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EUGENE CITY GUARD. Praprletar. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. lilt Lat Concert. One of the most pathetic ot tighia was that seen in the lJoston musio hall at the last concert given by Mario, the once famous tenor. Ho was poor, and the hall was llllod with persons who bod been ardent admirers or ;hta won derful art, and now that he had lost his art were willing to put money in Lis nurse. The tenor tried one of his great ongs, but his decayed voice refused to bid the notes. Again he tried, and strain he failed. Then, with sad smile, and a slow, mournful move ment of his head, ho sulTercd the or r.hAxtra to nlrfv throutrh the air. and retired from the sin go amid the silence of the Pitying audience. Another pathetics story is told of Bottesini, a famous violinist, concern in? his last concert at I'urnia: It was a rain v evening and the man agers had forgotten to send a carriage for the veteran, who set out on foot, and had gono somo distance before a passing friend perceived him aud made Lim enter his carriage. Arrived at the concert room, Bot- tesini tuned his instrument and began to rub his bow with rosin. The rosin crumbled in his hands, and, turning to his friends Willi a sau null smile, ho said, "Beo, it is so that Bottesini, too, will break up." Then he cra.HDcd his loved instru ment and drew tlio bow across the strings, but iiiNtantly stopped with a wondering look, for ho felt something strange in ine tone; ihs toucii was au swered leas readily and certainly than of old. Once more he tried, and once more stopped, this time with a smile, saying only, "It answers no more." His au dience perceived nothing unusual in the performance, which they applaud; ed as warmly as ever, but Bottesini aoftmed to feel tho shadow of death. On the following dujrhe was stricken with illness, and soon after the won derful hand was stilled forever. Youth's Companion. How Gold King Arc Mad. Gold rings are made from bars nine to llfteon inches long. One of these bars, Ufteen inches long, two inches wide and 3-16 of an inch thick, is worth $1,000, and will make 400 four pennyweight rings. A dozen processes aud twenty minutes' time are required to convert this bar into merchantable rings. First a pair of shears cuts the bar into strips. Then by the turn of a wheel a guillotine like blade attached to the machine cuts the bar into slices, one, two or three sixteenths of an inch wide. A rolling machine next presses out the slices aud makes them either flat or grooved. Each strip is then put under a blow pipo aud annealed. Tho oxide of copper comes to the sur face and is put into a pickle of sul phurio acid, after which tho gold is stamped "11 k," "1(5 k" or "18 k," ac cording to quality. Next it is put through a iiiucliine which bends it into the shnpo of a ring of the size re quired. The ends are then Boldored with an alloy of inferior Oneness to the quality of tho ring. Many people think that rinirs are molded because they can't seo whore they are soldered. The ring spins through the turning lathe, is rounded, pared and polished,' first with steel tilings, then with tripoli aud rouge. Kehobotu Herald. OLD MAN GILBERT By ELIZABETH W. BELLAMY, ("EAfcTBA THORPE,") Author of "Four Oak; "LUtU Joan na," Kto. (OofrrtfhtW. All Hithu rsewrol ryUshecl 7 ap-cial amHifsmsutallli lb BaliW Oeniuir. "Dear! Dear!" dialled Mini Elvira, as she'shut up Bishop Ken; "I neverwill be away from home with that clillu again, unless 1 have (Jlory-Aim." When supier was over and Missy did not appeur Mrs. Ilerry demanded, with visible annotation: "Why does not Winifred come In?" Then Lottie told w hat hud happened. "Except for cutting off her hair, this behnvior Is nothing out of the way for Winifred," said Jlins Elvira, placidly. "I never know what to do with i uch a child, so I let her alone. I hope she'll grow wiser as she grows older. I wouldn't worry about her, Cousin Myrtilla; she won't come until she chooses." But Mis. Ilerry could nut reslt a grave unessiness; she suspected a deeper pur pose in Miiwy's (light thun mere child's play, aud she hastened to send her coach man and her dining room boy to explore the premises, while two of the women were dispatched to inquire among the neighbor. All this made Miss Elvira suddenly very nervous, and she liciTon to walk the floor. wrincin; lier nanus. It was drawing near to 8 o'clock, and Mrs. Ilerry was sure, she heard the stage horn. "I trust Missy may not l run over," she said to herself, for this seemed tho most formidable danger that could threaten the child. This thought hud not long occurred to her w hen there was heard a shullling of liiunv feet on the buck piazza, a murmur of many voices In suixlucd lament, aim Larkln, the carriage driver, followed by every negro on the place, came hurry ing in, to announce solemnly: 'Soiuetliln' is happened, iniaiis; pro- par' yo' niln'." Then tho front gate was heard tosiara; some one ran up the front steps, rushed in at the own door, and Mrs. Ilerry was clasped in her beloved grandson s strong vouinr arms. He. at least, was safel No harm had befallen Paul, this glorious boy of 17, on whom her fond old eyes rested with proud delight. Hut this was no moment for rejoicing. 