LOVE IN A LOG CABIN. "And this is borne!" Kuth Delano gsize.l about ber with a mingled foeliug of wonder, joy and dis appointment. Three thousand ruiles bad sue traveled across the continent to reach the home her husbaud had pie pared for her, and this is what she found: A lonely ranch among the foothills in Southern California, with a plain log cabin for a home. Not a restige of a plant or flower around it, bills t retch ing brown and bare under the July sun, and not a shade tree in sight. "One might know thero never bad been a woman near this place, " said Pvnth, her eyes slowly filling with tears. It neumed so comfortless and barren after leaving her mother's old-fashioned farm-house in Maine, full to overflow ing with inviting, comfortable things, and surrounded with flower gardens and orchards, and where every nook and corner suggested the deft bands of a woman. Hlie felt bor very heart sink ing within her. - Then, seeing the eyes f ber husband fixed upon her she forced back the tears. Had she not said, like the Kuth of old, "Whither tbou goest, I will go; and whither thou lodgost, I will lodge?" Would any place, no matter how fall of comfort it might be, ever be home without him ? Had she and her baby Enth not wept tears of joy when the letter came telling thtm that papa was coming from California to take them home ? And bad not every foot of the way been a joy to think he was once more with them and that they were to have a home ? She stroked the hand f her husband, who held their little Ruthie in his arms, smiling through her tears. "I know, dear, it is a new country," he said, cheerfully, "and you have done the best you oould." It was the truly wifely spirit, and in his heart he blessed the true woman who said it. ( "All the ranches look kind of deso late," he said, "where there' no one tmt men about; but now we've got a little woman here, things will soon be looking different." t Inside of the house she found every thing neat, at least, and that was" a great comfort to her, and if the parlor was barren-looking, with no carpet upon it, the kitchen was full of con trivances which women like, and she knew that John had thought of them lot her. After supper they sat down on the little porch in front of the oabin to talk of plans for future work. It was just at sunset, and as Ruth sat placidly looking at the view in front of her which, after all,' was a fine one, taking in a glimpse of the blue Pacific and a background of purple mountains she began to lose the undertone of Eomesickness which had so marred hor me-coming. She thought how beau tiful a home might really be under the shadow of the lifted nines, and she resolved, with John's help, she could make hers one to be proud of. As if in unswer to her thought, John went I into the house and returned in a nio- ! ment laden with two parcels, which ! he dropped into Ler lap. "There, Ruth," he said,' "you can't j guess what these ore, can you ?" ' I am ufraid not," Kuth Baid, eying the mysterious-looking packages won deringly. j "Well, you know the house isn't , very beautiful yet," said John, bis good face fairly shiuing with tho little secret ho had iu store for hor. "But I guoss you'll find something in each of those parcels that will help you beautify it." What could he mean ? Ruth took up the lighter but larger one first. To her surprise it was full of garden seeds, small packages of every kind, almost, she could think of. "Well, how lovely 1" she said. "Now we shall raise all the vegetables we need, and our garden will rival dear mother's at home." "Yes," said John, "and go ahead of it ; for California beats the world for flowers, and your garden will be just as lovely in Winter as in Summer. There are twenty varieties of roses alone among that collection of seeds." "Isn't it wonderful to think of?" cried Ruth, as delighted as a ohild over her treasures. "And what can be in here ?" she continued, as she opened the seoond parcel. "Wonders will never cease," she exclaimed the next moment, as he pourod a whole bag of Silver into her lap. "And what is this for ?" "To buy your parlor furniture," he replied, laughing at her amazement. "Honest ?" She looked at him, her Drown eyes sparkling. "It is for Mrs. Dolano to do with as she pleases," ho said. "I have saved the money to furnuth the cabin with. and thought to have fixed it up before you came, but concluded on seoond thought that you could do better than I ; so there's the money. Buy what yon please, and fix up the plaoe to suit yourself. -wen, 11 you am t tno best John m the whole country," Ruth said, almost laughing and crying iu the same breath How could she ever be homesick again? And that night, instead of crying her self to sleep, ns she bad thought that afternoon to do, she lay awako from very joy, thinking of the pretty thing she could buy and make for the cubiu, and imagining how picturesque it would look coverod with Lady Banks rosux, and how sweet the violet beis would be iu the Bpringtime. And so the very next daysho set the hired man to work laying off a garden, and all that wouk and tho next she spout bor spare timo in digging aud hoeing and spading. The following week John took her to the nearest town, and she solocted tho various articles she desired for tho house. She managod to furnish it quite comfortably, aud under her doft fingers all things began to boar a home likolook. The plaoe lost its barren aud shiftless look, and even tho do a Harold soemed to feel tho ohange. He so loafer WMdersd aimlessly about as thongh seeking a comfortable spot, but went to sleep a pictnro of perfect con tentment on one of tho soft rug in tho Kitting room, keeping one zoalous eye always half-open upon his playmate, ltutliie. . The months sped by in spite of all the hardships she had to endure for life is hard for a woman in a new coun try on light wings for Ruth. She made the best of all her trials, and was ns sweet aud contented as if she bad been iu the fair home they had owned and lost. Though often her limbs ached nud her bead was weary with the weight of work which