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TRl-WEEKLY E DITION* WINNSBORO. S. U. rMAY loo" 1879.VO.1.-.39 COMING HOME. "Oome, Kitty, come!" I said; But still she watod-waited, Nodding oft her pretty head Wib, "I'm coming soon, Fathor's rowing home, I know, I cannot think whlat koops him so, Unless he's Just belated. I'm coming soon." -Oomo, Kato !" her mother called, " The supper's almost roady." But Kitty in her plaoe installe, Coaxed, "I'm coming soon. Do lot me wait. Ile's aura to d9me; By this timo father'slways hoe He rows HO fast ani steady; I'm coming soon." "Como, Kit P' her brothers cried; But Kitty by the water Still eagerly the distauce eyed, With, "I'm coming soont Why, what would ovening be?" said she, "Without dear father 1:omo to tett? Without his '1o, my daughter'--? I'm coming soon." "Como, Kit !" they half im plore, The child is softly huUiting She hardly hears them any more; But "I'm coming soon" . Is in her heart: for far from shtre - Gliding the happy waters o'er 3he ecos the boat, and cries. ''lIos coming ! 'We re'comlingh 13oon - Besieged. I wais sixteel years ol the first fall I ever tried to tral) beaver. It was in October of that year that I maet witI the following ad venture: I had been looking forward to a jaunt for heaver ill stimier. T fall before, while ta11ppilg mtink, onii what was called Wild Str'atn, I had discovered a little lake, deep back in the woods, with a beaver dain at the out let which ran down i thickly-wooded hollow. It was late one bitter, cloudy afternoon when I found the lake. I had six miles to go to get to iny camp, and merely hid time to notice that there were two heaver houses a hutndred yards or so above the datm. That night it began to snow, and I weit home without revisiting the p1lce that fall. But I had kept the locality well in mnind, t and as soon as the crops were harvested, I set off with my traps up Wild Stream, de terinined to have those beaiver. Following up the hollow about four' or five Imiiles, I built a camp about two miles helow the outlet of the lake ; not daring to t hIild it ntearer, for fear the smell of my fire ight reach the heaver. There I passed the night, and about ten o'clock next fore noon went up to the (laim with my tiaps. I It was a nice little hake, surrounded with* black growth, and right across the out let 1 Sle heaver had run us pretty a (111111 as ever I hunters set eyes on. It was "crowning" i) stream, an(I a few rods atbove it were three I huts, which stood up out of the slack water < as large as a good-sized haycocks. V 1 conclided there might be from fifteen 8 to t v'enty heaver there ; for they generally live in families of from four to ten. And t besides the. three perfect houses, there was a 'ourth, which I at first took for an un tinished house. But on going around to the other side, it looked to lte more like a till that had been broken into ; f'or' there was a ragged hole in the top of it as large as a bushel basket. I looked all along the shore to see whetlier f there were any tracks either of man or crea iture, but discovered nothing except some t scratc'hes on an old log that lay partly in the witter. 'lhese scratches, however, were t evkidt.ntly the marks of claws. There were no beavers in sight, for it is rare that they show themselves, either ashore or' swiimig, by daylight. But 1 coukli heat' one "'slap" the w~ater' now andl then linsideO the houses. I thought that I would set my trap~s at fir'st along the batnk at each end of the (laim, where I saw they hadslidesand pilaygrounds. Afterwards, I would dig out a canoe, 'r make a raft, andI put1 down traps around~ the houses, at the doorways where they come (out undi~er water. Tlhe huts stood out ninety or one hundlredl feet fronm the shore, where there was con siderable dlepth of water. There was a great quattity of sticks with the bark peeled off, floating abiout in the pond1(. These camie fromu some poplars a little above, sev eral of which the beafvers had felled into the ponid. The bitter inishic bark of the p~oplar affords to the beaver its choicest food. I set my trap~s with -a "sllding-pole," t aking a great deal of 1pains1 with them, so as to get the beavers into just water enough to drlown) them. It was a rather nice job ad kept me busy until near four' o'clock, andi four o'clock does not come11 till ntear night in October., Bly the titne I got back to my caump, It wvas suniset. I kindled a fire, and cut off a few slices of my pork, and had just got it wvell to cooking In the spilder, whena I heardl the most startling screech in the woods that can wvell be Imagined. It sounded away upl towards1 the lake.I kntew very well that ino lynx or bear could miake such a noise as that. It flashed ont my mind1( In a moment wvhat had brokeni the heaver-house. One Is always lIable to run across a1J'elis concolor' near a heaver village at that sea son of the year. Trho beaver's now and~ then afford themi a choice meal ; and before the frost seals the ponds andl hardens the walls of the huts, they statnd a chantce of captutr ing the Intelligent ereatures. One of the old "'woodl sachetms" was, no dloublt, lurking about the huts, anid likely enough, had been watching tie whIle I set my traps. Now hie had taken my track, anid wvas followig along after me. I had heard ol hunters tell how these creattu'es would follow a man around-till (lark. If I had had a tight camp which I could. have got into, I shoul have felt better, 1But I had only a little bough shed. Anid tmy gunt was a cheap foutr-dollar fowvlhig piede; good eniough for p~artridlge and esmall game, though