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For circular, ad vice terms and references to actual Clieuts in your own State or County, write to C. A. SXOW&CO., - . arttfif. WaRhlntrton. 1. r - iiij ifa a4" S3 net KHIIC AIL tltf fAllt. rinllnV "fs.ildbydrinrKls'A j tat THROUGH DANGER; on LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. CITAFTER I. PHTLrP BATTtURST UEKUSES TO SELL HI3 IXJVE. A Bweep' of golden gorse, blended with purple heather. -A fresh breeze from the uplands. A range of hills in the distance. A mile or so to the right, a One old Elizabethan mansion, sur rounded by dark firs, at the base of which stretched a lake into which the rocky land jutted, forming tiny head lands and deen-blue silent creeks. Oc casionally a black-cock or some other bird would rise up from the heather and wing its way a dozen yards or so, then drop down again to earth, or at times continue its llight to the distant hills. 13evond this no otlipr movincf nlvWr broke the landscape of moor and fell. save the figures of two men who came tramping through the heather. xne one who walked a little m ad vance was a tall, broad-shouldered, mus cular specimen of the vounir Enrrlish gentleman, who had never done a day's work in his life; but had gone through no end of labor in boatinsr. shootine- ftnd such like sports. His features were handsome and manlv. his complexion becomingly bronzed, his eyes of a clear blue, giving a winning expression to the whole countenance, while trlossv tings of nut-brown hair clustered round the shapely head. His attire was a re markably well-made shooting suit, and he carried a gun over his shoulder. His comrtanion. annnrentlvof his own age, was of a lower grade in society indeed, his dress was that of a game keeper. A game-bag, quite empty, was slung over his shoulders, against which also rested two loaded guns. For some time there had been silence, the black cocks had risen and flown away un checked. Not a bang had disturled the autumn air. It was doubtful if the foremost sportsman had even seen the birds as he strode on, one hand in the pocket of his shooting-coat, his brows contracted, and his eves bent on the trround. He evidently was lost in deen and not quite agreeable meditation. The otlier more than once had elanced in a surprised, perplexed fashion at him, then at the birds that rose almost from their verv feet. At last, unable to keep ouiet loncer. lie remarked with a comical twinkle in his brown eves: "Don't you think. Mr. I'hil. we should have had just as much sport if we'd left the bag and the powder and shot at Lome? And the guns, too, for that matter. There would have been less to carry." I'hilip IJathurst burst into a merry peal of laughter. "Right you are. Mark," he exclaimed; "the birds need not tear me much to day. The fact is, I didn't come out to shoot, I came to think, and as we can do that as well sitting as standing, here coes." So saying he threw himself down among the scented heather. As the gamekeeper followed his example, he Said: "I thought there was something up, Mr. I'hil. " "Something up, indeed," exclaimed the young master, his gaze fixed on the mansion among the lirs. "Heigho'.'7 after a pause; "I say, Mark, how would you like to go to Australia':''' "Australia! Why Mr. I'hil, I'd go wherever you go. But it ain't likely you are going there." "Isn't it? That's all you know about it, foster-brother Mark," retorted Phil ip Bat hurst with an assumption of gaye ty. "Know that this day promises to le one of the most important in my life, that's why I came out to think; know, Mark, that before yonder jolly-faced cun sets and rises again, I I'hilip Bath urst, reputed heir of his uncle, Charles Bathurst may be a homeless, compara tively penniless wanderer."' "You, Mr. I'hil; that's one of your loltcs sir.' "A joke, Mark, which I'm coming to think will turn out serious earnest. To-night may see the doors of Bathurst closed on me I being outside, not in." "Surely, Mr. I'hil, you're mad or in love." , "Not more mad than man is general ly, Mark; as to love well p'raps that's nearer the point. There, old fellow, don't grin. T'on my word. I'm not jpsting; listen, and I'll tell you all about it. You're aware that Sir Ken yon McCrca has a daughter?" "You can't be in love with her, Mr. I'hil?" , . . . "Xo, Mark; but my not being m love makes no difference with my uncle. He has hoarded, and saved, and made all his lifetime, and now he has set his heart on mv marrying an heiress, that heiress being Miss Marian McCrea." "And if you refuse, Mr. I'hil?" "Then I am disinherited. W e near had high words about it last night, when mv uncle gave me until this even ing to decide. If I refuse, i am to troop bag and baggage instanter from Bathurst. Now, putting all otlier things aside. Mark, it is to me confoundedly derogatory for a fellow to let another choose a wife for him. To be bought, as it were. I don't like it. It's an in sult to a man's liberty and independent feelings. By Jove it is." "Still, Mr. I'hil. Bathurst s Bath urst," remarked Mark, scratching his ear, "and Miss Met Yea isn't so very plain." , . , .,. "If she were all beauty and amiabili ty it would make no