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TRI-WEEKLY FJDJTION, WINNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY 6, 1881. INDEPENDENCE. Ye dApend on one ai&ther - For each oWnfort yo enjoy I 'There ip naught theheartoan foster That the heart may not destroy. To every mind that ponders, To every heart that feels, There is not a day but something This hidden truth roveals ; Thus, thus tbroughout creation, The links of life had birth; Yo speak of independence, There is no such thing on earth. The seed of friendship blooms not No h af can it impait Until it finds a welcome In some congenial heart. The light of love can varm not Till found some kindred shrlue, And then its springs imiortal, And shows itself divine. Thus, thus thrduliout creation, The links of life had ).rth . Ye speak of independenco, There Is no such thing on earth. The Buried Secret. Old Jasper lint had been stricken with paralyis, aid va4 now lying at tne point of death. From his troubled expression. it was evident that he most earnestly desired to comninnicate something to his children before he died. Laura, the eldest, was seventeen, while the other two, Maggie and Tommy, were of the respectives ages of thirteen and nine. For thirty years Jasper Flint had been a dealer in second-band clothing, and al though very penurious and trickery, and driving an extensivp trade in cast-off gar ments, lie professed to be very poor-al ways crying up poverty to the last. le had never employed servant or houiekeep. er, for the ostensible reason that he was very poor, so that Laura, from the age of twelve, had been a perfect little family drudge. Everybody said that old Jasper was a miser. -He was near fifty years of age be foe lie ever thought of marrying ; and with his disposition and habits, it was wonder ful that lie ever thought of it at all. The wife lie married was twenty years younger than himself; but he starved and broke her heart by his meanness in ten years' time. She was a delicate, sensitive, and refined woman, and could not adapt herself to his miserly manner of thinking and acting. She died, as we have said, in ten years after this ill-assorted 'marriage, leaving three pretty children with a fair prospict of starving after her. A careful Investigation intothe old eloth ier's affairs showed but a few pounds of ready money-scarcely more than enough to defray the funeral experses ; and what rendered matters stilh worse was, his stock in trade was destroyet by fire three days after; and having been too qtingy in 1iqi lifetime to pay fof 'n insuThnc 'policy,thb poor children lost everything excepting the roof that sheltered them. But Laura was a resolute, self-reliaht young girl, and proved herself, in every respect, equal to the equivocal situation. She put out a small signboard, and took in washing and ironing. blaggie, who was stout and healthy, assisted her In her labors; and Tommy, at her suggestion, though lie was but nine years old,launched out manfully as a newsboy. With all hands thus occupied, the mis er's children we're soon living far more comfortably than they had ever done while their father was alive. They.were able to supply themselves with more wholesome food, and in suflicient quantity to appease their hunger; to clothe themselves better, and to appear better and more well-to-do generally. Laura was very pretty and neat atnd af fable,and this secure.1 her plenty of work of the lightest and most desirable description, and the young clerks and gentlemen of leisure, who chiefly employed her, dechar ed that they could see their faces in. their shirthosoms af ter thef had passed through the artistic ordeal of-her polishing irons. She Was subjects of course, to a .giod deal of annoyance from her genteel patroiis in the way of flattery and complimenta but she conducted herself always with the strictest propriety whenever they ,were present, which soon won from them general rebpect and friendship. 11er practical little head was toe strong to be turned from the praiseworthy current of her purpose by any nia's Ilattery. But there was one young mtan wvho hadl insensibly won his way into her good graces-a cleik of twe'nty.. Laura, with her practical eye, could read his pure and unselfish nature at. a glance, and shie liked him; but she under stood life better than he,'ad when ho urged an early marriage she reasoned. "You arc juSt, in the beginning of the struggle," she would say, and with talent and the good principles you possess to re commnenu you, you are sure to rise, if you - do not rush blindly. Into responsibilities that are sure to dramp. yett ini the future." To these argu~ients Fred Alston would always reply : "Now, Laura, darling, this may appear very rational to you, and might to me, if I did not keel that in your great anxiety for my future success, y~u are too apt. to un derrate my capability of coping with the S world. Now, if we miarried, I should feel contenit, andi struggle like a lion to place you in that 'more exsited social position for which you are so well fitted. Yout can go right on with your washing and ironing just the same, if you choose to, tIll mny salary is increased, or 1 get into a bus:ness on my own account;an(1can peund put the ciothes and do all the heavy woi'k for yott when I ami alone at the eillce. You see, my darling, I cani calculate in my own fashiozn,if I am not quite as wise aiid prac tical as yourself," , ' si1 of