The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 27, 1880, Image 1
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UfianttI. nU
There's not that differeneo in the scale bi
Of human life. that some protesd ;
The cpk may flaunt a rainbow tail,
And be a ookerel'to theond. g
Up from the earth alike we cojo
To Mother Earth alike we ten'i ;
One path yVr tread ; one eomy4ou hono,
Inyites us at the journey's end. 01
'High born" or low ; 'tis all the samo ;
Who follows biat Go 's righteous Pla
For honest living best thay claim,
The title of a nobleman. k
Ere while from yogdcr orawling wqrwn, h
An airy form of beauty spr.ngs I
So uWany,an humble human form, II
But half concoals the angel wings.
Lot's have a care, then, how we tread, q
" 'dvoil sgnWjuu e"grie{;d, k' w
'lhat "y a difent t ri 1e
W$..se life we cannot comprehond. cl
And it. perchance, some brother stray, u]
From wisdom',s straight and narrow track ; t
The lest a Levito.tur 1ayy,
BoT re to the wind '.bac)<
be tC a other atr - . ; ."
e.0rr m -idly
Yet, though the deed itself be wrong,
'r'weio well to judge the motive kindly. e
jt
a<
F6rgiveneds. p
3 1hi rt wl hter eftqiapo was fast +V ;
cuing into twilight, and the snow, that had
been thre tening,all day, \wasgbeginnigg to
toss about ife,tht of its white fagorp,gas,a
lady stood at a large casement anxiously
gazing adross tho valley on the cedar
fringed mountain ro&d opposite.
e She was apparently about twenty-five t
years of age, with soft gra'y eyes and clOar
though pale complexiop. Could she have tr
bten transported to . Cheftnut Street $or
Broadway, with the accompaniments of
crimps, ratii turUai i pbejpan Igo,
might have passed for scarcely twenty; but
her' at liome, in her soft lavender' dress
w,th Jaritronized so welliwth tWe shmnigg
b> i;; lain rad aclf lie
face, and the tiny blue t;ow at her thrddt,
the five years seemed rather to be on the
other side. But .hor countenance was not.
dependent for its charm on either youth or
beauty ; but one of those quiet home faces,
which as the years pass along, gather by P
the side of sick-beds, over crtdles-'-and it
may be over graves-a beauty which the n
evanescent glow of youth rarQly equals. So P
at least ~thought Dr. Ashley, when three to
years before, he took her from the village t
school, and the tuition of rough miner's
children, to be the light and comfort uf his gi
home. .
It is for him that she Is straining her n.
eyes with looking into the darkness,. and a "
gladjsnile'ris t I fil me g S
m, a oiigtt,cto c ter ae p:
budge1ithe va le erd%ne vill e s w
are already twinkling, and a moment later t<
the well-known gig rattles up to the door. fi:
lHe was only a rough old country doctor,
this husband of Lucy Ashley, but to her he
was a hero-demigod-the representative of tl
all 7that lf. noble and good- i manhoodr e;
And, indeed, we might make hows of. w
worse material than of some of those tc
bronzed and weather-beaten disciples of the n,
healing art, who, regardless uliko of heat or Is
cold, day or night, spend their lives in at
tending suffering huma,nity.
"Walohit)g,. Lucy ?" cried the chteny hi
voice; as having shaken off the feathery
snowflakes the doc'tor entered the casement a
whichjshe held opaon for lim. 5
Swas a geqry plain room; ;dgriving t,he ti
most of its charm f'rom the white curtains,
frsgrantt plants, and neatly arrangegl tea-. y
table, yet pervaded by an air of com,fort ~
- which in niore luxurious apartmients isn
eften lacking. -,
A fter.the pleasm t tea ,wp~ over anithe
doctor established in dressing-gown and
'slippers by the fireside (a position he mightg
poslym byg4 0pt genipggutn
from whence it was more probably that he
bodild s'd b'e calfeil :to drivFsix or' eight
miles over the moitains), Lucy. brduaght
er146W chaiW and hecr knitting and sat be
side himn. EvIdently she had something of
importance to say, fot her workWprogressedb
fltfull at.last.t.hroiing it down in dies
per dn' akt isngher eyes, sheo ox
claimdd, -hurriedly, as though the subject A
wras disagre le ad must lib ~~ottenm -
throu Iq tskiyl ****
" la , Aoerletteoamtoiayrm ,.f
Mrs. Hiervey."