the lock was not always to be relied upon to snap a cap. I thouight It all over-pretty fast-and concluded that the bes',t thting for me was to be going, I had made my botughu-shed close beside! thte brook. Without stopping to eveni take off my spider, I caught upi my) gunm anid ran dlowni the bed of the brook, six or eight rods, so as to leave no fresh tracks for the beast to take. I may as well own that I was scared. Yet I thought the creature would likbly enotighi smell the pork and prowl around mycan awhile. . ycmn I ran rapidly for thn first. milo ortwo, hen settled down Into a .dog-trot. I had gone about a mile or a mile anda half more, [ should think, when I heard that same igly, raspy screech again, not half a mile >ack. That made my heart jump, for I had be run to think that I had given the old fellow he slip. If I didn't run then, never a fel ow did 1--over logs, rocks, and through vindfalls and brambles. I knew it was a race for life, and I ran ike a fox. But in less than three minutes heard the animal again, and it seemed as f he wasn't a hundred rods behind me. I was hot enough with running, but that creech sent a cold chill down mly back. ['he beast was coming right ip to me ! It was an awful place to run in-all logs tind roots. Forest fires had killed the old )ine growth, and the trees had fallm across ach other, every way. It was getting dusk, too. lin one of my umbles 1 camne near going headforemost ito a great hollow log, and lay for an in tant breathless. But a crashing in the bushes not far be iind told me that Iy relentless pursurer vAs close at hand. It was no time for >ieking out. nice hiding-places. The hole i the log seemed to offer a refuge, and I lirew ini my gun, and then backed into it nyself, feet first. I kept backing till I was as fir as I could ,et, and there I lay and panted. I had got )rick ten or twelve feet. For some minutes, I could hear nothing >f the pnuither. Then I heard him moving LIolt With soft, catlike steps. A uoment fter, the hole at the of tle log darkened, Lnd I caught a glimpse of *two fiery orbs, lint gleamnied with a pale flash. In my frantic haste, I had thrust my gun nto the log muzzle foremost. It was use ess. I could not turn it in there ; yet I teld the butt ready to thrust with. The creature, lrowever, did not attempt o crawl in After air eager look, the eves lisappeared ; and a little after, I lieard the weast at the other end. 'I'hien I heard him smelling along the out ide of the log. When he got Iris nose just OJT agrainst where I lay inside, the animal ve vent to a quick grow!. and begari to ig! It made me shiver to hear him put his ails into that log! I expected nothing but re would have it open and claw me out. But I suppose the outside of the log was olerably sound and tough ; for after dig ;ing like a fury for a few seconds, he topped, and then I saw the pale gleam of yes at the hole again. I halloed and yelled at him. But the yes continued to regard me steadily, and hey seemed to grow larger and larger there ni [lie dark. Then it went back to the other end, and iretty soon began to dig once more. I could iear the splinters tear off. flow long it v'ould take the creature to get through the 0g, I courld On1ly guess, blut I got ourt Iiy nrife anId opened it. 'T'le animal kept digging at the log for a ong limrle, first at one end and then at the ther, but never once tried to crawl in. It rs lucky for me that this was a tolerably ')uid log. ''hren he0 chranged hi1 tactics. IIe left off earing at the log, and I rather thought me had gone away. But as it wias very lark, I concluded to ltay where I was till laylight. It was not a very uncomfortable position. lut there were plenty of great black ants lint kept running over me, and now and hen I got a bite, sharp as a needle. My right wore away, and berng very much ex austed with my run, I fell asleep several imes. But it was a tedious night at best. After it was light, I determined to ven ure out. But first I thought it would be veil to try an experiment. So I put my cap on the butt of the gun md stuck that out, and moved it around a ittle. 1 was just going to dIraw It back, thmen, pounc! camie the creature and ;rabbed off the cap, its ugly claws scratch ng on the gun butt. TIhat mladie my hear't jump. The sly >rnrte had been lying in wrait all the while, vateciing for me. lie played around for a 'ow minutes ; but after thrat I herard nothing nore of hn for the day. Yet I drared nlot come ont, arnd I prssed ome hungr'y hours. 1 had1( already been wvenity-four hours without a moutthful of ood. Just at night I thrust out my cap again. The arnial did riot spring at it; yet I ,vas still afraid to crawl forth after the ex umple I had hiad of its slyness. T1he night that followed was, wvithout mry exception, the most uncomfortable welve hours I ever passed. I was faint vith hunger' arid. from lying so long stretch adl out, It seemed as if I was coming In two n thme middle. I ached all over, arid was n a fever firom thirst.' Tlowards morning It began to rain.I 'cached rmy harnd out, and sucked off the :irops that fell on it. As soon as it had frown fairly light, I poked out my head andl took a quick giance right and left. Not reeirng anything of theo p~anther, I crawled urt aud(1 tried to jump up as quickly as I aould, for I was still afraid thrat. the animal inight sprirng upon mel from behund. But I was so stiff arid c'rmpedI that It wvas some inoments before I could get up straight. I then started (Iowa stream for home, and wvent as ,fast as I could, for 1 v's afraid that thre anii'al might still be hanging