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The Eagle’s Flight. O’er the mountain top clonds hung, Between tho earth and the heaven swung T! i they almost seemed to rest Ou the pine tree’s heaving breast. jfr, m tbe shade an eagle flew, Circling higher, tainter grew, Higher yet, until at last Into nothingness hs passed. “He is lost,” the watchers said, “In tho clouds and mist o’erhead.” But the eagle in his flight Sailed above tbe clouds through light. LOST AMONG BUBBLES. While spending a few weeks shoot¬ ing in Labrador early in a recent autumn, I had an advonturo which ■was so singular that I am sure the like of it has never come within the exper¬ ience of anyone else. I was living at the house of a fisher¬ man who had a little hut among the rocks at the foot of a great cliff. From this place I could pass, at low tide, to the east or west of the cottage for a considerable distance along the coast. The coast was a series of bights or coves, all open to the ocean, but nearly every one sheltered at the sides by a long reef of rocks which ran far out into the sea. The point always protected the cove,and made it smooth when the wind blew up or down the coast. During such a gale myriads of sea¬ birds seek the sheltered side of the reef and dive for small univalves which cling to the rocks. One morning I took my dog to a eovo which I knew would contain many sea birds. It was surrounded, save for the front, by high cliffs, and at one side a high ridge of rock ran out into the sea. It was blowing a gale, and throngs of ducks floated un¬ der the lee side of this point, as the water there was smooth. As I lay on one of the shelves of this reef, 1 noticed that a constant stream of foam passed across from the windward side of the point, whore the sea was chafiug and churning against the rocks, to the little cup¬ shaped cave beyond. t Great masses of this foam, lighter than thistledown, had already gath¬ ered in the shelter; and as aflaw from the gale touched it, the mass quivered from end to end. 1 What a mass it was! I could hard¬ ly believe my eyes as I stood among the rocks and looked across at it. It was probably about an acre and a half in area, and how deep I could not tell, though I was sure that it must have been forty feet deep well back in the cove, and not less than ten feet any¬ where. The mass was not white, but yel¬ lowish, though whenever the sun burst through the scudding clouds the bubbles all along the top gleamed in rainbow colors. Still more foam came drifting across the reef, settling on the top and rolling along to find a level. Great masses of fqam like this are very common in the far north. They disappear in a few hours after the storm which causes them, leaving nothing but a soft, greasy paste on ih e rocks. It was pretty generally be¬ lieved at one time that meerschaum or setirfoam pines were made from this matter. This great, unstable, quivering mas3 had an unaccountable fascination for me. I was seized with a strong de¬ sire to go down and into it; and that was just what I did, leaving my dog beside my gun on a small patch of sand. Now as I have said, the cove into which this froth was heaped was closed round with straight cliffs except for a little opening in front through which the sea ran gurgling in a narrow chan¬ nel. I had to jump across this chan¬ nel ; and then I found eight or ten square feet of bare beacli, f rofn which the foam ran slantingly backward. The bubbles were of all sizes, some of them being no larger that a grain of shot, some of them more than an iuch in diameter. The dog jumped across to where I stood and looked into my face, won¬ dering what I was about. I ordered him back, and he turned away very unwillingly. I first thrust my hands and arms into the heap, and it became nothing in my grasp. Of course all the bub¬ bles had air in them, and I was sure that I ran do risk of suffocation in plunging into the mass. \ Ducking my head I went in, under' a mass fully 40 feet high, advancing carefully lost there should be liolos or roo ) in tho way. It seemed to mo as if I was moving tho whole mass in the covo, and very likely I was. I put the bubbles away from my face, and opened my eyes; before the foam closed down again I noticed a faint light. But my attempt at breath¬ ing was not comfortable. When I in¬ haled a number of bubbles went into my mouth and broke there, but the air they contained was pure, and went into my lungs. 1 then found it best to hold my hand across my mouth, straining the air be¬ tween my fingers. As I drew in my breath many bubbles pressed against my hand, and I could feel the tiny, soft explosions. I had walked thirty or forty pace when I shouted again and again. My voice seemed very low, but I could hear a million hubbies quivering round me and above me. Whenever I was sure the ground was level I walked on rapidly, flinging my arms about me. Butin spite of the air in the bub¬ bles, the sensations I experienced were not agreeable, and a dull pain came into my head. The light I had noticed c i opening my eyes was dimmer, and I supposed I was near the cliff at the back of the cove. So I turned about to go back, having had my very novel experience, and taking, as near as I could judge, the way by which I had come. Walking as rapidly as possible for three or tout minutes, I supposed that I must be close to the spot where I had entered. But evidently I was not, for the hard face of the cliff stopped me. Then I turned and walked along the edge of the cliff toward the opening; but presently a great rock rose in my way. In my confusion and groping to feel for the cliff I inhaled numerous bubbles, so that a salt, slimy paste be¬ gan to form in my mouth. It did not take me long to realize that I had lost my way, and that my predicament was one not to be envied. So, with my left hand over my mouth and my right hand extended, I crossed and moved in every direction that I thougt likely to bring me out. Several times I fell by stumbling against large stones, and my knees and arms were badly bruised. The pain in my head, meantime, grew worse, and there was a strange buzr zing in my ears. After I had been in the place about fifteen minutes, the weariness grew so great