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-EKYEIINWINNSBORIO, S. C., AUG UST 23, 1879. VOL. 11-NO8 THE LOOM OF LIFE. All day, all bight. I can bear the jar Of the looi of lif6, and tiear and far It thrills with its deep and Agiufllod sound, As tir'lesi tild4hoole go.always round. 1)uolly, eoasoles'ly goes the loom, In tihe light of day and the mIdnight's gloom, The whouls are turning early and late,. And the'woof is wound in the warp of Fate. Click', Clack I there'e a thread of love woveun In Click, clack I another of wrong.and sin I What a oh okered thing this life will be, Whet, we soeeit unrolled in otornity I Time, with a tao like mystery, And hnds as busy as hands can be, - Sits at the loom with arms outspread, To catch A ith meshes each glancing thread. When shall this wonderful web be done? In a thousand yearo perhaps,.or one, Qr to-morrow. Who knoweth.? Not you or I ; lut the wheels turn on and the shuttles fly. Ah, sad-eyed wea erei the years sre slow, But each one is npar r the end I know , And sqmd day the last thread shall be wovn in, Go grant it be lov6 instead of ina. Are 4Wo spinners 6f wool in this life-web-say? Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day P It were better, then, oh my friends to spin A beautiful thread, than a thread of sin. The Belated Bridegroom. "Do you think I lhull get there inl time?" said Mr. Pennleld, pulling his beard rather nervously. "Oh, yes, sir, plentr of tine " said the stage-driver. . "it. al t often we has .such a heavy fall o' snow as this in the montlth of March, but Its softish and hasit driftcd much yet, and my horseas Is used to these hills. Jest'yon set steady, sir, - and don't mind an extra jolt or two, and, my.- word for it, yoti'll get there by eight. Anyhow, if you don't," ie added, with a grin "I cale'late as hw' you won't be the only one disapp'linted I" - - '"No, I suppose not, ". saild Mr. Penfeld, with a complacent smile, as he seated hin self in the snuggest corner of the damp and diam)al stage-coich, which smelled of blue mould and rtistled Its carpet of wet straw undet foot. 'Evidently,"said he to ihimself,, as' the driver cracked his whip, and the whole lumbering concera got under way, "thi's is a literary neighborhood. My lecture on the 'Life and Character of Dickens' standls a fair chance for'being appreciated.0' Mr. Petronius Penifeldl'-was a publlc led turer ; and he was' coning to Plppsville Four Corners to deliver the favorite lecture of his series, this snowy, tempestuous night, when traine: wore. blockaded, ferry-boats behind time, and - stago-coaches floundered' through the white wilderness' liko rocking ships at sea.. - "Very uiducky," pondered 'Mr."Penfleld -"very unlucky, indeed. If I hadn't been sensible enough to tako. all 'thcau cuntin gencles into considrmtion. and start well in advance of tlne, I shbuld* certainly have been belated I" But at all the way-gtatiois-and it seemed to Mi. Petroplus Pentield that the: namne was legion (little, .solitary imps, with red light's blinkingfrbin their casements, and a general Impression of stable boys, crusted' with snow, and carrying lanterns)--pcople cane and peeged snrreptitiously through the misty stage windows to' get a glimpse .at him, and:grmited and whispered. mys teriously to' each other, and telegraphed, after some unknown system, to distant ob servers in the background. "This Is 'fame ' " sait Mr. Penfield to hinself. And a comfortable sensation stole, over him, sich as Shakespeare might have felt, could he rise Qut of Iis grave and . see; the crowds. falling down to worship At ia birth place at 8tratford.upon-Asvnm ;-and he fell to repeating to himself the ,most sounding sentences of lias new. leiure,. ud .fancying the effect they , yould produce upon the andience at lPippsville Four Corners. -At length', after an uziconscionable1length of tinjo, the stage rumbled up to the tavern at Pippaville., Mr. Pentleld 'dinerged,' stiff, uncomfort able anid half izen,' with a nose the 'color of hhaven'soeelestiai -'blue,' and little ieicles hanging all over histbeard. . ' "(loin'. to-get out,sli' iV' said. the driver, mnanifesting domne'Atu'prisei . ."Of oourseI'mt'oing t: 'get out,". 'aid' Mr., Penfld4 :'P .m -' "But Squire Tubbs, sir, he's gone to the Atheneumi Building a'-readye And .'they're -'a-waiti' all ef ent."' '' *' " .'t. half' past s~ten--what tiondente 1" said'Mr.. Eeniheld consuiting, his 'w~tch. "My good fnalt thel-e's 'ftull half an hour to - pare.'. i '.- :1 ..i "But. Lwas to take -'you'- to the - door,"' urged thd stage-driver, in .a! state of. 'very evidentiperplexity.. 'i profuised 'em.' "0hr I cagm Walk,"Tnodded .the.'lectuirer. "A little eterciab :Will 'db .ne -good, . Efter. being ,cooped ulp.ibg that.obnfounsded mouse -trap: of a cosoh for two-timortai houfrs.!'? -"Walk -' No1:ye-can't 1!' said thme -Jehu, "It's a good two miles .1 Milles, , arid. every inch-of~ths way covered With snow-drifts." M'Iensessent' crl~ed -Mr.p Penflel," pet'u lantly.." 