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Biif ARP'8 KUKtY IfTIER BAUTOW 3IAN VISITS THE CLASSICAL CITY OF ATHENS. SCENES REMIND HIM OF OLD TIMES quote* m Sentence of I.? 111 tm A|i|iro|irlnte To ( Iihiik<<4 ONI Kntlier Tlm? llait Wrought. "Teuipora mutuntur et nos mutamur in illis." I am now iu Athens, the Classic City, and must quote some Latin to ho classic, too, and show that I have not forgotten my alma mater. "The times have changed and wo must cliango with them," said tlio Latin poet 2,000 years ago, and this maxim is more striking now than it was thou. The changes are more rap i<l and more radical, vxiu iratiKhu college, within whose unpretending walls I walked and studied and expanded my youthful k?nd, hus grown to he an university and we old men are straining our minds to keep up with the new order, the w idening of mental and physical training which is now offered to our hoys. Time was when we thought that Dr. Church and Professors McKay, Waddell, Leconte, Jackson, Stevens, Hull and Nalmiu Wood knew all that was worth knowing in this sublunaiy world; when there was 110 higher honor than to he a Phi Kapj a or a Den osthenian orator or to he chosen as 11 junior orator of one of these societies. Time was when to he in love with a lovely Athens girl was in itself a liberal education, for tiny were fair to look upon, rctinedin manners and fascinating in conversation. There wore only a score or two of them then, and they had the pick of 1(50 students,young men of the host families ..< / > J: 1 i.?? ?..,i ... ...... ,.u. ?llllw, ^^^Vlps>TvigVogirl s is the proximity of a j sii male college or n university. but by ami by there comes along a .oniale j to college in the same town or city ami j m tlmn they hoys have an equal chance. | n My visits to this Classic City have j ri been few ami far between. I do not . ti suppose there is a soul living here now ; II w ho was here in lH'U, when I tirst saw j *' the little embryo city. My parents ami | my brother ami I stopped oxer night i " at the old Sledge hotel as we journey- i : eo from lioston to Georgia in a ear- !: lingo. We went to lioston by sen from Savannah, hut eaine bnek all the way " l?y land in a private carriage and never ! ' crossed a railroad. There was none to I * ?? ...u.es \ir rnn.lem bulled our little ear from Union Point 1 forty miles t<, Athens. There were eon,.,ion pas-engers below r.nd a score of uncommon ?.?es on top, for thev wore college boys, and as such pre- '< ;;"r' " .....?. ,on/;? i H.y? ,lo ,??v. Will, ?.|mt nih| , ti mbling we went through the exam- ' > m 1011 that was to determine our fate ! w net her we were lltten to enter or ! M only lltten to got fltten. j s !' !VftS, a ?l?i*?lliiit? and monietifotir. I a wo survived it. What I a ' ****" 1 1 ? /it , , I ii? 1111 uiitjt-?i v uj>|M-;uf<i in i?r. i nurcn 8 | classic fenturesand in tho quick glances ' M of his dark anil piercing eyes. He was 'N from New Ktiglnnd.,and after lie enme south married a sister of our Judure Trippe, a lieautiful woman and tho mother of live of the most lieautiful 1 daughters ever seen in one family. They were ijueenly. These vankee sehool teaehers all mated with our h southern girls and didn't mind owning j '1 a few negroes any more than so many '' horses or rows, especially if they enmo with the wife's patrimony. Old Judge !< Warren got his that way, hut it out h liim off from his vankee relations. t? Nathaniel lleman was another distinguished vankee teacher, hut whether ? he heeamo a slave owner or not I have not learned. My father was a yankee school teacher, hut didn't get any slaves hy marriage. He bought some, however, and that created a coolness among his northern kindred. ft took those yan- s> kees a long time to acquiesce in slav- '? erv unless they came down south. Old ltill Seward tried to marry a Putnam g county girl who had about a hundred, rt'.vd because she wouldn't have him ho wen' hack north and raised a howl -s' about slaverv. Josiah Meicrgs, another vv Connecticut yankee and a grandson of fi lb-turn Jonathan Meiggs, the tlrst s! president of this college and held his place for twelve years. 