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twoI TR* REKL EDTIN WINSBOO, C. MAY 219_________________ *IPHYBRV PMY8. A It never pays to fret and growl When fortele seems our foe The better bred will look ahead And sthlm thq btavel blow. Your luck is work, And those who Phirk Should not lament their doom, But yield the play, And clear the way. That bettet men have room. It never pays to wreck the health In drudging after gain, And he is sold who thinks that gold Is obeapest bought with pain, An humblo lot, A cozy cot, H aye tempted even kings; For station bigh, That woalth.will buy,. Not crft contentMent bjngs.. it never pays! A blunt refrain, Well worthy of a song, For ago and youth must learn the truth That nothing pays that'S wrongs The good and pure Alone are sure To bring prolonged success, While what is right In heaven's eight Is always sure to bless, All 01 Man's Wire. 'I am afraid it isn't right,Mr Ri dIgelanil, for me to accept your kind offer. I- ' Somehow little Diana Mary was very much confused, and. phe dropped her sweet flower-face away [rom 'he old gun tleman *ho was standing besi.e her, look. Ing so kindly down on her. 'Afraid to marry me because I am such an old man, Diana?' Or do you think it impossible for me to love you because I am so old?' What is the reason, little one?' * Diana tooked quickly up her lovely eyes all piteous in their sweet truthfulness. 'I was only thinking of myself. I-I am quite sure I am not in love with you. I think it would be wrong to marry you just because you are generous enough and kind enough to want to give me a home and care. There is no other reason why you should want me, sir.' Mr. Ridgeland smiled in her grave eyes. 'Innocent little girliel But you will be. lieve me when I tell you that, although I could not endure to see such a child as yourself left to battle with the world alone, although'I certainly do believe you have no warmer feeling for me than friendh ness and esteem, still, Diana, I love you truly, for all there is a difference of nearly fifty years in our ages. I love you for your sweet, gracious ways, that are such a charmine; combination of girlishness and womanliness. I love you because I see what a noble,lovely wonman you will make. , You are modest and very beautiful,Diana, and I want you to be my wife. Diana, 1; shall it be so?' The girl knew his offer was what the world calls a splendid one, only she did not love him. And it had not been so very 1 long since she had cried night after niht, when no one knew it,because Ned Furness had cooled in his devotion to her-hand some Ned, with the smiling fuoe, and a way with him that had appealed so strong Sly to her heart. - But Ned Furness, his beauty, and his way were of no avail. 11 li had hardly spoken to her of late,ar~d she had heard more than once or twice that there was a pair of pretty grey eyes that had conquered him. So when Mr. lHidgeland had asked her Sif she would be his wife she had thought it her firat duty to tell him that she did not' love him as she supposed he desired to i/o l 1oved, as lie certainly deserved to be loved vin consideratim of all the grear, kindness he was showing .her. c IThen, when*Mi'.'Ilidgelanld had'so cailm ly, gravely, decidedly' put the quiestioin, Diana looked at hinur, her. deet blue eyes wistlul anti pleading. 'fyu think I can suit you, sir, I will trytopleseyou, indeed I will Mr.Rlidge land,for you are my kindest,truest friend.' TIhen lie lifted her face by her little dinm lie chin and kissed her. 'I will always be your truest, kindest 'frieiid, Dhia, dear. The tinie shall never come when you will regret having given ~yourself to my keeping; and the time'shall come wheii you will love mc, despite my white head, Diana. \AAnd she thought him the most courtly, dignitled g~ntlemani she had ever sden ias he spoke, and she smiled and blushed so prettily that Mir. Ridgeland congratul~tedi himself that it would not be long before his prophecy came true.. N.?ot.long after that they were maorried, and the fairy-tale life of Dianai Ridglland began just as she had expectedl andi wont on just as she had antipated;and she was so happy4nd-.propmd, and so shyly sweet and graceful, that people saild Mirs.' Ridge laud w'as an idol,' if over yet ft Nottag,beau-. Stiful wife was an old mnan's idol. -People called her 'an ama n rling,' yand manga Ift. dis envied hier, Swlyle moi'e -ar n .,Ridgeland's frlande.ope~ ijf 2 j 9 admiration of lisp clming $t ilnur - 'And ofle, a~orudL ti'5qj nor, who hiad *has vtured to ~ythL other gentlemen adreyqun laThna, too-gentle. u eco1 businessto Sage~~~ty,an .ty, that~it ract--geftlemen espeohal ne herdvl ae e Who'e natural /(I Comipanianallto for ier: 'There's Ned Fur ness, forinstance.' Mr. Ridgeland found himself strangely pr9voke( by his friend's tone.. le looiced up quickly. 