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[]{. CALHOUN, Editor and Proprietor.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1], is?:!
YOU. XY— NO. -291).
AB
[pink (Milks O’IvEu.ey) favored us
jvith ft manuscript copy of the fol-
beauliful lines, which snbse-
r hiul ft very extensive circulation,
rotlnco again tho beautiful poem of
JANETTE.
Htiood Hint you wear, Janptto,
[* a hand in your hair, my pot.
ivn, with a fcolilvii kIo's, Janotl
rolieat hair in tho world, my pel.
tho arm of a Mown, Janette;
y, bristled ami brown, my pet;
ami softly ii loved to caress
white nock ami your wealth of tress
lautiful plenty of hair, my pot.
i had a swimming glory, Janette,
ro gray, with that chastening tinge of
ko Spring is young and the i
|e d«*w-drops In each rod bust
suited your gold-brown h
ogled my life in your hail
failkoii and golden snare, juj
utlo tho bondage, my soul
, to continue your slave ovi
lUIS MACON!
A .HTOltV OF THE
,EJvS AND SEMINOLES,
IN THE
Sly days of Georgia.
^ rr por» or “duncan m’intorh.'
ti tor the Sniidity Enquirer
Toopy right secured. |
CHAPTER V.
E WOl.fr' liA.Hlt.
some seconds Mirinm Troup stood
Seed by the horrible picture pre-
id to her. She collected her thoughts,
made an effort to couviueo herself
,u "* E*" that the whole was not a distorted vision
of her excited imagination, uud she felt
* ■ satisfied it wits whon tho faco of HerdicL
Wiljton Middonly vanished.
.)CN t r *' Overcome with excitement, Miriam
, dropped into tho chair from which sho
1 ’bad risen and rubbed hor eyes, ns if to
rices, wipe out all thought of the horrible
fui • • vision. Her eyes might be deceived, but
’• A1 now she was awake, and her ears could
not be mistaken, sho heard the stamping
of heavy feet outside, and thon a chorus
of RDfjpty barks from tho dogs that came
trooping around tho house. Hurried whis
pers in hoarse voices, and then thero
the pressing of a heavy body against her
door. f Throwing a shawl over her ghoul
tiers, Miriam flew to tho door and tried to
it. but a strong band from without
(t closed. She listened, and die tin-
pd tho voice of Iiordiok Wilson
il at her father's door. Spring!
she extinguished tho light in her
thon bolting tho door quietly
purely inside, she opened one of the
with remarkable presence of
-Imind, to bo prepared for flight, if uoces-
wm
■1 B<
lather and Wilson talking iu excited
\ tell you, old man, the Injuns is all
Listen ! Thero go their yells,
i from tho direction of tho ORwichee
came fierce yells—yells of paiu and
E and the discharge of rifles iu rapid
fission.
is lighting tho Iudians thore ?”
Troup in nmnzonient.
pTy men. I toll you tho red skins are
nd ns by thousands, and your only
i iininodiato flight."
lot leave my servants, my homo,
abovo all, my daughter,''said the
iot the servants care for themselves,
daughter wo will tako with us. Get
•, I toll you! Five minutes more
t will be too late/’
o: 1 will stand by my people. They
stood faithfully by me, and, though
and hoiiuded down, Henry Troup is
oward ! Away, and caro for your
self. 1 w ill face tho ludinus, if need bo,
“Search the garden,” cried the lender,
as he rushed out himself with a torch.
Miriam saw the torch applied to the
house, and tho baud of desperadoes that
guarded it. Sho felt that her father was
locked up in his room, and, in hor intense
anguish, her ftrst impulse was to rush to
hor father’s side and dio with him. In
that moment of unutterable anguish a
dosperato strength enmo to the poor girl,
and, with tho quickness of a flash, sho
reasoned, “I can never reach him. I will
but run into tho trap they have set, and
death is bettor in flight.”
Bearded white meu and beardless In
dians now, like demons, began to search
tho garden. She could not remain long
undiscovered, and so she determined on
immediate flight. Crawling quickly and
quietly back, she reached tho fenco, and
sprang over it like a deer. She heard
fierce Bhouts close behind her, and turn
ing for an instant she saw the house ii
flumes and a scoro of men speeding iutho
direction she had takon. She knew sho
discovered ; but this seemed but to
add strength uud swiftness to hor limbi
le ran in tho direction of tho tim
bored uplands that marked the ancient
boundaries of the river.
There was no looking back now, and
by a supernatural vision she avoided the
trees and tingled vines that on every
hand seemed spread like unavoidable ob
stacles to impede her progress. On and
, sho took no c.ognizauco of time, felt
no «ense of fatigue. It was not to avoid
death, that sho would have braved hero-
ally could she die with her father; but
was the horror of capture, worse than
death, that nerved hor.
