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i love the glow of aatward Mow,
■* lov* raare wealth sad try to win It:
rh« hoot* to m* may lowly bo,
_ If I but Ilk* the people in It.
Wkat’a oil tho cola that gllttora oold,
' Whan linked to bard or kangkly footing?
§ Whata’ar we’re (old, the nobler gold
[ The hov
he house to me may lowly be,
If I bat like the people in It.
inu trees, wnoee oera u aero aao oarc,
May yield us frail, and bloom the rareet!
f here’* a worth aeaore »neath garment* poor,
▲t e'er adorned a loftier elation ;
»And mfada as just ae thoae—we trust—
Whoae olalm Is bat of wealth*! creation !
Then let them took, whose mlnde are weak,
TR-A.VIS.
STORY OF THE NORTHWEST.
I Tin xuthoo or “dciku* M'rinou,"
“loom moor.” “teouktox,”
“n onur um,’
*o., Ac.
ten would eurge up end wash them away.
Early la the afternoon they ear in the
aleer expanse above the tepid* e long,
' lack, irregaler objeot floating down.
“That looks like e tree, Hel 1”
“It am e tme, Ulster Louie, on’ e bus
ier.”
‘This is our ohenee. The ourrent will
week It this wey, end ee It swings round
we mkat get on it nud hold on with the
grip o( death till we gat onto! thin piece."
“Ie your arm well enough ?”
“Yes,” replied Louie between hie teeth;
oen hold on if neeeaeery with one mm.
Look ont! here it oomee I
The tne seemed stationery for e mo
ment, ee if etruggling against the vortex
into wbioh it wee being dragged, then
yielding to the tremendous foroe of the
•arrant, it plunged into the seething abyss
and wee lost to sight.
The men strained their eyes for its ris
ing; n white branch whirled over tlfb
white foam like the arm of e drowning
giant clutching in desperation at the thin
sir. The monster groaned as it wee
deshed sgeinet the rocks. It rase for eu
instant not ten feetoff, end Hel wee sbont
to leap in, bat bit master held him book
with e eonVblaive clutch, just ee the tne
sgeln sank oat of sight in the roaring
Written Car •■■dew *e,elr#r.
(COPT biobt bbcond.)
CHkrTU V.
nt thi nappe.
The angry current dashed the oenoa
hboat like e plaything tha moment the
addle fell from the wounded arm of
__.ouiH Trivia. The earns instant both
I the occupants were thrown out, and the
I craft to which the outgo and rifles were
[uonrely lashed, plnngeddown the rapids.
I Fortunately Louie’ arm wee not broken,
j ea that when Hel sprang to bin side he
I wee able to osll ont,
I “Let ns make the bunk, Hel. I am
■ strong enough I”
I The bank, wbieb rase predpiteoe
I the water, wee only a few yards awey,
od by e desperate effort both men
seabed it and anooeedad in crawling to
he top of a rook that jost net above the
orrent, giving them barely room to avoid
the messes of water breaking eroand
Jhem.
They were below end seder the bank
rom wbioh the firing came. This feet,
. dded to the increasing darkness, bid
f them from the sigbt of Pair foes. Bat
the very darkness that seeds n shield on
the one bend augmented their danger
from the river on the other. A rise of
Mghteen inches, no nnnsnel thing on the
rapids of the Colombia at this season,
end they would be swept off to eertsin
destruction. It wee furtnneto for both
men that their years of edventnre bed in.
fared them to eneh vicissitudes, though
I never before were they pleoed in e posi-
Ition so oritical, while they wen so pow-
I arises to extricate themselves.
I “Brass de Lor, we's safe I Bat dis am
I jest de hardest box we eber did get into!"
I exclaimed Hel ss he dashed the waterfront
Ibis eyes.
I “The canoe and arms ere gone, Hel,”
I said Louie, looking sbont him in n bewil-
| derail way.
“Yes, done gone 1”
“Are you wounded, Hal ?”
“No; ie you?” asked Hel, looking anx
iously into hie master’s pels fees.
“I think so; look at this eras.”
In the indistinct light Hal examined
|the flesh wound, which, though painful
nd bleeding freely, wen not dangerous,
d then, without n word, ha took the
adkerohief from shoot hie nook sod
and it so securely end skillfully around
i master's arm that the blood bossed to
nw, end raising the wounded member
Wois mid it wee ee good is new, n pieoe
r Information that Drought e smile to
Te fees, which wee not at nil in keep-
j with their position and ss mendings.
“A pretty bed flx,” said Lords, reprat-
Hel's aft-repeated words, “bat we
it nuke the best of it lie down,
Jtl, you hid no sleep lest night, and 1
kill watch to see that you do not roll off.
f will wake yon about mignight, end Ihen
[ may be able to get some sleep myself.”
■ It wmm now quite dark, and the took on
)teh they set looked like n bleok mark
l the edge of the white foam, wbioh
_me sweeping down in frothy billows as
I it would tear them off. Hal vowed that
i could not sleep if he were to lln damn,
d that for two to be awake at the sum
ne would be an nneiosmsry waste of
r they might need nt nay mo-
irgy L_, _
80, taking off his eoet and
wtEi
is sleep opened me eyes, gianeea
d, end then tbs star was eloping
the west, and on questioning the
al Hel he found he had kept his
kg it into the ssmblenoe of n pillow,
gged hie master to lie down tod rant,
“I will do so on tha condition that when
I star in tbs seat is direotly over heed,
1 woke me,” mid Louto, pointing to
I of the pluneU.
“I will do it shook, Ulster Louie. Now
|e down."
Laois complied, end Hal mt beside
* 1 with his hand on his master's breast,
so he watched the star, and loo|
ore passed, but the star never move* 1
d the wearied sleeper never woke,
fit wee near day, when Louis refreshed
bis sleep opened bid eyes, glanced
onnd, " “*
own the
lithfel ... . ,
1 on a star that eneined fixed, like
ht far np the river.
Short as was the time till day, Loals ba
ted on Hal's lying down, for that mnt-
! he might sleep through the day, for
out the nature of their position only a'
niraole could present an avenue of neaps.
