Wait for Me. Beatward runs the little stream Where the wagoner cools his team, Where, between the banks of moss, Bands the stepping-stones to cross, ‘er them comes a little maid, ghing not a bit afraid; other, there upon the shore, Crossed them safely just before, This the little lassie’s plea— Wait for me, wait for mel Ah, 8) swift the water runs— ie false step, "twas all undone; Witiis heart begins to beat, Fearing for the little feet, joon her fears will all be lost, W hen the stepping-stones are crossed, Miree mrore yet on which to stand-— {wo more-one more-then on land! “Tis the little lassie’s plea—— Wait tor me, wait for mel d » é i Ab, for you, my langhing lass, When the years have come to pass Hay Oge still be near to guide While you cross Life's river wide, When no helping band is wear, None, if you should call to hear— Chink, however, far away, Mother still knows all you fay; E'en in heaven heeds your plea— Wait for me, wait for mel CAPTURING A DESPERADO, In the fur west, particularly in the far southwest, the newly-arrived settler ten finds that he has strange neigh. pors—not only Indians, but white des- peradoes, who are more to be feared than the Utes and Apaches, Two young friends of mine-—good, steady, New-Eugland-born young men —wereso unfortunate as to buy land in the vicinity of an especially ugly mem- ber of this outlaw fraternity. These young men had been brought up to obey the law, and to respect the roperty and rights of their neighbors, hey could be brave enough in the defense of any just cause, yet they dreaded and shrank from the use of deadly-weapouns against a fellow-being, from a keen sense of the sacredoess of human life, and the ennminality iavolved in such acts, Buch were Gilbert and Charles Bmall, Plain, farm- bred boys, they had, by steady Iasbor and economy, saved up a capital of seventeen hundred dollars, With this they bad emigrated to Colorado and started a small stock- farm, fifteen miles from Alamosa, By availing themselves of the home- stead soi and the pre-emption law, they secured a tract of three hundred and twenty-five acres of land, lying upon a creek, with a ravge extending to be taken by other settlers, At a pot, a short distance below, where a mining trail passed them, and where they judged there would be in time a railroad, they built a frame and m which they also kept a stock of groceries, For, like many other enter. prising young immigrants, they had an ambition to found a town and grow up with it, Some eight or ten miles from them lived » man named Peter Hergit, who profeasedly worked a mine, but whose place really was a kind of rendezvons ‘or renegade ‘‘cow boys” and other des- perate characters of the Jesse James iype. It was intimated that several daring train-robberies had here been planned. and also that “*Clate Walker” made it ene of his stopping places. This Walker was a notorious gambler and dead-shot, He was supposed to be the leader of a band of train-robbers, and was said fo have killed not Jess than fen men in various aflrays, It was said, loo, that occasionally, when times were too monotonous because of the lack of excitement, he would kill a man *““for fan,” just to keep his hand in. He had # habit also, of riding through small fowns and camps, shooting promis. cuously at everybody he saw, to keep ap the terror of his name, a matter he Rp to have been vain of, t will seem well-nigh incredible to people im the east that such a man should be allowed to escape justice and run at large. Bach is the ugly fact, however, in scores of cases, owing prob- ably to the circumstance that no officer likes to attempt the arrest of these des- peradoes, who generally earry two and sometizces three heavy revolvers, and are marvelously quick and sure of aim, As an example of the wonderfully rapid and sceurate shooting of some of nese frontiersmen, the writer remem- bers seeing a ‘*‘cow-boy” at Raton, New Mexico, ride his horse as full gal- lop past a telegraph pole, to which was pinned the round white coverof » paper soliar box, and lodge four balls from pis Coit’s pistol in this small mark while paans: Aljurwaiis he enter. lained us throwing into the air, one ster another, a handful of pigouts, and sacking each as it fell with a single bullet. Then he did the same thing again, tossing the nuts up rapidly and twirling the revolver round his forefin. - Sem————— w”th nothing to drink in it in these ¥ 1” he sad, “If yon don't have nor, and good liquor too, the next time I call, I won't leave a whole dish or a whole bone here!” And, as a foretaste of what he would do next time, he kicked