Dark as tho Styx wore the jungles
through which sho sped, nnd now aud
then a rattlo-suake sounded his alarm
noar hor flying feet, and the Roared wolf
started from his lair and apod away with
yelps of fright.
During the black hours of that toniblo
night sho heard—it might have been an
oeho—but sho certaiuly heard the beat of
footsteps behind hor, and the hoavy
breathing as of a pursuer. The excite
ment kept hor up ; but there was a limit
to hor strength, and as the gray dawn
came the speed of tho little feet lessoned,
tho gait became unsteady, and Miriam
Troup staggered through the thicket, im
peded at every step by the obstacles
through which she had passed with such
apidity and case in the darkness.
The sun came up, aud tho golden rays
stole through tbo locked branches of tho
s, and surrounded us with a halo tho
j of tho beautiful child, who luy us
deed at the foot of a monarch of tho
forest.
chapter vi.
taken, whon, in tho light of tho burning
building, bo saw an old man with gray
hair and blood-covered faco standing at a
window and trying to got out through the
smoko and flame ; but ho tottered and fell
back with a groan that was hoard above
the roaring of tho flamos. Louis recog
nized Mr. Troup at once—tho man who
had spurned and hated him—the man
who had kept him from his threshold on
the pniu of death. The daring youth for
got all this now, and, oalling to the faith
ful Batty to plant himself against tho
burning logs, Louis sprang on his shoul-
ders nnd lonped through the open win
dow into tho furnace of smoke and flame.
Tho old man was lying sensoloss on the
charring floor, anil to pick him up and
lift him down to Batty was but tbo work
of a niomont, and thon, with hair and
hands and faco scorched, Louis looped
out, aud fell fainting on tho ground.
The servants nt once carried back both
men from tho tiro and light, and back to
a spring that Roemed to bubble from tho
knotted roots of an overhanging oak.
Tho yonug man should have beon tlio
first to recover under tho chafing nnd tho
water dashed iu his face ; but no, ho lay
as one doad when Houry Troup opened
his eyes and stared around on his terror-
Btrieken servants.
It was some moments beforo tho old
man could collect his thoughts, and,
thinking of what had happened, recon
cile it with his present surroundings. As
ho stared about him his eyes fell on the
inanimate form of Louis Macon, and,
weak as ho was, the old man staggered to
his foot.
“Who is that ? In God’s nnmo v
brought that wretch hereto curse mo!”
ho asked, as ho glared on tho faco of Ma
con and appealed to the alarmed servants
for nn answer.
“ ’Twits Man
flnh,” said an o
“Ho take me
“Yes, Muusb."
“Sayho lit it! Say'it
Indians to tho attack!
rob mo of my daughter:
not dare to toll me I owe
value not to one of a rnc
Louis took ych from do
negro in explauation.
:om tbo lire!”
was he led tho
Sny he camo to
But you must
tho life which I
3 I have hated."
nor
v 9
; "gt alone!
Then
io indecision in the old
taau’s voice now, but clear an a bell it
■itltnff out, liu, l B-e tones thrilled tho listen-
iite Miriam.
OLD ENEMIEK.
“Stay near mo, Batty,” whispered Louis
Macon, as ho hurriedly transformed the I t ^ nt
canoe into a breastwork and dropped
down behind it, his servant, with rifle
ready, as quickly following his example.
The action of Louis Macon wan not un
observed. Black Nod at tho moment bo-
caino aware of the vioiuity of his game ;
and ho knew that everything depended on
u quick onset.
“Here’s Macon! Blaze away, boys!”
shoutod the dosperado.
The w’hite men rushed forward at tho
biddiug of their leader, though tho Iu-
diaus ovinced no such impetuosity.
Beforo Black Ned’s men could even get
their weapons ready two rillos blazed out,
and two men went down.
“Use your pistols, Batty.”
There was no need to give Batty this
advice, for beforo the hurried words had
ceased the negro, with marvelous cool
ness, fired, and Louis doing tho same,
Black Nod, with a yell of pain, discharged
his rifle at random and ran back among
the Indians, leaving his two white com
panions dead noar the canoe.
‘Load your rifle again, Batty. They
won’t attack before we are ready."
The riflos woro soon loaded, the pistols
woro loaded; but, though Louis could
hear the whispering of the men near by,
ho became convinced they were alarmed,
aud would wait for daylight to renew tho
fight. Believing that this would bo ruin,
he determined to force it, though ho might
havo made good his escopo, woro that his
object, by tho river.
“Let us crawl up on them, Butty.
Muko every shot tell, thon club your
rifle."
“Use dar, Mauss Louis,” whispered
Batty.
Tho two men with more than tho stealth
of Indians crawled out, and soon hud the
pleasure of ueeiug iu tho indistinct light
tho outline of a group of men not twouty
foot away.
Tho old mau looked, in his anger, as if
he would rend (he uinu whose head Batty
was holding and bathing.
