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- ] ? ? : ~ 5 * The Beaufort Tribune VOL. II.?NO. 37. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 2, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The Summons. Jubilee 1 jubilee 1 Motherland, hail to thee ! Hail to tby glory, thy pride and thy worth! Ail tby sons flock to thee, fly to thee, sail to thee, Lovingly keeping the feast of tby birth. Throw all the banners out 1 Joyful liosannas ebout! Gather thine own from the ends of the earth.* Gather by millions, from lowland and highland Kneel at the shrines where our forefathers knelt. Call all from mainland, and foreland, and island ; Whore the figs ripen, or snows never melt; . Where the swift shuttles hum ; Whore the flails flash and drum, Noman, and Saxon, and Teuton, and Gelt. Come from the mountains where brood the fierce eagloe! Come from the giovoe where the mocking birds call! From the blue billows where drift tho white sea galls, Or where the rod leaveB of the prairie rose fall. Come while the etarry eyed, n-aven born, rainbow dyed Banner of liberty stroama over all. Loyal to tboe and thine, nation all-beanliful, Nnrecd in thy bosom, or borne by the sea. Come we wi'h reverent homage and dutiful, Homeland t-o happy, nnited and free, nail (o thy hundred years ! Forward! with songH and cheers, Keeping tho yea; of our land's jubilee ! ' ?Scribner't. Independence Gained aid Lost. " We will have an elegant time. You must come." "I don't think I can," 3aid Carrie, her eyea wandering oyer Julia's dainty fresh linen suit, and up to the bewitching Dolly Varden hat which completed a lovely picture. Why not, dear? Oh, I want you to ! Perhaps you don't care to come?" Tins last with ft coaxing punt. " Ves, I do; but "? " Never mind the ' huts.' I shall expro yon. Cousiu Frank Warden iH o m ng up, and he can walk over with you in the evening." * I don't mind the getting homo," replied Carrie, with a langh. " Theu, good-bye. You'll oomef" "J think not." But Carrie's voice was faint, and her eyes danced at the thought of fun. The thoroughly buttoued groom tuck ed a lineu duster over his mistreps' flounces, and Juliu kissed 4ier hand as the pprightly pouirs stepped off down the road. Carrie leaned her arms on the gate and watched the phaeton with a pleased face. Julia was a dear friend ?as young ladies estimate affection? and it was pleasant to seo her drive up with so much ease, and leave agreeable thoughts of untold good things. When the leafy branches hid her from sight, : Carrie turned, and, stopping a moment to set np a plant which drooped, and to examine a bush whioh gave promise of speedy blossoming, returned to the house. 4t Ob, I want to go 1" she declared, as she threw open a closet door. "I do so liko to have some fun on the Fourth; and this will be splendid?croquet, uiunu, uuuuiug, ureworKs, ice cream, without having to make it yourself? oh !* and Oarrie whirled about the room at the thought. " But all the ladies will be so elegantly dressed. Julia said she should wear a white organdy trimmed with Valenciennes. Now I never could bear not to be well dressed too:" and ehe darted into the closet, and came out with two dresses over her arm. " There's no use looking," she exclaimed, throwing them on the bed; "I know what they are like. The barege has a great darn in front, and the muslin is horribly faded across the shoulders. I can't wear my black silk, for I should ruin it. Oh, dear!" With a great sigh she sat on the foot of the bed, and, curling up her feet, rested her chin in the hollow of her hand. "Then my hat I It isn't a Dolly Varden, or anything but an old sundown." It would be impossible to give the emphasis of contempt with which Oarrie uttered that word. " Why should I care," she so'ilo?uiz$d. " If the year had been better should have had a white pique; but poor father was so pressed I did not ask for the money. I know it's all right, but I had counted on going all the time, and I cau't uuh sa I can have something pretty to wear." Carrie spoke with dotermination, and gave the fading sunset a perplexed, troubled look. As the quiet skies and whispering trees presented no solution of the question, she brought her gaze in until it rested on her lap. She saw a neat white apron, and nnderneath that a really very pretty blue and white striped cambric. " I'll wear thisl" oried Carrie, jumping np. "There, freedoml Haven't I read and read abont women emancipating themselves