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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
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