that I was obliged to sit upon a stone. I now thrashed the pressing bubbles from my face with both my hands and found some relief in the larger quantity of air that I was able to inhale. But how was I to get out of it? Ic was only too certain that if I found the place of egress it could only be by accident. What were they saying, all those thousands of bubbles, that pressed around and above me, so soft, so eva¬ sive, but so persistent and so numer¬ ous? For there camo into my ears the strangest din of small souuds that the ear of mortal ever heard. Sometimes it was like the crying music that you hear in a sea shell; again, it seemed as if a myriad voices were whispering mockeries in resent¬ ment of my intrusion upon their domain. I flung up my hands and dispersed the crowding tormentors, but they settled clown upon me imme¬ diately. Though my senses were becoming dull and benumbed, and it was very clear to mo that my situation was serious. It occurred to me that some of the coast people might have dropped around this way and that, having seen my dog and gun, they would make search for mo. So once more I cried out. As before, the sound seemed noth¬ ing, though it made the mass all about me quiver and tremble violently. There was no human voice in re¬ sponse; but once I thought I heard the faint barking of my dog. I nerved myself for another trial, counting my chances of success. Alas, they were small l The thought came burning through me. Would it not be awful to die in this way? After a time the storm would cease and foam would not drift across, My body would be bo found there, and the people never could guess the cause of my death. I stumbled on and on, and as usual, wont against the cliff. Turning agaiu, I set out in the opposite direction, be¬ coming more confused all tho while. My heart was beginning to sink and longed to lie down, jwith this vast covering above mo, and go to sleep. Nevertheless I stumbled on and on, not knowing whither. Then my foot touched something soft, which moved* Then tho tiling whatever it was, rose and touched mo upon tho body. Then it barked. It was my dog. The dear brute jumped about in tho wildest excitement, continually dart¬ ing away from me and then return¬ ing. Stooping, I laid my band upon tho dog’s neck and said as loudly as I could, “Home, Jack! On, boy!” This was just what he needed. lie set off at once at a rapid walk, I still feeling him with my hand. He lei me, as it seemed, by the most devious ways, around great rock*, gently across great holes, over level places, till it seemed to me as if I had trav¬ elled miles. Then a great flash came upon my eyes. It was the honest light of day, and I was saved.—[Edmund Collins,in Youth’s Companion. Cliaracterislics of the Uruguayans. The whole Banda Oriental and ite inhabitants strike one as being more refined, more amiable and more gentle than the land and people of the sister republic. Nevertheless, in the country everything is very primitive, and one is astounded at the rough way in which many of the rich estancieros live on their estates in the simplest and most comfortless houses. These men own leagues and leagues of land, and they live like the patriarchs of old, with two or three generations of children under the same roof and eating at the same table, in the old-fashioned creole way. Such men, as may well be imag¬ ined, are not progressive; they con¬ tinue their pastoral industry in an indolent, apathetic manner, leaving to nature almost everything except the operation of selling and receiving the money; and, above all, they cannot be persuaded to subdivide their lands and let them out for farming. Uruguay is being kept back chiefly by the con servativeness of the creole landholders, who possess immense estates that are inadequately developed. The law of inheritance and the obligatory subdi¬ vision of property amongst the heirs will modify this state of affairs in the courso of time, and these vast holdings will be gradually broken up and de¬ veloped in detail. The process, how¬ ever, will necessarily be slow, and meanwhile, as the state owns no lands, tho Increase of immigration can only Do slow in proportion.—[Harper’s Magazine. Ink Warranted to Fade. One of the novelties in the station¬ ery line is an ink that is guaranteed to fade within a week after it has been put upon paper. The inventor says he expects to make a great deal of money out of his invention in a short time. •■'Just.imagine, if you can,” he said to me. “what a demand there will be for my ink among corresponding lovers. The young man cau write words that almost scorch holes in the paper and ignite the mails, but they will fade out of sight inside of a week, leaving nothing but white paper behind it. - • -...... “By the use of my ink,” he contin¬ ued, “there will be no more compro¬ mising letters introduced as evidence in breach of promise cases, and forg¬ ers will enjoy immunity from punish¬ ment. I thiulc it will have a great sale, don’t you?” and he wrung his hands in joy as the visions of pros¬ pective wealth danced before his eyes. A Dangerous Pet. S. F. Price of Albany, Ga., owns a pet catamount. It was captured when young, and has been reduced to a degree of docility which ’enables its owner to handle and play with it, not without, however, a degree of con¬ sideration as to which way he strokes the cat’s fur, for the natural fero¬ ciousness of his nature is, even after a year’s imprisonment and training, easily aroused, and the snarls and the greenish glitter of his eyes at such moments make him anything but an object of affectionate consideration from the average citizen. He is rap¬ idly clearing his quarters of rats.— ("Detroit Free Press. THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN NERVINE TONIC -AND Stomach^Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery ol the Last One Hundred Years. It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.’