from the rale of fashion?that it would lead to progress in higher ideas, and be so good for them ? Have one dress and wear it, no matter what others did. How they'd be rerespected, and how happy they'd be 1 I'll try it. I haven't anything else to wear, and it's pretty, and I'll do it up myself and make it look nioely. I'll put a blue ribbon in my hat, and go." Her father's (arm adjoined Mr. Liv. ingston's country seat, and Julia and Carrie had been summer friends for years. Julia liked Carrie's hearty, unmanner, and it was a pleasure 1 to have a friend to whom everything was fresh and delightful, and in a measure Julia leaned on the strong, healthv spirit whioh stepped into the world with suoh honest and discerning eyes. Carrie admired Julia's delicate beauty, and felt a protecting love for the girl who oould decide nothing but the pattern of a dress, and was unfamiliar with tho thousand delights which nature lavished about her. But while Julia's girlhood had been Bpent at schools, so that now she oould execute on hor grand piano, paint a water color sketch, converse or read in French or Italian, danco anything, bow in the divinest manner, and ride her chestnut or drivo hor ponios like a Diana, Catrio's had been spent at home. She could rollout delicious pats of butter with plump, sweet hands; did shape and make the perfectly fitting dresses which adorned her busy little person; could demonstrate any proposition In geometry, or calculate interest as fast as she could talk ; had read all the English books she could find, and could talk intelligently to you by the hour on any topic of present interest, from the^protective tariff to the probability of Pius IX. being tbo last pope. Sue lind lier own ideas, and thought about everything which seemed to affect the world, and never -knew an idle, unhappy moment. Yes, ono?when Frank Warden bid her good-bye last summer, and said he expected to go to California to remain years, and probably should not be in Preston again in some time. But that did not la?t long. She had no aeconi Elishment, so called. She could play ymns on her old piano, oould embroider, make delicious pies, cake and preserves, and harness old Jenny to the buggy; but these are not accomplishments. She was just a rosy, active girl with bright eyes and a tender heart, that made the old farmhouse a pleasant plaoe to be in. These were the two girls, whose preparations were as different as their lives for the coming fourth of July. Carrie's mind being onoo made up, she did not hesitate or grieve over the inevitable. Her mood was only mockheroic, for she did not hope or intend to ro:orm the world, only have a pleasaut day. "If I worry or feel at all vexed," she reasoned, "my fun will be all spoiled, aud I'm really going to try and be independent." The next morning early found her at the washtub. It was very far from a homely picture that she made at tho door of the shed, the sunlight playing over her rippling hair tucked out of the way, and her round white arms dashing the snowy suds about. At times a pucker in the absorbed mouth, and then a smile and a few notes of a song, as tho way so'-med clear. There was an unseen spectator of this now sicnina' of a doelar.-i*. ti. u of independence?a gentleman who was coming across the fields. He must have admired it, for he stopped to look, and then ensconcing himself cna top rail amidst well disposed branches, he watched nntil the little drama was over. Saw the clear rinsing water supersede the suds, saw the dress hung to dry in a shady place, smiled at the little pats which it received before Carrie left it and disappeared into the house. He waited some time, but she did not come out again, and only the dress hung there dapping in the wiud. Only! The natural soeno was lovely, with the old farmhouse nested in elms, the orchard rambling down a hill at the back, a field of tassled corn stretching away to a flashing brook whioh sung through the meadow. But this was notliiug without the active little declarer, and the gentleman picked a switch and trimmed it as he said, half aloud : " 1 wonder how long it takes those things to dry ? She'll como ont for it, I suppose. I might mako a whistle." So round about he wandered, not losing sight of the flapping dress, which slowly stiflened into an awkuard, thin, shapeless object, and swung back and foith on the line. When this result wai attained, he was repaid for waiting by on ?iig vjiirno run OUU W1IQ an