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Show termmoa that, it he was on the watch ihai night, to make a desperate attempt to gaij possession of it, and make a grand push for A Tale of the Went Coast of Africa. goliberty. As tho shades of evening drew near, my Tho village oi the Ashantees must have TiY MAKI.TON nOWNITO. been half a mile from the river, for it took accustomed nocturnal keeper put in an ap. Stop um boat here no good go far tip us ten minutes to walk to it. It possessed Iiearanco, and to my great delight I saw river up (lore, bad Ashantee p.caty. Here, ono peculiarity, which was a high fence, the hand c of tho coveted weapon protrudmen trade heip dere, b'.ack man kill um completely surrounding the hundred or ing from tho folds of the coarse, eoeoanut cberybody. more huts which comprises the hamlet. As cloth which the man wore about his loins. And after this speech, my head ICroo-boHe took up liis usual position, squatting we passed through tho gateway we were stop; ted pulling at his long oar, an example met by si ores of savages men, women and upon his haunches, direetlv in the doorway, which was quickly followed by h's comchildren who followed eioso at our heels, and prepared to pass the night as comforU, panions thus allowing our largo b)at that laughing, hooting and jeering, which struck hly as iossible. Tho man would sit thin was well storked with goods for barter, me as being queer conduct for them to use throughout the entire watch, apparently to drift slowly down the current of the if they meant us no harm dozing; but. his sharp eyes detected my Niger. We were conducted to the center of tho every motion, and I knew that to gain We were tome ono hundred and thirty village, where there was quite an open possession of the knife I must secure it at miles from the sea, and I had pushed thus spa-- o in which was erected a little shed, or one spring'. far in hopes of striking better bargains not much more than a large roof, supported Watching for a favorable opportunity, with the natives of the interior, who seldom by four posts. On the ground beneath this when tlie man was looking directly at 1110, fell in with traders, than with those on roof a largo lire was burn in g, and besiao it I aroso and strolled to the door, as if to get the coast, to whom dickering was an al- sat the olJ chief and a number of his prin- a glimpse of tho setting sun. After standmost very day occurrence. ing a few moments, I, too, squatted down, cipal warriors. Upon seeing tho Koo I was ono of several agents of a largo I stepped forward to salute him, not two feet away from my jailer. There I American firm, doing business on the west but I was coolly repulsed; his whole manremained until it grow quite dark; ths coast of Africa, and it was my duty to exlier was vastly different, from what it was Ashantee had not moved a muscle since h change the goods sent from thoStatos, such when he visited tho station. first sat down, but 1 felt that lie was watch, ns br'pht. clothes, beads, looking-glasses- , Why coine int Ashantoi country i he ing mo very closely. knives, scissors, powder, shot, rum, etc., demanded, fiercely. When Ashantee want Twice essayed to make the attempt, etc., for ivory, palm oil, palm kernels gold trade him go down river to coast. When hut my oarage l'aile 1 mo. At last, driven dust and cochineal. man come to Ashantee country him killed. desperate, J mado tlie leap, and the handle On this trip I ha I twenty Ivroo-boywho And upon this lie gave a signal to a burly of tho knife was in my grasp, while the are partially civilised black men, hading native wlio was armed with a heavy club, of my left hand clasped his black from Liberia and who make periodical and was standing close beside one of my throat, and ho was powerless to give sa trips down along the coast in search of faithful Kroo-- o.vs. Whereupon, tlie brute alarm or defend himself. as laborers, porters, interpreters, It was a terrible thing to do, but I could swung his itooderous weapon aiolt, utul bepilots and go betweens for tho white men fore a hand coul be raiseA to check tlie not help it. It wus his life or mine. and their own I drew the knife and plunged it into Ilia brethren far- blow, brought it down on the unprotected ther to tlie southward. head of my follower, smashing it into a bosom, and felt tho warm blood follow the John blade as I withdrew it. exclaimed, springing to my feet, shapeless mass. and drawing a largo navy revolver, this An instant only lie struggled, and thtai Hut it was his last act of barbarism upon boat is going up as far as the Hirst Kapids, earth, for a bullet from my revolver sent lay lifeless in my clasp. 