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I fr . . ____________ THE COUNTY RECROD. ___ < Published Every Thursday ?at? < KIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. , LOUIS J. BKISTOW, Kdltor and Proprietor. ] i It is barely possible that the dynamite cruiser of the Vesuvius class ? >> - 1-..4 1 41. 41. _ 4??..,.,1,. lw.n + j wux suppiaui uuiu iuo iui wciuj i and the monitor in future naval armament, thinks the Chicago Times-Herald. American lumber exports are 011 the increase as shown by returns for the last two years. During 1895 the value of lumber exports was $30,000,000, during 189G 33,000,000, and for 1897 there was an increase of 30 per cent., bringing the total up to Sit', 000, UUO. Kaiser Wilhelw is inventing a new mitrailleuse to knock over a whole regiment at one tire whenever it comes within range. After he has invented a new bicycle saddle he can sit down like Alexander and weep that, i 1 the fields of ingenuity, at any rate, there are no more worlds left for Liiu to couqner. i The first railroad in Sweden was opened in ISoo, and the country has j now in proportion to its population, more railways than any other country in Europe. They are owned partly < by the state and partly by private corporations. Sweden has the only railway in the world which passes the polar circle, i. e., the state line from ? Lulea to Gellivare, in the Lapland j district. j The progress of English toward uni- * versa! use was shown when Doctor t Nansen recently addressed the Russian Geographical society on the ^ theme of his Arctic adventures. He ' spoke in Knglish, saying he knew no t Russian, was not sure of German,and 1 could not use French with any degree of ease; but not one of his audience c complained of not being able to understand English. t a It would appear from all accounts v Q that AI. Chacot s enterprise of tiie manufacture of spiders'-web silk is r to be pursued on a large scale, a fne- a torv iu Paris having been taken for & the purpose. Here the spiders will ^ be kept and worked at regular hours, p aud, when one of them is used uj>,he a will be fed and helped back to conditiou again, while another will take his *! place on the bobbin. An expert, fully t] acquainted with the habits of the in- tl sect, will be in rinntml nf the sniper tl department of the factory, the care of * b them, feeding, honsiug, etc. Iu ohtainiug the requisite supply, if the w latter exceeds what is necessary for n ' r the industry, experiments will he 1 y ma le with a view to ascertaining which ^ of the (Liferent varieties produces the w . linest quality of silk, and iu this way si th we not favored with a fine weh will d be wee led out. Trials will likewise ^ T>e male with different diets, in order n to determine whether or not it is posto train tlio snider to ?:ive forth '< a web thai is an improvement on the w ordinary product?the expectation be- y wg that perseverance iu this respect I will result iu securiug a quality oi u silk hitherto unsurpassed. S 0 We do not have to search long for t the explanation of the treiueudous { spiead of the English lauguago dur- r ing the last one hundred years, says c the Atlanta Constitution. There is * something in the temperament of both j Britons and Americans which makes i them superioAoauy other ra -e of peo- * pie on the globe iu wideawake progres- * sivcness. While Great Britain on the , one hand has been engaged in plant- x ^ ing colonies in all parts of the globe, 5 the United States 0:1 the other hand 1 has been engaged in subduing the vast ^ domain of the North American continent. While Great Britain has car- ; ried the English language into foreign j quarters, placing it upon the lips of millions, the United States wi.h lh> j proffer of spleudid opportunities held out to the discontented spirits of t'le i old world lias succeeded ia attracting ' millions into her amide borders, en- . dowing them with her language as j -.-11 J,, , w cn ?iiu vur- n uno u* luivu *. xi? j spite of the decline which other nations have experienced, the two great English-speaking nations have forged their way to the front, causing eve:v obstacle to succumb to their invincible progress. At the present time they carry on the great bulk of the world's commerce, and represent the major portion of its wealth and enterprise. Such being true, there seems to be abundant warrant for the statement that the world's destiny, in a large measure lies within the keeping of the two great brauches of the Anglo-Saxon race. * SHIPS AT 3h. many ships have I at sea T That sailed awav long years aero. Some day they're coming back to me, S ltut when aud Iiow I cannot know. Sometimes I wander on the shore, 0 And watch the far horizon dim. ft" he re vanished in those days of yore S My argosies so fleet and trim. [ scan with eager eyes the waves r That dance and sparkle in the light; V vision fair my fond heart craves, 0 Alas! no sail is yet in sight. Ofttimes I find upon the sand E A broken plank, a shattered spar, K bent and rusty iron band? (j Oh, voiceless tale of wrecks afar. ?