apron over her head,'throw her dress over her arm, and back to the Bhed. No use waiting any longer; evidently the ironing could not be Been; and the restless tig ore disappeared from the fenoe and field, much to the gratification of u squirrel who liad viewed him with disfuvor for some time. But it won a pity any one who felt interested could not have seen the conclusion. The shower of water from the twinkliug finger tips, the firm rolling with compressed bps, and the artistio ironiug which followed. Hair baokclose enough then to be entirely away from tho flushed cheeks, critical views at a little distance with the head on onoside, ruffles reironcd, and at last all complete, and a satisfied rent 011 the bed, with the dress laid ou two chairs opposite; a rest with interruptions, which referred to the manifold alterations and fluol adjustment, broken at last by the adorning of tho piebian sundown with a blue ribbon. inn next uay was tue fourth, and dawned fair and beautiful. A little warmer than its predecessors, it was still just the temperature for out-of-door enjoyment in tne shade. Carrie gave no thought toDclly Varden or Valenciennes as she straightened the sash of the blue o imbrio and tied the sundown over her sunny brown hair. He who wanted anything prettier than tho fresh brightness of the toilet and the piquant young face under the shadow of the straw hat must have been hard to please. And though perhaps wo ought not to hear the secret which was known only between Carrie and her gla s, she was perfectly satisfied as she gavo a last look and ran down stairs. So was Julia, as she greeted the spotloEB little figure which ran into her room as the organdy was being assumed. " Are you not dressed yet ?" "No, dear; Anna did not finish the dress until last night, and the laoo had to be sewed in to-day," said Julia, with a slight frown. " Let me help you." " Frank asked if you would come," said Julia, from a fleecy maze of white muslin. " Did he?" and an innocent flush suffused Carrie's face a moment, but it returned to natural color as she cried : "Arc yon going to wear this lovely braoelot? You look like a bride." " Do I ?" Julia smiled into hor mirror, well satisfied with tho image reflected. " Perhaps I may be." Carrie opened two gray eyes pretty wide, and following Julia down stairs, joined a gay troop of ladies and gentlemen on tho lawn. The spot chosen for tuo picnic was a bit of meadow land and a grovo on Mr. Livingston's grounds, bat far enough from the house to be quite rural. Carrie found herself in the midst of a group of elegantly dressed ladies, and gentlemen in the immaculate toilet of white duck ; but having once made up her mind, she was not to be disturbed, and entered into the enjoyment of the day without so much as a backward glance at Dame Fashion. Mr. Frank Waiden was not slow in exensing himself from a beauty in a gauzy muslin and walking by hor side. *' I supposed you were in California, studying seals and Chinese," said Carrie, smelling appreciatively the rose he offered her. " Didn't Julia toll you I was here?" " Yes ; I meant till then." " I have boon, but found my mind was too fully occupied to study the interesting subjects you name." " Been and come back !" and Carrie gavo him a good look of mingled interest and surprise. " Yes ; I could not help it," said Frauk, returning tho gaze. " Wliy not? I should so like to go ; I'm sure I'd stay," said Carrie. "Why not?" echoed Frank, with a tono and look that caused Carrie to flush and want to ruu away. "Oh, is this the place, Mr. Warden ?" asked his former companion, adding, in a lower voice : " You And that rural child very attractive." "Yes, I do. Allow me : Miss Budd, iu.iss *jarrie xioDDins. " Tbo ladies bowed, and both exclaimed at the beauty of tbo grove, while Carrie paused iu admiration of tbo smoothly cut, firmly rolled croquet ground. All the pleasure which she had anticipated came to pass, and much more besides. The grcunds had been elaborately prepared, and on one side the meadow presented a smooth green carpet fordaucers, while the other side pnt in a plea for flirting ovor croquet wickets. The lunch was served by servants, and the gay party thought of nothing but enjoyment. Carrie was in the best of spirits, and her merry laugh and bright talk proved attractive to others tliau Frank Warden, for Captain De Lancy gave her many a prolonged stare through his eyeglasses before he asked for an introduction. He