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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Tk*LrgMt,Cheapeit ud BotPpr
PUBLISHKII IN CKNTHB COUNTY.
A FOOT-RACE FOR MONET.
We milk" tho following xtnwt (lm t'l- MfrU In
•twllnivul of K'lwar'l Kfhflcttoti'a wr 'l "Tho llouoior
Bchool-lmy," now appmrliitr In HT NICHOLA*
Jock, tho "lluooiof 8r 8001-toy," li dlocoTon <1
nnoncutnlierod properly In Konlucky tolongtng In MI,
k'mnria Oioy. THLO ho Inland* In olUrh Tor * dob!
OOMJ HI folhot. HI. mollior hating ilocllnod on offer
of ruinpruinloo from Tlnkhom. Ofay'* lawvar, than*
Utter ore dieruMlnK the rnaaon of her refuanl
They've got wind of something," said
Mr. Tinkhain to Mr. (dray, "or else
they are waiting for you to resume
payment, —or else the widow's got
money from somewhere for tier present
necessities."
"I don't know what hope they can
have of getting money out of me," said
Gray, with a laugh. "I've tangled
everything up, so that Heal cnn't liud
a thing to levy on. I have but one
piece of property exposed, und that's
not in this State."
"Where is it?" asked Tinkham.
"It's in Kentucky, live miles back
of Port William. I took it last week
in a trade, and I haven't yet made up
my mind what to do with it."
"That's the very thing," suid Tink
ham, with his little face drawn to a
poiut, —"the very thing. Mrs. Dud
ley's son came home from Port Wil
liam yesterday, where he has been at
school. They've heard of that lund,
I'm afraid; for Mrs. Dudley is very
positive that she will not sell the claim
at any price."
"I'll make a mortgage to my brother
on that land, and send it otf from the
mail-boat as I go down to-ruorrow,"
said Gray.
"That'll be too late," said Tinkham.
"Beal will have his judgment recorded
as soon as the packet gets there. You'd
better go by the packet, get off, and
see the mortgage recorded yourself,
and then take the mail-boat."
To this, Ciray agreed, and the next
day, when Jack went on board the
Jiacket "Swiftsure," he found Mr.
Francis Gray going aboard also. Mr.
Heal had warned Jack that he must
not let anybody from the packet get
to the clerk's office ahead of him, —
that the first paper deposited for re
cord would take the laud. Jack won
dered why Mr, Francis Gray was
aboard the packet, which went no far
ther than Madison, while Mr. Gray's
home was in Louisville. He soon
guessed, however, that Gray meant to
land at Port William, and so to head
him off. Jack looked at Mr. Gray's
form, made plump by good feeding,
aud felt safe. Ite couldn't be very
dangerous in a foot race. Jack re
flected with much hopefulness that no
boy in school could catch hi in in a
straight away run when he was fox.
He would certainly leave the some
what puffy Mr. Francis Gray behind.
Hut in the hour's run down the
river, including two landings at Mia
uit's and Crag's, Jack had time to re
member that Francis Gray was a cun
ning man, and might bead him off by
some trick or other. A vague fear
took possession of him, and he resolved
to be first off the boat liefore any pre
text could be invented to stop him.
Meantime, Francis Gray had looked
at .Jack's lithe legs with apprehension.
"I can never Ileal that boy," he hud
reflected. "My running days are over."
Fiuding among the deck passengers a
young fellow who looked as though he
needed money, Gray approached him
with this question:
"Do you belong in Port William,
young man?"
"I don't belong nowhere else, I
reckon," answered the seedy fellow,
witb shuffling impudence.
"Do you know where the county
clerk's office is?" asked Mr. Gray.
"Yes, and the market-house. I can
show you the way to the jail, too, if
you want to know, hut I s'posc you've
been there mauy a time," laughed the
"wharf-rat."
Gray was irritated at this rudeness,
but he swallowed his anger.
"Would you like to make five dollar* ?"
"Nowyou'retalkin'interest in'. Why
didn't you begin at that eend of the
subjick? I'd like to make five dol
lars as well as the next feller, provided
it isn't to be made by too milch awful
hard work."
"Can you run well ?"
"If they's money at t'other eend of
the race I can run like sixty feranpell.
'Taint my common gait, howsumever."
