The Ch'pt', Staml* lite cl-.apM on tl mourtain. Down the v!> it* -ti'l ..x.lo. (.o ; Gav aud clear, by nirvl tcid fi -.lutain, SiUfc* tiie shepherd be. ocK'W. Tea! tbr> bll-tmM down o m I'.v, Hark.' the ieath-cha*t'i awful wail; Si lout, wto sung to RlaJ'y, Jjat'idnj; kicks up ftont tbo vale. Yonder for the grave ho iva.lv Those who in the valo vrcre par ; Shepherd UtMic ' shepherd laddio! There they'll chant o'er thee one day. rraror. " Farewell, farewell; but this 1 tell. To thee, thou traklwg-guMt! He prayeth well who loveth well, Hoth mat. and t-irxl and 1-ea-L " He prayeth best who loveth I*t, All thing* h itli great and email : For the dear thvl. who loveth u* He made and loveth all" tsClYnil V.triser THE ITHIIT 0\ THE PLAINS, It was in May that word was brough to one of the United States' border military stations that not only were suudrv bands of different tiibea once more ou the war path, but that tlieir movements seemed to point iu that par ticular dm-oti -ti. S>l Hrantly, the scout, was dispatched by the port com mander to notify other ports aud the settlers of their danger. A* Sol rode rapidly over lb prairie on his mission, ho saw a column of smoke rising np, and rode hastily to wards it. It was a wagon that had been plundered before it was burnt, aud therw on the trampl-sl grass among scattered fragments ot simple house hold furniture. lay the scalped and bleeding bodies of an elderly man and woman, and a little girl. lVrnl all of them, and shot full of arrows. Sol then rode carefully around the scene, as if collecting data for deter mining the number and strength of the Indian band. The grass wis close and deep, but the Indians had left su his haunches, while np from the tall grass, where he had hidden at the first alarm of danger, peered the* round and rosy face of a bright-looking twelve year-old boy. The little fellow was unhurt, auil told his pitiful story in a clear and manly war in spite of his weeping. The murdered man and woman were his uncle and auut, and tha little girl his cousin. Ilia father had got a little ahead of them that morning, with the rest of the train, and they hail traveled very fast to catch up, but in vain; aud the Indians came, and then he only re membered being so scared, and crawl ing away through a hole in the grass. This was an old buffalo path, and so well covered over that it had saved lit tle Abram Bonner's life. Sol listened carefully. "Couldn't catch *em? Then they mast have mistook the trail at the forks. Must be ten miles away to the south. Saved their scalps by a blun der, may be. Well, I must be after them, and see if they can't be saved en tirely. Give us your fist, my little man." Abram did so, and in another mo ment he was safely strapped to Sol's waist, while Captain seemed entirely unconscious of his additional burden. Speed was an object now, and Sol pushed away to the southward with a genuine scout's certainty that he had interpreted the situation correctly. As he went, though he said little, he contrived to learn from his little friend all about the party of which they were in search. There were Mr. and Mrs. Bonner, and four big brothers of Abram, and his sis ter Mary, besides Pat, the driver, and they had three wagons. They had plenty of gnus, but supposed themselves en tirely safe from the Indians. " Six men besides myself," said Sol. "Well, that looks hopeful. If I can only find them. If they're on the regu lar "trail, they're gone up by this time, ami maybe they are, any how." His cogitations had not prevented him from keeping a sharp lookout, nor was he at all surprised wheu ha saw, as if coming out of a ravine at no great dis tance, a brace of unmistakable Indian warriors. They were right in his path, aud he had that ou his miod which made him feel very little disposed to retreat, if these two were all. To be sure, there was little Abram, but the boy must take his chances. So Sol unslung his repeating rifle of the latest pattern, and rode steadily for ward. Somewhat to his astonishment, the two Indians sat motionless on their bones, as if waiting for him. and on his approach made signs of amity. Cautiously, more than suspecting a trap, Sol drew nearer, with hiß hand on the guard of his rifle ; bat, once within hailing distance, his doubts were parti ally dissipated by a gruff voice shouting to him : "Delaware. Friend!" Snre enough he had stumbled upon a couple of Delaware scouts in the em ploy of the post, and they had news of importance for him. The Kiowas were "all around, very bad," and might be upon them at any moment. Sol, in turn, told them what he himself had seen, directed one of them to go ou with nim, and the other to ride back upon the trail, meet the cavalry and ask the officer to take the north road at the forks of the trail, and to ride bard. His orders were very willingly obeyed, anfftjol aud his new recruit again pushed forward. More than once they caught a fleeting glimpse of distant, prowling horsemen, but met with no mole-dation until they came upon the old, and now seldom used trail, which they were aiming at Here a single glance informed Sol that his conjecture had been a wise one, for there were the fresh marks of the wagon wheels and other traces; by which he knew they had not a half an hour the start of him. On he went, with his Delaware beside him, little Abraham enduring his un comfortable ride with a good degree of boyish pluck and heroism ; but he was not destined to reach his journey's end without a taste of what was coming. One, and then another, and another, the whooping Kiowas began to close about them, seeming loth to attack, and yet hungry for blood. Sol p iid no attention to them at first, but rode steadily onward, not wishing to put Captain to his speed as yet, nor caring to waste time in useless shooting. At last, however, the redskins so far overcame their dislike to rifle practice, as to charge down within arrow dis tance. It was a brief brash, but both Sol and the Delaware scored one, and the Kiowas fell back. The poor Dela ware, however, had an arrow wound in his arm, and what was worse, his horse had received several of the deadly mis siles, and soon began to show signs of failing strength. Things looked dark for all three of them, for the Kiowas were evidently preparing for another rush. " The wagons can't be far away now," said Sol; "but it may be we're too late to do them any good. We'll try, though." The poor Delaware spurred desper ately at his unlucky mustang, bnt it was clear that he could go but little further. Again the deadly rifle shots warned back the two daring redskins; but somehow the mustang was fated to be hit, and be. sank to the earth. "Up, behind me, qoic-k !" paid Sol. It was a heavy load, even for the iron limbs of Captain ; but the brave horse strode on without a sign of restiveness, with the additional weight of the Dela ware. And Sol's determination to save his red companion turned out well for l'Kl'll). 1\ I it'lZ, Ivliioraih! 