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congregation at Kyleak'm to: year. has been appointed to rch at Dalwhinnie. minister in Scotland. Mr. as born in the island of West- ey. on the 10th of May. 1810 [mm Fraser. son of Mr. Alex- aser. chemist, Forms, In: first. prize in the clasp 0| edica at Aberdeen Umm been awarded the bmmn In \Viili-zmson, a native a who lately left for the Sand rds in the capacity of archi ,oad surveyor. has just beat Lroad surveyor for Keekon pkna. Hawaii. Edinbui‘gh Town Counci lwas remitted to the Tress ittee to consider the ad f closing the Burns‘ Mona ansferring the relics to tilt the council chambars.. ‘ial bust of the. late Dr vrrison. who was for near!) iury rector of the FM kimng College. Glasgow. hat 30d in that institution P)! neilson Cuthbertson. chair School. Board. i brought by Mr. Ernest I he Edinburgh Court of $00 iLover £50.00*0 from William (hclair. damages for breacl ‘ment to sell to him tht Per-shaving machine: in! . Mr. Hooley recetvml ‘ JOhn )ICD; Fiscal. Stnr. Eâ€"the pursuer t tonal estat burgh. House 15 tdee Town Counciz. a (1991» ed from the Dundee Fret 1 support of a request t1!»i Ms should be discontinfie‘ as where there were ex- :umstances. The matte: to yhe convener and t1“ toerxnzendent to considfl by the heir-at-Iaw of tha n Hope. W.S.. Edinburgh. )1: of two testamentary uich the deceased left his rther the causes of total 1d Protesrantism. baa??? moron. fireman of the steam alier. sailing between ~ tli .nai and Corpach. dropper l on the run to Corpach. thv heat being the immediah leath. g of the Cemeter at Nais ml: 18 n. 30.11” Campbell Wht uemlSt, r'orres, ha: prize in the class on at Aberdeen Unite: awarded the brow 0f 1': eating Of a" 18$ Established kyleakin for j'lPPOinted to hortly to pay rs. Warm-op, aken Killia- {bu t Kinio'ch'. 1‘! 'nfiuutcu » ‘‘‘‘ “331,. vaungle‘With. the fierce rapidity'l f“ :fgnr4at; our, inasmuch as he was “mes preVented from immediately mgch'ng: : lock-wall, he appeared mite to hit off the tunnel that led,: ad formerly told me, to the sallet beyond. Suddenly, after hehad. again disappeared. he gave a low 'gnal to approach, to which [quickly responded. . Quietly‘ push- insult way towards him, I was aston-_ and to see With”) a small clearing a {nick and high thorn-fence, outside .of which Klaas stood. Insxde this 011‘- gularla‘aal was a low round hut, form- .4 of boughs and branches strongly and closely interlaced. Klaas . was. standing watching intently the inter-l .or of the hut, which seemed to be bar- red at its tiny entrance by a pile of moms lying close against it. ; What could it mean, this strange dellmg, inaccessible as it seemed to: human life? Klaus soon found a weak spot in the kraal fence, and pulling down some thorns. we stepped inside ind approached the hut. Here. too, Klaus pulled away the dry mimosa- tnorne from the entrance, and was at :20: confronted by a tiny bow and ar-- mu, and behind that by a fierce lit- :le weizened fat-e. Instantly, my Bushman poured forth a torrent of his own language. redundant beyond ex- pr'ssioh with those. extraordinary slit-ks of which the Bushman tongue kt‘m.‘ mainly to consist. Even as he ppoke. the bow and arrow were lower- 2d. the little head appeared through the entrance. and the tiniest, quaintest, most :lflLlL‘Di figure of a man I had erer beheld Stood before us. Ancient, did 1.53)? Ancient is hardly a meet “FSCHDUUU of his aspect. As he stood in”? “$91111; like an owl in the fierce “9118m- hls only i'Ll‘c't‘i‘u‘lng a little skin W05“- Oi the red l‘he-hok fastened over hls‘bht-ulders. he looked indeed coeval Wlifl the rocks around him. I never min-"thing like it. Poor little odd- 15". “‘m “”1185 his eyes were waxing, “‘7“? though he shl'ivclled arm, dull- “"4“??? his {Utmt‘t‘ly acute senses, he thd' \‘mn 3” {he desperate pluck of his 1” Few l‘Ft‘l'iU'etl LU do battle for his W1. With all the race, been prep“ 1‘. hearth and home In hlS own (on; Water 1. “Putnam side ha |3.5!: m the fight, had I s of solitary 3 around hac mated to this grim and c.._, be had Sllhsigtn .. know; at m, and « once what he n"? quickl I"). “3 9:!) 9n? hUndXHd inn-A1n5?.id. gnu. tjo ,_ , I 3‘35 an n8 e drawn wwâ€" fthe dried flesh and :we had brought With us, I 'K1,).c'k¢en mitle eyes wander- v rounri the base‘ of the E? in our from}. He seemed l; and as we firnshed our repast our pipes again), be sad: “The the rock that leads from this 0 [he diam-wads shoulfl be over -pointing before h1m;“but I uite make em the spot, the nave aliered and grown so since ‘mra as a boy years and years w n finnd,c() u fv"‘vu VIA“ IuU “a, - . pates awa , a d U)“ mile: y 81180 6 of cactus and euphor- xs His grandfather, whom he sea eyes on since long years +3 Beer ('ommando had broken mother and Other relatives, 15d himself off captive. The 'nzm sni‘misted on Bushman kes. iizards, roars, gum, 111:. and an occasional snared rOck-mbhit; these and a lit- fV-zuer that gushed from the Iside hard by SUpplied him itence. Here he had lingered ' years. alone and isolated. ‘ negriy an hour’s incessant .osfore his monkey-like ances- tltomxsed history of his life, be old man we wished to 8813 '11? mountain, and that he the tunnel of which he VI: 85 a boy. 