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C IL, VA., FRIDAY,
tHb ULD CA HOB.
Wbcro tho rocks uro gray iuul tho shoro is
steep,
And tho wat;>rs below look dark and doop;
Whoro t ho ruggod pine, in its lonely prUlo,
Jjcans gloomily ovor tho murky tulo;
Whoro the reeds and rustics aro long and
lank.
And tho weeds grow thick on tho winding
bank;
Whoro tho shadow fs heavy tho wholo day
through,
Ttioro lies at its mooring tho old canoe.
Tho useless paddles aro idly dropped,
Liko a sea-bird's wings that tho storm has
lopped,
Aud crossed on tho railing; ouo o'er one,
Iitko tho foklod hands when tho work is done,
Whilo busily back and forth between
Tho spider stretches his silvery screen,
And tho solemn owl with tho dull "too
whoo,"
Sottles down on the sido of tho old cnuoo.
Tho stern half sunk In tho slimy wave,
Hots slowly away In its living grave.
And (no grocn moss creeps o'er its dulldocay,
Hiding its moidering dust away,
Like tho hand that plnuts o'er tho tomb a
flower,
Or tho ivy that mantles tho falling tower;
While many a blossom of loveliest huo
Springs up o'er the stern of tho old canoo.
Tho currontloss waters aro dead and still,
But tho twilight wind plnys with tho boat at
will,
And lazily in aud out again
It tloats tlio leuglh of tho rusty chain.
Tako tho weary mnrch of tho hands of tlmo,
Thnt meet nnd part at tho noont ldo chime,
Aud the shoro is klssod at each turn anew.
By tho dripping bow of tho old canoe.
Oh! many a timo with careloss hand,
I have pushed it away from tho pebbly
strand.
And paddled it down whoro tho stream runs
(piiek,
Whoro tho whirls uro wild nnd tho eddies
thick,
And laughed us I leauod o'or tho rocking
side,
And looked bolnw in the broken tide.
To see that I ho faces nnd bonts wero two,
That wero mirrowed back from tho old
canoe.
But, now n-s I lean o'er tho crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
Tho faeo that I seo there is graver grown,
All the laugh that I hear has a soberer tone,
Ami tho hands that lent to tho light skitr
wings
Hnvo grown famili?r with sterner things,
But 1 love to think of tho hours t hat sped
As I rocked where tho whirls their wluto
spraj" shed
Ere tho blossom waved or the green grass
glow
O'er tho moidering store of the old canoe.
MATTIE'S CHOICE.
If any one had hinted to pretty Mattio
Woolston that she would ever figure as a
heroine in a story,she would have opened
her brown eyes wide in amazement. She
was the only child of good old Dr. Wool?
ston, of Greyport, a thriving town in'
Yorkshire, and in tho circle of local so?
ciety was considered ut once a belle nnd
an heiress. Hair and eyes the color of a
chestnut when first the burr uncloses, a
complexion as soft as satin and white as
milk, with the prettiest rose tint of color
on the. round cheeks, white, even teeth
set in a pretty, smiling mouth, a liguro
tall, slight and graceful, were the attrac?
tions in appearance of the village beauty.
But those who knew Mai tie Woolston
well were wont to say that her pretty
face and figure were the least of her
charms. She had 11 low, musical voice,
a manner graceful und easy, high-bred by
intuition of what, was dignified and maid
only; she was the neatest housekeeper in
Greyport, and all her taste, full dresses
and hats were the work of her own deft,
lingers. She had read intelligently, and
could converse well.
Ho it is no matter for wonder that
Mat tic had many lovers. But foremost
upon the list, to all appearance, was
lmndsome Ned Gordon, who had been to
the University, and wdiose father shared
the aristocratic honors of Greyport with
tho doctor and clergyman, being the only
lawyer in the town. ,
The clergyman was a bachelor of nearly
forty yenrs of age, who had come but
recently to Greyport to preside over tho
church whcro the Woolstons nnd the
Gordons had each a pew. Ho was a
grave, reserved man, whose face bore the
impress of sorrows and cares conquered,
aud succeeded by the serene peace that is
fnr above the careless content thnt has
never known Interruption. He was not
a handsome man, but had large, tender
eyes under a broad white brow; and these
would irradiate his homely face with a
light, almost divine, when he preached
with an eloquence and simplicity rarely
combined; so that men went from his
church, slowly and thoughtfully ponder?
ing upon truths that were but homely,
overy-dny facts, but suddenly had been
illumined by enrnest eloquence into paths
to salvation.