'i'an falf ' starved,; atd-'I ,must' have sprnething to-eat, -whatever .happens. Walter I ,*Ire. i Erinug 'whatever ieold moat you hMye, .apd.a bottie of ;uase'se ale. And beooksarpabout its dlo you hear,'r .The stagqedriyqr .diappeard smuttdrIngi to' himselt,)i dpepidisgust, sontietling about ."the cpolpe$ oustpmpt as- ever, he 'soon'l and the landlord came hurrying and smilling itedee al!a fnxu ;ew Yerk,, Isuppos sr?' said he, , .3. A 'es,. t the gpotlemai from NIew York, pnfocidede ,mde1fis'ld ,unwhrsdipg .about three yards of worsted comforter . from ' hIs noqjcdaa$ sattghlnself-in fimntmof the ire.' "Anda apre y hungry sort of gentle I Qll,"a~~1 r,, Pqufield, ew 9 eoW gart of to orld sup t t h n lerary men cou d live w41h 'jtng. tif si U ng j, M ii tii t little abstract hita of time. 'No oonha~ tl d lekiu '4a 'e h ha~I~ u tho. w go bfo~ c WIth'h.liat'&d'6oertoks, all husky whisper, "there's no time to los Going on eight. The squire, he'll be, tir of waiting, and may be,go back home." "And if he doesi' said the lectirer. " Why, sir, thit 'ud bp awkward Onough said the landlord. "Wouldn't it now 1" "Well, iy good filend," said Mr. Pc field, facetiously, "you mueit remeb What the crihinal on his way to be hange said to the crowd-I'There could be no ft without him !' " "But itiain't just exactly as if you wl going to he hanged, sir," -said the- landlor< in soiie displeasure. Miss Jennie Tubbs beggin' your pardon for making so bold c to mention her-is the prettiest young lad in all the country around." "Elh ?" sai Mr. Penfield. "Is 1he to' there " The landlord stared back at him. "Well, sir," s'aid he, "you will have yoi jke. Here's Bill Stokes a-waltin' with tli horses, as had ought to beeii in their stabh half an hour-ago." "I'm not, particular about the horses, said Mr. Penfield, "but since they are he: Iiay as well ride." And away went the stage-coach agair plunging and floutidering through the sno with Mr. Penfield's luckless head bumpinl up against one side of It, then .he other untIli at last it came to a dead stop in fror of a big, square building. "Is this the Atheneum ?" said Mr. Per field, staring abput bi. "Why It nust b pretty well out of town-and it's all dar Where are the lights, iand posters an, things? My good man, you must hav made a.inlstake." "It's all right--all.right, sir 1" cried Jehu pushing him hurriedly into a doorway which opened just then, disclosing. a fain glimmer of brightness in the distanc *1'glights all at the back of the house, sir. "Peter !" cried a soft voice; "is it you Oh, you poor dear I You're half frozent death I And so late, too." And Mr. Penfield,' with the vague sensa ti6n of oie who moves hi a dream, felt hiil .self handed to and frO, kissed and Ihmggcd aid congratulated in a manner which, in al his experlence in the lecturing field, lie ha never before encountered. "Bit perhaps its their way of doing busi ness out here in the' Westei-n wilderness, thought he--'a sort of delightful bewilder ment. At all events, it's not unpleasant that I mill say for it-" "We're all ready and waiting this hal hour," said the first sweet voice, that had I masical "ting" to It, like "smitten silver; "and Jennio-oh, she's just lovely I" "Oh I" said Mr. Peuifleld, allowing hin self to be divested of his great-coat and seal skin cap without resistance, "she is, el ? "The minister was getting tired of wait in," added the sweet voice. "Ie was jus going." -"Going, was lie ?" said Mr. Penfield ."Well, I'm glad lie concluded to stay." "Ile thought it was getting to be so lat you Wouldn't come." "I aim always punctual to my engage ments,".said Mr. Penfneldi a lIttle at.:lV "unless sickness or death should intervene. "Then come on," said the silver-tone< stranger. And Mrn Penfield, running the fingers o: one hand through his ambrosial locks, an( catching up'his roll of manuscript with ti other, followed her into - a large and bril liantly-lighted apartment. But It was no lecture-hall. There wero neither footlight nor rows of bdnches, no yet a platform filled with the trustees an< selectmen of the village; there was no dis play of hunting, nor appreciative audience, with open mouths and eager eyes-only I pretty rooim, crowded with guests; an ol clergyman with an open book, and a prett young girl, all in white, with a wreath o snowy clematis blossoms on her head, an a veil falling around her like folds of mist "Here lie is I" cried Mr. Penfield's guide valiantly ; and then, her countenance cbang Ing, she exclaimed : . "No, it isn't, either V - ".It isn't the right man I" said thit clergy mani. "It's the wrong man I" cried the bride "It's a total stranger.I" shrieked thi 1ride's mother. "My frieds-" began Mr. Penfield staring wildly around him. -But just thon Squire Tubbsa himse 'bouned into the apartnment, scarlet-face< and~ furious. '"I liever was so imposed upon -In all mn life I"'.reared he. -"No lecturer. no Ehi, how.?, .; What's all tIs " 'And almnost simultaneously a -young -mai rushed 1u, at the oppositedoor, flinging hi portmanteau into the middle of the room. "Lost the train, by George I" hecexclaim ed,. "Hiad to wait for the Southern express andi, f Toung man," -eiled. Squire. Tubbs ".what.are you here for ?" . "To narry your daughter, sir," valiantl: responde~.the bero of the portmanteau. "Against my will ?" .%aatthe will of the whiole wrd nlOe5" ysir, so long as she'i wa lng! "Biegone h!" ,thundered the sqiuire. "TI your-Too'm, Jennie I As 'for ybfi," Elde Hickox,', to the~netounded .old' clergyman .