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be . Nrw- _. _ T11WEE LYEDTIN W INNS BORO, S. C., MA.Y 26, 1881- ESTABLISHED 1865. AT RIGHTFALL. Coming along by the meadows, Just aftor the sun went down, Watching the gathering shadows Creep over the hillside brown. Coming along in the gloaming, With never a star in the sky, My thoughts went a-roaming, a-roaming Through days that were long gone by, Days when desire said, "To-morrow, To-morrow, heart, we'll be gay I" Days ere the heart heard the sorrow Which echooa through yesterday. Life was a goblet burnished, That with love for wine was filed; The cup is bruised and tarnished, And the precious wino is spilled, But to the traveler weaty, Just co 14ik in sight of home, What does it matter how dreary The way whereby he has come ? Coming along by the meadows, And watching the fading day, Duskier than night's dusky shadows Foll shadows of yesterday; In the northern sunsot's glimmer, The Great Bear opened his eyes , Low in the east a shimmer Showed whore the full moon would rise. Lights in a window were gleaming, And some one stood at the gate, Bald, "Why do you stand there dreaming? And why are you home so late ?" Yesterday's shadow and sorrow That moment all vanished away I Hcre were to-day and t:-morrow What matter for yesterday ? Nobly Avenged. Uncle Hlarry suddenly looked up from his evening paper at the beautiful girl stand. iug beside the window, whispering to the canary,that fluttered its gold-colored wings and reached its bill for the lump of sugar she held for it. "Maud, what was that young fellow's name who was down at Milton's Hotel last summer--that handsome young chap that used to come up here of ovenmgs and sing?" Maud felt a little warm flush on her face, and was conscious of a curious little un steadiiness in her voice as she met the old gentleman's eyes. "Malcohn Carlyou," she answered, and it seemetd that her voice caressed the name -as only a woman's voice Aan caress the name of the beloved-while a brighter, more conscious flush warmed her cheeks. "Yes--Malcolm Carlyonl I thought I recognized the name. He's married, I see.'' And, as if Death had suddenly laid his cold hand on her, the lovely flush faded sharply, leaving her as white as ever she would be when that icy touch should come. - "Married? Married? It can't be true. It must be somle other Carlyon " Sihe reached out for the paper, her sur. prise, her dismay, in her eyes; but it was very plainly recorded there-' 'Malcolm Carlyon, of Forest Dale, to Emihe Rose Lynton, daughter of James Pitt Lynton, Esquire, of the Laurels, Bristol-and she had heard him speak of Miss Lynton many a time. Well, it was the first keen sorrow of the girl's li , and she laid the paper down,and went u5 to her room alone, and cried, and bobbed, and writhed with this crully mur dered love, that was the very first love her girl's heart had ever known-that was no less a pain to her to endure that Malcolm Carlyon had not in so many words told her he loved her, For,. in a hundred ways, he had shown her that she was dearest to him, and she had -for all her maidenly modesty--not entirely hidden her sweet preference from him. And he had gone away, leaving such beautiful hopes in her heart, and now Hie was marriedi Up in- her room she had her first fight with her fate; and when, an hour or two later, she came down into the parlor again, she had silenced, conquered it---and Lau. rence Ulyn, stepp~ing forwat d to meet her, thought he han never seen her look so fair, and sweet, and subdued.' "I am so glad to find you at home and * looking more charming than ever, Miss Tudor, though your cheek has lost its roses5." "Palo? Am lI I think not. Perhaps my dress makes me appear so. I never lhked myself in aniy shade of gray." le linked her arm familiarly through his. They had boon friends for years tis~ rich, hiandlsomie man, who was twice Maud's age, but who, for all his wealth,had never touched the girl's heart. "And I like you in anything, my clear Maud. I have come to you to-night pur posely to asa you to be my wifel My dar liig, anm I to have that great, undeserved hiappiiness? Can you love me, little one, with the first, the pure love of your girlish heart?" 8he drew a quick little breath, thon diropped her lovelhy eyes. "I cannot see, why you want me, Lau rence; but if-you (do-" And a month al terwards, when they stood at the altar, Laurence Gilyn knew nothing, suspected nothing of the ashes pied on the grave of the buried love in his wife's hearte-the love for Malcolm Carlyon that hiad faded into cool, white ashes.. "But I can never forget him," Mrs. Lau rence Olyr, said to her own heart--"I can never forgets aiid I will never forgive himl My turn will come." A s ear lk.acrt ihI. Mrs. Malcolm Carlyon, leaning on her husban~d's arm, asked him who the elegant, distinguilshed lady was, in blac- velvet and satiin, ami diamonds, to whonm (oneral Howard was talkwg. Ain'd on this lis first sogial entertainmneia since lis return from abroad with his wife, Malcolm Carhyon looked on Mrs. Gilyn's builiant, sma ag face--thie taco lhe liad thought fairest, sweetest above all other faces, and that for a few little days he had almiost decided to obtain for his own, at which to look, at the head of his table. Bunt, with pretty Maud Tludor, the Can lyon table would have been poverty.