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Each man sprang to the orders of Brown, and soon a groan of agony passed from those on shore who beheld the bark squared away and standing under a close reeXed foretop- sail dirictly for the breakers on the Hog’s Back rock, where the mighty waves were shivered and the water sent masthead high at as ch incoming billow, and the spray dot- ted the very clifl‘~top. For a moment the crew were appalled as the angry waves boil- ed and seemed to break at every foot of the rock’s face. The words of Brown acted like magic as he shouted : “ To your posts, every one, for we will be safe in ten minutes' time, or in Davy Jones‘ lockerif one coward shirks his duty.” The Hog’s Back was passed, and the Hen and Chickens rocks loomed up, dead ahead, but a master mind was at the helm. With unerring nerve he guided the ship into the eddy of the Hen and Chick ens reef. He ordered her in stays, and in breathless anxiety be fairly gasped rather than breathed. Each instant he expected to hear the sickening shiver which pervades every timber of a ship when it grates upon a rocky bottom, as itdrives along before the wind or drifts as the Stella was doing. The suspense was soon passed by and with it the danger. The yards were squared away, and with a free gale the Stella stood across the frith and passed between two sugar-loaf shaped rocks called Paul and Peter, which stood at the mouth of the loch not six ship lengths apart. As eight bells struck for noon the anchor was let go in seven fathoms, and the gallant vessel swung to her moorings in still water without the loss of a splinter. The first man to come up the side was old McBee, who hurriedly scanned each face as he asked: “ Where is the man who saved this bark ‘2” The captain replied, “ It was a foremast hand called Nick Brown. Mr. Brown is resting in the cabin after the work of this foyenoon .” “ Nick ! There is no Nick Brown about it. It is Nick the devil or my own boy, Fergus McBee,” Brown heard his true name spoken, and rushing to the deck. was clasped in his father’s arms. In the death of Lord Shaftesl'ury not Eng- land alone, but the entire world, may be said to have sustained a loss that will be felt. For nearly sixty years he has been before the public striving to seem re the moral, re- ligious, intellectual, and social well being of the oppressed and helpless amor ghis fellows. He has at length, at the patriarchal a. of S4, rested from his labors. Let us for a mo- ment review those works and labors of love. Fifty years ago the manufacturing interests in Great Britain were making rapid strides. A whole generation was springing up devoid ofithe very rudiments of education, destitute of the comforts even of peasant life, doomed to incessant toil, little removed from the brute creation, and by no means so well cared for. They were known as the “ white slaves" of England, and the women and children especially were doomed to a. worse than Egyptian bondage. In the mining disâ€" tricts women, stripped to the waist, perform- ed the work of beasts of burden, being har- nessed to the coal trucks and suffering a liv- ing death within the bowels of the earth. It was then that Lord Shaftesluury, at that time a young member of Parliament known as erd Ashley, came to their rescue, and, in spite of the opposition of the manufac- turing and minim: interests and amid a shower of vituperation, succeeded in passing a statute positively forbidding the employ- ment of womenin mines, limiting their daily labor in the factories to ten hours, and, above all, absolutely prohibiting the employ- ment of children under a certain age, and even between that age and a fixed period beyond, only permitting their employment in factories as half-timers, subjecting them under a compulsory process to attend during the remaining hs‘f of the week some public school sanctioned by the Government. The manufacturers almost to a. man, Mr. John Bright included, stormed and protest- ed against this arbitrary interference with he rights and liberties of labor, but the Tory At this very moment a brave sailor on the bark stooa before his captain, cap in hand. and in reply to the surly demand of : “ say your say quickly, Nick Brown,” the man spoke up ‘ Please, sir, man and boy I have entered the frith in such storms as this, in a fishing boat drawing six feet ; the Stella. draws fourteen, and that is the best water which can be made on the Hen and Chick- ens reef ; but G»(?,1rotect‘ng, I will promise safe