"Tro you" hn
'esv afliedst addreaeod to ite,sothough tl
of'icourse It(&ndeerns you more nerly.s 1Ail 10l
*bring it." ti
"bNlo," said he, detaining her. "I don't ii
care to see it. I suppose it Is only a refit .
sertion of her husband's innocence ?" * hl
"Yes, principally ; she says%tikLtiifialIS T
words were, 'ask Cous'n Robert to forgive hi
me for these years'of esti 4eI{filitelI
himso thewordof a dying man, that I hi
causd, l t t " .a ,'lS
man seat the deed it would have made a h1
difference ; but as alto won't, why should ai
.she piesume to trouble you about it?" r
"I suppose she thought that I could plead
,het cause better than herself rand Jppp
Robert, I cannot help thipking th ,i'tt
n~t1have tnb v
boy, who is your namesa~ke. Shohds
that If she only could get your forgiveness vi
ocarry to her -
lq*lljng to travel obfoot lay her baby ti
*2~rJL
> need mite. ' I tell you, Ludy, thttt man
jured me.more thMan you can underatand ;
it for him, I might now be -in possession
a lucratie city practice, instead of drag
na out a beggarly existone -among theff,
Jls." -
"But I would never have' kdown you,
en," said Luoy, layiag hek'clasped hands
a his knee; ' " t ": , f
"Which moans, I suppose," he rejoined,
aling 4nd aooahig back a stray tress
oip b I, 4,-tit ,I would never have
.own you; but I should, pet; I would
ive found you out somehow and thon
>u might linve hddfllk dreas, "nd all
anner Of line thing s as other ladies have."
"I don't want' thoih," she answered
aletly. "I would nuchrather that you
puld let me have that little baby boy."
"That Is perfectly ridiculous 1" he ex
aied. "Why should you wish t- take,
>on yourself that burden?" But noticing.
e expression of her face (ho.had seen too
mt ti ofes
knoW .l% t. t i _ Q clout
1i rugd yg i it so
dt v1ah y St'conid hav MV,'halt
,er makes the woman so stubborn ? Tardy'
istico Is better than none at all. And I
lemuly declare that unless she sends that
iper, wblhii t hve,overg r?ason to sub
>se was in her husband's possession,
itlet tteWth.e1 the cjlild $ha cross
This seemed to end tho discusskon, and,
alug t eicy t looking Into the
e. AAt as rhis n gh r eyes pleadingly,%
0 saiq: ;'Itobse t, yo o't)illg 1py say
g this, audido nIMl'to 'n its th'ough
werc p'eellide , but all day as thoukh
cy, wrcQ. yrit,tc m y l ain, I have seen
e wori:' "If for ldo not men their
espasses". << -#
A tfd knbcki' interruptetd te sent
ne M 1 stood at the door aslk'
"What is the matter ?" aslod the doctor,
ho was already drawing on his overcoat.
,"'l93t on's gog fits-two
All right ! ill be there> as soon as pos
ble.
TIIb la rdr es hd , all i1flied '4n hiLs
anuer againy she - was the sysipathizing
iysiclan as he turned to his wife saying:,
(O dnigijLucydoo,ft up ; I mn
>t be in much bfotre morning. This
or child has been subject to these qt_
lis from her birth. I fear each will be
.o last."
After his departure, Lucy sat a long tin t3
izing thougtttfully into tle.fh%. "Th
no use hunting'the.. garrat- again," she
'Used. "It is only in stOrles that missing
ills and .deeds.aro..nu in old furpiture.
, n lit a to bed, and
e d frfau o , settijg it
h t d te w1ill the doe
ir's return, she resumed her seat b! the
;e, and her sad mediations.
Meanwhile Doctor Ashly pursued 'his
urney through the stormy night, an'd
ose last words spoken by his wife were
ea'birMt pyllpX h iQog Tlio-mo Wnain
Ind, rushing through the cedars, seemed
sing in trumpet tones, "If ye forgive
t," while on every hand the dry tongued
urels whispered "forgive, foi-givo I"
Arrived at his destination, lie found tig
te; payipnt better, yjpg, pale and ex.
ce moe.adCi ohrexpressed real
rrtoW ioglyv}ng brought thedIgctpr out in
"Oh, no matter about that!!' lie an
voked; hastily ; then,. after preparing a
mm1posing drdught,1. he bada them good
ght, and started -upon hIs .rhomeward
urney.~ - 0 s' on
Bitt tiM#Ihohgits fr5in*hiclho he vouid
adly havebien free were&in'ytfrnpted,
> ,dia ll,d.. a bhe unseen spirit
> o8's Ted- fwl~i r aroundi him, and
npan on.gHe thgtge green
unmeaar days w1e11. ptgether, .they lad
shed in the ok1 millpoa, and sailed inimaic
yats under the willows. Then; of the old
>hl'ege times, when the gay young student
ad clung to him as unto an elderl.y,brother.
ud now ! Ah ! now he was dead.
'he" -cl'dinerijd in violence, but
~jk ely fie& at, for remorse
as knawing like bitter hunger a~ his
iart. Away to the right he heard, 4bove
LQnOhaofi)ti1@ )Wp ; istle
Ma;n$jhigt ad.dl alrt( c$
at clearer than clNAbhi~ 9I541MEtf tv-.
n, reminds the lonely of the great brothrer
MM kBtliQ h (d@bor WfoM
s musings. HIe remembered that hal4'g
El@aM~iAdIOin the village be
nd him, but, having overtaken no trlavel
stiLdt Zhnkful that no one hind to seek
a home among the hills to-night. A
SNilblater lie saw something directl1i
ont of him.
