; - 7' 6 V 4 ' ' ' .'. ' . ', . -..J.. - -" ' r ' . t , , w L.fywn.. nn..,.., ....;.' HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. XII. HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., ,THtillSIAY, ..SEPTEMBER 28. 1882 NO. 32. - Tlio Footsteps of Decay. The followina is a translation from an an cient Spnnish poem, which, enys the Edin burgh lievicw, is Bnrpi'!"'ed by nothing with which we are acquainted, m the Spanish language, except the "Ode of Louis de Leon;" Oli, lot the soul its slumbers break Arouse its senses and awako To see how oon Life, in its glories, glide away, And the firm footsteps of decay Come stealing on. And whilo we viow the rolling tide Down which onr precious minutes glide Away so fast, Lot us the present hour employ, And deem its future dream a joy Already past. Lot no vain hope deceive the mind, No happier lot us hope to find To-morrow than to-day; Our golden dreams of yore were bright, Like them the present shall delight Like them decay. Our lives like hastening streams mnstbo That into the engulfing son Are doomed to fall The sea of death, whoso waves roll on O'er king and kingdom, crown and throne, And swallows all. Alike the river's lordly tido, Alike the humble rivulets glide To that sad wave; Dcnth levels poverty and pride, The rich and poor sleep side by sido Within the grave. Our birth is but a starling place; Life is the running of the raco, And death the goal; There all our glittering toys arcbrought That path alouo of all unsought, Is found of all See, then, how poor and little worth Arc all those glittering toys of earth That lure us here Dreams of a sleep that death must break; Alas! before it bid us wake, We disappear. Long ere the damp of earth can blight, The cheek's pure glow of red and white Has passod away; Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair Ago came and laid his finger there And where are they? Where is the strength that spurn ed decay, Thesteps that roved so light and ga y, The heart's blithe tone? The strength is gone, tho stop is slow, And joy grows wearisome with woe When age comes on. TOM HALIFAX, M. D. She had been resting her head upon her hand, full of thought, when sud denly nhe, heard the sound of horse's hoois chuteling down the street. Shi looked ip, wondering who the rider could lie, and looking up half started. It was Dr. Halifax himself, and as In reached the gate lie slackened his speed, and dismounting came up the garden walk with a hurried step. She dir. not wait for the servants, but stepping into the hall Hung open tho sliadi blinds in response to his summons anr stood before him. He certainly did not expect to se her, but he did not wince, merely bow ing, and coloring slightly. " I beg your pardon, Miss Ashby," he said; "but I come to solicit charity on the behalf of one of my patients. I am not a rich man myself," with the calm, handsome eyes on her face, "anil your father told nic that I might rely upon him in this terrible trouble." "I am very glad to be of service," said Bessie. " What is most needed, Dr. Halifax?" He made a few suggestions, as he thought proper, and, under his direc tions, she filled a large basket with food and wine. It seemed as though he was at least ten years older, and Bessie's heart grew very full at the sight of his pale, grave face as she completed her task. " Can I do nothing more?" she asked, as she gave him tho basket. "Oh, Dr. Halifax, if I only could!" And in spite of herself the thick gathering tears filled her eyes. lie looked surprised, and then his face softened. " Thank you !" he re plied. "I will remember what you have said." When Tom Halifax mounted his horso again it was with a thrill of pleasurable pain and a backward glance at the slender ligure on the piazza. He had looked down upon the pretty face beneath its veiling curls, the wet lashes and tremulous mouth, thinking a little sadly of the days when her eyes would have met his with a wanner glow. Yes, it all came to the same thing in the end. The old wound had not com pletely healed, and a soft glance from the girlish eyes had it throbbing again almost as fiercely as ever. That night he came' upon Captain Ilousted. " Cannot I help you, Halifax ?" said tho kind-hearted fellow. " You are killing yourself. Let mo do something, if it is only to grind powders." " You must not run the risk of in fection," said Torn. " You have some thing at home to take care of." "Yes," said Captain Fred. "But I don't think the little somebody cares much." His voice had stopped a tone or so and he was tapping his boots with his whip, as though musingly. "Ask her," suggested Tom, with a short laugh that almost choked him. " I'm going to ask her to-night," said