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"HK IS A FBEKMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FREE AND AIX ABE E LAVES BESIDE.' SI. SO and postage per year In advance. .-or ii.n-er l"Oorr vcn stor" 11. f tOf ZlXll VOLUME XXVIII. EBEXSIWKG. PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1S94. NUMI5ER 2. r r r a ;M 'lO-Mlf Hit' ii5 loo Short aV nn ill iri w J m M 1 - . . I IT it'TVth atrryftnrsrlf nncl fain . in L-i'l vniiiC l.ir yoiir mom r. ;,. -r In m.iii' loot vn r t pi rrlmwinii ' ' :,.:il-Ih' h'l ri.rinl S(. j i v .i.i'' lor prio-N onknl, u I liou-vu.O , THE P'-ST SHC2 i't Trie S.UfiLO fOrt THE h.."l''fT. I i rMi' .-tii i.i.lf, :K'YiltN, in-r-- "iu- ' , '.' . i-L :,nt iiirritil" t i:m ai v ii hiT -hcK cv.t I ; , : ; - ii"t J. ti.-t.-ui iu.:U 8t:.;t k it : tit'; f 1 Ki v " j u.U uiio iii' iricil ijlitK-s rtttfi ;n ; - , 1 ' . M II l it'-' l i W ii bt. in, UUU III . I - - ' l i : . 1 V. -.r:M. I ,. i: .'ii.iL.ii.,; t-.il. phu. tiiai, w--i uiniucii ( Ladies' 1 ll I'm .v : ' " ' i'.M'I1 i"t . ' hi . , i ..! . 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I.,, -,- ... l i ., ..i . -ii. . ... : i . r. J .-.. 1'.. il'r :iv , ..i-. V- i o: i! I I i I FCh ARTISTIC TRY THE FREEMAN. !! to hvc KmiTH THf Lvr MtisT r ninnf. l Mffit Crires th-iis.ar!--'.3 innnallyof I.ivorCom phtints, J-Jiiiousness. .Iiuindice. Dyspon pirt, Omstip.ition. Malnrio. AToro Ills result froman T'nlie.ilrfiyLivcrth.inany other cause. V'tiy FiiiTer when you can lip c.irc.l ? Dr. i-vinford' Ijivrr Invigor lif or U a rli'!r;itnl f.lTnUv lii.'i1i'-itif. lull: lUl Ulil.H r WILL. M'1'l'I.Y VOl'. Steel Picket Fence. . ThAN WOOD The ISO-? .i-wli Ti.-V-t ? 'Tl.-r -with Cl'?. fThlt fli not a Tt.-ri n.-i -.ii l I . a Ir.-n..r H.-0.1 P-.tt. Vh.-n -.ri'lt.. l-r l-r ' -i -:.- lji-.i.ir, tu tl-T nt m.. !-il Ic an.1 Hin.M, a .i.ie l. H'.. -v...... .n.oiu! M-rwr.- li.-.vif r..- i-.i.lnic, I'rp-illf;, tc Kit. ..v.. 'l-.t u"'." l."l KII.K f.-f'Wf. IMbr t. ,, ... i i: Hm r-l Ir. u r.l.. Vlk MiUtlMI itiAuu ,' urn' - i- nk !'" 'i"-: 'UlH. TAfl.OR A DFAN. ?0I, 203 & 2C5 MarketSt. Pittsburgh, P. f- Cnr'c at h Pries ;v:r 1 ;.:'-..:-,::.,;::,?-?--.:vj1,,;JlI,I:V:' Vi'o urni l tin n -irrrt on Fron.-I 3 1-. .... i.-rtLTHOS frr-r. i.n-l a -1 54 i i :-.i-,mnfv u-f. ' -u.r.i'-s i,i ' t?7 f t 'J.'- niiiraii'wrti tBrl-.r.Ug $ i 2v, , Cfitan.l My if s;lisi.:l. I I V 5f t.iiv,VOS MOHL CO.. 'Ar5lTI..' r-OR YOO. .Irs' a-woarvin' I'T you HU II..- inn., a-f.-t lin' t.lue: V i -!i.o' lor y.i . wiiial.-rin' whon Yi-u'i; lit-.n' lioriti tton. I! 1.-. a. il.i.ri Know what todo Ji ' a u. aryin' for you.' I!.vm's s.i liinouorii.' nitli your chair l ATipty l-v lia- tiro lai-c ih. re. J. s" can't siaml tliosl-.-lit of it! t lo out ;.Hrs an' rt.am tt lit: l.iit tin. wo ..N i-. Ion. aoino, too J.-s' it-wary;:! for you! i'.iaios 11. o v. in.l vvlih soft carosa, !.i:.- t!.-- roi.'l.u' of y.it.r lr-r.s; I ilo ...o ins f ariit' to t In - proiiml S. i'Ay. Ii your fiMtstop sound: ioit t -i li!;- v owr t'Vrs so bluoi Jos' ti-wt-ai-yta for you! Mornin e .m.-s: tho liir.ls awiko; I . s ii - s i for vour sal-c! I'.ui ih- ro's s.-.iiri-ss i:i tho notes 1 Ii it i'o::n- t'arinia' frotn their throats; Se. in lo leel your ali.-ience. loo Ji s' u-v.-oary in' for you! i:v i:in eot'ies; I miss you more When Hie lai i; fliKiins in the door; Set ins j.-s' 1 l-.o you iirtrr lc There lo ! :i it l..r me! Latch sr.x s 'in' iiu": thrills me throuph- S.-IS in.- wetiryin' for ytu! Jos' ti-wear-.-iri' for you All lite lii".- a-fi" li'i' l.'ne; Wishin' fr j-oii - i i-mloriTi' when Y. il'll ! e h.ith'i ti.-jo ttt'en: I.'esilt ss. tlou t ki.im- what to ilo a v . arv In fur yon! -Frank I.. Slanti-i', in Alianta Constitution. A XKKVY CAITUKK. How Billy Barsforrl Arrestod Throo."Piujoroi Jack. riio Ilepitty sln-rifT Yenf .M.iue Into 1 1 letoii llHsin mt. I Crttiiclit Out the liorsa.l lil.-f hi.iI Tan of Ilia l'als. "1 say," s.ii.i i'i.I. (i.viro-o Ilarry nt the I..)t is i 1 iil ifi.' niirl.f. s;iy1li. Ni'v V .; ':. .i::i, "i t'lty pit Thr.t;- ' 'i :," . r-.'ii .?:!: :tt l;t.l. ICi.l.-il liim i -.n o:i thi' Str'p. Ilo went i.itt) ' ; ' io l. -. t lit. -re wiiii it l.t f ; !i r !i;ul ineti. trt full of i.Tll'. ll'll' tl ill's. "V.'.-il, :,if. ll'.orf tvns a li irsetlii.-f ' i 11. live l simply t.. ; :.-:tl : . .r-.-s. i ' v ii't ;i l'.i.siii.'ss itli !:;i'.i, it :ts : .'i. . m, an 1 lie v.;is a m.s.t ex:i! tel. si'.-:ei:;o !iiii rii'ier, i-.in 1 ;.ivt musti-r i f i;. ::.-. Th.-ro isn't a ton in tin . '.rt l:Vi-.-t v. Ii.-r' liis i-i-.-onl i.-. r. -t iv. ri. sin-.l not :i rau.'limaii iu Wvi-iii- ::-:iil.l M.-nt tria v!i Won't Iv la-l to ..n.i'.v tuat 'l'lui'e-I-'ili'.f i-el .I;i.-1; lias pao'i i'l liis oli.'ei.s. It's c-uri. t-a. I I.car I iru-ii win. kni'V.