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 (( ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." •^p m 3^1 CHAPIER XV.â€" CoMiNUKD. " I saw the skeleton forms of half a-dozen more of them slinking amoQg the hashes that ekirted a low irland and tired and cold, I gave mytelf and the oxen up for lost, when I felt the ice tremble on which I stood, and heard men rnnnisg at a little distance. ' Fire your gnns ' I cried oat, as loud as I coald. My order was obeyed, and sach a yelling and howling immediately filled the whole forest as wouid have chilled yonr very heart. The thievish varmints instantly fled away into the bash. " I never felt the least fear of wolves until that night bat when they meet in large bands, like cowaidly dogs, they tnist to their numbers and grow fierce, if yoa meet with oue wolf, yoa may be certain that the whole pack is at no great distance." We were fast approachim; sandy Point, a long white ridge oi sand, running half across the lake, and though only covered with scattered grocps of scrubby trees and brush, it effectually screened Stony Lake from our view. Thete were so many beautiful flowers peeping through the dwarf, green bushes, that, wishing to inspect them nearer. Mat kindly ran the canoe ashore, and cold me that he would show me a pretty spot, where an Indian, who bad been drowned during a storm off that point, wat buiied. I immed- iately recalled the story of Susan Moore's father, but Mat thought that he was interred upon one of the islands farther up. " It is strange," he said, " that they are such bad swimmers. The Indian, though unrivalled by us whites in the use of the paddle, is an animal that does not take readily to the water, and those among them who cui swim selaom use it as a recreation." Pushing our way through the bushes, we came to a small opening in the underwood, so thickly grown over with wild Canadian roses, in tall blossom, that the air was im- pregnated with a delightful odour. In the centre of this bed of sweets rose the humble mound that protected the bones of the red man from the ravenous jaws of the wolf and the wild cat. It was completely covered with stonts, and from among the crevices had sprung a tuft of blue harebells, waving as wild and free as if they grew among the bonny heath3r on the glorious hills of the North or shook their tiny bells to the breczs on the broom encircled commons of Eng- land. The harebtUa had always from a child been with me a favorite flower and the first sight of it in Canada, growing upon that lonely grave, so flooded my soul remembrances of the past that in spite of myself the tears poured freely from my eyes. Tiiereare moments when it is im- possible to repress those outgashings of the heart â€" Mat, said, laughingly, "That is Mount Ras- cal." " How did it obtain that name T" " Oh, we were oat here berrying, with onr good priest, Mr. B This island promised so fair, that we landed upon it, and, after sec robing for an hoar, we returned to the boat without a single berryt tqpoo wbiob Mr. B named it ' Mout Bu oaL" The island was so beaatif ol, it did not deserve the name, and I chriatened it " Oak HiH," from the abundance of oak-trees which clothed iU steep sides. The wood of this oak is so heavy and hard that it will not float in the water, and it is in great request for the mnneis of Itunber sleigha, which have to pass over very bad roads. The bretza, which had rendered oar sail up the lakes so expeditions aud .refreshing, had stiffened into a pretty hi?h wind, which was dead agunst us all the way down. Betty now knelt in the bow and assisted her brother, squaw fashion in paddling the canoe but in spite of all, their united exer- tions, it was past ten o'clock before we reached the mill. The good Norah was waitin;i; tea for as. She had given the child- ren their supper foui botures ago, and the little creatures, tired with using their feet all day, were sound asleep upon her bed. After supper, several Irish songs were sung, while Pat played upon the fiddle, and Betty and Mat enlivened the company with an Irish jig. It was midnight when the children were placed on my cloak at the bottom of the canoe, and we bade Ckdieu to this hospitable family. The wind being dead against us, we were obliged to dispense with the sail, and take to our