Batty was in no mood to bo respectful
or mild-tompered with tho mnu who owed
bis life to his young master, nnd who now
slandered him. The fuitbful fellow i-poko
hurriedly nnd indignantly as ho told the
story of their coming to tho Great Bend,
and ho was right iu tho midst of the de
scription of his master’s roscuo of Mr.
Troup, whon Louis opened his oyes and
looked up at the man who had boon his
lifo enemy without a cause.
“A curse on tho nnmo of Macon ! Why
cumo you here i* "Was it to sou my home
iu ruins, aud to gloat over tho calamities
pursue mo through the acts of yo
race !’’
A strange greeting, truly, to tho young
hero, who had risked his lifo to save his
accuser. But Louis had no thought for
tho old man's wrath, as ho asked,
“Where is Miriam
“Dead, I pray God, os I w’ish I wore.
I took her away Irom tho blood hounds
who have boon tracking her down, aud
sho is dead.”
“Dead!"
“Yes, doad, Louis Macon. Leave mo ;
for I would not mote out to you tho death
you dosorvo in tho shadow of my burn
ing roof tree! Up and away from my
sight if you would suvo your worthless,
wicked life."
Louis roso nnd looked nt tho old man as
if bo doubted his own sonsos ; from him
ho looked about on tho astonished ser
vants.
“Henry Troup. I have never been your
enemy. I hnvo never wronged you. In
the name of a just God, who must judge
us both by our acts, reason. I do not ask
your friendship, but let mo aid you to find
your daughter, mnl to punish the outlaws
who hnvo brought ruin to your homo,"
said Louis ploadiugly.
“Then punish yourself ; go dio in tho
flames, for you are one."
The old man, supported by a servant
moved awny, and loft dumbfounded Lour
surrounded by tho greater number of the
servants, who woro unmistakably 1.
friends.
IIB-
rTO*-
,vl*
£tPo ns y,u please, Henry Troup. Sac-
. yourself : but. may I die if I allow
' your child to remain. She is miue’by
every right, and 1 will protect her!" ex-
• claim,:' 1 Iiordiok Wilson.
’ ftfhcu Miriam hoard a scuffle as of men
gling ; the clashing sound of n fierce
, t: o falliug of a body with a groan,
l the banging to of her father's door.
^Barst upon this door, mon !' shouted
after a vain eff ort to enter Miri-
^’h chamber. But Miriam did not wait
tho result. Two thoughts now
Lt hor soul, and the timid girl became
|«1 as a lioueas. Tho first was tho safety
r father, tho next her own escape,
e a doe startled from its lair by tho
of (he hounds, she fastened her
jptwl quickly about her form, ami then
nng through the wiudow, und d'
fcough the dense nutivo shrubbery in
I garden. Hiding for a moinont, she
tho sound of fighting about the
. Sho know the servants were
I, and were now hastening to the
j of tbo m istor whom they l«>ved.
i-r. were lit, and iu tbo light ahesaw
Um . >rms of Wilson’s l>und, ami trooping
up from tho river came the Indians by
K«por, . Her first hope was that they
•Would attack Wilson ; but this was soon
nclled, for they soon showed thorn-
liia allies, nnd the servants were
“Now."
Batty heard tho low whisper, bothriffos
banged, and four pittolH Hashed, and then
with clubbed weapons master and mau
dashed on tho two mon who were left
standing beforo them. One of them wont
dow’u, but the other, with a savage oath,
turned aud fled.
Louis restrained Batty’s impuiso to
cheer over their victory, for at that mo
ment ho saw a light to the northwest, and
hoard the sound as of battle.
Bonding again, beforo thoy started
Louis, with Batty by his side, started liko
war horses, that scent tho battle afar off.
“That is Troup's houso, and it is at
tacked, ' said Louis, as ho hurried on.
Ho was right in both conjectures, and
tho thought of daugor to Miriam added
lightness to his fleet limbs.
As they neared the house he saw men
rushing about the shrubbery with torches,
and tho flames rising from the larger
building. In the gardon, illuminated by
the light from tho burning cobins, he
recognized llerdick Wilson, and he hoard
him shout to his compunious, “This
way !” and then dash over the fence, fol
lowed by a troop of Indiana and white
meu. Louis ran into a body of the
alarmed servants, and the moment the}’
him a shout went up of,
“Brens de Lor ! Heah's Mauss Li
hinted down.
How long Miriam lay at the root of tho
great tree she did not know, but whon
she oponod her eyes they mot tho faco of
Patsy, who whs holding hor mistress in
hor black arms.
“Where am I, Patsy ?"
“Vo's away out in do woods. Do good
Lor ony knows how fah wo is from de
rivah.”
