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A SAFE DEPOSIT,
kW etre Rev, EvwAIt» EVERETT HALE, D. D.
CHAPTER V.
Edith Lauo reeatved once and again after
her father's return that she would tell him
that aloe bad loob her bonds. But all day he
was at his affi,te, and aaoh time when he re•
teased title hated bo tell him, and so pub ib
toff 1111 morning, l+.ach morning he was in
heats for his breakfast, end the poor girl
put it off again. Atter the accord of these
tenures she had no chance. As oho came
home in the afternoon from an may archery
party oho found a note from her father say-
ing that he was called to Now York, This
was followed by a belegrum from New York
saying be was oalled to Leaden. And so
ppor Edith was left to her own newly 00-
quired skill in managing her own business
for the next nix weeks.
What soon became very clear was that
she mush have money, Indeed, this is some-
thing which generally becomes clear bo moat
people in modern 00010ty. Eiith first made
the mistake which many other people maks
of thinking that it will do any good to eay
aloud, "1 musb have some money." She
acid bhia to the looking glues twioe as the
dressed herself. But no money pante from
that, Ae to housekeepiug and wages there
was no trouble. The housekeeper bed been
anpplled. But for herself, Edith knew
there world be trouble very Hoon,
She ab ono pub herself on short allowance.
She did nob eo into a atop, She passed the
most attraotive book stores, saying, " Lead
no nor into temptation." She went on foot
if oho could not ride in her own earrings ;
by which I mean she never took the people's
asrr a street car. Sha who even
isa—t h
g
mean enough to put a :ticket into the con-
tribution box at church, sitting in the very
pew where the deacon was always sure of a
five dollar bill. But then Edith made an
mount of this, and aolemnly plodeed hereelf
for every nickel she laid on the altar to
place a bon dollar bill when—she had it.
Dear child, she knew the difference between
little turtle doves and good largo lambs,
These economies she kept up seedily, But
economies do not create money.
And it seemed as it never were the un-
expected expenses so terrible. Then came
a bill for annual costa et the cemetery which
her father had forgotten. Edith promptly
paid that. Then came her annual subscrip-
tion at the Sheltering Arms, her assortment
attheLadiee' Relief and the Sewing Women's
Friend, The same af:ernoon came a man
from the Oklohama free school, Every
yonoglady of her acquaintance had sus-
oribed $10, Dr. Witherspoon had reoom•
mended it, and Edith sinew that she waa
expected to suacribe, Endless appeals were
made, indeed, from one and another similar
charity, Andas a climax the lab of July
came and all her quarterly bills. The foot.
ing was terrible. And she with so little in
her pocket, and, if there was any virtue in
arithmetic not $40 in the Waverley Bank.
Edith, on the 21 of July did what you
ter I would have done. She ordered her
coupe and bade James take her to the Arnie.
cable again. It was jest possible that bhp
things might have °hanged themselves back
again.
The warders knew her and told her it was
a pleasant morning, as ib was. But it seemed
to Edith that they looked on her with an
inquiring air, as if they wondered that she
dared to come. Still she braced herself bo
her duty. She gave the mystic) number and
the produoed her key, ab which the holt flew
$rank at the right moment, jest as it does is
the "Forty Thieves," She carried the tin
box out to the very oame cell she had
occupied before. She felt as if she were a
nun m a convent. She opened the box and
—there was nothing there. Then she waited
a little—poor child, this was to deceive the
warders. Then the looked the box and
carried it back. She dared not look them
in the face as they bade her good day, bub
she felt in every bone that they disapproved
of her and even !corned her. Sadly and
donbtfully she bade John take her home
and he did Hoa
An idea had crossed her in the poll. The
bonds shelled in place of hers were not here.
No. But they took the place of hers, Now,
tie she mould nob out off her own coupons and
deposit them in the 'Waverley Bank as her
lather had taught her, might not she honest.
ly ant cff these coupons and deposit them
when the moment camo, by her own ?
It is quite clear, dear reader, to en f0•
t ,t
a ru., ed conscience li
ka ours and mice that
y ,
she might not ; but Edith had accustomed
herself to think of these coupons as so much
money, and as elle certainly would have
taken oomany greenbacks had she left than
'in her bcx and found them there without
looking to see if they were the bills of one
bank or of another, so the supposed, though
she supposed wrongly, that a coupon of the
Cattarauguo and Opeleases was money as
truly as a coupon of the C ,13. & Q. , if only
it were dated rightly.
She was a little oonfueed when she found
albedo coupons had been out off the Cabtare.
mgus and Opelousas bonds for five years,
tout little did the know of the weaknesses of
that enterprise. She didknow that her quay.