'Something Is happened, dear grand mother." ctuiit Paul., gravely, before he stooped to kiss his clamorous brother and sisters. "Something has happened to Winifred Tliorne; they are bringing her in here." ' CHAPTER XX. WHAT HAD HAPPENED. Bow She rolled tha Thief. Borne years ago one of the present congressman from Now York state and his brother were examining the stock of a pawnshop in London with the hope of picking up some curiosities. They camo across a necklace of grain glass beads, which tho Now York man purchased for (1C0, intending to bring - it homo to his little daughter. The bro ther was surprised to tind in the shop a counterpart of this necklace, which he brought homo to his little girl. Two mouths later tho lulter showed bar gift to a jeweler, who pronounced the glass beads to bo emeralds, aud who sold them afterwards for several thousand dollars. Tho member of con gress, upon hearing . this, took his necklace to the sumo dealer, who pro nounced it to bo composed of glass beads. The London pawn dealer had purchased them of a thief, who had stolen them from a wealthy woman. The latter kept tho emeralds in a safe, and wore their glass counterpart. Of course no one could tell tho ditl'eronce whou tho necklace encircled her throat. Exchange. I Uobslla Tapestry, "When you hear people talk about gelling Uobelin tapestry, says U. It Clifford, of The Upholsterer, "they usually don't know what tlicy are talking about The Gobelin works are iu Frauce, aud are subsidized bv the government They turu out goods do signed for state gifts, and the some goods are not made in Philadelphia, although as tho manufacturer of tapea trioa she is tho metropolis of the world. It is not thut we cannot make tupestrios as valuable as tho Gobelin, but who would buy themt No one could make them without immense subsidy. Chovreul, tho great ceute nariau chemist used 1 bo the chemist of the Gobelin works. They spend a year in turning out as much of the article aa could be made in a day or two at our rute of working. People frequently talk about Gobelin tapes try, but they apply the word to some faucy work done by the women. There is no manufacturer of it here." Phila delphia Inquirer. erlaus Wj of Ilookkeeplng, The bakers here have a rather orig inal way of keening accounts which may be called a kind of bookkeeping by double entry. When the carrier deliver! a loaf of bread, which, by the way, is about live or six feel long, he is handed a wooden lath about a foot long by the party to whom he delivers the bread. From a collection of laths of the same size one for each customer, be picks out this particular customer's one, and placing the two parallel, he cuts a groove across the face of both. In the final adjustment of account! DoUi lallia have to have the same num ber of notches. Cheap, but ingenious. --Prollet (Franco) Cor. Bt Louis Post-Dispatch. Mr. Ppurgeon wss only 10 when he preached his brut sermon. Even then bis eloquence was remark at le, and within a lew years he had gathered ahout him a large ongriration. At that H me be wss s pale snd slender stripling, with a notit)ly Urge head. Hit ro tundity ol body csuie msny years Ister, Tinme seer he shrieked. "Fur de lovo o' heben. tnawsters, dat chile Mawse Jasper thorne's darter, little Mis Winifred Thome. There was a murmur of Incredulity hut Larkln Insisted, apologetically "Tubbe sho, hit doan look lak hit, but bit's so. Hukkom she's in sich a rig; sh t.jMn nlttvlfi aiirarilsa. Lewd! Lawd! It r.-j ... . ha killnd. mawstersr They lifted Missy from the ground and carried her into a neighboring drug atira. where she recovered consciousness, "I'm Winifred Thome," she said, aud eaaaved to move, but fainted again "Any bones brukr Larkln asked anx- louslv of the doctor bending over nor, The doctor thought not; but there was probably serious Injury somewhere; and Larkln was ordered to return and inform Mrs. Ilerrv. PbbI Ilerry had hardly told his grand mother what he knew of the accident when Missy was brought In on a litter, where she Isy, deadly pule, with her eyei climeil. and moaning piteously Miss Elvira came and looked at her. "Oh. Winifred." she lamented, "what will vour father sav'f" Hush!" Mrs. Ilerry warned her; but Missy heard and oiened her eyes. "I was try in' to find Brer Nicholas, she nanted. "Poor child!" Mrs. Herry sighed, with tears falling over her cheeks like rain. Miits Elvira staggered back to tho sofa In the parlor and wept and wrung her hands. "Some one must go for the colonel," Mrs. Ilirrv said One of Puul's young friends, who had helped to bear the litter, offered to ride to Thome IIill, and some time past mid