One of these men, young, wealthy and
full of talent, was Ned Gordon, Mnttie's
ardent admirer from boyhood. He had
left her in sobbing pain of love to go to
a boarding school, had felt his heart
torn when college took him again from
Mattio, nnd had become more devoted
than ever when he cnine homo "for
good," to find her grown to womanhood, j
fairer than ever.
lie had been wont to say of himself,
when he considered tho subject nt nil,
that he "was not a bad fellow, as fellows
go," being simply an idle hanger-on to
his father's wealth, n desultory student
of musty law-books when the mood
seized him, floating carelessly dowo life's
stream doing no especial harm by the
way, but assuredly doing no good either.
Of his personal responsibility in tho
scheme of creation, ho had never thought
until the Rev. Harvey Stillman was ap?
pointed vicar of tho fine old church nt
Greyport, where Ned's fine tenor was
quite a feature in the choir. It must bo
confessed that, under tho dull fcrosy
preaching of Harvey Stillman's prede?
cessor, the choir seats had beon a gather?
ing placo for much quiet flirtation
'?
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SEPT. 20, 1881).
among tho I idles and beaux of tho towu;
nnd Ned's chief magnet was tho certainty
of sitting near Mattio, nnd hearing hex
clear sweet soprano join his own voice.
lint before Harvey Stillutsn had been
n month at Urayport, Ned wie? uneasily
conscious that many of his words wero
as dagger thrusts nt his own aimless, use?
less life, and waking to this conscious?
ness, ho also awakened to another disa?
greeable fact?namely, that Mattio was
also porceiviug that lifo was a more earn?
est, real thing, than she had before pic?
tured it to herself.
Sho had never been o drono in tho
hivo, but she had become more actively
useful outside of her littlo house-world,
visiting in a quiet, unostentatious way,
among the poorest of hor father's pa?
tients, doing good in an humble spirit,
but with nsincere desire to help, as far as
possible, those who needed her gentle
ministrations.
Ned loved her more than ever for the
gentle self-denials she practiced so quiet?
ly that only those who wero benefited
knew of thorn, but, to bis great dismay,
there came a little gulf between himself
and his love, widening so gradually ho
could not tell whero it had commenced
or would ond.
Pot the first, time since he was a lncro
boy he saw that Mattio gave Iii in only the
warm friendship of years of brotherly
and sisterly intercourse, whore ho had
given the first, und only love of his life.
She seemed drifting from him, absorbed
in her new duties and leaving but littlo
margin of time for tho recreations they
had shared for years. He was appalled by
the fear of losing hoi, nnd yet sho kept
him from telling her cither IiIh hopes or
his fears.
"Sho thinks I am nn idle, good-for
nothing fellow," ho thought, "and I
never got nny chanco now to tell her I
mean to buckle on my armor, too, and
do my share of work. 1 am studying
hard, ami father will give mo a start in
my profession, that, can be made a com?
fort to the nflllcted and a light to tho
down-trodden. 1 menu to be all oven
Mattio can wish mo to bo, hut 1 can't get
a word with her now. Last evening she
was with that poor dying child of Gross?
man's, mid to-day sho is trying to com?
fort, his mother. The last time I called
she was at tho National School, ami when
1 do see horsho is not the caroloss,morry
lioarted Mattio of old. Sim thinks 1 um
I he sinne, though, and despises me for an
idle good-for-nothing."
Home such pondering was in Ned's
mind, when, driving his phaeton up the
main street, of the town, ho overlook the
Itov. Harvey Stillmnil going in the same
direction. 11c reined in at once.
"If you are going my way, Mr. Rtill
inan," he said, "will yon let me drlvo
you to your destination?"
"I am afraid 1 am going too far for
yon," was the reply. "I am on my way
to Hawson's place."
"How fortunate I mot yon I It is fully
three miles. Get in, and lllack Prince
will soon carry you there."
"Hut you?"
"My time is yours. Do not refuse
me!"
The clergyman accepted the invitation,
and before he fully perceived what ho
was saying. Ned was making him a con- 1
lidant of all his perplexities nnd resolu?
tions, till oven his love story came out in
earnest words. Led on by the quietly
expressed sympathy in all his resolves to
enter upon a noble and more useful life,im?
petuous Ned,by a sudden inspiration,said:
"If only Mattio could know how much it
would help mo to feel sure of her love? I
cannot say if she ever cared for mo as I
care for her; but if I could believe she 1
would he my wife when I deserved her,
it would stimulate me us no other hope on
earth coud do."
"You think she loves you?"
The Ilev. Harvey Slilhnan's very lips
wero white as he asked the question.