1 *u< ])rit(t>r. Vol.. Ml. little Abraham, if not for himself, for the Ktowns, enrnpivl at thus toeing their victim, now followed more atnl tn. ro closely for a abort distance, until a hiuco, hurled by some arm of uuuaital vigor, buried its iron ho.td Jeep ttt the back of the mifortuuate IVlaware. With one long and ringing death whoop he reeled off U|kh the grasa ; and Sol saw only too clear!v that fur ther attempts to aid him would be only suicidal. The point of the lance had oven slightly gr.tred little Abraham, iu spite of his living shield. With a deep vow of vengeance, Sol rvnle forward. Now, however, the Indians ceased to follow hint, as if by common consent ; and a few nmmtea tuoro brought him in full sight of the white tops of three wacons, peacefully plodding aloug over the prairie. " I'm Sol Urantly, the scout." he said as he rod* up. "" Here, put the little fellow into the wngou. Push ou as fast as you can. We must get to a place where we can stand a long tight, and we can't do it here on the open prairie." " Be you a son of old Deacon Brant ly, of Edgar ?" here again broke in the feeble voice from the wagon. " Yea, ma'am ; he was my father." " Then, Kliaha, he's an old neighbor of our'u, leastwise his father was. Mary, don't you remember little Sol Brautlv, that used to play with you ?" Mary, or anybody elae, might have lieeu puzzled to detect any resemblauec between her curly playmate and the bronzed, bearded youth before her; but the discovered acquaintanceship was promptly acknowledged by all par ties, and one look into Mary's blue eyes was enough to solidify Sol's deter mination to stick by that party of emi grants, corns weal, come woe. Si>l was at once reeoguized as the leader of the little band, and under his orders the patient mules— and iliey wore of the very best—were urged to their utmost exertions over the by no means rough or difficult road. Sol ex plained his purpose as he weut along. The Kiowas by this time were fast coming up ; but well aware that a sur prise was now impossible, seemed in no hurry to make au immediate attack, doubtless considering their prey safe, and willing to wait for the arrival of additional numl>eis. That mile seemed about the longest anybody had ever traveled. The wag ons were kept closely together; the men, who were all monuted, riding on either side, aud keeping a keen look out for the savages. Old Mr. Bonner and his sons were all pretty good marksmen, and they fol lowed so skillfallv the example aud ad vice of Sol Brsntly—shooting at horses when they could not hit Indians—that the Kiowas speedily became somewhat more wary. A prairie Indian has a verv reasonable horror of being dismounted. The very mules seemed to understand that there was a reasoa for haste, and before long, what Sol called the sink hole was reached. I' was a singular natural depression in the surface of a little prairie, not circular, as sneh phe nomena generally are, but an oval, about forty feet wide at the widest, about sixty feet long, and perhaps twenty feet deep ia the center. Into this the teams were hastily driven, and the wagons were quickly so arranged as to constitute a sort of inner fort, or citadel, strengthened as much as possible by piling their heavier con tents around them. The greatiM d..acuity was the ani mals ; but these were secured against stampeding as carefully as possible. Not having expected to reach water that night, Mr. Bonner had provided a couple of barrels full at his last halt ; and so Sol felt quite sure that he could stand a short siege. His greatest fears, however, were that the cavalry would take the regular trail, and that they were sure to do unless the Delaware found them in time. Great was the surprise and disgust of the Kiowas when they witnessed the sudden and unaccountable disappear ance of their piey, and they were not long in comprehending the nature of Sol's stroke of generalship. To be sure, there was nothing to prevent them from riding round ami round thu sink-hole, aud firing unlimited arrows at it; but they clearly understood that it was dan gerous for such cavalry as theirs to charge upon such a natural rifle-pit; and while they were debating what might be their best plan of action, Sol and his friends had time to complete their preparations. Twice the Indians charged down up on the wagons and twice they were driven back with the loss of several of their braves. And now the darkness was gathering fast around the luckless emigrants, and their hearts began once more to beat qnickly with a sense of approaching periL " Hadn't we better make fires?" asked one of the younger Bonuers. " Then we can see to shoot. This is the dark est kind of a hole." "It would help them more than it would UR," said Sob "If we have any Bheoting to do, it will be at close quar ters. Just get your double-barrel shot-guns out of the wagon. They're better than rifles in the night. Let's have • vDUiing ready. They can't linger ng.'and they won't wait. shall now inless than half 9 n hour." Two of Hie boys had been slightly scored by arrows in the course of the day, but the'wounds were of no con sequence. Sol knew that when the flglit came, it would be a short one, and something prompted him to say as much to Mary. She gave him a sweet but sad smile in return, as she said, "Well, then, if we don't beat them off, good-bye, Sol I" Sol could not answer, but he bent and kissed the hand she offered him, vow ing in his heart to fight as he never did before. There were three openings between the wagons, which were but slightly barricaded ; and at each of these were stationed two men, while the women and little Abram took refuge in as safe a place as could be arranged, under one of the wagons. And now—first on one side, aud then on tho other—arose the fierce sigual yell of the savages ; and then, from nil sides at once, Kiowas poured in on foot. It seemed a hope-less thing to resist such a swarm, but the white men stood bravely to their work, fighting for their lives. Quick and sharp the report of gun and pistol rang out amid the yells and the twanging of bow-strings, and the red men were paying clearly for their temerity, but with unaccustomed persistency and courage they sprang upon the light burners, and though their best and foremost went wlowu at every point, the frail defenses were momentarily forced. From her hiding-place Mary saw ber father and brothers now standing back to back, straggling gallantly against fearful odds ; but Sol, in his anxiety to be near her, had been separated from the rest, and was fighting alone. One Kiowa, aud then another, and another, went down before bis quick revolver, and then he closed in a fierce grapple with a gigantic savage, drawing his knife as he did so. Mary cocked her pistol with a feeling of despair, but a better thought struck her as a yelling demon sprang forward, tomrhawk iu hand, to assail Sol in the rear. It was so near that she could net miss, and i'liK CENTRE 11EPORTER the leaden messenger, in-dead of pene trating her own beating heart, found a better lodgment in that of the Kiowa warrior. Even as the stunning rejsirt was heard, another and most welcome -OUU.I, close at hand, |>ealc .1 cleat and musically upoti the night air. Well might the startled savages spring back from their almost vanquished prey, and bound in terror over the broken barriers, for the " new music ' *ni the churgiug signal from a cavalry bugle, and in another instant the sabres were among them. Sol's antagonist, however, had ntcr rtbly sharp rt-asou for not follswin" his comrades ; nor were any of the gar rison of the " wagon fort ' in condition to do much in the way of helping their rescuers, They were all more or less wounded, and Sol and the >l.l man seriously. Their help was not needed, however, for the United States' cavalry men were iu go.