toward Eva. The father saw this and exclaimed Human Nature. in contact that he can vlmost read their and his demon prompted him terribly. watch of the witness every trace f the *4 very thoughts. Their actions can nearly Why was shet execution was over. The soldiers, the anxious? .1 TRUE INCIDENT. ''My darling, get up, go into the house, always be interpreted correctly. j3o was After dinner she pleaded sickness/ and priest, the executioner had disappeared* Two little children five years old, and close the door." *__ it with Dick now. He saw the"intentions went to her usual sitting-room, into which and there was not even a drop of blood Mane the gentle, Charlie the bold, The child looked up, smiled, and then of the bear, and knew that his own actum Sir Chester never intruded. An hour Sweet and bright and quaintly wise, upon the pavement to indicate a tragedy arose, attempting to do the bidding of the must be prompt and powerful, or it Aagels both, in their mother's eyes. afterwards he sent a servant to her with had been there enacted.Cairo Bulletin, tather: but the monster advanced with a would be too'late. some inquiry concerning the ball on the But you, if you follow my verse, shall see H$ feaiful howl and as the door was closed He clutched his knife, and with his ft" i following day. The servant returned, A-CJULP'S DjfiATH-BEU.f That the ei as human as human can be, against him, he struck it with one of his aim nerved with desperation, hope^ and a saying that "my lady," was not in her And had not yet learned the maturcr art I huge paws, shattering it into splinters. Of hiding the "self of the finite neart. fatherly love, he sprang directly at the room. A Pathetic StorY of the Dying: "Visionsof "I feared this. Fire but be caiefal throat ot the monster, who received him a Little Jeaf 9Euto., There was murder in Chester's heart One daj- they found in their lomp and tla and not injure my child!" cried the with a tremendous howl and with mouth St. Louis Journal the next moment. But he onlyvtook up Two little 1 abbits soft and gray lather. The following story was told to a Journal wide open. a heavy riding-whip. &$$%* Soft &nd gray, and just of a size, 1(_ reporter yesterday by a lady whose He discharged his own piece, and at Had the beast been uninjured the As like each other as your two eyes. No not in her room! veracity is undoubted- Some four weeksago ilie same time a dozen other rifles rang struggle would have between bee ot short dura- T^he first trace he found of her was a All day long the children made love tion1, for the odds a ma a and a Carrie Wilson, an interesting littlegirl, out. The bear gave a most tearful hov l, pencil-case glittering in the moonlight. To the deai little petstheir treasure-tiove aged about ten years, after a protracted turned ugon his enemies, glaiing upon grizzly bear would be as great as that They kissed and hugged them until the night i He drew a line in his mind's eye from the illness, died at the residence of them with eyes of fire, and seemed just Bi ought to the conies a glad respite. between a lion and a mouse But the house to it, and thence in the same direction. her parents, No. 1021 North Fourth on the point of springing upon them. monster was now dying, and death was Too much fondling dosen't agree *Qsi street. From the day she entered this, Suddenly, however, the beast appealed to near. She retained all her courage aid "To the grape-gates," he muttered "a With rabbitnature, as we shall see, care-laden woild hei troubles began, for change his mind. Turning quickly will, but not her strength. For ere the light of another day straight line to his house." On he went she was born a deaf mute. Hef parents around the monster entered the cabin A Had chased the shadows of night away. Dick gave her several blows with his Suddenly, being on tne top of a hillock, were poor people, able only by the strictest shriek was instantlv heared. and the father knife. She groaned almost as a human he saw Boieynthere could be no question 1 One little pet had gone to the shades, economy to shift thiough from one rushed forwaid, knife in hand, to save being would have done, and fell upon Or, let us hope, to perennial glades about the manand with him a year to another, and the little one, whoseorgans his darling. But he was too late, for with her side. But she recovered in an instant Brighter and softer than any below woman, hooded. They were going towaids of both hearing and speech had a bound, the beast had dashed thiough A heaven where good little rabbits go. and stiikiDa: Dick, she threw him to the the great iron open-work gates, been stricken by the Divine hand, was the window, holding Eva in his teeth. earth. But the father had seized his beloved which, from then pattern, were commonly The living and dead lay side by side, looked upon as something human, of Off he ran with all speed toward the daughter, and throwing her a little called the grape-gates. He uttered a And still alike as before one died course, but nothing mr than a little bit highest moun'ain peak, while the cries of apart, she was now out of danger. And it chanced that the children came singly horrible cry, which evidently the couple of bodily ills, who would always in her to view the little one came back to the ears of the Not so witii himself. heard, for they hurried to the gates, to The pets they had dreamed of all the night helplessness have to be provided