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One Day.
I sunned myself in happiness all day;
The very earth seemed glad and smiled to
me;
The world, rejoicing, taught my heart to say,
Love, life and light are all in harmony.
And oh, my love, the glory of that day
Made me forget the setting of the sun,
And, even when the twilight passed away,
1 still looked back to when the day begun.
And oh, my sweet, in shadows of the night
1 felt a radiance that 1 cannot see;
1 still translate the darkness into light,
And in my dreams my day is sill with thee
After a While,
There is a strange, sweet solace in
thought,
That all the woes wo suffer here below
May, as a dark and hideous garment wrought
For us to wear, whether we will or not,
Bo cast aside, with a relieving smile,
After a little while.
Only a little while this vale of tears
With moans and sighs shall ham our devi.
ous Way;
Only a little while the grief that sears
And wrings and rends shall gloat above its
pray;
And fade will, likewise, avery hollow guile
After a little while. .
What if we lose earth's pageants, fresh and |
fair—
The pride of morn, the sunset’s gorgeous |
flelds,
{ove's leaping pulse, and the unmeasurad |
share i
That Nature's largess for
yields~-
{If death to brighter shores our souls exile
After a little while?
the asking
No mortal roaming bat bath certain end;
Though far unto the ocean-spaces gray
We sail and sail, without & chart for friend,
Above the sky-line, faint and far away,
There looms at last the one enchanted isle
After a little while.
. Thongh over burning and inveterate sands,
To seek the river's mystic source we
strain.
With parching lips, scorched feet and blis-
tered hands,
At last there rises the one mountain chain |
That folds the fountains of our spirit's Nile |
After a little while.
Oh, when our cares come thronging thick
and fast,
With more of anguish than the heart can
’
Though friends desert, and, as the heedless |
hilast,
Even love pass by us with astony stare,
Let us withdraw into some ruined pile,
Or lonely foreat aisle,
And contemplate the never-ceasing change
Whereby the processes of God are wrought, :
And from our petty lives our souls estrange,
Till, bathed in carrents of exalted thought,
We feel the rest that must oar cares beguile
After a little while! i
— Calvert's Magazine,
A Breach of Discipline.
“It's no use speaking, Brereton; I
must go.”
“Are you mad, Kendal? It's your
night on guard, and you know what a
martinet the colonel is.”
“1 tell you I will go. The colonel’s
not a dancing man. He'll know noth- |
ing about it.” !
“ Don’t you believe it. The colonel’s
thick with those Lindsay girls, and |
I'll bet you ten to one he's there to
meet them.”
“Oh, hang it! T'll take my chance
then,” was the reply,in the dogged tone
of a man who knows he is in the
wrong, but does not choose to yield.
The speakers were two officers of
the —th regiment, which had been
quartered for the last six months at
singleborough. The subject of dis-
cussion was a great public ball which
was to take place that evening. The |
regiment was to be relieved in a day
or two, and the ball would be the last at
which the gallant officers of the —th |
would appear in that hospitable town.
Captain Kendal looked very obsti-
nate as he answered the prudent ad-
monitions of his friend Brereton, who
gave a long whistle, and tapped the
ground ominously with his cane.
*] gave you credit for more common |
sense,” he resumes, after a pause.
“Then you were mistaken, you see.” |
“So it seems, but it is an awful |
pity. You'll be cashiered to a cer-
tainty, for the old fellow is keen as a |
hawk and is sure to find you out, I
say, man, be advised; give it up; the
game's too dangerous.” :
“ Pooh!” exclaimed the other, test- |
ily. “I tell you the colonel won't be |
there, and if he were, trust to me
to dodge him. Why, bless you, he's |
blind as a mole!” |
His friend looked utterly uncon- |
vinced, but remonstrance was plainly |
of no use.
“It's all because of that Leslie girl,”
be said, ruefully, for he was honestly |
attached to his messmate, and saw!
clearly the consequences which might |
be expected to follow upon his attend- |
ance at the ball. “Thank Heaven, |
I'm not in love!” |
“Spare your eloquence and have
done now, can't you?” replied Captain
Kendal, ungraciously. “Go, I must
and will, but trust to me to take care |
of myself.”
The two friends walked down the
rest of the street in silence till Brere- |
ton turned into his club, while the
other went on, with a slightly anxious |
frown on his handsome, sunburn
face, and swinging his cane uneasily. |
He knew Brereton was right, but |
wrong is apt to be stronger than right
sometimes, and the temptation in this |
case was powerful. He was about to |
commit, deliberately, a glaring breach
of military discipline, which, if discov- |
ered, would assuredly cost him dear
and put an end to more pleasant hopes
than one. Nevertheless, he was quite
determined to risk it.. It was his duty
to keep guard that night at the Royal |
bank, and his colonel was not a man
who wonld lightly overlook even a
trifling offense against the military
code.