1 then drag gxl and you boys have got to pull her; and the his soul, if lie hud auy, closely al'lcr that of him into the hut and, returning to tho door, first man who lays in an oar, I'll blow his his victun. peered forth into the night. Nooneseemad ho ad off. to bo near, though several fires were burnI now expected nothin g short of a wholeYears of experience had taught mo bow sale massacre, and I determined at all haz- ing about the village, and I could seethe to handle those fellows; a bold and ards to lay old Koo-sulow tho dusky forms of tlie natives as they passed front must always be maintained, lirstone; so, turning, I covered the person between me and the light; hut I paused or else they would shrink the slightest of the chief with tho revolver, and with finonly an instant, and then stole forth, and duty, and perh ips leave ono in the wilds gers upon tho trigger, was about to shoot, hurried towards the fence or stockade. of Africa, or in tho midst of a turbulent I knew it would not ao to attempt to piss when to my surprise, the old fellow lifted stream to lined ones way to tho coast or to his bund and began to laugh. tho gate, so I determined to scale the fence. , White man him got twenty tho habitations of civilized icoplo as best It was no easy matter, as this barrier was him let one go. One could. Him make good eat to- - fully ten feet high, and, as it was made of nirrht John, him go. but him dead Krooboy! round logs driven into the ground, with the Massa Harry, him go, but him doad .Massa Upon tins I lowered the revolver, for I tops pointed, it offered a jioor hand-hold- . Ashantoo saw that at least there was no immediate V11en I reached it I took a short, run and boo, him Harry. Kco chief, him make war and kill um, eat um, danger; but the moment my hands wero at sprang for the top, and, to my great delight, was enabled to reach it. Now, to draw mycbcrvbody come in his country, and John, my side, my arms wero grasped and twitchhim dead Ivroo-boy- , but him pull um ed behind me, where they were tied, aud self up was an easy matter, and I soon boat!" my pistol taken from me. dropped over to the other side, and then, at I smiled to myself when I saw their the top of my speed, I made for the river. My followers, who, to a man, were paraI laid covered, perhaps, half tho distance, twenty black bucks bend to tho oars und lyzed with fear were quickly disarmed. The body of the Ashantee whom I had when I heard a terrible hubbub in the difelt the boat again propelled up tho river, for I had no apprehensions of danger, as in slain, had been removed from the hut, while rection of the village which I had so uncermy opinion the howitzer which wo carried that of the poor Kroo hoy was rapidly being emoniously left, and I felt sure that my in our bow and the arms with which we were dissected, and par!s of it held over tho lire, escape had been detected; but I did not well supplied for my Kroo boys were all well where it sputtered and emitted a sickening pause to listen to their hue and cry, but versed m tho rse of rillo and revolver) wore odor. When I thought of John's speech in dashed on to tho river. Keaeliing the bank. sufficient to repel any attack of tho naked the boat, I felt myself the worst kind of a I plunged into the muddy water and struck out down the stream. savigres; but better baa it been for me had murderer. I turned my head away, for I could not I taken the black pilot's advic", of at least I was always a good swimmer and had 110 