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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., AUG UST. .-NO. 83. I lBn ___ 1".%^_____ JLS ULE 1 '1 0 d, I Life is too short to waste In unavailing tears. Too short to spend in bootless grief, in coward doubts and fears. Too short to g ve it up To pleasure ; or to sow One hour in guilt, to yield at last Eteraity of woo. Time lags not on its way, But "pans our days in haste If life s-'ould last a thounanI years 'Twere still tuo short to waste. For. short lived as we are, Our pleasures yAt. we see, Vanish too Soon. they live, Indeed, E'en shorter date than we. But ever with us here Bides so row, pain and oaro he stiortest life is long enough Its 'lotted grief to bear. To the oil the end is nigh To the young far off it seems Yet neither should dare to toy with life Or "-a ito it in idle dreams. N For by each Time's scrvant waits, Thouigh not for servant's wage And the same worm nibbles the bud of youth That gnawoth the roo, of age. Live, therefore, as he lives W o e4r na his share of bliss; Strive for the prize that Virtue wins, Life's not too short for this. Phantom Lovers. B3a#fore I begin my story I Must tell you I am a commercial traveler, born anid bred, so to speak, to the business. I have my wits about me, and, as I often happen to have a good many valuable arti cles also, I have need of them. I amn an Eriglishman-English to the back- bone-and live on roast beef, bottled Sale and old port wine. If you could feel my arms, and look at my cheeks, and measurb me across the shoulders, you would have no doubt that I am one of the men who does- not dream and don't fancy. When I see a thing T see it. When I hear a thing I hear it. And what I saw and what I heard on one - particular occasion I mean to tell you. You will not offend me at all if you doubt it. I should doubt it myself if any one had told it to me. I'eannot expect of any one the credence that I would not give myself. Neverthe less I shall, as I said, tell- the story. It was in the year 18-, and the month was May, and the place was England. I had left London live days before, and now I was miles and milles away honi It, in the very heart of the country, traveling to ward a little town where I had business. It was an old fashioned place, and the people were kind and obliging. You do not look for such qualities on the road now-a-days, if you are a traveler of experience; but here they came upon me at the inn I stopped in a ..ay to make me think betteor of human nature. Travelers did not stop cten at that inn, I suspect, for they were as particular about my ieals as though I had been a prodical son come for the holidays. They killed the fatted chicken for mc, and to crown all, as the train did not stop to take ime on as I wanted to go, and as it was only a imatter of five miles or so, what did the landlord do but hunt up a rusty old coach that was tucked away in the coach house, and order his man to drive me over that evening. It wasn't an extra .mind you It was slheer goodl will. S3o I shook hands all round, and I re - membleredl tihe chambermaid and tihe Waiter with half a crown each, anid oif I rode--the old coach creaking, and tile 01(1 horse wheez ing, and the.old driver coughing up on the -box, and it was like a bit out of an old story, with an adventure in tihe middle of it. It was getting dark fast, and the road wound away among the hill In a very ro mantic sort of way. I do n~t know much about art myself, but I think if that painter with tihe white tmnbrella that used to sit about in the mud making pictures could have seen some of those points, lie would have touched them rup with pleasure. When the sun went down and the moon came uip white and bright, and up against -it on the rocks you could see all the deli cate, trembling little weeds and grasses, andi there were big, black shladows under the treed, and glimpses of you did .not know what under the bushes. -. Why, itinade you think-of ghosts, if you were a commercial traveler. "Here's the placo,'' says I to myself "where the gentlemen of the road would have liked to meet me and myblc ba fifty yer g. -lc bag A rtyjoke itwould have been~ to have handed my valuables over and.4ancedA ~ig for their amusement besides fifty yee rs k. A hundred years ago, anyhow, Ishoukln' have felt so safe ais I do now. - * Jnst then the coach camne to a sendder pause. - - "Hlallo I" cried I: out of .the windgw "what's the' matter ?" --- "It's more than I can tell, sir,$" said the man.. . "Black Jane haisJ~ddd suliky. She wntmove a step. .,~. "With that lhe began ti shout anid crack his Whip, 1,'with my head oig of the win dow,.watchlng him, and suddenly the beast started off like mad, and I drew in my face and saw' I haid~comipany. While the coach was at a stand still, -a lady and gentleman had slipped ini. T1hey sat on thie ;sclt opposit$ 'r and though it.was'an,ltrusioh, I had not the rg i foj a pre tier pair I I hle was wonty-one, it was as much as. lie could~ be, at, slpwas not seventeen. I h~ad'dedn * p Fat bhuina loretrs on the piantel-plede, thie polfect iagae of what. they weore, anmd thity wore as pretty! And -. dressed much the sa e.' I is huir was powdri~nd 4oi, too. - .She hlid oh a yelli4'sill, lowet In the incl tian ould like a a ht& f, ipe .throat, ana sh aust themos hnooit little fsee my two