,ter's coupons on her own bonds would have
',yielded her $540 ; she made out bhab amount
as well as she could from the Cabtaraugus
and"f:pelousae oonpone, took n0 mote than
she needed, wrote a memorandum of what
the had done and pinned itupon the °Dupont,
'lFor," the said, " I may die," and the re-
membered that the had hoard her father say
that some written memorandum must be left
dor the benefit of exeoutore,
She then ordered her carriage again and
rode to the Waverley Bank. She handed her
"bank book to the teller, as she had done
before, and the man bowed, as the other
mien bowed, and said it was a fine day. She
also said it was a fine day, bub the spell did
nob work. When he looked at the coupons
lie made no entry in her little book. Indeed,
ohebhousht to started, and he crossed the
r0ommmet Spoke to his chief. The attentive
Ohiif, eat once oame to the window.
"Mies Lane," he said, "your father has
made a mistake, Theo are Cattareuguo
Opelousas coupons, and you know 11 is Long
ulnae those oould be aegobfobed. I think
your coupons are 0„ B. and Q., C.
and from United Sbateb bonds, are they
,not?"
"Are these nob just the same thing ?" said
Edith, feeling as if she should oink through
the ground, "I know nothing aboub it, only
I found them in my male," Hero she held
.closely to the truth.
She could see a vague smile of oentempt
space over the eashier'o leo as he said, "Well,
I don't know what hopeful people would may,
Mies Lane, only these things have no value
Ott the market. Bring ua around your 0.,
8. and Q,. and we will oath them for you
gladly."
Then, ao he wee turning away, the teller
Whispered to him again. and he said, "Do
not give yourself any trouble, bub yen have
overdrawn your account a little.`
Poor Edith slid nob known whab thio
meant, and ho explained thob the had drawn
More money from the bank than she hal in
it, 11141 this would bo made elm to her as
Oho looked at the °hooks whioh the teller
gave hot, It waa of no oonecemonoe, the The president beard her through, waited But 1 think the btandard of America ie
cashier said, only he thought be would cell a moment, and thea said[—"I believe ab law higher end bettor, I hope the standard of
her attention to it, So poor Edith left the you might -1 doubt if you could be mood for
beak, without any money, and feeling that
oho was much deeper down in the bog of die -
grew
than kn t ov
the b p.
Fortunately she did not understand that,
di
a.
anybody had supposed that ORO wasd a.
honest in overdrawing her bank &count,
she could have been arrested before
abo left the building. This would not
have happened, however, in any air°um-
ota000, to her father's deuohter. The Way.
erley Bank was a new bank, and the people
were very glad that he bud brought her
amount and placed ib there, Edith retired
to her carriage with as good grace as she
could and bade James to take her home.
CHAPTER VI
She had several courses before her. First,
she could telegraph to her father in London,
"I am disgraced and without money, What
shall I do ?" Saoond—and of this the
thought seriously—she could go to ilr,
Witheropoon, who had christened her
twenty yeare ago, and had received her into
the Church six yeare ago, and loved her aa
her father did.
This would have been the wisest thing for
her to do ; bub she had a sense of mortifloa•
tion which hindered her from doing this.
Then she thought over the lint of her mother's
old friends among tee ladies of Tamworth,
and there was nob one of them whom she
liked tie a oounoollor. Then alta remember.
ed a sermon which Dr. Witherspoon had
preached a few weeks before, of whleh the
doctrine was, " Face Your Perplexitiea,"
He had bold them they should not run away
from their perplexities, but musb look them
in the face and find cub how great they
were. She remembered that some man the
had talked with t long before had told her
h no B
[tat the gP um
tar in point of Robinson Crao's
n
I
fortunes cease in the moment when he faces
his perplexities, Oa eome piece of paper
he had, with some ink he had made, he wrote
them down so that ha oould look ab them
and see what they „ere. Edith took a shoot
of note paper and proceeded to write down
hers. The liebtook the following order :—
I. I am a fool.
2. I believe I am a thief; but am not oor-
bain,
{, I have no money,
4, I have taken from the Waverley Bank
$47 which I had no right to.
By adding up the amount of her checks
and oomparirg it wibh her own account she
had found the fatal mistake whioh showed
that Instead of having $40 in the bank she
had taken oat $47 more than the should have
done.
Edith's list went on -
5, I owe honoab tradespeople who have
trusted me $172 11,
6, I wish I had as moot as $75 in the
home, if ib were only to keep up decent
appearance till papa gets home.
7. In fact, I have $11 97. I suppose Oho
housekeeper would lend me something, bat
I do nob like to ask her, and I have no right
to starve the family.
Edith said to herself, "I wonder if I
could not borrow $200 of somebody. I think
if I were a man I should know how to
borrow $200, I observe in books thab men
always borrow money when they want it.
I do nob tea why I oannob borrow this
money."
CHAPTER VII,
It happened that that was the evening
for the meeting of the Chautauqua Circle to
which Edith belonged. The girl had rather
tired of gay society, after the first two
winters that followed her "coming out."
