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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 17, 1879. VOL. 111.-NO. 46. TIlE GOLD OF HOPE. Bright shines the sun. but brighter after rain; The clouds i at darken make the sk'y more clear ; So rest is sweeter when it rollows pain, And the sad :arting makes otir friends more dear. 'Tie well it shoulti be thus ; our Falther knows The things that work together for our good; Wo draw a awmotuc as froin our bitter woos We would not have a'l suushinb if we cou'd. The days with all their beauty and their light Come froni the t'ark and into dark return ; Day speaks of earth, but heaven shino t:rough the night, Whero in the blue a thousand star-fires burn. Hu runs the law, the law of recomponso, That binds out life on earth and heaven in ono ;' Faitlh cannot live when all is eight and seoneo, But faith can live and sing when thesn are gone. We grieve an' murmur, for we can Lut see Thu single thread that ili a in silence by When If wo only saw the thiings to be, Our lips would breatho'a song and not a nigh. Wait then, myi soul, and edge the darkening cloud With the bright gold that hop, can always lend And if t'-day thou artb with sorrow bowed, Wait till to-morrow and thy griof alall end! And nh% n we reach the sunmmit of our days, Beyond the reach of ahadows and of night, Then shall our every look and voice be praise Toshiru who siiies, our everlasting light. The Gold Hunters. "'Put ie down as Holiday, if you have any call to mention ie ; then any of the old boys that may be around yet and sec it will know It is me. Roliday was a sort of purser's namle, you see, that I wore Onl thle Slope In '49." The speaker was a genuine '49cr, short of stature, lean of "ody and limb, wiry and tough, somewhat ulo.V of Speech and low voiced, nearly sb ty years old, but active as most men are at hialf his tge. Bit to hiis story: "There was lots of money lost in the mines in themi days that wasn't spent for whisky nor bucked against a gaine. We had no safe-deposit, companies and no say ings banks. Every man hid his nuggets and his (lust just the best way he could. Sometimes it would be in a hole deep tin der the fire in tie earth of his cabin, or ome other place In the earth floor; some lines in the gronid under a tree in some !onesonie, unlikely-lookin' place ; or, may be in the open, a certain number of feet toward sonic pl'int of the compass, fromt ia littie innocent-looking stick stuck down, or a big stone. It wasn't uncommon for them cachecs to be lost by their real owners and found by other fellows. I know'd of a Frenchman that 1i1 about $9000 worth of dust, and went on to tle American River prospectin', and when he came back, three months after, lie couldn't find it. Sonic body had kicked out the little stake lie had put down to mark it, and lie was al) at sea. He dug all around where lie thought it It might be, but never found it, and ttt last ivent off heartbroken to 'Frisco. Then, when he was gone, a siart 011111) that had been watchin' him set to work and ground sluiced the whole place for two acres around and got the pile, "There was a fellow on the Tuolinumne, where I was, by the name of IHannford, I think; but I can't be certain now, it was so long ago. Anyhow, they used to call him Bill. He was in with two pards, And they had a good claim and was doin' well, when l is brother came out. Well,. of course, Bil11 couldn't take himi In, seeiri' as their gang was full, so lhe advised him to strike out prospectin' for hiself. The young chap didn't take to it very kindly, for lhe was a greenihorn in mininin' ways, and didn't think lie stood much show ; still lhe did the heat hie could. One day whien lie was goin' hack to camp dead-beat and~ dlisgusted, lie sat down undier a tree to rest hiisself, and while lie sat there the idea come to him: 'Why the devil should the goid be all out in the opent, down In the hairs, where the sun Is hot enough to blister a hair trunk? Why mightn't It jtust as well be in the shade, like under this tree, where a feller could work in comfort? And who kniows b~ut what it is?' So In a sort of iindifferent way he set hisself to dig a hole, thinkin' to pan out some of the s'ile, for lie was alto gether green, you know; but wvhen lhe got dlown a hit lis pick struck somethin' of metal, and In a minute or twvo lie had hooked up a tin can wilth mor'ni $3000 in it, in (lust and little chunks and nuggets of prietty good size. Of course 1he had sense enough to know that gold didn't come naturally that way in tin cans, puit up) like fruit or turkey ; but lie knew also that out. there in thlemi timeh a man hadn't much clear title "to anythina' lhe didn't have lisa hand on, and( 'flndin's is keepin's' was the general rule. So he froze to that big streak of luck and took it into camp with him. Then he wvhis pored to lis brother the rich find lie had made, and Bill took a mighty lively interest ini it. "Where did you find it ?" says lie. And the young fellow described the place to hhn as well as lie could. 'Why, you unholy buccaneer,' says 13111, 'that's my cacho you've beeni a plunderin,' anud It's my gold you've got.' Thlen lie wenit on, before look ing at the gold, to describe sonme of the big gest nuggets, to idenitify it by. 