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The Lansingburgh Courier. D E V O T E D TO T H E IN T E R E S T S O E T H E S E C O N D A S S E M B L Y D I S T R I C T VOLUME X ¥ I I. LANSINGBURGH, N. tHURBRAT, OCT- 20, 1892. NO. 10. Jacob Teitsch< The Reliable LansingOurgh Baker, will keoy coustantly on hand a full sup ply of fresh BSE&D, CASE k PIES. Corn Muffins, Breakfast KoIIs and Buns Fresh every morning. ASK FOB '1-lIE « CROWN” BREAD. Corner Fourth avenue and 19th street. LANDZOU PETESSON, THE LANSINGBURGH JEIf ELEK 5T4 SECOND ATENVE. Waltham and Jllgin Watches at lo\i prices. Every watch warranted. _ Alsa repairing done at the shortest notice by; a practical watchmaker. Gold Rings, Chains and all kinds of watches. Bpeck.s to suit all ages. Also office of the Davis Sewing Ma chine. Machines put out on trial. Try HIRAM J.CASWELL, DEAIiER IN PR 110 R& COOK STOVES Magee's Boston Heaterr Tin Roofliiff, Gutters, Leaders, cV:c. JOBBING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED- 631 Second Ave., Lansingburgh Has removed from No. 5 to No. 3 H a ll Building, Troy,N. (Junction of River and First sts.) Where he has a much larger and finer store. He will keep constantly on hand a full supply of Foreign and Domestic Fruit, a Choice line o f Confectionery, Nuts, &c., &c. AEE GOODS FBEiSH AND CHEAP. DAVID WHITE, S Z iA T E R . AND DEALER IN SMIIHifliPillITlfflEIf Booling Slate & Slate Mantels, Building and Roofing Paper, School Black Boards, Etc. 391 River St., 83 Ontario St., TROY. COHOES. JOHN MAHONEY, JR., Manufacturer and dealer in Carriages & Wagons, .stock. Kepositorv i Adams and Second sts.. Troy, 6ISES OF INSAKITY From the Effects of “ L a Are Alarmingly Prevalent. SUICIDES raOH TEE SAKE CAUSE Are announced in every paper. Would you be rid of the awful effects of La Grippe ? There is but one Sure Remedy that Never Fails, viz: BAIA’S SAKSAPAEIILA. We Guarantee to CUBE you or BEFGND your money. COULD W E D O M O R E ? ISN’T IT WORTH A TRIAL. ALEX. HISLOP, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, M e n ’s Furnishin©s> &c- O X X j O X . O T H S , 586 Second Ave., Lansingburgh. ONE OF THE oLDisT [ i m m m Houses in this vicinity is MASONS 588& 5 9 0 2d.ave., Lansinghurgh. ■ ^ CAIiD A N » BSAUIIIVB OTTB IM - B1E3VSE STOCK O F FURNITURE before making your final choice. R e p a iring an d U p h o lstering le terms. Give me a call. KEELER’S Hotel & Restaurant Broadway & Maiden Lane. UROPBAN PLAN. A tBA W T , ]V. T1 JESSEN, McCOlLIIlI &O., C STEAM CSACKER& ' Mioktares SIXTEENTH ST., AND SE60ND ATE., LANSINGBURGH. N. Y. CASTORlAi for infante and Children. “Oastorla Is so weU adapted to chUdren that I recommond itaa superior to any preBoription known to me.” H. A. A hoher , M, D,, 111 So. Oxford Bt., Brooklyn, N. t. “The use of ‘Castorla’ is so universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent mmilies who do not keep Oastoria within easy reach.” w ithin easyi ____ O ablos late Pastor Bloomingdnlo XtefOTm^Chwch. Wi^wt inlafious medicatioa. EnwiM F. P abdm , M. D., rop,” ISStU Street and 7th Ave., Mew York City. ••ThoWiiitlirop,” T b * OnsTOAiw CoKPAire, 77 MtmRAv S» b * s *. K sw Y ork . .fciagS CREAM balm lA T A W R H i A SONG OF LIFE. He tbat cliiiKeih uuto life For the foud Ups of a wife Hath, I know, groat Joy to live; Earth hath nothiug moro to givo- Qf all gifts the gods confer. Sweeter thanthu love of horl For h U heaven hnthdreauicil and smiled ss:;s& '.s*AfrSL»„... ci“ ,s r 5 S ir s i 5 *,i So, tliOURll loro bo logt to tlU’O, Life, though lonely, sweot maybe; Can'st thou take, when sore nppregt. Others' burdens to ihy breast, Lovo unto the loveless give V Thou Shalt bless thyeulf aud livol —Frank L. i?tau(on, A LUCKY SHOT, I am the second danghtor ! Boll is the favorite—the beauty—Boll has all the pretty dre,sso.s and all the luvo and tonderne,ss. To think that I could not go to tho opera this evening because Boll wag afraid there would not bo room ouongh for her flounces with throe in tho car riage ! I could cry with vexation to think of it. There will he that old fa vorite anvil chorus in tho ‘•Trovatoro.” Bell -will not hoar a note of it; sho will he listening to some stupid attache or nobleman all the time—I wish all her flounces at Jericho—there. What shall I ilo all this long evening ? The drawing-room is so empty and si lent—I shall cry amin if I think of tho “Ti’ovatore,” and that handsome young man with a name ns long as my arm, who sings it. iticod a strange looking pin . Belle saw it, too, and ex- ipatMr. king pin the windows of tho house in iquare. Mamma would kill mo if she knew it—but what fun it would he to shoot peas into that hack draw- havG a pea-shooter lei’Tom used when lot peas into ing-rooja floor ! I ha t my brothi Englgby. ho was at Eu Shall I or shall I not ? Tho win dows !