1 think that he, too, married a southern girl?a sistt r of Governor John Forsyth. Next t came Moses Waddell, an educator of great renown. Me married a sister of John ('. Calhoun and educated him and Legare and IVttigrew and other notaldo men y before he became president. After that he had for his pupils many of the , great no n of Georgia, including Stephens. Toombs, Howell Cobh, Johnson. George Fierce an 1 the Crawford*. And there were giants in those days. Some folks say there are just as groat ^ men now, but there are so many more of them that thev have become CO 111 limn niid do not attract so much attention. Miivhu so- yes, mayhe so. Tim port says, "f feel like one who treads alone some ham-net hall deserted," and so do I when viewing these classic halls and meandering in the shade of these classic trees. All ' of my preceptors save one have passed ' over the r. \ cr. All niv i'h1 h ge-m-ites save perhaps a 'j do/en have followed them, and if ^ Swedenhorg divined the future state j Correctly thev are going to school ^ again iu another world. Some of them who were dear to ine Lave left childreu or grandchildren who greet me kiudly for their father'* sake. Foud memory recalls the Churches, Dawsous, Fcrrclls, Howards and Doling Stovall, whom I loved, and there was the gentle Henry Timrod, who was as lovable as a timid school girl. How often did wo see hint brushing the dew from off the upland lawn aloue or taking his evening strolls without n companion, but always kind and gentle. Wo little drcarued thai ho was even then nursing poetic thoughts and breathing the sweet harmonica of nature. Poor hoy. How did our heurts bleed for hiin when long after we learned of his sufferings and his sorrows. Where now are the solid meu of Athens who gave it character and dignity as they moved among their people? Where is Lumpkin and the Cobbs, tlie Hulls nnd Mortons anil Thomases? Where the Newtons and Albou ('huso au?l John W. Burke, whose marriage I attended? Where is Dr. Nathan Hoyt and l)r. Reese ami Dr. (.'?a\vford Long, the discoverer i f anesthesia? Where are all the sweet Kit Is who sung in the choirs of the churches ami did not veil their faces, from us as we sat in the gallery and feasted upon their beauty? It is said that a song outlives a sermon, oiul so j those sweet girl singers still live in : memory, though the preachers' eloquence w as soon forgotten. And where is old Sain, the jnuitor, J who rang the college bell and kept our | secrets and brought us 'possum and I 'inters and other luxuries by night i after the tutors had gone on their | grand rounds and nil was quiet on the Oconee? Where is Hnusel, the baker, I frjin whom we purchased ice cream or cuius for our evening walks,and where ' are all the pretty girls we used to meet I or passed on the way to Cobliam? I remember that it wus hero 1 first saw and hoard Toombs and Stephens, William ('. Dawson and the Doughertys uml Bishops I'ieree and Elliott and other eloquent statesmen and divines. I These men were my ideals?my stand ^ iTefcll a *,7i ncc the close of the civil war. ni 1 nm no pessimist, hut it is easy p, > see that methods ami means jj re tolorateil now that were ftI i)t then?methods in the fo- p mi, in the legislative halls, in poli- rj es, in husinoss ami in the pulpit. lilt still there is much gooil that has nine along wun tne nail and iu every dun iiiiiI city ami community there " re more good men and women than n dualism could find in Sodom. Athens 0 s still the central seat of art and learn- J ?g. of good morals ami good manners, md the pride of our state, ami that cit- j /.en is not to ho envied wliqfce love of earning and whose rjjvcr?o a- Ids- 1 ufT. " oP?n hei' hlsF* 7 of a humlrefl| ,s- 1 'i.n Aim, in Atlauta Consti^* utiou. I IIA\t?IXU AT WASllI\(JTO.V. Sirl,,K Krom Ilio Same Scaf- ' f.tl.l For .11 iinl.t ??r Women. 1 I he ilouhlo hanging ?f William 1 rat her and (diaries Winston at the listriet jail at Washington pa seil oil- < inietly I- riday. 'j he two colored men < tarted for the seaflhld just at noon 1 II.I I n _ , winging from the gallows. Uo h were murderers of women, ,J ere the same age, and died on the ' utile scaffold. ' 1 i - - 1 A COM 151 \ FD I'UOTKKT s <> I'r Mailt- <"? ?