arounid, it no great distance. The folks said I was a comieal, not to say pItiful, object, when I reached home, hare lIeadled, covered with wood stains, and miy Blothecs torn to strings.. I did not go up there beaver-huntinug Figainl that fall. -rrofit, S1,200. "To suim It up, sIx long years of bed ridden slckness, costling $200 per year, total $1,200 -all. of this expense was stopped by three bottles of 1Hop Bitters taken by my wife. She has-done her own housework for a year since, wIth out the loss of a day, and I want every body to know It, for their. benefit." A mnodt.caon of thebchromnate of p~otash battery has been. devised by Dr. Irek. lh ot'der to produce a constant currenit. It, consists of a narrow lead trough twelve inches long, three inches wide, and 'one inoh deep. The sides are lined .with caibon plates. A zIne plate ten inches long Is pladefl botween tne carbon plates and ienmersed In the solutto'n to the depth of an inch. The blehromate solution dIrops into the cell at one end .and pas ses out by a tap at tile other end, thus keeping up a contInual circulatopu Intereing Facts Concerning id tieene. Mr. Henry Faueett, of Dilworthtown, (Chester contiity, at one time ipirchiased i pair of wild geese from which he has raised a flock of seven. These geese have become very tame and more readily caught and handled than his d )iestic ones, but still they have a strong lesire to to migrate, anlid to prevent this lie has been compelled to clip their wings. On Sunday morning lie was surprised to find his flock had increased to eleven, and were quietly feeding in his barnyard. They have since remained there and in the Immediate vicinity, evidently undeavorlig to - persuade Mr. Faucett's geese to accompany them. They keep in the Inmediate vicinity, at no time going more than a Mile distant, when they will iliglit in some wheat fleld and again return. They disappear at night, and notwithstand ing Mr. F'aucett has made strenuous efforts to discover their roosting place, for (lie piur pose of capturing them, he has been unable to do so. On Wednesday morning they returned with an additional iminber, nak ing the flock eighteen. They 11y very close Lo the ground, at no tne soaring higher than the house top. When they alight they kee) the same position ais wheIn flying show ing that they hold themselves in readiness ror any alarm that may be given. Another ;ingular circumstance is given of their move ments, which is that each bird has his place i the procession whena flying which *was ihown by the shooting of one next to the eader. Since then that place is vacant and lte following one keeps his station in the line as he did before his predecessor wais Colors in Horses. It is a curious faict, that while the various shades of gray, from steel-grey to pure wvhite, tumd the grey that turns white after seven years old, aire the most common colors mniong Arabs and other Oriental horses of lhe Arah class, there is not a sinagle grey tlorse of any shade of anly reputation otn the English turf, and has not been for more thani tiirty years. 1113' an1d chestnuts are (lie prevailing colors of English thoroughabreds. li the Arab studs bred in Wurtemberg, in Russia, and in luintigary, whiCh were ex iibited at the Vienna and Paris llorse shows, ;rey-and particularly flea-bitten grey was the prevailing color. Brown is also a ommon color amongst, the Syrian Arabs. hestnut is the favorite Arab color. On e English turf, bay, chestnut, and brown ire the colors of the more popular sires of modern tinmes, and is something like that >rder in proportion of nibers. In breed ig superior carrilige horses or any ridinig liorse, a good bty, with black legs, is the best sLIling color. Greys are out of fashion m(d dillicult to sell. Brown, with taa nuzzle, is the most fashionable harness :olor. Dark chestnut is a good color it tvery respect, but many purchasers object .o a light chestnut ; yellow bays with mealy egs tre still worse to sell. It is a curious lact that thoroughbred sires, unlike pedigree bulls, canl rarely be depended on to produce thir own colors in their stock. A chestnut ;ire will get bays and browns as well as his )wn colors. Roans are more esteemed in rotting sires, but can least of all be de meided on tor reproducing their own colors, which are in fact a mixture of several colors. rhe only roans on the E1nglish turf of any re [pite were aill of tue Physalis blood, and in ihe iands of the late Lord Glasgow. 'They varied from a red or strawberry roan (the best of all that class of colors) to ta deep bluc roan, the last a bad color to sell in half breds, and requiring to pass muster, xtraordinary action. The disftavor in which this color is now held was shown on the dispersion of Lord Ghsgow's stud, whaen i purchaser could not be found for one of live roan stallions, even at 50 gs. A hitnter >f any color with a character will find pur ,basers, but hacks of any staring calor hang mi hand. On the continent, on the con trary, where riding horses .are chaiefly re ciuired as charger's, or for parade purposes, grey is the favorite color. You miay see more grey horses of all kinds in Paris thari iu all England. The cart-horses arc necarly all a grey-whlite. The Percherons were originally b~ay, but as the postmatsters pre ferred grey they became grey. If, by any fluke, a grey horse wvere to wina the Dcrby or St. Le'ger, we should see a imuniber of grey race-horses, and1( consequently of hiaif bred horses. T o Helpinag Hand. It was more than fifty years ago that a beggar named Anthony stationed himself regularly at the Barrier (de Passy, soliciting alms from every passer-hy with an aistonish lng degree of pertinaceity. 