“I feel stronger. Let mo sit up, and
tell i
Patsy helped her young mistress to a
more comfortable position, aud then,
with tho white little lmnd sandwiched
lovingly between hor black palms, tho
black woman, in n voice broken by sobs,
which sho vainly tried to suppress, told
the story of her search, or rather pursuit
of her mistress.
She- had retired for the night, and was
awoke by tho barking of tho dogs und
tho voices of strange men. Acting on
tho first impulse, Pulsy started to find her
mistress ; but sho was prevented by Wil
son’s party from entering the house. Bho
board Miriam’s chamber door broken
I was moah skeered dan in do nito. I
felt mighty bad, an' sot. down an' 'gin to
cry, an’ whin I looked 'bout agin I seed
yeb, honey, a lyin’ liouh, wid do sun
makin’ yoh look liko what olo Miss said
long ’go de angols was.”
Miriam thanked the faithful creature
fervently; then asked,
“Do you know what became of father,
Patsy ?”
“No, honey. I ony heerd dem Wilson
mon say de was gwine to flnh do houso an’
do qtmhtnhs : bud we ll git back an'lino
out all. Don’t bo skoorod, honey."
Patsy, hearing the murmur of water
near by, helped hor young mistress to
rise, and thoy walked over to tho margin
of a clear stream that had its origin in a
spring a few hundred yards above. Reach
ing it, sho made Miriam sit down, ami sho
bathed the blistered foot aud wounded
hands, and was made happy by seeing tho
palor leaving tho white, rounded cheek#,
and a semblance of the old glow coming
back.
“Is yek hungry, Miss Miriam ?"
“No, not nt nil, Patsy ; only anxious to
get bnck and learn tho fato of my father.”
“Den, honoy, we'll bo movin’; bud wo
must bo koerfui, fob wo don’t jist know
wliar ho is, or what road to take, if dar
was any.”
Tho strength of despair that norvedhor
the previous night had departed, nnd now
Mirinm, with jaded body, and mind and
heart saddened and perplexed, look the
strong arm that Patsy offered, and giving
herself up implicitly to her servant, him
permitted herself to lie led and half car
ried along.
On till tho high tfun shortened the
shadows of the trees; through jungles
that required for (heir passage tho
every precaution. Every stop h
more painful to tho little blistered feet,
and tho blue eyesstrnined in vain to
tho never-ending forost and discover an
opening beyond; but tlio hope was so
long deferred that the bravo heart became
sick. Patsy’s foot were sore, but the faith
ful creature never complained, and with
encouraging words and a stronger hold on
Miriam’s arm sho kept patiently forward.
It seemed it would never ond. Tho
sun sloped slowly down tho west; another
hour and tho shadows of night would bo
settling over the gloomy, tangled forost.
“Wo are getting near home, Patsy ! T.
recognize this placo!" said Miriam joy
ously, as sho pointed to a giant tree,
whoso gnarled roots, like a protecting
fortress, roso iu knotty protuberances
around it.
Both slopped to look, aud tho first ex
clamations of joy speedily gave placo to
a cry of despair. It was tho very place
they had loft in tho morning, tho vory
tree nt whoso roots tho exhausted Miriam
liud fallen. To make tho fact donbJy aim.*,
with a louder murmur tho little stream
near by broke tho stillness. Thoy had
traveled in the fatal cirolo so often fol
lowed by thoBo lost iu tho woods. Neither
could speak. It wns useless to attempt to
suppress their feelings: so Miriam and
her servant, sitting with clasped hands on
tho ground, did what ninety-nine women
out of a hundred would do under tho cir
cumstances—that is, cried. And, after
all, tears aro tho balm of wounded hearts,
tho floodgates of sorrow, that leave body
uud soul bettor, as storm aud rain drivo
away tho black clouds und shadows, leav
ing tho sky clear and blue.
It was growing dark, tho troubles woro
thickening, nnd now tho heroic heart of
Miriam proved equal to the occasion.
“Lot us got a drink of water and rest for
a few hours, Patsy, and then wo will try
to get back ns wo came in tho night."
“In do night, Miss !” exclaimed tho as
tonished Patsy.
“Yes, iu tho night. 1 can find tlio way,
there aro some stars that never change.
1 can toll tho north from the south by
them. Wo will move south ; that is
where the river is. But let us first rest."
Patsy had n sublime faith in the astro
nomical ability of her young mistress,
and, acting ou hor suggestion, she lay
down, insisting on taking tho beautiful,
troubled Load in her lap ; und no mistress
and maid, unmindful of their surround
ings, sank to sleep.
It might havo been midnight—they
might have been asleep but ail hour—
when both were wakened by the de
baying of a dog. Without uttering
word, they sat up and listened breath
lessly, and soon tho deepening baying
came nearer, and apparently from the
roots of the great tree, whoso dim out
lines were visible.