She had danced quite well, she had received
a good deal of attention, she had tasted that
op pretty thoroughly, and then, wibhout
being cynical at all abeat ib, she thought
she had drunk about as much of has she
wanted, On the other hand, eome near
friends of hers had engaged in the Chautau-
qua warn of reading ; she was sitting with
them one evening when some reading
aloud want on, and found heroelf interested
in the solid on practical work whioh they
had engaged in. She thought rightly that
she had time bo make up some back work,
and sent to Plainfield to oonnoot boraelf
with the circle, and had become one of the
most diligenb of the readers.
This accident determined her now in the
choice of her adviser,
She had meant to day to make eome after-
noon Waits. But the day was hot and the
air sultry, and she made this an excuse for
sending William with her carriage hack to
the stable. She would go to Vincent Chapel
in the evening. And to Vincenta
g chapel she
went. Ib was the laob meeting of the oirolo
before the summer recess.
She had been ohosen secretary and record•
er of the Gill Circle at the meeting in Apell,
and her record was carefully prepared. Ib
wee the year for English history, and they
had set apart, the aubjeot—olways interest-
ing to young people—of Mary Stuart, for
their evening diacussioo. That happened,
whioh is apt bo happen, that ell the women
were very hard on poor Mary, while all the
men defended her, As there were more wo-
men than men, the men had to stand well to
their gun0.
"I understand the preoidenb very well,"
said Edith, firmly. "I meant to do justice
to hi0 argument before. But it seems to me
bo mean bhio— that because ails woman was
prebby she is to bo exoueed for being wicked,
and that because she watt a woman it is to
be expected that the will ant like a fool"
They all laughed heartily at this, and the
president hoatenod to my that this was not
the centre of his position ; that Mary cer-
tainly had been very badly educated, &o„
&a„ &o., and that Bothwell had, &o,, &o,,
&o„ and that John Knox had &o„ Ca, lo.,
end so on, and so on, as may be imagined.
"Still, I cannot see that this ohangea our
opinion on the question whether she did
righb or wrong."
This was the unflinching reply of the
stern Edith, "It thews why she did
wrong, bub it does nob show that oho did
right—unlet[ the president mean0 that when
a woman dresses her hair in a booming
way, end invents a new headdress, she may
do as ehe,ohooses,"
A£ ter this it may be imagined thab the
president and Edith wore very good friends
through the rest of that evening, and the
reader will not bo emptied teat, in the
ample and admirable oode of Tomwortt
and of that oirolo, Edith asked him,
as bbey ate their ioe oream togobher, if
he would do her the favor to walk home
with her. She had not liked to fix a time
for the carriage, oho raid, $e gladly agreed
to do 00, as any young man in Tamworth
Would have been glad to do,
So 0oon as they were well in the otroot,
away from light, Edith, Who had studied
out the whole o0nvoroation in advenoo
said to him, "I have a question of eon.
science, on whioh I want the ;advice of a
man—of a brines men, My father ie away
for aix weeks. I find there it a mistake
aboub my money, and 1 have overdrawn at
the bank on my aoe00nt, New, it • happens
that I have received $100 by accident ; I
know not from whom, it is lyieg in my
deak—unused. Should you think 5 might
ane that, at if it were lent to me, and
pay it when my father oomoo home 1'
doing it, But it io not a moo thing to do.
11 it Itad been yon would nob le lu doubt
yourself."
"Thank you," said Edith, "You feel just
do,"a 'd of a e go o,
aaIButt did n let hern
"You eco," he said,,"your unknown cocoon,
Pendent might appear to morrow morning,
and you would want to have her money
ready for her. You would do much better
to borrow yourself ab your bank or of some
friend,"
"I have eo many friends," and Eiibh,
more bitterly than she meant, "that I can.
Nob eeloob, and Ian afraid my father would
bo wretchedly annoyed if he know I was fa
thio sorapo, though really it is from no fault
of mind. I cannot well borrow at the bank
without saying thab ho hes been careless or
making people think so. It gives a certain
publiorty to the mistake he made when he
thought that for eke weeks I oould—paddle
my own once,"
" I do not think there is such publicity
as you fear. You see," said he, good natter.
edly, " the bank people would be only too
glad to lend your father's daughter anything,
It oan be most easily arranged. How much
do you want?"
" Oh, I want as much as $250. These are
all the eubaoriptioes papa likes me to make
—aAd— —"
The young man laughed lightly, Ae she
thought.
" Pardon me," he said. "Froin your
tone I thought pee were going to say two
hundred and fifty thousand. I wish, Mise
Edith, you would let me lend it to you my-
self. You have been kind enough to ask my
a :vice, }NM you be good enough to take
it,"
Edith was now taken wholly aback, She
had chosen her e ad ' —a a'
vier ate said. Here
was a proposal which would lift her out of
the depths. For the instant she felt that
if only she had the three bite of paper he
spoke of she should be perfectly happy.