over the tabie and smashed three or four chairs, by way of leave-taking, With suoh a customer in their hands, it is little wonder that our two young friends felt very ill at ease. Bll, they were bold men, and were determined not to be bullied into keeping rum; so they went about their business as usual, Nothing further was seen of Walker for a fortnight, when he again appeared early in the morning while Charles was getting breakfast, Gilbert having gone out to look after the cattle. The first hint that Charles had of his visitor was another volley of shots into their rign- board, This time Clate shot the second letter to pieces. It was apparentiy his way of koocking, Immediately he kicked the Jdoor open as before, Und:.t the circumstances it is not very strange that Charles stepped out of a back door at about this time, and went behiod the corral, from whence he beard Walker firing rep-atedly, and making a great smashivg nose, When at length the desperado had taken his departure it was found that ne had made a complete wreck of the crockery and furniture; and io the gro- cery room he helped himself to tobacco, and emptied hus revelver at the kerosene barrel, which, tapped in haif a dozen places, was deluging the floor, I shall not undertake to say what the duty of my young friends was— | whether they should have resisted the | outrage and defended their property at the risk of their hives, or moved away from so dangerous a neighbor, What they did was to get out of sight when- ever they saw Walker coming, and let him do his worst, It chanced that after a time a second cousin of my young friends came west to see them. His name was Forney, tary academy at West Point. [am not sure, however, but he had just graduo- ated, though it does not matter, He dropped mn upon the Small boys it is needless to say they were glad to see him, aad that they passed a very pleasant evening. Nothing was said about Walker, for Gilbert and Charles, having an honest pride in their ranch, were loth to let Lieutenant Gerald know how badly they were off in respect to neighbors. The desperado hsppened to come along, however, the very next morning, dining-room, when Gilbert, who had seen the gambler coming up the road, suddenly rushed in. “Old Olate Walker's coming!¥ he ex- claimed. *'Pat out at the back dour!” Charles leaped to his feet, but our ly. “Who the dickens is ‘Old Clate Walker? ” he asked. **A regular border terror! A despe- rado! A ‘killer!’ ” exclaimed Gilbert “He's likely to shoot any of us at sight! Come on after us!” “What! run out of your own house!’ said Foraey, surprised—*Wuy, hold has this fellow on you?” shot and a double-dyed murderer!” eried Charles. “You don't know him as well as we do. Come aloag with us and get out of his way!’ “Not 11” exclaimed Forney—who felt that his military reputation was ai stake! “Take your two shotguns and stand ready in the kitchen, I'l stop here and see Mr, Walker!” and he har- riedly took his revolver from his over- coat pocket, then stepped to the window behind the desk on the counter, With his customary oath the gam- door and strode in. The young lieuten- ant sat on the high stool behind the desk, apparcntly reading a newspaper, He did nos look up. “Hello, you sneak? shouted Walker. “Where are the tender kids that keep this blasted temperance hotel?” “I think they've gone out to hide,” said Forney, carelessly turning his pa- pea. **They said there was a man-eater, a regular aathropophagus, coming, and that they were going to hide some- where!” Walker started. “Well, well,” he ripped out, “If you aint the freshest kid 1've struck in ten years! Right fresh from the east, aren't ye, young feller?” “Yes,” said Forney, moving the pa- , “I'm from the east, and I'm pretty h, I suppose. I'm a Young fellow, but I'm a pretty nice one, “Don’t give me any of your lip!” thundered Walker. **Do you know who I am?” “How should 1?” said Forney. “It's none of my business, I'm only here on # visit. I don’t care who you are,” 'U'he bully bushed, stung by the care- Youn Sonsaliipt a AO kin uppose,” he mu 8 step toward tbe concter, while a mur. derous gleam crept into his eyes, *I was to tickle your Adam's apple with my dirk, what then?” **Then I'd shoot you dead for the scoundrelly hound you are!” exclaimed the young cadet, suadenly his cocked revolver full in W 8 face, *“‘Move—stir a hand, and I'li shoot you like a dog!” “The first man that ever got the drop on me!” gasped Walker; “and you a little whipper-snapper from the t ” “No matier what I am,” said sternly. “It move # i from the of it. The corral was built of adobe