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 EGY PTIAN RO MANCE im and Wild AdYentnre, founded upon StarfiUng tions in tbe GareoF of AraM Paslia.. I »/ " NnfA, Thk Nihilist," " Tbm Bsd l^" Etc. Eta » (t Thk Rubsiah Spt," r MET THE COHING CHAPTER VI. JICBIICE OF SIOBM. S:;o"o'theroflieke,»th.t fte girdle of ElmaB, the buffoon^ rJl WM »t I" w»ohed, and »t t-md were magsiye oortaina of Kving » he^'y, bnlUon Iringe. t?«rt partly looped up, whilat on K^re5, 1*9 » â- ***"" "' bronze, rJmoMennnoh with a hnga flame- r^imiiiBheii.dind looseyhang- d the Mine color draping his form, Jf juj, brawny limbs bare, whilst IS b,gr«P«l a naked scimitar. â-  -.« Siftthe WM perfectly nnarm- LniW a"" "** ***" penalty iTiot one of his »ex to be found in TL Frank Donelly did not feel par- l Mmfortable at eight of these atm- i, bat had they ceeujiron colnmna j jot (to all outward seeming) have iiin with greiter unconcern and "u,d a minute later Elman had lletweenthem into a beautiful apari- Ue other aide of the curtains, the jfliich were painted with a aeries of jjlaadBapes in a kind of distemper, KiichiiothiDg having life was intro- liartodrawanchia a deadly sin ao- [to ibe laws of Mohammed. Thus Itie boats being rowed upon lakes and ItatDO one handling the oars, ships Itiieieata all appearance passenger- iciewleia, and the interiors of nios- d palaces, but all empty and desert- "I hay« no widi tluit ttm diouldrt " thrt showed •doubto row of teeth m^ and rMolar m two rows r* -â€"-" -- AukVihMgiilynpl,. drsmd the jMteukA â- ^ Iwwi^law he ir DtharJ ft C3., Iieaft0o.,8tj 3a, at Johi, I lOve tt iUtaJ OiAIlaiUiBul 'miadsipUsi fontrou Ittbe Irish dragoon was looking at JDgiand also at the piles of cushions jind the flowers that formed the litnre of this splendid apartment, Itiffoon advanced blone into one that ad, but had hardly been gone a min- lien ihe reappeared and beckoned (follow her, Iso to find himself a second later in liitlniarionaly fitted up chamber tgioat brilliantly lighted, and in the I of a woman who was reclining on a nftcnghions, in a pose of voluptuous tud who, directly that' Elman had lirew aside her veil and smiled upon bdidBO theyonng Irishman recog- lebeantital Egyptian whom he had bin the crocodile and from drowning itliiiig in the Upper Nile. unotaorprised, for he had guessed t known that ghe was his aummon- Ike was astonished at digcovering how pre lovely a woman looks am'd^tlnx- Wor, and genial warmth, than when icken, wet and exposed to the ele- Ivenasthey are tempered and coften- !;pt, the land of the sun. B3 was gorgeously rich. She wore t rest of crimson velvet, embroider- |nr with gold and having buttons of lion. It fitted- her to perfection kwFd the snrprising beauty of her Iralders and bosom, for her skin was [iuaa Spanish girl's, and looked T fair when the heavy ebon masses Mlentwined hair formed its baok- leitrayed over it in wanton tresses. *riit her fall Turkish trousers were Mtinand also covered with filigree K bemg banded tightly around her iTOled the tiniest of feet, that were a pair of crimsou velvet heellesa iTOkly studded with precious pra have not forgotten me You eiBmmona of the lotus flower and â- â€¢ les, well for ourselves and for at yon love me." "ipoken hi the purest French, and •not alow in makiDg reply • opoasible tD heb loving the beau- Jdi ah has created tte beautiful in Pltahonld be loved," and having l»aIond, he muttered to himself* llr '" Irish or an English girl fitted to think her a forward hussy, " â„¢ lashion here for the women to K"' Is^PPosoI must sub- F good grace." " lie thonght he had made a «aawer, but it eeemei to be a lit J'Soe'n itaasturefor the party fjt was addressed. _-»t want yon to love everything and r'ho isbeantifu'" she said petu- hZ, ""« *^ P"«=e8 and scat- I "uuon petals in a shower on the \l^T y'" ^°^e only me, and "^bo canld brook a rival." jLT'"'^«'»»imade80im- ^LTI^'" affections, and ld"l"'Melfthat very few volnnS? ""^*^ loxeW, with the iftr "^^li"" of the Eaal!; Iwive nf^rj^*' Bomething about K-i i.