'Ariseep, who. it 1 tbs years he had been there {\rn ) and walked atraight for had indicated, and reach- f the precipice. The Bush. hither and Lpither in the tongue. Klaas interrogat- edduvian Bushman, and y, as he “'as_:1nswered by h'isewp, a light flashed 3.21% nance, Sefzing his man by the shoulders, he mum and carefully ex- :‘u'k. Lifting the skin ~uie,;‘r.ing away the coating lair: that covered the r. Klaus pointed 10 two Scars just below the verul inches apart. Then 119 into the air, seized the the neck, and shrieked the most wonderful tor- mzxn language I have ever -\ .~ mm the old man start- uined Klaas intently from and in a thin pipe jab- 'Llumst as voiuhly. ms enl ght n3d me as to :nIa-riude. it seemed. in- ;his old man, ’Ariseep by 15 grandfather, whom he am: lit a pipe, just md settle my rather rves. The Pharl, as was a unique forma- ar. singularly round- 1: and the glorious Lg galaCIite above it feft bare by some a :bat bad anciently se mountains, leaving :15 we StOOd. “a; L‘ u x- water-bottles Lore us. The old man. s warning that snakes might not impossibly n the twenty minutes’ K3113 had {010.1 me. it and somehow escap- Ld crept away: and my hiding in the had somehow pene- and desolate valley, uhure. to I A ortify m of the Orange River. in the undertaking yet, rather than leave the diamonds unexplored, I felt prepared to brave the terrors of this guncanny passage». - - u. It was now three o'clock; the sun was marching steadily across the brassy firmamen-t on his eastward trek, and we had no time to lose. "In you go, \Klaas” said, I; and, nothing 10th, Klaas dived into the bowels of the mountains, I at his heels. For five minutes. by dint of stooping and an gnvgasionzil hands-and-knees upon. the flooring of the tunnel, some- times on smooth sand, sometimes over protruding rock and rough gravel; we got along very comfortably. Then the roof of the dark avenueâ€"for it was pitch dark nowâ€"suddenly lowered, and we had to crawl along. It was un- pleasant, I can tell you, boxed up like this beneath the heart of the moun- tain. The very thought seemed. to make the oppression a million times more Oppressive. Even Klaas, plucky Bushman though he was, didn’t seem to relish the advenbure, and spoke in a subdued and awe~stricken whisper.§ Sometimes since, as I have thought of» that most gnuesome passage, I have Iburst into a sweat nearly as profuse, ithough net so painful as I endured {that day. At last, after what seemed lto me hours and hours, of this painful lcrawling and Egyptian gloom, we met ‘a breath of fresher air; the tunnel widened and heightened, and in anoth- er five minutes we emerged into the blessed sunlight. Little Klaas looked pretty well "baked,” even in his old leather crackers, leather trousers, and flannel shirt. As for myself, I was literally streaming; every thread on me was as wet as if I had plunged into a river. We lay panting for a while upon the scorching rocks, and then sat up, and looked about us. if the Pearl Kloof, as Klaas called it, I whence we had just come had been suf- ficiently striking, the mighty amphi- theatre in which we lay was infinitely more amazing. Imagine a vast arena almost completely circular in shape, flat and smooth, and composed, as to its flooring, of intermingled sand and gravel reddish yellow in colour. This} arena was surrounded by stupendous? walls of the same ruddy-brown rock we had noticed in Paarl Kloof, which here towered to a height of close on a thou- sand feet. In the centre of the red cliffs, blazing forth in splendour, ran a broad band of the most glorious opalescent rock-crystal, which flash- ed out its rays of, coloured light as if to meet the fiery kisses of the sun. This flaming girdle of crystal, more beautiful a thousand times than the most gorgeous opal, the sheen of a fresh caught mackerel, or the most radiant mother-ofâ€"pearl, I can only compare in splendour to the flashing rainbows formed over'the foaming falls of the Zambesi, wh-.ch l have seen moi-e than once. It ran horizontally and very eVenly round at least twoâ€"thirds of the cliff-belt that encircled us. It was 'a wonderful, an amazing spectacle, and Well; we