Both men were awake at daylight, end
hoped-for light only served to in-
see the horror of their sUeatkm.
branched with epny, end enffering from
", the wild river afforded no even serf
pe, while above them tbs walls rose
for scores of feet, op wUoh only k bird
ontdaseend.
“It doa't look very peomt
"mid Hel, who bad been welching
liter's fsoe anxiously as he surveyed
a positions
“It oertainly does not, Hal, no far ne
—'og is oouoerned.”
■is de mein ting now, I guess, We
als."
“No, I do not consider it the mein
king, Hel,” mid Louis serfaraeiy.
“Yon knows beet, but I'd like to know
pat's insiner.”
"We may be able to eley on this rook
r e week, bat to do 10 wt mast have
seething to eat.”
Hal hang down his hand thoughtfully.
Is had not looked at the eommimery side
I the pieture before, but Uu moment be
moped its importaaoe be readily agreed
at this wee the meet important thing to
eosiider.
Taking care to remain limited, as wall
•• the nature of their noettion would per-
■k they eat wetohing tbs river till the
“u. then tamed throwing
the ludowa of the mmmom to tko mA
Liibt pieoM of drift - - - '
oome of which tlray
'being »bUto form • raft,
as. a ii! fVM |
CHAPTM VI.
THE PBIXE.
As the reader may have anticipated,
McGrath, Bosque end Ohioook heeded
their euoo down the river, end long be
fore noon they bed peaeed the repiae in
safety. Having done so Chinook wee or
dered to beach on the north shore, which
having done HoGrath end Boeqne leaped
ont with their rifles.
“Chinook, we may be gone till night;
remain here with the canoe. The two
men we left this morning may be ooming
through, and if they snooeed, have them
wait till we return. It is n bed piece for
s green hud with n canoe." This wee
said by HcGratb is he stood on the bank.
“I will do me yon say, bat if yon should
not return by dark, whet then?” asked
Ohioooke
Why, wait till dsy; we will surely be
beck by that time.”
“Very well.”
The two white men, with their rifles on
their shoulders, hastened ewey, ud Chi
nook, with n troubled expression on his
handsome feoe, watobed them till they
were out of sight, then he tamed end,
with an erne that showed bis greet
strength, he drew his canoe ont of the
water end mt down on the bank with bia
black eyes fixed earnestly on the terrible
chasm through whioh he had come with
so muoh safety an hoar before. MoGratb
ud Basque, with long strides, hastened
np the aaoendiog cliffs, ud about n mile
beyond where the euoe wee, they halted.
There was a sadden break in the river
well down whioh, after n careful survey,
they orawled, end found themselves when
nt the bottom completely seeluded and
within twenty feet of the water. It was
not more then two hundred feet to the
opposite bank, end they oonld sweep a
doxen men from any ereft with their rifles
end pistols before they pissed them.
“I reckon this pieoe will do," said Ho-'
Greth, lighting bis pipe after taking e
oareful look at the river above them.
“Couldn't be better, if made to order,"
replied Boeqne, followinghisoompuion'a
example ana occupying a Beat from whioh
by e torn of bis body he oonld look np
river.
'Jordu'e gettin’ iibral with his money.
Two hundred dollars jest to keep . fellow
away from Fort Wale. One would think
be would be anxious to beva everybody
oorne there to trsdo.”
•So long as he pays ne for the work,
Bbiqno, I eint a goto to ex the reasons,
though I know them now.”
"You do ?”
“Yes."
“Tb#o I don't see how yon oan batter
peas the time tbu by telling me.”
“Yon eint paid to pry into secrets; bnt
I don’t mind telliu yon. that if Jordu
didn't pay ne for this I’d be willto to do
it for nothin—for nothin. Yes, for ra
vings !"
“Whet; did yon aver see this fellow
before ?"
'Huy e time; I'ee bed him to my arms
when be wee a baby, u' I had another
IBM.”
“And why didn't yon get ewey with
him tbu ?" eekod the astonished Bosqne.
“Bekeee I thought his father wee my
friend. I haven't spoke to s soul to this
aouatxvnbout my past life, bnt ee I know
yoon, Boeqne, an’ it’B no better then my
own, I don't mind speckin' to ya. It done
n foliar good now nn' then to open
bis heart to somebody, that is if ho on
trust am, u' I know yon won’t blow on
fast as they wore gathered 1
HoGrath smoked for aomo aeoonds to
siionee, daring whioh time Bosque, wham
onrioeity was now on stilts, assured his
friend that he wea the only poieon in tha
world that he oared for, ud that to die
to order to show his devotion and ragard
would be a species of exstatie joy.
Without hooding him HoGrath, after
inflating bia cheeks till they looked like e
hirsute balloon sbont to explode, puffed
the smoke ont slowly, ud when hie red
ftoo hod assumed elemepopleotio appear-
euoe he began, ns if speaking to some in.
risible person.
“This chap's father u’ Jordu were
foil coasine, an' Travis wee e herd work-
in’ lawyer. Jordan was a kinder merokant
that lost to everything he took hold of.
I was to the ancle's employ. He wee e
rloh merchant with lots of houses an'
money u’ lud, bnt he never liked Jor
dan, an’ when he died he willed ell hie
property to Travis. Before this I was
taken np for takin' some of the old inau's
•pore money, u' though, as you can enp-
poee, I wau't goilty, yet Tratis prose
cuted ml an’ I was sent to prison for four
yuan. When I came out I didn't lav
Travis, as ye oan bet, en' I wasn’t pleased
to know h«’d come into ell the old mu's
property. Finley Bobineon an' tbia man
Yu Smith was my lawyers. An’ I got
into another eorapa before they advised
me to aoase out bore, though it wau't of
my own aoeoont any mora than this job
is, though I was employed by the same
mu. That time it was to get rid of the
father, bnt I mode e botch of it. Jordu
was snspeoted an’ I cleared out, tbongb
u lack would have it, ho follared me to
f it a soft place in the companies' serviea.