. It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las only recently been introduced into this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet its great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬ itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great mediqinal powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. > This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. Indigestion, This Dyspepsia, medicine Liver ^haa completely solved the problem of the cure of all Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power* upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value m the treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption rem edies ever used on this continent. It is & marvelous cure for nervousnes* of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost constantly for tho space of two or three years. It will carry them inestimably safely over the danger. This great strengthener and curative is of value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year. CURES Nervousness and Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache and Sick Headache, Female Weakness, All Diseases of Women, Nervous Chills, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Nervous Choking Hot Flashes, Palpitation of the Heart, Sleeplessness, Mental Despondency, St. Vitus’s Dance, Nervousness of Females, Nervousness of Old Age, Neuralgia, Pains Heart, in the Paim in the Back, Health. A ll these and many other complaint* cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic, NERVOUS DISEASES. As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬ ual. Nine-tenths ef all the ailments to which the human family is heir, arc dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is aft insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of tho kind of nutriment v pessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor impose* upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food ba supplied. This recent production of the South A merican Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissua is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervou* CRAWFOBDSmLE, IND., AUg. 20, ’St.' To the Cheat South American Medicine Co.: De. r Gents:—I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years with a very seri¬ ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine X could hear of but nothing done me an'y appreciable good until I was ad¬ vised to try your Great South American Nervine Tonic ana Stomach and Liver Cure, and since using several bottles of it I must say that 1 am surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the stomach and general nervous system. If every¬ one knew the value of this remedy as X do, you would not be able to supply the J. A. demand. Hardee, Ex-Trens. Montgomery Co. A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA. My daughter, Crawfordsville, twelve Ind., old, May had 19,1886. af¬ years been flicted for several months with Chorea or fit, Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton, could anything not walk, but could milk." not I talk, had could not swal¬ low to handle her like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave hex up. Nervine I commenced Tonic; giving the effects her the South Ameri¬ can were very sur¬ prising. In three days she-was rid of the ner¬ vousness, cured her and completely. rapidly improved. I think Four the bottles South American Nervine the grandest remedy ever discovered, and would Mrs. recommend W. it to every¬ one. 6. Ensxinges. (State Montgomery of Indiana, \ / sb: Subscribed County, before May and sworn to me this 19,1887. Ciias. M. Travis, Notary Public. INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. The Great South American Nervine Tonic Which we now offer you, is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discov¬ ered for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and the vast train of symptom! and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of the human stom¬ ach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who k affected thousands by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of go to prove that this is tho one and only one great cure in th« world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of unmalignant disea** of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the Soutk American Nervine Tonic. Every Bottle Warranted. Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $f.25.Trial Size, 15 cents. NEILL & ALMOND, Sole Wholesale and Retail Agents FOR HARALSON COUflTY. CA. Broken Constitution, Debility of Old Age, Dyspepsia, # Indigestion and Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Weight and Tenderness m Stomach, Los3 Frightful of Appetite, Dreams, Dizziness and Binging ^ , the Lara, in Weakness of Extremities and Fainting, Impure and Impoverished Blood, Boils and Carbuncles, Scrofula, Swelling and Ulcers, Scrofulous < Consumption of the Lungs, Catarrh of the Lungs, Chronic Cough, Bronchitis and Liver Chionic Complaint, Diarrhoea, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Summer of Infants. Mr. Solomon Bond, a member Ind., of the “I Society havS of Friends, of Darlington, says: used twelve bottles of The Great South Ameri¬ can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and I consider that every bottle did for me one hundred had dollars good night’s worth of sleep good, for because twenty I year* have not a horrible dreams, on account of irritation, pain, and been general caused by nervous chronic prostration, indigestion which and dys¬ haC pepsia of the stomach and by a broken down condition of my nervous system. But now I can lie down feel and like sleep all night as sweetly as a think baby, and I a sound man. I do not there has ever been a medicine introduced into this country which will at all compare with this Nervine Tonic as a cure for the stomach.” Crawfords ville, Ind., June 22,1SS7. My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. W* gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Nervine and she is completely re¬ stored. I believe it will cure every case of 54. Vitus's two Dance, and I have kept it it in my family lot in years, am sura is the greatest rem¬ edy sia. all forms the world of Nervous for Indigestion Disorders and and Dyspep¬ Failing Health from, whatever cause. John T. Mish. State of Indiana. 1 55 Subscribed Montgomery County, J ’ Jun* and sworn to before me this 22,1887. Chas. W. Wright, Publio. 1 Notary