"If you'll take this paper," said
Gray, "and get it to the county clerk's
office before anybody else gets there
from this boat, I'll give you five dol
lars."
"Honor bright?" asked the chap,
taking the paper, drawing a long
breath, and locking as though he had
discoverer! a gold mine.
"Honor bright," answered Gray.
"You must jump off first of all, for
there's a boy aboard that will lieat you
if he can. No pay if you don't win."
"Which is the one that'll run ag'in'
me?" asked the long-legged fellow.
Gray descrilied Jack, and told the
young man to go out forward and he
would see bim. Gray was not willing
to be seen with the "wharf-rat," lest
suspicions should lie awnkcued in Jack
Hudley's mind. Hut after the shabby
VMpng man had gone forward and
looked at Jack, he came back with a
doubtful air.
"That's Hoosier Jack, as we used to
call him," said the shabby young man.
"He atf* two more used to row a boat
acrost the river every day to go to ole
Niles's school. He's a hnrd one to
heat, —they sny he used to lay tho
wholo school out on prisoners' base,
and that he could leave'em all behind
ou fox."
"You think you can't do it, then?"
asked Gray.
"Gimme a little start and I reckon
I'll fetch it. It's up-hill part of tho
wuy am! he may lose his wind, tor it's
a good half-mile. You must make a
row with him at the gang plank, cr do
soincthin' to kinder hold him hack.
Tho wind's down stream to-day, and
the boat's shore to swing in a little alt.
I'll jump for it und you keep hint
back."
To this, Gray assented.
As the shabby young fellow bad
predicted, the boat did swing around
in the wind, ami have some trouble in
bringing her bow to the wharf-boat.
The captain stood on the hurricane
deck calling tu the pilot to "back her,"
"go ahead on her," "go ahead on yer
labberd," und "back on yer stabberd."
Now, just as the captain was backing
the starboard wheel und going ahead
on bis larboard, so as to bring the boat
around right, Mr. Gray turned on
Jack.
"What ore you treading on my toes
for, you impudent young rascal ?" be
broke out.
Jack colored and was about to reply
sharply, when be caught sight of the
shabby young fellow, who ju-t then
leaped from the gunwale of the boat
amidships and barely reached the
wharf. Jack guessed why Gray bad
tried to irritate him, —be saw that the
well-known "wharf-rat" was to be bis
competitor. Hut what could be do?
The wind held the how of the boat out,
the gang-plank which had been pushed
out ready to reach the wharf boat was
still firmly grasped by the deck-luinds,
and the farther end of it was six feet
from the wharf, and much above it.
It would be ten miuutea before any
otic could leave tho boat in the regular
way. There was only one chance to
defeat the rascally Gray. Jack con
cluded to take it.
He ran out upon the plank amidst
the harsh crio* of the deck-hands, who
tried to stop bim, and the oaths of the
mate, who thundered nt him, with the
stern order of the captain from the
upper deck, who called out to bim to
go back.
Hut, luckily, the steady pulling
ahead of the larboard engine, and the
backing of the starboard, began jut
then to bring the boat around, the
plank sank down a little uuder Jack's
weight, and Jack made the hap to the
wharf, hearing the confused cries,
! orders, oaths, and shouts from behind
I him, as he pushed through the crowd.
"Stop that thief!" cried Francis
Gray to the people on the wharf boat,
but in vain. Jack glided swiftly
through the people, and got on shore
liefore anybody could check him. He
charged up the bill after the shabby
; young fellow, who had a decided lead,
while some of the men on the wharf
boat pursued them both, uncertain
which was the thief. Such another
pell-mell race Fort William bad never
seen. Windows flew up and heads
went out. Small boys joined the pur
suing crowd, mid dog* barked indis
criminately nud uncertainly at the
heels of everybody. There were cries
of "Hurrah for I-smg Hen!" and
"Hurrah tor Hoosier Jack!" Some of
Jack's old school-mate* essayed to stop
liirn to find out what it was all about,
but he would not relax a muscle, and
be hail no time to answer any ques
tion*. He saw the faces of the p*>plo
dimly; be heard the crowd crying
after bim, "Slop, thiefhe caught a
glimpse of his old teacher Mr. Niles,
regarding him with curiosity as he
darted by ; be saw nn anxious look in
Judge Kane's face as lie passed bim
on a street corner. Hut Jack held his
eyes on lying Hen, whom ho pursued
us a dog does a fox. He bad steadily
gained 011 the fellow, but Hen bad too
much the start, ami, unless he should
give out, there would lie little chance
tor Jack to overtake him. (>e think*
quickly in such moments. Jack re
membered that there wore two ways of
reaching the county clerk's office. To
, keep tho street around the block was
the natural way, —to lake un alley
through the square was neither longer
1 nor shorter. Hut by running down
the alley be would deprive lying Hen
I of the spur of seeing bis pursuer, and
I lie might even make bim think that
Jack bad given out. Jack bad played
this trick when playing bound and
fox, and at any rate tie would by this
turn shake off the crowd, 80 into the
| alley lie darted, ami the liewildered
pursuers kept on crying "stop thiel"
utter lying lien, whose reputation was
none of the beat. Somebody abend
tried to catch the shabby young fellow,
and this forced Hen to make a slight
! curve, which gave Jack the advantage,
so that ju*l a* Hen neared the office,
Jack rounded a corner out of nn alley,
and entered ahead of him, dashed up
to the clerk's desk and deposited the
judgment.