eyes over tested [~, As for~she boy, he had a chocolat e wet coat atild White silk stockings, and lace ruf l1es at his wrists. And they had one large cloak-his, fancy-cast about the two of theni, thougl it had dropped back a bit as they sat down "Two ,young folks going to a fancy ball perhaps,' says I, "'and just took a lift 01 the way." And I touched my cap to them, anl says 1 : "Fine evening, sir." Ile (lid not answer me, but she looked a me and stretched out her little white hand "Oh, sir," she said, "look out at the bac of the coach, I pray you, and tell me if I is gaining on us." I looked out of the window. "There's a man on horseback riding ul the road," said I, for I saw one. "Oh, heaven I" said she. "Courage, Betty," said the youngfellow "They shall never part us." Then I knew It was it runaway match. "I see how it is," said I. "Keep ul your heart, young man. If the young lad) likes you she'll stick to you through thici and thin. I'll do my best to help you." "Oh, heaven I" she cried again.- "Oh my darling, i hear the horses' feet. Ther are more of them. Oh, sir, look ; tell me I' I looked through the little back window. The road scened full of men. I hadn't the heart to tell her. "Closer to my heart, Betty," cried the young imani. "My beloved, they come." lie drew hIs sword. Among other odd things, lie wore a sword. I pulled my pistol from my pocket. We all stretched our hands forward, and at that moment the coach turned a rocky point of the road, and I saw we were on the margin of a precipice. All this time Black Jane kept up her furious speed, and I saw we were in danger. "Iave a care I" I cried. "Faster I" screamed the young man. Suddenly there came a jolt, and a screan: from the lady. I heard him say: "At least we die together." And the coach lay flat on Its side-not over the precipice, but on the edge of it. A man is a little stunned by a thing lik< that. When I'd climbed out of the window, and helped old Anthony up with the coach, and coaxed Black Jane to quietness, I re. membered-that no one else had got out of the vehicle, and I looked about lin vain foi my pretty lovers. They were not there, nor were there any signs of the troop of horsemen I had seen dashing up the hill. They could not have passed us in that narrow path by any possibility. "We ran a chance for our live-, master,' said Anthony. "Yet I'm called a good driver, and Black Jane is the kindest thing I ever saw In harness generally. Thank God for all Ilis mercies. It's a strange thing we're not over the cliff. "But where did they go?" I asked. "Who?" said Anthony. "The two lovers-the pretty creatures in faiy dreas. Tho people who wern after th3m, where are they ?" "Where are-" began old Athony. Then he turned as pale as death. "All good angels over usi" he cried. "We've ridden with Lady Betty. It's the tenth of May. I might have known better than to try the road to-night. Protect us all I Yes, yes, we've ridden with Lady Betty." "Who Is Lady Betty ?" said I. "As pretty a creature as ever I saw at all events. Who is she ?" Old Anthony stood looking at me and shaking his head. "It's an! old story," lie said. "Book. larned folks tell It better than I. But a hundred years ago and more, on this blessed night, my Lady lletty [lope, the prettiest lady of her day, ran off from a county ball with her father's young secretary. "They put one cloak .over their heads, and an old servant drove them, knoaving it was worth his life. "But before they had gone far, behind them came her kinsfolk, armed and ready for vengeance. And when they reached this point, they saw that all was over. "'Better die together than .live apart, he said, holding her close. Thon he called out to the servant, 'How goes It I' "'All lost, sir,' says the man. 'Th< horses can't hold up five minutes longer.' " 'Then drIve over,' says he. "Thme man obeyed ordlers. . "Trhe angry kinsfolk could only stand or the cliff and look over at the dreadful sight that lay below, when they reached the top, "But ever since that night, sir, as sure ai the tenth of May comes aroundl, there'i plenty here will tell you that whioefer drivem a coach past this bit of road after nightfall won't ride alone. "There's nobody that remembered the night would do it for a kingdom, but I for got. i'm getting old, and I forget thming whiles ; and so we've ridden with Lads Betty." .That's the story old Anthmony told me and what went before Is what I saw anc heard. I'm a solid, sensible man, but facti are facts, and here you have 'em. . Ftshmg Ho0g, An Account of a rem'arlable inciden comes from Aurora, Ind.- A few dlays ago as a triW of young men, .omge a son of. pronminent citizen of this city,'were lshminj for bass in H-ogan CJreels, near Aurora, thme: wore disturbed by a splash in thme water, a of some animal 'jumping Into the stream Looking in the direction, they saw a larg< black hog,: which had evideritly come dowi from .amppg the roamidng '1et of porker which make life a burden is and around th tcoii swimiing rapidily towarN thq cetmfo .of' heo pool, wich wasabout 1 Q0 feet W~di snd sighmt feet deep. At ah out the erite the. animal., disappoared, reluaining undo the water for a conside.a'>lo time, and o: reappearing was seen to have In his iouth Wivo bass about. eight Inches tong, with which he swam ashore, and proceeded t< eat with the avidity and relish peculiar ti his sbenoes. Aftel' having swallowed th lust 'vestige, .Withm a gflunt the aniinal aghii bbtbok hhuisdf to die water, sa'nd agali dived to the botton Cofning up with short, he made again for the shore *ith ati other fish, which he dispatoch a' qui~kl; af before. This was repeatedA tihrd tihs and on the fotti-th'trip~ th maiM oettired small' '(it0b1 11 ' t ah*' ashort and aft'r 'dodJg. 