the captain, raising his head suddenly, with a half smile. "It's all a lottery, you know. It remains to be proven whether my prize is a blank or not." Three hours later Bessie stood with her cousin in the garden. " It is no use," she said, with impet uous tremor. "I don't love you, Cousin Fred at least, not as I must love tho man I marry. I thought . I did, but lately" she stopped, dropping her face, and then added, almost in a whis per: "I bave been very wicked and foolish. Please forgive me!" The captain looked down a little gravely. " When did you change your Jaind, JJessieV" " A few weeks ago, Blnce this dread ful plague. It made mo think, and I saw that I had not been doing rightly." It was fully three minutes before Fred Ilousted spoke again. "See here, Bessie," he said, at last, " I am learning something, too. I never believed the gossip before now" a moment's pause, and his smothered doubt burst forth. " Bessie, why did you quarrel with Tom Halifax ?" " Oh, Fred, don't I" she said. " Don't cry," said Fred. " I want to know the truth." I have said Bessie Ashby never did anything by halves. In her grief and excitement she forgot she had flirted with her cousin ; forgot about the "position ;" forgot everything but that she was frightened and miserable and tired of acting. " I have been so horribly selfish," she sobbed. "I didn't think I cared so much, and he was poor, and we quar reled, and I thought I could like you well enough. I don't think I should have been so wicked, but he was so proud, and things got worse every day ; but lately it has all come back, and I can't help it." "You have not treated mo well, Bessie," said the honest young captain, after a short silence. " Men don't want women to marry them because ' they think they can like them well enough ;' but I think you see how you have wronged me. It is all over now, so we will say no more about it." I have said before that hearts do not break. They may stretch and perhaps suil'er a little in the rebound, but really breaking is out of the question ; and warm and true though our brave cap tain's might be it was not likely to dis grace the general india rubber reputa tion by snapping, even in this painful strain ; so pray do not blame poor, pen itent Bessie lor any misfortunes which may hereafter befall him. I he next morning Dr. Halifax met his rival on the street. " I prophesied rightly, old fellow," said the gentleman, quietly. " The ailirniative proves to be a negative, after all." "Mademoiselle is changeable," said Tom. " I hope I am not going to have you for a patient, Ilousted. You are as pale as a ghost." " Broken heart," laughed the cap tain. "No, I don't think you will The warmth gives mo a slight head ache; that is all." But there was something more. As the day crew the slight headache be came a severe one, throbbing and pulsing, the pale iaco Hushed and the strong limbs trembled anil tailed as they had never done before. At about G o'clock, as Tom sat in Ins ollice writing out some prescrip tions, Captain Ilousted entered the room and staggered into a chair. " I am afraid you are going tohavea patient, Halifax," he said, smiling fee bly. "I feel rather faint." And as he said this he dropped his deathly face upon the table and lay there with out moving. He had braved it a long time, but the dreadful pest had come upon him at last, loin sent tor Colonel Ashbv, and the sick man was carried home. At tho door Bessie met them with a pair face but steady eyes. " She ought to have been sent away," said J oin. " But I am not afraid," she an swered, firmly. "Please let me stay." I dare say you will decide that Dr. Halifax was shockingly unstable when 1 tell you- that irom that time hi mind - began to waver as regarded Uessie Ashby. Meeting her every day in her cousin's sick-room it was not easy to leel cold and stern. She was so sweet and girlish in her new Humility, now the old capricious coquetry was thrown aside, and in all her appealing obedience to his orders he could not tail to see a little sensi tive fear which sometimes troubled, but always stirred his heart. lie must take care of her, too ; every shadow that crossed the pretty face must be inquired into. lie was not going to fall in love again, of course ; he was merely doing his duty, as a medical man. Still, it was rather interesting. Captain Ilousted was the last serious case of' sickness, but it was a very se vere one. For weeks the poor fel low's life lay trembling in the balance one day fevered and delirious, the next seemingly sinking into death. But in time he began to struggle through it, and, thanks to Tom's skill and patience, the shadowy face began to light with a faint glimmer of re turning