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The Wingham Times, 1885-10-02, Page 7IOwSEHOLD Wife, Qh}ldreu and L'rreudo, UT IOW AN Ream skstion, When the black -lettered ilea to the gods wee pee. wanted (The list of what tate for wbieb modal Wanda), At the long string of 111e: a kind goddess talented, And etapped 14 three bieeeiugB-•wits, children i q Mends., In vain surely Pluto meintelned he was cheated, Per Justice Melee could net canvases ira ends, The seaborne of emea penauee he swore wet defeated, Vex earth became hawse with wire, children And iraeede, it the stock of our bllew is Ia ettenger Mode vested, The fund, iti tweeted ofs in bankruptcy nude, But the heart house tette whish are never protected, When drawn oe the firm of wife, obituren and friends. The.dayspring of youth, still unolouded by sorrow, Alone oa Itself tot er joymeet depends; net dreier Is the twilight at age It It borrow leo warmth from the emilo of wits, chaldron atd friends. ()HOME R$OI.PES. GRAHAM Gi.sis.-•-One pint and a half of Graham, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 tablespoonful of butter, one egg, s cup agar, a teaspoonful of ealt; stir together with sweet milk or milk and water, or use water alone, to a batter not muob stiffer than pan- cake batter, Bake in hot oven, :Have your gem pane well greased. b Arne JELLX.—Cut apples in small pieces without paring, and,stew till soft, using more water than for apple aaueo,• Strain through hair seive, thou through a jelly bag twice, To a pint of •jutoe: put three fourths of a pound of sugar—a pound to a pint makes it too sweet—and boil until the right thickness is obtained, The addition of lemons makes it much nicer. CHeesso xES —.nine tartlet pans with puff - paste ; let the edges have three thioknesse sof paste. Fill them with the following mixture ; To a poundof loafaugar, add the juice of three lemons, two tableepoon'uls of brandy and a quarter of a pound of perfectly fresh butter. Grate the rind of a lemon over it as small as possible. Beat six eggs, and add them to it. Stir over the fire until it begins to thicken like honey, then let it partly cool. Fill the patty -pans and bake i r a moderate oven. COLD MARMALADEPGDDING, --Five eggs, a pint of boiling milk poured upon them alter they have been well beaten ; sugar to taste. The rind of one lemon, two ounces of atoned and halved large raisins, spread over a thiok- Itabuttered mold and four tablespoonfuls of KeiIler's marmalade. Cut six penny sponge cakes in slices, spread the marmalade upon them, lay them in the mold, pour the cus- tard upon them hot, Tie down carefully and boil gently one hour. Turn out only just before it is realaired, TEA CASES.—Rub one peapod teaspoonful of baking powder into a pound of flour. Add two ounces of butter also rubbed in, a quar- ter of a pound of sugar and two ounces of currants. Mix it with two eggs well beaten and stirred into half a pint of buttermilk or new milk. Roll out and make of the quan- tity six tea cakes. Bake in a moderate oven, and when half done wash over with the yolk of an egg beaten up with a teaahoonful of milk. These tea cakes are very nice out in slices and buttered cold for tea. • fleoorative Note8. • Great attention 'is now peki to the decora- tion of doors. N ome have large figures painted on the panels ; others are upholster- ed with cretonne, and some are papered. For a dining room furnished in mahogany, the wall paper should be red if harmony is wanted, or green if a oontreat is desired. In painting cornices dark colors should 'be avoided, ren used very sparingly, blue plen• tifully, and yellow and gold—the former especially—in moderation. A pretty way.of arranging the ceiling in a sittingroom is to duvet' it with a small patterned, quiet -looking chintz, over which place three inch wide flat -headed pine mold - Inge, painted oream'buif-motor, and crossing each other in each a way as to divide the ceiling into panels of about three feet square. Light oak or cherry, either of ire natural Dolor or stained, will be the most popular woods for the interior of a sdmmer cottage, Crossed battledoresa fastened. by a large bow, and serving as a support for a basket ornamented with another bow, make a pretty and useful wall ornament. Criwsonand yellow fotm a pretty combin- ation for a portiere. For