'Thero's a flat one biggcr'n my thumb nail," says lie, 'of the shape of an Irish harp, and another like a dumbbell; two blobs with a thin bit between 'em, and'half an Inch long ;and one like a ham, with a star oni one side.' 'And so on. And, sure enough, when they came~to look, it was lia gold, and see in' It was his brother's, the youpg fellow gave it up. "In '5,. there was a big excitement about Australia, and a good many of the chaps, thinking they'd have a hotter chance there, the reports boin' so big, strucek out from California for the new Australia diggin's. Among 'the rest, a prlze-flghttinmg gang at Murphy's ~camp, at Calaveras county, made up their 'minds to go. There was Johnny O'Brien, Samn Banty, Mike McGee, and one they-called Sir Lisle Clcly-all pretty well known names, that a good many lIii' now East as well as West, will remember-that weore goin'. They set a day to start, and O'Brien lie went to dig up his gold, which lhehad buried in the grourid floot of' the ca bin, in a certain spot oleoe 'down br the wall. He dug and dug and It wasn't there. Ha shonted he was robhad, and there was big excitement, but all to no good. -There was a hole where he swore he had cached it three months before, and the hole was emp ty. Johnny was 'mio :razy, but fiad no idea of the thief who r'bbed him. It seem edthat he would liave to give up goin' to Australia, for he couldn't start broke ; but he was it good fellow, and the other fellows wouldn't leave him behind, so they chipped in all around enough to give him as much as any of them had; and that fixed it. But the day they"vere 'to start, just as they were desertin' their cabin, Billy Canfield you must have heard of him--,come over from Coulterville, and wheit they told him how Johnny had been robbed, "olibed be blowed ' says he. l e asked about where the gold had been burried, and Johnny told him it was in the floor, just below. a nick he'd made lit one of the logs that the cabin was built of Billy went .into-the empty cabin and looked around, says le: "Where's the nick ?" * '"They had got high-toned wheit their luck was good, and lined their walls with nmuslin, so the nick was covered up. " 'It's Just there,' says Johnny, pointin' to it spot above-where he had been diggin'. '"Bill said-nothin' but, ripped down the muslin, when, lo, and behold I the nick was a good live feet from where Johnny had thought it was ; and when they dug down under it they found his gold all right. You see, he had clean disrememberol the location of his mark. "But the queerest thing 1 ever did know of I was interested in myself,.and it was a real robbery, with no person guilty after all. Two men named Vesey and Kidder-at least then were the names out there--were working partners with me on a clain at the city of 'Tuolutimne, in Sonoma county, 'n 1854. We were doin' real well, and each of us had-his share of several thousand dol- I lars, in coarse gold and little nuggets, hid away in what we considered a safe place. We lived together in a little cabin next to the United States 1 Totel, that Greenwood used to keep the'n, and. Vesey thought the safest place for .his pile was to bury it in the dirt under the pork-barrel. One day he went to it, to add at good handful to what lie already had, and when lie came to dig it lie turned white its a sheet and said to us: " 'Boys, it's gone. I've been robbed ' '"It was mighty unpleasant for is, for we supposed we were the only ones, as we thought, that knew of his hidin' place, and lie might very readily have suspected us. Whether he did or not, I never knew. At all events lie said nothin' of the sort, and went right on with his work ; but lie found some new place to hide his gold, which lie didn't happen to mention to either of us. 'lhe rainy season came on, ad one day, when we were all three in the cabin, unable to work because of the rain, which waspour in' down ill as if the flumes aloft wits turned loose, our little adobe chimney got soaked with water and tumbled down.. -Of course, we hnd to go out with shovels and picks and fix it ill) the best we could, without re gard for the rain, or else be smoked out of the cabin. I was diggin' up some earth at the corner of the cabin near the chinmey, to patch it up, when my cye cauglhf the gleam of a little yellow nugget. I picked it u), and saw several more. In a minute more we were all three down on ofr knees in the mud, forgettin' all about the rain aud the chimney, scrapin' ip the gold and congratilatin' ourselves on having struck the richest kind of a claim. But directly Vesey got some of the nuggets in lia hand lie knew them, and says he: " 'Why I Blast my eyes, if it isn't my own gold!' " (Ile recognised the buttons lie had incited down and broken up himself ; and right lie was, as we made no manner of doubt. If we'd had any doubts, though, they would soom h ive been set at rest by our discovery of how lie had been robbed. A gopher had burrowed its holo along under the corner of the cabin, and beneath the solid dirt floor, and accidlently strtuck his gold, which was putt dIown in a buekskin bag. If it had been in a tin can, It would hitve beent safe enough, for the gop~her wanted neither tin cans nor gold, but it did want the buckskin bag; so it gnawed the ba'g