anchorage in the loch with only the loss of the false keel, and as this storm has let the water in for thirty hours We may escape without scratching paint.” The Earl of Shaftcsbury’s Work. A True ’l‘sle ofthe Senâ€"How Nick Brown Saved the Stella. No more solemn sonni can be heard than the monotonous minute-gun telling a. story of death or death impending. To such a. summons we were aroused one chilly No- vember morning on the coast of Scotland, up- on which a storm had beat during the night mare fearful than any we had ever expexien- ce . It was a hopeless call of a pilot to save a bark fast hurrying on to a lee shore. “ It is impossible to reach her ;no heat can live,” said old Donald McBee, whose gray hair told of more than three score years, and all the fishermen held his opinion in the respect due to age and an experience of a half cen« tury. But it was fearful to stand still and see a gallant bark dashed upon their rock- bound coast, for no stranger could enter the narrow inlet which was the only channel to a loch in which dozens of ships could ride in safety. We are all here,” said old MoBee, " and no man lives in the wide world, un- less my boy Fergus is still in existence, who can pass the Hog's Back and the Hen and Chickens in safety.” It is almost a custom for sailors to ship under an assumed name. Why they do it one can not tell, unless it be that they think going to sea is romantic, and when they make up the story of their voyagings it will seem to interest themselves more if told in the third person. A few days afterward the Stella was safely in Liverpool and Fergus refleived his £200, with which he placed his old parents in crmfort. Some time after- ward Fergus MoBee, after passing through many adventures, became the famous Cap- tain McBee, of an ocean line of steamers. It was the captain’s on'y chance and he knew it ; raising his voice above the roar of the tempest, he shouted : “ All hands to the waist," and without ceremony he said, as he placed the trumpet in Nick Brown’shand : “ Our only hope is in God and your ship- mate Brown ; and now do your duty and re- member Mr. Brown has a handle to his name and he Will have two hundred pounds if he pilgts us to safety.” ALMOST A SHIPWRECK. “Do you buy your music by the roll 2” saida gentleman to a deacon’s daughter. “No sir,” she sweetly replied; “I always wait until Sundey. when I get it by the choir.” There are thirteen widows living on one street about three hundred yards long, in Hamilton. The. city authorities propose to put at each end of the street a. sign, “Danger- ous Passing.” An exchange says that “married life should be a sweet harmonious song, like one of Mendelssohn’s ‘without words)” But wives are not chosen from denf and dumb uylums always. Dr. Fothergill, a greatly respected Eng- lish authority on dyspepsia, speaks strongly in favor of milk-purl dings and stewed fruits for the dyspeptic, the bilious, and the gouty. He says: Sugar is undoubtedly objectionable to many, tut it is by no means necessary to add sugar to stewed fruit. If the acidity be neutralized by a little bi-carbonate of soda, the natural sweetness of the fruit will be brought out and the dish be made more agreeable then though artificially-made sug- ar were added.” Remedy for frost chaps. Take 6 drachms avoirdupois powdered borax, pure g1; cerine é} ounce, rose water or elder flower water 12 ounces ; mix. Its daily use as a cosmetic wash renders the skin beautifully soft and white, and prevents and removes chaps, sun burns, etc. While the principle that cleanliness is an essential to health and longevity is anestab- lished fact of human life, now and then an exception is found that astonishes the phys iologists. For instance. at Howdon, a dirty, desolate village on Tyneside, England, a by was born who, at the time of his birth, had the following extraordinary numberof grand- parents and great-grandparents alive. The grandfather and grandmother on the father’s side were hearty and well, and so were both parents of the grandfather and the mother of the grandmother of the grand- mother. The grandfather and grandmother on the mother’s side were active and strong, and so were both parents of the grand- mother. The boy thus had four grandpar- ents and five great-grandparents alive, each of whom was in active work earning his or her own livelihood. Yet the village where these hale and hearty grandsires and grand dames live and flourish is one of- the most unsanitary in England. Open sewers run down the centre of