What, then, was the motive which |
could induce this gallant young officer |
of her majesty’s service, who had al- |
ready won disticction for his bravery |
on the battlefield, and who had always |
acquitted himself well and honerably
heretofore, to plan recklessly so grave
an infringement of duty as the aband-
onment of the post he was bound in all
honor to guard?
We offer no excuse. But the expla- |
nation of his conduct must be found |
in his state of mind, which was abnor- |
mal. Brereton was right. There was
a woman in the case. Before his mind's
eye there danced a lovely vision that
lured the infatuated young man from
the right path ; a pair of blue eyes, a
sweet smile, a graceful girlish form, to
gaze on which the foolish fellow
would have traveled miles |
And she was to be at the bal, sur-
rounded by admiring swains, of one or
two of whom he was madly jealous ;
and who knew what might happen
while he was absent ?
He might of course have spoken a
certain momentous little word before,
and he had thought, now and then,
that it would not have fallen on re-
luctant ears. But he had gone on
basking in the sunshine of her smiles,
too happy in the present to think of
the futuré, and he had just heard
casually that to-morrow morning early
she was to leave town for her home in
the country.
To-day, too, chance had brought a
sudden revelation to his heart. Till
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then he had not been fully aware of
the of his own feelings for
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whole
life's happiness was bound up in them,
That rapid glance of recognition awoke
a storm of anxious fears in his breast
there,
The bank, & great solid building of
dark gray stone, stood in an inclosure,
At the rear was a court encircled by a
fence, in which was a small wicket
opening into a lane a
distance below the main entrance, and
for communication with
At night it was
The front of the
ther hand, faced one
and
a massive
like the smaller one,
shor!
the back premises,
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building, on the «
Captain Kendal did not change his
As the evening wore on he
nforming the sen.
tinel that he should soon return. The
id loved
his young officer for some years, shook
de-
part, but inwardly resolved to keep his
counsel if possible,
The truant meanwhile sped on his
ing all anxious
reflections appeared in the ballroom
in time to secure the hand of his fair
Fortune
seemed disposed to smile propitiously
The
colonel was not to be seen, and no one
too curiously
As |
led out the lady the scapegrace
lover had the satisfaction of seaing his |
rival turn away with a lowering brow, |
He was determined to lose no time |
now. In the maze of the waltz, while |
the soft undulating strains of Strauss
steeped the senses of the dancers in
sweet dreams of delight, under the
tremulously whispered, which trans-
ported two young people into a tempo-
rary paradise of their own creating,
where there were only two, and no
room for any other besides. No won-
der that at such a moment all minor
sublunary considerations were for-
But, when a brief ecstatic hour had
passed, and they emerged once more
from the rosy pavilion whither they
had retreated among the flowers, there
loomed, dark and erect in the distant
doorway of the adjoining ballroom, a
tall, martial figure, whose gray head
towered above the company; a vision
which struck a sudden chill to the
ardent lover's heart.
“By Jove!” he exclaimed,
start. “There's the colonel!”
The sharp ejaculation, breaking in
strangely upon the dulcet tones of
with a
who hung on his arm.
“What of the colonel?” she asked,
softly. “Why should he not be here,
poor man 7"
“ Because I am here who ought to
be on guard in —street, and because 1
shall be cashiered to a certainty if he
sees me,” was the abrupt reply.
“Oh, do go away this minute. Do,
dear Harry !” she pleaded, in terrified,
beseeching accents.
He looked at her, then around him,
irresolute for a moment. The colonel
had turned his back and was moving
into another room. No, he could not
go just vet, the temptation to remain
was too strong.
“ Leave you now, when we are
happy and are to be parted so soon?
No, I cannot, darling,” he whispered,
fondly. “But, never fear, we will
She did not urge him any more, She |
did not fully understand the magnitude
and was too glad to keep him a little
longer by all available means,
There were a nymber of reception |
rooms in the locale where the ball was
held, all of which were thrown open
for the occasion. Keeping a cautious
eye around them the young people |
to another whenever they detected
the dreaded form of the colonel ap-
proaching. After a time he settled |
down quietly at a whist table in the
with reckless gavety to the enjoyment
of the evening. Another hour passed
and supper time came, and still they |
lanced or lingered in quiet nooks and |
managed successfully to elude the eyes |
whose recognition was to be so care-|
fully avoided.
“ What a comfort it is that heis such
a maypole and may be observed from |
afar I” laughed the girl, who had |
caught the infection of her lover's au-
dacity.
At length the dreaded time for part |
ing was at hand, The early morning
train was to bear away the lady to her
father's summer residence, and thus to |
pair. What wonder that in those last
few precious moments they forgot all
precautions and saw and heard noth
ing in each other's all-engrossing pres
ence? He followed her to the hall and |
folded the shawl carefully round her |
graceful form ; for another happy min- |
ute yet he stood with her hand locked
in his, meeting all her heart shining |
out through her deep blue eyes. Then
the carriage door closed with a sharp |
bang, which struck cold and heavy on |
his ear as the rolling wheels bore her |
away into the night.