difference." "Ah'" remarked the foster-brother, slyly, "because, Mr. I'hil, of 'the other tliincs?' " . l'huip Bathurst again maue uie an vibrate with his laughter. "You're a cute fellow, Mark, l.ut you've hit the right nail on the head. I am in love over head and ears up to the eyes with an angel." "Tliey all are angels, Mr. I'hil, till we have married them." "Hold your tongue, Mark; you cant judge for you didn't know an angel. The one I love there is not the slightest chance of my ever seeing again. Mie has vanished from me. as if, indeed, she had Ix en ethereal instead of earth ly Or did we meet, and if my uncle keeps his word there would be just a possibility what likelihood is there that I should find her single? Some fortunate fellow must have made her his wife long ago." "Why, then. Mr. I'hil. don t you please your uncle and marry Miss Mc CJrea'' "Because I hold it dishonorable to tved one girl while my heart is full of the image of another, and I can never, never forget her." ,.,., "Did she love you. Mr. I'liil "Hie said so. Mark." "Then why did she vanish away?" "By compulsion, Mark. I'll tell you all about it. You recollect when I went to Brighton? Well, one day during my visit as I was strolling near the pier, I heard the. clatter of horses' feet behind me- knowing it to le a riding-school I did' not give it my attention until I heard the jeople shout. I turned swift ly and perceived one of the horses had bolted with its fair rider. All the rest, not heeding the l idiuv-master's asigry protest, were screaming and galloping after her. Such a row, Mark, naturally made the horse worse. As to the poor girl, she seemed paralyzed; her veil had blown up, revealing a white, set, terri fied, but oh, so lovely a face, Her eves were fixed straight in front, until I sprang forward. Then they rested up on me, and I caught the words words Like music: 'Oh, pray save me if you can.' "A moment after the horse bore down on me full butt. But I was pre pared. I grasped the rein close to the bit, and swung the brute round. As I did so, the girl fell off her saddle into my arms. But oh, the glance, she gave me out of her dark eves, Mark! I was in love from that moment. I let the horse go. for the riding-master or anybody else to catch, while I supported her who I felt was my destiny. I should have liked to have supported her until now, but I was not allowed to five minutes. A lot of women came chattering round, for the girl had fainted. At the same time a carriage halted, and the lady in it, who had seen the accident, offered to drive her home. It was quite right, but I didn't thank her. I managed, however, to ascertain tlkat she whom I had saved was a pupil at a large school in Brighton, and I need not say, Mark, I did not hurry away from that town. On the contrary I stopped. Again and acain I saw her who after that one glance held such sway over me. At the school was a good-hearted housemaid, who. taking pitv on me, carried my let ters and brought me answers to them. Once she managed an interview for us in the school-ground. I confessed my love, I learned that my passion was re turned, then our interview was cut sliort by a signal from the housemaid. "We parted. Mark, and since then have never again met. "Never, Mr. I'hil? Why, that's two years ago!" " Kxaetlv. On returning to my hotel the lied ford I found a telegram awaiting me. My uncle had been thrown from his horse. The injury he had sus tained was. the doctor thought, not se rious, but Mr. Bathurst wanted rne to come. I went, of course, writing from Bathurst to mv beloved under cover to the housemaid', explaining the cause of mv absence, and. giving her my address, begged her to reply. No answer, how ever, came. JNol me least notice a taken of my communication. A little over a week I was again in Brighton, haunting the school. I saw the pupils start on their daily walk, but my due ling was not there. Was she ill? I laid wait for the housemaid. Again failure; she too had disappeared. "Driven to desperation, finally I went boldlv to the school, and asked for the principal. Then it all came out. Oh, Mark, what a row there was. Miss Dawes, a lean. long, prim woman, with curls like a fri'i'it. neaped no end of ladylike abuse upon me. It seemed that something had created Miss Dawes's suspicions. She had watched, inter cepted mv letter, and had discovered everything. In vain I protested the honor of mv intentions, my love; it but added to her wrath. I entreated an in terview with her pupil. She absolutely screamed. "Sir," she exclaimed, 'you have done your best to ruin the moral standing of my estaiiiisirment. out, praise jieaven, circumstances have prevented your suc ceeding.' "She was a wicked old woman, Mark, to say that, considering what the cir cumstances were. "Well, she showed me the door, and for nearly another week I fruitlessly haunted the place, hoping to get news. Regardless ot Miss Dawes's frowns, I made it a point always to meet her pu pils in their walk. Among them was a dark, bright-eyed, pretty girl, who ap peared a erfect repository of fun. She looked at me at first coquettishly, next curiously, next interestedly; finally, I felt sure, with meaning. I watched, hoping, and one day found her walking as demurely as a little mouse by the side of Miss Dawes at the tail of the twenty young ladies. As she saw me, however, a quick meaning glance shot from the corner of her laughing eyes, and. as rapidly slipping her hand lehinl her, she dropped a folded paper. "Two minutes after. I had picked it up; before another I had read written on it: "'Sot Knight or ttik Poi-sstf. CorsTE hanck: If 1 sin riirht In my surrnlw, you are Searching fir one who is no lonirer here. Ncurly a fortnight n-o she was fetched nwny to her fill her. who w as dvintf. 