'Yes, Mr. Furness ib a visitor at my house, and an old acquaintanceof my wile. Well' 'It is to be hoped it is well, tidgeland; but-don't be mad, old fellow-but people do say he is there too often for Mrs. It's good. Ho's one of your handsome, dashing sort, you know-just the style to captivate a woman, and he was a beau of your wife long before you were.' The strn white brows lowered angrily at this remark. If you have anything to say, say it, and don') insinuate ,1p.. Peoplgqnlk, do they,of my wife and young Futnpssf Let me as sure fou, it is my wish that 'iny wife re ceive young company, suited, as you say, to her years.' And frodi the'liaightily decided way-heli used, it was evident Mr. ltidgeland con sidered the subject dismissed? Dismissed from conversation, but not from mind. Iow could such a subject be dismissed? And Mr. Ridgeland found it Intrudinr with distastotul pertinacity a dozen %imes that day as he was busy in his private office. le went home an hour earlier thfn usual that afternoon-why, he could- not have said, cer tahily not from what his over zealous friend had said, and yet, it struck him with peculiarly startling and 'unpleas ant force when the footman told him, in answer to 'his customary inquiry if Mrs. Ridgeland was in that lie would find her in her own sitting room, with Mr. Furness. For one moment the temptation, was strong upon him to go direct to his wife's room aud inform her. visitor that he must come no more. For one moment it seemed as if jealously, distrust, and anger bad taken complete possession of him-then, with a dignity worthy himself, he passed in and went to the library--far enough away from where the servant had told him his wife and her guest-her admirer, once her lover-were, to prove how effectually he had routed the evil feeling that had possimesed him. Hi library was a charming room, the very ideal of what a library should be-a long,nariow room,with walls hung in green fluted sik,and divided from the back draw ing room by sliding glass doors that were draped on both sides with silk. And the glass doors. were just enough ajar* for him to hear voices the moment he entered the, room-enough ajar to enable hii to know that the footman had made a mistake-that Mrs. Ridgeland and Mr. Furness were not in.the lady*s own room but in the drawing room. The thrill of gratification that lie experi enced did not lessen as lie stood in the centre of his library and heard, without listening, first his wife's clear, indignant voice - "I will not permit you to speak so to me You shall not forget I am Mr. Ridgeland's wife," Then Furness' voice, eager, im passioned. "There is no danger of my forgetting the accursed fact, Diana. Notwithstanding, I believe you love me yet, as you once-did. I love you, Diana, dearly, dearly, and you all know it.'? "I tell youl will not have such insolence! You shall be corrected of your mistake in suppoiling I ever loved you, and then y ou shall leave the house, or I will call the-ser vants to assise you out. I never cared for you-I never eared for anyone but my dlear noble huisband,the best man ever a woman had to love and'care for her. I will not have him, or his jame,; or 'his house, di's graced.by suchia one afyoi, who dare speak stioh Words .to his wife-dhuwife who hiois-and loves him." Furnea 9aughed. "Love him-sixty-eight years old!linht's likely,.Dianal tiove him-no you dion'tl" he sneered.-' Then Diana's voice, like clear,cold steel, was heard: -- ".Leave this room, this house, sir, in which you are not fit to be. Leave it in stantly, and never dlare to en'ter it again, you ungentlemanly rascal, to presume upon such insulting language to a wvifel" And Mr, Ridgoland heard his wife's dress rustle rapidly over the carpet an l out in the hall and ascending the stairs; and he saw, Mr. Furness get his liat, cane and gloves and take hhniself oft' very like a whipped cur. Then he followed his true hearted little wIfe to her room where lie found her pale, excited, and still indIgnant. "My little darling! I never loved you so in all your life! Diana, i heard it all, every word, Diana, .my little boye!" 'The jiext day he sent Mr4 Furness his of ficial congo andl that gentleman hand ample reason to malign bie unlucky stars that over lisa awkwimrd foolishness had shut the doors of the Ridgeland house against, him, while master and mistress -never thought of hun agiiln, scarcely, and certainly not fair Dilana,.' whef-, a fewv years aftl-ward1s, she donned her sombre weedi on thd occasion~ of her husbmanti's aeath, that left her sol., unconditional inhecritress of liis Immense wealth. Bhedid notthink of him, alor of anyone, desnite -the gratuitotas advice on l arios to marmryi gain,. despite the 'wel i'ead ru. inmor-that she surely- would marry again, She did not mn~arry, nor ever will. Nor -wi11 she eor entirely lay aside tho mrourghng 'rolles .slio wears ab hm lonest, lovlrag. ken of .4he...,memory of the hu's bamd' sil so lo'red and re'vered, and to ~whom shed*Illbe v }ial.lial true. .