$L'l1 lay this-matten before a special com mitten of. the 94tge l. Gentlemen ani ladles;" to t'ho giiests,".5I'anm very-Qheml -hiappy to sde you ail here,- "sugh cantb idt. I ivitlid you f'* *,On O'deby e, thes guests slunk away ; tht belated bridegroom took the next ti'ain bac1 to New>Yokk, irith lisa niatrimoial hiappi ness5 blighted In the bud'; the bride orne riveild of teai's ove- her Inew' white' dress and there was no wedding, after ttl* '9eithier *ds there any lecture on~ "TI: Life and Character of Diekeris," at 'th Plppsville-Athieneu'ii.'' I. T - - - lipd ISs Ine4a! While crosslag thle (#iskrial h et, w iAd de'ei' vei'y striking night scenet ~While 'the sky' was hung like asihIpne trable fundral pall' over us, the sea wqul light up as though it was milk. .Sometime the sea would strike. against oui.ship, brea ahd'sen~d a gleam over all theo skls like ti most powerful calcium hlit." 'It was weird, unewrthly pectacle. On one < abdo t'a~g ad'oi of ou bats ca pyI'flaiud thieAhIp, etidently antxior to know what kind of; k creature bihe was Tidse bihqckcformi could be seene ~a long .wt 19 ;h (lite sea,.lgay ng ti long trail spark behlind him ash dar~ allout., J last 6i toek' np 15is 1 atin, ~aoa treme; deullteta, and iaia lhead 'nto~ the'hl withi all. his migt, hitting 'her abaft tl n inl It. But poor' grampus'du d~qlyre or415te elo . A Couple of Heroines. TwO women live in Chicago, and keep a pistol. It never makes any difference with a woman whether a pistoi is loaded or not. She can iiafke a mau believe it is loaded to the muzzle by a little exertion, and if the man gets away you nevor can make him believe but wilat the gun was loaded, and that the woman intended destruction. Omie n night recently these two unmarried and " all alone " women were in their couch at is home, after the duties of the day, just where all good women ought to be. Snd denly therewas a racket in the pantry among the ti pans. One of the females y cuddled up to the other, and said; "hI Did you hear that? " And the other e woman pulled the bed-sheet over her head and said, "What is it? It wasn t any thing, I guess. You're always hearing 1 something in the night." Just then there C was a squeak of the door, and a velvet a footstep was heard in the entrance. The females cuddled together, and then re solved, as they were alone, unprotected by e any big brother, husband or blood relation, that the time had come for them to prove their womanhood. So they crawled out of bed quickly, put on their elippers stealthily, g their wrappers quickly, and turning up one corner of the carpct drew forth an old t horse-pistol, which was as rusty as if it had been planted in the ark. They fell in single file, and marched to the front. Uponp 0 flashing up their glini they actually en countered a man-a live robber. They did not squeal, but one of them levelled a gun e under his nose and lie threw up his hands. Then the question arose in the minds of the women as to what they would do with their elephant. One of them said she would t keep him at bay while the other went after a "cop." She went out, and on the near est corner she found a man who was a po heeman in citizen's attire. le noticed her 0 excited condition, and asked what the mat ter was, when she told hn. He then in for)led her that he was an officer in disguise and would come to her rescue. But she wouldn't have it. She said that she be lieved lie was a "pal" of the robber, and told hin to go away and leave her alone. She continued her search for an officer un . til she encountered one, full-fledged, stand Ing under a lamp-post. To him she con imenced to relate the adventure that had befallen her and her companion. Sie fr rated the affair in detail, and with the utmost minuteness and earnestness. The 1"cop" eyed her intently as she told Lihe story, her hair hanging over her shouldera, and her eyer, sparkling under the gas-jet like two stars under a storm cloud. At last she ceased, when, to her surprise and dis contiture, the "peeler'" informed her that - he was a Dutchman, and that she would have to tell him the story over, and "go slow mid it,",' There are women in the world who would have killed that police man right where he stood. But this par ticular woman had left her gun with her companion, and she had no weapon but her tongue. Once more she commenced to de -_ 4..a ,% U9 uWmau A o IVn UC%, u" ma&S -- hands to assist in making the officer under stand. He felt of his chin and turned up his nose as she was reiterating 1er state ment, and when she had again finished lie said to her: "Is dot so?" "Yaw, dot ish so," said the female, "tumbling" to the Dutchman. But lie didn't seem to " tumble," for lie again felt r of his chin and remarked: "I guest you vas a lunatic, 'u1mph. Ish not dot so?' This was too mncl, and she took him by the arm, and, by vigorous gesticulations and a good deal of explicit talk, she at last gave Imhun to understand that she was an unpro tected female, and that there was a robber f in her house, not far away. Then lie wanted to know what kind of a "robber dot vas," and how 1e got in, and whether h1e had taken anythLipg, and if so, how mucl. And when she had answered him, hippatiently, he asked heCr whoe was holding -tile man. Shep informed him, and lie ex pressed a good deal of surprise. Then lhe took'his whlistle out of Is