• know their headquarters is to New
York.”
“Yea, I know that; bnt why should Jor
du desire the death of this yonng man ?’’
“It's plain as yonr nose. This fellow
owns all tbe property. I(e baa been West
goto' on three years, u' he left no will
with Finley Bobineon, who, strange to
say, is hie lawyer. Now, if he dies tbe
whole estate will fall to the next of kin.
u' that's Henry Jordu. Do yon see ?"
' Bosque thought he did, bnt tbe story
wee told too fast for his doll brain to take
it to ell at on oe.
“Why does this Vu Smith want the
fellow's death? '
“Don’t know that ha does; bnt if hn
does there's n good reason for it Big
foes to arranging the big estate of whioh
bo u' Finlay Bobineon will have oh ergs.”
Iks hone penned drearily to tha two
retaban. and the eu wee about lotting ;
—» tad itvee op the hope of soring the
euoe till morniog, when suddenly it
earns to view, heading like an arrow for
tbe rapids.
It was agreed that as they fired they
ihonld yell like Indians, to oreete the im.
pression, to case Louis Travis or his man
should esospe by any miraole, that they
were attacked by the lavages.
On the canoe asms; it entered tho oenl.
drou, then the rifles biased, the osnoe
was upset, and as already described it was
ioat to Bight with its oeoupanls.
“A olesn job that,” said HcGratb, cool
ly reloading bia rifle.
“Couldn't be belter did. Now let’s git
baok, or that rad Bkiu Chinook will think
we've deserted.”
“I wouldn't oaro Bosqne, if he was with
the fallen we've just got rid of, I ain't
got mnob use for him m e Injiu.”
Bosqne made no oommeut on this, bnt
led the wey in the direction of the canoe.
Winn they reached the plaoe they had
left to the morning they found Chinook
ooming to shore with bia oaooe and drag
ging in a long, dark objeot wbiob, to their
delight, turned out to be Travis' boat,
with tbe oargo ud arms still seonraly
lashed to it.
“Why we’ra in lnok!" roared UoGrstb,
as he helped to haul the prise on shore,
gtvihg vent at the same time to his elated
feelings in a torrent of the most disgust
ing oaths, in which he consigned bis own
“eyes," “heart,” end “soul" to perdition
if they or anything else, animate or In
animate intimated that he was not in
lack.
A flits was built some distance from the
shore, and McGrath and Busqne drank
several bottles of whiskey which consti
tuted a part of tho supply furnished by
Henry Jordan, and which they plodgod
him and themselres they wonld not touch
till tbe mission on which they were sent
was accomplished.
Chinook asked no questions. He knew
all and his heart was downcast, first on
aoconnt of Julia, for whom he would glad
ly die, and again for the young white mu
and bia servant, who had perished. He
took ont tho paper that McGrath had
given him, and thongb he conld not read
n horror seixsd him and the cold sweat
stood beaded on hia red forehead : “Sore
ly Julie’s paper would have saved them."
HoGrath saw. him and called to him for
the paper, which Chinook handed to him
at once, and the ruffian, without a doubt
as to the ohsraotor of tha dooument,
folded it np and put it in hia pocket with
the determination to get the money it
represented the moment be met Heury
Jordan.
Next morning the canoe wee fixed np,
the oargo replaced, and telling Chinook
to follow, HoGrath and Bosqne started
down tbe river in the new canoe, having
settled to divide the oargo between them,
when aold.
CHAPTER VII.
DABKKISS AN1) LIGHT.
The position of master and man on that
rook by tha odga of the rapids whs des
perate in the oxtreiue, and as night came
on tba horror of thoir situation was in-
creased by the threatening appearance of
the sky. The ann, while yet an hour
high, was lost to sight behind a bank of
black, ominous clouds, that came rolling
in from the west, proceded by fltfnl gusts
of wind that roared through the ohustu
and bast baok tho foaming onrrent.
“There it a storm ooming Hal, and be
fore morning this rock will be oovered by
the rise. We must get off.”
“But whar's we goto' ?” asked Hal in a
hopeless voioe as he gazed from the pale,
atom face of his master np to tbe towor-
ing cliffs on which the black clouds
seemed to rest, and which now appeared
to .bang over them as if the frowniog
masses would topple and bury them in
tha rapid*.
Lotus oonld not answer Hal’s question,
though bis hungry eyes searched the wall
for soma .nook within their reaeh that
would afford at least a foothold.
“Do yon sea that crag ?" said Louie,
pointing to a projection about ten foot
above them.
“Yes, Mister Louis, but 'taint big
enough for two oats wid dar back up, an’
den only a eat oonld git np dar," replied
Hel woefully.
“It is our only hope end we most tr
it. In twenty minntes it will be too darl
to do anything, so we must get to work
at oooe.
“Ail right, Ulster Louis," was Hal's re
sponse.
He wonld have Raid “all right” bad hia
matter suggested the necessity of crawling
np tbe precipitous walls fly fashion ; for
no matter how impossible the task might
seem, he bad a blind faitb in bis master’s
•kill and wisdom that to momouts of
peril amounted to the sublime.
“Here Hal, yon must mount on my
•boulders, yon can then reach the top.
First take off yonr belt and fasten it to
mine. There, now pat them both in yoor
breast, and when yon get np stoop and
let them down to me, aud yon can haul
“Wouldn't it be hotter, Hiater Louis,
for yon to go up first ?”
“No Hal, my wounded arm wonld pre
vent my lifting yon. Here, get np, there
is no time to lose."
Lonis braoed himself against the wall,
and Hal at onoe monnted; reaching np
be greaped the jotting crag and by the
strength of his powerful arms he easily
drew himself np to the top.
It was nearly dark and Lonis with an
effort ancoeeded in reaching tha Jinked
bait* Hal had let down to bim. He wonnd
bis arms through them, and was lifted
from the rock. A slip would be destruc
tion and thongb sin ng of nerve be held
bis braath, and Ha! slowly and csnLiou.lv
lifted him up till his arms were ever the
top of tba protruding rock, and then as
be gut a foothold and became assnred of
hie temporary safety a tooling of dizziness
oame over bim that threateoed him for
tbe moment with the very disaster from
which bo had escaped.