seemed to be Julia's especial attendant, and if anything can be judged from a face, she was well pleased that it should be r.o. " Miss Livingston, would you introduce me to the lovely creature in blue and white?" "Who? MissMareton? You have met. her." "Oh, no. The lady with her foot on the ball. There, she strikes." Julia followed his eyes, and saw Carrie turn with a laugh from a croquet which had carried consternation to tbo heart of her antagonist. " She'B a charming creature. Where i3 she from ?" ?ne lives liere," replied Julia, a little coldly, leading the way, and, the game being over, making the requested introduction. "Most happy," said tho captain, bowing low. Frank would not yield his place, the result being that Carrie had two satollities instead of one. In the rambles ubout the grove, the games, and dancing, the thin muslins of the other ladies suffered, and soon becamo rnther uusightly draggled robes. Their lovely hats were caught in bushes and torn ; and if taken off, the delicate skin, unused to exposure, suffered. But Carrie's dross freshly maintained its own. It was short enough to be well out'of the way, stiff enough to resist briers, and at tho end of the day still looked cool and clean, being a refreshing contrast to the mussy toilets of tho other ladies Tho gentlemen appreciated that, Captain De Lancy saying : "Really, Miss Bobbins, I ought not to take tho liberty to admire your dress, but it is charming." Carrie smiled, and he oontinued : "But it is the wearer that graces it." Carrie turned away, for he had been paying like compliments all day, and she mo iiuu iiouei-l to iuiuk mem mi genuine. ' Hear ! hoar !" shouted a gentleman, beating vigorously on a tin pan. " Misa^ Livingston says there's a flue view from" Sunset rock. Who will make the trip to see it?" Will you go, Miss Bobbius?" inquired the captain. ' Miss Carrie is engaged to go with me," asserted Frank Warden, boldly ; and Carrie, glad of the chauge, confirmed him. Quite a party set out; but as there were several paths, it soon came to pass that Frank and Carrie were alone. "I'm going up that cliff," said Carrie, indicating a steep rock. ' Impossible. ' I will. See, hero's a little path." Ill travel any path with you," re plied Frank; and with much scrambling, holding of twigp, perilous slips, aud precarious footing, up they went, and sat panting on the top. They oould hear their party ou the other side a little below them, but a thick growth of trees prevented their seeing them. They were well repaid by the fine view and the beautiful sunset, Carrie very much onjoying the little rock chamber and the reputation of having accomplished what none of the other ladios had. As the gold and red curtains closed over tho sun's departing face, and a blush, which slowly paled before the approaching twilight, stole over tho sky, tho two became confidential, and Carrie said : " How odd it was for Captain Do Lancy to admiro my dress. It's only a cambric." " Not odd at all." 'And it's funny, too." Then she told him all about her quandary and subsequent independence. "Was that the dress you were washing yesterday?" "Yes; did you see mo? with a deep blush. " Didn't I! I never saw anything so lovely. And this isn't the sort of thing the others wear? I like that. I never loved you so well before." "Mr. Warden !" flashed out Carrie. -- i?H, uirne, you ro tno girl lor me. I've known it a good while. Do come and wash dresses whore I can see you; wash tbem for me." "lean tell you Mr. Warddh," cried Carrie, rising, "I don't generally wash my clothes, and I don't like such nonsense." " It's all true," ho paid, gently pressing her down again. "I love you, Carrie?have come to take you back to California with me." " I don't want to go," replied Carrie, with an averted face. " But only consider. I love you so much that I came back for yon, ran the risk of losing my business, and if you don't return as my wifo you'll never see me again." Frank's tone was grave enough, and his face very red, as he tried to see her eyes. Carrie pulled at tho moss, and said, faintly: " I don't want to be married." "Ok, Carrie," he replied, with a half groan, "thinkof me." Carrio made no reply. "Can't you love me ?" pleaded Frank, putting his arm about hor. Carrie moved a little, and still did not speak; but he was evidently waiting for an answer, and at last she said "yes," with a jerk, " Then you'll marry me." " Nc?that is?not now." "Oh, yes; why