(i ’0 invitingly open—but then I am a young lad^y and soon to be pre sented ht ootot. No, I will not! And yet thoro is a gentloman sitting by tho fire—I could hit him so charmingly— there! My shot has taken effect—hero comes the gentloman with Lis paper in his hand, and he is looking up at all the windows on this side. How augy he looks I Oh, good gracious—thoro goes that unfortunate pca-.shootor out of tho window into tho street; and, ho sees it, too, and rings his boll. What shall I I ran down out\ bf my chamhor into the drawing-room aftor my unlucky ac- oident as fast as I could go. By and by there camo a terrific knock at tho door and Thomas brought iu a card. . James Colcroft.” ith Belle Colcroft I noti( iu his cravat, amiuod it moro closely. Why, it is the strangest thing ! Mr. Colcroft, wliero did you come across that curiosity ?” \It cai.io across me,” he said with a comical look. \What is it ?” “ Only a poa.” Everyone burst oiit in a chorus of ex clamations, ami I stole away with burn ing chocks to the conservatory. In a few uduutos I heard his steps, and ho camo iu and was looking for me. \Whore are you, my archer ?” \ Here under the myrtle tree.” Ho oamo and stood beside me and rustled the broad leaves over my - head. “ Helen,” ho said at last, “do you know why I kept this ?” and he touched \ That is tho first dishonest answer I over hoard from you. But, never mind; I do not snppo,seyou know that Cupid was standing behind you all the “ 1 never heard before that ho was a t . all partial to that kind of woairon,” I said, roughly. “ He can turn his hands to anything, I supposo 1\ said Mr. Colcroft, with a \ Do you know, Helen, dear, I have loved you from the moment you told mo who did the mischief. ” I said nothing. “ I am much older than you are, my child—hut if you could loam to love me, I should he the happiest man on earth. Little Helen, what do you say. ” \ I was to marry your brother, you know,” I said, doubtfully, and all his gaycty vanished at once. if; “ But they are both out, Thoms \ Yes, miss, I told him so. But Ihe gentjomau would like to see if the ladies, ho says. Miss Helen.” !ut they are both out, Thomas.” he heard you woro at homo ho ss would only keep you a minute.\ “Show him in, Thomas,\! sa as if I should drop all tho t Ir. Colcroft wallted in. A nfortrmato pea. i, about thirty- .t when laid ha Mr. Colcroft wallted in. As I pected, ho proved to ho tho very at whom I shot that unfortrmato tall, dark man, about old, and very haudsor ' say you called ----- “ Oh, no,”Imurmurod. litnew only too well. “But—ivill you boUovQ it. Miss Percy—some one has actually had tho audacity to shoot a pea into my study. The person shot from your house— from tho window just opposite mine. And it hit mo on the no.sc. It might 3 face I could r _, it into a fit of laughter. Mf. Colcroft looked at mo a moment steadily with his great, dark eyes. . “ I beg your pardon,” ho said stiffly. Then I grew more frightened than ever. If I had made him angry ivith me, what should I do ? I looked at him piteously and stammered : “ Pray, don’t bo vexed, Mr. Colcroft. It was very silly of mo, and very riulo, but I did not mean any harm—I did not know ------ ” Such a look of astonislimont as ho gave me ! I wonder I did hot siiilc through the very floor. “Why, you never mean to say, Miss Percy, that you shot that pea ? ” “But I did, then I And if you only will not toll mamma—you will not toil mamma?” “Certainly not, my child.” “Oh, how good ofyon,\Istammorrd. “What in the world imt such an idea into your head ? ” ho said thoughtfullv. “Brother Tom, I suppose. He gave this to me, and showed me Low to ii.so it. I shot at Miss Gantry onco, and Charley Colcroft said it was ho, and I did net get punished at all.” “ What! ” he .said, with a laugh. ‘nri'O you the heroine of that story, too? Why, I am his brother, and ho told about you, two years ago, when wont up to 0.xford. Charley area ‘brick!’” “I am sure ho was ouo-all the girls thought so. And when T come out, I hope I shall SCO him. I intend to iiiaii v him, somo day.” He looked e.xcossively amused. \Then I .shall be your brother, hliss Percy. Do you think you uiil like mo in that capacity ?” “Very mnoh.” A thought of mamma camo over mo just then, and I woudorod v.lmt . lio would say to see mo talkiug so fi-eel^s to a gentloman. I did not know. I sat ^up at ouco, aud tried to look dignified, 5®® yoii think I