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_too_ E ib. TRI-WEEKIL EDITION. WINNSB()HO, S. C., OCTOBER 23, 1879. SWEDISII NATIONAL 8ONG. BY OSCAR FIEDItIK KINe OF NOtWAY AND RWHDNN. Rateo the flag, dorld-honored bannor! Itaise her on tho highest topi Urovp your sword, each laurolod hero! (lolden momnory, glowing hope. Go with Sweden's banner IpI! See the oroms on her b uo boson; Glory's gold on honor cast, Sacred p e Igo in battlo's fury. Every hour he conquers surely, Who in God at no stands fast. Dragon tonguos so tireless ivaring, Like a viking's lance of llarno, Every danger foarless brarinig. Through tho soa'a blue hai, praitiin, Toli to all, your fadoless fuli. What a grand, illustrious story, Writes upon our Ilan-, our braves When to somo far countrios go they, And o'er war-flolfle won with glory, Still their deathloe valor waves. Hail theo! guardian of our glory! lail thoo! tears' anl triun ph's faiend! Bie thy past thy I uturo story; Still, through death and dngors gory, Thou our fathers' falth forfend. Wave on high, thou faithful banner! Guard our glory as of old! Where the blue waves rook forever, Wide unfurl thy blue and gold, Until Tno's last tido hath rolled! Translated frorms Ih SUedish by LVDIA N1. M uI.I.. RD Married for Money. "Dear me," said lettie Wynn, "I shall go crazy. Five children all clamoring at once, the kettle boiling over, the pickles upset, moths in my best shawl, and the dog running away with the soup bone for dinner." John Wynn burst out laughing,and that, in Mrs. Iettie's case, proved the one hair that broke the camel's back. She began to cry. le tried to soothe her. "I don't care," she sobb3d, 'I'm sick of it all. I'm tired of patching old olothes, haial.d ig cold meats, and hotirding pennies. I'm tired of-" "Your husband and your children," gravely interrupted Mr. Wynn. "Is that It, Hettle?" "I might have married rich," she said, slowly, twisting her baby's bib strings round and round her finger. "Yes, I might have been George Howard's wife, le Is a very wealthy man, they tell me." "It's a pity you didn't," said John, pro vokingly." "Yes it is a pity," said Hlettie, stung be yond endurance, as she flounced out of the room. Not but what she loved John, but this wearing, grinding succession of petty 'eares and toll was sapping all the life and elas I icity out of her. She looked disdainfully down at the faded calico dress she wore, patched and darned in more than oic place. "If I had married George lowand," she said to herself, "I could have worn silks and jewels every day, with servants to wait on me, and a carriage to drive out in when ever I pleased. Oh, dear! what a world of trouble this Is." And as Mrs. Wynn laid her little rosy checked infant down to sleep, she felt, as if her lot had indeed fallen in very thorny places. Just as she had taken her place once again over the kettle, there caie a knock at the door. "Come In," said Ilettie, and the house keeper from Hadley HaIl cane mincing across the threshold. - Hettle dusted off a chair in considerable of a hurry, for Mrs. Allison was a grand lady In her way, who wore black silks and laces, and had her bonnets directly from the city. "Won't yeou sit (down, Airs. Allison?" said she coloring to the roots of her pretty hair, and secretly hoping that Mrs. Allison did not observe the patch en her calico dlress.' "Thank you my dear-I am In a great hurry," paid Mrs. Allison. "I have some fine laces, miuslins, and Valenciennes hand kerchiefs lere, from my lady at the H all. The laundress hasn't come down yet, andl she ain't willing to trust the lady's maid wvith 'em, and they must be ready by' dark --and so 1 told her I knewv a per~son, whlo was a master hand at laces, fluting and such like, and I depend on you, my (lear, to (10 'em~ for mec." lHettle hesitated an instant. ''She'll pay yeou," said Mrs. Allison. "She ain't none of the stingy sort, my lady ain't." "Yes," said she, "PIl (d0 it. L~ay the bundle en the table, p lease. So the new family have arrived at the H~all at last?'' Mrs. Allison nodded assent. She had boon housekeeper for the IHid loys, of Hladley Hail, for twenty years, and was sorry enoughy when the old plhace wvent into new hands. But a situation was a sittuation, so she stayed on. "Yes,'' said she. "Mr. and Mrs. George Howard." Hettle gave such a start that the kettle had nearly tipped over Into the fire. "Hloward!" cried ebe, with a little hys terical laugh. "What a funny name." "Handsome, stylish people, with mere mfo ney, to all appearainces, than they know what to do with," went On Mrs. Allison. "I juist wish you o uid see her dresses and jewels. Step~haniie, the French maid, showed them to me when she was unpack ing 'em." Hlettle said. nothing, but stirred busily, while the old housekeeper talked on about the wealth and grandetir of the neg"pos sessors of Hladley Hall, And all tis mi ht have been herA } "When shall seqld after, the faces?" Mrs. Allison finially asked, when she rose to depart. "IPi: take, them home, myself, about ,dusk," said Haittle5 inwardhly resolving to get a glimpse Into this Paradise which had so near ly been her own. And so at twilight, with'. the daintily Ironed and fted hseds ~her.'hasket she walked up:7 How statiits I1. loipaded its grand ratoryi terrgeed Windows, Howa d Ago, " sh I"said .. tie, a. Ar~ like a womiiani crying? In the next roon, I think.'' Mrs. Allison's face clouded over. "It's Mrs. Iloward, poor dear," said she. "The master's a brute; he's been drinkinig too inuch-3Mademoiselle Stephanie says he alwayts drinks too much-and he struck her. Oh, dear! she's wretched, in spite of all hler- money." "'las she no children?" llettie softly asked. "She had two, but s'w lost 'em both. Mademoiselle Stephanie says she often cries, and wishesshie were dead, too. And I don't,wonder imluch, with such r husband. Iflush, here lie comes now." And, shrinking behind a group of Italian narble statuary, the two women watched George lloward stalk gloomily by, with red,-iillaned e)es, sullen face, and unsteady stepsj). llettie Wynn then returned honle,thillik ing God in her heart that sile Wias a poor MIa's wife. 