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ANlit.V lot of NVIIALE AND CAR GREASING OILS, receiveat at. tic store oftlte.tob.mt, R. ‘V.II.I.IAAIS. front Street, C 01111311,1111. Pa. May 10, 1,4-4 A SUPEttiOn article of Pal ;SIT OIL. for +sire by It WILMA NIS. Frotii Street. Columbia. Pa. May 10, IPSO A SUPERIOR article of TONIC SPICE BI7TER: 4 , .unable for Howl Keeper., for 4SIII, by R. WILLIAMS. Trout street, Columbia. Nay In, 1.,..501 The Wind. O wind! your sweet breath on my cheek IS harsher than December ruin: It wakes a dream no tougne Can speak, /I wakes one,' a nameless pain. EEO You blow the rose-scent in my fare: You bend the tall grace in your glee; And Lice the lily with rare grace, But wuLe la me drear sia..ery. I hear you trampling through the wood: The dead leaves rustle 'swath your feet; And by the bench I pause mid brood, On days when dead leave, rustled sweet EMI For then her snialt feet through the woW, Rustled the dead leaves us silt came Unto the beach. schare manifold The Jusinin twines its clots of dame. I watch the pansies struggling up Atween the dead leaves' crispy gold. 0 bliss! thus Memory lifts her cup From out my heart's drear blight and mould And down the path. behind the trees, the conies as she came long ago; Iter soft robes in the thymy breeze— . I see theta flutter to and fro. I wait to hear her call my name, In tones her levisig welcome speak% And watch to see the maiden shame Go crimsoning her rare pale cheeks O heart! be still! the fluttering dress— The loving words you long to hear, Will never crone again to bless, Though still you watt from year to year. [Fair/arbor/an Bravely the Pilot vwled to sea, Down the bay and out of the Narrows; Ills sails were trim. and the wind was free Aud his crew• were merry US morning...narrows; But 11011 C were blither of heart 01011 he, As he went sailing out of the Narrows. Ile sailed to meet the mighty ships. From distant countries across the ocean, With a jolly sea-ditty upon his lips That sang of a sailor's brave devotion. So with trolling tongue. and hands on hips, 'rise pilot went sailing over the ocean. Bin by-and-by the .ky grew black, And lie beard the growl of the fierce nor•sresteri So lie looked to hits bout. and altered her tuck, And cried. "Now boys, we're about to test her; For ,ore as I float. we're right in the truck Of a tearing. swearing, old tor'w•esterl" The Clouds came down like a wild-fowl flight, And the north-winds roared their awful chorus; The lightning, dashed through the stonily night, Till the skies themselves seemed split and porous; And the brave tout sank in that ocean white, While crew und captain prayed in chorus. But the Pilot's wife. from red sunrise, Sits at the Battery. waiting gravely To see her haslumal's number arke When he Shall Sail through the Narrows bravely Ali! how patient and enlin her eyes, As she sits at the Battery, waiting gravely! The boatmen loafing on bench and grass, As they look oil her feel their heart-strings soften; They touch their hats when they see her pass, To the sad look-out where she sits so often. " Poor thing!" they cry, -• she is crazed, alas!" And their rough old belong on a sudden softest. I passed my Christmas day, some years ago, on board of the Eno East India ship "Southern Cross," one thousand tons regis ter. I was coming home from Melia with a two year's leave of absence and a highly blue-bilious liver. On that Christmas day we were just south of the equator, with the thermometer standing at 90 degrees in the shade. We dined with windows and doors opened wide, and a fore-and-aft sail sus pended over the cabin skylight, punka fash ion, making feeble attempts to cool us with air blown off the coast of Africa. Having, on that special occasion, considered it ne cessary to appear all at the cuddy-table in full dress, it may be imagined what relief we experienced, dinner over and the ladies bowed out, in unbuttoning our waistcoats, resigning our tight dress-coats to the backs of the seats, and ourselves to the enjoyment of the gentle evening breeze of the ocean— cam dignitate. Having recounted our remembrances of any past Christmas-day distinguished by in cidents worth relating, we had relapsed into chceroots, brandy-pan-nee, and meditation; the latter expression, when at sea, means thinking of nothing, and taking your time about doing it. "Who has got the helum?" asked the cap tain of the steward, who chanced to enter the euddy. (I never discovered why he persisted in making two syllables of that word.) "Ben Spinyun, sir," answered the stew ard. (The creaking from the motion of the wheel here became very regular and careful.) "Oh," said the captain; "well, start one of the men aft to take the helium, and send Ben in for a glass of grog." The steward seemed inclined to stand on his dignity, and object to the intrusion of "Ben" into his domain. However, seeing that every one round the table looked most after-dinnerly good•natured, he obeyed the captnin'd order. "This fellow," said the skipper, alluding to Ben, "is one of the best specimens I have on board of the genuine salt-water breed.