sat gazing at this crystal rainbow for many minutes, till I had somewhat feasted my enraptured gaze. l'l‘hen we got up, and at once began the {the search for diamonds. Directly I saw the gravel, especially where It had been cleansed in the shallow channels Eby the action of rain and flood, I knew at once we should find‘ 'stones. ” it re- sembled almost exactly the gravel Efound in the V aal River diggings. and Ewas here and there strongly ferrugin- one and mingled with red sand, and 00- Ecasionally lime. I noticed quickly that Eagates, jaspe1s, and chalcedony were distributed pretty thickly, and that occasionally the curious bandâ€"doom stone, so otten found in the Vaal Fiver with diamonds, and indeed often con- 'sidered by diggers as a sure indicator Eof stones,” was to be met with. In many places the pebbles were washed pe1fectly clean, and lay thickly piled I think quite the most Einigular of the many strange things, and they are not @ew, l have seen in the African inter- 10r. in hollow water-ways. Here we speedily found a rich harvest of the precious gems. In a feverish search of an hour and a half, Klaas and l picked up thirty-three f.ne stones, ranging in size irom a small pigeon's egg to a third of the size of my little finger-nail. They were all fine dia- monds, some few, it is true. yellow or straw coloured, others of purest water, as I afterwards learned; and we had no (liificulty in finding them. although! we wandered over nor a twentieth part of the valley. I could see at once from this off-hand search that enormous riches lay spread here upon the sur- face of the earth; beneath probably was contained fabulous wealth. I was puzzled at the time, and I have never had inclination or Opportunity to solve the mystery since, to account for the presence of diamonds ' in such pro- fusion. \Vhether they were swept into the valley by early floodings of the Orange River through some aper- ture that existed formerly, but had been closed by volcanic action; or whether, as I am inclined to think, the whole amphitheatre is a vast upheaval from subterraneous fires of a bygone period, is to this hour an unfathomed secret. I rather incline to the latter theory, and believe that, like the Kim- berley “pipe," as diggers call it, the diamondiferous earth had been shot upwards funnel-wise from below, and that ages of floods and rain-washing had cleansed and left bare the gravel and stones I had seen upon the sur- face. Ouw. From the search we had had. I made no doubt that a fortnight’s careful hunting in this valley would make me a miliionaire, or something very like it. At length I was satisfied; and as the; easternig sun was fast stooping to hisi couch with a light heart and elastic‘ stepI turned with filaas to depart. The excitement of the "find” had quite banished the remembrance at that "“We’ll go back now, Klaus.” said 1,! "sleep in your grandfather’s kraal, andi get to the wagon first thing in the; morning." ' At half-past five we again entered the tunnel. It was a nasty business. when one thought of it Iagain, but it would soon be over. As before, Klaas‘ went first, and for half the distance all went well. Suddenly. as we camel to a sandy part of the tunne , there; was a scuffle in front. a fierce er‘ clamation in Bushman language, and? gthen Klaas called out in a hoarse voice: WA snake has bitten me!" What a situation! Cooped up in this frightful burrow, face to face with probably a deadly snake, which had already bitten my companion. Almost immediately, Klaas's voice. came back 10 me in a hoarse gu-.tn:al whi per: "1 have b In by the neck, sieur: it is a puff-adder, and his teeth are sticking into my shoulder. If you will creep up and lay hold of his tail, which is on your side of me, we can settle him; but I can’t get his teeth out without your help.” Crawling forwards. and feeling my way with fright-benumbed fingers. I touched Klaas‘s leg; then SOfEly moving Mn ‘nfa L_â€"- J 7 my left hand, I was suddenly: 82131;? by a horrible writhing tail. I seized it with both hands, and finally gripped the horrid reptile, which I felt to be swollen with rage, as is the brute’s habit, in an iron grasp with both hands. Then I felt, in the black dark-I mess, that Klaas took a fresh grip of I the loathsome creature's neck, and,‘ with an effort, disengaged the deadly fangs from his shoulder. Immediate? 