*! force, and the In dians were sadlv disconcerted by being caught on foot. N>t only were nearly all of theuf sabred, but their plunder was all captured. So soou as the wagons could be got ready, the whole party, wounded and all, were started for the " post." The shook to Mrs. Rentier placed the feeble old lady ujHin the sick list for a time, and Marv had the duty of hospital nurse nearly all to herself. Perhaps she was not sorry. At all events, there came a time when, although he was entirely re covered from the wounds he had re ceived iu her defense, Sol Hrantly de clared that ho should never again be übl* to dispense with the watchful care of his "pretty playmate," and wot LI eveu become a farmer for her sake. And Mary? Why, Mary had loved lam from the very hour wheu she saved las lite in that desperate struggle at the " wagon fort." A School Scene, W. J. Wveber has been teaching the " young idea how to shootat the village of l'alos, some thirty miles south of Chicago. One day last week some of the mis chievously inclined pupils captured about half a dozen squirrels, aud ear ned them iuto the school room, and waiting until the ey s of the teacher were not upon them, turned one of the frisky little animals loose. It immedi ately jerched upon the nearest vacant desks, and Willi its antics created great merriment among the children. Mr. Weeber left his chair, and while he was attempting to capture the in truder, another waa turued loose, aud another, until one after other the whole six wre running wildly around the room. The master striving vainly to dispose of the innocent cause of the confusion, only added more to the ex eiteuieut, until the whole school waa in nproar and confusion, the girls joining with the boys in their pretended at- Uuipts to capture the squirrels. At last order was restored and silence reigned supreme, except nn occasional titter from some fur off seat in the earner. Weeber now proposed to have a settlement witli the culprit or cul prits, but aa he had not seen the par ties at the time tl ■> squirrels were liber ated, he did n>t know when- to com mence. lie called on the offender, who ever he wa. to walk up. N'o one walk ed np. He then iw-ked some of the smaller scholars to name the guilty one. There were no informers present. Finally, his patience becoming exhaust ed, he called in loud tones, " Who did it ?" Echo answered, " Who ?" He next resorted to the schoollioy's terror—the ferule -and said he would flog the whole school, and as the inno cent would not inform, they should suffer with the guilty. Thereupon he begun the arduous tak of inflicting corporal punishment npon no less than foitv boTS. After having gone about half way through the school he met with a set back m one of the boys, Michael Cavenaugh.who was blest with a strong arm, sinew, nerve, and courage. When Cavenaugh's name was called he step ped boldly up, and with a resolute de meanor, aud an eye that looked danger ous, informed the master that lie had no hand in causing the merriment, and, therefore, he would not softer himself to be disgraced by quietly submitting to a thrashing. This was more than the irate Weeber could stand, so lie walked into Cavenangh with a ven geance which the children stated wu terrible to behold, and here it was thu'. the boy found his strong arm of value, as he knocked tho master down, mi l punished him severely for the assault. Weel>er, feeling that his dignity wa outraged, boarded the first train for Chicago, aud sworci. it a warrant for the arrest of Cavenangh for assault and battery. The justice heard the evidence against the lad and discharged him, stating that the boy bad only acte d in self-defense. The New Financial Bill, Mr. Scott, from the Committee en Finance, reported to the U. S. House an amendment to the new Finauce bill which proposes to strikeout the follow ing words in the second section. " And each national banking associa tion now organized or hereafter to be organized shall keep and maintain as a part of its reserve one-fourth of the coin received by it as interest on the bonds of the United States deposited as security for circulating notes or Gov ernment deposits." And to insert in lieu thereof the fol lowing : " And each of said associations shall keep and maintain, as part of its lawful money reserve, one-third of tho coin received by it as interest on Iwinds of the United States deposited ns security for circulating notes or Government deposits, unless such association Hhall elect to exchange such proportion of coin for bonds <>f tho United States of tho character herein provided for, which shall therefrom until the Ist day of January, 1878, be delivered to it by the Secretary of the Treasury, and which may afterward be held by such association and considered as part of its reserve. Three per cent, only of the interest upon such bonds shall bo paid to such association or to any holder thereof, aud tho remaining two per cent, shall bo retained by tho Secretary of the Treasury, aud tho wliolo amount of gold thus received shall bo applied by him exclusively to the payment of the six per cent. 5 20 bonds of the Uni ted States." Ordered to lio on tho table and be printed. Beaten, Tho New York and Hartford Publish ing Company have been beaten in a suit for $6,500 against Ahlen B. Stockwell, which was brought about by a curious agreement. The company was to pub lish a biographical book in which there was to be a sketch and a likeness of Stockwell, and he promised to take five copies at $55 each, and to pay the pub lishers two cents for every rninnte thnt should elapse between a certain date and the delivery of a sketch and a pho tograph of Stockwell to the office of the company, and for every minute elapsiug between the receipt and the return of the proof-sheets by him, and for every minute that passed between a demand for and the payment of this sum of money. CENTIiE HALL. U EXT HE <'<>.. PA., Till USDAY, JLNK 4, 1874. V iangerbreutl Lair. Tho Parisians have been enjoying a pilgrimage to the fuireau pain d'epieen gingerbread fair, which is held at the top of tho Faulourg St. Autoine. To appreciate told oil joy tho fibre uu pain (I t fiit t there are part*, like those i f oohtomongor*, stored with gin gerbread, and surmounted by a large wheel. A huge gingerbread figure is put up for milling. Tickets, a penny each, are delivered t> all comers, anu when thirty or forty have been sold, round giK's the wheel, and the holder of the ticket, whose number Oouies out tlrst, walks off with the prise. These gingerbread lotteries are largely patron ised, more ho than the elaborate stalls iu the l'hice du Trone, where prices are higher and the excitement of gambling is wanting. In former days, ginger bread figures were supposed t > repre sent political personages. ' Last year M. Thiers was the favorite. This year the censorship vetoed the sale of the tuaamt r .itu ut < t fligy, and Gawbetta and Marshal McMahou were also prohibit ed. The gingerbread people had, there fore, to full back on the old models da ting as far back as the Crimean war. Giugerbread, however, is not tho only attraction. There were no less tlmn fifty whirligigs and merry-go-round*, aud the number of grown-up men and wo men that seemed to take delight ill be ing whirled round on wooden horse* was something amazing. 