Shadows.
Shadows nml substance—who is ho csti y
Whore this (loth imroly end and that begin,
And which is greater? Who hath scales to
weigh
Alike tho shadow and the substance in ?
Who rightly knows them which is which ? and
who
Conccivetli which is elder of the two?
Thou pluck'at the dnisy from the happy grass,
Touched with its lowly looks, but art too weak
To pluck the wandering shadows where they
passu
Great is the shade: and I have heard men
speak
Of one old Shadow aide to appall
Eyes not afraid of substances at all.
Yea, thou art he. Oh, Doath, whom mortals name
Life's shadow, tremblers at a shadow's tread :
Albeit there are who know how noontide's
flame
Scorches, and of the shadow have no dread,
Boeing it ineaus a cool, dusky place with trees
All round, aud grass, and much oblivious ease.
William It'at son, in S-rihmr.
THE DOCTOR S STORY.
In the year 1*75 I graduated, and
began to practice medicine in a conntry
town in Canada. It was a coal mining
lace, full of poor miners, and there wan
several doctors there before mo; but I
bought out another man's practice liefore
ascertaining that he had none, so I had
to try and work along as best leonld.
In two years my patients had increased
to a respectable number, but I was still
a poor man, fori could not exact a heavy
fee from people who earned their bread
by the sweat of their brows in darkness,
and sometimes in danger.
They were poor, and the doctor who
attended them in case of illness was
necessarily poor also. Tlio valley in
which the town was situated was a beau
tiful one; lovely farms lay in every
direction, and aged elms rose beside the
placid river that flowed through the ,
midst of it —peace and plenty smiled on
the beautiful scene, and happy men and
women lived and died there without |
having ever seen the bnsy, turbulent
world outside.
The superintendent of one of the
mining companies lived near the cot
tage which I had made my home, and
he had an only child, a daughter, and
as they say a poor man is never prop
erly miserable till he falls in love I had
to follow up my destiny by loving Lillie
Hardwick.
♦she was lovely, that is the only exenso
I can offer for my rash devotion to her.
I loved her the first time I over saw her
—it was one Hnnday, at church.
She sat beside her father, and I tlionght
of angels all the morning instead of
listening to the sermon.
Bhe wore a blue and white dress and
something ganzy upon her head ; her
hair was nut-brown and rippled natu
rally, and her complexion puro as an
infant's and fresh as a rose.
She had large, soft brown eyes, with
long, dark lashes, and the sweetest voice
1 ever heard.
After that Hnnday I met her nt one or
two parties, bnt I did not dare to pav
her any marked attention, for she was
the only daughter of a rich man, and I
was the poor, unknown doctor, strug
gling hard to make a living.
The summer wore away, and Lillie
was still a bright star at which I fondly
gazed bnt which was also far beyond my
reach.
I fancied she cared for me, and that
kept love and hope alive, and at my
present rate of progress I might, in
abont sixty years, amass sufficient of this
world's goods to take a wife. Certainly
the prospect was not cheering.
I attended a picnic one day, and I had
the happiness to bo chosen Lillio's es
cort which filled me with delight, for
we spent the afternoon together ; she
had a volnme of poems with her, and I
lay among the ferns at her feet in the
hard wood grove where more energetic '
people were making a fire and prepar
ing sapper, and read some of these
poems aloud to her ; they were short se
lections, and one of them I shall never
forget. It was new to me and ran thus:
"He little knows
A woman's heart, who, when the cold wind
blows
Deems it will change. Though storms may rise,
And grief may dim, and sorrow cloud her
skies.
And hopeless hours, and snnlens days romo on,
And dark despair the gloomy future till
But, loving once, she lores through good or ill."
I raised my eyes to Lillio's face as she
listened to the words, and her look de
lighted me.
" How true that is," she said, earnest
ly, then colored, at, I suppose, the ex
pression I con bl not keep out of my
face. If I only dared there and then
to tell her how I loved her—hut I h ul
not the conrago.
That picnic lived in my memory like
one sunbeam on a dark day—a streak of
goldan light shining through gloom. I
oarcoly saw Lillie all winter except
occasionally at church, for I was too
busy to be a regular attendant.
In the month of March a terrible day
dawned over our peaceful valley. Al>out
10 o'clock in the morning an explosion
took place in the mine of which Mr.
Hardwick was superintendent.
AU the men were in the mine when it
occurred, and as tlio fearful sound was
hoard, and the mine belched forth vol
umes of black smoke, crowds of waiting
women and children flocked to the
mouth of the hideous monster that had
swallowed np their husbands and fath
ers.