j "For record," he gasped.
'I he next instant the shabby young
fellow pushed forward the mortgage.
"Mine first !"cried Long Hen.
"I'll take yours when I gel this en
tered," said the clerk, quietly, as be
came a public officer.
"I got here first," said lying Hen.
Hut the clerk looked at the clock
| mid entered the date on the back of
; Jack's paper, putting "one o'clock and
eighteen minutes" after the dale. Then
be wrote "oue o'clock and nineteen
minutes'' on the paper which Long
Hen handed him. The office was soon
crowded with people discussing the re
sult of tbo race, uud a part of them
were even now in favor of seizing one
or the other of the runners for a theft,
which some said bad been committed
on the packet, and others declared was
committed on the wharf-boat. Fran
cis (tray came in, and could not con
ceal his chagrin.
"I meant to do the fair tiling by
you," ho said to .lack, severely, "but
now you'll never get a cent out of me."
"I'd rather have the law on men
like you, than have a thousand of your
sort of fair promises," said .lack.
"I've a mind to strike, you," said
Gray.
"The Kentucky law is hard on a
man who strikes a minor," said Judge
Kane, who had entered at that mo
ment.
Mr. Niles came in to learn what was
the matter, and Judge Kane, alter
listening quietly to the talk of the p< >•
pie, until the excitement subsided, took
Jack over to his house, whence the hoy
walked home that evening, full of hope
fulness.
Gray's land realized M much as Mr.
Real expected, and Jack studied I.utin
hard, all summer, so as to get as tar
ahead as possible by the time school
should begin in the autumn.
Murrain of The Humun Hotly.
1-oj.nl.r M -ntlily.
While the gastric juice has a mild,
blaml, sweetish taste it possesses tin
power of di-solving the hardest food
that cau he swallowed. It has no in
tlucnee whatever on the soft ami deli
cate lilires of the living stomueh, nor
upou the living hand, hut at the mo
ment of death it begins to eat them
away with the power of the strongest
acids.
There is dust <>n the sen, on land,
in the valley, aiul on the mountain
top; there is dust always and every
where ; the atmosphere is full of it ; it
penetrates the noisome dungeon, ami
visits the dce|>est, darkest caves of the
mrth ; bo palace doors can shut it out,
no drawers so secret as to escape its
presence : every breath of wind dashes
it upon the open eye, yet the eye is
not blinded, because under the eye lid
there is incessantly emptying itself a
fountain of the blandest tluid in na
ture, which spreads itself over the sur
face of the eye at every winking
and washes every atom awav. Rut
this liquid, so mild and so well adup
ted to the eye, itself has some acridity,
which under circumstances, becomes
so decided as to Ire scalding to the skin,
and would rot away the eye-lids, were
it not that along the edge of them are
little oil manufactories, which spread
I over their surface a coating as imjs-r
-vious to the liquids necessary for keep
ing the eye lids clean as the In-st var
nish is impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
lias been so perfectly divested of us
life-giving properties, that torehreathe
it unmixed with other air the moment
it escape* from the mouth, would
cause immediate death by suffocation,
and while it it hovered above us more
or less destructive influence over
health and life would Ire occasioned.