They were not in their cramped posi
tion too eooo, for anddeniy tho light in
oeoon and sky seemed extinguished, and
the hoars* thunder, liko giant drams,
best tbe long roll of tbe comiog battle.
The orag afforded no secure footing and
tha only way in wbiob they could cling to
it at all was by straddling it like a bare-
back rider, tbe projection, like tbe shoul
ders of a horse preventing tboir slipping
forward and down.
“Bros* de Lor dis am awful!" exclaimed
Hal as a terrifio peal of thunder followed
a blinding flash of lightning, and tbon as
if tbs exploeion bad loosed tbe flood
gates of heaven, tbe rain poured down in
a deluge.
“Yea, pretty bed Hal, bnt not as bad ss
it migbt be."
“How conld it be worso, Hisler Louis
caked Hal in a tone of amezement, for if
h* ha had to ait down and piotnre a posi
tion combining all the horrors, tha one
he now occupied wonld have bean tbe re
salt of hie effort.
“It wonld be worse," replied Lonis,
“if we were down on that rock. Look
below at the next flash. Thera, yon see
it ie nearly covered end before midnight
ttie waterwiB be over it to the depth of six
feet”
“Dnt’a true, Mister Lonis, an' it de
water oovera de rook, why oan’t it riaa to
wbar we ie?"
“It oan, Hal, end no donbt does in the
pring floods, but the ohsaoea ere that it
will not now.”
it wouldn't make mnob difference if it
did. Mister Lonis, for if we'e got to die to
dis plaoe, it don’t matter ’boat n day, or
whoddor we'e drownded to de water or
sterbed np bar on de rooks.”
“Very true, Hel, bnt while there to life
there is hope, end we have eaoapod from
plaeea nearly as bed.”
“Party bed pieces, shush; bat I think
dis kinder lays over nil of dem pat to-
gedder.”
“To-morrow thie rift will be filled with
drift wood, wbioh mix give ae e chinos.
Besides, it to only e few hundred yards
down to the open riser, and tot higher
tbe water to the better ohenee there will
be to swim if it beoomea neoeeaery.”
Close as they were together they had to
speak to lend tones in order to make
their words distinguishable above the
dashtog of the waters end the roaring of
the stream.
A pen piotnre of that night would be
diflloaltto make. Under the moat ad
vantageous cironmstanoea snob a storm in
sack a pieoe wuuld have been filled with
e terror too greet to permit of an appre-
oietion of its awful sublimity, bnt when
the element of impending death to added,
not even imagination oen reproduce the
sensations of the men desperately oling-
ing to that orag shove the teething river,
with tbe rein beating down through the
darkness end the fleroe wind threatening
to tear them from tbs catting rock to
wbioh they oinng for refuge.
Gouuted by the physios! pain they inf-
fared and tha mental agony they endured,
no record of minntee or hoars oonld give
any idea of tbe length of that night of
terrors. When again the grey dawn
straggled through the olonde and mist to
tho eyes of the drenched men, it seemed
ss if they had lived yean slnoe the sun
went down, years tost bed aged them as
if they had been living to e dungeon with
groat chain* on their limbs, end no light
to tell them that the enn ever rose or set.
Tbe son seemed to drive ewey tbe
storm, and the olonde dissolved or rolled
beak in the direction of the great Paeifle.
The river had risen not only far above
the rook on whioh they had found shelter
tbe day before, bnt it was now so high
that by leaning over e little they oonld
reach the onrrent with their feet, and as
they watched the water it seemed to be
still rising.
“Plenty of drift wood oomin' through,
Mister Lonis, bnt der don't seem to be
no how to git it,” said Hel, as he wetohed
trees end the fragments of trees being
swept past them by the flood.
Lonis had noticed the seme thing for
some time, bnt the hopes of being able
to aeonre enough to make a raft, whioh he
entertained tha day before, were now dis
pelled, bo ha had to plan another hope to
keep them from despairing.
“Osnoe* most pass here frequently.
Some of tbe voyagtur* op tbe river spoke
of following ne. Don't yon remember
Braoe end hie party wanted na to wait a
day or two and they wonld oome down
with os?"
Yea, Mister Lonis, bnt ss we left be-
fore them they may not harry,” said Hal,
in a tone that showed hunger, danger and
Buffering were depressing his spirits, or
dinarily so bnoyant.
“No, I do not think that wonld prevent
Brnoe from ooming et onoe, for he end I
had plana to earry ont for the winter, and
purchases to make at tha Iforl in com
mon.”
I pray da Lor' ha may tlnk of dat all
de time, eu' oome straight on 1 We oan’t
at*n' snodder night bora, Mister Lonis,
an’yon wid dat wounded arm, dot’s nigh
killen ye though, ye don't say noffiu
"boat it.”
The ean was again to near high noon,
and both man, who had bean straining
their eyes up the river, et the same in
stant uttered an exolamation of joy. Two
canoes were sweeping towards them, laden
with tuit, and tbe men in tbe foremost
were Indiana, and the other was guided
by two white men.
On siraight ss an arrow they oame; the
ouorgies and thoughts of tho ooonpanta
absorbed in the dangerous passage before
them. “Make no notoe, Hal I Let me
•all to them aa they pass. Here they
come I”
Into the oanon; down the terrible rap
ids, with a speed that Mimed frightful,
the oanoes came. The men managing
them showed their anxiety to their stern
faces. They were nearly opposite to where
Louis clung to the rook when he recog
nized in that fraction of a second the face
of Braoe.
“Help, Bruce 1 For God'e sake, help!
The oanoes, in the next moment, were
far below, and the fraatio cries for help,
whioh both men now Mnt np, were
drowned in the roaring of the waters.
“They did not see as!” exelaimed
Lonis, in accents of keen despair as his
head dropped on hie breast.