strength. Gradually the fearful scourge weak ened its power, and little by little seemed passing away. There were still patients to be visited, and work to be done, but the awful rage of the pestilence had swept by. Then it was that Tom Halifax began to reap his reward. People who had never heard his name six months before sent for him in all critical cases. Men of wealth and high standing courted his acquaintance as the brave young doctor who did his work so nobly throughout the "sick ness at Horning. Men and women pointed him out to each other on the street, saying: " But for him J should have been laid in my grave." . ' When my old mother died ho was tho last man she knew." " When we were in trouble he worked for us day and night. God bless him!" Had there been nothing else, the warm, loyal young heart would have thrilled with tender thankfulness at tho simple gratitude of the humble sufferers to whom he seemed almost a Savior, but, apart from this, reality came to him. There was no lack of practice now, and the name and fortune that had seemed so far away a year ago became a promise of truth. Of course as yet they were not quite perfected, but still each day brought them nearer, and showed something of solid advance ment la life and prospect. The Cha teaux en Espagne were beginning to stand on a substantial foundation Perhaps this might, have made him happy. .Naturally" he felt thankful, but. being a very, warm-hearted and (in some things) a very unscientific M. IX, ho could not feel quite restful. The truest of all truths is that what ever we love we can forgive, and whatever we forgive it is not difficult to love. Bessie Ashby had refused Captain Ilousted. Why had she done it? Could it be that her foolish little heart was subdued at last? It is easy to be magnanimous when one has injured, and it is hard not to be mag nanimous when tho injurer is a pretty girl whom one has loved. It tins were more than a simple record I should certainly decide that my hero could not forgive my heroine under any cir cumstances, and consequently should doom them both to misery and de spair. But, as it is, I am compelled to say that Tom Halifax, M. D., for gave Bcssio Ashby, for the simple rea son that, in spite of her faults, he loved her. nd Bessie? During her cousin's illness she had learned the extent of the M. D.'s power, She. had found out that she could look up to him and rely on his strength, that she could trust him implicitly. She began to discover that he had a higher object in view than the regard lor sell, which had been the one ruling power of her life, and his example taught her the true nobility of generous sacrifice. Still, in spite of the change in the hearts of both, they had not advanced mucli out wardly from the old coldness. But in the second month of Captain Housted's illness the denouement came, as a de nouinent always comes, unexpectedly, One evening there had been a slight return ot the lever, and alter a heavy sleep the patient awakened, restless and wandering. Bessie was standing atone side ot the bed and Dr. Halitax at the other, holding the captain's hand as he opened his eyes. " It was you she loved, after all, Halifax, he said, smiling faintly. " I am 'only Cousin Fred.'" The blood rushed into Bessie's face. The handsome eyes told her they un derstood told her with one glance that burnt her cheeks and set her heart beating swiftly. The next moment she brushed by him and left the room. Half an hour after Dr. Halifax came downstairs and walked straight into the parlor, as though he had some object in view. A very pretty figure stood revealed in the dusky light by the window a pretty head, with long, sinning curls, resting upon an equally pretty hand. I wonder if Miss Ashby knew what was coming? Certainly her pulse fluttered very fast, and she looked out into the garden quite resolutely. "Bessie!" She did not move. " Bessie!" He certainly was a determined pen tlcman, this Dr. Halifax, for lie drew the pretty hands away and turned Miss Ashby to the light. " Was it true?" ho whispered, bend ing very low over her. The long curls drooped a little nearer. It really looked as if Miss Ashby yvas going over to the enemy " 1 1 think it was, she said, very softlv. "I think it lias been true for a long time, Dr. Halifax." It was dreadfully undignified, but Miss Ashby positively made an uncon ditional surrender, and the curls lav in a shining heap against Dr. Halifax's broad shoulder. "My dear little girl," he said, ten derly kissing the pretty, tremulous face. "My dear, dear little girl, how happy you have made me. What more have I to say? I have ended mv record, bringing both hero and heroine through their adventures, and leaving them in a