She could see the two notes of one huo-
deed—and one note of fifty—Clean two of
them appeared, crisp and °lean, and one flab•
by and dirty, before her mind's eye.
But she did not waver, even for Chet
instant. liter manner was kind enough, but
absolutely firm as she deolined. " You are
quite righb in saying that I ted better ask
the bank people. I will oerbainly do so.
You are very kind, and I shall always be
grateful to you for your willingneae. Bat it
will be better sol"
" I hope you are not offended," said be,
somewhat proudly. "You seem to be die.
tressed. We are not in a novel. I wanted
to be of use. That is all,"
" Offended—how could I be offended," said
she, " I asked for information and advice.
Yon have given me both. 1 shall get out of
my troubles now, I see, And I shall thank
you for showing me how. Will you not one
in ? No ? Good night, then," And she
gave him her hand. " Please do not think
I am offended,"
Ib was very queer. If they had only
known, all would have been well. For this
preaidenb of the Chautauqua °irate was An-
tony Blake. As 1t was they both west home
—and for two or three home neither of them
went) to !deep. "Ought I have said this ?
Why did I say that?' in all possible forms
till nature and youth asserted themselves
and the provoking conversation was forgot•
ten,
CHAPTER V1II,
Edith rose the next morning with a new
resolution. She wenb to her desk as soon as
breakfast was over and wrote this note :—
"LETTERS LOST,—A parcel of six let.
tare, dated in May, 1883, and bind together
with a white ribbon. The finder will be
thanked end liberally rewarded if he will send
a note to G. R. , ab the Poeb Moe."
Thio advertisement she inserted lo the
Argos of that day. The hope she had was
well enough founded. Bub, also 1 Antony
hated the politics of the Argue, which pre-
tended to be an independent paper, and was
on any side which the proprietor thought
profitable, Antony never looked at any part
of the Argus, leaob of all at the advertise-
ments. So poor Edith's notice might have
been published a month and he would have
been none the wiser.
On hie part, he went to the Waverly
Bank and asked the cashier if he would lend
him $250, "What collateral?" said the
oaehier, who was his old ally and friend.
"None," said Antony, "unless you will
take stook in the Setf•Aotiog ampler Oor.
poration, nob yet organized. Bub if you
would endorse mynote I think the ireob-
d
ors would pass it."
"Nonsense," said bbe cashier. " Bank
rules will nob permit that. Bub if you
Want $250, old fellow, here ib is. Give me
a memorandum and pay me when you like.
Make it to me. This is nob the bank's mon-
ey, 11 la mine. You know I am glad to
serve you."
Antony thanked him, and said, what was
true, that ha would do as much for him
gladly. Then he went to the Amicable
reading room and wrote to Edith this let.
ter :—
Axe NY BLAKE TO EDITII LANE,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, July 3.
MY DEAR Moo LANE—As I absolutely
have these bills In my hand 1 boko the lib.
orby of asking you to uta them as you will.
There is no reason why you should have the
annoyance of eddrrasiog the officers of the
bank. Please imagine me to be president
of the Waverly Bank, as well as president
of the Chautauqua Circle, Very truly
yours,
Baena.
So poor Edith actually saw her way olear
to pay all her delete by incurring this one
very pleasant debb to this one very gentle-
manly man. She asked the servant) if the
bearer were waiting and was told he load
gone.
"Send John to me. I want to send a uote
down town."
EDITS LANE TO ANTONY BLAKE,
DEAR Mn, BLAKE—You are most kind,
But already I tee my way out of my °mbar-
ratomente, and I return the notes at once,
Very truly yours.
EDITH LANE,
John found Antony at the St. Clair, whore
fie tad been bidden to go.
Antony did hot quite like the note. It
seemed to him a little shorter or moresharp
than it need be. Anyway, if the could be
proud he could also, He pub the note In
hie pcokot and turned it over in his mind,
all through a long interview whioh he bad
with the 1i0mri110, who had sent for him
again,
Then he determined to Dell on Mies Edible
that evening. Bub lent oho should be out he
wrote the following letter
WEDNE/MAY Asrtittxoour, July 3,
MY Dian MISS lANE—Lest I do nob
Lind you at home 1 venture to write, ll'or I
have at bottom the feeling that you think 1
have token a liberty and presumed on tite
oenfldonoe whioh you gavo mu ea genarouafy
lent evening,
I want pimply to nay that you aro unjust
to me if yon think so. I know thab from oho
standard of the novel Vernon of fifty yeare
ego my proposal was not to be heard of.