--inc was asennen l sna How W? Vaught Hin. The banking house of Shavewell Broth. era had been victinuzed by an extensive forgery so cleverly, plantied .and executed that, in detective circles, there was but one opinion as to its authorship. There was but one hand skilful'enough for such a piece of work-that of Durnford Mar wick, a most accomplished rascal whose craft qud cunnitzg had carried him through a long career of roguery In spite of the best laid schemes to trap him. On the occasion a heavy reward was offered for his apprehension. I uad but lately been enrolled a member of the detective force, and was ambitious of rising. Here was a golden opportunity -'golden in every sense, for whoever caught Marwick would not only be a made man', but would put a round sum Into his pocket. While others were beating the. bush in differenc directions, I resolved to go on a still-hunt of my own. I had information that Marwick had a set of associates in a place about a hundred' miles away, with whon, it was nct unlikely, lie had sought and found a hiding-place. At any rate, it could do no harm to make a reconnoissance in the neighborhood. I took the next train with a view to carr3 lag out my plan. - becring a seat favorable for observation, I commenced glancing over the morning paper and my fellow. pitsengero. I hid no particular expectation of finding any one answering to Marwick's description among them still it was well enough for one in my place to keep his eyes open. It was ndt long, however, till my occu pation was interrupted. A plain-looking countryman, entering from a forward car, asked and- was accorded permission to share my seat. He proved one of those irrepressibly sociable fellows who will make your acquaintance in spite of you. He told me his name without waiting to be asked-it was Seth Wiggins, he said and straightway inquired what mine might be. .I didn't care to tell him I was detec tive Tyke, so I inerely answered: Smith." "Du tell I" returned Mr. Wiggins, look ing as much surprised as if I had said' Heliogabalus. He was evidently one of, those who think it proper to receive what ever you may say with a certain polite astonishment. - When Mr. Wiggins.. had exhausted politics and the '"craps" and given me a census, of .us live-stock, including Mrs. Wiggins and the young ones, lie broached the subject that was uppermost in my mind -or would have been but for his oteri.ai clatter. " That was a nation smart' trick that 'cre Marwick played onto the bank," he remarked. "I know very little about it." I re plied. "No more do. I," said Mr. Wiggins; "only I learn he done 'em outer a mint o' money." "I've understood as much," I answered; "I tell you, mister, you've got some pesky cute fellows down to York-rale talented chaps as a countryman like me haint no business buckin' agin. One on 'em, t'other day, got me to bet five dollars I could tell which o' three keards bed 'a picter onto it. He laid 'em down in a row-'t'was in a place he'd invited me inter to hev a social Tom and Jerry-and then tutned to chin with the barkeeper while.I was studyin' which keard to pick. "'I've got you now I' think's I, turnin' up the middle keard, which sure enouge it had the picter onto it. I was poorLy sartin of It afore; for the man'd handled the keards so awk'ardly 'at I could see there faces e'enamost as easy as the backs; but I thought I'd jest make sure, an' havin' done so, I put the keard back 'ithout lettin' on. ' 'Air you ready?' sez he, turniin' round. " 'lit's-hit's tlie middle one-I gue-s,' sez I, speakin' douibtful like; for I diidn't, want to senm too sure least he'd suspicion me of haivin' looked. "No 'taint,' sez lie, turnmng it up which 'twere as blank as that 'erc prize I drawed once into the Gultrap loterairy. "'Ifow'sit done I' sez 1, feelin' poorty streaked as lie p)ocketed my money. " 'I've got a p~atent onto it,' sez he, 'but I wouldn', mmid sellin' you a codnity right for another V.' " I told him I was much obleeged, but did~n't think it 'uid do for a stiddy business in the country." I was glad when Mr. Wiggins gave ine a gushing good-day at the next stop~ping place, and left the train. SAnother hour brought . us to a place where ten minutes were a~owed for re freshments. We had hardly stop~pedl when a boy came hurrying through the car in quiring if' Mr. Tlyke was aboard. "''That's my name," I answeredI. " liee's a telegram for you." I tore it opein as the boy hurried, int~o the 'next car as if to deliver another imessage. Mine was this: '"Marwick Is on the train with you, and wvill got off at . lie wears a slouch hat an gray coat,. is..thick-set, and , bahdy legg , and bas a sliglit. stoopr in the shoulders lialso ~carriest a black ueathber satchel. Arrest him on sight. A'cas." 1 bustled out, andl the very first person I eincouintered talliedl so exactly with; the dlescriptlion in the telegram as to leave no dloubt, I had found.imy man. ie madi.mno attempt to flee, but adi vancedl boldly, lookinig ime directly in the fade. "You're may hprisoner I" i said(, abruptly seizing lisa collar. "' i hat's. what 1 call cheeky I" lie replied, pulling loose, and tackling me ; aduing: I rather think you're may pisoner I" A vigorous scuflie ensued. For' a time neither of us went, further than trying to keep his hodon the other. JDu~t may op p)onent, lost Is temper at hwst, amid planted ai b)10w of. his right fhat. (directhy over thy right eye, I " countered '' on- hIs nose, "tap~ping the cjl j" freemy. Both called on tiio bystn ~Z2.ir