heeded his warning, for it would have saved I), nr to look upon the repulsive sight. fears but that, with the tide in my favor, I mo many days of anguish of mind and My people have gone to the boat to get could pur several miles between myself and bodv! the presents you have brought for Ko sail m,v savage captors, in a short time. , Hour after hour passed, but the boa kept tho great King," phioidly remarkHat to swim in a river that teemed with White man is goal serpents and alligators, liippopo'auii auu slowly on her way up tho muddy river. H ed tho African chief. was a littic after mid day when John tirst to his Ashantee brother, and his Ashantee rhinoceroses was far from being agreeaexpressed his desire to tiring the journey to brother will take good care of him, will ble. an end, and all the afternoon which followwill keep him safe out from tho heat of tlie After awhile, I began to feel somewlut ed, our courso led us ovor a portion of the sun, and away from the rain and dews of exhausted, and, fearing cramps ill tiiis river where the bunks wore lined with night.." fresh water, healed for shore to take a douse jungle and deep, fetid marshes. After tliis sinister speech, ho said a few rest, Several timci wo caught sight of tho words in liis oyn language, whpn two of liis I was down among the swamps, merfioniT heausand backs of ho hippaixitami us they people Btepod forward, and cacti taking ino cd in the early part of the story, and tho sto'od hourly submerged in the tvatur, beby an arm, led me away into an unoccupied only resting place r could tlml wus to climb neath the shade of the overhanging trees; hut, and there left mo, with my arms still to tho branches of an overhanging tree. After remaining quiet some little time, I parrots and other bird i with brilliant behind mo. plumage Hew screeching about our heads. Oh, tlie agony that I suffered that night! again dropped into the water, and, as I did Once, a huge water snake, fully six feet It was a question which was tlie worst, so, I observed a large log washing up In length, wound his sinuous way across mental or physical. against, the trunks of the trees; this I sethe river just in front of the boat; but aside of was banished far from cured, nnd, pushing it out into tho middle course, Sleep, from these lit tic incident'3, nothing occured me, und ( fay throughout tlie hours of darkof the stream, lay with 1113 s'omaeh acro.-to disturb the tranquility of the voyage. ness, listening to tho wild orgies of tho it, and thus, without any further exertion, , The however, appeared very Cannibalistic savages. lloated down the Niger. At lust the morning broke, mil with its lien day broke, I must have been somo eneasy and seemed to redouble their wariness; their bright black eyes roved inces- early rays came the cii'.ef, and even him I twenty miles from od boj's santly over every object upon the two stiores was glad to see. that 1 might beg and be- village, and. as there Were no signs of puras thoUi li s 'arching for some enemy, who seech him U? reease my arms so as to suit, 1 p mlied my improvised life raft was lta! e fi spring upon them withrit an relievo tlie cxcrutiuting pain I had suffered ashore for another rest. inslant s warning. all the night ii ng. It lui'l tint .1 3 Town light, wh 'n. looking As tlie sun was slaking we came nut of Til's lie was perfectly willing t do. ami down stieam, to 1113 great del gin. 1 saw the district and into a part of tlie lie also me that it. was net liis iuten idling, two of the large.; b ats which countr. where the river's bank was linn tion that I should be lelt bound so long. wo had at tl.e stat.on, and cadi tilled with and alme-- deyo it of trees. Aflr casti.i r my bonds adrift, tho savage men - there lints' have eu at dad tiitv. We wl'.i camp here, I 1 know tt.at I boys, squatted dow a upon liis hut, m Uv and began need hbe a crazy person. 