'ils sp)ot was not far from Paris; andl nearly every Suni (lay a young man walked from that city to take the diligence here, whu'ei cotivoyed him to his mother's house in Versillles. Anthony's impilortutnities wvere very annoy ing, anid to rid himself of these, rather thani with a desire to 1he11 the beggar, lhe always bestowed a trifle in charity. One (lay in the summer, op reachinag the harrier, lie found Anthony, as usual, exer cising his lunigs to the utmost, vociferating loudly, "For. thie love of heaven, bestow your alms on. a poor mian, messieurs et meosdames; thme smallest trifle will be grate fully reco ad." In the midst of his out cries a nmiddle-aged gentlemani stop~ped anid looked at him. The gentleman hlad a pleas ant face aiid was handsomely attired, and the beggar inistantly continued loiuder than ever his proclamation of Toverty and1( need of help. ''Mon Dieutl" exlahnied .thle stranager, "what are you makimg such a noise for ; thlere is no0 need( of begginag umnless you chloose." "iMonsieumr Is pleased to jest," rep~lied Anthony. "By no mecans; I was never more serious," returned thie other. ."You lead aii idle life, and it is wrong." "But I have no other means of getting my living," said Anthony. "Are you lame?" "No, Monsieur." "Are you blind?" ''No, Mt~onsliur.~ '"Well, you are not deaf, and certainlly not dumlb, as any one half a mtile of! can testify. Now listen to a lesson from mny experience. I was once a beggarg but the scales fell from niy eyes inm timo to abandon so disgracef ul a business. I left Paris, and wnent into the provinces, where .I begged old rags and soon collected enough to sell at a good price to a paper maker In ParIs. I continued these efforts until I was able to buy rags and sell again, and, by diligence and perseveorance, I at length becamune rich enough to purchase an ass with two p~anniers. Thioefgh honest toll, my business continued to increase, and see the result. I own two houses on one of the beet streets in Paris 0 ald have 10 000 crowlia* a year. Iltit I member!" and the old; gentleman putit an exelaiition point, in tid shape of an cim pliatic foreliger, on tit nose of Anthoiny, "lily Success cameic1 thr igli honesty. All I can add is 'go thou aui do likewise.' liere i8 a crown) to begin w 1, it i more than I had; but if you prefe our preiellt life, and I find you here next" eek, 1 shall report you to the police." . Wit t1kIhis threat i l st ranger departed, leavill)t the youtith and e beggar in a state of anmizement. linde[ the latter witH so bewildered that he sto'od with-the crown in his IaInd, his eyes and. mouth wide open, gazing intently at no hiing. Suddenly he darted away and was ever igaii seen in the guise of a beggar. Many years after ithi te young man had business inl town, an(d trollitig throughli the city, lie entered a boo seller's shop to piur chase a book that had alled forth consider able criticism. * Three or four young men were busily engaged, 1hile a stout, well-ap pearing young mani, w'. giving orders, with the air of proprietorsh . . His face was very f uilar to the new comer, but it wits not Itfl he Spoke that Antliony and the book lierwere discovered to be identical. 'l recognition was mutual. Anthony gr ped the young man's hand and led him backinto ta well-furnished parlor, anld then gave im his history, from the time they parted iq4 the barrier. lie siid lie had fol wed the stranger's advice, bought rages.lith tile crown, and wats prosperous. Il finally becamo the partier of a paper Inatifacturer, and mar ried his daughter, andocould now coutit hiI.s teli thousand a year. A Htatlroad qn Chlio Ii, 'Two hours' ride on ake Luc.erne, south east from the city, brings us to the Rigi, an isolated peak and one of' the most remarkable of the whale Swiss Alps; not onl accoutmt of its alt it de so much as its position an1d chiaatei , conlnuan11iding a1 it does the view of iore' than twenty lakes, nearly a dozent citlc, and ,villages, and mountain peaks intnumbrable on every side. Its northern escarpnuct looks sheer down six thousand feet on Iake Zug, into which a person staninliig ipqI the brink seems il ist able to htur'l a stjne. The sumit is reached by a railway, which is a masterly piece of civil enginee;ing. .ludging by the eye, the incline ranges from thirty to fifty degrees from a hior' ontil; and the car, holding sixty )asseng rls, is propelled by the engine which puffs ti d labors in the rear. and maskers the incline, not by bite of its wheels, but by i third and cogged rail in the centre between the other two; the mo tion of the piston axle is geared down to a slow movement of the driving pillion, s0 as to give the engine increased power ; and the car moves about as fast as a good brisk walker woul d travel on a level road. Every-' thing connected with the road is constructed tipon the most scientific principles, and with a view% to absolute safety. A few of the arrangements will readily illustrate this fact and they atre as follows: The Car, being pro pelled, cannot run away if the coupling should break, as the engine is behind it go. ing up, and before it In coming down ; the crli inoves at so slow a ratq that it can be bIJI-ngnhL to dol !ian . woid of time powerful brakes are attached both to the engine and the car, and bimjd 1Upon the cog ged wheel shaft, and not upon 'the smooth track wheels; but abovq all ,s the fact that the brakes are not used at all, except for auxiliary restraints, as the steam in the ie scent is let into the cylinde 's on the reverse side of