( ^5? O r^P !r'^ ^^o^^oo/oS a o\b 6o o^o oiooao >S 6 ON5 j( o^o o 1 JOHN SHAD 7/rSh c^^^?:\3l?^S?^SJ?s>S9;N3,?*>2??cc^A?:?vS'r}:ss^^s'>5VE ^ j S^5 C/'/o^ C* c?*l ^3n3 oS^5 ii^s! o \b C/'SNi ^ oV> I^G * ! * t"~T X early life John h ; Shad had 110 con- h ncction with the : v people called.)' ' Quakers. At the h ter i>sf time when he at- *' j& taiued to manhood h AJt^. he had no "re-, h /^X/VjaT ligiou," but this i h [A* was ou'i'ig rather , " V^jr^J J to his shyness in \ auacniug nimseu vfljG&r i to any particular 0 v i 5 \ i a^a sec* t^au *? lac'c " v of sPiritua!itJ of i u iii"1 mind. Hitherto: 'v.'iy*! 11 jBlvffi- hulW heart ! had gone out to l *' ;j Ydl tho mysterious i rK.P.y workings of na- ! h ' \xj''4 ture, and he had ; T worshiped the w e'W^ sun and the stars , u ind the clouds, the flowers and the j a' jirds. The night winds on his face, j ;he cries of migratory wild fowl cross- J ng the darkening sky?these were the J ai hiugs that created a great yearning fr vithiu him. In sho -t, he was Pan- j Q heist without kuowing it. j a' These thoughts held him until Dinah w 3ebb came that way as a pioneer of a he Primitive Methodists?the first cc roman preacher that had appeared on w he countryside. She was a demure- 111 ooking maiden, with a good deal of ! I- -1 i l 11 1L 1 111 ircision iiuuui uei wuii-stu niuuiu, auu : ier bearing hail a quiet dignity that m omported well with her features. Her advent to the countryside was j th ne signal for a solemn warning1 al gainst her and her preaching; and it j a* ?as hinted that she was a heretic, if ; he was not so set down in as many rords. Dissent had never before j aised its head in Ilattock, and now it | ly ppeared in a specially heretical form. m .nd so Dinah Bebb was denounced. aI Hattock was surrounded by a great th elt of woodlands, and its sprinkled or opulation consisted of small farmers P< ud charcoal burners. Its backslid- hi igs on the surface were poaching aud t? muggling, the rest of the deadly sins ^ eing kept well under. Poaching was le unpardonable siu to the squire, aE le non-payment of church dues to n* 10 "priest." The poachers knew J ot lat if they were caught they would I AV1 e "everlastingly damned," and those j ac ho neglected to pay church "dues" w ere condemned to the same state? ! su ot out v.-iirdlv. but bv inference. I bis last was tbe fate of a small knot ot f Quakers who hail a meeting house n< ekiutl the Pit Farm, and whose gooils th ere regularly distrained upon iu con- of squeuce. These queer people had, seemed, inconvenient notions as to j ie payment of tithe, und so their prod- ! Q ce was forcibly, aud sometimes ! wi DUghly, appropriated. hi Finding Dinah "Bebb alone, and ?arning the nature of her mission, it as one of these who took her in, when ti< he had failed to find a lodging among he dwellers on the fell-side. ei Selecting a time when there was no K reefing elsewhere, Dinah Bebb had cr ;iveu out that she would be on the Common on the first Sunday after- cc loon, and that she would then speak in o the people. As the time arrived hi he woodlauders were there, but they ^ nostly stood afar oft". Within the b] :ircle, immediately in front, were a cc ew of the Quakers among them some m romen and behind, John Shad, with of 10 "religion" at all. These were the ei espectful listeners. The rest were w urtlier away, and either gaped or gig-, sj jled as they watched the scene. b: Dinah Bebb stood beneath a tree s( ,vith a book in her hand, waiting, tl \nd then, although stragglers were ti itill coming up, punctual to the appointed time the preacher came forivard, and, standing upon a point of :ock. commenced her address. S "What shall it profit a man," she e: lsked, "if he gain the whole world ti uid lose his own soul?" then paused, t< rhere seemed something startlingly b new in the question, and a great silence s< V>11 mifiji flip ornwd She spoke quietly anil impressively, o in a low, sweet voice; then, as she t< ;aught her listeners, with more tl emotion; and finally, bringing up a o force and fire her slight frame seemed tl incapable of, she ended by an agouiz- i ing appeal that was so full of an in- j o finite tenderness as to sway every j s listener. I ^ She had stopped. But before the f< people could recover themselves she had dropped on her knees and was praying. Her pale, thin face was turned to 1 I li > illimitable skv. and. with arms out- ? stretched, her aj>peal was toward the t setting sun which, with its last rays, c just at that moment wrapped her in a i purple effulgence. j a The woodlanders were impressed , 1 shaken as they had never been before, j a and they left the Common with an un- : 1 ea.