bedrooms there are white muslin or cheesecloth curtains with' a lace edging on the front, or a plain hem.with bands of plain sateen. Braes chains are used for looping up por- tieres, or mantle lembrequins, or are fee tooned aoroas them. Educating Botts, Let ua make business men as well as law- yers and physicians out of our boys. There is a large and extensive field for work in every direction There' are abuses to be correcte.d, defects to be remedied, that oast for the man of talent. By establishing and extending industries and manufactures the successful merchant can accomplish more good for the world than either the attorney, physician or minister. He furnishes em- ployment to hundreds of bander, thereby giving thousands, the suatenance of life: tiff His life is elev..ting in the highest degree. Tho petty annoyances and vexations of trade are trifling in comparison with the benefits that must be conferred upon the 'community by the business meu, And it is for such considerations as these that the mercantile community should exact and ob- tain from all men the highest respect, and its prominent members Yemeat° 'that lofty position to which they are justly entitled, ward- ete A story is told of a bishop. He recently addressed a large aeaembly of Sunday -school children, and wound up by asking in very paternal and condescending way : "And now, is there a•a•n•y little boy or a-a•n•y little girl who would like to ask me a ques- tion?" ,After a pause he repeated the quest tion t "Is there a -a -n -y little boy or a•a-n-y littleirl who would like to eek me a goes. , tion ?'A shrill voice called out : e' Pleas°, sir, why did the angel walk up and down Jaoob'a ladder when they had wings?" " Oh 1 ah yea, I ane,"said the bishop. "And now, is there a•a-n-y little boy or a -a -n -y little girl who would like to ans"or May's question?" TAB LIMB -KILN OIgUB There was an unusually large turnout at the regular Saturday night meeting, and the half• dozen Chinese lanterns which Liiveadant Jewel; bad purchased at his own expense and hung around timbal! produced what Samuel Shin t rmed: "A epuotaoled affect of de wildcat disorder," Nl;w Roans, It was announced that the following new rules and regulations would govern until further ordera ; The hour for opening the regular meetings will be 8 o'clock. No clay pipes over one year old can be smoked in the library without special per- Infsalon, The eating of peanuts, popcorn, candy,eto., during seesione is calculated to divert atten- tion from the solemnity of the occasion, and Is therefor discouraged, Members who briug their dogs with them must be prepared for the worsr, Any member found with his hat on after the triangle has sounded will be find not less than $400. All religious and political disousaion is atriotly forbidden, Members are also asked to abstain from telling fish etoriae or relat• fug adventures with rattlesnakes and Indians. Where it becomes positively naessaary for a member to remove hie shoes to scratch his chilblains or rub a whetetone over hie corns . he must retire to the anteroom in a quiet and unosauming manner. A FEW S IGGESUIONS; • Gom'len," said the President as he softly rose up and calmly looked down on the "' shining pates of Sir Isaac Walpole and )rider Toots, "der and some few things it would be well furyou to disreokolect: "De man who seta on de fence when de sun shines will be digging fur grub when it rains, "Industry may make de back aohe, but she fills de stomach an' kivers de feet. "De man who wants satiafeershuu by law wilt satisfy de lawyers sooner Tan hissed. • "Knoekin' aman down bekase hs differs wid you dean' prove de truf of your own poli- , shun. "De less a man knows de mo' anxious he = teems to bo to make de public believe he am t► atateeman. "Let us now attack the reg'lar program - my and destroy de bizuess which has called us togeder. SUSPENDED. The Secretary called attention to the following paragraph in the New York Sun : " Danforth Smith, a colored resident of. Hoboken, waa yesterday fined $20 and sent to jail for three menthe, for brutal treat= ment of his mule, He is said to be a member of Brother Gardner's Lime Kiln Clu "Db."oes his cognomen appear on our rolls ?" asked the President, "Yea, Bah. He jined dis olub one y'ar ago, an' was pertiekierly recommended fur his childlike