tbe piston head, and thus becomes a resisting, instead of a propelling power. Of course, any unscientific mind can readily comprehend the fact that if the steam has power to push the car ill), the sane steai in the reverse order can prevent its coming down. Even the old lady who dreaded to embark upon the canalboat, fearing accident need not hesitate to scale t.,he Rigi, anid en joy the miagnificent panorama, niot presenited to nmny ini a lifetime. Theli (liy was cloudy as it often is, when we were there; bit when ab~ouL to returni in the 'last car dlown the fog lifted for half an hour, and presented a landscape lit up by the rays of a settinig suit, never to be forgotten by those wvho were witnesses to its glories. Faiy 1as You Glo. The best of all rules for muccessftil hiouse keeping and making both ends meet is to "pay as y'ou go." Beyond all countries in the world , ours is the One in which credit is the most used( amid abused. Passbooks are .the bane anid pest of domestic econy, a perpetuail plaguec, vexation and swindle. Abuse bly servants at the store and the Ihorise dispu~tted conistanltly' by houiskeepers and dlealers, they are temptations to both1 partIes to (10 wron~g. "I never hiad that." ''We neglected to enter this." "I foirgot to bring tho book." "Never indl, we'll make a note of it" anid so it goes. But the worst of it is thait housekeepers are tempted1 to order whlat they3 have not the mens to pay for, aid whten the month or quarter comtes for .settlement they are straightened. A~famnily can live respesetably- on a'. very mtoder'ate iincome if they alwvays take ,th9j tash in hand, timd buy where they can buy to the blest adlventtage. -Then they will lhe careful fir't to get wh~at is necessar'y. Ext# comforts .will be haud as they can affoicd thiem. But it Is bad policy to buy on ci'edit. No wvise dealer sells so cheaplj 01) ci'cdit as for ensh. Heo (ot Theom. "WVill yott give me two cents?" inquired a trampil of a man whiomi lie found standing on the corner of a street in New York. "TIwo Cents I" repeated the person ad dressed, meditatIvely. "'It ain't much ?" went on hIs tramipsip, In a how pipinig key. "if I thought gou really needed it----" "I do neetdi it,' he broke In. "Do you want to get across the rivet' " "No, sir, 'I dlon't ; New York's good en ouigh for me." "Do you 'want to'huly breadh for ii stavt family ta'v'i "No, sir~ t ain't got no familf ; I'inu single man, I am.'? '" 7 yowant te noneyto phiy policy "IndeddTlcdd't"' "Well, what dQ yout want It for?" "Now, -theon, I'll te)l you. '/You see E've got three conta mysef-and 1'm a tieuti~uul main-and I thought if, could prevaullug~on you to give-mfe a two-cent nickel,'- I wp go off equietly and have a beer." lie got the two cents. it le hefttor to hdng arounmd a sAliiible gtel than a atieet $.a'nao. . Mtamnaering. ltuinnerint; is the result of a function al disorder of that part of the brain which presides over the faculty of speech, accord ing to an article by Dr, llmonlid oi the Voice. This is proved, he says, by the fact that all stanunerers can at tims speak t as well as otlier persons. "There Is no de feet with the organs of speech, no paralysis 1) of the tongue or lips; but there is a condi- u (ion present which, at tines, especially 1 when the subject is excited or interested, h or specially tries to do his best, prevents the normal systematic articulation of certaini syllables. And this appears to" be due to anll impossibility of co-ordinatina the muans eles by which speech is effeted-of bring ing them into harinonious and systematic c action." Dr. lanuond was a stammerer A at .nineteen, but entirely cured himself, mainly by the performance of some slight muscular action synchronously with tle articulation of the diniclt syllables. "With each troublesome word," lie explains, "'es- t pecially with one beginning a sentence, I) made soic slight motion with the hanld or I foot, or even with a single finger, and I found that this plan enabled.me to get the word out without staiinering. In this proCedure I the attention.is diverted from the effort to speak to the purformance of the .mascular action mentioned, and hence the speech becomes more automatic .than it is with stamnnerers generally, And this is t le whole system of cure. In consists in efforts to render the speech auloinatic. " lie oc cupied two years inl curing himself. *0 A Herole Light-ilouso Keeper. Y The Acadians have a tradition that Uod enjoilned perpetual silence and desolation on o Labrador and Anticosti when he gave them to Cain for at heritage. ioivever that may be, it is certain that, while other wilds of the eart h* yield to man's conquest, these vast wtstes remail ever void a1l empty. hI The Indians called the Island Ndtiscotte- tI the country of wailing-and mider the modern corruption of Anticosti it ha1s added i, to its terrible renown. Its whole history, Ii from the day It was discovered by Jacques Cartier, in 1534, to the present, is a record 0 of human suffering. Here and there, how- k ever, there is a tale of heroism worthy of it a nobler scene. In August, 1869, the family V of Edward Pope, keeper of the Ellis Bfay Light-house, was stricken down by typhoid l-ver, and, to add to his misfortunes, the revolving apparatus of his light broke. The government steamer had gone; and P9pe had no menaiis of communicating with the marine depiient at Quebec or elsewliere. The light, revolved or flashed, as the tech nical phrase is, every minute and a half ; tl an'd if it flashed no nore it would probably , be mistaken by passi ng vessels in that 'region l of fog for the