1ti to' dli att i bleh it amn~ with 1tp fishing o9wri9q99999 &i 9M9 a "Missiappi jp'oduced 4640,000 bal~ of ootton lastz yaar. * .' ; "Sa-lutir the 1ritte." There wias i Marriage at the upper end of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Road the other day. A great big chap, ahnost able to throw a car-load of lumber off the track, fell in love with a widow who was cooking fr the hands In a sawmill, and after a weeks' acquaintance they were married. The boys around th e mill lent William three calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white pants, and chipped in a purse of about *20, and the couple started for Detroit on a bri dal tour within an hour after being married. "This 'ere lady," explained William, as 1 the conductor came along for tickets, "are my bride. Just spliced fifty-six minits ago. Cost $2, but durn the cost I Sie's a lily of the valley, Mary is, and I'm the right-bower n a new pack of keerds. Conductor, sa lute the bride I" The man hesitated. The widow had freckles and-wrinkles and a turn-up nose, and kissing the bride wias no gratification. I 'Conductor, sa-iute the biide or look out for tornadoes I" continued William as ho rose up and shed his coat. t The conductor sa-luted. It was tile best r thing lie could do just then. t ."1 never did.try to put on style before," muttered William, "but I'm bound to see thist thing through if I have to fight all Michigan. These 'ere passengers has got to come up to the chalk, they has." v 17)i car ,was full. William walked down a tile aisle, waved his hand to. command at tention, and said: "I've just been married; over thar' sots i the bride. Anybody who wants to sa-lute a the bride kin now do so. Anybody who b don't want to, will hev cause to believe that-a tree fel! on hhlin 1" One by one the m1en walked up and kiss ed the widow, until only one was left. 1le was asleep. William reached over and o lifted him into sitting position at one move ment and commanded: . S "Ar' ye goin' to dust over thar' and kiss the bride ' d "Blastyou' bride, and you, too I"growled tile passenger. e William drew him over the back of the seat, laid him down in the aisle, tiedl his r legs in a knot and was making a bundle of him just of a size to go through the win dow, when the man caved and went over and sa-luted. 'Now, then," said William, as Ie - put 8 on his coat, "this bridle tower will be re- r sumed as usual, and if Mary and me squeeze hands or git to laying heads on each other'S a shoulders I shall demand to know who laffed about it, and I'll make hint e-magine that I'm a' hull boom full of the biggest kind of sawlegs, an' more comin' down on 8 the rise. Now, Mary, hitch along an' let me git my arim around ye ', a C Ctrounmtatjb.1 Evidenco. a A young lady-I forget the name, but P we will siply fictitiously-Mary Adams, was misse from her home. 11er disap- ! pearance caused intense exitement, and that i excitement ran wild when it was at length t( announced that she had been murdered. Her body had been found oi the aI...ra ,f Lriuutiary f clau II mamius 1it% tu, wila ha ulkse upon her head, which gave ample evidence a that ter death had been a violent one. Such bruises might have been gained by falling upon the rocks above the spot where the remains were found, but there were p other circumstances that pointed in another w and more giastly direction. C A- young man naned William Claypole ti was arrested under accusation of the mur- n der of Mary Adams. A preliminary ex- at amination before a Justice afforded sull- tt cient evidence to bind hn over to appear a before a ju-y. Claypo e had waited upon v Miss Adams for a year or more, and during e the two or three montis last past their in- fj tercourse had not been of the happiest kind. a She was proved to have been gay and c laughter-loving, with a light, volatile (I1s- a position, a heart warm and impulsive, and 1 impatient of restraint. Claypole, it ap- ti peared, hlati been exceedingly jealous and u exacting, prone1 to fault-finding, and ready : t) to make is afianced miserable and fearful p If she dared to look smiilingly upon anothler y It was proved by several witnesses that c Claypole had( thlreatenedl Miss Adams with 2 terrible vengeance if lie ever caught her (10- t ing certain trifling things again; and a man t of tile town-a man respectable and relia- m ble---had seen the twain together in angry e discussion on tile very night of the disap pearance. - lIe 1h8( been on his way home od foot, a and walking leisurely along by the river's r bank, not a hundred yards from where the t dead body had b~een found. HeI had heard Ic Claypole use language of terrible signifi- Ir cance, and one sentence, spoken loudly and It distinctly, 1he could repeait word for word, , and swear to it. It was a bright moonlighlt evenIng, and r lie hlad gained but a short distance from the angry pair wvhen lhe saw the man grasp f the girl by thic arm and fiercely exclaim: "IPd rathler kill-*you and thlrow your body < into tils cold flood' thlan live under such i totr syou've made me suffer for the i atfew weeks. .Beware I I tell you, we mnIamdesperate." - TIo thuis thie man81 swore most positively. He remembered the circumstanlces andi tile < exact date,' and tis was the eveninig on1 1 which Mary had left her hiome not to re turn. . William Claypole was committed I for trial, and .in due time hie was broughtt b~efore the jury. . f anytlying, the evidence before the jury was nmore conclusive thlan lhad beenl tile preliminary evidepee. , here was more of it, and it all pointed directly-to the accuised. In fact, if 'Mary Adajis had been killed, it1 s~ an absolute imnpossibility' that any one else could have done it.'hat she could have killed herself was a proposition not to be entertained. Williani Claypolo told his story. Most of the evidence he had heard he acknowi edgcd truue, 1e had .ben exceedingly jealous, andI ha 11ad tlirbatened the girl,' and though ho could not clearly remember all that he might' have' said under tile -influence of > atrong passion, y'et hie Would not deny that the muan who had reported his last terrible. speech upon the r~iver's bank, had reported 1 it correctly., ... i H'o haid he had beeb tihere with Mary on - that ev.enlng, and 4ltremen bered1 tf-ut he r saw the witnes on' tlhedqad. Aftersgeing witness, ho spoke the angry, impulsivo1 i words to Mary. He could outl swear'to ,w tpeple fq'thlat v~ery shortly sAfto uslpg the lan g ust presentled ho ad becope sart e , onand hnct edn th i adeher goto. . her .homeptelling dier. that. he : bid mi h nevr se-he taghi. ith she Uhaypole's story bore thAItadiip ft trft~h n everything save the bearing upon it he fact already stated. Everybody w orry. Nobody believed that Willis 'laypole ever nourished murder in I: eart. It had been but the greature readful impulse. Yet the evidence was all against him 11, all-and not a point whereon to hang toubt, and he was found guilty of niurdt One bright, pleasant (lay, while Willia lay)ole lay crushed and broken in I1 ark cell, and while the people shook the cads in sorrow that one so younw and pr aising should meet so terrible a fate-< ,tch a (lily Mary Adams appeared befo lie jailor and demanded to see 11e prison rho had been accused of her m Jrder. Tr'ie jailor camte nigh to fa nting wil uperstitious terror: but by and by the al licant succeeded in convincing iin th he was a thing of flesh and blood, lili ther women, and lie admitted her to ti rison. We need not describ the sce hat followed the meeting of the lovers. I oine respects it was secred. In due thi lie custodians of judical power and auth, ity came to the prison, where they listent a a new revelation. Alary Adams was not dead at all I Tli tory which her lover had told was tru n the night of the quarrel, fearing that I ight do some rash thing, and really des! aus, for the time, of getting out of his wa3 nd beyond his knowledge, she retunie acretly to her home, where she iade up mnall bundle of necessary clothing, an xeni, unknown to any one, she crept awa) nd before morning was beyondi the poss ility of reach or recognition. Having found a new home in a far-awa) iountainous region, she nad not seen an ewspaper until she had been several weel i her new home. She roqd the accomr f her own death, and the arrest of her ol >vcr for her murder with astonishment id now she had come to apt matters right As fortune would have *it, on the ver ay of Miss Adam's .return an oficer froi n insane asylum appeared in search of a icaped patient, whom, after weeks of ha or, he had succL-uded in tracing in that d ction He saw the garments which ha ecn taken from the body of. the (lead we ian, and recognized them at once as hav ig belonged to his patient. Tihe initials, "M. A.," which had bo ipposed to stand for Mary Adams, wer ally meant to represent "Mortonboroug sylum." The oflicer saw Miss Adani ad declared that if he had met her on th ighway or in a crowded publio conveyanc e should certainly have arrested hei [er resemblance to tle patient lie ha mght was wonderful. And so the truth was known at last. B, fortunate revolution of the wheel ligli mie to Mary Adams, and her reappear ice upon the scene came with savin )wer to William Glaypole. The. lovers went away from the priso gether, and certainly we have just groun ir the belief that the ordeal through whiel icy had passed had been sufficient in it rrible experience to lead and sustain then ie only saf~e and geaceful way in life Ice. forbear RobInano,, Cruo. A writer in the Saturday evicul >ints out some lapses of imiemory in th riter of Robinson Crusoe. He says rusoe mentions that lie had brought fror te wreck lens, ink and paper, "yet in th 3xt paragraph he audaciously niakes thi atement: 'I now found I wanted man kings, notwithstanding all that I ha inassed together, and of these things in 'as one.' In his diary lie states with muc actness, that his pale, or inclosure I 'out of his cave, was begun on January 3 ad finished April 14th; yet on the pre -ding 81st day of October ho tells abou tooting the mother goat, and adds: 'Who carried the old one upon my shoulder xe kid followed me quite to my enclosur pen whir-h I laid da nn the dam and too xo kid in my arms atid carried it over m ale '-about two months before any pa] !as