some of the streets. Until a few years ago the water supply was from one well. Houses have been condemn- ed, “holesale, as unfit for human habita- tion, to the intense disgust of the people. Yet, notwithstanding all these adverse con- ditions, these families live and thrive. Drinking water, says a hygienic writer, may be tested in this simp‘e Way : “Fill 9. pint bottle three-quarters full 0! the water. Dissolve in it one-half teaspoonful of the best white sugar. Set it away in some warm place for forty-eight hours. If the water becomes cloudy it is unfit; to drink.” Awell-known medical writer, declares that, notwithstanding the popu‘ar belief, beef tea, does not contain any food value whatever. Several physicians take issue with tha doctor, but he has the hearty ap- proval of the boarding-house landladiel. “Uncertainty, wonder, and the exercise of skill” are said by Sir James Puget to be the essentid elements of healthy recreation. "To eat too often and too irregularly is another source of indigestion; and still another very fruitful source of dyspepsia is imperfect mastication. \Ve believe that one reason why dinner parties are not so dangerous~digestively speakingâ€"as they ought to be, is, that people are compelled, through courtesy, to consume their food slowly and in small quantities each month- ful ; thus the quantity consumed is coun- teracted by the long time used in consump- tion, which does less violence to the stomach than one plateful of meat flung down unmas- ticated.” A prominent physician. writing to Cham- bers’ Journal, gives some practical thoughts on the subject of in digestible food, and rules for eating, which strike the real cause of more than one-half of stomachic troubles. He says : “Every individual can, without inconvenience, carry a certain weight, while any addition to it is accompanied by a pro- portionate sense of oppression. In the same way, what is called indigestion is often sim ply a result of excess. The amount of food which each man is capable of digesting has always a limit. The limit bears relation to his age, constitution, state of health, and habits. One point to bear in mind is, that not to eat a sufficiency at one meal makes you too hungry for the next ; and that when you are too hungry, you are apt to overload the stomach, and give the gastric juices Enore to do than they have the power to per- oxm. members of Parliament carried the day, and the principle and system has been since in- troduced into the agricultural districts. But this is not all. He established ragg< (1 schools in the slums of London and all the great towns and cities, offering substantial and alluring inducements to the gutter ur- chins to attend them ; he organized a well disciplined, well housed and well fed shoe- black irigade for vagrant boys, Whose edu- cation and morals were cared for in addi- tion, an i their promotion and advancement in any trades or pursuits for which they might afl'md evidence of adaptability as- sured, and his great work culminated in the establishment of reading, coffee and smoking rooms for cabmen and costermongers, where lectures were delivered and advice given gratuitously, such social gatherings being not infrequently graced by the presence or the noble philanthropist himself Though of ancient lneage and anceFtral reputeâ€"an ancestor having been Lord High Chancellor more than 200 years agoâ€"he was not wenlthy for a man of his rank. The drain up: n his pecuniary resources must, therefore, have been very considerable, an 1 though neither a Peabody nor a Montefiora in that repeat, and not in a position to ba- quenth fabulous sums for the endowment of charitable objects, he is entitled to rank with such worthies in earnest devotion and a life’s sacrifices to the interests of human- ity and both the spiritual and temporal hap- piness of the human race. SOUND \VOBDS FOR DYSI’EPTICK FILTII AND LONGEVITY. HEALTH. NOTES. The Anthropological Congress, which Is soon to be held at Rome, will have a. feature in a collection of 700 skulls of criminals. It will no doubt be a skullary gathering, but with so many “dead heads” it will hardly pay expenses. The question, why should the property of the country pay for educating the children of the country, is, even in this enlightened age, frequently asked, and many of those who ask the question imply that our taxing system is unjust, An American writer thus discusses the matter, and we think he does so very ably: “ It is true to a large extent that the heaviest school