paddles. Themoonlight was as bright as day, aLi che air warm and balmy and the aromatic, resinous smell exuded by the heat from the balm-of-giliead and the pine-trees of the forest, added greatly to our sense of enjoyment as we floated past scenes so wild and lonely â€" isles that assumed a mysterious look and character in rhat witching hour. In moments like these I ceased to regret my separation from my native land and, filled with the love of Nature, my heart forgot for the time the love of home. The very spirit of peace seemed to brood over the waters, which were broken into a thousand ripples of light by every breeze that stirred the rice blossoms, or whispered through the shiver- ing aspen -tres. The far-off roar of the rapids, softened by distance, and the long, with ' mournful cry of the night-owl alone broke i My heart reproached me as I caught him to my breast, for leaving him so long in a few mitutes he was consoled for past sor- ' rows, and sweetly sleeping in my arms. A CANADIAN SONG. Ccme, launch the light canoe The breez; in fresh and strong The summer skies are blue. And 'tis joy to float along Away o'er the waters. The brigtit-glancing waters. The many-voicea waters. As the) dance in light and song. When the great Creator spoke. On the long unmeasured night, The living day spring broke, And the waters own'd His might The voice of many waters. Of glad, rejoicing waters. Of living, leaping waters. First hailed the dawn of light. Where foaming billows glide To earth's remotest bound The rushing ooean tide Rolls on the solemn sound God's voice is in the waters The deep, mysterious waters. The sleepless, dashing waters. Still breathe its tones around. the silence cf the night. Amid these lonely wilds t^e soul draws nearer to God, and is filled to overflowing by the overwhemling sense of His presiance. It was two o'clock in the morning when "Those flood-gates of the soul that sever, we fastened t'le canoe to the landing, and In passion's tide to part for ever." j Moodie carried up the children to the honse. If Mat and his sister wondered at my ' J ^o""' **»« gi"' »*[" "P j"!* â„¢y '^y* ^^" tears, they must have sus^pected the cause, '^^ '^^' "y '^^-^K'" *°"?g our absence, for they walked to a little distance, and left me to the indulgence cf my feelings. I gathered those flowers and placed them in i my bosom^ aud kept them for many a day they had become holy, when connected with sacred home recollections, and the never- dyiog affection of the heart which the sight of them recalled. A shout fiom our companions in the other canoe made us retrace our steps to the shore. They had already rounded the point, and were wondering at our absence. Oh, what a magnificent scene of wild and lonely grandeur bunt upon us as we swept round the little peninsula, and the whole majesty of Stony Lake broke upon us at once, another Like of the Thousand Isles in miciaturp, and in the heart of the wildernass! Imagine a large sheet of water, some fifteen miles in breadth and twenty-five in length, taken up by islands of every siza and shape, from the lofty naked rock of red gran te to the rounded hill, covered with oak-trees to its summit while others were level with the waters, and of a rich emerald green, only fringed with a growth of aquatic shrubs and flowers. Never did my eyes lest on a moie lovely or beautiful sceue. Not a vestige of man, or of his works was there. The setting sun, that cast such a gorgeous flood of light upon this exquisite panorama, bringing out some of these lofty islands in strong relief, and casting others into intense shade, shed no cheery beam upon church spire or cottage pane. We beheld the landscape, savage and grand in it^^ primeval beauty. As we floated amont( the channels be- tween these rocky picturesque isles, I asked Mat how many ot them there were. •'I ne^er could succeed," he said, "in counting them all. One Sunday, Pat and I spent a whole day in going from one to the other, to try and m%ke out how many there were, but we could only count up to one hundred and forty before we gave up the task in despair. There are a great many of them more than any one woald tbink â€" and, what is very singalar, the channel between them is very deep, sometime* above forty feet, which accounts for the few rapids to be found in this lake. It is