begun." These points really are, in irall wvay, well takeni, aind they are tI: nly points well takex in the entire chargi Sconsiderable stress Is laid upon the fin iat, after giving the dates, as above, bi sveen which heo worked upon hisa pale, I icntions, a few pages further on, and I onnection with his sad lack oif tools, ta lit was nmear a whole year before 1 he nished my little 'pale or surrounded habi tion." Hero it is plain enough to anyor ot willfully biliad that it was the habiti ion as a whoia, not that part of it oni omprehiended in the pale, that requir< ear a whole year to finish. Umbrage liken at the "still more curious slip, r'hich " occurs when lie speaks of takir sh, for lie says that lie had a long line< opeyan, but no hlooks; yet in the san outence lie states that lie frequently caugl elh enomigh, with~out in the least indicatir Low he did it.". The critic suggests on hx wn account : "Defoe probably meant I Iesdt-ibe, some contrivance, but could ail hink of' anything at thd moments and fe ot to supply the deficiency." We hai ot our "Crusoe " -by us as we write, bl &lr remembrance of this passage is that ontained something, either expressed mpiled, to the effect that f~he case wil vhichi the fish could be caught without took was another strong proof of how ui 'erly unknowving of mian were the creatur lying upon the island and within the wate rhich girt it round about. 8kipping wh cally is a wholly unintelligible objecti< elating to Crusoe's desire to remove to 'tI ' pleasant valley " (where ho subsequent] uilt the " bower ") and his final deteri tion to remain in the cave, we come .to tI nal attempt to make a point against tI xactness of Defoe. Robinson C(usoe, nay be remembered, when ill 'from ti gue, has a dream which frightens hi nuch, and in tellimg of his celngs wakening tie'says: "Ilhad, las, no divi: Lnowledge; what I had received by t) ;ood instructions of.- my father was thi vorn out; by 'an uninterrulitdd serieb (f ight years) of seafaring wickedness, and vas all that $he jnost hardoeef,pnthinkin euleked creatuxre,mong comnmon-MAilors e ec supposed to be; not ,having .A4e les lense, either of the fear of God in dang, r ofi thankfulness to God int doliverane It Is strange that- Defde, whe'n writing tl sapressive passage, should have forgott hat- Je ipadeOrusoe say, after ;describ he maenner in which heo was dirst wrash mn shore, that 4iretly--he found him~ afe he began to look up and thank -Prc ln0hahis'lifewas savfdp -aT 1'dA d has voted eighfy.-ege times, sensecutiV4 yearsa- '4 jf An El.1mphiant 11tint In snntra. Im I had often, 11 mny childhood, heard Su is matra spoken off, and had for a long time f experienced a desire to visit an island which proiillse so Inay mountains and marvels to - mily imagination. a So, when I landed on the southwest coast r. of the island, I was enamored with the Iu beaty of the climate, that I had not cou ia rage to find it too warm. And yet my ther ir minometer marked in the shade thirty-seven centy-grade degrees. We were in June, n 1848, precisely at the period when it was warm also li the streets of Paris. I may r he permitted to prefer the fires of Bengal to those of cannon. Not that Sumatra has h1 never enjoyed revolutions ; this beautiful country, like so many others, has had her it own, but they are not the principal merit M of this island, neither does this lie In its e( productions, which rival those of the tro e pics; it is, dare I avow it, almost entirely 11 in its elephants, its most ancient as well as c its most legitimate sovereigns. Their ) strength is disputed by no one, and their d deeds, if not words, are in every mouth. In order to judge of them, one must see l them on their own territory, through the large trees of the forest, and in the free exercis of their powers, I so.on had an upportunity of observing in an exciting , hunt in the company with the Marquis and d Marchionas do Fienue, amiable Parisians, a whomu affairs of interest had brought to di Sumatra. There was a third person, a French Jew, a banker o' profession, Mr. Isaac du Laurens, a friend of the narquis. A great lover of hunting, a still more intre , pid boaster there was no trophy of this y kind to which he could not offer you a 8 counterpart. Such were the members of our it expedition. We were joined by some na I tive chiefs as guides, and a great. number of Indiana, laden with munition and arms, . or leading packs of dogs impatient to enter upon the campaign. The rendezvons was fixed beyond a great lake which separated i ug from the forest, where, according to the Indians, the elephants were in the habit of coming their for their sports. Arrived on . the opposite shore of the lake, we left our 2wahous (a species of pirogues), and re - paired to the spot where, according to the latest advices, we were to find the eleph ants. We advanced resolutely, M. do Fienne, the marchioness and myself, having besides us the native chiefs, and M. di Laurens-behind us. Very soon the sight of giant tracks con municated the first. omotion to the heaters; the effect was electric; b1. du Laurens turned pale. Each took his post behind an am-bush of canes which had been raised against the stags. The corner which we t occupied was not less than two or three - feet wide; so all the hunters could, tWanks I to the underwood, hide there comfortably. They inspected their guns and carbines; the hunting knife, tile klewang and the lances gleamed. All was the most, lively anxiety. Already the krios were sent to give the alarm to our aids and their packs of dogs; and scarcely had the Indians advanced, wlen_ frightful crim nrofp s', -A . O........