1 said. , i p hide t ;e bout for shore. a long talk. hallooed, laughed, sane, ere,!, danced; " ( ill ' i iv we camp here all "Koo sal. voo boo very hungry- - Kroo boy, and then so anxious was to me t mv de lii'n good make Ashantis fee strong livereis, l junq cd .nto ihe rivi r and swan, cue la A night eaten one tliis morntoward ic. 11. rl o sax' Unit t 1' v w ere erprised to s 'e ine Ainl b tliis I knew that another of my in the w: :er dm s no cxp:v-- - it they v ere pee fellows ha be m saerilieed to satisfy rendered fir the m si, eat. speechless vqh the limrii'-- appetite of the-- e rni"i sinners. but I si on made the matter "Yen don't bring in enough presents" lie plain to tiiciii. ; I, after a sli eu went on, for so great a King as Kinsu!i-vooti'-o- . tiou, we jV'.uved !o eeiit.nue on our v;i ; to , ew, you take one Krtin-ln,wo the v'Heps and such of the Kroo .vivo him moo. tell him go to coast, bring !: a lid to f.e .!; than themselves, especially those of black CAPTURED BY CANNIBALS. faces. Hut there was no help for it; we had to X s fin-ge- 1 3 vou-bo- h Ivroo-boys- sah-vo- voo-boo- 1 s Kroo-'aoys- 1 V i uiai-sli- as-ur- 1 .1 1 -- astcui-n.tui'Mi- 11 e;.-,;- - buck one big beat full, then oq g i. lfbo.il don l co.ne buck, then me eaten !er , at ast, was it ray of At an;, it h !! e l'.it allowe ! met cenimnn'e.ite sia'ion. an i l'elt sure that tli eo .id mis t to release me Irma mv but thi., 1 eo ime. ii:iftir!u'h!e not th.i.k ou.-- oeeuro-- 'e Ko boo. 1. of eeur-read !'' ciiin-nt.-to (end tlie and ho at e:i v had brought me a pueil and a p'eee ef piper, whlr.q.o laid taken tn.ni the b .at. tic also let .1 n none in'o the lint, for i.e ii was wh had sol e. eeted to carry the mes-The cid fellow w is very ni"e!i affe.'t si at seeing me: he threw his arms a"o..n my neck aud wept lute a child. made n n the orrnn on wh rh I Was about to send him, and lie premised that he would not rest a moment until tie had delivered the n essjge to the village; so, giving him a brief note dared not t write a long one for fe; r of rival ing a suspicion in the mind of Hi.- eliiei-i- , saw him depart oa his able appet !i-- . of li e r hurled In! to, l.'owit el ; o t ef the W mid. the Hr.igevil ti:e: l..l-;i:- FOUR DAYS ENTOMBED. through the hole 1 bove to cheer them with its welcome ray, together with a The Fearful Story of Two Men bottle containing pearl barley, which Who Were Burled in a Cornish they ate, using the empty bottle to Mine. catch the falling water drops. Twenty In February last we published what minute Thomas later may be called the outer world story of Chapman descended to the rescue, the entombment of the Cornish miners and, by the aid of a rope, drew the weak and weary captives out of their in the Drake Walls mine. This is now solitude to feel once more upon dreary supplemented by the pathetic narra- their faces the pure fresh air of heaven. tive of William Bant of how it fared London Daily News. with him and his comrade, John Rule, during ttie four days when night and Alaska s Possibilities. day were to them as one in their disThe has appointed a Verpresident HJO feet below the surface mal prison mont man Lyman E. Knapp to be of the eai th. It was tho morning of of Alaska. It will surprise Feb. 5, two the men that governor Tuesday, heard an ominous creaking noise, many people to know that tills Verfollowed by tlie tremendous roar of monter, accustomed to the rigors of a the rushing mass of loose sand and Mountain winter, will find Alasrock which told them of their awful (Ircen a ka change so far as climate pleasant a moment of before two peril. Only is concerned, says the Cincinnati their mates, who as we know escaped miraculously, had loft them to make Times. Tlie popular impression is, of their way down the pass to the middle course, that the nearer one gets to the level, some fifty feet distant. It was Arctic circle the colder it is. But tho now the turn of the other two to folcurrent which sweeps across tlie low, Hying for their lives, but too late. Japan Thousand of tons of the slipped wind Pacific from the tropics gives Alaska and rock already barred the way and a verg remarkable and peculiar clim-atIts winters, as far as tho thercut them old from till access to the cheerful delight and tlie sight, of their mometer