'llave you );eard of the accident?" asked old Peter,'who was standing out at his gate as sile hurried by in tile deepening dusk. "No; what. accident? What has hap penled?" "Trhat house as your husband was work in' on has aill fell in. All a heap of ruins. Sometbing ivrong about the foundation, they say, and--" "Oil, my God!" wildly interrupted Het tic, clasping her- hands. ,"Was hie hurt miy hutsbanld?" "Well," said old Peters, "there was two men killed, anud one(. had his armi brok~e; She waite to hear no more. Swiftly she sped homeward, i horrible dread winging her footsteps with alimost incredible stped. Oh, if John was killed--if her children should be fatherless-if "Johni JohnIll she wailed, as she threw open the door, and rushed, breathless, into the kitchen. "Weil, little woman, what is it?" And-oh,thanks to aill merciful Heaven -John Wynn himself turned his bright living face towards her from tie hearthside where he wias sitting, with a child on either knee. "1 1low what is in your diumb, question ing eyes, Hettie. I am not hurt, thank God. I had Just gone for another lot of nails,when the building fell. No, no, you'll not get rld of ie quite so easy." Ilettie threw herself, sobbing, into her hilusband's arms. "Ah,- John, John, love me. Hold me close to your heart. I've been repining and selfish. I've never been half good enough to you; but, please bIod, I'll be a better woman, aid a more faithful wife from this night henceforward." And then she told him tile history of her (lily's adventures. "It's natural enough, little wife," said John. kindly stroking her hair. "But for all that, I'm glad you've realized that 111011ey isn't always happiness." And a more contented couple than John Wyn , it and his wife Hettie, never sat by a cheery fireside 'upon that bleak November eveilinir. hlethle had profited by her lesson. Autumn Caro of Plants. It is high thne that house plants that have been kept out of doors during tile summner be protected from tile chill evening air. All tender plants, as begonias, the tender cactuses, mesembryanthemmns, pep cronills, calla, epiphilluill, andf all thoso classes of plants, Should not become chilled at night. Geraniums, ageratums, lantanas, fusehias, and all that class vill not injure short of actual frost, but care should be taken that no plant intended for tile house should be expospd to strong winds. When tile wveathler is blustering, It Is better that they be removed indoors, putting thlem out againl upon the reurrenlce of fine weather. Avoid above all, to allow thuem to be dr~enced~ by cold, chilling rains. Wh~at ever tile temperature of thle 100om (luring thle day', it should1( not fall belowv forty-tw~o (degrees at night, nor should the nighlt tonm perature really go muiich belowv sixty de grees. 01ne or tile vcry wvorst things for plants Is to allow a direct draft of cold air to strike them3n from tile outsido. Change the air of the room by allowing it to eniter throughl ainother apartment. Do not water excep~t whlen the liants 1need( it. This miay' 8s011 1)e estimated pretty correctly by the size of tile pots, and tile nature of the p~lanlts. Poroas leaved lanlt require more wvater than firm leaved ones5. All the cacti tribe require but. little wvater in wilnter. Th~e snmaller tile p~ot, tile oftener It will re quire water. It is better thlat tile plamits sometimes shiow signs of dlroopilng than to keep thuem drenched. If the( soil Is kept full of water, the plants are suire to sicken, for tis, Is one of tile reasons, that water should never be kept in saucers under the pots, except in mnuto quantity, and not so dleep as to reach tile earth in tile pots. The soil will absorb too mfuchl by capilliary attraction, and tile vcry act of tpis absorp tionl andl evaporation ill keep the Boil cold, and it will become ulltimately sour. One of tile greatest disabilities to hoeuse planlts is tile dust from the building of fires, tile constant passing to and fro, and espe cially from sweepinmr. If you have a bay window, the plants may easily be p~rotected from dust at 811ch times by means of cur tains, to be drawn. If- not, a curtain or clothl should be usedI for covering. Tis with an accaslonal sponging wvithi tep~id water as to tile firm and smoothl-leaved planlts, and the rinsing of soft and downy ones, with an occasional showering with a fine rose pot or plant syringe, should1( keel) thenm in good condition. A P'roblem for Stathemnattetans. "Want a problem 1" said a well-known civil engineer to a reporter. 