not?" "Because," she replied, facing him, "married people are tied up. I should have to do as you say, and you know I like to bo independent." "I wouldn't want you to do anything you didn't want to." " Oh, I know how it would be," replied Carrie, springing up. "Yon don't. You should do just as yon pleased. Now will you give me a kiss ?"' Carrie turned a look of indignation upon him, which was basely taken advantage of, and the kiss was stolen. " Mr. Warden!" and away she ran. "Oh, don't go down there !" he cried. "You can't; you'll hurt yourself. At any rate, wait unt il I come to help you." Carrie did not heed, but went on; and in a moment a crash informed Frank that his fears had been realized. He hastened to the spot, and found hor sitting very still, apparently studying the forns. " Are you hurt ?" " It's nothing." " Shall we go on ?" " No, I don't wish to." "You are hurt; let me help you rise;" this anxiously. "I don't wish to rise." " But you can't sit here all night. I'll get help." " I don't want any help." Carrio started up, but fell bock with a white face. "Darling," said Frank, tenderly, " let me put my arm about you. Thore! so. Now yon can walk." Carrie consented without a word, and at last broke the silence by saying : "There's no uso trying to be independent." "Not if you are going to run away from me, and jump down rocks like that." "I slipped." " Then you give up ?" asked Frank, stopping. "You'll be my dear, independent little wife ?" "Yes, if you'll be good." "Always," said Frank; and before they reached the rest of the party the independent damsel was so far overcome as to lean on a loving shoulder when they rested, and her foot was so much better as to enable her to tako the promired wulk home in the evenincr. A follow was accumulating a fortune in Amador, Gal., by robbing the sluice boxos of miners. Every night for years he worked faithfully, and had stored away nearly enough money to go to his home in the East and live upon the result of his enterprise, when ho unfortunately ran against a cord that was attached to a gun trap, aud was instantly killed. A gentleman once approached a pretty Quakeress, and said she looked so charming ho couldn't help giving her a kiss. " Friend," she said, "thee must not do it." "Oh, by Heaven I I will." "Well, friend, as thee has sworn, thee may do it, but thou must not make a practioe of it." The Celebration's Cost. Whon the American public has been exposed on the fonrth of July to fire- H? crackers cast by the rampant boy, Bays the New York Herald, it naturally avails , itself of the first glimpse of sanity, the . first lull in the storm of pyrotechnics, to consult its mortality lists and underwriters' records, and to ondeaver to ascertain, if possible, how many of it re- 5 main and how mnch of its property has P? been destroyed. Before we drift further *5 upon the waves of these statistics we may say that we have been far more BIf fortunate this year than we expected to bo ; than onr neighbors have been. The ? suburban towns have relatively suffered ,* much greater loss of life and property, f,B and wo donbt not that the Rame state- ? ment holds true of neighboring oities. Thus at Philadelphia one fire caused by pyrotechnics involved a loss of $200,000. aud a sinclo oxnlnsinn lcillml fnnr ^ moil. This comparative exemption has been duo to the watchfulness of the city and fire police, the oarnest endeavors of v" private citizons to prevent or check patriotic incendiarism, and the rcmarkable absence of intoxication and fP* consequent paucity of affrays. Nevertlieless, the killed and wounded is sufilcieutly formidable. In New York, dur- 1 iug the two days covered by the celebration, four people were killed or fatal- ,* ly inj ured as a direct result thereof, a 8 forty-one were seriously wounded, and twenty-niuo slightly injured. Of those y badly hurt, thirteon blow off or shattered P their hands or fingers; nine were Beriously burned; two lost eyes, one of R* whom will probably be completely blind; throo were crushed or bruised ; two j"? broke limbs ; three were shot in the body, four in the head or neck, and five in tho arm or leg. Of the twenty-nine J"1 whose injuries were of a character less r0' grave, one had an eye injured, another was bruised and a third burned. The 27( remaining twenty-six were wounded by explosions of firearms or their careless jp8 use. Ten patriots were shot in the leg, R' seven in the arm or hand, six in the ? head or