Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S, C., FEBRUARY 5, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849. t appears that all the railroads want is to have pooling legalized. There Is a generl suspicion that they have the nools already. That New York youngster who raised thousands of dollars by claiming to be a son of Armour turns out to be merely a son of a gun. How fortunate that babies are not the voguel The ladlis, .God bless themi would never be able to take care of babies and big sleeves at the same time Captain Creedon, of the New York po lice force, drew $2,750 a year and in two years paid back $15,000 which it cost 'dm to get appointed. He must be I very economical man. New York Recorder: The dAwn evolution of the new man Is noted in Kansas- He loafs while his wife sup ports the family. Indeed, in these part he's not altogether new. A dog in Woodstown, N. 5., recently swallowed a gold chronometer and im mediately became greatly enhanced in value. Before It he was a worthless 4mr; afterward he became a watch dog The fact that packages sealed call for letter postage has been published so often that everybody ought to know It, ret people go on mailing them, though it is impossible to deliver them until the uostage is all paid. The private secretary of Police Com missioner McClave, of New York, dur ing the last four years has managed, by rigid economy and a strict eye to business, to lay up $75,000 from a salary of $700 a year. Thrift, thrift, Horatio. *brift A writer in the Railway Gazette as serts that the canal under construction to connect Lake Michigan with the Mis sissippi River will add 1,000,000 cubic feet of clear water per minute to the Mississippi, increasing the depth of -ater at St Louis 26 per cent. Sincerity in work in any department certainly forbids all Impostures, all quackery, all fraud and pretence; but it does not end there. It also demands au absolute loyalty to the work itself, a faithfulness to Its objects, an earnest desire for excellence with all that may 1e Involved therein. A Japanese writer expects great things from Corea as an independent country. It has valuable gold mines, a iunequaled in the manufacture of cer tain varieties of fine porcelain, and could supply the world with fish from the Pacific Ocean current that runr along its shores. In fifty years ocean steamers have been lengthened 400 feet, and they are three times as large as they were in 1845. Their speed has kept pace with these changes, and It Is gratifying to know that a voyage across the Atlantic -s now almost as safe and certain as 0 *rlp on a ferryboat. There is a pleasure that comes with sut seeking-that which attends loyal ty to the truth and faithfulness to the right Whoever values these above all other things, and will readily sacrifice fc r their sakes whatever desire or de light conflicts with them, experiences a joy with which no other can be com Mre__ Officials of railroads at Chicago de cdare that It will be utterly impossible to maintain through~grain rates so long as trunk lines persist in billing to ficti tious destinations. It is a notorious fact that nearly all the trunk lines make a practice of billing grain to some inte rior point taking a higher than a ser. board rate, and changing the billing In transit to suit themselves. This manip ulation gives trunk lines 3 to 5 cents a hundred to buy business with, as the excess rate is deducted from the~ 'trough rate before division. The death of a second pugilist In the ring, or from injuries received therein ought to strengthen somewhat the sen timent against that brutal institution. It has often been regretted in a sav agely humorous way that the contest ants in such a fight did not kill each other instead of only pounding each other out of all semblance to humanity, but even if such a wish had ever been expressed seriously it would only be half complied with by the killing of one ef the combatants. A trial or two for jnanslaughter, followed by conviction and sentence, mIght bring the pugilis tic fraternity to a realizing sense of what It Is they are doing when they set two men up In a ring to take the chanci -f kills'ng one another. Nebraska's appeal for har stricken citizens is a manly one. Continued bao crops along with the general Industrial and financial paralysis of the last two years have weighed heavily upon the people of the State. They have gone ahead bravely fighting disaster after disaster, sure that In time the soil would once more yield a generous sup port. The State itself has not been un mindful of its duty towards Its own. Iint there Is a call for outside help which Is not unreasonable. Thousands or persons are said to be on the verge .'4 starvation. It they can be aided :.rough the winter they will start in .:e spring determined to wrest from ::ture sonme return for Its hardships. 