£Jic Crntvf JPrmortirf. __ BELLEFONTE, PA. Tho Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper I'UIII.ISHBO IN I INTIIK COUNTY. Krom Ills NKW Vork OtMmro-r. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Third Quarter, it uv. HIRST a. usm T, D. a. JULY 3. l,csson 1. ISRAEL IN EGYPT. Kx. 1: 4—14. • ioinr* TIXT •.—*'AK! !h-y MALE LH*?Jr II*IH Mttci with h*r*l bondage K*. 1 14. Central Truth: —Nothing can thwart the good purpose of(iod concerning his people. After six delightful months with the life of Christ, as recorded by Luke, we turn once more to the Old Testament. The change may seem to be great. And it is. Nevertheless, we shall find ourselves in but another and a most in structive part ol the same Bible. The New Testament is rooted in the Old; and tho be.-t understanding of the form er is possible only to those who are at home in the latter. All Scripture is profitable. The lost half of last year was devoted to the Book of Genesis. We then traced the story of the Creation, Fall ami Promise; of the covenant with Noah, ami the call and lite of Abraham ; aud ot God's dealings with Isaac, Jacob ami Joseph. We saw the family ol Jacob settled in Goshen, the most fer tile part of the land of Egypt. Joseph had already risen to the highest ollice in the gift of the king, and his brethren were soon made keepers of the royal herds. The lessons ol last year closed with the death of Jacob and ot Joseph. It is at that point that we take up again the thread ot old Testament history. The Book of Exodus (signifying "go ing out"), which is now tor some time to occupy our attention, is so called from the leading event recorded in it— | namely, the departure of Israel from the land of their oppressions to be re planted in the good land promised to their fathers. The present lesson deals with two principal facts, —(a) the wonderful in crease of Israel in Egypt, and (b) the means used by the new king to check their growth. To bring the first of these into bolder relief, the writer goes back to the descent of Israel in Egypt. Israel was then a little flock. The male descendantsof -I acob numbered seventy, though, counting women and servants who were admitted to the covenant and reckoned Israelites, the whole number was probably several hundreds. But now they had wonderfully increased. (bserve the climax : they were fruitful, they increased abundantly, they nailtiplietl. they waxed exceedingly mighty, the whole land was tilled with them. In part this was due to natural causes. But it WAS also in fulfillment of prophecy and promise. To Jacob it had been said : "Bear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation" (Gen. 46: 3). God was now making good his promise. The second principal point of the lesson relates to the attempt of the new king to thwart the divine purpose. It would be a mistake to suppose that the whole, or greater part, of the so journ in Egypt was spent in bondage. By some, the time of that sojourn is supposed to have been two hundred and fifteen years; by others four hup-c dred and thirty years. Whichever vi*"* is correct, Israel there enjoyed many free and prosperous years. It was after this that the new king arose. Doubtless he was of a new dynasty ; perhaps a foreign power coming in to supplant the one which had gone before it. This 'would explain his ignorance of Joseph, or his inditFerence to the services he had rendered. It would also help to explain his dread of an alien people, like the children of Israel, within its borders. It does not appear that this new king desired to destroy tho objects of his dread. As slaves they would he of great value to him. Accordingly he net himself to cripple them. He laid upon them great burdens. He did not take away their fields and flocks, but made their lives bitter with hard bond age. He set them to making brick, digging canals, and building treasure 1 cities. Greek historians tell us that the Egyptians boasted that their great works were the products oT the labor of captives and slaves, and not of their own people. But here it is to be noticed that the more they were afflicted, the more this people grew. The leird does not forget his promises. Nothing is here said of the reasons for the divine permission of these Cruel ties of the king and sufferings of bis own |>eoplo. In part, be may have de aigned to teach the nation* some great The end certainly did show that, however, long wickedness may be tolerated, he ia still and ever on the aide of the oppresses!, and sure to pun ish the oppressor. In part. In* purpose may have been to correct his people for their ain, particularly that of idolatry ; to bind tbem the morn closely together, ami especially to make them willing to leave a land unsuited to the moral de velopment of the great nation he meant them to be. Their afflictions were needful for their purifying, and to make them willing to go in the lord's way. RA*CTU SL SROOESTTON*. 1. God never ceases from his watch ful care of his own people. To what ever land they go he follows tbem, to bless them when faithful, to correct them when they fall into evil ways, and to prepare them for the better things he may have In store. 