13, Ltullirook cri'wcent. London, ls not a hundred miles away from her residence-. Don't betray me.' "Hardly had I finished than the girls came marching back. My kind friend sent a glance in my direction. I let my eves answer her, and tore up her com munication after putting it to my lips, that she might see she was safe. That same evening I was in London, Mark. "And didn't you find her, Mr. I'hil?" "No, I was too late," sighed I'hilip Bathurst; "I found the house shut up and to let. Inquiring, I learned that her father had died, that a week back he had been buried, and that an uncle had taken her I loved away; where, none could inform me, save that it was believed to Australia. For a month I searched and inquired with no better result, so gave up in despair." "But why didn't tlie young lady write to you. Mr. 1 Inl? "Because, Mark. I had never thought of giving her mv address here." "Then, it's my opinion, Mr. I'hil, you'd better take'Miss Met Yea." "No, Mark, never," ejaculated I'hilip Bat hurst. springing up from the heather. "I'll not sell myself and my Ix'st affec tions for money! I don't like Miss Mc Crea, and. by Jove: I will not marry her for all the uncles in the world. If I seeuied just now to hesitate, my re vealing the past has decided me. Let my uncle disinherit ine if he pleases. I'll be independent; I'll work. I have strength and health capital stock-in-trade. I'll go to Australia: T il go to the diggings: I'll dig up a fortune, by Jove! and I'll find her 1 love. She is in Australia. "Why, Mark, shouldn't I find her?" " Whv not. Mr. I'hil? though I reckon Australia's a big place, and you ain't likelv to find her at the diggings, and if you wait to do so until you ve dug up a fortune she may not be very young, or she may be married when you do find her." "Mark, for Heaven's sake don't lo such a Job's comforter," exclaimed his foster-brother. He had been striding backwards and forwards through the heather, but now halted tefore the otlier. "Australia isn't like Kngland. Besides, what obstacles will not love surmount, especially when the prize is so worth winning?" Iok, Mark, and judge." Taking out his pocket-book, he pro duced from it a small photo vignette, and held it to his foster-brother. "Is that her. Mr. I'hil?" "That is her, Mark. Is she not loau tifnl?" "That she is, Mr. I'hil." "Now then, confess; do yon blame me for living in hope, Mark for refus ing, for all Bathurst, to put an insur mountable barrier lx'tween her and my self should we ever meet, as I cannot help but feel that one day we shall?" "By (Jeorge. Mr. I'hil. I'd go through fire and water for such a sweet face as that." "And I renounce Miss McCrea and fortune. So hey for Australia, to work, anil to win, and' lie independent." "Heytheii it is for Australia. Mr. I'hil. for where you go. 1 go if you'll let me." "Let you, Mark?" and Philip Bath urst warmly pressed his hand. "I shall be only too glad of your company, old fellow We start with the same capi talhealth and courage and we 11 rise or fall together. Now, take up the guns, and back to Bathurst. In two hours. Uncle Charles must pronounce our sentence." A month later Philip Bathurst and his foster-brother, Mark Hilton, stood on the deck of the A 1 emigrant ship Nep tune, as it glided down the Mersey, out ward bound for Australia. Charles Bathurst had decided. Thilip had refused to sell his right to inde pendence and free action, and had been cast adrift. In his hand now he held a letter. For the twentieth time he read the writing on it: "Hear reason, and do not be an idiot. Re pent before it is too late. Come back, consent to this marriage, ami Hsthurxt Is yours. "(. HARI.BS BATHCBST." "Do you repent, Mr. Phil?" queried Mark Hilton who had watched him. "I, Mark? not a fraction," with a merry laugh. "I never felt so content in my life. There is mv reply to Uncle Bathurst," and he scattered the frag ments of paper upon the waves washing the ship's sides. "Farewell for a space to Old Kngland," raising his hat; "henceforth our eyes and thoughts are bent southward to Australia the bush and the fortune that there awaits us." "Or the misfortune," laughed Mark. "So be it. (hie or the other. We'll meet it bravely." ciiAPTKit n. SHADY CKKEK STATION. It was spring time in Australia. All vegetation was beginning to burst forth in green apparel of many hues. lJust storms, parched lands, dried up rivers. and gullies rent by large fissures, were things of the future. A cool south breeze blew across the distant ranges; the first wild flowers were visible m the bush, and the hum of waking life began to rise from Shady Creek Station, standing alone in the rjicturesdtie Australian wilderness. First there was the lowing of cattle eager to escape from the stockyard, then the bark ot dogs, blended with mens voices and the sharp crack of the long stock-whip. As time went on the glass doors on to the verandah were thrown open. A tall, well-looking, middle-aged man of military appearance, in light overcoat and lr"oal planter's hat emerged and strolled round to the oulbuild.ngs. Soon alter another personage appeared a young girl of about niiu -te-.