bricks, the wall being from seven to eight feet high, and enclosing a space of eighty feet square. They gave him no chance to get the start, but kept him covered with both gun and pistol constantly, They gave him a chair to sit on, however, and there he sat all day, watching the cadet and Gilbert, and they him, while Charles rode post-haste to Alomosa to swear out n warrant for his. arrest, and summon the sheriff and his posse to take him. The officers, hearing that so danger- ous a ruffian was really waiting their disposal, were not slow in responding to Charles Small’s summons; and by three o'clock that afternoon the young lieu- tenant had the satisfaction of seeing the “border terror” taken into legal custody and marched off to juil. Bat, as 1s too often the case in the fsr west, the prisoner was lynched in- stead of being fairly tried and convicted of Ins crimes, He was taken foroibly from jul by a masked party from one of the neighboring mining camps the third night after being lodged there, and hanged without any form of trial to the vearest tree, A HORSE'S INTELLIGENCE. Acts of a Dumb Brute that in a Human Being Woald be Called Heason., A horse which Las bean in the pos- session of the Peters family, in Bush kill, Pa, for twenty wears, and which was famous for the almost human intel- ligence Le frequently displayed, died recently, Daring the last few years of the horse's Jife he had been permitted to run at liberty, but was frequently hitched up to heul the dead boaies of cattle or horses that died on the farm to a place near the Dalaware river, where | the carcasses were buried, Tue old 4 DESPERATE LEAP FOR LIFE. ———————— Tracked by Bloodhounds an Alabama Negro Jumps from a High Bluff A pote from Birmingham, Alabama, says that on Friday morning, March 5th, Frank YE. Cocke, depot agent at Soot’s Station, was found murdered in bed. No clew te the murder was dis- covered. Excitement was intense, The morning after the body was discov- ered, Mr, Hardy, of Perry county, was sent for to trail the murderer with blood- bounds, The trail was circled, for it was discovered the dogs followed it to Prairie Oreek, wuen it was lost for a while, The dogs were taken across a trestle and through the water of the creek, They failed on the scent, When this became known, an old negro who had experience with bloodhounds, said the man who had committed the murder was a negro, for no white man was ever known to shift trail hike that, He told the hunting party that the mur. derer was not far away. The dogs were made to circle for fresh trail, which was found, The party mounted on fast horses followed the dogs at break- neck speed. At a point down the creek in the middle of the swamp the pursning horsemen heard a peculiar nofse from they have caught their prev, The ani- mals, ridden by desperate men, were made to dash through the underbrush. pelled to dismount, and about Lalf a mile down the creek a strange sight was tree. The dogs, on their hauches, were to a limb with the desperation of a demon, eyes looked as if they would pop out; his head was wet and muddy, and his clothes covered with blood. The negro was Henry Smith, He was taken from the treeexhansted, { tention, Some time ago this horse fell sick. | sure where he was being cared for, A | search was made for him, and he was | finally found lying dead on the spot | where he had hanled the dead bodies {| of so many of his kind, As the place | was out of the way of the old horse's | usual haunts, and as he had ncver been | kuown to go there except when driven | there with some dead animal, no one | who knew the horse believes that he | was about to die, aud to save the | trouble of hailing his dead body there | to be buried, | Ameng the instances told of his intel- hgence are the following: Late one night members of the family that owned him were awakenad by s great nose on a piazza of the house, There was the i door, There was the old horse stamp- his power, The discovery was made | that an outhouse near the dwelling was on fire, The old borse had piven the alarm aud a disastrous fire was pre- veuled, One spring there waswm flood in a stream on the place. A blind borse be. longing to a peighbor got out of his | pastare, and, wandering down to the swollen stream, in some way got iuto the water, Itswam about ina eirele, snd was upsble to reach either shore | No one could render any aid to the poor animal, and there seemed po hope for it from drowniog. The horse came along while the blind horse was struggling in the water, and, after a moment's survey of the situation, horse and headed it off