It may have been tbe desire to chMr
hia master et this fearful moment that ia-
duoed Hal to any,
“Yes, Mister Louie, Brace looked tbto
way. Only like lightning like.” Here
Hal tried to imitate Bruce’e action by
glenoing np qniokly, without raising hto
head, aud then he emphasised hie state
"'Ft "
—Nature ee ye it ban reoently been die-
oovered that the bamboo oon tains a den.
gerons poieon whioh tho natives of Java
extract from tho one in thn following
manner. The aene is eat it each joint,
end to the eevity to found n certain qnen-
tity of smell fibrous matter of a block
oolor, which* to oovered with nn el moot
imperceptible coaling of time which
oontaina the poieon. If swallowed toe
fllamenta do not pass Into toe stomaoh,
bnt remain in the throat and produce
violent inflammation and ultimately
death. Experiments era to bo made with
various kinds of bamboo, to teat the ex
istence end nature of thie alleged poison.
—Sir W. B. Grove thinks the wise
conns to to oonflne attention to the
knowebia end leave the unknowable to
the fntnre. He says, “My own impres
sion to that the philosophy of the fntnre,
not merely aa applied to pbyaioal forces
and the science of orgentom, bnt to the
history of the human race, its habits,
lews, languages, and poMibly thoughts
themselves, will be mainly baaed on the
doctrine of eontinnity, end that instead
of enquiries ae to why si thing to to tho
sense of ascertaining its ultimate oanan-
tion, the research will bo into tba ques
tion how did it become whet it to ? By
whet steps of obange, by whet mode of
foroe did the saketanoe, the phenomenon,
the orgentom, the habit, or the event
arise?"
—Professor Tyndall, in lecturing at
Manchester, on oryetaltoe ud molecular
foroes, said he had often in the spring
time, watched the edvuee of tbe sprout
ing leaves, and of the grass, and of the
flowers, end observed the general joy of
opening life to Natan, ud he had asked
himself this qaeatiog, Oonld it be that
thero wee no being or thing in nature that
knew more sbont these things than he
did ? Did he to hto ignoruM represent
the highest knowledge of these things ex
isting in this universe ? The mu who
pot that question fairly to himself, if he
was not e shallow mu, if he wu a mu
capable of being penetrated by profound
thought, wonld never answer the question
by professing the oread of Atheism wbioh
bed been so Tightly attributed to him.
—Hr. John Tophum writes to Nature
as follows: “A spider constructed its web
in en angle of my garden, the sides of
whioh were ettaobod by long threads to
shrnba et tbe height of nearly three feet
from tbe grave! path beneath. Being
muoh exposed to the wind, the eqninoo-
lial gales of this utnmn destroyed the
web several times. The ingenious spider
now adopted tha oontrivuoe here repre
sented. It secured e conical fragment of
gravel with its larger end upwards, by
two cords, one attached to each of its op
posite sides, to tbe apex of its wedge-
shaped web, end left it suspended sa a
moveable weight to be opposed to the
effect of snob gnats of sir as had destroyed
the webs previously occupying the same
situation. The spider must have demand
ed to the gravel path for this speoiel ob
jeot, and, having attached threads to a
stone suited to its purpose, must have
afterwards raised this by Axing itself upon
the web, ud palling the weight np to e
height of more then two feet from the
ground, where it bang suspended by eles-
—A nod fellow—Morpheus.
—A data night—Oerbonite.
—A stern duty—A helmsmu's.
—A fighting dog—A West pointer.
—An intellectual dag—A type-setter.
—A great warfare to Turkey tost weak.
—Truoe oettou—'Walking in one's
deep.
—A waist of time—That of a stout old
tody.
—“Tho man who toughs''—Tho mu
elected.
A put-up job—Your phyatoiu's pre
scription.
—To moke e tolling speech e mu
should tell something.
—iteliriog urly et night will surely
shorten n men's days.
—In many plaoes to Texu n few hone
thieves era always huging about
—Son Franciaoo ie content with noth
ing short of Lotte drinking toon tains.
—Whet mu must have hie glass before
he eu do e day’s work ? A glazier.
—Whu Is a loaf of bread said to bn to.
habited ? When thera'n n little Indiu in
it
—A mu ie distressingly pressed when
he to too poor to pay a little nttution to
hto friends.
—Let friendship oreep gently
higkt; if it rash to it, it may nun run it
self ont of braath.
—Catting off the head of an office-hold
•r in Japan muns something more thu n
figure of epeooh.
—Professor Muon has written n book
on “Tha Thru Devito—Lather's, Milton’s
and Goethe's
—A schoolboy spelled “sob," end whu
asked to define it, blundered ont: “It
means whu a feller don't wut to ory,
ud .it bursts out Itself." Another defined
n comma u "a period with s toil."
—Josh Billing seye t Everybody seems
to konaider himself e kind of morel half
bushel to measure tho world's frailty* to.
—A philosophical contemporary asserts
that the so-called lnokx mu to one who
mtkts eireumetucee instead of wetting
to be made by them, adding “thero is no
luck like p-luok." Whioh means, mind
your p'e ud don't manly follow your
ones.
—“An Irtohmu saw from the pit a
friend of bia eoiing OlhMo, ud he celled
ont ‘Lorry, Lerry, Larry, there's the least
teste to life of your linen hugtng out!’ ”
—Ah Yon Is the exolamatorx nemo of e
Chinamen etrongly impacted of murdor
to Marysville, Cel, but just released for
luk of legal evidence sgeinet him; ud
“Ab, you I” to whet all the hoodlums
howl et him to Ihe streets. *
—A Council Bluff's lawyer nte peanuts
to court, ud wu fined tu doUere for
contempt. The Jndge remarked that
ha wu determined to uphold the majesty
of the lew if it klUed the entire peuut
crop of tbe South.
—Boomeau tells na, that to writ* e
good love letter, you ought to bogto with
out knowing what you mean to say, ud
to finish without knowing what you said.
—A Brooklyn woman sue* bar has bend
JOSEPH W. FOIL
Attorney nt Law,
and Jndge af County Court.
PiucUem In ell ether Courts.