Tamworth la higher aid bettor. I think
man and women afoot oaoh other with
mantel reopeot and mutual 000flden000, It
10 notvin that sgo tohe sane ooheobo
lu a h w b ,
work in the same canoes, etude' in the same
circles and, in u word, /ire to the sem° life,
f ,
If you cad I were "Henry and Emma," or
"Paul and Virginia," or "Silly and Billy,"
or "Ferguo and Evelyn," or ouy other ab'
Burd people in a novel, of oourae you would
not wish to have me help you in any sen.
able way, and I should never thick ofre•
posing to, But seeing we aro plain Tam.
worth people, members of the same ohuroh
end °Cioera in the same oirolo, I see no
harm io what I have done, and I will not
eayIdo.
Truly yours, ANTONY BLAKE,
When Edith Dame home late from a long
drive which she had token in the country
this note was waiting for her,
She read it more than half through with
approval of the young fellow's pluck and
pride, Bub when she came to "Papa and
Evelyn" the words seemed to stand out of
the paper,
Or was she crazy herself? Did she toe
words which were not there ?
Or were there ever two people In love
with oath other with those two names?
She read the note through and bhon went
to her father's den, She looked in the
Telephone Directory, and then asked for
297,
"Hello 1
"Does Mr, Antony Blake live in the St,
Clair ?—
"Ask Mr, Antony Blake if he oan oome
to No, 99 Curwen street."
In ten minutes Mr. Antony Blake was
there, though it was half -past ten at night.
,"Mr. Blaue. pardon me for troubling you,
bub who are Fergus and Evelyn 7"
Fergus y
"I am sure I do not know. I wish I did,"
he said ruefully,
Poor Edith. She oould have dropped on
the floor for her dieappointmenb.
"What did you mean, then, Mr, Blake,
when you said Silly and Billy, Evelyn and
Fergus ?"
She had read the words forty tlmeo while
he was coming.
Now it was his turn to blush and stammer,
Nor did he see how neer was the crisis.
"Oh—only—well, you see—well, I onno
had tomo lettere—I bhoughb they were love
lettoro—addroseed to Evelyn Somebody and
Fergus Somebody. I do not know who the
Somebody's were. The lettere were not
mind. I pub them away."
"Whore did you put them? Where are
they now ?"
"Where 1 They are in my safe ab the
Amioable. I wish I knew where they ought
to be,"
And Edith was herself again. "Mr
Blake, I think it is for me bo burn over to
you some property of yours I have here
Indeed, I did not steal ib. Bub are no
these Cobtoraugua bonds yours, and this
hundred dollars, perhaps, too ?" And the
handed him the well known parcel.
IX,
Mr, Lard's absence in England was pro-
longed, and it was September before ho re-
tuned, Edith met him at the Tamworth
station, with the carriage, to bring him home,
"I have so much to toll you, papa, and I
do not know how to begin."
"lb is clear that it le good Howe," maid be.
"You look so well. And you are agood wo-
men of butinese—that bas appeared all
throuelt from your letters."
"That you will have bo judge of, papa."
At that moment as they creased the station
her tauter saw Antony Blake, pressed hie
hand warmly and asked him to came and
see them, which Antony said he would glad-
ly do.
"That young mun," said Mr. Lane, as bhey
entered the carriage, "is one of the moot mice
oemeful young men in this State, Whynoliffo
has been bathing to me about him half too
time as we oam0 on from NewYork. Why,
Edith, he has an invention whioh will save
thousands of lives and must be used on every
railroad, He hap eetabliehed a new macbioe
shop here to make his couplings, and Whyn-
clffe and all of them are crazy about him,
"But, Edith, he le no stranger to you ; you
used to know him, He ie the same man who
wee in your reading club."
"Yes, papa—and, papa, he has naked me
to marry him, and I have told him I would
ask you. But really, papa, he la the best
man in the world, and I shall never marry
any one else,"
Thus woe 11that Edith made her revels,.
1
tion. It was not untill the wedding day, how-
ever, thee she told her father that the new
machine shop wan builb with the proceeds of
the sales of her governments and 0., B. and
e,
Russia's Enormous Wheat Crop of 1888,
A British Conant General in Russia writes:
"The harvest of South Russia in 1888 was
even larger than that of 1887, for not only
was there an abundant fall of snow to pro•
tent the growing crops from the toy blasts
of winter, and oopious rains in the early
summer when the grain was approaching
maturity, but a favorable autumn had allow-
ed an unusual breadth of land to bo Down,
and the peasantry had plenty of seed corn
to spare from the previous abundant her.
yeah. Everything had oondueed to bring to
maturity the largest crop ever raised in this
region, Two other apparently forbuitom
oiroumstanoee conspired to render Oho ate
nation exceptionally favorable, both to the
cultivator and the exporter. Ib was an-
nounced that the American crop was deli,
oienb, and it also happened, from caused
foreign to the proeont oubjeob, that the
paper rouble had sunk to a lower value than
it had touched even during the Russo-Turk-
ish war. Never had fortune seemed to
omits more benignly on tho Russian land
owner than now. But it was the very ex.
