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MILLHEIM PA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17., 1887.
A VAVVAi FOR THE HOME CIRCLE
OIJ) DRESDEN.
Old Dresden puiisis) for a luiiineut in lus
task of breaking up tin* gnarled mosquito
risits, and with a long breath of satisfaction
and theair of a connoisseur viewed the pink
tintisl heap liesitle him. Pulling oft* his di
lapidated hat, he allowed the coo] morning
breeze to play among the somewhat ragged
locks which hung over his forehead. Tho
sun, like a great crimson hall, hung sleepily
above the Eastern horizon, easting a faint
glow U|MII the turret led face of the Floridas,
and gilding the distant jieaksof the Tree
Hermanns, standing in closed-liuked em
brace, like allied sentinels guarding the
Mexican frontier. In the long, level space
which stretched between the mountains,
born aloft on the curling lingers of the
morning mist, appeared a phantom city, its
castellated heights and stately domes rear
ing themselves as if in prophecy of the years
to come, when a noble civilization shall re
deem the barren me*;is of the Southern ter
ritories and raise the monuments of art and
architecture amid tin- arid plains.
The echo of human voices fell UJMJU Dres
den's ear.
'Ob, John, why must you go ?' A wo
man's voice, low ami sweet, with a treiuor
of pain.
'Come now, Helen, don't lie a Ruby, dear.
Three weeks will fly by in no time. And
who knows hov rich a strike I may make.
Hut I don't want it, 1 need you John/
Old Dresden addressed himself to the wood
pile with redoubled energy. A flying knot
of inesquite struck his hand. The sting of
the wound refreshed hiui and a little later
he heard the door of the cottage slant, while
tho clink of a horse's hoof sounded on the
gravelly soil. As he watched horse and
rider di sap] tea red at length in the direction
of the mirage, which had shifted its fortn
so as to resemble a huge beast of prey
couched for a spring u|*>u its prey, some
thing like a very hot German oath rolled
like stilled thunder from his lips.
'A teufel of a fellow,' he murmured more
calmly under his breath an instant later,
accenting the qualification with stout blows
of the axe on an obstinate root, which had
as many contortions as a dying serjient.
'A teufel of a fellow. Leaf a little frau like
dat alone to g > to Mexico to tig golt in mit
tel do winder. It might Ik< ferry gout for
him,' he added meditatively, leaning upon
tlie axe-helve, his face screwed into a quaint
grimace, 'as old .Tti should take of his scalp
for him—but dc little frau.'
With a sudden indrawing of his shoul
ders and an accompanying droop of the
corners of his month, he seemed to protest
against his own harsh judgement as he re
newed the eombat with the oltstinute fact.
Old Dresden was not the only one who
disapproved of .John Meredith's journey
through the wild Kierra Mad re at that
season of the your, when'storms were fre
quent in tho mountains and Apachesskulk
hqj in the valleys and |>u**cs. His partner,
David Howell, had entered a vigorous pu
test. but to no avail. John Meredith had
the pugnacity of determination jeculiar to
men of genius. From early boyhood his
career had liecn signalized by a series of
daring and headstrong exploits, aud wbeu,
as a crowning feat he had captured pretty
Helen Gresliam by an audacious move, if
David Howell felt any soreness of heart
over her capitulation he choked it bravely
down and harbored no bitterness in his
honest heart.
A week after her husband's departure
Mrs. Meredith received a scrawl from
Mesiila, where he had expected to meet a
friend, written just as they were Luking the
trail. 'And don't be worried my dear,* he
wrote iu conclusion : 'the days will pass
quickly, ami three weeks will soon Is- up.
Hut you must count from the date of our
departure.' She dried her eyes and counted
the days from the 10th of February.
On the Ist of March a warm wind swept
over the southern table lands. Uiider its
breath the snow upon tbe mountain peaks
vanished as if by magic and tbe dry beo of
the Miembres bceaitie the course of a sur
ging torrent, sweeping onward for a final
plunge into the waters of the gulf. The
fern-likefolhige of the mesquite commenced
to cautiously unfold, and the wild verbena
and lupine innde tiny patches of purple and
magenta over the sterile wastes.