a glorious place for hunting and the waters, undisturbed by steam-boats, abound in all sorts of fish. " Most of these inlands are covered with- hnckleberries while grapes, high and low bushed cranberries, blackberries, wild cher- ries, gooseberries, and several other sorts of wUd currants grow here in profusion. There is one island among these groapri (but I never could li^ht upon the identical ona) where the Inaians yearly gather their wampum-grass. They come here to collect the best birch-bark for their canoes and to gather wild onions. In short, from the game, fish and fruit which tiiey collect among the islands of this lake, th^ chiefly depend for their subsistence. Iliey are very jealous of the white settlers in the country coming to hunt and fish here, and tell many stories of wild beasts and rattle- snakes that abotmd along its shores bnt I, who have frequented the lake for years, was never disf.-urbed by anything, beyond the adventure with the Wolf, wliioh I have already told you. The banka of this lake are all steep and rocky, and the land along the shore ie barren, and totally onfit for oaltiTation. " Had wis time'to mn np a few milei far- ther, I ooold have showed yoa wme plcoea well worth a joarney to look at bat tfie mn is already down, and it willbe dark before veset baok to tibe mill." The other canoe bow floated aloogdde, and Pat agreed with Ui bcother fehat it waa hi^ tioia to retucik WMi («lnfiitpkBoe I tvnad feon tUi â- ^:' .:*.-M CHAPTER XVI.â€" The "Ould Dhbaooon." It is delightful to observe a feeling of contentment under adverse circtunstanoes. We may smile at the rude and clumsy at- tempts of the remote and isolated back- woodsman to attain something like comfort, bnt happy he who, with the bouyant spirits of the light-hearted Irishman, dontrives to make himself happy even while all others would be miserable. A certain degree of diuatiafaction with our present circumstances is necessary to stimulate us to exertion, and thus enable us to secure future comfort bat where the delnsive prospect of fatare happiness is too remote for any reasonable hope of ultimate attainment, then surely it is trae wisdom to make the most of the preaent and to culti- vate the spirit of happy contentment with the lot assiitned to as by Providence. "Onld Simpson,' or the "Gold Dhra- goon," as be was generally called, was a good sample of this nappy character and I shall proceed to give the reader a sketch of his history, and a description of his estab- lishment. He was one of that anfortnn%te class of discharged soldiers who are tempted to sell their penisions often far below their true value, for the sake of getting a lot of land in some remote settlement, where it is only rendered valuable by the labour of the settler, and where tbey will have the un- enviable privilege of expending the last re- mains of their strength in clearing a patch of land for the benefit of some grasping store- keeper who has given them credit while en- g^ed in the work. The old dragoon had fixed his abode on the verge of an extensive beaver meadow, which was considered a sort of natural cari- osity in the neighborhood and where he maiMged by cntnng the rank grasa in the summer time, to rapport several oowa, which afforded the chief raoriitenoe of hia family. He had alao managed, wltli the aariatanoe of his devoted partner, Jody, to clear a few aorea of poor rooky land on the doping mar- gin of tiie level nieadow, wliioh he ptanted year after year with potatoes. Soattarad over thia small oleariaft beM and thcc*^ might be â- eeathe lMit-ewroi.aoBie ludf-bosnt liemloek tree, which iMtdeaca f i iW ie f sm iri oonboitioiiof tiMkgheapi, ai^ now form- edaatriU^i nMka whioEi atigy tho maagra foil,. ^.SXK-i^AlA The " onld dhragoon" aeemed, moreover, to have some taste for the pioturesque, and by the way of ornament, had left standing sundry tall pinea and hemlocks n^tly girdled to destroy their foliagei, the shade of which would have been detnmantal to the " bleaaed praties" which he dehpiei to grow in hia clearing, bat which, in the meantime, like martyrs at the stake, stretched their naked .branchea imploringly towards the heavens. As he was a kind of hermit, from choice, and far removed from other aettlera, whose assistance is so neoesasry in new aet- tlementB, old Simpson