stationary lighit at the west , point of the islaild, aind thus lead to dire loss of life. Pope found that with a little 9 cl exertion lie could turi it and make it flash, a and at once determined to fill the place of i the automatic gear. Accordingly, this. I humble hero sat in the turret, with his watch t( by his side, turning the light regularly at the allotted titne every night, from 7 P. M. until 7 A. M., froii the middle of August until the first of December, ajid from the - dra or April unitil tht i nd nf June, when the Glovernment, steamer came to his relief with a new apparatus. All throigh the t first season Pope's daughter and grandehil dren were ill unto deiath, with nobody save 0 hii to miurse them. Ile waited on them t( tenderly through tile day, but as night fell r% on the iron-bound coast he hastened to his -N vigil in the turret, doing his duty to the Ii Canadian Government and to humanity with unflinching (levotion. In the second senson his daughter, who had lived through the fever, took turns with him in the light-room. .This may have saved a thousand lives., lie (tied in 1872, and his (ed has never until 9 this day been chronicled, for of the heroes t of Anticosti, as-of the long roll of her vic tihns, the world knows nothing.C C . A Desperate afratr. C Recently at stage was stop~ped anid the passengers robbledl some'd(ist an1ce from Nova dIa. Whenu the news reached that place Sheriff R. B. Gentry rallied a posse0 and repaiired in all haste to the scene of the rob bery. The po.ss consisted of Steve Von ard, James II. Lee, Albert Gentry amid ,A.t W. Potter. An examination of the sp~ot t showed that the robbers had turned out of the road and gone down the river parallel with it. Venard and Lee got On the trailt of the robbers and followed it over the roughest of all Imaginable grond~ for' the distance of a mile and( a half. It was evi (lent which way the robbers went. Lee wecnt back to take tihe horses airoulnd to the road ait the crossinag below, the rest of the r that dih-ection. Venaid, left, ahlne, followed the trail. He camne to Meyer's Ravine, at its dlebouchlure inito the Yuba. lie saw that the pursued had gone up the ravinie to a crossing, Ie was alone imi one of the ~ wildest and roughest of spots in that wtld andh rough region. The lills hung steep above. Rocks, trees, brush aund logs weore in profusion oui every hand.' . Venard .wvas armed with a Hdllry tlle.- The waters of the l'avine 'eame' tumblhmig down it~s steep) bed'6f 'b6wldier, 4titi a rush and ai noise which rendered 'no other sound audible. Thei hero of the hour proceeded with cau tioti. A '-huge reek arose twventy feet in -heighit imn theinidet of the-muddy waiter ; other simlir roeks surrounded it, alto gether forming an Island. A tree or two grew upon the lower end of the Island In the midsat of -the rocks, theIr branches and foliage partly coverIng the rocky rampart above. Below the Island, at a few feet distant, wats a precipitce of, fifteen feet or more, over which the waters of the ravine< tumbled. Venard attemlptedl to cross the stream at the head of the fall, lie walked on a short log to a rock. Above him rose the liugo mass of granite, buttressed In front by two smaller rocks. Between these latter was an alley which led imp to the base1 of the Titan. Ills position was such as to I look uip thte alleg a At the base of the great, rock, Vonard discovered the object of lisa 1 dearch. The leader 6f the gang was sitting on the ground and in the act of drawing his rovdiver4 "Venaird instanitly leveled his rifle upon the robber, who was not more than twenty feet -distant. At the same momenti lae haw anOther of the gang pointing at hIm -1 over the edge of a rdek. There was no time 1 to change-hl aimn. lie fired; the leader ft ll tiabk shot through thlicart. The other mobbet attempted to shield himself further bhlintd a rock, leaving theo point of his, pie-. tol' expocsed over th'e top. The exposure was hatal~ ;Venardi aovodred :the spot withI his un'erringr Hediry. No sooner .did the1 head of thes rObber pheer-above~ the rock than his brain was pleteod withry bullet. Tiher. at" yet another, but lie was not to be seetn. [is pistol Iight at that moment be point, A at Veaird. The latter, quick as thought, lambered lp to the lair, to beard hiin in is den. lie found the treasire, took the istols' from the dead, covered quickly the rmner with earth and leaves, and proceeded Shunt. the' missing robber. rbssiAig the ream and ascending the steep mountain eyond, he discovered the robber running p the acclivity, sixty yards or more ahead. enird fired and the robber fell. Another illet, and the last robber rolled down the ill-dead. Venard now sought- his com unions. They all proceeded to tle sceie r the tragedy, recovered the money, and by VO o'clock of the same day the Sheriff's urty deposited the cash with A. ). Towers, f"ells, Fatrg(o & CO.'s aiget inl this City. fler the Sheriff's party had left Nevada, rells, Fargo & Co. offered a reward of 3,000, which was paid. The Companly so presented Steve Venard with a nuagi !ent 1lenry rille, gold momted mid beau fully inscribed, and (lovernor Low ap >inted him on his staff, with the rank of ieutenait-Colonel, " for meritorious ser ices in the field." "How to Throw a ply. Seth Green, who has wide fame as a fly iher as well as a Iishculturist, gives th'e >llowing hints to anglers, which are timel, the trout season is now open: "i am Iked a great, many times, What is Ihe se -et. of fly-casting, or how is it that 1 take e prizC when I throw ? There are three rinciples: First, quick out of water; sec Id, give the line time to straighten behind >ui; third, throw. I will explain these rinciples more definitely. 