-y feeling that, somehow, they had , 1 bei'n set against themselves. 1 < Since her coming to Hattock Dinah . t SEA. hen anxious fears crowd in mv breast, And veil the sunshine in the sky. hall thusiny pood ships end their quest? Shall this their fate be by-and-by? i friends with ships far out at sea, That sailed away so long ago, orae day they're cominp back to thee, But when and how we may not know. erehance with sails all rent and soiled. Battered and bruised thy ships may be, 'f beauty and pracethey may be despoiled, ! Heavy and slow they may come to thee. ait come they morning, noon or night, With flying colors or broken mast, iur hearts will erv with a thrill of delight, "Thank God our ships have come in at last." riara W. Williams, in Boston Transcript. roucsoucrcuo o\b Go O G'o\a 60 6o\b Gb\b Go ? , QUAKEE. 1 s in mo98P^s0s?jj o 6 r>'o 1J owi^cvo .f3\ryo"Sj(r' oyoV>j'3\.Goii:{j o\i Yoi~0 Jcbb made the most of her time. She ad found out something of the wood- j ruders, of their homes and of what as their condition. That night she ; isited the wife of a charcoal burner j a one of the huts, and as she re-; urned along one of the rides of the ' arest she was stopped by a man. He ; ad followed her'at a respectful dis- j ince, and was now awaiting her. It ; as John Shad. They drew aside into one of the i learings, and sat down on a felled _ 1_ Ti I -A. 1 A 1 1 - Ci. At- - I ah., it was nue wuen mey leu me 'oods, ami that night John Shad cornlenced his conversion. ii. The Quakers' meeting house stood on le edge of the clearing, its "up-keep" 1 eing represented by the rent of the ' I it Farm. It was a small, white- : 1 ashc.l building, with plain unvar- I ished benches. An oak gallery ran { long one end, and on this was a mat1 [ plaited straw. About a dozen i Friends" habitually attended, a man ' ad woman Friend coming on a pillion ' om one of the upland farms. The uakers ministered among themselves, i id as an "attender," and sitting just j 1 ithin the door, John Shad had sat for ( number of years. This quiet, self- 1 mtained man who lived in the woods ^ as welcome among the little com- ^ unity. A a f ma a am nn<1 V\ a n at? av 1 1 uujc > tlil uu, auu uu ucvca oached the subject of "applying for embership," some of the Friends sug- I lested that, did he make application, iey had no doubt it would be accept-1 1 )le, especially if he were found to be 1 one with them on the main point of 1 )ctrine. After pondering the matter J v a time Shad saw no reason why he lould remain outside, and according- ^ made application. In this way he f ight share the larger responsibilities * id partake of the fuller privileges * :at attached to membership. The 1 itcome of his application was the ap- 1 untment of two aged Friends to visit ^ in. If the conference was satisfac- v ry, they would recommend his ad- 1 ission to the Society. But the recommendation never came, ^ id it was in this wise: To pursue his ^ iture studies John Shad had but few f her aids than his gun and his gun 1 is an nn-Friendly possession. Then, ? ;aiu, his leather jacket was adorned 1 ith brass buttons depicting sporting ibjects buttons much worn through J * ansference from one garment to an- a her. These were an heirloom, and i a >t lightly to be parted with, although ! J pt wpii' lmrdlv Ipss snbiects of 1 ^ fence than his fowling piece. \ * Forego his gun, his nets and snares i 3 td all his rustic appliances? No; if t uakerism could not embrace him ' v ith the love of nature and sport upon * m he must bide outside. The woods were wide. The seasons [ 1 ould come and go, the winds and the ; 1 les. He was content. c How much the nature hunger had itered into his soul no one knew. . ( eenly as he loved the woodland; * eatures alive, his gun brought them 1 ithin his grasp. His knowledge and Election of birds would have been all j* complete without it. Nature was 1 s life-study; it had got into his brain ( id blood. He had the forest fauna j heart, and when he was not char- \ ial burning or peeling oak-bark, he . ' adc excursions to widen the scope j * ' his observations. When learned ltomologists came collecting to the l1 oods, he was consulted as to the j 1 >ots affected by the rarer species of ; i i /! -- _ - -i IL j i.