- liim s .y that I. a .4 as sott ;is a woiuaii ulu.ut t it-fi'-s, an. I as Jjitn! ::s a .vonian o'li.i;; ol.o'i-s. Marring liorso stoaTm; io- -.. a.s lo ,1-st .is tin !av, ami tiu-ro-w.ii'ii't a i iati weaiiiio; six-shooter . i.i .' i o-i . rariiier i -r risi: in. to t' h lp a ";v rii' on: of :;-;-ti!ty. 1 v.- 1 ar.l il ;'::;' ...i::!." i!jo:i it- m't icr.o'.v v. i.at it ';.L Harry l:..-el!o nso.l to ill" -' ! -lai'i. oill'.illl'triil'l- 1.' saw it in olia-rs. 'i iir. : Ii f.. ti- t-. ! i. -I . i 'l V .as- 1 1 1 . . 1 1 'A ; i . ll:a! fear is a , K-.'ii.iioi' .-f. 'i:a 11, IJiuoii as s.m s: u hi is. Jack if-rtT wotil l litiw in o.i :io'.. I'll U-t that Mii'-mii- lion of cold never struck tbo pit of stomach. I've often thougrlit tiiat one n-ason sai'.or men are as a nilft so Vniv i-. siinply that their stomachs are well Inliaveil. "Kut wh.tt 1 starttl out to tell was alxmt the only time I ever heard of Thi-eP-Fiiijjervd Jack's Iw-ino; arrested, lie had lio.l knows how many lights with the oiik-ois. lost two fiiip-.-rs .tnd i. -i.t his ii:dinetivc title in one of 'cm, J li.iuk. Kut somehow lie always n.an ;i -ol in come o.:t lirst hcsL 1' irrin; .-.-iiaps Scott Hyde, there wasn't a :pn. !.-r man w ith :irun in ail Wyon.iiio; ..r Montana, ami when he shot he '.'siiaily s!i. it straight. "Well, sir. I knew a man at Cheyenne, when 1 was slationed at- l-'ort I. A. S : u. .-.t'l i, whose business was catching ihieves. It was a passion with him, i-.r.t as stealing horses was witli Three-A'in-.-red Jack. only, if such a thing- v. as po.ssililc, it was a siv;ht hifrcr passion. His name was K.ir.stord, Kiily lli.i -i'oril, and he was deputy slicrilf of t.uraaiie county. He was a line, bio; follow, unusually fjniet, and tlie.jiiick est man to move I ever saw. If there ,v:ts anytliinj Killy Karsfoird was afraid f he never 'met up' with it, as they .say out tlu re. "One day Killy Karsford mad.o up his mint' he'll oct Thrc-riii.-red Jack. There'd been a biy bunch of xnies run oil" from some ranches in the Sweet water country, and the job was laid to '! I'.rce-i- inhered Jack". Jack hail a r.-yn-iarly organized ban.l, with h. ad.piar t. rs over ill what was then calteil the Teton basin, but I see they cad it Jack son's hole now. It is just below w here K.d-crt t.'ay Hamilton's dead Innly was m.ia.i in the creek. Jack's band was inai'ie r.p of some of the toughest men in Wvoiuiii', triHHl shots, line riders and I'a.'d'eitiwns, as pood at a h;,'ht as at a ivi:-.!:. and always ready for eitlier. The '.-ton basin wisn't so well-kmwvn in t liose .lays as it is now. It wasn't so al iii':;;iitv .safe for st rangers to H-lroppinr ar . nn. 1 ther" promiscu usly. In fact, it. vsas tui little known that it was com monly described as U'ino; just over be yond tho birf Teton.' Well, when Hilly I'.arsfor.l made up bis mind lo jret Threo-t'inovrcd Jack he didn't say a word alxnit it to any isiy, but just tMk his horse and lit out tor Kajrie rin k. lie ha.I to fi- way .-. -mid llu Tetons and the basin to (.'et ; : ore, but he wanted to make sure of . iie la.- of the country ln'forc he tackled l.e ;nn. There were heavy rewards out. for Jack and Killy didn't reo-ard fh-'in wit h disfavor, allhoii!.'h he used to 11 ine that the main thin-,' t hat started was the desire to have the o-lorv of ,t"i.;!i',' Tiiree-l'ir.o-ered Jack all alone. '-.i.-er ideas of "-lory soini' men have. '".illy p,t over to Kairle r.nk all r' -iit--they call it Idaho falls now. 1 !'. Ii 've, and after f.Hiliii around there :i.iiiie and linditi; out what he could :i;ont. the Tetons, he went out to the Slios'ii.me rescrvati-n anl p't an old . lief ther. to make liim :i map of the '. . ton country. The old fellow drew it ..ii a shingle. It was an ;.lmihty r.mirli map, as you can mirhty well ii. iaine but it showed the lay of the -.'! r7 r-V fairly well, and Killy pot a pretty pod notion of where he was try in"; topi. "Ky "fail, sir, there wasn't any pristle in the end of Killy Karsford's brcast Iwane. He's no spring chicken. What did he do but i.ano- around that Sho shone camp four or five .lays Ion per, and then make out to the old chief that heM burned up by mistake the shinple on which tjie map was made and ut th. old tiucli to make liim another. That nipht Killy compared the two . shinples. The maps apreed in essen tial details, and Killy concluded the ohl Indian was playinp fail with him. So he started out. He went up over the Tetons and down into the basin, as fine a picture of a little valley as a man wants to see lyinp out of dinars, with a little roek runninp throuph the middle of it and line pasture pras prow in p. 