taxes are paid by the childless and by businrss corporations, for the large families now a-days usuelly are the families of the poor. The best answer that can be given to the query or complsint is a simple one Each generation of people, acting as a whole, educate the succeeding generation. A locality must have a certain number of inhabitants or it will sufler loss. The better the community educates its chil- dren to day the better will the community stand at the end of the next quarter-century. Now to raise a. family of children costs a cerâ€" tain amount. There are the items of food, housing, clothing, medicine, schooling, buri- al of the lost ones and possibly damages for mischief committed in the course of child- hood and youth. All these items form a large aggregate for each child, but they do not by any means constitute the whole bur- den of parentage. If parents were paid for the trouble of superintendence alone, at the rate that superintendents are usually paid, they would derive a. considerable income from their patience and sacrifice and pain. But all this is free service, so far as the com- munity is concerned It seems eminently just that the single item of schooling should be borne by the community at large, and in- stead of grumbling at the disproportion be- tween his tax and the slight benefit he de- rives from the school, the rich childless man should consider himself a debtor to the land- less head of the large family. This is the true view of the case. We must look at the group of children in the family not as the property of their parents but as the future citizens of the community. There must be a certain number of them to take care of every one hundred acres of land by and by, and the several one-hundred acres must do their individual part toward preparing their occupants for their stewardship.” “ As soon as I saw the patient I at once detected that the angel of death was hover- ing near, and all earthly power would be oi no avail ; but still I did not at once inform the parents. They had confidence in me, and Idis'iked to dispel theirgood opinic 11, so 1 set about to prescribe for the patient, but be- foreI had taken out my medicine the baby was attacked by a severe spasm, and its little soul took its fight to another and a. better world. So you can readily see how my reputation was again saved by a spasm. Had the child lingered along and died, which it surely would have done in a day or so, they would have said I did not treat it properly. “ This,” continued the ex-doctor, “ is simply to show you some of the difficulties met with by young doctors when they first start out. A young professional man has a poor chance at b4 st in this uncharitable world. The incidents just related were providential epochs in my career, and ever afterward I had a lucrative practice until a failure of health caused me to seek a more congenial field of labor.” The Experience of a Young Doctor In the t ounu'y. “ Talking about physio,” said an ex-doctor to a reporter, “ reminds me of an incident that occurred during my practice when l was new in the cause, and which when you hear, you will recognize an an important epoch in my professional career. It was in a country town in the western part of the state. I had just arrived a. few day s previâ€" ous, a beardless boy, with very little hope of getting a patient under two years How- ever, I had gone there to stay, and so had made up my mind accordingly. I hung out my shingle and prepared to go anywhere at a moment’s notice. “One morning about 2 o’clock. I was awakened by someone shouting‘ ‘Oh doc- tor l’ at my front gate. I dressed hastily an'i went with the stranger who proved to be the father of a baby 3 dnys old, who, he said, was dying with spasms. Upon my arrival at the house I was shown into a sick-room. The young mother lay weep- ing on the bed and the almost lifeless f. rm of the precious little one was being f1 nrlly nursed by an old woman, who said the child hngl lust had another severe fit. “ The news of my wonderful case spread for miles around and two days afterward I was called to see another child, same twelve miles distant. The child had been 8 ck for several years and under the treatment of an old white-haired practitioner. The father of this child informed me, while en route to his house, that I was called in because he had heard of the wonderful cure eflected in the case of Mr.Sâ€"'s baby. Th‘s rather unnerved me, for he told me that Dr.