waa mpdled to r«- sort to the moot extraordinary eontrlvaaosa while clearing hia land. Thus, after feUii^ the teees, instead of ohop^n« them into lengths, for the pprpose of facilitating the operation of piling them preparatory to burning, which would have cost him too much labor, he resorted to the practice of "niggering," as it is called which is simply laying light pieces of round timber across the rmnks of the trees, and setting fire^to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through. It was while busily engaged in this inter- esting operation that I first became acquaint- ed with the subject of this sketch. Sme twenty or thirty little fires ware burning briskly in different parts of the blackened field, and the old fellow was watching the slow progress of his silent " niggers,' and replacing them from time to time as they smouldered away. After threading my way among the uncouth logs, blazing and smoking in all directions, I en- countered the old man, attired in an old bon- net, or hood, of hia wife Judy, with his patched canvas trousers roUod up to his knees one foot bare, and the other fur nished with an old boot, which from its ap pearance had once belonged to some more aristocratic foot. His person was long, straight and sinewy, and there was a light springiness and elasticity in his step which would have suited a yoimger man, as he skipped along with a long handspike over his shoulder. He was singing a stave from the " Enniskillen Dragoon " when I came op with him, " With his silver mounted pistols, and his long carbine. Long life to the brave Inniskillen dra- goon." His face would have been one of the most lugubrious imaginable, with his long, tangled hair hanging confusedly over it, in a manner which has been happily compared to a " bewitched haystack," had it not been for a certain humorous twitch or convulsive movement, which affected one side of his countenance, whenever any droll idea passed through his mind. It was with a twitch of this kind, and a certain indescribable twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as he seemed intuitively to form a hasty con- ception of the oddity of his appearance to a straufrer unused to the bush, that he wel comed me to his clearing. He instantly threw down his handspike, and leaving his " niggers " to finish 'their work at their leisure, insisted on our going to his house to get something to drink. On the way, I explained to him the object of my visit, which was to mark out, or " blaze" the side-lines of a lot of land I had received as part of a military grant, imme- diately a^joming the beaver meadow, and I asked him to accompanv me, as he waa well acquainted with the different lots. " Och 1 by all manner of manes, and wel- come the dhevil a foot of the way but I know as well as my own clearing bnt come into the honse, and get a dhrink of milk, an a bite of bread an' butther, for sorrow a dhrop of the whiskey has crossed my teeth for the last month an' it's but poor inter tainment for man or baste I can offer you, bat share you're heartily welcome. ' The precincts of the bomestead were di- vided into an infinity of enclosures, of all shapes and sizes. The outer enclosure was a bush fence, formed of trees felled on each other in a row, and the gaps filled np with brushwood. There was a lars^e gate swtug with wooden hinges, and a wooden latch to fasten it the smaller enclosures were made with round poles, tied together with barkc The house was of the rudest des«.ription of "ahaty," with hollowed basswood logs, fitting into each other somewhat in the man- ner of tiles for a roof, instead of shingles. No iron was to be seen, in ths absence of which there were plenty of leathern hinges, wooden latches for locka and bark-strings instead of naila. There was a lusre fire-place at one end of the shanty, with a chimney, constructed of split laths, plastered with a mixture of clay and cowdung. As for win- dows, these were Inznries that could well be dispensed with the open door was an excellent snbstitute for them in the daytime, and at night none were required. When I ventured to object to this arrangement, that he would have to keep the door shut in the winter time, the old man replied, in the style ao characteristic of his country, "Share it will be time enbngh to thhik of that when the oonld weather seta in." Everything about ths house wore a Bobbison Crusoe as- pect, and thongh there was not any appear- ance of original plan or foresight, there was no lack of ingenious contrivance to meet every want as it arose. Judy dropped us a low oartaey as we en- tered, which was followed by a similar com- pliment from a stout girl of twelve, and two or three more of the children, who all seemed to share the pleasure of their parenta in re- ceiving strangers in their unpretending tene- "?