'fWhat kind of 'a problemf" queried tile reporter, suspecting that some political conudrum was about to be propounded. "A mathematical pr'oblem; one that was given to me a little while ago-a good one." "Well, take out your paper," and, as the civil engineer dictated, the reporter wrote down .the following problem, which we subtnit to the study of our ahathematically inclined readlers: - "Suppose an atm~v wiA -five miles long in lie of 'match A corer starts from the i'ear..inthe 'hi ing and goes to 'the front. Returnin 1e artives at the point w~~ethe he the column wrs whien ~W~dfro rear, just as the rear h.ibrian Exgle. Mr. Lenke had been to Tobolsk ; after which he had to inake a long, dreary jour nail in a wretched car, until a high uun tain rose before him. In its torn and craggy lank the mountain showedi a comos sal opening similar to ithle mouth of at blrniit out crater. Fetid vapors that, alnost took away hisi breath, ascended from it. Pressing his. 1i handkerchief upon his lips, Al r. Leike entered Ihe openiing of I te rock, where lie found a large watcliliouse, with a1 picket of Cossacks. Hlaving shown his papers, hle was Conducted by a1 guide through a long, very lurk and unarrow cor ridor, which, judging frmii its sloping descenit, led down 1n1to Some un11knownl depth, Inl spite of his good ir, the visitor felt. extremely cold. After at walk of 801e ten imiinites through the dense obseirity, the groind Iecomiig m ore ar 3303: more so1it, at vague shinmmer of light heeaime observable. "We ire inl the ille! " said the guide, pointing with a sigiiticant gesture to tile high iron cross-lars whieh closed the ecv ern before them. ''hie massive bars were covered with i a thick rust. A watchman appeared, who unlocked the heavy iron gate. Eitering at room of considerable extent, It which was scarcely a mman's leighth, an(1 wh'ich was dimly lit byt an oil-lamp, the visitor asked : "Where ire we?'. "In the sleep ing room of the condemned I Formerly it wats a productive gallery of the i-mine; now it serves S I sheltei," The visitor shuddered. This sibterra nean sepulchre, lit by neither sun nor moon, wis called a sleeping room. Alcove-like cells were hewn inito the rock; here, on a1 couch of damp, half-rotten straw, covered with a sackeioth, tle ui fort unlate suf'erers were to repose from the day's work. Over each cell at cramp-iron wts t. (, where with to lock--up the priseners like ferocious dogs. No door, no winidow anywhere. Conducted through another passage, where a few lanterns were placed, and whose end wats also barred by an3 iron gate, Mr. Lenike eanmi to a1 large Vault partly lit. This was the mine. A deatening noise of pickaxes and hammers. There lie Saw s011e hun1idredls of wretched Jitures, with shaggy beards, sickly faces, reddlened eyelids; clad in tatters, some of them bare foot, others in sandals, fettered with heavy foot-chains. No song, no whistling. Now and then they shyly lookedi at the visitor and his companion. h'le water dripped from the stones; the tatters of the convicts were thoroughly wet. One of them, a tall man of sufferiig mien, labored hard with gasping breath, but the strokes of his pick axe were not heavy and lirnp enough to loosen the rock. "Why are you her?" MIr. Leamike asked. The convict looked confused, with at, air almost of consternation, and silently continued his work. '"It Is forbidden to the prisoners," said the inspector, "to speak of the cause of their banishment?" Entombed alive; forbidden to say why ! "But who is the convict ?" Mr. Leanike asked the gulide, with low voice. "It Is Number 1141" the guide replied, laconically. "This I see," answered the visitor; "but what ire the man's antecedents? To what family does he belong?" "le is a count, 11 replied the guide; "a well known conspirator. More, 1 regret to say, I cannot tell you about Number 1141" The visitor felt as if lie were stified in the gravelike atmosphere-as if his chest were pressed In by a demoniacal nightmare. He hastily asked his guide to return with him to the upper world. Meeting there the commander of the military establish ment, lie was oblingly asked by that officer "Well, what impression did our penal establishment make up1on y'ou ?"' Mr. Lemke stifily bowilng inl silence, the officer seemedt to take this as a kind of sat isfledl assent and wvent on "V'u cry inidustriouis p~eople, the mn below ; are they not ?" "But with what feelings, " Mr Lemke answered, "nmust these unfortunates look forward to a dlay of rest, aifter the wecek's toillI" ''Rest I" saitd the offleer; "convicts must always labor, There Is no rest for them. They are condemned to perpmetual forcetd labor; and( lie who once eniters the mine never leaves It I" "' But this is baIrbarous I" TIhme officer shrugged his shoulders, andi said(, "The exiled work tdaily for twelve hours; on Suntlays too. Theiy must never pause. But, no; I am1 mistaiken. Twice a year, thioumgh, i'cat Is p~ermiitted to them at Easter time and on the birthdauy of his Mlajesty the Emiperor. Colors of OH orse In the English thoroughbred horses black and gray are the two most uncomont colors ; in thIs resp~ect, as regards black, the EnglIsh thoroughibroed resembles his Oriental ancestor. TJhie cavalry officer who purchased 100 Syrian Arabs for our armiy during thme Crhnean wvar says: In1 my registoirl found onily one black, a color so raro that If I had trusted to my memory I should have said that I never saw a black horse in the desert." And Mr. Palgrave, In hIs account of tho WVahabee Arabs, says that black and whIte aro the least common. One of the A rab stallions presenitedl to WVII 11am IV. by the Imam of Muscat-at his death purchased by the King of Wurtem borg-was black, and until lately Major AdrIan I101p0 rode a black Arab stallion with one of the city rifle regiimnts in whIch lhe holds a commission. 