I was soon on the spot, for I knew
there would bejwork for mo when the
burnt and matigiod victims of tlio explo
sion were brought to light.
Volnntoers were not wanting to go
below and do what they could for the
unfortunate beings imprisoned amid
darkness and death. I offered myself,
but Mr. Hardwick pushed me back, say
ing:
"No, doctor, stay whore yon are. You
will be more needed when wo come
up. Stay here, I beg of you."
Ho speaking he stepped into tlio
bucket with as many more as it woul d
nold, and rapidly descended down the
dark eliasm through which the black
smoke still rolled.
I stood in sad uncertainty as to what
would come next, when I felt a light
touch on my arm, ard turning I found
Lillie beside me.
Hlie wore a light morning dress and
slippers, aud was without a hat; her
bosom rose and fell rapidly, for she had
evidently lost no time in coming here.
"Oh, dpctor!" she cried, clinging to
my arm, " I liavo ran ail the way and
lam out of breath. Tell me where
1 >apa is ?"
I looked at her flushed face and eager
eyes; I noted the trembling if her
hands, and the pink hot-house rose that
nestled in her breast, as if mocking her
agony of fear.
" Miss Lillie, come back a little, your
father was not in the mine at the time
of the explosion ; I have seen him since ;
ho is safe."
"Oh, thank God—thank God!" she
cried, tours starting to her sweet brown
eyes.
" Yes, come back, Miss Lillie, it isnot
good for yon to inhale that smoke;
come back !"
Something told me to got her away
from the month of the pit, but it was
hard to do. At length I left her trying
to console an old woman whose three
sons had gone down a few hinrs ago,
hale, hearty vonng men, and who might
lie blackened corpses for all she knew—
burned and bruised past hope of recog
nition even by their mother.
As I returned to the shaft a dull,
booming sonnd came suddenly from
underground—the enrtli shook—a roar
like the blast of a thousand cannons was
heard, and huge masses of inky stnoki;
rose aliove the fatal pit. A second ex
plosion had tak. n place.
Screams from tho women rent the
air, and above them all, ringing out,
I heard the voice of Lillie llardwiek
clear as a licit:
" (>h, papa, |>apa ! "
My heart stood still; a crowd of men
had gathered round me, another partv
going down to help the dying men below.
No one tried to stop me now ; but I
could not go without one word to Lillie.
If I went to my death let her at least
know how I loved her. Hhe was by my
Ride and I caught her hands in mine.
"Lillie, I will try to save your father
if I cannot I will die with him."
"Oh, thank you," she said, looking
straight into my face. "Come up alive
for my sake J"
With these words ringing in my ears
I jumped on the lift and was soon spin
ning downward into the vault of dark
ness and despair. The air was thick
with noisome vapors, and we could dis
tinguish nothing at first; but after
awhile our lanterns revealed huge
masses of coal thrown out of place, im
prisoning men in living tombs, for with,
out fresh air life could not lie sustained
On every side the mine had been
rent and torn, and instead of the wide
passages where the men worked all was
blocked np with debris, and large shafts
of wood used to stay np tho mine lav
torn and twisted, proving the fnry of
the jxjwor that destroyed them.
We gazed at each other in mnte
despair then seizing any implement
that came to hand liegan to work with a
will. I never knew I eonhl handle a
pick before, bill I certainly made good
progress, and succeeded in bnrstingopen
a lead, one of tho most important in
the mine.
" Here!" I shouted, tut I found a enta
iler of men piled together. " Come and
help me ont with them. Homo of them
at least are alive."
By tho yellow light of tho lantorn I
recognized tho party that had gone down
to the resono. Lillio's father first. He
wes insensible bnt still breathed; his
arm was donbled undo* him and broken;
what other injuries he had sustained I
cotibl not tell.
Ho was placed in tho lift and I took
my place beside him; as many of tho
other men as the lift wonld accommo
date were laid there and we were soon
on onr way to light and life.
Tho first face I saw on gaining day
light was Lillio's, in fact I saw it as I
gazed npward anxiously; it shone white
ami pnre above the dark abyss of woe
from which we ascended like a star of
hope.
When we came into the light and she
saw her father lying in my anns as I knelt
to support him, she proved her conrago
by neither screaming nor fainting. Hhe
assisted me to lift him out and place
him on a litter that had been provided.