1Raise your rod >an angle of about forty-five degrees, back you; then make a quick stroke forward; Lake the stroke without carrying your rod >rward. When you take the line from the ater it should be done with a (ulick jerk ; lei give your line time to straighten be md; then give it the same stroke forward tat you did to get it out of the wamter. Why3 mtany fail in fly-casting is, they tlrw ae rod backward too near the groutnd be 1d1 them, and when they make the for ard stroke, when the line gets straightened it, it is some distace above the water aid nks back, and when it falls upon the water lies crooked and is some distance short of hat it would have been if it lmd struck the ter as sooni as it was straighteIed out. If fIsh should strike at your flies at this time, iu are pretty sure to miss him. By never urowintg your rod back more thantt ot tin igle of forty-tive degrees, att(n tnakittg the' roke forward, your line goes strtighit out id the flies go to the point you desire. reat care should be taken when you have irown the line behind you that the line is iven tinie to straighten before making the roke forward. I have thrown sevent'y -et of line atgainst a strong wind, first by ivitg my rod a quiek, strong back stroke, Irryilng my rod not farther back thban an ngle of forty-five degrees, and giving the tie time to straighten behind me, an(d inking the same stroke forward that I did >get it back of me. I nearly forgot to lention tihit it is more important to have our line fit your rod than tban it is to have out coat fit your back, unless you are at >p, and if you tire, my advice is to not ge -fishing. You may think it atrange that I liould tell you three or four times over in ie same article that in order to do good fly isting yotx must not throw your rod back ily jutst so far, and then wait for your line straighten behind you, and when yomr id is up to make a quick stroke forward, 'ithout carrying your rod forward even a tile, before you deliver the line." Dining onl the 'caffold. Two negroes recently executed In Vir inia made a request that they be permitted take their last meal on the scaffold. The icriff consented to this whim, and the cxe. uition was (delayed somewhat on this ac unt. The prisoners said they only wvanted offee, cornbread and molasses, but they 'antcd a good deal of It, such as-it is waa, accordingly a woman In the heighiborhooc rent to work and prepared the meal.. Ir li meantime -the murderers sat composed r, the observed of all observers. About wvelve o'clock the repaet was ready. A ickety old table and two chairs were loanet >r the occasion. These were placed or lic scaffold, and on the table were a pot ol teaming coffee, two pones of cornbread, u mug of sorghum, plates, spoons, &c. Smiti >ok lis coffee without cream, but Christiam alled for some of the lacteal fluid. TVh< ook had forgotten to send any, and after *ttle dlelay It was brought. Then the met egan their meal. It took them ncarly Otnc our to eat it. They laughed a great deal, nd when they had cleared the dhishes the3 emarked: "The old1 woman gets up a firsi ate dinnuer." Thlen they' each smoked egar, andl at one o'clock they arose on the enffold, apdt~ confessed the crIme for' which icy weirecotndetmnedl, atnd said they woul< o straight to glory. At the close, and jus efore the ropes wer'e tied, they reqjueste< he crowvd to sitng the hymn, "Peace, peace n the golden shore." Christiani had a fln stnor voice, and Smith suing a pretty fail 'ass, and after the tune had beeon ralset hey both joined In- with a good wyill. Al f the spectators satng; anid altogether i rats a musical feature of the showv tha sight have been enjoyed by disinterestet pectators had not the occasion been such erious one. At 1. 16 o'clock all wats ready Imithi and Chr'istian sai, "'Farewvell" in (md volce, the prop wvas kntocked from on ier them, and the sentence of the la1w wvai arried to Its completioni. - Gold Lace. One of the most singular- mechanica perations Imaginable Is the making of gok vlre for what Is known as gold lace. TPhi efitner first prepares a solid rod of silve hout an Inch in thickness; lie heats thh, od, applies upon' the surface a sheet o cold leaf, burnishes this down-and so 01) intil tho gold Is about one-hundredth par Ito thickness of the silver. The rod is thte1 ubjected to a train of processes wvhic1 >rlngs It down to the state of fino wire vhen It Is passed through holes In a stee >late lesseninig step by step In diamet'eri l'he gold never deserts the silver, buts ad ieres closely to It, Ra thares all Its muitta Ions; It is one-hiutndredthi art the thrick less of the silver at thati egnn'ng, and I nalntains the same ratI6o'th:ond. ti lie thinness to which tl'e golde)atecd r'b4o iver can be brought, the limitdoyhdo ho delicacy of human skill.s It has beet alculated, however,'that the gold actual; laced on the very finest silver wire for gob< ace is not niore thtan one-third of one-ml idnth of an l'nch In, thIckness ; that is, ne bovd one-terith the thlckness of ordinar cold leakf, What is in the Bedroom. If two person are to occupy a bedroom during a night, let them step upon weigh ing scales its they retire and then again in the morning, and they will find their actual weight is at least at pound less it the morn. ing. Frequently there will be a loss of two or more pounds, and the average loss throughout tie year will be more than one poiunKd-that is, .during the night there is a loss of a pound of matter which has gone off from their bodies, partly from the lungs and([ partly through the pores of the skin. 