'rho only black thoroughbred sire of any reputation for many years past was Saunterer,' who died just before the dIspersIon of the Elthiam stud. Saunterer got chestnuts, bays and browns, but rarely a black. In the half bred horses blacks are decidedly rare, for the best reasons, they are difficult to sell; many purchasers ini giving orderd for a horse to a dealer will say any good color except a black or gray. In cart horses black is a c'ommon color, but not as com mon as it was forty years ago, when thme old black mare Lincolnshiro cart horse, as improved by Bakowell, had a reputation, which has since fallen on the shoulders of the Shire horse, who is generally bay, often brown and gray, and not so frequiently black. -In thme popular Clydesdale breed brown Is dommop and preferred to black. In breeding superior carriagei horses or any riding horSe, a goo~d bay, with black legs, Ia the bost selling color.' Graje are out of fashion and diffliltU sell;. Br'own, with tan muzzle, is the most fashionable harness color. Dark 'ch Q1t Ji a e04 color in every wospect, but many p~tia~g bject to i light chestnut ; yellow bays with mealy ;legs ire still worse to sell. It is a curious fact that thoroughbred sires, unlike pedigree bulls, can rarely be C depended onl to produce their own. colors in their stock. A chestnut will get bays andl([ browns, is well as his own colors. Stock well, Blair Athol and Prince Charlie (sire, soil an11d grandson) were and'are all chest Inlits of Varying shades; blt although they have increased theit number of chestnut rate-lhories, both Blair Athol and Prince (itatilie have been the sires of bay foals. I oas are more esteemed lit trotting sires, but can least of all be depended on for re- I producing their own colors, which are, in fact, ' mixture of several colors. The only roats onl tile turf of any repute were till of the Physalis blood, amd it the Iands ( of the late Lord Glasgow. They varied c from a red or strawberry roan (the best of ' all that clss of colors) to a deep blue roan, the last a bad color to sell in half breeds, and requiring, to pass nmuster, extraordinary action. The disfavor in which the color is now held was shown on the dispersion of Lord (hisgow's stutd, whent a purchaser C could not be found for one of five roan stil lions, even at fifty guineas. A hunter of any color'with a character will find pur chasers, but hacks of tiny starling color 1 ihang ont liand. On the Continent, on the c contrary, where riding horses are chielly I retlired as chargers or for parade piurposes, gray is the favorite color. You may see more gray horses of all kinds in Paris than in till EIngland. The cart horses atre nearly all a gray-white. 'Tie Percheronts were originally bay, bit as the post.masters pre ferred gray, they became gray. If, by any Iluke, a gray horse werc to win the Derby 6 or St. Leger we should se a number of gray racehorses, and conlsefquienitly of ialf bred horses. One member only of ite four horse coaching club drives grays, but if ( royalty or tn emi netit leader of fashion were to take to the grays it would at ouco Conic U into popular use, lnsuitedi as it is for our climate and muddy roads. Some assert that the intelligence and temper of horses tre alfected by their color, but as the samite sires get horses of different colorsthis seems doubtful. rte maxim is sound that all 8 good, .tat is, clear, deflned, well shaded colors are good on t good horse except pie bald. [tngenious Sthop-.Liftttug. An elegantly dressed femile lately en- V tered at Paris jeweler's shop, and asked to I see some valuable gold pins. While she C was exiiiling them, a nt began playing I it barrel organ, before tie door. 'rite music r seemed to innoy the lady, and, step Ing to t the front door, she threw t piece of noney to the man, and told him to go away, which lie did at once. On returning to the counter site said that none of the pins 3 suiited her, but that, as some compensation I for the trouble she had given she would I buy a brooch. Ste accordingly chose one, paid tetn francs for it, and was leaving the shop, when tle jeweler missed a diamond pin of great value from among those lte had been looking at. He accordillgly stopped his customer, Who seemed highly indignant., antd insisted on the jeweler's wife searching her, which was done, but no pin was found. Tihe jeweler therefore al lowed her to leave, but sent his sister to watch her. 