p~ocket and gave three shlrill blo~ws in Dutch. Then they stopped, and some time after, another cop came around tile corner and walked up. SThey talked the -mstter over to themselves and thlen looked at the woman, as if thley believed 11cr to be a liar, or were afraid of hecr. At last they started, one on each side Sof thje woman, and wondered why it was a woman couldn't talk Dutchl. They, arrived ~at tile house,. and there sat thle othtet female 'h"Iolding thie: fort," her: rusty gun, thlat hadn't a ball or cap about it, pointed at ttie robber whowas seated on . a box. When -ever 110 .moved. sihe raised the gun and thlreatenled to. blowr out Is brains if h~e stirred. *The two."cops"' viewed the man carefully, and satisfying themselves that he was alive, they marched . him away. Tile hleroie woman who had hleld one man to his post with an empty pistol did not offer to. assist tile officers in taking him away, as they perhaps expected. And tile question as to which woman was thle, inbt hleroic, 'a the ene who held the burglar, or tihe one r who fprced thp. ppliemren. to the rescue, is Ahiard 0one to settle. tlCThe Darkc Day. *(f all tewonjerfulstories thlat my great: grandmnother use( to tell my mothe~r whlen e she was a girl, the mnost wonderful was k about tIeo -dark day in New Jungland, Fri day, May 19, 1780. This was during our revolution, you will rememiber, and the same year in wleh .the traitor, Benedict Arnold,attemipted to. betray, his eountry to e For several .days before the nineteenth, the air was full of ,vapors, as we of ted sge it wrben flies are raging1i9 the woods nep us, And the pun and moon appeared e ..eaind tlbeir usual clear . light did not . usepeaywheni rasisg pnd setting.. - wids bechefly from the soutle-west 4 pand north-ent, nud1 the, wenther was cool is and clear. The moi-ning of the nineteenth & was coudy and in many: places slight e shiowe fell, eoinetimues aceompanied by q' tbun 'an ltghtning - but s he sunv arose i f did not h~iereable thie ight' and the dark ness05 deepened and d .onJ~until tWI'e chil e dren atandig b'fore ti 6 tail clocks pould is not oet'o (911 the timnb andc so~lder peple ;. p No~pwr tile alinenac were not ab e t )ar~ev'enoi,6ngsadfli~ ~ 1r neet ~ nthe woods,, the6tdultry. huri~f to their i- roost., w toe the oatt e In the notas uttered ~ stftg9o alajpdthe etige (ences to qgahelo h~d h sepall huddled deepest green, verging on indigo; tlh brightest allver seemed tagnished, and every thing that Is white in thd sunlight bore t deep yellow hue. The shadows, which before noon fell t< the westwqrd and afternoon the eastward, were observed during the darkness to fall in every direction. The rain also, was unlike any other rain, and it set all the people to wondering a they dipped It from tubs and barrels; for a s*ui formed on it resembling burnt leaves, emitting a sooty smell, a d this same sub stance was seen on strea a and rivers, es pecially the Merrinac, where it lay four or five inches thick, for many miles all along its shore. Another peculiarity was the vapor; in many localities it descended to the earth from high in the atmosphere ; but at one point a gentleman saw the vapors at nine o'clock, rising from the springs and low lands; one column he particularly noticed rapidly ascending far above the highest hills, then it spread Into Ailarge white cloud and sailed off to the weqjward, a second cloud formed In the same way from the same springs, but did not rise as high as the first, and a third formed fifteen minutes afterward. At a quarter of ten the upper most cloud was of a reddish hue, the second was green, indigo and blue, and the third was almost white. So unwholesome was this vapor that small birds were suffocated in it, and many of them were so frightened and stupefied that they flew into the houses, adding to the fears of ignorant people, who considered it'a bad sign for a bird to enter a dwelling. The commencement of the darkness was between ten'and eleven in the forenoon (when the men were busy in the felds and offices and workshops, the women spinning, weaving and preparing dinner, and the children at school, or helping their fathers and mothers at home), and it continued un til the middle of the folloiving night ; but the degree of darkness varied ; in some places the disk of the sun was seen when the darkness was the most dense. Lights were seen burning in all the houses, and the people passing out-of-doors carried torches and lanterns, which were curiously reflected on the overchanging clouds. Thousands of people were sure that the end of the world had come, nany dropped their work and fell on their knees to pray, others confessed to their fellows the wrongs they had done and endeavored to make re The meeting house was crowded, and neighborhood paiyer-meetings were formed, and the ministers and old church members prayed loing prayers, inetioning the nations and individuals of Bible timeswhohadbeen destroyed on account of their sins, and beg ging that as God spared the great city. of Nineveh when it repented, so lie would for give them, cheer them again by the light of the sun and give victory to their armies. It Is said that the Connecticut legislature being in session, the members became ter rifled when they could not see each other's rr -nn)ggggjtgmade to adjourn, "Mr. Speaker, it is eithe'r 'A"day or Judgment or it Is not. If it is not there is no need of adjourning. Ir It Is, I desire to be found doing my duty. I move that candles be brought, and that we proceed to busihess." All the shivering, frightened people be gan noW to look forward toevening, hoping that as the moon rose full at' nine o'clock, her light would penetrate the gloom; but all the children who coaxed to sit up and see her, grow very sleepy, their strained eyes were not rewarded by her beautiful beams, for at eight in the evening the dark ness was total ; one could not distinguish between the earth and the heavens, and it was impossible to see a hand before one's face. Then all the weary children were sent to bed after the most honest prayers that they had ever prayed, and the older people sat up to watch for the light that never before had .appeared so glorious. Abd never dawned a fairer morning than the twentieth of May, for the sun that open ed the flowers and mirrored itself in the dew-drops brought the color again to the children's faces, and filled every heart with confidence. The birds sang joyously, the cattle re turned to their pastures, the places of busi ness were opened, and every one went about his work more gentle towaird inan and more grateful toward God. After the'darkness was passed, several personsi traveled about to gather all possible information concerning thIs memorable day, aund Dr. Tenny wrote an account of what lhe had learned while on a journey from the east'to Pennsylvania. ie says the deepest, darkness was In Essex county, Mass., the lower part of New Hampshire, and tlye eastern poi-tion -of Maine, where my great grandmother lved.' In Rhode Island and Connecttcut It was not so great; in -New Jersey peculiar clouds were - observed, but the darkness was not uncommon, and .in the lowel parts of. Pennsylvania nothing unusual was observed. It extended as far north as the American settlements and westward to Albany, but its exact limit. could not bo~ascertained. In Boston the darkness continued four teen or fiteen hours, varying in duration at others places. As it was impossible to attribute thme dark ne es to an eclipse, the wise people formned maay theor-ies respecting it ; being con vinced that .it ,was due to inmmense fires iri tlie woodel winds blowing in ;opposite di. recti ns,and-to the condition of the vapors; but H erschel says:. "The dark day in north ern Americh was, one ,of those. wonderful phenomena of nature which will always bi read of with Interest, but which philosophy is at a~ loss to explain." A Dear's Freaks..; A bear hiad an appetite very similar t< that of a goat. On board the United States man-of-war.Alaska theo Is a bear cut which was obtained at Bltka byan ensign, and which is the pet of the . It ,is . 'very playful and sociable anima, climbs t< the maintop when so minded, and roves :h freedom throughout every patof the'ship. On Its first appearance on bo4It devoures all the soap and candles in eih, and ate two oflcors' 'dreas hults. Thiey were o1blige< to lock up the soap in an irog age to keel it out of rehof the bear, i2n4,the ensigi whmo.owns te animal is m qri , ed for tw< years'pa 6rdamage tothi cers' suits On rb*psofthe to, ral< Q~ho f .h~ pand~~ a] th &na guard isi ano dtay; to f ahdicthe mshmA A IUnl and Hear iFight. A cruel Bull and Bear tight recently too place at Custer City, Penna. The even had received pretty liberal advertising an those who camne had done so to do bettin and see something that had never befor, been witnessed in this section of the State The seats were arranged over a small spae of ground, and raised at a slight elevation commanding a full view of the pit, whicl was 36x38 feet and II feet deep. In thii lay the bear, a shaggy brown fellow weigh Ing three hundred pounds. The cut raem to the pit was by a large iron door at onl end, which was approached by a trench, At two o'clock there were no signs of thu fight beginning, and the crowd began (t yell at such a rate and demand thit th light go on that the management, fearfui they might imagine the whole thing a hum. bug and wreak vengeance ulpon him, ordered the band to strike up, which it did. As soon as the last notes died away, there wias a demand fron every throat for the bull to be brought in. The door was then opened and the bull entered the arena witli a rush. . At the corners of the pit abovc were men with strong oaken clubs, t6 pro vent the animals from leaping out of the pit, and near by were two men with long, poles to goad the brutes to action. Tihe bull was trim-limbed, with sharp horns, and weighed about' 1,700 pounds. IHe stopped suddenly in the centre of the pit and glared upon the bear, who wats stand ing with his back that way. Neither seemed disposed to commenc6 the fight, but the bear, turning and facing his antagonist so as to be on the defensive, excited the bull, who commenced advancing, and tie bear reared up to receive him. The bull rushed madly forward and sent him rolling over and over, at. the same thne goring him in the sides. The hear gladly escaped to his corner, where the bull made no attempt to go. In the second round the men with the poles goaded the bull into the bear'scorner. le took bruin upon his horns, threw