'lheu there were circuses, booths, tumblers, profes sional wrestlers, shiHiting galleries (chiefly crossbow* , aud "American waxworks," the owner of which w* not afraid to take in vain tho name .>{ the great Harnum. These waxwork* eon tamed au effigy of Marshal McMahou. after Sedan, supported by General Wimpffen. This seems to have escaped the lynx-eyed censor, who objected to the Slurwhal being sold as gingerbread. There was also the inevitable ball, which was uot largely patr.'uized. The most popular entertainment next to the whirligig* w> a booth where several champious iu shocking bad condition challenged all comers. The champions invariably allowed themselves to be bsatsn, and immediately afterwards sent round the but a very 'cute idea, which certainly paid. Alligators as Pets. Ab*uyd as the alligator rnav seem for a pet, says the < Arisfian at H'ori, it so happens that we once had some of them, aud very pleasant little jets thev proved to be. It was during a resi dence, some years ago, iu a Southern citv, not far from the bayous, when alligators, great aud small, are t- he had by the hundred thousand. Inst- ad of going in person to catch the little fel lows, we secured the services of an aged American cttiz u of African drsr. nl, who knew more thau w<> did about keeping out of the way of the parent alligators. He acooped up a doscu or two of baby 'gators, and brought them in, his face ornamented with a broad grin of delight, in anticipation of the dollar he hud been promised for catch ing them. For several mouth* a number of these livol v little Mluvn occupied a u at aquarium tank in the library window, where the una shone on them. They were as liv-ly an little eat*, and quite as playful. Equally happy in the water and out of it, thev would frisk about like so many monkeys when they felt *o disposed, and when thev felt lazy (for alligators, like other folks, are subject to at tack H of laziness) tliey would stretch themselves out, or lie in a heap, one on the other, and bask in the sunshine. Tin y had a habit of eating almost any eatable thing that was given to them, their principal luxury being live flics. Iu catching these insects they exhibited great dexterity. Large beetle cock roaches also afforded them much pleas ure. There was an abundance of these m the house, and the alligators con siderably reduced the stock. These alligators were in their first summer, and were only a few inches long. They would run over people's hands and clothes, and climb upon shoulders with great liveliness. \\ e gave some of them away, and the rest, probably pampered by petting and over feeding, died. Wo once owned an alligator which was six feet long. Bat ho frightened an old lady out of her wits, and so we gave him away. He was too large for a pet. But, in their first or second year, 'gators are pleasant pets, and no more dangerous than kittens. A Happy Deliverance. The Catacombs in Paris are very ex tensive, and in them, an is known, are deposited the bones which were collect ed from the differt nt burial-places of Anris, on the suppression, in the time of the revolution, of cemeteries within the walls ; aud these ghastly objects are piled np in snoli away ns to form galleries or streets which extend for miles. It is recorded that, at different times, numerous persons have lost their way in these dreadful regions, and liavo died in lmnger and terror. A strange incident connected with these subterranean avenues occurred lately. A journeyman printer, about two o'clock in tho morning, on bis way >me, near the Luxembourg, heard cries of dis tress from under the earth. At first he fancied ha was laboring under an illu sion, but, on listening, he distinctly heard human voices from below an iron slab which covers tho orifice opening into the Catacombs. He summoned some police oflloers, ard they, hearing the same cries, canned the slab to be removed. In answer to inquiries, the officers ascertained that it was ML Hating, one of the keepers of the Cata combs, and throe companions whom he had taken with him on the afternoon of tho previous day to assist in changing a lock on the door of ono of the galleries. On entering, they had only one candle with them, which was lighted, and no matches. Tho light had been blown out almost immediately on entering the Catacombs, and being thus left without nny clue to direct them, they lmd spent hour after hoar in going op one gallery und down another in total darkness, their hope of rescue fast settling down into despair, when tLey were thus un expectedly heard, anil providentially released. Eloquence Defeated. Lord Chatham (when Mr. Pitt) on one occasion made a very long and able speech in tho Privy Gonncil, relative to some naval matter. Every one present was struck by tho foreeof his eloquence. Lord Anson (the circumnavigator), who was an orator, being then ut tho head of the Admiralty, and differing entirely in opinion from Mr. Pitt, got up, and only said these words : "My Lords, Mr. Secretary is very eloquent, and lias stated his own opin ill very plausibly, I am no orator, and all I shall say is, that he knows nothing at all of what lie has been talk ing about." This short reply, together with the confidence the council had in Lord An son's professional skill, had such an effect on every one present that they immediately determined against Mr. Pitt's proposition. Johanna Scbu> The poet Goethe tells u sad atnl beau tifnl story aud it is the more sad sud beautiful because it is true of a young girl, Johuima Sebus, who, iu the year l h (f.>, when the sea broke down the dvkes, and overflow..! her native vil Isge, proved herself worthy of a great jniet's songs. Johanna, or Joanna, we would call her, was only seventeen years old, but no one in the villuge had the noble spirit and quiet courage of this strong, true-hearted girl. Wheu the waters rose around the houses, and the waves washed tip to the very door steps, Joanna ku*wr that there was no longer safety, exceuttug on the high grounds near the village. Hut how were they to reach those high grounds? The water was nearly km-e --deeji an.l rising every moment. The roaring and surging of the waves and the wind was heard in every ditection, and the dyke was giving way, piece by piece, before the rushing flood. Every moment the danger increased. There was no time to hesitute. Johtuiua'a mother, an aged woman, could not force her way through those raging waves. Hut Johanna was tall and strong. Hhe took her old mother m her arms and stepped boldly into the water. The waves dashed agaiut her, but she pressed on. Her neighbors, s mother and thiee children, seeing her leave them, were seized with a sudden terror. Not until thi# moment did they know how much they depended on the brave Johanna, the only person to whom they could look for counsel or help iu this hour of peril. After a word or two of encouragement to her mother, who trembled as she *aw the water* boiling beneath her, so terribly near to her, Johanna turned to her neighbors and called to them to fly to the hill c!o#e by, which was yet dry, and would aflord them safety for u time, aud assured them that she would return to them as soon as she had placed her mother oil the high ground. " And my poor