TEHMS OF PI HIACATIOX. The HKPOKTKH is every Thursday Morning, I v R o Oooi RICH, at %'l P CR annum, in advance. AWFRTISEMBXTS ore inserted at TEN CENTS per line fur tirst insertion, and FIVE CKSTS per line lor sub seanent insertions. A lit eral discount is made to per sons advertising by the quarter, h. -year or year. . , 4 . . one-half raoie than regular ad- Special notices chaigcoou ... . jit resolutions ol Associations ; com- ; vertiseinents. A " . . ' ; mnnications of limited or individual interest, and nt- Uces r Marriiiftes and Deaths exceeding live lines, are j charged TUN CENTS per line. 1 Year ine men are peculiarly sensitive when things gn wrong with them. I know how it is with tnvrelf. He might consider my visit tin intrusion." Mrs. Fuller thought differently. She did not see the ease from her husband'* point of view. "M >st people," she replied, "sire grate ful for siny msinif sL I interest in time of grief or trouble, if it be sincere. They easily discriminate between etiri ets intru sion and genuine good feeling." '■ Very true," answered Mr. Fuller. "Hut si man in Mr. Far.* ms' condition wants something more than svtnpathv. lie wants "help." " IVrhaps vou can help him," said Mrs. Fuller. "Me !" The surprise .f Ms. Fuller was unfeigned. " Help comes by many ways. You may be able to suggest the very thing lie Heeds. "To a man who has been living for the lsist ten years at an expense of four times greater than my income ! O, no ! 1 csin't helpliiin. If 1 had ten thousand dollars to spsiro, there would he some sense in my calling." Bnt Mrs. Fuller could not see it in that light. " Self-help is the surest help," site return ed. " A quick, suggestive mind, may get more of the true material prosperity from a hint than from thoussjiids of dollars." " Not from that hint of initio. It's of no use for you to argue with tin- in that direc tion," sstid the husband. " Fsirsons can teach me twenty things where I can teach him one." " And your one may be of more use to him than his twentv to vou,"sai 1 Mrs. Ful ler. * Tiie woman saw that she was right, and did not yield. Will is very persevering.— After tea —for it was in the evening - —Mrs. Fuller drifted upon the subject of their tin fortunate neighbor again, and insisted that it was her husband's dutv to make him a call. " If I could see any use in it." answered Mr. Fuller. "If i had any suggestions to make that would be of value to liitn." "It would be of use for liiin to know that you have not forgotten an old friend sind neighbor," replied Mrs. Fuller. "There will he enough to recede—to stand alar oil' —to look upon him cildly, or to pass him hy as of but small account in the world, seeing that he no longer has the old money \ alue." In the end, Mrs. Fuller prevailed. Her husband, sifter concluding to make the visit, thought, he would defer it until the next evening ; but she urged that the present hour lor si kind act was the best hour. It was about s o'clock when Fuller stood at Mr. Fsirsons' door. He felt sure that his visit would Itc considered sin intrusion if not an impertinence. That Mr. I'sirs -as would set; in it a rude intimation that tlic-y were now on the same social level. His hand grasped the bell, but he hesitated to ig. If the thought of liis wife, and what she would say if he went heme without ac eompVsliing the errand that took him out, had not crossed his mind, he would have turned away horn the door. Hut that thought stimulated his wavering purpose, and the bell was rung. A servant showed him into the library, where lie found Mr. Parsons. He had an ticipated a cold and formal reception he was prepared for it; but not for the high pleasure that beamed in Mr. Parsons' coun tenance, nor for the cordial hand clasp with which he was received. 1 lie two men sat down hy the lily try ta s;'ije on which were packages of letters, ac in'xfroni I *' I' : M"Ts, and other evidences widpnrktiu 1 " B ''" w TliiVt Mr. Parsons had lnisi- Tle young ro^i when his visitor called. Franklin, irhl'' s ,n;t y he an interuption," said and committed to jaiM'cilig at the table, nnd lc years. L 1/ ji if^' E. O. (iOODBICJI, Pul>li*l&ei-. vomit; xxv. " No ; your coming is welcome sitnl lime- j ly. I was just wishing for a cool, clear-j seeing - , conscientious friend with whom to ! take counsel ; and 1 believe you sire the ; man. You know that 1 sun in trouble." " Yes." " The failure of Lawrence Sc James in volves everything I have. ! am on their paper for more than ! am worth." " Hut they will have assets. The loss I will not In; complete. " In the meantime, being under protest on their paper, my credit is gone. The ; banks throw me out, and I can only get money on the street at ruinous rates. To struggle longer would be folly. Usurers would get what creditors might divide. To day. my own bills went into