On the 3xl of March Helen Meredith rose
at dawn. The morning was calm and still,
but a peculiar obscurity about tlie horizon
presaged the approach of the New-Mexican
sirocco. Stationed at a bull's eye window
in tho attic, xvith a field-glass in her band,
the young wife kept her eyes steadily tixisl
on the winding, silvery ribbon attenuated
to a thread in the distance, which marked
the line of travel pursued by passers to and
fro over the Mexican line. For upward of
an hour nothing rewarded her vigilance ;
then a long and blurred mass developed in
to a train of hay wagons each drawn by a
score of stout limbed oxen and attended by
a deputation of half-clothed swarthy Mexi
cans. Another hour passed, and the rough
wagon of a Texan rancher appeared, the
hor%s strolling leisurely aloug, while man
and wife, |>erched on the high driver's seat,
smoked their clay pipes iu placid content.
Absorbed in lier anxious watcli, little
Mrs. Meredith had not observed that the
wind had risen, and for a moment was al
most appalled to see road and lan<l.Heu|>e
disappeared from view beneath a dun
colored cloud, which, as it drew near ef
fectually concealed every trace of the cot
tages across tho street, and swallowed up
the form of every passer-by on her own
sidewalk. Shreds of cloth, hits of paste
board, anil great sheets of paper were
caught up by the wind, along with the
clouds of dust and gravel, and borne onward
in Its mad flight. In a lower latitude the
great velocity of the wind coupliHl with the
lbrcu of a far weightier atmosphere, would
have given the storm the force of a cyclone.
As it was, it would do little mischief le
--yoiul arousing the tempers of mankind and
uprooting sundry out houses built upon un
seetire foundations. Mrs. Meredith, with
a coolness and patience born of experience,
bore this assult upon her domicile with
ch inning equanimity. Moving about the
house she proceeded to collect a number of
long and slender sand hags, indispensable
adjuncts to the tidy New Mexican house
wife and to arrange them in their ac
customed places over the door and window
sills, thus fighting the intrusive element on
the homoeopathic principal.
All that day, and the next, she waited in
melancholy expectancy, not knowing what
minute the familiar step might be heard on
iter little iorch. On the third day the
storu. subsided, aud the tearless eyes of the
despairing woman )M-1IC|1 only N desolate
plain, tiatik<sl by pitilena IIIIIH, nml inter
'•neeted by tl while road, along wldclt no
sign of life could ls-dotect<sl. The mountains
in nil directions had renewed their crests of
snow.
Succeeding days utovud by In torturing
suspense. As time progressed the sun's
rays Is-at ever more warmly upon the earth
and by the middle of March the heat at
noonday was like a foretaste of summer.
Passers-by, as they beared the small cottage
learned to expect to see a vision or a pair of
imploring eyes at the door or window, or
at nightfall a woman form eiivelojted in a
worsttsl shawl pacing tip and down behind
the double cacth and trio of sickly cherry
trees which constituted the sole verdure in
the garden. 'Mariana in the moated gauge,'
quoted a few of the more mischievous, ill
wilful travesty of the situation, for his
wife's anxiety over Meredith's prolonged
abscencc w:ut the subject of general com
ment, meeting with little sympathy among
those accustomed to the uncertainties of
frontier life.
Two men failed to share in the prevailing
apathy, David ltowell, on his regular horse
hack ride before breakfast each morning,
never failed to circle als>ut his partner's
house, and us the sad, questioning face pre
sented itself to him a jocular inquiry left
his lips.
'Well, Mrs. Meredith, has that missing
lord and master of yours turned up yet ?'
•A faltering negative would greet him.
'Exactly us I prophesied. You might as
well make up your tuind you'll never see
him again. Some of those pretty Mexicans
down there have led hiiu captive.' At
which the huly lie addressed, moved by her
wifely fealty and love, would br<vik out iu
passionate protest, and lost* her anxiety iu
wrathful iudiguation, while the horseman,
as he turned toward the country, changed
his gay look of banter tor an expression of
savage ferocity, and charged his steed upon
the piickly yuccas, ami mildly anathematiz
ed the recreant s|ousc.
At twilight an insignificant tigure with
bowed shoulders aud a shock of bushy hair,
going sileutly about bis chores in the back
yard, stole furtive gluucea at the sad-eyed
young matron and returned to his lonely
sliauty to sit and brood over a weighty pro
ject incubating in his troubled brain. It
was generally understood the
community that some dark mystery at
tached to old Dresden, the concealment of
his proper ap|M*Uation and adoption of the
uame of bis native city being regarded as
most criminating evidence. Hut the old
fellow kept on the even tenor of his way,
attending to his small stock of jsmltry and
selling his eggs and chickens at an advance
of twenty-live JKT cent, 011 the market price,
wholly indiftl-reut to the praise or blame
of the rest of humanity.