'ere should be no hesitation in an p ~-ring the appecal whieh goes up o: -ir beh-:ilf The greater the man the less will should he have; he deipends on enrca itiaces and events. -THE CHURCH BELLS. Tn the motmtkin-guarded valley v. hert my cradle stood of yore. Oft I sa: in trembling wonder where Cv billows lave the shore. Beard the churc bells' Iron voices wax and want and sink and soar. Kow with solemn clangor rising, like a teeming host of sbund, L Storming citadels of silence, thickly charging round on romid, Reusing with the blare of battle-hushed abysses Cnill, profound. Till the motntain peaks awaken, and the deep refrain they seize. And In vague alarm they shout It, till it dwindle, 061 ft freeze tA tlte shudderlhg loy vistas of the blue eternities. As I dreaming set and listened, God, methought. was very sear. I could see his eye above me, stern and watch jul, in the elear. Calm elmyrean. and his warning in the church bllIcould hear. Oft with childish sins guilt-laden here I sat ant. heard him scold; I W N nperh , deyd truant, or been tw ! hiseyes edarkened and abroad WtIMIZIM der rolled. But what ber what sweet contentment earth and cud and sky distilled. whenovo heart and buoyantoutlleaped f rommku U11; Forests sai d ves were laughing and my soul rith tre thrilled. Oh, how faln would I recall ye, years across whose gulf I I Here I stand sla an lsten. as the ehildhood's es er dars' Listen the scl-same church bells with a trou bled, dim amaze. But mesage, Oh, the message which the3 Qa~~ ys of yore. And w oie tht trembled from be. And I e blesing c sprinkled, freshlike dew the meadows oer How ue. how strangely dulled Is now the to1 Llv sightl Vanished all th nptrtousr Vipses from the child's bright realm of And the aith that on theFh e'breastreposed at fall of mighL -The Chatauquag. TO LEAVE TIE FARID. The work of the farmhouse wab over for the day; the children, with the exceptioni 6f the oldest son, who had I gone to the village-were in bed, and in the big comfortable kitchen Farmer Hardwoo'd, his ife, and his wife's sis ter, Mrs. Lucas, *ere sitting round a center table. Ttte former was reading a paper, his wife was putting a patch on the knee of little liarry's diminu tive knickerbockeps, and Mrs. Lucas was crocheting a hooa of blue and white zephyr for a small niece. There was silence in the kitchen, save for the snapping of the -fire in the stove, the ticking of the big eight-day clock in the corner and the rustle of farmer's newspaper, and when Mrs. Hardwood sighed deeply, both her sis ter and her husband looked up in sur prise. "What's the matter,' Sarah?" asked the latter. "That sigh was the loudest I ever heard you- gie. Bgas anytbing, gone wrong? You look as though yot have a big load oi your mind. "I have," answered his wife. "And It is a load you must share, Eli. I have boine it alone as long as I can bear it. There is great trouble in store for us, husband-George is going to leave the farm." The newspaper fell to the floor, and for a moment the farmer looked at his wife, too much surprised to utter a word. "Going to leave the farm!" he re plied at last. "Sarah, you must be dreming." Mrs. Hardwood shook her head sadly. "'I wish I were," she said. "No, Eli, it is true. George has made up his mind to leave us. I have ntoticed for months passed that he seemed dis-. satisfied and restless, and since you sold Vixen he has grumbled sa great deal about work and the dullness of his life. And to-day I heard him say to Jasper Flint that he would not be here a month from now; that he had enough of farm life; and if we refused our consent to it he would run awa; and take his chances." "We'll see about that," said thn farmer, angrily. "Consent to it! I rather think not! I won't consent to it for a moment. What would he be worth a year from nowv if I let him go! He'd fall in with all sorts of rascals in the city, and get us all into trouble. Besides, I need him here. It'll be ten vears at least before Harry can take his place, and he's got to stay if I've go? to tie him down." "Why don't you make him want to stay' Eli?" asked the gentle voice oI his sister-in-law. "If he's got the city fever