properly dra matic position. I.haveonly to tell you that Captain Ilousted has proved my theory ot the elasticity of hearts, and recovering from his sickness, recovered from his disappointment in a very sen sible and decorous manner. In all probability he forgot his penchant for brown eyes and married a blonde. If ho did, could there be a better proof that love is a lottery, and " variety the spice of liter Needle .Making. At Borcette, which is the most im portant center of needle manufacture m Lurope, the conversion ot the steel wire into rough needles requires twenty operations, the principal of which are the measurement of the wire, the scouring, the winding off, and the cutting oil into length 'equal to two needles. The pointing is done with two grindstones. By the aid of a copper finger-stall the workman holds fifty wires at a time, which are heated to redness by the friction. The dust and powdered steel formerly pro duced consumption in the workmen after a few years, but by tho aid of ventilators this evil has been entirely overcome. Alter the sharpening boy cut the wire in two, flatten the head, anneal and punch the eyes. Tho tem pering and 'annealing require nine operations, but they are done in pile of fifteen kilogrammes (33.69 pounds), containing more than 300,000 needles. One million needles are polished at one time. Thero are five operations, which are each repeated seven or eight times. The needles are put in hollow rollers with small hard stone and colza oil. The stones are gradually pulverized, and the friction of the powder gives tho principal polish. For the final polish oil and coarse bran are used. The sorting of the polished needles requires .live operations, and after the burnishing they are put into papers. It is very easy to start false reports, Just because a Philadelphia woman while buying a broom wanted one with a heavy and strong handle, it was re ported around that she was in the i habit oi beating her husband. FACTS AXD COMMENTS. This will be the greatest railroad building year on record. Already, since the 1st of January, nearly six thousand miles of new road have been milt in the United States. During the corresponding period last year ,459 miles had been constructed, and that was regarded as great things. . Tho frozen bodies of De Long and ds ten companions of the lost Jean- nette are to be brought home in cast iron coffins especially made for them in New York. The coffins are lined with felt, ground cork, etc., by which the bodies will be kept from the outward air. Being frozen they are expected to change into adiposene or waxy tissue, the features always preserving their natural expression. The caskets have been shipped to St. Petersburg. An article called fertilizing moss is offered in New York to take the place ot soil in raising plants. Tho dis coverer is a Frenchman, Alfred Du mesnil, a scientific horticulturist. It is claimed that "this wonderful dis covery by which plant may bo cul tivated without earth, or with earth in combination with the moss, bids fair to completely revolutionize pres ent methods in the house culture of flowers." A great variety of plants, it is said, have been experimented upon in this way, and even vegetables raised from the seed to maturity. In France it frequently happens that a murderer is not only sentenced to deatli but required to pay a heavy fine to the relations of his victim. These ines are inflicted by the judges. A few years ago a man named Armand, of Bordeaux, was tried for attempting to murder his servant. The jury ac quitted .him, but the bench, having their doubts about tho matter, sen, tenced him to pay $4,000 to tho ser- int, and the court or Cassadon up held the curious decision. Prince Pierre Bonaparte, when acquitted of the murder of Victor Noir, the jour nalist, in 1870, was made to pay $4,000 lamages to his victim s mother. Only it few months ago a man who killed mother in a duel was obliged to pay his antagonist's widow $4,000, beside undergoing a year's imprisonment. A farmer who has irritated the hills of South Euclid, O., for some years in pursuit of a living, dug from tho earth a crop which pans out more to the square inch than any of his previous agricultural efforts. He was engaged in making an excavation on tho site of an ancient corn-crib, and while so doing unearthed a rust-eaten,, iron tea-kettle of the pattern which found favor with those of a half-generation ago. The kettle contained cop per, silver and gold coins, principally trom the American mints, with a lew Canadian pieces, amounting in all to something over $800. None of the coins bore date later than 1859. The farm was formerly owned by a man named Wilson, who sold out and moved West