â€"-â€", from an'adjo ning town, whom I knew to be an eminent physician, had failed to benefit the little one. “I was puzzled. It was my first case, and I readily recognized that my future reputation depended on the recovery of the Ohlld, but what to do for it: I knew no more than a. 10-yearâ€"old boy. Finally I made up my mind prepared some simple dose, and told the parents the child would have no more spasms, which of course, was only guess-work. This did not satisfy them. I could see in their faces that they lacked confidence, but I was firm. My word was out, and soI stood to it and left. The father follow ed me to the door and said he Wanted me to come around the next day and meet his old family physician as he thought I was too young. and the child needed medical attention from amore ex- perienced practitioner. ' - “ The father met me at the door. He looked cheerful and gave me a hearty greet- ing. The baby is all right, said he ; and sure enough when I went in the little fellow was as bright as a May morning and my reputation was made. The parents praised me as the best baby doctor known, and from that time on I enjoyed a splendid practice among the little ones. “I, of course, agree‘d, but at the same time felt that my reputation was forever gone if the doctor should come and tell them the child was really sick I went home, but could not sleep, and as soon as breakfast was over I hurried over to see my patie_nt. SAVED BY SPASMS- School Taxes. Under the ancient monarchy in France se- crecy was the one all-impi rtant matter whenever prisoners of state were concerned. To them the Bastlle was as silent as the grave so long as they were inside its walls. The orders for imprisonn out were given by lettres de cachet, and those were scrutinized with the greatest care. The lettres de cachet was, in fact. a le1'tar signed with ihc king‘s seal, and containing an order from him, but the orders that have come most frequently to our no! ice were orders for imprisonment. Those that relafed to the Bastile had to be signed first by the king, afterward by a minister. At the bottom of the order the governor signed a receipt. And in nearly every case, before the arrival of the prisoner, the governor had already received instruc- tions to enter in the register” his name, the cause for his arrest, and by whose order the arrest had been made. Unless these pre- liminary rules had been observed entrance into the castle was forbidden. To effect the arrest either force or cunning was the means usually employed,- for it was above all things necessary to avoid publicity. An officer touched the shoulder of the man whom he was about to make prisoner with a. white wand, and ordered him in the king’s name to follow. Resistance was not often shown, for all knew that it wouid be ineffectual. A carriage was kept in readiness, or when that was not possible the first vehicle that could he found was seizedâ€"again in the king’s nameâ€"and into that the prisoner was made to enter, two or three officers sitting beside him. Before opening the gates of the Baa: tile the first sentinel cried, “ Qui vive?’ The chief escort answered : “ Ordre du roi.” A subaltern of the guard inside the castle demanded to see the [cares de cachet. Then he allowed the gates to be opened, and a bell was tolling to warn the officer inside. The king’s lieutenant and the captain in command of the gates received the prisoner in due form as he alighted from his carriage. De Rennevilleâ€"who was a political prisoner in the Bastile during the latter years of the reign of Louis XIV., and who has left us a long though not always a trustworthy ac- count of his imprisonment and of his suffer- ingsâ€"says : “At last we reached the dread- ed spot. On entering, as soon as the sentin- els saw us they put their caps before their faces. I have since learned that they ob- serve this strange custom because it is for- bidden them to look at the faces of the prisoners.” The owners of the lake vessel “ Bob Inger» 5011” probably named her so in the belief that she would never sink, on the strength of the proverb about the man who is destin- ed not to be drowned, etc. It must have been a. great surprise to them when they heard that the “Bab Ingersell" was burned on Lake Michigan. This is ominous and the vessel’s great namenake ought to investi- gate the matter. It is the ultimate fate that lots of people have predicted for him, but in which he has hitherto loudly profea. sed disbelief. Perhaps this will shake his confidence. 