on him ab the talking in the world wouldn't do any good," rejoined- the farmer. "HE wouldn't listen to a word." "Don't talk. Don't let him ever sus pect that you are aware of his desire to leave you. Try a new plan, Eli, a plar I have been thinking of all day." "The best plan I know of is to tell ~im my mind freely, without any beat ing about the bush, and the sooner its done the better." I"'Now, Eli, don't be above taking a woman's advice. Let me tell yp~u how to deal with George. I have b'een here three months now, and ve taken a deep interest in the boy. :I have seen his dissatisfaction, and recog'. d the cause. I have heard hinf t 'kn to Jasper Flint more th.an-,once, and only yesterday I heard him say that if he went to the city what he earned would be his own, but that here he worked from dawn to dark, and was no better off at the end of the year than at th~e beginning. He says Tom Blythie who is in a grocery store in the city, gets I$12 a week, and Tom is only 17. Now, if you want George tostay onthe farm give him an interest in it, ri1i. He is 8 years old, and has worked faithfully for you ever since he could talk plain. He has his food and lodging, and two suits of clothes a year, to be sure, but all he actually owns is the collie dog which is always at his heels. Y ou even sold the only horse you had that was fit for the saddle, and George was utremely fond of Vixen." "It seems a pity to keep a horse thai no one but George ever rode," said the f~arer "nd ah wnas too light fox work. I'm a poor man, -(ester, an can't afford playthings fur ray chi dren." -Tou can better aittord to kep an extra horse than to hiave your son leave you, Eli. Whom could you get that would take the interest in the work that George has? You have thought it only right that GeorgE phould do a big share toward runnim the farm, and have considered you! duty done in giving him a home. Yor are disposed to thinA- him ungratefu: because he wants to leave you now that every year makes his services mori vahiable. But the boy is ambitious, and is not satisfied to travel in a circle. He wants to make some headway, and it's only natural." The farmer leaned his head on hi tand, a look of deep thought on his grave, weather-beaten face. His gentle ister-in-law's plain speaking had giver rise to thoughts which had never befort sntered his head. "I believe you are more that hat rieht Thata.r " hP said at lasq;. "I'll tamk it all over to-nignt, and make up my mind what to do. I'd be lost here without George, and he shan't leavi .he farm if I can help it." "Force won't keep him, Eli; remem ber that," and Mrs. Lucas, feeling that she had said enough, folded up her work,. and taking up a lamp from a shelf by the stove, went up-stairs te her own room. Just at daybreak she was aroused from a sound sleep by the sound of horses hoofs in the yard, and looking out of the window she saw Eli trotting away on Roan. Where can he be going at this hour?'' When she came down stairs at 6 o'clock George was standing by the kitchen table, having just come in with two pails of milk. His face wore a discon tented, unhappy look, and he merely nodded in return for his aunt's cherr; 'Good morning." A few minutes later his father en tered, but George who had gone to one of the windows and was looking out dejectedly, did not even glance up. "You were out early, Eli," said Mrs Lucas, "I heard you ride away at day, break." "Yes, I went t,> Pine Ridge on 9 natter of business." "That's where you sold Vixen. papa, isn't asked little Harry, and Mrs. Lucas saw a quiver pass over George'c face as the child spoke. "Yes, my boy, I soldVixento aLaw yer Stanley. George," turning to his son, "I've n4ade up my mind to part with that fifty acre lot by the river What do you think of that?" "Of course you are to get a gooo price for it sir," said the young man indifferently, "It's the best piece of lane you have." "But I haven't sold it. I am going to give it away." "Give it away!" repeated George, roused out of his indifference and star. ing at his. father as if he thought hi 'ad not heard aright. "Yes, deeded it, every inch of it, to some one I think a great deal of, and who -deserves it," laying his hand on his son's shoulder, and his voice weak enedalittle. "I'mgoing togive it tomy son, George Hardwood, to have and tc hold as he sees fit, wi'ithout question o' dvice.". "To me! You intend to give that fty acres to me, father?" "Yes, my boy, and with my whoht teart. You've been a good son, George, and I only wish