'As Killy went into the valley he made out a little cabin down next to t he creek, several miles from the foot hills. It was morninp, and he had lots of time. He pot down to the c-et-k. pot olT his horse and made as if he wore prospectinp alonp the little stream. As he came alonp toward the cabin he saw Three-I'inpored Jack and three other fellows sittinp on a lieneh In-sitle Iho wall. Their Winchesters wore all standinp apainst the end wall around the corner from them. They wore all watchinp Killy. but didn't seem to reeopnize hun. Or if they did they thought they had a cinch, and kept on siuokinp and chinninrr, w ithout ever a motion t gvt ,.ut their puns. They probably llpured that when Killy pot ripht opposite them they'd speak to him, and while some of them talked one would hold him up. Possibly they meant to do him. Kut lie fooled them. "He kept prospectinp alonp the lit tle creek until he pot fair even with them, kecpinp his horse Ix'twocn him and the men loside the cabin, with his i ridic rein thrown over his arm. Just :.r. he eaaie even with them he whipped out his two six-shtoters like liphtniiip. j!iniHvI in front of his pony, ami drew on the four horsethicves not thirty yards away. '"I'ut up your hands, he said. "Ky pad, sir. they wore paralyzed. Ki.t they recovered .piick. The two follows on the end jumiHtl for their Winchester. Killy pot the lirst with his rirht and wi:;j.-cd the other wil'i his left. His horse jumped a bit. he sai 1 when he told nie a'.n.ul it, ai.tl Isithcred ids arm. The other two saw they wen- trapped and put up their hands. One of them was Thrcc-Finperod a -iw. " ilow are you. Jack?' says Killy. liia.i t. find you at home. I've coiik- t lonp way to see you. JN'ow won't .'on kindly turn round ami stand with ,'o-ir face to that wall there, while I assist your friend a bit to relieve him self of any extra shootin' or cuttiu irons ho may have in his itnckets?' "Jack lurnod nround without a word. It's curious what a powerful i.iiiuence there is in the drop of a six h.'il. r; and Uie lsja'-ty of doinp it Aiihapuu and not a Winchester is ...at yon can cover two men at ...ice wilh the trun. Now there was l'iat p:tnp of train robbi-rs down at i!ii'.vl;!i.s. Kut that is anot'ar story. Ja'-ki.l.Msl up iiiainst tiie v:iil lim. ' "l h-.mks.' says Killy, L ippinp ti:c ori !! r. in from Ids left aria, and tak inp soiii.' hiie, httiut cord out of one of his hoistors with his left had, all the t ine k.-i pinp Ixith men covered with his riphU "Just koer your hands well up al.o-. f yo.i.r head, j. lease." he saiil t the oilier fvllow; 'anil you. Jack. j::st i.va-e J'l'.t jour hitnds out Is hiii.l your l-ick. ln't try an3' prab pame, now, for I'm watehiup. you kiiow, and this pun miplit po oliV "Jaui.- stuck out his hands as he was order.vl. quiet as a lamb. Then Killy walked up to the other, follow affil held out the conl. There was a noose in on-; end alre.uly prepared. " -Xo-.v,' s:t:-.l he. 'just have the kind ness to put that noose over Jack's hands and tie it up tipht- 1 'lease le careful. I'd 1k sorry to have to do any more shoot inp Lhan I've done.' "Well, sir, the fellow did it- And then Killy pot another noose and tied the other fellow himself. Then he st'-KHl 'em loih up apainst the wall and went through them anil took every bloominp thinp they had in the way of metal away from them. Then he tied their feet and set 'cm down on the ends of tiie lieneh and tied 'em fast to that. Then he went throuph the fel low he had w inpe-.h He w as bad hit throuph the shoulder, and was uncon scious from loss of IiI.mhL Killy ban daped liim up and manapod to brinp him "round after a bit, feeling1 pretty chipper all thinps eonsi.lerciL Killy buried the dead man anil then pot up some of Jack's stolen horses. lie lashed the wounded man into one saddle, and then took the rope oil Jack's leps, pot lil ii t astraddle a pony and lashed his feet together under the pony's bell v. Then he served the other chap thesaire way. He threw all their puns into the crock am! then untied their hands, but tied their cl!ows topet her across their backs. That left their hands free to puide their ponies. Then he jumped on his own jxiny anil niaole those fellows po ahead, one of 'em leadinp the pony the wounded man was ridinp. It took Killy thirty hours to pet them out over the raiipo, and he never took eyes olf of 'em until it was done. Kut he did it and pot the rewards. And ten days after he pot "em in Laramie a lot of their panp held up the town and took 'cm out. Yes, sir, they did." HIS PLAINTIVE PLEA. What He Thought She Shnald Have ..le.l to Her Necialive. He had loved her very tenderly and for a lonp time, but she had scorned him. says the Ietroit Free Frcss. He was no worm cither, for he would have turned when trod upon, but she reeked not this. It was cnouph for her that she did not care for him. This is usually cnouph for any wom an. AImi for any man. when the boot is on the other foot. I'lirof Midi is the kingdom of Cupid. His condition had at la-.t become tin-In-arable to him. and he had resolved to win all or lose all. It war. late one cveniup when the fateful moment arrived. "Will you marry- me'.'' he asked her in plain, uiitrimmcd lOnplish. lor he co, ml trust liiiiiscli to iiotiiinp in the ornamental line. She .