"Only ' a codar bush," he rea4ned ;
it watching olosehy, wae miore
ad more, and at lastdrrft n upn the
A.hd leighqhi he-I a$
Sand hurrying forward, ho d
g t, a woman completely para1fled
th cold and weakness, and in her rmsg,
osely pressed against her bosom, a un-i
uoyb her Aid' was !ii(Vyan-un
anton noie at the door.
~ you're up, Lucy!I" exel imo
ic d6ctor, s he came in with his b
JEtJg uikP ".Lucy
remedies, aund
,And plac*j him snugly in pod. At
4 the patIji Qpened her eyeb "Oh,
w oe am 1 ?' she cried ; "where Is
Robbie?"
He'isuafe,'.arorplied-:Luey, holding
warm wino to her lips; "he is sleeping t
sweetly.".
HdvIng revived a little more, she re
suuied: "I cannot thank you enough for
your khidncess to a stranger, but If you
will toll me where Dr. Ashley lives I will
be going, I must reach there to-night.' I
canio in the train, but I must have mis
taken the direction."
"You are there now. I am Doctor
Ashley."
"Are you indeed ?" exclaimed the poor t
creature. "Oh, will you forgive me for
coming ? I could do nothing else."
'orgivo you I" cried the doctor, with a
great Qob in his voice. "Ah, Mary, if for t
Pred's sake you will forgive, it is enough I
mine has been the sin of reniorsless cru
clty."
So the poor wanderer had found home
and love at last. But not for long, for t
when the snowdrifts melted btneath ali
.April sap, she too vanished from the earth,
gladly going to .rojoi her husband.
Years have :passed; the doctor's stop is 1
:not, quite so firm as of old, and some silver
hidr havg: failid ,thejr way; anng Lucy's I
shining braids. But Hobble, or the,young .
'doctor, as they'call hin now, is the con
fort of his uncle's declining years, and the
v6ry pride and joy of Aunt Lucy's heart. I
The Conquobt or the Malo.
The wes3tern*lSack-hule is small, sinewy,
afid, like old4Jooy Bgatock ; "tough, sir,
tough I but de-e-vlish sly 1 " Most of them
are bred from Indian ponies and are born
on the Open plains. Having previously
been lassocd and branded, when- three
ye driven (or h -igled)
o , i slile nt brou
cifos. "An'ufaried horse is a model of
gentleness beside them. Bometimes they
are accustomed'at once to the saddle by one
of those wonderful riders Who can stick on
the back of anything that runs, and more
rarely they are lroken to harness ; but or
duaa'jly their backs are trained to bear the
pack, which is generally the only practica
ble n,thod of transporting freight through
these rugged .mounialns. The first time
the pack-saddles are put on, the excitement
'tay be igagiied. ThQ green mule, strong
hhieyduth, -livin' been adroitly t1foped"
or lasso. 0, i Jed out into an open space,
stelping ni)lgly. but, not seeing any.cause
foi aIkfi uietly ; before ho understands
what it all means, he finds that a noose of
the rawhide lariat about his nerk has been
ed ov e 'tAd disyovers tliat his
ento d nt Hop pulls,
saes is heA standa upright on opposite
ends, but all to no avail. The harder he
pulls, the tighter the noose pinches his
nostrils, so at last h eccmes down and
keeps still. Then a man approaches slow
ly and circumspectly, holding behind him
a leather blinder which he seeks to' slip
over 4he pulo's .eyea. . But ; two long ears
stnnd in the way, aind the first touch of the
leather is the signal for two jumps-one by
the beast and one by the man, for packers
are wie enodgh in their day and genera
tion tp fight shy of the business end of a
mule'. The next attempt is less a matter of
caution and more of strength, and here the t
animal has so much advantage that often it I
must be lassoed again aixd thrown to the i
ground. It is a fnue., sight to witness the t
indighation of such a fellow I He falls I
,heavily, .yet holds his head high and essays I
to rise. But his fore-feet are manacled by
ropes and his head is fast. Yet lie will
shako almost;free, get upon his hind-feet,
stand straight up and dash dlown with alli
hip wveiglfitan futile efforts for liberty. 8o
cured wvith more ropes, allowed but three <
legs to stand upon and cursed frightfully,
jieo niust s891p31t, though he never does It
with good grace. It Is not always, how-I
ever, that this extremity is resorted to.
Some animals make little resistance while
the strange thIng Is being put upon their.
backs and the fastenings adjusted-all but
one; buAt when an effort Is made to put
that institution called a . crupper under a
young mule's tail, language fails to express
the charapter.of the kicking!i The light
heels describe an arc from the ground to
ten feet above it and then strike out at a
tangent.. They cut through the air lhke
wvhip-laqles and wo,.ild penetrate ali impe
diment Iille bullets. But even mule-ileshI
tireP. Strategy wins. The crupper is
gained and the first hard pull madle upon
the sinchi.(as the girth is termedi, which
holds firmly every hair-breath, and will
finally crease the contour of the mule's
belly into the semblance of Cupid's bow.:
But, this cue pull sunilcos to set him spring
Ja~g again-bucking, now, with arched back
and head between his knees, landing on
stiff legs to jar- his burdea off, or fallingi
full wveight on 'hIs' side and rolling over to
scrape it free. lHe will .it on his haunches
and hurl himself backward ; will duQk his
.'esd a.pd ,ran!a somersault l' flaally will
.stand atill, tremblIng with anger and ex
haustion, and let you lead him away, con
quered, ________
We're Lost..