neck and three in the body. It is possible that some of th severely * wounded will die; it is certain that many r * accidents were not reported ; it is equal- 10 ly certain that the suffering and injury f?? caused to invalids and nervous people witl, though they cannot be estimated, swell considerably the tale of death and . BIC pain. .. These figures can be more forcibly \ presented. Lot us take the population at 1,175,000, according to tne apportionmenfc oonsus, and suppose that the celebration were a thing of every day, 7, aifecting tho mortality rate like dysen- ? tsry, or typhoid, or measles. Then in the course of a year one person of every ' 1,609 would lay his life on the altar of his country; one person of 7 every 154 would be severely wounded ,P! or injured, and one of every 222 less ' seriously hurt. Or, to look at it in another light, if we assume that the rate of patriotisMi throughout the Union is . but half of what it is in New York, our Centennial has been celebrated at the . expense of eighty persons killed and . 1,400 wounded, 800 of whom have re- . ceivcd severo injuries. .. Iu the matter of fires our local show- ' ing has been most favorable, for though jrj there have been during tlio two days eighty fires caused by the careless use of explosive and inflammable materials, f the aggregate loss, as nearly as can be . a j paa D? o^iiuinvau, in u uiuu ujiucr ^l,UUU. Keep This in Mind. jjj| The second centennial celebration w0 will occnr on the fourth of July, ;m 1976. The patriotic people from the an Arctic sea southward will fire off the sort of cannon they have in those days, a r hang out the same old stars and stripes, pjj play the '.ame old Yankee Doodle and yei Hail Columbia; but in the progress of the century the firecrackers will probably bo abolished, and the boys will 8^j celebrate with something less noisy and 8ft, less dangerous. It will be a great day, tlio second centennial fourth. It is ca| hardly possible that any of us will bo on hand to take part in the proceedings. m( We should all like to bo among the yQ actors and spectators, no doubt, but the 8ta laws of nature forbid, and from them <je tliero is no appeal. There will not be frc a trace of us physically left, exoept in gn tho succession in the life of nature, ani- we mate and inanimate. nn Hut though we shall not be there to 8^ see all the grand doings on the - fourth th< of July, 1976, yet wo can contribute it i our part to make tho day a happy one jju for those who take part in the oere- fot monies. The twentieth century patriot Th will study up the condition of things in wo this first centennial year. Editions of for tho bost orations may be printed, and, un perhaps, some of our contennial odes will bo remembered. The journals of the day will discuss us and what we do ^ with great ability and in choice English. 8j81 Tn fftcl. n licht brierht as that of niv. i_:~ hydrogon will bo thrown on tho events wa and people of this year 1876. The we papers of that ilay will search their old tyj files, investigate the temper of the ha< people a hnndred years back, and weigh ^01 the oouscqnences of their aots in iudi- <jr( cions, perspicuous and philosophio lead- ho ing articles, which will be read by mil- ap, lions with interest and thoughtful consideration. Therefore it behooves us all to eare- , fully direct our stepsto the goal of right . and wisdom in this first centennial year. . The eyes of tho future are upon us, and j its scales aro ready to weigh us in the balance.?New York Sun. j 'l I make it a principle novo# to lend ' money," said a good man to a friend, act " but in your case I sucrifioo principle fat for interest." And when the latter tin found he had charged twenty per oent. bo; discount, he said he thought he did. sh< TIIE AYR FIRE. >w Twenty-Two Veenc Wmei were B*rae4 to Death. ^ rhe Glasgow Newt gives the follow? aocount of the burning of the mill Ayr, Scotland, by which twenty-two ung women perished: Within the third >ry of the second block of buildings >m Fort street the fatal spark was idled. The operatives resumed work' ?r breakfast as usual, and all went on toothly till the hour indioated above, len Jamos Barr, a laborer in the >rstod department, was alarmed by a roun g lass " (as he describes her) exkiming in a state of excitement that ore was a fire in the room. The girl d been working at a wool teaser, and jn it was peroeived that the wool had ken fire, apparently from friction, rr