-.purr.ed him scornfully. ''No!" she replied with sarcastic, hateful, cruel emphasis "no!" The word pierced the heart in his Ixisom. His lips iinivercd and at lirst he could not speak. - ""Have you no more to say?" he asked at last plaintively. "No. sir," she replied. "What more could I say?" T didn't know." he murmured trem ulously, "but I think you mipht havt Sitifl '.No, I thank you!" A TEXAS ELOPEMENT. How a Westorn Storm Aided Two Venturesome Lovers. Kob and May were ow eel hearts. Of course they were; that's what they had ieon learninp ever since Kob, astiipplinp of twenty, had come out from Tennessee to the Texas 1'anhan dle with the family. In those days May was a b.-ipht-htircil. hiph-strunp little pirl of four teen whom Kob never called nor thoupht of as "red-headed." Kob was astrotip. pi oil-humored loy, not a bit afraid of work; and he uad a way witii him that pave him command of men and creatures. He rose r: pidly in Ohl Man Love's employ from simple cow puncher to wapon-lioss. then fore man, nud when he was only twenty live went, with the approval and pood will of his employer, to take the posi tion of ranch manaper for a la.stou company. All the world loves a lover. IJo'-j was such a whole-hearted one, h;s- st: to of mind was so patent, he look sucli de lio;it in it, wore his chains with such o;je:i pride and enthusiasm, that ail the l'anhandle felt with and for him. Kosides beinp a fellow that a pirl could love without any dillicuity, any body .villi a daughter to spare .nipht have been pleased with Kob for a sou-in-law. And Old Man Love was pleased cnouph with the match, and preatly piveri to brappinp of liob as a eoiniiip adjunct to the Ive preatness, until the Irapetly of the onc-horncd hi indie cow, which tore thinp; all up peiicral ly, threat.'. led t sever two 1 iving hearts and darken forever Kob's and i-iay's happy horizon. This oid cow worth perhaps seven dollars txble.l up at one of the r ainil r.ps sixirtiup, in addition to the K. X. of the K is ton National, which was .Vtviiim dy known as the "lioau" j ... and. till Man Iove's (xxx). Th.-.uph very uncommon, such aeei .o'Tits may occur in the haste and c.-n-l;::-ioii of brandinp. w ithout necessari ly inipl vinp dis'ionesty on some one's ir'- While they sometimes -.-suit i i !i r'lts a i 1 killinps, they are asily - 'i hi ,'ii Ijasted between rtason al.i. ; pe, since any clever cat t!-.'iuan ' i a rea t; ly le'.l which brand is of the iipT standiup. Hut any cow ly on the ranpe rould have told you that while Old Man i.arr was siu-.ir cnouph hiiuse l. he vrs a crazy crank aloiit the s.'creil-:-c-.s of hi--, brand. His lonp suit-., was . j'imp up nud down and tt ? wear ...at it never yet was on :;nythi;i; that -Viiid't his own. lie invariably claimed :n animal t hat lro it in addition t. an ther brand ;is did this old cow), l.ow-v.-r piui.ily it showecl as the su-ver of the two, ll. iiiph as a i.i:i!Ur -.." iaot ' is br:m.li:ip irons were han.lbd by ,ast as many eareiess cm lnij-s as any ..I hers. If l.b had known what that aped .'.'id damap. d brin. lie cow waspoinpto .ost him. he mipht. iH-rliap. have '.linked his obvious dutv and let Old Man Iove have her in the face of r.put and rcas.ui. I '.nt he w as not the man to lie backed down by anyone, and he dared the worst and pot it! He held the cow for his company, fter a lieree contest, and Old Man ...-eve went home rapinp, to pivi his Aistortod version of the affair, issue or- -rs that no member of Ids family was t-i speak to, or of. Kob. from that time rih. and to remark sipuilicantly- that h-' had far rather see a child . f his married to a horsethief thantoapi'r ...oa capabie of such lieliavior. Communication U-twocu the i .vers had sim-e In'ea manaped. once or twice, by the utmost stealth and secrecy, ilavinp, by this means, lieeii assured of his sweet heart's stea-1 fastness and readi ness Kob s'nt her worn by one of her father's piuvIkivs to ride a po.nl horse ;.- ist tin- half-way brundinp pen, iivmed .imself with a license and hnnp .r.'iin,! the Triple X ranch for a colt. When May finally found the oppor tunity t: slip away ill the most care ti'ss manner, with one of the men's aiii'ari-ri.s .:i and in the face of tiireat ctiinp weather, she re.