\.: i nuernies anu inoiiis, uuu iu mia way yme of bis observations bad found leir way into print into quite learned * eatises. I xu* How Dinab Bebb became Dinah bad; bow tbe but in tbe clearing was nlarged, and bow John Shad con- i uued in bis quiet mind and still at-; mded tbe old meeting bouse need not | e told. But tbese things were and , 3 they contiuued for years. No doubt the meeting was ashamed j f having rejected Shad, but it seemed ) have been the mutual misfortune aat he had been interviewed by two \ t the most conservative elders among ! ae sect. But then, did not the Society's Book f Christian Discipline and Practice ! et itself against all sports sports hich were demoralizing, aud intersred with growth in grace. iv. _ j The Quakers were a reminiscence in lattock. Only the name remained, hxty years ago they had been more j han a name. Traces of them were ! omrnon of their doings, their say- j ugs, of the stand they had made igaiust what they deemed oppression. ; m CJn fVVarinnr? " | LiltJl'C WU3 IUCU L/uuu VI , i pretty piece of reading in itself. 1 Turning its yellow-stained pages one auglied and wept with these dead Quakers in turn?but always admired hem. It was a curious patchwork of | comedy and tragedy, this "book o sufferings." A "stitt-necked genera ation," the "priest" bad called then (having an eye on his tithe), and wel he might! But they are gone, al gone! True, the little meeting house re mains still lovingly tended and car^i for by the rejected of the elders, Jg'hi Shad 1the sole survival of Quakeri%m Sixty years ago the quiet spirit of'th little community had entered into hi soul, and he lived on intheFaitl,r Bu he could never be induced to renev his application. And only onee, wit! a quiet smile, he gave the reiyjon. H still wore the brass buttons of hi loatlipr shootiucr iaeket and .vere U4 they anathema? With his eighty years upon him what a man was John Shad, beantifu with age! His soul looked out of hi face. Tanned was his face, his fin square head covered with a profusioi of silvery hair. With all his |years he stood as straight as an ash-saplini a perfect wood lander! In his ag as in his youth, he lived face to far with Nature. Never was such a poor rich man. Nature, his mistress, h would say, dowered him with richesshowered her -bounties before him Where the clearings had been h built gardens and orchards. Hangini gardens he made among the rooks ant scars spots in which it was impossi ble to tell where Nature ended ant ni>f Iiumh T-fa rri-.nr flip liredioil *** v + x herbs and knew the lore of all th flowers. His patches of corn wer among the rocks, and evarywher about him the desert blossomed as th< rose But over and above all, the meetinj house was his chiefest care. How h< tended it! Nothing was ever allowet to desecrate it nothing except th< pair of swallows that came year b; pear to nest among the rafters. Hot the birds of return were waited ant watched for, and what a joyous do; was that of their coming! T. For many years Dinah Shad hat lain in the litttle burial ground. In the meeting house itself Johj Shad worshiped 011 alone. Eacl 5rst-day found him here, the silenci of the place was made audible by hi: presence. Sometimes when his heart felt thankfulness became too much foi aim he stood up and spoke aloud * ^ +! ?aco if nnlt 1UU WLIUl SClUiUUO "oiu iuuov, vm.j ;hey could Lave been taken down! And so he sat on, week after week rear after year. Beloved by the woodlanders as mai vas rarely loved, he was left undis ;urbed. A strange reverence grew uj ibout him. His silent testimony wai nore powerful than the spoken word The lawless countryside became mor< aw-abiding as his years went on. Bm itill he worshiped alone. It is told low a violent wayfarer, hearing of his onely life, had intended to break ii inrt despoil his house. Bnt, pre riously lurking about the premises, he lad caught sight of the old man a< vorship. He saw him, sitting silenl ind still, with head thrown up, as was lis wont, and, as he described, with i mr of sunlight across his white hair The man watched him for a time, ther lunk silently away and disappeared n the woods, leaving the weapon wit! rhieh he intended to break the house u his fight. And as this man