night Col. Thome alighted at Mrs. Hur ry's gate. He had ridden hard and he had ridden alone, for he would not allow the breath less messenger who brought the tidings of Missy's full to return with him; nor wss it so much the instinct of hospitality thut made, him insist upon the young fellow remaining the night at Thome aa the dcHire to escape all witness of the anguish he could not hide. Ho had or dered Uriffen Jim to make ready the double buggy aud follow immediately with Glory-Ann, but he himself rode out in the night as furiously as his sou had ridden away just one year before. Tho colonel remembered this and groaned aloud; he remembered, too, with a shud der his declaration that he would never again cross Mrs. Herry'a threshold save in cu.se of somo calamity; and the calam ity had come, but not to Mrs. Ilerry. The lights were still burning in the parlor and in the hall, and there was a light also in one of the rooms upstairs. The colonel, as he dismounted, scanned the wiudows of that room with a fevered effort to read there some sign of his child's condition, before he strode up the path. His violent ride had not subdued his excitement, though to the physician who met him at tho door he presented the impenetrable, distant demeanor that hud always characterized him; the only sign of feeling he showed was his utter in ability to frame in words the questions that burned In his eyes. I am of the opinion that the injuries will not necessarily prove fatal," the doctor saiil, and paused. The colonel bowed. "Out lameness may be the result." An angry flush darkened the colonel's face, but lie heard all the doctor said in silence, and then, turning abruptly away, went upstairs. At the door of the room where Missy lay Mrs. Herry met him. "What is the matter."' he demanded, "lias not Dr. Lane told you?" Mrs. Ilerry said, glancing at the child on the bed. "One doctor!" exclaimed the colonel, wrathf ully. "I will have all the doctors In the state! I don't behove the injury will result in lameness; I won't believe anything of tho kind." "My dear cousin, said Mrs. Herry, "we must hope for tho best. Let me give you some collee after your long night ride? Or a glass of wine?" The colonel refused; he wanted noth ing, he said; but be would see the child now. He stood by the bedside and looked long at Missy, The doctor hud given an anodyne, and she lay asleep, with her hands crossed .on her breast; and her father, overpowered by the sight, turned awuy and left tho room. In the morning he camo again. Missy had uut stirred. "When will she wake agsin?" he asked, despairingly. But when Missy awokehia distress increased. She had been so little caressed by him, so seldom noticed except to be repri manded for some childish fault, that he was the last person she wished now to see. "Take him away!" she entreated. "Don't let him touch mel It hurts me to touch me; and it wou't do a mite of good to scold me." "Winifred, 1 will not touch you; I will not scold you," tho colonel assured her. For answer Missy covered her face with her hands and screamed and sob bed, so that it became necessary to take the colonel away. But remain away the colonel could not aud would not When she was quieted he came again and sat down with his hands liehlud him, in order to show that he did not mean to touch her. If she would only smile! But the troubled look he wore was not calculated to win smiles. "Where hurts you, Winifred?" he asked. "Don't you feel better?" "Nowhere hurts," answered Missy. "And I don't feel better." . The colonel sighed. "Is there anything you would like to have?" He struggled for some term of endearment, but his lips, long unused to affectionate utter anco, refused to frame the words he sought. "You shall have anything you ask, Winifred." he declared, pathetically. Missy closed her eyes and did not an swer. She woe silent so long thut her father thought her asleep, and he was growing uneasy at what he fancied might be a fatal symptom, when she suddenly opened her eyes, and looked at him with greut earnestness, "No, you won't," she said, "no, you won't" Mrs. Herry had just come into the room to say that the doctors were down stairs, but the colonel signed to her not to speak. "iou said it once before," continued it. -rrzrz-zrzz. ,i iild mm to do. And I inu ";" T-l . I.it.rrr fnranVUIIDK J lumi. The colonel covered his ft ith W hands and stifled a groan. In his judg ment, it was Nicholas alone who was re .ponsible for Missy's hurt; but. he was ready now to make any concession "Do you know where Nicholas- is?" he asked, desperately, of Mrs. Herry, to the utter .astonishment of that lady and of MissyTlt was the first time he had named his son since the night he had repudiated blMrs. Ilerrv shook her head. "Unhap- I Hr. nnt know." she answered, sadly. The colonel was wholly unprepared for such an answer. Knowing that airs. Uerrv had always taken Nicholas' part, ha hn',1 f..li inro that she was In corre