Perhaps his eyes were somewhat
dazzled by the bright parting glance
he had drunk in so eagerly, for all
other things around looked dim. Pres-
ently he turned listlessly to take his
hat and depart in his turn, still feel-
ing like one that dreams. Suddenly,
however, something impelled him to
look up, and what was his dismay,
when he found himself face to face
with—the colonel!
There was a crowd of departing
guests in the hall, and as they gath-
ered and jostled each other the two
men who had been thus unexpectedly
brought together were again borne
apart. The recognition was but in-
stantaneous, therefore, and in another
moment the junior officer had con-
trived to mingle with and disappear in
the crowd. But by the stern, aston-
ished gaze which had met his eye for
that brief instant he knew that he
had been identified, and that the
colonel fully remembered where he
ought to have been.
If he still ventured to retain’ any
hope that the recognition had not been
complete, such hope was promptly dis-
pelled by the order which presently
colonel's well-known voelee of thunder
“Prive to the Roval bank instant
Iv!” he sald, with awful distinctness,
“And go as fast as you can.”
Captain Kendal had managed to
lip unobserved through the doorway,
and he now stood in the street,
What was to be done? The earriages
that were in waiting were all private
he hackney coaches were tar
file, and even had he been
lucky enough to secure one in time
tif rattle of the wheels at that dew
hour of the night, speeding in the
direction the ar-
riage, or indeed the vi ry fact of a ve
hicle stopping before the bank, would
have convicts him at There
was not a moment to be lost,
At this vy his wits
did not forsake him. A sudden inspi
ration presented itself to his mind,
and his decision was taken in a twink.
ling. Favored by opportune darkness
he crept round to the back of the
colonel's carriage, and just it was
starting he sprang up nimbly on the
step behind. The coachman whipped
up his horses and rattled his wheels
through the still streets of the sleeping
city, clearing the distance in double
quick time, in order to forestall the re-
turn of the delinquent officer. Neither
master nor man guessed that their hot
haste was bearing back the truant to
his post. Within the carriage the
colonel sat stiff and erect, as became
a worthy disciplinarian, wholly intent
on the conviction of his peccant ju-
nior, in whose impending discomfort
he could not help feeling a grim and
righteous satisfaction. At the back
the captain sat crouching on the step,
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“Impudence ! stand my
ulated. “Perhaps all is not lost yet.”
the carriage turned into —
street and the bank appeared in view
friendly cover of night ran to the small
wicket gate in the lane. Most luckily
he had taken the key with him, and
swiftly through the court and came up
with the sentinel inside the great gate
while the carriage was taking the
longer curve which led up tothe front,
How he
which had
kev !
induced him to take that
lessly. “Don't be too quick in
doing the chain. Give me as long as
vou can. And I say, Dickson,”
added anxiously, “mum's the word,
you know—if you can.”
“Ay! ay! sir,” muttered the old sen-
tinel, as he shuffled slowly along. He
un-
not so much so to the colonel.
The captain passed hurriedly within,
Just then the bell of the great gate
rang out a long, resounding peal.
The sentinel clanked the chain nois-
ily as he hooked and unhooked it,
fumbled with the key in the lock and
made such judicious delays as enabled
the officer on guard to compose himself
in attendance at his post before the
heavy doors turned on their hinges to
admit the colonel.
“Where is (X%
asked, as he aligh
tones which vibrated strangely through
the silence, with a sort of angry ex-
pectant note of triumph.
“On guard, sir!" answered the sol-
dier, curtly.
“What?” cried the colonel, in the
shrillest of accents. He was
utterly taken aback to say another
word. The sentinel, adopting his usual
stolid demeanor, took no notice
evident astonishment. Captain Kendal
Kendal?” he
in stentorian
too
came forward.
“ Here, sir ; do you require me?"
asked, coolly,
The colonel stared at him. His
face, with its expression of mingled
sternness and entire bewilderment,
he
He could hardly believe his eyes,
Keenly scrutinizing the younger man,
who did not quail before his gaze, he
said stiffly, after a pause of some sec-
onds *
“J certainly thought, sir, I saw you
at the ball in D— street just now!”
“ Me, sir?” replied the other, au-
“Why, I am on guard,
“Tt is very singular,” resumed the
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could have sworn I saw yon there |
“ Very singular indeed, sir,” retorted
the very extremity of the strait to
which he found himself reduced;
at once, and you have found me here,
A case of mistaken identity perhaps,
sir.”
The two men stood still eyeing each
tection.
balled.
The colonel was completely
The man was there before
was certain; but how, hav-
done, among the guests at the ball, he
Not having wings wherewith to
fly, how on earth had the fellow got
Could he have been mistaken,
He shifted the form
gation:
“Then you were not at the ball?”
he asked, very pointedly.
The young officer was worthy of all
of his interro-
post of duty. But though hf had acted
and he would not pollute his lips with
a lie.
parried the question with another.
“How could I be at the ball when
you find me here, sir?” he asked.