this 11aura would shake hepr young headt gravely, and niiaintain her right to dhller. "If everything as sure of being just ats you paint it,"she W(uld Qnewer,negatively, 'the venture might be safe enough, per haps. But I api endowed wtth.,a greater de sies of caution thiapiyyu, and can formi a cooler estimate of the after probabilities, In the event of miy permitting you to take this unicertpini Stop, e "Look, as- Mi fIIubtritioi; at Nancy Ftil sonic, bihe is only a year elder than I, been married a trfiffd over two years, and has three babieg-the first two i5eing twins, andi hardlys able to toddle atone. Instead of bolag Able to sosiet Oharley, as sha. did, fcr the first few months 'after their iar riage, she liS,to have a pired gir, ayd is udtternly at that, alth6hgh she was as trim and neat a girl as you could-see anywhere before she was married. "The first,year of their marriage they ivec' in a neat, well-furnished cottage,and they held their fieads as higa as anybody; and well they might, for liarle's salary was a hundred and sixty pounds .a year, and l4 no nior6 now; but Nancy added nearly fifty to their income the first year, but not a shilling since. What has been the result ? "Why they were obliged to give up their neat cottage a year ago, and sell off their best furniture at half the original cost to pay off the heavyexpenses attending her firs.t sickness, and now they occupy three rooms in the fourth story of a third-rate tenement house. And what makes matters still worse, Charley has become discour aged at his lot, and has lately taken to drink. "This Mrs. Fulsome told me in confi dence, with thg tours standing in her eyes; and she furthermore assured me that she very much feared he would lose his situa tion in consequence of it. Charley Ful some, when he was married, was strictly temperate, and looked forward to the future with as much hope and confidence as you are; and yet,in little more than two years, all his prospectp in life have- been blighted through the united and Ill-advised judgment of the tioughtless couple.I" And with these clever arguments Laura would effectually silence her importunate lover for the time being. Now it was a great puzzle to everybody how old Jasper Flint, with his penurlous halts,Aquld. ave died and left his chil dren so destitute. Some suggested that he must have hidden or buried his money, and every part of the house, cellar, and back yard were carefully examined, but with out its resulting in any.such discovery. One day Fred Allston was surprised by the appearance of Tommy at the office, bearing a brief and startling message from his darlug Laura. It contained just these words, and they were very suggestive for they were first she had ever written him: "Dilt FRED: Come to me quick. "LAURA. When he arrived she met him at the door, and he noticed that her marner was very strange and excited. "What is the matter, my poor Laura ? What has happened ?" he exclaimed, pant ing. . - "Something very odd has happenedi" was her-hurried and fluttering answer.. "I have just made a strange discovery, and have sent for you post-haste to enlighten mel" She led the way into the house, and once inside she went directly, and without speaking, to an old bureau in one corner and drew out a carefully-preserved pack age of papers, and placed thenm in her lover's hands. Fred gazed at them for a nomuent in be wildered astonishment,and then exclaimed excitedly, "Good ..eaves,, Laura, what dues this mean i They are government bonds. Where did you get them? There are thousands, too ?" "Are you sure of that I Can there he no mistake ?" demanded Laura, excitedly. "No mistake in the world, my darling I They are genuind government securities. Biit where in tne name of all that is won de ful did you get them ?" "You remenber the old desk with one broken leg In the room which my father used to occupy? Well, I got short of kind. ling wood, and thinking it no' longer an ubject either 'of utility or ornament, I ordered Tommy to take It to the wood-shed and cut it up. He went out with it, and began to cut it. In a few mingtes lie came running in, bringing m handful of these bondh\ Wil hin. I guessed from their appearance that they must be valu able, and so I sent Tommy directly for you,tinking you might be able, wiith your knowiledge of business, to see into this mattrer more clearly than I. I was almost sure that such important-lookimg docu mxenta could not be worthless paper." "No, my sweet Laura, you were right there I " cried Fred,. gleefully; for lie saw that with this unexpected mine of wealth in her possession, she could not reasonably withhold her confciit longer to become lisa bride-not if she really lovedt him, as she had so of ten assured him in their tender iuomenits. "There is no better paper' in the country to-day, '., in the world, than these same bods." in a word, the miser's children, who had been struggling so hard the last year and a half for a bare subsistence, while there was an ample provision for them hidden away in the house, now found themselves lndependent. "Anj this was what so troubled my father af ter his attack of paralysis, " sug gestedl Laura. "lie could neither speak iior write,in any way make himself under stood. Peor father I he must have suf fered terribly, not to be able to reveal his secret to lis children. But lie was very 0odd, andi when wvell wvould admit no one into his confidence." "As you say, he