and dragged it away along its burr'ow.scattering the gold as It went, iad that was how we Caime to strike the trail. We followed tip thie hole, and recovered within half an otunce at most I guess of all that 11ad( been lost; and I do believe that Kiddler and me were a sight more glad than Vesey himself was. He Didn't Want a Medal.' The first "kersplash" of the spring sea soin of 1879 resoundled near the foot of Rain (dolphi street its a stranger attemnptedl to walk on niothing and brotught tip In the river. ie wasn't the nman to fool arotund in the liquid element longer than was 'positively necessary, and a few yells brought him as sistance. When iandi~ed on the wharf . he wits met- by an old sailor who heldl a medal In his hands and began: "My unknown friend, I am deputized byr the Society of Anclin' Marine Liars t "o away--I'm freezIng I" yelled 'the shaking stranger, as lie tried to break through the crowd. "Th'is medal," continued the sailor, "wvas voted by the association last winter to the first spring victim of-" "Blast your medal - l'm all chilled thirotighl" howled the stranger, as chills be gan to claw tip and down lisa spine. "As I was saying, the Soehty of Ancient Marine Liars desires to reward merit whecrev er merit Is found, and now, on behalf of that-". "I tell you I don't want any of your dtrned old medals ! Where's a~ fire-where's a red-hot stove-I am freezing I" "As I was saying, the Society desires to present-you thIs medal, not as a gift of wealth, but as a reward of-" The old sailor was upset at this point, *and the stranger made a break tip-town. Over thirty liars took after him, but only stucceded In tearing off his larboard coat tail and securing his hat. Given Up by Doctorn. - "Ia it possibletlhat Mr. Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy ?" "1 assure you that it is true that he~ is entirely cured, and with nothing but H1op Bitters; and only ton days ago his doctors gave him up and said he~ must diet" - "Well-a dayl That Is remarkiable! I will go this gay and get jome for nay poor George. I know hops are good." A 'singo word wvili blaSt a reputtion a modultlon of tone wiltoo f, a 'tar inou sisnua'lon-a passin g noyili determine he occupatitob ofr litei A Fignt with i Bear. 4ust at day-break, we came to a crossing of the bayo'i where felt sure the bear must pass on the way to his den. IUrvey placed le, the dogs, and himself. A fallen tree was in front, and through its interlaced roots I could see lin every direct ioi. Ilard ly had we completed our ambush when a quick. movement of one of the dogs startled ie. But, in a moment, noticing that his looks were directed toward the crossing, -1 too, looked thither and heard the sound of a heavy aniinal sauntering slowly over the soddeln ground and approaching my lair. In al instant a pair of yellow eyes glared at ie, and with as wide a look of surprise as there was in mine. Recovering myself I fired at the ionster, which appeared like a huge, animated b)lack clouid as ie rose uii -before ie. The brute disappeared with the smoke of my gai, but in a imloment I was startled by the report and shock of a second discharge. Tie other load of my gun had been accidentally exploded. Looking in the direction that the hear had taken, I saw he had run along the other side of the fallen tree and met the two dogs at the farther end, wheni he turned about and cai toward ile at his most rpild speed and imi savage humor. Then there was a f'arful crish and rush. The black mass came on, with eyes gleaming, aid bewildering Ime with the reflection of their glare in the sunlight. I was .onisciouis that miy gun was useless, and so instilietively grasped my pistol, but found it hopelessly entaigled in iy belt. For a second, despair camt1e upon me, but 1a sudden revulsion aroused every sense an([ prompted me to defeise for life. Quickly drawing my knife, it. wis presented at a thrust ats the dark 111M sprang at ime.' At this moment, one of the huge (hogs leaped at him so flierculy as to divert the monster's atteintion fron myself and make him miss' his bite. lie reared, and as he again camte down on his fore feet alnd was in the act of going over the bank, I plunged iiy knife to the hilt into his body, in the region of his heart,. Ile tumrntd and made at terrible backward sniap at, lily legs, but at t.he limo ment I fell backward over a bush, and so we all went into the bayou together, floun dering in the water and mud. I scrambled to the edge of the slough, and watched with intense anxiety the result of the battle. in another mmnient, and when tile bear had nearly retched the farther side of the pool, desperately fighting with the (logs every inch of the way, I heard a rushing soundi and the whirring flight of more of the pack as they sprang over me. In. the sane in stant a flash shot out from the brown barrel of Ilarvey's rille, and the bear rolled over, though lie still feebly fought the pack, and kept oil fighting to the last. mi'nllit, of his existence. To ily mortification, anl exami iation of tle huge circass showed that lily shot had not made any visible mark oil the animal, and that my knife had not (utite reached his heart. 