*? iiitiaiion ?if War ^ I n tin- I'lil! i iiil iii-n. j Another meeting of citizens opposed ^ i the continuation of war in tho Phil- j 'pines is to he held in ('hicago before * in end of the nionth. Invitations to attend are to he issued i i ali the governors and senators who 1 j a\e gone on reeord as being opposed ? the lighting in the l'aeifie islands. Arrangements for the meeting are < ow hcing perfected. j ItFMAINS OF <ilANT .MASTODON f! knilii-il t'p at Month of New I!Ivor, In !! North Carolina. A dispatch from Marines, X. ('., " r*vs: What appears to he the skeleton t a mastodon has been east up bv the [\*i at the mouth of New river. A sin- ,j le hone from the skeleton weighed . lib pounds. A strong sea current cut awav the liore, laying the skeleton, together e ilh several stumps of trees, bare. A >ree of hands is laboring to save the celetoii. t l>KM FY'S Id NDOY I AOUOl'ND. lit* l>;ui?t*r Spot Wu* Not Mm kcil mnl No Oit?* in ItllllllCil V The following dispatch has been re- <1 rived at the navy department: <1 "Man!!.\. May >. Secretary N'avv, t rashiugtoii: The Pennington ground- < 1, shoal not on elect, o:i north side k f Fancy, hilippme i Ian Is. Came I lY twi-n'v .Free hours later. lias t ecu <Annulled by divers. I>amtige? f <d seiioic, l?ut is necessary to di ck r CSSI'l. I llU\l' SI'llt t() Kotlg S o Maine ii*tai-hed tn any one.' \ 1MUS0NKKS CLAIM IMMUNITY. iilrrnl CmivIrO lit lt.ilrt|f!i Iti'tuii'il to ( Work mill Were Wlil|?|ie<l. 'l'lio Washington Star publishes n nnplaint from a number of federal u risoiiers incarcerated in tho state | i*tiitonti.ivy at Italcigh, N. C. t, Tin' ptisoners were ordered to work , i, some brickyards eight miles from i?* prison itml refused to eomply, j, aiming immunity under tho law from ' ,] lior outside the prison v alls, where- ? [ton they were Hogged. I y euBirns m Mips RU*jJ.COMES FROM FxSmDKHS MILITARY ASSEl&LY. 'gen. GOMI-Z Wfl") also d^unced 1 All Occur*-**! at Itanquet Ul?te In Honor of Cltneroi^ucla Mini KiMlerigues. A special from Havana rays: Tbe banquet given Friday evening by members of the recently dissolved military assembly in honor of the aged Salvador Cisueros. Marnnis do Santa Lucia, the first president of the second republic of Cuba, and of General iVXfVy* Rodriguez was the occasion for an anti-American nuJ aud auti1 Gomez demonstration/ General Manuel Sangu^^BColouel ,0r and other spe^^rs denouncqlKieueral I Gomez as a traitor to Cuba in haviug i given aid to the intervening power, : "los yaukces," who wore referred to iu terms of dislike aud suspicion. The only voice raised in protest 1 against such assertions among the hundred well kuown Cubans who were present, including tlio editors of most tho local papers printed in Spanish, was that of Honor Fidel Plena, editor of El Independentes, who said-that the Cubans would most speedily gain their independence by co-operating with the Americans, adding that the "purpose of the United States military authorities is to aid Cuba to prepare for self-goveiMtffetetfud to leave soon as age U.i lt?at /reliable, others sum lo al ""**! Y K?v?iK them special A; 1 the latter class are La !irWcussion "? id La Lucha. In the forme#!- are El M iecoucontrado, La Libertad,lLa Pat- bi ia nud all the Spanish organs* tli According to a dispatch ft^lm Cien- a ngos, Senor Jicotea Perez, fJSpaniard m f high character and stnnlliug, dis- oc ppearcd on Sunday,and Thqirsday his a? orpse was found near the city1 .terribly nsclieted. The crime is attributed by "i lie authorities to the same baud of pi Mitlaws that burned the cane on the tli Constaucia plantation. Itandits in the SI name district attacked the plantation '? tdjBfcpjmed j>y . Culleraolf, and 1" " n> ' OwAed by tl it l i c,sco buf they were P' i"?Hy reprised by the rural gf.aX P >ho killed two members of the band ?