him four feet into the air, and he fell with a thud, several feet away. The bull then made another daring charge, when Bruin fastened his claws in the neck of his antag onist, slitting one ear in two and drawing the blood freely. This dazed Taurus, when lie gave a yell and withdrew a few feet, bellowing with all the power of his lungs. Bruin saw a chance for liberty and at tempted to leap out of the pit, but was beaten back by the men with clubs. Muak Ing another desperate effort lie got one of his claws fastened in the top of the pit, and one of the men, endeavoring to push him back, had his arm lacerated by the brute. With lightning-like rapidity the bear sprang from the pit.into the seats above, and a scene of indescrible confusion enswed. Ile bounded to the top seat and sent his claws into the flesh of a woman. Ile had the field almost to himself, as the audience was flying from him in the wildest confusion, and reaching the topmost seat, a distance of forty feet from the ground, lie looked over, but would not jump. Terrible fight Ing. After the greatest difficulty the bear audience returned' aid- r'6iid 'ld." 4 Who begun by the bull making a terrific charge, when lie received a badly lacerated neck and a eracked horn. Both animals were badly 'rested in this round, and the fifth round Bruin sprang at his enemy but fel short and was rolled over and over and badly gorged in the sides. Ile groaned with pain. In the sixth round the bull was again badly torn about the neck and was subdued. It was then the betting turned in the bear's favor. In the seventh round the bull was badly used up and attenpted to get out of the pit and ran around com, pletely cowed. There were cries for the fight to end in favor of the ' bull, but the majority ruled, and in the eighth round Bruin was hurled back to his corner. The ninth round was tame, both animals fight ing shy. The men with the poles goaded the animals 0on, and Bruin was caught on tihe bull's horns and thrown high in ah ar, landing on his back. The rest of the rounds were without interest, and 'the con test was dlecided In favor of tihe bull. Was It Suicide? "Do you tinik it wrong for a man to commit suicide, John Norton?". The trapper deliberated a momlenlt, and 'then said: "Thue worgi is a new una to me, friend. Can't ye show me the trail by some1 other tracki " "Is' it right for a man~h to take his own life, John Norton? That is what I mean,' answered the other. This time the trapper gleliberated ever longer than before. ie fingered the ham mere of lisa rifle as if he were tryinig the lock, for a'minute, 'and then said: ' "I've seed the thipg did, friend ; but the circumstaiceS was nusual."' "Did you say that you hlad known case where a man took his own life ?" said the other. "Sartinly, sartinly," ansawered the trap. per, " I've seed It did. Ye see fire is hard to bear, and the redskins be cunnin' at tor mentiny', and to ceape the burnin' I've see( men kill themselves. Yls, I've seed ever officers, who -alught to be rational, blow their brains out with their pistols rathei than to be taken alive by the varmnints." " John Norton," and the man spoke ear, nestly, "listen. Look at this body; it lI worn out.- Its remaining staehgthi- only in creases my pain. It is- full of aches. Il affects my mind. Even the gifts of thi Lord are of no benefit. The beauty of th< day, the 'glory of the night, the -lovelines of the earth and the splendor of the heav ens are not apprehended. My eyes are din so that they cannot see. My hearing il dull. I only half taste my good.- I tir< easily. A little toil in the day fillis th night with suffering. I am well, but ma body is sick. The tenant is nobler ant more needy thah ever, for I need finer ant hIgher thinlgs than I once did; but the hous has become a hovel. Why should I stay ii it?" and he put the question to the trappe with force, aleist imperiously. "I hay outlived its use ; I shall leave it. ~I an glad to say good-by to it apd meet the swee surprise of the future." ' Again he paused. As he lo'okedtowari the moubtain his face was bright and checet ful as one thinks of pleasant themnes. Af ter awhile he sAked:~ - > "Do you know whly I have come to thi ) It's a chee fuI spot for either thie yon or old to visit," evasively answered thu 1 " l*11tell yo cene jieref con tinued.the main, spe g a"if me' lad high communion to prepare myself for its happiless.' I have h4eat of you as one wise, good and thoughtful of strangers. As a wise man I wished to talk with you. As a good man I wished to commune with you. As one thoughtful of strangers f wish to ask your assistance. I also wislicd to spend my list days on the carth aml1 the beauties and the peacefulness of nature as she reveals then in tliese woods. In the city I should be a beggar in death. I should be conmelled to beg my hearse, my collin, my grave. I[ere I am rich. I own all. As one old man may claim from an other old man, I can claim of you the ser vices which friend pays to friend witen spirit has departed from body. I have eat en at your table to-day. I shall leave my body to night, will you bury it to-morrow ? I would like it ti have a suitable grave. Can you guide me to such a spot, old trap per? " The trapper imitated lils guest in rising. That he regarded his guest