1 larvey's shot had kilhlet him. The weight of the savlge aimll was over live hundred pouinis. The Storrows of a Oianit. A person who las a great liking for look ing at giants, and dwarfs, and abnormally thin and fat men and women, and other such entertaining natural curiosities, was walking down the Bowery one cold night last winter-walking lpret 3ty bi .skly to keep warm, and looking with some interest at the art treasures liing up ilk front of the museums-when lie heard a deep bass voice, evidently coming out of the gutter, saying: ''I won't go there iny more. 'liere's no use saying another word about it. I tell you I won't do it, I've lost ten good poun( now, and another week of it would take off tell more and ruin eile. I won't do it, and I think it's a shame to ask mi1e. But I've been imposed on and run over ever since I've been with you, Shameless." It was tivo o'clock in the morning, and1( tile streets were almost empity. The speak er wias sitting on thke culrbstonles talking to a1 gentlemanl ill a long ulster and a silk hat. lie was the giant, from thle mnusemn (directly ill front of which ho siat, alnd whlen hke spoke his whlole 400 p~ounlds shook wvith emotion. Withl a chlivalrous spirlt that rebelled1 at seeing thle strong ihnpose8 upon tile weak, t~le person took the liberty to ask the gery tleman in the ulseter wvhat was the trouble. "Oh, lhe's 1the most uknreasonable giant that ever lived," said the gentleman, whlo provedl to be tile giant's manager. "lie ouight to live iln a Fifth avenue hotel, ho ought." ''Now, Tony, said the gianit in a whim poring voice tha~t soimdedi like a dhkild's, "you're not doing me fair; you know you are not. All I ask is enloughi to keep up me1 'ealth. But 1've boarded over in that place0 1.i1l it's beginnilng to tollio me11. It dlon't (10 for ime to lose fiesh; flesh1 1s money; and for me to be fed contlinually on oat meal amnd (dried peachk pIes will soon1 t'ake 'thle bread( out of my mou01th. Get 1me * ulalce where I'll have enlotighk to eat, andl~ I m go ; othker ise I'll stay here till you find al policemanli bIg enough to p)ick 1neup. The person was moved wvithk sympathy for the suffeinigs of the gIant, and before leavinig hii.i to his uncertain fate made an1 ap1pointmenft, to mee~t h11i nxt afternloon Iin theO museumi11, amnd possibly give hhn 8011e useful advice. Th'le gianit was found thke following afternoonl surronlmded by a crowd of admirers, each1 of whiom insistedl upon0 piinchiing his logs, to make sure that hke was hkumana. In a lull In the pr'oceed(lings the gIant gave thle persorr this little isighit into the private affairs Qf living curiosities. ".Nw,I I'in not like a dwavff," said the giant-(whlichk was very true, Is height beIng a trifle over eight feet)--"a dwarf cain go withkout eating a long time, and rather imnprove his appearance. But 1 muist eat. Feed a giant, and -starve a dwarf-that's tile idlea. In the Bowery, here, there's more than a hundred people that the public has to pay to get a sight bf. Of course, it is pleasant to be distipguishled, and to be0 courted by thle people, and all that; but thenl such a life has Its troubles, too. You see, it wouldn't do for us to miake ourselves too conmon in the streets, If giants and dwarfs shlould once be commuon ill tile streets thle business woukhl bo (1011 for; so we have. to be boarded near to thle exhlibitions. Thlere Is a place two blocks lip from hlere, oni tile other side of tihe Street where they board nearly all of ums, anid we go up in wagons, late at night; yes, that's the reason you never see us in publio. There's the Austra lian ehildren board there, and the Circas sian lady, and the Tiny Tkim., and the fat woman, and thle fat. girl, and the hiving skeleton, and the tattood man, and two or three dozten more. Well, they send us two meals a-day from there, aid then' wienwe go hbine at n~khi We have anothei i ~. That makes us three, meafqady h oaerdhg house-k6pr say *~lifie~ every week, and .4 guess he docs; but that's no reason why I ou01ld lose liesh every week, and I can't oiTord it, and won't stand it. You see, If a giant weighs 400 pounds. he's worth so much a week-a sum not at. i all c(qual to his size, I can tell you. But if t1 he lets himself run down, so that he only c weighs 350 poiulnds, why, lie's not worth 4 more thia half asimuch. I've seen the time tl when I weighed nVarer 600, but that was when we were onthe road, and chickens didn't roost so high. to "If you'll proihiise never to give It away," m said the giant, stooping down two or three p feet, and whispering, "I'll tell you some- 3 thing. - But I Wouldn't like any of the p others to know thit I told It, though they all know it's true.4 It's the living skeleton y that's made all this fuss, though lie didn't 1) know it himself, and lie's a nice noble- v hearted mpan, the skeleton is. But when el the manager firat talked with the landlord a aibout boardi ng us. the landlord -he a kind of o checked u1s oil. in 4s mind; I know how Iit! was. 1 Ie said to himsel f, here's two giants, hi three dwarf, two bearded women, and the liviii skeleton-bpt, we won't count him t lie can't cat anything. Bless your soul, o there was whore .he made a mistake. It It was a very natural mistake, of course. To n; look at the skeleton. any one would think a h peanut Would give him indigestion for i V iiuonth ; but eat! why, tle poor, ignoriit A, landlord had 1no idea of it. le'd eat R I butcher shop dry in one afternoon, WVhen Ii lie sits down to that table at night, nlid rests b one of those elbow-bones of his oi each sid d of the plate, then look out for famine aid wv desolation. Mebbe you'll not believe me, a sir, but lie eats more than ie and the fat r Woman111 both together; lie does, indeed. Ito eats everything he e1n get his hands oil. And the more he ents, the thinner lie gets-; that's tlie beauty of him; that's What Ilalkes 01 that Rman111 so valiugble. This, you see, is It what makes the landlord keep the rest of u1s II onl short allowance. lie mistligured about ti the skeletonl, and lie's losing money oRn the r run. iat's what makes it so bad for Rme." 