as it tamed to make its usual circle, thus keeping its head pointed strmght for shore as it | swam, By heading the blind horse first on one side and then on the other he guided it safely to shore, More Than a Centenarian, A note from Theresa, New York, says: Mrs, Relief Bart Bordman, widow of Sylvester Bordman, a pioneer of Jefferson county, celebrated her 104th birthday Monday, surrounded by many relatives and friends, Bhe is a descendant of Henry Bart, an English emigrant, who came to America in or before the year 1639, settling first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and removing in 1640 to Bpringfield, Massachusetts, where he lived and died, leaving a family of three sons and eight dsugh- ters, some born in England, some per- haps in Roxbury, but at least four in Springfield. A son, David Bart, settied in Northampton, Massachusetts, 17 miles north of Springfield, in 1654, and his marriage with Mary Horton the following year was the first In that town. A great-grandson of David re- moved to Southampton, and it wns there Mrs, Bordman was born, February 22, 1782. At the age of 28 she married Sylvester Bordman, of Williams assachusetts, and in 1821 she removed with her husbsnd and four children to Theresa, where she has since remded, At that time Jeflerson county was § t : 5 i | iH | §2% g 8 g gE z 3 $1 4 Fi i g : 5 8 = 52 ii : - | I 5 ] Is fope with the C., 8, and M, railroad Cocke, The blood on the negro's clothes and contents of his pocket olearly established a chain of cireum- stantial evidence enough to oconviet him, The party started to Marion. Before it had gone far the negro made his escape by jumping down a high biaff, As he made the thrilling leap for life he waved his hand st his cap- { tors, The place was of such s nature {as to prevent the men on horseback from following him, The dogs were azzin made to circle for the trail, and he was again captured afters long, hard run of seven miles, The desperate | negro was taken to Marion and placed lin jail. The jailor has deputized a { strong guard to prevent the prisoner | being lynched. — -_—-_— An Ancient Wall, | Recently a party of gentlemen, | while at Chadron, Sioux county, Neb., {stone wall reported ¢o have been found two and Chadron. After a brief drive | stone wall, The general lay of the prairie is sloping to the westward, and toward the White river & depres- sion was found in the prairie which, with long washings, had depressed ito a gully some thirty leet deep, west and furrowed in places, increasing in downward tendency, This Lid from view the *‘wall” nal close to it, bat {it was found, This wall is built across { the gully from the southeast to | northwest, The remains are plainly visible from nsar the top of the bauks on either side of the gully, eayed, and runs most of the sides of the ravine, but at the boitom it is from three to four feet | high, It was evidently laid up with regularity, with joints broken, some | kind of cement being used, The wall 1s about twelve to fourteen inches in thickness, and gives evidence of hav- ing been there a very long time. There ia a rpmor that traces of it extend a distance of seven miles, Isid bys people long since extinct is | abundaotly apparent, bat by whom and | for what purpose is yet an unsolved | problem, The strangest feature is that | there is no stone or rock in the vicinity, | nor within a very long distance of it Until within the last eight mouths that section was wholly uoocoupied. The extension of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley railroad (the Elkhorn system of the Chicago and Northwestern railway) to Chadron ast summer gave the first opportunity to occupy it. This stone wall gives evidence that a race of people now extinot, and including mechanies of skill, once had their habi- tation, and probably a walled eity, there, Tia, of course, 18 mere specu- intion, but that the wall of stone is there, that it bad been carefully laid up, and of a material not found within many miles of there, furnishes food for the liveliest speculation, This is to at. tract attention to it, to the end that scientific investigators way evolve a the- ory which will account for it, Tha: whole country is filled with petirifac- tions of all kinds of most remarkable + terest. He Forgot the Combination. A weglthy citizen of a neighboring city had been out until the small hours with convivial companions. It was not a “dry locality” FASHION NOTES. -~Full skirts and round waists are the features of little girls’ frocks, ~Jet and velvet drops combined to trim black surahs, The drops are in pear