I were able tce do more for you. But I am not a rich man, as you know, and I have youx mother and three little ones to provide for, too. Still I want you to lurve a start, and this fifty acre lot will yield you a handsome profit. You can have three days a week, to call your own, and that will give you a chance tc work, and if you choose to break thai pair of young oxen I bought the othex day from Bagley, you can have therm tor your trouble." I"This-this seems too much, sir,' stammiered George; "I don't know howv to thank you." 1"Too much! Then I don't know wat you'll say to this," and the farm er took his son by the arm and led him out on the porch. "There's another present for you, my boy." -"Vixen!" Tfhe word came froit George's lips with a long sigh of joy, and with one bound he was at the side of the black mare he had thought never to see again, and had both arms about her neck. "Oh, father, I'd rather have Vixen than anything else in this world!" And he buried his face in the pretty creature's mane, and in spite of his eighteen years, fairly broke down and sobbed. That ended George's desire to leave the farm. He was never again heard to mention the subject, and hegrm bled no more about hard -work-and' the monotony of his life, but in every way tried to show his appreciation of his father's kindness. In fact, Eli Hiar wood was wont to say occasionally in condonce to his wife that he had reason to bless his sister-in-law for good ad-. vice and that he owed it to her that he had a stalwart arm to lean on in ad raeing years. But George never knew to what he owed the change in his fortune. Standard. Jsattye Is &magm. Trevor Battye, the naturalist, whto was left last summer on the island of Kolguev, off the north coast of Russia. and about whose fate there was much anxiety in England, has reached Arch angel in safety with his companions. He lived among the Samnoyedes on the sland till a Russian trader came, who transportes1 him to the mainland. Safety in Salt 'Water. A man may float in salt water witn 'out moving his hands or feet If he has the presence of mind to throw his head I back and allow the body to sink to thet [position which It will then naturally I MIdS LUCY LEE I Miss Lucy Lee Hill, of Chicago, was the guest of honor at the recent Daugh ers of Confedracy ball in St. L~ouis, tak ig the place of Mliss Winifred Davis, daughter of the late .Tefferson -Davis, the President of the Confederacy, who was PERFECT REST FOR T HE -Ail. LSound-Killer that Gives Peace and Quiet Midst the City's Roar. A man cannot control hearing as he toes sight, or feeling, or taste. One can .ose the eyes if he does liot want to ;e; no one can be compelled to taste THE SOUND-ZILLER. -r to smell unless he ehkooses to, but >w -can, any 4eke;;"u f n~oises iear or distant, which in large citier >bound in numberless variety? Rtailroads, steamboats, factories, lundries, trolleys, street cars, pianos, -gans, blacksmiths, and what noi lnite in making life almost unbearable. 76 put cotton in both aars, as often sug isted, does not give sufficient relief. An optical concern near Berlin has ttented and manufactures a little ar. tle which bids fair to become an abso te4- -n,,cssiy for mnyv dwellers in rg ite.Th upoiusn4 rento t,"aniphne" idicte its age.In painEnglsh his ean s ca ofete Hil, ow hia thwfa nhed gupesto hoar stnun the tDuh wer of Coefea bl i tLuitk ngThe humae ear Mis iiredayin, dauger nd the atiphon ais, thee ardent ofn stes Cofederacyody; as Iu-Kcare hate beae aitnd uioesta Midn telass.r ASoon canot ontmbeaing ofrras cars es sig ofeeingn, tate. mOneoton tsloise hofe ia stemes screwant te ee nol hae cesmled to tate ace tof te tranle he ino etobu orwil can any tero andth anphone 1 earditans han argitie Maond Wndmerfls Expriencewit aiadsundembots fctories Chanres, tr oeys, ofe Butt, piaot. ts, blacthems ndfut exeinoe tt inghtning lif alcord. unease ndin put tnei both ofrs as oftn shg :htning dsrc no t asuficent trlief s atne and ranufactrent of lisbody, irnen thihe bisfi to cponte nides ute negsIty floru many wellerso nh ae ci bties. Tren he hnonaesf ie ot It satippoe himnofcael his thes, Incldingishs ti ank 'sound-dpiead them ina pile to gie et fone hee heewas itstaig muh eth~ rst cut isu manyl anchor fihapd ee doel wthe al atzor. Hofmaen (rea)ined ucoslyio the hur cana of ter whie hce buat nod uperymc p artst siveman. tHe his w own n Buteas"hehu. So heninrm bln o air"dcn ILL OF CHICAGO. 