must have suffered in tense agony in the endl"' i-eturned Fred, thiough'tfully. "Butsnow, dear Laura,you have grown so rich,you will hardly remenm her your promises to a poor fellow like me." She looked at him reproachfully. "Can you think so nicanly of me, dear, (darhng Fred, after all the proofs ofL affec tion I have given, you, you naughty, un grateful boyi" "Forgive' melt forgive mne,dlearest Laural But now there is noe longer the obstacle in the way, will you not be merciful enough to end( thIs long subpense, and name the hiappy (lay ?" "1t Is now the middle of Novernber," said Laura, - archly. "Let us say at Christ inas." "You are a darngn angel I" cried Fred, rapturously, and they were married at, the appoinitedI time. Tbe4 Oregon Baltnpn Ftiovjes. From the annual report of the Oregon Board of Trade we learn that, the salmon catch of the past spring anid stier has exceeti anticlipations, yielding 500,000 cases. in 1875 a catch of 231,600 eases was con sidered enormous; 1877 yielded 400,000 cases,. andl 1879 as~rany as 485,000 cases. Tihis raidi increasuihows the vast, extent and financial value of the Oregon salmon fisheries. Of the half million and mnone cases packted this year, 211,522 c'ases were sent to san Francisco, and. 289,241 cases were uhinnar' direct to (*roat Hritain , The Exoavation of Fiood Iock, Hell MO. The mining of Flood Rock, Hell Gate, in the East River at the northerly part of New York city, preparatory to blowing it up after the manner of the Hallett's Point work, is- being pushed forward rapidly. The expenditure last year amounted to $140,000, and a large part of the $200,000 appropriated this year for theimproveient of East River will go to this work. Em ployment-is now given to 135 men, divided into three shifts of eight hours each. The central shaft is fifty feet deep. Running across the river are twenty headings; - at right angles to these are eleven cross headings, none of which have yet been extended their entire length. They average seven feet high and ten feet wide, and are situated about twenty feet apart. Near the main shaft, howerer, where more light and space are required for working, they are larger. Three acres have thus been undermined, or one-third of the whole. It is not intended to enlarge the headings until each one has been carried out to its full length. Then the chambers will be widened and made highei, so that the whole excavation will resemble an im mense cave, the roof being supported by the rocky pillars which now form the sides of the headings. The thickness of the rock forming the roof will then be about ten (et, varying according to the character of the rock, whereas it is now from fifteen to thirty feet in thickness. The work of tunneling . proceeds very slowly, owing to the hardness of the rock of which the reef is comlposed. The rate at which it is now going on is from 500 to 600 feet a month, representing an excava tion of about 1,500'cubic yards. It is im possible to tell when the whole will be ac comuplislied even at this rate. Frequently a seam is struck in blasting which stops the work in that heading altogether, on account of.the leakage. In such a case it is cus tomary to work around the leak. Accord ing to the last report, the work done dur ing the past year was much greater than in any previous year; 24,000 cubic yards of rock were removed, 43,000 blasts made, and 57,066 drills sharpened. The num ber of blasts made each night now averages 150. The rock thus broaken up is loaded on scows and dumped in the deep water to the south of the reef. Part of it was also used to 1ill up the space between Big and Little Mill Rocks, which lie to the north. A I1orrible Recital. Sawney ileane was born about eight or nine milds eastward of the city of Edin burgh, of parents who went hedging aind dlting for their daily - bread, and 'who brought up this their bloody-ninded child to the same occupation; but as he grew up, his disposition to idleness not permitting him to followan honorable employment, he left his father and mother, and ran into the country, where, following a, most wicked life, and taking up a woman as vicious as himself, instead of living, in any city, town or village, they took up thdir lodging Dn a rock by the seaside, on the shore of Spire Galway, where they lived for up ward of twenty-live years, having both 3hildren and grand-children in that time, whom they brought up so wickedly that they never separated, kept no other com pany but themselves, and supported them ielves entirely by robbing, and, what was worse they never committed a robbery with )ut a murder. 'I'hey never frequented any market for provisions, but as soon as they nrurdered my man, woman or child, they did not, eave the carcass behind, but carried it to :heir den, where, cutting it into quarters, hey would pickle them, and live upon human lesh till they got another prey of the same dnd. But they had generally a superfluity, usonmuch that they oftentimes in the night ime, but at a great distance from their nanguinary mansion, threw legs and arms if some they had killed into thre sea, wich he tide cast up at several parts of tine sountry, to the great astonishmient of the ehiolders. Persons who went about their awful occupations fell often into the mands of these merciless cannibals and iever returned hiome again. This raised a general cry among their friends apid rela ions, insomuch that this whole country