had seen him so ] ound him one Monday at noon?a da} titer he had failed to make his wonted tppearpnce. He still sat on the seat illy a little more rigidly than usual [here was but little change, excepl iiat the mouth, slightly drawn, added l hardness to the face that was no! here in life. Curiously enough his vill was iu his pocket?I afterward earned that he always carried it in his "irst-day" coat. Subsequently th< luty fell upon me to read this quairn locument, but I must not disclose it: sontents. Sulliee it, they were char3eteristi< >f the man?especially the directioi hat his body was to be lain in the voods, not in the little burial.ground \.nd so John Shad, the very incarna ion of Quakerism, died, but still out lide of the pale of the sect?the las >f the Quakers of Hattock. Even with the dead man lying be !ore me, I remember smiling at th< ncongruity of the sporting brass bat :ons as they stared me in the face fron :he high-cut, snnflf-colored coat? ibe self-same anathema of sixty year igo.?Boston (England) Guardian. m y Mule Steak Tmty. "A party of Idaho cowboys, wh< were out on the range hunting horse: not long since, got desperately hun gry, and, rather than kill a beef steer which is worth big money jnst now they despatched a young mule, whosi flesh they proceeded to eat with th greatest relish." said Mr. Albert C Blocker, of that State, at the Ebbitt "One of the company told me tha the steak cut from the mule was a good as any he ever ate, but his shar] appetite may have been a factor in th case. It was the first time I eve heard of a mule being sacrificed ii such a cause, but as horse meat i growing in favor in European coun tries, I don't see why his long-earei relative should not answer the saim purpose." Washington Post. The Philippines in Gold. Canovas del Castillo's widow hasrt ceived a magnificent present from ac mirers of her husband in the Philij nines. 51 It is a large map in relief c the Philippines made of beaten golt the towns marked by rubies, th names written in sapphires, uud th dedication in diamonds. The map i cof in o frame of cold and iewels wit a gold bust of Canovas ou top, an this is inclosed iu a box of preciou woods artistically carved. The gift i valued at ?30,000. The Duchess t Canovas will soon be the sole Spanis possessor of the Philippines.?Xe' York Sun. / ) H^Ilds of adventure.!* i J I ro 1 THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARINC ti< 1 , DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. E: t vi ^ A 1'ennnylvanian Tell* of Ills Experience ^ in the Chilkoot Avalanche A Miracu- m a Ions Escape From Death An English- i CO man's Nervy Hide Out of Kussla. nc e Milton Black, who lives near f*1 Puuxsutawney, Penn., returned home l1, ; recently from a journey to the gold v fields of Alaska. He was caught, with W1 1 1200 others, in the crreat snow slide 0 iu Chilkoot Pass April 3, iu which " Mrs. Maxson, of the same town, lost 1 her life, and had a thrilling experience co and an almost miraculous escape from "c ' death. He was buried under twenty- ,~,a five feet of snow for eight hours, and s was finally dug out alive, but so much ba e the worse for the accident that he nc 11 found it impossible to proceed on his journey, the long interment under the ?a 3 snow having so injured his lungs as to e produce violent hemorrhages. e It is interesting to hear Mr. Black m' '? tell of his experience, and of the |1111 ~ wickedness of the average Klondiker. j n" "As soon as you get on the trail," he says, "Sunday-school is out. There's ie c no further use for hymn books, and S prayer meetings are not in it." ' There were about two hundred peo- ^ " pie in the party with whom Mr. Black ^ entered the Chilkoot Pass. They had s pitched their tents to rest and re- j ' e cuperato when a snow slide came e down upon them, covering their tents. e After considerable labor they all mane aged to get out. They concluded to get through the pass as quickly as oE 3 possible, and for that purpose all gu e took hold of a long rope, with the ji ^ guide in front. Mrs. Maxson, who g e had been covered up with snow once, f was discouraged and hysterical. She ^ !j slid she would go no further. She aj] ' would lie right dowu there and die f rather than attemi)t to go through the ^ pass. She was urged to take hold of ^ the rope, but would not. Two or three stalwart meu offered to carry ^ ^ her, saying that they would not go on &r aud leave a woman to die. She would w) 1 not be carried. While they parleyed ^ 1 for ten minutes the second slide came, B which