goes, is the winter we have I ottered a prayer to in Cincinnati, which is about tho same felloe, ouen. ' ( od says Rant tit this point, and said: thing; while its summer is the summer Not my will, but th'ne be done. of Northern Dakota. However, it is a Their next act was to grope their way land of continual rains. There are back to tho spot whence they had started. What fate had befallen their two months in the summer when the sun is comrades they knew not, these men's not seen. Tourists have been known jackets, besides tlie jacket of Rule, to leave Portland and go to Sitka, and Rant's having been buried in the sand actually see nothing during their enand lost. This find was. indeed, a tire trip except an occasional glimpse piece of good fortune, for in the pockets of a rocky headland or a woody hill of each of the garments was a pasty through the fogs and rain storms that and a crib (apparently a small loaf), made them dump and miserable. When Seward bought Alaska there which guaranteed them, at least for awhile against starvation. Some hope was a disposition to laugh at him, althey had of finding a store of candles, though he himself said that it would but to their grief tin rushing sand had prove the great thing for which poscarried them away, together with a terity would remember his administrakeg of water, which, as the writer of tion as Secretary of State. He had an the narrative pathetically observes, idea that Alaska was the timber would have done us some good country of the world. And while if we had had it. it is a land of interminable forests, .yet Then they lay down on their beds of tho timber amounts to but very little. sand and stones, damp with the con- With tlie exception of an occasional stant dripping from the roof, and hour large line tree, the trees are small. s after hour listened for some sound to They look like gigantic bushes. are few and far between. It takes break tho dreadful silence. At last Bant, whose companion was deaf, ex- good ground and sunshine to make a claimed: Jack, I hear them sounding big tree, and Alaska seems to have from the forty fathom:" and Rule ansneither. It is a land of mountains and wered: (live them a peat. Thii it eternal rocks, but its mineral wealth is something that has never yet been was that the one morsel of candle which they had became precious, for it estimated correctly. The gold mines was needful to m ike their way to some which are already being extensively spot in tho direction of the knocking worked in some of the smaller islands Thus around Sitka give promise of being and there return the signal. they were enabled to communicate from the most prolific mines in the world, time to time. Then their little stock aud geologists say that as yet we have of matches gave out, and ere long a only scratched the grout dark cloud e me over them; for they rocks. The we tltii lhat lies beneath .'ould not hear the Iramtn .'rs working the surface may exceed the fabled gold for awhile. So the time pass d, the fields of the land of Oplnr. Then there is no doubt that the great imprisoned men alternately huddling together for wirmth and jumping fisheries olY the Aleutian islands will In prove to be richer than even the fishabout und beating their hands. Uhinon's du.ig in it was Um elder of eries of the (irand Banks. They are the three who sought to cheer and much safer, for there are not the shiftto uphold the rest. In the far deeper ing fogs, the dangerous currents and gloom and solitude of the cornish mine the fierco wines for which the vicinity it was Bant, the young man of HI, who of Newfoundland is notorious. first strove to keep up tlie spirit of liis Thu third industry for which Alaska deaf companion fifteen years older is famous tlie world over is the seal himself. occasion preserves, which yield the governOn one than he started to sing, when Jack said; ment already four per cent, on its investment. The seals are Billy, if you have a heart to sing But in a short protected by the U. S. government. have a heart to laugh. space tlietr forced gayely was turned Only certain people