A hoarse voice uttered an oath, and
soverul men near by wore hoard to con
verse. •
“Waal, this beats nil. Why, this is the
very tree wo tracked thorn to at noon, ami
i swar heah wo re back.’
“That’s nil right,” said the unmislnka-
blo voice of Wilson. “'J’hu dogs made
no mistake. The girl started back, (rav
eled in a circle, and so came to tho stint
ing point. I'll bet a rifle they aro not two
hundred yards away. Get a light some
body.”
No time for the fugitives to talk.
Flight was now their only thought. Patsy
bccHino strong as a tigress about to be
robbed of its young, and, picking up
Miriuin in her arms, she walked into the
stream. Straining tho slender form to
her breast, sho whispered, “Keep still
honey: I'll walk down the stream. No
scent dar!”
Down tho stream with iucroAriug speed,
staggering over stones and roots, but
open, and from tho angered Wilson learned
“that tho bird had flown.” Putsy stole
away stealthily, believing her mistress
was hid in the garden, aud soon ufter sho
for an instant saw the light form with tho
golden hair flying over tho fence.
“I kno'A-’d 'twas you, honey, an' I
couldn’t help from hollerin’ whin 1 seed
yeh jist goiu' liko n wounded bird. I
bcerd dem men shout, an’ I turrained I'd
g'long an' dio long sido ob yoh, if so be do
good Lor wiilod it! Neber seed nothin’
fly as you did. f kep Hight for a long
I still guided by tho murmur of the water
Lights flushed behind. Iu a thousand
echoes tho baying of tho hounds wout
down tho forest, blending with the fierce
imprecations of Wilson’s desperadoes.
—Sir Henry Thompson, tho British
surgeon, feels that it is uot proper for
him at present to r< fute the court charges
that have bectfi made ogniusl him of im
proper treatment of tho late Empe ror
Napoloon. After remarking to this effect
i did. 1 hmn>h. at a recent mipporof the Midland Me heal
A III ri'AI.O FltillT.
It is not often that wo find so good a
pieco of word painting as the following,
from tho Kansas Magazine:
Appearances indicated that this shaggy
old fellow had been making u vory good
fight of it for several days. I daro say
that in tho maiuteuauco of his social sta
tus ho had gone back into the herd uud
stared at his descendants, nnd pawod nnd
groaned, as much as fifty times. The
long hair upon his Inigo nock wns tangled
and pullod until tufts of it hung loose
nnd unkempt. The outer fibres of bis
huge black horns hung in filauienta nnd
splinters. His wicked littlo oyes had a
redish glare, aud his beard was limp ami
froth-wet beneath his chin. Nor was this
nil. Sundry Iodr, oblique, hairless linos
appeared on his flank, and ho put his loft
forefoot down tenderly, vory likely re
membering, at the same time, a square
jounce lie had got yesterday on tho shoul
der from some strong-flecked youngster
that had taken it upon himself to whip his
fatbor.
lie stood a littlo upou the outskirts
now, his head toward me, protending to
eat grass. It was ns uico herbage as a
bull, whoso tooth wore probably none of
Ilia very beat, could wish—tho first ton-
dor growth of the early spring. But still
lie did not seem to on joy it. At intervals
of a minute or so ho would look round
quickly over his shoulder and groan, aud
stand thinking, nnd then pretend to oat
again. To this distressful pantomime the
ton thousand shaggy grazers pniil not tho
least, attention. They were busy. I could
hoar thorn cropping tho grass, as I lay
thore, with n continuous rasping sound.
It was only too evident Hint of all those
cows whom ho had so often combed into
curliness with his long tongue of sunny
mornings, and led and horded nnd fought
for; of all the little, stupid, hump
backed, stump-tailed calves, his own off
spring, there wns not one who did not
wish him disposed of according to buf
falo destiny, or who cared how soon his
last fight with tho coyotes was over, aud
his monumental skull loft standing upon
his jagged base on the bleak hill top,
with hoi roe so much as a thigh bono or a
tuft of brown hair by way (it obituary.
But this old one was still a buff alo nml
a bull, aud ho kept surreptitiously getting
nearer and nearer to tho ragged border of
tho hord.
Presently a calf cumo toward him slowly
and in an investigatory sort of way, its
little black nose wot and wrinkled, its lit
tle brown Hanks distended with fullness,
and tho white milk froth depending in
long threads from its mouth. Gradually
and slowly he went up to his father, amt
tho two hud just touched noses amicably
whon tho rnothor ulso took it into her
lioad to be friendly, aud came too. Then
camo auother cow, and another, ami
presently quite a littlo wing of tho hero
had gathered thero, aud the button d old
warrior looked around him complacently.
This kind of thing had doubtless hap
pemod so often that 1 wonder lie did uol
seem to think of the result, bill tie did
not. Ho might have known that he had
urrived at tho ago when the young bl-’odk
of tho hord would not look complacently
upon his heavy gallant rim. Ho was sim
ply laying tho pluns for another tight,
and the troublo began in the very midst
of his content.