gust," she cried, a* she heard her favorite bleating after her ; " take him with vou. Don't leave him to die." A# soon u* she reached a place of safety, Johanna set her mother uja-n the ground, and, without a moment's pause, turned around to hurry back through the ever-deepening wuUr. Her old mother cried out : "Oh! where are yon going? The path is washed away ! Oh, my daugh ter ! will you go into that dreadful flood again ? " " Mother, they must be tared ! " said Johanna, a* *he plunge*l into the water, by this time more than knee-deep. The dyke was now on the point of giving away entirely. A hill of water *eem<"d roaring and foamiug towards the village. but Johnna pressed <>n over the path which she knew so well, although it wna now covered with water. The wave# dashed against her, almost knocking her d >wsi, and drenching her from head to foot. At last she reached the little hill where she had left her u tgbbora. Hot almost at thi* moment the dyke gave way ; a mad deluge rushed in, sweeping everytning before it, and around the little hill soon boiled turbulent sea, rising above its highest point. As the great waves rolled over the ground on which they stand, clinging iu terror to each other, Johanna s poor neighbor and her children cannot keep their foothold. They were washed asir, ami disappear beneath the raging floral. A* they sink, one of the chil dren seizes the goat by one horn and drags him down. Thus, all but Johan na are lost. Johanna stauds alone, still firm and strong, but the waters are rising aud rising around her. Who is there now to save this noble girl ? She has mailv fn< nds and many lover*, but no one of the m comes to her now. Nothing comes to her but the salt, angry waves. Nowhere can she see even a boat. Hue easts one look np to heaven, and then the waters surge fiercely against her, aud she is gone ! Now nothing i# to be seen where the village stood but a wild waste ol watirs, with here and there a steeple or a tree rising up almve the flood. But a* the snrvivors gaze npon the wide-spread desolation, the thought of the brave and beautiful girl who gave her life for others throws a deeper gloom upon the mournful scene. And even when the waters subside and the land reappears, no one who knew Johanna can be glad. They weep for her and cannot forget her. Ttii# is a sad story of a noble girl. Only those who have read it as Goethe so tenderly and dramatically tells it iu his poem," Johauua Helms," can ap preciate it* true pathos and force.—AY. Xidtolai. The trkansa* Trouble, At Little Hock, while Major Henry, editor of the Lewisburg Umpire, ami Lieut Hill, both belonging to tne Bax ter forces, were standing on the side walk of Msrkham strci t, half way be tween the regulars' barracks and their own pickets. Sheriff Grayson, of Clark county, a Brooks man, stepped aero*s the street and shook bunds with llill, who was in command of the guard house when Grayson was captured not long ago. While standing there Gray son or Hill drew the other by the hand toward tho Baxter lines, Henry then hit Grsvson four or five times ovrr the head with a pistol, and afterward lev eled tho weapon. Home one cric-d out " For God's sake don't shoot," where upon Henry put up his pistol. A man named Keith across the street fired at Henry, and then Grayson drew his pis bd and fired six shots, retreating as ho fired. The others returned tho fire, and Col. Brooker, of the Brooks forces, fired several shots. The firing by this time had become general, and about fifty shots were fired, some from buildings inside the Baxter lines. Tho regulars on the first tiro formed behind their barricades, and several leveled their gnus, Vmt none fired. As soon as the men saw the regulars were out the firing stopped. In aliont tho same manner many of the difficulties resulting in loss of life at Little Hock, arise. Production of Starch, Paper and Sonp from Corn. All the ingredients of corn, according to Laoontp, may bo utilized. The grain in,in the first place, to be saturated with a solution of eaustie soda in large cis terns, and transferred to cylindrical sierra; then dipped in wnter, and ground in oonneetion with n continuous stream of pure, or somewhat caustic water. The quantity of aoda, depend ing on its quality, tho oily contents of the grain, and the temperature, should be such na to saponify the oil of the grain while allowing the starch to ap pear solid and firm. The liquid, as it leaves tho mill, passes over sieves, on which the germs, hulls, etc., ore retain ed, while the starch aiul soap pass through, and flow over large, inclined surfaces, upon which the starch settles, and the dilute soap solution collects in cisterns. The starch is then washed with pure*waters in cisterns, again pass ed through sieves in cisterns, allowed to settle twenty-four hours, and, after drawing off the supernatant liquid, re moved und dried. Excellent soap may be obtained from tho dilute solution, and the germs, etc., can be utilized ill paper manufacture. HOD N IN A (OAL MINE. Tlib It ..turn %V>tkr It* tenallsl* antl Wrote li Mlsii— Hawser* flow firs lis ai |i The trapper girl and female putter used to be regularly employed in Eng lish and Scotch ooal mines. Tho trap iwr' duty consisted iu opening what 1 will best be understood by the roader a* a sort of trap-door for the passage of the underground wagons. As late as 18111 girls were employed in the oc cupation of putters, passing their time in the pits in pushing the coal-laden trolleys through the workings to the bliaft ready for ani ent, lint this em ploymeut was child's play to that of porterage, practiced in some of the foreign uiiucs, and prevailing years ago in Scotland, as vouched for by Parlia mentary re|ort*. The subject is fully treated in M. Mimonin's famous work on mining. " Girls used to carry on their backs a basket fastened to a leather strap which passed round their fore head. To this strap their lamp was ulso attached. Equipped in this man ner, they bore the ooal. The load in the basket was often balanced by large lumps which hung around their necks. These girls advanced in parties with their burdens, and climlu-d up ladders the whole length of the shafts, which sometimes exceeded a hundred yards in depth." The ladders were erected on stages at certain distances. "If a strap broke or u block of coal fell, the bear ers who followed were sometimes griev ously hurt, slid they have been, though rarely, killed on the epot. This primi tive mode of raising was very barbarous, and was übolislud at the earnest recom mendation of the commission for in quiring 11. to the employment of women and children in mines, Colliery owner* had allowed matter# to become so seri ously bad that public opinion was roused, and the government considered it absolutely necessary then to inter fere, and by legislative enactment the disgrace was swept away forever in the year 1M3." The practice of women assisting in " putting " the coal, how ever, lingered iu many mines long after this, but at the present moment they have no longer a place in " Tl> gloomy caverns drear and dank. 