1y, I felt him draw his knife, and, af: ter a struggle, sever the serpent’s head! from its body. The head he pushed} away to the right as far out of our course as possible; and then I dragged gthe writhing body from him, and shud- dering, cast it behind me as far as pos- lsible. ‘ At that moment I thought that for the first time in my life I must have swooned. But quickly I bethought me of poor faithfiul Klaas, sore stricken and I called to him in as cheerful a voice. as I could muster: “Get forward, ’Klaas, for your life as hard as you can and. please God, we'll pull you through.” Never had I admired the ,Bushman’s fierce courage more than now. .Most men would have sunk up» on the sand and given up life and hope. Not so this aboriginal. "Jen sieur; I will loup," was all he; said. Then we scrambled onward. occas- ionallyh alting as the deadly sickness overtook Kiaas. At ' last the light: came, and as my poor Bushman grew feebier and more slow, I found room to pass him, and so dragged him be- hind me to {the opening. Here I prop- ped him for a moment on the sand outside with his back to the mountain. and loudly called ""Ariseep!’ while I got breath for a moment. ly beautiful. and hushed' in a splen- dourt hat ill accorded with thee. gitat- ing scene there at the mouth of the tunnel. All this flashed across me as I called for the old man. Klaas was now breathing heavily. and getting dull and stupefled. I; 'took him in my arms and carried him to ’Ariseep’s kraal. whence the old man was just emerging. At sight of his grand- father, Klaas rallied,- and rapidly told him What had happened; and the old man at once plunged into his but for something. ThenKlaas s eyelids droop- ed, and he became drowsy and almost senseless. In vain I roused him. and tried to make him walk, and so stay the baleful effects of the poison, now running riot in his blood. He was too far gone. ’Ariseep now reappeared ‘with a small skin-bag. out of which {he took some dirty-looking powder. ’VVith an old knife he scored the skin and flesh around Klaass wound. and then rubbed in the powder. I had no brandy or ammonia to administer, and therefore let the old Bushman pursue his remedy, though I felt somehow it would be. useless. So it proved: either the antidote, with which I believe Bushmen often do effect wonderfu' cures, was stale and inefficacious, or the poison had got too strong a hold. My poor Klass ever became conscious again, though fancied eagerly that be recognised me before he died, for his lips moved as he turned to me once. A: last, within an hour and a half from the time he was bitten. he lay dead. The sun was sinking in blood-red splendour h~»hind 1h~ mountains, and §he kloof and rock-walls were literal- :Y aglow wun in: naming blush of day. Nature looked calm and serene- So perished my: faithful and devoted henchman, the stoutest, truest, brav- est soul that ever African sun shone upon. \Ve 'placed him gently in a deep sandy hollow. and over the sand piled heavy stones to keep the vermin from him. Then laying! myself within 'Ariseep's kraal, I "waited for the sloth- fu! dawn. As it came, I rose. called 'Ariseep from his hut, and bade fare- well to him as best I could, for we neither of us understoqd one another. I noticed, byâ€"the-bye, that no sign of grief seemed to trouble the old man. Probabiy he was too aged. and had seen too much of death to think much about the matter. The rest of my story is soon finished. I made my May back to camp, told my men what had happened, and, indeed, took some of them back with me to Klaas s grave, and {made them exhume his body, to satisfy themselves of the cause of death; for . these men are sometimes very Susplcxous. Then we covered him again securely against wandering beasts and, birds. I trekked back to the old Colony, sold off my things. and went home. The diamonds I had brought away realised in England twenty-two thou. sand pounds, I have never dreamt of going to the fatal valley again, No- thing on earth would tempt me, after that ill-starred journey, heavy With the fate of Klaas and the Bechuana boy Anazi. As for theOtunnel, Iwould . _ #A-A -ntn o‘n -AAA~ AN Luv ‘qu vâ€" boy Anazi. As for {he tunnel, Iwould not ven'ure once more into its reces, es for ail‘ the diamonds in Africa. even if they lay piled in heaps at the other and of it. Part of the twenty-two thrusand pounds I invested for some relatives; the balance that I kept. sufficed. with'what I already posses- sed, for all possible wants of my on Then I came back to my dearly lovod South Africa for the last time; and a few years; later made the Journey to the Chobe River; from which you rescued me in the thirst-land.” Such was the story related to us by the transport rider. Our narrator wound up by telling us that Mowbray had further imparted to him the exact locality of the diamond valley; but he added: "I have never yet been there, nor do I think that for the-present it is'likely I shall. Some day, before [leave the Cape, I may have a try, and trek down the Orange River; but I