-eived a r: ptur n'.is welcome from the lonp-bar. i-hed Kob. and they promptly beaded their panics for Si :n ire Wiley's, just the other side ..f Hoiii-hip creek, who was sup posed to bo holdinp himself in readi lioa.; for their visit. Y.'l.at Mexican, or other paid si y, or what unfriendly or envious band car ried the news to Old Man Love will not lo known: but h.' burst into one of iiis near e .v camps, at dinner si ortly after Kob ami M ay's departure, idee a loarinp South African lion with mus tard in hi., eye. "The bys" who knew well onouph whr.t was afoot, and what would le asked of them dropped their tin cups and plates, j-impe-d on their waitinp ponies and were out. of hailinp ilistanee in-fore he fairly lit iu their midst. Kut old Frank l'oarsall. the cook, was a new man. not lonp from South west Texas, neither knowinp nor car inp particularly for lkd Holly and his love aiTairs. So he sto.nl at his ouicial o.Ht. at the tail end of the chuck wapon, and pave amiable attenti .n to the ii::pa:si mod haranpue and sirpular unties of this new- and entertaininp em ployer. Keinp oommandeil to come alonj and assist in disiwrsinp Kob and rescuinp May, hi' mounted a sorious-appejrinp but lil ful-tcmpcred, buckskin-coloreil jo::y, wiih one white eye and much symmetry of hone as much of a char actor in its way as Hank was in his an 1 started, with considerable interest and oiiri'isity. They rode hard and were near ovcr h:iuiii!p the lovers within a n ile of Uoarir.p creek". Knt while puistier and pursued' pushed on at their utmost ltce, nnal her factor was eominp with :t hundred times preater speed to take a hand in the pame. -' H:o dry led of Koarinp cree'e was just lM-fore them. Wyond that v. tiny rise, then nil urroyo. and lieyonc that, .-.pain, therif.f of the justice's .muse, just in siphL i As Ik.b and May clattered over the crock bed and scrambled up onto the rise beyond, lo.h l.Ntl.itl back and their ponies topi'd, tossinp their heads piickiiip their cai-s and sntirtinp at a c-trio.iv. humminp sound that suddenly seemed to li'.l ail the air about- "llurrv m darlinp." crieil Kob. ! throwitip out a hand to catch May's: I "'tis a bip storm oouiinp from above. j Kut before they could descend this slop.' to cross the dry arroyo iu front it was ruuninp from bank to bank and brimminp over w ith a sudden ll.xv.l of rod. muddy water. And even almve the noise of the flood liefore them they beard a sound like the anpry shoutinp of furious multi tudes, lookinp backward and up the creek whence the sounds came they saw a preat. tnmblinp, snudderinp wall pushinp bi-fore it anil K-.trinp upon its crest all imapinable m.iU 'i debris a lvancinp down the dry creek bod with such a thunderous onslaupl.t that the little mound on which they stood shook and seemed fairly to lower under their feet. They looked alxmt them. The arroyo ran into the creek Wh.w. Ala.ve, both it and the creek had Hooded out until they joined. Their little mound was an island, mumon tariiy prowinp smaller, surrounded on every side by rapinp torreu;.-., in w hich wore ill iven and whirled whole trees, full prown cattle, wilh sometimes::, fence jxist whose trailinp wires had caupht in their barls all ratininT of phastly wn-ckape. I'p came the water about them; down f"ll the bip hail. "It's a cloud-burst above, dnrlinp," said Kob. "It won't last h.i the v ti ler won't cover this rise." "I'm not afrai-.', Kob.' sai l May. with very white lips; "I'm pla.l I came, any how. If we've pot to die we'll .lie to pether; and the way I've felt foi the last three weeks I'm sure that's a heap lietter than livinp apart," Kob j-.iinjH-'d ulT his pony and lifted May from hers. The hail was eominp bipper and ln-at cruelly uio:i theiu. K v.rapjH'd his siiokor about her, pashe.i the ponies close t. (pother and sheltered her with them and his own ldy as b.-st he cotlid. "We won't die," he said; "I nt. poor little pirl, what nn awful storm I've ilrappe 1 you out into!" J iv .t then, from the farth-r bank -.f the creek, aWivo the awful howlinp..: the storm, came this iiuellipent com mand iuld Man Love's oar-Aplitluip t : es: "May Iro! You come here to m" this minute! Anil May lauphcd h-s- terieally. "Well, he can't pet at but the hail can. O, l-o us. anyway at V 'iir imir hau ls! O, K .b. 1 can t War it hliek.T back on!" pat the "Why, honey," sai 1 K ib. as the tours came in earnest now. "Id pet founded just the same anyhow: and you must let me have the comfort of keepinp urns of it off you it ain't a rmtohiu" on tiie way your pa would do uii. if he could pet me ripht now." While the storm rap 1 and the writer rose nearly ti their feet. Han!: Fearsall had the almost exclusive ivnofit of ol 1 Man bivv's remarKs. since onlv his v.il-.I.st shrs'i'ks rAn- th- couple, who were t'x niueh absorbed in eucit otiier to heed cither iiim or the storm very much. These remarks disaprecd with Mr. IVarsall, who was n.tori ..i.-.ly a m.i:i oi ju.lpa.ent and observation. "What's the matter witii that younp feller'.'" he iueried. anprlly; "wateit h'.irx a standi n' to the north'ard uv his j,al, a-'.:ecpiu the hail oife:i her! He ain't no chump! If he keeps that li k up ripht throuph he'll make a l-cttcr hatband "n what you ever did." About this time, the hail ceasinp, the expectant justice came down to the further bank of the arroyo. Tiie water was poinp down visibly, but its roar was still cc.md.tcral.ic. "Ho, Hob!" yelled the justice above its sound, "pot your license?" Kob took it out and w aved it ab vo Itis head Old Man Love could not from where he stixxl hoar a word, but he sisnnu'il what had iMen sai 1, aiid t!ie sipht id the document was like a red rap to thc bnlL "I dare ye to marry "cm," he screamed. "1 dare ye to do it'." An I iu an ecstasy of rap.; and anxiety Ik forced Lis pony down into the f: .'