1A lake steamler got into Detroit ratfier
t fl;)l~nnri tg.nas sremmer
by loud cries,' "We're lost, we're lost.; Give
uj~If,reserveri".
nuomenta state-room door
~qJ~,.~qg peg followed by numerous
ot 'efn"o6ering ist, the cabin, en
countered an o'd man'in his night clothes
rtrilluaoip nc hisg e ad and
"ThunkGo%li" ho exclaimed, ''I thought
d'gQit tigl? a req arkable hn
tkanljf4l fQr, naslinahly the old gen
1 eman explained diat he was. .Aankful to
fnd he wasn't drowned, His head 'was
yfJa0r fromi th
hewthwhich the men wqge whinig the
hurricane dec caine in uou ni a gpro
&pjo~~dpw~ hi , as ho sud.
'$oke~ e av f the lak.
n i sed'
d th 9 y i t erth
The Czar's Tenants.
In the time of Nicholas, the f1ther of the
>resent Czar, a number of sentries wore
>osted on the roof to guard against firo or
'ocs. Finding the climate up there not
iltogether so comfortable ascould be .wished,
his permanent watch at length contrived toa
onvey on to the roof the materials for a
mumber of huts or cabins, which in course
>f time they erected under the shelter of the
himnoy stacks. So snug and cozy did
hey manage to make themselves thac it at
ength occurred to the married men among
hem that, as there was plenty of room up
here, they might as well enlarge their
stablishinent. Accordingly wives and
atnilies, one after another, found their way
>ut on to the imperial leads. Several of
he single members of the guard, findl;
uch a tempting opportunity of setting up
iousekeeping economic ly, took wives to
hemselves, and after a hi?o quite a con
iderable colony had apt,ung up. How far
he development might lave gone dn if the
udividuals composing this parasitic little
rillage had been reason bly cautious and
areful in their behavior it Is diicult to
ness; but the establis ment of families
among the chimneys of t ie palace led grad
ally to the accumulati of domestic ani
nals. Fowls inultiplyi amazingly, and
,oats become numerous nd flourish so well
n the bracing atmosplhe a that at length it
was suggested that a co%. might convenent
y be added to the faru stock. How the
nimal was elevated we are not iuformed,
)ut it is stated as a fact that it was by some
neans hoisted to the roof, and was event
tally the ruin of the community.. The
owing of the cow came to certain ofllcial
ears, and led to an investigation and the
otal breaking. up of the queer society.
Lvcn at that time it is said that the Russian
imperor felt so little confidence in his per
onal security that nobody ever knew in
vhich bedroom he was going to sleep. A
arge number was always kept ready and
inoccupied, and at bedtime the Czar Would
luletly slip into one of!ien selected at the
noment. The Winter' Palace is (leseribed
is the largest palace ip the world, being
mo-tllird larger than that of the Emperor of
kustria, and unsurpassejl in point of splen
ior. It is the resideneb of the Czar and his
:ourt (luring the wintes, and stands on the
eft bank of the Neva,, ' m t he site of a h ouse,
,hich in the reign of 'Peter the great be
onged to his high admiral, Count Apraxin,
,vho bequeathed it to Emperor Peter 11.
[t was so completely destroyed by the in
847 that it was necessary to rebuild it, and
me of the not least remarkable facts con
iected with it is that its present form was
ho work of two short years. Custine givcs
i terrible description of the rise of this
nonstrous citadel. In order to complete
he task at the time appointed by the Czar,
he interior works were continued during
he great frosts; and when the thermometer
)utside was thirty deg. below zero of
lteaumur, 6,000 workman were daily shut
ip in halls he;tpti to thirty deg. of Reaumur
.n order that the walls might dry the quick
.r.; so that these poor ,wretches had to en
lure a differenceaofle ty.deg. of tempera
ture. No wonder a considerable number
>f them died daily; and it is said that those
who were engaged to paint the interior of
he most heated halls were obliged to plade
>n their heads a kind of bonnet of. ice in
rder to preserve use of their senses under
he burning temperature.
An eonot Minor.
If you go into a mining district in Corn
wall, England, you will see, not far from
he' mino works, rows of neat little cottages;
nost of them extremely clean in the In
erlor, and here the miners thay be found
seated at comfortable fires, frequently read
ng, or in the summer evenings working in
heir little gardens or in the potato fields.