— A capital sailor, he has been everywhere in Ile world and seen everything in or near any port where a vessel can put in; yet if we were to drop anchor to-morrow among the Tee-total Islands, if there are any, Ben would manage to get drunk within half-a dozen hours after being on shore, and to get done out of all his money before returning to the ship. Ho has been in nil kinds of scrapes and .adreatures, and I'd lay you a wager MO spin yw any amount of yarns about queer-spent Christmas-days at sea.— I wish, gentlemen, that it lay in my power d.O. Mt NER CO Eintry. The Pilot's Wife gttEttiDitO. Christmas Day on an Ice-Berg "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 18 to serve out roast beef and plum pudding to all these poor fellows, for when we think of the hardships of a sea-faring life—" This was one of the captain's grievances. Elbelieve:the old villain (who had a share in the ship) systematically served out the weakest grog and the woodiest of beef that he could procure, yet as sure as he got the "t'other glass," he began to talk nautical philanthropy in the above strain. Luckily, the entrance of the old seaman cut short his prosing A well-built, strong fellow was Ben Spi n yun, with a fine, open, impudent face, and a pair of eyes that seemed to have caught their color from the sea, and twinkled over the rim of the glass of rum that the doctor handed to him at the bottom of the table, with a brightness that many a fair damsel would have envied. Not that this glass of rum was tossed off without due observances and ceremonies, for Ben was one of nature's po lite men, and his hearty "Here's wishing a merry Christmas and a good v'yage," had a a genuine ring about it pleasant to hear. "Hottish weather fur Christmas-day, Ben," said I, as be set down the empty glass with immense care that it should rest perfectly upright on the table. "Well, to be sure, sir," said Ben, stroking his short hair frontward with his hard brown hand, "I have knowed it a deal colder, es pecially up about Canedee." "Why, what on airth brought you in Can ada on Christmas?" asked the doctor, a pleasant and very clever Yankee, who was, what he called, going round the world before going through it. "Why, you see; sir," said Ben, "I wasn't exactly there, neither; I should ha' been precious glad to have been there or any where else on that Christmas-day." "Where were you then?" I asked. "'Deed. sir," said Ben, in the simplest matter-of-fact manner possible, "I was on an ice-berg." "Oo an iceberg," we echoed, and helping Ben to another glass to wind him up, we got from him the following story. I have en deavored to render his narrative as nearly as possible in his own words. His pronun ciation, however, of some of them is quite unspellablo. "We was loading from Quebec, a good many years ago now, when there was some riots a going on tip the country as kept hack the timber we was waiting for front coming down the St. Lawrence; so 'ativeen, that and the laziness of the stevedor, and the captain, saving your presence, being, you see—just so, sir," (to the doctor, who was raising the glass to his lips) "we didn't get down the Gulf till precious late in the season. 'We came across lots of ice off Anticost, and the captain being a mighty timorous man, we'd an awful time of it across the Banks. Well, sir, we got becalmed just south of Cape Race, Newfoundland, in about 42 degrees N. latitude, on the night afore Christmas day: a beautiful night it was for to see the roar ing boreagolis (aurora borealis) and the ice bergs in the moonshine a looking, for all the world, like hougey (huge) palaces of white chancy. I was a looking at one of 'em about half a mile or more to the norrard of us, when the doctor came forward with a spy-glass to take a look at the same. He was an uncommon nice young gent, as had come out with us in the spring v'yage taking emigrants. He'd been staying up the country fur the summer and fall, and was a goin' home with us, as he'd agreed when we first sailed. 