shapes, ~The new sheer cotton dress fabrics look like old-time bareges, not like lawns nor cambrics. ~Gold thread is to be seen in the wool laces that trim the lighter cloth jackets, gold and beige being a favorite combination, ~—YWhite terry gulmpes (*‘bibs’’) or waist-coats (terry is old uncut velvet) are quite useful to brighten up dark brown silks, black cashmere, or ruby poplin dresses, ~The newest French bonnets bear a striking resemblance to a grocer’s pa- per-bag worn on the top of the head and drawn together in folds, with some metal ornament holding them together, —~Gay Persian borders of scarlet, green and gold come with yellow, cream, buff and gray, in thin basket stuffs or bourette materials. These will be made up m a dressy manner, with very bouffant draperies: lengthwise pleats, vests, sashes, and reveres will all be employed of the brightest colors, ~The new spring cotton dress goods embrace varieties of boucle crapes, Turkish crapes, embroidered canvas robes, zepkyrs, Americin prints and cambrics, sateens, Bulgarian crapes | and crocodile cloth, a craps like barred | fabric, light, odd and pretty, and very suggestive of the land of crocodiles, | pyramids, sphinxes and mummies, i i ton, cannot be distinguished from these silks when made up in the same way for home dresses. Their colors usually too gay for the street, but there are many of last year's patterns | sprinkled with tiny apple seeds, Jap: { anese blocks, rings and dice that make { up into quiet street suits, —Pale colored velvet jackels, pink | skirts, or over the bright foulards, They are trimmed with silk and golden embrowdered galloons over the velvet, | and so cleverly cut that the stripes are i shaped into the figure. There is a turn- | down collar and wide cuffs to the elbow i sleeves of pink velvet, which come | next to the skin without any interven- | ing lace. These jackets are oue of the | most taking novelties of the year. They will be much worn for evening dress, i 3 -Lsong curls are coming again in favor; some are allowed to hang down unconfined, with the front hair cut on the forehead, while in other caws the hair is drawn away from the forehead, Little boys’ locks are sometines tied | with a colored bow at one side of the i head. There is but little novelty in | hairdressing, though a moditied form of chignon is likely to become [ashion- able, For full dress the hair is are ranged high, and the aigretts or orns- ments placed well up at one side, ~ A pretty dress has the skirt pleated | all around, and composed of alternate [stripes of pale biscuit colored wolire { ribbon and fine piece-lace of a deeper | shade. The bodice, of alternate moire | and lace, is pointed in front and at the { back, very short at the sides, and has a | wide sash of moire, arranged to fall as a panel down one mde, and as a long | loop at the other, The basque, sleeves and high collar are edged with small | some gold clasps fasten the colla: and the Joose lace blouse front. The more { ribbon is cut into points {(vandykes) on one side, to sew easily on the other lace, { vogue, Black canvas-woven goods are made up with a white panel down one side, covered with a braiding pattern, | also 10 black; the waist-coast is white, carried out in the same way, the bodice over it so cut that, though it looks | carries out the wdea that the jacket bodice is slipped over another. The drapery on the skirt is all black, just caught up high on the hips, This sort {of dress can be produced in a variety of colorings; a pretty and stylish mix. ture was a royal blue camel's bair cloth, with pale green panels, braided in blue tubular braid, The design of this braiding was a mass of tulips, ~— American surahs, combined with clairetie, nun’s veiling, camel’s hair grenadine or thin mousseline delaine, are made up in this fashion. A short, round skirt is either edged with & ruche, tnmmed with kilting, or with'a row of full fan-pleated plhsses, caught up with tiny ornaments, This skirt is then draped. with the veiling, cash. mere, or other fabric composing the overdress, which is arranged to show a deal of the under-skirt, either by being caught up high on the hips, open on one side or raised by full pleats at each side, displaying the entire front of the first skirt. The backs are either quite boulfant, not showing much of the underdress, or may hang in full, stright box-pleats their whole length or ers, skirts and “allover” designs that ure imported on all kinds of cotton goeds, For stance, there are white mulls and colored mulls hoary cov. ered with small figures done broidery; there are canvas