaper work, I used to be fovercome almost to faintness by ti: some terrible typograph-ical error m PORTERS. ANCIENT ANI MODERN. n th6 course of a sermon dh ,red yesterday on 'Ancien ,orters'-to wit, the twelv n whom Moses sent out to sc at sort of country the 'Prom I Land' was-the preacher tool asion to note the great imt vement that has taken plac the business of reporting. C dozen men selected by Mose lost heart, but said the preach 'it would be very difficult i our day to get to elve repor 3 together ten of whom woul, found to be faint hearted. Re ters in these days are found ti very bold and persistent men tid to interview neither a littl, maanite nor a giant son O ak. The reporters of the ier have made their way into thi aces of kings and khedives, an< ,e penetrated the jungles o -ica and the eternal frosts of thi rth.' All of this is entirelj e. If the reporter of the pre t day has any fear he is remark y skilful at concealing it. fo most dangerous duty is al way most popular. Scores of re ters wanted to go to the Aruti h the Jeannette, and hundred lay would far rather be a xandria, with the chance o ng knocked to pieces by a shel m an iron-clad or stabbed by atical Mussulman,than at Conel tnd, Long Branch or Saratoga is quite possible, however, tha Hebrew reporters were no best men that might hav n selected for their 'detail ses was in some respects a mi marvellous ability; be turne ikiug canes into snakes, got a nense excursion party acros Red Sea without paying it for ferriage, and brougbt hi >ple out of Egypt with all thei gage, which is more than Eu ud and France have been abl do recently ; but the defection c of his twelve reporters prove iclusively that he would hav ed lamentably as managin tor of a live daily newspapei bis men had been of the stuff c ich modern reporters are mad >y would not have left Jerich a basket let down from the roc an improper place ot resort :y would have gone boldly imayor, demanded safe cor .t, and come away by speci: nel train, and with notebook ed at interviews of everybod the town that was worth tall: to; they would also hav )ught an urgent appeal to M< for an assortment of missior es, rum and military arms. Bu heretofore hinted, Moses ha experience in the importau ~rk of selecting special cori-ci nd ent s.-Vew York .H erald . A. Boys Lov.-Of all the lov airs in the world none can sur ss tue true love of a big boy fc Smother. It is a love nobl d honorable in the highest de ee to both. -I do not mea 3elv a datiful affection. I men ove that makes a boy galiar d courteous to his mother, say Sto everybody p]ainly that 1 fairly in love with her. Ne; the love of her husband, nott gso crowns a woman's life wit nor as this second love, tb votion of the son to her. .A never yet knew a boy to 'tur t' bad who began by falling e with his mother. An argument once arose: bich Sidney Smith observe at many of the most eminei en of the world had been dimir ive in person, and, after namir veral among the ancients, I ded : 'Whby, look there at Jef y ; and there is my little frier -, who has not body enough ver his. mind decently witl s intellect is improperly e: ised.' Those who think that mon< ill do anything may be su icted of doing anything f onecy. The level we strike in the so at touches most nearly, is ost sure to be the high wat ark of our own. ) UNCLE SAM AND BROTEIEI JONATHAN. To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir t What is the historic origin and wh: is the exact limit of signification< e each of the two patronyn,ics of of country, namely, Brother Jonathan an i Uncle Sam ? Are they one and tl same uja ? C. W. W. 3 X : urs, July 19 f After Washington was appointe s commander of the patriot army in tt - Revolution he had great difficulty i 2 obtaining supplies. On one occasioi when no way could be devised b I him and his officers to supply tb - wants of the. army, Washiugto wound up the conference with the re mark, 'We must consult Broth< Jonathan.' He referred to Jonatha f Trumbull, then Governor of Connecti - cut, in whose judgment he had con a fidence. Gov. Trumbull helped th I General out of his difficulties, an f afterward the expression used b 3 Wasbin-ton became a popular by !word in the army and eventually nickname for the nation. The name.Uncle Sam, as applied t r the United States, is said to have or s iainated in the war of 1812. An in - spector of army provisions at Tre named Samuel Wilson was called b his workmen 'Uncle Sam.' One da t somebody asked one of the workme f what the letters 'U. S.,' printed on 1 cask, meant. The workman replie that he supposed it must mean Unel Sam. The joke was afterward spree in the army, and this, according to ti t historian Frost was the origin of tt t national sobriquet. [New York Sun. 2 PRINTING OFFICE SECRETA 2 The Singleton (N. S. W.) Argi s prints the following reply to an inqu a. ry as to the author of an article i s that paper : r A properly conducted printing offii is as much a secret as a Masonic lodg e The printers are not under oath < f secrecy, but always feel themselves s truly in honor bound to keep offi< e secrets as though triple oathed. - At employe in a printing office who wil ingly disregarded this rule in relati: I to printing-office secrets, would n e only be scorned by his brethren of ti 0 craft, but would lose his position once. We make this statement b cause it sometimes happens that 0 communication appears in a newsp ~per, under an assumed signature, whi< A excites comment, and various parti 8 try to find out who is the authe Y Let all be saved the trouble of que tioning the employes of the printir e office. They arc "know-nothings" )such points as these. On such nui Sters they have eyes and ears, but L, mouth ; and if any fail to observe ti d rule, let them be put down as disho t orable members of the craft. It is ti s- same in job printing. If anything to be printed and kept secret, proper notice be given of the desi e for, secrecy, and you might as wi question the Sphinx as one of ti r printers. e -_ _ . ._ __ _ -To a poetess the heartless Cl n cago Tribune writes: 'It willi nimpossible to print your poe ~t about the roses true and viole -blue that bloom in i.ue grassy de ec and the little birds that sweete et words of love in their chirpin -tell. We have a large line of d b. and blue bird poctry on hand ti is Spring that was carried over frc ~d last year.' n I have no expectation that al man wili read history aright w] thinks that what was done in a n mote age, by men whose nam ~d have resounded far, has al t deeper sense than what he i- doing to-day. ie Men's lives should be like t - days, more beautiful in the eve id ing: or like the Spring, agl to with promise; and like the A tumn, rich with golden sheavi -~ where good works and deeds a ripened on the field. ~y When a subject has been s- bated upon at a ladies' conventic or and it is about to be put to t vote, t call it 'popping t ,- Nature has sometimes mad< er fo"l but a co,xcomb is alwayso: man's own mkinig. HOW TO NiAY IT. 9 Say 'I would rather walk,' and not 'I had rather walk.' 't Say 'I doubt not but I shall,' and f not 'I would doubt but I shall.' " Say 'for you and me,' not 'for you d and I.' ie Say 'whether I be present or not,' and not 'present or uo.' Say 'not that I know,' and not d that I know of.' Le Say -return it to me,' and not 're n turn it back to me.' ', Say 'I seldom see him;' and not y 'that I seldom or ever see him.' e Say 'fewer friends,' and not 'less n friends.' - Say 'if I mistake not,' and not 'if r I am not.mistaken.' n Say 'game is plentiful,' and not - 'game is plenty.' - Say 'I am weak in comparison with e you,' and not 'to you.' d Say 'it rains very fast,' and not y 'very hard.' - Say 'in its primitive sense,' and not a 'primary sense.' Say 'he was noted for his violence, 0 and not that -he was a man notorious - for violence.' - Say 'thus much is true,' and not y 'this much is trne.' y Say 'I lifted it,' ank not 'I lifted it y up.' n And last, but not least, say 'I take a my paper and pay for it in advance.' d _ . _ _ .. e THE SUMMER CROP OF DEGREES. d -Peach crops are spoiled by late e frosts. cherries are ruined by.heavy e showers at ripering time, curculio blight the promise of plum trees and rain storms spoil strawberries.; but neither seasons too late or too early, fierce sun or perpetual cloud, .or any thing else, can lessen the quantity of s alleged honorary degrees that Amer can colleges yield about this time -. every year. There was a time when a college conferred degrees only upon its e own graduates who had become il lustrious, but later the ragefor offer. >r ing men capital letters to put after. their names became so great that no e institution of learning found its own 'y alumni equal to the demand, so all of them began to scour the country for. men vain enough to imagine that people would think more of them if they could add alphabetical puzzles to their signatures. Guiteau died tob soon to become an LL. D., but if le a had lived there would have nothing to a- prevent his obtaining as many degrees has he might have cared foi. A few ssensible citizens have ref r.doubtful hon'ors thrn , ..yon them, s and a majority ue inen most prom *inent in the more intellectual depai-t aments of human effort have never tbeen offered the modest degree of Mr. oA., even by a woman's college; but sstill the farce goes on until the only uetimable distinction which a college ecan now confer upon a mnan of self respect is that of letting him alone. et Cannot the degree makers take the rehint and so ease to be laughed at ? ll [(New York Herald. - A California paper tells of a hen i out there that was recently set on 13 ae egge. 'A few days later the hen was m missing and the eggs gone, a large ts rattlesnake being coiled in the nest. 11, The reptile was killed, opened and st the 13 eggs taken out unbroken. s Tbey were placed under the same hen, 11l and every one hatched out, the Lis chickens all being lively.' If the hen m had also been found inside the rattle snake, getting in her work on the eggs, it might have given more chie ly to the story, which would have been 3 just as easy to belie%re.-Boston Post. es "How I enjoy the return of Satur 2 day ni-ght," said Senator Vance, in is the horse car riding up from the Sen ate. "Yes," rejoined Senator Hoar, "if you were a Republican you might be join with Dr. Watts in saying: How pleasant is Saturday night 1W When I've tried all the week to be good. .u- "Not being a Republican," returned 3, the North Carolinian, "I can't tell a lie re like that." Senator Hoar offered Sen ator Vance his hat, which was declin ed quietly but firmly.-N. Y. Trib le- un. he Opportunities are very sensitive he things. If you slight them on their first visit, they seldom come again. a The means to promote any end are a as Leeeessary as the end to be proumo