'Did you settle it about where you shouldi sleep last night?" the person asked liin. b "Yes," replied the giant in a sorrowful g tole; "it Could oily enld ole wily: I had to ta give inl. I'm i poor, lonely, lioniless, de- tU dendent creature with nothing to live on w but.mRny shape, and mlly ) shape a-leiving 1me every day. I'll never grow thin enough- to be a skeleton, and I'll just go to the (logs; I know I shall. Don't youR never grow to u be a giant, if you care anything about. your- o-' self." at .lst at this minute the ~miusic struck up ti agii, an(I the stage manager, a very maill fr 1111d slight man, seeing the giant in conver sationi with the person, sprnig fiercely it him, salying: "Come, now, is this the way you attend 1 to your business, talking to strangers? And oR it's not the first time I've had to speak to Ic you about it to-day, either. Oet back to d your place, will you, and don't let it hap- Ic pen again, or I'll attend to your case, I will." S The giant stel)pd meekly and silently i l to his place. ti A Rominoe of Pearls. tU I will tell you a circuistalnce that, hap- ti peied twenty-five years ago, when I was sc reslding in Calcutta One morning our friend, the late Dr. N Ass, Surgeon -of the Royal Army, brought to my husband, Dr. - John (ran1t, a box containing twelve or thirteen pearlsi of various sizes, saying : IL "Grant you are a well-known man in Cal- (1 cutta, and I wfant you to hear the curious ai account of these pearls and take charge of w the box and let ic know any change you a may see in them. Their history is as fol lows: About forty years ago a lady at Am boyna gave a pearl to each of two sisters, saying, 'These are breeding pearls; take g1 good care of them; never touich them with the hand, as heat injues them, and feed thiem on rice.' One of thecse sisters has just conio to Calcutta, and she has lent the box .to me) to show to you. Ini the forty years she hats 1had( It this is the result-twelve or thiirteeni you~ng ones)." The b)ox was openedC~ ci and there lay on the cotton the mocthuer' w p~earl, a rather large but hI-shaped indi..- br viual. 'rTe eldest daughter, as I called it shi was a lovely pearl about the size that jew-~ ya clers generally set three in u . .g. The others wvere perfect in shape, but gradlually decreased In size; twvo very smlall ones I called the twins, as they stuck together, and the last was a wee seed pearl. According dr to listructionis, rice was put Into the box, di which was locked in a secret drawer In tihe ai cabinet, of whlich my husband alone had iw the key. Aftei' some days we opened the box, anld to our'astonishiment we found that every grain of rice had been nibbled. I cainnot think of a better word. How nib- g~ blod I cannot hmagine, but that one fact I thl can vouch for. A few weeks later we had wv to leave Calcutta. The box was rettirned( sai to Dr. Vase, and~ what became of it I knowv he nlot. I have often mentioned it to my Lii friends, and sonme years ago I saw in a book that av upon my friend's table that poople0 " In the I'ast believe in breeding pearls. _______________at M Rorrors of a Prairie Fire. o A few weeks ago Mr. Montgomery, of it Lincoln county, Kalsas, anld his son1, a boy wi of about twelve, were in the field at work, so when they dliseOvered a fire coming froma de the wvest. They stopped theIr wvork to keep hi the fire from tile hledge, when the wind sud denlly chianged to the north, blowing very hard and cold, and bearing. before it a see- ot cnd fire, which camne with th e speed of P1 a hlorse. There wvero two fields near on im eithler side, and seeing their danger, the boy at started to one0 feld and the father to the ti4 other, .,Tho boy was~ caught Ila the flames andi fell to the ground listan~tly. A neigh- w bor, h~anc PfaY, who was passing near onti a mule, galloped uip to Mr. Montgomery sp anld indluced hlim to mnount the mule behind Is hin and ride to the field. Mr. Montgom- ar ery mnoutited, but seeing his boy fall, lost T all presence of mind and threw his arms.ti around Mr. Pfaff; catching the brhdle-reins I' and holding the mule stIll wille thley were el enveloped In the flames. Both men drop- m pod to the ground and the lire passed over lh thiem,' .ho tuutle rani a short distane aind C fell dead. The two men aroso to theIr feet jkc and the wInd and fire took their clothIng jo fr-om them as they Walked to the nearest hl< field, about one hiu. dred yards distant. Mr. Pfae' feet were " badly burned that his boots