Chamberys wrought in in self-colors, canvas cottons HORSE NOTES, —John Splan has been engaged ta drive W, J, Gordon’s horses this year ~Part of the roof of the grand stanc at Belmont Course was blown off lately ~Joseph Clark, of New York, paid 32500 for the br. g. Surprise, by Thorn e, —dJohn Croker has purchasgd the ¥ e. Triple Cross by V7arwick, dam Zin garelli, Fitzpatrick and a lad named Ben der will ride for the Erdenheim stabls this year, — Burglar, a full brother to Epaulet 2.19, 1s owned by A. D. Button, o Indiana, Pa. ~The Detroit people have decided that their $5000 purse shall be for the 2.30 class, and at Cleveland the similas purse will be either for the 2.85 or 2.4 class, ~Matt Dyrne, it is understood, wit continue to train Pontiac, Dewdrop, Winfred, Pontico and Daruna, pur chased by the Dwyer Brothers (fo $70,000) at the Lorillard sale, ~The highest price obtamed at the sale of T. E. Moore’s trotting stock Shawhan, Ky., last week, was $1075 fo the b. ¢. Kentucky Boy, by Bismarck dam Bourbon Girl, ~Margaret (by Sultan) the stallio just purchased Ly Kentuckians), trottec { in 2.28 at Los Angeles, Cal., on Febru | ary 20, being the first trotter to ente | the 2.50 list in 18806, — Robert Steel has sold to the Avon i dale stock farm Lou Livingston, b. m. | foaled 1879 by Happy Medium; Elfreda br, m , foaled 1550 by Elwood Medium and Walcliff, b. c., foaled 1885 by War | lock. ~—JHighie Bros, of Canton, Ill, sok to a Mr. Harvey, of Chicago, IL, th 4-year-old gelding Tom Underwood, bn Dan Mace, dam by Sir Henry, and i J. Flynn, of Peoria, 11l., the 5-year-olc stallion Bay Underwood, by Dan Mace daw by Sir Henry, ~ Frank Van Ness has in traning a Lexington, Harry Wilkes, 2.15; Alber France, 2.20}: Snooks, 2,304; a brow: gelding, i year old, by Lumps, dam Ub; | Surplus, and a gray mare, 5 years oid | by Young Jim. He will bring them | Philadelphia about May 1 ~Orrin A. Hickok telegraphs fron | California that the cha'lenge issued bi | Mr. Willey on behalf of the trotte: | Arab, was altogether too sweeping, ane orders it withdrawn. Hickok don’t | think Arab can beat Jay-Eye-See, an will bar him in his challenges, — William Alexander and BiH | Weaks have matched their geldings Major A. and Beechwood, to trot t« | wagons, owners to dnive, for a ful | spring outfit—suit of clothes, hat, shoes {and wunderwear—tihe race to be decides | over Belmont Course as soon as the track is in condition. { ~The stallion, Suitan, with a record fof 2.34, wes sold recently at Los { Angeles, Cal, by I. J. Rose to W. H Wilson, of Cynthiana, Ky. and P 8, Tolbert, of Lexington, for $15,000. There were also sold by Mr. Ross, thir teen other horses, the get of Sultan. The total amount realized was $40 000 Charles M, Smith, Earle, 11l.. ha: purchased from Glenview farm the b. ec. Granger, foaled 1884, by Nutwood, dam Nora Norman, and changed the name 10 Neatwood; he also purchased at Fairlawn Farm, the b. f, Fogalia, fouled 1883, by Happy Medium, dam Almira. The price for the two was $2750, —A new driving State law is to be organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., at once, with a capita stock of $30,000 at $25 a share. The plan decided upon is to coustruct a | mile track on the ninety-five acres | nearly opposite the Soldiers’ Home, {| with suitable stands and stalls and a nice elub-house, { —W, H. Wilson has just lost by | death, caused by heart disease, the ch. {m. Flirtation, by Shelby Chief. dam Redowa. Her produce of 1878 was Annie Carey, by Pacing Abdallah; 1870, Marie Roze, by Smuggler; 1881, Ravenna, by Ravenswood; 1883, De- ceiver, by The Barom; 1885, Founda- tion, by Simmons, At the time of her death she was to foal to Simmons, -At a recent meeting of the Paris Jockey Club we note among those black-balled was the Count Potecki, a Polish nobleman of vast wealth and who mamtains a large stud, William! Connor, the young jockey who formerly rode in this conutry for Mr. Belmont and Governor Bowie, 1s his chief jockey. The nobleman was one of several dis- tinguished foreigners black-balled, and the affair has caused no little excite- ment, ~An old turfman recently said I club under the 1 know one of these causes. Last sum- mer he entered his horse Pontico in a ‘selling race’ at one of our courses, A ‘selling race,’ you know, 18 one in which the winner is stipulated to be sold for not less than a prics named, the surplus that he brings above this being divided among the horses that some other man. above : 1 gg I : cost 000 5g iis i 5 £ £ ¥ g f i : g E-5 i of g g 2 gEsk : Hi
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