Yes, how ; that was the mystery, the
simple solution of which was the
furthest in the world from presenting
itself to the colonel’s brain. He knew
other carriage to have arrived before
his own. His coachman had driven
to notice if another vehicle had pre-
ceded or followed his through the de-
gerted streets, He could notin the
least understand it.
Silent, but wholly unconvinced, he
might behoove him to say or do next,
while the junior officer bustled about
in a restless fashion, setting refresh-
ments before him and awkwardly en-
deavoring to turn the conversation
into another channel, The eolonel
answered at random, for his thoughts
were perplexing.
Mystified, and righteously set on
convicting the offender as he doubtless
feeling a perception of the comicalside
of the question. He felt, too, that
however fully persuaded he might be
|
offense, it would perhaps be a difficult |
matter to prove At length he |
¢leared his throat portentously and re
turned to the charge
“ Look here, Captain Kendal,"
said, in accents which somehow had
taken a milder sound from the bent of
| cogitations, “it's no bi
about the bush: I would stake my ex
istence that I saw you at the ball. But
how you come to be here now is another
patter, and 1 don't pretend to under
stand how you managed it, You had |
better make a breast of it, and |
although it would be my duty to take |
proceedings against you--yet if you
will explain it is possible that 1 u
just for once, considering the peculiar
features of the case, be ni lined to take |
a lenient view of a very grave isde-
meanor, sir.”
Thus encouraged, the culprit, who
detected a kindly twinkle in the |
usually stern gray eye which wastixed
upon him, made a full and free con-
fession of his fault and of
which led thereto,
Phe colonel, though well advanced
in the vale of years, had not outlived
the memory of youthful hopes; and
was a kindly man, though a strict
ciplinarian. The ¥« lady, whose
fair image had lured the lover from his
duty, was rather a favorite with him,
and considering, he had said, the |
peculiar features of the
sented to overlook the
inflicted no worse
it
he
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case, he cone
offense, and
punishment
eprimand,
which was received in dutiful silence |
and with all due contrition, SIX
months later lonel made an
eloquent speech at the wadding of two
happy young people, on which occasion
Captain Brereton acted as best man,
Then two sweet blue eyes looked play-
fully into his, the pretty bride
thanked him, in a mysterious whisper,
for the solitary and memorable
sion when he had consented, for once |
in his life, to overlook and condone a
signal breach of discipline. —Temple
Bar.
the
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COU
Pigeons as United States Carriers,
The employment of carrier pigeons |
as couriers between military
in Arizona and other
Indian country, where the
lines are being constantly interfered
with by the where
topography 18 not itageous for |
stations
of ti
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telegraph
sections 16 |
hostiles, and tl
ph and other ordinary meth
odds of sivnaling, is receiving the seri
ntion of the war office. In a |
letter from Port Townsend, Wyoming,
General Nelson A, Miles says they can
be made very useful in this direction,
as he has demonstrated to his entire
satisfaction, and General Hazen, the
chief signal officer, who is testing every
plan and suggestion looking to the
greater efficiency of his bureau and in-
ous atte
and,
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has taken the subject actively in hu
desirin a
conflicts
g to make this agency
army in its
civilization
able if fe
in behalf of
barbarism on
plains. For two
these pigeons will travel
the railroad rapid mail,
hostile country,
against
Western
niles
fast as
and, thro
their desti-
nost men,
1
espec iy
as
will reach
nation more surely than
Flying by sight, they !
valuable in where there are
prominent mountain peaks. Between
two such posts as Forts Thomas and
A pache and Thomas and San Carlos,
Arizona—entirely a hostile country,
broken and dittienlt, and in which
travel is slow and almost impossible
when the intervening streets are
flooded—they would be of vast value
compared with the insignificant cost of
maintaining and training them, Troops
on detached service, with no other
means of communication, can employ
them to convey important information
with great expedition. Country phy-
sicians in England use them to
advantage with distant
middle feather of the tail
within an inch of the end, and the
message lashed thereto firmly with
waxed silk, They should be written
in lead pencil, as ink runs. Placed
there they do not annoy the bird,
but tied on the leg they interfere
with his flying, and he is liable to peck
and mutilate the message, rendering it
ure
regions
great
families, The |
is shaved
it. The clear air of Arizona and the
Occident is just the element for these
birds, and they are just the agency to
supplement the telegraph and ordinary
courier system employed by our troops
in their operations against the red |
buccaneers of the West. Having set |
sugar and fruit industries, and having
enlarged the sphere of life-saving and
coast line operations as a supplement
to the military telegraph lines of the
frontier, General Hazen deserves and
terprise the heartfelt thanks of every
soul exposed to the onsets of the
marauding red devils of the plains, be
they Sioux, Apaches, Kiowas, Chey
ennes, or what not.- - Washington Re
publican.