uberanco of nature whioh brought into
stronger relief the difficulties of his position,
With acres of waving corn around him, he
had neither the hands necessary to reap it,
nor were means ab his dfoposal for carrying
ib to market. It is true that the gradual
introduction of English, Amerioan, German,
and even native•made machinery has done
muoh to aid him in his harvest operabiona,
and the extension of railways has tended to
faoilitate the transport of produoo. But
neither the neo of laborsaving machinery
nor the laying down of railways hall kept
pace with the growth of cultivation. In.
aeon 000urrod to farmers leaving hundreds
of emote of Dorn anent and abandoned an
fodder for cattle. While grain has been
pouring into Odom, and hue been conveyed
to the United Kingdom and Mediterranean
ports by a larger fleet of steamers than ever
before visited this port, it i0 believed that
more than a quarter of the orop still re.
main in the hands of oho prod0oers, and
the local granarieo aro full to overflowiog1°
An English nowpapor has the advertise•
mono of a young Polhill woman who salts
aeaiotanoc in buying a penin, ale her parents
ate to poor to buy ono for her, :Che yming
woman's name le Jadwiga Janina Bogus
Tawoke Plotakow Trybunaaoki Ulioa Mot-
klowtkodom Dolinoklogo,
A MUT W1TH A BUFFALO,
Alt Ineddent au an Atria "1 A"1t014.
Wo had lett the orange River, and wore
u
trokking" cion ly aortas Baantnlunel, .Ona
afterncor. two or throe hours before Dun.
down we reuohed a knoll or slight elevation ;
up thio the weary oxen clambered, strain'
ing at their yakoa with reddened oyes and
streaming flanks, The day had been 000roh'
ing and the traoka aa0dy. Up thio hill we
intended to outopan and mtoump for the
night. My froind uletic and I had walked
on ahead, and therefore roared the sum•
mil) of the hill first—wltab a sight mob us
There, before ue, abret:hod an immense
rolling plain, far as the eye could reach;
nothing but a great brown sea of tableland,
that seemed to dwarf by its immonoity a
belt 00 tarot trope to the east, where a
abiniog river shone like a silver ribbon,
winding in and out amid the donee f01i.
ago.
"Look 1 look 1" exclaimed Eloho point.
ing and oproacliog out his arms, "the land
waves like tho sea—what la it?" I stood
and stared with him, it was 00 sOre,nge.
Tho very earth Doomed undulating before
ns, and then Bergmann, the Dutoh tran-
aport•rider, Dams 0p. "What is ib?" we
asked hint, pointing from the land beneath
ue to the hoax Ira
"Animals," ho replied. It was true; we
had happened upon a great and wonderful
migration,
Every seven years," said the trader,
"this taken place; largo droves of animals
move from one pasture land to another ; os
they proceed they gather more herds bill
they moll to the numbers we see before no ;
they're in millions."
Ib was stupendous a sight that no pen an
do justice to the picture; from the wagon wo
broughb our field.glaeoeo and stood watching
them ; the nearest, net about tmike
wore buffalo. There seemed no limit to bha
dark, shaggy oreaures. Far away to the
distance were giraffes and oetrichoo, their
slender make lifting against the sky; be-
tween them and the buft'aloeo were gnus,
veldeheeoto, opriugboke, gazelles, hoodoos,
antelopoe, every kited and variety of deer
that roam the great plain° of Afrina.
All were moving slowly along, and ell,
except the giraffes and oetrioheo, had their
heads down feeding, gradually eating their
way, devouring the somewhat scanty herb -
ago before them. They would go on till
they reached the rich lands whore their in-
atinobo ware taking thorn, where they would
be gradually distributed as oiroumotanoes
and their breed might direct them,
When the wagon with its white canvas
hood, hove in sight and then Gema to a
standstill on the hilltop, ib tensed some ex-
oibemenb is the herd of buffaloed nearest to
ns. Borgmann, after glviog directions to
the Kaffir° for the outopanniog for the night,
one up to Eloho end myself and suggested
our getting a shot at a buffalo calf, There
is no twilight fn Africa, after the sun has
sen it rapidly grows dark, so there wee
no time to be lost.
We mounted our horses and rode away
into the "veldt," As we galloped along
the turfy plain we saw that the buffaloes
were inoreasiug their speed, and preoently
a greet don colored cloud of fine duet rose
into the air. The animals neareab to us
were running, only these; far beyond, the
myriads were still quietly progressing, feed -
fag as them went. " Not so fast," oried Bor-
gmann • keep to the rear; they would
trample. to death if we once headed them."
We rode a couple of miles with our rifles
in our hands. Bergmann in advance; then
with a quick movement—ho was a splendid
rider—ho flung hintoelf from hie saddle, leo.
eled his gun and fired, the well-trained horso
otanding perfectlystill. Ho than vaulted
into his saddle again and awepb on. Ho had
aimed et a calf, bub missed, and hib an old
bull. The courageous beast stood waiting
for us, thereby covering the retreat of the
herd that thundered along 1-i dusty owfftnees.