the Notary's hand." "So 1 have heard." "Such news tlics through business circles with electric swiftness Well, the agony is over ; the dread trial past. My name,as drawer, is dishonored —I am si broken merchant." His voice expressed bitterness of feel ing. " Commercial dishonor is one thing— personal dishonor another," sstid Mr. Ful ler. Mr. Farsons looked away from the bice of his visitor. He moved with a slig-bt guest are of unesis'ness- -a.shade went over his countenance. " Men who go down to the valley of mis fortune," added Mr. Fuller, "tread on slip pery ground. They must look well to their feet." There was no response to this. " On safer ground," continued Mr Fuller, " we may recover si false step ; but here it is very diflicult : something impossible.— We si]- no longer msistcrs of the situation. It wil in>l do in risk anything." Still Mr. Farsons remained silent, with his lace turned partly away. " All doubtful expedients should be avoid ed," .Mr. Fuller went on, following out the train of thought which had been suggested to his mind. " They sire never safe under the most favorable circumstances ; but when misfortune limits and cripples st man, they almost always fail and leave him more unhappily situated than before." " Fnqucslionably you are right," said Mr. Parsons, taking a deep bresith. He spoke partly to himself. From his tone it wsis plain that he was thinking - intently. "When a man gets in trouble," "he added, "it is of the lirst importance to him to show a clear record. As the ease now stsinds 1 think mine is clear. I will be misjudged, no doubt All men sire who fail in business. Tin- lirst impression is against them. How readv the T.-iigue is to whisper "There's something wrong.' It is dilliciilt for cer tain men, when tiicy lose their money, to believe iti anything but roguery." " Brine - r in *at heart themselves,"said Mr. Fuller. "No : that does not always follow. I have known some very honest men to be s vcrc on their debtors, and quick to judge them harshly." "Hid you ever see these honest men tried in the crucible of misfortune ? Hid you ever see them amidst - their falling fortunes —bewildered, half I litid, grappling this way and that for help, like drowning men ?" " i can not now recall sin instance," said Mr. Parsons. " I can," replied his visitor—"many in stances : and the clear record of which you speak did md appeal - when the struggle wsis over." Mr. Parsons sighed heavily. "These are diflicult wsiters to navigate," he remarked, in atone of sadness, not un i.ii-.gied witii doubt and perplexity. "The man is in danger. " Ot losing bis integrity." " Yes ; in great danger." " With honor at the helm, and rectitude lor pilot, the passage is safe." " And faith in Hod ?"' said Mr. Parsens, speaking as front st sudden impulse. His countenance lighted up ; his eyes grew calm stud steady. " Yes. in faith always," replied Mr. Ful ler. " lie is very near to us,especially in trouble; and if we desire to do light, He will show ■ s what is right. We must not hesitate to put our trust in Him. No mat ter how many lions are in the path of duty, our safest way is right onward. If we turn aside, our souls are in peril." Alter setting with Mr. Farsons for sin hour, Mr. Fuller went home. Their con vets itiou had been of the general character we have si en touching mainly on those principles that lie at the basis of all right act ions. " It was kind in you to call," said the for mer, as the visitor retired. " 1 think you bave helped me to see some things in a strong light that were obscure. It is often very dark with men so hard pressed as I am—with men who grope amid the ruins of a falling fortune. Friendly counsel is good for them. Come and see me again." It was perhaps a month later that Mr. Fuller, urged once more by bis wife called on Mr. Parson*. He was one of your diffi dent, retiring men, who are always afraid of intruding themselves. His wife, who knew his worth as a man, and understood his value among men, was always dispos ed to push liini out of himself, and farther into the soeisil circle than he was inclined, of his own accord, to go. " Ah, Mr. I - tiller 1 am glad to see you ! Why have you not called before?" was the warm greeting he received. Mr. Parsons still had a care-worn look, hut his manner was more cheerful and confident, " I have had it on my thoughts many times : but did not wisli to intrude my self." " Your calls can never be regarded as intrusion, Mr. Fuller," was replied with much earnestness of manner. " No, never," was added. "I think your visit, one month stgo, at a time when 1 was in gresit dark ness and bewilderment, was a direct inter position of Providence. When you called I was deeply revolving a scheme that prom ised extrication. It was not a very safe scheme it w'as hardly just—nay, it was not just ; for it it had failed, it would have involved in loss persons in no way concern ed in my affairs at the time. That I must have failed, is now clear to me,and I should have hurt myself inwardly, and given fair cause for a harsh judgment. But to-day, Mr. l uiler, I bear si clear conscience. 