'M.d sariisruig i*jr foul and rank." There were found in some districts persons who regarded this action of tha government as a piece of unnecessary iuterfcrt uco with the employment of womeu. The pit-women of Wigau wear bows ers under their petticoats, wooden clogs with brass tip*, a loose kind of smock, and for a head-dress s sort of woolen bag. The arrangement of this latter gives quite n sphinx-like api-earance to the bead. They arc a strong, healthy class of women, and evidently like their work. They earn from 2*. to 2a. 2d. per day. Some of them are married, and dnring the dinner hour their babies are brought to Ik- kissed and fondled. There is something very strange in the picture of these black, masculine-look ing creatures in trows* r# and clogs with brass lip* hugging their vliite-faced babies among the coala. The day's work ends at four o'clock, and then the married women go home, " clean themselves np," put on their second-bcht clothes, and walk abroad, visit their friends, or attend whatever cheap local entertainment may be go ing on. l\ clinically the mouth of the pit is called the sliaft, the immediate sur rounding* the bank. Id the artment in which the women are is a small wagon of coala, which, lu-ing caught by the curved metals at the foot, is w heeled , by a number of women upon a tramway ai the bank, and then tilted down a chute into railway wagons, where the "black diamond# " are received by an other set of female laborer#, who shovel the coal alout with an amount of nhysi- 1 eal skill tliat heightens the significance of the fact that their clogs are fitted witli brass tip*. The jnttieoat is i tucked up for the convenience of work, but when the day's toil is over it is gen- j orally releases!, and falls down to the 1 ankle*. The head-dresses are made of various color* ; but, we are bound to say. there i* nothing picttirerque iu the attire. Among a group of miners will l>e noticed a woman carrying a safety lamp, the Mesne# pit# Wing more or less what ar called fiery mines. This is the " Aladdin's lamp " of the collier, j carrying him safely through gases that hover bine and sickly about the gauze work, but fail to penetrate it. The smallest scintillation of a spark would be sufficient to tire the mine, whistle the pitman and his comrades down the wind, broken, maimed, burned to a cinder. It is impossible completely to ventilate fiery mine* so that no foul air shall remain ; but the presence of the gas is more or less indicated, and in mines of this character the rules with regard to lamps are most stringent, j But iu spite of precautions sud law*iu volving fines upon miners who nnloik their " Davys or in any way use naked lights in the mines, nearly every aoci- } dent that happens arises from the care lessness or willful indifference of the i men. They have been known to open their lamps and light their pipes, and tlins sacrifice themselves ana scores of others. Cases where miners have open- I ed the lamp for the purpose of obtain- ! ing more light are also on record. At j the Mesnes Colliery, Wigan, there was n terrible accident last November, re- I suiting in the death of seven men and ! bovs. It was caused by a sudden out burst of gas flre.l by one of the M taking off the top of his lamp f in spite of a special caution given to him by the \ underlooker only a short time previ- j ously. The reckless man was one of ; the victims of the explosion. For Bome ; years previous to this calamity the mine ! was regarded as almost free from foul ; air, and in some of tho headings can- j dies were considered perfectly safe ; j but mines in which even Tcry small quantities of foul air are generated are always more or less dangerous, and the peril is greatly increased by a low state of the atmosphere. CI.KAMNO WAU PAPER. Take a piece of wood of the shape of a sornb bing-brush, nail n handle on the back, and then upon the face nail a piece of dried sheepskin with the wool upon it: or flax or tow will do, or cotton flannel of several thicknesses will imswcr very well. l>ip this brush into dry whiting, and rnb the smoke lightly with the brush, on the upper parts of tho room first, protecting the carpet with mat ting or newspapers, as the whiting dust is hard to sweep off a carpet. The whiting that remains on the wall is ensily brushed off with a soft cloth at tached to a stick. It is vrv effectual if the room is not damp and the whiting is dry. A IIKAI.THY Fnrrr.—A lasy dyspeptic wns bewailing his own misfortunes, and speaking with a friend on the hitter's hearty appearance. " What do you do to make you so strong and healthy ?" inquired the dyspeptic. "Live on fruit alone," auswered the friend. " What kind of fruit ?" " The fruit of industry; and I am never troubled with indigestion." r P(trinH: }"H'<2.oo a Year, in Advance. THE GHKAT CALAMITY Sort *M< Towelling la.lit.nl* of lb* I'looa by Hhlih Kour % Ills*** '! ISO klt ***** UaalaoyaS. The incidents of the Massachusetts calamity, by which 150 people lost their lives snd four villages were swept away by the tlood are heartrending. Carrie Harney, who woiked in the leteds but ton factory, lost her life iu trying to save her mother. The mother lived close by the factory, and Carrie, un heeding her own danger, ran to warn her mother. Hhe entered the house and reappeared soon after without her mother. Oarria was overwhelmed when near the high ground, and her body was recovered soon afterward within a few rods of the place at which she met her death. ller mother's honse was swept away, but lodged against a tree and did not collapse. After the water subsided, Mrs. Harney was found near ly unconscious in an upper room. " One Miller, living at Haydenville. was in his own house when he beard the roar of the approaching Hood. He ran to the door, but being satisfied that he oould not get to the highland he stayed in the house, which was lifted bodily, whirled aloug, bumping against trees and driftwood with a force that threatened its destruction. Miller be came frightened and jumped out of an upper window into the boiling sea. He caught s floating log, and was whirled so nearly aahore by au eddy that he waa rescued by by-s tandem. At Ijetxlh six houses lay in close proximity to each other. One was Ivirg on its roof, another on its aide. They had floated half a mile, and then daniled against a house with heavy stone foundations that withstood the flood. U udemeath the drift that col lected around thrm three bodice were found. Not less than 10,000 people made the tonr of the devastated valley on Ban dar after the disaster. They came from Springfield, I'itUfield, Westfield, and other towns within a radius of twenty fire mi lea. In the string of vehicles every few roda were wagon* ran tam ing one, two, and sometime* four oof fined bodies en route for the oemetery, for in the uuireraal bereavement inter ment followed swiftly after the recovery of the bodies, and funeral servicer, ex cepting in a few instances, were dis pensed with. At Hsrdenritle the bodies were laid in the Congregational church. Lying side by nue were a mother and her two children. Near them a mother, her murried daughter, and her two in fant children. The dead of thoae whom the flood haense of the town. Carrie Harm y waa buried from the bouse of Mr. Werner. Her life devotion to her mother drew maify sympathizing friends into the parlor in which the meagre burial service was said. A piece of paper on which was written " Carrie Harney, died May 16, 1874, aged 17," told the storv that ia usually inscribed on silver. Her mother sat by the head of the cofiiu grief