ought tp gO, Mis3i,i:aiipij, says you Percy. But this is not the first time I have been in this room, aufl now I am very sure it will not he the last. Meim- whilo will my future sister deign to bid her brother good night ?” I gave him my hand. He raised it to his lips very gallantly. Then he went I wonder when I Shall see him again, -his brother Charles is like him. since I am to marry I never knew what Mw Colcroft said to mamma when he called the day after ’ onr mooting, but she kissed me very kindly afterwards, and told me I might come down into the drawing-room whunovor he was there—^and so it went on—aud sometimes ho prevailed on her to bring mo to tho opera--.aud at last— ho got her to bring me out, although it was tho last of the season. ist evening he sat beside Belle in tho im after dinner. , I v wiug-room i posite with Capt. C.nyers, wh( lovo with Belle. As I looked uj iLui itu. X J.U 011 .CU up auu laugueii. “ I am glad that I shot that pea, Mr. lolcroft,” I said, demurely. \Oh bless that pea! ” he exclaimed, rapturously, and clasping me to his heart ho nearly smothered me with sses, and so we were engaged. Mamma is delighted, for Mr. Colcroft IS S50,000 a year. But how very odd Ixchaugo. tead of observes the Albany Expr Thackeray, who detested “wasp- waisted women,” once told a young rel ative, who was much in love, to take his betrothed to a physician before pur chasing an engagement ring. \ What for ?” his companion inquired, in considerable astonishment. “ To see whether that wasp waist is an inheritance or a consequence,” he re- \ Consequence !” exclaimed the young man ; “what do you mean ?” \Corsets said Thackeray, laconi- * “ilis s --------- has the most beautiful ire in England,” said the infatuated “ She is deformed,” Thackeray re sponded. \ If it is a natural deformity sho may bo a moderately be.althy n. Even hump-backs are not al- ........................ I lincoln ouce remarked that ■ery man about to marry should stand over a doctor with a club and make him tell tho truth with reference to tho chosen partner for life, if there was no other way of getting it out of him. Also that tho parents ivho would allow a girl in without kuowui be known, hh _ ____ ioral condition \Tho whoio marrying business is wi-ong, ” said Mr. Lincoln. \ Fashion able girls have too often foolish moth ers, who caro for nothing but to sell their flesh aud blood to the highest bid- To-day it is tho end of a load pencil directed by brain power that wins. Make an entry of every cent paid out and received. A Eiversido (Cal.) 'paper is authority for the statement that California fruit is sold for less price in London than in Eivorside. The wealth of ^3,048,000,000. the United Btates is A Texas woimiu runs a 700,000 aero “ DAYS THAT ARE TO BE.\ From the misty oloudland. In the rainhow’s hue, ’' S S S S S S . Of love, and love, and loving, In the days that are to bo. And the wind goes roaming Like a irouhled soul, n f e s s s a t r ■ From the warring ocean Blackness, sleet and hail, A blessed voice keeps singing Tho s.wcotost song to me Of peace that passeth knowledge, In tho days that are to he. From tho tender blue land Arching overhead, A voice is ever singing Sweetest things to me.. Of love, aud lovo, and loving. In the days that are to ho. —Eleanor Eirk. THE MAN IN T IE BELL. fifty years ago about twenty of nsj who dwelt in the vicinity of the cathedral, formed a club, which used to long every peal that was called for. One Sunday 1 went with another into the belfry to ring for noon prayers, but the second stroke we had pulled showed us that the clapper of tho 'bell we were at was muffled. Somoone Lad been buried that morning, and it Lad been prepared, of couse, to ring a mournful note. ■We did not know of this, but the remedy was easy. “Jack,” said my companion, \step up to the loft and cut off the hat,” for the way we had. of muffling was by tying a piece of an old hat or of cloth (the former \waa pre- ferred) to one side of the clapper, wLich deadened every second toll, I complied, and mounting into the belfiy, crept as usual, into the bell, where I began to cut away. , The hat had been tied on in some more compli cated manner than usual, and I was perhaps three or four minutes in get ting it off; during which time my com panion below was hastily called away —by a message from his sweetheart, I believe—^but that is not material to my iviug. 