'l’he suggestion made last; J anusry that Osman Digna would probably die several times before we got throngh with him has been amply verified. In February, some six weeks after, he was killed by Lord Wol- slev’a troo s, he was drowned in the Nile. 1n Marxh e was buried in a and storm and M. de Lsaseps is back from his Hung- arian tour locking younger than ever. Monsignor Cape! says that Pope Leo XIII’s personal expenses are limited to $2 a day The Mmquis of Lorne and the Princess Inuise are the guests of the composer Blum- menthal at his home in Switzerland. The Princess Mettarnich has been on a. shooting expedition with her husband in Bohemia, and proved herself a capital shot. Christopher Tegner, Professor of Oriental Language in the Unive sity of Lund, is dead M the age 01 78. He was the son of the illustrious Essie»: Tegner of " Frithiofa Saga.” fame. Arctic Explorer Lieutenant Greely will have the opportunity of exploring all Scot- land at the expense of the Edinburgh Geo- graphical Society, that neaociation having arranged to show him everything worth see- ing in the country without the cost of a shill ling to himself. in April assassinated by his followers. From that time until the present month he has been taking his summer vacation; but he has just turned up again in a battle with the Abyssiniana, where he has again fallen. Professor Huxley is a. victim of insomnia. Bismarck uses Spanish tobacco when he smokes the pipe of peace. The Emperor of Russia has conferred up. on Minnie Hauk the order of Saint Anne. Mr. Edwin Arnold, the author of “ The Light of Ara," will shortly make a tour of Budhist monasteries on the Ieland of Ceylon. He will also visit Bangkok at the express desire of the King of Siam. Mr. Stanley, the African explorer, has fitted up a cosy home in London, a couple of doors fravm Mr. Henry lrving’s. He has made the rooms look like amuaeum, with trophies of his travels and adventures. M. W. C. K. Wilde complains that people mention him only as the brother of Oscar \Viideâ€"“e reflex celebrity,” he says, “ which, whileit is one of my proudest privileges, is yet so destructive of my own identity that it has become comically irri- tating. The Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Kellogg of Pitts- burg has resigned his professorship in Bib lical Literature in the Western Theological Seminary, to accept the pastorate of the St. J ames’s Square Presbyterian Church, Tor- onto. Dr. Keilogg was a. missionary in- India for about ten years. M. Sibiria-kofl, the dhtinguiabed p&tron of Arctic exploration, has lately been cruis- ing about the Kara Sea, and examining the country between the Obi and Petehom ba- sins, with a. View to establishing a commer- cial route. Governor Solomon N epton of the Penob- acct Indixns is a stately old man, with a wide, smooth, good-natured face and a he avy head of iron- gray hair, He is 73 years old and cannot read or write, but speaks Eng- lish fairiy well. Queen Victoria is said to have made a new will, leaving the Isle of Wight; property to Connaught, the Scotch property to Beatrice, and handsome provision for the children of Lenpold. Her entire fortune is estimated at about $35,000,000. In the Bastile. PEOPLE. “Because when pa comes home full of whisky 1113 says hp is in his element." “There is one element you have omitted entirely. What other great element is there besides fire, air, and water 7” “I dunno.” “Why, what do we stand on ?” “Stockings.” “What are the elements ‘3" asked a Texas teacher of a. pupil. “Air, fire, water. and whisky." “Why do you call whiaky one of the el- ements ‘2” “Ah, Heinrich, if your vife vos slnkin’ for do last dime I vouldn’t do you such a mean drick as to pull her out. Da nex’ dime my vife falls into de water yust find out who it is, and if you tries to safe her I get; mad mit you. ” “Dos vos a mean drick, Heinrich.” “Vell, de lady voa drowning, und I couldn’t vait to ask her name.” The big performing elephant Empress lid-- ded a third victim to the long list lately by attacking aui killing Robert R White, a watchmen employed at the winter quarters of Forepaugw’s circus, at Philadelphia. As in almost wer other instance, the attack was made without provocation or warning. White was in the elephant building, which is detached from the quarters of the other animals, in company with a man named; Allen and a song and a dance artist, who. has been connected with O'Brien’s circus» during the past season. When they enter- ed the building Empress trumpeted loudly and moved restless‘y about in her stall. Aer she had