spondence with him; and angry as he had been In this ueiiei, no more angry now to find himself mis taken. ? nptpr racelved a reply to any of my letters," Mrs. Herry explained; "and at last I wrote to the postmaster at Tampa; from him I learned that Nicholas was gone, no one knew where." She forgot Missy, and Missy forgot herself. "If you don't find him, I shall die!" cried the child In her vehemence she had raised herself in the bed, but in stantly fell back with a scream. CHAPTER XXL a NEW PLAN. "Vat chiU it ilawtt Janttr Thorn t't ditr tr." The impulse that directed Missy's flight was but the culmination, undor a favor ing suggestion, of that agony of longing and regret which hud possessed her soul for a yenr post. The mention of Paul Herry's return hud been like a match to a train of oviler; Missy's resolve was fired instantly; time, opportunity, hvr disguising dress all invited. It was but the work of a fow seconds to cut oil her hair. Desperation lent wings to her feet, and soen sho was out of riht and out of breath, behind tho quince hushes, where she paused an instant, striving to devise noma plan by which to eludo the children; for hero iu Tallahassee, Missy felt herself nine miles on tho road to Tampa, and her fear of the great, un known world that lay outside the familiar limits of her lifo was proportionately abated. Fortune favored her; the children gave up the pursuit, and Missy, havingcliiubed over the fence, ran down n back street, as laughable a little figure as ever ap eured in unacciiHtouied clothes four sizes too large for her; but in the gather ing dusk sho passed unseen. Her aim was to overtake the stage in which Paul Herry was expected and by some means to hide herself therein. Once away from Tallahassee, Missy felt sure of her route, for with her all roads led to Tain )a. By uint of wandering she camo at lust to the postolllce, in front of which the stage hud just stopped. The sight of it thrilled her with exultation. She felt herself at last on the way to rejoin her brother. There could be no hindrance now, ulie felt sure, to her journey. She daubed across the street and reached the stage couch unobserved, for all the. by standers were gathered around the potit oflice, expectant of the mail. A quartet of young lads were drsgglug another lad from the coach with hilarious greet ing as Missy climbed up by the hind wheel on t he opposite side and established herself on top. There a terrible sense of isolation pos essed her. She stretched herself out, face downward, and to keep from wail ing aloud, stuffed the skirt of her nan keen blouse In her mouth, loathing her cowardice. But her purpose gave way at lust After all, she was only pretend ing to be a boy; how could she, a poor. quaking little girl, ever hope to find Brer Nicholas unaided and alone? In despair and self contempt she began to climb down with perilous haste; the driver cracked his whip, the coach gave a lurch, Missy lost her hold and fell, with wild scream, between the wheels. ' The horses were checked instantlv, and i...-. i. .i . i . . .:,pnw . i -Youdon-tstick uptoyow word k. u li i "7 , T,) hw" wch a charge brought against Ev hn. fln l , iTw h.'ven by a ..ld. waa an imlignitv by his young friends, turned back to join I , i.. i .. , ... the little crowd assembled .round Missy. I 11 " i. " "m lying unconscious in the sund. t u"J7tJ 'f"" No one recognized the child, and a'Sl1 '"l"'"" '""u u'- looker on had just hazarded the coniect-! .. j . ... ur. Wt the outlandish Ullle cTa.ure' SZKuTZ tV" n,i,iii,.v..,.,...i.,.i. . , Mcholas, she asserted, demintlv. "And must hive arrived on the stage, unknown t ...... it- , n , .1.... , . ,, . I st out to flnd hun because Daddv Gd- thescVne. 1 Miss ,ol7 White brought word m iycni'iss was :mJJt'eUrvur; aud "It teemM that what you tay it bound at- ways to come true, juum are. The din-tors summoned to Winifred Thorne's bedide were unanimous in the opinion that she should not be moved for some time to come; so, for two months or more, Col. Thome and Miss Elvira took up their abode with Mrs. Horry. Missy s case excited universal sym pathy, though Missy herself did not make an attractive invalid; she was exacting aud salf willed to a degree that taxed the utmost patience of all who waited upon her, the colonel alone excepted, who, of all her attendants, was to Missy the least acceptable. Misinterpreting his anxious countenance, bIio resented his watchful ness as though it were intended to rebuke her rash escapade, and again and again she repeated thut she was not sorry she had tried to go to her brother, let at times a strange, dull anguish, to which she would give no utterance, weighed upon this ardent young spirit, when for hours she would lie in silent, hopeless contemplation of the changed life that awaited her. For by dint of Glory-Ann's oft repeated admonition, that if she did not keep very still she would never walk again, Missy had come at lost to under