ORce over store of W. II. Roberto A Co , Brood It.
SAMVEL B. BATCHER.
Attorney nt Law.
On re over Wlttlcb A KlotoTi.
J. M. RclfKILL,
Practices Is esarta of Ossr(ls old Alabama.
ORm IM Braoe et„ (over 0. A. Redd A Co.’s)
Sfoetai eisouttongtare to oolloottoos. Jolt
Foams IMdsa. Inm J. Ceteraas.
Rams OaxwrasB.
1HRBAM to CRAWmRDA,
Attorney* nt ton,
WIU I>ratios Is tbe fltoto sad Federal Courts ot
** rota.
>1 0
loir IM.
A. A. ROSIER,
Attorney end t)eumanlier ml Law,
Freeborn ta lists and Fodsral Courts In Oooriis
•it) Atibuifi,
Oflec m Bnmd fct., OolBilww, 0%.Jfftott
Mask H, lumoui boro V. 0mtu.
■UIBVtBD 4k
At»—mm* CMEMlIm m$ Law.
INII^rMtlM la
Iko SUM and Mini Court a.
Jam. M. Rnaiu. Ohm. J. Bvm.
BUM!LI* 4k SWIFT'
AttorMjra w4 OUiuMlIon fit Uw. Will proctic*
l» tho Oourti of Oworglft (OhutUhoookM Olrwult)
Mid Akbftaa. 0*m ovor 0. A. Madd A Co.’* ■*
IffMd itmt, OolmbWi Q*.
Ito T. MWVIIO,
noffWJj ofir Nrookff’ Drug Blor», i
B. J. IMBA,
AMtrMjr mm* OmbmIIw at Law,
Atunla Uom Iuumm CowpMjr building, mo
oct? ljr] odd atorjr.
W '
Dtontlstff.
W. V. TICKER,
„ OppwlM Atruppor’ff building, Randolph Nt.
flpoclal uttoniton givon to tho Insertion of AtU-
loMI Tooth, m w*ll m to Oporotivo Dontlotrjr*.
tic cords. , The exoellence of the oontri- for , diT#M ^ , 0o . 0 f H, (rifling offences
vuoe is too evident to reqnin further being the entering of tho room to which
—M. A. Gripon bee u interesting ar-
tiole to 1 A< Journal de Phytfque on the
mutual influence wbiob two bodies vibra
ting to nntoon exerotoe upon ont mother.
The entbor describee uveral experiments
illustrating tbto remarkable ution, em
ploying for the pnrpou of oollodion mem
branes, wbioh vibrate in nntoon with the
oolumn of air to the nsonanoe boxes ton-
ing-forka, orgu-pipes, Ao. A email pen
dulum composed of e pith bell, eoepended
by e thread of ootton, to attaohed to anah
e membrane, ud the system to then
brought near the resonant oeea of a vibra
ting fork, with wbioh tbe membrane to
oepebl* of vibrating in nntoon. Thn
membrane vibrates strongly when nt n
distance of one metre, but when brought
to within four or five oentimetres of the
month of the esse, the sound of the lst-
ahe wu sleeping with s lighted oudl* to
hi* hands, which he held To a position ao
that n drop of melted tallow toll on hot
nose-
—A life tosnranoe sot lot tor piled hi*
calling pieasutlx end peniaienUy through
the oountry, ud finally lit on n oertein
editor, generally considered a tough nnt
to crack, and labored with bim for a pol
icy. Tbe editor determined to bring mat
ters to a crisis, ud put tba question to
him in this shop*; “My dear sir, I hex*
not the tlma to devote to you now. I
think, on tbs whole, I won’t taka oat n
r; bnt I will toll yon what I
I willing to do: oah you inure
“Well, sir, that to something
moot by repeating, “'For* da Lor', Mister
Loois, Brace looked die wey I”
[to si eouTieoeo.)
Labor.
Labor—honest labor—to mighty end
beautiful. Activity to the ruling element
of life, end its highest relish. Luxuries
and conquests are tbe reanlta of labor; we
ean imagine nothing without it. Tha
noblest man of earth is ho who puts his
bauds cheerfully and proudly to bonoat
labor. Labor is a business and ordinance
of God. Suspend labor, and where are
tbe glory and pomp of urth—the fruit,
fields, and palaces, sod the fashioning* of
matter for wbioh men striv* and war?
Let tbe labor-scorner look to himself, ud
learn what are the trophies. From the
crown of bis bead to the sole of hie foot,
be is tho debtor and slave of toil. The
labor which he sooroe has tricked him
into the stature and appearance of n mu.
Whero gets he garmenting ud equipage ?
Lot labor answer. Labor—whioh make*
muaio in the mines, end the farrow, and
the forge,—oh, scorn not labor, yon, man,
who never yet earned n morsel of brand!
Labor pities yon, prond fool, ud laughs
you to scorn. You shall pass to dost,
forgotten ; but labor will liva on forever,
glorions in ita conquests and monomuta.
—One always feels tbe better for look-
iag any small evil of life straight in the
face. It is wonderful how few evils ere
remediless if yon fairly faoo them, aud
honestly try to remove them.
—The man who will abandon n friend
for en error, knows bnt little of the hu
man character, end shows that hto hurt to
aa cold as hto judgment to
—“To what Met of fraternity do yon
think I belong?" naked a fop of n Indy.
“To the iceeot fraternity," wu tbe reply.
—A witty womu says that, u death to
reported to love a shining murk, she to
constantly in dreed of e shaft being aimed
at her hosbud’s sots.
—A mu in Rntlaed, rating routed
chestnuts, put a hot one between hto teeth
end bit. The nnt thereupon exploded,
ud seriously burned ud lacerated hi*
month.
ter undergoes • considerable weakening,
ud tbe pendqlnm of the membrane is
sosraely moved. If the vibrations of the
fork have bnt smell amplitude, tbe prox
imity of the membrane to the resonant
oose extinguishes the sound altogether.