2. It ia always safe to take God at his word of promise, not despising the day of small things. His resources are not few, nor are they weak. He can cause that "a little one shall become a thou •and and a small one a strong nation." 3. One of the lessons most frequently and startlingiy impressed upon us in the older books of the Bible is the shortneasof life and certainty of death. "Joseph died and all his brethren and / all that generation." Ho it will soon be '' said of us. I. Wo uro also reminded of llio brov ily of earthly fame. If ct forgotten, Joseph won noon disregarded. No! even the groat sorvioen ho hud rendered could perpetuate his momory among those who hud most reason to remem ber him. It ix cerlainly better to seek tho lionor which eometh from < iod, than tho shallow and short lived praises of men. Tho world will soon forget us. ft. The devices of worldly men, how ever powerful and crafty, cun never de stroy the Church, nor hinder its growth. Their very opposition may he a means of promoting its increase. ft. That which wicked men cull wis dom is often proved to bo but poor and fruitless cunning, serving to defeat the very purposes they have at heart. 7. (iod makes use of the afflictions of his people to work out their highest and most enduring good, By tho hos tility and opposition of wicked men he corrects their follies and drives them to himself. Ity experiences of sorrow and sutlering he purifies them from sin, and makes them meet for a hotter inheri tance. It is by the same means that he makes them willing at length to go forth to its possession. S. Ihe life of Israel in Egypt was n striking pretiguration of many a believ er's experience in the world. He goes down into its arena much in the same spirit as that which took.lacoh to Egypt, lie goes to better bis fortune. And he may do it. The world proves a Goshen of comforts and good things. He grows to love it. By it he is weakened ami corrupted. Then it begins to pove a place of felt bondage. And (bid lets iiiiu feel the bitterness of that bondage, until, bumbled and brought back, he is made once more to desire a better por lion, and is prepared for departure to it. The world was not meant to be our home. If we are indeed of God's true people, he will somehow bring us out from it. WASHINGTON TKRRITORY. UNITED STATES I.AM) Orm *. ) AKIMA, WASHI sc. TON TERRITORV, ■ May 7, ISBI. j KDITOES CENTRE DEMOCRAT : Nearly every mail brings me letter* from all parts of Pennsylvania contain ing inquiries concerning this country— the climate, soil, Ac. I fin< 1 it iiii|M>*m ble to answer each letter separately, and yet wishing that nil may know what kind of a country we have in this north west corner of the United States, I ad dress myself to you in the hope that my letter may possess sufficient interest to warrant Us publication in the i>r.iio i RAT. I may tell some things that may seem fabulous,but I am willing to vouch for their correctness. A glance at a map of the United States will show you that N akima I pronounced Yack i maw) IH situated at the mouth of the Ahtanmn.on the Yakima river, and with the exception of Kllensburg, a very small village, is the farthest town on the north western frontier, east of the Cascade mountains. It has n popula tion of five hundred, and is located precisely as Milesburg is in the Bald Kagle \ alley. Rattlesnake mountain lies immediately south ol the town, and where the Ahtanum empties into the Yakima there is a gap in the mountain through which the Yakima runs, pre cisely as does Spring creek between Bellefonte and Milesburg, while north ot us is the Yakima mountain ami Cas cade range, which in the picture tills the place of the "Ridges" and Alleghe ny mountain. This valley, known as the Ahtanum wet and Moxsee on the east side ol the Yakiuia river, is about forty miles in length by twelve in width. Ten years ago it was nothing but a bar ren sage brush plain, *upy>ortion. Corn does well, better in fact than any where else on this coast, but as our nights are always cool the yield is not so large as east of the Rocky Moun tains, where the nights are warm and the country is refritshcd by frequent showers of rain. The soil is especially adapted to the raising of root crops, and will readily yield trom six to eight hundred tmshels of potatoes, beets, tur nips, carrots or mangel-wurzel to the acre, arid old settlers, whose word is en tirely reliable, have told me that it would produce still larger crops. I.ast summer, which was an unusually dry one, Timothy Lynch, who lives eight miles up the valley, of potatoes on one acre, and Mr. Briggs, who live** in Kittila* valley, forty miles north of us, raised H4U bushels of man gel wtirzel on one acre. When I came here in October last to open this office, I found on exhibition at the place of business of Mr. Adkins two squashes, sotne times called sweet pumpkins, weighing 60 and 80 pounds respectively, beets froin 2i) to 26 pounds, potatoes — peerless—ft to 7 pounds, turnips 16 to 26 |ounda, tomatoes 1 to I J. about same as at home, cucumbers 1 to IJ feet in length and thick in proportion, red pepper pods 8 to 10 inches m length, onions grown from the seed in one season (never tie "sets" here) as isrge round as an ordinary saucer, very sweet and free from the strong, biting taste of those raised in the eastern Htates and in my opinion finer flavored than those raised in the Bermuda Islands, and they are celebrated, sorghum stalks 14 feet high, and a sun flower stalk 20 feet high with a flower on it 18 inches in diame ter, an apple limb with apples hanging on it like a cluster of grapes, and other fruit h Hiirli ii* plumbs, prune'", peaches and cherries—in liko proportion. Kruit trees begin to boar in three and lour years after they urn not out. The great trouble in that our fruit liven bear too much and the branches urn constantly breaking with the weight of fruit. Our noil is a rich sandy loam, slightly impregnated with alkali. It in deep, but light, and grown heavier with culti vation. The country in of banal tie tor million und nil the valleyn huve the ap pearance ol having been at one time immense Jaken, and I doubt not they were. The land in broken and nowed the same neanon. t'ropn are always put in in the spring of the year, Our farm - ers are at tho prenent writing .still put ting in npring wheat. In tny opinion winter grain would do bent. The plow used here in very light and thrown a furrow of only 12 Inchon, und our farm em only plow .'{ and 4 inches deep. Thin in a mistaken idea, however, an tho land dries oht too quick. This country in a lazy man's paradise, and will bring to any one willing to work half as hard on a farm as he does in Pennsylvania a fortune. This land district is traversed by nu merous mountain streams, somewhat like Spring creek, but much larger ; be ing led by snow mountains the water is much colder. All of them have a great deal of fall and hence run with great lorco and rapidity, thus affording ex cedent water power. The Yakima be tween this place and the mouth of the Katchee river, seven miles distant, IIHS a fall of ninety feet. Our streams are all filled with trout from the tiniest to those weighing five und six pounds. Of these there are five kinds: silwr scale, blue scale, salmon trout, pink spotted with a red streak along the sole, known here as mountain trout, and the "Holly Varden' 1 or the pink and yellow spotted trout, such as you have in the east. The spots on these latter are not so bright as on the eastern brook trout, but otherwise 1 can dis cover no difference in them. To catch them one doea not have to whip out a tly to do it. < >ue can have sufficient trout for a meal by an hour or two fishing any time. In the northern part of this county several gold mines, both placer and quart/, are in course ot development, and the most sanguine expectations prevail among the miners interested in them, nnd it is confidently expected that the Swauk and i'eshastan districts will ere long spring into sudden promi nence, and equal if not exceed the most Valuable mines that have ever been de veloped ou this coast. Should the -x pectationsof those working these mines only be partially realized it is safe to predict a bright future for the business interests of this county. The mining interests of these districts have already become an item of interest and consid erable importance to the merchants and farmers of the county and of this place, where the miners purchase their supplies. The largest nuggets, or "chis pas" as the miners term theiu, which have yet been found, were valued re spectively at t'J.iO, ♦hxt and S7IW, the latter having fieen found by a t'bina man, and all were found in the "clean up" last Fall la-fore the snows set in. This Spring in one "clean up" a nugget worth s'--17 was found by parlies who were ready to give up their mine in despair. As yet there is no improved machinery in these mines, the crushing being accomplished by the old fashion ed "anstrus" of Spanish origin. The gold found in these mines i remarks hly pure and is worth from sl7 tojls per ounce. Aside from all other advantage* Ya kima's greatest blessing i found in its healthful and delightful climate. Ow ing to its )>eculiar situation and topogra phy it is in this respect wholly different from any other section of the country. Ity its close proximity to the Cascade mountains it is protected alike from the cold winds and early frost* to which those counties lying eat of the Colum bia river nre subject, while the melting snows of Mounts Kanier and Adams, in plain view, though eighty miles distant, which rise in awful grandeur and ma jesty like high white pillar* in the west, impart, to the summer atmosphere a cool and invigorating quality that is both wholesome and agreeable. The winter ju*t past, here, as elsewhere, was one of unusual severity. The worst known in twenty years, but yet in all my life I never passed one where the temperature was so equable and pleas ant. There were no cold, damp south easter*. no penetrating, marrow fre.