. f ...:.-r.;. ADHRS." t " - - - JJ , I TcH me, Aro.llfe prate Joy," ' Cried au eaifer. rosy boy. ! THOilMhnnr wunt of fare, Boyhood' dreams and vlslcus rare, 8 i i A Youth's flrt nip of poFlont wln. Manhood's stay tit wisdom's shrine, . , ;' r Or the ralm at i i-t of utt 1 V" ' "WliMi the heart Mief Well done "Ah," Age anwered,"nnt In these Life its sweetest .leiuure sees. Uttt (d memories of woe ' That the heart no more ran know. " IMcorffa Horton. TAGGART'S LITTLE WOMAN. She stood in thp doorway of our eahin looking in upon to rough a set of inliirr M ever bunked in one lot, An' we all stopped eatin' an held our forks in the air to stare at her. She wag the peartest and prettiest thing our eyes had seen in si month, and ulie stood thera barefoot and unnbuined, with n tangle of gold h 4r hanging over her . shoulders an' a color in her little, face that shamed the wild mam, "Pleaj hev ye enny thing to iat ye cottld lend us? Tap 'lowed he'd like to horry some bread an' tea an' he'd cotiw hero to sleep s' he wouldn't trnbble ye to move the things an' pap .'lowed f ye didn't wanter spare 'em we could sleep in the haystack and drink water from the spring. " i' ': ' - She said it all in a breathless way liko a lesson she had learned, ami stood shame facedly on one little foot waiten fur an answer. "Cum In fetch yer dad of rourso re're as welcome as roses in JaniTery. ' But fust like what's yer name, liulo lady f What might we call y er V ; "Pap calls me Taggart's little woman. " We had heard of Taggart, but not of his child. So he was her father, the on criest, laziest loafer in the county, not vicious, but of no earthly aecouut to him eelf nor anybody else. An' now we were to hare him saddled on us. The little woman had gone oil on the run and we set out two extra tin plates kept for company and two sliinin' now mugs and dished up soma more of the squirrel stew and the last of the baked potatoes for our visitors, . They came in together, hand in hand, and we gave . Tagr art an cordial a wel come as we could, 'count of his child. For we were glad, every man of us, to in stall Taggart's little woman at our cabin ' table, and to endure her father for her sake. i . : An' we never repented of it either. Why, that littlo mite, bless her, was like a letter from home every day in the year. She was the llfrlit of our eyes afore she bad been with us a month, and we cod dled her good for mthiu! dad, jest 'cause he was her dad, and she loved him with all the power of her little heart. We all , ''lowed that the was too good for him, but . when we. come to- sift the evidence we found that he had cared for, her ever since her mother died in a prairie schooner and she were a mite of a baby; - Now yoU' "wouldn't believe that any man would be so shiftless, but it air a fact. He had been seven years tryin' to earn enough1 money to take that young un back East to her grandmother. And here he was without a cent to his namo. liquor? No. He drank with the rest of ' . us, but not more, than the law allowed and the climate warranted. He wag just that unlucky that he could not seem to make a day's wages and live .1 on them like anybody else. We hired . him to wash our findings, and he lost the , duat and saved the refuse, and then ha ctared, stupid like,, when we talked to '. him, and acted queer. One or twiowrhe went to Miners' Town, . and come home in that same way. There was two Cluaamau come along one day, and we run them off lively, an' when we did Taggart hi. lit out without a word in the way they ,'had gone as if he were crazy. ' ' . r Then Greenv one of our men, said in a Y . low voice ", ' "Ireckon I've got it!" ' ' ' : ; "kit typhoid?" asked another of the gang. "No," says Creen; "it's opium." " "That's why he don't work." t ... .).. "An' the reason he can't go East." .' "Air ye talkin' about my pappy ?" It was the child's little voice at our el " bows, and we all jumped like we'd been . : caught stealin'. So Green told her the ' ' story Of the "Three Bears" and the "Cat That was a Princess, " and when Taggart (, came shuffling in, with his hang dog look, ' she was laughin', and havin' the best ' ; kind o' time. But soon's she saw him she ' ; was anxious and worried, but he just ran his hand over her hair, and says he : - - "How would Taggart's little woman - like to go East and live in a fine houso . and hev lots of money and good clothes and edication?" "Fust rate, pap,"says the little woman, . " and all them could come along, " mo ,' tionin' to us. ' ; Bless her little heart! She was gettin' ' ' Os fond of us as we was of her. ' : "I wonder If Taggart's little woman ' could make a rabbit pie," says Green one mornin'. 1 "Jest you try me," camp quick as a flush. "Stop some rabbits fur me an' see me cook 'em in pork an' seasonin'. " "There's a old gun in that loft that's , got fine bird shot in it," said Green. "Ye kin hev that, Taggart, to hunt with. Ef ye air no better at shootiu' rabbits than ye air at pannin' gold dust them rabbits 1 will live to be Hethusalums. " ' ;': I was tied to my chair with a lame ; foot, so I watched tho little woman gittm' the dough ready for the rabbit pie. She was a picture, with her bright eyes and ,i pretty waya, and she had fixed her up . , with some things we bought at Miners' .,. Town specially for her. As I looked at .. her I thought what a difference her be 1 ing there made. I couldn't remember when anjr Of lis had used a swear word. " Little woman, can yer read ? " I asked. ; "No, mister; but pappy can," was the answer. "An I'm goln ter learn how Boon's ever I go East ter my granmaw. " "Buts'pose we want yer to stay here ?" "Then I'll stay, if pap says so, 'causa ' . I like you