Frequently they become experienced lorl
?utturists, and at the flower hows that
ccur arnually in several of the Cornish
owns they often carry oil the prizes. A
leasing amnedote ja recorded of the honesty
>f a poor Cornish miner. There lived at
it. Ives a lady named Prudence Worth,
whose charity was remarkable. A minor
lying at Camborno had his goods seized
~or rent, wblch he could not pay. He had
ieard of the maury good deeds done by
'Madam" Worth, as she was usually called,
md lhe determined to apply to' hier for as
mistance. lie said.:
"Madam, I have come to yon in great
rouble. My goods are seized for rent, and
hey will be sold if I can not get the money
mumediately."
"Where do you live?" inquired Mrs.
WVorth.
"In Camborne, and I work In Stray Park
Wfine."
"I know nothing of you," observed the
ady, and you imay be a drunkardi or an
mposter0i."
"Madam," replIed the minor, with
mnergy, "as I live, I am neither; and if
you will iendl me the monley, [ will return
tin four months."
The money was lent, the period of four
nonths elapsed, and, true to his promise,
he poor miner, notwithstanding that bad
tick had attended him, had managed to
get-the amount borrowed together, and set
ifY on foot with it. Arriving at Ilayle
River, lie found the tide coming up, but to
,ato a journey of three mIles round by St.
hdrith klridge, ho resolved to cross the
water, which appeared to hinm shallow
mnough for this purpose. The poor fellow
liQdWojoemr, igiseqlculatnd,stlio deph
' was drowned. wYHi the bd
was broughit to shore, his wife said that lie
lfad' left home with- thres -guineas in his
pocket f-w Madam Worth. Search was
s.ade In MIS pockets, and no money was
founod,.but somte one observed that hIs right
kiapd was firmly clinch'ed. It was opened,
nd' fotud to contain the three guinea.
Value of ,5I'aro Minutese
,Madaamo Do Genlis composed sovera
harming volumes while ,waiting in the
ichool-roomi for the tardy princes to whom
the0 gave daily lessolis.
DJagtuesseau; one of the chancellors of
I'tanco,.wrote an able and bulkyg.work in
,ho s.qccessive,intervals of'-waitjng for din
oer~
'ihmt WItrritt, when earpn'g his living as
m'-lackdiith, learned #fghteen languagey
and t4heoty-ttvci dialbel,, by' simply Im
I1ud #Lcr0u le gghi carriage
erbik'i1 the eamn W ,Ii ow4
thbought.In a nmemio*andm ~ wMI he
patied fot the'O t
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A Notable Wager.
The life of Ben. Perley Poore ias been
an eventful one, and his warm friendship
for Charles Sunuer and other prominent
'en has closely connected hini with public
events. Maj. Poore was a great dinner-out,
.and a frequent guest of (en. Burnside. lilt
round folun and florid complexion t:l that
he is a high liver. lie is short in t'.ature
and weighs 270 pounds. In conversation
the other diy, his wife related an old story
of her husband. During Pierce's canvass
for the presidency, Mij. Poore, then a
young man, wagered with a friend living ir
Boston that Pierce would not be elected.
lie agreed if he lost the bet to wheel u
barrel of apples from his h'ome, 30 muiles
distant, through the streets of Boston to his
friend's door. The election camte off, and
the friend held the major to his wager.
Mrs. Poore thought it too severe a task,
and begged her husband to have the barrel
sent in a wagon. The major was too con
scientious to do that, and insisted on ful
filling his wager. lie went to a neighbor
ing farm and bought the fullest barrel of
apples to be had. Witnesses saw that the
barrel was well and closely.packed. lie
put on a pair of snuff-colored pants, tucked
intg his heavy farm boots, a velvet vest, a
jacket and a large red felt hat some one had
sent him from Cnlifornia. Thu i arrayed,
he started at daybreak for Bostcsn, wheel
lag his heavy loud on a wheelbarrow. Ills
wife sent a man with a wagon after him,
so that in case he gave out, there would be
sonic one at hand to hell) himt. After the
sun was up the country peopld began to
pass him as ie trudged along,perspiring and
dusty. Eaeh one offered him a lift or tried
to persuade hin to give up the job. lie
kept on 15 miles, tired and sore, theu he
concluded to put his apples in a farmer's
barn and go back home for the night, and
start afresh the next norning. lie rode
htiie and was glad to rest.. lie was sore
and bruised, but after a good rubbing ad
a night's rest he was able to proeed with
his task. By this tiue the people along the
road heard of his coming and they gather
ed together to meet himi. Boys followed
him and women stood at their door to see
hin go by. There was great excitement,
and the news sotm traveled to Boston. it
reached the ears of the authorities. They
sent hin word not to enter the city in the
evening, but to stop outside and conic hr
the norning. A few miles from Boston
I r stopped over night. The next morning
on the outskirts of the city he Was met by
a large crowd of people and i brass band.
le was escorted by this procession through
the principal streets of the city to liis
friend's home and from there to the Tre
ment house to a $00 breakfast. . lie had
accomplished his feat and wats amply re
paid by the reception and breakfast given
hin by the city authorities. It was many
days before lie could appear without being
stopped and asked "if he was the nian who
rolled a barrel of apples through the streets
of Boston."