The Persian Capital,
Teheran is entered from the Qum
gide through a tawdry blue-tiled gate,
topped by a bold picture of Rustam’s
combat with the White Demon,
wrought in colored tiles. In design
this is equal to a schoolboy's drawing
on a slate; as a piece of coloring it is
Passing under this
tween the enceinte and the town. The
wall is several sizes too large for Te
heran, It is an earthwork of modern
burst upon the view. Its even row of
whitewashed houses, with flat
roofs and narrow fronts, reminds one
of a new bazaar built by some flourish-
Indian municipality, But the
coffee-houses are distinctly Persian,
They open on gardens behind, and
round tables, samovars, teacups and
qalyans, arranged against a back-
of green leaves and falling
water, Presently one passes a coffee-
house of European fashion, with ele
gant couches and mirrors and a drink-
ing bar. Then there is a tailors shop,
which might pass for European if it
had glass in the windows; and one or
of Western influences. The street
ends in a square surrounded by bar-
racks, whence another street leads
through the European quarter. Here
is a hotel, kept by an Armenian, com-
fortable enough, though bestowed in a
two-storied Persian house, with small
rooms, steep stairs of brick, and a deep
courtyard in the middle. One has to
do without a bathroom and without
bed or bedding; but the food is not
bad.
Ten circuses are billed to show in
Georgia this winter,
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Commissioner Dudley reports that
the 285,605 pensioners on the list at
the end of the last fiscal year, June 30,
1882, have been elassitied. There are
173,138 army and 2,361 navy invalids,
76,448 army and 1,958 navy widows,
minor children and dependent rela
tives; 7.134 survivors of the war of
1812, and 24.661 widows of those who
served in the war of 1812, The total
amount paid to pensioners since 1861
is $560,641,924.75, Itis an astoundi
fact that alinost one-fifth of the whole
amount expended for pensions since
the beginning of the war twenty-one
years ago will be paid for the same
purpose during the present year. And
there are 200,966 claims for pensions
yet to be considered.
2
An entire Gallo-Roman town has
been unearthed in the neighborhood of
Poitiers. It contains a temple 114
yards in length by seventy vards in
breadth, baths occupying five acres, a
theatre of which the stage alone
measures ninety yards on its longest
side, streets, houses and other build-
ings covering a space of more than
seventeen acres, The excavations,
which are being continued, have
brought to light more edifices, sculp-
ture in the very best style and in good
preservation—dating, it is thought,
from the second centuryv—and a
quantity of iron, bronze and earthen
articles. M. Lisch, the inspector of
historic monuments, declares that the
town is a little Pompeii in the center
of France.
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Habits of the Codfish,
A correspondent of the New York
Post says that the codfish frequents
“ the table lands of thesea.,” The cod-
fish no doubt does this to secure as
nearly as possible a dry, bracing at-
mosphere. This pure air of the sub-
marine table lands gives to the codfish
that breadth of chest and depth of
lungs which we have always noticed.
The glad, free smile of the codfish is
of this oceanic altitoodleum,.
The correspondent further says that
the cod
cherry,
pleasure of seeing the codfish climb thie
sea cherry tree in search of food, or
clubbing the fruit from the heavily-
laden branches with chunks
have missed a very fine sight,
The codfish, when at home rambling
not wear his vest unbuttoned, as he
does while loafing around the grocery
stores of the United States,.—Boomer-
ang. .
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This is the story told of the quick
rowth of a Texas town: Upon the
Oth of September, 1872, one man
took another to a lone tree away out
in the prairie and said: “How will
this do for the center of Main street ?"
From the spot there was not a house
visible in any direction. The solitary
tree is now the center of Main street,
Derdson, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.
1
| Fatal Pight Between Twelve Cowboyses |
How a Dispute Over Cattle was Settled, |
I'he Denver (Col) Republican, of a |
recent John Kelly, one of
the participants in the famous * cow. i
boy duel,” arrived here yesterday. He |
i a remarkable man, Born in Baffalo |
about thirty vears ago, he came West |
early age, and became pretty
known as “Kid Frank." After |
ng an adventurous life he married |
v well-to-do Mexican woman, and by |
her secured a fine ranch forty miles |
in old Mexico, on the San Pe
river, close to the line, He be
came known far and wide by his skill |
in shooting, and was generally avoided
by men desirous of killing some one for |
the sake of notoriety, His herd grow
rapidly until about four months ago, |
when he found his brand on 8,000
head of eattle, worth nearly $100,000, |
He determined to sell 2,500 head, and
gathering up 1,500 head more, he
started to drive to Denver, a distance
of nearly 1,500 miles. His outfit con-
sisted of thirty-two cowboys, and Frank |
took command of the expedition.