for. half-frantic father, He was now sttetched flat upon his which their was no lodge, and one of through. A few years ago her father died, and he? And now the monster began its ascent back, and both the rjaws of the beast which was open. mothei found it doubly hard to suppoit bearing its precious burden. Onward it First came Charlie, and, with sadsurpiise, were upon his breast, and he could feel They must have seen Chester leaping Beheld the dead with streaming eyes, a large family of small children. About went and upward, climbing forward, the sharp claws entering his flesh. The towards them, for they ran. He was within How'er, consolingly, he said this time Mrs. Ann Bailey, a great hearted as rocks arose to obstruct his pathway. two great glassy eyes glaied into his own, twenty yards of the couple when they "Poor little MarieTier abbifs dead'" Christian woman, residing at No. All this time it kept up its fearful howling the terrible growl rang in his ears, the passed the great gates, which Agaiwererswung 2708 Chouteau avenue, became acquainted noise Si Ches and for a time the wails of the child Later came Marie, aad stood agnast jaws were extended the long white teeth terrible1 to with a with Mrs. Wilson's cucumstances, and She kissed and caressed it, but at last were heard but they became fainter, and glistened, and the blood-red tongue was ter uttered a savage cry. for he knew he Found \oice to say, while her young heait having a tender spot in her heart tor the fainter, until the sound could no longer ready to lap up his blood. He struggled, could not open them withou*- the key, bled little unfortunate, lor she also had a deaf iabbitJs dead be distinguished. At length it disuppeaied bat could not move. A moment "I'm 6ony for Charlie7ns kept in his library, and that while he was daughter, concluded to adopt little Cariie. from view behind a jutting ledge more and all would be over for him forever, Harper's Magaziriefor Feb) ua?y. scaling the wall tbey would escape. He Mis. Wilson was not averse, and after a When the intention of the animal now the death giip was fixed upon ran to the gate, and then it must have few weeks sojourn in Mis. Bailey family f" F~ fiist made apparent, a kind ofterroi. od been that he fainted When he came to him. A BEAR ADTE&TUKE, Carrie was sent to Fulton. Missouri, upon every heart and a ciy of gony And, to'add to his agony, he had seen himself, he saw vaguely in the moonlight, to be educated under the supervision of burst from every lip. And well might An Incident of Rocky ^fountain Lll'o. his child spring off and run toward the and lying near him, a small, white obfect. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle. She spent two they have shuddered. for they now knew edge of the cliff. It would be dashed to He touched it and shuddered. Briefly, Dick Barron was one of the most dar years there, acquiring knowledge with a full well that the ferocious animal wad a pieces in falling, even as its brother had it was a human finger, tatooed with seven ng among the pioneers, and he happened degree ot rapidity astonishing for one of she-bear, and that she was canying the been. small, purplish stais. to be one of the most unfortunate. Together her tender years, but hei health alwayspoor, child to her eyrie den as food for her But would this be a misfortune, since "It was Hever!" he muttPied. failed entirely, and she was brought -with other neighbors, Dick had cubs. the father must die? Would it not be The finger had unquestionably been back to St. Louis to die. lemoved from Central Colorado to the For a time the father had stood with better for her to join her loved ones in caught by the great iron gate,andnipped face blanched with despair, and with another world than to remaim in this cold western slope of the Sierra "Nevada Mrs. Wilson had in the meanwhile, off like a twig by the immense weight of form trembling like the browned leaves one, alone? married again, and being in better circumstances Mountains. His home was in a wildly the iron acting on the edges of the gate. which still clung to the trees around Just at that lnbHnt, however, there than when Mrs. Bailey How long had they escaped? In his fall romantic and beautiful spot, and fortune him. But that weakness was only momentaiy, came the report of a i '1e. The bear relaxed adopted Carrie, requested that she should hiswatch-glass was broken, aud the hands appeared to smile upon nim, so far as for he become again the invincible her hold and fell heavily upon the be once moie placed under her care. The were stopped. He rever knew how he pecuniary matters were concerned tor father and, with the speed of an body of Dick. He rolVd the animal days went by, and the little innocent got back to the house. his land yielded wen in the summer and antelope, he rushed foi the cliffs, his eyes away and sprang to his iett. A friend cieature grew weaker and weaker, for If you please, my lady is now in her fixed upon the point where the bear had nad arrived in time and not an instant the mines gave a fair yield ot yellow consumption never relaxes its grasp from room. Here, help!" suddenly cried the disappeared with his loved dailmg. too soon. He was holding Eva in his King or clod, Princess or peasant. Oneforenoon dross in the colder months. servant. He fainted again. arms. She was not hurt. Mrs. Bailey and her daughter To any but the father, and to him under He went