None of these effeoto ere produced if tbe
membrane ie not oepable of vibrating in
unison with the fork. If e membrane of
n lower note ie placed in front of tbe oan*
and a enrreot of warm air directed upon
it, tbe weakening of tbe sound only ooours
when the note of tbe fork to reached.
—Aboat sixty epeoiw of the bamboo
ere nstiv* to Chine, end throughout tbe
empire to ealtiveted in the gardens of the
poor ud tbe perk* of the weeithy, ud
put to every oonceivibl* use. The tabes
form equednote for oerryiog water, end
handles end ribe for fens end umbrellas.
The Iravee era rawed into rsiu-olosks for
farmer* ud boatmen: era made into rails,
matted into tbetobee, end swept into
heaps of minors. Cut Into splint*, the
wood to made “into baskets end tray* of
every form end fancy, twisted into cables,
plaited into swntnga, ud woven into
nuts, tor the eoenerira of the theatre, for
the roofs of boats, end the casing of
goods. Tbe shavings ere peeked into
oekum to be stuffed into mattresses. Tbe
bamboo famishes the bed for eleeping.
the coach lor retiring, tbe chair for sit
ting, the ohop-sticks for ratingf tba pipe
for smoking, tbe flute for entertaining, *
curtain for the door, end * broom to
•wrap around it. Tbe fernle to govern
the scholar, the book be studiea, end tba
paper he writes, ell originated from this
wonderful grass. The tapering barrels
of tbeorgu, end tbe dreadful instrument
of the hotor,—one to strike harmony, and
the other to strike deed; tbe role to meas
ure lengths, the onp to gangs quantities,
and the bucket to drew water; the bel
lows to blow tbe fire, and tba bottla to re
tain the match; tbe bird-rage ud oreb-
net, tbe flab-pole, tha weter-wbeel ud
•ave-duct, wbeel-berrow end band-oert,
ud other things we have no room to men
tion, ere the utilities to which tbto mag.
nifleent grass is converted.
—B»by-shows ere believed to bo ar
Amorictiu invention, but it was left to
Austria to get np a nose show. Eighty
persona, we ere told, competed for the
prize offered for the most extraordinary
nasal prominence in form, size and eolor.
Tbe jnry deoided that only three ont of
the whole oonld be admitted to compete
for the prize, whioh wu finally adjudged
to • competitor from Vienne, poraewedof
what to stated to be “a gigutia nose, of
n d*p violet bine.”
—The stetistiral editor of tbe Timet, et
Grand Ielud, Neb., rays: “90,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grasshoppers,
at least, passed over hare yesterday.
There migbt have been a few mora or
Ices, as we did not oount very oloeely."
COLOREDS RENTAL ROOMS,
-nrieHmeY&^SSSita.
K. W. SLAV.
Hcpftiror and Tantr cf VMMha, OrpM ud
AcoordaoM. 8tfm Vaiatftaf alu dom.
Orders Baf be l>e left At J. W. FeAM A Moosaa’a
£3=
Watohmakers.
C. SCHOMBURO,
flACoessor to L. Ovtowskj,
lot BroAd itreet,
O. H. LBQUIIV,
WAtchee And Clocks repel red i
ner And werrAiited.
Doctors.
OR. J. A. VBODMABT,
Offloo moral to tbo Drag Storo ofB. O.
opposite tbs rssIdsnoA of Mr. Wa
MB. M. M. LAW.
Offlce corner Brood AAd BAndoMi streets, ]
bnildlng.
Resilience on forsyth, three doom below Bt. CIaIt.
Palnteri.
WM. 8FOW. JRe» A oo*
Hosts ssd Blew Painter**
Old Oglethorpe corner, (J<*t north of psetoMss)
Columbus, Qeorgie.
Will contract tot House sad Bin Pointing al
reasonable prices, sod gmaranf “
Refer to Wm. Snow, Br.
ParbMr •hops.
i Sign Fainting al
k raltofcatlrm
LOUIS WELLS* BHATIKO BALO09T*
(Successor to H. Heaea,)
Under Oeorgla Home Insurance BnlMlag.
Prompt and polite barbers In attondanoe.
- - .
J»S
ALEX* BAM,
Baabsas, >*. OtaiB Brnaat.
KM. TIMMY* —rtf'
Crawford Bt., nndsr Rankin Hsisi, Oolnmkns, 0a.
Tobacco, Clffin, Ae.
RAISE ROB*.
If yon want to enjoy a good amoks, go la Mb*
Cigar Maanmctory, (
between Oeorgla Home and Mueeogee Baton*
fiL
that hereafter we wut oor own clothe*.
Lest Sunday w* pot on another
shirt, bnt oouldo t wear it st ell.
collar, end it hadn't uy bosom, thongb
w* are bound to uy there wee plenty of
room for on*. Yes. it wee s hudsome
shirt, bat we don't Mva oars nud* that
wey.—Max A deter.
A Lux e Charoes or Bmna Mauiin.
—Tbe statistician, and likewise the aver
age women nil the way from fifteen year*
of eg* to the point when birthday aani-
verearira oera* to be * time of oheer ud
[rataietion, mey take at lust n passing
ulerut in n table reoently printed in
Eaglmd to show the relatione be
tween matrimony and eg*. Every womez
it mey be tan to on* that she will merry.
Bnt whatever that to, representing '
satire ohsnoa et 100, her pertloalsrohi
iu CJ per oent.
Any time after 00 it to 1-10 of 1 per oent.
ohenee—e pretty slendar figure,
figures often ere slender st that eg*.
tempered ebild. It may be
rarest merit mey adorn the walls; ita ta
bles may ebonnd with dainties the z
luxurious; He everyorderlog may bee
plots; bat home it to not.
evomng. As the bout wu lee'
ship, • beautiful young lady nttempled to
jump on board, but failed to do *o, end
fell into the water. A well-dressed young
mu jumped in end eueoeeded with greet
difficulty in rescuing her. Here wea a
dunce for e marriage, or st tout e life
long friendship, bnt tbe tody took e book
end we* driven ewey, without giving her
asm* or nddreen, leaving her resoaer to
moaro for his epoilt clothe* ud shattered
hopes.