01 SI le 1 n 1E 17 12 ~a unable to attend. Miss Hill is the daugh x ter of Gen. A. P. Hill, who was killed a V) few hours after the collapse of the Con. v] federacy. She was born during the wai Gen. R. E. Lee standing sponsor for he' at her baptism. ' Saw It at Last. "one day," says an American, " E went Into a bookshop in the Strand and :tsea for Hare's 'Walks in London.' In America the book Is sold in one thic volume. The clerk brought it in two, 'Oh,' I said, as I looked at them, 'you part your 'Hare' in the middle, do you? 'I, sir?' he said, with a bewildered look. 'Oh, no, sir!' I saw he didn't see the joke, so I didn't explain, but bought the books and went away. A week later I went to the same shop. As soon as thi e clerk saw mer he rshed from the bacl ~ 'e uo tihe shop, laughing vociferously. t 'Good!' he shouted, 'CapitalI Part your "Hare" In the middle! That's capital f sir, capital!' "-Tit-Bits' A NEW LIFE PRESERVER. ,k Waterproof Suit in Which a MaI Can Live a Month. A Newark (N. J.) genius has Invented 19 a new life preserver which will not on 1] ly keep a man afloat, but which pro vidas him with-maat. drink and shel ter. It 5i~elamed that in It a ship wrecked person can be kept alive a month. The lower portion of the cu rious device resembles a life preserving n b dress; the upper part is a kind of buoy r floating chamber, in which the occu pant has some freedom of motion for 'his head and arms. Inside the enlarged a if .THE NEW LIFE PRESERVER. [Showing the hood epen and olosed.] ' upper chamber it 19 proposed to plae' 1. rovisions and water. The upper portion Is made of stroni Ii sailcloth, waterproofed and distended on a jointed cylindrical frame. Across the lowest ring a diaphragm is placed in which are two apertures for the legs, F which are incased in waterproof pants w and boots, covered with metallic-rings a In order to afford protection against ;o fshes and the sharp rocks. T'hese rings n are made to fit one within the other a when the dress is folded, so as to enable i the device to be stowed in small space. I2 The top of the upper chamber is in- v losed by a hood, in which a window Is n' made. An air pipe is provided leading si to a respirator fastened over the mouth ih of the occupant An annular air chain- 11 ber is provided, which keeps the upper :x part of the apparatus well out of the ib water. Revenge Indeed. Parke Slope-YouI are looking re narkably happy to-day. Montgom ry Place-Yes; I settled an old g.rudge th:s morning; I presented the boy of that cranky neighbor of m no w tb an accordion, a bugle, cymn~als, aid a drum, wh'ch are arranged se that they can be played simultan' ously.-Brooklynl Eagle'.t That's What she Meant It had been over four months since Ci hey were engaged and as they read Li the evening paper together he said: 5 'ee my dear, only $20 for a suit' i: ' s it a wedding suit?" she asked, I sweetly. "No, a business suit.' "Well, I meant business," she ar e swered.-Life. Pils for the United aingdom. D3 It has been estimated from the stamp li duties paid by patent medicine makers t-.at 4,000,000 of pills are taken by the inhabitants of the United Kingdom Pl every week. In France the quantity s s about half. Only about 1,000,00' ae taken by the people of Russia. Th. inustralians are the biggest pill taker ? in the world. SAVING THE SCRAP.9 a Economy That Mas Become Comm Among Hestaurant Babitues, "You would be surprised," said )nfidential restaurant keeper to a N( ork Sun reporter, "at the growi amber of my customers who carry< ith them portions of their unfinih, eals. Three or four years ago t ily person that used to do this was I d French lady, who always used tv the three lumps of sugar that i ;ed to serve with a cup of coffee ai >cketed the third. The next persot )ticed doing anything of the sort w; young man who ate two out of h ree rolls, and, after looking a litt tamefacedly round the restaurar ached up and dropped the third r( to his overcoat pocket. The folloi g morning he did the same thin Ld now he always does it, and do too, as a matter of course. "Both of these little tricks, you w serve, were at breakfast, and ought the explanation of them w. sy. I knew it was the custom : cance to pocket the unused sugar, ai imagined the young man-was a clei an office and used to eat the thii 11 during the morning or for lunc it during the last year or so I ha' ven up seeking for explanations of bit that has become common; at planation, I mean, except that o rd times, for now it's done right at Ft and at every meal. Why, sir, you amused or saddened, I don't kno oich, to