assistance ; but they only foiimed a riing ani ' exhorted us to, "go10 -t" -. And we were 4going 1$" lively, when a shairp voice brought us 4 , an arinistice. "' llello I-what's this I?' ' inujuired a keen-eyed jolly-faced naa'y in whom I r'ecognized. Captalin Beakel, my chief, whose name was to thQ telegrasi. . "I-'ve got -him1 I ~ said out~ bf breath. "I've--i'Ve got himIin panted my antagonist, quite as aniuch blown mas my self. "Now who Is It that you've pray I" queried the captain looking puzzled. " Durnford blarwick I" we shouted sim ultaneously. I thought the captain would split his sides. "I have your tolegram to arrest the scoundrel!" I said not a little piqued at such levity.. "I have your order to nab the villau on sight," rejoined my adversary. An active renewal of hostilities was Imminent but the captain', stepped in be tween us. "Hold on, Sleuth I Hld on Tyke il" ho interposed. "Let me see those mes sages." Two scraps of paper were thrust Into his baud. The captain laughed loiaer than ever. " So I ou've each boen telcgraplied to arrest the other I" he said. . " Who could have played you such a tridk?" Then the captain inti~duced me to Dick Sleuth-with whom I had already scraped a rather informal acquaintance - as a brother detective from a neighbor ing city. T A fresh telegram was put Into the captain's hand. "HaI this explains it "' he exclaimed. "Marwiek has just been caught disguised as a country man. It ws doubtless he who sent the two telegrgis. le must ha e smoked you both out ton the train. Dick and I shook han'ds looked foolish, and hauled off for repairs. t Turning a VoI out 01 churoh. A certain Mr.' Baily bad lately con tractcd the habit of taki g his dog to church with him. lie waqn ugly look. Ing yellow cur, with long NgIry hair that' harbored an extra quantity f fleas. J ust behind Mr. Baily's pew was that of Mr. Fell, wuo dreaded a flea beyond measure. le was one of those thiin-sinned individ uals for whom fleas have a - special liking, and if ever one got withi a yard of hin, it was bound to get on him, and cause him untold misery. Seeral times since Ilaily had been bringing his dog "to church with him Fell had been compelled to leave in the midst of service-obliged to flc him self. There is little doubt that Baily took his dog iato his pow witihim purely in a spirit of 'aischief, having!Iceme aware of Fell'E peculiar dread of fleas. Fell's efforts to hive thtb dog excluded from the church were of #6 avail. - Baily persisted'ih taking him, and- as he always reniained quietly on a cushion in the pow, and did not disturb the codgregation except by distributing fleas, thd seiton, Mr. Suter, feared to insist upon his expulsion, lest lie might also drive away his wealthy mas ter. One Sunday, When the' fleas had been more than usually troublesome, and Fell had been ignominously dtiven from the church, and had mentally resolved to seek a less lively placs of worshi6, Jony Fell, aged twelve, suddenly astonished Mr. Fell by saying: "Pap, give me a dol&sr'hhd I'll have Mr. Baily's dog turned ' out of church next Sunday morning before preaching Icgins." "Nonsense. Do you think you can in Iluence Buter with a dollar? Why, Bally pays at least tif Ly towards his salary ; I'll give him five dollars any time if he'll agree to keep that miserable cur out, but he's afraid of his place.' "Oh I you just say that you'll give me five, and I'll bet you I'll fix it so he won't bother you any more." "Very well; but, see herp, if you go to playing any pranks in church I'll give you a good tafning, and don't you forget it." "Oh, I'll behave all right in church; don't, take on about thitt." The next (lay Johnny pa-raded the street in front of Baily's house until he got a 2ihance to feed the dog with a; sugar cake. 'rnle took plaice betwceii school hours on Monday. Tuesday it occurred again. By Wednesday quite a friendship had grown up betwveen the boy and the dog, and Johnny coaxed his canine friend to follow him to the residense of another little boy, a certaiin Johnny Pool, who had another little dlog, and here thc Iriendshiip netween the boys and cauines was tirmily cemented. and mucli promioted by the kindness of Johnny Pool's sister, who performed on the organ for them. Sunday rolled round again, and Mr. Fell and Johnny wended their way to church. Mr. Bally ando his dlog were already there. Thle dog stood oa the pew bench, and, iaoking over the back of the pew, wagged his tail as Johniny eniteredl. Mr. Fell scowled at tjic dlog, and Johnny Pooh, three pews off, snickered out so loud that the sextoii, who was in the aisle, heard him and shook lis linger at himn. Then the nunisater entered, and the organ commenced to play, when yow-yow-ow-owp the (log chhnied in. TheIi organist, stoppeCd aigimet, and Daily juimped bolt up~right. Then the organist began again, amth again the dlog joinedl in, with a long, loud yonp thait brought a grin upon tao face of every boy ini the congregation. The minister, who was about to kn'eel at time altar, etraightoited hImself up and marched to the rail."' " Mr. Suiter, " sait lie, '" remove that dlog." Mr. Suter attempted to do it. Mr. Daily maue no oipposiLon, but, the dog did. lie evidently considered the attemplt to remove him as an mnvasion of his rights, and sniappedl at Buiter's hand si viciously that, he prudenitly diesisted from trying to aeize hin: ant puniichmed at him with lis cane. Then the dhog ki-ymecd in a most dog iiaaiic nanrner. TIheni Suter managed to seize hinm by his tall, and raising him alofi, wius rapidly bearing him along the aisle towards t~he dloor, when a sudden squirm brought tuhe dog's mhouth and th~e manm's hand so a lose together that he was dropped am affrighit. 