tire allowed to to melancholy. "My mate would say, kill them and the number of animals I am thinking of the old people at that may b) slaughtered each year is home. Wlrni a sad way they must ho it limited. It is almost a capital in. This will kill the old nun. lie offen-- e to kill a female seal, only was bad before, and 1110her is bail by the bachelors." as tlie male seals this time, expec!.' lie b'ing the only of two years old are called, Now it being slain. Since we have had support the old people h id. v. ho as his was the turn of Join Rul a the seals have possession of ooiniKUHon obs tws, was of stronger ste ulily ineixased in numbers, so that nerve, to speak a word of comfort in a this grcit ry. by the f istering graver way and to remind his comrade care of Uncle Sam, will tie made perof how they had .i!a.- been good petual. Amerle has a great tiling in friemN," imt never mi much - t!i n. ;n. As yet w.- are simply begin-tstill it Wit. tfie you ; m n who ha to uh.'it the rocky land t 0 b :lo all the sounding, lb .go is good for, although w. have found begun to fe deal' on one side through that Secretary Seward's ideas of what the dripping of water into tile ear it :s goo i lor wore eniicc '' enormous. . stout-hearte- d o. I , Saw-log- gold-hearin- g -o 1 Ain-k- , - a- o I It-- ' ROCKY MOUNTAIN BAIT. The Interesting Story of the Evolution of the Corbait. In the streams of the Rocky mountains the fisherman use a bait that i: not generally knbwn in tlie Lnite-States, says the Denver Republican. . i It is called corbait. water grub, and in It is a kind ci natural h. story i furnishes, like the butterfiy. some interesting evidence in favor of the doctrine of evolution, while the elo e o, its existence might point a moral for preachers and philosophers of opposite turns of mind. At the sandy bottom of a clear and sluggish stream it first appears as a little maggot rolling along with the current As it rolls, portions of the fines", sand and atoms of wood stick to it until it acquires a complete overcoat. With the gluey subslanej which it has acquired in nature's store, it cements the rand and little patches of wood around its body with marvelous skill. Its head and front parts are somewhat like a fiy or little beetle, und it has strong claws. When its overcoat or house is finished, with till the modern improvements, it stops rolling and begins to crawl on tho botljm again t tho current until it reaches a rock, under whicli it takes refuge from trout aud other enemies. There it remains in peace and security till through the summer. In winter it closes up the front ana oniy door of its cabin an I doubtless sleeps the sleep of the just. When spring returns and the water begins to get warm, it manages to thin down the walls of its habitation, from which, of course, the water is already expelled, until it becomes sufficiently buoyant to boar the tenant to tho surface. Then it fioats along, looking like an fragment of a rotten twig. Suddenly under the rays of the sun tho upper portion of this affair bursts open. It is a boat now, with one little passenger aboard a beautiful given fiy, known by trout fishers as the green drake. Perfectly safe in this little vessel, tliis green drake enjoys the sunshine. He ser itches his wing; with his toes, combs his hair with his fingers, and takes sonic long und lazy stretches. Then, as if struck with a new idea he raises his wings, hesitates a moment to consider nis future career, nnd at last Hies oil to make new acquaintances in another sphere of life. Unfortunately his want of experiettci wings is too often fatal to him. liis ability and propensity to walk upon the water seem io he of questionable utility; but ho gets there us if to look .on down upon til" miserable world from which lie rani". Lo.