stand what was her doom. "It seems that what you say is bound al ways to come true, Mom Bee,," she sighed. "Don't you remember the night my father drove Brer Nicholas away, and I ran out in the rain, you said then I was goin' to be all crippled up, so I could never dance." Mom Bee's heart smote her. "Dullaw, now, honey, hukkom you 'members all sich ez dat? Don't you know yo' ole mammy jes' sesso ter mek you obey? Doctors is got a heap mo' sense den mos' on us; en' you jes' min' what de say, you gwun hop ofTcn dat bed spry ez a cricket, come bombye." But in this prophecy Missy put no faith. Lying weary and helpless upon her bed, she pondered many things in her small bruin with a seriousness beyond her years. Striving to picture to herself what life would be on crutches, she had begun to find a sort of pleasure in making plana for such a life. It seemed now to Missy that, since sho could no longer run about at will, and climb trees, and wade in the "brunch," sho might as well take kindly to quiet, young ludy ways, aud submit to be educated. Therefore, when at lust she was allowed to return to Thorne Hill, she astonished her father and her aunt Elvira by the announce ment that she would like to have a gov erness "right away." The colonel, anxious to gratify her every whim, and greatly rejoiced that her desires had taken so commendable a direction, wrote to his aunt in New York, begging her good offices in the selection of a governess much as he would have written for any bale of mer chandise. The colonel's aunt, Mrs. Lorrimer, was as fixed in her opinions as the colonel was iu his, and sTie positively declined the responsibility ot selecting a governess for Winifred Tliorne. The colonel, she argued, was not yet past the prime of lifo wherefore should she send a woman to Tliorne Hill at the risk of bringing about a matrimonial crisis? But, as she felt an interest in the child that bore her name, she earnestly entreated her nephew to let her have charge of Winifred in New York, where she could have the benefit of treatment by specialists and at the same time receive the best instruc tion. The colonel acknowledged the wisdom of this plan, but he was loath to send Winifred away from him just yet; and while he was still pondering this neces sary step Christmas came round again. To Missy this Christmas was a grievous disappointment. She had cherished the hope that Nicholas would return at this season, and when the day came and passed without him she was In a state of almost frenzied distress. "Father! Futher! Where is Brer Nich olas?" she cried, pushing away the gifts that ha 1 been lavished upon her. It was a question the colonel could not answer. "Don't you ever think of him?" pleaded the little sister, with her slender hands pressed against her aching heart think of him all the time. I don't ever forget him. Oh, father, suppose he is hungry this 1 hrixtuias dayr Her father turned upon her a face stony in its despair. "We must forget him," he said, hoarsely. "He is not to be found lor any search of mine. To forget is all that is left us.' "Oh, what does this mean?" cried ML-y, wringing her hands. Pro PR co.vn.TKD.i AFTER TWENTY YEAR8. My wife's a wlnsoms wee thing, Wed twenty yesri or mslr, lad re th boomer jrowlnf , As baltb mine eye doctors. Tls love tnst made her bonnla, And love tht keep hr Id spit o' time snd fortune, On life's uncannle wsy. Lots scwt wa" Uie wrinkles From off her smooUi. whits brow. And duty done tbrouKh good an Aye kesp her oonsclenoe true And yield her happy pesos of mind, If e'er the world got wrong, And turns the murmur of IsuieoS into a cheerful song. The klwe gather on her Hps Like blossom on tb rose, And kindly thoughts reflect the Ufa That in her bosom glow As wavelet In a running stream Reflect the noontide ray, And sparkle with the light of heavea When rippling on their way- Bhe ts a winsome wee tiling. And more than twenty year BhS'a twined herself about my heart By all that can endear; By all that can endear on earth ( Foreshadowing things above. And lead my happy soul to heavea. Rejoicing in her love I -Charles Slacker. A PERILOUS RLDR Along in the early forties some of the best farms of today in western Ontario were still covered with virgin forest, and the few scattered settlement gave little promise of ever growing Into the flour ishing towns which now dot the country. Over the rough roads fanners had hard work to get produce to market Game was plentiful in the dense woods, but so were bears, panthers and wolves alto gether too plentiful at times, and very little traveling was done after dark. Among the first settlers of what is now called the garden of Canada were two cousins, named Tom Shepton aud Hugh Mallet. Their farms adjoined and thoy were the best of friends. But it so hap pened that they both fell in love with protty Mary Huston, and Tom won her. Hugh was passionate by nature, and he vowed ho" would never speak to either of them