Befcre we reached the animal, however, he
turned, and with mighty bounds followed
the drove.
Again the bull turned and faded us, wait-
ing, pawing up the ground, and describing
short oiroles as we approached.
I dismounted and fired, Instantly the
bull charged ; Bergmann and Elan) were
now bebween the infuriated animal and the
fast -disappearing had. Eloho wan, in fact,
on the ground, and as the bull swept round
he fired. The animal stumbled olumaily,
but the next second he was up again, his
muddy sides flaked with foam, are, snorting
with anger, and with lowered front, he rush-
ed upon the enemy, "To
the loft 1n
shout-
ed
nt-
od Bergmann, s b
g , a Elaho °prang into the sad-
dle and gave his horse the spur, But the
horse, not obeying the rota, only raced for-
ward, while we heard the roar of the wound-
ed and maddened bull In pursuit of hlm.
Elabo rode thus a couple of hundred yards,
tugging at the chine, and then in wheeling
from the obraighb course, the horse suddenly
slipped and fell,
The pane had been terrific, andthe impetus
shot Eleho out of the saddle, while the
horse rolled over and over. Another minute
and Oho bull had fallen on the horse with
indeeoribable fury. Then, with head throat
oidewaye, the better to nee the curiomly
curved bub formidable horns, the buffalo
commenced his savage onalauglto. Borgmann
raced up ether he had seen Eloho spring to
hie boob end join me; but ib was too late to
nave the horse, a valuable animal ; the poor
brute was stabbed and gored in a shocking
manner, sod could not hope to survive he
tor' able wounds,
As Bergmann rode up, the bull waited in
front of the prostrate home. Tho Dabahman
fired ; the bull towed his head and deed
I handed him my rifle and received his empby
ono, into whioh I clipped two oartribdgeo,
"Ride round slowly," said the Dutchman,
"and fire after my next stub." I bad Blobo
behind me on my aced, and therefore could
not exeonbo any raping maneuvers ; besides,
our horses were getting winded and the sun
WOO beginning to go down. The bull received
the contents of Borgmann's second gun, and
dropped an his knees bellowing, Then I let
drive, OS well as 1 could see in the Net cone.
ing darkneln, at the apt behind the ohoulder,
The bull rose, staggered blindly forward and
fell again. Bergmann and myself, then rid.
ing ftp, dispatched our fallen enemy. We
were alone on the empty plain. Five or nix
miler away w0 oould nee the fire all °amp, to.
weed whioh wo turned our horses' heads, and
rode °lowly homeward.
The Boat Precaution.
Charley (vfoibing a friend and surprised to
find him with his head tied up and his arm
in a sling)—Why, what in the world i0 the
matter with you, Harry ?
Harry—Run over by a oat while I wan
coming home from a dinner party.
I say, old boy, you ought not to drink so
much,
(Chat's nob it, Choliy, Thorn's no harm hi
drinking, but I ought to Wtoy indoors when I
am tight.
Tho feeling seems to be Ohab,-lvhoab should
advance) front the low prices 1O" whioh it is
selling in Chicago, bub there ielittlo evidence
of it as yet. The crop proepeoto are report.
ed as brilliant,
SI{1PWRE0$ED SAILORS,
Adventures otl'eatltwaya In. the OJtrt'lbbeau
Elan,
Nino Chi eked et o 1'
wr a a lora lived for av.
three weeks, in April last, on a clout Islam
only thirty miloe from Otto ooutheaet corner
of Jamaica. They were ootiroly naked, for
in their terrible strnggle to gob aohoro after
their bark had foundered an a coral reef,
they lost all their clothing. For two days
they worn without drink, but they finally
obtained by digging, a motel supply of very
breakith water, They had no means of
kindling a fire, end were compelled to eat
their food raw, Thoy found a few cocoa.
nuts, caught a few birds and a number of
sea Crabs, and eked out their very meagre
diet with some little robe like the common
white radish, Their story is all the more
interesting because
TUE ADVENTURE OCOURRE11
in the %me ladies, within it abort diatom
of the large town of Kingston, J amoioa,
where lb would hardly be believed thab 0hip.
wreaked sailors could suffer so long without
0n000r. In fact, relief did not came until
after two of the crew bad reached betake
a rafb,
The bark Gettysburg of Aberdeen was on
her way from Montevideo to Pensacola
when, on a dark and stormy night, she
struck on a reef outside the Moroni; Keys,
and in a fow minutes sank in deep wet*.
Seven of the arew were drowned, but Capt.
Stewart and Dight men, after clinging to the
wreckage until dayligltb, suooeeded in get.
ting ashore, Half starved, terribly b!iabered
and burned by the hot sun, and some of
them so weakened by their struggles in the
sea as to be almost helpless, they were from.
fireb to last in a moat pitiable condition.