disposition," " You will at once notify him-dat he am suspended fur six mouths—not fur wollopin' de mule, exactly, but mo' bekase he was caught in de act and sent to jail. I owns a mule myself, and while I strive to be placid an' forgivin' an' charitable, dar am occasions when I has de ole woman look me up down cellar an' stand at de doah wid a phot gun. 11 she didnt I should jump in on dat mule an' pound him till life was distinct. While I sympathize wid Budder Smith, he mus' stand auspended in deference to public opinyuna' LAID OUT. Giveadam Jones offered a resolution to the effect that the olub adopt Prof. Wiggina' weather predictions up to January 1, Shindig Watkins objected, He didn't be- lieve in binding the club to patronize any particular prophet's weather. Elder Toots favored the idea. Wiggins had predicted a mild winter, and if there was any mild winter lying around Ioose he wanted one. The Rev, Penatook opposed the resolution. Wiggins had predicted a rainy summer and he had purchased a new pork barrel to put under the eaves on the strength of it. The bottom of the barrel had scarcely been wet this season. "Gem'len," said the President with a desire to cut short further debate, "I reckon die club had better take the weather as we find it. De prudent man will pile up de wood, stock in de meat and titers an' de- Dpend upon Provid nce fur an airly spring. a resolution am deolar'd outer order." WANTS A CHARTER. An official letter, signed by Lord 'Dead• broke Johning, was received from Lan- caster, Pa., asking ths,t a society in that city known as " The Setters" be granted a charter as a branch of the Lime•Kiln Club. The Setters were a body composed of the cream of colored society. The object was to broaden and expand the mind by hold- ing down chairs, boxesand barrels in the cor- ner grocery. One of the chief aims was to turn out accomplished liars, and another was to give wives a chance to support their husbands by washing, " T loanreckon we am aching fur any sick crowd," observed Brother Gardner. "De Secretary will gently but firmly frow out a hint in his answer dat we am chuck full o' great men jist at present, while the market has a downward tendency." Indications point to a bitter party fight at ,the 'British geueral elections in November. Both nutlet aro prepared for the conflict, but which aide will win cannot be foretold, There are evidences that Bismarck is using hie infiu nee on behalf of the Conservatives. Lord Salisbury and the Tory press are great- ly elated at Remade concession respecting Zulfikar. but it is believed that the action is illusory and in the interest of Conserva- tive prinicples, It was until reeently thought that Russia would disturb the present Ministry by re -opening the ,Afghan ques- tion and het up enemy score on the eve of a general election. But this danger has been lifted from Lord Salisbury's path by the Ger- man. Chancellor, on the plea that too muoh Radioalism in Western Europe may prove harmful to the two Northernrnpireg. But the limit of Russia's strength will pith° Zul- fikar within arm's length. In feet the fron- tier question wil not be closed until after the elections, If that event results in a Liberal victory there ie a probability that Russian moderation will come to an end, as l uselan etatcamen labor under the mistaken notion that the L'berals will not fight for Herat. It is even assorted by some that if the Liberals are returned the Rusnletts Will at once advance on that city. -YOUNG FOLKS. N'ap8, Site dreamy of tunes when tthe le tail ; 8hq'Il have a carriage for herdol.; Sheth have atea-set and & rlorr ; Twill he*thc.-dearest-•little -thing. no dreams o' antes when he Is big; Reil have a chip with eplendiet rig;, Ran have et else and "v'1gs'pede" toe ; Ii,"11 ride it-•as--the--big-.boys-do, The ,fire-.larnl Up in grandma'sattio, one bright, sunny day, Lulu and Hetty were playing with their dolls. It was such a charming place to play,, with no end of old spinning wheels, that the girls called their harps, and a big loom that they called their pipe organ, and cheat, full of funny old armee, that grandma allowed them to dress up in to their hearts content, and bandbexoe with the queerest old bon. nets. Each kept house in one end of the attic, • and then visited each other back and forth, and they always