Early iu the third week after the young
prospector's promised return there began to
Is? a little stir iu downtown circles. News
of a fresh Apache outbreak liad been receiv
ed, which argued ill for any unprotected
prospectors in their vicinity. From laugh
ing iliJiU. umu lie; biiaiuciui men is-gan to
discuss the chances of Meredith's safety.
'He was a gallant fellow,' remarked oue.
It was noticeable that he employed the post
tense.
'lt seems a pity to be inactive,' observed
another. 'lf any of the men want to go out
and look for him, I'll Is: one of them.' Hut
it was generally conceded that the time for
help was past. 1
David Howell, who was a silent auditor
on these is-casions, ]iersevered in his daily
rides aud never tiinched in his established
programme ; but the face he turned to the
plains after these recontres had lost its sav
age expression aud was fixed aud stern in
its pity for the young wife, over whose head
was suspended a Daims lean sword, liable
at any moment to tali.
ir.
Due evening, at sundown, the doctor was
summoned in hot haste to tlie Meredith
household. At midnight David Howell, re
treating with cautious footsteps from the
door, whither he had gone to hold a whis
pered colloquy, was startled by seeing one
of the rows of twisted cacti iu the yard ap
parently moving toward him. Drawing
nearer, he recognized the stunted form of
the German.
'Will she be Insider ?'
'No change, Dresden.' It would have
been rank injustice to hold the clear night
air accountable for the lmskiness in his
throat. 'Only one thing can save her. God
pity him if he's dead, and curse him if he's
alive,' he piottslv added.
Simultaneously with the intelligence of
Mr. Meredith's serious illness it was limi
ted about that old Dresden had disposed of
his chicken ranch and, buying a scraggy
burro, sot off with a pack of notions to vis
it some of the Mexican villages lying con
tigious to the border. His departure a
ronsod little comment, although some of the
more enterprising of the masculine gossips
hinted at dark and mysterious reasons
which ruled his movements.
A few days later a curious meeting oc
curred in the pass of the Sierra Mad re. A
stubby little man, hobbling along beside a
diminutive burro, with a towering pack at
poiut where the narrow road wound about
the side of a precipitous gorge, heard the
well known whistle in the distance, the ns
nal signal warning travelers of approach
from an opposite direction. From a note of
warning the whistle glided gayly into the
strains of a popular operatic air. The small
man with the burro gave a sharp shout and
pushed on to mMit John Meredith awaiting
his approach at a place where a cresent had
been hollowed Into the rocky wall.
'Veil, Mr. Meredit ?'
The little man sat down on a rock and
eyed the careless young horseman with the
eye of a Nemesis. <'
'Hello, Dresden what are you up to now?
Going to turn the heads of those Mexican
women with a lot of finery, eh ?'
Dresden stifled a savage imprecation. Hy
a treat effort he composed himself.
'I vas thinking you been hating a fery
fine time iu the tnoundainp, Mr. Meredit.'
'Oh, so-so. A bit too much rain and snow.
But I have some iiye specimens here. Peo
ple will open their eyes when they see
them. Copper and native silver until you
can't rest—hut, of course, you don't know
anything about such things ' He broke
oft" with a compassionate laugh.
'You vas not afraid the little frau would
drubble herself ? and, indeed, dot is fery
goot, as i vouian should not make herself
drubble veil der is netting wort.'
The man's voice was dry and measured,
but the swelling veins on his forehead be
trayed a severe inward strain. The young
man observed nothing of this.
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'Not a bit, Dresden. To tell the truth,"
he said, ill a hurst of confidence, and with a
mild nir of triumph at the recollection of
hi* brilliant artifice. 'I Mutter myself Hint I
mamtifed that pretty well. 1 told her to
look for me In three week. I know a wo
luau. They ire nil right as long a* they
have something to Uke up their minds. I
know looking for me would sort of break
up the time ami give her something to think
of.'
'And what tink you dut occupation will
lie already, Mr. Mcredit ? And indect it i
fery nice for voman to IH- linking how the
wild Apache* haf maybe got her man'*
sculp, or lie in fcry like to full in under
•Mime big rock, or blowed in piece* by a
blast.' The speaker had risen to hi*
ami hi* tmvtid form straightened a* he con-
J fronted Meredith in lii* wrath. 'Mr. Mere
dit, when your wife lif* and your child i
of right mint, you need not tank yourself.'
The mail he addressed stared atraight be
fore hi in, a* if he saw a phantom. Hi*
e:uy confidence had deserted him, and he
trembled from head to foot. The possible
result* of his adroit strategy utnrched in
spectral proceasiou before hi in.
'(iood Lord, Dresden !' he faltered. 'lf
anything has hupfictied to her, 1 hod better
go over the precipice now.'