* '«»"teous graM of the K """"^S to shudder at as S*'rank. bluntly, as this â- Jjonb .^°'""**»» 0* him. "to «ibttt b il"" "'" "eU know, T^Z^ «^l»d with yon, 1 StlJi '°**'ad of days." ' tV°"' *« 1«^« g"w. in 'We Alif •" '"' "^•'d me you ' *»n »U ?l?'"' '"'"^d °ot, for Ufe f^mJt^^'i »^«lo^« "lone. K^*?*! feeling, towards PteZitr^ â„¢t you would never ' ^^^^'"Sh without enconr- i !»«» M?^ *** ""« yon up, and -2*Bl*MiWaff2tfI' to relinqnlBh all â-  •*!!* â- S Wi^r^ " your courage 'T •*^LW'ClSu ^^" me and made £e Ui^l^^y-" "C"^^' **'*aUy unworthy of KiST'^tMwnered Frank. "Be- «olemnly,»itia written: â- ^'wvetthy- neighbor's wife.' P{«dble^then. that ttou" ^tSSTS in'^i? PrineeM Ze«ieh, the siiter of the Khediw^ wi^n"T'*^ *f •»««' *- with hSlS: feotiona,»ndwhofa reitdythii very nii^t and hour to fly with thee'md beoSietoy provided ttedligulMi and will aocMip^ na, and I have aewii op in my dresa dlarn^ and other genu that will make thee rieh be- yond thy ntmoat imagination. Come, hap. py^man, you may kneel and kin my hand and thank me. Ah, why do you hedtate f Bacanwj, your highness I now know that I am unworthy of the honor that you would do me, and I wUl not be base enoiuh to take advantu;e of your oondeaoenuon and un- bounded goodness of heart and generosity of dispoaition. I am too humble even to be pewMtted to kiaa the hem of your robe or to stand in your preaenoe, wherefore I beseeoh you to allow me to retire." And whOst he was thus doing the civilities of apeeoh. Frank waa thhiking to himself '"\V as ever mortal man in such a predicament before? 1 wish I was well out of it. Catch me ever wanting to get inside of a harem again," and ao on. "Humility may be carried too far," ex- claimed the princess, in answer to Frank's lastToll^y of ezcnaea. "lam sick of thia monotonous prison life of the harem. I pant for freedom, the freedom and enjoyment of the Fering ee women. If I marry a Mussul- man I shall never obtain them. Am I not young and fair Why, then, should I be forever hidden behind atone walls, and guarded by hideous armed eunuchs, whilst others more favored by fortune but not by nature dance before alt men with their faces and necks uncovered Whilst yon are the only Feringhee whom I have known, and as you risked your life for me you must love me. Take me, then, to your own country and marry me, and there let me enjoy life as the Christian women do. El- man has learned that one of the big steamers goes through the canal this very night and leaves Port Said with the early dawn. We shonld assuredly catch her if we started without further loss of time, and on a festi- val night like thia we should not be missed for many hours. Why do yon hesitate to grasp the hjippinesa offered to yon?" "Because, your highness, I may not," re- sponded the young dragoon, at last driven to sheer desperation, "since it happens not only that I am unworthy of the honor and the happiness that you proffer ma, but also that I am engaged to be married to a fair young girl, oue of my own oree 1 and race, than whom I could never love even an em- press half so well. As for the saving of your highness' life at the risk of my own, pray think not of it, for I wonld have ventured as much, I hope, for a drowning beggar." "You dare tell me this, ungrateful wretch ' exclaimed the princess, with a sud- den change of manner, and all the latent ti- ger awakening within her and as her beau- tiful eyes dilated and her magnificent bosom began to rise and fall with the violence of her emotions, she added with a snake-like hisa in her tones "She who stands in the way of my happi- ness and my freedom I have seen thee twice with, have I not Once in a sarriage, when she held thine hand in hers wliilst she gazed at the opal ring which was my gift and again not half an hour ago beside the amber- hued fountain, witbinview of thia very win- dow, which was in darkness then Yon needrot answer me with your tongue, for your eyes have done so already, and bnides i knew it aforehand. It waa the sight of her liberty that made