1 sun right with myself, and can look every man luirly in tin: face. 1 have thanked von, a hundred times, for your fitly spoken words. They were as apples of gold in pictures of silver." TO WAN DA. IVILVFOliI) (01 N'T V, I'A., DECEMBER I. 1(H, <_ "And yet 1 came with groat reluctance, ] fearing to intrude," suit! Mr. Fuller. "If we mean kindly, we shall never in- 1 : trade," was answered. "When we get in j j trouble, our friends and neighbors arc apt j | to recede from ns ; not for lack of interest , or sympathy, I am sure, but from a false j i impression that we are sullen, morose or lull I of sensitive pride, and will repel advances. I But it is not so. Misfortune sweeps up a j great deal of pride, and mellows the hard ! est. There arc few men its trouble who will ! consider the call of an old friend or acquain -1 tance as untimely, Thousands, lam per suaded, might be saved from false steps it j their friends would come close about them and help them to find the right path for their straying and stumbling feet. In the I multitude of counsellors there is wisdom. ; I speak feelingly, for 1 know bow it has been with myself. My feet were just about ! turning aside, when you showed me the ! right way, and I thank Hod that he gave j me the courage to walk therein. I shall ever hold you in grateful rcmemberance sis one of my best friends." [From Dickens's" All the Year Rouud." SHOTS AT ELEPHANTS. Probably no man ever shot so many ele phants as Major Rog - ers, once of the Ceylon ivilles. He kept an account of the number lie had killed until it amounted to the mod- J crate total of twelve hundred, lie then got tired of keeping the score, and it is sup posed that after that he shot a couple of hundred more. This is no mythical legend. It is a well-known, and recognized, and uu- | I disputed fact, lie would undertake some-j I times to do strange things in the shooting ! line ; for instance, to kill two elephants at | one discharge of his gun. This he accotn ' pi it". Ed l>v waiting till a young one was be ■ low its mother, when lie would lire at the i latter, and her fall would kill the young one. i It is almost distressing to think of the en- j I ornious quantity of animal matter thus left < in the forest by one single man, and we can • hardly consider such destruction justifiable, even though we know that numbers of stni- | tauls would be ready to tsill upon the cstr ! ease and fatten thereon sis soon as the sports- ' i man had left. But it is well known that j Major Rogers purchased one or more steps j in the sinny by the proceeds of the ivory se- j , | cured in this manner, for, although very few ! Ceylon elephants have tusks, all have tushes. it may be supposed that Major Rogers j was si man who devoted his whole time to i j shooting. Tliis is very far from the truth, j | He was the principal government officer in i a district containing some eight thousand ' ' inhabitants. He was commandant, govern- ! | mont agent, district judge, sind coroner, lie , ' traced roads, lie planted coffee, and was one I of the most energetic government servants jin the island. The Kandinns regarded him j with superstitious veneration, and believed | him to bear a charmed life, and the manner -of his death was calculated to (aver their 1 idea of his being different from ordinary j mortals. He was at a bungalow on the j Hoppootalle Pass one day during a than- 1 1 tier-storm. Ho stepped out and looked up i to see if it were likely to clear. A lady and j I gentleman, bis travelling companions, were ; on the verandah. Suddenly there was a Hash, and Major Rogers lay lifeless on the i ground. Nothing could he found on his person to show where he had been struck, (save si small spot on the heel, just below bis ■ i spur. A gentleman, baiting for a night in the neighborhood years afterwards, overheard an old Kandian telling of the famous " Msi- , jor Rogers." lie told of his msirvellcous feats, and how he could pass unscratched • J through imminent danger. "But at last,"' j sstid tiie story teller, " he cut down the for -1 est that belongs to the Katfrogain temple | sind planted coffee : then Buddha got angry i and killed him bv lightning - ." There is a j monument to his memory in Kandy church |—a palm tree in the pride of its beauty is j smitten by a Hash of lightning. In the dis ■ tance is Adam's Peak. Beneath is inscri : scribed, " Lo, these are parts of His ways, j j but the thunder of His power who can un j derstand." There are many stories of his wonderful j escapes. Among others, the following : —' One morning, alter shooting five elephants ' out of a herd, he retired for breakfast un- j ! dor a tree a short way off, and directed one ! of his followers to go and cut off the tail* [ l of his victims. The man came back with • three, and said the owners of the remaining I two had vanished. Major Rogers thereup on went to see what had heroine of them, ] I and soon saw one of them standing in the j jungle, near the sandy bed of what was in [ wet weather a large river. As soon sis the I I elephant saw the major lie charged The j ! major fired and brought him down on his j ' knees, but be got up and again charged, j I The second barrel was fired, but without i better effect, and it now became necessary 1 , j to rue to cover, across the bed of the river. ! The major ran, the elephant ran, and it be- i ! came a question of life smd death which of • the two could run the fastest, Once in the | jungle and the sportsman would be safe. At length lie readied the bank ; another i : second or two —si few more steps—and he ! | might take a shot sit, his foe ; but ere lie j i could reach his cover, he felt a blow on his j | shoulder from the trunk of the elephant,! I and rolled heavily on the ground. Hegath- j ered himself up, and m;ule a second attempt jto get away, when another ltlovv, another, I | and yet another from the merciless trunk, ; dislocated his shoulder and broke his arm j and several of his ribs. IJo then lay mo- i i tionlesg, though still conscious, when the i I elephant began to play football with liirn, ' knocking him backwards and forwards be- ' tween his fore and bind legs. At this crisis, j one of the men who had heard the firing ; | came up with a spare gun, and tired both bsirrels into the elephant ; but this extrsior ; dinarily irrational bosist, that would not lie quiet and dielike a well conducted elephant, now left his victim, and charged Ins second | foe, who ran off into the forest smd climbed j a tree. Thereupon the elephant took post ' i beneath it, but finding that the man did not ! come down, and remembering where he left 11is football, lie returned to the same place, | no iloubt intending to have another game with it. But the major had managed to crawl into the jungle, where be i concealed himself sis best he could. Theele ! pliant sniffed about and made search for him j for some time, and at last trumpeted and i wont off'. Major Rogers was carried into j Budulla, where his wounds and bruises in due time healed ; but, tired of inactivity, while one arm was still in a sling lie bor rowed a light gun, which lie could bring up REGARDLESS OF LIEXUXCIATt'IX FROM AXY OCARTER. to bis shoulder with the other band, and i therewith killed two elephants. | Sometime ago, a gentleman living in j (lalle heard of an elephant in si jungle about I eight miles off', so he set. out in pursuit. He i soon came upon the marks of the elephant, | and then upon the individual in person. My friend had never shot an elephant before, and knew nothing of going up the wind or other similar dodges, and the consequence was he could not get a shot forever so long - . Every now and then, when he got near, the elephant would walk on a little way ; then lie would stop, and just as my friend got near him he would go on again. This las ted from half-past nine in the morning to half-past three in the afternoon. At last 1 lie elephant got aunoyed at being - thus followed, and resolved to put a stop to it. So lie went into si thick clump of jungle, made si cir cuit, and came back and waited l'or his ene my. My friend wsis poking about looking j for the elephant, and wondering what on earth had become of him, when all sit once ! he rushed out quite close to him, with bis j trunk lifted ready to strike. .My friend had j not an instant to lose ; he mechanically j threw up bis gun without taking aim, smd j fired, and down came the elephant as dead ! as st herring. In the scrimmage his hat fell j off. A fellow ran to the bungalow, where j ho had left bis "ladye fair," awaiting bis re- j turn in triumph, and announced the death j of the elephant, adding, that he had knocked the master's hat off. The "appoo," or but ler, in his interpretation, proclaimed t hat lie had knocked the master's hea// off'. Two gentlemen were not long since out j on sin elephant-shooting expedition,in which they lisul been rather successful. On their ' way home, one of them encountered anelc-l pliant ; he fired smd wounded hint, on which ; the elephant charged. The gentleman ran i i for it, hut his adversary overtook liiin ; he j j fell, and the elephant stood over him. The ' j gentleman had sill his wits about him, and j ; had time to ask himself, as lie lay there, ! ! whether it was more likely that he would ; ; be pounded into si jelly, torn into pieces, tossed into the air, or kicked about like