fell to her share, sho never roinplaiued. Not once did she prow fretful or reproach her hus band for taking hor so far from all that she loved. "Ho is doing tho bot that lio can," she always said to herself, "and what would a palace be without his love? Besido, bow much I have to be grata ful for." Aud soroohow the rouiom brance of tholr first evening in the log cabin would always bring tears to ber eyes. It was such a real proof of bis love and thoughtfnlnoss for her. When the next Spriug lengtheuod into Summer, nnd ber swoot face began to wear a tired look that he did not like to see, be came to her one evening, say ing gravely: "Ruth, pack your trunk to-night; to morrow I want to take yon with me to San Diego. Important business calls me there, and you and Ruthie both need a change." "But how can you leave the ranch?" Ruth asked, "just now when you are most needed?" "Oh, Redly will take charge of the place, and the men will work for him as well as for me." If Ruth had noticed him just (then very carefully she might have seen a twinkle in hi even that would have made her suspicious as to this "busi ness trip" to San Diego, but like a dutiful wife she packed up aud asked no foolish questions. When they reached San Diego, much to her sur prise hor husband did not go to a hotol. He gave the coach mau some directions, and they were driven to au elegant looking house in the suburbs. "Why, I didn't know you had friends here !" exclaimed Ruth, in surprise. "Oh, yes." said John. "I have a numler of them. This is the home of tho best friond I have in the world." "Why!" John nearly took her breath away. She thought of hor shabby travelling dress and Ruthie's shabbier cloak with dismay, but she made np her mind to make the best of it for John's sake, anyway. A lady oould always be a lady, no matter how she was dressed. A neat servant openod the door and ushered them into a hand somer reception room. The house was beautiful insido, and everything was new aud of the latest fashion. Ruth sank into a finely upholstered easy chair with a feeling of momontary contents For a moment she almost wished sho might be the possessor of such a homo, and theu hho put aside the envious wish. "Make yourself at homo, dear," John said, "while I see the master of the house. He is probably iu his study. I will return when I have spoken to "him privately. I know he will bedelightod to know you uro hero, aud will welcome j on." How strange John never told mo of this frieud of his," Ruth said to her self, looking at the haudsomo engrav ings on tho table near her. 1'resently j lie returned, but not as sho expected, wiili the master of tho house, whom sho was feeling a little iu awe of. "Whore is he ?" she asked. "Hero. "Hore ? Why, John, have vou lost your mind ? There is no one with you. You and I are alone." She be gan to look frightened. What if John had really lost his senses ? He had certainly acted queer about this San Diego trip. To Her further amazement he burst into a loud laugh, and, taking a stand in the middle of the room, said, with a polite bow : "Dear Mrs. Delano, allow me to in troduce to you the master of this house, John Delano, esq., your humble ser vant I am monarch of all I survey." "John, you are surely going mad, and I with you. For heaven's sake," she entreated, "tell me what you mean 1" "I'll tell you what I mean, little wife," he said. "I mean that I came to San Diego last year during the land boom, went into real estate business and cleared a small fortune. This is your home, and all that is in it belongs to Ruth and John Delano. The ranoh and the log cabin were simply a trial of your love. I wanted to find out what kind of stuff my wife was made of." "Ana did you And out? she asked of him, woman-like, not knowing whether to laugh or cry over this great joy. "Indeed I did. She was weighed in the balance and not found wanting. I know now that her love for me was strong enough to brave all trials for me. Honeefortb sho shall be queen of my prosperity." "It was a very pretty little drama you choso to make me take the principal purt in," she said, "but I forgive you aud I am satisfied if you are." "Completely," he answered, with a lover's kiss. "Do you know, dear John," she whis pered that night as she held Ruthie up for her papa's good-night kiss, "that I doubt if I can ever be as happy any whore as I was in that little log cabin of ours, in spite of all the hard work I did. Love never soomod before such a sweet compensation for all of life's trials." "Well, if that isn't just like a woman," laughed her husband. "Like Lot's wife, forever looking baok. (Jive bor heaven, and two to one she'll be sorry sho ever left earth. Ruth only smiled and hold her peace. She knew that he would ever hoid their log cabin days in sweet and sacred remembrance. Umaha World. A Gold Bullet. From London Answer. Mr. Fred Leslie used to carry about with him, and once showed to the writer, a good-sized bullet of solid, pure gold, and this peculiar tharm had a somcwh.it curious his tory. One of the many millionaires of San Francisco gave the bullet to Mr. Leslie and told how that when he, th? giver, at the time a comparatively poor man, was prospecting for gold in the early days of the gold fever in California lie came, in a wild, rugged mountain pass.upon a ghastly bleached skeleton, near which was a rusty old revolver. Examining the skeleton closely the prospector found among the re main the golden bullet. In explana tion it may be said that during the period of gold madness the rough, wild miners not uncommonly realiztd fortunes in a few weeks or months, and many of them indulged in the most outrageous excesses of ex travagance, even going the length of having bullets of gold cast for their firearms. The probability is that the dead man had been shot with one of these or had taken his own life with one. The finder of the bullet discovered a mine which yielded him his great fortune near the skeleton. Salvation Oil is rapidly superseding all high priced lioiments. 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