-n. Her step was 'elastic, her figure tall, and graceful as a illow wand. The morn ing dress she wore was composed of some light, simple material, fitting easily to her shape, while a round straw hat. resting upon a rich mass of looped and braided golden hair, shad owed a face as sweet in expression as it was lovely in feature. A color as deli cate as the wild rose tinged her cheek, her large .deep-violet eyes shone through the loiig fringe of lashes, while the small red lips were just sufficiently parted to admit of their owner hum ming an aria from Rigoletto. At her side marched, with stately pride a splendid colley. She carried a basket and pair of scissors, and flitted about the several flower beds gathering the blossoms where they showed. It took some while liefore. the basket was sufficiently stocked, then the girl returned to the verandah, and entered a room nicely furnished, where break fast was laid, and presided over by an elderly lady of somewhat prim and pre cise aspect. "Been robbing the flower-beds, Flo," Bhe inquired. "Well, auntie, if robbers were judged by the value robled." laughed the girl f;aily, "my theft this morning would not e very great. The flowers are very late this year." "Or vo'u are very impatient. Better have left them where they were; they'll die in a day in that vase.'' "Not so soon as that, auntie, I hope. If so. there will le more out to-morrow to renew them, and it's so nice to have flowers in the room. Uncle always likes them." "So does Herbert Archer; at least I heard him say so when he was last here. Bv the way, Flo, isn't he coming to day? :So uncle said, that he meant to ride over to look at the new cattle. But," with a pretty toss of the graceful head, "don't imagine, auntie, I have robled the garden for his pleasure." "I wish I could imagine so, Flo; he loves you sincerely." "Then, auntie, he is wise enough, seeing I do not love him, to keep silent on the point." "But why can't you love him? What objection can you have to the young fellow?" "I have no objection. lie is very pleasant and agreeable." "And would make an excellent hus band." "I have not the least doubt of it, auntie; only, you see, I don't want to try the experiment." ""More silly child you. Ho is hand some and very well-to-do, and you should think of settling. Most girls would, but I can't make you out. Flo. If vmi loved anybody else, it would be a different thing." "Ah, if those provoking ifs," laugh ed the girl, but as she stoojd lower over the flowers her cheek had a deeper hue. "But there's no one here 1 could love, is there, without it was Steeve Boyne, the stockman; or old Jeck, the native Australian; or " "How can you be so absurd, Flo? Let me tell you the subject is not one to jest upon. If you are so hard to suit, you'll just die an old maid." "Better that, auntie, than to marry some one I don't love." Then gravely: "Auntie, don't le offended; I'm not jesting, reallv. but I don't want to mar ry I don't think 1 ever shall. There, dear, give me a kiss, and don't let Her bert Archer make us ill friends. Per haps, when the right man funics, I'll say ves, but don't ask me to until then." Stooping, she pressed her soft, warm lips to the old lady's cheek, then ran from the room to fill the vase with water. "I can't make that girl out," mur mured Mrs. Crane; "I feel almost cer tain there were tears in her eyes. Well, it's a pity. Young Archer would lie such an excellent match, and he adores the ground she treads." "Who treads, Kate? Whatever are you muttering about, eh?" And Colo nel! irainger he in the light coat and planter's hat entered from the veran dah. "That Flo treads, brother. I have been speaking to her about young Arch er; but no, not a word will she have to sav to him." ;"Ieave the girl alone, Kate," re marked the colonel, as he drew his chair to the table. "If she don't love, whv on earth should she marry him? Besides, where's the hurry? She is not twenty yet. and I, for one. am in no hurry to lose her. I should have no ob jection to her marrying Archer, but le sure matters will run smoother if we do not meddle. A cup of coffee, Kate." M-an while Flo had run to her own room. Mrs. Crane had been correct, there were tears in her eyes; but she dashed them awav ns she reflected: "Auntie is right. 