early in the GO s. It is possible that Wilson or some other tenant, be coming fearful of Southern invasion, made a plant of hisavailublo capital. Tho tithing house is still in active use in Salt Lake City, and through it $500,000 a year is collected by the Mormon officials. This comes mostly from tho poor, according to a corre spondent of the St. Louis O'hbe-Demo- i-rtrt, and nobody knows to what use it is put, although many had their sur mises when tiiey found that Brigham Young, although not entitled to any salary, died worth several millions. The rieli evade their tithes in a varietv of ways ; the poor must pay them, or they are subjected to trouble and annoyance. hen they have paid their tithes they are not out of debt to the church. 'They must contribute when called upon to tho erection of new buildings, or do anything else which the priesthood may demand " Better starve your body than your soul," and away goes the last bushel of corn, or the last sheep, or the last steer. There are twenty-one railway cor porations in the United States having each a capital above $25,000,000, and gross earnings from $4,044,570 on tho incomplete Northern 1'aeihc to $5, 182,973 on the Pennsylvania Central, as follows: Gross IloatU. Northern Pacific. . New York Central Camtal. earnhws, $91,312,258 $ 4,044,570 Erie Pennsylvania Atchison and Topeka. Chicago and Bur Union Pacific Central Pacifio Lake Shore Penn. and Ohio Chicago and Rook la.. Southern Pacific. Wabash Chicago and Northw.. Chicago and Milw'kee, Beading Missouri Pacifio Illinois Central Chesapeake and Ohio, W,5i,KO0 83,880,000 r'J,500,000 02,308, l'.Hj 70,8(')8,f)00 69,275,500 4'.l,4;0,700 , 45,000,090 41,900,000 . 30,703,000 , 40,000,000 , 47,323,400 , 34,845,745 . 84,278,175 , 30,000,000 , 2!), 000,000 20,715,002 75,182,973 12,584,509 21,324,859 24,25M,817 24,094,100 17,971,391 5,49t,112 11,950,907 14,4117,789 19,383,072 17,025,401 35,280,403 6,722,477 8,50,397 27,747,635 2,705,443 Pittsburg, it. Wayne and Chicago 27,485,185 10,401,911 Totals., .$1,004,488,120 $173,989,383 Edwin II. Flood, a Philadelphia builder, is engaged upon probably the most extensive building operation ever attempted In that city, it is the erec tion of eight hundred houses upon all tho vacant land between Seventeenth street and Islington lane and Diamond and York streets, comprising in all about forty acres. All the woodwork in the buildings will bo. prepared and fitted at a large saw and planing mill specially erected. A brick yard capa ble of making 50,000 bricks a day has also been erected. All the clay used in the manufacture or bricks is pro cured from the excavations for the cel lars of the new buildings. The lumber s purchased by the million feet at time. All the hardware used in the buildings is bought in quantities at a time sufficient to cover tho entire building operation. The paints, glass and other necessaries entering into the construction are also secured in largo quantities. There is now under way the first installment of 104 houses. They are all ten-room houses, and alike in finish. The fronts are of the Queen Anno style, and ttre of Philadelphia pressed brick, ornamented With black and buff ccve brick. Over the window and door heads runs a broad course of Tennessee marble and a paneled base of the same material reaches to the window-sill. The floor of the vesti bules will be laid in marble and wains coted with the same material. This is ono of the ways by which that city continues to have cheap houses. The story of the poisoning of 100 Hungarian husbands is one of the most extraordinary on record. Thekla Popoy, a gypsy woman of seventy years, invented of. discovered a poison, acting slowly but surely, and in Its effects imitating the symptoms of disease. This poison she sold by the bottle to those women whose husbands obstinately refused to die to suit their spouse's plans. For two years she plied her trade, selling her poison at the rate of 25 to f 50 a bottle. About two months since, however, a rich peasant died under suspicious circum- stances, which led to ugly rumors re sulting in the -disinterment of his body. But no traces of foul play could be discovered, .and people were forgetting the sensation when the daughter of the old gypsy suddenly horrified the community by com ing before the court and testifying that she gave the wife of the dead man a bottle of poison pre pared by .her mother. She saw the wife pour the poison into the hus band's coffee and told her mother what she had seen. Her mother answered that she would poison her if she did not hold her tongue. Subsequently she quarreled with her mother about some property, and in revenge deter mined to betray her. The gypsy and the widow