me sigh for a like free- dom. But do yon mean to tell me seriously that my beauty, my wealth and my exalted rank cannot win yon away from suiih a girl as she " "Your highness," responded Frank, losing his temper in turn, at bearing Nellie Trez srr so contemptuously spoken of, "you could not win me from her were yoti thrice as lovely, rich and exalted, all of which were impossibiliiies. I may show bad taste in preferring the dove to the eagle, and be un- pardonably rude in saying ao, but you have put to me a plain question and pressed me for a plain answer, therefore I candidly tell your highness, that t»ie fair girl whom you have twice seen me with is dearer to me than my own life, and that nothing could make her less so." The princess deigned no answer to this rhapsody save a glance of supreme contempt. Then she cIa|^Hl her hands (still, as for three thousand years past, the invariable Eastern method of snmmoiJng a slave or at- tendant,) and in quick answer thereto El. man, the buffoon, re-enteied the exquisite little apartment. j "Take him »w»y the man ia a fool and knows not evil fi»m good, and wh« he is gone bring hitherâ€" you know whom I mean â€"for at last he seems to suit my taste. This slie said in Egyptian to the buffoon, and directly she perceived that the old h^ understood her dearly she turned again to Frank, and continued in French "I thank you for the lesson you tove tausht me, namely, that I am not Invincible. Ithsm proved a bitter lesson, Imt it haa l»een thorouSdy weU learned, loan aaauMyou, anditwiU never be forgotten. And now BO. and take with you tlie knowledge that you have alao taught me to hate yon and your entire race aa well, more eapeclally her whom yon have dared to prefer to nie.Be- ware. both of you, for I am not powerless £b^h shut up within theae barren walls I mayaeevtobe so. Nay, mor^ ^^ dauerons, aye, dangerous •â-  the trod on aerpent or vexed scorpion, which you m^ both of yon one day diaoover to your oort. Go, al«i and I warn yon not to prate of your !^J!ldonheie.fereearof e Egyptian spy is long, and to indulge ia â- Â«* J^ *•*• ^Jli» .SL».«fe ironi- mSst intimate frieada, ly, even amongBt your meet inornate mid be to jet^Murdize yonr life. "Your higlmeaa, honor insteaa after what ahe mattered, faoe brightened p« was too proud to keep it ^loatpaaaed between ua,"-«- with a frown; then lier l__ with a ^ruu[e light as die addedT "And it pmmlHj who, if he did not aee hia sift uwn my finger, would wonder what had become Oh tl!?t if ^^ " "•â- P*' treachery. one now left me on whom I oan depend for aven^Dg me^on iny brother Tewfik and aU the others whom I hate." • • • • • •. Half an hour kter another man, obd in theaamedisguiaeaathe Iriah dragoon had wwn, and guided thither by the ai^hideoua old woman, stood before the prinoeas, and When he raised the yaahmack he revealed the stem faoe of Aiabi Pasha, the war min- istw, who s^d, outtly, as his brows con- waotod in a frown, "Four highness sent for me; I am here." "Ahmmed, I have summoned you in or- der that yon may teaoih me how to hate." "I fear that I might find in your highness too apt a pupil, yet fain would I teach you to hate, and hate deeply. aU those who are the enemies of Egypt and its people." "You mean tie Feringhees wfao swarm like locusts over the land. I am prenared to hate them." *^ *^ "It were difficult to do otherwise. They Ve our rulers while they pretend to be our friends. They tend all the wealth out of the country and bring nothing into it but what we shonld be better without. Tney refuse to be subject to our laws, and living amongst us will not pay any share of the taxes, whilst their presence has so raised the price of everything that our poorer classes labor sixteen hours out of the twenty-four, and yet can barely save themselves from starving. Thousands of our Arab and Coptic clerks, too, are discharged to make way for their Syrian interpreters, and that because they don't take the trouble to make them- selves acquainted with the language of the people whom they