'ite woman was soot see to I enter another jeweler's shop atnd was pre tending to make t purchase as before, when 1 the organ grinder again made his appear ance. As soon as lte began playing, site P again threw him some money and ordered I hiit to move ont ; but the person who was watcltinig her perceived that with the money she had given the man a piece of jewelry. This was at once tmade known to some ser gent de ville, who arrested them both and I found on t lie man several articles of jewelry I which had been obtained in t similar man- I I ~. - t One o thewonth-rs of Iowa is the I '"Walled Lake,"* about oneo htundred and -(t fifty miles west of Dunbunque city. The I lake Is ftomt two to three feet highter thantC thte earth's sutrftace. Int some places thte' wall is ten feet high, fifteen feet wide atC the bottom, and1( flye feet on the top. An- I othter fact is the size of the stones used in jI constiuctLion, the whole of them varying in dredl pounds. T1htre is an abundance of I stones itn Wright counity, but surroundinig thte lake to thte extenit of five or ten miles there aire ttone. No one cani fotrm atn idea i its to the meatns etmployed to bring t(,hem toC thte spot, or who constructed it. Around thei eitire laike is a belt of woodland half a mile m etgtht, composedl of oak ; with tIsex C ception, thte coutntry is a roilitng prairie. t The trees mtust hatve beeni planted there atC the time of thte butilding of the wvall in f! the spring of thte year 1856 there was a 11 great storm, and~ thte Ice on thte lake broke thte wall in several places, and thte farmers r In the vicinity were obliged to repair the C damages to prevenit iniund~ation,. The lake occup~ies a ground surface of two thousand eight hutndred acres; dleptht of water as I great as twventy-five feet. rThe water is ' clear and cold ; so)11 sanidy iind loamy. It Is sitngular that no one htas been able to as- t certadin whtere the water comes from nor C where It goes, yet It Is alwvays clear and C fresh. C iKtep thte Mouth Shut. t D)r. Louis Elsberg int a lecture on the I throat, delivered recently, said that the i workings of the vocal cords and of all the 11 musacles of the larynx usecd in speech and r song coutld be seen as dhistmetly as the c strings of the violin anid the fingers of the performter. It was curious to study the 1 mechanmsm of thte epglottls-a switch at d the junction of the windpipe and the gul- c let, whtich, being under thme control ofa nerves which act wtth lightning rapidity, I1 leaves thme track open for the air to get to Il the lungs, or upon the notice of a hun- Il dredth part of a secmond~ fles back atnd c leaves a passage for the smallest quantity 1 of food or drink to pass into thme gullet and Ia so on to the stomacht. Hie exhibIted a c curious picture of a pair of diseased vocal cords which were so affected that they 1: made the owner speak or sing in two tones I1 at the same time. Thme lecturer strongly ai impressed upon his audience the importance t of keeping the mouth sbut, except when 1: they had something of va14e to say ore something good to cat. Oneo man sie said, I had rnot long ago published a whole volume ,i on thmis subject, inswhich he took tpe grui e that if hutimah beings would follow .bk c amnple of the lower animals ad ke e~if i n*otah luthey would tW6 red fga J ~ret~ty~ f tho ills to Wh als 'I A Mdona HiMnt InI Wyoniig. leClellan and I Went 1ll) streatlt some four r five miles to i very wild pace, the hanlglt I at noted Ilountaiin hion, which the Ment ad beenl tryiig t0 kill for some ttne past, ut us yet aili attempts have failed; partly ecau5se le is so hard to g!et lit and partly ecalise me 12Cre 111raid ol' him. At last ne clay we Came across hi 111111ilares, bout a half a mile froi his stronglhIold. I aS in a littl Icbottomn where the grass was carly waist high. klac and I were push ig along a narrow pati when I l'appenled ) see the lion jumlp2) over a log just ahead. Ve both broke for Iigher ground t once, ut kept. at s 1harp lookout ; for in ca1se. he bould follow, we wouldi have had to fire n1hit1 n ( and might have caused a1 fight ait lose (uallrters, and thlt we <tidn't wat, if .- cCould get. out of it. If(- didn't come, nd we made the high ground. We then ried to stone him out and succeeded in ettilng two or three shots a1t lim before le 'oubli leave the bottom, but Mile's hi2st shot truck him an c thenI he left for the ground liat was fairer; but before lie dit leave it )okecd as if he was goilig to give us at call. 111 got his knife out and I was tready to ive him another shot, before lie could close uid lly kiifte wAs ey to get. ait; but lie hanged his1 mind and broke from the grass little ahieald of us, and judgilg from the ray 1be mande tracks, it didn't look as if he '1s very nich hurt. We both followed lil as hard a1s we could and opened fire on2 limt whenever We could. lie went right long the creek botton, first, in thie(, brush id th1enl (iln the open ridge. lie. So)on got ack to his haunt, and it was rather dan - crou24, ats w6dl a1s being 2ahu11ost hopeless, to 'Ilow him. But. Mlac is at plucky fellow, nid said he would follow him if I would; nid 1s 1 21am1 just crazy to kill 1 lion, we ment inl after him. We could not see him, r see anything for that matter. It is one f the llost wild and rough phices I ever 11W, an1d thick with brush. WQ here and here ran across drops of blood, but could llow him better by the everlasting grum ling and growling which lie kept up. I le vas now climbing the mountain, an21d it Was ome1 time before we got up1) out of the hick brush and timber, but lifter awhile we ound ourslves on the open, but rough side f at rocky, or rather i Big lorn Mountain, nd to our surprise there stood Mr. Lion on ledge about five humndred yards above, nd to the left. of us, wagging his tail and *rumbling. Five hiiiulred yards is i right, 1g distance. We both took aim; I ounted one, two, three, and fired We aissedl him; but you could see chips of the ock fly from the ledge close by him. At his lie moved along thle cliff and motintain oward 1s; and I cannot saty how M1ax felt ist about then, but I felt a little scared. Ye Waited till he got within three hundred 'a1rds, and then both fired as before. We it him this time, and down the m.