< hftt have not been identified, and a ?i P i . Mll? wns recognized as Alfredo R< Rodriqucz, a well known brigand n. largely responsible for disturbances in in Sauta Clara. ^ rtMVni'Pni* rinnAwnl v-V.V.mw. u?uwui Jiiuuheaunounces tlint Seuor Fedcrico Mora bi\p accept- Vl ?d the post of supreme court tisca), tl ivhieh was offered him Thursday, ami <*' tvhich he had said ho would be unable o accept unless upon his own condiions. No arrangements havo yet jeen mado appointing his successor "J is civil governer of Havana, but a cj lecision ou this point will possibly V1 >o reached within a brief tin^e. Senor Dor-jingo Moiide7 ( Capote, ecretary of the government wi Geuerd Rrooke's cabinet, vill soon forward d o General Russell \lger, United States ecretary of war, a report of the re- '? brms needed in the province of Ma- d a 11/.as and of those already effected here. The collector of customs at '> datan/as proposes to construct a floatng warehouse and to receive goods lirect from vessels. a. The Spanish minister of marine, tdmiral Gomez Imaz, has cabled Capaiu 1'eral, head of the Spanish marine ni ommission in charge of the Havana tli loating dock, an authorization to sell st he structure at public auction May tli 1st. w The medical oflicers express regret R t the sending of recruits to Cuba at his time of year, as such troops could Jt lot become acclimated before the very ta ?orst part of the season had set in. ()| ?hey believe it would be better to pr lave depots in tlio United States and co i) seuu uriueu men 10 Cuba in the co urly autumn. he lilYIMi 1UO.V 11: rAcks. L'l unpin- I ron mill St?i?>l Coin puny Moklnc Unity I'lirclinneii. The Kmpire Iron ami Steel Co., 1^] ditch was recently incorporated un- l'l er the laws of New Jersey, has ac- Jftl uired hy purchase the property of lie (Sreetishoro -Furnace Company, jnj Ireensboro. N. ; tlie property nown as the llenry Clay furnaces, of pj, lemlin^r, Pa.; the Tijiton furnaco in ,u, lie Schuylkill valley; the Victoria sj, urnace on the Chesapeake and Ohio ^o ailroad in Virginia, and the Huddle- (In ton ore property in the Potto valley, iuiniu. IN HONOR OF GEX. SCUIVKN. Sa oM-i'iuiO'iit lli-serviit Inn ?n Tybnu lulmul In (llrvn s Ntw Nwnt. ju liy formal order issued from the C'l ur department, the fortifications on |>n vbee island, Georgia, and the mili- nr >i y reservation at that point will <>1 ei eal'ter he kown ns Fort Scriveu, in II oiior of .lames Seriven, colonel and ga rigudu-r general of (ieorgiu militia nriiiR the war of tho revolution, who Hi us hilled in action at Midway church, -n luveuiber ill, 1778. dn HOUSE PASSED REPEAL BILL. ALABAMA REPRESENTATIVES SUSTAIN GOVERNOR JOHNSTON. MEASURE ISSENT TO THE SENATE. A Franchise Amendment, Similar to the North Carolina Law la Introduced In the Uoum. The Alabama house of representatives, Thursday night passed the bill providing for the repeal of the act pall be held, by a vote of 60 to 33. Fortyone of thoRe who voted for repeal were democrats. The bill proceeded one stop further, Friday. Mr. Tunstall, in the house, moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill passed that body, but on motion of Mr. Braudou his motion was laid upon the table by a vote of 30 to '28. The bill, therefore, wout to the senate and was referred to the committee on constitutional icvision. Four members of this committee opposo the repeal and three favor it. The assembly is already directing its attention to amendments to bo submitted to the people in the next statu election. A franchise amendment, fashioned after the North Carolina law, has been introduced into house. The qualifications prescribed in this bill for a voter are in addition to those already imposed by the present constitution and are as follows: Section 3. Every person ottering to vote shall be nt the time a legally registered voter as herein prescribed and in tlio manner hereinafter provided by law, and the general assembly of Alabama shall enact geueral registration laws to carry into ellect the provisions of this article. Section 4. Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able nqojoos aqj Xjpoa X[}draoid o; 3yi|inj >te pnui oh or net ore tue nrst day 01 f arch in which he proposes to vote, H s poll taxes as prescribed by law for H ie previous year. Poll taxes shall be ? lien only on assessed property, and s > process shall i6Hne to enforce the t >llection of same except against 1 isessed property. o Section 5. No malo person who was c > January 1, 18t>7, or at any time d ior thereto, eutitled to vote under 1 ie laws of any state in the United e lates wherein he resided, and no c ueal descendant of such person shall n a disqualified by reason of his failure \ i possess the educational qualifications f. rovided in section 4 of this article; ] rovided ho shall have registered in f icordance with the terms of this seeon prior to December 1, 1008. This Biiernl assembly