.ai'inp creek among tiie whironp t: ;-if t. whei he was promptly p tohe-.l -'if l y the terrific. 1 creature, whie'i inst-.ititiy re turned. I'oarsail, at the . isk u his o-.vi. life, had to lish him out, reeeivinp plen ty of abuse for his paius and rcluruinp it with bitter irony. In two minutes' time the shallower arroyo was fordablo, l.i-'Uoii the creoK. down which bip drift continued to come, was not. Kob set May on her pony, mounted his own. am! prepare; to ride out. The sipiit of liie justiei a plains cupid, with boots, slicker and cowboy hat preparinp to take charpe of the pair was tx much for Old Man Love, and, dismounted as he was. he plunped, in a delirium i f rape, into the crock, snlntterinp and y.'l'ir.p: "Stop! Hold on! You just dare!" May hesitated, friphicned; but old Ilauk l'earsail yanked her father out apain and set him on dry land, snort inp. "Koppone ye! I pulled y'out onct liefore! What fur caint ye stay out! Huh? "When ye try bnckin' apin a loy like that, backed by a Texas norther, you're apoin to pit left -don't ye know it? That kid's pot a double cinch on I'rov erdunce! Kut j-e had this hyer storm staked out! "l!o it feller! Io it pal! I'm w ith ye every time I'm for ye! Yer the ripht sort! I wouldn't bender ye fer all the tlurned old snake-bit fools in Texas! I'll jist pother up the scraps o this ole co jit, an tote 'em back to the ranch." And as May and I Sob rode off, tat tered, beaten, drapplecl, but obliviously blissful and jaunty, a faint hail fol lowed them. "Oood-by kids wish yer joy! Come on, ole calamity!" Alice MaclJowan, iu Chie-apo Herald. I-earnin;; the rTt-ini; 'fraud. Many of the children in the cast end of London are trained in the arts and blandishment.; of lieppir.p by old hands at the business, who have retired from active operations. In Paris there are several - professors" who earn pood in comes by teaching younp people how to K-p. Clever purse fakirs, pocket pickers and handkerchief stealers are turned out after a certain course- of lessons, for which a modi rate fee is charped. Keppars pitches" freiiueiit ly chanpe hands at respectable lipurcs. and adviTti.-cnicnts oftcu appear in the-French papers .aiforlup to disuse of "lucrative corners" and "pxal wills" to thooe desirous of ciitcrii-.p the ranks of the iK-ppinp fraternity. Just the other day a pitch in front of the Ixnivre wasdisiosod of for one hun dred dollars. HIS WIFE'S MISTAKE. For Thirty-Fivo Yoara Her Pride Was Suflk'idnt, and Then It was a little old villape in West chester county, N. Y., not far from the settlement which the Ilupueiiots of the French Koe-helle had founded. It was chill and still and o'crshad-oivt-il by lush loliupeand the prowth of tall trees much uri trimmed. Mrs. okin ncr dwelt in a laipe white house, pilastcrcd in front, set back from the road and sArcenod from the eye of casual passers by a prove of elms. Once every day a coach, an anti ijuatod coachman, a pair of fat, sleek, mild horses drew up liefore the pate at the end of th narrow path. Mapped with white square stones leadinp to the dixar of the house. And from that d.xr came a tall feminine lipr.ro, erect, clad in roll's of deep Liack. On Sundays likewise did Mrs. Skin ner appear with a majesty of pait old ape and sulfide had lx?on powerless to impair, wa.kinp up the aisle of tiie Lpiscopal I'nii-eh to the very front Hw, whence, raisinp her eyes from the pec-.ukor's f..o . she mipht see in the loft transej t ti e memorial tablt ts of throe Sk.niurs. now passed on to the silent iiiaj. .rily. On the lirst Sunday in June the win dows wire thrown -pen, the day mild with the June balminessof fresh-blown leaf and Uower, and the sunshine would creep in and lie in it pol.leii shaft over the richest and oldest tablet of the three not put there by herself, the one sacred to the memory of LplnTt Thomas Hamilton Skinner. That khaft of yellow simlipht lay so to-day, disturbed only as the checkered shadow of a breoz-j-slirred lxauph shift ed and decomposed its luminous bar, and Mrs. Skinner, mayhap Kt In-1 Mary ile Kay, wi:o of the Lpliert Thomas Hamilton skinner of lonp years apo forpot t!:- e'erpyman's text and nop loctod to follow his discourse. back into the past must her fancj- have strayed, for when in its peroration the Kurpliced 11 pure lifted up its hand and the conprepatioii rustled to its feet or bent decorous heads upon its hands Mrs Skinner, in her black rolx-s. st im movable, and only stirred