'Ben,' says he to me, after looking a time through the glass, 'isn't that a bear on that iceberg?' He handed me the glass, and sure enough, there was one of the biggest bears I ever see; just on a sort of quarter-deck by hisself at the bot tom like, of a big mountain of ice as went up from it as straight as the mizzen -mast, the sort of iceberg they calls a hummock.— We could see him quite plain in the moon light, mid pretty dismal lie looked. Well, sir," continued Ben, "I was taken all aback by what he says to me." "What the bear said," exclaimed I. "No, sir, what the doctor said. He was always up to some lark, he was; but I'm blowed if he didn't say to me, 'Ben, I must have a shot at that chap,' and down lie goes to the cabin to ask the captain's leave. Our skipper had been trying to keep the, cold out, for it was awful cold, till I 'spect he'd been ready to give in to most anything. How somever, presently up he come on deck a holding on by the companion, fur he couldn't hold up of hisself, and orders us to do what ever the doctor wanted. "Mr. Tinnell, that was the doctor's name, knowed how to manage as soon as ho heard this here order; he come furrard to me at once, and sarved me out a couple of stiffish glasses of grog, and the like to all my watch, and then ho whispers me to put some blankets in the quarter-boat, and have all ready to be off fur a shot at the bear. There was no good in objecting, for he was a tre mendous obstinate young gent, he was—and, besides which, ho brought out a couple of bottles of rum to put into the boat with his rifle and thing, so it was not long afore we'd got off from the ship; he and nie, and another chap, Bill Britton as was—poor Bill, he didn't think as how he'd never come back again. "Well, sir, we pulled toward the iceberg hand over hand, for it was dreadful cold, the air a coining off it regular fregli, and we took a good many pulls at the bottle too, to keep us warm. We could see the bear a sucking his paws, and hear him snuffing j and growling as if he smelt summut wrong. Poor brute, he found it was wrong, and no mistake, for the doctor was a dead shot.— Just as he got his rifle up to his shoulder, as gentle as could be, whether the bear saw the moon shining on the barrel or what, I con't say, but down he came with a run along the flat of ice as he was on, as if lie knowed it were all up, and meant to swim for it. The doctor was too quick for him, and we just saw him Imp on his haunches and turn over, as we turned our heads when he fired. Be sure, sir, we let go heartily to get to him, the doctor loading again the while. lie looked over into the water just as we got close to the iceberg, and pulled up a lot of - weed as is on the edge of the Gulf stream. We was then about a dozen yards from the ice. Ile didn't say nothing. but I didn't like his look as he put his hand in the water after we'd gone a bit further, and drew it out all in a hurry, with a sort of shudder. We could see the water a changing from the blue color of the Gulf stream to the regular sea-green, as we pulled through it. We was fast at Me edge of the stream. There was a deal of drift ice, bits like, just 'atween us and the flat of ice where the dead bear was lying, and it was careful work pulling among it. llowsumever, we took a drop apiece, anti worked on through it at last. The doctor a fastening the full grog bottle to his belt, to give the bear a dose, as he said. "When we got to the iceberg we found that it wasn't above a foot out of the water —the fiat, I mean, where the bear was—so we made quick work and ran the painter round a big nub of ice to hold the boat, and all three of us climbed up on the ice. It was roughish work getting over it, though it looked so smooth at a distance; not a bit slippy, more like hard snow than ice. The flat as we was on was as big, about, as the whole deck, fore and aft, of the Cross. We wasn't long getting to the bear, and tried to heave him along to the boat, but he was a sight too heavy for that, so we set to work a skinning him with our knives. The doctor, all the while, looking upon the hummock of ice, as went right up like the side of a ship, over our heads. It's often come across my mind since, that he looked too cool then, considering how up he'd been to start. "We'd well nigh finished our bear, when all at once WO felt the ice a beginning to rock and shake. This got, after a minute or two, to a regular pitching, like a little cock-boat in a channel breeze. Along with this we heard a sort of roaring, and a hol low, splitting kind of sound, as seemed to be all round us, and under us, and all about, and which made us stop like as if we'd been shot. I looked at my mate, who looked as poorly as a sick cod, and had got the skin of one of the paws as he'd just finished held up to protect him like. Just then the