una real wolL " v "May be we'll all go, little woman. It's time yer pup were here now with them rabbi te." "I'm goin' out to s'prisn him," said the child, wipin' the flour from her hands and suatchin' her sunbouuet from its nail. " ' S i I heerd a shot after that, but strango to say, neither Taggart nor little woman showed up. When the boys came In the pork was fryin' for the rabbit pie, and the crust were baked an' iu the dish, but that were all. "What were the shot I heerd ?" asked Jim Menden, au Ohio uoy, who was one of us. "That were Taggart out in the bush after rabbits. " "What gun did ye give him mine?" "Yes; Green give it fr him 'cause it were loaded with bird shot. " "It veren't. It had a bullet for ante lope. " "Then that was the shot we heerd," said Green. "I hope he ain't shot his own foolish head olT. " He had hardly g.t the words out of his mouth before every mun himself among them had left t..j cabin on the ruu. I cussed the lameness that kept me from going. I wnrn't surprised when I heard them coming hack, after such a long time, with slow and measured steps, carryin' Some burden 'atween them. I knew it must be Taggart had hurt himself. . They came to the cabin door, and every man had his hat off, an' what they carried was small. "Little woman!" I cried out the word, "Where's Taggart's little woman ?" Some one turned the coat from the sweet face and I saw her just as her father spoke up, with more dignity than I ever saw him hev before. "There air Lynch law for murderers," he said, with his head drooping, "an' there air plenty here to see it done. Gentlemen, I don't keer to wait I'm a murderer in deed but not iu intent. Oh, my little woman! Her up as wouldn't have harmed a ha'r o' her lu-tid he did the deed, an' he will die for it like a man." But Taggart's dying would not havo brought her back. We went to Miners' Town and lied the authorities come out to investigate it, an' we give littlo woman such a funeral as a princess might envy, for we dug her grave with our own hands and blubbered over it. But that was a lonely home coming when we left her for the hut time out in the hills, and went back into the cabin where she had shed such light, an' saw her father slttin' there, bowel with his own trouble, which, after all, couldn't have been much worse than ourn. Only it was his stupid bungling that had killod her, when she went creeping along on her hands and knees in the brush to 'sprise him, and ho had mistaken her for a rabbit. We couldn't like the man before this, an' now it was hard not to hate him but for one fact he was her father, the "pappy" that Taggart's little woman had loved. So we did our beat fur him, but it wasn't fur long. One day we missed him, and looked for him at our general roundup little woman's grave. : Yes, he was there, but stretched out, cold and still, an' whether he died of a broken heart or an overdose of his drug we never knowed. There we buried him. Green himself carved these words on tho board at the head t . TAOO ART'S MTTI.B WOMAN . AJIU HJCU PAPFT. New York Rocorder, P Lion. An amusing sketch of two lion whelps which were adopted as pets during the writer's residence in South Africa, U given by a contributor to Foreat ami Stream. The lioness appeared to amuse herself by playing pranks on human strangers of her own sex, lying in ambush for them under the dining table, i Fearing that something serious might occur if I allowed my pets their liberty any longer, I liad a large cago con structed, and for the first week or two was obliged to spend much time in it with them. ' The lioness fretted a great deal, and the only way I had of quieting her was to go in and lie down, using the lion as a pillow, while she stretched herself beside me with her head on my chest. One day the sheriff informed me that he had a summons in his office for me to Berve as a juryman. I begged off, but he was inexorable. A few days afterward he rode up to my gate, and I called my servant to open it for him while I hurried to the lion's cage. '' Presently I heard him calling me, and on my answering he gradually found his way to the den, in which I was seated on the lion's recumbent . body, while the lioness sat behind me with her chin rest ing on my shoulder. ' As Boon as he saw me he sprang back, and criod : "Come out of there I" "Hand that summons in here, and I will do so. " ' "Do you want my arm torn off?" "No, but I want you to make a legal service of that paper by handing it to me. " . "I shall not take any such risk, but I will tear up the paper if you will only como out and save me from seeing you tuni into pieces, V "All right, do so, and I will try to got out alive," The paper was torn up, and I stepped out of the cage, much to my friend's relief. A short time after I met the judge in the street, who wished to know if my mode of dodging jury duty was the one commonly practiced In' my own country. Thoreug hljr HtflMed. Mrs. Fangle How do you like your new mam, Mrs. Jingle 1 Mrs. Jingle Oh, she'd be all right if she were not so over refined. Mrs. Fangle In what way? Mrs. Jingle She never breaks any thing but the most costly Dresden china. St. Joseph News. More vessels enter and dear at the port or Chicago than at any other in this coun try, but New York is ahead In tonnage THOUSANDS OF TOMBS. PREHISTORIC DEPOSITS DISCOVERED BY A NEW HAVEN SCIENTIST. The Private ArnhritelogleM Collection nelonRlns; to a Hew Haven Gentle man -Now In tonne of Arrangement In Central Park Museum, New York. Mr. James Terry, of Now Haven. Conn., has been for many years one of tho most Indefatigable collectors of arohreolOjrical secimens. Beyond a doubt hn ho. traveled morn miles on this continent than