have so thoroughly well learned to rob and wrong. Encourag- ing national liberty in Italy because, as one sect of Christians, they hate our older sect, the Eoglish, who are the most powerful of our foes, crush it here lest it naay imperil their dividends, derived though they are from a scheme that has cocA Egypt thou- sands of lives and loaded her with a debt from which she can hardly hope for an en- tire century to recover. Then, too, their presence stirs up ihe vanity of our rulers to the bailding of palaces and fleets, for both of which ^e starving fellaheen has to pay, and neither of which is in the least requir- ed, and â€" " "Yes, yes, I know all that and more," in- terrupted the princess impatiently. "Well, you once sought my alliance to help set all these things straight, and I then refused is because at the time I stillloved my brother, Tewfik. To-night yon have been brought thither to be toid that that time and that love have passed away. 1 hate my brother. Why, matters not. Let the fact suffice, as also that I hate these Christians in addition. I would give my life to see them all, aye, all, every one of them, driven into the sea, and nniversally perish." "Your highness carries her bate too far," answered the war minister, reprovingly. "To drive them forth from the oonntry that they have mined, with tbe help of Allah and the Prophet I should be quite willing to do, and perhaps I am the only man in Kgypt save one who oonld do it." "And who is the other " "He whom his foes call the False Prophet." "Arabi Pasha, yon alone are the chosen of the nation, and all men know it, for you have a heart tiiat feels for the misery and degradation of the people, and 'tis not a mean, selfish ambition bnt an earnest de- sire for Egypt's welfare that spurs you to take action." Without me, however, you would be powerless, and you know why." "Because without yon our mighty lord and sonzsrane, the Sultan, would designate the struggle for liberty a military rebellion, and help your brother, the Khedive, to crush it out." "You have ^d it, and 'tis no more than the truth But my beauty can sway the Sultan, for he loves me. And that beauty and that love combined shall obtain yon that which alone yon require to insure success. Provide me with a secret and trusty messen- ger to Constantinople, and In a month from now I will hand you the Sultan's authority and the Chief Imaun's blessing for the move- ment that shall give Egypt to the Egyp- tian." Is it a bargain?" 'In the name of AUah and the Prophet, yea," answered the war minister, with fervid zeaU and then a sUenoe of death fell upon the two conspirators. CHAPTER VII. THK STIKRINa CP OF HELL BBOXH A month has passed away since the even- ing of the fete at the Ghezirsh PaUoe, and duinstiiat month nothing of any importance aeems to have happened, but as in the case of the little mole, which onoe upon a ttme was the death of a king, dangeroua eneu|(h work has been dime in the dark during ttiat period, aa we ahall preaently, aee. ^ntarodnce we the reader to the palaoe of Ahmed Arabi Paaha, the war miniater, a biB. pink house, with yellow jalousies and h having a garden in front gojgeoua withwtolet hiUsous blossoms, and to the Hdemlio of big haU thereof which, aooord- ine to custom, is the general reoeptfmi room, ul whirein at the hotter seawms of the yew, OB aooonnt of its oootaeas, meala are goneraUy tok*" aa welL .. The floor was of marble, the suTronndInc waUa were whitowashed an4 kyghewaid there with arms Mid armor, wldlstrarreimd- STa* dilforent altitade. by bataniea or gal ££ wme of which were fronted »5ra t^- uTwikof wo«l oaHed moue^r^hieii. *• u^nf wliiidi was that tlie ladses ti tlie hS£iJld1i^?t th.rth.»