were both arrested, but stoutly denied tho crime. The judge, however, overheard the two talking in the lail, when the widow said to the gypsy: "Well, I am young and pretty lie was old and uglv. Why should he not die ?" It was found that the crime had extended through the entire com munity, and dead husbands in the region are being disinterred and exam ined by the score. HEALTH HISTS. Lay a Fainting Peuson Down It is surprising how everybody rushes t a fainting person and strives to use him up, and especially to keep ns head erect. There must be an in stinctive apprehension that it a per son seized with a tainting or other lit ill into the recumbent position death is more imminent. I must have driven i mile to-day while a lady fainting was held upright. I found her pulseless, white and apparently dying, and 1 be lieve that if i had delayed ten minutes linger she would really have died. I ud her head down on a lower level than her body, and immediately color returned to her lips and cheeks, and she became conscious. To the excited group of friends I said: Always re neiuber this lact namely: tainting is caiised by want of blood in the brain; the heart ceases to act with sufficient force to send the usual amount of blood to the brain and hence the person loses consciousness because the function of the brain ceases, llestore the blood to the brain and instantly the person re covers. Now, though the blood is pro pelled to all parts of the body by the action of the heart, vet it is still un der the influence of the laws of gravi tation. In the erect position the blood ascends to the head against gravita tion, and the supply to the brain is di minished, as compared with the re cumbent position, the heart's pulsation being equal. If, then, you place a per son sitting whose heart lias nearly ceased to beat, his brain will fail to re ceive blood, while if you lay him down, with tho head lower than the heart, blood will run into the brain by the mere force of gravity; and, in faint ing, in sufficient quantity to restore consciousness. Indeed, nature teaches us how to manage the fainting per sons, for tliev always fall, and fre quently are at .once restored by the re cumbent position into which they are thrown. Medical Journal. Valuable Liniment." Scarcely a week passes," says a pnysicn.n, " that there is not a report of some one who has died of tetanus, commonly called lockjaw, brought on by some sharp instrument being stuck m tno body usually a nail in the foot. Such wounds will generally prove harmless if tho following liniment be properly applied: Two ounces alcohol, two ounces oil of origanum, one-half ounce tincture of camphor. I was once called to see a boy twenty-four hours after he had stuck a rusty nail in his foot. He appeared to be in in tense agony, and his foot was considerably swollen. I opened the wound so that serum flowed a little from it, and then folded a piece of soft cotton cloth, eight-ply, and thoroughly saturated it with the liniment and bound it on the wound, giving instruc tions to renew the application every two hours until relief bo given. In six hours I called to see the boy; and ho was out in the yard playing, and suffered no more from the wound The liniment is good for any fresh wound on man or beast and every family ought to keep a bottle of it. I do not affirm that in every case it will prevent lockjaw, but I do believe that, if properly used, lockjaw would seldom occur." Naturalists say that a single swal a low will devour 6,000 flies In a day.- Some Wood Bear Stories. I rise for a few remarks on tho bear. I have known bfilin for tho piist forty years. I have met liirrt on the trail in Northern Michigan, Penn sylvania and the North AVoods. I " .... , - r. have seen mm. in Wisconsin ami .Min nesota. Ordinarily bruin Is rtlfoitt as danger ous as a raccoon or the festive wood chuck. But it does happen that the mother of any mammal will ignore danger to herself in defense of her young. Almost any animal will go wild and reckless oi danger m ueiense of her young, and the bear Is Wonder ful oh muscle. Consequently, when n she bear turns' on her tormentors it is well to keep back about eighty-five and a half feet. She doesn't want to hurt nnybody. She only wants to get her baiies away from 'that fearful biped with tho Derby hat and a dead rabbit cut on Ids iiair. If you humor her you are safe enough. If you want to put your hounds on her, making the escape of her cubs doubtful; well, "you takes your choice." If you drive her to des peration and she has the grit to stand by her cubs, " better you stand a leedle back." 1 have bagged a good .deal of bear meat. I have been twice on a lone cruise in the North Woods. I saw