«*• Many were the apologiea thac poor Judy offered for the homely cheer ahe fur- nished ns, and great was her delight at the notice we took of the " ohUdher." She set httle Biddy, who was the pride of her heart, to reading the Bible and she took down a ranous machine from aahelf, which ahe had conthrived oat of her own head," aa ahe B»id, for teaching the chUdren to read. This was^a flat box, or frame, filled witii sand, which saved paper, pena, and ink. Poor Judy had evidently seen better days, but, with a humble and contented spirit, she blessed Ood tor the food and smnty raiment their labor afforded then. H« only sorrow was the want of " idioation" for tb9 -.hildren. ihewonld have told ns a long afeory about A^i^i.*?* ""fwing^ Wore they had ^^.^ *^'V^ present oomparative oomfor* Md inlependenoe, bnt, aa we had a tedlons soramble before ns, throngh oedar-swamna. beavw-meadows, aad the piny tidns. fin " o^ dragoon" oat bar ^hj^^ â- ugi^twaystartsd oa ou tolbwU jawnj: SiBMoii, bi nite of a osrteia dashii melanoholy fa iJSa ooamositio^ waa on. BMa* ^diApBltyorsUBBSr «• â- saaara HadiMMlsH. bat m la crossing a bog, where to stand still is to smk. .^ (TO BK OONTINUXD.) Ffima DtaauiB and Taeir Jewels. How does a lady singer become world- famed T aaka a fenilleton writer in|the Fraiik fvirttr ZeUung, and goes on to explain that their only road to fortune is to have some of their jewellery stolen from them. Bell-like intonation, harmony, a strong voice, acrobat- like technique, impressi^fi 'xpr^ssion, dis- tinctasss of pronnndatinn,~ lively action, and an attractive appe^raaoe ought to se- oore fame to a lady artiste. Bat only those will say this who have lived fa hermitlike retirement, for fa order to become famous a lady singer must at least have been robbed a few times. Just now a new candidate has presented herself as qualified for the put of the prima donna assoluta. Miss Sigrid Arnoldson, the attractive young Swedish girl, who haa hitherto been like all other afagfag birds of the opera t i the concert hall, has suddenly risen above them all, anl her impressario sends out the notice in great delight â€" at last, at last, she, too, has tieen robbad. The object was, of course, a case with bracelets, earrings, etc., given to her by Empresses, Queens, and Prfaoes. The im- pressario was nearly m despair when it ap- peared as if a row of pearls had been over-, looked by the thieves the clouds only van- ished from his face when it was found that the pearls, too, were gone. A ihief, re- maining undiscovered, belongs as much to the outfit of a phenomally famous singer as does her indispensable rouge pot. She on- not do without a drawing-room Fra Diavolo. The lack of a perfect shape does not signify, the lack of a thief would be ruin. Adeline Patti has been robbed by night and by day, in Europe and America on shore and at sea, in hotels, and on rail- way trains. And Carlotta Patti and Christ- ine Nelson andâ€" but why mention names An incredible amount of diamonds aud jewels have disappeared in this way without ever turning up again. But the lady artistes are generous, com- passionate' forgiving they do not prosecute the thieves they do not go to the police they do not cffar rewards. Perhaps they know that the gold in their throat can easily be coined, and that the rippling shakes can soon be changed into rows of pearls. They are e^sy -going, and soon forget their loss. But the wonder is that the august donors should still continue to present the singers with diamonds. They might have learned by experience that every precious stone they give to them is doomed to be stolen. A royal present to a lady artiste which does not get stolen has missed its object, and cases have fadeed occurred where presents were stolen which were never given. The thieves