There le n0 telling how long their sufferings
would haveoo tinnod if they had not at las
6
aucoeeded in making a frail raft that bore two
of the men safely to Jamaica,
Oub of an old piece of bagging, some bite
of blanket, and a matron that had washed
ashore they contrived to rig eome sails for
their rafb. Ib was jaab three weeks after
bhey landed on the island that Jones and
Allan, two sailors, started for Jamaica,
ORE PROVISIONS
they carried were all the cocoanuts thab
were left on the island, a piece of pork that
bed washed up on the beaoh, and nine pinta
of water in old bobtles they had found on
the inland, The rafb sank eighteen inohee
below the water in the centre, but at the ends
ib was alightly elevated above the surface.
Tho men were too weak to stand, and during
the forty eight hours required to sail thirty
miles to Jamaica they were 0000tantly in
water up to their waists. Landing near
Moranb Bay, they were picked up nearly
dead from exhaustion and taken to Kingston,
where they were kindly oared for. Relief
was promptly 0001 to their comrades, and
the whole party were landed in England a
few weeks ago.
The Yoffie has of late years been the moat
prolifio scene of castaway stories ; but the
thrilling adventures of the crow of the Get-
tysburg show that Bailors along our eastern
shores may also meet with experiences now
and then of the "Robinson Cruses" order.
The Old Egyptian Enoanatio Process,
Inthe older Egyptian mummies the face of
the outer easing is usually modeled in relief,
in a purely conventional way, bub in thio
latest form of burial under the Roman Em-
pire a portrait of the hothead was painted
on a very thin piece of wood and then fixed
over the dead face. Ib is very remarkable
to find math fine coloring and skillful draw-
ing in work of thio Tato date, which must
have been turned out of au ordinary under-
taker's workshop. Tho portraite, both mole
and female, aro most vivid and lifelike; the
ladies ere meetly dressed in a purple garment
and the men in awhibe, with a red orphrey,
Tho modelling of the flesh is very skillful,
and in some oases the coloring reminds one
of the Venetian school from its rich depth
of tone. A special point of interoob about
these paintings is their toohnloal execution
in the hob wax, or encaustic process, as ib
was oalled. The pigments were mixed with
melted wax, and thou fixed in their place by
holding a charcoal brazier near the airfare
of the painting, as fa deooribed by Vitrnvlue.
The somewhat lumpy tinposto of the aurfaoe
is duo to the hardening of the melted wax
when the brush touched the sold surface
of the panel, owing to the non-absorbent
nature of the wood, the subsequent 079110a.
Hon of heat was nobabl e to drive the
wax below the surface, as was the
ease with enoauobio painting upon stu000.
One of these portraits is noticeable from its
ornamental framing with a flowing pattern,
formed by pr•eeasing wooden &tamps upon soft
ebucoo, whioh was afterward gift, a process
exactly like that whioh was 00 often need to
decorate meditoval pictures on paooi, aped.
ally eatables, or atone, ae the Venetian
called them.—[Tho Saturday Review.
Cow end Battler Fight to a Finish.
A fight to the death between a fine miloh
oow and a largo rattlesnake (aoutred recent-
ly on Oho farm of Mr, Joseph Carter in Bibb
county, Alabama. Mr. Carter had turned
his cows into a fresh pasture whore there
wee eome very flee geese, which they began
to eagerly devour, A smell diOoh ran through
the pasture, and on its banks the grass was
very thiok. The cows were feeding in a
bunch on the bank of this ditch when they
scented a rattlesnake and moved away with
the exception of one large blank cow. She
stood for a moment looking in the direction
the snake was supposed to be, The grass
was very fine in that direotion, and the cow
soon made up her mind. She ventured a lit•
tie further forward, 000asiohally stopping
and looking about her, evidently trying to
discover the snake. She had moved forward
perhaps ten feet from the point where the
animals first soentod danger, when without)
the omtomary warning rattle the awake
etruok and buried its fangs in the lower jaw
of the now, The oow did not run away, but
ebi
banking slowly a few feet she stood Wilsey.
oral momenta lathing her toil from aide to
side. Then, with a mad bellow, she plunged
forward directly toward the spot where the
rattlesnake was lying hidden in the grass.
The snake was on the alert, and again struck,
burying it0 fangs in the animal's nose this
time. Thin seemed to madden the cow, and
she plunged forward, trampling the snake in
the ground with her fore feet and trying In
vain to pin it with leer home. The snake
was soon out and trampled to death, and the
now died from the areas of the two bites in
a few hours.
Proof Positive,
Miss Moneybnge—Malcom, a suspicion
lurks within ma that you don dove one, but
Want to marry nee only for my money,
Malcom --You arc so silly, f)on'b you
]snow I'm a member of the Amateur A011letie
Union?
Miss Money bag° --Well, What has that to
do with it?
Maloom—A groat deal, 11 bars me from
taking part in any event for money,
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