I examined him now and found that
in addition to the broken arm Mr. Ibird
wick hod sustained other injuries, none
of them necessarily fatal, Htill placing
his life in great danger. I attended to
hi* wounds and had him removed to IUH
house, which was fortunately near. Then
I returned to the miuo. Ah ! that woful
day! as tho sun set that night there
wore sorrow and weeping in almost
every hutnhlo home in tho town.
I lost no time and tho other doctors
were also kept busy. I visited Lillie's
father about every two hours and ad
ministered such remedies as I thought
were needful. I asked Mrs. Hardwick
if she wished another doctor, but she
answered:
"Oh! no. Y'ou saved my husband's
life and I have every confidence in your
skill. Let the other doctors attend to
tho rest of tho poor men."
Wo had all of us enough to do that
day and many days after.
No more explosions followed, hut all
tho wounded men were not rescued at
once. Home of them were buried among
tho loose masses of coal, and had to be
dug out.
Many who were given up for lost were
brought up alive after all hope bud been
abandoned. But the valley was full of
sorrow and grief, too painful to dwell
ti|on.
I attended Mr. Hardwick throngh the
long illness that followed, and with the
help of CI od brought him hack to health
and strength as the hnwthoru was in
bloom, and the robins began their spring
song - among the old elms.
I saw Lillie daily, and her sweet
face became dearer to me every time I
met her. Hhe found time to visit
among those on whom the hand of God
had been laid, speaking word* of com
fort and healing. A true womanly
woman —snob as are given to bring men
nearer to God than aught else can do.
It was a beautiful balmy evening
when I paid my last professional visit
to her home—tho perfume of spring
violets in the air and the dewy mist of
early nightfall lay over the valley.
I found Lillie sitting alone 011 the
sidesteps of the porch, her lao-work
lying in her lap.
" It is too dark to work, doctor," she
said, pleasantly. "I am taking advan
tage of the lazy hour. I like to sit here
ami enjoy tho perfume of my violets—
you know I luivo a perfect mania for
(lowers. Do you remember I wore a
hot-house rose that morning—that ter
rible morning! 1 do not think I shall
ever love roses again their scent brings
it all liack to me. One can hardly im.
agile- associating anything terrible with
the perfume of a rose, but I do."
I sat beside her and sjxtko on all sorts
of subjects except the one nearest my
heart—that I had not courage to men
tion.
I paid my visit to Mr. Hardwick and
told him it was unnecessary for me to
sec him again in my professional capac
ity.
"Come all the same, my dear fellow
come a* a friend," ho said, pressing my
hand cordially.
His wife, a sweet, motherly woman,
seconded the invitation, and I hade
them all good-night. Lillie sat on the
steps, though. I had seen her flitting
about the house while I talked with her
father: a* I pasmsl out she held out her
hand to me, saying:
" Here is something for TOU, doctor.
No, do not look at it till yon are at
home."
Without another word she vanished,
leaving in my hand a small, white pack
age. A* soon a I was in my surgery I
opened the pap r; there IST the rose my
love wore in her Imsnm on the day of
the explosion, ami on the japor, in
her own pretty handwriting, the words
of the poem I read to her Among the
maple trees.
It was late, hut I did not sleep nntil
1 saw Lillie again, and heard from hoi
1 own dear lips that she loved me. Her
| parents consented to our marriage, and
we are happy. The perfnme of roses
has for me no horrible associations.
Tho 962 dailies published in the
United .States are divided into 436
morning pajor* and .*>46 evening pApers.
One hundred ami thirty-eight |>apers
issne Sunday editions; 682 issno week
lies, fortv-foursemi-weekliesand thirty
nine tri weeklies. Eighty-one dailies
are published in the German language.
Tho average price jor annum of a daily
paper in tho United Htates is $7.33.
The average cost per copy, connting all
tho Htates, is, to annual subscribers,
2 1-3 cents, and to thoso who buy at the
news stands nearly 4 1-2 cents. (!om
paring Htates with each other, the high
est average price per copy is in Nevada,
twelve cents, and tho lowest in Dela
ware, 1 1-4 cents. With an aggregate
daily circulation of 8,581,187, tho
people of tho United Htates pay annu
ally at Kin t #20,250,000 for their daily
news, an amount just ahont equal to the
present annual expenditures of the Fed
eral government.
The neighbor and esteemed contem
porary of tho Tomlmtone (Arizona) A/if
tajth is Uie Tombstone dm tip, printed
in the village of Unlncky Class.
LA HI KM DEPARTMENT.