- 1ountain e caimle, bringing 2a mass of loose rock and airth with 1111. It was well forI us thilt we vere not right under him, for the rocks that oil down these mountains are not eisy hings to dodge, for one never knows which vay the devilish things are going except,of ourse, down the hill. Well down they vent to the left of us, lion, ston2es, and ifl. thought we had him, and after the rocks 2nd got through their cracking, and bang ng, and spluasling into the creek below we noved over and followed down. There vas lots of blood all the wiy down, but to ive u1s we could not find Mr. Lion; neither ould we hcar hi, and not feeling 111to ;etlicr comfortable in that neighborhood, I Oroposed that we should "git,'' and we 'got.'" A Great INtcovery' There is now living near (ntasanqua, eIII., in a hentty old age, the man who liscovered how tc) use anthracite coal in the nianufacture of iroi. Illis name Is David LPhomuas, and1( the story of his discovery he 1111 niarraltes: ''One~ winlter night, in the ld country, I sat with Mr. Crane, a brother llperintendent of 21 1b1ast furnace, over a ~rate fire of hard COali. We hald talked0( of lie recent invention of the hot blast, just >ten~ltedl by Mr. Neilsonl, a Meotchn.:m, and0. aur coniversaltion had carrIed us5 prett~y far ltong inito the evenling. Th'le fIre had1( burn'2 *d low, and we were about to separate, vhen I Picked uip the bellows and2( begani to 4low It. 'You wvill pult out the fire,' 8said ii r. Crane. As he spoke It fla~shed over mie hat, if my bellows gave a hot blaist it would Irin~g the graltef ul of coal1 to a bright glowv, ,nd wvith the thought there came like an 2)spira1tion1 upon me) that the hot-blast wals 11l that. wats needed to ultilizte the rich beds if imthiracite uinder' our feet for making roni. 1 dlroppled tile bellows and2( gave ut erance to my thoughts. Mr. Craude emll d, then grew a~ttentive3, and1( 21s I went 0on hiinking out my theory as I spoke lhe be ame)1 interested. Whlen I conc)luided we rasp~ed hland(s over thle (1ead( coals of ou~r nthracite fire and1( scparatedl. Little sleep ve got, that night. T1o melo it was one of estless anxiety. When I read1 an1 accouint. >f the night before the execution of a coni temniled man1f 1 always thin2k of my night vkhl my newI Idea. Thie niext clay I posted p to Scotlaind, and1 on my return I brought vithl me the plants of a hot-blast furnace, vhI~i we at 01)ce proceeded1 to buIld for he purpose of m)akin~g iron with anthracite enl. It was a great sticCess, amid attiacted ap1ital to the dlevelopmenit of thet anthira ito coal beds of WVales and1( the attention of he scientIfic wvorldl. Before that for our urnaces we had brought coke from the dis5 snt bituiminous coal fields, thereby iiicreas ung the cost of outr p~rodulct over establish ret.ts more favorably situated. 'rho very Ills undlerineathi otur feet. werr0 filled with ichi deposits of Iathracite, and the dis overy of imeans to utilize It was like a mine f gold to the country arounad. Our experi lent was a stuccess. Of coulrse the scienitiflc liscussion carried on in the papers in thait ountry provoked attention in America, nd the few scientIfic journals publIshed ere took up the matter, antd thereby the ron-workers of this regIon camne to know of a great value. Theiy were then using harcoal and coke. At 01nce they set to Vork on my plan. It resulted in great >sses to the capital invested and many ases of financial failure and bankruptcy. "The Lehigh Coal and NavIgation Corn any watched these experiments with ardent ope of success, for they saw what a groat dvantage to them must result in carryin, o perfection in this country what we ha oerfected in WVales. They waited and hop d in vain and finally conchdedto send for (f!. Crane or .me, Their repieesentatI% leited me, in the person rf ErkneIHagared f Philadelphia. I had often thought "4 oming- to Ameorlea, and7 wife-was trongl in favor of it, so iM edelved MA' I. . (at'4 opositions wt fjvr. 'Terms ut m ore to be ~Id t4)t.i did lot wish to, stay after five years I was to be sent back with lmy family at their ex pense. I arrived here early In the fall of 18611, and Catlsauqu' bei ig selected as the phice to build the lirst furnace, I at once set to work. The populatio), which at that tiie was only that of a lamllet, was coi posed entirely of (lermans, and iy greatest dillicully wis to get. ski'led labor. I pick ed () anll old countryinai here and there, and on t lie Fourth of.) uly, 1840, 1 started the first bhlst, and that (lily made the first iron. There is the furt alnce, sir, juost below iiy house. It was in bbst ever since until within i few <hiys. The success was So complete, as shown by I he work turned out dur'ing the following six or eight months, that another wis start ed, which I iult ill 1812. I built the third in 1816 and fourth aid fifth in 1849. For nearly forty years we have avon aged .10,)000 tons of iron a year from those furnaces, or 1,600,000 tons in the aggregate. Then furnaces sprang pl) all over tile aithracite region. The way to utilize the hard coal ill the mannfactire of iron was ithe only thing needed to coimlete 11y develop tile great mineral wealth of tie cointry, and this fact being recoglized there wits no lack of money to take the prelimiinary steps." In