as perfectly sane; -that he had respect for his Judgment; that he accepted the conversation as utterly honest ; and, the stranger's views as final, was shown by the fact that he yielded in stant compliance with the stranger's re quest. "'There is a place just behind tile rock there that I've often concelted wouli make a cheerful spot for a grave; for the pines be big over il, and the water makes pleasant music on the white sand and leetle stuns underneath. We will go and see it." The next morning the trapper rose at the usual hour. Ile (id not go to tile bed oc cupied by his guest at once. lie went and stood In the doorway. le oven went to the spring and brought a pail of fresh water. Ile acted as if his guest were isleep, sleeping a needed sleep, and would fain not wake him; but. at le'ngth lie en tered the house and moved with a steady and measured step to the bedside of his guest.. 'lhe man was lying on his back, his hands by his side, and his face composed with that composure the complete tranqiil ity of which no earthly trouble can ever rutile. The trapper looked steadily at hiln for a moment, and then he hent towards lin so as to command a view of the far ther aide of the body. A knife lay on the blanket, and one kecn, delicately shaped blade open. Tihe trapper took - it. up and looked at it. Thit sharp point of it was colored with a stain. Ile stooped and looked at the wrist. It had been punctured just above tile pilse, for a slight wound was there, and blood stains were on the white skin. ThI trapper reached over and felt the blanket. In one little spot it wias mloist-that wasi all. h'lic trapper looke( listonislhe(l. Ile gazed on the face on the pillow, white with the sure whiteness that never deceives, lie looked at the knife blade, with its stained point ; then at the wrist with the slight in cision ; and then lie made a re-examination of the bedding, this time closely. On it, beyond a fev drops, there was no blood. The man had evidently prepared hihself for the act, had opened his knife, had iuncturing, all " '' but, by a, misjudgment, had missed tie ar tery and had made a slight incision in the flesh that lies one side of It. It is said that the imagination is able to kill; that under similar circumstances men have, from sheer imagination that they were bleeding to death, actually died. Was it so in this case ? Certainly not a dozen drops of blood had left his body, yet there was the white face, and the knife, and the wounded wrist. What killed himI? How did lie (lie? Was it a natural death ? Was it suicide ? How Nlti'o-Ulycerinae is idde. This wonderful explosive was discovered in 1847, by.an Italian named Soboro, but its practical application was made by Al fred, a Swedish engineer. Trhe process bly which it is made is thus described : Every one knows what glycer-Ine is-a clear, syr upy liquid, sweet, to the taste. and somewat grecasy to the tou~ch, Its scope of emloy meat ranges from the surgeon's dispensary to the lady's boudoir. Chemists term it tratomic alcohol, and it may be derived from fat or tallow by action of lime and sul phuric acidl. Its pro[perties are many and various, but as they have no bearir~g upon the present subject we shall abstain from notleing them. If a quantity of nitric acidi be added to. twice its weIght, of Aul phiuric acid, glycerine be pouired into thIs, and stirred carefully, the whole being sur rounded by freezing mixture, we obtain that wonderful substance known as nitro glycerine, which has more than ten times the, explosive ,force of gtunpwdbhr. It foripis on the surface as an oil of a pale-yei low color, is perfectly inodoi-ous,'and hiab ai sweet, aromatic taste. It is poisonous whether taken internally .or absorbed through the skin, and smnall doses of it pro duce distressing headaches. It does not explode whlen b~roughlt into contact with fire, and remains u nehanged oven when raised to a temperature of boiling wator-; biut at forty dlegrees Fahrenheit it becomes converted into an icy mass, which merely requires friction to (develop) all its exp~loslve qualities. -_________ ,T wo Freneh rincess.. Unfortunate as was the death o't young Louis Napoleon at the hands of savages, taken b~y surprise, enlisted in a cause of doubtful worthiness, and at . best not a cause of his country, or his own, his death was less unfortunate than that of his second cousin, the Duke of Reichistadt, who was born King of Rome and heIr to the French p throne, and died away at twenty-one, Lieutenant in the Austrian artillery. There seems to have been a remarkable parallelism in the fortunes of these two Priaoas. One I died at twenty-one; the other was killed at I twenty-three, Bonth had brilliant prospects at birth ; both were born after long and an r zious. expectation; both lost their imperial r fathers; both wore forced to quit their na a tive country; both aor educated in foreign i ?Yhilitary achools--ono in Auqatris, the other t in England; both were of delicate constitu tion; both were amiable, generous .pnd; I estimable, without inherting the paternal, - strezngth; both. pineJ for opportunities; - both cane to, an pintiimely end. - Thetwo * ouths wiere na gent.Qi and likpable..as theln Sa thers were selfish, -rpol and .treseberous, Vet .their fathers hiad uaga ent guecess up to a certain time, and, l ei hr power e by overweening ambition,. Thr ssom9 thing ver dramatic in the fact thtthe sole - son of apwI., thj, t in away 4 dera jme shop ld pv ri Zut a e a THE SILENT BATTLE. The war that 8pring and Winter wages Goes on in silonoe, day by day ; 8trong youth against decrepit age, New growth opposed to dark decay. The strife of hope against despair, . Life against death ; and, morn by morn A tender warmth is in the air, And richer hues and hopes are born. And lo, on every side appears The hurrying bost of spring's advance The crowding grass, with bristling spears,. The brook-side rushes' ready lance. The javelins of daring reeds, The Iris-sprout's keen bayonet-thrust, With rank and flle of stutdy weeds. 