I'he trip was a very long and severe
one, but by using great care the losses
The party started May
23, and made a slow march across the
burning plains and trackless wastes of
Arizona and New Mexico until Sep-
termi 8 found them fifty miles
north of Trinidad and an equal dis- |
as, The Kelly outs |
fit went into camp for a day near the |
camp of Gecrge Howard, a large cattle |
grower, The latter had a herd of 3,000 i
cattle and commanded twenty-eight
cow boys, The two herds became
mixed up while traveling close togeth.
er, and Howard made a claim for cat- |
tle which Kelly considered unjust, and |
refused it, This angered Howard, and |
words followed. Kelly claimed How-
ard had some of his cattle, and offered
to exchange; but the latter refused, and
he quarrel became very dangerous. |
The cowboys on each side gathered |
around and began to handle their |
weapons in a manner which indicated |
that they meant business,
Kelly saw the danger. He knew that |
if a fight should occur between such |
deadly marksmen there would hardly
be a man left to tell the tale, and in ad- |
dition to the loss of human lifethe huge |
of cattle would be scattered
and all hands ruined. Just as the
i war was about to burst he
to avoid bloodshed,
to Howard, who
agreed to it. The plan was as follows:
Each was to select six cowboys, the
shots in their outfits, and, placing
hem in line fifty vards distant on
horseback, to give the word “Fire!”
and let them settle the dispute, This |
novel method of settling a difference
was hailed with delight by the men
on each side, and volunteers were
Kelly selected six men
who had been with him a long time,
and been tried and proved in many a
Howard selected
i There was no
preparing for the duel,
0 be the greatest affair of
ever known, The men of
retired to their
made preparations for |
They groomed
cleaned their
revolvers, and, pu go thelr saddles on
with care, rode out to the fight, “ hid
Frank's” men were atined with Win-
chester thirty-cight and
forty-four caliber, long barreled, and
Howard's six earried Colt’s improved.
Each man knew his weapon and his
h and all were fully aware of the
fact that the men standing so grimly
in front of them were equally well
equipped.
The
in
date, savs
at an
well
lead)
jul
ros
v small,
tance east of Cucha
herds
numerous,
Wind
opposing sides
tu a d coolly
f
feast of death.
their horses, oiled yd
ut
ar
tin
revolvers,
MTR,
¥
lnelists were drawn
i line facing each other at 3 o'clock
in the af The sight was one
which few men have looked upon.
Fifty vards apart stood like statues two
lines of men, he and rider almost
one, every duelist grasping a huge,
glittering revolver in each hand, with
the reins in his teeth or hanging loose
ly, for these dare«devil riders guide
their horses with their knees, as the
scarcely Indian
Around carelessly
range stray bullets, were
the of both parties,
nounted on their horses, watching the
fight and to see that no advantage
should taken, At either side was |
the chief, who had sent these men out |
Over all brooded a death-like
silence, while on all the swelling, roll-
ing, silent plain shone the gold of the
bright September sun, The man who
was detailed to give the word which |
was destined to create a whirlwind of |
death started forward. At the first |
move there was a shiver of life along |
both lines, but it was not a shiver of |
fear. Each man straightened him- |
self, grasped his pistols the firmer, and |
singled out his opponent. The
opposing {
uy
ternoon,
WR
does,
the
more savage
about,
of
friends
in
Iw
{to lie,
um- |
pire lifted his hand, and suddenly en
the still air came the ery of doom, |
“Fire!” At the word twelve horses |
bounded forward and t welve pistol shots |
rang out. Three of Howard's men |
threw up their hands and fell from
their horses, while one of Kelly's men |
fell. Kelly's men, not heeding their |
comrade’s death, sped straight toward |
the three men in front of them. The
latter dropped their pistols in their
bridle hands and pulled their horses
up, while their five enemies came rid- |
ing swiftly on, pouring a hail of bullets
in from a pistol in every hand, The
i Howard men saw the odds, They
were too great, and turning swiftly
they ran, turning in their saddles as
they flew and bravely returning the
fire. In three brief minutes the duel
was fought and won, and four dead |
men lay upon the ground. Frank |
rode up to Howard and said: “Now
you and I will settle with each other.” |
“No,” replied Howard, as he looked |
| sadly at the dead men; “1 am sat-|
| isfled.” i
| “Very well,” said Kelly, and orders |
| were given to exchange the cattle,
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A Fable,
One day an old Turkey took a Walk
through the Meadow to sce how the
Crops were getting along, Seeing a
| Hornet's Nest by a Stone Wall, she
Fondly Imagined she could Hateh out
{ the Contents, So she Sat down upon
| It and did H. $21 out the contents in
about twe Seconds. Five Minutes
{ later she stood filled with Humiliation,
{ Running her Bill through her Feath-
ers und Attempting to Count the num-
ber of Perforations in her Breast,
which looked very much like a Nut-
meg-Grater. The Moral of the Fable
teaches us that Squatting on other
People’s Property is a Perilous Pro-
ceeding ; and that there are some
Humble Institutions which cannot be
Sat Upon,— Puck,
EE ————
If it wasn’t for the belles a good
many young men would miss being
church members,
THE CIRCASSIAN GIRL TRADE,
How They Are Gal Up for Circuses and
Hhowe,
A “Circassian girl” in a Chicago
show has talked thus frankly to a re
porter:
“So you want to know something
about Circassian girls, do you? Well,
I can only tell you of the circus genus,
for to the best of my knowledge i never
The reporter was deeply grieved, His
hopes had long ago, when he visited
the sideshow, been blasted as to the
beauty of Circassians, but he wasn't
around in
tents were from the vales of Circassia,
and that they had been ruthlessly
snatched from a fond lover, perhaps by
mercenary speculators, and brought
to this country to help enrich the
gready circus, But the woman again
asserted that she did not believe that
there was a genuine Circassian in the
business,
“How do they make up then?”