to his library, and there he But death came to the family of Dick. The father could not help shedding Mattie received a message stating that any other circumstances, the journey found the key of the grape-gates still The first stroke fell upon his eldest boy, tears over his rescued darling, for never Cairie was dying, and that she asked for would not only have been a weary, but swinging on its nail a lad of twelve years of age. The little tl before had she appeared half so dear to them contmualy, and half an horn later almost an impossible one. But the "How can she be back?" he thought. fe'low was fond of hunting, and, with his him. But he resolved not to expose her they were at the bedside where the large,, anxious parent paused not for an instant. I saw her take flight!" iifle,he would often venture to a considerable to any further danger of the kind, and so, speaking eyes were taking on a happiei Indeed, he seemed to gain new strength She looked white when suddenly he distance from his home, and sometimes he took an almost immediate expression. and courage at every step. Now a feaiful foeparture entered her room the first time 'he" had was very successful in bringing for the home he had selected in the locky ledge would obstruct his way, Through her feeble signs she communicated done so during their married life. down small game. But one day he was Golden State. but he would mount upward, making a the wish to be left alone witn her "Have been from the castle. Lady absent much beyond his usual time, and ladder of the frail twigs which hung to benefactor, and when her relatives had Bowden?" he asked. search discovered his mangled remains their sides. Onward and upward until left the chamber she related the following The Marked Finger. No." she said, gravely. lying at the bottom of a ledge of rocks. the giddy height upon which he stood story through her own peculiar By that time he knew that he had lain He had evidently fallen from above and A jealous man, Sir Chester Bowden was horrible to contemplate. But he did laguage- insensible during a whole hour near the thus met a sudden and cruel death. The Even when a boy, superficial people said not look back. His child was further on. At eight o'clock that morning she was gate. blow fell heavily upon Dick and his wife, he was impeiious because he was a baionet all alone in the little room, hei mother And now the point was reached where "She must have returned," iie said, but the man bore bravely up under his at twelve years of age. Those who having leadjusted the pillows and gone the bear was last seen. by the gate, and passed carelessly by grief, while the woman gave way to melancholy.. knew better, who had information concerning into another pait of the building to" attend At this instant a strange sound fell upon my quiet body. She hates me. But why the old familv of the Bowdens, to her household duties, and on looking the ears of the father. At first, it was has she returned?" had no need to be informed that the Not long after a second child, a little up she saw her dead father bending only the cry of a child. Then, mingling Next day he called upon Hevei. The Bowdens were hard, proud, imperious girl of five yeais of age, sickened and over her. She was not frightened for he with it, came the fierce growl of the she reply sent down was that Mr. Hever was and jealous, though .just men. They died. It now appeared as if Mrs. Barron seemed so kind and good, and his face bear, and following this, the yelping of not well, but hoped to be at the ball in never did a wrong, and yet never seemed would go mad, and for a time her agony was like the portrait she had so often cubs. Oh, what agony filled the father's the evening How he watched for to be in the right. was terrible to behold. But this gradually looked at for hours at a time in Mrs. bosom at that moment! Could it be possible Boieyn Hover's appearance. He caine subsided, and the mother began to Bailey's drawing-roomthe portrait of that the ravenous beasts were aheadv and of course gloved. No sign ot the At the inquest it was said old Sir sink rapidly, and in a short time after Chiist at the well in Samaiia. in the act ot devouring his treasure? missing finger. Chestei accidently shot himself. But the she followed her little one, leaving still He seemed pleased and happy," hei Sir Chestei went up to him smilingly Dick sank upon the solid rock, while county families well knew he had taken another child, a daughter three yeais of little fingers said, and bending his on the left, and grasped his left hand. the prespiration I oiled in streams from his own life. Even many of the common age, to the care of the stricken father. head down by the side of my ear he The glove yi ided. The middle finger of his face and body. A blindness came people on the estate had little no The grief of Dick was not of an explosive whispered, and I heard just as "plain as the glove had been stuffed with wool over him, aud he felt himself unable to doubt upon this point. The reason? character, but it was deep and enduring. any person could hear, 'Came, my poor They were standing a little apart. Still move. Three months before the crash his wife Still he had something yet to little afflicted lamb, you will soen ho'ding the maimed hand, he said Then came a voice from belw. It exclaimed, had fled from him. He made no effort live for, and he went to work like a*brave have no more