don’t feel verylkeen about that secret passage. after poor -Mowbrays ex- periences.” One Was Act-ally Seen by Several People -'l‘lll They Came Close. Many persons have professed to have seen sea serpents; and while the gen- eral belief is that there are no such creatures, it is likely that those who claim to have seen them did see things which they honestly and very natural- ly believed to be sea serpents. A strik- ing example of the manner in which persons may be deceived in this mat- ter has just been given by Dr. R. Du Bois Raymond in a paper in which he describes his experiences on board of the Serapis in October, 1890. It was rather a foggy morning, and the water was as smooth as glass. The vessel was going through'the Magellan Straits, and the hours passed monoton- ously, until suddenly the passengers noticed an extraordinary object in the water some distance away. At. once the cry arose that it could be nothing but a sea serpent, and, indeed, there seemed to be excellent grounds for this statement, since the object was certainly alive, and as it moved through the water presented all the appearance of an immense snake. That it had a huge head was clear to every one, and that it was possessed of an enormous body was manifest from the manner in which it splashed the mater on ail sides. 2. A powerful telescope was procured and the uncanny object was studied through it. Then its true character was at once revealed. Instead of being a sea serpent_1t was simply a herd of sea lions. The animals were clustered close together, and as they gamboled and moved through the water they certainly presented the appearance of a long and bulky snake. If they had been at a greater distance it would have been quite difficult to discm'er what they really were, and it is not impossible that the passengers would forever after have remained convinced that they had actually seen the wonderful sea serpent. Two 0.5 The Bellman“ nannies of The Na- tive {Oriental Meal “In a small upper room furnished in Oriental style,” .says Dr. W. S. Nel- son, writing from Tripoli, Syria, "we sat on the floor with our legs crossed under us. It was nearly noon, and as I looked out of the door I saw‘ the black smoke coming out of the mouth of the oven, and I could see my host‘s wife preparing the sweet bread for our mid- day meal. After awhile! the daughter brought a large tray made of woven straw and laid it on the floor between her father and me. The fresh loaves of bread lay upon the edge of the tray. and the dish of food in the middle. After a word of prayer we each took a sheet, loaf, of this thin bread, and breaking off a piece, dipped it in the central dish and proceeded to make out a good meal. After -a few moments my host called. out: " ‘Oh, Gazelle! “‘\Vhat. father 2’ “ 'Gazelle. bring a plate of butter and honey.~ ‘Yes. father. “Soon she came to the room. bring- ing a plate of strained honey, in. the center of which was. a large lump Of deiicious nuive butter. Dipping a piece of the fresh bread into this butter and honey made a most dainty morsei. It was the firs: time I had ever seen this way of serving honey, and 1 uri- derstood as never before the meaning of the words. found in Isaiah vii., 15." An English educator relates an incident which prompts the reflection â€"not a new one-«that one way to a boy’s mind is through his stomach. A lady returned, after a long absence, to her country home, and addressed a youth who had formerly been under her tuition. Well. Andrew, said she, how much do you remember of my lessons? Ah ma'am, never a word. replied An- drew. ‘.v" 0 Andrew, Andrew! his teacher ex- claimed, Have you forgotten all about the sun, the moon and stars, the day and night, and the seasons? Andrew scratched his head before re- plying. Oh' no, ’ ma’am, he said at length. I do remember now. And you set than on the schoolroom table, and Mars was a red gooseberry. and I ate \K by was Mr. S 'eet offended when they asked 11; :n to impersonate the Sand Man in that ‘ableau? He seemed to take it as a gatrsona] slur. You see, he’s a 6:: ar merch- WHAT HE REMEMBERED. THE SEA SERPENT. BUTTER AND HONEY The End. A YOUNG LADY IN TRENTON RE- LEASED FRO! SUFFERING. She Salim-ed Untold Agony From Stomach Trouble and Sick manna â€"â€" Dr. Willlans' Pink Pills Cured Ber. From the Courier, Trenton. Ont. of Wm. Pickering, Trenton. being cured of locomotor ataxia. He was not able to move and was confined to his bed for weeks. Upon advice .he tried Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and im- mediately obtained relief. He is still free from the terrible excruciating affection, and enjoys active, robust. health. We have just learned of an- other positive