-- in reverie and serene happiness, lie Heat- - along carelessly and then disappears in the jaws of a hungry trout, where iii.s variegated career eudi Historian Bancroft' s Farcer. Tlie announcement that failing mental faculties have at last compelled Mr. lieorge Bancroft definitely to abandon his literary labors is not altogether unexpected, and 3'ot the great historian's fellow-citizewill find it a difficult task to accustom themselves to the thought that his days of activity are over. It is no exaggeration to put Mr. Bancroft down as one of the most, remarkable men whom the New World has produced. liis career will Do remembered- i,et mo!'e for its length and tho high quantity of Us achievements than for its versatility, liis history of the United St:it 's is the worlq with which his name will alwtus lie indissolubly connected, ami it is a labor which, if it stood alone, would sin d lustre lifetime. But Mr. Ita'iemlT than a historian. For m in had no small part in th" makim. hi-t- o his liis er 1 1 1 from th rooi. Hi- - oomrud". by wny '.fit oh .tvc that deuf in one ear -ay keeping up li is to o it was "b '',t than two." whir;., f ef e.mr ample way. it would i) a though if l'!l Were d nor lookout lor m. My 1.1, if.'." e m"woul Vrl'V linu"s th" nai ra I if me if I 'it k heard them nicking away now. lionr l!fm uiekly rep. it smart. gem ill for about file min'd" should b a-- i If '1 il't'd Foot, st.mq a liis O i" jiaiient i hi tu th1 ) !' icc.iii T!i iitiu':'. with ne'.er s., eking speed, Turn. g ins si.hi ; wif e. S.- lirr we spi id tie quo In" th".i, '.Va'cihng IK' 'ss T.- l: mv lib ml sli d low. in voice, pi'3 "1 1. iv tire in-- tojt la ml ue. m Tiic ootPr never ; c.is sc..: ,.ir' t if VMi a . is ev-i'u'.v i .1 I !' p 'CM " "j'vms U:- - i.oinnu. ;i !!:. u! v us. he rai i .v.i V. tni iVi-- .(. iiKi'.tiii; it Ni; Ou f" that t iur T !. i:ul u 'hi l. ro J." - 1 ..u Co .tinoat. wi-'c- , : 11 -. : '1 Tlf 'tfr I 1 1) l . 1 t..-- ! i p"e-sen- sah-vo- 1 I e. - but lt.le iali a' to rmare eel. uv it came quiie dark we i .; :.i it u bln dug lire, en.oyiu.' Tl.i a- cam;' wore our o' m nil. linisiied, wh m a native f 'uric, and ar.no with a hand-- : of e j fui I "ho: avelins, stepp .1 sudd 'nl.v an I int tiie liulit of tlie lire, cold:,, e Jo. .11 I'll, ate I a faint groan, and I think some of t: kinks of hi-- , wnolv hair straight d ened o.t. rut lie his idle and pro pared to 1,1:1 i on the uol'ensho. ivi-li Yoo doo gar to oo in io urine wtifi mini to him. All day tie see him on A r.ver and lie know him come lie re to trace. 1 ire to explain to the savage that I COU.d a it leave my bout, hut his chief mig!. end up.ai me in tlie morning, and we We i gra-pe- i a.teml to Hut toe native shook the javelins, wh'cli he ha i m 1. :s hand, significantly-- and Woule , e voo lion say come." us then lhat 1 detected tho black forms of a number of natives crouching up on tin e round, in he darkness just law ond tho re 'e of Held, and 1 fell Unit there iuu-- t . o "ivo, It Voo-Us v. i oo shown any fear or suspicion I harry an attack, it the savages meat i treachery, so 1 rose and prepared to accis' puny lue messenger, casually reTo kuo", in ail-- i:;o . g Kegni.iv Thing. ton Joi.rnn!. ItoihN (or (Jooil i'irR allow yourself to be under ligations to any man. Dont a 1 - I I lnis'ion. Alter Je:i:i had gone, mv jailer brought me some h ml, and. as I now felt a iitm easier in mini,, I began to lvalue the need of refivshmn t. Ia :ift io day passed, and I was never left alone for a moment; every time that the chief paid me a visit, which was almost daily, I won! beg of him not to kill 11:13' more of 11.3 Kroo In s. hut the old brute only laughed and rubbed his stomach. suggestive1 13 ly. Six tla.v s hud lit agged t heir vvr,,ry Ion knew that time enough had uhuig, and t.it 0 , elapsed to hear sojoetiiiuv fro. 'll-and a dreadful fear that s mie; h h. g ha i be fallen .loin: on hi- - u a.v hog an to take possession of me; and I b sought the ihief to allow me to son-- anot her man. v. hen he kind 1; informed me that if my ransom did imt arrive 111 two dav s my iile should pay the 11 so.' lac 'Jin in th ) spr.n Tears : he -- : Don't Sneaks around the oitier way. Ibiuxsiuawney Spiro. Plantation Philosophy. Nature's erfertiim is adu- - returned, eu.e she 'lever hives er pU"U.i tell de 0-- 5 j I : It- . 