stricken. Carrie Harney waa carried to the grave in the same wagon with Annie Hogan, who worked by her side in life. The dead of Williamsburg number fifty-four. The town kail waa thick with the uncofllued bodies principally of women and children. The churches were closed, and pastors and people devoted their whole time to the care of the dead, which w rc removed to ths receiving vault of the cemetery as rabidly as ths burial facilities permit- On the flat lands by the river the people were delving among the rubbish for more bodic*. One poor fellow worked alone for an hour around the wreck of his own houae, whieh was carried away half a mile from its place. He lifted up the boards and timber* very carefully, peer ing inside them so anxiously that a throng aoon assembled around te watch his movements. "1 in hunting for my wife," he said,when questioned. "She was in the house when the flood came, and she must be near it now." Those who tried to help him were scarcely able to do so, because he would have each board lifted as carefully as though the body lay !elow. He wrought late into the afternoon before he learned that her body was among those found on Warner's flats. One of the saddest cases was that of th Birmingham family—father, mother and three daughters—all swept away together. The family were at break fast when the water struck their house. Mr. Birmingham was auperintendent in the James mill, and his daughters, Mary, Lily, and Carrie, were aged 19, 14, and S respectively. Miss Mary was a teacher in tho South street primary school at Northampton, and had come home to spend tho Sabbath. It was a most loroable family, and their nu warned death forms one of the most touching scenes of this moat terrible disaster. Mr. Birmingham was for merly a momlierof tho Hinsdale woolen mill of Birmingham Brothers, and was well known in Western Massachusetts. A most wonderful rescue and prob ably tho only ono of an adult jierson from the flood itself, at Leeds, was that of Mrs. Mary C. Harding. She was at work on tho second floor of the silk factory when the alarm was given, and hardly had she reached the ground when the shout was raised, " Run across the bridge." She started, lead ing the whole company, but soon the cries were of another sort: " Come back," aud " Don't go over," were sounded on every side. It was too late for Mrs. Harding though. She was on tho bridge, and going back waa as per ilous as going forward. She ran on, and no sooner had she and perhaps half a dozen others reached the further shore than that immense mass of deb ris struck the bridge, whieh went down with a crash, carrying with it six or seven girls and women who were just a little too late. Tho woman kept on running for Ross's store, while her com panions who had crossed the bridgo entered the fated boarding house. She passed the little gate near the bridge, and jnst got through the larger gate be low tho steps hading to the store, when tho water rushed up, carried off the gate, aud threw her down near the lower stair. Luckily, two moil were on the hank, and she was drawn up, and not a minute too soon, for just then the steps went off, and the three had to see* safety higher up the shore. The escipc from ttie bridge ; from the de scending debris ; from the chance of entering the house as her companions did ; and from the water afterwards, makes Mrs. Harding's case a moat mar velous one. She only, of the thirteen who slatted over the tiridge, was saved. One of the saddest cases was that of three French children, neither of them over nine years old, who sat among the living and tho dead in Mr. Warner's house at Leeds, and told the question ers that they could not find three sis ters and a brother and their mother, but that their father was safe and at tending to the dead people. But many well knew that the brother and sisters were among the dead, jet no one had the henrt to break the terrible news to tho children. Two of the little ones have been adopted by Mr. Hillett, one of the overseers of the silk factory. Mr. H. H. Tilton, of Williamsburg, was carrying his aged mother. Widow Sarah 11. Snow, to a place of safety, when the unrelenting waters seized NO. 22. them. Mra. Know waa carried away, while lie grappled a tree about fifteen fact high, glowing on a bank, and wan saved, though the waters reached and * way ml him. Measra. Harmon and Khoadea, living in the aame honae, got acroaa the street into another dwelling, the lower story of which waa flooded, but aome apple tree* broke the force of the wave, and the houae atood. Three men— J. M. Htepbeuaon and two new hand a wlioee namea are not known —fearing the aafety of the board ing-houae in which they were with a number of othera, deepite the entreatiea of their aaaociatca left it and climbed an apple tree n-ar by. The latter fell under them and they were drowned, while tboae at the boarding-houae re mained unharmed. One man ventured upon the roof of the boarding-houae, and though it crumbled under uim be clung to it and saved his life. One of the heroes of the occasion ia Collins Graves, a milkman, who was at the livery atable in Williamsburg, where the gate-keeper Cheney waa try lug to get some one to spread the news bt-luW. * "If the dam ia breaking," said Graves, after listening to Cheney's fragmentary story, "the folks must know it" And, lashing his fleet horse into s run, he dashed swsy toward Hsydenvilie, shooting, " The reservoir ia right here. Hun! It's all you can do." It was now a quarter of 8 o'clock, and meanwhile Belcher and Cheney had rung tha ball of the Congregational Church to farther warn the Tillage folk. On went horse and driver, spreading the alarm, Grave* shouting all the way, lie made directly for the manufactur ing establishments, "for,' aaid he, " the people could hear it, bnt the roar of the factories would drown any warn ing for the operatives." At Skinuerville tbe messenger waa five minutes ahead of the coming tor rent, but at Hajdenrilie they had but two mmute* to spread the alarm. There the famous ride which will be sung in story and told to the credit of Gofiins Graves around the fireaidea of Wil liamsburg forever aa tbe salvation of many hundred lives, ended at the hotel. Horse and rider were both exhausted, and here another herald took np tbe tidings. Graves oould hear the thun der of the coming flood, bnt not folly appreciating lie extent ha turned to go back to Williamsburg. At the " Dug way " the disaster which be had pre dicted burst upon his sight, and he had just Ume to turn off into a bank near Capb Kingsley'a when it craahed passed him. Indeed, be was not twenty sec onds too soon, sud as it was he had almost despaired of reaching a place of safety, and had even thought of aban doning his tired steed to its fate. The Fate of Two Lovers. There are fine cavern# and reoesaea amongst the rocks ; one particularly, which we took the opportunity of visit ing, as it can only be entered at the ebb of the spring tides. It is very spacious, beautifully arched, and composed of granite rocks finely veined with alabas ter, which tbe imagination may eaaily form into a semblance of a female fig ure, and i\ of course, the Nereid of the grotto. We wished to stay longer, but our friend harried us away, leat the tide should rush in, which it u supposed to do from subterraneous caverns, aa