doctor I leans over me, and, 'Ben,' says he, 'bolt down to the boat as hard as you can, and we'll bring on the skin. I waru't lung a going to where the boat had been and sure enough it were clean gone, painter and all. Not an oar or anything to be seen. "If I live to the age of Mathusalem, I shan't forget that moment. I was regular all of a heap like when the doctor came up with Ben and the skin. The iceberg a rock ing all the time like a big cradle, and with a regular heap of the weed we saw when we was pulling to it, piled all round on the edge of the ice. "We was all three a holding together to keep ourselves up, on account of the work ing of the ice, when all at once it became quiet again and as firm as the earth. De pend upon it we looked at one another then, just to keep up our pluck; and the doctor never saying a word, unstraps the rum and hands round the bottle. After a longish pull we began to talk again, and then we managed, 'atween ourselves, to discover the precious pickle we was in, for a sort of fog had come down while we was a skinning the bear, and we couldn't see a couple of fath oms nowhere; and big drops of rain, as big as bullets, was a drifting hard in our faces, for all the world as if it was somebody a spitting. "After a long talk hollering ourselves hoarse to try and make 'cm hear aboard, we determined to wrap ourselves up in the bear skin, and wait for daylight. It was pretty well big enough to hold all three, and the doctor had got a blanket besides. "I wasn't a very jolly sort of thing, as you may guess; but, somehow, we could say nothing to the doctor, he seemed so tremen dous down in the mouth at what he called his 'cursed fully' in coming at all. Arter we'd taken a suck or two at the bottle, we felt better, and then he told us what it was as made the cracking and roaring in the ice, and how we come to lose the boat. All very nateral it seemed too, only I've forgot how it was." "Go on with your story. Ben,' said our doctor; "I'll tell how all that happened when you have done." "Well, sir," said Ben, after turning off another glass of rum as if it had been water, "we stopped without moving a peg for a mortal long while, only giving a holler now and then to the ship, just not to throw away chaLce. I should reckon it must have hem pretty far into Christmas-day afore we turned out of the bear's skin, for the sun was beginning to get low, and so was our spirits, I can tell you. There wasn't no signs of its getting clearer. I found myself a becoming precious sleepy, and I knowed that warn't a safo feel; so we turned out, all three, to have a walk, anti try if we could hit on any way swarming up to the top of the iceberg.-- Luckily, this wasn't to be done, nohow; it was one wall of ice going straight up; and afbie the fog come, you had to turn your head back with your face quite flat, to see the top of it, and it was as broad again as the Thames at Grinnidge. “It struck me then as it was quite straight somehow, and the sort of deck we was on - , cemed to have got a slant since we first came on it. I said as much to the doctor, and off he started like mad to the side where our fiat bit was joined on to the body of the ice. I thought ho was going to pitch himself in, for he went down on his knees, and was a-looking into the water for ever so long. Presently he came back, quite cool and determined looking; and then I saw as he was like coming down hill to wards us, instead of coming along a flat.— 'Anything the matter?" said I. 'Well,' says he, taking a stiff pull at the grog, and waiting till we'd done that same too, 'well, there is something the matter; we'd best square ourselves as best we can, for we're 'turning over.' "Sure enough it was time. The ice be ing top-heavy from the melting of it down under the water, was turning over—side ways like—that is, sideways as we was standing, with our backs to the ice behind us, and a looking out to sea from the flat we was on. It went en getting more up hill every minute, till at last we was obliged to lie down right on the top edge where it was a rising further and further out of the water, on top of the weed lying in a heap there. It was the awfulest position as ever I was in. I dream about it sometimes now when I'm ashore, though it was a good many years ago. There was just a little chopping sea all round, and the ice rising out of it underneath us, as we looked over the edge where we was lying on, was as clear as glass. The whole iceberg seemed to be a groaning with pain, there was such a split ting and cracking, which scented to come from its very middle. There was the doctor on my left hand a holding on, and with