cure through using Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. It is the case of Miss Cassie \Vay, who has been an acute sufferer from that common foe of humanity and the foundation for many other ills, dyspe sia. For nearly eight years Miss ay suffered untold agonies with sick iheadanhe and pains in the stomach. She. tried several doctts withoutany material benefit. A year ago she came tolive with afriend in Trenton, Mrs. “J. L. Derbysh‘ire, and was so reduced 'l‘h’at she could not sit upan hour. She feared her trouble would drive her crazy. Sh'e was advised to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. She replied that she had used a box before and theg had done her no good. . It was urge that she could not hone for relief from one box and she commenced them again. She continued using the Pills throughout the year with the re- sult that she has completely recover- ed her health. {Her appetite is good she has gained flesh rapidly, and is able to attend to all 'her household duties. She voluntairly offers this testimony as a tribute of gratitude for the. benefit she has derived with the hope lthat others suffering as she has, may be induced to try this health re- ‘storing remedy. Mrs. Derbysh'ire adds her testimony to the correctness lot the. Statement of Miss Way. Allow me to add that for tour or five years The editor of this paper has an!» fered from an itching rash that attack- ed all h-is joints and all the ointmenta within reach failed to banish it. He took Dr. Williams Pink Pills last year and is nearly well. Dyspeps'a, rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia. partial paralysis, locomomr ataxia, nervous headache, nervous prostration, kidney trouble and dis- eases depending upon humans in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic ery- sipelas. etc., all disappear before a fair treatment with Dr. VVi‘liams’ Pink Pills. They givea healthy glow to pale and sallow complexions and buildup and renew the entire system. Sold by all dealers or sent post paid at 500 a box or six boxes $2.50, by ad- dressing Lhe Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. Do not be per- ;suaded. to take some substitute. Pain ls Borne With 3 Pathetic Silence by the Animal World. One of the most pathetic things is the manner in which the animal king- dom endures suffering. Take horses, for instance, in battle. After the first shock of a woun¢ they make no sound. They bear the pain with a mute, won- derful endurance, and if at night you hear a wild groan from the battle field it comes from their loneliness, their Nervous Dyspepsia. loss of that human companionship, which seems absolutely indispensable to the cOmfort of domesticated animals. The dog will carry a broken'leg for days wistfuily but uncomplainingly. The cat, stricken with stick or stone. or caught in some trap, from which it gnaws its way to freedom, crawls in some secret place and bears in silence pain which we could not endure. Sheep and cattle often meet the thrust of the butcher‘s knife without a sound, and even common poultry endure in- tense agony without complaint. £12-.. L- L\- IA‘JV 1-: v n.“ The dove shot unto death flies to some far off bough, and as it dies the silence is unbroken save by the patter on the leaves of its own life blood. The wounded deer speeds to some thick braken and in pitiful submission wait- for death. -’ . The eagle, shot in midair, fights to the last against the fatal summons. There is no moan or sound of pain, and the defiant look never fades fromita eyes until the lids close over them nev- er to uncover again. THEY \VORE STOCKINGS. It is asserted in many books that the ancients did not use stockings, and that the art of knitting was unknown before the beginning of the fifteenth century. But that both these state- ments are wrong is proved by the ex- istence of knitted stockings found in the grave of an ancient Egyptian mummy and now preserved in the Lou- vre in‘Paris. These stockings are short, resembling socks and are knit- ted with great skill; the material is wool, which was probably white origin- ally, but is now brown with age. The knitting is loose and elastic, and seems to have been done with rather thick needles. The stockings are begun, as they would be at (the present day, with Le...) V“ vâ€"â€"â€" w -.., -- - __ - -7 a single thread; the heels are shaped as they would be now, and are very well Jane. The me, however, is dif- ferent from that of a modern szmkirg; it dude 30 two tube-iike prnjectiong Which resemble the fingers of a 3510’“ The reason of this is that the stoch- Eng was made- to fit {ha sandm}, in wh’ch there was a strap trqm the t. to tho instep. HOW THEY STAND IT.