be- longing to the latter category are most fa- voured by the impressario. According to a rough estimate which a statistician has made concerning thefts of jewels from ladv artistes, jewels of the value of £15.000.000 have been stolen from singers during the last decade, and however greatly the abili- ties ot the police of countries may differ in other respects, they are alike all the world over in never troubling the thieves who vic- timizB prima donnas. But there remains one consolation to the friends of the fair singers, and that is, that however frequently they are robbed of their jewels they are still ornamented with the same amount of j ewel- lery even directly after the theft has occur- ed.â€" [Pall Mall Gazette. The Oame Dinner. The annual gams dinner at the Grand Pacific Hotel, given by Drake, Parker Co., the proprietors, to their friends is one of the evencs for Novembe" m Chicago. Great preparations are made and the thirty-third of the series, which took place loat Saturday evening, was equal, if not superior, to any g receding one. Mr. John B. Drake gave his rst game dinner in l.°55 at the oldTremont House, on Dearborn S ., and each succeeding year he has endeavored to furnish new attractions. The last ou3 certainly was in some respects in advance of any in the long list in the years gone by. On this occasion John B. Drake and Samuel W. Parker were the hosts and the provision made was most elaborate and ample. The variety of game will be noticed from the menu as follows Lm; of mountafa sheep, deer tongue, black taildeer, mountafa sheep, saddle ofantelope, lofa of venison, loin of elk, opotsum, coon, black bear, wild goose, sand hill crane, ruff- led grouse, mallard duck, Virgfaia part- ridge, red head duck, sage hen, brant, wood duck, JMk rabbit, tqoirrel, butter- ball duck, prairie chicken, blue-winged teal, wild turkey, widgeon, pheasant, plover, quail, venison steak, fox squirrel, black birds, snipe, reed birds, red-wing starling, marsh birds, English hare. Ornamental Diahu. â€" Pyramid of game en Bellevue, aspic of birds a la royal, pattie of liver sur socle, boned quail in plumage, red-wfag starling au naturaL The special ornaments were the bare back rider and the hunter's mis- hap. A Modem Heronles. Charles H. Sampson, a New York strong man, engaged to slay a steer with his fist. The feat waa performed with a sfagle blow in the preaenoe of Emperor Wilhelm and Emperor Francis Jcaepli. He weara a hsmdsome decoration commemoratfaff that event. This feat of skill and strengw was repeated at Ems, Germany, St Petersburg, and Paris, Mr. Sampson striking but a aingle blow npon each of the occasions ex- cept the laat. In this case the steer was runnfag, and his aim was not true, bnt the first blow knocked the animal down and a second omahed its skuU. During his pro- fessional experience this Hercules has suffered broken arms no less than seventeen times. He dees not attribute his great strength to anv freak of nature, bnt says it is the reralt of careful training and exercise. • HiflSoze Hose.. " Oh, Mr. De Oroou, afa t your nose aw- ful rora " Mr. De Groomâ€"" Why, no, Etta what made yon thfak aof Etta-*" Oh, mamma said yon had yonr nose down to the arindttOBo aver sinoe yoa ware married, an' I thmight tt most ba awfnl sora by this time." ItisooBddacad Tsrybad taats for ballet girls to pad vaavei4y. I'kAXToi, Exn«BiaN8 are soaMtimes .*S-l!]t- f or money was scarce in the 1n„.i "«i btittiie/hole family, from tftfr ' self to the youngest child, seem 5 r" thrown themselves con amort intn a ""« and to have dheerfuly econom^i ""'J" sake of thefortunate CaVS Ik".** WilM Cupid. Carrfino, the eldest and nerhan. fu beautiful of tiie daughters of "^w*"® « Maximilian fa B*varia. "as J-," child, selected as a fitting bride f«u*^ » of the Austrian crown, and altK v "*» was no formal betrothal her father **« formed that she musb be ednct*i "â-  a way as would fit her for her fntrT " '^^ eur. This was more easfiy t^T^J^- for money was scarce in the dn«.i -.?'"•• from 1 ihild, I amort ecoiit_ Caroline. Shi" l^ professors and teachers of the best «^T well repaid all the care that wT'^- u*"" npon her, for at 19, clever. a^L*^ and rjsgally beautiful she was ?KS*«i. of what a queen should be. "**â-  When the time for the marriaM^«„ the young Emperor Joseph camfS,!' to tiie Duke fa Bavaria the faSv hh*^' "fa,"not««of."