his rifle right under him, and the bear skin covering the pair of us. Bill had got the blanket and was on the far side of the doc tor; and, be sure, we was precious quiet; it waru't no time for talk. I heard the doctor a saying something to hisself, quite solemn and low, and it seemed to do me good some how, a listening to him. Well, we got very slowly raised a couple of fathom above the water, when all at once we began to go up at a tremendous rate; we was shot up anoth er couple of fathom in no time, and then came the most fearsomest crash as ever I heard. I clenched my teeth and held on, arms and legs, as hard as I could. I couldn't have looked up to save my life; but I heard a something like a gun go off close to me, j and a screech as would have frightened the dead, and a noise, like as if all the sky had fallen into the sea. I don't know anything as I can think of as it was more like. Then there come a sort of swimminess in my head. as I felt we was going down again fast, and expected to feel myselfgo right under water. All at once we stopped, and I felt we was being driven on through the water at a spank ing pace, for the spray came right up over us. It freshened me a bit, and I just looked out afore me, when, sure enough, we was a driving on through the water as if the ice had I gone mad. I couldn't bear to look round for the others as was laying atween me and where the body of the ice-berg had been when I last looked. I was pretty near done, that's the fact, and only saw one thing clear. and that was as I must hold on tight anyhow I best could. "It might have been a matter of five min utes afore the ice we was on stopped the un common rate it was a going at, and it was fall another five minutes afore I could have the pluck to look up. I never saw so much in one look in my life, and thought at first I was gone mad or was dreaming. We were right on the top of a lump of ice, about as big as this ship. There wasn't nothing to be seen of the hummock of ice as we'd been under when we was a skinning the bear. I knew bow it wat at once. In turning over, the flat of ice we was on had split off from the main body, and had dropped and floated with the thickest end (which was luckily the one we was on) uppermost. I s'pose the iceberg a turning over had driven the water afore it, and sent us on at the rate we'd been going. I was a deal shorter time seeing all this than it takes me to tell it in, and when I'd seen so much I felt the swimming feel coming over me again so as I couldn't see no more for a bit, except that I noticed the fog bad cleared away, and it looked like evening a coming down. "Presently I felt some one a nudging me on the side, and I looked up and see the doctor a looking me in the face as I turned my head. le en s:te the look as was on his face now. His eyes were wide open and staring; the top of his face (for his cap had fell off) was all white excepting two blue spots on his cheeks, but his chin was as black as soot. He was trying to say some thing to me with his mouth open wide as if he was hollering. After a bit I heard a sort of whisper, which made my blood run cold. 'Where's Bill?' was what he said, and 'Where's the rifle?' It flushed over me all at once, the sound I'd heard, and the screech a fullering, it, and brought on the swimminess again. I felt him a moving up, and caught bold of him just as he was top pling over into the water. 'l've shot him,' says he, a trying to get loose, and sure he'd a thrown hissclf in if I hadn't got my legs agin him, as it were, to keel him on the ice. . 1 • i • i :iv: 0C • ..2001. NO IN:IV:, • There was the mark of the powder from the pan of the rifle he'd been a lying on, all over his breast and making the black mark on his chin. It had gone off as we was jerked from the iceberg, and must have shot poor Bill. "I've a most done getlemen," continued Ben, after a short pause. "The 'ritement of saving him roused me a bit, and I looked out, fur it was clear enough by this time, and there was thniship a mile astern of us, all becalmed and with a boat aleng•ide. managed to give a hail after trying a good many times. At last they sec'd us and fetched. us off, pretty near dead beat. They cruised about, ever so long, a looking fur poor Bill, but found nothing of him." Ben was evidently affected, and we were all silent for some time. I poured out a tumbler of port with a trembling hand, and asked him how the doctor fared after. "Well, sir," said Ben; "lie was dreadfully cut up, and had a kind of fever on him, and talked and ravol like mad. lie got better afore we arrived home, and was only melan choly like. 1 heard tell as he found that