1 1 , 1 -- -- r;t!i-sp:i;t- 1 - pt-a- tii-s- . your family affairs ir general conversation. Don t give your photographs to men and dont ask them for theirs. Don t make yourself conspicuous m( my time by loud laughing or talking. Don't fail t" try to always bo frank and just and generous, and abuc ah pusso1 loves her. Dar is such close kin 'twixt ghidnc-- s raid sadness dat de t nr o' sorrow wtmianly. ez. bright e'. de tear o joy. l'ur which had sYz d i.per, ti.i :a as theys.r.v in vain, for th p is;;..; hud gone had Don't wear an evening di"ss to f In er but one dar ain't trade thing llieir cell paaio'is i!ei'e:le-..-!Y.hujUK and were .oaths qr," to the Mp'l!. The wuss den cheatin' er i afternoon reception; don't gc quiet an' dat one aii, b3' tiic fe'.'iK ieiis Ashan'ovs. v. ithont a lint or bonnet. fa'hh.'r old: The sounds, too. seem-'is lett in' him rin at you. ia-thing 'in I'd'.am i au hem whelh' hiM vqd. their smpina Lin r . they felt Dim t feel it neee-sar- y to brnv to ; It ain't alius brst ter tell the truth. d 'i eu to waste, u u a eai embarked in o;,r boa: ,:r. i tear cold ami v an you have met at a ball or v is tar r hen ef i lend"!' time; st rtrd ihnwi tlie ri.er, and reached 'i.c you pul partj rwai'd, unless jou want to coi.tiiuu s'.aiien'in ahull twen;-- fum1 hours; ard I, pl'iut outside do house de frost guim aequaintamv. ter bite it. I'm' one, was a wiser, if ml a better, man. 'on t write, except when it In ankeo I Puli'. Doin er thing too soon is rebout ez to ill"!!. Make ',ou!' noies ;! bade, not tF'iu' it er tall. J e peaeii ".'bill'd, mow ledgiug eour! ike., shorl SlAncls for Personal Character. bloom" hat come; out in January is al,. to the point. fro-d t. -ius kille a ir At by But the 'au. liig rule of till- - a.ge m: Old. though upon p.au Don't ofi'er to shako hands when ; !t is know in' dat we k"ti do er thing' e de e; ' ing their -- if! of this country - "a man foa' had In':' I man is in! n.iiuc-q you, and don' A min '. be n nl hut i s we wlieii tri: dat ':i'p ings; mighty tfienkeep-that.' Ael.ie'.em id - q only td Dhuk it when lie ays good De grain o' corn dat were up to tli" -- efface, u re s Irvn livin'. .".'try they of nobility lint we e uv to r.v.ign't ' should lik " to have ion" h i . wider e.od some; imes comes by. unless he first et"nds liis." , We inke no sham-ve.s t Don't, allow any arm to treat too, of cat iug a iorz of inline 'h r!, up befo'dooue k'i.el'ec wid er hnu'ful yo; tho grand -- I pn ide d respi-ctWa hit. g- - After th." tl.ouuhs pus-- e th"ough id aft dirt. -- Aykaii-aw anything but Traveler. ' a- I in ara one tin m m the soul" Um was a impertinence, any ap:tu.i livui in a my igt't remarked it to my mat", proach to familiarity of speech oi lion a member of the bn- ! ;i; no log cabin, am! th gramled general of taming. t " on, tirin' yo l didn't !!". an h: W- - vis in i uv;. e. t who sailPi :i. lie IV!.: "up. wa-- . e ; " . e 1, ..mi n :r i I'ui-it boast' that on".' I heira.M his business slvl.s a k.ud-.- i you do not read t In boa-1 we ei u.trary. of th"- -' men !e-- , them agahi. I, without hesitating, tiea.vure. newspapers, as many girs do. nmva, cans- of their humble origin. 1 Anvi-- J went over to tin; rise, railed out. and )onYt think it necessary to real my s. 11 The saloon K in the daily or weekly journals eon eYv-- I quickly received, an answer, which put ea, Ir. a word, -- t;i :i - for .Joseph Cook a.vs snihUo. aiii. but keep yourself posted on art He nr.ist have hear-neti-ro:n'. and not for a genealogical tree. new life in me." It was Ialo o'clock lhat a lighted spik of a pony of whisky. Drake's Me. Horary, social and political topic New York Herald. lantern was let down eighty feet day. Yankee Blade. : Amomr the eoods rf which tne Ashantees boat." quickly answered the native. And at poor John did fairly groan aloud, for had despoiled me were a minder ot ver.v lie well knew the fierce nature of the line Lowie knives, and i noticed that one of Ashantee and the deep hatred they bore fiv n:y guards w.io stood part of tho niaht wards auy people who were more civilized watch over me. carried cue. and then I Je- - diseu-- s ob- , i : r |