Rut it is made of a nature so much
lighter than the common air that the
instant it escape* the lip* and nostrils
it ascends to the higher regions above
the breathing jniint, there to lie recti
fied, renovated, and sent hack again,
replete with purity and life. How
rapidly it ascends is fully exhibited
every I'rosty morning.
Rut foul and deadly as the expired
air is, Nature, wisely economical in
all her work* and way*, turn* it to
good account it* outward passage
through the organs of the voice mak
ing of it the whisper* of love, the soft
est words of affection, the tender tones
of human sympathy, the sweetest
strains of ravishing music, the js rsua
sive eloquence of the finished orator.
If a well made man be extended on
the ground, his arm* at right angles
with the body, a circle making the
navel the centre will just take in the
head, the finger ends and the feet.
The distance from ton to toe, is pre
cisely the same as that between the
tips of the fingers when the arms are
extended. The length of the hotly is
just six times the length of the font,
while the distance from the edge of the
| hair on the forehead to the edge of the
1 chin is one-tenth the length of the
whole structure.
Of the sixty-two primary element*
in nature, only eighteen are known in
the human body, and of these seven
are inetalic. Iron is found in the Idood
phosphorus in the brain, limestone in
the bile, lime in the hones and dust
and ashes in all. Not only these
eighteen human element*, hut the
whole sixfy-two of which the universe
is made, have their essential basis in
the four substances of oxygen hydro
gen, nitrogen and carbon, represent-
I ing the more familiar names of fire,
water saltpetre and charcoal And
such is inan.the lord of earth ! —a spark
of fire, a drop of water, a grain of pow
( der, an atom of charcoal.
A LITTLE girl read a composition
before the minister. The subject was
n "cow." Bhe wove in this compli
mentary sentence: "A cow is the
most useful animal in the world ex
cept religion."
A SYRACUSE man made a bet of |5O
that he could find six women in that
city who would marry him, and he
won it. Now he's ready to give the
Bi>o to anybody who will show him a
way to get out of six engagements. —
I JJotion rout.
"HOI.II THK PORT."
TIIK STORV or Til AT r A Hill'* MESSAGE AS
Till.ll lIV TIIK HERO lIIHSEI.r.
C >rr,-*|MlUD*ne Dn MUIIIM (Iowa) SUA, Btfiitrr.
I notice n number of newspapers
giving, or attempting to give,a correct
statement of the circumstance* under
which our lamented friend nod broth
er, Judge J. W. MeKetizie performed
the signal act of heroism at Alntoonn,
none of which exactly coincide with
! a detailed statement of the cose, u*
j given to me by the "hero" himself. I
| had been cspeciallv intimate with him
| lor many vein*. Not one word ever
| fallen from his lip* relative to this
matter to my knowledge. One day,
learning incidentally from another of
his connection with "Hold the Fort,
lor I am Coining," I took occasion
,-oon to lick 11iin about it. lie seemed
at first reluctant to tell me, hut I
pressed him, and this is substantially
his own account of it. Alter describ
ing the situation of the armies at Ala
toona and K'-nesuw lie said :
"General Sherman's signul corjm had
been trying to send dispatches from
Ketiesaw to General Corse, We could
read the dispatches with our tclecopen,
hut could not receive or answer them
buck, because the rebel shot* were so
thick. The rebels had also a lot of
sharp-hooter* posted watching our
squad, and every time a man would
show himself they would pick him otf.
At this time General Corse came up
and said, addressing the signal corps :
'Who i* in command here?' Our cap
lain was absent, and I was in charge
of the squad, and '1 replied, 'I am sir.'
The general then asked it a message
could la-sent to General Sherman in
answer to his 'To hold the fort tor lo
was coming,' just read. I replied
'that it could he if it wa absolutely
necessary.' General Corse then
• wrote out the message and ban
' ded it to toe. It read as follow*:
"'To GENERAL SHERMAN: lam
1 short a check-bone and one car, hut
cau whip hell out of tln-rn yet.
GEN. Colts E.'