he'd come into a heap of money. Anyhow. I know as he behaved very hand,ane to two little tins Bill had left behind him with nc'er a mother. Ire talked a good deal to me during the v'yage, and I found about a week after we'd got to port that he'd settled twenty pound a year on my poor old mother, which is the only creator' in this world as I has to care fur, and for which I hope . as God will bless him," said Ben, with a fine honest tear in his eye, and, taking up his cap with it "Thank you kindly, gentlemen, fur a listening to my yarn," ho left the cabin. The Boy Executioner A STORY 01' TlfC DESERT. A merchant of Tripoli, named Yezid, was traveling to Egypt. With him were his wife and two children, and two other mer chants. They rode upon camels, and camels bore their merchandise. In their way they were to cross the Lybian Desert, their busi ness being below the tropic. At the close of a hot, sultry day, worn, weary and athirst, the party reached the small ort.is of Lebon, which was nearly in mid-desert. There they found water fur themselves and camels, and an ample place for repose. The tents were pitched, and the beasts secured in their feeding places, and after this the evening meal was prepared. Yezid had gathered his family about him and read a chapter from the Koran, and his wife and youngest child had retired fur the night. lie sat, with his elder boys, discuss ing some mercantile matters, when the tramp of horses' feet was heard upon the sand. Starting quickly up, he hastened to the door of his tent, and looked forth upon the desert. '•VV•hat is it, father?'• asked the eldest son, who had al , o ari:sen. "There comes a band of horsemen," re turned the merchant, pointing to the west- MU "Aye—and they arc of the wild 'ribbons, too," the son rojoined, the dim moonlight, revealing the quaint garb of the coining party. "We are in danger." Yezid at once sprang from his tent, and aroused the other merchants, but he was too late. The 'ribbons Caine dashing up. eight in number. with the pale moonbeams reilicted from their bright chneters. :Mick, the youngest child of Yezid. heard the loud din, and in sudden alarm he left his couch, and crept out beneath the back of the tent. How lung the noise lasted ere he awoke he knew not, nor did he have time fur thought, for hardly had he renehed the open space whets he saw some men uofast cuing the camels. lie stopped only to see that they were of one of the tribes of the Tibbous, and then he crept back into the tent for the purpose of giving the alarm.— Ile searched fur his father, but could not find him. Ile then went out by the front way, and was just in season to see the Tth bons driving off the camels. The boy—he was only fourteen—would have given some alarm, but at that moment his eyes rested upon a prostrate form clo.e by his feet! Ile stooped down and turned the pale, cold face of his elder brother to the moonlight. Ms hand touched something warm upon his brother's bhoulder—he looked—'twas blood. "Father! father!" the boy cried. But no father answered him. Then he arose, and found another proArate form.— lle bent over it, and saw that it was the body of his other brother—and this one was dead, too. At a short distance another form lay—a female—his mother. Ile found lib. father, too, and the two other merchants— but dead—all dead! The had mur dered them every uric, and carried off every thing of value, save the tent.. Poor Malek wept and tore his hair, and rent his garment in twain. lle had lewd his parents and his brothers, and be was frantic now. When he had become weak from excessive grief, he threw himself upon the blood stained gra , s, and there be lay for hours among the dead, with the moon beams re-ting upon his pale cheek, and glis tening upon his tears. Finally the boy started to his feet, and gazed once more about him. For a long while ho stood thus, and thou he raised hie clasped hands to heaven. VA. poor child is left alone uron the wide desert. Ms life has bean wade dart in it, [WHOLE NUMBER, 1,435. early morn, and all he loved ha ve b een stricken down in death. My mother. where art thou? My father, where art then? My brothers—oh: what has befallen them? Dead! d .o. 1! dead! And who bath done it? The chieftain of the 'ribbons bath been here with his men, and this is the weak of their hands?" Haring spoken this in a mournful, impaq sioued strain, the lyoy moved to the side of his dead nnaher, and kissed her. He did the same to his father and brothers, and then he started up and clasped his hands again. This time a fierce fire burned in his eye, and his tine form was. sternly erect. "‘Tho Tibbou chieftain Bath done it.