see the matter-of-fact way: oich parts of a meal are save ime customers bring little handbai d sweep every unused thing in' em. Others use oiled paper, at cap up the fag end of a steak or pa a bird, and others, again, make ne: tle parcels of their left-over brea d butter. It was only yesterday th. saw one young woman at lunch brir small bottle out of her pocket at >ur into it the milk she had not usE her tea. "Of course I can't object to t! actice, and Idon't know that I wou! I could. The customer pays f< at he is served with, and it doesn uch matter to me whether it is eate ,re at my tables or takena home by = stomers to be eaten at'theirs. Ind tly, of course, it affects me, becau means that there is a great and pri Sling spirit of economy abroad, an the saved scraps from breakfast hei n be made to do duty for or help oi lunch, why, naturally, I, or son her restaurant man, losses the prof that lunch. Anyway, it's a pha! the influence of hard times that vn't seen noticed or commentc >on."2 A Spider-Web Telephone. A geetleman was watching son iders, when it occurred to him to t hat effect the sound of a tuning-foi ouldha-e upon them. He suspect( at they would take it for the buzzir a fv. He selected a large, ugly spider, th d been feasting on tiies for tm onths. The spider was at one eds its web. Sounding the fork, ti an touched a thread at the other sid id watched the result. Mr. Spidi d the buzzing sound conveyed tohi: rer his telephon'e wires, but how we to know on which particular wire as traveling? He ran to the center of the web ye: ickly, and felt all round until I uched th~e thread against the oth, d of which the fork was soundin: en, taking another thread along, ju a man would take an extra piece< pe, he ran out to the fork and sprat on it. Then he retreated a little way, at oked at the fork. He was puzzle e had expected to find a buzzing fi ren, strange to say, he got on the for rain, and danced with delight. Ei antly the sound was music to him. Orecgon's Boldi Bandits. Jonz W. Schute, .tresident of tl ist ational Bank of Willsboro, Ort as held up on a country'road recenti Sfour masked men. They took bil a clump of brush by the roadsid d having bound him, secured ti ys to the bank and compelled himi ve them the combination to the vaul wo of the men started for the bar bile the others, remained on guai 'er Mr. Schute. The two men r, Lned and said they could not getin1 e vault and that Mr. Schute had give em the wrong combination. Afft nsiderable parleying and inaz reats they started with Mtr, Schu r town, but when the outskirts< e town were reached they turne loose and disappeared, There 'idence that the robbers had beeni e bank, but got nvthing. Lunched the Wrong, Teami. An English paper says that on tl c~asion of a football match betweg number of military oiiicers and am of lawyers, the former had pr 1red a splendidlunch for the visito afore the game. Both teams di Lorough justice to the lunch, and ti gal gentleman going in strong f iampagne and cigars the ofticers aj iipated an easy victory. On lookir ward the football ground, howeve ter lunch, the ofticers espied a r arkably fresh-looking lot of gian oking the ball about, and in amaz ent asked their guests who the stra: a were. "Oh," repled one of thei i.'shing his last glass of champsa ~huse are our playing team. we a 1y the lunching team, you know.". ew York Tribune. If a can of milk is placed near pen vessel containing turpentine, t! nell of turpentine is soon commiur tted to the milk. Cast iron paving blocks are used In Berlin they are making nut SAVED BY A PET BEARe -raeb Berger's Remarkable ExperlenSe t the Mountains. Jacob Berger is a mountaineer who is known to almost every man, woman, g and child in Sullivan and Columbia Counties, Pa. For fifteen years he has ,d vacillated between Bloomsburg, the ie county seat of Columbia, and Laporte 6n in Sullivan County; and by his peculiai 70 dress and mountain habits has become e a familiar figure in the different towne and villages. He was known to have a family living somewhere near Hell's s Kitchen, but littl'was heard of Mrs Is Berger or the younger Bergers until s. le discovery made a few days ago by a . t, 4ngineering party. The surveying corps was in earge of Charles Baker of the place and was locating a line for a railroad across the mountain. This brought the party near Hell's Kitchen. Here one of the engineers strayed away from his com. rades. While picking his way through the brush he made a discovery whick M made his hair stand on end. A short d distance from him, on the bank of i small stream, he saw a large blac) *d bear, smeared with blood and chewin at something, while beside the brut4 'e he could distinguish the body of a mar a to all appearance lifeless. Y The engineer was unarmed and for i Sa moment he was at a loss how to act He could not cope with the bear single d handed, and-so he ran back -to when his companions were at work. Whet n he reached them he was almost breath L less from excitement, but managed U s inform the party of what he had found 0 All the guns, axes, and other weapont d available were secured and the survey. 