again. Tom and Mary were married one fine July day and went to keeping house at once; but though the houses of the cous ins stood not a hundred yards apart, and the nearest neighbors were miles away, Hugh would not look at his successful rival and wife. Everything went well with the young couple until one evening when Mary waa taken suddenly alarmingly ilL It was in the latter part of January; snow drifts blpcked the road to the settlement where the doctor lived; a blizzard had been blowing for some days, and it waa intensely cold. The farms of the cousins were about seven miles from the settlement, and the most of the way lay through the forest It meant at least two, and perhaps three, hours of hard work for the best team to reach it, and Tom dared not leave his wife. Far from the necessaries of ordi nary civilized life, hardy pioneers who lead the van of progress in the wilds have to depend much on the good will of each other. Tom saw himself forced to ask a favor of Hugh, and much as he disliked to ac cept one from a man who would not take a kind word from him, he stepped into his cousin's house and told him of his distress. Hugh heard him in silence, and then went out and hitched his team to a cut ter. He piled in a heap of buffalo robes and put a six shooter in his pocket Then, without a word, he drove off, fol lowed by the grateful thanks of his cousin. The sun had set an hour ago, and the stars were sparkling And glittering in the deep blue black sky, but later on the moon would rise and light the way home. It was bitterly cold, and the frigid gusts of wind stung Hugh's face like cuts from whip lashes. He knew he bad a risky journey before him in going to the settlement by night The winter had been a hard one, and at such times wild beasts begin to hang around the houses and to prowl about the roads. He kept a sharp eye on the horses, for when it comes to sniffing danger a horse can give a man points. . They floundered through innumerable drifts and over many a stump and fallen tree, but yet made such good time that in an hour they reached a better piece of road about two miles from the settle ment Urging the team to a trot, Hugh set tled back among the robes, congratulat ing himself on the safe and quick trip they had made. For a few hundred yards his medita tions flowed along uninterrupted, but when a certain low growth of bushes was reached, the horses snorted loudly and reared back on their haunches. Hugh was nearly thrown cut by the sudden stop. "Get up!" he cried. And as he had no whip, he lashed them with a rope halter he had in the cutter, one end of which was tied to the seat to keep it from being lost Crack! crack 1 went the rope, but the horses would not move forwari Their ears pointed right ahead, and they stood shivering with fright Drawing his revolver, Hugh peered be yond them iu a vain attempt to discover the source of their scared appearance. "Go along!" he yelled again, smacking the bnes on tho horses' back "go along!" Just then they swerved sharply, and a great, dark body sprang out of the bushes and landed right in the cutter. It was a panther, and so sudden and unexpected was its leap that Hugh had no time to fire. Its great fore paws came against his breast and arm, knocking the revolver out of his grasp and tearing half his clothes off. Its foul, steaming breath poured into his face, and the great, glis tening fangs were not six inches from his throat The horses had bolted, and before the panther could do any further damage the violent jolting of the cutter threw it off bis chest Hugh grabbed tha only weapon at hand the rope halter and struck wildly at the big brute. By a lucky chance the noose slipped over its head, and as Hugh tried to strike again the halter tightened around its neck. A fearful struggle began. Gathering op the buffalo robes, Hugh sought to protect himself from the wildly clutch ing claws of the infuriated panther and to push it off the cutter. As the frightened horses galloped along at full speed over the rough road, the cutter swung from side to aide, bump ing and smashing against the treea Every minute threatened to bring about 1 collision which would dash it to pieces, thrown over and rue comouuMU" ----- , over, the robes were soon in tatters and Hugh was Weeding ituuj" - and getting weaker every minute. The panther got his left arm In Its jaws and crunched it savagely, making blood spurt out in streams. Then Hugh, for the first time, saw the rope around its neck. Grasping it despe&itely with his free hupd, he pulled on the noose with all his might The suffocating pressure caused the beast to let go his left ann, but in i ts agony it tore pieces of flesh off his right and threw him to the bottom of the cut ter With a frightful roar it crouched over him, and its great paws tore at his breast. All seemed lost, when the runaway team turned a sharp comer. The cutter swung too short and waa overturned. Out pitched Hugh, and the