"I did think so once. Now, I would
give all 1 own to he sure of it."
There was much more to the same pur?
pose, till Ned, with a sudden gleam of
hope, asked the clergyman to plead his
cause.
"No one has so much influence as jou
have. She looks up to you as to a
father," said Ned, never seeing how his
listener winced nt. the comparison; und if
you were to tell her how her lovo would
aid mo, she might believe I do not
nlways mean to be tho idler sho his
known."
"I will see her," was the grave reply.
"If she loves you, sho shall have tie
happiness of giving you tho encourage?
ment you desire."
Hut when the drivo was over, and tbt
.clergyman entered his study, the quiet
gravity of his fuco broke up into an cxi
prcssion of keenest suffering. Ho ban
borne many sorrows in his life. Deal I.
had taken his nearest nnd dearest; pov-j
erty had laid her heavy hand upon hinia
temptation had assailed him, only driven'
back by prayerful struggles. He had
hopc*(TT.o IJnd in Qraypojt ^estk nftor a
long hnttle in life. His living promtsSHtt
him an easy competence and some leisure'
for studies he loved, without neglect of
his higher duties. Hut before he hud
been in his new homo many weeks Mattic
Woolston's sweet, earnest face, her gen?
tle goodness, her unobtrusive, sincere
piety had wakened in his heart an emo?
tion he had never hoped to experience.
Love had been a far oil possibility for hap?
pier lives, and he had not perceived that
it was.seeking entrance into his own till
Ned Gordon roused him to conscious?
ness of what his deep interest in Mattio
signified.
He loved hcr,andhe had undertaken to
plead the cause of another to horl
Thought becamo such torture that ho re?
solved to have the dread intcviow over,
to know the worst nt once. He found
Mattio in tho parlor of hor father's hand?
some house, and, fearing for his own
strength, told hiB errand gently.
The girl looked at him with white
checks nnd a startled expression, ns if
sho hnd received n sudden, unexpected
blow where she had looked for kindness,
nergrent brown eyes had a hunted, pite?
ous look that it went to his heart to sec.
Sho struggled for composuro before sho |
trusted her voice to speak, and it was low
and tremulous when sho said: "Since
you aro Mr. Gordon's ambassador, tell
liiui, from mo, that he has my moat sincere
good -syisUv* for hia success i? his now
?to. Ho has no wanner friend, no more
earnest woll-wisher than mysolf. Hut I
can uover bo his wife. I do not love
him. Wo have been like brother und
sister since childhood, and I can give him
my sisterly affection, nothing moro."
"I think ho is sincere in his resolution
to mnko tiis life more earnest mid useful
than it has ever boon," tho Hov. Henry
Btlllraan said, his own pain urging him
still to plead Ned's cause.
"Ihopo he will persevere in his resolve.
Ho may make h noble man."
"Hut his lovo"
"I can never return," she said reso?
lutely. "Pray leave me now. I?1 am not
well."
He left her. Only a fow feet from
tho door he turned and retraced his steps,
lie hail satisfied his conscience!; had
pleaded the cause of the younger, hand?
somer man. Faithfully he had placed he
fore Mat tieall Ned'spleadings.allheriullu
onco might do for him, ami ho had won
only a steady refusal of tho suit ho urged.
Now?he set his tooth hard, and went
back. Now be would risk his own fatol
Hut nl the door he paused, for Mattio
had thrown herself in u deep arm-ohoir,
and with her face hidden, was Sobbing
with a perfect passion of grief.
Was it for Modi Did she already re?
pent her decision? Irresolute whether to
rctreuO or advance. Hnrvoy 'Stillman
stood in the doorway till Mattio neither
seeing nor hearing hint, felt she was not
alone, and looked up. In a moment she
was on her feel, mid for Ilm first, time the
clergyman saw her eye? flash with linger.
"Why do yon come back?" shu said.
"Hnvo you not suuiciontly humiliated
me?"
"II" he cried. "I humiliate yon?"
"Wbut else in it. to come to mu to
plead Air. Gordon's lover Is he un idiot
that he cannot speak himself, but must,
make my name a by word by prating of
his love to overy stranger?
"Miss Wonlstou, you misjudge him und
me?mo most of all if you imagine I de?
sire to humiliate you. I, who honor you
above all oilier women I I, who canto
tearing my own heart to plead against it
for your happiness I Do not. judge mu
harshly, Mattio, for my love's sake 1"
Bite had ho visibly brightened us ho
spoke, such dewy happiness rested in Ihn
brown eyes, Stich tremulous smiles gath?
ered around the small mouth, Unit the
ItOV. Hnrvoy Stillman felt his own heart
swell with sudden raplure.