felt sure that before tea time Mittie, grandma's help, would come toiling up the steep attire with a tray full of goodies for a tea•party.. Lulu was sitting in an old, old rocking- oheir, singing to Bleep her youngest dolt, Bonnibel, for Bonnibel` had scarlet fever, wlth a touch c f whooping -cough, and was very " worrisome." As Lulu rooked far beck in the old chair, softly singing " Daisy Dale," the chanced to glance up among the brown rafters, and her eye oaugbt eight of a thin place in a shingle, where the sun shone through, mak- ing a spot as red as blood. •' Hetty Warren,' the said slowly and with emphasis, " this house is afire 1" " Where ? where ?' cried Hetty, rushing along from her end of the attic, leaving all trail of doll's drosses and clothing generally fn her wake. " Up there 1" gasped Lulu pointing with one trembling finger at the red spot. Hetty looked up and saw, then turning, she fled down stairs as swift as a bird, while Lulu came, panting and breathless, after her. Into the sitting -room buret N etty, sur- prising grandma, es she sat there sewing with the little girls' two mothers, by the etartliog announcement, " The house is afire 1 !" • " Where ? Where is it ?" they all cried at once, jumping up. " Up in the) oo£ 1" said Betty, and Lulu, panting in just then, added her testimony, " the house is all Are up in the roof ; all red create .1' and Mittie Dame rushing in from the kitchen to hear what the tumult was about, " Run out into the street and holler Fire 1' Mittie,'' said grandma. " Tell somebody to ring the fire -bell, Hetty," said her mother, seizing a pail of water and hurrying u stairs, Lulu's mother was one of the kind who faint easily, ere she dropped into a chair and groaned, and fanned • herself with a newspa• per, looking all the while as white as a ghost, and Lulu clung tight to her apron. Grandma took a china cup down off the branket, and ruehing out into 'he back -yard net it down under a big apple -tree, then hurrying in, went to taking down the kitch- en clock. Mittie ran into the middle of the street and stood there trying to scream " Fire 1" but though she opened her mouth wide, the " Fire 1' only came in a loud, hoarse whis- per. Hefty went tearing along the sidewalk, looking for some one to ring the fire -bell. The firetman she met was old Judge Brown. " 0 Mr. Brown ! ' gasped Hefty, " won't you go and ring the fire -bell ?" " What's afire ?' asked the judge. " Grandma's house is afire, and grandpa's away, and I don't know what we shall do !" Judge Brown stared hard at the house with no traces of smoke about it, and look- ed puzzled, " Where is it refire t' " Up in the roof—it's all live coals—red as blood." " I'll run along it here I can the the other side of the roof," said Judge Brown, and along he ran as fast as his age. and flesh would allow, with .Hetty still ahead. He ran clear aroundthe house, wat:hing the roof, but no sign or smellof fire could be dis- covered, " Must be inside," he said, and went in at the front•door, and there was Hefty's mother coming down stairs laughing, with the pail of water in her hand. She explain- ed to the Judge how the little girls at play in the attic had seen a red spot in the roof, and thought it was fire. " Come in, Mittie !" she called to the g rl, who was now leaning against the fenee, all in a tremble. " There's .no fire, after all." " Well,'' said gran ima, wben they brought the good news tato the kitchen. " 1 ve got this clock about taken down, so I'll finish the job, and'aend it off to be cleaned. It hasn't run for a year." And that was how the kitchen-olook hap - pelted to get cleaned. —«.�..-. He Was Not Prepared. A few yea rs age the people of a certain township were about to celebrate the open- ing of a new bridge, and invited a young lawyer to deliver the oration, He had made no written pr.paration, supposing that a lawyer ought to oe eapabie of speaking with• but note or notice any number of hours, on any aubjeot, ina style of thrilling eloquence, Therefore, he trusted to the occasion. He stood out upon a platform erected bear the beidge and began amid the profound and attentive silence of hie audience : "Fellow•eitizens: Five and forty years ago this bridge, built by your enterprise, waa part and parcel of the howling wilder- ness 1" Re paused a