was alarnmed, anid private spies were sent )ut in all parts to find out if possible how liege melancholy events happened. For length of time their strict searches andl nquiries were to no purpose. llowever, everal honest, travelers were taken up apon susp~icioni, and wrongfully hanged .rpon bare circumstances, besides several nnocent inn-keepers, wino were also exe mited for no other reason than that persons who had been thus lost were known to have an ain their houses, and were supposed to rave been robbed and murdered by them ind their bodies privately buried in 0ob cire places to p~revent a dliscovery. After reveral had been executed, arid no one nde any confession at the gallowvs, but leclared they were innocent of the crime ~or which they died, this rigorous wvay of >roceeding was given up, and the find .ng out of the murderers left wholly to Sawnecy Ueane, with his wife, children, mnd grand-children still pursued their bar barous actions with impunity, and, behag somew~hat numerous, they would attack Four, five or eix men together, if they were :mi foot. As for horsemen, two were the nest they wvould over set on, and then with such caution that an ambuscade as laid to secure them, ride which way they wouild, provided one or both made their osceipe from thme fhrst assailants. Thus,those whose misrortune soever it was to fall into their barbarous hands, he or sihe never crime off with their lives. Th'le place was solitary wvherd they inhiabitated; and, when the tide came up, the water went for near two hundred yards into their subterranean hrab. Itatiodi, which reached alr~ost a mild un derground,. so that if they wero seen there about by any person, it was not in the least suspected that anyting human resided In such s dis~al pace of perpetual horror anri darkness, The number of people threy had killed was not ekactly known; but It Was reckoned that in thre twenty-five years they had reveled in these Iinuman slaughi ters they had washred their hands in the blood of above one thousand men, woinen, and children. Thre discovery of tire cannibals was thus nmade: A mair and hris wife, wire was be hrmnd Im on tire sanme hrorse, coiming one evening from a fair and falling into an ambuscade of these merciless wretches, they fell upon thonm in a most furious man. nrer; the man, to save himself as well as he could, fought bravely with ihis sword and pistol, riding sogne of them down by main force of iris horse, from wich his wife, in the conit fall off. andl was prnanntiv murdered before 1. hushand's face; for the female cani lIs forthwith cut her throat, sucking the lood with as great a gusto as if it had b en wine, which unpar alled barbarity m e the poor man make the more obstinate sistance, as expecting the same fate. It eased Providence that twenty or thirty assengers were riding that way from the ine fair that he had been at, and dawner Beane and his blood thirsty clan withdry, making the best of their way through atsolitary wood, and so retired to their den. The man, who was, the first that ever came off alive after faging into their hands, told the passengers what had happened, and showed them the bloody spectacle of his wife, whom the piurderers had dragged some nles off, which struck them all with stupefaction ati aumazeient. They carried him with tlem to Glasgow, and, relating the matter to the provost of that city, they immediately sent to the king about It, who, in three or four (lays, came in person thither, being desirous of seeing the apprehending of this villain, who, fdr so many years. had been the pest of the western part of his ki dom. A body of about faur hundred men, well armed, set out on horsd back with the king, who-had several bloodihounds with him, and went with the inan to the woods where he was attacked; but found no sign of any habitation all over it. They then went through it, which led down to the seaside, when, the ti e being out, and going along the shore, they passed by the cave of Sawney Bene without taking any notice of It as a place of habitation, of habitation, until some of the blood hounds running into It and setting up a most' hideous barking, howling and yelp ing, the king and his attendants came back and looked into it. beeing nothing but darkness, they did not know what to think. The blooi-hounds contirued to yell). Torches were sent for and a great many men ventured into it; though there were several intricate turnings and wind ings in this private recess fromt mankind, yet they at last canie to the apartments of Bawney Beane, where, to their great sur prise, they behold the legs, arms, thighs, hands, and feet of men, women, and chill dren hung up like dried beef, and some limbs lying in pickle, a great mass of mon ey, gold and sliver watches, rings, swords, pistols, and a great quantity of clothes, both linen and woolen, which they had taken from those they murdered. All these they seized, - and took what human flesh they found there and buried it. They also brought out Bawney Bean and his murderous family, which, besides hinself, consisted of lims wife, eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons and fourteen granddaughters, begotten in incest. They were all pinioned and carried to Edinburgh. All the country, as they passed along, flock ed in multitudes to see this cursed tribe, who had no sooner arrived %t their jour ney a end than they were put into Tolbooth for one night, whence, the