An Old Grizzly.
A few years ago, on an August after.
noon, mounted on a patient old horse, a
man was leaving a cabin In California
where some comrades lingered over the ro
mains of a primitively cooked game dinner.
The elder of a jolly quartett of hrnters, he
boasted the ownership of an ancient doub o.
barreled shot-gun. ills chums carried
rifles and revolvers. It is far fron incre
dible that lie was the "colonel" of the
group ; often the butt of their ridicule, the
target for concerted fun, and, too, because
he so facetiqusly bore it.
"The colonel," he had more than once
repeated, "will run foul of a grizzly some
time ; then his old Daniel Boone piece will
be the death of hiu." But he frequently
declared that he wanted to meet a grizzly,
to which he was as often retorted:
"Aye, you'd scratch up the neatest tree,
or beat for' your life, if he didn't swallow
you instanter.''
"Leave the dishres until I come brick.
I'll have a treat for supper," adid tire
"colonel," on this August afternoon. Ii::
three friends uncorked another bottle or
wit, but lie retreated too rapidly to see or
heQar the effervescence. Galloping toward
a mountain streamn, five rmilers distrnit,
which in the sununer's decrease of its vo
lume left in tire narrow valley pools here
and there wherein small fiah thrived, he
hoped to spy a stray deer. A fewv occa
szrrnlly loitered behind, after the herd that
had roamed down from the mountaia snow
fle.'ds in tire raiy season returned at the
approach of the dIry season. They seemed
loath to leave tire green willows amnd chap.
parrel around these pools.
Our horsemin hard trrrnmeid lis gunr with1
nine p)iston shot bullets, lie now dlescend=.
ed thre slope, arid, having reaiched a gratss3
spot, was p)reparlig to Imariat, nrot hiavlini
dismounted. 8nddenily hre dliscovered arn
enormous bear lying fast asleep urrder ni
scrub oak, not more than a hunidred vardlr
from where lie had halted. llsa surrprise
may be imagIned. lHe afterwrd dleclarcdl
that at tIre rmorment lie felt no fwinrge of
alarm, but that hisfirst thought was to gal.
101) to the cabin anrd bring tihe boys art, for
grizzly. 'Then his repeated boasting came
to imnd, arid Ire throtught, "I mnust shoot, at
him." And so lie walked tIre horse earn.
tiously somle paces .nearer to thre "garme"
between the bushes. Now the 01(1 guin was
leveled, his linger on the trigger, biut lhlt
hands trembled slighgtly. "This won't (10
what ails my arm C' thought tIre veterar
hunter, who would net rIsk an unsteady
shiot over so litt,le short of firarress. -Ie
ioweredl tire piece, and a sudden vision of xi
ghastly scone Ihlashred across hris bruarn. lie
thought of a young man whose bowels haud
beep~ literally tern ourt in an enconrter with:
a grizzly foe, arid whionm ho had assisted in
burying ha a mining district.
lie hesitated rno lorrger;i slid down or
his feet; placeed hiis arm wihin tIhe brhik
noose, and ain,irng at tIhe bear's ear, dia.
chrargedl. Quicker thran throughrt Ire sprang
tp the saddle, sputrred to utmrost speed, veun
turing riot a.glance hiack ward till a mire or
mrore urp the slope. Theon, hearIng no roar
or rursh behind, heo turned. ari slowly ro
traced. Almnost inbredible.tb hie judgmreni
his eyes beheld thre bear in a slightly alter
ed( posick,n stone dead. 'lie Affective
judietus shrot had entered the brain.
Now thre e,olonel ro trimiphntly back~
to his oomyades.onr.
"TlherWie a: bIg old gritzl over yone
"Why didtr' you shodt him ?' all ar
a quick breathr.
"Don't l%dIvo it, Wtit 4eofn I"
"I tell ~~4o~,IhVtkilld ilm"
Tells'5
*I saf h
d ou i
neighbor. They all piled .into it, and first
drove Impatiently in their hurry a mile in
an opposite direction to enlist the services
of two friendly Indians. When arriving
on the ground, and convinced unmistakably
of the shot-gun's victory, their huzzas made
the desert ring. The Indians immediately
addressed the hero colonel by the distin
guishing title of "Wana Shactoo"-Bear
King. His chums long afterward styled
him Col. Shactoc, but his name is not
King.
The dead animal was supposed( to weigh
1,101 pounds; one of the largest bears over
shot in California. The Indians had their
share of the meat with the hide, which
after a rude manner they dressed and
tanned, rendered it as hard as board. The
writer has seen one of the toenails of this
veritable grizzly. It is in a .curve, of
course, measuring at least four inches.
Tho iaobab Troo and Fruit.
Monkey-bread grows on an enormous tree
called baobab; botanically named for
Adanson, a French botanist. The tree is a
native of Senegal, in Africa ; also found on
the bunks of the white Nile. It has been
raised hI England from the seed, and in
India. At Alipore, near Calcutta, there is
one whose trunk measures in some places
over sixty feet in circumference. The
height of baobab is not in proportion to its
diameter. It has very long roots, seeming
to like the earth better than do many trees.