(that he ^\ff^^ acquaintance of hia future wi'e He at the stately creature who had bsf " care ully trafaed for him with rStf.*} admiration, but befell vioIentlyTS with her madcap younger sister ElizaCI who, regarded fa the family as amerecSi and one, too, for whom no hieh dentin, was m store, had been allowed to naT. hi days on horseback scouring the count^v sidf Ministers and courtiers stood aghast bnt argument and persuasion were alike w'aZI on the Emperor, who refused toseethau lack of accomplishments was a blemish in the one whom he loved, and a few month. later Elizibeth, thorough child asshewu knowing no more of the etiquette of courte than the veriest little gamin, eateied Vienna instate as Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. Although this happened morp k\\ki thirty years ago she has not yet learnc J to sabmit with patience to the restraints toat hedm in the lives of sovereigns, and the Viamew in spite of their love for their beautiful Em- press, openly mourn that the Emperoc should have chosen one who regards a com ball as a penance and a state ceremony u a thfag scarcely to le lived through, From the day of her marriage it seems to haye been a oonstant endeavour to shake off the fetters of her station, and perhaps the hap- piest hours of her life are those which, while following the hounds of England, or hunting the chamois in her native land, she is able to forget that ahe is Empress Queen. For her age th^ Empress Elizabeth is the young est lookfag woman in Europe. When one sees her slight, graceful form, eyes brilliant with life and vigour, and complexion that flashes with passing emotions, it seema absurd that she should be the grandmother of big boys and girls. Caroline, the forsaken one, seems to have met her fate with true royal equanimity. Perhaps she thought that,, as her sister gain- ed what she lost it did not really matter. If one may judge by her face, her life oas not been a happy one. When she wai about 24 she was married to the Prince of Thurm and Taxis, who died some nineyeui ater. â-  May Women Propose? Bill Nye writes the following letter on the subject â€" ' I do not see why woman should not propose if she so elect, and then suffer the bitter, bitter consequence. Many men who now live qu unloved and in a hand-to-moath manner might be, oh, so happy 1 if the oniu of popping did not weigh them down like a large three-cornered incubus. " I am acquainted with several husbands who have been thus acquired, and I un happy to say they are turning out well Several of them who were not self-support- ing to start with have married well, having been wooed and won by girls of memB, Yours truly. Bill Nte. " P. S.â€" -I am provided for myself. "P- S. Againâ€" Mr. James \\hitcomb Riley, who, as I write, is brushing his h»ff with a dummy brush which I carry wiUi me, says he trusts that the day will speedUy come when woman will propose, and M hopes he will be away up towards tie general-delivery window when the )»« opens. Some good woman could make »r. Riley very, very happy. Any letterientw him in my care will be cheerfully read wid forwarded to him. °- "' If Mr. Nye's letter does not encoursge some giri who thmks " bitter, bitter com^ quenoo" U not any bitterer because oin« doing the propostog to utilise her very «»" time to receive an engagement nng iw Christmas present, I can't see what jn^ bees around clover, but there " J^„ for some good woman with -^"' "' .„ci, those who have not seen him 1 cw" _.., for him. He is a handsome and »^ gentleman. â€" Nellie Blv, in A. »• Brave in the fade of Death. One day during the last P«' l^S Dr. WUlis Westmoreland was ^f^^ wound of a soldier who had been shot » neck near the carotid artery. Suddenly the blood vessel gave w.,, just as quickly the surgeon thrust ha nng- fato tiie hole to stop the flow.