and seemed to wake to consciousness of external thiups when the orpan pealed forth and the people- slowly, wilh the re lieved joyousness lxrn of a sense of the' raptr.ro of all nature without and the satisl'aelion of a duty fuuiiiod. issues 1 through thevauitetl portal to liic south wind, the restless s.inpinp of birds, the sun slii:iinp in a white plare u the piavel walk. The house with the white columns was dusk and cool aud filled wilh a Sabbatarian tti'.lness. Somewhere the preen blinds had been opened by some new, impetuous hand, untrained, as yet tu the strict Usapcs that prevailed with the servants of litis household. Mrs. Skinner ordered the lipht shut out. Alone ohe sat iu the darkened din-inp-rixim at her midday meal. An old servant soitiy nioveU iu and out. Pic tures family portraits of Skinners and Ie Kays looked with the Hat surfaces and w.xxlen poses that characterize such American art of the early years tif the century from tarnished frames on the wails. Like more than one De Kay w as this old woman's hauphly head, with the iiiph, clear profile. Kcantiful had she been, the Fthel de Kay of all those years apo. Well had she known it, t. x .. Yet what had her Ix'au'.y availed'.' would she have asked, curvinp iu bitter contempt those still Cue. fall lips. After she had passed into the draw-inp-room the old servant who hail dressi-d her mistress' hair aud huup up her black drosses these forty years noiselessly entered. "Shall I pack, ma'am?" Mrs. Skinner was a moment in reply in p. "A few thinps in a valise yes. We shall only be pone two or three days." The ne'Xt day mistress anil maid were ascendiup the steps of the old town house iu Tenth street. It had lx-on carefully closed since the depart tire of the last tenant. Thonph the afternoon was warm the breath of tiie empty rooms struck apainst Mrs. Sieinucr's check with a dull chill. ."shall I let iu the sun, ma'am?" said Hannah. Mrs. Skinner did not seem to hoar. "So they want the top llixjr, cxi, these new tenants?" she said. "Yes, ma'am," said Hannah, who was in some wise manaper of her mistress' affairs as welL "Then everything must be moved out." "If I could do anything- " Nothing' " was the answer. And Mrs. Skinner slowly ascended the stairs, while Hannah in silence sat and kept watch at the foot. Kack into the past apain walked the stately old woman in black. Slowly di 1 she unlock the door ami move into the larpe-, old, littered room. For the tir ,t time in thirty-five years she looke 1 upon the objects there. Her eyes, in the dim lipht, in the musty silence whifh at her entrance ban broken into a succession of small, low, strunpe sounds glanced from one to the other for the first time; for the lirst time since the day when the trap cdy of her life had come to her. The bnnes of the past were stirred, indeed, now. And she had hated them; she had shut them away; she had tried to foepet them, to let them lie in their praves! A wronped woman such as she was w hat else could she do? Suddenly- sbe:.tartol up. Her c-ye's accustomed row to the ob scurity of the room, saw them both the two portraits- she had placed side by side ltoforc she locked the ilnor, with her i v.-n hand, never except by her own hand to Ik opened, thirty-live years lx fore. There they wire as she had placed them the dr.y she had li ft the house, tlto hou.se of her husband who had wronped her. Kpoert Hamilton Skinner, the hand somest of all l.: family, there he was. l it-.; c- s. his sm.xith face, his lauphinp, treacherous, .leb..i. air mouth. The w idow looked at tin m all. Anil then the face of Martha, his cousin. Ah, yes she had been fair. taxi. Martha, with hoi innocent face and hi r lips that were like ripe ro.,es. and all her poldeti curls that foil npm her white neck. And as treacherous as false as he. Well bad she placed them tdde by side and l.x ked the dixir upon them lock inp hem out as she had locked the man and woman who had wronped her out of her life forever. When Hannah, the hours passing without sound from above, crept fear fully up the stairs and to tin open door, she uttered a low cry. n the lloor, iu the heavy gloom of the room, lay her mistress, senseless. In her hand she held a faded jiajx-r. Hannah, lift inp t he unci msoii in hen 1, l.xikod alxmt her in the palhcrinp. deepening darkness. A tall, (plaint, piece of furniture, with many drawers, had lx-on opened. One of the drawers sli mmI out, w ith a scat ten d c. uf usii m of paiH-rs. Tho preen shutters wove open now in the old w hiti'-pilastorod house in Wevt chester county. The d.xtor wont in and out every day. He shook his head: he hx.ked at tin old maidservant prut'ly. suspiciously. "There are infallible indications of a mental shock." "I know nothing." was the old wom an's t'txil answer. '1 h doctor, w ith an impatient dick of t ho to.ipif. went rapidly ihovnlhe white llappinp