—Homebody ray* that one good ration,
on* temptation restated- end overcome,
one sacrifice of desire, of interest, Purely
for oon science sake, wil * Pf 0 ”. *
for few spirits beyond what either indni-
genew or diveraou, or oompuy, eu do tor
Rulld*r* and Architects. °
J. S. CHALMERS,
M—ee Carpenter am* fielldw.
JoDMeg dees el short eeMee, s
Plana and epeelAoatloae tarnished for all etyle»
of baildloge n,
Broad Itrest, neat to O. W. Browa's,
let Oolitmtinii, Oe.
Boot* and •hoo*.
.WELL* * CURTIS, Jt
Ne. to Breed St., Mga at the Big Boot.
PlALRIgIW
KooU mmd IhoN, Laathar and Binding*.
am prompt end oaratUI attention ta orders
by malt; pay tha highest market price Tor
Hides.
N. B.—Plasterers' Hair always on hand. I
JM
Root and Shoemakers
WR. METER,
Beet end Iheemekev.
Dee to. Iu telle esd Ftedlege. Nest ta 0. A.
Nedd * 0e.'L Pmmiit and etrlcl attaatloe given _
to order.. lull
Tailor*. u
O. A. ROBHNS,
M .reboot IDUer and Cutter. ■)
A ftall .took of Irmh ud gngtl.li Broadcloth.
Oeetewi. ud VmtUgi. ■«
sprit No. IM Broad Itreet. «
RENET SRLLHAN. *
Cutting. Clrantug end Eepairing
Don* In the beet stylo.
spriMl Oorasr Crawford sad f ra^i Bia.
DraaS'Maklng.
RIBS R. A. RMUNWWWTH, ' r
Braas-Maklag,Oattlag aud Ilttlag. TeraiscUeep.
Beotoeace andahop la Brownsville,
aovlt |
Tin and Coppersmith*.
WR. FEE, .
Worker la Tim, Nheet tree, Copper.
Onto™ from ehroed promptly .tt.sded lo.
JeT No. IT4. Brood Itrrot. ,
Confectioner*. «
I. O. NTRCFFER, ~ *
j Candy Maaiftotuar
AMM MUIIII
All Uadi mt Ooafaatlaaary and Fruits,
Maktaadylfatola
Vail weight guaranteed la each bos.
Hotel*.
FLAKTKKS' HOTEL,
Bait ta» Oalwabai Beak Balldlng.
Porter* at all the trains,
jail MRS. W. P. SNIDER, Propr'*a.
Livery and Sal* Stable*.
ROBERT TU1HFHI,
Livery, Bale amd Euekemge Mmblae.
Osievsomra, Noevu or hsmotra Me.,
moo Columbsi, Oe. *
A. UAHHKL,
Livery end g»le Btablee,
Oeutsoors Bt, Oeivueus, Oe.
VartlMlar attention given to Pasdlag and Sal*
ef lit* he
Horpa* and Males boarded la stable* by th*
■oath ar day. nctst
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIFLEB,
flu ud Lock.wltb, Crowlord .trrot, nest v
Johnson'* corner, Oolurabn*. O*. J*’ 1
WILLIAM BOKO BEK,
d Gan and LocksaiUh and dealer la Ganninv Mm
terlal*. Bast of 8lrup|H?r'* Cunfrct otmy.
7 late
C.
r —4 leeelhriertr
Cigars,
Wear lieed Brest
Crocus.
BAN’L R. BIER,
IF Wo charge for drayago.
A. H. lABimi,
Wo charge for ■Irayaaa.
^Ogiathorpa^Bla
Fresh Meat*.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. M i
always on head.
J. I. COOK,
Fresh Reals of All RIM*
I Molls Nee. Head IT.
LAWYERS.
rZRH M. WOOD,
torney at
Opelika, Alabama,
LA PRACTICE HI THE OOPRTfEE
cl Lee, Chambers. Tillsfonss ud Bra
1* Supreme Court of eiehseta. see ie
died States Mstriet ooert et MeaM
. mfM dAwqank.
HIITS8 D0SXB,
torney at
flLti praetloe Id tha
ireaUe.
• or ran away.”
W. A. Farley*
Lttorxxa7*al>Xiaw
OUSSETA, CeXTTAoooomm Oo., O*.
eyupsalol atientloa etvra ta eelleetlene
Oantlart,
[dL her# a roon at tha Oaor>
ia Homo Building tor a row
waakffj whore ha will bo glad toaeej
Cotton Factories.
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
MaaalSaeteraro of
IhNtlais, Sklrtlago* mmd Sawing and
Knitting Thread.
Garda Wool and Orlada Wheat and Corn
Office in roar of Witllch d Klnesl'a, Randolph at.
JalS R. B. OEIUTOIf. Freeldeai.
HWMII RANDFADTDR1HB C*.
XuiMirwirf “ *•'•
imamm. mm
TABM, ROMLhe. l
• Tneeeter. eetMly.
=9Ssdb
RIAL K«TATK AOEWTO.
HN BLACKMAB,
loir Street, Oenby'e Heading, next U
Freer, Illgu AO*.
Estate Brokerage & Insurance.
aarim, ar miimoi,
I raealYo Dally Talagraau from
Louisville and Saint Lmria
OPELIKA DIRECTORY.
Doctor*. l
DL JAB. T. WARNOCR,
Surgeon and Phyeletan
Hotel*.
ADAME HOUSE.
ea yon ro to Opelika, be aaretei
Adam* iiouee, oppoait* Paaaenger ]
radii
NOT TOO LAI
3ABTIES having Oleime
. State. OoternmoDt, ft
r the Army without ooi
do., Hick Fey, Uueet
_ ill .lo well to apply et
facilities In washing!
prompt ud fall •ettlemwt
Rejected delta* ean he Ogata I
Revolutionary and other claims, R
collectable.
Apply at ones by totter cr In
FRANK W
aovl eeAwtf
et to goal
•tie SHU.
ittomeu era their