«8k (whilrt STJfiDET TOPICS. The municipal authorities of Rome are removing antique works of art from the open ur and substitating exact prodnctioiis. The amtiques are placed in the various museums. ' Muses of deep sea osral, many tons in weight, wldoh were torn from tiielr ooean lied by the voloanio explosimi ia Snada Straito two years ago, my now be seen two or three miles inlimd, whither they were home by the tidal wave. Half of the boys in the Dexter, Me., high idhooluse toliaooo, and whiskmr bottles are paaaadaroaadanuagtham. A Osxter adiool girl amokes and swears ia publio. These esses wacb no for consideration at a recent local taaohera' institute. Watohea may lie seat for teating to the Kew Obsecratory in London, and a oertifi- oato of exodleaoe will be given imt so ex- trsmeb tiie aooniaoyreqned thatno watch oan be marked first-class iHiioh varies aa Btuoh aa one tick in 43,000. Recent experisnoes In the Roaaiaa Oov- enuneat worfcaliopa have dem oiiakato d the bet that theateelguaa for thelioayy marine and ooaat batterioa oaaaot be aiadeat homa^ aad thatk aa haratirftwa, theae Olden liad bet- ter lie fl^Ton to tiie Krappa. 1 rw aainhn ttwmae^vee aaesea) apoa aa objeet offatanatiathahail bslew. Hadaay of tiio ladiaa bean than toMB »f pnaeat oooarioa tiiqr would hav*^- hald nothiu thatwoaldhaye tea^ted them to •amain, lor tiie aaleinlo waa oooupied 0^ liy the matter of the house and a oouplo of oariy monlBK yiaitora, who were- wdUBg to aad fro with measured strides aad ooa- versiog Aieaawhile ia TuAish instead of tteir active AraUo, sotiiat not a syllable of their disoourae oould be uadenrtood by tiie â- eatry tk a dirtyliaea uaifoiia aad nd tar- bonab, who waa posted just at the outer door, or by his companions of the main guard who were lonogi^g oa a stoae beach doaebygoiaipiog whilat kattttag, for the Egyptian aoldieris' generally handy with the needle. Ahmed Arabi, the war minister, ia the centre figure of the tiuee, add he oa the right with the crafty, oruel look ia hia face, ia Tonlba Pasha, afterwardi aickaamed AraU's braias, whilst hit left hand oompaa- ioa is Suleiman Bey, who is fieroe looking as a jackal. All three were dad in dark blue regiment- al' and all three wear tiie red tarboush oa their heads, for ao Mohammedui can don a head dress h'tving either peak or brim by reason that five times a day his devotions oblige hfan to touch the ground or floor with hisforshead, whihrtheisforbidden tounoover his head during prayer. It is now high time for us to discover what these three men are talking about, a task, which by donning our invisible ooata we shall find easier of aocomplishment %^" does the Agaof the ennuoha, who, ooncealed behind the carved moncharabie of the lowest of the three galleries, is trying very hard to make the same discovery. "You have the Suit n's firman and all is well," says Toniba Pasha. "But our lord, the Sultan, j;rante that firman on the sole condition that we work in secret at the first and reveal not our high authority nutll success apipeara alrrady as- sured. Thus it loses much of its vaIuo." This from Arabi, to whom Suleiman Bey at ones replied "We should have got on vei^ well with- out the firman, and ite chiel value seems to me to be in the fact that the Sultan thereby indirectly pledges himself not to opp}8e us in our designs. If the Sublime Porte re- mains nentral, we must succeed. Have we not tens of thousands wherewith to oppose the Feringhees hundreds Inshallafa I (God being wU:ing !) in another month we will have driven them all into the sea." "On to the sea will suffice," said Arabi. "We simply doMire to be rid of them and their creature, the Khedive, as well. We want to secure Egypt for the Egyptians. Allah knows that I have no higher or other ambition." A somewhat incredulous smOe played about the lips of Toulba Pasha as the war minister gave vent to these very disinterest- ed sentiments, bnt h^ merely said "We have no doubt of it, Excellency. We know yon to be the chtunpion of the downtrodden people, and it Is the people whom we must now proceed to stfar up, for their own good." "The army is ours to a man," replied Arabi. "Tbe p»y of a single piastre a day, especially when it happens to be two years in arrears, is a very low bid for IpyiJty and cheerful service." "And for such troops the prospect of pil- laging the