1 guessed tho reason at onco. It was a moment of terror, but by a hasty and almost convulsive ofebrt I succeeded iu jumping down and throwing myself on the flat of my back under the bell. The room in which it was was little more than sufficient to contain it, tho bottom of tho bell coming within a couple of feet of tho floor of lath, At that time I certainly was not so bulky as I am now, but as I lay it was ivitbiu an inch of my face. I had not lain my self down a second, when the ringing began. It was a dreadful situation. Over mo situng a great iiiass of metal, one touch of which would have crusLed me to pieces; the floor under me was principally composed of crazy laths, and if they gave way I would he pre cipitated to the distance of about fifty feet upon a loft, which would, in all probability, have sunk under tho im- pulse of my fall, and sent me to be dashed to atoms uqion tho marble floor of the chancel, a hundred feet below. This was my first terror, hut tho ring ing had not continued a minute before a moro awful and immediate dread camo on mo. Tho deafening sound of tho bell smote into my ears with a tkuu- der which made mo fear their drams would,crack; thoro was not n fibre of my body it did not thrill through. It entered my very soul; thought and re flection were almost utterly banished; I oiily retained the sensation of agon- —I could not close them, though to look at the object was bitter as death- followed it mstiuctivoly in its oscillat ing progress until it came back again. It was iu vain I said to myself that it could come no nearer at any future swing than it did at first; every tinio it descended I endeavored to shrink into the very floor to avoid being buried un der the down-sweeping mass, aud then, reflecting on the danger of pressing too weightily on my frail support, would cower up again as far as I dared. At first my fears wore mere matter of fact, I was afraid the pulleys above would give way and let the bell plunge on me. At another time the possibility of the clapper being shot out in somo sweep and dashing through my body, as I have seen a ramrod glide through a door, flitted across my mind. The dread, also, as I have already men tioned. of the crazy floor tormented mo; but those soon gave way to fears not moro unfounded, but moro visionary, aud, of course, moro tremendous. The roaring of tho boll coufused my intellect, aud my fancy so with all sorts of strai teem with all sorts of strange and ter rifying ideas. Tho bell pealing abovo aud opening its jaws with a hideous clamor seemed to me at one time a rav ing monster raging to devour mo ; at another a whirlpool ready to suck mo into its bellowing abyss. Ass I gazedaze imed all shapes. It was a ’ ic of tho A I g !. It was dug eagle, or rather a roc •abian story-tellers, clapping and screaming over me, As I looked upward into it, it would appear somotimus to lengthen into iu- dofluilc extent, or to be twistod at tho end into tho spiral folds of the tail of a flying dragon. Nor was tho flamiug breath or fiery glance of that fabled ani- agination., I often thought that I was in a hurricane at seaiand that the ves sel in -which I was embarked tossed un der nie lyith the most furious vehe- The air, set in motion by the all the ideas that seized from the supernatural. In the vast cavern of the boll hideous faces appeared and glared down on me ■with terrif^ng frowns or with grinning mockery still more appalling. I found I -was becoming (delirious and trembled lest reason should utterly desert me. luoAxjLiy waiauxl uui U» uu It miuj e head is dizzy from standing on the battlement of a lofty castle, to pre cipitate himself from it—-and then death ■would be instant and tremendous. lYhen I thought of this I became desperate. I caught the floor with a grasp tbat drove the blood from my nails, and I yelled with the cry of de spair. I called for help, I prayed, I shouted; but all the efforts of my^ voice ■were, of course, drowned in the bell. As it passed over my mouth it ocoasion- ally echoed my cries, which mixed not nac, he sail wasn’t much j tween-meals affair, bat while it lasted, 'The ei my voice of course, drowned in the bell, passed over my mouth it ocoasion- ally echoed my cries, which mixed not ■with its own sound, but preserved their distinct character. Perhaps this was but fancy. To me, I know, they then sounded as if they were the shouting, howling or laughing of the fiends with ■which my imaginiation had peopled the gloomy cave which swung over me. In twenty minutes the ringing was done. Half of that time passed over me without power of computation—the other half appeared an ago. \When it ceased I became gradually more quiet, hut a ne^w fear retained me. I knew that five minutes would elapse without ringing, but at the end of that short time the bell would be rung for a scc- oud time for five minutes moro. I could not calculate time. A minute and an hour wore of equal duration'. I feared to rise lest the five minutes should have elapsed aud tho ringing bo again commenced, in which case I should be crushed before I cou'ld escape against the walls or framework; of the boll. I therefore still continued to lie down, cautiously shifting myself, how ever, with a careful gliding, so that my eye n o longer looked into the hoUow. This was of itself a considerable relief. 