'lHe took refuige under thme legs of sonne boys, apmd fhinaiy Johniny Fell coaxed hhni out, with a sugar cake, and Mr. Daily took him home. ".Johnny," sahit Mr.1All, after church, "what (1id you (10 to that dlog ?".. "Why, Johnniy Pool has a nice little dog tlfat howls every time ho -hears the organ played, and I took Mr. 'laily's clog dhown there andi lie soon learned to howl in com pany with Johnny's dog. Nanny 1'ooh played the organ for use. Then on Satur daiy Johnny took his dog awsay, and Mr. lMaily's dog howled by hinself, just loyely, every tunio Nanny ,played, anti so ho was trained alt right for this morning."? "Oh, you naughty boy I" But Johnny know frwn the twinkle of lis father's eye that he was not very amuch displeased and-tie got lisa flye do:lar.'a Bui anti IHeari Filht in '49, The noments passed slowly; the eagei crowd could not brook delay. The clan orous brass band blow its loudest, but-soor as it paused the shouting and stamping o the multitude was renewed. At length all grew suddenly silent, Al attendan stood at the door of lie pen of "Hercules.' Another ihstant, and the furious animal being loosed, bounded into the arena, With lowered head, his tail madly lashiu his great sides, his eyes burning witl wrath, lie glanced angrily at the crowd, then bellowed and pawed the earth, as i1 to declare his deflance of the fortlcommin foe. At this juncture the mounted Mexi. cans, lassoes in hand, made their appear ance before lui. iistantaneously h< rushed toward one of them, when tht other, with surprising quIckness, threat the lasso over his horns. , This was a sooner done than the rider first attacKed found an opportunity to hurl his lasso also. It, too, fastened itself round the bull'F horns, and lie was thus made stationary mid - a y between the nimble pleadors. A third nian now hastened in. and grasping the unprisoned beast by the tail, twisted it until lie was brought to the ground. While so prostrate, a second assistant lost no time in securing his right hind leg with a long chain. This done, the other end of the cham, by a process of equal dexterity, was bound with thongs to tle left fore leg of the bear, the leg having been first ait fully drawn fron beneath the parlially lifted trap of the cage, which was close at hand. Tht(e trap was now drawn com pletely up, when " Trojan," an cnorious grizzly, weighing some 1,400 pounds, slid carelessly out into the open space. lie had dispatched three foes of the family of the Dne before him, and only a sullen growl, rather of indifference than of rage, indi .ated that he was aware of an approaching Ducounter. The bull, on the contrary, immediately manifeted his eagerness ior Lthe fray. M1oving backward the length of Lhe chain, he so gave the bear a jerk of warning and rushed upon hiini. "Now ye gods of the ancient gladi. %tors 1"' Blair had not time to filish his invocation Jefore the bull had struck the bear like a :huiderbolt and rolled lihn headlong in the lust. " Glorious 11" cried James, excited out, of tls wits. "Glorious!" "' Keep your seat--sit down I" respondea Blair, seizing his conirade by the xtremity Af his rather short coat. "You are worse than a woman." "Look at him, loon at the bull getting ready again " continued James, mechan ically suming his place. " 14c isn't hurt. At ilm again, old fellow I" And the horned beast did "at him" with redoubhd fury. This time, however, Bruin was ready to give hiim a more suitable reception. As he dashed against him. 4e oltsped his arms around the neck' ot Taurius, and hugged him like a huge vise. Tihe bull choking, struggled desperately to freedlnisalf. .Finding this impossible, lie sought to drive his sharp horns into the ribs of his auliagonist. This lie succeeded in doing, goring a horrible gash. But Bruin was now prepared to return the injury with a yet mure terrible retaliation. & moment these mighty foes writhed in 31ose struggle ; when the bear seizing in lis massive jaws one entire side of the bull's face, crushed it as if it had been inade of papei. The cracking of the bones, is Bruin ground tliemi between his great Ceth, brought the first grand demoustration Eroma the audience. Now rose cheers fron indreds of throats, and resounded the leafeing clapping of hundreds of hands. l'ho dreamy-eyed daughters of Spain were lot less enthusiastic than the maic meni >ers of the assembly. They, too, cried, bravo" and with their own peculiar frace, wvaved their handkerchiefs in ex )ression of unmistakable delight. As for Jamnes bwilling, he was entirely beeilde uunaself with the general excitemnict, but >articularly !because of his intense sym athy for the wor-stedl combatant. " Thunderation t~o Juiiter !" lie shouted; "let go of that." I don't believe the bear hears ye," answered a clownish boy fromn the next tier f seats below. Jamses certainly did not hear the observa tion of the boy, for wi cliniched hands and firmily closed teeth lie continued to rivet Is g -ze upon the exhausted, bleed ing brutes an the arena. TIhese had now, from slheer inability to longer grapple, ar rived at a suspension of hostilitIes. 