"Mattio," ho cried, "I am many years
older I lmn you are, and yet I lovo you
with all tho strength of iny, heart I"
"Ami I lovo you."
Simply as a child, she (old tho I ruth of
her own heart. lie uns not a man for
any outburst of rapture. Tenderly ho
folded her in his arms, saying soflly.
"Thank God, thirling I"
Nobody but Multic and her betrothed
knew why Ned Gordon resolved to pur?
sue his studies in London instead of re?
maining with his father in Groyport, hut
years later, when he enmo hack to Ihn
country town to take his father's prac?
tice, tho Hov. Hnrvoy Stilluum fell, with
grateful emotion, that Iho good resolu?
tions had not faltered, but had ennobled
and purified the entire life of his old ri?
val, while Mattio gave a cordial welcome
to the pretty hhic-oyod wife, who had won
and kept the heart of her old lover.
Iron as Fish Komi.
An extraordinary " Und in n fish"
was made in the Market Hall by a flsh
dcaler named Gcorgo Smith, who owns a
stall there. Among tho many consign?
ments of lish which hn received was a
number of large conger eels sent from
Bkiborceii, County Cork, Ireland. Tho
conger is known to be a very vicious fish,
but one could scarcely believe that ho
would swallow two pounds nine ounces of
iron. Vet such was the morsel found in
the .stomach of one of the eels. Mr.
Smith was cutting up the lish when his
I.iiife encountered something hard, and
on opening the stomach he found it largo
iron bolt, which had evidently been part
of a ship's tackle.
The bolt is about a foot long, and nt
the cud is a large ring, two inches and u
half or three inches in diameter.
The bolt itself is as thick as an ordin?
ary Malacca cane.
The col weighed about, two stono and
was a yard and a half long. His swallow?
ing capacity may bo judged from tho fact
that it good-sized mackerel was also found
in the stomach. The holt is eaten away
by rust, and is of a type decidedly out of
dato, so that it had probably Iain on tho
bottom of the sea a long timo before it
was swallowed by the col. Tho bitter's
stomach and hack wero considerably in?
flamed, nnd there is littlo reason to doubt
that it would soon have died from indi?
gestion. A curious feature of the case is
that tho fish was blind in ono eye. In?
spector Latham told our representative
that many curious things wore oftentimes
found in the stomach of fish sent to the
Market Hall, and instanced his remarks
by stating that a short time back the arm
of n child was discovered insido a largo
codfish. There may, after all, ho truth
in the old stories of missing rings and
jewels being restored to the light through
this agency. ?Birmingham (England)
Wail.
Using n Whale for a Target.
"Old Crcedmoor" is a big whale that
slays around Passamaquoddy Hay, about
two miles from town, every summer.
At least, it is positively asserted by fish?
ermen that the same old fellow has made
his appearance annually to feed on the
schools of herring that freipient the place
It the summer season, and this is how he
g?t bis title. In times past when sonic
of tho crock shots of the Frontier Guards
were too tired to walk out to the rifle rangt
thoy would take a boat, and sailing down
tho harbor at a certain time of the tido,
I would bo quite certain to find his whale
ship playing around the hay. Then thcj
ivould make use of him for a target, as i
part of his big carcass frequently rosi
above the surfaco a long distance off
An cx-mombcr of the guards says yoi
could nlv/ays tell whon ho was hit for hi
/'kicked like a Stcor."?Eaetnorl (Me.
'? Hontinel.
A MIGHTY BEAU HUNTER;
THE GREATEST LIVING AMERICAN
SLAYER OF BRUIN.
Ills Homo In tho North Carolina Moun?
tnliiH?Sonio of Ills Narrow Es?
capes und During FcatB.
Around Ashevilla, N. O., aro many in?
teresting points, but nono so highly novel
ss tlio homo of Big Tom "Wilson, tho
most noted living hoar hunter in America,
big Tom has killed up to tho present
writing just three hundred and fifty-seven
hears, exclusive of tho cubs ho has cap?
tured aud killed, llo was born and raised
st the foot of Black Mountain, ono of the
highest peaks in western North Carolina,
nnd has been hunting bear since a more
hoy.
It is worth the rldo of thirty-five miles
on horseback through the mountains
from Asliovillo, to visit thu homo of, nnd
see and talk with, Big Tom. His is a
typical mountain home, a small log hut
with stick and mud chimney at Ihn foot
Black Mountain and on the edge of n
small stream konwu as C'uucy liivcr.