any other living man.. By all methods of conveyance and on foot this enthusiastic searcher after archleological object has traversed almost every State and Territory In the Union. Ho has fol lowed every river of consequence in the United States from its source to its) mouth, and the soil of every State bear evidence of his spade and trowel. More than IS years ago he traversed the Pa cific coast from southern California to Oregon, making wonderful discoveries. He has wandered over Alaska repeatedly, and some of his rarest specimens w-ere obtained from that land. Mrs. Terry has accompanied her husband on many of his expeditions. She was the first lady tourist to visit Alaska. Mr. Terry has made careful researches In the famous Columbia Valley, and has spent weeks in gaining the good will and confidence of and interviewing the In dians of the Yakima, Warm Spring, and Net Percue regarding the origin of many archaic specimens aud sculpt ured pieces found in the region, his object being to connect the tribes with the sculptures. He became convinced from these inquir ies that the specimens should le dissoci ated from any relation with historic tribes. Many are the theories regarding the early civilizations in this country, and their connections with the first in habitants or the later Indians. This important and mooted subject early attracted the attention of Mr. Terry, aud along the Columbia River ho found evidence of the former existence of in habitants much superior to tho native In dians, and of which no tradition remains. Stone carvings were there found in abun dance. In 1883 in the Columbia Valley Mr. Terry found a specimen that is tho finest of its kind yet discovered, the only other specimens tliat resemble it being one owned by Professor O. C. Marsh aud one owned by Thomas Condon, of Ore gon. Mr. Terry found his specimen near the bank of the John Day Itiver, a tribu tary of the Columbia. The carvings in question are in dark, puimceous, basaltic rock, an abundance of which is found in tha valley, and each strongly resembles the face of an ape. As was before stated, Mr. Terry's secimen is the finest yet discovered. The broad, flat nose, with supporting cheeks, and tho contractions or corrugations of tho forehead, charac teristics of the ape family, aud the pecul iar mouth aud chin are all cleverly re produced in the sculpture. One of the great questions which Mr. Terry and other scieutiBtsaretryingtode- cid ) is Whence came these sculptures, and by whom were they made? Mr. Terry is positive that it can not be shown that the Indians have any knowledge of t he le sculptures. When Mr. Coudou dis covered his specimen he advanced the the.ry that it was a copy of some figure heal of a derelict Malay proa, but Mr. Terry upsets that idea by pointing out the fact that three of these sculptures are known to exist, each with a distinctive characteristic, and all of them found east of tho Cascade Mountains, a distance of 00 miles from the coast, aud with sev eral intervening tribes who failed to pre serve any features of a proa or junk figure among their carvings. Mr. Terry is clearly of opinion that the aborigines came from Central America. On the Pacific coast there have been opened under Mr. Terry's direction and supervision upward of 7,000 tombs, and he iris in his collection the largest amount of material known pertaining to the coast races between the Gulf of Cali fornia and Puget Sound. A large pro portion of the specimens were found in mounds and graves, associated with articles of stone and pottery in such jux taosition as to leave no doubt of their belonging to and being made by the same people that fashioned the imple ments of stono and vessels of clay. Mr. Terry found the influence of Polynesian life, with its customs and usages, exem plified by a similarity of stone Imple ments, which reflects much more than a mere incident in the daily life of a semi barbarous race. The mere mere stone weapon of the famous Maorie chiefs of New Zealand, made of the beautiful nephrite, represents an emblem of rank of the most eminent degree, and is the most highly valued of their possessions. Ex amples of this implement made of green serpentine were found by Mr. Terry in the Columbia, Willamette, Rogue, and Klamath river valleys, Iu reaching a conclusion in regard to the origin of nu merous stone heads he has discovered, Mr. Terry believes that the monkeys which the carvings represent once existed in the Columbia Valley, or tliat, in the remote ast, a migration of natives from some region containing the.se monkeys reached this valley and left one of the vivid im pressiona of their foruier surroundings in these imperishable sculptures, Mr. Terry has at the museum building, Central Park, New York, collections which cost over $60,000 to Bncure and trans port, not including traveling exponses. Iu his researches he often employed a number of men to assist in making ex cavations. He visits New York daily, aud devotes lus entire time to arranging his specimens and studying them. In tho course of a few months he will make auother journey to the Pacific coast, after which he hopes to give to the world some of the most astounding of the results of his investigations. Sir Provo WallU, English admiral, has just completed the 100th year of his age and his 87th in the British naval service. Americans feel a special interest in him because in 1813 he was a second lieuten ant on board the frigate Shannon, which captured the Chesapeake off Boston Har bor, and his two superior officers having been killed in that action, it devolved on Wullis to tako his prize to Halifax. ; i I J. 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