'I'ho (■ 'ssation of tho noise had, in a great measure, the effect of stupefying me, for niy attention being no longer ocnqiit'd by the chimeras I had con- jurcil up began to flag. All that now dii,tres.sed mo was the constant expecta tion o f the second ringing, for which, however, I .settled myself ■with a kind of stupid resolution. I closed my eyes and clinched my teeth as firmly as if they -were screwed in a vise. At last the dreaded moment camo, and tho first swing of the bell extorted a groan fr.im me, as they say tho most resolute victim screams at the sight of the rack, to which ho is for tho second time destined. After this, however, I Lay silent and lethargic, ■without a thought. Yi'heu it ceased I was aroused a little by the hope of escape. I did not, how ever, decide on this step hastily, but, putting up my baud with the utmost .•uiitioii, I touched the rim. Theugh the ringing had ceased it still was trem ulous from the sound aud shock under my hand, which instantly recoiled as from an cloctric jar. A quarter of an hour irrobably elapsed before I again dared to make the experiment, andtbon I foirad it at rest. I dotermiued to lose no time, fearing that I might have lain tlieu already too long and that tho bell for ovciiing service would catch me. This drcail stimulated me, and I slipped out with the utmost rapidity ami aro-io. I stood, I siippiose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder at the polaee of my iiniirisonment, pene trated with joy at escaping, but then rushed xlo^wu the stony and irregular .stair with tho velocity of lightning and arrived iu tho bell-ringer’s room. My hands were torn and blooding; my hair dihhovollud and my clothes tattered. I leaned against the wall, motionless and deprived of thought, iu which pios- turo my companions found me when, iu tho course of a couple of hours, they re turned to their occupation.—Black wood’s Magazine. An Alaskan City of tho Air. Many stories have been written about mirages aud delusions, but none have been more interesting and curious than that of the Silent City mirage, which makes its appearance near the Pacific glacier iu Alaska, says the Chicago IlemhJ. The discovei-y of this wonder ful mirage was made by the Indians, who ■would toll of tho city which was built iu tho clouds. It rises from tho side o f the Bacifle glacier. It first ap pears like a heavy mist, and soon be comes dearer, and ono can distinctly SCO the spectre city, well defined streets and trees, tall spiires, huge and odd- shaped buildings which apopear to ho ancient mosques or cathedrals. It is a city which would scorn to contain at least twenty-five thousand or thirty thousand inhabitants. As yet no one bas been able to identify it, although several have claimed to recognize the pilace. Thoro is no city like it in Alaska, nor iu any country about it for thousands of miles. Somo claim it is a city in Russia, others say it is a city in England, but none can tell what or ■wlioi'o it is. The mirage was given the n.anic of'sSilcnt City,” as it appears to one like a dead city ; there is nothing that would indicate it is inhabited, Cernmnv eatsJriaerioau dried apples. there on the Eo- } day when there in—a sort of be not pleasant lemy had bunched over in some woods, and about forty of us hauled up a twenty pound smooth bore gun, and thought we would have some fun dislodging them. There was a small frame house not more than two hundred yards away, and we tried to get behind it, but we couldn’t reach it, and they couldn’t. “We got the gun in position in some bushes, with a low heavy tree over it, and blazed away onco, without much damage, and while we were loading tho second time, thinking we had it all our own way, they made a rush, about fifty of them, and got into the house. Then they opened on us, and though we had the gun so it covered the house, and had it all ready to touch off, I’ll bo blamed if they didn’t make it so hot for us we had to skedaddle. 