'1 know uot dut de loss vood be fery
great,' answered the other cooly. He could
uot forgive the fellow in a moment. Only
dut she is a fool—all viiuuieu are fools,' he
remarked,seiitentiously, 'and if she iifs '
Striking his spurs deep into the thinks of
his horse, Meredith dnsluxl around the bend
in tl.e road ; aud in a few seconds the clat
ter of hoofs had died away in the distance.
Old Dresden, with a queer sinile on his
plain face, touched up his lazy animal and
continued his journey southward.
At day break the next morning David
Ito well, prowling about like a wraith in
the dim light, heard a horse coming up the
southern road. Meredith checked his gait
as he saw the tall figure approaching.
'Don't say it, Howell,' he protested
'There is just one thiug left to do.' He drew
a revolver froui his case iu his belt,and delib
erately cocked it. David Howell knocked it
from his baud and it exploded harmlessly
in a clump of sagebrush a couple of rods
away. As he viewed the pale face and
staring eyes and the gaunt figure, stiff and
erect in the saddle, the words of reproach,if
he had any ready, died upon his lips.
'Courage, John," he said. 'She's alive.
1 wouldu't have answered for another day.'
'Dresden,' said .Johu Meredith, oue morn
ing a few mouths later,as he strolled into the
back yard, D-aring in his arms a small bun
dle, which he handW with awkard tender
ness, 'you haven't di e anything iu the
chicken line this summer, I hear.'
The little man was wrestling with a root
shupixi like a two-headed dog.
'Nod much,' he replied shortly, and
brought down the axe with a force that
cleft the leads in twain.
'Sorry. We miss the fresh eggs and
spring chickens. 1 say, Dresden.' he went on
musingly, 'you didn't make so much out
of those giincracks as you thought you
would, now, did you ? I've always won
dered what iu time sent you down into that
forsaken country anyhow.'
From beneath his bushy eyebrows Dres
den stole a queer glance at his careless
questioner. Meredith spraug up as if be
had lieen shot.
'What ? Confound ycu.'
Dresden nodded. Meredith stretched out
his hand to him. Two palms, one grimy
and hardened with toil, met in a clasp over
the sleeping babe.
Hunting Deer by Night.
Night bunting with a jack light is
a practice which tbe law seems bardlj
able to check, and it has a strong fas
cinatiou for both guides and amateurs. ,
It goes on ail summer, and as condi
tions of success are a dark night and
absolute quiet, tbere is little fear of de
tection. Benson, after bis return
from one of these secret expeditions,
gave me an enthusiastic description
of his feelings. 'There was a sense of
mystery and adventure even in oar
creeping away from camp at dusk,
bugging the west shore of tbe lake in
the black shadow of tbe hills and pull
ing into the river, wbere we waited
for complete darkness. Then we
lighted the jack, on a staff on the bow
of tbe boat. I crouched behind it
with my gun,and the guide unshipped
the oars and took bis paddle. I
thought I knew the river by heart, I
had fished it so often; but the fantastic
aud beautiful sights which broke upon
ia the moving light made it seem like
an enchanted stream. A patch of
lilies would dart out of tbe darkness
and just glisten and vanish; tbe alders
as we swept by them turned to silver.
Sometimes tbe beam of light shot into
an arch among tbe trees and opened
for an instant a vision of fairyland.
We corkscrewed our way through
that narrow and crooked passage
where the bushes brush you on both
cheeks, aud before tbe river broadened
again I had lost all idea of the direction
and had almost forgotten what I
came out for. I think tkat the mir
aculous silence was a great part of the
charm. The guide never took bis
paddle from the water —sending us
on by just a little turn of bis wrist—
and there was not so much as a ripple
about the boat. It was the greatest
night I ever had 1'
'And tbe deer V
l ob, we didn't get any deer ; but I
didn't care for that. About midniabt,
down by tbe rapids, we beard an old
buck wbistle and go crashing through
the bushes, but we didn't see him, and
he wasn't very near. The guide said:
'The fool, he's been shot at be
fore; ' and that was the first word
spoken since we started down tbe riv
er. We came home after that. It
was tbe greatest I evar had. I
wouldn't have missed it for anything.'
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GOT EVEN WITH THE MATE.
A Reminiscence of Rob Stewart, a
Famous Governor of Missouri.
AD old citizen, a gentleman of high
social and official standing in St.