shall provide a pcrunent record of all persons who reg- : ter under this section on or before ovember 1, 1008, and all such per- ? nis shall bo entitled to register and iite at all elections by the people ot J lis stute, unless disqualified for other uises; provided, such persons shall : ave paid their poll taxes as required y law. ^ The law further requires all elections | y the people to be by ballot and all lections \>y tho legislature to be by iva voce vote. All persons couvhrted J f crime and all persons who deny the ting of Almighty God are also de- ( nrrcd from voting under the terms of ie proposed act. Various amendments to the amend- ? ent will be offered and from among 1 lem all it is is believed a satisfactory | cctoml nimlifii'nlinn r. l.? i ?'?u' | ,, shed. HAS CAPITAL OF $22,090,000. t 8 im-rlrnn Kallwiiy Equipment Company t? Id IW-iiig Oi'Kiinlzi'd. jl Tho Chicago Chronicle lays that t anufacturers of specialties used in J ic manufacture of railway rolling j ock have united, and will transfer 'J ieir plants to a new corporation, which a ill hear tlio title of tho American g ailway Equipment Company. a A charter will bo secured in New srsey, and the company will be onpi- o lized to tho amount of 822,000,000. ? f this amount 810,000,000 will bo t eferred stock and the remainder li lumon. The president of the new v lnpany will be a Chicugo man, yet to o i chosen. a t< KORIIEKK AT LAKUE. n vo FotloMw Cooler* Climb Tlirouirh ciiiiniM'y ?r iitiii, a At Toledo, ()., Sunday William Milr, George Jones, William White, mains Burns ami Ered Williams, in *( I for postoftice robbeiy at Eeipsic ? d North Fairfield, ()., escaped by e mhing out of the chimney of tho I. ? Millar unlocked the cells with a a see of wire, and climcd up the china* j w v, putting down a rope made of eets, by which the other prisoners 1' t out. They dropped to the roof of 11 r> iuil and then to the ground. 1 " DEWEY IN MOOD HEALTH. d C( rgpitii I'iiki*! "f tlie Olvinjiin, Shy. A? || Iral I * I a Mpleixllil Condition. On the Ktemnship City of Peking, ^ st arrived at San Francisco, front j, linn and Japan, was Dr. E. Page, .seed assistant surgeon,United States y ivy, and surgeon on the liagship {, ympin for the pnst year and a half. n e makes the following statement re f, riling Admiral Dewey's health: "Admiral Dewey is in perfect health, e has not been more than twenty iles away from Manila since the nrst ft' y of lust may." d | TALES OF PLUCK 1 \ 11 AND ADVXNTOHE. f , A Trapper's Narrow Kscape. Pierre Lo Count, en old trapper, of Wiscousiu, who died recently, retaiued a distinot recollection of almost every incident of importance in his long life. Encouutors with fierce bensts were of so common occurrence that it was with diftioulty he could be induoed to refer to them or to give details once the incident was mentioned. The killing of three bears iu as many minutes?one with a bullet from his oldfashioned muzzle-loading rifle, the second with au axe aud the third with a knife?was one of Lo Count's recollections, and four great scars across his breast, whioh wcro visible when his body was prepared for the grave, bore evidence of the fierceness of the battle. "That happened in 1813," said the old man. "I was trapping on the upper waters of the Chippewa that fall.) It was iu tho latter part of October, if I remember right, and I was following up a line of traps one afternoon when I broke through au old windfall and fell over a log, lauding right in a nest of four bears?two full grown and two six-mouths cubs. I was a trapper and not a hunter, and usually let such varmints alone uuless they tackled me; but this timo my rifle was up to my filPA flAfnrA T Irnotv if rtiwl T lirnn crli f i down the old male with a bulletin his f brain. The other three started off, 1 and as they went I let go at one of the t cubs with my little trapping axe. t There wasu't ono chance in five lxun- ] dred that I would hit him in a place that would hurt him, aud I just i threw it moro under the impulse 1 than with any expectation that i I would bring him down. 1 But as luck would have it the axo hit < him square in the head aud he went 1 down with a roar. His yell turned < the old mother into a devil. Slio had 1 .linoq 'iiltiu * " 'sim pm in iuiaii I eet ami came