>1 orttion Warn in,
A Mormon woman, Mrs. Hampton,
has been telling 11 Chicago reporter that
wlion Mormon women are getting mar
ried a white headdress with a flowing
cape is worn. During the ceremony
this cape is over the bride's fuco until
tlio groom lifts it. When tho wife dies
HIIO is buried with this cajwi 011 her
head, and when she is laid in iter coffin
the cape is thrown over her face. The
teachings of tho Mormon leaders is
that she cannot ho resurrected until the
husband raises this cape from her faco;
that if lie is satisfied that she lias been
u faithful and obedient wifo lie will
raise this capo and she may lie resur
rected, but if rot satisfied ho will refuse
to do so, and she cannot bo resurrected.
One of the most common threats, she
said, by which her husband used to
compel her to obedience was that if she
didn't obey him she would never he
resurrected.
Mr. Ilm hrr on •* Crimp*.*'
llcnrv Ward Beeehcr road a letter at a
Plymouth church prayer-meeting from a
lady who wanted to know whether it was
wrong to "crimp" her hair. She joined
the church, she wrote, when she was
sixteen years old, and when she was
eighteen something said to her one
night as she was crimping her hair,
"You must not do it." It was the same
tho next night, and the next, until alio
yielded. Hut she could not get over a
desire to crimp her hair, and it had
made her morbid and unhappy for ten
years. Mr. Becchcr said be thought
his correalondent ought to givo up
crimping, if that was tho command of
the Lord. Hut in reality it was tho
command of an unreasoning, sujier
stitious conscience. The trouble with
most peopb- was too little conscience—
not too much. As for a remedy Mr.
Hceeher would first ask a physician
about the woman's liver and brain, and
would then administer to tho mind.
Several |s-rsons in the audiencj related
experiences similar to those of the let
ter-writer, and then the pastor pro
nouncisl benediction.
Ui- nl V'trsl -Ikln.
An almost incre liblo romance has
happened in Wisconsin, and if it had
not licen vouched for by so re
liable authority as the Kacinc Journal,
it would bo rejected altogether. The
story, as the Journal tells it, is that a
resident of lUcine named Johnson, who
has roamed throngh this world for
about thirty-five years, having never
met the choice of his heart, was walk
ing up Main street, when he was met
by a buxom-looking country girl and
some friends. He was not acquainted
with the girl, but introduction* soon
followed ; she blushed and he was con
fused, and there was no getting aronnd
it, it was a ease of love at first sight.
They talked earnestly for abont half an
hour, the friends having departed. They
soon parted with a kiss, she going north
and he going south. In tho course of
two hours both made their appearance
again on Main street, dressed op in
fine style. They kissed again and she
took his arm and they walked off, and
at 2 o'clock were united in marriage.
He made her acquaintance, popped the
question and married her inside of
three hours.
Ultnl's \\ Oman (an tin.
As a wife and mother woman can
make the fortune and happiness of her
hnslrand ami children ; and, if she did
nothing else, surely this would Ire suffi
cient destiny. By her thrift, prudence
and tact she can secure to her partner
and to hcr*clf a competence in old age,
no matter how amall their beginning or
IM>W adverse a fate may Ire theirs. By
her cheerfulness she can restore her
hustrand's spirit, shaken by the anxiety
of business. By her tender care she
can often restore him to health, if dis
ease lias overtasked his powers. By her
counsel and love she can win him from
bad company if temptation in an evil
hour has led him astray. By her ex
ample, her precepts and lier sex's in
sight into character, she can mold her
children, however adverse their dispo
sitions, into noble men and women.
And, by leading in all things a true and
Ircantiful life, she can refine, elevate
and spiritualise all who come within
reach ; so that, with others of her sex
emulating and assisting her, she can
do more to regenerate the world than
all the statesman or reformers that ever
legislated.
She can do ranch, alas! perhaps more
to degrade man if ahe chooses to do it.
Who can estimate the evils that a woman
has the power to do? As a wife she
can ruin herself by extrrvagance, folly
or want of affection. She can make a
demon or an outcast out of a man who
might otherwise become a good memlier
of society. She can bring bickering,
strife and discord into what has l>een a
happy homo. Hhe can change the in
nocent belies into vile men and even into
vile women. Hhe can lower the moral
tone of society itself and thua pollute
legislation at the spring head. She can,
in fine, liecome an instrument of evil
instead of an angel af good.