- I;, ldq 01 ,ioia, issue from the center of the forest and froze us with terror. It seemed to m1e as if a hurri cane had passod through tile foliage. There i was no room for doubt, a herd of elephants j were there, in the Inclosure, at a few paces a from us. There was an Instant of panic e terror. The ideas which we had, and with s reason, of the extraordinary strength of these anhnals, who could overthrow every l thing in their passage, little disposed the t men to await then with firm foot. Tlie 11 hunters tierefore disbanded. Thougl Inative a chiefs, more experienced, in vain retained [l their courage, tile confussion redoubled, fand most of the Indians tied toward the t lake. n1 Unfortunately, the lake is full of cay a mans, and the cry arose: iw(a((/ baicifa! , They knew not whichl way to flee; on all k sides tihey saw themselves surrounded with~ y monsters. Several had climbed the trees ; e M du Laurenus wvas of tile nlumlber, a 'Tie sight of tils mnsensate fear restored 0 our courage, and wve regained our post wihth -. the greatest coolness. Whlen I say our cou t rage, it is a liural which is singular and regardls only mlyself, for M. de Fienne had 0 not shrunik for an instant. Th'ie mlarcIo ni ness, firm also, yet bet rayed the most live ,ly emlotion. Sile was impatient to see tbe dI conflict commenl~lce, and p~rep~ared, not only -to be a spectator of this drama, buit to p~lay .0 a part ini it. S Suddenly thlirty elephants Issued from the forest, arrangedi in close columns, and ad dvancin~g with a nmajectic air. TIhey were a formidable to behold; they marched wvithl thleir trunks high and thlreatening, like a g wounded serpent ; their large ears beat their Stemiples with redoubled blows; their breath Swouldl have overthrown a man, and the itground seeomed to tremlble benealhl them. The~ monment was critical and th( ro was not a muoment to lose If we did not wish to bedsryedi. When thley wore four or five r. paces from thle thlicket, which concealed us from their view, we received thoem with a tclose lire from our~ carbines, which we had It taken.-care to load with balls of tin and cop >r per. Woe to us if we had used leaden h balls, they would have been flattened iby a tihe large ears of the elephants, anld have -renldered them more trouble to us, without a hlaving thle chanCe of killing one. "Near atile ears I near the ears I" was the exclamia tion on all sides5, and each one0 suddenly re turned to the charge, aiming at tile sensi etive spot which made at first more noise than they dId harm. .. Meanwhile the monsters, seized with ter 10 ror, irecoiled and retook the road to the for e est ; but the barking of the dogs, which (lid ia not bite, constrained thlem to turn back al to most immediately. Their numbers had In a creased to sixty ; a great part of thlese ani mn mrals hmld not come out from the woods at a the Airst 'attack. 10 .We had had time to charge anew our mn guns and carbines ; and, more assured, like ai- soldier~s after the first fire, we regelved the I, anemy in a miore vigorous manner than at g, fst. The elephants then disbanded with a in terror nmingled witlh fury, crushing every at tiling in theqir, passage, and, seeking a re r, fugo, uttering cries which were enough to m"sake one sink into the (arth. There was is somiething giganttb in such a spectacle. it Ti'e~o elephants were for tDe most part 4gev nd thirteeri feet iin height. Their ad refusal to combat untrasteid stratigely fwith th.powerful orgauigatiots wiWl which , th er ehdowed.Vhe archioness, by nibhnihfa sule.to dqof the i* IndiamiueA *o r e~id t&Ueir rk oas' fM tf '~hr Vs'66~ IA bal~ of t.ia 4. Iadie do Fi&eeil and by way of renly ht~ndtished1witti -has NICWS IN BRIEF. -In the twelve years ending with 1878, Louisiana paid $9,301,005 as m teresit oil its publie ('bt. -in the year 1878 there were only 3 men killed by Apaches In Ar!zona, against 197 in 1808. --in t'e ten years ending June, 1801 the lilef Eiglish railroads had to pay $1,655.000 compenisation for injuries re celved by railroad accidents. -Geneva will hold, In 1881, an in terInational exhibitionl exclisively coni lined to watcel"s, jewelry, su'ff boxes, 111d utisleIal-boxes. -M1r. Barry Sullivan, the English wtor, prides himself on having played 1 mlet more thian 2,800 tinies in all liuarters of' (lie gloue. -Iowa has 20 Favings banks, with leposits aggregating $2,447,100, and 33 general baiks. wlioie total assets llounat to t3,783,905. -The Philadelphia mint coined dur. In g April $50,800 ol' ha I l'-eagles; 1,300, )0u silver dolilars $13 180 of base coins (cenits)-Lotal . 1,301.480. --The daily Circulation of the most popular nowspaper in the city of Mex ico. with a populition of' 200.000, does 110t ex :ec( 2,000 copies, -A lady near Pedlricktown, N. J., a ho1rt, time ago ran a splinter under ier linger nall, atid has siunce died of lock aw. -The Hotel le Vlle, in Paris, the >l seat of tle Municlipal Ujovernment' viich was destroyed ha 1871. 