-t --ing north-wester* snd no "bliuards." The atmosphere was dry and agree able. and no wind. It was cold without feeling so, and when you *tep|>cd out of door* the inclination was to inhale as much of the pure air a* your lungs were capable of holding and when tliey were fully inflated one lelt buoyant, good na tured and a* though it was pleasant to live. Hut three night* did mercury fall below zero and those three were the most glorious and exhilarating moon light nights I ever saw. On the 15th of February s strong warm wind from the southwest began blowing—called in this country a "chi nook wind"—and the snow di*ap|>enred before it like magic, and since then we have had most delightful weather, such as you usually have in the latter part of April and during the month of May. Our fruit trees have budded and blos somed and been in lull leaf for a month. Strawberries are in bloom and we ex pect to have numerous festivals eating them witlfin the month. lam told, by the way, that they grow so large here that it is an absolute fact that in pre paring them for the table they slice them as one would a raw tomato. I have teen them in < >regon as large as a hen's egg. All crop* in this country are sowed or planted in the spring. Wheat sowed this spring is already up and looking as well as any winter wheat I ever saw. Some of our farmers are still sowing wheat, oat* and barley. This country, like all others, ha* it* drawbacks. For instance, timber there is none except small groves on the im mediate banks of the streams and in the mountains, the latter being twenty five miles distant, vix : the Simeoe and Cascade. The Yakima and Hattleanake are entirely void of timber. (>ur houses are all of the "box" order and there are but two or three plastered house* in the country and only one built of brick. Our lime i* obtained from Puget Hound, via. (Columbia river, and it has to be hauled from Tljjp Hiilles, Oregon, on wagons, and when it reaches this place is worth lour cents a pound. Our houses are, as a rule, built of inch hoards, strip ped, and instead of plastering, the in side* are covered with a thin muslin tacked on ami then papered. There is not much privacy in them as a word spoken in one room is heard in all oth ers in the house and in consequence the hoys and girls do most of their "spark ing on the "front gate." They serve as a protection but are not excessively warm on a cold winter's duy. in this connection 1 will say that notwithstand ing our extreme northern latitude our winters are milder than in Virginia and about the same as in Northern Ala bama. Snow rarely ever lies on the ground more than three weeks and usualiy in tho month of January. Stock runs on the range the year round and as a rule is never fed. They are left to shift lor themselves and generally come out all right. This winter, however, was an exception to the rule. It snow ed heavily about the Ist of December and crusted and remained until Febru ary l-Olb.and in consequence thousands of cattle and hundreds of horses were starved to death in tho range because they were unable to move through the crusted snow to places where grass was to be found. ISut those who wintered through, and came out poorer than Job's turkey this spring, are now as fat as any grain fed animals in the east. The na tive hunch Hiid rye grHs-.es of this coun try, with which the hill* and valleys are now green, are more nutritious than corn and will fatten an animal quicker than corn. Farmers who fed out their grain during the winter to keep their stock from starving, are now plowing with horses whose only feed Is the bunch grass they get at night in the pasture after a hard day's work, and yet they keep in good condition. Another drawback to the country is 1 ck of rain during the summer months. For weeks and weeks not a cloud will be seen in the sky, and the atmosphere is so clear that we can see a mountain a hundred miles away as distinctly as you can see Muncy mountain from Bellefonte. In fact a person from the east can form no idea of distance by sight, as objects seemingly only a mile or two away are more apt to be ten or fifteen miles distant. This has been my experience. Ihe timber on the streams in the valleys is tsramahac, or Balm of Giiead, alder and black willow, with some birch and choke cherry, either of which m ike-, tolerable fence rails arid stove wood but i fit for but little else ; in the mountains, however, there is some oak and an excellent quality of sugar pine, lir, tamarack and c*dr, the latter being white, light and buoyant and straight grained. Any one having a little money after he has reached this place can do well in any kind of business, but a man with out means here, as elsewhere, has a hard time of it, although assistance will lie extended to him more wdlinglv. it lie is worthy, than in the east, as all of the early settlers have gone through the trials of frontier life and are gen erous and hospitable to a,fault. What i" their'* is their friends. No one will take a mean advantage of n newcomer's necessities as it is not considered hon orable, and be who does it runs the risk of being "fired out" as tbe native* term it. Good American horse* are worth #KtO each. 