fell from him as he walked. A *~ Mr. Manng came to them from the nearr a eat house5 with a couple of qtuilts, which hie alk wrapped about the two men, and carried nm them to the house. I19.then corried in 'the dead boy. Both men wore perfectly ra- 0 tional, and conversed freely with thoc I r around themn up to within a few hours of' O their death, - Se Tame' HitThloon. Colonet Ezra Miller has a tarIm In Few Jersey, and has beena eXprimlllent rag iII raising biffaloes and tialig tema. In a recent interview he des ribed them at som1e lengthI as follows; We have laud no trouble lin raisinag 1en,"' the Colonel said, "and they erd with the other cattle on tle best f terms. What surprised tie is their -eaknoss. I supposed they wore very owerful; but they are not. I have -en a yearling Alderney bull putisi Ill, the bufl'io hitll , wlien he was threo ears olu, right up 1hill. They are fast, Lat they are not stronag. ihey are also mry cowardly, very playful and very inning. I have studied their hablis id have beena greatly iamused. 1I' one them sees you sht, a gate, he'll go id open it iminediately after you ; but 3 won't go oit, of the gate. I had tem in a lot, and noticed that a length C the fenco that soptratetl the laustu r 'olII a lI.d( of rye was down. I sent a an to nill it up. Bill stood just be ind him, and watched him closely, he uinan had not .got to tihe house he a-e Bill gravely walked up to the nec, put his horns tiuder the lower )ard and ripped the whole leigthI wn, and then quietly turned antad alked auway. One day men were orking on the side of a Ihill with bar oys. At noon whIle they were eat g dininer uider a shed, ley heardi a Lttle, and down came 13111, the haindle the barrow oi each hiorn, whteling lie wheeled it to tie Foot of die 11, when it tutirned over. Then lie led to get it. back. I have seet him 11 a barrel half' way up tihe hill and ien let' It roll udowna ndevery time the trrel bouinced over a stone, Bill 'unted and Jerked up his riideulous 11. Thoy don't, bellow lIke our cattle ey grunt. One day some girls who ore visiting here trom New York, ent on the hill for blackberriis carl I ig a siall tiin pall such as tile llena e Ii carrying salt whena t103' salt, thae tithle, Bill saw tiae pall, and ihough 'raid of the girls, walked towards tci. They slowly edged away. Bill llowed. The girls walked faster; so d Bill. They rana ; Bill broke into a ot, and down the hill they caale, the ris still holdIng tile pall, atid fright led out of their wits, aud Bili behind naging for salt. Ilanged It tile girli dl" e1111mb) a fence within three igtls of all Open gate. They never Wv it. Bill stopped with ia grunt and Jerk of lile tail. A curious thilg," e Colonel said, "is their dance. I 11 it their war dance, and .1 believe 0e I ndians got the ido of the dance 0111 them. as ell its the grunt. Those roe bufl'aloes would go tip itinolg 1 codars, and Bill would reair ut) ;aIlust one, put his fore legs around it id bond it down to the ground. Then c others woiuld Join h1im1a, aid thbey'd I stand1 over the bent sapling. Sid mly, at a given - grunt, they'd jump vmy, ad(], as the saplitig sprang tip tit a switch, they'd start in a eia'ele oun1(d It, one behind tile Other Jump g stifX logged, coming downil on all ur feet at a time, and at each iaump all 'litillg."ao - A Chamnberaidsui ChraIistas. A seranit ghil i boarding-oause, ho dlishlar'ges the ariduious duties of a *ambler-mlaid's p)ositlin, .whlena she as driessIng haerself, enltered1 Into a lef mlental calculatIon of the presents e wvould be likely to receive from thae ri'ous boar'derse of the establishmnent. kira. A. in tihe big front oaa the second( or." salid this female Almaschaar, vill probably give me that black silk e88 she used to hlave for a seCondl-best ess, anow thaat shae lase got a anew one; .d Mr's. B. In tile bac1k r'ooml asked mie 1 had1( a new shaawl thae other' daty, anid hien 1 said( I hadn111't, said( tht perhlapsl ata Claus would( br'Iing meo onae, so [ iese thuat's all r'ight; andl upl on the Ird floor Mrs. C. wanated to know bat my second name11 wats, andt so I 1)1)08 she's going to give mea a box of ndlkcehiefs ilth my) mionlogr'am on emla; and1( Mrs. D). toild mae nlot to waste one0y buylang a par'asoh, for one0 of the airdlers would be sure to give tme onie Chistmaas tie; andc that-'widowv r'e. E. with the spim1I-compllla1inted lid, oughat to give me soametinag If s-oaly a paIr of cnlls an~d a collar, hich ia about the manaiest that a1 p)er n in a boalding house can aff'ord to ." Ilavinag sett~ledl thaese attter's to ri satisf'actin, the faiifthfuldomfestie snat downa to breakfast andl toild the her' girls what the boairders lad omisal to give her , then whent that mal was concluaded, took her' (duster d went out to levy her contribu mns. Arrived at Mrs. A.'s roomn she shed that lady the comlpllImbents of e season wi'th much war'mth an1d re eet, and Mr's. A. 5sa(d, "D~ella, here' a little 'Christmas present for you," d gave her a small pasteboard box. toeochambermald's face was e'lonagated 1 It reached down to haer brooch, and e closed the door with some warmth, ittlering to hersol f', "the old painted g I I wIsh I couald make haer eat her liar and cnffs with those false piano y teeth of haers that she