There is not another house within ton
miles, and to any but the moat expe?
rienced mountain guide the. place is inac?
cessible, (here being only ono small gap
through tho mountains by whioh it is
possible to reach the place, for Cancj
Uiver a short distance below the hunter's
mountain homo is suddenly lost from
view and appears above ground again
niites nwny on tho other ettic of the moun?
tain.
Tom has a wife and fourteen children,
nil of whom livo in thu ono room of the
small log cabin. Hut children are not
the only live stock that Tom has, foi
around his homo are three large black pot
hears. Those are his dogs or his hunt?
ing companions.
Tom is a great burly fellow, six feet
four inches (all, with broad shoulders
and muscles of steel. Misheard is long
and black,slightly tinged with gray. Ilia
hair is as straight as an Indian's, and
hangs down over his shoulders. His eye?
brows are long and bushy, while be?
neath I hem is as piercing a pair of gray
eyes ns one could imagine. He is a per?
fect, typo of the ideal mountain hunts,
man, and u mere glance at him would
iudicata to the most conservative that he
could grapple with ami conquer, empty,
handed, Ilm most, ferocious bear.
Hut Tom hits had one tussel empty*
handed nnd says he never wants another.
As a cousequonca Ida face aud body arc
covered with scars and ono linger of his
right, hand is gone. It was in the fall
of 1882. Ho had been hunting over the
mountains, and having struck no game,
had rested his rille against a tree and
lain down for a imp. He awoke sud?
denly to llud a big black bear on lib
hind legs with the gun clutched
between his paws and almost ovci
hbn. Tom jumped to his. fool
in an instant. Hut the bear WOB equal!]
quick, and, dropping thu gun, miulo foi
Tom. They grappled, and as Tom ex?
presses it, "Ihere was the greatest, hug?
ging match for half an hour you over
saw." Tom held his own admirably at
Irrst, but the bear bit aud tore at hit
clothes until they were all otf, und thou
lore the flesh from his shoulders in hunks.
Tom was choking tho bear with his great
hands of iron and the hear was hugging
and tearing at his arms and shoulders.
He was bleeding from u dozen different
wounds and rapidly growing weak when
he stumbled on a rock and fell, with the
hear on top. His back struck some?
thing hard. II was his rille.
His hopes arose, and with a great ef?
fort he turned, caught the muzzle, of the
rifle with one hand, pressed it against
l he throat of the. bear and quickly pulled
the trigger with the other.
The bull crushed through the neck
and brain of the bear and he fell ovoi
dead. Tom was saved, but to use His
own expression, ho "will nevor tackle
another bar without, olo trieity," hit
rifle.
Tom wns never known to trap a bear,
lie says that is taking an unfair advan?
tage of tho "critters."
Just after his single handed exporicuce
with tho hear Tom got three large oiiob
out of ono tree. lie and his boy were
going over tho mountains unarmed.
They were nine miles from his cabin nnd
it was late in tho afternoon whon he
spied three bears in the limbs of a chest?
nut tree eating the fruit. He immedi?
ately built a large lire around the trunk ol
tho tree nnd sent his boy home for his
rifle, whilo ho remained to keep up the
tiro and prevent them from gotting away.
Tho trip was a long and rugged ono,
nnd tho boy did not return until tho next
morning, but Big Tom kept the Are burn?
ing and watched all night. At sunrise
tho boy had roturncd, und Tom got all
three in that many shots.
Big Tom don't hunt ns much now ns he
used to, but he never returns without
game. Tho three bears he has at his
Ik one lie raised, having captured them
when cubs. They are as obedient to his
command as dogs, and always accompany
him on his hunts. Ho says they never
fail to find hear, aud as u wild ono seeing
them will approach he can kill them
without difficulty. Two of them are
icarred and bitten up quito badly, lot
iomctimcs Tom carries them out to sec
them' fight with nnd kill the wild ones
wound tho mountains. They sometimes,
iowever, have very tough lights, and on
>po or two occasions Tom has been com?
pelled, in order to save his pets, to enter
he melee armed with a knife and assist
.hem in tho fight. At homo thoy are
generally chained, but the big man's
?hildren play around thcin nnd the littlo
mos often ride on their backs around the
cabin.
Tom says he is getting old now, and is
going to give up hunting after next win?
ter, but those who know him say he will
never give it up until he is too old to
climb the mountains, no is now appa?
rently about fifty-live years of ago, and
perhaps the most perfect specimen of
physical manhood to bo found in this
country.?Atlanta Constitution.
Sir Lcpcl Orifl'm proposes to colonize
Cashmcro with 3,000,000 Englishmen aa
' i bulwark to the Indian Empire.