-stricken comiparitively, for yesars, while. Emilie Lyxiton had a fortune ,waigfrhmt spend.aiigfrhmt "Who ls she, Malcohn? How 1 do die like having repeat a ques Ion, and you do at t and~ so mysteriously." TIhe s~a 7.spimlh voice was beginning to sicken l1.. ready. Months ago ho had told hims~ 'hat a cruel wrong ho had done him4Ino eking for life to this doll '(' cate, fretful, pampered child of wealth and now, when he came so enddenly upo Maud Tudor-no, Mrs.'Laurence Glyn-a handsome, so brilliant and blooming-. Well, such mistakes will go on beln made, so long as human hearts are ambi tiou,. Mr. Carlyon looked indulgently down I his wife's sallow, peevish face, his bear throbbing juqt a beat faster thau was usual "That? Mrs. Glyn, I believe I hear sume one say." "Oh " in a relieved tone of voice; thought, maybe, from your mysterowines and the way you looked, she might be a old flame of yours. Why, Malcolm, sh doe8 know youl" For General Howard, with the fair queei of beauty and fashion on his arm,and con lug towards them, Mrs. Glyn smiling gra ciously. "It surely is Mr. Carlyon," she said, a she gave him her hand. "We were oh friends, I think," she added. coldly court cous; and Malcolm Carlyon's heart gav< a dull, smothered throb, as he thought hov completely she had forgotten the little epi sode in her life. "It is like a woman, to put such a mem ory forever out of her life," he thought, bitterly, as she passed on, as if further un conscious of his existence. "I think I shall go home," Mrs. Carlyor said, Imperiously. "There is nothing hert to amuse me, and I fancied Herbert wa not as well as usual when nurse took hia to put him to sleep. Get my wraps, Mal. colm, and take me home." He was willing enough to go, and the thought of his new baby-boy, not yet threc months old, made him forget Maud Glyn and the past. While she, walking away on General HIoward's arm, said to herself sharply "He has forgotten it! But I have nove forgotten, and I never can forget?" And when a score of years,with all their lights and shades, their pleasures and pains, had been marked off her life, she had noi forgotten. "Mamma, I have come to tell you some. thing. Will you listen?" Mrs. Laurence Glyn looked up from th< letter she was writing, with the fond, ten, der smile she always gave her beautiful da-ghter-a shy, sweet girl of seventeen, so like what the mother had been at the same age. "You want a new dress, er some other ne. essity, from the non-possessiou of whiclh you are suffering so terribly?" Her soft. white hand, jeweled and strengthful, smoothed the girl's lair hatr, and she smiled down at the ilushed,hushed face. "Not a new dress, Lily, or a trinket, or another new pet pony? Child, what is it? Not"-and a quick, strange look came into her eyes-"you do not mean flerbert Car. lyon?" "That is what I meaa. Oh, lie says he loves me, and-" "And you told him what, Lilyt" '-1 said it must be just as you said, mamma," Lily replied "And you-care for him? You are such a child-the merest babyl What do you know of the love that sways hearts, and 'makes or wrecks a human life?" Lily looked up in her mother's stormy passionful eyes. "I know I care a great deal for him," she said, simply. "Yet you will tell him 'no,' Lily! When lie demands your answer, tell him your mother says 'nol' Lily. you have always been a dutiful daughter, and in this I ex. poet your usual obedience. For years I have been wailug, and now my turn has come! Tell Malcolm Carlyon's son I say no! no! no!" The girl's lip 4ivered, and her face paled. "But, mamma, it will break my heart, for I love him, and lie loves me just as well." Mrs. Glyn laughed coldly. "That is all nonsense about your heart breaking. I tell you I know that hearts do not break so easily! And as to love-von are two babies to talk of such a timing. ~All the same, I command that you tell him what my decison is." ''Bat, oh, mamma-" Mr's. 0 yn passionately interrupted thes piteous remonstrance. "I tell you I have only lived for this houl! There is no 'but' about it, Lilly-it is nothing but 'no' to Malcolni Carlyon's son." And Lily Glyn crept away, to cry out her sorrow to herself. T wenty-four hours later, a servant took to Mrs. Glyn a card from a gentleman waiting in the parlor, and she went down, with a cold, passionless face, and deliber ate repose ot manner, to look upon Mal colm Carlyon's face for the first time since her widowhood ten years before. iHe was so like he used to be-of course showing that he was twenty years older but, she thought, even handsomer, than In his younger days. Nevertheless, lien well disciplhned heart (lid not quicken or lessen its steady beats, and she w'~ed courteously, not even won deringifl:is thoughts had gone flying back to the last time they stood alone In Maud Tudor's home. "Perhaps it is needful for nme to apolo gize for intruding, Mrs. Glyn," lie began; but she hastened to assure him his presence, although a surprise, was no more an Intru sion than dozens of calls she rece1.ved daily. "It is a very serious matter that bringr me," he continued, with grave earnestness, "andl you will allow me to Introduce it al the beginning. I have come on behalf of my son, whose happiness is at stake, and who has been refused by your lovely daughter, in obedience to your comimind. Is this correct, Mrs. Glyin?" Hie