si j ball. As lie could not come to a satisfactory ; solution, lie looked up at the oh pliant as if | to judge from the expression of his counte- I nance what were bis intentions : when lie i perceived that the elephant- was "dazed." j The ball in liis forehead lisid evidently con tused his intellects, and In- did not quite know what to do. At this juncture one of the sportsman's attendants came up and j drew off the ereal lire. I When sin elephant is killed, sill the car i nivorous beasts of the field, and birds of ! the stir, come together to feed on his re mains ; among others, the wild bosir. A i gentleman w as one day looking sit the car case of sin elephant which had been shot some days previous, when he observed si movement in the body as if it had been again imbued with life. For a moment he ! knew not what to make of this resuscita ' tion, but the mystery was soon explained I by a wild pig emerging from within the b'hy of the elephant, where he had been | taking bis breakfast, and scuttling off' as ; hard sis be could run. Some jugglers paid us si visit (in Ceylon) recently. Their s!ight-of-h:tnd tricks were exceedingly clever, when it is born in mind i that their strms sind shoulders are entirely uncovered, sstid afford no such places for conceulmejit as the sleeves of a European conjuror. From the means and applisinces which the party brought with them, I saw they were going to perform the trick of j which so lunch lisis been said and written, i of putting - si woman into a basket, killing her with si sword while within, and then bringing b<-r Li life again. I have now twice I seen this t'essf ]. rformed, and confess it has j "ii neither occasion struck me as hciugapc-j eulisiiTy good one: very possibly] may have! seen it performed by sin inferior set of at - -1 tists The mode of operating is doubtless j the .same with sill jugglers. A man orders ! a woman to make a salaam tosi lady or gen- j tlernan looking - on, or to do something - or I , other, and she refuses ; then an altercation i j begins, and at last he seizes her, and ties j her up in a net ; lie then gives her another | chance of obeying his behest, and, on her j I refusal, he pretends to be very angry, and ' sticks her into a wicker basket, and ties down the lid ; lie then calls to her, and she ! replies from within ; he asks her if she will : do what she is told to do : she still refuses; ! thereupon lie seizes a sword and sticks it in every direction into the basket ; he then ! calls again, but there issues no answer ; lie kicks the basket, and it rolls along as it ! empty. He affects surprise, opens the lid, and draws out the net in which the woman had lain : all the knots are unfastened.— i Then, after a while, the spectators hear a j voice behind them, and, on looking round, i there stands the woman smiling, and she I makes her salaam voluntarily, or else she ! conies running from a distance. Now for the solution. The bodies of all Asiatics are pliable to a degree we cannot conceive ! without having seen it. Oil this very oeca ! sion these jugglers took a small child oft ! about throe years old, and laid it across a j sort of couch, on it* hrifl-. and such was the j | pliability of its spine that it hung with its j | head and feet dangling on each side, as it j would have done ha 1 it been lain across the ' j crutch-mi its stomach. This being the case, ! it would not be at all difficult for a woman, ; accustomed to the trick from her youth, to 1 coil herself up in a corner of the basket in i such away that the sword, when thrust in, : would not touch her, and. by preconcerted \ arrangement, she would quickly move a i bout, so that she was always at the oppo ; site side of the place where the thrust was next made. Meanwhile, she would untie the ' net. When the lid was opened she would I lie in a corner, and by practice would man age so, iliat wlifit tlii' basket was kicked she would assist in rolling it along as if ! empty. But now comes tin' difficult part. llow 1 docs she get out and Come behind the spec tators? It is on this that narrators have j laid so much stress. They have said that ' such have been the attendant circumstan ces, that she could not have left the basket without their seeing her, or passing through a crowd of eager watchers. This is very likely, and possibly she does not leave the basket tit the time. Perhaps the following may be the solution: It is not so easy to distinguish the features of Asiatics as of Europeans, and the mode of partially veil ing the face and of avrnng'ng the drapery is such, that if two sisters bearing a strong resemblance to each other were to dress ex actly alike, and wear the same kind of ban gles, ankle ornaments, hair pins, and nose jewels, bystanders whose scrutiny had not been particularly directed in that channel, : 1 might