asked the scribe, for there was in his
recollection of Circassian girls a
wonderful luxuriance of tresses and
an almond-shaped eye, coupled with a
shining, dusky skin, that did not sug-
gest the evident daughter of Erin
before him,
* You've got to have the material to
make a Circassian in the first place,”
declared the curiosity, as she settled
herself for a chat on what was evident-
ly a charmed subject to her. “ Ittakes
a black-eyed, brown or black-haired
woman, while art does the rest, 1
have seen blue-eyed Circassians, but
they did not take. There is a regular
market in the summer for Circassian
girls, and they make up early in the
season sometimes, There is an old
woman lives on Bleecker street, 1
think, in New York, that can take any
girl of good shape with plenty of hair
and black eyes, and turn her out a
daisy in about two days. They com-
mence by shaving the eyebrows at the
ends down to a point, then taking
pencils and painting them on out to a
line with the corner of the eves, only
on the forehead. They pencil the
corner or the eyes so as to give the
eves an almond shape. Then they dye
the face nut brown with a preparation
that I do not know anything about,
The lips can be stained or colored each
day with carmine. Most of the girls
have the lips stained at first, when
about to hire out to the manager of a
side show, and afterward color them
with carmine, Then the hair has to be
treated. You know how a Circassian
girl's head looks, all bushy and with
the hair standing out all over the head.
Well, that's done by the use of stale
beer and molasses, It is applied every
hour, and the hair combed out straight
and allowed to stiffen that way. 1
have seen girls sleep on little rolls of
cloth or wooden blocks under the neck,
80 848 not to muss up the hair until it
has set, all kinky and beautiful, in its
bed of beer and molasses, and then she
was a Circassian girl”
It was not such an artistic operation
as he had at first imagined, and the re-
porter remarked that he should think
the woods would be full of Circaseian
girls,
“There are too many to make it pay
much,” she candidly remarked, but
it’s such fun to travel with a circus,
sleeping on the baggage when travel
ing and eating in the hotel tent that
accompanies the show. Some of the
curiosities, as they are termed by the
show men, are fad by themselves at a
salaries, like a livin’ skeleton, eat at a
hotel in the town where the circus
stops.”
“ How about the pay of a curiosity #"
“Well, a Circassian girl, if she's
cute, gets from $12 to $30 a week and
expenses, Then the manager gets her
a lot of photographs taken at some
good studio and she sells them and
gives him a royalty. A good many of
them are married to performers, jug-
glers, cannon ball tossers, snake
charmers or something of that sort,
and he looks after her affairs and
money,”
sn ————
Courtship Among the Choetaws,
There are still 2,000 Choctaws living
in their ancestral honies in Mississippi,
bert, they retain in all their pristine
vigor most of the usages of their an-
cestors, Among these the methods
employed in conducting a courtship
and performing a marriage are curious
When a young Choctaw of Kemper or
Neshoba county sees a maiden who
tunity until he finds her alone. He
then advances within a short distance
and gently lets fall a pebble at her feet.
He may have to do this two or three
times before he attracts the maiden’s
attention, when, if this pebble
throwing is agreeable, she soon
makes it manifest, If otherwise,
a scornful look and a decided
“gkwah” indicate that his suit is in
vain. Sometimes, instead of throwing
pebbles, the suitor enters the maiden’s
cabin and lays his hat upon hér bed. If
the man's suit be acceptable the hat is
permitted to remain, but if she be un-
willing to be his bride it is instantly
removed. Whichever method be em-
ployed, the rejected suitor knows that
it is useless to press his suit, and beats
as graceful a retreat as possible. When
a marriage is agreed upon, the time
an | place are fixed for the ceremony.
The relatives and friends of the bride
and bridegroom meet at their respec
tive homes, and from thence march to
the nw arriage ground, halting a short
distance from one another. The broth.
groom, who is then seated upon a
blanket spi “ad upon the ground. The
wise by going over and bringing for
ward the bride. She is expected to
break loose and run, but of course is
pursued, captured, and brought back to
be seated by the side of the bridegroom.
All the parties now cluster around the
couple ; the woman's relatives bring
forward a bag of bread—a lingering
tives a bag of meat, in memory of the
days when the man should have pro-
vided the household with game, Next,
presents of various sorts are showered
on the couple, who all this time sit
still, not even speaking a word. With
the last present they arise, now man
and wife, and, just as in civilized life,
provisions are spread and the cere
mony is rounded off with a feast,
Young ladies having shown a desire
to make palmistry (telling fortunes by
the lines in the palm of the hand) the
next sensational folly, London Z'ruth
calls attention to an unrepealed act of
parliament which imposes on all who
go about practicing the art the penalty
of being scourged, having the ears
cropped and being placed in the pil
lory.