Joseph, told tbe*QazeUe% story of the
famous Missouri Governor, Bob Stew
art, wbicb, true to tbe letter, proves
that fact is stranger than fiction:
"I was coming up tbeMissourißiver
wben I was a boy, "said tbe ex-Go ver
ncr, "and I was workiog my way on
k steamboat, eab. At a point wbere
we bad to wood up I didn't carry as
big a load as some of tbe roustabouts,
nor move witfii tbat agility, sab. that
tbe otbera did, for I was not strong,
sab, and bad been tenderly raised.
Tbe mate became enraged at my alow
movements on tbe gang-plank, and be
gave me a kick and sent me asbore,
sab, and confiscated my buffalo robeas
payment for my passage to tbat
point. I never saw tbat mate again
until after I bad been inaugurated as
Governor of this great common
wealth of Missouri, sab.
"One day wandering through the
wards and district* of the penitentiary
I saw that mate working at a forge.
He had been sent there, sab, for kil
ling in a paasaion a man under bis
command. I knew him instantly,sab,
and 1 directed the warden to send the
man to the Gubernatorial mansion in
the garb of a gentleman. When the
man arrived I took him into my
private office and asked bim it be
recognized me, sab. He replied that
be didn't. Said I, 'Sab, do you
remember, one time at sucb and sucb
a place, sab, of kicking a boy aud
scudiug him ashore, who bad been
working in your gang?'
"Tbe man said,'No,sab, I don't re
member it, but it is very likely tbat I
did, sab.'
•Well, Bah,' says I, 'I am tbat boy,
sab, and here is your pardon, sab . I
always thought I would get even
with you, sab.'
*'Tbe tears came to tbe old man's
eyes,and he said , 'Well, Governor,to
be a mate in these days a man bad to
be a dog, sab!'
" 'You played well your part, Bah,'
1 said,' Now leave here, sab,' and
don't let me see you again, ssb.'
"As he made bis exit I gaye him
an able-bodied kick, sab, and little Bob
Steward bad got even with that big
steamboat mate, sab.
'Sounds like a romance, don't it,sab?
Yes, sab. But every word is true, I
need barely say, sab.'
Origin of the Word Cigar.
The origin of tbe word cigar is of
some interest, and is not to be found
in tbe ordinary dictionaries. Tbe
word, of course, is Spanish, and Lit
tre in bis French dictionary, says that
it is derived from cigars, tbe Spanish
name for grasshopper, and is so called
because of the resemblance of tbe ar
ticle to tbe body of a grasshopper.
This seems very farfetched, and there
is another derivation which seems
more reasonable. When tbe Span
iards first introduced tobacco into
Spain from tbe island of Cuba in tbe
sixteenth centory they cultivated tbe
plant in their gardens, which,in Spain,
are called cigarrales. Each grew bis
tobacco in bis cigarral, and rolled it up
for smoking as be bad learned it from
tbe Indians in tbe West Indies. When
one offered a smoke to friend be conld
say: 'Es de mi cigarral'—lt is from
my garden. Soon tbe expression
came to be 'Este cigarras es de mi
cagarral'—This cigar is from my gar
den. And from this tbe word cigar
spreads over tbe world. Tbe name
cigarral for garden comes from cigarra,
a grasshopper, that insect being very
common in Spain, aud cigarral mean
ing tbe place where tbe cigarra sings.
In this way the word cigar comes
from cigarra, tbe name of tbe insect,
uot because it resembles tbe body of
tbe grasshopper, but because it was
grown iu tbe place it frequents.—[ Chi♦
ago Tribune.
An Old Georgia Story.
In tbe old days of camp meetings a born
was blown to wake tbe congregation in the
morning. Tbe instrument bnng near the
stand, and was generally sounded by some
of tbe reverend brethren. Of course, a camp
meeting is a great place for practical jokes,
aud one to this effect was played on a
brother at Bear Spring 'before the war.' A
rascally fellow the born with soft
soap. Brothers A. and B. went down to
tbe arbor soon in tbe morning to sound the
horn. Brother A. took it, and standing
front of Brother 8., proceeded to blow a
blast. Of coarse, Brother B.'s slick face
was sicklied all over with the pale coat of
soft soap. As soon as he could prevent
strangulation, he spoke out something to
this effect:
'I have been a Methodist preacher for fif
ty years. In all that time I have never
sworn an oath, but I'll just be copessential
ly smothered if I can't whip the fellow that
soaped that horn.'
m j i
'WHAT an awful smell of cahbage,' said
a fastidious tenaut to the janitor. I thought
you assured me tbat there were no Irish
families in the house.' 'Neither there are,
ma'ma,' was the reply. That's only the
landlord smoking a five cent cigar.'— The
Judge.