'They itrew themselves apatrt the length of the chain, anid stood peacefully eyeing one another as if to say, ''We are very equally matchied ; let us call it a draw~ game ad attend to our wvouni.'' 'Tnis wvouldl seem a very conuniendable course under the circumistan~ces ; huit it was altogether too dull for the aud(ientco, The nuanagers had1( pronmised a fIght to be teaimi nated only by death; acecordingly they leaped into the inclosuire and goaided the bleeding brutes with spears until, remad dened with p~ahn, they aigaina rushed upon each other. It was a brit-f close, tor' the bull, sumamoning till his strength, struck the bear oii the lower jaw and shi vered it. "TVhcre, there, now you've got it old fellow I'' craedh Jamies, the boy who tut ned paulo at the sight of blood in the El Dorado. The hard side of him was, at present, up~permiost ; indeced, lie was wholly changed -so much so that lie would not hiave known himself had lie stopped to considcr his feeling and conduct. SBravo I bravo I" shouted the specta tors. Tlhe~ air wvas filled with this exulting cry. The contest, waus enaded ; botii combaitats were prostrated in the Oust, neither of themi over to rise again. limnediately the chain wits removed fromi their limp and useless liimbs, anad horses being hitched to: thiem, groanuing and weitering in their own amid oam another's blood, they were imerci lesshy dragged out of the arc.ua. OLtuiblainus. It isatnut neccesanry that the feet shioukl be actually frozen to produce chilblains. Chaildren ofteni sulTer Intensely from thu cause; after playinag oJut of doors in the snaow and getting their feet very cold they come unto the house anid warm their feet by the lire. These sudden chan~ges produce ar unhuealthy condition of the skin of the feet, the proper circulation is interfered with, and': there is Iitense itching and burning. The following was a popular chilblaim lotIon seine years ago: " a-Aoniascai oz , Water I gill, Alcohol j gill, and Mnrantin Acidt 1 dtram The P0101nit In aries. It Is a significaut fact, wat the beleif in fairies is most rife in the most thoroughly Celtic portions of our islands-Wales, Devon and Cornwall,' Derbyshire, the Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland. These are also the parts where the Euskarian or Iberian population has. most largely sur vived, and it is in these districts that the fairies most retain their primitive cliarac teristic as mischievous people, Injuring cattle and causing sickness among chil. dren. Here, too, the use of fairy charms to counteract such mischief, the hoarding of elfin shots and thunderbolts, and the employment of euphemistic or conciliatory language about the "good peoplo," is gen oral. In Teutonic Esgland, on the other hand, the fairies have dwindled into mere pretty oectic fancies enshrined in children's tailes, are muade beautiful by the genius of Shakespeare; their mischief has become mere playful trickiness. Yet eyen In Teu tonic England, especially in early times, many traces of fairy worship and propitia tion still lingered on, in which it is dillicult to disentangle the element of ances'or worship ron the element of propitiatory sacrifices to hostile ghosts. There was au early English family of ,lifingsor descen (lants of the elves, and they have left their traces at Alphington in Deivon, Alvington in Gloucester, Somerset, and Devon, and Alvimghaim in Lincoln. But all these counties are noticeable for the large pro portion of Euskarlan blood which they still retamn, and so these sons of the elves may really he Anglicised clans of primitive elfish (escent. The word oflf and elf occurs con stantly in Anglo-Saxon mimes, and it may have reference, either to the ancestral spirits or to the notion that the fairies must be propitiated by being invited to th birth of a child. Thus we have the name lfgifu (usually modernized into Elgiva), meamn1ig "the gift of tIe elves," just, as Godgifu (similarly tortured into Oudiva) means "thn gift of God." Alfred, origin iaily Alf-red, means "'the rede (or coin sol) of the elves." 1-lfrie is elf-rich; and ;Elfstan, a very significant name, is the elfstone. +lgar, tEltheai, (St. Alphego,) Sfhcro, .Elfinier, ;E lfnoith, -lEifweard, and 'lfwire are formed in the same inin ner; time last three mean respectively, elf victory, elf protection, and friend of the elves-all of thei names prognant with meaning. We see their full signillcanco when we l:ut them sido by side with other names compounded with seai, a stone, such as +thielstan, noble stone; Wulfstan, wolf stone; Dunstan, Ealhstan, and Frithe stan. All show the long surv.