A follow as big ftH the old one must
have scon (bis social gathering I rom Home
distance, nnd throw out oortniu intiiwi-
tionH of his approuch by Jitth puffs of
dust which How high into the mr abovo
tlio crowd, and by ominous Mioitings and
lugubrious groans. The old one Hopped
chewing with a green mouthful between
his lips and lisioued. The cows looked
round with tho complacent expression
which seemed to any that the light w**h
none of theirs, and crowded, off upon
either side, and very soon the antagonists
stood lacing each other. Tho old boy
straightened out his wisp of a tain to a
lino with his back, gathered his four black
hoofs together, arched his spine, and
placed his nose close to tho sod, shaking
liis hugo lioad ns though he wished to sat
isfy himself finally of its iiemiom ft on
any entanglement which would liimle
him from just tossing that ambitiom
youngster over his hack and breaking bin
in two. Tho otlior camo slowly, twisting
his tail from side to side in sum'
which woro very deliberate ui.d grand for
so small an organ. I to took pains to
make it distinctly appear that every hair
ho woro was angry. Jlis eyes rolled in
constant increasing redness. His black,
sharp horns wore onc.rti-.tod with earth
gathered while lie had beon tearing the
sial in eestaoy of valor. His nost ril • were
distended, aud ho halted in his slow ad
vance to toss tlio broken sod high over
his shoulders with his pawing. He was,
in natural way, a tactician. Ho made
flank movements, nnd turned his shaggy
sides, first one and then the otlior, to
ward his huge antagonist.
But this by play of battle only hin
dered the final onset : they by no means
intended to tako it out by vaporing. The
challenger advanced within some four
feet, getting angrier nml angrier as lie
came. Suddenly there was a crash which
had in it something Homeric. One rat
tling ousot of tluit kind loaves one iu no
doubt as to why tin* short, strong horns
of tho Imffuloos have u splintered appear
ance at the upices. Thon there w»h a
long, steady push, in wifi, h every tendon
of tho huge bodies was strained to tho ul
termont. Then there was a stragotic
casing off, then a sudden, gladiatorial
thrust, which pressed tho lingo heads to
the ground in uneven balance t ,f urength.
Neither beast duiod relax muscle or re
treat nn inch, for tear of that fatal charge
upon tho flunk, or that dangerous twist of
tho nock, which means defeat.
Ami now tho cows relumed urnl looked
complacently on, amt tho very . .dvos be
gan to shako their Ik uds iu the first vague
instinct of romlmtivouess inspired by tho
battletho bulls. And the young lord
lings of th" he'd distended their nostrils
and elevated their tuils, but forbore ony
interference. It was a duel a 'loutruno.
A momentary relaxation of the tremen
dous strain only resulted in the shaggy
heads coming together again with a dull
thump, and a renewal of the dogged push
ing which might have moved a freight
train It was a mutter ot lungs and en
durance, and the white froth began to
drop iu long, tenacious strings from thcii
lips, uud the rod oyen to glum dimly
through what seemed clots of blood I
could hour the labored breathing where I
lay, nnd see tho tendons stand out uorosi
Hit! thighs and nloug the thick nooks.
But this dead set of strength could not
last s ways. Every moment of time was
telling disastrously upon the shorter wind
and decoying strength of the old cru
sader, who still fought for tlio loves of
his youth. Jits foot slipped, and tho in
telligence of this slight disaster boomed
to reach his antagonist quicker than a
Hash of lightning. No gladiator over
urged his advantage more suddenly.
There was a hugo lunge, u sound of horns
slipping upon each o'hor, a spring for-
ward, and tho horn of tiio younger halt
had made a raking upward stroke 1 ougli
his antagonist’s flank. I Tie fight / be
(j .me brink. Aga.n md ag un tho old one
turned and tried to make riio old stand of
head to Lead, and as of ton his more active
antagonist caught him behind the shoul
der. With the red Agony of defeat in his
eye, and the blood trickling from the
long wound in his flanks, ho still refused
to be conquered. With failing strength
uud limbs which refused any longer to
and shook thou* heads, ami gavo him
occasional dig in tho ribs by way of
pressing their contempt for him. T
cows camo and snuffed at him. ami
dulgod iu spitoful feminino huts, i
walked awny. Their manner implied i
thoy lmd always regarded him as a disa-
grcoablo old muff, and they were glad lie
finally understood their heal li cit seuti
lneuts in regard to him.
gh all this tlio old follow stood
unresisting, whipped, bill still obstinate.
uduully they all let t him to himself.
I the herd wandered further awny. He
l not even look around ; ho was proba
bly forced at last to accept his sentence
of bauislimuut, and go uud live as long ns
bo could alone, and fight his last light
with tho coyotes, and die.