next day, being conducted unlder a stro)ng 6,Jwii tv LetLn, tho men, without process or any manner D1 trial, had their hands ana lega cut off, by which amputation they bled in some r liours to death, and this torture being just ly inflicted upon them in sight of the wife, laughters, and grandchildren. The latter were then burned in three separate fires, ill dying, like the men, without repentance, aut cursing and venting dire imprecations .o the last gasp. Some Ways of Cooking Eggs. A meal of eggs, which are cheap, quickly L ,ooked and nourishing, and which every r arner has or ought to have, on his prem- r sea, will often save the housekeeper a i great deal of heat and worry, and be as i iatisfactory to all concerned, as a more ,laborate meat dinner. And first, as to F )oiling eggs, it is true; that most people c lon't know how to perform this simple I 4ece of cookery. TCo boil them hard, put< .hem into hot water and boil twenty nin- 1 ites; they wvill be just aa hard in ten, but lie yolks will be soggy and Indigestible; in i mnother ten they will be mealy go~d light. r'o boil them soft, dlon't boil them at all, Jut just cover them with boiling water,and 1 .et, themi stand for ten ninutes where they ? will keep hot, but not boil. A very pala- I able dish may be made of eggs and as- I ragus, thins: cut tender asparagus into< pieces half an inch long, anid boll twenty mninutes; then drain till dry, and put Into i u saucepan containing a cup~ful of rich iraiwn butter; heat together to a boil, sea ion with pepper and salt, and pour into a Juttered dish; break a dlozen eggs over the itirface; put a bit of butter upon each; I iprinkle with salt and pepperY andh put into be oven until the eggs are set. Another < asily prep~ared and really delicious dlish is nade thus: provide as many deep saucers, as you have persons to be served. Warmni mnd butter thenm,and sprinkle in each sonme I lnaly chopped ham or p~arsley, then brean 1 nto it two eggs, being careful not to break ,he yolks, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper, anid drop on them one-half a tea- 1 apoonful of butter broken into very small uieces; place iinto a moderately hot oveni 1 antdl the white Is set, which will be about in lve minutes. A Quaker Onmlet is a hand- I onic and sure din wvhien care is taken in < he p~reparaition. Tihree eggs, half a cup 3 f milk, one and a half tablespo->nfulls of ] ::ornstarchm, one teaspoonful of butter; p~ut I thie omlet pan and a cover that will fit close :n to heat; beat, the yelks of the eggs, the aornstarch aiid the salt very well together; beat the whites to a stiff froth, add to the well-beaten yolks and cornstarch; stir all together very thoroughly, theni add the milk; now p~ut the butter ini the hot pan, and whena melted pour in the mixture; cover andi place on the stove where It will brown but not burn; cook about seven minutes; fold, tomn en a hot dish, and serve with cream sauce p~oured around It. if tihe yolks and cornstarch are thoroughly beaten, and when the stiff whites are add ed they are well mixed, and the pan and cover are very hot, there can be no failure. To make a Parmesan Omelet; beat up) three egr~s with peppler and salt to taste, and '. ',ablespoonful of grated cheese. Put, a piece of butter the size of an egg into thme omelet pan; as soon as It is imelted pour in the eggs, and, holdidg thme hianle of the pan with one huanil, stir the omlet with the other by means of a flat spoon. The inoment the omelet, begins to set, cease stirring, b~ut keep shaking the pan for a minute or so; then with the spoon (double up the omnelet,and keep on sliaking the pan until the under side is of a good color. Turn It out on a hot dish, colored side up permost, and serve quickly. -The annual crop of flax seed in this country is estimated at 8,000,000. A Orialy Bear. The train was delayed several hours. There was but half a dozen passengers all told, and they all got out on the station platform. In looking down the valley from the station ('T'ruckee is away up in mountain on the main line of the Central Pacific Railroad) we could see some kind of an animal coming down out of the tin. ber and inaking its way over the top of the snow toward the river. It looked like a steer or a mule, and none of the passen gers thought it was anything else. The snow was four feet deep and frozen so hard that one could walk over the top without breaking through. Captain Vincent Yore, of St. Louis, a man well-known in steam boat circles both in St. Louis and Pitts burg, and in fact all along the river, was one of the passengers. The station agent, who was at once the express agent, ticket agent and baggage man combined, went into his little office and brought out a beautiful breech loading rifle. Handing it to Yore, he said sar castically, "Here's a gun." Captain Yore took the gun and started toward the end of the platform. The passengers, of course, never dreamed le was in earnest. The station agent called him back when he had gone down one of the steps, and bringing out a rat terrier dog of the light woolly Scotch pattern, sad: "Here, you'll want a dog when you go bear hunting." Captain Yore turned back, picked up the (log, and putting it Under tlie flap of his coat, started (own toward the bear. The grizzly had by this tine got out far enough to be plainly seen, as lie made his way across the narrow valley. lie looked to be the size of a horse, and did