"I took it and the signal flag and
called for a volunteer from my little
squad. No man resjionded. I then
! offered the flagstaff to each man and
a-ked him if lie would Volunteer and
each declined. I then thought I would
detail one, hut my brother Tom was
in tin- squad, and the thought struck
me if I detailed another than him they
would say at oure 'partiality.' If I
| detailed him and he was shot I could
never forgive royseif, and it *<!enicd
like certain death to any one to under
take it. At tiii moment of hesitation
the general, MI ing no man going for
ward, said to me firmly : 'Lieutenant,
I thought you said this message could
be sent?' I replied,'lt can,' and with
out further delay 1 mounted the signal
station and commenced sending the
message, expecting every moment to
be shot. The flag wo* about eighteen
feet long, mod the wind was blowing
some, and 1 found it very hard work,
ami felt as though 1 must give out le
-fore I was clone. At this moment,
when it seemed I could stand it no
longer, a strnnger, not a member of
the signal corps, came up behind me,
put his arms around me and along mv
arms, took hold of the flagstaff, and,
-landing behind me, hcl|xd me to wave
the answer hack to Sherman. I dn
not think I could have *< nt the whole
message without help or rest,"
An Ojfcter War In Washington.
The following gHd story ia told of
Doorkeeper Brownlow.
Soon after hie election a friend from
the mountain fatnewe of Tennessee
came here to pay him a visit, nod was
duly unhertd into the gayetiea of the
Capital.
Among other good thing* that the
rather raw and unsophisticated Ten
nrwonn wa* made acquainted with
waa that rare Wn-hingtoiiinu product,
•teamed oyster*. It happened in thia
way : It waa Brownlow'* treat. Brown
low called for n peck of steamed.
"My God, man !"*hricked the unaua
peeling mountaineer, "we can't eat a
|>eck of oyatera. Order a dozen each."
"Never mind," hlamlly rcpled the
genial doorkeeper, "I'm doing thia;"
and indue time the |>cck waa acrrcd
and promptly dispatched,
A few daya alterward they happen
ed to he in the nine ncightxirhood and
the doorkeejwr'a frieiid suggested oya
tera, and the suggestion Waa forthwith
acted upon. Brownlow heing hungry,
intimated that he would try hia ate wed.
The mountaineer had not forgotten
hia leaaoti of a few day* before, and
called out, "Waiter! one peck of atew
ed."
The waiter looked at the man with
amazement, and turned to the Door
kee|>er inquiringly. Brownlow made
no sign. Not a muacle of hi* face be
trayed the laughter that wa almoat
choking him within, lie aimply aaid,
"YQU heard the gentleman'* order, 1
believe—a peek slewed. Be quick
about it; I'm hungry."
The waiter anw the point and went
of grinning from ear to ear. The firat
thing he brought was a pound of but
ter and a tin box containing ten
pounda of crackera.
"Whal'a thia for?" gasped the coun
tryman.
' That'a to go with the atew," said
Brownlow; "the ruatom ia to furnish
ten crackera with each oyster," and
with this he chipped off a hlock of but
ter, poised it dexternualy on a crack
er, and proceeded leisurely to munch it.
The countryman, not to be out done,
followed hia example.
Then the stew came uj>. It took
two largo soup tureens to hold it.
Hrnwnlow passed one to hit* friend,
filled Ida ladle full of oysters, und car
ril it to hi* ruoutli an though eating
out of ooup tureens with ladles for
spoons had been his daily habit for
year*. IIi friend of course did like*
wise.
In the meantirun the waiters had
(fathered in a knot and were heartily
enjoying the spectacle. Hut not a
! quiver was to he seen on the impertur
i able countenance of the Doorkeeper.
I When they had eaten enough the
! bill was culled for. It was 82.H0. The
j countryman paid it without a murmur.
When they got outside he said : "Iok
i here, Brown Tow, how do they serve
roast h<ef here in Wasghingtou—do
they bring it on whole?"
It was then and there only that the
the Doorkeeper's long pent-up mirth
broke forth, and he laughed as never
[ laughed man before.
He hooked I nder the Ited.
The Hartford Kntiin'j Thm* reports
i this item: Night before last Mr.
1 Northrop, Representative from Mid
\ dletown, lost at bis room at the I'ark
Hotel his poeket book containing 827.
When he went to bed he bolted bis
door, but the next morning he discov
ered that his pocket book and money
were missing. He looked at the door
and fonnd it was unbolted- Then he
knew that he had been robbed by some
i one who was concealed in his room
when he went to bed. No stir was
j made about the matter, and if it had
not been for what occurred the follow
ing night in another room it would not
have been made public. Rut lost
night the mystery was unraveled in an
unexpected manoerand to the astonish
ment of another member of the Ix-gis
; luturc.