'Why should I not many Herbert Archer? Because I'm stupid and foolish. liecause I can't forget the past. As if he ever remem bers mel It is not likely. Had he, never would he have been silent. Not a word from him since I saw him m the grounds. In all my grief and trouble through the loss ot near papa, not a word of kindness, of sympathy. He might have written, for I left my ad dress with J?usan for him. No, he was proud to win my love men are flirts as much as women and once assured of it he was content, and went to woo others. Oh, it's sharheful." And Flo's cheek flushed as she paced her pretty room. "I never would have believed it of him, though. He was so handsome, so honest, and truthful-looking. No, I can't believe it. Still what mat ters, it isn't likely we shall ever meet again, and it's foolish of me not to be able to to forget him. There, from this moment, I'll try I will, I will. I will. I'll marry Herlert. which will de light both uncle and auntie. And then, a wife with a home of my own. I must not remember I'hilip. No, I'll forget him as he has long, long forgotten me, and to make it easier I il not keep any thing that reminds me of him." While speaking she had unlocked her desk and taken from it a small gem ring and a sprig of withered heather. "I'll lose the ring in the bush, for I couldn't bear to give it away, and and there goes the heather." She made to throw it out of the win dow, but the hand refused to obey the will. "Forget him! It's no good, I can't, I can't. Oh, I'hilip. Philip'." And land ing low, she pressed the mementoes of that sweet first love to her lips. Her uncle'B voice calling aroused her. Hast ily she returned the ring and heather to the desk, smoothed her hair, and ran down stairs. As she entered the room there M as the quick tread of horse's hoofs along the road. The colonel, rising, stepped into the verandah. "It's Archer." he said. "His visit is early. Make some hotter coffee, Kate. After his ride he'll not mind a second breakfast." Quitting the verandah he soon re turned with his guest. It was a young man of about eight- and-twenty, of middle height, and of slender frame, the lithesomeness of which was apparent, despite the rough scrvicable squatter's suit he wore. His features were regular and handsome, his complexion of a clear white that exposure to the sun hardly darkened. His hair, like his long moustache, was of a glossy black, while his eyes, large and of the'same color, possessed a singu lar brilliance, such as is observed at times in an animal's. His expression was full of energy and resolve that of a man who admitted no failure. He had landed in the new world when the gold fever was at its height. Had had a lucky find, with which he had turned squatter. All he had put his hand to had thriven. No obstacle had occurred to arouse the evil side of Herbert Archer's character for there was an evil side until a year previously he had made the ac quaintance of Colonel firainger. and seen Florence; from that instant he was in love. and. as was his nature, threw himself heart and soul into his passion. Well-to-do. a gentleman, no man near his equal, he had little fear cf failure, but his assurance grew less as he knew more of Flo. Something in her man ner ever kept him from making his declaration, and only the knowledge, easily ascertained from the colonel's sister, that he had no rival, kept him patient that is, outwardly. On this morning, however, he had ridden over to Shady Creek, ostensibly to look at a new purchase of cattle of the colonel's, but really to learn his fate. "And how can it be other than as I wish it," he had reflected as he rode. "Is she not kindness itself? Does she not ever show pleasure in my society, sing the songs I like, or play the pieces I desire? Nonsense, my heart has no need to leat so nervously. Had I a rival it would be different different and dangerous, especially for him," and the long slender hands clenched, the red light shone in the dark eyes. "But I have none. Who could rival me out here? Besides, have I not said that Florence Grainger shall le my wife, and that of no other man. and never yet have I been balked in that upon which 1 have set my mind. Such had been Herbert Archer's thoughts as - he rode to Shady Creek through the sweet spring morning. Bift as he entered the room with the colonel the set expression died out of his countenance, giving place to one of gen tleness as his gaze rested upon Flo. There must have been something more than gentleness in it something that startled the girl something vague, undefined, vet like a presentiment of coming troulIe. For the first time her color rose, and her eyes fell beneath his glance; she felt constrained and restless in his presence. As soon as she was able she quitted the table, and occupied herself at her work-basket. Whenever she lifted her eves she found those of Herlert Archer upon her. What was there in their dark, brilliant depths that made her breath come quickly as one in fear? To her relief the colonel soon arose, saving: "Now, Archer, mv loy, let us go to the cattle. You'll confess, I am sure, I've made a good bargain. Of course you will dine here." "I fear not," was the reply; "my stay, indeed, cannot exceed an hour or so, colonel." "I'm sorry, but business before pleas ure, my bov. That motto builds up fortunes. Well, the cattle will not take long; then Flo, no doubt, will show you the alterations she has been making in her garden." The last sentence was spoken outside on the verandah. Flo was not compelled to hear: she determined not to. but directly