immediately called his neighbors, lo gathered in large numbers. Three binctenrs kept on the establishment : emergencies of this kind were prooed, and an effort made to subdue 9 flames, but without effect. No :>ner was water poured on one corner in the fire spread to another, defying 9 utmost efforts of all present to keep within bounds. Some one at an early riod called for a sheet with which to smother" the fire; but with such inning rapidity did it spread, that y attempt in that direction would ve boen useless or worse than useless, a few minutes those who had gatherround the spot where the fire origibed were compelled to flee for their es, leaving portions of their clothing d all they possessed in tLe mill, beid. So far all was tight,' in reset that no damage had resulted to i, but the sequel of the event which I just been inaugurated was disasus and appalling. In the garret nrhead of the room described, James ar, aged fifty years, and father of the n named above, was working with 9nty-five young womeo under his irge, and there the great loss of life ?k place* rames Barr, it is alleged, on hearing i screams in the flat beneath, and on iog informed that there was a fire, kuw uu euuoayur vu necp iuo uriea ux >so who were apparently terror strickbcneath from penetrating his own partment and censing greater oon>rnation than was neoessary. He 3n ran down stairs, saw the imminent ger of the whole establishment, shed np and gave the alarm, bnt was 5 late to effect an escape for himself others, as the staircases were all blaze," and the smoke and fire were eh that no one oould -pass through d live. A soene more easily imagined m described followed. The young imen rushed to the windows and called : that aid which could not be afforded ?m. They gesticulated, and screamed d sobbed in the presence of death, d implored those outside to save their e8. Meanwhile the fire spread rapidtho other buildings one by one were veloped, the flames shot nigh in the and before long the spot where the lpless females had been vainly seeking : succor was reduced to ruins, ana :>se who oocupied it were lost beyond s hope of recall. Several most pain1 incidents are reported in connection th this event. The old man Barr was, fore the fire obliterated everything, m at one of the windows waving his ads, apparently calling for rescue, and arge number of the girls were holder by him in the last lingering hope of ving their lives spared. One young man, named Catherine MoKinnon, cnped from the height of four stories d fell heavily on the ground beneath, e was taken np insensible, placed on nattress and removed to the Ayr hosjil. The poor girl, who was sixteen ars of age, fell on her forehead. Her all was fractured, her arm broken and ler injuries sustained, so that all the 111 whioh could be brought oould not her life. Another young girl, named Simpson, ne to a window screaming. Her sis*, who happened to be beneath at the iment, called out: " Jump out, or n'll be killed, and the little girl inintly leaped over. The sister enavored to catch her, but as the height >m which the leap was taken wan very sat both came into violent contact and re thrown down. The sister escaped hurt, a fact which is marvelous, oonlering the whole circumstance?, but i young girl was a good deal bruised, is feared seriously so. Her hair was rned with the flames, which just bee her leap was devouring all before it. ose who had found an exit from the rks now made the best of their good tune and ran from danger, while the fortunate persons left behind were at ) mercy of the devonring element. >thers appeared on the soene in terror, cing for their daughters; brothers and ters looked everywhere for their raises, who, alas! oould not be saved. It s impossible to say who were and who pa nn? amnnor fVia nnfnrlnnafA irinfinoa well on in the evening, when the fire 1 been subdued. Hoping against pe, parents expected that their ohilm might return home at the usual ur, and waited with eager anxiety their pearance. V surgical operation recently per* mod on the shoulder of Judge Que o Cook, of Houston, Texas, result; in the extraction of an old bullet, roved by him during the war. A piece the ooat, cut away by the ball over ven years ago, was found with it. 'You must cultivate decision of char,er, and learn to say 'no, said a her to his son. Soon afterward, when > father told the son to ebon wood, the y said " no," with an emphasis that >wed a remembranee of the lesson.