panther on top of him. But they did not remain to gether a second, for while Hugh lay still, exhausted, bruised and bleeding, the panther waa whisked off his feet and jerked head over hoels after the cutter. The rojie was tied to the seat, as men tioned before, and the furious gallop of the scared team tightened its hold round the panther's neck and gave the beast no chance to regain its foot Choked, battered and torn. It was rolled and dragged and yanked after the cutter until every bono in Its body was broken. When within a hundred yards of the village the cutter collided with a tree and was dashed to pieces. The arrival of two runaway horses alarmed the people, and they set out to search the road a piece. They soon found the broken cutter and the dead body of the panther, and not long after ward they met Hugh, limping along in the snow. His wounds were dressed, and a fow hours later the doctor reached Tom's wife. For a week Hugh had to stay in the settlement, but as soon as his wounds would allow it he went back to his house, Tom's wife had in the meantime wholly recovered, and under hor loving care Hugh's wounds were speedily healed not only those of his body, but bIso those of his mind and the three neigh bors have remained the best of friends ever since. Hugh has still the torn skin of the panther, and entertains a high regard for the trophy of that perilous sleigh ride. Zu Befehl in Saturday Night All Get tha Same Pay. Denman Thompson, the "Old Home stead" genius, makes it a rule to pay the same amount of salary to each member of his company. "I tried the old way," says he, "but I lost faith in it. The fel low who got only $20 a week couldn't help envying the other fellow who, on a salary of $10 a week, could gratify tastes which were beyond the reach of his as sociate. This feeling begot jealousies and discontent, and I made up my mind to do away with all cause for envy by instituting a one price system. I find that this system pays in my company. I don't pretend to say that in other com panies it would be practicable, but so far as my experience goes actors get along amicably so long aa they share equally at the box office." Chicago News. A Medical Consultation. At the time when Josephine Wessely, the great singer, excited so much enthu siasm at Leipzic, a student called on the famous Dr. Thiersch, complaining of a severe pain in his right arm. On exam ination Thiersch found that one of the sinews of the arm was displaced, and asked the student how it huppened. The young man stated that be, with several companions, had taken the horses out of the carnage of tho fair artiste and had dragged it from the theatre to her hotel. The doctor, who had no kind of sympa thy with such doings, dryly replied: "My good friend, in that case 1 can do nothing for you; you will really have to consult a veterinary surgeon, who un derstands the treatment of horses and asses!" Pinturicchio. A Bono In a Forty Foot Well. A curious accident occurred to a rider at Westminster, N. C. While seated on his horse at the depot, a train rolled up, at which the horse becume so frightened that he backed upon the rotten plank covering of an old well, which broke and let both horse and rider throw n. An old tail was sticking in the muddy bot tom, on which the horse was impaled. His struggles were fearful, and his rider, who, strange to say, did not get unseat ed, had a narrow escape from being crushed to death. As it was, he was severely hurt before being rescued. The well was forty feet deep, aud the horse died before he could be pulled out Philadelphia Ledger. In tb Language of Love. "Chewing pickets" is the term now In vogue by those who express themselves In slang as applied to young lovers who linger long over their good nights, and has supplanted the well worn one of "holding up the front gate." A reporter heard the new slang for the first time from the lips of a young man whom he met on the street, and whose teeth were chattering as if he was suffering from a fit of ague. When asked what was the matter with him, the young man replied in a shaky voice: "fve been chewing pickets with my best girl for an hour. I'm nearly frozen to death, but I hadn't the heart to tear myself away." Middle town Mercury. Silver Collar, Cuffs and Belt. Who In New York can boast of a real silver belt collar and cuffs? And yet there is such a set and a most remark able one. It belongs to May Yohe, the girl with the beautiful eyes and the deep contralto voice, and waa made for her in California. Of course it is solid silver. The design is open, and shows here and there a four leaf clover surrounded by a floriated pattern. The girdle is a deep point in the back and front reaching far up on the bodice and the same distance below the waist line in front At the sides it is about two inches wide, and the fastening, on one side, is almost in visible. The collar and cuffs are pointed, and will fit right over the cuff of the sleeve or the collar of the gown. It la specially effective when worn, aa it fre quently is, over a Grecian costume of white wooL New York Sun. i .. Ml. uwaauiamanfw.. fas was first struck In T'S totrkt.andhewa.Mi'Wl about it as we w.itJi k Columbus. m C "Wall, you know..,. ' onBillwa.a.rreatCSv r1n ha 1,. .1 u . . tw reading and My to me l urn, l vebeeDrea,ij Is and I'm goin' to fJ?N nere on onr fann " 'Shoo. Bilf ... i strike nothinir nti.u '.. J and worms.' 