hasn't paId r y'et." Tiaklng a reef In her face, wever, she trIpped smilIngly into rs. B.'s room, and( Mrs. B. saId :''Ah, la, merry ChrIstmas to you; here's solhtar and pair of rf fis." "T1he mean. impinag thing," said the chaanber id, as' aeon as the was 1,n the hfll co more; " 'next time her 1usband es to ing me on the stairs see if I Sout and soiatch his face, thaW allW * ftfdetu t es quiaro With 1i~' f this.'' Proceeding up to the next flight, Della called at Mrs. C.'s room, and when Mrs. C. said archly, "Ah, Della, can you guess what I'm going to give you for a Christmas box ?" the poor girl's heart sank clean down into her slippers, and she answered, "A col ar and a pair of cuirs," and when she had received her gift didn't say "'thank I you,'' but slammed the door so veheim eneitly that Mrs. C.'s pet china vaso t was knocked oil' the mantelpleco anad smashed, which was some consolation, aimyl.w. Mrs. 1) gave the girl abeam Ing smile and a pair of culls and a col lar, and the grateful recipient of her bounty said to herself, "If ever that wall eyed camel wants to got the sheets changed on Thirsday again, perhaps I'll do it! Oh yes; of course!" and s with a bitcer laugh she strode into Mrs. I C.'s Ioom, and when the Widow said, 1 "Delia, yotl've been a very good girl since I came here to board, and If you'll opei I lie top drawer of the bureau over there you'll find a little pasteboard box - .'' Tlis was the list hir1 tIt broke the chambermaid's heart., and I with a yell of disgust she exclaimed, "Keep yoI Old 11 measly collars and a cull's. If I couldn't afl'ord to give a Ia chamberlady amything better than a collar and paIr of culls, I'd go and board at the poor-house."' And hler overtaxed nature found rellef in tears "Della," maid Airs. I. with ley severity ''I often feared that you drank, but n1ov I'm certaimn of. It, I was about to P Iay that iI thalt drawer you would fid a simall pastehoard box containing a pair of earrings and two five dollar gold plieces, but after your impertinent I conct I shall certainly not bestow b allythilig oli jomm, y3 u nutideservimg IlliX.'' Mon" (if Lou1ift Ph1Ittype. Of the flve Sols of louis Philippe, who was King of tho French for nearly c eghteen years, four survive. Tihe lne D'Orleans, the eldest, who was I all aiible and popular was a sort of ul French Prince of Wale's, 'uid was kill ed by tihe overturn of his carriage In I 18,12. It I his eldest sors, tei Coint (1 o Paris, nlow forty-oni.e years old, who was the Orleans Pretenidro to the soy creiinty of France. Tihe Dtc de No mliour's, the sgecolld son, obtained time o( rank of Lieutenant Gpneral during his II fatheri' reigm, and before lie !adi at- go tained his legal majority had been of fered an(d declined the thrones of l- T gliu and G reece. ie is a man of mod ern'te abilities. De Joinville, the third 1 of' the Orleans Princes, became an Ad mnir'al while hils father reigned, and, W with two of his nepiews, witnessed hc gi proceedllfigs of the Vhiginia campaign tv of 1802, and published hIs observations thereon iII Revue Deux Jondes on hIs return to Europe. Tie Duc d Mont- la penser, whose marriage In 181.1, to the infanta Louiaa of Spain, led to the bf break-up of the French monarchy of 1870, is Lotis Philippe's fifth son, and iIn appaently a common-place man. The it, 1)no d'Atimale appoars to deserve the " reputation which lie has acquiii'ed of a being the ablest of theoOrleansPrinces. w lie wias also the mostfortunate. Louis th Philippe was so immensely wealthy th that lie couild richly provide for' each si member of his family, but d'Aumnale, the fourth son, succeeded ini 1830, when T~ lie was onily eIght years old, to the vast v prioper'ty estates and moneys of the last ar' of the Pinmces of the House of Condo, en lid when lie obtained his mnajority the accunmlation of all his wealth 11nade1 ta tL'Aumaiule one of the rlchobt men In 10 Eur'ope. Th'le Orleans Princes it Is no torious, are all wealthy, and also very to eonomic in their expendhitumre anid liv Ing. Th'le Due d'Aumiale wvho Is now -p flfty-seven years 0old, was highly edui- bt oated, and1( as the ilstoian of tile Condo 'Oll 'amiily, may be regardedl as a man of' wv letters, ie served with distinction i a thme army befoi'e tihe revolution of 1848, anid Pr'esident Tihiers was greatly ) blamed, not only for restoring him to E his military raiik on his return from A exile in 1871, but for subsequently in p)lainiig himii in commamnd of' one of the great (divisions of the army. In 1848, d wihien Louis Philippe and his familyt had to fly for their lives from France, 8 the Duem dl'Aumale was Governor-Gen- ta oral of Algeria,. Siul The 13oam Loomnotive. te Uncle Dick wveighs sixty-five tonisp andl he Is sixty foot long from his head th light to the roar end of his tender. lie ji Is the biggest locomotive in the world, 0( and( Is for duty on tihe preelpmtous Iln- v olinos of tihe AtchIson, Topeka and Banmto Fe Railroad, A boiler 21 foot long sup~plies steam for cylindors 20 y inchies by 20, and gives motion to eight to 12-inch divors, while a large tank sur- atm mounting the entire structure niot only cC carries a water supply, but helps to give Uncle Iek a tighter' grip on the 0 rails, ils driver will have coni~rol of s