several bears there all intent on their own affairs. So slight was the danger from wild animals there, and so childish seemed the immense armaments of the aver age tourist, that 1 came to leave, not only my rifle, but my revolver behind. And I found the eight-ounce rod and the pocket hatchet all sufficient for de- tense against wild beasts. All the same, a sue near witn cuos may no dangerous. I will give three instances that I can vouch for : Forty years ago "Jim Steele," with a record of seven panthers, twenty-one bears, and 1,:?00 deer, resided at the mouth of "Asopli ltun." Ho sent his son, aged fourteen, up the creek for the cows one evening. The boy came back frightened and crying, saying that a big bear had chased and nearly caught him. Old Jim was disgusted at the- boy's cowardice. Leaving his rifle he went back with the boy, and at tho mouth of tho Kennedy llun the boy commenced to say: '"It was just here, when an immense bear jumped from under the bank, reared on her hind legs, and, showing all the teeth she had, growling, snarling and threat ening, made at tho party. Uid .inn took it in at once. "Jump on my back," he yelled to the youngster, which the boy did at once; and yelling, backing and flourishing a knife, all the weapon he had, old Jim and the bov got awav. Then tliev saw the mother bear cross the " nine on the creek and scatter up the mountain side, to be seen no more of men forever. Thirty-two years ago "Harry Ellis,' born and bred on Pine Creek, guided a party to tho huckleberry hills of the Barrens. While prospecting for the best berrying grounds he was suddenly confronted by an immense bear, which arose from behind a large fallen trunl iind. rearing on her hind legs, made directly at him, roaring, grunting snarling and showing iter best array of teeth. Harry seized and flourish!. i bine knot, whooping and yelling at the top of his voice, as he ran back ward at his best pace for a few rods only, when the bear turned and quickly conveyed her two cubs out ot danger On the same range ot lulls 1 unci went hurkloherrying with Farmer T his wife and daughter, on invitation Our rig was a two-horse farm wagon, tho bottom of tho wagon packed with inverted tubs and buckets. Distance1 to the ground, twenty-one miles. liy dint ot starting at 6 A. m., ami abusing the horses to unwonted speed, we were on the ground at 11 A. M., among berries so plenty that the ground was absolutely hidden. It was a short job to pick a bushel of berries on such ground; but I had been there before, and 1 thought I knew ot a place, about three-quarters of a mile westward, where the berries were equally plenty, but larger. So I took a largo tin pail and started. Half way to tlio ground there is a gulch to be crossed, and this gulch vyas badly blocked with fallen timber. AVhcn near the bottom I halted to select the best routes for getting by or over some fallen trees that lay in mv path, when a very large, dingy-looking, "brown nosed " bear sprang on a pine, sprang off again directly at me, got on her hind legs and began to play tlio usual game of scare showing all her teeth, making the savage, roaring, barking, growling noise common to enraged bears. On the instant I commenced a lively retrograde movement. Once 1 caught my heels and tumbled over backward, but got up suddenly. It was a Chinese fight. Growling, snarl ing, teeth anil claws on ono side; whooping, yelling and pounding tin ware on the other. Nobody hurt, Bear badly scared. As for myself, wasn t scared a bit! As for tho near; it goes without saying that when she had played me off a few rods, she got down on all fours and took Ucrseir out with her cubs for all she was worth. Forest atid Stream Captain Mayno ltoid, tho novelist, who now has his homo nil rogmore, England, has had his claim for pension allowed, anil tho United States will hereafter pay to him 115 a month while ho lives. Ho was a second lieu tenant in- the First New York volun teers, and went through tho stirrin scenes of tho Mexican war, getting bullets at Chapultepec and other im pressions for future utilization in story books. His chum was hied about tw years ago. Ho si ts forth in his atfi davit that he is quite poor, living on small hired farm, and that the 15 month will help out his meager income and make him comfortable, He is sixty-three years old. Wc Are 5t Old. We are not old, though years have rolloJ Like shadows from our path away, Since first to me them didst unfold Thy love oh! happy, huppy day! Wo are not old! Thy cheoks are fairer than the rose, Thy li;n are swejler than the dew. Thy hand is whiter than the snows, And as fie heivens thino eyes aro Dlue: We are not old! Time doaleth gently with us here, No chango our