18 far ad anced in rebuilding, aid will be com >icted in 1881, at a total tiost of about 4,400,000. -George Fordham, the Jockey..un lor the terma of Baron Lionel Roths haild's wfll, receives a preont of $10, 100 and( an annuity of' $1500 a year for lie. -TFihe English Factories act requires hat no woman shali be emiployed Con in uously for more than four hoursand t halr. A fer working that length of hue she must have a rest. -in the soitth, the centre and the vest of' France the grape crop will, it s .-aid, stier seariousy. In consequenae ho itiportation of Wi lies 1 rom1 d)ain Ind Italy into Fraie Is increasing. -Mrs. Frank 11. Delano, of New Vork city, has givean $5000 tWSt. Paul's Sinerican Chureb, in Rome, with viiha to ti nisha tle aisle walls and put L ratilig around the cliirch lot. -Secretary McCrary will retire from he Cabinet albout. the 13m. of September text and necefpt the United States badga ship for the Ra ighth Circult. lin )ace of Judge Dillon, who has decided o resigna. -Tle ra-lte of taxation in Biaff.do was 'edluiced Ilat year 16 on the $1,000 of cal and personal estate. Tie assessed ialuntioln of oll'a lo for the cuirritnt rear Is $88,402,415 against $88,.170545 1 1878. -Thie sccoxd sale of Q'ceen Christina's r Ioalog1111e(a Whityd JAL afWL@9W.,QnoI o0ld lor $8,420, and a magnaliteit ieck -ee. coUt,aining 529 pea l.i, brought 14,800. -r.1Iannlahl Cox, of. llolderneas, J., celebrated her 103d birthday re ently. Tie venerable lady is in full ,ossessiona of all her faculties, with the xceptionl of lier hearitig, whiih Is im mired. -During the first year of the recl )rocity treaty between the United SUtes Il the Sand wick Islands, our Imports r1om the Islands show an increase of itiy-seven per cent. over the )recedln g Pear and our exports to the Islands of 25 per cent. -Milley Vilillis, a niser of Easton ross Roads, N. C., was acoustomed to tavest her earnings in gold, $1 at a inme. I1er diwellig was recenatly de ttroyed( by lire, and lumaps of nmelted told, w~or tih about 10,000, were taken 'roam the ruins. -A watch lost two years ago in a >arn'iyardl, near Lebanon, Pa., was 'ound the other day by a grandson of ~he loser in a mecadowv -hard by while )iowing. Th'le face was broken, but ,thierwise the wvatch was complete but very rusty. -There are twenty-five Afonanonite villiges In Menitoba, with 480 dwei Linags and 2,841 resIdents. TIhe liilm (ranats fromu Russia have 10,470 acres odeltr cultivation, 302 hiorses nad Borne 2,500 cows anad oxen, anad hiave already Larage stores of grain and other prodinets. -A returni as to the religious persua dlan s of tuee non-comminissioned olilcers mnd mn of the Bitisha army shows thait of' a total of 94,842 men, 02.800 he long to the Church of Eingaand, 20,872 ua'e Roman Catholics, 7125 are Presby terianis, and 3885 are Protestants of flher denomninations. -lira, N. Y., is maikingextensive p~repart loos to celebrate the hunadredth uioiiversaary oh' the bauttle of Newtown (a.Oxv Eihnira), which was fought Au Sust 19, 1779, by Federal, troops under eneal Sullivan. 'I'owns alcng the route of' General Sullivan's mat ch will contrlbute to the celebration. -Thue next electoral college will not be based on the ceinstis of 1880, The rilectora votes of te states ini the next pr'esIidetial election, will standi as they tiid in 1870, the whole number being three hundred and sixty-nine, with one~ haundredl and eighty-five necestsary for a choice. -Th'le exports of' Egypt In 1778,were shout $4(.000,000; ill 1877 sh~olt '$80, 9000,0001, and ian 1b76 about $0 00 rTese fig ures, says a correspondent of theo London Timnes, are wor:,by of Study by svery one who hioldls Egypt earieh country and able to pay her debt, The leason of the falling off Is the falling oil' of the crops. --One million dollars ian told weighs 3'8 - pud avordnliaps; 1000,00 trdolrs wesgh 0QU;a$i./00Q of' 4l2%~ grainas weigh 5s,928 47; $1,OU, (00a An autioal eans wigh5O 114 2-7; $1,000,000 in '1ivg 'eet niokeia weigh 220,457 1-7; $1,000,000: in htCent~la niectels Vneigh 141,859I 1-7; ~~0 la one cent r'ieecs weigh%5 -It is expected thaat'tlae Q 6thard Tunnbl,.throtigh the Alpp, wil i##dome p1eted by t~be end Qt~4b~~~t The ade (141 frieltss *aoI S muoautab andIItI~ JuIi u f 0 a 1 pretty hands the gun which she had been vialiantly using. Hardly she had given it to the Indian to reload, wheni an enormous elephant, se parated from the herd and larger than tany of the rest, camte toward the ambush behind which we still remained. It was furious, and seemed to wish to revenge the defeat of his brethren. lie Was fourteen feet hight 'It is a male I It is a male!" exclaimed the native chiefs ; and more prompt than these words twenty shots of the carb!nes hit and struck dead his new enemy. lie staggeredi a few yards and fell exactly at the foot of the tree in which brave Du Lau rens was still clinging, who, violently ha ken by this shook amd by fear had nearly followed the cokssus in his fall. Several elephants were extended lifeless on the ground; some were staggering like houses about to fall and could only stand by leaning against those who had not yet been struck and who supported them in a fit aternal manner. There - ussomething very affecting In the scene. But it was less than that of which we were witnesses an instant after. A young elephant, grie vously wounded, maintained his equilibrum with dilliculty, and With the aid of Iis mother who was watching over him; at last he fell on the grQund before the con tinual fire of the huuters; the poor mother did not desert her post; she uttered howls of anguish and fury, and tried to protect the corpse of her child ; but she soon paid for maternal devotion with her life. 