it tills before the tide cover* the send of the adjacent beach. Ivu particularly affected with the fate of two lover* (a young gentleman and ladv from Clifton) wboae friends were here for the aake of aea bathing. They atole out early in the morning by themselves, and etrull ed along the U*ach till they came to thi* grotto, which, being then empty, they entemh They admired the strata of rock loaning in different direction*. They admired the incrustation which OOTna cent to him. A Raleigh, N. 0., newnpaper contain! the advertiaementof Hmitb, "thegrant American house moviat." An old maid, speaking Of marriage, says it ia like any other disease—while there ia life there ia hope. A Ht. Lonla lawyer haa been debar red from practicing for three yearn for appropriating t e funds of hia client. A new mode of die parting moba haa been discovered, and ia aaid to anooaed admirably. It ia to paas the contribu tion box. The Chinese bavo a saying that aa ntilucky word dropped from the tongue cannot be drawn bark by a coach and six horses. A Rochester boy didn't believe that boiled tar waa aa Lot aa boiling oil un til he dipped hia Augers in. Ha will bet on it now. A Lntberau clergyman in Freedom, Wis., who refused to officiate at the funeral of a Granger, haa been dia misaed by hia congregation. A witty woman Bays that, as death ia reported to have a shining mark, she ia constantly in dread of a shaft being aimed.ather husband's nose. Advertisements printed in Chinese characters, such aa art seen on tea cheats, arc beginning to appear numer ously in the California papers. Nothing ia rarer than a solitary lie ; fur liee breed like Surinam toads ; you cannot tell one but out it oomee with a hundred young ones on its back. An instructor asked a French girl why beer in French wee feminine. She replied that it waa prebably owing to the fact that the beys like it so well. A litila boy returning from the Una day school, said to bin mother—" Ma, ain't tb.-re a kitten-chism for little boy • ? Tbia cat-echiam ia too bard !" A woman who baa baas in tha poor bouaa at WaUwbory, Vt, for thirty three yaatm, aaya that aba baa waabad 4- 950 bushel* of potatoaa in that time. Bouquet matineea are popular in New Orleana Everybody carriea a bonouet in bia hand, and the theatre looka like an immense flower bed in fall bloom. A French inventor baa constructed a petroleum lamp with tea araali wioka luatead of one large one. Theae are arranged in a circle and attached to a frame. A disappointed Hibernian, in relating his griefs, aaid " I tould him had ha any s throng beer what waa good. Ha axed me yea, but it waa soar and all gone." Two scamps in Detroit so frightened an unfortunate Pole, by pointing a pis tol at him and d< manding his breeches or his life, that he has become a raving It oost Baron Poroari sixty-three thousand francs to get away from lUo Sicilian brigands recently. He ape .% eleven days in a cave, and then parted with his ducats. Late seven frosts have done consid erable damage to vines throughout France. It is estimated that the grape crop the present year will not be above half the average. Choice flocks of sheep continue to be sent from Vermont to the far West. One numbering 113 waa shipped a few days since to Washington Territory, a distance of 4,000 miles. A voung gentleman, who had jut married alitfle undersized beauty,aaid she would have been taller, but she was made of sueh precious materials that nature could not afford it Milwaukee thought she had a case wherein a young girl died of a broken heart, but it turned out that her corset strings were too tight, and one stroke of a jack-knife revived her. A building in Ban Francisco that baa 500 rooms, is to have a clock with 500 dials, a dial for each room, to be oper ated with compressed air, conducted in pipes all over the building. Take a company of boys, chasing butterflies, says a cynical writer, pat long-Uulod coat# on the boy*, and tarn the butterflies into dollars, and yon bare the panorama of the world. If a speculator misses his aim all re pudiate him, some erring out, " He's s fool," and some, "He's a rogue." If he succeeds they besiege his door, and demand his daughter in marriage. A New England paper ad rises its readers: If roar neighbor'* hsns if* twmblssoms AIM) stesT across ths war, Deal Ist roar softy pssswas rise, Dal Ax a plac* for tbam to lay. Arthur Orton'a wife and children are on ahow in England, admission ranging from sis to fifty oenta. Violent speeches were made dnring the exhibition at Southampton, the under baliff of the town presiding. There is no fnneral so sad to follow aa the funeral of our own youth, which we hare been pampering with fond de sire#, ambitious hope*, and all the bright berries that hang in poisonous clusters orer the path of life. "It was the policy of the aoodold gentleman to make hit children reel that home was the happiest place in the world ; and I value this delicious home-feeling aa one of the choicest gifts that a parent can bestow." Two rival lovers in South Haven, Mich., recently determined to settle their pretensions by shooting at a mark. Very properly, after it was decided/- the "young woman refused to have any thing to uo with either of them. Neither give so little of yonr society to a friend as to let him suspect yon of neglect, nor so much as to surfeit him with your presence. A little fuel add el to a fire will increase its intensity, but too much may extinguish it alto gether. A Fonda man has ascertained that Blind Tom is " about twenty-five years of age," that he is owned l>y the State of Georgia, which has appointed a guardian over him, and that within the past ten years Tom has earned for the State over $300,000. A small boy arose at a Sanday-school concert and began quite glibly, "A oer tain man went down from Jerusalem to Jerioo, and fell—and fell" (.here his memory began to fa'l him), " and—and —fell by the roadside, and the thorns sprang up and choked him." A gentleman in Lafayette, Ind., gave the practice of "treating" a rebuke. On being asked to take a drink he said he preferred, if agreeable, u> take a loaf of bread. The treater ac cordingly bought a ten cent loaf, which the gentleman had sent to a needy family. It costs a hundred dollars to lower the dignity of the journalistic profes sion in Chicago. At leaßt, that iB the amount a judge told a bogus news paper man in that city he would have to pay if he again represented himself as a man who wrote pieces for the papers. A Canadian laborer the other day amnsed himself by resting his foot upon a block of wood for an instant and quickly withdrawing it, meanwhile challenging a fellow-workman to hit it with an axe. After several repetitions of the foolish experiment,, by which both became excited, the man with the axe made a most successful stroke, hit ting the fost and cutting it nearly in two. Five garroters, who had been convict ed at tne Leeds Assizes, were flogged with cat-o'-nine-tails at the Armley jail, Leeds, Eng. James Boyd, who receiv ed twenty-live lashes, screamed "Oh 1 my back ! Murder ! murder ! Doctor ! Doctor !'* dnring the whole of the pun ishment. John Dyer, aged 17, who re ceived the same number of lashes as Boyd, was very much terrified. When the last stroke had fallen he exclaim ed, " Thank God! Thank God ! o,Lord God 1 it's terrible 1 It's awful!"