banks, m^gaz^nea, warehouses and shops of the Fnmkish swine would prove a temptation that they could hardly leaist. Yes, I myself imagine that they are ours to a man yet must the populace of, at all evente, the largest cities be won over." So spoke Suleiman Bey and Arabi re- joined "It will bono difficult task, for to make them one with us we have bnt to toll the simple truth. It wanta no oolorlng what- ever." "They know that the European merchants despise while they fleece them," growled Touba Pasha. "The very childroi are aware of that." "By Allah, European oommeroe quad- ruples the ^rice of everything to the poor," echoedSnleiman Bay. "Aye, and it doubles their labors as well. There is no dava driv- er equal to an Englishman or a Frenohmaa." "Baads of pilli^ers are they klL They have never known how to be useful to us." 'Beoause for every honest man Europe sends us'tf^snty swindlers," "And the one honest man makes his for- tone in Egypt only to spend it elsewhere. That is oot the way to do good to tiie country." "Yet our Khedive, who, aa you well know, shonld be the father of his people, is never so happy as when surrounded by tiiese blood-suckers, andfeteingand feasting them on the money which he wrings from the starving peasantry for the special purpose. To each new arrival who is armed with a letter of introduction, -he says, 'Welcome, the riches of Egypt are yours,' and by Allah and the Prophet, I have never looked upon the Feringhee yet who has been do w to take him at his word." This from the war minister, and his cpm- panitms laughed approvaL (to be coNTnraBD.) APtanridanoe wonaa gave Urth to fenr ohOdraB laowtiy tiM new eoman Uvad b«k afawkouB tiwhwhaad took adi of flw a aii aa t ia n it oauaad, aad got aaaa aioafaao{taao«ata inm eadi.of tha 80» people who viewed thellttleoaae' bodiai. The Lapatlal and Amerioaa Clnb-rllf oatooBia cl aa aasoeiatlea 4^ geatlaoiaa ds- of tighteniag the f^M ida of asaipallv ,1 Bnglish-speaklag peopleâ€" kae just eBiw*ed a fndoa with the HuiaTBr Square fflub, aad the aew dub calls Itself the St Geoife's dub, Haaover Square. The oiub house is haadsMne, large, aad wdl ap- Kiated; dtaated ia the very heart of him.- n, and powesaing forty iMaroona. The aew water worka for Yoaioe, lavolv- ing the ooaatruotioa of aa aqneduot to ooa- â-¼ey water from the mabi land to tliat oily, under the auairfona of the Oompagaie Ganar- ale dee E»ux of Paris, have reached the fia- iahing point after a lapse of aome nine years, the finbhed worka comprising the aquedost, which paaaea under the lagoona the uader- P'pea for ^e diatributioa of the water, aad two la»e reaervoirs ia the town, the water to be taken from the osaal known aa Dei MoranzanL Private familiea will be anppUed with water at the price of sixty certimeo per oubio metre â€"1,000 litreaâ€" apedal arrange- menta being alSo made for the supply of lai;ger quantities of water at lower rates, while the minimum quaa'ity of water which wHl be furnished is 250 litres par day. The calculating machine invented by Prof, Thomson appears to excel, in its ingeniou adaptation to a variety of resulti*, even Bab- bage's wonderful apparatus. By means of the mere friction of disk, a cylinider, aad a bdl, the machine is capable of effecting bk- merons complicated calculations which oc6nr in the highest application of mathematios to phydcal problems, and by ita aid an unskili- ed person may, in a s^ven time, periona the work of ten expert mathematicians. The miuihine is applica ole all ^e to the calculating of tidal, magnetic, meteorological, and other ^riodio phenomena it will solve diffiBrea- tial equations of the second or even Ughec powers or orders and through this same wonderful arrangement of mechanical parta, the problem of ding the free motions of any number of mutoally attracting piurti- des, unrestricted by any of the approximate suppositions ireqnired in tbe tieatment of the Innar amd planetary theories, b done by simply turning a handle. An auscount b given of the introduction into England by Mme. DeLong