toward me like a snow- bai lido. She looked as big as a buffalo fru md as ugly as a catamount. My empty bet ;uu was of about as much use as a I nowslioe, aud as there was uo time to tim hiuk of a tree I just whipped out my eut Luife aud faced the music. She was wei ibout three seconds in kuockiug me pel >ver the windfall, but as we closed I got Irove the ten-inch hlado of my knife >etween her ribs. Her nails found my boulder and breast, aud I was laid up ^ ileven weeks. The scratch didn't imount to much. I would have been u^? veil in a week, but my partner was a greenhorn from Vermont, and when huj [ sent him out to getslipj^ery et^bark or a poultice he got bass#ood." l?n the Wlmt I'luck l>ld. B1b It is the bulldog fearlessness aud 7 enacity of au Englishman that makes chc lim a conqueror even when he faces am i mob of barbarians. After the bom- the lardnient of Alexandria by the Eng- a ish fleet had driven the Egyptian cot r.inoii *!.? -J*.. 1- ' ? .vvi'i n_o v;?tjr win uioieu I>y pre hieves and cutthroats. Three or spc our hundred bluejackets were landed, aut vho stopped the outrages by arresting thi svery person found with plunder in abl lis possession. tak On arrest a person was tried by fJ Irumhead courtmartial, and the sen- cip euce, shooting or Hogging, was ex- ley scuted without delay. An English- bar uau, Mr. Hulme lieaman, who as- tioi isted in punishing the robbers, de- ext cribcs in his book, "Twenty Years au< ti the Near East," a dangerous ex- the icrience from which ho was enabled troi o emerge by cool, fearless, bulldog lie duck. too He had been detailed to superintend of 1 he Hoggiug of two prisoners and the con hooting of a third, the sentence to be ally arried out at their native village, a wei lest of thieves. There wero ten am] housaud of the riffraff looking on. eig ^ive policemen (Egyptians) and three fori Englishmen represented law and order, self i'hc prisoner, sentenced to ho shot for and murder, was fitted into u shallow tiui rave, and the policemen fired a volley, seh mid the execrations of the mob. roc Only Mr. Beaiuan and tho Egyptian fiicer commanding tho police undertood what tho 1110b were saying, and I10 Egyptian begged the tlirjo Eng- :or ishiueu to get nwny while yet tliero 1 as time. They, however, insisted 11 seeing tho flogging carried out, IC?' nd remarked that the slightest symp- c >111 of fear would excito tho mob to under them. * The flogging exasperated tho crowd, 8ca' lreidy excited by the execution, nd they pressed close round the Eng- 'Jer si,men lo? "It is time to put an end to infidels , muring believers!" said a portly "P Id Aral> sheikh, close to Beaman's , 0 ibow. ryThe Englishman seized the Arab, lid told tho mob they should be car< shamed of themselves to sympathize afl c ith a murderer and thieves. A sul- one in silence followed. Tho prisoner, evei laced in a carriage, in which a policclan and two Englishmen also rodo ? 10 third riding horseback alongside -was driven at a walk through tho 0 ense throng to Alexandria, where a ?trH ourtmartiul ordered them to be .! oaccd. 0,111 The next year that sheikh called on ftr-v Ir. llcamuu at Cairo, brought with ^ iin little presents, admitted tho jus- :~ei co of his punishment, and he and 10 [r. Ileamau remained tho best of iends. The faintest sign of weak- MftS ess would have turned that mob into iriotis wolves. H,crt tho A I'crllou* Snlni, tigl While our soldiers and sailors were ami ilvnnciug the ting, lust summer, a ; pea eed as brave as any of theirs was j Tel Ion* bj a man of kindred race in farff Sierra Leone. This thrilling inident of the native uprising is de- w oribed by a correspondent of the jondon Standard. At Rotofnnk, a mission station some kfty-flve miles from the, coast, four of he white missionaries had been jam iterally hacked to pieces by the latives. It was anid, however, thai drs. Kane, the wife of the superinendent of the mission, had succeeded u escaping into the bush. With tho hope of resoning herjfes orce was dispatched from Freetown, rith orders to push through to Roto unk without delay. On arriying a! he Ribbi River, houover, the force ound that the natives had collected it Mabang, a town on the opposite >auk, and had withdrawn all canoei iud boats. As the river is over one lundrcd and