Instead of making flowers of truth,
*| • , #
purity, beauty ami spirituality spring
up in liar footsie,* tj|] t)„> aurtli smiles
with a loveliness that is almost celestial,
she can transform it to a black and arid
desert, covered with the scorn of all
evil passion, and swept by the bitter
Must of everlasting death. This is what
woman can do for the wrong as well as
the right. Is her mission a little one?
Man may have a harder task to perform,
a rougher road to travel, but he has i one
loftier or more influential than woman's.
Pcmhion Noiis,
Hustles increase in size.
Overdresses are shirred from belt to
knee.
The pointed shoe is again returning
to favor.
Tliornflleson summer silks are pinked
hy many dressmakers.
Small I toman pearls are braided in
the hair with fine effect.
White sunhonnets arc worn more this
summer than they were last year.
Large hows arid sashes of dark red
satin ribbon are used with white cos
turtles of various fabrics, such as nun's
veiling, dotted muslin and cream white
batiste.
Hindoo veiling is simply the reverse
of nun's veiling. While making it np
it is well to put the name of it con
spicuously in the neighborhood of one's
work basket.
Seersucker dresses trimmed with
white Hamburg have long-waisted
jackets autl u very short, highly-draped
overskirt, also trimmed with the em
broidery.
I'luck grenadine dresses ar trimmed
with rich silk embroidery on net in
close combined with showy
Spanish lac* <T the le-.s decorative
Trench laces.
Tor white dresses the fichu is almost
indispensable unless the throat is fin
ished with a high ruff; then it is cut in
an oblong but very narrow surplice to
the waist licit.
Cord trimmings on polonaise* and
overskirt* are replaced by loops, which
sometimes extend down the whole
length of the skirt, beginning under a
large butterfly bow.
Home of this season's ready-ma de
gingham suits arc really made with a
reasonable number of stitclie*, instead
of being hitched together in the old
familiar fashion of thin summer gowns.
I.ittlo frocks of scarlet surah with
overdresses of English embroidery arc
worn by small toddlers just able to
stand on their fi-et. The sash is tied
very l--w, and is run through slits in the
gown.
Tingorless mits seem to bo in greater
favor than those which reach the first
joint of the finger. In the case of most
women it is a blessing to have even so
much of the band concealed when the
wind is cast.
Some of the new long-waisted bodices
are shirred t-o a very deep point, front
and liark. underneath which is net a
Yandyek bordering faced with a bright
color contrasting with the shade of the
dress fabric.
A very handsome fabric designed for a
wedding costume is of heavy white
satin, covered with raised leaves and
tlowers, while through the whole design
are wheat heads woven of thread* of
pure gold. The price asked for this
fabric is MS a yard.
Trimming lace ( is used for making
Ixmnets in stood of piece lace, one row
lapping over the other from front to
back, over a ground of colored satin.
The expense is something to astonish
anybody but a milliner, but a poor
tradeswoman must live.
How to Prevent Drowning.
Mr. Harry MeOormao communicates
to a Issndon scientific journal the re
sults of some careful investigations a*
to the best means of preventing drown
ing. As the season for seaside bathing
is at hand, which means for many the
drowning season. Mr. McOormac's study
of this subject is timely. The great re
source of any one getting into water
beyond his depth who cannot swim ia to
imitate the motions of a dog and other
1 irutes which, not even the household eat
excepted, take to water on occasion, and
sustain themselves perfectly well without
any prior ex,>olloooo whatever. "The
brute in the water," says this writer,
"continues to go on all fours, and the
man who wishes to save his live and
cannot otherwise swim must do so too,
striking alternately one two, one-two,
but without hurry or precipitation."
The great peril of persons unable to
swim and suddenly entering deep wster
is paralysis of mnscular power from
fright, and Mr. MeCormac is not far
from the truth when he says: "Noth
ing is less difficult, whether for man or
brute, than to tread water, oven for the
first time. The mere knowledge of this
fact might in some cases inspire those
wholly lacking in natatorial experience
with that confldenoe which is one of the
best safeguards against drowning." The
rule to "tread water when yon find
yourself beyond your depth," and to
" float when you are tired," is certainly
simple enough, and practicable enough
to bo tried in an emergency. —Xmr } ark
UfrrtUt.
A Woman'* (julck Wit.