moment. "Yes, fellOw•eiti- zens, only five and forty years ago, this bridge, where we now stand, was part and parcel of the howling wilderness!" Again he gauged (Cries of t• Good 1 Go on 1'') "I feel it hardly neeetsary to repeat that We bridge, follow•eitizena, only five and forty years ago was part and parcel of a howling wllderneaa, and I will couoludo by saying that I wish --I wish it was part and p now 1" arrest of it �.. It is not the Dream that ought to be whip- ped, but the milk matt, 011111111111111 TAN MW AT TAE WINDOW, An Irish 6Gboat Store. Having tired ourselves bird -noting, climb- ing trees, leaping, and indulging in other pranks, we et last approaohed the old man- sion, a little square, lofty, substantial homes of three storeys, It had been uninhabited for year". Many of the windows weree brok• en, some closed with shutters, the lower ones built ur ',Otte stenos, The hall dear was ap• proeoht,t by a flight of Stonesteps, through whose joints long grass had grown, was also barricaded with large atones. We examin- ed in detail the front of this deserted hall, We passed round to the back, end, climbing the garden wall,s.tw the Welke covered with' weeds and grass, the fruit trees encrusted with moss and mildew, decay on all around, I turned r:und and looked up too one of the top windows,, and there, to any utter amaze- ment and terror. "beheld standing at the window an aged man, dressed in a black cut- away coat. He wore a three -cooked hat, and his skirted coat was braided with gold, .A largeblack dog was on the window sill before him, and hie arta was stretched before the dog's breast, as if restraining him from leaping down on us. All this was taken in at a glance. I pointed to the window. The three of us leaped from the wall, and rushed over "bank, bush, and seaur," through brake and drain. Arriving at the high road breath - lees, with clothes torn, hands and faces lac- erated, feet and garments bedraggled with mire and wet, I asked the other boys if they had seen the old gentleman and hie dog, as I described them. They assured me they had- This extraordinary apparition at mid, day, so much at variance with the ordinary experience, that such unearthly visitors of the glimpses of the moon, appear only at the witching hour of night, I really beheld ; as truly as any object I had ever seen be- fore. I visited the place lately. The old house has completely d:sappeareet, Not a trace of it remains. 0f my two companions on that day, one has long since stolen to bis eternal rest, The round earth intervenes be- tween the other and myself. For years no Bout t crossed my mind that Thad seen that ghost.. If you ask me if I believe it still, with the knowledge and experience of after years, I must contents that I have devised a theory to explain the apparition. There were ghost stories connected with the deser- ted mansion of Martinstown. I recollected, on reflection, to have heard au old nurse tell how, when the family had ail,left and some servants remained, they were talking one night round the fire in the servants' hall. Suddenly they heard a footstep as of one walking down the stairs, Step by step the foot came until with stately tread there walked into the room an ancient gentleman, with three cocked hat, shoes with broad sil- ver buckles, and a diamond -hilted rapier by his side. He gazed intently for a moment on thegroupby the fire, turned slowly round walked from the room in the same dignified manner, was heard ascending step by step to the top ef, the house and shutting -a door behind him. That was the last atght any servants stayed at Martinetown. The con- clu'ion to which I afterwards came, looking at my ghost adventure through the shadows of years that had passed, was that some one with a black dogmust have been in the house ' at the time ; that he came to the window ' and looked out at us, and that to my mind's eye he assumed even to the minuteat partic- ular the appearance of the old gentleman whose apparition I had heard described years before, but of whom I had no conscious thought at the time. It may be asked how I account for my two companions having witnessed exactly the same apparition. The only answer I can give is that they bebeld the man and dog, and that it was only in answer to my questions they agreed as to the cocked hat and braided coat, A PRISON