Mr S. M. Bradley, a representative
from the town of Canaan, atop* at the
Park Central; and when retiring at
the usual hour, having heen advised
by Mr. Northrop to examine every
possible hiding place in hi# room, be
•lid what he never did before— began
art arch to see if any orie was conceal*
•••I in hi# room. He first went to the
closet, nod nothing hut the Ixnr wall#
greeted him ; he then got down ujem
hi# knee# and and looked under the lw-d.
He thought he saw "aometbing"
move, and be slipiied to the door and
Imbed it, calculating that if it rhould
prove to be a man he#hould not -w-a[ie
by making a sudden <iu-h. Bradley
i- a jHiwcitul man, and he fell him-elf
able to co|>e with the thief. He then
reached under the bed and inking
hold of the object concealed there un
ceremoniously sneaked out —not a man
-—but a well-dressed woman. Find
ing a woman uuder hi# bed wa# a find
wholly unexpected, and Mr. Bradley
was thunderstruck. Here wan a pre
dicament! Mr. U., still retaining hi#
hold ujM.n hia captive, marched her
aero## the room to the bell-pull, and
sounded an alarm. The womau, seeing
that she had been thwarted in her lit
tle game, coolly said to hi in : "When
they come, tell them you want a gln-s
ol water."
Mr. Bradley replied: "I ain going
to tell them to baud you over to the
police."
lu response to the call the proprie
tor of the hotel and one of the clerks
came up, and found the thief still in
the clutches of Mr. Bradley, who was
clear-beaded enough not to let go of
her and thus give her any chance, by
whatever unexja-cted device on her
part to compromise him in the a*pect
of the situation. As soon as they came
into the room, the quick-witted woman
undertook to turn the taldes against
her captor"by saying : "We had a lit
tle flirtation at the table, and this gen
tleman gave me a note, asking me
to come to hi# room."
Mr. Bradley answered "I"11 give you
8100 if you can show the note,"
"Ob, I've lost it," she cooly answer
ed.
"Hand her over to the police," said
Mr. Bradley, ami this ended the matter
so far as the hotel was concerned.
It ap|war# that the woman register
ed at the Park Central day before
yesterday, under the name of "Mary
Palmer," but at the court thi# morn
ing she gave the name of "Mary Allen"
She is represented a# being about
twenty-five year# of age, with an unat
tractive face, and is quite small, not
weighing but about ninety pounds.
She refused to say where she came
from or to give any clue to her past
history. It WM found that the key of
the room she occupied unlocked both,
of the doors of the two room# she had
entered. A number of skeleton and
false key# were found in her possession,
showing that she is evidently a hotel
thief. The police also have informa
tion of the fact that she was formerly
the mistress of a well-known thief.
Judging by the coolness with which
she acted it is evident that she is an
old hand at the business.
TOPNOODY made up hi* mind that 1
he was not going to be boused any
longer ly hi* wife, *o when he went
home at noon be called out, imperious
ly, "Mr*. Topnoody! Mr*. Topnoody I"
Sir*. T. came out of the kitchen with
a drop of sweat on the end of her noae,
a dish-rag tied round her head a roll
ing-pin iu her hand. "Well, *ir" the
*aid, "whal'll you hare?" Topnoody
daggered, but braced up. "Mm, Top
noody, I want you to understand,
madam," and he tapped hit breast
dramatically, "I am the engineer of
tbia establishment." "Ob, you are, I
are you ? Well, Topnoody, I want
you to understand that i, and she
looked dangerous, "I aoi the boiler
that will blow up and sling the engi
neer over into the next county. Do
you hear the Meant neaping, Topnoo
dy ?" Toopnoody heard it and be
meekly inquired if there waa any a
si)*tfmce lie ctuld render in the houso
work.
the Black l!r;ir' ( unuiiig.