'I h<* native < ijfuir ponies, a cross between the French fiound* each. I.ike an Indian, how ever, they are not entirely truatworthy, and will "buck'' on the alighteat provo cation. I have driven a apan of them from thi* place to The I>a!lea, a distance of 110 tnile* inaide of twenty hour*, including stoppage-, and, with one night's rest, driven them hack in the aame time. The home* of tbi* country are much hardier than in the east; they have strong film hoc,fa and auch a thing aa corn* and Hat feet are un known. As a rule they are not aimed, except Ibev are rode or driven long distances. They have larger and better lungs than do the eastern horse* and have greater endurance. The lope and walk i* the only gait for a riding horse here, and our "vacquero*" or "cow bovs" alway* ride like John Gilpin. We have some Indians, hut they are good ones and are mostly employed in the hop yards, of which we have the finest in the world, or bv stockmen a* herders. Soma of the Indians have herd* ol horses and cattle of their own that run up into the hundreds. The Indians are now largely in the minority and fully realire that the "lloston men," as they call the Americans, are the rulers. They are great gamblers, and the very worst one* seem content if they hare a pony and sufficient "ohiek amin" (money), to indulge in their fa vorite pastime, a game of "roonte." They will spread a blanket on the ground and gather around it and play until they have lost evervthing. blank ets, ponies, and all hut suflh-ient clothes to hide their nakedness. The Indian women (clonobmen they are railed here) are industrious and are the washer women of the country. They are all dirtv, hut ouni are not so had as those of the plains east, and a visit of a few minutes inside one of their wick-e up* — (the romantic wigwam of the story hooka), is sufficient to try the strength of the strongest stomach. As a rule they wear no covering on their head, always have a blanket of the gayest color around them and are fond of heeds and shell jewelry. They are par ticularly fond of ahelone shells, found on the northern coast of California. We have aeveral settler* from Penn aylvania. among the numlter Hugh and Joeiah Wilejr, of Brookville, .tefferann county, both of whom hay* fine im proved farm* up tha Ahtanum. On* of our beat citiien* i* John Weikle, a "Pennsylvania dutchman," who waa raised and haa relative* in or near liar tleton, in Union county. He haa the bet house, finest farm and largest and best kept horse* in the country, arid say* lie is going to have a "big, red IVnni Valley barn with white blinds," before another winter. He also owns a large herd of cattle on the range, lie drops in to my office frequently to have a chat about home, as he still calls it, and says as soon as the Northern Pa cific railroad is completed lie is going buck to visit the homo he left thirty years ago. I also found on my arrival here Alex. Mullin, of Osceola, who is fast becom ing an old settler. He has been in this particular locality about a year and lias adopted tlie costume of tbe granger, a duck suit and white sombrero hat with a run tliat is very i/twsmny. He talks the Chinook jargon like a native Ya kima Indian, and were he to meet his father he would probably give him a surprise by addressing him in this style : Kin how iam six! Cata mika? Kah initlile mtku muck a muck ? All of which means: (iood morning 1 How are you '! Where is there something to eat? Alex, and brother Harry have entered adjoining quarter sections, containing Hit) acres each, of as fine land aa ever laid out ol doors -a rich sandy loam, twenty teet deep, that will produce any thing that can be grown in tbe middle or western States. Alex's friends will bo glad to learn that he is prospering and bids fair eventually to become one of our most prosperous and substantial grangers. My letter bus grown to a wonderful length, but should it prove worthy of publication and will answer the many inquiries sent me, 1 shall lie most happy and in the future may have aonic-thing more to say. Very respectfully, K. B, KIKNIK, IlnjuUr. THE AUT OF WAK. • AS rt'LLY f. XII.AINEI) lir MASK TWAIN. At the late reunion of the Army of the Potomac, in Hartford, to the regular toast, "The benefit of judicious training," Mr. Samuel L. Clemmeni (Mark twain) responded as follows: "l-et but the thoughtful civilian instruct the soldier in his duties, and the victory i' sure. —Mnrhn J'ar:uh column around and attack him in the rear. I hagiven a good deal of study to tin* tactic itnc* 1 learned ahout it, and it appcaas to mo it i* a rattling good idea. N<-v*r fetch on your reserves at a hlart. fhia was Napoleon's hint mistake at Waterloo. Next, he assault ed woh bia bomb-proof* aud ambu lancos arid embrasures, when he ought to have lined a heavier artillery. Third ly, he retired hi* right by ricochet —which uncovered hi* picket*—when In* only possibility of success lay in doubling up hi* centre, flank by flank, and tiirowing out hi* chcvm/s fa/rue by the left obliquerelieve the akirmiah line and oonfuae enemy—if *ueh a ma noevre would confuse him, and at Went Point they *aid it would. It wax ahout thia time that the Emperor had two boraea abot under him. flow often you *ee the remark that General No and No at audi and *uch a battle had two or three horaea ahot under him. General l'urnside and many great European mil itary men, 81 I waa informed by a high artillery officer at Weat Point, have juatly characterized tin* an a wanton