— Malek alone, of all his family, is left to tell the story. Shall he tell that he fled from before the face of the murderer, or shall ho tell how he revenged the deed? Father— mother—brothers—you shall be revenged if Jlalek livee!" With a narrow tent spade which hnd been left behind, Malek Jigged the graves of Lip friends. Ile was many hours in the work —the sun rose and set again ere it was done. But the last prayer from the boy-lips was said at length, and the sand smoothed over the resting places of all that was mortal of his friends. Then the lad lay down beneath the old tent, and slept alone. In the morning Malek arose, and basing bowed himself upon the graves he had made and said his prayers, he prepared for tho task before him. First he darkened his sltin with some berries which he found at hand, and then he gathered up such provis ions its lie could find, and filled a leathern bottle with water. To follow the track of the murderers over the sand was easy enough, fur there had been no wind to fill them up. For three days the boy followed the trail, and when he awoke on the morning of the fourth, he saw a small village ahead, which lay at the foot of the rugged mountains.— He pushed on, and at the first hut he stooped and asked for food. An old woman named NoGna owned the place, and she admitted the applicant at once. Malek told her he was from the mountains, and that his pa rents were dead. She took pity, and offered him a home if he would be a son to her.— She had lost all her children, and was alone. The Moorish boy readily accepted her offer, and from that time he had a home. Old Noona protected him, and claimed him as her own and when people asl:ed her whence the child came, she said—"lie is my dead sister's child and he found his way to my hut.'' As soon as Malek dared question :gonna, he began to gain light. He found that the chief of the place was named Ben Zama, and that he was a robber by profession. In time the boy learned all he could wish to know, and a part of it he learned from the chieftain's own lips. Ben•Zama and seven of his chosen followers were the men who had murdered his family. He made sure of this—he knew every man—and then he turned his thoughts and energies in another direction. llc began to wander among the moun tains, and at length he found the place ho sought. It was where a narrow shelf of rock ran around an almost perpendicular mountain-side, and overlooked a frightful chasm, along the far-off bottom of which dashed and roared a swift. white torrent.— It W:l9 a wild, fearful place, but the boy was nut afraid. Day after day he made hi, way to that giddy height, and there worked right bralely. The shelf which seemed to he midway up the steep mountain's side, led from a rugged pathway which only the will gazelle had trodden lief , re. It was not over six feet wide at the commencement, and then led for corn distance in a circuitous way, but when it beentne Ftlllight it widened to '.,road inclined plane. This ph:ne descended at such an ante that no man could have held himself en it. and at a distance of twenty yards it ended abruptly. leaving a broad chasm open at its foot. Some convul ' slum of nature seemed to have split and opened the shelf at this point, fur at the dis tance of a few yards it commenced again, and led off around the mountain on a plane. But the chasm had been opened clear to tho roaring torrent in the dim, deep distance.— The side of the mountain had been wholly cleft in twain, so that between the two ends of the shelf there was a yawning gulf. Malek got long, strong vines. and having secured them to the rocks above, lie let him ! self down the inclined plane. Then he brought long. dry sticks, and laid them care fully over the chasm, and when he had framed a groundwork thus, he brought gross and trigs, and broad flakes of light mo ss. At times he let himself down upon the sweeping plane, end at others he as cended the mountain by another way, and. worked upon the opposite side. Months had passed since the boy Moor had commenced his work. It had been a work of great moment—of great magnitude —a work l‘hieh few strong men would hare dared to commence alone. But the boy had done it. Day after day had he labored when he dared, and week after week saw but little done. But when the months had gone, and the rainy seamen was at hand, the work was complete. Ono morning Ben-Zama sat in his tent. and with him were the seven men who had helped to murder the Moorish merchants. IVhile they convened, Noona's boy entered their pre-enee. 110 had waited over a week to find the.sc eight men together.
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