ROMANCE. A n innocent Couple Who Were Geld for Life. Application is about to be made for the release of Freeman P. Cargan, who is now serving a life sentence in the prison of Jack- son, having been convicted on perjured testimony of one of the most brutal murders in the history of Michigan. Charles Smith was a well-to-do farmer, living in Chesaning township, Saginaw county, His wife 'and a young farm hand named Morrie Alexander made up the regular members of the house- hold. Mrs. Smith's sister was invited from Now York to visit et Chesaning. She Dame, bringing her husband, Freeman P. Cargan, with her. On the night of September 12, 1876, soon after the arrival of the Cargans, the Smith barn was burned to the ground Little was thought of that fact, but by a singular coin- cidence Charles Smith disappeared on the same night, and no ace of hie whereabouts could be ound. Suspicion was aroused,• and a careful Beare% of the charred ruins of the barn was made. Half buried under a quantity of burned beams was the skeleton of a man. Only the bones remained, and these were partially incinerated. , A post- mortem examination was made of the re- mains, when it was discovered that the body had been hammered almost to a jelly before being burned. Most of the bones were splintered into fragments by blows from a blunt instrument. The remains 'were identified as those of the missing Charles Smith. All the inmates of the Smith house were arros'ed on a charge of murder. Suspielon centered upon young Alexander and Mrs. Smith. It was generally known that the familiarity between the two had excited Smith's disapprobation, Freeman 1', Car• gan was the first to be tried before the Sag- inaw Circuit Court. During the imprison- ment of Alexander and Mrs. Smith they had frequent cocaultations with the proseout- ing offioers, which resulted in several alleg- ed confessions that freed the two suspected parties and fixed the murder en the two Pargans. On the trial. which waa attended with great popular excitement, Mre, Smith sworn that she and alexauder had long con- templated the murder of her husband, but neither of them had the courage to do the deed. She bad, therefore, written to her sitter, Mrs. Gargan, in New York, offering $500 if the latter's husband would come on and do the work. Cargan and his wife had borne to Chesaning for the purpose of rnur- der, and deliberately aeeornillished the ob- ject by first clubbing the old man to death and then burying his body. Alexander cor- roborated Mrs. Smith's atory, Theo con• fossieend Were so eonolueive that Cargan and ifboth oonvint d. v 4 itentenoed forhis lifwe,e hewere to the State prison and abs to the Detrolt, House of Oarrectlon, For having turned State's evidenoe and oouviet- ing, the Carpus, Mra. Smith and Alexander were rewarded with light sentences, the former being gent to the Detroit ause of Correction for ten years, During Mrs. Smith.'s imprisonment Su- perintendent Nicholson noticed that she watt burdened with sone 4ecret mantel unction, A. cancer the steam de reduced her physically, She sent for the superin- tendent, and said she had a deathbed con- fession to make to him. Her death was so near that restoratives had to be administer- ed to preserve the flickering sparks of life. In disconnected but perfectly coherent teen - tenths she stated that her entire testimony against Cargau and hie wife was perjured. She and ,Alerander had been promised a light sebtence it they would gip e evidence against the Cargans With the hope of seeinb her children again abe determined to swear falsely, and invented the story which had sent the Cargans to prieon for life. STA'1'ISTIOS• It has been calculated that the free lune ohea is New Yeak saloons ooea $11,890,000 annually. The children of Queen Victoria now take £600,000 a year from the purse of the Brit• ish people. Thirty-two thousand humming birds, killed to beautify the bolicets of tbe fair, were received in a single consignment in London not long ago, Notwithatandingfree eolith's and laws for compulsory education the startling fact remains that there are 2 800,000 voters in townhe Unit balleodts. States who minuet read their It is common to suppose that a .ship leaded with wood cannot sink. Yet .,according to the latest return of the British Board of Trade it appears that during