they bad gone and her aunt had left to super intend some household duties, she i . : i : l. n. it- sprang upstairs, pill on ner i iiiiiik-iiui., then slipped round to the stable where old Jeck w as dozing in the sun. "Jeck." she said, "the morning is so fine that I want a spin in the bush. Saddle your horse and mine as quickly as vmi can. there's a good Jeck." " Yes. missie; Jeck very quick; he no sleep ever over missie's orders." "Thank von, Jeck; when they are ready, bring them down to the road by the Seven Trees. If anyone asks you where I am going, say say, I shall be back in half an hour." "Yes. missie; Jeck know." "I never felt like this lefore," reflect ed Flo, as she hastened to the trees named. "If IIerlert thinks of prov ing why cannot I wait and refuse him, as I must? Whv do I tremble and feel so nervous? Is it because of my remem brance of Philip this morning? Is it lieeause I know I shall pain auntie? Is it because I do not know my ow n mind? No, it's not that. I don't know what it is. only that 1 don't want Ilerliert to propose to-day. I am weak and nerv ous, and fear him." Just then Jeck came cantering up, leading a horse and riding the other. A moment later Flo was in the saddle and galloping down the road. At that mo ment Herbert Archer happened to le looking in that direction. The cattle had been seen, the colonel was giving some orders to the stockman. Ilvibert Archer did not hesitate nor loe a mo- ment.he hastened to the stable, sad dled his horse, and telling a stable hand that he was going to accompany Miss Grainger in her ride, start ed in pursuit. He resolved not to lose the opportuni ty thus afforded him to spealv to Flo alone, for he reckoned old Jeck as no body. He had noted the direction the girl had taken, and knew a short cut by which he could readilv overtake her. It was to be an eventful day, indeed, to more than him, and even to more than Flo. IV U Coniutu4.. K05TAKA VOXXS. Snaaxl Olrla Twtt mt. QiIM Able Take Care of Tfeenaaelree. Mtns Jeur.Ta Corson, who la known throng bout the country as the 'Jhepherd eaa ot the Weet," came to Montana sorae Tears ago, and took op a sheep ranch la Meagher county. She did It all alone and tmalded. After awhUe she sent for her lazy brotherfrom Chleepo, and maAe Mm overseer of fier flocka. Matters went well with her, and soon she had a fine band of aheep, and as valuable ranch property aa mere ta In Montana. She took p some land under one and another of the Uovarn merK acta, proved up on time, and became landed proprietor. Kow, It happened that the next claim to her own waa taken Tip by an enterpiislnf young man carped Severance, who, like hla fair ueAht)oe, first started a sheep ranch, and then got hold of some of the eoll. They tended flocks In company for boom time, and then Severance proposed marriage. He waa accepted, and the two united their fortune and have been doing better and better ver since. "there are other girls In Montana, aaya a correspondent of the Cleveland Ieader, Just exactly like Mrs. Severance, nee Cot sou, but more are wanted. There are somo real old ladles out here who have taken up claims, who run a dairy or keep store, but who are a little too aged to think of matrimony. One clump of this description has a ranch store out on the prairie near Livingstone, rides a horse and shoots like a man, keeps a postofllce and is the owner of lfiO acres, lately the property ot Uncle Sam. Another lady living on Boulder creek, earned Sarah Da vidson, shot a bear In January lost, and with the bountv received for It, as well as the sale of the meat and hide, she paid for , a sewing machine. A curious reversal of the eternal fitness of things ls seen In the fact that there ax lh all the States of onr Union SOSV 47s more women thno men. Dakota has 1M,4 1 5 more men il aa women and Mon tana is alnjuton a par with Dakota iu that respect. Hopo" should, therefore, 'epring eternal lu the female breust," for there Is somewhere in Dakota, Montaua, Wyom ing. Idaho, Washington or Oregon a manly heart awaiting every husbandless female now pining away in single blessedness in the East. Helena has a superintendent of schools who has Indian blood In her veins and who Is highly educated. She hns also marked dramatic talent, and pluys Char lotte Cnshman's roles. The women of this northwestern coun try are endowed with plenty of pluck an ' grit. One evening kately, a herd cf Arizonla goats, which, are lielng herde.i by Miss Terea Tullert, on Ioe river, came Lome early and rushed for tfco cor. ral, a heavy log concern, eight feet high. The gates were opened and the herd let in After which the little lndy, dashing over the prairie, mounted on her fiery brwnrtio, secured the foothills hot found no canse for alarm. In the night Mlsa Tallert was aroused by her don whining at ner ear, and, get ting up, discovered some wild animnujiu , the corral. She went In and found four i mountain Hons, and without a moment's hesitation attacked them with an axe. Two of the lious Jumped the corra! and fled. The other two mshed toward her. She dealt one a blow with the axe, laying lta rump open to the bone; then both fled. The next morning fifty of the valuable goats were