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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