stood looking in her face, still very enchantingly fair. *"It is entirely correct, Mr. Carlyon, Your son has been refused by my daugh. ter; In obedience to my explicit commands. Not a word beyond the bare actual state ment. "But, pardon me, you may not knots how fondly they are attachicd to each other Burely you cannot know what a terrlbh n'isfortune it will be to them to boe need lessly, cruelly separated!" "I understand the ' condition of m) daughter's affairs better than any one else 1 think, Mr. Carlyaon; and as to your 80on, you can hardly expect me to take an inter. est either way. All I have said is, Lilj cannot marry him,and Lily shall niot miarr3 him," "And you can so deliberately break tw< young heartal" She smiled, looking steadily In his eyes "It sounds rather odd t eayou. pl..e fzr them, lost their hearts break; when,not i so very long ago,you succeeded in- Well, hearts do not break so readily; and if they did, what matter? It is only a life, more or less, that is ruined." "Maudi" he exclaimed, In a sudden, horrifled tone. "I am glad you have called me by my t name,' she said,coldly. "I have nt heard it since my husband died, and it strengthens me in my desire for revenge upon you[" His eyes kindled passicnately. "And you will kill our children to wreck 3 your revenge upon met Well, it is useless i to plead with such a woman as you have 3 grown to be." "Entirely useless," she repeated, haugh tily. "Go and tell your darling boy the story of his father's younger days, and let him judge whether you are the perfect man he thinks you." And, as he went back to his magnificent I ionc, where his son awaited his coming in feverish impatience, Malcolm wondered whether It was his sin returning to curse him. A week later, Lily went to her mother, with pale,resolute face and a steady gleani in her eyes, that was her father over again. "Mamma," she said, very quietly-an ominous calm it was-"p1erhaps you do not know that Herbert is lying dangerous ly III of brain fever? Mr. Carlyon's physi clan has just been to tell me his reason, his life, depends upon my being with him; I and, mamma, I am going to him, because : we love each other. Oh, mamma," and the steady voice faltered, and the tears sprang to her eyes, "if I might only go with your consent, your blessing?" Mrs. Glyn turned her head away. "You will go at all events, Lily?" "Maumna, I love him. Wouldn't you do as nuch-so little- for anyone you loved?" Ah, she would have died, In those early days, for this sick boy's tatherI "Wait," she said "until I come back." 1 And while Lily sat crying and praying, I her mother went to Malcolm Carlyon, and 1 was shown to the bedside of the delirious boy, where his father sat in hopeless an guish, looking at the fever-flushed facethe tangled, curling hair. le looked up as she entered. "Your worki" lie said, sternly, as lie pointed to the bed. "But I will atone! Oh, Malcolm, I am sorry, sorry, sorryl Lily is coming to him, and I will stay and fight death with him! He will live-he shall live,' and heaven will forgive mel" And he sprang towards her, pale and passionful, and lifted both her hande to his lips. "It is my own little Maud again! Yes, lie will aet better now. The doctor says lie will, if Lily conies; and Maud-Maud, cannot we go back to that day so long ago, when I wanted to ask you to bless my life?" Will you come to me now, dear?" iA'd when Herbert and Lily were mar ried-si.i moothsq afterwards--another cer emony was performed, and Maud Carlyon's heart was at peace for the first time in Years and years. Au old hkin flint. "Talk about your mean Dien," said old Pioneer Skinderson, at Phil McGovern's saloon, San Francisco: "the very tightest, closest, far seeing, calculating old skin flint I ever seed, was old Klamskatter, the mine superintendent, who died up at Gold Hill the other (lay." "Was, eli ?" encouragingly remarked a customer who was feeding Phil's bulldog with petrified sandwiches from the lunch table. "Yes sir-ee; lie was just pizan, lie was; closer than the bark of a tree. When lie was running the Hornet mine up at Vir ginia, lie used to skulk around the levels disguised as a mule tenderjust to pipe off the men who didn't keep hard at it, so as to dock 'em the next Saturdaiy." "Why the dern cuss!'' "But wait. He actually encouraged a drill-runner to tell a long story one day while they were waiting for some machine ry to be rep~airedl, and afterward docked the man half a day, and all the fellows that heard it four bits ap~iece for stopping to laugh, Hie charged oiio man ten ceiits for a single grin." "Great Gosh I" "That's nuthin.' Sim Briggs,who was up on the lode whieni the miser died, said that about an hour before Klamskatter passed ini his checks lie sent for the doctor; and says he :'Doc, give us the straight buisl ness. Is there any show for me ?" "'Nlary show," say the doctor ; 'you'll strike bedrock afore nmght.' " 'Then says old Klamnskatter, 'I want somne ot you fellows to carry me lip to Mount Davidson right off. If I can light out from there it will save my soul a clear mile of transportation.' " "And did they do it?"' asked a man who had walked over by the stove, "Wall, no, replied the narrator, simply. "The boys took him over, put hini on the cage, and let him down to the lowest level of the Hornet Instead. 