hearts have ever known; Our joy increases year by year, For sweet contentment is our own: We are not old! As in the past may we elide on, All gently down tho stream of hfo, And when we reach our journey's ond, May we together rest my wife: We are not old! X. S. Spenser.' II17M0K OF THE DAY. A prettv girl of eighteen is a boot ilaek in 'Galveston. . She takes the shine out of tho fellows. New Yorli Commercial. "They tell mo vou have had some money left you," said Brown. "1 es, replied F-gg, sadly, "it left mo long igo. Jfoxtoii J. raiincrun. Tho average life of a locomotive is only thirty years, but the average me of a locomotive engineer is sixty. The ngineer can jump. Philadelphia, News. At Norwich, Miss Maria Baker was married to Mr. Butcher. The uruio was given away by her uncle, Mr. Brewer, and the clergyman who mar ried them was Mr. Painter. Quiz. I can marry any girl I please," ho said, with a self-satished-il-you-loved- a-girl-would-you-marry her expression of countenance upon his languid face. No doubt," she responded: "but what girl do you please ?' They don't speak now. Old gentleman (looking at a very bob-tailed horse): "Bless ine 1 how short thev have cut lib tail." Attend ant : " His master is a member ot tho Society for the Protection of Animals, sir. In this fashion lie will not annoy the. poor fiies." A correspondent asks: " What timo of year do tho days begin to shorten ?" AVhcn you have a note in uanK. note in bank is tho great nnnihilator of time. The days are crowded to gether in thin layers, and the nights are like a smear irom a uiaching brush. Arkansas T rattler. The title' of tho- lesson was, The Bich Young Man, and the golden text was "One tlung thou lackest. A. teacher in the primary class asked a little tot to repeat the two, ana iook ing earnestly into the young lady's face the child said : " One thing thou lackest a rich young man." Vongre gutionalist. A boy paid his first visit to one of the public schools tho other day ns a scholar, and as he came home at night his mother inquired: "Well, Henry, how do you like going to school?" " Bully;" lie replied in an excited voice, " I paw four boys licked, one girl get her ear pulled, and a big scholar burned his elbow on the stove. I don't want to miss a day." They were talking about dogs tho habits, comparative intelligence, etc., of those sagacious animals when young llutherbert said: AVell, sir, my dog's a dandy, he is. You ought to mst see him sometimes. Honestly, l believe he has more sense than I have. That's a verv doubtful compliment for the dog," said old Mr. Gloomy, who it over in a corner. "Thoso people," said tho pastor, ilemnly, after giving out his text, who are cither tin) poor or too stingy to afford lly screens at home, ire perfectly welcome to sleep In thlrf hurch every Sunday morning. Ann then he went on with his sermon, but le preached to the wide-awakest con gregation a good man ever looked town upon. Ilawkeue. . Did you ever see a woman mail a tter? She will undertake to drop it into the box; then she draws it bacK and scans the directions; tries the stamp to see that it is on fast; scruti- i.es the giimmcil side and riins ner inger over it once or twice; men uiyes it me or two sudden jerks, which send it rapuuy lutu uic, w. ui. tin -! in to see if it went through. "What a man your father is!" ex claimed Mrs. Homespun, looking up from the letter she held in her liana. "Ho says he has bought a French lock, and shall bring it home with hiin. What will it be good tor except is an ornament? None of us can tell the time by it, unless you can, Lditlu You know something about French, don't you?" Boston Tranxcrijrt. A man in Iowa has invented a new fastening for horse collars. It is lucky that the horse's collar does not fasten to a button in the back of his shirt, because if it did, judging from human experience, when it Hew off after he had broken his tiiunui nan trying to crowd it into a new button hole, he would just kick tlio stuffing -out-of anything he was hitched to, even If it was a ireigiit car. jioswn jiuueim. . The First American Circus. : The first circus in the United States started out of Putnam county, N. in 1827 or 1828. It had eight or ten performers, as many horses, neither tent nor seats, and advertised only by marching through the village invested, with a man ahead calling out the place of exhibition, etc. The programme included feats of strength, leaping! etc., and. riding without saddle, and the ring was pitched in yards wherever conve nient. After a time an elephant waa added, and from thin grew , the menagerie addition. In 1832 the first tent was used in New York city, i 1
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