received her quote of hay, White knew that she could not be hungry, and for a time was at a loss to account for her un- easiness. He then jumped to the conclu- sion that she was thirsty, and told his com- panions that he intended giving her a drink. They knew Empress’s ugly disposition, and tried to dissuade him from releasing her, but he protested that he could manage her. and entered the stall. \VHAT THE FOOLISH VIBGINS I'ARABLE TEACHES. “ What does the parable of the seven wise and the seven foolish virgins teach us ‘2” ask- ed a D3llaa lady whe was tezxching a class in the Sunday-schoolh “ That {we should always be on the look- out for a bridegroom," replied one of the smallest girls in the class. “ Don‘t put yourself to so much trouble. In all the other places where I've been the coachman had to attend t) that, but per- haps he is kept busy here kissing the lady of the house.” A rather good-looking cook was hired out; in the family of a. wealthy man living in Dallas, Texas. On eday her employer put; his arm around her and kissed her, whereupon she dropped a courtesy and said, qugatly : “Easily enough. The Tom who broke her pitcher was my Tom. The Tom who left the gate open was here.” “Wail, may be. Ten minutes later she struck a diffelent key. Tom, you good for- nothing little rascal, why did you leave that: gate open?1’vea mind to box your ears.” Empress stood perfectly passive while he unwound the heavy chain that secured her fore-leg to a stake driven in the ground. She obedienth backed out of the stall and started toward the water trough at the other end of the building, She had not gone hall a dozen paces, however, before she gave vent to a threatening snort, and, raising her trunk in the air, felled \Vhite t »the ground with a blow. She then struck him another blow as he lay prostrate, and then, rearing on her hind legs. brought one of her front feet down on White’s chest with the full force of her ponderous weight. She paused for a moment, app n'ently to see whether her victim would ofl'er any resistance, and1 when he moaned feebly she bent down her" immense head, and with her remaining tuek literally disembowelled h'lm. “These quick chnngss in a. woman’s tem- per are funny, Bromley. Yesterday I heard a crash in the yard next door, than I heard Mrs‘ Bines say : ‘You didn’t want to break the pitcher, did you, Tommy '3 Never mind it, little dear !” “No, BrEmley, it W‘s‘ 1833 of a provoca tionm” A Tragedy In Fomnangh‘s Elephant House. White's body was h rribly crushed and mangled, although the face was not disfig- ured. It lay in a pool of blood in the cmtre of the building. He was unconscious, but. still alive. He was placed in an ambulance of the Episcopal Hospital, but died before reaching the institution, and his budywvu taken to his home, near the clrcus quarters. He was between 40 and 50 years of age, and. leaves a Widow and several children. "‘I would call her an amiable woman, Mr. Dieting?“ “That wasn’t quite so amiable, I admit, Mghgmjngelz. lycreaed_provqcationâ€"” . “How do you explain the inconsistency, then ‘2" In the meantime White's compmions, who had been rooted to the ground with horror for an instant after the attack began, ran from the building and gave the alarm. There were very few of the employees about, but those who were within call quickly as- sembled and held a hurried consultation at the door of the elephant house. Every man realized that it would be folly to encounter the savage monster, especially at the mo- ment when she had obtained such an easy victory over one man and felt her strength and power. They could hear her tremping and trumpeting, and then Daniel Taylor, an attache of the circus, picked up a spear and, dashing into the elephant house plunged it into the brute’s leg. She stopped thrustin at the prostrate man with her single tus and turned her heed to look at her assailant. Taylor followed up his attack by plunging his spear into Empress’s side repeatedly and shouting at her. She turned toward him and made a movement as though she in- tended transferring her attentions to him Taylor never swerved for a. moment, but continued prodding the brute with his spear ___r\ _.L,A,Ll, ,r ,L and mouthâ€"‘2 at hgr in a tone of Vigthoxfity. Empress hesitated a. moment, and then dog- gedly turned and walked to her stall, where she wag quigkly secured. KILLED BY AN ELEPHANT. Sfl0R'l‘ AND CRISP. NICETIES OF DISCRIMINATION. THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS. ()VERWORKED MENIALS A MEAN TRICK .