'They said that they guessed lie had made a little mistake about the direction somehow. . To the best of their judgement, his soul was going the other way. Hlow They Tak e Their Todl. Melasses in mine, said the grocer. I waiit a phlegm cutter, said the tailor. Give us a mixed driink, said the apothe cary. An eye opener will do for me, said the oculist. Birch beer, saidi the lumber merchant. Liquiid lightning Is mine, said the elec trician. ill take a high lonesome, said the aero naut. Trot me a cock-tail, said the milliner. Give us something with a straw, said the farmier.' Pure spir'ite in mine, said time parson. A boirbon for me, saidl the politician. Give it to us straight, saidl the reporter. I take it smoking hot; saidi the fireman. Mineral Water's mine, said tihe geolo gist. Egg nogg, said the produce dealer. I'll take a little gin, said the white washer. Give us some of . your favorite brand, said the miller. GIn sling, said the ball player. Rye whisky is my poison, said the phy sician. *Liquid perspiration in thme shape of eider brandy, is my tipple, said the proprietor of the Turkish bath house. i'll take mine~plain,'said the carpenter. Sour mash whisky, said time clerki. Shooting the Walrus. The Schooner San Diego, Captain Catlh cart, arrived at San Francisco, recently after a five months' cruise in pursuit of walrus among the Islands of Behring's Sea. The ivory and oil of these huge hyperpor. cans are utilized for various manufacturing purposes, but the market heretofore has been supplied by whalers, who, when whales were scarce, eked out a cargo with the product of the walrus. To the usual articles of ivory and oil the San Diego had added the hides, of these immense animals. Walrus abound In immense numbere among the islands of Behring's Sea. Like the seal they clamber up on the rocks and beaches, and, huddling closely, sleep for days without movement. In this condition they can be readily approached and by skilled marksmen, shot at will. The crew of the San Diego shot seven hundred in one shoal on the beach at Hall Island before the myriads composing it took to the water for safety. Many of them weighed over 8.000 pounds. Owing to a violent storm but two hundred of this number were secured. Near Cape Upright, and the southeastern end of St. Matthew's Island ighty- ne were shot, another storm occur ing during which both anohors were lost, >blged the return of the vessel before the ,ruise wa.i half completed. Heretofore the nethod of capturing walrus has been with he harpoon. The alarm which this method reated soon rendered It impracticable. The >lan adopted by the crew of the San Diego was for each man armed with a Winches er or Sharpe rifle, to approach the sleeping Animals cautiously and shoot at the partic Alar portion of the skull covering the brain. Any failure to penetrate the brain does not till. The front of the head is impervious .o a bullet. and the neck is so well protec. ,ed by the blubber that a ball produces no >ther effect than to alarm and excite the animal, and thus cause the entire shoal to take to ihe water. Every sho'. must kill ustantly without producing any commo Lion or the game disapears. The walrus La very stupid unless disturbed, when it ights with gecat power. Throwing its immense head back so as to elevate the tusks to a horizontal position, it springs rorward, and by the rapid move of the tead strikes with an unerring aim any >bject within three or four feet. Woe to the alan or animal within the limit. le is tranfixed in a moment. Fights aiongthe males are frequent and terrific, often ter minating in the death of one or both. Few remales are found in the Behring's Sea iuring the summer months, the theory among hunters being that they pass this sagon with their young in the Arctic and appear beloN the straits late in the fall and winter. Unlike the seal, they have a habit )f sleeping in the water with the head par tially exposed. The ivory of the walrus iells readily for forty-five or fifty cents per pound. Bilihard balls, canehieads and all ivory articles of similiar size are made of it here, but the larger part of it is sent to China and notA extensively in the manu racture of Chinese ornamente. The oil is equal in quality to whale oil, commands the same price, and i. used for the same purposes. The hides are from one and a balf to two inches in thickness. WhenI tanned they furnish a auperior article of ielting for heavy machinery, and are un mrpassed for polishing sil -er plate. White bears are numerous in Behring's Sea, and the crew of the San Diego obtained the skins of seven or eight that tbey had shot ia the islands. They also killed a number of large cinnamon bears in Alaska. On one occasion, while engaged in the slaugh ter of walrus on Hall Island, a hunter, while in the act of reloading his gun, was itartled by a rustle on the beach, looked %round, and to his great dismay, beheld an mnormous white bear within twenty feet of lie spothe occupied. Dropping his gun, he started on a run, and was followed hotly by he bear, who gained on him at every leap. A. comrade perceiving his dhanger, directed us aim at the ferocious beast, and was fortunate enough to kill him, but not until ie was in leaping distance of his intended wrey. TIhe climate of Behring's Sea is coldl md~ foggy, andl daylight (luring the mnth >1 July is of about eighteen hours' dura ion. Very little ice is to be seen there n the summner ; the islands are barren, and he whole region unp~romnising for any >thier than fishing and maritime purposes. )wlng to the shallowness of the water, torms there, which a frequent, make a rery turbulent and dangerous navigation. Ahunting Alligators. A traveler In the South says the Tusca. willa Is one of a class of boats peculiar to he Ocklawaha. Shie is fiat-bottomed, with bree large decks, a fourth ar d smaller one >cing over the pilot.