very readily mistake the one sister I fbr the other,and so, while htokingfintciiscly t at the basket, the sister wlio had not gone 1 into it might slip up from some place a •' short way off', and lead spectators, to believe ' she was the one who had been apparently j ' killed in the basket. The jugglers to whom I 1 I now especially allude adopted a very i 1 clumsy contrivance. After the woman was ; j "kilt and inurlhered entirely,'' they surroun ded the basket with some canvass sis aj • screen. I observed that one man was j i watching my eye very keenly ; bis part : 1 evidently was to give a signal when my ut- j i teiition was diverted. Another man tin ni ' asked us to see what he was going to do. ! ; lb- went behind ns on the verandah where we were setting, and placed a large ring of metal on the ground. All of us natuially turned round to see what lie was at, but as 1 bad smelt a rat, 1 at once turned round towards the basket, and was just: in time to cateli my lady bolting out from behind the screen and running off. Had I not seen this, she would have gone round the out houses, and while we were looking at the jugglers, would have came behind ns and stood by the magic ring. NO PEACE FOR THE WICKF.L). PEACE with Tlie serpent's no.t ? Peace with the traitor race, Who have stabbed their mother's breast, And brought our laud disgrace ? Whose feet were on our necks, Whose bravos swarin our decks. Who have drenched with blood our sod ? There is no peace ! saith our God. Come on ! ye sunburnt ineu, I-'rom hay field and from plow! Spring up fiom desk and pen! Forward ! if ever, now Come faces dusk and pale ! Shall whips or thews prevail? Come, storm across the land, And win peace, hand to hand ! Remember all our dead ; Have they, then, died in vain ? The blood that they have shed Calls irom thegroand again! Clasp ! noble hands and true ! Those hearts t lint hied for you ls lliis the peace they sought ? The liberty they bought ? No peace while breathes a slave! No pgace while lurks a stain ! No peace with brute or knave! No peace with love <.f gain ! O patient land.endure! When chastened, strong, and pure, Like dew upon thy sod. Shall fail the peac# of God. AN ADVENTURE IN THE ALPS. Professor Tyndall sends to the London Timet> a narrative of a rather exciting ad- i venture in the Alps. On the ffd of July ho and two friends, with a couple of guides, i Jenni and Waller, ascended the Piz Mou- ! teratueh. The ascent was accomplished which was made along the Morterasclie- i glacier : " We at length reached the point ai which ! it was necessary to quit our morning's track j and immediately afterwards got upon seine steep rocks, which were rendered slippery hore and there by the water which trick!' d over them. To our right was a broad cou loir, which was once tilled with snow, I tut this had been melted and re-frozen, so as tu expose it sloping wall of ice. We were all tied together at this time in the following order: Jenni led, I came next, then my friend If, an entrepiil mountaineer, then his friend L, and, last of all, the guide Walter. After descending - the rocks for a iime, Jen ni turned and asked me whether I thought it hotter to adhere to them or t-> try the ice ' slope to our right. 1 pronounced in favor j ot the rocks, but lie seemed to misnnder- j stand me, and turned towards the couloir. He cut steps, reached the snow, and de scended carefully along it, all following liiin, apparently in good order. " After a little time he stopped, turned, anc looked upwards at the last three men. lie said something about keeping carefully in the tracks, adding that a false step might detach an avalanche. The word was scarce ly uttered when 1 hoard the sound of a fall behind me, then a rush, and in the twink ling ol an eye my two friends and their guide, all apparently entangled together, whirred past me. 1 suddenly planted my- , soli to resist their shock ; but in an instant 1 I was in their wake, for their impetus was irrisestable. A moment afterwards, Jiiiini was whirled away, and thus all five of ns j found ourselves riding downwards with un- I controlable speed on the back of an ava- j lauche, which a single slip had originated. When thrown down by the jerk of the rope I turned promptly on my face and drove my batou through the moving - snow, seeking to | anchor it in the ice underneath. I had held j it firmly thus lor a low .seconds, when 1 ! came into collision with some obstacle, and was rudely tossed through the air, Jenni at' the same time being shot down upon me. ' Both of tis hero lost our batons. \\"e had, i in fact, been carried over a crevosse, had j hit its lower edge, our great velocity cans-! ing us to lie pitched beyond it. " 1 was quite bewildered for a moment, but immediately righted myself, and could j see those in front of me lutlf buried in