^^ ^^ "Doctor, mean? said It means death" sajd the -rg^-^.. " How long can I live asMo w whose mfad was perfectly piew. _, ^^ p, " Until I remove my nnger, Westmoreland. ^„ and P»P"' The soldier asked for r",iMetW wrote hu wiU, wrote "//^^^"rdoB" » to his wife, and when these were quietly "Let it go." ..,,_ his finger, jj The surgeon ^^'t^drew «^ ^^ blood rushed out, and soon '^Thebodyofthebravefelloww-V-J fa Oakfand, and every year "B* d.y J*^ moreland has gone o^J^^^^ jhis yj placed flowers on t^-^fX doctor '"J when Memorial day came ^e f gy at Salt Springs. Hejeft w^^^ hj, W ety. came to Atlanta, w»^ **{ o„e wh« *3 ESte of flowers to ^^'ff^Z^^^ " calm and brave m the v«. death. â€" Her Post-ai-duai^;^^. Yankee Honsekeeper-WW. my dear? AooompUshed loma 1 hsw J' ""^^ "Ck SKitSS'^^*^^ entorthe»«^„,pet fiEKE AHD TE] Won't it be funny when w If they act as silly as thi The barrels of flour they'll! The wheelbarrows they 1 Will she pay ner bills like Or hedge with a pretty i Will it be a game of catch " Whenw Won't it be iuimy to have Of some political sweet j « She's actually gone ai head- Made a bet on the losfag Will they bet their boots a inggum, ^d the bretty bonnets, dote! WiU we think the milem When game dinner was served jt a Chicago hotel on Ss thirty four kinds of game w ,n the menu. King Kalakaua is ccmin Be has grown tired of th( Honolulu and wants to tak New York tiger. Ihe richest gold mine in tl to hi the Douglas mine, in A ields about $200,000 every int three owners. Count Moltke's favorite flo _J»nd at his home he has on( flower gardens in the world thing more than a warrior. liiterary faterests in Pittsl ceived a severe set back in Judge Ewing, that literary t nm liquor Vars as adjuncts. At a Western church fair getting up a testimonial to tl (; the following legend :â€" "Di the slot and see the pastor sn The Prmce of Wales wai with the Hungarian nation " Csardss " that he has madi to introduce it to E English so be a feature at the fabhionabl this seaion. There is a man living ai who became convinced whe kissing was wicked because trayed by a kiss. He resolv* anybody. He has been m; years and is the father of el and has never kissed his wife oSspring. â€" A correspondent ask â€" ' rect, 'Lo, the Conquering B. See, the Cotquering Hero Co pends upon the location. If i ent, should be out West and makfag fur him wi:h a seal former would be the correct w notation. Mrs. Hannah J. Buley, e of the p-.'ace department of tb C. T. U., is one of the most ness women in the country. a large factory in New Jerse and retail store in Portland farm near Winthrop. In ai about 150 men. A little six-year o'd cf F The Post Siys, vas told teacher that there was tmalll and that he would have to He ran home to his mother i â€""Mamma, they've got th Samia and if yon don't be catch it and die." The 'Cleveland Leader" ri is strange that the British Cd ada and Australia should bea States, and the Mother Gonj rowfag. They have only 8,rf against 100,000.000, but O't Kemp, Beach and Hanlan, thi and two Canadians, could pf matched by any other five orld to-day. Manistee, Mich., biby whi| gram dose of morphine was antidotes, but it became ui was given np for dead. later, however, while thel around and silently admirel the corpse the babe awokej demanded a drink of milk. Says an English paper vsntor of the sewing machin to be Howe, bnt a man namel who took out bis patent in ll before Howe produced hi| machfae made according to tion is now being cxlaibited i of sewfag machines and doi at the Royal Agricutturti ton. A Western medium has iu on the question, "Is marri) " I don't exactly say that ure," remarked the materiil »â-  he sat down on a mate outside of the Garden of El hungrily at the fruit on t| the wall, "but it I had rei Wouldn't have happened. ' Seversl glass factories no cylinders of window glass (^Under with a fine wirej Seated to redness by an ^d a drop of water beind ipon the hot plass, a parfe obtafaed. The old method •fibre of white-hot semi i ^s fnmace by means of to| It round the oy Under. Sqnarfag the circle is 5Pon as either sheer lunac^ ring. It appears, bo| J.. Barnwell, a Woi natiMmatidan and the oxl Bnncbred fa Berkshire, EoJ npon some feasible teid before the Fr °"snees. His formula 'Vttea, which, fa a concrc^ meet cyclometer. TM â- **•» fifteen years' hard • Forgery and embezzlemi y[^yer looked upon w| |S*»'8oy with which cob ^ted States once rega| yytsnee of twenty -five ye P"'Wuioed upon James â- â€¢^ a tendency to discoui ?*"»y rate fa the State of| •}?^^*Bt of the court is j Whgr t||0 oommnnity fa I to the oonolusia â-  eaa ao kuger be ^^ **;â-  'S::' Mf^ '^iM-^i ':^;ih:f.\ ,:;fc- 9;S:*s-Kw.- _V. â- Â£â€¢-' ' *^ --li'-A*^;- 'a?i-^' ^i?'^kjii*--.L-"