not seen to care whether there was anybody within a short distance of him or not. The Rocky mountain grizzly is the largest and when aroused the mast ferocious of all animals in western North America. Travelers on the Union and Central Pacific Railroad are familiar with the specinen that is caged on Lhe platform at Lathrop, an eating station an the California end of the line. It has ) foot like the "Ilfteenth amendment," and s as large aw a Kerry cow. The bear kept quietly in his course, and Captain Yore went straight toward him. rhe station agent realized the danger Yore was in, and his anxiety was quickly con maimcated to the passengers. They got loser and closer until they were only about ,he length of a train apart. Yore stopped, ook out the little dog and set him down. ylhe terrier made for the bear at once, and, ;oing lichind him, bit him on the heel. 'lhe bear turned round to see what had icratched hin on the foot, and the minute ie turned Yore, who had been standing notionless, watching the bear as it caie ,ace toward him, brought the rifle up to As nose and flashed it at himi. The bear iniediately slapped himself on the fhoulder with his paw and went toward .he captain. The passengers, who were watlrhing hi0m, woro now wvild with oxcitu ncut. 'lie has hit hii," said the old Jalifornian on the train, "and now lie must, ook out for him." Yore never nioved. 'he little snipe of a dog bit the bear on ,he heel again, he turned once nore, and tgain Yore unloaded on him. The bear ilapped himself on the shoulder and traightened up as if to go quickly for k'ore. Then the beast broke through' the inow and alnost disappeared froin our might. lie tumbled and rolled and waltzed iround. The Old Californians were ghnost areathless with fright. "The bear is ramnpling out a place to light, run, run, un " they screamed to Yore ; but lie stood notionless as a statue. The little dog flow iround the top of the pit the bear had made nd barked. Presently the bear put out his head to let his assailant's position, and, fixing his yes on Yore, he crawled out of his hole n the snow. He had just steadIiedI himel mn his four legs wvhien the dog bit him once no, and Yore let him have it, again, iuick as a flash, the nioment hi. turned. knother tinie the grizzly slapped himself vith his paw, indicating lie had been hit,. Ie started on a trot toward Yore, who now I lad four loads left in his rifle. Tlwice gain the dog bit the bear, and at each ine when lhe turnecd Y ore unloaded inte imn, bringing the rifle up to his face as ~uickly as if lie threw a weaver's shuttle. Ifter lie had llred the fourth load the rizzly's pace was not slackened up much, ,s you could scarcely notice himi limp. (ore turned to move back a few paces, nd( as lie did so he broke through the snow nd( went down to his armpits. The pas.B engers, expecting every moment to see lhe infuriated monster crush poor Yore, overed their eyes in perfect terror. The bear had got within a few yairds of (ore, and but a few seconds wouldl decide1 L. The dog bit him again, and Yore, who adl the rifle lirmily sighted, pioured it lnte lhn, two 10oads ini (qmck succession, and tretchied him as lhe was alinost at the end f the rifle. T1he whole thing occurred ini ass time than it, takes to tell it. TIhe pas enigers rushed down with a shout. T1hmey rought the imimenso bear up to the station ad clubbed together aiid bought, the rifle or Captain Yore, and the captain laid towa a $20 gold piceC for the little dog, rhichi ie brought back with hini to St. louis, for, said he, "that dog saved miy 11ow ain Arm was avod. At the battles of Antietam and South fountain a colonel was wounded-ia arm earfully shattered-and lie was borne rem the field by lis brothers and a private oldier. They carried him across the ountry a long andl toilsome (distance, every tep of which was torture to the suflerer, o she house of a Maryland Union fariier. rhen caine the ubiquitous Yankee surgeon with his glittering knives and cruel saws. undl made hasty preparatione to aniputate lie ailing member. Tihe farmier veheimnt y protested, d~eclaring that the muan would lie if the arm was cut off. The surgeon aisted t~hat thme patient would (lie if the inn was not taken off, aiid the Colonel's irothera coiincided with the surgeon. But lie determined old farmer dispatched lia ion on hIs fleetest, horse across the fields to hle other side of the mountain after his rriend and neighbor, a couiitry phlysliai, md a rank rebel. When the rustic Escu apius arrived there ensued a long conten Gion with the Yankee hewer of bones over the sufferer, but, the result was that the mrm was saved, and afiter some weeks of rareful nursing, the Colonel galloped off to join his reginent, a comparatively sound man. Hie subsequently became Governor mf Ohio, and now fills the Presidentil rchair. A Tattooing A cademy. "Andre Galliot, Artist in Tattoo Work," is upon the door of one of the houses n Depau row, New York. A knock upon the door is suflclent to got admittance, and a gentleman in a short brown velvet jacket will usher you into the studio. "With me I find at present more than I really can attend to," said he. "You see I have paid more attention to the business than many would imagine it deserves, and I luteed before I leave to see it placed among the lines of art in which color has a representative. It takes steady experi ence to become an expert with the use of our needles