trouble, for I will take you You have^sinned with my wife. You Courage Dick. I'll be with to seek her out, and it was only his death man to provide for his little Eva. Wintef to Jesus in exactly four hours.' Even as fled from me last night but Heaven you soon, and will yet save your child.'' and its manner which let people into the had set m, and Dick had come to the he said that, Mrs. Bailey, our clock in the avenged me, and cleft your marked finger "Child' child! murmured Dick as he secret of his love for her. She had been conclusion to make as much as possible other room that I can see when the ioor from your wicked hand. Dare you started up. "Yes, I must not give way nitied by her own servants through her in the mines before spring, and then sell is open, and it was open then for mamma smile?" to this weakness so long as my child yet ten years of man ied life She was very his propeity and go to San Francisco, had left it that way if I wanted any "Beware! I have always been your lives and I can hear its voice even now." meek and mild, always stood up when he where he could secure the advantages of thing I could tap on the head-board and one friend, and last night was more your The poor father became strong again. entered the room, and to the end ot a 1 education for his little one. she would hear it, indicated just eight. friend than ever." He moved forward a few steps, and paced she called him Sir Chester. He alwajs For some time the neighbors of Dick, 'Only four hours more, Carrie,' he said,, Hypocrite as well as monster! he said. around a point of rock, from behind called her Lady Bowdea. They never as well as himself, had been much annoyed and i heard it so plain, too, and then, taking Do you know what I am going to do?'' which came the sounds. quarreled, and they were always dull. by theft. Several lambs and sheep my face between his hands, that were What? A terrible sight met his gaze! She never smiled. There was some talk had been killed, and poultry in large so light and soft, and not a bit like they "Kill that woman here before her A little girl was lying upon her back of her having loved some young farmer quantities stolen. There was a difference used to be when he was on earth before, guests, and, like my father, make an end upon the rock. The monster was near before she married so well but that was of opinion with regard to these depredations. he kissed ma such a long kiss, and left to myself." her, holding her down with one off his doubtless scandal. However, she fled Some said they'were committed me.*' huge paws, which reasted upon her breast. "And as needlessly, madman. The Sir Chester died, shot, three months afterwards, by Indians, others by wolves, and others The little hands lay quite still for a woman you saw came with me to warn The little one had ceased her stragglings and young 8ir Chester was nine by bears. But as yet no snow had fallen, minute or more, apparently tired out, your wife, out of her own experience, to evidently in despair, and now was sobbing years of age. At Oxford he made but one and as the ground was frozen very hard, said Mrs. Bailey, and then they signaled bear any ciuelty you might heap upon as if its poor little heart was broken. friend and many i neirr.es. Oxonians no tracks could be seen. "I began to feel easier then. Thispain her rather than take flight. The poor The bear was bleeding profusely, and Had hate Oxonians who are hot cheery and One morning, however, the alarm was in heie (pointing to her heart) left creature may or may not have been evidently fallen from exhaustion. The friendly amongst themselves. given. A light snow had fallen during me all at once, and I thought I could get guilty, Chester but she proved her love bullets which had been sent into her Boieyn Hever began by pitying Chester the night, and tracks were discovered. up and play like I used to before got for you when she lorced herself to see body had given her, no doubt her mortal Boyden, ad ended by liking him. A large grizzly bear was the thiet and sick. Oh, I know papa will come, for he your wife and save her from such an oucast wound, but she was tenacious of life, and But they were never iamiliar. For instance, despoiler, and he must be hunted down was so earnest, and he never told me but life as her own has been for .many could accomplish much after that wound Hever always wore a piece of at once. It was not supposed that they one story, and that was about Santa years." l,^,^L .XJU ^iJL was received, but before her life was flesh-colored plaster between the first and would be obliged to go far to find the Claus, anditwasn(t a very big story. Whowho was she?" yielded. Like the parent who now second ioints of the middle finger ot the animal, and so Dick siezed his rifle and Don't you think he will, Mrs. ^Baiiev?' sought his daughter, the first thought of Your mother. Ah!is' there a doctor left hand. Chester never asked the meaning jonied the party, leaving his child still Oh" the bear was ot her young, and even here*" of the patch and once when, while in bed. The little hands ceased their rapid in her dying agony she clung to the food Past earthly4i?lp, for-Sis'Cuester Bowden boating, the plaster was nibbed away, manipulations, said Mrs. Bailey, with a, The tracks were fresh, and a dozen exexcited she she had brought them. had fallen foiwarddead! Chester never asked what was the mean voice choking with emotion, the eyes left men were soon on the trail. In a But his hands were entreatingly clasped. Only a few feet higher up were the ing of the seven little tattooed stars he mine and turned upward quickly, with a. short time they were on the monster cubs. They saw the mother, and they saw where the plaster had been. The explanation, half smile, the feeble hands were raised m~ but each man passed, turning their eyes appeared to anticipate a great feast, for however, was very simple. A Execution by the Guillotine qL half above hei head, she gave a faint toward Dick and waiting for him to they were struggling to reach it while rich old godfather, from whom the poorish flutter like that of a wounded Jbird, and speak.