the I snow, and jolted from side to side by the ruts among which they were passing. Sud denly 1 saw them tumbled over by a lurch of the avalanche, and immediately after wards found myself imitating tlicil - motion. This was caused by a second crevasse. Jen ni knew of its existence, and plunged right i into it—a brave and manful act, but for the j time unavailing. He is over thirteen stone ! in weight, and lie thought, that by jumping j into the chasm a strain might be put upon ; the rope sufficient to check the motion. He was, however, violently jerked out of the ' fissure, and almost squeezed to death by ' the pressure of the rope. A long slope was | below us, which led directly downwards to ! a brow where the glacier suddenly fell in a ! declivity of ice. At the base of this de clivity the glacier was rut by a series of profound chasms, and towards these we were now rapidly borne. The three fore most men rode upon the forehead of the avalanche, and were, at times, almost whol ly immersed in the snow ; but the moving lava was thinner belting, and Jenni rose incessantly and, with a desperate cnergv, drove his feet into the firmer substance un derneath. His voice shouting, "Halt ! Her Jesus, halt!" was the only one heard dur ing the descent. " A kind of condensed memory, such as pet* Annuin, in Vd\ tuiee. that described "bV people who have narrow ly escaped drowliin'g, took possessiofi'of me ; and I thought amj reasoned with pre ternatural clearness as I rushed along. Our' start, moreover, was tort sudden,and the ex citement too great to permit of the develop ment of terror. The slope at one place be came less steep, the speed visibly slack ened, and we Thought we were coming to rest ; the avalanche, however, cro-sed the brow which terminated this gentler slope and regained its motion Here H. threw his arms around his friend, all hope- for the time being - extinguished, while 1 grasped ! my belt and struggled for an instant to do- > tach myself. Finding this difficult, I re sumed mv pull upon the rope. My shore in the work was, i far, infinitessinial, but •Iciuifu powerful stra in made itself felt at last. Aided probably by a slight, change of inclination, be brought the whole to l est within a short distance of the chasms over which, had wo persevered our speed, a few seconds would have carried us. if. emerged iroiii tiie snow with his forehead bleeding - , lrit the wound was superficial. Jennihad a bit of flesh removed from his nana by col lision against a stone ; the pressure of the rope had left black welts on my arms, and we all experienced a tingling sensation i over the hands, like that produced by incip ient frost-bite, which continued fop several days. I found a portion of my watch chain hanging roqnd my tieclg and another por tion in my pocket—the watch itself was gone. On the ltith of August Professor Tyn-' dull made an expedition in search of his' watch, which was found after a rather per ilous search. "It had remained eighteen days in the avalanche, but the application of its key at once restored it to life, and it lias gone with unvarying regularity ever since." HOW TO GET SID OF A ROCK. I'rialiAbell was a Connecticut farmer, ' and in his time a pretty good one. His farm, iiko a great many other Connecticut farms, was full of stones, and he delighted to char thetu off out of the Way of the plow. He built a great many rods of substantial stone wall, but lie could not use up all the stone. He had cleared one field of all but one great boulder, about the size of a large haycock. Etc wanted to get rid of that. He would have " bl >wn it to ffindcrs," us ha j 11ad a good many others, but it was within , two rods of "the host room" wind.".vs. which might go "to Hinders" at the same time. .So fie; attempted to haul it out of its bed one day. After trying bis own and his neighbor's oxen, and breaking several chains, Uriah grew wrathy. and declared that " he would give so to unv one that would p it tin pesky l >ok out of his siglil." \\ aa! licow. J don't lu.nd taking the job if you'll find a spade and throw iu.-.-m • dinner, and a mug of cider aloftg fri the af ternoon.'' 1 his pr position was made by a strut.g r who had just then come up. lie was af;.'r specimen of a working- Yankee, and I riah dropped the broken chain and turned r uind to look Mm full in the face. " Yes, I'll give it, and the dinner at < i der too, but 1 won't poll my oxen again at that stone, ny iiuv." •' Duii't wan't you shoul 1. I'm to put tin stone out of sight, make all smooth about 1 here, so you can pi >w right along-. That's 1 what I'm to do, ain't it " Yes. tlial is all I want. J don't carp ! how you do ii. but it' y at fail I don't pay anything, do you understand ? Very w- ii, j then come in to dinner." That done, and a large end of tobacco adjusted, the Yankee threw o