-house amid captain's atate-room, and forming the best stand for ahooting alligators. In her well-f urniishied sabmn, contamning among other things, a :abinet organ, we spent nmany pleasant Gours. Short and wide, and built squarely ip from the water, with a row of green mhutters running along each side, time boat looks like a floating house. Stern-wheels are the only kinid used on the river, and just back of this cascade makimg wheel is a double rudder, which gives great power in turning the innumerable sharp angles of the river. When I arose at 6 o'elock the next morning, and had been greetedl by the early-risers on the dock with "good afternoon," I found we were sonic thirty miles up the Ocklawahma, and~ about seventy miles from Palatka, the diitanco from the latter place to Lake Griflin, to which we were goipg, being about 200 miles. Before gtoing into a wel-cooked and heartily en joyed breakfast, 1 had time to appreciate the strangeness and beauty, of the river. Its narrow channel, running in a southerly direction from the 80. John, into which the river empties, winds about in the shortest and sharpest curycs to such an extent that the ascending steamer runs now north, now south, thon east, then west. Seldom can be had a clear view of over 500 feet of the river, and~ at almost every tuara there ms some puzzle to tell where is the way that will let the boat through the suir rouiiding forest. The average width of the river is between seventy-five and 100 foot. The water is shallow, and occasionally thme grating of the boat on a sandl-bar can be felt. The winding of the stream, with its bordering masses of semi-tropical vegeta tion, makes a series ~of ever changing and naost lovely pictures. 'I lie gigantic cypress, many feet ina circumaference, towemrs abgve the shorter growth of palmettoes, live 6aks, water ofks andi maples, wvhile their bases are hidden biy a jungle-like thicket of young growthi; Spanish bayonets, fallen trees and btmshes, all bound together by and covered with a mass of clingiug ,lnes. Upon LiWe trunks of the palmettoes grows a species of air plant, and on the live oak lranches here and there are green, large r bunches of mistletoe, while from the brancl-es of all the trees droop the long l streamers of the Spanish moss. The green, u of the forest and the blue of the sky, ro- c fiected in the smooth water, make up scenes worthy of the study of an artist. There a must be some soil for these trees to grow d from, but it is seldom perceivable. Ont both sides of the river there is an almost bi continuous swamp. Like the Canadian t( Baugenay's banks, much of the Ocklawahma's ] are primeval-unchanged by the hand of Li man, untrodden by his foot. The banks LI of the former wonderful river are untrod- 1 den because man can not reach the heights, h the latter because there is nothing to tread t upon. There are a few landings upon the c river, some of them bulit on piles, and t reached through the swamp on timbers o and planks by the wood and provision- ri selling "Crackers," who live back from the river oi the occasional high ground. ni Silver Springs, is the terminus of the regu- f lar trips of the beat; but was but a half- tL way place to us. It is a basin of water 200 of feet across, and the water is so clear that a th five-cent mckle thrown in at a depth of P1 sixty feet can be distinctly seen upon the i white sand at the bottom. The water di froid this spring forms a rapid stream 1 known as Silver Springs Run, which cl empties Into the Ocklawaha, and is as conded by all the steamers. Beyond Silver i Spring the trees on each side of the river recede, and leave in their places a marshy w growth of reeds and water plants, and the A next morning found us sailing through an he open prairie-like country. Here are great a quantities of such game as ducks, coots, i gallinules, limpkins. water-turkeys, rail, a white herons, curlew, water-moccasins and alligators. Everywhere on the river quan- at tities of black bass can be caught. Our a rifles and shot-guns now began to make a great deal of noise, and those of the Com- s modore and Captain Edwards did consider- c able execution. It was not, however, till we got into Lake Grifflin that we began to see and get the big alligators. As we slowly sail along by the low, flat shores of d the lake, every rifle Is ready and every eye c -agerly looking for the black body of the c reptile lying asleep in the grass on the edge fi f the lake or by some marshy Inlet. Sud- fu lenly we hear our colored pilot exclaim be "Dar's a 'gator V" The pilot's bell Jingles, n the boat slows up, and, as we draw nearer [ud nearer to the monster, the rifles are raised and the Commodgre's or Captain's an signals breathlessly awaited. There is a a sharp report, followed by a regular volley, iud