'rite marchioness, whom this picture moved to tears, wished to obtain the life of this noble animal; she even solicited it earnestly, but It would have been dangerous to have granted it, and the firing continued. There were no more enemics on the battle-field; only corpsep strewed the ground In every direction. The air echoed with a joyous merriment, and each began to relate his ex ploits. The hunters celebrated the victory most norisily were, as usual, those who had not dared to take part in it. There are men who, in times of peril and emergency think they afford much aid by expending their action In words and cries. Such was the (lear and deafening Du Laurens. 1le had descended fron the tree only after the danger was passed, and, by own account, it wias he who had killed the most ele phants. "What there is prodigious about it," said i Mine. (10 Fienne, "is that you have ac- I complished these flue exploits without burning any tinder. But perhaps you used the sonorous instrument with which the soldiers of Joshua made the walls #f Jeri cho fall. In this case, worthy son wails of Israe, I will no longer bi mtonished at the sound of your trumpet.. During this time the Indians wero-des poiling the elephants of their enormous jaws, and preparing to carry thom home as a remcnemberance of this glorious day. Thus ended this famous elephant hunt., a scene of excitement and some danger. A inoy's Adventure. Little John Green, of Louisville, Ky., having heard how once upon a time Blenja soIve'i to' d in' n9 h - His idea was to test the relative strength of his kite and his pet pigeon with the design of basing some grand invention upon the result. So he took kite and pigeon and wended his way to the nearest common several days ago. He ran the kite up to the limit of 200 yards of cord, the wind Wlowing a stiff breeze fiom the north west the while. Then taking the pigeon from his basket he tied the bird by the leg to the end of the kite string which lie had held in his hand. The pigeon, feeling half free, flew toward home, which was directly against the wind. The resistance of the kite caused his lliIght to tend upward, an(], in turn, the efforts of Ills wings caused the kite to saill higher in the air. For a while the bird seemed to have the best of the struggle, making slow progress for at least , a square, but in spite of all efforts to take a dlirect course, flying higher and higher. After the bird had reached an altitude of perhaps foul- huntdred feet, tile kite be ing about one hmundr-ed feet hligher still, it was plain that the latter had greatly the ad vantage, It wvas flesh, blood anid feather-s against tile untiritng wvinds, Unable to con tinue the strain the pigeon chlangedi his course to one side, thus slackening the string and causing~ the kite to fall, slanting from slide to side in a helpless sort of way. But. feeling free againl the igeon once mor-e made a brt ak for home, when, the string being pulled taut, the kito, with a spring, glancing in the sun a thing of life, rose rapidlly andl gracefully from its former level. Soon both bird and kite became merespecks anid at last vaishing in the southwvesternl sky left Johnny to weep over hlis unexpect ced loss. Next morning, when tihe little fellow went to look in his empty cote, there stood tihe pigeonl nodding its htead in) pridle. It had broken from the kite, a piece of the string still hanging to its leg. Nervousness. Every organ and every muscle in the hunian body depends for its action on the nerve-force, elaborated by the brain, or spinal ganglia; and so (loes every thought and feling,--theo more active the thlinking, or the more intense the feeling, the greater tile expenditure of nerve-force. The little white thrieads that run in branches through tile body from the brain and spinal cord are merely conductors of this force, just as thle decline wilres are of the electricity. Tile brain-battery, when In a vgorous condition, elaberates enough nervous-force, not only for all ordinary, but for a vast deal of ex traordinary use, dlirectly fromn the raw ma terial in the blood, for in such case the raw material is furnished in proportion to the expendIture. But in "nervousness" of every form the balance 'is disturbed; the supply is not equal to the demand, hence thlere is a state of nervous exhaustion. By carefully guarding time outgo, thme person may enjoy a tolerable degree of health ; but he feels, often to prostration, a little extra demand, especially If protracted. Generally self-control is wemikened; one Is easily startled ; langhter and tears come at trifles; the pereon is toppcbly, perhmapsI s terical; the blood Is impoverlmhed'nd hmence no organ or tissue in the boyis proporly fed, nor can, fully do its work. Tis deficiency of nerve-force may tesult from, a defncient diet; tle abuse of stimut lants;~ too little sleep; protracted overwork of brai~n or mnusele; long-continued car,, anoxiety or grief ; senSual e~ emotional ek cess of, any iklud; lack qi rb eatlon. csi In omiq -v~u t~a var9~ ned tB wt h tiproflt Qt f over, -allegn