they would have escaped had 3 there been no delay. About a hundred " of them were covered beneath twentyr five and thirty feet of snow. Those who were not caught by the ' slide went to work at once to dig the ; others out. It was a slow and ardu- fe > ons task, and out of ninety-one per- ^ sons thus buried, only seven were an 1 taken out alive. One of these was .? " Milton Black. } The slide occurred at 9 o'clock in ' the morning, and he remained buried ^ uutil f> o'clock iu the evening. One te 5 peculiarity of the situation when cov^ ered up with the snow, Mr. Black says, ur ^ was that he could hear just as well as } though he had been in the open air. ^ 1 The groans, prayers, lamentations, and curses of those beneath the av* alauche were plainly audible. Some ^ ^ prayed fervently, bade good-by to 1 their near friends, and gave up. Others j 5 cursed their fate, and used their last: . 1 breath to utter profanity. j -j.] "I made up my mind," says Black, ^ 1 "that I would die as I had lived, and 1 that it was uo use to pray at that stage 1 of the game. It seemed to me that I * got a breath about every five minutes. ^ I had little hope of escape, but re- ^ t solved to live as long as I could. The e 7 snow was packed so tightly about me ' , I that I could not move a fraction of an j inch. I thought every time I got a breath of air that that was my last i at 1 I one, but I never became unconscious, I uj ^ and it seemed to me that I had been I th " there at least a week wheu a shovel at * struck uiv shoulder and I heard a <?o I 1 voice saying: ' j)( } "I have struck a man." i ec } "Is he dead or alive?" said another ; in voice. or * "I don't know," answered the man with the shovel, and he soon had my it * head uncovered. When I got a good th 1 breath of air I felt that I was all right, 0I > and I said: "There is a woman right W( * in front of me. Dig her out. I have * air now and can wait. They then pro- ki * ceeded to uncover Mrs. Maxson. But ju * she was dead. You can form some r0 idea of how solidly the snow was hi " packed," continued Mr. Black, "when w; J I tell you that when they had me all " uueovered but one leg up to the shin tk 1 I could not get it out until the snow W( - was all shovelled away from it. I q 9 wrmbl nnl rm tlirnnch that experience "VMiV* "vv r>v v* i 1 again for all the gold on the Klondike." i Cfi I si: "Kl?le For Your Life." j h< 3 Tsar Paul was strangled because he ta 3 was thought to be a madman whose it " manias were too dangerous to be ? borne. Bonaparte, who had entered of ? 2ito an agreement with the tsar, fo 0 whereby the two rulers should simul- P 0 taueously invade British India, had fr the meanness to declare in the Moni- si teur, the official journal of France, bi t that the assassination had been in 9 plauued by the English. A thrilling i tli P story, associated with the assassina- J ej 0 tiou and Bonaparte's declaration, was gi r told by the poet Tennyson. 11 The poet's father, when h young St 3 man, visited St. Petersburg not long l" after the assassinatiou, and dined one I K 1 day with Lord St. Helens, the British j w 0 minister. At the dinner-table the ' s< young man, having in mind Bona- J parte's attempt to make the English { w Government responsible for the as5 sassiuation, said to Lord St. Helens, bl I- speaking across a Russian guest: "It I P' )- is perfectly well known in England , hi >f who murdered the Emperor Paul; it d< I, was Count So-and-so." ! fr 4 1 -i _:i r-ll 4.1,Si e a ueau sueuce icu uu iw tuuijmaj. i ? e After dinner Lord St. Helens called I ci is young Tennyson aside and said: 1 ^1 h "Ride for your life from the city! The , d mau across whom you spoke to me is , w s the Count So-and-so, whom you a> cl is cused of murdering the Emperor' )f Paul." h i The young Englishman took horse L tv | and rode for weeks through Russia, w till he came to the Crimea, where he b; *r. 11 ill. He became delirious, and membered the wild people dancing >und his bed with magical incantajns. Once in every three months an nglish courier passed through the llage, and as he passed he blew a >ru. It all depended on the young au's hearing the horn whether he alil escape from Russia, for he had > money. In his delirium he would art up agonized lest he had missed At last the courier came, the horn is beard, and the courier agreed to ke the young Englishman with him. e was a drunken fellow, and dropped I his despatches on the road. His mpanion picked them up, but did ?t tell the courier, until the man, : w ,ving become sober, was in despair, len