then, while the great tail slasheis the of water or beats the ground, the grinning vi leek-hands are summoned to drag the beast :n board, sometimes not dead, but wound d, and the upper jaw rises and falls with 9" vindictive energy, the teeth grinding on fo the nearest object, causing among tl e 3ators a lively apprehension as to the d safety of their feet. Many " 'gators " fell I] victims to the brigade, but more escaped, Ti is it is hard to approach themi near enough lie for a shot on account of the noise made by ii the boat. We spent that night at Lees burg, having during the day sailed over a great deal of the lake, and gone into creeks mnd inlets where no steamboat had ever as oeen. The next morning (Sunday), as we fri were sailing down the river on our return i Voyage, alligator steaks were placed upon he table and found to be quite palatable, Ln taste somewhat resembling, but being rather an improvement upon sturgeon. thi Few, however, care to make an entire meal sp apon alligator meat, and one gentleman, an who was known as Prof. Appollinaris, Su rroim his fondness for that exhilarating co, ,everage, Appollinaris water, absolutely St, ,ef used to touch it. He offered $2 to any frc >ae who would take it from his plate, n where it had been placed before he knew m( what it was; then, as no one would help ai aim, with the handle of a spoon poking it cki >nto a bread-plate, lie built a barricade of to aiscuit and milk-jugs to hide the dlaaity in norsel from sight, and finally, after hear- Lhb ng a few Joking allusions to the meat of so hle 'gator, lie rose from his seat, sick at kr acart, and retired to his state-roo in.' A Strugglo for Existonoc. With many of the settlers of the bNorth-Li west, the past Wint er has been a prolonged pc itruiggle for exister cc against the elements. all A. German farmer two years ago took up ci 160 acres of land trear Big Lake, Dakota. an bast year lie raised wheat on 60 acres, get- y, uing 25 bushels to :.he acre, and received an $1,200 for it. Laying in what he eon- g sidered an ample supply of fhel out of sa these proceeds, lie set hi6 house in order for sgi the Winter. Two othei families decided ahi to leave their o wn houses, an d to lodge Rc with hinm as a measure of muvtal protection tw mnd comfort. Very soon the amiple supply de of fuel was all consumed, and theo three Li families had to bestir themselves to imeno PC from freezing. They dug railroad ties and ;a telegraph posts out of the decep snow andl burned them. A fter this source of supply ti had been exhausted, the t wo faililes that toi had quitted their own houses were coin. cv polled to take part In tearing them down ; so and the wood work sent went the way of fo, the other fuel. Next followed the furniture. w, A neighbor named Becker finally harnessed seo live strong horses to his sleigh to force his chi way to the nearest railway station for a C load of coal, ile was caught in a snow- rni drift, and two days later was frozen stiff hat in his sleigh, his dog, dead, lying upon afl him, and the five horses standing dead mn sha their tracks. ils body was taken to his ah family, nailed up in a box, and placed in th the grain loft, to be kept there until the jj ground should thaw sufficiently to allow of an his burial. Another family of the neigh. sp borhtood was savedl from starvation by mak- ar ing soup of an ox-skini.p A flothe~r' MinIstration. cc A few years ago, said the Rev. Robert Lth Collyer, one Sunday out in the west, I sn left my pulpit and preached seime distance Lyv in the country. Some old friends camne fr< over and invited me to return to my home ri with them. We got into the carriage and ag Instantly-I couldn't tell h~ow it camne di about, you know-but I bsegan to talk Lth about my mother. I had left her in the thm old country, There was nothing to bring d( lhon into ind~ just then, Bunt we were so at full of talk about her that we a'l got to laughing and crying like people possessed, and it was all raised by my own heart. *e Well, when we got home, there was my sc wIfe on the steps to meet me with a tLb- or graphic dispatch in her hand. My mother gli had died at midnight. "Oh," I thought, at (and do you think me foolish I) "you dear to old mother, you couldn't get away to 14 heaven without seeing your boy, youtr lad,~ y' as you used to call me (1d A Turkijsg Watch-Tower. A little below Moldava the "Babakal" ick rises from the head of the river, about ie middle of the stream; and standing pon its high platform is a watch tower, )mnected with which is also a very sad le mnd--but then you must remember that it only a legend. At one time-so the ory goes-a very handsome Turkish mai m, having run away with a gallant Hun rian knight, was overtaken and brought ck by the Agas Janissaries, who led her the IBabakai rock to be put to death. er spirit was often seen wandering over e ruins of the old tower and leaping over o cataracts. But steam navigation, with her marks of progressive civilization, tve dissipated forever these silly Turkish ores. After pasping this rock the shores ose in again with granite cliffs on one le and lovely green hills on the other. a the right bank are seen the beautiful lus of Castle Coluibacs-in Turkish, ogerdschinik-which was-the key of the vigation of that section of the Danube as r as the Iron (late. The Iron