But tliut calf came out to see him again.
1 Hay that, calf, because it seoincd to me
tbo same llmt had brought ou Hus limt, un
pleasant ness, though for that matter they
arc all alike. Tho call' camo and arched
its back and pawed, and elevated its nine
inch tail in front of him, nml gave him to
understand, by the plainest, kind of Iftn •
gunge, that it held itself in readiness to
give him a most, terrible drubbing, if he
had not already had enough. It was comi
cal to see him imitate tho notions of his
seniors, while tho pm.r old bull did not so
much as look nt him. But his cali'ship
was inclined to push matters, and finally
made a puss which placed his foolish lioad
with a considerable thump ugninst the
soft port of the old man’s uoso. Thou lie
stood a moment with Die air of having
hurt hiiuself u littlo, and toddled off to
his mother.
Tho old one did not movo nn inch, and
seciued hardly to notice this babyish per
secution. But I suspect it broke iiishcurl
He wandered, limping and slowly, down
toward tbo sedge, and J ay there, forgot-
ful of the long army uiusket beside me.
regretting that there had been no one else
there to hot with during tlio battle, or t.*
stand up liko a man ami confirm tho story
afterward. The sun rose high over the
prairie, the wind veered, there was a sud
den panic, nnd the hord vanished beyond
tho hills, loaving mo to plod lmclc to
camp.
MilMIIK lll'MS.
Emualmino the Dead.—For tho follow
ing concise description of tho “Brunotti
Process” for the preservation of the dead
wo aro indebted to the Journal of Aj>j,linl
('/inninlrg. Tho steps aro as follows :
First. Tho circulatory system is cleansed
by washing with cold water till it issues
quite clear from tho body. This may oc
cupy from two to live hour*.
Hoooud. Alcohol is injoatod, so ns to
abstract ns much water ns possible. This
occupies about a quarter of an hour.
Third. Ether is thou injected to ab
stract tho fatty mutters. Ibis occupies
from two to ton hours.
Fourth. A strong solution of tatinin is
then injected. This occupies for imbi
bition two to ten hours.
Fifth. Tho*body is thou dried in a cur
rent of warm air, and passed ove
chloride of calcium. This tuny
two or live hours.
The body is thus perfectly j reserved,
and resists decay. Tho Italians exhibit
specimens which are as hard as stone, re
tain tho shape perfectly, and arc equal to
tlio best wax models. In this process it
will be noticed that those substances most
prone to decay arc removed, and the re
maining poitious arc converted by tho
tanninintoasuhstanco resembling leather,
and Hi us effectively protected against de
composition for yours.
SoiENTmo Education.—In tl
nil address before the French A
for tho Advancement of Soil
President, M. do Quatrofugos, Hit
devotoos of literature accuse i
stifling sentiment nnd imagination. What!"
answers tho President, “scionco stifle sen
timent, imagination -she who brings tis
"very hour into the prosecco of wonders !
She lower intelligence, who touches on all
tho infinities ! When litoratours and po-
Spccial !»i-i>nt( li.
PEACE!
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War on High Prices
lOVIlMIS AT
• honied
occupy
lnnugii-
hutto
the
i her living fount;
ill <
they will borrow
agery description!
lm doubled by tho
gra
Like
' truth. No, tho study
of an inspired pool, of a truo painter, of
a great sculptor. But she will bring more
light to tho path of nn erring soul. Who
will, perhaps, transform into a wise mini
or. at least, into u citizen, useful to him
self and others, ..no who, without her,
would only have been one of tlinno pre
tended, incomprehensible geniuses, due.
tinoil to perish of misery, of iuiputoncy.
and of pride.”
Consumption.—In a new work c n con
sumption, by Dr. Homy Mnc.Coriuue. of
London, the theory is maintained that
consumption, or tubercular dis-uno, is
caused solely by breathing air which has
alroady been brcuthe.l either by unimalh
or human linings. Tho hourly elimina
tion of carbonic noidby the lungs amounts
elvo hundred cubic inches.
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(icoiIn ltiiHlncft*, iu*n mcII-
hilt on( (liclr
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Call and l>o convinced that
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cash.
Hundreds daily assort the
truth of this, and go away
satisfied with tho truth of
the above, and happy in
their unequaleu bargains.
Open early and late, and
counter attendants always
ready, at
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lions, nnd prompt return* toaUd.
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(J. L. McllOUUH—Of .Tulin McUutigh A (’•».
Mi !lU HE!I
Cotton Factories.
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Manufacturers «r
flllEKTINQB, SHIKTINlM,
YARN, KOI*B, Ac.
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. I*. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Becrotury X Trcan
till l
Livery and Sale Stables.
IIOIIEUT THOM l*SO.\,
1.1 very, Male and Exchange Mtnl»lea,
OOLF.THORVE, NORTH Or ItANDOl.PII SlB.,
OCt:iO Collllllhllrt, On.