In The Century for March, ('liarliw
(). Ward baa an entertaining illu-ira
ted article on "The Bia<k Bear," in
which he describe. Bruin's haunt- in
Maine and New Brunswick, relates
re vera I hunting in idents, and depi.-u
Bruin's peculiarities, in part an follows:
1 really think that Bruin |H>-*.es-<-,,
the retire of bnnior ; sit ail event* bin
action* point that way, and there is no
doubt that he i extremely cunning
and observing. I once had an Kng
lisb friend visiting tne, who played the
flute, lie vvsi- in the habit of march
ing up and down, while playing, ne.ir
a tame bear I bad at the time. The
| bear boil a piece of stick about two
feet long, which he tossed about for
amusenn :st. After it time, lie came to
handle the stick vcrv much a> inv
friend did hi-flute. Ibis annoyed inv
MDsilivc friend, aiol in revenge be
teased the bear with uncouth uois<--.
Bruin snilh-d ami whined, and wailed
his opportunity for delivering a tre
mendous blow with his paw at bis
enemy, whose tall bat was knocked
completely over bis eye., jj.. c-oarwd
Ixing scalped bv dropping Hat and
rolling out of the reach of the la-ar.
This la-ar sp--nt much of his time in
the tree to which In- wa- chained, arid
when climbing usually got bis chain
twisted ovi r and under the bruuehes
in a most intricate manner, but never
failed to take out every turn a- be de
scended. A friend who owned a tame
la-ar told me thai, fur a long time, b •
could not account fur the mysterious
way in which the poultry disappeared.
Disserving, at different times, a good
many feathers around Bruin's pole, he
began to suspect that the bear was the
culprit. < lose watching confirmed his
suspicion*. When Bruin tic tight he
wa unobserved, he would seize any
unfortunate ben or chicken within his
reach and devour it : but if any one
approached before he could complete
the local, he would sit ujsm his prev
until the danger of discovery had
passed. He was iM-trawsi, at last, bv
the cackling of an oid lu-n, that he hail
failed to silence.
Singular !,<>%* of foice.
U" 1 C hmltt tVh !'•< r>s.
William ii. l-'iu-itnrnons, of Wot
Chewier, who met with such a singular
accident lo his voice lust week by
striking his thumb against the larnvx
while in the act of rubbing his neck
with his hand just alter singing a K>lO
at the West Chester Slate Normal
School, i slowly recovering, hut is
still unable to use his voice in conver
sation, and communicatee altogether
by signs and writing, lie slates that
Ins thumb only struck the larnyx in
a slight manner, hut as it did so it
sent a sting through his throat like
that ot a tree, and lroin lhat instant he
lost liia voice and has been unable jet
to recover it.
His physician ha strictly warned
him against making any attempt to
sj* ak lor several weeks yet to come,
when he exjK-cts that the organs that
arc now inflamed and swollen will
again return to their natural condition,
and he will thoroughly recover. The
danger roost feared from an effort to
speak is that it will cause au uneven
growth of the glands of the throat and
thereby produce a screechy voice that
would forever cling to him. Mr. Fiti
simmon's friends are very anxious to
see him perfectly recover, as he has
heretofore possessed one of the finest
baritone voices to be found ill this sec
tion, and had cultivated it to a high
degree.
The Secret of t.rniu*.
"They talk," said Tom Mart-liall to
an intimate friend, "of mv astonishing
I urn la of eloquence, and, doubtless
imagine it ia my genius bubbling over.
It ia nothing of the sort. I'll tell you
how I do it:
"I select a aubject, and aludy it from
the ground up. When I have mas
tered it fully, I write a speech 011 it.
; Then I take a walk, and come back
I ami revise and correct. In a few daya
| I aubject it to another pruning, and
; then recopv it. Next I add the finish
; iug touchee, round it off with graceful
> tierioda, and commit it to memory.
Then I apeak it in the fielda, in ray
father'# lawu and before my mirror,
until gesture and delivery arc perfect.
It aometimea take* me aix weeka or
two month* to get up a apeocb. When
I have one prepared, I eotne to town.
I generally aelect a court day, when
there ia aure to be a crowd. 1 ain
called on for a apeerh and am per
mitted to aelect my own aubject. I
apeak my piece. It astonishes the peo
ple, as I intended it ahould, and they
go away marvelling at my power of
oratory. They call it genius, but it ia
the hardest kind of work."
A BOY who had been watching
through a keyhole the antics of a
couple of lovers, ran down into the
kitchen to announce his discovery to
his mother. "Oh, it's such fun !" be
exclaimed. "What's auch fun f asked
the old lady. "Why to see sister
Mollie and Mr. Fippe play lunatiq
I asylum."