% al of the an cient elf and stone worship, whose relics are to be found in our midst to the present day. In the Isle of Skye, monoliths exist in almost every parish, and libations of milk are still poured out upon them, doubt less to prevent thle drying up of the cow's udder; and in Ireland, to a very late periodl, the fairies were formally invited on the occasion of a birth. lest they might In. jure the child through spito at the neglect shown to their dignity by not informing them of the event. Ca the other haid, it is worLth. notice that ieitioni is made .in Anglo-Saxon works of hostile spirits which harm in and beasts, ihough, of course, not under the heathben anie of elves: "The neat they sting as it wends through the held; the kine they destroy; the horse they bow, they hew him with hor4s."' And we have an Anglo-Saxon spell which dircets that, if witchcraft has spoiled.a farm, the farmer should build an altar, lay on it milk from each cow and a leaf from each herb, sprinkle the whole with holy water, and pronounce a Christian form of prayer. Here, surely, we may see Chris tinnity used as a defense against the power of the elves. " Where's congress? I'm looking for congress,'' said a tall, one-eyed woman, p~eering through one of the doors of the llouse of Representatives, the other miorn lng. '' Is that felhowv with a bald head congress." "What, do you want, wihm Congress, anmy hosw I" demanded a dleputy doocr keeper gruilly. "'liold on ? you can't go in there I " "I caiie from Bucks county, Pa., to see Congress, and if you've got it on draught anywhere around here, I want sonic. What's the reason I can't go in there ?" "Cause you can't. Nubody allowed here but mieimbers " " That red-headed man with a squint a imemtber Y" ''No; lie's one of thie members' secreta rica. He lias a right, on the floor." "Is that lop sided chap with a wig on 3 of the secretaries C" "No ; lie's a friend of a member. hind a pass." SWhat's that bare legged boy falling over thme back of a chir H las lie got any friends?'' "Ibe's one of the pages. " "Who's that redl nosed artist, with a sorec ear I Did lie have a pass?" "'IThat's a messenger, lie don't iieed a pass." "What's that fellow with his legs oni a deski is he one of the bosses?" "I e is one of thle clerks. " "'Any of them fellows pay anty taxes I" "I think not. Doii't know," said the door-kreper indifferently. "Now, young feller, you waiit to huiit for room to stanid in while I bust through this door. D~on't fool with me, or your friends will think you've been doing b'usi ness with a steam grmd~stonie. I pay taxes on three acres anid eight pigs upl in llucks county, aiid I'm going through thais 'ere congress like a contribution box fil r >igh a conigrega',ion. You just crawl out of sight, if you domi't want your spine to chiingo places with the necxt township." "Where's the Congress fro~m Bucks county ? Show me the Bucks coimty Coma gress, and if .he dlon't get, a bill through this town to scnd that haro-lhpped old sky. rocket, who wants to foreclose a mnorgagec on my [place, to the pienitentiary, he'll wish he'd beck borii a tree and~ cut dlown aiiu burned up when lie was young. P'oinmt, out the Congress fromi Ducks county before I have you inside out, to sce how you're put together. Te'll am I can't go in amiong a lot, of clerks, passes and pages 1 If there's a square foot of Congress left by thme time I reach It, it'll wish it was covered with hair that omnee out without hurting2 Th'iey induceed her to leave by telling tier that the " Congress from Bucks county " held Its ses~ions in the paftent oflice, and she departedJ, threatening to get the bill disposing of her mortgage through before she left town, or make the Bucks county member think a " cier barrel had busied under him just as a shot tower fell on top) of him," Early Printing in Awiga, The first work known to h'Ae been printed in America 'was a sbrtz hs.nd book for the Spanish priests, issued in It4)l living the following title: "Christophor. us Cabrera Burgenses ad lectorem facel baptismi minster. Eicolon Ieg$tichon." The author was Christopher Vabrera, of Burgos, Old Castde. The la4or, portion of the book is translated as follows: "This manu J for adults was printed in the great city of Mexico, by the comnaid, and at the expense of the most reverend men, Bishops of Spain, at the house .of Juan Uomberger, h the year of the nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand live hundred and forty. On the 13th day of the month of December." But one copy of this work, and that Badly mutilated, is known to be inl existence, it is in a private library at Madrid. Combergqr, .who has thus achieved Immortality as being the first )rinter in America, died iu Mexibo about A. D. 1544. Before leaving Snain, he had been the proprietor of a large printing office at Beville. After his death his fore man, Juan Pablos, who had followed his master to Alexico, succeeded to the pro. prietorship of the first American press. The first book known to have been printed in South America was a Yocabulary, issued at Lima, Peru, 1580. The first printing Unice In the English colonies wias estab. lisled at Cambridge, Massachusetts in January, 1039. Atnong its early issues was the Bay '.in Book, "a liost barbar ous inetrica -ersion of the :Psalms of David," print el by Stephen Daye.