'l'he eseaiped material is carhonie acid, and decaiyed animal matter or poisonous exiila tions, This iq diffused thriough the air in i part aud inl part absorbed by the bed clot les. If a single oulince of wool or cotton'he inirned inl a room1, It will socomipletely saturate the air with smoke that one cwi hardly breathe though there Caln only be anll otince of for eign matter in tie air.' If an ounce of cot - toi hbe burned every half hour during Ihe night, the air will be kept continutlly satur W.. 1 with Ilie smoke unless there be an opel door or window for it to escape. Now the sixteen ouices of smoke thus forhed is far less poisonous than the sixteen wunces of' exhabitions from the lungs and bodies of lie two persons who live lost a pound inl weight (luring the eight hours of sleeping, for while (the dry smoke is miiainly takenl ilito the lungs Ithe idimp odors from i lie body ire lbsorble( inio the lungs and into the pores of the whole body. Need more he said to-show the im ixorlance of having hedroois well ventilated and t horonglily airing the sheets, coverlets and mait tresses inl tle morniing, before pack imig them il) iln the form of a nently ntle Ied ~ Thm 110y Sheophords; of NelawaISka, new pleasait day we rode 20 i'.les over (te I araminie plains, from Il aramic City to the .ittle Larnmie river, where we found a prosperous sheep-raiser from Nebraska, named Eldward iarrell. We bade them good-l . late ill In le afternloon, tuiirnied off to (lie rirlt of Sheep olililtai, and, enter ing ia narrow plain between high ranges of hills, spurreid forward our jaded animals, uintil the gathering shaidows warned us that we Could proceed no further with sifety. Al daybreak we spied a large flock of sheep inl a corral close by a rude cabin or dug-out, inl which were two boys, sons of Mr. Far rell. I lere, ten miles or niore from home, the- had been tending a flock of 2,80 sheep during the entire season. They shot their game with an (old rilie, did their own cook ing and lived entirely alone with their dogs and two ponies employed inl herding the sheep. They alternated in watching the sheep, which were driven into the corral every night, as a proteition against bears, wo!ves and other wild animals. An aie lope which one of them had shot the diy previous was suspended near the door of the cabin. There was a good range here, and the father had in the springtime sent the sheep and the boys to possess it. You will be surprised when I tell you that these lads, entrusted with the care of ovm 2,800 sheep, and living here lin this remote, se cluded spot, were only 11 and 13 years of age. It is astonishing, the early self-reli ance which these frontier children display, and the skill which, as mere urchins, they attain in herding sheep. Wtat Lhe Country Needs. Fewer dogs and more sheep. Fewer tinkling demagogues who are anything or nothing, as interest die tates and more brave men who dare to do their own thinking, and say wha they think. "ewver great men made toorder,and to small material, and thrust in front o. men who have a capacity for greatness Fewer impetuous young men, eager to rush Into prlit and raise the devil generally3. Fewer wvir'e-p ullers ini popul11ar con - ventin tand miore people0. Fewer "leaders" to knuckle to popu lar prejudice, and more real leade. s to combat such lprej ud ices whlmen wrong. Fewer bar-rooms and more schools. Fewer fences and more p~astumres. Fewer scrub cattle and more good The Mule andi the Indian. I see, the beautiful Indian leaning up against the fence, calmly surveying his ter ritory. And I am free to admit that the territory Is a powerful'sight more beautiful than the Indian. The Indian is chewing tobacco, and swvearing at the mule. lie is sIx feet high, the Indian is and his tail Is full of burs, the mule's Is. lie wears but ternut jeans andl a fur calp, the Indian does, and you can hear him bray clear Into the catr, the amule that Is: He has a bushy head of hair and shocky whiskers, tanned out by the sun, has the Indian; and ho wears more Ilat leather harness than he has hair, the mule does, ie carries a black snake whip, the Indian does, and as lhe swears, lie har raps it over his hunkers, thme mule's hunkers. And every time lie, the Indian, fetches him, the mule, one, lie, the mule, kicks dlown a - whole p~anel 'of fenee. I trust I have made this clear enotugh. IBrouight to Terme. Inu a certailil policeo otrtawitniesa me o mstly appiearedl wvho had refuised to obey a subpuuna, and who was accord ingly brought to terms with thme aid of an attachment. When lhe,. pollee jus.. tice asked him what excuse he had to olrer for huis contempt of court, he re plied at the time they wvanted him inm court he was standinug at thue altar 'git in' marriedl. 'May it please youtr Honor,' hurrioil ly iunterposed, a bachelor lawyer who had overheard the apology, '1 respect- * t'ully suggest that the man Is already <nfiliently punmished, an'd 1 boeg thme comtrot to deal with hIm mercifully in vIew of his recent al1liotion." 'Ah-I' replied his Honor, 'so it strikes ame. You can go. You are discharg ed, sir, tmd umay heaven hapve mneroy ont c-iomnposed partly of steel and partly of Ii'on,. has .been announced' in Paris. The met~tihh is sld to be ada pted to the :abrication 6f drails, anchors, etc., WVhore'the hardness of the teetal di nibishes. the ware, and iereases the - rebistanoo Oft tie mass.. In theo coa lt uco fAfesa plates of this combh -gtion afe- lad to bo proof ,against a)l tatmntat brea'ak throungh'them.