and colors, and 1, like others, have in my day been only a beginner, and every person who got me to (10 little jobs also gave me a good chance for practice. M1y first inks, tools, and colois were given to me by my tutor. lie was a seafaring main of very limited education, and knew litlle or nothing of art. Money was all lie worked tor, but what work he accom plished to secure this was remarkably fine. lie would tattoo anything from a compass an( square to a Mladonna. I have got nearly that far myself, aMid anm now teach ing others tile trade." "Ilave you pUp!lIS V1 "Yes, I have at present fifteen under imy instructions; three are females and the remainder are young men, one of them a Chiinaman. All of my pupils have had some experience with the brush. I have a young Cuban gentleman, who just left before y-mi came in. lie is the son of a wealthy sugar and tobacco plantation owner. le has been to Rome, Florence, Milan, Berlin, and Par%3 studying art. le Was a pupil in sonIC of the studios for n, arly two years, and can certainly make excelient drawings in the nude, and cai paint a most expressive face lie says there are too liany men doing work on canvas, and he thinks there is a better field at present for human skin work in his native place, where he is shortly to return. My ladies have nearly all had practice on canvail, aid a couple of thei-t are first-class crayon artists. One has been for some Lime in the School of Art in the Cooper Institute. She is good at natural history, birds, fishes and animals. Then I have a young woman good at profiles and busts. One of the young men is also fine at deco rative and landscape work. I have tattooed a great many ladles. They like flowers, such as a bunch of three roses or daisies. The mnic always Drder useful tattooing as a rule, such as their initials upon their armnS or sonie raney designs upon their breasts, The Drucifixion is not uncommon aniong sailors, aid many have the emblems of Free masonry, Odd Fellowslip, and other secret societies. "''ie French women in this city have l had some good work done on them. One l if the chorus girls in lairiceGrau's Opera Uompany, before returning to France last Beasoi, cane here and had the Cnhan youug mait tattoo ever her hieart the full [)icture of 'The Sacred Heart' seen in 3criptural paintings. It took the Cuban lust two hours to complete the subject with it, full colors, and it Is the most beau ,iful thing of its kind you could look at. 1 )ffered the young wollian $10 if she would mly let ale have a photograph taken so as o show it to my cuastolers, but she re used. I do not know where she got the dea from, but I know many women if hey saw the picture would have one made it once. A inusician had the full portrait )f one of the seven Muses put on his breast he other day, and right after him catm a ilexican cattle dealer, who got me to make subjeot of lassoing of cattle on his breast. let one of the young fellows do the sa oundings, aid it, made one of the prettiest hangs with India ink and colors you could "Not long ago I had a visit fa oi two loctors, who bought, sonic of mny tools and niks and land a little practice ini tattooinag. )ane of thema said that, lie was connaiectedl vithi a lying-ia institution aid always made nimark oa every child so that hie would~ Eniow them hereafter if theoy camne before aiii. My young mnit and womten pupilils ell me they arae beginaninag to do some york anmong very respectableu ladies, such 18 p~utting in some special marks on the iims. Many choose carefully drawn atonogranms, coats of arms, atnd crests. The attooinag of children is certainaly very use 'ul in its way In case they should be lost, Itolen, or abducted from home. A simall tar, ate initials, or evoen fuall naute wonid a tot (10 Injury wheat located oin the back. 1 inve done some mece, dailicualt work ini L'urkey, lliindoostan, Egyp~t, and Arabia. L'hiere they demanad line coloring, andl the >ay is good. While the op~erationu is going ma they enjoy the pricking senasation with ireait p~leasurae. I have done a goaod shiare >f work along the Liverpool docks, antd here is hardly a jockey that is well knmown n Lontdon tait lias not comec uder nay ucedle."~ WVho was Blluolicardi. Bluebeard was the Sleur (lilles do Retr, f Britlanay, a great feudal lord, who pos5 essedl vast estates and great power in' this icighaborhmood in the latter part of the four eenthi atid beginining of the fifteenth 001n uries, and was besides a inarshal of LFrancee. 'is castle was his stronghold, and lhe ruled It and~ the Loire country aronid with s hand of Iron and a sword of fIre. Gifted ini youth with phlysical strength tad beatuty, and1( an enormuous fortune, he Lmpairedi both b~y all son a of indulgence. When too late, with a defiiedl andu bloated biody, lie found himself lashed by the icorpioni whip that Is always sure to follow sin. Instead of growing penitent, hec only be c'ame more bloody and reheantless. Seduced by a wicked and cunaning al chemist to believe that by bathing ini human blood lie couldl clain back hisa vaislh health, beauty, atnd spirIts, lie entrapped children and young persoan of both sexes, murdered themt lin the duangeona of the cas tie with lis own hand, aiid batthed in their warm blood. it was believed that more tluian a hiundred were thins murdered. After years of lmp~unity the matter be. canme so notorious and sp~readl so munch fear through the country that