and back lo hisjipat. tho pale. Hannah, immovable in every feature as always went back to her mistress' side. "You told him?" the white lips would frame. "No, Mrs. Skinner. You know I wouldn't," was the only answer. One day tho imalid looked up. "Hannah." llannuh crossed the room and Mood by Iho l'd. "I've ln'on thinkiup, thinking a preat deal," the once strong, pereiupt irv tones saiiL "You know what I moan?" Hannah ii xlded. "I've been thinkiup that pcrtias you knew.'" A swift chanpe went over tho old woman's face. "O. Mrs. Skinner, don't ask me." "I shad ask you." Strenpth seoiue.l to have ret u rued lo t he doctor's pat lout. Forcibly she raised herself on one arm. liujioriousiy she stretched out the stiil handsome hand in tho old linn, comman.iinp posture. "Tell me cvei v ' thinp you k ii. w." "Then none of it was true. Miss Martha never cored never, never. It wu-s some one els.. Kut she knewy..ti would not have liked it. ma'am, f ir she was poor and not much in the way of family, and since Miss Martha lived with you she was " the old woman's voice sank. "Afraid to let me Know? She was afraid of me. Oo on. " "Well, yes ma'am. Kut Mr. Skinner he found it out and she told him all. Miss Marth.a. And ho was tryinp to pet Miss Martha's sweetheart into some business, ina'am. And Iheii, w l.-.-n that was done,"" the two of them wo..!d have told you. Kut il.oy did not dare before. And it's for that, so help uu God Aliniphty, Mrs. Skinner, ma'am, that they were so much together, of anything else " Apain the old woman stopped. This time a color came into her strong, con trolled, withered old face. "There never was on all this earth a wife that was 1 vod more faithful than you, Mrs. Skinner, ma'am." "And you never told ire?" The tones that came from behind the lod hanpinps seemed to have grown slriinpcly old. "There would have lx-on no u-o ma'am and you know that," came the brin answer. "lie Mr. Skinner my husbaiuL never defended himself, Hannah." O, how fast the pride, stulilxirn'y i!i held throuph all these years was break ing. "No, ma'am," primly, "not when you wouldn't listen to him, and turned Miss Martha out of dxirs, ma'am. He came to me, did Mr. Skinner. 'Jlur.ir.tli,' said he, 'you know this is a most horrible untruth. " "e's, sir.' said I. 'Kut she will nev er believe it, he said. And he was as white- as the doaU "Never was a wife lx;ttcr loved,' said he. 'Kut if her awful pride and anper are to wreck my li:c, I, tx, can have pride. I shall not sue to her.' "And with that he was pone, and I said never a word, ma'am, for this is the first time in thirty -live years that the master's name had boon spoken, as you know, ma'am." Softly, noiselessly, Hannah rose from her chair. One thinp more she had to say: "lit was like no one else over was Mr. Skinner. Never was a kindc.. hand somer, sunnier gentleman. I would have done anything for him." The yellow letter that had crime fror. tho little drawer in the old piece of furniture, ami on which a dyinp hand had traced the truth that the beautiful, vindictive woman its owner hi.l la?"." called wife might learn it at last, lay on the In'd w ithin reach of Mrs Skin ner's fingers. The soft June simlipht shone into the room, and outside the windows the birds sanp. And these thinps seemed to mock the woman who lay there, he life passed, thrown away, all her un forpivinp bitterness, her vengeful pride thrust back upon her with the despair ef a love which neither the illusion of outrape nor the oncoming sorrows of ape had been able to dim. Sunday Mercury. Karly l.l.'ita AlH.t.t llnlr. All the ancient philosophers held cu rious ideas resjK-ctiiip the prowth. functions, structure, etc.. of tho hair, and hal many superstitions fotiinh .1 on these old opinions. The i-ailv writers on the make-up of the huma.-i lxxly almost invariably refer to the hair as Whip an excrement fed on sab stanecs similar to itself. They -i,;i-posod that it perierated in the fuligi nous parts of the hlocxl; was exhaled by the heat of the ln!y, lie-cojniiip linn and fibrous upon lx-inp exposed to the air, jus 1 us the 1'ui.l of tho spider web docs. In the. days every idea rcspci l inp the prowth and character of hair is thanped. It is new iiprccd that every hair properly and truly lives and receives its nutriment from the body. True, they take upon themselves the nature ol parasitic plants: lacy prow as vcpctatioli tiroes, yet cio-h has, n- it wore, a distinct lilt tind economy. That they derive their existence from the juices of the Ix.dy there is no doubt, but that bxd is not taken from the nutritious juices, for wo know that hair will thrive even thonph the body starve or Ik' wasted by disease, or even after the animal life has t i ai d to ex ist in the flesh or skin to w hich they arc aiLaciiocL ki:. a. MTT,N.a York CI ti Aai
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