the pant three years no fewer than 149 ships laden with timber were totally lost, with 457 lives, The most p- ofitable newr-paper in the world, the London Times, is valued at $25,000,900, and the unmet profitable in France, Petit Journal, earns $600,000 a year net, although a dozen years ago it was insolvent. The London Standard is valued at $10,0 0,000, the Daily News at $600,000 and $5,(00,000 would not buy the.,Telegragla. In Ireland, according to lately .published atatistioe, the birth rate in 1884 was 24 per 1000 and the death rate was 17.5 Both are below the average for the pre ceding ten years. Zymotic diseases caused 7221 deaths, only one of which was due to small pox, There were 16 deaths from the latter in 1883, while during the previous ten years the annual number averaged 335. A rem •rkable story of longevity In 1750 two brothers, Jonathan and Nehemiah Allen, moved from Sunbury to Barre, The former died at tbe age of 92, his wife at 87. Their six epi deem who lived'. ryond infancy died at 67, 72, 77, 86, 87, and SS—an aver- age of over 60 Nehemiah Alien, the other brother, died at 87 ;° hie wife at 67. They had four sons and nix daughters, who lived to the following avec : 78, 80, 82, 84, 92, 92 95, 95, 96, and 96—an average, counting the fractions of years, of 8742. Moat of them lived in or near Barre, and were farm - era. Belgium affords the woe texempts in Eu- ropa of the harm from aver-indalgence in alcoholic stimulant+ Tee bale of liquor has been more than trebled in the last fifty years. While the population has advan ed only from 3,500 000 to 5,500,000, the con- sumption of spirits, wine and peer for 1881 amounted ire value to 475,000,000f. Al- though the country is eo small, it contained in 1880 no fewer than 125 000 places devot- ed to the sate of intoxicating liquors. There was a publfe•house on the aveaftge for every twelve or thirteen grown up males. The suicides rose from fifty-four per million in. habitants in 1848 to eighty iu 1880. The lunatics advanced fr •m 750 per million in- habitants in 1846 to 1470 in 1881. DAMP, OP DE 3.TH. A )Bobber of the ,Corrals Is Forced to Give Up the Ghost. Some months since, the oitizane of How- ard's Station, on the California, Oregon & Idaho stage line, offered $150 reward for the scalp of an immense grizzev bear that bad for months prior therero been depredating the stock ranches of Siekiyou county. The bear's career ae robber c f the chorrala ex- tended over four years, hie last act being to kill a 2 year old steer, perch himself upon the animal, and proceeded to make a meal of him. The reward impelled several of the, most noted be r hunters to lock for him but in a very wary way, for Bruin had made mincemeat of a dozen or more does, besides being alive and healthy after four Wir • cheater balls had been planted in him and after he had lost a portion of one of his feet in a great trap, " Grizz'y Reelfoot," had been the name by which he has eine been known, owing to his contequent ambl- ing gait, Thomas Jones and tamales Meredithwent up on the Caiifornua & Oregon railroad some weeks ago for a hunt. On their re- turn they reported that Henry Woodburn and Jim Wilson, of Linkvilie, Oregon, with themselves, • succeeded at Iasi in killing him. Thev got on his trail in the deep woods im- mediately south of Howard's Station, and, with the aid of Wilson's four trained doge, succeeded 1n treeing him, after following him through canyons Sud jangles for over nevelt miles. Bearing the dogs baying, Wilson, who was in the lead, rushed forward only to find two of hie favorite dogs lying dead on the ground. Blood covered the bushes and great shreds of flesh appeared here and there. Looking tip ward, the bear appeared wending his way ur, et limb, about forty feet from the ground. Ile was show- ing his teeth and growling fearfully. Wilson quickly raising hid gun, fired thrice in rapid succession, but without dislodging him. The other three hunters then arriving, they alto commenced tiring, when the ponderous brute dropped to the ground. He was im- mediately seized by the remaining dogs, but, badly wounded as he was he made a vicious fight, killing one dog and tearing the coat of Meredith, who had ventured too near, off his back. A final shot front ,Tones however, finished him, The grizzly weigh- ed over 900 pounds.