Tim part of Tenriesaec through which
I have been knocked about i* fnjl of
reminiscence* of th< war, bnt there ia
none of it* bitterness left. In war time
the people were great ly divided in their
sentiments, and no man could tell
t'other from which. This remark re
minds me of a story I heard ywterday
about an estimable woman of seventy
odd, who died two or three yeara igo
here on the mountains. One day during
the war when the country wan fairly
alive with guerilla*, aho had ocoa*i</n to
take aotne valuable good* with her on a
trip ahe won making, and put them on
her horae, lawk of her. When ahe Lad
gone Home distance in the wooda ahe
heard a squad of goerillae approaching,
anil knowing her gooda would not be
aafe for a moment ahe at raddled her
horae, man faahion, and throwing her
long akirt over the package behind her,
completely concealed it. When the
guerrilla* rode up ahe waa unable to
guess whether they belonged to the
North or to the South their uniform
being no notation whatever. She de
termined, if questioned, to play a bluff
game with them, and ahe aoon had a
chance to exerciae her wit. "Hello!*
called one of the guerrilla*. " Hello !'•
ahe returned " What aide are you
on Y" he challenged. She laughed a
good laugh at him a* aho replied, ki< k
ing out her feet, "On both aidea, of
courae ; ean't you see ?" Thia brought
a roar from the whole squad, and they
began to banter her in he r own fa' hion.
" Which aide ia your old man on V
aaked one of them. " He'a on neither
aide," die laughed ; " he'a on Lis backi
and ha* Ixwn for yeara." Such wit
waved her, and they let her pass on un
molested .—l.rU'X to > luani.uti t'nu
-1/1 *r<. <il.
Opium •"making in California,
The ban/* c.f opium smoking in Cali
fornia, a.iya a Kan Francisco letter, ia
won in the younger generation. Cali
fornia cbil Iren arc very precocious;
th y seem to have an exagg< rate 1 desire
to indulge in everything which i* for
bidden. Every Chinese ua* h-bouse
through->ut the State ia the center of
evil. Young bora h ani tb re to smoke
opium and contract the habit which
ruin* them body and aonl. T1 < Chinese
receive boys with great favor, and are
always ready to initiate them into any
vice. In the citie* the evil is worse, as
the opportunities for it* gratification are
met on every side. There are many
squalid opium " dens " in the Chinese
.quarters, and these have the regular
white customers. The pe/lice make fre
quent raids upon them, but the payment
of .-'2O fin" release* the proprietor. Now
it is customary for the smoker to dej/osit
this amount IK fore beginning his indul
gence, in order to assure the release of
the patron in case of arrest. The vice
ia most prevalent among the hoodlums
of this city and the women of the town,
but police officers and detectives, whose
word may lie relied upon, declare that
the practice is spreading with great
rapidity, and that the law will aoon
hare to be invoke*! to check it by heavy
fines and other penalties. The new
treaty will have no sensible effect upon
the importation of opium into this coun
try, as the duties are lew in British
Columbia and Mexico, and the work of
smuggling it over the border will not lie
difficult. As a Chinese merchant said a
; few days ago in speaking of the drugj:
"The Chinese will get it if it's on top of
the earth. Ton might as well try to
stop your nation from smoking cigars or
drinking liqnor."
\ Ferocious Coon.
Little Henry Ooopcr, while Ashing in
the Alapalra river a few ilavs ago, had
hi attention attracted, and on looking
lxhind him discovered a large coon ap
proaching Mealt hily with his ears turned
laiek. Before he had time to consider
the situation the coon sprang at him
and seized him b the leg, and began
biting and squalling at a terrible rate.
The IKJV was L>eing taullv hnrt a well
an frightened, and set up a tremendous
stjuall himself, at the same time niakiu;-
all the resistance jtossible against his
unwelcome visitor. He firs', seised the
intruder with his hand, whereupon the
coon bit him severely in the arm. The
tight wa kept up some little time,
dnring which the coon got in his work
of laceration on the arms, hands and
legs, alternately, until thelioy'a mother,
who happened to be almnt one hundred
raids from tbe interesting acene, ar
rived. The anxious mother, in order
o relieve the bey, seized tbe coon with
her hands, whereupon ho fastened his
teeth in her wrist, and for a little while
the contest was lively between the
three. The desiderate coon, in the
meantime, seized upon the boy'a arm
again, whereupon the mother took from
tbe boy'a pocket hia knife, and after
disemboweling the coon lie still held
on firmly to hi* victim, and not until
hia throat was cnt did he relax his hold,
—Harriett C.mntv (da.) JFsws,
lle was sitting in the pari or with her i
when a rooster crowed in the yard, and, 1
leaning over, he said: "Chantioleo-r."
M X wifljj-ou would ; I am sleepy as I
can be." He cleared
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