'That is to say, everybody did but me, and I went up the big tree and hid in tho leaves. I didn’t want to bo there a bit, I can tell you, but there was no help for it; I was treed, and nothing short of Provi- dence^as going to save mo. “I ktoggod tho tio3 close, and was scared h.alf to death, until they let up shooting, and then I got cooler, and bo- THE CORPORAL’S STORY. B Gun land Beoi tho Day. ■When the Old Soldier Club had been culled to order by the veteran, he an nounced that Corporal Buckskin, whose real naine ■was Boosgene, would narrate one of his experiences—that experience, in fact, that had made him a oor- The corporal blnshingly pulled lilie soap box he was sitting on, cut in iKe middle of the floor, says the Free Press, and began; \It happened d< tomac,” he saids [ got cooler gan to look around and figure on get ting away. The cannon was right nU- anon was i lin reach, e a baby on a fence, and likely to remain so as long the other fellows wore in tho house, der me, almost the sun as harmless our fellows were out of sight, waiting for night to coma on, or for something to turn up to change the situation. “In the meantime I was doing a deal ' i— T ----- hug doing a c of thinking up that tree. I was h ging a limb so tight that after a while something in my pocket began to hurt me iu tho ribs, and I reached in to see what it was, and found a sun-glasS some of the boys had picked up and traded mo for a jackknife. I had the uncom fortable thing out in half a minute, and was going to throw it away, when all of a sudden I noticed the cannon down there in the sun all ready to be fired, if only anybody could .set a match to it. “'rhinks I to my.'elf, what’s the gosd- of a sun-glass ? So I crept out on tho limb as quiet as I could, and got oloso enough to the gun to get a focus on tho touch-holo. It was most too far away, but I held her on tho best I could, for about five minutes, when bang wont the cannon, and ns I ’m sitting here, I tell you it blowod that house clean over and full of holes, and didn’t leave a ma.n that could run. Nary a man, and before anybody had time to move on the other side, onr fellows jumped out of the bushes and yanked that cannon under cover and kept it there. The jar of the .shot knocked mo off the limb, aud I broke my arm iu the fall, but the strips they put on it cured it pretty uick, and I didn’t complain.” Corporal Buckskin’s story doubt in the minds of a fi listeners, but when he pulled a big sur glass from his pocket and showed it n !, the testimony was lotent, and everybody few abi( testimo) competent, and evei, came forward and congratulateii him. Animal Intoll ifiienc Colonel I. 1'. rr. Donald, of Colum bia City, tells the Ipdianapolis News the following story of anjmal intolli- gem ll: He hfti^ bought a Iqt of stock, including 5. afld calf. The cow had been rofohuuendda as ono of tho kind est of apiigiEils. Its motherly affection for its offspring had more than onco at tracted Ittentjdn. It never deserted its calf, ahd anybody that tried to separate them w^s met Ivith such piteous appeals from the elder that nobody but a hard ened butcher could carry out a de.sign against the younger. The cow and calf drove along ■V'ery indifferently with the other cattle until a deejr stream was reached. There was no bridge, and tho current was very swift. When tho cat tle plunged in, they were swept off their feet into deep water, and a good many of them disappeared for a moment. When the cow came up her first thought was for her calf. Sho held her head up out of the water, and looked about in all direotions. She did not at first see her calf, because it had been swept several rods d( sen swept several rods down stream id was struggling in the water. The at length observed this with mother at lengtb. observed this wi dismay. Instead of making for the o ie shore, as all the othe posite shore, as all the other animals had done, she plunged into tho stream and swam down below her calf. The current drove the young animal up against the protecting bulk of tho mother. Then the mother started for tho shore, the calf swimming alongside of her in comparatively calm water. Some pro gress \va3 made in this way ; hut about the middle of the stream the current striking the calf in tho forequarter, swept it behind tho cow, and it floun dered down stream. The mother once more went to the rescue. She had to, swim clear around to the other side of her calf; and, this done, sho had to Btoadyl herself in the stream, treading water to hold her position until the calf was once^more safely against her side, and the ’latter then swam safely to Xho la s t Shall Be First. > An old negro preacher divided his sermon into two parts,—\ first, all da things in de text, and, second, all do