fifty yards broad and six athoins deep, a serious obstaolo pre* ented itself. The only officer who knew this part >f the conntry was Lieutenant W. R. Jowell, of the First Glamorgan Volunteer Artillery, a member of an >ld Cornish family, who had raised a orco of volunteers at the commenceueut of the rising. He appealed for rolunteer* to swim acroBs the river md bring back as many canoes as )ossiblo, but there was no response, is not only would the swimmers be sxponed to the full llro of the enemy, >ut the river was known to swarm vith alligators. At leugth Lieutenant Howell, in ipite of the protestations of his fellow)tficers, resolved to make the attempt limeelf. The enemy, evidently seeng what ho was about to do, ui -.1 : ? # ? \ tropliy. {Sportsmen saiil it was of the biggest animals of thft kind " r seon in that part of the Stato. Ton KenlUtic is Drama. ii Cardiff, Wales, recently, at a tee Esrtainment given to the parisliion by the National School, the play ed Hiding Hood" was acted. Th? dren had rehearsed in their ordin dresses, and consequently th< f-skin was not seen by some o) in until worn on the stage. On wolf's appearance at the bedside tho grandmother, the child who playing the part of grandmother e a realistic yell of dismay and? imbled out of bod head foremost; sight of her fat little form in o it nightdress caused much laughter ing the audience as she disapred behind tho curtains.?Weekly egraph. J A lastiuiuiKu hi lurcu uu me opposite jank, but were driven back some disance ami kept at bay by the firing ol lie British volunteers over Lieutenant Howell's head. "\Vheu the Lieutenant had just cached mid-stream and was in the ull current, ho was seen to swinp *ound rapidly ou his back; his leg had oeing seized by an alligator. It was inly by swinging sharply round thai le succeeded in freeing himself, but iven so his thigh had been torn and accratod in a shocking manner. ? .juvuou iuAv bpposito lk, only to find that his errand was itless, as all the boats and canoes 1 been destroyed. "or more than half an hour ho conned his search, but finding the >my again pressing him, and feeliug ik from loss of blood, lie was comled to tako to the river again, and back in safety. w.. A Hero of the Zulu War of 1879. t was at the time of the storming of i formidable fortress of Inhlobauo untain. This was a fastness conered by the Zulus impreguable, a ?e sipia- r,? jci. with precipitous es, an<1^^0vnf_ vfour or fivoiniles ,? At^^HMjjt wart s^^j^Ke up i moux.tiM|HI^Pwelln)^^^KoeesI Hajor-Genei'al Bcdgers Builer had trge of tlio operations at one end, I beforo daylight his troops began i arduous ascent. All went well for time, when suddenly they eumtered a largo force of Zulus apcaching at au almost inoredible sed.. It was necessary to retreat. 1 Duller attempted to accomplish s though the other troops were une to cover him in the perilous undering. Che Zulus thronged around the preitous path, pouring volley after volat close range upon the deserted id. But for Builer^LheFdTTJ~Bxer"* us the whole force would have been ^ crminated. lie rallied them aguin ' I again, eheering and encouraging m by voice and action. Many ops wore dismounted, and to tbeso proved an angel of salvation. He k^two who wore in imminent danger icing cut off, on his own horse, to a uparatively sufo place. Hepersour saved six lives, besides all that *e saved by his orders and his exple. Although ho had been fortyiit hours in tlio saddle, and wnssufng from a painful contusion, he him' /1a1'a*?a/1 i l? " /??! ? i ? ?' vuiuiqu iuo icvicm, uu urging again i again at the Zulus, thus gaining e for his men to extricate themres from the terriblo volley of ks. !MI?i Hun it* Shot t? Wild Cut. liss Ruth Ilanna, (laughter of SenaHanna, is the heroine of a wild cat it which occurred on her father's 10 preserve near Thomasville, Ga., ently. For some tirno a large wild has been annoying the other ocants of the preserve, und finally is Ilanna determined to get its ' I p. .ccompanied by Howard Hanna, cousin, both boiug mounted on t horses, she started on tho chase ore sunrise. The scent was taken by hounds, and for nearly two hourt two cousins rode over rough counMiss Hanna shot thereat when il k refuge in a tree. She rescued the jass from the dogs and boro it home