found dead and thlrry wound ed, fourteen of the latter dying after wards. A mountain Hon attacked the rattle of Ben Mason on Powder river only last Sunday, and killed two heifers and a cow. Mr. Mason was absent at the time, but his wife took up arms against the beast, followed him through tlie snow for some distance overtook and shot him. J. W. Proctor' of Hillings, had occasslon to visit the ranch of Tom Wads worth on the Mussellshell last week. Wadsworth has a hand of several hun dred ot the finest horses there are on the north side of the Yellowstone river and has alo a wife who Is an expert horsewoman. Mrs. "Wadswjrth Is not only an accomplished rider, but, as a huntress, can take the laurels from the Marquis do Mores, Lady Florence Dixie, and all the other latlles who make pretensions in that direction. Mrs. 'Wadsworth chases antelope on horseback, shoots them down while Koina at fnll gallop, and, tn fact, combines the arts of civilization with the skill of the aborigine. Now, Proctor ls a crack shot, w ith somewhat of a reputation to back him up, and he was rather aston lahM Bnrt taken aback when Mrs. Wade- worth challenged him to a shooting match. They sat up a target, and Proctor waa beaten fairly, Mrs. Wadsworth making the top score. After this unexpected defeat Proctor headed up Gouldiia Creek for Hull Moun tains, and, when he supposed ho was the onlv white man In that region, came to another ranch hid aw ay among the moun tains, from w hich ratined away about two hundred of as sleek-looking cattle as one could wish to see. When approaching the ranch Proctor met a youna lady all alone on horseback coming down a rocky moun tains path, whom ho describe as the incarnation of ctherlal beauty. After some talk about the weather and stock he was Invited to partake of her hospitality, which he accepted pracefnlly. rroctor did not know who nis lair entertainer was but everybody in tins section known her to be a young shepherdess namtd Nina Konan. w ho Is ranching it all alone amoTiii tlie nionntnitiS. Proctor christened her the "Belle of I3i;Il Moun tains." In the western part of Montana among the mining camps, there are also some strange characters seen once in awhile. In the camp at Yogo a colored woman named Millie Ringgold has quit a reputation as a prospector. She spends most of her time in the mountains, and handles the pick nnd shovel with aa much vigor and dexterity as a man. She whs the pioneer woman of Yogu, and ran the first hotel at that place In the early days. Hi-economy and i-lose attention to busi ness she has come Into possesion of some very valuable pro-.erties, and 1s lu reality to-day a UnanJi q-ieen. The latest reports frum Yogo state that she is the ow ner of the fiu ,oi:s (larlleld mining lode, one of the richest silver mluea tn the West. Tlomiled (he Ladder. In 1SS2 a dinner party wus given in New York City. Senator Henry C Davis sat al one end of the table, Simon Cameron, ol Pennsylvania, sat at the other, and lien. W. T. Sherman at the head. The Ctncral began a reminiscence of his lite, s-;iying : 'When 1 was a lieutenant " Come now Sherman," Interrupter! Mr. Davis, ' were you ever a lieutenant?" "Yes"' he replied, ''I was a lieutenant ahont the time yon were a brakemnn on a fi-eiulit train." Weil bovs" observed Cameron, don't Mi".',iose either of vmi e cr cut cord wiod fol a h' iug. a 1 et.-.i." IDZAS 05 CEEXATIOS. noiiihti From tbe Fertile Brats mil m. The subject of what we shall do with ourselves after death Ls one that should be duly considered at an early data. Iu all serlonsness. the soul ls not tha only thing to be looked after, either during life or after death. We are too prone to neglect our health during life and then bequeath our accumulated microbe and other results of a long and perhaps crooked career, to some sightly cemetery, et on a hill, like a city that cannot ha hid. Loneevity la a good thing, though X have known public men to overdo It. To die at the proper moment and leava a good Imrresslon on history ls one or me lo5t arts. To flicker out of life with tha applause of a great people still ringing la the ara, ls a eood thing but man that I born ot a woman are too rrone to linger on this side of eternity until they hava done some little thing that ls never prop erly explained on their tombstones. But after death what shall we do with ourselves? In this brief treatise I dara not attempt to be thorough or even lncld. Leaving others who know all about It to state exactly what disposition will be made of our sonla, let na look Into the matter of what we 6hall do with out bodies. I have often thought that a cheerful took of fiftv or sixty rages might be wriU benSinder the title of Recollect Ions of Resurrection, or the Diary of a Body." PJ conld be made to teach us a valuable lo son. Politically I am pledged to genuine national reform. Let the naMon try IV and If It works all right on the nation I will try It myself- Then I am committed to the unlimited coinage of a tame dollar, one that you can steal np teh1nd and put salt on its tall not the evasive and Igneous, fatuous dollar of the present Next I am in favor of cremation at living prices. At present the price Is too