WISE WORDS,
Faith and hope cure more diseases
than medicine,
Hope is the brightest star in the
firmament of youth,
The reward of doing one duty is the
power to perform another.
The pleasure of doing good is the only
one that never wears out,
It is upon the smooth ice we slip
the roughest path is safest,
Next to love, sympathy is the di-
vinest passion of the human heart,
A noble part of every true life is tc
learn to undo what is wrongly done.
The very nature of love is to find its
joy in serving others, not for one's own
benefit but for theirs,
Pity is sworn servant unto love, and
this be sure, wherever it begin to make
the way, it lets the master in.
Fear of punishment and hope of re
ward moves cowards and sycophants,
Virtue is independent of either,
The pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts, and the great
est art in life is to have as many of
them as possible. .
Behind the snowy loaf is the mill
wheel, behind the mill the wheat field,
on the wheat field falls the sunlight
above the sun is God
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can; and
common sufferings are far stronger
links than common joys.
A good wife is like the ivy which
beautifies the building to which it
clings, twining its tendrils more lov-
ingly as time converts the ancient edi-
fice into a ruin.
Temptation is a fearful word. It
indicates the beginning of a
series of infinite evils, It is the
ing of an alarm bell, whose m choly
sounds may reverberate through eter
nity.
Home is not a name, nor a form nor
a routine. It is a spirit, a presence, 2
principle. Material and method will
not and cannot make it. It must
its light and sweetness from those w
inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine,
ww
The Indians of Alaska,
The number of aborigines in Alaska,
says a letter from that country, is va.
riously estimated from 30,000 to
50,000. With regard to those in the
interior there is very meager accurate
knowledge. The obstacles in the way
of a thorough unders of the
nature of this portion of the American
possessions and the number and char
acter of the natives, are not
either from the cest of outfitting an
exploring party, danger from the na-
tives or any other terrors incident to
such an undertaking. In their handi
work, especially as exhibited by cary-
ings in wood, stone and slate, thei
ornaments and shapely canoss, they
display unlooked-for skill. Blank
eted natives, with painted or
lideously besmeared faces, were
to be seen. From a condition offensive
to the nostrils and this scanty mote of
dress there are various stages {
proach to cleanliness and a civilized
style of clothing ; some, indeed, make
a very presentable appearance. Some
times Indians were observed affection-
generally do the trading and bargain-
ing in disposing of furs and in other
transactions. When an Indian offers
furs for sale, and the price has been
arranged between him and the pur
chaseg, his kloochman, or squaw, can
veto the transaction, and has to be
consulted before the trade becomes
final, The Indians are never in a
hurry to conclude a bargain, those
from a distance often remaining at a
trading post for weeks holding out for
a most trifling advance on the
price offered. They are shrewd
traders, and the amounts agreed
upon for the different Kinds of
furs seem very high to an uninitiated
on-looker, The purchasers would lose
money on the goods if they paid coin
The Indian's shrewdness manifests it
self only in securing the promise of a
high price. They do not want money,
but desire articles out of the store
Their ignorance of what hese cost the
dealer leaves them a prey to the
outrageous imposition from the more
intelligent but less honest white traf-
ficker. These Indians are industrious,
willingly embracing opportunities of
earning money by working for it. If
they are not a doomed race, by reason
of liquor and contact with depraved
whites preventing their reclamation
from heathenship, in theo devel
opment of the resources of they
will be a valuable factor as “hewersol
wood and drawers of water.” They are
quick to learn what is required of
them.
5
The Parrot and the Nightingale.
A Parrot who lived next door to a |*%
Nightingale one day rushed over and |
rang the bell and called out : J
«For Heaven's sake! do ask your
children to stop that noise I"
“ What noise :
“ Why, that chattering and shrief
ing in your back yard. le ta
about the sweet song of the Nightin-
gale, but in truth it is enough to drive
one insane. 1 demand that you keep
your children still.”
“But I have no children.” 5
« Well, who is it making such a noise
behind the house?” -
“Beg pardon, but the noise is in |
your own yard.”
“Then what business have Nightin-
es on my premises?” :
“ The racket is caused by your own
children, Mrs, Parrot.”
« Indeed, so it is, but if you didn't
live next door they wouldn't act so.”
«You forget that I had lived here |
for years when you came into th
gir. didn’t suppose you
“Yes, bu i sup you
would be so touchy about a trifling
noise.” :
«Let me remind you that I had not
even noticed the racket until you came
over here to complain.” Li
«Oh, well I” snapped the Parrot, as
she turned away, “if you are bound to
pick a fuss with me because the voice
of a Parrot is Swediel thas that of
Nightingale you will ce
on wt do so, and I might as
well save my breath.”
MORAL:
If you are a Parrot never get
Nightingales, unless you hanker to |
abused. ne
The length of the submarine e
in the whole world is estimated
64,000 miles, and their value
$202,000,000. The 1 :
wires in the world would reach
earth:
eight times