the people rose In a nmass iagainst hihn, made lhim a p~risoner, and carried hint to Nantes. There lae was tried by hals suzerain lord, the Duke of Brittaniy, andl condemned to be burnt alive at the stake, a judgmtici carried into execution In 1440 on what is now the Chaussee do la MadeleIne, on the GAloriette Islanid, ma front of where the groat lospital aiow starndn. NIEWS IN BRIEF. ,-'The milittary reserve of the United States reaches 5,500,000 able-bodied men. -The province of Quebec is seiding numbers of laborers into the United States. -It is said there are 500 Chinamen who have become Roman Catholic priests, -Our four great timber states are Malie, Michigan, Wisconsin and Mlin nosota. -Twenty mills to make paper out of palmetto are to be drected In Florida shortly. -ihe Hlolyoke manufactory deliver. ed 15,000,000 pdotal cards in one week recently. -The Moravlans have sixty-tive churches in America, and about 150,000 members. -Anaged female servant at Wind ermere, Englani-, has fallen heir to 11,500,000. -The foreign trade of the United &aest has increased thirty per cent. since 1879. -The trotting horse St. Julien has made a profit of $28,000 for his owner this season. -Louis Napoleon was the ruler of France from December, 1848, to SOp Lomber, 1370. -The territory of China is nearly ;ix times greater than that of the United States. -The Amerlean Union telegraph L'ompany has contracted for two new A tlantic cables. -The Philadelphia mint has been wdered to coin $10,000,000 monthly in 45 and $10 pieces, -San Francisco has: newspapers printed In ten foreign languages, In Aluding Chinese. -The first bankrupt law enacted by in American Congress was in 1800; it vas repuailed in 1803. -The activity of Mount Vesuvius noreases. Lava ilowsi abundantly on ,he side towards Naples. -To the census bureau from Idaho ire reported 00,000 bheep, 00,000 horses mnd 460,000 head of cattle. On the 6tLh of August 1700, th ree h ui Ired of Frederick the Great's soldiers lied of sunstroke in one day. -Queen Victoria is having a lonely rlsit at Balmoral, whence cold weather ins driven all but her household. -Two hundred and 1lfty different Cinds of tacks are manufactured from rass, copper, zinc, iron and steel, -The total value of the property oc mpleod by the religious orders in Paris imounts in all to 110,500,000 francs. -The Furnish Diet has voted annual mubsidv of 6000 rubles for live years to etabliahi an Italian opera It llsing -Chicago has a sensible ordinance eqluring the use of iron vessels for shes, under a penalty of $5 for every 'lolation. -Nineteen persons are held in the 'ook County JaIi, Chicago, Oin the liare of murder, of various degrees ' atrocIty. -The annual production of kerosene t 1Now about 15,000,000 gollons. The irst Oil well was sIunk nearly twenty mnc years ago. -Great Britain owns nearly nine nillion sqiaro miles of the earth's urface. The United States own about bree millions. -According to some statistics pub Ished in a French journal there are ,587,350 married men in France, and ,507,080 married women. -The annual report of the Comnmis lonmer of Pensions shows that therew vere cin the 30th of June last 250,800 sersons on the pension rolis. --Reuben R. Springer, of Cincinnati, vhio contributed so liberally to the ouindation of the Music lil has just elebrated his 80th bIrthday. -What was fcxrmerly known as the .hicago and Pacilice railroad, now a rach of the St. Paul, has been om >loted to Lanark, eon the Mississippi. -D)uring the month of October, the iay decreases in length 1 hr. 31 min. lie sun rising on the 81st 40 mini. later .ud setting 51 mini. earlier than on the st. -Tihe old wooden Patney bridge, lie oldest bridge on the T1hames, is to me r'eplaiced with an lmron stricture. It vas opened for traille In November, 729, -It is reported that 320,000 holes vere bored in the execution of St. lothard tunnel, 980,000 pounds of lynamite consumed, and 1.4560,000 irilis worn out. -Estimates based npon reports from til the parishes of Louisiana give the otai sugar erop of the state as 287,000 mog,00a, t0 i t1 yild of molasses -Th'ie population of Baltimore for 1880, as corrected, gives a total of 332, l00. Tihe males number 157,801; he nalos, 174.820 ; native, 270,176 ; loreign ~0,014 ; white, 278,487; colored, 53,089, -Thrlere are 227 students in the col Legiate department of Smith Fefnale Jolege, at Northampton, Mass., of whom 30 are seniors, 50 juniors, 72 mophomores and 75 in Llie entering 31ass8. -The population of New York City, iccording to the oicisia census report,4 is 1,200,578, of whieh 500,762 are males, 515,815 females, 727,743 natives, 478, 334 foreign born, 1,1815,1-14 white, and .0,433 colored. -The richest men in Germany are thme Rothascilmds of Frankfort; Krupp, Sf Essen, and ilehbloder, of Berlin~ - iad Prince Bismnarek is also reckoned smonig the milli'onaires. The naumber of Prussian millionaires is only 1195. The house in Woodbury, Conn., for-. merly ocoupied by Elijah Sherman, was shingled recently for the first time since it was built in 1791. The shingles wvere of pine, and sonie of them was in a fair state of preservation when taken off. -Th'ie Rey. Uharles F. Penney, of Maine, the leading Prohibition State of the Union, has competied statistics showing that in 40 years there haye been 5350 patienpa received at the State Insane Asylum, one-third of wheni were sullering from the effects of habitual intoxieatloon.