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JJ , I TcH me, Aro.llfe prate Joy,"
' Cried au eaifer. rosy boy.
! THOilMhnnr wunt of fare,
Boyhood' dreams and vlslcus rare, 8
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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
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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.
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