t1h (inraenl of the Tuileries and (11111n1, TIe palace of the Tuileries is a rum, a molnment of the comiunist's rage ;ut it is cleared up and kept, so neally we can% fori a good idea Of What it oInce was. Oin it is pain1ed iln large black letters, as on every public building we have seen to-day, whether ecclesiastical or civil, the words, "Lib'ric, EAlditc, Frafernilc," We will stop for at few moments directly ili fronlt of the middle of the palace and look westward oi one of the flinest sights ill tile world. From where we stand nll avenue stretches in a straight line to the triumphal lilchl, ia distance of about a mile and a half. At. first it passes through beautiful flower gardens adorned with statuary and enliven ed0 1)3 fountains, then through tihe miore open part of the same, wheaces comes to s thle music of a miilitarv hand. then it crosses the Place de lia Concorde and keeps straight on through tihe gay Chaips Elysees, on u1) the hill where it is fined on each side with the palaces of the nobility. The de c(linig sun shines through the distlant t ri umplial arch down the long vista, sparkling oil many fountain and lighting l aln.ost to cheerfulness the gray desolation of the Tuileries. In the flower gardens tourists are strolling, Frenchmen ire taking their evening Constitutional, and ladies and ehil dren are sitting on the benches laughing and chatting. We go on to the music bet ter, Near where the band is playing we find thousands of chairs, two of which we appropriate, placing them wherever we choose. A few moments after tIking our seats a whiite-cap)ed damsel wiili a small wallel, will cooie to u1s and hand u1s a slip of paper which tells us we can occupy a chair anywhere in the garden until a certain hour, and for this we pay her two sous each. As we hand her money she will be sure to thank uts gracefully. For ai hour we sit andl(] listen to rapturous music. VIIh its list notes the large crowd will quickly and quietly disperse, and we will walk on, crossing the Place de l1 Concorde, where we must linger a few moments, for surely it is the finest square in the world. Oil our right, we look through the ilne Royale to the classic Madeline; ol our left, across the river to the glided dome of the Inva lides. Tc great fountains are playing, the Egyptian obelisk points heavenward, and lie whole squarcoverflows with brilliancy. Enteriug the Champs Elysees, we fInd the world at play, or pleasuring. We hire chairs and sit under tile great trees to watch the driving on the avenuic, or the more varied scenes of the promendI. ilIdren are frolicking, young people are llhrting, elders gossipping, readilng, or smlokin1g. Gingerbread stalls, Ilmonade vendters and( merry-go-rouinds are dloing a thlriving busi neSS. Ca~fes-chantat hnts are brilliantly light edl and1 entice thle multitudce. We aire fascinated by the gay scene and1( wander onl quite forgetting how far we are fromi Hotel .. The plalace Elysees, where Presi denit MacMal~hn lived, stands On one0 side of the park, but it, is eniclosed by such a high wall we can sciarcely get a glinpse of it. We know we should not he allowved to visit the pallace, but we wish we might eater the groundics andc get a good 1look at tile buildig. We commuinicate our wish to tile senltinell pa1cmgl upl and( dlown before the enitranhce and( lhe bids us5 rinig then bell at the, gate. We do tis, and~ thle conicicryc immedc~iately opens a lhttle wicket andc dlemanlds whait we want. When wo tell her, her coiuntenance is conivulsedl with hiorrolr, she says, ".Non / non / non /" and1( shuts the wicket. Wo sit (dowa upon01 a bench and laugh heartily, at fIrst., at our Yanikee temnerlty. T1hen we remnember whlat country we are In, and that our action may be dleeed revoluition ary, and we begin to hlave vIsIons of a policenman anid ai squadf of solditers seizin~g us5 and~ carrying uis to dungeons, we know not wvhither. Angcora Goaits a Falure. The animals have a healthy look, tile fleece is beautiful and very prep~ossessing in appearance, the best qjualities of wool corn mand~ a good price, the pelts make beauti futl robes and rugs; the meat of the kids is a delicacy, the tamled skins are good ma teriatl for gloves; but the breeding of the Angora goat for its fleece is a failure in California, where It lia now been tried for 20 years, as in Kentucky and Georgi a for 80 years, and ini France for a half a century. In five years after the first Merino sheep had been brought to California for wool growing purposes the first importer had made a fortune, and wool had become a promninent article of exportation. In 20 years the Angora goat~ wool has not been able to obtain a mention in the ordilnary annual summnaries of exports. The men who hlave goats for sale at high prices tell about shipments of Angora woof, but the records of. the commercial newspapers know nothling of them, and the large ship pers of wool and the annual wool circulars take no account of them. So far as we are able to learn no hei-d of goats in this State ylelds enough wvooI to pay the Interest on their cost and the expensp of keoping them, abd ever person promnnt as thQ d'iner of thorn ocks. for his nmahli profit *o~t tp' his 4'ool clip but to ths parchase, of h1~ heiukt by ignorant and deccIed 66tt '1hio production 9t Angora tomay u~mty be a succoesk ahio ta;hitiert t M beeu n s.dmltofilran rof -e O hIl N1E WS IN BRIEF. -The late William