141 "Uut he went at it i w nd bow aud fool .round.!?? ' toboethecorn.unaon.r snnthin'. Th - "M ty&i Ahere cam B,i smell that both of twM j 1 hous". then tbsr', that we was drove to.nl?'. wehadtoHtl,ehog,ourfri they would have keeled ov h . .run i i ..... could breathe again tiW. wasted three months' time JL H I1" CalnSf J about a thousand torn cu Zl all been driv off the farm j, J? "f It's my turn now t .tt,. Ji .... . 'HlIltiH t youKiugitreoUyfurth,. in' a boy ever got' "I give it to him. irrrti I I went spookin' around toS?" Who'd buy the farm t .bum . the barn, A feller ui,n J' catarrh and didn't mind thei, up a oeai with ine, and i y "' I walked off with his mosn T1 arm. I kept on grinnia'h,r week, but then I heard stopiied me, and I guess it't since I've opened mymottiiu' Them dead cats was wom, , C thousund dol wrs to me i for $S00 and walked aronnJ self on the back fur beinW' tuic. now lorn BUD. Miss Braddoa as "a. Uh Among the new knightsanthtV, era ui vwo novelists, aius Miss Olive Schreiner. It bu curred to me that it would b ; found an order for women whw,. give those possessing it tber$t; nx iatiy to tneir nan, make the people's soma ml! era them with ease," said And if any minister had tit p.) create "Ladies" my impress would remain minister forirjv sideruble time. What pew J Jones, M. P., have if Mrs. fasti that it only depended on hiinter' ness for her to blossom (urtiiit 2 Jones? Putting, however, aside thiiji-., advantage, why should distkji. men be mode knights and Jkkv. women not be made ladies? II ; to have knights with ribbcti'4 their necks and across their tet umnlil lui nnlv fiiir i IIima mvil were also conferred on their m am entirely agiunst woman strar I see no objection to women tr ail this sort of decorative air and assuredly, if they merit ifiii absurd that the only way for tk! obtain it is to give one to tier bands. Mr. Brad Jon, I nukentq is deserving of the prefii of "Sii.'i his sister, Miss Braduon, ha ills, equal right to the prefix of "U Exchange.' A Successful lukoowl St 1 u-ftii tolkimr with a aubscripaa lisher.uudiu tho course of ocrcii ..Hnn Im rpiu'hed in his likvi pulled out a book the title of 4 never heard. It was called "Golii and Heuven," a book aa prttoM' sizo as in title. "What is then about tho book? Well, I will M Of that work there have beenii; one million copies," said the "and yet I'll wager that there sr4 men iu the biggest New YorkcM never heard of the book, iadj. you there is no such work printer ) This struck me us rather odd., tennined to make the test I' six of the largest book statist York that day and asked fatf "God, Home and Heaven." F. exactly as my friend predicted. countered only one man whoei, of the book, and he said he Hid' where I could get a copy. "W out of print for years," he sddH yet within two blocks of that nm there was at that time prWj tionof 5(1,000 copies of vhe W" . pressesl-Edwin W. Buk.Ma Mary AodeiWs PhstapH The reason thut actrtssa i' j cessfully photogruphed u Uui'f derstand the laws of photj conform to them. Theyos. the direction of the pl themselves, and thephotugnp"" ; ing to let them. Mary Ander rv detail Of lion that puts her features. : Lonuon puouHjrar-uv. , of her face, except was ever iuuo " " live changed so as to the cheek a mue u" . a ; is. Miss Aacwsw - t contour of tier iun '""tr enough,andso she eJ photograph of her shall: reuW prfection.-NewJorkEv The first B" J The Bank of Engl" j in IBM, and is older than sT , stitutionsof the class uisnv ' great nations. I' "Ls the important financial hos. The Bank of Venice that of Genoa in 1MUW ,. 1619 and thatoi Her ure of urally ana iui " rt , 1803 the Bank o ""1 Of the newly endowed sees in Eng land, Liverpool is the richest, the grosa yearly income, derived entirely from dividends on invested capita, being $18,225.' The average annual Income of the other live new sees Newcastle, 8t Albans, Southwell, Truro and Wakfleld-la $12,225. in All low ni.w - lished.-St Louis Olot Orlfln of a Com"'- "Barking up the 5 common expression lntae -. inated from the fact that ,;. at the foot of a' part; f cate to his master tt located. While endeavon, animal he discovers l ; and it finally escsres.--- ,r its application it den f, . !! nhieCtOT" I it in the wrong P' Rev. James W. fKt' half a century a and founder of the first ft in that country, ssys: 4 the Chinese ln?T1! VS toanslatedthewTr religious work " way immeoja'j jrc . i but though I have stndi I I do not yet think that i the Chinese language-