gates of e Danube are not iron, but a continuation rocks and heavy boulders that obstruct e channel by noarly closing in sonic aces, causing powerful eddies and Imi ease whirlpools, that make it a very mfloult and dangerous passage to navigate. oWu after leaving Colunibacs the steamer ,ars the first ha the numerous rapids hich, as far as the Turn Severin, fori ite a series of natural inpedinents ; and o high pointed racki that loom up every liere must be passed with great caution. i soon as these rapids are crossed and we ,ve rounded a giant rock on the edge of iharp promontory, the river expands until formas quite an inland sea-can and ooth-until you near the famous passage lied "Greben." Then on both shores rise ruptly two tremendous walls of rock, th lofty peaks and procipitous inclines owing mighty cracks and rents like the clopean gunwales of a volcanic citadel. suging boldly over the water's edge, they n ready to pounce upon the river and 11) it up in one supreme, herculean aught. But our steamer Is equal to the ik and runs through the narrow pass and mies out into broader water unharmed d ready for another trial. A few miles rther (own the stream, on the left shore, pass Trecule, which appears to have en one of the culninating points of Ho in domination in these parts, and directly .er Trecule you reach the iniposing en Lnce of the Kasan Pass-the grandest d most remarkable Bight on the Danube. ie stream here-as if driven by sonie un ountable pDoer-cramped in a space about two hundred yards, rushes with a )lent roar of despair into a natural pas se, which resembles a breach made by ints through a wall of lofty rocks, and nearly half a mile it rolls its groaning tves over a granite bed two hundred feet ep, bounding and leaping, striking and ing tio obotructing enemy with ito ghty breakers and shunmerIng spray. te comparative darkness, owing to the ight of the hideous cliffs, which hem in 3 narrow channel, and the mysterious ilness, broken only by the convulsive >an of the rushing stream, gives an ect of indescribable granduer and ghtful beauty, and the whole scene is so pressive that it can never be forgotten. unting a Panther with Cose( 1 a'tchIes, rhe vessel Glenvarney, when leaving ) Straits, took on board one of the largest ,cimens of the black panther. The imal was secured n an iron cage-house, lelently strong, it was thought, for Its iveyance to calcutta. When in the aits of Malacca, screams were her&rd m the passengers in the 'twccn decks inbering some three hundred men, wo n and children: these were followed by ush upon deck, The panther and got ar of his cage and found his way down the 'tween decks. It had beoen disport itself over the prostrate forms 01 the cee huir dred slumbering passengers for no mirnutes before its presence b~ecame own. Every available means of exit tre thrown op~en, and all the p~assengers t o~ (leck in safety, when tihe hiateheos d eompanions werja again closed, and1( a pather left in indisputed and solitary esesion of the 'tween dlecks. One man me appeared to have suffered from the uws of thle animal, a large strip of skin d flesh havmng been torn off lais back. itriu accounts of the behavior of the hnal while be.ow were given by those o had~ seen him ; but most concurred in ying that, after gambolline~ over the eping bodies as described, when thle iram was given and the shouts nd~ 'eamns were raised, lie hlad made one or o frightened springs from one cnd of tile ek. to thme othaer. It was concluded that 3 animal must have jumnped out, of tihe rt into the sea, for lhe could not be md. i'~e steamer arrived next (lay at Penang, 3 passengers settled dIown in their quar a as before, and she startedi the same ening for Calcutta. D~uring the night ne boatswain's stores were reqfuiredi from rward, and one of the Chinese lascars wa sent down to get thoem, when lie pre atly returned tremabling with fear, ex timing, "Trige~r have gone (down there I" .ptamn Bolton sent for his breech loading to and cartridges, and went down the tch by himself-ordering it to be elosed ter, lest if the beast really was there it ould get on to the dheck, and re-enact the urm of two nights before. On reaching a store-room and looking rouand Captain >lton saw the large yellow-lit eyes of the lanai glaring down from the top of some1 are stowedi along the ship's side, amid by dI by, by tihe dim light admiittedl by the 'rt, could( make out the dim outlhne of the dy, when taking as steady aim as lie tuld for what he considered the centre of a animal's body, he fired. When the ioko from the discharge clearedi away the 'o yelkw eyes were still glaring dlown >mf the same direction ; a secondl cart Ige having, beeni supplied, thae rifle was amn raised, and, following the second acharge of the piece, Captain JBolton hlad a satisfactin to hear the heavy body of o animal come tumbling dlown on the ck at his feet. It measured seven feet id eight inches in length. --Mr. Glatone huug eight ollilren, yen of whom are living. His eldest n is a member of Parliment, his see ad son Is Reotor of Hawarden, his ird is engaed in mercantile pur tits, hise e4st daughter is married thle Head Master of Wellington Col .