S. O'Brian of Cal Iforitia, lt an estate of $90,000,000. Elach of hils nieces., nephews and sisters will receive $300,000; his brother gets $275,000. -A New York Ilrimi has received anl order from the Japaneso G6vernment for eleven planos. This, it is said, vill be the first shipment of planos for sale ever iadQ to Japan. -The average yield of wheat per acre i8 five and a half bushels i Rudsia, twelvo- in the United States, twelve and a half in A ustria, sixtCeen and one-third in France, twenty-nine and a half in Great Britali. -Isaac M. Singer ordered of the Nonotuek Silk Company the first ma chine-twist ever made, and now the production of the popular "Corticelli,'' if in a continuous thread, would girdle the globe every three days. -The Methodist churches in the Bos ton district or the New 1,ngland Con ierence carry an aggregate- indebted ness of $4.0,000, calling for $24,009 of interest annually. No ligh t tax on the Christian energy and resources of the church. -Zhe French Minister of the Inter lor is reported to have stated that, in Consequence of the damage dlone to the crops by rain, foreign corn to the amount of 500 or 000 milli ma of francs ($1010,000,000 to $120,000,000) 'w ill have to be imported during the year. -The most remarkable returns ever issueod by the l3ank of France Is its lat est. On the 24th of April the note is site of the ban k was 2,187,000,000 francs, and the cash in hand was 2,149,000,000. There was, therefore, a reserve of more than 98% per cent upon the note liabil ities. -In 1872 the total area covered by entries under the homestead law amounted to 4,0^0,000 acres In 1873 the entries fell off to 3,793.(00 acres; in 2875 to 2,350,000 acres, asnd in 1877 to 2,178,000 acres. In the year ended Do cember 31, 1878, the entries were about 6,000,000 acres. -Tihe Pullman sleeping car company hits an equipment of 60,000 sheets, 461,000 pillow-slips, 10,000 hand and 0,000 roller towels, and 13,000 blankets. Their bill for washing amounts to near ly $10,000 a nionth, although done at the possible rates-1% eents each for sheets, and less for other articles. -Mrs. Thomas of Phila'lelphia, a lady more than 80 years old, has built a neat stotie church in Kane, Pa., at a cost of $20,000, and presented it to the ['resbyterian congregation there. The old lao' each year, spends a part of her large Income in building a church somewhere in the country. -Princess Luilen Murat died re centaty Il Paris. She was the daughter of a Scotch oflicer of the Clan Fraser, settled in this country, and married the second son of Napoleon's famous oill cer in 1831. They went to. Franco in 18.18, and Rince the fall of the Emaire have lived in rotironet. -Tie total value of the imports and exports to and from Auckland, New Zealanil, for the quarter ending Sep Winber 30th last, were ; Imports. ?59 . 9319, 17s., Od. : exports, ?143,612, 8s., 3J. Of the iml ports, X12,327 are fi'om Amer lea, and X26,053 to tihe same place In exports. -An autograph of Lord Bacon sold in Loilon, recently, for $37.50; one of Burns fetched $27; one of Charles I. $15; one of Croawell, $20; one-of Keats, $25; one of Pope, $10; one of Robes pierre, $11.50; one of Turner, $10; and a letter from Ibord Nelson to Lady Ham liton, $11.25. --in New South Wales last year the sumi of $1,708,485 was expended on pi mary editcation. T1eacher's salaries absorbed $709,8201. There were in oiper ation 1,187 schools, attended in the ag giegte by 128,125 pupils. Since 1877 there has beenm a n increase of seventy schools. Tenu years ago there were on ly 042 schools. -armners. in Bureau county, 111., have beeni swindled out of more thant $5000 by agents for lightning-rods, barbed wire fer~ces, farm machi nery, &c. The agents got their orders, iw hich wvere filled out, all bitt the signature, with a peonell. The signature being obtained in writing, the peneiling was easIly erased, anid tihe paper turned In to a nmote. -Prince Victor, son of the head of the Bonapartes, is described as "17 years of age, tall, handsome and straight as a dart, with (lark hair and large dark eyes, full lips anud the Napoleonioe nose, is features are regular and his hair trained over his forehead and cropp1edI, but somewhat too short to be quite in the prevailing boyish style. lie is very highi spiited and rash to a pjoit that gives hIs friends hiuch anx -The Misson Thornton, daughters of Sir Edward TIhorinton, English Minis ter to thIs country, have not heretofor~ taken a~rt in Wasnington gaieties b~j cause 'nglish etiquette .requires ht yountg ladies shall be presented ?o' t~e Queen before they enter general so010'. Dauring their recent visit in Engad two of them went 'through the cere mony, and they are, therefore, now at liberty to accept social attentions in this country. ~ nwii. -.Th'le St. Gothard tne owt In a thousand yards of &otnpletion. Much of the traffic that uses the Mount Cenis tunnel will prefer this shorter and more direct route. A tiiird tunnel, the Simplon one, will soon be uhde way, and, whi.n completed, will~ d. the straight line of railway 'ezW g from P'arl to Brindisi, by' Wvay 0 sanne, the Simplon and' Mila, doing away with the immense a scribed by the Mount Cenis rou i Simplon tunnel will ibe about I 'miles long, and wvill costabout $18 -A return to an addr'ess of th* Ish Hiouse of Commions lmas oui~ profession of the iubabita as follaws f :50b0'ad w *tq 2188;Q p pg190A64 1302409