They have been measured one hundred feet
laid bare and were doubless much longer
still. The lower branches of the tree bend
to the ground, aliost concealing the trunk.
They have large, dark-green, abundant
leaves. The liower is large and white, its
stamens gal hered into a tube below, and
spreading like an umbrella above. The
tree is mucilaginous in all its parts, the
fruit being, the most useful. It is, for what
reason cannot -be ascertained, called Mon
key-bread. It measures from nine to twelve
inches long, and four in diameter, at tiie
middle, being ralher pointed at each endl.
It has a brownish color when ripe. The
pulp is slightly acid: that between the
seeds tastes like cicam tartar, and is used
for fevers. Strong cords are made from
the bark of the tree. Ti baobab was long
thought to be the largest tree in the world.
'I'ie discovery of the mammoth sequoins in
California has proven the mistake of this
supposition. Livingstone judged a baobab
which he examined, in Africa, to be at
least, 1,400 years old. The tree is not easy
to destroy, but it is subject to a natural
disease, a sort of correspondence to what is
called brain softening. Can it be that this
vegetable giant becomes dizzy with its
grandeur and superi.;rity, and thus grows
both vain an weak P It is sometines easy
for imagination to invest inanimate life
with soul-life; and what man shall say
where the mys'erious lines of distinction
begin or end in the divine plan and fulfill
ment? It is a question often asked before
-one thiat sounds unreasonable, chimerical;
but God has so constituted the human mind
as to give it the hnpulse and curiosity of
Inquiry. The baobab tree appears to have
a positive limit for its age. It will sicken
and die by a softening process, finally fall
ing, by its own weight, into a ruined heap.
The trunk is usually hollow. Executed
criminals, to whom the law denies rites of
sepulture, have been entombed in these
trunks. The bodies soon withered and be
came dry like mummies.
An Avalanacho in Nevada.
An avalanche recently occurred on the
slope of the Sierras In Nevada by which
three men were instantly swept away and
buried, and a fourth dangerously wounded.
The slide occurred at the head of Marlette
Canyon, near the mouth of the tunnel of
the water company. Five nien-McLane,
Kennedy, Birney, McCaul and Tait-start
ed on a recent occasion to go up- thme
miouiitain to ivork. Tait told the others
that lie feared there would be a snow-elide,
as the conditions were favorable. Soon
after the sniow was seen to start over a
large space on the side of the mountain at
the head of Marlette Canyon, and in an in
stant the avalanche was upon thien. Tait
saved himself by a stutgp and hanging on
like "grim death." McL~ane, Kennedy and
Birney were swept away amid buried under
the sniow. McCaul was swept about fifty
yards and was found by Tait buried to the
shoulders, the snow so tightly packed
aboul him that he could not, move hiishandls
or arms. A hat belonging to one of the
others was found somie distanace below
where McUaul was (discovered, andi this was
the only trace of them that was to be seen.
About fifty woodlchoppers were soon on the
ground and engagedh in searching for the
missing men, but at last accounts noneo of
thiem had been found. Some are of the
op)inion that the L.odicsr willl not be found
until the snow melts off iha the spring, as
Marhette Canyon is said to be fillied up to
its full width for a considerable distance.
It was a 'elldo of time dry, new snow, which
had fallen up)on the crust that covered the
old sno0W. The stump behind which Tait
took shelter was not so large but that lie
was able to *lasp his hand around it and
in this position lhe held on until the slide
hlad passed over him.
A Whit.e Mqmual.
One day, in 01i, Notker, a monk of St.
Gall, wnmile watching some Workmon build.
iug a bridge, at the peril of their lives,
copsda Latin anthem. From it time
solemn words in the burial servie of tiid
Episcopal Church, "In tho' midst of life we
ar bn et," were taken. The following
incident recalls the occasioii of their first
Iut,terance:
Samne years ago two large ships muet in
mid-ocean, one heading for Australia, and
the othier homeoward bound. he (day wasn
fair, and the wind dlying away, tho vessels
Iwere becalmed close together..
Trho passengers at paco busie,d themnselves
to writo letters home, and oflidor-aj nd crew,
became ocecupied in~, thim11te~liang 9
'The' placidity of the Weatfier led ti
feeling of careless security that can never
be safely indulged ini at sea. -All tho cat
vasa was act, Idl flopping - aguihest the
masats, whena a^' 1sJreek both i 4ips and
passed off lid olgent
suiting from it Merbover, and the crew OE
one of tii@b tei8els were able to elau-thd
alttentiofi demtaided foir their.bwn'hffetj
for'oke the othet abp~ Nei~"
Men Who Keep lotels.
"Beg pardon, but you are mistaken in
the hotel[ You don't want to stop :at this
house."
These words were uttered by the proprie
tor of a Detroit hotel one day last week to
a stranger who had picked up a pen and
started to register his name.