three independent systems of airb'rakes oi and can binmg to boar at once upon his It hieels a -restraining force of 75 tons, o1 which is none too large inestnucoh as a "shoe pressure" o'f'6,000 pounds is re. nlI rjuired to koep him when standing still 0c and alone op the steep road .over' tiue liuton Pass, from surrendering -to, .i gravitation and rushing down hill by lii his own weight.' How heavy those 4h grades are cant be understood whet Is noted that one end' of Uncle 1i~ h will. often stand moreo tlag~ thie4 ftet' higher than thiy.otheor so thd in tra% allhing his own length jie Willdo .tIe' pend1iculaug.tMrlAd et~g~ ~ g star frejolbingn1 hi~WE u H~i6 11414 d FOOD FOR THOUGHT. To give pain Is the tyranny, to make kappy the true emijre of beauty. Those eyes alone are beautiful which re luminous anid not sparkling. The perfectly contented man is also >erfectly useless. lHe Is happy who has coniquered aziness once and forever. The truest end of a life Is to know he life that never ends. Our dead are never dead to us until re have forgotten them. lie who spends all he gets -is on the igh road to beggary. - The ideal saint of the young toralist cut fron salppy timber. Th , are never alone who are accom anled with noble thoughts. An angry man opens his mouth and bIuts his eyes. Everybody complains if bad memnot y ut nobody of bad Judgment. The man who minds his own busine- s is a good steady employment. God furnishes us the line wheat; bit ,o ourselves must knead it Into bread. Ile fneds no a.;her rosary who.e tread of life is strung wit.h beads o' )ve and thought. The most terriflc storm of real woe in man's heart rarely flings its froth li) 11 as high as his lips. The pralse and blame whieh hang onk te lowest boughs, and iaity be easily lucked, are'generally worthless. Never pass between two personA ho are talking together without an )ology. N' or lend an articla you have bor wtd inless you have permission to (1o Never exhibit anfty anger, impatience, exciitement wheni an accident hap aIts. Anything we cainlove and reverence Weomes, as it were, the Sunday for the Ind. l'ollteness is money, which enriches t him who receives it, but who dis ml1ses it. A man that astonishes at first, soon akes people linpatient if lie does not mtitiue to doe it. teproaches, unsupported by evidence klet only the character of -him who ters thei, Philosophy, like.medleine, has abun nlce of drugs-Iew good remedies, ad scarcely any specifies. In general, there is no ofie with hom life drags so disagreeably as with mII who tries to make it shorter, Censure is most effectual when mix I with praise, so, when a tault is dis 'vered, It is well to look up a virtue to > in company. Single-minded men always stleceed. le vedge, says Carlyle, will rend eks, but its edge must be sharp and ugle; if it be double, the wedge ha 'ulsed in pieces and will rend nothing. He who makes a man laugh twice here he would only laugh once Is a 'enter benefactor than lie who makes ro blades of grass grow Wihere there ts but one before. The hour is whole, and so is the dol r ; but take a minute from the one, or penny front the other, and, for want its smallest part, the whole ceases to 1. The habib of resolving without act g is'worse than not resolving at all, ianuch as it gradually sunders the tiral connection between thought Ad deed. They are like the linoh-pin to the beel, on which depends the safety of e vehicle; they are like tle rudder to e vast shll) which it guides; like the mtder nerves to the bulky muscles. it is with nattions as with inidividuaals. aose wvho know the least of others ink the highest ot theomseivos, for the 'aole familly of pride agpd ignorance e lincestuous and eventalybee cli other, talybet We can easilyTnanage if we will only ke, each dany, the burden' ap~poinitedi r* it. But the load will; be too heavy r us if we add to its weigh~t the bur ni of to-morrow befbre we are calld bear it, Witty sayigs are as easily lost it the arias slipplug oflf, a brokent string; .t a word of kinad ness is seldom -spok in vaini. It is a ed which, even Lien dropped by chance, springs up as flower. It is never well 'to 'put' ungonerolis nstructions wvhen otliers 'eqilaliy iuslble and more honorable-are ready. t US ra'haer fellow .the adylce of Sir rtnur Hielps, and "nmplo our imag ations in the service~ et , rity'.'' Tlhis 'canntaot be other wise; for groat ings are only a series of lIttle ones, closely compacted together that they ke the appearance of, an d, indeed, be me a whole, just as the otur is miate a of minutes, and the dollar of cents. The wvise physicierr is on friendly rms with death., it is ats mudh. a aysiologlheal necessity- as lifer and ough, like thoe visitor of am 9Ahleer f stice, its entrance' must'not bo ow without a proper *aldrant; gottie nrant is surpe to be istied all ast.s The greatest lossofttnie is delsay did peetathon whioh doppndsingon 'the ture. We lot' go ts p awhi a have in etur powet~a and ~ *#c that which depend0' ui n b h~'e, d so relinaquish a ceraiI,fonn'aan Words are nothing to. a:Inq - a~ love, a mother'8 00~~a~p. ,by's-slnile Centatus the iiais nee0 of 'all earthiy1 lbbih' id's love Soothe.W t~~tpken~g derhands so ngghti 4 is blesse6 edenlly bu ~e~~a d aid th tm in p41 The mu~id dteh%4