hlirh, and the poor man is left to d -cay and fUl the soil with the poisonous gnws, w hich tlie poor aa well as the rich may indulge In after death. Death should end onr career, so far aa earthly afTalrs go, but w 1th the embar rassing prospects of a premature burial, the cheerful chances of lclng boiled bj the janitor of a medical college and out skeletons wired together and hung In museum, and the opportunity, if wees cape the first two, of being tipped out o! our prraves by a flood, an earthqnake, or the act of the Common Council, it is nO woud-r that people cling to life. II I thought that for centuries after my decease my long but symmetrical skeleton would 1-e used niht after night. In a nude condition, to illustrate the union In case of com pound cyclonic fracture ot the tibia, 1 wouldn't be able to sleep nightM. Bos ton Chi?-. A Uront l ae f tbe IIIMe. In all court houses very dirty copies of the Bible are u-ed iu a way which, the editor of the Herald of Health thinks d In which almost every one will concur. Is damrerous to health. When Jurors oi witnesses are sworn, they are exjected tc tke the Bible In one hand, and after re peating the oath, to kiss the book wltt their lips. Clean and unclean people do this Indiscriminately, and It does not take long to make tire cover, and even the leaves of this book very foul. Snrh a na of It, It seems to us. is unwarrantable. The Bible snys : "Swear not at all : neither by the heaven, for It is the throne of (Jod ; nor by tlie eiirth. for it ls the footstool ol bts feet; nor by Jerusalem, for H Is th city of the great Klnij. Neither shalt thou swear by the hcit'l, for thou canst not niako one hair white or blnck. Hut let your speech te. Yea, yea; Nay, nny: and whatsoever Is more thiin these cometh ot the ev il one." Cleanly people, who do not wish to kls a book sodden with grense and fuiil wittx filth, lire allowed to affirm, which ls cer tainly preferable. Others practice i harm less t-rt of evasion, by hoMlnv the book In such a way thnt thev can kiss their thumbs without lielng oltM-rved by tbe officer of the court, w ho. by the wny. Is rarely very wr.fchful. and Is satisfied If one noes through with the form rather than tho spirit of the oath. TU l.nrk la Vtanl V Miwi. The o'..l notion Unit there ls link tn a liorscsho finds sup;ort In one cne at le.st. When Maud Iv did hot first really fast mile at Cleveland in 2.10 : 1-2 Captain tone, of Cincinnati, w ho w ned her. pulled off her shoes and stored them in lrk and sold the tnnre to Yanderbilt for a snug price. He has teen ttirkiim money ever since and rapturing thu ls-st things of life. The captain kept only one of the shoes He gave one to Mrs Swnln and the pnve it to a larver brother. Hi- hadn't had It a week tefore he was married to one of the most rharmintr ladies In New York. He has b-en prospering like a green bay tree ever since and has had the shoe plated and framed snd wouldn't taka a Florida lot for it. Mr. Yanderbilt had one of the shoe and used to think thnt It had a happy Influence on his efforts to turn an honest penny. Cornelius owns It now and has It fastened to the front of his writing table. The fourth shoe Is in the possession of William Blair. Mund S's driver Blair thinks that If he had not had the Khoa stuffed in the ballast of hit sulky cushion he never would hnve been able to have gotten the work out of the little tnara that he has since the piece of steel came Into his iKjssession. nrnlhol. Menthol ls a w hite crystalline substance deposited from oil of peppermint. It Is obtained by freezing and thawing the oil several times, the cry stal Ik-Iiir deposited during the congealing process Tbe Jap anese oil Is generally used in the manu facture of menthol, as it yields the crys tal more richly than the ot hers. These) crystals melt at 97 deirrees Fahr.. are slightly soluble In water and entirely rota ble In ether, and the volatile oils. Men thol ls anew discovery In American medV clne, but there Is evidence that Its .ecu- liar nature and virtues have been known tn China and Japan for many year. The drug has been found a reliable remedy la the less severe neuralgic affections of the face, especially in brow-pains. The Ftrength usually employed ls one part ot pure menthol to ten of alcohol. If tha finger or a piece of cotton be dipped In this preparation and then mbted lightly ever the locality ot the pnln. tbe reliei la almost Immediate. The Herman head- sche pencil" is simply a concentrated and. solid preparation of menthol which ta used to rub over the affected parts. A llealtrtfnl leerace. St. John's beer is made of one vjnart c bran, one teacup of loose hop Uiled la two quarts of w ater. Strain tida oer one pound of good brown sugar, add flva qnarts of cold water, one lemon, one cop of yeast, stir well and strain a:aiu. tottle and sit on Ice or 1n a cool pi rice, ls ready lor use In twenty-four hours" mies Cleveland's I'lilsrrs. Miss Rose KllzaU-th Cleveland very sensibly forbids the sale of her photo graphs. Photography for reenneonly ta an a bom mat ion New 4 IliS. Paris has a club whose mission js help drunken people home at l ight. 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