The man stepped back, looked drst as.
tonished and then indignant, and after the
two had stared steadily at each other for
twenty seconds, the stranger laid down the
pen and' walked out of the house without a
word.
"liather cool, I adlmit," explal.d the
hotel Inan, "but that follow is a beat.
Five years ago come next month, ho beat
this house out of three days' board."
"And you remember him?"
"In an instant. He has grown a full set
of whiskers since then, and is, 6f course,
five years older, but I remember that nose.
I never forget a face, and I can call 5,000
travelers by name.
"If a detective strikes three cases out of
five where he has to identity faces, he is
lucky," continued mine host, "but If we
did not do better than that we should make
no profits. I take an inventory of every
face. Some are so peculiar as a whole that
they are never forgotten. Many faces have
the same general expression. In such
cases youI must look for a s8iint in the eye,
something peculiar about the nose and
month, a limp in the gal, a peculiarity in
the speech, and even the teeth are not to
be overlooked. I can mark my main while
he is registering. I can tell the moment he
begins to write his name whether it is his
own cognomen or one borrowed for the oc
casion. llundirels of men travel under as
sumed naumes. Some do not want to he
published In hotel reports; others are on
lIrivato business whicli they do not wish ex
posed; others are private detectives, and
others still up to trickery of some sort! It
is by no means a sign that a man neans to
beat his hotel bil heeniuse he takes another
name, and it is seldom that we consider that
a point against a guest.'
"As to my memdry of faces," continued
the landlord, ".1 had a test case recently.
Some four or five years ago a stranger
Junped the house on a two day's board bill.
lie returned the other (lay, greatly changed,
and to be remembered only by a little red
scar on one side of his nose. When he
called for his one day's bill I added the old
account. lie looked the figures over, best
tated, looked at me, and paid tho' whole
without a word. I was prepared to give
the number of - the room lie occupied, the
hour he cane and the color of the coat he
had on."
"in the reading and smoking rooms and
the ollice," said the host, as he looked
around, "are fifty strangers. More are
coming and going all the time. Now you
would think it very easy to sly up stairs or
come down and go out and not be seen by
any of the employes, but many have tried
it to their cost. There are three of us here
in the office most of the time, and porteis
and bell boys have their eyes about them.
Mvn do come and go and never dream that
their movements are n9ticed. They are
honest men and a glance at them ls,enough.
Let a person not registered hero come in
and go up stairs, and in two minutes we
will know his business. He h's either
called upon a friend or he Is up to mischief.
It won't take thirty seconds for word to
coie down here as lo what room he has
entered."
"No, we hardly over ask a person to pay
in advance," he replied to the question.
"It would be no insult on an honuitr mthn
but yet it is not the rule, I Delievo. I do
not get mistaken in my man more than
once in 5,000 times. You or any other
man stopping here with money to pay your
bill have a freedom of mind and body which
cannot be assumed. You come and go,
take everything easy, and call for your bill
whien ready to leave. The peunn4ess man
who tries to assum'e that easy denlbanor al
ways overdoes it. It. is a part which few
actors could play With sudcoss. "A man
coiming here without baggage willtgenerally
teinder his money in advance it he has it.
If lie is penniless, he wall most always
state the fact, an<d give liEs. exctises and
promises.
"The regular hotel beat is not tha penni
less man. It takes more nervo thall most
men have got to walk into a hotel with '
eimpy.pockets and rogister,as.a gue9st. That.
Is, men who cannot gve good references or
reasonable excuses for being 'dead broke.'
We have guests here every day who have
been robbed or lost their- money or boon
swindled or something of the sort, but they
can send home f6r funds or give security.
No, time out-and-out hotel beat has'money,
but tries to beat us -on gendral princliges.
lIe goes on thle theory that every hotel owes
him a living, and lie is at hard bird to catch.
ie dresres well, seems, to have plenty of
money, calls for the best, and is gon befQre
you even biecoine suisp)ieous. Fewv of them
ever come back on the seconid visitj and our
only revenge is to give them away to some
other hotel mn. The syste,m of..passing a -
dead-beat from main to mian is nomw so per-..
feet that the professloonal dlead-be&t has al
most been driven to the wall."
"Oan't go noic Ow Lent"
Three ministers sat in the pulpmt 6f aPitts*
burgh church on a Sunday reentif A rising .
young artist wvho is one of tlfe- wdrkere la
said chutrch, wvalkOd bravely to the pulpid
before service anid gave diue of the tnin.la~ters
a nottee to read before' b6nedietion. ''t k
ser91ce* were about beihig eoded W46D 0
yOung artist'weht fdtWftrd to reiittid
minister that he muhst not forget the nod~
of the temperance meeting downs tdwni. I
milister begged pat'don for bis -roieas.
took the slip of papei- froni his v'est pooke
read it, looked' datzod, rtbbod his yP
theomfstMsled. Then ho passe~d itltb lr
minister, lie similed. 'rThonshe.jsp te
to th6 minister: and he smiitled11Thett -~
d -Jr ed~ Md ldtkddth@i ~~
lke toJunkp throught3h4 widd*.
meeting which to