7 ors started off in haste to kill the bean Lt IAfter a run up the mountain side the dl bank of the stream was again reached Lt and the party approached cautiously, * To their surprise the man was sitting L partly erect and endeavoring to sup. 0 porth himself with one hand, while the bear, close beside him, was still bus] tearing what seetnid tobe human flesh d The surveyors - stood spellbound r They could not grasp the situation. " The bear, to all appearances, was as saw n age as any in the mountains and was covered with blood. One of the party finally broke the ice by shouting at the e top of his voice and Sttracted the at. tention of both the man and bear. The d man signaled to the surveyors to com4 *e to him. The party croased the stream t and found that the man was 3acol e Berger, and that he was severel3 It wounded about the head and body, e One arm was broken and his back ws: ' badly sprained. He could not ris The bear in the meantime watched the strangers closely, but offered no ojec. tion to their advances after being cu1 tioned by Berger.- After the suvvyori "7 had taken Berger to his home, to which they were followed by fhe bear, he toll his story: Berger frst explained that Davy, sear, was perfectly domesticated was his wife's particular pet. She a peculiar fondness for mountain ola c mals, and in a stockade near the cabi she has a sort of domestic meznagerie e Davy has long been her favorite, an4 also that of her daughters. This is ac0 counted for by the fact that .the beas has acted as sentinel at the house and stood guard in the absence of the woodsman. He had neyer been very familiar with Berger hitnself, ad how he happened to accompany him that emorning could not be explained. Ber,. ger left home that morning to inspect 'some timber land. He had gone some distance into the woods when henoticed 'that the bear was following him. The "bear kent a respectful distance in the rear ana evinced no desire to cultivate terms of intimacy. In this way the '. pair pushed through the woods until *the ban]" of the creek was reached. SBerger stopped here for a moment, Ipartly to find a sate place to ford the stream and partly to view the timber. He was se engrossed that he did not hear or notice a large catamount creep. ing along the limb of a tree above his head. He was about to move away when suddenl7 the catamount leaped u ipon him, The anitnal struck Berger e'sgiare between the shoulders apa e N M hi violmi to Ui groud 2The teeth and claws of the ca1mount - tore his flesh, his arm was brokgn by asistancJiten h~e made a loud grunt, the brush wasaswept Saside, and old Davy came upon~ the -catamount, and a terrible battle ber t*ween the two beasts folJ4We4, ' Th6cat was a large one, to uh1 SVicionsly, and tore bruin badly 1~in e defforts to release himself. 1$ was With,. Sout avail, however, Davy had suffred several severe scratches, and he was greatiy aroused. He tore the cat into pieces, and chewed the carcass iniq fragms, He was still engaged tear. eing at the remains of the catamount a hen the surveyors -came along. Unforunately I5laded, d. Bishop Wilberforce was much be e loved in Yorkshire, and in Hull the >r house where his boyhood was spent has i always been regarded with reverence. g With the Wilberforce monument, how. r, ever, which stands near St. John's e Church, an absurd incident is con ts nected, one which vastly amused thi e good Bishop. By some unlucky chance' the statue a. of William Wilberforce, the great man e. on the top of the column, was so placed as to face somne noted wine and spirit -vaults, while its back was turmed to ward St. John's. 'Some sailors saw the joke first and managed to scribble on ithe pedestal: S o, BIly Wilberforce, thou'st ieft us in thehtrch rk urg'd thy face to the ginshop, and thy back C/ .the church! 'The Somerset Railroad of Maine ha-' purchased a snow plow weighing~