*Mi, Gladstone was about thirty tars old -when-heawas- married to the murhter of 8ar- Stephen Glynne. BRIEFS. -Cadet Whittaker'.ars alresdy have cost the governmont$100,0J0. -Venice is built on 72 Islands. -It costs over $30,000 a year for the repairs at St. Peter's, Rome. -Five thousand tons of ice are to be shipped from Mane to India this sum. mner. -There is'a defielency of about $QO, 000 in the State Auditor's ofile of Vir ginia. -Dolgourouki, widow of the late czar has $30,000,000 to her credit in Berlin. -Forty cords of oak wood will yield j;s' about ten cords of merchantable charcoal. -Gen. John A. Gordon is reported to have sold a Southern coal mine for $100,000. --The last census it, this country gave as relative numbers 983 wonon to every 1,000 men. -The new census in Germany shows a total populiation of 45.194,172, a 11 crease of 2,400,812. --Over twenty-five thousand tourists have visited the Yosemite Valley since Its discovery i 1505. -olonel Jerome N. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is to build a residence for himselr at Washington. r -New York last year spent $7,000, 000 for amnusements and $0,000,000 for Inltoxicating beverages. --In the English ut iversity bott race Oxford defeated Canabridge by fully four Icslgtls. -The Chicago Packing amni Provi. sioy blouso ilis 10,0)0 hogs every day, at day being ton hours. Judge Choate is ip)idly recovering hII health, lie liae beeni spending sone time at WallingfordCarenin -ilec elevated rail ways or ~Jew York carried 03,0 0,000 last year vithot tie loss of a passenger, it Is claimed. -Of the cities of lio0land A tit - (lai has a population of 280,000; R t terdam, 129,000; the Hague, 80.000. -The Meoxicanl Government hang paid $1,200,000 oi account of mIsbcutmoIs to sections of railway thus far coni pl4JtO(. -A lady about to remove from Hart ford, Conn., to St. Louis had four eats SpI)l)O to that city by eXpress a few days ago. -Within the last ten year 2,300 car couplers and draw-bars have been pat ented, yet but five patterns are in genl oral use. -The Gutenberg Bible, about tihe first book publqihed with movenble types. was recently sold In New York for $8,000. -During the war 5,221 offlarq and 00,064 privateo b1,longlng to the Union Army were killed in action or died of their wounds. -The portrait of Milton, which was once owned by Charles Lamb, has just been bought in London by Mr. Quar itch for $1,775. -The annual report of the Ameri can Steamship C impany, of PhIladel phila, shows a deficit on the business of 1880 of $57,510 15. -Since March 1st, 1880, the Donvor and Rio Grande company has laid 307 miles of track, and will lay many more LiIs season. -it is estimated that during the last year over 1,100 miles of to 1egraphic and telephonic wires were placed over Now York City. -The best time for visiting the ioly Land Is in March, April and Miay. Later in the season there is danger of malarial fevers. -TIhe managers of the State Agri-. cultural Society haye decided to offrr premflium~fs to the amount of $28,000 at tihe coiming fair. -Over four hundred men and boats, and probably over 40,000 l)oti, are en gaged on tihe Massacihusetta coast alone in tihe lobster fishery. -Trer wer'e 1,980 failures in the United States during the first quarter of the current year, against 1,394 in thecorregpanding perio'd of 1880, -Mr's. Eliz ibeoth GOivens, wha Was tihe lirst girl baby' born in Loui~yllie, Ky., died on Sunday, aged 103 years. She has never ridden in-a steam car. -Capt. Mayno Reid, the famuous ro mance writer, .has a simall estate ini iiorrtfordshire, England, where lie takes great interest in sheep breeding. -The Brandy lana, in Rlockbridge connty, 7,000 acres of mozuntaini land, assessed at ten cents per acre, has been' sold to a Pen nsylvania firm for $23,000. -Mrs. Amella Lewis 'asserts in Pooc[ awi IHealth that nearly $15,000,000 is in vested ini oleomargarine factories, and that they have added nearly $4 to the value o1 every ox killcd. -in 1830 thme numb~er of miles of rail road in the United States was only twenty-three; we have now more than 94,000 miles, and by the cnd of the year we will have over. 100,000. -Bishop J. L~. Spaulding, of Peooria, iil., is in Arkansas looking~ for a suita-. ble location for a Catholic .colony. Funds are ready to purchase 200,000 acres of land for the purpose. -A box containing $14,000 in bonds and other securities, and belonging to a private depositor, has mysterioutsly disappeared from tihe vault of the Fay ette National Bank, Lexhngcon, Ky. -Thie average ago of members of the Garfid Cabinet is 51. Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet averages 58. There are two septuagenarians ini the E nglishi Cabine t but the majority are botweoen 5) andi 70. -T1he Marquis of Lnrne will go to Q'iebeo early in Miy. 0O1 the arrival of' the Princess Louise'and party tiro weeks wvill be spent in salmon fishing, after which they will proe'edi to Hlall fax to witness the military review oni July 1st. -When the Austrian Empress goes to England or ireland, shiecarries her own bed with her-a plairn little bed with an extremely hard mattress, Hecr own room Is .always dr1anged in so plain and siniple a mapnn'er that itlok almost conventual.Iok --Alimiral Carr Glyn,. na W~ Adelaide Nelson left thei rb~iei,. fortune, has determined tf aside the sum of $15,000, the interest of which shall be devoted to the' relef oft necessitous members of the professino to which Miss Neilson-belonged.