4 Rising exultant from thq dust. Eaoh day a fresher guidon flaunts, Marking the 'vantage ground by turns; The arrow-heads of watei-plants, The hard-olonched fiste of valiant ferns. The willow's ponnon's, bravo and fair, The wild fla.'s sharp and slender blade, With every force of earth and air, Join boldly in the glad crusade. 'Till winter's slon struggles cease, And cold and darknoss fall and flee, And all the hillc are fair with Peace, And green with Palms of Victory I 8he Wanted Two. There is no reason why the inventor of a remedy to "cure the worst case of catarrh inside of flive minutes," shouldn't feel it his duty to place a bottle of the same in every person's hand-price twenty-five cents; no cure no pay." Therefore, the long-legged chap, who pulled the doorbell on John R. strcet the other day, had none of that ti midity in its bearing which characterizes rag-buyers, lightning-rod men and sollei tors for the fire sufferers. le had a good thing and he know it. When the door opened, and a haid-featured woman about forty years of age, confronted him, he plea santly went to business and asked: "Madam, Is your husband ever troubled with the catarrh?" "Canl a man who has been dead seven years he troubled with the catarrh ?" she grimly replied. "But the children are liable to be at tacked any hour of this season," he re marked. "Whose children?" "Yours,m-m. "I never bad any, airl What brought you here, anyway? Why (1o you'oome asking these qluestiOns ?" "Madam, I have compounded a remedy for the catarrh. It is a good thing. I'll warrant It to knock any case of catarrh sky-high in less than five minutes." "Well sir, what is all this to me I" 'Why, madam-why-" he stammered. "lDo I look as If I needed any catarrh remedies?" she demanded, as she steppe: Lut on the pl)atform. "Madam, I would not for the world have you think that I thought you had the ca tarrh, but I suppose the fair ana. io-i,. strong." " " ~" -11 "'^'" ~ ^ - "And what have I got to do with all that rigmarole? Who are you, sir, and what do you want?" "Madam, he whispered, laking down one step; I hive a compoimd remedy for the catarrh." "Whose catarrh, sir? "Madam, I am selling my catarrh-" "Where is your catarrh-where Is it I she interrupted. lie got down on the second btep, and softly began: "Madam, I have a sure cure for the ca tarrh, and I ami selling lots of it." "Well, what do I caref Must you ring my doorbell, and tell me that you are sel ling lots of catarrh medicine " Le got down on the walk, clear of the step~s, andl he tried to look beautiful around the mouth as ho explained: "Madam, did~n't Isask 'you If your hus band was ever troubled with catarrh?" "Yes, sir, and didn't I reply that he was dead? Do you want to see his grave. ".No,,madanm, I do not. I'm sorry he's dead, but my catarrh remedy can't help - him any. Good, bye, madam." "Here, sir, hold on a minute!" she called; "what was your business with me ?" "Why, I have a remedy for the ea tarrh." "So you said before." "I askedi you if you didn't' want to pur chase and "You are a falsifier, sir-you never asked me to purchase!" "D~o-you-wat/~-a-e--bottle?" he slow ly asked. "Yes, sir ; .givo nm two of them; here's my. money I Next time you want to sell your catarrh remedy, don't bgnto talk about the discovery of America byClum bus. Hero you've botherdd me fiten mi nutes and put all miy work behind, and its good for you that' I didn't bring the broom to the door!", lie retreatened backward through the gate his loft eye squinted up andJ~te mouth open. He shut the gate, leanediver it and looked at the front door. By and by hie said:-- i "Darn 'em! You, g'eyogitqil where to .find 'em." .. , , ltem.elle. for pipgsr( It is diflicult to tell which are time best remedies for stingse There is so muokh difference In the effect- ipon dlfferedA Individuals anid upon different parts of the body, as well as in" thedeptha a sting reaches, that rdniedIas efedtual in one Instance wIll be, useles Akiphother. Ammonia, soday or saltand sne&mlzfed and slightly moistened, are probably as efilolent as anythinig. Camphor,. taken internally, seems tos possess a virtue when the -sting Is severe enough to cause biotches upon the alIi A well as when applied, exteriia~ When stung in the throat, dtjl ~ Atn of salt and wateor Is ss~d.,t0 giy seri. ous. censequences. Whetkensny o these remedies. are applied ok not It is har'dly necessary to say tb#tiesh~ should be remove4 as 6nL A1' ble. In dphlyt this It b ld * 't4the s sngit abouI4 'et sucha wAa not Wd' the polo 4sn .a oltn stp