A. HAMM EL,
l.svcry and Male Stable*.
OflLRTIIORl'B ST., OOLUMKUh, 0.1.
Inr attention given to Ponding nml s
if
>r stock
lloimv nml Mu hu hoHnlwl
month or ilny.
Doctors.
Residence ro
OHIon n
ho|»27 iltf
DIC. COIJBEY.
rner of St. Clair rioI Oglethoi
ext to ruuldoiier, on Si. OI»li h
Dll. J. F. COOK,
r Kills X Harrison's Comnuiiion
first door to left.
Dentists,
w. t. pool,
Dentint,
h'-.J.l. HU Hio.ol St., tie.
W. J. I’OM.i:,
Dentist,
H-*pr»] Uoorgitt Homo Dulldiug, Coluuilna, tJa.
1 tot
and if tho air is al
with that gfiH ami will
substances, its powoi
from tho body is ho
tho (letrihiH of dog'
tuinoil, becomes tube,
Aftor reviewing th
fnront capital*, tho J).
;ver ventiluled. Tho
St. Potoihburgli, v/lit
tal
S of (lif.
drs that
Vienna
lonsumpt i<
tality of .vino, L'.ioo
lapitai don
and windows, i very interstice lx
fully closed wilh wadded doth, .
exclude tho currents of tir, ai
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DEVI.Fit IN
FAMILY GROCERIES.
MEATS.
filers, MlM Onred It Ili.
I EOS It AND MI A0..
YEAST I'OtYDT.ItS.
A N NED DODDS.
ith Hie do
! sto
Stinted, I
ivaly hi.
without, and, in tin
..e.ourgo of tuborcui
no class or condi'n
exempt.
has Hiibinittf<1 tho i
of the Michigan A
analysis. Jlis i.mi
ath-foulcd utmof-phi
and than the <.
croftso in the an
ing tho plants i
i ot oxygon by
:i enclosed space,
that plants in i
ot unhealthy, so far ns the oxci
winter is com
regarding the
during tho period of
ro K »r.lin(i tlj„ other
ing night tin
1, but lie soys
po fn
often havo
lately dele
> is silent
that 6h-
id whidi
nploasant, if not al -
i by Holt.
; which
ho loading English publishing house.! nn<
heir founders, with notes on their priu
ipal book 1. Tho announcement is ac
I companion with tho portinout motto froi
| Curlylo, “In those days ten ordinary his
kings nml courtiers woro wol
nmgod Hgainst tho t. nth part <»f on
.1 hist
Lawyers.
L. T. DOWNING,
Attorney anil Solicitor.
. 8. Coni’r ut.d ItogiHtur iu Jluuki uptoy . OIU« «
HivtWj over Riook(*’_Di hK St.x-, Coliuubuu, (la
FIAItODY A lilt A \ SON,
Attorneys nt Enw.
•erica over J. Ennib A Co.’s Store, Hikud
auvlHj West Side.
K. J. HOSES
Attorney and Founwollor nt l.aw,
i corn in Homo luaurance Coiuiuuy building. «• •
or!7 lyj oud story.
1.01 IS fr\ tJAKHAltD,
Attorney nml FomiM'llor nt l^iw.
•lilco No. (17 11 road street, Columbus, *»»• Will
rucllco in tho Sluto mid Kcdci.il I’oiirM. 9|x»cUl
Of AN. it. WILMA MN,
Attorney nt Isiw, Foliimbu*, (
Will iiruetico in uuy Court.
Umco over A coo A Murdoch’* *t"i”. in
Dealer i
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Crocers.
DAN E It. kll/E.
utility tlrocvihnn II,fn
. Ual"tl.Ol|.r A Jock *1
J. II. HAMILTON,
WIioloNnlo nml Itctnil Grocer,
action of Franklin, Warn ., a Ogl«thur|>H
to charge for drayagH. s-l
ISIIA.M FOOI’Elt,
M I S’l'A III).
l.r.OI N D NIMFES.
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. ItVES AND .lEI.I.IES
SOAPS.
Fresh Meats.
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all Monts ol All Kind*,
Stall* Nos. 15 and '
Rags, Hides, etc.
JOHN MEIIAI EEY,
Dealer in Hnirn, Hide*. llro*wn*
nml nil kind* of Jiiuk.
Corner IIridoe and <• .1 i iioki'e n
Druggists.
N (fit hi 11 right of sout!
rosTl.it S. CHAPMAN.
DriiR'K l*t-
Itumlulpli, cct of liio.td 8U. 0I.
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Wholesale nml Itotnil Dealer In
Drug* and Medicine*.
Toilet Article* and Perfumery .
JOHN W. IIKOOKS.
Wholesale nml Itctnil Driiuwlit-
107 Hr ond St., Columbus, tin.
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