* The bear was standing near the they lifted their young voices in chorus Hevers had expectations, and being A friend once described to us aa execution then nestled down quite still.V cabin door of Barron, gazing at the child with that of their parent. an old sailor, had elected thus to mark which he witnessed in Paris, outside The tired, tortured spirit^ that had who was seated in the door-way, watching Dick knew that he must save his child his godson. Boieyn Hever, being naturally the walls of the city prison,and in the public never known one moment of unalloyed the movements of the animal with evident soon, or it would be too lare. Soon he a high class man, entertained a street. It took place in the gray of happiness on this earth, had gone out and curiosity, but resolved to creep as near as possible to without exhibiting strong disgust for these marks a disgust dawn, and at the precise hour indicated in on its way to the better land. I left the any signs of fear. the monster, and then spring upon her which reached* moibidity, and he hid the sentence. A squad of soldiers filed bedside, walked to the door^opflned it and Dick felt his very heart sink within with his knife for, in his haste and excitement, them with flesh-colored plaster. out of the gates, and in a twinkling put lifted my eyes to, the clock. The minute him as he saw this but his weakness he had dropped his rifle. At twenty-three Sir Chester Bowden together the machinery of the guillotine, fyind was justrpassing over thehou^-htaid passed away in an instant, and without Just as he was moving forward, the married one ot the most dashing woman some of them sprinkling sawdust on the that told twelve o'clock. removing his eyes from the bear, he bear turned, and their eyes met. The of her year. He was as jealous as his pavement while it was being put up. Befoie ft. asked: dying beast uttered a terrfic howl, and father, and as proud therefore he had no this ww fairly finished the gate AsV*tent of Harper's Magazine Men, can you use your rifles with then looked down at her victim. Then fear of Lady Bowden being ungrateful. swung open, and tjie criminal and executioner sends to "The Drawer" a copy of an order steady hands?"d she glanced at her own cubs, and again She was poor. and the spiritual adviser marched 4*Yes," replie several. received by a Broome county dennst, toward Dick. Her expression seemed to Boieyn Hever, his neighbor, bad not out. Whatever religious exercises were which says: "My mouth is five inches Then raise them and have them ready. say: You will have no mercy on my married, and was nursing his estate, essential had been attended to within the acrosst, five-eight iBches threw tie Be sure your aim is good, and that every young why should I have upon yours?" which had been left him when very much prison. The criminal, with his hands jaw. Sum bumokT.qn^e ?edge. Shaped bullet would be buried in the body of It was a dreadful suspense for Dick. encumbered. bound behind him'anci a cap, drawn over like a boss-shew, toe^^orrad. If you0 the beast in case of firing. But hold He was satisfied that the bear could live At what precise moment Sir Chester his head, was ledforth, his body bent forward want me to be more pertickler, your shot until I give the word." J^LT only a few moments. But what might became jealous of his one friend he him over the carriage, which,&jp he pressed shall have to cum thar.'' Instantly every rifle was raised. s&* not occur in those moments? A single self never knew. He was too certain of it, shot forward on*' noiseless wheels, 7+ Dick moved carefully around toward blow with her huge paw and his darling his own sufferings. He hated company, and the knife fell with a glitter of its keen, Two fashionable tints for -summer costumes the back of the cabin. It was his in would be torn into fragments. A movement but he was bound to give fetes, balls, &c. polished edge the head dropped into the will be mastic, a sort of whiter tendon tojenter the window,seize the little upon his part might cause this It was the evening before the first anniversary pasket awaiting it, the body was placed brown, and a pale, greenish erav Tie one, draw he back, and closing the door, blow to fall. of his wedding, upon which occasion in a coffin the machinery taken down, the trunmmg will be ruffles, emrfroiaered in save her. But now the animal began] to The hunter becomes so accustomed to there was to be a ball. Sir Chester sawdust swept up, and the whole scene red, black and yellow, or red, black and ulter deep growls, and advance slowly the various animals with whicli he comes had noticed his wife anxious all day, was over. Within ten minutes by the t^ jurist %'^tssfc. -s flSOTnj^ -mm.