Waate of projectiles, arid he irnpreaaed upon roe a conversation in the tent of the Prussian chiefs at Gravelotte, in the course of which our honored guent juat referred to—Gen. Burnside— observed that if "you can't aim a borne so a* to hit the general with it, shoot it over him, and you may bag something on the other side, whereas a horse shot un der a general does no sort of damage." I agree cordially with Gen. Burnside, and heaven know* 1 *hall rejoice to see the artilleries of this land and of all lands cea*e from thia wicked and idiotic custom. At Went Point they told roe of another mistake at Waterloo, name ly, that the French were under fire from the beginning of the fight till the end of it—which w* plainly a moat effeminate and ill timed attention to comfort, and a foolish division of mili tary strength; for it probably took a* many men to keep up the fire* a* it did to do the fighting. It would have been much belter to have had a small fire in the rear, and let the rnen go there by detachments and get warm, and not ; try to warm up the whole arruv at once. ( All the cadet* said that an sM-ault along j the whole line wa the one thing which oould have restored N*[-oleon' advan tage at this juncture, and he was actu ; ally rising in hi* stirrup* to order it, : when a sutler burst at his ide and cov ered him With dirt and debris, and be | fore he could recover Wellington open j ed a tremendious and devastating fire j upon hirn from a mon*trou* battery of i vivandieren, and the star of the great captain's glory set to rise no more. ; l he cadet wept while he told me these ' mournful particular*. When you leave a battlefield always ; leave it in good order Ifemove the , wreck and rubbish, and tidy up the place. However, in the case of a diawn j battle it is neither parly's business to tidv up anything. You can leave the field looking a* if the city government of New York had bossed the fight, When you are traversing the enemy's countn, in order to de*trov hi* supplies and cripple,hi* resources, you want to take along plenty of catnn follower*. Ihe more the fe-tter. They are a tre | mendouly effective arm of the service and they in*iure in the foe the liveliest i dread. A et point professor told me that the wisdom of this was recognized o- far back as scripture times. He quot led the verse. llodkl it was from the new revision, and was a little different from the way it read* in the old one. I■ do not recollect the exact wording of it now, but remember that it wound up with something about such and such a devastating agent be ing as "terrible as an army with bum mers." I believe I have nothing fur ther to add hut this : Ihe Vt est Pointers said a private should preserve a re- I spectful attitude toward his superior*, and should seldom, or never, proceed so far as to offer suggestions to bis general jin the field. If the battle is not being I conducted to suit him, it is better for i him to resign. By the etiquette of i war it is permitted to none below the | rank of newspaper correspondent to j dictate to the general in the field. • Toughed I pa Bullet. General William J. ltoiton.of Xorris town, a week or two ago, coughed up a j bullet which be had carried in his body ; for seventeen years. It was received on the 30th of duly, Isbl, the day of the famous mine explosion at Peters burg. He was then Colonel of the Fifty first Pennsylvania Veteran Volun teers, which had been detailed as a for lorn hope to lead an assault upon a fort to the left of the crater. From that time until Friday, May 20, he carried the bullet in his neck, where it caused him considerable pain, especially in damp weather, and obliged him always to sleep on the left side. About two weeks ago the pain became worae and he could feel some sharp ob ject cutting its way through the tissues toward the throat. One evening he | was complied to close bis store before the usual hour and go to bed, where the foreign substance felt, to use his own expression, "like a fifty pound weight." .Still it did not occur to him that the bullet waa working out. His idea was that some fragments of his shattered jaw bone had detached themselves, and the thought that they were cutting into his throat alarmed him. Mrs. Bolton also became uneasy, and yielding to her persuasion he determined to consult a skillful surgeon on Friday. About the middle of the afternoon, while waiting on a customer, he bad oc casion to stoop and was siesod with a fit of coughing which nearly strangled bim. Instinctively he placed his hand over his mouth, and to his great aston ishment the next cough drove out the bullet and it fell into the palm. It was somewhat stained with blood and waa covered with mucous, but its ditiodge ment was not followed by any bleeding and caused him immediate relict. When the bullet was washed off it waa found to be somewhat corroded with rust, which had covered its surface with sharp ridges, sufficient to account for the pain it produced as it woiked its way through his flesh. In spite of the losa by rust it still weight 273 grains. The General intends writing to hia fnond, Dr. Sherlock, thai the prediction of seventeen years ago has hern ful filled.