young Tennyson gave the des.tches to the courier, with a warning ?t to get drunk agniu. At a frontier town they found the ,tes closed and barred, because it is late in the night. "The Duke of )rk!" shouted the courier. Immediately the gates were thrown open, id the sentinel sprang to attention id saluted the young Britisher, who, ter many adventures, managed to ach England. Hiding With a Bull Snake. Members of the Spokane (Wash.) :hletic Club are telling a remarkable ake story in which Professor Freean, the musician, figures as the leadg character. Professor Freeman and three mem* irs of the club started last Sunday on bicycle run to the Little Spokane, bile en route home north of town, ia of the nnrtv noticed a bitr bull ake coiled up in the road. The prossor dismounted to kill the reptile, e struck the snake a violent blow er the base of the head with a stone, le reptile squirmed a minute or two, id then ajl movement ceased. The nervy musician decided to bring e descendant of Mother Eve's enemy to town as a trophy. He took a ort piece of twine and tied the snake the handlebars, wrapping its body ound the steering head. The trip is again resumed into town. Everying went nicely until coming down long hill eu route to town, when the ofessor, who was setting the pace, :gan racing as if the warm end of a Danish gun was pointed in his direc>n. So exhilarating was the sport, fact, that the snake revived. The professor was made aware of the vival by a hissing sound. He looked >wn. and the reptile was makingsav e plunges at bis bands, tirst one and en tbe other. Things suddenly became more than teresting. The wheel was going >wn hill as if a lot of fiends were afr it. The snake was in front, and a rriblyhard roadbed kept jumping up iderneath. The professor's hair (eded no combing to stand pompa>ur. The snake to all appearances as wriggling its head loose and its eth were just missing the rider's inds at every attack it made. s Finally matters were jLJ >rupt termination, fcy the wheel ?low"*C f g up at the ^pffom of the decline, ae snakejlfas readjusted, and the ip resnjaed into town. The reptile now on exhibition in a cage at the * ofesscr's apartments, where he is .'rfectlj willing to tell his friends all lout it. The reptile is three or four of Irtntr Ami ? IovaIv sne<;inien of a wv ~ir ake. Brave Acts. On Jubilee day, which commemored the discovery of gold in Califora in 1849, a squad of Battery I, of e regular army, was tiring a salute Lime Point Fort, near San FrancisOne load the charge was fifty rnnds of powder enclosed in a wooll bag did sot go ofl', and the officer command ordered it to be pulled * it of the cannon. The charge was withdrawn and, as dropped to the ground, it was seen, at one corner of the woolen rag was i fire. In an instant the powder auld have caught and the seven men ith their officer would have been lied. Private John M. J ones mped toward the smouldering bag, lied it in the mud. and with his bare mds plastered the singed edges ith damp earth. It was a quick, brave deed, and had ie hero been a British soldier, it ould have brought him a Victoria ross to wear on his breast. During the Sepoy War, a young -~ iptain of artillery saw an ignited lell fall near his battery. Instantly 3 lifted it up, carried it to a disnno and flnnc it awav. Jlist then "vv> o tf burst, shattering his left fore-arm. fn the Crimean War Captain Peel the Royal Navy and sou of the rmer Prime Minister, Sir Robert eel, commanded a naval battery in ont of Sebastopol. One day a large lell, its fuse burning, fell into the ittery, near where Pitt was stand,g. Picking it np, he carried it to ie rampart and tossed it over. It :ploded before it reached the onnd. liool Mn'am'n Battle With a Wild Cat. Miss Harrington, school-teacher in ansas, had a terrible battle with a ild cat on the Smoky River. She ob- ( irved the ferocious beast attacking a i jung calf in her father's herd, but j hen she approached the wild cat 1 mght protection in a hole in the ^ i ? mi, ^ I. ttAtm/f trnmon lull. XilU liCIUlU JV *fvmuu ithered grass and sticks and built a I 1 re iu the entrance to the animal's en, tud armed with a club stood in J out of the hole, ready to do battle, oon the smoke drove out the wj^ it. The mad animal sprang uptajj [iss. Harrington and a terrific battle isued. Although bleeding from omuls received she finally, with the ub she wielded, killed the wild cat. The cornerstone of the new Grace nfliernn Glmrch at Macnmrie. Penn., as brought froui Jerusalem in 1896 y the pastor of the church. - i t v;