- Josiah Thomas' listory of Printing, notes as a singularity in this book that "at the head of every left hand page the word 'Psalim in spelled as it should be; while at the head of every right-hand page it has an e final' thus 'Psaline.' " Copies of, the look' are rare, and it is said that a perfect one would now bring five hundred dollars. The crowning achievement of the Cambridge p)ress was the production of Elliot's Indian Bible, in 1653. This is now a book that no ina can read the nation in whose tongue It is written having long since passed away, leaving no trace of lheir lan iuage sive in this book and in the euphon ious nates they have bestowed uipon cur - Lain localities in the Empire State;. Makinu tkh non or the Uurso. In Fiance, when a horse has reached the ,ig of tweniy or thirty, it is destined for a enumiial factory; it Is first relieved of its uair, w.Iich servos to stuIr. cushions and saddleA; then itiis slaughtered andskinnuled; Lhe hoofs serve to make combs. Next the carcass is placed in a cyhnder and cooked by wtin at a pressure of three atms-. tiroie; -a cock is opeied, which allowsi the grease to be run off; - then the remains are cut up, the leg bones are sold to make knife. handles, ec., and the coarser, the ribs, the head, etc., are converted into animnial black and glue. The firsi are cal cined into cyhntlers, and - the vapots when coudeuspd forina Lie chipf. sourco-of car ite of tyllthe is an animal oil yielded which' makes a capital insecticide and a vernifuge. To niake glue the bones are dissolved in mur iatic acid, which takes away .tW phos phate of linie, the soft residu4 retaining the shanlpe of the bone, id diisolved in boil ing water, cast into squares, a(i dried On nets. fe i)los)hate of lime', acted upon by sulphuric acid and caleined with car. bon, produces phosphorns for lucifer miatches. Tile reniaihing ilesh Is distilled to obtain the carbonate .of. aniuiiia; the resulting nass is pidunded tp with botash, then mixed with old nails and iron of every diescrilpion; the whole is calcined and yields magnificent yellow crystals--prus siate of potash, with whicn tissues are diyed a Prussian blue, and iron transferred nitesteel; It also fornms the basis of cyan ide of potassium and prussie acid, the two inost terrible p~oisons known in chemistry. Lion of Lucerno, Th'lis lion isa an immense followv,scut out f the perpenidicular side of a ledge of rocks >n the outskirts of the town. It is unique tn design and worthy of,its constructor, tihe scuilptpr Thior waldsen. I have seen other Lionis in atone--famous ones, too-Land. seer's in London, the Duke of Northum.. bcrlandl's, which formerly stood'ovyer the gate near Charing Cross, the winged lion of St. Mlark's at Venice, anid others of less celebrity, but I do not 'remember any which struck me so foircibly as this. T1he othiers arei solid lions, cuit from large blocks of stone; this Is partially in rollef though the whole figure is there. It hooks like a grotto in the side of a mnountanin in which the lion is lying, one paiw Stretched upon the Bourbon lily which he is g'uarding with his (lying breath, for lie lias been transfixed by an airow and is breathing hIs last. Tihl imnument wats executed in honor of the f amous Swiss G4uard of Louis XVI. anid Marie Antoinette, which fell while defeniding them at the beginning of the French itevohution, and ther ' 11 a Latin Iiscriptionm cut, in the0 rock effect. At the bottom of '.le rot the lion is a little p)011( formed by a I' at the top. In front of the pond( bei e are placed where one -an sit doi and ou serve the hioni at lis leisure. This lhoness ats distinguishing a feature of Luagerne as the liighi itself, and1( the stranger never fails to visit it. It is a favorite diuodel for the wood carver, anid copies or it of all sizes and prices are to be found in every shop1 aind mostL of them are well executed. 't'hiere is scarcely anything else of lunpor lanice ini the town to look at. Whore wai(as, ineno4u.u It was at, Saci'amnento, last year, during the "Session;" time, midnight, when two of the boys parted thus: "Good night, old mian-I leave you hero. Have to sit up with a sick friend. By the way1 do me the favor, as you may pass my room on your way to bed, to step in and'disarrange it; turn down. the clothos and; rumple the pillo0Wa. My .d(oor is i49vetlooked, anid when the others loolip 0ACbreakaest time they will see that I amn off. 'tndfatandr' "All right, said Nd. A Th'iey met at ndon. In rejfly to vigorous upbraidlng, No. 2 said: "Si dId -diearrange your room, put water laI the basin, rura. blel the~ towelis, tore the bed to pieces why, room seventeen Idoked all f there had been a fightin " " Seventeen? 'Godd -gracions,' that's wrong?- Trhatvs the D64cQ48-toolei" "The dickens it isi Then, where was the Deacon?"