of her metal cutting machinery, which has for some time been in successful use in Framce. She hae now, it aopears, perfected some iogenioaa machinery, worked by steam power, whick cuts with the utmost precbion the hardest and softest metals in any design, so that by it can be produced a gold lace pUi or a steel castle porteullu from the solid metal, with out amy moulding or filing. This unique in- dustry is divided into f ou genleral branches. ' The first u the production of gates, doors„ balcony f route, and other architectuTdl metal works, without eisting â€" plates of brass a, foot thick being thus cut into lattice work at a single operation; a second branch b themakiogof la'.tice metal work filied in with glass, to supersede the ordinary leakden frames for charch and other ornamental windows the third branch comprises the inlaying of plush and ebony jewel cases, call ineto, £c., with red and yellow copper, stee£, and other metab and a fourth for the working of picture frames, biskete, oretto, 0., out of the solid metal fully finbhed. Fate of an Old Honter. Simon Trumin, of Ball a C^bin. in the mountains near Elkland, was one of the old- eat amd best-known hunters and guides in Pennsylvania. He was 70 yeaid of age, but was still strong and active, having only last week spent three days and nights in tiie open woods, during which time he killed a de«r and abear. H^ always asserted that he had killed over 200 bears, and it was well known that he had had many battlea with them hand to hand, many deep and ugly scars on his body testifybg to the fieroeness of some of them. He had escaped mamy dangers in hb mare than half a cen- tury of life in the woods Last winter he killed the long-hunted big bear that had prowled about thb vicnity for more than two years, carrying off sheep and other stock repeatedly and successfully. In the fight with thb bear Truman lost three fin- gers on hb left hand. th3 hand being so bad- ly mangbd that it was barely saved by the aunputation of the fingers. A few days tince two travelling Italians came to that place with two large trained beam. In the afternoon they left town, and a mile from the village met a team of hirses belonging to a f tmner nam^d Gibbs. Gibba was driving, and Simon Truman was riding with him to the villaige. The sight of ^S bears frightened the horses, and they turn- ed square about in the road. The wagoa was upset, and both Gibbs and Truman were thrown out. Tmmaui struck on a sharp pro â-  jeoting knot on a log at the ride of the road. The knot penetrated his dde to the deptii of three inches. Gibbs was unhurt. With- out stopping to look after hb runaway twi^ he compelled one of the Italians to help carry the injured old hunter to Elkland. The knot had broken three of Truman's ribs, and poshed the broken enda with it into hb hug. He did not utter a groan al the way in to the village. He wa* carried to the tavern and a doctor called. Whea the doctor ar- rived, I^raman add to him 'Thb will settie me, I don't mind dyiace, bnt if s the thought that after escaping trom. wild bears for fifty years I am killed thnm^fi tame hears, chained and muzzled, that woir- riee me." Tinman ^ied three hours after b^^ni; brouj .th at He was the laat of bis famf y, " It beata all creation," muttered cid MuUethead, " what pains swindlen wiU take to beat honest men. Here, someone has satddled a lead 10 cent pbc off on me " ' Cant yon pass it again " timidly sogsest- ed hb loner half. " Paaa it " he shooted " why, tlie thiiu! b aa black as my hat 1 Mb, I'll have to put it in the contribution-box.' "Itfilb my heart with joy," aud aa earnest oonatiy pastor at the Old of his ser- mon, ' to see so many straiuers aunong oar omigregatioBoa tiusbeantifurSibbath mera- big. Sogoaraars la our town an always wel- come we wuBt them to oonui. Yonag laaa aad old'aiea wham pleasure or liusiaeBS has called away from ths softsniag fa^iiaMee of home, we greet them with (^ea IwalriB) niy ooUecUoa wOl.aow be takea up." ^HtJ:4 m li in ,1 â-  il. '1 -tS-fi .-J .111